THE 2003 CAST & CREW

"ROCKY MOUNTAIN FLYER"

CAST

CREW

STEPHEN & BONNIE MACKIN - PRODUCERS Stephen and Bonnie worked with his parents for many years at the Imperial where Steve did a little bit of everything and Bonnie was Dorothy and Wayne's personal secretary.  They were the hotel and theatre managers for over 10 years and also had the Crucible Shop on the corner of 3rd and Bennett where Steve made his custom jewelry.  Steve's jewelry is now on display at the Hospitality House Hotel & RV Park which Steve & Bonnie own and operate.  Their son, Kirk, lives and works in Loveland for Bose and is married to Cindy.  They have, Mackenzie Lynn, Steve and Bonnie's first grandchild who just turned one.  Daughter Stacy is the manager of the Butte Opera House and employed by the City of Cripple Creek.  Original melodrama producer Wayne Mackin passed away on June 13 the day before the 2003 show opened, at the age of 85.   Steve and Bonnie are very excited about their fourth season of melodrama at the Butte and are praying for a good season for everyone with no fires, world peace and lower gas prices!!  We thank all of you for your continued support!	JOSH LAMOREAUX MUSICAL DIRECTOR  Josh is happy to be back for his third season as musical director/pianist  for the Cripple Creek Players.  Josh, a student from Tucson, Arizona, will be graduating in December from the University of Arizona with a BFA in Musical Theatre.  His performing credits at the University include: The Three Sisters, The Cider House Rules Parts I & II, The Threepenny Opera, King Lear, Into the Woods and Kiss Me Kate. Other theatrical credits include Victory Productions' West Side Story (Baby John), and Southern Arizona Light Opera Company's Peter Pan (John Darling).  Musical credits include: Cripple Creek Players' The Spoilers and Under Two Flags (musical director/pianist), A Midsummer Night's Dream (composer/arranger/orchestrator), Into The Woods (musical director), Dames at Sea (pianist), and the Gershwin musical Crazy For You (pianist).  He also serves as a part time musical director for Kids Unlimited, a children's performing arts group in Tucson.  Josh has also won numerous piano competitions at the U of A and also Arizona State University.
RICHARD HANSON DIRECTOR & CHOREOGRAPHER Richard Hanson is an Associate Professor at the University of Arizona where he heads the Musical Theatre program.  He has had the honor of having a University of Arizona Foundation Musical Theatre Endowment created in his name.  At the University of Arizona, he has directed and choreographed Chicago, Follies, Grease, South Pacific, Gypsy, Very Good Eddie, The Mystery Of Edwin Drood, Over Here, Quilters, The Boy Friend, Cabaret, Starting Here, Starting Now and Nine.  Other UA directorial credits are Othello, Caligula, Anatol and Present Laughter. He is also the director and choreographer of Encore, the UA musical group which is celebrating over 20 years of touring and outreach.  Regionally, he has directed Merrily We Roll Along, Peter Pan, Annie, Black Comedy, City Of Angels, The Sound of Music, The Odd Couple, The Nerd and Baby.  In Tucson, he has directed over 20 productions at The Gaslight Theatre which include Phantom Of the Opera, Treasure Island, The Three Muskateers and A Christmas Carol.  For Music Theatre Arizona, he directed Side By Side By Sondheim, Jerry’s Girls and Dames At Sea. This is his  fourth season with the Cripple Creek Players having directed My Partner, Under Two Flags and The Spoilers. Rocky Mountain Flyer is his 14th Mackin production!	MICKEY BURDICK PRODUCTION COORDINATOR FIGHT DIRECTOR Mickey  received his BFA from the University of Arizona in 2000, and has been acting out of New York for the last three years, while spending his summers in Colorado.   He has appeared with the Cripple Creek Players as Bert Cecil in Under Two Flags, and as Ned in My Partner.   For the last two years Mickey has been directing  Shakespeare in Cripple Creek as well, putting together both Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream.  Mickey Burdick is very happy to be returning to Cripple Creek for his fourth year.  He extends his thanks to the entire Mackin family, and his love to his fiancée, Marissa.
RENEE CLOUTIER COSTUME DESIGNER Renee is happy to return to Cripple Creek for her third show. She designed the Cripple Creek Christmas Carol, and co-designed last year’s summer show of The Spoilers. Renee hails from Tucson Arizona, where she has been employed for the past 19 years at the famous Gaslight Theatre. She has costumed many film and theatrical productions, and has a great passion doing it. Some of the work includes Brooks and Dunn music videos, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind  with George Clooney, and Arizona Theatre Company's Production of H.M.S. Pinafore.  Renee is very grateful to be working with the Mackins and such a fine group of cast and crew members again. She is also very excited to be returning to Cripple Creek, which she has grown very fond of in a short time. When not working on a show, Renee is busy studding Interior Design through Northern Arizona University, and is raising her three beautiful daughters. Most of the time she can be found writing checks behind her daughters at the closest Mall. So sit back, enjoy the show, and the wonderful hospitality of Cripple Creek!	PATRICIA GAWNE - COSTUME DESIGNER Patti is originally from Flint, Michigan, where she earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Clothing & Textiles for Michigan State University.  She’s been the Resident Costume Designer for the Gaslight Theatre in Tucson, Arizona for the past 24 years, as well as managing the Gaslight Costume Shoppe.  Patti keeps very busy with the two full-time jobs, being the mother of her 19-year-old son, Brian, who is the Assistant Stage Manager for the Gaslight Theatre, and she’s also proud to be an independent Beauty Consultant with Mary Kay Cosmetics.  Patti is pleased to be working with the Mackins for the second year designing costumes for the Cripple Creek Players.
