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In addition to three returning favorites — A Christmas Carol, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Musical, and Mannheim Steamroller Christmas by Chip Davis, we’re pleased to welcome you to an all-new production of the beloved classic Funny Girl in the Buell, the US premiere of MONOPOLY LIFESIZED: Travel Edition at Broadway Park®, and the laugh-out-loud comedy Gutenberg! The Musical! in the Garner Galleria Theatre.

As the year comes to an end, I’m delighted to share with you a progress report on our strategic plan. In our first year of a five-year plan, we offered 908,685 engagements to our goal of one million a year by 2029. Additionally, we greatly expanded our community engagement and audience development efforts through low-cost ticket programs, robust cultural partnerships, and new programs such as storytimes and dance classes. Finally, we also focused on building up and bringing in a robust workforce while reinforcing our financial position, improving accessibility and safety standards in our venues, and reducing our impact on the environment.

Your active presence and participation are what enable us each and every day to strive to reach our goals. On behalf of the 300+ actors, artists and administrators, and our Board of Trustees, we thank you!

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Tartans, pine needles and bows have filled three decades in the memories of families who make A Christmas Carol part of their annual holiday tradition.

Prominent in those memories is the sight and sound of the young children who have stepped onstage as Tiny Tim in the Denver Center Theatre Company production. As the company celebrates the 30th anniversary of Dickens’ timeless classic, we thought we’d check in with some former Tiny Tims as well as this year’s 7-year-old performer, Benjamin Martinez, to hear how it feels to enter a large, primarily adult production as a child.

2024: BENJAMIN MARTINEZ Tiny Tim will be 7-year-old Benjamin Martinez’s second role onstage.

His debut came last year, as a first-grader in Stone Soup at Warder Elementary in Arvada. Memorizing those lines wasn’t difficult, he says: “My teacher was holding up the lines I was supposed to say.”

His father had seen the notice for Tiny Tim auditions. “His response when we told him that he was cast, it was probably the happiest I’ve ever seen him,” David Martinez says.

To prepare, the family watched The Muppet Christmas Carol.

“I just hope that he enjoys himself and tries something new,” David says. “It’s something that he’ll be able to say when he’s an old man that he was Tiny Tim.” 2009-2013: CHARLIE KORMAN Charlie Korman holds the distinction of being the longest-running Tiny Tim in the show’s history. He was only age 5, and the youngest child auditioning at the time — a moment recorded for history by the Denver Center in a video still on YouTube: “Introducing Charlie Korman — The Next Tiny Tim.” Fifteen years later, Korman has acted on the TV shows “Barry,” “Hacks,” and “The Conners.” Last month, he returned to Denver to introduce his feature film debut at the Mizel Arts and Culture Center, where he began his acting career at the Wolf Theatre Academy.

“My parents signed me and my siblings up for summer theater camps to get us out of the house, and I quickly fell in love,” says Korman, now a student at the University of Southern California. “The casting directors called my older brother and asked if he was interested in auditioning for Tiny Tim. While he wasn’t interested, I overheard the phone call and asked if I could audition instead. They were hesitant to let a 5-year-old audition, but I eventually won the role!”

Korman’s memories of being a child in a professional production include playing hide and seek with other child actors backstage. After his time as Tiny Tim, he went on to play Young Scrooge for three more years in A Christmas Carol and acted in 13 other Denver Center shows.

“My experience with A Christmas Carol impacts almost every aspect of my life today,” he says.

DONOVAN TRENT FOUNTAIN Donovan Trent Fountain, who played Tiny Tim in 1999, was in kindergarten when his music teacher suggested that he and his sister audition for A Christmas Carol. He distinctly recalls the play aspect of life backstage.

“Brian Shea, who has done a lot of great work for the DCPA, used to toss me in the costume bin and roll me around the dressing rooms after shows,” he says. “I also remember some of the late members of the production like Laird Williamson and Harvey Blanks. Both of those guys made lifelong impressions on this community and on me as well.”

Today, Fountain is a kindergarten teacher at the Lotus School for Excellence in Aurora. He says A Christmas Carol was “incredibly formative for my choice of career.

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“One of the reasons I wanted to become a teacher was boredom in the classroom. I used to miss school to go to rehearsals and fittings and such, so I was pretty disinterested when I was in school,” he says. “Over time, I just wanted to be the kind of teacher who excited kids about attending school and engaging in learning.”

2 ADAPTATIONS, 24 TINY TIMS & 30 PRODUCTIONS Since opening on New Year’s Eve 1979, the Denver Center Theatre Company has mounted two adaptations of A Christmas Carol: the first

by Laird Williamson and Dennis Powers (1990-2004) and the second by Richard Hellesen (2005-current).

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Funny Girl is the beloved, fictionalized story of Fanny Brice, a comedic actress who rose to fame performing with the Ziegfield’s Follies revue. Brice was married and divorced three times in her life, notably to Nick Arnstein, a convicted conman whose trial was front page news at the time. Her rise in the entertainment industry and tumultuous relationship with Nick is the inspiration for the musical.

Born Fania Borach on October 29, 1891, Brice grew up on New York’s Lower East Side to Jewish immigrants who ran a saloon. She took on the name Fanny Brice as a performer with the Follies in the 1920s, where she became known for disrupting the expectations for women performers by adding humor and wit to the salacious show.

At the core of the musical is also Brice’s journey of self-acceptance, something the actors portraying Fanny (Hannah Shankman) and Nick (Stephen Mark Lukas), can relate to from their own careers in show business. Plus, in this revival, there are new songs, in addition to favorites like “People” and “Don’t Rain on My Parade.” Here Shankman and Lukas talk about stepping into Barbra Streisand’s shoes, developing confidence in the face of rejection, and staying in love with Broadway.

DCPA: What was your introduction to Funny Girl?

Hannah Shankman: My parents always watched Turner Classic Movies, so I watched Funny Girl at a young age, like 7 and my sister was 4. I didn’t know the movie was a musical until I was older, like 17 or 18. I also was aware of the fact that people didn’t do it because Barbra was hard to live up to in the role as Fanny. I had an audition for a regional production in 2016 in Missouri. We only did 12 performances and that was my real introduction to the musical.

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Stephen Mark Lukas: I didn’t hear about it until I got to NYU and my Jewish friends talked about it. My very first voice teacher in college said to me “you’re going to play Nicky Arnstein one day.” I didn’t know what that meant at the time. When I heard about the revival, I watched the movie all the way through and was cast as Nick’s understudy on Broadway. Now, I’m playing the role on the tour.

DCPA: I want to dig into the themes of Funny Girl, and one of them has to do with navigating a career in show business. Do you remember your first professional audition?

Shankman: I’m from New York, and I remember I snuck out of school to audition for the Vanessa Williams revival of Into the Woods. I obviously didn’t book the show. That was a good early introduction to how rejection works in our business. I also auditioned for 10 musical theater BFA programs for college and didn’t get into any of them. I developed a thick skin very young and, like Fanny, wouldn’t take no for an answer. I re-auditioned for programs and wound up going to the University of Michigan. “No” does not mean you’re not talented in this business; it just means you’re not the right fit right now.

Lukas: My very first professional audition was for a regional production of The King & I. I remember it very well because I was 11 years old. I booked the role because I was the only one who could do a British accent. I played Lewis who is Anna’s son. I remember when it was over being distraught for weeks, and it was because I had found my tribe of theater people.

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Shankman: You’re allowed to feel rejected in this business, but you’re also allowed to feel celebrated and resilient. A lot of that comes with having a supportive community outside of the business that will help you through the harder moments and celebrate you through the more glorious moments.

DCPA: In your research for the roles, what are some things you learned about the real Fanny Brice that surprised you?

Shankman: I read a book about Fanny before we started the show.

When Nick was going to trial, he had a falling out with his lawyer, Bill Fallon. To appeal to Bill, because she was afraid that if he didn’t take the case Nick would lose, she named their child William. Bill still refused to take the case and he lost. She loved this man so much and she believed in his innocence.

Great Scott! The beloved cinematic classic is now a Broadway musical. Back to the Future: The Musical arrives at the Buell Theatre in January 2025.

When Marty McFly finds himself transported back to 1955 in a time machine built by the eccentric scientist Doc Brown, he accidentally changes the course of history. He is in a race against time to fix the present, escape the past, and send himself…back to the future.

Back to the Future: The Musical features hit songs from the movie alongside original music. Did you know the music was written by multi-Grammy® winners Alan Silvestri (Avengers: Endgame) and Glen Ballard (Michael Jackson’s “Man in the Mirror”)? Here are some other facts you might not know about this new musical.

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Lukas: The key for me is realizing it’s a business. I have been in so many auditions as a reader or behind the table and the conversations about casting often have nothing to do with how talented you are. Honing in on that which makes you special and capitalizing on that is the key to longevity in this business.

Lukas: The thing that got to the heart of the relationship is that at one point Fanny said that Nick was the love her life, but she never knew if he was telling the truth or not. That’s something I took and built this character on.

He’s a chameleon.

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DCPA: What is your favorite part of the show and what’s the most challenging?

Shankman: My favorite part is doing “People” with Stephen. It’s the first time in Act One when everything gets quiet and you feel the intimacy between Fanny and Nick. The hardest part is that I’m onstage for the entire show. I have 22 costume changes; it’s a beast of a role, but very rewarding.

