D’archangelis & Horneff (& friends!)
September 25th. 9:30PM. The Green Room 42
MUSICAL NUMBERS
1. Roller Coaster Ride from Single Rider………….Alexis Floyd
2. Weightless from Single Rider………….Daniel J. Maldonado
3. I Wanna Be Her from Single Rider………….Mary Malaney and Kelly Krauter
4. Quiet from Single Rider………….Angela Sclafani
5. Why Can’t I from Single Rider………….Mary Malaney
6. Streetlight Waltz from The Break………….Charissa Hogeland
7. Glow from The Radium Girls: A Jaw-Dropping New Musical………Kelly Krauter, Katie Emerson, and Paige McNamara
8. When You’re A Radium Girl from The Radium Girls: A Jaw-Dropping New Musical………Alexis Floyd, Paige McNamara, Mackenzie Lesser-Roy, Mary Malaney, and Alexis Reda
9. I’m Your Man from The Radium Girls: A Jaw-Dropping New Musical………….Jordan Donica, Alexis Floyd, Alexis Reda, Paige McNamara, Mackenzie Lesser-Roy, and Mary Malaney
10. Greenwich Village from The Radium Girls: A Jaw-Dropping New Musical………….Charissa Hogeland, Paige McNamara, and Ryan Andrews
11. My Dead Mom from The Radium Girls: A Jaw-Dropping New Musical………….Katie Emerson
12. Start a Fire from The Radium Girls: A Jaw-Dropping New Musical………….Alexis Reda
13. Can’t Promise You………….Amanda D’Archangelis
14. The Light Inside of Me from Coming Attraction………….Kelly Krauter
15. Wake Up Here from Coming Attraction………….Jordan Donica and Mackenzie Lesser-Roy
16. Run Away from Coming Attraction………….Amanda D’Archangelis and Mackenzie-Lesser Roy
17. Life in Color from Single Rider………….Samantha Pauly
THE BAND
Musical Director, Piano………….Justin P. Cowan
Guitar………….Zach Sicherman
Drums…………. Tom Jorgensen
Bass………….Lloyd Kikoler
Violin………….Danielle Breitstein
Cello………….Lydia Paulos
Orchestrations for Single Rider………….Anthony Brindisi and Jonathan Bauerfeld
Orchestrations for The Radium Girls, Coming Attraction, and others………….Amanda D’Archangelis
ABOUT AMANDA and sami
Amanda D'Archangelis (Music) and Sami Horneff (Lyrics) met in the world-renowned BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. After being paired for the final project of their first year course, D'Archangelis and Horneff quickly realized they had found a life-long partnership.
That class assignment later developed into their first full-length musical together (and their Off-Broadway debut as a team). Single Rider ran at the Players Theatre in Greenwich Village for five weeks in the summer of 2018 and was subsequently presented at the University of Alabama.
Amanda and Sami's other recent work includes The Radium Girls: A Jaw-Dropping New Musical (in collaboration with Lisa Mongillo), which premiered as a virtual production through Western Connecticut State University in 2020 and won five national awards at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival in 2021; The Break, which had its premiere reading in 2018 through the Omaha Creative Institute and has since been showcased at Lied Center for Performing Arts; and Coming Attraction, a new musical about the life of Hollywood icon Greta Garbo, which premiered at the Wilbury Theatre Group in Providence, RI, and will soon have a staged reading at the York Theatre Company.
Their work has also been performed at famed concert venues across New York City, including The Green Room 42, The Duplex, Prohibition NYC, Lincoln Center, Rockwood Music Hall, The Bitter End, The Metropolitan Room, and Feinstein's/54 Below. Recently, D'Archangelis and Horneff wrote two songs for the feature film A Ring for Christmas, which played on the UPtv network throughout the 2020 holiday season. In 2019, they were named York Theatre Company’s New/Emerging/Outstanding (NEO) Writers.
