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APRIL 20, 2016
PLATINUM SPONSORS
ANNETTE BLOCH HELENE GALEN
EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER
BARBARA & JERRY KELLER HAROLD MATZNER
PRIVATE CAST PARTY SPONSOR HELENE GALEN
ANGEL SPONSORS NINA & ROBERT WERNICK
GOLD SPONSORS BARBARA ARNSTEIN & THE LATE TIM ARNSTEIN JOYCE & HENRY FREUND WENDY & ROBERT GOODFRIEND SHELLI GOODMAN & BERNIE PLACK JAMES R. HOUSTON DOROTHY & MELVYN LEFKOWITZ DONNA MACMILLAN ELAINE & JERRY MORGAN BOBBI & MIKE RESMO
SILVER SPONSORS COACHELLA VALLEY WELLNESS FOUNDATION & NEWMAN’S OWN FOUNDATION/PATTY & ARTHUR NEWMAN
PRODUCER SPONSORS THE JEROME ANGEL FAMILY
DRS. TERRI & BART KETOVER
JOYCE & HAROLD FRANK
JOANN MCGRATH
BARBARA FREMONT
LEO MILMET & PALM VALLEY SCHOOL
BARBARA & BERNIE FROMM RACHEL & ED GUBMAN
LINDA & MANNY RIDER
PEGGY JACOBS & BOB HOWARD
AVIVA & RON SNOW
FAYE SARKOWSKY
DIRECTOR SPONSORS DAVID AUSTIN/AUSTIN ART PROJECTS BANK OF AMERICA REBECCA BENAROYA SALLY & MILES BERGER HARRIET K. BERNSTEIN JEAN CARRUS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PEGGY CRAVENS DESERT REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER NANCY & DENNIS DITLOVE DIANE & HAL GERSHOWITZ SUSAN & SHELLY GOOD DEBBIE & LENNIE GREEN BOBBI HOLLAND ANNE HOLLAND & GREG MEIDEL DAVID KAPLAN & GLENN OSTERGAARD SALLY & MORT KIRSHNER
DAVID LEE MYRA & MAURICE PAPERNY MONROE & RELLA RIFKIN ANN ELLEN & ROBERT ROSEN GAIL & ROBERT SCADRON PHYLLIS & GARY SCHAHET ANN SHEFFER & BILL SCHEFFLER LINDA SHIRVANIAN BOBBIE STERN NANCY STONE SHELLY & RON TAMKIN TRICK DOG FILMS MARJORIE VICTOR DAVID VOGEL & LARRY FULTON JUDI & PETER WASSERMAN
DESERT
April 20, 2016
On behalf of the Board of Directors of Jewish Family Service of the Desert (JFS), we welcome you to the tenth annual production of One Night Only, produced by the incomparable Michael Childers. Tonight, Michael presents “Sondheim In Love”, featuring some of legendary composer Stephen Sondheim’s most romantic songs. We are particularly delighted to welcome the enormously talented Lucie Arnaz as Director. We greatly appreciate the support that Lucie has given to JFS for a number of years. Under the exemplary leadership of Executive Director Maureen Forman, this year, JFS will provide mental health counseling, substance abuse prevention education, senior care and other critical services to more than 4,000 men, women and children, including 2,000 students in local elementary schools. We are also the largest provider of social services to the Jewish Community in the Coachella Valley. Your support tonight is crucial to helping JFS continue to provide quality services to those in need throughout the Valley. JFS is a nonsectarian, non-profit organization that provides an array of counseling and social services to those in need regardless of religion, age, income, gender, ethnicity or lifestyle. Much of the success of One Night Only tonight and for the last nine years can be attributed to the leadership of our extraordinary honorary co-chairs: Annette Bloch, Helene Galen, Barbara Keller, and. Harold Matzner. We extend our deepest appreciation to these wonderful community leaders for their longstanding support of both this event and of JFS. Special thanks to my event co-chair Terri Ketover for sharing the tremendous event responsibilities and for her unwavering support. Of course, we extend our deepest appreciation to Michael for using his amazing talents to help JFS provide vital services. To all of the performers who have so unselfishly volunteered their time and their talents, we are extremely grateful! We express our most heartfelt appreciation and sincere gratitude to all the individuals who worked or volunteered behind the scenes. Warmest regards,
Barbara Fromm PRESIDENT Board of Directors
DESERT
BOARD OF DIRECTORS Officers
Barbara Fromm President
Sandy Seplow
Vice President
Sandy Seplow
Vice President
Aviva Snow
Vice President
OUR MISSION Established in 1982, the mission of Jewish Family Service of the Desert (JFS) is to provide for the social service needs of the Jewish and general community throughout the greater Coachella Valley with a commitment to promote the well-being of persons of all ages, incomes and lifestyles.
Maureen Forman EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OUR CLIENTS JFS is a non-sectarian, non-profit organization that provides an array of counseling and social services to those in need regardless of religion, age, income, ethnicity or lifestyle. Each year, the agency provides direct services to more than 4,000 men, women and children in need.
Carol Fragen
OUR STAFF The staff of JFS is comprised of a dedicated group of professionals committed to serving our community. They have diverse professional backgrounds that include clinical social workers, marriage and family therapists, and drug addiction specialists, as well as geriatric case managers helping the most impoverished and vulnerable members of the community.
Board Members
JFS LEGACY FUND At JFS we have been changing lives in the Desert for over 30 years! But our ability to continue help our community depends on you!!
Barry Kaufmann Treasurer
Ed Gubman
Assistant Treasurer
Joyce Wolff Secretary
Immediate Past President
Audrey Bernstein Bob Caruso Jerry Fogelson Joan Freeman Margot Halperin Joan Kerns Mark Krasne Cathy Molever Jerry Morgan Joan Moyer Nicolette Resmo-Haroutunian Peter Rittenhouse Gail Scadron Nona Solowitz Royal Taxman
JFS has a variety of gift and estate planning options available for individuals and families to ensure that we are always here for the people of Coachella Valley. Your legacy gift may be directed towards the general JFS Legacy Fund or you may designate a specific program provided by JFS such as mental health, children and families or seniors. Your charitable dollars will support the needs of our JFS community in the way you intended-for perpetuity. JFS can assist you and your Financial Advisor in creating a charitable giving plan that creates your personal legacy of compassion while also addressing your tax and estate planning needs. Please contact JFS on how you can become a JFS Legacy Leader and ensure JFS is here for generations to come! 490 South Farrell Drive, Suite C208 Palm Springs, CA 92262 (760) 325-4088 FAX (760) 778-3781 www.jfsdesert.org
JFS SERVICES SERVING OUR SENIORS Senior Care Management Providing care management to help older adults age safely and with greater independence.
Let’s Do Lunch! Provides homebound seniors lunch, activities and socialization opportunities. Emergency Assistance Assistance for Seniors experiencing unexpected financial crisis.
Friendly Visitor Volunteers visit homebound seniors to provide companionship and support. JFS Express Transporting homebound seniors to medical appointments and other important activities.
SERVING OUR JEWISH COMMUNITY CafĂŠ Europa Support and education to Holocaust survivors living in our community.
Shabbat in a Bag Volunteers visit the homebound to celebrate the weekly holiday.
SERVING OUR COMMUNITY Mental Health Counseling Professional clinicians provide therapy for individuals, couples and families to meet the challenges of life. Most insurances accepted. Sliding scale fee available.
SERVING OUR YOUTH
KidsFirst Counseling School-based counseling program targeting at-risk children KidsFirst Healthy Life Program School-based preventive mental health and substance abuse resistance education program.
