Question: Talk about your cast.

Answer: My star performer is Gabi Lawson, a veteran of several WSF past productions, including 12th Night and Macbeth. She's amazingly versatile and incredibly funny as well as sexy and beautiful in what is clearly the lead role of Rosalind. Her dear friend Celia is played by Lissi Drioane. The handsome young Billy Whitehurst (yes, he's related) plays our protagonist, Orlando. Dave Otero, who has recently performed along with Alyssa Cummings at Theatre Ventoux plays his older brother Oliver and Jeff Meacham is featured in dual roles as the third brother, Jake and also Judge Frederick. Several other performers, David Manning, Marcos Hammer and Chris Livermore have roots with Fresno City College. Our new Artistic Director for WSF, Heather Parrish brought with her a bevy of talented ladies from the south valley including the aforementioned Kristin Crase and Candace Metzler. Local talents Mitchell Perez and Chaim Herrell as well as WSF stalwarts Hal Bolen and Charles West round out the cast.

How about the music?

For pre-show and intermission interludes, several people have assembled compilations of their favorite 60's hits, which we will play on a rotating basis, so no two nights will be exactly the same. Certain cues at the top of each act are of course set in advance. There are lyrics for several songs within the text of Shakespeare's original written script, so one of our performers, Kristin Crase, took on the challenge of composing songs in the folk style of the 60's, to fit the lyrics, and she performs them live on stage accompanied by her own acoustic guitar. There's also a wedding dance, choreographed by Amy Bolton, to a favorite wedding song from the 60's, as well as a big finale number.