CELEBRATING CORONADO PLAYHOUSE’S 68th SEASON

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Cast (in order of appearance)

Page ............................................................................................................ Meredith RussoGood Fairy .......................................................................................... Jennie Gray ConnardScary Fairy .......................................................................................................Debbie DavidQueen ..............................................................................................................Alisa WilliamsKing ......................................................................................................... Cameron WilliamsPrince Charming ..........................................................................................Joey KirkpatrickFairy Godfather ...............................................................................................Barron HenzelPrincess Beauty ................................................................................................. Daryl Daley

Sleeping Beauty or the Famous Rose Taboo runs about 80 minutes and has one 15 minute intermission.

Place and TimeFar away. Long ago.

AnnouncementPlease turn off all electronic devices and cell phones during the performance. Restrooms are located in the recreation center near the front desk. If you need to exit during the performance, please use the rear exit of the theatre as light from the hallway interferes with the performance.

The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited.

PRESENTS

Piano / Conductor ..................... Kirk Valles Drums ..................................Garrett SinglerMusicians

Music by Norman SachsBook and Lyrics by Barbara Fried

Directed by Thomas Fitzpatrick. Musical Direction by Kirk Valles.

Scenes and Musical Numbers

Acknowledgements

ACT ONEScene One: Outside the Good Fairy’s House Page’s Song .....................................................................Page Oh, What a Happy Day for Me ...............................Good Fairy A Fairy’s Lament .....................................................Scary FairyScene Two: At the CastleLullaby .................................... Queen, Good Fairy, King, Page Three Times Is True ................ Good Fairy, Queen, King, PageScene Three: Forest Outside Prince Charming’s Palace Reprise Page’s Song ........................................................Page A Hero’s Song................................................Prince CharmingScene Four: At the CastleReprise, A Hero’s Song ..................................Princess Beauty Reprise, Lullaby ......................................................Good Fairy

ACT TWOScene One: Outside the Good Fairy’s House Reprise, Page’s Song .......................................................Page Up, Up, and Away! ..........................................Fairy Godfather Reprise, Oh, What a Happy Day for Me / Up, Up, and Away! ...................... Fairy Godfather, Good FairyScene Two: Forest outside Prince Charming’s PalaceScene Three: Enchanted Forest, and at the Castle Reprise, A Hero’s Song ..... Princess Beauty, Prince Charming Finale ........................................................................ Company

City of CoronadoCoronado Recreation Services and Community Center StaffCity of Coronado Building Inspector and Fire MarshallImagination Design Studios

Rubie’s Costume CompanySpecial thanks to spouses, significant others, family, and friends whose love and support helped make this production possible.

Coronado Playhouse’s 2014 season is off to a great start. We are excited to bring you the Summer of Love Series, starting with this young audience’s production of Sleeping Beauty. Next, our Annual Free Classic Series presentation of Romeo and Juliet, set in modern day with original Shakespearean language, is a new and different take on Shakespeare (members can reserve up to six seats free of charge, at CoronadoPlayhouse.com). Our following play is the campy comedy Dearly Beloved, an hilarious and sweet romp that puts the ‘fun’ in dysfunction.We end 2014 with Spamalot. This musical will have you laughing your coconuts off as you gallop along with this larger-than-life production!We have undertaken a very challenging and costly year to bring you lively shows we hope you find boundlessly entertaining. Our board serves as artistic director for the Playhouse and we work diligently to select a season we hope will thrill you. We now need to ask for your help. We need your support to continue to bring you quality shows and programs. Now through July 31, we are running a membership campaign. Our goal is to raise funds and grow our membership base.

