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Creative Team
Tamara Kangas Erickson | Director & Co-Choreographer
Tamara Kangas Erickson is the current President and Resident Artistic Director at Chanhassen Dinner Theatres. She has proudly choreographed over 40 Main Stage musical theatre productions. Tamara became part of the CDT family in 1981 when she appeared as Marta Von Trapp in The Sound of Music. Also at Chanhassen’s Fireside: Respect (director/ choreographer), Altar Boyz (choreographer); Playhouse: The Musical of Musicals: The Musical (director/choreographer). Off-Broadway: This One’s for the Girls (director/choreographer); Artistry: Little Women, The Broadway Musical (director/choreographer); National Tour: Sesame Street Live Can’t Stop Singing (choreographer)...
Andy Kust | Music Director
Andy Kust is an award-winning music director, vocal coach and pianist, and serves as the Resident Music Director at Chanhassen Dinner Theatres. CDT shows include: Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Jersey Boys, The Prom, Footloose, The Music Man, Mamma Mia!, Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn, Grease. Other theatre: 12 Angry Men, Next to Normal, Spring Awakening, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Rent, Cabaret, Jesus Christ Superstar, Billy Elliot, Disney’s Mary Poppins, Bare, among others. Passionate about the training of singing actors, Andy is the co-owner of Twin Cities Musical Theater Training, with clients having appeared in the Broadway and national touring companies of Wicked, Dear Evan Hansen, The Great Gatsby, Six, Disney’s Frozen, Mean Girls, The Addams Family, Hamilton, Kinky Boots and Spring Awakening...
Linda Talcott-Lee | Co-Choreographer
Chanhassen DT: The Prom (Ensemble), West Side Story (Anybodys), Disney’s Mary Poppins (Ensemble), Swing (Ensemble), Cats (Ensemble). Broadway: Jerome Robbins’ Broadway (Multiple Roles), The Goodbye Girl (Ensemble), Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Silly Girl and Dance Captain), Seussical (Ensemble). Guthrie: My Fair Lady (Ensemble), She Loves Me (Tango Dancer), Roman Holiday (Ensemble). Ordway: Cinderella. Linda is an Emmy Award- winning choreographer.
Full Cast
Shad Hanley | Sky Masterson
Chanhassen DT: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Gerry Goffin), Jersey Boys (Nick Massi), The Prom (Trent Oliver), Footloose (Coach Dunbar), The Music Man (Oliver Hix). Off-Broadway: A Stoop On Orchard Street (Simon), The Magdalene (Yeshua). Gallery Players: Violet (Monty). Astoria Performing Arts: A New Brain (Roger). History Theatre: Beyond the Rainbow (Vincente Minnelli). Artistry: Victor/Victoria (King Marchan). Duluth Playhouse: Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Beast), Mamma Mia! (Sam).
Sara Masterson | Sarah Brown
CDT: Debut! Theater Latté Da: Fun Home (Alison), Falsettos (Cordelia). Artistry: Rent (Maureen). Idaho Shakespeare Festival: The Secret Garden(Martha), Little Shop of Horrors (Audrey). Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park: A Christmas Carol (Belle). Syracuse Stage: Next to Normal (Natalie). New London Barn Playhouse: A Little Night Music (Anne).
Madeline Trumble | Miss Adelaide
CDT: Debut! Broadway: Disney’s Newsies (Original Broadway Cast). National Tour: Disney’s Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins), The King and I (Anna), Wicked (Elphaba Standby). Guthrie Theater: Into The Woods (Baker’s Wife). Artistry: Little Women: The Musical (Jo). Other: Berkeley Repertory Theatre, The Muny, TUTS, Deaf West, Zach Theatre.
Charlie Clark | Nathan Detroit
CDT: Debut! Asolo Repertory Theatre: Come From Away (Oz), 12 Angry Men: A Musical (Juror #3). Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati: Next to Normal (Dan), Fun Home (Bruce), Hands on a Hardbody (Benny). Tent Theatre: Catch Me if You Can (Hanratty). Carnegie Hall at Newport: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Freddie), Carousel (Enoch Snow). New Stage Collective: Sunday in the Park with George (George)...
Dana Orange | Nicely-Nicely Johnson
Dana Orange is thrilled to be joining this company for such a classic piece of musical theatre! Chanhassen Dinner Theatre Debut! Tour: Disney’s The Little Mermaid (Sebastian). Bristol Riverside Theatre: Jelly’s Last Jam (Jack the Bear). Florida Studio Theatre: Something Rotten! (Minstrel). Philadelphia Theatre Company: Choir Boy (David). Walnut Street Theatre: Shrek the Musical (Donkey), Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Lumiere), Jersey Boys, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Dreamgirls. Delaware Theatre Company: Plaid Tidings. Eagle Theatre: Ragtime. Park Playhouse: In The Heights...
