OCU-NYC: Alumni News

MARITA STRYKER is touring with John Doyle's Sweeny Todd where she is covering the roles of Johanna, the Beggar Woman, and Pirelli (playing cello and flute).
JOHN JACOB LEE will be playing the Scarecrow in West Virginia Public Theatre's production of The Wizard of Oz this December.
CHIP ABBOTT just finished a run of The Wizard of Oz at the Carousel Theatre and is headed to the Fulton Opera House to perform in 42nd Street.
TONY RAMOS will be in the operetta Babes in Toyland with the Little Orchestra Society performed at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center December 13th.
SARA EDWARDS is performing the World Premiere of Turn of the Century at thte Goodman Theatre in Chicago. Starring Jeff Daniels and Rachel York, Directed by Tommy Tune, Choreographed by Noah Racey, and Written by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice of Jersey Boys.
HANK STAMPFL is performing at Arizona Broadway Theatre's production of Cabaret as Hermann and Cliff Bradshaws understudy.
NICK MADSON is opening The Full Monty at the Town Hall Arts Center in Denver starring Jerry Lukowski.
LEAH JENNINGS played Lady Sybill in Camelot starring Robert Cuccioli at the White Plains Performing Arts Center.
DAN MEAGHER was named the 2007 grand prize winner of the "Outstanding Marketing Campaign" in Oklahoma by OK's Frontier Marketing Association for his marketing of the OCU Summer Music Programs. He lef OCU in December 2007 and returned home to SF where he is a cast member of the long running hit musical Shopping! the Musical.
SARAH MOORE will play Anita in West Side Story at the East-End Theatre Co. in Galveston this October-November.
MELISSA McKAMIE will be in Prague in November with the international tour of The Phantom of the Opera by Ivan Jacobs. She is the Christine understudy and a member of the ensemble.
JOHN JACOB LEE, after 340 performances as George in the first national tour of The Wedding Singer, will be heading to Hilton Head Island in September to perform in La Cage aux Folles at the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina, Sept. 24 - Oct. 19.
TARYN MOLNAR is currently the dance captain and an ensemble dancer for Arizona Broadway Theatre's production of The Music Man.
JENNIFER SANCHEZ is playing Maria Elena in The Buddy Holly Story at the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina.
JAKE PFARR is currently performing Contact at North Shore Music Theatre.
SCOTT GUTHRIE will be performing Billy Bigelow in Carousel at the Summer Theatre in Meredith Village, New Hampshire in July.
WES HART has just been cast as Pearce in Half a Sixpence with Goodspeed Theatre. www.weshart.net
NICK MADSON is finishing his run as Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast and in August will be making his Denver debut at the Town Hall Arts Center playing Jerry Lukowski in The Full Monty.
BRITTANY NANCE is contracted with Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines on Legend of hte Seas starting July '08.
CHIP ABBOTT is performing in Brigadoon at the Fulton Theatre in PA.
TIFFAN BOURELLI and CHRISTINE PATERSON are touring Asia (China, The Phillipines, Taiwan, Thailand, and Korea) in The Sound of Music (Troika Entertainment/Broadway Asia). Christine is playing Maria and Tiffan is Elsa Schraeder. The tour begain in March '08 and will run until November '08.
LORI FISHER competed in the Concerto Competition at the University of Illinois with Quatre Chansons de Ronsard by Milhaud and advanced in the vocal division. Winners are announced in May. Lori won 2nd place in the National Society of Arts and Letters Competition held in Champaig, IL. She will be performing Adina with Champaign Lyric Opera Company in L'elisir d'amore and Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance with Prairie Fire Theatre in Bloomington, IL this summer.
JAKE PFARR is currently playing Keno in The Full Monty at Northern Stage in Vermont.
WES HART is currently playing Gremio and understudying Bill Calhoun in Kiss Me Kate with Paper Mill Playhouse. He has just been cast in the lead roles of Riff in West Side Story and Bud in Urban Cowboy with West Virginia Public Theatre. This will be Wes' second time playing Bud, a role he played on the National Tour last year. Visit him at weshart.net.
AMELIA FRATES just got married in Barbados!
SHANNON JOHNSON just started a new business in Oklahoma City. She will be teaching dance to all ages in the Oklahoma City area. She is really excited to begin this new venture. Check out her website.
(SARAH) INEZ TURNER will be performing with Carnival Cruise Lines on the ship the Sensation beginning April 17, 2008.
LESLIE COLLINS can be seen as a comedienne on VH1's "Best Night Ever." Look for her on Friday, April 4th. Or come to her one woman show on Sunday nights in April!
PEYTON ROYAL will be playing the Carpet in Beauty and the Beast at American Musical Theatre of San Jose in May 2008. He's also the dance captain & Lefou understudy. More information on peytonroyal.com
PATRICK LAVALLEE is performing the role of Bert Barry at the Tropicana in Atlantic City, where he is also the dance captain.
CLIFTON SAMUELS (FOGLE) just booked the First National Tour of the Broadway revival of A Chorus Line.
ERIN KRUCE has just reserved an evening at "Don't Tell Mama's" cabaret room where she will be performing her show Great Expectations...are we there yet. March 17th at 9:00, $10 cover, $5 for AEA members & a 2 drink minimum. Special guest star, OCU's own Kelli O'Hara. Matt Doebler, musical director.
