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Bernice Bobs Her Mullet

A New Musical

By Joe Major
Directed by Andy Sandberg
Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Bernice Bobs Her Hair"

A redneck teenager learns city life isn't all it's cracked up to be.

 

Bernice Bobs Her Mullet is a fun, makeover-musical about a young redneck who leaves her podunk hometown to experience life in the big city...Little Rock!  And it isn't long before she discovers the scariest part of urban living... spoiled teenagers!  Soon, Bernice gets swept up in the glamor and politics of popularity and learns the hard way that you shouldn't let it go to your head.
Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's story "Bernice Bobs Her Hair"
World premiere

Show News Items

Now You Know: What Ann Morrison's Been Up to Since 'Merrily'

“Where the hell have you been?” Ann Morrison recalls Harold Prince bellowing at her at the Children and Art benefit concert staged for Stephen Sondheim’s 75th birthday in March 2005. Twenty-four years earlier, Prince had directed Morrison in Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along, one of the most adored flops Broadway has ever known.

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Show Media

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Bloomberg Radio Interview
Cut It Short
More Like Her

Here are some other show media downloads for you to try, including video and Broadway Bullet podcasts!

Sep 19th, 6:47 PM: BWW TV: Bernice Bobs Her Mullet at NYMF
Sep 12th, 6:10 PM: Broadway Bullet NYMF Segment 2: Bernice Bobs Her Mullet

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Bernice
Bernice and Marjorie
Bernice and Momma
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Schedule

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Wednesday, Sep 19th at 8:00 pm
Saturday, Sep 22nd at 8:00 pm
Sunday, Sep 23rd at 1:00 pm
Tuesday, Sep 25th at 8:00 pm
Thursday, Sep 27th at 4:30 pm
Sunday, Sep 30th at 1:00 pm

Feature Articles & News Stories

Broadway Bullet NYMF Segment 2: Bernice Bobs Her Mullet
Broadway Bullet is doing 8 weeks of NYMF coverage. In addition to inclusion in our weekly program, we are making each NYMF show segment available separately... only here on Broadway World!

Make-Over Musical 'Mullet' Bobs into NYMF Sept. 19-30
The full cast and design team has been set for Bernice Bobs Her Mullet, the new musical which will debut at this year's New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF). The musical, written by Joe Major and directed by Andy Sandberg, to play six performances at the Julia Miles Theatre September 19 - 30.

Cast & Creative Details

Nick Cearley
Nick Cearley (Otis/Opie)

Favorite credits include All Shook Up (1st. National/ dir. Christopher Ashley), Cupid & Psyche (Altered Stages at 29th St. Rep), La Gioconda (The Clurman Theatre), The Last Smoker in America (opposite Alice Ripley), A Little Night Music (Henrik), and Nunsense...Amen! (Amnesia). Nick also put some time into Twyla Tharp and Bob Dylan's collaborative project The Times They are a Changin. He has helped out with countless demos, workshops, readings, and cabaret shows around the city. Nick hails from Cincinnati, OH and earned his BFA from The Boston Conservatory. Equity member. Thanks to Joe, Eric, and Calvin.

 
Katrina Rose Dideriksen
Katrina Rose Dideriksen (Jenny/Genevieve)

Katrina Rose Dideriksen is the only Tracy Turnblad to appear as part of the Toronto, !st Nat'l Tour, B'way and Vegas companies of Hairspray. Most recently she was seen as part of Joe Iconis's "Things To Ruin" at Joe's Pub and Ars Nova (NYMF 2006). Other favorite roles
include Soul Sister/Maid by the Fire in "..Superstar," Ronny in "Hair," and Jenny Veccharelli in "Nelson Rocks!" Proud Equity Member.
Http://myspace.com/katrinarosemusic.

 
Jeff Hiller
Jeff Hiller (Draycott/Eduardo)

JEFF HILLER New York Stage: AWESOME 80'S PROM (original cast), SHOWGIRLS: THE BEST MOVIE EVER MADE. EVER., AIR GUITAR THE MUSICAL, SLUT, A HO HO HORATIO CHRISTMAS (with SNL's Horatio Sanz), NY Fringe Festival hit SILENCE! (the musical version of The Silence of the Lambs), and THE CHILDREN at the New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF 2006 Individual Performance Award). Regional: Scott Schwartz directed LIL' ABNER at the Goodspeed Opera House. Regular performer at the UCB theatre with house teams "Police Chief Rumble" (ECNY Award, Best Sketch Group), "Creep", and founding member of "Neely O'Hara". TV: MTV's Boiling Points, The PA (FUSE), Starved (FX), Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Several VH1 Clip Shows, Tommy in the online sitcom "Breaking In" and the voice of Nano the confused robot on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Fox).

