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Nunsense

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Nunsense

Book, Music & Lyrics by Dan Goggin

Nunsense is presented through special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.

Production Date: April 10-12 & 17-19, 2015
Location: The Byng Community Theater

Director: Brandon Byng
Assistant Director / Choreography: Debra Jolly
Stage Manager: Tanya Brehmer

NUNSENSE begins when the Little Sisters of Hoboken discover that their cook has accidentally poisoned 52 of the sisters. In dire need of funds for the burials, the sisters decide to raise the money by putting on a variety show. So the sisters take over Mt. Saint Helen’s school auditorium, which is currently set up for the school’s production of “Grease”. Come meet Reverend Mother Mary Regina; Sister Mary Hubert, the Mistress of Novices; a streetwise nun from Brooklyn named Sister Robert Anne; Sister Mary Leo, a novice who is a wannabe ballerina; and the delightfully wacky Sister Mary Amnesia. Featuring star turns, tap dancing and ballet, an audience quiz, and comic surprises, this show has delighted audiences with more than 5000 productions worldwide and has been translated into 21 languages.

Original Cast:
Sister Mary Regina………………………………………………………………….Brandon Byng
Sister Mary Hubert…………………………………………………………………….Kari Devine
Sister Robert Anne………………………………………………………………….Elizabeth Zitny
Sister Mary Amnesia………………………………………………………………….Karen Fuller
Sister Mary Leo………………………………………………………………………….Ali Carlson
Sister Mary Kate…………………………………………………………………Cortney Meunier
Sister Mary Ashley………………………………………………………………….Haley Meunier

Once Upon a Mattress

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Once Upon a Mattress

Music by MARY RODGERS
Lyrics by MARSHALL BARER
Book by JAY THOMPSON, DEAN FULLER & MARSHALL BARER

Once Upon a Mattress is presented through special arrangement with R & H Theatricals: www.rnh.com

Production Date: December 5-7 & 12-14, 2014
Location: The Byng Community Theater

Director: Brandon Byng
Assistant Director / Choreography: Debra Jolly
Stage Manager: Tanya Brehmer

If you thought you knew the story of ‘The Princess and The Pea,’ you may be in for a walloping surprise! Did you know, for instance, that Princess Winnifred actually swam the moat to reach Prince Dauntless the Drab? Or that Lady Larken’s love for Sir Harry provided a rather compelling reason that she reach the bridal altar post haste? Or that, in fact, it wasn’t the pea at all that caused the princess a sleepless night? Carried on a wave of wonderful songs, by turns hilarious and raucous, romantic and melodic, this rollicking spin on the familiar classic of royal courtship and comeuppance provides for some side-splitting shenanigans. Chances are you’ll never look at fairy tales quite the same way again.

Original Cast:
Princess No. 12………………………………………………………………….Brigette Finger
Wizard………………………………………………………………………………….Bill Koehne
Lady Larken………………………………………………………………………Megan Sopata
Queen Aggravain…………………………………………………………………..Karen Fuller
Prince Dauntless……………………………………………………………………..Max Finger
King Sextimus The Silent………………………………………………………….Early Fuller
Jester………………………………………………………………………………..Brandon Byng
Sir Luce……………………………………………………………………..David Woosencraft
Lady Rowena…………………………………………………………………….Brigette Finger
Lady Merrill……………………………………………………………………….Peggy Sopata
Lady Lucille………………………………………………………………………Addison Hatch
Kitchen Wench…………………………………………………………………..Brigette Finger
Sir Harry…………………………………………………………………………Casey Schenkel
Princess Winnifred……………………………………………………………..Ariel Dickinson
Lady Mabelle…………………………………………………………………….Brigette Finger

The Fox on the Fairway

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The Fox on the Fairway

Written by, Ken Ludwig
Production Date: August 8-10 & 15-17, 2014
Location: The Byng Community Theater

Director: Brandon Byng
Assistant Director: Debra Jolly
Stage Manager: Tanya Brehmer

A tribute to the great English farces of the 1930’s and 1940’s, The Fox on the Fairway takes audiences on a hilarious romp which pulls the rug out from underneath the stuffy denizens of a private country club. Filled with mistaken identities, slamming doors, and over-the-top romantic shenanigans, it’s a furiously paced comedy that recalls the Marx Brothers’ classics. A charmingly madcap adventure about love, life, and man’s eternal love affair with…golf.

