Around the World in 80 Days

Around the World in 80 Days

A Comic Adventure
by Mark Brown
adapted from the novel by Jules Verne

February 7 – March 7, 2010

It's not the destination, it's the journey.
Jules Verne's classic tale springs to life in this clever, fast-paced comedy for the whole family. Proper gentleman Phileas Fogg strikes a wager and sets off on a race that puts his fortune and life at risk. With his faithful servant at his side, he has just 80 days to circle the globe–an inconceivable feat in the year 1872! Fierce natives, furious typhoons, runaway trains, a damsel in distress and a dogged detective threaten to delay him at every step in this delightful, whirlwind odyssey that will keep you on the edge of your seat from beginning to unexpected end.

Running time: Approximately 2 hours and 10 minutes (with one intermission)
Due to the running time, this production is not recommended for children under the age of 6.

“With this ambitious production, Lane once again proves that Triad Stage can tackle any genre in any era, and do it with the remarkable panache that has become Lane’s trademark...Around the World in 80 Days is Preston Lane on LSD: laughter, surprise, and delight. And it’s a trip you’ll want to make again and again.”
–Lynn Jessup, Classical Voice of North Carolina
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“The Triad Stage production of Around the World in 80 Days is altogether wonderful. It’s one of those exhilarating shows that reminds me of what magic good theater can be…Seeing it once is just not enough.”
–Robert W. McDowell, Editor and Publisher, Triangle Theater Review

Sponsored by
VF Corporation

Production Sponsors
Ann Benjamin Zuraw, CFP®, CFA®, CFDP®
of Compass Financial Partners, LLC


Triad Stage's Producers Circle and Center Stage level donors

Cast (in alphabetical order)

Actor 1
Michael Tourek*
Actor 2
Andrew Rein*
Actor 3
Jamison Stern*
Actor 4
Elena Araoz*
Actor 5
Ray Collins*

Creative Team

Director
Preston Lane
Scenic Designer
Howard C. Jones
Costume Designer
Kelsey Hunt
Lighting Designer
Norman Coates
Sound Designer
Janie Bullard
Dramaturg
Drew Barker
Resident Voice/Dialect Coach
Christine Morris
Resident Fight Director
Jim Wren
Casting Director
Cindi Rush Casting
Stage Manager
Eric Tysinger*

Biographies

Cast

Michael Tourek Michael Tourek* (Actor 1) Triad Stage: Bloody Blackbeard, Brother Wolf, Beautiful Star (06’-09’). New York: Romeo’s Dream (One Arm Red), Calthropia (West End), On The Open Road (Boulevard Arts). Regional: Fiddler on the Roof (Lincoln Amphitheatre, Arts Center of Coastal Carolina), Over the River and Through the Woods (Cumberland County Playhouse), Christmas Carol (North Carolina Shakespeare Festival), Jesus Christ Superstar (Mill Mountain Theater). Film/TV: Citizen Ruth, The Producers, John Adams, One Tree Hill.
Andrew Rein Andrew Rein* (Actor 2) Triad Stage: Bloody Blackbeard.Off-Broadway: Acts of Love (Kirk Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (TBTB). New York: Arcadia (QED Productions), Worker Bee (PSNBC), All’s Well That Ends Well (HERE). Regional: Mojo (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater); Rounding Third, The Owl and the Pussycat, A Thousand Clowns (Bickford Theatre); Night and Day, Pentecost (Burning Coal Theatre Company); The Play’s the Thing, The Makropoulos Secret (Washington Stage Guild); Barnum, Love’s Labour’s Lost (PCPA); Film: Ménage à Trois, Bobby G. Can’t Swim. Television: Gossip Girl, Law & Order, All My Children. Training: M.F.A., American Conservatory Theatre; B.A., Duke University. www.andrewrein.com
Jamison Stern Jamison Stern* (Actor 3) Broadway/National Tours: By Jeeves, Little Shop of Horrors, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. Off-Broadway: Newsical the Musical, An Evening at the Carlyle, Love! Valour! Compassion!, Bush Wars. Regional: Chapter Two, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Theatre Aspen);  It’s Only Life: the Songs of John Bucchino, She Loves Me (Rubicon Theatre); Fully Committed (Alley Theatre and La Mirada), The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (abridged) (Cincinnati Playhouse and Repertory Theatre of St. Louis); Black Comedy, The Invention of Love, As Bees in Honey Drown, A Flea in Her Ear, A Comedy of Errors (Alley Theatre). TV/Film: Law and Order, Day Zero, The Finger Lakes, Joke Bitch, The Entrepreneurs.
Elena Araoz Elena Araoz* (Actor 4) New York: House of Bernarda Alba (Pearl Theatre), A Midsummer Night's Dream (American Globe), All’s Well That Ends Well (New York Classical Theatre). Regional: The Rant (Interact Theatre, Philadelphia), multiple workshops at Geva Theatre Center (Rochester, NY), Faust (Providence, RI), Julius Caesar (Austin Shakespeare Festival, TX), Rocket Man (Theatre Exile, Philadelphia), multiple new play workshops with PlayPenn (Philadelphia). Film: soon to be released green screen feature film Mars by Geoff Marslett. She holds her MFA in Acting from the University of Texas at Austin. www.elenaaraoz.com
Ray Collins Ray Collins* (Actor 5) This production marks his Triad Stage debut. Ray has worked in London’s West End, Off Broadway and regional theatre in England and the United States. His favorite roles include Henry in The Real Thing, Colin in Benefactors, Duke of Kent in King Lear, and Nick in Sight Unseen. Ray trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and holds an MFA in Directing from the City University of New York. He currently teaches in the theatre department at Wake Forest University. His voice is a lead character in the full length animated movie The Magistical produced by Out of Our Minds Studios in Winston-Salem.

