Artistic Director) and Tricia Trimble (Managing Director)
Stritch was seen wearing
In only nine seasons, the entire community has helped our not-for-profit Theatre become the state’s largest award-winning regional theatre. The Theatre now draws more than 70,000 people annually, serves a subscription base of more than 7,500 and has world-class classroom facilities in support of its Paul and Sandra Goldner Conservatory of Performing Arts, which serves hundreds of youth and adults. The Theatre has earned numerous Carbonell Awards, South Florida’s highest honor for artistic achievement –including the prestigious Bill Von Maurer Award for Theatrical Excellence in April 2012. The Theatre also secured a $10 million endowment campaign to ensure that it continues in perpetuity.
However, we know we could not have reached this milestone without help from our local family. We want to thank you – our board of directors, subscribers, volunteers, neighbors, guild members, friends, business partners and Conservatory students – for making the Theatre into the thriving cultural landmark it has become.
Following a successful capital campaign, the 28,000-square-foot theatre was renovated and renamed the Maltz Jupiter Theatre in recognition of major benefactors Milton and Tamar Maltz. The Theatre also hosted its infamous ‘Set the Stage’ event to clean up the building and prepare for its opening, attracting hundreds of volunteers – many of whom are still loyal supporters. The volunteer team has now grown to 400, with many volunteers remaining with us since day one.
LOOK HOW FAR
With the arrival of the 2012/13 season, the Maltz Jupiter Theatre
The Theatre built world-class facilities in support of its Conservatory of Performing Arts, designed to serve hundreds of students in afterschool, weekend and summer programs. The Conservatory’s rooms are named in honor of its major benefactors: The Peggy and Rick Katz Rehearsal Studio, the Dr. Herbert and Myra Hoffstein Acting Studio and the Dr. Bernard and Phyllis Eisenstein Voice Studio.
NOVEMBER 2008
The Theatre opened its Rawn Harding Gallery Hall dedicated to “Putting It Together,” an exhibition displaying photos, sketches, models, blueprints, renderings and other elements that highlight the process of how our productions are mounted.
It also began moderating Talk-backs with cast and crew members, providing a “behind the scenes” discussion of the production process of creating live theatre.
is celebrating a major milestone: our Tenth Anniversary Season.
Through the Emerging Artists Series in Musical Theatre Playwriting, the Theatre developed the musical Academy for the 2009 New York Musical Theatre Festival, which received a rave review in The New York Times and won the esteemed production award and went on to win Best Musical at South Korea’s 2010 Daegu International Musical Festival.
The Theatre launched its landmark ‘First Step to Stardom’ program, drawing hundreds of local children and teens to auditions for roles in the musicals Academy and The Sound of Music
The following year, the Theatre auditioned over 400 local children for the 2011/12 season production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with 240 children cast as members of the chorus.
The Maltz Jupitre Theatre Paul and Sandra Goldner Conservatory of Performing Arts produced the musical Cats , with eight months of preparation lead by two of the show’s original Broadway cast members and the original Broadway costumes. All performances sold out with two additional performances added to meet the demand.
Now the largest regional theatre in the state, the Maltz Jupiter Theatre kicked off its 10th anniversary season celebration by hitting a new record: more than 7,500 subscribers for its 2012/13 season!
There was something missing in Jupiter ten seasons ago. And now – because you believed in us – the Maltz Jupiter Theatre is here to stay. We’re delighted that you’ll be celebrating our 10th Anniversary Season with us!
World premiere of Fanny Brice:
The Real Funny Girl
Nov. 10 - 22, 2009
Sells to 97% Capacity
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
The Good Times are Killing
Cabaret Jan. 10 - 29, 2012 100% sold out! Featuring former Miss
Deagu
Featured Broadway veterans Gary Beach and Vicki Lewis
Working and learning at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre
Suncoast High School senior Corinne Thomas, 17, recently spent her summer serving as student director as part of the Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s student production of The Laramie Project , a play that explored the healing process of residents of Laramie, Wyoming, following a hate crime that rocked our nation.
Known as the Youth Artists’ Chair, the annual project aligns high school students with individual Theatre staff members for one-on-one mentoring and guidance during the creation process of the show. Here, Corinne reflects on a summer spent producing The Laramie Project with her peers.
