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: MICHELLE JENNINGS
New Yorker Michelle Jennings In 2024 Michelle played Genie Klein in White Plains PAC’s Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, where she later returned to be Lady Beaconsfield in Jekyll & Hyde; Mrs. Fairfax in Off-Brand Opera’s Jane Eyre (NYC); and finished the year playing perky HR Director Cheryl in Playhouse On Park’s The Ugly Xmas Sweater Musical (CT). Other recent performances include Dee Dee Allen in The Prom at Media Theatre (PA), Ariel in Fireside Theatre’s Grumpy Old Men (WI); Fiordiligi in Cosi fan Tutte, with Ninth Avenue Opera in NYC and Cleveland; Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music with Black Rock Theatre (CT); an off-stage swing for four roles in Milwaukee Rep’s production of Titanic, The Musical (going on as Ida Straus); and Donatella in the NYC premiere of Mike and Mindy’s Wild Weekend Jam, at The Players’ Theatre. In film/TV, she originated the role of Thjodhild in the film, Freydis and Gudrid, a musical film, which was released on Amazon Prime Video in 2024, and she was Abbi’s mom in Evil Lives Here, releasing early 2025 on Investigation Discovery TV and HBOMax. Contact: Michelle-Jennings.com
SCHLEPALONG & NELSON ZEE: DANIEL HIRSH
Daniel Hirsh is a native of Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin and is spending his sixth year in NYC. This is his first staged musical since 2006. Past NY credits—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 in 2004 and wear Nathan Lane’s Guy & Dolls suit. He’s also been on several television shows, films, voice over and internet things. He has a TikTok channel which is (now) dedicated to teaching acting (called “Crackting: Cracking Acting). Daniel holds a degree in Drama from Washington U St. Louis and has taken summer semesters at Shakespeare’s Globe in London and The Atlantic Acting School. Working as a video editor and videographer, he’s moreover attempting to learn tap dance (badly), and be a good cat dad to Chloe and Penny.
TRIXIE:SABRINA RUDDEN
SABRINA National Tour: Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding, Prophecy: The Music of Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Beauty and the Beast. Regional: White Christmas. Off-Broadway: Arlekina, The House Where Nobody Lives,
Hip Hop High - The Musical. Developmental: Model Citizens, Farewell Chris Yee, Listen to the Wind.
www.sabrinarudden.com - @sabrinarudden
ROSA : DIANE BERNI
Diane has recently starred in three show films and a music-video. She has appeared on TV, and two local Operas. She wants to "thank" Allen O'Reilly and The Bay Street Theatre for starting her on her "Retirement" Career! Contact Diane at: MYN3933@gmail.com
JEFF NEWELT: GUY in The Rascal House Jeff Newelt AKA JahFurry is a PR / Social Media macher for the likes of The Zappa Estate, Universal Music, Art Spiegelman, Lloyd Kaufman (TROMA Films) and National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene; Comics Editor for Heeb Magazine and Harvey Pekar (American Splendor); + klezmerrific jazzy reggae singer alongside musician mishpucha from The Wailers, Burning Spear, Steel Pulse and Skatalites. Jeff lives in NYC with his wife Erica, and two sons.
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