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IN THIS ISSUE: page 16 | ELF Nov. 11, 2:00 PM and 7:30 PM

page 31 | Erth's Dinosaur Zoo Nov. 14, 7:00 PM

page 39 | Dirty Dancing Dec. 02, 3:00 PM and 8:00 PM

page 55 | Choir of Clare College, Cambridge Dec. 09, 7:30 PM

page 63 | A Charlie Brown Christmas, Live!

Dec. 18, 6:30 PM

pg 71 | Cantus Christmas Dec. 19, 7:30 PM

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Curtain Raisers RiverCenter Members RiverCenter Capstone Society Volunteers

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FROM THE D I R EC TOR Welcome to the 2017-2018 RiverCenter Experience! Whether you are joining us for the first time or are a regular attendee, we are thrilled that you have joined us! This season we continue programs that are certain to delight, inspire and amaze.

Family matinee performances for the very young and the young at heart are on tap together with stories of romance told in music, dance and the spoken word.

Norman S. Easterbrook Experience the Broadway musical ELF with Executive Director your family. Perhaps a rock concert with Classic Albums Live is more your speed. On Valentine’s Day enjoy dinner and comedy with your sweetheart or just a ladies night.

We are so pleased to be hosting the Mystical Arts of Tibet in the spring. Patrons can see the monks design a sand mandala in the RiverCenter lobby!

We will offer expanded Arts Education this season too. All part of our commitment to provide opportunities for school students to engage in the live performing arts, not just at RiverCenter but through training teachers in ways that they can use the performing arts each day in the classroom. None of this could be possible without your generous support.

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2017-2018 SEASON

BROADWAY ON BROADWAY SERIES ELF: The Musical | Nov. 11, 2017 | 2:00 PM & 7:30 PM Dirty Dancing | Dec. 02, 2017 | 3:00 PM & 8:00 PM Riverdance: The 20th Anniversary World Tour | Jan. 11, 2018 | 7:30 PM Motown the Musical | March 20 & 21, 2018 | 7:30 PM The Sound of Music |April 17 & 18, 2018 | 7:30 PM

CENTER STAGE SERIES Classic Albums Live: Pink Floyd | Sep. 08, 2017 | 7:30 PM A Charlie Brown Christmas Live! | Dec. 18, 2017 | 6:30 PM Classic Albums Live: Creedence Clearwater Revival | Feb. 01, 2018 | 7:30 PM The Magic of Adam Trent | Feb. 02, 2018 | 7:30 PM Southern Fried Chicks: Cage-Free Comedy Tour | Feb. 14, 2018 | 7:30 PM Moscow Festival Ballet: Cinderella | Mar. 03, 2018 | 7:30 PM Olate Dogs: Rescue Tour | Mar. 10, 2018 | 2:30 PM Classic Albums Live: Led Zeppelin | Apr. 7, 2018 | 7:30 PM

RIVERCENTER CONNECT SERIES Choir of Clare College, Cambridge | Dec. 09, 2017 | 7:30 PM Cantus Christmas | Dec. 19, 2017 | 7:30 PM Mystical Arts of Tibet | Feb. 16, 2018 | 7:30 PM Urban Bush Women: Hair & Other Stories | Apr. 26, 2018 | 7:30 PM

RIVERCENTER discovery SERIES Pete the Cat Oct. 17, 2017 | 7:00 PM & Oct. 17 & 18, 2017 | 9:30 AM & 11:30 AM Erth’s Dinosaur Zoo Nov. 14, 2017 | 7:00 PM & Nov. 15, 2017 | 9:30 AM & 11:30 AM Freedom Train | Jan. 25, 2018 | 9:30 AM & 11:30 AM Dragons Love Tacos & Other Stories Mar. 06, 2018 | 7:00 PM & Mar. 06 & 07, 2018 | 9:30 AM & 11:30 AM The Rainbow Fish | May 11, 2018 | 9:30 AM & 11:30 AM & 6:30 PM

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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 helps River­Center present world-class artists and offer varied educational opportunities. To receive informa­tion about becoming a Mem­ber or Curtain Raiser, please call 706-256-3653 or email development@rivercenter.org.

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 Oct. 1, 2017 SEASON SPONSOR

CHAMPION LEVEL SPONSORS

SUSTAINER LEVEL SPONSORS

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BENEFACTOR LEVEL SPONSORS

AND THE VALLEY

DIAMOND LEVEL SPONSORS

PLATINUM LEVEL SPONSORS

Fox Theatre Institute

Page, Scrantom, Sprouse, Tucker & Ford, PC GOLD LEVEL MEMBERS

Kodak Company SILVER LEVEL MEMBERS

Chick-fil-A, Inc. Giving Fund BRONZE LEVEL MEMBERS

Rivertown Dental Care

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RIVERCENTER MEMBERS

MARQUEE SOCIETY MEMBERS • The Marquee Society advances fulfillment of RiverCenter’s mission of “bringing together a variety of artists and audiences for entertainment, education and enrichment of the cultural life of our region.” Society members annually contribute $1,000 or more and know the true value of the arts and cultural preservation. Membership has its benefits.

Please contact Betsy Fitzgerald at 706-256-3653 to discuss Marquee Society membership.

List based on donations given as of July 30, 2017

M A R Q U E E S O C I E T Y: S U S TA I N E R L E V E L

Mr. & Mrs. Stephen T. Butler M A R Q U E E S O C I E T Y: B E N E F A C T O R L E V E L

Sally & Madden Hatcher M A R Q U E E S O C I E T Y: D I A M O N D L E V E L

Anonymous In memory of Dr. Davis R. Watson, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Daniel P. Amos

Dr. David & Suzanne Levine Mary W. Schley Mr. and Mrs. Wright B. Waddell

M A R Q 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 Akitoshi & Etsuko Kan Mr. and Mrs. John C. Martin, II Mr. & Mrs. Jack J. Pease, III David & Linell Pringle Dr. & Mrs. Richard S. Robbins

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Mr. Gavin G. Spence

in memory of Geraldine Spence

Dr. Franklin J. Star Rick and Jan Ussery James & Teresa White Mr. & Mrs. M. Troy Woods James D. & Ruth B. Yancey

M A R Q U E E S O C I E T Y: G O L D L E V E L Dr. & Mrs. Ferdinand Q. Alcaide

Mrs. James B Lipham

Rick & Cindy Alexander

Jacki W. Lowe

Fred & Catalina Aranas Family Foundation

Mr. Walter Miller, Jr.

Jacob and Claire Beil

Mrs. A. Ben Moon, Jr.

Mrs. Tom B. Black

Jimmy & Barbara Motos

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Dr. Carole Rutland & Mr. Robert D. Offer

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Bradley

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Ann Burr

Ruth Ann & Lamar Powers

Mr. and Mrs. Norman S. Easterbrook

Marnie Salter

Mr. & Mrs. Thad Estes

Mr. Stephen M. Sawyer

Suzanne and Joel Fine

Mr. and Mrs. Claude G. Scarbrough, III

Mrs. Frank D. Foley, Jr.

Mary W. Schley

Dr. & Mrs. Mark R. Fortson

Mr. and Mrs. John A. Shinkle

Mrs. Mellie S. Fountain

Mr. & Mrs. J. Edward Sprouse

Mr. & Mrs. J. Hudson Garrett

Mr. and Mrs. Clifford J. Swift, III

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Mrs. Stephen C. Hunter

Chip and Audrey Tillman

Roderick C. & Stephanie Y. Hunter

Mr. & Mrs. Philip Tomlinson

Matthew E. & Cynthia Woodsmall Jones

Martha S. Tubb

Dr. William P. Kendall

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John & Kayron Laska

Drs. Bobbi Farber & Thomas Walsh

Dr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Lawhorne Jr.

Chris Weaver

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Mr. & Mrs. Joel O. Wooten

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SILVER & BRONZE MEMBERS • Individuals may become members of RiverCenter

with a contribution of $100 or more.

List based on donations given as of July 30, 2017

S I LV E R L E V E L Ms. Betty L. Auten

Charlie and Pam Johnson

Maria Luisa Aranas

Mrs. Charlyn Kerr

Dr. & Mrs. Philip L. Brewer

Dr. and Mrs. Ashok Kumar

Dr. and Mrs. Robert H. Bush

Ben and Annelle McCosh

Matthew & Zarina Cheves

Bob & Stacy Poydasheff

Dr. Thomas Cochran

Col. & Mrs. Robert H. Robinson

Dail and Christy Fields In memory of Wendell Lewis

Ralph & Edith Satterwhite

Marlene & Robert Garnett

M. E. Thorne

Mr. and Mrs. Matt Swift

Steve and Mary Hall

Pat and Jack Wilensky

Mr. & Mrs. William B. Hardegree

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Mrs. L. A. Cunningham

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Dan & Sandy Dawson

Alfred & Courtney Blackmar

Martha & Kelly Dimon

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Revs. Taylor and Grace Burton-Edwards

Chuck & Carol Bradshaw

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Ms. Julie A. Bray

Judge & Mrs. Kenneth B. Followill

Frank and Jo Ann Brown

Brett Gant

Ms. Jaunita Booker

Mr. and Mrs. Mike Gaymon

Thomas B. Buck, III

Dr. and Mrs. Lamar Hamric

John & Eva Chappelle

Phil and Marie Hand

Maj. Gen (Ret.) and Mrs. Henry H. Harper

Sally Rotunno

Corinne M. Haslam

Mr. George F. Schladensky

Mr. and Mrs. David Hay

Patricia Schneider

Dr. & Mrs. Steven Henslee

Alex and Willette Shalishali

Pamela C. Humber

Ms. Eva M. Smith

Kevin and Donna Kelly

Mrs. Bettye T. Spence

Mrs. Jean Kent

Murray & Celia Solomon

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kilpatrick, Jr.

Mary Stewart

Jo Ann and Ernie Kirk

Patty Kimbrough Taylor

Mr. & Mrs. John T. Laney, III

Jim & Sue Trott

Marv & Vicki Lieberman

Ms. Lois Tryon

Julie and Neal Littlejohn

Richard M. Tucker In memory of Marjorie S. Tucker

Jim and Mary Matthews Ginny Mayher Almeda Medlin Chris and Wendy Miller Vincent and Dian Naman Mr. & Mrs. Richard Olson Bill & Pat Porter Mrs. Amy Robertson Dr. and Mrs. Theus W. Rogers, Jr.

Tim Vinson Anita B. Walters Dr. Thomas A. and Sherry F. Wade Lamar & Dorenda Weaver Lynn and Rex Whiddon Jim & Ann White Jerrel and Laura Yates Mrs. Margaret G. Zollo

Barbara Rothschild

THANK YOU!

WE COULDN’T DO IT WITHOUT YOU!

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The Capstone Society “Assuring the Promise of Tomorrow”

The Capstone Society is RiverCenter’s planned-giving program.

Founded by the late Wendell Lewis, the society honors donors who disclose they have included RiverCenter for the Per­forming Arts in their estate plans. It provides RiverCenter the opportunity to recognize and thank these donors during their lifetimes. If you have made a plan­ned gift to River­Center, Inc. and are not listed below, or if you wish to discuss how your planned gift can assist RiverCenter in its artistic and educa­tional mission, please contact the Advancement office at 706-256-3653 or development@rivercenter.org.

Mr. & Mrs. W. Mizell Alexander Thomas B. Buck, III Mrs. Otis B. Burnham Dorothy Jean Bush

Nora Garrard Charlyn Kerr Virginia Norman Chris Weaver

“The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade we do not plan to sit.”

—Nelson Henderson

In memory and celebration of the life of Wendell Lewis.

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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 706-256-3653.

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This performance is supported by a grant from the City of Columbus through the Columbus Cultural Arts Alliance and the Columbus Convention & Visitors Bureau.

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NETworks Presentations, LLC presents

Music by

Book by

Matthew Sklar

Thomas Meehan and Bob Martin

Based on the New Line Cinema film written by David Berrenbaum

Lyrics by

Chad Beguelin

Featuring

Sam Hartley John Adkison Quentin Booth II Rendell DeBose Mark Fishback Mia Gerachis Heather Jefferies Marie Lemon Joel Stigliano with

Erica Christine Barton Nick Cayce Connor Coughlin Michael Doliner Andy Garcia Coleman Hemsath Jessica Ice Bradlee Laight Maryella Maloney Jenn Maurer Jennie McGuinness Megan McLaughlin Helen Regula Robin Eli Robles Alex Stewart Scenic Design

Costume Design

Gregg Barnes

Hair Design

Associate Costume Designer

Bernie Ardia

Anna Stainback

Orchestrations

Paul Miller

Shannon Slaton

Casting

Flying Effects

Stewart/Whitley

Vocal Arrangements

Doug Besterman

Executive Producer

Trinity Wheeler

David Chase

Music Director

John Mezzio

Production Manager

ZFX, Inc.

Dance Arrangements

Phil Reno

Music Supervisor/Coordinator

NETworks Presentations Cody O’Dell

Sound Design

Lighting Design

Christine Peters

Nate Patten

Production Stage Manager

Kelsey Clark

Associate General Manager/ Company Manager

Jack Stephens

Associate Director

Michael Whitney

General Manager

Gentry & Associates Jamey Jennings Tour Marketing & Press

Allied Touring

Choreography Recreated by

Nancy Renee Braun Choreography by

Connor Gallagher Directed by

Sam Scalamoni Exclusive Tour Direction

The Road Company, 165 West 46th Street, Suite 1101, New York, NY 10036 Originally Produced by

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CAST

(in order of appearance) Santa.................................................................................................................................MARK FISHBACK Buddy.................................................................................................................................... SAM HARTLEY Walter................................................................................................................................. JOHN ADKISON Emily..................................................................................................................................... MARIE LEMON Michael...................................................................................................................... QUENTIN BOOTH II Deb............................................................................................................................ HEATHER JEFFERIES Store Manager...............................................................................................................RENDELL DeBOSE Jovie......................................................................................................................................MIA GERACHIS Mr. Greenway................................................................................................................. JOEL STIGLIANO Ensemble................................................ERICA CHRISTINE BARTON, CONNOR COUGHLIN, MICHAEL DOLINER, ANDY GARCIA, COLEMAN HEMSATH, JESSICA ICE, BRADLEE LAIGHT, JENN MAURER, JENNIE McGUINNESS, MEGAN McLAUGHLIN, HELEN REGULA, ROBIN ELI ROBLES, ALEX STEWART SWINGS

NICK CAYCE, MARYELLA MALONEY UNDERSTUDIES Understudies never substitute for the listed performers unless a specific posting or announcement is made at the time of the performance.

For Santa: MICHAEL DOLINER; for Buddy: COLEMAN HEMSATH; for Walter Hobbs: JOEL STIGLIANO; for Emily Hobbs: HELEN REGULA; for Deb: JENNIE MCGUINNESS; for Store Manager: MICHAEL DOLINER; for Jovie: JENN MAURER; for Mr. Greenway: MICHAEL DOLINER; for Michael Hobbs: ROBIN ELI ROBLES Dance Captain: NICK CAYCE Assistant Dance Captain: MARYELLA MALONEY

The use of any recording devices, either audio or video, and the taking of photographs, either with or without flash, is strictly prohibited. Please turn off all electronic devices such as cellular phones, beepers and watches.

