Applause #91 RiverCenter for the Performing Arts

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2019-2020 PROGRAM GUIDE February - March 2020 | ISSUE NO. 91

IN THIS ISSUE: 21

The Pout-Pout Fish

February 1 | 2:30 PM

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CATS

February 11 & 12 | 7:30 PM

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Escape to Margaritaville

March 19 | 7:30 PM

TABLE OF CONTENTS: 4 Curtain Raisers

70 Board of Trustees

7 RiverCenter Members

70 Administration and Staff

15 RiverCenter Capstone Society

71 Ticket Information

68 Volunteers 1

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A MESSAGE

FROM THE DIRECTOR Welcome to RiverCenter. Whether you are a returning patron or this is your first time at RiverCenter, I am glad that you have chosen to visit and hope that you enjoy your RiverCenter experience.

Starting off a new season is perhaps the most exciting responsibility of my job. RiverCenter staff eagerly anticipate welcoming you to our theatre and the moment that the curtain rises. This season we again present something for everyone. From the tradition that is Fiddler on the Roof and the unstoppable CATS to the Norman S. Easterbrook great music of Carole King, Jimmy Buffet, Executive Director The Coasters, Drifters, and Platters and The Empress of Soul – Gladys Knight; from the excellence of Complexions Contemporary Dance and Pilobolus to the breathtaking grand concert of multiple units of the premier United States Navy Bands ensembles sent to us directly from The Pentagon–and more, we know that you will find something thrilling, something soothing and something that will excite your perspective of our community and world.

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Fiddler on the Roof | Oct. 23 & 24 | 7:30 PM Gladys Knight | Nov. 8 | 7:30 PM The Illusionists–Magic of The Holidays | Nov. 16 | 7:30 PM Pilobolus Shadowland: The New Adventure | Nov. 19 | 7:30 PM Beautiful–The Carole King Musical | Dec. 4 & 5 | 7:30 PM MCoE Band Holiday Concert | Dec. 7 | 7:30 PM | Free!

Cantus Christmas 2019 | Dec. 17 | 7:30 PM Stray Cats’ Lee Rocker | Jan. 16, 2020 | 7:30 PM The Pout-Pout Fish | Feb. 1 | 2:30 PM

In order for RiverCenter to remain relevant to our audiences, it is important that we bring new experiences that are exciting and interesting. At the same time, we revel in the nostalgia of the tried and true classics of the stage for that sense of familiarity. We hope that this season fits the bill for you in as many ways as possible. We could not present the programs that we do without the kind and continuing support of our contributors, both corporate and individual. If you are not already a contributing member of RiverCenter, I encourage you to do so at any level comfortable for you. Your contribution makes it possible for us to offer a broad base of programing and makes our programs affordable for a greater number of individuals whom we hope will be inspired to follow your example of philanthropy.

CATS | Feb. 11 & 12 | 7:30 PM

I hope that you will visit us often. I also hope that you will always feel free to let me know your thoughts about our programs and services.

We are always looking for ways to improve and build upon what we think is an already pretty amazing RiverCenter experience.

The SpongeBob Musical | May 6 & 7 | 7:30 PM

I am happy to see you at the theatre!

To help support RiverCenter please contact the Development Team at (706) 256-3618 or development@rivercenter.org.

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U.S. Navy Bands: Concert Band, Cruisers and Sea Chanters | Mar. 12 | 7:30 PM | Free!

Escape to Margaritaville | Mar. 19 | 7:30 PM Atlanta Symphony Orchestra | Apr. 2 | 7:30 PM Complexions Contemporary Ballet: Bach to Bowie | Apr. 16 | 7:30 PM The Drifters, The Platters and Cornell Gunter’s Coasters | May 1 | 7:30 PM What Do You Do with an Idea? | May 16 | 2:30 PM Cantus Columbus: The American Songbook: Gems by Kern, Berlin, and Rodgers & Hart | May 16 | 7:30 PM Waitress | June 23 & 24 | 7:30 PM 3

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RIVERCENTER ADVANCEMENT RiverCenter is a 501(c)3 nonprofit. Ticket sales meet only a portion of RiverCenter’s operating expenses. The balance is covered by contributions to RiverCenter. The generosity of many individuals and corporations help River­Center present worldclass artists and offer varied educational opportunities. To receive informa­tion about becoming a Mem­ber or Curtain Raiser, please call (706) 256-3618 or email development@rivercenter.org.

B E N E FA C T O R S P O N S O R

RIVERCENTER SPONSORS: CURTAIN RAISERS Curtain Raisers are RiverCenter’s major sponsors, granting agencies, or corporate contributors. The funds support RiverCenter’s diverse program schedule, in­cluding pro­fessional touring attractions and edu­ca­tional activi­ties. RiverCenter values its phenomenal partners.

List based on donations given as of December 26, 2019

AND THE VALLEY

DIAMOND LEVEL SPONSOR

SEASON SPONSOR

CHAMPION LEVEL SPONSOR

Mildred Miller Fort Foundation

P L AT I N U M L E V E L S P O N S O R

Page Scrantom Sprouse Tucker Ford A T T O R N E Y S

S U S TA I N E R L E V E L S P O N S O R

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RIVERCENTER MEMBERS

THE MARQUEE SOCIETY IS COMPRISED OF DONORS WHO INVEST A MINIMUM OF $1,000 TO THE RIVERCENTER MISSION EACH SEASON.

M A RQ U E E S O C I E T Y : S U STA I N E R L E V E L

MA RQUE E S OC I E T Y

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen T. Butler

M A RQ U E E S O C I E T Y : B E N E FA C TO R L E V E L Al and Betsy Ramsay Mary W. Schley Judy W. Thomas Steeplechase at Callaway Gardens Wendell Lewis Memorial Fund The Estate of Virginia I. Norman Mr. and Mrs. Wright B. Waddell

M A RQ U E E S O C I E T Y : D I A M O N D L E V E L

Every aspect of the Marquee Society emblem has a special meaning. The gears represent our mill history and the collaboration of the Columbus Challenge.The bee in its hive is a powerful symbol of the workers who built the city and RiverCenter. The blue represents our connection to the mighty river and the creative flow of the arts. The gold represents your annual investment and commitment to quality. Each Marquee Society member embodies the spirit and sentiment of this design.

To join the Marquee Society, visit rivercenter.org, email development@rivercenter.org, or call (706) 256-3618.

Mr. and Mrs. James H. Blanchard Gardiner and Nora Garrard Dr. David and Suzanne Levine Mr. and Mrs. John C. Martin, II The Honorable and Mrs. William C. Rumer Mrs. Janice M. Watson

M A RQ U E E S O C I E T Y : P L AT I N U M L E V E L Kriss and Lisa Cloninger

Mr. and Mrs. John A. Shinkle

Akitoshi and Etsuko Kan

Dr. Franklin J. Star

Mr. and Mrs. Jack J. Pease, III

Rick and Jan Ussery

David and Linell Pringle

Wade and Adrianne Wallace

Dr. and Mrs. Richard Robbins

James and Teresa White

Mr. and Mrs. William P. Scarbrough

Mr. and Mrs. M. Troy Woods

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M A RQ U E E S O C I E T Y : G O L D L EV E L Anonymous

Bob Henderson

Dr. and Mrs. Ferdinand Q. Alcaide

The Hewitt Family Foundation

Fred and Catalina Aranas Family Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. A. Comer Hobbs

Maria Luisa Aranas

Roderick C. and Stephanie Y. Hunter

Bruce and Angie Bacon

Bruce and June Howard Dr. William P. Kendall

Kara and Matt Barkley

Mrs. Erwin D. Key

Jacob and Claire Beil

John and Kayron Laska

Mr. and Mrs. Walker R. Bickerstaff Mrs. Doris Black Dolores Blanco

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Y. Bradley Kay Broda John Bucholtz Mrs. Charles W. Burgin Mrs. Otis B. Burnham

Brad and Sally Turner

Mr. and Mrs. Clifford J. Swift, III

Mrs. D. Abbott Turner, II

Jim and Pat Thompson

Mr. and Mrs. Jack G. Turner

Mr. and Mrs. Landy Thompson

Mr. and Mrs. John T. Turner

Chip and Audrey Tillman

Chris Weaver

Thomas and Jackie Titus Paul M. Todd

Bernard and Sylvia Witt Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Philip Tomlinson

Mr. and Mrs. Joel O. Wooten

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Mr. and Mrs. Hank Lewis

Anonymous

Mr. and Mrs. Justin Krieg

Mr. and Mrs. Anthony D. Link

Phyllis Aaron

Ashok and Mary Kumar

Mrs. James B. Lipham

Regina Satlof and Neil Block

Ben and Annelle McCosh

Walter and Ann Miller

Dr. and Mrs. Philip L. Brewer

Mr. Dhan and Dr. Kashmira Parekh

Shirley B. Moon

Dr. and Mrs. Robert H. Bush

Mr. and Mrs. Gordon F. Pease

Jimmy and Barbara Motos

Bob and Linda Carter

Gene and Meg Perkins

Marjorie and Jerry Newman

Dan and Sandy Dawson

Bob and Stacy Poydasheff

Christy and Dail Fields

Dr. John C. Richards

Marlene and Robert Garnett

Edith H. Satterwhite

Rem Houser

Dr. Angela Sims and John Sims

Mrs. Stephen C. Hunter

Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Staples

John and Sam Newton

Mrs. Forrest L. Champion, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Marc Olivié

Creek Stand Partners, LP

Edwin and Pam Page

Janet Davis

Mrs. Sam Rawls

Mr. and Mrs. Norman S. Easterbrook

Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Reed

Mr. and Mrs. Thad Estes

Dr. Carole Rutland and Mr. Robert D. Offer

Drs. Bobbi Farber and Thomas Walsh

Mrs. Frank D. Foley, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Spence

Dr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Lawhorne, Jr.

Lucy H. Bowers

Loretta and Tom Flowers

Martha S. Tubb

Elaine and John Laughbaum

Deborah E. Bordelon

The Jake and Anna Flournoy Family Fund

Heather Spence

Marnie Salter The Honorable Julia Willcox-Lumpkin Sando and Colonel Donald Mark Sando, U.S. Army, Retired

Susan Stephenson

Charlie and Mary Lou Jarrell

Tom and Karen Stewart

Pam and Charlie Johnson Matthew E. and Cynthia Woodsmall Jones

Mat and Mary Lou Swift

Mrs. Charlyn Kerr

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Wilson

Montgomery E. Thorne

Dr. and Mrs. Mark R. Fortson

GB and Charlotte A. Saunders Foundation Inc

Cindy and Spencer Garrard

Stephen M. Sawyer

Anonymous

Gary G. Allen, MD

Dr. and Mrs. Jerry Goldsmith

Mr. and Mrs. Claude G. Scarbrough, III

Dr. and Mrs. William E. Adams

Ray L. Allison

Mrs. Richard Hallock

Len and Glenda Sexton

Mr. and Mrs. W. Mizell Alexander

Mr. and Mrs. Greg Allmendinger

Dr. and Mrs. Tom Helton

Alex and Willette Shalishali

Cathy Alford

Mr. Richard F. Andrews

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Ms. Betty L Auten

Bill and Aleisha Doerr

Dr. and Mrs. Robert Marcus

Eva Smith

Virginia L. Basl

Jackie and Menza Dudley

Georgia Matheney

Guy Ashton and Marianne Smith

Peggy and Charles Batastini

Mrs. Frank S. Etheridge, III

Mary and Jim Matthews

Mollie Smith

Janice Beam

Henry Farmer

Ginny Mayher

Rick Sponholz Family

Susan and Carter Berry

Judge Kenneth Followill

Almeda Medlin

Robert St. Clair

Janice P. Biggers

John and Bok Shim Fox

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Mr. and Mrs. Luther Stanton

Chris and Wendy Miller

Warren and Lorie Steele

Dr. and Mrs. Joe D. Miller

Dr. and Mrs. John R. Stephenson

Anne Mims

Mary Stewart

Leon and Barbara Minsky

Gary and Carla Stickles

Wayne and Harriet Moultrie

Patty Kimbrough Taylor

Ron and Mary Mullins

Tony and Kris Thomas

Vincent and Dian Naman

Sue and Jim Trott

Alfred and Courtney Blackmar

Brett Gant

Peggie and Dan Bloodworth

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas S. Gates

Ms. Juanita C. Booker

Mike and Sheila Gaymon

Patricia A. Boutton

Wayne and Sallie Hadden

Jim and Iveta Boyanchek

Steve and Mary Hall

Ms. Jane Bradford

Ken Hamill

Sherida Brannan

Seth and Linda Harp

Ms. Julie A. Bray

Pauline and John Hartje

Frank and JoAnn Brown

Mr. and Mrs. Madden Hatcher, Jr

Bill and Janie Lee Bullock

Mr. and Mrs. Madden Hatcher, III

Jim and Nancy Buntin

David and Marguerite Hay

Dr. Bob and Lisa Bunting

Ed and Lana Helton

Virginia D. Burdo

Dr. and Mrs. Steven Henslee

Mike and Kathy Burns

Mrs. Betty Jo Hooks

Ann Burr

Pamela C. Humber

Mr. and Mrs. Marcus B. Calhoun

Corinne B. Jarrell

Ann Carlisle

Tim Jensen

Butch and Eva Chappelle

Walter Jones, Jr.

Skip and Joyce Chittenden

Jean and Gerald Kent

Gloria Cohen

Franny and Paul Kilpatrick

Bonnie and Leslie Cohn

Ernie and Jo Ann Kirk

Donna J. Craig

LTC Patricia A. Krause USA Ret.

Julia and Ronnie Culpepper

Mr. and Mrs. John T. Laney, III

Mrs. L. A. Cunningham

Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Lewis, Jr.

Mr. George F. Schladensky

Don and Bobbie Dakin

Marv and Vicki Lieberman

Joyce and Henry Schwob

Annie R. Davis

Julie and Neal Littlejohn

Martha and Kelly Dimon

Wylene and Morris Loeb

Mr. and Mrs. James Kimbrough Sheek, IV

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Gwyn P. Newsom

Mr. and Mrs. James P. Trotter, Jr.

Dick and Dixie Olson

Ms. Lois Tryon

Louise and Judson Patten

Richard M. Tucker

Dr. and Mrs. Robert M. Patton

Mr. and Mrs. David Turner

Ms. Stephanie Payne

Dr. Joan and LTC (R) Darryl Verrett

Mr. and Mrs. William R. Peek

Tim Vinson

John and Lynne Phillips

Dr. Thomas A. and Sherry F. Wade

Pickleball Tech

Joseph M. Waller

Bill and Pat Porter

Mary Lewis and Duke Walsh

Janet Prater

Anita B. Walters

Ann and Lowry Reid

CH (COL) and Mrs. Thomas Waynick, USA, Ret.

Joyce J. Richburg Mrs. Kathy J. Riley Cheryl L. Roberts Amy Robertson Mrs. Barbara G. Rothschild Sally Rotunno

Lamar and Dorenda Weaver Mark and Andi Snow-Weaver Jim and Ann White Cathy and David Woolbright Jerrel and Laura Yates Margaret G. Zollo

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Please call (706) 256-3618 to learn more.

In memory of Gavin G. Spence Heather Spence Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Spence In memory of Dr. Davis R. Watson, Sr. Mrs. Janice M. Watson In honor of Chris Weaver

THANK YOU

Mark and Andi Snow-Weaver

TO ALL OF OUR SUPPORTERS!

