- Book by Hunter Foster
- Music & Lyrics by Matt Conner
- Based on The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
- Scenic Design Derek McLane
- Costume Design Kathleen Geldard
- Lighting Design Chris Lee
- Sound Design Matt Rowe
- Orchestrations Michael Morris
- Music Directon Gabriel Mangiante
- Directed by Matthew Gardiner
From the composer of Nevermore and Partial Eclipse, The Hollow is a chilling musical reinterpretation of the classic thriller The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. In a devout 18th century village, a mysterious stranger spreading radically new ideas challenges the traditional order. However, when rumors spread of a headless horseman murdering friends and neighbors, the townsfolk blame the outsider for this demonic curse.
“Matt Conner will be heard of many times in the future.” — BroadwayWorld.com
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American Musical Voices Project Repertory Series
Signature Theatre’s 2011/12 season launches with the pioneering AMVP Rep: a pair of world premiere musicals that make theatre history by running full productions in rotating repertory.
Sponsored by the Shen Family Foundation.
Performance Schedule:
Tue, 08/23/11 07:30 PM
Wed, 08/24/11 07:30 PM
Sat, 08/27/11 02:00 PM
Sat, 08/27/11 08:00 PM
Tue, 08/30/11 07:30 PM
Thu, 09/01/11 08:00 PM
Sat, 09/03/11 02:00 PM
Sun, 09/04/11 07:00 PM
Wed, 09/07/11 07:30 PM
Fri, 09/09/11 08:00 PM
Sat, 09/10/11 08:00 PM
Wed, 09/14/11 07:30 PM
Sat, 09/17/11 02:00 PM
Sun, 09/18/11 02:00 PM
Sun, 09/18/11 07:00 PM
Wed, 09/21/11 07:30 PM
Fri, 09/23/11 08:00 PM
Sat, 09/24/11 08:00 PM
Sun, 09/25/11 02:00 PM
Tue, 09/27/11 07:30 PM
Thu, 09/29/11 08:00 PM
Fri, 09/30/11 08:00 PM
Sun, 10/02/11 07:00 PM
Wed, 10/05/11 07:30 PM
Fri, 10/07/11 08:00 PM
Sat, 10/08/11 08:00 PM
Sun, 10/09/11 02:00 PM
Tue, 10/11/11 07:30 PM
Thu, 10/13/11 08:00 PM
Sat, 10/15/11 02:00 PM
Sun, 10/16/11 07:00 PM
The Cast
Evan Casey (Brom Van Brunt) SIGNATURE: Holiday Mayhem Cabaret, Tamar and the River (21/24 workshop), Urinetown, Ten Unknowns, Allegro. NEW YORK: NYMF: River's End. DC AREA: Kennedy Center: Snow White, Rose Red (and Fred), Tales of Custard the Dragon; Ford’s Theatre: Little Shop of Horrors, Meet John Doe, Shenandoah; Olney Theatre: Camelot, Fiddler on the Roof, Lend Me a Tenor; Studio Theatre 2ndstage: TempOdyssey, Dog Sees God; Shakespeare Theatre, Round House Theatre, Rep Stage, Theater of the First Amendment, Imagination Stage, Bay Theatre Company. REGIONAL: North Carolina Theatre, Everyman Theatre, New London Barn Playhouse. FILM: Bare Knuckle, Treasure Hunt, Flanking The Sentinel, Jargon. TV: Missing Person’s Unit, Stage Fright. OTHER: Capitol Steps. EDUCATION: Catholic University, London Dramatic Academy. TEACHING: Signature Theatre Stage One, National Conservatory of Dramatic Art, Howard Community College, Round House Theatre, Adventure Theatre.
Noah Chiet (Pieter Claassen) DC AREA: Ford’s Theatre: Liberty Smith, 2011 Ford’s Theatre Annual Gala; Ganymede Arts: Falsettos; Theater J: The History of Invulnerability (reading/upcoming); 2011 Helen Hayes Awards. READINGS: Theater J: Three Seconds in the Key; Spooky Action Theater: The Water Engine. COMMUNITY: Musical Theater Center: Guys and Dolls, 13! The Musical, Godspell, Beauty & the Beast, The Pajama Game, The Wizard of Oz; A Mario Loiederman Middle School for the Performing Arts: And a Child Shall Lead, Show and Spell. FILM: Chiet Productions: The Witness, Dub or Nothing, Stationary.