To learn more, follow Amanda and Sami on instagram at @darchangelisandhorneff or visit their websites: www.amandadarchangelis.com and www.samihorneff.com
ABOUT OUR COLLABORATORS
Justin P. Cowan (Musical Director/Piano) - New York regional credits include: West Side Story, The Producers, Hairspray, Cabaret and Annie Get Your Gun. Other regional credits include: Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George (North Carolina Summer Rep), Damn Yankees, Avenue Q, Gypsy, Guys and Dolls, Legally Blonde, How To Succeed... (Ocean State Theatre Company), South Pacific, Man of La Mancha, Pump Boys and Dinettes, Dirty Blonde, A Christmas Carol (Triad Stage), The Fantasticks. [title of show] (Florida Repertory Theatre), Annie, The Drowsy Chaperone (Maples Repertory Theatre), Always…Patsy Cline, Ethel Waters’ His Eye is on the Sparrow (Florida Studio Theatre), Little Shop Of Horrors, Something’s Afoot, A Grand Night For Singing (The Schoolhouse Theatre), The Secret Garden, Into the Woods (The Gallery Players), Zombie Prom, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (North Carolina Theatre Alliance), Caroline, or Change, Heathers, Hairspray, Into the Woods, Monty Python’s Spamalot, Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play, A Year With Frog and Toad, Dani Girl, Cabaret (UNCG School of Theatre). Church Basement Ladies, Are We There Yet?. The Winter Wonderettes (Prather Entertainment Group), Little Women, Single Rider (University of Alabama), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Das Barbecü, Songs For A New World, The 25th Annual...Spelling Bee (BIG ARTS Herb Strauss Theatre). A Little Night Music, The Who's Tommy, The Radium Girls: a Jaw Dropping New Musical, and Melancholy Play: a chamber musical (Western Connecticut State University). Justin holds D.M.A. and M.M. degrees in Conducting and a B.A. in Voice from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. More info can be found at ConductorCowan.com
Lisa Mongillo (Co-Lyricist, The Radium Girls) is a writer and lyricist based in Brooklyn. Her recent work includes: the musical dark comedy THE RADIUM GIRLS: A JAW-DROPPING NEW MUSICAL (Lyrics & Book, Winner at The Players Theatre BOO! Short Play Festival, 2019 Eugene O'Neill NMTC Semifinalist, full-length virtual production at Western Connecticut State University), the short play PARTY PEOPLE (2020 Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway Festival); the musical comedy WE ARE THE BENJAMIN HARRISON HIGH SCHOOL HORSE GIRLS! (Lyrics & Book, Out Of The Box Theatrics’ 2019 New Works Series); the short musical HOSPITAL KIDS (Lyrics & Book, 2019 City Theatre National Short Playwriting Award Finalist, Best Book at the 2018 SoundBites Festival); and the song cycle A NEVER-ENDING LINE (Lyrics, Off-Broadway, cast album released by Broadway Records). Upcoming: musical comedy THE COLOR OF THINGS (Lyrics & Book, based on the children’s book by Vivienne Shalom). Lisa is a contributing writer for Reductress. Her musicals, cabarets, and shows have been performed in places like Feinstein’s/54 Below, The Duplex, the Metropolitan Room, the PIT, the Deane Little Theater, Stage 773, the Public House Theater, the Playground, and the de Maat Theater. She was selected for the Mercer Songwriters Project at Northwestern University and the Mercer Writers’ Colony at Goodspeed. She is an alum of the College of William & Mary, the Second City Conservatory, the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, and the Annoyance Theater; and a member of Ring of Keys, MAESTRA, and the Dramatists Guild.