Riley McNutt | Benny Southstreet, Ensemble
This is Riley’s CDT debut! Off-Broadway Sheen Center: All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914. Asolo Repertory: All is Calm, 12 Angry Men: A New Musical (Juror #2), Come From Away (Kevin T/Garth). Children’s Theater Company: Wizard of Oz (Uncle Henry, Gatekeeper). Theater Latté Da: Next to Normal, All is Calm, Hello Dolly!, Twelve Angry Men: A New Musical. Flying Foot Forum: Heaven. Trademark Theatre: The Boy and Robin Hood. Artistry: A New Brain, Noises Off, Les Misérables.
Cynthia Taylor-Jones | General Cartwright
CDT: Debut! Theater Latté Da: Jelly’s Last Jam (Miss Mamie). Park Square Theatre: A Raisin in the Sun (Lena), Dot (Dotty). 5th Avenue Theatre: Annie (Miss Hannigan), Carousel (Mrs. Mullin). A Contemporary Theatre: Waiting to Be Invited (Miss Delores), Blues for an Alabama Sky (Angel Allen). Intiman Theatre: Crowns (Mother Shaw), Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill (Billie Holiday), Nickel and Dimed. Prince Music Theater: Crumbs from the Table of Joy (Lily Ann Green). Seattle Rep: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Ma Rainey). GFour Productions: Menopause The Musical (Power Woman).
Michael Gruber | Arvide Abernathy
Chanhassen DT: Easter Parade (Don Hewes), Bye Bye Birdie (Albert Peterson), Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn (Jim Hardy), The Music Man (Harold Hill), Mamma Mia! (Harry Bright). Broadway: Cats (Munkustrap), Miss Saigon (Ensemble), Kiss Me, Kate (Hortensio, Bill), A Chorus Line (Mike, Greg, Zach), Swing! (featured vocalist). Madison Square Garden: Wizard of Oz (Tin Man).
Timothy Thomas | Lieutenant Brannigan
Started acting on Twin City stages in 1983-84 at CDT (Annie), The History Theater, Theater in the Round, and others. Since then: FILM: Mike Nichols’ Wolf; Cameron Bossert’s The Female Genius. BROADWAY NATIONAL TOUR: Sondheim & Lapine’s Into the Woods (original). OPERA: Minnesota Opera Company, the Opera Company of Philadelphia, NY Opera Forum and others. THEATER: Theater Latté Da, Sidekick Theater, Shakespeare Theater Company, Syracuse Stage, The Hangar Theater, Indiana Repertory Theater, Williamstown Theater Festival, Actor’s Theater of Louisville, and others. MFA: NYU-Tisch. Proud member of Actors Equity Association since 1983.
Andre Shoals | Big Jule, Ensemble
Chanhassen DT: The Prom (Ensemble), The Music Man (Constable Locke), Sister Act (Curtis Jackson), Disney’s Newsies (Wiesel), The Little Mermaid (Sebastian), and Beauty and the Beast (Ensemble). Theater Latté Da: Jelly’s Last Jam (Chimney Man), To Let Go and Fall (Arthur), Man of LaMancha (Governor, Innkeeper), Peter and the Starcatcher (Lord Aster, Slank, Fighting Prawn), Ragtime (Booker T. Washington), Aida (Ensemble). Assistant Director credits include A Raisin in the Sun (Guthrie Theater).
Tommy McCarthy | Rusty, Ensemble
Chanhassen DT: Grease (Swing), Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (Ensemble), Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Swing). Lyric Arts: The Last Five Years (Jamie). Lyric Arts: A Chorus Line (Don). Circa’21 Dinner Theater: Mamma Mia! (Sky). Lakeshore Players: Singin’ in the Rain (Don Lockwood).
Mark King | Harry the Horse, Ensemble
Chanhassen DT: Disney’s Mary Poppins (Bert), Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Lumiere), Singin’ in The Rain (Cosmo), The Producers (Carmen Ghia), Jersey Boys (Bob Crewe), Fiddler on The Roof (Nachum), 42nd Street (Andy Lee), Disney’s The Little Mermaid (Chef Louis), Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (Mike Nulty).
Rush Benson | Joey Biltmore, Ensemble
Chanhassen DT: Jersey Boys (French Rapper), Footloose (Travis), Mamma Mia! (Pepper), Disney’s Newsies (Racetrack), Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn (Ensemble), White Christmas (Jimmy). Guthrie: A Christmas Carol (Christmas Future), The Music Man (Ensemble). Ordway: Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Lefou), West Side Story (Action), In the Heights (Ensemble). Park Square: Rocky Horror Picture Show (Rocky). Collide Theatrical: Romeo and Juliet (Romeo). Artistry: Disney’s Newsies (Spot Conlon), La Cage Aux Folles (Hanna).
