Lighting Designer Costume Designer Ann M. Archbold Gail Brassard Properties Designer Sound Design Charles J. Trieloff II John Salutz Directed by Jennifer Uphoff Gray and the Pleasant Rowland Great Performance Fund for Theater, a component fund of the Madison Community Foundation presents *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers By Moonlight and Magnolias is generously sponsored by: Season sponsors:
FORWARD THEATER COMPANY presents Moonlight and Magnolias By Ron Hutchinson Directed by Jennifer Uphoff Gray Moonlight and Magnolias is generously sponsored by: and the Pleasant Rowland Great Performance Fund for Theater, a component fund of the Madison Community Foundation Season sponsors: *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers Moonlight and Magnolias is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York. Moonlight and Magnolias was originally produced in New York City by the Manhattan Theatre Club on March 3, 2005, Lynn Meadow, Artistic Director, Barry Grove, Executive Producer. The world premiere was produced by The Goodman Theatre, Chicago, Illinois on May 15, 2004, Robert Falls, Artistic Director, Roche Schulfer, Executive Director. Set Designer Assistant Director/Dramaturg Sasha Augustine Frank Honts Properties Designer Sound Design Charles J. Trieloff II John Salutz Lighting Designer Costume Designer Ann M. Archbold Gail Brassard Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager Michele Hand* Randy Tilk
Transcript
FORWARD THEATER COMPANYpresents
Moonlight and Magnolias
By
Ron HutchinsonDirected by
Jennifer Uphoff Gray
Moonlight and Magnolias is generously sponsored by:
and the Pleasant Rowland Great Performance Fund for Theater, a component fund of the Madison Community Foundation
Season sponsors:
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers
Moonlight and Magnolias is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.
Moonlight and Magnolias was originally produced in New York City by the Manhattan Theatre Club on March 3, 2005, Lynn Meadow, Artistic Director, Barry Grove, Executive Producer.
The world premiere was produced by The Goodman Theatre, Chicago, Illinois on May 15, 2004, Robert Falls, Artistic Director, Roche Schulfer, Executive Director.
Set Designer Assistant Director/Dramaturg Sasha Augustine Frank Honts
Properties Designer Sound Design Charles J. Trieloff II John Salutz Lighting Designer Costume Designer Ann M. Archbold Gail Brassard
Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager Michele Hand* Randy Tilk
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FORWARD THEATER COMPANY STAFF
ARTISTICArtistic Director ......................................................................................... Jennifer Uphoff Gray
ADMINISTRATIVEGeneral Manager ........................................................................................................Sarah MartyCommunications Director .............................................................................. Gwendolyn RiceDirector of Audience Development ................................................................ Julia Nicholas
PRODUCTIONAssistant Director/Dramaturg ................................................................................Frank HontsProduction Manager .................................................................................................Sarah MartyStage Manager ........................................................................................................Michele HandAssistant Stage Manager ............................................................................................ Randy TilkFight Choreographer .................................................................................................... Jim RidgeMAPC Technical Direction Services ............................................................................Ric LantzMaster Electrician ............................................................................................. Matthew GarrettCarpenter ..................................................................................................................Kevin ZimmerScenic Painters .........................................................................................Tiffany Fier, Liz RathkeWardrobe .................................................................................................................Brittany KuglerSound Tech ....................................................................................................................John Salutz
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BOARD OF D IRECTORS
Chad BartellSprings Window Fashions
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Jane ElderJane Elder Strategies
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ADVISORY COMPANY
Colleen Burns
Jim Buske
Sarah Day
Richard Ganoung
Michael Herold
Celia Klehr
Scott A. Rött
Frank Schneeberger
Sam White
Jack Forbes Wilson
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FROM THE STAFF
Welcome to Forward Theater! We are thrilled to present the final show of our 2010-2011 season:
Moonlight and Magnolias A screwball comedy about 1930s Hollywood and the making of Gone With The Wind. Just as our previous productions this season have engaged audiences on many levels, both emotional and intellectual, we hope that Moonlight illuminates some complex issues of an era gone-by, while prompting gales of uproarious laughter!
