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Since the start of this theatre season, I’ve been asking questions in this column. Are we welcoming enough to tech-savvy audience members? Where do you get your arts and entertainment news? What’s important to you in a cultural facility? As a recent transplant to Denver, I have my share of observations. And I definitely have opinions on the questions I’ve posed. But I want to know what you think. You are my partners and, together, we’re going to shake things up.

Now, you may not think of yourself as a rebel. Very few rebels do. The reality, though, is that simply by expecting a modern theatre-going experience, you’re shaking things up every time you attend a live event. Live theatre is an art form that has been around for over two thousand years. Over that time, it has continuously evolved and reconsidered its potential. There has never been a time like this, though. Personal (and professional) technology is upending everything about the theatrical experience, from your first search for tickets on your smart phone to the last selfie you post before heading home. There’s something new seemingly every day and the DCPA wants to lead the way.

That said, it’s not all new. We still have stages, actors, sets, props and wardrobe. We still have playwrights and directors and stage managers and crew. Mix well and you have theatre. But then again, now we have “immersive” theatre like our upcoming summer production called Sweet & Lucky that forgoes seats and stages for wandering through theatrical spaces. We have jukebox musicals, dance mash-ups, cirque and other forms traditionalists might not even recognize. Here at the DCPA, we’re even updating some of our theatres (currently The Space Theatre in the Bonfils Complex) to accommodate the new, high-tech, demands of modern theatre making. But here’s the big question — should live theatre stay the same or become something new?

As we move forward, what do you think the future of live theatre should be? What kind of programming should we embrace?

Should we stay rooted in the past with traditional stagings and scripts? Should we tear up the rulebook and see what happens?

If we do either, will you attend more or less? Because whatever we do, you complete it. You are the reason we’re here and we want to hear from you. The revolution will not be televised — but it may be staged.

Let us know your thoughts at denvercenter.org/sightline.

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LETTERS TO THE CEO In Applause No. 4, CEO Scott Shiller gave an overview of the City’s plans to reimagine the Arts Complex and asked you to offer ideas for this “Next Stage.” Excerpts from your responses follow. To read all of the comments, visit denvercenter.org/news-center.

With a dedicated Family Theatre, Denver Center could become an innovator in works specifically for children, creating pieces that teach young audiences important life lessons without talking down to them… [and] provide a safe and fun respite for families to enjoy an unforgettable experience together.

— Rebecca H. A Music Arts Complex…which would include an award winning venue(s) capable of accommodating performances and music festivals...talented local musicians as well as established bands…. [It] would include a trendy bar…, a coffee house…, a small performance area, practice spaces and possible local artisan co-op area. — Kirsten A. Totally rebuild the Buell Theatre audience area. Too many sound problems throughout the space. Grade the orchestra so that I can really see the stage even if a 6’ 5” man sits in front of me. Take out some of the seats.

— Barbara D. What a waste of money…. Put money, if you have it, into productions. — Bob Replace the current parking garage…with an open public park-like space…. This would allow for gathering and event space, as well as give unobstructed views of the beautiful Ellie Caulkins Opera House and facades of other theatres. — Erica A solution to the parking problem and some restaurants would be great improvements.

— Steve S. A coffee house sounds good to me!… And the idea of tearing down Boettcher and putting in an amphitheater sounds TERRIBLE! Who wants to deal with traffic noise and fumes while trying to hear a concert?

— Joellyn

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1. THEATRE COMPANY actor Adeoye participates in a video project to commemorate Black History Month. The cast of All the Way read the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for the project, which has received more than 64,000 views. Tune in at youtube/denvercenter. 2. DCPA supporter Phil Munishor is applauded by the cast of FADE for his recent gift from The Joan and Phill Berger Charitable Fund to support both the play and renovation of The Space Theatre. 3. DCPA EDUCATION welcomed a packed house of middle and high school students to its Student Matinee of As You Like It. 4. Westin Denver Downtown General Manager John

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It didn’t take long for Broadway star Robert Petkoff to learn the DCPA Theatre Company would be performing his favorite musical, Sweeney Todd, with Colorado gypsy punk band DeVotchKa adding its own sanguine flavoring to Stephen Sondheim’s classic orchestrations.

“DeVotchKa is my sister’s favorite band,” said Petkoff.

“When she found out, she wrote me right away and said, ‘Oh my God, I have to get out to Denver and see this.’”

Now Petkoff’s sister has two reasons come to Denver.

Her brother, an award-winning veteran of six Broadway productions, is playing the title role of the barbarous barber.

“But put DeVotchKa at the top of the list,” he said with a laugh. “I am reason No. 2.”

The Petkoff siblings are not the only ones excited to see what happens when Sweeney Todd bleeds DeVotchKa’s Latin and Slavic-infused aural amalgam into Sondheim’s perhaps most powerful (and unquestionably most homicidal) score.

“DeVotchKa will attract a completely different kind of audience,” Petkoff said. “And boy, anytime you can bring a whole new swath of people into the theatre who don’t normally come is a great, great thing.”

Petkoff and DeVotchKa frontman Nick Urata have their own affinities for Sweeney Todd dating back to their very different childhoods. Petkoff remembers hearing the vinyl cast recording in 1979 when he was in high school and the record was hot off the presses. “I was blown away, both by how complex the story is, and by how incredible the music is,” Petkoff said. “I just instantly fell in love. I knew I wanted to play that role one day.”

DeVotchKa has been blurring distinctions between art forms for more than 15 years, notably with its wildly popular annual concerts at Red Rocks with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. Music fans have been spellbound by the band’s theatricality dating all the way back to its earliest appearances at small Boulder music clubs when Urata and bandmates Jeanie Schroder, Shawn King and Tom Hagerman would enter from the back of a darkened house guided only by the string of lights that line Schroder’s sousaphone.

“I can’t think of a more perfect platform for us than Sweeney Todd,” Urata said, “being that we like coming from a dark and twisted place, and this is the ultimate dark and twisted musical opera.”

Petkoff’s co-star is Linda Mugleston in the delicious role of Mrs. Lovett, maker of those curiously delicious meat pies.

Petkoff and Mugleston have theatrical bloodlines that crisscross Denver and run deep down into Broadway’s sidewalk cracks. Petkoff appeared in the DCPA’s Tantalus, a 10-play epic Trojan War cycle in 2000 — nothing less than the largest theatre project in the 2,500-year history of the theatre. He returned in 2012 for the world premiere of Sense & Sensibility, The Musical and in the Broadway tour of Spamalot in 2007. Mugleston’s Theatre Company credits include The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Quilters and A Christmas Carol.

When the Theatre Company forays into musicals, Mugleston said, they always have something in common with the company’s nationally-acclaimed world premiere plays: Even when telling a familiar story, there is something new about them.

“The Denver Center is always innovative, no matter what they are doing,” Mugleston said. “The creativity is always very high-end, and it never feels like run-of-the-mill, normal fare. It’s always exciting.”

The Sweeney Todd stars appeared together briefly in the 2011 Broadway revival of Anything Goes, during which they swear no throats were slashed. Surprisingly, neither has

ever before appeared in a production of Sweeney Todd.

Sondheim, now 86, has been uncommonly encouraging of young artists wanting to experiment with Sweeney Todd, which first shocked Broadway audiences under the direction of Hal Prince in 1979. It has since been presented in forms ranging from

This is how theatre breathes and grows and evolves.”

When you change the orchestrations, you are not changing the actual notes, Petkoff said, “you are changing how an audience hears them — the rhythm. The style.”

“I get why a playwright might say, ‘Listen, you need to say every word that I wrote.’ But with a musician, you understand that while he wrote every one of those notes, there are so many different ways to play them. And yet, you are still playing the song.”

Photos: Above – Linda Mugleston in The Unsinkable Molly Brown; Right – Robert Petkoff in Sense & Sensibility the Musical. Photos by Jennifer M. Koskinen.

“The Denver Center is always innovative, no matter what they are doing,” Mugleston said. “The creativity is always very highend, and it never feels like run-of-the-mill, normal fare. It’s always exciting.” opera to an intimate chamber piece.

The musical was revived on Broadway in 2004 with only 10 actors all playing their own instruments. In 2014, Sondheim gave his permission for the Landless Theatre Company to concoct a “prog-metal” version in Washington D.C. That’s a form that blends classical music and jazz while using metal to highlight some of the darker elements of the story. Permission to let DeVotchKa envelop Sondheim’s score with DeVotchKa’s signature horns, accordion, violin and percussion was handed down by the master himself.

Urata’s stated goal for the piece is “to make it loud and proud.” And if that sounds too experimental for theatre purists, Urata said, consider that West Side Story was once experimental theatre.

“If I know anything about Sondheim, it’s that he is very open-minded,” said Urata. “I think that’s why we all love him.” That’s because “first and foremost, Sondheim is an artist,” Mugleston said.

Anytime you tell a story, Petkoff added, “who is telling the story changes that story. So people who come to see this show may have an idea what should be in their heads based on what they have seen before. But we have this great opportunity in Denver to tell our own version of the story, and adding DeVotchKa will make it a really unique version of that story.

Imagine, he said, what Broadway audiences who grew up on Camelot and My Fair Lady thought when they first sat watching Jesus Christ Superstar in 1971. “They were outraged,” he said. “’That’s not a musical!’ they said. But there was an influx of younger people who came and became lifelong lovers of theatre. The same thing is happening with Hamilton on Broadway today.

There are people who have never been to a Broadway musical and they are standing and screaming in fits of ecstasy watching Hamilton. It’s wonderful for theatre because we need to change and we need new blood, and this is how you do it.”

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DCPA Founder Don Seawell refused to wear one of Judi’s furs to a costume benefit. So to complete the look of the Viking Warrior, he tossed her bathroom rug over his shoulder.

COSTUME COLUMN DCPA Trustee Judi Wolf has been playing in costumes since she was six.

“I started in my mother’s ballgowns,” she said. “I would put them on and get completely lost in them.”

Wolf has been a staunch supporter of the DCPA since the first opening night in 1979, and openings continue to be a very big deal to Judi Wolf.

She wore a toga to the opening of the 10-hour epic Greek cycle Tantalus in 2000.

She arrived at The Little Mermaid in 2007 dressed as Ariel’s mother where she held fish-shaped balloons while her household manager blew bubbles in her wake.

