Pride and Prejudice: Meet The Cast
February 3, 2023
Capital City Theatre is putting on Pride and Prejudice with the script written by Kate Hamill. Hammil describes her rendition as “Not your grandmother’s Austen!”. Student night will be Wednesday, February 1st. The show will open to the general public from Thursday, February 2nd through Saturday, February 4th. All shows start at 7 PM except for the Saturday matinee which starts at 2 PM. Senior night will be held on Friday at 6:30 before the show. Tickets can be purchased at the link below or at the door in cash. Now let’s meet the cast!
Lizzy Bennett – Played Allie Schenewerk
What is your favorite part about your role?
“I relate a lot to Lizzy and look up to her as a character. I love getting to be a more confident and clever version of myself when I’m onstage. Also, I am obsessed with the pretty dresses and balls and regency era vibes, it’s literally everything I’ve ever wanted.”
What adversities have you overcome throughout Pride and Prejudice?
“I’m learning how to be in the moment, connect with the characters, and trust myself and the people around me. My strength when it comes to acting is having a good memory and practicing exactly what inflection I’m going to say my lines with, but being that rehearsed makes it really hard to have good chemistry with other people (especially when you’re playing the protagonist of one of the greatest love stories ever). If I had a nickel for every time Mrs. LeCure told me to get out of my head and stop trying so hard, I’d be a millionaire.”
What has been your happiest memory from working on Pride and Prejudice?
“Watching everything come together, from trying on our dresses and learning our dances for the first time, to building the sets, to watching Holley KILL IT as Lizzy for the first really good run. Hearing Mrs. LeCure laugh at the same scene that she’s seen every single day for like, two months, or when everyone cheers after we finish the show, makes my heart so darn happy.”
Mr. Darcy – Played By Christian Garza
What is your favorite part about your role?
“Getting to embody a certain part of an antisocial and black cat energy”
What adversities have you overcome throughout Pride and Prejudice?
“Some words are very hard to enunciate or just plain say but throughout pride and prejudice it has really helped me with those specific things.”
What has been your happiest memory from working on Pride and Prejudice?
“The happiest memory I’ve had while working on pride and prejudice would have to be our first day in miller. It was our workday and honestly a great time to connect with my friends while working on our sets.”
Mr. Bingley – Played By Sam Bates
What is your favorite part about your role?
“Bingley is a new type of character for me to be playing, and he’s so sweet an energetic and one of my all time favorite characters to be playing.”
What adversities have you overcome throughout Pride and Prejudice?
“We all have had to overcome the fact that we have such a large cast and all around just how different if a play this is compared to what we’re used to, especially the newbies.”
What has been your happiest memory from working on Pride and Prejudice?
“I LOVED going to ITS Convention for a weekend, and I’ve also loved hanging out with people outside of just the play.”
Jane Bennett – Played By Madison Keep
What is your favorite part about your role?
“I love to play a person who is so put together. She is an image of perfection which makes me laugh because I tend to be a mess.”
What adversities have you overcome throughout Pride and Prejudice?
“Building my character’s story and movements. Having to start from scratch to play this character as well as adding to her to make her more interesting.”
What has been your happiest memory from working on Pride and Prejudice?
“My happiest memory is hanging out with the cast after late rehearsals. I feel so at ease and comfortable with this group of people. We have all had so much fun just being together. “
Lydia Bennett – Played by Sara Ogden
What is your favorite part about your role?
“I really enjoy playing such an energetic and optimistic character, it makes it very easy to show up with the right attitude.”
What adversities have you overcome throughout Pride and Prejudice?
“I really struggled with bringing the right energy to Lydia at the beginning. But with coaching from our director LeCure, I believe I am able to better portray her character.”
What has been your happiest memory from working on Pride and Prejudice?
“Knowing that this is my last show with so many people that I consider family, has really helped me cherish every moment, but I love spending time with all of my castmates and crew outside of rehearsal.”
Mary Bennet – Played By Emma Richardson
What is your favorite part about your role?
“Mary has absolute extremes that I find hilarious to carry out.”
What adversities have you overcome throughout Pride and Prejudice?
“I’ve had to come to terms with the hair loss I’ll be enduring for the show. 5 minutes of teasing and 2 lbs of hairspray aren’t exactly easy on the scalp.”
What has been your happiest memory from working on Pride and Prejudice?
“Hearing laughs from the audience when I do something ridiculous; collapsing on the floor and being dragged off, for example.”
Mrs. Bennet – Played By Abigail Farris
What is your favorite part about your role?
“I love how she is loud and out going and that I get to explore that kind of role more.”
What adversities have you overcome throughout Pride and Prejudice?
“Throughout pride and prejudice I think as a cast we have had to over come having this many people in the show (it’s a lot) and with a lot of our cast going to international thespian convention and trying to focus on two projects at once, all of us who went to convention had to really focus in on p&p after we got back so we could put on a quality show. “
What has been your happiest memory from working on Pride and Prejudice?
“One of my happiest memories was when Amari (playing Charlotte) and I had to make the wax seals for the letter on work day. We went to her house to get the wax for the seals but when we got back to Miller we realized we had forgotten the little heating dish thing and after struggling for a while we found a large spoon and could finally make the stupid seals.(we took like three hours to make these)”
Mr. Bennet – Played by Sofie Ogden
What is your favorite part about your role?
