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The Marvelous Wonderettes

September 20-October 1, 2022 at Ron Maslin Playhouse as part of Season #54 2022-2023

Author(s)

Written by Roger Bean
Music arranged by Brian Willliam Baker
Orchestration by Michael Borh
Vocal arrangements by Brian Willliam Baker
Vocal arrangements by Roger Bean

Description

It is the 1958 Springfield High School senior prom, and four teenage girls who are the school’s “trophy-winning” song leaders are asked to step in as the entertainment. They are replacing the boys’ glee club, the Crooning Crab Cakes, whose lead singer was caught smoking behind the girls’ locker room and suspended from school.

As they sing and dance to popular songs of the 1950s, tension between two of the girls, Betty Jean and Cindy Lou, increases. They fight about a boy, but eventually make-up as the other girls, Missy and Suzy, also sing about their loves. Act One culminates with the vote for the “Queen of Your Dreams,” the prom queen.

Act Two takes place ten years later, at the girls’ ten year reunion. The girls have again been asked to provide the entertainment. Suzy, Missy, and Betty Jean stayed in Springfield after high school, while Cindy Lou went to Hollywood before coming back to Springfield. Each of the girls tells the story of the man in her life and what has happened since high school. The evening ends as magically as it began.

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Cast

Betty Jean Reynolds Danielle Denault
Cindy Lou HuffingtonStefania Wheelhouse
Missy MillerKelly Fontaine-Fuoco
Suzy SimpsonBeverley Soifer

Production Staff

DirectorAileen Szkwarek
Music DirectorAllison Houston
Music DirectorJennifer Grimsey
Assistant Music DirectorMark Allen
Dance ChoreographyAileen Szkwarek
Dance ChoreographyStefania Wheelhouse
Production ManagerSusan Sinchak
Stage ManagerChrissy Feldman
Assistant Stage ManagerClare Flockton
Assistant Stage ManagerKathleen Walsh
Stage CrewCindy Corrigan
Stage CrewElisa Frost
Stage CrewKurt Strand
Stage CrewNicole MacLaren
Stage CrewSandra Douville
Stage CrewShauna Lee Thompson
Set DesignTony Walker
Set Construction CoordinatorTony Walker
Set ConstructionClyde Le Guerrier
Set ConstructionEnver Dokuzoguz
Set ConstructionEric LeBolloch
Set ConstructionErica Burke
Set ConstructionHeidi Roberts
Set ConstructionJim Clarke
Set ConstructionLarry Witol
Set ConstructionMark Bjorkstedt
Set ConstructionOwen Terreau
Set Painting CoordinatorTony Walker
Set PaintingChristine Men
Set PaintingCindy Corrigan
Set PaintingEleanor Baur
Set PaintingElisa Frost
Set PaintingElizabeth Men
Set PaintingEmma Tibbits
Set PaintingHelene Rivest
Set PaintingJoy Forbes
Set PaintingJulie Dustin
Set PaintingKaylee Fraser
Set PaintingMelanie Baur
Set PaintingMilo Tibbits
Set PaintingNicole MacLaren
Set PaintingRebecca Aiken
Set PaintingSandy Wynne
Set PaintingShauna Lee Thompson
Set PaintingSheila Trivisonno
Lighting DesignDon Douglas
Lighting AssistantAnthony Rumsey
Lighting AssistantBarry Sims
Lighting AssistantJim Mantle
Lighting AssistantKarl Wagner
Lighting AssistantRafael Maia
Lighting AssistantRob Puchyr
Lighting AssistantSimon Helliwell
Sound DesignMike Hogan
Sound OperatorJustin Ladelpha
Piano AccompanistSolomiia Horbatso
Properties ManagerSusan Armstrong
Properties AssistantIlona Henkelman
Properties AssistantSusan Sinchak
Costumes DesignMaxine Ball
Costumes AssistantSaundra Eaves
Dance InstructorLynne Fluery
Dance InstructorRosanne (Roxy) Wysock
ContinuityDenise Angus
ContinuityDiane Burke
ContinuityKathleen Walsh
ContinuityLaurie Hogan
ContinuitySandy Wynne
ContinuityShauna Lee Thompson
ContinuitySheryl Bell
ContinuitySheryl Bell
ContinuityTerry Leonard
ContinuityTerry Leonard
Make-upMartha Johnstone
Hair DesignStefania Wheelhouse
Hair StylingReba Sigler
Hair StylingTiara Wallace
PublicityCatriona Malcolmson
PublicityChrissy Feldman
PublicityClare Flockton
PublicityKathleen Walsh
PublicitySusan Sinchak
Marquee SignsPaul Behncke
Marquee SignsSean Behncke
ProgrammeAnna Lisa Karhinen
Media LiaisonJane Pick
Media LiaisonStefania Wheelhouse
Box OfficeDelia Clothier
Box OfficeJane Pick
Box OfficeKaren Lemieux
Box OfficeLinda Panther
Box OfficePauline Pratt
Box OfficeSusan Monaghan
House ManagerDon Lillico