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THE THREEPENNY OPERA

by Bertolt Brecht

Music by Kurt Weill

Directed by ?

Choreographed by Julie Strandberg

CAST

A Street Singer - Peter Jacobson

Mr. J.J. Peachum - Jonathan Brandt

Filch - David Block

Mrs. Peachum - Polly Segal

Polly Peachum - Kim Silverman

Macheath (Mack the Knife) - Andrew Borba

Reverend Kimball - R. Seth Bright

Tiger Brown - James S. Crawford

Jenny - Nancy Bach

Smith - Erik Chaikin

Lucy Brown - Maria Deasy

Queen’s Messenger - David Block

Gang:

Bert - Chris Cappiello

Jake - Peter Jacobson

Bob - Daniel N. Aronson

Walt Dreary - Jan Korbelin

Matt - Jason Smith

Caspar - Charlie Newton

Ladies of Wapping:

Betty - Deborah de Furnia

Dolly - Julie Warner

Molly - Kitty Balay

Coaxer - Elizabeth Guber

Georgianna - Allyson Johnson

Sylvia - Heather Campbell

Street Juggler - Melanie Canon

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CHILDE BYRON

by Bertolt Brecht

Music by Kurt Weill

Directed by ?

Choreographed by Julie Strandberg

CAST

Ada - Laura Linney

Byron - Chris Cappiello

Boy - Michel Ruben

Woman - Randy Ellen Lutterman

Man - Tim Nelson

Young Woman - Marin Hinkle

Young Man - Gerd Schulte

Girl - Julie Warner

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Brownbrokers's production of

THE DREAMSELLER

by Greg Pincus '86 and Eric Sidoti '86

Directed by ?

Choreographed by Aleta Margolis

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Senior Slot Production of

OTHER PLACES

by Harold Pinter

Directed by Willis Sparks

CAST:

A KIND OF ALASKA

Deborah - Jennifer Van Dyck

Hornby - Tim Nelson

Pauline - Julie Warner

VICTORIA STATION

Controller - Jack Mason

Driver - Peter Jacobson

FAMILY VOICES

Voice 1 -Andrew Borba

Voice 2 - Laura Linney

Voice 3 - Raphy Green

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BROWN DANCE ENSEMBLE IN CONCERT

Directed by Julie A. Strandberg

April 3-6, 10-13, 1986

LET’S FACE THE MUSIC AND DANCE
choreographer: Emily Borman

UNFINISHED CONCERTO
choreographer: A.R. Trotter

BEACH FRINGE
choreographer: Julie Ikai

RESTLESS HARMONIES
choreographer: Cristina C. Fortenbaugh

AURA
choreographer: Edisa Weeks

WANDERING STARS
choreographer: Julie A. Strandberg

SECOND SKIN
choreographer: Jodi Falk

OH LORD
choreographer: Paula Franklin

THE ENVELOPE
choreographer: David Parsons

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THE GOSSIPS

translated and directed by student Ken Biller

CAST:

Beatrice - Pamela Weiler

Elenora - Susannah Blinkoff

Checchina - Laura Stockman

Squalda Katherine - Eban Finkelstein

Catte - Cusi Cram

Paron Toni - Stephen Richmond

Pantelone - Brian Selznick

Beppo - Raphy Green

Merlino, Musa - Jorge F. Roca

Anzoletta - Robin Swid

Porter, Checchino- Brian McKaig

Arlecchino - Roberto Amedeo Donati

Lelio - Willis Sparks

Toffolo, Panduro - Michel Ruben

Salamina - Torben Brooks

Moccolo, Waiter - Tony Mamet

Citizens of Venice

Chantal Beckman, Phillippe Blumenthal,
Laurence Borde, Emilio Botin, Carol Bremer, Mary Brezovich, Jay Gibson, Anne A. Harrison, Maria Lalaounis, John M. Lavitt, Allison Wild, Beth Wishnie

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Friends of Brown University Theatre

presents

IT HAD TO BE YOU

by Renée Taylor and Joe Bologna

Directed by Robert Drivas

Scenery and lighting design by John R. Lucas

May 21-25, 1986

Faunce House Theatre

CAST:

Theda Blau - Renee Taylor

Vito Pignoli - Joe Bologna

Off-Stage Voice - Don B. Wilmeth

Setting: Christmas Eve - New York City - The Present

There will be one 15 minute intermission

Food, drink, smoking, and the taking of photographs are prohibited in the theatre.

