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2nd Annual
10- Min ut e Musical The a tr e F e s tiv a l

Monday, December 8, 2014 7:00 p.m.

47th Street Theatre 304 W. 47th Street, NYC

Artistic Director

Managing Director

Thomas Morrissey

Rebecca Nell Robertson

NEW YORK

T H E AT R E
presents

10-Minute Musical Theatre Festival

Featuring ten 10-minute musicals by:
John Herin & Frederick Alden Terry Maggie Herskowitz &
Neil Douglas Reilly Bryce Cutler & Jacob Tischler Thicket & Thistle
Bill Nabel & Bob Christianson Kevin Hammonds & Andy Roninson
Erik Przytulski Maggie Herskowitz & Douglas Makuta
Sam Chanse & Bob Kelly Justin Anthony Long & Garrit Gaudan
Producer
Stephen Bishop Seely

Associate Producer
Charles Quittner

Music Coordinator
Ellie Kahn

Juan Garcia

Production Stage Manager

Tracey Woolley

Assistant Stage Manager

Mia Haiman

Company Manager
Lauren Jacobs

Running Crew
Thomas White Matt Zanfagna

Diego Rios

SOUND BITES Festival Judges

Alex Britten
Ken Cerniglia Shelby Comstock
Alex Dinelaris Peter Filichia
Mitch Weiss

Sponsored in part by:

Lighting Designer
Cindy Shumsey

MUSICALS
AVAC Memories | Book & Lyrics by John Herin
Music by Frederick Alden Terry | Directed by Dev Bondarin
Music Direction by Jeff Theiss
Setting:Roosevelt Island, New York, and New York Harbor Present Day.
CAST
Sock................................................................... Aaron Riesebeck*
Banana Peel............................................................... Sarah Corey*
Flab Master 5000..................................................Jennifer Blood*
Salami........................................................................ Greg Horton*
Newspaper.................................................................. Steven Eng*
Scenes & Musical Numbers
Act I: Trash Testimonials.................................................Company
Act II: GooTube...............................................................Company
Act III: Wretched Refuse...............................................Company
The Boy, The King, and The Flower
Book & Lyrics by Maggie Herskowitz
Music by Neil Douglas Reilly | Directed by Katherine M. Carter
Setting: A far-off kingdom, out of time.
CAST
David............................................................................. Ben Garrett
Mother............................................................................. Roxy York
Royal Messenger............................................... Shawn Platzker*
Scenes & Musical Numbers
All That You Are............................................................. Roxy York
I Can Grow Anything................................................ Ben Garrett
Guitar by Shawn Platzker | Violin by Nyssa Duchow

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GRINDR! The Musical | Book by Bryce Cutler

Music & Lyrics by Jacob Tischler | Directed by Benjamin Viertel
Music Direction & Piano by David Carl | Choreography by Rachael Singer
Setting: New York City. Right Now.
CAST
Jesse....................................................................Trevor McQueen
Blaine...................................................................... Taylor Shubert
Peter................................................................ Brandon Timmons
Federico................................................................Noah Plomgren
Barry...........................................................................Lincoln Ward
Scenes & Musical Numbers
On Grindr.................................................................................. All
The First Time........Taylor Shubert and Trevor McQueen
Taste of Glory........................................................................... All
Group Sex: A Dance............................................................... All
Whats Your Wish By Thicket & Thistle
Setting:A magical forest. Present day.
CAST
Nicholas.................................................................... Kyle Acheson
Brian........................................................................... Sam DeRoest
Mckenzie/ Fairy in a Cage.................................. Nyssa Duchow
Nicholass Mother/ Witch................................ Corley Pillsbury
Scenes & Musical Numbers
Entre Act.....................................Kyle Acheson, Sam DeRoest,

Nyssa Duchow, Corley Pilsbury

Scene 1. The Attic................................................Nicholas, Brian,

Nicholas Mother, McKenzie

Whats Your Wish..........................................Nicholas and Brian

Scene 2. The Forest.......................................Nicholas and Brian
Secrets on the Wind..............................................................Witch
Dark Spirit of the Ancient Soil....Witch, Nicholas and Brian
Make a Wish.......................................................... Fairy in a Cage
Scene 3. Back in the Attic..................................Nicholas, Brian,
Nicholas Mother, McKenzie

