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SIGHTLINE

BY JANICE SINDEN

HHello and welcome to our summer engagements of the Colorado debut of & Juliet, the 25th anniversary tour of MAMMA MIA!, an all-new tour of Some Like it Hot, and the return of Moulin Rouge! The Musical. We’re delighted you’re here and hope you will return for our 2025/26 Broadway season, which kicks oﬀ this fall with Shucked. The full season line-up can be seen on page 24.

With an all-Broadway audience for this issue of Applause, I wanted to take a moment to introduce you to another of our ﬁve theatre divisions — the Denver Center Theatre Company. Performing in three intimate theatres just down the galleria in the Bonﬁls Theatre Complex, the Theatre Company produces a season of eight productions hand-crafted on site.

The upcoming Theatre Company season features our original take on some of the hottest plays on the stage including The Happiest Man on Earth, which originally debuted in 2023.

Broadway fans will want to see the Tony- and Pulitzer Prizewinning pop rock musical Next to Normal and the Pulitzer Prizewinning English, which was just nominated for the 2025 Tony Award for Best Play (winners will be announced June 8).

These recent New York hits will be accompanied by Somewhere by Tony Award-winning playwright Matthew Lopez, Tennessee Williams’ American classic Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, the perennial favorite A Christmas Carol, and our own world premieres — Cowboys and East Indians and Godspeed

If you can’t wait until September to try the Theatre Company, head over to the Garner Galleria Theatre to try some of our Cabaret hits: Forbidden Broadway: Merrily We Stole a Song, Dixie’s Tupperware Party, and Dixie’s Never Wear a Tube Top.

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APPLAUSE MAGAZINE

VOLUME XXXV • NUMBER 8 • JUN - AUG 2025

EDITOR: Suzanne Yoe

DESIGN DIRECTOR: Kyle Malone

DESIGNER: Brenda Elliott

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CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Lisa Bornstein, David Cote, Emma Holst, Gillian Russo

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Hassan Salem, Chair

Ruth Krebs, Vice Chair

David Jacques Farahi, Secretary/Treasurer

Nicole Ament

Brisa Carleton

Jerome Davis

Elizabeth Hioe

Deb Kelly

Kevin Kilstrom

Lynn McDonald

Susan Fox Pinkowitz

Manny Rodriguez

Alan Salazar

Richard M. Sapkin

Martin Semple

William Dean Singleton

Robert Slosky

Tina Walls

HONORING OUR ELDERS

The Denver Center for the Performing Arts honors and acknowledges that it resides on the traditional and unceded territories of the Ute, Cheyenne, and Arapaho Peoples. We also recognize the 48 contemporary Indigenous Tribes and Nations who have historically called Colorado home.

IN THIS ISSUE

Moulin Rouge! The Musical pg 8

Some Like it Hot pg 12

MAMMA MIA! pg 18 & Juliet .............................................. pg 22

FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF UPCOMING SHOWS:

LEARN MORE

Dr. Reginald L. Washington

Sylvia Young

HONORARY TRUSTEES

Navin Dimond

Margot Gilbert Frank

Jeannie Fuller

Robert C. Newman

Cleo Parker Robinson

Judi Wolf

HELEN G. BONFILS FOUNDATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Martin Semple, President

William Dean Singleton, Vice President

Dr. Reginald L. Washington, Secretar y/Treasurer

Nicole Ament

Marco D. Chayet

David Jacques Farahi

Kevin Kilstrom

Ruth Krebs

Susan Fox Pinkowitz

Hassan Salem

Robert Slosky

EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT

Janice Sinden, President & CEO

Jamie Clements, Vice President, Development

Chris Coleman, Artistic Director, Theatre Company

John Ekeberg, Executive Director, Broadway & Cabaret

Angela Lakin, Vice President, Marketing & Sales

Glen Lucero, Vice President, Venue Operations

Laura Maresca, Chief People & Culture Officer

Charlie Miller, Executive Director & Curator, Off-Center

Lisa Roebuck, Vice President, Information Technology

Charles Varin, Managing Director, Theatre Company & Off-Center

Allison Watrous, Executive Director, Education & Community Engagement

Jane Williams, Chief Financial & Administrative Officer

DESIGNING THE SPECTACULAR WORLD OF Moulin Rouge! The Musical

EEntering Moulin Rouge! The Musical, you encounter a world like no other: sensual, mysterious, decadent. A hypnotic dance loop plays as aristocratic men in top hats circle seductive women in lace and bustiers. You take your seat and gaze at rich, red fabric on the walls, the neon sign, details in lamps on each table. The music feels like it’s coming from 360 degrees. Lights rake over bodies promenading back and forth. It’s hard not to notice the elephant perched beyond the proscenium, and the red windmill on the other side. An exquisite tension hangs in the air, before the show has even begun. Welcome to the club.

You’ve never seen a Broadway show as wildly immersive as the Tony-winning Moulin Rouge! The Musical. The revolutionary design started on Broadway and goes around the country.

“I began by amassing huge amounts of research,” scenic designer Derek McLane explains. “There were many period photos of Montmartre and the Moulin Rouge, of Parisian courtesans’ apartments.” The walls of the theater, McLane adds, are draped in no fewer than nine diﬀerent types of red fabric, each its own hue and pattern. The heart-shaped portals you see upon entering are loosely inspired by Baz Luhrmann’s ﬁlm. “I worked hard to create a structure both densely patterned and lacy so that you see through one set of patterns into another,” McLane says.

Costume designer Catherine Zuber poured the cast into a series of bespoke costumes, mixing Parisian silhouettes

and edgy, contemporary couture. “Since the music is contemporary, the challenge is to introduce a modern interpretation,” Zuber notes. “The choreography is highenergy, requiring costumes that are not restrictive.” She notes that director Alex Timbers “kept us on track by insisting that the design should occur now and in the past simultaneously.”

We combine images and sounds that shouldn’t work together but have a deeper truth, a deeper beauty, when placed next to one another.

— JUSTIN TOWNSEND, LIGHTING DESIGNER

“I had a vision that we’re inside a spinning crystal chandelier,” says lighting designer Justin Townsend. Shifting rapidly from spotlighting actors to bathing them in romantic reds, purples and blues, Townsend tucks tiny

Robert Petkoﬀ and the Company of the 2025 touring production of Moulin Rouge! The Musical

Photo by Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade

lights around the set to allow the stage and house to sparkle. Every reliable surface holds a lightbulb that can pulse and animate. “My hope is to create the same quality of the movie,” the designer says, “being on a ride with the camera pulled and pushed into and out of the scenes with wonder and joy.”

Peter Hylenski fuses dialogue and a score woven from dozens of song fragments into a seamless sonic whole.

“From the very first bass notes and finger snaps, we should understand the flavor and attitude of the evening ahead,” the sound designer says. “Ultimately, it’s my responsibility to shape and sculpt the inputs from the cast, band, and sound effects to weave a sonic tapestry.”

Hylenski shares his secret weapon: concealed in and around the set are some 200 various-sized speakers. Even in the table lampshades of the front seating area.

As Townsend sums up: “We combine images and sounds that shouldn’t work together but have a deeper truth, a deeper beauty, when placed next to one another.”

The theater community certainly agrees. In 2021, Moulin Rouge! The Musical came away with a staggering ten Tony Awards, including top prizes for scenic design, lighting, costumes, sound, and orchestrations.

David Cote is the author of Moulin Rouge! The Musical: The Story of the Broadway Spectacular (Rizzoli). David is a New York-based theater and TV critic who writes for The A.V. Club, Observer, and 4 Columns. He’s also a playwright and opera librettist, and author of books about the making of Spring Awakening, Jersey Boys, and Wicked Reprinted with permission of Moulin Rouge! The Musical. MOULIN

ASL Interpreted, Audio Described and Open Captioned performance: Aug 9 at 2pm

LIFE MIRRORS ART: TAVIS KORDELL EMBODIES JERRY/DAPHNE IN SOME LIKE IT HOT

IIn 1959, the acclaimed Billy Wilder directed Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in the raucous caper of two men who, having witnessed a mob hit, take cover by posing as women in a traveling Jazz Age band. (Curtis came to Denver in 2002, starring in a different musical adaptation of the movie.) Sixty-three years later, an all-star crew collaborated to develop a new approach: Director Casey Nicholaw (The Book of Mormon, Mean Girls, and Aladdin); composer/lyricist team of Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman (Hairspray), and book writers Tony winner Matthew López (The Inheritance) and Amber Ruffin (“The Amber Ruffin Show,” THE WIZ ). Their fresh approach brought new meaning to the classic tale.

For recent college graduate Tavis Kordell, performing in their ﬁrst national tour brought them an Equity card and the opportunity to express themself fully onstage. Kordell plays Jerry/Daphne, the role originated in ﬁlm by Lemmon, who even then embraced the opportunity to live a female life as Daphne. As a non-binary and Black performer, Kordell found a depth and richness to the role, and one that went beyond historical depictions of drag as comedy.

“My character goes on a journey of self-discovery and self-identity,” Kordell says. “Rather than lying in the trope of men in dresses, we rely on the circumstances to get our comedy from. We do take more of an empathetic path

BY LISA BORNSTEIN

toward what we would consider drag or cross dressing. The original ﬁlm, typically that was all of the humor, but we ﬁnd that my character begins to become comfortable as Daphne. It’s bringing to the forefront non-binary and trans identities and letting people know that this is who I love to be. Rather than sing it as a joke, just pursue it with love and respect.”

It’s also opened up new possibilities for the stories of those who don’t conform to traditional gender roles. “There are some people, they have the mindset of what a gender non-conforming person is, and they tend to write the same stories all the time, about the struggle,” Kordell says. “I believe that we should just write those characters in without having to give them some sort of struggle or trauma to heal from. Roles like Jerry/Daphne have come a long way. To play this role today, to be able to express this story and not have it be trauma-based, it’s so beautiful and cathartic.”

And while Joe and Jerry are non-blood “brothers,” their journeys are very diﬀerent, as one pushes back against the dresses and the other ﬁnds a home in them.

“We get to see the nuances as Daphne begins to up the look,” Kordell says. “As we get through, the costumes begin to get more intricate for Daphne. The makeup ups a little bit, the mannerisms change. For Joe, the costumes

Edward Juvier (Osgood), Tavis Kordell (Daphne) and the First National Touring Company of Some Like It Hot .

Photo by Matthew Murphy.

don’t beneﬁt the character. For Joe/Josephine’s character, their age is also a butt of the joke. That is a way that we have gotten away from the men-in-dresses trope.”

The creators of this adaptation pushed farther, by making Jerry/ Daphne a Black character and having Sugar, famously portrayed by Marilyn Monroe in the movie, and the bandleader Sweet Sue, Black as well.

“Due to its world being versed in jazz music and tap dance, we cannot acknowledge tap dance and jazz music without acknowledging the contributions of African Americans,” Kordell says. “With our show speciﬁcally, they are written African American to where they could not be cast as any other race. Their race is put to the forefront in this show, where I (as Jerry/Daphne) can’t go to some of the same places where my best friend/brother Joe can go. Sugar has not been able to pursue the opportunities she wants to pursue because of the world around her.”

Even without the plot points of segregation in 1930s America, Kordell says that the very casting of Black actors imbues the story with that experience.

“As African Americans, we’re going to deliver the lines a bit differently than someone of a different culture,” they say. “It brings to the forefront the talent that is within the communities and just how suppressed it was. The talent is clear, you can see that in the performer. No matter how talented an individual was, they were suppressed, and they weren’t allowed to pursue the same opportunities as their non-Black, specifically white, counterparts.”

…we ﬁnd that my character begins to become comfortable as Daphne. It’s bringing to the forefront non-binary and trans identities and letting people know that this is who I love to be.

— TAVIS KORDELL PLAYS JERRY/DAPHNE

The company was wondering how the show and its themes of inclusion and diversity would be received. They have been pleasantly surprised so far.