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MUSICAL NUMBERS ACT ONE

“Happy All The Time”........................................................................................Santa, Buddy & Company “World’s Greatest Dad”......................................................................................................................... Buddy “In the Way”.............................................................................. Deb, Walter, Emily, Michael & Company “Sparklejollytwinklejingley”................................................. Buddy, Jovie, Store Manager & Company “I’ll Believe in You”..............................................................................................................Michael & Emily “In the Way” (Reprise)......................................................................................................... Emily & Walter “Just Like Him”...................................................................................................... Buddy, Deb & Company “A Christmas Song”............................................................................................. Buddy, Jovie & Company “World’s Greatest Dad” (Reprise)...............................................................................Buddy & Company ACT TWO

Entr’acte..................................................................................................................................... The Orchestra “Nobody Cares About Santa”......................................Fake Santas, Store Manager, Waitress & Buddy “Never Fall in Love”.................................................................................................................................. Jovie “There Is A Santa Claus”.....................................................................................................Michael & Emily “The Story of Buddy the Elf ”............... Buddy, Michael, Walter, Greenway, Emily, Deb & Company “Nobody Cares About Santa” (Reprise)............................................................................................. Santa “A Christmas Song” (Reprise)................................Jovie, Buddy, Emily, Michael, Walter & Company THERE WILL BE ONE 20-MINUTE INTERMISSION MUSICIANS

Conductor: Patrick Hoagland Associate Conductor/Keyboard: David Aaron Brown Reed 1: Eric Jordan Reed 2: Jason Gresl Reed 3: Zack Bacak Trumpet 1: Tim Wendt Trumpet 2: Jonathon Spry Trombone: Christopher Caine Drums: Terrence Bates Music Coordinator: John Mezzio

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WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST

SAM HARTLEY (Buddy). National Tour: Elf (Buddy), Beauty and the Beast (Beast). OffBroadway: The Lightning Thief (Grover/Mr. Brunner u/s, Lucille Lortel Theater). Recent: Ragtime (Stanford White, Ogunquit Playhouse), 54 Sings 1776 (Thomas Jefferson, 54 Below), Young Frankenstein (Dr. Frederick Frankentein), Into the Woods (Cinderella’s Prince/Wolf). Special thanks to Sam, Nate, and the entire Elf team.

With love to my family and KPC. @samfred88

JOHN ADKISON (Walter Hobbs). Nat’l Tour: The Music Man (Harold Hill). Favorite regional credits include Damn Yankees (Mr. Applegate), 1776 (John Hancock), Grease (Vince Fontaine) and Disney’s Beauty & the Beast (Lumiere). Numerous summer stock seasons spent with Barn Theatre, Blowing Rock Stage Co. and Theatre by the Sea. John is grateful to be spending this holiday season touring with Elf. When not on stage, he works as an independent filmmaker. More at thisnthatfilms.net Luke 1:37 QUENTIN BOOTH II (Michael) is in the 7th Grade and from Battle Creek, MI. This is his first professional role, however he has been in 11 productions through his school and community, including Disney’s Lion King Jr (Young Simba), High School Musical (Zeke Baylor), The Jungle Book (Mowgli) and 13 the Musical (Eddie). He enjoys swimming, gaming and cooking.

RENDELL DeBOSE (Store Manager). Is excited to join the Elf the Musical family. National Tours: Memphis (Bobby Dupree), Elf. Princess Cruise Lines/Holland America: Music of Denali.

Regional: Shrek (Donkey), Broadway Palm Theatre; Dreamgirls (Jimmy Early), Springer Opera House; Peter Pan (Smee) and Big River (Jim), Dutch Apple. A proud graduate of Circle in the Square Theatre School. I would like to thank God and my Family for their support. RendellDeBose. com MARK FISHBACK (Santa). National Tours: 42nd Street (Abner Dillon), Elf (’14/‘16), and West Side Story (Broadway revival, Doc). Thank you for supporting live theatre, enhancing your local community through the Arts, and celebrating a little Christmas with us today. Happiest of Holidays!

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stage in Elf! Favorite past credits include: Legally Blonde (Elle Woods), All the Kids Are Doing It (Emmy Adams), Joseph…Dreamcoat (Narrator), Rent (Mimi Marquéz) and Carrie the Musical (Chris Hargensen). She is a May graduate of the New Studio on Broadway at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. All the love and gratitude in the world to Mom, Dad, Zoë, friends, and teachers. miagerachis.com HEATHER JEFFERIES (Deb) is so excited to be a part of her first national tour. Credits include: Pirate Queen (Grace O’ Malley), Oklahoma (Ado Annie), The Crucible (Mary Warren), Big Fish (Jenny Hill), Wonderful Town (Ruth) and Servant of Two Masters (Smeraldina). BFA in Music Dance Theater from BYU. Thank you to Stewart/Whitley Casting and her wonderful managers at Whole Artist Management as well as her family and love of her life, Andrew Jefferies! heatherjefferies.com

MARIE LEMON (Emily). National Tour: The Producers (Shirley), Elf (Emily). Off-Broadway: The Berenstain Bears LIVE! (Mama Bear). BFA, Millikin University. With all my heart: Sam, Nate, cast, creative. For Mom, Dad, Sissy. marielemon.com JOEL STIGLIANO (Mr. Greenway, u/s Walter Hobbs) is thrilled to be back with his Elf Family. Credits: National Tour: Elf the Musical. Regional: Peter Pan, Lend Me a Tenor, Unnecessary Farce, The Crucible. Film/TV: Brain Games, Zarafa, Jess Archer Vs, Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin. Thanks to Sam and the entire Elf Team for the opportunity and to Mom, the Bros., and Katie for the rest. MFA Ohio University. joelstigliano.com ERICA CHRISTINE BARTON (Ensemble) is overjoyed to be on the national making her national tour debut with Elf the Musical! She was last seen performing with the company of “Dance, Dance, Dance: America” (RWS Entertainment). Proud New Yorker and OCU alumna.

She is grateful to her family and friends for their endless support and love. Thank you, Mom and Dad! Philippians 4:13 NICK CAYCE (Swing, Dance Captain, Asst.

Choreographer) is thrilled to be returning to this beautiful show for his second year in a row!

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WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST

Producers, On the Town, The Music Man, R&H’s Cinderella, CATS (Mistoffolees), Hairspray.

Cruise Ships: Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines.

Dance Companies: Alabama Ballet, Nashville Ballet II. BFA, Point Park University. Many thanks to cast, creatives, Stewart/Whitley and my AMAZING friends and family! @nickcayce

CONNOR COUGHLIN (Ensemble) is thrilled to be in the ensemble of this joyous musical. Last year Connor toured the country with 42nd Street (Billy Lawlor). He is a proud graduate of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and Circle in the Square.

Thank you to all my teachers and to the company of Elf. MICHAEL DOLINER (Ensemble, u/s Santa, u/s Greenway, u/s Store Manager). National Tour debut! Recent credits include: The Drowsy Chaperone (Underling) with the Cider Mill Playhouse, Spring Awakening (Moritz Steifel u/s), with the Hangar Theatre. Thanks to the Elf team, Baker Management, Mom and Dad, and to my IC family. Ithaca College BFA Musical Theatre 2017. michael-doliner.com ANDY GARCIA (Ensemble) is thrilled to be with the national tour of Elf The Musical! Regional: West Side Story (Action), Saturday Night Fever, Hairspray, Charlotte’s Web (Wilbur).

Ghost (Sam), In The Heights (Sonny), On The Town, The Pajama Game -BoCo. BFA Alum from The Boston Conservatory. Much love to his friends, family, Victor, Ismelly and his abuelas!

Instagram: @andygarsha16 COLEMAN HEMSATH (Ensemble, u/s Buddy). National tour debut. Favorite credits: The Gold (NYMF), Far From Canterbury (Soho Playhouse), The Little Mermaid (Prince EricCape Fear Regional Theatre), Gypsy (Hangar Theatre). Huge thanks to Sam, Professional Artists, Stewart/Whitley, and mom and dad for helping him still believe in Santa. Ohio native and proud Ithaca College grad. @colemanscorner JESSICA ICE (Ensemble). Regional: Mamma Mia! (Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera), Guys and Dolls (Finger Lakes MTF), Cabaret (Lake Dillon Theatre Company). Pittsburgh native, ALDC and James Madison University alumna. Much love to Mom, Dad, Josh, Olivia, Abby and Mrs. Miller.

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BRADLEE LAIGHT (Ensemble) is a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where he grew up dancing at his family’s dance studio! He performed with the Rockettes in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular and has won numerous regional and national dance competitions! A recent graduate of The American Musical and Dramatic Academy, his musical credits include Cats (Mungojerrie), Hazel Flagg, Off Broadway, and Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Carpet)! He is thrilled to be a part of the touring company of Elf and wants to thank his family and friends for the love and support! @bradleelaight MARYELLA MALONEY (Swing, Asst. Dance Captain) is thrilled to be joining the Elf family!

Regional: Mamma Mia (Ogunquit Playhouse), The Music Man (Cape Playhouse), Cinderella (Gateway Playhouse), Ruby Rae in Best Little WH in TX (The Palace Theatre) Graziella in West Side Story (Opera North). A proud graduate of The Boston Conservatory, she has endless love for God and her wonderful family. @MaryellaM__ JENN MAURER (Ensemble, u/s Jovie). TV: Divorce. Regional: Grease (Sandy), A Man of No Importance (Adele), Beauty and the Beast (Silly Girl), The Addams Family (Bride Ancestor).

Proud graduate of FSU. Many thanks to family and friends for always traveling far to see her perform, God for His unwavering support, and the Elf creative team!

JENNIE McGUINNESS (Ensemble, u/s Deb) is thrilled to return to Elf and spread Christmas Cheer this holiday season! BM: NYU Steinhardt.

National Tour: Beauty and the Beast (Marie, u/s Mrs. Potts/Bouche) and Elf (2014,2016). Regional: The Full Monty (Georgie), Marvelous Wonderettes (Suzy), The Last 5 Years (Cathy).

Love and Hugs! For my family and Ben. MEGAN McLAUGHLIN (Ensemble) is thrilled to join the Elf National Tour! Other favorite credits include 42nd Street National Tour, Crazy For You (FLMTF), 42nd Street (The LEX), Oklahoma! (FLMTF), and Will Rogers Follies (Lyric Theatre OKC). Iowa native and OCU grad. Many thanks to the creative team and all my love to my family!

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favorite season of the year! Happy Holidays Everyone! Past credits include Little Mermaid (Ursula), Footloose (Rusty), 25th Annual…

Spelling Bee (Olive Ostrovsky), RENT (Joanne Jefferson), Cabaret (Texas), and Funny Thing…

Forum (Gymnasia). Texas State University: BFA Musical Theatre. helenregula.com ROBIN ELI ROBLES (Boy, u/s Michael Hobbs) is thrilled to be making his national tour debut in Elf the Musical! Credits: Dead Man Walking (Jimmy – Lyric Opera of Kansas City), A Christmas Carol (Boy Soloist/Sprite – Kansas City Repertory Theatre), Evita (Child Ensemble – Kansas City Repertory Theatre). He would like to thank his family and everyone that has helped make his dreams come true!

ALEX STEWART (Ensemble) is thrilled to be a part of Elf! Credits: Oklahoma!, (Ensemble, u/s Will Parker) Goodspeed Musicals, (Dream Curly) PCPA, Sierra Rep. Theatre, Pirates of Penzance (Frederic) PCPA, Nice Work… (Jimmy Winters), Boeing Boeing (Bernard) Summer Rep. Theatre, Sacramento Ballet Company Member 2010- 2014. Training: School of the Sacramento Ballet, Boston Ballet School, Pacific Conservatory Theatre. Thanks to the whole Stewart Clan, Melanie, Stewart/Whitley and BBR Talent.

Happy Holidays!

THOMAS MEEHAN (Book) won the 2003 Tony® Award for co-writing the book for Hairspray after having won the 2001 Tony® Award for co-writing the book of The Producers. He received his first Tony® Award in 1977 for writing the book of Annie, which was his first Broadway show, and he has written books for the musicals I Remember Mama, Ain’t Broadway Grand, Annie Warbucks and the American version of Bombay Dreams. His recent works are Annie, Chaplin, Elf The Musical, Young Frankenstein, for which he co-wrote the book with Mel Brooks, and CryBaby, co-written with Mark O’Donnell.

BOB MARTIN (Book). The Drowsy Chaperone (Book, “Man in Chair”), Tony® Award, Drama Desk Award, Theatre World Award, NY Drama Critics’ Circle Award. Selected regional: The Drowsy Chaperone (L.A., Toronto, London), L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation Award, L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award, Olivier nomination; Minsky’s (Book, L.A.); Second City Toronto (performer 1994-2000, artistic director 2003-2004).

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Selected television writing. Canada: “Slings and Arrows” (writer, creative producer), “Michael, Tuesdays and Thursday” (writer, actor), “Made in Canada,” “Twitch City.”

MATTHEW SKLAR (Music) is a Tony®, Emmy®, and Drama Desk Award-nominated composer. His works include the Broadway musicals Elf and The Wedding Singer (Tony Award Nomination for Best Original Score, Drama Desk Award Nomination for Outstanding Music). He also wrote the music for The Rhythm Club (Signature Theatre), Judas & Me, and Wicked City (American Stage Company). Matthew received a 2015 Primetime Emmy® Award Nomination for Outstanding Music Direction for the criticallyacclaimed NBC stop-motion animated TV special “Elf: Buddy’s Musical Christmas”, starring Jim Parsons. He adapted and arranged the music of Marvin Hamlisch for the Emmy Award-winning documentary film Marvin Hamlisch: What He Did For Love, seen on PBS/American Masters. Matthew has contributed original songs/ music to Sesame Street, Wonder Pets!, and the NBC Broadcast of The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. His music has been performed by major orchestras, including the Atlanta, Baltimore, and Indianapolis Symphony Orchestras. As an 18-year-old freshman at New York University, Matthew began playing keyboards for the Broadway production of Les Miserables, eventually conducting the show at 21. He has also been a keyboardist, conductor, and/or arranger for many Broadway productions including Shrek, Caroline, or Change, Nine, Oklahoma, 42nd Street, Putting It Together, Annie Get Your Gun, On the Town, Titanic, Guys and Dolls, Sunset Boulevard, and Miss Saigon. Matthew also appeared onstage as “Oscar” in the Broadway revival of 42nd Street. Awards include the ASCAP Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award, the Gilman/ Gonzalez-Falla Theatre Award, and the Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation Award.

