Audience | Kentucky Performing Arts | March 2022

MARCH 2022

MARCH 2022

Audience® is the official program guide for:

The Second City Remix The Kentucky Center-Bomhard Theater..................................... 6

Kentucky Performing Arts Presents Kentucky Shakespeare Louisville Orchestra PNC Broadway in Louisville

Drum Tao 2022 Brown Theatre............................................................................. 9

Publisher The Audience Group, Inc. G. Douglas Dreisbach

Carly Pearce: The 29 Tour with special guest Hannah Ellis

Brown Theatre........................................................................... 11 Allison Russell with Kyshona The Kentucky Center-Bomhard Theater................................... 13 Sam Bush The Kentucky Center-Bomhard Theater................................... 16

Founding Publishers Kay & Jeff Tull

Iron & Wine with Lizzie No The Kentucky Center-Bomhard Theater................................... 20

Managing Editor Amy Higgs

Taylor Tomlinson — Deal With It Tour Brown Theatre........................................................................... 22

Creative Director Rhonda Mefford

Staff & Support.............................................................. 42

Sales & Marketing G. Douglas Dreisbach Printing V. G. Reed & Sons

Theatre Services............................................................ 46

THEATRE INFORMATION The Kentucky Center (Whitney Hall, Bomhard Theater, Clark-Todd Hall, MeX Theater) 501 West Main Street; Brown Theatre, 315 W. Broadway; and Old Forester’s Paristown Hall, 724 Brent Street. Tickets: The Kentucky Performing Arts Box Office, 502.584.7777 or KentuckyPerformingArts.org.

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WELCOME TO KENTUCKY PERFORMING ARTS Spring is in the air, and we are certainly feeling the excitement at Kentucky Performing Arts as we continue to bring new, exciting, and diverse performances to our stages.

In addition to the shows you’ll find in this program, a wide variety of events can be found at The Kentucky Center, Brown Theatre, and Old Forester’s Paristown Hall. PNC Broadway in Louisville presents the Louisville premiere of the smash musical comedy Mean Girls. Louisville Ballet brings a vibrant, reimagined vision of the classic Sleeping Beauty to the Brown Theatre. Louisville Orchestra celebrates the color, passion, and rhythmic energy of Latin music with Festival of Latin American Music I and II. StageOne Family Theatre brings a popular children’s book Dragons Love Tacos to life in the Bomhard Theater. And here’s something you might not expect, for two days in March, Old Forester’s Paristown Hall will temporarily transform from a music venue to a professional wrestling arena when IMPACT! Wrestling presents Louisville Slugfest: Two Nights of IMPACT! Wrestling LIVE. A little bit of trivia, this is not the first time wrestling has come to a Kentucky Performing Arts venue. In 1989, The Lonesome Pine Specials featured a performance of Walter Mays’ “War Games” for percussion by the Wichita State Percussion Ensemble, while wrestlers “Dirty” Dutch Mantel and Jeff Jarrett battled on the Bomhard Theater stage.

Yes, it is fair to say KPA stages have concerts and events suited to every taste, and there is more to come. Thunder at the Center returns! Between building restoration after the June 2018 fire, and the building being closed due to the pandemic, we have not been able to hold the event for four years. On April 23, you can once again enjoy great views of the airshow and fireworks from inside The Kentucky Center and outside on the Belvedere. April 30, we are proud to welcome legendary musician Lindsey Buckingham to the Brown Theatre. On May 16, Kentucky to the World returns to the Bomhard Theater for a fascinating conversation with Chris Fischer, OCEARCH Founding Chairman and Expedition Leader. And, as you surely know, the musical phenomenon Hamilton returns to Whitney Hall in June 7-19.

Before the show, I encourage you to visit KentuckyPerformingArts.org to view the full calendar and join our free e-club to be the first to know when new events are announced.

Thank you for joining us this evening. With your support, we can continue to provide transformative cultural and educational experiences for our community.

Enjoy the show.

Kim Baker President and CEO, Kentucky Performing Arts

For more information, including Frequently Asked Questions, please visit Kentucky Performing Arts COVID-19 Guidelines.

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THE SECOND CITY REMIX Friday, March 4, 2022 | 8:00PM | The Kentucky Center – Bomhard Theater

MAUREEN BOUGHEY is thrilled to be a member of the Second City Touring Company.

With The Second City, Maureen has also performed at The Kennedy Center in Generation Gap, aboard Norwegian Cruise Line’s Gem, and as an understudy in the Mainstage productions Algorithm Nation or the Static Quo and Happy to Be Here. She is a graduate of the Syracuse University Drama 6

Department and is the co-host of comedy/horror podcast, Creep Street Podcast. Love to her family, Dylan, and Banshee. @maureen_boughey @creepstreetpodcast

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JAVID IQBAL is so excited to be part of the Second City family! He has been featured in the Second City NBC Breakout Comedy Festival, the 2018 Bob Curry Fellowship,

The Second City has been the world’s first name in laughter for over 60 years!

Join the next generation of comedy superstars as they mash up Second City’s greatest hits and brand-new material along with their signature improvisation in this hilarious show. and most recently Urban Twist with Second City’s Diversity & Inclusion.

Follow Javid on Instagram @Javidiqbal82 for pictures and videos of his babytoddler Jamil paired with sometimes witty-ish captions!

BILL LETZ, a southside Chicago native, loves being a part of this city’s wonderful comedy community.

He is a proud graduate of Second City’s Conservatory and Musical program as well as iO’s Training program.

He has been a part of many great shows and teams but some of his favorites include Daffodil, Ghost Car, Tubbs Ave, pH, Improvised Gilmore Girls, and The Treehouse Pipers. He is so happy to be a part of Second City’s BlueCo along with his amazing and mega talented castmates. Thanks to Bill and Meth, Cath and Scoops, and his family and friends for all their support. Pics of his dog Two Scoops of Cookies and Cream @letzey on the gram.

CLAUDIA MARTINEZ is honored and grateful to be working in this wonderful theater, with this talented cast! You can see her here with the After

Hours improv show, the Monday Improv Comedy Hour, and Improv Brunch. You can also catch her in her curated show Animal Instinct, doing two person Improv, and in the all Spanish improvised show Heraldo at i.O. She’d like to thank Celine Dion for teaching her the language of love and literally everyone in this building for their love, support and talent. If you dig her follow her on Instagram at @claudboom CAT MCDONNELL (Director) An East Coast transplant, Cat studied Theater and Music at Providence College. She has performed for The Second City aboard Norwegian Cruise Line and teaches in The Second City and iO Training Centers.