Positive Life Series Educational seminars for people living with HIV/ AIDS.
Information & Referrals Linking families and individuals in need with vital community resources. Camp Scholarships Summer camp scholarships for low-income children to attend both Jewish and nonsecular camps. JFS is a beneficiary of the United Way of the Desert and a member agency of the Association of Jewish Family and Children's Agencies.
PRODUCER
MICHAEL CHILDERS
Michael Childers is one of the desert’s most successful producers of charitable fundraisers. This is the tenth production of One Night Only at the McCallum Theatre, an event he conceived and produced first in 2002, hosted by Lily Tomlin. He has raised nearly $13 million dollars for AIDS charities, museums, performing arts, and social services in Los Angeles, Santa Fe, and Palm Springs. Michael created the mixed media work for the Off-Broadway musical Oh! Calcutta! He was a founding photographer for Andy Warhol’s Interview and After Dark magazines. Other magazine covers include GQ, New York, TV Guide, Esquire, Los Angeles, Elle, Life, London Sunday Times Magazine, and Vogue. Michael’s photographic work is in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Palm Springs Art Museum, Chiat Day, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, Laguna Art Museum, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Las Vegas Art Museum, the Marion Center for Photographic Arts in Santa Fe, the National Portrait Gallery in London, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, the Chicago Public Library, the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, the USC Doheny Library, Scripps Museum of Photography and the Seattle Art Museum. Michael produced his first Broadway show, Tradition: The Jewish Legacy of Broadway at the Gerald Lynch Theater in New York for the Actors Fund, which also played at the Pantages Theatre. His Author, Author show was exhibited at Harvard University last October. He has received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Hollywood Photography at the Temecula, Los Angeles, Palm Springs, and Provincetown Film Festivals, and a Distinguished Photographer Award from the Palm Springs Art Fair. He received the JFS Humanitarian Award from Lily Tomlin. Michael’s star for his humanitarian work is located in front of the Palm Springs Art Museum. www.michaelchildersphotography.com
HONORARY C0-CHAIR
ANNETTE BLOCH
Annette Modell Bloch was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where she lived until her marriage to Richard Bloch (the “R” of H&R Block Inc.). She has lived in Kansas City since her marriage and made Rancho Mirage her second home. She and Dick had three daughters, and now Annette has ten grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. A breast cancer survivor and philanthropist, Annette is president of the R.A. Bloch Cancer Foundation and oversees the Bloch Cancer Hotline. In Palm Springs, she is a trustee of the Palm Springs Art Museum. She has received the Palm Springs California Chamber of Commerce Athena Award for her commitment to helping others, a Meritorious Gold Palm Springs Star for her enduring and selfless contributions to charitable causes, the 100 Women Humanitarian Award from the Desert AIDS Project, and the Outstanding Philanthropist Award in 2012 from the Association of Fundraising Professionals. She is a great supporter of Gilda’s Club in Palm Desert and in 2013 she established the Annette Bloch Cancer Care Center for the Desert AIDS Project. In Kansas City, Annette’s work on behalf of heart and cancer patients has established the Richard and Annette Bloch Heart Rhythm Center, the Richard and Annette Bloch Cancer Care Pavilion and the Richard and Annette Bloch Radiation Oncology Pavilion at the University of Kansas Hospital. In 2013 Annette continued her commitment to cancer patients by funding the Richard and Annette Bloch Cancer Center at Truman Medical Centers. Last May, she received the 2015 Philanthropist of the Year Award.
HONORARY C0-CHAIR
HELENE GALEN
Helene Galen was born Helene Caro, in England, and she moved with her family to Los Angeles in 1958. She met her husband, Lou Galen and they were married in 1975. They had 32 happy years of marriage until he passed away in 2007. Helene had an interesting career in California, working as an Executive at Frederick’s of Hollywood, where she worked both in their advertising department and retail chain. Taking her retail experience with her, she later became vice-president and comptroller for Continental Distributors, a retail jewelry chain. Helene served on the Board of Trans World Bank in Sherman Oaks, a bank founded by her husband. They bought their Tamarisk home in 1980 from Zeppo Marx, which has been a family residence for the past 30 years. Helene has also been a member of several other Boards of Trustees including Eisenhower Hospital. While serving on the Executive Committee of the board of Tamarisk Country Club, she wrote the unique history of the early days in Palm Springs. Helene serves on the Board of Trustees at the University of Southern California, and serves on the Board of Overseers for the Keck School of Medicine and the USC Hospital. She is a member of the Councilors of the Fine Arts School where she and her husband established the Helene & Louis Galen Ceramic Studio, and the Helene Galen Intermedia Lab. The Galens were the major contributors to enable the building of USC’s Galen Center, a Basketball Arena that opened in 2006. She is currently on the Board of Trustees of the Palm Springs Art Museum, the McCallum Theater, the International Film Festival and is the Chairman of the Foundation Board of the Barbara Sinatra Children’s Center. Helene participated in its founding 29 years ago. Helene Galen has two daughters and three grandchildren.
HONORARY C0-CHAIR
HONORARY C0-CHAIR
BARBARA KELLER
In New York, Barbara Keller was a theatre director, producer and business agent for film industry script supervisors and Board member for the North Shore Community Arts Center. Her books include Film, Tape and TV: Where Do I Fit In? and Orgasmic Days in the South of France, where Barbara and husband, Jerry, had a home for 18 years. In the desert, Barbara has served as Trustee for the Palm Springs Art Museum, McCallum Theatre and Jewish Family Service of the Desert. She is past president of the Museum Associates Council and has acted as chair for key Museum fundraising events. Barbara is Chair of the Board of the Desert AIDS Project, co-chairing seven Steve Chase Awards galas in addition to Dinner @ My Place. Barbara is on the advisory board of Sunshine Circle, connecting teenagers with Holocaust survivors, and Sanctuary Palm Springs, providing LGBT individuals a safe and supportive home. She feels privileged to share One Night Only Honorary Co-Chair status with Annette Bloch, Helene Galen, and Harold Matzner. Barbara gives kudos to Barbara Fromm and Terri Ketover, event chairs, for unselfishly donating their time and resources and to the invaluable, innumerable skills of Executive Producer Ken Katz, and to this year’s multi-talented director, Lucie Arnaz. Barbara is so appreciative of Michael Childers for his resolve to accept nothing less than excellence and triumph. What a team! What a One Night Only!
HONORARY C0-CHAIR
HAROLD MATZNER
Entrepreneur, humanitarian, and philanthropist, Harold Matzner has made his home in the desert for more than 30 years. The owner of Palm Spring’s popular Spencer’s Restaurant and CEO of a NY/NJ based branding, advertising and marketing company, Harold is credited with revitalizing the Palm Springs International Film Festival and founding the successful business concept of targeted “shared mail”. He also rescued and revived the world famous Palm Springs Tennis Club, turning its lunchroom into Spencer’s, one of the City’s hottest restaurants. Spencer’s is named after his beloved 110-pound Siberian husky. Harold is in his 8th year as the Chairman of the Board of the McCallum Theatre, his 11th year as Chairman of the Palm Springs International Film Festival, and is the Executive Vice Chairman of the Palm Springs Art Museum. He serves on the Board of Trustees of the Eisenhower Medical Center and Barbara Sinatra Children’s Center. Harold has been honored by the Association of Fundraising Professionals as the “Philanthropist of the Year”, by Gilda’s Club as the “Man of the Year”, by the McCallum Muses as “Man of the Year”, by Angel View Children’s Foundation as “Angel of the Year”, by the Palm Springs Chamber of Commerce as “Businessperson of the Year”, by the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians with the “Richard M. Milanovich Humanitarian Award”, by Desert Samaritan’s as “Samaritan of the Year”, and has received the Virginia Waring “Lifetime Achievement Award”. Among the many local charities benefiting from his philanthropic efforts are the Barbara Sinatra Children’s Center, AIDS Assistance Program, Desert Symphony, American Cancer Society, Cabot’s Pueblo Museum, Coachella Valley Symphony, ACT for MS, College of the Desert, Eisenhower Medical Center, Desert AIDS Project, Desert Cancer Foundation, Palm Springs Animal Shelter, Jewish Family Service of the Desert, Neuro Vitality Center, Coachella Valley Repertory Theatre, Temple Isaiah, Bighorn's Behind a Miracle, Tools for Tomorrow, Palm Springs Air Museum, Mizell Senior Center, Well in the Desert, FIND Food Bank, and Pegasus Riding Academy.