Matthew is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild, ASCAP, and the American Federation of Musicians, Local 802. His music is published by Warner/Chappell Music. Matthew was educated at The Juilliard School of Music (Pre-College Division), the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, and New York University.

CHAD BEGUELIN (Lyrics) is a four-time Tony® nominee. His works include Disney’s Aladdin (Tony Award nomination for Best Book

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and Best Original Score, Drama Desk Award Nomination for Best Book and Outstanding Lyrics) and The Wedding Singer (Tony Award nomination for Best Book and Best Original Score, Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Lyrics). His play Harbor premiered Off-Broadway at Primary Stages. Chad also wrote the book and lyrics for Judas & Me (NYMF Award for Excellence in Lyric Writing), The Rhythm Club (Signature Theater) and Wicked City (American Stage Company). He is the recipient of the Edward Kleban Award for Outstanding Lyric Writing, the Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation Awards, the Gilman & Gonzalez-Falla Musical Theater Award and the ASCAP Foundation Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award. Chad is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Dramatic Writing Program.

He currently lives in New York with his husband Tom and their Yorkshire Terrier, Bailey.

SAM SCALAMONI (Director). Mr. Scalamoni is a freelance New York based director of theatre across the US and worldwide. He is proud to be the director of the critically acclaimed National Tours of Elf the Musical which celebrates its 10th and 11th company in 2017 with two tours crossing the U.S., one playing The Theatre at Madison Square Garden in December! Currently in development is a new musical, 1000 Faces, based on the life of film legend Lon Chaney, Unbelievable, based on baseball legend Jackie Mitchell and a stage adaptation of the MGM musical Summer Stock. Most recently he directed Disney’s Beauty and the Beast for the Ogunquit Playhouse and North Carolina Theatre. Mr. Scalamoni served as the Associate Director of the most recent National and International Tours of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast which he also supervised on Broadway and mounted multiple companies worldwide. He will be working on a new version of the show in Mandarin opening in Shanghai in 2018. He also directed Les Misérables winning the SALT Award for Best Director of a Musical and Best Musical of the Year and Agatha Christie’s An Unexpected Guest, winning the Broadway World Award for Best Director of a Play both at Cortland Repertory Theatre. Other tours directed; Nickelodeon’s Storytime Live! which broke box office records at Radio City Music Hall and the National Tour of The Gazillion Bubble Show. Mr. Scalamoni is a proud member of The Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.

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CONNOR GALLAGHER (Choreographer).

Selected Credits: The Robber Bridegroom (Roundabout Theatre Company, 2016 Astaire Award); Found (Philadelphia Theatre Company); Beauty and the Beast (director and choreographer, Disney Cruise Line); Camelot (Westport); Tangled (Disney Cruise Line); The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Ogunquit Playhouse); The Twelve (Denver Center); The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Bucks County Playhouse); The Fabulous Lipitones (Goodspeed); Spidermusical (The Mint); Perez Hilton... (FringeNYC, Barrow Street Theatre, Joe’s Pub); Babes in Toyland (Lincoln Center); and over a dozen shows for Theatreworks USA. Connor has created choreography for Glidden Paint, Luxxotica Eyewear, Hanky Panky underwear, The Writers Guild Awards, and the HIFA Festival in Zimbabwe. Associate: Into the Woods (Public Theatre), Beauty and the Beast National and International Tours, Meet Me In St. Louis (Papermill Playhouse). Upcoming: Beetlejuice (Broadway); The Magic School Bus (director, Theatreworks). Connor is a graduate of The Cincinnati Conservatory and made his Broadway debut as a performer in Beauty and the Beast. connorgallagher.com NANCY RENEE BRAUN (Choreography Recreation). Favorite associate choreographer credits include Beauty and the Beast and Tangled for Disney Cruise Lines, The Robber Bridegroom (Roundabout Theatre), Found (Philadelphia Theatre Co). On TV, Nancy has choreographed for Blue Bloods (CBS) and assistant choreographed on Limitless (CBS). She is also assistant choreographer for the movies The Week Of (starring Adam Sandler) and Rebel In The Rye, in which she is also featured. Nancy performed on Broadway in Gypsy. Northwestern University graduate.

Best credit is mommy to my son Max! CHRISTINE PETERS (Scenic Design). Design Credits: 2012/ 2017 Elf Tour, First Date, Mickey & Minnie’s Doorway to Magic. Broadway (Associate Designer): Paramour, Les Misérables, Testament of Mary, Jekyll & Hyde, The Book of Mormon, Newsies The Musical, The Addams Family, Elf, Bonnie and Clyde, The House of Blue Leaves, Elling, Enron, Mary Stuart, The American Plan, Cyrano de Bergerac, Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life. National tours (Associate Designer): Waterfall, Aladdin, Newsies, Dirty Dancing, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Wizard of Oz, The Phantom of the Opera, Jekyll and Hyde, 23

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Mary Poppins, Les Misérables, Beauty and the Beast. Regional theater (Designer): Mary Poppins, Legally Blonde, Cinderella, Cats (Zoni Award, Set Design) Miss Saigon, The Man of La Mancha, My Fair Lady (Zoni Award), The Music Man. Midtown International Theater Festival (Designer): Tallish Tales: A Cautionary Fable for Children and Adults (MITF Award, Set Design).

GREGG BARNES (Costume Design). Broadway: Tuck Everlasting (Tony nom.), Something Rotten! (Tony nom.), Aladdin, Kinky Boots (Tony nom., Olivier Award), Follies (Tony Award, Drama Desk Award), Elf, Legally Blonde (Tony nom.), The Drowsy Chaperone (Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Award, Olivier nom.), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Flower Drum Song (Tony nom.), Side Show. Other: Dreamgirls (Olivier nomination), Sinatra (Radio City), Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Pageant (Olivier Nomination), The Kathy and Mo Show. TDF Young Master Award.

PAUL MILLER (Lighting Design). Broadway: Amazing Grace, The Illusionists, Legally Blonde (also, West End, Australia & Vienna), Freshly Squeezed, Laughing Room Only, as well as Irma La Duce, Where’s Charley, Lost in the Star, Of Thee I Sing and Music in the Air (Encores). OffBroadway: Marry Harry, Desperate Measure, Clinton - The Musical, Lucky Guy, Vanities - the Musical, Waiting for Godot (50th Anniversary Production), Nunsense, Addicted, Balancing Act, and others. Also on Broadway as Associate Designer: Macbeth, Three Days of Rain, Company, Sweeney Todd, Little Women, Hairspray, The Producers, Life x3, The Music Man, The Price, Saturday Night Fever, The Civil War, On The Town, The Sound of Music and Titanic. Regional: The Old Globe, Denver Center, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Idaho Shakespeare, Cleveland Playhouse, Asolo Rep, Riverside Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, Baystreet Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare, Goodspeed Playhouse and Paper Mill Playhouse among others.

International: Sâo Paulo, Manila, Johannesberg, Beijing, Toronto, Montreal, Milan (La Scala) and London. National Tours: Shrek, Story Time Live, Wizard of Oz, Legally Blonde, Sweeney Todd, Hairspray, The Producers, Nunsense 20th Anniversary, Scooby Doo in Stage Fright, The Sound of Music. On television his work includes Live from Lincoln Center, numerous Showtime and Comedy Central specials and the internationally 24

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SHANNON SLATON (Sound Design) has designed many national tours including Bullets Over Broadway, The Illusionists, Turn of the Century, Shrek, Hairspray, The Producers, Kiss Me, Kate, Noise/Funk, The Full Monty, Contact, A Chorus Line, Tap Dogs, Sweeney Todd, The Wizard of Oz, The Drowsy Chaperone and The Wedding Singer. He was also the Advance Sound on Wicked and the Production Sound for The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway and the U.S. National Tour. Shows he has mixed on Broadway include: Man of La Mancha, Bombay Dreams, Sweet Charity, Jersey Boys, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Drowsy Chaperone, Spring Awakening, Fela!, Anything Goes, Annie, Legally Blonde and Cabaret.

BERNIE ARDIA (Hair and Wig Design) has enjoyed a 37-year career, starting in television.

He has designed over 75 productions including the currently running NETworks’ tours of The Sound of Music, Elf the Musical and Dirty Dancing. A few past highlights include Cameron Mackintosh’s Les Misérables (U.S. and Canada), Ragtime at The Kennedy Center, Kiss of the Spider Woman with Chita Rivera, Starlight Express at The Las Vegas Hilton, Cinderella with Eartha Kitt and Debbie Gibson, and ABC-TV “Happy Birthday, Hollywood”. It has been a thrill working with so many talented performers throughout his career including, Jeanne Cooper, Toni Tennille, Anita Gillette, Mary Wilson, Makenzie Phillips, Lynda Carter, Melody Thomas Scott and even Judge Judy! This production is dedicated to his sister. Mr. Ardia is also the author of Barbra Streisand in New York City.

STEWART/WHITLEY (Casting). Duncan Stewart CSA & Benton Whitley CSA. BROADWAY/NY: The Great Comet, A Clockwork Orange, As You Like It, On The Town, Pippin, Chicago The Musical, La Cage Aux Folles, The Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Carnegie Hall West Side Story, The Band Wagon, Pageant; West End/U.K.: Thriller Live, Menier Chocolate Factory, West Side Story; Tours: Finding Neverland, Dirty Dancing, The Sound of Music, Into the Woods, The Bodyguard, Chicago The Musical, Once, Shrek, Elf, Flashdance, Anything

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Goes, Bullets Over Broadway, We Will Rock You; Upcoming: Prince of Egypt, Hadestown, The Man in the Ceiling, Back Home Again, Waterfall, August Rush; Regional: American Repertory Theater, Alley Theatre, Bay Street, Goodspeed, Theatre Under the Stars, Aslo Rep, Hollywood Bowl, TheatreWorks, Royal Caribbean. The Casting Society of America. Artios Award Winning. stewartwhitley.com DOUG BESTERMAN (Orchestrations). Threetime Tony Award winner: Fosse (1999), The Producers (2001), Thoroughly Modern Millie (2002). Broadway: Anastasia, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, A Bronx Tale, It Shoulda Been You, Bullets Over Broadway, Rocky, On a Clear Day…, Sister Act, How to Succeed…, Elf, Young Frankenstein, Tarzan, Dracula, Seussical, The Music Man, Big, Damn Yankees. International: Guys and Dolls. Regional: Little Dancer, Calvin Berger. Film/television: Beauty and the Beast, “Peter Pan Live!,” “The Sound of Music Live!” Frozen, Mulan, Chicago.

JOHN MEZZIO (Music Supervisor/Coordinator) has conducted several national tours including State Fair starring John Davidson, Victor/ Victoria starring Toni Tennille, Seussical The Musical, Cinderella starring Eartha Kitt and Deborah Gibson, the Royal National Theatre’s revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! and The Wedding Singer. Additionally, Mr. Mezzio was Associate Conductor for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Starlight Express at the Las Vegas Hilton. John was Musical Coordinator for several national and international tours including Sweet Charity starring Molly Ringwald, Annie starring John Schuck and Mackenzie Phillips, Hairspray, The Producers, A Chorus Line, Spring Awakening, Elf the Musical, Memphis, Bullets Over Broadway, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and Shrek The Musical.

NATE PATTEN (Music Director). Currently on Broadway: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Other Broadway: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, School of Rock, Catch Me If You Can, Bonnie and Clyde. Kennedy Center: Elf the Musical. Off Broadway: Silence! The Musical (also in L.A.), The Toxic Avenger. Tours: Flashdance, We Will Rock You, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, The Wedding Singer, The Wizard of Oz. Music Director/Conductor for The Midtown Men. Nate is also the creator/host of a podcast

called #BookedIt: a Broadway Musician’s Guide to Theatre, Facebook and Being #Grateful. @ BookedItpodcast MICHAEL WHITNEY (Associate Director, Fight Coordinator) currently serves as the Associate Artistic Director at Skyline Theatre Company located in Bergen County New Jersey.

He has also served as the Assistant Director for both the International and National Companies of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. Michael has been very lucky to have had the opportunity to work with many regional theaters across the country. Some include: The North Carolina Theatre, Theatre Institute at Sage, The Geva Theatre and Ogunquit Playhouse.

MUSIC THEATRE INTERNATIONAL (MTI) mtishows.com, is one of the world’s leading dramatic licensing agencies, granting schools as well as amateur and professional theatres from around the world the rights to perform the largest selection of great musicals from Broadway and beyond. MTI works directly with the composers, lyricists and book writers of these shows to provide official scripts, musical material and dynamic theatrical resources to over 60,000 theatrical organizations in the US and in over 60 countries worldwide.

ALLIED TOURING (Tour Marketing & Press) is a full-service engagement management agency representing Broadway tours and other live touring events across North America. Current tours: An American in Paris, The Book of Mormon, Bright Star, Rogers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Elf the Musical, The Humans, Kinky Boots, Motown the Musical, RENT, School of Rock, Something Rotten!, and Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. Upcoming tours: Charlie & the Chocolate Factory and The Scenario.

THE ROAD COMPANY (Tour Booking) was founded in 1997 by Stephen Lindsay and Brett Sirota. In addition to multiple companies of Elf The Musical, current representation includes Wicked, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, War Paint, The Band’s Visit, SpongeBob SquarePants, Rock of Ages, Clue, The Choir of Man, The Lightning Thief, The Illusionists, Dirty Dancing, The Sound of Music and Kinky Boots. The Road Company is made possible by Magaly Barone, Shawn Willett, Jenny Kirlin, Justine Spingler, Joe Reed and Josh Cape.

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KELSEY CLARK (Production Stage Manager) is thrilled to be a part of Elf. She is a proud alumna of SUNY Oswego and the Stagecraft Institute of Las Vegas, and was most recently a part of the stage management team for the National Tour of Annie. She likes Christmas spirit and avocados.

JACK STEPHENS (Associate General Manager/Company Manager) has hit the road for national tours of Blue Man Group, Miss Saigon, Dora the Explorer LIVE, Sweeney Todd, Annie, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, A Chorus Line (US/Tokyo), and The Magic of David Copperfield, among others.

TRINITY WHEELER (Executive Producer).

Broadway: Les Misérables (Production Stage Manager). National Tours: Bullets Over Broadway (Executive Producer), Elf the Musical (Executive Producer), Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Executive Producer), The Phantom of the Opera (Supervisory Production Stage Manager), Les Misérables (Production Stage Manager), Mary Poppins (Production Stage Manager), Young Frankenstein starring Roger Bart and Rent starring Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp. Trinity currently works on the national tours of Les Misérables, Finding Neverland, Dirty Dancing and Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music.

Instagram: @trinityonbroadway WARNER BROS. THEATRE VENTURES (Producer) develops and produces first-class musicals and stage productions from the company’s expansive catalogue. WBThV is currently represented on Broadway with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and was previously represented on the West End by Olivier Awardwinning musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and on Broadway by the stage adaptation of Stephen King’s Misery starring Bruce Willis and Laurie Metcalf and Tony Award Best Play winner The Curious Incident of the Dog in the NightTime. Other Broadway credits include the Tony Award-winning musical The Bridges of Madison County and the holiday hit Elf The Musical. The division is readying productions of 17 Again, Dave, Beetlejuice, Night Shift, A Star is Born and Dog Day Afternoon for the stage. WBThV also licenses third-party stage rights including such productions as The Bodyguard, Singin’ in the Rain, Hairspray, The Wizard of Oz, The Color Purple and 42nd Street.

