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Announcing cast and crew for the season-opening production!
The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center’s Theatre Company presents
Assassins
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by John Weidman
There are a number of notable cast members
making their FAC debut, including Tom
Auclair (Samuel Byck), Ben Bashinski (Leon Czolgosz) Cailin Doran (Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme), and
Jordan Leigh (Charles Guiteau),
Leigh is best known in Colorado for his
record-setting run of 1,731 performances of I
Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change at the Denver Center for the
Performing Arts. A graduate of the UCLA School of Theatre, Leigh is also a
filmmaker with Cinema Geeks Productions. His film, 46 Miles, was screened at the Cannes Film Festival. Bashinski is a
Platoon Leader in the U.S. Army Signal Corps.
The cast of 14 also includes SaGāJi
veterans Marco Robinson (Balladeer/Lee Harvey Oswald), Jason Lythoge (John Wilkes Booth), Brantley
Scott Haines (John Hinckley), Max Ferguson (Proprietor), and Miriam Roth
Ballard (Sara Jane Moore).
Robinson was named “2009 Best Actor” by the
Gazette. He has appeared in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,
Sweeney Todd and as Eugene Jerome in
the Neil Simon Trilogy, all for the FAC.
The creative team includes Christopher L. Sheley (Scenic Designer), Janson Fangio (Costume Design), Jonathan Spencer (Lighting
Design), and Roberta Jacyshyn (Musical Director), who leads the
eight-member orchestra. The production stage manager
is Katy McGlaughin.
Spencer, making his FAC debut, was the
Assistant Lighting Designer on four recent Broadway shows, including Sister Act, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, Finian’s Rainbow and Legally
Blonde.
CAST
John Wilkes Booth………………………….……Jason Lythgoe
Samuel Byck……………………………………………Tom Auclair
Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme………….………..Cailin Doran
Charles Guiteau………………………..………….Jordan Leigh*
Leon Czolgosz………………………………….…..Ben Bashinski
John Hinckley…………………………..Brantley Scott Haines
Sara Jane Moore……………….………Miriam Roth Ballard
Balladeer/Lee Harvey Oswald………….Marco Robinson
Giuseppe Zangara………….……………..………Ken Robinson
Proprietor/Ensemble…….……………………..Max Ferguson
Emma Goldman/Ensemble…………………….Halee Towne
David Herold/Ensemble……………..Jonathan Eberhardt
Ensemble………………………….……………..………Vania Falen
Ensemble…………………………………..…………Matt Newton
Scenic Design by
Christopher Sheley
Lighting Design by
Jonathan Spencer**
Costume Design by
Janson Fangio
Stage Managed by
Katy McGlaughlin
Musical Direction by
Roberta Jacshyn
Directed by
Scott RC Levy
*Member of Actor’s Equity Association
**Member of USA/829
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