V I RG I N I A N O R M A N CLASSICAL MUSIC FUND

RiverCenter for the Performing Arts would not be possible without the help and generosity of our wonderful community. We are so thankful for all of the donors and members who have helped us grow and bring amazing talent to our region for the past 17 years!

Virginia Norman had a vision and generosity. From that vision she left a substantial bequest to the RiverCenter, Inc. for the sole purpose of bringing the finest classical music to Columbus. Her philanthropy provides the necessary support to facilitate RiverCenter in planning and presenting just what she envisioned. For this program to thrive, continued and added support is necessary.

You too can help this program to flourish by contributing to this fund.

The first Major ensemble to appear in this series is the full Academy of St Martin in the Fields Orchestra with Joshua Bell in the Spring of 2022. Contributors who give one thousand dollars or more to this fund will receive two tickets to this inaugural concert.

Mr. and Mrs. W. Mizell Alexander Bill and Janie Lee Bullock Cindy and Spencer Garrard Gardiner and Nora Garrard Jean and Gerald Kent

We greatly appreciate each gift given in support of RiverCenter and have made every effort to ensure the accuracy of this listing, which was based on donations given as of December 26, 2019. Please notify the Development Office of any inaccuracies or omissions by contacting us at (706) 256-3618 or development@rivercenter.org. We regret any errors.

Mr. and Mrs. John C. Martin, II Jimmy and Barbara Motos Mr. and Mrs. Richard Illges Norman Dr. and Mrs. Richard Robbins Mrs. Janice M. Watson Mr. and Mrs. T. Stacy Welch Mr. and Mrs. Joel O. Wooten List based on donations given as of Dec. 26, 2019 12

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BECOME A MEMBER! RiverCenter is proud to offer a variety of exciting benefits for its members, including opportunities to meet guest artists!

Not a member? Just give us a call and we will be happy to assist you.

BENEFITS INCLUDE: – Recognition in RiverCenter publications – Complimentary donors-only events – Ticket insurance for lost or stolen tickets – Invitation to annual season reveal – Complimentary beverage vouchers – Access to private ticket hotline

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*Benefits may vary based on level of donation *Benefits Subject to Availability or Deadline, Restrictions Apply *Custodial, staff, hospitality, or production fees may apply with use of RiverCenter Patron's Room, Virginia Illges plaza, Bill Heard Stage

RiverCenter’s Capstone Society was founded by the late Wendell Lewis. As RiverCenter’s planned giving program, it celebrates donors who want to leave a legacy gift for RiverCenter and our community. We honor the donors below who are the Founding Members of the Capstone Society.

Mr. & Mrs. W. Mizell Alexander Thomas B. Buck, III Mrs. Otis B. Burnham Dorothy Jean Bush Wendell Lewis* Nora Garrard Charlyn Kerr Virginia Norman* Chris Weaver

If you have included RiverCenter in your estate planning and are not listed above, or if you wish to learn how your planned gift can help RiverCenter in its artistic and educational mission, please contact the Development Office at (706) 256-3653 or development@rivercenter.org.

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t h i s p r e s e n tat i o n o f

The Pout-Pout Fish

is dedicated to the life & memory of

W endell L ewis

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THESE ORGANIZATIONS HELP SUPPORT RIVERCENTER’S EDUCATION & OUTREACH PROGRAMS.

SHOW SPONSOR

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MUSICAL NUMBERS

WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST & CREATIVE TEAM

“The Overture” .............................................................................................Storytellers

(alphabetical by role)

“Mr. Pout-Pout Fish”………………………....................................................Storytellers “Right Outside Your Reef”...............................Shimmer Fish, Mr. Pout-Pout Fish “With A Face Like Mine”...............................................................Mr. Pout-Pout Fish “The Big Blub” ............................................................................................ Storytellers “The Worm Waltz”...................................................................................... Storytellers “The Seaweed Forest”……………………..……………..................………..... Storytellers “Now You See It, Now You Don’t”.......…....Lucky Mr. Seven, Mr. Pout-Pout Fish “The Chase”………………………………......….....……………………............... Storytellers “Stay Afloat”…………………….,……….........Bully-Bully Shark, Mr. Pout-Pout Fish “Missin’ Pearl”……………………………….......……………………………….....Storytellers “The Slimy Showdown”…….....…………..............…………………………… Storytellers “Right Outside Your Reef (Reprise)”.………………Mr. Pout-Pout Fish, Storytellers “The Big, Big Dark”.…………………………….…………………………………. Storytellers

With the colorful illustrations and the sing-song text from The Pout-Pout Fish book series, we thought it would be fun to fuse puppetry and musical theater to tell this story in a unique way. We paired acclaimed puppeteers Matt Acheson and Fergus J Walsh of AchesonWalsh Studios with musical theater writers Chris Anselmo and Jared Corak, and challenged them to figure out how their two art forms could best tell the story. They dove right in and explored what elements could be dramatized in a more visual way, relying less on words, and what elements might be enhanced by songs to communicate heightened feelings and emotions.

In musical theater, characters sing when words alone are not enough, and Pout-Pout’s inner, emotional journey is just as transformative as his underwater journey to reach his home again. We hope your family enjoys this aquatic adventure!

Barbara Pasternack, Artistic Director, TheaterWorksUSA Michael Harrington, Managing Director, TheaterWorksUSA

EMMANUEL ELPENORD (Bully-Bully Shark) is a NYC native and graduated magna cum laude from Brooklyn College: Acting BFA, TV/Radio BA, Creative Writing BFA. Recently Puppeteer in First National, International (China), Regional (Seattle) and Off-Broadway runs of The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show (w/ Rockefeller Productions). With Bryant Park Shakespeare: Othello, Twelfth Night (Orsino), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Oberon). Puppeteer at Swedish Cottage Marionette Theater. www.elpenord.net LEANNE BRUNN (Ms. Clam/Octopus) OffBroadway: James and the Giant Peach (Ladybug), Hungry Caterpillar Show, Regional: Avenue Q (Kate/Lucy), Hairspray (Tracy), Sweeney Todd (Mrs. Lovett) @ the O’Neill, Little Shop of Horrors, National Tours: ImaginOcean, Veggietales Live.

Leanne is also the owner of Full Beat Puppetry, a puppetry consulting and design studio. www.LeanneBrunn.com.

KELLY GRAGO (Mr.Pout-Pout Fish) is delighted to be making her TheaterWorksUSA debut! Recent credits include Junie B. Jones (Plaza Theatrical Productions), Godspell (Baruch Performing Arts Center), Avenue Q (American Musical Theater Academy), and Matilda (Shanghai Oriental Arts Center). Notably, she just learned how to juggle.

SARAH KOWALSKI (Shimmer Fish) is so excited to be joining the Pout-Pout team!

NYC credits include: The Big One Oh! (Atlantic Theatre Company), Head Over Heels (Dirty Minds Theatre Company), and This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing (Atlantic). She would like to thank the phenomenal cast and team, TheaterWorksUSA, the wonderful Jillian Carucci, and her amazing support system. CAP21 Musical Theatre Grad. www.sarahgkowalksi.com BYRON F. ABENS (Stage Manager) has stage managed numerous productions with TheaterWorksUSA including The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical, Click, Clack, Moo, and Seussical.

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He has worked with a number of companies both Off-Broadway and regionally.

Byron holds an M.F.A. from the University of Missouri-Kanasas City, and is a proud member of Equity since 2004.

ACHESONWALSH STUDIOS (Production Design) a kinetic creation studio. Their clients include Amazon Studios, Broadway Theatres, Cirque Du Soleil, Disney, Lincoln Center Theater, and Radio City Music Hall.

AchesonWalsh Studios was founded by Matt Acheson and Fergus J Walsh in 2014.

Recent work includes Loch Ness at the Fingerlakes Musical Theatre Festival, Hey Willy and Candide at the Alliance Theater, The Lightning Thief (National Tour), The Wizard of Oz at the Kansas City Ballet, and William Johnson Hippopotamus in development as part of LabWorks at The New Victory Theatre.

MATT ACHESON (Direction, Staging, Book & Production Design) designed, built, and directed the marionettes for Rinna Groff’s Compulsion, directed by Oscar Eustis. He was the Puppetry Director for Warhorse during its run at Lincoln Center and for the North American tour. Matt was also the director and curator of the annual St. Ann’s Warehouse Puppet Lab with Krissy Smith.

CHRISTOPHER ANSELMO (Book, Music & Lyrics) is an award-winning songwriter & playwright whose work has been performed in venues across the country and internationally. His musicals include: Atlantinc (Edinburgh, AMTP, RCS); Fable (NYMF) and Haunted Train (TNC). By day, he works for composer Jeanine Tesori. Member of ASCAP, Dramatists Guild, and the BMI Advanced Workshop.

Northwestern ’16.

JONATHAN BAUERFELD (Music Director) is a New York based composer, orchestrator, and music director. His orchestrations have been heard Off-Broadway, at NYMF, the Green Room 42, and more.

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Advanced BMI Workshop. More at www. jonathanbauerfeld.com LAURA BRANDEL (Additional Staging) is a NYC based director of new work.

TheaterWorksUSA Henry and Mudge tour, ABC Discovers Showcase, NAMT Songwriter’s Showcase, Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellows Presentation, She Persisted (Drama League’s DirectorFest).

Choreographer: Hit the Wall (Barrow Street), A Cautionary Tail (The Flea). 2017 Drama League Leo Shull New Musicals Directing Fellow, Lincoln Center Directors Lab. www.LauraMovesPeople.com JARED CORAK (Book, Music & Lyrics) is a writer and performer originally from sunny South Florida. He has written countless musicals as a teaching artist with the Lovewell Institute for the Creative Arts and is a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. He holds a Bachelor of Music and a Master of Science in Leadership for Creative Enterprises from Northwestern University. When he’s not writing musicals, he works on the CBS television show FBI. CONOR KEELAN (Orchestrator) is an award-winning orchestrator, arranger, music director, and guitarist based out of NYC. His arrangements have been sung

by Jon Batiste, Jessie Mueller, Alice Ripley, and Patti LaBelle, among others. Select credits include: (B’Way) A Bronx Tale, (Off B’Way) Merrily We Roll Along, Painted Alice, The Lilliput Troupe. (Regional) Pride and Prejudice, A Knight’s Tale, Letters From War, Generation Me, October Sky. B.M. Northwestern University. In addition to theatre, Conor is producer for rock and folk bands as well as the orchestrator for the American Pops Orchestra. www. cmkeelan.com DAVID LANDER (Lighting Designer) New Victory Theater: David Gonzalez’s The Frog Bride. TheaterWorksUSA at

the Lortel: Dog Man: The Musical, Pete The Cat, The Lightning Thief, The Civil War. Daivd’s designs have been seen on Broadway, including The Lightning Thief currently running, Off-Broadway, regionally throughout the USA, and internationally in places such as Tokyo, Caracas, Mumbai, and London.

FERGUS J WALSH (Direction, Staging, Book & Production Design) has won awards from the Henson Foundation and the Irish Arts Council. He has been an Artist in Residence at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City and is an Associate Professor of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut.

ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION, founded in 1913, represents more than 45,000 actors and stage managers in the U.S. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. Equity seeks to foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. www.actorsequity.org.

THEATERWORKSUSA (Barbara Pasternack, Artistic Director; Michael Harrington, Managing Director) has led the Theater for Young and Family Audiences movement in New York City and across North America for over half a century. Since 1962, the 501(c)3 not-forprofit has captured the imaginations of 100 million new and veteran theatergoers with an award-winning repertoire of over 130 original plays and musicals. Acclaimed creative alumni include Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez (Disney’s Frozen), Jerry Zaks (Hello, Dolly!), Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (Dear Evan Hansen), Tina Landau (SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical), and Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening). To learn more, visit www.TWUSA.org.

NOTES FROM THE CREATORS When first diving in to write the musical adaptation of The Pout-Pout Fish, we quickly realized that music was already splashing up off the page. Deborah Diesen’s playful rhyming couplets read like the lyrics of a classic song, while Dan Hanna’s colorful aquatic illustrations invoke the sounds of intertwining guitars and blaring trumpets.

The bright blue water had us yearning for the twang of a Surf Rock guitar, and the themes of perspective and community had us crooning dreamy Beach Boys harmonies.

And you can’t mention the beach without hearing the laid-back tunes of Jimmy Buffet!

But perhaps most compelling to us was the connotation of “happiness” and “joy” that is so integral to these genres of music. How could you possibly be glum when listening to a song about the ocean? Like so many other things in his world, the music of the ocean is constantly at odds with our perpetually pouty protagonist’s outlook on life. Our goal in crafting this story was to bring Mr. Pout-Pout Fish out of the comfort of his reef and encourage him to find the confidence to engage with the vibrant musical world around him. Hopefully, by the end of his journey, he’ll be singing a different tune.

—Christopher Anselmo & Jared Corak (Book, Music, Lyrics) In the Spring of 2018, we were approached by Barbara Pasternack, the Artistic Director at TheaterWorksUSA. She wanted to create a musical puppet show for a young audience and wondered if we would be interested in collaborating with her. Obviously the opportunity to work with such an innovative organization was very appealing, but what would the show be about? How would we ever decide? Oh, it’s too hard! Blub Blub Bluuuuuub... Hey! Wait a minute!

Once we agreed on the inimitable Pout-Pout Fish (PPF to his friends), we were excited to speak with the author of the books, Deborah Diesen, to ensure we represented her work appropriately. We were struck by the theme of perception and how PPF’s famous frown is perceived by others but most importantly by the great fish himself. It’s what you can do and not how you look that defines you. Happiness looks different to everyone.

We also wanted to ensure that the fantastic illustrations of Dan Hanna were immediately recognizable, but also that the characters could move and swim easily around the stage, hence the designs you will see today!

The puppetry used in The Pout-Pout Fish is a direct manipulation, hands-on style.

There are no rods or handles; the puppets are held directly. We are not trying to hide the puppeteers or their hands. In this show the puppeteers are storytellers and we are embracing the fact that the audience can see them manipulate the puppets. We believe in the power of the audience to suspend their disbelief and have full acceptance in the life of the puppet, despite clearly seeing the puppeteer perform with it. In addition to emphasizing the magic of theatre in this regard, this style of puppetry can be inspirational for children to see. It is a style most closely associated with how children play with their own toys; hands-on, fully immersed in the life of the teddy bear to which they are talking.

One of the unique challenges this production faced is that that it needed to go on the road as part of TheaterWorksUSA’s national tour, with all design elements fitting in a cargo van and durable enough to travel throughout North America. Our expertise at AchesonWalsh Studios enabled us to create puppets that will be tourable, deceptively simple, elegant, yet transformative.

It has been quite a voyage over the past two years creating this show and we hope you will enjoy SEAing it!

