A Gentleman’s Guide To Love and Murder

DUNDALK COMMUNITY THEATRE
presents

Book and Lyrics by ROBERT L. FREEDMAN
Music and Lyrics By STEVEN LUTVAK
Based on a Novel by ROY HORNIMAN
Orchestrations by JONATHAN TUNICK
Vocal Arrangements by DIANNE ADAMS MCDOWELL & STEVEN LUTVAK

Original Broadway Production Produced by
Joey Parnes, Sue Wagner, John Johnson,
50 Church Street Productions, Joan Raffe & Jhett Tolentino, Jay Alix & Una Jackman,
Catherine & Fred Adler, Rhoda Herrick, Kathleen K. Johnson, Megan Savage,
ShadowCatcher Entertainment, Ron Simons, True Love Productions, Jamie deRoy,
Four Ladies & One Gent, John Arthur Pinckard, Greg Nobile, Stewart Lane & Bonnie Comley
Exeter Capital/Ted Snowdon, Ryan Hugh Mackey, Cricket-CTM Media/Mano-Horn Productions,
Dennis Grimaldi/Margot Astrachan, Hello Entertainment/Jamie Bendell
Michael T. Cohen/Joe Sirola, Joseph & Carson Gleberman/William Megevick
and
Green State Productions
In association with
The Hartford Stage and The Old Globe

Director/Choreographer | Todd Pearthree

Technical Director
Scenic/Lighting/Sound Designer
Marc W. Smith

Musical Director | Catina McLagan

Costumes by | A.T. Jones & Sons, Inc.

Stage Manager | TraceyAnn Tokar-Smith

Properties Manager | Amy Vickers

A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder was developed, in part, at the 2006 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab at the Sundance Resort with continuing Post-Lab Support through its initiative with the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder is produced through special arrangement with
Music Theatre International | 421 West 54th Street | New York, NY 10019
www.MTIShows.com

The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited

CAST

SYNOPSIS OF SCENES & MUSICAL NUMBERS

ACT ONE

Overture
Prologue: London, 1909
Prologue | Ensemble, Sibella, Phoebe
Prison Cell
Monty’s First Apartment
You’re A D’Ysquith | Miss Shingle & Monty
Sibella’s Apartment
I Don’t Know What I’d Do Without You | Sibella
Foolish To Think | Monty
Highhurst Castle
A Warning To Monty | Ensemble
I Don’t Understand The Poor | Lord Adalbert & Ensemble
Lincolnshire Castle
Foolish To Think (Reprise) | Monty
Lake Chizzlemere
Poison In My Pocket | Monty, Asquith Jr., & Miss Barley
Bank Office
Sibella’s Apartment
Poor Monty | Sibella
Village Inn
Better With A Man | Henry & Monty
Henry’s Country Estate
Inside Out | Phoebe & Monty
Mayfair
Lady Hyacinth Abroad | Lady Hyacinth & Ensemble
The Bank
The Last One You’d Expect | Lord Asquith
Monty’s Apartment
The Last One You’d Expect (Reprise) | Sibella & Monty
The Gym
Phoebe’s Boudoir
The Last One You’d Expect (Reprise) | Phoebe
The Drury Lane Theatre
Various Locations
The Last One You’d Expect (Reprise) | The Full Company

ACT TWO

Entr’acte
The Cemetery
Why Are All The D’Ysquiths Dying | Ensemble, Phoebe & Sibella
Highhurst Castle
Why Are All The D’Ysquiths Dying (Reprise) | Lord Asquith & Ensemble
Monty’s Apartment
Sibella | Monty
I’ve Decided To Marry You | Phoebe, Sibella & Monty
Highhurst Castle
In My Pocket (Reprise) | Monty
Barrel Of A Gun | Lord Adlebert & Ensemble
D’Ysquith Estate
Stop! Wait! What?! | Monty
The Trial
Prison Cell
You’re A D’Ysquith (Reprise) | Monty
Interrogation Room
That Horrible Woman | Sibella, Phoebe, Inspector, Magistrate & Guard
Prison Cell
Finale | The Full Company

