Bright Star at Center Theatre Group, Performances magazine November 2017

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Dear Audience Member, Thank you for joining us to kick off the holiday season with three feel-good musicals that celebrate (and have some fun with) the art form.

Bright Star, from Grammy® winners Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, has an Americana score, and a story powered by love and human connection.

We’re lucky to have Carmen Cusack reprising her Tony®-nominated role at the Ahmanson Theatre along with the rest of a top-notch cast who are kicking off a tour we’re producing (see page 16 for more on this feat).

We’re also lucky to have the extremely irreverent Something Rotten! at the Ahmanson. The story of a pair of Shakespeare’s contemporaries who are trying to write the world’s first musical, Something Rotten! is full of really funny references to theatre history.

And of course there’s another musical in L.A. this month: Spamilton at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. (You really thought I’d use this space to mention another musical?) This is a show with a wild sense of humor about a place we love that takes itself too seriously most of the time: Broadway. I hope you’re not laughing too hard to catch all of Gerard Alessandrini’s genius lyrics (and check out our interview with him on page 12).

You’re going to leave the theatre smiling.

Sincerely,

Michael Ritchie

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AROUND CENTER THEATRE GROUP “IT WAS PROBABLY THE BEST AUDIENCE WE’VE EVER HAD FOR THE RED SHOES, POSSIBLY THE BEST AUDIENCE WE’VE EVER HAD FOR ANY SHOW EVER.”

An Astonishing Student Matinee for The Red Shoes 1,489 students and educators from 37 different school groups descended on the Ahmanson Theatre on September 26, 2017 for the Student Matinee of Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes, capping off an immersive educational experience that included professional development opportunities for teachers at Educator Conferences, Discovery Guides designed to help students enter the world of the production, and hands-on dance workshops led by professional dancers from Bourne’s company for select schools. As with all Student Matinees, tickets were free for students and educators, thanks in large part to the support of thousands of donors.

Sir Matthew Bourne himself was in attendance and was perhaps in even more awe than the students, who were held rapt by the performance and gave the show a raucous standing ovation.

“It was probably the best audience we’ve ever had for The Red Shoes, possibly the best audience we’ve ever had for any show ever,” said Bourne. “I think this had a lot to do with the preparation given and the care taken to help the young people to understand what it was they’d come to see, the themes of the piece.” It brought him back to his own formative artistic experience of watching The Red Shoes film as a teenager.

“Looking at the students in the audience, I wondered, could this be the day where their life changes, as they see something they’ve never experienced before?”

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Join Us for 2017/2018 Community Conversations This season’s series of Community Conversations kicked off with two discussions around the context, issues, and ideas of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: Neurodiversity: Exploring the Differences in Our Brains and Translating Math Into Art. We hope you’ll join us for more of these free, open-to-the-public conversations in the coming months. Visit CTGLA.org for upcoming dates.

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CHECK OUT OUR COSTUMES AT MACY’S Shoppers at Macy’s locations in Downtown Los Angeles at the Bloc and Eagle Rock Plaza are getting a behind-the-scenes peek at the magic that happens at the Center Theatre Group Costume Shop. Our Costume Displays, which have appeared at L.A. Public Library branches and the Ahmanson Theatre, are now in rotation at these stores. Downtown features costumes from our recent production of Zoot Suit, and costumes from the musical Grey Gardens are in Eagle Rock.

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THE CREW LAUNCHES The Crew, our new, flexible subscription program for theatregoers under 40, launched with a star-studded splash with a party at the home of Manuela and James Goren. Bright Star’s Carmen Cusack performed, Spamilton’s Dedrick A. Bonner MCed, and Karey Kirkpatrick, one of the writers behind Something Rotten!, was in conversation with Center Theatre Group Artistic Director Michael Ritchie.

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Finding the Funny in Broadway’s Biggest Hit

An Interview with Spamilton Creator Gerard Alessandrini

“I DIDN’T SEE HAMILTON AND THINK,‘I’M THE GUY WHO’S GOING TO MAKE THIS FUNNY,’”

“THE MORE SACRED COW SOMETHING IS, THE MORE YOU SHOULD PARODY IT, AND THE FUNNIER IT’S GOING TO BE.”

recalled Gerard Alessandrini. “I saw the show and thought, ‘After 35 years of parodying all the other shows, I can’t let the biggest hit show in Broadway history get by me.’ At that point, I had no idea what I was going to make funny about it.”

And thus Spamilton, which Alessandrini created, wrote, and directed, was born. Spamilton has been a hit in New York City and Chicago; now, it’s arrived in Los Angeles at the Kirk Douglas Theatre for a run that begins November 5, 2017.

Alessandrini created the Off-Broadway revue Forbidden Broadway in 1982. He’d struck comic gold with his takes on songs from Phantom of the Opera and The Sound of Music to Mamma Mia! and Spring Awakening over the years. But he’d never seen anything quite like Hamilton.

“It’s the biggest hit show I’ve experienced since I’ve been in New York,” said Alessandrini. “I’d never seen a show so lauded and revered by the media. It was everywhere you looked.” Alessandrini, like most everyone else, became a fan.

But he wasn’t daunted by the show’s popularity or its historical, political, and musical significance.

“The more sacred cow something is, the more you should parody it, and the funnier it’s going to be,” said Alessandrini. “The stuff that isn’t sacred cow is boring. You want stuff that’s lauded and informative and poetic and important. What’s not ripe for parody is The Producers; it already is parody.

The more lauded and important Hamilton was, the better it was for us.”

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Slightly more intimidating was the style, which is unlike the Sondheim/Rodgers & Hammerstein/ Andrew Lloyd Webber tunes Alessandrini is accustomed to spoofing. “It’s very contemporary in its writing,” said Alessandrini. “It’s not the milieu I was used to writing parodies for. I had to learn to write rap and swing and all the different types of music in Hamilton.”

But with help from his partner, Glenn Bassett (who plays King George in Spamilton), Alessandrini figured it out. “It was like cracking a safe open,” he said. “Glenn showed me where the rhymes were in the rap—he sort of laid them out for me. Once I could see where Lin-Manuel Miranda’s rhymes fell and what the form was, I could slowly go through and try to spoof it.” In essence, he said, he was turning the lyrics and ideas of Hamilton “inside out.”

Alessandrini also worked to make the comedy and parody of Spamilton as contemporary as the music. “I really feel comedy changes as much as fashion. It seems to change from year to year,” he said. “We’re in a period now where comedy is not as farcical as other eras but is broader in the verbal sense.” One liners have given way to comedic storytelling. “Instead of telling joke after

joke after joke, comics are telling their life story and getting jokes within that,” said Alessandrini.

“That affected me, too, because in Spamilton I’m doing a through-line.” He added, “Comedy isn’t really dictated by the writer. It’s dictated by the audience. Who knows what comedy is? The audience will tell you if it’s funny or not.”

Alessandrini is confident that Los Angeles audiences are going to get a lot of laughs out of Spamilton. “It’s going to be a very vibrant production,” he said, with a new cast “picked for their exuberance.” Plus, “people in

Los Angeles have great senses of humor.

New Yorkers can be quite jaded. People in L.A. know how to enjoy life better, and everyone has a great sense of humor out there.” The Douglas is also the right theatre for this show. “It’s a theatre you can feel like you’re having a party at,” said Alessandrini, “and that’s what Spamilton is—a party.”

It also doesn’t hurt that Spamilton is running alongside the Los Angeles production of the show that inspired it. That said, “you don’t have to have seen Hamilton to enjoy Spamilton.

You’ll laugh just as much,” said Alessandrini.

Gerard Alessandrini.

“COMEDY ISN’T REALLY DICTATED BY THE WRITER. IT’S DICTATED BY THE AUDIENCE. WHO KNOWS WHAT COMEDY IS? THE AUDIENCE WILL TELL YOU IF IT’S FUNNY OR NOT.” 12 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE

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On a Thursday afternoon in September 2017, Kirsten Opstad’s fifth period theatre class at Culver City High School was on the move. To Pittsburgh’s Hill District, 1969. Then the late 1940s. Then the 1950s. And finally all the way back to 1904. Their guides were Center Theatre Group Teaching Artist Cecil Burroughs and legendary playwright August Wilson, both visiting the classroom—Burroughs in person and Wilson through his work— to introduce students to the August Wilson Monologue Competition.

ON THE MOVE WITH AUGUST WILSON This Fall, We Brought the Famous Playwright’s Monologues into Classrooms Across L.A.

The August Wilson Program is presented by the Center Theatre Group Affiliates, and also receives generous support from Center Theatre Group’s Corporate Circle, Joseph Drown Foundation, the Rosenthal Family Foundation, and Hope Landis Warner.

Over the past six years, hundreds of young people across Southern California have grown as actors and storytellers thanks to the August Wilson Monologue Competition. Participating high school students embark on an entirely free educational journey that includes workshops and auditions with theatre professionals—all while immersing themselves in Wilson’s life and world. This year, in an effort to encourage more students to participate, we sent Teaching Artists—all working actors—out into schools to bring Wilson’s words to life and give students a glimpse of what the Competition entails.

“I discovered Wilson in high school from the play Fences, which put me on the path to pursue theatre,” said Center Theatre Group Director of Education Tyrone Davis in explaining the importance of bringing Wilson into classrooms. “When I discovered his work, it was my first time seeing my community onstage. I learned that theatre belonged to me as well.”

That was also Burroughs’ goal in Opstad’s classroom. He opened his presentation with a very brief precis of Wilson’s life and his magnum opus, the 10 plays of The American Century Cycle, which chronicle the 20TH-century African-American experience. Then Burroughs announced that he’d be performing a monologue, “one that speaks to me and speaks to the struggle of the working man.”

Instantly, Burroughs transformed himself into Sterling, a character from Wilson’s Two Trains Running who has just been released from jail and is looking for work. By the time he’d finished his monologue, the students had discovered one of the great joys of theatre and of Wilson’s work in particular: the thrill of recognition, of characters who talk and think and feel like we do.

Then it was the students’ turn to perform a few more monologues—cold. Two students, back-to-back, read a monologue by Seven Guitars’ Red Carter in which he laments his inability to juggle seven girlfriends at once: “I tried to keep them separate and give them all a day of the week.” One young actor was jubilant, the other wistful; both got belly laughs from their peers. Two more students took on the part of Rose from Fences.

Just before the bell rang, Burroughs made his more formal August Wilson Monologue Competition pitch: “It’s a great opportunity to see if this is something you’re interested in,” he told the students about performance and auditioning. “Get your feet wet!”

For Burroughs, going into the classroom allows him to participate in “the great equalizer”—education.

“The Monologue Competition opens kids’ eyes to new things and new experiences, and lets them know that there’s a whole world out there,” he said.

Opstad, the classroom teacher, was thrilled to have him opening her students’ eyes. “I know that students respond differently to guests than to their regular teachers,” she said. “I thought it would be more meaningful if this opportunity was made known to them by people who know more about August Wilson and can speak to their experience as actors in a way that I can’t. And it was so cool because the students responded totally differently. Hands shot up to participate.”

Cecil Burroughs

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The cast of A View From The Bridge. Photo by Jan Versweyveld.

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hits the road ALMOST EVERY PERFORMANCE YOU SEE ONSTAGE AT CENTER THEATRE GROUP IS A COLLABORATION. And we’re not just talking about the obvious— the team of actors, writers, directors, producers, designers, and artisans who have come together for the show’s run. More often than not, the production you’re seeing took collaboration among theatre companies around the country (and even the world) that was carefully constructed and coordinated to make it possible for Los Angeles audiences to enjoy the best of the best of the art form.

Center Theatre Group frequently partners with theatres around the country on co-productions.

Recent partnerships include this summer’s King of the Yees at the Kirk Douglas Theatre (a World premiere co-production with the Goodman Theatre in Chicago), and our upcoming co-commissions with the Goodman, Second Stage in New York, and the Royal Court Theatre and National Theatre in London. We also partner regularly with local Los Angeles theatres,

including remounting recent shows through Block Party at the Douglas. But in fall 2016 and fall 2017, we embarked on a more unusual endeavor for a nonprofit regional theatre: producing our own small tours, first for Arthur Miller’s A View From The Bridge and now for Bright Star.

“As the original producer of these tours, we don’t hand off the play to the next theatre,” said Center Theatre Group Producing Director Douglas C. Baker.

“Instead, we remain the producer and employer of the show and its cast and crew. Doing so can help us defray the cost of producing a show, including production and rehearsal costs, while getting our brand out into the world.”

After playing the Ahmanson, A View From The Bridge headed to the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Bright Star heads to San Francisco’s Curran Theater and Salt Lake City’s Pioneer Theatre Company after L.A. Continues on page 18

Carmen Cusack and the Bright Star original Broadway company. Photo by Nick Stokes.

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How and Why We Produce Shows as They Move Beyond Los Angeles

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“I stay in touch with colleagues scattered around the country who produce or present largescale work,” explained Baker. “Through those relationships, I discover we have a mutual interest in a show or artists. That’s where the kernel of an idea to tour a production begins.”

In many cases, these shows might not make it beyond New York or Los Angeles otherwise.

“Many of our partner theatres typically present national tours that are produced by New York or London commercial producers,” said Baker.

“They know they can rely on Center Theatre Group to bring them a show that’s every bit as high-quality. And since we are producing, the artists are comfortable with the project proceeding, too.”

Producing tours also helps Center Theatre Group create and sustain long-term relationships with artists.

Baker pointed to Caroline, or Change, which we remounted as a Center Theatre Group production at the Ahmanson in 2004 and then toured to the Curran after it closed on Broadway.

Caroline, or Change was a continuation of book and lyrics writer Tony Kushner and director George C. Wolfe’s long histories at Center Theatre Group and also helped set the stage for composer Jeanine Tesori to return to the Ahmanson with Fun Home and the upcoming Soft Power. “It was challenging to produce, but a powerful, wonderful show,”

said Baker. “Had we not done it, it wouldn’t have been seen on this coast with a full-scale Broadway physical production and with original Broadway star Tonya Pinkins.”

