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What better way to close out DCPA Broadway’s 2014/15 season than with the much anticipated return of one of Denver’s all-time favorites, Wicked. From its first trip to the Buell in September of 2005 through this fifth engagement, more than half a million theatre fans will have had the opportunity to experience this uniquely stunning musical phenomenon right here in Denver. I also am pleased to announce that Denver is the first city in the country to host the show for the fifth time — a true testament to our passionately supportive audience. Thank you.

I hope that you have had the opportunity to join us at the Buell for at least one or more of the fantastic musicals that have come through town over the last nine months.

Pippin, Kinky Boots, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella and Motown The Musical were just some of the highlights of this season. If you are a subscriber and had the chance to see all of the aforementioned shows — THANK YOU for your support, and I hope you have enjoyed the season.

As I hope you have heard by now, we have a very exciting new season coming up in 2015/16. All seven of the musicals that we will present on our subscription package will make their regional debuts — never before seen in Colorado.

Starting in September, Matilda The Musical, Roald Dahl’s tale of a precocious five-year-old will play the Buell. We are proud to host our 11th national tour launch this October with the

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Madcap mayhem comes to the Garner Galleria Theatre at the end of October with Murder for Two, the Off-Broadway musical hit. A Christmas Story, The Musical, based on the hit 1983 film of the same name, plays the Buell for two weeks over the holidays in December. Last year’s Tony Award winner for Best Musical, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, arrives at the Buell in February. Disney’s Newsies, inspired by the film concerning New York City’s real-life Newsboys Strike of 1899, comes to the Buell in April. We then wrap up the season in July with the smash hit Beautiful – The Carole King Musical, playing the Buell.

Alongside these exciting new productions, we also will bring back some of Denver’s favorites — Disney’s The Lion King, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Riverdance and once among them.

Whether a drama or a comedy, a musical or a play, theatre has the power to entertain and inspire. Hearing a great story told on stage together with family and friends is a truly wonderful and unforgettable shared experience. Thanks for sharing those experiences with us here at the DCPA. My best,

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On April 24, nearly 5,000 students from 70 schools converged on the Denver Performing Arts Complex for the 31st Denver Public Schools Shakespeare Festival — the oldest and largest of its kind in the nation. Students ages 4 through 18 performed more than 640 short scenes, dances, soliloquies, sword fights and sonnets.

“There is nothing else even remotely on this scale anywhere else,” said Michael LoMonico of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC. The Denver Center for the Performing Arts has long supported this annual “Shakesplosion” by offering the use of facilities such as The Ricketson Theatre. But this was the first year the DCPA joined the DPS Foundation as a full partner and co-presenter of the festival. DCPA Director of Education Allison Watrous said it’s a partnership that makes perfect sense.

“We are the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, in the center of downtown — and this is our school district,” she said. “The DPS is one of our greatest partnerships already, so if we can be a champion for them, that’s what we want to do. Especially for those schools that do not have arts programming due to budget cuts or time constraints, it’s great that we can support this program.”

Newlon Elementary School office manager Devin Seligsohn worked for six months preparing 15 third-through fifth-graders for their five minutes of glory: Presenting two short scenes and a dance from The Taming of the Shrew.

And it was worth every millisecond of it, said their teacher, Jessica Quiñónez.

“They learned how to act and how to become their characters. But more important, they learned how to be on a team together, and they learned how to embrace each other’s different cultures,” Quiñónez said. “Everybody is different, but we all came together for one goal.”

Added DPS Foundation president Kristin Colon: “We are deeply grateful to the DCPA for its partnership. It has been incredible to see such strong participation and support of Denver’s students participating in such an impressive event year after year.”

To see our full coverage of the festival, including stories, photos and video, go to denvercenter.org/news-center

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One hundred and fifteen years ago this year, author L. Frank Baum, wrote a charming book called The Wonderful Wizard of Oz that became a children’s classic.

The book was turned into a stage musical a year later (one such production is slated for the Buell next February) and begat another great classic: the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. Judy Garland played a girl who, after a close encounter of the tornado kind, found herself in a strange and mysterious land. Dorothy was her name and all she really wanted was to get back home to Kansas. The film’s iconic characters and images have become so deeply ingrained in our collective consciousness that psychologists use the movie as an archetype of the hero’s journey. Like Dorothy, all we want, it would seem, is to find our way back home.

The next Oz-ian incarnation came along in 1972 when a sleek version of the story called The Wiz, featuring an all-black cast, opened on Broadway. It ran for 1,672 performances and was later made into a movie starring Michael Jackson in his only theatrical role.

Then, in 1995, strident political satirist and author Gregory Maguire wrote a Gargantuan and immensely popular fantasy novel, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. In an ironic twist — everything in Oz seems to have an ironic twist — the book examines, among other things, the nature of good and the nature of evil.

Maguire found them alarmingly and inextricably entwined.

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Then the adventures in Oz morphed once again, this time into a stage production adapted from Maguire’s book. Its latest life form is that of the Tony Award-winning musical by composer-lyricist Stephen Schwartz (Godspell) and librettist Winnie Holzman (“My So Called Life,” “thirtysomething”).

Wicked tells a tale that is about as far removed from Baum’s Wonderful Wizard of Oz as the Emerald City is from Wichita. The show’s dark, witty, sophisticated charm made it the hottest ticket on Broadway.

Glinda, the good witch is still there, but what, the musical inquires, is goodness after all? The main action revolves around Elphaba, the so-called wicked witch, (named by Maguire as a derivation of L. Frank Baum’s initials). Elphaba proves the popular adage that, indeed, it’s not easy being green. Born a lovely shade of jade, she is misunderstood, shunned and persecuted. While this naturally takes its toll, the question remains: is she evil? The answer is as ambiguous as her name. Elphaba and Glinda’s unlikely friendship illustrates the fact that it’s not simple trying to figure out which witch is which.

“The idea behind Wicked is that things are not as they seem,” notes book-writer Winnie Holzman. “What you think you know, you don’t really know. It is the premise of the novel that you know certain things, but you don’t know the deeper story.”

— COMPOSER STEPHEN SCHWARTZ

The same notion drew composer Stephen Schwartz to the project: “I’m often attracted to an idea that takes a familiar story and spins it, looking at it from another direction, like Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. I like it when I see things like that, and I like to write them. For me, if you take a familiar story — whether it be the Book of Genesis or The Wizard of Oz — and you come at it from another point of view, the tension between the audience’s preconception and the approach you’re taking to the story adds an extra level of response, plus it helps to clarify the points you’re trying to make.

