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For Immediate Release
GOOD PEOPLE THEATER CO ANNOUNCES NEW PRODUCTION:
MALTBY & SHIRE’S CLASSIC SLICE-OF-MIDLIFE MUSICAL
REVUE, CLOSER THAN EVER
Produced in partnership with Hollywood Piano and staged in “the nicest room
with the finest grand piano in the 99-seat scene,” this is the story of grownups (four singers, pianist and bass player) trying to Figure It Out.
12 Shows Only. Opening Saturday, February 21. Running through March 15th.
LOS ANGELES, January 28, 2015 — Today Good People Theater Company announced
its next production: Richard Maltby Jr. and David Shire’s charming, sly musical revue
about the broken hearts, secret trysts, and saying
no (and yes, and maybe) that bring old lovers,
new romantics and good friends CLOSER THAN
EVER. Produced in partnership with Hollywood
Piano, the show features the accomplished
production team of Good People’s previous shows,
including award winning Musical Director Corey
Good People Theater Company in Partnership with Hollywood Piano
Maltby & Shire’s
Slice-of-Midlife
Musical Revue
Broken hearts,
secret trysts,
and saying no
(and yes, and
maybe) brings
old lovers, new
romantics and
good friends...
Hirsch (LA Drama Critics Circle 2013).
Lyrics by
According to Producer/Director Janet Miller, this
production of CLOSER THAN EVER is ideally timed
as a prelude to the May opening of Maltby and
Richard
Maltby Jr.
Music by
David Shire
Shire’s newest musical, WATERFALL, which gears
up for Broadway by having out-of-town try-out
12 Shows Only!
Feb. 21 to Mar. 15
Produced & Directed by
Musical Direction by
For Tickets
GoodPeopleTheaterCo.org
Hollywood Piano
Across Hwy 5 from
Marriott Residence Inn
Free Parking in the
Burbank Metro Lot
Janet Miller
Irwin & Rhoda Treibitz Memorial Hall
323 North Front Street, Burbank
Corey Hirsch
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runs first at Pasadena Playhouse and then in Seattle. “CLOSER THAN EVER isn’t done
very often here in LA, so this is a special chance for musical theater fans to remind
themselves of Maltby and Shire’s classic before WATERFALL debuts this Spring. What’s
special in our production is the chance to see some great performers in a very
intimate setting—in what is probably one of the nicest rooms with the finest grand
piano in the 99-seat theater scene. Our audience has a chance to really cozy up to
Maltby and Shire’s material: a funny, poignant and slightly risqué portrait of how
complicated things get as we all start to grow up.”
Good People’s production of CLOSER THAN EVER runs for 12 performances at the
Irwin & Rhoda Treibitz Memorial Hall located inside the Hollywood Piano showroom
(323 North Front Street, Burbank, CA, 91502). The show opens on Saturday,
February 21 at 3pm, and runs through Sunday, March 15. Show times all four
weekends of the run are Saturdays @ 3pm and 8pm, and Sundays at 3pm. Tickets are
$25 for general admission and $12.50 for students and seniors. Show time details and
ticket sales can be found online at Good People Theater Company’s website:
www.GoodPeopleTheaterCo.Org.
As a part of their commitment to “good people doing good work,” the Company also
announced a special “Charity of Choice” performance of CLOSER THAN EVER on
Saturday, March 14 @ 3pm. 100% of the ticket proceeds from this performance will
be donated to Los Angeles Habilitation House, a local non-profit that provides persons
with disabilities engage, empowering work opportunities as well as art and music
experiences. (http://www.lahabilitationhouse.org)
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About CLOSER THAN EVER Show Times & Dates
Saturday, February 21 @ 3pm (Opening)
Saturday, February 21 @ 8pm
Sunday, February 22 @ 3pm
Saturday, February 28 @ 3pm
Saturday, February 28 @ 8pm
Sunday, March 1 @ 3pm
Saturday, March 7 @ 3pm
Saturday, March 7 @ 8pm
Sunday, March 8 @ 3pm
Saturday, March 14 @ 3pm (Special Charity of Choice show)
Saturday, March 14 @ 8pm
Sunday, March 15 @ 3pm (Closing)
About CLOSER THAN EVER Creative Team
Janet Miller, Producer-Director
Corey Hirsch, Musical Director
Rebecca Schroeder, Stage Manager
Kathy Gillespie & Barbara Weisel, Costume Designers
Good People Theater Co, Lighting/Set/Props
Kimberly Fox, Marketing Director
Patrick Craven, Media + Box Office Assistant
Oliver Lan, Graphic Designer
About CLOSER THAN EVER Cast
Corey Hirsch / GUY AT THE PIANO – recently won an LA Drama
Critics Circle award as well as an LA Weekly Award nomination
for Good People Theater Company’s A Man of No Importance and
is a sought-after musical director and pianist in Southern
California. He is particularly honored to collaborate with the
brilliant and virtuous Janet Miller for a remarkable 14th musical
production and is immensely grateful for her years of support
and encouragement. A graduate of The Juilliard School (BM
Composition) and the University of Southern California (Adv.