Anthony Brindisi (Orchestrations, Single Rider) is a New York based music director, pianist, orchestrator, and composer. Past credits include JERSEY BOYS: National Tour (Associate Conductor), FRIENDS! The Musical Parody: Las Vegas (Music Supervisor), A CHRISTMAS STORY: National Tour (Associate Conductor), SINGLE RIDER: Off-Broadway (Music Supervisor/Orchestrator) and many more regional and Off-Broadway productions. During the pandemic Anthony worked on mounting the first staged reading of VINCENT, a new musical by long time friend Matthew Demaria. Anthony is a proud member of the esteemed BMI Lehman Engle Musical Theatre Writing Program’s Advanced Class as a composer. www.anthonybrindisi.com
Jonathan Bauerfeld (Orchestrations, Single Rider) is a composer, arranger, orchestrator, and music director. He has worked on the music team of several broadway shows and first class national tours, including HAMILTON, KING KONG, THE RADIO CITY CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR, ESCAPE TO MARGARITAVILLE, SUMMER: THE DONNA SUMMER MUSICAL, and more. Bauerfeld has written several original musicals with his long term writing partner, Casey Kendall, including THE JURY (Edinburgh Fringe 2019, ECU 2020) and THE BOOK OF NAMES (Edinburgh Fringe 2018, Greens Farms Academy 2021.) He recently penned the score for SHORT SHAKES! THE COMEDY OF ERRORS at the Tony winning Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and his 10 minute original musical, BOOK LOVERS (written with lyricist/librettist Talaura Harms) is available in two languages with MTI, and has been produced many times across the US and abroad. As an orchestrator, his work has been heard at NYMF, off-broadway, the Actors Fund Gala, the Green Room 42, Symphony Space, and more. Bauerfeld has music directed off-broadway, for several TheatreWorks USA tours, and relishes any opportunity to work with the geniuses that make up D’Archangelis and Horneff. www.jonathanbauerfeld.com
Gray Horan (Librettist, Coming Attraction) is a writer and film historian. Her work uses the ‘guardrails of history’ to craft stories for the stage. Horan conceived and wrote the book for Coming Attraction, her debut musical set in early Hollywood, in Greta Garbo’s apartment on East 52nd Street. Serendipity and good fortune connected her with musical collaborators Amanda D’Archangelis and Sami Horneff. Horan was awarded a RISCA grant for the play’s premier reading at Wilbury Theatre, Providence, RI in 2019 before a S.R.O. crowd. Horan’s new play, Twelve Installations, delves into the world of art and art commerce. A performance scheduled at RISD Museum pivoted to a livestream production in 2020. Horan has written features for worldwide media outlets: The New York Times, Architectural Digest, Paris Match, Shukan Asahi, Aftonbladet, etc. She has also contributed essays to two books: Architectural Digest Hollywood at Home (Harry Abrams) and Greta Garbo, The Mystery of Style, (Skira Editore Rizzoli). A champion of film preservation, Horan works to promote the recognition of early Hollywood films as national treasures and a uniquely American art form. She has been a guest speaker at numerous film festivals, museum exhibitions and events.
ABOUT THE PERFORMERS
Alexis Floyd - Film/TV: Inventing Anna (Shonda Rhimes/Netflix, series regular, 2022), The Bold Type (Freeform, recurring), Life’s Poison (dir. Malcolm D. Lee). Off-Broadway: PS (Ars Nova, dir. Teddy Bergman), If Sand Were Stone (Theatre Row, dir. Tyler Thomas); Mitad Del Mundo (LaMama Theatre, dir. Danya Taymor). BFA in Musical Theatre from Carnegie Mellon University; Cleveland Institute of Music; Cleveland School of Ballet. Original music available on all streaming platforms. Say Her Name. @alexisgfloyd
Daniel J. Maldonado is an NYC based actor who is elated to be back on a stage again. Recent regional accolades include Newsies (Helen Hayes nomination; Arena Stage), the world premiere of Moulin Rouge! The Musical based on Baz Luhrmann’s critically acclaimed film (Emerson Colonial Theater, Boston), Grease (Pittsburgh CLO), Pippin (FreeFall Theatre), and The Graduate (Forestburgh Playhouse). He is a Rider University MT graduate. A huge thank you to Mom, Dad, family, friends, Shelly and his new little guy, Archie for all the love and support. Spread love! Stay safe! Instagram: @DanielJ_Maldonado Website: danieljmaldonado.net
Mary Malaney is beyond to excited to return to the stage (for the first time post-pandemic) with some of her absolute favorite artists! NYC credits include Single Rider (The Players’ Theatre), Carrie (Theater Now NY), and Men with Money (The Secret Theater). Regional credits: A Gentleman’s Guide… (The Public Theater of San Antonio), Ragtime (Ogunquit Playhouse), and The Music Man (Roxy Regional Theater). Mary also coaches acting and teaches a ZOOM Scene Study class. Thank you to Sami, Amanda, and Lisa for creating such brilliant stories and to Burt & Frank for believing in her! Instagram: @mary.malaney
Kelly Krauter is an LA-based performing artist who will truly jump at any opportunity to come back and perform in NYC, especially when it’s the music of some of her favorite people in the world. Kelly was most recently understudying the lead role of Jenna in the 2nd national Waitress tour. She has debuted roles in multiple productions written by Amanda & Sami including Radium Girls and Single Rider, and can’t wait to reprise some of the hilarity at this performance. You can find some of her original music on Spotify, and keep tabs on her @kellykrauter. Cheers!
