Based on the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Motion Picture With Story and Characters by
AMY HOLDEN JONES
Written by
SANDY RUSTIN
Arrangements and Orchestrations by
CARMEL DEAN
Scenic Design
NATE BERTONE
Prop Design
NATE BERTONE
KEVIN WILLIAMS
Costume Design
JEN CAPRIO
Lighting Design
RYAN O’GARA
Sound Design
JOSH BESSOM
Wig, Hair, & Makeup Design
KATIE McCOY YAGEN
Music Supervision
CARMEL DEAN
Music Direction
KRISTIN STOWELL
Choreographed by
CONNOR GALLAGHER
Associate Choreographer
HANNAH SIMMONS
Developed by Lively McCabe Entertainment and Concord Theatricals
2021 World Premiere Production Produced by Ogunquit Playhouse, Ogunquit, ME
Bradford T. Kenney, Executive Artistic Director, Kent Bridges, Managing Director
Subsequently Developed by The Adirondack Theater Festival
Producing Artistic Director: Miriam Weisfeld
Directed by
CASEY HUSHION
song list
Addicted to Love
Robert Palmer
All I Need Is a Miracle
Mike and the Mechanics
Girls Just Want To Have Fun
Cyndi Lauper
Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Pat Benatar
Hold On
Wilson Phillips
I Think We're Alone Now
Tiffany
I'm the Only One
Melissa Etheridge
Into The Mystic
Van Morrison
Lost In Your Eyes
Debbie Gibson
Mad About You
Belinda Carlisle
Manic Monday
The Bangles
Never Gonna Give You Up
Rick Astley
Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
Starship
Please Forgive Me
Bryan Adams
Small Town
John Cougar Mellencamp
Take My Breath Away
Berlin
The Power of Love
Huey Lewis and the News
When I See You Smile
Bad English
You Keep Me Hanging On
Kim Wilde
PRAISE FOR MYSTIC PIZZA
“A hot slice of theatrical fun!”
“Mystic Pizza has the ingredients to make it a popular success wherever it plays.”
“A charming, light-hearted story... and a string of 1980s tunes that will have you reminiscing about big hair, neon colors and shoulder pads.”
“A great girls’ night out and further proof that girls just wanna have fun. But bring the boys in your life. They’ll love it, too.”
“Bravo to Ogunquit Playhouse for figuring out the secret sauce, because wow – with Mystic Pizza they deliver a delicious product.”
CREATIVE TEAM
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Sandy Rustin is an actress and award-winning playwright named by American Theatre Magazine as one of the “Most-Produced Playwrights of the ’22-’23 season.” Her stage adaptation of the film CLUE is one of the most-produced plays in the U.S., with over 3,000 productions worldwide. Her original comedy, THE COTTAGE, premiered on Broadway in July 2023 at The Hayes Theatre (Jason Alexander, director). Other works include: the concert adaptations of DEAR WORLD & I MARRIED AN ANGEL for New York City Center Encores!, Mattel’s AMERICAN GIRL LIVE!, THE SUFFRAGETTE’S MURDER (upcoming premiere), RATED P FOR PARENTHOOD (Off Broadway/ABC-TV), HOUSTON (New American Musical Award), ALWAYS SOMETHING THERE for Primary Wave Music, and many others. Sandy serves on the Board of Camp Kesem, helping children through a parent’s cancer diagnosis. She lives in Maplewood, NJ with her husband and two sons. www.sandyrustin.com. INSTA: @sandyrustin_
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Carmel Dean is a Composer, Arranger, Musical Director and Pianist. Her first musical, Renascence, was recently produced Off-Broadway by the award-winning Transport Group, and was named Best New Musical at the 2018 Off-Broadway Alliance Awards. The Original Off-Broadway Cast album is available on Apple Music and Spotify. Her song cycle Well-Behaved Women, starring Broadway stars LaChanze, Bonnie Milligan, Liz Callaway, Barbara Walsh and Andrea Burns, among others, premiered to sold-out performances at Joe’s Pub in New York City, and a critically-acclaimed run in Sydney, Australia. An album is forthcoming. As a Musical Supervisor and Arranger her upcoming projects include The Notebook with music by Ingrid Michaelson. Carmel was Musical Director for the Broadway musical If/Then, starring Idina Menzel, and was Music Supervisor of the subsequent National Tour. Other Broadway credits include Hands on a Hardbody, American Idiot, and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Off-Broadway credits include Everyday Rapture, Vanities and Elegies by William Finn. International credits include Chicago in Hong Kong and the 2000 Olympic Games Opening and Closing Ceremonies in Sydney. Carmel has also served as Chita Rivera’s Musical Director for many national and international appearances, and she performed with Green Day on the Grammy Awards in 2010.
