Julie Harris - Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater

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Julie Harris - Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater
A tribute to
WELLFLEET HARBOR ACTORS THEATER
The Julie
Harris Stage
YEARS
Julie
Harris
2014-2015
Season
Theater
Dance
Opera
Music
Movies
WHAT
for Kids
Celebrating 30 years!
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2014 Summer Season
The Julie Harris Stage
WELLFLEET HARBOR ACTORS THEATER
The Julie
Harris Stage
YEARS
THE JULIE HARRIS STAGE
PO BOX 797
2357 Route 6, Wellfleet, MA 02667
WHAT FOR KIDS TENT
2357 Route 6, Wellfleet, MA
(508) 349-WHAT (9428) • what.org
This season we celebrate the 30th anniversary of
Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater. Founded in 1985, WHAT
is the award-winning non-profit theater on Cape Cod
that the New York Times says brought “a new vigor for
theater on the Cape” and the Boston Globe says “is
a jewel in Massachusetts’ crown.” Boston Magazine
named WHAT the Best Theater in 2004 and the Boston
Drama Critics Association has twice awarded WHAT its
prestigious Elliot Norton Award.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Jeffry George
The
WHAT
team,
Spring
2014
WHAT FOR KIDS IMPRESARIO
Stephen Russell
INTERIM DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR
Joanna Marie Roche
The Trials of Gertude Moody...........................................18
I Am a Camera................................................................20
The Surfside Snoops and the Ghost of Great Island...........24
The Fabulous Lipitones...................................................26
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Period of Adjustment.......................................................30
Also inside:
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Letters of Supprt.............................................................6-8
Letter from the Board of Trustees......................................9
Ticketing Information.......................................................12
Letter from the Executive Director...................................15
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2014 Summer Music Festival..........................................23
The Players Ball..............................................................29
Playmaker Talkback.........................................................33
PRODUCTION MANAGER
Christopher Ostrom
Collaborations and Events..............................................34
Recording Our Events.....................................................35
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
Richard Archer
Honoring Julie Harris.......................................................38
ASSISTANT TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
Jack Golden
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WHAT Bar & Café............................................................41
photo:Michael & Suz Karchmer
WARDROBE SUPERVISOR
Carol Sherry
Season Corporate Sponsors...........................................42
Yule for Fuel....................................................................46
WHAT for Kids.................................................................51
SCENIC ARTIST
Evan Farley
Our Generous Donors.....................................................54
Supporting the Arts, Supporting Community...................58
MARKETING DIRECTOR
Susan Blood
WHAT Internship Program...............................................61
BOX OFFICE/FRONT OF HOUSE MANAGER
Courtney Reardon
Metropolitan Opera Live in HD 2014-15........... 64
Volunteer at WHAT........................................... 66
COMPANY MANAGER/ADVERTISING SALES
Ellen Rubenstein
BOX OFFICE AND ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT
Robin Russell
VOLUNTEER COORDINATORS
Dick and Val Rand
The Journey So Far... ...................................... 68
Directory of Advertisers.................................... 73
Julie Harris Stage
2357 Route 6, Wellfleet, MA (next to Post Office)
There’s
just one
problem.
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WHAT for Kids Tent
on the grounds of the
Julie Harris Stage
COMPANY PHOTOGRAPHERS
Michael and Suz Karchmer
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CARETAKER
Bob Junker
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STAFF ACCOUNTANT
Corey Keilb
CONTROLLER
Tammy Glivinski
PLAYBILL DESIGN
Kristen vonHentschel
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WELLFLEET HARBOR ACTORS THEATER
The Julie
Harris Stage
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/
INTERIM ARTISTIC
DIRECTOR
Jeffry George
INTERIM DEVELOPMENT
DIRECTOR
Joanna Roche
HONORARY BOARD CHAIR
in perpetuity
Julie Harris
(1925-2013)
BOARD CHAIR
John Dubinsky
PRESIDENT EMERITUS
Carol Green
BOARD MEMBERS
Judith Cicero
Shawn DeLude
Douglas Freeman
Gerald Garnick
Carol Green
Richard Grossman
Mac Hay
Susan Lloyd
Kai Maristed
Michelle McClennen
Donna Ward
Kathryn Weill
David Willard
Renée Zarin
ADVISORY COUNCIL
Stephen Huff
Ursla Huff
Joan Mark
Anne Peretz
Frank Risch
Margarita Rudyak
Bob Seay
Berta Walker
Michael Zarin
YEARS
Dear WHAT community:
This season is truly something to celebrate. Not only does it mark 30
years of professional quality theater for our audience, but it ushers in an
era of solidarity, direction and stability within the company.
In 2013 our total net ticket sales increased by 13%. Our total number
of individual tickets sold increased by 10%. During that calendar year,
nearly 3,000 new patrons crossed our threshold.
This is what happens when we all pull in the same direction. The
theater is sounder than it’s ever been, operating in the black for the first
time in many years, while partnering with local organizations and
offering more free programming than ever. The theater continues to
take seriously its role in the year-round community, providing facilities
and programming for not only summer visitors but year-round residents.
With all that said, we still have a very long way to go to support our
beautiful building, so the Board of Trustees recently adopted a $3.5
million Capitol Campaign to bring WHAT into a sustainable business
model. These funds go to support needed repairs and updating, the
replacement of the WHAT for Kids tent with a more suitable structure,
the reduction of our mortgages, and an endowment to partially fund a
scholarship program in honor of Julie Harris.
In addition to this commitment, last year we hired a strategic
consultant to help us map out a long range plan. The board is energized
by this opportunity to move forward, building on the history and
foundation we have earned. As a result, five year budgetary goals were
adopted, where a healthy financial outcome in 2019 has been
predicted.
The board was also happy to add to its membership this year with
four new trustees: Gerald Garnick, Kai Maristed, Michelle
McClennen and Donna Ward. We will continue to expand the board
this year, seeking professionals to volunteer their time in the areas of
marketing, fundraising, legal counsel and community outreach.
Finally, at the end of the day, “the play’s the thing.” We met with
critical success last year and have started this season with more
glowing reviews. During our entire history, one of our staunchest
supporters was Julie Harris, who generously gave of herself to the
theater community on the Cape and allowed us to name our stage after
her. We will be celebrating her life and legacy on Tuesday, July 29,
2014, with an over-the-top gala southern barbecue by director,
playwright and pitmaster, John Markus.
We hope you will join us then, and we thank you for joining us now.
We couldn’t do this without you.
Very truly yours,
Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater
Board of Trustees
“I am thrilled to know that
Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater
is growing, growing, growing
– and it makes my heart sing!”
– Julie Harris
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RESERVATIONS
IN PERSON WHAT Box Office (Julie Harris Stage)
BY PHONE
(508) 349-WHAT (9428)
TOLL FREE
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BY EMAIL
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WHAT, PO Box 797, Wellfleet, MA 02667
BOX OFFICE Tickets may be purchased at
WHAT Box Office, Julie Harris Stage
2357 Route 6, Wellfleet, MA
Summer Hours: Sunday and Monday - 12pm to 5pm
photo: Michael & Suz Karchmer
Courtney Reardon, Ellen Rubenstein
and Robin Russell
Tuesday through Saturday - 9am to 5pm
Winter Hours: Wednesday through Saturday - 9am to 5pm
Sunday - 12pm to 5pm
The box office will stay open until showtime on days that there is a show.
Closed Monday and Tuesday
All hours subject to change in winter months.
photo: Michael & Suz Karchmer
WHAT Mission Statement
The Mission of Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater is to present professional quality theater to its audiences; to provide an
alternative theater experience not found elsewhere in the region; to advance and preserve the art of the theater for the
education and appreciation of the public.
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WELLFLEET HARBOR ACTORS THEATER
The Julie
30
Harris Stage
Relationships, community
and the future.
Jeffry George
photo: Michael & Suz Karchmer
Greetings Friends,
photo: Michael & Suz Karchmer
Welcome to Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater’s 30th
anniversary season of programming, paying tribute to
the wonderful Julie Harris. At her memorial service in
New York City many friends and colleagues took to the
stage to pay homage to this remarkable woman. Hal
Holbrook captured Julie in one statement – “Julie was
truth that walked across the stage.”
