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PROGRAMNOTE Austene Van | Director Courage by definition is finding strength in the face of pain or grief. We often throw the word around, not because we’ve lost the ability to define it, but rather we inherently understand courage is on a sliding scale of perspective and circumstance. I’ve thought about this word a lot during the rehearsals of this production. By anyone’s definition, this young girl is the embodiment of courage.

She’s able to uplift others around her and lift them out of situations many of us could never even imagine.

In bringing this story to life, I became more and more impressed by Annie’s level of fortitude.

The hope she holds and her choice to be grateful buoys her in a rough sea of negativity allowing her to bring what she desires most to fruition: a real family, custom made just for her. This is another part of the story that I’ve grown fond of: the idea that the definition of family is also on a sliding scale of perspective, and looks very different to

different people. How wonderful that we can create this kind of love for ourselves!

Annie first danced her way out of a comic strip and onto the Goodspeed Opera House’s stage in 1976 and now, 41 years later, we recognize that we still need that little voice reminding us that “the sun will come out tomorrow.” We need that person showing us a vision for hope that is so heightened, no one can take it away. No one.

I hope your time with us here in the theater serves as hearty encouragement to pursue relentlessly your own vision for your life, and embrace the power of optimism and light even in the darkest of times.

Just hang on, my friends, you never know when you might be only a day away.

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Michele Ragusa Lance Roberts Cat Brindisi Britton Smith Ann Michels AND

Carly Gendell as Annie Lillian Hochman plays Annie at matinee performances Erika Dierke Olive Middleton Audrey Mojica Brianna-Marie Mraz Josie Turk Valerie Wick Brynn Baker Elise Benson Stephanie Bertumen Caitlyn Carroll Ivory Doublette J.P. Fitzgibbons Thay Floyd Charles Fraser Elena Glass Timmy Hays Adam Moen Brittany Parker Mari Peterson-Hilleque Adam Qualls Kersten Rodau Matthew Rubbelke Bill Scharpen Randy Schmeling Carl Schoenborn AND

Marti as Sandy

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SOUND DESIGNER

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Robert A. Dunn

Rick Polenek

Andrew Bourgoin

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ANIMAL DIRECTOR AND TRAINER

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William Berloni

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Tiffany K. Orr

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CAST

Annie...........................................................................................................................................................................................CARLY GENDELL*, LILLIAN HOCHMAN (matinee performances) Miss Hannigan.......................................................................................................................................................................... MICHELE RAGUSA* Oliver Warbucks..........................................................................................................................................................................LANCE ROBERTS* Grace Farrell.....................................................................................................................................................................................ANN MICHELS* Sandy............................................................................................................................................................................................................ MARTI Pepper..............................................................................................................................................................................................ERIKA DIERKE Molly..........................................................................................................................................................................................OLIVE MIDDLETON Kate...............................................................................................................................................................................................AUDREY MOJICA July.................................................................................................................................................................................... BRIANNA-MARIE MRAZ Duffy.....................................................................................................................................................................................................JOSIE TURK Tessie............................................................................................................................................................................................... VALERIE WICK Rooster Hannigan........................................................................................................................................................................BRITTON SMITH* Lily St. Regis.................................................................................................................................................................................... CAT BRINDISI* Bert Healy.............................................................................................................................................................................. RANDY SCHMELING* The Boylan Sisters....................................................................................................................................ELISE BENSON, ELENA GLASS*, KERSTEN RODAU* Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)....................................................................................................................................................... BILL SCHARPEN* Louis Howe................................................................................................................................................................................CHARLES FRASER* A Star To Be......................................................................................................................................................................................ELISE BENSON Bundles McCloskey.........................................................................................................................................................................ADAM QUALLS* Dog Catcher...........................................................................................................................................................................CARL SCHOENBORN* Lt. Ward.....................................................................................................................................................................................CHARLES FRASER* Sophie The Kettle..................................................................................................................................................................... BRITTANY PARKER Drake..........................................................................................................................................................................................J.P. FITZGIBBONS* Mrs. Pugh.................................................................................................................................................................................. BRITTANY PARKER Fred McCracken..............................................................................................................................................................................ADAM QUALLS* Jimmy Johnson.........................................................................................................................................................................CHARLES FRASER* Sound Effects Man............................................................................................................................................................................THAY FLOYD* Roxy Usherette................................................................................................................................................................................ ELENA GLASS* Kaltenborn’s Voice................................................................................................................................................................CARL SCHOENBORN* Harold Ickes...........................................................................................................................................................................CARL SCHOENBORN* Henry Morgenthau Jr.....................................................................................................................................................................ADAM QUALLS* Cordell Hull............................................................................................................................................................................ RANDY SCHMELING* Frances Perkins......................................................................................................................................................................... KERSTEN RODAU* Honor Guard......................................................................................................................................................................................THAY FLOYD* Justice Louis Brandeis...............................................................................................................................................................CHARLES FRASER* Apple Seller.......................................................................................................................................................................................THAY FLOYD* Ensemble.............................................................................................................................................................. BRYNN BAKER, ELISE BENSON, STEPHANIE BERTUMEN, CAITLYN CARROLL, IVORY DOUBLETTE*, J.P. FITZGIBBONS*, THAY FLOYD*, CHARLES FRASER*, ELENA GLASS*, BRITTANY PARKER, MARI PETERSON-HILLEQUE, ADAM QUALLS*, KERSTEN RODAU*, MATTHEW RUBBELKE, RANDY SCHMELING*, CARL SCHOENBORN* *Denotes members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Actors and Stage Managers in the United States

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UNDERSTUDIES Understudies never substitute for listed performer unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the performance.

Oliver Warbucks....................................................................................................................................................................CARL SCHOENBORN* Grace Farrell..................................................................................................................................................................................... ELENA GLASS* Rooster Hannigan.............................................................................................................................................................................THAY FLOYD* Lily St. Regis...................................................................................................................................................................... STEPHANIE BERTUMEN Miss Hannigan........................................................................................................................................................................... KERSTEN RODAU* Bert Healy.............................................................................................................................................................................MATTHEW RUBBELKE Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR).....................................................................................................................................................CHARLES FRASER* Drake..........................................................................................................................................................................................CHARLES FRASER* Molly................................................................................................................................................................................................BRYNN BAKER A Star To Be..................................................................................................................................................................................... ELENA GLASS* Orphan Swings........................................................................................................................... CAITLYN CARROLL, MARI PETERSON-HILLEQUE Female Swing....................................................................................................................................................................................TIMMY HAYS* Male Swing....................................................................................................................................................................................... ADAM MOEN* Dance Captain...................................................................................................................................................................................TIMMY HAYS* Stage Manager................................................................................................................................................................................ TIFFANY ORR* Assistant Stage Managers.................................................................................................................KATHRYN SAM HOUKOM*, LISA M. SMITH* *Denotes members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Actors and Stage Managers in the United States

ORCHESTRA Conductor..............................................................................................................................................................................................JEFF RIZZO Reeds...........................................................................................................................................KENNI HOLMEN, KATHY JENSEN, CLAY PUFAHL Trumpets................................................................................................................................................................ STEVE STRAND, DAVE JENSEN Trombones..................................................................................................................................................................DAVE GRAF, SCOTT AGSTER Drums......................................................................................................................................................................................JOEY VAN PHILLIPS Percussion......................................................................................................................................................................................STEVE KIMBALL Piano......................................................................................................................................................................................ANDREW BOURGOIN Guitar......................................................................................................................................................................................GEOFFREY LECRONE Violin.........................................................................................................................................................................................SUSAN CRAWFORD Cello................................................................................................................................................................................................ BILL GOLDMAN Upright Bass..................................................................................................................................................................................... GREG HIPPEN All musicians are members of American Federation of Musicians Local 30-73.

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MUSICAL NUMBERS ACT I OVERTURE.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Orchestra MAYBE.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Annie HARD KNOCK LIFE........................................................................................................................................................................................................Annie and Orphans HARD KNOCK LIFE (Reprise)........................................................................................................................................................................................................ Orphans TOMORROW........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Annie HOOVERVILLE .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. Company LITTLE GIRLS.........................................................................................................................................................................................................................Miss Hannigan LITTLE GIRLS (Reprise).......................................................................................................................................................................................................Miss Hannigan I THINK I’M GONNA LIKE IT HERE...............................................................................................................................................................Annie, Grace Farrell, Servants N.Y.C................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Annie, Warbucks, Grace Farrell, Company EASY STREET................................................................................................................................................................................................. Miss Hannigan, Rooster, Lily YOU WON’T BE AN ORPHAN FOR LONG.........................................................................................................................................................................Annie, Warbucks, Grace Farrell, Servants

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ACT II N.Y. ENTR’ACTE...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Annie FULLY DRESSED................................................................................................................................................................................................. Bert Healy, Boylan Sisters FULLY DRESSED (CHILDREN)......................................................................................................................................................................................................... Orphans EASY STREET (Reprise)................................................................................................................................................................................ Miss Hannigan, Rooster, Lily CABINET TOMORROW..............................................................................................................................................................................................Warbucks, Roosevelt, Cabinet Members, Howe CABINET END..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................Roosevelt, Cabinet Members, Howe SOMETHING WAS MISSING..........................................................................................................................................................................................................Warbucks I DON’T NEED ANYTHING BUT YOU............................................................................................................................................................................................Warbucks, Grace Farrell, Servants MAYBE (Reprise)................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Annie A NEW DEAL FOR CHRISTMAS................................................................................................................................Annie, Orphans, Warbucks, Grace Farrell, Servants, Cabinet Members, Howe

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WHO’S WHO CARLY GENDELL (Annie) Broadway: Winter Garden Theatre in New York City: School of Rock the Musical (original cast); Pre-Broadway Development at Gramercy Theatre in New York City: School of Rock the Musical; Flat Rock Playhouse, The State Theatre of North Carolina: Annie the Musical; Prescott Park Arts Festival in Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Annie the Musical, Shrek the Musical, Peter Pan; Boston Children’s Theatre in Boston, Massachusetts: The Velveteen Rabbit. Voiceovers: Hasbro “My Little Pony” Commercial; “Pants on Fire” Podcast. Music Videos: “I Have a Voice” with Broadway Kids Against Bullying; David Aleksander’s “Y Sentirás Mi Amor/Silent Night” with Kids of Broadway. Training: Vocal Coaching with Christiana Cole, Dance Molinari (Ballet, Hip Hop, Theatre Jazz, Tap, Tumbling, Improv), The Broadway Star Project. Member of Actors’ Equity.

LILIAN HOCHMAN (Annie at Matinee Performances) Minnetonka Theater: Titanic the Musical, Disney's The Little Mermaid, Once Upon a Mattress, Tarzan; Training: Minnesota State Honor Choir, Stages Theatre Company Junior Conservatory, Prairie Fire Summer Theater, KidStar Chanhassen Summer Theater, Sarah Jane’s Music School.

