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Rover Dramawerks Donors Crusader - $10,000 and above
Anonymous ▪ City of Plano ▪ Gay, McCall, Isaacks, Gordon & Roberts, P.C. ▪ Haggard Property Group ▪ Plano Arts & Cultural Endowment ▪ Texas Commission on the Arts
Trailblazer - $5000 to $9999 The Dale Wasserman Foundation ▪ Caitlin Schraufnagel
Pioneer - $2500 to $4999 Anonymous ▪ City of Richardson ▪ David McCall ▪ Jason & Carol Rice
Explorer - $1000 to $2499 Bankruptcy Services, Inc. ▪ Curran Tomko Tarski LLP ▪
Jim & Jenifer Grace ▪ HP Enterprise Services ▪ Premier Wines
Adventurer - $500 to $999 Anonymous ▪ Tim & Jane Birkhead ▪ Einstein Bros. Bagels ▪ Ron Eubanks ▪
Margo Lynn Hablutzel ▪ Hirsch’s Specialty Meats ▪ Chris & Martha Kosel ▪ Lennox Corp.
Guide - $200 to $499 Albertson’s ▪ AlphaGraphics ▪ Robin Attaway ▪ Burke Asher ▪ bHIP Global, Inc. ▪
Gregory Boydston ▪ Bud & Bonnie Barlow ▪ BJ’s Restaurant ▪ Melody & John Bock ▪ Lea Courington ▪ Deep Ellum Brewing Company ▪ Nancy Day ▪ Frito Lay ▪ Goodsearch.com ▪
Home Depot ▪ Bill & Terrie Justus ▪ Kirk & Leslie Justus ▪ Kolache Station ▪ Charisse McLorren ▪ Mary Millholland ▪ James & Patricia Mitchell ▪ Matthew & Paula
Rosenstein ▪ Barry Schneider & Nancy Corley ▪ Robert Smith ▪ Tom Thumb ▪ John & Lee Ida Wacker ▪ Richard Wills ▪ Randy & Diana Wright ▪ Rebecca Wright
Outrider - $100 to $199 Alliance Architects ▪ Assured Self Storage ▪ Mr. & Mrs. Keith Blandford ▪ CiCi’s Pizza ▪
Communities Foundation of Texas ▪ Ann & Terry Conner ▪ Mr. & Mrs. O. P. Corley ▪ Susan Fortin ▪ Dan & Claudia Gray ▪ Lindsey Humphries ▪ Tracy Hurd ▪ Laurie Johnson ▪
Trish Jones ▪ Robert M. Juday ▪ Bill & Terrie Justus ▪ Gerald & Gladys Justus ▪ Dave & Mary Beth King ▪ Kroger ▪ Brian McCall ▪ Denise Merkle ▪ Mark Oristano ▪ Joe Parkinson ▪ Michael & Penny Rathbun ▪ The ReStore ▪ Lynne Richardson ▪
Genevieve Rice ▪ David & Lisa Rosenstein ▪ Celeste Rosenthal ▪ Mark-Brian Sonna ▪ Frank Turner ▪ Richard & Nichelle Tuman ▪ Tru-Blast Corp. ▪ Peter Van Leuvan ▪
Wal-Mart ▪ Debbie Watson ▪ WellPoint Foundation
Scout - $50 to $99 Anonymous (2) ▪ Laurel & Kevin Ash ▪ Jeff Bowen ▪ Linda Bross ▪ Laura Y. Burford ▪ Central Market ▪ John & Twylia Church ▪ Russell & Kelly Clarkson ▪ Corner Bakery ▪ Robin Coulonge ▪ Daisy’s Café and Grill ▪ Debra Davis ▪ Gina & David Hammell ▪
Victoria Irvine ▪ Jersey Mike’s Subs ▪ Sonya Jones ▪ Charlotte Kolls ▪ Paul & Polly Kuzniewski ▪ Debbie Marshall ▪ Graciela Montani ▪ Bill Mercer ▪
John Reas ▪ Dana Riley ▪ Ron Sehar ▪ John & Betty Silander ▪ Patrick & Mary Tiner ▪ Urban Crust ▪ Bill & Shirley Wasserman ▪ Kim Wickware ▪ Jill & Scott Wilkinson ▪ Brian Wolf
First Watch - $20 to $49 Amazon.com ▪ Anonymous (4) ▪ Michael Brown ▪ John Caldwell ▪ Mary Compton ▪
Ann-Marie Corley ▪ Alejandro de la Costa ▪ Alex & Robin Coulonge ▪ Dan Donahue ▪ eBay ▪ Doug Grace ▪ Robbi Holman ▪ Kegs & Barrels ▪ Mary Beth King ▪ Kelly Ivy ▪
Krispy Kreme Donuts ▪ Edith Dulles Lawlis ▪ Lenny’s Subs ▪ Nick Mann ▪ Sasha McGonnell ▪ Donald McLaughlin ▪ Bill Naifeh ▪ Betty Nieczyporowicz ▪ Melissa O’Neal ▪
Plano Community Charity ▪ Laura Reyes ▪ Larri Rosser ▪ Monica Salhuana ▪ Kelley E. Skidmore ▪ Laura Sosnowski ▪ Verizon ▪ Brian Wolf ▪ Laura Wright ▪ Tracy Yost
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presents
By David LindsayBy David LindsayBy David Lindsay---AbaireAbaireAbaire directed by Mikey Abramsdirected by Mikey Abramsdirected by Mikey Abrams
