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TO COBB ENERGY PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE MUSIC FILLS THE THEATER this summer with concerts by artists who have played worldwide. Our offerings include everything from K-pop (the South Korean boy band Wanna One and the premier band Monsta X), to reggae (Beres Hammond) and the high-energy of 1950s and ’60s rock (Bowzer’s Rock ’n’ Roll Party).

ABBA: The Concert pays tribute to the iconic Swedish pop group and its chart-topping tunes, while legendary Latin American singers Marisela y Amanda Miguel visit with their Mentiras de Hierro (Iron Lies) tour.

Summer also has a punch of comedy, with social media personality Heather Land and her I Ain’t Doing It tour, plus award-winning podcast vloggers in VIEWS Live With David Dobrik & Jason Nash.

ArtsBridge, our education arm, is expanding its programming in 2018/19 with 14 field trips; 10 professional development opportunities, including a new three-day musical theater intensive; and 10 family shows.

Its Broadway Master Classes include actors from The Book of Mormon (at the Fox Theatre in July) and Aladdin (at the Fox in September). And, in early August, ArtsBridge begins enrollment for the 2019 Georgia High School Musical Theatre Awards. Note that it’s limited to 75 schools. For details, visit ArtsBridgeGA.org.

Subscriptions to Cobb Energy Centre’s inaugural Signature Series went on sale in midMay and are still available. Look for details in this edition’s feature story (Page 6) and at cobbenergycentre.com.

For updates on shows, news and everything else happening at your Cobb Energy Centre, please visit cobbenergycentre.com.

Thank you so much for your ongoing support.

See you at the theater.

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THEATER INFORMATION ATM: An ATM is located in the Grand Lobby.

Concessions: Concession stands are located in the center of the lobbies.

Coat check: Coat check is available at the concierge desk.

Emergency information: In the event of an emergency, please locate the nearest usher who will direct you to the appropriate exit.

Elevators: Elevators are located on each side of the lobbies on all levels.

Lost and found: Items are turned into the concierge desk on the day of a performance.

To inquire about a lost item, please call Public Safety at 770.916.2911.

Parking: PREPAID PARKING AVAILABLE. Cobb Energy Centre offers prepaid parking for performances. On each performance page on the Cobb Energy Centre website there is now a button to purchase parking in advance for $12. Day-of parking is still available for $10 (cash or credit). There are 1,000 on-site parking spaces; 700 in a four-

level deck and 300 more in a surface lot.

Valet parking is available for The Atlanta Opera and Atlanta Ballet only. $8 day of park fee; $12 prepay option; $15 valet (cash or credit card).

Restrooms: Located on house right and house left of all three lobbies. Family restrooms are located on house right of all three lobbies. Mobility-impaired patrons may use any of our restrooms.

Smoking: Smoking is prohibited inside the building. Please use the terrace exit to step outside and smoke.

Special assistance: Persons requiring access assistance are asked to contact the box office at 770.916.2850 for advance arrangements. Audio clarification devices are available to our hearing-impaired guests at no charge. This is on a first-come, firstserved basis. A limited number of booster seats are also available. Wheelchairs are available upon request. All items require a form of identification to be held until the item is returned.

COBB ENERGY CENTRE REQUESTS: • All patrons, regardless of age, must have a ticket to be admitted to the performance.

Please be aware that not all events are suitable for children. Infants will not be admitted to adult programs. Parents will be asked to remove children who create a disturbance.

• Please turn off all cellphones before each performance. Please limit conversation during the performance.

• Audio & video recording devices are permitted or restricted at the discretion of the artist(s).

• Please unwrap all candies and cough drops before the performance.

• This policy applies to The Atlanta Opera and Atlanta Ballet only: We know that patrons make every effort to be on time for events out of respect for the performers and other theatergoers.

However, there are times when traffic or weather problems cause late arrivals.

Latecomers may watch the beginning of a show on flat-screen TVs in our lobby until the theater has reopened to allow guests into the auditorium. In addition, touring companies set the policy for allowing those who arrive past curtain time into the theater. We ask late patrons to wait until the approved time and we reopen the theater doors. Please plan ahead to arrive early and relax before the performance begins.

