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presents
DIVORCE PARTY THE MUSICAL
the hilarious journey to hell ... and back!
Conceived by Mark Schwartz & Amy Botwinick
Book by Mark Schwartz, Amy Botwinick & Jay Falzone
Lyrics by Jay Falzone
Starring
Janna Cardia
Janet Dickinson
Felicia Finley
Stacey Todd Holt
Scenic Design
Jonathan Collins
Costume Design
Jenna Hoefert
Soara-Joye Ross
Scott Ahearn
Lighting Design
Kate Ashton
Sound Design
Adam Rigby
Lyrics by
Jay Falzone
Musical Supervision
Orchestrations & Vocal Arrangements by
Bradley Vieth
Production Stage Manager
Kat West
Consulting Producer
Victoria Lang
Casting
Carol Hanzel Casting
General Management
Tom Smedes
Music Director
Michael L. Smith
Directed and Choreographed by
Jay Falzone
Originally Produced by Mark Schwartz, Flip-Her Productions & Amy Botwinick
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C A S T
(in order of appearance)
Male CharactersLLLLLLLL.STACEY TODD HOLT
LindaLLLLLLLLLLLLL.LJANNA CARDIA
CarolynLLLLLLLL..LLLL.. FELICIA FINLEY
SheilaLLLLLLLLL..LL..SOARA-JOYE ROSS
CourtneyLLLLLLLLLL.LLJANET DICKINSON
The GroomLLLLLLLLLLL....SCOTT AHEARN
Understudies
For Carolyn & Courtney: ANDREA CONTE
For Linda & Sheila: SAMARA DUNN
For Male Characters: SCOTT AHEARN
W H O ’ S
JANNA CARDIA (Linda) Tours:
Cinderella-Queen (Broadway Asia);
Wizard of Oz – Wicked Witch u/s
(CLO Tour). Regional: Victor Victoria
–Title Role (Stages St. Louis);
Spelling Bee – Rona (Riverside
Theatre); Sweeney Todd – Beggar
Woman, Oliver – Nancy, Into the
Woods – Witch, JosephE- Narrator,
Grease – Rizzo (Fulton Opera
House); Falsettos – Trina (Porchlight
Theatre/ After Dark Award); Full
Monty
–
Georgia
(Arkansas
Repertory); I Love You, You’re
PerfectE - Woman 1 (Mt. Gretna
Theatre); Closer Than Ever – Woman
1 (Phoencia Voice Festival); Sound of
Music – Elsa u/s (John W. Engeman);
Pump Boys and Dinettes – Prudie
(Fireside Theatre); Sacramento Music
Circus,
01’,
06’,
07’.
www.jannacardia.com
JANET DICKENSON (Courtney)
Broadway: How the Grinch Stole
Christmas National Tours: Grinch; 9
to 5 The Musical
New York:
Forbidden
Broadway's
Rude
Awakening cast recording and 2008
W H O
Drama Desk Award; Happiness at
Lincoln Center; 2011 NYMF Award for
Best Individual Performance in
Madame X; Secrets Every Smart
Traveler Should Know. Theatres:
Huntington, Ogunquit Playhouse,
Florida Studio Theatre, Human Race,
Mountain Playhouse.
Janet is
originally from Bemidji, MN!
FELICIA
FINLEY
(Carolyn)
Broadway: AIDA, The Life, Smokey
Joe's Cafe, The Wedding Singer, The
Wild Party, Forbidden B'way. Great
Mood for a Tuesday is her album that
is being critically praised as a
“relevant, incendiary rock effort that
firmly brands Finley as a significant
rock talent.” Recently she played
opposite Andre De Shields as Lola in
Damn Yankees and starred in the
musical adaptation of the movie,
Saved at Kansas City Repertory.
feliciafinley.com All her love to her
husband and best friend, Paul
Stancato.
SOARA-JOYE ROSS (Sheila) is a
native New Yorker, graduate from
AMDA & J. Beckson Studios, type 1
divabetic & Pomeranian owner. NY
credits: Les Misérables & Dance of the
Vampires on Broadway. Jerry Springer:
The Opera (Carnegie Hall), Dessa
Rose (Lincoln Center), The Tin Pan
Alley Rag (Roundabout Theatre Co),
Single Black Female (The Duke/
Playwrights Horizons), Cross That
River (NYMF's “Best of Fest” Award:
Outstanding Individual Performance.
Also workshopped at The O'Neill
theater center). Favorite credits: Aida
(Colorado Theatre Guild: Outstanding
Leading Actress Nominee), From the
Mississippi Delta (Triad Stage), Tick,
TickEBOOM! (Alliance), Ragtime
(Weston & Gateway) & Once On This
Island (Bay Street) & Summer of Love
(Ogunquit) Film/TV: Garden State ( w/
Natalie Portman & Zach Braff) & The
View (w/ Les Miz Cast). Love &
gratitude to The Most High, mom &
family! soara-joyeross.com
STACEY
TODD
HOLT
(Male
Characters) is thrilled to be spending
the new year in sunny WPB with this
exciting new musical! A year ago he
was spreading holiday cheer on
Broadway in the new musical Elf. Prior
B’way credits include Cry-Baby, The
Drowsy Chaperone, The Producers,
Contact, Big, and Crazy For You.
