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"How the Other Half Loves," brilliant British farce, on stage at Saint Michael's Playhouse, July 14 to 25
Directed by renown, 4-time Helen Hayes Award nominee, JOHN GOING
Contact Information:
Buff Lindau, Public Relations
802.654.2536
blindau@smcvt.edu
The brilliant British farce, HOW THE OTHER HALF LOVES, is on stage at the Saint Michael's Playhouse, Tuesday, July 14through Saturday, July 25, directed by Helen Hayes Award nominee and winner of repeated outstanding director citations, John Going. Performances are Tuesday, July 14 through Saturday, July 18, at 8 p.m. each evening, and Saturday, July 18, also at 2 p.m.; and Tuesday, July 21 through Saturday, July 25, at 8 p.m. each evening, and Saturday, July 25, also at 2 p.m., in the McCarthy Arts Center on the campus of Saint Michael's College.
Three mild-mannered couples face domestic chaos in this brilliantly crafted farce set in mod, Beatles-era London. Two homes, shown simultaneously on a single set, are filled with comic action as complications collide with hilarity during two dinner parties shown on stage at the same time. An ingenious, comic, look back at the swinging 60s.
Director John Going has earned some of the highest accolades awarded to a director of American theater, including four nominations for the coveted Helen Hayes Award, the outstanding director citation for The Miser at the Shakespeare Theater in Washington, D.C., and the Kevin Klein, Dramalogue, and Showtime Awards. On Broadway, Mr. Going has directed Tony LoBianco in Hizzoner!; Off-Broadway his credits include Mart Crowley's A Breeze from the Gulf. His regional theater directing has included Seattle Repertory, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Hartford Stage, Houston's Alley Theater, Atlanta's Alliance Theater, Actor's Theater of Louisville, and a number others. He is associate artistic director of Maryland's Olney Theater.
Cast for HOW THE OTHER HALF LOVES
Bill Carmichael (Frank) was last seen on Broadway in Mamma Mia. His other Broadway credits include Les Miserables, Cats and Peter Pan. He appeared in Los Angeles in the original U.S. premiere of Ragtime, Forever Plaid and Sweeney Todd with Kelsey Grammer. Mr. Carmichael appeared in Saint Michael's Playhouse productions of Pirates of Penzance (Major General Stanley) and Barnum (Ringmaster). He did national tours of Pantom of the Opera, City of Angels and Cats.
Sarah Carleton (Fiona) directed last season's Playhouse production of Almost Maine, and has directed and acted in a number of Playhouse productions, including She Stoops to Conquer, Greater Tuna, Broad Bound, Steel Magnolias, Always ... Patsy Cline and more. She has appeared in New York, regional and national tours. Ms. Carleton is associate professor of theater at the University of Vermont, where she will be directing You Can't Take it with You this fall.
John Patrick Hayden (Bob) just played Matt to rave reviews in the Playhouse production of Talley's Folly. He appeared on Broadway as Tartuff with the Roundabout Theater Company, Off-Broadway in Fly at Lincoln Center, and in The Fifth Column at the Mint Theater. He has appeared in numerous regional theater productions, including the Saint Michael's Playhouse productions of Stones in his Pockets, Pirates of Penzance, the Neil Simon Trilogy and others. Mr. Hayden can also be seen nationwide in commercials and independent films.
Michele Scully (Teresa) comes straight from playing May in an Off-Broadway production of Sam Shepard's Fool for Love. She played both Sandy and Marty in the European tour of Grease. She earned raves for her role in the NE Florida premiere of Breaking up is Hard to Do at the Alhambra Dinner Theater. She played Belle in A Christmas Carol (European Tour), Molly in Kitty (14th St. Theater), Mama/Lula in Little Red Riding Hood (Theaterworks/USA), and is set to play Suzanne in the upcoming feature film Eventually Yours.
Craig Maravich (William) recently played the lead in the Vermont Stage Company's Prelude to a Kiss. Some of his regional credits include Long Warf Theater, The Shakespeare Theater, Yale University, The Kennedy Center, Source Theater, and Elm Shakespeare. He taught an acting workshop at Saint Michael's College and participated in the Young Playwrights' Festival last year.
Lucy Sorensen (Mary) has appeared in New York City in Sympathy Jones (NYMF), Sarah, Plain & Tall, and We Tell the Story (Lortel). Her regional work includes Radio City Christmas Spectacular as Mrs. Claus (Grand Ole Opry), SUDS (Saint Michael's Playhouse), Georgie in Full Monty (Maltz Jupiter), and Iron curtain (O'Neill Theater Conference). Her favorite credits include My Fair Lady (London cast), Parade (Lucille), and A Little Night Music (Petra).