Cox Building Playhouse May 23 - June 15
Rover Dramawerks’ Season Sponsors
Special Thanks
Wonder of the World would not have been possible without the generous contributions of the following:
Our wonderful donors, season sponsors, and purchasers of program ads. Please visit those businesses whose ads you see here
and let them know you appreciate their support of the arts!
YOU, for being in our audience - with an extra special thanks to our season ticket holders!
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There will be one 15-minute intermission.
City of Plano Denton Community Theatre
Lindsey Humphries Lakeview Centennial High School Theatre
Love Your Lawn Liz Murphy
Bill Naifeh, Naifeh Photography North Garland High School Theatre
Plano Stages Staff Pocket Sandwich Theatre
Sergio Sanchez Shane Stewart
Texas Commission on the Arts Ashley H. White
Garland High School Theatre The Habitat ReStore
Rover's Mission Searching for treasures, new and rediscovered,
for theatre "off the beaten path."
Rover Dramawerks produces lost or forgotten works of well-known authors, revives excellent scripts that have suffered from lack of exposure,
and discovers unknown gems of the stage.
Get Involved! Rover Dramawerks currently presents six exciting mainstage shows and two One Day Only 10-minute play festivals every season, as well as camps and classes in three North Texas cities, and we are elated about our continued growth! Join us as we grow, won’t you? Volunteers make all of this possible. We are a business. We are an art. We are a community. If you have ever been a part of any of these things, you have the skills we’re looking for! We’re looking for people to join our dynamic Board of Directors, help us write grants, network on Rover’s behalf with local businesses, build sets, join our new guild - if you’ve got a talent, we can probably make use of it! Just give your contact information to the box office or a roving board member and we’ll take it from there. You can also send an email to Rover’s Artistic Director Carol M. Rice at [email protected] for more information or with kudos, questions, or concerns about anything Rover related, too! If you don’t have a lot of extra time, you can still help us out. Use GoodSearch.com when surfing the web (instead of Google), and Rover gets a penny per search. Use GoodShop when you shop online, and we get a percentage of your purchase! There’s even a nifty toolbar you can download that will tell you when you’re visiting a shopping site that will benefit Rover! With COUPONS! And new to the GoodSearch family is GoodDining, which benefits Rover when you eat out at participating restaurants. Check it out today and register, and you can support us without even thinking about it! You can also link your Tom Thumb Reward Card to Rover. Just fill out an application at the store including our account number, 10965, and we’ll get a percentage every time you buy groceries! Every little bit ads up! Another easy way to support Rover is to visit the businesses whose ads appear in our program, and let them know you’re there because you saw them here! You can even buy an ad for YOUR business! Rates start at just $48 for a quarter page, and we have season ads available, too. More than anything though, we love it when you’re here in our audience. We need and appreciate your support and hope to see you again SOON. Be sure to make your tax-deductible donations and buy your season tickets!