There are method actors and there are method dressers. Imagine what the audience thought when Wolf arrived at The Man Who Came to Dinner in 1990 wearing a cocktail dress and riding in a wheelchair. Reminiscent of the play’s cranky protagonist Sheridan Whiteside who spends the play in a wheelchair, Wolf says she needed it. “I had tripped,” she said, “so I rode to the opening in an ambulance with ice on my knee and ankle.

It was opening night. I wasn’t going to miss it.”

Wolf is a Denver native with a master’s degree in international relations from the University of Denver. She taught Spanish at Graland Country Day School and was named as the Fine Arts Foundation Citizen of the Arts in 2012.

She has sponsored the Costume Corner column in Applause magazine for the past five years because she believes the costume arts must be championed.

“What is theatre without costumes?” she said. “It’s radio!”

We would like to give Judi Wolf a round of applause for her generous contributions toward our costumes and, of course, for her unflagging flair for the dramatic.

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In 1988, metro area voters approved a 1¢ on $10 sales tax to support arts and culture. The Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD) now distributes nearly $55 million to 275 organizations throughout our community. But how has this investment diversified as the community has evolved?

At the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, SCFD funds have enabled us to better reflect the diversity of our community through a number of programs. Here are some recent examples:

once May 24 – 29 NETworks presents Disney’s Beauty and the Beast Jun 7 – 12 The Sound of Music Jun 21 – 26 Beautiful — The Carole King Musical Jul 19 – 31

DIVERSE VOICES In addition to a commitment to colorblind casting (as evidenced in the Theatre Company’s recent production of As You Like It), the DCPA is excited to feature a regular mix of programming by, for and starring individuals from a variety of backgrounds. Titles such as Kinky Boots, Drag Machine, One Night in Miami…, Jackie and Me, FADE and Just Like Us among many, many others reflect the diversity within our community and our commitment to new voices on our stages.

But our biggest commitment to new voices is the Women’s Voices Fund — a first-of-its-kind endowment designed to foster the work of a clearly underrepresented voice in American theatre. This initiative has enabled our Theatre Company to commission 15 female playwrights, hire 17 female directors and contribute to 10 world premiere plays by women — all in the past decade.

AFFORDABILITY Our brand new DCPAccess program provides twice as many $10 tickets to each Theatre Company production plus significantly discounted tickets to select Broadway shows. Plus, our popular $10 student ticket program, military and senior rush tickets help eliminate barriers to attendance.

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NEW AUDIENCES While performing arts are often viewed as having aging audiences, we’ve launched a variety of programs to attract a younger crowd. Kids Night on Broadway provides a minimum of 200 free tickets for youth to designated Broadway performances. In addition to extensive in-school and on-site school programs, we now host both a High School Playwriting Competition and a High School Musical Theatre Competition. And our newest focus on Millennial engagement is evidenced through our innovative Off-Center programming and our new off-site, immersive production scheduled for late Spring.

For more information on these programs and many more, please visit denvercenter.org.

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An Act of God Opens Fall 2016 The Glass Menagerie Sep 9 – Oct 16 Roundabout Theatre Company’s Cabaret Sep 27 – Oct 9 Frankenstein Sep 30 – Oct 30 A Christmas Carol Nov 25 – Dec 24 The SantaLand Diaries Nov 25 – Dec 24 Hedwig and the Angry Inch Dec 6 – 11 Photos L to R: by John Moore; Kyle Taylor Parker in Kinky Boots, Photo by Matthew Murphy.

ACCESSIBILITY Thanks in part to the SCFD, we have grown our accessibility services to include ASL interpretation, Audio description, Open Captioning, Braille and large print programs, and tactile tours. Improvements to seating, entry/exit routes and enhanced listening systems are planned as part of our Bonfils Theatre Complex renovation.

The Phantom of the Opera Aug 25 – Sep 11

Finding Neverland Dec 20 – Jan 1, 2017 Fun Home Jan 10 – 22, 2017 The Christians Jan 27 – Feb 26, 2017 Colorado New Play Summit Feb 11 – 12 & 17 – 18, 2017 Motown The Musical Feb 15 – 19, 2017 An American In Paris Mar 8 – 19, 2017 Kinky Boots Mar 21 – 26, 2017 Disgraced Mar 31 – May 7, 2017 The Secret Garden Apr 21 – May 28, 2017 The Illusionists May 19 – 21, 2017 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time May 30 – Jun 18, 2017 Frozen Coming Summer 2017

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HARVEY FIERSTEIN

Based on the Disney film written by BOB TZUDIKER and NONI WHITE Starring

JOEY BARREIRO STEVE BLANCHARD MORGAN KEENE AISHA de HAAS STEPHEN MICHAEL LANGTON ZACHARY SAYLE JOHN MICHAEL PITERA ETHAN STEINER MARK ALDRICH JOSH ASSOR BILL BATEMAN JOSHUA BURRAGE KEVIN CAROLAN D E MARIUS R. COPES MICHAEL DAMESKI NICO D E JESUS JP FERRERI SKY FLAHERTY KAITLYN FRANK MICHAEL GORMAN STEPHEN HERNANDEZ MEREDITH INGLESBY JAMES JUDY DEVIN LEWIS ERIC JON MAHLUM NICHOLAS MASSON BECCA PETERSEN ALEX PRAKKEN JORDAN SAMUELS DANIEL SWITZER ANDREW WILSON CHAZ WOLCOTT IAIN YOUNG ANTHONY ZAS Scenic Design

TOBIN OST

Original Broadway Projection Design

SVEN ORTEL Associate Producer

ANNE QUART

Dance Music Arrangements

MARK HUMMEL

Costume Design

Lighting Design

JESS GOLDSTEIN Projection Adaptation

DANIEL BRODIE

JEFF CROITER

Hair & Wig Design

General Manager

GEOFFREY QUART

JOHN MILLER

KEN TRAVIS

Casting

CHARLES G. LAPOINTE J. ALLEN SUDDETH TELSEY + COMPANY JUSTIN HUFF, CSA

Technical Supervisor

Music Coordinator

Fight Direction

Sound Design

CAITLYN THOMSON

Music Director

JAMES DODGSON

Associate Director

RICHARD J. HINDS

Production Stage Manager

JEFF NORMAN

Associate Choreographer

LOU CASTRO

Orchestrations by

DANNY TROOB

Music Supervised and Arranged by

MICHAEL KOSARIN Choreographed by

CHRISTOPHER GATTELLI JEFF CALHOUN World Premiere, Paper Mill Playhouse, in Millburn, New Jersey on September 25, 2011. Mark S. Hoebee, Producing Artistic Director, Todd Schmidt, Managing Director

©Disney

Directed by

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CAST

(in order of appearance)

Jack Kelly.................................................................................................................................... JOEY BARREIRO Crutchie......................................................................................................................................ZACHARY SAYLE Race............................................................................................................................................. DANIEL SWITZER Albert...............................................................................................................................................SKY FLAHERTY Specs....................................................................................................................................... JORDAN SAMUELS Henry....................................................................................................................................DEMARIUS R. COPES Finch...................................................................................................................................................... IAIN YOUNG Elmer.................................................................................................................................................ANTHONY ZAS Romeo..............................................................................................................................................NICO DEJESUS Mush....................................................................................................................................... NICHOLAS MASSON Katherine .................................................................................................................................... MORGAN KEENE Darcy........................................................................................................................................ JOSHUA BURRAGE Nuns............................................................ AISHA de HAAS, KAITLYN FRANK, MEREDITH INGLESBY Morris Delancey............................................................................................................................... DEVIN LEWIS Oscar Delancey...........................................................................................................................ALEX PRAKKEN Wiesel...................................................................................................................................... MICHAEL GORMAN Davey................................................................................................................ STEPHEN MICHAEL LANGTON Les (March 23–27)............................................(Thurs., Sat. Eve., Sun. Mat.) JOHN MICHAEL PITERA (Wed., Fri. Sat. Mat., Sun Eve.) ETHAN STEINER Les (March 29–April 3)......................(Tues., Thurs., Sat. Eve., Sun. Mat.) JOHN MICHAEL PITERA (Wed., Fri., Sat. Mat., Sun. Eve.) ETHAN STEINER Les (April 5–9)............................................................(Tues., Thurs., Sat. Eve.) JOHN MICHAEL PITERA (Wed., Fri., Sat. Mat.) ETHAN STEINER Joseph Pulitzer.................................................................................................................. STEVE BLANCHARD Seitz................................................................................................................................................. MARK ALDRICH Bunsen..............................................................................................................................................BILL BATEMAN Hannah................................................................................................................................MEREDITH INGLESBY Snyder.................................................................................................................................................. JAMES JUDY Medda Larkin............................................................................................................................... AISHA de HAAS Stage Manager............................................................................................................................. BILL BATEMAN Mr. Jacobi............................................................................................................................... MICHAEL GORMAN Scab..................................................................MICHAEL DAMESKI, SKY FLAHERTY, CHAZ WOLCOTT Mayor....................................................................................................................................... MICHAEL GORMAN Spot Conlon...................................................................................................................................ANTHONY ZAS Bill........................................................................................................................................... NICHOLAS MASSON Governor Roosevelt............................................................................................................... KEVIN CAROLAN Citizens of New York.....MARK ALDRICH, JOSH ASSOR, BILL BATEMAN, JOSHUA BURRAGE, KEVIN CAROLAN, DEMARIUS R. COPES, MICHAEL DAMESKI, NICO DEJESUS, SKY FLAHERTY, KAITLYN FRANK, MICHAEL GORMAN, MEREDITH INGLESBY, JAMES JUDY, DEVIN LEWIS, NICHOLAS MASSON, ALEX PRAKKEN, JORDAN SAMUELS, DANIEL SWITZER, CHAZ WOLCOTT, IAIN YOUNG, ANTHONY ZAS. SWINGS JOSH ASSOR, JP FERRERI, STEPHEN HERNANDEZ, ERIC JON MAHLUM, BECCA PETERSEN, ANDREW WILSON UNDERSTUDIES Jack Kelly: DEVIN LEWIS, ALEX PRAKKEN; Katherine: KAITLYN FRANK, BECCA PETERSEN; Davey: DEVIN LEWIS, DANIEL SWITZER; Crutchie: DEMARIUS R. COPES, IAIN YOUNG; Medda: MEREDITH INGLESBY, BECCA PETERSEN; Pulitzer: KEVIN CAROLAN, JAMES JUDY; Roosevelt: MARK ALDRICH, ERIC JON MAHLUM; Seitz: ERIC JON MAHLUM, ANDREW WILSON; Snyder: BILL BATEMAN, ERIC JOHN MAHLUM; Wiesel/Jacobi/Mayor: BILL BATEMAN, ERIC JON MAHLUM; Bunsen/Stage Manager: ERIC JON MAHLUM, ANDREW WILSON DANCE CAPTAIN: Andrew Wilson ASSISTANT DANCE CAPTAIN: Josh Assor FIGHT CAPTAIN: Kevin Carolan