Acknowledgements:

Shaun B. Curran
Paul Silva (proprietor), William Alves, and Valerie Harvey of Renaissance of Hair, Barrington, RI

Production Staff:

Stage Manager - Jay Gibson
Dresser - Valerie Zenft
Miss Taylor's Hairdresser - Renaissance of hair
Technical Crew - Chris Perron, Ann-Mara Scheff, Josh Alemany, Laura Linney, Ann Waugh, Jay Dorff, John Eustis, and Willis Sparks

Friends of Brown University Theatre

Ancelin Lynch, President
Marie Barylick, Vice Presiden
Don B. Wilmeth, Treasurer

University Theatre Staff

Chairman, Dept. of Theatre Arts: Don B. Wilmeth
Directorial Staff: James O. Barnhill, George H. Bass, Margaret Doner (Dance), Nancy Dunbar (Speech), John Emigh, Mary Paula Hunter (Dance), John R. Lucas, Julie A. Strandberg (Director of Dance), Barbara Tannenbaum (Speech/Debate), Paula Vogel (Playwriting), and Don B. Wilmeth
Managing Director: John R. Luca
Technical Director: David P. Schrader
Costumer: Donna Himmelberger
Departmental Secretary: Pamela J. Enos
Box Office Manager: Cathy Linberg
Box Office Assistant: Jane Curry

Who’sWho

Renée Taylor is one of the rare women in show business who is successful as both a gifted performer and a respected comedic writer. She and her husband, Joseph Bologna, were nominated for an Oscar for their first screenplay, Lovers and Other Strangers, in which they also starred. She also works independently on a variety of roles, most recently in a recurring role on NBC's St. Elsewhere.

Renée and Joe are currently working together on a new feature for New World Pictures, Transylvania Six Five-Thousand, written and directed by Rudy DeLuca. The film, a funny horror movie, also stars Jeffrey Goldblum and Ed Begley, Jr.

While she has won rave reviews on Broadway, Taylor had never before appeared on the stage in Los Angeles. That was rectified last May when she and Bologna brought their critically acclaimed Broadway hit. It Had To Be You, to the Lee Strasberg Institute. They co-starred in the romantic comedy, recreating the roles they introduced in New York. The couple recently celebrated their year anniversary of It Had To Be You in Los Angeles, which is highly unique for an Equity waiver production. While the play has closed for the moment, there are plans to re-open in the near future.

Renée Taylor is a native New Vorker and a graduate of the Academy of Dramatic Arts who has studied with Lee Strasberg, Stella Adier, and Harold Clurman. While performing in the Off-Broadway improvisational review, The Third Ear, directed by Elaine May, she was spotted by Mike Nichols who cast her as Anne Jackson's stand-by in the comedy hit Luv. Her performance in Luv attracted the attention of George Abbott, who promptly cast her in his Broadway production of Agatha Sue, I Love You. Miss Taylor then went on to other Broadway roles including The Rehearsal and Lovers And Other Strangers, in which she co-starred with her husband. Off-Broadway audiences have applauded her roles in Three Sisters and Machinal, directed by Gene Frankel. She also starred in national companies of Annie Get Your Gun, Li'1 Abner and Wish You Were Here. Her television career includes an Emmy for comedy writing in 1973 for Acts of Love and Other Comedies on ABC, which she co-wrote with Bologna. The couple also collaborated both on screen and behind the typewriter on the HBO special, Bedrooms, which earned them a Writer's Guild Award for best comedy. She has long been a favorite on all the top variety and talk shows, dating back to her early appearances on The Jack Parr Show, when writer-producer Goodman Ace created a role for her on The Perry Como Show, and she became a regular on his series. That led to her motion picture debut in Jerry Lewis' The Errand Boy. Miss Taylor and Mr. Bologna starred and co-authored the motion pictures Lovers And Other Strangers and Made For Each Other, and she went on to starring roles in Last Of The Red Hot Lovers, co-starring Alan Arkin, Elaine May's A New Leaf, starring Walter Matthau, The Detective, starring Frank Sinatra, and many others. She was featured in the motion picture Lovesick, starring Dudley Moore; and as a special guest star in Love, Sex and Marriage?, starring Marlo Thomas and Charles Grodin.

