Sacco and Vanzetti Dramatis Personae (in Order of Appearance)
and Cast List for NY & NYC premiere production, Sep. 13 & Oct. 18, 2020
CHORUS [including spectators, policemen, jury members, prisoners, guards, women, children]
Nicola (Nick) SACCO, shoe factory worker; tenor
ROSA Sacco, his wife; soprano
DANTE Sacco, their son, silent [INES Sacco, their daughter, born 9/1920; silent]
Bartolomeo (Barto) VANZETTI, fish peddler, large dark mustache; baritone
Mike BODA (Mario Buda), anarchist associate, macaroni salesman, 5'2", 120 lb.,
-----small dark mustache; low tenor
Riccardo ORCIANI, anarchist associate, motorcyclist, "a rough, blunt, open-hearted
-----hard-working, manly type" [later chauffeur for defense attorney MOORE]; silent
MRS. Ruth (C.) JOHNSON, housewife; soprano
Simon (E.) JOHNSON, garage owner; baritone
Police Officer Michael (J.) CONNOLLY; bass
Police Officer Earl (J.) VAUGHN; silent
Chief of Police Michael (E.) STEWART; tenor
District Attorney Frederick (G[ustav]) KATZMANN, portly, baldish, Harvard-accent
-----(3/4 Scots, 1/4 German, not Jewish); bass
Mary SPLAINE, witness; mezzo-soprano
Michael LEVANGIE, witness; high baritone
WARDEN at prison; tenor
John W. McANARNEY, attorney; baritone
MRS. Elizabeth Glendower EVANS (b. 1856), co-founder, Community Church of Boston,
-----New England CLU; funded defense, taught prisoners English; mezzo
CLERK Worthingon; tenor (or mezzo)
Judge Webster THAYER, 63, 5'2", gray mustache; "piercing" tenor
JEREMIAH J. McAnarney, defense co-counsel; baritone
Fred H. MOORE, California attorney, first defense counsel for SACCO;
-----long-haired, sandaled, wears a Stetson hat; tenor
Walter R. RIPLEY, foreman of the jury; baritone or tenor (or actor)
EDWARD MILLER, guard; tenor (or bass)
Celestino MADEIROS, confessed young murderer; small dark mustache; soprano
-----(trouser role; may double with ROSA)
William THOMPSON, defense appeals attorney, pipe smoker; baritone
Mary DONOVAN, defense volunteer, works as Labor Dept. industrial inspector; soprano
Aldino FELICANI, anarchist editor; tenor or baritone
Philip STONG, young journalist for New York World,
-----later author of State Fair; tenor
Governor Alvan FULLER, balding; baritone (actor)
Boston Police Superintendant Michael CROWLEY; tenor
A. Lawrence LOWELL, Harvard Univ. President, head of commission, brown mustache; tenor
-----with Judge Robert GRANT; bass, and
-----Samuel W. STRATTON, President of M.I.T.; tenor (or mezzo);
-----all in long waistcoats & collars
F. Lauriston BULLARD, New York Times editor; spoken part
Governor Michael DUKAKIS; spoken part
Cast for 2020:
Soprano: Mrs. Johnson-Mary Donovan.....HELENE WILLIAMS
Soprano: MICHELE PELEGRINO, NANCY ZUCKER
Mezzo: Rosa-Madeiros.....PERRI SUSSMAN
Mezzo: Splaine-Clerk-Stratton.....JACKIE BAKEWELL
Mezzo: Mrs. Evans.....SARAH BLAZE
Tenor: Vaughn-Stewart-Thayer-Crowley-Lowell.....KEVIN COURTEMANCHE
Tenor: Warden-Miller...... BRENDAN RORKE
Tenor: Boda-Warden-Moore-Felicani-Stong.....THOMAS SMITH
Tenor: Orciani.....JOSHUA MINKIN
Baritone: Johnson-Levangie-McAnarneys(2)-Thompson.....MICHAEL NIEMANN
Baritone: Connolly-Grant..... JACK ANDERSON WHITE
Bass: Connolly-Katzmann-Grant.....MICHAEL RILEY
Bass: Ripley....HENRY YEN
Bass: Bullard....CHARLES S. BROWN
Sacco.....GREGORY MERCER
Vanzetti.....LARS WOODUL
Actors:
Fuller, Dukakis.....BILL CASTLEMAN
Dante.....KIERNAN BROWN
Ines......CHARLOTTE BROWN
Stage Director: BENJAMIN SPIERMAN
Pianist/Conductor: LEONARD LEHRMAN
2nd Pianist: MICHAEL PILAFIAN
Rehearsal Pianist: ALINA KIRYAYEVA
Production Manager: HELENE WILLIAMS