EVENT C0-CHAIR
BARBARA FROMM
Barbara Fromm has been the Event Co-Chair of Michael Childers’ production of One Night Only since 2008. Barbara and her husband of 59 years, Bernie, split their time between the communities of Palm Desert and New York City. Among the many things they share are a commitment and passion for philanthropy. Here in the desert, Barbara’s many charitable endeavors include serving on the Board of Directors of Jewish Family Service of the Desert, where she assumed the position of President in April 2016. She also serves on the Executive Committee, and previously served as Vice President, as well as the co-chair of the annual Patron Party for a number of years. She is actively involved with numerous fundraising activities with the Palm Springs Art Museum, including serving on the Boards of the Museum Associates Council and the Annenberg Theater Council. She is also on the Board of the Israel Cancer Research Fund. Barbara feels privileged to have worked with the brilliant and talented Michael Childers for the past eight years. She is also grateful for the opportunity to work closely with her friends and honorary co-chairs Annette Bloch, Helene Galen, Barbara Keller, and Harold Matzner, as well as her event co-chair Terri Ketover, in support of the critical work of Jewish Family Service of the Desert. Barbara and Bernie have instilled their charitable ethics to their three children and six grandchildren, who continue the family tradition of giving back to the communities in which they live. Barbara holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and Education from Albright College.
EVENT C0-CHAIR
TERRI KETOVER
With a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Miami, Terri Ketover’s varied professional career has included a research appointment with the University of Miami’s Mailman Center for Child Development, a nine-year term as the Executive Director of the Coconut Grove Arts Festival, and a long association with the City of Miami as a Special Consultant to the Chief of Police and City Manager. She has been recognized by the Florida House of Representatives and the White House for founding the “Do the Right Thing” Program, a nonprofit organization which recognizes and rewards youth for exemplary behavior and accomplishments with chapters in 53 cities throughout the United States, as well as Germany and England. Terri moved to Rancho Mirage in 1998 with her husband, ophthalmologist Bart Ketover, and began serving on the Jewish Family Service of the Desert Board of Directors and the Cathedral City Public Arts Commission. She is currently active in the Palm Springs Art Museum and is Vice-Chair of the Museum’s Annenberg Theater Council. She is also on the Board of the Palm Springs International Film Festival and Desert AIDS Project, serving as Co-Chair of the agency’s “100 Women” program. She was honored as the desert’s “Outstanding Fundraising Volunteer” at the 2013 National Philanthropy Day, received the “100 Women Award” at the 2014 Steve Chase Humanitarian Awards gala, and was the recipient of the 2014 “Athena Leadership Award” from the Palm Springs Chamber of Commerce.
PRODUCTION CREDITS PRODUCER
MICHAEL CHILDERS DIRECTOR
LUCIE ARNAZ MUSIC DIRECTION, ARRANGEMENTS & ORCHESTRATIONS C
JOHN M DANIEL EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
KEN KATZ CHOREOGRAPHER................................................. MARK ESPOSITO PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER.....................................RONN GOSWICK CO-PRODUCER.................................................. NANCY DOWNER EVENT MANAGER............................................ELAINE GOODMAN GRAPHIC DESIGN......................................................... MARI ABRIL JFS DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR............................. JUDY KAYE CRESSMAN ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGER.............................................LEE BROSNAN ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER .......................... ZACHARY JAMES SCHELL
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER................................. CANDICE M. CLASBY EVENT ASSISTANT ........................................................JIM GAZAN MUSIC COORDINATOR..................................................... AL YANKEE VIDEOGRAPHERS .............................................. TRICK DOG FILMS TALENT CONSULTANT
....................................... DEBBIE GREEN, HRH
GIFT BAGS........................DOUG
DONENFELD, TERRI KETOVER, SAL MISTRETTA, AND TOM TRUHE
PRODUCTION PHOTOGRAPHER........................................ LANI GARFIELD VIDEO GRAPHICS ...................................................JOSE SERRANO HAIR & MAKE UP COURTESY OF.................................. J. RUSSELL SALON POSTER DESIGN......................................................... DAVID BYRD
DIRECTOR
LUCIE ARNAZ
Lucie Arnaz directed the Broadway bound New York workshop of Hazel: A Musical Maid in America and the Emmy winning Lucy & Desi: A Home Movie, which she also produced. She was the executive producer for the Emmy nominated I Love Lucy 50th Anniversary Special. In over forty-five years in show business, she has starred on Broadway in They’re Playing Our Song (Theatre World, LA Drama Critic’s and Outer Critic’s Circle Awards), Lost In Yonkers, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Pippin. Off Broadway, she has appeared in Grace And Glorie; and in London, The Witches Of Eastwick. Lucie has performed in the First National Tours of Seesaw, Whose Life Is It Anyway? Social Security, My One And Only and Pippin. Her regional work includes Wonderful Town, Master Class, Cabaret, The Guardsman, Annie Get Your Gun, I Do! I Do!, Educating Rita, Vanities, and Mack And Mable. On TV, Lucie starred in The Lucie Arnaz Show, Sons And Daughters, The Black Dahlia, The Mating Season, Who Gets The Friends?, Washington Mistress and Here’s Lucy (co-starring with her mother, Lucille Ball for six seasons). She has traveled around the world in her musical concerts. She has two recordings, Just In Time and Latin Roots. She has appeared in the films The Jazz Singer with Neil Diamond and Sir Laurence Oliver (Golden Globe Nomination), Down To You, and Second Thoughts. Visit her online at LucieArnaz.com.
MUSIC DIRECTION, ARRANGEMENTS & ORCHESTRATION
JOHN McDANIEL
John McDaniel is a Grammy and two-time Emmy Award winning Composer, Music Director, Arranger, Orchestrator, Theatrical and Record Producer and is the Artistic Director of the Tony Award winning O’Neill Theater Center’s Cabaret and Performance conference. Broadway credits include Bonnie and Clyde (Drama Desk Nomination, Best Orchestrations), Catch Me If You Can, Brooklyn (Producer and Orchestrator), Annie Get Your Gun (Grammy Award, cast album Producer), Taboo, Chicago, Grease, Patti LuPone on Broadway and Company – the Original Cast in Concert at Lincoln Center. John won his Emmy Awards for The Rosie O’Donnell Show and was nominated for 5 consecutive years for Best Music Direction. Recent credits include Maltby & Shire’s Waterfall both in Los Angeles and Seattle and The Daughter of the Regiment at Opera Theatre of St. Louis. John has enjoyed collaborations with Cab Calloway, Shirley MacLaine, George Burns, Al Jarreau, Tyne Daly, Joel Grey, Carol Burnett, Frederica von Stade, Betty Buckley and most recently, Bette Midler. He has been guest conductor at many Symphony Orchestras including San Francisco, Indianapolis, Utah, Buffalo, Colorado, Baltimore, Phoenix and his hometown, the St. Louis Symphony. He holds a BFA in Drama from Carnegie Mellon.