Original Cast:
Justin………………………………………………………………………………….Brandon Byng
Louise…………………………………………………………………………………..Shado Rose
Bingham………………………………………………………………………………….Early Fuller
Pamela………………………………………………………………………………….Karen Fuller
Dickie……………………………………………………………………………………Bill Koehne
Muriel………………………………………………………………………………Linda Druckrey

The Sound of Music

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The Sound of Music

Music by RICHARD RODGERS
Lyrics by OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II
Book by HOWARD LINDSEY and RUSSEL CROUSE
Suggested by “The Trapp Family Singers” by Maria Augusta Trapp

The Sound of Music is presented through special arrangement with R & H Theatricals: www.rnh.com

Production Date: December 6-8 & 13-15, 2013
Location: The Byng Community Theater

Director: Brandon Byng
Assistant Director / Choreography: Debra Jolly
Stage Manager: Tanya Brehmer

The final collaboration between Rodgers & Hammerstein was destined to become the world’s most beloved musical. When a postulant proves too high-spirited for the religious life, she is dispatched to serve as governess for the seven children of a widowed naval Captain. Her growing rapport with the youngsters, coupled with her generosity of spirit, gradually captures the heart of the stern Captain, and they marry. Upon returning from their honeymoon they discover that Austria has been invaded by the Nazis, who demand the Captain’s immediate service in their navy. The family’s narrow escape over the mountains to Switzerland on the eve of World War II provides one of the most thrilling and inspirational finales ever presented in the theatre. The motion picture version remains the most popular movie musical of all time.

Original Cast:
Maria Rainer……………………………………………………………………….Megan Sopata
The Mother Abbess………………………………………………………Mary Jo Schoenfeld
Sister Berthe / Baroness Elberfeld…………………………………………….Elizabeth Jolly
Sister Margaretta / Party Guest………………………………………………..Peggy Sopata
Sister Sophia / Party Guest……………………………………………………….Karen Fuller
Captain Georg von Trapp……………………………………………………Michael Brunner
Franz…………………………………………………………………………..David Woosencraft
Nun / Frau Schmidt……………………………………………………………….Mary Madsen
Liesl von Trapp………………………………………………………………………..Faith Fuller
Friedrich von Trapp………………………………………………………………….Lucien Petit
Louisa von Trapp…………………………………………………………………….Ellie Sopata
Kurt von Trapp…………………………………………………………………Breanna Duncan
Brigitta von Trapp………………………………………………………………..Eleanor Finger
Marta von Trapp…………………………………………………………………….Olivia Shelly
Gretl von Trapp………………………………………………………………….McKenna Seidl
Rolf Gruber………………………………………………………………………….Gus Kroenke
Nun / Elsa Schraeder…………………………………………………………………Ali Carlson
Nun / Ursula / Party Guest…………………………………………………….Ashley Keuken
Max Detweiler…………………………………………………………………………Early Fuller
Herr Zeller……………………………………………………………………………….David Jolly
Frau Zeller / Postulant / Festival Contestant………………………………………Niki Petit
Baron Elberfeld / Festival Contestant……………………………………………Bill Koehne
Admiral von Schreiber / Festival Contestant………………………………..Dominic Petit
Party Guest / Festival Contestant……………………………………………Jordan Madsen

The Saga of the Prospector’s Daughter 10 Year Anniversary Edition

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The Saga of the Prospector’s Daughter or She Was Only a Miner’s Minor
10 Year Anniversary Edition

Written By: Pat Cook
Published By: Eldridge Publishing Co.
Production Date: August 9-11 & 16-18, 2013
Location: The Byng Community Theater

Director: Brandon Byng
Assistant Director: Debra Jolly
Stage Manager: Tanya Brehmer

Here’s a hilarious melodrama spoof whose oddball characters seemingly ad lib their way through the wildest plot ever to come down the pike. Lovely, innocent Constance Purdy is about to lose her home to that villain-about-town, Wiley Schlink. Will hero Monroe Mannerly ride to the rescue in time? Will her long-lost prospector father show up and save the day? These questions aren’t really answered because we’re laughing too hard at the sheriff who has a mortgage on her own jail, a medicine man who ends up in a dress, and a saloon-smashing suffragette whose ax works great on cuticles. Add a piano player with an attitude and a grizzly old prospector/narrator who’d like a different ending to the play, and you get some idea of folks who populate this fool’s gold rush town. Great fun to watch and to perform, especially when the actors are caught napping and playing cards as Act II opens.