Julie’s relationship to Cape residents and to Cape Cod
Theater organizations was remarkable. So in preparing
for this season our goal was to emulate the truth that
Mr. Holbrook spoke of and to represent the effect of what
relationships can do to improve the human condition
much like Ms. Harris did for the Cape. Our four main
stage productions will give you the opportunity to think
about your own relationships and the effect they have
on the world around you. The Trials of Gertrude Moody
shows what human imprinting means and how the truths
we are told are believed. We then carry those beliefs into
our daily relationships with friends and family. I Am a
Camera helps us discover that relationships can get us
through the most difficult of times. The Fabulous
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Lipitones cements the fact that our relationships deepen
as we grow older and in so doing help us learn more
about ourselves. And in Period of Adjustment our
director, Michael Unger, points out that it takes four
tragically mismatched people to make harmony out of
their respective relationships.
So, after 30 years, it’s important to think about
WHAT’s relationship to the community and to ask the
question that the character Isabel asks in Period of
Adjustment – Where, oh where, are we going?
Here at WHAT over the years, our programming has
shed light on the environment, arts, and culture, as well
as the issues of mental health and drug abuse. We
continue to deepen our relationship with you and with
organizations like Mass Audubon, Harwich Junior
Theatre, SPAT and the Cape Cod Institute, addressing
some of the issues above.
Moving forward, we must continue to identify and
address the issues of deepest concern. After all, theater is
a vehicle for shedding light on the issues that affect us.
As an example of our programming meeting a need,
I am happy to announce that a play written by young
Boston playwright Mike Poe and Wellfleet Harbor Actors
Theater is currently in the works, providing a thought
provoking look at the issue of drug abuse here on Cape
Cod. We at WHAT hope to shine a light on this growing
problem and, in keeping with our mission, bring to the
forefront the issues that most seriously affect our lives.
We have discovered over the years that it’s our
relationship to you that propels us forward. We’ve learned
from you that we have the ability to open our doors to the
community, sharing our facility and our mission to better
serve the Outer Cape. Thank you for helping us to see,
after 30 years, where we can go from here.
Sincerely,
Jeffry George
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WORLD PREMIERE
The Trials of
Gertrude Moody
WRITTEN BY Kimberly Burke
DIRECTED BY Jef Hall-Flavin
“And when
that egg
hatched, the
moon was
born.”
-The Trials of Gertrude Moody
PREVIEWS May 22, 23
OPENS May 24
CLOSES June 21
An interview with
Jef Hall-Flavin
WHAT: How did you come upon this play and
what caught your interest?
Jef Hall-Flavin: I worked with Kimberly Burke on
a reading of one of her plays at the Playwright’s
Center in Minneapolis, where she was a
Jerome Fellow in 2006. She sent me Trudy and I
immediately fell in love… but it has taken eight
years to find a brave theater company with the
right sensibility to embrace the play. I’m thrilled
to be premiering it at WHAT.
What were you looking for when casting it?
JHF: The play is often simultaneously in the
present and the past, so I was looking for actors
with the ability to tell a story from a point of
view “outside” the confines of the scene, while
still inhabiting a character fully. In addition,
the actors have to be incredibly flexible to play
multiple characters, including themselves as
sock puppets. Finally, it’s a comedy, so I was
looking for actors with natural comic timing.
Is there a line you could share that gives us a
glimpse into the play?
JHF: One of the characters is a scientist, and
he tells us, “Altricial chicks, such as eagles and
cranes, observe their parent’s behavior and
model their own accordingly. This is called
imprinting. But if they are adopted by a human,
they will take on the behavior patterns of a
human.” This goes to the heart of the play.
We are all imprinted. We are all products of
what people tell us: from something as simple
as what we should and shouldn’t eat, to
something as complicated as the creation of
the world.
Can you shed some light on how the play
speaks to this day in age?
JHF: Amid the incongruity of a flightless parrot
turning into a famous fashion designer over the
course of 400 years lays a deeply philosophical
play. Trudy’s journey effortlessly and often
hilariously points at ideas about gender
norms, cultural boundaries, creation myths,
human trafficking, physical beauty, patriarchal
privilege, feminine identity, and, ultimately,
what it means to be human. To me, this is
the mark of a good play. It is why I go to the
theater: to explore ideas larger than my own,
and to be delighted while doing so.
An orphaned parrot raised by humans
becomes an international fashion icon.
Trudy Moody, the last of her kind?
A mind-altering tribute to WHAT’s early years
IMPRINTING: Form of learning wherein
a very young animal fixes its attention on the
first object with which it has visual, auditory, or
tactile experience and thereafter follows that
object. In nature, the object is almost always
a parent; in experiments, other animals and
inanimate objects have been used. Imprinting
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has been studied extensively only in birds,
but a comparable form of learning apparently
takes place among many mammals and some
fishes and insects. Ducklings and chicks, which
can imprint in a few hours, lose receptivity to
imprinting stimuli within 30 hours of hatching.
-Merriam-Webster Concise Encyclopedia
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I Am a Camera
TRIBUTE TO JULIE
As she pursues her own theater career,
Ruby Wolf keeps a signed photo taken with
Julie Harris on her desk. The photo was
taken at Cape Rep, where at age 15 Ruby
portrayed Frankie Addams in Member of the
Wedding – a role for which Julie had received
an Academy Award nomination.
When Julie attended a performance of Member
of the Wedding, they presented her with a
bouquet of flowers following the curtain calls.
In her inimitable fashion, Julie presented the
bouquet back to Ruby Wolf – a moment Ruby
cites as a crystalizing moment in her career
path. “She was so gracious to me – and to
many - and a wonderful influence on the
theater community on Cape Cod,” Ruby says.
“That interaction was so significant in my
life - her support and the determination she
instilled. We joke that I’m stalking her career,
but I can’t imagine a better career to shadow.
She’s a reminder of what this all means.”
Ruby is Jewish, with family that died in the
Holocaust. “That area of history is
fascinating to me,” she says of
Weimar Germany.
“It was such a radical time. This is the
story of individual people, on the
precipice of one of the ugliest periods in
modern history. It’s a snapshot of a
moment in time.”
WRITTEN BY
John Van Druten
ADAPTED FROM
“The Berlin Stories”
by Christopher Isherwood
DIRECTED BY
Caitlin Langstaff
PREVIEWS June 26, 27
OPENS June 28
CLOSES July 19
Julie Harris
won her first Tony
Award for her role
as Sally Bowles,
an American
living in Berlin
as the decadence
of the Weimar
Republic gave
way to the
Third Reich.
An interview with
Caitlin Langstaff
WHAT: Why is this play
important to the Outer
Cape, including our Jewish
community?
Caitlin Langstaff: This play is set
around 1930 in the city of Berlin
and so these characters have a
growing awareness that some sort
of change is taking place, some
more than others. The two Jewish
characters have a much better
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idea of what is at stake and what
they need to do to survive. But
more than anything, this is a play
about relationships and how they
tangle and untangle while trying to
right themselves with who they are
and who they wish to become.
Can you share any specifics
on capturing the mood of
the play?
CL: What do we want to convey
with this rented room, this meeting
place where all the characters at
some point reveal themselves?
Watching these four newfound
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friends maneuver their way under
the roof of Fraulein Schneider, I
like the idea of things in the room
not always making sense, not so
easy to access a straight line. It’s
the unexpected journey that forces
them to look outside themselves.
We have what goes on inside
these walls and what goes on in
the street and so the window is
important; the sense of seeing and
hearing through a portal to the
outside world and its impending
danger. It is one more source of
voyeurism as is the camera or the
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“The mood of
the play – the
establishment for
the audience of
what it felt like to
be living in Berlin
in 1930, and the
kind of life and
people that one
met there, then –
is its most
important quality.”
- John Van Druten
Julie Harris
Original Broadway
Production 1951
Ruby Wolf
Wellfleet Harbor
Actors Theater
Production 2014
“I am a camera with its shutter
open, quite passive, recording,
not thinking.”
- Christopher Isherwood
hungry writer looking for clues.