Cert. Scoring for Film and TV), Corey is a commissioned
composer/arranger and the assistant conductor for the Pageant
of the Masters in Laguna Beach as well as a private voice and composition teacher.
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Sara J. Stuckey / SARA – Is an actor at home in any media.
Her theater credits include Cabaret (Rosie Schneider) Big, Gay
North Hollywood Wedding (Sarah), Company (Sarah), The Full
Monty (Georgie), Gypsy (Tessie Tura) and Caught (Darlene).
Film credits include Unmental Health (Martine), Loud & Clear
(Nancy), and Savaged (Hanna). Sara’s television appearances
include Heartbreakers (with Judd Nelson & Kevin Sorbo),
House, M.D. and CSI: Las Vegas. She has also had Internet
success in Split (Cheryl), Pairings (Jenny), and Alice & The
Monster (Maria). Sara is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA and
Actors Equity. www.sarajstuckey.com
David Zack most recently appeared in The Golden Apple with
MTG. In Los Angeles theater he’s appeared in Sweet Smell Of
Success, Wonderful Town, Titanic, Shenandoah, Rocky Horror
and Panama Hattie with Theatre West, Little Shop (Orin),
Snoopy!!!, Luck!, and Cinderella (The Prince.) Zack has
extensive New York and Regional credits including Evita
(Magaldi/Che), Guys And Dolls (Sky), Pirates Of Penzance
(Frederic), Fiddler… (Perchik), Six Degrees…, Annie (Rooster)
and The Mystery Of Edwin Drood (Jasper.) Zack currently
tours with the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra as a member of the Pied Pipers vocal quartet.
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Gabriel Kalomas / GABE –!A versatile actor with many musical
credits including national tours of Les Misérables (3rd National
Tour) and From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
with ArtsPower. He has also been featured in regional musical
theater and opera including Big Fish with Musical Theatre West,
Christmas Carol with South Coast Repertory, The Magic Flute
with Opera Pacific, and Side Man with Repertory East
Playhouse.
Jessie Withers / JESSIE - originally hails from Canada where
she studied theater and opera. Jessie is a recent alumnus of
the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Credits include Young
Little Edie, Grey Gardens (Broadway World Nomination Best
Featured Actress Musical) opposite Broadway veteran Sara
Gettelfinger, SoCal premier Jerry Springer: the Opera as
Shawntel/Eve (Broadway World Nomination Best Featured
Actress Musical, Susan in Nerve (Best Performance Lead
Actress in a Play OC Registrar), Madame Thénardier in Les
Misérables, Pam Sakarian in Baby, Yum-Yum in The Mikado,
and Irene Malloy in Hello, Dolly!
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Jordan Lamoureux / GUY PLAYING BASS – Jordan Lamoureux
has played bass all over the world for artists including Sutton
Foster, Norm Lewis, Megan Hilty, Laura Bell Bundy, Greg
Holden and Katie Costello as well as on television programs
including The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Jordan
previously played with the band Augustana and currently
plays with pop solo artist Conrad. Occasionally Jordan escapes
the orchestra pit, appearing on stage as an actor. Previous
credits include Damn Yankees (Applegate), Into the
Woods (Cinderella’s Prince/Wolf), Parade (Frankie Epps/Young
Soldier), Sweeney Todd (Anthony), Pirates of Penzance (Frederick) and Les Miserables
(Enjolras). Additionally, Jordan has been fortunate to venture over to Hong Kong
Disneyland where he sang with the barbershop quartet, the Dapper Dans.