Original Cast:
Gabby……………………………………………………………………………………Early Fuller
Constance Purdy…………………………………………………………………….Karen Fuller
Wiley Schlink………………………………………………………………………Brandon Byng
Monroe Mannerly…………………………………………………………………James Sopata
Indian………………………………………………………………………………Preston Pelegrin
Sheriff Hilda…………………………………………………………………………Elizabeth Jolly
J. Barnaby Custard…………………………………………………………………..Bill Koehne
Freddie………………………………………………………………………..David Woosencraft
Catastrophe Kate………………………………………………………………..Ashley Keuken
Mary Carnation………………………………………………………………………..Faith Fuller
Elmira Plankton……………………………………………………………………Haley Meunier
Miss Clydesdale…………………………………………………………………Linda Druckrey
Waitress………………………………………………………………………….Cortney Meunier
Judge / Townsperson………………………………………………………….Michael Brunner
Piano Player……………………………………………………………………..Rachel Casleton
Townsperson……………………………………………………………………Elizabeth Sopata
Townsperson…………………………………………………………………………Katlyn Nohr

Arsenic & Old Lace

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Arsenic & Old Lace

Written by, Joseph Kesselring
Production Date: August 10-12 & 17-19, 2012
Location: The Byng Community Theater

Director: Brandon Byng
Assistant Director: Debra Jolly

The play is a farcical dark comedy revolving around Mortimer Brewster, a drama critic who must deal with his crazy, homicidal family and local police in Brooklyn, NY, as he debates whether to go through with his recent promise to marry the woman he loves. His family includes two spinster aunts who have taken to murdering lonely old men by poisoning them with a glass of home-made elderberry wine laced with arsenic, strychnine, and “just a pinch” of cyanide”; a brother who believes he is Teddy Roosevelt and digs locks for the Panama Canal in the cellar of the Brewster home (which then serve as graves for the aunts’ victims); and a murderous brother who has received plastic surgery performed by an alcoholic accomplice, Dr. Einstein to conceal his identity and now looks like horror-film actor Boris Karloff.

Original Cast:
Abby Brewster……………………………………………………………………….Karen Fuller
The Rev. Dr. Harper / Mr. Gibbs / Mr. Witherspoon………………………Bill Koehne
Teddy Brewster……………………………………………………………………….Early Fuller
Officer Brophy………………………………………………………………….Conner Suddick
Officer Klein…………………………………………………………………David Woosencraft
Martha Brewster…………………………………………………………………Sharon Fischer
Elaine Harper………………………………………………………………………Megan Sopata
Mortimer Brewster……………………………………………………………………..Bill Wons
Jonathan Brewster………………………………………………………………..Brandon Byng
Dr. Einstein……………………………………………………………………….Preston Pelegrin
Officer O’Hara……………………………………………………………………..James Sopata
Lieutenant Rooney……………………………………………………………….Jerah Doxtator

Little Shop of Horrors

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Little Shop of Horrors

Book by HOWARD ASHMAN
Music by ALAN MENKEN
Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMEN
Based on the Film by ROGER CORMAN, Screenplay by CHARLES GRIFFITH

LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS ™
Is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).
All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.
421 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019
Phone: 212-541-4684 Fax: 212-397-4684
www.MTIShows.com

Production Date: March 23-25 & March 30-April 1, 2012
Location: The Byng Community Theater

Director: Brandon Byng
Assistant Director / Choreography: Debra Jolly
Stage Manager: Tanya Brehmer
Assistant Stage Manager: Christine Lasee

A down and out skid row floral assistant becomes an overnight sensation when he discovers an exotic plant with a mysterious craving for fresh blood. Soon “Audrey II” grows into an ill-tempered, foul-mouthed, R&B-singing carnivore who offers him fame and fortune in exchange for feeding its growing appetite, finally revealing itself to be an alien creature poised for global domination!