But inside we have four young
adults trying on new things, new
people, and personas. There is
something about being that age
when you have your freedom
to play and explore, feeling
somewhat immortal to then wake
up and realize who you are in
conjunction with the rest of the
world – and how much you need
more than yourself to survive.
Were you influenced by
other versions?
CL: No, I have never seen I Am
a Camera or Cabaret. I didn’t
want to be influenced by anything
theatrical. I did read The Berlin
Stories by Christopher Isherwood
for more detail. But as far as
influences no, I needed to meet
these people for the first time.
What were you looking for in
this cast?
CL: People I want to work with,
people I respect. I look for honest
work on stage. People I can
believe. Not so simple. I believe I
have found my ensemble cast that
will help lift this story off pages
written in 1951 and bring new
life, fresh desire and hope to the
stage.
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WORLD PREMIERE
THE SURFSIDE SN
PS
AND THE GHOST OF
GREAT ISLAND
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY Stephen Russell
An interview with playwright
Stephen Russell
WHAT: This is a bit of a departure
for you this year, isn’t it?
Stephen Russell: It is. I’m usually
drawn to fairy tales and folklore for
my source material, but, believe it
or not, despite the seemingly
inexhaustible supply, I find it
increasingly difficult to find material
that (a) will be familiar to our
audience and (b) hasn’t already
been Disneyfied or otherwise done
to death and (c) can be made to
work on a stage in a tent and, (d)
most importantly, speaks to me on
the deep emotional level that I need
to have in order to create something
fresh and personally meaningful. So
doing something a little bit outside of
my comfort zone seemed right this
year. But really, it’s mostly just doing
what I always do – mining my
childhood for inspiration, so in that
sense it’s business as usual.
So I take it you were a big Hardy Boys fan
growing up?
SR: I was. And a lot of the books we had in the house
were hand-me-downs – books that had been bought
either for or by my Dad or my Uncle David in the late
‘20s and early ‘30s and then passed down from them
through each of my three older brothers and, finally,
to me. The Hardy Boys I grew up with still drove
roadsters and were very low tech. I loved the dialogue
and particularly the slang which was already a bit
archaic by the time I was reading the books in the late
‘50s and early ‘60s.
So why not just do a Hardy Boys play?
SR: I thought an original story would be a better vehicle
for bringing in some other elements that I wanted to
include, such as a more local setting, a bit of the times
of my own childhood and a little more humor which is
often conspicuously absent from the Hardy Boys books.
Beth - “Ghosts, robberies,
mysterious disappearances, trouble
in town, trouble at the harbor –”
Eleanor - “And this used to be
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such a quiet little town.”
Beth - “Guess it’s up to us to make
sure it is again.”
Eleanor - “Okay, but we don’t
have much time. I have to be home
by nine o’clock.”
Plus, I hoped that by introducing a pair of new
detectives I could get away from that commonly held
belief that only boys read the Hardy Boys and Nancy
Drew is just for girls.
So who are the Surfside Snoops?
SR: Well, my other inspiration for this year’s show was
the dynamic duo of Lucy Blood and Freya Rich who
have been with WHAT for Kids for the past two years.
They have an incredible chemistry on stage, as will be
attested to by anyone who saw them as the double fairy
Phyllida in 2012’s Sleeping Beauty. I thought it would be
great to create roles for them wherein they got to have
fun and solve crimes even though they’re younger than
either of the Hardys or Nancy Drew. Not only do they
not have a roadster to drive, they’re still years away
from even getting a learner’s permit, so, in a way they
have to be even more resourceful. Discovering just who
these characters, Eleanor and Beth, are has been a big
part of the fun of writing, and writing them for Lucy and
Freya has given me a lot to work with.
It’s the summer of 1961 and the intrepid
reappearance of a long dead
and put a pirate in his place.
This year’s WHAT for Kids offering
girl sleuths of Bayville are plunged into
seafaring man have the whole town
A new, family friendly mystery in the
is an original play based on the classic
their most thrilling adventure yet! A
on edge and it’s up to Eleanor and
tradition of vintage Hardy Boys and
mysteries beloved by generations
series of robberies and the mysterious
Beth to, once again, solve the mystery
Nancy Drew stories.
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A NEW SOCIAL COMEDY WITH MUSIC
The Fabulous
Lipi tones
“Trust me. He’s
not one of you.”
“What do you
mean? He still has
his prostate?”
-The Fabulous Lipitones
An interview with
John Markus
WHAT: Do you see the stories we
tell as a catalyst for change?
John Markus: When we have
prejudice or we are set in our ways,
it’s because we’ve chosen to believe a
narrow set of truths. We would rather
go with what we know. It’s psychically
painful to go with what we don’t know.
A story can lead you gently into new
territory. If you find the story engaging
and you like the people and you identify
with their dilemma, you’ll travel places
you’ve never gone. I think change
happens when we see we don’t have
to be afraid of something different. That
our worst fears don’t come to fruition.
It’s a way to gently nudge people into
seeing new things, without being
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worried about them.
Does comedy help people get there?
JM: If you can evoke laughter from
either recognition or surprise, you can
coax people into the journey you want
them to take. They will give you that.
An audience will allow you to take
them someplace if along the way you
deliver satisfying side posts. Comedy
gets you to that destination, of
recognizing something you may not
have thought about before. Acceptance
can come from giving people the
rewards of laughing at their journey.
How did your own community
frame your views?
JM: I grew up in the only Jewish
family in London, Ohio. I have a very
positive memory of my childhood,
but there was always a feeling of
“the other” that was subtle. Because
I came from a small town, what I
always wanted to recreate in my work
is the idea of community. You can
say that a subculture is a community,
within a larger community.
For me, community is essential for
nourishment. I can’t get the small
town out of me. After 29 years living in
New York City, if I’m walking down the
street and I hear a horn honk, I think
it’s someone who knows me. Which
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After 30 years of
singing together,
the Fabulous
Lipitones get
their big break
and are on their
way to Nationals.
can be very distracting when you live
in Manhattan.
In today’s multi-ethnic society, the old
“birds of a feather” isn’t true anymore.
All kinds of different feathers are
flocking together. You can share a
community and a subculture with
people who have the same love that
you have. Like Barbershop.
Did you know much about barbershop before The Fabulous Lipitones?
WRITTEN BY
John Markus and Mark St. Germain
DIRECTED BY
John Markus
PREVIEWS July 24, 25 | OPENS July 26 | CLOSES August 23
Playwrights John Markus and Mark St. Germain wrote together on the
Cosby Show, which Entertainment Weekly called “the biggest sitcom hit
on American television in the past 20 years” and “the show that changed
forever the way black families are portrayed on television.”
JM: I was a musician into my thirties.
I played in a polka band in Ohio and I
had a Dixieland band.
We called the woman who was my
babysitter where I grew up Grandma
Kaveney. When my mom and dad
wanted to go out on a Saturday night,
she’d ship us across the street to
Grandma Kaveney. Grandma Kaveney
made the best Johnny Marzetti – which
is ground beef casserole with elbow
macaroni. We weren’t allowed to have
our ground beef casserole until we
watched Lawrence Welk with her. I
came to love the show. The whole milieu
of the music and the time and the
craft of the musicianship. That was it. I
embarrass myself with my love of this.
As director, will you be making any
changes to this production?
JM: This is my debut as a director.
In television comedy, the head writer
hires the director and works with the
director. So I’ve never officially been
called one, but I’ve done it. The idea
of having my debut on your stage is
exciting. We have a chance to deepen
the characters and deepen their
relationships and put a little curlycue
on the froth of some of the comedy.
It’s all the training I had in television.
There’s opportunities to make it more
human and more real.
There’s
just one
problem.
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Aaron Franklin (Franklin Barbecue, Austin, TX) and
Nicole Davenport (Cowgirl Caterin’, Fredericksburg, TX)
Onstage tribute to the life and career of Julie Harris
Live, experiential auction with guest auctioneer Hunter O’Hanian
Dessert and dancing
Dress: Cape Cod Casual (under a tent on the WHAT entrance courtyard.
Ladies, flats strongly suggested.)
Last year’s event sold out, so call the box office
now at 508-349-9428 to reserve your seats at the
barbecue to end all barbecues!
