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Gabriella Dimmick as Cindy-Lou Who and Steve Blanchard as The Grinch in the 2013 production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! at The Old Globe. The annual holiday musical will run Nov. 16 - Dec. 28, 2013. Photo by Jim Cox. |
Steve Blanchard as The Grinch in the 2013 production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! at The Old Globe. The annual holiday musical will run Nov. 16 - Dec. 28, 2013. Photo by Jim Cox. |
Steve Blanchard as The Grinch and Taylor Coleman as Cindy-Lou Who in the 2013 production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! at The Old Globe. The annual holiday musical will run Nov. 16 - Dec. 28, 2013. Photo by Jim Cox. |
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Steve Blanchard as The Grinch in the 2013 production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! at The Old Globe. The annual holiday musical will run Nov. 16 - Dec. 28, 2013. Photo by Jim Cox. |
(from left) Steve Blanchard as The Grinch and Jeffrey Schecter as Young Max in the 2013 production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! at The Old Globe. The annual holiday musical will run Nov. 16 - Dec. 28, 2013. Photo by Jim Cox. |
Steve Blanchard as The Grinch in the 2013 production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! at The Old Globe. The annual holiday musical will run Nov. 16 - Dec. 28, 2013. Photo by Jim Cox. |
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(from left) Jeffrey Schecter as Young Max and Steve Blanchard as The Grinch in the 2013 production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! at The Old Globe. The annual holiday musical will run Nov. 16 - Dec. 28, 2013. Photo by Jim Cox. |
(from left) Jeffrey Schecter as Young Max and Steve Gunderson as Old Max in the 2013 production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! at The Old Globe. The annual holiday musical will run Nov. 16 - Dec. 28, 2013. Photo by Jim Cox. |
The cast of the 2013 production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! at The Old Globe. The annual holiday musical will run Nov. 16 - Dec. 28, 2013. Photo by Jim Cox. |
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(from left) Eileen Bowman as Grandma Who, Bets Malone as Mama Who, Geno Carr as Papa Who and Kürt Norby as Grandpa Who in the 2013 production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! at The Old Globe. The annual holiday musical will run Nov. 16 - Dec. 28, 2013. Photo by Jim Cox. |
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Steve Blanchard, who plays The Grinch, with (from left) Taylor Coleman and Gabriella Dimmick, who play Cindy-Lou Who, at the opening night party for Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! on Nov. 21, 2013. The 16th annual production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! runs Nov. 16 - Dec. 28, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Doug Gates. |
(from left) Taylor Coleman and Gabriella Dimmick, who play Cindy-Lou Who, at the opening night party for Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! on Nov. 21, 2013. The 16th annual production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! runs Nov. 16 - Dec. 28, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Doug Gates. |
Steve Blanchard, who plays The Grinch, at the opening night party for Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! on Nov. 21, 2013. The 16th annual production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! runs Nov. 16 - Dec. 28, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Doug Gates. |
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Taylor Coleman, who plays Cindy-Lou Who, at the opening night party for Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! on Nov. 21, 2013. The 16th annual production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! runs Nov. 16 - Dec. 28, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Doug Gates. |
Cast members and sisters Sophia and Gabriella Dimmick at the opening night party for Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! on Nov. 21, 2013. The 16th annual production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! runs Nov. 16 - Dec. 28, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Doug Gates. |
Steve Gunderson, who plays Old Max, and Jeffrey Schecter, who plays Young Max, at the opening night party for Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! on Nov. 21, 2013. The 16th annual production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! runs Nov. 16 - Dec. 28, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Doug Gates. |
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Papa and Mama Who, Geno Carr and Bets Malone, at the opening night party for Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! on Nov. 21, 2013. The 16th annual production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! runs Nov. 16 - Dec. 28, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Doug Gates. |
Grandma and Grandpa Who, Eileen Bowman and Kürt Norby, at the opening night party for Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! on Nov. 21, 2013. The 16th annual production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! runs Nov. 16 - Dec. 28, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Doug Gates. |
Young cast members at the opening night party for Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! on Nov. 21, 2013. The 16th annual production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! runs Nov. 16 - Dec. 28, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Doug Gates. |
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Director James Vásquez with young cast members at the opening night party for Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! on Nov. 21, 2013. The 16th annual production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! runs Nov. 16 - Dec. 28, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Doug Gates. |
Director James Vásquez at the opening night party for Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! on Nov. 21, 2013. The 16th annual production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! runs Nov. 16 - Dec. 28, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Doug Gates. |
2013 cast members and former Cindy-Lou Whos Remy Margaret Corbin and Caitlin McAuliffe at the opening night party for Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! on Nov. 21, 2013. The 16th annual production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! runs Nov. 16 - Dec. 28, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Doug Gates. |
Publicity Photos |
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Steve Blanchard stars as The Grinch and (from left) Taylor Coleman and Gabriella Dimmick star as Cindy-Lou Who in the 2013 production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! at The Old Globe. The annual holiday musical will run Nov. 16 - Dec. 28, 2013. Photo by Jim Cox. |
Steve Blanchard stars as The Grinch in the 2013 production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! at The Old Globe. The annual holiday musical will run Nov. 16 - Dec. 28, 2013. Photo by Jim Cox. |
(clockwise from far left) Jeffrey Schecter appears as Young Max, Steve Blanchard as The Grinch, Steve Gunderson as Old Max and Gabriella Dimmick and Taylor Coleman as Cindy-Lou Who in the 2013 production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! at The Old Globe. The annual holiday musical will run Nov. 16 - Dec. 28, 2013. Photo by Jim Cox. |
