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2016-17 PETER RABBIT TALES March 19, 2017 ™

THE WAILIN’ JENNYS March 23, 2017 ARLO GUTHRIE RUNNING DOWN THE ROAD TOUR April 7–8, 2017 SLEEPING BEAUTY April 23, 2017 ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL April 28, 2017

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Since 1991, Irvine Barclay Theatre has been a home to powerful performances that move, touch and inspire audiences of every generation.

The events featured in this program book offer a stimulating array of entertaining programs of the highest artistic quality. Whether sampling audacious family programming of Peter Rabbit™ Tales and Sleeping Beauty or enjoying the great music of The Wailin’ Jennys, Arlo Guthrie and Asleep at the Wheel, all part of the Barclay’s inaugural American Roots & Folk Series, the Barclay’s adventurous music and family-friendly events always leave a lasting impression.

As always, we are indebted to all who help us maintain the Barclay, a unique community resource: our staff and our Board of Directors; our public partners – the City of Irvine and UCI; and you, the audience. Your continued contribution supports the programs we present and allows us to serve you and the entire community.

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PETER RABBIT TALES ™

March 19, 2017 | Cheng Hall This performance is presented without an intermission.

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Featuring Enchantment Theatre Company Story adapted by Jennifer Blatchley Smith, Leslie Reidel and Landis Smith

Based on the original Peter Rabbit Books™ by Beatrix Potter By arrangement with Frederick Warne & Co Limited, a Penguin Books Limited company Music by Charles Gilbert Director Leslie Reidel

Production Designer David Russell Choreographer Scott McPheeters

Lighting Designer David O’Connor

Narration Performed by Susan Sweeney

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THE ENSEMBLE Katie Adkins: Benjamin Bunny, Puppeteer

Trevor Cahill: Tommy Brock, Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, Old Mrs. Rabbit, Puppeteer Erin Carney: Flopsy Bunny, Puppeteer Bob McMahon: Mr. Tod, Puppeteer

Patrick Murray: Old Mr. Bouncer, Squirrel Nutkin, Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, Puppeteer Arielle Pina: Peter Rabbit

Logan Foy: Touring Technical Director This production has been made possible in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts that believes that a great nation deserves great art.

CAST AND CREW Katie Adkins (Ensemble) is a 2015 graduate of Temple University in Philadelphia, PA with a B.F.A. in Dance Education. She performed in numerous works with the dance department including the work of Andrea Miller’s Wonderland, and was a company member with female tap ensemble The Lady Hoofers. Special thanks to Merián Soto, Kun-Yang Lin and the rest of Temple’s esteemed faculty for all of their knowledge and wisdom—and not to be forgotten is Ms. Charlotte Hafer. Thank you to Enchantment Theatre Company for the opportunity to hop across the country.

Trevor Cahill (Ensemble, Touring Company Co-Manager) is thrilled to return to Enchantment’s production of Peter Rabbit™ Tales! After touring the eastern U.S. and delighting audiences with this fun story, Trevor is eager to bring the show to viewers all over the country. As a Philadelphiabased actor, Trevor has worked on numerous productions, but none quite as magical as this! Regional: The Rocky Horror Show Live! (BrainSpunk Theater), One Evening at St. Lucia’s (Luke Allen Productions), Till Divorce Do Us Part (Society Hill Playhouse) and Tony ‘N’ Tina’s Wedding (Count Basie Theatre). A tremendous thanks to all who have contributed to this incredible journey!

Erin Carney (Ensemble, Touring Company Co-Manager) has been a proud member of Enchantment Theatre Company since 2014. She is a founding performer of their Enchantment Everywhere outreach tours, and was on their 2014–2015 national tour of The Adventures of Harold and the Purple Crayon. Erin got her B.F.A. in Theatre and has studied classical acting and multi-disciplinary performance in Philadelphia, London and Liverpool. She is a 2013 alumni

of the Headlong Performance Institute, has performed in various productions in the Philadelphia Fringe Festival since 2009, the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts since 2013, and recently premiered her own work in the Philadelphia Solow Festival in 2016. She is grateful to be able to share stories and would like to thank Enchantment for so many opportunities to play.

Bob McMahon (Ensemble) is thrilled to be making his Enchantment Theatre debut with Peter Rabbit™ Tales as well as embarking on his first national tour! Bob holds a B.F.A in Musical Theater from The University of the Arts.

A Philadelphia-based actor, he was most recently seen in the award-winning production of Liberty to Go to See (New Freedom Theatre) and Mauritius (Stagecrafters Theater).

It is his distinguished pleasure to be working with such wonderful and talented artists on this production, as well as sharing this timeless story with you! bobmcmahonjr.com

Patrick Murray (Ensemble) is thrilled to take Peter Rabbit’s story on the road with Enchantment Theatre Company!

A graduate of Temple University’s musical theater and acting program, he has worked in and around Philadelphia as an actor, teaching artist and choreographer. Recent credits include Sister Act (Walnut Street Theatre), Mary Zimmerman’s adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey, Anything Goes (Temple University), and he recently made his directorial debut with Center Stage Productions and a cast of thirty awesome children with Pasek and Paul’s James and the Giant Peach Jr. Many thanks to ETC for this awesome opportunity and to his family, friends, and teachers for inspiring and fueling his journey as a citizen artist.

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Arielle Pina (Peter Rabbit) is a Philadelphia-based artist hailing from Boston, MA. She explores topics of equality with collaborators of many disciplines to create a cohesive, diverse body of work. She received her B.F.A. from The University of the Arts, and received The Nadia Chilkousky Nahumck Award for Creativity and Dance-Making. She also attended the Headlong Performance Institute, a post baccalaureate in hybrid performance. Since graduating, she has shared her work at dance venues and film festivals in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, San Francisco, Belgium and Paris. She is excited to be joining Peter Rabbit™ Tales, a story she has cherished since she was a toddler.

Logan Foy (Touring Technical Director) couldn’t be happier to be a part of this theatrical experience. He is a 2012 graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi. Most recently, he held the post of master electrician and lighting designer for Creede Repertory Theatre in Creede, Colorado.

His most recent lighting designs include Rodeo & Juliet, Reading! And Other Superpowers (Creede Repertory Theatre), and An Enemy of the People (Center Stage Theater).

He has also been fortunate enough to work with some amazing musical artists such as Doc Severinsen, Wynton Marsalis, Marty Stuart and Arturo Sandoval, amongst many others. He’d like to thank his parents for always believing in him in everything he does.

STAFF AND COLLABORATORS Charles Gilbert (Music) is Composer-in-Residence for Enchantment Theatre Company (ETC). This is the sixth ETC production he has composed; previous works include Harold and the Purple Crayon, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble and, most recently, The Brave Little Tailor and The Beast in the Bayou. A multi-faceted composer, writer, director and educator, Charlie was the Director of the Ira Brind School of Theater Arts at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia from 2008 to 2013, a position to which he was appointed after founding and successfully heading the UArts Musical Theater Program for nearly 20 years. He wrote music and lyrics for Gemini the Musical, which premiered at the Prince Music Theater in Philadelphia in 2004, earning a Barrymore nomination for Outstanding Original Music; it premiered in New York at NYMF in 2007. Leading Lady, created with playwright P. Seth Bauer, is the most recent of Charlie’s works for the musical stage; that project recently had an extended developmental workshop at Drexel University.