Your hosts Michelle McClennen and Jon Winder
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THE TENNESSEE WILLIAMS RELATIONSHIP CONTINUES
Period of djustment
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WRITTEN BY
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PREV
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OPEN
ES September 21
CLOS
Tennessee Williams
DIRECTED BY
Michael Unger
An Interview with
Michael Unger
WHAT: Can you speak to why
Tennessee Williams wrote a
comedy?
Michael Unger: Period of
Adjustment was written in response
to the comment of a Hollywood
columnist that said Williams’ plays
were always “plunging into the
sewers,” although there was also
apparently, “a rush of activity partly
induced by drugs.” Williams referred
to his life around this period as his
“stoned age.” But he also said, “I
would like to write a happy play for a
while. Maybe some day I will
suddenly become hilarious.”
Now, when Tennessee Williams
writes a comedy, it’s not exactly Noel
Coward. In fact, there is humor in all
of his plays, but the major thrust of
his more iconic works is disturbingly
dramatic. Arguably, he has flipped
the balance here – there’s a great
deal of humor in this play, but there
are also strong emotional moments
and complex Williams-ian
relationships. You will see familiar,
perhaps composite, characters
from his other plays; such as bits of
Brick and Blanche, some Alma and
Maggie, some Stanley, some Tom
and even Kilroy. With Williams, that
family tree is always fabulously rich.
Period of Adjustment is labeled as
a “serious comedy.” But none of it
is frivolous; Tennessee takes his
comedy very seriously.
In spite of Williams not being
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known for writing laugh-a-minute
comedies, ironically, comedy was
formative for him as a writer. When
he was 24 and visiting his grandparents
in Memphis (near to where this play
is set), he read a Chekhov play at
the library and said, “The laughter
enchanted me. Then and there, the
theater and I found each other for
better and for worse. I know it’s the
only thing that saved my life.” This
inspired his first play. Chekhov
is not Neil Simon either – but
the drama does not hold up
without exposing the foibles,
insecurities and foolishness;
ergo, the comedy – holding
the playwright’s mirror up
to these individuals – and
perhaps, to us as well.
What did we feel we
were losing as a society
and what were we trying
to hold onto in the 1950s
and ‘60s?
MU: The symbols in
this play are unabashedly
unsubtle. The house in which
the play takes place is literally
built atop a cavern and is slowly
plunging toward the center of the
earth. The honeymoon vehicle of the
newlyweds is a funeral limousine. In
fact, the subtitle of the play is “High
Point is Built on a Cavern.” The lives
and relationships of the characters
in this play are, literally, going down
the drain. America, as well as the
two men in the play, had just come
out of two wars: World War II and
the Korean War. To say nothing of
the McCarthy Era and a civil rights
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“Where do we come from? Why?
And where, oh where, are we going?”
and at the
Tennessee Williams
Festival in Provincetown
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act that showed support for school
integration and promised everyone a vote – which then
Democrat, Strom
Thurmond,
filibustered
for
different from the reality. One in four
Americans lived near or beneath
the poverty line at the end
of the 1950s. So
the freshscrubbed
look
of
24
hours
and 18
minutes in
an attempt to keep
from passing into law.
There was an optimism
during the Eisenhower era, but the
projected image of success was
the
Father
Knows
Best/Honeymooners/Leave it
to Beaver/I Love Lucy era
was merely a veneer that hid the
underbelly of what was really going
on for much of the country: P.T.S.D.,
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This light-hearted story emulating the sign
of the times in the late 1950s brings together
two couples on a holiday evening.
A comedic departure for Tennessee Williams
paranoia, insecurities, missile gaps,
Betty Friedan’s Feminine Mystique
of “problems that have no name”
and lives replete with dissatisfaction
and compromise.
If you picture suburbia in 1958
through the lens of the above
sitcoms, you’re going to find not only
the world but also the “His and Her
Bed” relationships that Williams is
skewering. His story and the
comedy contribute to a hopeful
ending – but it takes four
tragically mismatched people
to make harmony out of these
two couples and the world of
High Point, Tennessee.
You mentioned that
these characters have
elements of other, more
iconic Tennessee
Williams characters that
came before. Can you
share some thoughts on
where he was in his career
when he wrote Period of
Adjustment?
MU: When Williams wrote
Period of Adjustment in 1958,
he was one-third of the way
through a prolific playwriting career
with eighty percent of his major hits
behind him. Williams had the very
human fear of not matching his
previous successes. His astounding
string of greatest plays preceded
this one: The Glass Menagerie, A
Streetcar Named Desire, Summer
and Smoke, The Rose Tattoo,
Camino Real, Cat On a Hot Tin
Roof, Orpheus Descending, Suddenly
Last Summer and Sweet Bird of
Youth. His next play, The Night of
the Iguana was another major work,
but the next 18 plays were, arguably,
minor by comparison. But what’s
“minor” for Tennessee Williams
would be major for any other. With
around 30 major, full-length plays, a
couple of hits would put any
playwright in the major leagues.
Playwrights such as William Inge,
Arthur Miller, Sam Shepard, Edward
Albee, David Mamet, and Tony
Kushner cite Williams as a major
influence which puts his DNA in the
next generation of great playwrights.
Williams’ heightened and poetic
prose must also, at least in part,
have set the stage for writers such as
Adrienne Kennedy, Suzan-Lori Parks,
and Anna Deavere Smith as well.
Not surprisingly, Tony Kushner
said it best in a 2006 interview at the
University of Texas, Austin:
“Williams, much more than any
other American playwright,
succeeded in finding a poetic diction
for the stage. I immediately identified
with that ambition, with the desire to
write language that simultaneously
sounded like spontaneous utterance
but also had the voluptuousness in
daring, peculiarity, quirkiness, and
unapologetic imagistic density of
poetry. Also because it is a written
language, the tension between
artifice, naturalism, and spontaneity
in art has always been exciting to
me. I felt that I experienced it really
viscerally in terms of American playwriting first in Tennessee’s writing.”
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WELLFLEET HARBOR ACTORS THEATER
The Julie
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YEARS
Talkbacks
Theater.Dance.Opera.Music.Movies
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If you’ve ever wished you could talk to the people
who created the plays, this is your chance! Join us in a
frank and open discussion following a performance of
each play. Moderated by the directors, each Playmaker
Talkback includes a combination of actors, directors,
designers and special guests. Whether you have a
burning question or just aren’t quite ready to go home,
Playmaker Talkbacks always shed light on the plays and
the creative forces that bring them to life.
Our house
is your
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The Julie Harris Stage
is the perfect venue to
hold annual meetings,
seminars, community
forums, business events,
fundraisers, receptions,
private parties, weddings,
birthday parties and more.
With high-definition
technology, satellite
receivers, state-of-the-art
theatrical equipment,
reception space and
parking we can help you
bring your message to
your audience.
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World Premiere
Written by John Markus and Mark St. Germain
Directed by John Markus
Written by Kimberly Burke
Directed by Jef Hall-Flavin
Thursday, July 3
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The possibilities
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Thursday, May 29
Written by John Van Druten
Adapted from The Berlin Stories
by Christopher Isherwood
Directed by Caitlin Langstaff
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The Fabulous Lipitones
Thursday, September 4
Period of Adjustment
Written by Tennessee Williams
Directed by Michael Unger
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Collaborations and Events at WHAT
Over the last year we have hosted
events for and collaborated with
organizations including Am HaYam Cape
Havurah, Cape Cod Chamber Music
Festival, Cape Cod Institute, Mass
Audubon, SPAT, Tennessee Williams
Festival, WCAI, and Wellfleet Democratic
Committee. We hosted visiting companies
Peregrine Theatre Ensemble (Blithe Spirit),
Roxbury Repertory Theater (A Soldier’s
Play), staged readings from TC Squared
(Qui’ Mo Chic) and playwright Wendy
Kesselman (Two Daughters 1789), and
celebrated Día de Muertos with two
concerts by Sol y Canto. We raised money
for our neighbors at the 6th annual Yule
for Fuel, and for WHAT at a special
performance by Lewis Black.
