Bristol Riverside Theatre kicks off its twenty-first Mainstage season with 'I do! I do!' running October 2-21, 2007. The production will star a real-life married couple, both Broadway veterans in their own right. Barbara McCulloh has entertained audiences far and wide including Broadway’s The King and I and Peter Pan. Brad Little has electrified theatres worldwide in the title role of Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera. The production will be directed by BRT Artistic Director Edward Keith Baker.

Not only is the production an opportunity for the couple, who both travel extensively for work, to perform together, but it is also homecoming of sorts. McCulloh and Little actually met when working on the BRT stage, in The Robber Bridegroom (1987). They have both returned individually, McCulloh in Jones and Schmidt’s 110 in the Shade, for which she earned a 1997 Philadelphia Barrymore Award Nomination, as well as appearing in Irma La Douce, Blithe Spirit, and The Skin of Our Teeth. Little played the role of Che in Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s Evita at BRT, earning him the prestigious Leading Actor in a Musical Barrymore in 2001, as well as also appearing in Irma La Douce. The couple last teamed up briefly in BRT’s 2006 mounting of Baby, before McCulloh was called away to take the stage in a Broadway production.

Equally at home in musical or dramatic productions, Broadway audiences enjoyed Barbara McCulloh playing and covering the role of Anna in The King and I with Lou Diamond Phillips for well over a year. Peter Pan fans will remember her as Mrs. Darling in both the long successful Broadway run and the A&E film starring Cathy Rigby. More recently, she was in Richard Greenberg’s The House In Town at Lincoln Center and national audiences saw her as Blanche in the tour of Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs. Her creation of Pauline in the world premiere of The Sweet Revenge of Louisa May won her a Helen Hayes nomination, again for best actress. Not only a theatrical actress, Barbara has had featured roles on television and has starred in two new independent films; both films are currently in the renowned Los Angeles International Film Festival. As a narrator for audio books, she has recorded over fifty titles.

For the past two years Brad Little has been in Asia on the International tour of Phantom of the Opera playing China, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore. Little celebrated his 2,100th performance of playing the Phantom this last this year, which also included his performances on Broadway and the US National Tour. Other Broadway and National tour credits include: Cyrano, the Musical, Fiddler on the Roof, with Topol, Anything Goes directed by Jerry Zaks. Brad won international acclaim for his portrayal of Jesus in the European Tour of Jesus Christ Superstar, and Tony in West Side Story. He has recorded a Broadway CD called "Brad Little UnMasked" that includes songs from Phantom of the Opera, and a song he sings with McCulloh from the musical Beauty and the Beast.

I do! I do! was the first two-person musical ever performed on Broadway, written by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, the creative duo behind The Fantasticks and 110 In the Shade. This remarkably intimate, thoroughly romantic piece, allows us into the bedroom of Agnes and Michael, as they try to maintain passion and devotion through the joys and pains, trials and tribulations, setbacks and celebrations of their fifty year marital odyssey.

I do! I do! runs October 2 through 21 at Bristol Riverside Theatre, 120 Radcliffe Street, in Historic Bristol Borough. Tickets to Preview performances on October 2 and 3 are $34 with a "pay what you can" option available for at-door sales beginning at 7:30pm on the day of the performance. All other performances are Wednesdays through Sundays, with evening performances at 8:00pm, Wednesday through Saturday, and matinees on Wednesday and Saturday at 2:00pm, Sundays at 3:00pm. Tickets are $39-$42 (depending on the day of performance) and are available by calling the BRT Box Office at 215-785-0100, or online at www.BRTstage.org. BRT thanks Verizon, Grand Sponsor of its Twenty-First Season.