“The idea of taking what is one of the iconic villains of American culture, the Wicked Witch of the West — so much ‘the villain’ that we don’t even know her name — and looking at it from her point of view, that seemed to me a brilliant concept. It was clear [that] a show about her could explore some of my favorite themes: the difference between surface appearances and what’s really going on underneath, how life is more complex and has more ambiguity than we tend to be comfortable with and, certainly, than our public discourse admits to.”

Schwartz also found the whole idea inherently musical.

“Oz is a fantastical, larger-than-life setting full of characters who almost demand to sing,” he said, “and the witch herself is so full of big emotions — rage, ambition and longing — the idea was screaming to be a musical.”

In addition, tucked into this timeless tale is enough eye-popping technical wizardry in Eugene Lee’s award-winning sets to keep everyone this side of Oz happy. Yet beyond the show’s infectious score and mind-boggling sets is a thoughtful universal theme.

Actor David Garrison who played the Wizard in Denver’s first tour wisely suggested: “There’s a Green Girl in all of us…. Everyone has felt like the outcast at one time or another. It’s part of the show’s broad appeal. It’s not a children’s show, but kids enjoy the fantasy of it, adolescents get the love story and adults see the political allegory.

“This show is like a rock concert every night. It’s very heartening to see that. It’s what theatre does best.”

Teri Downard is a Denver-based writer and contributor to Applause magazine.

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“Oz is a fantastical, larger-than-life setting full of characters who almost demand to sing…and the witch herself is so full of big emotions — rage, ambition and longing — the idea was screaming to be a musical.”

COMING UP FROM BROADWAY:

IF/THEN Tony Award winner and Broadway superstar Idina Menzel will launch the national touring production of If/Then in Denver from October 13-24. Best known for her Broadway performances in Wicked and Rent, voicing Elsa in Frozen, and her recurring role on “Glee,” If/Then was written specifically for this Broadway powerhouse.

This contemporary new musical follows two distinct storylines in the life of Elizabeth, a city planner who moves back to New York to restart her life in the city of infinite possibilities. When her carefully designed plans collide with the whims of fate, Elizabeth’s life splits into two parallel paths. If/Then follows both stories simultaneously as this modern woman faces the intersection of choice and chance.

“I look forward to having audiences discover and embrace If/Then,” said producer David Stone, “and to give Broadway fans across the country the unique opportunity to see a genuine superstar at the height of her powers, in a role that was literally tailored for her.”

“If/Then is especially meaningful for me because I had the opportunity to develop it for several years with the creative team, whom I have come to consider family,” said Menzel. “I’m so thrilled to launch the show’s national tour [in Denver] and to send it off across the country and around the world.”

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Led by 2014 Bobby G Award winner Abby Noble who sang “Popular” from Wicked, more than 50 lovely ladies were tapped to walk the runway and show off their incredible hats. As the single largest contributor to the Women’s Voices Fund, all Hattitude guests have helped the DCPA produce 26 plays by women, employ 20 female directors and commission 16 female playwrights. We’re beginning to hear that female voice loud and clear.

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CAST (in order of appearance)

Glinda................................................................................................................................................ CARRIE ST. LOUIS Witch’s Father...........................................................................................................................WAYNE SCHRODER Witch’s Mother........................................................................................................................KERRY BLANCHARD Midwife............................................................................................................................................ JANE BROCKMAN Elphaba........................................................................................................................................................ ALYSSA FOX Nessarose...................................................................................................................................................LIANA HUNT Boq........................................................................................................................................................ LEE SLOBOTKIN Madame Morrible......................................................................................................................KRISTINE ZBORNIK Doctor Dillamond....................................................................................................................... MICHAEL DEVRIES Fiyero..................................................................................................................................ASHLEY PARKER ANGEL Ozian Official.............................................................................................................................WAYNE SCHRODER The Wonderful Wizard of Oz................................................................................................... JOHN DAVIDSON Chistery.........................................................................................................................................................BEN SUSAK Monkeys, Students, Denizens of the Emerald City, Palace Guards and Other Citizens of Oz.................................................................... KERRY BLANCHARD, WHITNEY BRANDT, JANE BROCKMAN, BEKA BURNHAM, BRIDIE CARROLL, KENNEDY CAUGHELL, HAYLEY ANN DORLING, MICHAEL DROLET, KELLI ERDMANN, RYAN PATRICK FARRELL, DAN GLEASON, KALI GRINDER, MARK SHUNKEY, TRAVIS TABER, JEREMY THOMPSON, JUSTIN WIRICK

STANDBYS FOR ELPHABA

Emily Koch (6/3–6/14) Mary Kate Morrissey (6/19–7/5) UNDERSTUDIES Understudies never substitute for listed players unless a specific announcement for the appearance is made at the time of the performance.

Understudy for Elphaba—Kennedy Caughell; for Glinda—Beka Burnham, Whitney Brandt; for Fiyero—Dan Gleason, Travis Taber; for The Wizard and Dr. Dillamond—Keith A. Bearden, Wayne Schroder; for Madame Morrible—Jane Brockman, Bridie Carroll; for Boq—Michael Drolet, Mark Shunkey; for Nessarose—Beka Burnham, Lauren Haughton; for Chistery—Ryan Patrick Farrell, Dominic Giudici, Ryan Jackson, Dashi’ Mitchell, Nicky Venditti; for Witch’s Father and Ozian Official—Keith A. Bearden, Dan Gleason SWINGS Keith A. Bearden, Lauren Haughton, Ryan Jackson, Kelly Lafarga, Dashi’ Mitchell, Becca Kloha Strand DANCE CAPTAINS/SWINGS Dominic Giudici, Lauren Sambataro, Nicky Venditti

THERE WILL BE ONE 15-MINUTE INTERMISSION.