The Youth Artists’ Chair is a unique opportunity that allows high school students to learn from industry professionals. I have had the pleasure of directing the last two Youth Artists’ Chair shows, The Good Times Are Killing Me in 2011 and The Laramie Project in 2012. Working with professional mentors has taught me many things about the art and business of theater. I discovered a magnitude of creative expression that I had never before thought possible.
Directing was an enlightening experience that showed me new ways of looking at the world – and how “thinking outside box” can produce creative and innovative results. The most important thing for a director to have is a vision; a concrete vision that can be conveyed to all designers and actors. While working on The Laramie Project , my mentor, Julie Rowe (The Theatre’s director of education), emphasized the importance of the telling this story correctly, with as much authenticity and truth as possible.
Furthermore, The Laramie Project calls us – students and future leaders – to take action against hate. Bullying has such an enormous presence in our schools and community, and by producing this show, we took on the task of spreading hope. We hope for kindness in the place of bullying, and love in the place of hate. There is an emerging need to educate the community, young and old, of the social issues that plague our society and often get overlooked. We can do this through theater.
That is what makes theater special, and that is what makes the Maltz Jupiter Theatre such a wonderful place. The Theatre has been my home-away-from-home for almost four years. Whether I am taking classes at the Conservatory, enjoying or directing a show, I am thrilled to be there. It is a place that welcomes all who have a creative spirit and loving heart
Corinne Thomas, Director of the 2012 Youth Artists’ Chair production of The Laramie Project
Corinne Thomas - Director of The Laramie Project
Creating a new musical and the importance of new work
In the words of the great composer Stephen Sondheim, “art isn’t easy.” Especially new art. For this reason, the Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s upcoming production of Through the Looking Glass is occurring at an important time in the organization’s growth. Writing and producing a new musical is a huge initiative that will take tremendous resources to make happen.
Helping to launch the Theatre’s 10th Anniversary season, this pre-season new work will benefit from several strategic programs that have been created over the last few years. To begin with, one of the core elements of the Theatre’s mission is to educate our community. The growth of the Maltz Jupiter Theatre Paul and Sandra Goldner Conservatory of Performing Arts –now celebrating its fifth year – has built a solid reputation of providing our youth with first-class professional training in all aspects of the arts. The Conservatory attracts hundreds of students each year who have an opportunity to perform on stage with magnificent production values (sets, costumes, lighting and orchestra) that are not available in most other venues. Now, with Through the Looking Glass , many of our students also have the unique chance to originate a role in a world-premiere musical.
Another program that was established in recent years is our annual First Step to Stardom audition program, created to identify strong candidates in support of the Theatre’s season
the
productions. Starting with The Sound of Music and Academy in its inaugural year and followed by Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat , the First Step to Stardom project has created opportunities for hundreds of children to perform in professional productions alongside professional members from Actors’ Equity. This past year’s audition search was scouting triple-threat youth (those that have strong skills in acting, singing and dancing) for both Through the Looking Glass and The Music Man
Through the Looking Glass grew out of a program that was inspired by the passion that the Theatre’s producing artistic director, Andrew Kato, has for developing new musicals. The Emerging Artist Series in Musical Theatre Playwriting was created to showcase and nurture new musicals and their creators that demonstrated promise. This project was quickly supported by donors who understood the responsibility regional theatres have to contribute new voices to the national landscape. With the commitment of $30,000 from certain “angels,” this musical includes 30 children ranging in ages from 8 to 17 that have been rehearsing for more than three months to allow this 70-minute production to come to life. Each student is receiving high-level training supported by a full scholarship.
Finally, the production is benefitting from the lifetime friendship and professional relationship of its creators, John Mercurio (writer and composer) and Andrew Kato (conceiver and director) who have collaborated on four other new works, including the award-winning musical, Academy. Add to that a multitude of visionaries and artisans that have contributed their talents to this project, and a contemporary, spectacular retelling of Alice in Wonderland will be born.
The success of the Theatre is due to the perfect assembling of passionate people: board members, staff, donors, ticket-buyers and supporters that are strategic in their approach to growth. Drawing from the strengths of diverse yet complimentary plans and merging them together, Through the Looking Glass should be another theatrical property that will be enjoyed for years to come. Art may not be easy, but with the right team of people coming together to make it happen, it will pay off!
Through
Looking Glass creators Andrew Kato (far left) and John Mercurio (far right) with cast members Emily Rynasko and Nicky Wood.
