Welcome to the big dipper!
Music and Lyrics by Jimmy Roberts
Book by Catherine Filloux and John Daggett
Additional Lyrics by John Daggett
Inspired by All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go by Catherine Filloux
Orchestration by Doug Katsaros
PREVIEWS BEGIN NOVEMBER 21, 2024 • OPENING NIGHT NOVEMBER 26, 2024
LIMITED RUN THROUGH DECEMBER 29, 2024
DeMone Seraphin, Director
Adam White, Associate Director
Beth Falcone, Music Director and Conductor
Ashley Marinelli, Choreographer
Adam Wedesky, Associate Choreographer
The York’s fall season will conclude with Welcome to the Big Dipper, a new musical based on a true event (inspired by the play All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go by Catherine Filloux), with music and lyrics by Jimmy Roberts (I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change), book by Catherine Filloux and John Daggett and additional lyrics by Mr. Daggett.
The Big Dipper, an historic inn nestled in Bigelow, New York, near Niagara Falls, has been in Joan Wilkes’s family for decades and is on the brink of closure when a monster blizzard forces two wildly disparate groups of travelers to shelter in place. For three days and nights, within the walls of this sprawling house, secrets are revealed, young love ignites, and lives are changed forever.
Meet the Cast!
MAYBE BURKE — Carly
JENNIFER BYRNE — Bonnie Haskins
ROBERT CUCCIOLI — Amos King
DARIUS HARPER — Mr. Sapper/Dez [US]
JILLIAN LOUIS — Sarah Smucker; Bonnie [US]
CHRISTIAN MAGBY — Dez
ELLA OLESEN — Sarah/Rebecca [US]
MIA PINERO — Rebecca King
JAYAE RILEY, JR. — Joan/Carly [US]
DEMONE SERAPHIN — Mr. Sapper
ERIK SCHARK — Jake/Amos/Eli [US]
PABLO TORRES — Eli Stolzfus
DEBRA WALTON — Joan Wilkes
MICHAEL YESHION — Jacky Barnes
CLICK ON THE BIG DIPPER FACES BELOW TO BUY YOUR TICKETS
There will be a CDI Cross Gender Community panel discussion after the 2:30pm show on December 7, with CDI’s president, Allison Davis, members Fiona Black, Erin Ho, and noted transgender activist Bernie Wagenblast, with their reactions to the musical, how it relates to events in their own transgender lives & questions from audience.
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