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Steve Blanchard stars as The Grinch and (from left) Taylor Coleman and Gabriella Dimmick star as Cindy-Lou Who in the 2013 production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! at The Old Globe. The annual holiday musical will run Nov. 16 - Dec. 28, 2013. Photo by Jim Cox. |
(from left) Taylor Coleman and Gabriella Dimmick star as Cindy-Lou Who in the 2013 production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! at The Old Globe. The annual holiday musical will run Nov. 16 - Dec. 28, 2013. Photo by Jim Cox. |
Steve Blanchard stars as The Grinch and (from left) Taylor Coleman and Gabriella Dimmick star as Cindy-Lou Who in the 2013 production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! at The Old Globe. The annual holiday musical will run Nov. 16 - Dec. 28, 2013. Photo by Jim Cox. |
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Taylor Coleman stars as Cindy-Lou Who in the 2013 production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! at The Old Globe. The annual holiday musical will run Nov. 16 - Dec. 28, 2013. Photo by Jim Cox. |
Gabriella Dimmick stars as Cindy-Lou Who in the 2013 production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! at The Old Globe. The annual holiday musical will run Nov. 16 - Dec. 28, 2013. Photo by Jim Cox. |
(from left) Jeffrey Schecter appears as Young Max, Steve Blanchard as The Grinch and Steve Gunderson as Old Max in the 2013 production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! at The Old Globe. The annual holiday musical will run Nov. 16 - Dec. 28, 2013. Photo by Jim Cox. |
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(from left) Jeffrey Schecter appears as Young Max and Steve Gunderson as Old Max in the 2013 production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! at The Old Globe. The annual holiday musical will run Nov. 16 - Dec. 28, 2013. Photo by Jim Cox. |
Steve Gunderson appears as Old Max in the 2013 production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! at The Old Globe. The annual holiday musical will run Nov. 16 - Dec. 28, 2013. Photo by Jim Cox. |
Jeffrey Schecter appears as Young Max in the 2013 production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! at The Old Globe. The annual holiday musical will run Nov. 16 - Dec. 28, 2013. Photo by Jim Cox. |
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James Vásquez directs the 2013 production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! at The Old Globe. The annual holiday musical will run Nov. 16 - Dec. 28, 2013. Photo by Jim Cox. |
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Cast and Creative Team
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Luke Babbitt (Danny Who) is thrilled to be back in Whoville after performing in Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (‘11 and ‘12). He was most recently seen as Kurt in San Diego Musical Theatre’s record-breaking production of The Sound of Music. His additional theater credits include Guys and Dolls (Peter Pan Junior Theater), Seussical (Highland Players), Peter Pan Jr. (San Diego Junior Theatre), Les Misérables (Verge Theatre Company) and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Once on this Island Jr. and A Christmas Carol (Kroc Kids Junior Theatre Company). He is also very much looking forward to playing The Artful Dodger in Peter Pan Junior Theater’s upcoming spring production of Oliver! Babbitt is 13 and currently attends La Mesa Middle School where he is a member of the Boy’s Ensemble. When not performing, he likes to read and play volleyball. He would like to thank his family and friends for believing in him and The Old Globe for once again giving him the opportunity to be a part of this wonderful San Diego holiday tradition. |
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Steve Blanchard (The Grinch) reprises his role as The Grinch from the 2011 and 2012 productions of Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Blanchard has appeared on Broadway in Beauty and the Beast, Camelot, The Three Musketeers and A Christmas Carol. His National Tours include Little House on the Prairie, Camelot, The Phantom of the Opera, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Hans Christian Andersen. His Off Broadway credits include Orphan Train, Johnny Guitar, Frankenstein, Treasure Island, Moby Dick and An Oak Tree. He has appeared regionally in Little House on the Prairie (Guthrie Theater), Tarzan (Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma) and Esmeralda (The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis). Blanchard’s television credits include “Law & Order,” “Third Watch,” “Cupid,” “Ed,” “Sunset Beat,” “Police Story,” “Guiding Light,” “One Life to Live” and “Another World.” He has appeared in the films Those Who Wander, Dark Vengeance, Savva and Rap Master Ronnie: A Report Card for HBO. He can be heard on the original recordings of Johnny Guitar, Sundown, Frankenstein and Northbound Train. |
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Eileen Bowman (Grandma Who) feels so blessed to be back playing Grandma Who! She was last seen as Velma Von Tussle in Hairspray (Welk Resort Theatre) and, before that, as Amy in Company (Cygnet Theatre Company). Her other roles include Keely Stevens in Pete ’n’ Keely, Miss Adelaide in Guys and Dolls, for which she won the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Craig Noel Award, and the three leading ladies in Joe vs The Volcano, for which she also garnered a Craig Noel Award nomination (Lamb’s Players Theatre). She also appeared in the National Tour of The Art of Broadway as well as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, Marian in The Music Man and Lina Lamont in Singin’ in the Rain (Starlight Musical Theatre). She has done numerous national commercials as well as many television features. Thank you to God and to her perfect and handsome husband Marc and to her sweet and wonderful parents and family for their support and love. This performance is dedicated to her beloved mom-in-law, Virginia; thanks for her grace and courage and strength. “Who does he think he is...anyway?” |
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Jacob Caltrider (Grown-Up Who Ensemble) previously appeared at the Globe with Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (‘11 and ‘12) and Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show. His local credits include Assassins, Parade, Little Shop of Horrors, Cabaret, Sweeney Todd and The History Boys (Cygnet Theatre Company), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (North Coast Repertory Theatre) and Marry Me a Little, Twist, Yank! and the original casts of Harmony, Kansas and The Daddy Machine (Diversionary Theatre). |
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Megan Carmitchel (Grown-Up Who Ensemble) was recently seen at the Globe in The Last Goodbye. Her recent San Diego credits include Fiddler on the Roof (Lamb’s Players Theatre), Pippin (Diversionary Theatre), South Pacific and Stepping Out (Welk Resort Theatre) and The Who’s Tommy (San Diego Repertory Theatre). She is a graduate of San Francisco State University with a degree in vocal performance and was seen in the Bay Area in Peter Pan (Berkeley Playhouse) and City of Angels and Chess (San Francisco State University). |
