Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Children of Eden Cast

TWIN CITY STAGE Presents the Joyous Musical, Children of Eden
March 25-27; 31-April 3 ; 7-10, 2011
Twin City Stage enjoyed the largest turnout in the past decade during its auditions for the musical Children of Eden, which opens March 25 for a three-week run. More than 75 people showed up at the Arts Council Theatre on Coliseum Drive to win one of 40 parts in the cast. Not since the theater company did The Sound of Music has an audition drawn so much interest from the Triad community.               

The popular show features music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (Godspell and Wicked) and book by John Caird (Les Misérables). Leading the TCS cast will be Jim Shover, director, Maggie Gallagher, music director, and Benji Starcher, the dance captain.

An award-winning director, Shover calls Children of Eden a “real spectacle” with an important message. As he describes that message, “We are here for each other.”

The story is based on a familiar book, Genesis. Act I presents the generational challenges that occur first between Father (Chuck King), Adam (Justin Hall) and Eve (Amanda Martin) and then between the world’s first parents and their sons Cain (Phillip Fullerton) and Abel (Joe Boles). In the second act, the same struggles are repeated between Noah (Art Bloom) and Mama Noah (Lalenja Harrington) and their sons Shem (Shane Fisher), Ham (Ray Pruett) and Japheth (Troy Wilson) and their wives Aphra (Elizabeth Barr), Aysha (Liz Townley) and Japheth’s intended, Yonah (Lauren Stephenson).

In addition to the inspiring message set to music, audiences will enjoy special effects that include  multiple actors moving in tandem as the Tree of Knowledge and as the Snake and, in the second act, a stage flooded and filled with Noah’s Ark.


Cast
FATHER Chuck King
ADAM Justin Hall
EVE Amanda Martin
CAIN Phillip Fullerton
ABEL Joe Boles
YOUNG CAIN Britton Sear
YOUNG ABEL Landry Bohn
SETH Zachary Campbell
SETH'S WIFE Ashley Bodford
NOAH Art Bloom
MAMA NOAH Lalenja Harrington
JAPHETH Troy Wilson
YONAH Lauren Stephenson
HAM Ray Pruett
AYSHA Liz Townley
SHEM Shane Fisher
APHRA  Miriam Davie 
SNAKE
Benji Starcher

Miriam Davie
Karen Fullerton
Rioghnach Robinson
John Parsons
Tyler Harmon-Townsend


STORYTELLERS:
Sally Lindel
Angela Hodges
Abby Kelpin
Carol Simes
Hailey Lewis
Charity Hampton
Miles Stanley
Justin Attkisson
Ryan Chan
Jacob Peller
Gary Freedman

CHILDRENS ENSEMBLE:
Annalisa Ebbink
Cardari Lee
Justin Harrington