PRESENTS
MCCALLUM THEATRE
FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS APRIL P R ES ENT ING S P ON SO R
BENEFITING
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE DESERT
PRESENTER SPONSOR
PLATINUM SPONSORS
Annette Bloch Helene Galen Barbara & Jerry Keller Harold Matzner Cast Party sponsor
Helene Galen One night only angels
Dorothy & Melvyn Lefkowitz Bobbi & Mike Resmo GOLD SPONSORS
Donna MacMillan Denise Roberge
BILL NICHOLSON &
PRODUCER SPONSORS
The Jerome Angel Family
Elaine & Jerry Morgan
JOYCE BRANDMAN
Newman’s Own Foundation/ Arthur & Patty Newman
Leslie & Gordon Diamond
CYDNEY & BILL OSTERMAN
Barbara Fremont
Myra & Maurice Paperny
Joyce & Henry Freund
Linda & Manny Rider
Barbara & Bernie Fromm
Gladys Rubenstein
Angie & Harvey Gerber
Faye & Herman Sarkowsky
Diane & Hal Gershowitz
Arlene Schnitzer
Dr. Tim Jochen & Lee Erwin
Nina & Robert Wernick
Drs. Terri & Bart Ketover
Elle & Phil Winn
Joann McGrath LEO MILMET
DIRECTOR SPONSORS Heidi & Noam Arzt
SALLY & MORT KIRSHNER
Jean Carrus
SUSAN & BRUCE KONHEIM
Jim Casey / Integrated Wealth Management
DAVID LEE & MARK NICHOLS
Peggy Cravens
Madeline Zuckerman Marketing & Public Relations, Inc.
Desert Regional Medical Center
Susan & Don Meredith Foundation
Nancy & Dennis Ditlove
Cookie Miller
Georgia & Jerry Fogelson
Bob Pollock
Carol & Dr. Ron Fragen
Ann Ellen & Robert Rosen
SHELLI GOODMAN & BERNIE PLACK
Phyllis & Gary Schahet
Rachel & Ed Gubman
Carolyn & Don Shagrin
LITA HELLER
Annette & Leonard Shapiro
Bobbi Holland
Linda Shirvanian
JOAN HOLLAND & ELI GLASSMAN
Shelly & Ron Tamkin
James R. Houston
Judi & Peter Wasserman
DAVID KAPLAN & GLENN OSTERGAARD
Lynn & Robert Zimmer
MEDIA
DESERT BOARD OF DIRECTORS OFFICERS
Carol Fragan PRESIDENT
Keith Harwood VICE PRESIDENT
Mike Stafford VICE PRESIDENT
Barry Kaufman TREASURER
Barbara Fromm
ASSISTANT TREASURER
Joyce Wolff SECRETARY
Ed Gubman
IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT
BOARD MEMBERS
Audrey Bernstein Bob Caruso Joel Cohen Doug Donenfeld Joan Freeman Sandy Goldman Joan Kerns Joy Kravitz Don Levy Bertel Lewis Jerry Morgan Nicolette Resmo-Haroutunian Gail Scadron Sandy Seplow Nona S. Solowitz Aviva Snow Royal Taxman
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Established in 1982, the mission of JFS is to provide for the social service needs of the Jewish and general community throughout the greater Coachella Valley with a commitment to promote the well-being of people of all ages, incomes and lifestyles. Proceeds benefit Jewish Family Service of the Desert (JFS), a non-sectarian, non-profit organization that provides an array of counseling and social services to those in need regardless of age, income, ethnicity or lifestyle.
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April 24, 2014
DESERT
On behalf of the Board of Directors of Jewish Family Service of the Desert (JFS), we welcome you to the seventh annual production of One Night Only, presented by the incomparable Michael Childers. Tonight, Michael presents “Tradition: The Jewish Legacy of Broadway” in a musical retrospective of the historical and contemporary influence of the Jewish Community on musical theater. At JFS, we provide a positive influence on both the local Jewish community and the community at large. Your support tonight will enable JFS to serve nearly 5,000 men, women and children this year, including 1,700 fifth graders who will benefit from our new drug resistance education program. Our clients depend on JFS for low cost mental health counseling, substance abuse treatment, senior care and transportation, emergency financial and food assistance, and in-school counseling for local children, among other services. We are truly blessed to have the support of some of the desert’s most extraordinary leaders: Annette Bloch, Helene Galen, Barbara Keller, Harold Matzner, Barbara Fromm, and Terri Ketover. Their vision, determination and guidance have been critical to the event’s remarkable and longstanding success. Of course, thank you to Michael. The light and joy you bring each year to the McCallum stage spreads far and wide, brightening the lives of the people we serve. We are extremely grateful to all the performers who have so unselfishly volunteered their time and their talents. Last, but certainly not least, to all the individuals who worked or volunteered behind the scenes, we offer our deepest appreciation and sincere gratitude. Warmest regards,
Carol Fragen
PRESIDENT Board of Directors
Maureen Forman EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
PRODUCER
MICHAEL CHILDERS Michael Childers is one of the desert’s most successful producers of charitable fundraisers. This is the ninth production of One Night Only at the McCallum Theatre, an event he conceived and produced first in 2002, hosted by Lily Tomlin. He has raised nearly $13 million dollars for AIDS charities, museums, performing arts, and social services in Los Angeles, Santa Fe, and Palm Springs. Michael created the mixed media work for the hit Off-Broadway musical Oh! Calcutta! He was a founding photographer for Andy Warhol’s Interview and After Dark magazines. Other magazine covers include GQ, New York, TV Guide, Esquire, Los Angeles, Elle, Life, London Sunday Times Magazine, and Vogue. Michael’s photographic work is in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Palm Springs Art Museum, Chiat Day, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, Laguna Art Museum, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Las Vegas Art Museum, The Seattle Museum of Art, The San Jose Museum of Art, Scripps College Museum of Art., the Marion Center for Photographic Arts in Santa Fe, the National Portrait Gallery in London, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, the Chicago Public Library, the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and the USC Doheny Library. He has received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Hollywood Photography at the Temecula Film Festival, the Los Angeles Film Festival, the Palm Springs International Film Festival, the Provincetown Film Festival, and a Distinguished Photographer Award from the Palm Springs Art Fair. In March 2014 he received the JFS Humanitarian Award from Lily Tomlin. Michael’s star for his humanitarian work is located in front of the Palm Springs Art Museum. Visit www.michaelchildersphotography.com
HONORARY CO-CHAIR
ANNETTE BLOCH
Annette Modell Bloch was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where she lived until her marriage to Richard Bloch (the R in H&R Block). She has lived in Kansas City since her marriage and made Rancho Mirage her second home. She and Dick have three daughters, seven grandchildren, and seven great grandchildren. She is a trustee of the Palm Springs Art Museum. Annette received the Palm Springs Chamber of Commerce’s Athena Award for her commitment to helping others and also in Palm Springs, she received a Meritorious Gold Palm Star for her enduring and selfless contributions to charitable causes. The Association of Fundraising Professionals named Annette the Outstanding Philanthropist 2012 and she was given the 100 Women Humanitarian Award for 2013 from Desert AIDS Project. She established in 2013 the Annette Bloch Cancer Care Center for the Desert AIDS Project in Palm Springs. She is a great supporter of Gilda’s Club in Palm Desert. In Kansas City, as a breast cancer survivor and philanthropist, Annette is president of the R.A. Bloch Cancer Foundation and oversees the Bloch Cancer Hotline. Annette’s work on behalf of heart and cancer patients has established the Richard and Annette Bloch Heart Rhythm Center, the Richard and Annette Bloch Cancer Care Pavilion and the Richard and Annette Bloch Radiation Oncology Pavilion at the University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City, Kansas. In 2013 Annette continued her commitment to cancer patients by funding the Richard and Annette Bloch Cancer Center at Truman Medical Centers in Kansas City, Missouri.