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ACT I Prologue: Rooftop, Dawn

“Santa Fe” (Prologue) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jack, Crutchie Scene 1: Newsie Square

“Carrying the Banner” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jack, Newsies Scene 2: Pulitzer’s Office, Afternoon

“The Bottom Line” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pulitzer, Seitz, Bunsen, Hannah Scene 3: A Street Corner Scene 4: Medda’s Theater

“That’s Rich” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Medda

“I Never Planned on You/Don’t Come a-Knocking” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jack, Bowery Beauties Scene 5: Newsie Square, Next Morning

“The World Will Know” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jack, Davey, Les, Newsies Scene 6: Jacobi’s Deli and Street, Afternoon

“The World Will Know” (Reprise) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Newsies Scene 7: Katherine’s Office

“Watch What Happens” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Katherine Scene 8: Newsie Square, Next Morning

“Seize the Day” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Davey, Jack, Newsies Scene 9: Rooftop

“Santa Fe” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jack ACT II Entr’acte Scene 1: Jacobi’s Deli, Next Morning

“King of New York” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Davey, Katherine, Les, Newsies Scene 2: The Refuge

“Letter from the Refuge” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Crutchie Scene 3: Medda’s Theater

“Watch What Happens” (Reprise) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Davey, Jack, Katherine, Les Scene 4: Pulitzer’s Office and Cellar, Afternoon

“The Bottom Line” (Reprise) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pulitzer, Seitz, Mayor Scene 5: Brooklyn Bridge and Medda’s Theater

“Brooklyn’s Here” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Spot Conlon, Newsies Scene 6: Rooftop

“Something to Believe In” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Katherine, Jack Scene 7: Pulitzer’s Cellar

“Seize the Day” (Reprise) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Newsies

“Once and for All” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jack, Davey, Katherine, Newsies Scene 8: Pulitzer’s Office, Next Morning

“Seize the Day” (Reprise) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Newsies Scene 9: Newsie Square “Finale” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jack, Newsies Place: Lower Manhattan Time: Summer, 1899 THERE WILL BE ONE 15-MINUTE INTERMISSION TOURING ORCHESTRA Conductor: James Dodgson Associate Conductor: Faith Seetoo Assistant Conductor: Chip Prince Trumpet/Flugel: Paul Baron; Bass: Joe Wallace; Drums: Heinrich Kruse; Keyboards: Faith Seetoo, Chip Prince Electronic Music Programmer: Jeff Marder Music Coordinator: John Miller

DENVER LOCAL ORCHESTRA Woodwinds: Art Bouton Percussion: Mark Foster Trombone/bass trombone: James Gray Guitar: Daniel Schwindt Synth sub: Boko Suzuki Violin: Britt Swenson Cello: Jeff Watson Local Musicians Contractor: James Harvey

Newsies was inspired by the book Children of the City by DAVID NASAW

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MUSICAL NUMBERS

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WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST JOEY BARREIRO (Jack Kelly). Joey’s pretty jazzed to join these ranks.

Regional: Witches of Eastwick (Ogunquit), Ragtime (Westchester Broadway), A Chorus Line (Connecticut Rep) Into the Woods (Studio Tenn). Classy shout outs to Dave, Justin, Jeff, James, and of course, Walt.

STEVE BLANCHARD (Joseph Pulitzer). Broadway: Beauty and the Beast (Beast), Camelot (Lancelot), A Christmas Carol (Fred), The Three Musketeers (Aramis u/s). National Tours: Little House on the Prairie (Pa), Camelot (Lancelot), Phantom of the Opera (The Phantom), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Miles Gloriosus), Hans Christian Anderson (Hans Christian Anderson). Off-Broadway: Orphan Train (Rev. Brace), Johnny Guitar (Johnny), Frankenstein (The Creature), Treasure Island (Captain Smollett). Television: “Law and Order,” “Third Watch,” “Cupid,” “Ed,” “Sunset Beat,” “Police Story” “Goody, Goody.” Film: “Those Who Wander,” “By The Dashboard Light,” “When the Moon Was Twice As Big,” “Dark Vengeance,” “Savva,” “Rap Master Ronnie.” Mr. Blanchard can be heard on the original recordings of Johnny Guitar, Sundown, Frankenstein, and Northbound Train.

MORGAN KEENE (Katherine). Broadway 1st national tour debut! Regional: Next to Normal, Grease, Fat Camp, Happy Days, Annie, Sound of Music, Jane Eyre and Songs for a New World. Tons of love and gratitude to God, Mom and Dad, Yvonne, Patti, Disney creative team, Jeff Calhoun, Justin/Telsey and Jamie/ Victoria at Abrams Artists Agency. “Be humble, be gracious, be patient and be confident.” www.morgankeene.com Twitter/Instagram/Snapchat: @KeeneMorgan AISHA de HAAS (Medda Larkin) most recently seen in Nora Ephron’s Love Loss And What I Wore, has appeared on Broadway, TV and Film, including Caroline, Or Change; RENT (Broadway & Movie) and “Law & Order.” She’s happy singing back-up for Oleta Adams and Patti Austin, and is thrilled to join the cast of Newsies!

STEPHEN MICHAEL LANGTON (Davey).

National tour debut! Pace University MT ‘13. Thanks to the creatives, Justin/ Telsey+Co, and About Artists. Shout out to my amazingly supportive friends, incomparable family, and the Ussies for being there since day one. Love to Andromeda, from Dad. ZACHARY SAYLE (Crutchie) created the role of Ralphie Parker in the World Premiere of A Christmas Story, The Musical. Theatre: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang! (1st National Tour), The Sound of Music (Asian Tour), Dani Girl, Life on the Mississippi. Film/TV: “In the Family,”

“White Collar.” CAP21 Alumnus. Huge thanks: Disney, Jeff, Telsey, creatives, Bercy Talent, Innovative, Amelia, Bill, David, CAP21, teachers, family, loved ones. Proud to carry the banner! www. zacharysayle.com and @ZSayle JOHN MICHAEL PITERA (Les at certain performances) is incredibly excited to join the National Tour of Disney’s Newsies. He has previously been seen in productions with Kidz Theater and In the Wings Productions. He would like to send a big THANK YOU to his manager Lisa Calli and teachers: Amelia DeMayo, Kristen Caesar, Justin Reamy, and Regina Innocente. Much love to Mom, Dad, Julianna, Mimi and to all his family and friends for their support.

ETHAN STEINER (Les at certain performances) is 11 years old and lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He is thrilled to be joining the cast of Newsies for his national tour debut! Recent credits: The Music Man (Winthrop), Caroline, or Change (Noah Gellman) and Pippin (Theo). Ethan would like to thank his siblings – Shira, Oren and Dana – and, of course his parents and grandparents for their endless love and support! Special thanks to Cynthia, Mark, Linda, Jayme, Jake, and Nancy Carson.

Go Blue! www.ethanjsteiner.com MARK ALDRICH (Seitz, Ensemble).

Broadway: Newsies (original cast), Ragtime. Regional credits: Paper Mill Playhouse, The Kennedy Center, Pioneer Theatre, many more. TV/Film: “Law & Order,” “L&O: SVU.” Webseries: “The Happy Hour Guys.” Thanks to family and Jennifer.

JOSH ASSOR (Ensemble). Broadway: Disney’s Mary Poppins. Other credits include: Mary Poppins 1st National Tour, Wizard of Oz National Tour, West Side Story, Cyrano De Bergerac (Stratford Shakespeare Festival), Peter Pan, Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Aida. www.joshassor.com BILL BATEMAN (Bunsen, Stage Manager, Ensemble). Broadway/Off-Broadway: Gypsy: Patti LuPone; Hello, Dolly! (twice); Peter Pan (twice); Bring Back Birdie; The Fantasticks. National Tours: 11. Lucky is the man who loves his work. Member: Actors’ Equity.

JOSHUA BURRAGE (Darcy, Ensemble).

Josh is delighted to be making his debut with the national tour of Newsies! He would like to thank his parents, family, and teachers for all the love and support!

KEVIN CAROLAN (Roosevelt, Ensemble).

Broadway: Newsies (Original Cast), The Ritz, Dirty Blonde. Stage: Baloo in The Jungle Book (Goodman/HuntingtonWinner IRNE Award-Best Supporting Actor) Television: “Boardwalk Empire,” “Good Wife,” “The Middle,” “OITNB.” www.kevincarolan.com.

DeMARIUS R. COPES (Henry, Ensemble). Touring and Equity debut - from Birmingham, AL. Regional: Richie - A Chorus Line (Maltz Jupiter Theatre), Marius - Les Misérables (RMTC). Love to God, Mom, Rae, Lynne, Troy Dance, and Rider MT. MICHAEL DAMESKI (Scab, Ensemble).

Grateful to be joining the cast of Newsies! Broadway: Billy Elliot in Billy Elliot the Musical. Winner of ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ Australia 2014. Shoutout to my amazing family, Disney, Kevin Levine & my mentor, the iconic Paula Abdul.

NICO DeJESUS (Romeo, Ensemble).

UCLA Graduate. Dancer on Disney’s “Shake it Up.” Henry on “MTV’s Awkward.” Thanks to God, Family, Telsey and Company, MSA LA, Ms. Rachel, and big bro Jeremy M. JP FERRERI (Swing). Broadway: Newsies (Swing). Regional: Paper Mill Playhouse Newsies (Buttons). Film: Hairspray (Joey). The Radio City Christmas Spectacular. Montclair State University. Much love to Mom, Dad, Lori Ann, and Family! @jpferreri SKY FLAHERTY (Albert, Scab, Ensemble). Thrilled to be a Newsie!! Broadway: The Grinch. Big Thanks to Richard Hinds, Deborah Zuke Smith, Bruce Winant, Kristin Reeves, Neil Schwartz, Tribe Body, Julianna (CTG), and my inspiring mom, family and friends.

KAITLYN FRANK (Ensemble). National Tour: Irving Berlin’s White Christmas.

