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2019-2020 PROGRAM GUIDE

DECEMBER 2019-JANUARY 2020 | ISSUE NO. 90

IN THIS ISSUE: 21

Beautiful – The Carole King Musical

December 4 & 5 | 7:30 PM

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Cantus Christmas 2019

December 17 | 7:30 PM

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Lee Rocker of the Stray Cats

January 16 | 7:30 PM

TABLE OF CONTENTS: 4 Curtain Raisers

70 Board of Trustees

7 RiverCenter Members

70 Administration and Staff

15 RiverCenter Capstone Society

71 Ticket Information

68 Volunteers 1

A MESSAGE

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

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

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

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

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

I am happy to see you at the theatre!

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

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

Cantus Christmas 2019 | Dec. 17 | 7:30 PM Stray Cats’ Lee Rocker | Jan. 16, 2020 | 7:30 PM The Pout-Pout Fish | Feb. 1 | 2:30 PM CATS | Feb. 11 & 12 | 7:30 PM U.S. Navy Bands: Concert Band, Cruisers and Sea Chanters | Mar. 12 | 7:30 PM | Free!

Escape to Margaritaville | Mar. 19 | 7:30 PM Atlanta Symphony Orchestra | Apr. 2 | 7:30 PM Complexions Contemporary Ballet: Bach to Bowie | Apr. 16 | 7:30 PM The Drifters, The Platters and Cornell Gunter’s Coasters | May 1 | 7:30 PM The SpongeBob Musical | May 6 & 7 | 7:30 PM What Do You Do with an Idea? | May 16 | 2:30 PM Cantus Columbus: The American Songbook: Gems by Kern, Berlin, and Rodgers & Hart | May 16 | 7:30 PM Waitress | June 23 & 24 | 7:30 PM 3

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

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 October 31, 2019 SEASON SPONSOR

CHAMPION LEVEL SPONSOR

Mildred Miller Fort Foundation

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

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

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DIAMOND LEVEL SPONSOR

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

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RIVERCENTER

M A RQUE E SOC I E T Y THE MARQUEE SOCIETY IS COMPRISED OF DONORS WHO INVEST A MINIMUM OF $1,000 TO THE RIVERCENTER MISSION EACH SEASON.

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

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

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RIVERCENTER MEMBERS M A RQ U E E S O C I E T Y : S U STA I N E R L EV E L Mr. and Mrs. Stephen T. Butler

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

M A RQ U E E S O C I E T Y : D I A M O N D L E V E L Mr. and Mrs. James H. Blanchard Gardiner and Nora Garrard Dr. David and Suzanne Levine Mr. and Mrs. John C. Martin, II The Honorable and Mrs. William C. Rumer Mr. and Mrs. Wright B. Waddell Mrs. Janice M. Watson

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

Mr. and Mrs. John A. Shinkle

Akitoshi and Etsuko Kan

Dr. Franklin J. Star

Mr. and Mrs. Jack J. Pease, III

Rick and Jan Ussery

David and Linell Pringle

Wade and Adrianne Wallace

Dr. and Mrs. Richard Robbins

James and Teresa White

Mr. and Mrs. William P. Scarbrough

Mr. and Mrs. M. Troy Woods

James D. and Ruth B. Yancey 7

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

Bob Henderson

Dr. and Mrs. Ferdinand Q. Alcaide

The Hewitt Family Foundation

Rick and Cindy Alexander

Mr. and Mrs. A. Comer Hobbs

Fred and Catalina Aranas Family Foundation

Bruce and June Howard

Maria Luisa Aranas Bruce and Angie Bacon Kara and Matt Barkley Jacob and Claire Beil Mr. and Mrs. Walker R. Bickerstaff Mrs. Doris Black Dolores Blanco Deborah E. Bordelon Lucy H. Bowers Mr. and Mrs. Richard Y. Bradley Kay Broda John Bucholtz Mrs. Charles W. Burgin Mrs. Otis B. Burnham Mrs. Forrest L. Champion, Jr. Creek Stand Partners, LP Janet Davis Mr. and Mrs. Norman S. Easterbrook Mr. and Mrs. Thad Estes Drs. Bobbi Farber and Thomas Walsh

Dr. William P. Kendall Mrs. Erwin D. Key John and Kayron Laska Elaine and John Laughbaum Dr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Lawhorne, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Hank Lewis Mr. and Mrs. Anthony D. Link Mrs. James B. Lipham Walter and Ann Miller Shirley B. Moon Jimmy and Barbara Motos Marjorie and Jerry Newman John and Sam Newton Mr. and Mrs. Marc OliviĂŠ Edwin and Pam Page Mrs. Sam Rawls Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Reed Dr. Carole Rutland and Mr. Robert D. Offer Marnie Salter

Loretta and Tom Flowers

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

Dr. and Mrs. Mark R. Fortson

Stephen M. Sawyer

Cindy and Spencer Garrard

Mr. and Mrs. Claude G. Scarbrough, III

Dr. and Mrs. Jerry Goldsmith

Len and Glenda Sexton

Allen J. Gula, Jr.