Other musicals include A Tiny Miracle, Watch The Birdie, Realities, Goosefeathers and A Is For Anything. His 1979 musical Assassins was the source of the idea for the Tony Award-winning musical of the same name by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman. Learn and hear more at www.chasgilbert.com. Charlie gratefully acknowledges the musicians who contributed to Peter Rabbit™ Tales: Harvey Price (percussion and contractor), Christopher Farrell (guitar), Douglas Mapp (bass), Jeffrey O’Donnell (oboe), Karen Schubert (horn), Ed Schultz (flute), Jon Shaw (trumpet) and Jim Hamilton of Rittenhouse Soundworks.

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Scott McPheeters (Choreographer) graduated from Dickinson College in 2005 with a B.A. in Theatre Arts and has worked as a freelance performer/choreographer in Philadelphia ever since. He is a co-director of Subcircle, a multimedia dance collective, and performs regularly with the Nichole Canuso Dance Company and Bearded Ladies Cabaret. Performance credits with Enchantment Theatre Company include Pinocchio, Beauty and the Beast, The Snow Queen, Sorcerer’s Apprentice and Cinderella. In addition to Peter Rabbit™ Tales, he has choreographed Enchantment’s productions of Aladdin and Other Enchanting Tales, The Fisherman and the Flounder, The Brave Little Tailor and The Beast in the Bayou. Independently, his choreography has been performed as a part of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival and the SoLow Festival.

David O’Connor (Lighting Designer) is a Philadelphia director, designer and teacher. He has directed or designed at the Arden, Hedgerow, Act II Playhouse and Delaware Theatre Company, among others. He was nominated for Barrymore Awards for his lighting design of Skylight and his direction of “Master Harold”…and the boys, both at Lantern Theater Company. David is a Resident Director for Philadelphia Young Playwrights and an adjunct at Temple University and University of Pennsylvania.

Leslie Reidel (Artistic Director, Resident Director) has dedicated the last 30 years of his professional life to the preservation of classical theater and the development of theater for young audiences. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Muhlenberg College and a M.F.A. from Temple University. He served as a member of the M.F.A. faculty at Temple University and was a founding member of the Professional Theatre Training Program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the University of Delaware.

His directorial credits include The Walnut Street Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, the Madison Civic Rep, the Pennsylvania, Utah, Colorado and Fort Worth Shakespeare Festivals and 12 years as the Resident Director of the Great American Children’s Theatre. His most recent creations with Enchantment Theatre Company are Ravel’s Mother Goose and Aladdin and Other Enchanting Tales, both of which premiered in 2013 and toured nationally. Other productions include the recent The Flounder and the Fisherman and The Brave Little Tailor, as well as Sylvester and the Magic Pebble; The Adventures of Harold and the Purple Crayon; Scheherazade, which premiered with The Cleveland Orchestra in 2008; and The Velveteen Rabbit.

Leslie is Professor of Theatre at the University of Delaware and a director for the Resident Ensemble Players in Newark, DE, where his recent projects have included Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Pinter’s The Homecoming and McPherson’s The Weir. In the fall of 2011, he directed a critically acclaimed production of Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes. Leslie is also a frequent guest lecturer on “Acting Shakespeare” and is a member of The International Shakespeare Conference, located in Stratford-upon-Avon.

David Russell (Production Designer). David’s varied career includes costume and scenic design, costume and property crafts, event design, project management and teaching. He is currently Assistant Professor of Scenic Design at Ohio University School of Theater. He served as Head of the Costume Crafts Technology Program and instructor of costume design at Ohio University from 2003 through 2010. David has been Production Designer for Enchantment Theatre Company for 12 years and has been responsible for the costumes, puppets and scenic designs for Mother Goose (Ma Mere L’Oye), which premiered with the Montréal Symphony; Scheherazade; and The Firebird, which performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Atlanta, Baltimore, Cleveland and Seattle Symphonies. He also designed national tours of The Velveteen Rabbit and Pinocchio. David has designed numerous productions with the REP/PTTP Company at the University of Delaware, including set designs for Macbeth; Angels in America; Hayfever; Travesties; Ah, Wilderness! and The Mousetrap, for which he also designed the costumes, and costume designs for The Importance of Being Earnest and Tartuffe. Other costume design work includes A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Julius Caesar and The Tempest at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. Additional credits include costume designs for The Pittsburgh Public Theater and TheaterWorks in Hartford, CT and event design and project management for LIV Design and Design ETC in New York City for the International Toy Fair. In addition to his design work, David has been on staff at The Santa Fe Opera for 18 years, where he has served as the Master Craftsperson in the prop shop. David received his B.F.A. from Ohio University School of Theater and his M.F.A. from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Website: cdavidrusselldesign.com

Jennifer Blatchley Smith (Artistic Director, Literary and Education) studied writing and theater at Bennington College. For the last 30 years, she has co-created and performed in over 20 original productions presented around the United States and abroad. As a founding member of Enchantment Theatre Company, Jennifer created roles as diverse as the Broom in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and Beauty in Beauty and the Beast. She performed in Enchantment productions at Lincoln Center and the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York; the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.; and the Annenberg Center, the Kimmel Center, and the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. She has traveled to Asia six times with Enchantment productions. Her most recent roles have been in Enchantment’s newest symphony production, Mother Goose, as well as The Firebird and Scheherazade. Her recent co-creations with Enchantment’s artistic team are Aladdin and Other Enchanting Tales, which premiered in 2013 and toured nationally; Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, which toured nationally 2011–2012; The Adventures of Harold and the Purple Crayon, which toured nationally 2009–2011; Scheherazade, which premiered with The Cleveland Orchestra in 2008; and The Velveteen Rabbit, which toured

nationally 2007–2009 and 2012–2013. She is a co-creator of Enchantment’s newest program, Enchantment Everywhere, which brings high quality, portable productions into schools and community venues in the Greater Philadelphia Area.

Recent Enchantment Everywhere productions are The Fisherman and the Flounder, The Brave Little Tailor and The Beast in the Bayou.

Landis Smith (Artistic Director, Production) studied theater with Jewel Walker at Carnegie-Mellon University and with Jacobina Caro at Webster University Conservatory in St. Louis. He began performing magic at the age of six and studied violin and voice beginning at the age of nine.

His love of theater, music and the art of illusion led to the founding of Enchantment Theatre Company in 1979. As a founder and performer with Enchantment, Landis has created, produced and performed in productions in America and in the Far East. In 1985, Landis and Enchantment collaborated with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra to premiere The Symphony and the Sorcerer, the first of a series of programs introducing young people to the magic of symphonic music. Since then, Landis has appeared with major orchestras nationwide, including the premiere of Enchantment’s theatrical adaptation of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade with The Cleveland Orchestra in 2008. Landis appeared with the Boston Pops on their annual holiday PBS television special, which aired for five years. He has performed in Enchantment symphonic productions of The Firebird, Cinderella, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and Mother Goose with the Philadelphia, Baltimore, Atlanta, Montreal and Seattle symphonies, among others. Landis collaborated in the creation of Enchantment’s most recent national touring productions of Peter Rabbit™ Tales, Aladdin and Other Enchanting Tales, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, The Adventures of Harold and the Purple Crayon and The Velveteen Rabbit. He toured in the Far East six times with Enchantment, performing in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore. Landis is a co-creator of Enchantment’s newest program, Enchantment Everywhere, which brings professional, portable productions to students and family audiences around the Greater Philadelphia area.

