Christmas Spirts Playbill 2017

AMONG THE PLAYERS IN CHRISTMAS SPIRITS

“The time has come when you should know just who these lawyers are. They're each and every one of them a credit to the bar.” Those are the opening lines to the now-famous Christmas Spirits standard, The Junior Partners . The lines are also appropriate to introduce to you a few of our cast members.

VALERIE RAEDY

P icture it: there you are, an undergraduate student studying abroad in Milan, Italy. You find yourself at the local’s bar where the owner has just challenged you to sing opera in his establishment! Would you take that bet? Valerie Raedy did! Puccini’s famous soprano aria “Oh Mio Babbino Caro” soon angelically f loated over the din. The locals expressed their appreciation accordingly by buying her drinks. What a memory! But this story actually starts in Vancouver, Washington. Valerie was born “a loud and dramatic child.” Her parents put her in choir in 3rd grade in hopes of getting some peace and quiet for a few hours, but her choir teacher quickly found another teacher to pawn her off on. In 6th grade, Valerie started taking private voice lessons with an amazing teacher, and after much work (on her teacher’s part), Valerie eventually learned how to sing “a little bit and mostly stay in tune.” She was given a music scholarship to attend Lawrence University and Conservatory to study classical voice and where she majored in Government and

suit-type,” presently working for the federal government, but the music inside her just could not be suppressed. Valerie missed being “an interesting person” and thus found the Bar Show–“full of people like her who just like sitting at a desk all day too much to give it up, but want their moment in the spotlight every year.” You may recognize Valerie from past Bar Show performances as a news girl from the future, or singing about social media run amok, or, her favorite, being stalked by a drone. Look for her on stage this year as forgotten sister Tiffany Trump. Valerie feels privileged to be part of the cast and to be surrounded by such “intelligent, fun-loving, and goofy people.”

Valerie Raedy

Music. It was during these years that she found herself singing in that fateful bar in Milan. Because things were going just too well, Valerie decided to give up voice all together and earned a Juris Doctorate from Chicago-Kent College of Law. She became “another typical

Comic-Con attendees Joe Moore, Gina Reynolds, Michael Kedzie, and Brienne Letourneau are a bunch of characters.

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