There will be one fifteen-minute intermission

ORCHESTRA

WHO’S WHO

PATRICK MARTYN (The D’Ysquith Family) Patrick is returning to DCT after having previously appeared in The Drowsy Chaperone, Titanic and The 39 Steps. He has been actively involved in the Baltimore theater scene as an actor and director for over 30 years (gulp). Among the prior productions in which he has appeared are Nice Work If You Can Get It, Vanya, Sonya, Masha and Spike and Me and My Girl (Cockpit in Court Theatre); Angels in America, Love! Valour! Compassion! and The Food Chain (Axis Theater); The House of Blue Leaves, Art and Gross Indecency (FPCT), Rumors, Light Up the Sky and Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Vagabond Players); Assassins (Stillpointe); Chicago and The Heidi Chronicles (Theater Hopkins). Away from the stage, Patrick is an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Maryland.

ALLISON COMOTTO (Sibella Hallward) is thrilled to return to the DCT stage. Past DCT credits include Beth (Little Women), Wednesday (The Addams Family), Kate Mullins (Titanic: The Musical), and the title role in Annie. Other local credits include Ariel in The Little Mermaid at Cockpit in Court Theatre and Wendla in Spring Awakening at Spotlighters Theatre. Away from the stage, Allison is a financial copywriter at Stansberry Research.

MARINA YIANNOURIS (Phoebe D’Ysquith) is delighted to be making her debut with DCT! Her favorite roles include, Jo in Little Woman and Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors: both at C. Milton Wright High School, as well as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz at The Milburn Stone Theatre. She is currently a student at Harford Community College where she is studying theatre.

ROB TUCKER (Monty Navarro) is happy to be returning to DCT after last being seen in Titanic and The Drowsey Chaperone. Regional credits include, Evita, 1776, Sweeney Todd and the world premiere of Lauren Gunderson’s Eye of the Beheld. He enjoys pursuing vocally and physically dynamic roles, having locally played Freddie in Chess, Player 2 in Shipwrecked… (WATCH Award), Barrett and Andrews in Titanic, Mungojerrie in Cats, and Hunter in [Title of Show]. Robert is the grateful director of Edgewood Theater Group at Edgewood High School. BFA Music Theatre, Ed.M. (Arts Education), University at Buffalo and a M.Ed. (Early Childhood),Towson University.

HOLLY PASCIULLO (Miss Shingle/Lady Eugenia) returns to DCT after having played Aunt March in Little Women, Alice Beene in Titanic, Lily St. Regis in Annie, and Sylvia Fowler in The Women. Other local credits include the Baker’s Wife in Into the Woods and Masha in Vanya, Sonia, Masha, and Spike, both at Cockpit-in-Court, and Diane in The Little Dog Laughed at Fells Point Corner Theatre. By day, Holly is an English teacher in Howard County.

ALYSSA BELL (Woman #1) returns to DCT after having performed in Catch Me If You Can last spring. She is a recent graduate from Towson University where she received her B.F.A. in Acting. Recent credits include Merrily We Roll Along and A Lie of the Mind (Towson University), Spring Awakening (Spotlighters Theatre). She has experience as a dance captain, as well as fight and intimacy captain on multiple productions in the area. Much love to her parents and Isaiah.

CASEY LANE (Woman #3) was last seen at DCT as Woman II in A Year With Frog and Toad, and Venus DeMilo in Side Show. She recently performed as Jeannie Muldoon in Nice Work if You Can Get It with Cockpit in Court Theatre. Casey attended Towson University for her BA of Science degree in Music and MA degree in Teaching: Elementary Education.

JANE E. BROWN (Woman #2) is delighted to return to DCT where she was last seen in The Secret Garden as Lily. Locally favorite roles include Duchess Estonia Dulworth in Nice Work If You Can Get It, Milly in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Aldonza in Man of La Mancha, and Marietta in Naughty Marietta at Cockpit in Court, Amalia in She Loves Me, Cunegunde in Candide, and Rosabud in The Mystery of Edwin Drood at Theatre Hopkins, Johanna in Sweeney Todd at Spotlighter’s Theatre, and Luisa in The Fantasticks at Theatre on the Hill. Jane is a Vocal Music Educator with The Baltimore County Public School System.