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Casey Hushion has had the pleasure of working on Broadway for many years, on projects including MEAN GIRLS, ALADDIN, THE PROM, IN THE HEIGHTS, and THE DROWSY CHAPERONE as the Associate & Resident Director. Working with Broadway's finest writers, producers, directors and creative teams, Casey has simultaneously established a successful directing career of her own. Recently Casey directed the new hit play CLUE, which premiered at Cleveland Playhouse. The production went on to successful runs at La Mirada, Paper Mill Playhouse, and was the most licensed U.S. Play in 2020 & 2021. Also at Paper Mill Playhouse: A JOLLY HOLIDAY: Celebrating Disney’s Broadway Hits and the streaming production of BEEHIVE. Casey directed the world premiere of MYSTIC PIZZA at Ogunquit Playhouse. Other New York credits include CALL ME MADAM at City Center Encores, FAT CAMP at the American Theatre of Actors, and the Broadway production of NERDS (almost). For television, she has choreographed episodes of UNBREAKABLE KIMMY SCHMIDT and staged press events for The Tonight Show, Good Morning America, The View, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and the NBC special One Night Only: The Best of Broadway. Concerts include Celebrating 25 Years of Disney On Broadway at the New Amsterdam Theatre, Broadway in Bryant Park, Carousel and A Little Night Music with The Boston Pops. Casey served as the Artistic Director of North Carolina Theatre for ten years, where she directed over twenty productions.
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Connor Gallagher has most recently done the choreography for Broadway’s Beetlejuice. And on top of that, he has choreographed Roundabout’s The Robber Bridegroom and directed a reimagined production of Beauty and the Beast for Disney Creative Entertainment.
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Kristin Stowell is a music director, pianist, composer, arranger, copyist, and educator based in Washington, D.C. Recent credits include music directing the world premieres of On Cedar Street (Berkshire Theatre Group) and Mystic Pizza (Ogunquit Playhouse), and the regional premiere of The Cher Show (Ogunquit Playhouse). Her original award-winning musical Endometriosis: The Musical was featured in the 2022 Minnesota Fringe Festival. Kristin currently serves on the musical theatre faculty at American University.
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As a theatrical storyteller, Nate is a member of The Dramatists Guild and USA829 and works as a playwright/director, and scenic designer. Working often on World Premieres, he recently designed May We All, Mystic Pizza, Dracula, and Punk Rock Girl!. Nate’s theatrical work has appeared with Disney's D23 Expo, Google, Broadway Sacramento, Ballet Memphis, Ogunquit Playhouse, Bucks County, NSMT, The Rev, TBTS, and more. As the Associate to Beowulf Boritt: Be More Chill (West End/Japan), Crazy for You (LCT), Superhero (2ST). Assistant to: New York, New York, Freestyle Love Supreme, A Bronx Tale (Broadway). His plays Letters From War and The SeaView Nursing Home for the Newly Deceased are currently in development. Represented by Gersh Agency. Carnegie Mellon Alumnus. Dean's Scholar at Central Saint Martins, London. @natebertone, natebertone.com
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Broadway: Spamalot (2023 revival), Falsettos and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. National/International: Falsettos, Joseph…, The Lion (West End/US Tour), …Spelling Bee (US Tours) and various rock revues for Universal Studios, Norwegian and Celebrity Cruise Lines, Hershey Park and the IBEROSTAR resorts in Mexico. New York: PHISH 2023 New Year’s Eve at MSG, City Center Encores!, Audible/Minetta Lane, Second Stage, Manhattan Theatre Club, Roundabout, Primary Stages, Cherry Lane, LaMama, ETC and others. Regional: Over 150 LORT and Opera productions including collaborations at The Kennedy Center, The Guthrie Theater and her hometown theater, Papermill Playhouse. TV: Tiny Time Travel (PBS KIDS), Sesame Street (ACD seasons 47-54), The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo (ACD Seasons 1-2) Manhunt (ACD Apple TV+). 2020 Daytime Emmy Winner and 2019 & 2021 Daytime Emmy Nominations for Sesame Street. www.jencaprio.com Instagram: @jencapriocostumedesign
