Mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved… 18-year-old Samantha Brown sits in a hand-me-down car with the keys clutched in her hand. Caught between a yearning for the unknown and feeling bound by expectation, she telescopes back to a time before her world had fallen apart. As she relives her senior year, we meet Sam’s well-intentioned helicopter mother Bev and her high school sweetheart of a boyfriend Adam, but it’s her painfully alive best friend Kelly that haunts her. Kelly was everything Sam is not – impetuous and daring. She pushed Sam to break rules and do the unexpected. When Kelly is killed in a car wreck, Sam loses not only her best friend but also the part of herself that was learning to be brave. Now, Sam has to make a decision: Will she follow her mother’s dreams for her, or will she summon the courage to drive away from her friends and family into a future she can’t imagine?

Content Warning:

Audiences are advised that The Mad Ones contains sexual references and content, themes of death and grief, mentions of car accidents, and mentions of alcohol.

The show runs for approximately 90 minutes, with no intermission.

Macquarie Musical Society acknowledges the Wallumattagal people of the Darug nation, whose cultures and customs have nurtured, and continue to nurture, this land on which we meet. We pay our respects to Elders past and present. First Nations people began the tradition of storytelling on this land, and we acknowledge their influence on the ways in which we learn, teach, and perform in this space.

THE ADAM CAST
Performing Friday July 28th, Wednesday August 2nd and Friday August 4th

Sam: Tess Marsden (she/her)

Kelly: Caitlin Whiter (she/they)

Beverly: Annalise Pringle (she/her)

Adam: Cameron McCredie (he/him)

THE BEVERLY CAST
Performing Saturday July 29th, Thursday August 3rd and Saturday August 5th

Sam: Megan Robinson (she/they)

Kelly: Bronwyn Dyer (she/her)

Beverly: Sarah Campbell (she/her)

Adam: Toby Rowe (he/him)

PRODUCTION TEAM

Co-Director: Danika Rojas (she/her)

Co-Director: Danielle Lorzano (she/her)

Co-Producer: Melissa Applin (any/all)

Co-Producer: Niamh Appleby (they/them)

Assistant Producer: Zara Thompson (she/her)

Executive Producer: Georgiana Lawson (she/her)

Intimacy Coordinator: Matthew Dorahy (they/them)

Vocal Director: Claire Garment (she/her)

Co-Music Director: Ella Davies (she/her)

Co-Music Director: Bianca Thomas (they/them)

Technical Director: Sharelle Frazer (she/her)

Assistant Technical Director: Micah Heazlewood (they/them)

Stage Manager: Grant Brennan (he/him)

Production Consultant: Aden Abeleda (he/him)

BAND

Keys 1: Yasmin Lin (she/her)

Harp / Keys 2: Kiri Jenssen (she/her)

Alternate Harp / Keys 2: Jussi Jenssen

Guitar: Aaron Bonduriansky (he/him)

Violin: Caitlin Murphy (she/her)

Violin: Pedro Roh (he/him)

Conductor: Ella Davies (she/her)

Sound Design and Percussion: Bianca Thomas (they/them)

TECH & STAGE CREW

Technical Director: Sharelle Frazer (she/her)

Assistant Technical Director: Micah Heazlewood (they/them)

Stage Manager: Grant Brennan (he/him)

Sound Assistant: Angelique Jones (she/her)

Follow Spot Operator: Jonathan Chang (he/him)

Tech Runner/Stage Crew: Amelia Sug (she/her)

Set Constructionist: Michael Haratzis (they/

Set Crew: Ben Khoury (he/him)

Set Consultant: Luke Derrick (he/him)

THE MAD ONES

By Kait Kerrigan and Bree Lowdermilk

Based on an Idea by Zach Altman and Bree Lowdermilk

The Mad Ones is presented by arrangement with ORiGiN™ Theatrical on behalf of Concord Theatricals

New York Premiere Produced by

Prospect Theater Company, New York, NY

Cara Reichel, Producing Artistic Director

Melissa Huber, Managing Director

Originally Produced by Goodspeed Musicals

Michael P. Price, Executive Producer

Presented at the National Alliance for Musical Theatre’s Festival of New Musicals in 2016. www.namt.org

Orchestrations by Bree Lowdermilk

Sound Design by Alex Hawthorn

Electronic Music Design by Dana Hayne