ACT I “No One Mourns the Wicked”.....................................................................................Glinda and Citizens of Oz “Dear Old Shiz”.................................................................................................................................................. Students “The Wizard and I”...........................................................................................................................Morrible, Elphaba “What Is This Feeling?”....................................................................................... Galinda, Elphaba and Students “Something Bad”........................................................................................................... Dr. Dillamond and Elphaba “Dancing Through Life”......................................Fiyero, Galinda, Boq, Nessarose, Elphaba and Students “Popular”.................................................................................................................................................................Galinda “I’m Not That Girl”...............................................................................................................................................Elphaba “One Short Day”..............................................................Elphaba, Glinda and Denizens of the Emerald City “A Sentimental Man”................................................................................................................................... The Wizard “Defying Gravity”..........................................................................Elphaba, Glinda, Guards and Citizens of Oz ACT II “No One Mourns the Wicked” (reprise)..........................................................................................Citizens of Oz “Thank Goodness”........................................................................................Glinda, Morrible and Citizens of Oz “The Wicked Witch of the East”.......................................................................... Elphaba, Nessarose and Boq “Wonderful”......................................................................................................................... The Wizard and Elphaba “I’m Not That Girl” (reprise)............................................................................................................................... Glinda “As Long As You’re Mine”......................................................................................................... Elphaba and Fiyero “No Good Deed”..................................................................................................................................................Elphaba “March of the Witch Hunters”..........................................................................................Boq and Citizens of Oz “For Good”......................................................................................................................................Glinda and Elphaba “Finale”...............................................................................................................................................................................All TRAVELING ORCHESTRA Conductor—P. Jason Yarcho Associate Conductor/Keyboard 2—Flint Hawes Keyboard 1—Phillip Kirchman Keyboard 3—Dan Micciche Guitars—Dave Boguslaw Drums—Romano DiNillo The Wicked touring musicians welcome nine local musicians who will be playing at all performances in Denver: Reed 1/flutes—Paul Nagem Reed 2/oboe-English Horn—Max Soto Sibaja Reed 3/clarinets - sax—Art Bouton French Horn—Steve Simpson Trumpet/flugel—Terry Sawchuk Trombone/bass trombone—Jim Gray Acoustic and Electric Bass—Robin Ruscio Percussion—Mark Foster Keyboard—Martha Yordy Keyboard Sub—Catherine Sailer Musician Contractor—James Harvey Orchestrations adapted by Christopher Jahnke The use of any recording device, either audio or video, and the taking of photographs, either with or without flash, is strictly prohibited.

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WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST ALYSSA FOX (Elphaba) is a Dallas, TX native who sang her first solo in church at age four. She began her Wicked journey in San Francisco as the Elphaba understudy and continued on tour as the Elphaba standby.

She is proud and humbled to assume the role of Elphaba—a dream come true. Favorite shows include Who’s Your Baghdaddy?, Rocky Horror, Little Women and numerous concert performances. Many thanks to Sheldon, Craig, the Wicked creative team and every music teacher who believed in me—especially Vicky Kelly. Love to Mom, Kamiya, family and friends. Arigatou gozaimasu, M a m aw. Tw i t te r : @ a l yss a fox .

IG: @allyfox.

CARRIE ST. LOUIS (Glinda) is so thrilled to start traveling by bubble with Wicked! Broadway: Rock of Ages (Sherrie). Original Las Vegas company of Rock of Ages (Sherrie).

Regional: Justin Love (Amanda Bell— world premiere), The Fix (Deborah— West Coast premiere). Graduate of USC’s Thornton School of Music.

Much love to Authentic, BBR, Telsey + Co. and the whole Wicked team. Mom & Dad, thank you for everything!

Instagram and Twitter: @carriestlouis.

KRISTINE ZBORNIK (Madame Morrible). Broadway: A Catered Affair. National tour: 9 to 5 (Roz), Mamma Mia Las Vegas (Rosie). Into the Woods (Jack’s Mother—Delacorte Theater/N.Y.C.), Road Show (Public Theater). Off-Broadway and regional: Forbidden Broadway, Schlemiel the First (Yenta Pesha), Old Jews Telling Jokes, Oklahoma! (Aunt Eller), Hank Williams: Lost Highway (Mamma Lilly), Damn Yankees (Sister), 101 Dalmatians (Cruella DeVil). Created cabaret/one-woman shows for more than 25 years throughout the universe. www.kristinezbornik.com.

JOHN DAVIDSON (The Wizard).

Broadway: State Fair (Abel), Oklahoma! (Curly—Theater Guild Award). Off-Broadway: High Infidelity and The Fantasticks. National tour: Wicked (The Wizard). Regional theater: The Music Man (H. Hill), Camelot (King Arthur), Carousel (Billy), Man of La Mancha (Cervantes). Television:

hosted “That’s Incredible,” “The New Hollywood Squares,” “One Hundred Thousand Dollar Pyramid,” Sally Field’s husband in “The Girl with Something Extra.” Film: The Walt Disney musicals The Happiest Millionaire and Family Band.

ASHLEY PARKER ANGEL (Fiyero).

Broadway: Hairspray (Link Larkin).

Television: ABC’s “Making The Band” which chronicled the formation of his multi-platinum recording group O-Town, most widely recognized for the smash #1 hit “All or Nothing,” MTV’s “There and Back” which documented the release of Ashley’s Universal Records debut solo album Soundtrack to Your Life featuring his hit single “Let U Go.” Twitter: @parkerangel. Instagram: @ashley_ parker_angel.

MICHAEL DeVRIES (Dr. Dillamond).

Broadway: Wicked—nine years.

Other Broadway shows: Hello, Dolly!; Cats; Grand Hotel; Secret Garden; King David. Nat’l tours: Phantom of the Opera, Annie Get Your Gun, My Fair Lady. Regional: The Cryptogram (Alley Theatre), The Dead (Pioneer Theatre), The Music Man (Sundance Theatre). TV: “Sex and the City,” “Law & Order,” “L&O: SVU,” “Royal Pains.”

Proud Equity member for more than 30 years.

LIANA HUNT (Nessarose) is so excited to be joining Oz! She was most recently seen on Broadway as Katherine Plumber in Newsies.

Prior to that she starred as Sophie in Mamma Mia! on Broadway and the national tour. Regional: Les Misérables (Eponine), Beauty and the Beast (Belle). B.F.A., NYU CAP21. Thank you Talent House, Telsey + Co. and the team! Love you Mom, Daddio, Con and Larkin.

LEE SLOBOTKIN (Boq) is incredibly grateful to be living his dream in Oz. Most recently: Hello, Dolly! with Karen Ziemba (Barnaby), Life Could Be A Dream (Eugene), Little Shop of Horrors (Seymour) and the title role in Peter Pan. A proud Philadelphia native and CCM Musical Theatre graduate. Love and thanks to family, friends, BRS/Gage, Craig, Telsey + Co.

and the Wicked team for making this dream come true. IG: @leeslo.

EMILY KOCH (Standby for Elphaba) is thrilled to be a part of the Wicked family! Regional: Little Women (Palo Alto Theatreworks), ValueVille (NYMF), In the Bones (APAC, world premiere). Carnegie Mellon ’13, Interlochen Arts Academy alum.

Thanks to family, friends, teachers, the Wicked team, Telsey + Co. and BRS/Gage.

MARY KATE MORRISSEY (Standby for Elphaba) is elated to join Wicked! International Tour: Hair.

Off-Broadway: Tamar of the River.

Regional Favorites: Lizzie: The Musical (Portland Center Stage), Elmer Gantry (Signature Theatre).