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Broadway- Thoughts of a Colored Man. US Tour- Million Dollar Quartet- Christmas, A Night with Janis Joplin, Blippi, Vocalocity, The Walking Dead Experience, The Little Prince. Cirque Du Soleil's Paramour in Germany. CLUE- Paper Mill and Cleveland Play House. Out of Shadowland Disney Tokyo Sea. NY- NBCU upfront at Radio City Music Hall, Santuary, Tail! Spin!, Useless, Lady Day at the Little Shubert Theatre, The Mysterious Hat, Brazil Brazil, Knuckle Heads Zooand Black Violin at the New Victory Theatre, Michael Count’s- Moses in Egypt for New York City Opera, play/date at Fat Baby plus THE RIDE, Andrea Thome’s- Pinkolandia, Lourds Lane’s- Chix 6/ Super You, John Maran’s- A Raw Space and A Strange and Separate People, Stephen Stahl’s- Straight to Hell and Norman Doesmen, David Straussman’s- Dummy plus various designs for The Sonnet Repertory Company, Lincoln Center Festival, NYU/Playwrights Horizons and Westbeth Theatre Center. Regional- TUTS, Paper Mill Playhouse, Walnut Street Theatre, Drury Lane- Chicago (2019 Jefferson Nomination) Cleveland Play House, Syracuse Stage, Baltimore Center Stage, Signature Theatre DC, Capital Repertory Theatre, Bucks County Playhouse, North Carolina Theatre, 15 productions at the Bristol Riverside Theatre most recently Man of LaMancha (Barrymore Award). O’Gara has designed extensively in the dance world for: American Ballet Theatre, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, MOMIX, gloATL, Ballet Hispanico, Ron DeJesus Dance, Cedar Lake Ensemble, Dance Works- Chicago, Ballet Augsburg, Gauthier Dance, Neos Dance Theatre, Giordano Jazz Dance, Luna Negra Dance Theatre, Revolution at the Joyce Theatre and the Nike Rockstar Workout with Jamie King. On Broadway he has served as the Associate Lighting Designer for: POTUS, Ain't too Proud, Summer, Prince of Broadway, Come From Away, Bronx Tale, Paramour, Hamilton, Dr. Zhivago, Honeymoon in Vegas, Bronx Bombers, After Midnight, A Christmas Story, Jesus Christ Superstar, Magic/Bird, How to Succeed..., Baby It’s You, Long Story Short, Lombardi, Million Dollar Quartet, All About Me, West Side Story, To Be or Not To Be, Cry Baby, Gypsy, In the Heights, Xanadu, Love Musik and Avenue Q. O’Gara is a graduate of the School of Design and Production from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
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is a sound designer and audio engineer. He manages an indie record label and recording studio, Organik Records.
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Recent design credits include Carousel for Sacramento Music Circus, and Young Frankenstein, Clue, In The Heights, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Man of La Mancha, Peter Pan, Les Misérables, Miss Saigon, Carrie the Musical for MRE. She has also supervised on numerous national tours. Kaitlin loves the work she does and the joy it brings to the audience. Thank you to Trevor and baby Harvey and my family for your continuous love and support.
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is a New York based music director, arranger, and orchestrator who primarily works in new musical theater. He is the music director of The Notebook by Ingrid Michaelson and Bekah Brunstetter and directed by Michael Greif and Schele Williams, starting previews on Broadway February 6, 2024. BROADWAY: Be More Chill. OFF-BROADWAY: Broadway Bounty Hunter, Baby, Billy and the Killers, Generation Me, Renascence. SELECT REGIONAL: The Notebook (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), Disney’s A Jolly Holiday (Paper Mill), Row (Williamstown), Mystic Pizza (Ogunquit), May We All (Tennessee Performing Arts Center), Punk Rock Girl (The Argyle Theatre), Other World (Bucks County Playhouse), Love in Hate Nation (Two River), The Honeymooners, and October Sky (Marriott Theater). OTHER WORK: Ride (West End), Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical, The Remarkable Journey to Tianguo, Little Dancer, Becoming Nancy, American Songbook (Lincoln Center), orchestrations for The American Pops Orchestra, and concerts for Disney on Broadway. As an Orchestrator and Arranger, he has orchestrated experiences for cruise lines such as Explora Journeys, arranged medleys for 90+ performers for The Jimmy Awards, orchestrated reductions for theaters such as The Marriott Theatre, and done new orchestrations for classics such as Baby (with a new book by Richard Maltby, Jr.). He has several projects in development including Always Something There, a new musical by Sandy Rustin with hit tunes from the 80’s.
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What a joy it is to be joining this team. She has been lucky enough to perform, choreograph, assist and Dance captain from LA to NYC. Creatively she has been apart of Knotts Berry Farm Entertainment, Young Americans, Vanguard University, Billy Elliot (LA), Kicking and Screaming (New York Symphony Space). With a heart for performing as well, notable stage productions include Mamma Mia, Rudolph (Swing/Dance Capt.), Cats (Rumpleteazer), Swing! (Comic Couple), 7 Brides (Liza), Oklahoma (Gertie), Hairpsray (Tammy), A Chorus Line (Bebe), Gypsy (Agnes/Showgirl), 1940‘s Radio Hour (Connie), Hello Dolly (Minnie Fay), Music Man (Ens.), and All Shook Up (Featured Dancer). Other mentionable work, performing with Todrick Hall, playing Barbie for Mattel, and a decade of singing and dancing for Disney Entertainment. On her off time she loves teaching a doing yoga, baking sweets, themed dinner and movie nights, and anything at the beach!
