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American Premiere

The Witches of Eastwick

Jun 5 – Jul 15, 2007
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In the tiny New England town of Eastwick, Rhode Island, three unhappy women innocently plot and conjure for their perfect man over a heady brew of brownies and weak martinis. When their longings are made flesh in the arrival of one Darryl Van Horne, all hell breaks loose. Quite literally. The devilishly good Witches of Eastwick flies into Signature for its American premiere courtesy of the same creative team who brought us The Fix. The Washington Post called Eric Schaeffer's London premiere, "Wicked fun... astonishing - the kind of beautiful, funny, glittery, joyfully stagey stuff that musical comedy dreams are made of."

Book and Lyrics by John Dempsey
Music by Dana P. Rowe
Based on the novel by John Updike and the Warner Bros. Motion Picture
Directed by Eric Schaeffer

The Cast

Marc Kudisch

Darryl Van Horne

SIGNATURE: The Witches Of Eastwick (Helen Hayes Award), The Highest Yellow (Helen Hayes nomination). BROADWAY: 9 to 5 (Tony® and Drama Desk nominations), The Apple Tree, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Tony® and Outer Critics Circle nominations), Assassins (Drama Desk nomination), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Tony®, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle nominations), Bells Are Ringing, The Wild Party, The Scarlet Pimpernel, High Society, Beauty & the Beast, Joseph...Dreamcoat. OFF-BROADWAY: Lincoln Center: The Glorious Ones; Public Theatre: See What I Wanna See (Drama Desk nomination); New York City Opera: Pirates of Penzance, A Little Night Music; City Center Encores!: Girl Crazy, Broadway Bash, No Strings (Mike Robinson); The Thing About Men. REGIONAL: Los Angeles Opera: A Little Night Music. NATIONAL TOUR: Bye Bye Birdie. TV: Lifetime Network: Break In; ABC: Bye Bye Birdie; HBO: Sex & the City. Directorial credits include The Broadway Musicals of 1959 (2007), The Broadway Musicals of 1930 (2006), and The Broadway Musicals of 1963 (2004) in Scott Siegel’s Broadway by the Year concerts. EDUCATION: BFA in Theatre, Florida Atlantic University. 

Emily Skinner

Alexandra Spofford

SIGNATURE: Dirty Blonde, Ace, The Witches of Eastwick. BROADWAY: Prince of Broadway (Outer Critics Circle Nomination), The Cher Show, Side Show (Tony Award® nomination, Drama League Award), Jekyll & Hyde, The Full Monty, James Joyce’s The Dead, Dinner at Eight (Outer Critics Circle nomination), Billy Elliot. NATIONAL TOURS: Billy Elliot, Disney’s On The Record. OFF-BROADWAY: Transport Group: Picnic (Drama Desk Nomination); Carnegie Hall: Jerry Springer: The Opera; City Center Encores!: Fiorello!, No Strings, Pardon My English, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; leading roles at Manhattan Theater Club, WPA Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Roundabout Theatre Company, York Theatre, Paramount Theatre at Madison Square Gardens. REGIONAL: multiple roles at The Kennedy Center, Alliance Theatre, Hangar Theatre, Long Wharf, The Old Globe, Goodspeed, St. Louis MUNY, TheatreVirginia. www.emily-skinner.com

Harry A. Winter

Clyde Gabriel

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.

James Gardiner

Michael Spofford

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.

Erin Driscoll

Erin Driscoll

Jennifer Gabriel

she/her SIGNATURE: Titanic, Road Show, Sunday in the Park with George, The Threepenny Opera, Miss Saigon, Spin, Company, The Best Little Whorehouse…, Brother Russia, Hairspray (Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Ensemble), [title of show], Sweeney Todd, Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Witches of Eastwick, Into the Woods, Assassins (Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Resident Musical), Urinetown (2006 Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Actress). DC AREA: Arena Stage: My Fair Lady; Ford’s Theatre: Into the Woods, Violet, Our Town, Parade, A Christmas Carol; Olney Theatre: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Cinderella, Anything Goes; Round House Theatre: A Year with Frog and Toad; Kennedy Center: Regina (w/ Patti LuPone). REGIONAL: Arden Theatre: A Year with Frog and Toad, Candide. EDUCATION: James Madison University, BM. AWARDS: 2006 Roger Sturtevant Award.