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Storm Large (left) Michael Feinstein (above) in Shaken & Stirred: Feinstein & Friends on Sept. 6.

COBB ENERGY PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE’S INAUGURAL SIGNATURE SERIES was almost a year in the making. Creating it was a lot like assembling a jigsaw puzzle.

The concept, says managing director Sandi Aaron, came from a review of CEPAC’s first decade, assessing the venue’s strengths, its core audience, its role in the arts community and in the community at large.

Aaron was on the Signature Series planning team, along with Michelle Swann, general manager and CEO of the Cobb-Marietta Coliseum & Exhibit Authority; Authority finance director Rob Turner; and CEPAC marketing director Tom Rowland.

They had to decide how many shows to offer, how the package would be shaped and what kinds of performances to choose.

World-class entertainment was a must, they decided, and the series needed to be varied and have wide appeal. With market research backing them up, team members decided on these six: • Shaken & Stirred: Feinstein & Friends. SEPT. 6. Michael Feinstein and vocalist Storm Large perform music from the Great American Songbook, James Bond and the “Mad Men” era.

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• Dance Theatre of Harlem.

OCT. 13-14. (a co-presentation with the Fox Theatre). This multicultural dance institution has roots in ballet that date to 1969.

•R ogers & Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music.

NOV. 23-24. A new tour from NETworks Presentations with mostly fresh faces.

• Kristin Chenoweth. MARCH 29, 2019. The Tony- and Emmy Award-winning singeractor performs onstage, on television, in films and as a voiceover artist.

• The Temptations and the Four Tops. MARCH 30, 2019. Bask in the sounds of the 1960s with these groups, each of which still boasts an original member (the Temptations’ Otis Williams, the Four Tops’ Abdul “Duke” Fakir).

• The Lightning Thief. JUNE 7-9 (five shows). The Percy Jackson Musical, as it’s subtitled, is based on the best-selling Rick Riordan novel (2006). The Greek gods are ruining Percy’s life. As Poseidon’s son, he has powers he can’t control and monsters on his trail.

He must find Zeus’ lightning bolt to prevent war. Nominated for three 2017 Drama Desk awards including best musical.

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The puzzle pieces didn’t align quite so nicely early in the effort. The team had to consider the who, what, where, when and how of the series and its components. Another critical piece: financial feasibility.

“What’s out there is the first question,” Aaron says. Keeping up with regional, national and international shows, concerts and individual performers is a critical part of her job.

The next nut to crack: What’s on tour? And what’s available in this area in a time frame that works with CEPAC’s schedule?

Other questions were considered: Had the act ever appeared at Cobb Energy Centre? If so, what kind of attendance did it draw? If not, how did it draw at other venues? How was the performance received? What, if any, were the comments from audiences and reviewers? (Hello, social media.)

Once the team settled on its six choices, offers went out. But getting all the contracts signed for any show is a big issue, Aaron says. It can mean talking to presenters, copromoters and, occasionally, a local partner. For The Lightning Thief, for instance, CEPAC is collaborating with the Fox Theatre.

“We’re not sure what to expect with this first Signature Series,” Aaron says. “We are taking it step-by-step and building the strength of the structure.”

As for the second Signature Series? She’s already on the lookout.

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WANNA ONE WORLD TOUR | 7 p.m. July 2

K-POP GOES A NEW BAND

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embers of the public chose the 11 members of the K-pop group Wanna One from among 101 competing singers and dancers on the South Korean talent survival show “Produce 101, Season 2.” Known as the Mnet TV show’s “national producers,” audiences also vote to decide a group’s concept, debut song and the winners’ band name.

So in 2017, by popular demand and in order of most viewers’ votes, Kang Daniel, Park Ji-hoon, Lee Dae-hwi, Kim Jae-hwan, Ong Seong-wu, Park Woo-jin, Lai Kuanlin, Yoon Ji-sung, Hwang Min-hyun, Bae Jin-young and Ha Sung-woon became Wanna One. The group, not yet a year old, is the latest K-pop wave to flow from the Korean peninsula and fire up the sasaeng (super-fans), including devotees known as Wannables.

