Irving Berlin's White Christmas |
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Based upon the Paramount Pictures Film | ||
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at Taylorsville High School | ||
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David Ives & Paul Blake |
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Taylorsville High School Performing Arts | ||
Director’s Note
In 1954, Hollywood brought us a redo of an earlier mashup of Irving Berlin’s greatest hits (Holiday Inn). Bing Crosby was back again, but this time, instead of Fred Astaire’s humble charm, Bing was paired with the boyish comic energy of Danny Kaye, and the sultry and sassy combination of Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen, both immensely great performers.
It’s a classic film, awash in nostalgia and romance, laughs and sighs. For many, White Christmas remains a tried-and-true holiday tradition, the exact right thing to watch with a snuggly blanket, Christmas cookies, and hot cocoa. (With marshmallows, of course!) Turning it into a stage musical seemed like an obvious choice.
The past 20 months have been a struggle for us all. As our communities across the country re-learn what it means to be our brothers’ keepers, the sentiments of this show ring true: count your blessings, sing and be happy, and love as deeply and joyfully as you can. And if a piano or a tap dance cross your path on the way, so much the better. Happy Holidays!
- Cameron Garner
Who's Who
Cast
Creative Team
Cameron Garner
Leah Tarrant
Katherine Call/Nick Crapo
Gary Jensen
Ariana Garcia/Jami Stensrud
Esther Lemon/Brandon Sorensen
Sophia Baldridge
Jensen Edmunds
Emma Brown
Corben Cox
Marina de Souza
Samantha Harvey/Taylor Benson
Marina de Souza
Connor Blackthorn/James Mills/Olivia Mitchell/Natalie Young
Taylor Hogue/Diego Leon/Zed Webb
Jase Owens/Gwen Rail/Tasia Roberts/Brie Sandage/David Tra
Sam Stromberg
Johnny Giang
Kade Gledhill/Isabelle Miceli
Jennifer Ong
George Timpson/Jared Jensen
Phoenix Moore
Emma Powers
Courtney Glad/Alexia Shaw
Tucker Crapo/Corbin Carpenter/Lauren Edwards/Parker Sudweeks/Wilson Harding
Leena Bath/Reegan Hansen
Kaia Hospodarsky
Ian Oliver
Jace Minchey
Kyron Richards
Karoun Arslanian
Meet the Company
Brandon Sorensen
This is Brandon’s 7th musical. You may recognize him as “Uncle Fester” in Addams Family from last year. Also, Coach Bolton form HSM, King from Cinderella, and numerous other roles. Brandon has also been a Madrigals here for 2 years. “It’s been a good 6 years, and I can’t think of a better show to be my last.” Brandon is a senior this year and has filled his schedule to the brim. From Choir, Clubs, leadership positions, city positions, and more, there is always something going on in his life. He strives to make others laugh and bring joy to those around him. “ What’s life without a little laughter.” He would like to thank his family for always supporting him and pushing him for success.
Carter Chatelain
Carter loves singing, dancing and performing for an audience! He last appeared on stage in 'The Little Mermaid' for the Murray Outdoor Amphitheater. He also performed as The Baker in Riverview Jr High School's performance of 'Into The Woods Jr.' His other passions are playing the piano and playing soccer. He feels blessed to play the role of Phil Davis because White Christmas has been a family favorite since before he was born. He is so grateful to his family and friends for always supporting him as he grows in the theater
Sarah Sanchez
This is Sarah’s 7th theater production since she started in 7th grade. She’s had a love for all things involving the creative arts since she watched her siblings perform on stage whether it was for choir or theater. Her favorite roles have been Wednesday in Addams Family and Gabriella in High School Musical. It’s been an amazing six years and she’s grateful for all the memories she’s made!
Emma Brown
Emma loves to perform and is so excited to be in this show! Her favorite musical that she has been in was Addams Family from last year, Les Miserables, and Mary Poppins, but her new one is now White Christmas! Emma loves to sing, dance, and act, and one of her favorite things is performing!