HONORARY CO-CHAIR
HELENE GALEN
Helene Galen was born Helene Caro, in England, and she moved with her family to Los Angeles in 1958. She met her husband, Lou Galen and they were married in 1975. They had 32 happy years of marriage until he passed away in 2007. Helene had an interesting career in California, working as an Executive at Frederick’s of Hollywood, where she worked both in their advertising department and retail chain. Taking her retail experience with her, she later became vice-president and comptroller for Continental Distributors, a retail jewelry chain. Helene served on the Board of Trans World Bank in Sherman Oaks, a bank founded by her husband. They bought their Tamarisk home in 1980 from Zeppo Marx, which has been a family residence for the past 30 years. Helene has also been a member of several other Boards of Trustees including Eisenhower Hospital. While serving on the Executive Committee of the board of Tamarisk Country Club, she wrote the unique history of the early days in Palm Springs. Helene serves on the Board of Trustees at the University of Southern California, and serves on the Board of Overseers for the Keck School of Medicine and the USC Hospital. She is a member of the Councilors of the Fine Arts School where she and her husband established the Helene & Louis Galen Ceramic Studio, and the Helene Galen Intermedia Lab. The Galen’s were the major contributors to enable the building of USC’s Galen Center, a Basketball Arena that opened in 2006. She is currently on the Board of Trustees of the Palm Springs Art Museum, the McCallum Theater, the International Film Festival and has taken the helm of the Barbara Sinatra Children’s Center Board, as its president. Helene participated in its founding 28 years ago. Helene Galen has two daughters and three grandchildren.
HONORARY CO-CHAIR
Barbara Keller Barbara Keller wrote and directed plays at the North Shore Community Arts Center in Great Neck, NY, where she also served as trustee. She taught playwriting and drama at night while spending her days running a labor union for film industry script supervisors in Manhattan. Published writings include Film, Tape and TV: Where Do I Fit In? and Orgasmic Days in the South of France, a personal guide to the Cote d’Azur, where Barbara and husband, Jerry, had a home for 18 years. Barbara began a long term relationship with the Palm Springs Art Museum (PSAM) as a docent and eventually became a Trustee, chair of the Councils Committee, and serves on the Education Committee and the Executive Committee. She is past president of the Museum Associates Council and acts as chair for key Museum fundraising events. She co-chaired the PSAM’s 75th anniversary gala in March 2014. Barbara is Chairperson of the Board of the Desert AIDS Project, for which she has co-chaired six Steve Chase Awards galas. She has also served on the Board of Trustees of the McCallum Theatre and of Jewish Family Service of the Desert (JFS). Barbara is on the advisory boards of the Anti Defamation League and Sunshine Circle, connecting teenagers with Holocaust survivors. She feels privileged to share honoree status with Annette Bloch, Helene Galen, and Harold Matzner at Michael Childers’ extraordinary event benefiting JFS, One Night Only. Barbara gives kudos to Barbara Fromm and Terri Ketover, event chairs, for unselfishly donating their time and resources to this evening and to the invaluable, innumerable skills of executive producer Ken Katz. And Barbara is so appreciative of Michael Childers for his resolve to accept nothing less than excellence and triumph. What a team! What a One Night Only!
HONORARY CO-CHAIR
Harold Matzner Entrepreneur, humanitarian, and philanthropist, Harold Matzner, has made his home in the desert for more than 30 years. The owner of Palm Spring’s popular Spencer’s Restaurant and CEO of a NY/NJ-based branding, advertising and marketing company, Harold is credited with revitalizing the Palm Springs International Film Festival and founding the successful business concept of targeted “shared mail”. He revived the world famous Palm Springs Tennis Club and turned its lunchroom into Spencer’s, one of the City’s hottest seeand-be-seen restaurants. Spencer’s is named after his beloved 110-pound Siberian Husky. Harold is the Chairman of the Board of the McCallum Theatre and is presently First Vice Chairman of the Palm Springs Art Museum, and is also Chairman of the Palm Springs International Film Festival. He serves on the Board of Trustees of the Eisenhower Medical Center and Barbara Sinatra Children’s Center. Harold has been honored by the Association of Fundraising Professionals as the “Philanthropist of the Year”, by Gilda’s Club as the “Man of the Year”, by the McCallum Muses as “Man of the Year”, as “Angel of the Year” by Angel View Children’s Foundation, and by Desert Samaritans as “Samaritan of the Year”. He has been a benefactor to many other non-profits, both here and on the East coast. Among the many local charities benefiting from his philanthropic efforts are the Clinton Health Initiative, the Barbara Sinatra Children’s Center, Shelter from the Storm, AIDS Assistance Program, Desert Cancer Society, ACT for MS, Eisenhower Medical Center, Desert AIDS Project, Stroke Recovery Center, Temple Isaiah, Mizell Senior Center, Well in the Desert, FIND Food and Pegasus. Harold co-chaired the 25th Anniversary Gala of the McCallum Theatre and was an important sponsor of the 75th Anniversary Celebration of the City of Palm Springs. Harold’s star is located at the foot of his friend Sonny Bono’s statue in the heart of Palm Springs.
EVENT CO-CHAIR
Barbara Fromm Barbara Fromm has been the Event Co-Chair of Michael Childers’ production of One Night Only since 2008. Barbara and her husband of 57 years, Bernie, split their time between the communities of Palm Desert, Reading, Pennsylvania and New York City. Among the many things they share are a commitment and passion for philanthropy. Here in the desert, Barbara’s many charitable endeavors include serving on the Board of Directors of Jewish Family Service of the Desert, where she serves on the Executive Committee, co-chairs the annual Patron Party, and previously served as Vice President. She is actively involved with numerous fundraising activities with the Palm Springs Art Museum. In Pennsylvania, Barbara has served on the Women’s Board of the Reading Hospital and Medical Center, the Executive Board of the Jewish Federation of Reading, and the Board of Berks Women In Crisis, an organization committed to confronting domestic abuse issues. Her work with the Reading Hospital culminated in earning the position of Chair of the annual Garden Party for two successive years. The two day event hosts more than 2,000 guests and is one of the most prestigious events in the county. Barbara feels privileged to have worked with the brilliant and talented Michael Childers for the past seven years. She is also grateful for the opportunity to work closely with her friends and co-chairs Annette Bloch, Helene Galen, Barbara Keller Terri Ketover, and Harold Matzner in support of the critical work of Jewish Family Service of the Desert. Barbara and Bernie have instilled their charitable ethics to their three children and six grandchildren, who continue the family tradition of giving back to the communities in which they live. Barbara holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in American History and Education from Albright College.
