The Silver Belles

Ali Bell as Oralene

ALI BELL (Oralene) is excited to return to the Broadway Rose stage, where she most recently appeared as Virginia in Christmas in Door County. Other Broadway Rose credits include Waitress (Ensemble), Snapshots: A Musical Scrapbook (Sue), and Footloose (Ethel McCormack), as well as the Naturopath in Groundhog Day at Lakewood Theatre Company. Ali holds a Master of Music in Opera Performance from the University of Texas and is a founding partner of Wildwood Law Group in Portland. She is deeply grateful for the love and support of her amazing husband and two incredible daughters. “Enjoy the show, y’all!”

Lisamarie Harrison as Gloria

LISAMARIE HARRISON (Gloria) has worked on the Portland stage for 44 years and on Broadway Rose's stage for 35 of those. Favorite Broadway Rose credits include The Spitfire Grill (Effie), Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Madame), Mamma Mia! (Tanya), The Addams Family (Morticia Addams), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Miss Flannery), The Bikinis (Jody), Pump Boys and Dinettes (Rhetta), Honky Tonk Angels (Sue Ellen), Sisters of Swing (LaVerne Andrews), and Nunsense (Sister Hubert). Credits at other theaters include The Savannah Sipping Society (Jinx), POTUS (Bernadette, Anonymous Theatre), The One-Act Play That Goes Wrong (Florence/Sandra), 9 to 5 (Violet), The Great American Trailer Park Musical (Betty), Gypsy (Mazeppa), The Wild Party (Kate), and Grease (Rizzo).

Debbie Hunter as Ruth Ann

DEBBIE HUNTER (Ruth Ann) has enjoyed a long relationship with Broadway Rose, and working on a production here is always “like coming home.” Previous credits include Church Basement Ladies (Karin), Your Holiday Hit Parade (Helen), Whodunit (Carrie), The Gifts of the Magi (Della), G.I. Jukebox, and the first productions of G.I. Holiday Jukebox, and A Christmas Survival Guide, as well as Some Enchanted Evening. Debbie has appeared at numerous other Portland-area theaters. Favorite roles include A Little Night Music (Charlotte, Drammy Award), My Fair Lady (Eliza), Persuasion (Anne), Pride and Prejudice (Elizabeth), Much Ado About Nothing (Beatrice), and Cymbeline (Imogen). Debbie attended the International Cabaret Conference at Yale and received her B.F.A. in Musical Theatre from Illinois Wesleyan University.

Emily Sahler as Berneice

EMILY SAHLER (Berneice) Recent credits include Arbus & West (Mae West, triangle! productions), The Merchant of Venice (Antonia, Portland Shakespeare Company), and Rella (Stepmother, Portland Playhouse). Broadway Rose roles include Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Genie Klein), A Christmas Carol (Mrs. Cratchit/Fezziwig), Guys and Dolls (Miss Adelaide), Company (Jenny), A Funny Thing…Forum (Domina), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Mrs. Meers), and The Drowsy Chaperone (Mrs. Tottendale). Other favorites include Jack Goes Boating (Connie), Gracie and the Atom (Sister Lidwina), and The Marriage of Bette and Boo (Bette) at Artists Repertory Theatre; Gypsy (Rose), Into the Woods (Jack’s Mother), and Tartuffe (Dorine) at Lakewood Theatre Company, among others. Film and television credits include Alone, Trinkets, Life After First Failure, The Librarians, Grimm, Portlandia, and Leverage. Proud member of SAG-AFTRA. “This one’s for Dolly.”

Mike Dederian as Earl

MIKE DEDERIAN (Earl) has performed with Broadway Rose in Christmas in Door County (Burgess), A Funny Thing...Forum (Senex), Guys and Dolls (Lt. Brannigan), Whodunit (Mr. Jarvis), and My Fair Lady (Jamie); with Lakewood Theatre Co. in Hands on a Hardbody (JD), Groundhog Day (Sheriff Jack), A Christmas Story (Jean Shepherd), A Few Good Men (Capt. Whittaker), South Pacific (Emile), and Singin’ in the Rain (R.F. Simpson); with Clackamas Repertory Theatre in My Fair Lady (Pickering); with Mock’s Crest in H.M.S. Pinafore (Dick Deadeye); and with Portland Actors Ensemble in The Tempest (Prospero) and Henry IV (Douglas). Other favorite roles include Tateh in Ragtime, the Actor in Enter the Guardsman, and Arthur in Camelot, the latter two opposite his talented wife, Margo.

Margo Schembre as Bo Jack

MARGO SCHEMBRE (Bo Jack) An Alaska native, Margo attended the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and performed throughout the Bay Area. However, after escaping California, she has been seen here at Broadway Rose in The Double Threat Trio (Millicent Masterson), Guys and Dolls (General Cartwright), The Sound of Music, and The Music Man. With Enlightened Theatrics she appeared in Sweeney Todd (Mrs. Lovett) and The Rocky Horror Show (Magenta). Her first love is Gilbert & Sullivan, and she's performed with Mock's Crest in Portland in H.M.S. Pinafore (Buttercup), Ruddigore (Dame Hannah), and in Yeoman of the Guard (Dame Carruthers). At Lakewood Theatre Co., she was most recently seen in Hands on a Hardbody (Virginia), Funny Girl (Mrs. Brice), and 9 to 5 (Roz). With FUSE Theatre in Sondheim's Assassins (Sara Jane Moore). Favorite roles have included Aldonza in Man of La Mancha, Baker's Wife in Into the Woods, Dinah in Trouble in Tahiti, Lizzie in 110 in the Shade, and Marian in The Music Man.