Barbara McCulloh (Agnes) - Whether on stage, screen, or in the concert hall, Barbara McCulloh’s varied talents have made her an audience and critical favorite around the country and the globe. Equally at home in musical or dramatic productions, Broadway audiences enjoyed her playing and covering the role of Anna in The King and I with Lou Diamond Phillips at the Neil Simon Theatre for well over a year. Peter Pan fans will remember her as Mrs. Darling in both the long successful Broadway run and the A&E film starring Cathy Rigby. More recently, she was in the household of Richard Greenberg’s The House In Town at Lincoln Center and national audiences were treated to her performances as Blanche in the tour of Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs. This summer Barbara debuted two new plays in New York: Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Helen Gahagan Douglas, in which she played the title role; and Iowa 08, at the Vineyard Theatre. As an accomplished classical actress, Barbara’s regional credits include Hamlet, Tom Jones, Wings, Tartuffe, Hayfever, Macbett, Irma La Douce, The Philadelphia Story, Much Ado About Nothing, The Foreigner, Vanities, The Sound of Music, The Taming of the Shrew, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Recent starring roles have been in Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Sylvia, Blithe Spirit, As Bees In Honey Drown at, among others, the Pittsburgh Public, Walnut Street Theatre, Indiana Rep, Studio Arena, Syracuse Stage, Pioneer Theatre, American Heartland Theatre, Sacramento Music Circus, Delaware Theatre Co., Bristol Riverside, Barter, Olney, Tennessee Rep., Ford’s, North Carolina Theatre, North Shore, Riverside(Vero Beach), and Virginia Shakespeare. Her performance in 110 In The Shade earned her a Barrymore nomination as best actress in Philadelphia; her creation of Pauline in the world premiere of The Sweet Revenge of Louisa May won her a Helen Hayes nomination, again for best actress. She began her career in New York Off-Broadway in Romberg’s Up in Central Park, and continued Off-Broadway creating the role of Carolina in the Outer Circle Critics’ winner Kuni-Leml. From there she did the national tour of South Pacific with Richard Kiley. Other Off Broadway credits include the York Theatre’s On the Twentieth Century, Maury Yeston’s 1-2-3-4-5 at the Manhattan Theatre Club and The High Life and Leave It To Me for Musicals Tonite.. As an accomplished classical actress, Barbara’s regional credits include Wings, Tartuffe, Hayfever, Macbett, Irma La Douce, The Philadelphia Story, Much Ado About Nothing, The Foreigner, Vanities, The Sound of Music, The Taming of the Shrew, As You Like It, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Not only a theatrical actress, Barbara has had featured roles on television including Kitty in Courage the Cowardly Dog, Lynn Moody on Law and Order, SVU and Caroline Griffin on Another World. More recently, she has starred in two new independent films: In The Foxhole, represented at the Boston International Film Festival this June and previously chosen for Virginia’s Top Ten Films in America Festival; and the just completed A Child’s Laugh; Both films are currently in the renowned Los Angeles International Film Festival. As a narrator for audio books, she has recorded over fifty titles.

Brad Little (Michael) - is thrilled to, once again, be returning to Bristol Riverside for the fourth time. The last time was 2006 where he and wife Barbara McCulloh performed together in Baby. In 2001, Brad won the Barrymore Award for his portrayal of Che in Evita. He also appeared at BRT in Irma La Douce, and maybe the most important show he has ever done was The Robber Bridegroom because it marked the point in his life where he first met his future wife Barbara. Recently, Brad has been over in Asia doing the tour of Phantom of the Opera, in China, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore. Mr. Little celebrated his 2,100th performance of playing the Phantom this last year, which also included his performances on Broadway and the US National Tour. His other Broadway and National tour credits include: Cyrano, the Musical, playing the role of Captain De Castel Jaloux; Fiddler on the Roof, with Topol; the Lincoln Center production of Anything Goes directed by Jerry Zaks, in which he understudied and played the role of Billy Crocker opposite Leslie Uggams. Brad won international acclaim for his portrayal of Jesus in the European Tour of Jesus Christ Superstar, and Tony in West Side Story. He’s recorded a Broadway CD called "Brad Little UnMasked" that includes songs from Phantom of the Opera, and a song he sings with Barbara from the musical Beauty and the Beast. CD’s are available to you in the lobby. But, his finest performance was on Labor Day of 1992, when at sunset on a beach at Cape May, NJ, Brad Little married his long time sweetheart in a ceremony performed by his dad, Dr. Paul J. Little. Brad dedicates this performance tonight to his friends in Battalion 9 of the New York Fire Department who lost 15 men on 9/11. Please visit www.bradlittle.com.