JIM BAXTER (Man #1) is back by popular demand! You may recognize him from DCT productions of All Shook Up, The Addams Family and Little Women. Other regional credits include White Christmas at The Talent Company, Love’s Labour’s Lost at CCBC Essex and Wait Until Dark at Vagabond Theater. Jim’s mild-mannered and ridiculously named alter ego Chauncey Bouffant is a video editor for Stansberry Research.

KEN EWING (Man #2) returns to the DCT stage having previously appeared as Edward Rochester in Jane Eyre The Musical, Freddie in Chess, Thomas Jefferson in 1776, Trevor Graydon in Thoroughly Modern Millie, and the title roles in Jekyll and Hyde. Offstage, Ken is the President of the DCT Board of Directors, husband to Christina, and father to Kara and Corey.

JOEY HELLMAN (Man #3) returns to DCT after having performed in The Leader of the Pack, Anything Goes, No, No, Nanette, and The 1940’s Radio Hour. He also performed in the CCBC Dundalk production of O’er the Ramparts. He has directed The Little Foxes, Driving Miss Daisy and Go Back for Murder at DCT. Other CCBC directing credits include Steel Magnolias and Driving Miss Daisy (Catonsville), Towards Zero, Plaza Suite, and Butterflies are Free. Cockpit in Court performing credits include The Secret Garden, Lucky Stiff, The Foreigner, Curtains, How to Succeed… and Mame. Joey is the Administrative Coordinator for Johns Hopkins’ GYN/OB Residency Program.

TODD PEARTHREE (Director/Choreographer) 200 plus productions for Modell-Lyric, Theatre Hopkins at JHU, MD Arts Festival at TU, Peabody Opera Theatre, Gateway Playhouse, Center Stage, Lycoming College, Chateau DeVille, 11 Dinner Theatres (2 as Producer/Director), Pumpkin Theatre (Producer/Director for 8 years), and most local theatres.. Adjunct Professor for Peabody Conservatory (Musical Theatre), lectured at Towson University (film) and Loyola College (Musical Theatre). DCT productions include Gypsy, The Secret Garden, The Women, Fiddler on the Roof, The Bridges of Madison County and as Nick in Baby

CATINA MCLAGAN (Musical Director) is thrilled to be making her music directing debut with DCT after having been a pit musician for Mamma Mia, Bridges of Madison County, and Shrek. She has also performed with Cockpit in Court, ArtsCentric, and Toby’s Dinner Theater. Outside of musical theater she is a school music teacher in Howard County.

MARC W. SMITH (Scenic/Lighting/Sound Designer/Technical Director) has been involved in theatre for over 40 years and has been responsible for designing or technically directing over 350 productions. With B.A. and M.F.A. degrees in Technical Theatre and Design from Towson University, he has been the full time Technical Director for CCBC Dundalk since 1980. In addition, he is the theatre technical consultant for the CCBC Catonsville and Essex theatre facilities. Marc has received numerous technical theatre achievement awards from The United States Institute of Theatre Technology for productions of A Little Night Music, The Cemetery Club and Bus Stop ) and was a regional finalists in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival for his lighting design for Zombie Prom and won “Best Lighting Design” at the Maytime International Theatre Festival in Ireland For DCT’s production of I Do, I Do..

TRACEYANN TOKAR-SMITH (Stage Manager) returns to DCT after managing There’s No Business Like Show Business , Side Show , Catch Me If You Can and The Bridges of Madison County and directing Shadowlands. Other stage/properties management credits include A Few Good Men, Something’s Afoot, Rumors, Something’s Afoot, and My Fair Lady (DCT) and Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (Cockpit) Away from the stage, she is a middle school Language Arts and Social Studies teacher at Sisters Academy of Baltimore.