– Matt Acheson and Fergus J Walsh of AchesonWalsh Studios (Direction, Production Design, Book)

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THE SHUBERT ORGANIZATION JAMES L. NEDERLANDER THE REALLY USEFUL GROUP CAMERON MACKINTOSH ROY FURMAN JOHN GORE STELLA LA RUE GROVE ENTERTAINMENT BURNT UMBER PRODUCTIONS INDEPENDENT PRESENTERS NETWORK/AL NOCCIOLINO PETER MAY PRESENT

MUSIC BY ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER BASED ON “OLD POSSUM’S BOOK OF PRACTICAL CATS” BY T. S. ELIOT THE “CATS” COMPANY: ZACHARY S. BERGER JORDAN BETSCHER CAITLIN BOND ELYSE COLLIER ERIN CHUPINSKY MAURICE DAWKINS GIOVANNI DiGABRIELE PJ DiGAETANO ALEX DORF CAMERON EDRIS DANI GOLDSTEIN TIMOTHY GULAN DEVIN HATCH BRETT MICHAEL LOCKLEY McGEE MADDOX MADISON M I T C H E L L N AT H A N PAT R I C K M O RG A N ADRIANA NEGRON BRAYDEN NEWBY CHARLOTTE O’DOWD ALEXA RACIOPPI AUSTIN JOSEPH REYNOLDS ADAM RICHARDSON NEVADA RILEY ANNEMARIE ROSANO MELODY ROSE BENJA MIN SE A RS Z ACH A RY TA LLM A N TRICIA TA NGU Y ADA M VA NEK DONNA VIVINO AND LORETTA WILLIAMS MUSIC SUPERVISION BY KRISTEN BLODGETTE MUSIC DIRECTOR ERIC KANG MUSIC COORDINATOR TALITHA FEHR CASTING BY TARA RUBIN CASTING / LINDSAY LEVINE, CSA AND XAVIER RUBIANO, CSA TOUR BOOKING, MARKETING AND PUBLICITY DIRECTION BOND THEATRICAL GROUP TOUR MANAGEMENT TROIKA ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT GREGG DAMANTI GENERAL MANAGEMENT KAREN BERRY PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER J. ANDREW BLEVINS COMPANY MANAGER SCOTT M. ELLIS ORCHESTRATIONS BY ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER & DAVID CULLEN SCENIC AND COSTUME DESIGN BY JOHN NAPIER LIGHTING DESIGN BY NATASHA KATZ SOUND DESIGN BY MICK POTTER A S S O C I A T E C H O R E O G R A P H E R K I M C R A V E N ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR/CHOREOGRAPHER CHRISSIE CARTWRIGHT C H O R E O G R A P H Y B Y A N D Y B L A N K E N B U E H L E R BASED ON THE ORIGINAL CHOREOGRAPHY BY GILLIAN LYNNE DIRECTED BY TREVOR NUNN

Zachary S. Berger

Jordan Betscher

Caitlin Bond

Erin Chupinsky

Elyse Collier

Maurice Dawkins

Giovanni DiGabriele

PJ DiGaetano

Alex Dorf

Cameron Edris

Dani Goldstein

Timothy Gulan

Devin Hatch

Brett Michael Lockley

McGee Maddox

Madison Mitchell

Nathan Patrick Morgan

Adriana Negron

Brayden Newby

Melody Rose

Charlotte O’Dowd

Alexa Racioppi

Austin Joseph Reynolds

Adam Richardson

Nevada Riley

AnneMarie Rosano

Benjamin Sears

Zachary Tallman

Tricia Tanguy

Adam Vanek

Donna Vivino

Loretta Williams

ORIGINALLY PRODUCED BY CAMERON MACKINTOSH AND THE REALLY USEFUL GROUP LIMITED. TM © 1981 RUG LTD

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CAST

Alonzo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ADAM VANEK Bill Bailey/Rum Tum Tugger. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . McGEE MADDOX Bombalurina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ELYSE COLLIER Cassandra. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JORDAN BETSCHER Coricopat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MAURICE DAWKINS Demeter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ALEXA RACIOPPI Grizabella. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DONNA VIVINO Jellylorum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ANNEMARIE ROSANO Jennyanydots. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DANI GOLDSTEIN Mistoffelees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PJ DiGAETANO Mungojerrie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BENJAMIN SEARS Munkustrap. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ZACHARY S. BERGER Peter/Bustopher Jones/Asparagus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TIMOTHY GULAN Plato/Macavity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BRAYDEN NEWBY Pouncival. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BRETT MICHAEL LOCKLEY Rumpelteazer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ADRIANA NEGRON Sillabub. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NEVADA RILEY Skimbleshanks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GIOVANNI DiGABRIELE Tantomile. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MELODY ROSE Tumblebrutus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CAMERON EDRIS Victor/Old Deuteronomy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ADAM RICHARDSON Victoria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CAITLIN BOND The Cats Chorus..........................MADISON MITCHELL, NATHAN PATRICK MORGAN, ZACHARY TALLMAN, TRICIA TANGUY SWINGS ERIN CHUPINSKY, ALEX DORF, DEVIN HATCH, CHARLOTTE O’DOWD, AUSTIN JOSEPH REYNOLDS, LORETTA WILLIAMS

SCENES & MUSICAL NUMBERS Act I

Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Company The Naming of Cats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Company Invitation to the Jellicle Ball. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Victoria, Mistoffelees, Munkustrap The Old Gumbie Cat. . . . Munkustrap, Jennyanydots, Jellylorum, Demeter, Bombalurina The Rum Tum Tugger. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rum Tum Tugger, Company Entry of Grizabella. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Grizabella, Demeter, Bombalurina, Company Bustopher Jones: The Cat About Town. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bustopher Jones, Jennyanydots, Bombalurina, Jellylorum, Company Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mungojerrie, Rumpelteazer Old Deuteronomy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Munkustrap, Rum Tum Tugger, Old Deuteronomy Song of the Jellicles and the Jellicle Ball. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Company Memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Grizabella

Act II

Introduction to Act II/The Moments of Happiness. . . . . . . . . Old Deuteronomy, Sillabub Gus the Theatre Cat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jellylorum, Asparagus The Awefull Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles. . . . . . . . . Asparagus, Old Deuteronomy, Munkustrap, Company Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Skimbleshanks, Company Macavity, The Mystery Cat. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Demeter, Bombalurina, Company Magical Mister Mistoffelees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mistoffelees, Rum Tum Tugger, Company Memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sillabub, Munkustrap, Grizabella Journey to the Heaviside Layer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Company The Ad-dressing of Cats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Old Deuteronomy, Company Finale Prologue — “Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats” additional lyric material written by Trevor Nunn and Richard Stilgoe “Memory” lyric written by Trevor Nunn, based on poems by T.S. Eliot

DANCE CAPTAINS ERIN CHUPINSKY, AUSTIN JOSEPH REYNOLDS

THERE WILL BE ONE 15-MINUTE INTERMISSION

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

CATS ORCHESTRA

For Bill Bailey/Rum Tum Tugger: ALEX DORF, CAMERON EDRIS; for Grizabella: MADISON MITCHELL, TRICIA TANGUY; for Mistoffelees: MAURICE DAWKINS, DEVIN HATCH; for Munkustrap: CAMERON EDRIS; for Peter/Bustopher Jones/Asparagus: NATHAN PATRICK MORGAN, ZACHARY TALLMAN; for Victor/Old Deuteronomy: NATHAN PATRICK MORGAN, ZACHARY TALLMAN

Music Director/Conductor: Eric Kang Associate Music Director/Keyboard 3: Jonathan Craft Keyboards: Christian Regul, David Robison, David Sawicki Reeds: Garrett Hack, Dave Stambaugh Guitar: Ralph Agresta; Bass: John Toney Drums/Percussion: Aaron Nix Music Supervisor: Kristen Blodgette Associate Music Supervisor: Brian Taylor Keyboard Programmer: Stuart Andrews Music Coordinator: Talitha Fehr

The use of any recording device, either audio or video, and the taking of photographs, either with or without flash, is strictly prohibited.

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WHO’S WHO

WHO’S WHO ZACHARY S. BERGER (Munkustrap) hails from Niskayuna, NY and couldn’t be more excited to be back into the junkyard. Credits include: CATS (International Tour); Jekyll and Hyde (World Tour); Hello, Dolly! National tour starring Sally Struthers (Cornelius u/s). Off-Broadway: The Kid, 42nd Street (Billy Lawlor) at Sacramento Music Circus, My Fair Lady (Freddy) at Theater by the Sea. PCLO, Pioneer Theater Company. Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, BFA Musical Theater/Drama. “Spread love.”

PJ DiGAETANO (Mistoffelees) is thrilled to be making his national tour debut in CATS. Credits: CATS (Mr. Mistoffelees) Royal Caribbean, Iceploration (Austin) Busch Gardens, Singer/Dancer on Regent Cruise’s Navigator (traveled to 55 countries and 6 continents). Love to my family, friends, and incredible mom. Dreams do come true! Instagram: @ itspjdigaetano ALEX DORF (Swing) is thrilled to join the Cats tour.

Recent credits include A Bronx Tale National Tour (Crazy Mario/Calogero Cover), Kinky Boots (Gateway Playhouse), Sweet Charity (Marriott Theatre). Alex is a Penn State grad and is represented by TKO. Love to his supportive family.

JORDAN BETSCHER (Cassandra) is thrilled to be making her National Tour debut! NYC: Radio City Christmas Spectacular (Rockette). TV: Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, “The Ellen Show,” “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” (Rockette) & “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (S2 & S3). Regional: CAMERON EDRIS (Tumblebrutus) is pumped to tour Mary Poppins (ASF). All the love to my family, with CATS! His favorite credits include Miss Saigon (1st National Tour), Carousel (Chicago Lyric Opera), friends and my MSA fam!

West Side Story (Riff, Phoenix Theatre), Newsies CAITLIN BOND (Victoria) is thrilled to be mak- (Music Circus). Cameron thanks his agent, Dave, and ing her Broadway National touring debut! She has sends love to Daniel. www.cameronedris.com performed in professional productions with Atlantic City Ballet, Ballet West Academy, and Pittsburgh DANI GOLDSTEIN (Jennyanydots). National Ballet Theatre, and appeared on Season 14 of “So Tour Debut! NY: Candide - Lincoln Center You Think You Can Dance.” Thanks to Mom and (NYCO). Europe: RCCL - Mamma Mia. Regional: Dad for their love and support.

PCLO, Goodspeed Festival of New Works. BFA, The Boston Conservatory. Many thanks to Andy ERIN CHUPINSKY (Dance Captain/Swing) Off- and the creatives, Tara Rubin Casting and CTG. Broadway: A Tree Grows In Brooklyn. Tours: Love Love to my amazing family, friends and my kitty Never Dies (US Premiere); Hello, Dolly!; CATS; Calvin! @danigste Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; Wonderful Town (1st Nat’l).

Regional Favorites: The Tempest (Ariel), Beauty and TIMOTHY GULAN (Peter/Bustopher Jones/ the Beast (Babette), Chicago, Victor Victoria. Training: Asparagus) Broadway/Tours: The Last Ship, Les BFA Western Michigan University, LAMDA (London). Misérables, South Pacific, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Erin has run 27 marathons and is an ironman triathlete. Some Like It Hot, Picasso at the Lapine Agile, Carousel, Love and gratitude to Kristen, Andy and Karen. www. Falsettos, The Lion King, Blood Brothers, Passion, The erinchupinsky.com @erinchupinsky Frogs. Premieres: Mr. Knightley in Emma @streamingmusicals.com, For the Boys, Houdini, the King ELYSE COLLIER (Bombalurina) First National Stag, Just So, Get In the Car. Movies/TV: South Pacific, Tour: Nice Work If You Can Get it (Jeanie u/s). The Passion, The Knick, Ice Age, Boardwalk Empire, The Producers (Ulla) Paramount, Maltz Jupiter. The Producers. Regional: The Glass Menagarie, Arsenic Drowsy Chaperone (Janet) Peterborough Players. A and Old Lace, Amadeus, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Billy Chorus Line (Judy) Lyric Theatre Oklahoma. The Elliot, Bridges of Madison County, Big Fish. Tim teachOgunquit Playhouse. Asolo Repertoire Theatre. BFA es throughout the country. Thanks Professional Artists, Boston Conservatory. elysecollier.com Tara Rubin Casting. Love Kat. timothygulan.com MAURICE DAWKINS (Coricopat) An NYC native, is elated to join the Jellicle Tribe! Regional: Newsies, Mamma Mia, South Pacific, CATS, and regional dance company work. Special thanks to his loved ones, ATB Talent, and Tara Rubin Casting for helping him get here! Insta:@dawkinsmaurice

DEVIN HATCH (Swing) is so excited to be joining the CATS family! National/International Tours: Lightwire Theater’s DINO-LIGHT (Brutus). NY Readings: The Time of Nick (Nick). Regional Theatre: Newsies (Henry). Much love to my family and friends! @devin_hatch

GIOVANNI DiGABRIELE (Skimbleshanks) National Tour: A Bronx Tale (1st Nat’l; Handsome Nick, u/s Calogero) A Chorus Line (Al), R+H’s Cinderella.

Regional: Goodspeed Opera House, WST, MSMT, Fulton. Endless gratitude to his family, friends, dance teachers/mentors, Michelle, AIM, Tara Rubin Casting, and the CATS team! #boysdancetoo @giovannidg

BRETT MICHAEL LOCKLEY (Pouncival) A Baltimore, MD native, is thrilled to be a part of CATS! Credits- National Tour: Motown the Musical, Regional: Beauty and the Beast (PaperMill), My Fair Lady (Fireside Theatre), LaCage Aux Folles (NSMT). INTL: A Chorus Line (Shanghai), IG: @ Brett.Lockley

McGEE MADDOX (Bill Bailey/Rum Tum Tugger) From Spartanburg, South Carolina I am thrilled to be back on the road and in such an iconic show! First National Tour: An American in Paris/Jerry Mulligan.

Principal Dancer: The National Ballet of Canada.

I want to thank my friends, family, and the lovely Charlotte. @mcgeemaddox MADISON MITCHELL (Cats Chorus) Broadway: CATS (Original Revival Cast). National Tour: CATS (Demeter). Regional: Les Misérables, The Light in the Piazza. B.A. English (Summa Cum Laude).

Immense gratitude to Kristen, Tara Rubin, KMR, & family. Praise God for His blessings. Matt. 7:7-11 @madison.mitchell_ www.madisonmitchell.net

ADAM RICHARDSON (Victor/Old Deuteronomy) Regional credits: We Shall Not Be Moved (The Apollo), Showboat (Westchester Broadway Theatre), CATS (Flatrock Playhouse). Tour: Porgy and Bess (Europe/Middle East). Proud Carnegie Mellon University and Juilliard alum! Thanks to God, mom and dad, siblings, family/friends, Tara Rubin Casting, and Kathy and the entire Encompass team.

NEVADA RILEY (Sillabub) is thrilled to be making her national tour debut with CATS! Regional credits include 42nd Street, The Rocky Horror Show and Guys and Dolls. Big thanks to the entire CATS team, her parents and her pals for their support!

Proud Michigan alum!

ANNEMARIE ROSANO (Jellylorum) National Tour Debut! Regional: Hunchback...(Esmeralda), Into the Woods (Cinderella). Annemarie has been a featured soloist with the Birdland Big Band and the UK’s Jive Aces. Original founding member of America’s Sweethearts. NYU Steinhardt. Thanks to Across The Board, my teachers, and my family for ADRIANA NEGRON (Rumpelteazer) recently their endless support! @annemarierosano graduated from Montclair State University with a BFA in Musical Theatre. Some of her favor- MELODY ROSE (Tantomile) is thrilled to join the ite credits include Diana Morales in A Chorus cast of CATS! Melody is a graduate of The Juilliard Line Shanghai and Anita in West Side Story at the School (BFA Dance 2017) and recently toured in IHI Stage Around in Tokyo! @_adriananegron Finding Neverland. (Peter Pan) Special thanks to family, friends, CESD, Andy, Kim, Badiene, and BRAYDEN NEWBY (Plato/Macavity) National Ashley for their endless love and support. For MomTour Debut! Regional Theatre: An American in Paris Mom. @melodyrose (Ogunquit Playhouse), Newsies (Tuacahn Center for the Performing Arts). Other credits include: 2019 BENJAMIN SEARS (Mungojerrie.) Tour: A Bronx MTV VMAs, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (season Tale (Handsome Nick, u/s Calogero). Goodspeed: 3), “Saturday Night Live,” “RuPaul’s Drag Race The Music Man (Ensemble, u/s Tommy). Forestburgh All-Stars” (Season 3 & 4 Finale), “Cross Me” music Playhouse: Newsies! (Race, u/s Jack Kelly). The Lex: video (Ed Sheeran ft. Chance the Rapper), and West Side Story (Snowboy, Dance Captain). Love to Todrick Hall’s Forbidden World Tour. @braybray- Dad, Brian, May, Kate, Emily, & Abigail. noob ZACHARY TALLMAN (Cats Chorus) National CHARLOTTE O’DOWD (Swing) Broadway & Tour Debut. Regional: Austen’s Pride (Mr. Collins/ 1st National Tour: An American in Paris. Regional: FLMTF), Sweeney Todd (Tobias/Stillpointe Theatre).