Lukas: Audiences know the song “People” and once Hannah starts singing, you feel the audience breathe this sigh of relief because it’s this moment in the show they’ve been waiting for. That’s one of my favorite things about doing revivals — surprising the audience with moments they’ve been expecting and coming at them in a different way.

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The musical was adapted for the stage by the film’s creators, Bob Gale (Back to the Future trilogy) and Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump).

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The famous time-traveling vehicle is a DeLorean sports car. At a 2004 DeLorean convention, Bob Gale joked that Back to the Future would make a good musical.

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Workshops for the musical began in 2014 in London, with the intention of opening the show in the West End in 2015. After some delays, including the pandemic, the musical officially opened in the West End in 2021.

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The production was nominated for seven Olivier Awards, including Best New Musical, which it won, as well as Original Score or New Orchestrations.

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ISOBEL LENNART HARVEY FIERSTEIN FROM AN ORIGINAL STORY BY MISS LENNART

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Hannah Shankman Stephen Mark Lukas Izaiah Montaque Harris Walter Coppage Leah Platt Christine Bunuan Cheryl Stern David Foley, Jr. Jack Bianchi Courtney Brady Kate E. Cook Connor Coughlin Joel Douglas Annabelle Duffy Mathew Fedorek Bailey Reese Greemon Alex Hartman Kyle de la Cruz Laing Kathy Liu Missy Marion Emily Anne Nester Myah Segura Jordon Taylor Sean Seamus Thompson Travis Ward-Osborne Leslie Blake Walker AND FEATURING

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(in order of appearance) Fanny Brice................................................................................................................................... HANNAH SHANKMAN Fanny Brice (at certain performances)................................................................................................ LEAH PLATT Emma.................................................................................................................................................................... LEAH PLATT John............................................................................................................................................................... JOEL DOUGLAS Mrs. Strakosh.............................................................................................................................................. CHERYL STERN Mrs. Meeker..................................................................................................................................... CHRISTINE BUNUAN Mrs. Brice................................................................................................................................... MELISSA MANCHESTER Eddie Ryan.......................................................................................................................IZAIAH MONTAQUE HARRIS Tom Keeney............................................................................................................................................DAVID FOLEY, JR. Piano Player..............................................................................................................................KYLE de la CRUZ LAING Cornet Men..........................................................................................................JACK BIANCHI & JOEL DOUGLAS Polly............................................................................................................................................................JORDON TAYLOR Bubbles.......................................................................................................................................................... MISSY MARION Nick Arnstein........................................................................................................................... STEPHEN MARK LUKAS Maude....................................................................................................................................................COURTNEY BRADY Florenz Ziegfeld................................................................................................................................WALTER COPPAGE Tenor............................................................................................................................................KYLE de la CRUZ LAING Mrs. Nadler......................................................................................................................................................... LEAH PLATT Virginia.............................................................................................................................................................KATE E. COOK Vera............................................................................................................................................................... ALEX HARTMAN Paul.......................................................................................................................................SEAN SEAMUS THOMPSON Mimsey........................................................................................................................................LESLIE BLAKE WALKER Actor..........................................................................................................................................................DAVID FOLEY, JR. Porter........................................................................KYLE de la CRUZ LAING & SEAN SEAMUS THOMPSON Bartender...........................................................................................................................SEAN SEAMUS THOMPSON Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat Men.................................................................... JACK BIANCHI & TRAVIS WARD-OSBORNE Mr. Renaldi.........................................................................................................................SEAN SEAMUS THOMPSON Ensemble......................................................................JACK BIANCHI, COURTNEY BRADY, KATE E. COOK, JOEL DOUGLAS, ALEX HARTMAN, KYLE de la CRUZ LAING, KATHY LIU, MISSY MARION, MYAH SEGURA, JORDON TAYLOR, SEAN SEAMUS THOMPSON, TRAVIS WARD-OSBORNE, LESLIE BLAKE WALKER UNDERSTUDIES Understudies never substitute for the listed players unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the appearance. for Fanny Brice & Mrs. Meeker—LEAH PLATT; for Fanny Brice, Emma & Mrs. Meeker—ANNABELLE DUFFY; for Mrs. Brice—CHERYL STERN; for Mrs. Brice & Mrs. Strakosh—CHRISTINE BUNUAN; for Tom Keeney, Nick Arnstein & Florenz Ziegfeld—SEAN SEAMUS THOMPSON; for Tom Keeney & Florenz Ziegfeld—MATHEW FEDOREK; for Eddie Ryan—JACK BIANCHI; for Nick Arnstein & Eddie Ryan—TRAVIS WARD-OSBORNE; for Emma, Mrs. Strakosh & Mrs. Meeker—KATE E. COOK; for Emma—ALEX HARTMAN. SWINGS CONNOR COUGHLIN, ANNABELLE DUFFY, MATHEW FEDOREK, BAILEY REESE GREEMON, EMILY ANNE NESTER DANCE CAPTAIN: ALEX HARTMAN ASSISTANT DANCE CAPTAIN: MATHEW FEDOREK THERE WILL BE ONE 15-MINUTE INTERMISSION.

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Stephen Mark Lukas

Christine Bunuan

Izaiah Montaque Harris

Cheryl Stern

Walter Coppage

David Foley, Jr.

Jack Bianchi

Courtney Brady

Kate E. Cook

Connor Coughlin

Joel Douglas

Annabelle Duffy

Mathew Fedorek

Bailey Reese Greemon

Alex Hartman

Kyle de la Cruz Laing

Kathy Liu

Missy Marion

Emily Anne Nester

Myah Segura

Jordon Taylor

Sean Seamus Thompson

Travis Ward-Osborne

Leslie Blake Walker

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MUSICAL NUMBERS ACT I Overture............................................................................................................................................................ The Orchestra “Who Are You Now?”................................................................................................................................................... Fanny “Poker Chant No. 1”....................................................................................................... Mrs. Brice and Mrs. Strakosh “If a Girl Isn’t Pretty”.........................................................................Mrs. Brice, Mrs. Strakosh and Mrs. Meeker “If a Girl Isn’t Pretty” (Reprise).......................................................................Tom Keeney, Eddie, Stagehands, Keeney Chorus Girls, Mrs. Strakosh, Mrs. Meeker, Mrs. Brice “I’m the Greatest Star”................................................................................................................................................. Fanny “I’m the Greatest Star” (Reprise)............................................................................................ Mrs. Brice and Fanny “Cornet Man”................................................................................................................................ Fanny and Cornet Men “Nicky Arnstein”.............................................................................................................................................................. Fanny “His Love Makes Me Beautiful”..................................................................................Tenor, Fanny and Ensemble “I Want To Be Seen With You”.............................................................................................................Nick and Fanny “Henry Street”.......................................................................................................................................................... Company “People”.............................................................................................................................................................................. Fanny “You Are Woman, I Am Man”...............................................................................................................Nick and Fanny “Poker Chant No. 2”..........................................................................Mrs. Brice, Mrs. Strakosh and Mrs. Meeker “Don’t Rain on My Parade”........................................................................................................................................ Fanny ACT II Entr’acte............................................................................................................................................................ The Orchestra “Sadie, Sadie”....................................................................................................................................Fanny and Company “Who Taught Her Everything She Knows?”..........................................................Mrs. Brice and Eddie Ryan “Temporary Arrangement”.......................................................................................................................Nick and Men “Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat”.............................................................................................................................. Fanny and Ensemble “Who Are You Now?”...............................................................................................................................Fanny and Nick “You’re a Funny Girl”.........................................................................................................................................................Nick “What Do Happy People Do?”......................................................................................................................Follies Girls “The Music That Makes Me Dance”....................................................................................................................... Fanny “Finale”................................................................................................................................................................................. Fanny The action takes place backstage at the New Amsterdam Theatre, New York City, 1924, and memories prior.

MUSICIANS Music Director/Conductor/Keyboards—ELAINE DAVIDSON; Associate Conductor/Keyboards—CHRISTIAN REGUL; Trumpet/Flugel—MARK E. OATES; Reeds—TANSIE MAYER; Bass—JOHN SIMONETTI; Drums/Percussion—PAUL HANNAH LOCAL MUSICIANS Flute/Clarinet/Alto Sax/Bari Sax—ART BOUTON Clarinet/Bass Clarinet/Soprano/Alto Sax—JARED CATHEY Trumpet/Flugel Horn—DAWN KRAMER French Horn—SUSAN MCCULLOUGH Trombone—ROB OLDS Violin/Viola—NAOMI SMITH Violin/Concertmaster—BRITT SWENSON Keyboard Sub—BOKO SUZUKI Cello—JEFF WATSON Music Contractor—JAMES HARVEY Music Coordinator—Kimberlee Wertz Music Copying: Emily Grishman Music Preparation/Emily Grishman, Adriana Grace and Alden Terry Music Technology: Phij Adams Synthesizer Technician: Randy Cohen, Randy Cohen Keyboards Music Department Assistant: Abel Garriga

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HANNAH SHANKMAN (Fanny Brice) is thrilled to march her band out as Fanny Brice in this absolutely gorgeous production. Broadway: Hair, Side Show, Les Misérables, Wicked.