Recent Enchantment Everywhere productions include The Fisherman and the Flounder, The Brave Little Tailor and The Beast in the Bayou. Landis has been an adjunct professor of theater at Muhlenberg College since 2012.

Susan Sweeney (Narrator) has been a voice/speech/text/ dialects coach to professional theatres for the past thirtyfive years, among them, the Guthrie Theater, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Madison Repertory Theatre, Skylight Opera Theatre, Philadelphia Drama Guild, Walnut Street Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, Virginia Stage Company, and the Colorado, Illinois, Utah, Sedona and Oregon Shakespeare Festivals. In 2006, she was dialect coach for Francesca Zambello’s production of Show Boat, which featured a cast of 85 singer-actors at the Royal Albert Hall in London. From 2001 until 2013, Susan served as Head of Voice and Text, coaching more than 40 productions at

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American Players Theatre. She was on the faculty of the Professional Theatre Training Program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee from 1981 to 1989, and then moved with the program to University of Delaware, where she taught until joining the faculty of the Department of Theatre and Drama at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2003.

She is now a UW-Madison professor emerita. Susan has acted and sung for many years at such theaters as the Utah Shakespearean Festival, Dallas Theater Center, Cleveland’s Great Lakes Theater, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, the International Classical Theatre and the Skylight Theatre, playing such roles as Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd, Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, Grace in Faith Healer, Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Paulina in Death and the Maiden, Goneril in King Lear, Linda Loman in Death of a Salesman, Mother Courage in Mother Courage and in several rounds of Love Letters with husband William Leach and Daniel J. Travanti. She played Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit at American Players Theatre in 2011, Dottie in Forward Theater’s Good People in 2013 and Jesse 2 in Next Act Theatre’s 2014 production of Three Views of the Same Object. Susan’s recorded voice is heard as the Story Lady and all character voices in Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, The Snow Queen, Pinocchio, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble and The Velveteen Rabbit on all national tours and resident Philadelphia runs for Enchantment Theatre Company. She is a voice-over artist, a regular voice on Wisconsin Public Radio’s Chapter a Day, and also a consultant to various professional voice users, including clergy, politicians, teachers, motivational speakers and toastmasters.

OUR MISSION Enchantment Theatre Company exists to create original theater for young audiences and families. We accomplish this through the imaginative telling of stories that inspire, challenge and enrich our audience onstage and in the classroom. In doing so, we engage the imagination and spirit of our audience until a transformation occurs and the true grace of our mutual humanity is revealed.

ABOUT THE COMPANY Enchantment Theatre Company has produced original theater for school groups and families since 2000, when it was established as a non-profit arts organization in Philadelphia. The company presents only original work based on classic stories from children’s literature, using its signature blend of masked actors, pantomime, magic, largescale puppets and original music. Building on the more than 30 years of theatrical experience of its artistic directors, Enchantment has quickly become known for high quality imaginative productions, not only in its home city but throughout the United States and the Far East.

Enchantment has toured its original productions all over the world, appearing each year in more than 30–40 states.

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as Lincoln Center in New York and the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, as well as in small town high school auditoriums and even performance tents. In Philadelphia, Enchantment has appeared at the Kimmel Center and the Annenberg Center. The company has toured the Far East six times, performing in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore. Enchantment has also shared the stage with more than 65 orchestras nationwide in its special symphonic works that pair great stories with great music for the benefit of school and family audiences.

DIRECTOR’S NOTE The work of Enchantment Theatre Company is transformational. We are committed to creating theater pieces that shift the very nature and substance of both audience and performers. Our devices are as old as the theater itself—older in fact. Masks, puppets, music and illusion are the mystical tradecraft of pre-historic shamans and priests who could heal the body and soul. These workers of magic became the actors of ancient Greece whose purpose was to unfold the nature of being a human being with a wildly diverse audience—citizen, slave, rich and poor discovered the essence of their humanity in the company of one another in numbers sometimes reaching 30,000 souls.

We of Enchantment Theatre Company are the heirs to this great work. Our mission is to engage the imagination and spirit of the audience until a transformation occurs and the true grace of our mutual humanity is revealed—not one time but each and every time that we perform. This is a mighty task!

Although many of our Enchantment Theatre productions are fable-based, the extraordinary catalogue of children’s literature has been a remarkable treasure chest filled with tales that are particularly well suited to our mission. In that regard, no author (and illustrator) is more valuable than Beatrix Potter and her remarkable creation, Peter Rabbit. Our Peter is the “reluctant hero” and in that regard, we can all identify with him as he carries us along on his journey of startling self-discovery and transformation.

Although he is terrified, Peter finds that he must answer the call of Benjamin Bunny and by doing so he must confront his own past and, in a sense, re-invent himself. On his journey, he finds strength where there was weakness, courage where there was fear and compassion where there was indifference. Peter’s saga of physical and spiritual transformation reaches deep into the center of those issues that are so perplexing for children around the world.

Children wonder: how can they make their world a better and safer place to play in? As Peter wrestles with that question, and discovers his true place in his family and little community, the universal struggle over faithfulness, courage and love is brought into bold relief. He and his comrades help us all see ourselves with greater clarity and freedom.

This is the essence of the work of Enchantment Theatre. Let your imagination work as you join us on the magical journey of Peter Rabbit™ Tales.

— Leslie Reidel, Resident Director

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: BEATRIX POTTER

ADAPTING PETER RABBIT FOR THE STAGE

Beatrix Potter is known throughout the world for her beloved animal characters and inventive tales. The particular pleasure of her stories is their truthfully humorous observation of animals and celebration of the natural world. She combined exquisite drawings with imaginative, witty and highly original story-telling.

But who was Beatrix Potter?

When Enchantment Theatre Company considered adapting Beatrix Potter’s tales to the stage, it was the stories featuring Peter Rabbit that immediately came to mind. Peter was Ms. Potter’s first and most beloved character and he and his family appear in a number of the tales. Peter is both a wild rabbit, who needs to survive the dangers of forest and garden, and at the same time, a curious, foolish and lovable little boy. It is due to Beatrix Potter’s skill as artist and writer that we can hold Peter as both these things. We discovered in re-reading the tales how central family was to the Peter Rabbit stories and how much the community of animals helped one another to survive and to flourish. From these themes we recognized an overarching narrative that brought the “rabbit tales” together into one dramatic whole. So, in our production of Peter Rabbit™ Tales, we draw on three of the stories: The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny and The Tale of Mr. Tod.

Born in 1866, Beatrix Potter came from an upper middleclass family and grew up in London. As a child, she was educated at home and had limited opportunities to spend time with other children. Her nursery became the home to a menagerie of pets that she and her brother Bertram collected. She observed her pets closely, studied their characteristics and drew them with great skill.