JENNIFER SANCHEZ is in rehearsals for Seesaw the Musical. Performances in March at the Connelly Theatre. www.seesawthemusical.com
WES HART has been cast in the supporting lead role of Tommy Keeler in Annie Get Your Gun with North Carolina Theatre (Feb 23 - March 3). He will be playing the role of Gremio in Kiss Me Kate with Paper Mill Playhouse (April 16 - May 18). Visit Wes online at weshart.net
KATIE RAYLE is playing Masha in Chekov's Three Sisters at The Algonquin Theatre in New York this April.
STEPH SHAW released her debut CD entitled "Days in Between," a 5-song EP, in the summer of 2007. It was recorded in NYC in conjunction with Skyline Studios, Track 9 Studios, and Tony Mugavero Studios. Executive produced by David B. Shaw, and co-produced by Steph Shaw, Tony Mugavero, and Nick Mancini, the CD features a collection of vocal/piano songs as well as full-band pieces including Pages and Back from Here. The CD is now available on iTunes, Amazon, and CD Baby.
CLIFTON SAMUELS (FOGLE) recently just appeared at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, TN singing in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular.
CHIP ABBOTT is currently in rehearsals and assisting for a workshop of the new David Yazbek musical entitled Ruckus Manhattan. He is also rehearsing with the Chase Brock Experience for their Joyce SoHo Seasons.
KRYSTINA ALEXIS NELSON will be dancing and be the assistant in the Haines Magic show on the Princess Emerald cruise ship January to March 2008.
NATALIE LOFTIN is starring as Susan in Tick...Tick...Boom! at Wow Theatre in New York City, 59 E 4th St., January 24-26, 8pm.
KATIE CORTEZ will be the Female Swing on the National Tour of Go Diego Go Live!
ERIN KRUSE just finished understudying Emma and Lucy in Jekyll and Hyde at the John W. Engeman Theatre in Northport Long Island.
PEYTON ROYAL is appearing in Peter Pan at Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia (Nov 6 - Jan 6, 2008)
LEAH JENNINGS is currently playing Nancy in Oliver! at Cumberland County Playhouse. She will play Julie in Rogers and Hammerstein's Some Enchanted Evening for the Legacy Theatre in Atlanta in early 2008.
GARRETT McGREW will be performing in the Oklahoma City Philharmonic's A Very Merry Pops November 30-Dec 2. He will be performing with OCU Alum Destan Owens.
CHIP ABBOTT and JENNIFER SANCHEZ are currently performing in A Fireside Christmas at the Fireside Theatre.
ROY LIGHTNER will be performing in Peter Pan for Alabama Shakespeare October - December.
SCOTT GUTHRIE is doing Lyric Theatre's production of Forever Plaid: Plaid Tidings that will open the new Plaza Theatre. He'll be playing the role of Smudge.
MICAH GREEN will be opening the newly renovated Plaza Theatre with Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma's production of Plaid Tidings. It's the Christmas version of Forever Plaid. He will be performing the role of Sparky. Ticket information can be obtained at lyrictheatreokc.com.
TIFFANY BORELLI, BRYAN JARRET, MELISSA McKAMIE, & JUSTIN HALL will perform with the Staten Island Philharmonic in a staged-reading of Kiss Me Kate at the St. George Theatre September 29, 2007.
LAURALYN McCLELLAND will be performing in the Atlanta Theatre of the Stars White Christmas tour. The tour hits Atlanta; Wisconsin; Buffalo and Rochester, NY; Memphis and Nashville, TN; Raleigh, NC; and Fort Meyers, FL. Let her know if she'll be in a town near you! Following White Christmas, she will be assisting Bob Richard at the 5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle in Mame (and also doing some dancing in the chorus.)
CLIFTON SAMUELS (FOGLE) recently appeared in the original cast workshop of The Great White Way, a new dance-ical choreographed and directed by David Marquez that made it's world premier at the International Dance Festival in New York. Check it out.
RICHARD RIAZ YODER is performing as Mac/Doc/Thug and in the ensemble of the 42nd Street of Asia.
KATIE CORTEZ will be performing in the Australia/New Zealand tour of Thomas and Friends Live!
EMILY HECTOR received a contract with the Gary Musick Company performing for Celebrity Cruiseline on "Mercury" traveling to Canada, Alaska, Hawaii, New Zealand, and Australia.
JENNIFER SANCHEZ will play Anita in West Side Story at the Four Seasons Theater.
CHIP ABBOTT is a proud member of New York City's The Chase Brock Experience. Chip will be performing in West Side Story at the Fulton Opera House.
JILL (PENNINGTON) DELEAULT and AMELIA FRATES are appearing in Damn Yankees at the Seacoast Repertory Theatre in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
JOHN JACOB LEE will be working at the Fulton Opera House (Ensemble in Thoroughly Modern Millie) and Ogunquit Playhouse (Ensemble in La Cage Aux Folles) this summer. In the fall, he will join the first national tour of The Wedding Singer.
HANK STAMPFL is going out on the Troika National Tour of Evita.
NATALIE LOFTIN will be Kathy in High School Musical at North Shore Music Theatre from June 15 - July 29. For more information go to her myspace page or to the NSMT website.
NICK MADSON is currently starring as Don Lockwood in Singin in the Rain. Following this, he will be performing a stand up special entitled I'm Too Busy! which may later be taped for Comedy Central.
TYLER FOY, CHAZ WOLCOTT, TODD WALKER, PAIGE WILLIAMS, KIMBERLY FAURE, ROY LIGHTNER, TIFFANY OCVIRK, and OLIVIA POLICICCHIO will be working the 2007 summer season at Music Theatre of Wichita.