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Wonder of the World was first produced at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Washington, D.C., Howard Shalwitz, Artistic Director, Kevin Moore, Managing Director, on May 22, 2000.
Originally produced in New York City
by the Manhattan Theatre Club on October 11, 2001.
“(They Long to be) Close to You” (Burt Bacharach, Hal David)
© 1963 New Hidden Valley Music & Casa David Music All Rights on Behalf of New Hidden Valley Music, Administered by WB Music Corp.
All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission.
The Cast Cass...............................................................................................Rae Harvill Kip............................................................................................Michael Speck Lois............................................................................................Laura Warner Karla...................................................................................Alice Montgomery Glen.............................................................................................Chris Hauge Captain Mike..................................................................................Billy Betsill Barbara / Pilot / 3 Waitresses / Janie..................................Caroline Dubberly
The Production Staff Director.….................................................................................Mikey Abrams Stage Manager.........................................................................Colleen Carey Producers................................................Robbi Holman / Lindsey Humphries Set Designer.................................................................................Jeff Mabray Master Carpenter............................................................................Tim Doyle Costume Designer...……………………….................................Suzi Cranford Lighting Designer.…...………………….........................................Ian Garland Sound Designer........................................................................Mikey Abrams Properties Designer.….................….................................Lindsey Humphries Media Designer......................................................................Ashley H. White Sound Board / Media Operator.......................................Humberto Baquerizo Light Board Operator...............................................................Chevis LaBelle Backstage Crew............................................................................Darcy Koss Program.................……………………………………..................Carol M. Rice Box Office…………………………………..................................Kim Wickware
Rover Late Night Returns!
Join us on Fridays (May 24 and 31 and June 7 and 14) following Wonder of the World at 10:30 p.m. for
FREE if you see Wonder of the World that night; otherwise just $5!
Who's Who Mikey Abrams returns to Rover after directing Murder at the Orient Burlesque and performing in Shakespeare in Hollywood. He has been a high school theatre director for twelve years where some of his favorite credits include Dark of the Moon, How to Succeed…, Lend Me a Tenor, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Annie Get Your Gun, Thieves’ Carnival, The Wedding Singer, These Shining Lives, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, and Into the Woods. Mikey has directed shows that have been honored at the Patty Granville Awards, the Dallas Summer Musical Awards, Column Awards, and have advanced to UIL One Act Play State Level. Performance credits include shows with Lyric Stage, Uptown Players, Garland Summer Musicals, Stage West, Granbury Opera House, Runway Theatre, ICT Mainstage, Theatre Arlington, and Hip Pocket Theatre. Thanks to this WONDERfully crazy cast and crew for such a zany and heartfelt ride. Love to Scott, Chewy, and Cookie. Humberto Baquerizo is a senior at Lakeview Centennial High School. Originally from Ecuador, he has done lighting for: Xanadu, Black Comedy, South Pacific, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and Little Shop of Horrors. This is Billy Betsill’s debut performance with Rover and he could not be more thrilled to be a part of this amazing cast and crew. He has recently appeared as Gary Lejune/Roger Tramplemain in Noises Off at Pocket Sandwich Theatre and as Kimar in Santa Claus vs. the Martians at LGA. Billy also enjoys playing organized softball, kickball and flag football when not on stage. He would like to send a big shout out to all of his family and a holla back to all of his friends for all of their support. Colleen Carey is excited to be Stage Managing for Rover for the first time. Previously, she has appeared onstage with Rover in The Best (Murders) of One Day Only and has crewed Morphic Resonance and Around The World in 80 Days.