EVENT CO-CHAIR
Terri Ketover With a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Miami, Terri’s varied professional career has included a research appointment with the University of Miami’s Mailman Center for Child Development, a nine-year term as the Executive Director of the Coconut Grove Arts Festival, and a long association with the City of Miami as a Special Consultant to the Chief of Police and City Manager. She has been officially recognized by the Florida House of Representatives and the White House for founding the “Do the Right Thing” Program, a nonprofit organization which recognizes and rewards youth for exemplary behavior and accomplishments with chapters in 53 cities throughout the United States, as well as Germany and England. While in Florida, Terri was a member of Leadership Florida, the Miami Commission on the Status of Women and numerous boards, including the Parent Resource Center for Prevention of Child Abuse, Jewish Federation Women, South Dade Jewish Community Center, and the Coconut Grove Playhouse Regional Theater. Terri moved to Rancho Mirage in 1998 with her husband, ophthalmologist Bart Ketover, and became very involved in the desert community, serving on the Jewish Family Service of the Desert Board of Directors and the Cathedral City Public Arts Commission. She is currently active in the Palm Springs Art Museum and is ViceChair of the Museum’s Annenberg Theater Council and Treasurer of the Museum Associates Council. She is also on the Board of the Desert AIDS Project and is Chair of the agency’s “100 Women” annual giving program. She was recently honored as the desert’s “Outstanding Fundraising Volunteer” at National Philanthropy Day and was the recipient of the “100 Women” Award at the 2014 Steve Chase Humanitarian Awards Gala. This is her second year as event co-chair of One Night Only and she is thrilled to be working with the esteemed Michael Childers and his stellar committee.
PRODUCER
MICHAEL CHILDERS WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY
CALVIN REMSBERG MUSIC DIRECTION & ORCHESTRATIONS
JOHN MCDANIEL EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
KEN KATZ
STAGE MANAGER
RONN GOSWICK Co-Producer
NANCY DOWNER Event Manager
ELAINE GOODMAN
Music Coordinator
WAYNE ABRAVANEL GIFT BAGS
DOUG DONENFELD TERRI KETOVER SAL MISTRETTA TOM TRUHE
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER
BYRON BATISTA
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER
Hair & Make Up Courtesy of J. Russell Salon
SUE GIVENS
VINCENT CAPPA
Graphic Design
JOY FIELDS
MARI ABRIL
Event Assistant
VEA SERNA
JIM GAZAN
LYNNETTE POOLE
Administrative Manager
ALLY SCOTT
LEE BROSNAN
Transportation Director
MARK RICHARD
JAMIELYN ANDERSON
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY
Calvin Remsberg Calvin Remsberg is known both as an accomplished actor and noted theatre director. His most recent work includes the revival of BARE, the Los Angeles premiere of Glory Days, and an unusual production of Into the Woods starring Anthony Geary, done in an abandoned warehouse in downtown Los Angeles. He directed Hello, Dolly! starring Ruth Williamson for 3-D Theatricals in Santa Ana, and Sweeney Todd for Musical Theatre West in Long Beach. He also directed the 20th Anniversary production of Sweeney Todd for Reprise! at the Ahmanson Theatre starring Kelsey Grammer, Christine Baranski, and Neil Patrick Harris. In addition, he directed the award winning West Coast Ensemble production of Sunday in the Park with George, and Interact Theatre Company’s Urinetown. In 2009, he directed David Hyde Pierce and Victoria Clark in Night and Day: A Cole Porter Evening at Lincoln Center. For The Musical Theatre Guild, he has directed Shenandoah, Parade, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Street Scene, Aspects of Love, Titanic, The Most Happy Fella, and Death Takes a Holiday. Here in the Coachella Valley, Calvin directed the critically acclaimed Souvenir for Coyote Stageworks and the Cabaret 88 appearance of James Snyder, both at the Annenberg Theatre. This marks his fifth year as writer/director of One Night Only for producer Michael Childers, benefiting Jewish Family Service of the Desert.
MUSIC DIRECTION & ORCHESTRATIONS
John McDaniel John McDaniel is a Grammy and two time Emmy Award winning Music Director, Composer, Arranger, Orchestrator, Theatrical and Record Producer who is the Artistic Director of the Tony Award winning O’Neill Center Cabaret Conference. His Broadway Music Director credits include Bonnie & Clyde (Drama Desk Nomination, Orchestrations), Catch Me If You Can, Brooklyn (Producer and Orchestrator), Annie Get Your Gun, Taboo, Chicago, Grease, Patti LuPone on Broadway and Company - Original Cast in Concert at Lincoln Center. Television credits include The Rosie O’Donnell Show (2 Emmy Awards), Friar’s Roasts (1999-2002), the Tony Awards (1997-2000 as arranger), A Rosie Christmas (ABC), and A Family is a Family (HBO). His recordings as a Producer include Annie Get Your Gun (Grammy Award), The Maury Yeston Songbook, Bonnie & Clyde, Brooklyn, Taboo, The Journey Home (Malcolm Gets), and John McDaniel at the Piano (Broadway, Christmas, Compositions and Live at Joe’s Pub). Additional theater credits include Daughter of the Regiment (Opera Theatre of St. Louis), Happy Days (National Tour), and Pirates! (Goodspeed Opera House, Paper Mill Playhouse & Huntington Theatre in Boston, and St. Louis Muny). John has served as music director and arranger for Tyne Daly’s nightclub act and arranged and conducted Donna McKechnie’s critically acclaimed show at 54 Below in New York City. He has performed in concert with Cab Calloway, Shirley MacLaine, George Burns, Al Jarreau, Joel Grey, Carol Burnett and Frederica von Stade, Betty Buckley, and Bette Midler. He has been Guest Conductor for symphony orchestras in San Francisco, Indianapolis, Utah, Buffalo, Colorado, Baltimore and St. Louis. For more information visit JohnMcDaniel.com.
Ronn Goswick PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER Ronn Goswick is thrilled to be returning for One Night Only 2014 as Production Stage Manager. Having worked in the theatre community for the past 35 years, Ronn has had the good fortune of working with many of theatre’s best professionals in all areas including producers, directors, designers, actors and fellow stage managers. His productions number over 150 from his most recent work at the Falcon Theatre and the Mountain Playhouse (Jennerstown, PA) to TUTS in Houston, American Musical Theatre of San Jose (San Jose Civic Light Opera), Pasadena Playhouse, Musical Theatre West, San Jose Stage, San Diego Rep, Berry Gordy, the Luxor Hotel and Casino Las Vegas, the Hollywood Bowl (Les Miserables starring Brian Stokes Mitchell, Lea Michelle and John Lloyd Young) and the Pasadena Playhouse run of Baby It’s You. Ronn has been involved with and is passionate about working on new musicals, some of which include the London production of the Gypsy Kings’ - Zorro The Musical, Baby It’s You, The Boy From New York City and the musical adaptation of The Outsiders.
