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Mrs. Miller Does Her Thing

by James Lapine Feb 28 – Mar 26, 2017
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Pulitzer Prize winner James Lapine’s (Sunday in the Park with George) delightful new play stars Emmy and Tony Award® winner Debra Monk (Mozart in the Jungle, Grey’s Anatomy) as Mrs. Miller.

Mrs. Miller can’t sing—but don’t tell her that. Based on the real life story of Elva Miller, this touching and funny portrait offers Monk the role of a lifetime as the devoted, warbling songstress whose operatic, off-key singing became an unlikely pop phenomenon in the 1960s. Take a delectable romp through hits like “Downtown,” “Monday Monday,” “Girl from Ipanema” and more. Simply irresistible, when Mrs. Miller does her thing, it’s so bad—it’s good.

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Performance Information

  • Running Time

    Approximately one hour and 45 minutes, with no intermission.

  • Content Warnings

    Mrs. Miller Does Her Thing contains theatrical haze, mild drug usage, and includes smoke from an herbal simulated drug.

Specialty Nights

Discussion Nights

March 15 & 21, 2017

Pride Night

March 10, 2017

Open Captioned Performances

March 12, 2017 at 2PM and March 14, 2017 at 7:30PM

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Cast Members

Debra Monk

Elva Miller

BROADWAY: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Curtains (Drama Desk Award, Tony Award® nomination); Chicago; Reckless; Thou Shalt Not; Ah, Wilderness!; Steel Pier (Tony Award® nomination); Company; Picnic (TonyAward® nomination); Redwood Curtain (Tony Award®); Nick and Nora; Pump Boys and Dinettes (Co-Author, Tony Award® nomination). OFF-BROADWAY: Assassins; Love, Loss, and What I Wore; Show People; The Seagull; The Time of the Cuckoo (Obie Award); Death-Defying Acts; Three Hotels; Oil City Symphony (Co-author, Drama Desk Award). REGIONAL: Steppenwolf: Visiting Edna (world premiere). FILM: Demolition, This is Where I Leave You, The Savages, Center Stage, Devil’s Advocate, Bridges of Madison County, Jeffrey; Fearless, Reckless. TV: Mozart in the Jungle, Grey’s Anatomy, Damages, Girls, Madam Secretary, Difficult People, Blindspot, Glee, Desperate Housewives, NYPD Blue (Emmy Award).

Boyd Gaines

John Miller

BROADWAY: Enemy of the People, The Columnist, Driving Miss Daisy, Gypsy, Pygmalion, Journey’s End, Twelve Angry Men, Contact, Cabaret, The Show Off, She Loves Me, Company, The Heidi Chronicles. OFF-BROADWAY: The Dead 1904, An Enemy of the People, The Grand Manner, Bach at Leipzig, Major Barbara, Comedy of Errors, The Extra Man, The Maderati, Winter’s Tale, Barbarians, A Month in the Country. FILM: No Pay, Nudity, Funny Games, Lovely by Surprise, Second Best, I’m Not Rappaport, Heartbreak Ridge, The Sure Thing, Porky’s, Fame. TV: American Odyssey, Good Wife, Angela’s Eyes, The Confession, Piece of Cake, LA Law, Frasier, One Day at a Time. AWARDS: Four Tony Awards. EDUCATION: Juilliard.

Rebekah Brockman

Joelle Taylor

NEW YORK: The Pearl Theater: A Taste of Honey; Irish Repertory Theatre: Burial at Thebes. REGIONAL: Yale Repertory Theatre: Arcadia (CCC Award); Westport Country Playhouse: The Liar (CCC Nomination); The Gift Theatre: The Children; Actors Theater of Louisville: Our Town; American Conservatory Theater: Arcadia, Dead Metaphor, Elektra; California Shakespeare Theater: Romeo and Juliet, Blithe Spirit. TV/FILM: Bridge of Spies, Divorce, The Knick, The Mysteries of Laura, Jessica Jones, The Slap. EDUCATION: MFA, American Conservatory Theater.

Corey Mach

Simon Bock

BROADWAY: Hands on a Hardbody, Godspell (Jesus/Judas standby). OFF-BROADWAY: Second Stage Theatre: Invisible Thread (director Diane Paulus); La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club: Chix 6. NATIONAL TOURS: Wicked (First National), Flashdance the Musical (First National), Rent. TV: HBO: Codes of Conduct (upcoming; director Steve McQueen). REGIONAL: Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival: Tim Rice’s From Here To Eternity; American Repertory Theatre: Sara Bareilles’ Waitress; Pippin (Pippin); Violet (Monty); Harold & Maude (Harold); Lippa’s Wild Party (Burrs); I Love You Because (Austin). EDUCATION: Baldwin-Wallace. 