2009 Editor's Choice by Yankee Magazine
The Saint Michael's Playhouse was selected as a 2009 Editors' Choice by Yankee Magazine Travel Guide making it "one of the top must-see attractions in New England." The 2008 Playhouse season saw a 50 percent increase in attendance over the past five years, with over 15,000 audience members seeing a show.
Greater Burlington's professional Actors' Equity summer theater brings stellar talent from Broadway, Off-Broadway and regional theaters nationwide, "right here in our own backyard!"
"Our company and crew of some 80 professional theater artists bring full-scale custom-produced shows, not one-night touring stops," said Chuck Tobin, Playhouse Producing Artistic Director. This past theater season the Saint Michael's Playhouse was named "one of the best regional theater companies in America" by the New York City Drama League, and is now a member of the distinguished Theater Excellence in America Program.
Rest of the season:
July 28 - August 8, BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO, "a joyous dollop of 60s nostalgia," book by Erik Jackson and Ben H. Winters, music by Neil Sedaka; lyrics by Neil Sedaka, Howard Greenfield and Cody Philip; directed and choreographed by Keith Andrews. A block-buster musical full of Neil Sedaka's best songs in a light-hearted tale of mistaken identity, friendship and love. A retro feel-good musical set in a more innocent time at a Catskills resort in 1959.
Tickets may be purchased online at www.saintmichaelsplayhouse.org (24 hours a day, 7 days a week), by phone 802.654.2281, or in person at the walk-up window at the Playhouse Box Office in the McCarthy Arts Center on the campus of Saint Michael's College. Box office hours are Monday to Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Call 802.654.2281 to request a Playhouse brochure. Single tickets evenings $34 per ticket; matinees $28 per ticket.
Saint Michael's Playhouse is Greater Burlington's professional summer theater, celebrating live theater, nationally renowned Equity actors, and a Professional Theater Internship Program for college students, in the heart of Northern Vermont's liveliest community. From its humble beginnings in 1947, Saint Michael's Playhouse has blossomed into an eight-week theater season housed in one of Vermont's finest theater venues, Saint Michael's McCarthy Arts Center. As the area's only professional summer theater, Saint Michael's Playhouse features stellar talent from Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regional theaters nationwide, hiring actors and stage managers who are members of Actor's Equity Association - the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States. Each season approximately 15,000 theatergoers experience the unparalleled opportunity to see live, professional New York-caliber theater, produced and presented right here in Vermont. More information is available at www.saintmichaelsplayhouse.org.
Buff Lindau, Public Relations
802.654.2536
blindau@smcvt.edu
The brilliant British farce, HOW THE OTHER HALF LOVES, is on stage at the Saint Michael's Playhouse, Tuesday, July 14through Saturday, July 25, directed by Helen Hayes Award nominee and winner of repeated outstanding director citations, John Going. Performances are Tuesday, July 14 through Saturday, July 18, at 8 p.m. each evening, and Saturday, July 18, also at 2 p.m.; and Tuesday, July 21 through Saturday, July 25, at 8 p.m. each evening, and Saturday, July 25, also at 2 p.m., in the McCarthy Arts Center on the campus of Saint Michael's College.Three mild-mannered couples face domestic chaos in this brilliantly crafted farce set in mod, Beatles-era London. Two homes, shown simultaneously on a single set, are filled with comic action as complications collide with hilarity during two dinner parties shown on stage at the same time. An ingenious, comic, look back at the swinging 60s.
Director John Going has earned some of the highest accolades awarded to a director of American theater, including four nominations for the coveted Helen Hayes Award, the outstanding director citation for The Miser at the Shakespeare Theater in Washington, D.C., and the Kevin Klein, Dramalogue, and Showtime Awards. On Broadway, Mr. Going has directed Tony LoBianco in Hizzoner!; Off-Broadway his credits include Mart Crowley's A Breeze from the Gulf. His regional theater directing has included Seattle Repertory, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Hartford Stage, Houston's Alley Theater, Atlanta's Alliance Theater, Actor's Theater of Louisville, and a number others. He is associate artistic director of Maryland's Olney Theater.
Cast for HOW THE OTHER HALF LOVES
Bill Carmichael (Frank) was last seen on Broadway in Mamma Mia. His other Broadway credits include Les Miserables, Cats and Peter Pan. He appeared in Los Angeles in the original U.S. premiere of Ragtime, Forever Plaid and Sweeney Todd with Kelsey Grammer. Mr. Carmichael appeared in Saint Michael's Playhouse productions of Pirates of Penzance (Major General Stanley) and Barnum (Ringmaster). He did national tours of Pantom of the Opera, City of Angels and Cats.