BYRON BATISTA
Sue Givens
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER
Byron J. Batista’s production credits include: Heaters, Chicago, Les Miserables, The Producers (Hollywood Bowl), Hairspray (Hollywood Bowl, Moonlight Amphitheatre, MTW, First National Tour), I Love Lucy, Live!, Jekyll and Hyde, Baby, It’s You, Stormy (with Leslie Uggams, Pasadena Playhouse), Radio Girl, James and the Giant Peach (Goodspeed Musicals), Diamonds are Forever (with Jennifer Leigh Warren), The Color Purple (Stanford University), Silence! The Musical, Wicked (Pantages Theatre), Hello, Dolly! (with Sally Struthers), Cabaret (with Andrea McArdle), Radiance (with Anna Gunn), Next Fall (with Leslie Ann Warren), Red Hot Patriot (with Kathleen Turner), Miss Julie (with Lily Rabe, (Geffen Playhouse), Citizen Twain (with Val Kilmer). Byron teaches Theatrical Hair and Make-Up at UCI.
Sue has been working in stage management as well as a properties coordinator for many years. She has been with Moonlight Stage Productions in Vista since 1998 and is on staff at the Bob Burton Center for the Performing Arts. She has also worked on shows with Lambs Players, San Diego Musical Theatre, Oceanside Theatre Company, Encore Youth Theatre, Premiere Productions, Sunshine Productions and was Assistant Stage Manager on David Arkenstone's Symphonique Adventure. She spent two years as Director of Arts at Between the Tracks, a year round visual and performing arts day camp for grades 3 - 8 in the city of Vista.
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JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE DESERT
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I am amazed at how One Night Only has grown into this remarkable event with a community that seems to love it more every year. This show is only made possible by the dedicated work of dozens of people and organizations. But in particular, I would like BENEFITING JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF THE DESERT to thankPRESENTS Jewish Family Service, Ed Gubman, Maureen Forman and the board for their constant support for the last few years. Also so much appreciation to Todd Marker, Hal Asher, Bill Nicholson and Mercury Film & ANNETTE BLOCH BARBARA FROMM HELENE GALEN TERRI KETOVER Television and the terrific artists who dedicated their time – Doris Roberts, Bruce Vilanch, BARBARA KELLER and Gary Shaw - for making our television and radio commercials so successful. HAROLD MATZNER Thanks to David Zippel and Michael Kerker for all their amazing advice. How fortunate are we to be treated to the much-coveted cast and major sponsor party, which is so beautifully produced and hosted by the incredible Helene Galen and Jamie Kabler. I cannot say enough great things about my co-chairs who never let the event nor me down. They are extraordinary women and men: Annette Bloch, Helene Galen, Harold Matzner, Barbara Fromm, Barbara Keller and Terri Ketover. They are my team, I love them and they really brought in more sponsorship this year than ever. Bravo to all of you! My sincere gratitude to Mitch Gershenfeld and his talented team at the beautiful McCallum Theatre-who help to bring this show to life every year. Many thanks. I’m so lucky to have the most extraordinary creative team with our director Calvin Remsberg and our music director, John McDaniel. And every creative person with dreams has to be backed up by a brilliant organizer like our executive producer, Ken Katz. And always, to Tim Hanlon at Wells Fargo Bank-without Wells Fargo, this event would not exist. And a special thanks to my friend, Frank Jones, the publisher of Palm Springs Life Magazine. Of course the major ingredients for a successful show are the extraordinarily talented performers from Hollywood and New York who donate their time and spectacular talent to this show. Your talents make this world a better place. 801 EAST TAHQUITZ CANYON WAY, SUITE 202, PALM SPRINGS, CA 92262 (760) 325-4088
Sincerely yours,
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Michael Childers Producer 801 EAST TAHQUITZ CANYON WAY, SUITE 202, PALM SPRINGS, CA 92262 (760) 325-4088
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SPECIAL THANKS
Jewish Family Service of the Desert would like to thank some very special people who helped make this evening possible. ANNETTE BLOCH, HELENE GALEN, BARBARA KELLER, HAROLD MATZNER, TERRI KETOVER, & BARBARA FROMM HELENE GALEN & JAMIE KABLER FOR HOSTING THE CAST PARTY. ALL THE GENEROUS SPONSORS, SUPPORTERS, DONORS AND ADVERTISERS. THE SPECTACULAR PERFORMERS WHO DONATE THEIR TIME AND TALENT TO THIS SHOW. MITCH GERSHENFELD & THE WONDERFUL CREW AT THE MCCALLUM THEATRE. ALL THE MANY VOLUNTEERS WHO WORKED HARD FOR THE SUCCESS OF THE EVENT. WILLIE RHINE & THE STAFF AT ACQUA PAZZA CALIFORNIA BISTRO. THERESE HAYES & FRANK TYSON OF CASA CODY JERRY KELLER JOEY LIZOTTE OF ARTISAN EVENTS MEG FIRESTONE OF J RUSSELL SALON BOB BOGARD CLARK BASON DEBBIE GREEN FRANK JONES SOPHIA PERRONE ART HALL OF FIRST GALLERY FRAMING Special Thanks continues on page 22.
TODD SCHROEDER MARK RICHARD MADISON WORKSHOP WEST FLORISTS STEVEN BROGDON DESIGN BETTY CALLIES & AGUA CALIENTE CASINO RESORT SPA Contribution of Music to the Production JESSE KISSEL & MICHAEL LAVINE MUSIC THEATRE INTERNATIONAL SAMUEL FRENCH Material from the musical MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT is presented through special arrangement with THEATRICAL RIGHTS WORLDWIDE. Contribution of Costumes to the Production GABE FROM "AMERICAN COSTUME" ALI RAHIMI Special thanks to ANGELA AT THE COSTUME SHOP-GLENDALE for donating many of tonight’s costumes
VOLUNTEERS* MARI ABRIL JAMIELYN ANDERSON CLARK BASON JEFFREY BERNSTEIN LEE BROSNAN VINCENT CAPPA OSCAR CHAMUDES JUDY CRESSMAN DOUG DONENFELD SPELMAN EVANS DOWNER PETER EAST DAVE EDWARDS JOY FIELDS JOHN FLEMING
VIKKI GARCIA-SCHULTZ JIM GAZAN LEIGH GERNERT EDDIE GUSTAFSON LAURA HEIN KERRY HENDRIX JOHN HICKEY JULIE HIRSH JIM HORMEL BRADLEY JAMES KAY KLEINMAN DONNA LAWTON JOHN LEWIS CAROL LURIE STEVE LUXENBERG
JUDY MALESPINO LYNNETTE POOLE GENE POWERS MARK RICHARD CHERYL SCARLETT ALLY SCOTT VEA SERNA CLAUDIA SIMMONS BILL SWEENEY STEVE TIGERMAN TOM TRUHE TAD WEBSTER DORIS WAHL NITA WIESENTHAL RONNIE ZAHN
*We regret any omissions of volunteers due to press timeline but greatly appreciate every volunteer's contribution.
