Block Party 2017 at Center Theatre Group, Performances magazine April 2017

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Dear Audience Member, Fifty years ago this month, on April 9, 1967, the Mark Taper Forum and Ahmanson Theatre were dedicated at a star-studded event. Actor Gregory Peck proclaimed, “Tonight marks the realization of what seemed an impossible dream. Since we didn’t inherit great cultural monuments, we had to create our own.” Speaking before the opening production at the Mark Taper Forum—the controversial The Devils—Governor Ronald Reagan called The Music Center “a beautiful temple of our profession and our art.”

Over the past 50 years, we haven’t thought about what we do as taking place in a monument or a temple but as part of a community—both local and national. The work onstage this month represents both those communities. At the Kirk Douglas Theatre, we’re hosting our inaugural Block Party, our new annual celebration of the rich and diverse theatre ecosystem of Los Angeles. We’re proud to be presenting recent productions from three stellar local companies: Coeurage Theatre Company, The Fountain Theatre, and The Echo Theater Company. And at the Ahmanson Theatre, we’re bringing the acclaimed Fiasco Theater production of Into The Woods to Los Angeles audiences—a reinvention of classic fairy tales from one of contemporary theatre’s great ensemble companies.

Thank you for being part of our community as we turn 50. We hope you’ll join us in celebrating our past by taking a look at the segment of our 50 Anniversary timeline in this issue, which highlights 1998–2007. And please visit our full digital timeline at CenterTheatreGroup.org to explore more content—including photos, video, music, and newspaper clippings from that very first dedication ceremony up to today.

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Center Theatre Group Board of Directors 2016/2017 Officers BOARD MEMBERS

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Michael Rogers

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PAST PRESIDENTS

Pamela Beck

Eric R. Garen

Harold Applebaum

Lew R. Wasserman†

Thom Beers

Patricia Glaser

Monica Horan Rosenthal

Ronald J. Arnault

Marshall Berges†

Miles Benickes

Manuela Cerri Goren

Judith Beckmen

Armand S. Deutsch†

Kiki Ramos Gindler

Gail Berman-Masters

Robert Greenblatt

Ava Fries

Walter Mirisch

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Susan Grode

Phyllis Hennigan

Henry C. Rogers†

Dannielle Campos Ramirez

Aliza Karney Guren

Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr.

Richard E. Sherwood†

William R. Lindsay

Mara Carieri

Richard Kagan

J. David Haft†

Jody Lippman

Susanne Daniels

Amy R. Forbes

Louise Moriarty

Sandra Stern

Lawrence J. Ramer†

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Darell L. Krasnoff

Laura Rosenwald Stephen D. Rountree Donna Schweers Elliott Sernel Jack Simon Maggy Simon

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AT A GLANCE

TICKET INFO

Center Theatre Group is a nonprofit theatre company that produces and presents at the Ahmanson Theatre and the Mark Taper Forum at The Music Center of Los Angeles, and the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. For ticketing, the latest news from our theatres, and more, visit CenterTheatreGroup.org.

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Flash photography can be dangerous to performers and is very distracting to audiences. Photography and any other type of recording device are unlawful, unless authorized by Center Theatre Group. Your use of a ticket constitutes acknowledgment of willingness to appear in authorized photographs and video in public areas of The Music Center and the Kirk Douglas Theatre and releases Center Theatre Group, The Music Center, and all others from liability resulting from the use of such photographs.

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213.972.7564 Center Theatre Group is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that uses the art of theatre to broaden horizons and illuminate new perspectives by producing and presenting shows on three stages, by offering free education and community programs, and by cultivating artists of all generations. Our work is made possible thanks to the generous support of our donors.

LATE SEATING To minimize disruption, patrons not seated when the performance begins will be asked to wait in the lobby until an appropriate break. Latecomers may also be given alternate seats until intermission.

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FRAGRANCES Please refrain from wearing strong perfumes and cologne. Many people are allergic to heavy scents.

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AROUND CENTER THEATRE GROUP Recent Ahmanson Productions By the Numbers

Center Theatre Group has a rich history of producing fresh and new works at the Ahmanson Theatre, but producing three shows back-to-back is a formidable undertaking. And that’s just what we did from July 2016 – January 2017, with Grey Gardens, A View From the Bridge, and Amélie, A New Musical, all of which involved bringing casts and creative teams from around the world to Los Angeles. Here’s a look at the behind-the-scenes work our management team put into these productions—by the numbers:

138 inquiries made to New York City rehearsal studios to find rental space

3,496 nights

in hotels and apartments booked

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for actors, stage managers, and creative team members

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Students Swarm ‘Zoot Suit’ Nearly 3,000 high school students and educators from across Los Angeles attended Student Matinees of Zoot Suit at the Mark Taper Forum February 21–23 and March 16, 2017. After the show, cast members participated in question-and-answer sessions, and many classes also received pre- and post-show classroom visits from teaching artists in addition to educational materials designed to immerse them in the world of the play.

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ALISON BECHDEL, author of the graphic memoir Fun Home, came to Los Angeles and the Ahmanson Theatre the week of our opening for a variety of events, including our Student Meet-Up. She chatted with students—members of the Center Theatre Group Student Body—before the February 23, 2017 performance. Student Body members receive invitations to free workshops, meet-ups, and other events exclusively for young people ages 13–23.

Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda L. Solis awarded a

proclamation to Zoot Suit writer/ director Luis Valdez at a dinner for Center Theatre Group supporters before the February 12, 2017 Opening Night performance. The proclamation from the Board of Supervisors “commends Valdez on his achievements and on the enduring success and resonance of Zoot Suit, and thanks him for bringing this play back to its birthplace.”

Center Theatre Group is proud to have commissioned seven female Los Angeles playwrights for The Hotel Play, a Playwrights’ Arena World premiere at the Radisson Hotel Midtown at USC April 1–16, 2017.

Congratulations to playwrights Paula Cizmar, Velina Hasu Houston, Jennifer Maisel, Nahal Navidar, Julie Taiwo Oni, Janine Salinas Schoenberg, and Laurie Woolery.

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‘THE FRAME’ VISITS THE TAPER KPCC’s In Person and KPCC’s The Frame visited the Mark Taper Forum on February 13, 2017 for a live conversation with (l–r) The Frame host John Horn, Zoot Suit writer/director Luis Valdez, Center Theatre Group Artistic Director Michael Ritchie, Zoot Suit original and revival cast member Rose Portillo, and Pomona College historian Tomás F. Summers Sandoval, Jr. They discussed the origins of Zoot Suit, the Los Angeles history behind the story, and what it was like to revive the show at the Taper almost 40 years after its World premiere.

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CELEBRATING 50 YEARS at Center Theatre Group

May 20, 2017 Marks the Biggest Event in our History

It’s an evening half a century in the making. Center Theatre Group’s 50 Celebration will take place on Saturday, May 20, 2017. Some of the world’s most talented artists and Center Theatre Group supporters, led by 50 Celebration Chair Sue Tsao, are coming together to honor our past and create a secure foundation for our future—for one night only.

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“Center Theatre Group has been a home for so many artists in Los Angeles since 1967. And it’s been a home to me and countless other audience members over the past 50 years.

It’s the perfect time for us to celebrate everything the company has given us and to give back, too,” said Tsao, who is also a Member of the Center Theatre Group Board.

The evening will begin with a cocktail reception on The Music Center Plaza, featuring behind-the-scenes glimpses into some of our most beloved shows from the past 50 years. Then, guests will head into the Ahmanson Theatre for a show featuring Center Theatre Group alumni artists and a number of famous faces, including Sir Matthew Bourne, Sutton Foster, Nathan Lane, and Phylicia Rashad—with many more to come. The production is helmed by producer Robert Egan, who is working with Center Theatre Group Artistic Director Michael Ritchie and a star-studded artist committee to create an unforgettable night at the theatre.

The evening will continue with a festive party at Grand Park.

Guests will dine on cuisine by a slate of Los Angeles’ most lauded chefs, curated by Patina Restaurant Group’s Joachim Splichal: Vartan Abgaryan (71Above), Josiah Citrin (Melisse), Ray Garcia (Broken Spanish), Bruce Kalman (Union), and Frania Mendivil (Patina). They’ll also be treated to surprise entertainment courtesy of media artist Kate Johnson, who is incorporating materials from Center Theatre Group’s rich archives into an immersive dining experience.

“This is a night to celebrate where Center Theatre Group has come from and where we are going next," said Ritchie. “I'm honored to have been a part of the first 50 years of the company and to be helping usher in our next act alongside the people and artists who have helped make it all possible."

The 50 Celebration is the biggest event in our history and a pivotal moment: the launch of the next 50 years of great theatre here and across Los Angeles. Proceeds from this spectacular evening will support Center Theatre Group’s world-class productions, innovative programs, new work, emerging artists, and future generations of theatre lovers.

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For more information about how you can help Center Theatre Group make history as we celebrate it, please contact us at 213.972.3731 or Celebration50@CTGLA.org.

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WELCOME TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD INTRODUCING THE COMPANIES BEHIND BLOCK PARTY AT THE KIRK DOUGLAS THEATRE BLOCK PARTY IS OUR NEW CELEBRATION OF LOS ANGELES THEATRE. In January, we announced that we would be collaborating with three local theatre companies to make this inaugural event a reality. Coeurage Theatre Company, The Fountain Theatre, and The Echo Theater Company are each one piece of the ecosystem that is Los Angeles theatre, and their stories are as vibrant and diverse as the city they call home.

The youngest company to collaborate with us on Block Party is Coeurage Theatre Company. Founded in 2009 by a group of graduates from California State University, Fullerton, their name is derived from the French word for “heart.” It is a quality they bring to all their productions. In fact, a 2016 American Theatre Magazine story singled them out as “among the most theatrical of the many theatre companies in Los Angeles.”

Coeurage extends that heart beyond the stage to their audiences. Operating on a pay-what-you-want business model, they “exist to make impassioned theatre available to all audiences,” said Coeurage Theatre Company Artistic Director Jeremy Lelliott. “We let every single patron who comes to our show choose their own ticket price for every single performance for every single production.”

For our first Block Party, we’re taking a page from Coeurage’s book and offering a special pay-what-you-want preview for all three Block Party shows, the first of which is set be Coeurage’s production of Failure: A Love Story by Philip Dawkins. Failure tells the story of the Fail sisters and their ill-fated love affairs with the same man in a magical (and theatrical) Chicago of the 1920s.

For Lelliott, it represents a vote of confidence in the work that Coeurage is doing.

“It’s pretty remarkable that Center Theatre Group is putting, literally, their money where their mouths are and pointing to [the L.A. theatre] community and saying, Hey, everyone. Look over here. We believe in what these people are doing.” To see Failure: A Love Story, head over to the Douglas April 14–23, 2017.

The Fountain Theatre was founded in 1990 by co-Artistic Directors Deborah Lawlor and Stephen Sachs. From the beginning, they have been committed to presenting work that reflects the diversity of the city they call home. Located near a sleepy section of Hollywood, The Fountain Theatre makes its home near the corner of Fountain and Normandie.

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For over 20 years, they have produced works from laudable playwrights such as Athol Fugard, Tanya Saracho, and Tarell Alvin McCraney (who is coming to the Taper soon with Head of Passes). For Block Party, they will be presenting their 2015 production of Citizen: An American Lyric.

Citizen is an adaptation of Claudia Rankine’s book by the same name, and uses interviews, first-hand accounts, and poetry to explore racism in the Unites States.

Stephen Sachs (who also wrote the adaptation) is excited to bring this production to the Douglas stage. “[Center Theatre Group] is being incredibly generous to open its doors, and its resources, to allow us as theatre artists to expand our artistic vision of what the piece could be,” he said. Catch Citizen: An American Lyric onstage at the Douglas April 28 – May 7, 2017.

The Echo Theater Company is a playwright’s theatre company. Since 1997, they have presented 48 Word premieres by playwrights like Sarah Ruhl, Adam Rapp, Tommy Smith, and Sheila Callaghan at their space in the Atwater Village Theatre complex.

“Our mission is to nurture playwrights and produce and present them at any and all levels,” said Echo Theater Company Artistic Director Chris Fields. “We do readings, we do workshops, we do full productions, and we emphasize the relationship with the playwright.” It’s a tradition they continue as they remount Dry Land by Ruby Rae Spiegel for Block Party. Written when Spiegel was only 21 years old, it tells the tale of two high school seniors, an unwanted pregnancy, and the obstacles facing young women in America. As an added bonus for those who missed it the first time, this represents an opportunity for Los Angeles audiences to see the 2016 Ovation Award-winning production for Best Production of a Play (Intimate Theatre).

Closing out the party, Dry Land plays the Kirk Douglas Theatre May 12–21, 2017.

For more information about all the companies involved in Block Party, and to see interviews, previews, and blog articles about the three shows visit CenterTheatreGroup.org.

Block Party receives major support from Aliza Karney Guren and Marc Guren, with generous funding also provided by Joni and Miles Benickes.

clockwise: The original cast in the Coeurage Theatre production of Failure: A Love Story. Photo by Matthew Denman | (l-r) Connor Kelly-Eiding and Teagan Rose in The Echo Theater production of Dry Land. Photo by Darrett Sanders | (l-r) Leith Burke, Bernard K. Addison, Lisa Pescia, Tina Lifford, Tony Maggio, and Simone Missick in The Fountain Theatre production of Citizen: An American Lyric.

Photo by Ed Krieger.

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A Journey of a Century Begins With a Single Student THE AUGUST WILSON MONOLOGUE COMPETITION KEEPS A PLAYWRIGHT’S LEGACY ALIVE

On February 27, 2017, a century of the AfricanAmerican experience came to life on the Mark Taper Forum stage through the words of August Wilson and the voices of Los Angeles high school students.