NYC: Signature Theatre, Joyce Theatre, City Center, Duke on 42nd. Regional: Café Variations (SITI Company). Thanks to Telsey + Co, Take3, Disney and the team! Shout out to my favorite Jonathan Fenton! Love to Mom, Dad, Em, David Rider, and Mike. www.kaitlynfrank.com MICHAEL GORMAN (Wiesel, Mr. Jacobi, Mayor, Ensemble). Broadway/Nat’l Tours: A Chorus Line (Revival), Chicago (Revival), Harrigan ‘n Hart, Copperfield, A Chorus Line (Original Production) Bobby. Regional: years & years. Member: Actors’ Equity.

STEPHEN HERNANDEZ (Swing). Stephen is so grateful to be touring with Newsies! Most recently: We Will Rock You (National Tour), Open (Italian Tour), Chuthis. Endless thanks to my family, friends, Telsey+CO, Disney, and bloc for your love and support. @stevohernandez MEREDITH INGLESBY (Hannah, Ensemble). Broadway: Beauty and the Beast (Babette), The Little Mermaid (Ursula u/s). National Tours: Disney’s On the Record, Little House. Regional: Paper Mill: Little House on the Prairie, Other: Chicago. Television: “Law and Order.”

JAMES JUDY (Snyder, Ensemble). Broadway: Into The Woods, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Jekyll & Hyde, A Christmas Carol.

Opry). Thanks to Mom, Dad, Andrew, The Mine, Telsey & Co and the entire creative team. @iainyoung

DEVIN LEWIS (Morris Delancey, Ensemble). Broadway national tour debut!

Thanks to Disney creatives, Justin/ Telsey+Co, and the team at Don Buchwald & Associates. So much love to Robert, KJKTDS, and the ‘rents. Pace MT ‘15. @devinlewis7428

ANTHONY ZAS (Elmer/Spot Conlon/ Ensemble). This is Anthony’s National Tour Debut! New York Theater: Count to Ten (NYMTF), Home for the Holidays (HA!HA! Comedy Club). He would like to thank Barry, Justin, Disney, and all his friends and family!

ERIC JON MAHLUM (Swing). Broadway: Wicked. Tours: Young Frankenstein, Joseph...Dreamcoat, The Wizard of Oz. Regional: Goodspeed, Paper Mill Playhouse, Pittsburgh CLO, KC Starlight, Atlanta Theatre of the Stars, The Arden, Riverside Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory. ericjonmahlum.com

ALAN MENKEN (Music). Theater: God Bless You Mr Rosewater, Little Shop Of Horrors, Real Life Funnies, Atina: Evil Queen Of The Galaxy, Kicks, The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz, Beauty And The Beast, A Christmas Carol, Weird Romance, King David, Der Glöckner Von Notre Dame, The Little Mermaid, Sister Act, Leap Of Faith, Aladdin and Newsies. Film: Little Shop Of Horrors, The Little Mermaid, Beauty And The Beast, Newsies, Aladdin, Pocahontas, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, Hercules, Life With Mikey, Lincoln, Home On The Range, Noel, Enchanted, Shaggy Dog, Tangled and Mirror Mirror. Songs: Rocky V, Home Alone 2 and Captain America. Awards: 8 Oscars (19 nominations), 11 Grammys (including Song of the Year), 7 Golden Globes, Tony®, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, New York Drama Critics, Olivier and London’s Evening Standard Awards. Honors: Songwriter’s Hall of Fame, Doctorates from New York University and University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

NICHOLAS MASSON (Mush, Bill, Ensemble). Nicholas is ready to “Seize the Day” in his debut on a professional show. He would like to thank his friends and especially his mom and dad.

BECCA PETERSEN (Swing). Becca is thrilled to be joining Newsies! Credits: MUNY, MTWichita, and NYC developmental lab (Prom). Thanks to Disney, Telsey, Harden-Curtis Associates, BYU, and her wonderful family and friends!

ALEX PRAKKEN (Oscar Delancey, Ensemble). Tour debut! Regional: Les Miserables (Marius, MUNY); Next to Normal (Gabe, Farmers Alley). Training: BFA University of Michigan, LAMDA. Thanks to Jeff, Telsey, CGF, Mark, MT15, and, as always, mom and dad.

JORDAN SAMUELS (Specs, Ensemble).

Broadway: Dr Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Dance: Rasta Thomas’ Bad Boys of Dance. Thanks to the Newsies creative team, Disney, Telsey, Barry Kolker, Dedra Daniels Mount, all teachers and family for love and support.

DANIEL SWITZER (Race, Ensemble).

Tours: Wicked (u/s Boq), Cats (Mungojerrie) Regional: Musical Theatre West, 3-D Theatricals, MUNY. Originally from St. Louis, MO. BFA from Rockford University.

Thank you to Jeff, Lou, Telsey, Justin, Craig, BBR, Jodie, Friends and loving Family, especially Mom. @DanyoSwitzer ANDREW WILSON (Swing). Tours: Cathy Rigby is Peter Pan, Cats. Regional: PCLO, Sac. Music Circus, Casa Manana, Riverside, NYC Opera, La Mirada, DCL. Thanks to Chris, Jeff, Lou, Ricky, Justin and CTG. It takes a village: Sarah, Eloise, Reese, Karma, Patti, Gorman and Bub. CHAZ WOLCOTT (Scab, Ensemble).

National Tour: Cats (Mr. Mistoffelees).

Regional: Merry-Go-Round, Lyric, Gateway, Fulton, MTWichita, Casa Mañana, Fireside, Gretna. OCU alum. Immeasurable gratitude to the Newsies team & his theatrical family. For Mom, in loving memory of Dad. @dancinchaz IAIN YOUNG (Finch/Ensemble). Thrilled to be joining Newsies on Tour! Broadway: Newsies (Henry) Regional: Radio City Christmas Spectacular (Grand Ole

JACK FELDMAN (Lyrics). Broadway and Off Broadway: The Madwoman of Central Park West; Isn’t It Romantic, by Wendy Wasserstein; Beyond Therapy, by Christopher Durang; Coming Attractions, by Ted Tally; Miami (book by Ms. Wasserstein). Regional: Music for Mr. Durang and Albert Innaurato’s Idiots Karamazov at the Yale Repertory Theatre. Film: Oliver & Company; Tribute; Thumbelina; Newsies; Home Alone 2: Lost in New York; Used People; Life with Mikey; A Goofy Movie; The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride; and 102 Dalmatians. TV: Music and lyrics for the PBS Theatre in America production of Eve Merriam’s Out of Our Father’s House; The Magic Hat; The Little Mermaid (TV special); Polly; “Sesame Street;” “Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss;” and “Out of the Box.” Also many pop songs, including the Grammy Award–winning “Copacabana,” the top-10 hit “I Made It Through the Rain,” and songs and special material for Sarah Vaughn, Carmen McRae, Liza Minnelli, Lily Tomlin, Dionne Warwick, and the Muppets.

HARVEY FIERSTEIN (Book) is the author of the current Broadway Tony-winning smash Kinky Boots and last season’s Tony-nominated Casa Valentina, as well as Torch Song Trilogy (Tony, Drama Desk and Obie Awards), La Cage aux Folles (Tony and Drama Desk Awards), A Catered Affair (12 Drama Desk nominations), Safe Sex (Ace Award), Legs Diamond, Spookhouse, Flatbush Tosca,

Common Ground and more. His political editorials have been published in the New York Times, TV Guide and the Huffington Post and broadcast on PBS’s “In the Life.” His children’s book, The Sissy Duckling (Humanitas Award), is now in its fifth printing. As an actor, Mr. Fierstein is known worldwide for his performances in films including “Mrs. Doubtfire,” “Independence Day,” and “Bullets Over Broadway,” on stage in Hairspray (Tony Award), Fiddler on the Roof, La Cage aux Folles, Torch Song Trilogy (Tony Award), and on TV shows such as “Smash,” “How I Met Your Mother,” “The Good Wife,” “Cheers” (Emmy nomination), “The Simpsons,” “Family Guy,” and “Nurse Jackie.”

BOB TZUDIKER & NONI WHITE (Original Screenplay) sold their first feature film pitch, Newsies, to Disney. They went on to write the hit animated films Tarzan, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Anastasia. Their live-action credits include Newsies and 102 Dalmatians. Bob and Noni also contributed to the film The Lion King and have written screenplays for every major studio. They met as actors, members of the Ensemble Studio Theatre, LA, and were later cast as husband and wife in a play for LA Theatre Works. It took. Bob, a graduate of St. John’s College in Annapolis, appeared in Total Recall, Ruthless People and Hill Street Blues, among others. Noni’s TV credits include Taxi, Little House on the Prairie and 7th Heaven, to name a few, and her features include Memories of Me and The Prizewinner of Defiance, Ohio.

Bob and Noni live in Los Angeles with their son, Ben. JEFF CALHOUN (Director). Broadway: Disney’s Newsies (8 Tony nominations including Best Director), Jekyll & Hyde (2013 Revival), Bonnie & Clyde (Tony nomination, Best Score), Grey Gardens (Tony nomination, Best Musical), Deaf West’s Big River (Tony Honor, Excellence in Theatre), Brooklyn, Annie Get Your Gun (Tony Award, Best Revival), Grease (Tony nomination, Best Choreography), Tommy Tune Tonite!, The Will Rogers Follies (Tony Award, Best Musical). US National Tour/West End/International: Maurice Hines’ Tappin’ Thru Life, Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5: The Musical, Disney’s High School Musical. Regional: Noah Racey’s Pulse, Asolo Rep.; Jane Austen’s Emma (Craig Noel Award, Outstanding Resident Musical), The Old Globe; Deaf West’s Pippin, Mark Taper Forum; Disney’s High School Musical: On Tour!, Disney Theatrical; The Civil War, Shenandoah, and Violet, Ford’s Theatre. Jeff is an associate artist at the Ford’s Theatre in Washington, DC. Jeff loves to hear your thoughts on Twitter at @thejeffcalhoun.

CHRISTOPHER GATTELLI (Choreographer). Broadway: Godspell, South Pacific (Tony & Outer Critics Circle Nominations ) Women on the Verge..., Sunday In The Park With George, The Ritz, Martin Short-Fame Becomes Me, 13, High Fidel-

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National Tours: Deaf West’s Big River, South Pacific. Grateful to Kathy & Sweetpea for being my refuge.

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ity. Off-Broadway: Altar Boyz (Lortel & Callaway Awards, Drama Desk Nom.); Bat Boy (Lortel Award); tick, tick..BOOM!, West End: South Pacific; Sunday In The Park; tick, tick...BOOM!. Director/Choreographer: SILENCE! The Musical, world premiere of Emmet Otter’s Jugband Christmas, Radio Girl, How To Save The World..., Departure Lounge. Concerts: Hair w/Jennifer Hudson, Chess w/Josh Groban. TV: “The Rosie O’Donnell Show” (3 seasons).