Wesley Hardy
This is Wesley's second musical. He has grown up with musicals all his life and has a deep love for them. Musicals from the 50s, 60s, and 70s are his favorite so this was right up his alley. Wesley would like to thank his mom for putting up with him frequently coming home after dinner.
Sophie Baldridge
White Christmas is Sophie’s 2nd Taylorsville production and her 5th production overall. She loves preforming and can’t wait for more! She would like to thank everyone who helped her along her experience in performing.
Addison Smith
This is Addison’s 6th production! She was first introduced to theatre in 7th grade and immediately knew it was a passion of hers! Ever since, she has been apart of her Jr. High and High School productions of plays and musicals; musicals and comedy’s being her favorite type! She has also performed in region and state drama competition, and is a member of Concert Choir and Graces. Some of her favorite roles include Fiona in “Shrek”, Mindy in “Bedtime Stories”, and her new favorite, as her current role, Susan in “White Christmas”!
Madison Stensrud
Madison has been performing most of her life, and while this is her 5th show here at Taylorsville, it is her 26th show overall! She loves being involved as the Theatre Recognition Officer, a member of Graces and Concert Choir, and on the Drill Team. Her favorite roles have been Belle in “Beauty and the Beast”, Mrs. Banks in “Mary Poppins”, and The Sour Kangaroo in “Seussical the Musical”. "Thank you to my amazing family and friends for making life so fun and exciting. And a big thanks to my mom, for always supporting me in everything I do."
Abbie Walker
Abbie is a Junior and this is her second musical at Tville. She absolutely loves to sing and is in Graces and Concert Choir here at the high school. In her free time she loves to play the piano and ukulele, babysit, and karaoke. She has been in 15 shows with some of her favorite parts being Annie in "Annie", Mushu in "Mulan" and Mrs. Mayor in Suessical. "Thank you to my parents for supporting me through all the late nights, and to my friends for sharing this experience with me! I hope you enjoy the show!"
Caleb Booth
Caleb has been passionately involved in the arts specifically choral, visual, theatrical, and orchestral arts since he was a child. He has been in many musicals and plays in his life including several different drama clubs as well, from Shakespeare to Disney and everything in between. He has played lead roles in several plays and musicals and enjoys everything about theatre, especially musical theatre. In his spare time he enjoys being a part of madrigals and refining his piano and oboe skills. He loves to meet new people and make new friends.
Jacob Lee
This is Jacob's first musical performance. He is excited to be apart of this and is glad he received the opportunity to play a part of this musical. He has enjoyed his time being apart of the cast and experiencing theater for the first time.
Gabriela Lara
This is her 5th musical performance and first named role. Her favorite role was an ancestor in last years production of Addams Family. She is so excited to be apart of this years production! Merry (early) Christmas everyone!
Nathanael Jones
Nathanael Jones has starred in two shows. He has starred as Lord Farquaad in Shrek Jr. at Valley Jr. High, and as Pugsley in Taylorsville's Addams Family play last year. He is very excited to star as Mike (and a few ensemble) in White Christmas this year. He loves acting and has been considered very talented at it. He has had two older siblings in Taylorsville before him and has learned plenty from their acting in plays.
Avery Hasler
Avery has been doing shows for about five years now. She loves singing, dancing and performing. It’s been a while since she has been in a show and she is so happy to be back!
Brigham Dalton
This is Brigham first Taylorsville production and he is excited to be in it. “LET’S GOOOOOO!!!”
Shey Rico
Shey (ShelaMay) has been in previous shows such as: Adams Family where she played the role of Grandma. Shey is very excited to be Mrs. Snoringman and is really glad that she get to perform for her senior year!
K Nelson
K is super excited to play Jimmy in this production of White Christmas. This is K's 8th production at Taylorsville High School and their 17th show overall. They have had so much fun watching this show come to life and they hope you enjoy!
Paige Sutherland
Paige has been doing theatre since she was 8 years old. Her favorite roles include Teen Fiona in Shrek the Musical, Gabriella in High School Musical, and Flounder in the Little Mermaid. She is so excited to be doing White Christmas this year and hopes you enjoy the show!
