jul 11 - jul 23

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Patricia Richardson (Mrs. Robinson) received her Actors’ Equity card from Arthur Laurents on her first audition in New York for Gypsy with Angela Lansbury, understudying the title role and playing various parts including a Chinese waitress. She soon ended her understudying career by covering all three parts in Vanities by fellow SMU graduate Jack Hefner, and played Joanne in the First National company. On Broadway she also created roles in Michael Weller’s Loose Ends, and in Beth Henley’s The Wake of Jamie Foster, and Off–Broadway created the role of Elaine in Beth Henley’s The Miss Firecracker Contest. She worked frequently in those days at the Playwrights Horizons, (The Coroner’s Plot, Fables for Friends, Company), for the WPA, (The Frequency, Cruise Control), and in Repertory Theaters such as Yale Rep and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. During this time she did a few commercials here and there to pay for her theater habit. Gradually she began to do more television out in LA, mostly sitcoms, starting with “Double Trouble” for Norman Lear, then “Eisenhower and Lutz” with Scott Bakula, “FM” with Robert Hayes, and finally “Home Improvement” for which she is best known, was nominated for four Emmys, two Golden Globes, one Viewers for Quality Television Award, and won a Vision Award, a Topaz Award, and more recently a TV Land Award. She also co-hosted the Emmy’s with Ellen Degeneres.  She then took off a few years to be with her three children, then returned to television in Lifetime’s “Strong Medicine” for a few years before joining “The West Wing” in a recurring role for its last two seasons as Alan Alda’s Chief of Staff while he ran for President. She was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for her first starring role in a feature film, “Ulee’s Gold” with Peter Fonda, and has appeared in a few other films and mini-series over the years, most recently the Lifetime movie “Bringing Ashley Home,” and the independent films “Beautiful Wave” and “Avarice” yet to be released. Patricia owns a house in Roxbury, Connecticut and is delighted to be back east and working in the theatre again.

Bethe B. Austin (Mrs. Braddock / Stripper) made her Broadway debut starring opposite Robert Preston in Larry Gelbart’s Sly Fox, followed by Whoopee with Charles Repole, Onward Victoria opposite Jill Eikenberry, Raggedy Ann directed by Pat Birch, and Noises Off with Dorothy Louden (Drama Desk Award, Best Ensemble). She also costarred with Richard Kiley in the pre-Broadway tryout of the thriller Guilty Conscience.  Off-Broadway credits include Olympus on my Mind (from which she is delighted to own an original Hirschfeld of herself as Dolores), Anne of Green Gables, Iron Curtain, Melissa Manchester’s I Sent a Letter to My Love, Pastorale (Second Stage), Zero Positive (Public Theater), and David Ives’ All in the Timing.  Bethe was seen as Annie Dummermont in Kander and Ebb’s The Visit starring Chita Rivera and George Hearn (nominated for nine Helen Hayes Awards, including Best Musical and Best Ensemble). She also understudied Chita Rivera for that project.  Regional roles have covered a wide range: from Drood in The Mystery of Edwin Drood (directed by Rob Marshall) to Suzie in Wait Until Dark; from Mona in Best Little Whorehouse in Texas to Anne in Stagestruck; from Ruth in Blithe Spirit to Amnesia in Nunsense Jamboree and Penny in You Can’t Take it With You. Bethe won the 1998 Barrymore Award (Philadelphia) for Best Supporting Actress in Larry Gatlin’s Texas Flyer at the Bristol Riverside Theater where she has since performed in numerous pieces (nominated again in 1999 for She Loves Me). This summer at BRT, Bethe started work on a cabaret act, Journeys of the Night directed by Keith Baker. National Tours include Hortense in The Boyfriend directed by Dame Julie Andrews and several seasons as Mrs. Claus in The Radio City Christmas Spectacular. TV credits include guest-starring roles on “Growing Pains,” “Nurses,” and “Law and Order: Criminal Intent.”  Film work: “Our Sons” with Julie Andrews, “Serious Money,” “Stepford Wives,” and Cannes Film Festival entry “Surprise.”