Sherri L. Edelen (Henriette Opel) SIGNATURE: Side by Side by Sondheim, Walter Cronkite is Dead., Sweeney Todd, Les Misérables (Helen Hayes Award), Urinetown, Elegies (Helen Hayes nomination), Side Show (Helen Hayes Award). DC AREA: Kennedy Center/Sondheim Celebration: Sunday in the Park with George, Merrily We Roll Along; Shakespeare Theatre: Design for Living; Olney Theatre: She Loves Me (Helen Hayes nomination); Rep Stage: Kimberly Akimbo; Round House Theatre: The World Goes ‘Round, The Diary of Anne Frank; Arena: Cabaret (Helen Hayes nomination); REGIONAL: NY Fringe Festival: Citizen Ruth; Arden Theatre: Our Town; Caroline, or Change (Barrymore nomination); Philadelphia Theatre Co.: The Light in the Piazza (Barrymore Award), Elegies (Barrymore nomination); Stages St. Louis: The Music Man, Annie Get Your Gun.
James Gardiner (Constable Vos) SIGNATURE: I Capture the Castle (21/24 workshop), [title of show], Chess, Les Misérables (Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Ensemble), Kiss of the Spider Woman, Merrily We Roll Along, The Witches of Eastwick, Saving Aimee. BROADWAY: Glory Days (book writer). DC AREA: Ford's Theatre: Liberty Smith, A Christmas Carol (Associate Director); Library of Congress: West Side Story: 50th Anniversary Concert; Everyman Theatre: A Tribute to Irving Berlin; Olney Theatre: Call of the Wild; Woolly Mammoth/UM: The Distance From Here; Kennedy Center: The Phantom Tollbooth, The Brand New Kid; Round House Theatre: A Prayer for Owen Meany; Studio Theatre: Dog Sees God. REGIONAL: Williamstown Theatre Festival: Home Free!, Create Fate, This is a Chair. FILM: Boys (Kellogg Curry Jr.). EDUCATION: University of Maryland, BA, Theatre. UPCOMING: Olney Theatre: You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown.
Sam Ludwig (Ichabod Crane) SIGNATURE: [title of show] (Jeff), Sweeney Todd (Tobias), Show Boat (Rubberface), A Fox on the Fairway (Justin, workshop), Partial Eclipse, Curveball Workshop (Ludwig), Les Misérables (Feuilly). DC AREA: Rep Stage: Speech and Debate (Solomon); Kennedy Center TYA: Snow White Rose Red (and Fred) (Sammy/Fred); MetroStage: Glimpses of the Moon (Nick); DC Fringe: Super Claudio Bros. (Luis); Creative Cauldron: The King of Pizza (Martin); Red Branch Theatre: Urinetown (Bobby); Olney Theatre: Big River (Huck), 1776 (Courier); Theatre J: The Playdoh Golem Workshop (Sam); Toby's Dinner Theatre: La Cage Aux Folles (Jean-Michele), Titanic the Musical (Barrett).
Tracy Lynn Olivera (Marie Claassen) SIGNATURE: Les Misérables (Fantine, Helen Hayes nomination), Anyone Can Whistle in Concert, ACE, The Happy Time, Merrily We Roll Along (Helen Hayes nomination); Allegro (Helen Hayes nomination); Follies; Side Show; Sweeney Todd; Mack and Mabel in concert, and many concerts and cabarets. BROADWAY: Ragtime (2009 revival). DC AREA: Kennedy Center: Ragtime, Sunday in the Park with George, Passion, Merrily We Roll Along; Shakespeare Theatre: Candide; Ford’s Theatre: Liberty Smith, Meet John Doe, Shenandoah, A Christmas Carol, Songs from the Tall Grass; Folger Theatre: Comedy of Errors; MetroStage: Closer Than Ever, The Last Five Years; Olney Theatre: West Side Story, Grease, Carousel (Helen Hayes nomination); Rorschach: company member, Rough Magic, J .B., God of Vengeance. REGIONAL: Goodman: Candide. EDUCATION: Catholic University. Faculty, Catholic University.
Margo Seibert (Xandra Vos) SIGNATURE: Tamar and the River & The Boy Detective Fails (21/24 workshop), Saving Aimee. NEW YORK: Old Vic New Voices: Taming of the Shrew; Barrow Street Theatre: Josh Schmidt: Songbook; Columbia University: Hypochondria. REGIONAL: Goodman Theatre & Shakespeare Theatre: Candide (dir. Mary Zimmerman); Two River Theatre & Folger Theatre: Orestes: A Tragic Romp, Arcadia, School for Scandal; Ford’s Theatre: A Christmas Carol; Olney Theatre: Fiddler on the Roof, Of Mice and Men, Cinderella; Studio Theatre: Reefer Madness. NATIONAL TOUR: The Kennedy Center: The Phantom Tollbooth. EDUCATION: American University. www.margoseibert.com.