Through extended family vacations, first in Scotland and later in the Lake District, Beatrix fell in love with the English countryside. Her curiosity, artistic ability and keen observational skills led her to an interest in studying and drawing nature. As a young woman in the 1890’s, she yearned to use her talents to find her purpose in life and gain financial and personal independence from the confines of her Victorian family. She began to sell some of her drawings for greeting cards and hoped to get one of her stories published. Her first story, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, was originally written in 1893 as a letter to cheer a sick child. In 1901, she privately published a small edition of the story when she was unable to find a publisher. The book was taken up by Frederick Warne & Company in 1902 and became an instant classic. Twenty-two tales followed, with most published over the next ten years. In 1905, Beatrix’s editor, Norman Warne, asked her to marry him. Although her parents disapproved, Beatrix accepted. Tragically Norman Warne died only a few weeks later.

Within the same year Beatrix bought Hill Top Farm in the village of Sawrey in the Lake District. She spent as much time as she could there and her illustrations of the farm and village began to appear in her tales. Working with a local solicitor, William Heelis, she began to purchase properties in the area, with the intention of preserving the farms and conserving the land. In 1913, Beatrix married William Heelis and made Sawrey her permanent home. For the next thirty years they shared a passion for farming and land preservation. When Beatrix Heelis died in 1943, at the age of 77, she left over 4,000 acres of land and fifteen farms to the National Trust of England. Brilliant artist, imaginative writer, passionate naturalist and pioneer in land conservation, Beatrix Potter shared her love of nature with millions of children through her distinctively original tales and by preserving the land that inspired them.

Although Peter’s first adventure in Mr. McGregor’s garden is known to most children, his subsequent exploits are less familiar. Instead of telling the stories in a linear fashion, we begin the play when Peter Rabbit, his cousin Benjamin and his sister Flopsy are all grown up. Peter has his own garden and Flopsy and Benjamin are married with baby bunnies of their own. When the nasty badger, Tommy Brock, decides to steal the babies, Peter and Benjamin set off on an adventure to rescue them. Along the way, Peter and Benjamin recall their childhood misadventures, and we flashback to Peter’s tale—his near disastrous escapade in Mr. McGregor’s garden, and then to Benjamin’s tale—when he and Peter returned to the garden and were rescued by Benjamin’s father. Back in the present they continue on their quest, managing to avoid the dapper and dangerous fox, Mr. Tod. During their search, Peter and Benjamin are helped by the cheeky Squirrel Nutkin, and by Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, the kindly hedgehog. Peter and Benjamin are ultimately triumphant, as Peter hilariously pits the badger and fox against one another, rescuing the baby bunnies and returning them safely home.

Helping us bring the story to life are the lush designs of David Russell and the whimsically evocative music of Charles Gilbert. We are thrilled to bring the delightful world of Peter Rabbit to the stage and introduce a whole new generation to Beatrix Potter’s enchanting and enduring tales.

— Jennifer Blatchley Smith, Artistic Director, Literary and Education

Visit our Discover page at enchantmenttheatre.org/northamerican-tours/discover to learn more about Beatrix Potter and the wonderful world that inspired Peter Rabbit™ Tales.

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THE WAILIN’ JENNYS March 23, 2017 | Cheng Hall This performance will include one 15-minute intermission.

THE WAILIN’ JENNYS The Wailin’ Jennys are Nicky Mehta, Ruth Moody and Heather Masse—three distinct voices that together make an achingly perfect vocal sound.

Starting as a happy accident of solo singer-songwriters getting together for a one-time-only performance at a tiny guitar shop in Winnipeg, Manitoba, The Wailin’ Jennys have grown over the years into one of today’s most beloved international folk acts. Founding members Ruth Moody and Nicky Mehta along with New York-based Heather Masse continue to create some of the most exciting and exquisite music on the folk-roots scene, stepping up their musical game with each critically-lauded recording and thrilling audiences with their renowned live performances.

In 2004, Red House Records released The Wailin’ Jennys’ first full-length album 40 Days in the U.S. to great critical acclaim, and in 2005 it won them a Juno Award (Canadian

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combines fresh and innovative sounds with the band’s signature harmonies—a perfect mix of Americana, pop and traditional folk that is certain to be an instant classic.

Although known primarily as an acoustic outfit, The Wailin’ Jennys have a wide range of musical backgrounds that have formed their musical sensibilities. Soprano Ruth Moody (vocals, guitar, accordion, banjo, bodhrán) is a classically trained vocalist and pianist known as an accomplished, versatile singer of traditional and Celtic music and was the lead singer of Juno-nominated roots band Scruj MacDuhk.

Red House Records released her first full-length solo album The Garden in 2010 as well as her highly acclaimed followup These Wilder Things in 2013.

Mezzo Nicky Mehta (vocals, guitar, harmonica, drums, ukulele) is a classically trained dancer raised on 70’s a.m. radio. She was nominated for a Canadian Indie Music Award for her solo album Weather Vane and is a proud mother of twin boys, Beck and Finn.

Alto Heather Masse (vocals, upright bass) is a jazz voice graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, who has performed in Mark O’Connor’s Hot Swing, Darol Anger’s Republic of Strings and is a regular guest on A Prairie Home Companion. She has also toured with her own band, supporting her 2009 Red House release Bird Song. In 2013, Heather released Lock My Heart, a duo album with the legendary jazz pianist Dick Hyman.

Grammy) for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year.

Bolstered by their frequent appearances on Garrison Keillor’s public radio show A Prairie Home Companion, The Jennys exploded onto the roots music scene, performing at packed venues across the U.S. and throughout the world.

Their next CD Firecracker was a powerful follow-up to their debut album and found The Jennys stepping out of the folk realm and into the world of alt-country, pop and rock. Garnering much attention, it was nominated for a Juno Award and won a 2007 Folk Alliance Award for Contemporary Release of the Year. It charted for over 56 weeks on the Billboard charts and was followed up by their 2009 release Live at Mauch Chunk Opera House, which also spent over a year on the Billboard bluegrass charts. It captured the magic of their live performances with showstopping harmonies and dynamic instrumental solos from all three Jennys and their sideman Jeremy Penner.

In 2011, The Wailin’ Jennys joined the ranks of Lucinda Williams and Emmylou Harris, with their studio album Bright Morning Stars with award-winning producer Mark Howard. Co-produced by frequent Jennys collaborator and Juno Award-nominated David Travers-Smith, the album 12 | IRVINE BARCLAY THEATRE

With their varying backgrounds, each of the Jennys is unique in their individual expression. Together they forge a unified folk-pop sound—all delivered with the irresistible vocal power of three.

Artist Representation: Herschel Freeman Agency 7684 Apahon Lane Germantown, YN 38138 www.herschelfreemanagency.com

The City of Irvine plays an invaluable role in the successful operation of Irvine Barclay Theatre.

We thank the City for its generous support.

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ARLO GUTHRIE RUNNING DOWN THE ROAD TOUR April 7–8, 2017 | Cheng Hall This performance will include one 20-minute intermission.