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We’re excited to be on the stage in the Playhouse as we continue to build a regional Equity theater to entertain, challenge, and delight audiences in southern Wisconsin. We’re committed to striving for excellence in our work and relationships, exercising integrity in both art and management. We’re also committed to making bold creative decisions and to fostering an inclusive theater community. From our artists to our audiences, we want FTC not only to be our theater, but your theater. Thank you for being part of our endeavor.
As you may know, Forward Theater’s advisory company is made up of actors, directors, playwrights, and designers who live and work in southern Wisconsin. We have an enviable job; we meet once a month with the artistic director and staff to talk about – what else? – theater. As a group we have the pleasure of reading and discussing plays – many, many plays – and considering how these scripts could fit into a future FTC season. It’s a fascinating process.
We come from different disciplines, we possess a wide variety of experience in the performing arts, and we all have strong opinions about what’s important to put on stage. About what audiences in Madison want to see, what they need to see. About the kinds of plays that excite us as artists. About drama, comedy, musicals, Broadway hits, and original work. We don’t always agree, and truthfully, that’s half the fun.
I am happy to say that the advisory company is extremely excited about the plays Forward is producing this year – and next year! Over the course of this season you’ll see some of us on stage, some of us leading talk-backs after the shows, some of us in the lobby chatting about the productions, and some of us will be seated next to you – applauding. Feel free to introduce yourself and more importantly, tell us what you think of the play. We’ll remember what you had to say when we start planning for the future. . .
FROM THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
FROM THE ADVISORY COMPANY
Trevor Stephenson MUSIC DIRECTOR
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FROM THE DR A M ATURG
The year 1939 marked the pinnacle of the Golden Age of Hollywood. With such films as The Wizard of Oz, Wuthering Heights, Destry Rides Again, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Gunga Din, and Stagecoach all gracing the marquees of theaters across the nation that year, cinema had come into its own. By year’s end no event was more anticipated than the premiere of Gone With the Wind, a film based on Margaret Mitchell’s epic novel, first published in 1936. The book, which took a sympathetic view of the old South, sold millions of copies and became an instant bestseller, in part because of Depression-era Americans’ nostalgia for simpler days gone by. Audiences everywhere eagerly waited to see how Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh would breathe life into this beloved novel. Overlooking the insidious brutality of slavery and the strange fruits brought about by contemporary policies of Jim Crow segregation, crowds gathered in Atlanta in mid-December 1939 to celebrate the opening of this much-ballyhooed film.
At the premiere, the city of Atlanta was treated not just to a movie, but an event, complete with a scale-model recreation of Tara, the plantation home of the O’Hara family, and a young people’s Patriots Ball, broadcast live on NBC radio. Pat Conroy recalled his mother’s fondness for the film, noting that it “was a house of worship [she] retired to so she could experience again the spiritual refreshment of art.” In an era of great uncertainty, Gone With the Wind uplifted and unified many Americans by reconstructing a fictional, melodramatic narrative, designed to erase the painful memories of slavery and celebrate the romance of the Civil War.
Moonlight and Magnolias loosely resembles events that took place after producer David O. Selznick suspended filming of Gone With the Wind in early 1939 in order to fix the problems with Sidney Howard’s original screenplay. Although details of the real-life script-as-sausage-making ordeal are fuzzy, we do know that Selznick called in his friend Ben Hecht to repair a script that, during the course of production, underwent more than 40 revisions by at least a dozen different writers. The promise of a healthy paycheck and his longtime friendship with Selznick were probably the only reasons that Hecht joined the project; by 1939, he had grown weary of Hollywood but needed lucrative projects like Gone With the Wind to settle his unpaid taxes. Victor Fleming, a director whose industry contract gave producers wide latitude to assign him any project they wanted, found himself conscripted into directing Gone With the Wind just weeks before completing work on another masterpiece, The Wizard of Oz. Although there was no real-life Miss Popenghul, her character represents a composite of numerous female assistants and secretaries under Selnick’s employ.
