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Alice Through the Wormhole

February 2015

A wild, original musical take on Alice through the Caltech universe.

Alice is bored.

She's a new grad genius in spintronics and marionetting on a tour of Tellkech, until WB, a manic Phd candidate, drags her down a wormhole to the underbelly of the campus. Logic and reality lose ground as she gets caught in the battle between the Queen of Funding and the Dark Prince of Future Science.

Dead scientists, time loops, the Cheshire Chimp and Tweedle Y & Z...

Will she ever get out, or will she decide to stay?

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Cast

  
ALICE Holly Bender, JPL
WHITE RABBIT Steve Collins, JPL
DARK PRINCE Allen Corcorran, Caltech alum
RED QUEEN Tiffany Kim, Caltech Staff
LEWIS/MOCK TURTLENECK Manan Arya, Grad Student
WALTER KNIGHT/PROFESSOR GREY Benjamin Ragnar Sveinbjornsson, Caltech alum
DR. DUCHESS Guilia Pellegrino, Community
HUMPTY DUMP Doug Smith, Caltech Staff
MOCK TURTLENECK Manan Arya, Grad Student
MATERFILLER/PROFESSOR EGO Harrison Miller, UG '14
CHESHIRE CHIMP Yazan Billeh, Grad Student
TWEEDLE Y Larissa Charnsangavej, Caltech Staff
TWEEDLE Z Preston Rasmussen, UG '18
TOUR GUIDE/PROFESSOR IDEAS/LAB ASST Carol Elaine, JPL
PROFESSOR STORY Stephen Kellogg, Caltech alum
PROFESSOR LEAD Mark Kozlowski, Caltech alum
DOPEY/ALICE 4/LARP & QUARK Utkarsh Mital, Grad Student
MALWARE HAIR/MESSENGER/LARP & QUARK Jeremy Brouillet, Grad Student
MAD GRAD Matteo Ronchi, Grad Student
ALICE 3/LARP & QUARK Celia Zhang, UG '18
PROFESSOR CHILL/LARP & QUARK Cierina Marks, Caltech Staff
ALICE 2/STUDENTS/LARP & QUARK Heather Curtis, Grad Student
LAB TECH/LARP & QUARK Ida Huang, UG '18
STUDENT/LARP & QUARK Xan Sonn, Caltech Alum
REFEREE Mehmet Sencan, Grad Student

Crew

  
BOOK/LYRICS/MUSIC/MUSIC DIRECTOR Brenda Varda, Community
DIRECTOR Brian Brophy, Faculty
CONSTRUCTION/PRODUCTION TEAM Joe Greef, UG '14; Amanda Lin, UG '18; Patrick Yu, UG '17

SET DESIGNER

 Anne Hyvarinen, Community

SOUND DESIGNER

 Eric Miller, Community
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGERS  
SPECIAL EFFECTS Chris Bell, Community
COSTUMES Elizabeth Freeman, Community; Cierina Marks, Caltech staff
COSTUME DESIGNER Connie Panzarello, Caltech Alum
CHOREOGRAPHER Crystal Dilworth, Caltech Alum; Kimiko Broder, Community; Aashrita Mangu, UG '16
GANGBOSS/PRODUCTION TEAM Elena Scire, Caltech Staff
CONSTRUCTION COORDINATOR Marty Gibbons, Community
LIGHTING OPERATIONS
HAIR/MAKEUP Penelope Chan, Community
AUDIO/VISUAL Rochelle Weber, UG '14
STAGE MANAGER Emily Abbott, Community

Band

  
GUITAR/VOCALS Andy Zhou, UG '14
BASS Mason McGill, Grad Student
KEYBOARD Janis Hesse, Grad Student
PIANO Jonathan Liu, UG, '16
DRUMS Evan Davis, UG '17
Cast
ALICE Holly Bender, JPL
WHITE RABBIT Steve Collins, JPL
DARK PRINCE Allen Corcorran, Caltech alum
RED QUEEN Tiffany Kim, Caltech Staff
LEWIS/MOCK TURTLENECK Manan Arya, Grad Student
WALTER KNIGHT/PROFESSOR GREY Benjamin Ragnar Sveinbjornsson, Caltech alum
DR. DUCHESS Guilia Pellegrino, Community
HUMPTY DUMP Doug Smith, Caltech Staff
MOCK TURTLENECK Manan Arya, Grad Student
MATERFILLER/PROFESSOR EGO Harrison Miller, UG '14
CHESHIRE CHIMP Yazan Billeh, Grad Student
TWEEDLE Y Larissa Charnsangavej, Caltech Staff
TWEEDLE Z Preston Rasmussen, UG '18
TOUR GUIDE/PROFESSOR IDEAS/LAB ASST Carol Elaine, JPL
PROFESSOR STORY Stephen Kellogg, Caltech alum
PROFESSOR LEAD Mark Kozlowski, Caltech alum
DOPEY/ALICE 4/LARP & QUARK Utkarsh Mital, Grad Student
MALWARE HAIR/MESSENGER/LARP & QUARK Jeremy Brouillet, Grad Student
MAD GRAD Matteo Ronchi, Grad Student
ALICE 3/LARP & QUARK Celia Zhang, UG '18
PROFESSOR CHILL/LARP & QUARK Cierina Marks, Caltech Staff
ALICE 2/STUDENTS/LARP & QUARK Heather Curtis, Grad Student
LAB TECH/LARP & QUARK Ida Huang, UG '18
STUDENT/LARP & QUARK Xan Sonn, Caltech Alum
REFEREE Mehmet Sencan, Grad Student
Crew
BOOK/LYRICS/MUSIC/MUSIC DIRECTOR Brenda Varda, Community
DIRECTOR Brian Brophy, Faculty
CONSTRUCTION/PRODUCTION TEAM Joe Greef, UG '14; Amanda Lin, UG '18; Patrick Yu, UG '17
SET DESIGNER Anne Hyvarinen, Community
SOUND DESIGNER Eric Miller, Community
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGERS
SPECIAL EFFECTS Chris Bell, Community
COSTUMES Elizabeth Freeman, Community; Cierina Marks, Caltech staff
COSTUME DESIGNER Connie Panzarello, Caltech Alum
CHOREOGRAPHER Crystal Dilworth, Caltech Alum; Kimiko Broder, Community; Aashrita Mangu, UG '16
GANGBOSS/PRODUCTION TEAM Elena Scire, Caltech Staff
CONSTRUCTION COORDINATOR Marty Gibbons, Community
LIGHTING OPERATIONS
HAIR/MAKEUP Penelope Chan, Community
AUDIO/VISUAL Rochelle Weber, UG '14
STAGE MANAGER Emily Abbott, Community
Band
GUITAR/VOCALS Andy Zhou, UG '14
BASS Mason McGill, Grad Student
KEYBOARD Janis Hesse, Grad Student
PIANO Jonathan Liu, UG, '16
DRUMS Evan Davis, UG '17