Thomas Adrian Simpson (Charles Claassen) SIGNATURE: Les Misérables (Helen Hayes Award), The Witches of Eastwick, My Fair Lady, Pacific Overtures, Urinetown, Twentieth Century, 110 in the Shade (2004 Helen Hayes nomination), Floyd Collins, Grand Hotel, Over and Over, Vera, The Raft of the Medusa, Mack and Mabel. DC AREA: Ford’s Theatre: Liberty Smith, Meet John Doe, 1776, A Christmas Carol; Arena Stage: The Light in the Piazza, The Fantasticks; Shakespeare Theatre: Candide; Kennedy Center: Regina (w/ Patti LuPone); Olney Theatre: Oh, Coward!, 1776, Oliver; Studio Theatre: Adding Machine, A Musical. REGIONAL: Goodman Theatre: Candide; Wayside Theatre: Shenandoah, Man of La Mancha; Delaware Theatre Co.: A Murder A Mystery and A Marriage. EDUCATION: N.C. School of the Arts.
Russell Sunday (Ellis Buren) SIGNATURE: Chess (Walter Anderson), Sweeney Todd (Ensemble, Sweeney u/s), Les Misérables (Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Ensemble, Jean Val-Jean u/s performed). DC AREA: Studio Theatre: Jerry Springer: The Opera (Chucky, Helen Hayes nomination, Outstanding Ensemble); MetroStage: Closer than Ever, The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!); Theatre J: David in Shadow and Light (Goliath); Toby’s Dinner Theatre: Jekyll and Hyde (Jekyll/Hyde, 2003 Helen Hayes nomination for Outstanding Male Lead), Sweeney Todd (Sweeney Todd), Titanic (Andrews), Aida (Radames), Miss Saigon (Chris), Kiss Me, Kate (Fred), Beauty and the Beast (Gaston & The Beast), Damn Yankees (Young Joe), Annie Get Your Gun (Frank Butler), Carousel (Billy Bigelow).
Harry A. Winter (Baltus Van Tassel) NATIONAL TOURS: Gigi, Jolson: the Musical. DC AREA: Allegro, 110 in the Shade, Sunset Boulevard, Racing Demon, The Laramie Project, Circle Mirror Transformation, Pins and Needles, and Bringing Up Amy.
Harry A. Winter (Baltus Van Tassel) NATIONAL TOURS: Gigi, Jolson: the Musical. DC AREA: Allegro, 110 in the Shade, Sunset Boulevard, Racing Demon, The Laramie Project, Circle Mirror Transformation, Pins and Needles, and Bringing Up Amy.
Creative Team
Hunter Foster (Book) SIGNATURE: Kiss of the Spiderwoman (Helen Hayes nomination). BOOK: Summer of '42 (2002 Outer Critic Nomination: Best Off Broadway Musical), Bonnie and Clyde: A Folktale (New York Musical Theatre Festival's Most Promising New Musical in 2008). WRITING: Broadway Cares Equity Fights AIDS: annual comedy sketches for the Gypsy of the Year and Easter Bonnet competitions; Broadway Bares; NBC variety show: Rosie Live! (2008). BROADWAY: Million Dollar Quartet, The Producers, Little Shop of Horrors (Tony nomination), Urinetown, Les Misérables, Footloose, Grease, King David. OFF-BROADWAY: Ordinary Days, Happiness, Frankenstein, Dust, and Modern Orthodox. DC AREA: Kennedy Center: Mister Roberts. REGIONAL: La Jolla Playhouse: Little Miss Sunshine (James Lapine/Bill Finn). EDUCATION: University of Michigan.
Matt Conner (Music & Lyrics) COMPOSITIONS: Signature Theatre Partial Eclipse: A Rock Song Cycle (2009), Girl from No Man’s Land (incidental music, 2007), Nevermore (commissioned by Signature Theatre, book by Grace Barnes, 2006), Crossing (commissioned by Signature Theatre, Signature Theatre Workshop, book by Grace Barnes, 2008 and Workshop Production at Shenandoah University, 2011); Creative Cauldron: The Selfish Giant (adapted book, music and lyrics, 2011), Martin: The King of Pizza (commissioned by Creative Cauldron, book by A.K. Brink and Ryan Dean Halbrook, 2009); GMCW: A Carol Christmas (commissioned by GMCW, book, music and lyrics, 2007). READINGS: Nightofthelivingdead: The Musical (book by Stephen Gregory Smith, 2011). RECORDINGS: Winter (2010). AWARDS: American Musical Voices Project: The Next Generation Grant Award 2008. EDUCATION: BFA Shenandoah University 1997. www.mattconner.org, www.lullabyconner.com.
