The Will Rogers Follies Cast and Creative Team
CAST
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CREATIVE TEAM
DON STEPHENSON (Director) directed Guys and Dolls at Goodspeed;Titanic at Lincoln Center; Broadway Classics at Carnegie Hall; Of Mice and Manhattan for the Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center; The Other Place at Alley Theatre; The Producers, Lend Me a Tenor, and Vanya, Sonia, Masha, and Spike at Paper Mill Playhouse; Buyer and Cellar and Noises Off at Pittsburgh Public Theatre; How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and Sister Act at the Marriott Theatre; The Cottage at Theatre Aspen; I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers at Theatreworks/Hartford; Titanic at The MUNY and Westchester Broadway Theatre; Deathtrap, Noises Off, and The 39 Steps at Flat Rock Playhouse; The Mystery of King Tut and Skippyjon Jones for Theatreworks/USA; and The Great Unknown for The New York Theatre Festival. BroadwayWorld nominations as “Best Director” for The Roar of the Greasepaint - the Smell of the Crowd (Goodspeed), Lend Me a Tenor (Bay Street Theatre), Titanic (Hangar Theatre), Struck (New Jersey Rep), and A Comedy of Tenors (Paper Mill Playhouse). He directed Oleanna, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Doctors and Diseases at the historic Barter Theatre and Attack of the Elvis Impersonators (Theatre Row), A Charles Dickens Christmas (Urban Stages), Buck Simple (Garrick Gaities), When Pigs Fly (Kaufman Theatre), Golden Voices (Symphony Space), and Old Flames (Theatre Studio Inc.). As an actor, Don played the D’Ysquith family in the Tony Award-winning A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder and starred as Leo Bloom in the Tony Award-winning Broadway production of The Producers. His other Broadway credits include Rock of Ages, Private Lives, Dracula, Titanic, Parade, By Jeeves, The Bandwagon, Pardon My English, and Wonderful Town. On television, he will be seen on upcoming episodes of The Americans and Deception. |
KELLI BARCLAY (Choreographer) Goodspeed: How to Succeed…; My One And Only (CTCC Award for Best Choreography); Hello! My Baby; Hello, Dolly!; Damn Yankees; Anything Goes. NYC productions: Himself and Nora at the Minetta Lane Theatre, City Center’s Encore’s production of Pipe Dream. Associate Choreographer on four Broadway productions, RCMH Christmas Spectacular in Detroit. Most recently: Ogunquit Playhouse’s White Christmas, Dir./Chor. North Shore Music Theatre’s acclaimed production of 42nd St. Kelli also set London’s currrent award-winning West End production of 42nd St., working with Kate Middleton. Feature film: Made For Each Other. Extensive dance background and company work, including faculty at American Ballet Theater NYC Dance Intensive. www.KelliBarclay.com |
MICHAEL O'FLAHERTY (Music Director) is in his 27th season as Goodspeed's Resident Music Director. Broadway: By Jeeves, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, A Streetcar Named Desire. Also: Paper Mill Playhouse, North Shore Music Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Ford's Theatre, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Kennedy Center, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, and the Smithsonian Institution. Musical Supervisor and Cabaret Director of the Williamstown Theatre Festival for 11 years. His original musical A Connecticut Christmas Carol, for which he wrote music and lyrics, will be presented at Goodspeed’s Terris Theatre in Chester again this fall. |
WALT SPANGLER (Scenic Design) Goodspeed: The Smell of The Greasepaint - The Roar of The Crowd, Happy Days, Camille Claudel, Flight of The Lawnchair Man, Heartland. Broadway: Escape To Margaritaville, Tuck Everlasting, Desire Under the Elms, Scandalous, A Christmas Story, Hollywood Arms. Walt designs for theater, opera, and dance around the nation and around the globe. |