Lewis
Black
Recording Our Events
In the front of the playbill, Michael and Susan Karchmer are listed as Company Photographers,
because “production photos, company photos, emergency headshots, photographic marketing images
and outreach by Michael and Suz” wouldn’t fit. Besides, it still doesn’t encompass what they do for us.
This is the third season Michael and Suz have been with the theater. They attend rehearsals, set up
promotional shots for advance pr, provide high resolution photographs for newspapers and magazines, and
answer myriad calls for random requests throughout the year. They do this in partial darkness, within a
constantly shifting time frame, with unfailing grace and generosity. No matter what we request, they always
show up with smiles and a warm heart.
photo: Rick Grossman
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Ben Berry in Two Daughters 1789
WCAI
photo: Michael & Suz Karchmer
Sol y Canto
photo: Michael & Suz Karchmer
Film maker Beth Murphy and WCAI’s Mindy
Todd discussing The List at WHAT
We had a great time, and
we hope you did, too!
photo: Michael & Suz Karchmer
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Continued from page 31
Perhaps Williams, himself, should be allowed to add,
as he explained to his literary agent, Audrey Wood, “I
have only one major theme for my work, which is the
destructive impact of society on the non-conformist
individual.”
Even though those writers he influenced had careers
on the rise as Williams’ was on the decline, he
continued bravely to explore characters who exist on
the outskirts of society. Through these personalities he
never stopped exposing taboo subjects – often, and in
this case, the less attractive side of human intimacy.
The conventional, “DOMA-recognized” relationships
are a shambles, whether failing the test of five years
(as in the Bateses) or one day (as in the Haversticks).
The true, intuitive bonds seem to exist between the two
men and the two women – although both are based
on the fiction of, in the men’s case, the embellished
remembrance of things past (fighting wars together,
visiting houses of ill-repute) and the fantasized future of
becoming cowboys together (raising cattle in Texas); in
the women’s case, the automatic sisterly bond between
two lonely, needy, lingerie-sharing strangers. It is not
until the unlikely deus ex machina of Dorthea appears
that the impotence of both men (Ralph’s – professional,
George’s - sexual) dissolves. Balance is restored to the
relationships, if not the house, which will continue to
sink into its cavern.
Unlike many a Williams play, this one ends rather
happily – albeit no conventional comedy would leave
unanswered the largest questions of the play: Isabel’s,
“Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where,
are we going?” Perhaps Williams did not know in what
direction his career was heading either – although his
letters indicate he was certain it was going the way of
the Bates house – south into a cavern. “I figure that
I have had my day in the Broadway theatre, and just
hope the money holds out as long as I do.” But how far
could (or should) a career descend after having soared
to the rarefied heights of this one? A difficult life filled
with emotional struggles, depression, drugs and
alcohol; to say nothing of a dubious autopsy report
including an overdose and choking on a bottle cap,
seems unjust payment for one who changed the way
plays in this country are written, read and experienced.
But, as no one taught us better than he, life is not
necessarily just – especially for those who live on the
fringe. Williams’ romanticism, poetic abstraction,
wisdom, demise and ultimate end tell the story of a
towering figure that only Williams, himself, could write.
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Honoring
Julie
Harris
Julie Harris touched the
Cape’s theaters in so many
ways.
From her presence as a member of the audience,
seated front row center, to her brilliant performances
at The Cape Playhouse, Monomoy Theatre, The
Falmouth Playhouse, Harwich Junior Theatre,
Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater and countless others,
she gave selflessly of her time, her talent and her
name to help theater on Cape Cod stay alive and
vibrant. At WHAT we are particularly honored that
she let us name a piece of our theater after her.
Alec Baldwin, with whom she appeared in Knots
Landing, praised her in a tribute on Huffington Post
stating that “Her voice was like rainfall. Her eyes
connected directly to and channeled the depths of
her powerful and tender heart. Her talent, a gift from
God.” On December 3, 2013 a memorial for Julie
was held at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater in New
York City. Rosemary Harris, Hal Holbrook, Joan Van
Ark, Bill Luce, Francesca James and many others all
took to the stage to give tribute to Julie, but it was
Hal Holbrook that described her talent best: Julie was
truth that walked across the stage.
The Beauty Queen of
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Kim Crocker and Julie Harris, The
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Julie Harris,
The Lark, 1951
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This summer we are presenting a display in our
upper lobby, designed to inform the public of Julie’s
career and her connection to theatrical organizations
and individuals on Cape Cod. Featuring memorabilia
about her career, with quotes from Cape residents
that she touched directly, this exhibit is free and open
to the public.
Lobby Hours:
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Julie Harris, The Lark, 1951
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music, merriment and mirth, benefiting
the Lower Cape Outreach Council and
Housing Assistance Corporation (HAC).
Musicians, writers, entertainers and more
come together, donating their time and
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WHAT for Kids
Rising to the occasion
What you see at WHAT for Kids is an original play
written and directed by Stephen Russell, performed by
novice and professional actors, and designed to entertain
the whole family.
What we see is an amazing amount of growth.
Our production interns, who do such a great job building
sets for the Julie Harris Stage, have an opportunity to take
the lead on designing what you see in the WHAT for Kids
tent. For instance, Anne Miggins designed costumes for Puss
in Boots as an intern, and then stayed to design costumes
for Daisy Crockett, Frontiersperson!, Sleeping Beauty and
several main stage productions. WHAT’s assistant technical
director, Jack Golden, built last year’s set as an intern.
Our stage manager, Pearl Kerber, started by passing
out programs as a volunteer one summer. This year, she
returns to WHAT for her sixth season, following a stage
management internship at the Denver Center Theater
Company (part of the Denver Center for Performing Arts).
“I believe that stage managing WHAT for Kids shows for
multiple seasons has helped me become more independent
as a stage manager and has given me more confidence in
my work,” she said. “Without working for WHAT for Kids, I
would not be where I am today in my theater career.”
On stage, you will see familiar faces from year to year,
as well as a few new ones. “I like the tidal nature of the
program,” Stephen Russell says, “how people flow in and
flow out. It’s fun watching them grow with the company.”
Actors who have come through and moved on include
professional working actors Holly Erin McCarthy, Amanda
Collins, and Dakota Shepard.
The company performs 32 shows in July and August – a
commitment that trims down the number of people who show
up for auditions, which is fine since Stephen has a very clear
idea of what he’s looking for in his actors. “There’s a certain
kind of kid who responds to what we’re doing,” he said.
“It’s the quiet ones. The ones sitting in the corner reading a
book. Those kids really intrigue me and they often have this
untapped reservoir of talent that’s fun to bring out.”
The 32-show run allows the whole company to learn and
grow, Stephen concluded. “You get to go really deep with
it,” he said. “It helps you figure out what an audience is
going to want to see.”
New cast members join seasoned cast members, quickly
forming a close company. Some come back year after year,
but for many, there’s a natural progression to college or
other companies, taking the confidence instilled by a long
run of summer theater with them.
“Whatever they end up doing,” Stephen says of all
involved, “they tend to do well at it.”
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The people speak...
“Can we come back
tomorrow?”
(to one of the actors)
“Are you a Malfoy?”
“Was that a real dragon?”
“Where’s the bathroom?”
Freya Rich and Lucy Blood as the Double Fairy in
Sleeping Beauty, 2012
Fun fact:
Look for our stage manager, Pearl Kerber, at
Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, where she’s
spending her sixth summer as a nature day
camp teacher. Pearl graduated from Hobart
and William Smith College with a BA in
Environmental Studies and a double minor
in Theater and Arts & Education. She loves
spending summers working in both areas of
interest and hopes to continue to find that
balance year-round.
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Beth and Douglas Freeman
Carol Green
Carol Green
in honor of Jeffry George
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in memory of Benjamin Cohen
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in honor of Carol Green
Lilli-Ann Green
in memory of Preston Ribinick
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in memory of Ellen Grossman
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in memory of Ellen Grossman
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in memory of Ellen Grossman
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in memory of Ellen Grossman
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in honor of Joel Brickman
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in memory of Ellen Grossman
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William and Sandra Hughes
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Charlotte and Richard Millers
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Hemda Mizrahi
Leslie Fish-Morrill and Dick Morrill
Judy and Richard Motzkin
in memory of Ellen Grossman
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in memory of Julie Harris
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in memory of Ellen Grossman
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in memory of Laura and Peter Wastrom
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Dear Friends of WHAT,
While Cape Cod is special in so many ways, there are two things in particular
that inspired me to settle here: Community and the Arts. They are intricately
entwined as the arts are the thread of the soul that runs through a community.