 
Hollie Howard
Hollie Howard (Marjorie)

Hollie is thrilled to be doing the NYMF again! Broadway: Hairspray (Penny Pingleton), Mamma Mia, Annie Get Your Gun (w/Reba McEntire). Tours: Fame (European and National). TV: Guiding Light, One Life To Live, A Different World. Film: First Breath, The Interview and A Missed Engagement. Favorties: How To Save The World and Find True Love In 90 Minutes (New World Stages), Plane Crazy (NYMF) where the NY Times recognized her stand out performance, Four Seasons at Lincoln Center (w/ Rosie O'Donnell), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Maine State), Grease (North Carolina Theatre/Stage St. Louis), A Chorus Line (Arkansas Rep). Hollie is a graduate of Missouri State University. A Missouri farm girl all the way to "Bernice Bobs Her Mullet" - It's like I never left home! Love to Mom, Dad, Steve, and Derek. And thanks to Michael Cassara for believing in me. Proud member of Actors' Equity.

 
Garrett Long
Garrett Long (Bernice)

Garrett is absolutely thrilled to bring back the mulet. Her most recent hairdo was a medium length, reddish, sometimes, curly somtimes, straight style. As a young girl she sported a pixie cut and everyone thought she was a boy, but by fouth grade her mother finally let her grow her hair. Some favorite cuts include the Dorothy Hamill, Flock of Seagulls, and the shorter mullet. For more info check out Garrettlong.com. Her hair is a proud member of Actors' Equity.

 
Ann Morrison
Ann Morrison (Momma/Mrs. Harvey)

Ann Morrison is an award-winning professional actor for over 25 years, and starred on Broadway (MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG) Theatre World Award; Off Broadway (GOBLIN MARKET, FORBIDDEN BROADWAY); on London West End (PEG); Los Angeles (BLAME IT ON THE MOVIES II, ANYONE CAN WHISTLE); and many regional theaters across the country. Annie is well known for cabaret performances and has made more than a sozen recordings and appeared on television and national commercials. Ann has taught acting and storytelling through the school system of Florida. She is co-founder, artistic director and director of two theatre companies for persons with developmental disabilities and an emotional healer for the terminally ill using sound and story for release. She is currently developing her second series in her one woman show DISCOURSE OF A MAID based on Celtic Mythology and storytelling, and ANNIE'S CELTIC KITCHEN, personal theatre in your home. Ann recently completed a run of LOVEMUSIK on Broadway this past spring reuniting her to director Hal Prince.

 
Brandon  Wardell
Brandon Wardell  (Warren/Wally Ray )

Original Broadway casts: GOOD VIBRATIONS (Dave); ASSASSINS (David Herold, Dance Captain, U/S - Balladeer/Oswald, Hinkley, Zangara); THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE (Kenneth, U/S Jimmy); JAMES JOYCE'S THE DEAD (Standby for Michael). Other New York Credits: EVIL DEAD THE MUSICAL (Scott), TWELTH NIGHT (Feste), WRONG NUMBER (Barry). Regional/National Tours: JAMES JOYCE'S THE DEAD (Michael), JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING...DREAMCOAT (Joseph); NY Readings and workshops: The new Stephen King/John Melloncamp musical - GHOST BROTHERS, CATHCH ME IF YOU CAN, A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE at Lincoln Center, ASSASSINS, ESCAPE FROM PTERODACTYL ISLAND. Television: THE VIEW (2 times), 2002 TONY AWARDS, MACY'S DAY PARADE, 2005 TIMES SQUARE NEW YEARS EVE SHOW (featered performer), 2 Amstel Light Commercials, ALL MY CHILDREN, THE GUIDING LIGHT. Attended NCSA. Currently working as the Line Producer on the Annie 30th Anniversary Cast Recording (release November 30th 2007 on Time Life Records). Other cast album production credits: EVIL DEAD THE MUSICAL and the upcoming TAKE FLIGHT. Brandon has worked in various capacities on the Broadway and touring productions of: YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, GREY GARDENS, CURTAINS, CHICAGO, HAIRSPRAY, THE PRODUCERS, CABARET, SMOKEY JOE'S CAFE, LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, THE FROGS, THE BOY FROM OZ,LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, EPIC PROPORTIONS, THE MUSIC MAN AND CONTACT. http://www.brandonwardell.com

 
Lauren Worsham
Lauren Worsham (Roberta/Bobbie)

Lauren returned to the city this June after playing Olive in the first national tour of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. A Yale graduate with a degree in Spanish Literature, Lauren can translate your favorite novella. Favorite credits include: Shelly in Bat Boy, Amalia in She Loves Me, Cunegonde in Candide, and Honey in Mirror, Mirror. Huzah Equity!

