JACKIE MASON: IAN WEHRLE
IAN WEHRLE played Jackie previously OffBroadway at St.Luke's Theater and The Davenport Theatre and at The Willow Theatre in Boca Raton, Fla.He is an active composer and arranger and a founding member of the Ultrasonic rock orchestra. He has recently finished work for the NBC Olympics and various music direction and sound design for theater. He is credited at the Food Network, MTV, and FOX and is continually in development of new musicals and television music. He was recently commissioned to write the music for GILGAMESH for NYU. He also wrote the song "The Finger" for the Jackie Mason Musical. He can be reached at ianwehrle@gmail.com.
GINGER: SHEBA MASON
Sheba is a NY based comedian seen nightly in Comedy Clubs, including Carolines, Gotham, and many others. throughout the USA .She often opens for Joe Machi and Dave Attell, Andrew Dice Clay and Jordan Carlos, and headlines at various venues, frequently at Sheba's Speakeasy Comedy Club in Manhattan. She is the daughter of Broadway Comic Jackie Mason and playwright Ginger Reiter. She often appears in the touring version of The Jackie Mason Musical. www.shebamason.com Email: shebamasonshow@gmail.com
MRS. OLIVIER:SHANNON SEIP
Shannon returns to Los Angeles after making her Off-Broadway debut as Cordelia in "Maddie: A New Musical.” The UCLA grad recently played Beverley Bass in the Western Australian premiere of "Come From Away" and Cynthia Murphy in the Nevada premiere of “Dear Evan Hansen.” Other favorite roles include Mrs. Wilkinson (Billy Elliot), Angie (The Prom), and Mrs. Wormwood (Matilda. A former news anchor, Shannon also produced/starred in several video shorts for Nickelodeon’s NickMom network. A huge thanks to her husband Roger and the Seip boys for their unwavering support!
TRIXIE: Alissa Finn
Alissa Finn is a native New Yorker, actor, singer, and graduate of the Royal Academy of Music's MA in Musical Theatre program. As a freelance singer, Alissa has performed in jazz venues throughout London and New York and has recorded at Abbey Road Studios for films such as Beetlejuice 2. As a cabaret artist, she has written and produced 16 cabarets in venues throughout London and New York City. Highlighted credits include: Thea Elvsted in Hedda Gabler(Etcetera Theatre), Gracie in Dr Uncanny Presents: Moreau 96 (Foxy Films), Hygienist Jill in Dentorama (Royal Institution Mayfair), Titania/Hippolyta in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bread and Roses Theatre), and Constantia in Creed (Workshop with Creative Structure).
ROSA : ANA ORTIZ-MONASTERIO DRAA
Ana has an extensive resume which includes roles in The Seagull (Red Theater); An Educated Guess (Definition Theatre); Angels in America, Parts 1 & 2 (u/s), A Home What Howls (or the house what as Ravine) (u/s), POTUS or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive (u/s) (Steppenwolf Theatre); Anna in the Tropics (u/s) (Remy Bumppo Theatre); The Locusts (u/s), La Sereneta (TEN) (The Gift Theatre); After the Blast (Broken Nose Theatre). TV/Film: Mr. Throwback; Chicago Med; American Greed, Storm Stories: The Next Generation and Mrs. Hunter is Dead, a Bay Harbor Mystery. Represented by Lily’s Talent. @anaomdraa
WOOLEY the SCHLEPALONG: DANIEL HIRSH
DANIEL HIRSH a native of Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, has NY credits including: Off-Broadway: Backyard, PimComedy, Bennett v. The Board Against Magical Fraud; Off-Off-Broadway: The Hourglass, The Wicked Fresh Awesome Dance Party, The Spirit of Truth, and Save the Penguins. He’s been lucky enough to participate in a world premiere of a Tennessee Williams play, as well as several television shows, films, voice over and internet things. Daniel holds a degree in Drama from Washington U St. Louis and has taken summer courses at Shakespeare’s Globe in London and The Atlantic Acting School.