Amadeus:
Amadeus:
18th-century
Vienna in modern view
18th-century Vienna in modern view
By Michael Gieleta Director of Amadeus
Adult Mozart was a freelance composer
living off concert subscriptions and an odd commission in an expensive city where appearances often mattered more than the matter. He couldn’t find a fixed employment at the Imperial Court – the only prospective employer in his native country –thus missing out on a pension plan, life insurance and, most importantly, regular income. The last years of his life were marred by debt-juggling, last-minute commissions, impossibly tight deadlines, the pursuit of the thinning-out concert subscribers and paying his ailing wife’s spa charges.
neither of which is, of course, historically, characterologically or artistically correct.
Peter Shaffer’s stage play, more than the Milos Forman film script, allows us to look beyond that paradigm. Shaffer’s Mozart is a grown-up artist with a vision and a strategy. The only figure in the play who sees his genius is Salieri. Other characters, paradoxically, praise the merits of Salieri’s compositions, finding Mozart’s style too provocative, too contemporary, too stylistically unbalanced. Something our world would perhaps attribute to Schoenberg or Penderecki, but not necessarily to the symbol of Viennese Classicism.
In the same way, we don’t find The Marriage of Figaro – a story about the domestics outwitting their titled masters written a couple of years before the titled masters’ beheadings in Revolutionary France – socially shocking. We don’t find the stylistic higgledy-piggledy of The Magic Flute incomprehensible. Nor do we find Mozart’s Symphonies too challenging for the ear.
The challenge in directing any costume drama lies in reducing the distance between the world of the play and contemporaneity.
Our perception of what is classic and what is avant-garde may have shifted, but the basic nature of an unrecognizably gifted genius living in a world of conformity and convention hasn’t changed one bit.
In the world of freelance artists, none of the above sounds unfamiliar in 2012. Most of the creative industry still operates on equally tight, manic and self-destructive terms. It is ironic that one of the world’s greatest composers needed as much drive, resilience and networking skills in order to keep his foot set in the door of the ever-competitive musical Vienna of the 1970s as one does in the ever-competitive New York of the 2010s.
The challenge in directing any costume drama lies in reducing the distance between the world of the play and contemporaneity. Not allowing the externalities of mores, language and costume to obstruct the reflection of our own lives in the play. The Mozart-Salieri paradigm entered popular culture as early as the 1830s and has offered since a useful shortcut to label jealous mediocrity as “Salieri” and puerile genius as “Mozart;”
OCTOBER 30 – NOVEMBER 11
Winner of the Tony Award® for best play, this thrilling tour-deforce biodrama reveals the outrageous antics and brilliance of one of the greatest composers of all time, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Set in 18thcentury Vienna, Amadeus portrays the flamboyant genius, as seen through the eyes of his jealous rival, composer Antonio Salieri.
SPONSORED BY PRISCILLA HEUBLEIN
CLASSES FOR ALL AGES AT THE CONSERVATORY
The Maltz Jupiter Theatre Paul and Sandra Goldner Conservatory of Performing Arts is off to a grand start this season! With classes for all ages, we offer training in all facets of acting, voice and dance under the guidance of Broadway professionals. Our Musical Theatre Wheel program for grades 3 – 12 will culminate with a “ Best of Broadway Revue ” on the Theatre’s stage on December 29. You won’t want to miss this talented group of students as they ring in the New Year with a salute to Broadway’s best, featuring numbers from Beauty and the Beast , Shrek , Les Miserables , How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and more!
Coming up at the Conservatory in November is a new six-week class with award-winning Florida actor and director Ken Kay. “Speak Up! Public Speaking with Confidence” is a terrific opportunity for area professionals looking to create and confidently deliver compelling speeches and presentations, with or without visual support materials. Participating students will
have the opportunity to deliver speeches and receive feedback from both their fellow students and the instructor, helping them to improve vocal emphasis, pacing, audience rapport and body language. Take your public speaking to the next level with this informative and valuable resource.
Feel free to visit us in the Conservatory at any time to see the excitement in action!
Julie Rowe Director of Education
Visit www.jupitertheatre.org/education
EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY OUTREACH AT THE MALTZ JUPITER THEATRE
In addition to year-round classes at its Conservatory, the Maltz Jupiter Theatre has many opportunities for local children and families to be involved in its educational programs and outreach.