Syracuse University. Big thanks to Mom + Dad, my champions at CGF, PA + NYC Family, and my love, Ty. marykate-morrissey.com KEITH A. BEARDEN (Swing, u/s Witch’s Father, Ozian Official, The Wizard, Dr. Dillamond). Tours: Wicked (LA/SF companies), Shrek (King Harold/Big Bad Wolf), Jesus Christ Superstar, Fame. Regional: Next to Normal (Dr. Madden), Tales of the City (Hampton/Dance Captain), The Drowsy Chaperone (Ahmanson Theatre), Jesus Christ Superstar (Judas). Love & light.

KERRY BLANCHARD (Ensemble) is so happy to be a part of Wicked.

Thanks to everyone at Wicked, Telsey and MSA. All my love to my wonderful family and amazing friends for their never ending support, love and laughter.

WHITNEY BRANDT (Ensemble, u/s Glinda) couldn’t be happier to join Munchkinland! N.Y.C.: Big: the Musical (York Theatre). Regional: Shrek the Musical, West Side Story (Muny). The University of Michigan MT ’14. Endless thanks to Telsey + Co., Harden-Curtis, family and friends.

JANE BROCKMAN (Midwife, u/s Madame Morrible) is thrilled to join the Wicked family! Broadway: A Christmas Carol. Tours: The Light in the Piazza, The Sound of Music.

BEKA BURNHAM (Ensemble, u/s Glinda, Nessarose) is ecstatic to be entering the world of Wicked after graduating in 2014 from BoCo with a B.F.A. in Musical Theatre. So much thanks to Telsey + Co., DGRW, friends and family. BekaBurnham.com.

BRIDIE CARROLL (Ensemble, u/s Madame Morrible) is happy to rejoin the Wicked family. Last seen in Off-Broadway’s new musical Fat Camp. National tours: Grease (Jan). Regional: Grease, The Little Mermaid, High School Musical and Hairspray. Original Cast Recording: Thirteen Stories Down. B.F.A.: Boston Conservatory. Thanks to Telsey + Co., Peter Strain & Assoc., family and friends.

KENNEDY CAUGHELL (Ensemble, u/s Elphaba) is excited to join the Wicked family! Int’l/nat’l tour: American Idiot (Heather). Other credits: White Christmas (Betty), Hair (Sheila). B.F.A. Elon. Love to my family, DGRW, and Telsey + Co. KennedyCaughell.com.

HAYLEY ANN DORLING (Ensemble) grew up in Chino Hills, Calif., and began dancing at the age of 8. She later trained and performed with Mt. SAC and Entity Dance Company.

She’s ecstatic to tour with Wicked and thanks everyone for believing in her.

MICHAEL DROLET (Ensemble, u/s Boq). Broadway: Wicked. National Tours: Wicked—LA Cast (Boq), Saturday Night Fever (Vinnie).

Regional: Peter Pan—Dorset Theatre Festival (Peter Pan), Of Mice and Men—Palace Theatre (Curley), Cyrano—Fulton Opera House. TV: “The Tonight Show.” B.F.A.: University of the Arts.

KELLI ERDMANN (Ensemble) is excited be joining her first Broadway tour. Some of her credits include: TV: “Glee,” “The Fosters”; film: Behind the Candelabra; commercial: Samsung, Dodge, Reebok, ADT, Hasbro. Love to family and friends!

RYAN PATRICK FARRELL (Ensemble, u/s Chistery). A Michigan native. Began dancing at age 8. Ryan is thrilled to join Wicked on tour.

Credits include: Wicked (Chicago), Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Cats national tour (Mistoffelees), Copacabana (Mill Mountain), Princess Cruises, Chase Brock Experience (Joyce Soho) and Boyz II Men. Love to Mom and Dad. DOMINIC GIUDICI (Dance Captain, Swing, u/s Chistery). Credits: Wicked first national (Swing/Chistery), Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Disney World and Holland America.

Many thanks to my family, Grandma, Grandpa, The Harts, Linda, Telsey + Co. and Nicole. Twitter: @DomJuice.

DAN GLEASON (Ensemble, u/s Fiyero, Witch’s Father, Ozian Official) is thrilled to join the Wicked family!

Tour: American Idiot (u/s Tunny), Miss Saigon (u/s Chris). Favorite regional: Goodspeed, Pennsylvania Centre Stage, Mount Gretna. B.F.A. Penn State. Love to family, friends and Julia.

KALI GRINDER (Ensemble), from Las Vegas, Nevada, attended Point Park University in Pittsburgh. She danced as a Rockette in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, and is ecstatic to be joining the cast.

LAUREN HAUGHTON (Swing, u/s Nessarose). Broadway: Wicked. OffBroadway: Fools In Love. Regional Favorites: Sammy with Leslie Bricusse (Old Globe Theatre), Turn of the Century with Tommy Tune (Goodman Theatre). B.F.A.: Musical Theatre, Syracuse University. Thanks to Mom, Dad, the Gillis family and The Mine. Je t’aime Michael.

RYA N JAC KS O N ( Sw i n g , u /s Chistery). Tours: West Side Story, Cats, Dr. Dolittle. NYC: Radio City, The Chase Brock Experience, City Center Encores. Regional: Paper Mill, Goodspeed, Sacramento Music Circus, TUTS, Walnut Street. B.F.A. Marymount Manhattan. Thanks Wicked, The Mine and his A-list. www. hireryanjackson.com.

KELLY LAFARGA (Swing) feels honored to join Wicked. Film: Step Up 2: The Streets, Step Up 3D. TV: “Glee,” “Bones,” “How I Met Your Mother,”

“DWTS.” Tours: Eve, Donnie Klang.

Marymount Manhattan College.

Thanks Mom, Nina, and Sasha for their endless love and support. Dad, I love and miss you always.

DASHI’ MITCHELL (Swing, u/s Chistery) was raised in Sacramento, CA and started professional dancing at the age of 8. He later trained at NCDC and Edges scholarship program. Dashi’ is excited to return to Wicked after working on the show previously in Germany.

LAUREN SAMBATARO (Dance Captain, Swing). Broadway: Mamma Mia! (Swing/DC). Tours: Movin’ Out, Evita. Regional: In the Heights (Pioneer Theatre), West Side Story (Alabama Shakespeare), Radio City Christmas Spectacular (NYC). B.F.A. Fordham/Ailey. Thanks Craig and Irene! Love to my family. LOML. WAYNE SCHRODER (Witch’s Father, Ozian Official, u/s The Wizard, Doctor Dillamond). Broadway: 9 to 5, A Christmas Carol. Tours: 9 to 5. OffBroadway: Prince and the Pauper, Mimi le Duck. Film: The Producers the Musical, Brando, Welcome Home.