Joel Higgins (Mr. Robinson) starred on Broadway as Stone in City Of Angels, Curly in the revival of Oklahoma, Ben in Angel (Drama Desk Nomination), Sebastian in Music Is and James in Shenandoah (Theater World Award).  He was in the First National Tour of Grease and has starred in numerous other regional, stock and touring productions including eight productions (Brigadoon, Showboat, Kiss Me Kate, The Music Man, Guys & Dolls, Three Coins In The Fountain, Damn Yankees and Side By Side By Sondheim) at the Muny Opera of St. Louis as well as Harvey, The Foreigner, She Loves Me, Showboat, Guys & Dolls, Cabaret, Same Time Next Year, etc. in other venues around the country, including a previous stint at the Cape Playhouse in Regrets Only. On TV, he starred or co-starred in four prime-time series (“Salvage I” on ABC, “Best Of The West” on ABC, the long-running “Silver Spoons” on NBC, “Have Faith” on ABC), a daytime series (“Search For Tomorrow” on CBS) as well as several made-for-television films (“Killing At Hell’s Gate,” “Freshman Year,” “Threesome,” “Laura Lansing Slept Here,” “Rich Men, Single Women”).  He has also guest-starred in many series, including “Home Improvement,” “Jag,” “Crossing Jordan,” “Ed,” etc. Joel created the Lyrics, co-wrote the Music and directed the premiere production of Johnny Guitar, The Musical at the Century Center Theater For The Performing Arts in New York where it garnered four Drama Desk Award nominations (including Best Lyrics and Music and Best Musical), two Drama League Award nominations (including Best Musical), two Lucille Lortel Award nominations (including Best Musical) and won the Outer Critics Circle Award as Best Off-Broadway Musical of the 2003-2004 season.  Johnny Guitar, The Musical has had numerous subsequent critically acclaimed productions in locales as diverse as Boston, Carmel, Coral Gables, Dallas, etc. and is scheduled for several more around the country in the coming years.  He previously co-wrote (Book and Lyrics) and starred in The Fields Of Ambrosia, which premiered at The George Street Playhouse before transferring to the Aldwych Theatre on London’s West End and, with his writing partner Martin Silvestri, has written or co-written over two hundred successful commercial jingles and several TV theme songs.

Jamie LaVerdiere (Hotel Clerk / Psychiatrist) is happy to be back at the Cape where he appeared in Smokey Joe’s Café two summers ago. Jamie made his Broadway debut in The Producers as Matthew Broderick’s understudy. Other Broadway and Touring: Pirate Queen (Hilton Theater).

Jonathan Schwartz (Benjamin) is thrilled to be making his Cape Playhouse debut in this production. Broadway: Spider-Man (Original Broadway Cast, Julie Taymor edition). Off-Broadway: The Fantasticks. A recent Princeton graduate, Jonathan appeared on CBS in “The Amazing Race 17”.  Special thanks to my family, BRS, and the wonderful cast and crew.  "Here’s to you..."

Emily Walton (Elaine) is very happy to be making her debut at the Cape Playhouse in The Graduate. Broadway: August: Osage County. Off-Broadway: The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World, Cactus Flower, and Saved. Other credits include: The Sound of Music (Pittsburgh CLO), High School Musical 2 (North Shore Music Theatre), and NYC workshops of The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Ever After, Picnic at Hanging Rock, A Day in Gloucester, and Saved. Emily is also a singer-songwriter and a member of the amazing band Blue Bottle Collection, led by Daniel Zaitchik. Love and thanks to SCAW, Steve Himber, her friends, her family, and her Drew.

Mark Zimmerman (Mr. Braddock) Over his 30-plus years as an actor, Mark has appeared in seven Broadway shows (including West Side Story, A Catered Affair, The Rainmaker, On the 20th Century, and Brigadoon), the National tours of Mamma Mia and Kiss of the Spider Woman, and at numerous Off-Broadway and regional theaters.  His television credits include “30 Rock”, “Royal Pains”, “Damages”, “Law & Order” (in the recurring role of Judge Nathan Murphy) and “Murphy Brown”.  He has appeared in the films “The Thomas Crown Affair,” “A Price Above Rubies,” “Dash and Lilly,” “Claire Dolan,” “The Giraffe,” “For Love or Money,” and “Bonfire of the Vanities.”  He has appeared in over 500 commercials and has done extensive voice-over and radio work throughout his career.  Mark served as President of Actors’ Equity Association from 2006 through 2009.