Recent directing credits include: The Second City’s Legendary Laughs and Assistant to the Director of The Second City’s 107th Mainstage Revue: Algorithm Nation Or The Static Quo. Mostly, she enjoys making art with talented friends.

“I love working with a bunch of people and coming up with, you know, how we can make this moment funnier?”

– Jane Lynch CLAIRE MCFADDEN is a writer, actor, and filmmaker from Evanston, IL. After graduating from Carleton College, she moved to Greece with the intention to learn fluent Greek and raise goats. She did neither. Now, she lives in Chicago and writes for Jackbox Games — writing jokes

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and trivia for party games like Quiplash, Drawful, and Trivia Murder Party. She is a proud half of sketch duo Spooky Dookie and you can check out their stuff, and more, at clairemcfadden.com.

ISABEL PATT (Stage Manager) Izzy is so excited to be Stage Managing for The Second City! Most of the work Izzy has done pre-pandemic took place in the Twin Cities, including theatres such as the Children’s Theatre Company, Penumbra Theatre, Mixed Blood Theatre, and Walking Shadow Theatre Company.

Now a Chicago resident, she is looking forward to engaging in the theatre community and developing new works with her cool new friends. In addition to stage managing, Izzy also freelances as a sound designer and is a dessert connoisseur. Izzy holds a B.A. in Theatre Arts from the University of Minnesota.

MATTHEW POLLACK (Music Director) is a musician and teacher living in Chicago.

Composing credits include Sh*tFyre, (parts of) Shark Tank: the Musical, and I Want to Believe: an X-Files Musical Parody, all at The Annoyance, and nine half-hour musicals for children. He is the long-running Musical Director for Hitch*cocktails at the Annoyance, and accompanies sketch and improv shows throughout the city. Matthew also teaches improv (musical and otherwise) at the Second City Training Center.

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Kentucky Performing Arts presents

DRUM TAO 2022 Wednesday, March 9, 2022 | 7:30PM | Brown Theatre

DRUM TAO‘s stage is created through phenomenal performances and expressions consisting of incomparable “Wadaiko-drums” and the beautiful melody of Japanese flutes and harps.

It is the “Japanese Entertainment” for a new generation that completely surpasses expectations.

In February 2016, their Off-Broadway shows in New York were completely sold out!

It was featured in, Newsweek stating “The highly acclaimed debut of DRUM TAO in Broadway will represent not only Japanese entertainment but Japan itself”.

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“The highly acclaimed debut of DRUM TAO in Broadway will represent not only Japanese entertainment but Japan itself”.

− Newsweek

Their new long-run production MANGEKYO started in Tokyo in 2017.

This night entertainment aimed at international tourists became widely popular and was later expanded to shows over six months in 2018. This has been performed throughout a year in their exclusive theater from April 2019, over the year of the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.

In 2017, they made their major recording debut from UNIVERSAL MUSIC as a

compilation of their work for 25 years, which ranked as one of the top three in the iTunes World Album Ranking in five different countries.

In 2018, they performed in the opening ceremony of “Japonisms 2018” in Paris, France. They also costarred with the Bolshoi Ballet as the opening act of “Japan Year in Russia” held at The Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Russia, in front of the head of each country.

They were awarded “Outstanding Cultural Contribution” from Oita prefecture, “Culture Creators Award” from Taketa city in Oita prefecture, and “The 6th Japan Tourism Agency Commissioner Award” and “Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications Award” from the Japanese government.

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Kentucky Performing Arts presents

CARLY PEARCE: THE 29 TOUR WITH SPECIAL GUEST HANNAH ELLIS Friday, March 11, 2022 | 8:00PM | Brown Theatre

Fiercely rooted in the classics, the girl who left her Kentucky home and high school at 16 to take a job at Dollywood has grown into a woman who embraces the genre’s forward progression and is confident in what she wants to say.

Lighting a fire with her debut album EVERY LITTLE THING and the PLATINUMcertified history making title track, Carly

has since become “Country’s ‘it’ girl” (ABC Radio), touring alongside Blake Shelton, Rascal Flatts and Luke Bryan.

With the most CMA Awards nods for any new artist in 2020, she won Musical Event of the Year. In a year of uncertainty, Carly turned to the comfort of records she’s drawn inspiration from since her childhood dream started to take hold –

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Dolly, The Chicks, Trisha, Reba, Patty Loveless. Like those before, she leaned on her own intuitions with Top 30-and-rising single “Next Girl,” and a clever new video.

Carly explores more of a pivotal time with a seven-song collection called 29 (available now via Big Machine Records), finding creative simpatico with Shane McAnally and Josh Osborne following the unexpected death of her mentor and former producer busbee. With her catalogue already boasts over 1 billion streams, she opens up even more in Carly Pearce’s 29 – The Interview.

As Carly marks a new chapter coming of age, she earns three ACM Awards nominations for Female Artist, Single and Music Event of the Year with her PLATINUM-certified, No. 1 duet with Lee Brice “I Hope You’reHappy Now.” For the latest information and more, visit CarlyPearce.com.

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ALLISON RUSSELL WITH KYSHONA Sunday, March 13, 2022 | 7:00PM | The Kentucky Center-Bomhard Theater

Allison Russell

ALLISON RUSSELL Though deep and wide may be the world, it is within dim and narrow rooms — airless and mundane — that the true stories of our lives are enacted; are bartered and brokered — enslaved and empowered; held in and sung out.

And Song most surely began as a cry or a prayer — though no need discerning between the two, for they are the same — and both sacred: the prayer and the wail becoming Song as soon as shared.

Some of us come, later in life, to find our knees; while others slip young into

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trauma like a quarry stone gone under, held down by the weight of their own world.

Many of those, alas, never come back up.

But those able are wont to be luminous, struggle having landed their hearts on the outside of their bodies: a swinging lantern within that aforementioned dim room — where stories are unraveled, thus to be reconstructed... purposefully reanimated.

It was also within such a room that Allison Russell — singer, songwriter, poet, and activist — bore witness to herself in descent. But the abused child she was played mother to the brave woman and fierce artist she would become — surviving being one of only two options, and not the most likely.

