TWELVE ANGRY MEN: A NEW MUSICAL
“Must-see musical.”
“Brims with tension.”
“A serious story given more depth and made more compelling with the infusion of song.”
“Reflects and speaks to our current time. ”
WORLD PREMIERE
June 8 - July 24, 2022
Ritz Theater
CLOSED JUL 24
Adapted from the play by Reginald Rose
Music and Lyrics by Michael Holland
Book by David Simpatico
Directed by Peter Rothstein
Music Direction by Denise Prosek
Choreography by Kelli Foster Warder
Featuring Sasha Andreev, Curtis Bannister, Reese Britts, Charlie Clark, James Detmar, Bradley Greenwald, Brian Kim McCormick, Riley McNutt, T. Mychael Rambo, Matt Riehle, Wariboko Semenitari, and Adan Varela.
In a small New York City jury room, on "the hottest day of the year," twelve men debate the fate of a young defendant charged with murdering his father. In form, TWELVE ANGRY MEN: A NEW MUSICAL is a courtroom drama; in purpose, it's a crash course in those passages of the U.S. Constitution that promise defendants a fair trial and the presumption of innocence.
Theater Latté Da is thrilled to develop and produce the world premiere of this new American musical adapted from one of America’s greatest dramas.
We are grateful to our anonymous Production Sponsor for their generous support of TWELVE ANGRY MEN: A NEW MUSICAL, and for their ongoing support of Theater Latté Da. This production is also made possible in part by a Creative Support grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the voters of Minnesota.
PS = Post Show Discussions
ASL/AD Performance is June 23rd at 7:30 pm. Reduced price tickets are available for $17.50 for ASL/AD patrons and one guest. Please call 612-339-3003 to purchase.
DIGITAL PROGRAM
PHOTOS
Photos by Dan Norman
VIDEO
Videography by Lucas Wells
IN THE NEWS
THE CAST
THE CREATIVE TEAM
Understudy: C. Ryan Shipley
Understudy: Ryan London Levin
Understudy: Fernando Collado
Understudy: Andre Shoals
Director: Peter Rothstein
Choreographer: Kelli Foster Warder**
Music Director: Denise Prosek †
Associate Music Director: Russ Kaplan†
Scenic Designer: Benjamin Olsen
Costume Designer: Matthew LeFebvre^
Lighting Designer: Paul Whitaker^
Sound Designer: Nicholas Tranby
Dramaturg: Elissa Adams
Props Designer: Abbee Warmboe
Director of Production & Operations: Allen Weeks
Associate Production Manager: Kyia Britts
Production Stage Manager: Z Makila*
Assistant Stage Manager: Kyla Moloney
Technical Director: Bethany Reinfeld
Lighting Supervisor/Light Board Op: Jessica Mrovka
Costume Supervisor: Amber Brown
Lead Carpenter: Eric Charlton
Scenic Charge: Sara Herman
Scenic Artist: Hanni Carlile
COVID Compliance Officer: Megan Fae Dougherty
Dresser & Laundry/Maintenance: Ash Kaun
Hair Stylists: Ben Trimmerl & Zachary Smith Sr.
Stage Management Swing: Megan Fae Dougherty*
Carpenters: Whitley Cobb, Nich Prax, Chris Carpenter, Dane Styczynski
THE BAND
Denise Prosek†, Conductor
Russ Kaplan†, Piano/Keys
Greg Hippen†, Upright Bass
Joey Phillips† & Steve Jennings†, Drums
Elaine Burt†, Trumpet/Flugelhorn
Joe Cruz† & Nick Hall†, Guitar
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors
**Member of SDC, the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union
^Member of the United Scenic Artists, a national union that represents designers and scenic painters for the American theater
†Member of Twin Cities Musicians Union, American Federation of Musicians
+ BIOGRAPHIES
Sasha Andreev (Juror #4) THEATER LATTÉ DA: All is Calm (Minneapolis, Off-Broadway, Tour), Ragtime, Steerage Song, NEXT. THEATER: Asolo Repertory Theatre: Ragtime; Guthrie Theater: Sunday in the Park With George, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Edgardo Mine; History Theatre: Runestone; Pillsbury House Theatre: Jimmy and Lorraine; Frank Theatre: The Cradle Will Rock; Trademark Theater: Understood; Mixed Blood Theatre: Corazón Eterno; Park Square Theatre: Sons of the Prophet; Hennepin Theatre Trust: Buyer and Cellar. FILM/TV: Bezos: The Beginning, A Taste of Love, Best Man Down, Stranger Things (Netflix), I Was There (History Channel); Host on ShopHQ, Operation Build (A&E), and Curb Appeal (HGTV). TRAINING: B.A., Vassar College, National Theater Institute, Actors Theatre of Louisville Apprentice Company.