MICHELE RAGUSA (Miss Hannigan) Broadway: Young Frankenstein, Urinetown, Ragtime, Titanic, A Class Act, Cyrano. Off- Broadway: Adrift In Macao (Primary Stages – Lortel/ Drama League nomination/ Barrymore Award), Titanic-20th Anniversary Concert – Lincoln Center, Craving For Travel (Playwrights Horizon). Regional: Gypsy: John W. Engeman Theater; Bullets Over Broadway: Ogunquit Playhouse; Mame: Riverside Theatre; Hello, Dolly: Riverside Theatre; Funny Thing/Forum: Geva Theatre; King and I: Maltz Jupiter Theatre; Spamalot: MUNY; Sweeney Todd: Portland Center Stage; Noises Off: Studio Arena; Lend Me A Tenor: John W. Engeman; Singing/Rain: MUNY; Into The Woods: Kansas City Rep; Kiss Me Kate: Paper Mill Playhouse; The Drowsy Chaperone: Cape Playhouse; Thoroughly Modern Millie: John W. Engeman Theater; Mary Poppins: Kansas City Starlight; Guys and Dolls: Dallas Theatre Center; The Full Monty: Paper Mill/Aspen Theatre Company. micheleragusa.com/@MRagusaNY. LANCE ROBERTS (Oliver Warbucks) Most recently appeared in the world premiere of the new musical, The Honeymooners: Paper Mill Playhouse.

Over the last seven years, he has been in the original Broadway companies of Sunset Boulevard (revival), Finding Neverland, Act One, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Ghost, Sister Act, and The Peewee Herman Show.

Off-Broadway: The Robber Bridegroom (revival): Roundabout, Shows for Days: Lincoln Center, and The Liquid Plain: Signature Theater. National Tours/Los Angeles: The Los Angeles company of Cats, over 7,000

performances of Jafar in Aladdin: Hyperion Theater, Once On This Island, Aint Misbehavin’, The All Night Strut, and more. Film: This Is Where I Leave You, I Am Michael, The Humbling, Fan Girl. TV: "The Affair," "Law and Order: SVU," "White Collar," "Nurse Jackie," "Numb3rs," "Girlfriends," "Will and Grace," "Drew Carey," "Knots Landing," and "Scarecrow and Mrs. King," as well as the HBO miniseries, "Show Me A Hero."

CAT BRINDISI (Lily St. Regis) Ordway debut. Guthrie: Sunday...George (Celeste 1), Cocoanuts (Polly Potter), Stage Kiss (Laurie), Parchman Hour, South Pacific, My Fair Lady; Theater Latté Da: Gypsy (Louise), Aida (Amneris), Spelling Bee (Olive), Spring Awakening (Wendla); History Theatre; Mixed Blood; Illusion Theatre. Chanhassen Dinner Theatres: Hello Dolly (Irene Molly) — Lavender Magazine 2014 Best Supporting Musical Theatre Actress. 2013 City Pages Emerging Artist. Founding member of 7th House Theater.

Training: University of MN, Duluth BFA Musical Theatre/ Dance Minor. NAMT, 2017 (Michael Cassara Casting).

Proud AEA/SAG-AFTRA member. catbrindisi.com.

BRITTON SMITH (Rooster Hannigan) Broadway: Shuffle Along, After Midnight. Off-Broadway: Bella (Playwrights Horizons); The Fortress of Solitude (The Public); Wild Goose Dreams (The Public); The Wild Party (NYC Encores); Cotton Club Parade (NYC Encores) Regional: The Honeymooners (Paper Mill Playhouse) Damn Yankees (Weston Playhouse) 2017 AEA Mountain Top Award Recipient. 2016 Department of Cultural Affairs Artist in Residence. Founding Member of BAC. BFA Musical Theater Pace University 2012.

ANN MICHELS (Grace Farrell) Ordway: White Christmas, Paint Your Wagon (collaboration with 5th Avenue Theater), Gershwin Songbook. History Theatre: Sweet Land the Musical; These Shining Lives; The Christmas Schooner.

Chanhassen Dinner Theatres: Mary Poppins; Beauty and the Beast; Disney's The Little Mermaid, Bye Bye Birdie; Jesus Christ Superstar, Seven Brides…, Easter Parade, Joseph and the Amazing…, Anything Goes.

Guthrie Theater: Sunday in the Park With George; The Cocoanuts; My Fair Lady; The Primrose Path; A Streetcar Named Desire; A Christmas Carol; She Loves Me. Jungle Theater: Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

Theater Latté Da: Parade; A Man of No Importance; Sunday in the Park With George; Wings. Nautilus Music Theater: Man of La Mancha; The Last Five Years. Other Theaters: Children’s Theatre Company, Pantages, Torch, Illusion, Outward Spiral, Theater de la Jeune Lune.

MARTI (Sandy) was discovered by guardian/trainer William Berloni at Adopt A Dog Shelter in Armonk New York in May 2013 to play Sandy in the 2014 Sony release of ANNIE starring Quevenjanhe Wallis, Jamie Foxx, and Cameron Diaz.

Marti had been in that shelter for over two years after being brought up to New York from a high kill shelter down south. Marti made her stage debut in the 2013 Signature Theater Company's production of THE OPEN HOUSE written by Pulitzer Prize winner Will Eno and in 2016 in RANCHO VIEJO at Playwrights Horizon. She was invited to Capitol Hill in Washington DC to lobby the Senate and Congress on behalf of the veterinary industry. Her television credits include playing Paul Giamanni’s dog in the series BILLIONS and in the Nutrish dog food campaign. She enjoys show business and being an ambassador for homeless dogs everywhere, proving they are all stars.

ERIKA DIERKE (Pepper) Morris Park Players: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Mary Poppins, Into the Woods; Stages Theatre Company: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer; St. Anthony Community Theater: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Mary Popppins, Suessical.

OLIVE MIDDLETON (Molly) ORDWAY: Annie. Theater: Jukebox Time Machine, Cinderella, Character Street, Charlie Brown; Blue Tree Music Education: The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus; Corcoran Park Players. Other: Songbirds Choir. Training: Blue Tree Music Education.

AUDREY MOJICA (Kate) Lundstrum Performing Arts: The Wizard of Oz, Mary Poppins. Training: Lundstrum Performing Arts, Linden Hills House of Music, Ballare Teatro, Field Community School Madrigals Choir, Children’s Theatre Company, SteppingStone Theater for Youth Development.

BRIANNA-MARIE MRAZ (July) ORDWAY: Annie. Theatre: BriannaMarie has been dancing since she was two years old. She has studied all the performing arts at The Lundstrum Center since the age of six. Brianna-Marie has had numerous roles in various productions at The Lundstrum Center. She also enjoys reading, math, and gymnastics.

JOSIE TURK (Duffy) ORDWAY: Jesus Christ Superstar, The Sound of Music; History Theatre: Orphan Train; Theater Latté Da: Gypsy; Stages Theatre Company: Annie Jr., Twelve Dancing Princesses; Chaska Valley Family Theatre: Annie, A Christmas Carol: the Broadway Musical. Other: Opal Apple marketing videos, Steve Martin/Martin Short show. Training: River Valley Dance Academy, Classic Gymnastics, private voice, piano, clarinet.

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WHO’S WHO VALERIE WICK (Tessie) ORDWAY: Jesus Christ Superstar, White Christmas, Broadway Songbook; Children’s Theatre Company: The Abominables; Woodbury Community Theatre: Mary Poppins, Miracle on 34th Street; Stillwater Community Theatre: Sound of Music, Peter Pan; Stillwater Area High School: Cinderella, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (in Tokyo). Film: Caught in the Act, Keep It Quiet (unreleased). Training: K&S Conservatory of Music; Children’s Theatre Company Theatre Arts Training; Woodbury Dance Center; Cottage Grove Middle School.

BRYNN BAKER (Ensemble/US Molly) ORDWAY: Stage Debut, Annie.

Training: Ashley Ballet Arts Academy. Brynn loves math and art, and loves to play on her soccer team!

ELISE BENSON (Ensemble, A Star To Be, Boylan Sister) Children's Theatre Company: The Abominable's, Dr. Seuss's The Sneetches The Musical, A Year With Frog and Toad, and Cinderella; New York Musical Festival: Cookies; The Underground: Bare: A Pop Opera; University of Minnesota Duluth: Legally Blonde The Musical, Damn Yankees. Training: University of Minnesota Duluth, Open Jar Institute, 2016-2017 Children's Theatre Company Performing Apprentice.

STEPHANIE BERTUMEN (Ensemble, US Lily) ORDWAY: Jesus Christ Superstar; Theatre L’Homme Dieu produced by Artistry: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; Casting Spells Productions: Disenchanted!; Mu Performing Arts: A Little Night Music, Twelfth Night, Purple Cloud, tot: The Untold, Yet Spectacular Story…, Charles Francis Chan Jr.’s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery; History Theatre in partnership with Mu Performing Arts: The Debutante’s Ball; Mu Performing Arts and Park Square Theatre co-production: Flower Drum Song; Backyard to Broadway Productions: Right, Wrong, or Bomb! A Dating Musical; History Theatre: Complicated Fun; Children’s Theatre Company: The Last Firefly, The Abominables. Training: University of Minnesota/ Guthrie Theatre BFA Actor Training Program.

CAITLYN CARROLL (Ensemble, Orphan Swing) ORDWAY: Jesus Christ Superstar; Guthrie Theater: A Christmas Carol (2015, 2016), The Music Man; Artistry: The Secret Garden; Theatre In The Round: The Secret Garden; Minnetonka Theater: Tarzan, Brigadoon, Evita, The Little Rascals, The Jungle Book. Commercial: Abbey’s Hope PSA, Capstone Books Leaders Doing Headstands and Curious Pearl, EB Research Partnership. Training: Velocity Dance Intensive, Minnetonka Philharmonic Orchestra, Jerry Elsbernd Voice Studio.

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IVORY DOUBLETTE (Ensemble) Penumbra Theatre: Wedding Band; MainStreet Theatre Company: Elephant & Piggie’s “We are in a Play!”; The Marriott Theatre: Dreamgirls; Children’s Theatre Company: Cinderella, Disney’s High School Musical; History Comes to Life: Harriet Tubman; Chanhassen Dinner Theatres: Nunset Blvd, All Shook Up, Hairspray; Old Log Theatre: Mr. Toad’s Wild Adventure, Mahalia; Playwrights’ Center: Marie & Rosetta; Interact Theater: Hot Jazz at the Funky Butt; Intermedia Arts: Blacker the Berry, Skin & Masks; Illusion Theater: Autistic License. Teaching artist: MacPhail Center for Music, Children’s Theatre Company. Training: University Of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Wesley Balk Opera/Music-Theater Institute. Member of Actors’ Equity.