LEAH JENNINGS is currently playing Meg March in the musical Little Women at the Cumberland County Playhouse. Later this season, she will play Carrie Pipperidge in Carousel.
JAKE PFARR will be working at Pittsburgh CLO this summer doing Oklahoma, White Christmas, Cats, and Full Monty.
JENNIFER SANCHEZ is currently playing Grandma Tzeitzel in Fiddler on the Roof at the Fireside Theatre. She also understudies Hodel and Tzeitel.
LYNDY FRANKLIN will be performing the role of Kristine in Broadway's A Chorus Line April 10, 11, 12 at 8 pm and April 11 at 2pm.
TARYN MOLNAR is performing in Thoroughly Moder Millie at Carousel Dinner Theatre in Akron, OH (the country's largest dinner theatre). She plays the role of Rita and dances herself silly in the ensemble.
KRYSTINA ALEXIS NELSON will be dancing on RCCL as a gust entertainer with David Haines Magic beginning in May 2007.
LYNDY FRANKLIN will be going on as Bebe in Broadway's A Chorus Line - March 6, 8, 9 at 8pm & March 11 at 3pm.
JOEL B. NEW's songs will be presented at a concert at OCU on April 15th, 2007 at 3pm.
KATIE CORTEZ will be performing in the National Tour of Thomas and Friends Live!
SARA EDWARDS is ENGAGED! to longtime boyfriend Ari Butler and is planning to be married in Spring of 2008.
TJ MOSS has released his new EP, "Biography". It will soon be available on CDBaby and iTunes.
KRYSTINA ALEXIS NELSON will be seen on NBC's hit series 30 ROCK with Tina Fey, Jane Krakowski, Anna Chlumsky, and SNL's Jason Sukeikis. Krystina is a dance extra on the episode airing this March.
WILL MANN is now playing in "The Festival of the Lion Kind" in the animal kingdom of Disney World in Orlando, Florida. He is happily a member of Actors' Equity.
AMY DANIELSON is the founder GENESIS: SARAJEVO, a non-profit organization and company working to spread dance, specifically tap and contemporary dance, throughout the Bosnian region. Visit their website for more information.
CHRISTINA MARSHALL, upon returning home from a performing overseas with Tokyo Japan Disneyland, went out to sea aboard Holland America's ms. Statendam (Alaska/South Pacific/Australia/New Zealand). Excited to return for yet another contract aboard HAL's newest vessel the ms. Noordam from Feb-July '07 (cruising the Carribbean/Panama Canal/Alaska).
JENNIFER SANCHEZ is currently playing Mary in A Fireside Christmas at The Fireside Theater (Oct 17-Dec 23) She was last seen in Gaugin/Savage Light at Theater Row and can be heard on the cast recording.
JOEL NEW's latest musical, Awakening, is the winner of the 2006 Margo Lion Award for Adaptation.
NICK MADSON is currently preparing to star in his one man, hour and a half stand up special entitled Back Again before heading off to Florida to do a show called Moments to Remember.
MARYANNE TP FONG was recently appointed Hon Director General for the Americas of the International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, UK; appointed as a Senate Member of the World Nations Congress for Life (WNC, USA); nominated to recieve a Lifetime Achievement Award (International Congress of Arts & Communications, UK); Marquis Who's Who (USA) biographee; International Who's Who Historical Society (USA) biographee and member.
WILL MANN is featured in the National Tour of Wonderful Town.
JAKE PFARR is performing in Disney's Beauty and the Beast at Alabama Shakespeare Festival in Montgomy, AL from Oct. 16 thru Dec. 24.
COLETTE STAFFIN is currently working at Walt Disney World in Florida as Princess Jasmine, as well as performing in a show called "Let's Have A Ball."
NATALIE LOFTIN will be performing in A Wonderful Life at Papermill Playhouse (Millburn, NJ) November 8 - December 17, 2006.
LEAH JENNINGS will appear in Irving Berlin's White Christmas at the Cumberland County Playhouse.
KELLI O'HARA was nominated for a 2005 Tony Award (Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical) for her work in the role of Clara in The Light in the Piazza. She performed a song from the Broadway musical during the CBS broadcast.
KRISTIN CHENOWETH recently starred in the film Bewitched and, this Spring, released her second solo album, "As I Am." She also continues her recurring role on NBC's The West Wing.
GERALD STEICHEN will conduct the New York premier of Rachel Portman's opera "The Little Prince" at New York City Opera on Nov. 12.
MATTHEW SIPRESS is currently performing in the 25th Anniversary National Tour of Evita. The production is supervised by Hal Prince and the closest NYC engagement will be December 19-24 at the NJPAC in Newark, NJ.
LYNDY FRANKLIN is playing Susan Mahoney in Walnut Street Theatre's Finian's Rainbow (Philadelphia, PA). Show runs September 14- October 23.
ELLIOTT BRADLEY is currently the dance captain and swing for We Will Rock You in Germany.
JONATHAN RUMMEL is performing in Paint Your Wagon as Hop Sing/dance captain at the Jackson Hole Playhouse in Jackson, Wyoming. (May 27-Oct 1). In addition, he is teaching tap, ballet, and jazz at Dancers Workshop. Look for his new website, which should be up and running very soon, created by Peyton Royal..
COLLETTE SIMMONS is making her Broadway debut as a swing in Mamma Mia!
RICHIE MASTASCUSA & WES POPE appeared on Live! with Regis & Kelly as dancers in the opening production number of their Relly Awards episode.