Alex and Willette Shalishali

Mrs. Richard Hallock

Heather Spence

Dr. and Mrs. Tom Helton

Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Spence

Suzanne and Joel Fine

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Roderick C. and Stephanie Y. Hunter

Mr. and Mrs. Clifford J. Swift, III

Brad and Sally Turner

Jim and Pat Thompson

Mrs. D. Abbott Turner, II

Mr. and Mrs. Landy Thompson

Mr. and Mrs. Jack G. Turner

Chip and Audrey Tillman

Mr. and Mrs. John T. Turner

Thomas and Jackie Titus

Chris Weaver

Mr. and Mrs. Philip Tomlinson

Bernard and Sylvia Witt Foundation

Martha S. Tubb

Mr. and Mrs. Joel O. Wooten

S I LV E R L E V E L Anonymous

Mr. and Mrs. Justin Krieg

Phyllis Aaron

Ben and Annelle McCosh

Regina Satlof and Neil Block

Mr. Dhan and Dr. Kashmira Parekh

Dr. and Mrs. Philip L. Brewer

Mr. and Mrs. Gordon F. Pease

Dr. and Mrs. Robert H. Bush

Gene and Meg Perkins

Bob and Linda Carter Dan and Sandy Dawson Christy and Dail Fields Marlene and Robert Garnett Rem Houser Mrs. Stephen C. Hunter Charlie and Mary Lou Jarrell Pam and Charlie Johnson Matthew E. and Cynthia Woodsmall Jones Mrs. Charlyn Kerr

Bob and Stacy Poydasheff Dr. John C. Richards Edith H. Satterwhite Dr. Angela Sims and John Sims Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Staples Frank and Susan Stephenson Tom and Karen Stewart Mat and Mary Lou Swift Montgomery E. Thorne Mr. and Mrs. Richard Wilson

B RO N Z E L EV E L Anonymous

Gary G. Allen, MD

Dr. and Mrs. William E. Adams

Ray L. Allison

Mr. and Mrs. W. Mizell Alexander

Mr. and Mrs. Greg Allmendinger

Cathy Alford

Mr. Richard F. Andrews 9

Ms. Betty L Auten

Annie R. Davis

Mr. and Mrs. Jim Baker

Martha and Kelly Dimon

Virginia L. Basl

Jackie and Menza Dudley

Peggy and Charles Batastini

Mrs. Frank S. Etheridge, III

Janice Beam

Henry Farmer

Susan and Carter Berry

Judge Kenneth Followill

Janice P. Biggers

Brett Gant

Alfred and Courtney Blackmar

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas S. Gates

Peggie and Dan Bloodworth

Mike and Sheila Gaymon

Ms. Juanita Booker

Wayne and Sallie Hadden

Patricia A. Boutton

Hailes Enterprises, Inc.

Jim and Iveta Boyanchek

Steve and Mary Hall

Ms. Jane Bradford

Ken Hamill

Sherida Brannan

Seth and Linda Harp

Ms. Julie A. Bray

Pauline and John Hartje

Frank and JoAnn Brown

Mr. and Mrs. Madden Hatcher, Jr

Susan U. and Thomas B. Buck, III

Mr. and Mrs. Madden Hatcher, III

Bill and Janie Lee Bullock

David and Marguerite Hay

Jim and Nancy Buntin

Ed and Lana Helton

Dr. Bob and Lisa Bunting

Dr. and Mrs. Steven Henslee

Virginia D. Burdo

Mrs. Betty Jo Hooks

Mike and Kathy Burns

Pamela C. Humber

Ann Burr

Corinne B. Jarrell

Mr. and Mrs. Marcus B. Calhoun

Tim Jensen

Ann Carlisle

Walter Jones, Jr.

Butch and Eva Chappelle

Jean and Gerald Kent

Skip and Joyce Chittenden

Franny and Paul Kilpatrick

Gloria Cohen

Ernie and Jo Ann Kirk

Bonnie and Leslie Cohn

LTC Patricia A. Krause USA Ret.

Donna J. Craig

Mr. and Mrs. John T. Laney, III

Rev. and Mrs. Ronald Culpepper

Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Lewis, Jr.

Mrs. L. A. Cunningham

Marv and Vicki Lieberman

Don and Bobbie Dakin

Julie and Neal Littlejohn

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Wylene and Morris Loeb

Eva Smith

Dr. and Mrs. Robert Marcus

Mollie Smith

Georgia Matheney

Rick Sponholz Family

Mary and Jim Matthews

Robert St. Clair

Ginny Mayher

Mr. and Mrs. Luther Stanton

Almeda Medlin

Warren and Lorie Steele

Ryan and Isa Meeks

Dr. and Mrs. John R. Stephenson

Chris and Wendy Miller

Mary Stewart

Dr. and Mrs. Joe D. Miller

Gary and Carla Stickles

Anne Mims

Patty Kimbrough Taylor

Leon and Barbara Minsky

Tony and Kris Thomas

Wayne and Harriet Moultrie

Sue and Jim Trott

Ron and Mary Mullins

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

Vincent and Dian Naman

Mr. and Mrs. Dave Troxel

Gwyn P. Newsom

Ms. Lois Tryon

Dick and Dixie Olson

Richard M. Tucker

Louise and Judson Patten

Mr. and Mrs. David Turner

Dr. and Mrs. Robert M. Patton

Dr. Joan and LTC (R) Darryl Verrett

Mr. and Mrs. William R. Peek

Tim Vinson

John and Lynne Phillips

Dr. Thomas A. and Sherry F. Wade

Pickleball Tech

Joseph M. Waller

Bill and Pat Porter

Mary Lewis and Duke Walsh

Janet Prater

Anita B. Walters

Ann and Lowry Reid

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

Mrs. Kathy J. Riley Cheryl L. Roberts Amy Robertson Mrs. Barbara G. Rothschild Sally Rotunno Mr. George F. Schladensky

