The New Paradigm Theatre CompanyArtistic Director, Kristin Huffman

PRESENTS

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MUSIC, LYRICS AND BOOK BY LIONEL BART LICENSED BY ARRANGEMENT WITH OLIVER PRODUCTIONS, LTD.

AND OLIVER PROMOTIONS, LTD.

Starring Paul Bogaev as “Fagin” and *Gina Naomi Baez as “Nancy”

Introducing Ajibola Hakeem Tajudeen (Keeme) as “Oliver” and Jennifer Beveridge as “Artful Dodger”

Also starring Mark Smith as “Bill Sikes” Lorah Haskins, Mark Holleran, Denise Johnson, Duane Lanham

With Katherine Griffin, Rodney Moore, Elizabeth Litchfield, Shay LaRusso, Faith Fernandez, Jim Nassef, Paul Litchfield, James Fisher, Quinn Fitzgerald, Jimi Wright

Directed by: Scott Bryce Musical direction and arranger: Paul Bogaev Choreographer: Maria Cherniscke

*Actor’s Equity Association member

Stage Management: Costume Design: Props Jacquelyn Quinn Vaughn Sims Robin Fitzgerald J. Atwood Foundation

Orchestra Piano and additional arrangements- Chris Coogan Drums- Gabe Nappi, Bass- Nick Trautmann, Eng Horn, Sax, Oboe- Greg Schaefer (arranging associate), Flute- Kristin Huffman

New Paradigm Theatre is a 501(c)3 performing arts organization

Youth Ensemble Jaiden Jackson, Aytza Pacheco, Jasiah Williams, Katie Semple, Hope Sanders, Scarlet Tanzer, Charlotte Horton, Lindsey Mohammed, Kate Horton, Clara Horton, Sienna Rubin, Charlie Fisher, Maggie Vargas, James Fisher

Lights and Sound Dramaturge Technical “Set” projections Fairfield Theatre co. Elena Kemper Ryan O’Hagan Henry Fisher

Oliver CastWIDOW CORNEY............................................ Denise Michelle JohnsonFAGIN.........................................................................................Paul BogaevOLIVER...............................................Ajibola Hakeem Tajudeen (Keeme)ARTFUL DODGER.......................................................Jennifer BeveridgeBILL SYKES................................................................................ Mark SmithNANCY............................................................................. Gina Naomi BaezMR. SOWERBERRY............................................................ Mark HolleranMRS. SOWERBERRY.......................................................... Lorah HaskinsCHARLOTTE....................................................................Katherine GriffinNOAH............................................................................... Quinn FitzgeraldMR. BUMBLE......................................................................Duane LanhamMR. BROWNLOW.............................................................. Rodney MooreMRS BEDWIN............................................................. Elizabeth Litchfield

OLD SALLY.............................................................................Lorah HaskinsOLDLADY............................................................................... Shay LaRussoBET....................................................................................... Faith FernandesDR GRIMWIG............................................................................ Jim NassefCHARLIE BATES..................................................................Paul LitchfieldBULLDOG.................................................................................James FisherROSE SELLER.........................................................................Shay LaRussoSTRAWBERRY SELLER...................................................Katherine GriffinMILK MAID...........................................................................Lorah HaskinsKNIFE SELLERS..................................Jimi Wright and Quinn FitzgeraldFEMALE SWING....................................................................Shay LaRussoOLIVER UNDERSTUDY......................................................Charlie Fisher

Youth EnsembleJaiden Jackson, Aytza Pacheco, Jasiah Williams, Katie Semple, Hope Sanders, Scarlet Tanzer, Charlotte

Horton, Lindsey Mohammed, Kate Horton, Clara Horton, Sienna Rubin, Charlie Fisher, Maggie Vargas,James Fisher,Katherine Griffin, Shay LaRusso, Paul Litchfield, James Fisher, Quinn Fitzgerald, Jimi

