Port Angeles Light Opera Association
P.O. Box 327, Port Angeles, WA 98362 - (360) 457-5630Presents
Port Angeles Light Opera Association
P.O. Box 327, Port Angeles, WA 98362 - (360) 457-5630Presents
Book by Thomas Meehan, based on Little Orphan Annie by Harold
Gray
Based on the Tribune Media Service Comic Strip, "Annie"
Music by Charles Strouse * Lyrics by Martin Charmin
The plot
Annie's a peppy orphan whose life at the New York City Municipal Orphanage has grown intolerable, thanks to the gin-guzzling matron Miss Hannigan. Enter billionaire Oliver Warbucks, who has decided to invite a lucky orphan to his home for the Christmas holidays. Warbucks and Annie hit it off and he decides to offer a reward to whoever can prove they are her parents. Miss Hannigan, who has inside information on Annie, concocts a wicked plan to collect the reward using her crooked brother and his dimwitted girlfriend as accomplices. But the scheme is foiled, Warbucks adopts Annie, and along the way, Annie meets a faithful dog and inspires FDR's New Deal.
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Opened 4/21/1977 Ran for 2377 performances. |
| Featured Songs: | Maybe "It's the Hard-Knock Life" "Tomorrow" "We'd Like To Thank You" "Little Girls" "I Think I'm Gonna Like it Here" "N.Y.C." "Easy Street" "You Won't Be An Orphan For Long" "You're Never Fully Dressed Without A Smile" "Something Was Missing" "I Don't Need Anything But You" "Annie" "A New Deal for Christmas" |
| Awards: | Winner of seven (7) Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Book and Best Score, as well as the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. The original cast album won the Grammy. |
| Major Revivals: | 1997 Broadway Revival |
Click on these links for many wonderful photos of our production of Annie,
Our Cast
This wonderful group of actor & actresses heads our cast for ANNIE.
Principals
The part of Annie was shared by
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KAITLIN McDOUGAL Kaitlin at 11 years old is already a
seasoned veteran of the theater. She attends Olympic Christian School
and will be in the 6 th grade this fall. Her musical instruction
includes 3 years of piano & guitar lessons, and 2 years as a
member of the Olympic Girls Choir. Her singing career started when she
sang a solo for church and pre-school performances when she was four.
Kaitlin has been a performer in many Missoula Children's Theater
productions, was Mary in the Living Nativity and was an extra in
the Sequim High School production of Oklahoma. She loves sports
including soccer, snowboarding and softball. She loves to read, hang out
with her family and playing with he ten year old sister, Maggie. |
ANDREA PERLWITZ An 11 year
old, 4 year veteran of the theatre, Andrea has acted in many school
performances as well as 2 Missoula Children's Theatre performances. She
played the lion in Peninsula Family Theatre's production of The
Magical Land of Oz.
Andrea is home schooled. |
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TRENT POMEROY - Music has always been a constant in Trent's life. He has been singing, playing piano and composing music since early childhood. He has played a variety of venues around Western Washington including Lake Stevens Music in the Park and the Westin Hotel in Seattle, as well as The Improv and Dr. Demento Show in Los Angeles. Trent and his music was featured recently on KONP's Art Beat. In 1996, he recorded his first CD of original and traditional piano solos entitled Rain Music. Being involved in musical theatre has always been an interest for him. He has been part of the cast of several productions including Barbum and had the role of Albert in Bye Bye Birdie. Annie is Trent's first PALOA production. A teacher in Lake Stevens for many years, Trent and his family moved to Port Angeles in the summer of 2000. He is currently teaching at Hamilton Elementary. He gives thanks for all the support, love and tolerance his wife, Pat and children: Bryn, Allegra and Hayden, constantly show towards him.