West End: Hair, Homemade Fusion.

National Tours: The Band’s Visit, Rent, Les Misérables. Select Regional: The Kennedy Center, Williamstown Theatre Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, Syracuse Stage, Casa Manana, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, BTG, Arrow Rock Lyceum. TV/Film: The Last Five Years, 85th Academy Awards, The Greenway. Endless thanks to her family, the entire FG creative team, Jim Carnahan Casting and her incredible agents at Daniel Hoff Agency. For Shane and Charlie. @hannahbshank MELISSA MANCHESTER (Mrs. Brice) returns to the theatrical stage to celebrate a versatile 50-year career.

With 19 Billboard charted hits including “Midnight Blue” and “Don’t Cry Out Loud,” the GRAMMY-Award winning singer/songwriter was the first artist to have two Oscar-nominated songs in the same year, received the NARAS Governor’s Award and is in the Great American Songbook Foundation’s Hall of Fame. National tours: Song & Dance (Emma), Music Of The Night (Lead). Film: For The Boys (Corrine). TV: Blossom (Maddy Russo). Her 25th album, RE:VIEW, is due to release in 2024. melissamanchester.com STEPHEN MARK LUKAS (Nick Arnstein) is thrilled to bring Funny Girl to audiences across North America after understudying the role in the Broadway revival. Broadway: Funny Girl, The Book of Mormon. Regional: Beauty and the Beast (Gaston), Damn Yankees (Joe Hardy), Oklahoma!

(Curly), South Pacific (Lt. Cable), Camelot (Lancelot), and Guys & Dolls (Sky Masterson). TV: Gossip Girl and FBI: Most Wanted. Love and gratitude to my family, Brian, HCKR and the Funny Girl team. @smlukas IZAIAH MONTAQUE HARRIS (Eddie Ryan). First Broadway National Tour!

Since being put in tap classes taught by his mother as a child, he has learned to shine from Chicago to NY. Recent highlights: NY City Center’s Artists at the Center, Riverdance, The Tap Dance Kid, After Midnight (Tap Mathematician). BTA Award for Outstanding Actor, Jeff Award

for Best Ensemble, Jacob’s Pillow Alumni, MADD Rhythms. Sending love, light, and many thanks to his family, friends, and Ayodele Casel. @izaiahharris WALTER COPPAGE (Florenz Ziegfeld).

Theatre: The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, The Curious Incident..., Radio Golf, The Royale, A Christmas Carol, Pride & Prejudice, Fences, To Kill A Mockingbird, Master Harold And The Boys, Hamlet, The Mountaintop, Water By The Spoonful, The Clean House, Ruined, Our Town, The Miracle Worker. TV: Somebody Somewhere, Chicago Med, Leverage: Redemption, Black Mafia Family, The Chi, 61st St, The Shining Girls, Detroiters, Sprung.

Film: All Creatures Here Below, Jayhawkers.

LEAH PLATT (Emma, Mrs. Nadler, u/s Fanny, u/s Meeker) is thrilled to join the Funny Girl family! Leah most recently performed across the country as Tzeitel in the first national tour of Fiddler on the Roof. Recent credits: Which Way to the Stage (Signature Theatre); Frozen (Disney Cruise Line); The Prom (White Plains PAC); The Marvelous Wonderettes (The Palace Theater). Proud graduate of Northwestern University, and even prouder to have the most supportive family! LeahPlatt.com @leahsplatt CHRISTINE BUNUAN (Mrs. Meeker, u/s Mrs. Strakosh, u/s Mrs. Brice).

National tours: Miss Saigon (Gigi), and …Spelling Bee. Chicago Theatre: Goodman, Paramount, Northlight, Marriott Lincolnshire, Drury Lane Oakbrook, Chicago Shakespeare, Silk Road Rising, TimeLine, and more. Special thank you to Stewart Talent Chicago, the Bunuan, Garcia, and Fawcett families, and, of course, the love of my life, Sean. This show is dedicated to all my loved ones! christinebunuan.com CHERYL STERN (Mrs. Strakosh, u/s Mrs. Brice). Broadway: La Cage Aux Folles (Tony winning revival), The Women (Roundabout), Laughing Room Only. Off Broadway: A Letter To Harvey Milk, Shoes and Baggage, Fiorello (Encores!), First Lady Suite (Transport Group), I Love You,You’re Perfect. National Tours: La Cage, Les Miserables, Grand Night For Singing, Evita, Fiddler. Regional: Goodspeed, Baltimore Stage, Westport Playhouse, The Huntington

(IRNE Award), Barrington Stage, Berkshire Theatre Group, Capital Rep,The Muny and more.TV: “And Just Like That,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (recurring), “Unforgettable,” “Law&Order-CI,” “Sondheim… at Carnegie Hall” (PBS). Film: Brooklyn Lobster, This is Where I Leave You, Can’t Let It Go. www.cherylstern.com @cherylsternlive DAVID FOLEY, JR. (Tom Keeney).

Select New York/touring credits: The Phantom of the Opera (Reyer, Firmin), Forbidden Broadway, and the title ogre in Shrek The Musical.

Favorite regional: Oz (L. Frank Baum, freeFall Theatre Company), Finding Nemo: The Musical (Marlin, WDW), and Guys and Dolls (Nathan, Kevin Kline Award nomination, Best Actor).

TV/Film: The Flight Before Christmas (Hallmark), Broadcasting Christmas (Lifetime). 2023 MAC Award nominee (Manhattan Association of Cabarets, Best Male Performer). All my love Kerry & Davey! @itsdavidfoleyjr JACK BIANCHI (Ensemble, u/s Eddie Ryan) is honored to make his National Tour debut with Funny Girl. Jack graduated from Chapman University. He recently made his off-Broadway premiere in You’re Invited, and performed in Savor in Napa. Jack is beyond grateful to his family, friends, and all who supported him to get here. All glory to God. @jack_bianchi_ COURTNEY BRADY (Ensemble). So grateful to be here! Broadway Lab: Crazy For You (Dir: Susan Stroman).

Tours: The Producers. Regional Theaters: Papermill, NSMT, Riverside, Maltz Jupiter, Fireside. Thanks to TPG and the entire Funny Girl Team!

Endless love/gratitude to my family and friends. Thanks God - “in highlands/heartache all the same”! @cocobrady KATE E. COOK (Ensemble, u/s Emma, u/s Mrs. Strakosh, u/s Mrs. Meeker).

National tour debut! Select credits: Chicago, Camelot, Little Shop of Horrors, Mamma Mia!, Holiday Inn, Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, Guys and Dolls, The Noteworthy Life of Howard Barnes. Love to my husband and crazy family! Enjoy! kateellacook.com @kate.ella CONNOR COUGHLIN (Swing) Graduated from Royal Winnipeg Ballet and Circle in the Square. NYC: Christmas Spectacular Starring the

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Radio City Rockettes. Tours: 42nd Street (Billy Lawlor), Elf. Regional: The REV, Ogunquit, North Shore Music Theatre, Theatre by the Sea, Fireside.

JOEL DOUGLAS (Ensemble). National Tour debut! Off-Broadway: Empire.

Regional: MUNY, North Carolina Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Group, Theatre By The Sea, Reagle Music Theatre, New Bedford Theatre Festival. Film/TV: “Growing Up” (Disney+). Boston Conservatory and LINK Graduate. @jdouglasbreeden ANNABELLE DUFFY (u/s Fanny Brice, u/s Emma, u/s Mrs. Meeker) is so thrilled to be making her National Tour debut in the company of Funny Girl! BFA CMU Drama Class of 2023.

Endless gratitude to Carnahan, Daniel Hoff, Julia Watkinson, and her fabulous family and friends.

MATHEW FEDOREK (Swing, Assistant Dance Captain, u/s Tom Keeney, u/s Florenz Ziegfeld). National Tour Debut! Regional: Pittsburgh CLO, The Muny, KC Starlight, Arizona Theatre Company, Lincoln Park. Proud Penn State Musical Theatre Alum. Thanks to his family and his agents at CTG. I love you Jack. For Mom and Dad! @mathew.fedorek BAILEY REESE GREEMON (Swing) is overjoyed & grateful to be making her Broadway National Tour Debut with Funny Girl! Favorite credits: Sweet Charity (Charity), The Sound of Music (Liesl), and RENT (Mark’s Mom/Dance Captain). Current Boston Conservatory Senior. LINK Class 6.

Endless thanks to Mom, Dad, Eliza, and PMA! @baileygreemon ALEX HARTMAN (Ensemble, Dance Captain, u/s Emma) is honored to be making her Broadway National Tour debut in Funny Girl. Select credits include: ACT of Connecticut, Riverside Theatre, Transcendence Theatre Company, and Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre. Endless gratitude to CESD, my family, friends and incredibly supportive wife, Kayley. @alexjhartman KYLE de la CRUZ LAING (Ensemble) National tour debut! Regional: Ogunquit Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Fulton Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company; BFA University of Central Florida. To my loving family & supportive community, thank you so much.