Wright

Musical NumbersAct I• "Food, Glorious Food" – Work House Boys• "Oliver!" – Mr. Bumble, Widow Corney and The Governors• "I Shall Scream" – Mr. Bumble and Widow Corney• "Boy for Sale" – Mr. Bumble• "That's Your Funeral" Mr. Sowerberry, Mrs. Sowerberry, and Mr. Bumble• "Where Is Love?" – Oliver• "Consider Yourself " – The Artful Dodger, Oliver, and Chorus• "You've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two" – Fagin and Fagin's Gang• "It's a Fine Life" – Nancy, Bet, and Fagin's Gang• "I'd Do Anything" – The Artful Dodger, Nancy, Oliver, Bet, Fagin, and Fagin's Gang• "Be Back Soon" – Fagin, The Artful Dodger, Oliver and Fagin's Gang

Act II• "Oom-Pah-Pah" – Nancy and Chorus• "My Name" – Bill Sikes• "As Long as He Needs Me" – Nancy• "Where Is Love?" (Reprise) – Mrs. Bedwin• "Who Will Buy?" – Oliver, Vendors, and Chorus• "It's a Fine Life" (Reprise) – Bill Sikes, Nancy, Fagin, and The Artful Dodger• "Reviewing the Situation" – Fagin• "Oliver!" (Reprise) – Mr. Bumble and Widow Corney• "As Long As He Needs Me" (Reprise) – Nancy• "Reviewing the Situation" (Reprise) – Fagin• Finale– Company

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Did you know? Oliver Twist: Dickens was very concerned with showing just how miserable the lower classes really were in 19th Century London. With Oliver Twist, he depicts the conditions of the poor in all their misery with gritty realism

Oliver Reinvented: Bridgeport’s median household income= $34,658 In 2012, 37% of Bridgeport children under 18 lived below the poverty level.Fairfield’s median household income is $117,705. As of 2012, only 2.8% of Fairfield children under 18 live below the poverty level.

Oliver rehearsals

MEET THE DIRECTOR- SCOTT BRYCE: has appeared on Broadway, off Broadway and in regional theatre. On television, he was twice nominated for a Best Actor Daytime Emmy award for his work on As the World Turns. He starred with Drew Barrymore and Jennifer Beals in the Joel Schumacher di-rected series 2000 Malibu Road. He has guest starred in dozens of TV series including: ER, Reba, and Sex in the City. He has played supporting roles in films such as, Above Freezing, Ghost Dog, Lethal Weapon 3, and Up Close and Personal with Robert Redford and Michelle Pfeiffer. Scott was also series regular Mike McQueen on WB’s Popular.

Recently he has guest starred on Law and Order SVU, Gossip Girl, 30 Rock, and Person of Interest, He recurred as Major Tom Foster on the Showtime hit “Homeland”, played sociopath CEO Frank Drexler on the mid season series, “Deception” for NBC, and just a few weeks ago he guest starred as Dr. Alex Gardner on “Blue Bloods” for CBS. He is producing the play “Small World” by Fred Stroppel in which he also stars as Walt Disney which will next be at The White Heron Theater in Nantucket this July. Behind the camera, Bryce has produced and directed commercials for Addidas, Sign story, CBS Outer Net, and Best Buy.”. He has created and directed special effects for Master Foods and U.S. Surgical. Scott co- produced Frederick Douglass-From Slavery to Freedom, And produced and directed 2 films, ‘Elsiha Stockwell” and “Sybil Ludington” for the Young American Heroes series for Public Television. A graduate of Staples High School in Westport and currently a resident of Weston, has had an extensive acting career on stage, television and film.

