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“The Tale of the Wycherlys”

Lyrics by

Ray Bradbury

Book by

Ray Bradbury and Steve Josephson

Music by

John Hoke

“2116”

Book & Lyrics by

Steve Josephson

Based on Stories, Characters and Ideas by

Ray Bradbury

Music by

John Hoke

RAY BRADBURY, Author

Ray has published more than 60O short stories over a period of sixty years. He has written short stories, novels, screen plays, plays and poetry. His best known books are The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Fahrenheit 45I and Dandelion Wine. He wrote the screenplay for Moby Dick for John Huston in 1953 and other films based on his stories are forthcoming. In the past several years he has published new books including Farewell, Summer, Somewhere a Band is Playing, From the Dust Returned, One More For the Road, Let's AII KiII Constance, The Cat's Pajama's and a book of essays, Bradbury Speaks, as well as a huge volume of short stories, Bradbury Stories. His latest book is We'll Always Have Paris. In 2001, he received "The National Book Award" for his contribution to American Literature, and in 2OO4 he was awarded "The National Medal of Arts" by President Bush and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2007 he was made a COMMANDER OF THE ORDER OF ARTS AND LETTERS (France's highest literary honor) and was awarded a PULITZER PRIZE CITATION for his distinguished, prolific and deeply influential career.

STEVE JOSEPHSON, Author

Featured among his several hundred productions have been some notable collaborations. For more than twenty years, Mr. Josephson was Resident Director/Choreographer/Playwright-in-Residence for Festival Theatre USC-USA a repertory company affiliated with the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Working with Artistic Director, Jodie Gates, he was the Executive Director creating the caDance Festival (now renamed the Laguna Beach Dance Festival). He was the Producer and star of Star Wars Trilogy in 30 Minutes, which was produced in conjunction with Lucasfilm, Ltd. It had a long-running production in Los Angeles, as well as performances at Skywalker Ranch, Industrial Light and Magic (ILM), Star Wars Celebration and a finale performance at Comic-Con in San Diego. In Prague, he was the Creative Director for the Lobkowicz Palace at Prague Castle, as well as Dramaturgue and Choreographer for Daniel Landa on the Production of Klič Králů, producer and directer the musical RENT and the director and choreographer for American Idiot.

JOHN HOKE, Composer

As a session guitarist and singer, John Hoke has performed on movie soundtracks, commercials and albums in Los Angeles, Nashville, New York and London. Three songs he wrote with MCA recording artist Bob McGilpin have made the Billboard charts. John produced and played on the John Stewart album Bullets in The Hourglass, featuring Rosanne Cash, for Shanachie records and has toured extensively in North America and Europe with the John Stewart Band. He also produced the new John Stewart album Darwin’s Army, featuring one of his own songs, on Appleseed records. He arranged and produced four albums for award winning Disney/Muppets songwriter Dave Kinnoin, as well as playing and singing on numerous Disney projects including singing the title track on ten Winnie the Pooh videos. John has written and produced jingles and source music for Toyota, Lexus, Honda, Acura, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, the Cartoon Network, as well as writing the music for the Sony Pictures Television juggernauts, Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy. His own brand of rock, pop & roll can be heard on his self-produced album Fortunato, on Homecoming Records.

2016 Prague

Mr. Marionette/Albert Brock - Tomáš Vaněk

Mr. Wycherly/Prof. Faber - Peter Pecha

Mrs. Wycherly/Clarisse McClellan - Michaela Horká, Elin Špidlová

Colonel Wedown - Milan Malinovsky

Bride-bot/Jenny Sequa - Olga Lounová, Lucie Jagerčíková

Groom-bot/Capt. Wilder - Tomáš Novotný, Michael Garamoni

Blue/William Phelps (The Illustrated Man) - Michael Garamoni, Ondřej Pilnaj

Green/Tom Fury - Michal Máša

Yellow/Father William Joseph Peregrine - Jakub Rajnoch

Orange/Aimee Banghart - Zuzana Holbeinová, Karolina Krejčová

Red/Susan Travis - Františka Stropnická

Lavender/Dandelion - Denisa Šubrtová, Zuzana Holbeinová

Parkhill - Jitka Jirsová

Stoneman - Jiří Valeš

Black - Jaroslav Parči

2009 Laguna Beach

Mr. Marionette - David Stoneman

Mr. Wycherly - Rob Harryman

Mrs. Wycherly - Lisa Morrice

Bride-bot - Jessie McLean

Groom-bot - Steve Josephson

Green - Anthony Scarano

Lavender - Samantha Marcella

Yellow - Christine Reese

2010 Pasadena

Mr. Marionette - David Stoneman, Steve Josephson

Mr. Wycherly - Michael Prichard, Steve Josephson

Mrs. Wycherly - Lisa Morrice

Bride-bot - Jessie McLean

Groom-bot - Steve Josephson, Andrew Ruesch

Green - Anthony Scarano, Sarah Mann

Lavender - Samantha Marcella

Yellow - Christine Reese

2010 Edinburgh

Mr. Marionette/Albert Brock - Steve Josephson

Mr. Wycherly/Prof. Faber - Jonathon Lamer

Mrs. Wycherly/Clarisse McClellan - Lisa Morrice

Bride-bot/Company - Jessie McLean

Groom-bot/Capt. Wilder - Christian Marriner

Green/Police - Andy Lawson

Lavender - Monica Thibodeaux

Yellow - Samantha Morrice