Lamar and Dorenda Weaver Mark and Andi Weaver L. Rexford Whiddon Jim and Ann White Bobby and Liz Wolverton

Joyce and Henry Schwob

Cathy and David Woolbright

Mr. and Mrs. James Kimbrough Sheek, IV

Margaret G. Zollo

Jerrel and Laura Yates

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F R I E N D S O F R I V E RC E N T E R Anonymous

Phil and Marie Hand

Mr. and Mrs. James R. Ballengee

Mrs. Fred Miller

Mr. and Mrs. George Boyd

Joyce J. Richburg

Betsy Fitzgerald

Marianne Richter

John and Bok Shim Fox

Eric Thomas

H O N O R A RY A N D M E M O R I A L G I F T S A wonderful way to recognize a loved one or organization is by making an honorary or memorial gift in their name.

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

In honor of Susan Lawhorne Sharon Adams Melinda Hunter Claudia Stephenson Sherry Wade In honor of Rick McKnight Anonymous In memory of Virginia I. Norman Mrs. Fred Miller In memory of Gavin G. Spence Heather Spence Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Spence In memory of Dr. Davis R. Watson, Sr. Mrs. Janice M. Watson In honor of Chris Weaver Mark and Andi Weaver In honor of Ben and Marquerite Williams Betsy Fitzgerald

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

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

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

Jean and Gerlad Kent

T HAN K YOU

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

We greatly appreciate each gift given in support of RiverCenter and have made every effort to ensure the accuracy of this listing, which was based on donations given as of October 31, 2019. Please notify the Development Office of any inaccuracies or omissions by contacting us at (706) 256-3618 or development@rivercenter.org. We regret any errors.

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

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

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

– Opportunity to purchase single tickets and shows added to the season before the general public – Ticket exchange privileges – Invitation to exclusive Marquee Society events including annual dinner – Complimentary use of the RiverCenter building

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

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

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

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

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DECEMBER 4 & 5 | 7:30 PM

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Paul Blake

Sony/ATV Music Publishing

Jeffrey A. Sine

Richard A. Smith

Mike Bosner

Harriet N. Leve/Elaine Krauss Terry Schnuck Orin Wolf Patty Baker/Good Productions Roger Faxon Larry Magid Kit Seidel Lawrence S. Toppall Fakston Productions/Mary Solomon William Court Cohen BarLor Productions Matthew C. Blank Tim Hogue Joel Hyatt Marianne Mills Michael J. Moritz, Jr. StylesFour Productions Brunish & Trinchero AND Jeremiah J. Harris PRESENT

BOOK BY

Douglas McGrath WORDS AND MUSIC BY

Gerry Goffin & Carole King

Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil

MUSIC BY ARRANGEMENT WITH

Sony/ATV Music Publishing STARRING

Kennedy Caughell James D. Gish Kathryn Boswell James Michael Lambert Matt Loehr Rachel Coloff Matthew Amira Isaiah Bailey Edwin Bates Danielle Bowen Antoinette Comer Kevin Hack Torrey Linder Nick Moulton Kimberly Dawn Neumann Nya Eliza Palasz Ben Toomer Nazarria Workman Hailee Kaleem Wright SCENIC DESIGN Derek McLane CASTING BY Stephen Kopel, CSA

COSTUME DESIGN Alejo Vietti

WIG & HAIR DESIGN Charles G. LaPointe

LIGHTING DESIGN Peter Kaczorowski

MAKE-UP DESIGN Joe Dulude II

ORCHESTRATIONS, VOCAL AND MUSIC ARRANGEMENTS Steve Sidwell

PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER Joel Rosen EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Sherry Kondor Christine Russell

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR David Ruttura

ASSOCIATE CHOREOGRAPHER Joyce Chittick

MUSIC SUPERVISION AND ADDITIONAL MUSIC ARRANGEMENTS Jason Howland

PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT Juniper Street Productions, Inc.

