CORONADO PLAYHOUSE CELEBRATES OUR 70th SEASON!

Altar Boyz Cast:Cody Ingram .................................................................................................................. Matthew, the LeaderSeeJay Lewis............................................................................................................Mark, the Sensitive OnePeter Armado ....................................................................................................................Luke, the Bad Boy Patrick Mayuyu ..............................................................................................................Juan, the Latin Lover Dennis Peters .................................................................................. Abraham, the Gefelte Fish Out of WaterDon Evans ......................................................................................................... Voice of G.O.D., Announcer

AnnouncementPlease turn off all electronic devices and cell phones during the performance. Restrooms are located in the recreation center near the front desk. If you need to exit during the performance, please use the rear exit of the theatre as light from the hallway interferes with the performance.

Video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited.ALTAR BOYZ is presented through special arrangement with R & H Theatricals: www.rnh.com.

The Time and Place: The Present. The Theatre You’re In.

Altar Boyz runs about 90 minutes. There is no intermission. The snack bar will be open throughout the performance.

Altar Boyz Band:Conductor, Keyboard I: Sean LaPerruque

The Set List:

Keyboard II: Michelle Gray

Electric Guitar: Nikko Nobleza

Drums: Raynald Marte

PRESENTS

Book by Kevin Del Aguila • Music and Lyrics by Gary Adler and Michael Patrick Walker • Conceived by Marc Kessler and Ken Davenport

Vocal Arrangements by Gary Adler & Michael Patrick Walker. Orchestrations by Doug Katsaros & Lynne Shankel. Dance Music and Additional Arrangements By Lynne Shankel. Original production produced by

Ken Davenport & Robyn Goodman. Original Off-Broadway production directed by Stafford Arima.

City of CoronadoCity of Coronado Building Inspector & Fire Marshal Coronado Recreation Services and Community

Center StaffDiversionary TheatreMSI Production ServicesOB PlayhouseMichael Barahura

Joshua CarrNina GarinDale GoodmanKristian Rodriguez - www.vimeo.com/stonetaptSpecial thanks to spouses, significant others,

family, and friends whose love and support helped make this production possible.

Acknowledgements

We Are The Altar BoyzRhythm In MeChurch RulezThe Calling

The Miracle Song

Everybody FitsSomething About You

Body, Mind & Soul!La Vida Eternal

EphanyNumber 918

Finale: I BelieveAltar Boyz Remix

Bows

Director ..............................................................................................................Michael MizeranyMusic Director / Conductor ............................................................................... Sean LaPerruqueChoreographer ..................................................................................................Michael MizeranyProducers ...................................................................................Vanessa Dinning, Barron HenzelResident Production Stage Manager .........................................................................Kathy ParksScenic Design ........................................................................................................ Barron HenzelLighting Design ......................................................................................................... Chad OakleyLighting Production Assistant ......................................................................................Julian SinkSound Design ....................................................................................................... Larry McNamerCostume Design .................................................................................................. Sarah RobinsonProps and House Dressing ....................................................................................Pamela EverettLighting Technician ................................................................................................Kinsey FortsonSound Technician ....................................................................................................Michael CookSet Painting .................................................................. Rosemary King, Jane Russell, Stan SothMaster Builder ...............................................................................................................Stan SothSet Construction ................................................ Michael Cook, Dale Goodman, Thomas Haine, Barron Henzel, Mike McCullock, Chad Oakley, Stan Soth Graphics/Program Design ...................................................................................... Barron HenzelProduction Photography ........................................................................................ Barron HenzelPoster Distribution ........................................................................................ Patty Fay, CompanyHouse Manager .......................................................... Pamela Everett, Susan Skyrud, Stan SothBox Office ....................................................................................Amanda Everett, Susan SkyrudConcessions ................................................................................Harry A. Granruth, Gary SkyrudUsher Coordinator ..............................................................................................Janis VanderfordArtistic Planning and Marketing ......................................................................... Vanessa DinningManaging Theatre Director ........................................................................................ Katy Skyrud

