Cast
Carol Reynolds
Marion Ross
is known to millions of fans for her 11-year portrayal of Mrs. C on “Happy Days.” Ross is an Associate Artist of The Old Globe and has appeared in numerous productions on the Globe’s stages. She received critical acclaim for her Broadway and National Tour, with Jean Stapleton, in Arsenic and Old Lace and the National Tour of Steel Magnolias. She also performs a one-woman show celebrating the life, loves and poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay in A Lovely Night. Ross starred in the acclaimed television series “Brooklyn Bridge” for which she was twice nominated for an Emmy and was a two-time winner for Best Comedy Actress of the year by Viewers for Quality Television. She won a Golden Globe nomination for her role as Rosie in the movie The Evening Star with Shirley MacLaine. She has played Drew Carey’s mother on “The Drew Carey Show,” the feisty matriarch on “The Gilmore Girls” and the terrible mother-in-law on “That ‘70s Show.” Ross currently plays Sally Field’s mother on “Brothers & Sisters” and recently played Leslie Nielsen’s wife in the movie Superhero. She is the voice of SpongeBob SquarePants’ grandma and Mrs. Lopart on “Handy Manny.” She hails from Albert Lea, Minnesota and after college at San Diego State University, she proudly began her career under contract to Paramount Studios in the 1950s with live TV at CBS in “Life with Father.” She is proudest of performing with Noel Coward in Blithe Spirit, live at CBS, with Sir Noel, Claudette Colbert and Lauren Bacall. She has received many honors including the SDSU Mortar Board Distinguished Alumna Award, the renaming and dedication of The Marion Ross Performing Arts Center in Albert Lea, and the first honoree star on Hennepin Avenue Theatre District Walk of Fame in Minneapolis. In 2001, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She has previously appeared with Paul Michael in Joe DiPietro’s Over the River and Through the Woods, Barefoot in the Park, Love Letters and The Last Romance.
Ralph Bellini
Paul Michael
has appeared in 14 productions on Broadway, countless musicals, comedies and dramas; television and films, in a distinguished career that began with the 1956 Broadway musical Bells Are Ringing, starring Judy Holliday, Whoop Up, 13 Daughters, Bajour, Do Re Mi, Tovarich, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Illya Darling, Fade Out, Fade In, Arturo Ui, Zorba, Man of La Mancha, Music Is and 1,000 performances as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof throughout the country, including the New Theatre. Michael has performed with such legendary stars as Vivien Leigh, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Ginger Rogers, Don Ameche, Phil Silvers, Rock Hudson, Christopher Plummer, Marilyn Maxwell, Melina Mercouri and Richard Kiley. He has acted under the guidance of a host of award-winning directors, such as George Abbott, Jerome Robbins, Bob Fosse, Hal Prince, Jose Quintero, Abe Burrows, Tony Richardson, Delbert Mann, Peter Glenville and Herbert Ross. Television audiences have seen his work on such shows as “Frasier,” “Seinfeld,” “T.J. Hooker,” “Hill Street Blues,” “Masada,” “Kojak,” “General Hospital” and “Dark Shadows.” His films include Masque of the Red Death, Pennies from Heaven, House of Dark Shadows and the recent Hallmark Channel Movie Where There’s a Will. He also was seen in The Streetsweeper, shot entirely in San Diego, in which he has the starring role, and The Music Within. He has previously appeared with Marion Ross in Joe DiPietro’s Over the River and Through the Woods, Barefoot in the Park, Love Letters and The Last Romance. He is a graduate of Brown University and a veteran of World War II.
Rose Tagliatelle
Patricia Conolly
first appeared at The Old Globe, invited by Jack O'Brien, to play Rosalind in his production of As You Like It. Other Old Globe appearances include Mrs. Alving in Ghosts, the Fool in King Lear, Wendy in Clap Your Hands and Emilia in Othello. She has just completed a critically acclaimed run in the Off Broadway production of Gabriel at Atlantic Theater Company. Her many Broadway credits include Mark Twain's Is He Dead?, Waiting in the Wings, Judgment at Nuremberg, The Heiress, The Circle, The Sound of Music, A Small Family Business, Blithe Spirit, roles with the APA-Phoenix Repertory Company and in The Coast of Utopia at Lincoln Center Theater. In England, she worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Laurence Olivier's company at Chichester Festival Theatre and with Maggie Smith in Virginia on the West End. In Canada, she has played leading roles for the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, and recently the nurse in Medea in Toronto. Other distinguished directors she has been fortunate enough to work with unclude Tyrone Guthrie, Peter Brook, Peter Hall, Tony Richardson and Ellis Rabb. In Australia, where she began her career, she has played with the Sydney and Melbourne Theatre Companies. She has played at the Ahmanson Theatre and Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles in The Heiress and The Moliere Comedies, at the Coconut Grove Playhouse in Miami (oppostire Theo Bikel) and she has played many leading roles in major regional theaters in the United States.