Blessed be.

Allison’s new album, Outside Child — that draws water from the dark well of a violent past — is her first solo offering, she also being a pivotal voice in two bands: Birds of Chicago and Our Native Daughters. And telling her own story sounds now to have made her free — not from it all, but free within it: to reframe and reclaim her identity and its singular authority.

The songs themselves — though ironhard in their concerns — are exultant: exercising haunted dream like clean bedsheets snapped and hung out into broad daylight, and with the romantic poet’s lust for living and audacity of endurance.

Nina Simone comes to mind, as well Edith Piaf: two shamanistic practitioners who turned their faces into the blade of storm and roared back dignity and hope.

This music, no less — no less — is a triumph: a courageous work — burnished and bright; unspeakably beautiful as she sings the unspeakable.

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Above all, it is an act of remarkable generosity: a cathartic, soulful, buoyant and redeeming gift to us all and, one must believe, to herself as well.

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KYSHONA

Kyshona is an artist ignited by untold stories, and the capacity of those stories to thread connection in every community. With the background of a licensed music therapist, the curiosity of a writer, the patience of a friend, the vision of a social entrepreneur, the resolve of an activist, and the voice of a singer — Kyshona is unrelenting in her pursuit for the healing power of song.

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“Listen highlights Kyshona’s descriptive songwriting and soulful vocals alongside a versatile blend of folk, rock and R&B influences..." − Billboard She lends her voice and music to those that feel they have been silenced or forgotten. She facilitates writing sessions with groups and individuals who feel left out or marginalized, in hopes of reconnecting those who are divided.

Her song Listen became an anthem for many in 2020. Of her album, one fan reviewer wrote: “Amidst these hard, divisive times this set of songs is a salve for the grief many of us are feeling about resulting loss of family, friends, and community.”

Audiences will find a common thread of empowerment, overcoming adversity, and finding hope in her work. The show doesn’t end when the last song is sung.

After her powerful performances, concertgoers often ask, “What can I do?”

Her response? “Listen.”

“This is protest music for a new generation, a musical treatment for social ills, a unique prescription that only works if you listen.” — No Depression “Listen highlights Kyshona’s descriptive songwriting and soulful vocals alongside a versatile blend of folk, rock and R&B influences. While Kyshona sings of fear, hope, community, love and understanding throughout the 10-track project, she also finds herself.” − Billboard “Everyone is making political records.

Everyone is making albums that speak to ‘this moment.’ Too few of them are making music that speaks to the people who inhabit this moment. Kyshona does.” −The Bluegrass Situation

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91.9 WFPK presents

SAM BUSH Saturday, March 19, 2022 | 8:00PM | The Kentucky Center-Bomhard Theater

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There was only one prize-winning teenager carrying stones big enough to say thanks, but no thanks to Roy Acuff.

Only one son of Kentucky finding a light of inspiration from Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys and catching a fire from Bob Marley and The Wailers. Only one progressive hippie allying with likeminded conspirators, rolling out the New Grass revolution, and then leaving the genre's torch-bearing band behind as it reached its commercial peak.

There is only one consensus pick of peers and predecessors, of the traditionalists, the rebels, and the next gen devotees. Music's ultimate inside outsider. Or is it outside insider?

There is only one Sam Bush.

On a Bowling Green, Kentucky cattle farm in the post-war 1950s, Bush grew up an only son, and with four sisters.

His love of music came immediately, encouraged by his parents' record collection and, particularly, by his father Charlie, a fiddler, who organized local jams. Charlie envisioned his son someday a staff fiddler at the Grand Ole Opry, but a clear day's signal from Nashville brought to Bush's television screen a towheaded boy named Ricky Skaggs playing mandolin with Flatt and Scruggs, and an epiphany for Bush. At 11, he purchased his first mandolin.

As a teen fiddler Bush was a three-time national champion in the junior division of the National Oldtime Fiddler's Contest.

He recorded an instrumental album, Poor Richard's Almanac as a high school senior and in the spring of 1970 attended the Fiddlers Convention in Union Grove, NC. There he heard the New Deal String Band, taking notice of their rock-inspired brand of progressive bluegrass.

Acuff offered him a spot in his band.

Bush politely turned down the country

titan. It was not the music he wanted to play. He admired the grace of Flatt & Scruggs, loved Bill Monroe — even saw him perform at the Ryman — but he'd discovered electrified alternatives to tradition in the Osborne Brothers and manifest destiny in The Dillards.

See the photo of a fresh-faced Sam Bush in his shiny blue high school graduation gown, circa 1970. Tufts of blonde hair breaking free of the borders of his squared cap, Bush is smiling, flanked by his proud parents. The next day he was gone, bound for Los Angeles. He got as far as his nerve would take him — Las Vegas — then doubled back to Bowling Green.

"I started working at the Holiday Inn as a busboy," Bush recalls. "Ebo Walker and Lonnie Peerce came in one night asking if I wanted to come to Louisville and play five nights a week with the Bluegrass Alliance. That was a big, ol' 'Hell yes, let's go.'"

Bush played guitar in the group, then began playing after recruiting guitarist Tony Rice to the fold. Following a fallout with Peerce in 1971, Bush and his Alliance mates — Walker, Courtney Johnson, and Curtis Burch — formed the New Grass Revival, issuing the band's debut, New Grass Revival. Walker left soon after, replaced temporarily by Butch Robins, with the quartet solidifying around the arrival of bassist John Cowan.

"There were already people that had deviated from Bill Monroe's style of bluegrass," Bush explains. "If anything, we were reviving a newgrass style that had already been started. Our kind of music tended to come from the idea of long jams and rock-&-roll songs."

Shunned by some traditionalists, New Grass Revival played bluegrass fests

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"He's released seven albums and a live DVD over the past two decades. In 2009, the Americana Music Association awarded Bush the Lifetime Achievement Award for Instrumentalist." slotted in late-night sets for the "longhairs and hippies." Quickly becoming a favorite of rock audiences, they garnered the attention of Leon Russell, one of the era's most popular artists. Russell hired New Grass as his supporting act on a massive tour in 1973 that put the band nightly in front of tens of thousands.

At tour's end, it was back to headlining six nights a week at an Indiana pizza joint. But, they were resilient, grinding it out on the road. And in 1975 the Revival first played Telluride, Colorado, forming a connection with the region and its fans that has prospered for 45 years.

