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2021-2022 Season

Cast and Creative Team List

BYU College of Fine Arts and Communications

School of Music

Presents

“Dreams and Nightmares:” A selection of opera scenes

Shea Owens, director
Nicolas Giusti, conductor/coach
Dr. Barbara Allen, coach
Sebastian Neugebauer, pianist
Peter Blackham, pianist
Pollyanna Eiler, dramaturg
Ariana Abadia, opera TA

Nicole Dayton, director – Hansel and Gretel

Cast

Ariana Abadia

Camilla Anderson

Rachael Anderton

Olivia Aurich

McKenzie Bahr

Spencer Baldwin

Brett Ballard

Nicole Dayton

Madison Ecker

Alexis Hopkins Fowler

Kyra Fowler

Sanae Fujii

Grace Hancock

Cassie Hyatt

Jamie Johnson

Sarah Knight

Lorenzo Larios

Anna Low

Rennan McConkie

Ellie Niver

Matthew Paez

Allie Pugmire

Logan Reid

Rebekah Schnepf

Ethan Simpson

Emily Steele

Katie Stull

Bella Thurgood

Blake Wayment

Lindsay Whitney

Marianne Wood

Scott Young

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After months of rehearsing on a taped cement floor with acting blocks in place of benches and frames in place of doors, the company finally moves to the theatre space, to a stage with levels and furniture, working doors and chairs out in the audience. The beloved cherry orchard feels so much more real now.
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Near the end of his life, Anton Chekhov who had suffered from tuberculosis and depression throughout his life, decided to move to the seaside town of Yalta in order to heal. On January 18, 1904, he wrote to his wife, the actress Olga Knipper, “I’m writing The Cherry Orchard very slowly. Sometimes I feel it’s a success, sometimes a failure…It’s all very ordinary, but that’s how things are, unfortunately.”
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For this production we are trying something new! You'll still see some dramaturgical information in your printed program, including the dramaturg's note, "The Weight of Waiting in The Cherry Orchard."
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