“The way I can make people laugh, even when they’re trying not to.”
What adversities have you overcome throughout Pride and Prejudice?
“I don’t want to over share, but it’s been quite a month of personal, school, social, medical, and now, even financial difficulties. It’s almost felt like I was being targeted by the universe, but I’m getting through it, and I know it’ll all turn out okay.”
What has been your happiest memory from working on Pride and Prejudice?
“Tuesday night, when everybody was feeling the energy, getting into their characters, and getting excited about how well we were all doing. It’ll be a while before I forget the smiles on everybody’s faces.”
Miss Bingley – Played By Yumia Robben
What is your favorite part about your role?
“I really enjoy being able to carry myself in a powerful manner. Its a face I never really put on in my every day life so It’s super fun to step into character.”
What adversities have you overcome throughout Pride and Prejudice?
“I have defintely struggled with being insecure about my acting. Compared to everyone else on stage I have less experience but learning and taking advice from my co-actors has helped me tremendously.”
What has been your happiest memory from working on Pride and Prejudice?
“My favorite memory has been the collection of back stage shenigans”
Charlotte Lucas – Played By Amari Herndon-Goodman
What is your favorite part about your role?
“My favorite part about playing Charlotte is a calm in the storm that is everyone else’s characters. If everyone was just screaming all the time, a play wouldn’t be funny. In order to have the funny moments, it’s critical to have those stable characters in order to frame the scene. Whether it’s Lizzie’s panic or Mr. Collin’s manic-ness, you can trust that she will be able to pull the crowd back together and help create those memorable, funny scenes. “
What adversities have you overcome throughout Pride and Prejudice?
“It’s easy to get swept away in the goofiness of this show, which makes it difficult to keep a level head at times. Pride and Prejudice taught me a great deal about the happy medium: being entertaining without being explosively obnoxious.”
What has been your happiest memory from working on Pride and Prejudice?
“My favorite memory is an ongoing one. It’s the symbols that the cast and crew of P&P wear with them between shows and rehearsals. The quoting of lines in the hallways, the humming of the dances, and the crispy hair after too much hairspray (sorry Christian) will always remain a representation of the impact this show has had on us. It’s something I cherish and will look forward to long after the last show is done.”
Mr. Collins – Played By Evan Weirich
What is your favorite part about your role?
“How absolute crazy mr. collins is.”
What adversities have you overcome throughout Pride and Prejudice?
“burnout from threatre.”
What has been your happiest memory from working on Pride and Prejudice?
“the bromance.”
Servent/Lizzy Understudy – Played By Holley Hagedorn
What is your favorite part about your role?
“My favorite part of my role is that I get to say the word “dinner.” I also have enjoyed the practices I’ve been able to play as Lizzy and Jane. I love being able to have chemistry with my fellow cast members, and I love that I get to help make this show come to life.”
What adversities have you overcome throughout Pride and Prejudice?
“An adversity I had to overcome was going straight into dress rehearsal while only running through Act 1 two days prior. I felt as though I was underprepared because I hadn’t done a full runthrough, and my lines were somewhat difficult to memorize. I felt nervous, but in the end, I ended up pulling it together and powering through.”
What has been your happiest memory from working on Pride and Prejudice?
“My happiest memory from working on Pride and Prejudice was when we were all at my house and we just hung out, ate good food, socialized, and especially when we tried to fit about half of us into my hot tub. The comradery that was created from that night is something that I will carry with me forever, and it helped build the chemistry that this show demands from its actors/actresses.”
Mr. Wickam – Played By Justin Yacob
What is your favorite part about your role?
“Just rizzing up anything that moves.”
What adversities have you overcome throughout Pride and Prejudice?
“scheduling time with work and practice. “
What has been your happiest memory from working on Pride and Prejudice?
“making a drawer for the show. “
Lady Catherine De Bourgh – Played Lucia Howser
What is your favorite part about your role?
“being mean to people”
What adversities have you overcome throughout Pride and Prejudice?
“accepting myself as a theater kid”
What has been your happiest memory from working on Pride and Prejudice?
“Having work day at miller with everyone and making my throne.”
Anne De Bourgh – Played By Vee Blase
What is your favorite part about your role?
“It’s just a very silly character. There’s not a lot of depth to her, which meant there wasn’t a lot of work to be done when getting into character. She’s a very easy character to play as someone who likes to think they’re very funny.”
What adversities have you overcome throughout Pride and Prejudice?
“I struggled heavily with my social image. I didn’t want to be seen as the freshman in the cast, I wanted to be seen as a person in the cast. And, with the help of many people, I became that person.”
What has been your happiest memory from working on Pride and Prejudice?
“Our read-throughs at Holley’s. Those nights were always filled with laughter and good energy.”
Servant – Played By Payton Ratcliff
What is your favorite part about your role?
“Introducing all my friends.”
What adversities have you overcome throughout Pride and Prejudice?
“My mental health within this production.”
What has been your happiest memory from working on Pride and Prejudice?
“Being back stage and bonding while we watch our friends perform.”