Stage rehearsals with Emmy nominee and director Scott Bryce

MEET THE MUSIC DIRECTOR/ARRANGER- PAUL BOGAEV : is a music director-producer, arranger and composer. He super-vised and conducted the music for the Academy Award winning film CHICAGO and was Executive Producer of its GRAMMY Award winning soundtrack. He won his first GRAMMY for arranging, or-chestrating, underscore composing, and producing the music for Elton John and Tim Rice’s AIDA on Broadway. AIDA also won the TONY Award for Best Score. Paul’s other Broadway Credits include TARZAN (as Music Producer), Spiderman (musical producer) BOMBAY DREAMS (Music Supervi-sor and TONY-nominated Orchestrator), and as Music Director, SUNSET BOULEVARD, LES MIS-ERABLES, CATS, ASPECTS OF LOVE, CHESS, and STARLIGHT EXPRESS. He also wrote and pro-duced songs for a stage production of THE THREE MUSKETEERS which recently ran for four years in Europe . His other feature film credits include DREAMGIRLS, ACROSS THE UNIVERSE, CONNIE AND CARLA, and the animated DISNEY films, LION KING, TARZAN, MULAN, and THE EM-PEROR’S NEW GROOVE. For ABC Television, Mr. Bogaev was Music Director for CINDERELLA, SOUTH PACIFIC, and ANNIE (EMMY AWARD). As a Conductor, he directed the music for Francis Coppola’s presentation of the silent movie epic NAPOLEON with symphony orchestras all throughout the world. He also conducted Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman in the concert THE MUSIC OF ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER and Barbra Streisand’s recording, HIGHER GROUND. Mr. Bogaev has also worked with Phil Collins, Sting, Toni Braxton, Brandy, Whitney Houston, Richard Gere, Whoopi Goldberg, Glenn Close, Hugh Jackman, Renee Zellweger, Catherine Zeta Jones, Queen Latifah, Jenni-fer Hudson, Eddie Murphy, Jamie Foxx, Beyonce Knowles, Kathy Bates, Drew Barrymore, Liam Nee-son, Michael Bolton, Harry Connick, Jr., and most recently recorded the soundtrack for the new movie musical NINE with Daniel Day-Lewis, Sophia Loren, Dame Judi Dench, Nicole Kidman, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Kate Hudson, and Fergie. Mr. Bogaev studied at Cornell University and the Juilliard School . He was born in Philadelphia and educated at The Haverford School where he received the Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2003.

Musical Rehearsal with Emmy and Grammy winner Paul Bogaev

MEET THE Choreographer- Maria Cherniske: was born and raised in Connecticut where she took her first class at the age of three. Since then, her passion for the arts has continued to flourish. In addition to being a performer, Maria has taught dance to students of all ages for the past thirteen years and is a coach for competitive level gymnastics. Maria was a competitive gymnast trained by 2004 Olympic coach Alan Hatch and 2004 two-time Olympic silver medalist Annia Hatch. Following college, Maria continued her dance education at the Broadway Dance Center in New York. She trained under Rhapsody James in the 2012 winter session of Motivating Excellence. She is also a member of New York based dance companies Jamie J & Co and Humans Collective. Maria has worked with chore-ographers such as Lisette Bustamante, James Jackson Jr, Dana Foglia, Rhapsody James, Luam Keflezgy, Kelly Peters, Derek Mitchell and Tanisha Scott. She has performed at Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall in an ad for Rocawear clothing, with super model Coco Rocha at NYC’s Fashion’s Night Out, on national television with Icona Pop and in a national commercial for the Wendy Williams show.  She was also recently a principal in a commercial for Affinity Bank. In addition, Maria has done work for Nike and Adidas. She appeared in Music Videos with popular up and coming artists and performed live with artists Matt Hunter, Carey Nokey, and L Michelle. Most recently, Maria was the assistant choreographer for Rob Thomas’ music video “I Trust You.” Maria travels internationally to teach acro/tumbling and dance. In 2012 she was selected to be a mentor for the program Creating Opportunities (www.creatingopps.com) developed by world-renowned choreographers Lisette Bustamante and Chonique Sneed. Since 2012 she has been an adjunct professor in the Performing Arts Department at Sacred Heart University. Maria is dedicated to perfecting her art and the love of performance. She believes that dance is the universal language and enjoys getting to know others and helping people get to know her through dance.

www.MariaCherniskeDance.com

Did you know? Oliver Twist: Dickens wanted to show how criminals really lived, in order to discourage poor people from turning to crime. He also wanted to show how external influences created criminal behavior as much or more than natural criminal urges.

Oliver Reinvented: Bridgeport, Connecticut, violent crime, on a scale from 1 (low crime) to 100, is 81. Violent crime is composed of four offenses: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated as-sault. The US average is 41.4.- www.bestplaces.net