CHRISTINE ANDREAS Christine Andreas’s newest show, be-Mused, at 54 Below, was hailed by the NY Times as “pure alchemy”, equally lauded at Feinstein’s in San Francisco, and in January brought a sold-out house at the Annenberg to its feet! Christine returns to the desert fresh from an engagement at the Pheasantry in London. On Broadway, this multiple-award-winning singer, actress, and two-time Tony nominee starred as Jacqueline in the recent revival of La Cage aux Folles and created the role of Marguerite St. Just in The Scarlet Pimpernel. She captured theatergoers’ hearts as Eliza Doolittle in the 20th anniversary production of My Fair Lady (Theatre World Award), Oklahoma! (Tony Nomination) and On Your Toes (Tony Nomination). National audiences remember her portrayal of Margaret Johnson in a much-acclaimed national tour of The Light in the Piazza.Concerts include Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Café Carlyle and major symphonies. With her husband, Grammy– nominated arranger/composer Martin Silvestri, Christine starred in his musical The Fields of Ambrosia on London’s West End, followed by concerts in London, Paris, Rome, Australia and the White House. These concerts were the basis for her awardwinning CDs: Love is Good; Here’s to the Ladies and The Carlyle Set. christineandreas. com Photo by Stacy Sullivan
ROGER BART Roger Bart’s Broadway credits include Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein (Dr. Frankenstein), Carmen Ghia in The Producers (Tony and Drama Desk Award Nominations), You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Tony and Drama Desk Awards), Triumph of Love, King David, Big River and The Frogs at Lincoln Center. He toured in How To Succeed, The Who’s Tommy and The Secret Garden. Roger’s film credits include: Last Vegas, Law Abiding Citizen, Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay, The Midnight Meat Train, American Gangster, Hostel: Part II, The Producers, Stepford Wives, The Insider and How To Build A Better Boy. Roger provided the singing voice for Disney’s animated features Hercules (Hercules), and Lady and the Tramp Part 2 (Scamp). On television, he is currently recurring on How I Met Your Mother, Episodes, and Revenge. Roger appeared in Desperate Housewives, The Event, Political Animals, Bram and Alice, The Lost Room, 30 Rock, CSI: Miami, Human Target, CSI, The Exes, Hot in Cleveland and pretty much every Law and Order. Roger is thrilled to be here tonight in Palm Desert and praying he recalls the lyrics to his song.
JIM Brochu Jim Brochu is the only actor in America to win the New York Drama Desk Award, the Helen Hayes Award, the Los Angeles Ovation Award and the South Florida Carbonell Award, for Best Actor for Zero Hour as “Zero Mostel”. Jim appeared on Broadway in Brigadoon and in Oliver! and in New York in Broadway Backwards, The Man Who Came To Dinner and The Roar of the Greasepaint, The Smell of the Crowd. Regionally Jim starred in The Sunshine Boys and in Room Service. Jim has recently returned to nightclubs and cabarets with his new show Character Man, a tribute to the great supporting players of Broadway. He has performed in some of New York’s great cabaret spots including Birdland, Feinstein’s, Don’t Tell Mama, the Duplex and 54 Below. His television work includes The Young and the Restless and All My Children. Jim’s caricature hangs on the wall of Sardi’s Restaurant, a singular tribute to a forty-year show business career as an actor, author and playwright.
CHARLES BUSCH Charles Busch is the author and star of such plays as The Divine Sister, Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, and The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, which ran for nearly two years on Broadway and received a Tony nomination for Best Play. He wrote and starred in the film versions of his plays, Psycho Beach Party and Die Mommie Die, the latter of which won him the Best Performance Award at the Sundance Film Festival. In 2003, Mr. Busch received a special Drama Desk Award for career achievement as both performer and playwright. He is also the subject of the acclaimed documentary film The Lady in Question is Charles Busch. He is a two-time MAC award winner and has performed his cabaret act in many cities including San Francisco, Provincetown, New Orleans, Philadelphia and in New York at the Ballroom, Birdland and 54 Below. Visit www. charlesbusch.com.
Liz Callaway Tony-nominated and Emmy winner Liz Callaway debuted on Broadway in Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along followed by performances in Miss Saigon, The Three Musketeers, The Look of Love, and Baby (Tony nomination). Off-Broadway credits include The Spitfire Grill, Brownstone, No Way to Treat a Lady, Marry Me a Little, Godspell, Follies in Concert, A Stephen Sondheim Evening, Fiorello! and Hair in Concert. She portrayed Nora Desmond in Pittsburgh CLO’s production of Sunset Boulevard. Film highlights include the two Aladdin sequels, The Swan Princess, and Beauty and the Beast and her Academy Award-nominated performance of “Journey to the Past” in the animated feature Anastasia. TV appearances include Ready to Go, In Performance at the White House, and Inside the Actor’s Studio: Stephen Sondheim. Liz has performed in concert in London, Paris, Barcelona, China, South Korea, Estonia, Iceland, Australia, New Zealand and throughout the U.S. Liz has five solo recordings: Merry and Bright, Passage of Time, The Beat Goes On, The Story Goes On: Liz Callaway On and Off- Broadway, and Anywhere I Wander, as well as 2 CDs with her sister, Ann Hampton Callaway: Sibling Revelry and Boom! Live at Birdland. Visit www.lizcallaway.com.
BRIAN CHILDERS Brian Childers has captured hearts across the nation most notably with his critically acclaimed portrayal of Danny Kaye in Danny and Sylvia: A Musical Love Story for which he received the 2002 Helen Hayes Award and the Mary Goldwater Award. He also received the 2005 Star-Ledger award for Best Actor in a musical for his portrayal of Harry Witherspoon in Lucky Stiff. Brian starred in the title role in the national tour of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Other notable credits include his one-man show, An Evening with Danny Kaye in Washington DC, The Kid From Brooklyn starring as Danny Kaye, Obama in Naples, Becoming George, The Robber Bridegroom, The Second Man, The Boys in the Band, Hollywood Pinafore, Man of La Mancha, Crack Between the Worlds, Joseph and the Amazing..., West Side Story, Assassins, Detective Story, 90 North, The Titans and the 9/11 benefit entitled Not a Day Goes By. In 2014 Brian will star as the title role in The Jazz Singer Off-Broadway. Brian is a proud member of Actor’s Equity. Visit www. brianchilders.net.