Your love makes my life beautiful! @kylelaing

KATHY LIU (Ensemble) is a Bay Area native and graduate of the Ailey/ Fordham BFA program. National tour debut! Credits: Cabaret (Goodspeed), Watch Night workshop (Perelman PAC), JChen Project, Dickinson (AppleTV). Much love to my family and friends for their support! Rep: MTA IG: @kathyliu_ MISSY MARION (Ensemble) is thrilled to join this amazing company! Favorite credits at Musical Theatre West, Ogunquit Playhouse, Forestburgh Playhouse, 3D Theatricals, and Norwegian Cruise Line. Endless love to my family and Trevor, whose support has made my dreams a reality!

EMILY ANNE NESTER (Swing) is thrilled to be making her National Tour debut! Regional credits: 42nd Street (Ensemble u/s Anytime Annie), Kinky Boots (Ensemble), Wizard of Oz (Ensemble) at Music Theater Wichita. Huge thank you to her family, and friends for their love and support, and special thanks to @resoluteartistsagency @emilyannenester MYAH SEGURA (Ensemble) is proud to be making her touring debut with Funny Girl! Based in NYC and graduated from Point Park University.

Recently in PCLO’s The Music Man and Anything Goes (ensemble).

Trained at LaGuardia HS, Ballet Hispanico, Shuffles, and National Dance Institute. @mishmyah JORDON TAYLOR (Ensemble). National Tour debut! Credits: Singin’ in the Rain (Ogunquit Playhouse), A Chorus Line (Drury Lane Theatre), & The Cher Show (Gateway Playhouse). Chicago College of Performing Arts BFA graduate. Many thanks to her family, friends, and @HudsonArtistsAgency for their support! @jordontaylor18 SEAN SEAMUS THOMPSON (Ensemble, u/s Tom Keeney, u/s Nick Arnstein, u/s Florenz Ziegfeld). Broadway: Sunset Boulevard (Joe Gillis u/s). Tours: Love Never Dies (Raoul); The Sound of Music (Captain u/s). Off-Broadway: Penelope (Barius, original cast album). TV: “The Walking Dead: Dead City” (AMC); “An Evening with Lerner and Loewe”(PBS).

Regional favorites: Hunchback (Phoebus), Disney’s The Little Mermaid (Prince Eric), Cabaret (Cliff). @oneseanthompson LESLIE BLAKE WALKER (Ensemble) was an original Broadway cast member of Funny Girl. She sends her love to CESD and The Hartt School, and

a special thank you to the entire Funny Girl family for bringing her home to Henry Street. Instagram: @leslieblakewalker TRAVIS WARD-OSBORNE (Ensemble, u/s Nick Arnstein, u/s Eddie Ryan).

Elated to be joining the cast!

Broadway credits: Moulin Rouge!, Miss Saigon, Disney’s Aladdin, A Beautiful Noise, and Holiday Inn! National Tours: Moulin Rouge!, Pretty Woman. Impossible without Mom. For Peyton always. Go Blue! Thanks @blocnyc! I’m @tdubbyo FANNY BRICE (1891 –1951) was a trail-blazer in the entertainment world. She was born to Jewish immigrants and became a star, building a career in vaudeville, theatre, film and radio. Ms. Brice made her stage debut at Frank Keeney’s Theater in Brooklyn in 1906 and it became clear that she was destined to become a showbiz legend. In 1910 she was contracted by Florenz Ziegfeld for his 1910 Follies and she became Broadway’s highest-earning star. She performed in 11 Ziegfeld productions and headlined the 1921, 1934, and 1936 Follies, where she performed her most famous character, Baby Snooks. Ms. Brice would continue to perform Baby Snooks for a weekly radio program until the end of her life. In 1918, Ms. Brice married Nick Arnstein and the couple had two children together. She married songwriter and stage producer Billy Rose in 1929; they divorced in 1938.

A beloved barrier-breaking comedienne and performer, Ms. Brice was honored with two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Ms. Brice’s career was instrumental to the future of women in comedy. Her life story and rise to stardom inspired the musical Funny Girl.

ISOBEL LENNART (Book) (19151971) was born in Brooklyn. Afflicted by polio as a child, Isobel became an avid reader, especially of movie magazines. She became a screenwriter for MGM (Love Me or Leave Me, Inn of the Sixth Happiness, The Sundowners, Two for the Seesaw).

She married actor-playwright John Harding and had two children, Joshua and Sarah. Some 24 films, three Academy Award nominations and on Writers Guild Laurel Award for Lifetime Achievement later, she turned to playwriting with Funny Girl in 1964. A Tony Award nomination for Best Musical followed and she

HARVEY FIERSTEIN (Revised Book).

Author of Torch Song Trilogy, La Cage Aux Folles (both Tony Award winners); Kinky Boots, Newsies, Casa Valentina (all Tony nominated); A Catered Affair, Safe Sex and Bella Bella. Television scripts include “Hairspray Live!,” “The Wiz Live!” and HBO’s “Tidy Endings.”

He gave Tony-winning performances in Hairspray and Torch Song Trilogy, and starred in Fiddler on the Roof, La Cage Aux Folles, Gently Down the Stream and Bella Bella. Film and television appearances include Mrs. Doubtfire, Independence Day, Mulan, “Sesame Street,” “Cheers” (Emmy nomination), “Bojack Horseman,” “The Good Wife” and “Hairspray Live!” His New York Times-bestselling memoir, I Was Better Last Night, is published

by Knopf.

JULE STYNE (Music). 1905-1994.

Broadway: Gentleman Prefer Blondes, Peter Pan, Bells Are Ringing, Gypsy, Funny Girl. He is considered one of the greatest composers in the history of American musical theatre.

Collaborators include Sammy Cahn, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Stephen Sondheim, Bob Merrill, Leo Robin and E.Y. Harburg. He has composed legendary hits such as “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” “The Party’s Over,” “Let It Snow!,” “People,” “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend” and Oscar-winning “Three Coins in the Fountain.” Jule Styne was elected to the Songwriters Hall of Fame, Theater Hall of Fame and is a Kennedy Center Honoree.

MARGARET STYNE (Special Material).

Margaret Ann Bissett Brown began her career as a model and actress.

She was married to composer Jule Styne, and together they composed “What Do Happy People Do?” Upon Margaret’s death, Funny Girl producers announced, “Margaret was a brilliant storyteller who represented her husband Jule Styne’s genius legacy with creativity and imagination… Her Spirit will be imbued in our Broadway production of Funny Girl.”

BOB MERRILL (Lyrics). Broadway composer-lyricist and screenwriter.

Unlike most of his contemporaries, Bob could not read or write a note of music, but would plunk out his melodies on a toy xylophone. Nonetheless,

he became one of the most prolific songwriters of the 1950s with such hits as “How Much Is That Doggie in the Window” and “Mambo Italiano.”

In the late 1950s, Bob composed music and lyrics of New Girl in Town, Take Me Along, Carnival and Henry, Sweet Henry. Later he formed an enduring partnership with composer Jule Styne, leading to his greatest artistic success, Funny Girl (1964) starring Barbra Streisand which included the hit songs “People” and “Don’t Rain on My Parade.”

MICHAEL MAYER (Director) is very happy to bring this new Funny Girl to America, after a successful Broadway run. Upcoming work includes: Grounded; a new opera by Jeanine Tesori and a new production of Aida at the Metropolitan Opera, and Swept Away, a new musical with songs by the Avett Brothers on Broadway at the Longacre Theatre, and the national tour of A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical. His revival of Little Shop of Horrors is in its fifth year at the Westside Theatre in New York. This one is for Lou and Sue. ELLENORE SCOTT (Choreography) is a BIPOC New York based choreographer and director. Broadway: Grey House, Funny Girl, Mr. Saturday Night.

Off-Broadway: Little Shop of Horrors, Titanique (Lucille Lortel Nomination).

Other choreography credits: So You Think You Can Dance?, Single All the Way (Netflix), Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical.Co-Directed The Lonely Few (L.A. World premiere, transferring to MCC Theater Off-Broadway Spring 2024). TV Performances: Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Smash, The Blacklist, Glee!, and Finalist and All-Star on So You Think You Can Dance? Scott is the Artistic director of ELSCO Dance Company. @helloellenore AYODELE CASEL (Tap Choreography) earned a 2022 Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Choreography.

She is a 2023 Doris Duke Artist, Herb Alpert Award recipient and United States Artist and Radcliffe Institute fellow. Born in The Bronx and raised in Puerto Rico, her multi-disciplinary practice centers highly narrative works rooted in expressions of selfhood, culture and legacy. Her projects include her concert and Bessie Award-winning film Chasing Magic, her one-woman show While I Have the Floor, and her theatrical and film series Diary of a Tap Dancer.

DAVID ZINN (Scenic Designer).

Broadway: scenery and costumes for Choir Boy, Boys in the Band, SpongeBob SquarePants, Amélie, Fun Home, The Last Ship; scenery for Kimberly Akimbo, Funny Girl, Diana, The Minutes, Torch Song, The Humans; costumes for Almost Famous, A Doll’s House Part 2, Airline Highway, Xanadu.

Also: Playwrights Horizons, The Public Theater, New York Theater Workshop, Second Stage, ACT, Berkeley Rep, The Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, National Theatre (UK), Young Vic (UK), Theater Basel, Berlin Staatsoper. Tony, Obie, Drama Desk, Hewes awards.