For our Over the Rainbow Membership Campaign, if you join at a family level or higher, you receive all normal benefits, plus you get two free tickets to Journey through Oz: a Musical Cabaret, August 1-2, 2014. In honor of the Wizard of Oz’s 75th anniversary we are planning this very special two day event with some of San Diego’s best talent singing numbers from The Wizard of Oz, The Wiz, Wicked and more! Please join our family at whatever level you can.Chicago was one of our biggest undertakings to date and Chrissy’s team did a phenomenal job. Sherlock Holmes was also a crowd-pleaser and did very well. If you experienced either of these shows, or any production from last season that delighted you, I hope you are moved to become a member. We count on our membership to bring life to our productions, education and community outreach, as well as the opportunity for local playwrights and entertainers to realize their dreams. We can’t do it without your help. Please consider joining today.Thank you for your support and loyalty to Coronado Playhouse.All the best, Katy Skyrud Managing Theatre Director

A Note from the Playhouse - Member Supported Theatre

Production Team and Theatre StaffDirector ...................................................................................................Thomas FitzpatrickMusic Director / Accompanist ..............................................................................Kirk VallesChoreography ....................................................Jennie Gray Connard, Thomas Fitzpatrick, Meredith Russo, Alisa WilliamsProducer ............................................................................................................Katy SkyrudStage Manager ................................................................................................. Chris PowellScenic Design ................................................................................................Barron HenzelScenic Painting .............................................................................................Rosemary KingLighting Design .......................................................................Chad Oakley, Josh OlmsteadSound Design ............................................................................................... Steve MurdockCostume Design .........................................................Manny Bejarano, Thomas FitzpatrickProps and House Dressing ........................................................................... Pamela EverettLighting Technician ....................................................................................... Josh OlmsteadFollow Spot Operator ...................................................................................Samuel DisalvoSound Technician ..............................................................................................Bill Connard Set Construction ................................ Bill Connard, Jim Harvey, Barron Henzel, Patty Fay, Rosemary King, Stan Shirley, Jim ReevesLogo design ........................................................................................................ Daryl DaleyGraphics Design/Program Design ..................................................................Barron HenzelPublicity Videography ......................................................... Robert Stewart, Leonard LopezHead Shot and Production Photography .......................................................Barron HenzelMedia Coordinator / Publicity and Marketing .....................................................M.G. PerezPoster Distribution ..........................................................................Patty Fay and CompanyHouse Managers ..................... Jake David, Maxine Widmer, Laurel Widmer, Bryn WilliamsBox Office ........................................................................... Susan Skyrud, Amanda EverettYouth Audience Engagement / Souvenirs ............................................................. Patty FayConcessions ..................................................................... Harry A. Granruth, Stan HoffmanUsher Coordinator ......................................................................................Janis VanderfordBoard Liaison ......................................................................................................M.G. PerezManaging Theatre Director ................................................................................Katy Skyrud

We are the Community’s TheatreCoronado Playhouse is committed to giving back to the local community, beyond offering quality entertainment, by using its public platform to help those in need. During Sleeping Beauty or the Famous Rose Taboo, we are proud to partner with the Ronald McDonald House Charities of San Diego.The House was specifically designed to provide a home away from home for families with hospitalized children – including 47 bedrooms, hot meals and a children’s play area for siblings – so families can focus their attention on supporting their sick or injured child instead of worrying about day-to-day needs. Every year, more than 1,500 families are helped and the need for overnight services far exceeds its 47-room capacity. For more information on programs please visit www.rmhcsd.org.

Please consider making a cash or check donation to the Ronald McDonald House Charities of San Diego during the run of this show.

Sleeping Beauty, the beloved fairy tale story of a young woman who goes into a comatose state after getting a splinter in her finger and then being revived by a handsome prince, has its basic elements in both Nordic mythology and 16th century French literature. In the early 1800s, the German folklorists, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, modified the fairy tale in their story of Dornroschen (Little Briar Rose). Their story has a true “fairy tale ending” when the prince awakens Rose with true loves kiss. Shortly afterwards, they marry and “live happily ever after.” It is this version that Disney adapted his popular 1959 American animated musical fantasy film Sleeping Beauty. Sleeping Beauty or The Famous Rose Taboo, a musical version of the classic romantic fairly tale, was originally presented Off-Broadway in 1965 at the Astor Place Playhouse. It played an astonishingly long run for a young audiences musical, transporting a new generation to the miraculous kingdom of dreams-come-true. Many, many,

many moons ago while in my late teens I was introduced to Sleeping Beauty or The Famous Rose Taboo when I was cast as Prince Charming in a production at The Road Company of Audubon, NJ. In 2010 I had the great pleasure of directing Coronado Playhouse’s production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella. It was such a joy seeing the excitement in the eyes of the children and watching them respond with laughter, awe and applause that when the Playhouse was looking for a young audiences show for this season I jumped at the chance to present Sleeping Beauty or The Famous Rose Taboo. I felt that it would be a perfect fit for Coronado Playhouse. It has the charm, innocence, wit and pure entertainment that I believe audiences of all ages enjoy. Our production’s creative team, cast, designers, crew and volunteers are outstanding and they all need to be recognized. I truly thank all of them for their professionalism, expertise and hard work. So, whether you have seen it before or this is the first time, may the musical magic of Sleeping Beauty “awaken” fond memories or create a few new ones.Thank you, Thomas Fitzpatrick, Director

