Cabrillo Music Theatre Carole W. Nussbaum, President/Chief Executive Officer Lewis Wilkenfeld, Artistic Director Present the expanded winter production of its 2007-2008 Season!

A 30th ANNIVERSARY PRODUCTION OF Ain’t Misbehavin’ The Fats Waller Musical Show

Musical Direction by Darryl Archibald Choreography by Marvin Thornton Directed by Original Cast Member Ken Page

Like Jack Horner, in the corner, don’t go nowhere, what do I care, your kisses are worth waiting for…

November 26, 2007…Thousand Oaks, Calif…Cabrillo Music Theatre presents, for the first time, a brand-new winter production in its expanded 2007-2008 Season, AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’, the Fats Waller Musical Show. The first musical revue to win a Tony Award for Best Musical, AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’ celebrates its 30th Anniversary in 2008 and Cabrillo’s production will be directed and staged by original Broadway cast member Ken Page! Darryl Archibald will serve as Musical Director and lead the onstage band, with Marvin Thornton as Choreographer. AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’ will open on Friday, January 4th, 2008 and run through Sunday, January 13th, for Cabrillo Music Theatre in the Kavli Theatre at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, Countrywide Performing Arts Center located at 2100 Thousand Oaks Boulevard in Thousand Oaks.

AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’ is a finger-snapping, toe-tapping tribute to the music of the 1920’s icon, Fats Waller. It features Waller’s unforgettable songs, such as “This Joint is Jumpin’,” “Honeysuckle Rose,” “I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter,” “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love,” and the title tune. Five mega-talented cast members team up with a seven-member band to bring the music of mid-20th Century America to vivid life. “I couldn’t be happier that Ken Page, a member of the original Broadway cast of AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’, will direct our show,” says Carole W. Nussbaum, Cabrillo Music Theatre’s President and Chief Executive Officer. “Ken will surely get the joint jumpin’ with his talent, knowledge and sheer passion for AIN’ T MISBEHAVIN’.” Cabrillo Music Theatre’s AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’ will heat up the Kavli with all the spirit, movement and sounds of the legendary Fats Waller. ABOUT THE CREATIVE TEAM KEN PAGE (Director) began directing at the age of seven. Yearly, The Wizard of Oz was re-created in his backyard. High school found him adapting and directing productions of Thoroughly Modern Millie, Mary Poppins, and A Christmas Carol (before the Broadway versions). College years: Barefoot in the Park. Since those days, Ken has directed with the Blank Theatre Company: All Over It and White Woman, Tennessee Williams’ Hello from Bertha, Harvey Fierstein’s Tidy Endings. Ken also directed the Los Angeles Premieres of Charlaine Woodard’s Pretty Fire and Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens, The Fantasticks (Ovation Award, Best Musical 1992) and To Sir With Love, for which he wrote the book. In New York: Dark of the Moon (Reading), Atom & Eve (N.Y. Musical Theatre Works) and Nightlife (Conceived and Directed, Manhattan Theatre Club/Westberth Theatre Workshops). Ken directed Ain’t Misbehavin’ on National Tour (2002-2003) and for the C.L.O. of South Bay Cities, Godspell (Fontbonne University, St. Louis), and a reading of his adaptation James Baldwin in Witness and Words. Ken Page has been awarded the Theatre World Award, Drama Desk Award and N.Y. Critics and Journalists’ Award. He has been honored by the New York Drama League for his performances on the Broadway stage. He has worked in all but a few areas of the entertainment industry in America and abroad. Ken was an original cast member of the Tony Award-winning musical Ain’t Misbehavin’. His performance was recreated for the Emmy Award-winning NBC Television Special, as well as on the Grammy Award-winning cast album. DARRYL ARCHIBALD (Musical Director). Mr. Archibald’s productions include regional and national tours, regional and world premieres, and award winning productions at theaters around the country. He is currently touring with Disney's The Lion King - Cheetah Tour...where he serves as vocal coach/assistant conductor. Other shows include: the Desert Aids Project Steve Chase Humanitarian Awards (Palm Springs Convention Center), The West Coast and regional premiere of Never Gonna Dance, Ragtime (Musical Theater West), Swing! (McCoy/Rigby Ent.), Gaveston: Favourite of the King (Celebration Theater), Merrily We Roll Along with Teri Hatcher and I Do! I Do! with Diana Canova and Harry Groener (Reprise!), My Fair Lady, Camelot and Forever Plaid (Utah Shakespearean Festival), Ain’t Misbehavin’ directed by Ken Page, and Swing! (Civic Light of the South Bay Cities), Four Guys Named Jose… And Una Mujer Named Maria and A Christmas Carol (ICT), An Evening With Rodgers and Hammerstein (Long Beach Symphony), Lady In the Dark and Sail Away (Musical Theater Guild), Zorba, On The Town (associate conductor - Reprise!). Mr. Archibald's arrangement and orchestration credits include: the prime-time television special A Hollywood Holiday Celebration (ABC), The Fountain Show and Christmas Show ( The Grove Los Angeles), Zorba, On Your Toes, Damn Yankees (Reprise!). MARVIN THORNTON (Choreographer). As a performer - National Tour: Dreamgirls. Regional Theatre: Ain’t Misbehavin’, Once on this Island, West Side Story, The Boys from Syracuse, Mack and Mabel, The Who’s Tommy, Pippin, Finian’s Rainbow, Dreamgirls. Los Angeles Opera: Aida, The Merry Widow, Carmen. Choreographer/performer - Television: WHO NEEDS HOLLYWOOD (Oxygen Network). Theatre: ONCE ON THIS ISLAND (Fullerton C.L.O.) DREAMGIRLS (assistant to David Thome). STEVEN YOUNG (Lighting Designer). Ain’t Misbehavin’ is Steven’s third Cabrillo production, following A Chorus Line and Smokey Joe’s Café. Credits include Dogeaters at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, Boulevard of Broken Dreams at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, The Laramie Project for the Laguna Playhouse, Side by Side by Sondheim, The Marriage Musicals, and Showtune for the Pasadena Playhouse, My Way, and Swing! for McCoy-Rigby Entertainment, plus productions in Long Beach, Vista, Winnipeg, and Cincinnati. Working with the Rubicon Theatre in Ventura, Steven was awarded the 2005 Ovation Award for Songs For A New World, in addition to All In The Timing, Shirley Valentine and A Time For Love a new revue by Richard Maltby Jr. Other designs include JOB: The Hip-Hopera at the Stella Adler and NYMF; Side Show (Garland Award, Robby Award) and The Laramie Project (Ovation Award nomination) for the Colony Theatre; She Loves Me for Reprise!; Hot Mikado (Garland Award) for Musical Theatre West; A Picture of Dorian Gray and Summertime (Ovation Award nomination) for Theatre@Boston Court; Letting Go of God with Julia Sweeney; Steven was honored in 2004 with the Angstrom Lifetime Achievement Award by the LADCC. JONATHAN BURKE (Sound Designer). This is Jonathan’s 13th Cabrillo show. His Sound Design credits include: You Can’t Take It With You, Cookin’ at the Cookery, He Hunts, The Weir (Geffen Playhouse); Man of La Mancha (Rubicon Theatre Co.); Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Beauty and the Beast, Smokey Joe ’s Café, A Chorus Line, The Music Man, Oliver!, The Wizard of Oz, Annie Get Your Gun, Annie, West Side Story, Ragtime, The Scarlet Pimpernel (Cabrillo Music Theatre); Friends Like These, Light Up the Sky (Mammoth Summer Theater); Big Love (Pacific Resident Theater); LA:X, 36 Views (ASK Theatre Projects); Three Grooms & a Bride, Parental Discretion (Coast Playhouse); Avenue X, A Beast on the Moon, If We are Women, Jack and Jill, Molly Sweeney (Pittsburgh’s City Theatre Co.); Merchant of Venice, Measure for Measure, Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, The Winters Tale (Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival); Schoolhouse Rock – Live! (Gargarro Productions). Jonathan can also be heard at the current production of The Man of La Mancha at the Rubicon Theater Company. When not designing, Jonathan is the Sound Design Supervisor at UCLA’s School of Theater and runs a recording studio in Sherman Oaks. The cast of AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’ will feature: Arthur Ross, Pam Trotter, Natalie Wachen and Melissa Youngblood. ABOUT THE PRICING AND SCHEDULE

AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’ will open on Friday, January 4, 2008 and run through Sunday, January 13. Performances are Thursdays thru Saturdays at 8:00pm; Saturdays and Sundays at 2:00pm and Sunday, January 6 at 7:00pm. A post-show discussion with cast, staff and audience will follow the Saturday, January 5th, 2:00pm performance. Tickets are on sale now and may be purchased at the Countrywide Performing Arts Center Box Office located at 2100 Thousand Oaks Boulevard in Thousand Oaks or through any Ticketmaster location or by phone (805) 583-8700. For groups of 12 or more, please call Group Sales, Cabrillo Music Theatre at (805) 497-8615. Ticket prices range from $36 – $64. For ticket and theatre information, call (805) 449-ARTS (2787). CABRILLO MUSIC THEATRE is located at the Kavli Theatre, Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, Countrywide Performing Arts Center, 2100 Thousand Oaks Boulevard in Thousand Oaks. To schedule press interviews, photos, press comps or for additional information, please contact David Elzer/DEMAND PR at (818) 508-1754 or by e-mail at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it _ (mailto: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ) or visit _www.demandpr.com_ (http://www.demandpr.com/) . Cabrillo Music Theatre is the resident musical theatre company of the Countrywide Performing Arts Center at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza is a non-profit theatre group. For over three decades, Cabrillo has been enriching the cultural life of Ventura County and its surrounding areas by providing an extraordinary performing arts experience through live, Broadway-quality productions of musical theatre. It is Cabrillo’s mission to provide the highest quality musical experience, to foster educational opportunities, and to promote cultural and artistic enrichment to enhance the quality of life in our community. To this end, Cabrillo Music Theatre has established the Adopt-A-School and ADOPT-A-SENIOR programs. Since the inceptions of these programs, over 3,000 children, seniors and others in need have enjoyed Cabrillo Music Theatre’ s productions at no charge. With the ADOPT-A-SCHOOL and ADOPT-A-SENIOR programs, Cabrillo makes live theatre accessible to children and seniors who otherwise may never have the opportunity to experience a live musical theatre performance. For more information about Cabrillo Music Theatre’s outreach programs, contact Carole W. Nussbaum, President/Chief Executive Officer at (805) 497-8613. David Elzer DAVID ELZER MARKETING AND PUBLIC RELATIONS Office - 818-508-1754 Cell - 818-516-7931 Fax - 818-508-5147 www.demandpr.com

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