Aside from these basic historical details, however, Ron Hutchinson’s play is largely a work of the artist’s imagination, a “What might have happened when…?” meditation on a real-life event. From this point of departure, Hutchinson provides a comedy with relentless energy and its fair share of discarded peanut shells and banana peels. But the play also ponders the more problematic elements of Gone With the Wind—notably Scarlett O’Hara’s slap of Prissy, an enslaved African-American woman—challenging us as audience members to think about the brutal legacies glorified by the film. At the same time, in the tradition of The Simpsons’ endless references to the film and Carol Burnett’s infamous “Went With the Wind” spoof, Moonlight and Magnolias also recognizes that the best comedy often emerges from moments of extreme tragedy. In this spirit, Ron Hutchinson invites us to explore the humor underneath the making of a film about such a troubling time in American history, and in doing so, laugh together and begin to heal the wounds of our nation’s past.
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THE CAST
Ben Hecht ............................................................................................................. Michael Herold*Victor Fleming .................................................................................................................Jim BuskeDavid O. Selznick ........................................................................................................Mark Ulrich*Miss Poppenghul ....................................................................................................Celia A. Klehr*
* member, Actors’ Equity Association
SET TING
PLEASE NOTE
PlaceThe Hollywood studio office of legendary producer David O. Selznick.
Time1939
There will be one 15-minute intermission.
The audience is asked to silence cell phones during the performance. The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is strictly
prohibited.
Technical assistance for this production has been provided by the Children’s Theater of Madison and Madison Arts Production Cooperative.
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ARTIST B IOGR APHIES
Celia A. Klehr (Miss Poppenghul) started her professional life as a non-Equity actor in 1976. She was a founding member of the Madison
Repertory Theatre acting company, and during her 14 years there she appeared in more than 20 productions. Favorite roles include Rose in Dancing At Lughnasa, Elizabeth in The Crucible, Artie in Eleemosynary, Ima in The Immigrant, Nancy in Holy Ghosts, and Shelia in The Boys Next Door. At the Rep she also served as company manager for three years, and earned her Equity status. Away from the stage, Celia has played leading roles in three feature-length films and several documentaries. She has also served on the Madison Arts Commission, Madison Sesquicentennial Committee, and the State Street Committee. Celia was a founder of Forward Theater Company, appeared in its inaugural production of All About Eve, and serves on its advisory company.
Jim Buske(Victor Fleming)is a member of Forward Theater’s advisory company. He has acted in, or directed more than 110 plays in
Off-Broadway, regional, summer stock, dinner, and community theater. For Forward Theater, Jim has appeared in All About Eve and Kiritsis. An original member of the Madison Repertory Theatre’s Acting Company, Jim’s favorite roles include Marshall in the world premiere of What Corbin Knew, Ken Talley in The 5th of July, Elwood in Harvey, George in Moon Over Buffalo, and Sergius in Arms and the Man. He lives with his wife, Stephanie, and their son, David, in Sun Prairie. Jim would like to thank Mike, Celia, and Mark for years of friendship – and for being so much fun to act with.
Michael Herold(Ben Hecht)was pleased to be featured in Forward Theater’s inaugural season in All About Eve and Why Torture is Wrong, and the
People Who Love Them. He came to Madison in 1986 and was cast in The Foreigner, the first of more than sixteen plays with the Madison Rep, including The Norman Conquests, Consumer Affairs, The Immigrant and Love is the Weirdest of All. He has performed in more than a dozen productions at the Milwaukee Rep, as well as acting with Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Next Act, and Milwaukee Shakespeare. He appeared in Laughter on the 23rd Floor at the Briar Street Theatre in Chicago, and has been featured in productions for New American Theater and Artists’ Ensemble in Rockford, and New Court Theatre in Beloit. He has appeared in several regional and national television commercials, and in the recent film Baraboo. Originally from Ohio, he holds an MFA from the University of Akron. Michael lives in Sun Prairie with his wife Tracy and their children, Olivia and Gabriel.