Angela Sclafani is an NYC-based performer and songwriter. She was featured in the world premieres of the musicals Kansas City Choir Boy and Single Rider and participated in workshops of Burn All Night, Amelie, The Good Swimmer, Agent 355, The Last Goodbye, and Marie in Tomorrowland. Her work as a theater composer includes her song cycle Passion Project: Love Songs from Women to their Work as well as her concert musical The Other Side of Paradise, which premiered in Ars Nova's ANTFest. She has developed projects at Le Chateau de la Napoule's International Artist Residency as well as The Orchard Project Greenhouse and was a featured composer in Rattlestick Playwright Theater's New Songs Now series, 24 Hour Plays, and NY Theatre Barn’s New Works Series. As a singer-songwriter, she has independently recorded and released three EP’s of original music. Her new EP of Stevie Nicks covers will be out this fall. Angela is a 2019 Fred Ebb Award Winner, a 2018 Richie Jackson Artist Fellow, and a 2018 Jonathan Larson Grant Finalist. She is a two-time first-place winner in the Great American Songwriting Contest’s Adult Contemporary category and was a finalist in both the Unsigned Only Music Competition and the John Lennon Songwriting Contest. Angela earned her BFA at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. www.angelasclafani.com
Charissa Hogeland - Credits include Disney’s Frozen on Broadway, Heathers the Musical Off-Broadway, 1st National Tour of Kinky Boots, NBC’s Jesus Christ Superstar Live, and Amazon Prime’s Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
Katie Emerson (she/her) is a NYC based actor, singer, and artist. Most recently, she reprised the role of Ariel in “The Little Mermaid” at PCPA Theatrefest in Santa Maria, CA and was featured at the 92nd Street Y in the new musical Between the Lines with Victoria Clark. Favorite credits: Peter Pan (Peter Pan), How the Grinch Stole Christmas North American Tour (Punky Who), The Light in the Piazza (Clara), and the countless new musicals she’s helped develop in NYC. Katie has performed Off-Broadway, all over the world and for President Bill Clinton. AEA. BFA Elon University. Insta: @itskatieemerson www.katieemerson.org
Paige McNamara is honored to be singing the amazing music of D'Archangelis & Horneff! Paige has performed regionally and has toured both the country and world in Broadway hits Mamma Mia!, Sister Act, & A Night With Janis Joplin. She is a proud graduate of Wagner College and feels lucky to be returning to the stage in this concert among such a fantastic group of people. @paigey_mac
Mackenzie Lesser-Roy - So thrilled to be performing at Green Room 42 for the first time! Mackenzie played the lead roles of Girl and Jovie on both national tours of Once and Elf, respectively. She has performed at various regional theaters, including Bucks County Playhouse and Speakeasy Stage Company, and has worked with renowned directors Jerry Mitchell and Rebecca Taichman. You can catch her playing the cello in several episodes of NBC's Rise or at gigs around the city. Endless thanks to Amanda, Sami, Lisa, and Justin for including me in this very special night with so many talented artists! @mackenzie_lesserroy
Alexis Reda is a senior BFA Musical Theater major at Western Connecticut State University from Trumbull, CT. Outside credits include: Quisisana Resort, Seussical (Bird Girl). Credits from WCSU include: The Radium Girls: A Jaw Dropping New Musical (Olive Witt), Hedda Freeman (Thea Everett), and A Little Night Music (Anne Egerman).