FEATURING

Abe Guthrie

Keyboards/Vocals

Terry A La Berry Drums

Steve Ide

Electric Guitar

Carol Ide

Percussion/Keyboards

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ARLO GUTHRIE Arlo Guthrie has been known to generations as a prolific songwriter, social commentator, master storyteller, actor and activist. Born in Coney Island, New York in 1947, Arlo is the eldest son of Marjorie Mazia Guthrie, a professional dancer with the Martha Graham Company and founder of The Committee to Combat Huntington’s Disease, and America’s most beloved singer, writer, philosopher and artist Woody Guthrie. Arlo has become an iconic figure in folk music in his own right with a distinguished and varied career spanning over fifty years.

Growing up Guthrie, Arlo was surrounded by such renowned artists as Pete Seeger, Lee Hays, Ronnie Gilbert, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott to name only a few. Not surprisingly, Arlo drew from these influences, and he in turn became a delineative figure bridging generations of folk. He and Pete Seeger created a legendary collaboration that was sustained for over forty years. The last Pete & Arlo show was in November 30, 2013 at Carnegie Hall, only a few months before Pete passed away at the age of 94.

In 1965, a teenaged Guthrie performed a “friendly gesture” that proved to be fateful. Arlo was arrested for littering, leading him to be deemed “not moral enough to join the army.” Guthrie attained international attention at age 19 by recounting the true events on the album Alice’s Restaurant in 1967. The “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree,” an 18-minute and 20 second partially sung comic monologue opposing the war and the backward reasoning of authority, has become an anti-establishment anthem and an essential part of Thanksgiving on rock stations receiving worldwide airplay.

Alice’s Restaurant achieved platinum status and was made into a movie in 1969, in which Arlo played himself, by the esteemed director Arthur Penn. The year 1969 also brought Arlo to the rock festival of the ages, Woodstock.

His appearance showcased his chart-topping “Coming Into Los Angeles,” which was included on the multi-platinum Woodstock soundtrack and movie.

Beginning the seventies with a number of albums for Warner Bros., Guthrie helped set the standard for the singersongwriter genre burgeoning at the time. Perhaps the best known is Hobo’s Lullaby (1972) featuring a diverse body of work. Most notable is the definitive version of Steve Goodman’s “The City of New Orleans” that was a hit on all major charts.

Another critically acclaimed album that charted on Billboard was Amigo (1976), which includes “Massachusetts,” honored in 1981 as the official state folk song.

Taking complete creative control, Arlo left the major record label system in 1983 to fulfill his career as a truly independent artist, and established Rising Son Records, one of the first indie labels in existence. Rising Son is still in active operation serving as his record and production company. To date Rising Son Records has released over twenty titles of Arlo’s, both all new material and

re-mastered versions of his classic records including the Grammy-nominated Woody’s 20 Grow Big Songs (1991) featuring Arlo and his family, and In Times Like These (2007), recorded with the University of Kentucky Symphony Orchestra. The latest offering is Alice’s Restaurant 50th Anniversary (2016), The magic of this incredibly special tour has been captured at one of Arlo’s hometown stops at The Colonial Theatre in The Berkshires. This collection is comprised of both sets of the show, including all the very best stories from Arlo. The Anniversary show was broadcast nationwide on PBS on Thanksgiving.

In addition to his musical career, Guthrie is an accomplished actor with numerous television appearances. Arlo has had recurring roles in two major network television series (The Byrds of Paradise and Relativity), and feature films, the aforementioned Alice’s Restaurant and Roadside Prophets (1992). Arlo is the author of four children’s books and a distinguished photographer, showing his works in selected galleries.

Inspired by his parents’ activism, Arlo bought the old Trinity Church (“the” church) that is now home to The Guthrie Center and The Guthrie Foundation. Named for his parents, The Guthrie Center is a not-for-profit interfaith church foundation dedicated to providing a wide range of local and international services. The Guthrie Foundation is a separate not-for-profit educational organization that addresses issues such as the environment, health care, cultural preservation and educational exchange. In 2009, Arlo was awarded the ASCAP Foundation Champion Award for making a difference through social action on behalf of worthwhile causes and demonstrating exceptional efforts in humanitarianism.

Artist Representation: 1st Mark Artists Management LLC www.1stmarkartists.com

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DAVID GONZALEZ IN

SLEEPING BEAUTY April 23, 2017 | Cheng Hall This performance is presented without an intermission.

Once there was a fairy rejected and scorned, As if she had never, ever been born

Written, Produced, and Performed by David Gonzalez Director Lenard Petit Music Daniel Kelly

Video Design Karen Jenson

Stage Management Karen Jenson Lighting Design Ken Wills Paintings Chris Amend

Featuring J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations

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Sleeping Beauty is made possible by generous commissioning grants from: The Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts, The New Jersey Performing Arts Center, The McCallum Theater, Palm Desert, CA

Thanks to: Seth Soloway, Kajsa Thuresson-Frary, Sanaz Hojreh, Peg Shuler-Armstrong, Eliza Johnson, The staff and crew at the Brooklyn Center, Lincoln Center Institute, New City Video, Gardner Arts Network. MSKCC, The New Victory Theater, and Jarret Jackson – reading The Lorax together was the spark that lit the fire.

Special thanks to my family and friends for the time, space and support to dream this dream.

Sleeping Beauty is dedicated to Robert Johnson and Joseph Campbell – two men who taught me how to see the wisdom of fairy tales.

TO ELICIT WONDER — David Gonzalez

Where do we go in our dreams? How are our lives enchanted? These questions are universal, and they are at the heart of Sleeping Beauty. I have been intrigued by this story from the first time I heard it read to me as a child. Why was the 13th fairy rejected? Why was the price of ignoring her so high? Like all great fairy tales, Sleeping Beauty poses more questions than answers, and that is the charm of the story—to elicit wonder.

I have been listening to Glenn Gould’s recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations for the past several years—with their passion, intelligence, grace and power they truly are magnificent. The first movement, the Aria, is the root of all the variations—its gentle poise and sense of longing and redemption are stunning. I wanted Sleeping Beauty to have that quality of delicate passion, precision and grace, and asked my collaborators to listen intently to it, and to make their work on the project accountable to its charms. I said to them “our Sleeping Beauty should leave the same impression on the children who see it as Bach does on us.”

The other key point of inspiration was when I was reading Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax to my friend’s young child. As I approached the end of a typically bouncy phrase, little Jarrett quite naturally spoke out the last word to complete the line—the momentum and context of the writing made it impossible not to, and thus we were reading together, joined in the conjuring of the imaginative world. That delicate intimacy of reading together with a young child, of completing rhymes and lines, touched me deeply and made me remember the joy I knew as a child and as a young parent reading to my own little ones. In that moment I knew that I wanted Sleeping Beauty to have a sense of precious interactivity and co-conjuring.