Chicago, Wizard of Oz, Disney’s Little Mermaid, Regional Tour: A Christmas Carol (Jacob Marley).

Joseph. Vegas: Cirque du Soleil The Beatles LOVE, BM: Peabody Institute, MM: NYU. Steve Wynn’s Showstoppers. Canada’s National Ballet School graduate. Endless love and thanks to TRICIA TANGUY (Cats Chorus). Off-Broadway: mom, dad, Laura, Hannah, Ellen, Rachel & McGee. The Marvelous Wonderettes (Original and Revival companies). National Tours: Joseph...Dreamcoat Thanks MSA! Instagram:@chassychassimi (u/s Diana Degarmo), Sister Act, CATS (Grizabella), ALEXA RACIOPPI (Demeter) Broadway National The Producers, Disney on Classic concert tour Tour debut! Regional: Beauty and the Beast (Paper Mill (Japan). Regional: Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, Playhouse), A Chorus Line (Val). Proud graduate of Theatre Aspen. Ithaca College grad (B.F.A. musical Montclair State University, go Red Hawks! Manhattan theater) and Cleveland, OH native. Love to family & Youth Ballet Alum. Big thanks to The Mine, Tara Rubin friends! triciatanguy.com @TriciaTanguy Casting, and infinite love to my family! @alexaracioppi, ADAM VANEK (Alonzo) National Tours: Chicago alexaracioppi.com (Sergeant Fogarty), The Wizard of Oz (Scarecrow).

AUSTIN JOSEPH REYNOLDS (Dance Captain/ Regional: Guys and Dolls (The Guthrie, Bucks County), Swing) is an alumnus of The Juilliard School and Evita (Penn. Shakespeare Festival, Flat Rock), Into the Interlochen Arts Academy, most recently a dancer for the Woods (TUTS). BA University of Alabama. Thanks to Aspen Santa Fe Ballet. Thank you to Andy and Kim for the Mom, Dad, Rachel, and Nick! Instagram: @atvanek. opportunity, as well as his wonderfully supportive family!

NATHAN PATRICK MORGAN (Cats Chorus) is overjoyed to tour with Cats again. Broadway: The Phantom of the Opera (Jeweler/Piangi cover), Cats Revival (Cats Chorus/ Cover - Old Deuteronomy, Gus).

National tour: Cats Original (Old Deuteronomy/Gus). I love you, Felix. Thanks to KB,AC, and JL. Love is love...

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WHO’S WHO DONNA VIVINO (Grizabella) Broadway: Wicked (Elphaba), Les Misérables (Original Young Cosette), Hairspray, Fame Becomes Me (w/Martin Short), Saturday Night Fever. Albums: Beautiful Dreamer, DNA (Vivino Sisters). Donna is co-founder of JTB www.journeytobroadway.com. Thank you to my family, Megan, Kristen and Xavier. Instagram/ Twitter @donnavivino LORETTA WILLIAMS (Swing) Training includes: Irina Makkai Classical Ballet School, Joffrey Ballet, Texas Ballet Theater. Dance credits: New York Dance Project, MAC Cosmetics, GAP. Broadway national tour debut. She is so grateful for the support of her parents and uncle. @retta_will ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER (Composer) is the composer of some of the world’s best known musicals including CATS, Evita, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Phantom of the Opera (which celebrated its 30th anniversary on Broadway this year) and Sunset Boulevard. When Sunset Boulevard joined School of Rock – The Musical, CATS and Phantom on Broadway in February 2017 he became the only person to equal the record set in 1953 by Rodgers and Hammerstein with four shows running concurrently. As well as The Phantom Of The Opera and CATS his productions include the groundbreaking Bombay Dreams which introduced the double Oscar winning Bollywood composer AR Rahman to the Western stage. As a composer and producer, Lloyd Webber is one of an elite group of artists to have achieved EGOT status by receiving an Emmy, four Grammys including Best Contemporary Classical Composition for Requiem, his setting of the Latin Requiem mass, an Oscar and eight Tony Awards including the 2018 Special Tony for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre. Additionally he has been honored with seven Oliviers, a Golden Globe, the Praemium Imperiale, the Richard Rodgers Award for Excellence in Musical Theatre, a BASCA Fellowship, and the Kennedy Center Honor. He owns seven London theatres including the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and the London Palladium. He is passionate about the importance of music in education and the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation has become one of Britain’s leading charities supporting the arts and music. In 2016 the Foundation funded a major new national initiative which endowed the American Theatre Wing with a $1.3 million, threeyear grant to support theatre education opportunities for underserved young people and public schools across the U.S. He was knighted by Her Majesty The Queen in 1992 and created a life peer in 1997.

To mark his 70th birthday, his bestselling autobiography Unmasked was published by HarperCollins in March 2018.

THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT (Poet & Lyricist) was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on September 26, 1888. He was educated at Harvard, the Sorbonne in Paris and Merton College, Oxford. He settled in

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WHO’S WHO England in 1915 and taught briefly at two schools before joining Lloyds Bank in the city of London.

His first volume of poems, Prufrock and Other Observations, was published in 1917. The Waste Land, his most famous work, was first published in 1922. In 1925 he left the bank to become a director of the publishing house of Faber. There have been several individual and collected editions of his poetry, as well as volumes of his literary and social criticism; he also wrote a number of verse plays, including Murder in the Cathedral, which was commissioned for the Canterbury Festival of 1935. T.S. Eliot had a great affection for cats, and “Possum” was his alias among his friends. Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats appeared in October 1939 and was the basis for CATS. He received many honors and distinctions, among them the Order of Merit and the Nobel Prize for Literature. Eliot died in January 1965 and was posthumously awarded the 1983 Tony Award for the book of CATS. TREVOR NUNN (Director) From 1968 to 1986, he was the youngest-ever artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, directing more than 30 productions, from classics to new works including Nicholas Nickleby and Les Misérables. He was later director of the National Theatre, where award-winning productions included Not About Nightingales, Troilus and Cressida, Oklahoma!, The Merchant of Venice, Summerfolk, My Fair Lady, A Streetcar Named Desire, Anything Goes and Love’s Labour’s Lost. He directed the world premieres of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia and Rock ’n’ Roll; and of CATS, Sunset Boulevard, Starlight Express, Aspects of Love and The Woman in White

by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Other theatre includes Hamlet, Richard II, Inherit the Wind, Kiss Me Kate (Old Vic); A Little Night Music (West End and Broadway); Heartbreak House, Flare Path, The Tempest (Theatre Royal, Haymarket); All That Fall (59E59); The Wars of the Roses (Rose Theatre); Pericles (TFANA).

GILLIAN LYNNE (Original Choreographer) 1926-2018: The first non-royal woman to have a London theatre named after her: the Gillian Lynne Theatre. Broadway: The Roar of the Greasepaint…, Pickwick; How Now, Dow Jones; CATS (Olivier Award, Tony nomination), Aspects of Love, The Phantom of the Opera (Tony Nomination); Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Off-Broadway/Regional: Jeeves Takes Charge, Now Or Never, Imaginary Invalid (WTC). Gillian’s iconic work on CATS and Phantom has been seen and enjoyed by millions worldwide along with her direction of the television programs A Simple Man and Le Morte D’Arthur (both BBC). Awards: BAFTA, 2013 Olivier Special Award, Golden Rose of Montreux (“The Muppet Show” series), Vienna’s Silver Order of Merit in 1983 (for directing the first proscenium arch production of CATS enabling the show to tour the world), Mr. Abbot Award, Molière Award and DBE: Dame of the British Empire. Her “White Cat” solo was

honored by the American Dance Machine in 2015. (creator/co-director); and Steven Spielberg’s Hook.

Her husband, the actor Peter Land proudly oversees Awards include four Oliviers (nine nominations), a BAFTA and Tony Awards for Nicholas Nickleby, her legacy.

CATS, Starlight Express, Les Misérables and Sunset ANDY BLANKENBUEHLER (Choreographer) Boulevard. American Academy of Achievement is a three-time Tony Award winner for his choreog- member, elected Royal Designer for Industry in 1996 raphy in the Broadway productions of Bandstand, and an Honorary Fellow of the London Institute.

In The Heights and Hamilton for which he also received London’s Olivier Award. The recent pro- NATASHA KATZ (Lighting Designer) is a New duction of Bandstand (director/choreographer) also York-based lighting designer who has designed lighting received the Drama Desk and Chita Rivera Award for for many varieties of entertainment, including dance Best Choreography. Other Broadway credits include and opera companies, concerts, regional theatres, OffBring It On, 9 to 5, The People In The Picture, The Broadway, Las Vegas, TV and permanent lighting instalApple Tree, Annie, and the recent revival of CATS. lations. She is a six-time Tony Award winner whose Upcoming theatre projects include the new musi- recent Broadway credits include Frozen, Springsteen cal Only Gold with British singer/songwriter Kate on Broadway, Hello Dolly, Long Day’s Journey Into Nash and the musical Five Points. On television, Mr. Night, Aladdin, An American in Paris, Once, The Glass Blankenbuehler’s work has been seen most recently Menagerie, Aida and Beauty and the Beast. CATS is her on the Emmy Award winning FX series “Fosse/ second show with Andrew Lloyd Webber after designVerdon,” and his choreography will be seen in the ing School of Rock on Broadway last season. upcoming Universal Studio film of the musical CATS. Andy is very proud to have made his concert debut MICK POTTER (Sound Designer) School of earlier this year with a piece entitled Remember Our Rock (Drama Desk Award nominee), The Phantom Song for the Tulsa Ballet Company. As a performer, of the Opera (Parnelli Award), Les Misérables (Tony Mr. Blankenbuehler has danced on Broadway in Award nominee, Helpmann Award), Miss Saigon Fosse, Contact, Man of La Mancha, Saturday Night (Broadway World Audience Award, London), Love Fever, Steel Pier, Big and Guys and Dolls. Originally Never Dies (Green Room Award), CATS (Drama from Cincinnati, Ohio, Mr. Blankenbuehler resides in Desk Award nominee), The Woman in White (Olivier New York City, with his wife Elly and two children, Award), Saturday Night Fever, Bombay Dreams, Luca and Sofia. Mr. Blankenbuehler is a recipient of a The Wizard of Oz, Sister Act, Joseph, Zorro the special 2015 Drama Desk Award for his achievement Musical, The Sound of Music, Evita, Betty Blue Eyes, in the theatre. Mr. Blankenbuehler received the 2018 From Here to Eternity, Barnum, Sunset Boulevard, Kennedy Center Honors for his work on the musical Carousel, Chess.

Hamilton.

CHRISSIE CARTWRIGHT (Associate Director/ KRISTEN BLODGETTE (Music Supervisor) Choreographer) West End, performer: Billy, Irene, was associate musical supervisor for CATS (original Evita, Barnum, Blondel; Choreographer: The Broadway, tours, Copenhagen) and musical supervi- Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Sherlock Holmes the sor/conductor for the Broadway revival. She has been Musical, Mack and Mabel. Tours: The Entertainer, the associate musical supervisor for The Phantom of Devil’s Virtuoso, Annie, The Card, On the Twentieth the Opera on Broadway since 1988 and supervised Century, The Witches of Eastwick, Showbizpops 15 subsequent companies of Phantom worldwide. She Orchestra’s The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber. TV served as musical supervisor for Love Never Dies in choreography: Kiss Me Kate, Alas Smith and Jones, Hamburg and the National Tour. Additional Broadway: Hit Dancing. Associate director/choreographer: Five Evita, Mary Poppins, LoveMusik, The Woman in White, Guys Named Moe (London, NY, Australia), CATS Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Sunset Boulevard, Jesus all over the world, Brick by Bricusse, Dear World.

Christ Superstar, A Little Night Music and rehearsal Movement director and musical staging: The Private pianist for Carrie with Betty Buckley. She recently Ear and The Public Eye, Birdsong, This is the Hour was the conductor for the Broadway revival of Sunset – a celebration of the music of Claude-Michel Boulevard with Glenn Close. National tour: On Your Schönberg. Children’s director: Mary Poppins.

Toes, Jerry’s Girls, Barnum and Bounce (Goodman, Resident director: CATS, Joseph…, Sister Act, The Wizard of Oz. Kennedy Center).

JOHN NAPIER (Scenic & Costume Designer) studied Fine Art at Hornsey College of Art and theatre design at the Central School of Arts and Crafts. Credits: Royal Shakespeare Company (associate designer), Royal National Theatre; opera includes the Royal Opera, Glyndebourne, ENO and the Metropolitan Opera; CATS; Starlight Express; Les Misérables; Miss Saigon; Sunset Boulevard; Michael Jackson’s Captain EO; Siegfried & Roy Show at the Mirage

KIM CRAVEN (Associate Choreographer) Resident Choreographer - CATS (Broadway). Resident Director - Come Fly Away and Times They Are A-Changin’ (Broadway).

Associate Director/Choreographer - Movin’ Out (London). Associate Choreographer Honeymoon in Vegas (Broadway). Dance Supervisor Movin’ Out (1st National), Swing! (1st National). Dance Captain - Mamma Mia! (1st National & Vegas), On The Town (Broadway). Associate Choreographer - Damn

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WHO’S WHO Yankees and The Full Monty (Papermill Playhouse). CATS, Falsettos, Disaster!, School of Rock, Les Kim began her career with The Pennsylvania Ballet and Misérables, The Heiress, The Phantom of the is part of the faculty at NYCDA. Opera, Billy Elliot, Shrek, Spamalot, …Spelling Bee, The Producers, Mamma Mia!, Jersey Boys.

ELLENORE SCOTT (Assistant Choreographer) Off-Broadway: Gloria: A Life, Smokey Joe’s Broadway: King Kong (associate choreographer), Café, Jersey Boys, Here Lies Love, Love, Loss, Head Over Heels (associate choreographer), CATS and What I Wore Selected Regional: Berkeley Revival (assistant choreographer), Falsettos Revival Repertory Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, La (assistant choreographer). Off-Broadway: Pride Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe, Westport Country and Prejudice at Cherry Lane Theater (choreogra- Playhouse, Asolo Rep. www.tararubincasting.com pher). Artistic Director of ELSCO Dance Company.

Instagram: @ellenorescott VICTORIA TINSMAN (Hair and Makeup Design Coordinator) Thrilled to be back at the Junkyard!

LILI FROEHLICH (Assistant Choreographer) Broadway: Pretty Woman, CATS, She Loves Me, Broadway: CATS (Electra, DC, u/s Sillabub, Fish in the Dark, Fun Home, Rocky, Amazing Jennyanydots & Rumpleteazer). Tours: Hamilton Grace, A Delicate Balance, Phantom of the Opera.