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the repertoire. He discovered a sibling similarity with the reggae rhythms of Marley and The Wailers, and, accordingly, developed an ear-turning original style of mandolin playing. The group issued five albums in their first seven years, and in 1979 became Russell's backing band.

By 1981, Johnson and Burch left the group, replaced by banjoist Bela Fleck and guitarist Pat Flynn.

A three-record contract with Capitol Records and a conscious turn to the country market took the Revival to new commercial heights. Bush survived a life-threatening bout with cancer and returned to the group that'd become more popular than ever. They released chart-climbing singles, made videos, earned Grammy nominations, and, at their zenith, called it quits.

and Greensky Bluegrass are just a few present-day bluegrass vanguards among so many musicians he's influenced.

His performances are annual highlights of the festival circuit, with Bush's joyous perennial appearances at the town's famed bluegrass fest earning him the title, "King of Telluride."

"With this band I have now I am free to try anything. Looking back at the last 50 years of playing newgrass, with the elements of jazz improvisation and rock-&-roll, jamming, playing with New Grass Revival, Leon, and Emmylou; it's a culmination of all of that," says Bush. "I can unapologetically stand onstage and feel I'm representing those songs well."

"We were on the verge of getting bigger," recalls Bush. "Or maybe we'd gone as far as we could. I'd spent 18 years in a fourpiece partnership. I needed a break.

But, I appreciated the 18 years we had."

Bush worked the next five years with Emmylou Harris' Nash Ramblers, then a stint with Lyle Lovett. He took home three-straight IBMA Mandolin Player of the Year awards, 1990-92, (and a fourth in 2007). In 1995 he reunited with Fleck, now a burgeoning superstar, and toured with the Flecktones, reigniting his penchant for improvisation. Then, finally, after a quarter-century of making music with New Grass Revival and collaborating with other bands, Sam Bush went solo.

He's released seven albums and a live DVD over the past two decades.

In 2009, the Americana Music Association awarded Bush the Lifetime Achievement Award for Instrumentalist. Punch Brothers, Steep Canyon Rangers,

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IRON & WINE WITH LIZZIE NO Sunday, March 20, 2022 | 7:30PM | The Kentucky Center-Bomhard Theater

Iron & Wine is the musical project of singer-songwriter Sam Beam. Born and raised in South Carolina, Beam is a former film professor who got his start making home recordings before landing on Sub Pop Records. Iron & Wine’s 2002 debut, The Creek Drank the Cradle, garnered both critical and popular acclaim, vaulting Beam into the spotlight of the burgeoning indie-folk / Americana scene as one of its new and leading voices.

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cinematic songs. His recorded output includes seven full-length studio records, collaborations with Calexico, Ben Bridwell (Band of Horses), and Jesca Hoop, countless EP’s, singles and compilation/ soundtrack appearances, three Grammy nominations for Beast Epic (2017), Weed Garden (2018) and Years to Burn (2019), and a series of Archive releases featuring demos and rarities.

Iron & Wine is back on the road in 2022, heading out on tour with only his guitar as backing band — taking the show back to basics, putting his song-writing front and center.

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TAYLOR TOMLINSON – DEAL WITH IT TOUR Friday, March 25, 2022 | 7:00PM | Brown Theatre

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Taylor Tomlinson’s perspective possesses a degree of wisdom that’s typically earned with age. Named to Forbes’ 2021 class of 30 Under 30, fans got a healthy dose of that wisdom when her first-ever, hour-long special, Quarter-Life Crisis, debuted on Netflix last March just as the world entered into a once-in-a-century pandemic. The special went on to earn unanimous critical praise with the Washington Post calling her “your favorite quarantine-watch” and Newsweek opining she is “undeniably hilarious” and “wise beyond her years.”

Focusing exclusively on Taylor’s old-soul clarity is tempting, but what makes the woman Mashable calls "whip-smart and spectacularly cynical," stand out isn’t just that she seems too young to understand youth so well. It’s that she combines that vision with on-the-nose immediacy that can only come with still living in the moments being lampooned.

“I think that’s what comedians do: We’re funny in the moment,” Taylor says.

“We’re just so self-reflective and narcissistic.” She laughs, then adds, “But I’ve always felt older than I am.

That virus joke is similar to a lot of material in my first Netflix special. It’s me being frustrated that I’m in a period of my life that everybody talks about like — "Ooof, yeah, that was hard. It was fun!

But I wouldn’t go back for anything.”

Performances on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, CONAN, Comedy Central's Adam Devine's House Party, and Netflix’s The Comedy Lineup, as well as a top-ten finish in season 9 of NBC’s Last Comic Standing, have all endeared Taylor to a national audience. Variety Magazine named her one of the Top 10 Comics to Watch at the Just for Laughs Festival, and she’s a regular on What Just Happened??! with Fred Savage.

Taylor spent much of 2019 filling clubs across the country on her own headlining tour and in 2020 despite the COVID-19 pandemic continued to grow her fan base with the seven-city, 19 show The Codependent Tour, her first co-headlining tour with fellow comedian Whitney Cummings. The socially distanced, outdoor performances kicked off in Philadelphia in September with five shows and that initial success led to the addition of 14 more shows in six different cities.

Taylor is in her mid-twenties, but she’s honed her craft for more than a decade.

The California native began doing standup at 16 after taking a class with her dad –– and she never stopped.

Churches, schools, and fundraisers were her first stages. When Taylor turned 18, she played every club in San Diego that she could. “When I started doing standup, it was the first time I felt comfortable with myself,” Taylor says. “I think people I went to school with were surprised –– I was kind of quiet and introverted.”

Dating, friendships, our evolving relationship with technology and reality – Taylor skewers modern twenty-something life with self-deprecating precision.

Raised in a conservative home, Taylor also prods Christianity and privilege with that same blend of distanced awareness and personal familiarity that defines her jokes about her age. “I’m a perfectionist.

I’m not really a risk-taker –– being a standup comic to me is already risky enough,” she says. “I don’t drink. I don’t party, and I never have. My mom died pretty young. I think when that happens when you’re a kid, you realize sooner than other people that you aren’t in a bubble. You lose that self-perceived invincibility a lot of young people have.”

Taylor’s Netflix special was the culmination of years of writing and performing, and it showed. The set was

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“I found out I got the special and enjoyed it for about 20 minutes, then I got really stressed and was pretty laser focused.”