My hope is that this show is a feast for the senses with Bach and original music, video, lighting, and a script of rhymed verse that makes Sleeping Beauty a fairy tale experience that kids will remember for a lifetime.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS David Gonzalez (Writer, Producer, Performer) is a professional storyteller, poet, playwright, musician and public speaker. He is a cultural ambassador for the U.S. State Department, and is the proud recipient of the International Performing Arts for Youth Lifetime Achievement Award for Sustained Excellence. Mr. Gonzalez was named a Fellow of the Joseph Campbell Foundation and was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience for The Frog Bride. David has created numerous productions, including the critically acclaimed ¡Sofrito! with the Latin Legends Band and MytholoJazz, both of which enjoyed sold-out runs at New Victory Theater. Sleeping Beauty was co-commissioned

by the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Brooklyn College and the McCallum Theatre. David was a featured performer at the National Storytelling Festival, and has appeared for three seasons at the Royal National Theatre in London. The Man of the House was commissioned by and premiered at The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 2013.

Mr. Gonzalez’s work, Double Crossed: The Saga of the St. Louis, toured nationally, including a run at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. As If the Past Were Listening was in Lincoln Center Institute’s repertory for three seasons.

Finding North, commissioned by the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, ran at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. He co-wrote Mariel, an Afro-Cuban musical which won the Macy’s New Play Prize for Young Audiences. David is also the librettist for Rise for Freedom!, produced at the Cincinnati Opera, and wrote and produced Jimi and Mr. B, a musical commissioned by the Empire State Plaza Performing Arts Center. His poems for The Carnival of the Animals, with classical piano virtuoso Frederic Chui, premiered in 2008.

David was the host of New York Kids on WNYC for eight seasons; earned his doctorate from New York University’s School of Education; and worked as a music therapist with handicapped children for many years. David’s poetry project, City of Dreams, has been presented at colleges, festivals and theaters throughout the country. He is also the Artic Director of Crisalida Communications, a company dedicated to creating effective and lasting relationship between performing arts centers and local community groups. Online at davidgonzalez.com and crisalidacom.com

Daniel Kelly (Pianist and Composer). Award-winning composer and pianist Daniel Kelly has performed with Joe Lovano, Michael Brecker, Don Byron, Dave Liebman, Bobby Sanabria, Harvie S, Lauryn Hill, John Zorn, Oliver Lake, Candido, the Bang on a Can All-Stars and many others. In addition to several CDs he has recorded as a sideman, Daniel

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has recorded four CDs as a leader, including Duets with Ghosts, featuring his unique approach to electronic sound manipulation and sampler. His CD Portal is an improvised solo piano suite that arose from his ongoing series of improvised solo piano concerts, some of which were for audiences of 1000 people. His piano trio CD, Emerge, topped the charts in 2009. His quartet is a recipient of the Chamber Music America/ASCAP Adventurous Programming Award.

Daniel’s composition commissions include an eveninglength piece titled Wounded Splendor, a multi-media work that is part of the University of Maryland’s Performance as Politic/Artist as Activist 2009 season and the feature film score The Legend of Johnson Roebling. Daniel has been a Lincoln Center Institute Repertory artist with David Gonzalez since 2002. www.danielkellymusic.com Lenard Petit (Director) has directed and choreographed successful productions on and off Broadway. He has been the director of the Michael Chekhov Acting Studio since 1995, and has worked in theaters all over the world including Munich, Helsinki, Denmark, Amsterdam, Berlin, Zurich, London, Moscow, Madrid, Riga and Irkutsk, Siberia.

Mr. Petit has also worked in New York as an actor for 25 years with such notable directors as Julie Taymor, Richard Forman, Meredith Monk and Ping Chong. www.michaelchekhovactingstudio.com

Ken Wills (Lighting Designer) is a freelance lighting designer and an associate/assistant lighting designer based in New York City. He works across the country and internationally in theater, opera, dance, music, events/ corporate work, Madison Avenue fashion windows, and other live arts environments. Originally from the Washington, D.C. area, Ken holds a B.F.A. in Lighting Design from North Carolina School of the Arts.

Karen Jenson (Stage Manager) has collaborated with David Gonzalez on Wounded Splendor, The Carnival of the Animals, Sleeping Beauty, and The Man of the House, a commission by The Kennedy Center, which she directed. Her collaboration with New Vaudevillian Bob Berky birthed Joseph Sweet’s Circus of Longing, a community project which toured for years and is now being re-imagined as a one woman show for family audiences. She is currently producing a new season of her playful television series ...And Karen Show for Wyoming PBS, and researching the strange life of “Buffalo Bill” Cody for an upcoming project with Master Puppeteer, Siem van Leeuwen.

Artist Representation: RainArt Productions,Inc. www.davidgonzalez.com

THE WOODEN FLOOR PERFORMS

34TH ANNUAL CONCERT

JUNE 1-3, 2017 IRVINE BARCLAY THEATRE

An inspiring contemporary dance event

dancers consistently produce ground-breaking dance works that have drawn national accolades.

Tickets on sale April 1

Reserve your tickets at www.TheWoodenFloor.org/ConnectedSpaces

Based in Santa Ana, California, The Wooden Floor’s mission is to empower low-income youth from diverse backgrounds to strengthen self-esteem, self discipline, and a sense of accomplishment through dance, college and career readiness, and family programs.

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Photography by Christine Cotter ©2017 The Wooden Floor.

Experience the unexpected at this not-to-miss contemporary dance performance, featuring a dream team of the nation’s top artists, designers, and choreographers working in tandem with under-served youth. These young

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ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL April 28, 2017 | Cheng Hall This performance will include one 15-minute intermission.

Sponsored by: Elizabeth C. & Thomas T. Tierney David Sanger Drums

Jay Reynolds Horns

Connor Forsyth Piano

Katie Shore Fiddle

Josh Hoag Bass

Eddie Rivers Steel Guitar

Dennis Ludiker Fiddle/Mandolin Ray Benson Guitar

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ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL Asleep at the Wheel has seen miles and miles of Texas, and they got their kicks on Route 66. Now in their 46th year, the band continues to introduce the western swing genre to a new generation. “It’s been an amazing ride. From Paw Paw to San Francisco to Austin, we’ve seen it all,” says Wheel front man Ray Benson. “But, rest assured, there are still so many exciting projects in the works. The Wheel keeps rolling!”

It all started when Ray Benson, Floyd Domino, and Lucky Oceans, along with a Vermont farm boy named Leroy Preston, Virginian Chris O’Connell, and Gene Dobkin, a bass player and fellow classmate of Benson’s joined forces. They began with a simple goal: to play and help revive American roots music.

Asleep at the Wheel landed a gig opening for Alice Cooper and Hot Tuna in Washington, D.C. in 1970. At the height of the Vietnam War, many Americans were using their choice of music to express their stance on the conflict in Southeast Asia. “We wanted to break that mold,” said Benson. “We were concerned more with this amazing roots music, which we felt was being lost amid the politics. We were too country for the rock folks and we were too long-haired for the country folks. But everybody got over it once the music started playing.”

A year later, they were coaxed into moving to California

by Commander Cody, leader of Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen. But, the band’s big break came when Van Morrison mentioned them in an interview with Rolling Stone. The record offers started coming in and the Wheel got rolling.

The musicianship of Asleep at the Wheel has become the stuff of legends. Reuter’s pegged the Wheel as “one of the best live acts in the business.” Taking a page from Bob Wills’ book, the band has consistently toured at a national level throughout its history; with anywhere from 7 to 15 of the finest players Ray Benson could talk into jumping in the bus to play a string of dates. The alumni roster is well over 80plus members, and includes an impressive list of musicians who have gone on to perform with artists such as Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Lyle Lovett, Ryan Adams, and many more.