Some of the young men in Wanna One are familiar. Ji-hoon, 19, was a child actor,

seen at age 8 in the series “Kimchi Cheese Smile.” Min-hyun once belonged to the group New Establishment Style Tempo (or NU’EST, as it’s better known). Sungwoon was in the band Hotshot. Jae-hwan appeared on Season 2 of “Korea’s Got Talent,” making it to the semifinals.

The group first performed in concert at Seoul’s Olympic Hall, then officially debuted Aug. 7, 2017, at the 17,000-seat Gocheok Sky Dome. The EP 1x1=1 (To Be One) dropped Aug. 8 and 1-1=0 (Nothing Without You) followed a few months later.

The intergenerational band (members range in age from 16 to 27) became the first K-pop group to sell a million copies of its debut album.

This year, Wanna One released a music video for the bouncy rock song “I Promise You (I.P.U.),” the title song of its second EP, 0+1=1. Advance orders topped 700,000, outpacing the demand for the group’s debut.

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BERES HAMMOND: LOVE & REGGAE | 6 p.m. July 8

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o to Jamaica, and you’ll discover that Beres Hammond is one of the island nation’s most beloved musicians, occupying a status just below the iconic Bob Marley.

Hammond, 62, was born in the town of Annoto Bay in the parish of St. Mary and began his career in the mid-1970s with the group Zap Pow. His first solo effort, Soul Reggae, came in 1976.

Smooth, American R&B-tinged vocals established his expertise with ballads: “One Step Ahead” and “I’m in Love” were both hits in Jamaica. He became known for his “lover’s rock” sound, showcased in 1988 on “How Can We Ease the Pain,” a duet with Maxi Priest, and on the lively 1991 dance hit, “Tempted to Touch,” probably his best-known song in the United States and Britain.

Hammond released five albums and several compilations in the 1990s and

began the millennium with Music Is Life (2001), featuring Wyclef John and the hits “They Gonna Talk” and “Ain’t It Good to Know.”

In 2012 he won a Grammy Award nomination for the double album One Life, One Love, which focused on love and social issues. It topped Billboard’s Reggae charts; Rolling Stone magazine called it “one of the best albums of a four-decadelong career”; and it received a collective cheer from Barbados-born singer Rihanna, rapper Drake and the seminal hip-hop group the Roots.

Hammond is compared to Marvin Gaye, called “the King of Romantic Reggae” and "Jamaica's Springsteen" (for his commonman themes).

These days he’s added the initials “OJ” to his name. In 2013 he was awarded the Order of Jamaica by the island’s government.

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HEATHER LAND: I AIN’T DOIN IT TOUR | 7 p.m. July 14

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umorist, singer and writer Heather Land came into public view in 2017 in the new-fashioned way: via her blog and a series of comic “I Ain’t Doin’ It” Snapchat filter-enhanced videos.

Within six months, she had 140,000 YouTube subscribers and 2.2 million Facebook followers, giving her a pithy platform and a wide audience.

Her snappy social commentary, delivered in a Tennessee-mom twang, takes on everything from fitness fanatics (“I’d rather catch my pinky toe on a bed frame than go to CrossFit”) to pet people with dog strollers (“I’d rather chew secondhand gum from

underneath a chair at the Waffle House than see that mess”).

About a year into her new career, Land found time — between tending her blog and videos — to release an album of country-andchurch tinged tunes and titled Counting On. Emboldened by her online success, the mother of two has taken to the road for one-off evenings that come packed with Southern-fried sarcasm and her signature unraveling of everyday events (going through the McDonald’s drive-through, for example, and trying to decipher makeup tutorials).

Leggings and crop tops haven’t escaped her notice, either.

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2018 MONSTA X WORLD TOUR | 8 p.m. July 25

OH BOY! OH BOY! OH BOY! …

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he universal musical language of boy bands is back, primarily because of the soaring popularity of K-Pop groups.