Ron Hutchinson (Playwright) is the award-winning author of more than a dozen plays, including Anchorman (1979), Babbit: A Marriage (1987), Beau Brummell (2001), Burning Issues (2000), Christmas of a Nobody (1979), Curse of the Baskervilles (1987), The Dillen (1983), Eejits (1978), Flight (1998), Head/Case (2004), Into Europe (1981), The Irish Play (1980), Jews/Arabs (1978), Lags (2001), Mary, After the Queen (1985), Pygmies in the Ruins (1991), Rat in the Skull (1984), Risky City (1981), and Topless Mum in Dead Hero Shocker (2007) He has also penned screenplays for Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story, The Burning Season, The Josephine Baker Story, Fatherland, The Tuskegee Airman, Traffic, The Ten Commandments, and Marco Polo. Mr. Hutchinson also served as the writer-in-residence at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, 1980-81.
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ARTIST B IOGR APHIES (c o n t.)
Mark Ulrich (David O. Selznick)is very happy to be making his second appearance with Forward Theater Company, after appearing as Dr.
Givings in In the Next Room or the vibrator play. Previous Madison credits include Gross Indecency, Noises Off, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Private Lives, and What Corbin Knew at the Madison Rep. Milwaukee area credits include The Pavilion, Seven Stories, and Lombardi at Next Act Theatre, and K2 at the Milwaukee Theatre Festival. Mark resides in Chicago, where he has appeared with the Goodman, Northlight, and Writers’ Theatre, among others. He is a proud member of Rivendell Theatre Ensemble and Chicago Dramatists.
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TECHNICAL ARTISTS
Ann M. Archbold (Lighting Design) is pleased to be working with Forward again. She was lighting designer for FTC’s first mainstage production, Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them. Ann is currently chair of the Department of Theatre and Drama and head of the lighting design program at University of Wisconsin, Madison. Professionally, she has designed lighting for more than 500 events for theater, industrial films, opera, dance, concerts, and television throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. Locally she designed UW productions of War of the Worlds, Yellowman, and A Nervous Smile. She also worked with the Madison Rep on The Nerd, Death of a Salesman, Home, Talley’s Folly, Anna Christie, and I Am My Own Wife. Other recent designs include productions for The Old Globe Theater in San Diego, Viterbo University in LaCrosse, San Francisco Opera Center, Cadillac, Audi, and Elk Mountain Resort in Colorado. She is thrilled to be involved with this production for Forward Theater Company.
Sasha Augustine (Set Design), a recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is delighted to have the opportunity to work with Forward Theater and the amazing creative team for Moonlight and Magnolias. Previous scenic design credits include The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Rent (co-designer), The Imaginary Invalid, Fat Men in Skirts, Falling Girls, and The Love of the Nightingale (assistant designer). In addition, Sasha has worked with Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Four Seasons, Madison
Theatre Guild, CTM, Mercury Players, and University Theatre as a props designer and scenic artist. Also active in the fine arts scene, Sasha is an avid painter, sculptor, and photographer.
Gail Brassard (Costume Design) is an associate professor of costume design, and head of the MFA costume design program at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She previously worked with Forward Theater on its one-night-only, inaugural performance of All About Eve. In New York Gail designed the costumes for the long-running Off-Broadway hit Altar Boyz, for which she received a Henry Hewes Design Award nomination. In addition to designing on and off Broadway, she has worked extensively for network, cable, and daytime television. Her favorite design assignment was the 300 costumes for performers and animals for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
Jennifer Uphoff Gray (Director) most recently directed In the Next Room or the vibrator play, All About Eve, and Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them for Forward Theater. She also directed a reading of A Thousand Words for Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Love’s Labour’s Lost for Milwaukee Shakespeare, and The Diary of Anne Frank for Madison Repertory Theatre. Other credits include: the national tour of Copenhagen, associate director of Copenhagen, Cabaret, The Blue Room (starring Nicole Kidman) and The Life on Broadway. Off-Broadway, she directed the world premiere of the musical Suburb. Her work has also been
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TECHNICAL ARTISTS (c o n t.)
seen at Second Stage, Musical Theater Works, Ensemble Studio Theater, HERE, (all in New York City) and the Chunchon International Theater Festival in South Korea. She holds a degree in dramatic literature and stage history from Harvard College. Jen grew up in the Madison area and she and her husband Peter are raising their three children on the near west side.