A quick scan of awards, such as Touring Band of the Year (Country Music Awards, 1976) and Lifetime Achievement in Performance (Americana Music Awards, 2009), not to mention near dominance of the Grammy Country Instrumental category over the years, reflects the reputation of the band’s musicianship. Ray Benson fell in love with western swing because of its unique combination of elements of American blues, swing and traditional fiddling,

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but also for its demanding musical chops. Western swing is what Benson calls “jazz with a cowboy hat,” is a thrill to hear live, and thanks in large part to the Wheel’s 40-plus years of promotion, is a living and creative genre of music today.

Over their history, Asleep at The Wheel has earned ten Grammy Awards and released more than 25 studio and live albums, and there is no sign of slowing down any time soon.

The band’s most recent release, Still the King: Celebrating the Music of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, garnered the 2016 Grammy Award for Best Recording Package. The critically acclaimed album, named one of Rolling Stone’s 40 Best Country Albums of 2015, is the latest in Asleep at the Wheel’s long-standing tradition of “keeping Western swing alive for 45 years” (Wall Street Journal). Featuring 22 acclaimed collaborations, the all-star line-up includes legends such as Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and George Strait and newcomers like The Avett Brothers, Amos Lee, Old Crow Medicine Show and many other fine talents

Throughout their four decades, the Wheel has driven the genre to the edge; explored new territories; picked up new passengers along the way and crisscrossed the country to the delight of fans and critics alike. Asleep at the Wheel has brought a fresh look and sound into 2016. Now traveling as an 8-piece band, recent additions Katie Shore (fiddle, vocals), Dennis Ludiker (fiddle, mandolin) and Connor Forsyth (keyboard, vocals) have instilled a newfound energy and their own unique style within the band. Between those Texas twin fiddles and boogie piano, you can bet you’ll be dancin’ down the aisles and swingin’ all night long when the Wheel rolls into town!

Artist Representation: Paradigm Talent Agency www.paradigmagency.com

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Gary Payne

Karen Wood

Karen Drews Hanlon

Lori Grayson

Ginny W. Hayward

Production & Facilities Manager

Helena Danovich

Development Assistant

Chief Operating and Finance Officer Artists & Contracts Manager Administration Manager Board Liaison

Lu Bauer

Box Office Manager

Josh Roberts

General Manager

Jeff Stamper Tim Owens

Associate Production Manager

Robin Darling

Patron Services Manager

Director of Marketing and Communications

Communications Assistant Program Book Editor

Christina Wang

Social Media and Outreach Marketing

Director of Development

Fatima Rizvi

Michael Halpern

Senior Development Consultant

Assistant Box Office Manager

Ingrid Strayer

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Annual Fund for

THANK

EXCELLENCE

YOU

Irvine Barclay Theatre gratefully acknowledges the generous contributions of our donors who help support the “big talent” in our “small hall.” Gifts to the Annual Fund for Excellence assist the Barclay in presenting an international roster of performers while keeping tickets reasonably priced. They also support our ArtsReach programs provided to the schools at little or no cost and “family-friendly” programming on stage. The Barclay’s mission also embraces making its beautiful facilities available to diverse community organizations, UCI, and other educational institutions.

Thank you to all of our generous donors listed here for their contributions during the previous 12 months! If you would like to join the ranks of those who make it all possible at the Barclay, you may make a donation online at www.thebarclay.org or call 949.854.4607.

PUBLIC PARTNERS

City of Irvine University of California, Irvine BRAVO BARCLAY PRESENTING SPONSOR $10,000 AND ABOVE

Allergan Foundation An Anonymous Fund of the Orange County Community Foundation Drs. Francisco and Hana Ayala City National Bank Erika Dadura-Crane and Marc Crane Robin Follman-Otta Haskell & White LLP HumanKind Philanthropic Fund Michael Kerr Toni and Terry McDonald National Endowment for the Arts William and Janice Parker Family Fund Rohl LLC – Ken and Amber Rohl Sonnet Technologies, Inc. Richard and Elizabeth Steele Fund Trisha Steele Elizabeth C. and Thomas T. Tierney 22 | IRVINE BARCLAY THEATRE 22 | IRVINE BARCLAY THEATRE

BRAVO BARCLAY PARTNER $5,000 – $9,999

Lynette and Richard Berg Bruce and Karen Cahill Gartley Charitable Foundation Fund Hyatt Regency Maui Resort and Spa New England Foundation for the Arts Salwa and Sabri Rizkalla Michelle Rohe Gary and Melanie Singer Western States Arts Federation BRAVO BARCLAY BENEFACTOR $2,500 – $4,999

Milt and Mary Ann Bower Jerry and Whitney Mandel Linda I. Smith Foundation Frank Wagner and Lynn O’Hearn Wagner Judy and Wes Whitmore BRAVO BARCLAY PATRON $1,000 – $2,499

The Beall Family Foundation Douglas Bradley Carol and Les Elliot Hyatt Regency Waikiki Beach Resort and Spa Bruce Kerr and Ann Patterson

Dr. Paul and Ellen Lee Carl Neisser Peter and Alexandra Neptune Albert and Tricia Nichols Fund Bruce and Esmeralda Ogilvie Susan Rhodes and Goran Matijasevic Tom and Barbara Roddel Chiyo and Stanton Rowe Deborah and Frank Rugani Ellen and Vasily Semeniuta Simon Foundation for Education and Housing Diane Stovall Gayle Widyolar and David Scott Majid and Sohaila Zarrinkelk ENCORE CIRCLE ENTHUSIAST $250 – $999 Oscar R. Aguirre Richard Alexander Brien Amspoker and Ellen Breitman John W. Ballantyne Robert and Delphi Ballinger Lindy Balmer Larry and Sue Ann Beaty Honorable Marian Bergeson Scott and Cheryl Berry Leia Bowers Laurie Brady and Dr. Sam Mary Watson-Bruce Clifford and Jennifer Cheng Denise Chilcote Karen and Bruce Clark Ms. Mary Cobb

John Coyne Kenneth J. Craig, Jr. Michael and Kathy Dogali Scott and Monica Duggan Roger du Plessis Peggie Fariss Paul and Sandra Findly Fredric and Aviva Forster Carol Foster Mark A. Franzen Mike Fuhr Ellen Fujikawa Ramya Harishankar and Hari Krishnamurthy Charles and Janet Henze IBM Matching Grants Program Yvonne and Damien Jordan Joanne and Dennis Keith The Kelleher Family Eung Jin Kim Bill and Carolyn Klein Dr. Martin G. Langer Vicki and Richard Lee Curtis Ling Robert D. and Pat MacDonald Terri Milder Leonard and Joalyn Mushin Reiko and Mitsuhiko Nakano Mike and Pat Noggle Orange County Community Foundation Tom and Amber Orradre Robert Parker Suzanne T. Peltason Dr. Stephen M. Rochford Joel B. Rothman Nancy Lee Ruyter Aloha Saxon

