About Our Production

Clockwise, from left: Jaime Korkos, Eric Culp, Justin Mendoza, Dominic Sahagun, Joe Barros, David Hernandez, Alysha Umphress, Katie Rooney, Jeremy Kreamer, Eva Collins
*Not Pictured: Anna Bergman

Our production of Falsettos opened at the Josephine D. Randall Museum Theatre on August 25, 2000. It was directed by Joe Barros, and produced by Joe Barros and Justin Mendoza; Dominic Sahagun was the production assistant. The set was designed by Joe Barros, the costumes by Susan Linneman, and the lighting by Shawna Vesco. Musical direction was by Justin Mendoza, and sound design by Brian Bookwalter. The Stage Manager was Libby Hines, and the Floor Manager was Erin Shea. It was sponsored by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Inc. The cast was as follows:

MARVIN	Dominic Sahagun*
WHIZZER	Eric Culp*
MENDEL	David Hernandez*
JASON	Jeremy Kreamer
TRINA (Fri. & Sun. matinee)	Alysha Umphress
TRINA (Sat. & Sun. evening)	Anna Bergman*
CHARLOTTE	Katie Rooney*
CORDELIA (Fri. & Sun. matinee)	Eva Collins*
CORDELIA (Sat. & Sun. evening)	Jaime Korkos*

The entire production staff was as follows:

Director/Choreographer
Joe Barros*

Musical Director
Justin Mendoza*

Production Assistant
Dominic Sahagun

Stage Manager/Technical Director
Libby Hines

Assistant Stage Manager
Brian Bookwalter

Costume Designer/Wardrobe Mistress
Susan Linneman

Set Designer
Joe Barros

Set Construction
Steve Barros, Sal Sahagun, Shawna Vesco, Galatean Players Ensemble

Lighting Designer
Shawna Vesco

Light Board Operators
Libby Hines, Brian Bookwalter

Sound Design and Operation
Brian Bookwalter

Properties
Margarita Mendoza, The Barros Family, The Kreamer Family, The Cast

Spotlight Operators
Anna Woodrum*, Shawna Vesco

Slide Operator
Claire Darby

Floor Manager
Erin Shea

Floor Crew
Erin Shea, Claire Darby, Eva Collins, Jaime Korkos

The Teeny Tiny Band was as follows:

Conductor/Piano
Justin Mendoza

Synthesizer
Sean Bart*

Drummer/Percussion
Taylor Still

*signifies alumnus or current member of the Young People's Teen Musical Theater Company

Special Thanks

Diane Price, Othello Jefferson, Sal Sahagun, Galatean Players Ensemble, Kathryn G. McCarty, Dean Starnes, Wendy Jones, The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Inc., The Kreamer Family, Vincent Peterson, Anna Woodrum, The Randall Museum Friends, San Francisco Park & Recreation Department, Dean Galloway, John Dillon, Justiniano & Margarita Mendoza, Steve, Cecelia, & Danny Barros, Camilla Pizzalla, and Grace. Special Thanks to Anna Bergman, Dominic Sahagun, and Alysha Umphress for driving Jeremy from Fairfield to San Francisco and back daily!

Director's Note

When I was first introduced to Falsettos by Justin, our musical director and my good friend, I said "This is the one I've been waiting for!" I immediately fell in love with the show. The music bounces about and the lyrics are sharp and witty. Falsettos has a cast of seven characters, two of whom, do not appear in act one. The musical is actually a trilogy--the Marvin Trilogy. Marvin, the protagonist, is like every man, everything and everyone is connected at results from the decisions he makes. Falsettos is actually the second and third parts of the trilogy: the first act is called In Trousers, the second is called March of the Falsettos, and the third act is called Falsettoland. Each were produced singularly as one acts off-Broadway before the second and third were put together as acts one and two of Falsettos, which opened on Broadway in 1992, where it won a Tony Award for Best Music and Lyrics and Best Book. Falsettos is real. It's about time, life, love, sex, joy, sorrow, peace, turmoil, and death, or rather it is a celebration of life and love. I looked up the word "falsetto" in the dictionary and it said: "artificially different or high; especially an artificially produced singing voice that overlaps and extends about the range of the full voice." Perhaps these people that Finn has so specifically created live in such a real world as they try to avoid all of the problems of life in their artificial ways which results in the problems they end up facing throughout. The must adapt to such change and accept such differences in a world that has only begun to change. They cannot go beyond their limits, their range of life. William Finn takes everything one has ever dreamed of, felt, thought of and has found a way to put it into a musical. Finn nearly died of a brain tumor recently, and as part of his healing process, he wrote a musical called A New Brain which premiered at Lincoln Center. William Finn and James Lapine have created such a beautiful and unique piece of theatre. What geniuses. By creating such specific characters, Finn helps us relate to their story as it becomes more universal for us, the audience. This is a wonderful show and I am pleased to bring it here to the Randall, with the help of the cast, as our gift to the Company for everything Diane and everyone else affiliated with the Company has done for us. The Company has given us all a special place to do theatre and to be a community who love each other like the community in Falsettos. However, we all may not be Jewish, but we still bitch!