“Right now, just considering the political climate and the attack against queer rights, especially trans rights, we’re wondering about the reception in each city we go to,” Kordell says. “We’re currently in the Midwest: Nebraska, Oklahoma, Iowa. We were nervous, but we have been greeted with so much love and so much acceptance to this message.”

SOME LIKE IT HOT

JUL 8 – 20 • BUELL THEATRE

ASL Interpreted, Audio Described, and Open Captioned performance: July 20 at 2pm

COMING UP FROM BROADWAY SHUCKED

Denver is getting corny. Shucked, the farm-to-fable musical, tells the story of a small-town community desperate to save their failing corn crop. Come for the story and stay for the hilarity and copious corn puns. The Wall Street Journal called Shucked “ﬂat out hilarious!” And no one knows comedy like economists.

Shucked boasts a talented team behind its creation. The book is penned by Robert Horn (Tootsie) while the score is a collaboration between Grammywinning duo Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally. All were nominated in their respective categories at the 2023 Tony Awards, and Shucked itself received a nomination for Best Musical.

When the show opened on Broadway, audiences weren’t sure what to expect. With its vibrant yellow banners, ears of corn, and air of general mystery, no one anticipated Shucked would become the viral sensation of the season. But this corn-fed, corn-bred American musical is sure to satisfy your appetite for great musical theater.

The New York Post raved about the musical’s tuneful country score and superb book, describing it as “just so damn funny that the audience sits in a state of perpetual giggle.” Like Vulture says, “the proof is in the (corn) pudding.”

Don’t miss your chance to see Broadway’s corniest new hit while it’s stalkin’ Denver this fall. Shucked will be at the Buell Theatre October 7 - 19. See for yourself: what the shuck is Shucked ?

Jake Odmark as Beau and Danielle Wade as Maizy in The North American Tour of Shucked

Photo by Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman.

7 Days/6 Nights:

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4 Theatre Productions (under consideration): SMASH Buena Vista Social Club Maybe Happy Ending

3 Breakfasts & Theatre Talks

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OOn Saturday April 6, 1974, in the English coastal town of Brighton, a group known in their native Sweden but unknown to the rest of the world, won the Eurovision Song Contest with a song entitled “Waterloo.”

For Napoleon, Waterloo was big trouble. For this upstart singing group it was the start of something bigger than they could ever have anticipated.

And so begins the improbable saga of ABBA. And why not? The phenomenal success of the decade-long association of Agnetha Faltskog, Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus and Anni-Frid Lyngstad (the initials of their ﬁrst names were to form the name ABBA) is of mythical proportions.

Over the next eight years, they would achieve countless hit singles, platinum albums, sell-out concert tours and even a movie.

And by 1982 it was all over.

Yet despite the fact that ABBA ceased to record or tour, the music refused to die.

MAMMA

M A MA I A — Success Is Spelled ABBA

a reporter. People “were literally out of their seats and singing and dancing in the aisles — and they still are. Every night.”

Phyllida Lloyd, MAMMA MIA! ’s original director, says she was oﬀered the job only after “some wonderful person” (who must be very, very sorry now) dropped out. More than a year of workshops followed.

MIA! is the

musical Benny and

Björn

wrote years ago. They just decided to release the songs ﬁrst.

A life-changing anecdote Lloyd likes to tell is that, if the show is such a hit today, it is thanks to the relative of a company member who sent an unsolicited letter telling her how to ﬁx a problem she had been struggling to identify. This gentleman explained that the show’s ﬁrst two scenes were, in his words, “the wrong way around.”

— PHYLLIA LLOYD, ORIGINAL DIRECTOR OF MAMMA MIA!

It was on March 23, 1999 that MAMMA MIA! — a show constructed from 22 of ABBA’s most memorable songs — was put in front of a paying audience at London’s Prince Edward Theatre. Let’s be clear: musicals are not supposed to be created this way. Usually, someone has a story to tell and someone else creates a series of songs that punctuate that story. Taking a bunch of songs that were previously conceived as singles, and ﬁnding a unifying thread was as heretical as it sounds.

“We really had no idea how it was going to be received,” reﬂected producer Judy Craymer, whose initial concept it had been to use existing ABBA songs to construct an original musical. “The audience went wild,” she told

“I handed the letter to [choreographer] Anthony van Laast,” Lloyd said. “We looked at each other and knew we had to change it. The new opening was immediately right. It makes it clear that this is a domestic, intimate show.”

Ultimately, however, the success of MAMMA MIA! rests in equal measure with all of its creators, whose tenacity and imagination persevered.

To quote Lloyd: “MAMMA MIA! is the musical Benny and Björn wrote years ago. They just decided to release the songs ﬁrst.”

MAMMA MIA!

JUNE 25 – 29 • BUELL THEATRE

ASL, Audio-described & Open Captioned performance: June 28 at 2pm

(L to R) Jalynn Steele (Tanya), Christine Sherrill (Donna Sheridan), and Carly Sakolove (Rosie). Photo by Joan Marcus.

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Rachel Simone Webb

Paul-Jordan Jansen

Teal Wicks

Corey Mach

Nick Drake Kathryn Allison

Michael Canu

Mateus Leite Cardoso

Naima Alakham

Nella Cole Lois Ellise

Ishmael Gonzalez Kenneth Onesimus Goubran

Shelby Griswold Christopher Robert Hanford

Jourdan Ibe

Josh Jordan Nicole Lamb Yoshi Maysonet

Usman Ali Mughal

Jaydon Nget

Kyra Smith Francisco Thurston

CAST

Juliet RACHEL SIMONE WEBB

Lance .........................................................................................................................PAUL-JORDAN JANSEN

Anne TEAL WICKS

Shakespeare COREY MACH

May NICK DRAKE

Angélique KATHRYN ALLISON

Romeo ........................................................................................................................................ MICHAEL CANU

François MATEUS LEITE CARDOSO

Lady Capulet/Nell NAIMA ALAKHAM

Judith/Rosaline CAMILLE BROOKS

Eleanor/Benvolio/Portia NELLA COLE

Susanna ..............................................................................................................................................LOIS ELLISE

Augustine KENNETH ONESIMUS GOUBRAN

Gregory ISHMAEL GONZALEZ

MAX MARTIN

IS NOW THE MUSIC PRODUCER WITH THE MOST #1 HITS OF ALL TIME

Lucy/Helena SHELBY GRISWOLD

Henry/Bathroom Attendant

MAX MARTIN

CHRISTOPHER ROBERT HANFORD

Lennox............................................................................................................................................ JOURDAN IBE

MAX MARTIN

Richard JOSH JORDAN

IS NOW THE MUSIC PRODUCER WITH THE MOST #1

Max’s collab with Ariana Grande on her Eternal Sunshine album gave him his history-making 25th Billboard #1 as a producer and his 27th #1 as a songwriter. Congrats to our Shakespeare of Pop!

Margaret NICOLE LAMB

HITS OF ALL TIME

Dion YOSHI MAYSONET

Lord Capulet/Sly USMAN ALI MUGHAL

IS NOW THE MUSIC PRODUCER WITH THE MOST #1 HITS OF ALL TIME

2012

1996 …BABY ONE MORE TIME BRITNEY SPEARS

Max’s collab with Ariana Grande on her Eternal Sunshine album gave him his history-making 25th Billboard #1 as a producer and his 27th #1 as a songwriter. Congrats to our Shakespeare of Pop!

Kempe .......................................................................................................................................... JAYDON NGET

2000 IT’S GONNA BE ME NSYNC

Titania KYRA SMITH

2013 ROAR KATY PERRY

2008 I KISSED A GIRL KATY PERRY

2008 SO WHAT P!NK

Cuthbert FRANCISCO THURSTON

1996 …BABY ONE MORE TIME BRITNEY SPEARS

2000 IT’S GONNA BE ME NSYNC

Max’s collab with Ariana Grande on her Eternal Sunshine album gave him his history-making 25th Billboard #1 as a producer and his 27th #1 as a songwriter. Congrats to our Shakespeare of Pop!

2009 MY LIFE WOULD SUCK WITHOUT YOU KELLY CLARKSON

2009 3 BRITNEY SPEARS

2008 I KISSED A GIRL KATY PERRY

2008 SO WHAT P!NK

2009 MY LIFE WOULD

2013 DARK HORSE KATY PERRY

2014 SHAKE IT OFF TAYLOR SWIFT

1996 …BABY ONE MORE TIME BRITNEY SPEARS

2014 BLANK SPACE TAYLOR SWIFT

2000 IT’S GONNA BE ME NSYNC

2010 CALIFORNIA GURLS KATY PERRY FT. SNOOP DOGG

2010 TEENAGE DREAM KATY PERRY

2010 RAISE YOUR GLASS P!NK

2011 E.T. KATY PERRY

DANCE CAPTAIN: FRANCISCO THURSTON

2015 BAD BLOOD TAYLOR SWIFT

2008 I KISSED A GIRL KATY PERRY

ASSISTANT DANCE CAPTAIN: KYRA SMITH

2008 SO WHAT P!NK

2015 CAN’T FEEL MY FACE THE WEEKND

2016 CAN’T STOP THE FEELING! JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE

2009 MY LIFE WOULD SUCK WITHOUT YOU KELLY CLARKSON

2011 HOLD IT AGAINST ME BRITNEY SPEARS

2009 3 BRITNEY SPEARS

2010 CALIFORNIA

2011 LAST FRIDAY NIGHT (T.G.I.F.) KATY PERRY

2012 PART OF ME KATY PERRY

2019 BLINDING LIGHTS THE WEEKND

UNDERSTUDIES

2021 SAVE YOUR TEARS THE WEEKND

FEEL MY FACE THE WEEKND

2021 MY UNIVERSE COLDPLAY & BTS

2016 CAN’T STOP THE FEELING! JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE

2024 YES, AND? ARIANA GRANDE

2019 BLINDING LIGHTS THE WEEKND

2024 WE CAN’T BE FRIENDS ARIANA GRANDE

2021 SAVE YOUR TEARS THE WEEKND

2021 MY UNIVERSE COLDPLAY & BTS

2024 YES, AND? ARIANA GRANDE

2024 WE CAN’T BE FRIENDS ARIANA GRANDE

Understudies never substitute for the listed performers unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the appearance. For Juliet—NAIMA ALAKHAM, CAMILLE BROOKS, LOIS ELLISE; for Lance—USMAN ALI MUGHAL, FRANCISCO THURSTON; for Anne—SHELBY GRISWOLD, NICOLE LAMB; for Shakespeare—CHRISTOPHER ROBERT HANFORD, JOSH JORDAN; for May—ISHMAEL GONZALEZ, JOURDAN IBE; for Angélique—NAIMA ALAKHAM, SHELBY GRISWOLD; for Romeo—CHRISTOPHER ROBERT HANFORD, JOSH JORDAN, JAYDON NGET; for François—KENNETH ONESIMUS GOUBRAN, JAYDON NGET.

MAY IS VERY SHAKESPEARE

THE BARD WROTE PLENTY OF CHARACTERS OUTSIDE THE GENDER BINARY

MAY IS VERY SHAKESPEARE

THE BARD WROTE PLENTY OF CHARACTERS OUTSIDE THE GENDER BINARY

Shakespeare’s plays challenge the gender binary so often that it almost ceases to exist. That’s one reason the character May is such a natural fit in the world of & Juliet, which explores a new story about what happens if Juliet survives her famous tragedy. There’s room in this show for people as spectacular as May, just like there’s room in Shakespeare’s plays and in the rest of the world.

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MUSICAL NUMBERS

ACT 1

“Larger Than Life”

“I Want It That Way”

“Baby One More Time”

“Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely” “Domino”

“Show Me Love” “Blow”

“I’m Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman”

“Overprotected”

“Confident”

“Teenage Dream/Break Free”

“Oops! … I Did It Again”

“I Kissed a Girl”

“It’s My Life”

MUSICIANS

ACT 2

“Love Me Like You Do”

“Since U Been Gone” “Whataya Want From Me”

“One More Try” “Problem/Can’t Feel My Face”

“That’s The Way It Is”

“Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)”

“As Long As You Love Me”

“It’s Gonna Be Me” “Stronger”

“Shape of My Heart”

“Fuckin’ Perfect”

“Roar”

“I Want It That Way” (Reprise) “Can’t Stop the Feeling!”