J.P. FITZGIBBONS (Drake, Ensemble) ORDWAY: Sound of Music, A Grand Night For Singing; Nautilus MusicTheater: Answered Prayers, Man of La Mancha, Carousel, John & Jen; Jungle Theater: Urinetown; Chanhassen Dinner Theatres: Oklahoma!, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Les Misérables, The Music Man, 42nd Street, Forever Plaid; Minnetonka Theater: The Drowsy Chaperone; Fitzgerald Theater: The Wild Party; Guthrie Theater: Once in a Lifetime; Children’s Theatre Company: The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, The Old Man Who Loved Cheese, Green Eggs and Ham, Raggedy Ann & Andy; Flying Foot Forum: French Twist; Door Shakespeare: The Importance of Being Earnest, As You Like It; Northstar Opera: She Loves Me, Countess Maritza; Dorian Opera: Song of Norway; Hey City Theater: Nunsense, A-Men!; Member AEA THAY FLOYD (Ensemble, US Rooster, Sound Effects Man, Honor Guard, Apple Seller) ORDWAY: Damn Yankees; Broadway: Waitress (Brooks Atkinson), A Christmas Story (Lunt-Fontanne, Madison Square Garden), I Am Harvey Milk Concert with Andrew Lippa and Kristen Chenoweth (Lincoln Center). Regional credits include: The Little Mermaid (Paper Mill, PCLO, KC Starlight, Dallas Summer Musicals, TUTS, TOTS), Cats (North Carolina Theater), Kiss Me Kate (Merry-Go-Round), La Cage (Sacramento Music Circus), Xanadu (ReVision Theatre), A Chorus Line (Ogunquit & Pioneer), Tommy (The Berkshire Theatre Festival), Chicago (Maine State Music Theatre), The Producers (national tour). Training: NYU/ Tisch.

CHARLES FRASER (Ensemble, US FDR, US Drake, Louis Howe, Lt. Ward, Jimmy Johnson, Justice Louis Brandeis) Park Square Theatre: The Diary of Anne Frank, August: Osage County, Defiance, The Triumph of Love; History Theatre: The Buddy Holly Story, Nellie; Zephyr Theatre: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Jungle Theater: Driving Miss Daisy (Ivey Award); Actors Theater of Minnesota: Princess Diana, the Musical, Bob’s Holiday Office Party; Jon Hassler Theater: The Good Doctor, Rounding Third, Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol, The Odd

Couple; New Stage Theatre: The Woman in Black; Guthrie Theater: Othello, The Comedy of Errors, Ah, Wilderness!; Minnesota Theatre Festival: Guys and Dolls, Godspell; Theatre de la Jeune Lune: Tartuffe; Disney Cruise Line’s Disney Magic: Off Beat Comedy Club; Film: The Completely Remarkable, Utterly Fabulous Transformation of a Regular Joe; Recording: Young Abe Lincoln; Upcoming: Yellow Tree Theatre: The Royale ELENA GLASS (Ensemble, US Grace/US A Star To Be, Boylan Sister, Roxy Usherette) ORDWAY: The Sound of Music, Broadway Songbook: Comden & Green; Yellow Tree Theatre: One Man, Two Guvnors; History Theatre: The Christmas Schooner, Orphan Train, To Kill a Mockingbird; Off-Broadway: Closer Than You Think; National Tours: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and Other Storybooks; Second Fiddle Productions: Chess, 110 in the Shade, Meet Me in St. Louis. Recordings: The Music Man, Thoroughly Modern Millie (Stage Stars Records). Training: New York University. Member of Actor's Equity Association TIMMY HAYS (Swing, Dance Captain) Ordway: Jesus Christ Superstar; National Tour: Memphis; Guthrie Theater: The Music Man; Chanhassen Dinner Theatres: Grease, Sister Act, Hello, Dolly!, Beauty and the Beast; Beef & Boards Theatre: Oklahoma, Anything Goes, Mary Poppins; Maples Repertory Theater: Big River; Prather Entertainment Group: CATS, South Pacific; Cardinal Theatricals: Rocky Horror Show. Member of Actor's Equity.

ADAM MOEN (Swing) Ordway: Jesus Christ Superstar; Guthrie Theatre: The Music Man; Chanhassen Dinner Theatres: Hello, Dolly!, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Grease, Fiddler on the Roof, Joseph . . .

Dreamcoat, Bye Bye Birdie; 7th House Theater: The Great Work. Training: BFA Musical Theatre, Minnesota State University, Mankato. Proud member of Actors' Equity.

BRITTANY PARKER (Ensemble, Sophie The Kettle, Mrs. Pugh) Ordway premiere! History Theater: Dance 'Til Ya Drop, Buddy Holly; Stages Theatre Company: Shrek Jr, Wayside Stories, Little Mermaid, The Wiz; Children's Theatre Company: Mercy Watson; Artistry: The Drowsy Chaperone, Guys and Dolls, Singing in the Rain: Park Square Theatre: Ragtime; Walking Shadow: The Christians; Old Log Theatre: Cinderella; Hennepin Theatre Trust: Girls Only!; Yellow Tree Theater: The Diary of Anne Frank, Miracle on Christmas Lake; Plymouth Playhouse: Ring of Fire; Actors Theater of Minnesota: Tony and Tina's Wedding; Climb Theatre; Power to the Eighth. National Tours: Miracle on 34th Street, The Scarlet Woman. Standup/Improv: House of Comedy, Acme Comedy Club, Bye Bye Liver, Stevie Ray's Improv, Camp Bar. Television/Movies: In an Instant, Disco Nap, Transformers 3. Training: University of Minnesota-Duluth.

WHO’S WHO MARI PETERSON-HILLEQUE (Ensemble, Orphan Swing) Fidgety Fairy Tales: The Mental Health Musicals. Training: Children’s Theatre Company classes and camps, Circus Juventas, and Blue Tree Music Education Center.

Mari is in 6th grade and attends Hope Academy in Minneapolis. She enjoys reading, taking vacations, and time with friends and family.

ADAM QUALLS (Ensemble, Bundles McCloskey, Fred McCracken, Henry Morgenthau Jr.) Children's Theatre Company: Eight productions, including Shrek the Musical, Alice in Wonderland, Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas; Theater Latté Da: Peter and the Starcatcher, Cabaret; History Theatre: Glensheen; Park Square Theatre: Great Expectations, Oliver Twist; Illusion Theater: A Night in Olympus; Artistry MN: You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Into the Woods, Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris; Theatre Pro Rata: 44 Plays for 44 Presidents, The Taming of The Shrew; Acadia Repertory Theatre: Two, Wait Until Dark, Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club. Training: BFA, Millikin University. Member of Actors' Equity Association.

KERSTEN RODAU (Ensemble, US Miss Hannigan, Boylan Sister, Frances Perkins) ORDWAY: Jesus Christ Superstar, The Sound of Music, The Pirates of Penzance, Damn Yankees, A Christmas Story: the Musical, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, A Grand Night for Singing, Broadway Songbook: Hollywood and Broadway / Singers & Songwriters of the 70s / Rock & Roll on Broadway / Irving Berlin / Johnny Mercer / Stephen Sondheim / George Gershwin / Cole Porter / Musicals of the 1950s; Illusion Theater: One and Only Sophie, Cocoanuts; Park Square Theatre: Ragtime, Side Show; Guthrie Theater: H.M.S. Pinafore, She Loves Me, The Pirates of Penzance, A Christmas Carol, Sweeney Todd; Chanhassen Dinner Theatres: Hello Dolly, Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Xanadu, Jesus Christ Superstar, Les Misérables, Nunset Boulevard, The Musical of Musicals, Forbidden Broadway, Oklahoma!, The Sound of Music; Jungle Theater: Urinetown; Minnesota Orchestra: Carousel, Springtime in Paris, Peer Gynt, Mass; Nautilus MusicTheater: Ordinary Days (Ivey Award), John and Jen; Bloomington Civic Theatre: Funny Girl. Theater Latté Da: Next: New Musicals in the Making.

MATTHEW RUBBELKE (Ensemble, US Bert Healy, Honor Guard) ORDWAY: The Sound of Music, The Pirates of Penzance; Theater: Children's Theatre Company: A Year with Frog and Toad, Pinocchio, Peter Pan the Musical, Huck Finn, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Busytown the Musical; Theater Latté Da: Gyspy, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street; History Theatre: Teen Idol: The Bobby Vee Story; Yellow Tree Theatre: Violet; Studio

Theatre: Carrie; Keegan Theatre: Cabaret; Training: American University, 2014-2015 Children's Theatre Company’s Performing Apprentice.

BILL SCHARPEN (Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)) Theater Latté Da: Oliver, The Light in the Piazza; History Theatre: Christmas of Swing; Nautilus Music-Theater: Reach, Rough Cuts; Jon Hassler Theater: And the World Goes Round, My Way; Minnesota Opera: King and I, Tintypes; Drury Lane Theatre: Crazy for You, Annie; Theatre at the Center: Arsenic and Old Lace, Baby, Funny Girl, Bells Are Ringing, Sweet Charity, Grand Hotel, 42nd Street; Candlelight: Phantom; Illinois Theatre Center: Blood Brothers; Darien Dinner Theater: Anything Goes.

Training: Moorhead State University, T. Schreiber Studio. Member of Actor’s Equity.

RANDY SCHMELING (Bert Healy, Ensemble, Cordell Hull) ORDWAY: Jesus Christ Superstar, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, The Pirates of Penzance, The Sound of Music, Damn Yankees, A Christmas Story, Broadway Songbook: The 70s Songbook, Broadway Songbook: The First 100 Years of Broadway, Broadway Songbook: Rock and Roll, Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Rocky Horror Show; History Theatre: The Working Boys Band, 1968: The Year that Rocked the World, Orphan Train; Illusion Theater: Only One Sophie, A Night In Olympus, Love & Marriage, The Coconuts; Theater Latté Da: Violet, The Full Monty, Parade, Passage of Dreams, Gypsy, Floyd Collins, A Christmas Carole Petersen; Torch Theater: Dancing at Lughnasa, Macbeth, The Miracle Worker; Chanhassen Dinner Theatres: West Side Story, Beauty and the Beast; Jungle Theater: Urinetown; Sidekick Theatre: Baskerville. Training: Gustavus Adolphus College. Member of Actors' Equity.

CARL SCHOENBORN (Ensemble, US Warbucks, Dog Catcher, Harold Ickes) ORDWAY: A Christmas Story: The Musical, Sound of Music, West Side Story, Broadway SongbookComden & Green; Children’s Theatre Company: Pippi Longstocking; Old Log Theatre: Ghost, The Musical; Park Square Theatre: Ragtime; History Theatre: Orphan Train, Working Boys Band, Christmas Schooner; Frank Theatre: Love and Information; Illusion Theater: The Cocoanuts; Artistry: Sweeney Todd, Follies, The Music Man, LaGuardia, The Fantasticks, Chicago, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Phantom, Les Misérables, Man of La Mancha, Into the Woods; Gremlin Theatre: The Odd Couple, Foever Plaid, Bus Stop, Uncle Vanya, The Petrified Forest, Serenading Louie, Lend me a Tenor; Training: St. Olaf College.

Member of Actors’ Equity Association.