TOBIN OST (Set Design). Broadway: Bonnie & Clyde (set and costume design), The Philanthropist (costume design) and Brooklyn—the Musical (costume design). Off-Broadway: Nightingale (set design), Grace (set design), The Overwhelming (costume Design), Zanna–Don’t! (co-set and costume design), Almost Heaven (costume design) and Fighting Words (set design).

Selected Regional: Emma and Himself and Nora for the Old Globe; The Civil War and Shenandoah for Ford’s Theatre; Home for Williamstown Theatre Festival; Nightingale and Pippin for the Mark Taper Forum.

JESS GOLDSTEIN (Costume Design).

Selected New York credits include Jersey Boys, Lincoln Center’s The Rivals (Tony Award) and Henry IV (Tony nomination), The Merchant of Venice (Tony nomination), The Columnist, Take Me Out, Proof, Love! Valour! Compassion!, The Apple Tree with Kristin Chenoweth, Enchanted April, Julius Caesar with Denzel Washington, How I Learned to Drive, Dinner With Friends, Buried Child, The Mineola Twins (Lortel and Hewes Awards) and Il Trittico for The Metropolitan Opera.

Graduate and current faculty at Yale School of Drama.

JEFF CROITER (Lighting Design). Broadway: Newsies, Mothers and Sons, Peter and the Starcatcher (Tony Award), A Time to Kill, Soul Doctor, Jekyll and Hyde, The Anarchist, The Performers, The Peewee Herman Show, Next Fall, Kiki and Herb. Other NYC: Fly By Night; Much Ado and King Lear, in Central Park; Last Five Years; Old Jews Telling Jokes; Silence; Love, Loss, and What I Wore; Meet Vera Stark; Rapture Blister Burn; A Lie of the Mind; Ordinary Days; Family Guys Sings; The Voysey Inheritance; The Internationalist; Jacques Brel; Almost Maine; The Dazzle; Jennifer Muller The Works. Jeff is a producer of Submissions Only.

KEN TRAVIS (Sound Design). Broadway Designs: Aladdin, Jekyll and Hyde, A Christmas Story the Musical, Scandalous, Newsies, Memphis, The ThreePenny Opera, Barefoot in the Park, Steel Magnolias. Numerous New York and regional theaters and companies including: The Old Globe, The 5th Avenue Theater, McCarter Theater, Seattle Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, LA Center Theater Group, ACT Seattle, Guthrie Theater, KC Rep, Dallas Theater Center, Playwrights Horizons, The New Group, NYSF Public

Theater, CSC, Signature Theater NYC, SoHo Rep, Vineyard Theater, The Civilians, Mabou Mines, and national and international festivals and tours.

SVEN ORTEL (Original Broadway Projection Design). Broadway: Deuce, Faith Healer, Jumpers, The Woman In White (realization & system design), The Little Mermaid, Women On the Verge..., Wonderland. West End: The Sea, Marguerite, As You Desire Me, Jumpers, Hitchcock Blonde (realization), The Woman in White. Elsewhere (selection): A Disappearing Number (Barbican & World Tour), Measure For Measure (National Theatre & world tour), Tiefland, (Zurich, Barcelona), Rebecca (Vienna, Stuttgart), The Three Musketeers (Berlin, Stuttgart), Richard II (Old Vic, Recklinghausen) Swan Lake for SF Ballet, TFANAs Hamlet, The Ring Cycle (St.Petersburg, Russia).

Carrie off-Broadway.

DANIEL BRODIE (Projection Adaptation) designed the projections for Christopher Wheeldon’s Winter’s Tale (Royal Ballet) and Cinderella and worked regularly with puppeteer Basil Twist, on Twist’s Behind the Lid, Arias with a Twist and The Rite of Spring. Broadway credits: Motown the Musical, Jekyll & Hyde and Disney’s Aladdin. Created video designs for Kanye West and the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. Received the United States Institute of Theatre Technology’s Rising Star Award (2011). He has also worked as a guest lecturer at Yale University.

MICHAEL KOSARIN (Music Supervisor and Arranger). Thirty years on Broadway as music director, arranger, and conductor: Nine (1982), Grand Hotel, Mayor, The Secret Garden, King David, Triumph of Love, Beauty and the Beast, Little Shop of Horrors, The Little Mermaid, Sister Act, Leap of Faith. Alan Menken’s music director for twenty years; films include Captain America, Tangled, Enchanted, Hercules, Home on the Range, Shaggy Dog, Pocahontas. TV: Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Direction for “A Christmas Carol,” nomination for “The Music Man.” Has concertized, arranged, and recorded with the Boston Pops, St. Luke’s Orchestra, Carly Simon, Barbara Cook, Jane Krakowski, Kristin Chenoweth, and many others.

DANNY TROOB (Orchestrations). It was twenty years ago today….Danny began work as musical director and orchestrator of Newsies the motion picture. Now, after a long life as a cult movie on the internet, Newsies comes to Broadway, which is where Danny’s career began, with such shows as Pacific Overtures (dance music) Big River (musical supervision) Footloose (orchestrations) and many others. Other films include Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin and there are too many other Broadway shows to mention. Thanks, Kenny Ortega and our original Newsies, and thanks Disney Theatricals for keeping the faith and bringing Newsies to a wider audience.

MARK HUMMEL (Dance Music). Broadway musicals: Newsies, Hugh Jackman: Back On Broadway, Sister Act, Platinum, The First, Merlin, The Goodbye Girl, Legs Diamond, Guys & Dolls (1992), The Boy From Oz, Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life.

Radio City Christmas Spectacular 75th celebration, composer/arranger. A 3-time Emmy Award nominee, Hummel creates music with Liza Minnelli, Tommy Tune, Bernadette Peters, Rufus Wainwright, Donna Murphy, Shirley MacLaine, Julie Wilson, Amra-Faye Wright, Peter Allen, Barbara Cook, Marcia Lewis, and Brian Stokes Mitchell.

JOHN MILLER (Music Coordinator).

Broadway (over 100 shows, including): Jesus Christ Superstar; Leap of Faith; Once; On A Clear Day; Godspell; Follies; Porgy and Bess; Jersey Boys; Priscilla; Sister Act; Catch Me If You Can; Rock of Ages. Studio Musician (bass): Michael Jackson, Madonna, Peter, Paul and Mary, Eric Clapton, Sinatra, Carly Simon, Pete Seeger, NY Philharmonic. His album Stage Door Johnny – John Miller: Takes on Broadway is available on PS Classics Records. www.johnmillerbass.com JAMES DODGSON (Music Director) is based in New York and has worked on productions throughout the US, Canada, Brazil, Holland, Spain, Australia, South Korea and London’s West End. Musicals: Mary Poppins, Les Misérables, Chicago, Miss Saigon, The Phantom of the Opera, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, The Secret Garden, On A Clear Day You Can See Forever and Stiles and Drewe’s Peter Pan with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. National Theatre London: Oh What A Lovely War and The Villains Opera.

CHARLES G. LaPOINTE (Hair & Wig Design). Broadway: Clybourne Park, The Columnist, Magic/Bird, Bonnie & Clyde, The Mountaintop, Women on the Verge…, Merchant of Venice, Memphis, Henry IV, The Rivals, Cymbeline, Lombardi, Fences, Looped, Miracle Worker, Superior Donuts, 33 Variations, Guys & Dolls, In the Heights, Jersey Boys, The Color Purple, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, Good Vibrations, The Apple Tree, A Raisin in the Sun, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Lieutenant of Inishmoor, Sight Unseen, High Fidelity, Xanadu, The Mountaintop.

Signature Theatre’s Angels in America, Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide… Love to James.

J. ALLEN SUDDETH (Fight Director).

Newsies is Allen’s tenth Broadway show, ranging from Angels in America, to Gem Of The Ocean, to Jekyll and Hyde. He is a master teacher at Rutgers, and SUNY Purchase, author, and works worldwide. He has logged over 800 Television shows, and several hundreds of productions in regional theater, and off-Broadway, over a 35 year career.

Many thanks to his teachers, students, family and friends for the support all these years.

RICHARD J. HINDS (Associate Director).

Broadway: Newsies, Jekyll and Hyde, Il Divo: A Musical Affair. Off-Broadway: Here Lies Love. Tours: 9 to 5, High School Musical. Regional: Capital Repertory Theatre, New Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre. Television: Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, America’s Got Talent, The Bethenny Show and Good Afternoon America. Training: Interlochen Arts Academy.

LOU CASTRO (Associate Choreographer). Bway/NY: Newsies, Women on the Verge, 13, Sunday In The Park With George, Altar Boyz. International/US Tours/Regional: Newsies (Paper Mill), 13 (Goodspeed), Altar Boyz (1st & 2nd Korean companies, 1st & 2nd US tours, Detroit, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Bristol, and Chicago companies), Sunday In The Park With George (Seattle’s 5th Ave Theatre).

Thanks for everything X!!!

GEOFFREY QUART (Technical Supervisor) is the technical supervisor for Hudson Theatrical Associates. B’way credits include Newsies, The Trip to Bountiful, A Night with Janis Joplin, Aladdin, and Skylight. Previously with Troika Entertainment, worked on over 60 productions Including national tours of Come Fly Away, Fiddler on the Roof, 42nd Street in Asia, 101 Dalmatians, Chita Rivera: A Dancer’s Life, Joseph…, and Evita. Love to Anne, Madelyn, Zoey and Tucker.

JEFF NORMAN (Production Stage Manager). Las Vegas-Disney’s The Lion King, Mamma Mia!, Cirque du Soleil’s “O” at the Bellagio, Toronto-Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Miss Saigon, Les Misérables, Opening team-Disney Cruise Lines. Proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

CHRISTOPHER C. CHILDS (Stage Manager). Las Vegas: Mamma Mia!, JABBAWOCKEEZ PRiSM and müs.i.c, Jersey Boys, Donn Arden’s Jubilee!. Tours: Phantom of the Opera, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Jesus Christ Superstar.

Other: Heart of a Dog (Kiev, Ukraine).

Much love and thanks to Ellen, Josie, and Zach. Proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

PATRICIA L. GRABB (Assistant Stage Manager). Broadway: The Cripple of Inishmaan starring Daniel Radcliffe.