Production Team and Theatre Staff

Thanks to our Board of DirectorsBarron Henzel (President)Katy Skyrud (Treasurer)Debbie David (Member)Mike McCullock (Member)

Thomas Haine (Vice President) Rosemary Harrison (Secretary) Vanessa Dinning (Member) Stacy Mycorn (Member)

A Note from the Playhouse - Member Supported Theatre

Welcome to Coronado Playhouse and to Altar Boyz, the very first show of our 71st Season – A Season of Award Winners. We are so excited to mount a fully staged production of this multi-award winning musical after last season’s limited weekend run. The show’s director and choreographer, Michael Mizerany, is no stranger to San Diego audiences having worked at all the best theatres in town. Now he can add Coronado Playhouse to his resume! This extremely talented cast, the wonderful band, and our exemplary crew and production team have been working with passion and dedication to bring you the ultimate boy band experience! There’ll be sinfully spectacular dancing, angelic ballads, high-energy rock numbers and heavenly harmonies as we all share the message at the heart of this show, brought home in the closing number, “I Believe In You,” a message of fellowship, support, acceptance, hope and charity.We have so many more award-winning productions to look forward to as our Season continues. There’s murder, mystery & mayhem in The 39 Steps; Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach is this year’s family show and again we’re excited to co-produce with our friends from Pickwick Players; Shakespeare’s classic romantic

comedy, Much Ado About Nothing, will grace the Playhouse stage in July and August and will – as always – be free to the public thanks to continued and generous support from the City of Coronado; everybody’s favorite “Horticultural Horror Story” is up next, when Shirley Johnston (last seen as Cassie in A Chorus Line) and one of our most popular musical directors, Kirk Valles, bring you Little Shop of Horrors; and we close the year with a San Diego première, the touching and beautiful new musical Fly By Night, set against the backdrop of the northeast blackout of 1965.As we launch the Season, the Board of Directors and Playhouse staff are reminded that it is our pleasure and privilege to thank YOU - our audience, our friends, donors and members - for making every year memorable. You fill our Playhouse with your open minds and open hearts, you generously support our non-profit partnerships, and you remind us every day why we love making theatre.So brace yourselves and get ready for the night of your lives! The Boyz Are BACK! THE ALTAR BOYZ – and they’re going to ALTER your mind!Katy Skyrud Managing Director Coronado Playhouse

Coronado Playhouse is the Community’s TheatreCoronado Playhouse is committed to giving back to the local community, beyond offering quality entertainment, by using its public platform to help those in need. During Altar Boyz, we are proud to partner with Mama’s Kitchen, San Diego’s only free county-wide

meal delivery service for men, women and children affected by AIDS or cancer.Cookies baked at Mama’s Kitchen are available for purchase to help raise funds.Audience members are invited to bring non-perishable food items to any performance or contribute to our virtual food drive online at https://support.mamaskitchen.org/teamaltarboyz. Please go to www.mamaskitchen.org to find out more on how you can help support their many programs.

REPLACE

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OnStage Playhouse:Play it again, Sam .............................JAn 6-FeB 4By Woody Allen. Directed by Charley Miller.

Patio Playhouse:Beau JeSt ...........................................FeB 17-MAR 12By James Sherman.Directed by Samantha Goldstein.

Pickwick Players: to Kill a mocKingBird .......................... FeB 17-26Adapted for the stage by Christopher Sergel.Based on the novel by Harper Lee.Directed by Tyler Richards Hewes.

PowPAC:mother’S and SonS ........................ JAn 27-FeB 26By Terrence Mcnally.Directed by Brent A. Stringfield.

Vanguard:Who am i thiS time? .......................... SPRinG 2017

Around town at other ACT theatres...