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Geno Carr (Papa Who) previously appeared at the Globe in Allegiance – A New American Musical and is tickled pink to return for a third year in Whoville! His other San Diego credits include The Servant of Two Masters (Craig Noel Award nomination), The Music Man and miXtape (Lamb’s Players Theatre, Associate Artist), Assassins, Parade, Little Shop of Horrors and Sweeney Todd (Cygnet Theatre Company, Resident Artist), I Love You Because and A Christmas Carol (’08 and ‘09) (North Coast Repertory Theatre) and A Waltz Dream (Lyric Opera San Diego). Carr has appeared Off Broadway in Bush Wars and on the National Tours of Phantom, The Buddy Holly Story and Grease, and his favorite regional credits include Leo Bloom in The Producers, Harold Nichols in The Full Monty, Sparky in Forever Plaid, the title role in Bat Boy, Smee in Peter Pan, Feste in Twelfth Night, Buddy Fidler in City of Angels, Luther Billis in South Pacific, Man #2 in I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change and Trevor Graydon in Thoroughly Modern Millie. He holds an M.F.A. in Acting and Directing from Sarah Lawrence College and a dual B.A. in Music and Theatre Arts from Hartwick College. |
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Nancy Snow Carr (Grown-Up Who Ensemble) was recently seen at The Old Globe in The Last Goodbye as Lady Montague and Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (‘11 and ‘12). Some of Carr’s favorite credits include the National Tours of Phantom and The Buddy Holly Story, Dorothy in the Washington, DC premiere of Hunter Foster and David Kirshenbaum’s Summer of ‘42 (Round House Theatre) and Lina Lamont in Singin’ in the Rain (Merry-Go-Round Playhouse). Carr received her B.F.A. in Musical Theatre from Elon University and M.F.A. from San Diego State University. She is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association and the National Association of Teachers of Singing. Carr operates a private studio in San Diego where she offers voice lessons and audition preparation. |
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David Coffey (Teen Who) is thrilled to be making his Globe debut in Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Earlier this year, Coffey played the role of Chucho in the North Coast Repertory Theatre’s world premiere stage production of Becoming Cuba. In June, he was awarded a National Youth Arts Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Musical for his portrayal of Pasko in San Diego Junior Theatre’s highly acclaimed production of A Little Princess directed by Desha Crownover. This coming February he will play the role of Chet in SDJT’s premiere production of The Burnt Part Boys, which will be directed by Executive Director James Saba. David also performed the lead role of Milo in SDJT’s The Phantom Tollbooth, Dad in Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing andJay Bird in Honk! and was a performer in this year’s second annual JT Honors and Songs of the Season. Coffey is featured in the television series “Haven’s Light,”produced by Turning Point Television Studios. Coffey is excited and honored to be part of this amazing cast of The Grinch! |
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Taylor Coleman (Cindy-Lou Who), aka Tater Tot, is thrilled to be making her theater debut and is grateful to The Old Globe for this incredible opportunity. She is a seven-year-old second-grade student at Sage Canyon Elementary School. She spends 12 hours a week training as a Level 4 competitive gymnast with TRC South Gymnastics and has won numerous medals, including fourth place at the 2012 Southern California State meet. She also studies tap, lyrical and ballet at Francine Garton’s Royal Dance Academy in Carmel Valley. When she’s not upside down, she enjoys playing charades with her older sister Samantha and younger sister Sadie. She spends a good amount of time wiggling her loose teeth and playing with her guinea pig, Rosemary. She is also no longer afraid of The Grinch. |
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Remy Margaret Corbin (Betty-Lou Who) is thrilled to be back as part of the Grinch family and to perform again at The Old Globe. She last performed here in the Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! as Cindy-Lou Who (’10 and ’11). Her other roles include Posey in Christmas on My Mind (Lamb’s Players Theatre) and Bielke in Fiddler on the Roof and Molly in Annie (Moonlight Stage Productions). When not dancing, singing or tumbling, Corbin likes to surf, hang out with friends and chase after her dog, who always steals her Young Max stuffed animal! |
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Kevin Davison (Little Who Ensemble) is thrilled to be returning to The Old Globe for a third season and thanks the artistic team for an amazing experience. He was most recently seen as Randolph in Bye Bye Birdie. Some of his other favorite roles have been Jojo in Seussical (Pickwick Players), King Louie in Disney’s The Jungle Book (Young Actors’ Theatre) and The Mayor of Munchkinland in The Wizard of Oz and Michael Darling in Peter Pan (Christian Youth Theater). Davison, who is 13 years old, loves singing, dancing and writing music. When he isn’t on stage he likes texting his friends, hanging out with his awesome sister Randi and taking golf lessons. He likes all kinds of movies ranging from Matilda to The Avengers. Davison hopes to be on Broadway someday but knows that wherever life takes him he will always have a song in his heart. |
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Gabriella Dimmick (Cindy-Lou Who) is a seven-year-old homeschooler who is absolutely thrilled to be spending her first holiday season in Whoville at The Old Globe this year! Dimmick loves singing, dancing, theater and playing the piano. She recently played the role of Gretl in The Sound of Music with San Diego Musical Theatre. Performing since the age of four, Dimmick has been featured in The California Ballet Company’s productions as Bon Bon-Waver and Baby Mouse in The Nutcracker, Dormouse in Alice in Wonderland and Vampire Victim in Dracula. She would like to wish everyone a very merry Grinchmas! |
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Sophia Dimmick (Little Who Ensemble) is both honored and excited to return to The Old Globe for her second year in The Grinch! She is a nine-year-old homeschooler who loves playing the harp, dancing, singing and theater and is an avid reader and writer. Earlier this year, she played the role of Janee in South Pacific at Welk Resort Theatre and has enjoyed an ensemble role in San Diego Junior Theatre’s Honk! Ms. Dimmick has performed with The California Ballet Company in The Nutcracker (Bon Bon-Waver), Alice in Wonderland (Small Alice) and most recently in Dracula, (Villager and Vampire Victim). Ms. Dimmick was recently featured playing a harp solo The Africa Relief Concert at Sweetwater Community Church to benefit World Hope International. She would like to thank The Old Globe for allowing her to take part in this magical production! |
