Down in the Valley

WRITTEN BY: Kurt Weill
PERFORMED AT: Corning Community College, Corning, NY
PERFORMED ON: October 26-28, 1995
DIRECTOR: Dr. James Hudson, with staging by Clare Reidy
SPONSORED BY: CCC Music Guild
PRINCIPAL CAST:
* BRACK WEAVER- Tom Jackson
* JENNIE PARSONS- Amber La Bella
* THOMAS BOUCHE- Steve Terwilliger
* THE LEADER/THE PREACHER- Mike Sherman
* GUARD/MAN #1/DANCER #4- David Alan Scott Jr.
* PETERS/DANCER #2- Adam Youngs
* JENNIE'S FATHER- Joshua Evans
* MAN #2- Tom Benedict
* WOMAN #1- Penny Appenzellar
* WOMAN #2- Laura Fusare
* DANCER #1- Jill Demonstoy
* DANCER #3- Ann Jackson

PLOT: Two young Southern lovers (Tom Jackson & Amber La Bella) are torn apart by a jealous man (Steve Terwilliger). A tragic operetta, a musical with its own choral section onstage through the entire show.

HISTORY: Though I had been involved with the East High chorus for about a year, I had never been involved in anything quite like "Down in the Valley" before.
Clare Reidy, who directed me in the dance scenes, later recommended me to Rafael Grigorian, who then cast me in the "Russian Nutcracker" less than two months later.