NORBERT LEO BUTZ (Carl Hanratty). Broadway: Speed the Plow, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Tony Award, Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Fred Astaire, Drama League Awards, Best Actor, Musical), Is He Dead?, Wicked (Original Cast, Fiyero) Thou Shalt Not (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics nominations,) Rent (Original Cast, Broadway Debut). Off-Broadway: Fifty Words, Buicks (Drama Desk nomination), The Last Five Years (Drama Desk, Lortel nominations, Drama League Award) Juno and the Paycock, Saved. National Tour: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Cabaret (Helen Hayes, Jefferson, Dora, and Ovation Awards) Regional: Alabama Shakespeare Festival (four seasons), Repertory Theatre of St. Louis. Film: Fair Game, Dan In Real Life. Television: The Deep End (ABC), The Associates (ABC), Playing Chicken (FOX), Comanche Moon (CBS Mini-Series). BFA, Webster University, MFA, Alabama Shakespeare Theatre.
AARON TVEIT (Frank Abagnale, Jr.) is thrilled that this amazing journey has brought us to Seattle! He was most recently seen in the new hit Broadway musical Next to Normal where he originated the role of “Gabe” and was the recipient of the 2009 Actors Equity Association Clarence Derwent Award for “ Most Promising Male Performance.” Aaron also garnered a Helen Hayes Award for “Outstanding Supporting Performer” and a Lucille Lortel nomination for productions of Next to Normal at Arena Stage and Second Stage Theatre. Broadway: Wicked (Fiyero), Hairspray (Link Larkin). National Tour: Rent, Hairspray. Off-Broadway: Saved (Playwrights Horizons). Film: Howl (opposite James Franco- 2010), Ghost Town. Aaron can also be seen as “Tripp Vanderbilt” on the CW’s Gossip Girl. A special thank you to Elin Flack, without whom none of this would be possible. To Mom, Dad, Jon, and to my friends, for their unending love and support.
TOM WOPAT (Frank Abagnale, Sr.). Broadway credits include Chicago (Billy Flynn), A Catered Affair (Tom, Tony nomination), Glengarry Glen Ross (James Lingk), 42nd Street (Julian Marsh), Annie Get Your Gun (Frank Butler, Tony nomination), Guys and Dolls, City of Angels, Carousel, I Love My Wife. Off-B’way: The Guys. Perhaps best known for his seven-season run on TV’s The Dukes of Hazzard and seen on the CBS sitcom Cybill, Tom began performing in musicals at age 12. His NY debutwas the Off-B’way musical A Bistro Car on the CNR, and he then starred in The Robber Bridegroom, Ford’s Theatre, Washington, D.C. He has released successful albums with CBS, Capitol and Angel Records; has toured throughout the U.S. and Europe; and recently performed in a Carnegie Hall tribute to Harold Arlen. Tom’s CD tribute to Harold Arlen, Dissertation on the State of Bliss, is now available.
KERRY BUTLER (Brenda Strong) most recently starred in the critically-acclaimed Broadway production of Xanadu, for which she received the 2008 Tony Award Nomination & Drama League Nomination for Best Actress in a Musical. Broadway: Little Shop of Horrors (Outer Critics Circle Award Nomination), Hairspray (Drama Desk & Outer Critics Circle Award Nomination; Clarence Derwent Award), Beauty & the Beast, Les Miserables and Blood Brothers. Off-Broadway/Regional: Bat Boy The Musical, The Opposite of Sex (WTF); Miracle Brothers (Vineyard), The "I" World (EST); Prodigal (York), The Folson Head (Currican) and numerous workshops and readings of new musicals.Television & film credits include: Lipstick Jungle, Cupid, Borough of Kings, Campfire Stories, One Life to Live¸ Second Honeymoon starring Roma Downey, Sesame Street, Hometown, Another World, Twins (Pilot), as well as several live performances on national television shows. Kerry recently released her solo album "Faith, Trust and Pixie Dust" on PS Classics. She resides in New York with her husband and daughter.
RACHEL DE BENEDET: (Paula Abagnale). Broadway: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, “Muriel” (Jack O'Brien, director); Nine with Antonio Banderas, “Diana"; The Sound of Music. Off-Broadway: Christopher Durang and Peter Melnick's Adrift in, "Lureena" (Barrymore Award for original Philadelphia Theatre Company production); The Second Tosca, "Lisa." National Tours: Camelot, "Guinevere" opposite Lou Diamond Phillips; The Sound of Music, "Elsa" opposite Richard Chamberlain (St Louis JUDY Award). Regional: Turn of the Century, "Lily," Goodman Theatre (Tommy Tune, director), As Bees in Honey Drown, "Alexa", Arvada Center (DDCC Award), Kiss Me, Kate!, "Lilli/Kate" NSMT (IRNE Award nom). Previous 5th Avenue: Singin’ in the Rain, "Lina Lamont"; Me and My Girl, "Lady Jacqueline." Proud member of Actors' Equity.