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Randall Dodge (Grown-Up Who Ensemble) previously appeared at the Globe in Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (’06-‘07, ’10-‘12). His regional credits include Emile in South Pacific, Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz, Billy Flynn in Chicago, Signor Naccarelli in The Light in the Piazza, Judge Turpin in Sweeney Todd, Daddy Warbucks in Annie, Trevor Graydon in Thoroughly Modern Millie, Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music, Carl Magnus in A Little Night Music, Prince/Wolf in Into the Woods, Frank Butler in Annie Get Your Gun, Dr. Neville Craven in The Secret Garden, Gaston in Beauty and the Beast, Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance, El Gallo in The Fantasticks, Father in Children of Eden, Joe in The Most Happy Fella, Bounder in The Scarlet Pimpernel, Chuck Baxter in Promises, Promises and Mr. Bratt in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, as well as Kit in No Way to Treat a Lady and Pete ’n’ Keely, both West Coast premieres. Dodge is a proud graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. |
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Steve Gunderson (Old Max) has previously appeared at the Globe in Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (‘99, ‘00, ‘03, ‘05 and ‘07-’12), Suds: The Rocking ‘60s Musical Soap Opera (also co-writer/arranger), A Trip to Chinatown and Hadrian VII. His Off Broadway credits include Suds (original cast), Forever Plaid, Back to Bacharach and David (original cast, co-created with Kathy Najimy), Butley and Street Scene. Gunderson and Richard Dreyfuss battled it out as opposing attorneys in Dustin Lance Black’s 8 at The Birch North Park Theatre. His additional credits include His Girl Friday, The Nightingale and Memphis (La Jolla Playhouse), Dirty Blonde, Parade and Sweeney Todd (Cygnet Theatre Company), Romance, Miss Witherspoon and A Christmas Carol (San Diego Repertory Theatre), An Ideal Husband (Lamb’s Players Theatre), 1776 (Cabrillo Music Theatre), Birds of a Feather (Diversionary Theatre) and major roles at Pasadena Playhouse, Laguna Playhouse, Alliance Theatre, North Coast Repertory Theatre, New Village Arts and La Mirada Theatre. He played multiple roles in the National Tour of The Grapes of Wrath with Ed Harris and in the popular revue The Melinda & Steve Show with Melinda Gilb. His television credits include various voices on “King of the Hill” and the new “Beavis and Butt-Head.” In 2010, Gunderson won the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Craig Noel Award for Actor of the Year and for his performance as Wilbur in Hairspray (San Diego Repertory Theatre) and in 2011 for Outstanding Musical Direction for The Who’s Tommy. |
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Kyrsten Hafso-Koppman (Grown-Up Who Ensemble) has appeared in San Diego in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Musical (Intrepid Shakespeare Company), Assassins (Cygnet Theatre Company), Pete ’n’ Keely and Joe vs The Volcano (Lamb’s Players Theatre), Sweeney Todd (Moonlight Stage Productions), King o’ the Moon (North Coast Repertory Theatre), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Welk Resort Theatre), Spring Awakening (American Rose Theatre) and Into the Woods, A Class Act and Birds of Paradise (San Diego State University Theatre). Hafso-Koppman recently performed the role of Mary in Respighi’s oratorio Laud to the Nativity in Spokane and Seattle. She earned her B.A. in Vocal Performance from Whitworth University and her M.F.A. in Musical Theatre from San Diego State University. |
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Brooke Henderson (Little Who Ensemble) sat in awe at the age of three and watched Dr. Seuss How the Grinch Christmas! at The Old Globe. It was then she said “I want to do that!” This show inspired her to pursue musical theater. She is honored and elated to be back in Whoville for a second year. She is a sixth grader at The Language Academy and is fluent in French. Her first love is musical theater. Her theater credits include Annie (Moonlight Stage Productions),Little Inezin Hairspray (Southwestern College), Alice’s Daughter in Big River (California Youth Conservatory), Once Upon a Mattress (Actors’ Conservatory Theatre – San Diego), a supporting role in an independent film and many productions at San Diego Junior Theatre. Merry Christmas! |
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Katelyn Katz (Little Who Ensemble) is an 11-year-old sixth grader at Sage Canyon Elementary School. She was most recently seen as Brigitta in The Sound of Music (San Diego Musical Theatre). Her other theater credits include The Stinky Cheese Man, Go, Dog Go!, Honk!, Annie and How I Became a Pirate (San Diego Junior Theatre), as well as The Wizard of Oz and Once Upon a Mattress (Actors’ Conservatory Theatre – San Diego). In her spare time, Katelyn enjoys singing and tap dancing. This spring, she is looking forward to making her New Village Arts debut in the role of Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird. Katz is honored to be performing at The Old Globe for the first time and wishes everyone a happy holiday season. |
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Imahni King-Murillo (Boo Who) is thrilled to make his Globe debut in the 2013 production of Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! He was recently featured as a member of Francine Maigue’s Urban Dance Tribe in the opening of the 2013 Cox Cable live production of A Salute to Teachers at the Balboa Theatre in San Diego. King-Murillo’s theater credits include A Little Princess, Honk!, The Sound of Music and Flat Stanley (San Diego Junior Theatre). He believes this opportunity to work with The Old Globe is due to the support and powerful training he receives through Junior Theatre. He is 10 years old and learned tap and jazz with San Diego Civic Dance Association and is currently a student of Mr. Xavier at San Diego Civic Youth Ballet. He thanks all of these local cultural institutions for their inspiration and encouragement. King-Murillo is a fifth grader in Teofilo Mendoza Elementary School’s Visual and Performing Arts Program in the South Bay Union School District. He enjoys reading, hanging out with friends and performing magic tricks. |
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Hourie Klijian (Little Who Ensemble) has been coming to see The Grinch since before she was born and is honored to be a part of this year’s production! She has also appeared in The Sound of Music (San Diego Musical Theatre), Christmas on my Mind (Lamb’s Players Theatre), Fiddler on the Roof and The Wizard of Oz (Moonlight Stage Productions), Annie and Peter Pan Jr. (San Diego Junior Theatre), A Gala Musical Review (Kroc Kids Junior Theatre Company) and Celebrity Sonnets, and she has made solo vocal performances at a number of venues in San Diego. She sings regularly in her church choir and loves watching old musicals during family movie night. She thanks and gives her love to God and her family! |
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Gabi Leibowitz (Teen Who) is proud and excited to be returning to The Old Globe for her third year. She has been performing in dance, musical theater and film since the age of four and has been fortunate to work with professional and community theater companies including Lyric Opera San Diego, San Diego Junior Theatre, J*Company Youth Theatre and Actors’ Conservatory Theatre – San Diego. She recently played Emma in LEGO Friends LIVE and Hazel the Witchette in the Brick-or-Treat musical at LEGOLAND California. Some of her favorite roles include Betty-Lou Who in Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (‘11), the principal role of Ti Moune in Once on This Island (Francis Parker School), Shprintze in Fiddler on the Roof (Lyric Opera San Diego) and most recently Minnie Fae in Hello, Dolly! (J*Company). Leibowitz studies ballet, jazz and tap at The Dance Academy and has performed locally in The Nutcracker for eight years. Highlights of her achievements this year include San Diego Superstars Finalist, San Diego’s Got Talent finalist, Carlsbad Community Talent winner and National Youth Theatre Award nominee. Leibowitz has been blessed with a wonderful community of family, friends, coaches and mentors and appreciates all of their love, guidance and inspiration. |