Would you like to see your company’s name in a Rover program?
There are so many opportunities! You can purchase an ad, sponsor a show, or donate goods and services! Contact Jason Rice, Board President, at [email protected] for more information about how easy it is to sponsor a show at Rover Dramawerks! You can sponsor the whole run, be a co-sponsor, or even just sponsor an opening night, closing night, or any special night during the run of any show in our season! We also offer very affordable ads in our programs - and this is a captive audience! You can purchase single show ads or ads for the whole season! Does your company provide something Rover could make use of? Labor for our move-ins, printing services, the loan of a moving truck, and food and drink for our volunteers are just a few things we have gratefully received from local businesses. Do you have an empty building we could rehearse or build in, unused laptops, volunteers you could loan us for various duties, or something else? Contact us!
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Kim & Cory Wickware
Cake Makes the World Go ‘Round!
MMM...Cake!
Suzi Cranford is happy to be working with Rover Dramawerks again. Her designs were previously seen in Shakespeare in Hollywood, Around the World in 80 Days, Epic Proportions, Everything in the Garden, Murder at the Orient Burlesque and Written in Time. Cranford is associate designer at Dallas Costume Shoppe. Tim Doyle is currently the Theatre Director at Lakeview Centennial High School and happy to be working on his first show with Rover. He graduated from Midwestern State University with a focus in Theatre and later became a resident company member of Yellow Tape Construction Company in Austin, TX. Tim has written, composed, directed, designed, and performed in original works since high school and has now taught high school for three years. Tim currently lives in Plano and would like to thank Rover and Mikey for this opportunity. Caroline Dubberly is a senior at UNT seeking a BA in theatre. Previous shows at UNT include Ah, Wilderness!, Godspell, Lorca in a Green Dress, Reefer Madness, White Rabbit Red Rabbit, and A Jazz Dream: based on A Midsummer Night's Dream. You may have seen her around the Metroplex in Rent with GLCT, Sweeney Todd with LGA, and Ragtime with Uptown Players and the Turtle Creek Chorale. This fall at UNT, she will be playing Catherine in Proof. Thanks to Mikey and the cast and crew of the show on an amazing experience!! Ian Garland is currently a theater major with focus in light design at UNT. While at UNT, he has designed lighting for In the Blood, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Thin Thread Thick Thread, and Synchronized Imbalances. Rae Harvill is roaring with excitement about appearing in Wonder of the World! This is her first production with Rover. She recently appeared in Zombie Prom (Runway Theatre) where she was nominated for a Column Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. A WONDROUS thanks to Mikey, Ashley, Colleen and the cast for their great support during this adventurous role for her. She would also like to send her love to her amazing husband Louis and her fabulous friends! Chris Hauge has been performing in the Dallas/FW area for almost 30 years and this is his first appearance at Rover. Good things take time. Favorite roles include Kaufmann in Bach at Liepzig, Nicky in The Sea Farer, Amundson in Terra Nova, Doc in Atomic Cave Girls of Island Zero as well as many others. Chris has performed at the Pocket Sandwich Theatre, Stage West, Circle Theatre, Beardsley Living Theatre, and Ground Zero Theatre to name a few. He is once again honored by playing opposite his lovely wife, Alice Montgomery, his favorite leading lady, and thanks her for her support and thanks their cats for their permission to do this show.