Taylor says, laughing a little. “You think you’ll take a break after you film it, but then you realize, ‘Oh shoot. I need a whole new hour of material –– I can’t take a break!”

a masterful display of deft timing, crowd connection, physicality, and smarts.

The material changed over the months that passed from pitch to performance, reflecting shifts in Taylor’s own life.

“A lot happened over the summer of 2019,” Taylor says. “I ended up breaking off my engagement. It was a lot of growth in a very short period of time.

It changed the hour a lot from what I had submitted back in February ––and I think made it better.” For filming the special, Taylor chose the Aladdin in Portland, Oregon.

The special went on to be named “Best of 2020” by New York Times, Decider, Paste and more. And Vulture’s “comedian you should and will know” is just getting started! She has already developed a whole new hour of material and can’t wait to get back on the road later this year when safe to do so and share her observations and self-discovery from quarantine with the world. “I just don’t think there’s anything better than having a room full of people laugh at something you said. All I really want to do is be really good at standup –– and continue to get better at it,” she says. “Saying ‘that’s all I really want’ feels insane because it’s so much to want.”

“I found out I got the special and enjoyed it for about 20 minutes, then I got really stressed and was pretty laser focused,”

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ANNUAL SUPPORT Commonwealth of Kentucky, The Honorable Andy Beshear, Governor Tourism, Arts & Heritage Cabinet | The Honorable Mike Berry, Secretary | The Kentucky General Assembly Kentucky Performing Arts Foundation, as of 2/1/22.

Mr. John Abel & Mrs. Nancy Smith The Honorable & Mrs. Jerry E. Abramson Accredited Wealth Management Dr. & Mrs. Jesse Adams In Memory of Alan & Carol Adelberg Donnie & Kandis Adkins AIA Kentucky Alpha Energy Solutions** Mr. & Mrs. Phillip D. Allen Mr. & Mrs. William Altman Anonymous Walter E. App & Donna W. Tilson Dr. & Mrs. Frederick W. Arensman Dr. & Mrs. Joe F. Arterberry Ms. Sheila & Mr. Adam W. Ashley The Audience Group** Ms. Joanne G. Bader Ms. Lourdes Christine Baez Dr. Eric Baker & Dr. Tara Odle-Baker Joseph & Linda Baker Kim & Mark Baker Jim & Sibylla Banks Sadie Barlow Mark & Kathy Barrens Theresa Bautista Mr. & Mrs. Donald Baxter Ms. Becky Becherer Dr. David & Bobbie Bell Mr. & Mrs. J. Peter Bell Mark Bender Josh & Megan Bentley Barry Bernson Turney P. Berry & Kendra D. Foster Hon. Steve Beshear Mrs. Edith S. Bingham B.J. Killian Foundation Mrs. Ann Leah Blieden Mr. & Mrs. James H. Bloem Mr. & Mrs. Keith Board Ms. Eloise Boarman Mr. & Mrs. Dale J. Boden Ms. Lolita Bonds Mr. & Mrs. James W. Boone Mrs. Elaine Bornstein Mr. Jacob A. Bortell Mike & Paula Britsch Brown-Forman Corporation Brown-Forman Foundation Laura Breitenstein Mrs. Christina Lee Brown Ms. Dace Brown Laura Lee Brown & Steve Wilson The Owsley Brown II Family Foundation John & Patricia Bruggman Gregory Bubalo & Pamela Klinner Terry & Sara Burd Mr. & Mrs. David Burianek Marianne Butler Mr. Jack & Mrs. Barbara Butorac Mrs. Karen Byrley Dolores Calebs Sharon & Barry Carruthers James & Karen Campbell Dennis & Joyce Cardwell Keith & Rene Cartwright

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Mr. Lindy Casebier Charles & Linda Cauble Rachel Cecil Marica Chacona Carri Chandler Jennifer & Ben Chandler Tony & Davina Chambers Mr. Michael & Dr. Nancy Chiara Clarendon Flavor Engineering John & Gretchen Clark John Austin Clark Ms. Marilyn Clark June Woo Clausen Mary Cleary & Roxanne Yeoman Ann & Stewart Cobb Family Fund Greg & Susan Cohen Stacey Combs Commonwealth Bank & Trust Co. Mr. Thomas Conley Tammy & John Copeland Mr. & Mrs. Denver Cornett III Mr. Alfonso Cornish & Ms. Yvonne Austin Mr. John B. Corso Dr. Hope Cottrill Mr. Nick Covault Ms. Karen Cozine Malvina & Thomas Craig Mr. Roger Cude & Mrs. Kathie Markle-Cude Ms. C.S. Dalgleish Ms. Janet R. Dakan Elizabeth W. Davis D.D. Williamson & Co, Inc. L’Tanya Williamson Ms. Christine Deeble Louis Deluca & Victoria Faoro Ms. Gayle Arndt DeMersseman Ms. Clarice Denoux Dr. John & Mrs. Dee Ann Derr Shaista Deshmukh Stephen & Theresa Diebold Mr. Christopher Dischinger Norman Dixon & Patrick Owen Mr. Andrew Jay Douds & Mr. David Mawn Eric & Claudette Doyle Ms. Laurie Duesing William & Christi Dukes Ms. Karen Dunn Whitney Durham Eric Eatherly Mrs. Maria J. Eckerle Nick Eckhart Mr. Michael Eckstein Fr. John G. Eifler Mr. & Mrs. John Elder Mrs. Linda Ellingsworth Ms. Gay Ellison Patience Elsner Ms. Donna & Mr. John Embry Employees of Kentucky Performing Arts Ms. Catherine Emrick Mr. Glenn Epperson Mr. & Mrs. Michael Erickson Mr. & Mrs. William Esakov Phil Eschels Dr. Robert Esterhay & Ms. Ruth Mattingly Michael & Jennifer Evans