SUSAN HILFERTY (Costume Designer) has designed costumes and scenery for 400-plus productions. Tonynominated Broadway: Wicked, Parade, Spring Awakening, Present Laughter, Lestat, Into the Woods. Directorial collaborations: Athol Fugard (40plus productions), Joe Mantello, Yaël Farber, James Lapine, Michael Mayer, Richard Nelson, Tony Kushner, JoAnne Akalaitis, Arin Arbus, Des McAnuff, Rebecca Taichman, Garland Wright. Hilferty’s designs include Opera: Metropolitan Opera (Rigoletto, La Traviata, and upcoming Aida); Dance: Alvin Ailey (Love Stories) and Concerts: Taylor Swift (SPEAK NOW world tour). Faculty: Grad Design NYU/Tisch (served as chair for 25 years). Honors include Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Awards for Wicked and three lifetime achievement awards. susanhilferty.com KEVIN ADAMS (Lighting Designer) has received four Tony Awards for his work on Broadway, including The Cher Show, Head Over Heels, SpongeBob the Musical, Hedwig…, American Idiot, Next to Normal, Passing Strange, The 39 Steps, Spring Awakening, Everyday Rapture, Hands on a Hardbody, Hair, Take Me Out, A Class Act and solo shows by Michael Moore, Eve Ensler and John Leguizamo. OffBroadway: Hedwig…, The Scottsboro Boys, Carrie. Metropolitan Opera, Hollywood Bowl and Las Vegas.

BRIAN RONAN (Co-Sound Designer) has designed the sound for over 40 Broadway shows. Some recent designs include Some Like It Hot; Mrs. Doubtfire; Tootsie; Mean Girls; Springsteen on Broadway; The Prom; The Last Ship; If/Then; Beautiful; The Book of Mormon; Anything Goes; American Idiot; Promises, Promises; Next to Normal; Curtains; Spring

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wrote her last screenplay for the film adaptation in 1958. Ms. Lennart died in a car accident in 1971. Funny Girl was deemed “culturally, historically and aesthetically significant” by the Library of Congress (2016).

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Awakening; Cabaret. His regional and Off-Broadway credits are extensive. Brian is the recipient of the Obie, Lucille Lortel, two Drama Desks, London’s Olivier and two Tony awards.

CODY SPENCER (Co-Sound Designer).

Broadway: Co-Sound Design: Here Lies Love, The Pee-Wee Herman Show.

Off-Broadway: Broadway Bounty Hunter and Joan of Arc: Into the Fire, Co-Sound Design Trevor and Here Lies Love (Lortel Award). Some of his work as Associate Sound Designer includes Springsteen on Broadway, Mean Girls, Lazarus, Beautiful, The Book of Mormon, Bring It On: The Musical, and Annie. In addition to theatre, Cody has co-designed some of New York’s biggest concert venues including Brooklyn Steel, Terminal 5 and Webster Hall.

MICHAEL RAFTER (Music Supervisor).

Music director/arranger for Sutton Foster: New York Pops, Live From Lincoln Center and 100-plus concerts worldwide. Broadway: Violet, Everyday Rapture, Sweet Charity, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Swing!, The Sound of Music, The King and I, The Most Happy Fella, Gypsy. Film: Marriage Story, CODA, Annette, Music and Lyrics, Did You Hear About the Morgans?, Gypsy starring Bette Midler (Emmy for Music Direction). Currently associate professor of musical theatre, Ball State University Graduate of Dartmouth College, proud father of Siena Rafter (Brown ’20).

CHRIS WALKER (Orchestrations).

As musical director and orchestrator, Chris has worked on many London and Broadway productions including Me and My Girl, Cabaret, The Secret Garden, Ragtime, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Top Hat. He recently orchestrated a musical version of Roman Holiday and is currently writing a new show entitled Power Play. He was very excited to be asked to create new orchestrations for Funny Girl.

ALAN WILLIAMS (Dance, Vocal and Incidental Music Arrangements).

London/UK credits: Arranger: Elf, The Boy in the Dress (RSC), The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Big Fish, Funny Girl, The Commitments.

Musical Director/Supervisor: Sunset Boulevard, Crazy For You, Elf, Hairspray, Evita, Aladdin, A Damsel in Distress, Assassins, Urinetown, A Chorus Line, Shrek, Spelling Bee, Passion (Donmar Warehouse).

Arranged/Orchestrated opening of

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DAVID DABBON (Additional Arrangements). Emmy nomination: Last Week Tonight’s “Eat s--t, Bob!” (Composer).

Broadway: Bob Fosse’s Dancin’ (new music and dance arrangements), Beetlejuice, and Disaster! (dance arranger). HBO’s Six by Sondheim (arranger).

Composer: Game On (PCLO). Orchestrator: Audra McDonald’s Sing Happy, Go Back Home. Graduate of The Hartt School and Carnegie Mellon University.

CARMEL DEAN (Additional Arrangements). Composer: Renascence (OffBroadway); Well-Behaved Women (Joe’s Pub and Australia). Upcoming: Maiden Voyage (commission).

Broadway musical director, supervisor and/or arranger: The Notebook; If/Then; American Idiot; Hands on a Hardbody; The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Other collaborations: Green Day; Phish; The Trey Anastasio Band, Chita Rivera.

LUC VERSCHUEREN FOR CAMPBELL YOUNG ASSOCIATES (Wig and Hair Designer). Broadway: The Music Man; Company; Tina–The Tina Turner Musical (Drama Desk); A Christmas Carol; To Kill A Mockingbird; Carousel; Hello, Dolly; Head Over Heels; King Lear; Misery; Les Misérables; The Ferryman; Jerusalem; Ghost; Billy Elliot. West End: Back to the Future, Get Up Stand Up, Cinderella, Leopoldstadt.

Film/TV: “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” Downton Abbey.

JIM CARNAHAN, CSA (Casting) has cast over 150 Broadway shows. His work on Broadway this season includes Merrily We Roll Along; Shark is Broken; Appropriate; Doubt; New York, New York; A Beautiful Noise; Funny Girl; Harry Potter; Moulin Rouge!; as well as off-Broadway’s Little Shop of Horrors.

Film: Ari Aster’s Beau Is Afraid.

JASON THINGER, CSA (Casting).

Broadway: Merrily We Roll Along, Funny Girl, A Beautiful Noise, Almost Famous, Take Me Out, A Christmas Carol, Tootsie. Off-Broadway: Little Shop of Horrors, Medea (BAM).

Regional/Tours: A Christmas Carol, The Light in the Piazza (Lyric Opera of Chicago). London: The 47th. TV/ Film: The Week Of and The Sinner.

KIMBERLEE WERTZ (Music Coordinator). TV: The Tony Awards, The Kennedy Center Honors, The Academy Awards, Mozart in the

Jungle. Broadway: West Side Story, The Lehmann Trilogy, The Music Man, Into the Woods, Almost Famous, Bob Fosse’s Dancin, Parade, Funny Girl!

ELAINE DAVIDSON (Music Director/ Conductor). National tours include: Annie, Phantom of the Opera, Wizard of Oz, Catch Me If You Can, Mamma Mia!, Sound of Music (China), and more. She has worked with directors Cameron Mackintosh, Hal Prince, Billy Porter, Dan Knechtges, Jeffrey Seller, Baayork Lee, and Gabe Barre.

RAY WETMORE & JR GOODMAN (Production Props Supervisors).

Recent Broadway & Tours: Funny Girl, Here Lies Love, Parade, Kimberly Akimbo, Bad Cinderella, The Music Man, A Strange Loop, Waitress, To Kill A Mockingbird, Good Night Oscar, West Side Story, Diana.

JOHANNA McKEON (Associate Director). Broadway: Funny Girl, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, King Kong, American Idiot, War Paint, and Grey Gardens. Broadway Tours: Hedwig and the Angry Inch, American Idiot, Rent. Upcoming: Swept Away at Arena Stage. She is a recipient of Drama League, Boris Sagal and Fulbright Fellowships.

MFA: UT Austin.

JEFFREY GUGLIOTTI (Associate Choreographer) is a Choreographer and Teacher based in New York City.

Credits include: The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, The View, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Most recently: Off-Broadway: Little Shop of Horrors, Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical, Mr. Saturday Night at Barrington Stage; Broadway: revival of Funny Girl. @jeffgugliotti TORYA BEARD (Assistant Director).

Director: Ayodele Casel: Chasing Magic, Artists at the Center (NYCC), Assistant Director: Funny Girl Broadway revival, Waitress Broadway revival. Producer: Bessie Awards 2023, Jesus Christ Superstar: Highlights from the All-Female Studio Cast Recording. APAP’s Inaugural CIPA Award for Outstanding Achievement in Creative Producing.

For Valerie Payne Foster.

DRE TORRES (Assistant Tap Choreographer). Chasing Magic, City Center’s Fall for Dance Festival, and Little Island’s Music and Dance Festival. Career highlights: Comedy Central, Radio City, FOX, BBC, PBS, Harvard, and five-year Principal with

JOVON E. SHUCK (Production Stage Manager) is a proud graduate of Michigan State University whose credits include the National tours of: Dear Evan Hansen, Miss Saigon, Waitress, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Phantom of the Opera, Disney’s The Lion King, and Monty Python’s Spamalot as well as Radio City Music Hall, The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park, George Street Playhouse, and Gateway Playhouse. Much love to Sheila Marie, always.

