2018 Backstage at the Geffen Tribute Journal

BACKSTAGE at the GEFFEN Saturday, May 19, 2018 HONORING

DICK VAN DYKE

LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA

DISTINCTION IN THEATER AWARD

EDUCATION IMPACT AWARD

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Lin-Manuel Miranda, a Pulitzer Prize, Grammy, Emmy and Tony Award-winning composer, lyricist and actor, will receive the Education Impact Award. Miranda is the creator and original star of Broadway’s Tony Award-winning Hamilton and In the Heights. His additional Broadway credits include Bring It On: The Musical (co-composer/co-lyricist, Tony Award nomination for Best Musical) and West Side Story (2009 revival, Spanish translations).

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A 2015 MacArthur Foundation Award recipient, Miranda composed songs for Disney’s Moana (2018 Grammy Award; 2017 Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for Best Original Song). He has actively supported the relief efforts in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria in September 2017, creating the benefit single “Almost Like Praying.” He also partnered with Ben Platt on the charity single “Found/Tonight” to benefit the March for Our Lives Initiative. His television and film credits include the forthcoming Mary Poppins Returns (in theaters Christmas Day 2018), Saturday Night Live (2017 Emmy Nomination, Guest Actor), Sesame Street, The Electric Company, House, DuckTales, Curb Your Enthusiasm, 200 Cartas and The Odd Life of Timothy Green.

Dick Van Dyke is one of the most beloved performers in show business history, with a decades-long career that has earned him five Emmy Awards, a Tony, Grammy and SAG Lifetime Achievement Award, and most recently, a Britannia Award for Excellence in Television from BAFTA Los Angeles. Though his career began in 1954, it was his 1961 sitcom, The Dick Van Dyke Show, which solidified his superstar status. Considered one of the most cherished sitcoms of all time, the show garnered three Emmy Awards for Van Dyke for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series and four for Outstanding Comedy Series. In 1961, Van Dyke starred in Broadway’s Bye Bye Birdie, for which he won a Tony Award for his portrayal of Albert F. Peterson, a role he reprised two years later on film. In 1964, he starred opposite Julie Andrews in Walt Disney’s blockbuster film Mary Poppins, delighting audiences around the world with his performance of the Academy Award®-winning song “Chim Chim Cher-ee.”

DICK VAN DYKE DISTINCTION IN THEATER AWARD

Since then, Van Dyke has entertained generations of fans in the classic films Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Comic, Dick Tracy and the Night at the Museum franchise, and on stage in the national tours of The Music Man and Damn Yankees. On television, he introduced the character Dr. Mark Sloan in Jake & The Fatman and starred in its spin off series, Diagnosis: Murder. Recently, he authored two best-selling books, My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business and Keep Moving: And Other Tips and Truths About Living Well Longer, and joined legendary comedy nonagenarians Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks and Norman Lear in the HBO documentary If You’re Not In The Obit, Eat Breakfast.

Van Dyke will return to the big screen this holiday season in the eagerly-awaited Mary Poppins Returns, alongside Emily Blunt, Meryl Streep and Lin-Manuel Miranda, and can be seen around Los Angeles playing music from his new album, “Step (Back) In Time,” with his six-piece jazz band and acapella quartet, The Vantastix.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Howard Tenenbaum CHAIRMAN

Susan Mallory

Frank G. Mancuso

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CHAIRMAN EMERITUS

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Ron Meyer Leslie Moonves

Miranda Tollman

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SECRETARY

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CHAIR EMERITUS

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Matt Shakman

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

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Richard Sherman

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Distinction in Theater Award “My life has been a magnificent indulgence.”

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Contratulations to one of the most talented composers, lyricists, playwrights, and actors of our time LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA EDUCATION IMPACT AWARD

Chim chim-in-ey, chim chim-in-ey Chim chim cher-oo!

You do what you like, and we like what you do.

Contratulations to one of Hollywood’s most beloved stars DICK VAN DYKE DISTINCTION IN THEATER AWARD

We’re proud to join The Geffen Playhouse in honoring

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Dick Van Dyke

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We are pleased to join the Geffen Playhouse in honoring

LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA & DICK VAN DYKE Kate Capshaw & Steven Spielberg

A big thanks to Regina and her team for making Backstage such a success!

Loretta & Victor Kaufman

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Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is the only word to describe how excited we are to be a part of honoring Dick Van Dyke and Lin-Manuel Miranda!

We will tell our children the story of tonight‌

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We congratulate Lin-Manuel Miranda on the incredible work he has done through his Hamilton Education Initiative, #EduHam; and we congratulate Dick Van Dyke for over 1 billion laughs sold!

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TO LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA We so appreciate your generous support of the Geffen Playhouse....

A huge Thank You from the bottom of our hearts!!�

Pamela Robinson & Robert Hollander

LOUISE & BRAD EDGERTON Congratulate the Geffen Playhouse for their commitment to stage new plays.