Kaitlyn Davidson

Carol Sue Singleton

BROADWAY: Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Nice Work If You Can Get It. NATIONAL TOUR: Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Ella), Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (Judy). REGIONAL: Riverside Theatre: Chicago (Roxie); The Cape Playhouse: The Music Man (Marian Paroo), Sweet Charity (Helene); American Repertory Theatre: Johnny Baseball; The Marriott Theatre: 42nd Street (Peggy Sawyer); The Maltz Jupiter: La Cage Aux Folles (Anne); The Pioneer Theatre Company: Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (Judy), A Chorus Line (Val); Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera: Into the Woods (Rapunzel), West Side Story (Velma), Mame (Gloria Upson), The Full Monty (Estelle), CATS (Victoria/Sillabub). EDUCATION: University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music.

Kimberly Marable

Denise Banfield

BROADWAY: The Lion King (u/s Shenzi & Sarabi), Sister Act (u/s Deloris van Cartier). NATIONAL TOURS: The Book of Mormon (1st National, original cast), Sister Act (1st National, Deloris van Cartier standby), Dreamgirls, Hairspray, The Wedding Singer (1st National, original cast). REGIONAL: Ain’t Misbehavin’, Curtains (New Hampshire Theatre Award Nomination for Best Actress), Blithe Spirit, Aida. WORKSHOPS/LABS: Pal Joey (with Marin Mazie and Patina Miller), A Taste of Chocolate, STRING. EDUCATION: Dartmouth College.

Jacob ben Widmar

Bobby Sherin

BROADWAY: Xanadu (u/s Whoopi Goldberg), White Christmas, Book of Mormon (u/s Elder McKinley). OFF BROADWAY: Encores!: No, No, Nannette; Radio City: The New York Spectacular (Mad Hatter). NATIONAL TOURS: Mary Poppins (u/s Robertson Ay), White Christmas, Book of Mormon. REGIONAL: Paper Mill Playhouse: White Christmas, A Christmas Story, The Producers; Old Globe: Dancing in the Dark (Teddy); Goodspeed: Singin’ In the Rain (Production Tenor); Sacramento Music Circus: Kiss Me, Kate (Hortensio); Fiddler on the Roof; South Pacific; Hello, Dolly!; Music Man; La Petit Theatre: White Noise; Reprise!: On the Town; AMT of San Jose: A Chorus Line (Mark); McCoy Rigby Productions: My Fair Lady; Original cast of Los Angeles company of White Christmas.

Will LeBow

Larry Drummond/Dr. Shapiro

BROADWAY: Act One. OFF-BROADWAY: Nocturne (NYTW Drama Desk nomination). REGIONAL: Huntington: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Sonia Flew, The Rivals, The Cherry Orchard, The Corn is Green, Love’s Labour’s Lost; ART: The Merchant of Venice, The Birthday Party, Full Circle, We Won’t Pay We Won’t Pay, Picasso At The Lapin Agile, Ubu Rock, The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet, Uncle Vanya, Animals and Plants, Romance, Duck Variations, Marvelous Party; ACT: Once in a Lifetime; MRT: Glengarry Glen Ross, Twelfth Night; Boston Lyric Opera: Abduction From the Seraglio, Ariadne Aux Naxos; BSO: Porgy and Bess; Boston Pops: Polar Express, How the Grinch Stole Christmas. FILM/TV: What Doesn’t Kill You, Next Stop Wonderland, Home Movies, Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist.

Creative Team

Michael Starobin

Musical Supervision and Orchestration by

First Daughter Suite, Hunchback of Notre Dame, If/Then, Annie, Dogfight, Queen of the Mist, People in the Picture, Sondheim on Sondheim, Next to Normal, Glorious Ones, Grinch, Adrift in Macao, Bernarda Alba, Spelling Bee, Assassins, Tom Sawyer, A New Brain, A Christmas Carol, Hello Again, Guys & Dolls, My Favorite Year, Falsettos, In Trousers, Sunday in the Park with George, Once on This Island, Closer Than Ever, Legs Diamond, Romance Romance, Carrie, Birds of Paradise, Rags, Three Guys Naked, Von Richtofen. FILM: Hunchback of Notre Dame, Life with Mikey, Home on the Range, Tangled, Lucky Stiff.

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