Passion 2003

Tahoe Arts produced Stephen Sondheim's Passion at Piper's Opera House in the Fall of 2003. Piper's is in Virginia City and is a wonderful and historic venue. Suzie Tagayev directed and played the part of Fosca. Saundra Chaon played Clara, and I did the vocal direction and played the part of Giorgio. Dave Hamilton and Kurt Munger from LTCC were also part of the cast. I think doing the show at Piper's had something to do with that. This is one of the few shows where I don't seem to have a program. Lev had also gotten one of those souvenir "fake news" papers.

Joy Michiel gave us a nice writeup in the Tahoe This Week.

I do have lots of photos from this production.

From left: Chris Taylor, Emily Hammer, Kurt Munger, Tony Windisch, Suzie Tagayev, Darrell Moore, Mark D. Williams, David Hamilton, Saundra Chaon, Jim DeZerga, Lev Tagayev, Susan Haas.

Guilty Pleasures 2003

Guilty Pleasures had been well-received when we opened the previous summer. Dave updated the script and we added some new songs.

Ginger Janssen provided a new poster with a similar design as the original but with updated fake quotes. The Action also had a little blurb on us.

There was a great review of the show in the Tahoe Daily Tribune.

We also did a similar cast promo shot.

Working 2003

In Spring of 2003 LTCC produced Working based on the Studs Terkel book with music by Stephen Schwartz et al. I did the music direction, midied the score, and even though John Wade is listed as the Mason, I sang the song.

The poster turned out really cool.

I found a cast picture on Susie Sheridan's Facebook page. There was also one in the paper.

Faculty Recital 2003

Salli Parker and I did another recital for the Classical Concert Series at LTCC in February of 2003. Salli gave me a little break by performing a few solo pieces herself.

The Tahoe Daily Tribune had a nice article about it.