Baker also pointed to Neil Simon’s The Dinner Party, which had its World premiere at the Mark Taper Forum in 1999, as another example of a successful tour produced by Center Theatre Group. “It was a very popular show at the Taper with John Ritter and Henry Winkler,” said Baker. “I knew that Neil Simon’s shows had had successful pre-Broadway runs in Washington, D.C., and I knew the Kennedy Center needed a show. So I approached John and Henry about going to Washington, and I approached the Kennedy Center, and everyone said yes. So we toured the show to the Kennedy Center, and it was a big hit there. Neil Simon and his commercial producer hadn’t been planning to bring it to Broadway, but they saw the show was such a hit that they decided to take it to Broadway, and it ended up playing there for a year. To this day, whenever I run into Henry Winkler, as I did on an airplane recently, Henry smiles broadly when we reminisce about our Dinner Party journey.”

While touring these shows bring a lot of benefits, they also involve a massive amount of work for the Center Theatre Group management, production, and finance teams. “We all have day jobs,” joked Baker about running three theatres in Los Angeles simultaneously, “and it’s not like we stop producing in Los Angeles while a show is on tour. It’s kind of like adding on another theatre. It really maxes out our resources and our staff.”

At the end of the day, the most important people who benefit are audience members. “A View From The Bridge was Ivo van Hove’s first time on the West Coast,” said Baker. “And we’re very fortunate to be working on Bright Star with two more of the best artists in the world in Steve Martin and Edie Brickell.”

(L–R) Tonya Pinkins in Caroline, or Change. John Ritter and Henry Winkler in The Dinner Party. Photos by Craig Schwartz.

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The Blue Ribbon Supports (and Enjoys) THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME Our engagement of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at the Ahmanson Theatre was generously supported in part by The Blue Ribbon, the premier women’s support organization of The Music Center. In honor of their contribution, The Blue Ribbon enjoyed a special night out at the show on September 10, 2017. The event was part of their Sampler Series, which gives members and their guests special opportunities to sample outstanding productions across The Music Center campus.

(L–R) Dinner co-chairs Robin Blake, Maralee Beck, and Marla Lefton.

Photo by Will Tee Yang.

The evening began with dinner at The BoardRoom featuring a guest speaker offering a preview of the show and a glimpse at the work that goes on behind the scenes: Production Stage Manager C. Randall White. Then the group headed over to the Ahmanson Theatre, where they were greeted with seat gifts before the curtain rose.

“The evening was filled with superb cuisine, creative libations, magnificent wine pairing, and laughter with friends,” said Marla Lefton, who co-chaired the dinner.

“But the highlight was the performance. It was flawlessly executed.”

Sampler Series Co-Chairs Ames Cushing and Judy Beckmen concurred. “We were thrilled to have an important Tony Award-winning play available to Blue Ribbon members,” they said. “Intense, thought-provoking, educational, poignant, beautifully acted, wonderful and creative staging…This was a major production with an important overall storyline.”

Indeed, the choice of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, the story of a teenager’s life-changing journey, was particularly appropriate for The Blue Ribbon, which has raised more than $74 million for The Music Center, its education programs, and its resident companies. Their annual Blue Ribbon Children’s Festival, designed specifically for fifth grade students, is an admissionfree program that has welcomed more than 800,000 children to The Music Center since 1970.

“The Blue Ribbon believes in supporting all the performing arts organizations at The Music Center and we are committed to providing monetary support for arts education,” said Blue Ribbon President Jill Baldauf.

Production Stage Manager C. Randall White. Photo by Will Tee Yang.

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In 2018, Ahmanson audiences will experience Soft Power, a World premiere from theatrical titans David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly) and Jeanine Tesori (Fun Home).

Center Theatre Group Partners With East West Players on

SOFT POWER Not only does this World premiere bring together two of the most well-respected artists in the American theatre for the first time, it also reunites Center Theatre Group and East West Players (EWP). Center Theatre Group last partnered with EWP in 2007 on our production of Hwang’s Yellow Face at the Taper. This time around, EWP will add Soft Power to their 2017/18 Season and will also collaborate with us on four Community Conversations leading up to the play’s premiere.

Both Hwang and Tesori are recent Center Theatre Group collaborators. Taper audiences may remember Hwang’s 2002 Tony®-nominated revival of Flower Drum Song, while Ahmanson audiences are sure to recall our 2017 production of Tesori’s Tony-winning Fun Home. With Soft Power, the pair turn their eyes to East-meets-West musicals, China’s 21ST-century rise, and American politics.

“When we started talking with our colleagues at East West Players about ways to collaborate,” said Michael Ritchie, Center Theatre Group’s Artistic Director, “we quickly realized that Soft Power was the perfect opportunity for us to continue a tradition of artistic partnership by bringing our audiences together once again for a unique new work from David Henry Hwang.”

Telling a story that begins as a contemporary play before jumping 100 years into the future and exploding into a Chinese musical about present-day America, Soft Power is inspired by the West’s often ridiculously inauthentic portrayals of Asia in popular culture. It’s a subject perfect for our free Community Conversations program, which brings together local thought leaders to facilitate discussion about the themes and ideas in the plays on our stages.

“With this production, our relationship with Center Theatre Group will continue to deepen as we initiate a series of joint Community Conversations on Asian American representation and storytelling,” said Snehal Desai, EWP’s Producing Artistic Director.

Soft Power plays the Ahmanson May 3 – June 10, 2018. The four joint Community Conversations began on October 26, 2017, and continue on January 18, 2018, March 15, 2018, and June 5, 2018.

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William Kentridge Refuse the Hour Composed by Philip Miller Choreography by Dada Masilo Video Design by Catherine Meyburgh Dramaturgy by Peter Galison

South African artist William Kentridge offers a phantasmagoric investigation of time in this multimedia chamber opera.

Fri, Nov 17 & Sat, Nov 18 Royce Hall Only two performances

cap.ucla.edu 310-825-2101 @CAP_UCLA Funds provided by the Sally & William A. Rutter Endowment for the Performing Arts and Fariba Ghaffari. Photo by John Hodgkiss.

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Center Theatre Group Brings

DISNEY MUSICALS IN SCHOOLS to Los Angeles Photo by Matt Masin.

To add to the experience, Center Theatre Group will host a Student Share Celebration where selected schools will also have the chance to perform a musical number from their show onstage at the Mark Taper Forum for an audience of students, teachers, and family members.

Photo by Mimosa Arts.

Disney movies transcend generations. Grandparents, parents, and children have fallen in love with Snow White and her seven dwarves, have found a hero in Simba, a role model in Belle or Teanna, a mother in Mary Poppins.The songs from these movies are as beloved and unforgettable as the characters (we couldn’t forget Frozen if we tried).

In 2010, Disney Theatrical Productions (responsible for such Broadway hits as Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King) gave elementary schoolers a gift perhaps greater than the original films—the Disney Musicals in Schools Program, which helps build sustainable theatre programs in under-resourced public schools.

This August, Center Theatre Group received a $100,000 grant from Disney to bring the Disney Musicals in Schools Program to the Los Angeles area for the next two years. Local public elementary schools will collaborate with Center Theatre Group on 17-week in-school residencies that will expose students and faculty members to the wide spectrum of skills that are developed when producing a piece of musical theatre.

Participating schools will receive free performance rights to Disney KIDS Musicals like 101 Dalmatians and Aladdin, a variety of educational materials, and guidance from two Center Theatre Group Teaching Artists. The program will culminate in a 30-minute Disney KIDS Musical performance at their school.

“Following years of successfully collaborating with Disney to bring shows such as Mary Poppins, Aida, and Peter and the Starcatcher to Los Angeles, we are thrilled to become the newest partner in the Disney Musicals in Schools Program,” said Center Theatre Group Director of Social Strategy, Innovation and Impact Leslie K. Johnson. “The program’s focus on building educators’ capacity to teach musical theatre aligns well with our commitment to supporting teachers as artists and instructional leaders in their own communities.”

Visit CTGLA.org/ DisneyMusicalsInSchools to learn more about the Disney Musicals in Schools program and the rest of the work we do with schools and educators across Southern California.

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BRIGHT STAR

Music, Book, and Story

by Steve Martin Music, Lyrics, and Story

by Edie Brickell Choreography by Josh Rhodes Directed by Walter Bobbie Oct 11 – Nov 19, 2017 SECOND SEASON PRODUCTION

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We would like to take this opportunity to thank the following donors who have made extraordinary investments in Center Theatre Group’s future.

Their support will ensure that Center Theatre Group—and Los Angeles audiences and artists— enjoy another 50 years of theatrical excellence.

GIFTS OF $5,000,000 AND ABOVE Brindell Roberts Gottlieb Kirk & Anne Douglas Ahmanson Foundation GIFTS OF $1,000,000 AND ABOVE Laura & James Rosenwald & Orinoco Foundation Renee & Meyer Luskin The Annenberg Foundation Edgerton Foundation Kiki & David Gindler Patricia Glaser & Sam Mudie Aliza Karney Guren & Marc Guren Ann & Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr. Sue Tsao Anonymous (2) GIFTS OF $500,000 AND ABOVE Deena & Edward Nahmias Amy Forbes & Andrew Murr Jerry & Terri Kohl Michael Ritchie & Kate Burton Elliott Sernel

Anonymous The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Diana Buckhantz & the Vladimir and Araxia Buckhantz Foundation Vicki King Louise Moriarty Thomas Safran Judie Stein & Stein Family Foundation GIFTS OF $100,000 AND ABOVE Jody & David Lippman The Campagna Family Deidra Norman Schumann Donna & John Sussman Yvonne & Derek Bell Mara & Joseph Carieri Friars Charitable Foundation Cindy & Gary Frischling Bill Resnick & Michael Stubbs Cheryl A. Shepherd GIFTS OF $50,000 AND ABOVE Anne Bruner & Jim Bremner Patrick Owen & Norman Dixon Carol & Stephen Rountree Sunshine Stone Peter & Iona Tompkins Hope Landis Warner

GIFTS OF $250,000 AND ABOVE Joni & Miles Benickes Donna Schweers & Tom Geiser Nancy & Eric Garen

Center Theatre Group would also like to thank the following donors for making commitments to the 50 Anniversary Campaign through legacy gifts to our Endowment: TH

Legacy Gifts $1,000,000 AND ABOVE Judith & Thomas Beckmen Martin Massman Diane & Leon Morton $500,000 AND ABOVE Richard & Norma Camp Susan A. Grode Linda S. Peterson

OTHER LEGACY GIFTS Maynard & Linda Brittan Steven Llanusa & Glenn Miya, M.D. Gloria Lothrop Carol & Douglas Mancino Renee & Robert Nunn Nan Rae Randy & Bruce Ross Wes Schaefer & Cathy King-Schaefer

$250,000 AND ABOVE Pamela & Dennis Beck Shirley & Irving Ashkenas Bill Cohn & Dan Miller Maggy Simon I.H. Sutnick

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MICHAEL RITCHIE Artistic Director | STEPHEN D. ROUNTREE Managing Director | DOUGLAS C. BAKER Producing Director GORDON DAVIDSON Founding Artistic Director

CENTER THEATRE GROUP

BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT WITH

JOEY PARNES

SUE WAGNER

THE CURRAN AT&T PAC/SHN BROADWAY SERIES SOUTH

JOHN JOHNSON

BLUMENTHAL PERFORMING ARTS THEATRE UNDER THE STARS

IN ASSOCIATION WITH

THE OLD GLOBE PRESENT

inspired by a true event

MUSIC, BOOK & STORY BY

MUSIC, LYRICS & STORY BY

Steve Martin

Edie Brickell

WITH

Carmen Cusack Stephen Lee Anderson David Atkinson Jeff Austin Maddie Shea Baldwin Jeff Blumenkrantz Allison Briner-Dardenne Patrick Cummings Kaitlyn Davidson A.J. Shively AND

Devin Archer Kelly Baker Robin De Lano Richard Gatta Kevin McMahon Alessa Neeck

Audrey Cardwell Max Chernin David Kirk Grant Donna Louden Robert Pieranunzi Michael Starr

SCENIC DESIGN COSTUME DESIGN LIGHTING DESIGN SOUND DESIGN

Eugene Lee

Jane Greenwood

Japhy Weideman

Nevin Steinberg

HAIR & WIG DESIGN SCENIC DESIGN SUPERVISION ASSOCIATE CHOREOGRAPHER

Tom Watson

Edward Pierce

Lee Wilkins

ORCHESTRATIONS MUSIC DIRECTION MUSIC COORDINATOR

August Eriksmoen

Anthony De Angelis

ORIGINAL NEW YORK CASTING

ADDITIONAL NEW YORK CASTING

Howard Cherpakov, csa

Calleri Casting

Seymour Red Press LOS ANGELES CASTING

Michael Donovan, csa

PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER COMPANY MANAGER TOURING TECHNICAL SUPERVISOR

Anjee Nero

David van Zyll de Jong

Larry Morley

MUSIC SUPERVISOR SUPERVISING MUSIC DIRECTOR & VOCAL ARRANGEMENTS

Peter Asher

Rob Berman

CHOREOGRAPHY BY

Josh Rhodes DIRECTED BY

Walter Bobbie A workshop production of Bright Star was presented by New York Stage and Film & Vassar at the Powerhouse Theater, Summer 2013.

World Premiere at The Old Globe, San Diego, CA, on September 28, 2014.

Barry Edelstein, Artistic Director Michael G. Murphy, Managing Director

October 11 – November 19, 2017 AHMANSON THEATRE PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P3

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CAST In order of appearance

Alice Murphy.............................................................................................................CARMEN CUSACK Billy Cane...........................................................................................................................A.J. SHIVELY Daddy Cane................................................................................................................DAVID ATKINSON Margo Crawford..............................................................................................MADDIE SHEA BALDWIN Max................................................................................................................................MAX CHERNIN Florence........................................................................................................................ ALESSA NEECK Edna...................................................................................................................... AUDREY CARDWELL Daryl Ames........................................................................................................ JEFF BLUMENKRANTZ Lucy Grant..............................................................................................................KAITLYN DAVIDSON Jimmy Ray Dobbs.................................................................................................PATRICK CUMMINGS Daddy Murphy............................................................................................. STEPHEN LEE ANDERSON Mama Murphy........................................................................................ ALLISON BRINER-DARDENNE Mayor Josiah Dobbs..........................................................................................................JEFF AUSTIN Stanford Adams.........................................................................................................KEVIN McMAHON Dr. Norquist............................................................................................................ DAVID KIRK GRANT County Clerk................................................................................................................ ROBIN DE LANO Ensemble............................ DEVIN ARCHER, AUDREY CARDWELL, MAX CHERNIN, ROBIN DE LANO, ........................................ DAVID KIRK GRANT, KEVIN McMAHON, ALESSA NEECK, MICHAEL STARR UNDERSTUDIES Should an understudy substitute for a listed performer, it will be posted in the lobby at the time of the performance.

