Joel |
JOEL
BLUM: Drama Desk Award nominee for Outstanding
Featured Actor in a Musical for Golf: The Musical.
Broadway: Music Man, A Christmas Carol,
Steel Pier (Tony nomination Best Supporting
Actor), Show Boat (Tony nomination Best
Supporting Actor), Stardust, 42nd
Street (original company), Debbie Reynolds
On Broadway. Off-Broadway: Game Show, .and
the World Goes 'Round. Tours: World Goes
'Round and Durante (L.A. Drama Logue
Award for both), Show Boat (London). Regional:
Guys and Dolls (Lead, Missouri Rep.), Tin
Pan Alley Rag ( Barrymore Award, Best Supporting
Actor, Wilma Theater Pa.) and much more. TV: episodes
of "Law and Order" and "Ed," NBC. "The Sopranos,"
HBO.
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Catherine |
CATHERINE CARPENTER
is thrilled to be joining the cast of Golf:
The Musical. She was last seen in the World
Premiere of Memphis written by Bon Jovi's
keyboardist, David Bryan. Prior to that, she was
juggling her time between two Fringe Festival pieces:
Slut! The Musical and Pterodactyl Island.
She made her NY debut in the 2000 off-Broadway revival
of Godspell under the supervision of Stephen
Schwartz, and is on the cast album. A graduate of
NYU, New York credits include: Streakin'!,
Reefer Madness, Linda Eder on Broadway,
Sex! The Musical and many new workshops
and readings! |
Aaron |
AARON DAVIS moved to New York just a short
time ago having spent the last few years performing
in Australia and New Zealand in such roles as Archie
Craven (Secret Garden), Capt. Walker (Tommy
– Australian Premier) and Jesus (Godspell).
Last year he produced and performed in the New Zealand
premier of GOLF: The Musical. He spent
two years singing with the New Zealand Opera, and
has also appeared in Peter Jackson’s King
Kong and Roger Young’s Hercules..
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Tom |
TOM GAMBLIN is thrilled to be joining the
foursome known as Golf the Musical. For the last
8 years Tom has played Santa in The Radio City
Christmas Spectacular in Denver, Detroit and
Los Angeles premieres. National tour: Jim Farrell
in Titanic; Dustin, Poppa & Greaseball
in Starlight Express, Las Vegas and Germany
productions. Regional credits: Annie, Tintypes
and Fiddler. Equity member since
1996. Thanks Mart, family and friends for love and
support. This one is for dad.
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Robin |
ROBIN HAYNES has appeared on Broadway,
in the original cast of Blood Brothers and in The
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas; in the National
Tours of Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story and Jekyll
& Hyde; and off-Broadway, in Minor Demons, She
Loves Me, Romeo and Juliet, Billy Bishop Goes To
War, and others. His work in feature films includes
Mel Brooks’s To Be Or Not To Be and the classic
Hot Dog! The Movie; and he has made guest appearances
on television, in such shows as Cosby, M*A*S*H,
Dallas, House Calls, Quincy, M.E., and Guiding Light.
Robin has worked regionally at Actors Theatre of
Louisville, The Cincinnati Playhouse In The Park,
The Hartford Stage Company, and the Seattle Repertory
Theatre, among others; and at stock theatres across
the country. He is the proud father of a daughter,
Morgan, who is a graduate of Wellesley College,
and a son, Whitney, who is a senior at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Angela |
ANGELA MADALINE is
a Philadelphia native recently turned New Yorker.
She holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Catawba College
in North Carolina. Much thanks to Ken Lundie and Paul
Harman; Mom, Dad and MJ: "I can never thank you enough
for your endless love and support! I love you!" |
Neal |
NEAL MAYER: Broadway: Les Misérables
(final cast). Other New York credits: Forbidden
Broadway Strikes Back! , The Wizard of Oz
in Concert (also on TNT), That’s Life!
(Original cast recording) and Winchell (workshop).
Regional: Memphis at North Shore Music Theatre,
Animal Crackers at Arena Stage, Sight
Unseen and Falsettos at Charlotte Repertory
Theatre, and various roles at Goodspeed, Skylight
Opera Theatre, American Stage Festival, and Weston
Playhouse.