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ILONA SOMOGYI (Costume Design) Goodspeed: Anything Goes. Broadway: Clybourne Park. Recent: Oklahoma! (Glimmerglass); Assassins (Yale Rep); Seder, Heartbreak House, Cloud Nine (Hartford Stage); Disgraced (Long Wharf & Huntington). Off-Broadway: Sleep (RipeTime); Nice Fish starring Mark Rylance (A.R.T. & St Ann’s); Gloria, A Soldier’s Tale (Carnegie Hall); My Name is Asher Lev. Regional: Grey Gardens (starring Betty Buckley & Rachel York); Carousel, Smokey Joe’s Café (Arena Stage); Pride and Prejudice (Center Stage Baltimore); Passion Play, We Have Always Lived at the Castle (Yale Rep). MFA and Faculty Yale School of Drama. |
ROB DENTON (Lighting Design) is thrilled to return to Goodspeed. Last season he lit Thoroughly Modern Millie. Rob’s recent designs include Daughter of the Regiment (Atlanta Opera); South Pacific (Maltz Jupiter Theatre); A Chorus Line, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and The Unsinkable Molly Brown (The Muny); The Humans and A Christmas Carol (Repertory Theatre of St Louis); The Wolves and Sunset Baby (TheaterWorks); Carmen (Madison Opera), The Barber of Seville (Opera San Antonio). Some of Rob’s upcoming designs include La Boheme (Opera San Antonio) and The Wiz, Jersey Boys, Meet Me in St. Louis (The Muny). www.rdentex.com |
MICHAEL CLARK (Projection Design) Michael designs film and video for live events. Credits include Jersey Boys, 700 Sundays, Dracula, The Musical (Broadway and La Jolla); The Elephant Man (Broadway); Manon Lescaut (Washington Opera); Allegro, One Red Flower, and Hedwig (Signature Theatre); The Last Five Years (Philadelphia Theater Company); Company, Sunday in the Park With George, and Merrily We Roll Along (Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration); Spider-Man Live, Aeros (National Tour); Music From a Sparkling Planet (Drama Dept); and Dinner with Friends (ACT). |
JAY HILTON (Sound Design) is pleased to continue his long association with Goodspeed Musicals. Jay has designed countless productions at both The Goodspeed and The Terris Theatre in Chester. His work has also been heard on Broadway, National Tours, and at Regional Theatres from coast to coast. In addition to being Goodspeed’s Resident Sound Designer, Jay also serves as their Audio Supervisor. He and his wife, Goodspeed Line Producer Donna Lynn Hilton, make their home (and garden) in Hadlyme, Connecticut. |
MARK ADAM RAMPMEYER (Wig & Hair Designer) has designed more than 20 productions for Goodspeed Musicals including 42nd Street, La Cage aux Folles, and Oklahoma!. As a stylist he was fortunate enough to be a part of the Broadway productions of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Sunset Boulevard, Kiss of the Spider Woman, and 42nd Street. Other design credits include Broadway: West Side Story, Lysistrata Jones, The Farnsworth Invention. Off-Broadway: The Toxic Avenger, Horton Foote’s Orphans’ Home Cycle, and The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore with Olympia Dukakis. Regional: The Legend of Georgia McBride and Christmas on the Rocks for TheaterWorks and many productions for Hartford Stage Company. He is the recipient of a 2010 Drama Desk Award for Horton Foote’s Orphans’ Home Cycle at Signature Theatre Company. Thanks to all for their continued support on this journey. *peep* |
DAN DeLANGE (Orchestrator) This is Dan's 20th year and 50th show at Goodspeed Musicals. His work was heard in the West End's production of Show Boat and was nominated for Best Musical Revival at the 2017 Olivier Awards in London. He has orchestrated for Manhattan Concert Productions at Carnegie Hall, The Jim Henson Company, Julie Andrews, Rosie O'Donnell, Live Theatricals at Universal Studios, and composers Paul Williams, Jerry Herman, Harvey Schmitt, Charles Strouse, Stephen Schwartz, Peter Link, and Mark Hollman. His scores have been heard on Broadway, London's West End, National and European Tours, film, television, and at Regional Theaters around the world. He’s a graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy and Oberlin Conservatory of Music. DanDeLangeOrchestrations.com |
*Member of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.