Special SkillsEar Prompter, Sight-read music, British, Irish & Southern U.S. The Audition Studio, Bridghid O'Shaughnessey *Times Drama Award - Best Supporting Actress You can occasionally catch me singing at Unity in Chicago, but between raising a four-year-old and starting a business, I don't get to many auditions these days! Here is some of my past work.Ĭhicago Area Theater The Mystery of Edwin DroodĪ Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum When he died in 1949, he was superintendent of Milwaukee Public Schools.I've been on hiatus from performing since my son was born in 2005. Goodrich was superintendent of Fond du Lac Public Schools from the early 1920s to 1941. Being part of an active building, the lobby and all the necessities of theatergoing are well-kempt. For “9 to 5, The Musical,” the orchestra is placed on stage to the audience’s left while play scenes take place on half of the stage to the audience’s right. Steps up to the stage on either side are in inset areas. The stage is raised about three feet above the floor of the seating area. The ceiling over the stage is a black, flowing surface, and the surface over the audience area is cream-colored, rolling acoustical clouds. Side walls rise from a flat cream-colored surface, to smallish tan bricks to vertical, dark pattern wavy surfaces (for acoustical purposes). The floor is concrete, with carpeted aisles in a tan pattern. Seats are metal-backed, with tiny check-like multicolor fabric in the seat cushions and backs and wooden arm rests. Tan is a dominant color – seat backs, wall shadings, stage front, etc. The space is high, somewhat wide and on three seating levels. in the former Goodrich High School, today part of the Fond du Lac School District office building. THE VENUE: Goodrich Little Theatre is located at 72 W. NEXT: “12 Angry Jurors” by Reginald Rose, Nov. “Potion Notion” – Violet and Woodland Creatures Ensemble “Cowgirl’s Revenge” – Doralee and Rodeo Ensemble “The Dance of Death” – Judy and Judy’s Joint Ensemble Everything he says and does is self-serving vile, so Daniel Schneider gets to lay on all sorts of nasty stuff people used to boo about in melodramas. Judy (Jennifer Michele) has split from her husband and jumped into the job market without a paddle.Įach woman has a back story and an emphatic song to go with it – strongly sung – with a major headache being Franklin Hart (Daniel Schneider), who gives the word “boss” a bad name. Doralee (Hannah Christie Koechel) is a country girl whose reputation is mistakenly sullied. Violet (Eva Thelen Dunphy) is a widow who is up for a promotion she feels she deserves. Three feisty women of the business office are at the center. Lobby display with cast for “9 to 5, The Musical” (Warren Gerds) Eventually, he confesses to be a “sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot” – leaving off sexual predator in the workplace. The show is earthy in language and situations, especially with the boss. The show has multiple scene changes that disrupt the pacing. On the technical side, making a stage musical based on a movie is a challenge. In setting up the story, Dolly Parton in the video says, “The whole world is about to change.” Doing the show live, on stage now with Dolly Parton’s recent image on display brings the show out of the past into the present. Not dated: A tone set by the three leading women characters of the #metoo movement, along with pay equity and equal chance for job promotion for women. Dated: Carbon paper, typewriters, white out and other stuff in a business office at the time. The story is set in 1979, and things in it are dated and not dated at the same time. This is just guessing: Dolly Parton is proud of the show and wants to attach her name and image to it because it presents her as being ahead of the curve in social change. Everything else is live, in-person on stage with an eager and experienced local cast led by veteran director Therese Burazin. At the end, she tells what happened to the characters after the highly improbable story ends. In the unique video, Dolly Parton introduces the main characters at the beginning. She wrote the song “9 to 5” for the movie, which arrived in 1980. She wrote the music and lyrics for the stage musical, which arrived in 2008. (WFRV) – Dolly Parton was at the performance of “9 to 5, The Musical” Thursday night in Little Goodrich Theatre.ĭolly Parton is more than casually interested in the show.
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