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Bets Malone (Mama Who) is thrilled to be back in San Diego and making her debut at The Old Globe. Southern California theatergoers have seen her in such shows as Next to Normal, Sweeney Todd, 1776, Once Upon a Mattress, Company, Suds, Evita, Ragtime, Into the Woods, Annie Get Your Gun, All Shook Up, Children of Eden, Carousel, The Ten Commandments: The Musical and The Will Rogers Follies. Malone originated the role of Suzy in the Off Broadway production of The Marvelous Wonderettes and recorded the original cast album. She can also be heard on Winter Wonderettes and The Marvelous Wonderettes: Caps and Gowns. She is featured as Tallulah the monkey in Barbie as the Island Princess as well as the singing voice of Velma in Scooby-Doo! Music of the Vampire. Malone has recently moved back to San Diego with her husband Steven Glaudini, artistic director of Moonlight Stage Productions in Vista. |
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Caitlin McAuliffe (Betty-Lou Who) is so thankful to return for her third season in this year’s production of Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! She is so happy to be back performing with all of her friends from Whoville! Her first two years with The Grinch were as Cindy-Lou Who, and this year, she is very excited to play Cindy-Lou’s big sister, Betty-Lou Who. Most recently, McAuliffe played Young Cosette in Les Misérables (California Youth Conservatory). She is beginning to branch out into film, recently completing a commercial for Nikken Sleep Systems and an anti-bullying video for college students studying psychology. McAuliffe is 10 years old and loves to sing and dance. She danced competitively for four years and is part of Leigh Scarritt Productions where she has performed at various San Diego venues. In her free time, she loves hanging out with her friends from school. She also cherishes her time with her three big brothers: Corey, Chris and Brad; and her three dogs: Coco, Faith and Sweets. She feels very blessed to be a part of this magical production and hopes that it brings joy to everyone’s holiday season. Merry Grinchmas! |
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Dylan Nalbandian (Danny Who) is thrilled to return to Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! for his fifth consecutive year, this year as Danny Who after playing Boo Who ’09-’12. His previous favorite roles include Mowgli in The Jungle Book, Chip in Beauty and the Beast, White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland and Michael Darling in Peter Pan (Broadway Theater Arts Academy). Recently he performed the role of Simon in the staged reading of Displacement at Pasadena Playhouse and has been performing the role of George Ewell in numerous staged readings of Death of a Midsummer Songbird, a play in development by Rachel VanWormer. Nalbandian will play the lead role of Jem Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird at New Village Arts this coming spring, and he just shot the role of Young Sean in the movie Love, Death and Bowling, which will be released in 2015. He is a seventh-grade honor student at Bear Valley Middle School and a script writer and on-air personality for BTV, his school’s closed-circuit television station. He is also an award-winning competitive dancer at Georgia’s School of Dance in Escondido. Nalbandian is grateful to everyone at the Globe and is honored to be back in Whoville with his Who family this holiday season. |
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Kürt Norby (Grandpa Who) has previously appeared at The Old Globe in the world premiere of Allegiance – A New American Musical and Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! His regional credits include the world premieres of Limelight: The Story of Charlie Chaplin and Zhivago (La Jolla Playhouse), Company, Assassins, Man of La Mancha and Sweeney Todd (Cygnet Theatre Company), miXtape, Leaving Iowa, Room Service, Hello, Dolly!, The Voysey Inheritance and The Winslow Boy (Lamb’s Players Theatre), Evita, The Desert Song and Bye Bye Birdie (Welk Resorts Theatre), Beauty and the Beast (Moonlight Amphitheater), Suds: The Rocking ‘60s Musical Soap Opera, Urinetown, Fiddler on the Roof and The Scarlet Pimpernel (Starlight Musical Theatre) and Miss Saigon (Fullerton Civic Light Opera). His film credits include 29th and Gay, U R Pre-Approved and Rubix Cube Dinner. He received his B.A. in Drama from UC Irvine. Love to Kyle. |
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Kaitlyn O’Leary (Annie Who) is thrilled to be a part of The Grinch for a second year as Annie Who. This summer she won the title of Ultimate Triple Threat at the San Diego County Fair and had the honor of singing the national anthem for the Southern California Open at La Costa Resort, the San Diego Chargers Bolt to the Q 5K race and the Los Angeles Clippers at the Staples Center. O’Leary’s recent credits include performing with the Breakthrough Workshop Theatre at the Museum of Photographic Arts as well as a fundraising production for Kroc Kids Junior Theatre Company, A Gala Musical Revue, with Leigh Scarritt Productions. O’Leary’s past credits include Ette in Legally Blonde, Youth Choir in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at San Diego Musical Theatre, Celebrity Sonnets and San Diego Shakespeare Society’s Musicale. She wishes all of you a very Merry Who Christmas! |
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Isabelle Simone Pizzurro (Annie Who) is thrilled to make her Globe debut in Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Most recently, she performed in The Wizard of Oz (Moonlight Stage Productions), Shrek (J*Company Youth Theatre) and The Nutcracker (The California Ballet Company). She is a 10-year-old fifth grader at Carrillo Elementary School. Pizzurro is passionate about singing, dancing and learning about history. She has been a competitive dancer for the last three years. She would like to thank all of her dance and singing teachers, as well as her family, for their inspiration and guidance along the path to Whoville this holiday season. |
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Nathan Riley (Grown-Up Who Ensemble) is thrilled to be making his debut with The Old Globe in Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! A San Diego-based performer, Riley was most recently seen as Flute in Intrepid Shakespeare Company’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Musical. Audiences can also catch him at California Adventure in Disney’s Aladdin – A Musical Spectacular. His favorite credits include Winston in miXtape and Scranton Slim in Guys and Dolls (Lamb’s Players Theatre), Smudge in Forever Plaid: Plaid Tidings (New Village Arts), Muleteer Man of La Mancha (Cygnet Theatre Company), Seaweed J. Stubbs in Hairspray (Moonlight Stage Productions), Matt in The Fantasticks and Duncan and Porter in Macbeth (University of Redlands Theatre). Riley has his B.A. in Music from the University of Redlands. |