CURTISS WESLEY, CHIP ABBOTT, & ZACH SANDLER will be performing in Beauty and the Beast in Tulsa, OK. This production is choreographed by PEYTON ROYAL.
BRANDI WOOTEN is currently playing Lorelei in Westchester Broadway's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. In January, Brandi will begin rehearsals for the 1st National Tour of Spamalot.
ROBERTA HOAG is dancing in the Las Vegas show Legends in Concert out of Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
MACY REEVES will be performing in the Gateway Playhouse's Christmas Spectacular this December in Pathogue, NY (out in Long Island). She just finished Sugar, The Some Like It Hot Musical at the Gateway Playhouse this past September.
COLBY Q. LINDEMAN will be performing with the Rockette's Christmas Across America tour in Pittsburgh and Minneapolis.
SARAH SMITH will be performing in Neil Goldberg's "Christmas Dreams" in Branson, MO.
LESLEY JOHNSON JENNINGS is teaching this summer in a new theater dance intensive called Broadway Theater Dance Workshop, which brings young dancers from all over the country to Santa Fe, NM to study under teachers from Broadway and the NYC dance community. (July 24-Aug 5, 2006)
HEIDI MESHUREL-JOLLY spent 9 years with the Walt Disney World Co. serving as Dance Captain and helping with the 10th re-vamp for MGM Studios Beauty and the Beast. Also worked for Hardrive Productions Inc as a dancer and stiltwalker for various shows, conventions, and AIDS benefits around the US. In 2001, she moved to Steamboat Springs, CO to take over ownership of a dance studio as well as start her own non-profit performing company.
JOHN BEDFORD was inducted into the Oklahoma Higher Education Hall of Fame on October 18, 2005. Jo Rowan was inducted last year. They are the only married couple to have received this honor.
JORDAN BALLARD appeared on NBC's The Apprentice (10/27/05); she was one of the Broadway's stars participating in a celebrity auction. Jordan was starring in Hairspray at the time.
NATHAN PECK just finished work on the Julie Taymor movie musical Across the Universe. He also shot a featured role on the new NBC sitcom The Book of Daniel playing a dancer in La Cage aux Folles, the recent Broadway revival in which Nathan was the Dance Captain.
NICOLE JONES is currently dancing with American Contemporary Ballet in NYC.
LAURALYN McCLELLAND will leave in January for an Asia/European tour of West Side Story in which she is playing Velma. She just returned from Macau, China where the tour began.
AMANDA CLARK (HUDDLESTON) will be moving to Las Vegas in April to open the new production of Phantom of the Opera at the Venetian Hotel.
KIM SCHAFER is currently on the road with the National Tour of 42nd Street, lasting until May 2006.
PEYTON ROYAL played the role of the Carpet in Beauty and the Beast at Pioneer Theatre Company in Salt Lake City, UT.
LOIS (KAMMAN) BUESSER is Music Director for A Jerome Kern Cabaret with the Ridge Light Opera of NJ. More Info >>
KELLI O'HARA sang on NBC's Today Show with her Pajama Game co-star Harry Connick, Jr. on Feb. 7, 2006.
ALEE REED is currently studio manager and instructor at the Pierre Dulaine Dancenter (25 W. 31st St, NYC) teaching ballroom, latin, and swing. (See upcoming film, "Take the Lead" with Antonio Banderas portraying Pierre Dulaine.) She is also educational liaison and teaching artist for American Ballroom Theater's "Dancing Classrooms" program, as featured in the documentary, "Mad Hot Ballroom."
LYNDY FRANKLIN sang and danced in a benefit for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids on February 6 at the New Amsterdam Theatre. The event featured the stars of ABC Daytime TV and raised over $30,000!
PEYTON ROYAL will performing in Chicago at Riverside Theatre in Vero Beach, FL March 17-April 10.
CHIP ABBOTT is currently performing in the West Coast Premiere of Never Gonna Dance in Los Angeles, as one of the Rometones.
DANA FISCH is currently dancing for two professional dance companies and an administrator for both: Push Factor Dance Company
and New Jersey Tap Ensemble. Push Factor also holds open jazz classes every Wednesday and Friday morning from 10-11:30 am in Astoria, so check out the website if you are interested!
LEAH (ROHRER) JENNINGS was a featured soloist in the first full production of Alan Menken's "King David Oratorio" since it opened the New Amsterdam Theatre on Broadway in the late 1990s. The benefit concert was Nov. 11-12 in Atlanta, GA.
ERNIE PRUNEDA is currently performing in Anything Goes at the Olney Theatre in Olney, Maryland through May 5, 2006.
MELISSA BRADING graduated from UCO in 2004, and has been dancing with Ad Deum Dance Company in Houston, Tx for the last 2 years. She will be working in OKC this summer on a DVD project while running Victory School of the Arts for 7 weeks. She planning to be in the Netherlands for 2 weeks this summer while choreographing for youth for a street ministry. She plans on spending a third season with Ad Deum.
MARITA STRYKER will be singing and dancing on the ms Zuiderdam (with Holland America) and traveling through Alaska, the Panama Canal and the Caribbean until November 11th.
BECKIE STRAVERS is currently dancing on the Voyager of the Seas for Royal Caribbean Cruiselines, touring the Mediterranian, Europe, and the Caribbean until mid-February 2007.
SARA EDWARDS will be performing in Singin' In The Rain at North Shore Music Theatre, July 4-31.
MICHAEL BERRY is currently putting the finishing touches on a memoir titled "My Walk through Hell in Gasoline Platform Shoes," hoping for a Fall 2007 release.