KIDS KORNER SERIES
For school groups of young children, the Theatre and its PNC Bank Kids Korner series will also offer three student matinees: Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great (Oct. 15 and 16), If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and Other Story Books (April 16) and Click Clack Moo (April 30).
Made possible by a grant from the PNC Foundation, The Theatre’s PNC Bank Kids Korner performances are a series of high-quality productions presented
throughout the school year. The 2012/13 series will consist of six performances that will reach more than 3,000 Pre-K and elementary school students from throughout Palm Beach County.
PAGE TO STAGE
The Theatre’s education department offers community outreach programming through the year, including Page to Stage, a literacy initiative in which Conservatory teaching artists travel to schools and utilize interactive theatrical activity to bring books to life onstage.
YOUTH TOURING COMPANY
The Conservatory’s Youth Touring Company - made up of advanced student performers in grades 6-12 –performs at events throughout the county.
WORKSHOPS AND MASTER CLASSES
Upcoming master class opportunities at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre Paul and Sandra Goldner Conservatory of Performing Arts include insider’s advice from Nancy Carson, a leading New York City talent agent (October); a Broadway jazz class with veteran New York performer Dennis O’Bannion (November); and a general audition workshop with Beverly Blanchette, Dean of Theater at Alexander.W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts (December).
For more information about the Conservatory and its classes – or how to attend the PNC Bank Kids Korner performances with your school group –visit www.jupitertheatre.org/education or call (561) 575-2672.
Broadway veteran, Dennis O’Bannion Youth Touring Company
PNC Bank Kids Korner Series student matinee
A TRIPLE THREAT
Director Mark Martino discusses the elements that make The Music Man such a timeless show.
By Mark Martino - Director of The Music Man
As I started my research and pre-production work for my happy return to the Maltz Jupiter Theatre to direct The Music Man , I found myself asking the questions: “What accounts for this landmark musical’s enduring place in our musical theatre history? What makes a piece of theatre ‘timeless?’”
When The Music Man opened on Broadway in 1957, it was an instant hit, winning the Tony Award® for Best Musical over some pretty formidable competition: West Side Story . From 1957 to 2012, the popularity of The Music Man has never waned – spawning a hit movie, two Broadway revivals, dozens of national tours, hundreds of regional and stock productions, and literally countless community, college, and high school productions. Why is it that a show that opened 55 years ago –which is set on the 4th of July in a small town
in Iowa 100 years ago – still enchants and enthralls audiences?
I think you have to start with that timeline. The Music Man transports us to a time and place that seem inconceivable in today’s internet world. We find ourselves in smalltown America, where neighbors all know each other, ice cream socials are the highlight of the ‘to-do’ calendar and the introduction of a pool table could actually unravel the moral fabric of the community. We’re in a place where a con man can pass himself off as a professor of music (no Google searches to prove him wrong!), seduce an entire town with the tantalizing notion of its very own marching band, and – along the way – find himself meeting the town’s sexy and smart town librarian at the footbridge for a stolen kiss and a surprising admission of love.
Crazy for You Director Mark Martino, leading man Matt Loehr and Choreographer Shea Sullivan return for this season’s production of The Music Man.
The 10 Event Gala
On Saturday, February 23, 2013
Reflecting back on the past ten seasons of extraordinary accomplishments achieved at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre, this once-in-a-lifetime evening, The 10 Event Gala , will celebrate everyone who has helped us reach this milestone!
The black-tie optional anniversary affair will begin with cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and a plated sit-down dinner in a glittering tent on the grounds of the Theatre (complete with air conditioning, crystal chandeliers, a string quintet, restrooms and valet parking). After dinner, guests will move into the Sallie & Berton E. Korman Hall to enjoy a retrospective 90-minute multimedia presentation with live performances from the stars of the Theatre’s past hit productions. The evening, produced by Andrew Kato, will feature songs and nostalgic stories from the Theatre’s early days to the present. The festivities will continue with dessert and dancing.
Based on early responses, this will be a sold-out event!
To reserve your tickets now or for additional information including how to become a sponsor, please call Pam Dyar at (561) 972-6124.
Last season, we announced an unprecedented three-to-one match by The Maltz Family Foundation for a $10 million endowment. Well…
WE DID IT!
With the help of the Theatre’s endowment board and its steering committee, the three-to-one matching challenge was answered by 258 donors* who gave gifts and pledges ranging from $25 to $310,000 – and all totaled, the gifts exceeded $3 million dollars.
