Mamma Mia! Creative

Student Director

Ava Naple

Ava is a senior this year. She has been a member of drama for the past three years. Ava started her career as a stage crew member. She designed numerous sets for Aladdin and Bring It On. Last year Ava was one of our stage managers. This year she excited to help with both acting and stage crew as our student director.

Stage Manager

Skylar Male

Skylar is a senior this year and is taking on the role of Stage Manager. She has been a part of stage crew since her freshman year and has designed sets for Aladdin, Bring it On and now Mamma Mia. To be taking on a leadership position means a lot to her. She has worked so hard and is excited to be leading her fellow stage crew members in her last year. She is very excited to see what this year brings. Due to her experience designing sets, Skylar is interested in studying art next year at college and she is looking forward to it.

Production Manager

Sarah Newhart

This is Sarah’s third year in the Drama Program, she is the Production Manager this year for Mama Mia! She has been a part of stage crew since her freshman year, she helped make the sets for Aladdin, Bring it On and now Mamma Mia. Sarah has loved working in the drama room since her Freshman year! She is happy to be the new Production Manager she is happy to have received the position. She is excited for what this year will bring for the production of Mamma Mia!

Technical Manager

Michaela Staie

Michaela has been involved with music since she was very young. She started getting interested and involved with the technical side of music in her freshman year. She has taken a music production camp at SCCC and has done sound for many school concerts and the school's production of Seussical Jr. This year, she is stepping up and training all sound and light operators and using her creativity to bring an extra sparkle to the show. She cannot wait to see how the tech has improved this year.

Chorus Coach

Amber Vosburgh

Mama Mia!, being Amber’s fifth show in the high school program, (performing in Shrek as a guard in eighth grade) she has found a love for being on stage and just being in the show as a chorus member. She always helps others when they are struggling with a dance or help others really bring a scene to life. You can always find her with a big smile on and off the stage making her a perfect fit to be our chorus coach in her senior year. Following the end of her senior year she plans on attending SUNY Oneonta to be a physical therapist.

Set Design, Taverna

Madison Fariello

This is Madison's third year as a member of stage crew and second year as a set designer. Last year she helped design the bedrooms for Bring it On! the Musical. This year she is excited to be part of the team that designed the Taverna for Mamma Mia!

Set Design, Taverna

Eliana Fraser

This is Eliana's third year as a member of stage crew and second year as a set designer. Last year she helped design the bedrooms for Bring it On! the Musical. This year she is excited to be part of the team that designed the Taverna for Mamma Mia!

Set Design, Taverna

Brianna Olbrych

Brianna is in her second year of stage crew and took part in designing the two bedroom sets last year for Bring it On. She will be taking part in the designing of the main set, the Courtyard of Taverna in this year's show. Her vision and artistic ability will play a key role in the execution and design of the courtyard this year.

Set Design, Taverna

Eric Vertorano

Although Eric is only in his second year of drama, he has adapted nicely. Last year, he co-designed the bedroom set in Bring It On. This year, Eric will be taking on the Courtyard of Taverna, the main set. Through cooperation, attention to detail, and hard work the main set will help immerse the viewer in the story of Mama Mia!

Set Design, Beach

Macy Bollart

Macy is in her third year of stage crew. She contributed a lot to many different sets her freshman year and last year she took part in creating the cliff/cheer camp set for Bring it On. Her dedication to this program, artistic ability, and leadership has created a successful career for her thus far. We are excited to see what she will bring to the table these next two years. Macy is a set designer for the beach scene in this year’s play Mamma Mia.

Set Design, Beach

Skylar Male

This will be Skylar’s third year designing a set. She has designed Jafar’s Chamber for Aladdin, Truman High School for Bring it On, and this year, The Beach for Mamma Mia. Skylar has always been a shy girl so when she saw that the BP drama club had a stage crew side, she knew she wanted to join. Skylar has always been artistic and she has had an amazing time designing sets. She is sad that this is her last year but excited to see what the future holds for her.

Set Design, Beach

Lindsay Meservey

This will be Lindsay’s third year of the BP drama program. Her first two years she helped however she could with work back stage. This being her last year, Lindsay decided to help design The Beach in Mamma Mia. She’s always had an artistic side that not a lot of people knew about and she’s excited to show everyone what she is capable of.

Set Design, Beach

Mya Tyler

Mya has been in drama for three years. She took on major roles throughout her first year in putting together important sets. She’s always willing to contribute to different sets and has an artistic eye. This year Mya is taking part in designing the beach scene for Mamma Mia!

Set Design, Bedrooms

Shelby Fenton

Shelby is a freshman this year and new to drama. She took the part of stage crew and is a part of the group designing Sophie and Donna’s room. She is very excited to be a part of drama this year. She loves designing and enjoys being able to see her designs come to life. She can not wait to see the finished set and is already having a lot of fun with BP Drama. We hope to see her in many more years to come.