THOMAS MEEHAN (Book) received the Tony® Award for co-writing the book for The Producers in 2001 and in 2003 for co-writing the book for Hairspray. He received his first Tony® Award in 1977 for writing the book of Annie, which was his first Broadway show,

and has written the books for the musicals Rocky, Elf the Musical, Cry-Baby, Young Frankenstein, Chaplin, Bombay Dreams, I Remember Mama, Ain’t Broadway Grand, and Annie Warbucks. In addition, he was a long-time contributor of humor to The New Yorker, an Emmy-Award winning writer of television comedy, and a collaborator on a number of screenplays, including Mel Brooks' Spaceballs and To Be Or Not To Be. Mr. Meehan was also a member of the Council of the Dramatists Guild. He and his wife, Carolyn, divided their time between a home in Nantucket and an apartment in Greenwich Village, near which, on Hudson Street, she owned and presided over the longrunning and near-legendary children's store Peanut Butter & Jane.

CHARLES STROUSE (Music) A long-standing member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and in January 2002, an inductee into The Theater Hall of Fame, Charles Strouse's first Broadway musical, BYE BYE BIRDIE (1960), won him a Tony® Award and the London Critics Best Foreign Musical Award. In 1970, APPLAUSE, starring Lauren Bacall, achieved the same honors and his smash hit, ANNIE (1977), also won a Tony® for Best Score as well as two Grammy Awards®. Some of his other musicals include ALL AMERICAN, GOLDEN BOY (starring Sammy Davis Jr.), IT'S A BIRD, IT'S A PLANE, IT'S SUPERMAN, I AND ALBERT, directed in London by John Schlesinger, and DANCE A LITTLE CLOSER, written with Alan Jay Lerner. CHARLIE & ALGERNON won a 1981 Tony® nomination for Best Score, as did RAGS in 1987 and NICK AND NORA in 1992. He wrote both the music and lyrics for off-Broadway's MAYOR, and teamed again with Martin Charnin to create ANNIE WARBUCKS, the sequel to ANNIE. His film scores include BONNIE & CLYDE, THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED MINSKY'S, and ALL DOGS GO TO HEAVEN. "Those Were The Days," the theme song for TV's ALL IN THE FAMILY, is a Strouse song, with lyrics by his most frequent collaborator, Lee Adams. "Born Too Late", a 1958 pop song written with Fred Tobias, was a top-10 BILLBOARD chart hit and is still heard on many oldies stations. The quadruple platinum album title song by Jay-Z, "Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)", won the 1999 Grammy for the Best Rap Album, charted for more than a year and won the BILLBOARD 1998 R&B Album of the Year Award. Strouse's far-ranging talents include chamber and orchestral works, a piano concerto, a two-piano sonata, and operas. His latest choral work, "The Child In Us All", premiered in spring, 2000. NIGHTINGALE, an opera based on the Hans Christian Andersen story for which he wrote music, book, and lyrics, was recorded

by Sarah Brightman. Strouse was commissioned in 2001 to write CONCERTO AMERICA for the pianist Jeffrey Biegel. The work premiered in June 2002 with the Boston Pops at Symphony Hall. Charles Strouse created the ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop in New York, where he encouraged the talents of countless young composers, writers and performers. In 1999, Strouse received the ASCAP Foundation Richard Rodgers Award for Career Lifetime Achievement in Musical Theatre.

In December, 1995, a TV reinterpretation of the classic BYE BYE BIRDIE (starring Jason Alexander and pop star Vanessa Williams) aired on ABC-TV. The 1995/96 Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in

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WHO’S WHO Music and Lyrics was given to the new song written for and performed by Vanessa Williams: "Let's Settle Down". Another TV interpretation in 1999, ANNIE, aired on ABC's Wonderful World of Disney, swept the ratings by winning over 40 million viewers, won the 1999 Peabody Award and two Emmy Awards. The show starred Kathy Bates, Audra McDonald, Alan Cumming, Kristin Chenoweth, Victor Garber, Andrea McArdle, and Alicia Morton as Annie, and ranked #1 as movie of the year. A revised GOLDEN BOY was produced by the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven (November, 2000); and the ENCORES! Series presented the show in March, 2002. Future projects: GOLDEN BOY will be performed at the Greenwich Theatre in England in June, 2003. THE NIGHT THEY RAIDED MINSKY'S, which Charles Strouse originally scored for film, has been turned into a full-length musical. The Broadway-bound version has a book by the late Michael Okrent and Evan Hunter, lyrics by Susan Birkenhead. The Manhattan Theatre Club has scheduled the show for its 2003-04 season.

An adaptation of the Paddy Chayevsky film MARTY had a successful regional theatre run at Huntington Theatre in Boston in September, 2002. The show reunites Strouse with Lee Adams as lyricist; the book is by Rupert Holmes. John C. Reilly starred in the Huntington production and will later again star when the show comes to Broadway next season.

MARTIN CHARNIN (Lyrics) originated the role of "Big Deal" in the Broadway production of WEST SIDE STORY in 1957 — it was the only acting job he ever had, He began writing during WEST SIDE and his first collaborator was Mary Rodgers. His Tony® awardwinning Broadway production of ANNIE (the eleventh longest-runing American musical in Broadway history) celebrated its twentieth anniversary in 1997 with a return to Broadway, and its national company has spent three years touring the United States. Another production closed in 2000 in the United Kingdom, having been nominated for the 1999 Olivier Award for Best Musical. A third production ended a twoyear run in Amsterdam in 2001, and his 15th over-all production closed after a triumphant run in Australia in 2002. Mr. Charnin has been the director, lyricist, composer, librettist, producer, or combination of the aforementioned for over 75 theatrical productions including ANNIE, ANNIE WARBUCKS, the rock opera version of JOAN OF ARC, MATA HARI, LOOSE LIPS, STARCROSSED, SID CEASAR & COMPANY, CARNAL KNOWLEDGE, IN PERSONS WITH ELI WALLACH AND ANNE JACKSON, THE FLOWERING PEACH, WINCHELL, the revised Goodspeed production of Cole Porter's CAN-CAN (for which he wrote the book), CAFÉ CROWN, MIKE, LAUGHING MATTERS, THE NO FRILLS REVUE, UPSTAIRS AT O'NEALS, THE FIRST, ON THE SWING SHIFT, A LITTLE FAMILY BUSINESS, THE NATIONAL LAMPOON SHOW, LENA HORNE: THE LADY AND HER MUSIC, I REMEMBER MAMA, HOT SPOT, ZENDA, PUT IT IN WRITING, FALLOUT, KALEIDOSCOPE, BALLAD FOR A FIRING SQUAD, LA STRADA, NASH AT NINE, TWO BY TWO, and, in London, BAR MITZVAH BOY, two productions of ANNIE, BLESS THE BRIDE, and THE 9 ½ QUID REVUE. His collaborators include Peter Allen, Harold Arlen, Vernon Duke, Keith Levinson, Marvin Hamlisch, Peter Sipos, Mary Rodgers, Richard Rodgers, and Charles Strouse. He has directed

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Fred Astaire, Anne Bancrost, Lena Horne, Danny Kaye, Angela Lansbury, Johnny Mathis, Bill Murray, Bebe Neuwirth, Bernadette Peters, Sarah Jessica Parker, Gilda Radner, Molly Ringwald, Chita Rivera, Liv Ullman, Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson, Lou Reed, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Joan Rivers, Harvey Keitel, Chuck D, Jon Stuart, Phoebe Snow, Shirley Maclaine, Marlo Thomas, Sally Jesse Raphael, Julianne Moore, Kate Clinton, and Martha Plimpton, among others. He is currently writing and directing a musical based on the life of the fabulous international star Josephine Baker, which has a score by the late Harold Arlen; RAINBOW CORNER (a musical he is collaborating on with Nathan Silver, which is about British War Brides in 1944); WINCHELL, a musical about the famous newspaper reporter, written with Keith Levenson; and a revival of the first musical he wrote with Richard Rodgers, TWO BY TWO, and with Thomas Meehan and Peter Sipos as collaborators, audiences will see his latest musical — a retelling of the Robin Hood legend. He has recently completed a play, SWIMMING WITH THE SHARKS (based on the 1993 film of the same name), and is writing and directing a musical based on the life and times of Rosie the Riveter. Charnin has received four Tony® nominations, two Tony® awards, six Grammy® Awards, three Emmy® Awards, three Gold Records, two Platinum Records, six Drama Desk Awards, a Peabody Award for Broadcasting, and most recently another Grammy® Award for Jay-Z's rap album, HARD KNOCK LIFE, which went triple platinum in 1999. His first association with the Gershwins was the Emmy® Award winning TV special, 'S WONDERFUL, 'S MARVELOUS, 'S GERSHWIN, which starred Fred Astaire, Jack Lemmon. Ethel Merman, Larry Kurt, Leslie Uggams, and Peter Nero.

The show won a Peabody® Award.

AUSTENE VAN (Director) Austene Van is an actor, director, and choreographer. Penumbra Company member credits include Wedding Band, The Owl Answers, Detroit '67, Spunk, Amen Corner, Blue, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Dinah Was, Blues for an Alabama Sky, and Seven Guitars. Austene performed the title role in Aida at the Pantages with Theater Latté Da; Blanche Dubois in A Street Car Named Desire, Henry IV, The Unsinkable Molly Brown with Ten Thousand Things; In The Next Room at the Jungle Theatre; Trouble in Mind, Disgraced, Gem of the Ocean, Crowns, and A Christmas Carol at Guthrie Theater; Disgraced at McCarter & Milwaukee Repertory, Radio Golf at IRT/ Cleveland Playhouse; To Kill a Mockingbird at Park Square; Shrek the Musical, Once on this Island at Children's Theatre Company; Singin' in the Rain at the Ordway. Recently directed Hot Mikado at Skylight Music Theatre, Intimate Apparel at Ten Thousand Things, Six Degrees of Separation at Theatre in the Round Players; Joan: Voices in the Fire at Rarig Center; Hot Chocolate, Gee’s Bend and Lady Day at Park Square; Lonely Soldier Monologues and A Civil War Christmas at History Theatre; Blues in the Night at Ordway; Ain't Misbehavin' at Capri, and Black Nativity at Penumbra.

LEWIS E. WHITLOCK III (Choreographer) Mr. Whitlock’s work began in Minnesota, and has been seen nationally and internationally through organizations including: Guthrie Theater, Arizona Theatre Company, Plymouth Playhouse, Chanhassen Dinner Theatres, Minnesota Orchestra, and Depot Theater in Westport, N.Y. Most recently, he has directed and choreographed The Spirit of Hope at the Fringe Theatre Festival, The Color Purple at Park Square Theatre, and My Fair Lady at Artistry. Mr. Whitlock conceived, directed, and guided for 14 years the original production Black Nativity at Penumbra Theatre.

Under a Fulbright Grant, he taught Jazz Dance in Riga, Latvia. He served as a Cultural Envoy for the American Embassy in Kazakhstan.