Michele Hand (Stage Manager) is pleased to make her Forward Theater Company debut with Moonlight and Magnolias, having recently relocated back to Wisconsin. Michele has worked for regional companies including First Stage Children’s Theater, WildSpace, Skylight Opera Theatre and the Florentine Opera. She holds degrees in history and theater arts from SUNY-Fredonia in upstate New York, where she returned as a visiting lecturer in 2010 with the department of theater and dance. Michele is a member of Actors’ Equity and AGMA. Thank you for supporting live theater!
Frank Honts (Assistant Director/Dramaturg) is happy to be finishing his first season as dramaturg for Forward Theater. He worked behind the scenes, doing historical research, organizing pre-show talks, and discussing issues raised in text on In the Next Room or the vibrator play and Going to St. Ives. Frank also served as the assistant director for Madison Opera’s The Threepenny Opera this spring.
Ric Lantz (MAPC Technical Direction Services) received a BA in theater from Colorado State University. He then worked as a scenic craftsman at Pittsburgh Public Theater. His freelance projects include PBS’s This Land is Your Land and the motion picture Wonderboys. Ric earned an MFA in production technology and management from Carnegie Mellon University in 2002. Upon graduation he served as the technical director for Madison Repertory Theatre until it closed in 2009. In addition to his current role as technical director at the Children’s Theater of Madison, Ric is also a co-founder of The Bricks Theatre.
John Salutz (Sound Design) is a graduating senior at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, hoping to continue his education in graduate school. He has designed lighting and sound for several shows in Madison as well as elsewhere in Wisconsin, including University Theatre’s Valparaiso and Eurydice, Forward Theater’s reading of Kiritsis, and the Madison Theatre Guild’s Hot L Baltimore, which won the 2010 Bartell Theatre Award for sound design. He would like to thank Ann Archbold, Bethany Heili, Casey Martin, and Karen Yesterdale.
Randy Tilk (Assistant Stage Manager) received his BS in theater design and technology from Northwest Missouri State University in 2004, after an undergraduate career filled with acting, directing, design, production, and stage management experiences. Since graduating, he has worked as a production assistant at American Players Theatre in Spring Green, a set designer for the Darlington Children’s Theater, and a stage manager for Children’s Theater of Madison. He has also served as stage manager and tech director for Alley Stage for five seasons.
Charles J. Trieloff II (Properties Design) received his MFA in set design from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He worked as the prop master at Madison Repertory Theatre for nine years. He has also done props for Children’s Theater of Madison, Madison Ballet, and Madison Opera. He is currently the prop master for American Players Theatre. For University Theatre he has designed Antigone, The Passion of Dracula, A Little Night Music, Man of La Mancha, The Water Station, Smash, Steel Magnolias, True West, and Stop Kiss. Charles has also been a visiting artist at the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, where he designed A Lie Of The Mind, Hay Fever, Guys and Dolls, and Antigone. Outside of the theater world Charles has designed the themed reception areas for Children’s Dental Health’s Fitchburg and Old Sauk Road locations.
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DONORS TO FORWARD THEATER COMPANY
Your gift plays an important role in the success of Forward Theater Company. Ticket revenue covers only a percentage of the full cost of presenting live theater. Annual fund donors bridge the gap and enable Forward Theater to fulfill its mission — to provide exceptional theater experiences for area audiences and give professional actors, designers, writers, and directors an artistic home.
The following list reflects donations received by April 1, 2011. To make a tax-deductible donation to Forward Theater or learn about donor benefits, please visit our website at forwardtheater.com.