Tommy Benson | Ensemble
Chanhassen DT: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Ensemble), Jersey Boys (Ensemble, U/S Barry Belson), The Prom (Ensemble, Male Dance Swing), Footloose (Ensemble, Bickle/Jeter cover), The Music Man (Ensemble, Dance Swing). Ordway: Jesus Christ Superstar (Thomas/Ensemble). The Old Log: Ghost The Musical (Hospital Ghost/Ensemble). Buns and Guns LLC: Spandex The Musical (David DiNotello). Renegade Theater: The Wild Party (Oscar D’Armano). CKM State Theater: Footloose (Cowboy Bob/Ensemble). Sieur Du Luth Arts Festival: A Year with Frog & Toad (Frog).
Thomas Bevan | Society Max, Ensemble
Chanhassen DT: West Side Story (Baby John), Hairspray (Sketch). Duluth Playhouse: Waitress (Dr. Pomatter), Next to Normal (Dan). History Theatre: Whoa Nellie! (Edward), The Boy Wonder (Glen). Theatre L’Homme Dieu: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Gerry). Radio City Music Hall: …Christmas Spectacular (Singer). Off-Broadway: Sayonara (Pilot, Consul). National Tour: Chicago (Bailiff, Amos U/S). Film: The Last Five Years (Dancer).
Serena Brook | Martha, Ensemble
Chanhassen DT: Beautiful (Carole King U/S), Fiddler on the Roof (Tzeitel), The Music Man (Alma Hix). Off-Broadway: Dear Edwina (Kelli). National Tour: The Grinch (Mama Who). Theater Latté Da: Falsettos (Trina). Guthrie Theater: A Christmas Carol (Kitty). History Theatre: A Servants’ Christmas (Monica). Artistry: The Pajama Game (Mabel). New London Barn Playhouse: Guys and Dolls (Adelaide), She Loves Me (Amalia).
Sarah Potvin | Ensemble
CDT: Debut! Artistry: Kiss Me, Kate (Ensemble). Children’s Theatre Company: Disney’s Frozen (Ensemble, Bulda U/S). Collide Theatrical Dance Company: C.L.U.E., Romeo & Juliet, Broadway Dancin’ (Ensemble). Skylark Opera Theatre: The Seven Deadly Sins (Featured Dancer). Lyric Arts: A Chorus Line (Tricia, U/S).
Kaia T. Fitzgerald | Ensemble
CDT: Debut! City Theatre Company: Another Kind of Silence (Chap). Deaf West & Center Theatre Group: American Idiot (Extraordinary Girl). Edinburgh Fringe Festival: Metamorphosis (Mother Samsa). Skylight Music Theatre: Spring Awakening (Martha). Southern Plains Productions: Silent Sky (Henrietta Leavitt). Lyric Repertory Company: The Marvelous Wonderettes (Cindy Lou).
Dayle Theisen | Ensemble
Chanhassen DT: Grease (Sandy), Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (Swing) Artistry: Disney’s Newsies (Swing), The Pajama Game (Brenda), Crazy for You (Tess). Blank Theater: Promises, Promises (Miss Della Hoya). Latté Da: Hello Dolly! (Minnie Fay U/S, Ermengarde). Ordway: Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Les Filles De La Ville). O’Malley Theater: A Chorus Line (Judy Turner).
Delaney Hunter | Swing
CDT: Meredith Willson’s The Music Man (Zaneeta Shinn), Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Gargoyle, Chip, Ensemble), Disney’s Mary Poppins (Jane Banks), Hello, Dolly! (Ensemble). Lincoln Center: One Night Only, An Evening with Sutton Foster & Kelli O’Hara (Ensemble). Artistry: Disney’s Newsies (Mush, Katherine U/S). Children’s Theatre Company: Chicago (Roxie Hart), Cinderella (Ensemble), Matilda (Big Kid, Acrobat, Ensemble). Guthrie Theater: A Christmas Carol (Martha Cratchit).
Abby Magalee | Ensemble
Chanhassen DT: The Prom (Ensemble, Shelby U/S), Footloose (Ensemble). Guthrie: Cabaret (Lulu/Swing). Ordway: Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Ensemble), West Side Story (Margarita), In The Heights (Ensemble), Mamma Mia! (Ensemble), White Christmas (Ensemble). Theater Latté Da: Cinderella (Dance Captain/Ensemble). Artistry: Sweet Charity (Choreographer). The Kennedy Center: Grey Skies Blue. Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater: Creature.
Jaclyn McDonald | Ensemble
CDT: Debut! Artistry: Sweet Charity (Nickie), Crazy for You (Irene). Lyric Arts: A Chorus Line (Cassie), Anything Goes (Reno). Theatre Latté Da: Chicago (Six). History Theatre: Dance Til’ You Drop (Betsey).
