Patrick A’Hearn, Producing Artistic Director presents

Seussical Jr.

Music by STEPHEN FLAHERTY
Lyrics by LYNN AHRENS
Book by LYNN AHRENS & STEPHEN FLAHERTY

Co-Conceived by Lynn Ahrens , Stephen Flaherty and Eric Idle
Based on the works of Dr. Seuss
Music Supervised, Adapted and Produced by Bryan Louiselle

Presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI)
All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI 
www.mtishows.com

Hi Friends!  It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to The Riverside Center for the Performing Arts.  As we begin our 27^th Season, we enter it with strength, resilience and gratitude. Theater Operations is now a 501(C)(3), nonprofit organization.  This allows us to join the ranks of all the professional regional theater companies in the country.  It also allows us to fortify our theater by being able to accept grants, sponsorships, and donations at all levels.  Riverside Strong allows us to look to the future with confidence while building additional streams of revenue.

The performing arts are an essential component of the health and well-being of a community.  Riverside takes that responsibility very seriously and relishes the role that we play in our region and community.  We have become a safe space for people to leave their cares behind for a few hours and be transported to another time and place while participating in quality entertainment.  “It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.”  We need you, and we are glad you are here.  You are just as much a part of the production as the performers and musicians on the stage.  That is why we choose these shows for you!

This Season brings a terrific mixture of fun and rock and roll with  Heartbreak Hotel, epic with Jesus Christ Superstar and To Kill a Mockingbird, edgy and riveting with the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, Next to Normal and classic with The Sound of Music and White Christmas. Our Children's Theatre is back in full force with Seussical Jr. in February and Junie B Jones in the Fall.  As I always say, “We all get to do what we love to do here at Riverside because all of you love coming here to support us.”  Thanks for the vote of confidence.  Thanks for your generosity.  Thank you for supporting the live arts!

Patrick A’Hearn

CEO and Producing Artistic Director
Riverside Center for the Performing Arts

When my dear friend Andrea Kahane reached out several months ago to see if I was interested in directing Seussical, I was initially hesitant because I didn't know the show beyond some of the more popular numbers students brought into class. But because most things I'm unfamiliar with tend to win me over, I thought, let's see what this is all about. I listened to the original cast recording and thought this is an absolute circus of a show— how could anyone direct this?, and that's when I got excited. Since then it has been a wild ride holding onto the reins of Theodore Seuss' imagination mixed with Ahrens and Flaherty's brilliant lyrics and music. I began to understand the show in a new way, seeing it through my kid's eyes as they danced around to the music that played in my house nonstop. This show came to me at a chapter in my life (after having two babies) when I thought all my 'thinks had run dry'. I thought maybe my imagination had shut down and only the left side of my brain could work. This show has challenged me exactly the way I needed and reminded me that 'if you open your mind, oh the thinks you will find lining up to get loose'. I hope you enjoy this ride as much as I have.

Quinn Vogt-Welch
Director

"Oh, The Thinks You Can Think!"
Cat in the Hat, Company

"Horton Hears a Who"
Company

"Biggest Blame Fool"
Sour Kangaroo, Wickershams, Company

"Here on Who"
Mr. and Mrs. Mayor, Whos

"How to Raise a Child"
Mr. and Mrs. Mayor

"Oh, The Thinks" Reprise
Cat in the Hat

"It’s Possible"
 Jojo, Cat, Company

"Alone in the Universe"
Horton and Jojo

"Gertrude McFuzz"/"Amazing Mayzie"
Gertrude, Mayzie, Bird Girls

"Amazing Gertrude"
Gertrude, Bird Girls

"Monkey Around"/"Chasing the Whos"
Wickershams, Sour Kangaroo, Company

"Notice Me Horton"
Gertrude and Horton

"How Lucky You Are"
Mayzie and Cat

"Egg, Nest and Tree"
Sour Kangaroo and Company

"Mayzie in Palm Beach"/"Circus"/"Amazing Horton"
Mayzie

"Alone in the Universe" Reprise 1
Horton

"Solla Sollew"
Horton, Mr. and Mrs. Mayor, Jojo, Company

"All for You"
Gertrude and Bird Girls

"People Vs. Horton the Elephant"
Company

"Alone in the Universe" Reprise 2
Horton and Gertrude

"Oh, The Thinks" Finale
Company