Images: Preparations for the world premiere musical “The Secret of My Success”
Posted February 15, 2020 6:00 am
See photos from the final couple of weeks of preparations in the run up to the world premiere of "The Secret of My Success" at Paramount Theatre in Aurora. The musical is an adaptation of the 1987 film starring Michael J. Fox. The musical was written by Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen and directed by Greenberg. Music and lyrics are by Michael Mahler and Alan Schmuckler.
Billy Harrigan Tighe and fellow cast members perform a big dance number as a photographer films the action during the final dress rehearsal of “The Secret of My Success” at Paramount Theatre in Aurora.
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Writer/director Gordon Greenberg (center) gives notes to the cast during a rehearsal for Paramount Theatre's world premiere of “The Secret of My Success.”
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Michael Mahler is co-composer and co-lyricist of “The Secret of My Success,” which premieres at Paramount Theatre in Aurora this week.
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Billy Harrigan Tighe makes it to the big city during an early scene of the final dress rehearsal of “The Secret of My Success.”
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Two weeks before the premiere, crews work on the stage construction for “The Secret of My Success” at Paramount Theatre in Aurora.
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Stage manager Amber Johnson directs the crew during a technical rehearsal of “The Secret of My Success.”
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Tom Vendafreddo, music director/conductor for “The Secret of My Success,” works backstage with the cast on some music changes during a technical rehearsal.
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Billy Harrigan Tighe and the cast perform during the final dress rehearsal.
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Co-writer Steve Rosen, right, looks on during a rehearsal of “The Secret of My Success.”
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Actors go over the music during a rehearsal for the “The Secret of My Success.”
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Heidi Kettenring, who plays Vera, sings with her castmates during a rehearsal.
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Heidi Kettenring (Vera) during the final dress rehearsal of Paramount Theatre's “The Secret of My Success.”
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Actors Charles Emery Ward and Haley Jane Schafer use their phones to light pages they read in the seats of the darkened auditorium during a technical rehearsal.
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Costume technician Danielle Soldat puts the finishing touches on a costume days before previews begin for “The Secret of My Success” at Paramount Theatre in Aurora.
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Anne Hauge works on a costume in the run up to the world premiere of “The Secret of My Success.”
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Piers (Jeremy Peter Johnson) meets Brantley (Billy Harrigan Tighe) for the first time during the final dress rehearsal.
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Writer/director Gordon Greenberg talks to the cast as co-writer Steve Rosen looks on at a rehearsal.
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Brantley (Billy Harrigan Tighe, second from left) takes the bus to the big city during the final dress rehearsal of “The Secret of My Success” at Paramount Theatre in Aurora.
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Costume craft supervisor D.J. Reed works on an emoji costume for “The Secret of My Success” that features a rig he designed using a life vest.
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Billy Harrigan Tighe and Sydney Morton perform during the final dress rehearsal of “The Secret of My Success” at Paramount Theatre in Aurora.
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Brantley (Billy Harrigan Tighe), right, talks to his mom (Barbara E. Robertson) on the phone after moving to New York City during the final dress rehearsal of “The Secret of My Success” at Paramount Theatre in Aurora.
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Sydney Morton, who plays Christy, left, and Billy Harrigan Tighe, who plays Brantley/Carlton, work on a musical number with fellow cast members at a rehearsal during the run up to the world premiere of “The Secret of My Success” at Paramount Theatre in Aurora.
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Whitney Mueller puts the finishing touches on a wig as final preparations are made in the last couple of weeks before the opening of “The Secret of My Success.”
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The ensemble performs the last musical number of the first act during the final dress rehearsal of “The Secret of My Success.”
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A scene from the final dress rehearsal of “The Secret of My Success” at Paramount Theatre in Aurora.
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A board meeting scene brings the main characters, played by Billy Harrigan Tighe, left, and Sydney Morton, right, together during the final dress rehearsal of “The Secret of My Success.”
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Billy Harrigan Tighe and the ensemble perform the final number of act one during the final dress rehearsal of “The Secret of My Success” at Paramount Theatre in Aurora.
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