Abbie Andersen
Abbie is so excited for her senior musical! She has been doing theatre since seventh grade and has LOVED it. Some of her favorite roles have been an ancestor in last years The Addams Family, Alice Kinnian in Flowers for Algernon, and Ursula in Much Ado About Nothing. She would like to thank her parents for putting up with her busy schedule and, hope everyone enjoys the show!
Gracie Kamp
Gracie is so excited to be in her first high school production this year! She is a sophomore and has performed in productions of “Shrek” as Young Fiona, “High School Musical on Stage” as Kelsi Nielson, “Into the Woods Jr. scenes” as Cinderella, and others. She’s so happy to be here at Taylorsville, and cant wait to do more with this amazing theater department.
Kirsten DeGraffenreid
Kirsten DeGraffenried loves theater. She began participating in theater productions in gradeschool where she played Kate the Curst in “A Taste of Shakespeare”. She continued to participate in various musicals throughout gradeschool and junior high and is thrilled to be able to be a part of Taylorsville’s theater program in the musical “White Christmas”.
Preston Cox
This is Preston’s third show here at Tville as he was in the orchestral pit for Addams family and played Michael in Mockingbird. He’s excited for you to see White Christmas and hope you’re ready for some early Christmas cheer!
Anthony Lofthouse
Gideon Lemon
Maya Albornoz
This is Maya’s first show at Taylorsville High School. She is very excited for everyone to see the show. She says thank you to all her friends and family. Maya’s very first big role was Moana. She loves doing meeting new people in shows and she hopes you enjoy the show!
Ali Alhamdani
Ali likes doing theatre, but when he's not doing theatre, he likes to spend his time playing video games. If he's not doing either of those, then he's probably sleeping.
Owen Andersen
Owen Anderson has been in three shows and has stayed optimistic even though never getting a lead. He always says “if you feel stupid you’re doing it right”.
Roland Bawden
Roland has been in 4 performances as a giraffe, a doll, a principal, and Mr potato head. And he wishes you a great show.
Carrie Benson
Erin Black
This is Erin’s first year at Taylorsville High School and she is so thrilled to be a part of this performance of White Christmas. She has a strong passion for theater and loves to perform onstage. She and everyone else involved in the production have worked so hard to make White Christmas a success and she hopes you enjoy the show!
Medley Booth
Medley has always loved the thrill of performing. She enjoys singing and acting and has been in many plays, musicals and drama clubs. She has always jumped at the opportunity to tryout for different performances but this year's musical and cast has been one of her favorites. She has been able to meet so many amazing new people and learn different ways to improve her skills. Hopefully, everyone will be able to enjoy the performances as much as she does!
Noah Brown
Noah is exited for the show, his favorite show he’s been is is Shrek, Seussical and Peter Pan. I like to perform:)
Izzy Carr
Izzy is so excited to be acting again! Her favorite musicals that she has been in are Sister Act as a News reporter, and Beauty and the Beast as Mrs.Potts. She is so excited to show you the true meaning of Christmas spirit! She would like to thank her parents and friends for supporting her throughout this whole process. Enjoy the show!
Davin Christensen
Grace Dalton
This is Grace’s first show at Taylorsville High School. She has been in 9 shows throughout her life including Katherine in ‘Freaky Friday’ and Atropos in ‘Ways End’. Grace would love to thank all those who supported her though this process. She loves singing and performing and hopes you enjoy the show!
Sarah Darby
Jensen Edmunds
Eliza Gabbitas
Eliza is so excited to be in her first show at Taylorsville High! She loves to sing and dance and share her talents through performing. Some of her favorite past roles include Clara in "The Nutcracker", Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz" and JoJo in "Seussical Jr." She is thrilled to be able to share the Christmas spirit with you in this production!
