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Troubadour
By Kristian Bush and Janece ShafferTroubadour
By Kristian Bush and Janece ShafferIt’s 1951 in Nashville. Country music legend Billy Mason is on the eve of his retirement. Can his soft-spoken son, Joe, step into the spotlight and carry on his legacy? When Joe joins forces with an unlikely pair—a budding songwriter and a rodeo tailor on a mission—a revolution is born, and country music is changed forever. Featuring music by Sugarland’s Kristian Bush.
Running Time
Highly enjoyable evening of musical theater
Cast
Caleb Adams*
Scott Wakefield*
Sarah Colt
Sheffield Chastain*
Kevin Bernard*
Deanna Ott*
Caleb Adams* is thrilled to make his Florida Studio Theatre debut and help bring this story to life. Theatre credits include: Once National Tour, The Sound of Music National Tour, Once at the Berkshire Theatre Festival, and Smoke on the Mountain at Totem Pole Playhouse. Film credits include: Fire with Fire on Amazon Prime. Caleb is a graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy.
Scott Wakefield* has appeared on Broadway in It Ain’t Nothin’ But The Blues; Ring Of Fire; Hands On A Hardbody. Off-Broadway: The Hello Girls; Texas In Paris; Paint Your Wagon and more. Regional appearances include The Asolo Theatre, The Old Globe, LaJolla Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse, Alliance Theatre, Seattle Repertory and many others. Mr. Wakefield performed at FST in The Fabulous Lipitones and Woody Guthrie’s American Song. He was awarded Best Actor for his portrayals of “Will Rogers” in The Will Rogers Follies, “Sheriff Ed Earl Dodd” in The Best Little Whorehouse, and “Woody Guthrie” in American Song. Scott has recorded two CDs of original music: Older Than Dirt and Vegetarian Nightmare. ScottWakefield.com
Sarah Colt is returning to FST following her debut in FST’s Cabaret Take It To The Limit. Recent regional: The Wizard of Oz (Arizona Broadway), Jersey Boys and Holiday Inn (Mill Mountain Theatre) Sweet Charity (Scranton Shakespeare), South Pacific (Broadway Plaza LI), Beauty and the Beast (Moonlight Amphitheater), Matilda (Weathervane Theatre), and many more. She is also a company member of Thistle Dance in New York, and an early childhood music educator. She holds a BFA in Acting from Marymount Manhattan College.
FST: Network, America In One Room, The Best of Enemies, The Savannah Disputation, The 39 Steps, Around The World in 80 Days, The Last Schwartz, bee-luther-hatchee, Lobby Hero BROADWAY: White Christmas; Is He Dead?; The 39 Steps (National Tour) REGIONAL: Actors Theater of Louisville, Berkeley Rep, Cape May Stage, La Jolla Playhouse, Seattle Rep, San Jose Rep, Capital Rep, Contemporary American Theater Festival, Arizona Theater Company, Dallas Theatre Center; many seasons at Shakespeare festivals in New Jersey, Alabama, Nevada, Vermont, San Francisco, Lake Tahoe, Santa Cruz TV& FILM: The Deuce, Boardwalk Empire, 30 Rock, Law & Order, Knights of Prosperity, Ed, Nash Bridges
Actor, creator, teacher, singer/songwriter, proud member of AEA. Broadway: Groundhog Day, Billy Elliot, Curtains, Oklahoma!, Thoroughly Modern Millie. Off-Broadway: The Hero, R.U.R., Lone Star Love, The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey. Seen across the country and globally in touring productions and regional houses such as Goodspeed, Paper Mill, Jupiter, Olney. Also a veteran of the thriving downtown NYC art/theatre scene: Angel Orensanz, La Mama, HERE, Surf Reality. There exists a healthy smattering of TV/Film as well.
Deanna Ott* is thankful to join the company of Troubadour at FST! Some favorites: National Tour of A Christmas Story; Dallas Theater Center: Hairspray, Frankenstein, A Christmas Carol; Casa Mañana: Rudolph, Matilda, Shrek; Oregon Cabaret Theatre: Chicago, Noises Off, Kinky Boots, C@PRP; Drury Lane: West Side Story; 3 Seasons with Utah Shakespeare Festival.
Band
PIANO | Darren Server
UPRIGHT BASS | Kroy Presley
GUITAR | Gary Grall
Creative
DIRECTOR | Kate Alexander
MUSIC DIRECTOR | Darren Server
SCENIC DESIGNERS | Axis Studios, Isabel A & Moriah Curley-Clay
COSTUME DESIGNER | Kathleen Geldard
LIGHTING DESIGNER | Ben Rawson
SOUND DESIGNER | Nicholas Christensen
STAGE MANAGER | Roy Johns*
STAGE MANAGEMENT FELLOW | Passion Shaffer