Television: “Guiding Light,” “All My Children.” Concert: Kristina at Carnegie Hall and Royal Albert Hall in London.

MARK SHUNKEY (Ensemble, u/s Boq) is thrilled to be back i n M u n c h k i n l a n d ! B ro a d way/ tour: Wicked and Aida.

Regional: West Side Story and A Christmas Carol. Love and thanks to my family and Kelly.

BECCA KLOHA STRAND (Swing) is thrilled to return to Oz. Other Credits: Paper Mill Playhouse, Houston TUTS, Stages St. Louis, Troika Ent. Graduate of Webster Conservatory.

Thanks to the Wicked team. Much love to my husband and family!

BeccaKlohaStrand.com BEN SUSAK (Chistery) is very grateful to be back with the Munchkinland family! Credits: Cirque du Soleil, “SYTYCD,” Lady Gaga, Britney Spears, Florence + the Machine, Ke$ha, Kelly Clarkson, “American Music Awards,” “Video Music Awards,” “Billboard Awards,” “DWTS,” “American Idol,” San Francisco Ballet.

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Off B’way and NY: The Kid, Kismet (Encores!), Kristina (Carnegie Hall/ Royal Albert Hall), Camelot (Lincoln Center). Film/TV: The Producers, “L&O: SVU,” “All My Children.” Love to my “Pair of Shews.”

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TRAVIS TABER (Ensemble, u/s Fiyero). B’way nat’l tours: Priscilla Queen of the Desert and Mamma Mia! Other favorite shows: For Lovers Only; She Loves Me; I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change. Much love and thanks to my family, Craig and Ali. JEREMY THOMPSON (Ensemble), a New Hampshire native, resides in sunny Los Angeles. His credits include ensemble work in Gypsy, South Pacific, the role of Tommy Djilas in The Music Man and Tokyo Disney and Disneyland, respectively.

NICKY VENDITTI (Dance Captain, Swing, u/s Chistery) is psyched about returning to Wicked having previously been part of both touring companies and the San Francisco company (Chistery). Other recent: A Chorus Line nat’l tour (Paul), Legally Blonde (Nikos) at MSMT, Radio City Christmas Spectacular (NYC).

JUSTIN WIRICK (Ensemble) has toured the world and somewhere over the rainbow in West Side Story (Euro/Asia tour), in a world class cirque production—iL CiRCo’s Viaggio! and with The Radio City Christmas Spectacular. But there’s no place like Oz. To the Wicked team, Telsey + Co. and family—love, support and thanks, Oh my!

STEPHEN SCHWARTZ (Music and Lyrics) has contributed music and/ or lyrics to Godspell, Bernstein’s Mass, Pippin, The Magic Show, The Baker’s Wife, Working (which he also adapted and directed), Rags and Children of Eden. For films, he collaborated with Alan Menken on the scores for Disney’s Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Enchanted and wrote the songs for the DreamWorks animated feature The Prince of Egypt. His first opera, Séance on a Wet Afternoon, was presented by New York City Opera in April, 2011. Defying Gravity, a book about his professional career, was recently published by Applause Books. Mr. Schwartz is the artistic director of the ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshops and president of the Dramatists Guild. Awards include three Academy Awards, four Grammy Awards, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and a tiny handful of tennis trophies. He was recently inducted

into the Theatre Hall of Fame. www.stephenschwartz.com.

WINNIE HOLZMAN (Book) received a Tony nomination and a Drama Desk Award for Wicked. She created the memorable television drama “My So-Called Life” which starred Claire Danes. Holzman got her start writing for the acclaimed drama “thirtysomething” and later executive produced (again with Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick) “Once and Again.”

Other theatre work includes the musical Birds of Paradise (with composer David Evans) and a ten-minute play called Post-its: Notes on a Marriage which she wrote with her husband, actor Paul Dooley. Features include: ’Til There Was You. Also an actress, Ms. Holzman appeared in Jerry Maguire and as Larry’s wife’s therapist on “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”

Most recently she teamed with her daughter, Savannah Dooley, to write and produce the new ABC Family series, “Huge.” She is a graduate of Princeton University, received an M.F.A. from the NYU Musical Theatre Program, and serves on the board of the Writers Guild Foundation.

JOE MANTELLO (Director). Directing credits include The Last Ship, I’ll Eat You Last with Bette Midler, Other Desert Cities, The Pride, Pal Joey, 9 to 5 the Musical, November, The Receptionist, The Ritz, Three Days of Rain, The Odd Couple, Glengarry Glen Ross, Laugh Whore, Assassins (Tony Award), Take Me Out (Tony Award), Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Design for Living, The Vagina Monologues, bash, Love! Valour!

Compassion!, Proposals, The Mineola Twins, Corpus Christi, Mizlansky/ Zilinsky, Blue Window, God’s Heart, The Santaland Diaries, Snakebit, Three Hotels, Imagining Brad. Film: Love! Valour! Compassion! As an actor: The Normal Heart (Tony nom.), Angels in America (Tony nom.) and The Baltimore Waltz. Recipient of Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Helen Hayes, Clarence Derwent, Obie and Joe A. Callaway awards. He is a member of Naked Angels and an associate artist at the Roundabout.

WAYNE CILENTO (Musical Staging).

Broadway: Sweet Charity (Tony nom.), Aida, The Who’s Tommy (Tony, Drama Desk, Astaire awards), How

to Succeed… (Tony nom.), Dream: The Johnny Mercer Musical (director/choreographer; Tony nom., Best Choreography), Jerry’s Girls, Baby (Tony nom.). West End: The Who’s Tommy (Olivier nom.). Other credits: Off-Broadway’s A Hot Minute and Angry Housewives, national tour of Spirit, …Forum at La Jolla (San Diego Drama Critics and DramaLogue awards). Performer credits: A Chorus Line (Mike, original cast), The Act, Seesaw, Perfectly Frank, Irene, Big Deal, Rachel Lily Rosenblum and Dancin’ (Tony nom.). He has done musical staging for Liza Minnelli, Barry Manilow, Chita Rivera, Billy Joel, Donna Summer and Pete Townshend.

EUGENE LEE (Scenic Designer) has been resident designer at Trinity Rep since 1967. He has BFA degrees from the Art Institute of Chicago and Carnegie Mellon University, an M.F.A. from Yale Drama School and three honorary Ph.Ds. Mr. Lee has won three Tony Awards for Bernstein’s Candide, Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd and Wicked. He is the production designer for NBC’s “Saturday Night Live.” Other New York theatre work includes The Pirate Queen, Alice in Wonderland, The Normal Heart, Agnes of God, Ragtime, Uncle Vanya, Ruby Sunrise and A Number. Film credits include Coppola’s Hammett, Huston’s Mr. North and Malle’s Vanya on 42nd Street. Mr. Lee is an adjunct professor at Brown University and lives with his wife Brooke in Providence, where they raised their two sons.