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Brandon Saldivar (Boo Who) is a nine-year-old student at Adobe Bluffs Elementary School. He is honored to be making his Globe debut this holiday season. He was recently seen as Sam in Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing and Gub Gub in Dr. Dolittle (San Diego Junior Theatre). Aside from acting and singing, he enjoys hanging out with friends, playing capoeira at Capoeira Brasil San Diego, going to Padres games and watching WWE shows. |
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Jeffrey Schecter (Young Max), better known as “Shecky,” previously appeared at The Old Globe as Willy Scarlatti in Robin and the 7 Hoods and was most recently seen on Broadway in Nice Work If You Can Get It starring Matthew Broderick and Kelli O’Hara. He is probably best known in New York for recreating the role of Mike Costa (“I Can Do That!”) in the Broadway revival of A Chorus Line, and he can also be seen winning that role in the documentary film Every Little Step. He has also been seen on Broadway in The Pajama Game, Wonderful Town, Beauty and the Beast, Guys and Dolls, The People in the Picture and Anything Goes, as well as playing Ozzie in On the Town at Paper Mill Playhouse. In addition to performing on stage, Schecter is also a filmmaker. His first feature film, Farm Girl in New York (co-star and co-writer), appeared in several film festivals across the country and is now available on DVD. His latest film, Tyco Parks the Car, is currently making the film festival rounds and will have its world premiere at the Big Apple Film Festival in New York City. Love to Lena, Melly and Poppa Fred. |
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Kendall Skye (Little Who Ensemble) is nine years old and is making her debut at The Old Globe. After seeing so many shows from the seats, she is excited to finally be on stage. She has performed in various Christian Youth Theater productions such as The Lion King, Peter Pan, The Wizard of Oz and her favorite role, the title role in Annie. Her hobbies include singing, dancing, learning the guitar and treasuring every moment of this holiday theatrical experience. She hopes to continue in the entertainment industry. Enjoy the show! |
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Isabella Walther-Meade (Little Who Ensemble) is thrilled to be in the 2013 cast of Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! She is nine years old and is in the fifth grade at St. John’s Episcopal School in Chula Vista. Her past roles include Young Eponine in Les Misérables and Little Fiona in Shrek the Musical (California Youth Conservatory) and The Duchess of Definition in The Phantom Tollbooth (San Diego Junior Theatre). She loves to sing, play the guitar and dance at the Royal Dance Academy in Carmel Valley and is also fluent in Spanish. Walther-Meade is very excited to be performing at The Old Globe this holiday season and would like to thank everyone for their support and for coming to the show. |
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Elliot Weaver (Little Who Ensemble) is thrilled and honored to fulfill his dream of making his professional stage debut at The Old Globe in Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! His strong desire to pursue acting surfaced at an early age where he would often watch movies until he had memorized the lines of his favorite parts. His passion pushed him to audition for a San Marcos Theatre West production that started his acting career with a lead role in Cinderella, If The Shoe Fits. His other recent theater credits with TheatreWest include Chicken Little, Beauty and the Beast and Rapunzel. Weaver is an 11-year-old sixth grader at San Elijo Middle School in San Marcos. When not acting, he enjoys acrobats on the trampoline, gymnastics, tumbling, playing the piano and singing. |
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Timothy Mason (Book and Lyrics) has been represented at the Globe and on Broadway with the musical Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! His other theater credits include Levitation, Only You, Bablyon Gardens with Timothy Hutton and Mary-Louise Parker, The Fiery Furnace starring Julie Harris (Circle Repertory Company), his five-play The Young Americans Cycle, comprised of Ascension Day, The Less Than Human Club, Time on Fire, Mullen’s Alley and My Life in the Silents (American Conservatory Theater’s Young Conservatory in San Francisco), Cannibals (Naked Eye Theatre in Chicago), Six (Guthrie Theater Lab), Actors Theatre of Louisville, South Coast Repertory, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Victory Gardens Theater, the Jungle Theatre in Minneapolis and the Royal National Theatre, London. Mason created many plays for young audiences at the Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis, including several musicals in collaboration with Mel Marvin, and the first Dr. Seuss musical, The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins with composer Hiram Titus. Mason’s novel for middle-school kids, The Last Synapsid, was published by Random House. His new novel, The Chorister, is a historical thriller for adults. |
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Mel Marvin (Composer) has composed at the Globe for Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! and Tintypes. His Broadway credits include Yentl, A History of the American Film, Tintypes (Tony Award nomination), Fascinating Rhythm, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! and Cymbeline (Lincoln Center Theater). He has also had nine shows produced Off Broadway. His other credits include scores for many of America’s best-known regional theaters, including Arena Stage, The Guthrie Theater, American Repertory Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Lincoln Center Theater and Mark Taper Forum, where he was an associate artist and wrote the original music for the premiere of Angels in America. Marvin’s other projects include Guest from the Future, an opera with libretto by Jonathan Levi, which had its premiere in the Summerscape program at the new Fisher Center for the Arts in July 2004, and Buwalsky, an opera commissioned by Holland’s Opera Spanga, which premiered in The Netherlands in August 2004 and subsequently toured the U.S., with performances in New Haven and New York City. His new musical, EDEN, set in New Orleans the week after Katrina, was done at the O’Neill Music Theater Conference in July 2010. Marvin is head faculty composer and producing director of the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! is one of seven musicals for young audiences he has written for his daughter, Kate. |
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Jack O’Brien (Conceived and Directed Original Production/Artistic Director Emeritus) served as the Artistic Director of The Old Globe from 1982 through 2007. O’Brien most recently directed Ethan Hawke in Macbeth on Broadway this season. His Broadway credits also include: The Nance, Dead Accounts, Catch Me If You Can, Impressionism, The Coast of Utopia (Tony Award), Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Tony nomination), Henry IV (Tony Award), Hairspray (Tony Award), Imaginary Friends, The Invention of Love (Tony nomination, Drama Desk Award), The Full Monty (Tony nomination), More to Love, Getting Away with Murder, Pride’s Crossing, The Little Foxes, Hapgood (Lucille Lortel Award, Best Director), Damn Yankees, Two Shakespearean Actors (Tony nomination), Porgy and Bess (Tony Award). Metropolitan Opera: II Trittico. London: Love Never Dies, Hairspray (Olivier nomination). National Theatre: His Girl Friday. Six movies for PBS’s “American Playhouse.” Awards: 2008 Theatre Hall of Fame Inductee, 2005 John Houseman Award, ArtServe Michigan 2008 International Achievement Award, Honorary Doctorate, University of Michigan. Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, University of San Diego. Film (actor): Sex and the City 2. Jack Be Nimble: The Accidental Education of an Unintentional Director, his memoir about the early years of his career, was released this summer by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. |