 
Joe Major (Author)

Joe Major was born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas. His first musical, Poop the Musical: The Life and Times of Thomas Crapper, was presented at the Polaris Musical Theatre Summit at Oklahoma City University. His latest project, Bernice Bobs Her Mullet, was recently workshopped at the Theatre Building in Chicago. He is currently a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop.

 
Andy  Sandberg
Andy Sandberg (Director)

Andy Sandberg recently worked with Hal Prince on the Broadway production of LoveMusik (SSDC Fellowship). New York (upcoming): Come Up and See Me Sometime: The New Mae West Musical. Regional and university credits include Side Show, Parade, Matt & Ben, The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?, Fully Committed, Songs for a New World, The Last Five Years, The Laramie Project, The Star-Spangled Girl, Diaghilev, and multiple workshops of new plays and musicals. In 2003, Andy produced Eli's Comin' to Broadway, a BC/EFA benefit hosted by Nathan Lane at Lincoln Center. Assistant/Associate Director (dir. Sheryl Kaller): Adrift in Macao (Off-Broadway, Primary Stages), Dangerous Beauty, The Molly Maguires. Other upcoming projects: The Last Smoker in America, Mister Fabulous. As an actor, Andy recently returned from playing Huck Finn in Big River (Mill Mountain Theatre, VA). He appeared last fall as Jimmy (opposite Lea Michele) in the NYMF production of Hot and Sweet. B.A. Yale University. Proud member of AEA and the SSDC.

 
Steven Ullman (Producer)

During his nine-year tenure as Producing Artistic Director of the Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities (1996-2005), Steven became the only producer in Los Angeles to win the L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation Award for Best Musical three times in four years: West Side Story (1999), Dreamgirls (2000), and Crazy For You (2002), besting First National Tours each year. Steven’s career as an independent producer spans 30 years. Highlights include the West Coast Premiere of David Rabe’s Hurlyburly at the Westwood Playhouse, directed by the playwright, and starred Sean Penn, Danny Aiello, Mare Winningham, Suzy Amis and Michael Lerner. In San Francisco, he produced the six-year run of Greater Tuna and The Foreigner starring Imogene Coca, Rene Auberjonois and Charlene Tilton. Steven produced and directed the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning playwright Doug Wright’s first play, The Stonewater Rapture, which won a Fringe First Award at the 1984 Edinburgh Festival in Scotland.

 
Kim Douglas Steiner (Music Supervisor)

Kim Douglas Steiner has music directed I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change in Boston, San Francisco, San Diego, Reno, Chicago and all over the country on the national tour. He is also the Music Supervisor of the show Forbidden Vegas, currently in Las Vegas. B’way: Nine, High Society. Off-B’way: The Fantasticks, Forbidden Broadway (2001, 20th Anniversary), Fame, the musical. National tours: Forbidden Broadway, Forbidden Hollywood. International: Phantom of the Opera. Regional: Guys and Dolls (Leon Rabin Award nomination - Best Musical Direction), When Pigs Fly, As Thousands Cheer, La Cage aux Folles, the world premiere of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, among many others. Kim has conducted/played for many talents such as Carol Channing, Liza Minnelli, Chita Rivera, Sam Harris, Oleta Adams, among others. He played, arranged and co-produced the 2001 Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids CD, Home for the Holidays. He wants to thank all the ILY family for the opportunity.

 
Justin Hatchimonji (Music Director)

Justin Hatchimonji graduated from Yale University with a degree in Music. While at Yale, he served as music director for productions of Parade, Assassins, Songs for a New World, The Secret Garden , and Man of La Mancha. He served as AMD and/or pianist for many others. Since moving to New York last year, he has served as music director for several productions, including The Flood (Prospect Theater Company), Latkes and Applesauce (Kaufman Center), Not Another Showcase (Grandma's Moustache), Victor/Victoria (Gallery Players), Crazy Like A Daisy (York Theater Company reading), and most recently, a reading of Twilight in Manchego (Matt Gould Productions; winner, Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation grant).

 
Shea Sullivan
Shea Sullivan (Choreographer)

NY: (upcoming) Come Up and See Me Sometime: The New Mae West Musical. Recent: Dancing on a Dream (Duke on 42nd Street Theater), Get Lifted featuring John Legend and the NY Knicks Dancers (Hammerstein Ballroom), Pali Poker III featuring members of the Radio City Rockettes (Capitale). Regional: Wizard of Oz, The Music Man, Babes in Arms, Anything Goes, Bye Bye Birdie, Thoroughly Modern Millie. TV: Tap Mania (WB 11), Real Simple Life (PBS), The Peep Show (Pilot). Assistant Choreographer: Showtime film Bojangles starring Gregory Hines (choreo: Henry LeTang), A Musical Celebration of Broadway (Drama League benefit, choreo: Maria Torres). Proud member of SSDC and on faculty at the Broadway Dance Center. Shea is the President of, SAS Productions, Inc.