KYLE DANNAHEY (Stage Manager).

National Tours: Mrs. Doubtfire, Pretty Woman, The Prom, Jersey Boys. Off-Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish, The Bedwetter at Atlantic Theater Company, Jersey Boys. Fiasco Theater Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, NextStop Theatre Company. All thanks to my family, friends, and mentors. Deepest Gratitude.

MELISSA RICHTER (Assistant Stage Manager) (she/her). National Tours: Jagged Little Pill, Jersey Boys, and Pretty Woman. Other credits include: Reefer Madness: The Musical (LA Revival), Attempts on Her Life (The New School), Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish (NYTF), The Mountaintop (Weston Playhouse), The Full Monty, Shakespeare in Love, and The Royale (Capital Repertory Theatre). Love always to her family, friends, and Sriracha the Cat. JUSTIN A. SWEENEY (Company Manager) (he/him). Broadway: Monty Python’s Spamalot. National Tours: To Kill a Mockingbird (First National), The Phantom of the Opera (Spectacular New), Les Misérables (25th Anniversary), Movin’ Out (First National); American Ballet Theatre: national and international tours, including Cuba and Oman.

Shout out to Jackson!

RYAN MAYFIELD (Associate Company Manager) (he/him). National Tours: To Kill a Mockingbird (First National).

(Regional Theatre) Cabaret (Goodspeed Musicals), World Premiere - Anne of Green Gables (Goodspeed Musicals), 42nd Street (Goodspeed Musicals).

Hometown: Portland, OR. Huge thanks and love to his family, friends, and the Funny Girl Company. @ryan_mayfield_ GENTRY & ASSOCIATES (General Management) has managed nearly

250 national and international touring theatrical productions over the past 25 years. Current and upcoming productions include A Beautiful Noise, Beetlejuice, The Book of Mormon, Come From Away, Elf the Musical, Funny Girl, Les Misérables, Life of Pi, Mean Girls, Peter Pan, and To Kill a Mockingbird.

THE BOOKING GROUP (Tour Booking Agency) has represented 28 Tony Award® winning Best Musicals and Plays. Current tours include The Book of Mormon, Chicago, Come From Away, Dear Evan Hansen, Funny Girl, Hadestown, Hairspray, Hamilton, Mamma Mia!, Mean Girls, MJ The Musical, Mrs. Doubtfire, My Fair Lady, Pretty Woman, Six, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, To Kill A Mockingbird, Waitress and The Wiz. Future tours include: A Wonderful World, How to Dance in Ohio, The Karate Kid, Parade, Peter Pan Goes Wrong, Some Like It Hot and Sweeney Todd.

ALLIED GLOBAL MARKETING (Tour Marketing & Press) is a full-service integrated marketing agency working with the world’s leading entertainment, consumer, and lifestyle brands, including 80+ Broadway shows over three decades. Current tours: Ain’t Too Proud, Back to the Future, Beetlejuice, The Book of Mormon, Elf, Hadestown, The Hip Hop Nutcracker, Mamma Mia!, Mean Girls, Mrs. Doubtfire, Pretty Woman, Some Like It Hot, Wheel of Fortune LIVE! Upcoming tours: Mystic Pizza, The Notebook, The Outsiders, and more.

ARTHOUSE (Digital Marketing and Advertising), is a full-service digital agency that partners with forwardthinking advertisers in the strategy and design of innovative brand campaigns. Our services include branding, content creation, social management and media buying with a focus on how creativity & connection drives campaign success. We work with our clients to create campaigns that are beautiful and strategic, converting users into active and engaged customers. Visit arthousenewyork.com.

SETH WENIG (Executive Producer) has been with NETworks since its inception in 1995. He spearheaded the international tours of Fosse starring Ben Vereen and Ruthie Henshall.

Seth has produced the Lincoln Center Theater production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific and the National Theatre production of

War Horse. Together with Cameron Mackintosh, Seth served as Executive Producer for both the US and UK tours of the National Theatre’s My Fair Lady, the 25th Anniversary US tour of Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera tour, Miss Saigon.

Currently, Funny Girl, The Book of Mormon, and Life of Pi. He is most proud of his greatest productions – Marlo and Camden.

NETWORKS PRESENTATIONS (Producer) is an industry-leading producer of touring theatrical productions, committed to delivering quality entertainment to audiences worldwide for more than 25 years. Current and upcoming productions include A Beautiful Noise, Beetlejuice, The Book of Mormon, Come From Away, Elf the Musical, Funny Girl, Les Misérables, Life of Pi, Mean Girls, Peter Pan, and To Kill a Mockingbird.

SONIA FRIEDMAN PRODUCTIONS (SFP) (Producer) is an international production company responsible for some of the most successful theatre productions around the world. Sonia Friedman CBE has developed, initiated and produced over 190 new productions and together with her company has won 61 Olivier Awards, 39 Tonys and 3 BAFTAs. Current and forthcoming productions include Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Global), The Book of Mormon (West End), Stranger Things: The First Shadow a co-production with Netflix (West End), Lyonesse (West End), Merrily We Roll Along (Broadway), and The Shark Is Broken (Broadway).

Visit soniafriedman.com for full details.

SCOTT LANDIS (Producer) is a twotime Tony Award-winning producer who has worked extensively in New York and London. He is the theatrical consultant for Universal Music Group (the world’s leading music company) and is currently developing a diverse slate of projects with several of their artists. Prior to his career in theatre, Mr. Landis was the youngest talent agent in show business history and he represented some of the most iconic names in the movie, television and theatre industries. With love and gratitude to Sonia, David, Kathleen, Ella and Nathaniel. He dedicates this show to his parents Lynne and Lawrence and their memory.

DAVID BABANI (Producer). Founder and artistic director of the Menier Chocolate Factory in London. He

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has produced over 30 West End shows and his productions have won multiple Tony and Olivier awards.

Broadway credits include Sunday in the Park With George, A Little Night Music, La Cage Aux Folles, The Color Purple and Travesties.

ROY FURMAN (Co-Producer). Broadway: Spamalot, MJ, Moulin Rouge! (Tony Award), The Book of Mormon (Tony), Some Like It Hot and Mr. Saturday Night. Off-Broadway: Little Shop of Horrors. Producer of 17 Tony Awardwinning musicals and plays, including Leopoldstadt; The Color Purple; The Band’s Visit; Hello, Dolly! and War Horse. Vice chairman of Jefferies Financial Group, former vice chairman of Lincoln Center, president and chairman emeritus of Film at Lincoln Center.

NO GUARANTEES (Co-Producer). is led by Christine Schwarzman (President), Darren Johnston (EVP) and Megan O’Keefe (EVP).

Four-time Tony Award winner for Leopoldstadt (2023), The Lehman Trilogy (2022), Company (2022), and Hadestown (2019). Nine-time Tony Award Nominee. Lead producing credits include Pulitzer Prize winner Fat Ham, Saheem Ali, Jocelyn Bioh and Michael Thurber’s new musical Goddess and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Bad Cinderella. Additional credits: Here Lies Love, The Shark is Broken, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Beetlejuice, Mean Girls and more.

ADAM BLANSHAY PRODUCTIONS (Co-Producer). Over 60 productions world-wide, and recipient of eight Tonys, eight Oliviers and one Helpmann. Adam is a 2023 EMBA candidate and Linbury Scholar, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Full bio: adamblanshay.com DARYL ROTH (Co-Producer) holds the singular distinction of producing 7 Pulitzer Prize-winning plays: Anna in the Tropics; August: Osage County; Clybourne Park; How I Learned to Drive: Proof; Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women; and Wit. Recipient of 13 Tony Awards; over 130 productions including Kinky Boots; Into the Woods; Indecent; Life of Pi; and The Normal Heart. Upcoming: Nancy Drew: The Musical. Trustee, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Theater Hall of Fame Inductee.

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LANG ENTERTAINMENT GROUP (Co-Producer) is: Victoria Lang, recent Broadway: The Cottage,

The Kite Runner, Paradise Square, Tootsie, The Cher Show, Lightning Thief, Sylvia. West End: Funny Girl, SHOUT!, Bat Boy. Off-Broadway: Found, Silence!, Matt & Ben, Johnny Guitar, SHOUT! Upcoming: Sinatra: The Musical. Founder: Broadway & Beyond Theatricals. Carol Cogan Savitsky, Steaming (producer), Listen to my Heart (producer). Proud to be part of this iconic revival.

Michael Saperstein, Broadway: Funny Girl, Merrily We Roll Along, The Cottage. Upcoming: Sinatra: The Musical (U.K.). Grateful to my family and friends for their continuous support.

GAVIN KALIN (Co-Producer). Recent Broadway: Plaza Suite; Caroline, or Change; Betrayal; Mrs. Doubtfire; Sea Wall/A Life; The Lehman Trilogy.

Recent West End: Cyrano de Bergerac, Cabaret, Leopoldstadt, Pretty Woman. Recent immersive: Monopoly Lifesized, Peaky Blinders: The Rise.

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CHARLES & NICOLAS TALAR (CoProducer) have produced many musicals and family entertainment, garnering more than 15 million spectators across 7,000 performances. Amongst them, Notre Dame de Paris, their worldwide success will be presented for the first time this summer 2022 in New York City at the David Koch Theatre, Lincoln Center.