CHOREOGRAPHER
MARK ESPOSITO PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER
RONN GOSWICK
Mark Esposito has choreographed for theater, television, commercials, and videos. His work has been seen at Two River Theater (New Jersey) and Pasadena Playhouse (Camelot, Casa Valentina), the Hollywood Bowl (South Pacific with Reba McEntire), CV Rep Theater (A Class Act), the Reprise Series in Los Angeles (Applause), La Mirada Theater, Musical Theater West, Sacramento Music Circus, Universal Studios, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, Pittsburgh Playhouse, North Shore Music Theater (Massachusetts), Bass Hall and Casa Mañana (Texas), Ogunquit Playhouse (Maine), Globus Theater Company in Russia and the York Theater Company and Signature Theater in New York. Mark has served as associate director and choreographer for The Radio City Music Hall Christmas Show and as choreographer for Yuletide Celebration starring Sandi Patti with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Mark has performed in over 16 Broadway and National Tours including The Music Man; West Side Story; Brigadoon; Pippin; A Chorus Line; Jerome Robbins’ Broadway; Cats; Guys and Dolls; Damn Yankees; and The American Dance Machine, among others. Mark has been on faculty at University of Michigan and has guest taught or choreographed at New York University, UCLA, University of Arizona, Point Park College (Pennsylvania) and at AMDA in Los Angeles. Ronn Goswick is thrilled to be back in Palm Springs for his eighth One Night Only as Production Stage Manager. He recently returned to Los Angeles to work on the new world premiere musical –- Recorded in Hollywood at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. His most recent work includes concerts in Los Angeles with Jason Robert Brown, Shoshana Bean, Arianna Grande, Belinda Carlisle, David Hernandez and others. Prior to that he spent his third summer in Jennerstown, PA at the Mountain Playhouse working the summer/fall season and is ready to head back there again this year. Other work includes the world premiere in LA of Recorded in Hollywood and in San Antonio where he completed work on Dido and Aeneas for Opera Piccola. In his 35 year theatrical career, he has over 150 productions to his credit including work at the Rubicon Theatre, the Falcon Theatre, TUTS (Houston), Reprise!, Musical Theatre West, San Jose Stage, San Diego Rep, Berry Gordy, Luxor Hotel and Casino, the Gypsy Kings’ West End musical Zorro, Les Miserables (at the Hollywood Bowl starring Brian Stokes Mitchell, Lea Michelle and John Lloyd Young) and the pre-Broadway production of Baby It’s You. Thank you Michael Childers and Nancy Downer for your support and friendship and BREAK A LEG to Lucie Arnaz on her first time in this position with One Night Only as Director!!!
MICHAEL CHILDERS
presents
ONE NIGHT ONLY HONORARY CHAIRS ANNETTE BLOCH HELENE GALEN BARBARA KELLER HAROLD MATZNER
From Producer Michael Childers
EVENT CHAIRS BARBARA FROMM TERRI KETOVER
There are not enough words to say how proud I am that producing One Night Only for the last 14 years has become one of the greatest joys of my life. Working with these great singers, performers, and musicians is truly special; and the fact that it has made over $1.5 million dollars for the wonderful, wonderful Jewish Family Service of the Desert, which is very dear to my heart, makes me even prouder. The team that makes this show work every year, Ken Katz, Nancy Downer, Mari Abril, Maureen Forman, and Judy Cressman, as well as the hardworking co-chairs, Annette Bloch, Harold Matzner, Barbara Keller, Helene Galen, Terri Ketover and Barbara Fromm, is extraordinary. Special thanks to Helene and Jamie Kabler for hosting the spectacular cast party, which is certainly one of the highlights of the desert’s social season. And a special thanks, for months of hard work on this year’s show, to my beautiful, talented director, Lucie Arnaz. I treasure my talented team of John McDaniel, music director, Mark Esposito, choreographer and Ronn Goswick, production stage manager. Many thanks to Mitch Gershenfeld and the extraordinary staff of the McCallum Theatre. And none of this would possible without our tireless volunteers who come back to help us year after year. P. O. BOX 5270, PALM SPRINGS, CA 92263 WWW.JFSDESERT.ORG (760) 3254088
special thanks JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE DESERT WOULD LIKE TO THANK SOME VERY SPECIAL PEOPLE WHO HELPED MAKE THIS EVENING POSSIBLE. ANNETTE BLOCH, HELENE GALEN, BARBARA KELLER, & HAROLD MATZNER
DEBBIE GREEN
TERRI KETOVER & BARBARA FROMM
ELLEN PARIS
HELENE GALEN & JAMIE KABLER FOR HOSTING THE CAST PARTY
SOPHIA PERRONE
ALL THE GENEROUS SPONSORS, SUPPORTERS, DONORS & ADVERTISERS
ZIGI GRAHAM
THE SPECTACULAR PERFORMERS WHO DONATE THEIR TIME AND TALENT TO THIS SHOW
FRANK JONES MARK SENDROFF ALAN DE ZON DAVID GREEN JILL HOYT BRUCE KIMMEL ROBERT SALFAS
MITCH GERSHENFELD & THE WONDERFUL CREW AT THE MCCALLUM THEATRE
MADISON WORKSHOP WEST FLORISTS
ALL THE MANY VOLUNTEERS WHO WORKED HARD FOR THE SUCCESS OF THE EVENT
BETTY CALLIES & AGUA CALIENTE CASINO RESORT SPA
FRANCISCO PLACENCIA & LULU CATERING JERRY KELLER JOEY LIZOTTE & THE CREW AT ARTISAN EVENTS MEG FIRESTONE OF J. RUSSELL SALON HAL ASHER
DAVID BYRD
CHRISTINE ANDREAS
In her shows Love Is Good and be-Mused, Christine Andreas had The New York Times accusing her of ”...electrifying her audiences, transforming them with pure alchemy and delicately killing with the sheer beauty of her voice.....” On Broadway, this multiple-award-winning singer, actress, and two-time Tony nominee starred in the revival of La Cage aux Folles and created the role of Marguerite St. Just in The Scarlet Pimpernel. She received the Theatre World Award for My Fair Lady (Eliza), and Tony nominations for Oklahoma! and On Your Toes. Other Broadway credits include La Cage Aux Folles. Words and Music, Angel Street, Rags, Legs Diamond, Pal Joey and Stardust. She has appeared in New York embodying Edith Piaf in Streetsinger and has also toured nationally in The Light in the Piazza. Some of her TV credits include Law & Order: SVU, The Cosby Show, and Another World. Christine has performed in concert and cabaret in all of NY’s major rooms and with major symphonies nationwide. Christine starred in her husband Martin Sylvestri’s The Fields of Ambrosia on London’s West End. Her award-winning CDs include Love is Good, Here’s to the Ladies, and The Carlyle Set. Be-Mused is being recorded by PS Classics. christineandreas.com.