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MUSICALS
Take Me America | Book & Lyrics by Bill Nabel
Music by Bob Christianson
Setting:The offices of the United States Immigration and Citizenship
Services and the hearts and minds of Gary Campbell, a new asylum agent
on his first day and seven asylum applicants.
CAST
Gary Campbell........................................................Tommy Craig
Marsha......................................................................Robin Baxter*
Michael............................................................ Mitch Giannunzio*
Jean Alexis..................................................................Manfred Lion
Wu.............................................................................Dave Resultan
Fan................................................................................Diana Huey*
Asif Ghibral................................................................. Adrian Rifat
Isabella Ruiz..................................................... America Barcenas
Malith Ogimutu........................................ Jonathan Christopher
Zara ................................................................................. Iris Elton*
Scenes & Musical Numbers
Take Me America.............................................................Company
Standin At The Edge........................................Gary and Asylees
Can I Talk To You...................................................... Gary and Fan
Take Me America (Reprise).............. Gary, Fan and Company
INTERMISSION 15 MINUTES
The Answering Machine | Book & Lyrics by Kevin Hammonds
Music by Andy Roninson | Directed by Andrew Garret Karl
Setting:College dorm room answering machine, early 90s.
CAST
Lauren....................................................................... Kyra Kennedy
Ben..................................................................... Brennan Caldwell
Stafford....................................................................... Gabe Aguilar

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The Answering Machine (Contd)
Scenes & Musical Numbers
Outgoing Message #1..........................................Ben & Stafford
Get The Message.................................................................. Lauren
Outgoing Message #2..........................................Ben & Stafford
Shes Coming Over.................................................................... Ben
Pick Up, Ben.......................................................................... Lauren
Nowhere Else to Go But Up.................................................. Ben
Outgoing Message #3............................................Ben & Lauren
Keyboards by Andy Roninson | Guitar by Anthony Rubbo
Bass by Mike Roninson | Drums by Alex Aitken
Pellets, Cherries, and Lies: The Pac Man Story
Book, Music & Lyrics by Erik Przytulski
Music Direction by Doug Oberhamer
Directed & Choreographed by Allison Bibicoff
Setting:The Pac Familys Home.
CAST
Ms. Pac Man....................................................... Danette Holden*
Pac Man...............................................................Darryl Winslow*
Jr. Pac Man.............................................................. Eddie Andrews
Sue The Ghost...................................................... Jenny Ashman*
Inky...........................................................................Eileen Aurelia*
Blinky............................................................................Ali Axelrad*
Pinky................................................................................. Kellie Spill
Scenes & Musical Numbers
1. Prologue.................................................................. Ms. Pac Man
2. In Control....................................................................... Pac Man
3. Like You...................................................................... Jr. Pac Man
4. Out Of The Game................................................ Ms. Pac Man
5. Taste.............................................................. Sue & The Ghosts
6. Finale..............................................................................Company
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MUSICALS
Dust | Book & Lyrics by Maggie Herskowitz
Music by Douglas Makuta | Music by Jennifer Gelfer
Setting: Oklahoma, 1935. The height of the Dust Bowl.
CAST
Jessie............................................................................... KC Leiber*
Anna-Jean................................................................... Jessie Kahme
Tom...................................................................... Shawn Platzker*
Scenes & Musical Numbers

California..................................... Shawn Platzker & KC Leiber

When the Worlds At Its End........................... Shawn Platzker
& KC Leiber

gilgamesh & the mosquito | Book & Lyrics by Sam Chanse

Music by Bob Kelly | Directed by Kel Haney
Setting: The ancient Sumerian Kingdom of Uruk; a present-day university
classroom; a mosquito tank; a biotech lab; the spaces connecting them.
CAST

