THE ALLEY THEATRE
www.alleytheatre.org
Gregory Boyd, Artistic Director
Dean R. Gladden, Managing Director
PRESENTS
AMADEUS
Directed by Jonathan Moscone
April 1 through May 1, 2011
Hubbard Stage
Alley Theatre Announces Cast and
Creative Team for Peter Shaffer's
Amadeus
- Amadeus runs
April 1 through May 1, 2011, on the Hubbard Stage.
HOUSTON, TX - Starting in April on the Hubbard stage is the Alley Theatre's production of the thrilling and wickedly sharp Amadeus . Peter Shaffer's Tony Award-winning play is a fictional story, set in the late 18th century, inspired by the historical circumstances of the artistic and personal rivalry between Viennese court composers Antonio Salieri and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Close to death and fearing that God has abandoned him, Salieri confesses his rage, envy, vengeance and regrets. The complex world of religious faith, moral standards, genuine inspiration and artistic expression are illuminated through a series of theatrical flashbacks seen from Salieri's perspective. Salieri's scandalous and spellbinding tale culminates when the righteous ambitions of a mediocre musician are focused on the tragic destruction of a man graced with heavenly genius, Mozart. Profanity, violence, mature situations. Recommended for mature audiences.
Amadeus, by
Peter Shaffer, begins previews
Friday, April 1,
opens Wednesday, April 6,
and runs through
Sunday, May 1, 2011,
on the Hubbard Stage.
Directed by
Jonathan Moscone, the 17-member cast features
Jeffrey Bean
as Antonio Salieri and making his Alley
Theatre debut is
Stanley Bahorekas Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Jonathan Moscone
(Director) is entering his 11th season
as Artistic Director of California Shakespeare Theater where his credits include
the world premiere of John Steinbeck's The Pastures of Heaven, Much
Ado About
Nothing, Happy Days, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
and Twelfth Night . Recently, he was awarded the inaugural Zelda
Fichandler Award by the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation for
"transforming the American theater through his unique and creative work."
Regional credits include American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Repertory
Theatre, The Huntington Theatre Company, Intiman Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory
Theater, Goodspeed Musicals, Dallas Theater Center, San Jose Repertory Theatre,
Portland Stage Company, and Magic Theatre. He is an adjunct faculty member of
the A.C.T. Master of Fine Arts Program and teaches at Berkeley Rep's School of
Theater. Upcoming projects include the world premiere of Ghost Light with
collaborator Tony Taccone for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Berkeley Rep.
He currently serves as a board member of Theatre Communications Group.
1768 Mozart completes his first opera, La finta semplice. The
archbishop of Salzburg gives Wolfgang Mozart charge of his orchestra.
(Pictured L-R) Stanley Bahorek as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and
Jeffrey Bean as Antonio Salieri in Amadeus.
Amadeus runs on the Alley Theatre’s Hubbard Stage April 1
through May 1, 2011. For more information visit
www.alleytheatre.org. Photo by Jann
Whaley.
Stanley Bahorek (Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart) has appeared on Broadway as Leaf Coneybear in The 25th Annual Putnam
County Spelling Bee. His Off-Broadway credits include See Rock City,
Inventing Avi and Queen of the Mist by Michael John LaChiusa
with Transport Group Lab. His other recent credits include Candide in
Candide at The 5th Avenue Theatre, Hunter in [title of show] at
Arizona Theatre Company, Mark Cohen in Rent at Syracuse Stage, Jack in
Into the Woods at Pittsburgh CLO, Chad in Wood at the New York
Musical Theatre Festival, Ralph Malph in Happy Days at Goodspeed Opera
House, Jim Henson's Emmet Otter at Goodspeed Opera House, the world
premiere of Ordinary Days at Pennsylvania Centre Stage, the world
premiere of Henry Krieger and Bill Russell's Up In The Air at
The Kennedy Center, Henrik in A Little Night Music at TheatreWorks,
CA, Music Theatre of Wichita, and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling
Bee in Boston and San Francisco. He has also appeared in theNational Tour
of Big River asTom Sawyer. He is a founding member and teaching artist
with Broadway in South Africa and amember of Actors' Equity Association. He is a
graduate of The University of Michigan.