Kevin Early Kevin Earley recently finished performing in Secondhand Lions at the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle and Daddy Long Legs in Florida. A Drama Desk Award nominee for the title role in Death Takes a Holiday at the Roundabout Theatre, Kevin’s Broadway credits include Les Miserables, Thoroughly Modern Millie and A Tale of Two Cities. His awards include a 2012 Jeff Award nominee for Pirates of Penzance (Pirate King), Joseph Jefferson Award (Balladeer in Assassins), LA Drama Critic’s Circle Award (Rutledge in 1776) and four LA Ovation Award nominations for leading roles in Can-Can, Sleeping Beauty Wakes, It Came From Beyond and Side Show. Kevin can be heard on the original cast recordings of Death Takes a Holiday, Tale of Two Cities and his own debut CD, Earley Standards. He has appeared in concert at Carnegie Hall, New York’s Town Hall, 54 Below, LA’s Ford Theater and Disney Hall, among others. At Webster Conservatory, he earned his degree and encountered his wife Julie Ann Emery, both of whom can be seen on their award-winning web series Then We Got HELP! Visit www.kevinearly.com
Shana Blake Hill Shana Blake Hill astounds audiences in operatic, orchestral and theatrical genres. She appeared as a principal artist with opera companies in Los Angeles, Cincinnati, Long Beach, Santa Barbara, Sacramento, Dayton; the Savonlinna Festival Opera, Opera Pacific, Fargo Moorhead Opera, and Berkshire Opera. Ms. Hill was a solo artist with symphony orchestras in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Seattle, Pacific, Berkeley, Florida, Pasadena, Louisville, Colorado; the Pacific Chorale, Naples Philharmonic, Northwest Sinfonietta and the New West Symphony. At home with contemporary music, her projects include Corps of Discovery, Monticello, On Gold Mountain, Sara’s Diary: 9/11, and Florencia en el Amazonas. She recorded the title track for The Sum of All Fears, solos for the feature film Red Dirt and sci-fi series Seven Days to Midnight. Recent career highlights and current projects include an evening of Puccini Heroines, a classical circus/cabaret series Love and War, The Telephone, Carmina Burana, Florencia en el Amazonas, The Pearl Fishers, a touring recital based on the snapshots and musings of Andy Warhol, a Poetry Anthology project with USC Visions and Voices, and the composition/ creation of a one woman opera about Marilyn Monroe.
MIMI Hines Mimi Hines began her career in 1958 when she and her partner, Phil Ford, appeared with Jack Paar on The Tonight Show and became overnight sensations. Best known for replacing Barbra Streisand on Broadway in Funny Girl, she thereafter starred in I Do! I Do!, Sugar Babies, Hello, Dolly!, Nite Club Confidential, On The Twentieth Century, Nunsense, Pippin, Sugar, Prisoner of Second Avenue, Never Too Late, Anything Goes, The Full Monty, and No, No, Nanette. Mimi returned to Broadway in Grease and performed a show-stopping turn singing “Broadway Baby” at New York’s City Center in the ENCORES production of Follies, prompting one critic to name her “the living embodiment of show business.” She appeared on television as Mrs. Latimer in Frasier and on The Rosie O’Donnell Show in its final week. Most recently, she portrayed Madame Armfeldt in A Little Night Music at the McCallum Theatre and gave a sold-out concert at New York’s 54 Below. Born in Vancouver, B.C., Mimi currently resides in Las Vegas. Visit www.mimihines.com.
DEE HOTY Dee Hoty has earned three Tony nominations for leading roles in Footloose, The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public and The Will Rogers Follies. She starred on Broadway and in eight major U.S. cities as Donna in Mamma Mia! She has appeared in Broadway shows such as Bye, Bye Birdie; City of Angels (Outer Critics Circle Nomination); Me And My Girl; Big River; The Five O’Clock Girl; and Shakespeare’s Cabaret. She created the role of Eve Walker in Rich Girl for the George Street and Cleveland Playhouses, and also Dr. Alexandra Bloomfield in The Preacher and the Shrink at the Beckett Theatre. Other highlights include tours of 9 TO 5, Barnum, Doctor Dolittle, Follies, Other Desert Cities, and Stormy Weather (Barrymore Award, L.A. Ovation Award nomination). In addition to her work on soaps, commercials, voiceovers, recordings, and in cabarets, Dee has appeared in film and TV on Elementary, Smash, and several episodes of Law And Order. She graduated from Otterbein College with an honorary doctorate and is a proud member of Equity. Visit www.deehoty.com.
ALIX KOREY Alix Korey is delighted to return to One Night Only. Having made her Broadway debut as Minnie Fay in the 1978 revival of Hello, Dolly!, starring Carol Channing, Alix then continued on Broadway in such shows as All Shook Up, Chicago, Neil Simon’s 45 Seconds From Broadway, Triumph of Love, Ain’t Broadway Grand, Is There Life After High School?, and The Pirates of Penzance. Off-Broadway, she received Drama Desk nominations for The Wild Party and for Listen to My Heart; received an Outer Critics Circle nomination for No Way to Treat a Lady, and won a Drama League award for Suburb. Alix’s films include Anything But Love, Dummy, and Beauty and the Beast. On television, Alix has appeared on House, Numbers, Law and Order, and The Closer. She has also recorded two award-winning CDs. She was a master teacher of vocal performance at NYU Tisch School. For more, please go to www.alixkorey.com.
Vicki Lewis On TV, Vicki Lewis starred in Newsradio, Three Sisters, Doll And Em and currently is on How I Met Your Mother, See Dad Run, Complete Works, Austin and Alley, and Checked Out. She has recurred and guest starred on Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Middle, Bones, Dirt, Grey’s Anatomy, Til Death, Surviving Suburbia, Sonny With A Chance, Melissa and Joey, Caroline In The City, Norm, The Five Mrs. Buchananns, Phenom, Murphy Brown, Grace Under Fire, Sienfeld and Home Improvement. Her films include The Ugly Truth, Den Brother, Always a Bride, Last Day Of Summer, Californina Dreamin, Godzilla, Mousehunt, Pushing Tin, I’ll Do Anything, The Huntress, Bye Bye Birdie and Breakfast Of Champions. Her voice is heard in Finding Nemo, Tom And Jerry, Alpha And Omega, Wonder Woman, Doctor Doolittle, Scooby Doo, Ben 10, Betsy’s Kindergarden Adventures, Rugrats, Phineas and Ferb and Batman. Broadway credits include Chicago, Damn Yankees, and Pal Joey. She received the Ovation Award for Hotel C’est L’amoure and nominated for the Ovation award for How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying. Vicki starred in Funny Girl, Into The Woods and Gypsy. Her debut album East of Midnight is available on ITunes. For more about Vicki, visit www.vickilewis.com
janene Lovullo Janene has triumphantly returned from New York with her new cabaret show An Evening with Janene Lovullo and Christopher Marlowe at the Piano at Don’t Tell Mama. Her show highlighted Mr. Marlowe’s brilliant arrangements from Janene’s two CD’s This Moment and Broadway, Intimate. Both CD’s were recorded at Capitol Records with an exceptionally talented team of Academy, Grammy and Emmy Award music talent. Theatrical credits include Cats, as Grizabella for Broadway and the 1st National Tour; Les Miserables, as Fantine and Cosette for Broadway/2nd National Tour/ Los Angeles Shubert; and The Pirates of Penzance as Daughter, and Mabel understudy for Broadway/ Los Angeles Ahmanson/ 1st National Tour. Concerts include I Have Dreamed at the Orangewood Children’s Foundation (directed by Calvin Remsberg), Michael Sterling’s Upstairs at Vitello’s and Les Michael’s Life Is A Cabaret series at the Arthur Newman Center. Visit www.janenelovullo. com
Peter marshall Peter Marshall is best known as the five-time Emmy Award-winning host of the popular game show Hollywood Squares. His first starring role on Broadway was in Skyscraper followed by High Button Shoes, Anything Goes, Music Man, 42nd Street, and La Cage Aux Folles. Peter toured in La Cage Aux Folles, and then reprised his role as Georges on Broadway for another year. He starred for two years in the National Touring Company of Neil Simon’s Rumors. Peter has guest-starred on numerous major television series and appeared on several mini-series. Peter starred in London in Bye-Bye Birdie. He is proud of his performance in HMS Pinafore with the London Symphony Orchestra. Peter’s dearest love is singing. He now performs with Big Band packages such as the Les Brown Band and the Harry James Band. Peter’s career has demonstrated a versatility and flexibility that few entertainers can show. He’s been a big band singer, part of a comedy team, performed in the legitimate theatre and on the concert and nightclub circuit, and appeared in movies and on television. He has, appropriately enough, been called the “complete entertainer.”