Since 2011, Center Theatre Group has served as the Southern California home for the national August Wilson Monologue Competition. Each year, over 100 students from across the region are introduced to Wilson’s work as part of the program, which begins in the fall. Six months later, 12 of those students emerge as regional finalists and present their monologues in front of a packed Taper house.

The road to the competition begins with an afterschool workshop where students learn about Wilson’s American Century Cycle. Teaching artists led this year’s group in acting exercises, introduced them to Wilson’s plays, and guided them through audition techniques.

“These workshops are an opportunity to bring together students from all over Southern California for a common goal—to immerse themselves in the work of August Wilson,” said Center Theatre Group Director of Social Strategy, Innovation and Impact Leslie K. Johnson.

“Seeing this new generation engage with the work of a playwright who depicted an overlooked part of the American experience reminds me why this competition is so important.”

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convened at Center Theatre Group’s headquarters for preliminary auditions. Fifty-three students advanced to the semi-finals, where they performed for judges and received written feedback on their auditions before the 12 regional finalists were selected.

“The amount of time and hard work these students put into their monologues is emblematic of the fact this competition is not about who wins or loses. It is about giving young people an opportunity to find themselves and their communities in Wilson’s work,” said Johnson.

“The training sessions are not about preparing students to win. They are about allowing students to tap into the depths of their humanity.”

For regional finalists Joey Aquino, Luke Baxter, Kelly Bouslaiby, Hollis Dohr, Asa Ferguson, Hannah Franklin, Elija Hall, Habin Lee, Arjang Mahdavi, Ehvinny Mora, Alexander Villaseñor, and Aryana Williams, this meant digging through personal experiences to understand characters whose lives are often very different from their own. To do so, they underwent 16 hours of training with Program Advisor Andi Chapman. They received one-onone coaching in text analysis, character study, and vocal and physical technique. They also worked together as an ensemble, learning how to collaborate and support one another as artists.

“The competition is a continuation of the idea that Center Theatre Group is here to support great art and great artists. We pass the torch to a new generation of artists.

Each year, I am amazed by the complexity, emotion, and understanding this new generation brings to Wilson’s

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characters,” said Center Theatre Group Artistic Director Michael Ritchie.

This complexity and understanding was on full display throughout the regional finals. First-place finalist Aryana Williams took on the role of Louise from Seven Guitars, imbuing the character with raw, world-weary experience and cutting humor. Alexander Villaseñor, who took second place, brought to life Youngblood from Jitney, a character determined to provide for his girlfriend and family. And third-place finalist Elija Hall, who played Tonya from King Hedley II, shook the audience with her uninhibited depiction of a woman choosing not to have a child.

Her journey is representative of what the August Wilson Competition is all about: experience, understanding, and growth.

Which is why the Center Theatre Group Affiliates have supported our August Wilson Program since its inception, and continue to serve as presenting sponsor.

“We are thrilled that we can touch the lives of so many young and talented artists,” said Center Theatre Group Affiliates President Kim White Peterson.

The top two performers will travel to New York later this spring to perform in the national finals at the August Wilson Theatre on Broadway—a special honor for First-place finalist Aryana Williams. Having come in third in last year’s competition, Williams will finally have her chance to speak Wilson’s words on the Great White Way.

(l-r) Aryana Williams, Alexander Villaseñor, and Elija Hall backstage at the Mark Taper Forum after the 2017 August Wilson Monologue Competition. | The regional finalists onstage at the Mark Taper Forum during the 2017 August Wilson Monologue Competition. Photos by Ryan Miller/Capture Imaging.

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Innovative Lighting Designer PABLO SANTIAGO Wins the 2017 Richard E. Sherwood Award

‘You Have to Find Your Own Voice’ Pablo Santiago speaks slowly and carefully, pausing between phrases as he considers his words. He brings this same thoughtfulness to his lighting design.

Santiago’s unique style has been recognized with the 2017 Sherwood Award for emerging artists.

The $10,000 Sherwood Award was established in 1996 in memory of longtime Center Theatre Group Board member Richard E. Sherwood to nurture innovative, adventurous Los Angeles theatre artists.

Santiago more than fits the bill with his “unusual” approach to lighting. “Sometimes people question whether what I’m doing is a good idea. But you have to create a way of working and telling a story that is particular to you. You have to find your own voice,” Santiago said. “My mom reminded me recently that I’ve been at this for 22 years. Winning the Sherwood feels like a validation of the approach I have taken.”

Santiago, who grew up in Chiapas, Mexico, had a roundabout entry into the world of live theatre.

After graduating from UC San Diego with a degree in visual art, he worked in lighting design in film for 15 years. It wasn’t until his wife, a modern dance choreographer, enlisted his help because she couldn’t afford a lighting designer, that he “fell in love with how light works in a live performance.” Determined to better understand live performance, he went back to school to earn a graduate degree from UCLA. For Santiago, the differences between lighting for film and for the stage are striking. “In film you are tied to reality a lot more,” he said. “The lighting is specific to that moment. Onstage, the opposite is true. You can

Pablo Santiago accepts the 2017 Sherwood Award at the Ovation Awards. Photo by Ryan Miller/ Capture Imaging.

be more unrealistic, architectural, or colorful. It can be more emotional. But you also have to be very careful about how you direct the eye and have to account for the whole play from the beginning. In theatre, you do one long take that is an act long.” For him, that’s part of the fun of it. “In theatre, lighting acts like the editor in a movie. You create the cuts of the story.”

Santiago recently worked on Good Grief, a World premiere at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, and Zoot Suit at the Mark Taper Forum. Good Grief presented the challenge and opportunity of being a totally blank slate.

Zoot Suit had a different kind of pressure. Apart from the fact that Zoot Suit was mythic in its own right, that Luis Valdez—the legendary Chicano playwright and original director of the 1978 premiere at the Taper—was helming its revival, and that the original production was embedded in the national theatre narrative, Santiago had bigger challenges facing him than high expectations.

“Luis Valdez was very interested in the idea of the show functioning as a film noir movie, which requires a lot of contrast and shadow,” said Santiago. “The story itself is also challenging. There is a mental space and a mythic space. There is reality and there is song.”

Music is integral to Zoot Suit, which is a good thing for Santiago, who feels that lighting and music are closely connected.

“Lighting functions best when it has a musical rhythm.

Timing is also very important. There is also something visceral about the reaction one has to how a space is lit and that is an interesting way for me to communicate,” he said.

“In theatre, lighting acts like the editor in a movie.

You create the cuts of the story.”

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THE CONVERSATIONS BEYOND OUR STAGES Talking about the Issues Surrounding Zoot Suit Rising young artists speak at our “#YouthPower” panel. Photo by Ryan Miller/Capture Imaging.

Center Theatre Group’s Community Conversations allow audiences to dig into issues surrounding a play with leading scholars, thinkers, and artists. This was particularly important for Zoot Suit. Thanks to a grant from The Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation, we were able to create a series of Conversations covering topics from swing dancing to the American media.

These conversations began with “#YouthPower: Young Artists Keep Changing the World.”

Hosted at AltaMed’s headquarters, “#YouthPower” brought a group of rising local artists together to respond to issues affecting their community.

In “The Making of the Zoot Suit Revival,” lighting designer and Richard E. Sherwood Award winner Pablo Santiago (profiled on page 20) discussed the process of remounting this historic show at the theatre where it first premiered.

The musically minded got a chance to explore the boogie-woogie, R&B, jazz, and Chicano big band tunes that propel the show forward in “The Song and the Swing of Zoot Suit,” where a panel of dancers, choreographers, and scholars led audience members in discussion—and dance moves.

We also collaborated with the Museum of Latin American Art on “Zoot Suit in Dreamland,” taking place in tandem with the museum’s Frank Romero retrospective. Scholars came together to discuss how politics inspired the work of Zoot Suit writer/director Luis Valdez, visual artist Romero, and other 20 -century Chicano creators.

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Celebrating Los Angeles Theatre

FAILURE: A LOVE STORY from Coeurage Theatre Company Written by Philip Dawkins Directed by Michael Matthews Apr 14–23, 2017 CITIZEN: AN AMERICAN LYRIC from The Fountain Theatre Written by Claudia Rankine Adapted for the stage by Stephen Sachs Directed by Shirley Jo Finney Apr 28 – May 7, 2017 DRY LAND from The Echo Theater Company Written by Ruby Rae Spiegel Directed by Alana Dietze May 12–21, 2017 FIFTH SEASON PRODUCTION

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As we celebrate our 50TH Anniversary Season, 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 $1,000,000 AND ABOVE The Annenberg Foundation Kirk & Anne Douglas Kiki & David Gindler Patricia Glaser & Sam Mudie Aliza Karney Guren & Marc Guren Ann & Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr. The Los Angeles County Arts Commission Laura & James Rosenwald & Orinoco Foundation Sue Tsao

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GIFTS OF $100,000 AND ABOVE Anonymous Derek & Yvonne Bell Mara & Joseph Carieri Cindy & Gary Frischling Jody & David Lippman Bill Resnick & Michael Stubbs Deidra Norman Schumann

Center Theatre Group would also like to thank the following donors for making commitments to the 50TH Anniversary Campaign through increased giving to our Annual Fund and through legacy gifts to our Endowment: Pamela & Dennis Beck, Anne Bruner & Jim Bremner, Nancy & Donald de Brier, Darell & Elizabeth Krasnoff, Jo Muse, Patrick Owen & Norman Dixon, Cheryl A. Shepherd, Sunshine Stone, Hope Landis Warner.

Legacy Gifts $1,000,000 AND ABOVE Judith & Thomas Beckmen Diane & Leon Morton $500,000 AND ABOVE Richard & Norma Camp Susan A. Grode Linda S. Peterson Other Legacy Gifts Shirley & Irving Ashkenas, Bill Cohn & Dan Miller, Steven Llanusa & Glenn Miya, M.D., Gloria Lothrop, Carol & Douglas Mancino, Nan Rae, Randy & Bruce Ross P 2 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE

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

Presents the

production of

F A I L U R E: APR 14 – 23

A LOVE STORY

Written by

Philip Dawkins With (in alphabetical order)

Joe Calarco........................................................................................John N. Fail June Carryl....................................................................................... Gertrude Fail Cristina Gerla........................................................................................ Ensemble Kristina Johnson.................................................................................... Ensemble Margaret Katch...................................................................................... Nelly Fail Denver Milord....................................................................................... Ensemble Gregory Nabours................................................................................... Ensemble Theo Perkins......................................................................................... Ensemble Kurt Quinn............................................................................... Mortimer Mortimer Brandon Ruiter...................................................................................... Ensemble Nicole Shalhoub............................................................................Jenny June Fail Gina Torrecilla...................................................................................... Ensemble Brittney S. Wheeler............................................................................... Ensemble Scenic Design

Costume Design

Lighting Design

Original Music, Arrangements & Music Direction

JR Bruce

Allison Dillard

Matthew Brian Denman

Gregory Nabours

Center Theatre Group Associate Producer

Production Stage Manager

Stage Manager

Lindsay Allbaugh

Emily Abbott

Maggie Swing

Directed By

Michael Matthews Time/Place: Chicago, 1928 Failure: A Love Story is performed without an intermission.

Failure: A Love Story received its Los Angeles premiere at Coeurage Theatre Company on July 24, 2015.

JEREMY LELLIOTT, Artistic Director NICOLE MONET, Executive Director Block Party receives major support from ALIZA KARNEY GUREN and MARC GUREN with generous funding also provided by JONI and MILES BENICKES.

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WHO’S WHO JOE CALARCO (John N. Fail). Los Angeles: Failure: A Love Story (Ovation nomination), The Pitchfork Disney (Stage Raw nomination), Balm in Gilead, The Rocky Horror Show, No. Saints Lane (TicketHolder Award), LA Lights Fire (Coeurage Theatre Company), As White as O (Road Theatre Company). Chicago: The 4th Graders Present an Unnamed Love-Suicide (After Dark Award), Camille/La Traviata, Leonce und Lena, Blood Wedding (The Hypocrites), Gator Paws (various). TV: American Horror Story, Masters of Sex. JUNE CARRYL (Gertrude Fail). Theatre: Romeo and Juliet, Six Characters in Search of an Author, All My Sons, Julius Caesar, The Liquid Plain, The Trojan Women, The Threepenny Opera, Elmina’s Kitchen, Venus, Civil Sex, Insurrection: Holding History, Late Bus to Mecca. Film: Under the Silver Lake, 2 Lava 2 Lantula, Haiku Tunnel. Television: American Crime, Colony, Documentary Now!, Castle.

MARGARET KATCH (Nelly Fail). Regional: Failure: A Love Story (Coeurage Theatre, Ovation nomination), The School for Lies (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Remy Bumppo), Three Sisters (The Gift Theatre), Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Noble Fool), Bachelorette (Cardinal Stage), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company), Fanny Kemble’s Lenox Address (Shakespeare & Company). TV: Gilmore Girls, Quick & Dirty, Ctrl Alt Delete. Film: Bastard Son of..., To Fall in Love with Anyone, Play This Game. Creator: Ctrl Alt Delete. margaretkatch.com DENVER MILORD (Ensemble). Thrilled to be on the Block with the Fails! Off-Broadway: Terms of Endearment, 59E59. Film: Jack Reacher, The Last Witch Hunter, Like You Mean It. TV: The Blacklist, Southland, Outsiders, Full Circle. Carnegie Mellon BFA. Thanks to all my teachers, family & friends, Coeurage, and of course Mike Matthews!

CRISTINA GERLA (Ensemble). Regional theatre: 25th Annual…Spelling Bee (Sierra Madre Playhouse, Ovation nomination); Failure: A Love Story (Coeurage Theatre Co., Ovation nomination); Kingdom City (La Jolla Playhouse); Red Barn (Independent Shakespeare Co.); The Grapes of Wrath (A Noise Within); Peppa Pig Live! (1ST US nat’l tour). Other theatres and workshop productions: Pasadena Playhouse, LA Phil, LATC, Odyssey Theatre, PCPA. Training: BA UCLA TFT; RADA. Proud member of Coeurage. Love to my family, Mary Jo, and Anthony @ DDO.