For Alice Murphy: AUDREY CARDWELL, DONNA LOUDEN; For Jimmy Ray Dobbs: DEVIN ARCHER For Daryl Ames: MAX CHERNIN; For Billy Cane: MICHAEL STARR For Daddy Cane: KEVIN McMAHON; For Lucy Grant: ALESSA NEECK For Daddy Murphy: DAVID KIRK GRANT, ROBERT PIERANUNZI; For Mama Murphy: ROBIN DE LANO For Mayor Josiah Dobbs: DAVID KIRK GRANT; For Margo Crawford: ALESSA NEECK SWINGS KELLY BAKER, RICHARD GATTA, DONNA LOUDEN, ROBERT PIERANUNZI DANCE CAPTAIN/FIGHT CAPTAIN RICHARD GATTA ASSISTANT DANCE CAPTAIN ROBERT PIERANUNZI STAGE MANAGERS KIRSTEN PARKER SUSIE WALSH INTERMISSION Bright Star is performed with one intermission.

TIME/PLACE 1945–1946, and 22 years earlier. North Carolina.

Please turn off all electronic devices such as cellular phones, PDAs, beepers, and watch alarms. The use of any recording device, either audio or video, and the taking of photographs, with or without flash, is strictly prohibited.

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MUSICAL NUMBERS ACT ONE “IF YOU KNEW MY STORY”............................................................................................ Alice, Company “SHE’S GONE”.............................................................................................................Daddy Cane, Billy “BRIGHT STAR”...............................................................................................................Billy, Ensemble “WAY BACK IN THE DAY”*............................................................................................ Alice, Ensemble “WHOA, MAMA”..........................................................................................Jimmy Ray, Alice, Ensemble “FIRMER HAND/DO RIGHT”......................................... Daddy Murphy, Mama Murphy, Alice, Ensemble “A MAN’S GOTTA DO”.....................................................................................Mayor Dobbs, Jimmy Ray “ASHEVILLE”............................................................................................................... Margo, Ensemble “WHAT COULD BE BETTER”.......................................................................Jimmy Ray, Alice, Ensemble “I CAN’T WAIT”............................................................................................Alice, Jimmy Ray, Ensemble “PLEASE DON’T TAKE HIM”.................................... Mayor Dobbs, Alice, Daddy Murphy, Mama Murphy, ...............................................................................................................................Stanford, Ensemble “A MAN’S GOTTA DO” (Reprise)....................................................................... Mayor Dobbs, Ensemble ACT TWO ENTR’ ACTE...........................................................................................................................The Band “SUN IS GONNA SHINE”....................................................................... Alice, Mama Murphy, Ensemble “HEARTBREAKER”................................................................................................................ Jimmy Ray “ANOTHER ROUND”....................................................................................Lucy, Daryl, Billy, Ensemble “I HAD A VISION”.........................................................................................................Alice, Jimmy Ray “ALWAYS WILL”.................................................................................................... Billy, Margo, Ensemble “I CAN’T WAIT” (Reprise).........................................................................................................Ensemble “SO FAMILIAR”.............................................................................................................. Alice, Ensemble “AT LONG LAST”*.......................................................................................................... Alice, Ensemble “FINALE”................................................................................................................................. Company *Music and Lyrics by Edie Brickell ORCHESTRA Music Director/Conductor/Piano/Accordion.......................................................ANTHONY DE ANGELIS Associate Conductor/Accordion/Auto Harp................................................................... JASON YARCHO Banjo/Acoustic Guitar...............................................................................................GEORGE GUTHRIE Acoustic Guitar/Electric Guitar..............................................................................................ERIC DAVIS Mandolin/Acoustic Guitar............................................................................................. WAYNE FUGATE Violin................................................................................................................. MARTHA McDONNELL Bass................................................................................................................................... SKIP WARD Drums/Percussion............................................................................................................JOE MOWATT Viola/Violin.........................................................................................................................DAVID GOLD Cello............................................................................................................................ DAVID MERGEN Music Supervisor............................................................................................................PETER ASHER Supervising Music Director/Vocal Arrangements.............................................................ROB BERMAN Music Coordinator.............................................................................................SEYMOUR RED PRESS

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WHO’S WHO CARMEN CUSACK (Alice Murphy).

Tony -nominated for her 2016 Broadway debut in Bright Star. Recently performed one-woman show, Do This (Gulfshore Playhouse), and Sunday in the Park with George (City Center). Off-Broadway: Carrie. National tours: Wicked, South Pacific. Regional: For the Record: Scorsese (The Wallis), First Wives Club (Chicago’s Oriental Theatre), Sunday in the Park with George (Chicago Shakespeare). West End: Over the Rainbow, Les Misérables, The Secret Garden, Personals, Phantom of the Opera.

Studied opera at University of North Texas. ®

STEPHEN LEE ANDERSON (Daddy Murphy). Regional: Richard III, Old Vic and BAM, dir. Sam Mendes; The Iceman Cometh, BAM. Broadway: Productions including Bright Star, Spider-Man, Wicked, Julius Caesar, The Crucible, Footloose, The Capeman, The Kentucky Cycle.

Off-Broadway: Violet, Floyd Collins (Playwrights Horizons), Atlantic Theater Company, Vineyard Theatre, MTC. Regional: The Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, Huntington Theatre (IRNE Award Best Supporting Actor, Bus Stop), Long Wharf, Denver Center (seven seasons).

Film/TV: The Treatment, Daredevil, Public Morals, Orange Is the New Black, Elementary, Madam Secretary.

DAVID ATKINSON (Daddy Cane) is a proud native of Atlanta, a graduate of University of Georgia, and a member of Actors Co-op, Hollywood. Regional: Parade (Merry-Go-Round), Billy Elliot (La Mirada), The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and Urban Cowboy (TUTS Houston), Trails (NYMF, World premiere).

L.A.: Bonnie & Clyde, Lucky Stiff, Big River, Guys and Dolls, Man of La Mancha, The Spitfire Grill. TV/film: American Made, Snowfall, Scandal, 2 Broke Girls, Castle, 50 to 1, Longmire, Justified, CSI, and True Blood.

JEFF AUSTIN (Mayor Josiah Dobbs). L.A.: Singin’ In the Rain, Annie (MT West), Candide (Ahmanson Theatre), Annie Get Your Gun (South Bay CLO), Chess (Long Beach CLO). Regional: Sweeney Todd (Clarence Brown Theatre), Gypsy (Sundance Theatre), Kismet (Riverside

CLO). National tours: City Of Angels, Unsinkable Molly Brown, Evita (European tour). Film: Armageddon, L.A. Confidential. TV: Grace & Frankie, How to Get Away with Murder, NCIS: Los Angeles, Castle, How I Met Your Mother, The Closer, Bones, The King of Queens, Without a Trace, NYPD Blue, Carnivàle.

MADDIE SHEA BALDWIN (Margo Crawford). Broadway: Bright Star. New York: A Wall Apart (New York Musical Festival). Favorite regional: Back Home Again (Lesher Center), Bright Star (Kennedy Center), How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Ace (The Old Globe), Little Women (North Coast Rep). Proud Indiana University MT grad of 2015. Special thanks to the entire Bright Star team for including me on this special journey over the past two years. Thanks also to Nicolosi & Co, and my loving and supportive family. Jeremiah 29:11.

Instagram: @madeline__shea

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JEFF BLUMENKRANTZ (Daryl Ames) originated the role of Daryl on Broadway, where he also appeared in A Class Act, How to Succeed…, Damn Yankees, Threepenny Opera, and Into the Woods.

L.A. audiences may remember Jeff as The Suspects in Murder for Two at the Geffen. On camera appearances include The Big Sick, The Detour, 30 Rock, The Good Wife, Joseph…

Dreamcoat, Will & Grace, Law & Order(s) as well as the NY Philharmonic/PBS productions of Sweeney Todd and Candide. jeffblumenkrantz.com ALLISON BRINER-DARDENNE (Mama Murphy). Bright Star: The Old Globe, Kennedy Center. Broadway: Bright Star, Mamma Mia! National tours: Follies (Ahmanson Theatre), Mamma Mia!, White Christmas, Les Misérables, Titanic. Off-Broadway: Forbidden Broadway, Listen to My Heart, Return to the Forbidden Planet. June Carter Cash in Ring of Fire (Alabama Shakespeare Festival, St. Louis Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, Arizona Theatre Company, Syracuse Stage), plus over 25 other regional credits. TV: The Carrie Diaries, Law & Order, SVU, All My Children, One Life to Live.

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PATRICK CUMMINGS (Jimmy Ray Dobbs).

Broadway: Bright Star. New York: This Is How It Ends (59E59), New Girl in Town, Donnybrook, Transport (Irish Repertory), It Must Be Him (Peter Jay Sharp), Happiness (Mitzi Newhouse). Regional: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Paper Mill Playhouse, Pittsburgh CLO, Kansas City Starlight, Moonlight Amphitheatre, Musical Theatre West, and more. TV/film: Hostages (Robert Harper), Madam Secretary, The Blacklist, Pittsburgh! BFA in acting from Carnegie Mellon. Thanks to CGF, Alessa, and my family for their steadfast support.

KAITLYN DAVIDSON (Lucy Grant).

Broadway: Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Nice Work If You Can Get It. National tour: Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Ella), Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (Judy). Other New York: The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin (Encores!). Select regional: Mrs. Miller Does Her Thing (Signature Theatre, Carol Sue), Chicago (Riverside Theatre, Roxie), The Music Man (The Cape Playhouse, Marian Paroo), 42 Street (The Marriott Theatre, Peggy Sawyer). CCM alum.

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A.J. SHIVELY (Billy Cane). Broadway: Bright Star (Drama Desk nom.), La Cage aux Folles. Off-Broadway: February House (The Public), The Suitcase Under the Bed (Mint Theater), Brigadoon (Irish Rep.), Unlock’d (Prospect), A Contemporary…Successful Marriage (Cherry Lane), Things to Ruin (Second Stage), Little Airplanes of the Heart (Ensemble Studio Theatre). Regional: Kennedy Center, McCarter, The Old Globe, TUTS, Long Wharf. TV/film: Homeland, The Blacklist, Younger, The Daily Show, Syrup, HairBrained, Nobody Walks in L.A., From Nowhere. BFA: University of Michigan. ajshively.com

DEVIN ARCHER (Ensemble, Understudy for Jimmy Ray Dobbs). National tours: Mamma Mia! Las Vegas: Mamma Mia!, Ace. L.A.: The Last Five Years and Rent (McCoy Rigby), Tarzan (3D Theatricals), Les Misérables (Musical Theatre West). Chicago: Follies (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), Fiddler on the Roof (Marriott Lincolnshire), Departure Lounge (Bailiwick), Twelfth Night (Notre Dame Shakespeare). Graduate of Northwestern University (Go ‘Cats!). @devinjarcher KELLY BAKER (Swing) is thrilled to be joining the Bright Star cast in her first national tour! Kelly recently graduated from UCLA’s Ray Bolger Musical Theater Program where she performed roles such as Norma (Carrie) and Celeste #2 (Sunday in the Park…). Other credits: Cinderella (Into the Woods), Belle (Beauty and the Beast), Laurey (Oklahoma!). Much love and thanks to Anthony Boyer (DDO Artists Agency), Michael Donovan, my family, and my friends!

AUDREY CARDWELL (Ensemble, Edna, Understudy for Alice Murphy). National tours: Cinderella (Ella), Anything Goes, Elf. Regional: The Old Globe and Asolo Rep (Sarah Brown, Guys and Dolls), The Muny, North Shore Music Theatre, Houston Theatre Under the Stars, Dallas Summer Musicals, Pennsylvania Centre Stage. BFA, Penn State University. @akatcard MAX CHERNIN (Ensemble, Max, Understudy for Daryl Ames). Broadway: Sunday in the Park with George, Bright Star. New York: Brooklynite (Vineyard Theatre), The Golden Apple (City Center Encores!), Claudio Quest (NYMF).

Regional: Bright Star (The Old Globe, Kennedy Center). TV/film: Mozart in the Jungle, The Family, The Week Of. Many thanks to Nicolosi & Co., and my family. @maxcherns maxchernin.com

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ROBIN DE LANO (Ensemble, County Clerk, Understudy for Mama Murphy). L.A.: Mama Mia! (Hollywood Bowl), Song and Dance, A Chorus Line, The Last Five Years, High Fidelity, Zorro, Tick, Tick, Boom!, Closer Than Ever (Garland Award), Joseph…Dreamcoat. Film: @GirlsIAuditionWith (HollyShorts Comedy Finalist), First Comes Like, Inferno, 66 Drive, Harmony, Let the Right One In, and Zombie Prom. TV: Rosewood, The Temp, Passions, Journeyman. Check out her awardwinning sketch show on Instagram: @GirlsIAuditionWith RICHARD GATTA (Dance Captain, Fight Captain, Swing). Most recently, Richard served as the dance captain for the Broadway production of Bright Star. NYC: Zorba, Countess of Storyville, Back Home Again (Asst. Choreographer), Beatsville (Associate Choreographer). Tours: R+H Cinderella, Billy Elliot (Asst. Resident Choreographer, USA/Brazil), Fiddler on the Roof, The Pajama Game, Grease. Richard holds a BS in business economics & arts management from Empire State College and serves as the Assistant Artistic Director of Northeast Ballet Company. @richardgatta richardgatta.com DAVID KIRK GRANT (Ensemble, Dr. Norquist, Understudy for Mayor Josiah Dobbs and Daddy Murphy). National tours: 42 Street (Julian Marsh), The Music Man (Charlie Cowell/Harold Hill), H.M.S. Pinafore (Dick Deadeye), The Pirates of Penzance (Pirate King).