Lindsey Humphries is enjoying doing props for Wonder of the World again, having done the show before in college. At Rover, she has designed costumes for Love in E Flat and the set of The Girls in 509. She is looking forward to stage managing Rover's next show, The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker. Darcy Koss was spotted by director Jason Rice while working at the Habitat ReStore. He was immediately taken by her innate organizational talent and asked her to become involved. She has lost count how many times she has worked with with Rover previously, but she loves it! “Thank you for this opportunity and for making it fun!” Jeff Mabray is happy to be back working again with Rover. Past Rover productions include Something’s Afoot, Around the World in 80 Days, and Black Comedy. He would like to thank his wife Johanna and children Grayson, Brynna, and Ella for allowing him out of the house long enough to be a part of this production. Alice Montgomery is thrilled to be cast in this hilarious show working with the incredibly creative Mikey Abrams and such a talented cast, particularly her real-life husband, Chris Hauge! Favorite roles include Guys and Dolls and Fool for Love (Southwest Repertory Org. – Sol de Oro Awards), Twilight of the Golds (Theatre Arlington), Psycho Beach Party, Steel Magnolias, and Over the River & Through the Woods, (Pocket Sandwich Theatre), The Philadelphia Story (Garland Civic Theatre), Surviving Grace (Rover Dramawerks - Leon Rabin nomination), Brighton Beach Memoirs (Irving Community Theater - Leon Rabin nomination and Column Award), and Social Security (Frisco Community Theatre – Reggie Award). Michael Speck is back after a two year hiatus from Rover. He was last seen with Rover in Little Mary Sunshine, but is more likely remembered for his tour-de-force performance as Dwight in The Crowd You're In With. He is thrilled to have the opportunity to dig into the guts of a character like Kip. He hopes you like what he found. Laura Warner is delighted and grateful for the opportunity to be part of this Rover Dramawerks production. Thank you, Mikey, Carol, Jason & Rachel! Something of a theater gypsy in the Metroplex, Laura has performed in many works, including To Kill a Mockingbird, Steel Magnolias, The Dixie Swim Club, All Shook Up and sundry others. She asks five things of you…Don’t stop laughing…Don’t stop playing…Don’t stop believing (okay, okay Fleetwood Mac asked first)…and, whatever you do, please don’t stop supporting live theater in North Texas! (Hey, it helps keep this crazy woman off the street!) May you be as blessed by this journey to Niagara Falls as we have been! Ashley H. White is an award winning director. Recent directing credits include the Regional Premiere of A Steady Rain (ICT Theatre on the Edge) and Unnecessary Farce (Onstage in Bedford) for which she won the Column Award for Best Director and the show was chosen as one of the Best Productions of 2012 by The Column. She also directed the U.S. Premieres of Little Red – a Fairytale Opera and Kashchei the Immortal (Millennium Opera Theatre of Dallas). Her directorial work has also been featured in New York at The NY Fringe Festival, the Collective: Unconscious Theatre, Kanvas NYC, The Orange Bear, and other locations. Ashley is an experienced Fight Director & Choreographer. In 2012, she founded SCDallas, DFW’s only open resource for safe combat choreography and instruction. Visit www.stagecombatdallas.org for more info.
Next Up For Rover Onstage...
by Liam O’Brien
July 11-27, 2013 Courtyard Theater, 1509 H Avenue in Plano
Tickets are on sale now!
We’ll be announcing our exciting 14th Season during The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker, too!
About Tonight’s Play
When Cass discovers a shockingly dirty little secret in her husband's sweater drawer, our heroine has no choice but to flee to the honeymoon capital of the world in a frantic search for the life she thinks she’s missed out on. It’s a wild ride over Niagara Falls in a barrel of laughs as Cass embarks on a journey of self-discovery that has her crossing paths with a blithely suicidal alcoholic, a lonely tour-boat captain, a pair of bickering private detectives and a strange caper involving a gargantuan jar of peanut butter, all of which pushes her perilously close to the water's edge in this hilarious tragicomedy of marital discord run amok. “Exceedingly whimsical and playfully wicked.” - NY Times. By David Lindsay-Abaire, who penned such plays as Rabbit Hole, and Kimberly Akimbo, and the film The Rise of the Guardians.