Creative Team

Preston Lane Preston Lane (Director) is in his 9th season at Triad Stage where he has directed over 30 productions. Preston is the recipient of the 2008 Betty Cone Medal of the Arts and is in his third year as the Artistic Partner for Theatre for An Appalachian Summer Festival. He was formerly Artistic Associate at the Dallas Theater Center, where his productions included the US premiere of Inexpressible Island (Dallas Observer Best of Dallas Awards: Best Director, Best Production) and The Night of the Iguana (Dallas Morning News: 2002 Top Ten Theatre List). Other productions include work Off Broadway, Regional and the National Black Theatre Festival. As a playwright, his adaptations and original works include: Tartuffe, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, Dracula, Mirandolina, and Julie’s Dance (Triad Stage); A Christmas Carol (Dallas Theater Center, Sonoma County Rep, Kids Who Care), Three Weeks After Marriage and Helen! (Summer Cabaret) and with Laurelyn Dossett: Brother Wolf (Triad Stage, An Appalachian Summer Festival, The Human Race Theatre Company and upcoming at St. Olaf College), Beautiful Star (Triad Stage and WaterTower Theatre), Bloody Blackbeard and the upcoming Providence Gap. Both Brother Wolf and Beautiful Star are soon to be published by Playscripts Inc. He has taught at UNCG, NC A&T, NCSA, Greensboro College, SMU, and the Professional Actors Workshop at the Dallas Theater Center. He is an alumnus of the Drama League of New York’s Director’s Project. A native of Boone, NC, Preston received his MFA from the Yale School of Drama.
  Howard C. Jones (Scenic Designer) Triad Stage: Picnic, The Night of the Iguana, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Tobacco Road, Hedda Gabler (recipient of a World Stage Design 2005 honor), August Snow, A Moon for the Misbegotten,The Matchmaker and A Streetcar Named Desire. Regional: Starlight Theatre, Goodspeed Opera, Missouri Repertory Theatre, North Shore Music Theatre, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, American Heartland Theatre and NC Shakespeare Festival. NC School of the Arts faculty member since 1996. Prior to that, founder and owner of Cobalt Studios, an apprentice painting studio in upstate New York, working for Broadway, Off-Broadway and regional theatres across the country.
  Kelsey Hunt (Costume Designer) is Resident Designer at Triad Stage. Favorite past productions include: Ghosts; Black Pearl Sings!; The Night of the Iguana; Bloody Blackbeard; Mrs. Warren’s Profession; The Little Foxes; Tobacco Road; The Diary of Anne Frank; Brother Wolf; On Golden Pond; A Streetcar Named Desire (honorable mention, best production design, Independent Weekly); A Moon for the Misbegotten and Bus Stop. Kelsey has worked with UNCG Theater, Peace College, New York’s Glimmerglass Opera House, Firebrand Theory Theater Company, The Lortel Theater and Lisa Zinni of Broadway’s Rent).
  Norman Coates (Lighting Designer) Triad Stage: The Blonde the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, The Caretaker, Master Herald…and the boys, A Moon for the Misbegotten. Broadway: The News and Prince of Central Park. Off Broadway: Here Are Ladies, Diversions and Delights, Blood Knot and Limbo Tales (Villager Award). Tours: The Who’s Tommy, Camelot with Richard Harris and Encounter 500. Regional: Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, American Stage Festival, NC Shakespeare Festival, PlayMakers Repertory, Burt Reynolds’ Jupiter Theatre, The Hirshfeld Theatre, North Carolina Theatre, Greensboro Opera, Opera Carolina, Piedmont Opera. He is the Director of Lighting at the UNC School of the Arts and a member of United Scenic Artists.
