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The Last Night of Ballyhoo

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	The Last Night of Ballyhoo By Alfred Uhry Nov. 7 – Dec. 27, 2009

Cast & Design Team

Steve Garfinkel (Director) Main Street Theater: (Director) But Not Goodbye, Mr. Pim Passes By, Anna in the Tropics, Margin for Error, Morning Star, Theophilus North, Over the River and Through the Woods, June Moon, The Last Night Of Ballyhoo, Accidental Death Of An Anarchist, My Three Angels, Happily Hereafter, Good Housekeeping, Mary, Mary, The Solid Gold Cadillac, Miss Lulu Bett, Julius Caesar, Something More, (Actor) over 50 roles including, Awake and Sing!, On the Razzle, Promises, Promises, Oh, Boy!, Uncle Vanya, Pride and Prejudice, The Real Inspector Hound, La Nona, (Author/Adaptor) If You Take a Mouse to the Movies, If You Take A Mouse to School, Miss Nelson Is Back, The Wave, If You Give a Moose a Muffin, It's a Jungle Out There! (with Marianne Pendino); Jewish Community Center, Stages Repertory Theatre, Public Theater: (Actor); Express Theatre: (Author) El Caballito Of Seven Colors, The Three Lessons of Tierra Madre, Pobre Pablo’s Wondrous Wishes, Beauty and The Beast, and others. Additional author credits at Nashville Children’s Theatre and the Ensemble Theatre. Mr. Garfinkel is the librettist for MST’s recent world premiere of P’s and Q’s: the ABC’s of Manners with book and lyrics by Trout Fishing in America.

Luisa Amaral-Smith* (Reba Freitag) Main Street Theater: The House of the Spirits (English-language premiere), Awake and Sing!, The Light in the Piazza, Anna in the Tropics; A.D. Players: Christmas Party of One, The Diary of Anne Frank, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, Guest Quarters, The Importance of Being Earnest, Anne of Green Gables, The Trip to Bountiful; Stages Repertory Theatre: Nickel and Dimed; Alley Theatre: Arabian Nights, Finding Home, Much Ado About Nothing, Pecos Bill, Balm in Gilead; Houston Children's Theatre Festival: Sleeping Beauty, Pinocchio, Snow White; Houston Shakespeare Festival: The Tempest, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, The Taming of the Shrew, Coriolanus, As You Like It; Stuart Ostrow's Musical Theatre LaB Houston: Company. TV: The Dinah Shore Show; Host of children's segment for Houston Ahora (Channel 45, Univision Affiliate); Host of Parent Voices/Voces de los Padres and KidTelligence (Media Services Television). Education: Temple College; East Texas State University; University of Houston. Proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

Liz Cascio (Lala Levy) Main Street Theater: The Light in the Piazza; Houston Shakespeare Festival: Pericles; Unity Theatre: The Matchmaker; Houston Fringe Festival: Turned; Texas Repertory Theatre: I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change; Mildred’s Umbrella: Compleat Female Stage Beauty; Playhouse on the Square (Memphis): Pirates of Penzance, The Great American Trailer Park Musical; Seussical the Musical, Charlotte’s Web; Baton Rouge Dinner Theatre: Inside Out, the Musical; The Circuit Playhouse (Memphis): Lies and Legends, Compleat Female Stage Beauty. Education: B.M., Louisiana State University, Vocal Performance.

Jamie Geiger (Joe Farkas) Main Street Theater: Awake and Sing!, The Light in the Piazza; Stages Repertory Theatre: The Andrews Brothers; Bayou City Concert Musicals: On the Town; Unity Theatre: A Child’s Christmas in Wales, The Taming of the Shrew; Theatre Macon: The Scarlet Pimpernel, Urinetown; Rice University Opera: La Finta Giardiniera, Street Scene; Opera in the Ozarks: Die Fledermaus; Mercer University Opera: The Magic Flute, Into the Woods. Education: M.M., Rice University; B.M., Mercer University; Aspen Music Festival; Opera in the Ozarks; American Institute of Musical Studies.