Most of you may not know this, but I am a Broadway baby. I grew up loving, and performing in musical theatre. I caught the fever when I was in elementary school. I played the Cowardly Lion in Good Shepherd Catholic School’s production of The Wizard of Oz. From there, the theatre at Rosary High School and Hazelwood Central High School beckoned. I took to the stage in the chorus of Annie Get Your Gun, Anything Goes, Bye, Bye Birdie and South Pacific. In college, I majored in theatre for about two seconds. As part of the theatre major, I was required to take a beginning movement class. The next semester, I changed my major to dance. Of course, I still dabbled in musical theatre, but contemporary dance took center stage. Then, in 2012, Noah Longton asked me to choreograph Altar Boyz, a good-natured, musical spoof of Christian pop music and trendy boy bands.

Altar Boyz has always held a special place in my heart. One reason is that it was the first musical I choreographed in

over 25 years, but more importantly, for its universal message. Yes, it is a musical comedy with sly humor, parody ballads and energetic dancing, but it also represents what any faith could and should be – a way of spreading love, compassion and peace.

That is why the final image of the show is so important. A white male, an immigrant, a gay man, a self-proclaimed bad boy and a person of another faith holding hands and singing, in harmony, “I Believe In You.” Not a bad mantra to live by.

Michael MizeranyDirector/Choreographer, Altar Boyz

Director’s Notes

Michael MizeranyDirector, Choreographer

Cast Bios (In alphabetical order)

MEET LUKEFavorite Saint: St. Drake - Patron Saint of Keepin’ It Real Hobbies: Chillin’ Favorite Food: One of them pieces of toast with Jesus’ face in it Favorite Language: Rap Favorite Book: Green

Eggs and Ham Secular Name: Peter ArmadoPETER ARMADO is excited to make his Coronado Playhouse debut. His past credits include: American Idiot, The Threepenny Opera, Into the Woods: In Concert, Rent, Next to Normal, Legally Blonde, and Spring Awakening. He also performs regularly at

Martinis Above Fourth – Table and Stage as part of Leigh Scarritt Productions’ Stars of the Future cabaret series. Off stage, Peter is a graphic designer, YouTube creator, and dog lover. He would like to thank his family & friends who have supported and encouraged him on his journey as an artist.

MEET MATTHEWFavorite Saint: St. Tresemee- Patron Saint of luscious locks Favorite Book: I have always been a New Testament groupie Turn-Ons: Chastity and Quesadillas Favorite Food: The Body of Christ, I mean vanilla wafers

Favorite Bible Quote: “There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives our fear.” I John 4:18 Secular Name: Cody IngramCODY INGRAM has served over 4 years active duty in the United States Coast Guard and is currently serving in the Reserves. Recent engagements include San Diego Musical Theater’s The Producers, Sonny Malone in Xanadu and as a featured soloist for Cambridge Symphony Holiday Pops, Longwood Opera on their Broadway Summer Concert Series, as well concerts in and around Boston. Before joining the USCG, Cody toured with Citrus Singers, an internationally renowned performing program with Citrus College in Glendora, CA. Other past credits include Pump Boys and Dinettes, The Wizard of of Oz, Bye Bye Birdie, Les Miserables, A Christmas Carol, and Bernstein’s Trouble In Tahiti. He is so excited to be making his Coronado debut in this show. He would like to thank God, his family, all his fellow Boyz, Michael, Sean, and Coronado Playhouse for letting him Raise the Praise in such a fantastic show!

MEET MARKFavorite Saint: St. Britney of the Spear-Patron Saint of Hairflips & Handography Galore Hobbies: I am so totally into reality TV, shaking what G.O.D. gave me, and rhinestoning! Favorite Food: A big

eggplant does a body good! Favorite Bible Quote: “You want a hot body? You want a Bugatti? You want a Maserati? You better work, work!.” B. Jean 2:13 Favorite Language: Vocal Fry Secular Name: SeeJay LewisSEEJAY LEWIS is thrilled to return to the Coronado Playhouse stage as Mark in Altar Boyz, previously seen in Altar Boyz In Concert!. Other credits include OnStage Playhouse: Angel in RENT (Aldea Award), Chip in 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; ACT San Diego: Ernst in Spring Awakening (West Coast Premiere); Grossmont College: Chip in 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Frankie Epps in Parade; YAT: Younger Brother in Ragtime, Angel in RENT, Ryan Evans in High School Musical and High School Musical 2 (West Coast Premieres/NYT Award), Linus