 
Charles Corcoran (Scenic Design)

Recent Stage Designs include: The new musical Bookends by Katherine Houghton (New Jersey Repertory), The Molly Maguires (Kirby Center), The New York Premiere of Athol Fugard’s Exits and Entrances (Primary Stages and Edinburgh International Festival), Defender Of The Faith, The Field, Mr. Dooley’s America (Irish Repertory Theatre), The Second Tosca (45th Street Theatre), Mercy of a Storm, Mr. Dooley’s America (Chester Theatre Company), Without Walls (Mark Taper forum), Yohen, Tea (Pan Asian Rep), Violet (Gallery Players), The Drama Guild Awards (Hudson Theatre 2003-2007, with directors Bobby Longbottom, Kathleen Marshall and Michael Grief), Dreams Of Friendly Aliens, Slight Alterations (Abingdon Theatre), Hansel and Gretel (Rockland Opera), La Traviata, Gianni Schicchi and Suor Angelica (White Hall), Damn Yankees (Stages, St. Louis). Member of United Scenic Artists local 829. www.charlescorcorandesign.com

 
Herrick Goldman (Lighting Design)

 
Susan Nicholson (Assistant Lighting Design)

 
Ryan Rossetto (Costume Design)

New York credits include Burn at the 2007 Fringe Festival, Assistant Designer for Evil Dead: The Musical, and associate design work for Universal Orlando. Ryan has worked with NYTW, MTC, TFANA, Signature, NYSF, Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Oregon Cabaret Theatre, and some of it was actually fun! He owes Mr. Hinie and Marla Singer for everything!

 
Michael Cassara Casting (Casting)

Recent credits include The Molly Maguires (Pre-Broadway workshop, dir. Sheryl Kaller, mus. dir. John McDaniel), Clear Blue Tuesday (feature film, dir. Elizabeth Lucas), The Gig (benefit concert and cast recording), Breaking In (internet series), If This Hat Could Talk (national tour, dir. George Faison), Stephen Schwartz's Captain Louie (national tour), and countless readings and workshops. Regional credits include Goodspeed Musicals, the Paper Mill Playhouse, the Kitchen Theatre Company and the Hinton Battle Theatre Laboratory. Michael Cassara Casting is the resident casting office of the 2007 New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF). Upcoming: 11 shows in this year’s NYMF and the inaugural 2007-2008 season of the Stephen Sondheim Center for the Arts in Fairfield, Iowa! For more information, please visit www.michaelcassara.net.

 
Bonnie Brady (Stage Manager)

Credits include: Evil Dead, The Musical, Burleigh Grimes (New World Stages), Almost Heaven, The Songs of John Denver (Promenade), Twelve Angry Men, The Constant Wife (Roundabout), Broadway Bash (Encores), Guantánamo (Culture Project), Boy, Going to St. Ives, Strictly Academic (Primary Stages), Intrigue With Faye, Scattergood, A Letter From Ethel Kennedy (MCC), The Molly Maguires (Kirby Center). Thanks to family and friends for their continued love and support.

 
Larissa Gabriel (Assistant Stage Manager)

Off-Broadway - Evil Dead: The Musical, Manhattan Theatre Club - The Other Side; Playwrights Horizons - Memory House, On the Mountain and Spatter Pattern; Public Theatre - Two Gentlemen of Verona the Musical, Measure for Pleasure, Satellites: Armed and Naked in America, Naked Angels, The Molly Maguries, Aruba Productions. Regional: Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey - Richard II, Love’s Labour’s Lost, A Child’s Christmas in Wales, Pygmalion, Much Ado About Nothing. Various workshops and readings all over New York.

 
Martha Zamirski (Associate Producer/Publicist)

Martha Zamirski most recently worked on Diverse City Theater Company's The Female Heart and Lea Salonga's Carnegie Hall Concert. Regional and university credits include Merrily We Roll Along, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Gods at War, Grease, Anything Goes, Songs for a New World, and Nunsense II.

 
Megan B. Henninger (Sound Designer)

Megan is a recent transplant from Kansas City, MO. She designs both musical and non-musical theatre. Recent NY shows include "The Chronological Secrets of Tim" with Impetuous Theatre Group and "Dedication or the Stuff of Dreams" with The Gallery Players.

 
Chad Callaghan (Production Assistant)