NELSON ZEE: ROB JOHNSTON
Rob Johnston is a comedian / host / singer / musician/ songwriter who writes andperforms original comedy songs. He has been performing onstage and screen, singing and hosting shows since he was9 years old. (He has the receipts as they say/ pictures.
The son of Dee Ann Johnston (Original Hollywood Blonde in the 1962 movie, Gypsy) hewas born in to a show biz family. (His grandparents owned the last original burlesque theatre on the west coast - The Hollywood Burlesque Theatre)
Rob has played leading roles all over SouthernCalifornia and has shared the screen with Scarlett Johansson,
Adam Lambert, Judge Reinhold,Eva Mendes and more.
He appears at is the Comedy Store and Hollywood Improv, Laugh
Factory San Diego, National Lampoon’s Yellow Door, Mic Drop Comedy, Madhouse Comedy, National Comedy Theatre
hosts a weekly comedy show on the Sunset Strip. He is so grateful to have been born into a show business family
has also sung the national anthem solo prior to MLB games and sports arenas.Instagram@realrobjohnston
JOAN RIVERS: VANESSA HOLLINGSHEAD
Vanessa is a nationally and internationally touring comedian known for her sharp point of view, high-energy audience connection, standout crowd work, and memorable characters. She recently filmed her Dry Bar special and Open Bar special and was featured on Showtime’s Funny Women of a Certain Age—one of the network’s highest-rated stand-up premieres—hosted by Fran Drescher. She has appeared on Comedy Central and SiriusXM, performed for U.S. troops throughout the Middle East, and opened for comedy legends including Bill Maher, Richard Pryor, and George Carlin. After seeing her perform, Jerry Seinfeld said, “You are extremely funny… really fresh material… you’ve got what it takes.”
DOGGY BAG COUPLE: MINDY RICKLES (Don Rickles Daughter) and ED MANN (her real life husband).
Mindy Rickles, stand up comedian/actress, was seen in Netflix's Historical Roasts with Jeff Ross, featured in Jeff Garlin's theatrical release, Dealin' With Idiots, guest starred with Carroll O'Conner in In the Heat of the Night, and performs as a stand up at clubs around Los Angeles and on the road. She's done numerous tours in Las Vegas and the Midwest, as well as club dates in New York and Florida. She's the daughter of Don Rickles, wife of Ed Mann, and mother of two young men.
Ed Mann has been a radio performer/writer and entrepreneur for 40 plus years, studied acting at the Beverly Hills Playhouse with Milt Katselis and Bill Howey and appeared in Young and the Restless. Ed also authored a comic novel, "For the Love of Radio," co-hosts the long-running "The Real Brady Bros" podcast with two members of the Brady Bunch, and co-hosts *Mindy, Ed and Don Rickles" with his wife, Mindy. His work as a jazz musician in Los Angeles continues most evenings, and his CD,"Mann Sextet Standard Issue," is available on all streaming services.
CREATIVE
Book, Music & Lyrics; Ginger Reiter
Book, Music & Lyrics; Ginger Reiter
Book, Music & Lyrics; Ginger Reiter
Composer/Playwright of "Solomon & Sheba & The Drag Queen"; "Mel Schwartz Sleeps with Mae West", she wrote"The Jackie Mason Musical" two years before their daughter Sheba Mason was born. The show was always a work in progress until the passing of Jackie Mason in 2021. She declares that her ten year affair with the legendary Comic was more than a romance - it was an education., and that Jackie was a genius. She is married to Cantor/Entertainer Manny Silver and lives in Florida.
Orchestrations by Ike Reeves
Book, Music & Lyrics; Ginger Reiter
Book, Music & Lyrics; Ginger Reiter
Born and raised in New York, Ike Reeves is no stranger to the music of the Broadway Stage and is gifted with instinctive feelings regarding Broadway style musicals. He has been in show business since the age of twelve, and has brought his arranging talents to Florida where he enhances and enriches old songs and - as in The Jackie Mason Musical - new original music, by creating virtual symphonic orchestras using sophisticated equipment which sounds
exactly like their real counterparts. Ike can be reached at IkeReeves@aol.com