FELICIA FINLEY (Cheryl Ann). Broadway: *The Life, Smokey Joe's Cafe, Aida, *The Wedding Singer, Sweet Charity (w/Gwen Verdon for AmFar) Off-Broadway: *Forbidden Broadway-2001 Space Odyssey & SVU, *The Wild Party (MTC), *Bubbly Black Girl...(Playwright's Horizons). Regional roles: Evita (Oqunquit), Lysistrata (ULM), Debbie Does Dallas (Vegas), Headlined A.C./Caesar's Palace, *Pinky Tuscadero in Happy Days (Papermill, Goodspeed, 1st Nat'l), *Hermia Chase- Gershwin's An American in Paris (Alley Theatre). Check out Great Mood for A Tuesday, her debut album at feliciafinley.net. Felicia sends love to her husband, Paul Stancato, and her loving family. *denotes original company and cast album.
LINDA HART (Carol Strong). Linda originated the role of Velma Von Tussle in the Tony Award-winning Hairspray, 5th Avenue and on Broadway. Anything Goes, Lincoln Center – Theater World Award. Caesar on Broadway (Opposite Sid Caesar), Divine Madness (w/Bette Midler), Gemini, Great American Trailer Park Musical, New World Stages, A Flea in Her Ear, Chicago Shakespeare Festival, Light Up the Sky (Drama-Logue Award), Livin’ Dolls, (L.A. Weekly Best Actress). TV: Numerous – from Dukes of Hazzard to Desperate Housewives. Arthur Laurent’s Gypsy for CBS (Mazeppa), Alex Haley’s Queen (w/ Halle Berry), Co-starred in the Fox series The Winner. Film: Tin Cup, A Perfect World, Get Shorty, The Insider, Stella, Beautiful, Best of Times. 15 albums with her Gospel Grammy Award-Winning family The Harts. Anything Goes, Hairspray, Gypsy, Great American Trailer Park. Miss Hart most recently made her Carnegie Hall debut with the NY Pops Symphony Orchestra.
NICK WYMAN (Roger Strong). Broadway: Phantom of the Opera (original cast), Les Miserables (six years as Thenardier), My Fair Lady twice, once with Rex Harrison (no, not the original cast), Sly Fox, Very Good Eddie, Magic Show, Grease, Whoopee!, Musical Comedy Murders of 1940, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Doubles, On the Twentieth Century, Tale of Two Cities. Film: Die Hard With a Vengeance, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Igby Goes Down, Maid in Manhattan, Funny Farm, Rude Awakening, Weeds, Private Parts, Synecdoche, NY. Television: One Life to Live, Law and Order, The Murder of Mary Phagan, etc., numerous voice-over and on-camera commercials. Regional: Guthrie Theater, Arena Stage, Goodman Theater, Asolo Rep, Hartford Stage, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, et al. Proud member of Actors Equity since 1974.
CLARKE THORELL (FBI Agent Todd Branton/ Ensemble). 5th Ave: Lone Star Love- Fenton; Hairspray- Corny Collins. Broadway: Hairspray- Corny Collins, Sinatra...His Way- Host, Titanic - Farrell, Barrett; The Who's Tommy. Off Bdwy: Satellites (Public), Saturday Night, Wise Guys, (Dir.Sam Mendes) Regional: Twelfth Night – Orsino, Floyd Collins –Homer (Dir.Tina Landau), Palm Beach (LaJolla), School for Scandal (McCarter). FILM/TV: The Winning Season ('09 release, w/Sam Rockwell), Kings- Grey Suit Hale, Sopranos, Rescue Me, Law & Order, Strong Medicine, Ed, Far East.
BRANDON WARDELL (FBI Agent Johnny Dollar/Ensemble) is an award-winning actor, musician and producer. On and off Broadway: Evil Dead the Musical, Assassins, Good Vibrations, Thoroughly Modern Millie and James Joyce’s The Dead. Film and TV: The Turing Love Affair, The Rooster, Times Square New Year’s Eve Celebration where he sang live for more than a million people, The View, All My Children, Guiding Light and numerous commercials. Please visit www.brandonwardell.com for information on his other endeavors.
Love to SGW.
TIMOTHY McCUEN PIGGEE (FBI Agent Bill Cod/ Railroad Agent/ Ensemble). 5th Avenue: Robert in Wonderful Town, Lindsay in Mame, Gage in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Milos in A Funny Thing… Favorite roles: Hastings in Richard III (Intiman), Fielding in JITNEY (Milwaukee Rep.), Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha, Jeff in Bells Are (Footlight Award) Village Theatre, Guy in Blues for an Alabama (ACT, Portland Center Stage, Arizona Theatre Company, Milwaukee Rep.), Tom in The Glass Menagerie (Milwaukee Rep.), Mercutio (Footlight Award) at S.C.T.