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NETWORKS PRESENTATIONS LLC (Producer) from its inception over 20 years ago, has been an industry leading producer and manager of touring musical theatre productions and remains committed to delivering quality entertainment to audiences worldwide. Having toured over 70 productions internationally, NETworks current touring productions include Cameron Mackintosh’s The Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables, Elf the Musical, Finding Neverland, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, Dirty Dancing, The Sound of Music and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I.

STAFF FOR Elf The Musical Executive Producer Trinity Wheeler General Management Gentry & Associates, Inc. Gregory Vander Ploeg Jamey Jennings Brad Broman Kevin Persaud Jack Stephens Production Management NETworks Presentations LLC Jason Juenker Hector Guivas Cody O’Dell Emma Downey Tour Booking The Road Company Stephen Lindsay Brett Sirota 165 West 46th St, Ste 1101 New York, NY 10036 212.3025.5200 voice 212.302.5374 fax www.theroadcompany.com Tour Marketing & Press Allied Touring Marya K. Peters Andrew Damer Scott Praefke Anne Waisanen Sarah Dahlberg Jennifer Gallagher Meghan Kastenholz Anne Dailey Meyer Jacqueline Smith Casting Stewart/Whitley Duncan Stewart CSA, Benton Whitley CSA Paul Hardt; Christine McKenna; Danny Dunitz

STAFF Company Manager Jack Stephens Production Stage Manager.......................................Kelsey Clark Assistant Director.....................................................Matt Kunkel Assistant Choreographer.................................. Betty Weinberger Assistant Choreographer............................................ Nick Cayce Assistant Costume Coordinator................................... Jess Gersz Assistant Lighting Designer..................................Blaine O’Donnell Moving Light Programmer................................. Parker Conzone Associate Sound Designer.......................................... Harry Platt Assistant Sound Designer........................................ Tyler Ponath Hair and Makeup Coordinator........................... Crysta Gsellman Head Carpenter....................................................Jesse Van Swol Flyman...............................................................Andrew Kutrufis Assistant Carpenter............................................. Michael Ehman Head Electrician.................................................... Jason Cochran Assistant Electrician............................................... Tessa Spence Head Sound............................................................Maggie Burke Assistant Sound........................................................ Eric Glauber Head Props...........................................................Jim Markowiec Head Wardrobe.......................................................Emily Gothro Hair and Makeup Supervisor................................ Rachael Smith Rehearsal Conductor & Pianist.................... David Aaron Brown Fight Coordinator.............................................. Michael Whitney Production Assistants.................... Andy Crosten, Sarah Polinski Advertising Services.......................Allied Integrated Marketing/ Debbie Allamong, Doug Blemker, Eric Stormoen Radio Spot Production.............................................. HMS Media Television Spot Design/Video Production............... HMS Media Production Photography........ Joan Marcus, Amy Boyle, Jeremy Daniel Merchandising.................................Araca Group, Jimmie Dillon Accounting................................... NETworks Presentations LLC Legal Services.........................................F. Richard Pappas, Esq. HR & Payroll Services.............................Human Resources inc.

Housing....................... Road Concierge, an ALTOUR Company Travel Agency.......................................................Janice Kessler, Carlson Wagonlit Travel Trucking................................................................Clark Transfer Busing ................................................................... Clarion Coach, John Kroko; Croswell VIP Motorcoach Services, Chuck Morris Staff for NETworks Presentations Chief Executive Officer .....................................Kenneth Gentry Chief Operating Officer ...................................Scott W. Jackson President .....................................................................Orin Wolf Executive Vice President Production .......................Seth Wenig Executive Assistant/Assoc. General Manager .................Curt Owens Director of Finance. ..................................................John Kinna Controller ..........................................................Jennifer Gifford Director of Tour Accounting ..............................Laura S. Carey Executive Producer ............................................Trinity Wheeler Senior Director, Booking & Engagements .................Mary K. Witte Director, Booking & Engagements .........................Colin Byrne Engagement Manager ................................Esther Schwarzbauer Director of Marketing/PR ......................................Heather Hess Digital Marketing Strategist .................................Perrin Shapiro Senior General Manager .........................Gregory Vander Ploeg General Manager ................................................Jamey Jennings Asst. General Managers ..............Brad Broman, Kevin Persaud, Jack Stephens Senior Production Manager ..................................Jason Juenker Production Manager ......................Hector Guivas, Cody O’Dell Assistant Production Manager ...........................Emma Downey Music Coordinator .................................................John Mezzio IT Manager ..................................................................Tim Pizza

Warehouse Manager ..................................................Brad Korff Warehouse Costume Coordinator ...............Bobby Maglaughlin Office Manager .................................................Buddy Piccolino Administrative Assistants .........................................Carol Jewel Rehearsed at Ripley-Grier Studios, New York City Credits Scenery provided by Hudson Scenic Studios; Sound equipment

by Sound Associates; Lighting equipment provided by Christie Lites; Properties by BrenBri Props; Flying Effects provided

by ZFX, Inc.; Costumes prepared by Arel Studio; Lynne Mackey Millinery; Tricorne Costumes; Jennifer Chapman; Karl Ruckdeschel; Jess Gersz; Rodney Gordon; Laduca Shoes; Worldtone Shoes; Lizet Rubinos; Gene Mignola; Diana Belanger.

Special Thanks to Community Center Auditorium, Bartlesville, OK and Val Callaghan, Managing Director

Tax & Financial Consulting, Accounting Services, IT Services CliftonLarsonAllen LLP Brian Enverso, Pat Guerieri Insurance Broker Services Maury Donnelly & Parr, Inc. Robert B. Middleton, Sr. and Meghan Shriver Financial Services and banking arrangements by SunTrust Bank Stock and Amateur rights for Elf The Musical are represented by Music Theatre International, New York City.

212-541-4684 www.mtishows.com Visit the Elf The Musical tour website at www.ElfTheMusicalOnTour.com/

@ElfTheTour /ElfTheMusicalOnTour @ElfTheMusical #ELFTheMusical Backstage and Front of the House Employees are represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (or I.A.T.S.E.).

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

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

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presented by:

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Red Tail Entertainment LLC presents

Created by Erth-Visual & Physical, Incorporated Sydney, Australia Starring MILES PORTEK JOE AHOLT, MIRON GUSSO, ERYN MALAFRONTE Writer & Director SCOTT WRIGHT

Associate Director SHARON KERR

Designer STEVE HOWARTH

National Tour Booking BRAD SIMON ORGANIZATION

Specialist Puppet Design BRYONY ANDERSON

National Marketing C MAJOR MARKETING

Tour Manager MICHAEL GLOVER Technical Director CARLOS CASTILLO General Manager DEBORAH BARR

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Composer PHIL DOWNING

CAST

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Puppeteer...................................................................................................................JOE AHOLT Puppeteer............................................................................................................MIRON GUSSO Puppeteer.................................................................................................ERYN MALAFRONTE Host....................................................................................................................MILES PORTEK

MILES PORTEK

JOE AHOLT

ERYN MALAFRONTE MIRON GUSSO

WHO’S WHO in the CAST MILES PORTEK (Host) Miles is a native Australian. Born in Sydney he's had a rambling journey through time and space. From improvised comedy, to stand up, Miles currently believes the best way to fix the world is through the inspiration and empowerment of children, because really, if we don't invest in that there's no point living. He's been an avid volunteer in 826NYC, a creative writing and homework support centre in Brooklyn New York, and at the Martian Embassy in Sydney. When he's not hosting fantastic dinosaur puppet shows he's normally working in a bar, a sound booth or swimming somewhere.

Of course none of this matters, because there's no point unless we're inspiring children or helping them create something incredible, so stop reading this and get out and do that.

JOE AHOLT (Puppeteer) studied theatre arts performance at the University of Texas Arlington. He is excited to be part of his first tour with Erth's Dinosaur Zoo Live. Other theatre credits include Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing (Fort Worth Theatre), Prince Philip in The Lion in Winter (Theatre Rocks!), Rhinoceros in The Island of Doctor Moreau (Hip Pocket Theatre), and Pee-Wee Reese in the Dallas Children's Theater's national tour of Most Valuable Player: The Jackie Robinson Story.

ERYN MALAFRONTE (Puppeteer) is thrilled to be performing in Erth’s Dinosaur Zoo Live, reuniting her love of puppets and dinosaurs again! Her most recent credits include: Urinetown The Musical (Pennywise), and Chamber Theater’s national tours of ‘Encore!!’ and ‘Eureka!’ Wholehearted thanks to her parents, Miron, this company, and of course my brother Brendan, and Kermit the frog for getting me interested in puppets in the first place!

MIRON GUSSO (Puppeteer) He celebrates his 6th year as a T-Rex with the company. Born in Moscow, Miron's mother introduced him to Puppetry at the age of 8 and he's been hooked ever since. An alumnus of the University of Connecticut’s Puppetry Arts Graduate Program, Miron has also been seen as a dinosaur on Radiolab’s live show “Apocolyptical” which toured in 2013, and at Field Station: Dinosaurs (NJ). Other favorite credits include The Center for Puppetry Arts (GA), and Doc Brown at Universal Studios Japan, Osaka. www.mirongusso.com SCOTT WRIGHT (Artistic Director) Scott is the co-founder and Artistic Director of Erth Visual & Physical Inc. For over twenty-five years Erth’s puppetry based theatrical productions and innovative community projects have challenged and inspired audiences across the world, driven by a founding interest in natural history, indigenous folklore, sociology and urban mythology. Scott has directed the majority of Erth’s productions, which now tour year-round internationally, and have featured in all major Australian arts festivals, and today the company is recognized internationally as an innovator of physical and visual theatre, and a creator of brave, unbridled work for children.

SHARON KERR (Associate Director) Sharon is Executive Director and a founding member of Erth.

Originally trained as a school teacher majoring in drama, Sharon has much performance experience.

Prior to helping form Erth, she spent five years in contemporary dance theater with empha¬sis on improvisational movement. Puppetry became a natural extension of this. Her roles within Erth are many and varied. Contributing to creative and performance direction, Sharon continues to perform whenever 33

she can. Sharon has also steered the company for many years as its key administrator. Some of her per¬formance highlights include her aerial har¬ness and flying work memorable amongst these are from atop the sails of the Sydney Opera House, the spire of St. Paul’s Cathedral in Melbourne and from the 30th floor of the Nge Ann skyscraper in Singapore.

STEVE HOWARTH (Designer) As a founding and fulltime member of Erth Visual & Physical, Inc., Steve designs for most of the company’s productions and external com-missions. From the Erth Studio/Workshop he supervises a team of artists in creating the puppets, sets, props, costumes that are on constant tour around the globe. The puppets often take the form of teeth-gnashing beasts and inflatable monsters that are the foundation of Dinosaur Zoo. Steve also mentors design students from tertiary institutions and assists emerging makers in the implementation of their respective crafts.

BRYONY ANDERSON (Specialist Puppet Design) Bryony is a designer, maker, artist and wannabe scientist based in the forested hills of NSW. Her puppets and constructions for visual performance have toured nationally and internationally with many Australian circus, puppetry, visual performance and theatre companies, as well as appearing in museums, festivals and documentaries. Solo exhibitions have ranged from interactive puppetry installations and handmade projection machinery to intricate illustration, all investigating a salvaged aesthetic. She has conducted community workshops in the Central Desert, rural Victoria, Western Sydney, and across the Mid North Coast of NSW. In 2011 she began working with her local community to seed a creative industry of skilled artisans making high calibre work from frugal resources. A three-year project was spawned that drew in artists, composers, scientists and over 1200 community participants, and resulted in an intricately detailed forest installation made entirely from stuff that was headed to landfill. The Frugal Forest is now on tour. frugalforest.oneoffmakery.net.au PHIL DOWNING (Composer) Phil has a distinct history working with interactive multimedia. After years spent performing music, Phil set about reinventing his means of expression through music, by creating unique and obscure musical instruments.

This inspiration has led to the creation of numer¬ous soundtracks for theatrical productions (1999–2012).

Delivery of video and imagery being an obvious progression, Phil has also worked with various technologies to incor¬porate physical interaction (with performers and audience members) into installations and performances, utilizing technologies such as infra-red, sonar and pressure sensors, Arduino programmable circuit boards and Kinect sen¬sors.

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and has designed stand-alone sound systems for their various creature puppets. “This one’s going to be a mad professor!” his grandma proclaimed upon his birth.…She was possibly correct!

DEBORAH BARR (General Manager) has worked as a production and stage manager for dance, theatre, opera and ceremonial events for numerous companies and producing entities. She worked for many years as Events Manager at the University of Texas at Austin and as a Company Manager on tour, and welcomes the opportunity to manage dinosaurs.

MICHAEL GLOVER (Tour Manager) Michael is a navy veteran with a B.A. in Design and Technology for the Theatre from San Diego State University.

He was the Fall Tour Manager for Erth's Dinosaur Zoo Live in 2016. That being his first tour, he absolutely fell in love with touring, this show, and those involved. Michael is honored and thrilled to join the company once again and to make the magic of Erth’s Dinosaur Zoo come to life.

BRAD SIMON ORGANIZATION (Exclusive North American Booking) Since 1983, The Brad Simon Organization has provided tour booking services for a diverse roster of artists and productions in a wide variety of performance venues, including performing art centers, commercial theaters, amphitheaters, arenas, festivals, fairs and theme parks. Their national and international tours have reached millions of audience members at over 1,000 commercial and non-profit venues in all 50 United States and eight provinces in Canada, plus Sydney, Australia, Singapore and other territories. They have toured 20+ productions based on top-rated television series, over 75 from regarded book titles, as well as original theatre productions, all targeted to multi-generational family audiences. The Brad Simon Organization’s longevity in the touring industry is a product of their work ethic and love for presenting live performance and meaningful theatrical experiences for audiences of all ages.

RED TAIL ENTERTAINMENT (Producer) Founded by Phillip Drayer produces a wide range of spectacular live entertainment and presents a variety of live performances by headline entertainers throughout the U.S. In addition to producing Erth’s Dinosaur Zoo Live, the company most recently produced the Broadway hit…A Night with Janis Joplin. Through its subsidiary, 35 Concerts, the company presents headline entertainment at venues throughout the U.S. ERTH VISUAL & PHYSICAL INC. (Producer).

ERTH is a company fueled by beautiful accidents; a team of creators, makers and performers pushing the limits of design, content and experience. For over twenty-five years ERTH’s puppetry-based theatrical productions and innovative community projects have challenged and inspired audiences across the

world, driven by a special interest in natural history, indigenous folklore, sociology and urban mythology.