SUSAN HILFERTY (Costume Designer) has designed more than 300 productions for theatres across America and internationally. Her directorial collaborators include Athol Fugard (set, costumes, co-director), Michael Mayer, James Lapine, Robert Falls, Robert Woodruff, Joe Mantello, JoAnne Akalaitis, Garland Wright, Mark Lamos, Frank Galati, Des McAnuff, Sharon Ott, David Petrarca, Richard Nelson, Christopher Ashley, Kenny Leon, Laurie Anderson, Tony Kushner, Carole Rothman, Garry Hynes and Emily Mann. Recent work: Rigoletto at the Metropolitan Opera 2012/2013, Taylor Swift “Speak Now” World Tour 2011/2012. Broadway: Wonderland, Sondheim on Sondheim, Spring Awakening (Tony nom.), Lestat (Tony nom.), Assassins, Into the

KENNETH POSNER (Lighting Designer) has more than 40 Broadway play and musical theatre credits. He designs extensively off-Broadway and for resident theatres throughout the United States as well as internationally. He is the recipient of the Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics’ Circle Awards.

Broadway: Cinderella, Kinky Boots, Pippin, The Merchant of Venice, The Royal Family, The Coast of Utopia— Shipwrecked, Wicked, Hairspray, 9 to 5, Catch Me If You Can, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Legally Blonde, The Homecoming, The Odd Couple, Glengarry Glen Ross, Charlie Brown, The Frogs, Little Women, The Goat, Uncle Vanya, The Little Foxes and The Rose Tattoo. Opera credits include designs for the New York City Opera and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Kenneth was the recipient of the 2003 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design.

TONY MEOLA (Sound Designer).

Broadway: First Date (associate producer); The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Drama Desk Award); Lysistrata Jones (associate producer as well as sound design); Pal Joey; The Ritz; Laugh Whore; Man of La Mancha; Sweet Smell of Success; Copenhagen; Kiss Me, Kate; Footloose; The Lion King (Drama Desk Award); The Sound of Music; A Christmas Carol (MSG), Steel Pier; Forum; The King and I; Moon Over Buffalo; Smokey Joe’s Cafe; Guys and Dolls; Five Guys Named Moe; She Loves Me; The Red Shoes; Anything Goes. London: Kiss Me, Kate; The Lion King; Smokey Joe’s Cafe; and Anything Goes.

National and international: The Lion King, Les Misérables, Mozart, Der Gloeckner von Notre Dame. Tony is a graduate of Ithaca College’s Department of Theatre Arts.

Thanks, Dick.

ELAINE J. McCARTHY (Projection Designer). Recent Broadway designs include The People in the Picture, Impressionism, Thurgood, Spamalot, Assassins, Man of La Mancha, Into

the Woods, and Judgement at Nuremberg. Opera designs include Moby Dick (Dallas Opera), Dead Man Walking (Houston Opera), Mazeppa (Metropolitan Opera), War and Peace (Kirov and Met Opera), Tan Dun’s The Gate, and Peter Sellar’s The Peony Pavilion. Off-Broadway designs include Frequency Hopping (set and projection), Embedded, The Stendhal Syndrome, Suitcase, Speaking in Tongues and The Thing About Men. Regional designs include Distracted (set and projection), Limonade tous les Jours, Fran’s Bed, Once in a Lifetime, Cobb, and Hair. She received an Eddy Award in 2003.

TOM WATSON (Hair and Wig Design) is head of the wig and makeup department at the Metropolitan Opera. He has designed wigs for more than 50 Broadway productions. Current and recent Broadway designs include On a Clear Day…; How to Succeed…; Wonderland; House of Blue Leaves; Born Yesterday; The Addams Family; Million Dollar Quartet; Rock of Ages; Promises, Promises; Elling; South Pacific; Sondheim on Sondheim; A View from the Bridge; and Sunday in the Park with George.

JOE DULUDE II (Makeup Designer).

Makeup Designer for Wicked productions worldwide, Show Boat, On the Town, Beautiful—The Carole King Musical, If/Then, Jekyll & Hyde, Into the Woods (Public Theatre), Follies, The Normal Heart, Catch Me If You Can, Elf, Lend Me a Tenor, Grease, The Wedding Singer. Joe also teaches theatrical makeup at Muhlenberg, Hartt School and Pace University as well as various master classes. He is also a fine artist and photographer. www.joe2design.com.

THOM WIDMANN (Production Supervisor). Ten productions for Lincoln Center Theater including The Light in the Piazza, The Frogs and Contact. Other credits: The Sound of Music, The King and I, Amy’s View, Skylight and the nat’l tour of An Inspector Calls. Graduate of SUNY Purchase. Adjunct faculty, Fordham University.

JAKE BELL (Technical Supervisor) has been a stage manager and technical production manager on Broadway for more than 25 years.

Broadway, national and international credits include The Phantom of the Opera, Billy Elliot, Les Misérables, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Miss Saigon, Swan Lake, Dreamgirls, Cats, Chess.

STEPHEN OREMUS (Music Supervision/Music Arrangements).

Broadway: Kinky Boots (2013 Tony Award for Best Orchestrations and 2013 Grammy Award); The Book of Mormon (2011 Tony and Drama Desk Awards for Best Orchestrations and 2012 Grammy Award). Worldwide music supervisor/arranger of Wicked; music supervisor/vocal arranger/ orchestrator of Broadway productions/tours of The Book of Mormon, Avenue Q, All Shook Up and 9 to 5; Grammy nominee as co-producer with Dolly Parton of 9 to 5 Broadway cast recording; Other credits: music supervisor, vocal arranger and orchestrator: tick, tick…BOOM!; music director: Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party, conductor and contributing orchestrator for the Oscar-winning Disney film Frozen; music director of the 87th Academy Awards telecast.

WILLIAM DAVID BROHN (Orchestra­ tions) received the 1998 Tony Award for Best Orchestrations for Ragtime.

Other credits include Mary Poppins, Curtains, Miss Saigon, The Secret Garden, Show Boat, Crazy for You, Carousel, Sweet Smell of Success, Oklahoma! (B’way); Mary Poppins, Oliver!, My Fair Lady, South Pacific (London) and Betty Blue Eyes. He has provided arrangements for Marilyn Horne, James Galway, Placido Domingo and Joshua Bell’s recording on Sony Classical of Bernstein’s West Side Story Suite for Violin and Orchestra.