Monsta X, six singer/dancers and a rapper from South Korea, formed in 2015 on the reality-survival TV show “No Mercy,” covering songs by Ariana Grande, Justin Timberlake, Jay Park and others, and following that with several well-received EPs and a full-length album titled The Clan Pt. 2.5: The Final Chapter.

The releases shot into the Top 5 on South Korea’s music charts, and the album hit No. 1 on Billboard’s World Album chart. Soon after, band members Shownu, Wonho, Minhyul, Kihyun, Hyugwon, Jooheon and I.M. (all born between 1992 and 1996) nabbed the Next Generation Asian Artist Award at the 2015 Mnet Asian Music Awards.

This year they were presented with the Seoul Music Discovery Award at Mnet, in addition to topping the competition’s dance performance category.

The group’s name means “my star” and “monsters conquering the K-pop scene.” This is the group’s second world tour, and the Atlanta date is one of only seven in the United States. Cobb Energy Centre is the third stop. If you want to see the septet more than once, the boys also will play Chicago (July 20); Newark, N.J. (July 22); Dallas (July 27); Houston (July 29); San Francisco (Aug. 1) and Los Angeles (Aug. 3).

Expect the singing-dancing-rapping boys in the band to pick up new admirers on their jaunt through America — and get a rousing welcome from K-pop devotees and their faithful monbebe (fan club members).

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BOWZER’S ROCK ’N’ ROLL PARTY | 7:30 p.m. July 27

ROCK ’N’ ROLL WILL NEVER DIE

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rank up the wayback machine. Bowzer is ready to put the “Yes!” in yesteryear as the host of a live rock ’n’ roll party with the original singers of hit songs from the 1950s and ’60s.

The goofy, gangly, greaser character from Sha Na Na (Brooklyn-born performer Jon Bauman) left the popular doo-wop group in the 1980s, after 13 years.

Since then, he’s added actor, producer and VJ (on VH1) to his résumé.

Bauman hosted “The Hollywood Squares” (1983-84) and produced “The Golden Age of Rock ’n’ Roll,” a 10hour series for the A&E network.

Then he packed up part of rock's golden age and took it on the road.

Performers at this pop fest include the Tokens, the band behind the chart-topping 1961 hit “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” (singer Jay Siegel’s soaring falsetto is one reason the song is remembered).

Also here: Shirley Alston Reeves, original lead singer of the Shirelles and the powerful, plaintive voice behind “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow.” In 1960, the song became the first No. 1 hit for an all-female group. If you remember the Shirelles, you remember “Baby It’s You” and “Soldier Boy,” too.

Freddy “Boom Boom” Cannon comes to the party with such hits as “Palisades Park,” written by TV exec Chuck Barris (“The Dating Game” and “The Gong Show”).

Bowzer performs at the shindig with his band the Stingrays. Expect, too, tunes from Sha Na Na's Johnny Contardo. Rock ’n’ roll is more than 60 years old, but the party isn’t over yet.

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VIEWS LIVE WITH DAVID DOBRIK & JASON NASH | 7:30 p.m. July 28

DID THEY REALLY JUST SAY THAT?

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n their "VIEWS" weekly podcasts, 21-year-old YouTube millionaire David Dobrik and Jason Nash, a 45-year-old YouTuber with a video blog of his own, invite people behind the scenes to see what the YouTube life. is like.

Online episodes run about 40 minutes, with such themes as “My $35,000 Birthday Party,” “The Public Hates YouTubers” and “Going to Hawaii to Shoot My Friend With a Paint Gun”).

Just about anything is up for discussion.

True confessions happen, guest stars show up and pop culture is always on the menu.

Dobrik and Nash’s contentious personal relationship (think “The Odd Couple”) is often a focus.

With a best-podcast Shorty Award

(honoring social media’s best content creators and producers) under their online belt, VIEWS is a digital hotbed with a subscriber base of more than 6 million.

Dobrik, a native of Slovakia, got his start as a teen in 2013, when he found an audience that couldn’t get enough of his six-second Vine videos. He moved his “doing stupid things” (his words) and messing-with-friends bits to YouTube in 2015, where the precise 4-minute, 20-second videos became hugely popular. When Dobrik took a break before vlog No. 420, it made news.