Conductor/Keyboard—ANDRE CERULLO

Associate Conductor/Keyboard—KELSI FULTON

Guitar—CLAY NORDHILL

Bass—TABARI LAKE

Drums—ZACK ALBETTA

LOCAL MUSICIANS

Violin/Viola—BRITT SWENSON Cello—JEFF WATSON

Keyboard 2 Substitute—BOKO SUZUKI Contractor—JIM HARVEY

Associate Music Supervisor: Haley Bennett Music Coordinator: Michael Aarons, M² Music Associate Music Coordinator: Anja Wood, M² Music

Music Copying: Emily Grishman Music Preparation/Adriana Grace/Alden Terry

Pre-Broadway Copying: Mark Cumberland Music Technology & Ableton System Design: Phij Adams

U.S. Music Technology: Randy Cohen, Randy Cohen Keyboards Additional Ableton Programming & Music Production: Scott Wasserman Vocal Coach/Consultant: Matt Farnsworth Vocal Studio

THERE WILL BE ONE INTERMISSION. PERFORMANCE TIME IS APPROXIMATELY 2 HOURS AND 30 MINUTES.

RACHEL SIMONE WEBB (Juliet).

Credits: & Juliet Original Broadway Company, toured with Kristin Chenoweth in For The Girls - featured singer. Rachel, a proud graduate of Texas State Musical Theatre, is lover of all things music, Dallas, and spreading joy through her art. God’s Daughter. You can find her at rachelswebb.com IG: @rachelsimwebb TT: @rachelsimonewebb

PAUL-JORDAN JANSEN (Lance). Broadway: Sweeney Todd. Regional: Sweeney Todd, Beauty and the Beast, The Wizard of Oz, The Last Ship, Once on this Island, The Count of Monte Cristo, and The Prince of Egypt. Proud Clevelander, Penn Stater, Husband, and Cat Dad. Always for my family. IG: @pauljordanjansen

TEAL WICKS ( Anne) has established herself on Broadway originating roles in The Cher Show ( Lady), Finding Neverland (Mary Barrie) & the Jekyll & Hyde revival (Emma Carew). Broadway debut as Elphaba in Wicked after playing to critical acclaim in LA/ SF companies, and has since worked extensively in both theatre & TV. Teal has performed on stages worldwide and can be heard on various cast recordings. @tealwicks

COREY MACH (Shakespeare). Broadway: Merrily We Roll Along (2024 Tony Award Winner), Kinky Boots, Hands on a Hardbody, Godspell. Tours: Wicked, Flashdance, Rent. Off-Broadway: Merrily (NYTW), Invisible Thread (Second Stage). Regional Premieres: Waitress (A.R.T), Mystic Pizza (Ogunquit Playhouse), Mrs. Miller Does Her Thing (Signature, dir: James Lapine), From Here to Eternity with Tim Rice. TV: “Elsbeth”, “Uncoupled”, “FBI”, “Blacklist”. @coreymach @broadway_sings

NICK DRAKE (May). They/them. From St. Louis, Missouri, Nick grew up performing at The Muny and further extended their MT education at Baldwin Wallace. Theatre: Back to the Future (Reginald, Goldie, Marvin Cover), Kinky Boots (Angel, Lola Cover), Ain’t Too Proud (Swing, Dance Captain), Hadestown (Assistant Choreographer). TV/Film: “Fire Island”, “Saturday Night Live”, “The Tonight Show”. Instagram: @nickxdrake #YJ4L

KATHRYN ALLISON ( Angélique) was most recently seen in the 1st National Tour of Company as Sarah!

WHO’S WHO

Broadway: Company 2021 Revival OBC, Wicked, Aladdin. TV/Film: “The GAG,” “Elementary.” Debut album “Something Real” out now! Huge thanks to my parents, Headline Talent, and the village that inspires me and lifts me up. @kathryndallison

MICHAEL CANU (Romeo) is making his National Tour debut! Theatre credits: Footloose (Ren), Mamma Mia! (Sky), A Chorus Line (Mark). He is a graduate of the musical theatre program at the BFA from Cincinnati Conservatory. Sending much love to his family and friends. Endless thanks to the terrific creatives, Stephen, Leslie, and the team at Buchwald! @michael_canu

MATEUS LEITE CARDOSO (François). Previous credits include A Beautiful Noise (Broadway) and other NYC workshops. Thank you to A&R, Abby and Leorah, BW, and a minha família. @mateus.leite.cardoso

NAIMA ALAKHAM (Lady Capulet, Nell, u/s Juliet, u/s Angélique). Ecstatic to embark on this new journey, Naima was most recently was seen on the National Tour of Jagged Little Pill. A proud graduate of The New Studio on Broadway at NYU Tisch. Regional: Dreamgirls (Paramount Theatre), Little Shop of Horrors (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley). Endless gratitude to her parents, friends and agents. @naima.andreana_

CAMILLE BROOKS (Judith, u/s Juliet). She/her. Broadway National Tour Debut!! Regional: Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, Mamma Mia! Recent graduate of BWMT ‘24. Endless love and thanks to my family, friends, The Mine, C12 casting and the entire & Juliet team! @camilleabrooks

NELLA COLE (Eleanor, Benvolio) is thrilled to join the & Juliet company! Broadway: The Illusionists. Television: “The Last OG” (TBS). Theatre: Pretty Woman Nat’l Tour, Becoming Nancy, This Ain’t No Disco, Cruel Intentions Nella is a pop recording artist with music available on all download and streaming platforms! IG/TikTok: @thatgurlnella

LOIS ELLISE (Susanna, Swing, u/s Juliet). National Tour Debut! Regional: Dreamgirls (McCarter Theatre), Once On This Island (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (The Rev Theatre). International: Hairspray (RCCL),

SIX (NCL). BFA Central Michigan University. Special thanks to my family, friends, Take3Talent, Josselyne Herman & Associates, and the & Juliet team! James 1:12. @_loisellise

ISHMAEL GONZALEZ (Gregory, u/s May). A multifaceted creative from Miami, FL, Ishmael is ecstatic to continue their family’s artistic lineage with & Juliet. They are deeply grateful to their family, friends, educators and Vision Entertainment for the lessons and love. NWSA & YoungArts 18’. UNCSA 22’. @ishmoves. Para mis ángeles Julio, Mima y Zoraida.

KENNETH ONESIMUS GOUBRAN (Augustine, u/s François) is an Egyptian American multi-disciplinary artist from NY, and is so thrilled to get this chance to spread joy with people across the country. Kenneth always brings energy, commitment, and passion to everything he does. Thank you Mom, Dad, and Family, for being my biggest encouragements. BFA NYU Tisch. @kennygoubran_

SHELBY GRISWOLD (Lucy, u/s Angélique, u/s Anne). Shelby is thrilled to be making her National Tour debut with this amazing company. Previously seen in SIX on NCL (Jane Seymour) and CATS: The Jellicle Ball (u/s Demeter/ Victoria). Based in NYC. Hugs of gratitude to her family and friends for keeping her sane and supported! BWMT’20 @shelby__griswold

CHRISTOPHER ROBERT HANFORD (Henry, u/s Romeo, u/s Shakespeare) is grateful to be joining the & Juliet family. Tour: An Officer & a Gentleman First National. Off-Broadway: Cher Chez La Femme. Regional: Legally Blonde, Hairspray, Saturday Night Fever. He would like to thank his family & friends, as well as the teams at & Juliet, C12 Casting & HKA for believing in him! @thechristopherhanford

JOURDAN IBE (Lennox, Swing, u/s May). National tour debut! Favorite credits: Faaabulous! The Show (Las Vegas, NV), Universal Studios Japan (Osaka, Japan). Many thanks to the &J team for this opportunity, to my friends and family for their unwavering support, and to Mrs. Ramirez for igniting the spark of possibility in me. @jourdan.ibe

JOSH JORDAN (Richard, u/s Romeo, u/s Shakespeare). Josh (JJ) is an actor, singer/songwriter, and choreographer from Nashville, TN. When not perform-

ing he loves filmmaking and exploring nature. Proud Belmont Grad. Much love to the C12 team, Dave and Alyssa, Sierra, and the fam. LUKE 12:27

NICOLE LAMB (Margaret, Swing, u/s Anne). National Tour: Aladdin (u/s Jasmine, Swing). Off-Broadway: Relapse. Other: SIX on NCL Bliss (K Howard), Junie B. Jones (Junie B.). TV/Film: “The First Lady” (Showtime), “Legacies” (The CW), “Son of the South” (Amazon). Many thanks to creative/casting teams. Love to God, my amazing family, CTG, and Lynne. @coleylamb

YOSHI MAYSONET (Dion) is a professional dancer. They performed with the company of & Juliet on “America’s Got Talent”, and with Meghan Trainor on “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon” and “The Drew Barrymore Show.” This past year they finished touring with iLuminate as a principal character. They are excited to be sharing this story and the stage with their cast members.

USMAN ALI MUGHAL (Lord Capulet, Sly, Bouncer, u/s Lance). Broadway: Life of Pi. Regional: American Rep, The Old Globe, Signature Theatre, Transcendence Theatre, Cortland Rep. Film/TV: “Wonder Woman 1984”, “Kringle Time”, “Heather Has Four Moms”. BFA MT Ithaca College. I’m nothing without my Ammi. Abbas, Ayaan, & Aydin made me the role model I always dreamt of being. @usman.ali.mughal

JAYDON NGET (Kempe, Swing, u/s François, u/s Romeo). He/him. Jaydon is ecstatic to join this electrifying company! Houston native and proud Asian American artist. Baylor University Graduate. Big thanks to the & Juliet team and Amy Lord with @eristalentagency. Infinite love to Mom, Pop, Lauryn, Haylie, Rachel, family, and friends. @jaydonnget jaydonnget.com

KYRA SMITH (Titania, Swing, Assistant Dance Captain). She/her. Kyra is going to get to all 50 states soon. Like next week? Mean Girls 1st National Tour, Aladdin National Tour, Soft Power (The Public). The Price Group. Point Park University. @kyra.l.smith

FRANCISCO THURSTON (Cuthbert, Swing, u/s Lance, Dance Captain). National Tours: Chicago (u/s Billy Flynn), A Chorus Line (Al Deluca), Summer: The Donna Summer Musical (Ensemble/Dance Captain). Regional: In The Heights (MUNY), On Your Feet!, The Wizard of Oz (KC Starlight).

Edge Performing Arts Center graduate. Thanks to CTG, Ed, all mi familia and this team for their support! @itsfranciscoofficial

MAX MARTIN (Music & Lyrics/ Producer). Along with various collaborators, Max has created some of the biggest hits that span over two and a half decades. His musical awards include The Polar Music Prize, five Grammy Awards (including Producer of the Year) and the ASCAP Songwriter of the Year, which he was awarded 11 times. A prolific songwriter, he is only second to Paul McCartney with number one U.S. singles. Most recently he was inducted in the Songwriters Hall of Fame. & Juliet is his first musical production. Max is not just a musical collaborator with his extensive catalog, but serves as producer overseeing all aspects of the development.

