Christmas Spirts Playbill 2018

HORSE’S ASS AWARD

C ongratulations to Bar Show st a lwa r t Mi ke Weaver, winner of the Horse’s Ass Award for the best performance in last year’s Bar Show production. Mike’s convincing portrayal of President Donald J. Trump was authentic and masterful, and it came naturally for Mike. “Trump is almost too easy to play. He is virtually a caricature of himself, and you can’t really go over the top with him because there is no top.” Mike’s performance included scatting during the “Brotherhood of Fame” (Shame) musical parody and reading actual tweets from Number 45. Several of these tweets were projected onto an overhead

and announced that his Twitter password was the new nuclear code. Mike’s first role in the Bar Show was playing unsuccessful United States Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland singing “Music of the Night” (Right). Mike is grateful for all of the good new friends he has met in the Bar Show. “It is nice to meet lawyers with a sense of humor. You don’t encounter that every day. People in the Bar Show do not take themselves too seriously.” Mike ha s his sights set squarely on playing a ver y specific future role in the Bar Show. “As soon as humanly possible, I would like to play the individual who succeeds Donald J. Trump…though, of course, I will happily relinquish that honor if his successor is a woman or a person of color. Or both.” Mike has great respect and admiration for the history of the Bar Show. “It is very nice to be part of what is obviously a long and honored tradition. I have tremendous respect for what came before us, and what made the show what it has come to be.” Mike is Vice President of Legal Affairs for a company which owns and operates college student apartment complexes nationwide, and he appreciates that his job keeps him connected to many areas of business, law, and the interplay between the two. Mike is a native of Decatur, Illinois, and he received his undergraduate degree from The University of Illinois and his law degree from The University of Michigan. Mike and his wife, Maureen, reside in north suburban Chicago, and they are the very proud parents of daughters Alex and Molly.

Mike Weaver

screen during the performance of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” (Twitter). The audience absolutely loved the number, and it reached a crescendo when Mike (as President Trump) moved among the dancers

Previous Winners of the “Horse’s Ass” Award: 1945 E. Hershenson 1946 William Murphy

1980 Audrey G. Holzer 1981 Mary Lu Milano 1982 Morton John Barnard 1983 Joseph L. Stone 1984 Gary S. Saipe 1985 “Cats” 1986 Rainell Rains 1987 Sandie Stavropoulos 1988 Mary Jeane McNichols 1989 Clifford Berman 1990 Joel Daly 1991 Arthur H. Garwin 1992 June Brown 1993 Ann Levinson Penway 1994 Brian Gilomen 1995 Sonja R. Johnson 1996 Ernesto D. Borges, Jr. 1997 Loretto Kennedy 1998 Peter Bensinger 1999 Ruth Kaufman 2000 Bob Canel 2001 Marla Lampert 2002 Jeffrey Marks & Tappers 2003 Corey Berman 2004 Special Chorus 2005 Regina Scannicchio 2006 Richard Nagle 2007 Kevin Krantz 2008 The Accappellants 2009 LathamWilliams 2010 Tony Calzaretta 2011 Larry Aaronson 2012 Kathryn A.“Kate”Kelly 2013 Mark Arnecilla 2014 Joyce Wixson 2015 Nicole Peterson-Pearce 2016 Melissa Redondo

1947 J. B. Hermes 1948 John D. Black 1949 C. R. Sprowl 1949 J. A. Sprowl 1950 R. W. MacDonald 1951 M. Schaeffer 1952 C. G. Lind 1953 Fred Kecker 1954 P. R. Stevenson

1955 A. S. Cate 1956 Irma Fiala 1957 R. Baird 1957 A. Holloway

1957 N. Eaton 1958 G. Quilici 1959 Fred Lane 1960 The Singing Chorus 1963 J. W. Baer 1964 M. Holmes 1965 J. Danyluk 1967 E. Leonard Rubin 1968 John H. McDermott 1969 Julian J. Frazin 1970 Robert J. Nye 1971 Hugh A. Brodkey 1972 Phillip M. Citrin 1973 James Montgomery 1974 John E. Corkery 1975 Frank T. Steponate 1976 Irene M. Wojdyla 1977 Geoffrey A. Anderson 1978 Charles N. Goodnow 1979 Julia J. Nicholson 1961 Gene Davis 1962 R. F. Hanley

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