Actor, writer, director and comedian Jason Nash often played Dobrik’s dad in the early videos and is now a YouTube personality himself. The Boston native was a semifinalist on NBC’s “Last Comic Standing” in 2010.

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ABBA THE CONCERT | 8 p.m. Aug. 16

POP-PERFECT TRIBUTE ABBA, the harmony-laden Swedish supergroup that owned 1970s' pop radio and seems to be an ever-present part of pop culture, never officially announced its breakup, but the foursome’s final performance came on British TV in 1982.

The Visitors, eight Swedish singers and musicians, have been bringing the joy of ABBA’s upbeat sound to audiences for two decades. The group’s tribute act sold out the Hollywood Bowl and performed for 20,000 in Chicago.

The group has taken its look-alike, sound-alike show (including rhythm-section musicians who played and recorded with ABBA) to India, Italy, Japan, Norway, the Philippines, Russia, Spain and Turkey, in addition to the United States.

Lead guitarist Christian Fast calls ABBA music “pop evergreen.”

So all the hits are showcased in a performance that's more than two hours long: “Mamma Mia,” “S.O.S.,” “Take a

Chance on Me,” “Waterloo,” “The Winner Takes It All” and, of course, “Dancing Queen.” The list goes on.

ABBA, which became official in 1972, is the second-highest-selling pop group of all time, behind only the Beatles. The quartet, made of two married couples — Anni-Frid “Frida” Lyngstad and Björn Ulvaeus, and Benny Andersson and Agnetha Fältskog — began in the late 1960s as a folk group called the Hootenanny Singers.

It wasn’t until Swedish record producer/ engineer Michael B. Tretow joined them that the signature ABBA sound came to be.

Here’s a bit of geopolitical pop trivia for you. ABBA’s sales in communist Eastern Europe were so high in its heyday that band members had to accept some payments in oil because bloc countries sometimes didn’t have enough funds on hand.

No word from the super troupers on whether that had anything to do with the tune “Money, Money, Money.”

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MARISELA Y AMANDA MIGUEL | 8:30 p.m. Aug. 17

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radition runs deep in the lush Latin American sound of singers Marisela Hernandez and Amanda Miguel, both longtime performers with an audience across the Americas. The two come together for an evening of music and “nights of surprises” as Miguel recently noted regarding touring with “La Dama de Hierro” (the Iron Lady), known to most fans as simply Marisela.

Miguel, who’s Argentinian, moved to Los Angeles at age 16. She recorded her first album El Sonido, Vol. 1, in 1981, and found success with the songs “Así no te amará jamás” (“So He Won’t Ever Love You”) and “Mi Buen Corazón” (“My Good Heart”), which became staples on the Southern California Spanish radio station KRCD-FM.

Miguel’s fifth album, El Rostro del Amor, was released in 1989, and its title song was chosen to greet Pope John Paul II on one of his five visits to Mexico. She later released an album of ranchero music titled Rompecorazones.

Hernandez, a Mexican-American singer, was born in Los Angeles. She recorded her first album at age 15 and recorded 13 more over the course of her career.

Her 1990 cover of the Barbara George song “I Know You Don’t Love Me No More,” titled “Ya No,” went to No. 1 on the Billboard Latin Songs chart.

As a child actor, she starred in Villa Alegre (“The Happy Village”), which ran on PBS from 1973 to 1981 and was the first bilingual TV program in the United States.