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| Miss Hannigan - Not so warm hearted orphanage director OLIVIA SHEA - Olivia has directed seventeen plays and five musicals. and acted
in over 40 of them. She has been involved with Olympic Theatre Arts, Port
Angeles Players and Spokane Civic Theatre. Olivia is also a member of the
Songbirds - a trio performing 1940's songs. She has a degree in elementary
education and is an instructor at Children's Summer Arts Camp. Olivia directed
My Fair Lady, and played the roll of Dolly Levi in Hello, Dolly! for
PALOA. Last
year she directed the PALOA performance of Anything Goes. Her other interests
include reading, aerobics and attending plays. |
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Grace Farrell - private secretary to Oliver Warbucks SARAH SHEA - This is Sarah's
second PALOA production, her first being The King & I, where
she played one of the wives. This is also her second time being in
Annie. Her first time was during her freshman year of high school where
she played the "NYC Star To Be" in the operetta. Since then
she has performed with numerous choirs, her favorite being Western
Washington Universities Jazz Ensemble. This August she will be spending
a week in California at a jazz camp as a scholarship recipient for
voice. She has also been in many theatrical productions. While at
Western, she acted in a play that traveled to different colleges across
Western Washington. She is thrilled
to be in this year's Annie production for PALOA for many reasons. One
reason is that she will be sharing the stage with her mother, Olivia, for the first time.
She plans to pursue a degree in Elementary Education with a minor in
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Rooster - Miss Hannigan's no-good brother GAVIN McLEAN -
Gavin is an 18-year-old PALOA veteran and graduate of
Sequim High School. He has been in many theatrical productions for 8
years, from Sequim
High School, to OTA and PALOA, His last two leading roles were as
Steve Crandall in Broadway, and Father in Flowers for Algernon.
He gained his dance experience as an apprentice for Kathy & Tam
Moore of Pioneer Dance Arts. He has experience in dance, singing,
acting and now takes on the role of Assistant Choreographer for Annie,
as well as playing the Part of Rooster. He hopes to become a performing
arts teacher in high school. |
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Lily - Rooster's not-so-bright girlfriend AMANDA BACON - Amanda's first solo was at age 2 1/2 at the Sequim Adventist church. Since then she has sung for several weddings, funerals, birthday parties, churches, and was even given the opportunity to sing the National Anthem for 10,000 people at the Tacoma Dome for the All-State Wrestling Tournament. That same day she was crowned Sequim Irrigation Festival Queen. In August of this year she will be going to Los
Angeles to stay with a CBS music producer for a week. Not only will she
be meeting some if the biggest and best in the business, but will also
be staying with Al & Tracy Emery the managers for Faith Hill &
Tim McGraw. Hopefully this will help lead to her dream of being a
country singer. She has performed in Ann of Green Gables, the
Wizard of Oz, Father of the Bride, For Heavens Sake, (an original
play), and played Golda in Fiddler on the Roof. |
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FDR - the President himself BILL BAHRT - Bill and his wife, Joyce, are proud parents of 15 children, and have 31 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren. Bill has been singing since 1949, when he took the lead in Trial by Jury in high school. Since then he's been in more than 41 shows over the last 51 years, some professional but mostly amateur, including Oliver, Oklahoma!, Naughty Marietta, and Desert Song. For PALOA, Bill appeared as Alfie in My Fair Lady and Horace Van deGelder in Hello, Dolly!. He has also been in several OTA shows. Bill is retired from Hanford Nuclear Site, and is planning on leaving with his wife on a two-year mission for his church. |
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The Orphans
(from left to right)
July - the quietest - SAMANTHA MANWELL
Meg -
AMY MEYER
Amy Meyer, age 10, is in the 5th grade at Helen Haller Elementary in Sequim.
She first appeared on stage at the age of 5 in a high school production of The
Wizard of Oz in San Bernardino, California. She has been in three plays with
Helen Haller's Note Launchers, most recently playing the lead in Once Upon a
Lily Pad. Amy sang the National Anthem at this year's Kiddie Parade in Sequim.
She loves to sing and is a member of the children's choir at church.
Bonnie - CARI LUSK
Cari is 11 years old and will be in the sixth grade at Olympic Christian School. She has always loved to sing and joined her first choir at 5. She has been in two musicals at Independent Bible Church: Words and Inside Out. She has been a member of the Olympic Girls' Choir for two years. Annie is her first PALOA production, and she is loving it! She likes swimming, rollerblading, hanging out with friends, watching movies and snuggling with her cats.
Pepper - the toughest - JENNIFER LANCHEROS
Jennifer, age 10, is a student at Greywolf Elementary in Sequim. She has
performed in two Missoula Children's Theatre productions (Sleeping Beauty and
Treasure Island) as well as several other stage performances. In addition
to participating in pageants, ads and commercials, Jennifer is active in many
kinds of sports activities as well as drama and singing.