Pamela Hunt (Director) In New York City, Pam was nominated for the 2004 Drama Desk Award, outstanding director of a musical for The Musical of Musicals (The Musical) at Dodger Stages, 1993 Outer Critics’ Circle Award, best revival, for Carnival, York Theatre; Forum, and Destry Rides Again, York; The Last Musical Comedy; Tom Fontana’s The Overcoat starring Austin Pendleton; Tom Lehrer’s Tomfoolery and Cabaret Comes To Carnegie Hall starring Kaye Ballard. She also produced/directed the 2008 American Musicals Project for the NY Historical Society with hosts Howard Kissel, Simon Jones, Lee Roy Reams and Elaine Stritch.  Pam has directed numerous regional theater productions for The Actors Theatre of Louisville, ACT, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, American Stage Festival, Asolo Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Cleveland Playhouse, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Colony Theatre, Florida Studio Theatre, Florida Rep, GEVA, Laguna Playhouse, Milwaukee Rep, Ordway Theatre, Papermill Playhouse, Pioneer Theatre, The Prince Theatre, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, San Jose Rep, Stagewest, Studio Arena Theatre, and Theatre Virginia.  Stock credits include Pittsburgh CLO, Sacramento Music Circus, Theatre by The Sea, TUTS, The MUNY, Westport and Ogunquit Playhouses, and 20 productions for the Cape Playhouse including Everybody Loves Opal starring Pat Carroll; Communicating Doors, Rue McClanahan; Moon Over Buffalo, Millicent Martin, Gavin MacLeod, Jane Connell; Radio Gals, Dody Goodman; Putting It Together, Peter Scolari, Diana Canova, Michael Rupert; Mass Appeal, Malachy McCourt; Grey Gardens, Beth Fowler.

James Morgan (Scenic Designer) CINCINNATI PLAYHOUSE:  Beehive (2001, 1994), Chaps (1998), Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (1993). BROADWAY: Sweeney Todd (Drama Desk nomination); Anna Karenina (Theatre Wing Design nomination); Taking Steps; The Miser; Getting Married, among others. OFF-BROADWAY: No Way to Treat a Lady (Drama Desk nomination); Jolson & Company; The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me; Pigtown, Irish Repertory Theatre (Hewes Design Award nomination); Pacific Overtures; Gaslight; The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!) among others plus over 100 productions at York Theatre Company, where he is the Producing Artistic Director—and the original producer of The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!) DIRECTING: Sylvia; Falsettoland (Carbonell Award, Best Director and Best Musical), Oh, Coward!; As Bees in Honey Drown; The Grass Harp, Prodigal, Taking a Chance on Love, Porterphiles: Unpublished Songs of Cole Porter, Clark Gesner’s The Jello Is Always Red and LingoLand, a revue by wordsmith Kenward Elmslie, York Theatre Company.

Meganne George (Costume Designer) Broadway: A Wonderful Life (Actors' Fund Benefit). Off-Broadway: Mabou Mines':  Finn (NYSCA Commission Grant Recipient), Red Beads, DollHouse (also National and International tours), and Cara Lucia (American Theatre Wing Hewes Award Nomination); adobe theatre's Superpowers and Orpheus and Eurydice, Children of Ararat, Two Little Indians. New York: Costumes for Lee Breuer’s Pataphysics Penyeach and Suma Dramatica, John Goldfarb, Please Come Home (FringeNY Outstanding Costume Design), Go-Go Kitty, Go!, Robin Becker Dance, Maffei Dance Company, Sal LaRussa Dance Theatre and Nicholas Andre Dance Theatre; Sets for Little Suckers (New York Innovative Theatre Award nomination). Opera: Sets for Susannah, The Consul, La Traviata, La Boheme, l'Equivico Stravagante (American premiere), Dido and Aeneas, The Merry Widow; Production Design for The Tender Land, Don Pasquale and Orphee aux Enfers. Film: Costumes for Mabou Mines “DollHouse,” Production Design for “Don't Nobody Love the Game” (featured on PBS's Independent Lens), “Katinka,” “Das Kapital.” International: “Choephorae” (World premiere, 2006 European Capital of Culture, Patras, Greece), “Lucia’s Chapters of Coming Forth By Day” and “A Prelude to a Death in Venice” (Kilkenny Arts Festival). She is also designing costumes and sets for Lee Breuer's new piece, The Crucifixion Project.  www.megannegeorgedesigns.com