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COBB-MARIETTA COLISEUM & EXHIBIT HALL AUTHORITY

MANAGING DIRECTOR Sandie Aaron

HOUSEKEEPING MANAGER Jeri Wallis

CHAIRMAN Jerry Nix | Post 6

EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT Barbara Kiss

HUMAN RESOURCES SPECIALIST Lorena Dominguez

VICE-CHAIR A. Max Bacon | Post 2

DIRECTOR OF MARKETING & SPONSORSHIPS Tom Rowland

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Ben Tilley

RECEPTIONIST Beryl Bernier

PRODUCTION MANAGER Jon Summers

BOX OFFICE MANAGER Richard Scholla

HEAD AUDIO ENGINEER David Young

ASSISTANT BOX OFFICE MANAGER Russel Kennedy

HEAD ELECTRICIAN Julia Jordan

BOX OFFICE SUPERVISOR Dianna Cassin-Khoury HOUSE MANAGER Richard Stevens DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS Jessica Coale DIRECTOR OF SAFETY & SECURITY Larry Green

HEAD CARPENTER/RIGGER Mark Newman

SECRETARY Johnny Gresham | Post 4 Mike Boyce | Post 5 Earl Smith | Post 7 Steve “Thunder” Tumlin | Post 1 Robert P. Voyles | Post 3 GENERAL MANAGER & CEO Michele L. Swann

DIRECTOR OF FACILITY SERVICES Arthur McDowell DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING Joe Green

ARTSBRIDGE FOUNDATION

CHIEF ENGINEER Marty Taylor

PRESIDENT Clare Richardson

DIRECTOR EMERITUS Barbara E. Williams

VICE PRESIDENT Joanne Truffelman

PUBLIC SAFETY MANAGER Jamie Wheeler PUBLIC SAFETY SUPERVISOR Carlyle Roberts

ARTSBRIDGE FOUNDATION STAFF

SECRETARY/TREASURER Larry M. Dingle

CULINARY DIRECTOR/ EXECUTIVE CHEF Nicholas Walker

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Jennifer D. Dobbs

DIRECTOR Helen S. Carlos

SOUS CHEF Camilo Aguirre

DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION & COMMUNITY OUTREACH Sarah Clay Lindvall

DIRECTOR Barbarella Diaz

DIRECTOR OF FOOD & BEVERAGE Susan Burchell

DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR Lizzy Morin

FOOD & BEVERAGE MANAGER Ramin Djaved

PROGRAM COORDINATOR Audine Crosse

DIRECTOR Fran Friedrich DIRECTOR Jerry Nix DIRECTOR Sam Olens

BANQUET MANAGER Abol Ghoreishi

DIRECTOR Kessel D. Stelling

BEVERAGE & CONCESSION MANAGER Fernando Quintero

DIRECTOR Percy Vaughn DIRECTOR Jack Ward

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UPCOMING EVENTS at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre For the most up-to-date list of performances, please visit:

cobbenergycentre.com

My Brother, My Brother & Me

Shaken & Stirred — Feinstein & Friends

Sept. 1

Sept. 6

Kansas Sept. 28

Dance Theatre of Harlem

Tickets sold at the Synovus Box Office at Cobb Energy Centre, Ticketmaster.com or by calling 800.745.3000

Russell Peters

Jeanne Robertson

Sept. 20

Sept. 22

Danny Gokey

Rickey Smiley

Alice Cooper

Oct. 5

Oct. 6

Oct. 10

Lewis Black

Ina Garten

The Sound of Music

Nov. 2

Nov. 13

Nov. 23-24

Oct. 13-14

VENUE SPONSORS

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THANK YOU TO OUR DONORS! Listing reflects gifts made between October 1, 2016 and May 31, 2018

Producer $25000+ Jimmy & Helen S. Carlos Cobb-Marietta Coliseum and Exhibit Hall Authority Genuine Parts Company Georgia Lottery Lettie Pate Evans Foundation The Molly Blank Fund (Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation) Walton Communities The Zeist Foundation Director $10000 - 24999 Audrey B. Morgan, The Morgan Family Fund Cobb Community Foundation Lynn Cochran-Schroder Delta Community Credit Union Ed Voyles Automotive Group Emerson Climate Technologies Livingston Foundation Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company National Endowment for the Arts Jerry & Cheryl Nix Regions Bank Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Scicom Infrastructure Services Jack & Jean Ward Designer $5000 - 9999 Abney Family Foundaion Atlant aBraves Foundation Bobbie Bailey Foundation Bruce & Sylvia Dick John & Mary Franklin Foundation Georgia Power Company KIA Motors of America The Martha & Wilton Looney Foundation, Inc. William A. Parker, Jr. Six Flags Over Georgia David & Michele Swann Synovus Foundation Tull Charitable Foundation Wells Fargo Foundation

