“We got the spirit/You got to hear it/Under the sea.”

Those are but a few of the dazzling lyrics in Disney’s The Little Mermaid, but they perfectly capture the experience of hundreds of Dallasites throughout the past several months, as people from all over our city have come together to tell a shared story of love, joy and community.

Hans Christian Anderson wrote the fairytale of a mermaid who sacrifices everything for love in 1837. In 1989, Howard Ashman and Alan Menken added glorious lyrics and music to accompany the brilliant animation in the now classic Disney animated film. Thirty-five years later, here in Dallas, we’re retelling this timeless story with a company of artists who lift my spirit as they act, sing and dance to bring this classic story to new life.

This special pageant production of Disney’s The Little Mermaid is the culmination of DTC’s year-round Public Works program. Featuring fifteen professional actors and an ensemble of one hundred people from across our city, this production is a celebration of art and community that seeks to welcome the people of Dallas into the heart of Dallas Theater Center.

DTC launched its first pageant production in 2017, with the support of the AT&T Performing Arts Center and SMU’s Ignite Arts Dallas, and the inspiration of Lear DeBessonet and the Public Theater in New York. Since then, under the inspired vision of Brandi Giles, artists from DTC have been partnering with organizations that help our city thrive – Bachman Lake Together, Jubilee Park and Community Center, Steven A. Cohen Military Family Clinic at Metrocare, and City of Dallas Park and Recreation’s Janie C. Turner and Beckley-Saner Recreation Centers. We offer free theater classes at each of our partner organizations for people of all ages, and, in the summer, we bring together people from all of these neighborhoods to create a musical theater production as vibrant, diverse, and full of life as Dallas itself.

At Dallas Theater Center, we believe that theater is essential to our community, and that community is essential to our theater. Theater belongs to all of us, not only a select few. Participation in the cultural life of the community is the birthright of everyone in a democracy. Our city is at its best when all of us have the opportunity to create, and we are strongest when we come together with a shared purpose.

Throughout the past several months – as community members have contributed to the creation of the set and costumes, volunteered to assist auditions and rehearsals, and come together as actors, many for the first time in their lives – I have been filled with joy and inspired by how much we all have in common.

I hope that in watching this production you will be overcome by the beauty and skill of the people of Dallas. I hope you will be inspired by a vision in which each individual can contribute to something larger than themself. And I hope you will experience hope for our city that has such wonderful people in it.

Kevin Moriarty
Executive Director

DALLAS THEATER CENTER
Kevin Moriarty, Executive Director
Brandi Giles, Producer & Director of Public Works
Jonathan Norton, Interim Artistic Director

in collaboration with the

AT&T PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

Production of

Disney’s
The Little Mermaid

              Based on the Hans Christian Andersen story and the Disney film produced by Howard Ashman & John Musker and written & directed by John Musker & Ron Clements.

Original Produced by
Disney Theatrical Productions

Orchestrations by Danny Troob
Incidental Music & Vocal Arrangements by Michael Kosariin
Dance Arrangements by David Chase

SCENIC DESIGN
Dahlia Al-Habieli

COSTUME DESIGN/WIG, HAIR, & 
MAKEUP DESIGN
Hope Cox

LIGHTING DESIGN
Amanda West

SOUND DESIGN
Claudia Jenkins Martinez

PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR
Stephen Ravet

PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER
Davvi Solomon*

ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER
Avery James Evans*
Leah Fitzgerald

PRODUCTION MANAGER
Ashley Oliver

DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION
Andrew J. Brown

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
Mark Quach

MUSIC DIRECTION
Vicky Nooe

CHOREOGRAPHY
Tiana Kaye Blair^{+
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DIRECTED BY
Kevin Moriarty

Disney’s The Little Mermaid is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com

This Theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. 

+ Member of Diane and Hal Brierley Resident Acting Company.
* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

Dallas Theater Center is a member of the League of Resident Theaters; a constituent of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for the nonprofit professional theater; and Visit Dallas.

The Director is a member of the STAGE DIRECTOR/CHOREOGRAPHERS SOCIETY, a national theatrical labor union.

The scenic, costume, lighting sound and projection designers in LORT Theatres are represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 of the IATSE.

Dallas Theater Center’s Production staff is responsible for the sets, costumes, lighting, props, furniture, scenic painting, sound, special effects, and wigs in this production.

Disney’s The Little Mermaid will be performed without an intermission.

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THANK YOU TO THE MERFRIENDS FOR DONATING DECORATIONS FOR THE LOBBY!

Dallas Theater Center Equity, Diversity and Inclusion  Statement

At Dallas Theater Center, we want to be the best place to work and see theater, and to be a positive and transformational force in Dallas and beyond. We stand-up for equity, diversity, and inclusion across our company and community. As a leading national theater, we recognize that building an equitable, diverse, and inclusive environment is central to our relevance and sustainability in the community we serve and love. ALL ARE WELCOME!

Dallas Theater Center Land Acknowledgement 

We acknowledge the land beneath our feet as the ancestral home of many Indigenous Peoples including the Caddo, Wichita, Tawakoni, and Kiikaapoi, as well as the tribes that may have lived here and roamed the area – including Comanche, Kiowa and Apache – and those indigenous people whose names we don’t know anymore. We honor, revere and respect those who were stewards of this land long before we made it our home. We also acknowledge the neighborhood we inhabit as one of the original Freedman’s towns of Dallas built by those who were enslaved by European colonization.

Please help us to maintain a safe and inclusive space while you are with us. DTC has a zero-tolerance policy towards harassment in any form including the use of racist, sexual or ethnic slurs - be it verbal, physical, or virtual. If you need assistance or witness an instance of harassment, please notify the House Manager immediately.