Regional: How The Grinch Stole Christmas (The Old Globe), Kiss Me, Kate (Pasadena Playhouse), Side Show (La Jolla Playhouse, dir. Bill Condon), Parade, Man of La Mancha (San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Award nom.), The Producers, Evita, Footloose, Ring of Fire.

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DONNA LOUDEN (Swing, Understudy for Alice Murphy). Select credits: Frozen— Live at the Hyperion (Disney’s California Adventure), The Scarlet Pimpernel (Contempo Productions), You Can Be Anything (Mattel), Sister Act, Disney’s When You Wish, and Beauty

and the Beast (Tuacahn Center for the Arts), Seussical The Musical (3-D Theatricals), Music Man and Young Frankenstein (Musical Theatre West), Rent (Lawrence Welk Theatre), Godspell (ACTC). Love to my family. Instagram: @donnajeanie​ donnalouden.com KEVIN McMAHON (Ensemble, Stanford Adams, Understudy for Daddy Cane).

Broadway tours: Wicked, City of Angels.

Off-Broadway: Little Moon of Alban.

Center Theatre Group: A Little Night Music. Regional: Forever Plaid (San Diego, Las Vegas), The Fantasticks (Ford’s), A Little Night Music (South Coast Rep), Sweeney Todd (Sacramento Music Circus). L.A.: Carousel, Full Monty (Musical Theatre West–Ovation nom.), Hunchback of Notre Dame (McCoy Rigby), A New Brain (Musical Theatre Guild), Children of Eden (Cabrillo). TV/ film: Merchants and Masterpieces, Little Secrets. Twitter/ Instagram: @kbmcmahonjr kevin-mcmahon.com ALESSA NEECK (Ensemble, Florence, Understudy for Margo Crawford and Lucy Grant). Broadway: Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Ella Alternate/ original Broadway company), White Christmas (OBC). Off-Broadway: Happiness (Young Helen/LCT), No, No, Nanette (Encores!). National tour: Little House on the Prairie, The Musical (Mary Ingalls). Recent regional: South Pacific (Nellie/MTW), The Music Man (Marian/Moonlight Stages), The Great American Mousical (Wendy/Goodspeed), Anything Goes (Hope/NSMT), Bye Bye Birdie (Kim/NSMT), 42 St. (Peggy/PCLO), Head Over Heels (Philoclea/Oregon Shakespeare Festival). Love and thanks to my family, Patrick, and CGF! nd

ROBERT PIERANUNZI (Swing, Assistant Dance Captain). Regional favorites: Mary Poppins (Bert), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Jimmy), West Side Story (Riff), I Only Have Eyes For You (Busby Berkeley), Cats (Munkustrap, Rum Tum Tugger), Bye Bye Birdie (Albert Peterson), Meet Me in St. Louis (Lon), Dames at Sea (Lucky), Cinderella (Prince Charming), and Grease (Kenickie) to name a few. Love to the most amazing family, friends, and this entire creative team.

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MICHAEL STARR (Ensemble, Understudy for Billy Cane). UCLA alum. Regional: Romy & Michele’s HS Reunion (5th Avenue Theatre), Kiss Me, Kate (Hartford Stage/The Old Globe). L.A.: Mamma Mia! and A Chorus Line (Hollywood Bowl), Frozen (Disneyland), Carrie: The Musical (The Los Angeles Theatre), Salome and Wonderful Town (LA Opera), West Side Story and Empire: The Musical (McCoy Rigby), Footloose, Oklahoma!, Big Fish.

Many thanks to the brilliant Bright Star team and his loving family! @mjstarr77 STEVE MARTIN (Music, Book & Original Story) is one of the most well-known and pervasive talents in entertainment and one of the most diversified performers in the industry today, a successful author, playwright, producer, actor, screenwriter, and comedian for more than three decades. His work has earned him an Academy Award , five Grammy Awards (two for comedy, three for music), the Mark Twain Award, and the Kennedy Center Honor. Martin’s films are widely popular successes, such as The Jerk (1979, also screenplay), Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987), Roxanne (1987, also screenplay), Parenthood (1989), L.A. Story (1991, also screenplay), Father of the Bride (1991), and Bowfinger (1999, also screenplay). As an author, Martin’s work includes the plays Picasso at the Lapin Agile and The Underpants, the bestselling novella, Shopgirl, and his memoir, Born Standing Up. Steve Martin is also an accomplished Grammy Awardwinning, boundary-pushing bluegrass banjoist and composer. In 2013, Martin released his third full-length album called Love Has Come For You, a unique collaboration with songwriter Edie Brickell. Love Has Come For You won a Grammy for Best American Roots Song for the title track and inspired their musical Bright Star, which opened on Broadway in March 2016 and received five Tony Award nominations and seven Drama Desk Award nominations, winning for Outstanding Music. Bright Star also won Outstanding New Broadway Musical and Outstanding New Score at the Outer Critics Circle Awards.

Martin and Brickell’s second album together, So Familiar, was released on Rounder Records and featured 12 remarkable songs that brought the acclaimed duo’s musical ®

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collaboration into fresh creative territory. Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers released their newest collaboration, The Long-Awaited Album, on Rounder Records on September 22, 2017.

EDIE BRICKELL (Music, Lyrics & Original Story) released the debut multi-platinum album Shooting Rubber Bands at the Stars with New Bohemians in 1988.

Her recent works include a 13-track collaboration with Steve Martin titled Love Has Come For You. The album won a Grammy for Best American Roots Song and inspired the musical Bright Star. Their second album, So Familiar, is out now.

WALTER BOBBIE (Director) directed the New York productions of Bright Star, Venus in Fur, The Landing, Golden Age, School for Lies, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, Chicago, The Submission, Cabin Pressure, The Savannah Disputation, New Jerusalem, High Fidelity, The Other Woman, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, Sweet Charity, Twentieth Century, Footloose, Durang/Durang, For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls, and A Grand Night for Singing. He was Artistic Director of City Center Encores! where he also directed Fiorello!, Chicago, Tenderloin, Golden Boy, No, No, Nanette, and Zorba as well as the Carnegie Hall concerts of South Pacific and Carousel. Mr. Bobbie recently premiered Paul Rudnick’s Big Night at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. He serves on the Board of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. He is the recipient of Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Tony Awards.

JOSH RHODES (Choreographer) choreographed the Broadway productions of Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella (L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award Winner, Outer Critics Circle, Astaire, and Drama Desk Award nominations), It Shoulda Been You, First Date, and Bright Star (Outer Critics Circle and Astaire Award nominations). On London’s West End, he choreographed Carousel at the English National Opera and Sweeney Todd starring Emma Thompson. City Center Encores!: Zorba and Big River. Other theatre credits include Company starring Neil Patrick Harris (PBS), Sondheim: The Birthday Concert (PBS), The Landing (Vineyard Theatre), Broadway: Three Generations (Kennedy Center), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Shakespeare Theatre Company), and Working (Prospect Theatre).

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Mr. Rhodes directed Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville (The Old Globe), Guys and Dolls (Asolo Rep and The Old Globe), Spamalot (5th Avenue Theatre), and Celestina Warbeck and the Banshees in Diagon Alley at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. He is a proud graduate of the University of Michigan.

Addams Family, Annie, Act One, You Can’t Take It With You, The King & I (LCT & tour), The Sound of Music (national tour), Dames at Sea, Thérèse Raquin, Fiddler on the Roof, Bright Star (Broadway & tour), Oslo (LCT), Long Day’s Journey into Night, Falsettos, and The Little Foxes. Upcoming: Junk (LCT) and The Parisian Woman (Broadway).

EUGENE LEE (Scenic Design) has been the production designer for Saturday Night Live since 1974 and also designed The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Late Night With Seth Meyers. He’s received Tony, Emmy, Outer Critic Circle, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Pell, and Elliot Norton Awards, and the American Theatre Wing’s Design Award. He was recently inducted into New York’s Theater Hall of Fame and is currently represented on Broadway by Wicked. He lives with his wife, Brooke, in Providence, RI.

EDWARD PIERCE (Scenic Design Supervisor). Select Broadway: Amazing Grace, Holler If Ya Hear Me, The Other Place, A Streetcar Named Desire, Wicked (all worldwide productions). edwardpierce.com

JANE GREENWOOD (Costume Design). Originally from Liverpool, England, Ms. Greenwood was educated at the Central School of Arts in London. She has designed for theatre, opera, dance, and film, including over 125 productions for Broadway since Ballad of the Sad Café in 1963. Awards include 21 Tony nominations (including a Lifetime Achievement Tony) and this year’s Tony Award for The Little Foxes. She is also in the Theater Hall of Fame.

Professor of Design at the Yale School of Drama since 1976.

JAPHY WEIDEMAN (Lighting Designer). Broadway: Dear Evan Hansen, The Visit, The Nance, Of Mice and Men, Airline Highway (all received Tony nominations for Best Lighting). Other Broadway: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Bright Star, Sylvia, Old Times, The Heidi Chronicles, Macbeth (Drama Desk nomination), Cyrano de Bergerac, and The Snow Geese. Off-Broadway: Lincoln Center Theater, The Public Theater, NYTW, Second Stage, Playwrights Horizons, MTC, MCC, LAByrinth, and The Vineyard. West End: A Nice Fish (Harold Pinter Theatre), Blackbird (Albery Theatre).

NEVIN STEINBERG (Sound Design). Recent Broadway: Dear Evan Hansen, Hamilton, Bandstand, It Shoulda Been You, Mothers and Sons, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Tony nomination), The Performers, Magic/Bird. Nevin is the audio consultant for Carnegie Hall’s Isaac Stern Auditorium.

TOM WATSON (Hair & Wig Design) headed the wig and makeup department at The Metropolitan Opera for 17 years.

He has designed more than 80 Broadway productions, including Wicked, Rock of Ages, How to Succeed..., The

LEE WILKINS (Associate Choreographer). Broadway Associate Choreographer: Bright Star, It Shoulda Been You, First Date, Cinderella. Other: Carousel (English National Opera), Big River (NYC Encores!), Guys and Dolls (Old Globe and Asolo Rep.), Paint Your Wagon (5th Avenue Theatre), On the Town (LA Philharmonic), Company (Avery Fisher Hall), Minsky’s (Ahmanson Theatre). Television choreography: The Late Show with Steven Colbert (CBS), The Hatfields and McCoys (NBC pilot), and Alpha House (Amazon Studios). Direction/choreography: Little Mermaid (Casa Mañana), First Date (Straz Center).

PETER ASHER (Music Supervisor). In 1964, he was onehalf of Peter & Gordon, who amassed nine top-20 records.

In 1968, he was head of A&R for the Beatles’ record company, Apple Records, where he found, signed, and produced James Taylor. In 1971, Asher founded Peter Asher Management, representing James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt, Joni Mitchell, Carole King, Randy Newman, and more. As a producer, Mr. Asher has worked with such diverse artists as James Taylor, Steve Martin & Edie Brickell, Diana Ross, Neil Diamond, Linda Ronstadt, Robin Williams, and Cher, among many others. He has produced 13 Grammy Award-winning recordings and has twice been awarded the Grammy for Producer of the Year. In the New Year’s Honours list for 2015, Peter Asher was awarded a CBE by Queen Elizabeth.

ROB BERMAN (Supervising Music Director & Vocal Arrangements). Broadway: Bright Star, Dames at Sea, Tuck Everlasting, Promises, Promises, Finian’s Rainbow, White Christmas, The Pajama Game, and Wonderful Town.

As music director of City Center Encores!, he has conducted the music of Bock, Coleman, Kander, Kern, Lane, Loesser, Loewe, Rodgers, Sondheim, Strouse, Styne, and Weill. Rob is an Emmy Award winner and six-time nominee for Outstanding Music Direction of The Kennedy Center Honors (CBS).

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AUGUST ERIKSMOEN (Orchestrations). Broadway: Come From Away, Bright Star (Tony nom.), Gigi, First Date, Hugh Jackman… (add. orchestrations), The Addams Family (dance arrangements, add. orchestrations), Memphis (dance arrangements), Million Dollar Quartet (assoc. music supervisor), Ring of Fire (assoc. music director), All Shook Up (music director), and Rent (assoc. conductor). Off-B’way: Bare (orchestrations), Romantic Poetry (orchestrations), Walmartopia (orchestrations/supervision). Other: James and the Giant Peach, I Am Harvey Milk (Lincoln Center), Kristin Chenoweth (in concert), and Chita Rivera (in concert).

TV: Once Upon a Time, Disney’s Descendants, 2011 Billboard Music Awards.

ANTHONY DE ANGELIS (Music Director/Conductor, Piano/ Accordion) is a New York-based musician. Broadway work includes Associate Musical Director for Bright Star as well as playing performances of Aladdin, Bullets Over Broadway, and The Little Mermaid. Off-Broadway, he was Associate Musical Director for Kid Victory and Pacific Overtures, as well as playing Assassins, Peter and the Starcatcher, The Adding Machine, and Bunty Berman Presents. As a composer and orchestrator, his music has been featured at the BMI workshop, the New York Pops, and the Cincinnati Pops SEYMOUR RED PRESS (Music Coordinator) is the recipient of a Tony Honor for Excellence in the Theatre. Credits include more than 100 shows from the original Gypsy through Dreamgirls, Nine, Noise/Funk, Elaine Stritch: At Liberty, the acclaimed revivals of Anything Goes, Guys and Dolls, Carousel, and ...Forum. Screen credits include Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Mike Nichols’ The Birdcage, and Paramount’s In & Out. An ASCAP composer, his compositions have sold more than 100,000 records. This season on Broadway: Hello, Dolly! and Chicago.

HOWARD CHERPAKOV CSA (Original New York Casting).

