The Wild Rumpus Winter Circus Presents: Flippers and Flappers
Feb. 8-9, 2020
Act One: Swingin’ Silks
Featuring Anna Dorman, Carly Goodlund, Electra Cordes, Gwynne Sahyun, Harper Patenaude, Katie Brandon, Lucy Good, Renee Han. Choreographed by Luv Joy Seamon. Costumes: Jess Clark, Fiona Stoner and Heidi Brandon. Music: “Bidibambumbey” by the Swingrowers.
Act Two: Flippers
Featuring Althea Bernstein, Astrid Lawler, Brooke Rhodes, Jessie Downey, Morty Arnol, and Steven Sahyun. Music: “Keystone Cops” by Dominic Allen.
Act Three: Long-legged Limbo
Featuring Cameron Craig, Iona Hassett, Jaden and Jodie Zuk, Treva Pollock, and Xander Bloom. Costumes by Linda DiRaimondo, Sandra Newbury, and Amy Mills. Music: “Slave to Love” and “Do the Strand” by the Bryan Ferry Orchestra.
Act Four: My Grandfather’s Stool
Featuring Jacob Mills, Althea Bernstein, Astrid Lawler, Brooke Rhodes, Jessie Downey, Morty Arnol, and Steven Sahyun.
Act Five: Ain’t She Sweet
Featuring the Zippity Do-Da’s: Ami, Esperé and Sage Eckard-Lee. Music: “Ain’t She Sweet” by Milton Ager and Jack Yellen, played by Esperé Eckard-Lee
Act Six: Miss Bus Haven
Featuring Ilana, Jeff, Mirabel and Xander Bloom. Music: “Ain’t Misbehavin” by Fats Waller.
Act Seven: Waltzawry
Featuring Althea Bernstein and Hildy Feen. Music: “I Could Waltz On Forever” by the Troubadours, Nat Shilkret, and “When the Rest of the crowd goes home, I always go home alone” by Al Dubin and Joe Burke.
Act Eight: Carousel
Featuring Anna Dorman, Ayla Shapiro, Cameron Craig, Cheyenne Whitthoft, Jaden and Jodie Zuk, Josie Sutterwala, Marin Durkee, Matilda Hansen, and Nila Voss. Choreographed by Marcia Miquelon and Maia Hankley. Music: “Nights of Gladness” by Charles Ancliff
Act Nine: Juggling Cavalcade
Featuring Jacob Mills, Althea Bernstein, Astrid Lawler, Brooke Rhodes, Jessie Downey, Morty Arnol, and Steven Sahyun. Music: “Happy Days are Here Again” by Milton Ager and Jack Yellen.
Act Ten: Night in Paris
Featuring Cohen Erickson, Gwynne Sahyun, Gabby Kelly-Schultz, Ilana Bloom, and Olivia Kenney-Lee. Music: “Si Tu Vois Ma Mere” by Sydney Bechet and “Puttin on the Ritz” by the Gypsey Swing Revue.
Act Eleven: Let A Smile Be Your Umbrella
Featuring Featuring The Zippity Do Da’s: Ami, Esperé and Sage Echard-Lee. Music by Fain, Kahal, and Wheeler. Recording by Esperé Eckard-Lee.
Act Twelve: The Weight Lifter
Featuring Cheyenne Whithoft, Mirabel Bloom, and the clowns
Act Thirteen: Tight Wire Wonders
Featuring Electra Cordes, Lucy Good and Olivia Kenney-Lee. Costumes: Jess Clark. Music: “Brick Top” by Django Rhinehart.
Act Fourteen: Interrupting Clowns
Featuring Jacob Mills, Althea Bernstein, Astrid Lawler, Brooke Rhodes, Jessie Downey, Morty Arnol, and Steven Sahyun.
Act Fifteen: Sufferage! Finale.
Featuring the whole cast. Music: “Charleston” by Arthur Gibbs and his Gang. Special thanks to Krin Haglund for creative advice and costume assistance!
Directors: Jacob Mills and Marcia Miquelon
Technical Director: Jim Vogel
Rigger: Ken Loud
Stage Hands: Luv Seamon, Marcia Miquelon, Jillian Votava,
Marcel Kerkove, Fiona Stoner, Ilana Bloom, Rebecca Bock, Renee Han.
Backstage Manager: Maia Hankley
House Manager: Tammy Holtan Arnol
Original Poster design and printing: Phil Hassett. Original artwork by Carly Goodlund.
Many thanks to Electronic Theater Controls, the Madison Circus Space, and Jim Vogel for providing us with lighting, sound and seating; to the Wisconsin Youth Company for lending us their ring curb, and to the Goodman Community Center for tolerating our circus antics. More gratitude to the parents, partners, friends and volunteers who’ve sewn, crafted, created, rigged, turned a gym into a circus tent. It takes a village to make even the Simplest of Circuses happen!