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Lyn |
LYN PHILISTINE: Lyn recently appeared in
Disney's ON THE RECORD, and the Broadway revival of
GYPSY starring Bernadette Peters. Other New York credits
include: ALL SHOOK UP (pre-broadway workshop),OLIVER
(Nancy), A FAMILY AFFAIR (Babs), SOUND OF MUSIC (Sister
Margaretta), Tom Jones (Bridget), IT'S JUST SEX (Amanda),
THE MATING GAME (Darcie). Regional credits include:
A CHORUS LINE (Cassie),GOLF THE MUSICAL (Woman), SONG
& DANCE (Emma), WEST SIDE STORY (Anita), SUNSHINE
BOYS (Nurse), JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR (Mary), PAJAMA
GAME (Poopsie), ANNIE (Lily St. Regis). She has been
seen at the Downtown Cabaret Theatre in SWING (Laura)
and SUGAR BABIES (Soubrette) where she received a
Connecticut Critics' Circle Nomination for Outstanding
Performance by a Leading Actress. She also toured
the country with CINDERELLA starring Eartha Kitt.
Lyn sang on the nationally syndicated show BIG BREAK
hosted by Natalie Cole and holds a BFA from the Cincinnatti
Conservatory of Music I Love you Christopher, thanks
for the love and laughter!
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Trisha |
TRISHA RAPIER:
Memorable roles: numerous impersonations in
Forbidden Broadway/ Forbidden Hollywood, Eva
Peron- Evita, Mrs.Walker (u/s), Tommy
National Tour, Ellen- Miss Saigon, Pattie-
Smokey Joe's Café, Audrey- Little Shop
of Horrors, Adelaide- Guys and Dolls, Agnes-
Agnes of God, Clorinda- Il Combatimento
di Tancredi e Clorinda Monteverdi Opera and Mabel-
Pirates of Penzance. Off-Broadway: Awards:
Spotlight Award of the Los Angeles Music Center for
Best Jazz/Pop vocalist and The Carol Burnette Award.
UCLA Graduate. |
Christopher |
CHRISTOPHER SUTTON:
New York credits include I Love You, You're Perfect,
Now Change and The It Girl. A three-time
Barrymore Award Nominee for Outstanding Performance
by a Leading Actor in Blood Brothers (Mickey)
and Singin ' in the Rain (Don), Christopher
received the 2000 Barrymore Award for The Buddy
Holly Story (Buddy) and is a recipient of the
Louis B. Sudler National Prize in the Arts. Regional
credits include: Me and My Girl (Bill), Carousel
(Billy), The Sea Gull (Treplyev), Henry IV Part I
(Hal). All my love to Lynnie. |
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Brian |
BRIAN RUNBECK currently lives in
Phoenix (his hometown) following several years based
in New York City. He has worked Off-Broadway and regionally,
playing major roles in such diverse productions as
Harvey (Cortland Rep) A Christmas Carol
(Geva Theatre), I Love You, You're Perfect, Now
Change (Tennessee Rep, Arkansas Rep, Barter Theatre,
Madison Rep), Damn Yankees (Mill Mountain),
Me and My Girl (Artpark) and Sly Fox
(Samuel Beckett Theatre, NYC) to name a few. Brian
has also appeared in national commercials and briefly
in episodes of Law & Order, Oz, and several
films. As a vocalist, Brian has recorded on two CDs
in the Ben Bagley series of composers revisited and
has begun work on a solo CD. |
Becky |
BECKY SAUNDERS: Regional credits
include: Theater 4301 AZ: Always…Patsy Cline;
Sierra Repertory Theatre: Honky Tonk Angels, Sweet
Charity, Arsenic And Old Lace, Oklahoma, Noises Off,
The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Something's Afoot, Don't
Dress For Dinner, The Odd Couple (Female and
Male); South Coast Repertory: East Of The Sun,
West Of The Moon; University of Mississippi:
Festival Of Southern Theatre, Walkin' After Midnight;
Black Friar's - San Diego: State Of The Art Heart;
The Vanguard Theatre: The Shadow Box; Long
Beach Studio Theatre: I'm Getting My Act Together
And Taking It On The Road; National Tour: Bye
Bye Birdie; Film/Television: "The Tool Box
Murders II" and many industrials and commercials. |
Tyler |
TYLER SERVICE is excited to be doing
golf the musical once more and this time in his home
town. Tyler has appeared in many shows around the
valley including "A Christmas Carol"
at actors theatre where he played middle scrooge,
Disney's Beauty and the Beast, The Wizard
of Oz twice (tinman and scarecrow) Titanic
and The Secret Garden both of which earned
him ariZoni awards. Tyler has been a proud member
of actors equity for 3 years. he would like to thank
his parents for their constent support his inlaws
for allowing him to marry their beautiful daughter
and his wife Teresa for her love and strenght I Love
You! |
Cydney |
CYDNEY TRENT: Regional credits include:
42nd Street (Peggy Sawyer), Dames At
Sea (Ruby), A Chorus Line (Maggie),
Oklahoma (Ado Annie), and Into The Woods
(Cinderella), to name just a few. She has also been
seen performing on the Disney Cruise Line and can
be heard as the voice of the newest Veggie Tales
animated character, Princess Petunia. |
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KEN LUNDIE:
(Musical Director/Pianist) divides his time between
the Radio City Rockettes and playing auditions for
B'way. Ken was musical director for B'way's infamous
Moose Murders, appeared in the original B'way
cast of Crazy For You, and just completed
a wildly successful run of Capitol Steps: Between
Iraq and a Hard Place here at the Houseman Theatre.