JEFF RIZZO (Musical Director, Conductor) ORDWAY: Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, Damn Yankees, A Christmas Story: the Musical, Joseph . . . Dreamcoat, Singin’ In the Rain, 42nd Street (national tour); Madison Square Garden: The Wizard of Oz; Mystic Lake Casino: The Music Man in Concert (Shirley Jones and Patrick Cassidy); Film: Dreamgirls (audition pianist); Shubert Theater: Sunset Boulevard (starring Glenn Close); National Tours: Annie, The Wizard of Oz, 42nd Street; Theatre Under the Stars: How To Succeed. . ., The Music Man, Elf, Spamalot, White Christmas, Yankee Doodle Dandy, The Sound of Music, Hello, Dolly!; Faculty: The American Music and Dramatic Academy (LA campus); Composer: Jailbirds on Broadway, Wanna Play?!, A Christmas Carol. Co-founded The Musical Theatre Guild.

THEONI V. ALDREDGE (Original Costume Designer), with over 100 Broadway shows to her credit, was inducted in the Theatre Hall of Fame in 1986. Her credits include Sweet Bird of Youth, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Anyone Can Whistle, A Chorus Line, Three Penny Opera, Annie (Tony® Award), Barnum (Tony® Award), 42nd Street, Dreamgirls, La Cage Aux Folles (Tony® Award), and Gypsy. Ms. Aldredge’s film credits include The First Wives Club, Addams Family Values, Moonstruck, Network, The Rose, and The Great Gatsby, for which she received The Academy Award and The British Society of Film and Television Arts Award. She is recipient of The New York Liberty Medal, the Costume Guild Career Achievement Award, the Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award, and Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters and Career Achievement Award: De Paul University. For over 20 years, Ms. Aldredge was the principal designer for Joe Papp’s New York Shakespeare Festival.

MING CHO LEE (Original Set Designer) has designed nationally and internationally for 50 years, for opera, dance, Broadway, and regional theater, and is the recipient of the National Medal of Arts, the highest national award given in the arts. Other awards include the Mayor’s Award for Arts and Culture; Tony® Award, Outer Critic’s Circle and Drama Desk Awards, many others from the theater and Chinese communities, and three honorary degrees. His work has been shown in a retrospective at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. He serves as a member of the Board of the New 42nd Street, Inc., as well as that of the Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, the Non-Traditional Casting Project, and many others. He is co-chair of the design department of the Yale School of Drama, and holds the Donald Oenslager Chair in Design.

WHO’S WHO DON DARNUTZER (Lighting Designer) ORDWAY: Sound of Music; Broadway: It Ain’t Nothin’ But The Blues; Off-Broadway: Hank Williams: Lost Highway, The Immigrant, Almost Heaven: John Denver’s America.

Other companies: Guthrie Theater, Denver Center Theatre Company, Arizona Theatre Company, Seattle Repertory, Cincinnati Playhouse In The Park, The Shakespeare Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Cleveland Play House, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Children’s Theatre Company, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Portland Opera, Florentine Opera, New Orleans Opera, Palm Beach Opera, Atlanta Opera, and John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

ANDY HORKA/BIG AIR PRODUCTIONS INC. (Sound Designer) ORDWAY: In the Heights, Jesus Christ Superstar, West Side Story, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, Damn Yankees; Arts Club Theatre: In the Heights, Mary Poppins, Spamalot, Altar Boyz, The Optimists, The Diary of Anne Frank; Carousel Theatre: James and the Giant Peach; 5th Avenue Theatre: White Christmas, Company, Wonderful Town, The Sound of Music, Miss Saigon, Singin’ in the Rain; Richmond Gateway Theatre: The Tiger of Malaya, The Kitchen Witches, The Secret Garden, Here on the Flight Path, Lend Me a Tenor, Sleuth, The King and I, Pumpboys & Dinettes (Jessie Award nominated), The Sound of Music.

AARON T. CHVATAL (Costume Designer) ORDWAY: White Christmas (Assistant Designer), Broadway Songbook; Janiec Opera Company at Brevard Music Center: Street Scene, Don Pasquale, Falling Angel, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Magic Flute; Opera on the James: Don Pasquale, Hansel and Gretel, Gianni Schicchi, Suor Angelica, La Voix Humane, Bon Appetit, The Magic Flute; Minnesota Opera: Project Opera’s The Nightingale; Castleton Opera Festival: Our Town; Penumbra Theatre: Detroit ’67; Park Square Theatre: Amy’s View, Murder for Two, 4000 Miles; Spinning Tree Theatre: A Little Night Music; Washburn Opera Studio: Gianni Schicchi, The Telephone; UMKC Conservatory Opera: La Tragedie de Carmen. Training: University of Missouri – Kansas City.

WILLIAM BERLONI (Animal Director and Trainer) 2011 Tony® Honoree for Excellence in Theatre, 2017 Drama League’s Unique Contribution to the Theatre, and 2014 Outer Critics Circle Award for Special Achievement. 25 Broadway shows, hundreds Off-Broadway, regional theatre, tours, television, and movies. Mr. Berloni is the Animal Director of the new musical BECAUSE OF WINN DIXIE, with music by Duncan Sheik and book and lyrics by Nell Benjamin. Subject of the docu-series WAGS TO RICHES WITH BILL BERLONI on Discovery Family Channel. Published author of BROADWAY TAILS, DOGA, and SANDY THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A STAR. Director of Animal Behavior Humane Society of New York. Follow William Berloni Theatrical Animals, Inc. on Facebook and on twitter @BillBerloni. theatricalanimals.com.

ROBERT A. DUNN (Hair & Make-Up Designer) ORDWAY: In the Heights, Jesus Christ Superstar, West Side Story, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, A Chorus Line, The Sound of Music, The Pirates of Penzance, Damn Yankees, A Christmas Story: the Musical, Cinderella, Joseph . . . Dreamcoat, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast; Children’s Theatre Company, Alley Theatre (Houston), Big League Theatrical (NYC): Titanic the Musical, Miss Saigon, The Music Man; Alabama Shakespeare Festival; Black Hills Playhouse; Theater Latté Da; Guthrie Theater; Lorie Line Productions; Artistry; History Theatre; Walking Shadow Theatre Company.

RICK POLENEK (Props Designer) ORDWAY: 8-Track, Adventures in Love (scenic design), In the Heights, West Side Story, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, A Chorus Line, The Sound of Music, The Pirates of Penzance, Damn Yankees, A Christmas Story: the Musical, and many other productions as props coordinator; Active for 40+ years in regional theatre, museum, and design communities; Park Square Theatre: 25+ productions; Theater Latté Da; Skylark Opera; Minnesota Centennial Showboat; History Theatre; Yellow Tree Theatre; Numerous community and educational theatres; Minnesota Historical Society; The Science Museum of Minnesota; Weisman Art Museum; VEE Corporation.

ANDREW BOURGOIN (Associate Musical Director) ORDWAY: In the Heights, Jesus Christ Superstar (Musical Director), A Chorus Line, The Sound of Music, Pirates of Penzance, Damn Yankees, A Christmas Story; Hennepin Theatre Trust: Spotlight Showcase (2015– 2017), National Tours; Children's Theatre Company: Diary of A Wimpy Kid; Theater Latté Da: Master Class, Cabaret; Park Square Theatre: The Color Purple; College Light Opera Company (19 productions); innumerable cabaret acts and conducting. Training: St. Olaf College.

ANDREW G. LUFT (Production Manager) is the Ordway’s Director of Building Operations overseeing the Ordway’s production and technical departments, and the care and security of this beautiful facility.

He joined the Ordway team in 2012 to take on the challenge of building a new concert hall, and heading up the production department, and is now taking care of this wonderful facility as well. From 2002–2012, he served as Production Supervisor for the 5th Avenue in Seattle, WA. REID HARMSEN (Casting Director) ORDWAY: In the Heights, Jesus Christ Superstar, West Side Story, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, Paint Your Wagon, A Chorus Line, The Sound of Music, The Pirates of Penzance, Damn Yankees, A Christmas Story: the Musical, Cinderella, Broadway Songbook Series (2014–2017).

Other casting: Cardinal Theatricals: Rent, The Rocky Horror Show-Live!; American Repertory Theatre: Mrs. Smith-Live!; Commercial, print, and voiceover casting: Cheerios, Best Buy, Target, MN Twins, Sleep Number Beds, Anytime Fitness, MTV, Buffalo Wild Wings, Pillsbury, MN Vikings, MN lotto, General Mills, Subway, among others.

TIFFANY K. ORR (Stage Manager) ORDWAY: Annie; Theater Latté Da: Nearly 20 productions, including The Man of La Mancha, Six Degrees of Separation, Sweeney Todd, Spring Awakening, and Evita; Music Theatre Wichita: 40 productions, including Disney’s Newsies, Mamma Mia, Billy Elliott the Musical, 9 to 5, Xanadu, Betty Blue Eyes, and West Side Story; Pillsbury House Theatre: Bulrusher, No Child, and King of Shadows; Children’s Theatre Company: Fashion 47, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and Peter Pan; Guthrie: A View from the Bridge; Phoenix Theater (Phoenix, AZ): Cabaret, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Will Roger’s Follies. Member of Actors’ Equity Association since 2005.

KATHRYN SAM HOUKOM (Assistant Stage Manager) ORDWAY: In the Heights, Irving Berlin's White Christmas, Love Janis; Minnesota Orchestra: Salome; Children's Theatre Company: A Year with Frog and Toad, The Snowy Day and Other Stories, Cinderella, The Wizard of Oz, Peter Pan the Musical, Reeling, Busytown the Musical, Alice in Wonderland; Fitzgerald Theatre: Wild Party; Park Square Theatre: Opus, Constant Star, Oh Coward!; Mixed Blood Theatre: Shiv, Dr. King's Dream; Minnesota Opera: Tosca; Steppenwolf Theatre Company: Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Supple in Combat, The Mesmerist; Lookingglass Theatre Company: Metamorphoses; The John F. Kennedy Center: Soul Possessed; The Pearl Theatre Company: Richard III, Merry Wives of Windsor, Heartbreak House; Contemporary American Theatre Festival: Compleat Female Stage Beauty, Rounding Third, Something in the Air, Thief River. Member of Actors’ Equity.

LISA M. SMITH (Assistant Stage Manager) ORDWAY: In the Heights, West Side Story, Pirates of Penzance, Broadway Songbook: The First 100 Years of Broadway (MN Tour), Sondheim Songbook. Theater: The Guthrie Theater: Choir Boy. Theater Latté Da; C., Into the Woods, NEXT, All is Calm, Our Town, Company, Spring Awakening, Passages, Old Wicked Songs; Mu Performing Arts: A Little Night Music, FOB (MN Tour), Kung Fu Zombies vs Cannibals, Yellow Fever, Into the Woods, Four Destinies, Little Shop of Horrors, Yellowface, The Romance of Magno Rubio, Flower Drum Song, Ching Chong Chinaman; History Theatre: Teen Idol: The Bobby Vee Story; Minnesota Orchestra: Hansel and Gretel, Bernstein: Mass; Producing House; Cowards Women. Dance and Taiko: TU Dance, Shelter Dance, Mu Daiko. Festivals and Events; Flint Hills Children’s Festival, Spotlight Awards, Minnesota Fringe Festival.

ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 45,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote, and foster the art of live theater as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is AEA’s mark of excellence.