AMY VICKERS (Properties Master) is thrilled to be back “home” at DCT. Whether Propping, Stage Managing, Floor Crew, Board Member, Concession Sales…. From front of house to backstage, to spotlight, Amy has been active with DCT for 17 years! Past shows include: Hello Dolly, Jekyll and Hyde, Jane Eyre, 42nd Street, Bridges of Madison County, Into the Woods, 1776, Anything Goes, Visiting Mr. Green, Other People’s Money… the list goes on. During the day Amy can be found at Towson University assisting students and Faculty in the Psychology Department. Oh, Amy’s favorite supporting role to date is Mom to Timothy!

ROBERT L. FREEDMAN (Author) won a Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Book of a Musical for the Tony-winning Best Musical of 2014, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder. He was also nominated for a Tony Award for Best Score, with composer and co-lyricist Steven Lutvak, with whom he shared the 2014 Drama Desk Award for Best Lyrics. Among his television career highlights, Robert won the Writers Guild Award for HBO’s A Deadly Secret, and was nominated for an Emmy Award and a Writers Guild award for the miniseries Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows. Other teleplays include Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, for which he received a third Writers Guild nomination; What Makes A Family, which received a GLAAD Award and for which Robert was a Humanitas finalist; What Love Sees, winner of the Silver Plaque at the Chicago International Television Festival; as well as the highly-rated true crime dramas Murder In The Hamptons, The Pastor’s Wife, Honor Thy Mother, and Bitter Blood. In 2006, Freedman and Lutvak received both the Fred Ebb Award for songwriting and the Kleban Award for lyric writing for their work on the musicals A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder and Campaign of the Century. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Robert has B.A. in Theatre from UCLA and an M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing and Musical Theatre from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Robert is currently at work on a film for HBO and Sundance Films. He is married to actress Jean Kauffman, and they are the proud parents of Max Freedman, a writer and community activist living in Brooklyn.

STEVEN LUTVAK (Author) made his Broadway debut with his score to A Gentleman’s Guide to Love And Murder, for which he supplied the music, and co-wrote the lyrics with Robert L. Freedman. A Gentleman’s Guide won the Drama League, the Outer Critics Circle, the Drama Desk and the Tony Awards for Best Musical of 2014. Since its successful run of over two years on Broadway, there have been two National Tours (the second of which is currently on the road), and productions have already been seen in Sweden, Japan, and the first Chinese language production opens this December. Previously, Lutvak and Freedman won the Kleban and Fred Ebb Songwriting Awards for their songs to A Gentleman’s Guide, which was originally developed at the Sundance Theater Lab, and which premiered as a co-production at the Hartford Stage, and the Old Globe in San Diego. Lutvak and Freedman previously wrote the musical Campaign of the Century, which won the California Musical Theater Competition from the Beverly Hills Theater Guild. Campaign was originally commissioned by The American Musical Theater of San Jose, and was later presented in a concert version at Chicago’s Humanities Festival, and featured in the New York Music Theater Festival. Other musicals include Almost September, which premiered on the mainstage of the Repertory Theater of St. Louis, and was subsequently produced at Missouri Repertory Theater, and won eight Bay Area Critics’ Circle Awards for its run at Theater Works in Palo Alto, California. The Wayside Motor Inn, his adaptation of a play by A. R. Gurney, began as a commission by the Harmony Project of the National Alliance for Musical Theater, for which Lutvak was named Artist-in-Residence at the Eugene O’Neill Opera Music/Theater Conference. His Esmeraldapremiered at the Studio Theater of the St. Louis Rep, and was awarded a New American Work grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Lutvak scored Off-Broadway’s Hannah Senesh, which was nominated for a Drama Desk Award, and was later produced at the Zephyr Theatre in Los Angeles, the Philadelphia Theatre Company, the Baltimore Center Stage, the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, and more recently at Penguin Repertory Theatre. The production also toured throughout Canada and Israel. During the 1994 Toronto Summer Arts Festival, a revue of Steven’s songs was presented as part of Garth Drabinsky and Live Entertainment of Canada’s New Voices Series. Other works of his have been performed at the Berkshire Theatre Festival, La Mama ETC, Weill Recital Hall and the New York Shakespeare Festival. Lutvak wrote the title track to Paramount’s hit film, “Mad Hot Ballroom”, and, the score to “Anything But Love”, which starred Eartha Kitt and Andrew McCarthy, and was released by the Samuel Goldwyn Company. As a singer/songwriter, Lutvak has performed his songs around the country, including such prestigious New York venues as Carnegie Hall, Carnegie Recital Hall, The Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel, Rainbow and Stars and the Russian Tea Room. His two CD’s are called THE TIME IT TAKES and AHEAD OF MY HEART. He is also the winner of the Johnny Mercer Emerging American Songwriting Award, the ASCAP Foundation Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award, and is the only two-time recipient of the Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation Grant. Steven is proud to now be an Adjunct Professor at his alma mater, the NYU Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program. And now that several of his songs are discussed in David Jenness and Don Velsey’s “Classic American Popular Song”, the follow-up to Alec Wilder’s classic book, “American Popular Song”, Steven Lutvak’s place in the American Popular Songbook is even more firmly planted. Steven lives in New York City with his husband, choreographer Michael McGowan, and their daughter, Eliot Rose Lutvak-McGowan.

