The Overtime Theater

Written by Rick Stemm
Music by Jaime Ramirez
Directed by Kyle Gillette

Can true love prevail over troublesome family, scheming villains, meddling gods, and dancing pirates? Open Sesame! is a retelling of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves in the musical comedy form of pantomime. Set in beautiful India in a time when the world was small enough to find secrets around every corner, our story follows Ollie, a hopeful adventurer seeking his fortune with the East India Company. He stumbles across a vast treasure and uses it to woo his love while beset by greedy family and deadly foes. India provides more than just a backdrop for the story, infusing the musical numbers too. All song and dance are in the style of Bollywood, India’s most famous film industry. With fast, colorful Indian music and dance, flashy fight scenes, outrageous slapstick, and audience participation, Open Sesame! fuses British, Indian, and American theater into non-stop fun.

CHARACTERS

GODS

KRISHNA: Gerardo Vallejo
KALI: Sciovahn Lydston-Barron

MORTALS

OLLIE: Sophie Bolles
BANITA: Vincent Hardy
CASS: Steven Wylie
MEGHANA: Morgan Clyde

PIRATES

STEELE: Sarah Goodwin
RAB: Liann Herder

CHORUS (Bollywood dancers, singers, townsfolk, revelers, pirates)

Priya Jagadeeswaran
Amanda Poole
Vicky Liendo
Ashtyn Sonner
Elena Dye

Holi Festival Solo:

Anjali Gupta