BRENT BARRETT
Brent Barrett just returned from Germany, where he starred as the Phantom, in das Phantom der Oper. In New York, Brent starred in Chicago, Annie Get Your Gun opposite Reba McEntire, Dance a Little Closer, Grand Hotel, Candide, Brigadoon and West Side Story. He originated the role of Dr. Hannibal Lecter in Silence! The Musical. He played the Phantom in the Las Vegas Spectacular at the Venetian Hotel and Ben in Follies at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater. In London, Brent appeared in Kiss Me, Kate (Olivier nomination) and Grand Hotel. National Tours: Leading Ladies, Busker Alley with Tommy Tune, Annie Get Your Gun opposite Cathy Rigby, and Chicago (L.A. Drama Critics Award). Off-Broadway: Closer Than Ever, March of the Falsettos, The Time Of Cuckoo and Portrait of Jenny. In Concert: Boston Pops, Minnesota Opera, Opera Pacific, Michigan Opera, Carnegie Hall, and Royal Festival Hall. Brent has recorded three solo albums - The Alan Jay Lerner Album, The Kander and Ebb Album and Christmas Mornings. Other recordings: Grand Hotel, Brigadoon, Dance a Little Closer, Closer Than Ever, The Busby Berkeley Album, The Maury Yeston Songbook and more. On Screen: The Producers, Longtime Companion, Hercules, All My Children. BrentBarrett.com.
LIZ CALLAWAY
Tony nominee and Emmy Award winner Liz Callaway is happy to be singing two songs tonight from her newest album The Essential Liz Callaway. Liz made her Broadway debut in Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along, received a Tony Award nomination for her performance in Baby, and for five years, won acclaim as Grizabella in Cats. She starred in the original casts of Miss Saigon, The Three Musketeers, and The Look of Love. Her extensive concert and symphony career has included appearances in London, Paris, Barcelona, China, South Korea and Australia and most major U.S. cities. She performs regularly with her sister Ann Hampton Callaway, composer Stephen Schwartz, and has had the great pleasure of singing with Jimmy Webb, Paul Williams and the legendary Johnny Mathis. Liz provided the singing voice for numerous animated movies including the title character of the Oscar-nominated Anastasia and Odette in The Swan Princess. Her other 5 other solo recordings include: Passage of Time, The Beat Goes On, The Story Goes On: Liz Callaway On and Off- Broadway, Anywhere I Wander: Liz Callaway Sings Frank Loesser, her Christmas album, Merry and Bright as well as two CDs with her sister, Ann: Sibling Revelry and Boom! Live at Birdland. www. lizcallaway.com
PATRICK CASSIDY
In addition to being a Broadway, television and film actor for over 35 years, Patrick Cassidy is currently the resident director at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas, where he oversees Steve Wynn’s Showstoppers. He has also worked as acting consultant for the show Le Re’ve at the Wynn Hotel. Patrick is on the board at Point Park University in Pittsburgh where he has directed Oklahoma and taught various master classes in acting. He starred with his mother Shirley Jones in the 2014 midwest tour of The Music Man, for which he also produced and wrote all the additional material. He has directed Michael Monge in his cabaret act at the Encore Hotel in Las Vegas and The Sound of Music at the High-Street Theatre in Moorpark. Patrick has an Acting Company in Agoura California where lives and works with his wife and choreographer Melissa Hurley Cassidy. Most recently, Patrick has conceived a new autobiographical musical on the life of his mother Shirley Jones, entitled Have You Met Miss Jones that will premier in Kansas the fall of 2016.
BRIAN CHILDERS
Brian Childers is thrilled to be returning to One Night Only. Brian received the 2002 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Leading Actor in a Musical and the Mary Goldwater Award for his performance as Danny Kaye in Danny and Sylvia: A Musical Love Story. His recent tour of his one-man show, An Evening with Danny Kaye, has received rave reviews and has been seen coast to coast including Los Angeles, New York, and Washington, DC. In New York, Brian was seen in My Wife In A Chador, Sophia, Obama in Naples, Freedom’s Song: A New Musical, Miracle on 34th St.: The Musical, Promenade, Legacy: The Musicals of Off-Broadway, Scandalous Behavior and On the Town. Regionally, he has appeared at the Kennedy Center in 90 North and The Titans; in Lucky Stiff, Becoming George, The Boys in the Band, Hollywood Pinafore, The Robber Bridegroom, The Second Man, Man of La Mancha, and Crack Between the Worlds. Other notable credits include the national tours of The Kid from Brooklyn as Danny Kaye and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer as Tom Sawyer. Last year Brian starred in Off-Broadway as the title role in The Jazz Singer. Visit: brianchilders. net and aneveningwithdannykaye.com
NANCY DUSSAULT
Nancy Dussault is an Emmy and Theatre World Award winner with multiple Tony Award nominations. On Broadway, she performed in Do Re Me, The Sound Of Music, Bajour, Side By Side By Sondheim, and Into The Woods. Other New York shows include The Boyfriend, Carousel, Finian’s Rainbow, Street Scene, The Mikado, Trelawny Of The Wells, Cradle Will Rock, and Love, Loss And What I Wore. In Los Angeles, Nancy has appeared in Sunday In The Park With George, Candide, Same Time, Another Year, and Alone Together. In San Francisco, she was seen in The Imaginary Invalid and The Threepenny Opera. National tour credits include The Sisters Rosenzweig, Shirley Valentine, Follies, Peter Pan, The King and I, and The Lady With All The Answers. On TV, Nancy is known for The New Dick Van Dyke Show, Good Morning America, Too Close For Comfort and innumerable guest starring roles from The Ed Sullivan Show to Alias. She continues to enthrall audiences in cabaret and symphony appearances and with her CD, Heart And Soul. Nancy initiated the Musical Theatre Program at UCLA, taught for 10 years at The Broadway Theatre Project and continues her teaching at her studio in Southern California.
DAVIS GAINES
Davis Gaines performed the title role in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera over 2,000 times during his run on Broadway, in Los Angeles, (LA’s longest-running Phantom) and in San Francisco (Bay Area Critics’ Award for Best Actor). Other Broadway and national tour credits include the leading role in the world premiere of Lloyd Webber’s Whistle Down the Wind, Raoul in The Phantom of the Opera, Cornelius Hackl in Hello, Dolly! (with Carol Channing), Camelot (with Richard Burton) and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (with Alexis Smith). Davis’ Off-Broadway appearances include Des McAnuff’s The Death of Von Richthofen, Maury Yeston/Larry Gelbart’s One Two Three Four Five, Stephen Sondheim’s Assassin and Forbidden Broadway. His Los Angeles appearances include Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha (Ovation Award), Hannibal Lecter in SILENCE! The Musical (LA Weekly Award), Parade, and Sweeney Todd. Film and television work includes Warlock: The Armageddon, Desperate Housewives, Charmed, Chicago Hope, Veronica’s Closet, Bodies of Evidence and Murder, She Wrote. Davis has sung for five U.S. Presidents and his voice can be heard over 30 cast recordings and compilation albums, as well as two solo CDs. For more information, visit davisgaines.com and www.facebook.com/DavisGainesActor.
JASON GRAAE
Jason Graae has been featured on Broadway in A Grand Night For Singing, Falsettos, Stardust, Snoopy! and of course, Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? Off- Broadway shows include Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (Drama Desk Nomination), Forever Plaid, Olympus On My Mind, and All in the Timing. On TV, Jason was featured as Chad on Rude Awakening, Dennis on 6 Feet Under and has guest starred on Friends, Frasier, Sabrina, Dukes of Hazzard and on PBS with Evening at Pops, Marvin Hamlisch at The Kennedy Center and Jerry Herman’s Words and Music. A L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award winner, Jason originated Houdini in the L.A. production of Ragtime winning an Ovation Award for Forbidden Broadway Y2KLA! In San Francisco, Jason recently played Scrooge in the world premiere of Scrooge in Love and was nominated for San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award. Jason peaked in his career as the voice of Lucky the Leprechaun for Lucky Charms Cereal, and it’s been downhill ever since.