Sarah Carleton (Fiona) directed last season's Playhouse production of Almost Maine, and has directed and acted in a number of Playhouse productions, including She Stoops to Conquer, Greater Tuna, Broad Bound, Steel Magnolias, Always ... Patsy Cline and more. She has appeared in New York, regional and national tours. Ms. Carleton is associate professor of theater at the University of Vermont, where she will be directing You Can't Take it with You this fall.
John Patrick Hayden (Bob) just played Matt to rave reviews in the Playhouse production of Talley's Folly. He appeared on Broadway as Tartuff with the Roundabout Theater Company, Off-Broadway in Fly at Lincoln Center, and in The Fifth Column at the Mint Theater. He has appeared in numerous regional theater productions, including the Saint Michael's Playhouse productions of Stones in his Pockets, Pirates of Penzance, the Neil Simon Trilogy and others. Mr. Hayden can also be seen nationwide in commercials and independent films.
Michele Scully (Teresa) comes straight from playing May in an Off-Broadway production of Sam Shepard's Fool for Love. She played both Sandy and Marty in the European tour of Grease. She earned raves for her role in the NE Florida premiere of Breaking up is Hard to Do at the Alhambra Dinner Theater. She played Belle in A Christmas Carol (European Tour), Molly in Kitty (14th St. Theater), Mama/Lula in Little Red Riding Hood (Theaterworks/USA), and is set to play Suzanne in the upcoming feature film Eventually Yours.
Craig Maravich (William) recently played the lead in the Vermont Stage Company's Prelude to a Kiss. Some of his regional credits include Long Warf Theater, The Shakespeare Theater, Yale University, The Kennedy Center, Source Theater, and Elm Shakespeare. He taught an acting workshop at Saint Michael's College and participated in the Young Playwrights' Festival last year.
Lucy Sorensen (Mary) has appeared in New York City in Sympathy Jones (NYMF), Sarah, Plain & Tall, and We Tell the Story (Lortel). Her regional work includes Radio City Christmas Spectacular as Mrs. Claus (Grand Ole Opry), SUDS (Saint Michael's Playhouse), Georgie in Full Monty (Maltz Jupiter), and Iron curtain (O'Neill Theater Conference). Her favorite credits include My Fair Lady (London cast), Parade (Lucille), and A Little Night Music (Petra).
2009 Editor's Choice by Yankee Magazine
The Saint Michael's Playhouse was selected as a 2009 Editors' Choice by Yankee Magazine Travel Guide making it "one of the top must-see attractions in New England." The 2008 Playhouse season saw a 50 percent increase in attendance over the past five years, with over 15,000 audience members seeing a show.
Greater Burlington's professional Actors' Equity summer theater brings stellar talent from Broadway, Off-Broadway and regional theaters nationwide, "right here in our own backyard!"
"Our company and crew of some 80 professional theater artists bring full-scale custom-produced shows, not one-night touring stops," said Chuck Tobin, Playhouse Producing Artistic Director. This past theater season the Saint Michael's Playhouse was named "one of the best regional theater companies in America" by the New York City Drama League, and is now a member of the distinguished Theater Excellence in America Program.
Rest of the season:
July 28 - August 8, BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO, "a joyous dollop of 60s nostalgia," book by Erik Jackson and Ben H. Winters, music by Neil Sedaka; lyrics by Neil Sedaka, Howard Greenfield and Cody Philip; directed and choreographed by Keith Andrews. A block-buster musical full of Neil Sedaka's best songs in a light-hearted tale of mistaken identity, friendship and love. A retro feel-good musical set in a more innocent time at a Catskills resort in 1959.
Tickets may be purchased online at www.saintmichaelsplayhouse.org (24 hours a day, 7 days a week), by phone 802.654.2281, or in person at the walk-up window at the Playhouse Box Office in the McCarthy Arts Center on the campus of Saint Michael's College. Box office hours are Monday to Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Call 802.654.2281 to request a Playhouse brochure. Single tickets evenings $34 per ticket; matinees $28 per ticket.
Saint Michael's Playhouse is Greater Burlington's professional summer theater, celebrating live theater, nationally renowned Equity actors, and a Professional Theater Internship Program for college students, in the heart of Northern Vermont's liveliest community. From its humble beginnings in 1947, Saint Michael's Playhouse has blossomed into an eight-week theater season housed in one of Vermont's finest theater venues, Saint Michael's McCarthy Arts Center. As the area's only professional summer theater, Saint Michael's Playhouse features stellar talent from Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regional theaters nationwide, hiring actors and stage managers who are members of Actor's Equity Association - the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States. Each season approximately 15,000 theatergoers experience the unparalleled opportunity to see live, professional New York-caliber theater, produced and presented right here in Vermont. More information is available at www.saintmichaelsplayhouse.org.
