A black actress with a giant, pink dragon and snake skin, iridescent dress (Dragon), a green skinned actor with ear stalks (Shrek), a black actor in a donkey suit with ears (Donkey), and red headed actress in a wedding dress (Fiona) lean towards one another in fellowship singing “I’m a Believer”.
Building on Our Mission
2005
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Dates: 4/1-4/10
Cast Size: 99
Producers: Mary O’Loughlin, Denise Bond
Director: Mary Spinosa-Wilson
Music Director: Mary Spinosa-Wilson
Choreographers: Molly Maher/Ann Braden
2006
The Wiz
Dates: 3/23 – 4/9
Cast Size: 89
Producers: Barbara Estabrook, Alsion W. Luperchio
Director: Sam Gould
Music Director: Rene Lewis Pfister
Choreographer: Stephanie Henry
Sam Gould concentrates as she applies lipstick on Tin from The Wiz, a woman with airbrushed silver skin, a white Marilyn Monroe wig, and a silver funnel fascinator.
2007
big, The Musical
Dates: 3/23 – 4/1
Cast Size: 100
Producers: Donna Rizza, David Cass, Heather Wilson
Directors: Perry Allison (Prologue Debby Hess)
Music Directors: Jennifer Moss, Larry Williams
Choreographer: Matthew Kossack
2008
Tom Sawyer
Dates: 4/4 – 4/13
Cast Size: 88
Producers: Alison Takacs, Barbara Estabrook (ass’t)
Directors: Mary Spinoza-Wilson, Mary O’Loughlin
Music Director: same
Choreographer: Elaina Kourepenos
2009
Pied Piper
Dates: 5/1 – 5/10
Cast Size: 79
Producers: Sam Gould, David Cass
Directors: Rene Lewis Pfister, Alison Walters Luperchio (assistant)
Music Director: Rene Lewis Pfister
Choreographer: Maura Kate Moore
2010
Children of Eden
Dates: 1/15 – 1/24
Cast Size: 62
Producers: David Cass, Kristen VS-Sandock
Director: Alison Walters Luperchio
Music Director: Jonathan Eldridge
Choreographer: Maura Kate Moore
2011
Once on this Island
Dates: 4/1 – 4/10
Cast Size: 99
Producers: Dawn Gomez, Jill Shaya
Director: Maura Kate Moore
Music Director: Gina Naggar
Choreographer: Maura Kate Moore
2012
Fiddler on the Roof
Dates: 3/23 – 4/1
Cast Size: 121
Producers: Dawn Gomez, Jill Shaya
Director: Teri Shea
Music Director: Jonathan Eldridge
Choreographer: Teri Shea
Steve Shamah as Tevya sitting on the Bimma at Temple Shaarei Zedeck as a promo performance of Fiddler on the roof.
2015
Shrek the Musical
Dates: 3/20-3/29
Cast Size: 87
Producers: Sam Gould, Brian Herdeg, David Cass (specials)
Directors: Alison Walters-Short, Laurie Penney (assistant)
Music Director: Susan Minor
Choreographer: Gina Herdeg
Pictured is Dave Heard, a black main costumed in grey fur, white nose, and floppy ears, as Donkey. Next to him a green skinned and horned Kevin Mahaney in a padded suit as Shrek. They squish between them a young girl with Down syndrome, Grace, dressed as Alice In Wonderland as Shrek points to Grace’s mom, Julie, a white woman dressed as The Mad Hatter.
2016
Peter Pan
Dates: 4/1-4/10
Cast Size: 91
Producers: Sam Gould, Beth Petr (ass’t), Abigail Kilcommins (ass’t)
Directors: Stephanie Steinbach Henry, Alison Walters-Short (ass’t)
Music Director: Jonathan Eldridge
Choreographer: Olivia Moriarty
Peter, John Michael, and Wendy literally fly across the stage with the backdrop of a tiny London beneath them.