AMELIA FRATES is currently a production assistant for the new musical Sister Act at the Pasadena Playhouse.




	MARITA STRYKER is touring with John Doyle's Sweeny Todd where she is covering the roles of Johanna, the Beggar Woman, and Pirelli (playing cello and flute). JOHN JACOB LEE will be playing the Scarecrow in West Virginia Public Theatre's production of The Wizard of Oz this December. CHIP ABBOTT just finished a run of The Wizard of Oz at the Carousel Theatre and is headed to the Fulton Opera House to perform in 42nd Street. TONY RAMOS will be in the operetta Babes in Toyland with the Little Orchestra Society performed at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center December 13th. SARA EDWARDS is performing the World Premiere of Turn of the Century at thte Goodman Theatre in Chicago. Starring Jeff Daniels and Rachel York, Directed by Tommy Tune, Choreographed by Noah Racey, and Written by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice of Jersey Boys. HANK STAMPFL is performing at Arizona Broadway Theatre's production of Cabaret as Hermann and Cliff Bradshaws understudy. NICK MADSON is opening The Full Monty at the Town Hall Arts Center in Denver starring Jerry Lukowski. LEAH JENNINGS played Lady Sybill in Camelot starring Robert Cuccioli at the White Plains Performing Arts Center. DAN MEAGHER was named the 2007 grand prize winner of the "Outstanding Marketing Campaign" in Oklahoma by OK's Frontier Marketing Association for his marketing of the OCU Summer Music Programs. He lef OCU in December 2007 and returned home to SF where he is a cast member of the long running hit musical Shopping! the Musical. SARAH MOORE will play Anita in West Side Story at the East-End Theatre Co. in Galveston this October-November. MELISSA McKAMIE will be in Prague in November with the international tour of The Phantom of the Opera by Ivan Jacobs. She is the Christine understudy and a member of the ensemble. JOHN JACOB LEE, after 340 performances as George in the first national tour of The Wedding Singer, will be heading to Hilton Head Island in September to perform in La Cage aux Folles at the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina, Sept. 24 - Oct. 19. TARYN MOLNAR is currently the dance captain and an ensemble dancer for Arizona Broadway Theatre's production of The Music Man. JENNIFER SANCHEZ is playing Maria Elena in The Buddy Holly Story at the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina. JAKE PFARR is currently performing Contact at North Shore Music Theatre. SCOTT GUTHRIE will be performing Billy Bigelow in Carousel at the Summer Theatre in Meredith Village, New Hampshire in July. WES HART has just been cast as Pearce in Half a Sixpence with Goodspeed Theatre. www.weshart.net NICK MADSON is finishing his run as Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast and in August will be making his Denver debut at the Town Hall Arts Center playing Jerry Lukowski in The Full Monty. BRITTANY NANCE is contracted with Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines on Legend of hte Seas starting July '08. CHIP ABBOTT is performing in Brigadoon at the Fulton Theatre in PA. TIFFAN BOURELLI and CHRISTINE PATERSON are touring Asia (China, The Phillipines, Taiwan, Thailand, and Korea) in The Sound of Music (Troika Entertainment/Broadway Asia). Christine is playing Maria and Tiffan is Elsa Schraeder. The tour begain in March '08 and will run until November '08. LORI FISHER competed in the Concerto Competition at the University of Illinois with Quatre Chansons de Ronsard by Milhaud and advanced in the vocal division. Winners are announced in May. Lori won 2nd place in the National Society of Arts and Letters Competition held in Champaig, IL. She will be performing Adina with Champaign Lyric Opera Company in L'elisir d'amore and Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance with Prairie Fire Theatre in Bloomington, IL this summer. JAKE PFARR is currently playing Keno in The Full Monty at Northern Stage in Vermont. WES HART is currently playing Gremio and understudying Bill Calhoun in Kiss Me Kate with Paper Mill Playhouse. He has just been cast in the lead roles of Riff in West Side Story and Bud in Urban Cowboy with West Virginia Public Theatre. This will be Wes' second time playing Bud, a role he played on the National Tour last year. Visit him at weshart.net. AMELIA FRATES just got married in Barbados! SHANNON JOHNSON just started a new business in Oklahoma City. She will be teaching dance to all ages in the Oklahoma City area. She is really excited to begin this new venture. Check out her website. (SARAH) INEZ TURNER will be performing with Carnival Cruise Lines on the ship the Sensation beginning April 17, 2008. LESLIE COLLINS can be seen as a comedienne on VH1's "Best Night Ever." Look for her on Friday, April 4th. Or come to her one woman show on Sunday nights in April! PEYTON ROYAL will be playing the Carpet in Beauty and the Beast at American Musical Theatre of San Jose in May 2008. He's also the dance captain & Lefou understudy. More information on peytonroyal.com PATRICK LAVALLEE is performing the role of Bert Barry at the Tropicana in Atlantic City, where he is also the dance captain. CLIFTON SAMUELS (FOGLE) just booked the First National Tour of the Broadway revival of A Chorus Line. ERIN KRUCE has just reserved an evening at "Don't Tell Mama's" cabaret room where she will be performing her show Great Expectations...are we there yet. March 17th at 9:00, $10 