MUSIC DIRECTOR Alan J. Plado

TOUR BOOKING, ENGAGEMENT MANAGEMENT, PRESS & MARKETING Broadway Booking Office NYC CHOREOGRAPHED BY

Josh Prince DIRECTED BY

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SOUND DESIGN Brian Ronan

MUSIC COORDINATOR John Miller

GENERAL MANAGER Charlotte Wilcox Company

KENNEDY CAUGHELL

KATHRYN BOSWELL

JAMES D. GISH

MATT LOEHR

JAMES MICHAEL LAMBERT

RACHEL COLOFF

MATTHEW AMIRA

ISAIAH BAILEY

EDWIN BATES

DANIELLE BOWEN

ANTOINETTE COMER

KEVIN HACK

TORREY LINDER

NICK MOULTON

KIMBERLY DAWN NEUMANN

NYA

ELIZA PALASZ

BEN TOOMER

NAZARRIA WORKMAN

HAILEE KALEEM WRIGHT

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CAST

(in order of appearance): Carole King.................................................................................................. KENNEDY CAUGHELL Genie Klein............................................................................................................RACHEL COLOFF Betty....................................................................................................................DANIELLE BOWEN Neil Sedaka...............................................................................................................NICK MOULTON Lucille............................................................................................................ ANTOINETTE COMER Don Kirshner................................................................................................................ MATT LOEHR Gerry Goffin............................................................................................................... JAMES D. GISH The Drifters..................ISAIAH BAILEY, EDWIN BATES, TORREY LINDER, BEN TOOMER Cynthia Weil................................................................................................... KATHRYN BOSWELL Barry Mann....................................................................................... JAMES MICHAEL LAMBERT The Shirelles...................ANTOINETTE COMER, NYA, NAZARRIA WORKMAN, HAILEE KALEEM WRIGHT Janelle Woods....................................................................................... HAILEE KALEEM WRIGHT Little Eva....................................................................................................................................... NYA The Righteous Brothers.....................................................MATTHEW AMIRA, NICK MOULTON “One Fine Day” Backup Singers............ANTOINETTE COMER, NYA, NAZARRIA WORKMAN Nick......................................................................................................................MATTHEW AMIRA Marilyn Wald.......................................................................................................DANIELLE BOWEN “Uptown” Singer........................................................................................NAZARRIA WORKMAN Lou Adler..................................................................................................................NICK MOULTON UNDERSTUDIES: Carole King: DANIELLE BOWEN, ELIZA PALASZ Gerry Goffin: MATTHEW AMIRA, KEVIN HACK Cynthia Weil: DANIELLE BOWEN, ELIZA PALASZ Barry Mann: KEVIN HACK, NICK MOULTON Don Kirshner: MATTHEW AMIRA, KEVIN HACK Genie Klein: DANIELLE BOWEN, KIMBERLY DAWN NUEMANN, ELIZA PALASZ SWINGS: KEVIN HACK, ELIZA PALASZ DANCE CAPTAIN: KIMBERLY DAWN NEUMANN

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MUSICAL NUMBERS ACT I “So Far Away”.................................................................................................................... Carole King “Oh Carol” ..........................................................................................................................Neil Sedaka “1650 Broadway Medley” ......................................................................................................Ensemble “It Might as Well Rain Until September”.......................................................................... Carole King “Be-Bop-A-Lula”....................................................................................................................Ensemble “Some Kind of Wonderful”.............................................Carole King, Gerry Goffin and The Drifters “Happy Days Are Here Again”.........................................................................................Cynthia Weil “Take Good Care of My Baby”............................................................. Gerry Goffin and Carole King “Who Put the Bomp”.......................................................................................................... Barry Mann “Will You Love Me Tomorrow”........................................................................................ Carole King “He’s Sure the Boy I Love”...................................................................Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann “Will You Love Me Tomorrow” ......................................................................................The Shirelles “Up on the Roof”...................................................................................Gerry Goffin and The Drifters “On Broadway”.................................................................................................................. The Drifters “The Locomotion”...........................................................................................Little Eva and Ensemble “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling”..................................... Barry Mann and The Righteous Brothers “One Fine Day”................................................................... Janelle, Backup Singers and Carole King ACT II “Chains”......................................................................................................Carole King and Ensemble “Walking in the Rain” ..........................................................................Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil “Pleasant Valley Sunday”................................................ Marilyn Wald, Gerry Goffin and Ensemble “We Gotta Get Out of This Place” .................................................................................... Barry Mann “Will You Love Me Tomorrow” (Reprise)........................................................................ Carole King “Uptown”............................................................................................ “Uptown” Singer and Ensemble “It’s Too Late”.................................................................................................................... Carole King “You’ve Got a Friend”..................................Carole King, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Don Kirshner “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman”.........................................Carole King and Ensemble “Beautiful”......................................................................................................................... Carole King MUSICIANS Conductor/Keys – Alan J. Plado Associate Conductor/Keys – Ryan Touhey Drums – Heinrich Kruse Guitar – Darren Lucas Bass – Frank Canino Reed – Jordan Dewayne Standlee Electronic Music Design – Billy Jay Stein and Hiro Iida Music Coordinator – John Miller Assistant to John Miller – Jennifer Coolbaiugh

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WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST KENNEDY CAUGHELL ( ) is honored to be part of the Beautiful family and tell this story on the road! Broadway: Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812 and Beautiful The Carole King Musical. Nat’l/Int’l Tours: Wicked (Elphaba Standby) and American Idiot (Heather).

Regional: Paradise Square (Berkley Rep-Janey), & Mary Poppins (Mary). TV/Film: The Outlier (Katya). Elon BFA. Love to Tim, Fam, the K’s, DGRW, Jason Howland, & Stephen Kopel for believing in me! Twitter/Insta: @KennedyCaughell.