Set Design, Bedrooms

Olivia Fraser

Olivia is a freshman who is a new member of the drama program. She decided to take part in stage crew this year because she enjoys designing. Olivia is one of the five people working on Donna and Sophie’s room for Mamma Mia. She is looking forward to the next few months of drama and hopefully she will return in the years to come.

Set Design, Bedrooms

Ali Georgelos

Ali is a freshman. She decided to become a part of stage crew this year because she enjoys designing things. Ali is one of five people working on the sets Sophie’s room and Donna’s room. She is very excited to be a part of stage crew this year. She is excited to see the play come together.

Set Design, Bedrooms

Meg Nellis

Meg is a freshman, new to the drama program. She has always had an interest in art, which is why she decided to become a part of stage crew, to help design the sets. Meg is very excited to be helping design the sets of both Sophie’s and Donna’s room for this years play, Mamma Mia. She is looking forward to helping create this year's performance, and hopes to return to the drama program in future years.

Set Design, Bedrooms

Sophia Rogers

Sophia is a freshman, and it is her first year in the drama program. Sophia was in accelerated art and decided to transfer her abilities into the drama program. She is in the group tackling the design of Sophie and Donna’s rooms. Sophia loves to paint and design, and is in her element here at drama. She is enjoying drama very much so far and excited to continue with the program.

Set Design, Proscenium

Emily Bush

This is Emily’s first year designing a set but she saw that there was work that needed to be done and stepped up to help us create a proscenium that really highlights the show and its setting.

Set Design, Proscenium

Jackson Rogers

This is Jackson’s third year in drama, but his first year designing a set. And where better to start than the first thing the audience sees? Other than minor experience with painting sets in other musicals he was involved in, this is his first time being a part of the stage crew. Jackson is very excited to be going in on this with his best bud Emily, and ready to watch the proscenium and Mamma Mia! come to life.

Dance Captain

Stephanie Somers

Stephanie has been part of the Broadalbin-Perth drama program for four years. She contributed to creating sets as part of stage crew during her freshman year for the production of Footloose. In her sophomore year, Stephanie decided to try the stage and joined chorus for the production of Aladdin. Stephanie continued to be part of chorus for her junior year for the production of Bring it On. She has found her love of dance through drama and is excited to be dance captain for her senior year production of Mamma Mia!

Dance Captain

Lila Tolge

Lila has been a part of the BP drama program for four years. She started off as a part of stage crew but soon ventured off onto the stage. Lila has become a chorus member for the productions of Aladdin and Bring It On and found her love for dance. Lila is eager to continue as a chorus member and step up as Dance Captain for her senior year production of Mamma Mia!

Choreography

Emily Bush

Emily is a returning choreographer from our most recent show Bring it On. Emily has very little dance background but her love for the program led her to step up and take on choreography.

Choreography

Carlye Clifford

Carlye has been in the drama program for two years now. She was also in the productions of “Annie”and “Wizard of Oz” at BP. Carlye has done dance since she was younger and was in competitive cheerleading. This is Carlye’s first year as a drama choreographer.

Choreography

Jackson Rogers

This is Jackson's third year as a member of the drama program. He enjoys performing and dancing in the large ensemble numbers and decided to take on choreographing some of the dances for this year's production.

Choreography

Jordyn Sassanella

Jordyn has been participating in musical theatre since the age of eleven. She has been involved in BP Drama for three years and took on choreography for the first time this year. She is thrilled to contribute anything she can into the show and is looking forward to see “Mamma Mia” come to our stage!

Choreography

Amber Vosburgh

Amber is a senior in the program. This will be her seventh year with us. Amber has been a part of our summer drama program in shows such as Peter Pan Jr. (1st mate Smee), along with Beauty and the Beast Jr. (Beast). Once in high school she took to stage crew during Footloose and Aladdin but found herself learning and dancing in the curtains. Now she has returned to acting on stage and taking up the role as a choreographer to explore her love to dance and have fun with it.

Choreography

Julia Zajaceskowski

Julia has been a part of the BP drama program for three years now. Aside from a guard in Aladdin, she has mostly been featured in the ensemble of Bring it On and Mamma Mia. She has taken dance classes for 14 years, specifically tap, ballet, and jazz. This year she decided to give choreography a try, and she couldn’t be happier. She is excited to watch the ensemble and her dances evolve.

Original Creative Team

MAMMA MIA!

Music and Lyrics by

BENNY ANDERSSON

BJORN ULVAEUS

AND SOME SONGS WITH STIG ANDERSON

Book by CATHERINE JOHNSON

Originally Conceived by JUDY CRAYMER

Mamma Mia! was originally produced in London by Judy Craymer, Richarch East and Bjorn Ulvaeus for Littlestar in association with Universal.

Additional Material & Arrangements: MARTIN KOCH

Music published by Universal Music Publishing Group and EMI Grove Park Music Inc. and EMI Waterford Music Inc.

MAMMA MIA!

Is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.MTIShows.com