(Swing/DC) and Joseph . . . Dreamcoat 2 Seasons at The Alley Theatre. 3 Seasons at Utah (Ensemble). Lili is originally from Fort Worth, TX Shakespearean Festival. UNCSA BFA in Wigs & and is a proud graduate of Otterbein University Make Up. in Westerville, OH. She is so grateful for this opportunity!

ABIGAIL HAHN (Associate Costume Designer) is a New York based Costume Designer/Stylist. As an BRIAN TAYLOR (Associate Music Supervisor) Associate, her International credits include: School of Broadway credits include CATS (Associate Conductor), Rock (West End and Australia) and Disney’s Beauty and Evita (Assistant Conductor), An American in Paris, the Beast (Shanghai). NY Associate/assistant credits Cinderella, and Mary Poppins. Rehearsal piano for include Broadway: Sunset Boulevard, CATS, School of Sunday in the Park With George at New York City Rock, Fun Home, Violet, A Christmas Story, Hair. Select Center, and Paint Your Wagon and Lady Be Good! Associate credits Off-Broadway: The Public Theater at City Center Encores. Keyboard for Jesus Christ (Dry Powder), CSC (Peer Gynt, Allegro), and NY City Superstar live on NBC. Center (Wild Party, Little Shop of Horrors, A New Brain, Irma La Douce, Merrily We Roll Along). Additionally, ERIC KANG (Music Director/Conductor) National Abby has designed costumes for several commercials tours: Love Never Dies (assistant conductor), A and photoshoots.

Gentleman’s Guide To Love And Murder 1st National (pianist). New York: Bunnicula (assistant music direc- J. ANDREW BLEVINS (Production Stage Manager) tor). Regional: Merrily We Roll Along, The Little National tours: Love Never Dies, An American in Mermaid, Les Misérables, and others. Degrees from Paris, Motown, Ragtime, Camelot, 50 Shades! The New York University and Williams College. Support Musical. Regional: Illinois Shakespeare Festival.

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Thanks to my family for all of their love and support! For SMB! STUART ANDREWS (Keyboard Programmer) Broadway/West End: The Phantom of the Opera, JENNIFER SCOTT (Stage Manager) Broadway: Les Misérables, Evita, Mary Poppins, Jesus Christ Carousel; A Doll’s House, Part 2; War Paint; The Superstar, The Woman in White. West End: Miss Front Page. National Tours: Jersey Boys; Bat Out Saigon, CATS, Stephen Ward, The Wizard of Oz, of Hell; Love Never Dies. Thanks to Mom & Dad. Betty Blue Eyes, Love Never Dies, Oliver!, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Sound JUSTIN COFFMAN (Assistant Stage Manager) of Music, La Cage aux Folles.

National Tours Include: Love Never Dies, Dirty Dancing, The Lion King. New York/101 Productions: TALITHA FEHR (Music Coordinator) has worked on Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Big Fish, Of Mice and over 70 national and international tours and productions. Men, Romeo & Juliet, The Bridges of Madison Highlights include: Sister Act, Mamma Mia!, School of County, and more. Endless love to all my family and Rock, Come Fly Away, and Love Never Dies, as well friends! #BKind2EachOther as the Vancouver Olympic Ceremonies 2010. She dedicates her work on CATS to the memory of her SCOTT M. ELLIS (Company Manager). mentor, Sam Lutfiyya.

Broadway: Elf - The Musical, Beautiful - The Carole King Musical. Tours: Jerry Lewis in Damn Yankees!, TARA RUBIN CASTING (Casting) Selected Tommy Tunes’ Grease, Rent - 1st National Tour, Broadway and National Tours: Ain’t Too Proud Cirque du Soleil's Dralion, Walking With Dinosaurs (upcoming), King Kong, Summer: The Donna - The Arena Spectacular, Dreamwork’s How To Train Summer Musical, The Band’s Visit, Prince of Your Dragon - The Arena Spectacular. Regional: Broadway, Indecent, Bandstand, Sunset Boulevard, Goodspeed Opera House, American Conservatory Miss Saigon, Dear Evan Hansen, A Bronx Tale, Theatre, Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma. Other: STOMP!

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WHO’S WHO San Francisco. Teatro Zinzanni - San Francisco. An to work across theatre, film and television and as it Oklahoma native, Scott thanks his family and friends produces and develops new projects and partnerships worldwide, alongside its ongoing work in for their support and dedicates this to Bailey! education, amateur licensing and music publishing.

MEGAN CISZEK (Assistant Company Manager).

Broadway National Tour debut! Megan is excited to THE SHUBERT ORGANIZATION (Producer) be back hugging her CATS Family. Regional: The For more than 100 years, the Shubert Organization Glimmerglass Festival, Florida Repertory Theatre. has been in the forefront of the American theatre.

Proud graduate of James Madison University. Under the leadership of Philip J. Smith, Chairman, and Thanks to my families of all shapes and kinds for Robert E. Wankel, President, the Shubert Organization your love and support! Love to Mom, Di, Katie, owns and operates 17 Broadway theatres and six OffBroadway venues. The company has produced and Baschka, Mo, Simon, and Ayla. coproduced hundreds of plays and musicals, including NEURO TOUR (Physical Therapy) Carolyn CATS, Dreamgirls, Sunday in the Park With George, Lawson PT, founder and CEO of NEURO TOUR Amadeus, The Real Thing, The Grapes of Wrath, Equus, and Neurosport, leaders in performing arts medicine. The Elephant Man, The Curious Incident of the Dog in We are honored to be part of CATS. Broadway: the Night-Time, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, School Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, The Cher Show. of Rock-The Musical, The Humans, Meteor Shower, Angels in America, The Band’s Visit, Come From Away, Tours: On Your Feet!, Hamilton. and Dear Evan Hansen.

TROIKA ENTERTAINMENT (Tour Management)has been an innovator in touring musical theater produc- JAMES L. NEDERLANDER (Producer) tions for over two decades, producing shows through- President of the Nederlander Organization and son out North, Central and South America, Europe and of the late James M. Nederlander. He is the third Asia. Additionally, the company is experienced in generation of a family known for owning and opercasino and leisure markets. Current and upcoming ating theatres around the world, and for producing productions include CATS, The Phantom of the theatre, cultural presentations, and popular music Opera, Escape to Margaritaville, The Color Purple attractions. Recent credits include On Your Feet!, and My Fair Lady. With strong ties to the Broadway The Band’s Visit, Escape to Margaritaville, Meteor community, TROIKA prides itself on delivering top Shower, Mean Girls, My Fair Lady, The Humans, quality productions to audiences worldwide. Please The Elephant Man with Bradley Cooper, Kinky Boots, Movin’ Out, Tootsie, the upcoming TINA: The visit us at www.troika.com.

Tina Turner Musical and many others.

BOND THEATRICAL GROUP (Tour Booking, Marketing & Publicity Direction) is a fully indepen- CAMERON MACKINTOSH (Producer) has prodent booking, marketing and publicity company for duced the three longest-running musicals in history: live entertainment productions. Current tour market- Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera and ing and booking projects include Blue Man Group, CATS. Miss Saigon is now touring North America CATS, Clueless, Girl from the North Country, First and the U.K. while his co-production with Disney Date, Jesus Christ Superstar, Kathleen Turner’s of Mary Poppins returns to London’s West End Finding My Voice, Latin History for Morons, An in 2019. He owns eight London theatres includOfficer & A Gentleman, Once on this Island and ing the Victoria Palace which is now home to Spamilton. Current marketing and publicity projects the award-winning musical Hamilton, co-produced include Anastasia, The Band’s Visit, Dear Evan with Jeffrey Seller. Cameron was knighted in 1996; Hansen, Diana, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole recently was the first British producer to be elected Christmas! The Musical, Escape to Margaritaville, to the Theater Hall of Fame; and is the recipient of Fiddler on the Roof, Moulin Rouge!, Oklahoma!, the 2017 Stephen Sondheim Award.

The Color Purple, The Phantom of the Opera on ACTORS EQUITY ASSOCIATION founded in Broadway and The Prom.

1913, is the U.S. labor union that represents more THE REALLY USEFUL GROUP (Licensor/ than 50,000 professional actors and stage managProducer) is Andrew Lloyd Webber’s producing ers. Equity endeavors to advance the careers of its and licensing company and manages the theatrical members by negotiating wages, working conditions rights for all of Andrew’s works, including The and providing a wide range of benefits (health Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Jesus Christ Superstar, and pension included). Member: AFL-CIO, FIA. Evita, Sunset Boulevard and School of Rock-The #EquityWorks Musical. The Really Useful Group reached over 20 million people across the globe last year from live theatre and concert audiences, cinema-goers, television viewers and music fans, to social media and art lovers. This year, The Really Useful Group continues

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PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT TROIKA ENTERTAINMENT GENERAL MANAGER KAREN BERRY Assistant General Manager. . Madeline M. McCluskey PRODUCTION MANAGER GREGG DAMANTI TECHNICAL DIRECTOR DAVE BURCH COMPANY MANAGER SCOTT M. ELLIS Assistant CompanyManager. . . . Megan Ciszek CASTING TARA RUBIN CASTING Tara Rubin CSA, Lindsay Levine CSA, Xavier Rubiano CSA, Merri Sugarman CSA, Laura Schutzel CSA, Kaitlin Shaw CSA, Claire Burke CSA, Peter Van Dam CSA, Felicia Rudolph CSA, Louis DiPaolo, Kevin Metzger-Timson, Juliet Auwaerter EXCLUSIVE TOUR DIRECTION BOND THEATRICAL GROUP bondtheatrical.com TOUR BOOKING Temah Higgins Mollie Mann Wendy Roberts Brittany Halberstadt Madison St. Amour MARKETING & PUBLICITY DIRECTION DJ Martin Marc Viscardi Nicholas Jaech Nicole Musto MAKEUP DESIGN JOHN NAPIER Makeup development by Nanci Powell WIGS MISS LEMON LIMITED Jenny Dean & Charles Wright MUSICAL SUPERVISOR FOR ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER David Wilson New dance sequences for “The Old Gumbie Cat,” “The Rum Tum Tugger” and “Magical Mister Mistoffelees” co-arranged by John Clancy

Associate Scenic Designer. . . . . . . . . . Kevin Depinet UK Associate Costume Designer. . . . . Tracy Stiles US Associate Costume Designers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lisa Zinni, Abigail Hahn Costume Assistants..Chris Hynds, Holly McCaffrey Costume Intern. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Matthew Freeman Associate Lighting Designer. . Craig Stelzenmuller Assistant Lighting Designer. . . . . . . . . . . Dan Walker Moving Light Programmer. . . . . . . . . . . . . Alex Fogel Associate Sound Designer. . . . . . . . . . . . Adam Fisher Hair & Makeup Design Coordinator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Victoria Tinsman Production Carpenter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D. Wade Jolly Production Electrician. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dawn Kenseth Production Sound. . . . . Colle Bustin, Joshua Hummel Production Properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clista Jarrett HEAD CARPENTER. . . . . . . . . . . SEAN SACCO Flyman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Daniel Hudgens Foy Carpenter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sam Weaver Head Electrician. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adrian Workman Assistant Electrician. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eric Johnson Sound Mixer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Zachary Ireson Assistant Sound. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kevin Thurber Props Supervisor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clista Jarrett Assistant Props. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . David Jensen Wardrobe Supervisor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michael Turner Assistant Wardrobe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Renee Jones Hair & Makeup Supervisor. . . . . . . . . . . . Jakey Hicks Assistant Hair & Makeup. . . . . . . . . . . Gabriel Nunez Production Assistants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C helsey Arce, Megan Ciszek, Mason Fick Associate Keyboard Programmer. . . . David Weiser Rehearsal Pianist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ming Aldrich-Gan Physical Therapy. . NEURO TOUR Physical Therapy Physical Therapist. . . . . Kerrie O’Donnell, PT, DPT Medical Director. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Craig E. Weil, MD Production Photography. . . . . . . . . Matthew Murphy Creative Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SpotCo Website & Interactive Marketing. . . . . . . . . . . SpotCo Accounting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Zwick & Banyai, PLLC Employee Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PEOPLE, Inc. Insurance. . . . . . . The Arts Insurance Program, LLC. Legal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jean Ward, Esq., Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz Merchandising. . . Creative Goods Merchandise LLC

PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER. . . . . . . . . . . . J. ANDREW BLEVINS Stage Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jennifer Scott For TROIKA ENTERTAINMENT Assistant Stage Manager. . . . . . . . . . Justin Coffman Chief Executive Officer. . . . . . . . . . Randall A. Buck Assistant Choreographers. . Ellenore Scott, Lili Froehlich Chief Operating Officer. . . . . . . . . . . Angela Rowles Dance Captains. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Erin Chupinsky, Executive Vice President, Production. . . . Kori Prior Austin Joseph Reynolds 46

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Executive Vice President, Marketing. . . . Amy Katz General Managers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Karen Berry, Brian Schrader, Tyler Soltis Assistant General Managers. . . . . . Madeline M. McCluskey, A.J. Orth Technical Director. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dave Burch Production Managers. . . . . . . . . . . Heather Chockley, Gregg Damanti, Jessica Sentak Production Coordinator. . . . . . . . . . . . . Drew Neitzey Director of Engagements. . . . . . . . . Barrett Newman Director of Finance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brian Jacob Financial Controller. . . . . . . . . . . . . George Lamberty Senior Accountant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lourdes Castillo Accounting Clerk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Electra Walker Office Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mary Lauritzen Costume Shop Administrator. . . . . Alison M. Smith Warehouse Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Scott Garrish www.troika.com CREDITS Scenery and automation by TTS STUDIOS, Charleston, SC. Lighting equipment from PRG LIGHTING. Sound equipment by SOUND ASSOCIATES. Rigging equipment by CHRISTIE LIGHTS. Light up and large costumes executed by John Kristiansen New York Inc. Grizabella costume executed by Sasha Keir. Leotards executed by Phil Reynolds. Painting by Nicola Killeen Textile. Jennyanydots painting by Hochi Asiatico.

Leg and arm warmers knitted by Jo Thompson.

Skimbleshanks and Victor knitted by Marian Grealiish.

Additional makeup consultation by Karen Dawson.

FLYING BY FOY CATS rehearsed at the New 42nd Street® Studios www.CATSTheMusical.com The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.

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

Backstage and Front of the House Employees are represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (or I.A.T.S.E) The Director-Choreographer is a member of the STAGE DIRECTORS AND CHOREOGRAPHERS SOCIETY, a national theatrical labor union.

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

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

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

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MUSIC AND LYRICS BY

JIMMY BUFFETT

SHOW SPONSOR

SHOW SPONSOR

Synovus Bank, Member FDIC.

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TROIKA ENTERTAINMENT, LLC presents

Chris Clark Book by

Sarah Hinrichsen

Music by

GREG GARCIA & MIKE O’MALLEY

JIMMY BUFFETT

Starring

CHRIS CLARK SARAH HINRICHSEN SHELLY LYNN WALSH PETER MICHAEL JORDAN RACHEL LYN FOBBS PATRICK COGAN MATTHEW JAMES SHERROD Shelly Lynn Walsh

Peter Michael Jordan

Rachel Lyn Fobbs

Patrick Cogan

Matthew James Sherrod

Sophie Braud

Noah Bridgestock

DeVon Buchanan

Anthony Cataldo

Chantelle Cognevich

SOPHIE BRAUD NOAH BRIDGESTOCK DeVON BUCHANAN ANTHONY CATALDO CHANTELLE COGNEVICH KATIE DAVIS NICO DIPRIMIO FABIAN-JOUBERT GALLMEISTER DIEGO ALEJANDRO GONZÁLEZ BOBBY HOGAN AIMEE LANE VICTORIA PRICE TRENT SOYSTER EMMA STRICKER JADE TURNER MORGAN UNGER TYLER WHITAKER Scenic Design by

Costume Design by

Lighting Design by

Sound Design by

WALT SPANGLER

PAUL TAZEWELL

HOWELL BINKLEY & AMANDA ZIEVE

BRIAN RONAN & CRAIG CASSIDY

Wigs, Hair & Makeup Design by

Casting by

LEAH J. LOUKAS

BINDER CASTING

CHAD ERIC MURNANE. C.S.A.

