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9 to 5: The Musical
by Rancho Buena Vista High School 
Music and Lyrics by
Dolly Parton, Book by Patricia Resnick, which opened on Broadway in 2009. Based
on the hit 1980 film starring Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, and Dolly Parton. The musical opens during a morning in 1979 as alarm clocks
wake up groggy office workers who force themselves to get ready for another day
at work while performing Dolly Parton’s hit 9
to 5. They’ll all end up Consolidated where they’ll be working for the
man. In this case, an unabashedly egotistical man named Franklin Hart, Jr. who
spends most of his office hours sexually harassing his female coworkers. Violet
Newstead (Lily Tomlin in the film) is the smart and savvy veteran office manager
– a widow raising a teenage son who wants to break the glass ceiling. Judy
Bernly (Jane Fonda) is the new hire who has never worked an office job in her
life but desperately needs to after her cheating husband left her. And Doralee
Rhodes (Dolly Parton) is the kind-hearted and sensitive southern belle ignored
by her coworkers who think she’s having an affair with Hart. Hart’s
treatment of them all leads to some daydreams of revenge that snowball into
reality in this entertaining musical version of the classic comedy. THE PRODUCTION: Directors Mark Scott
and Renee Kollar-Bachman team up to
lead another terrific production at Rancho Buena Vista High School. Nice
lighting touches by Curtis Mueller
for the fantasy sections, good period outfits by MaryAnn Pinamonti and Viki
Strand, and a great job by the professional band led by Lyndon
Pugeda keep things looking and sounding good. It’s imperative to have three stars to lead it up on
stage, and they’ve got a trio of powerhouses. Grace
Marshall wraps up her remarkable high school career as Violet, slipping into
the role of the intelligent, widowed single mom with natural ease, as well as an
amusingly vengeful Snow White in her Potion
Notion fantasy. She shines throughout with her versatile voice and
characterizations, as well as her strong, charismatic lead in numbers like Around
Here and One of the Boys. Mackenzie
Scott nails her sweet Doralee persona as she fends off Hart like she’s had
to do it for years, has her feelings hurt by coworkers who inexplicably snub her
overtures, and leads the cast in Backwoods
Barbie and her humorously reining in of Hart with Cowgirl’s Revenge. While as new girl Judy, Catherine Lynch slowly transforms from being overwhelmed, timid, and
filled with self-doubt to a fantasy femme
fatale in Dance of Death to a
woman with surging confidence as she knocks out Get Out and Stay Out. And when you get all three of them leading the
cast together in numbers like Change It
and Shine Like the Sun, they blow out
the theater with stunning vocals and power.
Performed March 12 - 21, 2015 Photos by Viki Strand Rob Hopper ~ Cast ~
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THE
SHOW:
David
Melendez is a hoot as the over-the-top sleazeball boss from hell you love to
hate, especially in the revenge fantasies. Molly
Baggett is his brownnosing assistant Roz who lets loose in her own hilarious
daydreams with the boss in Heart to Hart.
Jake Bradford is great as the nice
guy younger coworker trying to convince Violet to go out. Garrett Lamoureux is Doralee’s fun and supportive husband, Niko
Wyskiel is Violet’s equally supportive son, Dixon
Janda is Judy’s jerk ex-husband, and Kaylee
Bender delivers a very memorable cameo as Hart’s super sweet wife who
tries not to be hurt by her husband and tries to be oblivious to his
philandering. The cast as a whole keeps this show strong throughout with their
dancing to Renee Kollar-Bachman’s
creative choreography as well as their singing and acting as a variety of
coworkers each with good personalities, a variety of colorful characters in the
revenge fantasies, and getting it all started as grumpy early risers (except for
dance captain Katie Blessing as a
happy morning person doing aerobics) preparing for their 9 to 5. 
Violet Newstead: Grace Marshall
