MUSIC AT ASBURY PRESENTS

GOD BLESS US, EVERYONE

Program Created, Scripted, and Directed by 
Mauro Contrastano
Mary Thombs, Music Director and
Chorus Master
Terence Flanagan, Organist
Starring :
Mauro Contrastano, Martin McGeachy,
Laura Leopard, J.T. O'Connor
Joseph Diaz, Katherine Logan, vocal soloists
William Schaeffer, trumpet

STARRING

Mauro Contrastano

Martin McGeachy

Laura Leopard

J.T. O’Connor

ABOUT THE CAST

Mauro Contrastano is an accomplished musical theater actor and director, having performed in twenty-four productions and directing four musical revues for Asbury Summer Theatre from 1987 until 2007. Mauro has performed in productions with the St. Joseph's Players in Bronxville, Town Hall Community Theatre in Eastchester, Four Star Players in Yonkers, New Rochelle Community Theatre, and has performed and directed for Actors Conservatory Theatre in Yonkers. Mauro is currently the director of theater programming at the Pelham Manor Club, where he has directed and performed in a number of shows, including his most recent original show, “Plastically Challenged.”

Martin McGeachy, Ghost of Christmas Present, boasts an extensive resume of appearances from Off Off Broadway to regional theater as well as film, television, and radio. In New York, he has appeared with the Gilbert & Sullivan Players, the 13th Street Theatre, and Gotham Radio Theatre at Lincoln Center. Regional theater highlights include leading and featured roles at the Shakespeare Festival of Arkansas, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Circle Theatre in Nashville, Gateway Theatre in Belleville, IL, and Flat Rock (NC) Playhouse. Favorite roles include Malvolio in Twelfth Night, Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, “Daphne” in Some Like it Hot, and leading roles in Charley’s Aunt, The Foreigner, and My Fair Lady. McGeachy is a graduate of the National Theater Institute, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT and holds a Bachelor of Theatre from Middle Tennessee State University. By day (and lots of nights too), Martin is the pastor of Gilead Presbyterian Church in Carmel, New York. 

Originally from Nashville, Tennessee, Laura Leopard’s credits include An Ideal Husband at The Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey, Quartett at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Amadeus at the Barter Theatre in Virginia, and Claire in Proof at Mill Mountain Theatre in Virginia. She is also a founding member of Gotham Radio Theatre, which performs classics from theatre, literature and the silver screen with actors and sound artists performing live in vintage radio style. For the past several years, Gotham Radio Theatre has had a residency at the Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts.

A member of Actors Equity and SAG-AFTRA, J.T. O’Connor’s television and film credits include The Gilded Age, Evil, FBI: Most Wanted, Kevin Can Wait, The Good Wife, Law and Order: SVU, Alpha House, One Life To Live, Watching The Detectives, The Wolf Of Wall Street and Bridge of Spies. Theatre credits include the National Tour of Fiddler On The Roof w/ Theodore Bikel. Gypsy W/Joyce DeWitt, The Hound of the Baskervilles, High Spirits, A Christmas Carol, The Nerd, Rough Crossing. Uncle Vanya, Angel Street, Annie Get Your Gun, Wait Until Dark, Funny Girl, Moon Over Buffalo, and Kiss Me Kate. J.T. O’Connor is also a longtime cast member of the Gotham Radio Theatre group.to society and world culture by African Americans through performances that inspire, educate and entertain.  

Mary Thombs, music director, has served as Minister of Music for Asbury United Methodist Church in Tuckahoe since 2006, where she directs both the adult and children’s choirs, plays the organ, and appears regularly as a soprano and violin soloist. She has been a member of the violin and voice faculties of the Riverarts Music Program in Hastings-on-Hudson since 1996 and served as head of the voice faculty at The Dwight Conservatory in NYC from 2005-2020; Mary has also served on the faculties of the Elisabeth Morrow School and the JCC Thurnauer School of Music.

Terence Flanagan currently serves as Director of Music and Fine Arts at the First Presbyterian Church of New Canaan, CT after serving for 11 years at the Presbyterian Church of Mount Kisco, NY, three years at the First Congregational Church of Greenwich and for over 18 years at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City. Terry studied organ at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and The Juilliard School. Terry recently served as Dean of the Westchester County Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. He sings with and accompanies Charis Chamber Voices.



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