Original Cast:
Seymour Krelborn……………………………………………………….Adam Landenberger
Audrey……………………………………………………………………………………Ali Carlson
Mr. Mushnik……………………………………………………………………….Brandon Byng
Crystal……………………………………………………………………………………Faith Fuller
Ronette………………………………………………………………………..Brooke Friederichs
Chiffon………………………………………………………………………………….Karen Fuller
Orin Scrivello, DDS…………………………………………………………….Maxwell Finger
Audrey II (Voice)……………………………………………………………………..David Jolly
Ensemble…………………………………………………………………………Michael Brunner
Early Fuller
Sahara Homan
Mackenzie Marquardt
Puppeteers…………………………………………………………………………Christine

Into The Woods

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Into The Woods

Music and Lyrics by STEPHEN SONDHEIM
Book by JAMES LAPINE
Originally Directed on Broadway by James Lapine
Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick
Original Broadway production by Heidi Landesman, Rocco Landesman, Rick Steiner, M. Anthony Fisher, Frederic H. Mayerson, Jujamcyn Theaters
Originally produced by the Old Globe Theater, San Diego, Ca.

INTO THE WOODS ™
Is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).
All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.
421 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019
Phone: 212-541-4684 Fax: 212-397-4684
www.MTIShows.com

Production Date: March 23-25 & March 30-April 1, 2012
Location: The Byng Community Theater

Director: Brandon Byng
Choreographic Director: Debra Jolly
Choral Director: Scott Hunsberger

When a Baker and his Wife learn they’ve been cursed with childlessness by the Witch next door, they embark on a quest for the special objects required to break the spell, swindling, lying to and stealing from Cinderella, Little Red, Rapunzel and Jack (the one who climbed the beanstalk). Everyone’s wish is granted at the end of Act One, but the consequences of their actions return to haunt them later, with disastrous results. What begins a lively irreverent fantasy, becomes a moving lesson about community responsibility and the stories we tell our children. One of Sondheim’s most popular works, Into The Woods is a timeless yet relevant piece and a rare modern classic.

Original Cast:
NARRATOR………………………………………………………………………….Bill Koehne
CINDERELLA……………………………………………………………………Megan Sopata
JACK……………………………………………………………………………….Jerah Doxtator
JACK’S MOTHER………………………………………………………………Shellie Virtues
THE BAKER………………………………………………………………………Brandon Byng
THE BAKER’S WIFE…………………………………………………………….Karen Fuller
CINDERELLA’S STEPMOTHER……………………………………….Michaela Kaiser
FLORINDA………………………………………………………………………..Simone Safian
LUCINDA……………………………………………………………………………..Faith Fuller
LITTLE RED RIDINGHOOD…………………………………………………..Leah Wons
THE WITCH…………………………………………………………………………..Ali Carlson
CINDERELLA’S MOTHER………………………………………………….Shellie Virtues
MYSTERIOUS MAN……………………………………………………………..Bill Koehne
WOLF………………………………………………………………………………….Billy Kuchta
GRANNY………………………………………………………………………..Linda Druckrey
RAPUNZEL………………………………………………………………………Haley Fournier
RAPUNZEL’S PRINCE……………………………………………….Matthew Courchane
CINDERELLA’S PRINCE………………………………………………………Billy Kuchta
THE STEWARD……………………………………………………………………..Early Fuller
GIANT…………………………………………………………………………….Linda Druckrey
SNOW WHITE…………………………………………………………………..Whitney Fuller
SLEEPING BEAUTY……………………………………………………..Brooke Anderson
CHORUS……………………………………………………………………….Cortney Meunier
Haley Meunier
Whitney Fuller

Seussical The Musical

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Seussical The Musical

Music by STEPHEN FLAHERTY
Lyrics by LYNN AHRENS
Book by LYNN AHRENS and STEPHEN FLAHERTY
Co-Conceived by LYNN AHRENS, STEPHEN FLAHERTY, and ERIC IDLE
Based on the Works of DR. SEUSS

SEUSSICAL ™
Is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).
All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.
421 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019
Phone: 212-541-4684 Fax: 212-397-4684
www.MTIShows.com

Production Date: December 9-11 & 16-18, 2011
Location: The Byng Community Theater

Director: Brandon Byng
Assistant Director: Linda Druckrey
Choreographic Director: Debra Jolly
Choral Director: Scott Hunsberger

“Seussical” is based on the works of Dr. Seuss and weaves together his most famous tales and characters from at least fifteen of his books. The show follows the adventures of Horton, an elephant who one day hears voices coming from a speck of dust. He soon discovers that within this tiny speck exists the smallest planet in the universe! On this tiny planet live a tiny race of creatures known as Whos. Although ridiculed by the other animals in the Jungle of Nool for believing in something he cannot see, Horton stubbornly persists in his belief that the Whos exist. Traveling everywhere from the Jungle of Nool to McEligott’s Pool, some of the characters fall in love, some have desperate adventures and some even save the world. Characters include Horton the Elephant, Gertrude McFuzz, Lazy Mayzie and the Whos of Whoville.