DAVID WEST READ (Book) is an Emmy and Golden Globe-winning and Tony-nominated writer and producer. He is the creator and showrunner of the Apple TV+ series “The Big Door Prize,” as well as an upcoming Apple TV+ comedy series that re-teams Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson. He previously served as a writer and executive producer of the critically acclaimed TV series “Schitt’s Creek.” Other works includes the new Roy Orbison musical In Dreams, the Broadway comedy The Performers and the Off-Broadway drama The Dream of the Burning Boy (Outer Critics and Drama League nominations). David is a graduate of the Juilliard School and NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

LUKE SHEPPARD (Director). West End: & Juliet (three Olivier Awards), The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole (Evening Standard Award Best Musical nomination), In the Heights (three Olivier Awards). Off West End: My Son’s a Queer But What Can You Do? (WhatsOnStage Award for Best Off West End Production), Working, Casa Valentina, Next Fall. Regional: Rent (WhatsOnStage Award for Best Regional Production), Spring Awakening; What’s New Pussycat?; Billionaire Boy (UK Theatre Award for Best Production for Children); Peter and the Starcatcher. lukesheppard.co.uk

JENNIFER WEBER (Choreographer). Broadway/West End/International: & Juliet (Tony and Olivier Award nominations), KPOP (Tony Award nomination). Off-Broadway: KPOP (Ars Nova, Lortel nomination), Teenage Dick

(The Public), Cruel Intentions (LPR/ Tour). Regional: American Idiot (CTG/ Deaf West), Take the Lead (Paper Mill Playhouse, 2025), Kane & Able (Theater Orb, Tokyo, 2025). Film: Disney’s Zombies 2, While You Were Gone (Emmy win). Co-creator, director and choreographer of The Hip Hop Nutcracker (annual tour, Emmywinning PBS Special, Disney+ film). @jenniferwebernyc

BILL SHERMAN (Music Supervisor, Orchestrator & Arranger) is a Tony, Grammy and Emmy Award-winning composer and producer best known for his work on In the Heights, Sesame Street and Hamilton. He is the executive music producer for the film adaptation of In the Heights and tick, tick… BOOM! and is in production on “Jam Van,” a show he created for YouTube Kids. Love to Maya, Luna, Stella, Olivia and Autumn.

SOUTRA GILMOUR (Set Designer). Theatre includes Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Pinter at the Pinter, Evita, Timon of Athens, Guys and Dolls, Knives in Hens, Inadmissible Evidence, Piaf, Apologia, The Guards at the Taj, Pitchfork Disney, Killer, Twelfth Night, Les Blancs, Antigone, I See You, The Pride, Assassins, Merrily…, Bull, Reasons To Be Happy, The Crucible, …Virginia Woolf?, The Caretaker, The Commitments, From Here to Eternity, The Lover and The Collection

PALOMA YOUNG (Costume Designer). Broadway: Peter and the Starcatcher (Tony Award); Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 (Tony nomination), Bandstand (Drama Desk nomination); The Notebook, Lempicka, Lobby Hero; Time and the Conways West End: & Juliet (Olivier nomination). Off-Broadway: Natasha, Pierre... (Lortel Award; Drama Desk nomination); Alice by Heart (Lortel Award); Moscow, Moscow, Moscow, Moscow, Moscow, Moscow; Preludes; Fly by Night.

HOWARD HUDSON ( Lighting Designer). He/him. West End credits include Starlight Express, A Chorus Line, & Juliet, Strictly Ballroom, Just For One Day, The Little Big Things, Orlando, 9 to 5, In the Heights, Romeo & Juliet, La Cage Aux Folles, On The Town, The Little Shop of Horrors. Tony Award and Oliver Award nominee for & Juliet. Winner of the WhatsOnStage Award for & Juliet. howardhudson.co.uk

GARETH OWEN (Sound Designer). Multiple Tony and Olivier-winning sound designer. Over 100 different

musicals worldwide. Currently on Broadway: MJ: The Musical, Hell’s Kitchen, Back to the Future, & Juliet. Currently in the West End: The Devil Wears Prada, Starlight Express, Back to the Future, Mamma Mia the Party, MJ: The Musical. @garethowensound

ANDRZEJ GOULDING (Video & Projection Designer). Designs include; Starlight Express, Life of Pi, Just For One Day, The Drifters Girl, & Juliet, Message in a Bottle (West End); People, Places and Things (St Ann’s Warehouse); 42 Balloons (Lowry, Manchester); Henry V, Coriolanus (Donmar Warehouse); Groundhog Day, Life Of Pi (Broadway); The Da Vinci Code (Ogunquit); Burn (Joyce Theatre); The Machine (The Armoury).

J. JARED JANAS (Wig, Hair, and Makeup Design). Select Broadway: Our Town, Once Upon a Mattress, Prayer for the French Republic, Purlie Victorious, Good Night, Oscar, Sweeney Todd…, Ohio State Murders, Kimberly Akimbo, How I Learned to Drive, American Buffalo, Frankie and Johnny…, Bandstand, Indecent, Sunset Boulevard, The Visit, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, Motown, Peter and the Starcatcher, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess.

ANDRE CERULLO (Music Director) has previously been Music Director for 4 companies of Hamilton worldwide (Los Angeles, US & International Tours) and Associate Music Director for Kinky Boots (Hollywood Bowl), Pippin (US Tour/Tokyo), and West Side Story (North American Tour). Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle award winner. Boston Conservatory salutatorian. Much love to his wonderful parents and adorable terrier.

DOMINIC FALLACARO ( Additional Arrangements & Orchestrations) is a Grammy Award-winning and Emmynominated producer, composer and multi-instrumentalist based in Brooklyn. Film and TV credits include In the Heights, tick, tick…BOOM!, “Sesame Street” and “ Shortwave.” When not on stage, he’s on his bike. Much love to Abby and George.

HALEY BENNETT (Associate Music Supervisor) Broadway: & Juliet, Diana, Come From Away, Once on This Island, Escape to Margaritaville, Dear Evan Hansen, Anastasia, Bandstand, Paramour, Finding Neverland, Pippin, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess. Film/ TV: “Schmigadoon!”, “Jesus Christ Superstar Live!”, “Peter Pan Live!”. Music Supervisor/Coordinator for

various NBCUniversal projects & Broadway cast recordings. BA in Psychology, Harvard University. @haleybmusic

C12 Casting (Casting). Broadway: Tammy Faye, The Roommate, The Great Gatsby, Gutenberg, & Juliet, Shucked, Moulin Rouge!, Christmas Carol, Good Night Oscar, Book of Mormon, Play That Goes Wrong, Jagged Little Pill, Peter Pan Goes Wrong, Trouble in Mind, Caroline, or Change, Sunday in the Park with George, Beautiful.

MICHAEL AARONS ( Music Coordinator). Radio City Christmas Spectacular. Broadway: Swept Away, Tammy Faye, Sunset Blvd, & Juliet, Moulin Rouge!, Hamilton, Aladdin. Upcoming Broadway: Boop!, Smash, Pirates of Penzance. Off- Broadway: Little Shop of Horrors. Current tours: Hamilton, & Juliet, Aladdin, Frozen, Company, Mamma Mia!, Moulin Rouge!, The Wiz. www.m2music.nyc

SUSANNA WOLK ( Associate Director). Tour director: Waitress second national. Broadway (as associate/ assistant): Waitress, Choir Boy, Finding Neverland, Lobby Hero, Significant Other. Recent directing: In Emily’s Words (Wharton Center); In Sisters We Trust, Leaving Eden (NYMF, Best Musical); Sex Object (PIT); “A New Chapter.” BA, Harvard. @susannawolk susanna-wolk.com

JOEL ROSEN (Production Stage Manager). Tours: Hadestown, Beautiful - The Carole King Musical, Avenue Q, Billy Elliot, White Christmas, In The Heights, Shrek, Flashdance, Dirty Dancing, Cheers Live. Broadway: How The Grinch Stole Christmas!, Imaginary Friends. Off Broadway: Reasons to be Happy, Fat Pig, The Exonerated; Regional: The Color Purple; Over 30 shows Old Globe Theatre, San Diego.

ANNELISE CASTLEBERRY (Stage Manager) is thrilled to be part of the first national tour of & Juliet. Broadway: Cirque du Soleil Paramour, Waitress. National Tours: Hadestown, Beautiful - The Carole King Musical, Pippin, Cheers Live Onstage!, Flashdance, Radio City Christmas Spectacular. Off-Broadway: Carnegie Hall presents Candide, Barrow Street Theatrical’s Sweeney Todd, Sleep No More. @adventures_of_castleberry_finn

CHLOE ROSE SCHWEIZER (Assistant Stage Manager). Broadway: Take Me Out, Shucked. National Tour: Mamma Mia 25th Anniversary, A Christmas Carol (San Francisco). Regional: The Old Globe, TheatreWorks Silicon

Valley, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Theatre Aspen. Technical Credits: The Twenty-Sided Tavern, Fendi Baguette 25th Anniversary, Manhattan Theatre Club, The Juilliard School, Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Education: UC Santa Cruz.

DENNY DANIELLO (Company Manager). National Tours: Hadestown, Anastasia, The Humans, Cabaret, Cinderella, Anything Goes, West Side Story, Grease, The Drowsy Chaperone, Sweet Charity, Little Women, Chicago, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Fiddler on the Roof, A Chorus Line. For everyone who will learn there really is life after their Romeo.

JUNIPER STREET PRODUCTIONS

(Production Management) formed in 1998, JSP has managed more than 100 Broadway, Off-Broadway and national tours. Currently: Big Gay Jamboree, Death Becomes Her, Elf, Harry Potter, Hell’s Kitchen, Kimberly Akimbo, MJ The Musical, Moulin Rouge, Once Upon A Mattress, Romeo & Juliet, Shucked, Some Like It Hot, Stereophonic, The Great Gatsby, The Outsiders, The Roommate, Water for Elephants. juniperstreet.com

RCI THEATRICALS (General Manager)

Current and recent productions include & Juliet (Broadway & tour), Hadestown (Broadway and tour), Gypsy, Our Town, The Heart of Hock & Roll, Spamalot, Shucked (Broadway & tour), Harmony, All the Devils Are Here, Jagged Little Pill (Broadway and tour), Pictures From Home, A Soldier’s Play (tour), Ohio State Murders, A Christmas Carol, Take Me Out, American Buffalo, The Minutes, Ain’t Too Proud, The Inheritance, Oklahoma! (Broadway and tour), Anastasia rcitheatricals.com

BOND THEATRICAL (Tour Booking, Marketing & Publicity) is an independently-owned theatrical booking, marketing and publicity company representing award-winning Broadway shows and live entertainment properties. BOND connects artists and audiences by forming strategic, authentic and profitable partnerships between producers and presenters across North America. For a complete list of current projects, please visit BondTheatrical.com

TIM HEADINGTON (Producer) has been involved in all facets of the entertainment business, financing and producing such films as Nathan Silver’s Between the Temples and the Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All at Once

Tim is one of the originating producers for & Juliet, which premiered on the West End in 2019. He also serves as producer on & Juliet for Australia and other territories. He co-founded the Headington Institute which provides care and resiliency training for caregivers worldwide.

THERESA STEELE PAGE (Producer). The principal at Ley Line Entertainment, Theresa oversees film, theatre and television projects. Releases include Between the Temples and Everything Everywhere All at Once. Theresa is one of the originating producers of & Juliet, which premiered on the West End. She will also serve as producer in Australia and other territories. A music industry veteran, she was instrumental in overseeing the careers of many internationally recognized artists.

LEY LINE

ENTERTAINMENT

(Producer). Founded by Tim Headington and Theresa Steele Page, Ley Line Entertainment’s credits include Nathan Silver’s Between the Temples; the Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All at Once; a documentary on Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys entitled Long Promised Road; and the original smash hit musical & Juliet

JENNY PETERSSON (Producer) is a record and music publishing executive. Having begun her career at Jive/Zomba Records and Cheiron in Stockholm, she later became one of the founders of MXM Productions.

MARTIN DODD (Producer) is a longtime music business executive.

EVA PRICE (Producer/Executive Producer). She/her. Eva is an NYCLU/ ACLU honoree and a Tony and Olivier Award-winning producer. Her productions have garnered 6 Olivier Awards, 2 Grammy Awards, 2 Emmy Awards, and 19 Tony Awards. Select credits include & Juliet; Titanique; The Hip Hop Nutcracker (Touring Live Show, Disney +), Jagged Little Pill; Oklahoma! Upcoming: Redwood (Broadway); Take the Lead (Paper Mill Playhouse). She has also produced solo shows/ concerts with The Temptations & The Four Tops, Kathy Griffin, Lewis Black, Colin Quinn, Hershey Felder and many more.

