Creative Team

Chuck Hoenes, Director/Choreographer
Robert McDowell, Music Director
Michael P. Amico, Scenic Designer
Brian J. O'Keefe, Costume Designer
Annmarie Duggan, Lighting Designer
Jason Hoffman, Sound Designer
Mark Harborth*, Production Stage Manager
Brian Kelley, Technical Director
Jerry Lapidus, Company Manager
Frank Ramirez, Stage Manager
Tippen Davidson, Producer
Julia Davidson Truilo, Associate Producer

Cast

Phillip Chaffin* - Spike Spauldeen
Denise Davidson Maffitt* - Rose
Michael Rotondi* - Hans Van Der Last
Elizabeth Murff - Cha Li
Mark Chambers* - Inspector Kurland/Hindu/Noonan/Pilot
Catherine Apilado - Ensemble
Darci Burke - Ensemble
Lisa Kuebler - Ensemble
Mai Linh Nguyen - Ensemble

Tagline

Stop off in Singapore and enjoy the atmosphere of a 1941 jazz club in full swing with mischief and wit. Enemy troops are baying the border, a patron has been bumped off, precious gems have disappeared and the Malayan Melody Makers create a marvelous blend of tune, mayhem and music to keep the crowd content. Will you escape to Hawaii before the enemy invades?

Michael P. Amico, Scenic Designer
Michael Amico is happy to be designing his first set for Seaside Music Theater. He has designed productions for several South Florida Theaters including Beguiled Again for the Riverside Theater' The King and I, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown for Actor's Playhouse; Sohpie: Last of the Red Hot Mommas and As Thousands Cheer for the Kravis Center; Fully Committed for the Broward Center; La Cage Aux Folles and Ain't Misbehavin' for Stage Door Theatre; and Beguiled Again for Florida Stage. He is a member of United Scenic Artists as both a Scenic Designer and Scenic Artist. As a scenic artist, he has worked on the Broadway productions of Kiss Me Kate and Jackie O. and the national tour of Saturday Night Fever. Mr. Amico lives in Deerfield Beach, Florida with his wife Erin and their two amazing children, 3 1/2 year old Dante and 1 1/2 year old Bridget.

Tippen Davidson, Producer
Tippen Davidson attended the Julliard School of Music in New York and is an accomplished violist and conductor. Mr. Davidson's SMT conducting and music direction credits include The Telephone/The Medium, Street Scene, H.M.S. Pinafore, La Boheme, Camelot, Amahl and the Night Visitors, Company, Kismet, The Barber of Seville, Iolanthe, Follies, West Side Story, Cosi Fan Tutte, The Rothschilds, The Merry Widow, Of Thee I Sing, The Marriage of Figaro, Patience, A Midsummer Night's Dream/The Fairy Queen, Candide, The Mikado, Two Gentlemen of Verona and The Gondoliers.

Annmarie Duggan, Lighting Designer
Annmarie Duggan is happy to be returning for her seventh summer season. She is proud to have designed more than twenty-five Seaside productions in those years. Other credits inclue Wit for Northern Stage in White River Junction, Vermont, starring international star Lisa Harrow, the off-Broadway production of Jolson and Company for the York Theatre, the opera The Piper of Hamelin, starring Sesame Street's Bob McGrath at the Manhattan School of Music, New ork and Mujeres Y Hombres for Carlota Santana Spanish Dance at the New Victory Theatre, New York. Her work has been seen in theaters around the country, including Utah Musical Theatre, Worcester Foothills Theatre, Cumberland County Playhouse, Invisible Theatre, Florida Repertory Theater, Little Theatre on the Square, Florida Studio Theatre, Hampton Playhouse, Theatre Winter Haven, Circa 21 Playhouse, Music Theatre North, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre and New Jersey Center for the Performing Arts.

Mark Harborth*, Production Stage Manager
Mark Harborth returns this year for his ninth season at SMT. He has served as an actor (As You Like It), director (High Spirits, Forever Plaid) and Production Stage Manager. Prior to returning to Florida, he recently directed John Patrick Shanley's The Big Funk in New York, as well as an award-winning Noises Off. As a director, he has had over twenty years of experience including working on Broadway and directing off-Broadway, national tours, university theater, dinner theater, stock and regional theater, and numerous off-off-Broadway musicals and plays. As a Production Stage Manager, he has worked regionally at theaters like Tennessee Rep., but loves the time he spends with the people at SMT. He is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers and Actors' Equity.