DCT PRODUCTION STAFF

DCT Artistic / Managing Director | Tom Colonna
DCT / CCBC Dundalk Technical Director | Marc W. Smith
DCT Producer / Dean, School of Liberal Arts | Dr. William Watson
Chair, Performing Arts and Humanities Department | Patti Crossman
Theatre Administrative Assistants | Johanna Lawrence, Zolita Courter
CCBC Box Office Staff | Lisa L. Boeren, Eva Grove, Thom Purdy
Publicity Director | James Hunnicutt
Photography | Tom Lauer
Scenic / Lighting /Sound Design | Marc W. Smith
Set Construction | Marc W. Smith, Gordon Lord, Jim Egan
Scenic Painting | Marc W. Smith, Samantha Callanta
Lisa L. Boeren, Jim Egan
Sound Operation | Marc W. Smith
Backstage Crew | Amy Bell, Lisa L. Boeren
Erin Johnson, Sammy Jungwirth
Fly Deck | Gordon Lord
Follow Spot Operators | Megan Millane, Darlene Harris
Light Board Operator | Brandon Sowden
Hair Styling | Barry Stairs
Dressers | Lisa Sharpe, Amy Sacks
Dialect Coach | Callum McLagan
Dance Captain | Alyssa Bell
DCT Board of Directors Liason | Ken Ewing, Patrick Martyn
Production Manager | Brad Norris
Communications Assistant | Cathy Kratovil

DUNDALK COMMUNITY THEATRE
BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Tom Colonna | Artistic Managing Director
Dr. William Watson | Producer
Dr. Anne M. Lefter | Executive Producer

Ken Ewing | President
Sarah Chrzanowski | Vice-President
Cheryl Vourvoulus | Recording Secretary
Gigi Causey | Corresponding Secretary

Special Thanks

Dr. Sandra Kurtinitis, President, CCBC
Professor Jack McLaughlin, Interim Vice President of Instruction
Dr. William Watson, Dean of Liberal Arts
Patti Crossman, Chair, Performing Arts and Humanities
Dr. Anne Lefter, Director, Performing Arts
Michael Elspas, Assistant Director, Creative Services
Kim Bleakley, Graphic Designer
CCBC Student Government
The CCBC Essex Foundation for the donation of Wine

This production is supported in part by a grant from the Maryland State Arts Council.
On the web at msac.org

THEATRE PATRONS ASSOCIATION

The Theatre Patrons Association of DCT is comprised of audience members
who want to share a “special” appreciation to the theatre experience.
A TPA gift is a demonstration of gratitude and encouragement
to our actors, directors, designers and volunteers.

CATEGORIES

PEGGY SPILLANE MOSER MEMORIAL FUND
Tom Colonna and Herb Knapp
Edward J. Peters and Kip Kunsman

BENEFACTOR
The Calini Family
Keith Ewancio
Lula Mae & John Gray
Dave Guy
Annette Sussman

ASSOCIATE
Matt Corner & Frank Soda | Dolores Crujeiras | Mrs. David Jones
Barbara & Ed Meyer | Cherly Vourvoulas