Broadway and national tour credits include Bright Star, Next Fall, The Seafarer, Coram Boy, Chicago, Annie Get Your Gun, Dirty Dancing, and South Pacific. Off-Broadway/regionally, he has cast productions for The Old Globe, Lincoln Center Theater, Women’s Project Theater, New York Stage & Film, Atlantic Theater Company, Naked Angels, Pasadena Playhouse, Irish Arts Center, Soho Playhouse, ATG, and NYMF. Artios Award (and three additional nominations) for Outstanding Theatre Casting. hccasting.com

CALLERI CASTING (James Calleri, Paul Davis, Erica Jensen) (Additional New York Casting). Broadway: Fool for Love, Hughie, The Elephant Man (also West End), Hedwig and The Angry Inch, The Visit, Of Mice and Men, Venus in Fur, Living on Love, 33 Variations, A Raisin in the Sun, Chicago, James Joyce’s The Dead. Off-Broadway selects: Buyer & Cellar, Murder for Two, All in the Timing, Passion, Lobby Hero, Fuerza Bruta, Silence! The Musical. Casting for Long Wharf, McCarter, The Flea, Keen, Playwrights Realm, Rattlestick, Humana Festival/ATL, Williamstown Theater Festival, Berkeley Rep, CSC, Center Theatre Group, Playwrights Horizons (10 seasons). TV: The Path for Hulu, Army Wives, Lipstick Jungle, Monk, Hope & Faith, Ed. Lots of film including Mike Cahill’s Sundance winners Another Earth and I Origins. Awarded 13 Artios Awards for Outstanding Casting Achievement. Member CSA. callericasting.com MICHAEL DONOVAN CSA (Los Angeles Casting) is the recipient of six Artios Awards, given by the Casting Society of America for Outstanding Achievement in Casting. His theatre credits include productions at Pasadena Playhouse, Hollywood Bowl, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Geffen Playhouse, Kirk Douglas Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, International City Theatre, Ebony Repertory Theatre, Getty Villa, Laguna Playhouse, Falcon Theatre, Colony Theatre, The Theatre @ Boston Court, 24th St. Theatre, Ensemble Theatre of Santa Barbara, Arizona Theatre Company, Arkansas Rep, Totem Pole Playhouse, and the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival, as well as several national tours.

Michael has cast numerous independent films. TV credits include the series Blood Relatives.

ANJEE NERO (Production Stage Manager). Broadway: Bright Star. Regional: World premieres: Benny and Joon, October Sky, Bright Star, Dog and Pony, Allegiance, A Room With a View, Kingdom. A Few Regional Favorites: Picasso at the Lapin Agile, The Rocky Horror Show (The Old Globe); Sideways, Ruined, Herringbone, The Seven (La Jolla Playhouse); Venice (Center Theatre Group), to name a few. Also, Kennedy Center, Hartford Stage, Huntington Theatre Company, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and SITI Company, among others.

KIRSTEN PARKER (Stage Manager). Center Theatre Group: Straight White Men, The Object Lesson, Chavez Ravine, Luna Gale, Race, Facing Our Truth, different words for the same thing, I’ll Go On (Gate Theatre), A Christmas Carol: Twist Your Dickens! (World premiere/re-loaded productions), The Black PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P11

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Suits, Neva (co-pro, SCR/La Jolla), The Nether, Jomama Jones: Radiate, The Massoud Project. Off-Broadway: Bones in the Basket (Araca Project), Food and Fadwa (NYTW).

Regional: Romeo and Juliet (Northern Stage), Romeo and Juliet (Yale Rep), The Servant of Two Masters (Yale Rep).

Various NY credits, including NY Fringe, Yale Rep Workshop.

MFA: Yale School of Drama. She is very happy to be back.

SUSIE WALSH (Stage Manager). In Los Angeles, Susie has stage managed over 150 shows at theatres such as the Mark Taper Forum, the Ahmanson Theatre, the Geffen, LATC, the Wallis, and Pasadena Playhouse. Favorites include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Waiting for Godot, Flower Drum Song, Stuff Happens, Arcadia, The Drowsy Chaperone, Minsky’s, The Price, and Endgame. In New York, Susie stage managed Putting it Together with Carol Burnett.

She loves Ken. JOEY PARNES (Producer). Broadway: Meteor Shower, 1984, A Doll’s House, Part 2, Hello, Dolly! (Tony Award), The Glass Menagerie, The Front Page, The Humans (Tony), Bright Star, Shuffle Along, The Crucible, Blackbird, A View From the Bridge (Tony), Skylight (Tony), A Raisin in the Sun (Tony), A Gentleman’s Guide (Tony), Betrayal, Vanya and Sonia (Tony), Hair (Tony), among others.

SUE WAGNER (Producer). Broadway: Meteor Shower, 1984, A Doll’s House, Part 2, Hello, Dolly!, The Glass Menagerie, The Front Page, The Humans, Bright Star, Shuffle Along, The Crucible, Blackbird, A View From the Bridge, Skylight, Fish in the Dark, A Raisin in the Sun, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, Betrayal, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, End of the Rainbow, and Hair.

JOHN JOHNSON (Producer). Broadway: Meteor Shower, A Doll’s House, Part 2, Hello, Dolly!, The Glass Menagerie, The Front Page, The Humans, Bright Star, Shuffle Along, The Crucible, Blackbird, A View from the Bridge, Skylight, A Raisin in the Sun, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Graduate: Fordham University at Lincoln Center.

THE CURRAN. Built in 1922, the Curran has housed some of the biggest productions in theatre history, and has maintained a reputation over the course of its life as one of the premier live-entertainment venues in North America.

Under the curation of eight-time Tony Award winner Carole Shorenstein Hays, the 1,600-seat Curran reopened in January 2017 following an extensive and celebratory two-

year renovation and restoration project. Our goal has been to create a new kind of artistic hub here in San Francisco— one that engages new and existing audiences, and attracts the most visionary artists in the world by presenting bold, daring work. The Curran continues to search the globe for the kind of works we’ve always dreamt would play this stage.

AT&T PAC/SHN (Producer) is a nonprofit foundation that operates and programs a 10-acre campus comprised of three premier performance venues and a park in downtown Dallas. Opening in October 2009, the Center has helped complete the 30-year vision of the Dallas Arts District. SHN is the preeminent theatrical entertainment company in the Bay Area, bringing live entertainment experiences to San Francisco’s premier venues. SHN presents current hits fresh from Broadway, original Broadway cast productions, preBroadway premieres, and one-of-a-kind events that are at the forefront of the national theatre scene.

BLUMENTHAL PERFORMING ARTS (Producer) operates six theatres in Charlotte. Its highly diverse arts and education programs range from blockbuster musicals to dance, music, and family attractions. Co-producer/investor of Dear Evan Hansen, Waitress, Monty Python’s Spamalot, Red, The Mountaintop, The Color Purple, Kinky Boots, Matilda, American in Paris, Traces, Legally Blonde, Pippin.

BROADWAY SERIES SOUTH (Producer) has proudly served the Raleigh/Durham area for more than 20 years in presenting first national Broadway touring shows. They have provided unparalleled service in hosting thousands of theatre patrons, and aim to continue their contribution to the diverse arts presence in the area.

THEATRE UNDER THE STARS (TUTS) (Producer). Founded in 1968, TUTS is Houston’s leading 501(c)(3) nonprofit musical theatre company, with a focus on inclusivity, education, and community engagement. TUTS relies on the generous support of donors to continue offering the very best in musical theatre to the greater Houston community, as well as to support our education, community engagement, and accessibility programs. For more information, visit tuts.com THE OLD GLOBE (Originating Theatre). The Tony Awardwinning Old Globe, San Diego’s flagship arts institution, is a leading professional regional theatre, reaching 250,000 people annually. Led by Artistic Director Barry Edelstein and Managing Director Michael G. Murphy, The Old Globe’s

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programs include 15 productions of classic, contemporary, and new works on three stages, including its renowned Shakespeare Festival and “Globe for All” communitybased Shakespeare tour. Many Globe World premieres have gone on to successful runs on Broadway and in theatres nationwide.

CENTER THEATRE GROUP MICHAEL RITCHIE (Artistic Director) is in his 13 season as Center Theatre Group’s Artistic Director, and has led over 190 productions to the Ahmanson Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, and Kirk Douglas Theatre stages, including the premieres of six musicals that moved to Broadway— The Drowsy Chaperone, Curtains, 13, 9 to 5: The Musical, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, and Leap of Faith— and the Pulitzer Prize in Drama finalist Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo. TH

STEPHEN D. ROUNTREE (Managing Director) joined Center Theatre Group in 2014 as Managing Director. He was previously the President and CEO of The Music Center (2002–2014) and concurrently the CEO of the Los Angeles Opera (2008–2012). He served the J. Paul Getty Trust for 22 years, starting in 1980 as Deputy Director of the Getty Museum, then Director of the Getty Center Building Program, and in 1998, the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for the Getty Trust. He currently serves as a trustee of Occidental College, The Ahmanson Foundation, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, and Polytechnic School.

DOUGLAS C. BAKER (Producing Director) is now in his 28 season at Center Theatre Group. He is an active member of the Broadway League, the Independent Presenters Network, and is a proud member of the Association of Theatrical Press Agents and Managers. In May 2013, Doug received the Broadway League’s prestigious Outstanding Achievement in Presenter Management Award.

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LINDSAY ALLBAUGH (Associate Producer) is a member of Center Theatre Group’s artistic staff and has served in varying capacities for the past 13 years. Selected producing credits include—Mark Taper Forum: Bent, What the Butler Saw, Steward of Christendom, Waiting for Godot; Kirk Douglas Theatre: Block Party, Good Grief, Vicuña, Throw Me On the Burnpile and Light Me Up, Endgame, Women Laughing Alone With Salad, Chavez Ravine, Race, different words for the same thing, The Nether. Co-Artistic Director of the Elephant Theatre 2004–2014.

JEFFREY UPAH (General Manager, Ahmanson Theatre) has worked in management at Center Theatre Group since 2006 on more than 50 musicals, plays, and special events including both pre-Broadway productions and Broadway tours. Some of his favorites include Follies, God of Carnage, and The Black Rider (having previously worked on Robert Wilson productions in Boston, Houston, and Sao Paulo, Brazil). Prior to Center Theatre Group, he worked in various capacities at the Santa Fe Opera, Yale Repertory Theater, American Repertory Theater, and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, among others.

GORDON DAVIDSON (Founding Artistic Director) led the Taper throughout its first 38 seasons, guiding over 300 productions to its stage and winning countless awards for himself and the theatre—including the Tony Award for theatrical excellence, Margo Jones Award, The Governor’s Award for the Arts, and a Guggenheim fellowship. The Kentucky Cycle and Angels in America (Part One) won the Pulitzer in consecutive years and, in 1994, three of the four plays nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play were from the Taper (Angels in America won). In 1989, Gordon took over the Ahmanson and, in 2004, he produced the inaugural season in the Kirk Douglas Theatre.

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ADDITIONAL STAFF FOR BRIGHT STAR

MAKEUP DESIGNER Tommy Kurzman

CHOREOGRAPHY SUPERVISOR Richard Gatta

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR Katia Koziara

Dialect Coach..........................................................................................Samara Bay LA Casting Associate.................................................................... Richie Ferris, CSA NY Casting Associate....................................................................... Paul Davis, CSA NY Management Associate............................................................. Jesse Rothschild Assistant Company Manager (Ahmanson)...................................................Laura Hill Production Assistant...............................................................................Kelly Merritt Associate Scenic Designer..................................................................Edward Pierce Assistant Scenic Designer................................................................ Jason Jamerson Associate Costume Designer................................................................... Daniel Urlie Costume Design Assistant...................................................................... Lena Sands Costume Design Assistant......................................................Whitney Oppenheimer Costume Project Manager...................................................................... Kitty Youngs Draper..................................................................................................... Ashley Rigg Tailor................................................................................................... Blaze Tiberius First Hand.............................................................................................. Pamela Walt Stitchers.......................................... Eli Hunstad, Vincent Miramontes, Amy Whipple Crafts/Dyer........................................................................................... Kat Patterson Associate Lighting Designer..............................................................Justin A. Partier Lighting Design Assistant............................................................ Nathan W. Scheuer Associate Sound Designer...................................................................... Jessica Paz Associate Hair and Wig Designer....................................................Tommy Kurzman Head Carpenter.....................................................................................Patrick Venn Production Electrician................................................................................ Dan Coey Head Electrician.......................................................................................Billy Paton Moving Light Programmer.......................................................... Scott Kearns Tusing Moving Light Programmer................................................................... Chris Osborne Production Audio..................................................................................Mike Wojchik Head Sound Engineer..........................................................................Scott Sanders Head Sound Engineer..................................................................... Brad Zuckerman Merchandise...................................... Creative Goods Merchandise LLC/Pete Milano

CREDITS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Scenery fabrication by F & D Scene Changes Ltd. Original scenery and scenic effects by Stiegelbauer Associates Inc., Hudson Scenic Studio. Rigging equipment

by United Staging & Rigging, LLC. Trucking by Clark Transfer. Original specialty props fabricated by The Old Globe Theatre, Bren-Bri Props, Cigar Box Studios, Paper Mache Monkey Design Studio, Prism Props and Sydney Schatz. Additional costumes and props provided by the Center Theatre Group Costume Shop. Original costumes executed by Eric Winterling. Original fabric printing by Gene Mignola, Inc. Lighting equipment from PRG Lighting. Audio equipment from PRG Audio.

Rehearsal and production photography by Craig Schwartz.

SPECIAL THANKS Allied Live; Robert Payne; Steve Rankin; Deering Banjos—The great American banjo company.

The original Broadway cast recording of Bright Star is available from Ghostlight Records wherever music is sold.

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The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States. This theatre operates under an arrangement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association,the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.

The following employees are represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Machine Operators, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, its Territories and Canada, AFL-CIO, CLC: Stage Crew Local 33; Local Treasurers and Ticket Sellers Local 857; Wardrobe Crew Local 768; Make-up Artists and Hair Stylists Local 706.

The Press Agents, Company and House Managers employed in this production are represented by the Association of Theatrical Press Agents & Managers.

The Director and Choreographer are members of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, an independent national labor union.

UNITED SCENIC ARTISTS represents the designers and scenic painters for the American Theatre.

Center Theatre Group is a member of the American Arts Alliance, the Broadway League, Independent Presenters Network (IPN), LA Stage Alliance, League of Resident Theatres (LORT), National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) and the Theatre Communications Group (TCG).