THESE NEW PLAYS HAVE RECEIVED SUPPORT FROM THE EDGERTON FOUNDATION: 2007 Time Stands Still by Donald Margulies

2013 Outside Mullingar by John Patrick Shanley

2008 Farragut North by Beau Willimon

2015 Switzerland by Joanna Murray-Smith

2008 Equivocation by Bill Cain

2016 Big Sky by Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros

2009 The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity by Kristoffer Diaz

2016 Icebergs by Alena Smith

2010 Break of Noon by Neil LaBute

2017 Actually by Anna Ziegler

2010 Good People by David Lindsay-Abaire

2017 The Legend of Georgia McBride by Matthew Lopez

2010 By the Way, Meet Vera Stark by Lynn Nottage

2017 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York City by Halley Feiffer

2010 Stage Kiss by Sarah Ruhl 2011 Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie by Alan Alda 2011 Rapture, Blister, Burn by Gina Gionfriddo

2017 Chasing Mem’ries A Different Kind of Musical

by Josh Ravetch

2012 Build by Michael Golamco

2017 Skeleton Crew by Dominique Morisseau

2013 Death of the Author by Steven Drukman

2018 Our Very Own Carlin McCullough by Amanda Peet

Lin-Manuel, Congratulations on receiving the Education Impact Award.

Best wishes and continued success!

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Congratulates

Dick Van Dyke on receiving the Distinction in Theater Award

I am honored to serve on the Board of the Geffen Playhouse.

We applaud everyone at the Geffen Playhouse and especially their superb Education and Community Engagement programs.

Heartfelt congratulations to honorees Lin-Manuel Miranda on receiving the Education Impact Award and Dick Van Dyke on receiving the Distinction in Theater Award.

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Congratulations to Lin-Manuel Miranda & Dick Van Dyke!

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Congratulations

LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA & DICK VAN DYKE A heartfelt thank you for supporting our beloved Geffen Playhouse.

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Dick, Congratulations on receiving the Distinction in Theater Award.

A well-deserved honor!

Our best wishes,

Cindy & Alan Horn

BRAVO!

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K PERIOD MEDIA You represent the best of human kindness, philanthropy, compassion and grace.

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Congratulates

Lin-Manuel Miranda on receiving the Education Impact Award

We are proud to support the Geffen Playhouse, and congratulate tonight’s most excellent honorees, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Dick Van Dyke.

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“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.� —Anatole France

Lin-Manuel and Dick, You both are the ultimate in not only acting, dreaming, planning but, most importantly believing.

Congratulations on honors so well deserved.

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Our profound gratitude to CITY NATIONAL BANK for your outstanding leadership, generosity and partnership.

We’r e p r o u d t o b e a p a r t o f t h e G e ff e n P l ay h o u s e f a m i l y a n d c o n g r at u l at e t o n i g h t’s h o n o r e e s Lin-Manuel Miranda and D i c k Va n D y k e

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LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA & DICK VAN DYKE and thank them for their support of the Geffen Playhouse!

Congratulations to

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Dick Van Dyke

DISTINCTION IN THEATER AWARD

...and to the Geffen Playhouse for its Continued Successes

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CONGRATULATIONS!

LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA ON RECEIVING THE EDUCATION IMPACT AWARD

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With love and gratitude to everyone at

AUDI OF AMERICA For your awesome support and generosity not just this year but for an incredible 13 years!

Heartfelt thanks to our Board Chair

HOWARD TENENBAUM for your guidance, generosity and leadership.

Dick, Then. Now. Forever.

A talent. A mentor. A mensch.

In a word, you’re VANTASTIC. Congratulations!

All our love,

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To our Friends at The Geffen Playhouse and to this year’s esteemed and talented honorees

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There is no place like the Geffen Playhouse! We salute your outstanding contributions to theater and to the greater Los Angeles community.

With admiration,

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With love and gratitude to everyone at

AUDI OF AMERICA For your awesome support and generosity not just this year but for an incredible 13 years!

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Thanks to the Geffen Playhouse for all the great work they do onstage and in the community!

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To all of the extraordinary people at

CITY NATIONAL BANK Thank you for everything you do to support and propel forward the mission and programs of the Geffen Playhouse Year after Year (for 22+ years now!) We couldn’t do this without you.

Our profound gratitude to CITY NATIONAL BANK foryour outstanding leadership, generosity and partnership.

Donna McKenna & Flynn Chernos congratulate tonight’s honorees

LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA EDUCATION IMPACT AWARD and

DICK VAN DYKE DISTINCTION IN THEATER AWARD

The Geffen Playhouse Board thanks 2018 Backstage at the Geffen Honorary Co-Chairs Barbra Streisand & James Brolin Mellody Hobson & George Lucas Katie McGrath & J.J. Abrams Cindy & Alan Horn Ann & Jim Gianopulos Loretta Everett Kaufman & Victor Kaufman Barbara & Richard Sherman Madeline & Bruce Ramer Fay & Frank Mancuso Kelly & Ron Meyer Lyn & Norman Lear Carl Reiner Mel Brooks Quincy Jones, Jr.