GREGORY NABOURS (Ensemble, Original Music, Arrangements & Music Direction) is an award-winning songwriter, music director, and the resident composer and a founding member of Coeurage Theatre Company. Gregory’s work has been performed across the country, including an evening at the Kennedy Center for ASCAP’s Part of Broadway: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow series. He has two musicals set for production within the next year, and will soon be featured as a selected songwriter for The American Music Theatre Project.

KRISTINA JOHNSON (Ensemble). L.A.: Search (L.A. LGBT Center—Robbie Award winner, Best Actress), Hit the Wall (L.A. LGBT Center—LADCC and Stage Raw winner, Ovation nominated), Failure: A Love Story (Coeurage—Ovation nominated), Rabbit Hole (La Mirada), A Parallelogram (Mark Taper Forum). International: All the Happy People, Edinburgh. Regional: Goodman Theatre: Sweet Bird of Youth, The Long Red Road, The Ballad of Emmett Till, Reverb, and Spirits to Enforce (New Stages). Chicago: A Streetcar Named Desire (Writers), Threepenny Opera (Steppenwolf Garage). Love you, Bukauskas!

THEO PERKINS (Ensemble). Broadway: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. L.A. theatre: The Golden Dragon (The Theatre @ Boston Court), Fences (International City Theatre), The Brothers Size, In the Red and Brown Water (Fountain Theatre). TV: Lie to Me, Raising the Bar, NCIS. Theo is the founder of the Elizabeth Youth Theater Ensemble, a nonprofit that brings drama students and police officers together in performance residencies. BA: Morehouse College; MFA: UCLA (acting).

KURT QUINN (Mortimer Mortimer). National tour: The Complete History of Comedy (abridged) (Reduced Shakespeare Company).

L.A. theatre: Trey Parker’s Cannibal! The Musical

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(L.A. premiere, Coeurage); The 4th Graders Present an Unnamed Love-Suicide (Coeurage); The Homosexuals (Celebration); Translations (Coeurage); Measure for Measure (A Noise Within); among others.

Film: The Outdoorsman. Improv/sketch: iO West, Groundlings, UCB. National commercials: Yelp, Kia, Verizon, Wendy’s, ESPN. The Internet knows Kurt for his ability to talk backwards.

Ragtime (Norris CFTPA), bare: a pop opera (SVCAC), Rent (ECC & BTS), In the Next Room (Santa Paula Theater Ctr), The Color Purple (Celebration Theatre, Ovation winner). BA in theatre arts from Concordia University, Irvine. Casting Associate/ Company Member of Celebration Theatre.

Lots of love and thanks to my parents, Center Theatre Group, my cast, and Michael Matthews.

BRANDON RUITER (Ensemble) is elated to be back for more Failure! He is a company member with The House Theatre of Chicago and has worked with numerous L.A. theatres, including understudying the role of Ethan in Sex With Strangers at the Geffen Playhouse. Favorite film and TV credits include Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life (Netflix), Into the Storm (Warner Bros.), Crisis (NBC), and Garfunkel and Oates (IFC). He recently finished producing, writing, and starring in the short film Be Still.

PHILIP DAWKINS (Playwright) is a Chicago playwright and educator. His plays include The Happiest Place on Earth (Sideshow Theatre/Greenhouse Theater Center), Le Switch (About Face Theatre, The Jungle), Charm (Northlight Theatre), Miss Marx: Or The Involuntary Side Effect of Living (Strawdog Theatre), The Homosexuals (About Face Theatre), and the musical adaptation of Dr. Seuss’s The Sneetches with composer David Mallamud (Children’s Theatre Company, Minneapolis). His play Charm will receive its NY premiere at MCC this fall. He teaches playwriting at Northwestern University, Loyola University Chicago, and through the Victory Gardens ACCESS Program.

NICOLE SHALHOUB (Jenny June Fail).

Broadway: China Doll. Off-Broadway: The Clean House (Lincoln Center), The Fifth Column (The Mint). Select regional: Five Mile Lake (SCR), American Night (Yale Rep), Mirror of the Invisible World (The Goodman), The Arabian Nights (Berkeley Rep, Lookingglass, K.C. Rep, American Repertory Theater, Williamstown Theatre Festival). TV/film: Bull, Madam Secretary, The Gaffigan Show, New Girl, The Mentalist, Legends, Scandal, The Good Wife, L&O: CI, Sex & The City 2, The International, Wetware.

GINA TORRECILLA (Ensemble). Theatre credits include: Die, Mommie, Die!, Currency, The Exit Interview, The Magic Finger, The Real Housekeepers of Studio City, I Love Lucy Live On Stage, The Next Fairy Tale, Assassins, Reckless, Twelfth Night, The Constant Wife, A Little Night Music. Television: Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Citizen, Scandal, Mad Men, Bones, Incredible Crew, Raising the Bar. Film: Twinkies & Donuts, Britney Baby…, All’s Well. Love and thanks to Michael Matthews, Coeurage, and Center Theatre Group for this amazing Failure. www.ginatorrecilla.com BRITTNEY S. WHEELER (Ensemble). Theatre: Side Show (Conejo Players), Parade (Panic! Prod.), All Shook Up (MorganWixson), Failure: A Love Story (Coeurage Theatre, Ovation nominee),

MICHAEL MATTHEWS (Director). Select credits: Failure: A Love Story (Ovation Award, director; L.A. Premiere), Bootycandy (L.A. premiere), Funny Girl (Ovation nom, director), The Color Purple the Musical (Ovation and LA Weekly Awards, director), What’s Wrong With Angry? (Ovation nom, director), Take Me Out (Ovation nom, director; NAACP Award, director), The Women of Brewster Place (Ovation nom, director; NAACP Award, director), The Bacchae (Ovation nom, director), Beautiful Thing (Ovation nom, director). Recipient of the 2015 L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award for Career Achievement in Direction.

JR BRUCE (Scenic Design) is a Los Angeles-based scenic designer. Coeurage Theatre projects include: Twelfth Night, Vieux Carré, Trouble with Words, Cannibal! The Musical, and Failure: A Love Story. He is proud to be a producer of Fefu and Her Friends, performing at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hollyhock House. He is co-founder of The Flagship Ensemble and is a production designer at Universal Studios Hollywood. MFA: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. See his portfolio at www.JRBruceDesign.com.

ALLISON DILLARD (Costume Design) is an Ovation-nominated costume designer local to Los Angeles. She holds an MFA in costume design from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Recent work includes: Die, Mommie, Die!, Dream Boy, Bootycandy (Celebration Theatre), Shine Darkly, Illyria (Fugitive Kind), Sons of the Prophet (Blank Theatre), Spies Are Forever

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(Tin Can Bros), Les Misérables, Disney’s The Lion King Jr. (Milken Community Schools), Failure: A Love Story (Coeurage Theatre). Her work can be seen at www.allisondillard.com.

MATTHEW BRIAN DENMAN (Lighting Design) has designed lighting for productions across the country, most recently Die, Mommie, Die!, Charm, and Bootycandy (Ovation Award nomination) at Celebration Theatre, Failure: A Love Story at Coeurage Theatre, and Niagara Falls (Stage Raw Award nominee) at Theatre of NOTE. Other productions in Los Angeles include Corpus Christi, revolver, What’s Wrong With Angry?, The Next Fairy Tale, [title of show], and Women Behind Bars. www.MatthewBrianDenman.com EMILY ABBOTT (Production Stage Manager) is a Los Angeles native working as the Development Associate for The Pasadena Playhouse. Stage managing Failure: A Love Story has been a joy, and she is thrilled that Los Angeles gets to see this beautiful piece once again. Thank you to Center Theatre Group, Coeurage Theatre Company, Michael Matthews, the designers, this beautiful cast, and wonderful crew for all of their hard work on this production.

MAGGIE SWING (Stage Manager). Center Theatre Group: Vicuña, Throw Me On the Burnpile and Light Me Up. Geffen Playhouse: Big Sky, Barcelona, Guards at the Taj, Discord, The Country House, American Buffalo. Boston Court: Collective Rage. European tour: The Apple Family Plays. Off-Broadway: Regular Singing, Sorry, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Sweet and Sad, Knickerbocker, Compulsion, That Hopey Changey Thing (The Public Theater), Slowgirl (Lincoln Center), Blood Knot, The Orphans’ Home Cycle (Signature Theatre Company).

Regional: various productions at Long Wharf Theatre and Hartford Stage Company.

COEURAGE THEATRE STAFF Artistic Director................................................... Jeremy Lelliott Executive Director.................................................Nicole Monet Associate Artistic Director, Resident Sound Designer....................................... Joe Calarco Production Manager.................................. Abe Luke Rodriguez Director of Development....................................Mark Jacobson Company Manager.............................................. Sammi Smith CoLab Producer................................................Malika Williams Director of Video Media...................................... John Klopping Music Director, Resident Composer................Gregory Nabours Head of Casting................................................ Margaret Katch Casting Director...................................................Graham Kurtz Event Coordinator...................................... Joey Nicole Thomas Associate, Marketing and Development...............Katie Pelensky FOH Coordinator......................................................Laura Crow Brand Manager...............................................Julianne Donelle Press Representative............................................. Ken Werther CREDITS “Johnny Weismuller” dance number...............Choreographed by ............................................................................ Janet Roston Original Prop Design......................................... Michael O’Hara Produced by special arrangement with Playscripts, Inc. (www.playscripts.com).

COEURAGE THEATRE COMPANY was born in the backroom of a pie shop where founding artistic director Jeremy Lelliott convened a dozen graduates from California State University, Fullerton in 2009. Now in its eighth season, Coeurage has received considerable acclaim for productions such as Urinetown, The Sparrow, Assassins, The Yellow Boat, Translations, and The Trouble with Words. Coeurage makes professional intimate theatre accessible to all audiences with fresh, challenging productions and Pay What You Want admission.

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

Presents

production of

C I T I Z E N: APR 14 – 23

AN AMERICAN LYRIC

By

Claudia Rankine Adapted for the stage by

Stephen Sachs With (in alphabetical order)

Bernard K. Addison............................................................................ Citizen #4 Leith Burke....................................................................................... Citizen #3 Tony Maggio..................................................................................... Citizen #6 Monnae Michaell............................................................................... Citizen #2 Simone Missick................................................................................. Citizen #1 Lisa Pescia....................................................................................... Citizen #5 Scenic & Projection Design

Costume Design

Lighting Design

Original Music & Sound Design

Yee Eun Nam

Naila Aladdin-Sanders

Pablo Santiago

Peter Bayne

Movement Director

Center Theatre Group Associate Producer

Production Stage Manager

Stage Manager

Anastasia Coon

Lindsay Allbaugh

Shawna Voragen

Terri Roberts

Directed By

Shirley Jo Finney Time/Place: Now, an American city.

Citizen: An American Lyric is performed without an intermission.

Citizen: An American Lyric received its World premiere at The Fountain Theatre, Los Angeles on August 1, 2015.

STEPHEN SACHS and DEBORAH LAWLOR, Artistic Directors | Directed by Shirley Jo Finney.

Block Party receives major support from ALIZA KARNEY GUREN and MARC GUREN with generous funding also provided by JONI and MILES BENICKES.

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WHO’S WHO BERNARD K. ADDISON (Citizen #4). Santa Cruz Shakespeare: Ghost/Claudius in Hamlet, Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Center Theatre Group: Romeo and Juliet. L.A.: Citizen: An American Lyric, Off the Rails, The Curse of Oedipus, Prometheus Bound, The Ballad of Emmett Till, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Mother Courage, Macbeth. Regional: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, California Shakespeare Theater, Denver Center, Shakespeare Theatre Company. Broadway: Electra. Film: Celebrity, The Farm.

Recent television: Modern Family, Rake.

LEITH BURKE (Citizen #3). Judgement at Nuremberg (Broadway); three seasons with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Antony and Cleopatra (Guthrie); Miss Julie (San Jose Rep); tours with the S.F. Mime Troupe; premiere of Neighbors (Matrix Theatre); Citizen: An American Lyric (Fountain Theatre). Film: The Tiger Hunter, The Choir Director, Suburbicon (directed by George Clooney). Television: Life in Pieces, The Mick, Tyler Perry’s The Haves and the Have Nots, Scorpion, Grey’s Anatomy, Parenthood, NCIS, Criminal Minds, CSI: NY, Numbers, The West Wing.

TONY MAGGIO (Citizen #6). Credits include the Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles Theatre Center, Pasadena Playhouse, Odyssey Theatre, Plaza de la Raza, Stages, John Anson Ford Theatre, L.A. Theatre Works, Playwrights Horizons, and Cherry Lane Theatre. Tony has received six Drama-Logue Awards, three L.A. Weekly Theater Awards, a Garland Award, an Ovation Award, three Los Angeles Drama Critics’ Circle nominations, and one LADCC Award for his various performances. He has acted in over 40 film and television roles.

MONNAE MICHAELL (Citizen #2). King Hedley II (Mark Taper Forum), Citizen: An American Lyric (The Fountain Theatre), Boy Gets Girl (Geffen Playhouse), Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (ASF), A Raisin in the Sun (filmed for Lincoln Center Archives). Film: 42, Flight 93, Matchstick Men. TV: The Good Place, The Defenders, The Shield, American Dreams, The Young and the Restless, McBride (recurring roles), American Horror Story, Veep, CSI: Miami, The Office, Rush Hour, Nip/Tuck, and The Practice.

SIMONE MISSICK (Citizen #1). Regional: Citizen: An American Lyric (Fountain Theatre), See You, Maybe (Actors Workout Studio), the road weeps, the well runs dry (LATC), The Mountaintop (TheatreWorks), In the Red and Brown Water (Fountain Theatre). TV: Marvel’s Luke Cage (Netflix), The Defenders (Netflix), Wayward Pines (Fox), Ray Donovan (Showtime), A Taste of Romance (Hallmark). Film: Jinn, Black Card, The Big Chop, Voicemail.