Dr. Vilma Fabre Dr. Robin Fankhauser Mr. Michael & Mrs. Maggie Conner Faurest Walter & Marie Feibes Mr. & Mrs. Bruce W. Ferguson Fifth Third Bank Fiji Water Company, LLC LaVonne & Brian Fingerson Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Finnegan Mr. & Mrs. Donald Finney Mr. Chuck & Ms. Beth Fitch Bruce Flannery Mr. & Mrs. Terry E. Forcht Dan Forte & Chris Schuster Mr. & Mrs. Gregg Fowler Mr. Randall Fox Ms. Sandra Frazier Sharon Fredenhagen Fund for the Arts Ms. Melissa Gaddie Cindy & Jim Gaffney Tim & LuAnn Galbraith John & Paddy Gay Mr. & Mrs. Gene Gardner Dana Garner Dr. Brent Garrett & Mrs. Glenda Marker George Lamar Gaston Jr. & Joan Gaston GE Appliances, a Haier Company Donna Geddes Ruth And Harvey Gelfenbein Charitable Foundation The Gheens Foundation Sheldon & Nancy Gilman Mr. Ryan Gittings The Glenview Trust Company Dr. & Mrs. Richard Goldwin Mr. Ankur Gopal & Ms. Kiran Gill Linda & Jerry Grasch Christine Grass Dr. Laman & Juliet Cooper Gray Greater Milwaukee Foundation Chuck & Jackie Grimley Rick & Ann Guillaume Dr. & Mrs. William Gump Ellen Hagan & David Flores Karen & Roger Hale Heather Hall Mr. & Mrs. John R. Hall Amber & Paul Halloran Joe & Shannon Hamilton Patrick & Jody Hamilton John & Maria Hampton Ken & Judy Handmaker Ms. Julia Hansbrough Michael & Martha Hardesty Jerry Abramson, matched by Hardscuffle, Inc. Mr. Bill Harned Amy Harrington Herman & Gail Harrington Hood & Heather Harris Pamela Harris Ms. Susan Harrison & Mr. Paul Reid Mr. & Mrs. William Harrison Mr. Frank & Mrs. Paula Harshaw Marian & Thomas Hayden Mr. & Mrs. John Hayes James E. & Sarah Haynes

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Mr. James Hite Hays Ms. Beverly Hearn Mr. & Mrs. Hearn Mr. Ryan Hernandez Mr. William Herndon Joe & Kelly Hertzman Ms. Deborah Hibberd Cathy Hill Dr. Frederick K. Hilton Mr. & Mrs. Jason Hines Ms. Mary Jane Hoben Jonathan & Janet Hodes Mr. David Hogan Augusta Brown Holland & Gill Holland, Jr. Dr. John & Mrs. Christel Hollis Mr. & Mrs. William O. Holton Dr. Keith Hornung Rainer Hoyer Jalileah Huddleston Gary & Brenda Huntoon Dave & Rebekah Hussung Eddie and Lily Ignacio Ms. Lona Ingwerson Ms. Marybeth Irvine Anne Sunshine Ison Harry & Sherry Jacobson-Beyer Jeffrey & Margaret Jamner Caroline & Ben Jeffers Mr. & Mrs. William H. Jenkins Mrs. Anita Jones Sandra Jones Stephen & Mary Jones Chris & Ashley Kaelin Ian & Denise Kalina Judith Kaleher Charlie & Teresa Kamer Charles & Robyn Kane Ms. Peace Karalakulasingam Mr. & Mrs. Morton L. Kasdan Dr. Daniel Kean Mr. & Mrs. W.W. Benton Keith The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Kentucky Department of Education Kentucky Music Educators Association Kentucky State Parks** Ms. Mary Jane R. Kephart Dan & Sharon Kessler Dr. Nancy Kiesow-Webb & Dr. Chuck Webb Chris & Jessica Kipper Mr. Ray Kirkland Gerald & Dana Kirpes Ms. Ann B. Kirwan Mr. David Klaphaak Klein Family Foundation Rolf Klein Marjorie & Robert Kohn Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Kosse Kroger Community Rewards Diane Kyle Mr. Eugene Lacefield & Ms. Mary Margaret Lowe Judith Landis Damon & Julie Lange Amy &. Sterling Lapinski Mr. Lance & Mrs. Marie Larsen Mr. Dean Lause John & Lilia Lawson

ANNUAL SUPPORT Abhay & Amy Lele Pamela Leezer & Henry Harris Joe Lewis Kristy Lewis David & Phyllis Leibson LEO Weekly** LG&E & KU Services Company Ms. Anne Liechty Lincoln Trail Title Jerry Lindsey Mary Linkous Ronald Loughry & Bethany Breetz Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government Louisville Public Media** Louisville Tourism Mr. Todd P. Lowe & Ms. Fran C. Ratterman Ms. Diane Loy George Lucier Jim & Lois Luckett Mr. Robin Luckett Mr. James D. Ludwig Mr. & Mrs. Philip Lynch Robert Major Mr. & Mrs. Brian Manlove Mansbach Endowment Fund at Foundation for the Tri-State Community John & D’Ann Markert Tom & Joslyn Marksbury Ms. Jane Martin & Ms. Janet Childress Martha & Jerry Martin William & Sandra Martz Leolie & David Marquez Mr. Anthyun Mask Malinda & Billy Masterson Craig & Karen Matthews James Mauch & Sharon Smith Craig & Lauren Maxey David & Emily McCay Mr. Darrin & Ms. Becky McElroy Martha McLaughlin Madelyn Mees Lori & Michael Mehlbauer The Melcher Family Drs. Chris Mescia & Tricia J. Gray Mr. & Mrs. Barry P. Meyers Linda & David Miles Dave & Terri Miller Robert E. Milward Fund at Blue Grass Community Foundation Mr. William Mitchell Jack & Marilyn Monohan Ms. Biljana N. Monsky Mrs. Terri Montgomery Mr. Don & Mrs. Lisa Moore Jim & Chambers Moore Mrs. Pat Moremen Mountjoy Chilton Medley LLP Ms. Eleanor Bingham Miller Mr. & Mrs. R. Charles Moyer Marti & Hubert Mountz Mr. Glen E. Mowbray & Ms. Colette Crown Shivaram Muddappa Mrs. Patricia Muench Dr. Sean Muldoon Cynthia Murphy Martha Miracle Murphy Eric Murray Gloria Jean Murray