Jeffrey Bean (Antonio
Salieri) is in his 16th season as an Alley Company Artist and has
appeared in over 100 Alley productions since 1989. Recently he has appeared in
August: Osage County
as Bill Fordham, A Christmas Carol as Scrooge, Peter Pan, or The Boy
Who Would Not Grow Up as Smee, Boeing-Boeing as Robert and Alfred
Hitchcock's The 39 Steps as Man #2. Previous Alley highlights include The
Farnsworth Invention as David Sarnoff, Mauritius as Philip, Cyrano
de Bergerac as Cyrano, The Scene as Charlie, Doubt as Father
Flynn, Subject to Fits as Prince Myshkin, Much Ado About Nothing as
Benedick, Journey's End as 2nd Lieutenant Trotter, The Pillowman as
Michal, Hapgood as Ridley, Twelfth Night as Feste, The
Importance of Being Earnest as Algernon, Billy Bishop Goes to War as
Billy Bishop, Gross Indecency as Oscar Wilde, Arms & the Man as
Bluntschli, The Crucible as Deputy Gov. Danforth, The Foreigner
as Charlie Baker and Stones in His Pockets as Charlie Conlon. Broadway
credits include Bells Are Ringing as Francis and Amadeus as
Kappelmeister Bonno. He is a graduate of Southern Methodist University's Meadows
School of the Arts and a Princess Grace Award winner.
SALIERI: Was it then that I began to have thoughts of
murder?.....I decided to compose a huge tragic opera: something to astonish the
world! - and now I knew my theme. I would set the Legend of Danaius, who
for a monstrous crime was chained to a rock for all eternity - this head
repeatedly struck by lightning! Wickedly I saw Mozart in that position.
In reality the man was in no danger from me at all.....Not yet.
(Pictured) Jeffrey Bean as Antonio Salieri in Amadeus.
Amadeus runs on the Alley Theatre’s Hubbard Stage April 1
through May 1, 2011. For more information visit
www.alleytheatre.org. Photo by Jann
Whaley.
Amadeus
features
Alley Theatre Artists Jeffrey
Bean as Antonio Salieri, James Belcher as Baron Van Swieten, James Black as
Count Orsini-Rosenberg, Chris Hutchison as Joseph II, Charles Krohn as Johann
Kilian Von Strack, David Rainey as Giuseppe Bonno/Citizen of Vienna, Emily Neves
as Citizen of Vienna and Melissa Pritchett as Constanze Weber.
The
cast also features Stanley Bahorek as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Alley
Debut), Patrick Damien Earl as Priest/Citizen of Vienna (Alley's
Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up),
Dylan Godwin (Alley's Peter Pan, or The
Boy Who Would Not Grow Up) and Adam Van Wagoner
(Alley's Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Would
Not Grow Up) as The Venticelli, Steve Irish as
Major Domo/Citizen of Vienna (Alley Debut), Amanda Kingston as Katherina
Cavalieri/Citizen of Vienna (Alley Debut), Kalob Martinez as Salieri's
Cook/Citizen of Vienna (Alley's Peter
Pan, or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up), Anne
Quackenbush as Teresa Salieri/Citizen of Vienna (Alley's
Harvey)
and Santry Rush as Salieri's Valet/Citizen of Vienna (Alley's Our Town).
The design team for
Amadeus includes
scenic design by Daniel Ostling (Alley Debut), with
costume design by Katherine Roth (Alley Debut). Lighting design is by
Christopher Akerlind (Alley's Gruesome
Playground Injuries)
with sound design by Rob Milburn & Michael Bodeen (Alley's
Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Would Not Grow
Up) with
assistant director Elizabeth Bunch (Alley
Company Artist) and Dramaturg Robert Shimko
(Alley's Boeing-Boeing).
1782 Mozart composes Die Entfurung aus dem Serail (The Abduction
from the Seraglio). Mozart marries Constanze Weber, sister of Aloysia.
