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Kersten Rodau* (Donna Sheridan) is excited to be back at CDT where she was last seen as Medda Larkin in Disney’s Newsies. Favorite CDT roles include Ursula in Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Melpomene in Xanadu and Fantine in Les Misérables. Regional credits include Pirates of Penzance, Damn Yankees and The Sound of Music at the Ordway; H.M.S. Pinafore and Sweeney Todd at the Guthrie; Ragtime and Side Show at Park Square; Urinetown at the Jungle and Carousel with the Minnesota Orchestra. “This show is dedicated to my wonderful daughter, Paige.”
Jessica Fredrickson* (Sophie Sheridan) has appeared at CDT in Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn (Lila), Disney’s Newsies (Katherine), Sister Act, Grease (Marty), Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and Mary Poppins, Hello, Dolly! (Minnie Fae), Disney’s The Little Mermaid, State Fair and Bye Bye Birdie (Kim McAfee). Other credits: Ordway (Cinderella in Cinderella, White Christmas and Contemporary Broadway Songbook), Broadway Asia (Joseph…Dreamcoat), Guthrie (The Cocoanuts), Theater Latté Da (Clara in The Light in the Piazza, Evita), Skylark Opera (Mlle. Modiste), Artistry (Crazy For You, The Music Man, Fiorello!, The Light in the Piazza, Oklahoma!). Proud member of AEA. "Love to
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Sometimes you have to expose a historical figure for the awful person they were. But that doesn’t mean you can’t have fun doing it.
That’s the approach undertaken by playwright Jeffrey Hatcher and composer Chan Poling in creating “The Defeat of Jesse James,” a new musical that premiered last weekend at St. Paul’s History Theatre. It examines a 19th-century outlaw who became a folk legend — and has been portrayed in a positive light by many a piece of popular culture — and makes clear that his life didn’t offer much worth admiring.
But this strong stand against historical revisionism is rooted in the rock and roll aesthetic, loaded with laughter, and told from the perspective of one outlandish character after another. It carries on a very appealing recent tradition at History Theatre, throwing together rock music and comedy to tell stories of Minnesota’s past, something Hatcher and Poling did with the enormously successful “Glensheen,” followed by Mark Jensen and Gary Rue with last year’s uproarious “Runestone.”
In “The Defeat of Jesse James,” said defeat isn’t only the failed bank robbery in Northfield, Minn., that proved the outlaw’s Waterloo when townsfolk r