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Prelude to a Kiss (1992)San Jose State University, Theatre Arts

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SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY THEATRE PRESENTS

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DIRECTED BY

AMY GLAZER

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Assistant Director Set Design

Design Assistant Costume Design

Makeup/Hair Design

Lighting Design Lighting Assistant

Sound Design Sound Assistant

Technical Director

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Amy Glazer ]elf Hall ]ames K Culley Adrian Stapleton Eliza Chugg ]oni Coleman Sandra Marlo Manuel Cabanas ]ay jacobson Greg Fleischman ]ames K Culley

San Jose Civic Light Opera, San Jose Rep, Theatreworks, Paul Jaffe, Sharon Ridge, Betty Poindexter, David Kahn, Ethel Walker, Eliza Chugg, Sara Clark, Miral Jackson and as always James Connolly

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Peter David Scott Taylor Gregory Dodds

Rita fenni/er Marshall Tom Theran Monaco

Mrs Boyle Sara Noah Dr Boyle fefl Bryant Minister Aaron Vorhees

Aunt Dorothy Kat. Langeder Uncle Fred Chris Schmelzer

Old Man Hal f. Todd Waiter fames Moore

Leah Maria-Tania Ban des Ensemble Claire Umeda

Heather Vaughn

The roles of Peter and Rita are being understudied by Gregory Dodds and Maria-Tania Ban des.

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Stage Manager Assistant Stage Managers

Stage Crew Head Stage Crew

Properties Crew Set Design

Costume Crew Head Costume Crew

Costume BuJding Crew

First Hand Makeup Crew

.Makeup Prep Crew

Light Board Operator Sound Board Operator Lighting Set-Up Crew

Randy Hall Ste/ania Schramm ]enni/er Fitzgerald ]acqui Batrez Ranjan Biswas Adrienne Canf;l juan Ceja Marty Fairall Man·o Martinez Islea Villenueva Gary Yamada ]oni Coleman Tina Jauregui Monica Guzman Cynthia Long Angelica Sanchez Kin·IJ Trachuk jessica Tso Ardith Gray, Hector Godoy and students o/ DR 10&52 ]oni Coleman Rosa/,·nda Ferdin Theresa Horng Ramona Arellano Teresa Dean Debra Timmerman ]en Brasher Students in DR 52&151

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At fust glance, Prelude To A Kiss appears to be a modem day fairy tale. The princess meets the prince, they fall in love, battle the dark forces that try to keep them apart, and finally the prince fends off those dark forces and :arries the prin­cess off into the sunset, happily ever after. Clearly, we are never too old to be told, and to enjoy a good and compelling story, and Prelude is no exception. I have previously directed two of Craig Luca' s other plays, Blue Window and &u:kless, and

because I have become intimate with the recurring themes in those works, I am also aware that Prelude resonates with still another , and perhaps a more powerful element then the more obvious "Frog Prince" fairy tale.

In his two earlier works the themes of estrangement, (Can anyone ever really know another person's pain and history?) of alienation, {Are we ultimately alone in this life?) and of fear of what we cannot control in this helter skelter world and society (AIDS, cancer, random violence) are certainly more pronounced and more obvi­ous. Nevertheless, these themes, although they are more subtle, are still clearly

i.mbedded in the fabric of this play.

In fact , Prelude can not only be viewed as a modem day fairy tale, but also as a

modem day nightmare, one from which the sleepers may never awake. It is the

nightmare of AIDS, the plague or dark force of this modem society, for which, so far, there is no forgiveness, no rebirth. And maybe the prelude to the kiss was really the romance of this new age of sexual awakening and sexual freedom, and maybe what followed that blush of freedom, of self love, of sexual awakening, is the dark cloud of AIDS and sexuallv transmitted disease that looms over us all in

this era of the 90's. An era in which young people transform into dying old men, in minutes, before their lovers eyes, where humanity must reach down into its soul to rediscover a compassion and a love that transcends the physical, where a

moment 's indiscretion will color and snuff out a life.

But all is not lost, even in this nightmare, the lovers do wake up and there is a

happy ending. Even in this dark time, there is compassion and humanity; there is

hope.

Am.y Glazer

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Stage Technician II Scene Shop Assistants

Costume Shop Director Costume Shop Assistants

Costume Loan Coordinator Prop Room Coordinator

Lighting Technician Sound Technician

Theatre Arts Librarian

Steve Placke Cheryl Barnes ]elf Bryant MitcheU K. Matsunaga Eliza Chugg ]oni Coleman BiD Henshaw Theresa Botei/ho David W,'/kinson Sandra Marlo Barbara Clotcher Chris Mayer

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Director of Theatre Managing Coordinator/Publicist

Box Office Manager House Managers

Photographer Poster Design

Program Layout Box Office Staff

Buddy Butler Debra L. Timmerman Edith Yau C/1ristine Asakura Bonnie Fields Kn'sten Burke Clreg Harsh Debra Timmerman Nick Avdienko C/m'stine Asakura ]en Brasher Bonnie Fields En·c Lopez

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American College Theater Festival Presented and ProJuced by the

John F. Kennedy Center for the Pedonning Arts

Supported in Part by The K£nnedy Center Corporate /und The U.S. Department a/ Education

Ryder System

This production is an Associate entry in the American College Theater Festival (ACTF). The aims of this national theater education program are to identify and promote quality in college-level theater production. to this end, each production entered is eligible for adjudication by a regional ACTF representative, and certain students are selected to participate in ACTF programs, involving awards , scholar­ships, and special grants for actors, playwrights, designers, and critics at both the regional and national levels.