LUKASZ GOTTWALD (Producer). With 40 #1s, Grammy-winning producer and songwriter Dr. Luke’s hits have defined music’s modern era as he continues to push pop forward. In addition to helming career-defining hits for music’s most iconic names, he

is also an entrepreneur and innovator. He founded powerhouse publishing company Prescription Songs and hit labels Kemosabe and Amigo, and conceived and founded Core Water.

42ND.CLUB (Producer) — is a seventime Tony Award-winning network of Broadway producers and investors. Productions include Hadestown, Moulin Rouge!, Smash, Operation Mincemeat, Beetlejuice, Anastasia, Waitress, and many others. In development: Alice in Neverland. Principals include Phil & Claire Kenny, Tom McGrath and Marc Hershberg. 42nd. club

INDEPENDENT PRESENTERS

NETWORK (Producer) is a consortium of over 30 leading presenters of touring Broadway shows in the US, UK and Asia. Recent and upcoming productions: The Outsiders, Hell’s Kitchen, & Juliet, Some Like It Hot, The Notebook, The Devil Wears Prada, Mrs. Doubtfire, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Moulin Rouge!, Hadestown and Dear Evan Hansen

JACK LANE (Producer). Threetime Tony Award Winner for Fun Home, The Humans, and Company Tony nominated for Peter and The Starcatcher, The Prom, & Juliet, and Water For Elephants. Upcoming: Sunset Boulevard and The Queen Of Versailles. Love to Michael and deep respect and solidarity to all the coproducers in our business.

LIBRARY COMPANY (Producer). A worldwide live entertainment company based in Seoul, Korea. The Library Company produces theatrical productions, live concerts, films and television series. Library Company’s investments include new theatrical productions on Broadway and the West End.

SHELLBACK (Producer). Former metalhead from Karlshamn, Sweden, who’s been a frequent collaborator with Max since 2007.

SHIVHANS PICTURES (Producer). Founded by producer Shivani Rawat, ShivHan Pictures is a production and finance company creating unique and compelling feature films, television and theatre. ShivHans’ past projects include The Ice Road, The Trial of the Chicago 7, Captain Fantastic and Trumbo

SING OUT, LOUISE! (Producer). Lorenzo Thione, Jay Kuo, Joey Monda. Broadway: Hadestown ( Tony), The Notebook, Days of Wine & Roses,

Mrs. Doubtfire, The Inheritance (Tony), Slave Play (Tony nom), The Cher Show, The New One, Allegiance, Catch Me (Tony nom), American Idiot (Tony nom). London: Allegiance. In development: Indigo. Broadway films: Allegiance, Bandstand. SingOutLouise. Broadway

KIM SZARZYNSKI (Producer). As a member of the legal team at Headington Companies for over a decade (most recently as general counsel), Kim has been honored to work on a multitude of entertainment projects, and is thrilled to now be a co-producer of & Juliet. Special thanks to Jonathan, Royce, Jeffrey and Arlo.

TAYLOR/RIEGLER (Producer). Jason Taylor is a producer of film/television/ Broadway, including the upcoming film Monument, X-Men, “Legion,” 2067, and Sissy. This is his second Broadway tour after 15 Tony-nominated Jagged Little Pill. Markus Riegler is a Las Vegas-based music producer. Both are incredibly proud of the team.

TENENBAUM-KEYES (Producer). Entrepreneur Howard Tenenbaum is a lover of the theatre and the arts, who in addition to being an active member of the Geffen Playhouse board, most recently co-produced Mr. Saturday Night and Jagged Little Pill on Broadway as well as the JLP national tour. Howard Keyes is thrilled to be making his Broadway debut with & Juliet

BARRY WEISS (Producer) is a record executive and longtime colleague of Max Martin. Currently co-founder of Records, a Sony Music label venture. He’s been instrumental in developing many Grammy-winning global superstars. Previously at Jive Records as CEO/president and later chairman/ CEO of RCA/Jive, before leading Universal Music’s East Coast labels.

JOHN GORE

ORGANIZATION

(Producer) is the leading presenter, distributor, and marketer of Broadway theatre worldwide. Under the supervision of 22-time Tony-winning producer John Gore (Chairman and CEO), the family of companies includes Broadway Across America and Broadway.com. Productions include: MJ, Moulin Rouge!, & Juliet, The Outsiders, Hell’s Kitchen, Stereophonic, Suffs.

Tour Booking, Marketing & Publicity Office

GENERAL MANAGEMENT

RCI THEATRICALS

David R. Richards

Joe Christopher Danielle Karliner Naish

Beverly Edwards Kevin Greene Steve Hohne

Justin Black Kyle Bonder Gabrielle Johnson-Nieporent

Alexander Parra Georgina Ratnatunga Megan Ringeling

Bradley Baumhover Allison Lehman Christian Palomares Marissa Parrott Sarah Shutt

COMPANY MANAGER

DENNY DANIELLO

Assistant Company Manager David Haines

TOUR BOOKING, MARKETING & PUBLICITY BOND THEATRICAL bondtheatrical.com

TOUR BOOKING

Temah Higgins Mollie Mann

Wendy Roberts

Madison St. Amour Laura Rizzo Jesse Daniels Nilesha Alexander Kolten Bell

TOUR MARKETING & PUBLICITY

DJ Martin

Marc Viscardi

Steph Kelleher

Bridget Gross

PR CONSULTATION grapevine public relations

Molly Barnett Chelsea Nachman

Amanda Marie Miller

PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT

JUNIPER STREET PRODUCTIONS

Hillary Blanken Guy Kwan Laura Zamsky

Ana Rose Greene Victoria Bullard Ross Leonard

Sadie Alisa Hannah Wilson Abby Filiaggi

Carolyn Bonaccorsi Chris Childs Burkett Horrigan Kara Kennedy Z Zurovitch

CASTING C12 CASTING

Carrie Gardner Stephen Kopel Jillian Cimini

Neal Buckley Rayshaun Sandlin Sujotta Pace

ASSOCIATE GENERAL MANAGER KYLE BONDER

PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR DAVID LOBER

PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER JOEL ROSEN

Stage Manager Annelise Castleberry

Assistant Stage Manager Chloe Rose Schweizer

Associate Director Susanna Wolk

International Associate Choreographer Josh Baker

Assistant Choreographer Romy Vuksan, Casie “Tynee” Goshow

Dance Captain Francisco Thurston

Assistant Dance Captain Kyra Smith

Associate Scenic Designers Owen Phillips, Brian Webb

Scenic Typography Artist ................................. Vic Lee

Associate Costume Designer Ashley Rose Horton

Assistant Costume Designers Sydney Gallas, Justin Hall

Associate Lighting Designers Jessica Creager, Will Elphingstone

Assistant Lighting Designer Amanda Fisk

Moving Light Programmer Paul Toben

Associate Sound Design Madox Herwig, Lauren Smith

Associate Video Design, Video Programmer Dan Trenchard

DMC/Coordinator Nicole Montgomery

Costume Intern HanJie Chow

Associate Hair/Wig & Makeup Designer Tony Lauro

Special Effects Consultant Markus Maurette

Production Carpenter Fred Gallo

Production Electrician Kevin Barry

Associate Production Electricians Barb Bartel, Jeff Brewer

U.K. Originating Props Chris Marcus

Production Sound Phil Lojo, Simon Matthews

Production Video Asher Robinson, Kim Caldwell

Production Props JR Goodman, Ray Wetmore

Associate Production Props Maddie Bucci

Head Carpenter David “Pfish” Terry

Assistant Carpenter Sarah Walker

Flyman Chee M.F. Lee

Head Electrician Mitchell Girgasky

Assistant Electrician, Deck Jordan Mitchell

Assistant Electrician, Followspot Michael Schulz

Head Props Nikki Lalonde

Assistant Props Kelly Lasley

Head Sound Zachary R. Ireson

Assistant Sound Madox Herwig

Wardrobe Supervisor Virginia Phillips

Assistant Wardrobe Supervisor Feliciano “Fez” Gonzales

Hair / Makeup Supervisor Amber Moldrem

Production Assistants Gabriella Garcia, Brillian Qi-Bell

Comptroller Steve Hohne, Alexander Parra

RCI Theatricals Interns Genevieve Bellavance, Matthew Guerber, Rachel Sacks

BOND Theatrical/

Jenny Bates, Melissa Cohen, Alexandra De La Cerda, Caroline Frawley, Ayanna Jernigan, Tony Joy, Deborah Mann, Harrison Mootoo, Scotland Newton, Elisabeth Reyes, Linda J. Stewart

Advertising and Marketing: Broadway AKA/ Elizabeth Furze, Miky Wolf, Amanda Blackman, Robert Jones, Kathryn Rickman, Kelli McGurk, Alivia Nosrati, Sam McMenamin, Kevin Burke, Deena Zucker, Joe Reed, Sarah Jane Arnegger, Jenna Rich, Grace Aki, Nick Bosanko, Chloe Lind, Megan Warshofsky, Jessica Walters

Global Marketing Director Tiffany Phillips Maxwell

Global Brand Partnerships Two Dog Circus

Gender & Belonging Partner Maybe Burke

DEI & Culture Partner Tiffanie Claude Onwuachi

Physical Therapy Neurosport Physical Therapy

Physical Therapist Amy Bousquet, PT, DPT, ATC

Banking City National Bank, Marian Tejada

Insurance DeWitt Stern Group Inc./ Peter Shoemaker & Anthony Pittari

Accountant Withum Smith + Brown/Robert Fried, CPA, Karen Kowgios, CPA, Anthony W. Moore, CPA, Scott Bartolf, CPA

Legal Counsel Frankfurt Kurnit Klein + Selz, P.C. Mark A. Merriman

Immigration Counsel Carly B. Wiskoff, Esq.

Payroll Checks & Balances Payroll

Merchandise Creative Goods Merchandise LLC, Stephanie Alejandro

Production Photographer Matthew Murphy/Murphy Made Production Video The Umbrella Rooms

Travel Agent Tzell Travel, Andi Henig

Housing & Ground Transportation Road Concierge/ Lisa Morris, Julia Murphy, Brandon Jones

MEP

Eva Price Carl Flanigan Mason Huse Des’ree Brown

Jimmy Wilson Corbin McConnell Tundi Gaspar Avram Freedberg MaryBeth Dale

CREDITS

Scenery by PRG-Scenic Technologies, New Windsor. Scenery and show control and scenic motion control featuring Stage Command Systems by PRG-Scenic Technologies, New Windsor, NY, NY; Souvenir Scenic Studios, London UK; Lamp & Pencil, Stratford UK; and Splinter Scenery, Manchester UK. Additional scenery and scenic painting by Daedalus Design, Brooklyn NY. Lighting equipment from PRG Broadway. Sound and Video equipment from Sound Yonkers, Associates, NY. Props by Marcus Hall Props, London, UK; More Good Productions, Hamden CT; BrenBri Properties, Little Falls, NJ; Q1 Lighting & Scenic, Wilkes-Barre, PA; River of Dreams, Nanticoke, PA. Daedalus Design, Brooklyn, NY. Set electrics by Lamp and Pencil, UK. Costumes by Parsons-Meares, Ltd.; Bethany Joy Costumes, Inc.; Hero Fabrications, LLC; Jennifer Love Costumes; Arel Studio Inc.; Eric Winterling, Inc.; Sam Brooks; Will Skeet.

Additional costumes by Period Corsets, Jane’s Corsets. Custom boots by LaDuca Shoes. Millinery by Arnold S. Levine, Inc. Specialty crafts by Juliane Kroboth, Robert Allsopp, Aaron Keppel. Custom embroidery by Jenny King Embroidery. Custom dyeing and printing by Dyenamix, Inc. Rehearsed at New 42nd Street Studios.