Keeme (oliver) and Jen (dodger) in rehearsal

MEET THE Artistic director- Kristin huffman: appeared in the Tony award win-ning Broadway musical by Stephen Sondheim-”Company”. It also won a Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Drama League Awards for Best Re-vival of a Musical in which she played the leading role of “Sarah” as well as flute, sax and piccolo. The production was filmed and aired on PBS’s Great Performances. She has a career that has spanned over 20 years profession-ally performing with operas, theatres, symphonies around the US and she played “Christine” in the European tour of Phantom. Kristin is the Found-er and Producing Artistic director of The New Paradigm Theatre (NPT), a professional non profit (501c3) theatre company, whose mission is to foster creative problem solvers, leaders, and global citizens through theatre arts education and productions. As a former Miss Ohio/Runner-up Miss Amer-ica she continues hosting and producing charity events for NPT that fea-ture her favorite Broadway, Film and TV colleagues often in combination with the NPT Youth Board of directors. She is a professor at the University of Hartford and trains singer/actors for a life “on the wicked stage”. She is a member of Actors Equity Association (AEA), Screen Actors Guild (SAG/AFTRA) and she frequently judges international choir competitions in the US and Canada.She graduated Summa Cum Laude from both Capital University Conservatory of Music BM (Music ed: flute and voice concentration) and Northwestern University (Masters of Music- Opera)

www.nptheatre.org www.kristinhuffman.com

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Soup kitchen volunteering

A cornerstone of New Paradigm Theatre

We work hand in hand with the Council of Churches of Greater Bridgeport to give back to the community

Volunteers welcome, leaders encouraged

New paradigm theatre’s board of driectors

Andrew Reimann(Finance Committee)

Scott BryceActors Equity AssociationScreen Actor’s Guild/AFTRABoard of Advisors -Summer Theatre of New CannanBoard of Advisors -White Heron Theatre and the Nantucket Theatre Institute(Programming committee)

Lynn Vetare CPA - TreasurerMartin DeCruze and Co(Finance Committee)

Louis Benedetto - SecretaryBoard member: Habitat for Humanity(Governance Committee)

Mark Holleran - Board President(Programming Committee)

Kristin Huffman (ex officio)Actors Equity AssociationScreen Actor’s Guild/AFTRA(Programming Committee)

New paradigm theatre’s YOUTH board of driectors

Katherine Griffin -NPT Youth President and Board Recruitment Committee

Elena Kemper - NPT Youth Secretary and Programming Committee

Dominic Pagliaro - NPT Vice President and Head of Board Recruitment Committee

Marie Fulda - NPT Youth Treasurer

Julia Levine - Head of the Programming CommitteeJames Wright - Board Recruitment committee/Blog

Michelle Levine - Programming committeeAndrea Alicea - Head of Marketing Committee

Allyson Voytek - Programming CommitteeSarah Kulaga

Talia HankinSophia Santos

Partner Nonprofits

PleasePlease stay in your seats and join us for a discussion lead by Executive Director

Cass Shaw of the Council of Churches of Greater Bridepgort directly after the show.

This 75 year old non profit serves the Bridgeport area with Soup Kitchens, Pan-try, Clothing closets and much more! NPT is proud to be a partner non profit to support the work that this important non profit does and we encourage you to stay in between shows on Saturday, and after the show on Sunday for a 10

minute conversation led by Cass Shaw.

Art top row, left to right: Rick Shaefer, Yolanda Vasquez Petrooell, Rick Reyes. Center row: Lisle Orjuela, Karen Lopreto. Bottom row: Alicia Cobb.

Did you know? Oliver Twist: As Dickens observed the unequal distribution of wealth was understood to demonstrate character and to reflect the dispensation of Providence. Those who fell into poverty or were born into it, like the novel’s hero, clearly lacked moral fiber, and were prone to laziness and in-gratitude.

Oliver Reinvented: Connecticut’s 4th Congressional district, centered in Fairfield County, has been ranked as the district with the 4th highest level income inequity in the nation.

Oliver rehearsals

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Oliver rehearsals

Silver SPONSORs

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Did you know? Oliver Twist: There is preoccupation with the miseries of poverty and the spread of its degrading effects through society. With poverty comes hunger, another theme that is raised throughout the book, along with Dicken’s notion that a misguided approach to the issues of poverty and homelessness brings many evils in its wake.

Oliver Reinvented: On any given night, over 1,000 people are homeless on the streets of Bridgeport, Norwalk and Stamford, and there are more than 200 homeless people in Bridgeport’s downtown area.

THANK YOUFor our Body mics

In phase audio,Mr. Peter Randazzo,

Sound associatesAnd

THANK YOUFor our rehearsal space

SALEM lutheran churchand

Greenfield hill church