The Young Man
Joshua Jeremiah
was nominated for a 2010 Grammy Award in the Best Opera category for his role in John Musto's opera Volpone. An artist with Glimmerglass Opera in their 2009 season, Mr. Jeremiah performed the role of Alidoro in La Cenerentola as well as understudying John Sorel in The Consul. Prior to Glimmerglass Opera, he was a Filene Young Artist at Wolf Trap Opera Company performing the roles of La Rocca in Un Giorno di Regno, Harlequin in Ariadne auf Naxos and, to critical acclaim, Volpone. As a member of the Seattle Opera Young Artists Program, Mr. Jeremiah performed the title roles of Gianni Schicchi and Falstaff, as well as Sam in Trouble in Tahiti. Other roles performed include Guglielmo and Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte, Leporello in Don Giovanni, Peter in Hansel and Gretel, Griswold in The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe and Sid in Albert Herring. On the concert stage, he has most recently performed the music of Victor Herbert at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall. He has also been heard in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony (Yakima Symphony Orchestra and the Aveiro Orchestra of Portugal), Handel’s “Messiah” (Great Falls Symphony), Carmina Burana (University of Cincinnati) and the Nielsen Symphony No. 3 (Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra).
Team
Playwright
Joe DiPietro
recently won two Tony Awards for co-writing Memphis, which also received the 2010 Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Musical. His other plays and musicals include, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, (the longest running musical revue in Off Broadway history), The Toxic Avenger and The Thing About Men (both winners of the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off Broadway musical), the much-produced comedy, Over the River and Through the Woods, The Art of Murder (Edgar Award winner for Best Mystery Play) and the Broadway musical, All Shook Up. His drama, Creating Claire, debuted this past spring at George Street Playhouse, and his newest musical, Falling for Eve, opened this summer at the York Theatre Company in New York. His work has received thousands of productions across the country and around the world.
Director
Richard Seer
Richard Seer is an award-winning director and actor and has directed and/or performed on Broadway, Off Broadway, on film and television and in over 70 productions at regional theatres in this country and Great Britain, including The Kennedy Center, Goodman Theatre, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Huntington Theatre Company, Playwrights Theater, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Studio Arena Theater, Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the Sybil Thorndike Theatre in England. He originated the role of Young Charlie in the 1978 Tony Award-winning Broadway production of Hugh Leonard’s Da and received the Theatre World Award for his performance. At The Old Globe, he has directed productions of God of Carnage, Life of Riley, The Last Romance, The Price, Romeo and Juliet, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Trying, Fiction, Blue/Orange (San Diego Critics Circle Award), All My Sons, Da and Old Wicked Songs. Recent directing assignments also include Third (Huntington Theatre Company) and Bill W. and Dr. Bob and Sonia Flew (San Jose Repertory Theatre). He received his M.F.A. in directing from Boston University, where he was awarded the prestigious Kahn Directing Award in 1985. In 1990, Mr. Seer was invited to return to Boston University’s School for the Arts as an Associate Professor of Acting and Directing. He has been Director of the Old Globe/University of San Diego Graduate Theatre Program since 1993. In 2010, he was awarded the Craig Noel Distinguished Professorship.
Scenic Design
Alexander Dodge
Alexander Dodge has designed the Globe productions of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Pygmalion, The Recommendation, Rafta, Rafta…, The Last Romance, Sammy, The Pleasure of His Company, Bell, Book and Candle, The Sisters Rosensweig and Moonlight and Magnolias. His Broadway credits include Present Laughter (2010 Tony Award nomination), Old Acquaintance, Butley and Hedda Gabler. His West End credits include All New People as well as Manchester and Glasgow. Off Broadway he has designed Modern Terrorism, or They Who Want to Kill Us and How We Learn to Love Them, All New People, Trust and The Water’s Edge (Second Stage Theatre), Maple and Vine and Rapture, Blister, Burn (Playwrights Horizons), The Understudy (Roundabout Theatre Company), Paris Commune and Measure for Pleasure (The Public Theater), Antony and Cleopatra (Theatre for a New Audience), Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (Lucille Lortel Award) and Chaucer in Rome (Lincoln Center Theater) and Force Continuum and Sexual Perversity in Chicago (Atlantic Theater Company). His regional credits include productions at Alley Theatre, Arena Stage, CENTERSTAGE, Hartford Stage, Huntington Theatre Company, Geffen Playhouse, Guthrie Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival and Yale Repertory Theatre. His opera credits include Il Trittico (Deutsche Oper Berlin), Così Fan Tutte (Minnesota Opera), Der Waffenschmied (Munich), The Flying Dutchman (Würzburg) and Lohengrin (Budapest). Mr. Dodge trained at the Yale School of Drama.