Deja Gittins
This is Deja’s second musical. She was in the musical Adams Family last year. Deja has enjoyed branching out. Her interest in musical was all the dancing sense, she also is participating in Dance Company. This year Deja is Assistant Director of Dance Company and loves using her dance experience in the musical. The musical has been a fun way for Deja to express her self and push herself in many different ways. White Christmas has been a really fun experience for Deja and she hopes you enjoy it as much as she does.
Kalena Hansen
This is her very first musical and she wanted to say she has enjoyed every moment of every day with all of these beautiful people! She says thank you to all of the amazing people who've helped her through the process!
Kendra Harvey
Kendra loves performing and being in plays! Being in theater 4 she would like to think she's good at it too. She hopes you have as much fun watching the play as she has had being in it.
Lilly Johnson
This will be Lilly's 4th show in musical theatre. She loves the theatre and loves to sing and dance and experience the thrill of the audience cheering for the performance. Lilly is also a very bubbly, cheerful, optimistic person, which is why she loves the theatre.
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson is super excited to be in the musical this year. It’s been an amazing experience thus far. He has been in theatre for 4 years now, and has had the opportunity to be both performing and stage crew in a number of shows.
Tanner Larsen
Alivia Ledward
This is Alivia's seventh production that she's been apart of, but her first ever at Taylorsville High school. She's ecstatic to be apart of the amazing White Christmas cast for this year. Her favorite roles of the past have been Ms. Meyers in Freaky Friday and Queen of Hearts in Way's End.
Gabriella Lynes
This is Gabys first Taylorsville high performance. She is really excited that you came to support the show. She has worked really hard spending a lot of time on the musical and is excited to preform the tap parts of the performance because it is her favorite parts of the show. Anyway Gaby hopes you enjoy the show!
Zoe Madrid
This is Zoe Madrid’s first show at Taylorsville High. She has been in 4 performances previously and has loved it. Something that she adores is go on stage and project out a line for everyone to hear. She wants to thank you so much for supporting the performing arts at our school and hopes this show make you holly and jolly.
Kalie Manning
This is Kalie's first musical production here at Taylorsville. Kalie loves to Sing she has previously been in the musical Bed Time Storys at Bennion jr high, playing the role of the sneezy princess. She has also been in a singing and dancing group called Clayton Productions for 13 years. She looks forward to continuing to share the magic of music with all who come her way.
Jenna Marchant
Jenna is a junior here at Taylorsville. This is her second show here and is excited for what’s to come! She did this show mainly for the dancing and enjoyes it. Jenna also wanted to say a thank you to everyone who worked so hard to create a beautiful show. She truly enjoys the art of performing and finding ways to touch people’s hearts!
Miranda Marchant
Miranda is a sophomore and was in beauty and the beast elf and Mrs Darbus in high school musical she loves theater and dance and is so excited for this show
Elijah Nicoll
This is Elijah Nicoll's first musical in highschool. He has done other musicals in the past, his favorite musical was lion king, he was a hyena. He has liked how smooth the process of this musical has been. He has liked how the rehearsals have been fun, and how we make a lot of progress in the time we have.
Kayla Nicoll
Madison (Maddie) Patey
This is Maddie’s first show at Taylorsville High School and she is very excited. She has done theatre throughout all of Jr. High and absolutely loves it. Her favorite productions/roles were Zazu in “The Lion King.” And Torrey in “Freaky Friday.”She loves to sing, act, and dance so much. She would like to thank all of the people who are in this show and her friends & family. She is so excited and honored to have been a part and share with you this amazing show!
Zoe Pearson
Zoe loves to be on stage! She’s only been in two musicals her entire life but she’s always loved it. Her favorite one she was in was White Christmas. She’s made so many friends and feels like she belongs here. She’s so excited to be able to perform again. This whole experience has been wonderful, and she can’t wait for more shows in the future!
Audrey Pitts
Marisol Rocha
Marisol Rayna Rocha, would like to personally thank you for coming to see White Christmas! Doing theatre for four years now, White Christmas will be her fifth production here at Taylorsville, and her twelfth show overall. While she is deeply passionate about acting, she is also proud to be Junior Class President and a Theatre Officer here at T-Ville. She would like to thank her fellow Theatre and Junior Class officers, family members, amazingly supportive friends, and especially her spectacular mother for all the love and support. Carpe Diem.