SPECIAL THANKS

Rebecca Quigley; Zareen Walker; Lydia Hardiman; The. John Gray, Lisa Humber, Adam Tripp; Jackie Morgan; Jon Wing; Megan Joiner; Tom Benson; Emma Ducket; Nuri Chang; Charli Unwin; Joey Pocket, Brian Littrell, Kristian Lundin, Max Martin, Andreas Carlsson, Herbie Crichlow, Claude Kelly, Henry Walter, Jessica Cornish, Lukasz Gottwald, Robyn, Alan Grigg, Benjamin Levin, Kesha Serbert, Klas Ahlund, Dido Armstrong, Rami Yacoub, Demetria Lovato, Ilya Salmanzadeh, Savan Kotecha, Anton Zaslavski, Bonnie McKee, Katy Perry, Cathy Dennis, Jon Bon Jovi, Richard Sambora, Ali Payami, Tove Lo, Alecia Moore, Johan Schuster, David West Read, Peter Svensson, Amelia Kelly, Abel Tesfaye, Ariana Grande, Kristian Lundin, Denniz PoP, Lisa Miskovsky, Justin Timberlake, Oscar Holter.

MUSIC PUBLISHER CREDITS

“Larger Than Life” Max Martin, Kristian Lundin, Brian Littrell. MXM Music AB administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (STIM), Maratone AB administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (ASCAP), Universal Music – Z Tunes LLC and B-Rok Publishing. All rights for B-Rok Publishing controlled and administered by Universal Music – Z Tunes LLC (ASCAP). “I Want It That Way” Max Martin, Andreas Carlsson. MXM Music AB administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (STIM), Maratone AB administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (STIM). “…Baby One More Time” Max Martin. MXM Music AB administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (STIM). “Domino” Max Martin, Jessica Cornish, Lukasz Gottwalk, Henry Walter, Claude Kelly. MXM Music administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (STIM), Sony/ATV Tunes LLC (ASCAP) o/b/o Sony/ATV Music Publishing (UK) Limited (PRS)/Prescription Songs administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (ASCAP), Cirkut Breaker LLC/ Prescription Songs administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (ASCAP), Studio Beast Music and WarnerTamerlane Publishing Corp. All rights on behalf of itself and Studio Beast Music administered by WarnerTamerlane Publishing Corp. (BMI). “Show Me Love” Max Martin, Robyn Cheiron. Songs administered by Universal Music Publ. MGB Scandinavia (STIM), Robynsongs administered by Universal Music Publ. MGB Scandinavia (STIM). “Blow” Max Martin, Benjamin Levin, Allan Grigg, Lukasz Gottwalk, Klas Åhlund, Kesha Serbert. MXM Music AB administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (STIM), Matza Ball Music. All rights reserved and administered by Downtown Music Publishing LLC/Where Da Kasz At administered by Songs of Kobalt Music Publishing (BMI), Prescription Songs/Kobalt Music Copyrights SARL administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (ASCAP), Kasz Money Publishing administered by Kobalt Songs

MAX MARTIN

IS NOW THE MUSIC PRODUCER WITH THE MOST #1 HITS OF ALL TIME

his 27th #1 as a songwriter. Congrats to our Shakespeare of Pop!

1996 …BABY ONE MORE TIME BRITNEY SPEARS

2000 IT’S GONNA BE ME NSYNC

2008 I KISSED A GIRL KATY PERRY

2008 SO WHAT P!NK

2009

2009 3 BRITNEY SPEARS

2010 CALIFORNIA GURLS KATY PERRY FT. SNOOP DOGG

2010 TEENAGE DREAM KATY PERRY

2010 RAISE YOUR GLASS P!NK

2011 HOLD IT AGAINST ME BRITNEY SPEARS

2011 E.T. KATY PERRY

2011 LAST FRIDAY NIGHT (T.G.I.F.) KATY PERRY

2012 PART OF ME KATY PERRY

2012 WE ARE NEVER EVER GETTING BACK TOGETHER TAYLOR SWIFT

2012 ONE MORE NIGHT MAROON 5 2013 ROAR KATY PERRY 2013 DARK HORSE KATY PERRY 2014 SHAKE IT OFF TAYLOR SWIFT 2014 BLANK SPACE TAYLOR SWIFT 2015 BAD BLOOD TAYLOR SWIFT 2015 CAN’T FEEL MY FACE THE WEEKND 2016 CAN’T STOP THE FEELING! JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE

2019 BLINDING LIGHTS THE WEEKND

2021 SAVE YOUR TEARS THE WEEKND

2021 MY UNIVERSE COLDPLAY & BTS

2024 YES, AND? ARIANA GRANDE

2024 WE CAN’T BE FRIENDS ARIANA GRANDE

Max’s collab with Ariana Grande on her Eternal Sunshine album gave him his history-making 25th Billboard #1 as a producer and

Music Publishing (ASCAP), Songs Music Publishing MGB Scandinavia. All rights for the US and Canada, administered by Universal Music – MGB Songs (STIM), Dynamite Cop Music/Where da Kasz At administered by Songs of Kobalt Music Publishing (SESAC). “I’m Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman” Max Martin, Rami Yacoub, Dido Armstrong. MXM Music administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (STIM), Maratone AB administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (STIM), Warner/Chappell Music Ltd. All rights on behalf of Warner/Chappell Music Ltd. Administered by WX Music Corp. (PRS). “Overprotected” Max Martin, Rami Yacoub. MXM Music AB administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (STIM), Maratone AB administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (STIM). “Confident” Max Martin, Savan Kotcha, Ilya Salmanzadeh, Demetria Lovato. MXM Music AB administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (STIM), BMG Gold Songs/MXM Music AB administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (ASCAP), Wolf Cousins and Warner/Chappell Music Scandinavia AB. All rights on behalf of Wolf Cousins and Warner/Chappell Music Scandinavia AB administered by WC Music Corp (STIM), DDLovato Music. All rights for DDLovato Music administered by Universal Music Corp. (ASCAP). “Teenage Dream” Max Martin, Katy Perry, Lukasz Gottwald, Bonnie McKee, Benjamin Levin. MXM Music AB administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (STIM), When I’m Rich You’ll Be My Bitch. All rights on behalf of When I’m Rich You’ll Be My Bitch administered by WC Music Corp./ Prescription Songs Music Publishing (ASCAP), Kasz Money Publishing (ASCAP), Bonnie McKee Music/Songs of Pulse (BMI)/Where Da Kasz At/Kobalt Music Copyrights SARL administered by Songs of Kobalt Music Publishing (BMI), Matza Ball Music. All rights reserved and administered by Downtown Music Publishing LLC./Where Da Kasz At administered by Songs of Kobalt Music Publishing (BMI). “Break Free” Max Martin, Savan Kotcha, Anton Zaslavski. MXM Music AB administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (STIM), BMG Gold Songs/MXM Music AB administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (ASCAP), Zedd Music Empire. All Rights for Zedd Music Empire administered by Universal Music Corp. (ASCAP). “Oops!…I Did It Again” Max Martin, Rami Yacoub MXM Music AB administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (STIM), Universal Music Publishing Int. Ltd. All rights for the US and Canada, administered by Universal Music – Z Tunes LLC. (STIM). “I Kissed a Girl” Max Martin, Katy Perry, Lukasz Gottwald, Cathy Dennis. MXM Music AB administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (STIM), When I’m Rich You’ll Be My Bitch. All rights on behalf of When I’m Rich You’ll Be My Bitch administered by WC Music Corp./ Prescription Songs administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (ASCAP), EMI Blackwood Music Inc. (BMI) o/b/o Toxic Songs LTD/EMI Publishing LTD (PRS). “It’s My Life” Max Martin, Jon Bon Jovi, Richard Sambora. MXM Music AB administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (STIM), Universal Music Publishing. All rights for the US and Canada, administered by Universal Music (GMR), Aggressive Music/Sony/ATV Tunes LLC (ASCAP). “Love Me Like You Do” Max Martin, Savan Kotecha, Ilya Salmanzadeh, Ali Payami, Tove Lo. MXM Music AB administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (STIM), BMG Gold Songs/MXM Music AB administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (ASCAP), Wolf Cousins and Warner/ Chappell Music Scandinavia AB. All rights on behalf of Wolf Cousins and Warner/Chappell Music Scandinavia AB administered by WC Music Corp (STIM), Universal Pictures Music. All rights for Universal Pictures Music administered by Universal Music Corp. (ASCAP). “Since U Been Gone” Max Martin, Lukasz Gottwald. MXM Music AB administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (STIM), Kasz Money Publishing administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (ASCAP). “Whataya Want From Me” Max Martin, Shellback, Alecia Moore. MXM Music AB administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (STIM), KMR Music Royalties II SCSp administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (STIM), Pink Inside Publishing/EMI Blackwood Music Inc. (BMI). “One More Try” Max Martin, Savan Kotecha, Peter Svensson, Ilya Salmanzadeh. MXM Music AB administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (STIM), Wolf Cousins and Warner/Chappell Music Scandinavia AB. All rights on behalf of Wolf Cousins and Warner/Chappell Music Scandinavia AB administered by WC Music Corp (STIM). “Problem” Max Martin, Savan Kotecha, Ilya Salmanzadeh, Ariana Grande, Amethyst Amelia Kelly. MXM Music AB administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (STIM), BMG Gold Songs/MXM Music AB administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (ASCAP), Wolf Cousins and Warner/Chappell Music Scandinavia AB. All rights on behalf of Wolf Cousins and Warner/Chappell Music Scandinavia AB administered by WC Music Corp (STIM), Grandarimusic. All rights for Grandarimusic administered by Universal Music Corp. (ASCAP), Grand Hustle Anthems/Sony ATV Allegro (ASCAP). “Can’t Feel My Face” Max Martin, Savan Kotecha, Peter Svensson, Ali Payami, Abel Tesfaye. MXM Music AB administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (STIM), BMG Gold Songs/MXM Music AB administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (ASCAP), MXM Music AB administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (STIM), Wolf Cousins and Warner/ Chappell Music Scandinavia AB. All rights on behalf of Wolf Cousins and Warner/Chappell Music Scandinavia AB administered by WC Music Corp (STIM), KMR Music Royalties II SCSp administered by Kobalt Songs Music

Publishing (SOCAN). “That’s The Way It Is” Max Martin, Kristian Lundin, Andreas Carlsson. MXM Music AB administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (STIM), Maratone AB administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (STIM). “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)” Max Martin, Denniz PoP MXM Music AB administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (STIM), Maratone AB administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (STIM). “As Long As You Love Me” Max Martin. MXM Music AB administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (STIM). “It’s Gonna Be Me” Max Martin, Rami Yacoub, Anadreas Carlsson. MXM Music AB administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (STIM), Universal Music Publishing Int. Ltd. All rights for the US and Canada, administered by Universal Music – Z Tunes LLC. (STIM), Maratone AB administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (STIM). “Shape of My Heart” Max Martin, Rami Yacoub, Lisa Miskovksy. MXM Music AB administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (STIM), Universal Music Publishing Int. Ltd. All rights for the US and Canada, administered by Universal Music – Z Tunes LLC. (STIM), Arti Fact Music Publishing administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (STIM). “Stronger” Max Martin, Rami Yacoub. MXM Music AB administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (STIM), Universal Music Publishing Int. Ltd. All rights for the US and Canada, administered by Universal Music – Z Tunes LLC. (STIM). “Fuckin’ Perfect” Max Martin, Shellback, Alecia Moore. MXM Music AB administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (STIM), KMR Music Royalties II SCSp administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (STIM), Pink Inside Publishing/EMI Blackwood Music Inc. (BMI). “Roar” Max Martin, Katy Perry, Lukasz Gottwald, Bonnie McKee, Benjamin Levin. MXM Music AB administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (STIM), When I’m Rich You’ll Be My Bitch. All rights on behalf of When I’m Rich You’ll Be My Bitch administered by WC Music Corp./Prescription Songs Music Publishing (ASCAP), Kasz Money Publishing (ASCAP), Bonnie McKee Music/Songs of Pulse (BMI)/Where Da Kasz At/Kobalt Music Copyrights SARL administered by Songs of Kobalt Music Publishing (BMI), Matza Ball Music. All rights reserved and administered by Downtown Music Publishing LLC./Where Da Kasz At administered by Songs of Kobalt Music Publishing (BMI). “Can’t Stop the Feeling!” Max Martin, Shellback, Justin Timberlake. MXM Music AB administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (STIM), KMR Music Royalties II SCSp administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (STIM), Universal Music – Z Tunes LLC and Tennman Tunes. All rights for Tennman Tunes controlled and administered by Universal Music – Z Tunes LLC (ASCAP), DWA Songs. All rights for DWA Songs administered by Universal Music Corp. (ASCAP).