FAKSTON PRODUCTIONS (CoProducer). Ken Fakler and Dan Stone are a multiple Tony and Olivier Awardwinning co-producing team known for their work on Dear Evan Hansen, Company, Beautiful - The Carole King Musical, The Inheritance, Parade,The Wiz, Merrily We Roll Along, and Some Like It Hot. SANFORD ROBERTSON (Co-Producer) is a private equity investor in San Francisco. He had early interest in musical theatre, as his father, an amateur songwriter, made sure he saw every musical while growing up. Now as an investor/producer of 25-plus productions, including several Tony Award winners, he is proud to be part of the first revival of this classic.

CRAIG BALSAM (Co-Producer) (he/ him).Broadway: Merrily, Here Lies Love, Hangmen, Hadestown (eight Tony Awards), What the Constitution Means To Me (Tony nom), The Lehman Trilogy (Tony Award), Is This A Room/Dana H., Keyboards/vocals/ gong: Perry Street Band. Love ya, JB.

JANE BERGÈRE (Co-Producer).

Multiple Tony and Olivier Awardwinning producer. Funny Girl; Beetlejuice; Kinky Boots; Hello, Dolly!; La Cage aux Folles; Angels in America; War Hose; Clybourne Park; Glengarry Glen Ross. Film credits include the Whitney Houston film, I Wanna Dance With Somebody, and the upcoming The Collaboration starring Paul Bettany and Jeremy Pope. JaneBergereProductions.com JEAN DOUMANIAN (Co-Producer).

Academy Award-nominated and Tony Award-winning theatre/ film/TV producer. Over 25 theatrical productions include Hangmen, August: Osage County, Angels in America, The Book of Mormon, The Mountaintop and Our Town. jdpnyc.com ROSALIND PRODUCTIONS (CoProducer). Tony-nominated, Drama Desk-winning company. Broadway: Funny Girl, The Prom, King Lear, Three Tall Women, The Miracle Worker. OffBroadway: Crumbs from the Table of Joy w/Keen, Oratorio For Living Thing w/Ars Nova, My Lingerie Play w/Rattlestick, The Last Seder, Savage in Limbo. President Abigail Solomon, EVP Jennifer Kranz.

IRIS SMITH (Co-Producer). Tony winner. Broadway: Here Lies Love, Moulin Rouge!, The Band’s Visit, Death of a Salesman, Ohio State Murders, Mrs. Satuday Night, Tina—The Tina Turner Musical, Beetlejuice, Jagged Little Pill.

JULIE BOARDMAN/KATE CANNOVA (Co-Producers). Together: A Doll’s House, Once Upon a One More Time, Head Over Heels. JB: Company, The Inheritance, Indecent, An American in Paris. Co-founder, Museum of Broadway. KC: The Kite Runner, The Secret Garden, The Visit, The Scottsboro Boys, Museum of Broadway HENI KOENIGSBERG/MICHELLE RILEY (Co-Producer). Heni Koenigsberg: Most recent Tonys: Leopoldstadt (‘23); The Lehman Trilogy (‘22); Company (‘22); The Inheritance (’20); Hadestown (’19); The Band’s Visit (’18); Hello, Dolly! (’17); A View From the Bridge (’16). Michelle Riley has won Tonys for Hadestown (’19) and Once on This Island (’18).

IN FINE COMPANY (Co-Producer).

Multiple Tony Award and Grammy Award winners Sue Gilad & Larry Rogowsky: Moulin Rouge!, The Outsiders, Here Lies Love, Merrily We Roll Along, The Who’s Tommy,

ELIE LANDAU (Co-Producer). GM, Museum of Broadway. COO, TEG+.

Management and/or producing credits include Funny Girl (B’way), Hedwig…, The Addams Family, You’re Welcome America, Speed-the-Plow, Spamalot and the Emmy-nominate documentary “Paper Clips.”

BRIAN MORELAND (Co-Producer).

Thrilled to a part. Previous shows include Thoughts of a Colored of Man, Sea Wall/A Life, The Sound Inside, The Wiz. MARY MAGGIO AND SCOTT ABRAMS (Co-Producer). Mary Maggio: Super You. Films: Tribes, Black Bouquet. Scott Abrams: A Beautiful Noise, Back to the Future, Harmony, The Notebook.

Together: Tony Award-winning producers of Company, Co-Producers Merrily We Roll Along, Funny Girl, Hamlet, Mandela.

DAVID MANELLA/SEAVIEW (CoProducer). David’s credits include Parade (Tony), Slave Play and Sea Wall/A Life (Tony Noms), Just for Us, Sunset Blvd (London), Danny and the Deep…, Lempicka and Enemy of the People. Seaview is a NY based theater and film company. @ThisIsSeaview GFOUR PRODUCTIONS, LLC (CoProducer) proudly presents some of the world’s most recognized shows.

Productions and investments include: The Book of Mormon, Matilda, Six, Stranger Things: The First Shadow, Menopause The Musical®, and The Play That Goes Wrong. Current tours include: Company, On Your Feet!, and Tina: The Tina Turner Musical.

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Opening Night: September 12, 2023 STAFF FOR FUNNY GIRL EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Seth Wenig Hannah Rosenthal GENERAL MANAGEMENT Gentry & Associates Gregory Vander Ploeg Madeline McCluskey Steven Varon-Moore Maia Sutton PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT NETworks Presentations Jason Juenker Hector Guivas Walker White Alex Williams pesci Aimeé Mangual Pagán TOUR PRESS AND MARKETING ALLIED GLOBAL MARKETING Andrew Damer Jennifer Gallagher Scott Praefke Jessica Cary Adina Hsu Amenkha Sembenu Jessica Steans-Gail Emily Toppen Anne Waisanen TOUR BOOKING AGENCY THE BOOKING GROUP Meredith Blair, Kara Gebhart Laura Kolarik, Stephanie Ditman, Sophie Tiesler thebookinggroup.com Production Stage Manager.............................Jovon E. Shuck Stage Manager.............................................. Kyle Dannahey Assistant Stage Manager.............................. Melissa Richter Company Manager ................................... Justin A. Sweeney Associate Company Manager .........................Ryan Mayfield Assistant Director..............................................Torya Beard Assistant Choreographer..................................... Dre Torres Associate Scenic Designer................................ Tim McMath Associate Costume Designer................................ Mark Koss Assistant Costume Designers...................Heather Freedman, Meriwether Snipes Associate Lighting Designer............................ Timothy Reed Assistant Lighting Designer.....................Emmanuel Delgado Associate Sound Designer............................... Thomas Ford Hair and Wig Designer...............Campbell Young Associates/ Luc Verschueren Associate Hair and Wig Designer....................Susan Corrado Production Prop Supervisors.....Ray Wetmore & JR Goodman Production Electricians..............................Jon Batz-Owings, Thomas Owings-Batz Production Sound............................................ Chad Parsley Production Props........................................Jennifer Kramer Moving Light Programmer................................... Paul Toben Head Carpenter...............................................Brent Jahnke Assistant Carpenter...........................................Jesse Leach Flyman.....................................................Logan Vanderpool Head Electrician.................................................Jacob Ryan Assistant Electricians................. Eli McEwan, Michael Smith Head Sound.......................................................Mark Dulac Assistant Sound........................................... Ryan Chapman Head Props........................................................ Serena Slie Assistant Props......................................................AK Koob Wardrobe Supervisor....................................Katie Trantham Assistant Wardrobe................................... Payton Slaughter Hair & Make-up Supervisor...........................Matthew Henry Hair & Make-up Assistant.............................Sierra Peterson Star Dresser.................................................Makayla Willett Production Assistants......Whitney Roy, Alex Tawid Di Maggio, Brillian Qi-Bell Vocal Coach....................................................... Joan Lader Dialect Coach............................................... Deborah Hecht Advertising/Marketing Materials............................ AKA NYC Video Production.............................. Cinevative, HMS Media Production Photographer.....................Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade Safety Consultant...................................... Bryan Huneycutt Social Media......................................................... Arthouse Sara Fitzpatrick, Marc Mettler, Travis Moser, Yael Matlow, Alex Mecklosky Merchandising............................................. Creative Goods Accounting.............................. NETworks Presentations LLC Legal Services.................................. F. Richard Pappas, Esq. David F. Schwartz, Esq., Gray Schwartz LLP HR Support..........................................Global Solutions, Inc. K+K Reset, LLC Housing..............................................................Road Rebel Travel Agency........................... Kessler & Co. / Direct Travel Trucking........................................................ Clark Transfer FOR NETWORKS PRESENTATIONS Chief Executive Officer........................................... Orin Wolf Chief Financial Officer/Chief Operating Officer.... Margaret Daniel

Business Affairs......................................... Scott W. Jackson Chief Producing Officer........................................ Seth Wenig Executive Producers.............. Mimi Intagliata, Trinity Wheeler Associate Producer.................................. Hannah Rosenthal Executive Assistant....................................Isabella Schiavon Vice President of Finance.................................. Scott Levine Sr. Director/Finance............................................. John Kinna Controller..................................................... Jennifer Gifford Director of Tour Accounting............................ Laura S. Carey Tax Director....................................................... Pat Guerieri Accounts Payables & Receivables Clerk..................Lisa Loveless Sr. Director, Booking and Engagements.................Amanda Laird Directors, Booking & Engagements.......................Stacey Burns, Colin Byrne Director of Sales................................................Zach Stevenson Director of Marketing........................................... Heather Hess Sr. Director/General Management............... Gregory Vander Ploeg General Manager....... Madeline McCluskey, Steven Varon-Moore Associate General Manager.................................... Maia Sutton Sr. Director/Production Management................... Jason Juenker Sr. Production Manager........................................Hector Guivas Production Managers...................... Walker White, Alex Williams Technical Director.............................................................pesci Production Coordinator........................... Aimeé Mangual Pagán Director of Operations...........................Pearce Landry-Wegener Resource Director................................................ Kayla Rooplal Office Manager.................................................... Michelle Adye Music Coordinator.................................................. John Mezzio Warehouse Manager.............................................Joseph Spratt Warehouse Costume Manager.......................Bobby Maglaughlin Warehouse Costume Shop Assistant................Grace Santamaria CREDITS Scenic items fabricated by Great Lakes Scenic Services.

