The Saint Michael's Playhouse stages AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS, June 29 to July 10, continuing the season of Equity professional summer theater, in the McCarthy Arts Center at Saint Michael's College. The show runs, June 29, 30, July, 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, each evening at 8 p.m., with matinees, July 3 and 10, at 2 p.m.
Stampeding elephants! Raging typhoons! Runaway trains! Unabashedly slapstick! AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS presents the original amazing race! Fearless adventurer Phileas Fogg and his faithful manservant race to beat the clock, and the audience comes along for the oh-so-British ride."We've got five incredibly inventive comic actors playing a head-spinning array of characters," said Director Kathryn Markey. "It's been a lively and hilarious rehearsal process, and we are certain it will be a huge hit for audiences of all ages."Phileas Fogg has agreed to an outrageous wager that puts his fortune and his life at risk. With his resourceful servant Passepartout, Fogg sets out to circle the globe in an unheard-of 80 days. But his every step is dogged by a detective who thinks he's a robber on the run. Danger, romance, and comic surprises abound in this whirlwind of a show as five actors portraying 39 characters traverse seven continents in Mark Brown's new adaptation of one of the great adventures of all time.
David RossETTI (Passepartout, and others) New York credits: The Irish Curse (Soho Playhouse, Assistant Director), Hugh Cobalt: Pri vate Eye (HERE Arts Center), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Jimmy, Gallery Players), Ego (HERE Arts Center). National Tours: Hairspray (Brad '06-‘07 & Assistant Director '09-'10), Fame (Goody). Other favorites: A Christmas Carol (The Alliance The atre, 2007 Regional Tony Award winner), Gentle men Prefer Blondes (Gateway Playhouse), The Music Man (Theatre of the Stars), Guys & Dolls (Benny, El Camino Arts Center), Cabaret (Emcee, Neighborhood Playhouse).
Chip Phillips (Detective Fix, and others) Off-Broadway, Chip has been seen in Machiavelli, I Love You... Now Change and Perfect Crime. Re gional credits include John Adams in 1776 (Ar row Rock Lyceum), Milo in Sleuth and Marvin in Falsettos (Foothills Theatre), Maurice in Beauty and the Beast (Northern Stage), Hildy in The Front Page (Merrimack Rep), Lend Me a Tenor (American Stage Festival), Das Barbecu (New Repertory The atre), A Tuna Christmas (StageWest), and Jackie: An American Life (Wilbur Theatre).
Audra Wahhab (Aouda, and others) Audra is thrilled to be here at St. Mi chael's for the first time. Most recently, Audra completed a workshop of The Odyssey Project with the Rattlestick Playwright's Theatre Off-Broadway. Selected credits include Run for Your Wife and The Odd Couple at the John W Enge man Theatre. Charlotte in the national tour of Charlotte's Web (Theatreworks USA.) Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, London Assur ance and Coriolanus at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, The Merchant of Venice at Milwaukee Shakespeare and A Shayna Maidel at The Soulstice Theatre. TV Credits include One Life to Live and Season 3 of the CBS series Inturn.
PAUL Joseph BernardO (Gauthier Ralph, and others) Paul is delighted to be mak ing his St. Michael's Playhouse debut. Paul has worked extensively in regional theater where his favorite roles have included: Brutus in Julius Caesar, Duke Vincentio in Measure for Measure, Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Matt in Talley's Folly, Marc in Art, and Valentin in Kiss of the Spider Woman. He has appeared in numer ous industrials and commercials as well as in dependent and feature films including Brian de Palma's Snake Eyes. Paul is a proud graduate of the Shakespeare Theatre's Academy for Classical Acting MFA program at The George Washington University.
Creative team:
Kathryn Markey (Director) appeared on Broadway in 3 From Brooklyn and has been featured at Sym phony Space in The Thalia Follies, Bloomsday, and Wall to Wall Broadway. On-screen: Law and Order, All My Children, Filmic Achievement, DutchWest TV, and CollegeHumor. Other credits include The Chalks: An American Family in 3 Chords (Bay Street Theater), Over The Tavern (Penguin Rep), Dreamers and Demons (Emelin), Parallel Lives, Dancing at Lughnasa (Northern Stage), Selected Shorts: Eudora Welty (NPR), the world premiere of Jumping Blind (Gayfest), Thor oughly Modern Millie (NL Barn), Beau Jest (Penn sylvania Stage), Separation (English Theatre of Stockholm. At St. Michael's Play house Kathryn has appeared in: Breaking Up is Hard to Do, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Broadway Bound, Perfect...Change, Into the Woods, Pirates of Penzance and Suds. Directing credits include: South Pacific and Fiddler on the Roof at the NL Barn, Rag time at the White Plains Performing Arts Center and David & Goliath at Merkin Concert Hall. Kath ryn is one-third of the satirical country band "The Chalks," seen and heard in venues from Palm Springs to Passaic.
CHUCK TOBIN (Producing Artistic Director) began his involvement with theater at Saint Michael's Col lege in 1976 as a theater major in the fine arts department. During his junior year, Chuck was ac cepted into the Saint Michael's Playhouse Profes sional Theater Internship Program and spent the summer of 1979 learning aspects of professional theater production and administration under the extraordinary guidance of producers Donald Rathgeb, Joanne Rathgeb, and Margaret O'Brien. Now, thirty years later, Chuck is honored to serve as Producing Artistic Director of this professional theater company and internship program, which has been an integral educational component at Saint Michael's College since 1947. In his career, Chuck has been producing and managing live pro fessional theater with credits that include produc tions at Lincoln Center, Sylvia and Danny Kaye Playhouse, and Symphony Space in NYC, the Nis say Theatre in Tokyo, the Adam Mickiewicz Center in Poznan, Poland, and regionally at New Reper tory Theater, Worcester Foothills Theater, Nicker son Theater, Olney Theatre, National Players, and the National Theater Group's Broadway Celebrity Series. Chuck serves on the Council of Resident Stock Theatre's negotiating committee with Ac tors' Equity Association representing professional equity resident stock theater from across the na tion and has served on several boards and com mittees for Burlington, Vermont area non-profit organizations. Many thanks to the people of Saint Michael's College and the Greater Burlington area for your support of The Playhouse and for your un derstanding of the profound value of the arts to the community and education.
Playhouse background:
From its beginnings in 1947, Saint Michael's Playhouse has blossomed into an award-winning, highly-regarded equity theater company. The Playhouse features talent from Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regional theaters nationwide, presented right here in Vermont. Housed in the Saint Michael's College McCarthy Arts Center, one of the finest theater facilities in the state, The Playhouse attracts approximately 16,000 theatergoers each season.
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