Emmie - LAUREL NORRIS
Laurel Norris, age 12, has been in Sunshine Generation for the last 4 years, has been dancing with the Pioneer Dance Arts for 2 years, and has been attending school for the last 6 years (she's a 7th grader at Sequim Middle School). She has performed in Fiddler on the Roof, Guys and Dolls, Hee Haw Hayride and Krazy Kamp, as well as playing The Artful Dodger in Sequim High School's Operetta of Oliver. She loves singing, acting, sports and reading. This is her first PALOA production.
Kate - the next to littlest - JENNY PETERSON
Jenny Peterson, age 11, is a 5th grade student at Mountain View
Elementary in Port Townsend, Washington. She loves dance, singing, acting,
playing piano & violin, takes ballet & contemporary dance, and sings in
a children's choir. She was a munchkin in the performance of Wiz of the
West with the Missoula Children's Theatre in Port Townsend in fall of
2000.
Duffy - the biggest - ABBY IRWIN
Abby, age 11 is a 6th grade student at Roosevelt Middle School in Port Angeles, Washington. She has been performing with the Sunshine Generation group for the past two years. She has a passion for music, playing piano, singing and dancing. Abby began dancing at 7 months old. She is an incredible friend and an outstanding daughter! She is the oldest of 5 children.
Tessie - the cry-baby - AMBER WIGFIELD
Amber, age 12, is a 6th grader at Stevens Middle School in Port Angeles. She is involved in Sunshine Generation, and in 1997, played the lead in Santa Mouse, a Modesto, California, school production. Constantly dancing and singing, she is known by family & friends as "The Show Girl".
Sara - CORI LUMENS
Cori Lumens, age 14, is a PALOA veteran, having performed in last year's production of Anything Goes. A 4.0 student, she recently the "Choir Student of the Year" award at Roosevelt Middle School. She has participated in solo adjudication for the last three years and has been selected for the North Olympic Peninsula Honor Choir for the last two years. Actively involved in dancing as well as singing, she is looking forward to being a freshman this fall at Port Angeles High School.
Molly - the littlest - KATELYN WALLACE (not pictured)
Katelyn is the smallest and youngest of the orphans. She has been in Sunshine Generation since she was 3. She is now 7 years old and a veteran of talent shows and ballet. She was dancing before she was walking, and has danced and sung at native functions and entertained at several Pow Wows with the Lower Elwha Tribe. Annie is her first organized production.
Servants
(from left to right)
Mrs. Greer - MARIAN McGILVRA
Servant - SANDY SMITH
Annette - PAMELA GILLILAN
Mrs. Pugh - CAROL PHILPOTT
Drake - CLIFF ROBINSON
Cecile - ELLIE LEINART
VINCE EATON (not pictured)
TONY HALL (not pictured)
Hoovervilleites
(from left back row)
Fred - MATHEW BARRETT
Apple Seller - NAOMI DENHART
Hoovervilleite - CHRISTINA BOWER
Sophie - CHARLOTTE BOWER
Iris - KANDI LATSON
Edith - PENNY HOOKER
(from left front row)
Artie - BOB LUMENS
Mary - JULIE HATCH
GABE BOWER
KARLA WALKER
BOB KENNEDY
(not in picture)
DAN HART (not in picture)
ANN KENNEDY (not in picture)
CAROL PHILPOTT (not in picture)
SANDY SMITH (not in picture)
PAMELA GILLILAN (not in picture)
CLIFF ROBINSON (not in picture)
ELLIE LEINART (not in picture)
VINCE EATON (not pictured)
New Yorkers
Bundles McCloksey - BOB LUMENS
Police Lt. Ward - BUD DAVIES
2nd Cop - TONY HALL
