Around The World In 80 DaysIt is 1872 and two astonishing headlines appear in the Daily Telegraph:
A gentleman robber has stolen 55 thousand pounds from the Bank of England AND By using trains and steamboats you can now go Around the World in 80 Days. A wager is placed and gentleman, Phileas Fog, sets out to prove the latter as the world tries to find the gentleman bank robber. Rescue a Princess in India! Be attacked by fierce prairie Indians! Sail a burning Atlantic paddle-wheeler! All this and more as Fogg tries to win his wager. |
Michael Iannucci (John Dough) as Phileas Fogg
MICHAEL IANNUCCI (John Dough) : Most recently Veronica’s Room and Beauty and the Beast (Fulton Theatre). New York credits: Fiddler on the Roof (Broadway revival); Shlemiel the First (Theatre for a New Audience); Enter Laughing (York Theatre); The Awful Truth (Gotham Radio Theatre/Fringe Festival); Street Scene (Brave New World Rep); Wallenberg (NYMTF); Waiting For Lefty (Theatre Row). National Tours: Annie; Fiddler on the Roof. Regional: South Pacific (Wick Theatre); Brighton Beach Memoirs (Seven Angels); And Then There Were None; Crazy For You; Rags; Phantom; Witness For The Prosecution (Fulton Theatre); Cats; The Most Happy Fella (Theatre Under the Stars); Steel Pier (Actor’s Playhouse); Falselettoland (Caldwell Theatre, Carbonell Award nomination); Side By Side By Sondheim (Theatre Jacksonville); My Fair Lady (Lancaster Symphony); Bye Bye Birdie (Westchester Broadway); Ragtime (Jersey Productions); Patience (Sorg Opera); Noises Off (Playhouse on the Green) Stock: Six Dance Lessons In Six Weeks (Ivoryton Playhouse); Lend Me A Tenor; Spamalot (Arrow Rock Lyceum); Chicago (Mason Street Warehouse); Guys & Dolls (New Harmony); Plaza Suite (Allenberry Playhouse); To Kill A Mockingbird (Forestburgh Playhouse); Gypsy (Merry-Go-Round). Television: Elementary. www.michaeliannucciactor.com
Susie Wall (Lilly Malloy) Passepartout
Susie has worked extensively in Regional Theatres, Film, TV & Radio. In St Louis she has worked at The Repertory Theatre, The Shakespeare Festival, Stages, Insight Theatre, Hotcity, Stray Dog and The New Jewish Theatre. She has performed Regionally at The Cincinnati Playhouse in “Voice of the Prairie” & “Inherit the Wind”. Most recently she played Dr. Ruth Westheimer in “Becoming Dr. Ruth” in Kansas City, Mrs. Brady In Inherit the Wind (directed by Sydnie ) and Alice B. Toklas in “Gertrude Stein and a Companion” at Bluff City Theatre in Hannibal. She received a 2009 Kevin Kline Award for “Grace and Glorie” at Insight Theatre. Her film credits include Saving Shiloh, Ghost Image, Doubting Tom, Sophie and the soon to released, Grandmother’s Murder Club. For Television she has a reoccurring role as the Mayor’s Assistant on NCIS New Orleans. She has worked extensively in Voice-Overs for network /regional TV & radio. She founded her own company called PLay it Forward, an Acting Studio for kids through adults. She has been a Professor for 27 years in the Conservatory at Webster University.
Bob Ader (aka Otto Shmearcase ) as Sir Francis Cromarty, SE Actor
BOB ADER (Otto Shmearcase) Bob just returned from The Maltz Jupiter Theatre in Florida where he played the role of Heathersett in Me And My Girl. Prior to that he appeared intwo productions of the Drama Desk nominated The Golden Bride for the Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre. Bob has been a professional actor and performer for over 50 years having made his Broadway debut in the Pulitzer Prize winning play,
All The Way Home with Colleen Dewhurst and Lillian Gish. Other theatre credits include The Tin Pan Alley Rag (Cleveland Playhouse), Laughter On The 23rd Floor (Flatrock Playhouse), The Golden Land, and many others. On television he has appeared on numerous programs including Law & Order, Criminal Intent, David Letterman, Saturday Night Live, Unsolved Mysteries, Onion News Network, and One Bad Choice (MTV).One of Bob’s fondest memories is having worked with the legendary Judy Garland at the Felt Forum of Madison Square Garden in 1967. He recounts that memory and many others in his one man show, 50 + Years
In The Business, which was co-directed by Sydnie Grosberg Ronga and by Bob’s talented and beautiful wife, Marilyn Spanier.