National
Tours
include
Young
Frankenstein, Contact, Crazy For You,
and 42nd Street. He has also appeared
occasionally Off-B'way
SCOTT AHEARN (The Groom) is
honored to be part of this amazing cast
and creative team. Theatre credits
include Chicago (Ogunquit Playhouse,
Broadway
World
Best
Actor
Nomination), Best Little Whorehouse
(Phoenix Theatre), The Full Monty,
Forever Plaid and Thoroughly Modern
Millie (Arvada Center, Denver), and a
season at the Texas Shakespeare
Festival. Tour: Grease (Kenickie). On
film, he can be seen as a Belgian
commie-fighting kickboxer in Live Till
You Die. Thanks to everyone at the
Kravis!
ANDREA CONTE (us/ Carolyn &
Courtney) (AEA/SAG/AFTRA) is
thrilled to be working with this talented
group of Artists. Television credits:
Necessary Roughness, Burn Notice,
The Glades, Drop Dead Diva. Feature
films: Letters to God, Rock of Ages,
Loving the Bad Man, Turkles. Theatre:
Barry Manilow Paradise Tour (Radio
City Music Hall/Uris Theatre, NY),
Mustang Sally, Cinderella, Into the
Woods, Kiss Me Kate. Deepest thanks
Divorce Party Family, my manager
Rona Burns, my family, and my
husband David Noble for his unending
support. www.andreaconte.com
SAMARA DUNN (u/s Linda & Sheila)
was most recently seen in Motherhood,
the Musical at the Minaci Performing
Arts Center. Touring credits include,
The Leader, Zorba, U.S. and Best of
Broadway, Europe.
NYC credits Elsa, Dissolving Elsa, Lark Theatre;
Morgan le Fey in a rock version of A
Connecticut Yankee, The Judith
Anderson Theatre. Some favorite
regional credits include Winnifred,
Once Upon a Mattress and Patsy,
Bingo, the Musical. Samara would like
to thank her husband, parents and her
son Michael for their constant love and
support.
MARK
SCHWARTZ
(Conceiver/
Author/Producer) Mark Schwartz has a
22-year career in Broadway and
professional theater. He began his
Broadway career with NINE, directed
by Tommy Tune and starring Raul Julia
(five Tony Awards). He co-produced
Zorba starring Anthony Quinn, My One
and Only (three Tony Awards), starring
Tommy Tune and Twiggy and La Cage
Aux Folles (six Tony Awards including
Best Musical). Recent projects include
the Tony nominated Broadway
production of Dream; Jackie: An
American Life
(Broadway
and
London’s West End productions); the
Broadway
production
of
Epic
Proportions directed by Jerry Zaks and
starring Kristin Chenoweth; the London
West End production of Hedwig and
the Angry Inch, the long-running Off-
W H O ’ S
Broadway production of Menopause
The Musical and the Off-Broadway and
US & UK touring productions of
SHOUT! The Mod Musical.
AMY BOTWINICK (Conceiver/Author
Prouducer) Dr. Amy Botwinick is the
author of Congratulations on Your
Divorce -The Road to Finding Your
Happily
Ever
After
(published
worldwide by Health Communications,
well known for the Chicken Soup for the
Soul series). After a successful 18 year
practice as a chiropractor, Dr. Botwinick
broadened the scope of her practice to
coach women to powerfully manage the
life transition of divorce and beyond.
Taking her own divorce experience and
message of empowerment to the next
level, she put together a team of
experts
to
create
www.womenmovingon.com. Botwinick
has appeared on national television to
offer her expert advice on The Tyra
Banks Show, as well as WeTV. She is
now excited to give the gift of laughter
and sisterhood through her play
Divorce Party The Musical - The
Hilarious Journey to Hell and Back!
JAY FALZONE (Director/Choreographer/Lyrics/Co-Writer) is thrilled to
be taking a break from a NYC winter
here in sunny Florida, and is proud to
be “changing the world one rabbit at a
time” with Divorce Party The Musical.
Other writing credits: Cooking with the
Calamari
Sisters,
www.TheCalamariSisters.com
Christmas with the Calamari Sisters,
Parenting 101, and You Don’t Know
Jack (Book/ Lyrics), an adult retelling of
the Jack & Jill nursery rhyme.
Directing/ Choreographing credits:
Bush Wars (Off-Broadway), SHOUT!
The Mod Musical (Chicago; National
Tour), Ain’t Misbehavin’ (National Tour),
Snoopy! (50th Anniversary National
Tour), 42nd Street (Naples, FL), and I
Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
(Rochester, NY - 9-year run). Next up,
W H O
the third Calamari Sisters' show, The
Calamari Sisters’ Big Fat Italian
Wedding, is having its world premier in
May, 2012.