Mr. Scott Murray Marcia Myers Mr. Alan Nakamura National Conference of Governor’s Schools Robert & Sharon Nesmith Mr. & Mrs. Theodore H.Nixon Esther Nnassanga Ms. Susan H. Norris The Norton Foundation, Inc. Nu-Yale Cleaners** Jennifer & Dan O’Brien Ms. Ann Ogden Mrs. Judith Olliges Mr. Kevin Olusola Doug & Shari Owen Stephen & Cindy Owen Mr. & Mrs. Gord Pageau Erin Palmer & Tyler Kinney Ms. Meredith Parente Annabelle Park Ms. Tara Parker Mr. & Mrs. Don E. Parkinson Adrian S. Partridge Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Payne Mr. Bryan Peck Ms. Lynn Pereira Mr. Tom Person & Mrs. Melissa Richards-Person Duane Peterson Tony Petrelli Ms. Judith N. Petty Mr. & Mrs. Michael Phelps Yvone Plier PNC Bank PNC Broadway in Louisville/ Louisville Theatrical Association Mr. Stuart Pollard Henry & Sharon Potter Ms. Joy Potts Shane Powers Stephen D. Prather Mr. Mark Preischel Gordon & Patty Rademaker Dr. & Mrs. Julio Ramirez Mr. & Mrs. Teddy H. Redmon Tracy Redmon Rick & Becky Reed Ms. Linda Remington Kathleen Reno & Tom Payette Republic Bank Will & Becky Richards Dr. Jeffrey Richardson For Louis V. Richter Bobby & Caroline Riede Ms. Tammy Rigney Mr. Thaddeus Riley Riverbend Financial Group RJE Business Interiors Mrs. Barbara Roberts Jonathan & Julie Roberts Mr. Stinson Robinson Laura Rogers Alan & Beatrice Rosenberg Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Rounsavall, III Mark & Kay Rountree Mr. Anthony & Mrs. Jane Ruhl Loy Rush Russell Saunders Michael Schissler & Kristan Milam Ms. Stephanie Schaefer Chuck & Mary Ellen Schmidt Curtis & Ashley Rose Schneider Dr. Marilyn Schorin

Rachael Scwhwartz Mr. Terry Schwartz Mr. Mason Scisco David C. Scott Foundation Fund Ellen & Max Shapira Brett & Andrea Shepherd The Sherwin-Williams Company Mrs. Cindi Shrader Dr. & Mrs. Saleem Seyal Holly Sibrary & Stephen Belcher Lesa & Gregg Siebert Dr. Nicholas Silvestros Ms. Ruth Simons Danny & Amy Singleton Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Sireci Mr. & Mrs. Edward Skarbek Mr. & Mrs. Ted Sloan Drs. Kyle & Laura Slone Mr. & Mrs. Darin Smith Mr. Darrell Smith Jill Smith Irvin & Connie Smith Ms. Laura Smith Mollie Smith Snowy Owl Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Kenney M. Snell Whitney & Trevor Soergel Tom & Cara Solley George & Karin Sonnier David & Rebecca Sourwine South Arts Dr. Charles Sowder Laura Spaulding Mr. & Mrs. Ryan Sprau Mr. Mitchell Stallsmith Robert Steen Mr. Robert Steinmetz & Mrs. Barbara Elliott Anna Stephens Ms. Sharon Stetter Dr. Don Stevens Stites & Harbison, PLLC Mary Clay Stites Stock Yards Bank & Trust Co. Matthew Stone Drs. Catherine Newton & Gordon Strauss Mr. Jeff Stream Lindy Street Hunter & Audrey Strickler Dr. & Mrs. Gerald F. Sturgeon Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Sturgeon Scott Swalls Barbara & Richard Sweet Anne Swope Keith & Jennifer Tarter Bob Taylor & Linda Shapiro Mr. John Tederstrom & Mr. Mark Cannon Arthur & Mary Thacker The 10th Planet** Tessitura Network** Ms. Brenda Thompson Mac & Jessica Thompson Mr. & Mrs. Steve Thompson Mr. Christopher M. Todoroff Josh Toole Tourism, Arts & Heritage Cabinet Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky Trace3** Fernando Trevino Ms. Karen Troutman Truist

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Dr. Mureena Turnquest & Dr. Kevin Wells Mrs. Melanie Twyman Bob & Vicky Ullrich University of Kentucky College of Design** University of Kentucky College of Fine Arts** University of Kentucky Office of the Provost** USI Insurance Services, LLC Mr. Randall Vaughn David & Susan Vislisel Mr. & Mrs. David Vogel Mrs. Kellie Vogt Mr. & Mrs. Mark Vogt Robert & Bonnie Vogt The Voice-Tribune Volunteers of the Kentucky Center* Jim & Libby Voyles Ms. Jeanne D. Vuturo Gary Wall Brian Wallace & Nelda Lewis Wallace Karyn Walters, M.D. Beth Ward Charles & Nina Wardrip Water Energizers** Ann Waterman & Niles Welch Karyn Watters, M.D. Ms. Jennifer Love Webb Ms. Kristen Webb-Hill Nathan & Olivia Webb Mr. & Mrs. Greg Weishar Dr. & Mrs. Robert Weiss Welch Printing** Mr. James & Ms. Catherine Werner John & Marilyn Werst Melany Wessels Ms. Rebecca West WHAS 11** Mr. & Mrs. Stephen F. Wheeler Rick & Denise Whelan Mary Jo White & Tim Shull Lorraine Whitney Antonio Wickliffe P.J. Williams Patty & Jim Williamson Dr. Floyd T. Wilkerson Wilmes & Associates/Architects, PSC Benjamin Wiseman Eric & Elizabeth Witherspoon Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Wolff Mark Wood & Barbara Dejean Phoebe Wood Rev. Joan Wooden Ms. Grace Wooding Michael & Jeanne Wright David F. Young & Cheryl Cahill Yum! Brands, Inc. The Zamiska Family Dominic & Lisa Zangari Dr. Kenneth & Shelly Zegart Mr. Brian Zehnder & Ms. Melissa Rolf Dr. & Mrs. Nathan Zimmerman Cynthia and Joel Zipperle Ms. Susan G. Zepeda & Dr. Fred P. Seifer *Kentucky Performing Arts Volunteers’ value of donated time is more than $100,000 annually **In-Kind Donation

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KENTUCKY PERFORMING ARTS BOARD OF DIRECTORS Marianne Butler, Chair • Robert M. Klein, Vice-Chair Mary R. Nixon, Secretary • Gregory J. Bubalo, Treasurer Laura Melillo Barnum Eileen Cooke Brown Hannah L. Drake JP Davis Paula Harshaw

William H. Jones Kate Latts Joseph Leavell Patricia A. Mathison Bruce C. Merrick

Madeline Abramson Owsley Brown II (1942–2011) Wendell Cherry (1935–1991)