Tours: We Will Rock You, Mary Poppins, A Christmas Story, Young Frankenstein, 101 Dalmatians, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Cats 25th Anniversary, Miss Saigon, A Christmas Carol and Swing! (Japan tour).

Regional: Paper Mill Playhouse, Pennsylvania Centre Stage, Surflight Theatre.

Proud graduate Penn State University.

Love to her family.

KRISTEN TORGRIMSON (Assistant Stage Manager). Broadway: Rocky, Ghost the Musical, Man and Boy. Off-Broadway: Cotton Club Parade (Encores!), The Common Pursuit (Roundabout), How I Learned to Drive (Second Stage). BFA in Stage Management from The Theatre School at DePaul University.

DISNEY THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS, a division of The Walt Disney Studios, was formed in 1994 and operates under the direction of Thomas Schumacher.

Worldwide, its eight Broadway titles have been seen by over 133 million theatergoers and have been nominated for 57 Tony Awards ®, winning Broadway’s highest honor 20 times. With 15 productions currently produced or licensed, a Disney musical is being performed professionally somewhere on the planet virtually every hour of the day. The company’s inaugural production, Beauty and the Beast, opened in 1994. It played a remarkable 13 year run on Broadway and has been produced in 28 countries worldwide. In November 1997, Disney opened The Lion King, which received six 1998 Tony Awards including Best Musical. In its 18th smash year on Broadway, it has welcomed more than 80 million visitors worldwide to date, and can currently be seen in ten productions worldwide.

Having played 22 countries on every continent except Antarctica, The Lion King’s worldwide gross exceeds that of any film, Broadway show or other entertainment title in box office history.

Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida opened on Broadway next, winning four 2000 Tony Awards. It was followed by Mary Poppins, a co-production with Cameron Mackintosh, which opened in London in 2004 and went on to enjoy a six year Tony-winning Broadway run. Tarzan ®, which opened on Broadway in 2006, is now an international hit with an awardwinning production in its 6th year in Germany. In January 2008, The Little Mermaid opened on Broadway and was the #1-selling new musical of that year.

Disney Theatrical Productions opened two critically acclaimed productions on Broadway in 2012, receiving seven Tony Awards between them: Newsies, which is currently on tour throughout North America, and Peter and the Starcatcher, which enjoyed a two year New York run.

Other successful stage ventures have included the Olivier-nominated London hit Shakespeare in Love, stage productions of Disney’s High School Musical, Der Glöckner Von Notre Dame in Berlin, and King David in concert. DTP has col-

laborated with the country’s leading regional theatres to develop new stage titles including The Jungle Book and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Aladdin is its most recent Tony Award-winning Broadway hit with upcoming productions in Tokyo, Hamburg, and additional cities yet to be announced.

PAPER MILL PLAYHOUSE, a pioneer in the not-for-profit regional theatre movement. opened its doors in 1938 and has been recog­nized throughout the industry for the artistry of its productions and commitment to sup­porting the development of new works and emerging artists.

A nationally recognized center for musical theatre education and per­formance, its award-winning arts education, artist training and outreach programs impact thousands of students each year. Paper Mill productions have moved to Broadway, toured nationally, been filmed for Showtime and PBS and produced original cast recordings.

DISNEY THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS

President & Producer . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thomas Schumacher EVP & Managing Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . David Schrader

Creative & Production

Executive Music Producer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chris Montan SVP, Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anne Quart VP, Creative Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ben Famiglietti Director, Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mimi Intagliata Director, Production Development . . . . . . Seth Marquette Director, Labor Relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Scott Kardel Associate Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jeff Lee Production Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clifford Schwartz Sr. Manager, Creative Development . . . . . Jane Abramson Dramaturg & Literary Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . Ken Cerniglia Sr. Manager, Labor Relations . . . . . . . . . . Stephanie Cheek Sr. Manager, Education & Outreach . . . . . . . . Lisa Mitchell Manager, Education & Outreach . . . . . . . . . . Sarah Kenny General Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Myriah Bash Manager, Teaching & Learning/ Resident Teaching Artist . . . . . . . . . . . . Lauren Chapman Manager, Physical Production . . . . . . . . . . . . James Garner General Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caitlyn Thomson General Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thomas Schlenk Associate General Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Kerry McGrath Asst. Manager, Creative Development . . Colleen McCormack

Marketing, Sales & Publicity

SVP, Marketing, Sales & Publicity . . . . . . . . . Andrew Flatt VP, Sales, CRM & Partnerships . . . . . . . . . . . Bryan Dockett VP, Marketing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robin Wyatt Director, Worldwide Publicity . . . . . . . . . . . Michael Cohen Director, Sales & Ticketing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nick Falzon Director, Licensed Brands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gary Kane Director, Partnership Development . . . . . . . . . . Lisa Scotto Sr. Manager, Publicity & Communications . . . . Lindsay Braverman Sr. Marketing Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lauren Daghini Sr. Manager, Sales & Ticketing . . . . . . . . . . Jenifer Thomas Sr. Manager, Data Modeling & Consumer Insights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Craig Trachtenberg Sr. Marketing Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jason Zammit Manager, Creative Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eric Emch Sales Manager, Groups & Tourism . . . . . Nicholas Faranda Manager, Digital Marketing & Social Media . . Greg Josken Manager, Publicity & Communications . . Brendan Padgett Manager, Digital Marketing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Peter Tulba Asst. Manager, Sales & Ticketing . . . . . Simon de Carvalho Asst. Design Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brandon Fake Asst. Manager, Partnership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Julie Lavin

Domestic

VP, Domestic Touring & Regional Engagements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jack Eldon Director, Domestic Touring . . . . . . . . . . . Michael Buchanan

NEWSIES

TELSEY + COMPANY (Casting). Broadway/Tours: Fiddler on the Roof, China Doll, Misery, Allegiance, On Your Feet!, Sylvia, Spring Awakening, Hamilton, Something Rotten!, An American in Paris, Finding Neverland, The King and I, Hand to God, Kinky Boots, Wicked, The Bridges of Madison County, If/Then, The Sound of Music, Love Letters, Pippin, Motown, Rock of Ages. Off-Broadway: Atlantic, MCC, Signature. Film: Fun House, Tallulah, Ithaca, The Intern. TV: “Grease: Live,” “The Wiz Live!,” “Flesh and Bone,” “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” “Masters of Sex,” commercials. www.telseyandco.com

NEWSIES

Director, Regional Engagements . . . . . Scott A. Hemerling Director, Regional Engagements . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kelli Palan Sr. Manager, Theatrical Licensing . . . . . . . . David R. Scott Manager, Domestic Touring & Planning . . . . . . . Liz Botros

International

SVP, International . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ron Kollen VP, International, Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . James Thane VP, International, Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fiona Thomas Director, International Production . . . . . . . . . Felipe Gamba Manager, International Production . . . . . . . . . . Lee Taglin

Business & Legal Affairs

SVP, Business & Legal Affairs . . . . . . . . . . . Jonathan Olson VP, Business & Legal Affairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Seth Stuhl Senior Counsel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Naila McKenzie Manager, Business & Legal Affairs . . . . . . . . . Jessica White Paralegal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Erin Browne

Finance & Operations

VP, Finance, Operations & Technology . . . Mario Iannetta VP, Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dana Amendola Director, Production Accounting & Analysis . . . Matt Craig Director, Financial Planning & Analysis . . . . . . Matt Martin Director, Accounting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brigitte Pascual Manager, Finance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jennifer August Manager, Finance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jessica Bilmes Manager, Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Erin Clark Manager, Finance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chris Ekizian Manager, Technical Services & Support . . Michael Figliulo Manager, Finance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mikhail Medvedev Manager, Accounting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Arlene Smith Senior Production Accountant . . . . . . . . . . . Angela DiSanti Senior Technical Support Engineer . . . . . Kevin A. McGuire Senior Business Analyst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Noel Moore Jr. Production Accountant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Samantha Sorin Assistant Production Accountant . . . . . . . . . Isander Rojas

Strategy and Business Development

Director, Strategy & Business Development . . . Clive Chang Sr. Manager, Strategy & Business Development . . Ryan Pears

Human Resources

Director, Human Resources . . . . . . . . . . Marie-Pierre Varin Manager, Human Resources & Labor Relations . Valerie Hart

Administrative Staff

Zachary Baer, Caitlin Baird, Caley Beretta, Gregory Boilard, Elizabeth Boulger, Melody Byron, Hunter Chancellor, Brian DeCaluwe, Adam Dworkin, Bradley Eckerson, Meghan Flaim, Qadir Forbes, Sarah Funk, Phil Grippe, Matt Hagmeier Curtis, Frankie Harvey, Julie Haverkate, Chad Hornberger, Christina Huschle, Pearl Kermani, Chantal Lopez, Timothy Maynes, Jeffrey Metzler, Sunny Ng, Misael Nunez, Kelly Perez, Jessica Petschauer, Matt Quinones, Elizabeth Rublein, Janey Sherlock, Mark Shultz, Bri Silva, Ariel Stein, Lee Taglin, Mark Topley, Jennifer F. Vaughan, Angela Voelker

DISNEY THEATRICAL MERCHANDISE, L.L.C. VP, Licensed Brands & Merchandising . . Steven Downing Director, Merchandise & Sales Operations . . Alyssa Somers Director, Licensed Brands . . . . . . . . . . . . Mayumi Yokomizo Merchandise Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Neil Markman Corp. Sales & Product Development Manager . . . . . . . . . . Ellete Poulin Buyer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Violeta Burlaza On-Site Retail Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mario Mey Assistant On-Site Retail Manager . . . . . . . . . . Dana Collins Disney Theatrical Productions dtg.guestservices@disney.com

PLEASE BE ADVISED

Please be advised that once the show begins: • LATECOMERS and those exiting the theatre are seated at predetermined breaks in designated areas.

• PHOTOS, RECORDING & CELL PHONE USE are prohibited.

• CHILDREN 4+ are welcome in our theatres and must be ticketed.

• DRINKS are allowed in provided containers.

• ASSISTIVE LISTENING DEVICES, LARGE PRINT PROGRAMS & BOOSTER SEATS are available in most theatres. Ask an usher to direct you.

• BRAILLE PROGRAMS are available with 2 weeks’ notice to ckrueger@dcpa.org or 303.893.4836.