It is a gift for me to be able to work with you to weave that thread as fundraising
is community-building.
For WHAT and the Outer Cape, it means bringing like-minded people together
to enjoy and be a part of professional theater, dance, opera, music and
community forums. We want to ensure that all have a home in Wellfleet in a
venue like no other on the Cape and that we have the resources necessary to
survive and eventually thrive.
All of us at WHAT thank you for being here, for buying a ticket, for
volunteering, for attending a benefit, for sending in your annual gift. We have
seen many accomplishments over the last two years. The number of tickets
sold has increased by 10%, numbers of attending students has increased
by 14% and last year we had a grand total of 2,700 new patrons in the theater.
With all that, ticket revenue is still less than 30% of our annual budget. WHAT’s
board and administration is working diligently to “up” that percentage while operating with rigorous fiscal responsibility.
However, WHAT exists because of you. Your financial support is vital and makes possible the following:
> a 30th season of live theater, accessible to thousands and employing over 100 professional and community actors,
designers and technicians from around the Cape and across the country;
> WHAT for Kids – a unique, multi-generational experience - kids seeing kids perform with professional actors of all
ages, with the power to transform lives;
> WHAT’s industry-credentialed internship program educating and training 10 emerging professionals annually;
> WHAT Lab – an intensive, off-season play development program, annually fostering new works for the American
theater, with public readings and talkbacks;
> our live Metropolitan Opera broadcasts on the big screen, annually serving nearly 3,000 from October to April with
the WHAT Bar and Café’s delicious and healthy lunches and snacks from 141 Bradford Natural Market;
> the Yule for Fuel series of holiday concerts bringing together over 50 local and regional artists with fuel companies
and community service organizations to provide families in need with fuel assistance;
> and year-round events, performances and live theater productions like The Hound of the Baskervilles, the Combo
Sabroso concert, and the environmental documentary film series and partnership with Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay
Wildlife Sanctuary...to name a few.
Theater brings us together, stimulates conversation and action, has the power to heal and impact lives. We believe that
our calendar of artistic programming improves the quality of life for people who live here and enhances the experience of
those who visit.
Won’t you join us for this wonderful journey and help keep regional theater alive and well at WHAT? Contact me today at
joanna@what.org or (508) 349-9428 x 102 and we will find a giving plan that best suits you. Alternatively, you can use
the pink envelope provided with this Playbill.
We are an integral part of this community because of you and
we thank you.
Gratefully,
Joanna Marie Roche
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Support WHAT in the way
that suits you
Join us! Your support is what
makes WHAT one (among many!)
of the leading not-for-profit cultural
institutions on Cape Cod. ANNUAL SUPPORT
Your tax-deductible gift enables WHAT to continue
producing world-class regional theater and performing
arts programs that inspire and enrich our community.
Giving Levels and Benefits
> Friend ($1 - $99)
Recognition in the Playbill plus enjoy free events your
gift makes possible.
>
Director ($100-$249)
Recognition in the Playbill plus “buy one get one free”
guest pass for our regular season productions upon
request.
> Producer ($250-$499)
Recognition in the Playbill plus “buy two get two free” guest
passes for our regular season productions upon request.
> Angel
($500 - $999)
Recognition in the Playbill plus “buy three get three free”
guest passes for our regular season productions upon
request.
>
Benefactor ($1,000+)
Recognition in the Playbill, invitation to our summer
house parties plus one Flex pass for our regular season
productions upon request.
> Sustainer ($2,500+)
Recognition in the Playbill, invitation to our summer
house parties plus two Flex passes for our regular
season productions upon request.
>
Executive Producer ($5,000+)
Recognition in the Playbill, invitation to our summer
series house parties plus three Flex passes for our
regular season productions upon request
>
Julie Harris Society ($10,000+)
Recognition in the Playbill, invitation to our summer
series house parties plus four Flex passes for our regular
season productions upon request.
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Supporting Arts,
Supporting Community
CAPITAL CAMPAIGN
We are embarking on a capital campaign with specific
plans for a permanent What For Kids structure, many
necessary capital improvements such as upgrading our
technical systems and new carpet, and debt relief that
will ensure a sustainable business model for WHAT. This
campaign will ensure that we are able to provide great art
on the Cape for many years to come.
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nearly twenty thousand in the WHAT Playbill, season
brochure, lobby banner, website, radio, additional print
media and more. Plus enjoy special evenings for your
company with group rates and use of our VIP room. We’ll
tailor a package that fits your company’s needs.
OTHER WAYS TO GIVE
Be creative with your support! Make a gift in honor or
in memory of someone, donate shares of stock, initiate
a planned gift or request a matching gift from your
employer to double your impact. Whatever your choice,
your contributions keep regional theater alive at WHAT
while enhancing the lives of everyone in our community.
Please contact Joanna today at (508) 349-9428 x 102 or
joanna@what.org or simply utilize the pink envelope
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We Need Your Support
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We work in partnership with local
families in need to build homes,
hope, lives and community and you can help.
Donate! Volunteer!
Building Homes… Changing Lives... Preserving Community
Habitat for Humanity of Cape Cod offers local families
the opportunity to help build their own home alongside
community volunteers. Homes are sold at an affordable price
with a no- or low-interest mortgage and deed restricted to be
affordable upon any future re-sale.
WHAT Internship Program
In December, six months prior to the start of the
summer season, we cast a wide net searching for
college students and emerging professionals who are
eager to deepen their education and sharpen their
theatrical and administrative skills in a professional
environment. During the summer WHAT hires ten
interns to work in all areas of the theater. We believe
that all thespians should be masters in their own field
and understand and support their co-workers in each
department. As such, all interns receive on the job
training in their field, plus cross-training from production
to administration and front-of-house. Their contribution
to the theater is immense, as is the work experience they
come away with.
In addition to their responsibilities as part of our
team, interns participate in entrance and exit interviews,
are required to keep a weekly journal and complete a
self-evaluation at the end of their experience. Interns
are also required to participate in weekly interactive
professional development seminars. Some of our
professional development topics include:
>
Creative Problem Solving: The Power of
Unconventional Thinking
> Creating ...Gertrude Moody: A Case Study on
Creating New Work
> Exploration of Three Dimensional Space:
Creating a Theatrical Environment
> God I Hope I Get It: Creating a Theatrical
Resume, Portfolio, and Headshot
> Crafting Light and Shadow: The Role of the
Lighting Designer
> What to do after WHAT: A conversation with
former interns on taking that next step
> Taking the Show on the Road: The Logistics of
a Touring Production
Learn more at www.habitatcapecod.org or call (508) 362-3559
> But What I Really Want to do is Direct:
A Conversation with a Director
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Live in HD
for the
2014-2015
Season
Carmen
Giuseppe Verdi
John Adams
Jacques Offenbach
November 15, 2014, 12:55 pm
January 31, 2015, 12:55 pm
Macbeth
The Death of Klinghoffer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
October 18, 2014, 12:55 pm
October 11, 2014, 12:55 pm
Le Nozze di Figaro
Gioacchino Rossini
Les Contes d’Hoffmann
La Donna del Lago
Richard Wagner
Peter Tchaikovsky
Pietro Mascagni
December 13, 2014, 12 pm
AND
AND
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Iolanta
March 14, 2015, 12:55 pm
Cavalleria Rusticana
Georges Bizet
Franz Lehár
Bela Bartók
Ruggero Leoncavallo
November 1, 2014, 12:55 pm
January 17, 2015, 12:55 pm
February 14, 2015, 12:30 pm
April 25, 2015, 12:30 pm
Carmen
Bluebeard’s Castle
The Merry Widow
Pagliacci
Note: All casting subject to change. Encore performances TBA
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“We volunteer regularly at
WHAT because we believe
we have a responsibility to
support the things we value.
