JAMES TAYLOR ODOM (Admiral von
Schreiber, u/s Captain Georg von Trapp, u/s Max
Detweiler). National Tour: A Gentleman’s
Guide to Love and Murder (The D’ysquith
Family) NYC: One Christmas Eve
(FringeNYC). Regional: Grumpy Old Men
(Tim, Ogunquit Playhouse), Murder for Two
(Suspects, TheatreSquared), The Thirty-Nine
Steps (Richard Hannay, Cortland Repertory
Theatre), God of Carnage (Alan, Shadowland
Stages), My Fair Lady (Broadway World
Award, Henry Higgins, Prather Entertainment
Group), Baskerville (Sherlock Holmes,
Cider Mill Playhouse), Disfarmer (Arkansas
New Play Festival, Arkansas Rep) and Mary
Poppins (George Banks, Gainesville Theatre
Alliance). Other regional favorites include:
One Man, Two Guvnors, The Importance of
Being Earnest, Sherlock Holmes & The West
End Horror and It’s a Wonderful life. Original
one-man shows: Dashiell Hammett’s The
Maltese Falcon and The Mystery Bookshop
Musical. MFA, University of Arkansas and
BA, Brenau University. Avalon Artists Group.
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JAMES PARKS (Herr Zeller, u/s Max
Detweiler). Selected NYC Credits: Night
of the Secretary General, Missing Gemini,
Discovering Magenta (cast recording available).
National tour credits: Pinkalicious, Spaghetti
Thank you for supporting
live theater. Quack! MM: NYU Steinhardt;
BM: Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins.
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JILLIAN ROSSI (Ursula, Postulant,
u/s Maria). NYC: Radio City Christmas
Spectacular (Ensemble). Regional: Weaver
of Raveloe, American Repertory Theatre;
Me and My Girl, Reagle Music Theatre.
BFA Boston Conservatory. Thanks to
Christine/Stewart Whitley, Henderson Hogan
Agency; endless gratitude and love to my
parents, family and Bill. This is for you!
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CHRISTINA TOMPKINS (Swing, u/s
Elsa Schraeder) is returning to the hills after
working on the U.S. premiere of Grumpy Old
Men (Ogunquit Playhouse). Regional Favorites:
Anything Goes (Reno), Hairspray (Velma),
Sister Act (Sister Mary Martin). BFA University
of Mississippi. Thank you family, friends,
TSOM team and you for supporting the arts! @
tina_tompkins
ARIANA VALDES (Sister Berthe, Baroness
Elberfeld, u/s The Mother Abbess) is delighted
to return for a second season with The Sound of
Music! National Tour/Singapore: My Fair Lady
(Mrs. Hopkins). Regional: The Sound of Music
(The Mother Abbess), In The Heights (Daniela),
Sister Act (Sister Mary Patrick), Jerry Springer:
The Opera (Baby Jane/Peaches), Shrek
(Dragon), Guys and Dolls (General Cartwright),
Seussical (Sour Kangaroo), Disney’s Beauty
and the Beast (Madame de la Grande Bouche).
Proud Boston Conservatory-Voice/Opera alum.
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friends!
TERESA WHITT (Sister Margaretta, u/s
Maria) is delighted to be joining this incredible
company! Favorite regional credits include My
Fair Lady, Sweeney Todd, Les Misérables and
The Addams Family. BFA: Montclair State.
Love to my family, friends and AP. teresawhitt.
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RICHARD RODGERS and OSCAR
HAMMERSTEIN II (Music and Lyrics). After
long and highly distinguished careers with other
collaborators, Richard Rodgers (composer,
1902–1979) and Oscar Hammerstein II
(librettist/lyricist, 1895–1960) joined forces in
1943 to create the most successful partnership
in the American musical theater. Prior to his
work with Hammerstein, Rodgers collaborated
with lyricist Lorenz Hart on a series of
musical comedies that epitomized the wit
and sophistication of Broadway in its heyday.
Among their greatest successes were Pal Joey,
On Your Toes, and Babes In Arms. Throughout
the same era, Hammerstein brought new life
to the operetta, culminating in the masterpiece
Show Boat (music by Jerome Kern). Oklahoma!,
blending Rodgers’s musical comedy style
with Hammerstein’s innovations in operetta.
Oklahoma! was followed by Carousel, State
Fair (film 1945, 1962; Broadway 1996),
Juliet, Pipe Dream, Cinderella (television 1957,
1965, 1997; Broadway 2013), Flower Drum
Song, and The Sound of Music. Collectively, the
Rodgers & Hammerstein musicals have earned
Tonys, Oscars, Grammys, Emmys, Pulitzers,
and Olivier Awards.
HOWARD LINDSAY and RUSSEL
CROUSE (Book). The Lindsay and Crouse
partnership stands today as the longest
collaboration of any writers in theatrical history,
lasting for 32 years. Howard Lindsay was born
in 1889 and died in 1968. He became an actor
at 19 and went on to become a successful
Broadway playwright and director. Russel
Crouse was born in 1893 and died in 1966.
After serving in the Navy, he worked on New
York newspapers, gaining his first renown
through a signed column in the Post. In 1932
he became head of the publicity department
for the Theatre Guild and in 1933 wrote his
Ford on the musical comedy Hold Your Horses.
From 1934 on Crouse wrote only with Lindsay.
Their hits include The Sound of Music (with a
score by Rodgers & Hammerstein); Anything
Goes and Red, Hot, and Blue (with scores by
Cole Porter); Call Me Madam (score by Irving
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