ROMELDA TERON BENJAMIN (Stewardess/Next Available Teller/Pediatrics Nurse /Ensemble). Broadway: Brooklyn (Paradise). Off-Broadway: Bare A Pop Opera (Sister Chantelle), Smokey Joe’s Café, Little Shop of Horrors, The Wiz, Big River. Thank you Jesus 4 Mommy, Naudya, friends, creative team, C.T.G. and Telsey Casting.
MO BRADY (Ensemble). 5th Avenue: Seven Brides... (Gideon), Hello, Dolly! (Barnaby), West Side Story, Sweeney Todd. Seattle Childrens Theatre: Disney's High School Musical (Jack Scott), The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Broadway Cares/EFA: Godspell. Love to JBS.
TARYN DARR (Third Teller/Starlet #1/Ensemble) is thrilled and honored to be “caught!” 5th Ave: Mame (Gloria Upson), A Chorus Line (Val). Favorites: South Pacific (Nellie), Grease (Sandy), Chicago (Roxie). Up next: 5th Ave’s Joseph… and White Christmas. For M&M. www.taryndarr.com
JASON KAPPUS (Pan Am Pilot /Ensemble). Seattle credits: West Side Story (5th Avenue), High School Musical & Wizard of Oz (SCT), Last Five Years (ReAct) and many shows at Village Theatre and Harlequin Productions. Love to Loni, the House, and "the Fam."
JILLANA LAUFER (Starlet #3/Ensemble). Broadway: Chicago, Sunset Boulevard, The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public, The Will Rogers Follies. National Tours: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Producers, Chicago and Sunset Boulevard. Regional: Follies, Blood Brothers. Love to Teddy, Jerry, Jack, Angie.
NIKKI LONG (Female Swing). The Lion King (Broadway & 1st National Tour), Monty Python’s Spamalot National Tour, Radio City Rockette NYC. Film/TV: Gloria Estefan, Monica, AMA’s Toni Braxton, NAACP Image Awards, Spanglish. B.A. from SCU. For Kingsley & Dan.
ANASTACIA McCLESKEY (Ensemble). B’way: Tarzan (Singer- OC). Tour: Hairspray (Dynamite). Regional: Beehive, Little Shop, Ain't Misbehavin', etc. Recorded National Theme Song for the Special Olympics. Worked w/ Phil Collins, Julie Taymore, U2'S Bono/Edge, Paul Bogave, etc. Thanks Creator/Family
SHANNA MARIE PALMER (Lou Anne /Ensemble) is honored to join this amazing cast. Recent credits Sarah Kines Seven Brides, Amy March Little Women, Minnie Fay Hello Dolly, and Annie Oakley Annie Get Your Gun. Love to her family. Proud member of AEA.
ANGIE SCHWORER (Pan Am Stewardess/Starlet #2/ Apartment Manager/ Ensemble). Broadway: The Producers (Ulla) with Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick,Young Frnakenstein, Chicago, Sunset Boulevard, Crazy For You, Annie Get Your Gun and The Will Rogers Follies. Los Angeles: The Producers with Jason Alexander and Martin Short, and Minskys. TV: Law and Order:Criminal Intent, Queer Eye, As the World Turns. Film: The Producers.
KYLE PATRICK VAUGHN (Ensemble). 5th Ave: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Nat'l Tours: All Shook Up! (u/s Chad), Fame. Regional: Paper Mill, North Shore, MTW, Lyric Theatre, Radio City, Seattle Opera, Arvada Center. Performing is my passion, I’m grateful to share it with you. Enjoy!
KARL WARDEN (Auctioneer/Ensemble) is thankful for life’s abundance! World/National Tours: Fosse, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Daniel), Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Cats, Chicago. Regional: Pajama Game, Anything Goes, Miss Saigon, Footloose (Ren), Corpus Christi. TV/Film: The Producers, Nip/Tuck.
MATT WOLFE (Jack Barnes/ Hotel Clerk/ Hotel Manager/ Tailor/ Bank Officer/ Motel Manager/ Dr. Griffith/ Bartender/ Ensemble). Matt Wolfe works as an actor, director, and arts educator in Seattle. He was last seen at 5th Avenue in The Sound of Music. Village Theatre: The Music Man, Hello Dolly, Tommy, Million Dollar Quartet. Seattle Children’s Theatre (SCT): Goodnight Moon, Busytown, The Neverending Story, Wizard of Oz. Showtunes: Barnum. Second Story Rep: Fiddler, Jacques Brel, Arsenic and Old Lace. He has taught for Village Kidstage, SCT, Second Story Rep, and this fall for Freehold.