cover, $5 for AEA members & a 2 drink minimum. Special guest star, OCU's own Kelli O'Hara. Matt Doebler, musical director. JENNIFER SANCHEZ is in rehearsals for Seesaw the Musical. Performances in March at the Connelly Theatre. www.seesawthemusical.com WES HART has been cast in the supporting lead role of Tommy Keeler in Annie Get Your Gun with North Carolina Theatre (Feb 23 - March 3). He will be playing the role of Gremio in Kiss Me Kate with Paper Mill Playhouse (April 16 - May 18). Visit Wes online at weshart.net KATIE RAYLE is playing Masha in Chekov's Three Sisters at The Algonquin Theatre in New York this April. STEPH SHAW released her debut CD entitled "Days in Between," a 5-song EP, in the summer of 2007. It was recorded in NYC in conjunction with Skyline Studios, Track 9 Studios, and Tony Mugavero Studios. Executive produced by David B. Shaw, and co-produced by Steph Shaw, Tony Mugavero, and Nick Mancini, the CD features a collection of vocal/piano songs as well as full-band pieces including Pages and Back from Here. The CD is now available on iTunes, Amazon, and CD Baby. CLIFTON SAMUELS (FOGLE) recently just appeared at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, TN singing in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. CHIP ABBOTT is currently in rehearsals and assisting for a workshop of the new David Yazbek musical entitled Ruckus Manhattan. He is also rehearsing with the Chase Brock Experience for their Joyce SoHo Seasons. KRYSTINA ALEXIS NELSON will be dancing and be the assistant in the Haines Magic show on the Princess Emerald cruise ship January to March 2008. NATALIE LOFTIN is starring as Susan in Tick...Tick...Boom! at Wow Theatre in New York City, 59 E 4th St., January 24-26, 8pm. KATIE CORTEZ will be the Female Swing on the National Tour of Go Diego Go Live! ERIN KRUSE just finished understudying Emma and Lucy in Jekyll and Hyde at the John W. Engeman Theatre in Northport Long Island. PEYTON ROYAL is appearing in Peter Pan at Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia (Nov 6 - Jan 6, 2008) LEAH JENNINGS is currently playing Nancy in Oliver! at Cumberland County Playhouse. She will play Julie in Rogers and Hammerstein's Some Enchanted Evening for the Legacy Theatre in Atlanta in early 2008. GARRETT McGREW will be performing in the Oklahoma City Philharmonic's A Very Merry Pops November 30-Dec 2. He will be performing with OCU Alum Destan Owens. CHIP ABBOTT and JENNIFER SANCHEZ are currently performing in A Fireside Christmas at the Fireside Theatre. ROY LIGHTNER will be performing in Peter Pan for Alabama Shakespeare October - December. SCOTT GUTHRIE is doing Lyric Theatre's production of Forever Plaid: Plaid Tidings that will open the new Plaza Theatre. He'll be playing the role of Smudge. MICAH GREEN will be opening the newly renovated Plaza Theatre with Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma's production of Plaid Tidings. It's the Christmas version of Forever Plaid. He will be performing the role of Sparky. Ticket information can be obtained at lyrictheatreokc.com. TIFFANY BORELLI, BRYAN JARRET, MELISSA McKAMIE, & JUSTIN HALL will perform with the Staten Island Philharmonic in a staged-reading of Kiss Me Kate at the St. George Theatre September 29, 2007. LAURALYN McCLELLAND will be performing in the Atlanta Theatre of the Stars White Christmas tour. The tour hits Atlanta; Wisconsin; Buffalo and Rochester, NY; Memphis and Nashville, TN; Raleigh, NC; and Fort Meyers, FL. Let her know if she'll be in a town near you! Following White Christmas, she will be assisting Bob Richard at the 5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle in Mame (and also doing some dancing in the chorus.) CLIFTON SAMUELS (FOGLE) recently appeared in the original cast workshop of The Great White Way, a new dance-ical choreographed and directed by David Marquez that made it's world premier at the International Dance Festival in New York. Check it out. RICHARD RIAZ YODER is performing as Mac/Doc/Thug and in the ensemble of the 42nd Street of Asia. KATIE CORTEZ will be performing in the Australia/New Zealand tour of Thomas and Friends Live! EMILY HECTOR received a contract with the Gary Musick Company performing for Celebrity Cruiseline on "Mercury" traveling to Canada, Alaska, Hawaii, New Zealand, and Australia. JENNIFER SANCHEZ will play Anita in West Side Story at the Four Seasons Theater. CHIP ABBOTT is a proud member of New York City's The Chase Brock Experience. Chip will be performing in West Side Story at the Fulton Opera House. JILL (PENNINGTON) DELEAULT and AMELIA FRATES are appearing in Damn Yankees at the Seacoast Repertory Theatre in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. JOHN JACOB LEE will be working at the Fulton Opera House (Ensemble in Thoroughly Modern Millie) and Ogunquit Playhouse (Ensemble in La Cage Aux Folles) this summer. In the fall, he will join the first national tour of The Wedding Singer. HANK STAMPFL is going out on the Troika National Tour of Evita. NATALIE LOFTIN will be Kathy in High School Musical at North Shore Music Theatre from June 15 - July 29. For more information go to her myspace page or to the NSMT website. NICK MADSON is currently starring as Don Lockwood in Singin in the Rain. Following this, he will be performing a stand up special entitled I'm Too Busy! which may later be taped for Comedy Central. TYLER FOY, CHAZ WOLCOTT, TODD WALKER, PAIGE WILLIAMS, KIMBERLY FAURE, ROY LIGHTNER, TIFFANY OCVIRK, and OLIVIA