When it’s time to deck those halls, head downtown to Raleigh’s Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts A.J. Fletcher Opera Theater where the beautiful lass-who-lost-her-slipper makes her 24th annual appearance in hopes of finding her Prince Charming. RLT’s visually stunning production has been delighting audiences in the Triangle area for generations. Combining elegant costumes and scenery, with song, dance, conniving steprelatives and resourceful fairy-folk, RLT’s Cinderella brings just the right mixture of comedy and romance to add the sparkle of magic to your holiday season!
Based on a fairy tale by Charles Perrault
Adaptation/lyrics by Jim Eiler
Music by Jim Eiler & Jeanne Bargy
Directed by Haskell Fitz-Simons
A.J. Fletcher Opera Theater at the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts
December 7-16, 2007
View the photos by Stuart Wagner
Cast
In order of appearance
Fairy Helper – Ebony: Jackson Bloom
Fairy Helper – Ivory: Jason Cooper
Fairy Godmother: Julia Ann Rogers
Stepmother: Sandi Sullivan
Cinderella: Katherine Anderson
Henrietta: Timothy Cherry
Gertrude: M. Dennis Poole
King Darling III: Chris White
Pages: Lela Johnston, Lydia Leggett
Prince Charming: Nick Culpepper
Young Prince Charming: Forester Amatori
Mouse/Pony: Shea Carpenter-Broderick, Roxanna Demers, Katherine Droujkov, Henry Hopson, Amory Lawson, Bailey L. Lee
Princess Lenya: Abigail Jordan
Ensemble: Amy Lynn Bersenson, Rebekah, Laura Buff, Taylor Copland, David Corlett, Chad Gilbert, Elgin Giles, Tom Keefe, Abigail Jordan, Matt McGrath, I. David Meyers, Nyja Peterson, Kerry Sullivan, Cassy White, Nicholas White, Aaron Wright
Quartet: Rebekah Bray, Chad Gilbert, Elgin Giles, Kerry Sullivan
Production crew
Director: Haskell Fitz-Simons
Musical Director: Megan Crosson
Choreographer: Haskell Fitz-Simmons
Assistant Choreographer: Missy Dapper
Scenic Designers: Rick Young, Bill Roger
Costume Designers: Vicki Olson, John Franklin
Associate Costume Designer: Jenny Butler
Lighting Designer: Rick Young
Prop Master: Betsy Bates
Wig Design for Prince Charming & Little Prince: Benjamin Butler
Yarn Wig Construction: Benjamin Butler
Yarn Wig Construction Assistants: Amy Lynn Berenson, Catherine Lambe, Robin Hughes
Cinderella Wig: Tsafi Shalev
Hair Designer: Benjamin Butler
Technical Director: Jim Zervas
Assistant Technical Director: Roger Bridges
Production Supervisors: Paul Marsland, Joe Medlin, BJ Goswick
Sound Engineer: Melissa Joplin
Production Stage Manager: Keith Bugner
Rehearsal Stage Manager: Kerry Sullivan
Assistant Stage Managers: Samantha Bruce, Hope Cadden,Tatyana Stemkovski
Assistant to Director: Carlie Humberman
Style Couch: Jo Brown
Mouse Nanny: Marie Berry
Audition Coordinator: Marie Berry
House Manager Coordinator: Bob Leyes
Usher Coordinator: Alice Ward
Concession Coordinator: Ellen Landau
Original Art Work: V. Cullum Rogers
Advertising and Graphic Design: Scotty Cherryholmes
Playbill Design: Heidi M. Dragon
Poster Printing: PIP Printing
Production Crew
Audition Crew: Marie Berry (Crew Chief), Hope Cadden, Alan Cason, Amy Crum, Carlie Huberman & Don Smith
Box Office: Harvey Bumgardner, Patsy Clarke & Carlie Huberman
Costume Shop Crew: Mary Ali, Tanya Amorati, Susan Baker, Betsy Bates, Marie Berry, Benjamin Butler, Lynn Butler, Kelcey Heathcoat, Tamara Hopson, Robin Hughes Johnny Izza, JeMarl Kearney, Susan Kimmel, John Jarus, Catherine Lambe, Patrice Lee, Kathy Mauney, Wayne Olson, Nancy Rich, Tsafi Shalev, Debbie Sherrod, Yvonne Terrelongue, Lydia Wagner, Lynne Wellin, Jean Wilkinson & Joan Wright
Costume Running Crew: Marie Berry(Crew Chief), Amy Blackwell, Allison Coleman, Sandy Fitzgerald, Carlie Huberman, Rebecca Kungus, Anna Nehring & Judi Rourke-O’Briant
Deck Running Crew: Kayleigh Childress (Crew Chief), Aolani Donegan, Ben Berry, Pat Berry, Helen Barnes, Alex Crossen, David Malone, Luis Maysonet & David Wilk
Props Running Crew: Betsy Bates (Crew Chief), Jim Bates, Karen Byers, Catherine Lambe, Sara Ostraw & Michael Teleoglou
Public Relation Crew: Shirley Botkin, Scotty Cherryholmes, Caroline Duke (Intern), Patsy Clarke, Rachel Davis (Intern), Catherine Lambe, Martha Noyes, Stuart Wagner & David Watts
Set Construction Crew: Noel Butzke, Dave Davis, John Price & Dick Shirk
Spotlight Crew: Nick Blinn (Crew Chief), Chris Eckert, Deanna Eckert, Laura Hoffman & Todd Houseknecht