Matthew Gardiner (Director) SIGNATURE: Director: Side by Side by Sondheim, Art, [title of show], See What I Wanna See; Choreographer: Sweeney Todd, Dirty Blonde; Assistant Director and Choreographer: over 20 productions at Signature Theatre, alongside Eric Schaeffer, Frank Galati, John Rando, Karma Camp, Christopher D'Amboise and Jeremy Skidmore. Associate Artistic Director (2011-present), Resident Director (2010-2011), Resident Assistant Director (2006-2010); SIGNATURE CABARET: Director: Broadway Duets, Lost Songs of Broadway 1950s, Signature Sings (featuring Natascia Diaz & Euan Morton), December Divas II, Singing Shakespeare. NEW YORK: Director: NYMF: The Greenwood Tree; Assistant Director: Circle in the Square: Glory Days. DC AREA: Director/Choreographer: Kennedy Center: Snow White, Rose Red & Fred; Everyman Theatre: Let Me Sing And I’m Happy; MetroStage: tick, tick...BOOM!; Catholic University of America: La Boheme, Candide; Co-Director/Choreographer: Studio Theatre: Jerry Springer: The Opera, Reefer Madness (2008 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Musical and Direction of a Musical), Choreographer: Studio Theatre: Grey Gardens, Adding Machine. Assistant Director: Kennedy Center: Cat on A Hot Tin Roof. EDUCATION: Carnegie Mellon University.
Gabriel Mangiante (Music Direction) SIGNATURE: I Capture the Castle (21/24 workshop); Side By Side By Sondheim; And The Curtain Rises; Sunset Boulevard; Chess; Tamar and the River (21/24 Workshop); [title of show]; Dirty Blonde; Partial Eclipse; Giant; Signature Sings: 2000-2004; Signature Sings: 1995-1999; The Boy Detective Fails (21/24 Workshop); LaChiusa's Ladies; Ricky, Joe, and Michael John; December Divas; Lost Songs of Broadway Volumes I and II; Revenge of the Understudies I and II; various other cabarets. DC AREA: Studio: Reefer Madness (Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Resident Musical); This Beautiful City.
Michael Morris (Orchestrations) OFF-BROADWAY: Make Me A Son: The Music of William Finn (Music Supervisor/Vocal Arrangements). REGIONAL: Barrington Stage Company: The Game, Sweet Charity; Goodspeed: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, O. Henry’s Lovers; Tennessee Rep, Bailiwick: Hunchback of Notre Dame; Hartford Theatreworks: Make Me A Song, The Last 5 Years; Hartford Stage: Summer and Smoke (Vocal Coach); Marriott Lincolnshire: Peggy Sue Got Married (Vocal Arrangements); Monomoy: A Tribute to Julie Harris; New York Music Theatre Festival: The Piper, Hot and Sweet, Bloodties. RECORDINGS: Home for The Holidays (with Liza Minelli & Alan Cumming, Christine Ebersole, Liz & Anne Hampton Callaway), Christmas with Tony Bennett and the London Symphony Orchestra, The Waldenwoods Project (London Philharmonic Orchestra, music by Bruce Hornsby). OTHER: Big! (Dance Arrangements, National Tour), Kevorkian Café (Niko Associates). Director of Music for the Hartt School Theatre Division.
Derek McLane (Scenic Design) BROADWAY: Anything Goes, How to Succeed…, Bengal Tiger, Million Dollar Quartet, Ragtime, 33 Variations, Grease, Lestat, Little Women, Grease, The Pajama Game (2006 Tony Award, Best Revival); The Threepenny Opera; Little Women; I Am My Own Wife (Tony Award, Best Play); Lestat; The Women; Present Laughter; London Assurance; Holiday; The Three Sisters. OFF-BROADWAY: Lie of the Mind, Starry Messenger, The Voysey Inheritance, Two Trains Running, Macbeth (Shakespeare in the Park), Hurlyburly, Abigail's Party Modern Orthodox, The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Aunt Dan and Lemon, The Creadeux Canvas. DC AREA: Kennedy Center, Shakespeare Theatre, Arena Stage. OTHER: Resident theater work in London, Dublin, Glasgow, Moscow, Krakow, Caracas, Sydney, and Warsaw. Exhibited in the 2003 and 2007 Prague Quadrennial. AWARDS: 1997 and 2004 OBIE Awards, 2004, 2005, 2007 Lucille Lortel Awards; 2009 Tony Award, 2011 Drama Desk Award, Helen Hayes Award nominations.