Playwright $2500 - 4999 René & Barbarella Diaz Larry Dingle Nigel & Clare Richardson Smiley for Kylie Foundation Ticketmaster Joanne Truffelman Publix Super Markets Charities The Vinings Rotary Club Presenter $1000 - 2499 Mike Boyce Bill Brantley Terry Chandler C hildren’s Healthcare of Atlanta Cobb County School District Fidelity Bank Richard Horder Peter & Ronnie Kessenich, Sr. McKenney’s, Inc. Sam & Lisa Olens Pope and Land Enterprises Jim Rhoden, Jr. Kathleen E. Rios Laura Schilling Bennie Shaw Earl Smith John & Ka Karen Spiegel Terri Theisen Bob & Belle Voyles Lead Actor $500 - 999 Judith M. Alembik Julian Bene Cobb Travel & Tourism Randy Donaldson John & Carole Harrison Gene & Patricia Henssler Shelly Kleppsattel Christine Nix Robert Parris Alex Paulson Benjamin & Christine Phelps Emma Pollard Holly B. Quinlan Cynthia Widner Wall

Ensemble $250 - 499 Robert & Susan Arko Atlanta Jewish Film Society, Inc. Charlie & Yetty Arp Thomas Casey Mike Cronin Jack & Shirley Demarest Chris Galla Johny Gresham Pam Hubby Margaret Kleiman Don & Patsy Mabry Gas South Walter W. McBride Sid Roy Sara Stephens Gordon Via Denice M. Wetzel Audience $1 - 249 Suzanne Alea Anonymous Julie Arnold Carole Brooks Anne Camery Cantigny Research Foundation, Inc. Ushe Ushers at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre Michael Cooper Cynthia Crain Lee Winn Crump Sondra Dillon Dwight Dyer Nancy Gault Katherine Hansil Shea Jones Fred & Judih Keith Sherry Kendrick Mike Knowles Susan M. Levy Deborah Lundquist Alan Martin Leslie McLeod Kyle Moon David & Barbara Nadler Kinsey OLee Richard Parker Brenda Rhodes Elizabeth H. Roper Janice Scott Linda Smith Naomi Smith Leslie Stone Tama Tanowitz Jam James Tyson Jim & Joanne Van Duys Juliana Vincenzino The Westminister Schools George & Jan Yano

If you do not see your name or are listed incorrectly, we apologize. Please contact us at 770.916.2817 to correct.

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Over 350,000 Georgia students and educators served since 2007!

ArtsBridge Foundation, the non-proďŹ t arm of the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, provides quality arts education and community engagement programming designed to inspire creativity and foster the next generation of artists and arts supporters.

2018-19 SEASON FIELD TRIPS

High-quality, educational performances that connect to Georgia Standards of Excellence and Common Core

Thursday, October 4, 2018 10:15 AM & Noon Grades K - 12 | $10 per ticket

ARTRAGEOUS

THE PHANTOM

TOLLBOOTH

Friday, October 12, 2018 11:00 AM Grades 3 - 12 | $10 per ticket

DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM

WEST SIDE STORY Presented by the Atlanta Opera

Wednesday, October 17, 2018 10:15 AM & Noon Grades K- 6 | $10 per ticket

ArtsBridgeGA.org

Friday, November 2, 2018 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM Grades 9 - 12 | FREE Admission

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Skill development for both students and educators in the performing arts

September 22 Musical Theatre Dance Class in the style of Aladdin

This class in partnership Broadway Connection

October 29 FREE Admission with Registration

FAMILY PROGRAMMING All new interactive show that unfolds on one of the world’s most famous streets at the funniest, furriest party in the neighborhood!