in Snoopy!, Enjolras in Les Miserables (NYT Award), Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors, Zebulon/Butler in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Prince Dauntless in Once Upon A Mattress, and Jack in Into The Woods. SeeJay is an artist, he paints and draws, and is an amibo™ customizer. He is recording his second solo EP. http://www.soundcloud.com/seejay-lewis

MEET JUANFavorite Saint: St. Ricardo de Martin - Patron Saint of Orphans Left on Church Steps Favorite Food: Flan. Jell-O. Anything that’s sweet and jiggles like the hips. Also carrots. Favorite Language: I love Latin. You could

say I am a Latin-Lover. Hobbies: Flirting, investigative research and burro grooming. Secular Name: Patrick MayuyuPATRICK MAYUYU has performed on many local stages including San Diego REP, Diversionary, ion, Coronado Playhouse, OnStage Playhouse and SD Asian-American Rep. An actor, dancer, singer, choreographer, published poet, activist and karaoke enthusiast, Patrick is also a proud company member of InnerMission Productions. He is grateful for his family and friends and for their never ending support.

MEET ABEFavorite Color: Gold... duh. Favorite Station of the Cross: n/a Turn-Offs: Bacon First Thing You Look for in a Girl: Is my mom going to see this? Favorite Food: My aunt Anne’s Franks

Secular Name: Dennis PetersDENNIS PETERS couldn’t be more excited to be making his Coronado Playhouse debut with Altar Boyz. A recent graduate from Central Washington University’s BFA Musical Theatre program, Dennis moved to San Diego in June to teach Improv at the La Jolla Playhouse as part of the YP@LJP program this past summer. Select credits include Robert Martin in The

MICHAEL MIZERANY (Director/Choreographer) is the artistic director for Compulsion Dance & Theater and is very excited to be returning to Coronado Playhouse to direct and choreograph Altar Boyz. Other choreography credits: Altar Boyz (Noah Longton Productions), Dooley, Divine Sister, Miss Kitty’s Wild West Revue, Scrooge In Rouge, Thrill Me, Bare: A Pop Opera, A New Brain, Hot Guys Dancing 1-3 and In The Va Va Voom Room 1-2 (Diversionary Theatre), Chicago: A Speakeasy Cabaret, Grey Gardens, Ass, or A Midsummer Night’s Fever, Jesus Hates Me, Airline Highway (Ion Theatre), Carnvial! and Suds (The Coronado Playhouse), Spring Awakening, When The Rain Stops Falling and Stupid Fucking Bird (Cygnet Theatre), The Full Monty (New Village Arts), Trolley Dances (SDDT), Rent (Southwestern College), West Side Story, Once On This Island and The Wiz (J*Company) and Threepenny Opera (UCSD). Michael has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors including the LA Stage Scene Award for Outstanding Choreography for Altar Boyz, Bare: A Pop Opera and A New Brain, The Blue Ribbon Choreography Award for Suds and the Bravo San Diego Award for Outstanding Choreographer of 2012 (Desperate Love, Altar Boyz) and received a 2015 nomination for his contemporary work Man Clan. He was nominated for a Craig Noel Theater Award for Outstanding Choreography for Dooley (2011), Altar Boyz (2012), Spring Awakening and Bare: A Pop Opera (2014). Recently, he was nominated for a National Youth Arts Award for Outstanding Achievement in Choreography for West Side Story. Most recently, he produced the hit show Bedrooms & Boyfriends as well as writing one of the short plays. Upcoming: Bedrooms & Boyfriends 2 and Shockheaded Peter (Cygnet Theatre).

