By ALLISON ENGEL & MARGARET ENGEL Directed by MICHAEL SERRECCHIA Starring ELLEN LOCY
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Allison Engel & Margaret Engel STARRING
Ellen Locy as Erma Bombeck DIRECTOR
Michael Serrecchia ADMINISTRATIVE PRODUCER
Evelyn G. Hall
LIGHTING DESIGNER
TECHNICAL PRODUCER
STAGE MANAGER
Dane Tuttle
John Harvey
Susan A. White
Rodney Dobbs
SET DESIGNER
VIDEO DESIGNER
SOUND DESIGNER
COSTUME DESIGNER
PROP DESIGNER
Rich Frohlich
MASTER CARPENTER
Kennedy Styron
Michael Robinson SET DRESSER
Jo Anne Hull
Dane Tuttle
Dawn Blasingame CAMERA CREW
Alex Lorenz • Rich Frohlich
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CAST Erma Bombeck...........................................................................Ellen Locy VOICES: Female Questioner.............................................................. Evelyn G. Hall Southern Male.............................................................. Michael Robinson Male Questioner..................................................................... Dane Tuttle Betty Freidan............................................................. Catherine Whitman Children..............................................Serenity Johnson, James Frohlich, Jude DuChene, Alexander DuChene Pre-Show Announcer................................................................James Bell News Reporter...................................................................Bryan Douglas
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WHO’S WHO ELLEN LOCY (Erma Bombeck) is delighted to make her MainStage debut as Erma! She previously worked with Michael Serrecchia in CTD’s ensemble play LOVE, LOSS AND WHAT I WORE. Other favorite roles: Gigi/COCO AND GIGI, Olivia/SAILING TO BYZANTIUM, Virginia Woolf/ VITA AND VIRGINIA, and Theresa/ BOY GETS GIRL (Echo Theatre); Miriam/THE WOMEN (Theatre Three); Angustias/THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA (Teatro Dallas); Shelby/STEEL MAGNOLIAS (Casa Mañana). Ellen is represented by The Mary Collins Agency. In loving memory of beautiful Mom, who adored Erma, and funny, frugal Dad. EVELYN G. HALL (Producer) Working with Michael Serrechia and his cast and crew is always a very special experience. Evelyn is honored to be producing for him again, especially after such a successful run of A CHORUS LINE last fall. Though streaming a production is a new and exciting adventure for MainStage, Evelyn 6 MainStage Irving • Las Colinas
looks forward to when the audiences, casts, and crew can return to live theater. May it be very soon! DANE TUTTLE (Producer) has worked in professional technical television, film, and theatre for 13 years. He has been a member of MainStage for 10 years and a Board Member for 6 years. He has worked as Technical Director, Master Carpenter, Set Designer, Head of Audio, Sound Designer, and Sound Board Operator for almost every DFW local community and professional regional theatre. MICHAEL SERRECCHIA (Director) Michael has earned his living in the Theater for the past 51 years, 18 of those years on and off Broadway in shows like SEESAW, THE ROTHCHILDS, SING HAPPY, THE SELLING OF THE PRESIDENT, HEATHEN, OUT OF THIS WORLD, and as an original cast member of A CHORUS LINE (New York Drama Desk Award, New York Theatre World
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WHO’S WHO Award). After leaving A CHORUS LINE, he traveled the world for four years with Chita Rivera in CHITA PLUS TWO (MAC Award). Michael also had the pleasure of touring in HELLO DOLLY! with Carol Channing and dancing with Ann Miller in ANYTHING GOES. His feature film credits include ANNIE AND JEREMY with television guest appearances on ALL MY CHILDREN, MERV GRIFFIN SHOW, and AS THE WORLD TURNS. For the past several years, Michael has been captivating DFW audiences with his direction of regional premieres: THE FULL MONTY, A CLASS ACT, THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA, THE DROWSY CHAPERONE, TAKE ME OUT, NEXT TO NORMAL, THE PRODUCERS, PAGEANT, and the two-year run of AVENUE Q. He has established himself as the go-to director of musicals and over the last 18 years has directed over 100 shows in the DFW Metroplex. For MainStage, Michael has directed such hits as HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING, PHANTOM, BELLS 8 MainStage Irving • Las Colinas
ARE RINGING, THE ADDAMS FAMILY, NINE, and the recordbreaking SISTER ACT and A CHORUS LINE. He also is proud to be the resident director of the yearly productions of THE SPECTACULAR FOLLIES and The Pegasus Theatre’s BLACK AND WHITES. When not directing at one of the many DFW theatres, Michael can be found at The KD Conservatory College of Film and Dramatic Arts where he is the Chair of the Musical Theatre Degree Program. Michael is represented by the Horne Agency. JOHN HARVEY (Stage Manager) is as pleased as Punch to be working with MainStage for the first time, especially with one of his favorite directors. He normally spends his time wearing about a dozen different hats for Pegasus Theatre in Dallas, but a change is as good as a rest, they say. As always, his thanks go out to his Senior Assistant Prop Wrangler, Barbara Rhodes.