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James Vásquez (Director) has recreated the original musical staging of Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! since 2003. At the Globe, he directed Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show, served as Associate Director of Jane Austen’s Emma – A Musical Romantic Comedy and provided musical staging for Boeing-Boeing and last summer’s Shakespeare Festival production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He received San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Award nominations for Outstanding Direction of a Musical for the world premiere of Harmony, Kansas and the West Coast premiere of [title of show] (Diversionary Theatre) and won the award in 2010 for Sweeney Todd (Cygnet Theatre Company). His other recent directing/choreography credits include the workshop of Harmony, Kansas (Goodspeed Musicals), Marry Me a Little, Birds of a Feather, Pippin and Next Fall (Diversionary), Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Little Shop of Horrors (Cygnet) and Into the Woods (New Village Arts). In 2004, Vásquez founded Daisy 3 Pictures with Mark Holmes and Carrie Preston. Their first two feature films, 29th and Gay (TLA Releasing, Here TV) and Ready? OK! (Wolfe Video, LOGO), have played national and international film festivals, with Ready? OK! winning Best Feature Film awards in Seattle, North Carolina and San Diego. Their latest feature film, That’s What She Said, starring Anne Heche, made its world premiere at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. As an actor, Vásquez has appeared on film, television, Off Broadway and regional and local stages. He is a graduate of The Juilliard School. |
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John DeLuca (Original Choreography) Film: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Nine, Memoirs of a Geisha, Chicago, The Terminal. TV: “Tony Bennett: An American Classic,” “The 75th Annual Academy Awards,” “The Kennedy Center Honors.” Broadway/NY theater: Minnelli on Minnelli, Broadway Sings Elton John, Deborah Voight on Broadway, Sweet Adeline (City Center Encores!), Two Gentlemen of Verona (The Public). National tour: The Boy Friend, Chita and All That Jazz, Music of the Night, Brigadoon. American Stage Company: Oedipus Private Eye, Lucky Guy, The Gig. American Musical Theatre Award, Choreography Media Honors, American Choreography Award, two Emmy Awards. Currently producing the film version of Into the Woods. |
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Bob Richard (Additional Choreography) has provided choreography for Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! at The Old Globe, on Broadway and on tour. Currently his work can be seen in the 50th Anniversary National Tour of Hello, Dolly! starring Sally Struthers. He is also the choreographer of season 3 of “LazyTown” for Turner Network Television, “The Tonight Show,” “The Today Show” and Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. He has served as the resident choreographer for the past 15 years at Sacramento Music Circus, staging over 35 productions. This fall Richard will be returning to The 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle to stage Oliver! following his wildly acclaimed production of The Music Man. His other notable theater credits of late include Pioneer Theatre Company, North Shore Music Theatre, Theatre Under The Stars and Ordway Center for the Performing Arts. Richard’s work has received a Bay Area Critics Circle Award, with the American Musical Theatre of San Jose, and an Ivey and Houston Area Theatre Award for Choreography for his tour of Cabaret. He spent part of this past summer as a guest master instructor with the one and only Chet Walker at the prestigious Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. Dancing, teaching master classes worldwide and choreographing for 30 years in show business, Richard and his wife became Founding Artistic Directors of The American Musical Theatre Dance Company. Love to Robert Henry, their meaning of life and where Whoville lives in the eyes and hearts of children always! |
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Elan McMahan (Musical Director) served as music director for the Globe’s 2012 and 2013 Shakespeare Festivals. McMahan is the resident music director for Moonlight Stage Productions in Vista. Her work at Moonlight and the Globe has received critical acclaim, including this year’s Craig Noel Award for Outstanding Musical Direction from the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle for a body of 2012 work that included the Globe’s As You Like It and Moonlight’s Fiddler on the Roof and Sweeney Todd. McMahan holds music degrees from Brigham Young University and the St. Louis Conservatory of Music. |
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John Lee Beatty (Scenic Design) has designed the Globe productions of Cornelia, Dancing in the Dark, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! and Redwood Curtain. His Broadway credits include The Nance, The Columnist, Good People, Venus in Fur, Other Desert Cities, Times Stands Still, A View From the Bridge, The Royal Family, The Color Purple, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Rabbit Hole, Doubt, Chicago, Dinner at Eight, Morning’s at Seven, Proof, Footloose, The Little Foxes, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, A Delicate Balance, The Heiress, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Anna Christie, Redwood Curtain, The Sisters Rosensweig, The Most Happy Fella, Penn and Teller (twice), Burn This, Ain’t Misbehavin’ (twice), Talley’s Folly, Fifth of July and Crimes of the Heart. His Off Broadway credits include The Whipping Man, Sylvia, The Substance of Fire, Lips Together, Teeth Apart, The Road to Mecca, Song of Singapore, A Life in the Theatre, The Miss Firecracker Contest, 35 seasons at Manhattan Theatre Club and Circle Repertory Company and 18 seasons at City Center Encores! He has also designed at major regional theaters and in film, opera and TV. Beatty is the recipient of the Tony, Obie, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards and is a member of the Theatre Hall of Fame. He is a graduate of Brown University and the Yale School of Drama. |
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Robert Morgan (Costume Design) has designed the Broadway productions of Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, The Full Monty, Imaginary Friends, I’m Not Rappaport and Sherlock’s Last Case. His Off Broadway credits include Pride’s Crossing and Saturn Returns (Lincoln Center Theater) and The Loves of Anatol (Circle in the Square Theatre). His television credits include American Playhouse, The Skin of Our Teeth and A Christmas Carol. He has designed internationally for the West End and Maria Theresa’s Schönbrunn Palace Theater in Vienna. His regional credits include The Old Globe (Associate Artist), Ahmanson Theatre, American Conservatory Theater, American Players Theatre, The Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Guthrie Theater, Huntington Theatre Company, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, McCarter Theatre Center, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Portland Center Stage, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Studio Arena Theater and Williamstown Theatre Festival. He has received two Drama Desk nominations, 12 Drama-Logue Awards Prague and has exhibited at Prague Quadrennial. He is the former Director of Boston University’s Theatre Arts Division, School for the Arts. |