Official makeup partner M*A*C

Latecomers will be seated at the discretion of management. Patrons with disabilities: wheelchair seating is available in a variety of theatre locations. When ordering tickets, please indicate any special needs. For our hearing-impaired guests, the theatre is equipped with listening devices; please contact an usher for assistance.

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1. (l-r) Max Chernin, Maddie Shea Baldwin, Carmen Cusack, and A.J. Shively.

2. Director Walter Bobbie.

3. The cast of Bright Star. (Not pictured, Jeff Blumenkrantz.)

4. (l-r) Allison Briner-Dardenne, Alessa Neeck, and Kaitlyn Davidson.

5. Carmen Cusack and Patrick Cummings. all photos by craig schwartz.

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MICHAEL RITCHIE Artistic Director | STEPHEN D. ROUNTREE Managing Director DOUGLAS C. BAKER Producing Director

ARTISTIC NEEL KELLER...............................................................Associate Artistic Director KELLEY KIRKPATRICK................................................. Associate Artistic Director DIANE RODRIGUEZ..................................................... Associate Artistic Director LINDSAY ALLBAUGH.............................................................. Associate Producer PATRICIA GARZA ...................................Artistic Development Program Manager JOY MEADS ............................ Literary Manager/Artistic Engagement Strategist ANDREW LYNFORD ...................................................................Casting Associate IAN-JULIAN WILLIAMS ....................................Program Coordinator, Block Party MATTHEW BOURNE, DANAI GURIRA, ANNA D. SHAPIRO ......................................................................Associate Artists DAVID ADJMI (FADIMAN), JON ROBIN BAITZ, SHEILA CALLAGHAN (FADIMAN), STEVE CUIFFO, JUSTIN ELLINGTON, WILL ENO (FADIMAN), DANAI GURIRA, JENNIFER HALEY, DAVID HENRY HWANG, NAOMI IIZUKA, LARS JAN, RAJIV JOSEPH, LISA KRON, KIMBER LEE, YOUNG JEAN LEE, LAURAL MEADE, RICHARD MONTOYA, LYNN NOTTAGE, QUI NGUYEN, DAN O’BRIEN, DENIS O’HARE, LISA PETERSON, WILL POWER (FADIMAN), RAINPAN 43, MARCO RAMIREZ, KEN ROHT, AL SMITH, ROGER GUENVEUR SMITH, GOB SQUAD, PAULA VOGEL, TRACEY SCOTT WILSON (FADIMAN)..........Commissioned Artists JEFF AUGUSTIN, MARCUS GARDLEY, ALESHA HARRIS, LAURA JACQMIN, MOLLY SMITH METZLER, MATTHEW PAUL OLMOS, JIEHAE PARK ............L.A. Writers’ Workshop Members EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS LESLIE K. JOHNSON............. Director of Social Strategy, Innovation and Impact TYRONE DAVIS........................................ Director of Education and Engagement KATHRYN MACKENZIE ......................................Department Operations Director TRACI KWON.................................................. Arts Education Initiatives Director CAMILLE SCHENKKAN..................................Next Generation Initiatives Director JESUS REYES...................................................Community Partnerships Director ADAM NICOLAI.................................................Arts Education Program Manager FELIPE M. SANCHEZ..................................Program Mananger, Emerging Artists and Arts Professionals JENNIFER HARRELL............................................................. Operations Assistant DEBRA PIVER................................................................. Resident Teaching Artist MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION NAUSICA STERGIOU................................................................... General Manager ........................................................... (Mark Taper Forum, Kirk Douglas Theatre) JEFFREY UPAH ........................................ General Manager (Ahmanson Theatre) KATIE SOFF......................................................................... Asst General Manager .................................................. (Mark Taper Forum, Kirk Douglas Theatre, NPD) CASEY MCDERMOTT..........................................General Management Associate MEGAN ALVORD....................................................................... Company Manager ........................................................... (Mark Taper Forum, Kirk Douglas Theatre) ERIC SIMS...................... Director of Theatre Operations (Kirk Douglas Theatre) MAX OKEN..............................................Facility Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) JAQUELYN JOHNSON..................................................................... House Manager ...........................................................................................(Kirk Douglas Theatre) LAUREN BAXA................................................... Assistant Performance Manager ...........................................................................................(Kirk Douglas Theatre) SONDRA MAYER............................Concessions Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) ALANA BEIDELMAN.......................... Executive Assistant to the Artistic Director EVELYN STAFFORD....................... Executive Assistant to the Managing Director PRODUCTION DAWN HOLISKI................................ Production Department Operations Director JOE HAMLIN............................................ Technical Director/Production Manager .............................................................................................. (Ahmanson Theatre) SHAWN ANDERSON..................................Master Carpenter (Ahmanson Theatre) STAN STEELMON................................ Master Propertyman (Ahmanson Theatre) JAMES WRIGHT....................................... Master Electrician (Ahmanson Theatre) ROBERT SMITH...................................... Master Soundman (Ahmanson Theatre) SHANE ANDERSON................................................... Flyman (Ahmanson Theatre) MICHAEL GARDNER.......................... Wardrobe Supervisor (Ahmanson Theatre) PATRICE K. MADRIGAL........................................... Hair and Make-up Supervisor .............................................................................................. (Ahmanson Theatre) CHRISTINE L. COX.......................................House Manager (Ahmanson Theatre) JONATHAN BARLOW LEE...................... Production Manager (Mark Taper Forum) KATE COLTUN...................... Associate Production Manager (Mark Taper Forum) EMMET KAISER.........................................Master Carpenter (Mark Taper Forum) ROBERT RUBY..................................... Master Propertyman (Mark Taper Forum) WILLIAM MORNER................................... Master Electrician (Mark Taper Forum) BONES MALONE...................................... Master Soundman (Mark Taper Forum) DENNIS SEETOO.................................. Wardrobe Supervisor (Mark Taper Forum) RICK GEYER.............................. Hair & Make-up Supervisor (Mark Taper Forum) LINDA WALKER ........................................... House Manager (Mark Taper Forum)

Center Theatre Group would like to thank its exceptional staff for their ongoing commitment, dedication, and extraordinary efforts.

CHRISTOPHER REARDON.........................................Interim Production Manager ...........................................................................................(Kirk Douglas Theatre) KATIE POLEBAUM.................................Stage Supervisor (Kirk Douglas Theatre) AARON STAUBACH..............................Master Electrician (Kirk Douglas Theatre) ADAM PHALEN .............................................. Head Audio (Kirk Douglas Theatre) SEAN MEYER .......................................... Light Board Programmer and Operator ...........................................................................................(Kirk Douglas Theatre) CAMBRIA CHICHI............................Wardrobe Supervisor (Kirk Douglas Theatre)

MARKETING DEBORAH WARREN..............................................................Director of Marketing KYLE HALL.......................................................Advertising & Promotions Director GARRETT COLLINS.......................... Senior Marketing Manager, Strategy & CRM ARIE LEVINE........... Senior Marketing Manager, Ahmanson & Mark Taper Forum KIYOMI EMI.........................................Marketing Manager, Promotions & Events EMYLI GUDMUNDSON.........................Marketing Manager, Kirk Douglas Theatre

CHAD SMITH............................................................ Associate Technical Director KRYSTIN MATSUMOTO............................................. Assistant Technical Director LEE O’REILLY............................................................ Assistant Technical Director SEAN KLOC...................................................................................... Shop Foreman

DEANNA McCLURE...............................................................................Art Director IRENE T. KANESHIRO....................................................... Senior Design Manager SANDI SILBERT............................................................................ Senior Designer TARA NITZ.................................................................................. Graphic Designer JAVIER VASQUEZ........................................................................ Graphic Designer

ANDREW THIELS............................................................................... Prop Director MERRIANNE NEDREBERG..............................................Associate Prop Manager JON WARD........................................................................Associate Prop Manager CANDICE CAIN........................................................................... Costume Director BRENT M. BRUIN..............................................................Costume Shop Manager MADDIE KELLER..................................................................... Costume Generalist WHITNEY OPPENHEIMER...............................................................Shop Assistant SWANTJE TUOHINO........................................................................................Tailor ELIZABETH LEONARD.............................................................. Facilities Manager JULIO A. CUELLAR.......................................................................Driver/Custodian DONAVAN MARTINELLI...............................................................................Drivers PETER WYLIE....................................................................Production Coordinator FINANCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND HUMAN RESOURCES CHERYL SHEPHERD...........................................................Chief Financial Officer SARAH STURDIVANT.................................... Director of Finance and Technology SUZANNE BROWN...................................................................................Controller XOCHITL RAMIREZ.................................................. Accounts Payable Supervisor ALEGRIA SENA........................................................................... Staff Accountant DANNY LAMPSON OPSTAD...................................................Accounting Manager JESSICA HERNANDEZ................................................................. Payroll Manager JUAN MARTINEZ......................................................................... Payroll Specialist KERRY LARICK.....................................................................Accounting Assistant STAN GRUSHESKY............................................ Director of Information Systems MANDY RATLIFF..............................................Sr. Database & Web Administrator ASH LEWIS......................................................................Help Desk Administrator JODY HORWITZ........................................................Director of Human Resources PJ. PHILLIPS.................................................Senior Human Resources Generalist MOSS ADAMS............................................................................................. Auditor MICHAEL C. DONALDSON, LISA A. CALLIF..................................... Legal Counsel GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER......................................................... Legal Counsel INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT YVONNE CARLSON BELL..........................Director of Institutional Advancement PATRICK OWEN............................ Deputy Director of Institutional Advancement LIZ LIN........................................................................... Director of Development, ...................................................................... Artist and Entertainment Relations CHARITY WU................................................ Director of Major Gifts Stewardship BECKY BIRDSONG................................... Major Gifts and Planned Giving Officer KATY HILTON........... Associate Director of Foundation and Government Support LAURA HITE.......................................................................Manager of Major Gifts DANIELLE LESNER............................... Associate Director of Donor Engagement MANDI OR.................................................... Associate Director of Special Events ROBBIE MARTIN..................................Associate Director of Corporate Relations JENNIFER CHAN........................................................ Special Events Coordinator DONALD JOLLY.......................................................Donor Experience Coordinator JAZMINE JONES ....................................................... Donor Relations Coordinator KIM OKAMURA ............................................................................ Grants Manager EMILY GIBSON............................Institutional Advancement Research Associate ERIN SCHLABACH........................................Manager of Major Gifts Stewardship ERIC SEPPALA......................................Board Liaison and Executive Assistant to ............................................................the Director of Institutional Advancement MATTHEW SUTPHIN................................... Institutional Advancement Associate KRISTIN YAMAKA...............................................Corporate Relations Coordinator EDUARDO MOLLINEDO-PIÑÓN.............................Donor Membership Coordinator MIKE RATTERMAN........................................................ Donor Advisor Supervisor AL BERMAN, JOHN COPELAND, ELIZABETH DELLORUSSO, DAVID GARVER, JOSH LEVIN, MATT RITCHEY, BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ, NICOLE SCIPIONE, PAUL VITAGLIANO ......................................... Donor Advisors KARLA GALVEZ, JUSTINE PEREZ................................ Donor Services Associates WAUKENA CUYJET, MURRAY E. HELTZER......................Development Volunteers

COMMUNICATIONS JAMES SIMS..............................................................Director of Communications JASON MARTIN........................................................................... Head of Publicity KRISTI AVILA..................................................................................Junior Publicist SARAH ROTHBARD.................... Senior Manager, Communications and Editorial JOHN JOHNSON.......................................................Communications Coordinator ARIELLE LAUB.........................................................Communications Coordinator SARAH GOLDBAUM..........................................................Digital Media Specialist HAL BANFIELD......................................................................Multimedia Producer TICKET SALES AND SERVICES SHAWN ROBERTSON............................................................ Ticket Sales Director SKYPP CABANAS........................................................ Ticket Operations Manager RACHYL UNDERWOOD...........................................Ticket Operations Coordinator MICHAEL ZOLDESSY........................................................ Account Sales Manager TRICIA GUNTER........................................................... Account Sales Coordinator SANDY CZUBIAK........................................................... Audience and Subscriber ....................................................................................................Services Director JENNIFER BAKER, CHERYL HAWKER, RICHARD RAGSDALE.......................................... Audience Services Supervisors ALICE CHEN................................................. Audience Services Asst. Supervisor GARY HOLLAND, DEBORAH REED........................................... Audience Services ....................................................................................................Sales Associates SAM AARON, JEREMIE ARENCIBIA, KIMBERLY ARENCIBIA, VICKI BERNDT, CARLOS D. CHAVEZ, JR., KAITLYN GALVEZ, MICHAEL ESPINOZA, ANASTASHIA GARCIA, EILEEN PEREZ, LEX SAVKO, TEVIN WILLIAMS.......................................... Audience Services Representatives DANUTA SIEMAK................................................ Subscriber Services Supervisor CHRISTINA GUTIERREZ ........................... Subscriber Services Asst. Supervisor IRENE CHUANG, LIGIA PISTE, PETER STALOCH....................Subscriber Services ..........................................................................................Senior Representatives SARAH K. GONTA .................................................................. Box Office Treasurer ANGELICA CARBAJAL, KISHISA ROSS................................. Assistant Treasurers MICHAEL KEMPISTY, KEVIN LAUVER, MICHAEL SALTZMAN, CRIS SPACCA............................................................................... Box Office Staff KERRY KORF.................................................................. Priority Services Director SUSAN F. TULLER..................................... Priority Services Operations Manager CANDICE WALTERS............................................ Priority Services Sales Manager PAUL CUEN.................................................................. Priority Services Manager KRISTEN SCHRASS...................................Priority Services Assistant Supervisor .....................................................................................................Representatives BEALENE AHERN, CLAY BUNKER, JOHN CARROLL, MAGGIE DODD, NATALIE DRESSEL, SOFIJA DUTCHER, MARC “BYRON” DROTMAN, FRANK ENSENBERGER, LOU GEORGE, SHEP KOSTER, JORDAN KRSNAK, IAN PRICE, MICHAEL SMITH, JEFFREY STUBBLEFIELD, DIANE WARD......................................Representatives INTERNS TALIN ABADIAN, JESSICA BARRY, SAMANTHA CAVALCANTI, EUN SEO CHOI, ALLIE EMSLIE, MARIE-CLAIRE ERDYNAST, MATTHEW GIESBERG, JENNA HEO, MITCH LEITSCHUH, MARCELA PANIAGUA, RAMI PINCHASI, DIANA SANCHEZ, OLIVIA SATHER, REMINGTON SHAHAN, WENDOLYN SIMS-RUCKER, ALEXANDER WAXLER, SAMANTHA WEST

