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World Premiere

Saving Aimee

Apr 10 – May 12, 2007
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Long before Gloria Steinem there was a feminist who stood up against a male-dominated religious society. Long before O.J. Simpson there was a famous defendant in the trial of the century. Long before Madonna there was a free spirit who ignored the sexual mores of her day and married three times. And long before Marilyn Monroe there was a beloved American treasure who mysteriously died from an overdose of barbiturates. Based on the life of Aimee Semple McPherson, Saving Aimee is the story of one woman's life from her humble upbringing in a Salvation Army family to her ascension as charismatic founder of the Four Square Gospel Church. She changed the face of the pulpit. But was she a true woman of God or just one hell of a woman?

Book and Lyrics by Kathie Lee Gifford
Music by David Pomeranz and David Friedman
Directed by Eric Schaeffer

The Cast

Ed Dixon

Ed Dixon

James Kennedy/Brother Bob

BROADWAY: Sunday In The Park With George (Mister); How The Grinch Stole Christmas (Old Max); Gore Vidal’s The Best Man (Senator Carlin); The Iceman Cometh (General Wetjoen); Les Misérables (Thenardier); Cyrano (Raganeau); The Three Musketeers (Cardinal Richelieu); King Of Schnorrers (Belasco); The Scarlet Pimpernel (Ozzy). OFF-BROADWAY: Shylock (Drama Desk nomination), The Persians, Here Lies Jenny, Under The Bridge. NATIONAL TOURS: The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas (with Ann-Margret), Pippin (with Ben Vereen), Sunset Boulevard (Joseph Jefferson nomination). AUTHOR/COMPOSER: Shylock, Cather County, Richard Cory, Fanny Hill, Whodunit…The Musical. AWARDS: Leon Rabin Award, Steinberg Grant, Helen Hayes nomination, Dramalogue nomination, two Drama Desk nominations, two Dean’s Lists Awards. www.eddixon.biz.

James Gardiner

Ensemble

SIGNATURE: Miss Saigon, Spin, Company, The Last Five Years (Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Actor in a Musical), The Boy Detective Fails, The Hollow, [title of show], Chess, Les Misérables, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Merrily We Roll Along, The Witches of Eastwick, Saving Aimee. BROADWAY: Glory Days (book writer). DC AREA: Ford’s Theatre: Violet, Liberty Smith, A Christmas Carol (Associate Director); Olney Theatre Center: Little Shop of Horrors (2013 Helen Hayes nomination), You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown; Woolly Mammoth/UM: The Distance from Here; Kennedy Center: The Phantom Tollbooth, The Brand New Kid; Round House Theatre: A Prayer for Owen Meany; Studio Theatre: Dog Sees God. REGIONAL: Williamstown Theatre Festival; Everyman Theatre. EDUCATION: University of Maryland College Park TEACHING: George Mason University, Adjunct Instructor of Musical Theatre Performance.
Florence Lacey

Florence Lacey

Minnie Kennedy

SIGNATURE: Titanic, Sunset Boulevard, Ace, Saving Aimee, Nevermore, The Rhythm Club, The Gospel According to Fishman, Follies, One Red Flower. BROADWAY: Follies, Evita, The Grand Tour, Hello, Dolly!, Les Misérables, An Evening with Jerry Herman. OFF-BROADWAY: Sweet Feet, Elizabeth and Essex, Styne After Styne, Under the Bridge. DC AREA: Kennedy Center: Follies, Sunday in the Park with George; Creative Cauldron: Kaleidoscope. REGIONAL: Goodspeed: Pal Joey; Connecticut Rep: A Little Night Music, Wings. AWARDS: Theater World, MAC, Drama Logue, Critics Outer Circle.  

Andrew Long

Asa Keyes

SIGNATURE: I Am My Own Wife, My Fair Lady (Henry Higgins), Saving Aimee. DC AREA: Studio Theatre: Frozen (Helen Hayes Award); Shakespeare Theatre: Coriolanus (Coriolanus), Antony & Cleopatra (Antony), Julius Caesar (Antony), Hamlet (Claudius), King Lear (Edmund), Richard II (Bolingbroke), Don Carlos, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, The Duchess of Malfi, and many others; Arena Stage, Theater J, Olney Theater, Folger. REGIONAL: Guthrie Theater: M Butterfly (Gallimard), Gross Indecency; Rep of St. Louis: Enrico IV (Enrico), Amadeus (Salieri), Copenhagen, Metamorphoses; Denver Center: Richard III (Richard); Cincinnati Playhouse, Pioneer Theater, Chautauqua Theater, and the Oregon, Illinois, Alabama, and New Jersey Shakespeare Festivals. EDUCATION: BFA, University of Nevada, MFA Alabama Shakespeare Festival/University of Alabama. AWARDS: 2010 Lunt-Fontanne Fellow, 2007 Will Shakespeare Award.

Harry A. Winter

Dr. Samuels / Judge / Ensemble

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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