Lighting equipment from PRG Sound equipment from Sound Associates Inc. Props fabrication and finishing by Jerard Studios, Q1 Lighting & Scenic, R. Ramos Upholstery, Brooklyn Stage & Screen, Paper Mache Monkey, BrenBri Props, Costume Armour, David Drummond, Infinite Scenic, Props Papers, Carl Tallent, Kisch & Co, Monkey Boy Productions. Florals by Season Floral Design. Costumes by Eric Winterling, Inc., Tricorne Inc., Suitable Costumes, Ltd., Bethany Joy Costumes, Inc., Arel Studio, Lynne Bacchus, Giliberto Designs, Inc., Siam Costumes, Maria Ficalora Knitwear, Ltd., Lisa Logan, Amy Micallef, Cego Custom Shirts, Berkeley Repertory, Lynne Mackey Studio, Mio Design NYC, Rodney Gordon, Ann Morin, Jeff Fender, Gene Mignola, Julz Kroboth, Jimmy McBride. Custom footwear by Capezio, LaDuca Shoes, Worldtone Dance, Wing and Weft, Tiecrafters, Inc., Jerard Studio, Christine Sczcepanski, Special Thanks to Bra*Tenders for Hoisery and undergarments.

Rehearsed at NEW 42nd Street Studios, 229 W 42nd Street, New York, NY. Rehearsed at Pearl Studios, Open Jar, Ripley-Grier Studios.

Special Thanks to Mark Shackett, Foresight Theatricals Providence Performing Arts Center; Norbert Mongeon, Janice Anderson, J.L. “Lynn” Singleton Insurance Broker Services Maury Donnelly and Parr, Inc. Robert B. Middleton, Sr and Meghan Coleman Financial Services and banking arrangements by Flagstar Bank N.A. FunnyGirlOnBroadway.com Facebook, X, Instagram: @FunnyGirlBwy Tiktok: @funnygirlbwyofficial The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers of the United States.

The Musicians employed in this production are members of the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada.

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

The Press Agents and Company Managers employed in this production are represented by the Association of Theatrical Press Agents & Managers.

Backstage employees are represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (or I.A.T.S.E.).

United Scenic Artists represents designers and scenic artists for the American Theatre.

This production is produced by a member of The Broadway League in collaboration with our professional union-represented employees.

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DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGES THE FOLLOWING SUPPORT IN ITS 2024/25 BROADWAY SEASON

PLEASE BE ADVISED • LATECOMERS and those exiting the theatre are seated at predetermined breaks in designated areas.

• PHOTOS, RECORDING & CELL PHONE USE are prohibited.

• CHILDREN 6+ are welcome in our theatres and must be ticketed.

• DRINKS are allowed in provided containers.

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WHO SAID IT?

Rudolph Family and Santa

IN RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER: THE MUSICAL

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In 1939, retailer Montgomery Ward asked Robert L. May to develop a Christmas story for publication.

Titled Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, the story was adapted into a song by May’s brother-in-law and radio producer, Johnny Marks. Ten years later, the song was first sung commercially by Harry Brannon a month before Gene Autry’s No. 1 recording was released. Then, in 1964, Burl Ives re-recorded the song as the soundtrack to accompany the television episode that has become the longest-running Christmas TV special in history.

Now, the stage adaptation Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Musical is delighting audiences across the nation. Test your memory by answering “Who Said It?” in this musical-inspired crossword puzzle.

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2. Never knew a Bumble yet who’d turn down a pork dinner for deer meat…do your stuff.

3. I’m the official Sentry of the Island of the Misfit Toys!

4. What? You don’t like to make toys?

6. I just don’t like to make toys.

7. I think it’s a handsome nose. Much better than that silly false one you were wearing.

8. Well, this is it. The storm won’t subside by tonight. We’ll have to cancel Christmas.

9. Come here…open your mouth – oh dear.

I’d better set up an appointment, week from Tuesday. Four-thirty – sharp.

11. How can you overlook that? His beak blinks like a blinkin’ beacon!

13. A toy is never truly happy until it is loved by a child 15. It sure is! It’s SANTA!! And look, Rudolph is leading the way!

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1. Who ever heard of a skinny Santa? Eat! 5. Well, they are all very sad at the loss of their friend — but they realize that the best thing to do is to get back to Christmastown.

10. Gadzooks! The Bumble strikes again!

Whoopeeee!

12. Looks like we’re forgotten again.

14. I’m cude. I’m cude!

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This year marks the 39th year of Mannheim Steamroller Christmas by Chip Davis. The annual holiday sensation sells out in 80 cities nationwide. Get to know the man behind this holiday sensation.

Do you come from a family of musicians?

Yes. For as long as I can remember I’ve always been around music. I have third generation musicians on both sides of my family. My dad was a saxophone player in a big band during the World War II era. My mother played trombone for the NBC Symphony while she was still in high school.

She was even a poster girl for the famed music center, Interlochen Art Academy. Both of my grandmothers were piano teachers, as well.

How did your big break come through a series of radio commercials?

I worked as a jingle writer early in my career. One of the ad executives was the late Bill Fries and we wrote a series of commercials about a fictional truck driver named C.W. McCall and his waitress girlfriend, Mavis, at the “Old Home Filler Up and Keep on Truckin’ Café.” We produced one in 1975 that became the song, “Convoy,” which sold 10 million copies. “Convoy” went on to become a movie starring Kris Kristofferson and Ali McGraw. And would you believe I won SESAC’s Country Music Writer of the Year Award for my work!

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Where did the name Mannheim Steamroller come from?

From Mannheim, Germany. That’s where Mozart and composer/music theorist Joseph Stamitz both lived.

Stamitz came up with the idea of the crescendo: music building and getting louder in order to excite the audience.

The 18th Century musical phrase “Mannheim Valse” literally meant, “roller,” and people used to joke that the loud music would roll over the crowd and flatten them. When it was time to start selling my band, I had to come up with a name to market. At the time the big rock groups had interesting names like Jefferson Airplane or Iron Butterfly. So I came up with the name Mannheim Steamroller.

Was the music industry receptive to your idea of a Christmas album?

Everyone in the music industry back in 1984 told me, “A Christmas album? You can’t do that. Only artists who have run out of ideas ever do a Christmas album.” But you know me. When someone says, “It’ll never work,” I take it as a personal challenge!

What does it mean to know that your music is part of people’s annual holiday traditions?

It is one of the biggest honors that you can possibly have: to be invited into people’s homes through my music and have them integrate me into their Christmas traditions.

I absolutely love it and love being part of their families!

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Beloved children’s author Mo Willems has a list of accolades to his credit: six-time Emmy Award winner for “Sesame Street,” New York Times bestselling author, three-time Caldecott winner, two-time Theodor Geisel medalist, five-time Geisel honoree and inaugural Kennedy Center Education Artist-in-Residence for which he has written three musicals.

But, originally, he thought he’d be in comedy. “You know, my dream was to be a sketch comedian,” he told Jeff Labrecque in Entertainment Weekly. “I started a sketch comedy group in college and…the break-off splinter group became The State. And God, I hated them for that.”

Seems like it turned out all right.

His widely acclaimed Elephant and Piggie series began in 2007 and were “the first characters that I created that I intended for multiple books,” he continued. “I knew that they were going to have to carry a lot of weight.”

Pun intended? Likely.

Elephant & Piggie’s “We Are in a Play!” was an original work inspired by the collection. “First thing that you do when you’re writing anything, particularly a play, is that you have to take your time. You start thinking about who are these characters and why are these characters hanging out together,” Willems said in a Page to Stage interview with The Kennedy Center.

“These characters are incredibly dramatic. They care. Their emotions are very, very, very strong. What you want to do is you want to take your audience…to see who they are and why they are who they are and how their little crises change them until finally they have to face something that they’re not ready for.”

Working with the creative team, Willems developed a plot and score that takes Gerald the Elephant and Piggie on a journey using music as a tool to overcome the challenges they must face.

“If you think about a scene as two characters who are having a problem and they’re angry at each other, and they can’t say I’m angry at you because you hurt my feelings. But if they sing a song, they can explain exactly what they’re going through.”

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