“It’s so bad. It’s good.”
From Mischief, Broadway masters of comedy, comes the smash hit farce. Welcome to opening night of the Cornley University Drama Society’s newest production, The Murder at Haversham Manor, where things are quickly going from bad to utterly disastrous. This 1920s whodunit has everything you never wanted in a show—an unconscious leading lady, a corpse that can’t play dead, and actors who trip over everything (including their lines). Nevertheless, the accident-prone thespians battle against all odds to make it through to their final curtain call, with hilarious consequences! Part Monty Python, part Sherlock Holmes, this Olivier Award–winning comedy is a global phenomenon that’s guaranteed to leave you aching with laughter!
Playbill
Production Team
Raquel Oden
Stage Management/Sound & Lightboard Operator
Rod Oden
Production Design
Beth Bentley
Costume Design
Zac Hunter
Master Carpenter
Mike Cline
Volunteer Coordinator
Colleen Welday
Scenic Charge
Julia Rockwell, Colleen Welday
Scenic Painting
Alice Rich, Rod Oden
House Managers
Beth Bentley, Peter Bentley, Julia Rockwell, Colleen Welday
Deck Crew
Maxwell Greger, Dan Grogan, Diane Hooper, Zac Hunter, Mason Livers, Ashley Pearson, Rod Oden, Julia Rockwell, Colleen Welday
Set Construction and Painting
Alice Rich, Anne Wilson, Barbara Lockert, Becky Porter, Betty Mickle, Carolyn Glasgow, Cassandra Barrier, David Post, David Carmichael, Diane Hooper, Jackie Curran, Jean Kadela, Jill Jones, John Sofley, June Hundley, Kathy Pulliam, Linda Jones, Liz Senn, Mark Curran, Michael Brooks, Nancy Gaines, Pamela Sofley, Buddy Farnan, Sabra Mills, Sandy Bevels, Stephen Drinkard, Susan Sessler
FOH Volunteers
Credits
Henry, Henry, and Jonathan met while training at The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). All core members of Mischief Theatre, they had already worked in comedy together for several years before they started out as a writing team. The three’s first piece was THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (winner – Best New Comedy – Olivier Awards and What’s On Stage Awards). The show started out on the London and Edinburgh fringe before touring the UK and internationally and then returning to the West End in September 2014, where it is still running. It's also playing on Broadway and heading out on a US tour in 2018 and has been performed in over 20 other countries around the world. PETER PAN GOES WRONG was the trio’s second piece, opening in November 2014 for a UK tour before a hugely successful West End season in Christmas 2015. Henry, Henry, and Jonathan recently adapted the script of PETER PAN GOES WRONG for the BBC, which was filmed with the original West End cast and broadcast to rave reviews on New Year’s Eve. They were invited back to wreak more havoc at the BBC in 2017 with CHRISTMAS CAROL GOES WRONG on BBC1. THE COMEDY ABOUT A BANK ROBBERY marks their third writing project as a trio and earned them another Olivier Nomination. @mischiefcomedy and mischieftheatre.co.uk
Henry, Henry, and Jonathan met while training at The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). All core members of Mischief Theatre, they had already worked in comedy together for several years before they started out as a writing team. The three’s first piece was THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (winner – Best New Comedy – Olivier Awards and What’s On Stage Awards). The show started out on the London and Edinburgh fringe before touring the UK and internationally and then returning to the West End in September 2014, where it is still running. It's also playing on Broadway and heading out on a US tour in 2018 and has been performed in over 20 other countries around the world. PETER PAN GOES WRONG was the trio’s second piece, opening in November 2014 for a UK tour before a hugely successful West End season in Christmas 2015. Henry, Henry, and Jonathan recently adapted the script of PETER PAN GOES WRONG for the BBC, which was filmed with the original West End cast and broadcast to rave reviews on New Year’s Eve. They were invited back to wreak more havoc at the BBC in 2017 with CHRISTMAS CAROL GOES WRONG on BBC1. THE COMEDY ABOUT A BANK ROBBERY marks their third writing project as a trio and earned them another Olivier Nomination. @mischiefcomedy and mischieftheatre.co.uk
Henry, Henry, and Jonathan met while training at The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). All core members of Mischief Theatre, they had already worked in comedy together for several years before they started out as a writing team. The three’s first piece was THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (winner – Best New Comedy – Olivier Awards and What’s On Stage Awards). The show started out on the London and Edinburgh fringe before touring the UK and internationally and then returning to the West End in September 2014, where it is still running. It's also playing on Broadway and heading out on a US tour in 2018 and has been performed in over 20 other countries around the world. PETER PAN GOES WRONG was the trio’s second piece, opening in November 2014 for a UK tour before a hugely successful West End season in Christmas 2015. Henry, Henry, and Jonathan recently adapted the script of PETER PAN GOES WRONG for the BBC, which was filmed with the original West End cast and broadcast to rave reviews on New Year’s Eve. They were invited back to wreak more havoc at the BBC in 2017 with CHRISTMAS CAROL GOES WRONG on BBC1. THE COMEDY ABOUT A BANK ROBBERY marks their third writing project as a trio and earned them another Olivier Nomination. @mischiefcomedy and mischieftheatre.co.uk
Cast
JONATHAN E.C. WALLACE (Chris/Inspector Carter) is having the greatest time performing on the Lee St Theater stage! As a former professional actor for over ten years, Jonathan has had the pleasure to share the stage with so many wonderfully talented people. This tradition continues at Lee St with the wealth of local talent that truly makes Lee St such a special place to come together for live theater. Professional credits include; Annie Get Your Gun, Next to Normal, Thoroughly Modern Milly, Floyd Collins, and Lyle the Crocodile. Local credits include; Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Willy Wonka Jr, and A Christmas Carol. Jonathan would like to thank his wife Lane for her love and for supporting his passion, his mom Mary Ann McCubbin for watching the kids, and his sons Leo and Oliver who think that Daddy is the funniest person alive!