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Pat Collins (Lighting Design) has designed the Globe productions of Twelfth Night, Cymbeline and Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Her Broadway credits include Orphans, Good People, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Doubt (Tony nomination), Sight Unseen, Proof, A Moon for the Misbegotten, A Delicate Balance, The Sisters Rosensweig, Conversations with My Father, The Heidi Chronicles, I’m Not Rappaport (Tony Award), Execution of Justice (Drama Desk Award), the original and 1988 revival of Ain’t Misbehavin’, Once Upon a Mattress, An American Daughter and many more. Her Lincoln Center Theater credits include Third, Ten Unknowns, Death and the King’s Horseman, The Threepenny Opera (Tony nomination), The Floating Lightbulb and Measure for Measure. Her Off Broadway credits include The Foreigner, Doubt, Burn This, Quartermaine’s Terms, How I Got That Story and A Life in the Theatre. Collins has designed lighting at theaters throughout the country, including the Mark Taper Forum, McCarter Theatre Center, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Hartford Stage, Alley Theatre, CENTERSTAGE Baltimore, Long Wharf Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Goodman Theatre, American Repertory Theater and Actor’s Theatre of Louisville. She also designed Wagner’s Ring Cycle at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and over 100 productions for opera companies throughout the world. |
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Paul Peterson (Sound Design) has designed over 100 productions at The Old Globe, including Other Desert Cities, The Brothers Size, God of Carnage, Nobody Loves You, 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, 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, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Malashock Dance, University of San Diego, San Diego State University and UCLA. Peterson received his B.F.A. in Drama with an emphasis in Technical Design from San Diego State University. |
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Anita Ruth (Orchestrator) is an orchestrator, arranger and musical director active in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. She has prepared over 150 musicals in the last 30 years. She was the musical director of the Chanhassen Dinner Theatres from 1968 to 1988. Since then she has been a freelance music director and orchestrator at Guthrie Theater, Children’s Theatre Company, Bloomington Civic Theatre and Theatre Mu among others. She has been the arranger/music director for three Shakespeare productions at the Guthrie as well as music directing their production of A Christmas Carol for the last seven years. In 2004 she orchestrated two operas composed by Mel Marvin—one presented in Holland and the other at Bard College.. |
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Joshua Rosenblum (Vocal Arrangements and Incidental Music) has conducted 13 Broadway and Off Broadway shows, specializing in flying vehicles (Miss Saigon, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!). He is the composer/lyricist of the Off Broadway smash hit revue Bush is Bad, as well as the musicals Fermat’s Last Tango, Einstein’s Dreams and Garbo and Me. As a pianist, he has appeared with the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, the Encores! series at New York City Center and in solo recitals at Symphony Space. He is a faculty member at the Yale University Department of Music and a contributing writer for Opera News. Rosenblum is the founder and music director of the Pit Stop Players and the recent recipient of a grant from Signature Theatre in Washington, DC as part of the American Musical Voices Project: the Next Generation. |
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David Krane (Dance Music Arranger) created the dance music and additional score for the Oscar-winning Chicago and the film of Nine, provided music arrangements and additional score adaptation for the Disney’supcoming Into the Woods starring Meryl Streep, produced and arranged Michelle Williams’ vocals for My Week with Marilyn and composed Aspire with Stephen Cole, the first American musical produced in the Middle East. Their musical comedy about that incredible experience, The Road to Qatar! was produced in Dallas, New York City and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The show is licensed by josef-weinberger.com, and the CD, produced by jayrecords.com, is available on iTunes. |
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Caparelliotis Casting (Casting) recently cast the Globe productions of The Few, Double Indemnity, The Rainmaker, Other Desert Cities, Be a Good Little Widow, A Doll’s House, The Brothers Size, Pygmalion and Good People. Their Broadway casting credits include The Snow Geese, Lyle Kessler’s Orphans, The Trip to Bountiful, Grace, Dead Accounts, The Other Place, Seminar, The Columnist, Stick Fly, Good People, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, The House of Blue Leaves, Fences, Lend Me a Tenor and The Royal Family. They also cast for Manhattan Theatre Club, Second Stage Theatre, Atlantic Theater Company, LCT3, Ars Nova, Goodman Theatre, Arena Stage, Ford’s Theatre and three seasons with Williamstown Theatre Festival. Their recent film and television credits include HairBrained with Brendan Fraser, “Ironside” (NBC) and Steel Magnolias (Sony for Lifetime). |
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Leila Knox (Stage Manager) has previously worked on the Globe productions of Cornelia, The American Plan, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Ace, The Violet Hour, Himself and Nora, Take Me Out, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (2004-2012), the 2004 Summer Shakespeare Festival, Resurrection Blues, Bus Stop, Much Ado About Nothing and Dirty Blonde and Thinking Shakespeare Live! Her Broadway credits include Dirty Blonde, Amour and One Mo’ Time. Her regional credits include production supervisor of Dirty Blonde (National Tour and West Yorkshire Playhouse), shows at Lincoln Center Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, Roundabout Theatre Company, Second Stage Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, SITI Company, Playwrights Horizons, Huntington Theatre Company and 11 seasons with the Williamstown Theatre Festival. She received her education at Northwestern University. |
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Annette Yé (Assistant Stage Manager) served as stage manager for The Old Globe’s The Few, Pygmalion, God of Carnage, Anna Christie, Groundswell and the 2010 production of Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas! Her other Globe credits include A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (‘11 and ‘12), Boeing-Boeing, The First Wives Club, Opus, Dancing in the Dark, Hay Fever and the Summer Shakespeare Festivals 2008 and 2010-2013. |
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