Bethany McCade (Sunny Freitag) Main Street Theater: Debut; National Repertory Theatre: The Shape of Things; HFAC: Cinderella; Cy-Fair College: Honky Tonk Angels Holiday Spectacular, Swingtime Canteen, Valley of the Dolls, A Taffeta’s Christmas, Honk!, The Robber Bridegroom; Houston Children’s Theater Festival: The Land of Broken Toys. Education: The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre.

Jim Salners (Adolph Freitag) Main Street Theater: Caroline, or Change, The Best Man; Texas Repertory Theatre: You Can’t Take It with You, Proof, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; Country Playhouse: Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, To Kill a Mockingbird; Scriptwriters Houston: Ten by Ten’s Foster’s Hat; Theatre Southwest: Pharmacy; Midland Community Theatre: Music Man, Butterflies Are Free, Barefoot in the Park, Galileo, Promises, Promises, Forty Carats, Absurd Person Singular, Lamp at Midnight, My Three Angels. Film/TV: Waltz Across Texas. Education: B.A., Carnegie Mellon University, Chemical Engineering.

Matt Tramel (Peachy Weil) Main Street Theater: The Reluctant Dragon, A Little House Christmas, The Merchant of Venice (NEA Tour), If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, If You Give a Moose a Muffin, Ramona Quimby (understudy); Houston Grand Opera: Brief Encounter; Country Playhouse: All in the Timing, The Rainmaker; Company OnStage: Rapunzel and the Frog Prince, Barefoot in the Park, You Can’t Take It with You; Upstage Theatre: Santa’s Magic Timepiece; Brown Theatre: The House of Yes; Center Stage: How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying; Lovett Theatre: You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown; Jones Theatre: Assassins; Theatre Southwest: The Imaginary Invalid; Rice Players/Tangent Productions: Scooter Thomas Makes It to the Top of the World; Rice Players: Smash, Design for Living. Film/TV: Invicta, Mindsight, Christian Roane, This Is America, My Darling Clementine, Spirit Camp, Inebriatus Rex, Play Dead, Heart of Mold. Education: B.S., Rice University, Civil Engineering.

Rebecca Greene Udden* (Boo Levy) Main Street Theater: (Director) The House of the Spirits (English-language premiere), Translations, Caroline, or Change, What the Butler Saw, An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Boeuf, The Rice, Copenhagen, The Little Foxes, Full Bloom, Northanger Abbey, The Witlings, Arcadia, The Miser, The Heidi Chronicles, King Lear, Hamlet, Uncommon Women and Others, The Real Thing, Pride and Prejudice, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (NEA Tour), A Little House Christmas, James and the Giant Peach, The Merchant of Venice (NEA Tour), The Diary of Anne Frank, The Taming of the Shrew (NEA Tour), Bridge to Terabithia, The Great Gilly Hopkins, and many more, (Actor) Third, The Busy World Is Hushed, Somebody’s Sons, The Sisters Rosensweig, Hapgood, Joined at The Head, Hamlet, (Costume Design) Homebody / Kabul, Poor Richard, Private Lives, The Secret Garden (2006), The Women, The Little Foxes; College of the Mainland Arena Theatre: (Director)The Merry Wives of Windsor. Member of the American Leadership Forum Class XVI. 2005 YWCA Outstanding Woman in the Arts. Executive Artistic Director, Main Street Theater.

Ruth Dentel (Costume Design) Main Street Theater: Morning Star, Seussical, In the Garden of Live Flowers, Promises, Promises, Oh, Boy!, On the Razzle, Miss Nelson Has a Field Day; Stages Repertory Theatre: Elizabeth Rex, Hotel Oubliette. Education: M.F.A., University of Virginia.