WHO’S WHO RODNEY DOBBS (Set Design) is pleased to be back at Irving, having designed SOME LIKE IT HOT here a really long time ago. Rodney co-founded the Pocket Sandwich Theatre with Joe Dickinson in 1980 and is still active there as Artistic Director and Resident Set Designer. He has designed hundreds of sets for theatres around the Metroplex and taught Technical Theatre at both High School and College levels. Rodney would have designed about 12 sets this year, without the Pandemic.
Design for TITANIC & for RAGTIME & 7 Column awards. With MainStage Irving she recently designed KISS ME KATE.
RICHARD FROHLICH (Sound Designer) A three-time Column award winner, he has designed sound for more than 70 productions at over a dozen area theaters since 2005. In 2001 he founded the Texas Radio Theatre Company. In addition to sound design, Richard is also a video producer, podcast producer, a cycling advocate and has recently added bicycle repair to his résumé. He makes his home SUSAN A. WHITE (Lighting in Arlington Texas with his wife Designer) served as Assistant/ Associate Lighting Designer on 27 Shannan and their three children. Broadway shows, including DAMN YANKEES, THE RINK, THE MUSIC MICHAEL ROBINSON (Costume Designer) and his team at the OF ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER Dallas Costume Shoppe, have IN CONCERT, CABARET... Off Broadway, she designed lighting designed and provided costumes for countless area productions for NUNSENSE & BLUES IN THE over the years, including: THE NIGHT. For 3 years she was Lighting Supervisor/Designer for DROWSY CHAPERONE, CATS, EVITA, THE ADDAMS FAMILY, the Joffrey Ballet. Susan won the Dallas Theatre League’s Leon BONNIE AND CLYDE, CRAZY FOR YOU, SPRING AWAKENING, Rabin Award for Best Lighting 2020-21 Season 9
WHO’S WHO SHREK, NINE, THE FULL MONTY and the critically acclaimed AVENUE Q for Theatre Three. Area theaters Michael has costumed for include: Theatre Three, Stage West, Uptown Theatre, Echo Theatre, Rover Drama Werks, MainStage, Second Thought Theatre, Garland Summer Musicals, Contemporary Theatre of Dallas, Teatro Dallas, WaterTower Theatre and Lyric Stage. Michael’s costumes for
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Mozart’s COSI FAN TUTTI were seen at the famous Goldini Theatre in Venice, Italy, and were also featured in the BBC documentary of BONNIE AND CLYDE. He recently costumed the New York premier of AS WE LIE STILL. Michael is very happy to be back working with his friends at MainStage.
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PRODUCTION CREW & VOLUNTEERS ADMINISTRATIVE PRODUCER.........................................................................................Evelyn G. Hall TECHNICAL PRODUCER........................................................................................................Dane Tuttle DIRECTOR.................................................................................................................. Michael Serrecchia STAGE MANAGER...................................................................................................................John Harvey SET DESIGNER....................................................................................................................Rodney Dobbs COSTUME DESIGNER.................................................................................................Michael Robinson PROPERTY DESIGNER............................................................................................... Dawn Blasingame LIGHTING DESIGNER.......................................................................................................Susan A. White VIDEO DESIGNER....................................................................................................................Dane Tuttle SOUND DESIGNER.........................................................................................................Richard Frohlich LIGHT BOARD OPERATOR.....................................................................................................Eric B. Ryan SOUND BOARD OPERATOR.............................................................................................Shawn Tierney MASTER CARPENTER......................................................................................................Kennedy Styron SET DRESSER......................................................................................................................... Jo Anne Hull CAMERA CREW.........................................................................................Richard Frohlich, Alex Lorenz SET MOVE-IN CREW......................................................................................John Harvey, Jo Anne Hull, Steven Merritt, Tom Ortiz, Kennedy Styron, Dane Tuttle, Susan White SET BUILD CREW..........................................................Rodney Dobbs, Jo Anne Hull, Kennedy Styron PUBLICITY PHOTOGRAPHER............................................................Mike Morgan Photogtaphy, Inc. SPECIAL THANKS.................................................................................Pix Smith, WaterTower Theatre Pocket Sandwich Theatre, Tom Ortiz, Clayton Cunningham Big State Fountain Grill, Irving, TX
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