Curtis Bannister (Juror #8) THEATER LATTÉ DA: debut. THEATER: Off-Broadway: Sweeney Todd; Pre-Broadway: Amazing Grace (Theater in Chicago); New York Theater: Ain’t Misbehavin’, Miss Saigon, Sweeney Todd, Saturday Night Fever (The Rev); Regional Theatre: Ragtime (Music Theater Works, Marriott Theatre), The Pajama Game (Theatre at the Center), Candide (Philadelphia Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony), Parade (Writers Theatre); TV/Film: Chicago Fire (NBC), Dickinson (Apple TV+), Great Performances (PBS), The Conductor (Tribeca Film Festival), Wakanda Forever (Marvel Studios, Disney). 2021 Actors Equity Foundation Sturtevant Award Winner. IG: @thee_cb, TWITTER: @theecb.
Reese Britts (Juror #12) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Jelly’s Last Jam. THEATER: Chanhassen Dinner Theatres: The Music Man; The Ordway: Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Mamma Mia!; Artistry: Footloose, A New Brain; The Guthrie Theater: South Pacific; The Jungle: Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley; Lyric Arts: Hairspray, RENT, Young Frankenstein. TRAINING: BFA in Musical Theatre, University of Minnesota Duluth ‘19. Ordway Resident Artist. Proud AEA member. UPCOMING: The Ordway: Beauty and the Beast.
Charlie Clark (Juror #3) THEATER LATTÉ DA: debut. THEATER: Artistry: The Bridges of Madison County, Mary Poppins; Old Log Theatre: Guys and Dolls; Tent Theatre: Catch Me if You Can; Porchlight Music Theatre Chicago: Company, Merrily We Roll Along, Into the Woods; Apple Tree Theatre: Kiss of the Spider Woman; Effective Theatre Chicago: Sweeney Todd; Phoenix Theatre Indianapolis: Next to Normal; Indiana Repertory: On Golden Pond; Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati: Fun Home, Luna Gale, Hands on a Hardbody, Violet, Next Fall, Grey Gardens, Rapture Blister Burn; Know Theatre Cincinnati: See What I Wanna See, The Eight: Reindeer Monologues; Carnegie Hall at Newport: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Carousel, Oliver!; New Stage Collective: Sunday in the Park with George, The Goat or Who is Sylvia?, The Full Monty, Take Me Out; Cincinnati Shakespeare Company: Love’s Labour’s Lost, King Henry VIII; Human Race Theatre: The Sisters Rosensweig. TRAINING: Acting BFA, Wright State University, Dayton, OH.
James Detmar (Juror #10) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Assassins, Cabaret, Spring Awakening, NEXT Festival. THEATER: Guthrie: A Walk On The Rhine; Ordway: West Side Story, White Christmas, Sound Of Music; History Theatre: Lombardi, The Highwaymen; Old Log Theater: Lend Me A Tenor, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; Chanhassen Dinner Theater: Annie, Beauty and the Beast, Midlife: The Crisis Musical; Dudley Riggs Brave New Workshop, Resident Company Member. FILM/TV: Thin Ice, Public Domain, Farmer Of The Year, Best Man Down, Factotum, From The Earth To The Moon, unHEARD, America’s Most Wanted, Clarissa Explains It All, Kenan and Kel.
Bradley Greenwald (Juror #11) THEATER LATTÉ DA: La bohéme, A Little Night Music, Steerage Song, Oliver!, C. (also book and lyrics), NEXT Festival. THEATER: Open Eye Figure Theater: The Longest Night, Dear Lenny: Bernstein’s Life in Songs & Letters; Jungle Theater: I Am My Own Wife, The Mystery of Irma Vep; Ten Thousand Things Theater: My Fair Lady, As You Like It; Children’s Theater Company: A Year With Frog & Toad, The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins; Park Square: The Pirates of Penzance; Artistry: A New Brain, Follies; Frank Theatre: The Threepenny Opera, Cabaret; James Sewell Ballet: Nutcracker (not so) Suite. AWARDS: Minnesota State Arts Board Music Fellowship, McKnight Fellowship for Theater Artists, Ivey Award (I Am My Own Wife). ALSO: Libretto adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time, opera by Libby Larsen; Johnny Schicchi, adaptation with Steven Epp for NEXT Festival 2022.