And, we know that WHAT adds
significantly to the richness of
life here in our communities.”
- Dick & Val Rand, Volunteer Coordinators
The
COMPANY
You Keep
Our volunteers have
learned their lines and
landed their roles. And
what a cast they are!
One of the best things about volunteering at WHAT
(besides the free tickets and the knowledge that you’re
an indispensable part of the team) is meeting the other
volunteers. We round out our staff with some of the most
interesting people in town. Our volunteers do more than
what you see when you come to the theater. They are our
ambassadors to the community, and the inspiration for a
lot of what we do.
They have lived all over the country, and the world –
including the United Kingdom, Germany, Central Asia, and
Afghanistan. One has travelled to six continents – with only
Australia left to go. Some of our volunteers have been with
us since we opened. One recalls having supper with Julie
Harris at a reading we hosted years ago.
They are professors, artists, musicians, librarians,
psychologists – the list goes on and on. When they’re not
here, they’re busy singing with the Outer Cape Chorale,
filling in as a dj on WOMR, or playing Caribbean steel
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> “I talk to ’everybody’ and in doing so have met
many of the world’s greatest characters. My mother
claimed that I either made-up my stories or that I
embellished them. They are at times outlandish, but
all true. I have a terrible memory, so I can’t lie.”
> “Working at the concession stand has been the
most fun because your co-workers are interesting
and the customers are too!”
Community Radio of CAPE COD
Be Here, Anytime.
> “As I watch the performances at WHAT, I am
reminded of my long-standing suppressed desire to
be on stage...”
> “I used to work in front of the curtain, now feel
alive anywhere near it!”
> “We love interacting with patrons...that’s why we
volunteer.”
drums. One is the self-professed “fastest high school track
star from Illinois volunteering at WHAT!” Odds are, the
person you’re stuffing program inserts with has a lot going
on that you will want to know about.
So say hello to our fabulous volunteers while you’re here!
Better yet, join them. We’ll help you find the role that’s right
for you. No auditions required.
Listen locally, or TuneIn globally
*Download the free TuneIn mobile app available at iTunes and Google Play
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The Journey So Far...
The six original founders of WHAT – Gip Hoppe, Vicky Shepard, Kevin Rice, Dan Walker, Dick Morrill and
Laurie Swift – all met and became friends in 1982 while working for a Wellfleet based theater company called the
Outer Cape Performance Company. Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater was born in 1985, in the space next to the
iconic Uncle Frank’s Donut Shop.
In 2002, Stephen Russell, an actor with the company since 1987, began WHAT for Kids.
Having outgrown the stage at the harbor, WHAT added a new 220-seat theater on Route 6.
In June, 2007, the new building was dedicated, with its state-of-the-art Julie Harris Stage at its heart.
Black Comedy and the Actor’s
Nightmare
by Christopher Durang
Glengarry Glenn Ross
by David Mamet
1989
1985
Rhinoceros
by Eugene Ionesco
American Buffalo
by David Mamet
1986
The Foreigner
by Larry Shue
Talking With
by Jane Martin
My Sister in This House
by Wendy Kesselman
Entertaining Mr. Sloan
by Joe Orton
1987
Greater Tuna
by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears
and Ed Howard
Orphans
by Lyle Kessler
The Lady’s Not for Burning
by Christopher Frye
A Lie of the Mind
by Sam Shepard
1988
On the Verge
by Eric Overmyer
Goose and Tomtom
by David Rabe
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The Road to Mecca
by Athol Fugard
Brilliant Traces
by Cindy Lou Johnson
Buried Child
by Sam Shepard
French Gray
by Josef Bush
The World of Lenny Bruce
written and performed
by Frank Speiser
The Memorandum
by Vaclav Havel
The Fall of the House of Usher
written and directed by Gip Hoppe
Untamed Love
(co-production with the Academy
Playhouse in Orleans)
written and directed by Gip Hoppe
Giggle and Scream
(world premiere)
by David Steven
Rappoport
directed by Alan Zadoff
The Speed of Darkness
by Steve Tesich
Fool for Love
by Sam Shepard
The Kathy and Mo Show
by Kathy Najimy & Mo Gaffney
Johnny Got his Gun
by Bradley Rand Smith
Dear Liar
(benefit)
by Jerome Kilty
with Julie Harris & Alvin Epstein
1993
Heart of Jade
written and directed by
Gip Hoppe
The Baby Dance
by Jane Anderson
The Swan
by Elizabeth Egloff
Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll
by Eric Bogosian
The Kathy and Mo Show
by Kathy Najimy & Mo Gaffney
Prelude to a Kiss
by Craig Lucas
The Baltimore Waltz
by Paula Vogel
1994
(10th Anniversary Season)
Jimmy Tingle’s Uncommon Sense
written and performed by
Jimmy Tingle
10,000 Hands Have Touched Me
(world premiere)
written and performed
by Michael Klein
Savior of the Universe
(world premiere)
by Gip Hoppe
directed by Tim Banker
Oleanna
by David Mamet
1990
Frankie and Johnny in the
Claire De Lune
by Terrence McNally
In Perpetuity Throughout the
Universe
by Eric Overmyer
Some Things You Need to Know
Before the World Ends
by Levi Lee
The Road to Nirvana
by Arthur Kopit
Terminal Hip
written and directed by
Mac Wellman
with Stephen Mellor
The Mystery of Irma Vep
by Charles Ludlam
Death of a Salesman
(co-production with the Academy
Playhouse in Orleans)
by Arthur Miller
1991
The Mystery of Irma Vep
by Charles Ludlam
And Baby Makes Seven
by Paula Vogel
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Are You There
(world premiere)
written & performed by
Frank Speiser
1995
Keely and Du
by Jane Martin
The Secretaries
(world premiere)
by The Five Lesbian Brothers
Fires in the Mirror
by Anna Deavere Smith
Four Dogs and a Bone
(New England premiere)
by John Patrick Shanley
Hot ’N’ Throbbing
(New England premiere)
by Paula Vogel
1996
Durang Durang
by Christopher Durang
All in the Timing
by David Ives
Jimmy Tingle’s Uncommon Sense
by Jimmy Tingle
Simpatico
(New England premiere)
by Sam Shepard
2000
The Beauty Queen of Leenane
by Martin McDonaugh
Ruby Tuesday
(world premiere)
written & directed by Gip Hoppe
Jimmy Tingle for President
created & performed by
Jimmy Tingle
Starfuckers
created & performed by
John Kuntz
Fuddy Meers
(New England premiere)
by David Lindsay-Abaire
Closer
(New England premiere)
by Patrick Marber
2001
Women Who Steal
(New England premiere)
by Carter L. Lewis
Lemonade
(New England premiere)
by Eve Ensler
1997
A Life in the Theater
by David Mamet
Dark Rapture
by Eric Overmyer
Rush Limbaugh in Night School
by Charlie Varone
Future Hollow
by Gip Hoppe
7 Blowjobs
(New England premiere)
by Mac Wellman
1998
The Seagull: Wellfleet 1990s
(New England premiere)
written and directed by Jeff Cohen
(adapted from Anton Chekhov)
Actorz…with a Z
written and performed by
John Kuntz
Stonewall Jackson’s House
(New England premiere)
written by Jonathan Reynolds
Waiting for Godot
by Samuel Beckett
Nixon’s Nixon
by Russell Lees
Tales of the Lost Formicans
by Constance Congdon
A Visit to the Duplex Planet
created & performed
by Richard Greenberger
Cabaret du Somerville
created & performed
by Chandler Travis
Love Letters
(benefit)
by A.R. Gurney
with Julie Harris & Ben Gazzara
1999
1992
Speed the Plow
by David Mamet
Reckless
by Craig Lucas
The Artificial Jungle
by Charles Ludlam
Heart of Jade
(world premiere)
written and directed by Gip Hoppe
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Cosmologies
(world premiere)
by David Rabe
Siberian Summer
(world premiere)
written and directed by Kevin Rice
Private Eyes
by Steven Dietz