Thomas Fitzpatrick as Prince Charming in a 1980 Road Company production.

Director’s Notes

Cast Bios (In alphabetical order)

Jennie Gray Connard (Good Fairy) is delighted to return to Coronado Playhouse as a fairy. Young audiences may remember her as The Fairy

Godmother in CPH’s production of Cinderella in 2010. Jennie is incredibly grateful to have been able to perform on San Diego stages since the age of 8 years old. She is an alumna of San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts and San Diego Junior Theatre. Youth theatre is a passion of Jennie’s and she feels blessed to have the opportunity to teach, direct and choreograph young students at various schools, theaters and studios around town.

Daryl Daley (Princess Beauty) is happy to be back on the Coronado Playhouse stage after appearing as Mary Sunshine in Chicago

earlier this season. Growing up performing at the San Diego Junior Theatre, Daryl is glad to once again be a part of theatre geared towards young audiences. Other appearances at CPH include TBLWIT (2012) and The Drowsy Chaperone (2011), elsewhere: Grease, OnStage Playhouse; Zombie Prom, Pickwick Players.

Debbie David (Scary Fairy) was last seen at the Coronado Playhouse as Miss Mona in TBLWIT, and as the title character in our hit show The Drowsy

Chaperone. San Diego audiences may also recognize her from her recent stint as Dolly Tate in San Diego Musical Theater’s Annie Get Your Gun. Other San Diego credits: Wonder of the World, Self Help, Murder Among Friends, Company, You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, Proof, Vanities (PowPAC); Once Upon a Mattress, Little Mary Sunshine (Scripps Ranch Theater); Picasso at the Lapin Agile (OnStage). Debbie is on the Board of Directors at the Coronado Playhouse, and is a proud graduate of Emerson College in Boston, MA.

Barron Henzel (Fairy Godfather) co-produced TBLWIT (Aubrey), The Drowsy Chaperone (Aubrey), Cinderella (Aubrey) and The IT

Girl at Coronado Playhouse. He assistant directed Dames at Sea (Lamplighters). Favorite acting credits: Pageant, Much Ado, Pump Boys, Angels Among Us (Coronado Playhouse); Grease (OnStage)(Aldea Award); They’re Playing Our Song (Scripps Ranch); The Busy World is Hushed, Torch Song Trilogy,

Handsome Men (Diversionary); 1776, H2$, Scarlet Pimpernel, Jekyll & Hyde (Starlight); Trolls, Miss Mcinerney’s Acquaintances (6th @ Penn); various film and commercial work. Barron is a Star Award recipient; and, offstage, he is an art director and president of the board of directors at Coronado Playhouse.

Joey Kirkpatrick (Prince Charming) is very excited to be working at the Coronado Playhouse once again! He was last seen in Chicago as Fred Casely (2014) and TBLWIT as an

Aggie Boy (2012). Other performances include: Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors and Rent at SPAC.

Meredith Russo (Page) is thrilled to be back “home” at Coronado Playhouse playing the role of The Page. Most recently seen as Velma Kelly in Chicago (Coronado

Playhouse), Miss Strict* in Zombie Prom (Pickwick), Doatsey Mae in TBLWIT & Maggie Jones in 42nd Street (Coronado Playhouse). Other credits include: Rizzo* in Grease (OnStage), The Witch in Into the Woods (OnStage), Donna in A Taffeta Christmas (Pickwick/OnStage), Bonnie* in Anything Goes! (Patio), Adela in The It Girl (Coronado Playhouse) and Amy in Company (PowPac). *Aubrey Award

Alisa Williams (Queen) is excited to be making her acting debut at Coronado Playhouse opposite her real life King, Cameron. She is thrilled to be working again

at CPH with the Fitzpatrick/Skyrud team after choreographing TBLWIT, Cinderella, The Drowsy Chaperone and The It Girl. Alisa is a third grade teacher and has been working in San Diego theater for over twenty years as an actress/choreographer at Scripps Ranch, Starlight, OnStage, PowPac and is a resident artist and instructor with Pickwick Players. Favorite roles include Marty in Grease, Sally Bowles in Cabaret and Cheryl in A Taffeta Christmas.