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WHO’S WHO MUSIC THEATRE INTERNATIONAL (MTI) is one of the world's leading theatrical licensing agencies, granting theatres from around the world the rights to perform the greatest selection of musicals from Broadway and beyond. Founded in 1952 by composer Frank Loesser and orchestrator Don Walker, MTI is a driving force in advancing musical theatre as a vibrant and engaging art form. MTI works directly with the composers, lyricists, and book writers of these musicals to provide official scripts, musical materials, and dynamic theatrical resources to over 70,000 professional, community, and school theatres in the US, and in over 60 countries worldwide. MTI is particularly dedicated to educational theatre, and has created special collections to meet the needs of various types of performers and audiences. MTI’s Broadway Junior™ shows are 30- and 60-minute musicals for performance by elementary and middle school-aged performers, while MTI’s School Editions are musicals annotated for performance by high school students.

ORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS (Producer) The Ordway is widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading nonprofit performing arts centers, and Saint Paul’s most elegant and inviting performance space. The Ordway’s Music Theater and Concert Hall attracts diverse audiences with an array of productions showcasing the finest in American musical theater, world music, dance, and vocal performance. Education and community engagement are integral to the Ordway’s mission, with major initiatives including the annual Flint Hills International Children’s Festival and Ordway Education programs that serve more than 50,000 students annually. Together with Minnesota Opera, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and the Schubert Club, the Ordway is a member of the Arts Partnership, and serves as the principal venue for their performances. For more information, visit ordway.org.

JAMES A. ROCCO (Producing Artistic Director) ORDWAY: Writer/Host: Broadway Songbook Series; Director/Choreographer: In the Heights, Jesus Christ Superstar, A Chorus Line, The Pirates of Penzance, Damn Yankees, A Christmas Story: the Musical, Joseph . . . Dreamcoat, Singin’ in the Rain, Yankee Doodle; Director: Grey Gardens; Love Janis (Ivey Award); Producer: Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Blues In The Night, The Rocky Horror Show, Cabaret (Ivey Award). Broadway: The Wizard of Oz, Cats, Wind in the Willows; Off-Broadway: Streakin’!, Fantasma, Sweeney Todd, Nite Club Confidential, Elegies, New York Shakespeare Festival; International: Shaw Theater (London), Art Sphere (Tokyo), Chatelet (Paris); National tours/regional: John F. Kennedy Center, National Theater, Park Square, 5th Avenue Theatre, Paper Mill Playhouse, Interact, Key City Public Theatre; Representative Productions: 33 Variations, As Bees in Honey Drown, The Bad Seed, Lionmaker, Into the Woods, Glorious Feeling!, Yankee Doodle, Superstar, Chess, Grey Gardens; Film/TV: Galaxy Express, Born of a Dream, The World We Create, Monsters, All My Children,

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Child’s Play, MANDANCE, 21 for the 21st; Writer: Broadway Songbook Series, Words & Music Series, Streakin’!, Rock & Roll Christmas, Broadway Sings for the Heartland (with Ed Harris, Sandy Duncan, and Ben Vereen). Commissioned: A Country Christmas Carol. Recordings: And The Night Stood Still (FMBQ Top 40 Hit), Roxbury/Smithsonian Gershwin Series, The Revisited Series. Concerts: Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Lead Singer with Duke Ellington’s Sophisticated Ladies, Herbie Hancock’s All Stars, Eddie Arnold’s Southern Comfort, and Ginger Ale, The Sound of American Pop. Awards: Broadway Salutes (2013), Ivey Awards (2007/2008), LA Ovation nomination (2003), CT Critics Circle Best Director (2000/2001); Producing Director/President, Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma (1995–1997), Interim Artistic Director, Stage One, a theatre for new musical works (1998–1999). Member: SDC, AEA, Broadway League, ASCAP, IPN, NAMT. Currently co-directing Holiday Inn at the 5th Ave Theatre in Seattle.

JAMIE GRANT (Ordway President & CEO) Jamie Grant joined the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts as President and CEO in March 2016. He has been a leader and innovator in the performing arts for over thirty years. Jamie was previously the President and CEO of the Long Center for the Performing Arts in Austin, Texas. He was brought to Austin to turn around the fledgling organization which had suffered seven figure shortfalls in its first four years of operations. He focused on audience development efforts and looked for ways to maximize and monetize the opportunities. In Jamie’s first full year at the helm, the Long Center had growing audiences and a small surplus and continued on that trend for three years.

He spent thirteen years as the General Manager of the Centre in the Square in Kitchener, Ontario, and was responsible for opening three performing arts centers: Imperial Theatre in Saint John, New Brunswick, Brampton Theatre Office, and Skylight Theatre in Toronto. Jamie was a founding member of Canada’s National Theatre Festival, Magnetic North, and served as Chairman of the Board; and eye-GO the Arts — a national program to encourage youth to attend the performing arts. Jamie was an adjunct lecturer at the University of Waterloo for nearly a decade, and is a sought-after speaker and facilitator.

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Hurcil (Herbie) Woodruff+ Assistant Carpenter & Fly ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ Boris Kilmer+ Head of Properties ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Mark Dalglish+ Assistant Props ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ Molly Gubbins+ Head of Sound/Sound Mixer �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Wendell Bell+ Assistant Sound ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Collin Sherraden+ Sound Technican ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Jim Pfitizinger Head Electrician ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Marc D. Johnson+ Assistant Electrician ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Kris Brodersen+ Assistant to the Costume Designer ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Mary Farrell Wardrobe Shop Supervisor ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ Kari Holmberg+ Wardrobe Supervisor ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Dale Bryant+ Hair & Makeup Supervisor ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� David Bryant+ Musician Contractor �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Musicians Services, Inc. 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Tony Jilek-Guidry, Kristina MacKenzie, Anna Hopps, Karli McDonald, Jeffrey Miller Payroll...................................................................................................................................................Cindy Cameron Intelligent Lighting Provided by ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Ruehling and Associates Production Trucking provided by ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Clark Transfer Drafting Services by �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Jason Allyn-Schwerin Animal Director and Trainer.................................................................................William Berloni Theatrical Animals Inc. *Denotes members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Actors and Stage Managers in the United States +Denotes members of The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees or IATSE Local 13 Minneapolis/St. Paul.

The Director and Choreographer are members of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Inc., an independent national labor union.

The musicians employed in this production are members of the American Federation of Musicians.

Thank you to the members of IATSE Local 13 Minneapolis/ St. Paul for their work on this production.

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The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts is a member of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre. Founded in 1985, NAMT is a national service organization dedicated exclusively to musical theatre. Members, located throughout 34 states and abroad, are some of the leading producers of musical theatre in the world, and include theatres, presenting organizations, higher education programs and individual producers.

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Personnel of the production staff are represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees.

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The actors and stage managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.

SPECIAL THANKS

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THANK

YOU MESSAGE FROM THE ORDWAY BOARD CHAIR LAURA McCARTEN

The lights in Rice Park, the bustle of downtown Saint Paul, and the sounds of “The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow”. It must be the holiday season at the Ordway! This time of year offers us all an opportunity to reflect on what we’re thankful for and what brings joy into our lives.

Without question, you are at the top of the list.

Ordway Original productions like Annie wouldn’t be possible without your ticket purchases and contributions. Support from individuals and organizations enables the Ordway to engage local actors, musicians, and stage technicians to create extraordinary musical theater for audiences of all ages. And this year the Ordway will welcome over 62,000 students from around Minnesota to experience the power of live performance.

Their laughter and delight are often cited by performers as the most rewarding feedback.

As you consider your year-end giving, I encourage you to become an Ordway Friend. Thanks to a special matching grant from the Mardag Foundation, all new gifts of $60 or more received through December 31 will be matched dollar-for-dollar. You may make your donation using the envelope included in this program, by visiting ordway.org/match, or by contacting Hayden Howland at 651.282.3031.

Thank you for spending some of your holiday season with the Ordway.

We look forward to welcoming you often throughout 2018!

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LEADERSHIP CIRCLE The Ordway is deeply grateful to the following individuals for their generous annual contributions of $1,200 or more in support of artistic, arts education and community engagement programs, and maintenance of the Ordway.

SALLY’S CIRCLE

($25,000+) Allen and Carmen Arvig Alexandra O. Bjorklund Ruth and John Huss Jan Kispert RC Lilly Family Foundation Susanne and Zenas Hutcheson Bruce A. Lilly David and Diane Lilly Perrin Lilly Rosa Miller Marcia L. Morris Gilman and Marge Ordway Bill and Anne Parker The Scrooby Foundation

GUARANTOR’S CIRCLE

($10,000 – $24,999) Ruth and John Bergerson Bill Bluhm and Christine Sand Caroline's Kids Foundation Bob Cattanach and Allyson Hartle David and Mary Choate William and Terry Dircks Silas and Olivia Ford Mr. and Mrs. William B. Frels Thomas and Susan Handley Mark and Terri Henneman Ms. Lucy R. Jones and Mr. Jim Johnson Mike and Kara Johnson, Foothills Foundation Susan and Edwin McCarthy Nicholson Brothers Fund of The Saint Paul Foundation David and Barbara Nicholson Ford J. and Catherine T. Nicholson Richard and Nancy Nicholson Todd and Martha Nicholson Richard and Nancy Nicholson Nicholson Family Foundation John and Marla Ordway Ordway Staff Peravid Foundation David and Diane Lilly Dwight and Marjorie Peterson Jeannine M. Rivet and Warren G. Herreid II William and Susan Sands Mary Lynn and Warren Staley Dr. and Mrs. Paul L. Trump Ted and Nancy Weyerhaeuser

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BENEFACTOR’S CIRCLE

($5,000 – $9,999) Anonymous Margaret E. Alldredge and Andy Selden Scott and Kari Anderson Robert and Diane Awsumb Bakken Family WRC Foundation Ravi and Rekha Balwada Geraldine and Eugene Berwald Judith Bond Penny Bond and Charles Grimsrud Greg and Sally Booth Priscilla Brewster Gerald and Diane Carlson John P. and Lynn M. Clifford Julia W. Dayton Steve and Traci Egly Jeffrey and LeeAnn Ettinger James and Joan Gardner Rajiv Garg and Sangeeta Jain John and Theresa Gibbs Jamie Grant and Christine Bird William D. Gullickson, Jr. Hallberg Family Foundation Linda N. and J. Laird Hanson Lowell and Cay Shea Hellervik Philip and Ludmilla Isaacson Twinks Irvine Betty Wold Johnson David and Laurel Kuplic Eric and Celita Levinson John B. Lunseth II Matt Majka/Minnesota Wild Laura McCarten Beverly and Donald Oren Darwin and Geri Reedy Christine Sagstetter Kit and Dick Schmoker Dale Schulz and Mandy Sill David and Martha Sewall The Douglas and Carol Skanse Family Foundation Peter and Mary Jo Thrane Jennifer and James Wieland John and Judy Wolak Collen and Brad Wood Daniel Wrigley and Emily Beckstrom

DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE

($2,500 – $4,999) Anonymous (2) The Allegro Fund of The Saint Paul Foundation Peter Berge George and Denise Bergquist Patrick J. Bradley and Patty A. Carney-Bradley Brian T. Brakke Gretchen and David Crary Jerry and Cathy Dock Charles and Barbara Donatelle Steven and Catherine Engle Bruce Fuller and Lisa Schwartz Patrick Garay-Heelan and Erin Heelan Pat and Carol Goff Terry and Colleen Gorham Jon R. and Beverly S. Holt Charlotte and Ward Johnson Pete and Sarah Johnson

Gerry Knight and Rebecca Prentis Scott and Karla Lalim David and Robyn Lamm Lamm Family Foundation David and Staci Mattson Thomas and Barbara McLeod Robert and Laurie McNeill John and Karen Meslow Conrad Nguyen and Stacey Brown Marjorie M. Olson-Harmon Phil and Cassy Ordway Nushka Fund John and Carla Pfeifer Sandi Irvine-Pirtle and Raymond Pirtle Mr. and Mrs. T.R. Quesada Robb and Tina Richter Todd and Renee Roach Karen Roche and Douglas Voegeli Jean and Mark Schroepfer Fund Charles and Lorraine Sewich Jacqueline Smith Craig Solem Dan and Robin Stoltz Jon and Lea Theobald Jim and Georgia Thompson Karen Winter

ARTIST’S CIRCLE

($1,200 – $2,499) Anonymous (5) Al and Elizabeth Abraham Mary Allan Suzanne Ammerman Brad and Janet Anderson Jeff and Betty Ansel Bruce and Martha Atwater Grant Barrette Company Bill and Suanne Barthol Gay and Ronald Baukol Kay and Rick Bendel Jeannie Buckner Erin and Todd Bursch Tom and Karen Bramwell William and Susan Buesing Dorothea Burns Dick and Danis Byrd Paul and Elaine Campbell Gloria Chadima David and Marianne Charbonneau Gary and Paula Christensen Wally Cisewski Greg and Tina Cronin Amy and John Crouch Jill and Ed Deppe Cathy and Dave DeSutter Mike and Leah Dixon Dave and Nancy Duren Greg and Terri Evans Jessica Fennell Rick Ford and Adriana Alvarez Mike and Therese Gahler Marie French Geraghty David and Sharon Giel James and Marlene Grant Karen Gruber and Mark Fruen Paul and Kate Habegger Jim and Sharon Hale George C. and Christina Hart Cheryl and Reid Hegland H. Richard Hopper and Gwendolyn Anne Hopper

about becoming an Ordway donor, please contact Hayden Howland, Annual Fund Manager, at 651.282.3031 or visit ordway.org/friends

Mark and Jeanne Innebichler Tony and Floyd Jilek-Guidry Philip and Margaret Johnson Ivars and Gloria Kauls Sharon Kimmel Tom and Mary Kingston Glen and Sally Klemp Maureen Kucera-Walsh and Mike Walsh Douglas and Brenda Lamb, Candyland Mr. and Mrs. Chad M. Larsen Larsen Fund Gladys Laughlin Mary and Barry Lazarus Dr. Stephen Litton Helen and Benjamin Liu Phil and Nancy Ludemann Peter and Debbie Matteoni H.G. McNeely Jr. Mark and Aurea McQuail In Memory of Nicholas E. Midden Patricia A. Mitchell Roxanne and Kevin Moore John and Melissa Mulloy Betty Myers Diane Nixa and Kurt Hochfeld Larry and Linda Olson Mr. C. Thomas Osthoff Gerald and Donna Peterson Dean Polkow Portico Consulting, LLC Shelley Quiala and Tony Hanson Jean Cross Rostollan and David Rostollan Barbara and Dennis Senneseth Amanda Storm Schuster and Matt Schuster Rossy Shaller Terry and Leah Slye Clifford C. and Virginia G. Sorensen Charitable Trust Steve and Dee Wagner Jan and Bernie Wagnild Tammie Weinfurtner Debra Woitas Greg and Sue Wolf Jennifer Wolf Paul and Nancy Wood Gary Zywotko

ORDWAY FRIENDS The Ordway gives special thanks to the Ordway Friends who help meet the Center’s annual financial needs with gifts of $60 to $1,199. For information on becoming a Friend, please call Hayden Howland, Annual Fund Manager, at 651.282.3031.

($500 – $1,199) Anonymous (4) Todd Ackerman Lisa Anderson Mark and Beverly Anderson Doreen Aszmus Sherm and Anne Bartz Mr. Donald E. Benson Larry and Sandie Berger Marcy and Randy Betcher Jason and Brea Bradshaw Conrad and Faye Buhr Paul and Shannon Burke Mary and Ernie Dorn Susan Ebertz Stan Edwards Dan and Jane Fesler Litton and Anne Field Mrs. Nancy Field Jim Flaherty Patricia R. Freeburg Larry and Caralyn Frisell Ryan Gage Rolf and Mary Gilbertson Jennifer Gross and Jerry LeFevre ‡ Stephen and Paula Hari Paul and Joyetta Hattouni Victoria Velie Henry Family Foundation William T. Hession, M.D. and Jane Anderson Dennis and Bettina Hoye Beth Jackson Zoe Jenkins Bill and Pam Jones Steven Kalin Ron and Bette Kassa Ms. Adele Kaufman Jane and Jim Kaufman Fund of The Minneapolis Foundation Dennis and Roberta Keller

Jennifer and George Kinkead Robert Knoll Deborah and Paul Knooihuizen Erik Kolz Daniel and Constance Kunin Joe Landsberger Robert Lee and Mary Schaffner Ms. Sarah Legatt Jeff Lin and Sarah Bronson Ben and Kristina MacKenzie Robert and Amy Mairs Thomas and Joan Mears Andrea and Larry McGough Fund of the Catholic Community Foundation Moore Family Fund of the Minnesota Community Foundation Shawn Moren Vicki and Ed Myatt Marlys J. Nelson Richard and Deborah O'Gara Brad Palecek ‡ and Michael Korby Leonard and Ellen Pratt Mark and Elizabeth Prokosch Lawrence Redmond Klaus and Beth Reissenweber Carleen Rhodes and Byron Gilman Ed and Jenni Ryan Dr. and Mrs. KJ Salchow, Jr. Paul Schumann Diana Schutter Carol and Rick Seaberg Sieff Family Foundation Mr. Robert J. Sivertsen Dennis and Barbara Smith Elizabeth Storm Leo Varley and Molly McGlynn Varley Allan Vergin John and Annette Whaley James and Jane Wiltz Joshua Wing Charles and Beth Wright Kathy and Jim Zerwas

Though space requires that we limit our listing, the Ordway is extremely grateful for every donation. Ordway Contributors are listed for the 15 months ending November 16, 2017.

LUMINARIA SOCIETY Luminaria Society is a distinguished group of individuals who have included the Ordway in their estate plans to ensure that future generations experience the joy of the performing arts.

Anonymous Bruce and Arline Beutel Penny Bond and Charles Grimsrud Brian T. Brakke Dan and Jane Fesler Rajiv Garg Michelle Hackett Eileen Kalow Joan M. Krogh Gailen Krug Maureen Kucera-Walsh Kay Kulp Dr. Frank Indihar ‡ Alice Lehman Gregory Posch and Diane Nagel Kevin McCollum Patricia A. Mitchell Dale Schulz and Mandy Sill Jennifer Wolf

The Ordway gratefully acknowledges gifts received from the following: John and Elizabeth Baker Anonymous in memory of William W. Kane The Estate of Thomas G. Mairs The Estate of Richard Erickson

For more information on the Luminaria Society or to let us know if you have already included the Ordway in your will or estate plans, please contact Leah Dixon, Director of Individual and Planned Giving at ldixon@ordway.org or 651.282.3002.

‡ in remembrance

Through December 31, your donation will go twice as far!

Thanks to a generous one-to-one matching grant from the Mardag Foundation, your contribution will have double the impact. Become a Friend of the Ordway with a gift of $60 or more and your donation will be matched dollar-for-dollar.

To learn more, contact Hayden Howland, Annual Fund Manager, at 651.282.3031. Make your gift at:

ordway.org/match Sally Awards at the Ordway, Oct 2017 by Laura Alpizar

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THANK YOU CORPORATE, FOUNDATION, AND PUBLIC PARTNERS SPECIAL THANKS Public support for the Ordway is provided by This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

$250,000+

Fred C. and Katherine B. Andersen Foundation Sponsor of the Flint Hills International Children’s Festival

$100,000 – $249,999

Sponsor of the 2017-2018 Musical Theater Series

Sponsor of In the Heights

With support from the Target Foundation Sponsor of Music & Movement Series

Sponsor of Education at the Ordway

$50,000 – $99,999

Anonymous

$25,000 – $49,999 Katherine B. Andersen Fund of the St. Paul Foundation Sponsor of Annie

Hugh J. Andersen Foundation

CORPORATE AND FOUNDATION PARTNERS

The Ordway salutes the following organizations for their generous financial support and commitment to our artistic programming and community engagement activities. $10,000 – $24,999 Andersen Corporate Foundation BeEvents Best Buy Foundation BMO Harris Bank Boss Foundation Dellwood Foundation The Dorsey & Whitney Foundation

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Sponsor of Kinky Boots

Anna M. Heilmaier Foundation Lexus of Maplewood and Wayzata Mardag Foundation McGough Construction Patterson Companies Robins Kaplan, LLP The Saint Paul Hotel

$5,000 – $9,999 BNSF Railway Foundation Briggs and Morgan Carlson Family Foundation Hardenbergh Foundation Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation Hubbard Broadcasting Inc. and the Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation Art and Martha Kaemmer Fund of HRK Foundation

Margaret H. and James E. Kelley Foundation, Inc. R.F. Moeller Jeweler New England Foundation for the Arts Thomson Reuters

$1,000 – $4,999 Accenture Consulate General of Canada in Minneapolis District Energy St. Paul Fredrikson & Byron Foundation Hunt Electric Corporation, Saint Paul and Rochester IntriConn Corporation Lake Elmo Inn MGK Inc. Minnesota Wild

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ORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ORDWAY BOARD OF DIRECTORS OFFICERS Laura McCarten Chair P.W. (Bill) Parker Vice Chair David Sewall Secretary David M. Kuplic Treasurer Jamie Grant President and CEO Lemuel Amen Scott P. Anderson Diane Awsumb Ravi Balwada Dr. Sylvia Bartley Dorothea J. Burns Mary Choate John P. Clifford, Jr. Honorable Chris Coleman+ Geoffrey M. Curley+ Traci D. Egly Patrick Garay-Heelan Rajiv Garg Dr. Joe Gothard+ Ed Graff+ Jamie Grant Thomas W. Handley Donna Harris, Ed.D. Mark Henneman Bill Johnson David M. Kuplic Eric D. Levinson David M. Lilly, Jr. Matt Majka Laura McCarten Marcia L. Morris Mary Nease Conrad Nguyen Nancy Nicholson John G. Ordway, III P.W. (Bill) Parker Christine M. Sand David Sewall Dan Stoltz John Vincent Wolak Brad Wood Daniel K. Wrigley +ex officio