Opening Night - March 23, 2016 STAFF FOR NEWSIES

GENERAL MANAGER . . . . . . . . . . . . . CAITLYN THOMSON COMPANY MANAGER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHRIS DANNER Production Stage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jeff Norman Associate Company Manager . . . . . . . . . . Brendan Beggs Stage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christopher C. Childs Assistant Stage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patricia L. Grabb Assistant Stage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kristen Torgrimson Dance Captain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andrew Wilson Assistant Dance Captain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Josh Assor Fight Captain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kevin Carolan Production Assistants . . Chet H. Craft, Patrick David Egan, Kurchta Harding, Gabrielle Nieporent, Lauren Pennington, Mark A . Stys, Kristen Torgrimson

CREDITS Custom scenery and automation by Hudson Scenic Studio, Inc. Lighting equipment by Production Resource Group, LLC. Sound equipment by Masque Sound. Video projection equipment provided by WorldStage. Soft goods by iWeiss.

Costumes by Carelli Costumes, Jennifer Love Studios, Claudia Diaz Costumes, Bethany Joy Costumes, Arel Studios, Brian Hemesath. Shoes by T.O. Dey; Capezio; WORLDTONE. Smoke effect by Jauchem & Meeh, NYC. Special thanks to Bra*Tenders for undergarments and hosiery. Ricola cough drops courtesy of Ricola USA, Inc. Fabric painting and distressing by Juliann Kroboth and Brian Robles.

NEWSIES rehearsed at the New 42nd Street Studios

THANKS Paper Mill Playhouse 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.

DISNEY ON BROADWAY PUBLICITY

Senior Publicist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dennis Crowley National Press Representative . . . . . . . . . Gregory Hanoian Associate Scenic Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christine Peters Associate Costume Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Irma Brainard Assistant Costume Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tina McCartney Costume Shopper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adam Adelman Costume Interns . . . . . . . Kathryn Bailey, Elizabeth Donelan Associate Lighting Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cory Pattak Assistant Lighting Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . Wilburn Bonnell Moving Light Programmer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alex Fogel Associate Sound Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alex Hawthorn Projection Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michael F. Bergmann Media Programmer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Olivia D’Angelo Assistant Hair and Wig Designer . . . Gretchen Androsavich Make-Up Consultant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fred Waggoner Assistant Fight Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mitchell McCoy Production Carpenter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andrew Sullivan Head Carpenter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Noah Kern Assistant Carpenter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dave Burgdorf Assistant Carpenter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Seth Larkin Automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ryan Yorty Production Electrician . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michael Brown Head Electrician . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kurt Krohne Assistant Electrician . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Andrew Dyer Assistant Electrician . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nicole Laeger Production Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Emiliano Pares Head Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dan Boesch Assistant Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jennifer Kramer Production Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Colle Bustin Head Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ian P. Carr Sound Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jared “Head” Ullman Crew Swing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jonathan Cobb Crew Swing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jes Halm Wardrobe Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gillian Austin Assistant Wardrobe Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . . . Renee Jones Hair Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kaylan Paisley Associate Music Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Faith Seetoo Additional Orchestrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . Steve Margoshes Additional Orchestrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dave Siegel Music Preparation . . . . . . . . . . . Anixter Rice Music Services Electronic Music Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jeff Marder Assistant Synth Programmer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brian Li Associate to Mr. Menken . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rick Kunis Assistant to John Miller . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jennifer Coolbaugh Rehearsal Pianist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chip Prince Rehearsal Drummer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Heinrich Kruse Music Production Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . Brendan Whiting Dialect & Vocal Coach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shane Ann Younts Assistant to Mr. Calhoun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Derek Hersey Children’s Guardian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bernadette Jusinski On Location Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bernadette Jusinski Physical Therapist . . . NEURO TOUR Physical Therapy, Inc. Gena Thurston, DPT Medical Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Craig E. Weil, MD CASTING TELSEY + COMPANY Bernard Telsey CSA, William Cantler CSA, David Vaccari CSA, Bethany Knox CSA, Craig Burns CSA, Tiffany Little Canfield CSA, Rachel Hoffman CSA, Justin Huff CSA, Patrick Goodwin CSA, Abbie BradyDalton CSA, Cesar A. Rocha CSA, Andrew Femenella CSA, Karyn Casl CSA, Kristina Bramhall, Conrad Woolfe CSA, Rachel Nadler, Rachel Minow, Scott Galina, Rikki Gimelstob, Madison Sylvester, Lauren Harris, Laura Wade, Ally Kiley Advertising . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Serino Coyne, Inc. Production Photography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Deen Van Meer Production Travel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jill L. Citron Payroll Managers . . . . . . . Anthony DeLuca, Cathy Guerra Counsel–Immigration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michael Rosenfeld

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

United Scenic Artists • Local USA 829 of the I.A.T.S.E. represents the Designers & Scenic Artists for the American Theatre The Press Agents and Company Managers employed in this production are represented by the Association of Theatrical Press Agents & Managers.

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DENVER’S OWN “NEWSIES” HAD A COLORFUL PAST

BY JOHN MOORE

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If not for the spunky street urchins who pedaled papers on Denver’s street corners in the early 20th century, Mile High Stadium might not be named after the Sports Authority retail giant today.

Nathan Gart, patriarch of the Gart Brothers sporting goods empire that has since morphed into Sports Authority, was an entrepreneurial Denver Post newsboy who owned the corner of 16th and Lawrence streets. He learned at age 12 how profitable it could be to buy watches and rings from his regular customers, mark them up and re-sell them. He opened his first store in 1928 selling fishing rods with $500 he saved from hawking one screaming headline at a time.

Gart is just one notable character in the colorful history of Denver’s newsboys, whose plight was positively Dickensian. In 1901, The Denver Times claimed that most newsboys, almost all of whom were orphans, cripples or runaways, made 10 to 15 cents a day selling papers they sold for a nickel. The newsies looked on one boy who made 40 cents a day as “a bloated aristocrat,” the paper reported.

America’s most famous champion of newsboys was Horatio Alger, whose stories presented newsboys as exploited young heroes who succeeded through a mixture of pluck and luck. That is until Disney released Newsies, the 1992 musical film that introduced Christian Bale. The story, inspired by the real-life New York newsboys strike of 1899, was made into a Broadway musical in 2012 with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Jack Feldman and a book by Harvey Fierstein.

But if legend is to be believed, Denver’s newsboys were a much tougher lot than those striking, high-stepping New Yorkers.

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Benny Bee, a crackerjack Denver Post newsboy in his time, was arrested while visiting New York and charged with “disturbing the peace and tranquility of Manhattan,” according to Bill Hosokawa’s enthralling history of The Denver Post, Thunder in the Rockies. His crime?

“Demonstrating to New York newsboys how papers were sold in Denver.”

Benny Bee reportedly introduced the profitable practice of “bootjacking” to his Big Apple counterparts. That’s when newsboys would mix in outdated editions of the daily paper with those that were hot off the presses and sell them to unsuspecting customers as the latest news.

This was at a time when apocalyptic shouts of “Extra!

Extra!” were ubiquitous on Denver street corners. Extras were special mid-day updates to the daily newspaper that would trumpet breaking and often trumped-up news scoops. According to Hosokawa’s book, Denver’s five competing daily newspapers would issue an “extra” at the least provocation, sometimes several times a day. Burning oil fields, the bubonic plague or stolen babies were all handy tools to help newsboys sell more papers. But as soon as any new edition was printed, hundreds of now dated editions were relegated to the trash heap. Until bootjacking.

The decade after World War I was a time when newspapers were Americans’ only source of reasonably real information. TV was unknown and radio was still a novelty.

This was the golden era of yellow journalism, and Denver’s dailies were quick to embellish any story or stoke any flame to sell more papers. In the 1890s, The Denver Post’s downtown office became known as “The Bucket of Blood.”

It may have been a period of contemptible journalism, but it also was the best show in town. The Post, co-founded

Original company, North American Tour Joan of Disney’s Newsies. ©Disney.

The Tree of Life from The Lion King National Tour. ©Disney.

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“The public not only likes to be fooled — it insists upon it.”

— DENVER POST CO-FOUNDER, HARRY TAMMEN On October 14, 1925, Denver Mayor Benjamin Stapleton signed an ordinance making it illegal for newsboys to sell papers on the street.

Newsboys over age 12 — “and newsgirls over 21” — would be permitted to sell papers, but only with a free license. And the practice of calling out headlines was made a criminal offense.

In a 1959 retrospective, the Rocky Mountain News interviewed Edward J. Keating, presiding judge of Denver’s District Courts, about his days as a newspaperboy 35 years earlier. He claimed “the majority of judges in Denver and Colorado courts today earned their first dollars toward their educations by delivering newspapers.” Keating used his earnings to pay his tuition at Cathedral High School, which he parlayed into a college scholarship.

“The newspaperboy of today has raised his work to such a high level of respect,” he said, “it has become a mark of pride for every prominent businessman and civic leader who can link his early career with the profession.”

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by Frederick Bonfils and Harry Tammen, once hired comedian Charley Murray to jump off its 12-story building. A crowd of 25,000 gathered to watch what turned out to be a dummy thrown off the roof. Tammen’s mantra: “The public not only likes to be fooled — it insists upon it.”

And newsboys were part of the show — literally. They regularly got together and staged corner minstrel shows for spare change.

Denver’s newsboy tradition dates back to 1870, when young carriers would deliver copies of the Rocky Mountain News on horseback to houses that were considered far out on the prairie in those days — we’re talking what is now 7th Avenue and Broadway. “More than once, herds of antelope sped out of my way as I rode out,” Theodore De Harport once said of his earliest newsboy days.

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• Artists began to submit storyboards for the film in 1983, which was originally slated to be non-musical. Husband and wife Richard and Jill Purdum were chosen to develop their idea, but after 10 weeks of storyboarding, it was deemed too dark.

• The Little Mermaid premiered in the middle of the process, and its success shifted the focus of the project. Walt Disney Studios head Jeffrey Katzenberg “envisioned the concept of a Broadway musical brought to animation by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken,” said writer Linda Woolverton.

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• The song “Human Again” was cut from the movie because it added 11 minutes to the length and created a strange time gap for the supporting characters.

• The title song “Beauty and The Beast” won the 1992 Oscar for Best Original Song. Producer Don Hahn recalls Angela Lansbury’s recording session: “She went into the booth and sang ‘Beauty and the Beast’ from beginning to end and just nailed it. We picked up a couple of lines here and there, but essentially that one take is what we used for the movie.”