Orchestrations

Dance Music Arrangements

Music Consultant

MICHAEL UTLEY

GARY ADLER

MAC McANALLY

Music Director

Music Coordinator

ANDREW DAVID SOTOMAYOR

TALITHA FEHR

Production Stage Manager

Company Manager

SUZAYN MACKENZIE-ROY ANDREW TERLIZZI

Exclusive Tour Direction

Marketing and Publicity Direction

Social Media

THE BOOKING GROUP

BOND THEATRICAL GROUP

MARATHON DIGITAL

Associate Choreographer

Production Manager

General Manager

Executive Producer

ANDREW TURTELTAUB

HEATHER CHOCKLEY

BRIAN SCHRADER

ANGELA ROWLES

Katie Davis

Nico DiPrimio

FabianJoubert Gallmeister

Trent Soyster

Emma Stricker

Diego Alejandro González

Bobby Hogan

Aimee Lane

Morgan Unger

Tyler Whitaker

Music Supervision & Arrangements and Additional Orchestrations by

CHRISTOPHER JAHNKE Directed by

AMY ANDERS CORCORAN Choreographed by

KELLY DEVINE Based on the Original Direction by

CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY

Victoria Price

Jade Turner

ESCAPE TO MARGARITAVILLE IS PRESENTED THROUGH SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT WITH BROADWAY LICENSING, 7 PENN PLAZA SUITE 904 NEW YORK, NY 10001 WWW.BROADWAYLICENSING.COM

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CAST Tully. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHRIS CLARK Rachel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SARAH HINRICHSEN Tammy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SHELLY LYNN WALSH Brick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PETER MICHAEL JORDAN Marley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RACHEL LYN FOBBS J.D.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PATRICK COGAN Jamal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MATTHEW JAMES SHERROD Chadd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NOAH BRIDGESTOCK Jesús. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DIEGO ALEJANDRO GONZÁLEZ Ted. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DeVON BUCHANAN Ensemble. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SOPHIE BRAUD, NOAH BRIDGESTOCK, DeVON BUCHANAN, ANTHONY CATALDO, CHANTELLE COGNEVICH, KATIE DAVIS, NICO DIPRIMIO, FABIAN-JOUBERT GALLMEISTER, DIEGO ALEJANDRO GONZÁLEZ, BOBBY HOGAN, AIMEE LANE, TRENT SOYSTER, EMMA STRICKER, JADE TURNER, MORGAN UNGER SWINGS VICTORIA PRICE, TYLER WHITAKER DANCE CAPTAIN AIMEE LANE UNDERSTUDIES Understudies never substitute for the listed players unless a specific posting or announcement is made at the time of the performance.

For Tully: NOAH BRIDGESTOCK, BOBBY HOGAN; for Rachel: KATIE DAVIS, AIMEE LANE; for Tammy: CHANTELLE COGNEVICH, JADE TURNER; for Brick: ANTHONY CATALDO, DIEGO ALEJANDRO GONZÁLEZ; for Marley: VICTORIA PRICE, JADE TURNER; for J.D.: ANTHONY CATALDO, MATTHEW JAMES SHERROD; for Jamal: DeVON BUCHANAN, DIEGO ALEJANDRO GONZÁLEZ. Setting: Present Day, The Caribbean & Ohio

MUSICAL NUMBERS (in alphabetical order)

A Pirate Looks at Forty Breathe In, Breathe Out, Move On Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes Cheeseburger in Paradise Coast of Marseilles Coconut Telegraph Come Monday Fins Grapefruit - Juicy Fruit Havana Daydreamin’ He Went to Paris It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere It’s My Job Last Mango in Paris License to Chill Love and Luck Margaritaville My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink and I Don’t Love Jesus One Particular Harbour Son of a Son of a Sailor Three Chords Tin Cup Chalice Volcano We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us About Why Don’t We Get Drunk ORCHESTRA

Music Director/Keyboard: ANDREW DAVID SOTOMAYOR Guitars- CLAUDIO RAINO, JAKOB SMITH; Bass- JOELA OLIVER; Steel Drums- RUSS HENRY; Drums- TAURUS LOVELY; Trumpet- JAKE BOLDMAN; Reeds- EMMA REINHART Keyboard Programmer: Randy Cohen Music Coordinator: Talitha Fehr

THERE WILL BE ONE 15-MINUTE INTERMISSION The taking of photographs, videotaping or other recording of this production is a violation of the copyright law and an actionable federal offense.

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WHO’S WHO CHRIS CLARK (Tully) National tour debut! Proud graduate of Texas State University. Regional: Sister Act (Joey), Pippin at Music Theatre Wichita; Beauty and the Beast (Gaston) at Shenandoah Summer MT; Garland Summer Musicals. Love and gratitude to CGF, Mom, Dad, Brett, & Em. @chrisclark55 SARAH HINRICHSEN (Rachel) Off-Broadway: The Imbible: Day Drinking (Original Cast). Favorite Regional: Little Women (Jo March), Newsies (Katherine), Cinderella (Gabrielle). OCSA/OCU alum. Endless love and thanks to the entire perfect creative team, Chad at Binder Casting, my angel friends, SD and of course Mom and Dad whom she would be nothing without! Ahh! @sare_hin SHELLY LYNN WALSH (Tammy) National Tour debut! Off-Broadway: Sistas: The Musical (Heather). Regional fav: Always Patsy Cline (Patsy Cline). Thank you to Baker Management, Chad from Binder Casting, Mom, Dad, Cyndi, Ash and Dan. Cheers to strong, loud women everywhere!

Rider MT Grad, Go Broncs! @shellylynnwalsh PETER MICHAEL JORDAN (Brick) This is Peter’s first national tour. He is fresh out of college where he attended The Boston Conservatory at Berklee. He is so excited to be joining the cast and be able to kick off his professional career with the music he grew up with thanks to his Parrot Head family. IG:@LatifahPeter RACHEL LYN FOBBS (Marley) is thrilled to be making her national tour debut! Regional: Matilda (Virginia Stage Company), Godspell (St. Michael’s Playhouse), and NOAH (Sight & Sound Theatre).

BA in Theatre, Minor in Music. Sending gratitude to God, her supportive family, and Chad.

PATRICK COGAN (J.D.) National Tours: The Full Monty (Harold Nichols), Annie (Oliver Warbucks), Damn Yankees (Coach Van Buren), A Christmas Carol (Christmas Present). Regional Theater: Romeo & Juliet (Friar Laurence), She Loves Me (Mr. Maraczek), Man of La Mancha (Governor/ Innkeeper).

MATTHEW JAMES SHERROD (Jamal/U/S J.D.) is so excited to bring this hilarious & heartwarming show across the country. Get ready to laugh and get ready to sing along! “Life is a journey that’s measured not in miles or years but in experiences” - Jimmy Buffett SOPHIE BRAUD (Ensemble) is thrilled to be touring with Escape to Margaritaville! Regional: West Side Story; Hello, Dolly!; and Mamma Mia! (Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma); Texas! The Musical (The Pioneer Amphitheater). OCU Grad.

Endless love to family, friends, mentors, and most importantly, God. Instagram:@sophie_braud www.sophiebraud.com #loveforlorna NOAH BRIDGESTOCK (Chadd/Ensemble/U/S Tully) Regional theatre: Fingerlakes Musical Theatre

Festival (Grease!), John W. Engeman Theatre (The Full Monty), New Stage Theatre (Vanya & Sonia...

Spike). National tour: A Chorus Line directed by original Broadway cast member Baayork Lee. Much love and thanks to mom and the whole fam, Michael Rodriquez at The Roster! This one and all the rest for EST. @snowybridgestock DeVON BUCHANAN (Ted/Ensemble/U/S Jamal) of Nashville, is thrilled to make his National Broadway Tour Debut! Credits include Joseph...Dreamcoat (Studio Tenn), Chicago (Nashville REP), In the Heights (Westchester Broadway Theater) and The Wiz (Arkansas REP).

Thanks to About Artist Agency, Family, and friends for their support! Instagram: divadevo86 ANTHONY CATALDO (Ensemble/ U/S Brick, J.D.) Previous credits: Curly McClain, Oklahoma!; Mr. Wormwood, Matilda (Wagon Wheel); Bob McCaffery, South Pacific (Triad Stage); Louis/Billy Webster, Sunday in the Park with George; Bird Seller/ Quintet, Sweeney Todd (North Carolina Summer Rep). Education: University of North Carolina at Greensboro. anthonycataldo.com @anthonyscataldo CHANTELLE COGNEVICH (Ensemble/U/S Tammy) Favorite Credits: It Shoulda Been You (Jenny Steinberg), Hairspray (Tracy Turnblad), See What I Wanna See, Gollum Owned a Tropical Smoothie, Romeo & Juliet (Nurse). Special thanks to the creative team, TROIKA Entertainment, and her friends and family. www.chantellecognevich.com KATIE DAVIS (Ensemble/U/S Rachel) is thrilled to be back out on the road! Credits include Annie National Tour (Star To Be), Mamma Mia! (Sophie), Newsies (Katherine). Proud graduate of Belmont University Class of ‘16. Katie thanks Mom & Dad, and Shelly. All glory to Him. Instagram: katieddavis NICO DiPRIMIO (Ensemble) Nico is thrilled to be in the Margaritaville family! A graduate of The American Musical and Dramatic Academy in NYC. Recently seen in the National Tour of A Charlie Brown Christmas. Regional: Mamma Mia, Guys and Dolls, The Light in the Piazza, Hair. He would like to thank his family for their endless amount of love and support! @nicoo_d FABIAN-JOUBERT GALLMEISTER (Ensemble) National Tour Debut! Regional: Grand Hotel (Merry Go Round Playhouse), Mamma Mia! (TBTS), CATS (Rum Tum Tugger), HAIR (Berger). NYU Steinhardt Graduate M.M. Special thanks to my family, Margaritaville creatives, Binder Casting, Lucille, and John - I love you. Instagram: @fabianjoubert DIEGO ALEJANDRO GONZÁLEZ (Jesús/ Ensemble/U/S Brick, Jamal) Credits: Cinderella, All Shook Up, 9 to 5 (Arrow Rock Lyceum), Man of La Mancha (JW Engeman). BFA Abilene Christian University: Mr. Mistoffelees (CATS), Caliban (The Tempest). Endless love and thanks

WHO’S WHO to the creative team, TPG Talent, Chad at Binder Casting, Familia in TX/MX/NYC, and William.

Psalm 100. diegogzz.com BOBBY HOGAN (Ensemble/U/S Tully) National tour debut! Regional: Joseph and...

Dreamcoat (Studio Tenn), Ren in Footloose (Grandstreet), Davey in Newsies (Chaffin’s Barn). Proud alum of Belmont ‘19. Thanks to all of his educators, mentors, friends and family! @bobbyhogan_ AIMEE LANE (Dance Captain/Ensemble/U/S Rachel) is so thrilled to be on her first National Tour with the most fun team on the road. Credits include Transcendence Theatre Company, Merry Go Round Playhouse, North Shore Music Theatre.

She also works as an associate to Richard Hinds and Marc Kimelman. Follow her adventures on the gram at @missaimeelane. Shoutout to the #Freeway for being the best around!

VICTORIA PRICE (Swing, U/S Marley) is so excited to be a part of Escape to Margaritaville!

On her previous tours she was either a pup (Paw Patrol Live) or a Who (How the Grinch Stole Christmas) so getting to walk normally on stage is a welcomed change. She has also performed at Tent Theatre & Weathervane NH. Truly all glory to God & so many thanks to her incredible mother & sisters for their support & also the Avalon team.

She dedicates every performance to her dad.

Romans 12:10 @__victoriaprice TRENT SOYSTER (Ensemble) National Tour debut! Originally from Pittsburgh, PA, favorite regional credits include: Newsies (PCLO), Grease (Finger Lakes MTF), CATS (Mr. Mistoffelees ILST)! Proud Pace MT #PUMT! None of this is possible without the support of the best family and friends ever. Follow the adventures: @tscott8 on Instagram!

EMMA STRICKER (Ensemble) is thrilled to be making her professional debut in the Escape to Margaritaville tour. Emma gives a special thanks to all of her family, friends, and amazing teachers for all their love and support. IAMT ’19! @emmastricker JADE TURNER (Ensemble/ U/S Marley, Tammy) is so excited to be merging her two passions in life, musical theatre and margaritas! Regional credits: Asolo Rep’s Ragtime, Roe and The Music Man directed by Jeff Calhoun. Film credits: Ben Platt’s “Temporary Love” music video. Graduate of The University of Tampa. Thanks to friends and family for their support.

MORGAN UNGER (Ensemble) Graduate of the Dance Theatre Conservatory Program of AMDA NY. Recent: Elf the Musical National Tour, Original Production of Beauty and the Beast Disney Cruise Line. NY Theatre’s include: Hammerstein Ballroom, The Public Theater,

Dixon Place and Inwood Art Works. Love and light @morganunger_ TYLER WHITAKER (Swing) National tour debut! Credits include West Side Story at The Kennedy Center, The Atlanta Opera, The Lyric Opera of Kansas City, and The Glimmerglass Festival, Sweeney Todd at FLMTF, and Gypsy at OSTC. BFA from The Boston Conservatory. For my parents, always.

JIMMY BUFFETT (Composer/Lyricist) Singer/ songwriter/author Jimmy Buffett has become a legend of popular culture as the composer of such classic songs as “Margaritaville,” “Come Monday” and “Cheeseburger in Paradise.” He has recorded over 50 albums, most of which have gone gold, platinum or multi-platinum. His sold-out concert tours are an annual rite of summer passage for his multigenerational legions of fans, some affectionately known as Parrot Heads, many of whom are professionals by day and who dress in spectacular and outrageous tropical outfits and headwear when Jimmy comes to town. Born in the Gulf Coast town of Pascagoula, Mississippi, he was raised in Mobile, Alabama. He is a fourthgeneration sailor and fisherman, a pilot, a surfer and a frequent traveler to remote and exotic places of the world, having become addicted to National Geographic magazine as a child. The lyrics to many of his songs are influenced by his travels all over the globe. As a best-selling author, he is one of only nine authors in the history of The New York Times Bestseller List to have reached #1 on both their fiction and non-fiction lists.

Jimmy has received two Grammy nominations, numerous Country Music Association awards and was the recipient of one of the nation’s highest songwriting honors when he was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. And now Jimmy is heading back into the theatre world. The new musical Escape to Margaritaville features the music and lifestyle of Jimmy Buffett, from an original story, and includes both new songs and the most-loved Buffett classics. Speaking of Buffett classics, the most famous of them all, “Margaritaville” has been inducted into the 2016 Grammy Hall of Fame for its cultural and historic significance. Only those recordings that have influenced and inspired both music creators and fans for generations are considered for this most special honor.