HUNTER RYAN HERDLICKA
Hunter Ryan Herdlicka is best known from his almost two years starring on Broadway as Henrik in the Tony Award winning revival of Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music, playing opposite Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury. Selected recent credits include The Pirates of Penzance (Frederic) at the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle, Camelot (Mordred) at the Two River Theater, Cabaret (Cliff) at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The Tempest (Ariel) at the Dallas Theater Center, Fiddler on the Roof (Fyedka) with Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, Othello (Clown) with the Utah Shakespeare Festival, Something’s Afoot (Geoffrey) at the Goodspeed Opera House, 3 seasons with the West Virginia Public Theatre, as well as countless workshops, readings, and concerts in New York singing alongside Liza Minnelli, Hugh Jackman, Michael Feinstein, Phyllis Newman, and Nathan Lane, amongst others. Hunter can be seen in the documentary, Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me, as well as the recent return of One Life To Live. Hunter enjoyed two sold out runs at New York’s famed nightclub Feinstein’s and recently debuted his new show with a sold out appearance at 54 Below. A 2009 graduate of Carnegie Mellon, Hunter currently resides in Manhattan. Please visit HunterRyanHerdlicka.com.
CLINT HOLMES
Clint Holmes is a rare performer who can be called one of the greatest contemporary entertainers of our time. He moves effortlessly between the worlds of music, television and theatre. Whether headlining New York’s elegant Café Carlyle, Las Vegas’ greatest showrooms or appearing with some of America’s most prestigious orchestras, Clint redefines the standard for vocalists as he performs selections from the Great American Songbook, Sinatra’s legendary repertoire, contemporary classics or original music. Clint’s career soared after the release of his hit song “Playground in My Mind” in 1973, reaching #2 on the Billboard chart. Clint is working on his upcoming album, produced by Grammy-winning producer Gregg Field. He co-wrote the original show, Comfortable Shoes which premiered at the Papermill Playhouse and just completed writing Just Another Man. He premiered This Thing Called Love – The Music of Cole Porter and Paul Simon, co-written with his award-winning musical director and arranger Jeffrey Neiman, at Café Carlyle to rave reviews receiving the Bistro Award for outstanding new cabaret show. It was followed by the critically acclaimed Stop This Train. Clint is currently the Artist-In-Residence at Cabaret Jazz at the Smith Center for the Performing Arts in Las Vegas.
BARB JUNGR
“On stage she’s a lioness”, Sydney Morning Herald. With rave international reviews and two New York awards, British jazz and cabaret artist Barb Jungr is renowned for her unique style, interpretation and a radical approach to arrangements. Her acclaimed 16 plus releases and “revelatory” live performances have wowed audiences worldwide. She has performed at New York’s The Cafe Carlyle, Metropolitan Room and Joe’s Pub, Los Angeles’s Catalina, the Razz Room/Feinsteins in San Francisco, and in Indianapolis, Cleveland and Austin. Barb has appeared frequently in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and Scandinavia. Barb has collaborated with Grammy award-winning pianist Laurence Hobgood on her new release Shelter From The Storm - Songs of Hope for Troubled Times; with renowned music director John McDaniel on their Beatles’ collection, Come Together; and with contemporary classical composer Mark Anthony Turnage and The London Sinfonietta. The Wall Street Journal called her first Dylan recording, Every Grain of Sand, “the most significant vocal album of the 21st century thus far.” “One of the best nightclub singers in the world”, Time Out New York; Jungr is “a great cabaret singer”, The New York Times.
MILLICENT MARTIN
A two-time Tony nominee, Millicent Martin recently received a Lifetime Achievement Award, celebrating her 64th year in show business in both the United Kingdom & the U.S. She is probably best known for Frasier as Gertrude Moon, Daphne’s dreadful mother. Other television appearances include guest starring on Modern Family, Bones, Castle, Hot in Cleveland, Jonas, Chuck, Will & Grace, Days Of Our Lives as Lili Faversham, That Was The Week That Was, From A Bird’s Eye View, L.A. Law, Disney’s Halloweentown, Zach & Cody and Two Broke Girls. Millie came to Broadway in 1955 with Julie Andrews in The Boyfriend. Recently she appeared in David Lee’s Gigi and 42nd Street. She was one of its creators of Side By Side By Sondheim as well as starring in the United Kingdom, Broadway and Los Angeles productions introducing the bawdy song “I Never Do Anything Twice.” Millie appeared at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane to celebrate Stephen Sondheim’s 85th Birthday. Millie’s film highlights are Alfie opposite Michael Caine, Stop the World, Nothing But The Best with Alan Bates, Mrs. Palfrey At The Claremont with Joan Plowright. Further info: MillicentMartin.com as well as YouTube & Google.
MARILYN MAYE
Marilyn Maye is a highly praised singer, actress, director, arranger, educator, Grammy nominated artist and musical treasure. Marilyn’s starring roles in theater include Can Can, Follies, Mame and Hello, Dolly. She has appeared 76 times on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson – a record for a singer. She has seven albums and 34 singles including the first hit recordings of Cabaret and Step to the Rear. Her album Marilyn Maye Sings All Of Hello, Dolly has liner notes by Jerry Herman. Her New York engagements include the Metropolitan Room, Birdland, Feinstein’s, Town Hall, the 92nd Street Y Theater and 54 Below where she presented Marilyn Maye, Her Way: A Salute to Sinatra. Her engagements throughout the country include Hollywood’s Catalinas, The Colony Hotel, Palm Beach, Regent Seven Seas World Cruise, San Francisco’s Razz Room, West Coast Jazz Party, Dakota’s in Minneapolis, The Sheldon Theater, St. Louis, Gem Theater, Jardine’s in Kansas City, the Art House, Provincetown, and the McCallum Theatre in Palm Springs. Her symphony concerts include the Florida Symphony, the Philly Pops, the Phoenix Symphony, the Kansas City Symphony, the Omaha Symphony, the Pasadena Symphony, and Stephen Sondheim and Frank Loesser Carnegie Hall tributes.
HOWARD MCGILLIN
Howard McGillin has appeared on Broadway in The Phantom Of The Opera, Kiss of the Spider Woman, She Loves Me, The Secret Garden, Anything Goes (Tony, Drama Desk Award noms), The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Tony, Drama Desk noms; Theatre World Award), and Sunday in the Park with George. On the London stage his credits include Mack and Mabel, and Anything Goes. Howard’s Off-Broadway shows are I Remember Mama, High Spirits, As Thousands Cheer, and La Boheme (Drama Desk Award Nom). He has toured and performed regionally in productions of Peter Pan (National Tour), Damn Yankees, It Shoulda Been You (George Street Playhouse), The 39 Steps (Cape Playhouse), Stephen Sondheim’s Bounce (Goodman Theatre, Chicago and The Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C. - Helen Hayes Award Nom). In films he can be seen in South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut, and The Swan Princess. Howard’s concerts include Ragtime, and Stephen Sondheim’s Follies. His solo CD: Howard McGillin: Where Time Stands Still is available online.