KennedyCaughell.com. Psalms 9:1 JAMES D. GISH (Gerry Goffin). National Tour: Feuilly (Les Misérables). Recent credits: Tony (West Side Story, Phoenix Theatre Co.), Jack Kelly (Newsies), Bob Gaudio (Jersey Boys) and Toxic Avenger (The Toxic Avenger). Played Caesars Palace on Las Vegas Strip (nominated for five “Best of Las Vegas” Awards), performed concert series/tour featuring solo album So In Love (#6 on iTunes Classical Chart), produced by DW Music at Warner Brothers. Instagram: @jamesdgish. jamesdgish.com KATHRYN BOSWELL (Cynthia Weil). Broadway: Anastasia, Gigi. TV/Film: Bluebloods (CBS), Tales of the City (Netflix), High Maintenance (HBO), The Hating Game (BCDF Pictures). Regional: Aida (Amneris, PCLO), Follies (Young Phyllis, Repertory Theatre St. Louis), Les Misérables (Cosette, MTW), Gigi (Kennedy Center). Proud CCM Bearcat. Thanks to Stephen Kopel, the Beautiful team and CGF. Love to the fam and Matt! For Libby.

JAMES MICHAEL LAMBERT (Barry Mann).

National tours include Happy Days: A New Musical (Ralph Malph) and Mamma Mia! (Eddie). Selected work extends to theaters like Manhattan Theater Club (NYC), The Cherry Lane Theatre (NYC), The Public (NYC), Musical Theatre Factory (NYC), 710 Main (NY), People’s Light (PA), South Coast Repertory (CA), The Geffen Playhouse (CA), Sacramento Music Circus (CA), Falcon Theater (CA), and member of Troubadour Theater Company (CA). Selected film/TV credits include “Hard Sell,” “The Goldburgs” (ABC), “Mad Men” (AMC), “Lights” (PBS) and a worldwide Nike commercial honoring Kobe Bryant. Graduate of UCLA’s T.F.T. FOR MOM!! Twitter: @akajimmy MATT LOEHR (Don Kirshner). Broadway: The Book of Mormon, Evita, Elf, Promises, Promises, Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Movin’ Out, The Producers and Fosse. Also, NY City Center Encore’s - Hey, Look Me Over!, Call Me Madam, and High Button Shoes. Off Bway- R.R.R.E.D (A Secret Musical). World Premieres of The Sting! (Papermill Playhouse, NJ) and Idaho! (Las Vegas). Regional favorites: Singin’ in the Rain (Sacramento, CA), Me 26

and My Girl (Jupiter, FL), The Music Man (Beverly, MA). Love my job!

RACHEL COLOFF (Genie). B’way: Fruma Sarah/Shandel, Yente U/S, Fiddler on the Roof, Ensemble/Swing, Candide, Hal Prince director, Mrs. Snoring Man/Martha U/S, 2015 Nat’l Tour of White Christmas, Gabrielle U/S, Ensemble, Lestat, and originated Soupy Sue in Urinetown. Off-B’way; Mrs. Hatch, Mrs. Welles, On A Clear Day... at Irish Rep, Old Jews Telling Jokes, Cardinal Franco in Popesical, The Modiste in I Married an Angel, City Center Encores. Regional; Rose in Mamma Mia! at Arrow Rock, Golde in Fiddler at Human Race Theatre and Yente in Fiddler at Barrington Stage.

MATTHEW AMIRA (Ensemble; u/s Gerry, Don) just completed the remounted, regional premiere production of Jersey Boys at the Ogunquit Playhouse (Nick Massi). National Tours: Dirty Dancing (Robbie Gould). Regional: Goodspeed Opera House, Asolo Repertory Theatre, MTW, Gloucester Stage, and more. BFA: CCM. Thanks to Stephen Kopel, the Beautiful family and Avalon Artists. Love to my family and KB. IG: @matthewamira ISAIAH BAILEY (Ensemble). Nat’l Tour Debut!

Special thanks to The Father, the entire Beautiful family, Stephen Kopel, Daniel Hoff Agency, family, and friends. Off-Broadway: Revelation, The Musical.

Regional: Samson (Samson) Moses (Pharaoh, Moses U/S), Amazing Grace (Thomas) Ragtime (Coalhouse Walker Jr.) Dreamgirls (Curtis Taylor Jr.), Les Míz (Javert) Proud OCU ALUM. IG: @sangisaiah; Colossians 3:23 EDWIN BATES (Ensemble) is thrilled to be joining Beautiful on the road! Regional: Smokey Joe’s Cafe (Victor), La Cage aux Folles (Jacob), 25th Annual ...