SEAN LAPERRUQUE (Musical Director Conductor/Keys) is super excited to return to Coronado Playhouse with the ultra-fab Altar Boyz! Sean was Music Director for the Boyz back in 2012 (Noah Longton, Diversionary Theatre Cabaret) and again for their concert week engagement here in Coronado last year. Sean was honored with a 2012 Scenie Award

for Best Musical Direction from StageSceneLA for the Diversionary production. Recent appearances at Coronado Playhouse include Pageant: the Musical (2013; Music Director), A Little Night Music (2016; violin/viola), Seussical and A Chorus Line (2016; Keys II). Sean is also a Resident Artist at Cygnet Theatre where he has been a Music Director, violinist, violist and keys player since 2012 (Dogfight; My Fair Lady; Spring Awakening; Company; Parade; A Christmas Carol). Other recent theatre credits are with San Diego Musical Theatre (Singing in the Rain, West Side Story, Next to Normal, Annie Get Your Gun, Chicago, White Christmas, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat) and Lamb’s Players Theatre (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, West Side Story, Les Misérables). Also a music educator, Sean is currently a Community Teaching Artist in the San Diego Youth Symphony & Conservatory’s Community OPUS Project. He also owns Go for Baroque Strings, providing music and musicians for special events. Sean earned his B.S. in Bioengineering from UCSD in 2007, minoring in Music.

VANESSA DINNING (Co-Producer) Professionally trained in acting, voice and music in London, Vanessa pursued a successful stage, TV and radio career in acting, direction, cabaret, voice and dialect working at The Royal National Theatre, The Belgrade Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe in London, drama schools and touring. Moving to San Diego in 2007, she became Artistic Director of SDSS, producing and directing performances and outreach programs. She has worked with North Coast Rep, Scripps Ranch Theatre, Write Out Loud, Cygnet, Moonlight Stage Productions, Welk Resorts Theatre, Vanguard and San Diego Symphony as an actor, director, singer, and voice & dialect coach. Vanessa sings with Folklore Guild and SACRA/PROFANA and maintains a private voice-teaching studio. She serves on the board of Coronado Playhouse and is their Director of Artistic Planning & Marketing.

BARRON HENZEL (Co-Producer/Set Design) produced A Chorus Line, co-produced

Creative Team Bios

Drowsy Chaperone, Perchick in Fiddler on the Roof and Ensemble in Green Day’s American Idiot (directed by Eric Ankrim.) Dennis is

a massive sports fan, supporting both the Seattle Mariners and Seahawks. Love to Mom, Dad, Tommy, and Kayla.

Sugar, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure (Aubrey), TBLWIT (Aubrey), The Drowsy Chaperone (Aubrey), Cinderella (Aubrey) and The IT Girl at Coronado Playhouse. He assistant directed Dames at Sea (Lamplighters). Favorite acting credits: A Little Night Music, Frog and Toad (Aubrey), Sleeping Beauty, Pageant, Much Ado, Pump Boys, Angels Among Us (Coronado Playhouse); Grease (OnStage)(Aldea Award); They’re Playing Our Song (Scripps Ranch); The Busy World is Hushed, Torch Song Trilogy, Handsome Men (Diversionary); Trolls, Miss Mcinerney’s Acquaintances (6th @ Penn). Barron is president of the Coronado Playhouse Board of Directors.

KATHY PARKS (Resident Production Stage Manager) has worked backstage at many shows at Coronado Playhouse, Trinity Theatre and Pickwick Players. She is thrilled to be working on one of her favorite musicals with such an exceptional cast and production team. Thanks to her sons Connor and Sean Paul Boyd for bringing her into this crazy world of theatre. She hopes you all enjoy the show.

CHAD OAKLEY (Lighting Designer) Recent work at CPH includes lighting designs for A Chorus Line, Sordid Lives, A Little Night Music, Romeo and Juliet, Chicago and Pageant (Aubrey Award) and Assistant Director and Set

Design for Tartuffe. Other light designs include Disappearing Act and Precious Little (Innermission Productions), Lost in the Pines (Magnetic North) and Play it Again Sam, Good People, Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, Coyote on a Fence and The Glass Menagerie (Aubrey Award, OnStage Playhouse).

