David Lutken and the Seat of the Pants Band

SEPT 10 - 27, 2020

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

DAVID M. LUTKEN Originally from Dallas, Texas, David graduated from Duke University with a Bachelor of Arts in Classics. He completed his Acting Degree at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The 92^nd St Y, at Cooper Union (with Ted Sperling’s ‘Master Voices’), Nashville’s  Ryman Auditorium, with the North Carolina Symphony and the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra, on NPR, Polskie Radio, the BBC, Voice Of America, and The Louisiana Hayride. With his original show, “Woody Sez: The Life & Music of Woody Guthrie”, he and his company have toured Europe, the British Isles, the US, the Middle East, and China. David won the Helen Hayes and the Joseph Jefferson Best Actor award for his portrayal of Woody Guthrie.

BROADWAY: Inherit the Wind, Ring of Fire, The Civil War, The Will Rogers Follies. OFF-BROADWAY: Woody Sez (Outer Critics’ Circle, Off-Broadway Alliance & Drama League Best Musical nominations), Southern Comfort, Stars in Your Eyes, Winter Man, The Portable Pioneer and Prairie Show. N.Y. CITY OPERA: Paul Bunyan.

LONDON: Woody Sez (Evening Standard Best Musical nomination), Dark of the Moon, Bonnie and Clyde, A Month In The Country.

REGIONAL: Our Town, Man of La Mancha, Elmer Gantry, Back Home Again, Fire On The Mountain, Hank Williams’ Lost Highway, Buddy, Pump Boys and Dinettes, Stand By Your Man, The Love List, The Man Who Came to Dinner, On Golden Pond, Mark Twain’s River of Song, and many others.

David is very happy to be back at Goodspeed. His first appearance here was at The Terris Theater in Honky Tonk Highway in 1995. Finian’s Rainbow (directed by Gabriel Barre) and Big River (directed by Rob Ruggiero) followed, and in the summer of 2018, he played the title role in Goodspeed's spectacular revival of The Will Rogers Follies 26 years after understudying the part on Broadway.

CHRISTINE LYONS is an actor, instrumentalist, and opera singer from Atlanta, who has been called a “true virtuosa” by Broadway World, celebrated as “a truly gifted vocalist… display[ing] an impressive range of emotions” by Maryland Theater Guide, and praised as “especially moving” by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. She is thrilled to be returning to Goodspeed, where she previously appeared as Alice’s Daughter in Big River. Christine’s other theatre credits include a tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, A Little Night Music, The Blue Ridge Nightingale, A Chorus Line, Miss Saigon, and Ragtime. While she sings in six languages, Italian has her heart, and her favorite operatic credits include the title roles in Madama Butterfly, Norma, and La Straniera. She has performed at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, and The Kennedy Center. As a songwriter, she has played two national tours across the country. Christine is overjoyed to bring hope through music to Goodspeed by the River. 

MORGAN MORSE is an actor, musician, and writer originally from Ansonia, CT. Stage credits include Godspell, Once, and Stand By Your Man at the Ivoryton Playhouse; Once at the Cape Playhouse; and Ring of Fire everywhere from Houston, Texas to Vienna, Austria. He also writes and performs original music, which you can find at soundcloud.com/morgan-morse. Much thanks to David and to the Goodspeed for giving artists a home during these unprecedented times!

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