Miss Taylor is a member of the Actor's Studio Playwright's unit. She recently completed her first novel. Fat And Envy in Beverly Hills, and she and Bologna are currently working on the screenplay of It Had To Be You.
They have homes in both Los Angeles and New Jersey and have one son, Gabe. The Bologna's are looking forward to celebrating their twentieth wedding anniversary this August.

Joseph Bologna is well known as both a writer and an actor, and dates his interest in the theatre from his student days at Brown University, when a casting notice called for "non-actor" types to fill roles in a stage production of Stalag 17. He landed the leading part but did not act again for ten years.
Graduated from Brown with a degree in art history. Bologna completed a tour with the Marines and began directing short films and writing special comedy material. He made his Broadway debut as star and co-author (with his wife, Renée Taylor) of Lovers And Other Strangers. He returned to Broadway in It Had To Be You, and made his Los Angeles stage debut in this romantic comedy, which he wrote with Miss Taylor. Bologna and Taylor collaborated on the screen version of Lovers And Other Strangers, which earned them an Oscar nomination, as well as the film Made For Each Other. Originally released in 1971 Made For Each Other was recently re-released to rave reviews fourteen years later.

Bologna and Taylor received an Emmy in 1973 for writing the special, Acts of Love and Other Comedies. They also wrote and co-starred in the special Paradise. They created for television, Calucci's Department, which starred James Coco. He starred with Lee Remick in the television movie, Torn Between Two Lovers, and One Cooks, The Other Doesn't, with Suzanne Pleshette and Rosanna Arquette. He was most recently seen on television in the HBO special, Bedrooms, which he co-wrote with Miss Taylor and earned them a Writer's Guild Award for best comedy. Bologna recently completed two television projects, both for CBS. He stars with Barry Manilow in Copacabana, playing out the story of the popular song by that name. He also stars with Joan Collins in the mini-series Sins.

Bologna's feature film acting credits include Cops and Robbers, Honor Thy Father, The Big Bus, Chapter Two, My Favorite Year, and Blame It On Rio, with Michael Caine. Most recently he starred with Gene Wilder in The Woman In Red. His latest film project is New World's Transylvania Six Five-Thousand in which he stars with Ed Begley, Jr., Jeff Goldblum and Renée Taylor.

Mr. Bologna is a member of the Playwright's Unit of the Actor's Studio in New York. Joe and Renée have generously donated their talents, time, and considerable energies for the benefit of the Faunce House Theatre renovation. They have also initiated an acting prize for our undergraduates, another munificent gesture. Donations for this evening's performance will, in-deed, go toward the ultimate renovation of this theatre. In fact, we have already begun. Backstage we have installed a wonderful new rigging system, which was first used to full advantage in February for Threepenny Opera, Professor James 0. Barnhill's final production prior to his retirement this June. Although we are currently far short of our goal, we are optimistic that adequate funds will be raised to complete our plans for the entire theatre, especially that portion shared by our patrons. Your support is, of course, vital in this effort and very much appreciated.

--DBW

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