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DONOR RECOGNITION

Special Thanks to Artistic Director’s Circle Members for Supporting Center Theatre Group The Artistic Director’s Circle, founded by Brindell and Milton Gottlieb, is comprised of individuals supporting specific areas of Michael Ritchie’s artistic vision for Center Theatre Group. Since its founding in 2005, members have aligned their support with over 50 productions on our stages. The following individuals have made commitments of $100,000 and above. (DONORS LISTED AS OF OCTOBER 2, 2017)

FLIP FABRIQUE

Anonymous (2)

The Eugene La Pietra Foundation

Judith & Thomas Beckmen

Jody & David Lippman

Diana Buckhantz & Vladimir &

Renee & Meyer Luskin

Araxia Buckhantz Foundation

Ruth Flinkman-Marandy & Ben Marandy

Joseph & Mara Carieri

Louise Moriarty & Patrick Stack

Nancy & Donald de Brier

Deena & Edward Nahmias

Contemporary

Erica & Vin Di Bona

Bill Resnick & Michael Stubbs

Kirk & Anne Douglas

Lloyd E. Rigler - Lawrence E.

from QuébeC City

Louise & Brad Edgerton

Deutsch Foundation

Amy Forbes & Andrew Murr

Laura & James Rosenwald &

Cindy & Gary Frischling

Orinoco Foundation

Eric & Nancy Garen

Deidra Norman Schumann

Kiki & David Gindler

Donna Schweers & Tom Geiser

Patricia Glaser & Sam Mudie

Maggy & Jack Simon

Brindell Roberts Gottlieb

Judie Stein & Stein Family Foundation

Aliza Karney Guren & Marc Guren

Eva & Marc Stern

Ann & Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr.

Sue Tsao

June & Gareth Hughes

Sheila & Wally Weisman

Eileen & Ken Kaplan

Misty Widelitz

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NOV 12 Sunday • 2PM

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CIRCUS

Tickets: $30 Student/Senior: $25 16 & under: $15

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Laura Osnes

Terri & Jerry Kohl The Labowe Family Foundation

Artists & Educators Forum ($20,000+) The Artists & Educators Forum, founded by Joni and Miles Benickes, is comprised of individuals dedicated to providing significant funding for Center Theatre Group’s New Play Production and Education and Community Partnerships programs.

(DONORS LISTED AS OF OCTOBER 2, 2017)

Melissa & Bob Alvarado

Linda S. Peterson

Joni & Miles Benickes

Jane Rissman & Richard Sondheimer

Joan & Rob Blackman

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Marla S. Campagna In Memory of Morris A. Hazan Dori & Doug Howell In Support of New Theatre Artists

Bruce & Randy Ross Elliott R. Sernel Donna & John Sussman Sunshine Stone Anne C. Taubman Peter & Iona Tompkins Karen & William Timberlake

Mr. & Mrs. Gerald W. Kehle

Robin & Gary Ungar

Kelton Fund/Lenny & David Kelton

Hope Landis Warner

Vicki King

Suzanne V. Wilson

Harry & Arlette Lumer

Marilyn Ziering

For more information about leadership gifts, please call Erin Schlabach at 213.972.3069.

Donors who have made additional gifts to Center Theatre Group’s Endowment or Planned Gifts programs.

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Entertainment Circle Center Theatre Group wishes to acknowledge our generous supporters in the Entertainment Circle, who are leaders in the entertainment industry.

Thank you to our multi-year donors, whose gifts ensure a secure base for our future. For information, call Donor Engagement at 213.972.7564.

(DONORS LISTED AS OF SEPTEMBER 10, 2017.)

MULTI-YEAR DONORS

ANNUAL DONORS

Anonymous (2) Mr. Irving H. Anderson Amy Aquino & Drew McCoy G.W. Bailey Corinne Baldassano Greg Basser & Kiera O’Neill John Bowab Diane & Dorothy Brooks Foundation Rick Buche & Vin Reilly Marcy Carsey Veronica Cartwright Children in Film Becky & Mike Clements Seth Cover & Mycotoo Bill & Ellie D’Elia Bob Doucette & Tom Slotten Bob & Gabrielle Ducsay Nadine Espana Chris Cookson & Lauren Firestone Darcy Fleck Jacque & Bobby Florsheim Marilyn T. Fordney Seth Freeman & Julie Waxman Laura Gibson Mark Daniel Gordon Karen Caffee & Manuel Grace Marcy & Edgar Gross Michael Hanel & Steven Linder

Heather Hach Hearne Winifred C. Hervey Phil Hettema Karen & Stephen Hillenburg Alicia Hirsch & Jesse Russo Sean Johnson & Alex Ocampo Idea Asylum Productions & Dr. Allegra & Mr. Sheppard Kaufman Rob Kief Sarah E. Kiefer Dr. Peter A. Krikes Nita Whitaker LaFontaine Marla E. Levine Mr. Theodore K. Martinez Carla Meyer & Charles Arnold Tina J. Miller Lawrence A. Mirisch In Honor of Barry Moss Jonathan B. Murray Suzy & Daniel O’Connell Patty & Mike Post Don Foster & Erin Quigley Michael Ritchie & Kate Burton Richard J. Ramirez Jr. Jay & Linda Sandrich Glen & Eva Schusterman Serendipity Productions David A. Steinberg Stephen J. Strauss & Harriet M. Rolnick Lorraine Strieby Jack & Marlene Susser Brad & George Takei Allison Thomas & Gary Ross Russell Todd Agency Cliff Warner Victoria Weisbart Ms. Lynn E. Weisman Jennifer Crittenden & William Wrubel

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Center Theatre Group Corporate Circle Sheri Biller, Founding Chair

PRESENTS 3 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HOLIDAY MUST-SEE PRODUCTIONS!

The Corporate Circle is comprised of companies that support Center Theatre Group’s education and community partnership programs. Members receive VIP concierge service at theatres in Los Angeles, New York, and London, complimentary and discounted tickets to our shows, business development opportunities, and more. For more information, call 213.972.3192.

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Center Theatre Group 21337 Inner Circle 4.625x7.375 The Inner Circle is an organization of community leaders who provide outstanding support to Center Theatre Group. In appreciation, members enjoy a host of special benefits, including meet-the-artist receptions, backstage tours, premium theatre seating, and much more. Thank you to our multiyear donors, whose gifts ensure a secure base for our future. For information, call Donor Engagement at 213.972.7564. (DONORS LISTED AS OF SEPTEMBER 10, 2017.)

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BENEFACTOR CIRCLE (CONTINUED) Janice & Bruce Miller

Rosemary Simmons

Andy & Laura Mintzer

Marcia & David M. Spaid

Olivia & Anthony Neece

Phyllis J. & Steven F. Spierer

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Dr. & Mrs. Daniel Wallace

Russi Taylor Allwine

Barbara & Edmund Wilkinson

Mark & Jody Barnhill

David Williamson

Tracey Boldemann-Tatkin & Stan Tatkin

Virginia Yeager

Pamela Herman Broussard & J. Garfield Broussard Dr. & Mrs. Ronald Busuttil Catherine & Anthony Chanin Arthur & Katheryn Chinski Ruth Choi Dr. Lawrence & Jane Z. Cohen

Martin & Rosalind Zane ANNUAL DONORS Anonymous (2) Robert & Sara Adler Merryl & David A. Alpert Liz & Lou Altman James Asperger & Christine Adams

Donald & Zoe Cosgrove

Cheryl & Elliott Balbert

Ms. Anita H. Dymant & Mr. Richard Drooyan

Linda Barnett Charles Berney & Family

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Leah M. Bishop & Gary M. Yale

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12120 Venice Blvd. (at Grandview)

Employees Community Fund of Boeing California

Studio City

Sascha Brastoff Foundation

12203 Ventura Blvd. (west of Laurel Canyon)

Brookside Fund Diana Buckhantz & Vladimir & Araxia Buckhantz Foundation

Van Nuys

14526 Victory Blvd. (west of Van Nuys Blvd.)

The Carol and James Collins Foundation The Culver City Education Foundation

Canoga Park

Joseph Drown Foundation

21716 Sherman Way (east of Topanga Canyon Blvd.)

Fineshriber Family Foundation Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation Lawrence P. Frank Foundation Lear Family Foundation The Friars Charitable Foundation The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Laurents/Hatcher Foundation The Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation

Itemized Tax Receipts Call for Pick-up 800-400-6259

New England Foundation for the Arts The Kenneth T. & Eileen L. Norris Foundation

ncjwla.org

The Perkins Charitable Foundation Rosenthal Family Foundation Sony Pictures Entertainment The Fran and Ray Stark Foundation Theatre Communications Group

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INTERNATIONAL CURTAIN CALL

2018 Deluxe Opera & Music Tours SAN FRANCISCO RING June 11-18, 2018

Wagner's DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN: The Runnicles–Zambello Production HERTLIZIUS (Brünnhilde); BARTON (Fricka & Waltraute); MATTILA (Sieglinde); GRIMSLEY (Wotan); JOVANOVICH (Siegmund); BRENNA (Siegfried); STRUCKMANN (Alberich); CANGELOSI (Mime).

Deluxe Westin St Francis Hotel

VIENNA & MUNICH June 24 – July 7, 2018

VIENNA: LOHENGRIN (Dasch Ventris); FALSTAFF (Maestri, Maltman, Bezmertna); DER FREISCHUTZ (Nyland, Fally;Held); And NUREJEV GALA BALLET. MUNICH: GALA GRUBEROVA CONCERT; FLIEGENDE HOLLANDER (Pieczonka; Koch, Selig); ARABELLA (Harteros, Mayer, Rydl); PARSIFAL (Stemme; Kaufmann, Pape); L'ELISIR D'AMORE (Yende; Grigolo, Maestri).

5-Star Deluxe Hotels – Grand Vienna & Kempiski Vier Jahreszeiten – Munich

SALZBURG FESTIVAL August 2018

PERFORMANCES To Be Announced

LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE Contact International Curtain Call 3313 Patricia Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90064 Ph: (310) 204-4934; (800) 669-9070 E-Mail: Icctours1@aol.com www.IccOperaTours.com

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DONOR RECOGNITION

Center Theatre Group Affiliates Kim White Peterson, President

The Affiliates have supported Center Theatre Group since 1971. Through volunteering and fundraising, members introduce young people to the magic of live theatre.

EXECUTIVE BOARD Anne Bruner*

Sheila Poncher*

Cariline Davis Dyer

Marsha Tauber Sallai

Ilene Eisenberg

June Sanders Sattler*♦

Roberta Haft*

Carmen Schaye

Christine Harte

Maggy Simon

Tobé Karns

Carole Solomon

Diane Kessler*

Marilyn Stambler*

Thea F. Koss

Donna Sussman*

Rita Lee

Janice Brock Wallace*

Diane Lesser

Janice Weiner

Jerri Nagelberg

Rosalind Zane*

and

Jamie Chamberlin Soprano

Diane Neubauer*

MEMBERS

Nathan Granner

Ben Lowe

Tenor

Baritone

Annie Maria Lehrer

Gail Ann Andrews Arthe P. Anthony

Marilyn Levin♦

Sandy Avchen♦

Helen Gordon Lowy

Janet Barnet*♦

Dr. Elizabeth Lu

Sue Bass

Marianne Mandel

Judith Beckmen*♦

Phyllis Massing, Ph.D

Marjorie Bender

Leah Mendelsohn

Marjorie Ann Beradino

Jacqueline Nach

Lanie Bernhard

Deena Nahmias

Deena Blum

Olivia Neece

Lestrita Boardman♦

Phyllis Parvin

Audrey L. Bornstein

Gina Russ Posalski*♦

Alice Desobry Bowens ♦

Anne Reismann

Roanna Araneta Brown

Sharon Reisz

Elnora Guerrero Campos

Irene Ribner

Marlene Theresa Charbonnet

Harriett Chatters Rose♦

Barbara Mansfield Cheyne*♦

Marla Rubin

Lois Rosen♦ Gaile Gray Ryan

Jan Cobert

more information and to order tickets Sat., Nov. 18 • 7:30 pm For www.verdichorus.org Sun., Nov. 19 • 2:00 pm or call 800-838-3006

$40 Priority Seats, $30 General, $25 Seniors, $10 Students | All Credit Cards Accepted

First United Methodist Church • 1008 11th Street, Santa Monica • Free Parking

This concert is made possible, in part, by the L.A. County Board of Supervisors, through the L.A. County Arts Commission, and the Santa Monica Dept. of Cultural Affairs.

Free yourself from the pain, swelling and heaviness of varicose veins

Bonnie Sachs ♦

Victoria Cushey

Carole Schiffer

Mary Levin Cutler♦

Kelly Schiffer*

Judi Davidson

Zrelda Sealey

Babe Eagle

Joyce Siegel

Gloria H. Ellwood*

Robbie J. Solomon

Lynda Wolfson Fadel

Marilyn Lee Stark

Stephanie Fisher-White Ruth Flinkman-Marandy Joey Freed♦ Carolyn H. Fried Ava O. Fries*♦

♦

Carol Stein Debbie Stein Judy Stone Betsy Straszheim Gloria Stroock-Stern

Carole A. Gillie

Rosalyn Holt Swartz

Linda Goldfein Linda Goldman

Love’s Passions Potions

Music from operas by Verdi Massenet Donizetti Romberg

Anne Marie Ketchum Artistic Director Laraine Ann Madden Accompanist

♦

Dina Goldstein Debra C. Gordon Brindell Gottlieb Carol Halperin Stephanie Hibler Audrey V. Jessup Barbara Krasnoff Beau Lavine

Louise Taper Phyllis Teller Katherine L. Todd* Sue Tsao ♦ Roberta Turkat

We will help you feel light on your feet once again

Elinor Turner Carol Le-Veque-Uri Barbara Van Orden Donna Marie Venick* Sue Wittner

*Past Presidents Executive Board Members at Large

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DONOR RECOGNITION

Ovation Circle Planned Gifts and

Center Theatre Group is grateful to these donors, whose irrevocable deferred estate gifts to our endowment ensure the organization’s financial well-being for generations to come.

