8
On election day 2008, Proposition 8 re-wrote the California state constitution to ban marriage for gay and lesbian citizens. In response, two couples, Sandy Stier & Kris Perry and Jeff Zarrillo & Paul Katami, filed suit against Proposition 8 in Federal Court. Representing them were Ted Olson and David Boies, most famous for representing the opposing sides in Bush v. Gore.
Olson and Boies argued in favor of broadcasting the trial live, and Republican-appointed Chief Judge Vaughn Walker agreed. But the opponents of marriage equality filed an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States, which blocked plans to broadcast the proceedings. Thus, the nation has been denied access to the live testimony of Sandy & Kris and Jeff & Paul ... until today.
Cast:
Judge Vaughn Walker........BILL SPITZ
Theodore Olson................ROGER STONE
David Boies......................MARC REHR
Charles Cooper.................BILL HURLBUT
Court Clerk.......................KELSI JENKINS
Kris Perry.........................MARY ROSE WINNARD
Sandy Stier.......................ELISSA BORZILLERI
Spencer Perry...................ZACH HARRIS
Elliott Perry.......................BRETT CASSIDY
Jeff Zarrillo........................GABE POTTER
Paul Katami.....................THOMAS COPAS
Dr. Nancy Cott..................MARA BAYEWITZ
Dr. Herek..........................BILL BROWN
Dr. IIan Meyer...................CHAD WHEELER
Dr. Gary Segura................CHAD WHEELER
Ryan Kendall....................NOAH MITCHEL
David Blankenhorn............KEITH TITTERMARY
Dr. Tam............................MARA MAYEWITZ
Evan Wolfson...................BILL BROWN
Maggie Gallagher..............ELLIE BORZILLERI
Broadcast Journalist.........SARAH RICHARDS
Olson and Boies argued in favor of broadcasting the trial live, and Republican-appointed Chief Judge Vaughn Walker agreed. But the opponents of marriage equality filed an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States, which blocked plans to broadcast the proceedings. Thus, the nation has been denied access to the live testimony of Sandy & Kris and Jeff & Paul ... until today.
Cast:
Judge Vaughn Walker........BILL SPITZ
Theodore Olson................ROGER STONE
David Boies......................MARC REHR
Charles Cooper.................BILL HURLBUT
Court Clerk.......................KELSI JENKINS
Kris Perry.........................MARY ROSE WINNARD
Sandy Stier.......................ELISSA BORZILLERI
Spencer Perry...................ZACH HARRIS
Elliott Perry.......................BRETT CASSIDY
Jeff Zarrillo........................GABE POTTER
Paul Katami.....................THOMAS COPAS
Dr. Nancy Cott..................MARA BAYEWITZ
Dr. Herek..........................BILL BROWN
Dr. IIan Meyer...................CHAD WHEELER
Dr. Gary Segura................CHAD WHEELER
Ryan Kendall....................NOAH MITCHEL
David Blankenhorn............KEITH TITTERMARY
Dr. Tam............................MARA MAYEWITZ
Evan Wolfson...................BILL BROWN
Maggie Gallagher..............ELLIE BORZILLERI
Broadcast Journalist.........SARAH RICHARDS
Three Days of Rain
A year after he disappeared on the day of his father's funeral, Walker Janeway returns to New York. He takes up temporary residence in the unused space where thirty-five years earlier, his father, Ned, and Ned's late partner, Theo, both architects, lived and designed the great house that would make them famous. Sleepless and emotionally jangled, Walker scours the old empty space for clues, evidence or keys to the tortured family history. Discovering his father's journal hidden under the bed, he finds it as unforthcoming as his nearly silent father had been. Walker is joined by his sister, Nan, and their friend from childhood, Pip, Theo's son, to hear the reading of Ned's will. It is there that Walker forces the confrontation that the others need. After an evening of harrowing and sometimes comically inadvertent revelations, Walker disappears once more. This time he returns later that evening with a surprising, but to him, definitive solution to the family puzzle. We travel back to 1960, when Ned's journal begins. We meet the parents at the same age their children are in Act One: Ned, who seems very different from the cold monster the children conjured; the charismatic and putative genius, Theo; and Lina, Walker and Nan's mother, the delightful, troubled "Southern woman who admits to thirty." In the guise of a love story, we are offered all the information needed to devise an alternative reading of the sad, unexpectedly romantic family story.
Cast:
Walker / Ned.................THOMAS COPAS
Nan / Lina.....................MARY ROSE WINNARD
Pip / Theo.....................KEVIN RAY JOHNSON
Cast:
Walker / Ned.................THOMAS COPAS
Nan / Lina.....................MARY ROSE WINNARD
Pip / Theo.....................KEVIN RAY JOHNSON
Thrill Me
Relationships can be murder. THRILL ME: THE LEOPOLD & LOEB STORY is a two-character musical drama that recounts the chilling true story of the legendary duo who committed one of the most infamous and heinous crimes of the twentieth century. Focusing on their obsessive relationship and utilizing Leopold's 1958 parole hearing as a framework, THRILL ME reveals the series of events in 1924 Chicago that led about-to-be law students Leopold and Loeb to be forever remembered as "the thrill killers." Nathan Leopold was passionate about Richard Loeb, who was passionate about crime and excitement. They created a secret agreement to satisfy each other's needs. Soon Richard convinced Nathan that they embodied Nietzsche's idea of the "Superman" and were above society. Then he drew him into his plan to lure a young boy to his death just to prove they could get away with it. But soon their perfect crime unraveled due to a careless mistake. Or was it so careless?
Cast:
Nathan Leopold..................THOMAS COPAS
Richard Loeb......................NOAH MITCHEL
Cast:
Nathan Leopold..................THOMAS COPAS
Richard Loeb......................NOAH MITCHEL
The Music of Alan Menken
Celebrating the music of Alan Menken. Featuring songs from the Broadway musicals: Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Sister Act, and Little Shop of Horrors, and from animated Disney films: Pocahontas, Tangled, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, Aladdin, and Enchanted.
Featuring THOMAS COPAS, KEVIN RAY JOHNSON, MELANIE KURSTIN, and ERICA LOY.
Featuring THOMAS COPAS, KEVIN RAY JOHNSON, MELANIE KURSTIN, and ERICA LOY.
The Unpredictable Times
The Unpredictable Times surrounds five friends coming together after graduating college hoping for the summer of their lives. It might be there last time all together before they go out and face the so called 'Real World.' During the summer they will face unresolved issues from the past and present that will question if their friendship that was developed from Childhood is worth saving now as 'Adults.'
Cast:
Henry...............................THOMAS COPAS
Nicole..............................MARY ROSE WINNARD
Samantha.........................JENNIFER FINCH
Jake................................LESHAWN BELL
Carl.................................SAMUEL EISENHUTH
Henry / Jake / Carl (u/s)............................................NOAH MITCHEL
Samantha / Nicole (u/s)............................................ERICA LOY
Cast:
Henry...............................THOMAS COPAS
Nicole..............................MARY ROSE WINNARD
Samantha.........................JENNIFER FINCH
Jake................................LESHAWN BELL
Carl.................................SAMUEL EISENHUTH
Henry / Jake / Carl (u/s)............................................NOAH MITCHEL
Samantha / Nicole (u/s)............................................ERICA LOY