JONATHAN COLLINS (Scenic Design)
Jonathan recently designed Now The
Cats With Jeweled Claws at Cafe La
Mama directed by Jonathan Warman,
and "Greenwood," at the New York
Musical Theater Festival and the Sound
of Music at the Engeman Theater, both
directed by Paul Stancato. He will soon
be opening The Sunshine Boys at the
Engeman, directed by BT McNicholl.
He has recently associate/assistant
designed the broadway productions of
Lysistrata Jones, On A Clear Day,
Merchant of Venice, and Bloody Bloody
Andrew
Jackson.
MFA
NYU.
http://www.jonwcollins.com
JENNA HOEFERT (Costumes Design)
A
freelance
theatrical/structural
costumer and soft goods designer with
a background in engineering. In 2011,
she designed the entire season for The
Womens Theatre Project, including
Eclipsed, Sunday on the Rocks,
Chitterling Heights and Women Drivers.
She is the former costume shop
manager of the Maltz Jupiter Theatre
and designer of five of their
Conservatory musical shows. Other
design credits include Food Fight World
Premier and touring shows (Food Fight
Productions), Elijah (Masterworks
Chorus), pieces for numerous South
Florida special events and several
nationally exhibited art quilts. She
thanks Lee for always believing in her!
KATE ASHTON (Lighting Design)
Theatre includes Chaos (Abu Dhabi),
Medea, Death of a Salesman and more
with Theater Mitu, Blind Mouth Singing
(NAATCO), Tape (dir. Sam Helfrich),
Summer and Smoke (Theatre Row), A
Tree Grows in Brooklyn and Another
Part of the Forest (Peccadillo), Bristol
Riverside
Theatre’s
Summer
W H O ’ S
Musicales,
The
Winter’s
Tale
(Columbia
University).
Opera:
L’Incoronazione di Poppea and A
Midsummer Night’s Dream (Juilliard),
Nina (U.S. Premiere) and La Bohème
(Manhattan School of Music). Dance:
Skybetter and Associates, Syren. BA,
College of William & Mary. MFA, NYU
TSOA. www.kateashtonlighting.com
ADAM RIGBY (Sound Design) is
happy to be back in West Palm Beach
for the first time since Shout: The Mod
Musical. Other design credits are: The
Ritz (assistant sound design)
CAROL HANZEL CASTING (Casting)
Broadway: Swing!, Sally Marr and Her
Escorts. National tours: Swing!,
Defending the Caveman, Girl’s Night.
Off-Broadway: The Screwtape Letters,
My Vaudeville Man, Wanda’s World,
Signs of Life, Dr. Sex, Theda Bara and
the Frontier Rabbi, Dorian Gray,
Trophies, Identical Twins from
Baltimore.
Regional Productions:
Tarzan, Cagney, Backwards in High
Heels, Hats!, Flight of the Lawnchair
Man, Hannah, Lost Boy Found in
Whole Foods, The Good Counselor,
Dracula, The Tin Pan Alley Rag, Lizzie
Borden. TV: The Wonder Pets, Hi-5,
Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?,
Feature Film: A Very Serious Person,
The Guru (dance sequence casting)L
and
over
2500
commercials.
Upcoming: Ionescopade-York Theatre,
NYC.
KAT WEST (Production Stage
Manager) Select Credits include; Off
Broadway: My Big Gay Italian
Wedding, Altar Boyz for Davenport
Theatricals, President Harding is A
Rock Star, Boozy, Heddatron for Les
Freres Corbusier, Little Flower of East
Orange for The Public/LABrynith
Theater Company, Iron Curtain, The
Flood, Illyria, Golden Boy of the Blue
Ridge and others for Prospect Theater
Company. Opera: La Boheme,
W H O
Cavaleria Rusticana New York City
Opera, Thanks to Jay, her husband, &
her crew!
VICTORIA
LANG
(Consulting
Producer)
Broadway: Taylor &
Burton’s Private Lives, Taylor’s Little
Foxes, Joseph...Coat, View from the
Bridge, Peter Pan, Brigadoon, The
Corn is Green, Peg. Off Broadway:
Silence! The Musical! (Time Magazine
Top 10), Shout!, Matt & Ben (Time
Magazine Top 10), Johnny Guitar
(Outer Critics Circle Award), Listen to
my Heart. London: Bat Boy, Shout!,
Silence! TV: LIVE! with Regis and
Kathie Lee (3 Emmy nominations).
TOM SMEDES (General Manager)
Tom is currently producing the
upcoming Broadway production of
Peter & The Starcatcher and ACE.
Broadway:
Next
Fall
(Tony
Nomination), [title of show] Producer
London: The Musical of Musicals (the
Musical; Side By Side By Sondheim.
Off Broadway: The Judy Show, Naked
Boys Singing!; Dog Sees God:
Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead;
The Women Of Lockerbie; Mike
Daisey’s 21 Dog Years: Doing Time @
Amazon.Com; General Management:
Silence! The Musical, Altar Boyz (NYC
& Tour); Criss Angel: Mindfreak; Love
Janis. For more information go to
www.tomsmedes.com