Xander Stensrud
Xander is a freshman and is excited to be in his second show here at Taylorsville High School. One of his favorite roles in the past has been Colin Craven in The Secret Garden. He would like to thank the amazing cast he has worked with over these past few months, and family for supporting him. Finally, he hopes you enjoy the show!
Ahna Stott
This is Ahna's first show at Taylorsville and she is super excited to perform! She loves to sing and act and performing is one of her favorite things! She has been in 5 shows before in her career. She is grateful for all of the help she has recived!
Brynna Tuttle
Brynna has been singing and been partaking in musicals since she was in 4th grade, when she started doing Truman Voices! She has played in multiple musicals! Starting with Seussical the musical Jr.playing as a who with Taylorsville Art Council, The little Mermaid playing Ariel at Truman Elementary, Shrek the musical Jr. playing as Happy the Dwarf at Bennion Junior High, Freaky Friday playing Ensemble at Eiesenhower Junior High, and now White Christmas! She is so excited to finally be preforming on this particular stage because she wants to follow in her biggest sisters footsteps!
Ratanak Ung
This is Ratanak’s second musical. His first musical was last year, but he has been performing on stage for six years now. Ratanak is super excited for this production. He understands that the process is tiring, but is all worth it at the end. He wants to thank all of his family, friends, and “definitely the directors”, for changing him as a performer, and as a person. He hopes you enjoy the show, and that all of the hard work pays and shows off.
Kathryn Whitlock
Katie has been in 4 musicals and 2 plays in her acting career, this being her first here at Taylorsville. Her favorite roles have been Sarabi in The Lion King and Ellie in Freaky Friday. She is looking forward to being in a million more in her lifetime. Acting has brought her to life and she hope you all enjoy the show!
Whitney Yardley
Whitney loves dance and theatre. This will be the 5th musical she has ever done.
Christina Young
Christina is in her first show here at Taylorsville High school. She has been in a few musicals, The Lion King and Cinderella have been the best experiences for her. She is very excited for you all to see the show, and hope you enjoy!
Cameron Garner
Leah Tarrant
Katherine Call/Nick Crapo
Gary Jensen
Ariana Garcia/Jami Stensrud
Esther Lemon/Brandon Sorensen
Sophia Baldridge
Jensen Edmunds
Emma Brown
Corben Cox
Marina de Souza
Samantha Harvey/Taylor Benson
Marina de Souza
Connor Blackthorn/James Mills/Olivia Mitchell/Natalie Young
Taylor Hogue/Diego Leon/Zed Webb
Jase Owens/Gwen Rail/Tasia Roberts/Brie Sandage/David Tra
Sam Stromberg
Johnny Giang
Karoun Arslanian
Kyron Richards
Jace Minchey
Ian Oliver
Kaia Hospodarsky
Leena Bath/Reegan Hansen
Tucker Crapo/Corbin Carpenter/Lauren Edwards/Parker Sudweeks/Wilson Harding
Courtney Glad/Alexia Shaw
Emma Powers
Phoenix Moore
George Timpson/Jared Jensen
Jennifer Ong
Kade Gledhill/Isabelle Miceli
Special Thanks
THS Administration: Emme Liddell, Brian Murray, Jami Hutchins, Jordan Kjar, and Kelli Miller
THS Bookeepers: Lafo Tonga and Leisl Leystra
Centerpoint Legacy Theatre
Weber High School
Fremont High School
Farmington High School
Olympus High School
Tiffany and Michael Brown
Kelly and Jodi Etherington
Barney Boynton and Katie Andersen
Byron and Heather Johnson
Paul and Teresa Edmunds
Brandon and Michelle Benson
Natasha Kunzler
…and a zillion more parents, siblings, grandparents, and friends who helped us so very much with this enormous undertaking.
Thank you all for your patience, flexibility, forgiveness, and support.