Millicent Martin
Donna McKechnie
A two-time Tony nominee, Millicent Martin recently received a Lifetime Achievement Award, celebrating her 64th year in show business in both the United Kingdom and the United States. She is probably best known for Frasier as Gertrude Moon, Daphne’s dreadful mother. Other television, appearances include guest starring on Modern Family, Bones, Castle, Hot in Cleveland, Jonas, Chuck, Will & Grace, Days Of Our Lives as Lili Faversham, That Was The Week That Was, From A Bird’s Eye View, L.A. Law, Disney’s Halloweentown, and Zach & Cody. Millie came to Broadway in 1955 with Julie Andrews in The Boyfriend. Recently she appeared in David Lee’s Gigi and 42nd Street. She was one of its creators of Side By Side By Sondheim as well as starring in the United Kingdom, Broadway and Los Angeles productions introducing the bawdy song “I Never Do Anything Twice.” Millie’s film highlights are Alfie opposite Michael Caine, Stop the World, Nothing But The Best with Alan Bates, Mrs. Palfrey At The Claremont with Joan Plowright. For more info about Millicent go to www.millicentmartin.com as well as YouTube & Google.
Tony Award-winning star of A Chorus Line, Donna McKechnie, is regarded internationally as one of Broadway’s foremost singing and dancing leading ladies. Some of her Broadway credits include How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, The Education of H*Y*M*A*N-K*A*P*L*A*N, Sondheim-A Musical Tribute, On The Town, Company, State Fair and Promises, Promises. Donna was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award for her lead role in a tour of Sweet Charity. Donna created and appeared in Four Girls Four, In Good Company, her one-woman musical, My Musical Comedy Life, and her new show, Same Place: Another Time, at New York’s 54 Below. Donna choreographed Guys And Dolls at the Hollywood Bowl and has starred regionally in Follies, Mack & Mabel, Gypsy, The Glass Menagerie, The Subject Was Roses, Ten Cents a Dance and Love, Loss and What I Wore. She has appeared in productions in London, Tokyo, and Paris, as well as on the concert stage. She appeared on television in Fame, Cheers, and Dark Shadows and was featured in the films, Every Little Step, The Little Prince and 36 Saints. Donna’s memoir is Time Steps - My Musical Comedy Life.
Sharon McNight
Sal Mistretta
Sharon McNight made her Broadway debut in 1989 in Starmites, creating the role of “Diva” for which she received a Tony Award nomination as Best Leading Actress in a Musical and the Theatre World Award for Outstanding Broadway Debut. Her regional credits include Amanda McBroom’s Heartbeats at the Pasadena Playhouse and as “Sister Hubert” in Nunsense, in Los Angeles and San Francisco for which she received the Bay Area Critics Circle Award for Best Performance in a Musical. Sharon’s television credits include Seinfeld, Silk Stalkings and The Five Mrs. Buchanans. Dramalogue’s New York critics have named her one of the top 10 cabaret performers of the year. She has played from the Moose Hall to Carnegie Hall, from San Francisco to Berlin. She has five solo recordings to her credit; one of those being The Sophie Tucker Songbook, which contains music from her one-woman show based on the life of the first lady of show business. Sharon is most noted for her movie reenactment of The Wizard of Oz and for being one of the few real women to impersonate Bette Davis.
Sal Mistretta is a veteran of many Broadway, Off-Broadway & tour productions, including Cabaret, Sunset Boulevard, On the 20th Century, Evita, Sweeney Todd, Something’s Afoot, and Aida, among others. He received a Helen Hayes Award for The Fix and a nomination for his performance in Cats. He is Pirelli on the Sweeney Todd DVD with Angela Lansbury and is featured on many episodes of Law & Order, Rescue Me, All My Children, The Unusuals, Third Watch, and the Jimmy Fallon Show. On film he has appeared in Stepmom and Step Up, among others. He recently recreated, to unanimous critical acclaim, his Helen Hayes Award-winning role of Uncle Grahame in The Fix at the ICT theatre in Long Beach. Additional roles include: Max (Sunset Boulevard with Stefanie Powers), Mr. Stopnick (Caroline Or Change), Pangloss (Candide), Fagin (Oliver), ZaZa (La Cage Aux Folles),Pop Carnes (Oklahoma! with Shirley Jones), Peron, Magaldi (Evita with Patti LuPone & Mandy Patinkin), Herr Schultz (Cabaret), Henry (Fantasticks), Gus/Growltiger (Cats), and Nathan (Guys & Dolls with Faith Prince), among others. Visit www.salmistretta.com
DEBRA MONK Emmy and Tony Award-winner Debra Monk has starred on Broadway in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Curtains (Drama Desk Award, Tony nomination), Chicago, Reckless, Thou Shalt Not, Ah, Wilderness!, Steel Pier (Tony nomination), Company, Picnic (Tony nomination), Redwood Curtain (Tony Award), Nick and Nora, and Pump Boys and Dinettes (Co-Author, Tony Nomination). Film appearances include: This is Where I Leave You (Fall 2014), Ass Backwards, Reaching Home, One For the Money, Great Buck Howard, The Savages, Palindromes, Center Stage, Devil’s Advocate, In & Out, Extreme Measures, Bridges of Madison County, Jeffrey and Fearless. On television, Debra has appeared as George’s mother on Grey’s Anatomy, Ellen’s mother on Damages, Will’s mother on Glee, and Elizabeth’s mother on White Collar. She has also gueststarred on Reckless, Girls, Brothers and Sisters, Ghost Whisperer, The Closer, Notes from the Underbelly, Desperate Housewives, Law & Order, Frasier and in the television movie: Good Luck, Charlie: It’s Christmas!, The Music Man, Eloise at the Plaza, Eloise at Christmastime, Ellen Foster, and Redwood Curtain (reviving her Tonywinning performance). She won an Emmy Award for her portrayal of Katie Sipowicz on NYPD Blue.