Today the company is recognized internationally as an innovator of physical and visual theatre, and a creator of brave, unbridled work for children. ERTH’s work tours year-round internationally, has featured in all major Australian arts festivals, and has appeared at international events including the Sydney Olympic Games Opening Ceremony, Hong Kong Fringe, Galway Arts Festival (IR), Stockton International Riverside Festival (UK), Singapore Arts Festival, the Festival of Arts & Ideas (USA), Shanghai World Expo, the opening of the Mall of Qatar (UAE), and the Hampyeong Butterfly Festival (South Korea).

ERTH’s studio and workshop custom builds specialist creations for clients that have included the Syd-

ney Opera House, Sydney Festival, Sydney Olympic Games, Vivid Sydney, the Centenary of Federation, the Department of Communications and the Arts, Performing Lines and The Empire Strips Back, and the company has long standing creative relationships with major museums around Australia, New Zealand and the USA. In the company’s ongoing push to explore boundaries and devise new work, 2017 sees the premiere of birdfoxmonster – a multi-sensorial dining experience and collaboration between Erth and Studio A, which will take place at Carriageworks, and the release of Prehistoric VR - a 360-degree virtual reality short film for children created in partnership with renowned Australian film director Samantha Lang, and based on Erth’s Prehistoric Aquarium.

SPECIAL THANKS This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its art funding and advisory body.

STAFF FOR ERTH'S DINOSAUR ZOO LIVE GENERAL MANAGEMENT Deborah Barr NATIONAL MARKETING & PUBLICITY C Major Entertainment Marketing, Inc Catherine Major TOUR MANAGER Michael Glover EXCLUSIVE TOUR BOOKING The Brad Simon Organization www.bsoinc.com

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Dirty Dancing| Dec. 02, 2017 | 6:30 PM Riverdance | Jan. 11, 2018 | 6:15 PM Classic Albums Live: Creedence Clearwater Revival | Feb. 01, 2018 | 6:15 PM Southern Fried Chicks: Cage-Free Comedy Tour | Feb. 14, 2017 | 6:15 PM (Dinner available for $40 per person) Moscow Festival Ballet: Cinderella | March 03, 2018 | 6:15 PM Motown the Musical | Mar. 20, 2018 | 6:15 PM Motown the Musical | Mar. 21, 2018 | 6:15 PM Classic Albums Live: Led Zeppelin | Apr. 07, 2018 | 6:15 PM The Sound of Music | Apr. 17, 2018 | 6:15 PM The Sound of Music | Apr. 18, 2018 | 6:15 PM

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AARON PATRICK CRAVEN (Johnny Castle) is proud to be touring with Dirty Dancing! BFA in Dance Performance/Choreography from Wichita State University. Favorite Credits include Billy Elliot (Older Billy), The Rocky Horror Show (Rocky), Mamma Mia! (Pepper), West Side Story (Diesel), and Goodspeed’s Oklahoma!. Aaron has also appeared as a Principle with Ballet Wichita, and has toured internationally with Wichita Contemporary Dance Theatre. Love and thanks to Mom, Dad, Alex, and Katie! Special thanks to Paul Hardt! Follow: @aaronpatrickcraven, aaronpatrickcraven.com KALEIGH COURTS (Frances “Baby” Houseman) is excited to be making her national touring debut with Dirty Dancing! Previously a member of the Houston Ballet, her performance credits include Swan Lake, La Bayadere, and Maria in West Side Story Suite. She also attended the Houston Ballet Academy and The High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. Love to Mom, Dad, Ash, and the rest of the family!

ANAÏS BLAKE (Penny Johnson) is thrilled to be making her Broadway touring debut. Previously with the Sarasota Ballet, (2008-2017), she has also toured to the Kennedy Center (Dance Across America), Jacobs Pillow, and New York City Center (Fall for Dance). Collaborations and guest artist with Suzanne Farrell Ballet, American Contemporary Ballet, State Street Ballet and Trinity Irish Dance Company. Asolo Theater’s Broadway production of Contact (swing) in collaboration with Sarasota Ballet. She has appeared in numerous print ads, commercials and Kartemquin Films, Life Lessons (2011). Love to Jason, my family and stellar friends for their steadfast support. anaisblake. com, @anaisblake ERICA LEE CIANCIULLI (Majorie Houseman) is so excited to be joining the team of the National Tour of Dirty Dancing. Originally from the Philadelphia area, Erica attended Point Park University for her college career. Other national tour credits include Pippin (Fastrada). She would like to thank the cast, creatives, friends, and family for all of the love and support they have given her throughout this journey.

NICKOLAUS COLÕN (Billy Kosteki, Singer) hails from North Carolina and is a proud alumni of the drama program at UNCSA. Nick is delighted to be making his National Tour debut in Dirty Dancing.

Credits include: Waitress (workshop), City of Ember (Mayor Cole), Guys & Dolls (Nathan Detroit), Learned Ladies (Lepine), Les Misérables (Thenardier).

He is thankful for this opportunity to perform across the country including Fayetteville, NC, his home town.

RYAN CUPELLO (Robbie Gould) is thrilled to be a part of Dirty Dancing! A native of Rochester, NY, he currently lives in New York City. National Tour:

Fiddler on the Roof. Regional: Violet, James and the Giant Peach, Les Misérables, Light in the Piazza, Night of the Iguana, Last Night of Ballyhoo, The Temperamentals, Little Shop of Horrors. MFA: ART/ Harvard. A huge thank you to Lisa, Mickey, Yvan, and the entire Price Group team! Love to my parents! www.ryancupello.com BUDDY DANIELS FRIEDMAN (Mr. Schumacher; u/s Max), comes to this production for the first time.

He has been an actor since his first film Danger Zone (1986). He brings with him extensive Film/TV/Music Videos/New Media credits. Films credits: Nasty Piece of Work, Merica My Lovely, My Baby Sister is an Alien; Taking Care of Business (with Charles Grodin); “Tha Eastsidaz” (Snoop Dog). As for TV "Star Trek: Next Generation" (Boilan Barber), "Golden Girls," "Ally McBeal," a recurring role on "Passions, Beverly Hills Pawn" reality show. Has a Blending Award for a Pistachio Commercial. Theater: several productions of all kinds & 13 years in an ongoing role-playing experience, The Dungeon Master. Buddy was a Theatre Arts Major @Temple U. in Phila. Buddy is delighted to be in and share his talent with this wonderful cast.

Find out more about Buddy at IMDB and look up his names: also Buddy Daniels and Daniel Friedman.

Thanks for coming! Enjoy the show.

RICK GROSSMAN (Max Kellerman). A NY based actor/director who spent much of his youth working and performing in the Catskills! National Tours: Bullets Over Broadway (1st National), Man of La Mancha, Enter Laughing, Come Blow Your Horn, Milk & Honey. Off Broadway: The Canary, Awake & Sing, Harry & Eddie, Feldman & Sons, The Manufacturer's Daughter, Damn Yankees (Lincoln Center Outdoors). Regional: Leading roles at Laguna Playhouse, Surflight Theatre, Westport Country Playhouse, Glove Theatre, Starlight Theatre.

TV/Film: "House of Cards," "Byte Me" (Pilot), College Senior, The Pitch, Paper Planes, Demons, The 30 Year Old Bris (Tribeca FF), Finding Oscar. Dedicates DD to family and friends from Monticello, Kiamesha and So. Fallsburgh NY! Hope you "have the time of your life!"

DEMITRA PACE (Lisa Houseman) is thrilled to be making her national tour debut with this amazing company! A California native, Demitra recently graduated form UCLA's School of Theater, Film, & Television. She would like to thank all of the wonderful teachers who have greatly inspired her over the years, her incredible team at KMR, and her friends and family members for their endless love and support.

OWEN RUSSELL (Neil Kellerman) is very grateful to be performing on his first national tour! Regional credits include: My Fair Lady (Jamie), Merrily We Roll Along (Tyler), The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks (Jason).

A graduate of NYU Tisch; BFA Drama (Playwrights Horizons/New Studio on Broadway). Huge thanks to Rich and Mike, the whole Dirty Dancing team, and my

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family/friends for their support and love. Instagram: @ owenrussell CHRISTOPHER ROBERT SMITH (Dr. Jake Houseman). Originally from Michigan. Chris has performed in regional theaters all over the country and in New York and Los Angeles. Favorite recent credits include: Pilate in JCSS and Ned Stark "Game of Thrones" in LA. TV: "Big Bang Theory," "Days of Our Lives" and "Friends with Better Lives." As well as many commercials and fitness magazines. He's very excited to be on this. Thanks to his family back in Michigan and friends in Los Angeles for helping this to happen God Bless :) Chrissmithactor.com. IMDb Christopher Robert Smith.

RAMOND THOMAS (Tito Suarez) favorite roles include Mr Black in The Wild Party with Ray of Light Theatre, Delray in the National Tour of Memphis The Musical, Keegan Theater's Working as Rex/Utkarsh and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee as Mitch Mahoney. The InSeries' production of Love Potion #1 (L'Elisir D'Amore) and an understudy in TheatreWorks Palo Alto's production of Grey Gardens.

ALEX CALDWELL (Ensemble; u/s Baby, Lisa).

Regional credits include: West Side Story (Graziella), Chicago (Velma), Peter Pan (Tiger Lily), and The School at Jacob’s Pillow. This is Alex’s tour debut! You can check her out at alexcaldwell.net.

AYLA CICCONE-BURTON (Ensemble; u/s Elizabeth) is making her National Tour debut with Dirty Dancing. Just coming back from studying popular music at Goldsmiths, University of London, she's thrilled to be a part of the show!

AMANDA CLEMENT (Swing, Asst. Dance Capt.) spent her formative years training with Midwest Movement Dance Co., Faubourg School of Ballet and the CMDC. She moved to NYC after graduating from the University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign in 2012.

Most recently, her performance with Vixen Productions was nominated for Best Music Video at the Winter Film Awards in NYC. She has worked for Carnival Cruise Line as a Singer. Dad, Mom and Big C- I love you.

J'ROYCE JATA (Ensemble; u/s Tito Suarez).

Incredibly humbled to be sharing this story. OffBroadway: Endangered! (Tour Guide/Snoop); NYC: BroadwayCon, LaMama, Symphony Space. Nat'l Tours: Fame (Tyrone Jackson), Memphis (Swing/ Black DJ u/s). TV/Film: "Killer Unicorn", "Royal Pains", "Babylon". Regional: The Wiz, Passing Strange, Footloose, The Little Mermaid (NY Regional Premiere). Love & Light to this beautiful cast, crew, creative team, Gregg Baker Management, my family, and YOU for supporting live art! Learn more @ jroycejah & jroycejata.com HUNTER MIKLES (Ensemble; u/s Robbie Gould).

National Tour debut! Hunter is ecstatic to join the Dirty Dancing family! Favorite credits include Newsies and Big! The Musical at the Fulton Theatre, and Chicago at Park Playhouse. Hunter graduated Magna Cum Laude from Point Park University, earning his BA in Jazz Dance. Endless love and gratitude to my family, friends, and LDC fam. Follow along! @hunter_mikles HONZA PELICHOVSKY (Swing, Dance Captain) holds a BFA in Dance from Marymount Manhattan College. He has worked for The MET Opera, BARE Dance, Hivewild, and LoudHound Movement. Eternally grateful to God, mom & dad, the Fetch Four, Catherine Cabeen, and Wanda.

ERICA PHILPOT (Elizabeth/Singer, Ensemble) is delighted to be making her national tour debut with this wonderful production. She received her BA Degree in Theatre Performance from the University of Maryland, College Park. Performance credits include: Supporting Vocalist for Tsidii Le Loka (from Disney’s The Lion King on Broadway), Rent (Mimi), Something Like A Fairytale (Princess Alyse). She thanks God, her family and friends for the support.

JOSHUA CLIFTON POWELL (Ensemble; Moe Pressman; Sheldrake Emcee) is originally from Kansas City and now lives and works in New York. He is humbled to be surrounded by this phenomenal group of people for his first national tour. He is blessed and grateful for amazing parents, siblings, grandparents, and 7th Street Family. Always, Peace.

HANNAH STRANEY (Ensemble; Vivian Pressman) is thrilled to join the Dirty Dancing Company! She received her BFA in Dance Performance from SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance. While there she studied abroad at Taipei National University of the Arts. She has performed for Aszure Barton, Sidra Bell, and Tom Weinberger.

JAY STUART (Ensemble; u/s Johnny Castle) is thrilled to join the North American tour of Dirty Dancing.

Select NYC: "Ray" in Seeing You (World Premiere) dir. Randy Weiner/Ryan Heffington, TAPE (The Wild Project), Regional: Memphis (Cabrillo Music Theater). TV: Derek and Julianne Hough's "Move Live" (GMA). @_jaystuart KELSEY WALSH (Ensemble; u/s Penny). National tour debut! Recent: SoulEscape, Odyssey Dance Theatre. BFA, University of Arizona. Love to my family and MTA for their endless support. @kelsey_walsh AIDAN ZIEGLER-HANSEN (Ensemble; u/s Neil) is thrilled to make his National Tour debut with Dirty Dancing! Originally from Eugene, OR, Aidan recently graduated from the University of Michigan with a BFA in musical theatre. He would like to say a big thank you

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to the entire creative team, NETworks, and Stewart/ Whitley for this amazing opportunity. Much love to Mom, Dad, and Tanner.

ELEANOR BERGSTEIN (Writer) is a novelist, screenwriter, producer and director. Her stories have been published in national magazines, and her first novel, Advancing Paul Newman, about women and politics in the 1960s, was published by The Viking Press. Her first movie script was It's My Turn, starring Michael Douglas and Jill Clayburgh.

Her second novel, Ex-Lover, about sexual obsession, was published by Random House. Her film credits include the final script revision of Sister Act and Let It Be Me, starring Patrick Stewart, Leslie Caron and Campbell Scott, which she wrote and directed. Her most famous project, Dirty Dancing, was one of the most successful independent films of all time. It was the unique continuing response to the story over the years that made her decide to reimagine Dirty Dancing as a stage event. Ms. Bergstein, through her company, Magic Hour Productions, is developing a series of new projects including a television series based on Advancing Paul Newman. She is completing a new work of fiction and a memoir.

SARNA LAPINE (Director). Broadway: Sunday in the Park With George, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Annaleigh Ashford. (Associate Director) Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Sondheim on Sondheim, the Tony-award winning revival of Lincoln Center Theater’s South Pacific, Clifford Odets’ Awake and Sing! and The Light in the Piazza. (Director) Concerts: Sondheim on Sondheim with the Boston Pops at Tanglewood and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl. Additional concerts for: Umeda Arts Theatre (Japan), Encores! (City Center), the Boston Pops, 92nd Street Y and the Bucks County Playhouse.

