A Patsy Cline Holiday

DUNDALK COMMUNITY THEATRE
presents

Written & Directed by
Ken Ewing

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

Musical Director
Michael DeVito

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

CAST

Tiffany Walker-Porta Burrows
Eileen Aubele
Olivia Aubele
Corinne Brock
Jeff Burch
Karah Campbell
Shawn Doyle
Temple Fortson
Darren McDonnell
Edward J. Peters
Maribeth Vogel
Shannon Wollman

MUSICAL NUMBERS

There will be one fifteen-minute intermission

MUSICIANS

Michael DeVito | Musical Director/Orchestra Manager
Chris Peterson | Guitar
Bob DeLisle | Bass
Scott Tiemann | Drums

WHO’S WHO

TIFFANY WALKER-PORTA BURROWS (Patsy Cline) returns to DCT after having performed as Marge in Bridges of Madison County. She has been performing locally and nationally for over 40 years. Nationally, some of her credits include performing at the Aloha Bowl, Rocky Gap, and Carnegie Hall. Locally, some of her past favorite roles are Patsy Cline in Always, Patsy Cline (DCT, Toby’s Dinner theatre & Winters Lane), Rose in Gypsy (MAF), Dolly in Hello Dolly (PFT), Mayzie in Seussical (Pumpkin Theatre), Fastrada in Pippin, Florinda in Into the Woods (MTM), Jan in Grease (MAF), Martha in The Secret Garden (DCT) and herself in Smokey Joe’s Café (Cockpit)… just to name a few. Tiffany was the Director/Owner of Drama Kids International of Central Baltimore and Harford County. Currently, she is a Special Education teacher at Hereford Middle School. She holds two Master’s Degrees from Goucher College (Special Education & Elementary Education). Tiffany is the Director/Producer of the HMS Drama Program, as well as the faculty sponsor for the HMS Best Buddies Chapter.

EILEEN AUBELE is so happy to be here to share the Holiday spirit with you! Area theatre patrons will remember Eileen from her performance as Marmee in the DCT production of Little Women and last year’s fundraiser production of There’s No Business Like Show Business and The Lady of the Lake at Cockpit in Court Theatre. The best part of this evening is that she is sharing the stage with her daughter and dear friends. Happy Holidays!

OLIVIA AUBELE is thrilled to return to DCT after performing in Catch Me If You Can. She was recently nominated for a Cappie Award for her ensemble performance of The Goddess of Love, Erzulie, at Notre Dame Prep where she is a junior. No stranger to local audiences, she has played Lina Lamont in Singing in the Rain; Patsy in Crazy for You! ; Teen Fiona in Shrek; Sister Mary Robert in Sister Act!; Emma in Emma!; and Gabrielle in Cinderella. Other roles include Oliver in Oliver!; Mazie in Seussical!; Ermangarde in Hello Dolly; Amaryllis in The Music Man; and Marta in The Sound of Music. She recently made her NYC debut at Joe’s Pub performing as a soloist in the Cabaret All You Need is Love! She has performed locally for CPM, Patapsco High School, DCT, and The Vagabonds! She studies voice with Jenn Viets, Piano with Amy Kwon and Dance with Julie Foley at Upper Falls Dance Academy.

CORINNE BROCK is a senior at Edgewood High School, and is a proud member of their Theatre Department and International Baccalaureate program. In school, some of Corinne’s past shows have included Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Pride and Prejudice, and In The Heights. Outside of school, Corinne has been a part of Phoenix Festival Theatre’s Into the Woods, Urinetown, and The Addams Family Musical, as well as other productions in the community.

JEFF BURCH is delighted to be back on the DCT stage working with this talented and terrific group of people. Jeff has been featured in a number of DCT productions including Bridges of Madison County, La Cage aux Folles, The Drowsy Chaperone, Titanic, Forever Plaid, and Twelve Angry Men. Other recent shows include Disaster, The Musical!, with Cockpit in Court and Cabaret, with Vagabond Players.

KARAH CAMPBELL is currently a senior at North Harford High School in Harford County. She has been doing musical theatre for 12 years now, in many companies such as Children’s Playhouse of Maryland, Theatreworks…live, as well as a gala at DCT! She is thrilled to sing Holiday songs with these wonderful people. Karah wants to thank her girlfriend Gina for being her biggest supporter!