Over the next nine years, the couple had six children, of whom four died in
infancy. (Pictured L-R) Melissa Pritchett as Constanze Weber and
Stanley Bahorek as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Amadeus.
Amadeus runs on the Alley Theatre’s Hubbard Stage April 1
through May 1, 2011. For more information visit
www.alleytheatre.org. Photo by Jann
Whaley.
TICKET INFORMATION
Tickets to Amadeus start
at $21. All tickets to Amadeus are
available for purchase at
www.alleytheatre.org
, at the Alley Theatre Box Office, 615 Texas
Avenue, or by calling 713.220.5700. Groups of 10 or more can receive special
concierge services and select discounts by calling 713.220.5700 and asking for
the group sales department. The added convenience of reservations by phone or
Internet is available for a nominal fee. Tickets purchased in person at the
Alley Theatre Box Office have a $1 building restoration fee.
MUSIC THERAPY CENTER OF
HOUSTON $10 TIX
Saturday, April 2, 2011
The Alley Theatre continues its efforts to make the theatre affordable to
patrons. Partnering with other social non-profit organizations, the Alley seeks
to generate in-kind donations and reward patrons with $10 Tix for select
performances. The $10 Tix are available in person only on Saturday, April 2 and
are limited to two tickets per person. With your donation, you can purchase two
$10 tickets for either Saturday, April 2 at 2:30 p.m.; Tuesday, April 5 at
7:30 p.m.; or Thursday, April 7 at 7:30 p.m. Donate and purchase in person at
the box office (615 Texas Ave.) on Saturday, April 2 only. Limited
availability.The $10 Tix partner for Amadeus
is Music Therapy of Houston. The date to
donate and purchase is Saturday, April 2, beginning at noon. The donated item is
new CDs (any kind).
CAPTIONED AND AUDIO DESCRIBED
PERFORMANCE
Sunday April 3,
2011
at 7:30 p.m.
The Alley Theatre is pleased to offer open captioning and audio description for
many of our productions throughout the season. To ensure that your seats will
accommodate your needs, please call the box office 713.220.5700 when ordering
tickets to this performance. Discounted tickets are available for groups of 10
or more.
TALKBACK
Saturday, April 9, 2011 at 2:30 p.m.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.
Members of the cast return to the stage following the performance to take
questions from the audience. TalkBacks are led by a member of the Alley Artistic
Staff.
ACTOUT
Thursday, April 14, 2011 from 6-7:15 p.m.
Houston's premiere theatre group for gay and lesbian theatre fans and their
friends celebrates the Alley Theatre's production of
Amadeus.
This pre-curtain event is complimentary with your ticket to the Thursday, April
14, 7:30 p.m. performance of Amadeus.
To buy a ticket, required for this event, use the promo code: ACTOUT.
Purchase online at
www.alleytheatre.org or call the
box office at 713.220.5700.
Amadeus
is generously sponsored by Supporting
Sponsor: Porter Hedges LLP; and Associate Producers: The Gordon A. Cain
Foundation, Cornelia and Meredith Long; Beth Madison; Connie and Roger Plank;
and Rob and Susan Reedy. The Alley Theatre is supported by the 2010-2011 season
sponsor United Airlines, the official airline of the Alley Theatre.
# # #
1784 - Salieri and court librettist Lorenzo da Ponte compose Il ricco d'un
giorno. Salieri's opera, The Danaius, opens in Paris. Mozart joins a
Secret Society of Freemasons in Vienna. 1786 - Mozart composes The
Marriage of Figaro. 1787 - Mozart's father Leopold dies in
May. Five months later, Mozart's opera Don Giovanni premieres to great
acclaim in Prague. 1790 - Mozart composes Cosi fan tutte.
(Pictured L-R) Stanley Bahorek as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and
Jeffrey Bean as Antonio Salieri in Amadeus.
Amadeus runs on the Alley Theatre’s Hubbard Stage April 1
through May 1, 2011. For more information visit
www.alleytheatre.org. Photo by Jann
Whaley.