Gordon B. Davidson (1926–2015) C. Edward Glasscock

James K. Murphy Stephen T. Owen Lindy Street Rev. Dr. Valerie Washington Sarah Yarmuth

DIRECTORS EMERITI Robert W. Rounsavall, III Rose Lenihan Rubel (1922–2002)

KENTUCKY PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION, INC. BOARD OF DIRECTORS Todd Lowe, Chair Kim Baker, Vice-Chair • Leah Huddleston, Secretary • R.K. Guillaume, Treasurer Carolle Jones Clay J. Tim Galbraith Ankur N. Gopal Lillian Hunt

Chris Kipper Phil Lynch R. Charles Moyer Doug Owen

Melissa Richards-Person Eileen Saunders Felicia Cumings Smith Diane Tobin

Ruth Wimsatt Trautwein Lisa Zangari Cindy Zipperle

KENTUCKY PERFORMING ARTS EXECUTIVE STAFF Kim Baker President and CEO

Chris Kaelin Vice President, Operations

Heather Weston Bell Senior Vice President, Community Engagement

Will Richards Vice President, Facilities & Production

Dawn Driskell Vice President, Finance

Julie Roberts Vice President, Development & Advocacy

Rob Schmidlapp Vice President, Information Systems Christian Adelberg Vice President, Marketing & Communications

KENTUCKY PERFORMING ARTS ENCORE SOCIETY The Encore Society recognizes individuals who have demonstrated support for the long-term well-being of Kentucky Performing Arts with an estate gift or notification of their bequest intention or other planned gift.

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Mrs. William Habich Mrs. Ada Lee Kane Mrs. Helen Lang Kathy Monin Mr. and Mrs. Don E. Parkinson Ms. Terry H. Sales A U D I E N C E

Sharon Sanak Ms. Helen Stockton Mrs. Murrel Straley Jeanne D. Vuturo Jennifer Love Webb

CORPORATE AND FOUNDATION SUPPORT We salute the following organizations for their support of Kentucky Performing Arts:

B. J. KILLIAN FOUNDATION

Welch Printing

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KENTUCKY PERFORMING ARTS SERVICES TICKETS For complete event information and to order tickets by phone, call Kentucky Performing Arts Ticket Service at (502) 584-7777 or order tickets online at KentuckyPerformingArts.org. Kentucky Performing Arts Ticket Service’s hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Saturday, and 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday. Drive-thru ticket service is open 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday. Tickets purchased by phone and online are subject to service charges.

On performance dates, the ticket office is open one-half hour past curtain time. Gift certificates are available in any dollar amount at the Box Office and are not redeemable for cash.

MAIN PHONE NUMBER (502) 562-0100 PARKING More than 2,000 parking spaces offer direct access to The Kentucky Center from Sixth St. The elevators located in the garage will take you to the main lobby. You may also enter the Riverfront Garage from Fourth or Sixth Sts. Level C of the garage also will give you direct access to the main lobby. At the Brown Theatre, parking is available in the lot across from the theatre, and parking garage entrances are located on Third St., north of Broadway or on Fourth St., north of Broadway. At Old Forester’s Paristown Hall, parking is available in the neighboring Swan Street and Vine Street lots.

FACILITIES RENTAL From a wedding reception to a convention, Kentucky Performing Arts’ venues, The Kentucky Center, the Brown Theatre and Old Forester’s Paristown Hall, are the perfect place to “stage” your event. For more information, contact Stacey Hallahan, shallahan@kentuckyperformingarts.org.

KPA DONORS Kentucky Performing Arts donors receive a variety of benefits, including buying tickets before the public, priority seating, and no handling fees. For more information, contact (502) 566-5144 or visit SUPPORT KPA on our website. For Corporate Membership benefits, contact Julie Roberts at (502) 562-0100, Ext. 105, or jroberts@kentuckyperformingarts.org.

VOLUNTEERS The Volunteer Program offers the public a chance to be a part of the great events at The Kentucky Center, the Brown Theatre and Old Forester’s Paristown Hall. To volunteer, contact the Volunteer Hotline at (502) 566-5141.

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COURTESY • As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members, please turn off all audible message systems.

• The emergency phone number to leave with babysitters or message centers are (502) 566-5128 (The Kentucky Center) and (502) 566-5188 (The Brown Theatre).

• Be sure to leave your theater and seat number for easy location.

• Cameras and recording devices are not allowed in the theaters.

• Latecomers will be seated at appropriate breaks in the program, as established by each performing group. Please be considerate of your fellow audience members during performances. Please remain seated after the performance until the lights are brought up.

• Children should be able to sit in a seat quietly throughout the performance.

• To properly enforce fire codes, everyone attending an event, regardless of age, must have a ticket.

ACCESSIBILITY Wheelchair accessible seating at Kentucky Performing Arts venues is available on every seating and parking level, as well as ticket counters and personal conveniences at appropriate heights.

FM and infrared hearing devices are available to provide hearing amplification for patrons with hearing disabilities in all spaces of The Kentucky Center, the Brown Theatre, and Old Forester’s Paristown Hall, including meeting spaces.

Audio Description is available for selected performances for patrons who are blind or have low vision.

Caption Theater is available for selected performances as a service for patrons who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Program materials are available in large-print from your usher.

Please make reservations for services at the time you purchase your ticket through the Box Office to ensure the best seating location for the service requested. Call (502) 566-5111 (V), 711 (TRS), or email access@kentuckycenter.org for more information about the range of accessibility options we offer, or to receive this information in an alternate format.

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Jonathon Heyward, guest conductor Benjamin Beilman, violin FRI 1 APR 11AM, SAT 2 APR 8PM Kentucky Center

MICHAEL CAVANAUGH PLAYS MUSIC OF ELTON JOHN Bob Bernhardt, conductor FRI 22 APR 8PM Kentucky Center

EXPLORING THE ORCHESTRA John Devlin, conductor SUN 27 MAR 3PM Eastern High School

RECLAIMED TREASURES Teddy Abrams, conductor Julia Noone, violin Louisville Chamber Choir SAT APR 30 8PM Kentucky Center

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Teddy Abrams, conductor Yves Dhar, cello FRI MAY 13 11AM SAT MAY 14 8PM Kentucky Center Covid protocols apply.

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