Cameron Williams (King) is making his Coronado Playhouse debut after watching his wife, father, brother, and sister all participate in their productions. He is the Artistic

Director for Pickwick Players, where he enjoys both acting (Albert Peterson in Bye Bye Birdie and Linus in Snoopy!!!) and producing (Little Shop of Horrors and Seussical). Other favorite roles include The Baker in Into the Woods (OnStage Playhouse) and Prince Dauntless in Once Upon a Mattress (Scripps Ranch Theatre). By day, Cameron is an eighth grade language arts and history teacher and avid fan of all things Harry Potter.

Creative Team Bios

Thomas Fitzpatrick (Director) played Prince Charming in Sleeping Beauty or The Famous Rose Taboo (many, many moons ago) and is excited to return to Coronado Playhouse to direct this Young Audiences produc-

tion. He directed CPH’s award winning and critically acclaimed productions of TBLWIT, The Drowsy Chaperone, Cinder-ella and The It Girl. Tom has performed in productions at Diversionary, Lyceum, Avo Playhouse, The Broadway, SD Lyric Op-era, OnStage etc. In addition, he played Charlie Brown in Pickwick Players’ men-toring project Snoopy!!!. Other directing credits include Zombie Prom (Pickwick), Grease (OnStage), A Taffeta Christmas (Pickwick/OnStage) and Dames at Sea (Lamplighters).

Kirk Valles (Musical Director / Accompanist) teaches vocal/general music in the San Diego Unified School District, is director of music at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, and is an

accompanist at CSUSM. Recent shows include: 9 to 5 The Musical, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (OnStage Playhouse), Little Shop of Horrors, Pippin (Pickwick Players), Cowgirls (PowPac) and TBLWIT (Coronado Playhouse) for which he received an Aubrey Award for Best Musical Direction. Kirk also teaches private voice and piano throughout San Diego. He is delighted to be working with the outstanding cast of Sleeping Beauty or The Famous Rose Taboo, Coronado Playhouse, and Thomas Fitzpatrick. Love you Ana, Brooke and Garner.

Chris Powell (Stage Manager) is excited to be working again with Tom Fitzpatrick and the Coronado Playhouse. He has been involved in the award-winning Fitzpatrick/Henzel productions of TBLWIT, Grease, Drowsy Chaperone, Cinderella, Dames at Sea and The IT Girl. Other shows include the critically acclaimed productions of Thrill Me!, YANK! The Musical, The Busy World is Hushed, Torch Song Trilogy, The New Century, Dooley and Corpus Christi (Diversionary Theatre). He is thrilled to be part of this incredibly talented Sleeping Beauty company.

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Coronado Playhouse thanks our members for their continued support!Visit CoronadoPlayhouse.com/membership to see our great member benefits.

We want to thank everyone who has made a TAX DEDUCTIBLE contribution to support YOUR Community Playhouse. We cannot produce quality productions without your help. To make a contribution, please call 619-435-4856 or e-mail boxoffice@coronadoplayhouse.com or visit CoronadoPlayhouse.com

Thanks to our Board of DirectorsBarron Henzel (President)Bill Connard (Vice President)Rosemary Harrison (Secretary)Debbie David (Member)

Vanessa Dinning (Member)M.G. Perez (Member)Sven Salumaa (Member)Katy Skyrud (Member)

And a special thank you to our departing Chris Fowler (Treasurer) for her six years of service.

Ticket prices only cover a portion of production costs. Our members keep Coronado Playhouse operating! Anyone can become a member. Benefits include: free passes to shows, preferred seating, your name in show programs, newsletters, invitations to special events and voting rights to determine theatre leadership.

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