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HOW MAX MARTIN SHAPED & JULIET ON ITS ROAD TO BROADWAY

BY GILLIAN RUSSO

TThink you haven’t heard of Max Martin? Think again. You’re more familiar with the Swedish music executive than you know if you’ve heard Britney Spears’s “...Baby One More Time,” Bon Jovi’s “It’s My Life,” The Backstreet Boys’ “I Want It That Way,” or dozens of other chart-toppers the ﬁve-time Grammy Award winner wrote and/or produced over the past three decades. He is, to be fair, a famously private person. And unless they also perform their tunes, songwriters don’t often get public attention for their work. Or, for that matter, dedicated Broadway musicals a la Carole King, ABBA, or Neil Diamond.

But Martin, with an extensive catalog of 250plus songs, has made just as seismic an impact on popular music as any performer. He had the idea to fashion his songs into a musical years ago — and in 2019, that thought became a reality with the world premiere of & Juliet in London. The pop musical has now earned nine Tony nominations, including Best Musical, for its 2022 Broadway transfer.

The & Juliet team has called him the “Shakespeare of pop,” so it ’s fitting that 30 of his songs score a show inspired by a Shakespeare play: Romeo & Juliet. The musical picks up just before that play’s end, when Juliet suddenly decides not to die and instead ditches Verona in search of new life, new friends, and new loves.

Shakespeare’s play has been around centuries longer than Martin’s songs, but those were the true genesis of & Juliet. He remained closely and enthusiastically involved every subsequent step of the way — Tony nominee Betsy Wolfe, who plays Shakespeare’s wife Anne Hathaway, described him as “a kid in a candy store during this whole process.”

The cast and creatives’ excitement to work with Martin, in turn, was mutual, and they shared how Martin’s inﬂuence lives in everything the audience hears. The journey begins in fair Canada, where we lay our scene...

TWO WRITERS, ALIKE IN DIGNITY

Technically, it begins in the Martin family home, where Jenny Petersson, Martin’s wife, said, “We should make a musical,” Martin recalled. “And a long journey ahead started.”

But Martin is an expert songwriter, not a scriptwriter.

“I was insecure about how this is going to [be],” Martin admitted. “I really wanted it to be a great story, not just a bunch of songs — to have a purpose, so to speak.”

One would expect someone with as proliﬁc a career as Martin to take on the job. But it was Canadian writer David West Read — a relatively unknown name who hadn’t won his Emmy Award for “Schitt’s Creek” yet — who came up with the winning idea at the unlikeliest of times.

“I suﬀered a concussion, which worked out well because I couldn’t look at screens or anything, so I was lying in a dark room listening to the playlist [of Martin’s songs],” Read said. “There’s so many songs about heartbreak and young love, and I thought, ‘How do you put a brand to this?’

Because Max Martin wasn’t really known by

anyone, even though he’s the most successful songwriter [after] the Beatles.” (That’s statistically true — only Paul McCartney and John Lennon notched more Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles.)

“So I came up with the idea of Juliet from Romeo & Juliet,” Read continued. “We’re going to repurpose and reinvent these pop songs and it’ll be great, but also reinvent a classic love story.”

His idea won over the production team and Martin. “When he created this story and gave me an example of how the songs could actually work to tell this story, that’s really when it started to come to life,” Martin said.

ARISE, FAIR SOUND

In & Juliet, Juliet ﬁrst enlists her nurse, Angelique, to hit the road with her, but it takes a crew of friends old and new to enliven her adventure. Similarly, West and Martin couldn’t refashion pop songs for the stage alone. Their crew included sound designer Gareth Owen, music director/orchestrator Dominic Fallacaro, and orchestrator/arranger Bill Sherman. (All three are Tony-nominated.)

When asked what convinced them to work on & Juliet, they all had the same answer: Martin. “The possibility of collaborating with the greatest songwriter of the last 25 years on songs that deﬁne your life is impossible to pass up,” Sherman said. Fallacaro similarly called the opportunity a “no-brainer.”

The possibility of collaborating with the greatest songwriter of the last 25 years on songs that deﬁne your life is impossible to pass up.

“I’d never met the guy [before & Juliet], but everyone behind the scenes in the music industry knows he’s a genius,” Owen said. “Then I met him and realised he was nice as well as talented — frankly, between Max, Bill Sherman, and I? Well, it was a bit of a bromance!”

Sherman recalled a different kind of nervousness — not the bromantic kind — defining his and Martin’s first meeting. “Max said two things: ‘If a song is going to be a departure from the original version, go all the way. Don’t half-ass it,’” Sherman remembered.

“The second thing that Max said was, “If it’s not perfect, it goes in the trash.” You can imagine me eight years ago, having no idea what the hell is going on in the world, and the greatest songwriter of our time looks at you dead in the eye in a very humbly Swedish way and goes, ‘If it’s not perfect, it goes in the trash.’ I can safely say that was one of the most terrifying days of my life.”

Having Martin on hand during London and Broadway rehearsals, though, helped ensure the sound of & Juliet was to his liking. “One of the coolest parts about getting this was getting access to the vault of Max,” Fallacaro said. “ We’re not approximating what the synth sounds like. We’re running it past someone who knows exactly what it ’s supposed to sound like.”

“It’s been so fun and rewarding reimagining and bringing some of the greatest songs of our generation onto a theatre stage, and to put a narrative force behind them,” he added in a separate interview. “The challenge of fusing the traditional orchestral and band components of Broadway with the studio ‘pixie dust’ of synthesizers and drum machines was a tremendously rewarding experience.”

“It might not be perfect,” Sherman said of the ﬁnal result, “but it’s pretty damn close.”

— BILL SHERMAN, ORCHESTRATOR/ARRANGER

& JULIET

JUNE 4 – 15

BUELL THEATRE

ASL Interpreted, Audio Described, and Open Captioned performance: June 15 at 2pm

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This article was originally published in 2023 and reprinted with permission from New York Theatre Guide.

(TOP) Rachel Simone Webb and the company of the North American Tour of & JULIET

(BOTTOM) The company of the North American Tour of & JULIET

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Through its partnership with Colorado Gives Day, the bank helped raise more than $54 million for thousands of local charities in 2023 alone, and it directly contributed another $6.1 million to area nonproﬁts as part of its annual giving.

Beyond strengthening the communities it serves, the company’s longterm plan also puts a large emphasis on “Include All,” or ensuring diversity, equity and inclusion are prioritized within and outside of the organization. That’s one of the many reasons FirstBank is proud to partner with the Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA), one of the nation’s largest nonproﬁt theater organizations, for its vision of creating a more connected and inclusive community in Colorado through the arts and theatrical storytelling.

For instance, DCPA’s Women’s Voices Fund, which elevates opportunities for female artists and leaders in theater, aligns perfectly with FirstBank’s mission to drive equity and inclusion for underrepresented groups. The bank’s Women in Leadership and Women in Technology initiatives, for example, are dedicated to developing future women leaders and encouraging interest and advancement in technology careers. Thanks in part to these eﬀorts, more than 50% of FirstBank’s management positions (from supervisor to C-Suite) are held by women.

In addition, the company contributes countless volunteer hours and millions in ﬁnancial support each year to many organizations aimed at closing racial and gender gaps. The bank also deploys multiple business grants to entrepreneurs representing underserved communities, including women-owned, veteran-owned and businesses of color.

FirstBank’s collaboration with the DCPA represents its dedication to fostering a vibrant, creative, and inclusive community. By supporting the arts, FirstBank strengthens the collective identity of Denver, making it a more dynamic place to live and work. Learn more about FirstBank at eﬁrstbank.com. Member FDIC.

PROUD CORPORATE MEMBER OF THE DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

Supporting the DCPA bonds the Turner Morris team by fostering a shared appreciation for creativity and innovation.

TTurner Morris Commercial Rooﬁng is invested in Denver’s rich cultural identity. Stemming from a commitment to the diversity of its employees and the community, TMI appreciates the opportunity to partner in support of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA). As an institution that elevates culture in our city, the DCPA’s unique perspectives and experiences represent values Turner Morris naturally aligns with as a company. Denver distinguishes itself as a city that values creativity and diversity by fostering a vibrant arts scene. TMI has been a business in the Denver community for over 30 years and is thankful to have partnered with the DCPA for the last decade.

Sponsorship of the DCPA is a community investment, and TMI believes that employees’ access to world-class theater is an asset. Turner Morris is proud to allow employees to engage in the theater world. As unexpected as a rooﬁng company championing the arts may seem, TMI sees the partnership with the DCPA as a reﬂection of company values. It is important to balance hard work with cultural enrichment. Supporting the DCPA bonds the Turner Morris team by fostering a shared appreciation for creativity and innovation, qualities shared in arts and industry.

Turner Morris understands that a healthy and vibrant community throughout Denver is crucial to a company’s health. Art is not a luxury but essential to society. By partnering with the DCPA, TMI strives to do its part to ensure the arts thrive in Denver and keep the local community thriving. The magic of live theater is an essential cultural bastion that needs to be enjoyed by future generations.

Turner Morris is a family company that believes in exposing the younger generation to the arts. The quality of performances that the DCPA brings to Denver is impressive, and TMI is committed to supporting it so that this level of excellence can continue to thrive for years to come. Turner Morris is honored to work closely with the DCPA, which aligns closely with the company’s core values of character, competence, and commitment.

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BBrown & Brown Insurance, founded in 1939, is one of the largest independent insurance brokers in the United States. With a strong focus on providing innovative and customized risk management solutions, the company serves a diverse range of clients, including individuals, businesses, and governmental entities. Brown & Brown has been a member of the Denver community for over 20 years, oﬀering a comprehensive suite of services that include property and casualty insurance, employee beneﬁts, and specialty insurance products. Known for its commitment to client service and community involvement, Brown & Brown strives to build long-lasting relationships while fostering a culture of integrity, professionalism, and excellence within the insurance industry.

Brown & Brown recognizes that supporting the arts is not just a philanthropic endeavor; it is an investment in the cultural fabric of our communities. The arts enrich our lives, foster creativity, and provide economic beneﬁts, and Brown & Brown is committed to playing a role in this vital sector. By partnering with establishments like the Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA), Brown & Brown aims to amplify its positive impact through strategic eﬀorts that resonate deeply with its corporate values.

As a proud Corporate Member of the DCPA, Brown & Brown beneﬁts from an engagement that goes beyond mere ﬁnancial support. This membership provides unique opportunities to connect with the arts, fostering a culture of creativity and collaboration within the company. By actively participating in DCPA events and initiatives, Brown & Brown can experience the transformative power of live performances and educational programs, enriching professional lives and enhancing team cohesion.

The DCPA serves as a beacon for creativity and innovation in the arts, drawing talent from across the nation and enriching the local community with diverse performances. Brown & Brown believes that access to the arts is essential for personal and professional growth. Supporting the DCPA aligns with the mission to improve community well-being and create opportunities for engagement in artistic expression. Brown & Brown acknowledges the economic importance of the arts industry, which generates jobs, stimulates local economies, and attracts tourism. Brown & Brown aims to help support the DCPA’s mission of delivering world-class performances, educational initiatives, and community outreach programs.

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GREAT AMERICAN INSURANCE GROUP: A COMPANY YOU CAN COUNT ON

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FFor more than 40 years, Great American Insurance Group has provided insurance solutions to the human and social service marketplace. It was one of the ﬁrst insurance companies to recognize the special needs of these organizations.