Select Regional: Buyer & Cellar (Bucks County), Other Desert Cities (Theatre Aspen) Henry Award for Outstanding Direction of a Play, Tribes (Segal Centre of Montreal), Hope and Gravity (Creede Repertory Theater), Sunday in the Park With George (Short North Stage), Waiting for Lefty, and The Year of Magical Thinking (Intiman Theatre).

Touring Productions: The National Theatre’s War Horse (North American Tour & Japan) and Lincoln Center Theater’s South Pacific. Has been a teaching artist at The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute and guest director at Fordham University. Marcie Bloom Film Fellow. MFA: Columbia University.

KATE CHAMPION (Original Choreographer) is the Artistic Director and founder of the Sydney based dance-theatre company Force Majeure. She has also worked variously as a director/choreographer/ performer for Sydney Theatre Company, DV8 Physical Theatre, Australian Dance Theatre, Opera Australia, Belvoir, Legs on the Wall, NIDA and The

English National Opera. In 1996, Kate was awarded the Robert Helpmann Scholarship for Choreographic Excellence enabling her to create her first solo work Face Value which was awarded a Green Room and a MO Award. In 1997 she directed Under the Influence for Legs on the Wall, which premiered in Sydney and toured to the Edinburgh Fringe and Riverside Studios, London. In 2001 she created a new solo show - About Face and in 2002 directed Same, Same But Different for Force Majeure. Both these productions won Helpmann Awards. Kate choreographed the world premiere of the stage version of Dirty Dancing, which opened in Sydney November 2004 and has subsequently toured to Europe, UK and USA. Since 2005 Kate has directed Already Elsewhere, Tenebrae 1 and 11, The Age I’m In, Not In A Million Years, Never Did Me Any Harm (a co-production with Sydney Theatre Company) and Food (a co-production with Belvoir) for Force Majeure. In 2010 Kate choreographed the premiere production of Opera Australia’s Bliss which subsequently toured to the Edinburgh Festival and Spring Awakening for Sydney Theatre Company. Kate was Associate Director of Opera Australia’s 2013 production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle.

CONRAD HELFRICH (Music Supervisor and Arranger). Credits as Musical Director/Supervisor, Orchestrations and Arranger include Broadway The Last Word at the Duke Theatre in July 2016 for NYMF. Other credits include Dirty Dancing Hamburg (20062008), London (2006-2011 and 2013), Toronto, Utrecht, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, Berlin, Oberhausen, Stockholm, German National Tour, Paris; The Australian Outback Spectacular (20062010) for Warner Village Theme Parks; The Full Monty (2003 Australia); Singin’ in the Rain (2001 Australia and Asia); The Man from Snowy River (2001/2002 Australia); Jolson (1999/2000 Australia); Me and My Girl (1994-1996 Australia and New Zealand); The New Rocky Horror Show (1992 Australia and Asia); Blues in the Night (1991 Australia); Nine (19871988 Australia); Me and My Girl (1986 Australia); Songbook (Australia); As You Like It (Melbourne Theatre Company 1984). Awards: ARIA awards as Musical Director and Producer best cast albums for Nine (1989) and The Man from Snowy River (2003), Green Room Award as Best Musical Director (The Man from Snowy River). He has also produced the cast albums for all international productions of Dirty Dancing since 2006. Conrad is indebted to Col Joye, Kevin Jacobsen, Amber Jacobsen, Eleanor Bergstein, Jimmy Ienner and Chong Lim for their undying faith, confidence and trust in this most exciting of adventures. But above all Conrad thanks all the musicians who faithfully perform this fantastic score night after night.

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to be a part of Dirty Dancing: The Classic Story on Stage. Most recently Michele worked alongside Sarna Lapine, where she choreographed the Hollywood Bowl’s production of Sondheim on Sondheim.

She is also received the 2016 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Choreography for the critically acclaimed production of Kiss Me, Kate at Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC, which is set to make its West Coast debut next year at Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre. Favorite Broadway credits include: Everyday Rapture, The Coast of Utopia, Hairspray (assoc. choreo with Jerry Mitchell), The Full Monty (asst. choreo), Urinetown (asst. choreo). OffBroadway: Little Miss Sunshine, Everyday Rapture, We The People. Opera: Showboat at the Washington National Opera - Kennedy Center, Chicago Lyric, Houston Grand, and San Francisco Opera. National tours: Little House on the Prairie, Happy Days. Film: Camp, Joyful Noise, The Last Five Years. Concerts: Dolly Parton World Tour 2011.

MIKIKO SUZUKI MACADAMS (Set Designer).

Mikiko's work has been seen Off Broadway; Epic Theater Ensemble, INTAR Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Working Theater, and NAATC, Regionally; Berkeley Repertory Theatre Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Arena Stage, the Old Globe, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Syracuse Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Cornerstone Theater Company, Intiman Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Yale Repertory Theatre, among others. Internationally; Aichi Triennale, Kanagawa Prefectural Hall, Nissei Theatre, Nikikai Opera, and more. As an associate scenic designer, Broadway credits include: Fiddler on the Roof, The King and I, The Bridges of Madison County, Golden Boy, That Championship Season, Women on The Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Next Fall, and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone.

KEN BILLINGTON (Lighting Designer) has almost 100 Broadway shows to his credit including such theatre milestones as Sweeney Todd and the longest running American musical in history, Chicago.

Many touring productions have included Chicago (worldwide), Riverdance (lighting supervisor), Fiddler on the Roof, High School Musical, White Christmas, Annie, 42nd Street, the current Waitress and Amazing Grace. Other projects: Hugh Jackman in Concert, the Radio City Christmas Spectacular (1979 to 2006), Fantasmic! at Disneyland and New York’s Tavern on the Green. Ken’s many awards include the Tony and the Lumen for his architectural work; in 2015 Ken was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame.

JENNIFER IRWIN (Costume Designer).Jennifer’s career spans 35 years designing for drama, opera, film & in particular dance & ballet. Jennifer designs regularly for all the major Australian companies

including The Sydney Theatre Company, The Australian Ballet, Belvoir Theatre Company, Bangarra Dance Theatre, Sydney Dance Company & Opera Australia. Jennifer has designed the largest scale spectacular productions ever staged in Australia: Sydney 2000 Olympic Opening and Closing Ceremonies, The Official Commemorative Ceremony marking the Centenary of Australian Federation, The Olympic Arts ‘Festival of the Dreaming’ Opening. Jennifer designed the costumes for the Original Production of Dirty Dancing 2004.

LEON ROTHENBERG (Sound Designer). Select Broadway: A Doll’s House Part 2, Violet, The Realistic Joneses, The Nance (Tony Award), The Heiress, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Tony Nom). Select New York and Off-Broadway: Second Stage, New York City Center, Private Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, Public Theater, Culture Project, Tectonic.

Select regional: Huntington, A.C.T., Portland Center Stage, Arena Stage, Seattle Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Old Globe, Folger Shakespeare Theater, Long Wharf, McCarter, Williamstown Theater Festival, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Merrimack Repertory, Delaware Theater Company, New York Stage and Film, Two River Theater, North Shore Music Theater, Theatre By The Sea. International: Cirque du Soleil, National Theatre of Cyprus, Dijon.

BERNIE ARDIA (Hair Designer) has enjoyed a 37-year career, starting in television. Mr. Ardia has designed over 75 productions including the currently running NETworks’ tours of The Sound of Music, Elf the Musical and Dirty Dancing. Working with Eleanor Bergstein again is another exciting adventure. A few past highlights include Cameron Mackintosh’s Les Misérables USA and Canada.

Ragtime at The Kennedy Center, Kiss of the Spider Woman with Chita Rivera, Starlight Express at The Las Vegas Hilton, Cinderella with Eartha Kitt and Debbie Gibson, and ABC-TV "Happy Birthday Hollywood." It has been a thrill working with so many talented performers throughout his career including, Jeanne Cooper, Toni Tennille, Anita Gillette, Mary Wilson, Makenzie Phillips, Lynda Carter,Melody Thomas Scott and even Judge Judy!

This production is dedicated to his sister. Mr. Ardia is also the author of Barbra Streisand in New York City.

ALAN J. PLADO (Music Director) is ecstatic to be working on Dirty Dancing! Broadway national tours: Legally Blonde, Elf The Musical, Memphis, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. Off-Broadway: We’re Still Hot, Just a Matter of Time. Alan serves as the Music Supervisor for Menopause The Musical, and, internationally, was the music director and arranger for the show on the West End (Shaw Theater) and in Dublin, Ireland (Tivoli Theater). Thanks to Conrad, John, and NETworks.

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JOHN MEZZIO (Music Coordinator) has conducted several national tours including State Fair starring John Davidson, Victor Victoria starring Toni Tennille, Seussical The Musical, Cinderella starring Eartha Kitt and Deborah Gibson, the Royal National Theatres revival of Rodgers and Hammersteins Oklahoma! and The Wedding Singer. Additionally, Mr. Mezzio was Associate Conductor for Andrew Lloyd Webbers Starlight Express at the Las Vegas Hilton. John was Musical Coordinator for several national and international tours including Sweet Charity starring Molly Ringwald, Annie starring John Schuck and Mackenzie Phillips, Hairspray, The Producers, A Chorus Line, Spring Awakening, Elf The Musical, Memphis, Bullets Over Broadway, Disney's Beauty and the Beast and Shrek The Musical.

ILANA RANSOM TOEPLITZ (Associate Director).

Favorite director/choreographer credits: Reefer Madness (Starring Alan Cumming in 2014, New World Stages & 2015, 54 Below), The Drowsy Chaperone, Click Clack Moo! & A Christmas Carol (TWUSA Natl Tours), Spellbound!, and Shark Attack!.

Assistant Director: Violet (2014 Broadway), Crazy For You! (2017 Lincoln Center), A Christmas Story (Associate, Natl Tour), Sondheim on Sondheim (2017 premiere w/Boston Pops). Additional directing/ choreographing credits with NYMF, Lincoln Center (reading), The York Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Group, 54 Below. Pittsburgh fan. Drama League Directing Fellow. @IlanaRanToe TOBIN DEL CUORE (Associate Choreographer). A native of Maine, Tobin Del Cuore trained at the Walnut Hill School and later graduated from The Juilliard School. Del Cuore danced with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, working with some of today’s most important choreographers. Since leaving HSDC, Tobin has danced with Aszure Barton & Artists, the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, The Metropolitan Opera, Alessandra Ferri Dance, SFDanceworks, Houston Grand Opera, The Lyric Opera of Chicago, and BalletX. He has staged numerous works for Aszure Barton and Alejandro Cerrudo.

KATHY FABIAN / PROPSTAR (Props Supervisor).

Fabian's Recent Broadway credits include: Indecent, Sunday in the Park with George, Falsettos, Fiddler on the Roof, China Doll, On Your Feet, Living On Love, The King and I, An American In Paris, The Real Thing, The Realistic Joneses, If/Then, Rocky, The Bridges of Madison County, I’ll Eat You Last, Kinky Boots, Lucky Guy, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, The Anarchist, Chaplin, Nice Work If You Can Get It, A Streetcar Named Desire, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Stick Fly, Relatively Speaking, The Normal Heart, House of Blue Leaves, Anything Goes, Ghetto Klown, and Fences. Off Broadway: Othello (NYTW)

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Touring: Elf the Musical, National. Shrek the Musical, International. Other experience: Williamstown Theatre Festival, NETworks Presentations, Cirque du Soleil's Mystere, Santa Fe Opera. B.A. in Theatre & Dance, The University of Texas at Austin. Many thanks to Daddy, Shea, and caffeine for their constant support.

CHRISTOPHER KETNER (Company Manager) is a Tony Nominated Broadway Producer for The Great Comet of 1812. Producer: Working: A Musical with Lin Manuel-Miranda at the Southwark Playhouse London, nominated for Best off-West End Musical. Upcoming London West End Producer of Heisenberg (October 2017), and the Stephen Sondheim reimagined production of Company (Summer 2018). Previous tours: Joseph…

Dreamcoat (US and Japan tours), and Elf the Musical (US Tour). Other producing credits: The U.S. Open 2012-2015, Super Bowls 47, 48, 49; concerts with Beyoncé, Lenny Kravitz, Elvis Costello, Fall Out Boy, Ariana Grande, Bruno Mars, Lady Antebellum, Usher, Blake Shelton, as well as former First Ladies Laura Bush and Michelle Obama. NYU Steinhardt Alumni. IG: @ketnerrocks THE ROAD COMPANY (Tour Booking) was founded in 1997 by Stephen Lindsay and Brett Sirota.

In addition to Dirty Dancing, current representation includes Wicked, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, War Paint, The Band’s Visit, SpongeBob SquarePants, Rock of Ages, Clue, The Choir of Man, The Lightning Thief, The Illusionists, The Sound of Music, Kinky Boots and multiple companies of Elf The Musical. The Road Company is made possible by Magaly Barone, Shawn Willett, Jenny Kirlin, Justine Spingler, Joe Reed, and Josh Cape.

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STEWART/WHITLEY (Casting). Duncan Stewart CSA & Benton Whitley CSA. Broadway/NY: The Great Comet, A Clockwork Orange, As You Like It, On The Town, Pippin, Chicago The Musical, La Cage Aux Folles, The Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Carnegie Hall West Side Story, The Band Wagon, Pageant. West End/UK: Thriller Live, Menier Chocolate Factory, West Side Story. Tours: Finding

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Neverland, Dirty Dancing, The Sound of Music, Into the Woods, The Bodyguard, Chicago The Musical, Once, Shrek, Elf, Flashdance, Anything Goes, Bullets Over Broadway, We Will Rock You. Upcoming: Prince of Egypt, Hadestown, The Man in the Ceiling, Back Home Again, Waterfall, August Rush; REGIONAL: American Repertory Theater, Alley Theatre, Bay Street, Goodspeed, Theatre Under the Stars, Aslo Rep, Hollywood Bowl, TheatreWorks, Royal Caribbean. The Casting Society of America. Artios Award Winning. stewartwhitley.com TRINITY WHEELER (Executive Producer).