Other musical credits include Jimmy Buffett's Don't
Stop The Carnival, Lone Star Love, Dames
At Sea, Finkel's Follies, Broadway
Jukebox and An Evening with the Gershwins.
Ken appeared Off-B'way in Tallulah and Cy
Coleman's Exactly Like You, and in the films
"Best Little Whorehouse In Texas" w/ Dolly Parton
and "Sextette" w/Mae West. Mr. Lundie has played piano
for Mel Torme, Nell Carter and Jennifer Holliday and
sung at the White House w/Carol Channing , Lauren
Bacall, Tyne Daly and Phyllis Newman. Between engagements,
Ken performs at Sam's, NY's oldest theatre bar and
restaurant, on West 45th Street in the historic theatre
district. |
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RACHEL KAUFMAN:(Music Director/Pianist),
a Brooklyn native, is a multi-instrumentalist who
has music directed and/or played for nearly 200 musicals
and cabaret shows all over the world, and has performed
in a wild variety of venues, ranging from playing
Gospel piano in a Baptist church in Chicago, to playing
trombone in the Labor Day Parade on Fifth Avenue.
She can also be seen playing for auditions, classes,
in swing bands, at piano bars, and for improv comedy
groups throughout NYC. Rachel is thrilled to be "playing
golf" again - she first played for it at the Meadowbrook
Theater in Michigan & has done it in various other
places since. She has played for such Broadway greats
as Ann Reinking, Lillias White, Chuck Cooper, Kristen
Chenoweth, Victoria Clark, and Donna Murphy, just
to name a few, and holds a B.A. in Music (and Russian!)
from the University of Chicago. |
Andria |
ANDRIA FENNIG (Piano) is a recent
doctoral graduate of Arizona State University with
a degree in piano performance. Classically trained,
Ms. Fennig has had numerous musical theater experiences
as both local and touring keyboardist for national
tours of King and I, Phantom of the Opera, and
Saturday Night Fever. She performs and musically
directs several performance at theaters around the
Arizona. |
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MICHAEL ROBERTS: (Author/ Composer/ Lyricist)
Theater: Many Moons, Kicking and Screaming,
Monstercano, Day for Knight. Television:
"Remember WENN" (Rupert Holmes' Emmy-winning sitcom,
American Movie Classics), "This One and That One"
(animated series), "Broadway's Best on Bravo" (arranger),
"PBS British Invasion" (arranger/music director).
Film: "Love Walked In" (starring Denis Leary/Terrence
Stamp, Tri- Star Pictures), "Maria" (documentary)
AFS Films, "Three Stops" (in production). Radio: United
Health Care, Evian. Resident Composer-Broadway Theater
Institiute. Music Director/Pianist: Rupert Holmes,
Leslie Gore, Joan Rivers, Stephanie Mills, The Broadway
Kids. |
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CHRISTOPHER SCOTT:
(Director) A graduate of the Boston Conservatory,
Christopher Scott has been working in New York's professional
theater for over fifteen years. He began his career
acting on and off Broadway in productions of Meet
Me in St. Louis (Broadway), The Fantastiks!
(Off-Broadway), and with the New Voices Theatre Ensemble
at Synchronicity Space in Soho. Other acting roles
were in major revivals of Bent and Twilight
of the Golds. For many seasons he was a director
for Theatreworks/USA, AMSA Musical Theatre and NYSUs
Collaborative Arts Project CAP 21 Studio, where he
served on the faculty. Mr. Scott also directed and
conceived the original Off-Broadway production and
subsequent tour of The Broadway Kids. |
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JAMES JOUGHIN:
(Set Designer) most recent credits include Comedy
Central ("Crank Yankers"), The Jim Henson Company
("The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss") and Oxygen Media.