TOM BENSON SCENIC DESIGNER AND ARTIST Tom is enjoying his 25th year as the resident scenic designer and artist for the Gaslight Theatre in Tucson, designing and painting five original musical melodramas each year.   He has designed and painted scenery for theatres from Vermont to southern California, including three seasons at the Utah Shakespearean Festival, and has taught theatre design at the University of Arizona and at Penn. State U.   He has also worked as a set designer on the films Posse, Tombstone, and Tank Girl.  Recent scenic design work includes; Jerry's Girls and Dames at Sea for Musical Theatre Arizona; Three Sisters, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Crimes of the Heart for the University of Arizona Repertory Theatre; The Wizard of OZ and Anything Goes for the Albuquerque Civic Light Opera / Music Theatre Southwest. Tom designed and painted sets for 13 productions with the Imperial Players and the first three seasons of the Cripple Creek Players, including The Spoilers in 2002, with a spectacular "train wreck". Tom last appeared onstage with the Imperial Players  in 1976 as "Green Jones" in The Ticket of Leave Man.	STACY MACKIN BUTTE OPERA  HOUSE MANAGER Stacy is one of the few true locals of Cripple Creek having been born and raised here.  She graduated from Colorado State University with a BA in Liberal Arts, and minors in anthropology and History.  Being a history person, she is pleased to be in Cripple Creek helping bring some of the history back to the small town, with the melodrama and other theatre throughout the year.  Stacy is the Butte Opera House Manager, working for the City of Cripple Creek.  Following in her grandmother's steps, Stacy directed Charlotte's Web for the CC-V High School Drama Class, and Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs of the Black Forest for the Butte Players. Stacy started the Butte Players two years ago as the Cripple Creek's area first community theatre group and was excited to start directing for them this past Spring and can't wait to see where they will go from here.  Her work at the Butte Opera House makes her the third generation of Mackins to do theatre in Cripple Creek.  Stacy wishes to thank her parents for their support and her grandparents for bringing melodrama to Cripple Creek 55 years ago. RUTH ZIRKLE  PUBLICITY  Ruth has been a Colorado resident since 1986 when she moved here to work as a journalist. Ruth fell in love with the mountains and the historic communities of Victor and Cripple Creek, especially Victor. She worked as the editor of the Ute Pass Courier and Gold Rush newspapers for nine years, attending and reviewing the Imperial Players productions. She lives in Victor, where she operates a marketing and internet web design business, producing such projects as cripplecreekplayers.com and this program. She is also a co-owner of a broadband internet service, and volunteers with the Victor Chamber of Commerce, Southern Teller County Focus Group and Gold Belt Byway Association. Ruth is happily married to Jon Zalewski, and together they enjoy hiking, traveling and restoring their 1899 Victor newspaper building. Ruth is proud to be a part of the Cripple Creek Players’ fourth season.
RICK KOEHN LIGHTING DIRECTOR This is Rick's fourth year with the Cripple Creek Players!  He is a certified concert lighting director with over twenty years in the business and also has an Associate's Degree in electronics.  Rick works for the City of Cripple Creek as the Butte Opera House Technician throughout the year where he runs lights, sound and the movie projector, and this year, designed the lights for the community theatre production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs of the Black Forest.  Rick has lived in Cripple Creek for ten years with his wife Michelle and two children.  ERIK MICHAEL  LIGHTING DESIGNER Erik currently attends the University of Arizona in Tucson. He is working towards his BFA in theatre production and design with an emphasis in lighting design.  In addition to working with the Arizona Repertory Theatre at U of A, he has worked with various theatre companies throughout Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona.  He has designed lighting for Les Miserables , Parade, The Philadelphia Story, and Guys and Dolls in the Phoenix area.   Most recently, Erik designed Starting Here, Starting Now at U of A which was directed by Dick Hanson.	ROB STEVENS  TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Just recently released from a Turkish labor prison, our flat busting hero is back again displaying a tremendous immunity to both curry and sleep!  This show found Rob battling his arch nemesis, the omniscient knotty pine and the ever wily Douglas fir.  Not to mention Rob's unusual methods of craftsmanship such as cutting his tape measure in half, stapling scenery to his work bench, chasing his truck down the alleyway and pouring huge loads of finished flats all over Carr Street!  With only one station coming in on his trusty radio, Rob's been jammin' to the Oldies behind Wayne's garage while squinting through a plume of sawdust that eventually grew so large, it launched a full scale campaign against Victor.  Rob seems to love Cripple Creek so we asked him what brought him back for his third season - "It's like building a show in a shoe box on the moon, only windier!". Special Thanks To:  Extra Special Thanks to Ace Hardware, Ed Libby and the Woods Family for donating all the paint for the sets. Charlotte Cox for all her help with costumes and she also has the difficult task of maintaining the costumes throughout the summer season and does a wonderful job. Sally Riker, Gari Lu Schwab and Mary Ann Trombino for helping with costumes. Dixie Clare long time friend and artist for her help with painting the sets.  And to Terry Smith, Sound Man, for a great job once again this year. Also to David Cillo for his support and assistance. And to Casino Cuts, located next door above the Horseshoe Saloon, for the maintenance of the wigs. To the Imperial Casino Hotel and Mr. Bob Brooker for assistance with costumes and props. Thanks to Jan MacKell for her help and support