PRESIDENT’S ADVISORY COUNCIL William Sands Chair Ruth and John Bergerson Andy Bessette Alexandra O. Bjorklund Judith Bond Penny Bond and Chuck Grimsrud Brian T. Brakke Jeannie Buckner Ellis Bullock Senator Dick Cohen James and Joan Gardner Chris Georgacas Roxanne Givens William D. Gullickson Representative Alice Hausman Jill Irvine Crow Twinks Irvine Mike and Kara Johnson Lucy R. Jones and Jim Johnson Maureen Kucera-Walsh George Latimer John B. Lunseth II Rosa Miller Dwight and Marjorie Peterson Kit and Dick Schmoker Ted and Nancy Weyerhaeuser

ORDWAY STAFF Nathan Alexander Programs Analyst II Barry Ashford Housekeeper Graham Barr Ticket Services Coordinator Sandy Batz Floor Supervisor Dennis Bauchwitz Security Attendant Wendell Bell** Head Sound Engineer Andre Bennington Director of Programming Susan Biales House Manager Becky Borsheim Database Manager Leslie Brandt Rental and Contracts Manager Keith Brochman Housekeeper Kris Brodersen** Assistant Electrician Mike Brown Event Supervisor Guillermo Bueno Luna Housekeeper Jennifer Burks Marketing Operations Coordinator Cindy Cameron Accountant Ellen Carle Bar Supervisor Anthony Ceballos Ticket Services Associate Craig Cerrato Event Supervisor Lawrence Chansi Security Attendant Lucas Chase Ticket Services Supervisor Jen Clough Designer Tammy Cohen Interim Human Resources Manager Andrea Corich Ticket Services Manager Jeff Couture Accountant Karyn Cronin Security Attendant Mark Dalglish** Head of Properties Jim Dear Assistant Housekeeping Manager Annie Deering Events Manager Leah Dixon Director of Individual Giving and Advancement Operations Patrick Dreher* Building Engineer Peter Dysart Ticket Services Associate Julia Erickson Assistant Production Manager Amy Fleischhacker Guest Services Food and Beverages Coordinator Bashule Gammada Housekeeper Kathy Garlock Floor Supervisor Kathryn Gentner Floor Supervisor Jennifer Gibson Event Supervisor Nikki Glaser Executive Assistant to the President and CEO Samantha Goessner Production Coordinator Jamie Grant President and CEO Molly Gubbins** Assistant Properties Michelle Hackett Floor Supervisor Myrna Halbach Floor Supervisor Christine Hansen Bar Supervisor Reid Harmsen Artistic Associate/Casting Director John Hedlund Floor Supervisor Ryan Heinritz Corporate Relations Manager Bryan Holmer Ticket Services Associate/Floor Supervisor Anna Hopps Digital Content Specialist Hayden Howland Annual Fund Manager Janet Huyck Production Coordinator Tony Jilek-Guidry Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Guest Services Marc D. Johnson** Head Electrician Diane Kammerude Interim Controller Boris Kilmer** Assistant Carpenter/Properties Lorena Klinnert Floor Supervisor Lex Knowles School Programs Coordinator Lawrence Lawyer Bar Supervisor Sam Lienke* Building Engineer Andy Luft Director of Building Operations Sondra Mann Workflow Coordinator Kristina MacKenzie Director of Marketing Dayna Martinez Artistic Director World Music, Dance and International Children’s Festival Jonathan Martinez Sales Strategist Erin Matteson Education Director Isaac Mayhew Ticket Services Associate Karli McDonald Media Buyer

Mary Meyers Prospect Research Associate Jeffrey Miller Social Media and Public Relations Coordinator Micah Minnema Manager of Foundation and Government Relations Leah H. Muntz Senior Designer Gordon Nakagawa Vice President of Diversity Integration and Organizational Design Crystal Nibbe Ticket Services Associate Andrea Nicholson Ticket Services Associate Diane Nixa Vice President of Advancement Sam Norris Housekeeper Jeff Osberg* Chief Engineer Reginald Page Security Attendant William PanKratz Floor Supervisor Kathleen Pascuzzi Event Supervisor Scott Pekarek Housekeeper Michael Petermeier Security and Housekeeping Manager Don Peterson Assistant Housekeeping Manager Kate Pierce Event Supervisor Sina Pleggenkuhle Group Sales Account Executive Alan Post Advancement Operations Coordinator Shelley Quiala Vice President of Arts Education and Community Engagement Jenea Rewertz-Targui Arts Learning Manager Al Riel Floor Supervisor James A. Rocco Vice President of Programming/ Producing Artistic Director Christine Sagstetter Executive Vice President and CFO Tommy Sar Community Engagement Coordinator Mary Kay Schladweiler Event Supervisor Amanda Schuster Ticket Services Associate Sam Sevlie Housekeeper Collin Sherraden** Assistant Sound Engineer Kendall Simpson Ticket Services Associate Martin Sullivan Security Attendant David Thorsrud Security Attendant Kasey Jean Tunell Guest Services Staff and Volunteer Coordinator Paul Ward Event Supervisor Tammie Weinfurtner Director of Guest Services Anna Wetrosky Ticket Services Coordinator Kelly Whitwam* Building Engineer Sarah Wiechmann Education & Community Ticketing Coordinator Jeff Witschen Database Assistant Hurcil Woodruff** Head Carpenter Sinknish Zerafu Housekeeper The Ordway employs more than 350 Ushers, Doorkeepers, Stagehands, Wardrobe Staff and Dressers, Wigists, Bartenders, Concessionaires, Medics and Police Officers. The Ordway also works with 180 active volunteers each year. ** Personnel of the production staff

are represented by the International

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COMMUNITY PATRON INFORMATION ADVISORS TICKETS The Ordway Ticket Office is open Mon–Fri 11am–3pm, Individuals committed to engagement, access, and audience development through involvement in Ordway-convened program councils, focus groups, and special initiatives.

ADVISORS EHREN BABB, JANICE BADMOCCASIN, TITILAYO BEDIAKO, SHARON DAY, LUPE CASTILLO, MARISOL CHICLANA-AYALA, GORDON COONS, SHERINE CROOMS ONUKWUWE, FRANKLIN CURBELO, MAHMOUD EL-KATI, HEID ERDRICH, ALONDRA ESPEJEL-CANO, COMANCHE FAIRBANKS, ERIN & JAMES GARDNER, TOM GITAA, MARLINA GONZALEZ, ARMANDO GUTIÉRREZ G., ALYSSA HERZOG MELBY, ANDREA JENKINS, ALBERTO JUSTINIANO, TENZIN KUNSAL, ISABELLA LABLANC, GEORGIA LARSEN, MAY LEE-YANG, JAMES LEKATZ, CAROLINA MARANOA, KATHRYN MARSHALL, CHRISTAL MOOSE, CHIAKI O’BRIEN, TAYLOR PAYER, MARIA ISA PEREZ, SOVANNEARY PHANN SWEERE, BANLANG PHOMMASOUVANH, MARY ANNE QUIROZ, MELISA RIVIÈRE, MAYA SANTAMARIA, ROSY SIMAS, JON SKAALEN, LILLIE SPRINTZ, DEANNA STANDINGCLOUD, HAWONA SULLIVAN JANZEN, MARIESA SUN-SAENZ, RENE THOMPSON, PHUOC THI MINH TRAN, KELLY ULRICK, KEVIN VOLLMERS, SAYMOUKDA VONGSAY, ROTHANA WABOLT, MISSY WHITEMAN

EDUCATION ADVISORS Individuals committed to excellence in teaching and learning in the arts, demonstrated through their involvement in Ordway— project design teams, focus groups, and program leads.

ADVISORS AKOSUA ADDO, JAMIE ANDREWS, BARBARA COX, JOLANDA DRANCHACK, CRAIG DUNN, BRIAN EVANS, SARAH FITGERALD, THOMAS GALE, BOB GREGORY-BJORKLAND, BRIAN GORANSON, DEBRA HUNT, CALVIN KEASLING, RUTH KRIDER, BEN LACINA, JILL MICHELL, CRESCENCE NABIL, LEAH NELSON, MELANIE NEUMANN, KARLA NWEJE, CHIAKI O’ BRIEN, JULIE OSTLUND, LORI OTTO, SHANNON PETERSON, JEHAN REHAYEM, NORA SCHULL, ANTHONY SEIDL, JAN SPENCER DE GUTIÉRREZ, PATRICIA TEEFY, BRENDA WELLS, LIZ WILLSON

or by phone Mon–Fri 10am–5pm. The Ticket Office will open two hours prior to Saturday and Sunday performances. For tickets, call 651.224.4222 or go online at ordway.org/performances.

GROUP & CORPORATE TICKETS Special pricing is available for groups of 10 or more. 651.282.3111 PARKING Nearby parking is available during evening or weekend performances. Pre-paid parking passes are $15 per vehicle (plus a $3 service fee). Passes may be purchased at the Ticket Office or by calling 651.224.4222. Subject to availability.

ACCESSIBILITY The Ordway has an accessible entrance, accessible and companion care restrooms, provides accessible seating, and service animals are welcome. Accessibility services are available for select performances of each Ordway production and all Music & Movement performances including: American Sign Language-interpretation, audio description, and open-captioning upon request with at least two weeks advance notice. Contact: 651.224.4222 or visit ordway.org/accessibility-services. Assisted listening devices are available from Patron Services.

PROGRAMS Please see an usher to obtain a large print or Braille program.

SMOKING The Ordway is entirely smoke-free. The use of cigarettes or electronic cigarettes is strictly prohibited except in designated outdoor areas.

LATE ARRIVALS Latecomers and late arrivals will be seated according to the wishes of the artists and at the discretion of the management.

ELECTRONIC DEVICES Please have all cell phones and pagers turned to the silent mode. Cameras and recording equipment are strictly prohibited in the theater.

PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO The Ordway and its authorized representatives may take photos on the premises for promotional and marketing purposes. Ticket holders expressly grant the Ordway the right to use such media. Photos and video by patrons are allowed, but may not be taken of the stage area.

EMERGENCY MESSAGES Patrons expecting emergency messages should leave their seat locations with the calling party and should notify an usher upon arrival at the Ordway.

Emergency messages will be delivered immediately during performances. EMERGENCY: 651.282.3070 LOST & FOUND Items misplaced can be found at the Stage Door. 651.282.3070 TOURS Reservations for free tours of the Ordway can be made by calling 651.282.3125 CONCESSIONS Food and beverages are available for purchase prior to the show and during intermission. You can also preorder drinks and desserts for intermission to avoid waiting in line. Water and other beverages are allowed in the theater, but food is strictly prohibited.

ORDWAY PHONE LINES Advancement: 651.282.3036 TTY: 651.282.3100 Audition Hotline: 651.215.2100 Ordway Connect: 651.282.3006 Education Hotline: 651.282.3115 ORDWAY EVACUATION MAPS

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