ALEX LACAMOIRE (Music Arrange­ ments) is the Music Supervisor for In the Heights, which won him the 2008 Tony Award for Best Orchestrations and a 2008 Grammy Award for producing the cast album. Other Broadway credits as Music Director, Arranger, and/or Orchestrator: 9 To 5, High Fidelity and Legally Blonde.

Other favorite projects: Bat Boy: The Musical (off-B’way), the 2001 national tour of Godspell, Captain Louie and The Wiz (City Center Encores!). Love to Mom, Dad, Little Sis and Ileana.

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Woods (Hewes Award, Tony nom.), Dirty BLONDE. She designs for opera, dance, film and TV and chairs Design at NYU/Tisch. Her numerous awards include the Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for Wicked.

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P . J A S O N Y A R C H O (M u s i c a l Director). Broadway: Wicked, Bullets Over Broadway. Tours: Wicked.

Off-Broadway/regional: The Muny, Playwrights Horizons, Barrington Stage Company, The Little Theatre on the Square. Musical Supervisor for the Educational Theatre Association.

Master’s degree from CCM. JAMES LYNN ABBOTT (Dance Arrange­m ents). Broadway: Aida, Tarzan, Bombay Dreams, Rent, Footloose, Joseph…, Cats, Sunset Boulevard and Miss Saigon. National tours include Starlight Express, Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Who’s Tommy and Jesus Christ Superstar. He has performed with Aretha Franklin, Dennis De­ Young of Styx, Shirley Bassey, Bob Hope, Vanessa Williams and Elton John. Clients include Dr Pepper, Frito Lay, American Airlines and General Electric.

MICHAEL KELLER (Music Coordinator). Music Coordination for The Book of Mormon, The Addams Family, Memphis, Billy Elliot, Wicked, Mamma Mia, The Lion King, Barbra Streisand Concerts (1994/2001/2006/2007). Life is complete with wife Pamela Sousa, son Zachary and daughter Alexis.

TELSEY + COMPANY (Casting).

Broadway/tours: Something Rotten!, An American in Paris, Finding Neverland, The King and I, Hand to God, Honeymoon in Vegas, The Last Ship, This Is Our Youth, If/Then, Kinky Boots, Blithe Spirit, Newsies, Pippin, Motown, Rock of Ages, Million Dollar Quartet. Off-Broadway: Hamilton (Public), New York Spring Spectacular (Radio City), Atlantic, MCC, Second Stage, Signature. Film: The Intern, Ithaca, Focus, A Most Violent Year, Into the Woods, The Last 5 Years, Stage Fright, Song One. TV: “Flesh and Bone,” “Peter Pan Live!,” “Masters of Sex,” commercials. www.telseyandco.com.

L I SA L E G U I L LO U ( A s s o c i a t e Director) worked with Joe Mantello on Frankie and Johnny…, Take Me Out and The Vagina Monologues. She appeared in eight Broadway shows; on TV in “Sex and the City,” “NYPD Blue” and “NY Undercover;” and in the films Changing Lanes, Center Stage, Everyone Says I Love You and HBO’s “Angels in America.”

DOMINICK AMENDUM (Assoc. Music Supervisor). Broadway: Wicked, First Date. National tour: Wicked, Oliver!, Cabaret. Off-B’way: The Kid, The Blue Flower. Regional: Secondhand Lions.

Producer of multiple recordings including the First Date cast album.

Thanks to Wicked family.

CORINNE McFADDEN HERRERA (Asso­c iate Choreographer) has worked with and assisted Wayne Cilento on Sweet Charity (Broadway and national tour) and Wicked (Broadway). As a performer, Corinne was featured in the Broadway revival of Sweet Charity and the original companies of Aida and Wicked. She has also appeared in and assistant choreographed numerous commercials and music videos. Thanks to Mom, Dad, Manny and Wayne.

EDWARD PIERCE (Associate Scenic Designer) operates a NYC-based design studio specializing in the production design of Broadway, touring and international stage productions.

With his team of artists, Edward provides first-class development and management of designs. Notable collaborations include the Tony Awardwinning Wicked with Eugene Lee, Billy Elliot, The Pirate Queen, Aida, Ragtime, Cabaret, and Noise/Funk. www.edwardpierce.com.

CHIC SILBER (Special Effects).

Broadway: Sherlock Holmes; Edward Gorey’s Dracula; The Elephant Man; Amadeus; Nicholas Nickleby; Tintypes; Working; The Dresser; Alice in Wonderland; Grand Hotel; Piaf; Orpheus Descending; Moon Over Buffalo; Footloose; The Civil War; Aida; Kiss Me, Kate; Annie Get Your Gun; Dance of Death; Brooklyn; La Cage aux Folles; Godspell. Circus: Monte Carlo Circus Spectacular, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, Clyde Beatty–Cole Bros.

DAVID O’BRIEN (Production Stage Manager). Broadway: Godspell, Wonderland, Lend Me a Tenor (2010), Grease, The Pajama Game, Sweet Charity, Fiddler on the Roof (2004), Noises Off, Stones in His Pockets, Cats, Guys & Dolls, among other others. Directing credits include 59th FIFA Congress (2009) at Atlantis (Nassau), as well as the most recent national tours of Grease (2008 and 2010).

COLLEEN DANAHER (Stage Manager) is thrilled to be a part of the Wicked team. Broadway: Godspell, Wonderland, South Pacific, Lend Me A Tenor, Grease, Grey Gardens.

Regional: Many productions over several years at the Vineyard Playhouse in beautiful Martha’s Vineyard, MA. Love to LBB. JEN ASH (Assistant Stage Manager).

Broadway: Wicked. Off-Broadway: Fuerza Bruta WAYRA, Peter and the Starcatcher, Satchmo at The Waldorf, Brigadoon. Tours: Peter and the Starcatcher, Charlotte’s Web. Regional: Honeymoon In Vegas, South Pacific, Grease (Paper Mill Playhouse). TV: VH1’s “Super Bowl Blitz,” MTV’s “VMAs.” GREGORY MAGUIRE (Author of Original Novel) published a dozen novels for children before writing his first adult novel, Wicked. A devotee of children’s fantasy, Maguire’s subsequent novels for adults are variations-on-a-theme: Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister considers Cinderella as a 17th-century maid from Harlem; Lost evokes the ghost of Charles Dickens’s Scrooge; and Mirror Mirror features a High Renaissance Snow White daunted by the wickedest stepmother, Lucrezia Borgia.

Maguire’s novel Son of a Witch, a sequel to Wicked, is followed by A Lion Among Men and the final volume of the Wicked Years, Out of Oz. He lives in Massachusetts and Vermont with his husband, the painter Andy Newman, and their three children.

