Company: World’s Stage (Milwaukee)
Role: Mozart
Director: Catie O’Donnell
Assistant Director/Dramatrug: Erykah Kirkstein-Zastrow
Costume/Make-up Coordinator: Emily Pomplun
Sound Design: Scott Glogovsky
Illumination provided by AntiShadows, LLC
Technical Assistant: Tracy Nowak
Photos: Zach McLain (McLain Photography)
“Jared McDaris is intoxicating as a show-stealing Mozart: brash, crude and shamelessly egotistical, but also charming, funny and passionate. Even more impressive, McDaris captures the emotional depth of a character who rightly tells us that while ‘my tongue is stupid, my heart isn’t.’ ” – Mike Fischer, JS Online (McDaris’s Mozart Hits Right Notes In World’s Stage’s Amadeus)
“[Gretchen Mahkorn] and McDaris have good chemistry, and the scenes they share — some infectiously joyous and others heartbreaking — are consistently convincing.” – Mike Fischer, JS Online (McDaris’s Mozart Hits Right Notes In World’s Stage’s Amadeus)
“McDaris does a really good job of bringing a very human and very passionate artist to the stage.” – Russ Bickerstaff, Express Milwaukee (A Close-Up For Amadeus and Salieri)
“Jared McDaris makes a most convincing Mozart.” – Jeff Grygny, Milwaukee Theater Examiner (Murdered by His Century: World Stage’s Colorful “Amadeus”)
- Mozart improvises (w/ Mack Heath as Salieri)
- Stanzi plays with Mozart (w/ Gretchen Mahkorn as Constanze)
- Mozart meets the Emperor
- Mozart Conducts
- Mozart learns of his father’s death
- Mozart starts to unravel (w/ Gretchen Mahkorn as Constanze)
- “You always loved papa…” (w/ Gretchen Mahkorn as Constanze)
- Mozart describes the Figure
- Mozart quotes the Figure
- Mozart meets the Figure
- “Why has it all gone?”
- “Papa!”
- Costume Shoot 1
- Costume Shoot 2
- CAST Greg Ryan as Van Swieten Mark Puchinsky as Von Strack Nathan Wesselowski as Orsini-Rosenberg Mack Heath as Salieri Jared McDaris as Mozart Michael Keiley as the Emperor Hayley Cotton as Venticelli Tawnie Thompson as Venticelli Gretchen Mahkorn as Constanze Julianne Frey as Katherina Cavalieri Danielle Levings as Venticelli