SHAWN DOYLE has been performing in the Baltimore / DC area for over 40 years, He has been a part of many shows full of talented performers. To be included in a show with some of the ‘best of the best’ is truly a Holiday miracle. Shawn first worked with Tom Colonna in Romance – Romance at DCT and it remains one of his favorites. Other shows and roles Shawn has performed in include, Che’ – Evita, Jekyll-Hyde, Anatoly – Chess, Stine in City of Angels – and many more. He has also performed with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and spent a number of years performing in a “Rock Cover Band”. The last time Shawn played guitar on stage in a show was in Pippin as the leading player which is also when he met his future wife and best friend – Michelle. Thanks to Spencer and Katie for putting up with both of them!

TEMPLE FORTSON is excited to be a part of this DCT Holiday production with this talented cast of performers. Some of her favorite past roles include; Hannah in Puffs at ASoB, Smokey Joes Café with ASoB and TCP, Motherhood Out Loud at both Vagabonds and GAC, the Narrator in Joseph…Dreamcoat at TAP, Gary Coleman in Avenue Q at GAC, and one of the church ladies in The Color Purple at TCP. She wishes broken legs to the cast and much enjoyment to our audiences.

DARREN MCDONNELL returns to the DCT stage after having performed in the 2017 Holiday Fundraiser. He also performed on our stage in BABY (Danny), City of Angels (Stine), Moon Over Buffalo and Into The Woods (The Baker). Other regional credits include: Disaster! The Musical (Tony), White Christmas (Bob Wallace), MAMMA MIA (Harry), Spamalot (Sir Robin – Helen Hayes Nomination), Next to Normal (Dan), Private Lives (Victor) and Arsenic and Old Lace (Mortimer). When not on stage Darren is a Sales and Marketing Associate at Roland Park Place Retirement Community.

EDWARD J. PETERS has performed in over 100 productions in the Baltimore area. At DCT, his credits include Albin/Zsa Zsa in La Cage Aux Folles, Will Rogers in The Will Rogers Follies, Horace Vandergelder in Hello Dolly and Neville Craven in The Secret Garden. Other local credits include Sweeney in Sweeney Todd, Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha, John Wilkes Booth in Assassins and Flaminio Scala in The Glorious Ones. Internationally, he has represented the US performing at various theatre festivals in France, Germany, Japan, China, and Ukraine.

MARIBETH VOGEL is thrilled to return to DCT and play one of her favorite characters, Louise, from Always, Pasty Cline! Baltimore audiences last saw her as Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit at Vagabonds Theatre. Other favorite roles include Princess Puffer in Edwin Drood (ASGT); Gorgeous in The Sisters Rosenzweig and Charlotte Hay in Moon Over Buffalo (DCT); Clairee and Truvy in Steel Magnolias, Betty inThe Great American Trailer Park Musical and Dolly Levi (Spotlighters), Dotty in Noises Off, Maggie in Jake’s Women, and Mama Rose in Gypsy. She can be seen next in Shadowbox at Spotlighters in February.

SHANNON WOLLMAN is a Baltimore native with extensive performance credits in New York City. She has been featured as Electra the “Electrifying Stripper” in the National Tour of Gypsy, as well as the Off Broadway production of Nunsense. She also performed her one woman show, and made numerous appearances at the NYC cabaret room, Don’t Tell Mama. Her singing has taken her around the world performing aboard the “Song of Flower”, a Radisson Seven Seas Cruise Ship. Locally, Shannon has starred in many productions including Ruthless, Hello Dolly,,BABY, The Women,and The Drowsy Chaperone for DCT. Other credits include Mame, Born Yesterday, Evita, Bells Are Ringing, The Wild Party, On the Town, Guys and Dolls, Funny Girl and most recently Gypsy. Shannon also had the privilege of singing at The Meyerhoff Symphony Hall as the opening act for comedian Bob Newhart and has appeared with the Baltimore Symphony on numerous occasions.

KEN EWING (Writer/Director)

MICHAEL DEVITO (Musical Director) National tours include: Wicked, The Color Purple, Mamma Mia!, Annie, Little Shop of Horrors, Menopause: The Musical, The Wiz. Mike served as the music supervisor for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s Holiday Spectacular and has appeared regularly with the BSO SuperPops. Some of his favorite credits include performing with Shirley Jones, Robert Goulet, John Waters, Jackie Evancho, George Takei, Martin Short, Keely Smith, Donald O’Connor, Warren Haynes and The Mills Brothers. Mike was the musical director for the Baltimore-based vocal quintet, Opus V.

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..

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
Set Construction | Marc W. Smith, Jim Egan
Follow Spot Operators | Megan Millane, Darlene Harris
Light Board Operator | Gordon Lord
Music Preparation | Dr. William Watson
Catering Coordination | Gigi Causey

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 Vourvoulas | 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
Barry Stairs
Gigi Causey

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