Bell, Book and Candle

Bell, Book and Candle

A Bewitching Comedy
by John Van Druten
directed by John Feltch

October 19 – November 9, 2008

Love is a magical thing.
It’s the 1950s and Gillian Holroyd is living the life of a restless witch in the hip Murray Hill district of New York City. When she casts a spell on her handsome upstairs neighbor, Shep Henderson, to keep him from marrying her old college rival, it works a little too well. Now Shep’s absolutely mad for Gill and Gill finds she’s starting to feel the same about him. Will she give into the one thing that will take away her magical powers forever – falling in love?

Running time: 2 hours and 10 minutes, including one 15 minute intermission

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Cast (in alphabetical order)

Nicky
Gillian
Redlitch
Miss Holroyd

Creative Team

Director
Scenic Designer
Costume Designer
Lighting Designer
Dramaturg
Casting Director
Stage Manager

Biographies

Cast

Micheal Daniel Anderson Michael Daniel Anderson* (Nicky Holroyd) Triad Stage debut! Regional: The Foreigner (Pioneer Theater); Fat Pig (Speakeasy Stage Co.); Bye Bye Birdie, Moon Over Buffalo (Arundel Playhouse); Twelfth Night (Illuminations Festival); The Prophecy of Isaiah (MUDasMAN Productions); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing (Siouxland Shakespeare Festival). Playwright: The Cartoon Plays (9Thirty Theater Co.) Proud BFA from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
Anne Bowles Anne Bowles* (Gillian Holroyd) Broadway: Inherit the Wind (Mrs. Loomis, U/S Rachel). Regional: The Heiress, Steel Magnolias (Pioneer Theatre Co.); Fat Pig, This is How It Goes (Studio Theatre, DC); Picnic (Center Stage); The Matchmaker (Ford’s Theatre); Of Mice and Men (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park/St. Louis Rep); Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey); Columbinus (Roundhouse Theatre); Elizabeth the Queen (Folger Theatre); The Laramie Project and Monster (Olney Theatre Center). Education: BA in Drama from Catholic University.
Ronn Carroll Ronn Carroll* (Sidney Redlitch) Broadway, over 20 productions including: Oklahoma!; Annie Get Your Gun with Ethel Merman ‘67 and with Bernadette Peters ‘98; How to Succeed with Matthew Broderick; Gypsy with Tyne Daly; The Front Page; Man of La Mancha; Carousel with John Raitt; The Rink with Liza Minelli and Chita Rivera; Peter Pan; On Golden Pond; Crazy For You; Bad Habits; Promises, Promises (London and New York); Steel Pier; Play Me A Country Song. Off-Broadway: A Man of No Importance (Lincoln Center), The Knife and Love’s Labours Lost (Public Theater), Greater Tuna (Circle in the Square), 70 Girls 70 (Encore series). Film/TV: 84 Charing Cross Road, Friday the 13th, Miracle in the Woods, Deep Star Six, Dawson’s Creek, Kate & Allie, Third Watch, Spencer for Hire, Hardhat & Legs, The Wedding.
Lesley Hunt Lesley Hunt* (Miss Holroyd) Triad Stage: Baby with the Bathwater, Hedda Gabler, Tobacco Road. Broadway: The Visit with the Lunts; A Man for All Seasons with Paul Scofield; Oliver! with Georgia Brown; The Loves of Cass McGuire with Ruth Gordon; Philadelphia, Here I Come! Off-Broadway: “Eh!” with Dustin Hoffman, The Waters of Babylon with Roscoe Lee Browne. Regional: Dracula with Frank Langella; The Crucible, Romeo and Juliet, The Comedy of Errors, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Long Day’s Journey into Night, Light Up the Sky (NSCF); Steel Magnolias, Wit (Charlotte Rep); The Grand Duchess (one woman touring show). TV & Printwork: NBC Hallmark Hall of Fame, Paramount Pictures, Screen Gems, Avanti Cards. Education: Rose Bruford College, London, England; Faculty Emeritus, University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
Glenn Kalison Glenn Kalison* (Shepherd Henderson) Off-Broadway: The Milliner (The Directors Company), The Naked Eye Planets (Coyote REP), Dalliance in Vienna (Genesius Theatre Guild), More Than This (Red Light District). Regional: I Hate Hamlet, Twelfth Night (Utah Shakespearean Festival) Tuesdays with Morrie (Human Race Theatre Company). Television: Law & Order, Law & Order: CI, As the World Turns, Guiding Light. Film: Mystery Team (2009), Robert De Niro’s The Good Shepherd, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, Shadow Boxing, One Man’s Castle. Founding member of Coyote REP. Training: MFA, University of California, Irvine. Other: Co-Chair of Acting for Film Program, New York Film Academy. www.glennkalison.com. Proud member of Actors’ Equity.