Spelling Bee (Mitch Mahoney). Immense thanks to the producers, creative team and Stephen Kopel; and love to my Mom, Texas State Musical Theatre and CTG family! @edwinqbates DANIELLE BOWEN (Ensemble; u/s Carole, Cynthia, Genie) is so thrilled to be part of the Beautiful family! Regional: Wizard of Oz (MUNY, NSMT) Beauty and the Beast (Maltz Jupiter Theatre, New Stage), Daddy Longs Legs (Pittsburgh Public), All Shook Up (Ivoryton Playhouse - CT Critics Award). Tours: Disney On Classic (The Tokyo Philharmonic). BFA Emerson College. Biggest thanks to Mom, Dad, and Ron. @danielle__bowen. daniellebowen.com ANTOINETTE COMER (Ensemble) Broadway: Mamma Mia!. Off-Broadway: Smokey Joe’s Café, Sistas: The Musical (Gloria). National/International Tours: Dreamgirls (Lorrell Robinson), Mamma Mia! (Lisa). Selected Regional: Atlantis: A New Musical (Maya-VA Rep), Sister Act (Deloris-The Palace

Theatre). Special thanks to her family, friends and team at Take 3. Colossians 3:23 KEVIN HACK (Swing; u/s Gerry, Barry, Don).

Tours: West Side Story (Tony) (National Tour 2013-14, International 2016-18). Regional: South Pacific (Lt. Cable); Beauty & The Beast (Gaston); Romeo & Juliet (Romeo). Praise to God. Love and thanks to Jenna, family, friends, & Roger Paul Inc. @Kevinjhack TORREY LINDER (Ensemble) is absolutely excited and blessed to be a part of the Beautiful cast.

Recent credits include Scottsboro Boys, Elf: The Musical - US Tour, Dirty Dancing - National Tour, RENT. Graduate of Dreyfoos SOA (WPB, FL). He would like to thank God, his Beautiful wife, Mari and his loving family. ENJOY! NICK MOULTON (Ensemble; u/s Barry). Blissfully making his tour debut! Regional: Once (Guy u/s), Ghost: The Musical (Sam Wheat), American Idiot (Johnny), The Buddy Holly Story (Jerry Allison), and more. Thanks to Stephen and the Beautiful team for the opportunity to tell this story, The Luedtke Agency for always supporting my creative visions; and lastly, my inner circle for being lights in my life: Meghan, Joel, ABC, Justin and my family, especially. Let’s rock.

KIMBERLY DAWN NEUMANN (Assistant Stage Manager; Dance Captain, u/s Genie) Bdwy: A Chorus Line – revival (Cassie/Sheila – standby), Urban Cowboy, Annie Get Your Gun, Ragtime.

Off-Bdwy: Finian’s Rainbow (Susan), New Girl in Town. National Tours: Annie (Lily), Kiss Me Kate (Lois/Bianca- u/s), Joseph…, A Chorus Line (Val). Multi-published magazine/book writer; fitness professional. Life is Beautiful! Instagram @dancerscribe KDNeumann.com NYA (Ensemble) is a multi-faceted performing artist based in NYC. She is excited and honored to be part of this wonderful cast. Her performing and music career has allowed her to travel the world, garnering numerous awards internationally as a vocalist, actress and a dancer. Past credits include the US National Tour of Motown The Musical, Ragtime and the internationally Acclaimed Soul Doctor in Jerusalem, Israel. As an R&B recording artist, it is truly an honor to be able to celebrate this groundbreaking music from the inside out! Follow her on Instagram: @nyatrysha ELIZA PALASZ (Swing; u/s Carole, Cynthia, Genie) is thrilled to join Beautiful! Regional: Old Globe, Lyric Opera of Chicago, 5th Avenue, Marriott Lincolnshire, KC Starlight, Village Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare. Favorites include: October Sky (Dorothy-premiere), Spring Awakening (Wendla), Spitfire Grill (Percy), Cabaret (Sally), Newsies (Katherine), Mamma Mia! (Sophie). Proud Northwestern grad and member of AEA. Immense love to friends and family. @eliza_palasz

BEN TOOMER (Ensemble) is grateful to be making his National Tour Debut! Credits include: Regional -Jubilee (Arena Stage), Les Misérables (Alliance Theater), A Chorus Line (Lexington Theater). Huge thanks to his family and friends; his agents at CGF Talent and the creatives for the opportunity. BFA in Musical Theatre Texas State University. Instagram: B_toomer NAZARRIA WORKMAN (Ensemble) is thrilled to be joining the cast of Beautiful - The Carole King Musical. She strives to entertain audiences with hopes that they leave feeling fulfilled. A graduate of AMDA NY, her credits include Motown: The Musical (Swing) National Tour and Hairspray (Little Inez) at North Shore Music Theatre. “Thanks to God, my family and all who’ve supported me this far.” @nazarria_workman HAILEE KALEEM WRIGHT (Ensemble) is thrilled to join the cast of Beautiful in her First National Tour. Most recently she was seen in The Black Clown (Off-Broadway) and American Repertory Theatre. Regional: Paradise Square, Berkeley Rep. Hairspray, Jersey Shore Productions.

International: RENT, Sekaikan Theatre (Japan); RNB The Mix, Universal Monsters LIVE, Universal Studios Japan; Elyria, Land of Make Believe, Celebrity Cruise Line. TV/Film: True Life, MTV; Don’t Forget the Lyrics. Training: Andrew Byrne (Voice), Jen Waldman Studio (Acting). All my love to my Mom and brother Joey. @sapphire_hart. Visit www.haileekaleemwright.com DOUGLAS McGRATH (Book) is a filmmaker and playwright. His play Checkers opened the 30th anniversary season at New York’s Vineyard Theatre.