GREG GARCIA (Book) created three backto-back syndicated comedies: “Yes, Dear,” “My Name is Earl,” “Raising Hope.” He has written on a variety of other sitcoms, including “Family Matters” and “Family Guy,” and won an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for the pilot of “My Name is Earl.” Garcia entered the world of musical theatre for the sole reason of hoping his oldest son Camden, a very talented actor at Boston University, would think he was 61

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WHO’S WHO cool. When he’s not writing, directing and producing TV shows, he likes to watch hockey with his son Nathan, play board games with his son Trace and walk Mabel the dog on the beach with his amazing wife Kim. MIKE O’MALLEY (Book) is the creator of the award-winning television series Survivor’s Remorse,-which recently completed its four season run on Starz. Next up, he will be the showrunner for the LionsGate/Starz hourlong drama Heels which will begin production in 2020. O’Malley also wrote on Showtime’s Shameless for the first four seasons.

As an actor, he was nominated for an Emmy for his portrayal of Burt Hummel on Glee and recently appeared in YouTube Premium’s Wayne as well as the upcoming Snowpiercer for TNT. Television acting credits include: Yes, Dear; Justified; My Own Worst Enemy; My Name is Earl; Welcome to the Family and The Mike O’Malley Show. Film acting credits include: Sully, Concussion, 28 Days, Deep Impact, Cedar Rapids, Eat Pray Love and Meet Dave. Way back when, he hosted the Nickelodeon shows Get the Picture and Guts. He is the author of two plays that have been published by Samuel French: Three Years from Thirty and Diverting Devotion. His play Searching for Certainty was adapted into the film Certainty, which won the Best Screenplay award at the Boston film Festival.

Born in Boston, and raised in New Hampshire, Mr. O’Malley resides in Los Angeles with his wife Lisa and their three children.

CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY (Original Broadway Direction) Artistic Director, La Jolla Playhouse.

Broadway: Come From Away (Tony Award® winner), Memphis (Tony Award® nomination), Xanadu, Leap of Faith, All Shook Up, Rocky Horror Show (Tony Award® nomination). West End: Memphis, Come From Away. New York credits include: Blown Sideways Through Life, Jeffrey, The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, Valhalla, Regrets Only, Wonder of the World, Communicating Doors, Bunny Bunny, The Night Hank Williams Died, Fires in the Mirror (Lucille Lortel Award). Kennedy Center: Sweeney Todd, Merrily We Roll Along, Lisbon Traviata. La Jolla Playhouse selected credits: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Darrell Hammond Project, Hollywood, His Girl Friday, Glengarry Glen Ross, Restoration. Film/TV: Lucky Stiff, Jeffrey, “American Playhouse,” PBS: “Blown Sideways Through Life.”

KELLY DEVINE (Choreographer) Broadway: Come From Away (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations), Doctor Zhivago, Rocky (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Award nominations), Rock of Ages. International: Rocky (Germany), Rock of Ages (UK: West End & Tour, Toronto, Australia), Doctor Zhivago (Australia, Korea). Opera: Faust (NY Met & London ENO), Wozzeck (San Diego Opera). OffBroadway: Rock of Ages, Fat Camp, Frankenstein, 62

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Anne Wrecksick. TV: “Mozart in the Jungle,” “Wormwood,” “Dear Dumb Diary.” Film: Detroit (Kathryn Bigelow director); Untouchable (Nicole Kidman and Bryan Cranston); Happy, Texas.

Stratford Shakespeare Festival: Cabaret, Romeo and Juliet. Regionals: Come From Away, Peter and the Starcatcher, Doctor Zhivago, Private Fittings, Toxic Avenger, A Christmas Story, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson.

AMY ANDERS CORCORAN (Director) holds a BA in Psychology with Honors from the University of Kansas and a MFA in Directing from Penn State University. Amy was the associate/resident director of Escape to Margaritaville for Christopher Ashley on the pre-Broadway tour and also on Broadway.

She served as Mr. Ashley’s Associate Director on Disney’s Freaky Friday. Amy directs mostly new musicals, including the NYC Off-Broadway and London premieres last year of Unexpected Joy. Amy’s work has also been seen at Asolo Rep, The Guthrie, Goodspeed, and American Conservatory Theater. Favorite directing credits include: 21 Chump Street (European Premiere), I Am My Own Wife (NYC site-specific production), Little Women, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, CULT!, and Bhangin’ It. Amy received the SDC Noël Coward Fellowship for Comedic Direction mentored by Mark Rucker.

Proud member of SDC. Grateful for Scott, Lucy, Mom, Dad, family and the village.

ANDREW TURTELTAUB (Associate Choreographer) Choreography credits include, A Capitol Fourth on PBS 2019, Fame (Macua International Music Festival), Fame (Capital Playhouse), commercial’s for GLICO, Bud Light, Trojan and TENA. Break Out In Song. Associate/ Assistant credits include, Escape To Margaritaville (Bway & La Jolla Playhouse), Music City (Cape Fear Regional Theatre), Katy Keene (CW), Modern Love (Amazon), Mozart In The Jungle (Amazon), Chicago, Forever Plaid, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Hairspray (New Theatre), A Chorus Line (Lenape PAC), DanceBreak (Ailey Theatre), Grease (Paper Mill Playhouse), Sweet Charity (Broadway workshop), Carnivale (Radio City Music Hall) and Orpheus (NYC Opera).

Thank you Kelly Devine for this opportunity, and Lucille DiCampli at LDC Artists. Thank you to my family & friends for their never-ending love and support! www.AndrewTurteltaub.com CHRISTOPHER JAHNKE (Music Supervisor/ Vocal & Incidental Music Arranger/Additional Orchestrations) Orchestrator: (Broadway/London) Porgy and Bess (Tony nomination- Best Orchestrations), new orchestrations for Les Misérables (performed worldwide since 2006), Legally Blonde, King Kong, Cry-Baby, Grease (2007), Dessa Rose, A Man of No Importance, Wind in the Willows (Stiles & Drewe).

Other orchestrations: Do You Hear the People Sing? (symphonic tour of Boublil/Schönberg), Tom Jones (Stiles & Leigh), Just So (Stiles & Drewe),

WHO’S WHO Lady Gaga (“The Sound of Music” - 2015 Oscars, with Stephen Oremus), “The Wiz Live!,” Rufus Wainwright, Radio City Rockettes and Emily Bear.

Music Supervisor: Memphis. Apprentice to orchestrator William David Brohn: Sweet Smell of Success, Ragtime, The Secret Garden, The Three Musketeers, The Witches of Eastwick, Mary Poppins and Wicked.

WALT SPANGLER (Scenic Designer) Broadway: Tuck Everlasting, A Christmas Story, Desire Under the Elms, Scandalous, Hollywood Arms.

Walt has designed for theater, opera and dance for many theaters around the nation and around the globe.

PAUL TAZEWELL (Costume Designer) designed the original Broadway production of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award®-winning Hamilton. Other Broadway productions include In the Heights; The Color Purple; Doctor Zhivago; Memphis; Caroline, or Change; Elaine Stritch at Liberty; Bring in ‘Da Noise, Bring in ‘Da Funk; Russel Simmons’ Def Poetry Jam; Lombardi; and Magic/Bird. Broadway revivals include Side Show; A Streetcar Named Desire; Jesus Christ Superstar; Guys and Dolls; A Raisin in the Sun; and On the Town. For Focus Features he designed Harriet and the upcoming West Side Story directed by Steven Spielberg for Disney Films. In 2016, Paul received both a Tony Award® for Hamilton and the Emmy Award® for “The Wiz Live!” on NBC. He also designed The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks for HBO Films starring Oprah Winfrey.

HOWELL BINKLEY (Lighting Designer) Ain’t Too Proud - The Life and Times of The Temptations (2019 Tony nom.), Come From Away (2017 Tony nom.), A Bronx Tale, Hamilton (2016 Tony winner/2018 Olivier Award winner), After Midnight (2014 Tony nom.), How to Succeed…

(2011 Tony nom.), West Side Story (2009 Tony nom.), In the Heights (2008 Tony nom.), Jersey Boys (2006 Tony winner), Avenue Q, Parade, Kiss of the Spider Woman (1993 Tony nom./ Olivier and Dora Award Winner). Co-Founder and Resident Lighting Designer for Parsons Dance for which he has designed over 85 pieces.

2006 and 2016 Henry Hewes Design Awards for Jersey Boys and Hamilton.

AMANDA ZIEVE (Lighting Designer) has collaborated with Howell Binkley on many productions over the last 12 years. She recently designed Tiny Beautiful Things, Barefoot in the Park, Native Gardens, The Wanderers, and Rich Girl (The Old Globe), Put Your House in Order (The La Jolla Playhouse), Billy Elliot and Titanic (Signature Theatre Company), Sweeney Todd and Roof of the World (Kansas City Repertory Theatre) and Approval Junkie (Alliance Theatre). amandazieve.com.

BRIAN RONAN (Sound Designer) Over 40 Broadway designs including The Prom, Tootsie, Mean Girls, Margaritaville, Springsteen on Broadway, War Paint, The Last Ship, Beautiful, If/Then, Anything Goes, American Idiot, Next to Normal, Spring Awakening, Grey Gardens.

On the West End: Spring Awakening, Book of Mormon and Beautiful. Off Broadway designs include Bowie’s Lazarus, Giant, Rent, Everyday Rapture, Saved, 10 Million Miles, and Bug. He is the recipient of Obie, Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk, Olivier and Tony awards.

CRAIG CASSIDY (Sound Designer) has been providing sound reinforcement for the theater for 25 years. Designing sound for productions in the USA and around the world. Recent productions include: Spamalot, The Color Purple, A Chorus Line, Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy, Ring Of Fire, Gypsy, Man of La Mancha, Grease, The Will Rogers Follies, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Fame and Phantom. When he is not behind a sound console you can find him sailing the Long Island Sound with his wife Dina & daughter Kealy.

LEAH J. LOUKAS (Wigs, Hair & Makeup Designer) Broadway: Time and the Conways; Marvin’s Room; Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812; Sweat; Oh, Hello!; The Heidi Chronicles, On the Town, A Night with Janis Joplin; Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; American Idiot; Irena’s Vow. The Public Theater: Sweat, Plenty, Barbecue, Fortress of Solitude. Shakespeare in the Park series: Julius Caeser, Taming of the Shrew, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Into the Woods. Ms. Loukas has designed various productions at many regional theaters including: La Jolla Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Dallas Theater Center and The Muny.

MICHAEL UTLEY (Orchestrator) A multitalented musician/producer/composer, Utley has spent the last 5 decades producing artists like Roy Orbison, Jimmy Buffett, Rita Coolidge and Todd Snider, and recording with such legends as Aretha Franklin and Jackson Browne. In 1973, Jimmy Buffett asked Utley to play on his first ABC/Dunhill release, A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean. Utley worked as Arranger and Producer on such records as One Particular Harbour, Floridays, Hot Water, Feeding Frenzy and the number one Billboard album License to Chill. Utley began touring full time as a “Coral Reefer” in 1981 and became the musical director of the band in 1993. In 2019 Utley was selected as the University of Arkansas Alumni Association Johnson Fellow.

GARY ADLER (Dance Music Arranger) has been working as a theater musician in New York for over 25 years. As a pianist and conductor, his credits include Avenue Q, Kinky Boots, Next to Normal and The Radio City Christmas Spectacular. As a writer, he wrote music and lyr63

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WHO’S WHO ics for the long-running Off-Broadway musical Altar Boyz, for which he received two Drama Desk Award nominations. Other writing credits include Disney Channel’s “Johnny and the Sprites” and a number of contributions to the “Carols for a Cure” album series.

MAC McANALLY (Music Consultant) is an award-winning writer, producer, vocalist, multiinstrumentalist and all around musical sage, whose enviable registry of credits includes Roy Orbison, Toby Keith, Zac Brown Band, Hank Williams, Jr., Amy Grant, Jimmy Buffett, Linda Ronstadt, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Dolly Parton and many more. A touring member of Buffett’s “Coral Reefer Band,” he has produced several of Buffett’s albums and has written many of his songs. McAnally has been inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Alabama Music Hall of Fame and the Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame. The Country Music Association has named him Musician of the Year for an unprecedented 10 years.

ANDREW DAVID SOTOMAYOR (Music Director) Previous credits include Curvy Widow (Westside Theatre), West Side Story (Maltz Jupiter Theatre), Man of La Mancha (Westport Country Playhouse), The Will Rogers Follies (Merry-GoRound), Cutman: A Boxing Musical (Goodspeed).

As a composer he provided music and lyrics for 50 Shades of F****d Up and Committed, as well as scores for the films BX3M and Cuba 1961: A Love Story. He is a proud graduate of Stetson University, Florida. www.soto.fun TALITHA FEHR (Music Coordinator) has worked on over 70 national and international tours and productions. Highlights include: Sister Act, Mamma Mia!, School of Rock, Come Fly Away, Love Never Dies and CATS, as well as the Vancouver Olympic Ceremonies 2010. She dedicates her work on Escape to Margaritaville to the memory of her mentor, Sam Lutfiyya.

SUZAYN MACKENZIE-ROY (Production Stage Manager) is happy to return to the road following the birth of her son, Sosuke. Favorite touring credits with TROIKA include Annie (national and international), Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth, and three years of Fiddler on the Roof. Knathan – liily!

ANDREW TERLIZZI (Company Manager) is currently in his eighth season with TROIKA Entertainment, having previously worked on the national tours of Kinky Boots, Bodyguard the Musical, Cheers Live on Stage, The Wizard of Oz, Sister Act the Musical, Ghost: the Musical and Priscilla Queen of the Desert. Prior to joining TROIKA, he was Assistant Company Manager for the first National Tour of West Side Story. He has also company managed for Williamstown Theatre Festival and The Studio Theatre in Washington, 64

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EMMA IACOMETTA (Assistant Stage Manager, Assistant Company Manager) is excited for her first production with TROIKA! National tour: Noël.

Regional: Williamstown Theatre Festival, All For One Theatre, Piedmont Opera, Triad Stage. Concerts: From Broadway With Love (Van Dean Prod.), Broadway Fights Back with March for Our Lives (Silver/Sussman). Love to Mom. BINDER CASTING/ CHAD ERIC MURNANE, CSA (Casting) Binder Casting, now part of RWS Entertainment Group, was founded by Jay Binder, CSA in 1984.

Binder Casting has cast over 80 Broadway productions, dozens of National Tours, off-Broadway shows, full seasons for over 25 regional theatres, as well as feature films, episodic television and commercials. Binder has cast for Encores! at New York City Center since its inception in 1994. The office was also featured in the documentary, Every Little Step. Binder Casting is a twelve–time recipient of the Artios Award. www.bindercasting.com THE BOOKING GROUP (Tour Booking Agency) Since its inception in 1996, The Booking Group has represented 25 Tony Award-winning Best Musicals and Plays. Current touring productions include: Hamilton, Anastasia, The Book of Mormon, Come From Away, Dear Evan Hansen, Fiddler on the Roof, Hello, Dolly!, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, Mean Girls, My Fair Lady, Rent: The 20th Anniversary Tour and Waitress. Future productions include: Hadestown, 1776, The Cher Show, Pretty Woman, To Kill a Mockingbird and Tootsie.

BOND THEATRICAL GROUP (Marketing and Publicity Direction) is a fully independent booking, marketing and publicity company for live entertainment productions. Current tour marketing and booking projects include Blue Man Group, CATS, Clueless, Girl from the North Country, First Date, Jesus Christ Superstar, Kathleen Turner’s Finding My Voice, Latin History for Morons, An Officer & A Gentleman, Once on this Island and Spamilton.

