Playwright - Jillian Armenante, Alice Dodd, Chris Jeffries
Director - Jillian Armenante
Date - 2002
Dates: July 16 – August 25, 2002
Location: 24th Street Theatre
Ensemble:
Georges Melies - Jim Anzide
Eadweard Muybridge & others - Richard Augustine
Adolphe LePrince - Mickey Caputo
Thomas Edison - Christopher Carroll
Yvonne & others - Beatrice Rose Casini
Alice Guy - Alice Dodd
Auguste Lumiere & others - Joe Fria
W.K.L. Dickson - David Heckel
Houdini - John Lovick
Lizzie LePrince - Johanna McKay
Automaton, Laura Comstock, and others - Emma-Jame Mezher
Simone, and others - Michelle Noh
Louis Lumiere and others - Tim Sabourin
Marey and others - Casey Smith
Jehanne D'Alcy - Michaela Watkins
Production Team:
Music & Lyrics - Chris Jeffrie
Additional Lyrics - Alice Dodd, Jillian Armenante
Musical Direction and Additional Arrangements - Paul Hepker
Produced by - Jim Anzide, Jillian Armenante
Set Design - Gary Smoot
Costume Design - Paul Spadone
Lighting Design - Kathi O'Donohue
Sound Design - Tim Labor
Video Design - Jillian Armenante
Projection Design - Paul Hepker
Stage Manager - Jo Anna Underwood
Assistant Stage Managers - Jennifer Hoyt, Abram Lewis-Rosenblum
Awards
Ovation Award:World Premiere of a MusicalOvation Nominations: Costume Design LA Weekly Award: World Premiere of a Musical LA Weekly Award Nominations: Comedy Ensemble Choreography
Press
"The concept here seems to demonstrate that invention is the break-through and the artist takes it from there. The play ends with a tribute to Alice Guy, whose many films were lost and forgotten and who died without an obituary at age 95. Melies also ended his career selling newspapers in the Paris Metro. It's good to see these pioneers given their just due, if only in many little moments, by an ensemble of such talent." — Laura Hitchcock, Curtain Up Los Angeles