He collaborated with Woody Allen on the screenplay for Bullets Over Broadway, for which they were nominated for an Academy Award. His first film as writer/director was his adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma. He has also written and directed Nicholas Nickleby, which won the Best Ensemble Cast from the National Board of Review; Company Man; Infamous; and His Way. His essays have appeared in the New Yorker, The New Republic, Vanity Fair and The New York Times.

GERRY GOFFIN (Words and Music). Born in Brooklyn in 1939, Gerry Goffin met Carole King at Queens College, and their musical collaboration began almost immediately. They married in 1959, and that same year wrote their first hit song “Will You Love Me Tomorrow?” (The Shirelles). The duo penned more than 50 Top-40 hits including “The Locomotion,” “Natural Woman” and “Up on the Roof.” In 1987, Goffin and King were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990. Goffin has left an indelible mark on American music.

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of Carole King, who at age 17 wrote her first #1 hit with Gerry Goffin, “Will You Love Me Tomorrow,” for the Shirelles. The dozens of chart hits Goffin and King wrote during this period became legendary, but it was 1971’s Tapestry that took King to the pinnacle, speaking personally to her contemporaries and providing a spiritual musical backdrop to the decade. More than 400 of her compositions have been recorded by over 1,000 artists, resulting in 100 hit singles and six Grammys.

BARRY MANN (Words and Music) has written the melodies of some of the most influential pop songs in musical history. In addition to “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling,” the most-played song of the last century, and the songs heard in Beautiful, he composed later standards like “Somewhere Out There” (winner of two Grammys), “Here You Come Again,” “Sometimes When We Touch,” “Just Once” and “Don’t Know Much.” Together, he and Cynthia Weil have amassed an incredible 112 pop, country and R&B awards from Broadcast Music Inc. for significant radio air play. He has been inducted into both the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

CYNTHIA WEIL (Words and Music) is known as the lyricist of classic songs such as “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling,” the most-played song of the 20th century. In addition to the songs heard in Beautiful, she set the words to later standards including “Somewhere Out There,” “Here You Come Again,” “He’s So Shy,” “Just Once” and “Don’t Know Much,” to name just a few. Weil has been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, honored with multiple Grammy nominations and two Grammy awards for “Somewhere Out There” as the Motion Picture Song of the Year and Song of the Year.

MARC BRUNI (Director). Beautiful on Broadway, West End, US and UK tours, and Australia (Helpmann Award for Direction), Hey Look Me Over!, Paint Your Wagon, Pipe Dream, Fanny (Encores!), The Explorers Club (MTC), Old Jews Telling Jokes (NY and Chicago-Jeff Nom), Trevor (Writers Theatre- Jeff Nom), Roman Holiday (Golden Gate), The Sound of Music (Chicago Lyric Opera), How to Succeed... (Kennedy Center), Ordinary Days (Roundabout), 8 shows for the St. Louis MUNY (two Kline noms).

JOSH PRINCE (Choreographer). Josh’s choreography has been seen on and off Broadway, in London’s West End, and throughout the world.

He is the proud founder of the Broadway Dance Lab (BDL), a groundbreaking new model for making dance in musical theater. BDL encourages the creation of musicals with strong dance elements by giving choreographers of all backgrounds the resources they need to incubate their ideas and collaborate effectively with other theater artists.

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Visit broadwaydancelab.org to see how you can help. www.joshprince.net JASON HOWLAND (Music Supervision and Additional Music Arrangements). Broadway composer: Little Women. Music supervisor/ conductor/arranger: Bonnie & Clyde, Wonderland, Jekyll & Hyde, Les Misérables, The Civil War, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Taboo, Spider-Man, Jekyll & Hyde revival, Flashdance, We Will Rock You. Tours: South Pacific (revival), Beauty and the Beast, La Cage aux Folles, Memphis, Elf, A Chorus Line, Shrek. Recording projects: Handel’s Messiah Rocks, Little Women, Taboo, Megumi Hamada’s Attitude, Ock Joo Hyun’s Gold, Jekyll & Hyde (OBC, revival), The Scarlet Pimpernel (OBC), The Civil War, Linda Eder’s Christmas Stays the Same and It’s Time.

Proud father of Noah and Nina.

DEREK MCLANE (Scenic Design). Broadway designs include The Heiress, Nice Work…, The Best Man, Follies, Anything Goes, How to Succeed in Business, Bengal Tiger…, Million Dollar Quartet, Ragtime, 33 Variations (Tony Award), Little Women, The Pajama Game, I Am My Own Wife, The Women.

Off-Broadway: The Last Five Years, Ruined, Lie of the Mind, Hurlyburly, Abigail’s Party. He designed the 2013 Academy Awards. Awards: winner of 1997 and 2004 Obie awards; 2004, 2005, 2007 Lucille Lortel awards; 2009 Tony Award; 2011 Drama Desk Award, 2013 Emmy nomination.

