Photo Flash: First Look at AMADEUS at Bainbridge Performing Arts

It's music, madness, and Mozart at Bainbridge Performing Arts this March. AMADEUS, Peter Schaffer's Tony and Oscar award winning story of passion, jealousy, and revenge comes to vivid life with the sublime music of Mozart performed live by a Chamber group and choral ensemble. In the court of the Austrian Emperor Josef, Antonio Salieri is the established composer. Enter the greatest musical genius of all time: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Salieri has given himself to God so that he might realize his sole ambition to be a great composer. Mozart is a foul-mouthed, graceless oaf who has that which is beyond Salieri's envious grasp: Genius. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

Beloved by Bainbridge audiences for her insightful direction of Snow Falling on Cedars, The Kentucky Cycle, Distracted, Private Eyes, Arcadia, The Grapes of Wrath, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, More Fun Than Bowling, Anton in Show Business, Art and The Philadelphia Story, Director Kate Carruthers is joined by a stellar artistic team, including BPA's Resident Musical Director Josh Anderson (Mary Poppins, Hair, The Drowsy Chaperone, Monty Python's Spamalot, Little Shop of Horrors, Avenue Q, Shrek, and the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee), and Music Supervisor Jon Brenner and Associate Music Director Elizabeth Faye - both long-standing performers with the BPA Mainstage Band.

The beguiling cast of BPA stage veterans and newcomers includes Nelsen Spickard as Antonio Salieri, Luke Walker as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Melissa Fenwick as Constanze Weber, Dara Lillis as Emperor Joseph II, Ron Mackley as Count Johann Kilian Von Strack, David Skover as Count Franz Orsini-Rosenberg, Rob Burke as Baron Gottfried Van Swieten, Frank Buxton as Kapellmeister Guiseppe Bonno, Jennifer Pippin-Montanez as Teresa Salieri, Chapple Langemack as Salieri's Cook, Will Langemack as Salieri's Valet, Geoff Finney and Lee Ann Hittenberger as Venticelli, and Tori Konig as Katharina Cavalieri.

The Choral Ensemble features Lisa Wright, Ron Knoebel, Sholpan Yerezheyeva, Joy Tappen, Christine Perkins, Ruth Urbach, Mike Loudon, Meg Daly, Barbara ten Hove, Paula Elliot, and Mark Power. Featuring musicians from both the Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra and BPA's 2015 - 2016 Mainstage productions, the AMADEUS Chamber Ensemble includes Pat Strange (Violin 1), Alan Francescutti (Violin 2), Arlayne Eseman (Violoncello), Jon Brenner (Violone), Clarice Nash (Flute), Patricia Beasley (Clarinet), Amy Duerr-Day (Oboe), Amy Orr (Horn), Chris Laughbon (Trombone), Art Whitson (Tympani), and Elizabeth Faye (Piano).

AMADEUS appears at BPA tonight, March 11, through March 26, with shows Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 3:00 p.m. A special Pay-What-You-Can Preview will be held Thursday, March 10 at 7:30 p.m., and the Opening Night Reception will be Friday, March 11 at 6:30 p.m. Tickets, $27 for adults, $22 for seniors, and $19 for students, youth, military, and teachers, may be purchased online at www.bainbridgeperformingarts.org, by phone at 206.842.8569 or in person at BPA, 200 Madison Avenue North, Bainbridge Island.

Photo Credit: Kim Scott-Olson