Special thanks from the authors of The Blue Flower.
Special Thanks from the Authors
The authors would like to acknowledge and thank the following individuals and institutions for their valuable and generous support of The Blue Flower in past developmental productions:
• The Public Theater and Joe’s Pub (NYC): New Work Now Festival 2001; Bonnie Metzgar, Associate Producer; Rick DesRochers, Literary Manager and The Blue Flower workshop director; Bill Bragen, Director/Music Curator, Joe’s Pub
• HERE Arts Center Artist Residency Program (NYC): Kristin Marting, Artistic Director; Kate Chumley, The Blue Flower workshop director
• The ASCAP Foundation Musical Theatre Development Program (NYC): Michael Kerker, Program Director
• The Perry-Mansfield School for The Performing Arts (Steamboat Springs, CO), New Noises Festival 2003: Andrew Levine, Artistic Director
• The New York Musical Theatre Festival 2004 (NYC): Isaac Hurwitz, Executive Director
• Prospect Theater Company (NYC): Cara Reichel, Producing Artistic Director; Melissa Hubert, Managing Director
THE ORIGINAL WEIMARBAND MEMBERS who after ten years continue to give and give and give and inspire: Mark Rubinstein (piano/accordion), John Widgren (pedal steel), Patrick Carmichael (drums), David Rozenblatt (percus- sion), Martin Kuuskmann (bassoon), Ann Kim (cello), Stephan Crump (bass), Meghan McGeary (vocals), Jen Chapin (vocals), David Driver (vocals) and additionally other musicians who have contributed greatly and generously along the way: Vince Reynolds (guitar), Tom Camp (pedal steel), Pablo Rieppi (percussion), Eric Holtje (bassoon), Carl Riehl (accordion)
FORMER CAST MEMBERS AND DESIGNERS whose creative contributions provide the defining contours of the show in each of its incarnations, especially: Andrew Dawson, Marc Geller, Todd Alan Johnson, Clayton Dean Smith, Ben Schrader and Jamie LaVerdiere (actors); Alan Hahn (lighting); Bert Esenherz (set design)
FAMILY, FRIENDS and SUPPORTERS whose faith, enthusiasm, sweat, moral and/or financial support keep such ambitious and unlikely endeavors alive: Kathleen Bauer, David Bauer, Tom Bauer, Tom and Carolyn Laetz, Mahlon Kruse, Ann Kruse, Russell Kruse, Lynn and Edward Herrara, David Oedel, Rhonda and Bruce Wall, Karen Klingon, Jerry Middleton, Katherine Freiberger, Judy Klingon, Dr. Chih-Kwang Sung, Jens Stoelken, Joe Vitagliano, Trilby Schreiber, Mark Belhumeur, Jerry and Lidia Rosenbaum, Jerry and Carol Wedge, Artemis Willis, John Kiehl, Stephanie Rabinowitz, Torsten Broehan, Susan Feldman, David Auchencloss, Kendall Harnett, Steven Deluca, David McAvoy, Jeanine Pardey, Andrew Levine and Stephen Schwartz