Current marketing and publicity projects include Anastasia, The Band’s Visit, Dear Evan Hansen, Diana, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

The Musical, Escape to Margaritaville, Fiddler on the Roof, Moulin Rouge!, Oklahoma!, The Color Purple, The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway and The Prom.

TROIKA ENTERTAINMENT (Producer, Tour Management) has been an innovator in touring musical theater productions for over two decades, producing shows throughout North, Central and South America, Europe and Asia. Additionally, the company is experienced in casino and leisure markets. Current and upcoming productions include CATS, The Phantom of the Opera,

WHO’S WHO Escape to Margaritaville, The Color Purple and My Fair Lady. With strong ties to the Broadway community, TROIKA prides itself on delivering top quality productions to audiences worldwide.

Please visit us at www.troika.com.

MUSIC CREDITS A PIRATE LOOKS AT FORTY; COME MONDAY; and GRAPEFRUIT-JUICY FRUIT. Written by Jimmy Buffett. Used by permission of Songs of Universal, Inc. (BMI). All Rights Reserved. BOAT DRINKS; CHANGES IN LATITUDES, CHANGES IN ATTITUDES; CHEESEBURGER IN PARADISE; COCONUT TELEGRAPH; HAVANA DAYDREAMIN’; MARGARITAVILLE; MY HEAD HURTS, MY FEET STINK, AND I DON’T LOVE JESUS; SON OF A SON OF A SAILOR; THREE CHORDS; and WE ARE THE PEOPLE OUR PARENTS WARNED US ABOUT. Written by Jimmy Buffett. Used by permission of Coral Reefer Music (BMI). All Rights Reserved. BREATHE IN, BREATHE OUT, MOVE ON. Written by Jimmy Buffett and Matt Benton. Used by permission of Coral Reefer Music (BMI) and Matthew Thornton Betton, Jr. All Rights Reserved. COAST OF MARSEILLES. Written by Keith Sykes. Used by permission of Keith Sykes Music (BMI). All Rights Reserved. FINS. Written by Jimmy Buffett, Barry Chance, Thomas Corcoran and Deborah McColl. Used by permission of Coral Reefer Music (BMI) and Songs of Universal, Inc. (BMI). All Rights Reserved. HE WENT TO PARIS. Written by Jimmy Buffett. Used by permission of Universal Music Corp. (ASCAP). All Rights Antisia Music Inc. (ASCAP). All Rights Reserved. HOLIDAY. Written

by Jimmy Buffett, William Eaton, Ralph MacDonald, William Salter. Used by permission of BMG Ruby Songs (ASCAP) o/b/o itself and Antisia Music Inc. (ASCAP).

All Rights Reserved. I WAVE BYE BYE. Written by Jesse Winchester. Used by permission of BMG Bumblebee (BMI) o/b/o itself and Musique Chanteclair, Inc. (ASCAP).

All Rights Reserved. IT’S BEEN A LOVELY CRUISE. Written by Jonathan Baham. Used by permission of Coral Reefer Music (BMI) and BMG Songs (ASCAP). All Rights Reserved. IT’S FIVE O’CLOCK SOMEWHERE. Written by Jim Brown and Don Rollins. Used by permission of ClearBox Rights, LLC o/b/o Sea Gayle Music LLC (ASCAP), Spirit Two Nashville o/b/o Spirit Services Holdings, S.A.R.L (ASCAP), and Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp o/b/o R. Joseph Publishing (BMI). All Rights Reserved. IT’S MY JOB. Written by Lyman “Mac” McAnally, Jr. Used by permission of Universal Music Corp. (BMI). All Rights Reserved. JAMAICA MISTAICA. Written by Jimmy Buffett, Russ Kunkel, Roger Guth, Peter Mayer, Jim Mayer. Used by permission of Coral Reefer Music (BMI), Universal Music Corp. o/b/o itself and Olas Music (ASCAP), BMG Bumblebee (BMI) on behalf of itself and Little Flock Music (BMI), Alsation Music (BMI) and Cliffhanging Music (BMI). All Rights Reserved.

JOLLY MON SING. Written by Jimmy Buffett, Will Jennings, and Michael Utley. Used by permission of Coral Reefer Music (BMI), Coconutley Music (ASCAP), and Irving Music, Inc. o/b/o Blue Sky Rider Songs (BMI). All Rights Reserved. KING OF SOMEWHERE HOT. Written

by Jimmy Buffett, Robert Greenidge, Ralph MacDonald and William Salter. Used by permission of Coral Reefer Music (BMI), BMG Ruby Songs (ASCAP) o/b/o itself and

Antisia Music Inc. (ASCAP) and Rogree Music (ASCAP).

All Rights Reserved. KNEES OF MY HEART. Written

by Jimmy Buffett, Will Jennings and Michael Utley. Used by permission of Coral Reefer Music (BMI), Coconutley Music (ASCAP), and Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp.

(BMI). All Rights Reserved. LA VIE DANSANTE. Written

by Jimmy Buffett, Will Jennings and Michael Utley. Used by permission of Coral Reefer Music (BMI) and WarnerTamerlane Publishing Corp. (BMI). All Rights Reserved.

LAST MANGO IN PARIS. Written by Jimmy Buffett, M. Marshall Chapman, Will Jennings and Mike Utley. Used by permission of Coral Reefer Music (BMI), BMG Bumblebee o/b/o Tall Girl Music (BMI), Irving Music, Inc. o/b/o Blue Sky Rider Songs (BMI), Coconutley Music (ASCAP). All Rights Reserved. LICENSE TO CHILL. Written by Alan Anderson, Jimmy Buffett and Lyman “Mac” McAnally, Jr. Used by permission of Coral Reefer Music (BMI), TKO Artist Management o/b/o All About The Music (BMI), Songs Of Windswept Pacific o/b/o itself and What’s It Get Me Music (BMI). All Rights Reserved. LOVE AND LUCK. Written by Jimmy Buffett, Jocelyne Béroard and Jean-Claude Naimro. Used by permission of Coral Reefer Music (BMI). All Rights Reserved. OFF TO SEE THE LIZARD. Written by Jimmy Buffett and Jay Oliver. Used by permission of Coral Reefer Music (BMI) and The Royalty Network o/b/o Jay Oliver Music (ASCAP). All Rights Reserved. ONE PARTICULAR HARBOUR. Written by Jimmy Buffett and Bobby Holcomb. Used by permission of Coral Reefer Music (BMI). All Rights Reserved. RAGTOP DAY. Written by Jimmy Buffett, Wilbur H. Jennings and Michael Edward Utley. Used by permission of Coral Reefer Music (BMI), Coconutley Music (ASCAP), and WarnerTamerlane Publishing Corp. (BMI). All Rights Reserved.

SOMETHIN’ ’BOUT A BOAT. Written by Dave Berg, Patrick Davis, Jeff Hughes, James Otto, Eric Paslay and Django Walker. Used by permission of Djangold Music (ASCAP), Spirit Two Nashville (ASCAP), Downtown Music Publishing o/b/o Bergs Eye View (BMI), WarnerTamerlane Publishing Corp. (BMI) o/b/o itself, Eldorotto Music Publishing (BMI) and Pichi Richi Publishing (BMI), and Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC o/b/o EMI Blackwood Music Inc. (BMI) and Patrick Davis Music (BMI). All Rights Reserved. THE STORIES WE COULD TELL. Written by John Sebastian. Used by permission of Warner/Chappell Music Publishing o/b/o Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. and Downtown Music Publishing o/b/o Chicken Flats Music Inc. All Rights Reserved. TIN CUP CHALICE; and WHY DON’T WE GET DRUNK. Written

by Jimmy Buffett. Used by permission of Words And Music Worldwide o/b/o Big Deal Music, LLC and Let There Be Music (ASCAP). All Rights Reserved. VOLCANO. Written

by Jimmy Buffett, Harry Marshall Dailey and Elroy Keith Sykes. Used by permission of Coral Reefer Music (BMI) and Keith Sykes Music (BMI). All Rights Reserved.

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ESCAPE TO MARGARITAVILLE TOUR STAFF GENERAL MANAGEMENT & PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT

TROIKA ENTERTAINMENT GENERAL MANAGER BRIAN SCHRADER Assistant General Manager. . . A.J. Orth PRODUCTION MANAGER HEATHER CHOCKLEY TECHNICAL DIRECTOR DAVE BURCH COMPANY MANAGER ANDREW TERLIZZI CASTING BINDER CASTING Jay Binder, CSA, Mark Brandon, CSA Justin Bohon, CSA, Chad Eric Murnane, CSA Kyle Coker, Anthony Pichette, Jarrett Reiche Part of RWS Entertainment Group Ryan Stana CEO, Bruston Manuel COO MARKETING & PUBLICITY DIRECTION BOND THEATRICAL GROUP DJ Martin Temah Higgins Marc Viscardi Phillip Aleman Nicholas Jaech Matthew Lerner Nicole Musto Tori Viggiano Benjamin Nissen www.bondtheatricalgroup.com EXCLUSIVE TOUR BOOKING THE BOOKING GROUP Meredith Blair Brian Brooks Rich Rundle www.thebookinggroup.com PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER SUZAYN MACKENZIE-ROY Assistant Stage Manager/ Assistant Company Manager. . . . Emma Iacometta Dance Captain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aimee Lane Assistant Director. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maggie Monahan* Assistant Set Designer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yu Shibagaki Assistant Lighting Designer. . . . . . Matthew Kresch Assistant Sound Designer. . . . . . . Patrick LaChance Associate Hair/Makeup Design. . . . . Kaitie Adams Assistant Hair/Makeup Design. . . . . . Becky Walton Costume Coordinator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sarah Smith Production Electrician. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robert Virzera Production Audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Harry Platt Moving Light Programmer. . . . . . . . . . . . . Colin Scott HEAD CARPENTER. . . . SHELBY DAMRON Flyman/Rigger. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ivy Llewellyn Deck Carpenter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John White Head Electrician. . . . . . . . . . . Andrew D. Zaccagnini Assistant Electrician/Followspot. . . . Christopher Simko 66

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and Printing provided by BIG IMAGE SYSTEMS. Props from BRENBRI PROPS. Original Scenic items fabricated by PRG-SCENIC TECHNOLOGIES, a division of PRODUCTION RESOURCE GROUP, LLC, New Windsor, NY. Additional original scenery

by PROOF PRODUCTIONS, DAEDALUS DESIGN and PRODUCTION, and LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE. Production Travel & Housing by ROAD REBEL ENTERTAINMENT GLOBAL, San Diego, CA SPECIAL THANKS

Kevin Aman, Tamara Baldanza-Dekker, Melissa L. Bartle, Becky Biegelsen, Debby Buchholz, Mary Cook, Leah Dagen, Hailey Ferber, Deb Hatch, Darin Hinson, Don Holder, Lon Hoyt, Heikki Larsen, Mike Ramos, Paul Robb, Michael Rudd, Rick Van Noy, Scott Wasserman, Margaritaville Enterprises and the Margaritaville Brand Marketing team.

Beach Balls provided by Margaritaville. www.margaritaville.com To learn more about the production, please visit www.EscapeToMargaritavilleMusical.com Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram: @buffettmusical This production was rehearsed at Pearl Studios.

Technical rehearsals and previews held at PROVIDENCE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

Backstage and Front of the House Employees are represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (or I.A.T.S.E) The Director-Choreographer is a member of the STAGE DIRECTORS AND CHOREOGRAPHERS SOCIETY, a national theatrical labor union.

*SDC Associate Member United Scenic Artists represents the designers and scenic painters for the American Theatre.

CREDITS Scenic items and scenic refurbishment of original scenic items by GLOBAL SCENIC SERVICES and TTS STUDIOS. Lighting equipment provided

by PRG LIGHTING. Audio equipment provided

by PRG AUDIO. Softgoods provided by I. WEISS THEATRICAL SOLUTIONS. Additional Softgood

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BACKSTAGE AREAS RESTRICTED—For safety and security and out of respect for performers’ privacy, patrons are not given access to backstage areas be­fore or after performances.

HOUSE OPENING AND LATE ARRIVALS— RiverCenter’s Grand Lobby opens one hour prior to events and seating begins approximately 30 min­utes before curtain. At the discretion of house man­agement and in compliance with artists’ con­tractual agreements, latecomers will be seated at appropri­ate intervals during events. Latecomers may be seated near the entry doors out of cour­tesy to performers and other patrons.

PROHIBITED EQUIPMENT—Please be courteous and turn off devices such as cell phones and pagers. Photography and record­ing is prohibited in the theatres.

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SMOKE-FREE POLICY—RiverCenter is a smoke-free facility. Smoking is permitted in outdoor areas only. Thank you for your cooperation.

I N C A S E O F E M E RG E N C Y FIRE NOTICE—Exits are indicated by red “exit” signs. In case of fire or other emergency, please do not run, but walk to the exit nearest to your seat.

EMERGENCY NOTIFICATIONS—The RiverCenter emer­gency phone number is (706) 256-3610. Please pro­vide this number and your seat location to your personal contacts or child care providers.

S P E C I A L S E RV I C E S BAR SERVICE—Bar service is available in the Grand Lobby prior to the start and during inter­missions of most RiverCenter events.

Food and drink is not permit­ted in the theatres.

COURTESY CUPS—Refillable Courtesy Cups will now be sold at RiverCenter concessions for $10 each. These cups will be allowed into Bill Heard Theatre during select RiverCenter performances.

PRE-PURCHASE DRINKS—Pre-Purchase your drinks and other concession items before the show to maximize your intermission experience. Outside beverages are not permitted.

ELEVATOR—A patron elevator is located between the entrances to Bill Heard Theatre and Studio Theatre.

WHEELCHAIRS—Wheelchairs are available for pa­trons needing help getting to or from seating. Ushers will provide assistance.

LOST AND FOUND—Lost items should be given to an usher for storing with RiverCenter Security. These items are retained by Security for sixty days then donated to Valley Rescue Mission, Inc. Own­ers may claim lost items by calling (706) 256-3610.

RENT A VENUE BILL HEARD THEATRE, STUDIO THEATRE, AND/OR LEGACY HALL—Call (706) 256-3607 regarding availability of specific dates on the RiverCenter master calendar. Complete rental fees and policies can be found on rivercenter. org.

PATRONS ROOM—The Patrons Room on the mezzanine level may be reserved for private functions by RiverCenter Members and Partners. For information call Jim Rutland at (706) 256-3607.

ILLGES PLAZA—Event and green space on 10th St. on North Side of Center may be reserved for special events. Call )706) 256-3607.

I M P O R TA N T N U M B E R S Emergency

(706) 256-3610

Box Office/Event Information (706) 256-3612 Season Ticket Purchases

(706) 256-3632

Group Sales

(706) 256-3612

Rentals

(706) 256-3607

Volunteer Office

(706) 256-3652

Marketing / Ad Sales

(706) 256-3608

Development

(706) 256-3618

ArtsReach

(706) 256-3607

AUDIO AIDS—Subject to availability, infrared lis­tening devices are available for hearing impaired patrons. They may be obtained free of charge by presenting personal identification to ushers.

Applause, the program guide for RiverCenter for the Performing Arts, is published periodically

by RiverCenter, Inc. and distributed to patrons of season shows.

Graphic design and typography by Gina Tew. Each issue includes program and performer information for a group of contemporaneous performances and general information about RiverCenter programming, facilities, donor members, sponsors and staff. Cover art by Gina Tew.

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