Gilgamesh............................................... Brandon Michael Nase

Kamil......................................................................Jonathan Raviv*
Toni..........................................................................Cindy Cheung*
Paolo.................................................................... Sarah Smithton*
Uruk Chorus (Ensemble)....................... Kimberly Chatterjee,
Hali Alspach, Molly Fried, Benny Gammerman,
Tara Halpern, Cheeyoung Kim and Ryan Korell
Scenes & Musical Numbers
There Has To Be A Way........ Kamil, Gilgamesh, Ensemble
Not Supposed to Think..................................Toni, Ensemble
I Wont Drink................................................. Paolo, Ensemble
Either Way........................................... Toni, Kamil, Ensemble

Keyboard by Bob Kelly | Cajon by Allen Brandr | Shaker by Sam Chanse

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MUSICALS
Cookie Soiree: A Sweet New Musical Short
Book & Lyrics by Justin Anthony Long
Music by Garrit Gaudan | Concept by Jonathan Lee
Setting: Sugar Land, Texas; Summer of 2012.
CAST
Raquel............................................................ Desiree Rodriguez*
Gretel................................................................. Amber Coartney
Sandy........................................................................... Katie Boren*
Brody/Billy...................................................................... Joe Conti*
Marcus/Derek............................................................. Eddie Egan*
Scenes & Musical Numbers
Scene 1: Walmart Parking Lot
Cookie for Sale................................................................ The Girls
Hey Girls......................................Brody, Marcus and The Girls
Were Just Kids................................................................ The Girls
Scene 2: On the Road
Girl Scout Guerillas............................................... Full Company
Were Just Kids (Reprise).............................................. The Girls
Scene 3: Walmart Parking Lot, The Next Day
Cookies for Sale (Reprise)................................... Full Company
Music at bows Us by Joanna Burns: joannaburns.com
We wish to express our gratitude to the following performers unions
through Theatre Authority, Inc. for their cooperation in
permitting the artists to appear on this program.

Actors Equity Association

American Guild of Musical Artists
American Guild of Variety Artists
SAG-AFTRA
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WHOS WHO: WRITERS & COMPOSERS

Sam Chanse (gilgamesh &
the mosquito: Book & Lyrics) is
a writer based in New York. A
member of the Ma-YiWriters Lab, the
Larks Meeting of the Minds, and the
Actors Studio PDU, she received
MFAs in playwriting and musical theater writing from Columbia and NYU. Her solo play, Lydias
Funeral Video, is forthcoming from
Kaya Press. www.samchanse.com.

speare Library). He has won

the Lloyd Weinger Award and is
co-founder of the political theater group, Third Space. Education: Carnegie Mellon University.
www.brycecutler.com

Garrit Guadan* (Cookie Soiree: Music) is a Brooklyn-based

actor, singer, and composer. Composing Credits include Twist (MITF
award best music), Cookie SoiBob Christianson (Take Me ree (Ken Davenport 10 min musiAmerica: Music) is the Composer, cal winner), Jake and Lindsay (Ken
Arranger and Executive Produc- Davenport 10 min musical finalist).
er of the WTTW-PBS Special, A Member of AEA, ASCAP, and AFM
Christmas Carol The Concert that Local 802. www.garritguadan.com
received a 2104 Primetime Emmy
Nomination
for Outstanding Kevin Hammonds (The AnMusic & Lyrics. He is also an award swering Machine: Book & Lyrics)
winning composer for his work in Book and lyrics for When Midnight
television & movies with credits in- Strikes (available on iTunes); Brenda
cluding HBOs Sex and the City and Bly: Teen Detective, published by Samthe NCAA Basketball Theme for CBS. uel French. Other musicals include
www.bobchristianson.com. www. Mr. Christmas, Hope, R.S.V.P.A.S.A.P.,
No One in the World and Super Hero.
achristmascaroltheconcert.com
Kevin is a proud member of the BMI
Bryce Cutler (GRINDR! The Lehman Engel Musical Theatre AdMusical: Book) recently designed vanced Workshop, and The DramaThe Danish Widow written and di- tist Guild.
rected by John Patrick Shanley.
Other designs include The Lady In Maggie Herskowitz (The
Red (Arts@Renaissance). Other Boy, The King, And The Flower
designs include Victor Frange Presents and Dust: Book & Lyrics) graduatGas (Incubator Arts Centre) and ed cum laude from CSULA at the
Titus Andronicus (Folger Shake- age of eighteen with a degree in
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WHOS WHO: WRITERS & COMPOSERS