Broadway: Les Misérables (Production Stage Manager). National Tours: Bullets Over Broadway (Executive Producer), Elf the Musical (Executive Producer), Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Executive Producer), The Phantom of the Opera (Supervisory Production Stage Manager), Les Misérables (Production Stage Manager), Mary Poppins (Production Stage Manager), Young Frankenstein starring Roger Bart and Rent starring Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp. Trinity currently works on the national tours of Les Misérables, Finding Neverland, Dirty Dancing and Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music. Instagram: @trinityonbroadway AMBER JACOBSEN (Producer) started working for her father (Col Joye) as the head of touring and executive producer in Australia. She was responsible for touring artists including Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, the Bee Gees, Pearl Jam and Usher as well as executive producing Fame, SHOUT, The Man From Snowy River and Long Way to the Top. Amber was the executive producer for the original production of Dirty Dancing and has produced all productions since 2010. This year Amber produced The Last Word, a new musical comedy for NYMF. NETworks PRESENTATIONS, LLC (Producer), from its inception over 20 years ago, has been an industry leading producer and manager of touring musical theatre productions and remains committed to delivering quality entertainment to audiences worldwide. Having toured over 70 productions internationally, NETworks current touring productions include Cameron Mackintosh’s The Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables, Elf the Musical, Finding Neverland, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Dirty Dancing, The Sound of Music and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I. COL JOYE (Producer) has had No. 1 hits, recorded 15 Top 10 albums and was the first inductee into the Australian Hall of Fame (ARIA). He has numerous platinum and gold albums and hundreds of awards and toured extensively throughout Australia. Col was awarded an Order of Australia (AM) for his

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The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge Eleanor Carter, Ashley Chow | organ Graham Ross | conductor

Of

one that is so fair and bright

RIVERCENTER Connect series DEC. 09 | 7:30 PM55

P ROGRAMME Videte miraculum

Thomas Tallis (c. 1505–85)

Verbum supernum, prodiens plainchant Surge, illuminare Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c. 1525–94) Vigilate William Byrd (c. 1539/40–1623) Ding! dong! merrily on high

rad. arr. Mack Wilberg (b. 1955)

Magnificat quinti toni (with interpolations)

Hieronymus Praetorius (1560–1629)

Today the Virgin John Tavener (1944–2013) God is with us: A Christmas Proclamation John Tavener Christopher Holliday | bass

- I N T E RVA L Hail, gladdening light Charles Wood (1866–1926) Gaudete

anonymous, 16th century Torches John Joubert (b. 1927) A Hymn to the Virgin

Benjamin Britten (1913–76)

Holly Holt | soprano; Rosie Taylor | mezzo-soprano; Harry Castle | tenor; Thomas Ashton | bass

Hymne à la Vierge I Sing of a Maiden (world première)

Pierre Villette (1926–98) Joshua Pacey (b. 1995)

Holly Holt | soprano

What sweeter music

John Rutter (b. 1945)

My Lord has Come Will Todd (b. 1970) Silent Night (world première) Franz Grüber (1787–1863) arr. Graham Ross (b. 1985) Holly Holt | soprano; Isaac Jarratt Barnham | countertenor; Harry Castle | tenor

A babe is born Tomorrow shall be my dancing day

William Mathias (1934–92) James Burton (b. 1974)

Isaac Jarratt Barnham | countertenor; Jackson Riley | tenor; Toby Hession | bass Santa Baby

Phil Springer (b. 1926) arr. James Mawson (b. 1988)

Lydia Allain Chapman, Matilda Mills | sopranos; Harry Castle, Joshua Cleary | tenors; Toby Hession | bass

The Twelve Days of Christmas

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trad. arr. Frederic Austin (1872–1952) arr. Ian Humphris (1927–2012)

B I O GRAP HI ES E LEANOR CARTER | OR GAN Eleanor Carter is a second-year Music student at Clare College where she holds the post of the Sir William McKie Senior Organ Scholar: the first ever female organ scholar in Clare College’s history. Eleanor grew up in Guildford attending Tormead School as a music scholar. She started learning the organ at the age of nine, quickly going on to study with Katherine DienesWilliams at Guildford Cathedral. She latterly attended the Junior Department of the Royal Academy of Music where she studied organ with Anne Marsden Thomas and Peter Holder, with cello as her second study.

She regularly accompanies services at various local churches, and has had opportunities to play at Evensong in Canterbury and Chichester Cathedrals.

Eleanor has also given organ recitals at various venues, such as St. Lawrence Jewry in London, and has participated in local and county festivals.

Eleanor is also a cellist and pianist, particularly enjoying chamber music, she has played with the National Youth Chamber Orchestra, and the International Chamber Music Academy for several years. Through this ensemble playing she has performed at venues such as the Wigmore Hall, Royal Albert Hall and the Cadogan Hall. This year, Eleanor is also accompanying the King’s Voices choir of King’s College, Cambridge.

A S HLEY C HOW | ORG AN Ashley Chow is the Junior Organ Scholar at Clare College, where he is reading Natural Sciences. He grew up in Hong Kong and started playing the piano and violin at the age of six. Before Cambridge, he studied at Harrow School as a music scholar, where he started playing the organ and took lessons with Martin Singleton. There he assisted choir rehearsals, performed as a soloist and regularly accompanied school services.

At Harrow, Ashley enjoyed being a member of Harrow’s orchestras and chamber groups, performing works such as Orff’s Carmina Burana and Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast. He has had the opportunity to perform at St John’s Smith Square, Winchester Cathedral and Royal Albert Hall in the UK and in Bangkok, Beijing and Hong Kong whilst on tour with the orchestra.

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G R AHAM RO SS | D I RE CTOR Graham Ross has established an exceptional reputation as a sought-after conductor and composer of a very broad range of repertoire. He is cofounder and Principal Conductor of The Dmitri Ensemble and Director of Music and Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, with whom his performances around the world and his extensive discography have earned consistently high praise. In demand as a regular guest conductor of other ensembles in the UK and abroad, recent collaborations have included London Mozart Players, BBC Singers, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, Aurora Orchestra, Purcell School, Australian Chamber Orchestra and Aalborg Symfoniorkester.

In the 2017/18 season he makes return invitations to Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Salomon Orchestra, Covent Garden Chamber Orchestra and RCM Symphony Orchestra, conducts Haydn The Seasons in Provence and Britten’s War Requiem at the Barbican, and makes his conducting debuts with BBC Concert Orchestra and London Philharmonic Orchestra.

At the age of 25 he made his BBC Proms and Glyndebourne debuts, with other opera work taking him to Jerusalem, London, Aldeburgh and Provence. He has conducted and recorded world premières of a wide spectrum of composers, including James MacMillan, Judith Bingham, Giles Swayne, Vaughan Williams, Imogen Holst, Nico Muhly, Brett Dean, Lydia Kakabadse and Matthew Martin. Since 2011 he has recorded exclusively for Harmonia Mundi USA, his latest recordings including J. S. Bach Reformation cantatas with the Choir of Clare College and Clare Baroque, and the Shostakovich/Barshai Chamber Symphonies with The Dmitri Ensemble.

As a composer commissions have included BBC Concert Orchestra, City of London Sinfonia, National Youth Choir of Great Britain, Covent Garden Chamber Orchestra, O Duo, Park Lane Group, and the Solstice Quartet.

As an animateur and through outreach work he has conducted projects in Tower Hamlets, Wigmore Hall, English National Opera and Glyndebourne Festival Opera, and overseas in Nigeria, Palestine, across Europe and the USA. He is Artistic Director of Fringe in the Fen, a music and arts festival in Fenstanton, Cambridgeshire raising funds for Macmillan Cancer Support.

He is a regular contibutor on BBC Radio.

He studied music at Clare College, Cambridge and conducting at the Royal College of Music, London. He held a conducting scholarship with the London Symphony Chorus, has served as assistant conductor for Vladimir Juroswki, Diego Masson, Sir Roger Norrington and Nicholas Collon, and acted as Chorus Master for Sir Colin Davis, Sir Mark Elder, Ivor Bolton, Edward Gardner, Richard Tognetti and Lars Ulrik Mortensen. www.grahamross.com

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T HE C H O IR O F C L ARE C O LLEGE, CAMBRIDGE The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge has gained an international reputation as one of the world’s leading university choirs. In addition to its primary function of leading services three times a week in the College chapel, the Choir keeps an active schedule recording, broadcasting, and performing. Former directors have included John Rutter and Timothy Brown. Under the direction of Graham Ross, Director of Music since 2010, it has been praised for its consistently ‘thrilling’ and ‘outstanding’ performances worldwide. The Choir’s 2017/18 season includes Handel’s Messiah with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Mozart’s Requiem with the Manchester Camerata in Bridgewater Hall, concert appearances across the UK in London, Cambridge, Leeds, Buckinghamshire, Cheshire, Suffolk and Dorset, and overseas at St Peter’s Basilica in Rome, Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, and across the United States of America, France, Malta and Gozo.

In 2017 the Choir staged a major project to mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, performing eight Bach Cantatas with instrumentalists from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Experience, European Union Baroque Orchestra, Royal Academy of Music Baroque Soloists, Clare Baroque, and undergraduates from across Cambridge University, culminating in a recording for Harmonia Mundi released earlier in 2017.

In addition to live performances, the Choir has produced an impressive discography of more than forty recordings. Their recordings under Graham Ross on the Harmonia Mundi USA label have been released to great critical acclaim, earning praise for ‘impeccable ensemble’ and ‘immaculate performances’, a Le Choix de France Musique and a Diapason d’Or award, Editor’s Choice in Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine, and garnering a Gramophone Award nomination. The Choir’s series of Music for the Church Year has received numerous 5 star reviews in the national and international press. The Choir’s latest recordings are Pange lingua: Music for Corpus Christi and Reformation 500, both released in 2017.

The Choir has toured widely, including in the USA, Australia, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Russia, the Middle East and mainland Europe. The Choir has collaborated with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Australian Chamber Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Academy of Ancient Music, European Union Baroque Orchestra, Freiburger Barockorchester, Aurora Orchestra, the Schubert Ensemble and the Dmitri Ensemble. The Choir performs a wide range of repertoire throughout the year, and has commissioned and premièred works by many composers, including Herbert Howells, John Tavener, John Rutter, Giles Swayne, James Whitbourn, Andrew Carter, Jonathan Dove, Julian Philips, Tarik O’Regan, Graham Ross, Brett Dean, Matthew Martin and Nico Muhly. www.clarecollegechoir.com 59

T HE C H O IR O F C L ARE C O LLEGE, CAMBRIDGE Sopranos Eleanor Carter (Music) Lydia Allain Chapman (Classics) Georgina Gulliver (Choir Administrator) Rhea Gupta (Classics) Holly Holt (Music) Jessica Hopkins (Music) Helena Mackie (Music) Rebecca McElroy (Philosophy) Matilda Mills (English) Scarlet O’Shea (Medieval and Modern Languages) Altos Harriet Caisley (Engineering) Isaac Jarratt Barnham (Lay Clerk) Julia Morris (Medieval and Modern Languages) Theo Normanton (Medieval and Modern Languages) Joseph Payne (Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic) Rosie Taylor (Natural Sciences) Tenors Harry Castle (Music) Joshua Cleary (Music) Jonathan Nicolaides (Music) Jackson Riley (Natural Sciences) Howard Winfield (Archaeology) Basses Thomas Ashton (English) Ashley Chow (Natural Sciences) Liam Goddard (Mathematics) Nicholas Hendy (Classics) Toby Hession (Music) Christopher Holliday (History) Michael Hong (Natural Sciences) Benjamin Porteous (Medicine)

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CANTUS CHRISTMAS 2017

Message of the Season—Music of the Masters Cantus Columbus

William J. Bullock, conductor

Vega Quartet | Janie Lee Bullock, pianist | Aesook Moon, organist A CONCISE PROGRAM, PERSONNEL AND BIOGRAPHIES ARE GIVEN HERE. SEE INSERT FOR INTRODUCTION, DETAILED PROGRAM, NOTES, AND TEXTS.

PROGRAM

PLEASE HOLD APPLAUSE until the end of the concert.

AT THE SYMBOL , STAND and join in singing.

I. PRELUDE

Dmitri Shostakovich

Prelude (from Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op. 57, 1940)

STRING QUARTET, PIANO

II. PROPHECY AND PREPARATION

A Small White Dove [Es flog ein Täublein weisse] (No. 5 of Deutsche Volkslieder [German Folksongs], (Book 1, WoO 34, 1864)

anonymous German folksong arr. Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)

CHORUS

Dane Rudhyar (1895–1985)

Visitation (first movement of the string quartet Advent, 1979) STRING QUARTET

Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847) arr. William J. Bullock (b. 1943)

Bright, Like a Star, He’ll Come from Jacob (from the oratorio Christus, Op. 97, 1847)

CHORUS, STRING QUARTET, ORGAN

Adolph Henselt (1814–1889)

Ave Maria [Hail Mary] (No. 4 of Douze Études [Twelve Etudes], Op. 5, 1838) PIANO

anonymous arr. Elliot Del Borgo (1938–2013)

 O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (1996 arrangement of a 15th-century French plainsong)

FULL ENSEMBLE, AUDIENCE

III. BIRTH AND INFANCY

Harold Darke (1888–1976)

In the Bleak Midwinter (traditional British Christmas chorus, 1911)

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Hodie Christus natus est [This Day Christ Is Born] (Christmas Eve motet, c.1607)

William Byrd (1540–1623)

CHORUS

Cécile Chaminade (1857–1944)

Pastorale, Op. 114 (piano character piece, c. 1904) PIANO

anonymous The Shepherds’ Carol

arr. Dan Forrest (2010 chorus on the 19th-century

(b. 1978) Austrian carol Die Hirten auf dem Felde) CHORUS, STRING QUARTET, PIANO

George Gershwin (1898–1937)

Lullaby (string quartet movement, 1919) STRING QUARTET

anonymous  O Come, All Ye Faithful arr. David Willcocks (1919–2015) (1961 chorus on an 18th-century carol) FULL ENSEMBLE, AUDIENCE

IV. EPIPHANY AND ADORATION a nonymous, arr. Alice Parker (b. 1925)

and Robert Shaw (1916–1999)

How unto Bethlehem (1953 chorus on a traditional Italian folk carol) CHORUS

William Kroll (1901–1980)

Little March (first movement of Four Characteristic Pieces, 1935) STRING QUARTET

Barbara Bell (b. 1958) arr. John Rutter (b. 1945)

Lullaby [La Berceuse] (2015 Christmas chorus on a 1975 carol) CHORUS, PIANO

Franz Schubert (1797–1828)

Glory [Gloria] (from Mass No. 2 in G, D.167, 1815)

CHORUS, STRING QUARTET, ORGAN

Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847) arr. David Willcocks (1919–2015)

 Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (1961 chorus on an 19th-century German hymn)

FULL ENSEMBLE, AUDIENCE

V. DEPARTURE AND ASPIRATION anonymous King Herod

arr. William J. Bullock) (2017 chorus on the traditional

(b. 9143) Catalonian carol El Rei Herodes) CHORUS

Fikret Amivov (1922–1984)

Elegie [Elegy] (duet, 1948) CELLO, PIANO 73

Hector Berlioz The Shepherds’ Farewell (chorus from the oratorio) (1803–1869) The Childhood of Christ L’Enfance du Christ], Op. 25, 1854) CHORUS, STRING QUARTET, ORGAN

Nathaniel Stookey (b. 1970)

Fast and Furious (from String Quartet No. 1, 1998) STRING QUARTET

Eric Lebrun (b. 1967)

Conditor alme siderum [Creator of the Stars of Night] (from Twelve Preludes on Gregorian Themes, Op. 31, 2014) ORGAN

Will Todd (b. 1970)

Softly (chorus, 2014) CHORUS

anonymous  Joy to the World!

arr. Antony Baldwin (b. 1957) (2000 chorus on an 19th-century English hymn) FULL ENSEMBLE, AUDIENCE

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CONDUCTOR William Bullock, conductor, brings forty-nine years of conducting and administrative experience to his work with Cantus Columbus. In 2000 he retired as professor emeritus from Columbus State University’s Schwob School of Music, where he had served as coordinator of music studies and director of choral activities. Previously he held similar positions at the University of Southern Mississippi and Tarrant County College (Fort Worth). His BME, MM and Ph.D. degrees are from Florida State University. He recently retired as Executive Director of RiverCenter for the Performing Arts.

