Fly
Theatre Workshop's Alumni production. Presented in September 2002.
Sponsored in part by The Marshall Alumni Association and a UCIRA grant (University of California Institute for Research in the Arts), this show was an amazing opportunity to bring together 45 of Theatre Workshop's most ambitious, talented, and commited alumni (ages 15 - 24) and create one more two-act, dance theatre production. Several in the cast have moved on to professional performing careers since graduating from Marshall, others are studying dance and theater in college, and still others had not performed since Marshall. Regardless, the opportunities for all of these talented performers to continue working and developing skills in the arts and creating original, autobiographical theater has been limited since moving on from their Theatre Workshop days. This was not only a great chance to come together with good, old friends, it was also a way for these young performers to have another opportunity to create important and exciting dance and theater. We rehearsed over the summer months and presented our work in the same Marshal theater where we had originally met and performed years earlier. Several of the pieces in the show had been developed throughout the previous year in my Advanced Choreography classes at UCLA, a few were reworkings of earlier Theatre Workshop pieces from various shows, and others were brand new pieces developed in collaboration with the FLY cast. The show explored themes of self-discovery and identity, gender and community. In addition, the "play" within the show attempted to realistically portray the paths the cast members had taken following their high school years -- the pains and triumphs, the losses and the discoveries, the confusion and freedom of being an independant individual, an adult.
UCLAs Department of World Arts and Cultures
John Marshall HS Alumni Association and Performing Arts Department
Present:
FLY
A Theatre Workshop Production
Directed and Conceived by Kevin Kane
Written and Choreographed by Kevin Kane and the Full Cast
Musical Director: Chi G. Kim
DJ: Ellis Tenza
Assistant Director / Choreographers: Jackelyn Lopez, Guillermo Gamero
and Ricky Amaya Technical Director and Lighting Design: Marco Navarro
Sound Design: Henry Lowe
Featuring Alumni from JMHS Theatre Workshop Program:
Ricky Amaya, Marcia Arbizu, Jeffred Armas, Cristina Balmores, Timothee Boonyarit, Girose Carullo, Cynthia Castillo, Maria Celis, Tracy Claustro, Tommy De La Cruz, Michael Domantay, Daniel Galeon IV,Guillermo Gamero, Cesar Garfiaz, Evelyn Gonzalez, Marissa Gonzalez, Amy Hattemer, Arnold Hilvano, Mike Hummer, Mihran Kirakosian, Amy Kusolpaisit, Cinthia Leiva, Joe Leiva, Jackelyn Lopez, Jocelyn Lopez, Evelin Manriquez, Tittus Mendez, Carlos Mora, Diane Terre Palaganas, Corie Querubin, Helen Setyan, Claudia Soundy, John Spears, OC Stambulyan, Joeffrey Sunga, Anthony Suncin, Ellis Tenza, Steven Thaengthong, Alan Torres, Cindy Vega
Musicians:
Synthesizer: Chi G. Kim
Drums: Alan Torres Bass: Ben Salgado
Guitar: Julio Alvarado
Marshalls Joseph Sniffen Auditorium
3939 Tracy St. LA, CA 90027
Friday and Saturday,
September 6 & 7, 2002 at 7:30 PM