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Emily Johnson - This is Emily's second production with Troupers: she was
in last year's Gondoliers. She has appears in Annie, The Spiral
Staircase, You Can't Take It With You, Fools, Bell,
Book and Candle and two productions of one-acts. She has sung with the
American Classical Orchestra chorus and St. Luke's Master Choir for four
years. She will be attending wither Smith or Barnard College next year. |
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Silloo Madan |
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Joan Stietzel |
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Joyce Veishlow |
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Kathleen Bernadette - In her early
career she sang Italian on stage at age 2-1/2, and began G&S in eighth
grade with HIM Pinafore, and also performed in The King and I and Victoria
Regina, and was a teen director of the Wizard of Oz. More recently she has
been in NY Telephone variety shows, a Millennium World Cruise passenger
talent show, choir, drama group and abbreviate South Pacific. She has
performed in The Sound of Music with the St James Players, The
Nutcracker with the Stamford City Ballet, Last Dragon
with the Fairfield COunty Children's Theater, NCC Choir, She holds an MS
in counseling and HRD, as a Third Order Secular Franciscan and an active
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Diana Gladden - Di
Gladden is back with us after 21 years of travel. She has sung, with
Troupers, in every G.& S. operetta but the Grand Duke, paying yearly
dues since, in hopes of returning. During her active years she was on the
board; assistant (and married) to our then photographer; on the set crew;
and Technical Director for Utopia Limited in ‘74. Her musical
credentials include a Masters Degree (Yale School of Music), seven summers
at the Fontainebleau Conservatory (France), and a Fulbright Scholarship to
study Karnatic Music (South India). She sings with the Darien Messiah
Foundation, Branford Chorale, Branford Messiah, and has played French horn
with both the Darien Community Band (back when) and the Branford Town Band
prior to and since then. She also studied Modern Dance for many years, but
has been sidelined by Post Polio Syndrome. "It is absolutely
fantastic to be singing G.&S. again!" |
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Angie Heimel
This is Angie Heimel's first performance with Troupers and her first
operetta. Angie is a graduate of Westminster College with a BS in
Molecular
Biology, and a minor in Vocal Music. During college, Angie met her
husband
John, a professional musician, on a choir tour through Europe. She
holds a
MS in Public Health from the University of South Carolina.
Currently, Angie
is a Project Manager/Epidemiologist in the Medicare Health Promotion
Dept.
of Oxford Health Plans. In her free time, she enjoys singing in
her church
choir and doing home improvements with her husband.
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Wendy Falconer -Wendy is happy to return to Troupers after making her debut in last year’s production of The
Gondoliers. Her vocal
credits also include The Music Man with Saint Catherine’s Players
and St. Luke’s Choir in Darien. An
active instrumentalist, Wendy plays bassoon with the Manhattanville
College Community Orchestra, The Westport Community Band and Saint
Catherine’s Players. Wendy
began her involvement with Troupers
as a member of the pit orchestra for Yeomen of the Guard and Patience. |