Jordan Donica Jordan Donica is currently starring as Jordan Chase in the third season of the CW’s Charmed and recently guest starred in the award-winning Blue Bloods. Jordan originated the role of Freddy Eynsford-Hill in the 2018 Tony-nominated Lincoln Center Theater production of My Fair Lady. He also starred as Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson in the first Los Angeles and San Francisco companies of Hamilton. An Indianapolis native, Jordan made his debut starring as the leading man, Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny, in the historic Broadway production of The Phantom of the Opera. In addition to his theater and TV work, he was featured at the Washington National Opera gala at The Kennedy Center, the Pasadena Symphony, and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. He starred as Sir Lancelot in Lincoln Center Theater’s gala production of Camelot opposite Lin Manuel Miranda. Regional credits include: Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar (Weathervane Playhouse), ensemble in South Pacific (Utah Shakespeare Festival), featured performer in The Greenshow (USF), Captain/Hennessy in Dames at Sea (Otterbein Summer Theatre), and Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (Noblesville Shakespeare in the Park, Indianapolis Mitty Most Impressive Actor award 2013). His film credits include Coda: An Independent Film by Abe Purvis. Jordan was featured at the American Songbook Hall of Fame celebration at the invitation of Michael Feinstein. He directed the 2015 Festival Play, Little Prints, a new student work that he is currently re-working with playwright Anna Mulhall, and he is writing a musical, Bully. He directed a gala performance of Exonerated at Northwestern University for the Center of Wrongful Convictions featuring Harry Lennix and Katrina Lenk. Jordan is a 2016 graduate of Otterbein University, where he graduated cum laude with a BFA in Musical Theatre. An ambassador for The Innocence Project, family is everything to Jordan because without the “little village” of women who raised him, he would not be where he is today. “Every day is a gift,” he says.
Ryan Andrews is gay, single and ready to mingle. He is the host of "Why Are You Like This?" a podcast devoted to finding out who we are and why we do the things we do. Follow his shenanigans on twitter and instagram @rtayrews.
Samantha Pauly – Broadway: SIX the Musical as Katherine Howard. West End: Eva Peron in Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s critically acclaimed revival of Evita (Evening Standard Theatre Award, WhatsOnStage Award, Olivier nomination) National Tours: Bat Out Of Hell (Valkyrie). Regional: SIX as Katherine Howard (Joseph Jefferson Award); Evita as Eva Peron, Honeymoon in Vegas as Betsy Nolan, Godspell, Seussical (Marriott Theatre), Hairspray as Amber von Tussle, Elf the Musical as Jovie (Paramount Theatre), Beaches as Teen Ceecee (Drury Lane Theatre), Evita as Eva Peron (Westport County Playhouse). TV: “Chicago PD” (NBC), Purina, Dyson, T-Mobile, Mike’s Hard Lemonade. www.samanthapauly.com, @sampauly
SPECIAL THANKS
We’d like to extend a super huge thank you to The Green Room 42 for having us tonight, as well as Keith Hurd of Marketing Entertainment Group for making this concert possible. Special shout out to Bella, Michael, and Gabe at The Green Room for all your help. Lisa, thank you for being our partner in crime, and Justin, thank you for being our biggest cheerleader. Anthony and Jonathan - we are so thrilled your gorgeous orchestrations could come alive again tonight. Gray, thank you for trusting us with this important work. Pat, Rick, and the BMI Workshop: we are forever grateful that you brought us together. And to our parents, families, and friends - thank you all for being here and supporting us through these incredibly challenging 18 months. We couldn’t have done it without you.
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