LISA PESCIA (Citizen #5). L.A.: Citizen: An American Lyric (The Fountain Theatre); The Circle (Matrix Theatre); Hollywood Shorts (Whitefire); The Prisoner of Second Avenue, Gingham Dog (Beverly Hills Playhouse); The Biz (Zephyr Theatre).

Film: The M Word, Stealing Roses, 2:13, Queen of the Lot, Wedding Jimmy (Best Short IIFF). TV: The Mentalist, Parenthood, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Without a Trace, Cold Case, Criminal Minds, Touched by an Angel, Seinfeld.

CLAUDIA RANKINE (Author) is the author of five collections of poetry, including Citizen: An American Lyric and Don’t Let Me Be Lonely. For Citizen, Rankine won the Forward Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the PEN Open Book Award, and the NAACP Image Award. A finalist for the National Book Award, Citizen also holds the distinction of being the only poetry book to be a New York Times bestseller in the nonfiction category. She lives in New York City and teaches at Yale University as the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry.

STEPHEN SACHS (Adaptor) is the author of 13 plays, including Citizen: An American Lyric (adaptor), Cyrano (L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award), Bakersfield Mist (London’s West End, starring Kathleen Turner), Central Avenue (PEN Award finalist), Sweet Nothing in My Ear (PEN Award finalist), and others. He wrote the teleplay for Sweet Nothing in My Ear for CBS starring Marlee Matlin and Jeff Daniels. Sachs was honored by the Los Angeles City Council for “his visionary contributions to the cultural life of Los Angeles.”

SHIRLEY JO FINNEY (Director) is an award-winning international director and actress. She has worn her director’s hat in some of the most respected theatre houses across the country including McCarter Theatre, The Pasadena Playhouse, Goodman Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Cleveland Play House, The Fountain Theatre, L.A. Theatre Works, Crossroads Theatre Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville

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50 YEARS AT CENTER THEATRE GROUP

Key Shows and Moments in our History

1998–2007 The Kirk Douglas Theatre opened, Founding Artistic Director Gordon Davidson retired, and Artistic Director Michael Ritchie assumed leadership of Center Theatre Group in our fourth decade. Explore more of our history on our digital timeline at CenterTheatreGroup.org.

(L–R) Gordon Davidson and Michael Ritchie at the opening of the Kirk Douglas Theatre.

Photo by Ryan Miller/Capture Imaging.

JUNE 12 – SEPTEMBER 27, 1998 The two-part, six-hour epic The Cider House Rules, adapted by Peter Parnell from the novel by John Irving and conceived and directed by Tom Hulce and Jane Jones, plays the Taper following a Center Theatre Group workshop and five years of development.

(L–R) Mike Doyle and Michael Emerson in Gross Indecency. Photo by Jay Thompson.

FEBRUARY 18 – MARCH 29, 1998 Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, written and directed by Moisés Kaufman, marks the beginning of Center Theatre Group’s relationship with Kaufman, who has directed six productions on our stages.

(L–R) Myra Platt and Patrick Wilson in The Cider House Rules.

Photo by Jay Thompson/Craig Schwartz.

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MICHAEL WINTERS & JOSH HAMILTON

JUNE 27 – JULY 25, 1999 Al Pacino stars in and directs Eugene O’Neill’s Hughie at the Taper.

Photo by Jay Thompson.

Sarah Wildor and Adam Cooper in Cinderella. Photo by Michael Le Poer Trench.

APRIL 2 – MAY 23, 1999 The American premiere of Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella at the Ahmanson.

DECEMBER 2, 1999 – JANUARY 16, 2000 John Ritter (left) and Henry Winkler (right) in the World premiere of Neil Simon’s The Dinner Party at the Taper.

Photo by Craig Schwartz.

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SEPTEMBER 14 – OCTOBER 22, 2000 August Wilson’s King Hedley II, the eighth work in his American Century Cycle, plays the Taper as part of its pre-Broadway developmental tour.

Harry Lennix in King Hedley II. Photo by Craig Schwartz.

OCTOBER 14 – JANUARY 13, 2001 Flower Drum Song, the 1958 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical with a new book by David Henry Hwang, makes its World premiere at the Taper featuring Lea Salonga. The production heads to Broadway in 2002.

Lea Salonga and Jose Llana in Flower Drum Song. Photo by Craig Schwartz.

APRIL 6 – MAY 21, 2000 “The myth is a public dream, dreams are private myths.”

(L–R) Melissa van der Schyff and Alexandria Wailes in Big River. Photo by Craig Schwartz.

—from Metamorphoses, based on the myths of Ovid, written and directed by Mary Zimmerman at the Taper

NOVEMBER 14, 2002 – JANUARY 5, 2003 Center Theatre Group continues its long relationship with Deaf West Theatre by producing Big River, which moves to Broadway. It is also the first 99-seat play transfer in the Taper’s history.

Anjali Bhimani (front) and Hallie Beaune Jacobson (rear) in Metamorphoses. Photo by Craig Schwartz.

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1998–2007 50 YEARS AT CENTER THEATRE GROUP

OCTOBER 2 – NOVEMBER 9, 2003 (L–R) Rita Wolf and Maggie Gyllenhaal in Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul at the Taper.

Herbert Siguenza and Eileen Galindo in Chavez Ravine.

Photo by Craig Schwartz.

MAY 30 – JULY 12, 2003 Latino performance trio Culture Clash premieres Chavez Ravine at the Taper, telling the story of the L.A. Mexican-American community on the site that would become Dodger Stadium.

Photo by Craig Schwartz.

FEBRUARY 12 – MARCH 28, 2004 Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog/Underdog at the Taper, directed by George C. Wolfe.

(L–R) Larry Gilliard, Jr. and Harold Perrineau in Topdog/Underdog. Photo by Craig Schwartz.

Photo by Craig Schwartz.

JULY 31 – SEPTEMBER 7, 2003 (L–R) John Earl Jelks, Yvette Ganier, and Phylicia Rashad in the World premiere production of August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean.

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2004 Thanks to a $2.5 million gift from Kirk and Anne Douglas, the historic Culver Theatre is transformed into the new Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City, dedicated to developing new work, new artists, and new audiences in Center Theatre Group’s most intimate space.

DECEMBER 12, 2004 – JANUARY 2, 2005 Before they co-star on the hit TV series How I Met Your Mother, Neil Patrick Harris (right) and Josh Radnor (left) appear in the second show at the Douglas, the World premiere of Jon Robin Baitz’s The Paris Letter.

Photo by Ryan Miller/Capture Imaging.

Photo by Craig Schwartz.

JANUARY 1, 2005 Michael Ritchie becomes Center Theatre Group Artistic Director as Gordon Davidson steps into the role of Founding Artistic Director.

NOVEMBER 7 – 28, 2004 The opening show at the Kirk Douglas Theatre is the World premiere of A Perfect Wedding by Charles L. Mee, directed

by Gordon Davidson.

(Front, L–R) John Fleck and Jim Anzide. (Rear, L–R) Ruth Livier, James Sutorius, Veralyn Jones, Katherine Griffith, Mark Capri, Dileep Rao, and Melody Butiu in A Perfect Wedding. Photo by Craig Schwartz.

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NOVEMBER 18 – DECEMBER 24, 2005 The Broadway-bound The Drowsy Chaperone makes its U.S. premiere at the Ahmanson featuring Sutton Foster (below). It goes on to win five Tony Awards, including Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score. ®

AUGUST 11 – SEPTEMBER 18, 2005 The World premiere production of August Wilson’s Radio Golf at the Taper.

James A. Williams in Radio Golf.

Photo by Craig Schwartz.

Photo by Craig Schwartz.

2005 The first class of Los Angeles playwrights enters Center Theatre Group’s L.A. Writers’ Workshop, which offers them a year of support to create a new work. Approximately 70 new plays have come out of the Writers’ Workshop since.

(L–R) Jeremy Sisto and Ricky Ullman in Dead End. Photo by Craig Schwartz.

SEPTEMBER 7 – OCTOBER 16, 2005 Artistic Director Michael Ritchie opens his first Ahmanson season with the 70 anniversary revival of Dead End by Sidney Kingsley, directed by Nicholas Martin.

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AUGUST 9 – SEPTEMBER 10, 2006 The John Kander/Fred Ebb musical Curtains makes its World premiere at the Ahmanson starring David Hyde Pierce before moving to Broadway, where Pierce wins a Tony for Best Actor in a Musical. ®

Jill Paice and David Hyde Pierce in Curtains. Photo by Craig Schwartz.

FEBRUARY 12 – MARCH 19, 2006 Annette Bening, Alfred Molina, and Sarah Paulson appear in Sean Mathias’ production of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard at the Taper.

Alfred Molina and Annette Bening in The Cherry Orchard. Photos by Craig Schwartz.

NOVEMBER 19 – DECEMBER 10, 2006 Center Theatre Group’s relationship with Danai Gurira begins with In the Continuum, written and performed by Gurira (below) and Nikkole Salter at the Douglas.

Photo by Craig Schwartz.

JUNE 11 – JULY 16, 2006

Photo by Craig Schwartz.

(L–R) Matt Lanter and Laurence Fishburne in Alfred Uhry’s Without Walls at the Taper.

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(Front, L–R) Tyler Mann, Emma Degerstedt, J.D. Phillips, and Caitlin Baunoch. (Rear, L–R) Ricky Ashley, Sara Niemietz, and Seth Zibalese in 13.

Photo by Craig Schwartz.

2007 The Taper begins a yearlong $30 million interior renovation that results in a substantial upgrade of everything from the lobby and seating to the backstage area.

(L–R) Zev Yaroslavsky, Brindell Roberts Gottlieb, Michael Ritchie, John B. Emerson, Gloria Molina, and William T. Fujioka at the Taper rededication ceremony. Photo by Bob Riha, Jr.

JANUARY 7 – FEBRUARY 18, 2007 After a workshop at the Douglas, the Taper hosts the World premiere of 13, with music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown and book by Dan Elish, beginning Center Theatre Group’s relationship with Brown. 13 goes to Broadway in 2008.

(L–R) Hoon Lee and Peter Scanavino in Yellow Face. Photo by Craig Schwartz.

MAY 20 – JULY 1, 2007 Yellow Face by David Henry Hwang makes its World premiere at the Taper and is a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

A helicopter delivers materials for the Taper renovation. Photo by Craig Schwartz.

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Humana Festival, the Sundance Theatre Workshop, the Mark Taper Forum, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and the State Theatre in Pretoria, South Africa.

YEE EUN NAM (Scenic & Projection Design) is a scenic and projection designer for theatre, opera, and all forms of live performance. Her most recent design credits include set and projection design for Sweep at Aurora Theatre directed

by Abigail Vega; Single Black Female at Crossroads Theatre Company directed by Shirley Jo Finney; and projection design for A Mexican Trilogy: An American Story directed by José Luis Valenzuela at LATC. Yee Eun is a recipient of the Cirque du Soleil Fellowship Award. www.yeeeunnam.com NAILA ALADDIN-SANDERS (Costume Design). Credits include Neighbors, The Brothers Size, In the Red and Brown Water, The Ballad of Emmett Till, Gem of the Ocean, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, The Scottsboro Boys, The Color Purple, The Women of Brewster Place: The Musical. The Robey Theatre Company: The Magnificent Dunbar Hotel, Anna Lucasta, Bronzeville, The River Niger, A House With No Walls, Permanent Collection, and all three parts of The Haitian Trilogy.

PABLO SANTIAGO (Lighting Design) is a lighting designer originally from Chiapas, Mexico who designs for theatre, opera, dance, and gallery work. He is the winner of Center Theatre Group’s 2017 Richard Sherwood Award. His design in Premeditation was nominated for an Ovation Award in 2014, and he won a Stage Raw Award for The Brothers Size in 2015.

Recent highlights include the opera Breaking the Waves, A Mexican Trilogy at LATC, Zoot Suit at the Mark Taper Forum, Destiny of Desire at the Goodman Theatre, and Flight for Opera Omaha.

PETER BAYNE (Original Music & Sound Design). Select theatre credits include South Coast Repertory, Boston Court, A Noise Within, The Fountain Theatre, Antaeus Theatre Company, The Colony Theatre, The Actors’ Gang, Rogue Machine Theatre, Skylight Theatre Company, and The Elephant Theatre Company. Other regional credits include American Repertory Theater, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, and Shakespeare and Company. Bayne is active as a composer in film and television. He produces leftfield dance music and performs as a multi-instrumentalist.

ANASTASIA COON (Movement Director) was nominated for an NAACP Award for Best Choreography for Citizen at The Fountain Theatre. As an actor, she was recently in Mac Wellman’s The Offending Gesture at Son of Semele, Jonathan Caren’s Friends in Transient Places (Gypsy on Netflix). Ms. Magazine named Anastasia’s award-winning solo show Gracie and Rose the “Top 10 Feminist Pick of the Hollywood Fringe Festival.” She’s a graduate of Dell’Arte International School of

Physical Theatre and UT Austin’s MFA acting program.

Thank you, Amielynn. www.AnastasiaCoon.com SHAWNA VORAGEN (Production Stage Manager) is a Los Angeles-based stage manager and Fountain Theatre regular.

Her recent favorite stage management credits include 33 Variations, Next to Normal, Avenue Q, and In the Red and Brown Water. Shawna is pleased and proud to be back with the Fountain family sharing this beautiful piece once again.

Special thanks to Center Theatre Group and The Fountain for the opportunity to bring order to the madness once again, and to Marianne for everything.