Costume Design
Charlotte Devaux
Charlotte Devaux has designed over 20 productions at The Old Globe including Somewhere, The Last Romance with Marion Ross, Kingdom, The Price, Trying, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, A Body of Water, Since Africa, Da and All My Sons. Ms. Devaux is the Resident Associate Costume Designer at The Old Globe where she has worked on over 40 productions, including Pygmalion, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Robin and the 7 Hoods, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Sammy and the Summer Shakespeare Festivals. She designed La Jolla Playhouse’s production of Blood and Gifts. She also designed 9 Parts of Desire for Mo’loelo Performing Arts Company, numerous productions for San Diego Dance Theater and Miami Libre, a Cuban dance musical, for the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Miami. Internationally, she has designed costumes for theatre and television in New Zealand for 10 years. She is the former costume designer and stylist for Television New Zealand’s children’s programming and dramas. She is an Associate Artist with the former Christchurch Drama Center and has worked for the Court Theatre, Christchurch. She holds additional costume design credits in Sydney, Australia, and London.
Lighting Design
Chris Rynne
Chris Rynne has designed several shows for The Old Globe including God of Carnage, Life of Riley, Plaid Tidings — A Special Holiday Edition of Forever Plaid, The Last Romance, Boeing-Boeing, I Do! I Do!, the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre Opening Gala, The Price, Sight Unseen, The American Plan, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Two Trains Running, Lincolnesque (San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Award), Pig Farm, Trying, Vincent in Brixton (San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Award), The Lady with All the Answers, The Food Chain, Two Sisters and a Piano, Blue/Orange, Time Flies, Knowing Cairo, Beyond Therapy and The Santaland Diaries, and he is the Associate Lighting Designer for Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Mr. Rynne has also designed productions for The Old Globe/University of San Diego Graduate Theatre Program including The Winter’s Tale, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, All in the Timing, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Macbeth and Getting Married. His other credits include San Diego Opera, South Coast Repertory, Madison Opera, Pasadena Playhouse, Geffen Playhouse, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Cygnet Theatre Company, North Coast Repertory Theatre, Houston Grand Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre, Diversionary Theatre and Starlight Musical Theatre.
Sound Design
Paul Peterson
Paul Peterson has designed over 100 productions at The Old Globe, including The Brothers Size, God of Carnage, Nobody Loves You, Anna Christie, Odyssey, Engaging Shaw, Life of Riley, Plaid Tidings — A Special Holiday Edition of Forever Plaid, Welcome to Arroyo’s, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Broadway Bound, The Last Romance, Lost in Yonkers, I Do! I Do!, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Cornelia, Kingdom, Six Degrees of Separation, The Women, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Bell, Book and Candle, Two Trains Running, Hold Please, Restoration Comedy, Pig Farm, Moonlight and Magnolias, Vincent in Brixton, Lucky Duck, The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, Blue/Orange, Time Flies, Pentecost, Compleat Female Stage Beauty, The Boswell Sisters, Crumbs from the Table of Joy, and many more. His regional credits include designs for Milwaukee Repertory Theater, San Jose Repertory Theatre, CENTERSTAGE, La Jolla Playhouse, Sledgehammer Theatre (Associate Artist), Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company, San Diego Repertory Theatre, North Coast Repertory Theatre, Diversionary Theatre, Malashock Dance, University of San Diego, San Diego State University and Freud Playhouse at UCLA. Mr. Peterson received his B.F.A. in Drama with an emphasis in Technical Design from San Diego State University.
Stage Manager
Lavinia Henley
Lavinia Henley most recently stage managed the Globe’s productions of Death of a Salesman directed by Pam MacKinnon and The Last Romance starring Marion Ross. Prior credits include over 20 shows with The Old Globe, both world premieres and classics, working with directors including Jack O’Brien, Craig Noel and John Houseman. Her other regional credits include the American Repertory Theater, Goodman Theatre and Court Theatre in Chicago, as well as the long-running production of Woody Guthrie’s American Song for Chicago’s Briar Street Theatre. Ms. Henley also works as a corporate event producer, supervising business meeting programs for up to 15,000 people in venues across the country and internationally.