James also designs scenery for Marie Claire Magazine
industrial video and trade shows. James has designed
more traditional fare at The One Dream and Hudson
Guild theaters, but who wants to hear about that?
James is pleased to be working with Mr. Krebs and
this team for the first time, and is also delighted
to have been asked to be part of making Mr. Roberts'
excellent musical a reality. (Joughin is a Manx name
that, roughly translated, means 'thieving son of a
deacon'.) |
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BERNARD GRENIER: (Costume Designer) Most
recently, Bernard designed costumes for the Off-Broadway
production of Little Ham at The John Houseman
Theater Center, which garnered him a 2002 American
Theatre Wing Hewes Design Award nomination for Best
Costumes. Also recently, the National Dance Institute's
production of Romeo & Juliet, directed
and choreographed by Jacques D'Amboise, the 30th anniversary
revival of Godspell, the Off-Broadway production
of Maybe Baby It's you at the SoHo Playhouse
and Poona at the Ohio Theater. Bernard has
also recently worked as a design associate with William
Ivey Long on two productions: City Center's Encore
production of Wonderful Town, starring Donna
Murphy, and Lincoln Center's Benefit performance of
South Pacific at the Vivian Beaumont Theater,
starring George Hearn, Karen Ziemba and Bill Murray.
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AARON SPIVEY: (Lighting Designer) is happy
to be working on Golf, even though he has
never played. New York lighting design credits include
Four Guys Named Jose, Off-Broadway and for
AMAS Musical Theatre. Also for AMAS: From My Home
Town and Starmites. Other New York credits
include Elle for the Art Party, King
Lear for the Aulis collective, The Naked
Earth for Yangtze Rep, A Midsummer Night's
Dream for the Blue Heron Theatre, Waiting
for Godot at the Actors' Institute, and Associate
Designer for Chess in concert at the New
Amsterdam. Regional credits include Four Guys
Named Jose at the Actors' Playhouse in Miami,
Mame at the Helen Hayes Performing Arts Center,
Little Shop of Horrors, and Beautiful
Dreamer at Cherry County Playhouse, Joseph,
and My One and Only at Carousel Dinner Theatre. |
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BRENDA ARKO: (Production Stage Manager) Off-Broadway:
Little Ham, True Love (sub). Showcases:
Last Train to Nibroc, Waiting for Godot,
Starmites 2001, A Lady Named Jo,
Disgruntled Employees. Readings: Stormy
Weather and Zanna, Don't! for Amas Musical
Theatre, Eurydice for The Actor's Company
Theatre. Tours: The Jazz Singer (Jazz Productions)
and Theatreworks USA. Stage Managed Sight Unseen
at Brown University for their 100th Anniversary Alumni
Production. Thanks to Mom, Fred and Goo. |
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BABETTE ROBERTS: (Stage Manager)
Broadway: The Lion King, Bring in 'Da Noise / Bring
in 'Da Funk (with Savion Glover), The Christmas Carol
(with Tony Randall, Hal Linden, Roddy McDowell), The
Real Thing (with Jennifer Ehle), The Gospel at Colonus
(with Charles S. Dutton). Off-Broadway: Jesus Hopped
the "A" Train (directed by Philip Seymour
Hoffman), Bash (with Calista Flockheart), Rounding
Third (with Matthew Arkin & Robert Clohessey).
Special Projects: Hearst Magazines: Management Conference
(with Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York), Hearst
Magazines: Mind, Body, Soul Conference (with Melissa
Etheridge), Smothers Brothers / Blues Brothers Concert
at the Denver Pepsi Center, Laughing Liberally at
Town Hall. Upcoming Project: The Gospel at Colonus
at the Vienna Theatre Festival. |
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JAKE WITLEN:
(Stage Manager) Jake is very happy to be "playing
around" with this company. Credits include, Broadway:
Bells are Ringing, Off-Broadway: The
Odyssey (with Derek Walcott), King Without
a Castle (dir. Michael John Garcés), Suicide
Bomber and work at Ensemble Studio Theatre. Directing
credits include: Race (Ferdinand Bruckner),
The Woman in Black, The Winter's Tale
(AD), Six Degrees of Separation (AD) et al.
He holds a BFA from Marymount Manhattan College. |
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STEPHANIE KLAPPER: (Casting Director) has
cast for television, film, Broadway, Off-Broadway
and regional theaters around the country. Some recent
New York credits include: the Broadway production
of Bells Are Ringing, and It Ain't Nothin'
But The Blues, and Off-Broadway's The Last
Sunday in June; The Unexpected Man,
and the Pulitzer Prize winning Dinner With Friends
as well as: for Primary Stages: Romola & Nijinsky;
One Million Butterflies; The Fourth Wall; Call The
Children Home; One Shot, One Kill; An Empty Plate
at The Café Du Grande Boeuf; and An Immaculate Misconception.