TERRI ROBERTS (Stage Manager). Terri is thrilled to be part of Citizen at the Douglas. She has stage managed shows from Santa Barbara to Long Beach, and has proudly been part of The Fountain Theatre for most of the past decade. She’s been a stage manager on 20 Fountain shows and also worked as props designer, house manager, and much more. She’s also a theatre/entertainment journalist. Deep gratitude to Stephen, the Citizen team, Michael Ritchie, and the staff of Center Theatre Group.

THE FOUNTAIN THEATRE was founded in 1990 by co-Artistic Directors Deborah Lawlor and Stephen Sachs to create new work that reflects the diversity of Los Angeles. Now in its 27TH year, The Fountain is one of the most highly regarded theatres in Los Angeles and has won over 260 awards for excellence.

Fountain projects have been seen in regional theatres across the US, made into a TV movie, and produced internationally.

ADDITIONAL STAFF Video Engineer......................................................................Corwin Evans Props Designer......................................................................Dillon Nelson Discussion Leader................................................................. Adenrele Ojo CREDITS Published by Graywolf Press. Copyright ©2014 by Claudia Rankine.

FOUNTAIN THEATRE STAFF Stephen Sachs.............................................................Co-Artistic Director Deborah Lawlor.................................................Producing Artistic Director Simon Levy................................................................... Producing Director James Bennett............................................................ Associate Producer Scott Tuomey................................................................ Technical Director Barbara Goodhill..................................................Director of Development Lucy Pollak................................................................Press Representative Licia Jaccard......................................................................... Book Keeper Marisela Hughes.........................................................Box Office Manager Fountain Executive Producers for Citizen: Barbara Herman, Susan Stockel, Dorothy & Stanley Wolpert, Diana Buckhantz, Marjorie Goldman, Debra Grieb & John Mickus, Karen Kondazian, Brenda & Brett Marsh, Dr. Ejike & Mrs. Victoria Ndefo, Rita Rothman, Barbara & Barry Shaffer, Lois Tandy.

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LOS ANGELES IS HOME TO OVER 250 THEATRE COMPANIES, featuring an abundance of talent, diversity, and ingenuity. We’ve seen all that on display since we first announced Block Party last year, when over 70 local companies applied to have a recent production remounted onstage at the Douglas.

We’re grateful to everyone who has been a part of this process, and we have had a wonderful time collaborating with Coeurage Theatre Company, The Fountain Theatre, and The Echo Theater Company to bring you these three shows. It’s an honor to be highlighting some of the best work our region has to offer. Thank you for celebrating L.A. theatre by joining the Block Party!

top to bottom:

The original cast in the Coeurage Theatre production of Failure: A Love Story. Photo by Matthew Denman. | l– r: Bernard K. Addison, Simone Missick, and Leith Burke in The Fountain Theatre production of Citizen: An American Lyric. Photo by Ed Krieger. | l– r: Connor Kelly-Eiding and Teagan Rose in The Echo Theater production of Dry Land. Photo by Darrett Sanders.

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

Presents

production of

DRY LAND Written By

Ruby Rae Spiegel With

Daniel Hagen......................................................................................... Janitor Ben Horwitz............................................................................................Victor Connor Kelly-Eiding..................................................................................Ester Teagan Rose…......................................................................................... Amy Jenny Soo................................................................................................ Reba Jacqueline Besson, Alexandra Freeman, Bukola Ogunmola, Francesca O’Hern, Sidne Phillips, Tessa Hope Slovis.......................Swim Team Scenic Design

Costume Design

Lighting Design

Sound Design

Amanda Knehans

Elena Flores

Justin Huen

Jeff Gardner

Center Theatre Group Associate Producer

Production Stage Manager

Stage Manager

Lindsay Allbaugh

Anna Engelsman

Maggie Swing

Directed By

Alana Dietze Time/Place: The present. The locker room of a Florida high school.

Dry Land is performed without an intermission.

Dry Land received its Los Angeles premiere at The Echo Theater Company in April, 2016.

CHRIS FIELDS, Artistic Director JESSE CANNADY, Producing Director Dry Land was Originally Produced by Colt Coeur, New York, NY Developed at the Ojai Playwright Conference: Robert Egan, Artistic Director/Producer Developed with the support of New York Stage and Film’s Powerhouse Season at Vassar.

Block Party receives major support from ALIZA KARNEY GUREN and MARC GUREN with generous funding also provided by JONI and MILES BENICKES.

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WHO’S WHO DANIEL HAGEN (Janitor). The Echo Theater: The Found Dog Ribbon Dance, Laileen on the Way Down. Broadway: The Nerd.

Tamarind Theatre: MonuMENTAL Cruelty.

Manhattan Punch Line: All in the Timing, Fellow Travelers. Kennedy Center: The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid. Long Wharf Theatre: A Month in the Country. Champlain Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Burt Reynolds Dinner Theatre: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Film: The Informant!, Open House, For Love or Money, Wilder Napalm. TV: Feud, Rizzoli & Isles, NCIS, Buffy, Charmed, CSI, Friends, Seinfeld.

BEN HORWITZ (Victor). L.A. theatre: The Cherry Orchard and Twelfth Night at City Shakespeare Company, Picnic at Antaeus Theatre, Dry Land at The Echo Theater Company, A Wrinkle in Time at Sierra Madre Playhouse. Web series: A Bit Much, Fragility, Break a Hip season 2. Film: Looking for the Jackalope.

CONNOR KELLY-EIDING (Ester). L.A. theatre: Dry Land (Ovation Award for Best Production, Intimate Theatre), Apocalypse Play (Moving Arts), Picnic (Antaeus Theatre), Twelfth Night (Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles), Four Clowns presents Hamlet (Four Clowns), Nice Things (Rogue Machine), among others. Film: Locating Silver Lake, The Magnificent Room, and Cause of Attraction (short). TV: House of Lies. BFA in acting from the University of Southern California.

TEAGAN ROSE (Amy). L.A. theatre: Dry Land (Ovation Award for Best Production, Intimate Theatre), White Guy on the Bus (Road Theater Company). Indiana: The Great Gatsby (IRT). Chicago: Thirty Thousand One (Pursuit Productions). TV: The Middle, Scandal (ABC).

Film: Safe Bet (short), Thru Traffic (short), Still (short). BFA in acting from the University of Michigan. Love and gratitude to my family, Center Theatre Group, and this vibrant and powerful arts community.

JENNY SOO (Reba). L.A. theatre: Up, Hot Cat, Niagara Falls, D Deb Debbie Deborah. Regional: Alice vs. Wonderland (American Repertory Theater). TV: Parks and Recreation, Murder in Mexico.

BFA: NYU. MFA: A.R.T./MXAT Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard.

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JACQUELINE BESSON (Swim Team) is a Los Angeles-based creative person, hailing from the San Francisco Bay Area. She is an associate member of The Echo Theater Company. Her credits with The Echo include The Found Dog Ribbon Dance (Trista u/s) and Dry Land. She is very excited to be a part of Center Theatre Group’s Block Party and honored to be in Dry Land once again.

ALEXANDRA FREEMAN (Swim Team) splits her time between acting onstage/on-camera and stage managing corporate and private events, which also allows her to pursue her love of travel. Alexandra is the Company Manager and a member at The Echo Theater Company, where she recently appeared as Jill in Blueberry Toast. www.alexandrafreeman.com BUKOLA OGUNMOLA (Swim Team) is excited to make her debut with Center Theatre Group.

She is a bicoastal actress currently studying at USC as a graduate acting student. Recent credits include Our Lady of 121st Street with Milton G. Bassin Performing Arts Center and the NYC premiere of Teach For America with the York College Theatre.

FRANCESCA O’HERN (Swim Team) is over the moon to be making her debut at Center Theatre Group. Recent credits include Macbeth at the British American Drama Academy and The Vending Machine at the University of Southern California. She is currently a rising senior at USC. SIDNE PHILLIPS (Swim Team) is a junior at the University of Southern California, a devoted actor, and a novelist. Favorite roles include: Alithea in The Country Wife (BADA), Jo in Little Women (MTR), and Sandy in Grease (USC). Much love to friends and family, and big thanks to Center Theatre Group for the opportunity!

TESSA HOPE SLOVIS (Swim Team) is thrilled to be making her L.A. debut with Center Theatre Group! Select TV: Law & Order: SVU, Breaking Bad, The Affair. Select theatre: Berkshire Theatre Festival, The Flea Theater, The Robert Moss Theater. Her cabaret Swipe Right/Swipe Left has headlined at 54 Below. USC SDA MFA ’19. www.tessahopeslovis.com

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RUBY RAE SPIEGEL (Playwright). Dry Land, a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, premiered Off-Broadway in 2014 following development in New York Stage and Film’s Powerhouse Theater Readings Festival and the Ojai Playwrights Conference. Ruby’s play Carrie & Francine premiered in the Summer Shorts Festival in 2011 at 59E59 alongside work by Neil LaBute and Christopher Durang. Dubbed “the prodigy of Summer Shorts” by the Theatre Development Fund, she won Stephen Sondheim’s Young Playwrights Inc.’s National Competition for the play (her second consecutive win after 2010’s All Ye Know). Ruby is a writer on Netflix’s original series The OA. She is a 2015 graduate of Yale University.

ALANA DIETZE (Director). Directing credits include: Laileen on the Way Down, A Small Fire (four Ovation nominations), Dry Land (Ovation winner for Best Production 2016, Intimate Theatre; nomination for Best Leading Actress), and The Found Dog Ribbon Dance, all with The Echo Theater Company. Alana is also an actress with over 20 credits in Los Angeles’ small theatres and serves as The Echo’s Literary Manager. She is overjoyed and honored that Dry Land is part of Block Party’s inaugural year.

AMANDA KNEHANS (Scenic Design) is a Los Angeles-based scenic designer and art director. Recent theatre credits include Blueberry Toast, One of the Nice Ones, and A Small Fire (The Echo Theater); ICU (Circle X); Cafe Society (The Odyssey); and Kalamazoo (Pacific Resident Theater). Recent film credits include assistant art director on East Los High season 4 (Hulu) and Sing It! season 1 (YouTube Red). Amanda is a member of the Art Directors Guild.

ELENA FLORES (Costume Design) is a 2015 MFA graduate of CSU, Long Beach and a frequent collaborator with The Echo Theater Company and Four Clowns. Recent credits: White Flight (Comedy Central), The Found Dog Ribbon Dance (The Echo Theater Company), Lunatics & Actors (Four Clowns), and Tres Actos (University of La Verne). She is delighted to be working with Center Theatre Group for the first time.

JUSTIN HUEN (Lighting Design) is an award-nominated actor/ director/designer who has worked in intimate and regional theatres across the country. His lighting and scenic design were featured in 2015’s Ovation-nominated production of Proof at Moth Theatre Company. Most recently, he designed the lights and sets for the premiere of Mine (Moth), a show he also directed.

JEFF GARDNER (Sound Design). Credits include Trevor at Circle X Theatre (Ovation Award for Best Production, 2015) and The Recommendation at IAMA Theatre Company (Ovation Award for Best Production, 2014). He has designed and performed throughout the country including Shakespeare Theatre Company, DC, The Studio Theatre, DC, A Noise Within, Rogue Machine Theatre, Sacred Fools, Antaeus Theatre Company,

The Colony Theatre, Odyssey Theatre, The Kennedy Center, and Williamstown Theatre Festival. Jeff can be seen at L.A. Theatre Works where he regularly performs.

ANNA ENGELSMAN (Production Stage Manager) is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst department of theatre where she was trained as a stage and production manager. She has been working with The Echo Theater as General Manager and her most recent credits include stage managing HOME/SICK

by The Assembly both at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles and the JACK theatre in Brooklyn, Blueberry Toast by Mary Laws, and The Echo’s original Dry Land by Ruby Rae Speigel.

MAGGIE SWING (Stage Manager). Center Theatre Group: Vicuña, Throw Me On the Burnpile and Light Me Up. Geffen Playhouse: Big Sky, Barcelona, Guards at the Taj, Discord, The Country House, American Buffalo. Boston Court: Collective Rage. European tour: The Apple Family Plays. Off-Broadway: Regular Singing, Sorry, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Sweet and Sad, Knickerbocker, Compulsion, That Hopey Changey Thing (The Public Theater), Slowgirl (Lincoln Center), Blood Knot, The Orphans’ Home Cycle (Signature Theatre Company). Regional: various productions at Long Wharf Theatre and Hartford Stage Company.

THE ECHO THEATER COMPANY. Dedicated to nurturing writers and producing new work, the multiple award-winning Echo Theater Company was anointed “Best Bet for Ballsy Original Plays” by L.A. Weekly in its 2014 Best of L.A. issue and was a recipient of a 2016 “Kilroy Cake Drop”—one of only 13 theatres in the country to be surprised by cakes to honor the efforts they are making to produce women and transgender writers. Under the leadership of Founding Artistic Director Chris Fields, The Echo has introduced Los Angeles to playwrights such as David Lindsay-Abaire, Adam Rapp, Sarah Ruhl, Adam Bock, and Miki Johnson among many others.

ADDITIONAL STAFF Ahmed Best................................................Fight Choreographer Dry Land is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

THE ECHO THEATER COMPANY STAFF Chris Fields..........................................................Artistic Director Jennifer Chambers...............................Associate Artistic Director Jesse Cannady.............................................. Producing Director Alana Dietze..................................................... Literary Manager Andrew Shafer.....................................Director of New Programs Alexandra Freeman........................................ Company Manager Anna Englesman..............................................General Manager Lucy Pollak.................................................Press Representative

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CENTER THEATRE GROUP MICHAEL RITCHIE (Artistic Director) is in his 12TH 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. STEPHEN D. ROUNTREE (Managing Director) joined Center Theatre Group in 2014 as its 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 27TH 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.

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: the upcoming world premiere of Archduke by Rajiv Joseph, Bent, What the Butler Saw, Steward of Christendom, Waiting for Godot; Kirk Douglas Theatre: Block Party, Good Grief, Vicuna, 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.