MAXWELL GREGER (Jonathan/Charles Haversham) is excited to be back at Lee Street theatre doing this hilariously funny and fantastic show and working with such a wonderfully talented cast. Maxwell has been acting for five years. You may have seen recently as Hal in “Proof” (Davidson Community Players). Last year he was in “Frankenstein” and “Our Town” here at Lee Street, in “Sweat” last summer at the Warehouse PAC where he played the role of Jason and also in “Clue” at Old Courthouse Theatre as Wadsworth.
NICK CULP (Robert/Thomas Colleymore) is so excited to be back at Lee Street working on this silly play with these talented people! Other LST credits include Brad in “The Rocky Horror Trolley Tour”, (Laurie / Rodrigo in “Little Women,” Will Ogden in “Mothers & Sons” and Will Bloom in “Big Fish.” Nick was most recently seen in PPT’s productions of “Legally Blonde” (Professor Callahan), “title of show” (Hunter) and “Ragtime” (Younger Brother), as well as “Into the Woods” (Baker) with Lexington Live. Recent professional credits include “The Rocky Horror Show” (Columbia) and “The Great American Trailer Park Christmas Musical (Rufus) at Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte. When he’s not onstage, Nick works as a Senior Elections Specialist for the Mecklenburg County Board of Elections. Nick would like to thank Rod for giving him this wonderfully challenging opportunity and his family for their support.
DAN GROGAN (Dennis/Perkins) is beyond excited to return to Lee Street theater to take on the challenge of “The Play That Goes Wrong.” Recently Dan was in Atlantic Beach filming the slasher film “Mutilator 2”. Other recent roles include Wayne Hopkins in “Puffs” (Proxymoron Productions) and Captain Robert Walton in Lee Street’s production of “Frankenstein.”
LAUREN WILSON (Sandra/Florence Colleymore) is thrilled to be spending her first Lee Street theatre production with this talented cast. She has been an active member of the theatre community in Charlotte and surrounding areas for the past several years. Credits include “Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella” (Madame), “Hairspray” (Amber von Tussle) and “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” (Philia). She would like to thank her husband, Duncan, and kids, Graham and Gigi, for their continued support and Rod and Raquel for their hard work and dedication to making sure absolutely nothing goes wrong in this show.
NOAH GOLDSTEIN (Max/Cecil Haversham/Arthur the Gardner) is a sophomore BFA actor at UNCG. He has worked as an actor and intern for many shows this summer and can’t wait to end it with a bang in “The Play That Goes Wrong,” his first production at Lee Street. This has always been his dream show, and he is overjoyed to be able to perform in it.
ASHLEY PEARSON (Annie) is an actor/singer/director originally from Maryland, now based in Winston-Salem and is a proud Latina. Favorite offstage role is as the Theatre Director and Director of Student Life at Salem Academy, where she has the most wonderful students. Ashley is excited to return to the Lee Street theatre stage after playing Belinda in “Noises Off” last year. Other favorite onstage roles include Lauren in “Kinky Boots” and Patsy Cline in “Always...Patsy” (Theatre Alliance), the Witch in “Into the Woods” (Little Theatre of Winston-Salem), Jo in “Little Women” (Town of Lewisville and Vanda in “Venus in Fur” (Spirit Gum Theatre). Hope you enjoy this terrible, whoops, terrific show!
MASON LIVERS (Trevor) is an actor from Charlotte. He has been seen in Catawba College productions “Dog Sees God” (Matt), “Anything Goes” (Sailor), “Twilight: Los Angeles” (multiple roles), “All the Great Books, Abridged” (Coach). Mason has appeared on the Lee Street stage in “Blood Done Signed My Name” (Eddie McCoy / Boo Chavis / Harvey Wilson). He has also been seen in the films “Recollections” (Jay) for KEMistry Motion Pictures, “Reunited” for What A Time Productions and played a henchman in “Birth of A Daywalker” for Lima Films. Mason is super excited to share “The Play That Goes Wrong” with you and hopes you will enjoy it just as much as he will.
Reviews
“…an unexpected, gut-busting hit…one of those breakneck exercises in idiocy that make you laugh till you cry…It starts off punch-drunk and just keeps getting drunker.” —The New York Times.
“…tremendously silly, and brilliant…a two-hour explosion of physical comedy, malapropisms, and knockabout satire.” —The Daily Beast.
“…hilarious…nonstop pandemonium…THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG is just right: a ridiculously entertaining disaster.” —Entertainment Weekly.