We express our gratitude to the Maltz Family Foundation, Jane F. Napier, and all other donors for securing the Theatre’s future with a $10 million endowment!
The endowment will be in place no later than June 30, 2017.
Endowment Board
Harvey Golub, Chairman
Joan L. Bildner
Gretchen Johnson
Milton Maltz
Steering Committee
Cornelia T. Bailey
Barbara and E. Fulton Brylawski
Mr. and Mrs. William C. Cox, Jr.
Eileen Daly
Betty and Rodger Hess
Diane and James E. Perrella
Beatrice and Joseph P. Riccardo
Bonnie and Ogden White, Jr.
See the Theatre’s 2011/12 Annual Report for a complete listing of donors to the Campaign to Secure the Theatre’s Future
Honorary Producer Roe Green Gala Chairman Roberta Golub
WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO RUN AN AWARD-WINNING REGIONAL THEATRE?
You might be surprised to learn that your ticket price in our not-for pro t Theatre covers just half of the cost of your seat. The other half is paid for through donations. At the Maltz Jupiter Theatre, the amount that must be raised each year is $1,900,000.
We feel that raising money can be an art form that can complement the theatrical experience. Through our exclusive Circle of Friends membership program, 160 of our audience members are educated and inspired each year, in addition to helping us achieve our mission and outreach programs.
Have you ever wondered how our season productions are chosen? How a choreographer creates a dance? Or how theatrical backstage illusions are created? Join the Circle of Friends to nd out.
THETHEATRE
’SCIRCLE OF F
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Coming this year:
Dinner on stage
• In December, the Circle of Friends will meet at a gorgeous home on Jupiter Island for a theatre game show.
• In January, we will visit the stage set of Singin’ in the Rain for a behind- the -scenes look at how the Theatre will create “rain” on stage.
• In March, we will reveal di erent perspectives of how a musical number from Thoroughly Modern Millie is presented.
After attending these events, you will gain greater respect for our talented production artists, who create living art on a grand scale!
There are three membership levels, and all three are 100% tax-deductible: For more information please contact Tricia Trimble at (561) 972-6122.
To help celebrate our 10th Anniversary, we have launched a special opportunity to showcase your experiences: the Maltz Jupiter Theatre Memories essay contest. What has made an impression on you over the last nine seasons? Do you remember something unique about a particular show? Have you or your children experienced something special at the Theatre or in our Conservatory? Have you attended one of our special events or worked at our Theatre? How has the growth of the Theatre affected your world?
ENTRIES MAY BE EMAILED TO THE THEATRE AT maltzmemories@jupitertheatre.org OR SENT VIA MAIL TO “Maltz Memories”
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A TRIPLE THREAT
Director Mark Martino discusses the elements that make The Music Man such a timeless show.
By Mark Martino - Director of The Music Man
As I started my research and pre-production work for my happy return to the Maltz Jupiter Theatre to direct The Music Man , I found myself asking the questions: “What accounts for this landmark musical’s enduring place in our musical theatre history? What makes a piece of theatre ‘timeless?’”
When The Music Man opened on Broadway in 1957, it was an instant hit, winning the Tony Award® for Best Musical over some pretty formidable competition: West Side Story . From 1957 to 2012, the popularity of The Music Man has never waned – spawning a hit movie, two Broadway revivals, dozens of national tours, hundreds of regional and stock productions, and literally countless community, college, and high school productions. Why is it that a show that opened 55 years ago –which is set on the 4th of July in a small town
in Iowa 100 years ago – still enchants and enthralls audiences?
I think you have to start with that timeline. The Music Man transports us to a time and place that seem inconceivable in today’s internet world. We find ourselves in smalltown America, where neighbors all know each other, ice cream socials are the highlight of the ‘to-do’ calendar and the introduction of a pool table could actually unravel the moral fabric of the community. We’re in a place where a con man can pass himself off as a professor of music (no Google searches to prove him wrong!), seduce an entire town with the tantalizing notion of its very own marching band, and – along the way – find himself meeting the town’s sexy and smart town librarian at the footbridge for a stolen kiss and a surprising admission of love.
Crazy for You Director Mark Martino, leading man Matt Loehr and Choreographer Shea Sullivan return for this season’s production of The Music Man.