Creative Team

  John Feltch (Director) This is John’s first show for Triad Stage. He has directed Gross Indecency, The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (Alley Theatre), Stones in His Pockets (Clarence Brown Theatre and PlayMaker’s Repertory Company, Independent Weekly Best Director of 2007) and Crimes of the Heart (PRC). As Actor: Broadway: Enchanted April. Off-Broadway: The Dazzle (Roundabout Theatre). Regional: 12 seasons and over 60 productions at the Alley Theatre including: To Kill a Mockingbird, The Real Thing (Best Actor, Houston Press), Angels in America, Parts 1 and 2 (Best Actor, Houston Press and also performed at the Venice Biennalle), Irma Vep, Julius Caesar, Our Town, Danton’s Death, among many others. Other regional credits include: The Physicists (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Doctor’s Dilemma and Richard II (American Repertory Theatre); The Tempest (McCarter Theatre); The Cosmonaut’s Last Message (La Jolla Playhouse); Mary Stuart (Pittsburgh Public Theatre); Camino Real (Hartford Stage); King Lear, Front Page, The Underpants, Amadeus (PlayMakers Rep); I Am My Own Wife (Stoneleaf Theatre Festival in Asheville, NC and the inaugural production of PRC2). Film: Tadpole, Looking for Nick, About Time. John has served on the faculties of University of Houston, Rice University and UNC Chapel Hill.
  Robin Vest (Scenic Designer) This is Robin’s seventh season with Triad Stage. New York credits include: Hoodoo Love (The Cherry Lane); A Very Common Procedure (MCC); Pen (Playwrights Horizons). Regional: Hansel and Gretel (Washington National Opera)­; Ariadne auf Naxos (Utah Opera); The Bluest Eye, Yellowman, String of Pearls, God’s Man in Texas (PlayMakers Repertory Company); Yale Repertory Theatre; Dallas Theater Center; Williamstown Theater Festival; resident designer of the Janiec Opera Company at Brevard Music Center for six seasons.
  Kelsey Hunt (Costume Designer) is resident designer and costume shop manager at Triad Stage. Past productions include: The Night of the Iguana, Bloody Blackbeard, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Sleuth, The Little Foxes, Tobacco Road, Noises Off, Beautiful Star (2006 and 2007), The Old Settler, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Matchmaker, Brother Wolf, On Golden Pond, A Streetcar Named Desire (honorable mention, best production design, Independent Weekly), Das Barbecü, A Moon for the Misbegotten and Bus Stop. Kelsey has worked with UNCG Theater, New York’s Glimmerglass Opera House, Firebrand Theory Theater Company, The Lortel Theater, and Lisa Zinni (associate designer for Broadway’s Rent.)
  John Wolf (Lighting Designer) Triad Stage: 20 productions including the world premieres of Bloody Blackbeard, Brother Wolf, Debunked and Beautiful Star. Regional: North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, Mill Mountain Theatre. University Theatre: UNCG, University of Florida, University of Tennessee, University of Nebraska Opera, plus designs at Lion Theatre, Center Stage, Trinity Theatre, Symphony Space and Lincoln Center in New York. John is a Professor of Theatre at UNC Greensboro. Education: MFA, University of Alabama; The Julliard School of Music.
  Gèneva B. Conaway Bennison (Sound Designer) Triad Stage: Doubt. Regional/Local: Les Misérables, The Producers, All Shook Up, Jesus Christ Superstar (Maine State Music Theater); Beauty and the Beast, Smoke on the Mountain (The Little Theatre of Winston-Salem); The Devil and Kate, Burn This, Rabbit Hole (University of North Carolina School of the Arts). New York: Ballet Hispanico, Manhattan Theatre Club. Education: BA, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. Currently pursuing an MFA at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
  Drew Barker (Dramaturg) is a former Theatre and English teacher and is pleased to have joined Triad Stage as Artistic Associate. Regional: Assistant Director of four shows with Preston Lane at Triad Stage. Education: UNC Greensboro, BFA Theatre Education & English, Study Abroad at the University of Hull, and Undergraduate Research Assistantship in Greensboro Theatre History.
  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. Off-Broadway: Elvis People. Regional: Dreamgirls, Annie Get Your Gun, Peter Pan (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). Education: BFA, UNC-Greensboro.

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

 

 

 

 
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