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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The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers of the United States. This theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

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

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

NAUSICA STERGIOU (General Manager, Mark Taper Forum and Kirk Douglas Theatre) has worked professionally supporting artists in theatres of all shapes, sizes, and locales including many seasons at Center Theatre Group as General Manager and, previously, as Audience Development Director. She oversees mainstage productions at the Taper and Douglas, as well as new play commissions and developmental productions through Center Theatre Group’s New Play Development. Nausica has taught at USC’s School of Dramatic Arts, and advises and works with local nonprofits including Hollywood Orchard.

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ADDITIONAL STAFF FOR BLOCK PARTY Carpentry Crew............................. Richard Dunn, Bo Foxworth, .................................Kate Harrow, Connor Hayes, Mary Karcz, ....................................................... Randy Pound, Philip Rossi Electrics Crew...........Daniel del Busto, Juan Lozano, Lunchbox, ..........................Alif Marchi, Darci Murphy, Vanessa Rodriguez, .......................................... Michelle Stann, Lauren Wemischer Scenic Artists.............. Jacquelyn Gutierrez, Orlando de La Paz, ........................................................................Katie Polebaum Assistant Lighting Designer.................................Meghan Hong Assistant Costume Designer....................Whitney Oppenheimer Production Coordinator.....................................Brooke Baldwin Prop Artisan..............................................................Eric Babb Tailor...............................................................Swantje Tuohino First Hand.............................................................Pamela Walt Stitchers................................Stephanie Molstad, Jennifer Wolff Costume Stock Attendant...................................Heidi Johnson FRONT-OF-HOUSE LEADS Trevor Algatt, Bradford Barnes, Carmen Echevarria, Stephen Lydic, AJ Meijer, Eduardo Fernandez-Bauman, Tarah Pollock

CONCIERGES Olivia Choate, Eric Eberle, Amber Espinosa-Jones, Angela Garcia, Joan Kubicek, Sarah Lindsley, Adrienne Marquand, Chelsey Maus, Janice Motuapuaka,Nicole Naito, Daniel Rashid, Denise Reynoso, Leve Ross, Diana Spieller, Jor-el Vaasborg DISCUSSION LEADERS Chase Anderson-Shaw, Candice Clasby, Eduardo FernandezBaumann, Jay Lee, Stephen Lydic, Isabella Petrini, Tarah Pollock CONCESSIONS Abilene Gonzalez, Monica Greene, Mike Lanahan, JoAnn Mendelson, Jason Vaughn STAGE DOOR ATTENDANTS Ben Durham, Michael Hanson, Ian Ray, Cory Aycock CREDITS Sets, props, and additional costumes provided by the Center Theatre Group Shop. Center Theatre Group production photography by Craig Schwartz.

The free, open-to-the-public Block Party Kick-off Event on January 30, 2017 at the Kirk Douglas Theatre.

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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 BEATRICE BASSO ..........................................New Work Advisor JOY MEADS ..... Literary Manager/Artistic Engagement Strategist ANDREW LYNFORD ........................................Casting Associate IAN-JULIAN WILLIAMS ..........Program Coordinator, Block Party DAVID ADJMI (FADIMAN), SHEILA CALLAGHAN (FADIMAN), STEVE CUIFFO, JUSTIN ELLINGTON, WILL ENO (FADIMAN), MATT GOULD, DANAI GURIRA, JENNIFER HALEY, DAVID HENRY HWANG, JOE ICONIS, NAOMI IIZUKA, BRANDEN JACOBS-JENKINS, RAJIV JOSEPH, KIMBER LEE, GRIFFIN MATTHEWS, LAURAL MEADE, RICHARD MONTOYA, DAN O’BRIEN, DENIS O’HARE, LEE OVERTREE, LISA PETERSON, PLAYWRIGHTS ARENA, WILL POWER (FADIMAN), RIMINI PROTOKOLL, RAINPAN 43, MARCO RAMIREZ, KEN ROHT, MATT SAX, ROGER GUENVEUR SMITH, RIPE TIME, TRACEY SCOTT WILSON (FADIMAN).......Commissioned Artists ELIZA CLARK, FRANCES YA-CHU COWHIG, DOMINIQUE MORISSEAU, DAVID MYERS, QUI NGUYEN, HERBERT SIGUENZA, DEBORAH STEIN ................................. L.A. Writers’

Workshop Members EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS LESLIE K. JOHNSON......................... Director of Social Strategy,

Innovation and Impact 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.......... Emerging Arts and Arts Professionals Program Associate JENNIFER HARRELL...................................Operations Assistant KHANISHA FOSTER..............................Resident Teaching Artist 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) TOM BURMESTER........................Audience Experience Design/

Front of House Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) MAX OKEN.................... Facility Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) JAQUELYN JOHNSON................Associate Audience Experience ...................Designer (Kirk Douglas Theatre, Mark Taper Forum) 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/

Ahmanson Production Manager SHAWN ANDERSON...... Master Carpenter (Ahmanson Theatre) STAN STEELMON..... Master Propertyman (Ahmanson Theatre) JIM BERGER...................Master Electrician (Ahmanson Theatre) ROBERT SMITH.............Master Soundman (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)

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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) CHRISTY WEIKEL ....................................... Production Manager

(Kirk Douglas Theatre) CHRISTOPHER REARDON...........Assistant Production Manager

(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) KATIE POLEBAUM........ Stage Supervisor (Kirk Douglas Theatre) CAMBRIA CHICHI....................................... Wardrobe Supervisor

(Kirk Douglas Theatre) KRYSTIN MATSUMOTO............... Assistant Production Manager CHAD SMITH.................................. Associate Technical Director LEE O’REILLY.................................. Assistant Technical Director SEAN KLOC.......................................................... Shop Foreman 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, BRIAN SLATEN ....................... Drivers PETER WYLIE..........................................Production Coordinator FINANCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND HUMAN RESOURCES CHERYL SHEPHERD................................ Chief Financial Officer SUZANNE BROWN....................................................... Controller JANIS BOWBEER.......................................... Assistant Controller XOCHITL RAMIREZ......................Accounts Payable Coordinator ALEGRIA SENA................................................. Staff Accountant SHYNASTY WILKES...........................................Staff Accountant AMEETA SHARMA............................................. Payroll Manager JEFF LOUIE ...................................................... Payroll Specialist 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 SINGER LEWAK, LLP....................................................... 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 NATALIE BERGESON................... Director of Donor Engagement 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 PAUL LUOMA ....... Artist and Entertainment Relations Specialist 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

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

KRISTIN YAMAKA...................... Corporate Relations Coordinator EDUARDO MOLLINEDO-PIÑÓN.. Donor Membership Coordinator MIKE RATTERMAN.............................. Donor Advisor Supervisor AL BERMAN, JOHN COPELAND, ELIZABETH DELLORUSSO, DAVID GARVER, MATT RITCHEY, BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ, NICOLE SCIPIONE, PAUL VITAGLIANO ............. Donor Advisors KARLA GALVEZ, JUSTINE PEREZ..... Donor Services Associates WAUKENA CUYJET, MURRAY E. HELTZER, JULIE NADAL......................................... Development Volunteers 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 JOHN POTTER .............................................Executive Assistant DEANNA McCLURE................................................... Art Director IRENE T. KANESHIRO............................ Senior Design Manager JAVIER VASQUEZ.............................................Graphic Designer TARA NITZ........................................................Graphic Designer COMMUNICATIONS JAMES SIMS.................................... Director of Communications JASON MARTIN............................................... Head of Publicity PHYLLIS MOBERLY............................................ Senior Publicist KRISTI AVILA....................................................... Junior Publicist SAVANNAH L. BARKER....................................... 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., 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, LEROY PAWLOWSKI, 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 BEALENE AHERN, CLAY BUNKER, GABI BON DURANT, JOHN CARROLL, ESTEBAN CRUZ, 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 DERICK BELTRAN, TARA GRIFFO, JALISA JACKSON, FATIMA JIMENEZ, KRISTINE NGO, ASHLEY NNEBE, AMMY ONTIVEROS, ARIANNE OUSLEY, TIFFANY SLAGLE, BRITNEY THAI, MAYA WILLIAMS

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Summer Camps Are Coming!

Walt Disney Motif Award 2016 Recipient Selected as One of the Top Five Art Programs in the Nation.

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 MARCH 1, 2017) Anonymous (2)

Bill Resnick & Michael Stubbs

Judith & Thomas Beckmen

Lloyd E. Rigler - Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation

Diana Buckhantz & Vladimir & Araxia Buckhantz Foundation Joseph & Mara Carieri Erica & Vin Di Bona Kirk & Anne Douglas Louise & Brad Edgerton Amy Forbes & Andrew Murr Cindy & Gary Frischling Eric & Nancy Garen Kiki & David Gindler Patricia Glaser & Sam Mudie

Laura & James Rosenwald & Orinoco Foundation Deidra Norman Schumann Donna Schweers & Tom Geiser Maggy & Jack Simon Judie Stein & Stein Family Foundation Eva & Marc Stern Sue Tsao Sheila & Wally Weisman Misty Widelitz

Brindell Roberts Gottlieb Aliza Karney Guren & Marc Guren Ann & Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr. June & Gareth Hughes Marvin Jubas & Janet Wald Jubas Eileen & Ken Kaplan Terri & Jerry Kohl Anime Camp, Ages 7 & 9

The Labowe Family Foundation The Eugene La Pietra Foundation Jody & David Lippman Renee & Meyer Luskin Ruth Flinkman-Marandy & Ben Marandy Dale S. & Shideh Miller Deena & Edward Nahmias

Under The Sea, Ages 7 - 11

Why learn to draw and paint?

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 FEBRUARY 1, 2017)

Builds pride & independence in learning

Melissa & Bob Alvarado

Harry & Arlette Lumer

Joni & Miles Benickes

Louise Moriarty & Patrick Stack

Joan & Rob Blackman

Linda S. Peterson

Enhances focus and attention span

Annette Blum

Bruce & Randy Ross

Marla S. Campagna

Elliott R. Sernel

Cástulo de la Rocha & Zoila Escobar

Better fine motor skills & hand-eye coordination

Dorskind Family

Jane Rissman & Richard Sondheimer

In Memory of Morris A. Hazan

Sunshine Stone Anne C. Taubman

Dori & Doug Howell

Peter & Iona Tompkins

In Support of New Theatre Artists

Karen & William Timberlake

Mr. & Mrs. Gerald W. Kehle

Hope Landis Warner

Art enhances academic performance

FREE ART CLASS

*

INTRODUCTORY

Kelton Fund/Lenny & David Kelton

Robin & Gary Ungar Suzanne V. Wilson

Vicki King

*New students only

Find a studio near you.

www.kidsartclasses.com

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 FEBRUARY 20, 2017.)

Multi-Year Donors

Sean Johnson & Alex Ocampo Idea Asylum Productions & Dr. Allegra & Mr. Sheppard Kaufman Rob Kief Sarah E. Kiefer Dr. Peter A. Krikes Julianne LaMarche Cody Lassen & Nitzan Mekel Marla E. Levine Manuel & Carrie Lujan Brett J. Markel & Tanya Tull Mr. Theodore K. Martinez Carla Meyer & Charles Arnold Tina J. Miller Lawrence A. Mirisch Annual Donors In Honor of Barry Moss Anonymous (2) Jonathan Murray Mr. Irving H. Anderson Suzie & Daniel O’Connell Amy Aquino & Justin Okin Drew McCoy Patty & Mike Post G.W. Bailey Mr. Steven H. Purvis Corinne Baldassano Don Foster & Erin Quigley Robert Berens James Radin Ms. Rachel Bloom Michael Reisz John Bowab Michael Ritchie & Diane & Dorothy Kate Burton Brooks Foundation Jill Sattinger Rick Buche & Vin Reilly Glen & Eva Schusterman Veronica Cartwright Nina Shaw & Children in Film Wallace Little Edwina Travis Chin & David A. Steinberg Robert Miller Jessica Stone Becky & Mike Clements Mr. Stephen J. Strauss Bill & Ellie D’Elia Lorraine Strieby Bob Doucette & Jack & Marlene Susser Tom Slotten Brad & George Takei Bob & Gabrielle Ducsay Allison Thomas & Nadine Espana Gary Ross Chris Cookson & Russell Todd Agency Lauren Firestone Ms. Kirsten Vangsness Darcy Fleck Bonnie Weis Robert & Jacque Florsheim Victoria Weisbart Mr. Ryan Flynn & Ms. Lynn E. Weisman Mr. David Hernandez Jennifer Crittenden & Marilyn T. Fordney William Wrubel Seth Freeman & Julie Waxman Laura Gibson Barry Gordon David Goren Karen Caffee & Manuel Grace Marcy & Edgar Gross Winifred C. Hervey Phil Hettema Karen & Stephen Hillenburg Alicia Hirsch & Jesse Russo Florence C. Agcawili Paula Brand Norman Buckley & Davyd Whaley Nick Dudzak Greg H. Dunn Michael Hanel & Steven Linder Donna L. Herman Dozar Office Furnishings Mark Kaplan Barbara & Garry Marshall Shelley Powsner & Stephen Skrovan James & Melanie Renfroe Mr. Charles W. Weeks Dean E. Weichel

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DONOR RECOGNITION

Center Theatre Group Corporate Circle Sheri Biller, Founding Chair

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.

(DONORS LISTED AS OF MARCH 1, 2017)

CORPORATE CIRCLE CABINET Jonathan Axel, Chair Anthony Amendola Christopher Bissonnette Erin Burke

Dannielle Campos Ramirez

Jody Kelley

Ed Nahmias

Nick Donovan

Jeff Levy

JP Ramirez

Douglas Mancino

Stephen Sherline

Michael Jung

CORPORATE CIRCLE MEMBERS STERLING CIRCLE

2017 Plays

PLATINUM CIRCLE

June 29 – October 21 As You Like It Shakespeare in Love Romeo and Juliet Guys and Dolls A Midsummer Night’s Dream Treasure Island

GOLD CIRCLE

The Tavern William Shakespeare’s Long Lost First Play (abridged) How To Fight Loneliness

SILVER CIRCLE

The Greater Escape.

