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The Skin of Our Teeth 1999

Director's Note

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The Skin of Our Teeth is a Pulitzer Prize winning play by Thornton Wilder. For lack of a better term. it is a comedy of errors and of life about George Antrobus, his wife and two children, their general utility maid, Lily Sabina, and all of Excelsior, New Jersey. George Antrobus is John Doe, George Spelvin, you or me--the average American at grips with a destiny, sometimes sour, sometimes sweet. The Antrobuses have survived fire, flood pestilence, the seven-year locusts, the ice age, the black pox and the double feature, a dozen wars and as many depressions. They run many a gamut, are as durable as radiators, and look upon the future with a disarming optimism. Alternately bewitched, befuddled, and becalmed, they are the stuff of which heroes are made--heroes and buffoons. They are true offspring of Adam and Eve, victims of all the ills that flesh is heir to. They have survived a thousand calamities by the skin of their teeth. Here is a tribute to their, and our, indestructibility. As John Steinbeck says through the character of Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, "Why, we're the people--we go on."

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CAST

 

Announcer - Josh Taylor

Sabina - Whitney Bashor

Mr. Fitzpatrick - Brian McKenrick

Mrs. Antrobus - Erica Lewis

Dinosaur - Dan Hale

Mammoth - Greg Lipes

Telegraph Boy - Drew Drescher

Gladys - Amanda Hartter

Henry - Ben Klemme

Mr. Antrobus - Casey Campbell

Doctor - Chris Saito

Professor - Steve Vize

Judge - Mike Hoff

Homer - Dustin Sisson

Miss E. Muse/Bingo Caller - Andrea Dirksen 

Miss T. Muse - Ashley Titman

Miss M. Muse - Morgan Troyer

Drum Majorettes - Sherra Lasley, Lindsay Meyer

Fortune Teller - Shaina Albin

Stamina Jackson - John Scott

Mr. Tremayne - Dan Underbakke 

Hester - Shelly Youngvorst

Ivy - Stephanie Jones

George Bailey - Jared Mullendore

Woman in Audience - Antje Hildebrandt

Broadcast Official - Tony Pennuto

Conveener Chorus - Erin Consamus, Ashley Smith, Jennifer Holle, Pooja Chitneni, Shane Simmons, Emily Daugherty, Chad Sweatt, Philip Carpio, Adam Bowman, Scott Metz, Greg Johnson, Ange Vasquez, Adam Cerny, Dylan Mooney 

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CREW

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AD/SM - Kelly Kuhn, Trisha McKenrick

Make-up Head - Erin Weiler

Lights Head - Mark Swanson

Sound Head - Paul Friemel

Set Head - Drew Larson 

Rail - Derek Paper

Costume Head - Christina Danico

Publicity - Kelly Laas, Natalie Miller

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