Matt Conner

Toby Bergman

SIGNATURE: The Fix (Frankie/Ensemble), Elmer Gantry (Art Nichols), The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Rufus/Senator Wingwoah), Hairspray (Male Authority Figure), Sunset Boulevard (Manfred), Sweeney Todd (Bird Seller/Jonas Fogg), Show Boat (Windy), Les Miserables (Thenardier, Pimp), Kiss of the Spider Woman (Aurelio), Merrily We Roll Along (Scottie), The Witches of Eastwick (Toby), Into the Woods (Steward), My Fair Lady (Cockney), Assassins (Hinckley), Pacific Overtures (Tamate, Lion Dancer), A Funny Thing…Forum (Protean). DC AREA: Olney Theatre Center: West Side Story (Riff); Synetic Theatre: Oscar Wilde’s Salome (Page of Herodias); ATW: Naked Boys Singing; Open Circle Theatre: Jesus Christ Superstar (Judas). COMPOSITIONS: Signature: Silver Belles, Crossing, The Hollow, Nevermore, Partial Eclipse; Regional: Night of the Living Dead, Turn of the Screw, Monsters of the Villa Diodati.

Sherri L. Edelen

Sherri L. Edelen

Brenda Parsley

SIGNATURE: Into the Woods, Jesus Christ Superstar, Midwestern Gothic, Gypsy, Cake Off, Sweeney Todd, Les Misérables.  NATIONAL TOURS: Me and My Girl, Nunsense, Big. NEW YORK: Disney Theatricals: Freaky Friday; Fringe Festival: Citizen Ruth. DC AREA: Kennedy Center: Sunday in the Park with George, Merrily We Roll Along; Arena Stage: DAVE (pre-Broadway), Cabaret, My Fair Lady, Vanya...Spike; Shakespeare Theatre: Design for Living; Folger Theatre: Romeo and Juliet; Round House Theatre: The Diary of Anne Frank; Theatre J: Copenhagen. REGIONAL: Arden Theatre Company: Caroline, or Change; Philadelphia Theatre Company: The Light in the Piazza, Elegies; Fusion Theatre Company: Outside Mullingar; Stages St. Louis:  Annie Get Your Gun. DIRECTING: Riverside Center for the Performing Arts: Steel Magnolias, On Golden Pond (starring Joyce DeWitt). AWARDS: Helen Hayes, Barrymore.

Thomas Adrian Simpson

Thomas Adrian Simpson

Ed Parsley

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.

Ilona Dulaski

Marge Perley

SIGNATURE: Shooting in Madrid, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Follies, 110 In the Shade, Witches of Eastwick. DC AREA: Kennedy Center: Turandot (Washington Opera), Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music, Shear Madness, Dahlia; Studio Theatre: Caroline, or Change; Round House Theatre: Wintertime, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Man of La Mancha, She Loves Me. REGIONAL: CATCO: Master Class; Shenandoah: Fiddler on the Roof, Show Boat; Totem Pole: Nunsense, Ten Little Indians, My Three Angels; Cumberland: Pippin; Mill Mountain: Spitfire Grill. TV: Homicide: Life on the Streets; Unsolved Mysteries; House of Cards. Upcoming: MetroStage: Master Class. www.IlonaDulaski.com

Creative Team

John Dempsey

Book and Lyrics

John Dempsey (Book & Lyrics) is a New York based writer/lyricist whose works have been widely produced across the United States as well as throughout the United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, Russia, Germany, the Czech Republic, Brazil and other countries. BOOK AND LYRICS: Saved, The Witches of Eastwick, The Fix, Zombie Prom, Dick Whittington and Circles. LYRICS: A Country Christmas Carol and The Reluctant Dragon. In addition, he has contributed lyrics to various editions of Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus as well as Boublil and Schonbergís The Pirate Queen. For his work on The Witches of Eastwick and The Fix he has been twice nominated for the Society of London Theatreís Laurence Olivier Award.

Dana P. Rowe

Music

Dana P. Rowe (Composer) is an American composer whose musical theater works have been performed internationally with commercial productions in Londonís West End, Russia, Czech Republic, Japan (including Tokyoís Imperial Garden Theatre), Germany, Australia, New York City and Sao Paulo, Brazil. Musicals include See Jane Run!, The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde, The Witches of Eastwick, The Fix, Zombie Prom and The Reluctant Dragon. Mr. Rowe received Olivier Award nominations for The Fix and The Witches of Eastwick, both of which were produced in London by Sir Cameron Mackintosh and later premiered in the U.S. directed by Eric Schaeffer at the Tony Award®-winning Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA.

Signature Theatre

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