Three Shows Only! LABOR DAY WEEKEND!!
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It doesn’t get any better than this!
–WOR Radio "live life right". 
Fri, Sat, Sun Sept 2-4 7:30pm 2022
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The Marvelous Wonderettes ‘58 takes you to the 1958 rural Spring Creek High School prom, where we meet the Wonderettes, four girls with hopes and dreams as big as their crinoline skirts! As we learn about their lives and loves, we are treated to the girls performing such classic ‘50s songs as “Lollipop,” “Dream Lover,” “Stupid Cupid,” “Lipstick on Your Collar,” “Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me,” and other classic hits! You’ve never had this much fun at a prom, and you will never forget Wonderettes ‘58— a must-take musical trip down memory lane!
This is a delightful 1 hour version of the smash Off-Broadway hit! Directed by Gail Phaneuf with Music Direction by Eric Johnson, and Choreography by Katie Mebane Harvey. The show will star Frankie Johnson, Liz Casper, Nicole Essien and Jessica Bandegas! See you at the PROM! 
Nicole Essien, Liz Casper, Jessica Banegas, Frankie Johnson
Sponsored by Garvey Construction and Chalmers Realty
Antonio Harmsen Villa (Ritchie on the Light Board) Was most recently seen on stage at Deertrees as The Bearded Hippie in An Evening at Dave's Sauna. He also portrayed SPIKE! in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike! (as well as the Knotty Readings, the Salt Lick Cabaret and Drag Bingo!) He is currently our general manager at Deertrees and now heads our lighting and technical crew. He graduated from the William Esper Studio in the summer of 2019 in New York. His first performance as an actor was in "Buscando Nirvana" by Enrique Mendoza in Peru. He was a sexy cabana boy in "Night of the Iguana" by Tennessee Williams, in Provincetown, Massachusetts for the Tennessee Williams Festival -2019. In 2020 he performed "The Piazza" by Barbara Anderson in Brooklyn, New York for the Black Box Festival, and then unluckily for him and the rest of human beings, Covid invaded the world. He's now appearing on stage once again at the Deertrees Theatre, where he's been having a great time rehearsing and working in the theatre all season. If you want to know more about him, you can check his website www.antonioharmsenvilla.com, or come talk to him after the show... 😂
 Gail Phaneuf Director
Gail Phaneuf - Director is an award winning playwright, composer, producer, actor and director and the Artistic and Executive Director for the Historic Deertrees Theatre in Harrison Maine. Her teen musical The Love Note has enjoyed an Off Broadway run at Actors Temple Theatre in NYC, and continues to have numerous productions at schools, regional theaters and theater camps. www.thelovenote.com The Love Note Musical is now offered by Heuer Publishing and Brooklyn Publishers for production. MONSTERS! A Midlife Musical Meltdown, is a collaboration with Broadway lyricist Ernie Lijoi. The comic musical was a finalist in the Rod Parker Playwriting Competition, kicking off developmental readings in Boston and New York City. MONSTERS! had its first full production at CentAstage in Boston. It was subsequently produced at the Deertrees Theatre in Harrison Maine, and was also mounted at The Regent Theatre in Arlington, MA. MONSTERS! Is also offered by Heuer Publishing or you may visit www.monstersthemusical.com Gail's latest show is a song cycle entitled Memorize You. It premiered in Boston and is now available for production through Heuer Publishing. http://www.gailphaneuf.com/news-and-memorize.html
Gail is the founder of G.P. Productions in Boston, and a former president of The Boston Playwrights’ Platform, where several of her plays were first produced. Her short play Stop Requested was awarded best play and best director, and was also published by Heuer Publishing. Games and Puzzles was produced by Image Theatre Co. for their Fem-Noire Festival and the Boston Theater Marathon. Stop Requested and her prickly Urban Gardens were produced by the South Camden Theatre Company in New Jersey. Urban Gardens was awarded best play at the Playwrights’ Platform Summer Festival. Her plays A Perfect Match and Lapse were produced at the ACME Winter New Works Festival and the Boston Theatre Marathon. Her edgy political piece Random Selection was read at the Provincetown Theatre Company's Spring Playwrights Festival and was later performed at the Boston Theater Marathon and at Curry College. Random Selection was published in Belgium in a collection of the best short plays by Boston playwrights. Her haunting work Binding the Artful Dodger had its world premiere at Curry College and most recently, Breakfast with Mary had its world premiere at the Deertrees Theatre in Maine. Her new one woman show KIPPY, Pray for the Dead and Fight Like Hell for the Living! was performed in 2022 at Denmark Arts Center. |
Katie Mebane Harvey - Choreography
Katie Harvey (Choreographer) is a NYC based artist and so excited to be in Maine at the beautiful Deertrees Theatre. Favorite credits include: Addams Family (Bway Natl/Asia Tour), Bayside the Musical (off Bway), Flashdance, The Producers, A Chorus Line, Anything Goes, and the off broadway production of The Love Note (written by your very own Gail Phaneuf!). So much love to Sam. Thank you for supporting live theater!
