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Twentieth Century

Aug 19 – Oct 5, 2003
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Escape with us to one of Broadway's greatest screwball comedies! In the world premiere adaptation of a masterpiece, Ken Ludwig brings new life and infinite new laughs to this ageless, on-the-rails tale set in the early 1930s. Broadway producer Oscar Jaffe pulls every trick in the book to lure silver screen legend - and former lover - Lily Garland back to the stage. As the famed passenger-liner Twentieth Century speeds from Chicago to New York, time is running out, but the laughs never do!

By Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur
Adapted by Ken Ludwig
Directed by Eric Schaeffer

The Passengers

Christopher Bloch

Christopher Bloch

Owen O'Malley

SIGNATURE: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, The Bridges of Madison County, Into the Woods, Assassins, Grand Hotel, The Scottsboro Boys, Titanic, Kid Victory, Cloak and Dagger, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Chess, Les Misérables, Merrily We Roll Along, Urinetown. NATIONAL TOUR: The Buddy Holly Story. DC AREA: Ford’s Theatre: Trip to Bountiful, My Lord, What a Night, 12 Angry Men, Ragtime, Jefferson’s Garden, 1776, Meet John Doe, Shenandoah, Big River, Christmas Carol; Arena Stage: Christmas Carol 1941, Damn Yankees, Black No More; Everyman: M Butterfly, God of Carnage, ART, Uncle Vanya, Jaques Brel…; Olney Theatre, Kennedy Center, Shakespeare Theatre. REGIONAL: Lyric Theater, Guthrie Theatre, Virginia Stage, ACT, Repertory Theatre St. Louis, Indiana Rep., 2012 Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship. FILM/TV: West Wing, House of Cards, TURN, Butler MN, Damascus Road, WCBDC!, Star Wars audio (Lucas Productions). 

Will Gartshore

George Smith

SIGNATURE: A Little Night Music, The Fix, Show Boat, Merrily We Roll Along, My Fair Lady, Assassins, Sex Habits of American Women, Urinetown, Pacific Overtures, Elegies, Allegro, Twentieth Century, Follies, Grand Hotel, Side Show, Floyd Collins, Anyone Can Whistle in Concert. BROADWAY: Parade. OFF-BROADWAY: The Last Session, Encores!: Ziegfield Follies of 1936. DC AREA: Round House: Caroline, or Change; Ordinary Days; This; %(underline)Becky Shaw%; Orson’s Shadow; A Year with Frog and Toad; The World Goes ‘Round; Kennedy Center: The Great Gatsby, Passion; Theatre J: The Religion Thing; Woolly Mammoth: The Velvet Sky; Olney: Monster; Studio: Privates on Parade, A New Brain. Library of Congress: West Side Story 50th Anniversary, Stephen Sondheim's 70th Birthday. REGIONAL: Philadelphia Theatre Co: Elegies; Prince: Myths + Hymns, 3hree; Ahmanson: 3hree; Goodspeed: Fanny Hill, Lucky in the Rain. AWARDS: Three Helen Hayes Awards, nine nominations.
Rick Hammerly

Rick Hammerly

Porter / Beard / Detective / Max Jacobs

SIGNATURE: Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2003 Helen Hayes Award); Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (Helen Hayes nomination) & Perestrioka; Twentieth Century. OFF-BROADWAY: Message to Michael, Mademoiselle Colombe, Trelawney of the Wells. DC AREA: Ford's Theatre: 1776, A Christmas Carol, The Laramie Project (assistant director), Driving Miss Daisy (assistant director); Folger Theatre: All's Well That Ends Well; Rep Stage: The Temperamentals; Adventure Theatre: The Cat in the Hat; Shakespeare Theatre: Volpone; Kennedy Center: The Lisbon Traviata (u/s), Shear Madness; MetroStage: Me and Jezebel (Helen Hayes nomination); Woolly Mammoth Theatre: The Rocky Horror Show. REGIONAL: Unicorn Theatre: Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Red Scare on Sunset; TheatreVirginia: The Comedy of Errors, Lend Me a Tenor.  Producing artistic director of Helen Hayes Award-winning Factory 449: a theatre collective.
Donna Migliaccio

Donna Migliaccio

Myrtle Clark

SIGNATURE: Co-founder; Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music, Gypsy, The Highest Yellow, Urinetown, Assassins, The Threepenny Opera, Sunday in the Park with George, Girlstar, Kid Victory, Silver Belles. BROADWAY: War Paint, Ragtime (2009 revival). NATIONAL TOUR: Guys & Dolls (50th anniversary production). REGIONAL: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts: Sunday in the Park with George, Oliverio: A Brazilian Twist, Katie Couric’s The Brand New Kid; Ford’s Theatre: Liberty Smith, Sabrina Fair; Olney Theatre Center: Cabaret, Bakersfield Mist, The Little Mermaid, Cinderella, The Sound of Music; Arena Stage: Guys & Dolls, The Music Man; Alabama Shakespeare Festival: The Little Mermaid. AUTHOR: The Gemeta Stone series. AWARDS: Two-time Helen Hayes Award winner, twelve additional nominations. www.donnamigliaccio.com
Thomas Adrian Simpson

Thomas Adrian Simpson

Dr. Grover Lockwood

SIGNATURE: Jesus Christ Superstar, Three Penny Opera, Company, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, The Boy Detective Fails, The Hollow, Les Misérables, The Witches of Eastwick, My Fair Lady, Pacific Overtures, Urinetown, Twentieth Century, 110 in the Shade (2004 Helen Hayes nomination), Floyd Collins, Grand Hotel, Over and Over, Vera. DC AREA: Arena Stage: A Raisin in the Sun, Mary T. & Lizzy K., My Fair Lady, The Light in the Piazza; Ford’s Theatre: 1776, Liberty Smith, Meet John Doe, A Christmas Carol; Shakespeare Theatre: Candide, The Boys From Syracuse; Kennedy Center: Orphie and the Book of Heroes; Olney Theatre Center: Sweeney Todd, Oh, Coward!, 1776, Oliver. TV: House of Cards, America’s Most Wanted. EDUCATION: UNC School of the Arts.
Holly Twyford

Holly Twyford

Lily Garland

SIGNATURE: Sex with Strangers, A Fox on the Fairway, The Little Dog Laughed (Helen Hayes Award), Twentieth Century, A Little Night Music. DC AREA: Ford’s Theatre: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Arena Stage: Long Day’s Journey into Night, The Matchmaker, and others; Folger Theatre: King John, Midsummer Night's Dream, and others; Round House Theatre: Or, and others.; Studio Theatre: The Steward of Christendom, and others; Theatre J: Lost in Yonkers, and others; Woolly Mammoth Theatre: Recent Tragic Events, and others.

Harry A. Winter

Oliver Webb

SIGNATURE: Allegro, 110 in the Shade, Hairspray (18 more). NATIONAL TOURS: Gigi, Jolson: the Musical. DC AREA: Kiss Me, Kate; Racing Demon; Come From Away (US); The Magic Play; Pins and Needles; Bringing Up Amy.

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