Ohio Light Opera Celebrates 31st Festival Season!

Ohio Light Opera 2009 Festival Season

June 12 – August 8 2009

The Ohio Light Opera
Resident Professional Company of The College of Wooster
Dr. James Stuart, Founder
Freedlander Theatre
330-263-2345 http://www.ohiolightopera.org/

2009 Festival Staff
Steven A. Daigle - Artistic Director
Julie Wright - Associate Artistic Director
Ted Christopher - General Director
Frederick Reeder - Stage Director
Michael Borowitz - Music Director
J. Lynn Thompson - Principal Guest Conductor
Carol Hageman - Choreographer

2009 Cast
Jacob Allen, Chelsea Basler, Nathan Brian, Anthony Buck, Cory Clines, Ted Christopher, Erin Daigle, Cecily Ellis-Bills, Ashley Evans, Stephen Paul Faulk, Jon Gerhard, Sahara Glasener-Boles, Samantha Grenell-Zaidman, Eve Hehn, Paul Hopper, Karla Hughes, Dennis Jesse, David Kelleher-Flight, Kyle Knapp, Jacqueline Komos, Matt Kuehnl, Janelle Lentz, Michael Lucas, Boyd Mackus, Tania Mandzy, Spiro Matsos, Philip McLeod, Courtney Miller, Sara Ann Mitchell, Gary Moss, Emily Neill, Zack Rabin, Fred Reeder, Owen Reynolds, Gleano Salas, Kalina Miller Schloneger, Mark Robert Snyder, Alexander Scopino, Todd Strange, Nina Takacs, Raina Thorne, Allison Toth, Logan Walsh, Sarah Warrick, Holly Wert, D. Christopher Wert, Julia Wright Costa, Jesse Wright Martin

As we look forward to The Ohio Light Opera Season, we want you to know how much your loyal support means to us. Your attendance at our performances helps us to fulfill our mission of presenting a broad repertoire from the lyric theatre. We appreciate your continuing patronage and generosity.

The 2009 repertoire is varied and exiting, with our first Gershwin production - his longest-running musical, political spoof and Pulitzer Prize winner (Of Thee I Sing); another great traditional musical that celebrates a people’s tradition (Fiddler On The Roof); a Victor Hubert operetta programmed this season at OLO to celebrate the composer’s 150th birthday (Mlle. Modiste); new productions of works by the witty and always whimsical Offenbach (La Belle Helene) and by the master of the waltz and operetta’s Golden Age - Johann Strauss _A Night In Venice); and two G&S classics that pay tribute to the company’s beginnings (Ruddigore and H.M.S. Pinafore). OLO and the intimate Freedlander Theatre offer their audiences the best entertainment for the money.

Laughter and music are considered the best medicine for the human soul. I cannot think of a better way to escape the complexities of our daily routine then to travel to the community of Wooster, experience its campus and be transported through time by the tunes, music, dance and laughter found in stories and songs of The Ohio Light Opera’s lyric theatre tradition.

We are looking forward to seeing you in Freedlander Theatre this summer.

Best regards,

Steven A. Daigle
Artistic Director

2009 Repertoire
[Complete Repertoire http://olo.wooster.edu/fullrep.php]

Fiddler On The Roof (1964)
Music By: Jerry Bock
Lyrics By: Sheldon Harnick
Book by: Joseph Stein

Conductor: J. Lynn Thompson
Stage Director: Stephen Carr
Choreography: Carol Hageman
Costume Design: Eric Hall
Scenic Design: Kimberly Cox
Lighting Design: Shannon Schweitzer
Assistant Conductor: Selim Giray #
Assistant Choreography: Karla Hughs

Cast
Tevye, A Dairyman - Ted Christopher
Golde, His Wife - Julie Wright




Of Thee I Sing (1931)
Music By: George Gershwin
Lyrics By: Ira Gershwin
Book By: George S. Kaufman and Morris Ryskind

Conductor: J. Lynn Thompson
Stage Director: Steven Daigle
Choreography: Carol Hageman
Costume Design: Charlene Gross
Scenic Design: Fritz Lombardi
Lighting Design: Krystal Kennel
Assistant Conductor: Selim Giray
Assistant Choreography: Karla Hughs

Cast



Mlle. Modiste (1905)
Music By: Victor Herbert
Book and Lyrics By: Henry Blossom

Conductor: Michael Borowitz
Stage Director: Steven Daigle
Choreography: Carol Hageman
Costume Design: Charlene Gross
Scenic Design: Kimberly Cox
Lighting Design: Dave Stoughton
Assistant Conductor: Selim Giraly
Assistant Director: Anthony Buck

Cast



H.M.S. Pinafore (1878)
Music By: Arthur Sullivan
Book and Lyrics By: William S. Gilbert

Conductor: Michael Borowitz
Stage Director: Frederick Reeder
Choreography: Carol Hageman
Costume Design: Charlene Gross
Scenic Design: Kimberly Cox
Lighting Design: Shannon Schweitzer
Assistant Conductor: Selim Giraly

Cast


Ruddigore [1887]
Music By: Arthur Sullivan
Book and Lyrics By: William S. Gilbert

Conductor: Michael Borowitz
Stage Director: Julie Wright
Choreography: Carol Hageman
Costume Design: Eric Hall
Scenic Design: Richard Traubner
Lighting Design: Paul R. Bourne
Assistant Director: Jacob Allen

Cast


Helen Of Troy [La Belle Helene] (1864)
Music By: Jacques Offenbach
Book and Lyrics By: Ludovic Halevy and Henri Meilhac
Translation and Performance Version By: Richard Traubner

Conductor:
Stage Directors: Ted Christopher and Jacob Allen
Choreography: Carol Hageman
Costume Design: Eric Hall
Scenic Design: Richard Traubner
Lighting Design: Shannon Schweitzer
Assistant Choreographer: Karla Hughes

Cast



A Night In Venice (1883)
Music By: Johann Strauss
Lyrics By: Friedrich Zell and Richard Genee

Conductor: Michael Borowitz
Stage Director: Ted Christopher
Choreography: Carol Hageman
Costume Design: Charlene Gross
Scenic Design: Kimberly Cox
Lighting Design: Shannon Schweitzer

Cast: