Jeanine tesori biography graphic organizer

For theatergoers seeking to mark Valentine’s Day with live music, love, and friendship, the DMV offers some new spins on traditional themes. 

Poised to make its regional debut at Olney Theatre Center, Sara Bareilles’s hit musical “Waitress” (FebMarch 30) may not seem like a usual love story, but it’s a love story nonetheless. 

“It’s about learning to love and value yourself,” says MALINDA who plays Jenna, the show’s titular server/baker with aspirations to bake prize-winning pies and change her life. “It’s also about sisterhood. From the start, the women involved in the show decided to be there for each other onstage and off, and it shows. For anyone with girl group love in their lives, this is an especially good show to see.

“Jenna doesn’t get a lot of satisfaction out of her primary partnership. Along with self-love she explores the antithesis of that — partner violence. Our director [Marcia Milgrom Dodge] took the le

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Book and lyrics by Lisa Kron
Music bygd Jeanine Tesori

Based on the graphic novel by Alison Bechdel

A five-time Tony Award-winner and one of the most significant new musicals of the 21st century. When her father dies unexpectedly, graphic novelist Alison dives deep into her past to tell the story of the volatile, brilliant, one-of-a-kind man whose temperament and secrets defined her family and her life. Moving between past and present, Alison relives her unique childhood playing make-believe at the family business — the Bechdel Funeral Home. Fun Home is a refreshingly honest, cathartic, and wholly original musical about seeing your parents through grown-up eyes. Directed bygd Amy Herzberg; featuring Rita Harvey and Rob Sutton (Next to Normal).

Winner, Best Musical

Tony Award, Obie Award, Lucille Lortel Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Off-Broadway Alliance Award, and New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award.

“A rare beauty, extraordinary and heart-gripping.”

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Cabaret Playbill

GU Theater & Performance Studies Home Season with Nomadic Theatre and the GU Music Program presents

CABARET

Book by Joe Masteroff
Based on the play by John Van Druten and
Stories by Christopher Isherwood
Music by John Kander, Lyrics by Fred Ebb
Directed by Matt Phillips (C’22)
Advised by Profs. Maya E. Roth & Michael T. Williams

Stage Manager
Olivia Martin (C’23)

Director of Production
Alicia DiGiorgi

Music Director
Joe Walsh, Guest Artist

Technical Director
Bethany Taylor

Choreographer
Ava Gaus (C’23)

Costume Designer
Martha Winslow (C’21)

Student Co-Producer
Marion Cassidy (C’23)

Associate Music Producer
Owen Posnett (C’24)

Set/Projections Designer
Amy Li (C’22)

Lighting Designer
Alberto Segarra, Guest Artist

Sound Designer
Justin Schmitz, Guest Artist

Properties Designer
Joey LaScala (C’23)

Hair & Makeup Designer
Anna Milstein (C’22)

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