Original Cast:
THE CAT IN THE HAT………………………………………………………Jerah Doxtator
JOJO………………………………………………………………………..Matthew Courchaine
HORTON THE ELEPHANT…………………………………………………Brandon Byng
GERTRUDE McFUZZ……………………………………………………………..Ali Carlson
SOUR KANGAROO………………………………………………………………Suzie Wons
MAYZIE LA BIRD…………………………………………………………..Mesha Doxtator
THE WICKERSHAM BROTHERS……………………………………………..Bill Wons
Preston Pelegrin
Peter Budz
THE BIRD GIRLS………………………………………………………………..Janet Koehne
Simone Safian
Faith Fuller
Stephanie Gortarez
MR. MAYOR…………………………………………………………………………Bill Koehne
MRS. MAYOR…………………………………………………………………Linda Druckrey
GENERAL GENGUS KHAN SCHMITZ………………………………Jerard Nighorn
JUNGLE CREATURES……………………………………………………..Matthew Martin
Karen Fuller
Anne Martin
Alyssa Huckaby
Sofia Wons
THE WHOS…………………………………………………………………………..Alex Runge
Kay Runge
Regina Grabracht
Early Fuller
Whitney Fuller
Haley Fournier
Rylee Krumrei
Leah Wons
Kelton Lepak
Jennifer Longsine
CADETS…………………………………………………………………………Matthew Martin
Alex Runge
Haley Fournier
Rylee Krumrei
Kelton Lepak
HUNCHES…………………………………………………………………………..Karen Fuller
Anne Martin
Kay Runge
Early Fuller
FISH……………………………………………………………………………….Matthew Martin
Anne Martin
Alyssa Huckaby
Whitney Fuller
Jennifer Longsine
YERTLE THE TURTLE………………………………………………………….Karen Fuller
THE GRINCH………………………………………………………………………..Early Fuller
THING 1……………………………………………………………………………….Leah Wons
THING 2……………………………………………………………………….Regina Grabracht
VLAD VLADIKOFF……………………………………………………………….Alex Runge
ELEPHANT BIRD…………………………………………………………………..Abby Budz

On Golden Pond

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On Golden Pond

Written by, Ernest Thompson
Production Date: August 12-14 & 19-21, 2011
Location: The Byng Community Theater

Director: Brandon Byng
Assistant Director: Debra Jolly
Stage Manager: Faith Fuller

This is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the forty-eighth year. He is a retired professor, nearing eighty, with heart palpitations and a failing memory-but still as tart-tongued, observant and eager for life as ever. Ethel, ten years younger, and the perfect foil for Norman, delights in all the small things that have enriched and continue to enrich their long life together. They are visited by their divorced, middle-aged daughter and her dentist fiance, who then go off to Europe, leaving his teenage son behind for the summer. The boy quickly becomes the “grandchild” the elderly couple have longed for, and as Norman revels in taking his ward fishing and thrusting good books at him, he also learns some lessons about modern teenage awareness-and slang-in return. In the end, as the summer wanes, so does their brief idyll, and in the final, deeply moving moments of the play, Norman and Ethel are brought even closer together by the incidence of a mild heart attack. Time, they know, is now against them, but the years have been good and, perhaps, another summer on Golden Pond still awaits.

Original Cast:
Norman Thayer, Jr…………………………………………………………………..Bill Koehne
Ethel Thayer………………………………………………………………………Linda Druckrey
Charlie Martin………………………………………………………………………….Early Fuller
Chelsea Thayer Wayne…………………………………………………………….Karen Fuller
Billy Ray…………………………………………………………………………..Preston Pelegrin
Bill Ray………………………………………………………………………………Brandon Byng