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Lively McCabe Entertainment is a theatrical development and acquisition company founded in 2017 by former Disney executive Michael Barra. The company is best known for its collection of theatrical properties including: CLUE (the most produced play in US Schools for 4 straight years) and it's UK sibling CLUEDO, the musical adaptation of MYSTIC PIZZA, country music musical MAY WE ALL (developed with Florida Georgia Line), and Joe Iconis' PUNK ROCK GIRL!. For more info please visit www.livelymccabe.com
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Celebrating over 30 years at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts, McCoy Rigby Entertainment (MRE), is one of the world’s premier theatrical production companies. Combining the talents of musical theatre star Cathy Rigby with Tom McCoy’s extensive production and theatrical experience, MRE has produced over one hundred musicals, plays, and concerts featuring some of the biggest stars in the industry today. In addition, MRE has launched several Emmy Award- winning and Tony Award-nominated Broadway, international, and national touring productions including: Peter Pan, Seussical the Musical, and Annie Get Your Gun, all starring Cathy Rigby; Frank Wildhorn’s Jekyll and Hyde starring American Idol contender and Tony Award nominee Constantine Maroulis along with Grammy Award nominee and R&B superstar Deborah Cox; Jesus Christ Superstar starring Carl Anderson and Sebastian Bach; Camelot starring Michael York and Lou Diamond Phillips and Happy Days written by Gary Marshall and Paul Williams. Peter Pan starring Cathy Rigby has made four stops on Broadway and received four Tony Award nominations including Best Revival of a Musical and Best Actress in a Musical. The A&E TV network premiere of “Peter Pan,” starring Cathy Rigby, received one Emmy Award and four Emmy Award nominations. MRE’s other credits include numerous award-winning documentaries and stadium events. Creative home-base for McCoy Rigby is the beautiful La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts, where the company has produced more than two decades of award-winning plays, musicals and concerts. Each season has offered an eclectic mix of dramas, musicals and comedies.
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Primary Wave Music is the leading independent publisher of iconic and legendary music in the world. The company is home to some of the most iconic songwriters, artists, and record labels across the history of recorded music including Sun Records, Bob Marley, Stevie Nicks, Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons, Smokey Robinson, Whitney Houston, Burt Bacharach, Prince, Olivia Newton-John, Ray Charles, Aerosmith, Def Leppard, War, Robbie Robertson, Count Basie, Sly & The Family Stone, Boston, Alice Cooper, Paul Anka, Boy George and Culture Club, Allee Willis, Leon Russell, Free, Toots & The Maytals, Steve Cropper, Glenn Gould, Air Supply, Holly Knight, Godsmack, Disturbed, Devo, Donny Hathaway, Nicky Chinn, Noel Hogan (Cranberries), Dan Wilson, KT Tunstall, Patrick Leonard, Sturken & Rogers, and many more. The songs represented by Primary Wave include over 1,000 Top 10 singles, and over 400 #1 hits. Throughout the company’s 15-year existence, Primary Wave Music has embraced an entrepreneurial spirit, offering and executing proactive one-of-a-kind ideas, unique services and marketing campaigns for our artists. Primary Wave has earned a stellar reputation for being forward thinking and re-introducing classic artists and their music into the modern marketplace as well as nurturing young talent to become legends themselves. This success is based upon our team of seasoned and creative executives collaboratively working together closely with our artists as partners. As a company, we strive for excellence in the pursuit of iconic artists and catalogs that not only reflect great artistry, but impact and influence culture.
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La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts is a Tony-nominated theatre that has been hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "one of the best Broadway-style houses in Southern California." This beautiful state-of-the-art theatre has been producing quality productions since 1977. The theatre has produced several national tours and is the recipient of many accolades, including Tony, Emmy and Ovation Award nominations. For its 2012-13 season, it won the LA Stage Alliance Ovation Award for Best Season of the Year.
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Riverside Theatricals, LLC (Allen D. Cornell / Producing Artistic Director/ CEO, Jon R. Moses / Managing Director/COO, Patti Rooney / CFO) is a division of Riverside Theatre, Inc. With over 50 years of experience producing Broadway shows for Vero Beach and the entire Treasure Coast of Florida, Riverside Theatricals is dedicated to creating original works from script to score and partnering with other creators of new works for development, producing, and touring opportunities.
