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:CHERRILL RAE YATES
Cherrill Rae Yates, is a Canadian singing sensation known for her hit song:"A Little Loving Keeps the Doctor Away". Her TV show "The Raes" reigned the Canadian airwaves for years where she starred along with her husband. She performs her one woman show all over the country.
TRIXIE: MARY LAUREN
Mary is a passionate and multi-hyphenate AEA artist. Her work has been seen Off-Broadway and regionally as a Director, Writer, Performer, Producer and Choreographer. Bachelor of Fine Arts from CSF. Recent acting credits include: Cathy, The Last 5 Years(Mysterium East) Louise, Gypsy (The Secret), Sarah, Sarah Was Mine (Cherry Lane) Sophia, Sophia (June Havoc) The Girl, Omotenashi Journey (Carnegie Hall), Helena, Midsummer (Mysterium) and Gertrude, Hamlet (Compass Rose). As artistic director of Heart String Theatrical she created the streaming live/filmed piece Loving You Always. Her cabarets raise money for organizations including the NAACP and ACLU. Written works; My Shadow and Me (Cape May Stage) and Start With I Do (Chain One Act Festival) audience choice award winner. FIlm: Lead Dancer/Choreographer Dream of Spring. She is the Youth Artistic Director at AMT Theatre. Some favorite directing/choreography credits include; Omotenashi Journey (Carnegie Hall), Hair (The Secret Theatre), The Prom (AMT Theater), and Start With I Do (The Chain).
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
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