Premium Sponsors ($5,000-up)
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PanczenkoDeborah Bell Paseur*Laura PattersonJordan PetersonSandra R. PhillipsLisa and Chad PierickEvan and Jane PizerTom PoppNancy and Peter PriegelNancy RaglandArthur and Ursula
RathburnFred and Sherry ReamesBuck Rhyme and Anne
Rodgers-Rhyme Eileen M. Roeder**Drs. David and Joy RiceLaurie RomanJules RosenthalFred and Mary RossRoger and Mary RowinJulia RymutNancy Saitta*
Francisco and Olga Scarano
Kelly Schmidt*James SchneiderDavid and JoAnn
SchoengoldAlisa SchroederEdward and Marilyn
SchtenGene and Joyce
SchugartClare SchulzClaire A. ShafferRon and Diana ShawDaryl ShermanJohn SheskiKaren SielaffSuzannah and Gary
SislerKevin S. Smith*Roberta SonzogniGerry and Sonja
SorensonDavid and Cheryl
StedmanFrank and Jennie SteinSheryll SteinkeVicki and Gerald StewartFred and Beth SwansonHillary SwisshelmCarol TarrCarolyn C. ThomasNancy Todd*Don Francisco Trujillo II*Astrid VaccaroMarjorie Van HandelWill and Katie VaughnVanessa VelascoSarah Jane and Michael
VoichickPeter and Alice WaldronPatricia WatkinsJohn and Nancy WebsterSteve and Pat WehrleyDonna and Ray
WeihofenPeter WeilerDavid WellsPaul WhiteEve WilkieRaymond Williams*Stephan D. Willet*Bambi WilsonJosh and Kelly WimmerThe Wisconsin Clerks
of Circuit Court Association*
Curtis Wittwer
Karin WolfEd and Nancy YoungJohn Young, Jr. and
Marilyn Vanderhoof-Young
Larissa Zakletskaia*Joan Zechman*Dick ZillmanSteve and Marjorie
Zwickel
Feast Forward Sponsors
Francesca’s al LagoFromaginationMadison MagazineMetcalfe’s MarketOrange Tree ImportsRestaurant MuramotoSardineTrader Joe’s
Feast Forward HostsBecky BaumbachDonna BeestmanBeth BovisH. James BuskeBurt DeHavenHeidi DeWoskinJane ElderChuck FordRichard GanoungMarta GialamasGail KohlPeter and Jennifer
Uphoff GrayMichael and Tracy
HeroldTiffany Thom KenneyCelia Klehr and Sam
WhiteMoira Klos and Kevin
SpethSarah MartyMary MichaudKathie Nichols and Bill
WhiteFred and Audrey PaeselJoe and Gwen RiceKaren SaundersFrank SchneebergerScott ThorntonJim and Amanda UphoffDavid and Jane VillaErin WenzelTimur and Kimberly
Yarnall
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Matching GiftsAlliant EnergyGenworth FoundationMacy’s Foundation
In-Kind DonorsAmerican Players TheatreAmerican PrintingChad BartellBecky BaumbachChildren’s Theater of
SpiritsScott Thornton UW HospitalsWisconsin Public RadioZillman Idea Design
DONORS (c o n t.)
*Given in memory of David Schanker**Given in memory of Mary Jane Day
If we have inadvertently listed your name incorrectly or made any other error in donor acknowledgement please contact Gwen Rice immediately ([email protected]). We apologize for the error and will endeavor to correct it.
SPEC IAL THANKS
Maxine DuceyWisconsin Historical Society
Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater ResearchFair Trade Coffeehouse
Michelangelo’s CoffeehouseVicki Heymann and the Governor’s Executive Residence
Chris Gauthier and the local chapter of IATSEAmy KramerGreg Lawless
the staff of the Overture CenterZane Williams
Paul Simon HeckelShinji Muramoto
Edwin ArreolaJohn and Julie Gadau
Nick BerardSusan CroftonGina Gomez
the Milwaukee RepTrevor Stephenson and the Madison Bach Musicians
Derek AimonettoPeter Gray
Joe Rice
Forward Theater Company is a member of the Madison Arts Production Center (MAPC), which provides high quality, functional, affordable production space, equipment, and theatrical inventory for Madison area artists and arts organizations. For information on rentals and membership options go to ctmtheater.org, or contact Mike Lawler at 255-2080.
Somewhere in our office is a version of Photoshop 1.0 (we’ve upgraded a few times since then.)
We built our first website fifteen years ago (and it included audio and video files.)
We created an animated 3D website ten years ago (mailing out anaglyphic 3D glasses.)
Some people follow trends. We prefer to help shape them.
