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The Marvelous Wonderettes '58

Three Shows Only!  LABOR DAY WEEKEND!!

It doesn’t get any better than this!
–WOR Radio
"live life right". ​
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​Fri, Sat, Sun  Sept 2-4  7:30pm   2022
Tickets are $26

Buy Tickets Friday Sept 2nd 7:30pm $26
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​"Nicole Essien​, playing the role of Cindy Lou, is a New York-based dancer, actress, and singer. Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, she is a recent graduate from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy and spent several years of her life dedicated to classical ballet training. Offstage and outside the studio, she is an avid knitter who loves nature, fitness, and cooking."

PictureKatie 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!

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​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.

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The Marvelous Wonderettes Rehearsing with Katie Mebane Harvey on the Deertrees Porch!
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!



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Nicole Essien, Liz Casper, Jessica Banegas, Frankie Johnson

Sponsored by   Garvey Construction and Chalmers Realty

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Liz Casper is just AMAZING!  

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Jessica Banegas (Missy) is over the moon with her experience as a Marvelous Wonderette! This is her first time performing at DeerTrees Theatre. NYC credits include: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (5th Floor, NYIT Nom.); Sabor (Columbia School of the Arts); Omigod You Guys! (Triad Theatre). Graduate of The American Musical and Dramatic Academy’s Integrated Program.



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Frankie Johnson (Betty Jean)  is an actress and writer currently working in New York City. She wrote the book and lyrics to the musical dark comedy The Hills Are Alive! with composer Eric Thomas Johnson, which had successful runs at both the 2012 New York International Fringe Festival and the 2013 New York Musical Theatre Festival. Her Sci-fi buddy comedy pilot, Flying Blind (co-written with Sarah Morgan Ashey), was a winner of the First Ten Pages Competition and her web series Dead Space was a finalist for the 2018 Sundance/YouTube New Voices Lab. Her work has been performed at several venues around NYC, including The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre, The Peoples Improv Theater, Theatre 80, Don't Tell Mama, The Duplex, and The Tank. She also regularly writes and produces sketch videos and short films, both comedic and dramatic, independently and with Eric Thomas Johnson.
​​As an actress, she has been seen in various productions in regional theatre and in NYC. Credits include: The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Hills Are Alive!, The Future Is in Eggs, Eurydice, Faith, Hope & Charity, The Complete History of America (abridged), Hay Fever,​ The Pirates of Penzance, among others. She also performs as a comedic improviser and sketch actress with various groups around the city, including the Boogiemanja Sketch Collective and the Magnet Theatre House Team Milwaukee.
​She is a recipient of a Bronx Council on the Arts (NYSCA) grant for her work as well as a member of the Dramatists Guild. She holds a degree from Vanderbilt University, where she studied music and theatre.
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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.


LIghting by Michael Clark Wonson
Costumes by Patty Hibbert!
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​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

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    • MAGIC BUS - The WHO Tribute
    • Almost Maine July 7, 8, 21, 22, 23
    • Tipping Points with Halcyon String Quartet
    • Sebago Long Lake Music Festival 2023
    • Piano Men - The Music of Elton and Billy
    • An Evening at Dave's Sauna Musical
    • Dark Side of Somewhere Dance Immersion
    • Lobster Roll Fundraiser
    • Past Events >
      • 2022 Season >
        • Always…Patsy Cline
        • Peter Frampton Live Tribute
        • Artist Reception
        • Every Brilliant Thing
        • The Tartan Terrors A Celtic Invasion
        • Susie Pepper & Mixology
        • Tim Sample Maine Humorist
        • Windborne Folk Music
        • Ragtime Fair Music and Comedy
        • Imagine the Beatles Solo Years
        • Don Campbell Band
        • Sebago Long Lake Music Festival 2022
        • Yellow Bird Chase - Kid's Show
        • Robin Spielberg Pianist 2022
        • Cobblestones Donor/Sponsor Party
        • Dave's Sauna Rated N for "Naughty"
        • Marvelous Wonderettes '58
        • Milltown Roadshow Salt Lick
        • Salt Lick - Cabaret Series >
          • Milltown Roadshow Salt Lick
          • Carpenters Reimagined
          • Heather Pierson Duo
      • 2021 Season >
        • Vanya and Sonia and ​Masha and Spike
        • First Night ​by Jack Neary
        • Sound of Music Sing-A-Long!
        • Beatles for Sale
      • 2019 Season
      • 2016 Season
      • 80th Anniversary Gala
  • Art Gallery
    • Deertrees Artists
  • Salt Lick Cafe
    • Salt Lick Series Events >
      • Heather Pierson Duo
      • Carpenters Reimagined
    • Shop