The company’s Arts & Cultural program oﬀers speciﬁc coverages to organizations such as museums, theaters, dance studios, and art galleries, which are focused on the creative and cultural aspects that enrich lives and lift spirits. Over the years, Great American Insurance Group has expanded its coverage and services to ensure that its experts can meet the evolving needs of this marketplace.

Our Beginnings

In 1872, accidents and natural disasters meant the end for many businesses. When a need for insurance met a few ambitious German immigrants, the company was born. The ﬁrst customer? A rubber comb factory. Within a few years, Great American Insurance Group became known for paying claims in a timely manner. In fact, after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, it paid out more than $2 million in claims, even to policyholders who didn’t have viable coverage.

Nearly 150 years later, the company continues to protect specialized businesses in more than 30 niche industries. And, it continues to be recognized for ﬁnancial stability. Its lead company, Great American Insurance Company, has received an “A” rating or higher from AM Best for more than 110 years. From that rubber comb factory to today, companies turn to Great American Insurance Group when they need someone who knows their space, shares their priorities, and has the freedom to do what’s right.

The Numbers Tell The Story

o There are over 3,100 property and casualty insurance companies in the United States

o Only 50 are included on the Ward’s 50 List for safety, consistency and performance

o Only 4 have been rated “A” or better by AM Best for over 110 years

o Only 2 are on both lists

o Great American Insurance Company is 1 of the two

DCPA

Janice Sinden President & CEO

Donna Hendricks Executive Assistant, President & CEO

Julie Schumaker Manager, Board Relations

ACCOUNTING & FINANCE

Jane Williams CFAO

Sara Brandenburg Director, Accounting Services

Jennifer Jeﬀrey Director, Financial Planning & Analysis

Kristina Monge Associate Accountant

Rachel Rodriguez Manager, Treasury & Reconciliations

Jennifer Siemers Director, Accounting

BROADWAY & CABARET

John Ekeberg Executive Director

Administration

Ashley Brown Business Manager

Alicia Bruce General Manager

Lisa Prater Operations Manager

Garner Galleria Theatre

Abel Becerra Technical Director

Jason Begin+,

Anna Hookana+ Core Stagehands

DEVELOPMENT

Jamie Clements Vice President

Connor Carlin Associate Director, Major & Planned Gifts

Sarah Darlene Manager, Grants & Reports

Caroline Eppers Manager, Auctions & Partnerships

Kara Erickson-Stiemke Coordinator

Emily Kettlewell Associate Director, Annual Giving

Caitie Maxwell Senior Director, Major Gifts

Marc Ravenhill Director, Donor Relations

Megan Stewart Associate Director, Special Events

EDUCATION & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

Allison Watrous Executive Director

Stuart Barr Technical Director

Leslie Channell Director, Business Operations

Lyndsay Corbett Teaching Artist & Manager, Bobby G

María Corral Director, Community Engagement

Heather Curran Teaching Artist & Manager, Playwriting

Elliot Davis Evening Registrar & Oﬃce Coordinator

Rachel Ducat Executive Assistant & Business Manager

Rya Dyes Registrar & On-Site Class Manager

Gavin Juckette Teaching Artist & Manager, TYA Engagement & Music

Timothy McCracken Head of Acting

Rick Mireles Manager, Community Engagement

David Saphier Teaching Artist & Manager, In-School Programming

Charlotte Talbert Librarian

Rachel Taylor Teaching Artist & Manager, Literary Engagement & Resiliency

Justin WalvoordTeaching Artist & Manager, Shakespeare in the Parking Lot

Samuel Wood Director, Education & Curriculum Development

EVENT SERVICES

Cody Gocio Senior Sales & Event Managers

Stori Heleen-O’Foley Event Technical Manager

Shane Hotle Audio Engineer

David Mandlowitz Video Engineer

Natalia Marroquin, Phil Rohrbach Sales & Event Managers

DCPA TEAM

Tara Miller Event Sales & Operations Director

Brook Nichols Event Technical Director

Kate Olsen Event Sales Coordinator

Benjamin Peitzer Event Technical Lead

Michael Harris, Alex Taylor Lighting Designers

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Lisa Roebuck Vice President For security purposes, the IT team has been omitted.

MARKETING & SALES

Angela Lakin Vice President

Whitney Testa Executive Assistant, Marketing & Broadway

Marketing

Heidi Bosk Associate Director, Press & Promotions, Broadway & Cabaret

Erin Bunyard Senior Digital Strategist

Soﬁa Contreras, Lucas Kreitler Graphic Designers

Brenda Elliott, Paul Koob Senior Graphic Designers

Harper Anne Finch Manager, Social Marketing

TJ Forlenza Copywriter

Claire Graves Director, Produced Programs

Brittany Gutierrez Associate Director, Communications

Linda Horan Program Manager

Jeﬀ Hovorka Director, Sales & Marketing, Broadway & Cabaret

Emma Holst Associate, Content & Communications

Emily Kent Director, Insights & Strategy

Michael Ryan Leuthner Director, Digital Marketing

Emily Lozow Associate Director, Sales & Marketing, Broadway & Cabaret

Kyle Malone Director, Design

Dan McNulty Analyst

Todd Metcalf Media Producer

Hannah Selwyn Manager, Email Marketing

Sergio von Kretschmann Manager, Website

Julie Whelan Manager, Produced Programs

Mikayla Woods Coordinator, Produced Programs

Suzanne Yoe Director, Content & Communications

Ticketing & Audience Services

Jennifer Lopez Director

Jessica Alverson*, Zeah Edmonds*,

Lauren Estes*, Jen Gray*,

Noah Jungferman*, Max McCord*,

Noelle Norris*, Alexander Roy*,

Holly Stigen*, Asheala Tasker, Lily Valdez*,

Bronwen VanOrdstrand*,

Rob Warner* Ticket Agents

Kirsten Anderson*, Scott Lix*, Liz Sieroslawski*,

Greg Swan* Subscription Agents

Jon Collins Manager, Subscription

Katie Davis Manager, VIP Ticketing

D.J. Dennis*, Luke Fish*, Edmund Gurule*,

Lane Randall*, Hayley Solano*,

Sam Stump*, Andrew Sullivan*,

Alfonso Vazquez* Counter/Show Leads

Billy Dutton Associate Director, Operations

Danielle Freeman Manager, Customer Service

Claire Hayes,

Ella Mann Managers, Box Oﬃce

Chris Leech Coordinator, VIP Ticketing

Katie Spanos Associate Director, Subscriber Services

Group Sales

Jessica Bergin Associate Director

Tucker Kamin Manager, Audience Development

Elias Lopez Coordinator

Maddie Young Associate, Education & Group Sales

OFF-CENTER

Charlie Miller Executive Director & Curator

Cat Huck Assistant Operations Manager

Courtney Ozaki Creative Producer

Mike Pingel Operations Manager

OPERATIONS

Sarah Arzberger Administrator

Vincent Bridgers Manager

Adam Busch Analyst

Aaron Chavez Lead

Ruben Cruz, Jordan Latouche Engineers

Simone Gordon Associate Director

Kyle Greufe Senior Analyst

Maria Herwagen Junior Analyst

Brandon LeMarr Manager

Alison Orthel, Tara Perticone Analysts

Joseph Reecher Senior Engineer

Cordelia Taylor Coordinator

PEOPLE & CULTURE

Laura Maresca CPCO

Equity & Organization Culture

Seán Kroll Coordinator

Human Resources

Brian Carter Senior Business Partner

Andrew Guilder HR & Recruiting Specialist

Michaela Johnson Interim Mailroom Assistant

Paul Johnson Manager, Payroll & Compliance

Jocelyn Martinez Business Partner

Kinsey Scholl Manager, Operations

THEATRE COMPANY

Administration

Charles Varin Managing Director

Emily Diaz Business Admin./ Asst. Company Manager

Alex Koszewski Company Manager

Ann Marshall General Manager

Artistic

Chris Coleman Artistic Director

Jessica Eckenrod Artistic Associate

Grady Soapes Artistic Producer & Casting Director

Leean Kim Torske Director, Literary Programs

Madison Cook-Hines Literary Assistant

Costume Crafts

Kevin Copenhaver Director

Chris Campbell Assistant

Costume Shop

Janet MacLeod Director/Design Associate

Meghan Anderson Doyle Design Associate

Katarina Kosmopoulos First Hand

Ingrid Ludeke,

Carolyn Plemitscher Drapers

House Crew

Douglas Taylor+ Supervisor

James Berman+, Forest Fowler+, Dave Mazzeno+, Kyle Moore+, Piper Stormes+, Matt Wagner+ Stagehands

Joseph Price+, Kelley Reznik+ Assistants

Lighting Design

Charles MacLeod Director

Connor Baker+ Production Electrician

Lily Bradford Assistant

Paint Shop

Kristin Hamer MacFarlane Charge Scenic Artist

Melanie Rentschler, Sasha Seaman Scenic Artists

Production

Jeﬀ Giﬀord Director

Julie Brou Administrative Assistant/ Oﬃce Manager

Matthew Campbell Production Manager

Peggy Carey Associate Production Manager

Prop Shop

Meghan Markiewicz Supervisor

Sara Pugh Associate Supervisor

Bennet Goldberg, Georgina Kayes, Ashley Lawler Artisans

Andrew McGlothen Prop Carpenter

Scene Shop

Eric Moore Technical Director

Albert “Stub” Allison, Robert L. Orzolek, Josh Prues Associate Technical Directors

Jeremy Banthoﬀ, Tyler D. Clark, Amy Wynn Pastor, Kyle Scoggins Scenic Technicians

Louis Fernandez III Lead Scenic Technician

Brian “Marco” Markiewicz Lead Carpenter

Scenic Design

Lisa Orzolek Director

Kevin Nelson, Nicholas Renaud Assistants

Sound Design & Technology

Alex Billman Supervisor

Meagan Holdeman+, Timothy Schoeberl+, Dimitri Soto+ Technicians

Elena Martin Associate Supervisor

Stage Management

Anne Jude Supervisor

Corin Davidson, Harper Hadley, Brandon T. Holmes, Kristen O’Connor, Malia Stoner Stage Managers

Anna Cordova, Sam Forrest, Megan Franco Apprentices

Wardrobe

Heidi Echtenkamp Supervisor

Robin Appleton^, Amber Krimbel^, Lauren LaCasse^, Lisa Parsons Wagner^, Nicole Watts^, Kami Williams^ Dressers

Wigs

Diana Ben-Kiki Supervisor

Abby Schmidt^, Marisa Sorce^ Wig Assistants

VENUE OPERATIONS

Glen Lucero Vice President

Merry Davis Financial Manager

Jane Deegan Administrator

Samantha Egle Operations Manager

Kristi Horvath Director of Venue Operations

Facilities

Craig Smith Director

Dwight Barela, Mark Dill, Bryan Faciane, John Howard, Iver Johnson Engineers

Abraham Cervantes, Carmen Molina, Judith Primero Molina, Juan Loya Molina, Blanca Primero Custodians

Michael Kimbrough Manager, Engineering

Brian McClain Manager, Custodial

Patron Experience

Evan Gendreau Associate Director

Kaylyn Kriaski, Leilani Lynch, Aaron McMullen, Stacy Norwood, Wendy Quintana, Valerie Schaefer Assistant Managers

Kelly Breuer, Nora Caley, Amy Howard, Robin Lander, Barbara Pooler, Ayden Smith House Managers

Safety & Security

Quentin Crump Director

Jacquelyne Schmidt Manager, Health & Safety

Timothy Allen, Jodi Benavides Lead Security Oﬃcers

Samara Attridge, David Bright, Erika Carter, Ariana Cuevas, Ethan Kemberlin, Jack Leatherwood, Ian Nelson, Jason Porquis, Zach Stemley, Pamela Winston, Tori Witherspoon Security Specialists

Judy Briggs Front Desk