Danny McHugh | Lovin' Lips Louie, Ensemble
Chanhassen DT: Cats (Rum Tum Tugger), Jesus Christ Superstar (Simon). National Tours: White Christmas (Jimmy), Jesus Christ Superstar (Swing, Herod/Peter U/S), Rock of Ages (Drew). Off-Broadway: Blue Man Group (Blue Man). Artistry MN: Singin’ In The Rain (Don Lockwood, Co-Choreographer). Front Porch/ Pittsburgh: Floyd Collins (Floyd); Palazzo Theater/Las Vegas: Baz (Christian).
Andrea Mislan | Ensemble
Chanhassen DT: Beautiful (Lucille), Jersey Boys (Mary Delgado), The Prom (Ensemble, Angie U/S), Footloose (Wendy Jo & Eleanor U/S), The Music Man. Guthrie: Cabaret (Frenchie, Kost U/S), Guys and Dolls, West Side Story (Clarice), Cyrano de Bergerac (Lise). Ordway: Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Silly Girl, Enchantress). Chicago International Tour (June, Velma & Mama Morton U/S). Cirque du Soleil’s Viva Elvis (featured dancer). Celine Dion’s A New Day Las Vegas (featured dancer).
Daysha Ramsey | Ensemble
Chanhassen DT: Beautiful (Jenelle Woods), Jersey Boys (Ensemble), The Prom (Shelby), Footloose (Ensemble), The Music Man (Ensemble). Duluth Playhouse: The Mountaintop (Camae), Smokey Joe’s Cafe (Ensemble), Grease (Cha Cha DiGregorio). University of Minnesota Duluth: The Little Prince (The Rose/Snake).
Armando Harlow Ronconi | Ensemble
Disney On Classic Japan Tour: Aladdin (Genie), The Hunchback of Notre Dame/Tangled (Phoebus/Flynn Rider). Artistry: Disney’s Mary Poppins (Ensemble), Disney’s Newsies (Ensemble), Sweet Charity (Ensemble), Waitress: The Musical (Ogie), Singin’ In the Rain (Cosmo Brown).
Danny Tran | Swing
CDT: Debut! Regional Theater: Miss Saigon (Featured Dancer), Cats (Macavity), Guys and Dolls (Ensemble). Other theater credits: West Side Story, Sister Act (Joey), Meredith Willson’s The Music Man, Oklahoma!, Anastasia, Fiddler on the Roof, Heartbreak Hotel, Pirates of Penzance.
Tony Vierling | Angie the Ox, Ensemble
CDT: Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (Phil Davis), Jersey Boys (Joe Pesci), Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn (Ted Hanover), Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (LaFou), Cats (Mistoffelees). Guthrie Theater: Merrily We Roll Along (Tyler). Children’s Theatre Company: Matilda (Rudolpho). Ordway: Singin’ in the Rain (Cosmo). Minnesota Opera: Street Scene (Dick McGann). Papermill Playhouse: Little House on the Prairie – The Musical (Dance Captain). National Tour: A Chorus Line (Larry).
Kyle Weiler | Ensemble
CDT: Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Singin’ in the Rain. Broadway: Hamilton (Universal Swing, Dance Captain.) International Tour: West Side Story (Diesel, Riff, Dance Captain). Ordway: Damn Yankees. Theater Latté Da: Next to Normal (Gabe), Hello, Dolly!. Artistry: Crazy For You (Bobby).
Alan Bach | Ensemble
Chanhassen DT: Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (Ensemble), Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Barry Mann), Footloose (Ren McCormack), Disney’s Newsies (Davey), Grease (Sonny), Mamma Mia! (Ensemble). Guthrie: A Christmas Carol (Young Ebenezer). Theater Latté Da: 25th…Spelling Bee (Leaf Coneybear), Hello, Dolly! (Swing). Seven Angels Theater/ Connecticut: Footloose (Garvin).
Laura Rudolph | Martha/Ensemble
Chanhassen DT: Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (Tessie the Seamstress/Quintet/Ensemble), Jersey Boys (Lorraine), Grease (Sandy), Disney’s The Little Mermaid (Ariel), The Prom (Kaylee). Guthrie: Roman Holiday (American Tourist/Ensemble), South Pacific (Swing), HMS Pinafore (Swing), Theatre L’homme Dieu: Million Dollar Quartet (Dyanne). The Barn Theatre School: In Hot Water (Tiffany).
Adam Moen | Ensemble
Chanhassen DT: Grease (Doody), Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (Swing), Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Righteous Brother), Jersey Boys, Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn, Mamma Mia!, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Disney’s The Little Mermaid (Jetsam), Hello Dolly! (Barnaby), Fiddler on the Roof, Joseph… Dreamcoat, Bye Bye Birdie. Ordway: Jesus Christ Superstar, Mamma Mia!, Annie. Guthrie: The Music Man, Roman Holiday.