HBO

Muse Communications

Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP

The Walt Disney Company

BRONZE CIRCLE American Business Bank

Northern Trust

Union Bank

Broadway Federal Bank

Patina Group

Chubb

Payden & Rygel

Walt Disney Imagineering

City National Bank

Perry, Neidorf & Grassl, LLP

The Friedman Group

800-PLAYTIX bard.org • #utahshakes

Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation Jones Day Macy's Neiman Marcus Beverly Hills

Wells Fargo Insurance Services

Sidley Austin LLP Sony Pictures Entertainment SoCalGas Sally J. Thomas & James A. Thomas

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DONOR RECOGNITION

Foundation Support These institutions support Center Theatre Group’s operations, arts education programs, artistic development program, or specific projects.

For more information, call our grants information line at 213.972.3022.

THE AHMANSON FOUNDATION ANNENBERG FOUNDATION CENTER THEATRE GROUP AFFILIATES DORIS DUKE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION EDGERTON FOUNDATION ELISABETH KATTE HARRIS TRUST THE WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST FOUNDATION THE JAMES IRVINE FOUNDATION THE ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION LLOYD E. RIGLER-LAWRENCE E. DEUTSCH FOUNDATION LAURA & JAMES ROSENWALD & ORINOCO FOUNDATION THE SHUBERT FOUNDATION, INC. THE HAROLD AND MIMI STEINBERG CHARITABLE TRUST THE WELLS FARGO FOUNDATION THE RALPH M. PARSONS FOUNDATION The Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation Employees Community Fund of Boeing California Sascha Brastoff Foundation Brookside Fund Brotman Foundation of California Diana Buckhantz & Vladimir & Araxia Buckhantz Foundation The Carol and James Collins Foundation The Culver City Education Foundation James A. Doolittle Foundation Joseph Drown Foundation Fineshriber Family Foundation Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation Lawrence P. Frank Foundation The Friars Charitable Foundation The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Laurents/Hatcher Foundation The Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation New England Foundation for the Arts The Kenneth T. & Eileen L. Norris Foundation The Perkins Charitable Foundation Rosenthal Family Foundation Sony Pictures Entertainment The Fran and Ray Stark Foundation Theatre Communications Group Time Warner Foundation Inc. The Towbes Fund for the Performing Arts, a field of interest fund of the Santa Barbara Foundation

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Center Theatre Group Inner Circle

WHERE ART COMES TO LIFE

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 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 FEBRUARY 20, 2017.)

GUARDIAN CIRCLE ($18,000+) Multi-Year Donors

Annual Donors

Susan & Stephen Chandler Carrie & Ben Mui

Phyllis Kupferstein & Donald O. Farkas

Anonymous

Helen & Morgan Chu

Joyce & Deane Ross

Michael & Sandy Leahy

Shelley & Rick Bayer

Rhonda C. Evans

Pamela & Dennis Beck

Donald W. Grant

Stanley Iezman & Nancy Stark

Lynn Booth

Susan A. Grode

Maynard & Linda Brittan

Dreux & Lynn McNairy

Kelly Sutherlin McLeod & Steven B. McLeod Family Foundation

Kim & Bill Wardlaw Mary J. Witt

Louise Moriarty

BENEFACTOR CIRCLE ($12,000+) Multi-Year Donors

Annual Donors

Lorraine & Jesse Hizami

Christine Marie Ofiesh

Jonna Bollenbacher

Anonymous

Sam Ho, M.D.

Jack & Jane Pollock

Hon. Mary Lou Byrne & Gary W. Kearney

Robert C. Anderson

Mr. & Mrs. James L. Hunter David Quigg

Connie Elliot

Betsy & Harold Applebaum

James Jennings

Jackie & Howard Banchik

Marcia S. Jones

Carole Black

Dr. & Mrs. Jack Kavanaugh

Dannielle Campos Ramirez

In Memory of Lynn Kinikin

Bill Cohn & Dan Miller

Sheila Krasnoff

Diana Rogovin Davidow

Sandra Krause & William Fitzgerald

Lorrie & Richard Gurewitz Gail & Stanley Hollander Ellen & Jerry Jacobson Debra & Robert Kasirer Thea & Neal Koss Joan Kroll & In Memory of Irving Kroll Edward Lewis In Memory of Salem Ludwig Mildred M. & Earl Moon Arline M. Nakanishi Nina & Steven Sheldon The Sugimoto Family Foundation Peter & Susan Van Haften Roberta & James Vigneau

Nancy & Donald de Brier Michael A. Enomoto Joanna Exacoustos Roslyn & Abner Goldstine Manuela Goren Annie Gross In Loving Memory of Georges Gross Ms. Dana Guerin Lorrie & Richard Gurewitz Heather & Paul Haaga Sharon & Joe Hernandez Shirley J. Hess

Alice & Nahum Lainer Dr. & Mrs. Martin S. Lasky Lee Levin Steven Llanusa & Glenn Miya, M.D. Marlene & Sandy Louchheim Janice & Bruce Miller Andy & Laura Mintzer Sheila Muller Robert & Sally Neely

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Harvey & Ellen Knell Foundation

Louis & Harold Price Foundation

In Memory of John W. Carner

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Lynne Campbell

Melanie McDaniel

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Judy Stone

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ADVOCATE CIRCLE ($2,400+) Multi-Year Donors: Anonymous, Harriet Rossetto & Rabbi Mark Borovitz, The Saul Brandman Foundation, Hon. Candace Cooper (Ret), Mr. & Mrs. Laurie Blumin & Moe Blumin, Dr. Patricia Harrison, Gaylen Kobayashi, Julien Minard, Helene G. Mochedlover, Rob & Leslie Nagby, Cynthia Ann Petty, Charles Reinhart, Leslie Smith, Paulette Toumazos & Michael Lorenz | Annual Donors: Anonymous (7), Amy & Bob Abramson, David Abshier, Steve & Karen Adolph, James & Marsha Alexander, Ms. Angela Allen, Anthony Alvarado & Desiree Carvajal, W. Lee Bailey, M.D., Shelley Baker, Phyllis M. Berger, Susan & Adam Berger, Mr. & Mrs. Steven B. Bergjans, Dr. & Mrs. Saul J. Berman, Jeffrey & Susan Berman, Bob Besser, Cheryl Bledin, John S. Borsum & Mark Ehrenstein, Sandra & Robert Braun, Geri Brawerman, Judy & David Breitstein, Devra Breslow, Janice R. Brittain, Willie & Charlene Brownlee, Constance Burg, Beth Burnam, Joan & Allan Burns, Vera A. Campbell, Carol & Ken Carlson, Torino Carr, Sandra L. Carter, Don & Ellen Castleman, Mr. & Mrs. Brenton Chinn, Mary Coates, Terry Cole, MD, Ted Cordes & Bill Derby, Mr. & Mrs. Richard Crook Jr., Kathryn Crown, Trisha Curry, Maurie Davidson, Cam Davis, Linda Vanwinkle Deacon, Mrs. George DeRoy & Cathy DeRoy, Norma & Al Diaz, Ms. Nancy Gerrish, Gerald & Sandra Dorfman, The Dougher Family, Ms. Laurie Dubchansky, Mr. Richard Nupoll, Louise & Charles Escoffery, Ellen Eubanks, Victoria I. Evers, Jim Bright & Lucy Farber, Edward & MaryAnn Feo, Mr. & Mrs. William Fimpler, Ruth Fleming-Stephens, Joan Franzen, Joanne Freed & Richard C. Mendelson, Brady Frome, Mr. John Fukuoka, Dr. & Mrs. Humberto A. Galleno, The Gelfand Family, Jeanne K. Gerson, The Gold Family, Donna & Lee B. Gold, M.D., Dr. Irene Goldenberg, Myles & Barbara Goodson, Bill & Sue Gordon, Linda & Pete Gorman, Jackie & Stan Gottlieb, Dr. Sudha & Dr. Gopal Govindarajan, Marsha Grant, Peggy A. Grant, In Honor of My Mother, Consuelo Lopez, Scott Hall & Rhonda Church, Jack & Janet Harootun, Margaret Harrington, Gene Hawkins, Phyllis & J. Michael Hennigan, Scott & Flora Herman, Karen Hirshan/Hirshan Family Foundation, Dorothy Hoffman, Marcia & Gary Hollander, Dr. & Mrs. H. Allen Hooper, Jim & Gloria Hopper, Dorothy K. Hull, Dr. & Mrs. Robert M. Itami, Karen & Jake Jacobs, Adrienne Grant & Paul Jennings, Gordon Johnson & Barbara Schnell, Charline Jones, Roz & Jerry J. Joseph, Sandy & Stanley Kahan, Janet & Steve Kahane, Cynthia & Jerry Kay, Paul & Mary Kearney, Louanne Kennedy, Sharon Kerson, Neal Hersh & Lynda Klein, Irene & Marvin H. Kleinberg, Paul & Sharon Kleiter, Gail J. Levine, V. P. Sessions, Mancha G. Kurilich, Owen & Sari Kustner, Mrs. Frumeh Labow, Lena, Mark, Jodi & Emily Labowe, Katherine L’Amour, Sally Landau, Richard & Ruth Lavine Family Foundation, Dr. & Mrs. John F. Lawrence, Julie Lawrence, Janeen & David Lee, Lucille Leiba, Dinny & David Lesser, Allyn & Jeffrey Levine, Richard & Vivian Levy, Mae & Hugh Lichtig, Dr. Dianne Long, Mr. & Mrs. Mark S. Louchheim, Sondra Murr Love, Mr. & Mrs. Roger Mairs, Denise M. Mamishian, Sarah F. Manson, Mr. & Mrs. Dennis G. Martin, Susan D. Martynec, Ms. Jacqueline H. Matlock, Michael & Marian Kleinman, Cheryl McConaughey, David & Kathleen McDonald, Tony Melia, Arthur Melville, Ph.D. & Marsha Utain, M.S., Robert L. Mendow, Lorraine & Craig Meyer, Carolyn Miller, Delores Charlene Miller, Nicole L. Miner & Celia Ruskin, Arleen Miya, Donn Nelson, Dr. Anthony Nesburn, Patricia Newcomb, Isabel Friend Newman, Russell Noel, Roberta Novick & Martin Gardner, Michelle Nuttall, Dr. David Oh & Schuyler Smith, Thomas Payne, Carol Phillips & Bob Shapiro, Barry & Jane McCullough, Frank & Arlene Pirolo, Charlie & Kristi Proctor, Sandra & John Radine, Mary Lynn & John Rallis, Tracy L. Ramont, Susan & Walter Reutimann, Ms. Carlene Ringer, Belinda Robins, Rosa M. Salazar, Jean L. Scroggy, Ruth & Mitchell Shapiro, Gloria Sherwood, Mary Louise Shnier, Karen & Gordon Silverstein, Kathleen A. Siu, Nancy Horii, Mr. Ricardo Sosapavon, Tom & Kerstin Stempel, David & Lenora Stewart, Deborah K. Streiber, Dr. Wenjay Sung, I.H. Sutnick, Mr. David Tarlow, Sheila & Lawrence Teplin, Greg Tirabasso & Joseph Krause, Rob & Dinah Titcher, Phillip & Eileen Tremonti, Joyce Huyett Turner & Craig Turner, Carol Vernon & Robert Turbin, In Memory of Longina Postal, Claire Vincent, M. June Walden, Denise & Peter Walsh, Alan Wilson & Ina Coleman, Susan & Joshua Wieder, Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Wilson, Michele A. Kerr Wolfe, Bonnie L. Wong, Janis K. Yerkey, Wally T. Zajac, The Zolkover Family

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All’s Fair

Anne Marie Ketchum Artistic Director Laraine Ann Madden Accompanist

in

Love and War

Music from operas by Bellini Leoncavallo Mascagni Shana Blake Hill Soprano

Todd Wilander Tenor

Roberto Perlas Gómez Baritone

more information and to order tickets Sat., April 29 • 7:30 pm For www.verdichorus.org Sun., April 30 • 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

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.

and

YOUNG PRODUCERS CIRCLE CenterTheatreGroup.org/YPC

Transform the young professional in your life into a Center Theatre Group supporter and patron with a gift membership to the Young Producers Circle. They’ll instantly become part of an active group of theatregoers in their 20s, 30s, and 40s, plus receive: • Discounted

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Center Theatre Group Affiliates

ROLA ND COATE

MASTERPIECE WITH CELEBRITY PEDIGREE $19,900,000

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*

Jerri Nagelberg

Cariline Davis Dyer

Diane Neubauer*

Ilene Eisenberg

Sheila Poncher*

Joan Greiff

Carmen Schaye

Roberta Haft*

Maggy Simon

Christine Harte

Carole Solomon

Tobé Karns

Marilyn Stambler*

Diane Kessler*

Donna Sussman*

Thea F. Koss

Janice Brock Wallace*

Rita Lee

Janice Weiner

Diane Lesser

Rosalind Zane*

MEMBERS Gail Ann Andrews

Beau Lavine

Arthe P. Anthony

Annie Maria Lehrer

Sandy Avchen♦

Marilyn Levin♦

Janet Barnet*♦

Helen Gordon Lowy Dr. Elizabeth Lu

Sue Bass Judith Beckmen*

Marianne Mandel

Marjorie Bender

Phyllis Massing, Ph.D

Marjorie Ann Beradino

Jacqueline Nach

Lanie Bernhard

Deena Nahmias

Deena Blum

Gina Russ Posalski*♦

Lestrita Boardman♦

Anne Reismann

Audrey L. Bornstein

Sharon Reisz

Alice Desobry Bowens ♦

Irene Ribner

Roanna Araneta Brown

Harriett Chatters Rose♦

Elnora Guerrero Campos

Lois Rosen♦

Wilma Glenn Chappelle

Marla Rubin

Marlene Theresa Charbonnet

Gaile Gray Ryan

Barbara Mansfield Cheyne*♦

Marsha Tauber Sallai

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Bonnie Sachs ♦ June Sanders Sattler*♦

Jan Cobert

Kelly Schiffer*

Victoria Cushey

Zrelda Sealey

Mary Levin Cutler♦

Joyce Siegel

Babe Eagle

Robbie J. Solomon

Gloria H. Ellwood*

Marilyn Lee Stark

Lynda Wolfson Fadel

Carol Stein

Stephanie Fisher-White Ruth Flinkman-Marandy Joey Freed♦ Carolyn H. Fried

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Judy Stone Betsy Straszheim Gloria Stroock-Stern Rosalyn Holt Swartz

Ava O. Fries*

Louise Taper

Carole A. Gillie

Katherine L. Todd*

Linda Goldfein

Phyllis Teller

Linda Goldman♦

Roberta Turkat

Dina Goldstein

Sue Tsao ♦

Debra C. Gordon

Elinor Turner

Brindell Gottlieb

Carol Le-Veque-Uri

Carol Halperin

Barbara Van Orden

Stephanie Hibler

Donna Marie Venick*

Audrey V. Jessup

Fern Wallace

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*Past Presidents ♦Executive Board Members at Large

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Ovation Circle Planned Gifts 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.