Recent regional theatres worked with are: The Long
Wharf Theatre, Delaware Theater Company, Capital Repertory
Theatre, The Alley Theatre, Coconut Grove Playhouse,
Riverside Theatre, The Hangar Theatre, Adirondack
Theatre Festival, The New Theatre, Vermont Stage Company,
and Actor's Theatre of Louisville. Current projects
include: Terrence McNally's The Stendahl Syndrome,
Tea at Five, the international tour of West
Side Story; and Charles Grodin's new play, The
Right Kind of People (Julian Schlossberg, producer).
Ms. Klapper is a member of the Casting Society of
America. |
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JONATHAN SHULMAN: (General Manager) has been
the General Manager of Eric Krebs Theatrical Management,
Inc. for the last 11 years. He has had the pleasure
of managing the Broadway productions of Bill Maher:
Victory Begins at Home, It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues,
Electra starring Zoe Wanamaker, and Paul
Robeson starring Avery Brooks. Off-Broadway productions
include Bash starring Ron Eldard, Calista
Flockhart and Paul Rudd; This Is Our Youth;
all four productions of The Capitol Steps;
The Big Bang; Tallulah Hallelujah!
starring Tovah Feldshuh; Papa starring Len
Cariou; Lust (the musical); Ali
starring Geoffrey Ewing; and Fyvush Finkel from
Second Avenue to Broadway. In addition, Jonathan
is the General Manager of the John Houseman and Douglas
Fairbanks Theaters. |
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TERENCE WOMBLE: (Press Representative) Broadway:
Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam (2003 Tony
Award®), Urban Cowboy, Lucifer's
Child starring Julie Harris, The Song of
Jacob Zulu starring Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
National and International: Ain't Misbehavin'
starring The Pointer Sisters, Joseph. starring
Donny Osmond and Sam Harris, Show Boat (North
America, London, Sydney), Carreño (Venezuela)
Barrymore starring Christopher Plummer, Disney's
Beauty And The Beast and Elton John and Tim Rice's
AIDA. Off-Broadway and beyond: Tony n'
Tina's Wedding, Naked Boys Singing!,
Young Playwright's Festival, The Public Theatre/New
York Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare in The Park,
The American Place Theater, Lincoln Center for the
Performing Arts, Inc., New York Lesbian & Gay
Film Festival, Czech Cinema Festival at the Kennedy
Center, Indian Diaspora Film Festival, others. |
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ERIC KREBS: (Producer) is the founder of
The John Houseman and Douglas Fairbanks theatres.
On Broadway he produced Bill Maher: Victory Begins
at Home, Neil Simon's The Dinner Party,
It Ain't Nothin' But The Blues (nominated
for 1999 Tony Award for Best Musical), and Electra
starring Zoe Wanamaker. Off-Broadway he produced Langston
Hughes's Little Ham, The Capitol Steps,
the world premiere of Bash by Neil LaBute,
and This Is Our Youth by Kenneth Lonergan.
In the not-for-profit theatre, he founded and for
14 years was the Producing Director of the George
Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Currently,
he is the chairman of AMAS Musical Theatre, a not-for-profit
theatre founded by Rosetta LeNoire and dedicated to
the training of "city kids" in the performing arts
and the creation of new musical for multi-ethnic casts.
Mr. Krebs is professor Emeritus at Rutgers University
and currently teaches at Baruch College of CUNY. He
was awarded the Robert Whitehead Award for excellence
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SHOW HISTORY |
GOLF: THE MUSICAL, the revue of songs and
comic skits about the fun and frustration of golf,
concluded its Off-Broadway engagement at The John
Houseman Theater Center April 4, 2004 four days
shy of seven months.
The musical, with book, lyrics and
music by Michael Roberts, based on a concept by
Eric Krebs, began performances October 8, 2003,
and had its official opening on November 19, 2003.
The show played 40 previews and 136 performances.
The Off-Broadway show featured musical
direction and arrangements by Ken Lundie, set design
by James Joughin, costumes by Bernard Grenier and
lighting design by Aaron Spivey. The production
was directed by Christopher Scott and featured Joel
Blum, Trisha Rapier, Christopher Sutton and Sal
Viviano. Brenda Arko was the stage manager. |
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