Brian Kim McCormick (Juror #5) THEATER LATTÉ DA: NEXT Festival. THEATER: TheatreSquared: Tiger Style!; Quantum Theatre: Chimerica; South Coast Rep: You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown; San Diego Rep: Aubergine; Olney Theatre: Labour of Love; NYTW: Dinner with Georgette; Pan Asian Rep: The Emperor’s Nightingale; Full Circle Theater: Caught; Theater Mu: The Korean Drama Addict’s Guide to Losing Your Virginity, Fast Company, Flower Drum Song; Mixed Blood: Interstate; Ordway Center: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; Children’s Theatre Company: Mulan Jr.; The Old Log: Charlotte’s Web; Chanhassen Dinner Theatre: Les Misérables, Joseph...Dreamcoat, 42nd Street, The Producers. VOICEOVER: Squid Game, The King’s Affection, Pokémon: Sun and Moon (Netflix); Naughty Nuts (Amazon Prime); Last Man, Kingdom (Crunchyroll); Regal Academy (Nickelodeon); Parcast: Mythology, Solved & Unsolved Murders (Spotify); EDF: Iron Rain, Modern Combat: Versus. IG: asian_with_a_camera
Riley McNutt (Juror #2) THEATER LATTÉ DA: All Is Calm (Minneapolis, Off-Broadway), A Little Night Music, Six Degrees of Separation, Ragtime. THEATER: Artistry: A New Brain, Phantom, Les Miserables, La Cage Aux Folle, Caberet, Fiddler on the Roof, Noises Off; Flying Foot Forum: Heaven; Minnesota Orchestra: Carousel; Trademark Theater: The Boy and Robinhood; Ghoulish Delights: Prescription Murder; Old Log Theater: How I Became a Pirate; Skylark Opera: Wonderful Town, Candide, The Vagabond King; The Ordway Center: Beauty and the Beast; Minnesota Opera: Chorus for three years.
T. Mychael Rambo (Juror #9) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Puttin’ On The Ritz, Five Points. THEATER: Carnegie Hall: Dvorak’s Discovery; International Tour: Porgy and Bess (Europe); Gaba (Brazil); Regional Tours: The Wiz, Dreamgirls, Miss Ever’s Boys, Dr. King’s Dream, Thurgood Marshal’s Coming; Penumbra Theatre: Black Nativity, Piano Lesson, Gem of the Ocean; Guthrie Theatre: Christmas Carol, Crowns, Caroline or Change; Ten Thousand Things: Thunder Knocking on the Door, Man of La Mancha; Ordway: 42nd Street, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat, Romeo and Juliet-The Musical; Illusion Theatre: Miss Evers Boys, Always and Forever; Mixed Blood: Fires in the Mirror, Birth of the Boom; Children’s Theatre: The Wiz, Amber Waves; Minnesota Opera: Showboat, Bok Choy Variation; Park Square: Color Purple; Hey City Theater: Smokey Joe’s Café; New Dawn Theatre: Crowns. TV/Film: Crossing the Bridge, The Cure, The Wooly Boys, Justice; HBO Mini-Series: Laurel Avenue, Equinox. AWARDS: 2021/1999 McKnight Theater Artist Fellowship, 2010 Black Music Award, 2009 Sally Award, 2008 Regional Emmy Award.
Matt Riehle (Juror #1) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Once, Assassins, Five Points, Man of La Mancha, C., NEXT Festival. THEATER: Artistry: Memphis; Chanhassen Dinner Theatres: Jesus Christ Superstar; History Theatre: Sweet Land; 7th House Theater: Hair, Jonah and the Whale; Torch Theater: Dangerous Liaisons; Yellow Tree Theater: Flowers for the Room. MUSIC: Jonny James and the Hall of Fames (Zeppelin, Queen, Beatles, and Pink Floyd Tributes).
Wariboko Semenitari (Juror #7) THEATER LATTÉ DA: debut. THEATER: Underdog Theatre x Mixed Blood: How It’s Gon Be (World Premiere); Gremlin Theatre: Samuel J and K (Twin Cities Premiere); Great River Shakespeare Festival: Romeo and Juliet, Great Expectations; UMN/Guthrie BFA: Jesus Hopped the A Train, Sueño, Kin, The Merchant of Venice, Junk, School for Lies. TRAINING: The University of Minnesota Guthrie BFA Actor Training Program.
Adan M. Varela (Juror #6) THEATER LATTÉ DA: debut. THEATER: History Theatre: Christmas of Swing, Not For Sale; Ordway Center: In the Heights; FRANK Theatre: Good Person of Setzuan, The Visit; Second City: Realish Housewives of Edina (Seasons 1 &2); Artistry: Les Misérables, Carousel; Lyric Arts: Evita, The Mystery of Edwin Drood; Minneapolis Musical Theatre: Reefer Madness, Sunset Boulevard; Hey Rube: So Bright the Night. OPERA: Minnesota Opera: Silent Night, Roberto Devereux, Anna Bolena, La Boheme, Flight, Barber of Seville; An Opera Theatre: In Media Res. DIRECTOR: Mixed Precipitation: Hit the Wall, #Matter; Gadfly Theatre: Lobstermen in Love.