SARAH ROBINSON (Costume Design) was born and raised in San Diego, California. Part of a musical family, she discovered the power of performance as a child at San Diego Dance Works. After dance training she discovered her singing voice and started playing guitar. She holds Bachelor’s degrees in Theatre and Psychology from UC San Diego. Sarah now attends Alliant International University and recently advanced to doctoral candidacy in Clinical Psychology. She plans on using her performance work in therapy as well as her personal life. She is thrilled to be a part of this amazing show and appreciates the warm welcome into the Coronado community.

PAMELA EVERETT (Props and House Dressing) is thrilled to be continuing to work with CPH for her 10th season. It so wonderful to be able to work with our great crews, casts and staff on the quality productions that are performed here. Thank you for allowing me to indulge my inner child. Gratitude and love to Dennis and Amanda for all their love and assistance.

Coronado Playhouse Government & Foundation Support

CROWN SPONSOR - $5,000 and aboveMichael Glass

SPONSOR - $2,500 and aboveLeonard HirschTodd & Sarah Sutton

CROWN DONOR - $1000 and aboveHarry Granruth III & Katy SkyrudTom & Pat HaineRussell and Mary JohnsonJackie Suitt

DONOR - $500 and aboveJerry & Jill Hall FoundationChuck & Jo-Ann HoweNance & Mark HunterStephen and DJ McLaughlinThe Jim & Midge Peltier

Charitable FundJames & Sondra SeerightRobert & Carol SpaneNancy Stone

BENEFACTOR - $250 and aboveGladys Beit-IshooSandy EllardPatty FayLee & Pat FreemanTom Fitzpatrick & Barron HenzelBill Grove & Dianne GrayJacquelyn McCoy & Jim LareBill Speer and Marsi SteirerSkip & Kim Thaeler

PATRON - $125 and aboveCecile AbelDavid & Emma Ah Sing

Barbara Barnes & Alfred Schattschneider

Kevin & Susan BrayEn-Shen Kuan & Donald ButtsLois and Charles CostaJoe & Marly Da RosaPaula GummRaymond & Patricia LynchJoyleen RottensteinDr. & Mrs. SchwartzJanis VanderfordRobert & Yukiko WennerholtMartin & Claire White

FAMILY - $100 and aboveElsa Aguilar ArbuesBruno BosardiFrances BrownLyn CampbellDiane CarpinelliNorm & Darlene DaleyAri, Debbie & Jake DavidRobert & Dorothy DraperJean DuncanThe Fox FamilyAlyssa GuttendorfDavid & Susan HagstromArleen HitchcockRalph JohnsonUrsula KantorCarol KearneyEleanor KippermanTricia & Michael LockeThe Nibbe FamilyEric OlsonChristina Paine-RossCarole & Donald RobackMarilyn and Tom SanderPaul and Kathleen SchaefferCecil & Paulette ShufflerKathleen SmithJeannette SpaffordIn Memory of Lynn Rowlands

Marilyn StenvallNancy TaylorMary Ann Van SickleDick & Brenda WarnekaDavid Woodward & Family

INDIVIDUAL - $50 and aboveMary AndersonVince AsaroMaureen BennettMike BrindellKen CallawayLoris and Tani CohenBill & Marilyn CooperJohn DrehnerLorraine Eden-HermannPam & Dennis EverettMarian FergusonKaren FiorelloEdward & Joy FloydLuann GallantConrad GisigerRosemary HarrisonRon HoytSteve JensenKasey & David KayKevin & Rachel KemmererSteven MartinKathleen McCabePatricia MendozaStacy MycornAndrew OToolKathy ParksFrancis SelkaSusan SkyrudVirginia SyversonDaniele TinsmanMary Ann ThomasMatt & Kathryn TrainorStephen WaltonDorothy WebbKaren Willcox

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