Friday, November 16, 2018 10:30 AM & 6:00 PM Saturday, November 17, 2018 10:00 AM & 2:00 PM Sunday, November 18, 2018 2:00 PM

DONATE TODAY! Visit ArtsBridgeGA.org to learn how you can help keep ticket prices low and the buses rolling!

THE ENCORE ATLANTA

DINING GUIDE

ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A GREAT NIGHT OUT? AMERICAN PACES & VINE — Located in The Vinings Jubilee with classic American comfort food crafted from locally sourced ingredients.

Shared plates, fish, steaks. Wine-centric bar with craft cocktails. Weekday lunch, weekend brunch and dinner menus led by Atlanta Chef Kyle Schmidt who comes to Paces & Vine after eight years in Atlanta kitchens King and Duke, JCT Kitchen and No. 246, among others. Lunch, dinner, Saturday and Sunday brunch.

Vinings Jubilee, 4300 Paces Ferry Road, 404.205.8255, pacesandvine.com

The truffle mac-and-cheese at Paces & Vine is a don’t-miss kinda dish. Seriously.

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PACES & VINE

Try one of these great Cobb County restaurants before or after the show.

For dinner-and-show packages, please visit encoreatlanta.com/offers.

4300 Paces Ferry Road S.E. Atlanta, GA 30339

call for reservations (404)205-8255 | www.pacesandvine.com

HALF-OFF WINE BOTTLE SUNDAYS Join us Sundays for half-priced bottles of wine! Choose from our extensive wine list and toast to a weekend well spent.

Treat yourself!

HOURS

Monday: 11am - 9pm Tuesday-Friday: 11am - 10pm Saturday 10am - 10pm Sunday: 10am - 9pm Limited Bar Menu: 3pm - 5pm Sat/Sun Brunch: 10am - 3pm

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THE ENCORE ATLANTA [COBB COUNTY] DINING GUIDE dinner (both have gluten-free options) plus their All-American Sunday dinner: a lobster boil. Order ahead to ensure availability, Vinings Jubilee, 4300 Paces Ferry Road, 770.801.0069, sohoatlanta.com.

SAGE WOODFIRE TAVERN is best known for their hickory and oak wood fire grill preparations of an assortment of marketfresh seafood, hand-cut steaks, chops, and chicken. Sage also features a wide variety of gourmet salads and unique pastas. The quality and innovation of their dishes, as well as the relaxing ambiance and uplifting nightly entertainment are what guests have come to expect when dining at Sage.

3050 Windy Hill Rd. SE, at the busy intersection of Powers Ferry and Windy Hill, 770-955-0940, sagewoodfiretavern.com/ windy-hill SOHO — American-style bistro offers fish and seafood, beef, game and poultry, with gluten-free lunch and dinner options, plus their specially-priced Cobb Energy Centre theater menu will get you in and out with plenty of time to make the performance; just show your tickets to your server.

Different weekly “wine and tapas” flights debut each Wednesday night. Lunch,

ITALIAN CRISPINA — Neapolitan style ristorante and pizzeria in Vinings. Pizza dough is naturally leavened, never frozen, and pastas are made freshly daily. 3300 Cobb Parkway SE, Unit 208, 678-426-7149, crispinaatlanta.com.

MEXICAN CINCO – Authentic, Latin-infused Mexican cuisine served in a setting that is designed to put a contemporary twist on Mexico’s culture. Unique menu offers an upscale variety of items that are carefully prepared from scratch, using only the finest ingredients. Fire-roasted salsa is made fresh several times a day and their signature guacamole is always made to order. Wide selection of tequilas from moderately priced to, well — check out their $100 margarita, “perfect for any occasion,” they say. 2851 Akers Mill Rd SE, 770-952-5550, cincorestaurants.com

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SOHO’s Painted Hills short rib tacos, black pepper mustard, caramelized onions, cilantro sauce in potato shell.

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3101 Cobb Parkway, 770.612.3311, copelandsatlanta.com.

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3050 Windy Hill Rd SE, Atlanta, GA 30339 | Phone: (770) 955-0940 | sagewoodfiretavern.com/windy-hill Private Dining and Banquets

Celebrating Cobb Energy Centre Patrons and the Arts

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