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RIVERDANCE: THE THRILL THAT NEVER STOPS

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It began as a one-time, seven-minute performance: the intermission entertainment at the music sensation Eurovision, a yearly contest that has launched the likes of Celine Dion and ABBA. The segment opened with the haunting sounds of the Celtic choir Anuna. Then a lone dancer came center stage in a simple black dress. Arms flush at her sides, she cavorted across the boards in an intricate pattern of steps and kicks, accompanied by a fast fiddle.

Next came a leaping Michael Flatley, his shoes keeping time with a corps of Irish drums. And out of the shadows emerged two dozen more Irish dancers, storming the stage in a lightning-quick precision of steps, heels tapping in percussive rhythm and giving a performance of Irish dance unlike anything anyone had ever seen.

Julian Erskine, senior executive producer of Riverdance, remembers that night. “It’s hard to describe just how enormous [the audience reaction] was. Not just in the Eurovision venue, where the entire audience let out a spontaneous roar and jumped to [its] feet, but also across all the Irish radio and TV stations and newspapers where it was the number one topic of discussion.”

Such a buzz was created that by the time the routine was repeated live on Irish national television the following Saturday, nearly the entire country was watching to see what the fuss was about.

Erskine and the rest of the creative team didn’t quite know what they had on their hands. With the instant popularity of the act, they planned to follow up the Eurovision performance with a full-length dance show to play Dublin. “The original hope,” he said, “was for a one-month run.”

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That was 1994. Twenty-two years later the worldwide phenomenon of Riverdance continues to play to enthusiastic audiences across the globe. To Americans today, the immense and immediate popularity of Riverdance in Ireland may seem odd. Why the fuss? Isn’t Irish dance ingrained in the culture? Not like this, said Erskine.

“It was a unique event, especially for Irish audiences.

We were not used to seeing Irish dancing as a form of entertainment, and never on such a big scale. Prior to Riverdance, Irish dancing was a low-key cultural pastime, reserved for competitive amateurs and now and then for small-scale tourist attractions…. This show was the first of a new kind of entertainment.”

Immediately upon opening the show in Dublin in February 1995, the creative team was invited to bring it to London. Soon, worldwide invitations began pouring in and, Erskine said, “it was clear that the show had a much wider appeal and was not limited to playing to Irish audiences.”

Celtic music and culture were already gaining fresh popularity in the US, so taking the show across the pond seemed like a natural step. Erskine: “Our first taste of the American reaction was in March 1996 when we came to Radio City Music Hall for St. Patrick’s week. It was fantastic! We were sold out before we arrived and the whole week was one long celebration.”

So just what is so fascinating about Riverdance? To start, there’s the music of composer Bill Whelan, which includes Irish Uilleann pipes and the Bodhran, a handheld drum covered with goat’s skin and played with a wooden stick. When joined with the fiddle, these instruments form

Sam Cieri and Mackenzie Lesser-Roy and the ONCE tour company. © Joan Marcus

the traditional Irish “seisiun” trio, but to quote Erskine, “Perhaps the least known instruments in the show are the dancers’ shoes. With their hard heels, soles and tips, the dancers are not only able to beat out a rhythm, but they can also make music by using their shoes to create bass and treble notes.” The steps, multiplied by 20 dancers all moving in time together, create music of their own.

Those dancers are the heart of the show — skilled athletes whose precise execution may be rivaled only by the Rockettes. When asked if that point-perfect unison is achieved by endless hours of rehearsal or great choreographic direction, Erskine assessed it as a bit of both.

“Mostly it’s down to the competitive background of Irish dance. All of our performers are championship-winning dancers and as such, perform with extreme precision and exceptional timing, usually under intense pressure.”

As most of the dancers have been competing since they were toddlers, this precision and style are deeply rooted. “What seems extraordinary to the audience seems ordinary to the dancers,” he said.

Riverdance, American Wake. Photographer: Rob McDogall

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Riverdance returns to Denver after a seven-year absence during which the show toured Asia. During its 2008 engagement, Erskine was uncertain about what lay ahead for the show, but given the enthusiastic embrace Americans have for the show he then said, ”I would never rule out Riverdance, in some form or other, returning to the US in the future.

We’re just happy that that future ended up including a stop in Denver during its 20th anniversary world tour.

Genevieve Miller previously served as the DCPA’s Director of Publicity & Promotions and is now General Manager at Broadway Across America in Cincinnati.

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The film once became a sleeper hit of 2007, winning over the hearts of critics and audiences alike with its intimate look into the unrequited romance of two musicians. The simple plot, shoestring budget and minimal acting credits gave the movie a sense of reality that most Hollywood affairs miss. Its award-winning soundtrack (Oscar for Best Original Song for “Falling Slowly”) was the magical thread that connected the plot and punctuated its most emotional moments.

After all of this, then, it might seem like it would feel out of place on the Broadway stage (returning to Denver May 24 – 29), not necessarily known for subtlety and intimacy. But like the movie, the magic lies in the music and in the people who are playing it. “once has a very huge fan base for the movie and these songs,” said Music Supervisor and Orchestrator Martin Lowe. “[It’s] a huge responsibility to me and to the cast, to deliver those songs to the audience as people remember them while still giving them something that’s new.”

The actors have gotten to bond as a band as well as a company. The excitement to perform as musicians is palpable in the show.

“The fact that we put all of our feeling and love into our instruments, you can sense it in the air,” said Cristin Milioti, who starred in the original Broadway production. “I have never been lifted so much by an action on stage as I have playing an instrument, making a sound.”

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“That’s why we are pleased to support the Denver Center for the Performing Arts and Saturday Night Alive,” said Bill Sullivan, CSBT President and CEO. “For five years, we’ve sponsored the silent auction and helped raise thousands of dollars for Arts in Education programs. The DCPA uses proceeds to take arts to the classroom, so in many cases, children are seeing a theatre performance for the first time. We appreciate the opportunity to align our bank with this important access to the arts.”

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At a time when the national theatre conversation is at last fixed on the sadly unchanging topic of gender disparity in American playwriting, the Denver Center’s 11th and largest annual Colorado New Play Summit turned into a veritable celebration of the woman’s voice.

The two fully-produced world premiere plays that were presented for local and national audiences were written by women. Two of the four playwrights whose developing works were selected to be featured at this year’s Summit are women. The second-ever Local Playwrights’ Slam was curated by a company dedicated to supporting artistic contributions by women, and thus featured an allfemale playwriting lineup. And the three teen playwrights whose works were chosen from a field of 212 statewide submissions to be presented in the third annual Regional

High School Playwriting Workshop and Competition are all Colorado female high-school students.

“All of that gives me hope,” said Angela Astle, Executive Director of the Athena Project and host of the Local Playwrights’ Slam held in The Jones on February 13. “We’ve got a movement started that recognizes women are truly underrepresented in the American theatre.

“Only 20 percent of all plays produced in this country are written by women, and we need to change that.”

The 2016 Colorado New Play Summit, which last year expanded to two weeks to add additional development time and a second round of public readings, drew more local audiences and national industry leaders than ever before, with attendees coming from 25 states. Visitors represented companies ranging from The Roundabout

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PHOTOS: 1. Members of the cast of Midwinter by Mat Smart 2. Guadalupe Zarate, Daniel Valdez, Cynthia Reifler Flores, and Vaneza Calderon rehearse American Mariachi by José Cruz González. 3. Tom Pearson and Zach Morris, Co-Artistic Directors of Third Rail Projects, and DCPA Playwriting Fellow Matthew Lopez at the Devised Work Panel 4. The cast and creative team of Two Degrees

by Tira Palmquist 5. Commissioned Playwright Kemp Powers and actor Jason Delane. 6. Candy Brown, Josh Hartwell, and Jeffrey Neuman at the Regional New Play Development Panel. 7. Meet and Greet at the Summit 8. Colorado Playwright Rebecca Gorman O’Neill performs at the Local Playwrights’ Slam, curated and hosted by the Athena Project. Photos by John Moore.

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Theatre Company in New York, the Alley Theatre in Houston, the Arena Stage in Washington D.C., the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and, closer to home, the Creede Repertory Theatre, Su Teatro and Arvada Center.

They were treated to fully staged performances of Theresa Rebeck’s The Nest, Tanya Saracho’s FADE, the four featured Summit readings, several panel discussions hosted by DCPA Theatre Company Playwright in Residence Matthew Lopez (The Legend of Georgia McBride) and a thrilling demonstration of the DCPA’s newest commission — Third Rail Projects’ upcoming immersive, experiential new work slated for May. The four featured Summit readings took audiences from 1616 England to present-day South Pole. Here’s a brief look at each: • José Cruz González’s American Mariachi is a new piece inspired by women who overcame great obstacles to form their own mariachi groups in Los Angeles during the male-dominated 1970s.

• Lauren Gunderson’s The Book of Will tackles the history right after Shakespeare died by telling how his friends and fellow actors valiantly managed to publish the first folio of The Bard’s great works.

• T ira Palmquist describes her Two Degrees as “a cheery story about climate change.” Her main character is a female climate scientist but her play is really about grief, she said. “Grief for the planet, grief at large, grief on a more personal scale.”

• Mat Smart’s Midwinter was inspired by his time working at a research center on Antarctica. “One thing that’s interesting about the station is that the

people there fall in and out of love and have these epic relationships for, like, two weeks — and it’s very genuine,” said Smart, who calls his story a riff on A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

DCPA Theatre Company Producing Artistic Director (and Summit founder) Kent Thompson’s burgeoning commission program was on full display at the Summit as well. Commissioned playwrights are those who have been contracted by the Denver Center to write a new play for Thompson’s first right of refusal. Among those commissioned playwrights in attended included several handpicked to participate in the secondweekend Playwrights’ Slam. They included some of the biggest names in American playwriting, including Robert Schenkkan (All the Way, The 12), Kemp Powers (One Night in Miami…), Regina Taylor (Crowns), Rogelio Martinez (When Tang Met Laika), Anne Garcia-Romero, Lauren Yee and Andrew Hinderacker.

The 2016 Summit also will go down in history as the first time an event held at the DCPA was livestreamed on HowlRoundTV, a peer-produced online network.

Audiences around the world watched three Summit panel conversations on their computers. One featured Third Rail Projects founder Zach Morris (a Colorado native) and co-Artistic Director Tom Pearson talking about the company’s upcoming partnership with the DCPA. HowlRoundTV also broadcast a dialogue hosted

by Lopez about the playwriting process, as well as the Playwrights’ Slam on February 19.

The Colorado New Play Summit has grown into one of the nation’s premier showcases of new plays. In its first decade, 44 new plays were introduced at the Summit, and more than half have returned as fully staged Theatre Company productions.

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