  Janie Bullard (Sound Designer) is happy to be designing her first show on the Mainstage at Triad Stage. Recent Designs: Smoke on the Mountain Homecoming (Twin City Stage, Winston Salem, NC); Peter Pan, Candide, Broadway By The Year (Berkshire Theatre Festival); Flyin’ West (The Clarence Brown Theatre, Knoxville, TN); Suddenly Last Summer (The Actor’s Express, Atlanta, GA); The Santaland Diaries, Dracula (Upstage Cabaret at Triad Stage, Greensboro, NC). Regional: Oliver! (Playmakers Repertory Company, Chapel Hill, NC). Educational: The Importance of Being Earnest, On The Razzle, Charley’s Aunt (UNCSA). Janie will be graduating in May with an MFA in Sound Design from The University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
  Drew Barker (Dramaturg) is Triad Stage’s Artistic Associate and Resident Dramaturg, and a former Theater and Advanced Placement English teacher. Regional: Assistant to the Director of five shows at Triad Stage, Assistant Director of Oleanna at An Appalachian Summer Festival. Education: UNCG, BFA Theater Education & English, Study Abroad at the University of Hull, and Undergraduate Research Assistantship in Greensboro Theater History.
  Christine Morris (Resident Voice/Dialect Coach) is resident voice and dialect coach for Triad Stage and an associate professor of theatre at UNCG, where she teaches voice/speech and acting. As an actor, she most recently appeared at Triad Stage as Mme. Pernelle in Tartuffe. Her professional memberships include Actors Equity Association, Screen Actors’ Guild, and the Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA).
  Jim Wren (Resident Fight Director) has staged the violence for many Triad Stage productions including the fantastical fights in Brother Wolf, the behavior of the Lesters in Tobacco Road and the battles of Bloody Blackbeard. He has choreographed violence for the Hippodrome State Theatre, Roanoke Valley Opera and The University of Florida. Education: MFA, University of Florida. Jim is Performance Program Coordinator for the UNCG Department of Theatre, and is a two-time recipient of the Kennedy Center Gold Medallion for Excellence.
  Cindi Rush (Casting Director) New York: The Time of Mendel’s Trouble, Peaceman, Jacques Brel, Six Dance Lessons In Six Weeks, The Thing About Men, Showtune, I Sing, Urinetown, Say Goodnight Gracie. Regional: Triad Stage, Act II Playhouse, Arena Stage, Goodman, Cape Cod Theatre Project, NOHO Arts Center (including “Pest Control”, “Dorian” and “Ghost and Mrs. Muir”), Actors Theatre of Louisville Humanafest. Film: Offspring, Made For Each Other, Home Movie, Jack Ketchum’s: The Girl Next Door, Headspace, Funny Valentine, Master Class. Other: Hats (Denver, New Orleans, Chicago). Casting Society of America Member, Casting Consultant for National Alliance For Musical Theatre, Casting Consultant for NYU Graduate Program for Musical Theatre Writing.
  Eric Tysinger* (Stage Manager) Triad Stage: Angel Street; Crumbs from the Table of Joy; Old Wicked Songs; North Star; Bloody Blackbeard; The Night of the Iguana; Bell, Book and Candle; Beautiful Star; Black Pearl Sings!; Ghosts; The Blonde, The Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead; Tartuffe and Picnic. Off-Broadway: Elvis People. Regional: Tonight At 8pm, Light Up The Sky, Hedda Gabler starring Kate Burton (Williamstown); Dreamgirls, Annie Get Your Gun, Peter Pan, The Sound Of Music, West Side Story (North Carolina Theatre); A Christmas Carol, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, As You Like It (North Carolina Shakespeare Festival); Elvis People, Great Expectations (both world premieres, Mill Mountain Theatre). Proud member of Actors Equity.

*Member of Actors Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.

 

 

 

 
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