JULIA MURNEY
Julia Murney is so happy to be back in Palm Springs for her second One Night Only event! She last appeared on Broadway as Elphaba in Wicked after playing the role on the national tour for which she received an Acclaim Award. Other NY credits include Lennon, Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party (Drama Desk nomination), Falling (Drama Desk nomination), The Vagina Monologues, A Class Act, and Time and Again (Lucille Lortel nomination). She’s been seen regionally all over the U.S. and in concert she has performed concerts at The Annenberg Theater, Carnegie Hall, Joe’s Pub, Feinstein’s/54Below, The Kennedy Center, Town Hall and Birdland, as well as with the NY, Cincinnati, & Boston Pops. TV credits include Madam Secretary, 30 Rock, Sex and the City, all three Law and Orders and about a gazillion voiceovers. A Syracuse University graduate, her recordings include the original cast albums of The Wild Party and A Class Act, the Grammy nominated Actor’s Fund Benefit of Hair and her first solo album, I’m Not Waiting which is available on iTunes. Twitter: @ juliamurney
TERI RALSTON
Teri Ralston’s first NY show was Jacques Brel is Alive and Well, followed by the original productions of Company and A Little Night Music. Her pre-Broadway shows were The Baker’s Wife and Home Again, Home Again. Teri has appeared in many productions of Side by Side by Sondheim. She’s played in Follies, Gypsy, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, and A Little Night Music. She stood by for Carol Burnett in the Mark Taper Forum production of Putting It Together and introduced a new Sondheim review, Moving On, at the Laguna Playhouse where she returned to do Steel Magnolis. She directed productions of Sideby-Side, Into the Woods, Forum, and Follies. Recent New York productions include Good Ole Girls, Hats: The Musical, Marcy in the Galaxy, and Bajour. She is on 6 original cast albums and her solo CD is I Gotta Get Back to New York. Television credits include Frasier, Dharma and Greg, Geppetto, George Carlin, Wings, Murder She Wrote, One Day at a Time, Married with Children and The Bold and the Beautiful. She teaches at AMDA in New York and as a guest teacher at Musical Theatre University in Rancho Mirage.
LEE ROY REAMS
Lee Roy Reams has been hailed by the New York Times as “Broadway’s song & dance man nonpareil” for his leading Broadway roles in The Producers (Carbonell, Helen Hayes & Las Vegas Life Awards), 42nd Street (Tony & Drama Desk Nominations), Beauty & the Beast, La Cage Aux Folles, Hello, Dolly!, An Evening with Jerry Herman, Applause, Lorelei, Oklahoma!, and Sweet Charity. He directed on Broadway the last revival of Hello, Dolly! and An Evening with Jerry Herman. His TV, concert & cabaret appearances have taken him around the world and to the White House to perform before four U.S. Presidents. Most recently, Lee Roy played to another sold out house at Broadway’s Feinstein’s 54 Below and made history as the first American male to star in an Equity production of Hello, Dolly! at the Wick Theatre. He also serves as a board member of the Astaire Awards. Lee Roy has received the Friar’s Club Thespian of the Year Award as well as an Honorary Doctorate from his alma mater, CCM/University of Cincinnati.
JAMES SNYDER
James Snyder was most recently seen in the West Coast premiere of Casa Valentina. He also toured as Josh in If/Then opposite Idina Menzel after originating the role on Broadway. James made his Broadway debut as the title character in the musical Cry-Baby. If you are between the ages of 12 and 26, you may recognize him from the movie She’s The Man. Some of his other stage roles include Prince Henry in Ever After (Papermill Playhouse), Billie Bigelow in Carousel (Goodspeed), Fanny (Encores), Johnny Baseball (Williamstown Theater Festival), Dangerous Beauty (Pasadena Playhouse), and Drew in Rock of Ages. He played Jason in the concept album of bare: A Pop Opera, and his solo album L.A. Curse is available on iTunes. A few of his TV credits include The Good Wife, Rizzoli & Isles, Blue Bloods, The Suite Life of Zach and Cody, and CSI. For more TV and film go to JamesSnyder. com. He has a BFA from the University of Southern California.
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KAREN ZIEMBA
Karen Ziemba received the Tony Award, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award for her performance in Contact at Lincoln Center Theatre. Other Broadway, Off-Broadway and regional credits include: Bullets Over Broadway, Chicago, Curtains, (Outer Critics Circle Award, Tony nomination), Crazy For You (Jeff Award), Never Gonna Dance (Outer Critics Circle Award, Tony nomination), And The World Goes ‘Round (Drama Desk Award), Steel Pier (Tony nomination), I Do! I Do! (Drama Desk nomination), Native Gardens (world premiere), A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, 110 In The Shade, The Most Happy Fella, Hello Dolly!, Boeing-Boeing, Much Ado About Nothing, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Broadway Bound, Heresy, Sylvia, and Six Degrees of Separation. She’s appeared on The Good Wife, Madam Secretary, Law and Order, Law &Order C.S.I., Law & Order S.V.U., and Scrubs. Karen has also performed at The Kennedy Center Honors in tributes to Angela Lansbury and Julie Harris, and PBS’ Great Performances in My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies, Gershwin at 100, and Sondheim: A Celebration At Carnegie Hall.
Theresa Jewett has a varied career in musical and classical theatre, and opera. Her regional credits include: The Comeback; Esperanza: The Musical of Hope; The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; Laundry and Bourbon; Bingo! The Winning Musical; I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change; Little Women: The Musical; La Boheme; Cavalleria Rusticana; The Grand Duke; and the Downtowner Concert Series in Miami. Theresa attended the University of South Carolina’s School of Music and the Manhattan School of Music’s Summer Voice Festival singing Polly Peachum in The Threepenny Opera. The Desert Theatre League nominated Theresa for three Desert Star Awards.
PAUL MACKEY Palm Springs resident Paul MacKey has had a career that includes theatre, music, film, television, recording, nightclubs and dance. Memorable performances include Charlie in Brigadoon, Adolfo Pirelli in Sweeney Todd, Dr. Coppelius in Coppelia, the Observer in Putting It Together, and Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm in A Little Night Music, for which he won a Desert Theatre League Best Actor Award. He is grateful for the opportunity to participate in this evening’s production of One Night Only, and delighted that his performance tonight will help the future good works of Jewish Family Service of the Desert.
JULIE ROSSER Julie Rosser graduated cum laude from Pomona College with a Theatre degree. After four years of working on and off Broadway, Julie attended law school at UCLA and currently is an attorney at Rover Armstrong. Her select regional credits include Palm Canyon Theatre: Cats (Grizabella), Hot Mikado (Katisha), The Who’s Tommy (Mrs. Walker), 9 to 5: the Musical (Judy), Legally Blonde (Paulette), Spamalot (Lady of the Lake), Miss Saigon (Ellen), Kiss Me, Kate! (Kate/Lilli), Into the Woods (Baker’s Wife), Jekyll & Hyde (Emma), College of the Desert’s Anything Goes! (Reno Sweeney). Julie was the Grand Prize winner at Open Call in 2010.
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGERS
ALAN SCOTT Alan Scott, a Mobile, Alabama native, sang his first solo at the tender age of 8. Since then, he has made appearances across the United States and Canada, and managed to collect Bachelors degrees in Church Music and Vocal Performance and a Master’s degree in Choral Conducting. Alan has performed music theater, opera and (believe it or not) ballet roles too cumbersome to bother with here. He has also directed choirs and choruses of various qualities and sizes across the United States. Alan shares his life with his husband Joel, their two boys, Esteban and Enrique, and three loveable mutts.
CANDICE M. CLASBY
Candice M. Clasby has an M.F.A. in Television, Film, and Theatre in production (CSULA) where her focus was in directing and producing. She also holds a B.A. in Theatre Arts from CSU, Fullerton. Most recently she was Assistant Producer for the 2015 Ovation Awards at The Ahmanson in Los Angeles. She is currently stage managing Death Play (Circle X Theatre Co.) Credits include: Assistant Stage Manager: LAYN Gala (Greek Theatre), Erich Bergen in Concert (Catalina Jazz Club); Directing: Bus Stop, Water Under the Bridge, and The Good (CSULA), Almost, Maine (Hunger Artists Theatre Co.) She is excited to be a part of this year’s One Night Only team!