Jonathan Lee* (Cookie Soiree:
Concept/Director) is an actor, singer, writer, photographer, and producer. As an actor, Jonathans credits include Thuy in Miss Saigon, Ito
in Mame, Ching Ho in Thoroughly
Modern Millie, Jack in Into the Woods
at the Oguma Playhouse, Henry in
Next to Normal, and more. As a writer, Jonathan co-wrote the music,
lyrics, and book to the new musical
Welcome To Shoofly as well as the
award winning short, Take Out. He
also co-writes, edits, and stars in the
John Herin, (AVAC Memories: musical web-series, City of Dreams,
Book & Lyrics), has collaborated which has been featured in The New
with Frederick Alden Terry on nu- York Times, USA Today, Playbill and
merous works, including The Passion Broadway World.
of George W. Bush, The Tempest, Ethan
Frome, Buying Time, CindeRelativity, Justin Anthony Long* (Cookand Improvisation. He is a graduate ie Soiree: Book/Lyrics/Director) is
of the NYU Musical Theatre Writing a writer, director and actor. Some
Program and a member of the BMI writing/directing credits include City
Lehman Engel Librettists Workshop. of Dreams (New York Times, USA
Today, Playbill.com), Take Out (Top 10
www.herinterry.com.
2014 Asian American Film Contest),
Bob Kelly (Gilgamesh & The Cookie Soiree (Winner of Ken DavMosquito: Music) is a NY-based enports 2012 10-Minute Play/Musicomposer and pianist/arranger/MD. cal Contest) and Welcome to Shoofly
He is originally from the Twin Cit- (2011 NYMF Next Link Finalist &
ies, MN, graduating from St. Olaf 2011 NJ Playwrights Contest FinalCollege in 2012. He recently com- ist). www.JustinAnthonyLong.com
pleted his MFA from the NYU Tisch
Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Douglas Makuta (Dust: Music)
Program in May 2014. More info at grew up the son of a vocalist-musician
mother, and a Marine Colonel father.
www.bobkellymusic.com.
Psychology and big aspirations of
being an animal behaviorist. Then
she was like just kidding, I wanna
do theater. Her first musical, Figment, with music by Neil Reilly, was
workshopped at the Boston Conservatory, where Herskowitz was a
musical theater performance major.
Her first straight play, Fitzwilliam
Loves Lizzy, was produced in 2013
at the Manhattan Repertory Theater,
with Herskowitz in the title role.
www.maggieherskowitz.com

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Due to his parents line of work, he
has lived all over the world and
chose a profession that would require the same of him. As a vocalist (countertenor), cellist, pianist,
guitarist, as well as a composer and
songwriter, Douglas is a professional recording and touring artist,
and co-founder of Violet Records.
For more information, please visit
www.makutamusic.com
Bill Nabel (Take Me America:
Book & Lyrics) Richard Rodgers
Prize finalist Take Me America;
Connecticut Playwright Grant; Puffin Grant; Lying To Spielberg, Utah
Shakespeare; Love On Ice (book) the
PiTCH Finger Lakes MT; Gollywobble, Paramount Pictures; Love, Loss
and What I Drove Abingdon Theatre; BMI; Abingdon Theatre Playwrights. Actor: 8 Broadway shows,
9,500 performances on Broadway.
Erik Przytulski (Pellets, Cherries, and Lies: The Pac Man Story:
Book, Music & Lyrics) is an LA-based
songwriter/producer. Original musicals include: A Song for Christmas,
The Velveteen Rabbit, Class of 90, and
#Brad4Laura. His show, Princesses was presented at the 2012 ASCAP/Dreamworks MT Workshop
hosted by Stephen Schwartz. New
works include Christmas In NeverSound Bites 2014