321 THEATRICAL MANAGEMENT (General Management). Nina Essman, Nancy Nagel Gibbs and Marcia Goldberg’s past and present Broadway, Off-Broadway and national tour management credits include If/Then; Peter and the Starcatcher; Bring It On; Sister Act; Traces; Next to Normal; The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; The Vagina Monologues; Man of La Mancha; The Graduate; I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change; Fully Committed; and Bat Boy: The Musical. Additional individual productions include The Lion King, Smokey Joe’s Café, The Santaland Diaries, Full Gallop, Smoke on the Mountain, Guys and Dolls and The Diary of Anne Frank.

UNIVERSAL STAGE PRODUCTIONS (Producer) is the live-theatre division of the world-famous motion picture studio, currently represented by the record-breaking phenomenon Wicked, now in its 11th hit year on Broadway, and the critically acclaimed musical adaptation of Billy Elliot, which won ten Tony Awards including Best Musical. Additional credits include Broadway’s Bring It On: The Musical, the blockbuster revival of Glengarry Glen Ross starring Al Pacino and the Tony Awardwinning revival of The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess.

THE ARACA GROUP (Producer).

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JON B. PLATT (Producer). Tony Awa rd s : A n g e l s i n A m e r i c a : Millennium Approaches (Pulitzer Prize), Perestroika, Clybourne Park (Pulitzer Prize), Copenhagen, God of Carnage, The Book of Mormon, Death of a Salesman. Tony Award nominations: Wicked; Peter Pan; The Diary of Anne Frank; Hello, Dolly!; The Lonesome West; You’re Welcome America; Man of La Mancha; A View From the Bridge; The Motherf**cker With the Hat; Jerusalem; Venus in Fur; Nice Work If You Can Get It. Off-Broadway: C*ck. Tours: Wicked, The Book of Mormon. 2012 Robert Whitehead Award for Outstanding Achievement in Commercial Theatre Producing.

DAVID STONE (Producer) is currently represented by Wicked and If/Then. He has also produced Next to Normal, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Three Days of Rain, Man of La Mancha, The Vagina Monologues, Fully Committed, Lifegame, The Diary of Anne Frank, Full Gallop, The Santaland Diaries and Family Secrets. David serves on the boards of The Broadway League and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids. He also serves on the advisory boards of V-Day and Second Stage Theatre. David has lectured on theater at NYU, Yale, Columbia and his alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania.

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Prior Broadway productions: If/Then, Three Days of Rain, Pal Joey. OffBroadway: Matthew Bourne’s ballet Edward Scissorhands, Family Week.

Films: Into the Woods, Drive, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Nine, Rachel Getting Married, Wanted, Legally Blonde, Legally Blonde 2, Song One, Winter’s Tale, 2 Guns, Charlie St. Cloud, Cop Out, The Other Woman, Honey, Josie and the Pussycats, The Perfect Man, The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising. Upcoming films: Ricki and the Flash starring Meryl Streep, directed

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Assistant Wardrobe Supervisors.......................... Ann M. Bruskiewitz, Shevhan Lusteck, Glen Moore Hair Supervisor..............................................Molly McGrath Assistant Hair Supervisors................... Robert Gardner, Andrea Shairs Makeup Design.........................................Joseph Dulude II Makeup Supervisor............................... Joyce McGilberry Masks and Prosthetics....................W.M. Creations, Inc. Matthew W. Mungle, Miyo Yamamoto Advance Carpenters.......David Johnson, Ed Lohrer III, Zachariah Mathison, Dave Rader Advance Electricians.......Eric Rimes, David Trovarelli Advance Electrics/Sound.......................David Trovarelli Advance Sound............................................Brian C. Moore Advance Wardrobe...........................Ann M. Bruskiewitz Music Preparation.............. Anixter/Rice Music Service Synthesizer Programming..................... Andrew Barrett Guitar Effects Programming.........................Lou Garrett Production Assistants..................................... Susan Bero, Sarah Koehler, Joshua Pilote, Stuart Shefter, Wendy Stephens Advertising.................... Serino Coyne/Greg Corradetti Caroline Thompson, Kevin Hirst Website.................................................Situation Interactive Merchandise..............................................The Araca Group Banking........................................................Bank of America Payroll................................................. Checks and Balances Accounting.............Fried and Kowgios Partners CPAs Insurance.....................AON/Albert G. Ruben Insurance Legal Counsel..................... Loeb & Loeb/Seth Gelblum Physical Therapy...........................................NEURO TOUR Physical Therapy Inc. Jennifer Gallegos PT, DPT Travel Agent......................................................... Road Rebel Air Travel..................................Tzell Travel—A Team Tours Makeup provided by MAC Cosmetics FOR MARC PLATT PRODUCTIONS Adam Siegel, Greg Lessans, Joey Levy, Jared LeBoff, Jonathan Ahdout, Ryan Christians, Dan Attanasio STONE PRODUCTIONS David Stone Patrick Catullo Aaron Glick

UNIVERSAL PICTURES Vice Chairman, NBCUniversal.......................Ron Meyer Chairman, NBC Entertainment......Robert Greenblatt Chairman, Universal Filmed Entertainment...................Jeff Shell Chairman, Universal Pictures............... Donna Langley President, Universal Pictures..............Jimmy Horowitz SVP, CFO Productions............................ Arturo Barquet Executive, Live Theatricals................ Chris Herzberger Vice President, Legal Affairs...........................Keith Blau 321 THEATRICAL MANAGEMENT Bob Brinkerhoff, Amy Merlino Coey, Mattea Cogliano-Benedict, Kirk Curtis, Veronica Decker, Tracy Geltman, Marissa Gonzales, Valerie Novakoff, Rebecca Peterson, Lina Renzina, Susan Sampliner, Rachel Scheer, Kelly Shoemaker, Holly Sutton, Brian Tucker

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PwC Tax Director Nina Nelan was nationally recognized with a Daily Point of Light Award in early 2015 for her work as PwC’s Power Lunch Coordinator and as a volunteer/ reading buddy. “The opportunity to participate in programs like Power Lunch is why I returned to PwC to continue my career. I was inspired by the actions of our local partners and encouraged by how much support the firm provides us to give time and money to organizations and causes that are meaningful to us, especially the educational development of Denver kids.”

It is Nina, and people like her across the organization, that drives PwC’s unwavering youth education and financial literacy commitment. And it is the DCPA’s commitment to arts education and training that serves as a compelling reason to partner with them. PwC is proud to support the DCPA as an arts purveyor, teacher, visionary, and inspiration in our local community.

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