About Good People Theater Company
www.goodpeopletheaterco.org
The Good People Theater Company is 501c3 non-profit cultural organization dedicated
to presenting revivals of musicals and plays in the intimacy of 99-seat theater spaces,
produced to the highest standards by actors and theater techs of many generations.
Our goals as an organization are to contribute to the living history of theatrical
storytelling, keep selling the value of “off line” arts experiences, provide a high quality
forum for Janet Miller’s talent and do some good—for actors, patrons and our Charity
of Choice partners.
About Janet Miller
www.janetmiller.net
Janet Miller is a producer, director, choreographer and educator. Her original choreography has
been showcased Off-Broadway at the Westside Theatre in The Marvelous Wonderettes. She
received a Lucille Lortel Award nomination for Outstanding Choreographer for this production.
Janet garnered a LA Stage Alliance Ovation nomination for her work on TMW, a BackStage
West Garland, a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Choreography, a
BroadwayWorld LA Award nomination for Best Choreography and was part of the team that
won the Ovation Award for Best Intimate Musical. She also received a Garland and a LADCC
choreography award for Winter Wonderettes.
Ms. Miller was thrilled to choreograph the European Premiere of TMW for Teatro Franco Parenti
in Milan, Italy. Janet has staged her award winning step touch extensively throughout the US,
most notably at Northlight in Chicago, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Capital Repertory in Albany,
NY, Sacramento Music Circus, Pittsburgh CLO, The Plymouth Playhouse in Minneapolis, Cabrillo
Music Theatre in Thousand Oaks, CA, Moonlight Stage Productions in Vista, CA, McCoy Rigby
Entertainment, and The Merry-Go-Round Playhouse in Auburn, NY.
Good People Theatre Company just celebrated their two-year anniversary and Janet serves as
Producing Artistic Director. GPTCo has three productions under their belt thus far, A Man of No
Importance, Barrymore and The Fantasticks. The shows have been well received in Los
Angeles by both critics and spectators, garnering wonderful notices, as well as inclusion in
several year-end roundups for Best Production and Best Director, and LA Weekly nominations
for Best Musical Production, Best Musical Director, and Best Director-Musical for AMONI.
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AMONI and Barrymore were both Ovation Recommended, and Barrymore received a 2013
Ovation nomination for Best Actor.
Janet was the Resident Director for Phantom Projects Theatre Group, housed at the La Mirada
Theatre for the Performing Arts. She had the honor of directing Lydia R. Diamond’s adaptation
of the Toni Morrison book, The Bluest Eye to critical acclaim. The following season, Phantom
remounted this production at the Miles Playhouse in Santa Monica for a successful run. Also for
Phantom Projects, she has helmed The Miracle Worker, The Crucible, Of Mice and Men, To Kill
a Mockingbird, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) Grapes of Wrath, The
Giver and The Importance of Being Earnest.
Ms. Miller has worked on both coasts on such shows as Side By Side By Sondheim, South
Pacific, Guys and Dolls, Kiss Me Kate, Jesus Christ Superstar, Anything Goes, Baby, The
Fantasticks, Annie Get Your Gun, Dames At Sea, Charlie Brown, Urinetown, Bat Boy, The
Musical, The Odd Couple, The Nerd, The Man Who Came To Dinner, The Rimers of Eldritch, and
Taming of the Shrew to name a few. Her preferred style of dance is tap, which she has taught
and choreographed worldwide in China and Thailand. She was one of the founding members of
Golden State Theatre, the Family Theatre of La Mirada, for eighteen years, directing and
choreographing over 50 original productions. Janet is the recipient of the 2003 Excellence in
Art Award for Drama from the city of Torrance, where she was the Artistic Director/Resident
Director at the Torrance Theatre Company for seven years, directing sixteen shows during her
tenure. JM holds a B.A. in musical theatre from CSUN, and an M.A. in theatre from CSULA. She
is adjunct faculty at CSUN, CSULA and Cerritos College. Ms. Miller is a proud member of SDC.
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