CHORALE, with Producer ROBERT TOWNSON and VARÈSE LIVE

THE MAGNIFICENT

MOVIE POSTER WORLD

$1,000,000+

of Drew Struzan

W. Lee Bailey, M.D.

Judith & Thomas Beckmen

Angela Bardowell

Kirk & Anne Douglas

Allan & Joan Burns

Richard & Julie Kagan

Deborah M. Hyde

Martin Massman

Sarah & Andy Kane

Betty McMicken in honor of Jeanette Shammas

Dr. & Mrs. Jack Kavanaugh

Diane & Leon Morton

The Paul Kowal Charitable Foundation

Carol Vernon & Robert Turbin

$500,000+ Richard & Norma Camp Mary Levin Cutler

LIVE IN CONCERT Beloved film music, movies, artwork and special guest directors and composers will come together in this unique, one-of-a-kind experience.

FRIDAY, DEC 1, 2017 - ROYCE HALL @ UCLA 8:00PM Artistic Director/Conductor

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Shirley & Irving Ashkenas

Darell L. Krasnoff Sandra Krause & William Fitzgerald Joyce & Kent Kresa

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Carol & Douglas Mancino

Ann & Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr.

Nan Rae

Merle & Peter Mullin Linda S. Peterson Sue Tsao Magda & Frederick R. Waingrow

Bruce & Randy Ellen Ross

$50,000+ The Moira Byrne Foster Foundation Mr. Kim L. Hunter

$250,000+

Sally & Frank Raab

Pamela & Dennis Beck Bill Cohn & Dan Miller

Wes Schaefer & Cathy King-Schaefer

Amy Forbes &

$25,000+

Andrew Murr Patricia Glaser & Sam Mudie Edward L. Rada Maggy Simon

Charles Dillingham & Susan D. Clines Mr. & Mrs. Walter E. Grauman Bob & Renee Nunn

I.H. Sutnick Susan & William Weintraub

Endowment Gifts These gifts ensure a stable source of support for new work and Center Theatre Group’s many initiatives to make theatre accessible to underserved audiences.

$500,000+

the

PLATO Society of Los Angeles

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

Gloria Lothrop

John S. Surabian, Jr. and in memory of Faith and Sharon Ann Surabian

Richard G. & Virginia L. Martin

$250,000+

$50,000+

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Ellen & Michael S. Korney Dorothy & Richard Sherwood

Betsy & Harold Applebaum

$25,000+

Judith & Thomas Beckmen

Linda Brown

Abbott Brown

The Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation

Greve Foundation

Maynard & Linda Brittan

Diane & Leon Morton

Center Theatre Group Affiliates

$10,000+

Kenneth Corday

A and J Davidson Skipper Award Fund

Barbara & Peter Fodor Ava & Charles Fries Brindell & Milton Gottlieb

Dr. Tom Hickey

Levine Foundation Carolyn & Kit Lokey Betty & Sanford Sigoloff

For more information on making a planned or endowment gift, call Becky Birdsong at 213.972.7532.

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Regina Fadiman

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Renee & Meyer Luskin

The Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation

The best known and most prestigious peer learning program in metro Los Angeles. Curious minds learning from each other in a collegial setting.

The Hearst Foundation, Inc.

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DONOR RECOGNITION

Theatre Forward Theatre Forward advances the American theatre and its communities by providing funding and other resources to the country’s leading nonprofit theatres, including Center Theatre Group. Theatre Forward and its theatres are most grateful to the below funders. (DONORS LISTED AS OF SEPTEMBER 2017.)

THEATRE EXECUTIVES ($50,000+) AT&T • Bank of America The Hearst Foundations •

James S. & Lynne Turley • The Schloss Family Foundation •

BENEFACTORS ($25,000-$49,999) Buford Alexander and Pamela Farr

Goldman, Sachs & Co.

BNYMellon

MetLife

Steven & Joy Bunson Citi EY*

Roe Green Foundation Stephanie Scott Morgan Stanley Wells Fargo •

PACESETTERS ($15,000‑$24,999) American Express Bloomberg Philanthropies

Distinctive Residential Settings | Chef-Prepared Dining and Bistro Premier Health and Wellness Programs | Award-Winning Memory Care Professionally Supervised Therapy and Rehabilitation Services

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Cisco Systems, Inc.

National Endowment for the Arts • Pfizer, Inc.

Paula A. Dominick

Thomas C. Quick

The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.

TD Charitable Foundation•

Southwest Airlines • ▲

Alan & Jennifer Freedman

Theatermania/ Gretchen Shugart

Frank & Bonnie Orlowski

George S. Smith, Jr.

Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc.

UBS

DONORS ($10,000–$14,999) Mitchell J. Auslander

Presidio

Marianne Cassini

RBC Wealth Management •

Dorsey & Whitney Foundation

Daniel A. Simkowitz

Epiq Systems

Isabelle Winkles

Bruce R. and Tracey Ewing Lisa Orberg •

S&P Global Wilkie Farr & Gallagher

SUPPORTERS ($2,500‑$9,999) The Ahmanson Foundation Joseph Baio* Sheri and Les Biller Foundation Sue Ann Collins* COOMI Dramatists Play Service, Inc. Kevin & Anne Driscoll* John R. Dutt * Christ Economos Edgerton Foundation ESCADA Jessica Farr Steven Gartner* Glen Gillen and Michael Lawrence Kiki & David Gindler Richard K. Greene Nancy Hancock Griffith* Brian J. Harkins Gregory S. Hurst Howard and Janet Kagan Mary Kitchen and Jon Orszag*

Ken Klein and Christine De Lisle Anthony and Diane Lembke, in honor of Brian J. Harkins, board member* Jody & David Lippman Evelyn Mack Truitt* John Mathena and Michael Forester Jonathan Maurer and Gretchen Shugart Susan and John Major Donor Advised Fund at the Rancho Santa Fe Foundation Louise Moriarty & Patrick Stack* Nederlander Producing Co. of America Newmark Holdings Leslie C. Quick, Jr. and Regina A. Quick Charitable Trust Foundation Mary Lou Seidner* Elliott Sernel & Larry Falconio* Ten Chimneys Foundation John Thomopoulos University Hospitals Michael A. Wall*

* National Society Member ▲ Includes In-kind support • Educating through Theatre Support

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FOR THE CURIOUS MUSIC | CULTURE | NEWS | NPR

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“AN EXPLOSION OF MUSICAL JOY!” –NPR

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YOU DON’T PAY TO WATCH SHOWS THAT FOLLOW A FORMULA. YOU SHOULDN’T PAY YOUR ADVISOR TO FOLLOW A FORMULA, EITHER.

Cast of the Something Rotten! National Tour. Photo by Jeremy Daniel.

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Let’s Talk. After the performance, that is. Enjoy the show.

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THE MUSIC CENTER 2017/2018 MUSIC CENTER BOARD OF DIRECTORS OFFICERS

Lisa Specht Board Chair

SUPPORT The Music Center Annual Fund supports world-class dance, nationally recognized arts education and participatory arts programs that inspire people of all ages and create opportunities for expression.

Unrestricted annual support makes it possible for these programs to grow.

For more information or to donate, please call (213) 972-4349.

Robert J. Abernethy Cindy Miscikowski Vice Chairs Rachel S. Moore President and Chief Executive Officer Diane G. Medina Secretary

Susan M. Wegleitner Treasurer Lisa Whitney Assistant Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer

MEMBERS AT LARGE

William H. Ahmanson Wallis Annenberg Jill Baldauf

Dannielle Campos

Lois Erburu

Greg T. Geyer

Richard M. Ferry

Lisa Gilford

Bernard A. Greenberg

David Gindler Kiki Ramos Gindler Brindell Gottlieb Maria Rosario Jackson

David Lippman

Bowen “Buzz” H. McCoy

CONTACT

Cynthia M. Patton

General Information (213) 972-7211

Rory Pullens

Lost and Found (213) 972-2600

Amb. (ret.) Glen A. Holden Amb. (ret.) Lester B. Korn

Cary J. Lefton Richard Lynn Martinez

Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr.

Stuart M. Ketchum

Glenn Kaino

Michael Pagano

Audio Description/Project D.A.T.E. (Direct Audience Theatre Experience) (213) 680-4017

Eli Broad Amb. (ret.) John B. Emerson*

Shelby Notkin

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Judith Beckmen

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Darrell D. Miller

Filming (213) 972-7334

Peter K. Barker

Ronald W. Burkle

Darrell Brown

Elizabeth Michelson

Theatre Rentals (213) 972-3600

DIRECTORS EMERITI

Karen Kay Platt Max Ramberg Jay Rasulo Joseph Rice^ Richard K. Roeder Joni J. Smith

Kent Kresa Robert F. Maguire, III Ginny Mancini Edward J. McAniff Walter M. Mirisch Fredric M. Roberts Claire L. Rothman Cynthia A. Telles James A. Thomas Andrea L. Van de Kamp* Paul M. Watson Thomas R. Weinberger Rosalind W. Wyman * Chairman Emeritus

Catharine Soros Marc I. Stern Cary H. Thompson Walter F. Ulloa Timothy S. Wahl Alyce Williamson Jay Wintrob Rollin A. Ransom General Counsel ^ Leave o f Absence

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BOARD OF SUPERVISORS COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES

Support from the County of Los Angeles Board of Supervisors plays an invaluable role in the successful operation of The Music Center.

FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: SHEILA J. KUEHL Third District, KATHRYN BARGER Fifth District, MARK RIDLEY-THOMAS Second District, Chairman, JANICE HAHN Fourth District, HILDA L. SOLIS First District

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THE SWEETEST HOLIDAY TR ADITION RETURNS!

A Whimsical New Look for the Celebrated Balanchine Classic DEC. 7 — 10, 2017 LIVE ORCHESTRA Performed by M I A M I CIT Y BA LLET Sets and Costumes by I S A BE L and RU BE N T OL E D O

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THE MUSIC CENTER’S W INTER SOIR ÉE Join The Music Center and support its arts education, dance and community programming at The Music Center’s Winter Soirée on December 7, celebrating the world premiere of an all-new George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker by Miami City Ballet. This magical evening features the performance followed by a special gala including dinner and entertainment.

For more information or to purchase tables and packages, please call (213) 972-3322, or visit musiccenter.org/wintersoiree.

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NOVEMBER WED 01 NOV 5:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.

Grand Park’s Día De Los Muertos: Altars + Art GRAND PARK Thru 11/5 WED 01 NOV / 11:00 a.m.

EVERY TUE/WED/THU LUNCHTIME! Food Trucks GRAND PARK WED 01 NOV / 11:00 a.m.

EVERY WED/FRI LUNCHTIME! Yoga reTREAT GRAND PARK Thru 05/2018 WED 01 NOV / 8:00 p.m.

Bright Star CENTER THEATRE GROUP Ahmanson Theatre Thru 11/19 WED 01 NOV / 8:00 p.m.

Mariinsky Orchestra LA PHIL Walt Disney Concert Hall THU 02 NOV / 8:00 p.m.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream LA PHIL Walt Disney Concert Hall Thru 11/5 THU 02 NOV / 7:30 p.m.

Nabucco LA OPERA Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Thru 11/19 SAT 04 NOV / 10:00 a.m.

Grand Ave Arts: All Access TUE 07 NOV / 8:00 p.m.

Les Arts Florissants LA PHIL Walt Disney Concert Hall

THU 09 NOV / 8:00 p.m.

Dutoit Conducts Ravel LA PHIL Walt Disney Concert Hall Thru 11/11

SAT 18 NOV / 8:30 p.m.

Symposium on Mike Kelley’s Kandors REDCAT MON 20 NOV / 8:30 p.m.

Diego Rísquez’s American Trilogy: Amérika, Terra Incógnita REDCAT

THU 09 NOV / 8:00 p.m.

Keeril Makan and Jay Scheib: Persona REDCAT Thru 11/12 THU 09 NOV / 8:00 p.m.

Persona LA OPERA OFF GRAND REDCAT Thru 11/12 SUN 12 NOV / 2:00 p.m.

War of the Worlds LA PHIL Walt Disney Concert Hall TUE 14 NOV / 8:00 p.m.

Chamber Music from France LA PHIL Walt Disney Concert Hall

TUE 21 NOV / 8:30 p.m.

Bojana Cvejić When WAR was the Political Unconscious of DANCE REDCAT FRI 24 NOV / 8:00 p.m.

Bernstein 100: West Side Story LA PHIL Walt Disney Concert Hall Thru 11/26

THU 16 NOV / 8:00 p.m.

Bach & Pergolesi Walt Disney Concert Hall Thru 11/19 FRI 17 NOV / 7:30 p.m.

Domingo 50 th Concert and Gala LA OPERA Dorothy Chandler Pavilion FRI 17 NOV / 8:30 p.m.

EXO//ENDO performs Ulrich Krieger: Black Sun Rebirth and Braden Diotte: General Manifest REDCAT

TUE 21 NOV / 8:00 p.m.

Something Rotten!

CENTER THEATRE GROUP Ahmanson Theatre Thru 12/31

FRI 24 NOV / 8:30 p.m.

Sounding Limits: The Music of Pascale Criton REDCAT SUN 26 NOV / ALL DAY Grand Park Lights Up The Holidays GRAND PARK Thru 12/26 MON 27 NOV / 5:00 p.m.

L.A. County Tree Lighting GRAND PARK THU 30 NOV / 8:30 p.m.

Charles Atlas, Rashaun Mitchell, Silas Riener: Tesseract REDCAT Thru 12/3

2017 SAT 18 NOV / 2:00 p.m.

Noon to Midnight, with War of Worlds LA PHIL Walt Disney Concert Hall

Visit musiccenter.org for additional information on all upcoming events. facebook.com/MusicCenterLA

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