DECEMBER 9 - 18, 2022

HEAD

OVER

HEELS

A new queer musical where
once upon a time — meets right now.

DECEMBER 9 - 18, 2022

HEAD

OVER

HEELS

A new queer musical where
once upon a time — meets right now.

Head Over Heels is the bold new queer musical comedy from the visionaries that rocked Broadway with Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Avenue Q, and Spring Awakening. This laugh-out-loud love story in blank verse is set to the music of the iconic 1980’s all-female rock band The Go-Go’s, including the hit songs “We Got the Beat,” “Our Lips Are Sealed,” “Vacation,” Belinda Carlisle’s “Heaven is a Place on Earth” and “Mad About You.” Head Over Heels made Broadway musical history by featuring a trans actor in a principal role for the first time.

A hilarious, exuberant celebration of love, Head Over Heels follows the escapades of a royal family trying to prevent an oracle's prophecy of extinction. In order to save their beloved kingdom, the family embarks on an extravagant journey wrought with mistaken identities, jealous lovers, sexual awakening, scandal, and self-discovery, where everything (and everyone) is not quite what it seems. In the end, they soon discover the key to their realm’s survival lies within each of their own hearts.

“…a show that celebrates the importance of not
being binary.”

— Ben Brantley

“…joyfully queering the canon (which isn’t all that straight, to begin with) and throwing a heady, hearty party while it’s at it.”

— Sara Holdren

Head Over Heels does go retro, but waaay retro, to achieve something rarer and wonderfully strange.”