POLICICCHIO will be working the 2007 summer season at Music Theatre of Wichita. LEAH JENNINGS is currently playing Meg March in the musical Little Women at the Cumberland County Playhouse. Later this season, she will play Carrie Pipperidge in Carousel. JAKE PFARR will be working at Pittsburgh CLO this summer doing Oklahoma, White Christmas, Cats, and Full Monty. JENNIFER SANCHEZ is currently playing Grandma Tzeitzel in Fiddler on the Roof at the Fireside Theatre. She also understudies Hodel and Tzeitel. LYNDY FRANKLIN will be performing the role of Kristine in Broadway's A Chorus Line April 10, 11, 12 at 8 pm and April 11 at 2pm. TARYN MOLNAR is performing in Thoroughly Moder Millie at Carousel Dinner Theatre in Akron, OH (the country's largest dinner theatre). She plays the role of Rita and dances herself silly in the ensemble. KRYSTINA ALEXIS NELSON will be dancing on RCCL as a gust entertainer with David Haines Magic beginning in May 2007. LYNDY FRANKLIN will be going on as Bebe in Broadway's A Chorus Line - March 6, 8, 9 at 8pm & March 11 at 3pm. JOEL B. NEW's songs will be presented at a concert at OCU on April 15th, 2007 at 3pm. KATIE CORTEZ will be performing in the National Tour of Thomas and Friends Live! SARA EDWARDS is ENGAGED! to longtime boyfriend Ari Butler and is planning to be married in Spring of 2008. TJ MOSS has released his new EP, "Biography". It will soon be available on CDBaby and iTunes. KRYSTINA ALEXIS NELSON will be seen on NBC's hit series 30 ROCK with Tina Fey, Jane Krakowski, Anna Chlumsky, and SNL's Jason Sukeikis. Krystina is a dance extra on the episode airing this March. WILL MANN is now playing in "The Festival of the Lion Kind" in the animal kingdom of Disney World in Orlando, Florida. He is happily a member of Actors' Equity. AMY DANIELSON is the founder GENESIS: SARAJEVO, a non-profit organization and company working to spread dance, specifically tap and contemporary dance, throughout the Bosnian region. Visit their website for more information. CHRISTINA MARSHALL, upon returning home from a performing overseas with Tokyo Japan Disneyland, went out to sea aboard Holland America's ms. Statendam (Alaska/South Pacific/Australia/New Zealand). Excited to return for yet another contract aboard HAL's newest vessel the ms. Noordam from Feb-July '07 (cruising the Carribbean/Panama Canal/Alaska). JENNIFER SANCHEZ is currently playing Mary in A Fireside Christmas at The Fireside Theater (Oct 17-Dec 23) She was last seen in Gaugin/Savage Light at Theater Row and can be heard on the cast recording. JOEL NEW's latest musical, Awakening, is the winner of the 2006 Margo Lion Award for Adaptation. NICK MADSON is currently preparing to star in his one man, hour and a half stand up special entitled Back Again before heading off to Florida to do a show called Moments to Remember. MARYANNE TP FONG was recently appointed Hon Director General for the Americas of the International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, UK; appointed as a Senate Member of the World Nations Congress for Life (WNC, USA); nominated to recieve a Lifetime Achievement Award (International Congress of Arts & Communications, UK); Marquis Who's Who (USA) biographee; International Who's Who Historical Society (USA) biographee and member. WILL MANN is featured in the National Tour of Wonderful Town. JAKE PFARR is performing in Disney's Beauty and the Beast at Alabama Shakespeare Festival in Montgomy, AL from Oct. 16 thru Dec. 24. COLETTE STAFFIN is currently working at Walt Disney World in Florida as Princess Jasmine, as well as performing in a show called "Let's Have A Ball." NATALIE LOFTIN will be performing in A Wonderful Life at Papermill Playhouse (Millburn, NJ) November 8 - December 17, 2006. LEAH JENNINGS will appear in Irving Berlin's White Christmas at the Cumberland County Playhouse. KELLI O'HARA was nominated for a 2005 Tony Award (Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical) for her work in the role of Clara in The Light in the Piazza. She performed a song from the Broadway musical during the CBS broadcast. KRISTIN CHENOWETH recently starred in the film Bewitched and, this Spring, released her second solo album, "As I Am." She also continues her recurring role on NBC's The West Wing. GERALD STEICHEN will conduct the New York premier of Rachel Portman's opera "The Little Prince" at New York City Opera on Nov. 12. MATTHEW SIPRESS is currently performing in the 25th Anniversary National Tour of Evita. The production is supervised by Hal Prince and the closest NYC engagement will be December 19-24 at the NJPAC in Newark, NJ. LYNDY FRANKLIN is playing Susan Mahoney in Walnut Street Theatre's Finian's Rainbow (Philadelphia, PA). Show runs September 14- October 23. ELLIOTT BRADLEY is currently the dance captain and swing for We Will Rock You in Germany. JONATHAN RUMMEL is performing in Paint Your Wagon as Hop Sing/dance captain at the Jackson Hole Playhouse in Jackson, Wyoming. (May 27-Oct 1). In addition, he is teaching tap, ballet, and jazz at Dancers Workshop. Look for his new website, which should be up and running very soon, created by Peyton Royal.. COLLETTE SIMMONS is making her Broadway debut as a swing in Mamma Mia! RICHIE MASTASCUSA & WES POPE appeared on Live! with Regis & Kelly as dancers in the opening production number of their Relly Awards episode. CURTISS WESLEY, CHIP ABBOTT, & ZACH SANDLER will be performing in Beauty and the Beast in Tulsa, OK. This production is choreographed by PEYTON