Victor/Victoria
book by Blake Edwards
lyrics by Leslie Bricusse
music by Henry Mancini
additional music by Frank Wildhorn
May 2007
The Gallery Players, Brooklyn
First NYC Revival
Producers: Heather Siobhan Curran and Robin Mishik-Jett
Director: Matt Schicker
Musical Director: Justin Hatchimonji
Choreographer: Stacy Moscotti-Smith
Set Design: Michael M. Kerns
Lighting Design: David Roy
Costume Design: Samantha Fromm
Assistant Director: Kellie Fernald
Fight Director: Nickalaus Locke Koziura
Dramaturg: Kate Stopa
Assistant Costume Designer: Sara McLoud
Props Master: Ernesto Espinoza
Production Stage Manager: Amanda Jean Nowack
Assistant Stage Managers: Amanda “Poe Bailey” Elaan, Nina Kalinkos, Buckly Stephens
Christine Paterson and Company perform “Le Jazz Hot”. Photo by Jennifer Maufrais.
Featuring:
Meg Benfield, Jamie Birkett, John Blaylock*, Melissa D’Amico, Andrea Davey, Chip DuFord*, Patrick Field, Tripp Fountain, Andy Frye, David Michael Green*, Allison Guinn, Tauren Hagans, D.H. Johnson, Craig Joseph, Dennis Keefe, E.C. Kelly*, Lorinne Lampert*, Christine Paterson*, Thomas Poarch*, Michael Reyna, Tom Schubert, Rieko Yamanaka
John Blaylock as Toddy with Les Boys. Photo by Jennifer Maufrais.
Thomas Poarch as King Marchan and Christine Paterson as Victoria. Photo by me.
Reviews and Quotes:
“Gallery Players’ new revival of the Blake Edwards-Henry Mancini-Leslie Bricusse musical, Victor/Victoria, is a lot of fun. The pride of Park Slope delivers a hugely ambitious production…everything a theatergoer could ask of a musical comedy. Director Matt Schicker and a bubbly cast of 20-plus harness their collective energies towards wowing the audience with an old-fashioned dose of musical theatre razzmatazz, and come up victorious….Kudos to Schicker for pulling a production of this magnitude together….His impressive work shows that he’s a firm practitioner of what he preaches in the show’s program notes: that Victor/Victoria should “give you that special ‘high’ that only a good musical can bring.” That it does. I was humming and dancing all the way home from the Slope.”
- nytheatre.com
“The musical version of the film [Victor/Victoria] is being presented with panache by the stalwart Gallery Players in its first New York revival since the original Broadway run ended almost exactly 10 years ago. Ostensibly about the complexities of love, the current production reveals the show more as a celebration of friendship. The juice, abundantly provided here by a cast with ample energy and style, comes from the connection and conflict between pals….Choreographer Stacy Moscotti Smith and director Matt Schicker should get the credit for the style and zing of this production, and for keeping the cast grounded in the reality of the relationships while providing endless invention in comedy bits and telling pieces of behavior.“
- The Brooklyn Papers
“Director Matt Schicker ingeniously re-creates more of the Broadway blocking than you’d think possible, including much of Edwards’ signature elaborate slapstick.” [MATT'S NOTE: Although it's very nice that Back Stage paid me this "compliment", the truth is that I "recreated" virtually none of Edwards' blocking, admire it as I do. I think the reviewer is confusing the inclusion of certain "slots" for gags which are indicated in the script itself as actually copying the gags themselves, which I have not done. Virtually every gag in this production is different, some a variation, on Edwards' original. Just needed to defend my original ideas!]
- Back Stage
Allison Guinn as Norma Cassidy in “Chicago, Illinois”. Photo by Jennifer Maufrais.
Thomas Poarch as King Marchan and Christine Paterson as Victoria. Photo by Jennifer Maufrais.
The Ensemble of Victor/Victoria. Photo by Jennifer Maufrais.
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