Louise Schwennesen Frances Segal and Michael Friedson Frederick Smith Nancy Smith Dorothy J. Solinger John Sorich Kia Stora Thomas and Marilyn Sutton Synchrony Financial Jennifer Szabo Law Offices of Jeri E. Tabback Urban Kitchen Group — Cucina Enoteca Marilyn and Angelo Vassos Vendini, Inc. Kathy Vickers and Jeremy Freimund Craig Wickwire Charles and Marilyn Wright

Sandra Jones Campbell Luisa Cano Harold and Eleanor Carpenter Grace Chen Rita Chenoweth Che Chereskin Deanna Choi Michael and Kate Clark Joseph L. and Kathleen Y. Coleman Nancy Cramer Frank Crance and Andrea Bouas Anahid Crecelius Madeleine and Alan Crivaro Dr. Edward Deeb Joan M. Donahue Patsy and Douglas Downs Jacolyn Dudley Alan and Rosemary Dugard David Dupre Rad and Toni Dwyer Robert and Nancy Eagan Donna Emmett David Falconer Cathie Fields Ruby Foo Roberta Fox Lisa Friend Elisabeth and Lester Fruth Heather Fuller Mary Ann Gaido Ismael Garcia David George Marcella Gilmore and Edward Muehl S. Glass Family Ben and Sandie Goelman Lawrence Goldberg Lloyd Goldwater Jeffrey Gordon Paul and Nancy Groner Sanjiv and Geeta Grover Matthew and Annemarie Hall Kim and Dennis Hampton Jim and Berri Harris Carole S. Harrison Thomas Hartman Jon Healing Barbara Helton Colin Henderson Richard and Sara Hess Dan and Nicole Honigman Dana Huff JoAnn Iles Robert Ingold

Gary and Linda Globerman Jackson Katrina Jauregui Korey Jorgensen Christina Kaoh Judy Kaufman and George Farkas Clare Kiklowicz Jeannine Kouns Kerry Krisher Charles Kristenson Arthur S. Kroll Dr. and Mrs. John Lagourgue Carter Lee Susan Leisten Benjamin and Sunny Leos Neal Littlejohn Eugene and Deanna Litwer Nancy Locke Christian and Sharon Maas Albert Martinez William McKaig Sherry McKuin Helen McMillan Sharon McNalley Kristy and Danny Melita Lauri and Mike Mendenhall Vivian Mendoza Wanda Mendoza Rob and Carolyn Merritt Mark and Jan Merryfield Dr. Frank and Mrs. Linda Meyskens Peter Milner Gabriella Miotto Nancy and William Murray Julie Nakata Huey Yann Ooi Lauren and Richard Packard Jeri Pauloski Omar and Irene Perez Edward Pope and Antoinette Olivera Donna Powell Edward and Betty Quilligan Elaine Ramsay Michael Recendez John and Sheryl Redpath Dennis Repp Cynthia Reynolds Shari Rezai Thomas Ringland Ms. Francie Rope Michael Rose and Blanca Cervantes Stephanie and Eric Rubery Charles R. Rusky Karen Salita

De Anne Sbardellati Psychiatry Schaepper Judith M. Schmidt Jack and Katharine Schoellerman Jeff and Linda Schulein Trudy Vermeer Selleck Cl Sexsmith Strybel Mr. Gordon Sheldall Dorothea Silavs Jackie Smiley John L. and Mary Smith Kathy Soderlund Paul Spas Candace Spennato Betty and Hugh Spilsbury William Spurgeon Daniel and Jeannette Stokols Robert Stopher Ingrid Strayer Richard and Jane Sungaila Paula Sweet Celia and Julio Taleisnik Michael Talens Steve Tamura Thomas Tancredi Cindy and Steven Bandel Ernestina and Charles Benson Don and Linda Dressler Michael L. and Nancy Meyer Mela and Ricardo Miledi John and Marjorie Murray Leo and Sheila Pinsky Johanna Tilley Eric Tobiessen Gary and Peranza Topjon Torlic Family Catherine and Mark Turkel Marjorie Tussing Neurocare, Inc Kathy Vickers and Jeremy Freimund Michael Voronel Raymond Ward Cathy Warner Steven and Carolyn Watanabe Kim Waterson Virginia Weddle Brian West Diane Wick Daniel and Courtney Wiercioch Richard and Barbara Wilkes Kurt Youngs Chi Zhang

NATIONAL CHOREOGRAPHERS INITIATIVE

David and Beverly Carmichael Bobbi Cox Sophia and Larry Cripe Bronny Daniels Diane Diefenderfer and David Hanlon Roger du Plessis Gale Edelberg and Bob Butnik Henry and Janet Eggers David Emmes and Paula Tomei Kay S. Faranda Cliff Faulkner and Shigeru Yaji Roberta Fox Mary and Andrew Franklin Sandy and Don French Judith A. Gorski Dr. and Mrs. Denis Gray Dana Huff Chuck Johnston Dr. Burton L. Karson Joanne and Dennis Keith

Robert Labaree and Gillian Finley Dr. Martin G. Langer Kathryn Lynch and Robert McDonnell Molly Lynch and Alan Andrews Debra Maxwell Sharon McNalley John and Margi Murray National Endowment for the Arts Carl Neisser Tom and Marilyn Nielsen Northern Trust Bank of California Anne B. Nutt Marshall Parker John and Charlene Pasko James Penrod Jody Pike Janice and Richard Plastino Dolly A. Platt, PhD Edward and Diana Putz Salwa Rizkalla

Barbara Roberts Robinson Foundation Michelle Rohe Andrew Rose Jack and Katy Schellerman Betty Schweickert Sally Anne and Don Sheridan Igal and Diane Silber Ann Sim Jackie Smiley Don and Grace Laffoon Richard and Elizabeth Steele Fund Jennifer Szabo Karen and Gary Thorne Barbara and Jack Tingley Mary Vensel White and T. Jason White William Gillespie Foundation

ENCORE CIRCLE SUPPORTER $100 – $249 Bob and Burnetta Denham Katherine Ahn Dennis and Cindy Alderson Nick and Sue Alexopoulos Robert Allgeier Patricia Allison AmazonSmile Foundation Jan Arnoldus Debbie Aslanian Rivka Barasch Shannon Barisoff Betty Barry George and Linda Bauer Shelley Beckham Sandra and William Beckman Craig Behrens Linda Berquist Cesar Betancourt Susan and Steven Bierlich Richard H. Bigelow Michael and Margaret Bodeau Suzanne Boras Seth Brindis and Stephanie Reich Scott Brinkerhoff Susan Bryant and David Gardiner The Bukaty Family Douglas T. Burch, Jr. Lisa and Robert Burnand Jeff and Cindy Busche Linda and Roland Bye

As a partner in the annual National Choreographers Initiative, Irvine Barclay Theatre is also pleased to acknowledge all those who support this important contribution to American dance.

Betty B. and Roy Anderson Betsy Andrews and Alex Moad Mrs. Alan V. Andrews Diane and Dennis Baker Ballet Barres West William H. Bardens Dr. Michael Bear Beau Corps Studio Honorable Marian Bergeson Paul Blank Theodore Bradshaw Stacie Brandt Laurie and Bart Brown

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