Dog Catcher - MATTHEW BARRETT
Assistant Dog Catcher - JIM ADAMS
Star To Be - ELLIE LEINART
CHRISTINA BOWER
JULIE HATCH
PENNY HOOKER
CHARLOTTE BOWER
KANDI LATSON
Alica the apple seller - NAOMI DENHART
ANN KENNEDY
KARLA WALKER
Santa Claus - BOB KENNEDY
SANDY SMITH
CAROL PHILPOTT
DAN HART
PAMELA GILLIAN
Paperboy - CORI LUMENS
Hour of Smiles - radio show personalities
Radio Announcer -
Sound Effects Person - SCOOTER PERLWITZ
Bert Healy - BUD DAVIES
Fred McCraken - VINCE EATON
Wacky - the dummy
Jimmy Johnson (the masked announcer) - BOB WHEELER
and the Lovely Boylan Sisters-
(from left)
NAOMI DENHART
CAROL PHILPOTT
MARIAN McGILVRA
FDR'S Cabinet
Harold Ickes - DAN HART
Louis Howe - MATTHEW BARRETT
Francis Perkins - NAOMI DENHART
Cordell Hull - BOB KENNEDY
Henry Morgenthau - HANS KASK
Marine Guard - JIM ADAMS
Justice Brandeis of the Supreme Court - BOB WHEELER
ANNIE - Production Team
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Production Manager - Jeff Hall
This is Jeff's fourth involvement in a PALOA
production. He played Squire Dapp (Lancelot's second) in Camelot,
helped construct sets for the King & I, and designed/supervised
the set construction for Cinderella. Jeff is also a former PALOA
Board member. Jeff & his wife Robin (our choreographer) met on the stage
at Peninsula College, cast as the young lovers in Moliere's Imaginary Invalid.
Living in Sequim with his seven children, he is thoroughly absorbed with
theater and working with kids. Jeff is the Head Coach and President of the
Sequim Youth Football Association (Wolfpups). He designed the
sets for the past seven Sequim High School Operettas Little Mary
Sunshine, Music Man, The Wizard of Oz, The Sound of Music, Fiddler on the
Roof, Singing in the Rain, Oklahoma!, and this year Oliver!
He is a founding member of Peninsula Family Theater, based in Sequim.
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Stage Director - Geri Schmitt Geri has taught music and drama in Caldwell, Idaho where she has directed her high school choirs in presentations of South Pacific, Calamity Jane, Once Upon a Mattress, Lil' Abner and The Red Mill. Her Masters degree in Music Education includes study in opera under Dr. Stanley Chapple at the University of Washington where she worked in production of three Mozart operas: Cosi Fan Tutti, Don Giovanni and Marriage of Figaro. She has appeared in Boise, Idaho productions as Guinevere in Camelot, Irene Malloy in Hello, Dolly and Fruma Sara in Fiddler on the Roof. She is married to Loren Schmitt, retired Superintendent of Schools in Manning, Idaho. They have one daughter, Susan, who teaches in the Neah Bay school System.
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Choral Director - Katie Lenoue Katie Lenoue has been a resident of the Peninsula for 16 years. She and her husband Bernie moved here after graduation from Western Washington University. Katie has taught music both privately and publicly. Many of her private students have won awards locally and nationally. She was also the Director of Worship at Independent Bible Church for 5 years, where she directed many musical dramas. Currently, Katie is teaching choir at Roosevelt Middle School. She is also the assistant director for the Olympic Girls' Choir. Both Katie and her husband have been involved with past PALOA productions, and she is excited about this new opportunity to work with the cast of Annie.