Chuck Hoenes, Director/Choreographer
Chuck Hoenes is now in his twenty-third season at SMT and is proud to have directed five of the theater's top grossing hits: My Way, Ain't Misbehavin', 42nd Street, Fiddler on the Roof and Swingtime Canteen. He has served as director, choreographer or both for over eighty Seaside productions. For the past twenty-eight years, Hoenes has also acted as produced for Clock Tower Dinner Theater in Rockford, Illinois, where he has been responsible for more than 200 musicals, dramas and original musical revues. Beginning his career as a dancer in 1950's Chicago, Hoenes is now celebrating his 50th year in show business. Some career highlights include: choreographer for the television show All Time Hit Parade, producer and director of the Sue Charles Dancers and the international touring company of the Hit Paraders. He also performed in the national tours of Cabaret, Fiddler on the Roof, Carousel and Can-Can. During Hoenes' career he has performed with more than a hundred greats, including such stars as Jan Peerce, Lucie Arnaz, John Raitt and Ann Miller.

Jason Hoffman, Sound Designer
Jason Hoffman is beginning his ninth season with SMT, having been involved with numerous shows including favorites Honk!, Miss Saigon, West Side Story, Sweeney Todd and Tommy. Mr. Hoffman can be found on a daily basis at SMT Downtown, working lights and sound for the various groups that perform in the theater. In his off time, he enjoys growing with his 2-year-old daughter Alexandria, a budding technician.

Brian Kelley, Technical Director
This is Brian Kelley's sixth summer working full-time for Seaside Music Theater. Previously he worked as Head Stage Staff for Royal Caribbean Cruise Line's Legend of the Seas and as 2nd Rigger for Station Casino in Kansas City. Mr. Kelley served as carpenter for the national tours of Joseph, 42nd Street and Smokey Joe's Café. He is the proud owner of Spunky, the three-legged wonder. Mr. Kelley would like to thank all the sweaty people in the shop who make his summer so much easier.

Jerry Lapidus, Company Manager
Jerry Lapidus came to Daytona Beach to become a part of the SMT family after many years working with developing theaters for Actors' Equity Association, the actors' union, in New York. Since then, he and his family (attorney Anita and equestrian Kim) have accumulated three dogs, four horses, a barn cat and a big green pick-up truck and mini-van to carry them all. Although frequently mistaken for Richard Dreyfuss, Lapidus has promised his family not to jeopardize his job by attempting to act for Seaside. Mr. Lapidus has also worked for AMAS Repertory Theatre, Circle Repertory Theatre, the Roundabout Theatre and Long Island's Gateway Playhouse.

Robert McDowell, Music Director
Robert McDowell is an eleven year veteran of SMT, usually working as conductor for such shows as Sweeney Todd, A Chorus Line, Tommy, Children of Eden, Evita and many more. This is McDowell's first acting role with the company. Working in NYC as a composer/lyricist, McDowell has had a busy season with such things as premiering Alphagirls (Main Street Theatre, NYC), The Lasy Hour and Tin Pan Lullabye (Abbeville Opera House), along with several works for chorus (Canto Spiritus, Mile High Church and Colorado College, all in Denver). Mr. McDowell's show, Swingtime Canteen was revived and critically acclaimed this year at Kathy Rigby's Actors' Theatre in California. He sends love and thanks to Bill and Olive.

Brian J. O'Keefe, Costume Designer
Now in his tenth year on staff, Brian O'Keefe continues to manage Seaside's extensive costume division and rental business. Having designed over forty shows here, he considers Gypsy, Hello, Dolly! and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum among his favorites. A graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, O'Keefe has worked as a skilled patternmaker and designers along the East Coast, and has taught costume construction at UCF in Orlando. Mr. O'Keefe has also designed shows for the Limelight Theater in St. Augustine including, The Apple Tree, Puttin' on the Ritz and Too Darn Hot!

Frank Ramirez, Stage Manager
Frank Ramirez returns to Seaside for thie eighth season this summer. His SMT credits include Dracula, Tommy, Forever Plaid, Romeo and Juliet, The Glass Menagerie, High Spirits, Swingtime Canteen, Five Guys Named Moe, My Way and Miss Saigon. After spending a year touring the country, living in Los Angeles and San Francisco (and taking a trip to Rome, Italy!), Ramirez spent a year here in Florida and plans to return to his hometown of New York City this fall.

Julia Davidson Truilo, Associate Producer
Julia Truilo is a founding member of SMT and has performed here in a host of capacities both onstage and off. Her favorite roles for the company include Ida in last season's Honk!, Gwendolyn in The Importance of Being Earnest, as well as Rosina in Barber of Seville, Anna in King and I, Gina/Harpo in A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine and Sally in Follies. She also directs for the company, including 1998's highly successful Camelot. Ms. Truilo spends her non-stage time watching the budget as SMT's Associate Producer. Elsewhere she has performed major roles in operas from Monteverdi to Robert Ward, as well as in a host of operettas and musical comedies with such companies as the Santa Fe Opera, the Orlando Opera, Michigan Opera Theater, New York's Bandwagon Theater Company and the Opera Ensemble of New York. She continues to do concert and oratorio work with ensembles around the country.

*Courtesy of Actors' Equity Association