Kathleen Geldard (Costume Design) SIGNATURE: Art, And the Curtain Rises (world premiere), Sunset Boulevard, Walter Cronkite is Dead. (world premiere), A Fox on the Fairway (world premiere), Chess, Sycamore Trees (world premiere), Sweeney Todd, I Am My Own Wife, Show Boat, See What I Wanna See, Les Misérables, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Happy Time. REGIONAL: La Jolla Playhouse, Huntington Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Vineyard Playhouse, Studio Arena Theatre. DC AREA: Woolly Mammoth Theatre: Eclipsed; Round House Theatre: Permanent Collection, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Eurydice, Orson's Shadow, Life x 3; Imagination Stage: The Neverending Story (2008 Helen Hayes nomination), Twice Upon a Time, The Hundred Dresses; Kennedy Center's Theatre for Young Audiences, Olney Theatre Center; Folger Theatre; Studio Theatre Secondstage; Everyman Theatre; Theater J; Rep Stage. DANCE: Liz Lerman Dance Exchange.
Chris Lee (Lighting Design) SIGNATURE: Chess, Sweeney Todd (2010), Kiss Of The Spider Woman, Merrily We Roll Along, The Word Begins, The Witches Of Eastwick, Saving Aimee, Into The Woods, Assassins, One Red Flower, Follies, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Grand Hotel, … in the absence of spring … , Side Show, Urinetown, Elegies: A Song Cycle. BROADWAY/WEST END: Fame Becomes Me, Linda Eder Live, Shakespeare’s R&J (Tokyo & London). OTHER: The Pajama Game (National Tour), The Backyardigans (National Tour), Barbie™ Live In Fairytopia™ (National Tour), Jesus Christ Superstar (European Tour). Twice Charmed, Remember The Magic, Disney’s Believe, and Disney’s Believe for Walt Disney Imagineering Creative Entertainment, Peep Show for Planet Hollywood Las Vegas, the feature film Camp, and over 200 Off Broadway and Regional Theatre productions. His studio, Unit 10 Lighting, conceives and designs lighting for clients such as Coca Cola, Ford Motor Company, Sony Ericsson, American Express, and Intel. AWARDS: 2009 Helen Hayes Award, Kiss Of The Spider Woman.
Matt Rowe (Sound Design) SIGNATURE: Side by Side by Sondheim, And the Curtain Rises, Sunset Boulevard, Walter Cronkite is Dead., A Fox on the Fairway, Chess, Sycamore Trees, [title of show], Sweeney Todd, Show Boat, First You Dream: The Music of Kander & Ebb, Dirty Blonde, Giant, The Little Dog Laughed, Les Misérables, Anyone Can Whistle in Concert, The Visit, The Happy Time, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Glory Days, Merrily We Roll Along, The Witches of Eastwick. DC AREA: Kennedy Center: Snow White, Rose Red (and Fred); Nobody’s Perfect.
Kerry Epstein (Production Stage Manager) SIGNATURE: Side By Side By Sondheim, Sunset Boulevard, A Fox on the Fairway, Chess, Sycamore Trees, Sweeney Todd, Show Boat, First You Dream: The Music of Kander and Ebb, The Hollow (21/24 Workshop), See What I Wanna See, Les Misérables, ACE, The Visit, Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Studio, Merrily We Roll Along, The Witches of Eastwick, Saving Aimee, Into the Woods, My Fair Lady, Assassins, The Sex Habits of American Women, Nevermore, Yemaya’s Belly. SIGNATURE CABARET: Partial Eclipse, December Divas, The Last Garage Hurrah. DC AREA: Kennedy Center:The Trumpet of the Swan, Salute to the Presidential Scholars in the Arts (2010 and 2011). INTERNATIONAL: Dublin Theater Festival. REGIONAL: Steppenwolf Theatre, The Goodman Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Rivendell Theatre Ensemble. EDUCATION: Dickinson College.
Lacey Talero (Assistant Stage Manager) SIGNATURE: Side By Side By Sondheim, Sunset Boulevard, A Fox on the Fairway (Dresser), Chess (Young Performer Supervisor), Sweeney Todd, Show Boat (Young Performer Supervisor), First You Dream, See What I Wanna See, Les Misérables, The Visit (Dresser), Kiss of the Spider Woman, Witches of Eastwick (Young Performer Supervisor), Saving Aimee. DC AREA: Woolly Mammoth: Maria Stuart; Catalyst Theater: The Trial, We Are Not These Hands; Theater J: Shlemiel the First; Studio Theatre: tempOdyssey; Red Light Winter; Caroline, or Change; Fat Pig; A Number; Summer Opera of Washington: Rigoletto, Cendrillon.