Vince Trani (Louie Gugliano) as Fix and composer/pianist
VINCE TRANI (Louie Gugliano) is happy to be back at the Schoolhouse, having debuted as Sal in How To Bury A Saint and seen last as O. Henry and others in Gift of the Magi. He was also directed by Bram Lewis at the Project Rushmore Theatre Company as Creon in Medea and the Fool in King Lear. Vince is a founding member and resident composer of the Gotham Radio Theatre. He is glad to be working again with Sydnie Grosberg Ronga who directed him in Idiot's Delight, Frankenstein and Rudolph's Tale. He has appeared at the Public Theatre as Thersites in Troilis and Cressida, Los Angeles Civic Light Opera in the revival of Kismet, Goodspeed Opera House in Dorian and Red, Hot and Blue, Cincinnati Playhouse in Twelfth Night and Disney Entertainment Productions as Doc in Snow White - An Enchanting Musical. He played Faust in the First National Tour of Ken Hill's Phantom of the Opera and Sancho Panza in twelve productions of Man of La Mancha.
Megan Mekjian (Margaret Miller) as Aouda, SE Actor
MEGAN MEKJIAN (Margaret Miller) is thrilled to be returning to Gotham Radio Theatre and The Schoolhouse Theater! She had an incredible experience performing in Auntie Mame with GRT in December and in Janice Maffei’s wonderful new play How to Bury a Saint last summer at The Schoolhouse Theater. As a performer, some other favorite credits include: On The Town (Barrington Stage Company - dir. John Rando, chor. Joshua Bergasse), Annie Get Your Gun (u/s, perf. Annie Oakley, Fireside Theatre), Fiddler on the Roof (Fruma-Sarah, u/s, perf. Tzeitel, North American Tour), and Vestments of the Gods (Jessica, FringeNYC - produced by Lin-Manuel Miranda’s 5000 Broadway Productions). BFA: NYU/Tisch School of the Arts, MAT: University of Southern California. Megan is a proud member of Actors’ Equity. Thank you to Sydnie, Bram, my family, friends, teachers, and students. www.meganmekjian,com.
Adapted and Directed by Sydnie Grosberg Ronga (Sydnie Gale)
SYDNIE GROSBERG RONGA (Sydnie Gale) is delighted to be bringing Gotham Radio Theatre to The Schoolhouse Theatre. Sydnie has a long history of work with Schoolhouse Artistic Director, Bram Lewis. As his Associate Artistic Director for The Phoenix Theatre Company, she directed Boy Meets Girl, Alone At The Beach, and The Nerd. Sydnis has adapted and directed most of Gotham’s productions over the last six years. She has just returned from directing Driving Miss Daisy in St. Louis for New Jewish Theatre, where she directed Bad Jews, last season and for which she was nominated for a best director award. Sydnie directed Inherit the Wind, for Insight Theatre over the summer and is a co-founder of Max & Louie Productions, and directed their critically acclaimed productions of Chancers, The Violet Hour, It Had to Be You and The Lady With All the Answers. In NYC she directed premiers of World of Sinatras & Exquisite Potential and Valhalla for the Project Rushmore Theatre Company. Ms. Grosberg Ronga directed Branislav Tomich’s one-man plays; Blue Lanterns which had a highly successful run in New York in the Fall of ’09, and Café God which played in NYC, St. Louis and won a Drama-Logue Award in Los Angeles. She has also worked with Manhattan Class Company and The Women’s Project. As an Arts Educator, Sydnie works with students of all ages, directing shows from elementary school to college and designing theatre curriculum for in-school and after-school programs. An acting teacher and coach, Sydnie was born in St. Louis. She is a graduate of Webster University.
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