Trey Otis (Set and Properties Design) Main Street Theater: Awake and Sing!, But Not Goodbye; Studio 54, New York (Broadway): Cabaret; Roundabout Theatre (NY): Dark Passion; Plaza Hotel (NY): Victoria’s Secret Run-way Show; Manitoba Theatre Centre (Canada): Death of a Salesman; Theatre Royal (Bath, England): Measure for Measure, Miss Julie; Leysin American School (Switzerland): Romeo and Juliet, The Glass Menagerie; Express Theatre: Romeo and Juliet; The State Theatre: Ain’t Misbehavin’; Zilker Park Musicals: Crazy for You; Texas Repertory Theatre: The Mystery of Irma Vep. Film & TV: American Journal, National News/Magazine TV Show. Education: B.A., Sam Houston State University; M.A., Southwest Texas State University; M.F.A. University of Houston.

Daniel Polk (Lighting Designer) Main Street Theater: Awake and Sing!, …and L.A. Is Burning (World Premiere); Country Playhouse: (Mainstage) Amadeus, Little Women, Dreamgirls, To Kill a Mockingbird, Blithe Spirit, The Rainmaker, Ladies of the Alamo, (Blackbox) Times Square Angel, Mass Appeal, Love Letters; Theatre Southwest: Private Lives, Regrets Only; Dionysus Theatre: Violet; Actors Summit (Hudson, OH): Lend Me a Tenor, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, The Woman in Black, Copenhagen, Personals, Cricket on the Hearth, The Glass Menagerie, As the World Goes Round, A Child’s Christmas in Wales, Picnic; Cleveland Stage Company: Hamlet ESP, As Bees in Honey Drown, Heart of a Dog; Ensemble Theatre (Cleveland, OH): The Road to Mecca, West Memphis Mojo, The Emperor Jones, The Hairy Ape, Moon for the Misbegotten, The Colored Museum, Baby. Education: M.F.A., Boston University, Lighting Design; B.A., Case Western Reserve University, Technical Theatre.

Janel J. Badrina* (Sound Designer) Main Street Theater: (Sound Design) The Pie Dialogues (World Premiere), But Not Goodbye, Present Laughter, Caroline, or Change, The Busy World Is Hushed, Design for Living, Anna in the Tropics, The Secret Garden, What the Butler Saw, Wondergirl (World Premiere), Morning Star, Suburb, The Women, The Weir, Over the River and Through the Woods, On Approval, Eating Crow, Experiment with an Air Pump, (Lighting Design) Present Laughter, (Stage Manager) Awake and Sing!, The Pie Dialogues (World Premiere), Translations, The Busy World Is Hushed, Urinetown, Private Lives, Margin For Error, An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Boeuf, Beyond the Fringe, Somebody's Sons, Comic Potential, The Rice, In the Garden of Live Flowers, Underneath the Lintel, Oh, Boy!, The Women, The Little Foxes, June Moon, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Full Bloom, Eating Crow, (Assistant Stage Manager) On the Razzle; Shadowland Theatre (New York): (Stage Manager) Stop Kiss, Book of Days, Fuddy Meers, Talley's Folly; West Virginia Public Theatre (Morgantown, WV): (Stage Manager) The Full Monty, (Assistant Stage Manager) A Chorus Line, Funny Girl, Sweet Charity; Town Center Theatre (The Woodlands, TX): (Sound Design) Julius Caesar, Merry Christmas, George Bailey, Night & Her Stars; Rice University: (Stage Manager) No Exit; University of Houston: (Sound Design) Childe Byron, Our Country's Good, (Lighting Design) Endgame; (Director) Gate of Heaven, Eleemosynary; The Edward Albee New Playwrights Workshop; The Stuart Ostrow Musical Theatre Lab.

Rob Babbitt* (Stage Manager) Main Street Theater: (Stage Manager) But Not Goodbye, …and L. A. Is Burning (World Premiere), Mr. Pim Passes By, Design for Living, Anna in the Tropics, Morning Star, Suburb, Over the River and Through the Woods; (Director / Choreographer) Promises, Promises, Oh, Boy!, Oh, Kay!, Anyone Can Whistle, Nine, Falsettoland, Sunday in the Park with George, Miss Nelson Has a Field Day; Broadway (Stage Manager) Grand Hotel, Stepping Out, The Will Rogers Follies; Off-Broadway: (Stage Manager) Blues in the Night.

* Member of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.