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​Disney's The Little Mermaid
Pembroke Pines Theatre of Performing Arts
July 8th - August 7th, 2016


Book by Doug Wright  Music by Alan Menken
Lyrics by Howard Ashman with additional lyrics by Glen Slater
Based on The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen

Directed by Geoffrey Short

Musical Director Caryl Ginsburg Fantel
Choreography by Del Marrero
Costumes by Karen Howells Roach and 
Cindy Short




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Starring
Jessie Rae Jordan as Ariel
Chris Alvarez as Prince Eric
Chris Santanelli as King Triton
Danny Lemache as Sebastian
Preston C Howell as Flounder
Phillip Andrew Santiago as Scuttle
Cindy Pearce as Ursula
Logan Larroque as Flotsam
Danielle Gonzalez as Jetsam
Robert Geils as Grimsby
Stephanie Epstein as Aquata
Sarah Knoche as Andrina
Maria Angela Incorvaia as Arista
Sarah Megan Gorfinkel as Atina
Alexandria Palazzo as Adella
Daniela Machado as Allana
Michael Biggs as Chef Louis
Elizabeth Anne Garrard Ursula (Saturday matinees)
with
Zach Weinstein
Bryce Lucas
Adrian Macchiato
Roly Del Rio
Eric Bouza
Nicanor Alex Ramos
Michael Torok
Brianna Quackenbush
Kaelea Elizabeth Murphy
Carly Mandel
Max Torok
Maisy Surman
Nina Shlifer
Elizabeth Polk
and 
Bernard Lawrence

Director's note

​Thank you so much for being here! All of us involved in The Little Mermaid are truly grateful for your time and willingness – or need – to shed the shackles of reality for a little while to come with us on this beloved under the sea adventure. Whether this is your first time seeing this story or you can recite every line, your playful imagination is as vital a part of your experience with us as anything on the stage. So let yourself be free to play for a little while! Sing along. Color all over this program. Believe mermaids exist.  Because here and now, they do.
 
Hans Christian Andersen’s original tale of The Little Mermaid written in 1836 is a very dark morality play meant to scare children into good behavior.  The 1989 Disney animated film and, later the Broadway musical obviously remade the story into a hopeful and colorful story with more far reaching themes. Admittedly, I was cynical about directing The Little Mermaid at first. I was too concerned with “grown up” themes and “serious” projects to invest my heart in what I thought of as a children’s fairy tale. I forgot how to make believe. I couldn’t have been more wrong because not only should we embrace the child in all of us but also because I’ve embraced the messages at the heart of this story. Those messages – which are still so relevant and important to remember today - are what we built our mission statement for this production upon.
 
Overcome prejudice and fear and find true love.  Too often, we fear people and things that are different from us.  That fear, ignorance, mystery and history can divide us and oppress us and make it seem that our worlds are as different as land and sea.   But sometimes a fascination with those differences and the bravery to overcome evil to explore them can give love the power to plunge to the deepest depths of the ocean and soar to the highest peaks of the Earth to conquer fear and bring those worlds together. This is what Ariel discovers in The Little Mermaid.  She asks the critical question so many of us have asked too. What if home isn’t the place you were born?  What if it’s a place you have to discover for yourself?   Imagine what a wonderful world we would live in if we all had her bravery, open eyes and open heart. We should all be a part of that world.
 
Yours in Gratitude and Make Believe,
Geoff Short
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