Bill has conducted and adjudicated choruses in seven south and southwestern states, conducted concert tours of Mexico and Eastern and Western Europe, and led study tours of Scandinavia and Australia. He has participated in international choral conferences in Vienna, Sydney, and Vancouver, founded the Six Flags over Texas Choral Festival, and served as Mississippi state president of the American Choral Directors Association, executive director of Southeastern Music Center, and choirmaster for Methodist and Episcopal churches. A choral literature authority, Bill has published journal articles, musical editions and arrangements, a book on the cantatas of J. S. Bach, and a well-received edition of the Brahms Requiem that includes his own modern, prosodic translation. A recipient of several awards, he is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda, Phi Kappa Phi, and various professional organizations (including the American Choral Directors Association) and is listed in biographical publications, including The New International Who’s Who in Music.

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CANTUS COLUMBUS Cantus Columbus, a professional chorus, was founded in 2000 by Dr. William J. Bullock. It presented its inaugural concert in the spring of that year at the Springer Opera House and that December inaugurated its annual series of Christmas concerts at Columbus’ Saint Luke United Methodist Church. The concerts of its subsequent seasons have been performed at RiverCenter for the Performing Arts, one each in Studio Theatre and Bill Heard Theatre, the rest in Legacy Hall. The group has occasionally performed run-out concerts in LaGrange and Savannah.

Made up of singers from Columbus and the surrounding areas, the chorus is proud of its performance standards and the quality and variety of its literature. Its annual Christmas concert, A Cantus Christmas, which draws sell-out crowds, recounts the Christmas story with music of master composers and familiar audience carols. Frequently the chorus also presents a spring concert. Except for one program of Psalm settings performed at First Baptist Church of Columbus, these concerts have presented lighter works in RiverCenter’s Legacy Hall. Recent spring programs have been joint presentations with the Vega Quartet and have featured arrangements of the music of Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hart, George & Ira Gershwin, and Jerome Kern and a diversity of “serenades” by a variety of composers. Now a resident performing ensemble at RiverCenter for the Performing Arts, the chorus is supported by grants, contributions, concert sponsors, and ticket sales. The group rehearses in Columbus at the Schwob School of Music and at St. Thomas Episcopal Church and First Baptist Church. It is managed by Debbie Anderson, who may be contacted at 706-561-9573 or DEBA264@aol.com or P.O. Box 8832, Columbus, GA 31908. Gary Holloway is treasurer.

Sopranos Debbie Anderson Denise Bernard Allison Ladshaw Freeman Carol Holloway April M. Jacobs Cindy Rollins

Altos Pam Bailey Lucy Bowers Beth Campbell Erin Redden Addison Walton Stephanie Warnock

Tenors Ken Bailey Mark Culpepper Mark Dermer Luis Diaz II Adam Mitchell

Basses Thomas Bernard Myron Douglas Norman Easterbrook Gary Holloway Christopher Walton Chris Waterstraat Andy White

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STRING QUARTET The Vega Quartet, Quartet-in-Residence at Emory University, is cultivating a new generation of chamber music lovers through dynamic performances and innovative community engagement. The New York Times raved that “[the Quartet’s] playing had a kind of clean intoxication to it, pulling the listener along…the musicians took real risks in their music making” and the Los Angeles Times praised the Quartet’s “triumphant L.A. debut.” The ensemble concertizes both nationally and internationally, most recently in Baltimore, Chicago, Nashville, Sacramento, Berlin, San Miguel, and at the Brahmssaal in Vienna’s Musikverein.

The Quartet has become a Columbus, Georgia favorite through a decade of collaborations with Cantus Columbus. That collaboration includes a previous solo appearance on the Cantus Christmas series, a concert of “serenades” by a diversity of composers, and five concerts featuring compositions by Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hart, George & Ira Gershwin, and Jerome Kern.

The Vega Quartet has won numerous international awards, including major ones at the Bordeaux String Quartet Competition, the Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition, the Carmel Chamber Music Competition, and the National Society of Arts and Letters String Quartet Competition. The Quartet tours throughout Asia, Europe and North America and has appeared at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall and Zankel Hall, at Bargemusic (New York City’s floating concert hall), and at Duke Hall at the Royal Academy of Music, London. The ensemble also commissions, premiers and records works by leading composers and is a frequent guest at numerous music festivals, including Amelia Island, Aspen, Brevard, Highlands-Cashiers, Juneau Jazz & Classics, Kingston, Mostly Mozart, Rockport, San Miguel de Allende, and SummerFest La Jolla.

At Emory, the Quartet brings performance into the classroom, collaborating with professors to create interdisciplinary events and conversations. It enriches the cultural life of the community with its Emory Youth Chamber Music Program, which provides intensive training in small ensemble playing to advanced pre-college students. The ensemble’s major Emory projects include performance of the complete cycle of Beethoven quartets, performance of pairings of Bach’s complete works for solo violin, viola and cello with the six Bartók string quartets, and development of a series of “Jazz Meets Classics” programs, bringing these two genres together. Outside Atlanta, the Quartet has held residencies in Augusta, Jacksonville and Juneau, which have combined traditional performances with educational outreach, performances in non-traditional venues, and master classes for student musicians.

The members of the Quartet (violinists Elizabeth Fayette and Jessica Wu, violist Yinzi Kong, and cellist Guang Wang) collaborate with some of the world’s finest musicians, including Andres Cardenes, Eliot Fisk, Christopher O’Riley, William Preucil, Richard Stoltzman, Robert Spano, Charles Wadsworth, Peter Wiley, and the Eroica Trio.

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ORGANIST Aesook Moon, organist, received her undergraduate degree in organ performance from the Seoul Presbyterian Seminary and a master’s degree from Hanyang University in Seoul, Korea. She earned a second master’s degree in organ performance from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. In 2006 she received the doctor of musical arts degree in organ performance from the University of North Texas. While in Texas she won first place and the best hymn playing award in the William C. Hall Organ Competition.

Currently Aesook serves as associate organist-choirmaster at Trinity Episcopal Church in Columbus. She also is a collaborative pianist in Columbus State University’s Schwob School of Music, a position she has held since 2009. In this position she accompanies voice and instrumental students and the University Singers.

Prior to coming to Columbus, Aesook was an adjunct organ instructor at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and served as organist for First-Centenary United Methodist Church in Chattanooga, Tennessee. More recently she has served as organist at First United Methodist Church, Dothan, Alabama, and as pianist-organist at St. Luke United Methodist Church, Columbus. During her career she has presented many solo organ recitals and accompanied several choirs. Aesook lives in Midland, Georgia with her husband and two sons.

PIANIST Janie Lee Bullock, pianist, received the BME degree from Florida State University and the MM degree in piano performance with emphasis in accompanying from the University of Southern Mississippi, where she collaborated in many vocal and instrumental chamber music programs and musical theater performances. She has done extensive choral accompanying and has been pianist/organist for several choral concert tours throughout Eastern and Western Europe with the Columbus Civic Chorale and with the Young Presbyterian Singers. She is a collaborative pianist at CSU’s Schwob School of Music, where she plays recitals, juries, competitions, master classes and auditions.

In 2007 Janie Lee accompanied the national winner of the MTNA Young Artists vocal competition in Toronto, Canada, and in 2008 accompanied the national finalist at the MTNA conference in Denver, Colorado. She has served as a church musician in Methodist and Episcopal churches for more than thirty years and has been the organist at First Baptist Church of Columbus since 2003. She is also active in musical theater, having been music director and pianist for Broadway shows in Texas, Mississippi, and Georgia. Currently, she is principle pianist with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra and has been pianist for Cantus Columbus since the group’s founding.

This performance is supported by a grant from the City of Columbus through the Columbus Cultural Arts Alliance and the Columbus Convention & Visitors Bureau.

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RiverCenter Volunteers Made up of devoted, conscientious supporters of the arts, the members of RiverCenter Volunteers work tirelessly in support of the many programs, projects, and activities that RiverCenter produces or hosts. A major portion of the volunteers’ efforts involves ushering at events and assuring that all patrons have an enjoyable experience each time they visit RiverCenter. To receive information about River­Center Volunteers call Heather Watson at 706-256-3652.

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2018 RiverCenter Board of Trustees Mr. Alex Shalishali, Chair Mrs. Susan Lawhorne, Past Chair Mr. Gene Perkins, Vice Chair Mrs. Becky Rumer, Treasurer Dr. William P. Kendall, Secretary Mr. Norman S. Easterbrook, Executive Director, CEO Mr. Matthew J. Barkley Ms. Dale Goldsmith Mr. Keith Harnage Mr. Isiah Harper, III Dr. Tom Helton

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RiverCenter Administration & Staff EXECUTIVE GROUP Norman S. Easterbrook, Executive Director, CEO John Camp, Production Director Carrie Corbett, Director of Marketing Cherwanda Jones, Operations Director Betsy Fitzgerald, Director of Development Jannina Marion, Director of Business Affairs, CFO Jim Rutland, Program Director BOX OFFICE Jennifer Graham, Box Office Manager Indya Bussey, Assistant Box Office Manager Shonda Dugan, Ticketing Associate Zamar Griffin, Ticketing Associate Jasper Howell, Ticketing Associate Zach McDonald, Ticketing Associate De'Marcus Monroe, Ticketing Associate Rebekah “Chase” Worthey, Ticketing Associate BUSINESS AFFAIRS Jannina Marion, Director of Business Affairs, CFO Shannon Preston, Accounting Coordinator & HR Assistant Mahalia Dawes, Administrative Assistant DEVELOPMENT Betsy Fitzgerald, Director of Development Kasey Cross, Advancement Assistant 98

MARKETING Carrie Corbett, Director of Marketing Gina Tew, Marketing Specialist OPERATIONS Cherwanda Jones, Operations Director Seth Burgamy, Events Manager Veronica Frazier, Facility Coordinator Marion Fletcher, Facility Services Specialist Ishmun Holcomb, Events Assistant Heather Watson, House Manager/Volunteer Coord.

Billy Johnson, Security Lead Terry Karnes, Security Officer PRODUCTION John Camp, Production Director John (J.D.) Davis, Technical Director John Land, Stage Manager Austin Phillips, Stage Coordinator Lance Fraker, Audio Coordinator Randall Baptiste, Lighting Coordinator PROGRAMMING & EDUCATION Jim Rutland, Program Director Rick McKnight, Education Program Manager

Ticket Information The RiverCenter box office has tickets available for these series and events: TSYS Broadway on Broad­way, Synovus Center Stage, RiverCenter Music, Discovery Matinees, and Spotlight Spe­cials. Tickets also are available for programs presented by the Columbus Symphony Orches­tra, CSU Schwob School of Music, and various third-party presen­ters. The box office accepts cash, and all major credit cards: VISA, Master­Card, American Ex­press and Discover.

TICKETS AT THE DOOR—Tickets to events that are not sold-out may be purchased at the box office beginning one hour before the start of the event.

SEASON TICKETS—Season tickets may be purchased at the box office by telephone (706-256-3612) or with order forms in RiverCenter publi­cations and mailings.

CUSTOM COMBOS—Tickets to single RiverCenter events may be pur­chased at a savings as Custom Combos. A Custom Combo con­sists of at least one ticket to each of at least

three events per patron.

SINGLE TICKETS—Single tickets to individual RiverCenter events may be purchased without a service charge at the box office at the corner of Broadway and Tenth Street. For a service charge, tickets also may be purchased online at tickets.com.

GROUP DISCOUNTS—Most RiverCenter events offer discounts on indi­vidual tickets sold to groups of 10 or more. For information call 706-256-3612.

SPECIAL DISCOUNTS—Patrons must come to the box office to take ad­vantage of most special promotions and dis­counts. Mil­i­tary, Public Service, Educator and Senior discounts are avail­able on single ticket purchases to most events. Student Rush prices are available all day on the day-of-show at most events. Patrons using vouchers or gift certificates should note dead­lines and restrictions that apply. No refunds are given for ticket price variances or special offers.

Important Information BOX OFFICE & PARKING BOX OFFICE—The box office at RiverCenter, located at the corner of Broadway and Tenth Street, is open Monday–Friday, 10:00 am to 5:30 pm. It opens one hour before each performance and remains open through inter­mission. The box office is not open on federal holdays unless there is an event that day.

FREE PARKING—Parking is available in the parking garage directly in front of RiverCenter, 900 Broad­way. Parking for those with disabilities is avail­able in front of RiverCenter’s main entrance. The garage is managed by the City of Columbus, not RiverCenter.

IN CASE OF EMERGENCY 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.

HOUSE RULES NO BABIES IN ARMS—Everyone attending a ticketed event, including all children regardless of age, must have a ticket.

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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.

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.

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 smokefree facility. Smoking is permitted in outdoor areas only. Thank you for your cooperation.

SPECIAL SERVICES 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.

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.

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.

LOST AND FOUND—Lost items should be given to

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.

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RIVERCENTER INC. & the Cultural Economy: Aside from providing great entertainment, performance space, and support services for several area arts organizations, RiverCenter plays an important role in our local economy. As calculated by the Americans for the Arts Economic Impact Calculator based upon an Annual Budget of $2,760,000 RiverCenter activities result in over $4.5 million in economic activity. This supports 153 full time equivalent jobs and represents over $3.5 million in local household income.

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Those visitors dine in area restaurants and support other retail businesses in the County during their visit. The entire local economy wins.

Since our performing arts center attracts tourists to the city, stands as a symbol of high culture, improves the community’s quality of life, and aids businesses when attracting talent to the region, RiverCenter receives a subsidy from the hotel/motel tax. The revenue is derived from taxes paid by visitors staying in area hotels or motels located within Muscogee County. These funds are exclusively dedicated to the maintenance, utilities, and upgrades necessary to keep the facility competitive and attractive for the city. Area residents do not fund this tax but they reap the benefits of having their very own performing arts center in Columbus.

RIVERCENTER INC. & the Next Generation: RiverCenter provides extensive educational programming both in and outside of RiverCenter for area K-12 public schools. Activities include teacher workshops, study aids, pre and post visit lesson plans, subsidized tickets and transportation to low income schools, and access to the arts for over 20,000 students.

RIVERCENTER INC. & Facility Partners: Through significant in-kind contributions RiverCenter supports the activities and performances of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra and the Youth Orchestra of Greater Columbus. Both are resident companies within the Center. In addition, RiverCenter’s south wing is filled with the Schwob School of Music. Through this collaboration both organizations serve the community in uniquely different ways that would ordinarily not be possible. This synergy brings the university and our nonprofit together to create vibrancy and variety in Uptown.

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