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Lin-Manuel Miranda & Dick Van Dyke on their inspirational contributions to the entertainment industry

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Congrats to Lin-Manuel, Dick and the Geffen.

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Congratulations to

LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA & DICK VAN DYKE Thanks to the Geffen Playhouse Board and staff for developing the Geffen Education & Community Engagement programs, enriching the community’s educational experience and providing a spark for new creativity.

And, with fond memories for the man who made it all possible, our great friend and Geffen Playhouse Founder

GIL CATES, SR. Chancellor Emeritus Charles E. & Judy Young

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The Geffen Playhouse Board of Directors offers our heartfelt gratitude to

LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA & DICK VAN DYKE for allowing us to honor you!

“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.� -Plato We celebrate the humanity, humor and dignity that Dick Van Dyke and Lin-Manuel Miranda have contributed to our musical lives.

With gratitude,

Dan, Hilary and Annika Patton

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With much love and gratitude to you.

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the Geffen Playhouse

Congratulations to tonight’s honorees,

LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA & DICK VAN DYKE for all you have accomplished and created, and all the lives you have touched, including ours.

Thrilled to be supporting theater in L.A., we love the Geffen Playhouse!

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Cheers to the honorees!

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Gil, Elizabeth, Gemma & Isla Cates proudly congratulate

LIN-MANUEL & DICK On their honors tonight, and for their inspiration and commitment to the power of the arts, and support of the Geffen Playhouse.

To David Geffen, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Dick Van Dyke, Thank you for all you do to support theater and the arts. We are forever grateful. Love,

Rita Wilson & Tom Hanks

Thank you to our

GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Your leadership, loyalty and guidance has enabled us to expand our arts and outreach programs to reach more than 15,000 community members with the gift of performing arts each year.

As patrons of the Geffen Playhouse, we honor you both tonight, and respectfully and happily state for all to hear and applaud, “You Have Not Thrown Away Your Shot!”

You both have brought, and continue to bring, happiness and laughter to all who view your talented efforts. We say, “Thank You,” and “L’Chaim – To Life!”

May your lives continue to be long and healthy!

Joanne & Ken Weinman

Gil will always be backstage...

Congratulations to the staff, performers and honorees that have supported his dream of bringing live theater to all in our community.

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Congratulations to this year’s honorees:

LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA & DICK VAN DYKE and the Geffen Playhouse for its Education and Community Engagement efforts!

Cathy & Shel Bachrach

CONGRATULATIONS to the Geffen Playhouse on the wonderful job you are doing to provide so many deserving children in Los Angeles with all the joys of the theater.

With Admiration,

Linda Janger

Our thanks to the wonderful group at the Geffen Playhouse, that introduces so much talent to inspire so many students to enjoy the arts.

Audri & Stan Tendler

On behalf of the staff of the Geffen Playhouse, we would love to thank the

ADVISORY BOARD for being the most generous and committed group for which any non-profit could hope.

We appreciate your tremendous dedication and leadership.

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SALUTES THE GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE’S

2018

BACKSTAGE HONOREES

EDUCATION IMPACT AWARD &

DICK VAN DYKE DISTINCTION IN THEATER AWARD

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The Geffen Staff and Board of Directors would love to thank 2018 Backstage at the Geffen Host

AISHA TYLER, AND ALL THE AMAZING ARTISTS WHO GRACE OUR STAGE.

Congratulations to this year’s honorees,

LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA & DICK VAN DYKE On their past and future accomplishments.

May they continue Onward and Upward with the Arts!

Eileen & Harold Brown

Thank you to

DAN IONAZZI & DARREN REZOWALLI for your stunning job lighting Backstage at the Geffen

The Geffen Playhouse staff and Board humbly thank Backstage at the Geffen Committee Co-Chairs

Adi Greenberg Loretta Everett Kaufman Linda Bernstein Rubin

LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA & DICK VAN DYKE Gentlemen like you are few such amazing actors and creators Because of you two we’re never blue Congratulations!

Manuela, James and David Goren

Thank you Dick Van Dyke & Lin-Manuel Miranda for being such a magical part of our lives.

Each of you have influenced the world in an exceptional way.

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Thank you Geffen Playhouse for all you do for our community!

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We congratulate this year’s Backstage at the Geffen honorees,

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Whether watching the Dick Van Dyke Show growing up or tuning in to a PBS program from the White House in 2009 where a young Lin-Manuel Miranda was trying out his poetry about “Hamilton”— for the president—we are thrilled to attend the Backstage at the Geffen honoring two prolific icons who continue to engage, inspire, and give back to our country on a daily basis.

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With deep appreciation to

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Thank you to our partners at the

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We are grateful for your support, collaboration and expertise in the arts and in education.

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We still think of you when we walk in the door every day.

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