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$25,000+ Charles Dillingham & Susan D. Clines Mr. & Mrs. Walter E. Grauman

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 Hearst Foundation, Inc.

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

Vicki King

Renee & Meyer Luskin

Richard G. & Virginia L. Martin

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

$250,000+ The Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation

$100,000+ Betsy & Harold Applebaum

$50,000+ Maynard & Linda Brittan Ellen & Michael S. Korney Dorothy & Richard Sherwood

$25,000+ Abbott Brown Linda Brown

The Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation

Dr. Tom Hickey

Kenneth Corday Regina Fadiman Barbara & Peter Fodor Ava & Charles Fries Brindell & Milton Gottlieb

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Judith & Thomas Beckmen

Center Theatre Group Affiliates

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Greve Foundation Diane & Leon Morton

$10,000+ A and J Davidson Skipper Award Fund 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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DONOR RECOGNITION

Sponsors Center Theatre Group is grateful to these companies for their generous support.

Government Support Center Theatre Group appreciates the support of the following agencies: The City of Culver City City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Los Angeles County Arts Commission National Endowment for the Arts U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Center Theatre Group wishes to acknowledge the California Arts Council’s many years of generous support.

University of Redlands School of Music presents

chanticleer GRAMMY® award-winning ensemble

“The world’s reigning male chorus”—The New Yorker

Saturday, May 6 at 3 p.m.

Memorial Chapel www.redlands.edu/chanticleer Tickets $40 | 909-748-8116

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The highlight of the evening will be a one-night-only production at the Ahmanson Theatre featuring some of the most talented artists of our time.

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Here’s your opportunity to ensure that Los Angeles theatre thrives for generations to come. Name Center Theatre Group in your will or trust to allow thousands of young people and families to experience theatre for the first time and support the production of vital new plays and musicals. Make the art you love your legacy.

As a generous member of the Ovation Circle, our planned giving society, you’ll also receive • Complimentary personal consultation to maximize the efficacy of your gifts.

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ONE NIGHT ONLY! THURS MAY 4 7:30PM

Anna Netrebko, one of the greatest sopranos of our time, returns to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion for the first time in over a decade with celebrated tenor Yusif Eyvazov, her partner on the stage and in life, in a program of beloved arias and duets.

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 AUGUST 2016.)

THEATRE EXECUTIVES ($50,000–$99,000)

SUPPORTERS ($2,500‑$9,999)

Bank of America*

Mitchell J. Auslander*•

The Schloss Family Foundation•

Disney/ABC Television Group*

Wells Fargo*•

Paula A. Dominick*•

BENEFACTORS ($25,000-$49,999) Buford Alexander & Pamela Farr*• BNY Mellon Steven & Joy Bunson*• Citi Goldman, Sachs & Co. MetLife

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INTERNATIONAL CURTAIN CALL 2017 Deluxe Opera & Music Tours VIENNA WAGNER RING PLUS (April 28 – May 11, 2017)

DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN: Bechtolf- Peter Schneider Production Lang (Brünnhilde); Fujimura (Fricka); Nylund (Sieglinde); Meier (Waltraute); Terfel (Wotan); Dean-Smith (Siegmund); Vinke (Siegfried); Schmeckenbecher (Alberich); Ablinger-Sperrhacke (Mime).

PLUS Tosca (Kaufmann; Gheorghiu); Eugene Onegin (Bezsmertna; Maltman, Breslik); Lady Macbeth of Mzensk (Westbroek; Bankl, Jovanovich); and La Wally.

5-Star Deluxe Hotel Grand–Vienna

PRAGUE & VIENNA (June 10 – 23, 2017)

PRAGUE: Carmen; Romeo & Juliet; Lohengrin; and La Cenerentola.

VIENNA: Rigoletto (Garifullina; Kang, Frontali); Elektra (Stemme, Meier); Don Carlo (Stoyanova;Vargas,Domingo, Furlanetto); L'Elisir D'Amore (Nafornita; Villazon, Terfel); and Pelléas et Mélisande.

5-Star Deluxe Hotels Palace - Prague and Hotel Grand– Vienna

PARIS - AVIGNON/ORANGE & AIX-EN-PROVENCE (July 3 – 16, 2017)

PARIS: Carmen (Rachvelishvili, Car; Hymel, Abdrazakov); La Cenerentola (Lervolino; De Léon, Arduini, Muraro, Tagliavini); and La Sylphide Ballet.

ORANGE: Rigoletto (Sierra; Albelo Nucci); and Special Bryn Terfel Concert.

AIX-EN-PROVENCE: Don Giovanni (Buratto, Leonard; Sly, Pierro, Breslik); The Rake's Progress (Bullock; Appleby); and Cavalli's Erismena (Aspromonte).

5-Star Deluxe Hotel Scribe– Paris 4-Star Hotel La Magnaneraie– Avignon 4-Star Marriott Rennaissance–Aix

ITALY SUMMER FESTIVALS MILAN & VERONA + *VENICE EXTENSION (July 5-15; * July 15-19, 2017))

MILAN: La Scala: La Boheme (Perez, Lombardi; Sartori; Piazzola); and The Swan Lake ballet.

VERONA: Arena di Verona: Aida; Nabucco; Madama Butterfly; and Rigoletto. *VENICE EXTENSION– La Fenice: La Traviata (Nuccio; Pretti, Grassi).

5-Star Deluxe Hotel Westin Palace– Milan 5-Star Deluxe Hotel Due Torre– Verona 5-Star Deluxe Hotel Danieli– Venice

SAN FRANCISCO WAGNER RING

(June 11 - 18, 2018) Zambello – Runnicles Production/withMattila, Herlitzius; Grimsley, Barton.

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What happened before

“Once upon a time”?

Center Theatre Group invites you to play the “GO! to the Woods” game by Wise Guys Events.

Explore the “woods” of Grand Park and the steps of The Music Center Plaza, solve riddles, and discover clues.

HOW TO PLAY: • Download the free ClueKeeper app to your mobile device.

• Create an account.

• Use Hunt Code SONDHEIM to begin playing.

You can also set up your free ClueKeeper account by signing in with a Google account.

We advise having at least 50% battery life on your device and reading glasses, if required. Parts of the game may be difficult to complete in darkness.

This game lasts approximately 45 minutes. You will have to walk approximately 1/2 mile, including some stairs.

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The Blue Ribbon Brings Thousands of Children to The Music Center for 47th Annual Children’s Festival More than 18,000 fifth grade students from throughout Los Angeles County immersed themselves in the performing arts at the 47th Annual Blue Ribbon Children’s Festival. Upon arrival, students attended a free performance by Ailey II, the celebrated second company of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in The Music Center’s iconic Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

Following the performance, students performed a dance inspired by the Rocka My Soul finale section of Alvin Ailey’s masterpiece Revelations on The Music Center Plaza.

The Festival is underwritten and staffed by The Blue Ribbon, the premier women’s support organization of The Music Center. The three-day event is California’s longest-continuing free arts education initiative and has introduced more than 860,000 students to the performing arts since its debut in 1970.

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BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES

Through the support of the Board of Supervisors, the County of Los Angeles 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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Feel The Heat SCOTTISH BALLET

Experience the lust, desire and betrayal of the definitive Pulitzer Prize-winning drama transformed into a powerful and emotional ballet.

MAY 19–21, 2017 | THE MUSIC CENTER’S DOROTHY CHANDLER PAVILION

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Music and Sound: Peter Salem. Presented through special arrangement with The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.

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APRIL SAT 01 APR / 11:00 a.m.

Reykjavík Festival: Maximus Musicus Visits Los Angeles LA PHIL Walt Disney Concert Hall Also 4/8 SAT 01 APR / 2:00 p.m.

Fun Home CENTER THEATRE GROUP Mark Taper Forum Thru 4/1 SAT 01 APR / 7:30 p.m.

Domingo/Radvanovsky in Concert LA OPERA Dorothy Chandler Pavilion SAT 01 APR / 8:00 p.m.

Mirga Conducts Mozart & Haydn LA PHIL Walt Disney Concert Hall Thru 4/2 SAT 01 APR / 8:30 p.m.

The Wooster Group: The Town Hall Affiar REDCAT SUN 02 APR / 2:00 p.m.

Tales of Hoffmann LA OPERA Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Thru 4/15 SUN 02 APR / 7:30 p.m.

Organ Recitals: Felix Hell LA PHIL Walt Disney Concert Hall MON 03 APR / 8:30 p.m.

29 Spacetime: Multimedia

by Julia Heyward and Perry Hoberman REDCAT TUE 04 APR / 8:00 p.m.

Into The Woods CENTER THEATRE GROUP Ahmanson Theater Thru 5/14 TUE 04 APR / 11:00 a.m.

EVERY TUE/WED/THU LUNCHTIME! Food Trucks GRAND PARK TUE 04 APR / 12:00 p.m.

EVERY TUE LUNCHTIME! Writers’ Meetup GRAND PARK Thru 5/30 WED 05 APR / 11:00 a.m.

EVERY WED + FRI LUNCHTIME! Yoga reTREAT + Food Trucks GRAND PARK Thru 5/31

THU 06 APR / 12:15 p.m.

EVERY THU LUNCHTIME! Concerts GRAND PARK

THU 20 APR / 8:30 p.m.

Christine Jatahy: The Walking Forest REDCAT Thru 4/23

THU 06 APR / 8:00 p.m.

Salonen & Sibelius LA PHIL Walt Disney Concert Hall Thru 4/9

THU 20 APR / 8:00 p.m.

From the New World LA PHIL Walt Disney Concert Hall Thru 4/23

THU 06 APR / 8:30 p.m.

Marc Lowenstein REDCAT

FRI 21 APR / 1:00 p.m.

High School Choir Festival LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE Walt Disney Concert Hall

FRI 07 APR / 7:00 p.m.

Reykjavík Festival Opening Night: Made in Iceland LA PHIL Walt Disney Concert Hall

FRI 21 APR / 7:00 p.m.

Colburn Orchestra LA PHIL Walt Disney Concert Hall

SAT 08 APR / 8:00 p.m.

Martha Argerich & Stephen Kovacevich LA PHIL Walt Disney Concert Hall SAT 08 APR / 8:30 p.m.

Clarence Barlow REDCAT

MON 24 APR / 8:30 p.m.

Phantoms of Light and Darkness: New Digital Films by Ernie Gehr REDCAT

SUN 09 APR / 8:30 p.m.

Studio: Spring 2017 REDCAT Also 4/10

TUE 25 APR / 8:30 p.m.

Piano Spheres Presents Susan Svrček: For Spring REDCAT

MON 10 APR / RSVP required Portals Project GRAND PARK Thru 4/23

TUE 25 APR / 8:00 p.m.

Chamber Music: Duos LA PHIL Walt Disney Concert Hall

TUE 11 APR / 8:00 p.m.

Green Umbrella: Contemporary Iceland LA PHIL Walt Disney Concert Hall THU 13 APR / 8:00 p.m.

Reykjavík Festival: Sigur Rós & LA Phil LA PHIL Walt Disney Concert Hall Thru 4/15 MON 17 APR / 8:00 p.m.

Reykjavík Festival: Jóhann Jóhannsson Bedroom Community: Whale Watching Tour featuring Valgeir Sigurðsson, Nico Muhly and Sam Amidon LA PHIL Walt Disney Concert Hall TUE 18 APR / 8:00 p.m.

Bachakademie: B-Minor Mass LA PHIL Walt Disney Concert Hall

SAT 22 APR / 7:30 p.m.

Tosca LA OPERA Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Thru 5/13

TUE 25 APR / 8:00 p.m.

Archduke CENTER THEATRE GROUP Mark Taper Forum Thru 6/4 WED 26 APR / 8:30 p.m.

Dohee Lee: MU/巫 REDCAT FRI 28 APR / 11:00 a.m.

The Best of Wagner’s Ring LA PHIL Walt Disney Concert Hall Thru 4/30 FRI 28 APR / 8:00 p.m.

DakhaBrakha Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares LA PHIL Walt Disney Concert Hall

2017 WED 19 APR / 9:00 a.m.

Earth Day LA GRAND PARK

SUN 30 APR / 7:00 p.m.

Wade in the Water LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE Walt Disney Concert Hall

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

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APR 21 – MAY 14, 2017 ONE OF THE MOST ENDURING WORKS OF MUSICAL THEATRE

JUNE 2 – 25, 2017

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