— David Cote

SONGS BY

THE GO-GO’S

THEY / THEM / THEIRS

CONCEIVED & ORIG. BOOK

JEFF WHITTY

HE / HIM / HIS

BASED ON THE ARCADIA BY

SIR PHILIP SYDNEY

HE / HIM / HIS

ADAPTED BY

JAMES MAGRUDER

HE / HIM / HIS

DIRECTOR

SEAN ELIAS+

HE / HIM / HIS

CHOREO & ASST. DIRECTOR

QUAE SIMPSON+

HE / HIM / HIS

STAGE MANAGER

RIVER HANSEN+

THEY / THEM / THEIRS

ASST. STAGE MANAGER

JOE KINGERY+

HE / HIM / HIS

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

BRUCE KAPPLIN+

HE / HIM / HIS

LIGHTING DESIGN

THOMAS P. GARDNER+

HE / HIM / HIS

SAFER SPACES TRAINING

SHAWNA POTTER+

SHE / HER / HERS

COSTUME DESIGN

J. ETHAN HENRY

HE / HIM / HIS

SET DESIGN

THOMAS JENKELEIT

HE / HIM / HIS

SOUND DESIGN

JANE SCHWARTZ

SHE / HER / HERS

MUSIC DIRECTOR

RACHEL SANDLER

SHE / HER / HERS

ASST. LIGHTING DESIGN

SCOTT MONNIN

HE / HIM / HIS

TEXT COACH

ANN TURIANO+

SHE / HER / HERS

ELECTRICIAN

PARKER STILLING

HE / HIM / HIS

STITCHER

MARIE RODGERS

SHE / HER / HERS

SONGS BY

THE GO-GO’S

THEY / THEM / THEIRS

CONCEIVED & ORIG. BOOK

JEFF WHITTY

HE / HIM / HIS

BASED ON THE ARCADIA BY

SIR PHILIP SYDNEY

HE / HIM / HIS

ADAPTED BY

JAMES MAGRUDER

HE / HIM / HIS

DIRECTOR

SEAN ELIAS+

HE / HIM / HIS

CHOREO & ASST. DIRECTOR

QUAE SIMPSON+

HE / HIM / HIS

STAGE MANAGER

RIVER HANSEN+

THEY / THEM / THEIRS

ASST. STAGE MANAGER

JOE KINGERY+

HE / HIM / HIS

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

BRUCE KAPPLIN+

HE / HIM / HIS

LIGHTING DESIGN

THOMAS P. GARDNER+

HE / HIM / HIS

INTIMACY & FIGHT DIRECTOR

MALLORY SHEAR

THEY / THEM / THEIRS

COSTUME DESIGN

J. ETHAN HENRY

HE / HIM / HIS

SET DESIGN

THOMAS JENKELEIT

HE / HIM / HIS

SOUND DESIGN

JANE SCHWARTZ

SHE / HER / HERS

MUSIC DIRECTOR

RACHEL SANDLER

SHE / HER / HERS

ASST. LIGHTING DESIGN

SCOTT MONNIN

HE / HIM / HIS

PYTHIO

NICHOLAS MILES+

DAMETAS

NATHAN ZIMMERMAN

ENSEMBLE & PAMELA/GYNECIA U/S

ALANA KNOBEL

ENSEMBLE & PYTHIO U/S

AILEEN MITCHENER

ENSEMBLE & PHILOCLEA U/S

MICAELA OLIVERIO

TEXT COACH

ANN TURIANO+

SHE / HER / HERS

MOPSA

ASIA-LIGÉ ARNOLD

MUSIDORUS

BRETT KLOCK

PHILOCLEA

KRISTEN STICKLEY

GYNECIA

HANA CLARICE+

BASILIUS

BRIAN DAUGLASH

MALE SWING

CAM POWELL

ENSEMBLE & MOPSA U/S

WHITNEY REED

STITCHER

MARIE RODGERS

SHE / HER / HERS

PAMELA

ALLISON BRADBURY

SAFER SPACES TRAINING

SHAWNA POTTER+

SHE / HER / HERS

+ denotes Iron Crow Theatre Resident Artist
* denotes Member, Actors’ Equity Association. The professional union for actors and stage managers in the United States.

CREATIVE TEAM


+ denotes Iron Crow Theatre Resident Artist

PAMELA

ALLISON BRADBURY

MUSIDORUS

BRETT KLOCK

PHILOCLEA

KRISTEN STICKLEY

MOPSA

ASIA-LIGÉ ARNOLD

BASILIUS

BRIAN DAUGLASH

GYNECIA

HANA CLARICE+

PYTHIO

NICHOLAS MILES+

DAMETAS

NATHAN ZIMMERMAN

ENSEMBLE & PAMELA/GYNECIA U/S

ALANA KNOBEL

ENSEMBLE & PYTHIO U/S

AILEEN MITCHENER

ENSEMBLE & PHILOCLEA U/S

MICAELA OLIVERIO

MALE SWING

CAM POWELL

ENSEMBLE & MOPSA U/S

WHITNEY REED

CREATIVE TEAM


SONGS BY

THE GO-GO’S

THEY / THEM / THEIRS

CONCEIVED & ORIG. BOOK

JEFF WHITTY

HE / HIM / HIS

BASED ON THE ARCADIA BY

SIR PHILIP SYDNEY

HE / HIM / HIS

ADAPTED BY

JAMES MAGRUDER

HE / HIM / HIS

DIRECTOR

SEAN ELIAS+

HE / HIM / HIS

CHOREO & ASST. DIRECTOR

QUAE SIMPSON+

HE / HIM / HIS

MUSIC DIRECTOR

RACHEL SANDLER

SHE / HER / HERS

STAGE MANAGER

RIVER HANSEN+

THEY / THEM / THEIRS

ASST. STAGE MANAGER

JOE KINGERY+

HE / HIM / HIS

COSTUME DESIGN

J. ETHAN HENRY

HE / HIM / HIS

SET DESIGN

THOMAS JENKELEIT

HE / HIM / HIS

LIGHTING DESIGN

THOMAS P. GARDNER+

HE / HIM / HIS

ASST. LIGHTING DESIGN

SCOTT MONNIN

HE / HIM / HIS

SOUND DESIGN

JANE SCHWARTZ

SHE / HER / HERS

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

BRUCE KAPPLIN+

HE / HIM / HIS

TEXT COACH

ANN TURIANO+

SHE / HER / HERS

STITCHER

MARIE RODGERS

SHE / HER / HERS

INTIMACY & FIGHT DIRECTOR

MALLORY SHEAR

THEY / THEM / THEIRS

SAFER SPACES TRAINING

SHAWNA POTTER+

SHE / HER / HERS

RUN TIME:
2 hours including one 15 minute intermission.

CONTENT:
The production includes sexual themes, jokes, and undertones, kissing, simulated intercourse, violence, and death. The production design includes the use of loud sound effects, haze, the use of props that sound similar to that of a gunshot, and bright, strobing, reflective lighting.

AT THE DECEMBER 17 PERFORMANCE
The role of Pamela, originally played by Allison Bradbury, will be played by Alana Knobel.

 

BALTIMORE THEATRE PROJECT

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BALTIMORE, MD 21201