Psychopathia Sexualis
by John Patrick Shanley
Mere Mortals
by David Ives
The God Show
created by Paul Wagner
Killer Joe
(New England premiere)
by Tracy Letts
Cooking With Elvis
(American premiere)
by Lee Hall
Horrifying, Absolutely Real, True
Disasters
(world premiere)
written and directed by
Gip Hoppe
2002
The Homecoming
by Harold Pinter
Professional Skepticism
(world premiere)
by James Rasheed
Fully Committed
by Becky Mode
The Dog Problem
by David Rabe
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Driving on the Sidewalk
(world premiere)
by Jesse Kellerman
One Night in the Life of Denise
Ivanovich
(American premiere)
by Kevin Rice
A New War
(world premiere)
written and directed by
Gip Hoppe
Once Upon A Wolf*
by Stef DeFerie
Nick Tickle, Fairy Tale
Detective*
by Stef DeFerie
2004
Cuckooland
(world premiere)
written and directed by
Gip Hoppe
To My Chagrin
written and performed by
Peggy Shaw
Glitterati
(New England premiere)
written and performed by
John Kuntz
Gizmo Love
(world premiere)
by John Kolvenbach
2003
A New War
(transfer to Jimmy Tingle’s
Off-Broadway in Somerville, MA)
Winner of 2003 Elliot Norton
Award: Outstanding Production
by a Small Visiting Company
written and directed by
Gip Hoppe
The Unexpected Man
by Yasmina Reza
The Art Room
(New England premiere)
by Billy Aronson
Live Girls
(world premiere)
by Victoria Stewart
Immoral Imperatives
(New England premiere)
by Jeffrey Sweet
Private Jokes, Public Places
(New England premiere)
by Oren Safdie
The Three Sillies*
(world premiere)
written and directed by
Stephen Russell
2005
Jewbano
written and performed by
Frank Speiser
Proof
by David Auburn
Lobby Hero
by Kenneth Lonergan
True West
by Sam Shepard
The Colony of the Cats*
written and directed
by Stephen Russell
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Public Exposure
(world premiere)
by Robert Reich
Pugilist Specialist
(New England premiere)
by Adriano Shaplin
The Lovers (The Lover & Ashes
to Ashes)
by Harold Pinter
Hazard County
(New England premiere)
by Allison Moore
Bug
by Tracy Letts
The Dream Express
written and directed by
Len Jenkins
McReele
by Stephen Belber
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The Very Sad Tale of the Late
Mr. Stiltskin*
(world premiere)
written and directed by
Stephen Russell
Mercy on the Doorstep
(world premiere)
written and directed by
Gip Hoppe
2006
The Intelligent Design of
Jenny Chow
(New England premiere)
by Rolin Jones
Candy & Dorothy
(New England premiere)
by David Johnston
Dalton Trumbo’s
Johnny Got His Gun
adapted for the stage
by Bradley Rand Smith
Red Light Winter
(New England premiere)
by Adam Rapp
Shakespeare’s Actresses in
America
created & performed
by Rebekah Maggor
On An Average Day
(New England premiere)
by John Kolvenbach
Romance
(New England premiere)
by David Mamet
The Captain’s Doll
(world premiere)
by D.H. Lawrence
adapted & directed by Jeff Zinn
Jonathan Katz – Live!
Xenia Hedgehog’s Academy of
Etiquette For Naughty Boys and
Girls: Nine Convenient and Easy
Lessons*
written & directed by
Stephen Russell
2007
Mojo
by Jez Butterworth
The Clean House
by Sarah Ruhl
Dark Yellow
(New England premiere)
by Julia Jordan
Hunter Gatherers
(East Coast premiere)
by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb
School For Wives
(L’Ecole des Femmes)
(New England premiere)
by Moliere
Presented by
Shakespeare on the Cape
Daisy Crockett,
Frontiersperson!*
(world premiere)
written and directed
by Stephen Russell
What Then
by Rinne Groff
American Buffalo
by David Mamet
Indian Blood
by A.R. Gurney
Love Song
by John Kolvenbach
2008
Last Train to Nibroc
by Arlene Hutton
Intimate Apparel
by Lynn Nottage
What the Butler Saw
by Joe Orton
The Pillowman
by Martin McDonagh
Fabuloso
(world premiere)
written & directed by
John Kolvenbach
The George Place
(world premiere)
by David Johnston
Triumph of Love
by Marivaux
Presented by
Shakespeare on the Cape
Fool of the World and the
Flying Ship*
(world premiere)
written & directed by
Stephen Russell
Ride
(world premiere)
by Eric Lane
Shortstack
(world premiere)
by Rolin Jones
The Mistakes Madeline Made
by Elizabeth Meriwether
Sexual Perversity in Chicago
by David Mamet
Shining City
by Conor McPherson
2009
The Mystery of Irma Vep
by Charles Ludlam
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Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater
DARK
YELLOW
june 27 - july 21
phone (508) 349-WHAT (9428)
www.what.org
tickets
General Admission $29 / Outer Cape Voters $26
Student Rush $14.50 / Group Discount Available
VISA/MC/AMEX ACCEPTED / Air Conditioned
Handicapped Accessible
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Daughter of Venus
by Howard Zinn
Born Yesterday
by Garson Kanin
Tingle! starring Jimmy Tingle
In the Next Room or the
Vibrator Play
by Sarah Ruhl
Danny Casolaro Died for You
by Dominic Orlando
Colorado
by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb
Cyrano
adapted by Jo Roets,
from the play by
Edmund Rostand
Dead Ringer
by Gino DiIorio
The Storytelling Ability of a Boy
by Carter W. Lewis
Robin Hood or Marian of
Sherwood*
written & directed by
Stephen Russell
2011
“A compelling
one act
psychological
thriller”
New York Times
By Julia Jordan
Directed by Jef Hall-Flavin
WED - SUN 8 PM / SAT July 21 5 PM
the harbor stage 1 Kendrick Ave
(next to Wellfleet Town Pier)
Noises Off
by Michael Frayn
The Little Dog Laughed
by Douglas Carter Beane
The Blue Room
by David Hare
The Happy Oyster Spectacular
Show
by Dave Kennedy
The Bald Soprano
by Eugene Ionesco
Laughing Wild
by Christopher Durang
Speech and Debate
by Stephen Karam
Puss in Boots: The astonishing
adventures of Ocelot Ugg*
(world premiere)
written & directed by
Stephen Russell
sponsored by
The Blue
Willow
season sponsors
the wicked oyster
The Cape
and Islands
NPR Stations
Jihad Jones and the
Kalashnikov Babes
by Yussef El Guindi
Boeing Boeing
by Mark Camoletti
Oscar Wilde’s An
Ideal Husband
adapted by Daniel Morris
Bakersfield Mist
by Stephen Sachs
Body Awareness
by Annie Baker
A Behanding in Spokane
by Martin McDonagh
Neighborhood3: Requisition
of Doom
by Jennifer Haley
The Betrothed
by Dipika Guha
The Ding Dongs, or What Is the
Penalty in Portugal?
(world premiere)
by Brenda Withers
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The Very Sad Tale of the Late
Mr. Stiltskin*
written and directed
by Stephen Russell
2012
References to Salvador Dali Make
Me Hot
by Jose Rivera
The Consequences (a musical)
(world premiere)
by Nathan Leigh and Kyle Jarrow
Saving Kitty
(world premiere)
by Marisa Smith
Hysteria, or Fragments of
an Analysis of an Obsessional
Neurosis
by Terry Johnson
Oblomov
(American premiere)
by Kevin Rice
Sleeping Beauty
(La Belle Au Bois Dormant)*
(world premiere)
written & directed by
Stephen Russell
2013
39 Steps
A Parody of Alfred Hitchcock’s
Utility Monster
(American premiere)
By Marina Keegan
Six Characters in Search of an
Author
(world premiere of WHAT
adaptation)
adapted by Matt Foss
One Slight Hitch
by Lewis Black
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
by Tennessee Williams
Daisy Crockett, Frontiersperson!*
written and directed by
Stephen Russell
2014
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Adapted by Steven Canny and
John Nicholson
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Pine Point Landscape Services...................................... 37
Ponderosa Landscaping................................................. 37
William Grozier, Electrician............................................. 62
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Jules Besch Stationers................................................... 52
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