Favorite Roles: It Is Magic (Deb), Happy Days (Winnie), Baby Screams Miracle (Carol), Toast (Beatrice), Small Ball (Female Reporter), Leap and the Net Will Appear (Simon), Song About Himself (Carol), Marieand Bruce (Marie), Hide Town (Miss Iva), Medea(Medea), A Soap Opera (Andrea), We Have Some Planes, Fucking A (Hester), Happy Days (Winnie), Guys and Dolls (Adelaide).
Tamarie’s Merry Evening of Mistakes and RegretsTamarie Cooper and Friends
World Premiere
Performances
Jun 29, 2017 -
Aug 12, 2017
“Every party has a pooper.
That’s why we invited you.
Tamarie Cooper! The Party Pooper!”
That’s why we invited you.
Tamarie Cooper! The Party Pooper!”
Cast & Personnel
Director
Assistant Director
Music Direction
Choreography
Cast
- Ronnie Blaine
- Kelsey Busboom
- Tamarie Cooper
- Greg Cote
- Greg Dean
- John Dunn
- Sara Jo Dunstan
- Xzavien Hollins
- Haley Hussey
- Richard Lyders
- Katharine Pugh
- Rebecca Randall
- Rachel Rubin
- Kyle Sturdivant
- Abraham Zeus Zapata
- Walt Zipprian
Band
Vocal Direction
Scenic Design
Costume Design
Lighting Design
Video Design
Sound Design
Prop Design
Hair & Wigs
Stage Manager
Assistant Stage Manager
Booth Crew
Deck Crew
The Play
Tamarie Cooper and friends are mixing up their usual musical formula, with a brand-new cabaret of sorts – filtered, of course, through Cooper’s weird and wacky brain. Presented in Matchbox 3 with cabaret seating, Tamarie’s Merry Evening of Mistakes and Regrets will take the audience on a wild ride featuring youthful folly, heartache, unfortunate bedfellows, blunders, errors in judgment, crushed dreams, a miserable clown, dying swans, Judy Garland covers, and songs about cocktails and a sex act in a van with a lead singer of a punk rock band gone horribly wrong. Great and terrible times brilliantly and hilariously brought to life by Tamarie and her talented motley crew: Ronnie Blaine, Kyle Sturdivant, Greg Dean, and company.The Playwrights
TAMARIE COOPER
Tamarie is the Producing Artistic Director of The Catastrophic Theatre. She has been performing her entire life. She co-founded The Catastrophic Theatre in 2007 with longtime collaborator and dear friend, Jason Nodler. Originally trained in dance, she began working in theatre at HSPVA and helped to found Infernal Bridegroom Productions in 1993, where she worked for fourteen years. She is a seasoned actor, director, designer, choreographer, and occasional writer, with over 90 production credits with IBP and The Catastrophic Theatre. Tamarie is best known for her original musicals, which enjoy highly successful runs and a cult-like following in Houston. Tamarie has been featured in national trade magazine Stage Directions, named “Best Female Actor” in Outsmart Magazine‘s annual Gayest and Greatest Readers’ Choice Awards and has received various “Best of Houston” awards from The Houston Press and The Houston Chronicle for her performances, direction, and original work.
Directing credits: Tamarie's Texas Toast, Tamarie’s Totally True Revue, Tamarie Cooper’s Live In-Person Sticky Sweet Summer Show, Drama Squad, Tamarie Cooper’s Golden Jubilee!,Tamarie Cooper’s Holiday Super Show!, Tamarie Cooper’s 2020: Quarantine Edition!, Tragedy: a tragedy, Speeding Motorcycle (co-directed with Jason Nodler), Tamarie Cooper’s Field Trip, Small Ball (co-directed with Jason Nodler), Tamarie’s Evening of Mistakes and Regrets, Rhinoceros(2017), Trevor, Tamarie for President (Greatest Hits, Volume 2),The University of Tamarie, A Very Tamarie Christmas, Tamarie Cooper’sOld as Hell!, Tamarie Cooper’s Doomsday Revue, The United StatesofTamarie, Tamarie Cooper’s Journey to the Center of my Brain (in 3D!), The TamarieCooper Show, Twenty Love Songs, Uncle Vanya, Tamalalia X: The Greatest Hits Show, Tamalalia 9: Face Your Fears, Tamalalia 8: Tamarie Goes to Hollywood, Rhinoceros (2003), Tamalalia 7: The Love Show, Tamarie’s Gin Jar Jamboree, Tamalalia 2000, Tamalalia 4: The Campout, Tamalalia 3: The Cocktail Party, Tamalalia 2: The Bus Show, Tamalalia!
RONNIE BLAINE attended The University of Houston School of Theatre and is a graduate of Houston's High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. A native Houstonian, Ronnie returned to his hometown in 2009 after spending five years in Los Angeles where he worked in television and film, becoming a proud member of The Screen Actors Guild. Previously, Ronnie was a company member at both Stages Repertory and Main Street Youth Theatres in Houston and had the pleasure of performing in his first Tamarie show last year. He is honored to collaborate with his long time friends Tamarie Cooper and Patrick Reynolds again and is humbled by the process of writing with such creative talents.
In the Media
The A+C Top Ten: July & August 2017
July 5, 2017 |
Arts + Culture Texas
| Nancy Wozny
Videos
With her typical cohort of oddballs in tow, Cooper writes, directs and stars in this bonkers journey through the id and ego, full of original tunes, yuk-yuk cabaret-style banter and, of course, sex stuff.
— Vic Shuttee, Houston Press