Eric Johnson - Music Director
Eric Thomas Johnson is an award-winning composer, music director, and pianist whose works have premiered across the United States and abroad. His musical dark comedy, The Hills Are Alive! (book & lyrics by Frankie Johnson) played at the Pershing Square Signature Center during the 2013 New York Musical Theatre Festival. He is a recipient of the Anna Sosenko Assist Trust grant and a Bronx Council on the Arts (NYSCA) grant for his work, and he was winner of the 2006 Emil Beyer NFMC National Composition Competition for Best Song Cycle (“Lieder der Geliebte”). He has also written music for many plays and film.
As a music director, some favorite credits include: Chicago, Into the Woods, Crazy For You, Singin’ in the Rain, Always, Patsy Cline, Closer Than Ever, The Cradle Will Rock, The Last Five Years, and Nunsense!, among others. As a pianist, he frequently performs in cabarets and concerts in and around NYC, has toured with Shades of Bublé, and accompanies auditions, classes, rehearsals, and all that jazz.
He is a member of the faculty at the Manhattan School of Music and the Primary Stages Einhorn School of Performing Arts in NYC. He holds a Masters Degree in Music from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, a Bachelors Degree in Music from Vanderbilt University and is a proud high school alumnus from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
As a music director, some favorite credits include: Chicago, Into the Woods, Crazy For You, Singin’ in the Rain, Always, Patsy Cline, Closer Than Ever, The Cradle Will Rock, The Last Five Years, and Nunsense!, among others. As a pianist, he frequently performs in cabarets and concerts in and around NYC, has toured with Shades of Bublé, and accompanies auditions, classes, rehearsals, and all that jazz.
He is a member of the faculty at the Manhattan School of Music and the Primary Stages Einhorn School of Performing Arts in NYC. He holds a Masters Degree in Music from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, a Bachelors Degree in Music from Vanderbilt University and is a proud high school alumnus from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
Costumes by Patty Hibbert!
LIghting by Michael Clark Wonson
LIghting by Michael Clark Wonson
Author’s bio
Roger Bean created the long-running hit The Marvelous Wonderettes (over 1,200 performances Off-Broadway), along with the sequels Wonderettes: Caps & Gowns, Winter Wonderettes, Wonderettes: Dream On, and the new large-cast Wonderettes: Glee Club Edition. Original cast albums for all Wonderettes shows are available from iTunes and Amazon. The Marvelous Wonderettes received the 2007 LA Ovation Award for Best Musical for its record-breaking Los Angeles run and continues to be an audience favorite in theatre companies throughout the country. Mr. Bean’s do-wop hit Life Could Be A Dream had a record-breaking 12-month run in Los Angeles, receiving the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, the LA Weekly Theatre Award, and the Backstage Garland Award for Outstanding Musical. Other popular musicals created by Mr. Bean include The Andrews
Brothers, Summer of Love, Route 66, Honky Tonk Laundry, and Why Do Fools Fall In Love?, all published by Stage Rights. More info at www.rogerbean.com
Roger Bean created the long-running hit The Marvelous Wonderettes (over 1,200 performances Off-Broadway), along with the sequels Wonderettes: Caps & Gowns, Winter Wonderettes, Wonderettes: Dream On, and the new large-cast Wonderettes: Glee Club Edition. Original cast albums for all Wonderettes shows are available from iTunes and Amazon. The Marvelous Wonderettes received the 2007 LA Ovation Award for Best Musical for its record-breaking Los Angeles run and continues to be an audience favorite in theatre companies throughout the country. Mr. Bean’s do-wop hit Life Could Be A Dream had a record-breaking 12-month run in Los Angeles, receiving the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, the LA Weekly Theatre Award, and the Backstage Garland Award for Outstanding Musical. Other popular musicals created by Mr. Bean include The Andrews
Brothers, Summer of Love, Route 66, Honky Tonk Laundry, and Why Do Fools Fall In Love?, all published by Stage Rights. More info at www.rogerbean.com
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Always…Patsy Cline is a musical, starring Katie Connor and Gail Phaneuf, based on the true story about Patsy Cline's friendship with a fan from Houston named Louise Seger,
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July 9, 2022
Don Campbell, born and raised in Maine, is an Award-Winning, Singer-Songwriter, who fronts the Don Campbell Band - a polished and versatile 5-pc. ensemble.
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