About THE PRETTY PANTS BANDIT: Inspired by True Events
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From housewife to hero, Marie Baker, her gang, and one infamous pair of guns took the country for a year-long ride that would make headlines.
Notoriously leaving the men she robbed with their pants down, her evolution became a revolution. Amongst the sparkling and scintillating back drop of 1930s Miami, and with an unforgettable pop-rock score, THE PRETTY PANTS BANDIT will steal your inhibitions and your heart. |
A story of a woman leaving an abusive marriage to pursue a vigilante quest for vengeance quickly becomes something so much more. Set against the economic and racial disparity of this time in Miami, THE PRETTY PANTS BANDIT gives voice to the voiceless and empowers the powerless; shedding a light on very present issues through the vintage lens of the golden age of the American Gangster.
*Originally developed and produced with Georgia Ensemble Theatre on March 31, 2022. Anita Allen Farley, Producing Artistic Director, James Donadio, Associate Artistic Director |
About the WRITERS
Chase Peacock and Jessica De Maria are both New York based, actors, singers and writers who have been working together since 2015. WHAT'S PAST, their first musical, has previously appeared in development at the Atlanta Musical Theatre Festival , with the Threshold Festival of New Plays at Actor's Express and as an invited reading at Serenbe Playhouse. Their musical ghost story, VIVIAN, premiered at The Lyric Studio in the Square in Marietta, GA October 11-14, 2017 and is currently being developed into a podcast. Chase & Jessica have also composed original music for Theatre Buford's A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE in 2018.
www.chaseandjessica.com
www.chaseandjessica.com
CHASE PEACOCK is an actor, singer, composer from Atlanta, Georgia currently based in New York. He was a member of the original cast of Green Day's American Idiot on Broadway. Chase wrote and recorded the entire score for the web series Wiener And Wiener. As a songwriter he has written and recorded many songs as a solo artist and wrote the song "Boomerang" which appeared on Country artist Rachel Potter's album NOT SO BLACK AND WHITE.
JESSICA DeMARIA is a New York based performer and writer. Jessica's first co-written musical, THE LAST TIME WE WERE HERE, appeared at the New York Musical Theatre Festival in June 2015 and received a workshop production at Synchronicity theatre in August of 2016. Her original arrangements of American folk music have appeared (uncredited) in productions of The Sleepy Hollow Experience all over the country and she was featured on the Spotify Original Podcast, "You Heard Me Write" during its inaugural season. Her most recent composition will appear in a new short film "The Name" in late 2022, and her writing has also been a part of the One Minute Play Festival for five straight years.
About the MUSIC
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About the PRODUCTION
About our WORLD PREMIERE CAST
Anna Dvorak Gonzalez
Jordan Patrick
Dan Ford
Tyler Kidd
Zion Glenn
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Fenner Eaddy
Skyler Brown
Kendra Johnson
Amy Duffy
Shannon Murphy
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Chris Damiano
Sebastian Trevino
Jody Woodruff
Imani Joseph
Patrick Coleman
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Megan Zhang
Latrice Pace
Margaret Holtkamp
AJ Klopach
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About the CREATIVE TEAM
Director: James Donadio
Music Director: Alli Lingenfelter
Choreographer: Kari Twyman
Costume Design: Alan Yeong
Set Design: Kat Conley
Sound Design: Preston Goodson
Lighting Design: D. Connor McVey
Creative Consultant: Ricardo Aponte
Casting Associate: Candy McClellen
Stage Management: Brea Walker, Savannah Rootes
Asst. Stage Manager: Jackie Lenz
Producing Artistic Director: Anita Farley
Orchestrations by Amanda Wansa Morgan & Christian Magby
Books, Lyrics & Music by: Chase Peacock & Jessica De Maria
Music Director: Alli Lingenfelter
Choreographer: Kari Twyman
Costume Design: Alan Yeong
Set Design: Kat Conley
Sound Design: Preston Goodson
Lighting Design: D. Connor McVey
Creative Consultant: Ricardo Aponte
Casting Associate: Candy McClellen
Stage Management: Brea Walker, Savannah Rootes
Asst. Stage Manager: Jackie Lenz
Producing Artistic Director: Anita Farley
Orchestrations by Amanda Wansa Morgan & Christian Magby
Books, Lyrics & Music by: Chase Peacock & Jessica De Maria
About GEORGIA ENSEMBLE THEATRE
Georgia Ensemble Theatre (GET) provides award-winning theatre productions and first class educational opportunities on a year-round basis and is the resident professional theatre at the Roswell Cultural Arts Center. The Theatre has earned a reputation for the quality and diversity of its plays and ensemble driven process. Producing professionally for nearly 30 years, GET operates on a LORT 1 contract with Actor's Equity and hosts audiences from all over Metro-Atlanta.
About the PRESS
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"Chase & Jessica offer a fresh new voice in the musical theatre world with powerful storylines and exquisite melodies! A dynamic duo with a bright future ahead! They understand the power of collaboration, which creates an efficient and highly creative pre-production period!"-Ricardo Aponte, Choreographer/Director
“Jessica and Chase have a knack for writing incredibly melodic music and they also have such a penchant for interesting, unexpected stories. It is always a treat to see what new tricks they have up their sleeves.”-Freddie Ashley, Artistic Director, Actor's Express "Chase and Jessica are two of the most exciting and innovative composers/singers/musicians with whom I've ever had the pleasure of working in my career. Their music is consistently rich, complex, surprising, and moving. I've been so impressed with the variety of song, tone, rhythm, and emotion they are able to infuse into their work. Their lyrics are as good as their music. It's rare to find a writing/composing team that's capable of doing more than one aspect of musical theatre well. Oftentimes most playwrights/composers/lyricists may be brilliant at one, but wanting in others. Chase Peacock and Jessica De Maria can do it all, and do it extremely well to boot. "-James Donadio, Associate Artistic Director of Georgia Ensemble Theatre About THE AUDIENCE"Creators Chase Peacock and Jessica De Maria have written a show which is as sassy as it is sensually superb...The music is superb, eclectic, and thrilling, the cast stellar, and the book funny although intelligent and wickedly cheeky."
"Great production, music, choreography, voices..." "Chase and Jessica, in seven years, have found all the aspects of what makes this play worthy of being noticed and off the charts!" "EXCELLENT show! Highly recommend." "An original musical, better than many touring musicals and definitely worthy of support." "This is the world premiere? This is BROADWAY." |
"The Pretty Pants Bandit is proof that Atlanta continues to raise its profile in the national theater scene as a real contender for developing new work."-ArtsAtl
"...unlike anything we've ever seen before in the literal sense that the homegrown musical is being produced and presented for the very first time, and we're among its very first audiences. In more ways than one, that rocks indeed.-Atlanta Journal Constitution "catchy pop-rock tunes...the lively choreography by Kari Twyman is well executed."-Atlanta Journal-Constitution "The Pretty Pants Bandit is wholly original and highly energetic...This is an exciting venture."-ArtsAtl "...a cast of belting singers whose voices soar through the theater."-ArtsAtl "Fenner Eaddy as Lawrence Baker was absolutely phenomenal."-BroadwayWorld Anna Dvorak as Marie Baker was an absolute delight...it felt as if she were born to play this role."-BroadwayWorld |
MEDIA CONTACT
Ph: 631.561.8424
Email: chaseandjessicamusicals@gmail.com
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Photo credit: Casey Gardner Ford
Email: chaseandjessicamusicals@gmail.com
IG: @theprettypantsbanditmusical
TikTok: @theprettypantsbandit
www.chaseandjessica.com
Photo credit: Casey Gardner Ford