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Choreographer - Robin Hall This is Robin's forth PALOA production. She was choral director for Anything Goes. She played the stepsister Joy in Cinderella and was the Children's Choral Coordinator for The King & I. Robin is the Area Director for Sunshine Generation, Children's Performing Group and a founding partner of Peninsula Family Theater. She has acted in numerous high school and college theatre productions and has been musical director and choreographer for many shows as well. In 1990, Robin was named best supporting actress in a musical by the U.S. Army FORSCOM (forces Command) for her work in the Fantasticks. Robin is a native of Sequim who graduated from Sequim High School and Peninsula College. She lives in Sequim with her husband and their seven children. |
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Orchestra Director - Dewey Ehling |
| Hair & makeup - Chetta Wallace
Chetta joined PALOA's team in 1998 as makeup and hair designer for The King & I. She also returned for Cinderella and Anything Goes. She owns and runs Chetta's Academy of Hair and Nails in Port Angeles., which keeps her very busy. She is trained and is an instructor in Cosmotology. She also worked as a makeup artist for Seattle Opera production for one year, after participating in a theater makeup class. This is her fourth year making us look great. |
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Assistant Choreographer - Gavin
McLean A veteran of many theatrical productions from Sequim High School, to OTA and PALOA, Gavin has experience in dance, singing, acting and now takes on the role of Assistant Choreographer for Annie, as well as playing the Part of Rooster. |
Assistant Production Manager / Stage Manager - Amanda Surgeon Amanda has been in church musicals and skits with her friends since 2nd grade. She has just finished her 1st year at Northwest College in Kirkland, working toward a degree in Music Education, with a minor in Missions, and a certificate in TESL. (teaching English as a second language.) Her theatre credits include Lumiere in Beauty & the Beast in 1995; Diana's mother in Ann of Green Gables, and Stage Manager for The Sound of Music in 1997; Stage Manager for Fiddler on the Roof in 1998; Lights and stagehand for Singin' in the Rain, and stagehand for Cinderella in 1999; and Stage Manager for Oklahoma! in 2000. |
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Costume Designer - Christy Rutherford
Christy has been involved in community theater since she
was a teenager and on the peninsula since she moved here in 1990. Since
then, she has produced and directed over 20 major musical productions.
She has designed costumes for dozens of productions and has worked on
virtually every aspect of theater from behind the scenes and on stage.
She is the mother of eleven beautiful children and grandmother to eight.
Besides visiting with her children and grandchildren in her spare time (which
is rare) she loves to sew, go for walks, read and sleep.
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Sound Designer - David Link This is David's fourth year with PALOA, having designed the sound for our last three shows, Cinderella, The King & I, and Anything Goes. He has also provided the sound design for Sequim High School's operettas for the last several years. David ran the sound system at the Sequim Presbyterian Church for six years, amplifying the Sequim Irrigation Festival and other events held there. David works at Olympic RV. His hobbies include fixing things and photography.
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Scenic Concept Designer - Gay Whitman
Lighting Designer - Bill Stuber
Bill has been involved in all aspects of production on a professional level for over twenty-five years, in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Denver and Seattle. His previous experience with PALOA is as lighting designer for Camelot, Cinderella and Anything Goes. He has also done lighting and sound work for Centrum in Port Townsend and the Juan de Fuca Festival of the Arts. Bill's other interests include music, photography, writing and poetry, and he has had three books of poetry and one nonfiction book published.
Assistant to the Stage Director
- Carol King
A native of Washington, Carol has resided in Port Angeles for 25 years.
She is employed in the office of Angeles Plumbing.
Annie is her first association with PALOA. She has experience in props and stage management through the theatre ministry of FUMC (First United Methodist
Church) Productions, including A Christmas Carol and The Best
Christmas Pageant Ever, and others.
Rehearsal Accompanist - Michael French
Lobby Photographs - Collins Photography
Program Photos - Stuart Smith & Bob Lumens
Program Design & Typesetting - Lindi Lumens
Make-up Crew
Carol Millman, Dee & Don Scott, Carol Rupprect, Diana Rector, Diana
Strait, Rhonda Horton, Vanessa Indelicato, Lesa Irwin
Orchestra
Violin
Peg Mannix, Virginia Ray, JoDee Ahmann, Paul Cornaby, John Crawford
Cello
Marlene Moore, Marlene Moore, Gay Knutson
Bass
Ron Newton, Clint Thomas
Guitar / Banjo
Carl Honore
Saxophone
Soprano & Alto - Signe Crawford
Tenor - Nathan French
Baritone - Alice McAdoo
Clarinet
Pattijo Hoskins, Bob Golightly
Flute
Judy Johnson, Carlos Xavier
Trumpet
Phil Lepper, George Snyder
Trombone
Trevor Homer
Tuba
Dick Heyn
Percussion
Ryan Weed
Keyboards
Michael French
Special Thanks to
Dancing Dog & Goin' to the Dogs for use of their facilities for Sandy
Auditions
Helen Haller Elementary School, Grey Wolf Elementary School, Fairview Elementary School, Hamilton Elementary School and Dry Creek Elementary Schools for allowing us to preview the show at these schools.
Port Angeles High School for the auditorium
Roosevelt Middle School for rehearsal space.
Click on these links for many wonderful photos of our production of Annie,