ZACHARY JAMES SCHELL
Zachary James Schell is a fourth year undergraduate at the University of California, San Diego. He will be graduating this year with a B. A. in Theatre Arts focusing in Stage Management. Recent credits include; The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Stage Management Intern, La Jolla Playhouse, American Premiere), Carmen (Production Assistant, Music Academy of the West), What a Pair! Benefit Concert 2014 (Production Assistant, Saban Theatre), ACDFA: Baja Region 2013 (Assistant Stage Manager, EL Camino Marsee Theatre), and Sweet Charity (PSM, Norris Center for the Performing Arts).
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THANK YOU TO JFS AND THE CO-CHAIRS FOR THEIR CREATIONS AND CHOICES OF THE MOST FABULOUS ENTERTAINMENT FOR EVERYONE OF ALL AGES AND INTERESTS FOR OUR LOCAL COMMUNITY. ANNE HOLLAND
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Barbara & Terri The Talented Artists and Generous Donors for their support of Jewish Family Service of the Desert
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Congratulations and Thanks to Terri Ketover & Barbara Fromm for making One Night Only a Very Special Night! Ann Sheffer & Bill Scheffler
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Thank you to JFS for the envaluable services they provide those in need in the Cochella Valley ELLE & PHIL STEIN
MICHAEL CHILDERS & JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE DESERT THANK THE FOLLOWING CONTRIBUTORS FOR OUR PERFORMER GIFT BAGS.
Christine Andreas
ARRIVE HOTEL
Liz Callaway Dr. Conrow
DOUG DONENFELD
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Tom Truhe WE GREATLY APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT IN SHOWING OUR APPRECIATION TO THESE EXTRAORDINARILY GENEROUS AND TALENTED PERFORMERS WHO DONATE THEIR TIME FOR SUCH A WORTHY CAUSE.
Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians Jerome Angel Family Annenberg Foundation Barbara Arnstein Ellen Bakst Michael Barish Rebecca Benaroya Bank of America/Mark Messenger Sally & Miles Berger Harriet Bernstein Audrey & Joseph Bernstein Elaine Blitz Annette Bloch Rena & Mike Blumenfeld Gary Broad Foundation Bonnie Carmell Jean C. Carrus Mary Carter & Dr. Arthur Schiff Change A Life Foundation Joanne & Bill Chunowitz City of Indian Wells City of Palm Springs City of Rancho Mirage Coachella Valley Wellness Foundation Mildred & Marvin Conney Carol Cornell County of Riverside Emergency Food & Shelter Program
Peggy Cravens Desert Healthcare District Desert Regional Medical Center Leslie & Gordon Diamond Nancy & Dennis Ditlove Douglas Donenfeld Marilyn & Allen Eager Eileen Eisenberg & Marc Kashinsky Eisenhower Medical Center Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation Lee Erwin & Dr. Tim Jochen Sandra Evans Suzanne & Jeffrey Feder Betty Feinberg Violet Felix Cheryl & Robert Fey Sande & Edward Fineman Georgia & Jerry Fogelson/ Fogelson Foundation Carol & Dr. Ronald Fragen Joyce & Harold Frank Barbara Fremont Joyce & Henry Freund Barbara & Bernie Fromm Helene Galen Angie Gerber Diane & Harold Gershowitz Renee Glickman & Dr. William Fisher
*WE REGRET ANY OMISSIONS OF VOLUNTEERS DUE TO PRESS TIMELINE BUT GREATLY APPRECIATE EVERY VOLUNTEER'S CONTRIBUTION.
Carolyn & Robert Goldberg Frank Goldstin/Momentous Wendy & Bob Goodfriend Shelli Goodman & Bernie Plack Rachel & Edward Gubman Gloria Guttman Margot & Jerome Halperin Margo Handelsman & Barry Kaufman Lee & Philip Hixon Anne Holland & Greg Meidel Philanthropic Fund James R. Houston Houston Family Foundation Peggy Jacobs & Bob Howard Loreen Jacobson Jewish Family Service of the Desert Auxiliary Jewish Federation of the Desert Kaiser Permanente Riverside Medical Center David Kaplan & Glenn Ostergaard Harriet & Ernest Karmin Susan Karsen Ken Katz Nora Kaufman Barbara & Jerry Keller Joan & Henry Kerns Drs. Terri & Bart Ketover Sally Ann & Morton Kirshner Margie & Stephen Kulp Vernon Kozlen Mark Krasne & Stephen Rieman Cicely Lawson David Lee
Dorothy & Melvyn Lefkowitz Pearle Rae & Mark Levey Jackie & Jeffrey Levin Marilyn & Alan Levinson Sonia & Seymour Levinthal Reva & Don Levy Bertel Lewis Terry & Dr. Paul Lubar Donna MacMillan Katherine & Judd Malkin Harold Matzner JoAnn McGrath Marnie Miller & Joseph Noren Sarah Milmet & Leo Milmet Joanne & Dr. Myron Mintz Elaine & Jerry Morgan Marcia & Irwin Narter Newman’s Own Foundation/ Patty & Arthur Newman Mimi & Harold Paley Bette & William Pattis Rita & Robert Philip Barbara Platt Nora & Don Rado Janet & Bernard Reiter Bobbi & Mike Resmo Nicolette Resmo-Haroutunian & Dr. Harry Haroutunian Gail & Stan Richards Linda & Manny Rider Rella & Monroe Rifkin Ann Ellen & Robert Rosen Jacqueline Rudman & Marshall Gelfand
Faye Sarkowsky Gail & Robert Scadron SCAN Health Plan Phyllis & Gary Schahet Lois Schnitzer Sherry & Howard Schor Ann Sheffer & Bill Scheffler Esther & Mickey Shepard Linda Shirvanian Aviva & Ron Snow Susan & Elliot Solomon Nona S. Solowitz & Mike Cheley Barbara W. Stern Nancy G. Stone Sheila & Ira Stone Carlyn & Robert Stonehill Shelly & Ronald Tamkin Myra & Royal Taxman The Auen Foundation The Champions Volunteer Foundation Ladda Toelkes Milan Tojagic Union Bank/Robert Caruso United Way of the Desert Helen Varon Patty & Doran Veiner
Marjorie Victor Judith & Walter Wallis Susan Walpert & Sandy Seplow Judi & Peter Wasserman Mitzi Webber Weingart Foundation Nina & Robert Wernick Barbara Wernick Art Williams & Gene Leone WinewomenPSP Elle & Phil Winn Joyce Wolff Lenore Wyatt Marilyn Zirn
*JFS MAJOR CONTRIBUTORS FOR CURRENT FISCAL YEAR JULY 1, 2014 TO MARCH 31, 2015
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE DESERT EXTENDS ITS APPRECIATION TO
FOR THEIR UNWAVERING SUPPORT OF OUR WORK. THEIR SUPPORT ENABLES US TO PROVIDE VITAL SOCIAL
SERVICES TO MEN, WOMEN koffi AND CHILDREN IN NEED IN THE COACHELLA VALLEY.
ONE NIGHT ONLY CONGRATULATIONS
ANNETTE BLOCH BARBARA FROMM HELENE GALEN BARBARA KELLER TERRI KETOVER AND MICHAEL CHILDERS
HAROLD MATZNER