ROYAL. BRANDI WOOTEN is currently playing Lorelei in Westchester Broadway's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. In January, Brandi will begin rehearsals for the 1st National Tour of Spamalot. ROBERTA HOAG is dancing in the Las Vegas show Legends in Concert out of Ft. Lauderdale, FL. MACY REEVES will be performing in the Gateway Playhouse's Christmas Spectacular this December in Pathogue, NY (out in Long Island). She just finished Sugar, The Some Like It Hot Musical at the Gateway Playhouse this past September. COLBY Q. LINDEMAN will be performing with the Rockette's Christmas Across America tour in Pittsburgh and Minneapolis. SARAH SMITH will be performing in Neil Goldberg's "Christmas Dreams" in Branson, MO. LESLEY JOHNSON JENNINGS is teaching this summer in a new theater dance intensive called Broadway Theater Dance Workshop, which brings young dancers from all over the country to Santa Fe, NM to study under teachers from Broadway and the NYC dance community. (July 24-Aug 5, 2006) HEIDI MESHUREL-JOLLY spent 9 years with the Walt Disney World Co. serving as Dance Captain and helping with the 10th re-vamp for MGM Studios Beauty and the Beast. Also worked for Hardrive Productions Inc as a dancer and stiltwalker for various shows, conventions, and AIDS benefits around the US. In 2001, she moved to Steamboat Springs, CO to take over ownership of a dance studio as well as start her own non-profit performing company. JOHN BEDFORD was inducted into the Oklahoma Higher Education Hall of Fame on October 18, 2005. Jo Rowan was inducted last year. They are the only married couple to have received this honor. JORDAN BALLARD appeared on NBC's The Apprentice (10/27/05); she was one of the Broadway's stars participating in a celebrity auction. Jordan was starring in Hairspray at the time. NATHAN PECK just finished work on the Julie Taymor movie musical Across the Universe. He also shot a featured role on the new NBC sitcom The Book of Daniel playing a dancer in La Cage aux Folles, the recent Broadway revival in which Nathan was the Dance Captain. NICOLE JONES is currently dancing with American Contemporary Ballet in NYC. LAURALYN McCLELLAND will leave in January for an Asia/European tour of West Side Story in which she is playing Velma. She just returned from Macau, China where the tour began. AMANDA CLARK (HUDDLESTON) will be moving to Las Vegas in April to open the new production of Phantom of the Opera at the Venetian Hotel. KIM SCHAFER is currently on the road with the National Tour of 42nd Street, lasting until May 2006. PEYTON ROYAL played the role of the Carpet in Beauty and the Beast at Pioneer Theatre Company in Salt Lake City, UT. LOIS (KAMMAN) BUESSER is Music Director for A Jerome Kern Cabaret with the Ridge Light Opera of NJ. More Info >> KELLI O'HARA sang on NBC's Today Show with her Pajama Game co-star Harry Connick, Jr. on Feb. 7, 2006. ALEE REED is currently studio manager and instructor at the Pierre Dulaine Dancenter (25 W. 31st St, NYC) teaching ballroom, latin, and swing. (See upcoming film, "Take the Lead" with Antonio Banderas portraying Pierre Dulaine.) She is also educational liaison and teaching artist for American Ballroom Theater's "Dancing Classrooms" program, as featured in the documentary, "Mad Hot Ballroom." LYNDY FRANKLIN sang and danced in a benefit for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids on February 6 at the New Amsterdam Theatre. The event featured the stars of ABC Daytime TV and raised over $30,000! PEYTON ROYAL will performing in Chicago at Riverside Theatre in Vero Beach, FL March 17-April 10. CHIP ABBOTT is currently performing in the West Coast Premiere of Never Gonna Dance in Los Angeles, as one of the Rometones. DANA FISCH is currently dancing for two professional dance companies and an administrator for both: Push Factor Dance Company and New Jersey Tap Ensemble. Push Factor also holds open jazz classes every Wednesday and Friday morning from 10-11:30 am in Astoria, so check out the website if you are interested! LEAH (ROHRER) JENNINGS was a featured soloist in the first full production of Alan Menken's "King David Oratorio" since it opened the New Amsterdam Theatre on Broadway in the late 1990s. The benefit concert was Nov. 11-12 in Atlanta, GA. ERNIE PRUNEDA is currently performing in Anything Goes at the Olney Theatre in Olney, Maryland through May 5, 2006. MELISSA BRADING graduated from UCO in 2004, and has been dancing with Ad Deum Dance Company in Houston, Tx for the last 2 years. She will be working in OKC this summer on a DVD project while running Victory School of the Arts for 7 weeks. She planning to be in the Netherlands for 2 weeks this summer while choreographing for youth for a street ministry. She plans on spending a third season with Ad Deum. MARITA STRYKER will be singing and dancing on the ms Zuiderdam (with Holland America) and traveling through Alaska, the Panama Canal and the Caribbean until November 11th. BECKIE STRAVERS is currently dancing on the Voyager of the Seas for Royal Caribbean Cruiselines, touring the Mediterranian, Europe, and the Caribbean until mid-February 2007. SARA EDWARDS will be performing in Singin' In The Rain at North Shore Music Theatre, July 4-31. MICHAEL BERRY is currently putting the finishing touches on a memoir titled "My Walk through Hell in Gasoline Platform Shoes," hoping for a Fall 2007 release. AMELIA FRATES is currently a production assistant for the new musical Sister Act at the Pasadena Playhouse. .