land debuting this month in Orange

County, CA, followed by a musical
adaptation of Thumbelina in Spring
2015. (www.pretzylmusic.com) (@
pretzylmusic)
Neil Douglas Reilly (The Boy,
The King, And The Flower: Music) has had the great pleasure of
working with Ahrens & Flaherty as
the orchestrator of their 54 Below
Concert (and the accompanying
album) Nice Fighting You, the music
supervisor and co-orchestrator of
a NY Pops gala in their honor, the
assistant music supervisor of Ragtime at Avery Fisher Hall, the orchestration associate of Rocky on
Broadway, the associate orchestrator of In Your Arms, and as an assistant on many other projects. Other
work in New York includes Stars of
David Off-Broadway, Porgy and Bess
on Broadway, and orchestrations for
concerts including New Voices Concerts, Gypsy of the Year, and Broadway
Backwards. Neil is a proud member
of Local 802 and the Dramatists
Guild of America.
Andy Roninson (The Answering Machine: Music) BMI Workshop
awards: Harrington Award for Creative Excellence, Robert B. Sherman
Scholarship. Composer/lyricist of
full-lengths Exorcism on Aisle Five and
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For The Birds. Creator/host/writer of
TAKE A TEN, an all-original, ten-minute musical podcast. Download every episode for free on iTunes or at
TakeATenMusicals.com.
Frederick Alden Terry, (AVAC
Memories: Composer), received an
MFA in musical theater writing from
NYUs Tisch School.With John Herin,
he has written Ethan Frome (opera),
The Tempest (musical), and the short
musicals Improvisation, CindeRelativity
, Under the Skin, and Buying Time. Recent work: Ephemera (dance), and In
the Bones (incidental music).

Jacob Tischler (GRINDR! The

Musical: Composer, Lyricist) Carnegie Mellon University BFA Acting
13. Original musicals: Inexperienced
Love (Produced: Pennsylvania, Vermont, NYCFringe 2012. Readings:
New London Barn Playhouse, Penn
State, FNAM Showsearch Winner). Secondhand Shakespeare (Best
Lyrics, Best Script, 2012 WVMTF).
GRINDR The Musical (Winner of 6
Awards including Best Musical, Best
Music, Best Lyrics, 2014 WVMTF).

Thicket and Thistle (Whats

Your Wish?) is a creative team comprised of Kyle Acheson, Sam
DeRoest, Nyssa Duchow, Jonathan Eric Foster, and Corley Pillsbury. We mix our passion for good storytelling with our
love for folk music to create a new
brand of musical theatre. We have
many more projects in the works!
Please contact us for more info!
www.facebook.com/
thicketandthistle

See cast and creative team bios @ www.tnny.org!

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2014 RUNNERS UP:

Baked Goods
Music by Helen Park | Lyrics by Christyn Budzyna
Libretto by Charlie Cohen
The Baker Who Ate His Own Bread
Book, Music & lyrics by Cormac Bluestone
Everyday
Book & Lyrics by Geoffrey Goldberg | Music by Joseph Olson
Here We Are
Book & Lyrics by Ariel Mitchell | Music by Ross Baum
Missing Karma
Book, Music & Lyrics by Timothy Huang

SPECIAL THANKS
Riley Beranek
Jessica Bialczak
Ardi Bohmier
Emily Briggs
Kevin DeLano
Lauren Downey
Engin Room Audio
Rosemary Gaffney

Gina Hecht
Knickerbocker
Maksymilian Kubis
Donna Lipari
Malcolm March
Cameron Marcotte
Tayla Montague
Louis Padilla

Jeffery Ramirez
Wilson Rios
Mauricio Riquelme
Nancy Sondag
Richard Vos
Erin Weinberger
Kahri Wood
Robin Zapata
Michelle ZurSchmiede

47th Street Theatre & PRTT: Alex, Leigh, Geoff, Jessica

Theatre Development Fund (TDF)

Program Design By Christie Taylor

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Eric S. Goldman, Esq. Caitlin Hinton Julie Marino Peter C. Marino Thomas Morrissey
Rebecca Robertson Stephen Bishop Seely Marcus Woollen Richard Vos

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