Cast

Welcome to First Year Players’ performance of Urinetown! I’d like to take a few lines to thanks those people that have been absolutely critical tome keeping my sanity this past year in my run as producer. Firstly I must thank Lauren Paullin. As my business manager, my roommate and one of my best friends, she has worked with me through the toughest of situations. Lauren, I am not sure I would have made it through without you there. I must thank our technical director, Mr. Robert Eshleman, for his ability to do more things than I previously thought humanly possible, and for doing them all with a cool head. Little, you make my life so much brighter with your warm hugs and your wonderful smile. Jake Frazier, my assistant producer this semester has been a constant source of comfort for me, whether he knows it or not. I have always felt that he would be there for anything I needed, whether in a professional facet or otherwise, and that is quite the safety net for my mind. Our stunningly handsome directors this semester, Mr. Jeff Luppino-Esposito and Mr. Sam Reeder, have done an absolutely exquisite job, as you all are about to see. My producerly predecessors Mr. James Villarubia and Mr. Brendt Harris have both been utterly inseparable from any success I may have had in this job. You two are the mostly stripped screws that hold together the shoddily made bench that is my heart. To the rest of my production staff, I offer my most sincere gratitude for all of you hard work, dedication, and commitment to this organization.

We advertise in the brochure, but FYP truly is student run theatre. Just how true this is came as a surprise to my second year self, fresh off my naïve first year run in tech. while I knew that we built everything, I never understood how true that is in the metaphorical sense. These shows do not simply happen and FYP does not simply continue on every year out of institutional inertia. Each semester a fresh crop of members put their skills and talents to use in order to make every part of this organization go. Without the strong bonds that we form, our love for the stage and for each other, this organization would have been in shambles before it even started. However, seeing as FYP started here at the University in 1980, it is clear that shambles are not in our future. I am proud to call myself an FYPer.

Love Love Love,
Lisa