Julia Murney Julia Murney last appeared on Broadway as Elphaba in Wicked after nationally touring the role for which she received an Acclaim Award. Other New York credits include Drama Desk nominations for both The Wild Party and Falling; Lennon, The Landing, The Vagina Monologues, A Class Act, Saved, Crimes of the Heart, Queen of the Mist, Closer Than Ever, and Time and Again (Lucille Lortel nomination). She has played regionally at the Signature Theatre, Williamstown Theatre, Reprise!LA, Sacramento Music Circus, North Carolina Theatre, St. Louis MUNY, Rubicon and Goodspeed Theatre, and in concert at Carnegie Hall, Joe’s Pub, 54 Below, Feinstein’s, The Kennedy Center, Caramoor, Town Hall, Birdland and with the Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and Boston Pops. Among her TV credits are 30 Rock, Sex and the City, Brothers and Sisters, Ed, NYPD Blue, all three Law and Orders and about a gazillion voiceovers. A Syracuse University graduate, her recordings include the original cast albums of The Wild Party and A Class Act, the Grammy nominated Actor’s Fund Benefit of Hair and her first solo album, I’m Not Waiting which is available on Sh-K-Boom records and at juliamurney.com.
Jeffery Scott Parsons A true song & dance man, Jeffrey Scott Parsons has been seen regionally as Dick in Dames At Sea, Billy Crocker in Anything Goes, Bobby Child in Crazy For You, Phil Davis in White Christmas, Billy Lawlor in 42ND Street, and Sparky in several companies of Forever Plaid and Plaid Tidings around the country. In Los Angeles, he was featured in the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble world premiere of Hunger: In Bed with Roy Cohn, the west coast premiere of Glory Days, the regional premiere of Rent as well as the Ovation-winning Kiss of the Spider Woman. As a member of Musical Theatre Guild he has performed in Wonderful Town, Titanic, and Street Scene. Originally from a small town in Utah, Jeff holds a BFA from Brigham Young University and is a proud member of Actor's Equity. Check out his website. It's a good one. www.jeffreyscottparsons.com
Gary Shaw Gary Shaw’s instantly recognizable “concrete and glass”resonant voice along with his genuine warmth and deep gravitas returns once again to the One Night Only stage for his 7th consecutive year as our foremost Announcer. His “signature sound” and memorable presence has been heard throughout the desert community at countless benefit and award events such as Evening Under the Stars, Steve Chase Humanitarian Awards, Desert Star Awards and the Champion Honors Luncheon benefitting the Barbara Sinatra Children’s Center. Gary has also previously announced for the prestigious BAFTA Awards in Los Angeles with Alan Cumming as well as producing, performing and writing his own radio promos for One Night Only. A natural for the stage, his numerous theatrical credits include Man of La Mancha, Dracula, The Elephant Man, See How They Run, Oklahoma! and Fiddler on the Roof. He is also a volunteer news broadcaster for the award winning LGBT radio show This Way Out on KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles, where he lives but feels that Palm Springs is his real home, especially on nights like this.
Von Smith
Billy Stritch
Von Smith was most recently seen on Nigel Lythgoe’s new TV show Opening Act on the E! network, where Lady Gaga chose him to be her opening act for her 2012 Australian tour. First introduced to the world when his version of “And I Am Telling You (I’m Not Going)” from Dreamgirls became a sensation on YouTube, Von Smith has garnered a legion of fans and performed on some of the most celebrated stages, including ABC’s The View, Bravo’s The Kathy Griffin Show, BET’s 106th and Park. Von was featured on MTV News, VH1’s Best Week Ever, E!’s The Soup, TV Azteca’s La Academia (Mexico), Up Junior (China), and American Idol, Season 8, as one of the top 17 finalists. When not rocking out on national stages across the country with fellow idol buddies, or performing in front of symphonies conducted by the likes of the late Marvin Hamlisch, Von can be found in the recording studio, where he just completed his first EP, On To Something, available now on Itunes.
Billy Stritch is one of the premier singerpianists on the New York and national jazz and cabaret scene and is thrilled to be part of tonight’s celebration. Billy hails from Sugar Land, Texas but has made New York his home for over twenty years. His most recent Broadway credit was as musical supervisor and pianist for Liza Minnelli’s Tony Award winning show Liza’s At The Palace for which he also reconceived the vocal arrangements of the legendary Kay Thompson and The Williams Brothers. In addition to his twenty-two year association with Liza, Billy also accompanies and arranges for Linda Lavin, Marilyn Maye, and Paulo Szot. On stage, he originated the role of Oscar, the rehearsal pianist in the 2001 Broadway revival of 42nd Street, performing the role for 488 performances. He also performed in and created the arrangements for The Best Is Yet To Come –The Music of Cy Coleman at New York’s Off-Broadway 59E59 Theater in 2011. His latest solo CD release is Billy Stritch Sings Mel Tormé, a salute to one of his musical heroes.
Bruce Vilanch
Terri White
Bruce Vilanch has been wandering in the desert for more than forty years, but he manages to settle down every now and again for a benefit. Winner of six Emmys, and loser of four, he has scripted 23 Oscar telecasts and a lot of other television that you have been simultaneously ashamed and delighted to watch. For six years, he resided to the left of Whoopi Goldberg, if that is possible, as a Hollywood Square. For two years, he donned the pantyhose of “Edna Turnblad” in the national tour and Broadway production of Hairspray. He is also a songwriter and the star of his own one-man show, which stopped at the Annenberg a few years ago. This spring, he will be in San Francisco, starring in a new revival of Cole Porter’s Dubarry Was A Lady, in a role originated by Bert Lahr, with one of whose signature characters his hair bears a passing resemblance.
Terri has appeared in Broadway and OffBroadway shows such as Barnum, Ain’t Misbehavin, Welcome to the Club, Nunsense I & II, Nuncrackers, Finian’s Rainbow, and Stepping Out at Radio City with Liza Minnelli. Her other shows include Showboat, Damn Yankees, Bubbling Brown Sugar, Juba, The Jungle Book, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Chicago, And The World Goes ‘Round, Little Shop of Horrors and most recently, the Tony Award nominated productions of Follies at the Kennedy Center, Broadway and LA. Terri appeared on TV in Nunsense I & II, Boys on the Side, and Law and Order Criminal Intent and was also on the hit CBS comedy The Crazy Ones with Robin Williams. Her recordings include Forbidden Broadway 25th Anniversary, Barnum, Liza Live, Finian’s Rainbow, Incurably Romantic, Follies, and her CDs, The Lady’s Got To Sing and Upon Request. Terri’s New York concert performances include Lyrics & Lyricist Johnny Burke at 92nd St. Y, Joe’s Pub with Guy Davis, Jamie DeRoy and Friends at Birdland, and appearances at Carnegie Hall, 54 Below, and Feinstein’s.
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MICHAEL CHILDERS & JEWISH FAMILY SERICE OF THE DESERT THANK THE FOLLOWING CONTRIBUTORS TO OUR PERFORMER GIFT BAGS. WE GREATLY APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT IN SHOWING OUR APPRECIATION TO THESE EXTRAORDINARILY GENEROUS AND TALENTED PERFORMERS WHO DONATE THEIR TIME FOR SUCH A WORTHY CAUSE.
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