ALEJO VIETTI (Costume Design). New York: Old Jews Telling Jokes (Off-Broadway), Manhattan Theatre Club, Radio City Rockettes (including upcoming Heart and Lights), Atlantic Theater Company, Primary Stages, MCC, the New Group, Rattlestick. Regional: Alley Theatre, Arena Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse, Cleveland Play House, Philadelphia Theatre (including Stars of David), Goodspeed, Guthrie, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf, Old Globe (including Allegiance), Paper Mill Playhouse, multiple productions of Nerds. Opera: New York City Opera, Opera Santa Barbara, Minnesota Opera, Wolf Trap, Chicago Lyric Opera (upcoming). Other: Ringling Bros. Boom a Ring. Recipient of the TDF Irene Sharaff Young Master Award.

PETER KACZOROWSKI (Lighting Design).

Broadway: fifty plays and musicals including No Man’s Land/Waiting for Godot, The Assembled Parties, Nice Work…, Wit, Venus in Fur, Anything Goes, A View From the Bridge, Grey Gardens, The Producers, Contact, Steel Pier. Extensive OffBroadway, resident and regional credits. Opera: Met, San Francisco, Houston Grand, Santa Fe, St. Louis, Seattle. Abroad: Royal Opera, Scottish Opera, Opera/North, Maggio Florence, L’Arena di Verona, La Fenice, Bonn, Lisbon. Awards: Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Drama-Logue, Hewes.

BRIAN RONAN (Sound Design) has designed

the sound for more than 25 Broadway shows.

Some recent designs include Annie; Bring It On; Nice Work… (Tony nomination); The Book of Mormon (Tony); Anything Goes (Tony nomination, Drama Desk); American Idiot; Promises, Promises; Next to Normal (Tony nomination); Grease; Curtains; Spring Awakening; Grey Gardens; The Pajama Game; All Shook Up; Twelve Angry Men; The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife; …Charlie Brown; Cabaret. Off-Broadway: Rent, Bug (Obie and Lucille Lortel awards).

STEPHEN KOPEL, C.S.A. (Casting) also serves as casting director for Roundabout Theatre Company and Carnahan Casting. Broadway: The Glass Menagerie, The Winslow Boy, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Harvey, Don’t Dress for Dinner, Once (also tour), The Road to Mecca, On a Clear Day…, Anything Goes (also tour), People in the Picture, Brief Encounter, The Scottsboro Boys, Sondheim on Sondheim, Hedda Gabler.

CHARLES G. LaPOINTE (Wig and Hair Design).

Broadway: After Midnight, Beautiful, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Soul Doctor, Motown, Jekyll & Hyde, Clybourne Park, Bring It On, Newsies, The Columnist, Magic/Bird, Bonnie & Clyde, The Mountaintop, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, The Merchant of Venice, Memphis, Henry IV, Cymbeline, Lombardi, Fences, Looped, The Miracle Worker, Superior Donuts, 33 Variations, Guys and Dolls, In the Heights, Jersey Boys, The Color Purple, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, Good Vibrations, A Raisin in the Sun, Radio Golf.

JOE DULUDE II (Make-Up Design). Makeup designer for Wicked productions worldwide, If/Then, Jekyll & Hyde, The Jacksonian, Into the Woods (Public Theater), Follies, The Normal Heart, Catch Me If You Can, Elf, Lend Me a Tenor, Grease, The Wedding Singer, Into the Woods (key makeup Vanessa Williams). Film and television: “Smash,” E!, Style, Lifetime, PBS, “Access Hollywood.” Joe also teaches makeup for various organizations and is a fine artist.

BARBARA RUBIN (Dialect Coach) Theater: The Road to Mecca (Broadway), The Rolling Stone (Lincoln Center), Boesman and Lena, Master Harold... and the Boys, The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek, The Train Driver, Blood Knot (Signature), My Name Is Asher Lev (Westside).

National Tour: The King and I. TV: The Americans, Chicago Med, Blindspot.

JUNIPER STREET PRODUCTIONS (Production Manager) is Hillary Blanken, Guy Kwan, Ana Rose Greene, Joseph DeLuise, Victoria Bullard and Johnny Kruger. Over the last 17 years, JSP has helped create over 60 Broadway productions, over 20 national tours, and numerous Las Vegas productions.

Selected shows include: Spring Awakening, The Color Purple, Fun Home, Something Rotten, Finding

Neverland, It Shoulda Been You, Gigi, Dr. Zhivago, Side Show, On The Town, Disgraced, Here Lies Love, Beautiful, Macbeth, Spider-Man, Godspell, The Producers and Fosse.

STEVE SIDWELL (Orchestrations, Vocal and Music Arrangements). Recent work includes arranger/MD for “The Voice” (UK), 2012 Olympics, George Michael, Robbie Williams. Musical orchestrations: We Will Rock You, Our House, Daddy Cool. Film orchestrations: Moulin Rouge, Romeo and Juliet, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Finding Nemo. Emmy nominated for his choir performance at the 79th Academy Awards and received numerous advertising/recording industry awards working with artists including Amy Winehouse, Oasis, Muse, Shirley Bassey, Tom Jones, Sting, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Mark Knopfler, Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart, Stevie Wonder and The Who. www. stevesidwell.com SHERRY KONDOR (Executive Producer). Her early career included background and studio singing.

She found her way into music management in 2003, launching the career of singer Jesse McCartney. In 2011, she took on management of Carole’s career.

She is proud to help bring her parents’, Gerry Goffin and Carole King, story to the stage.

CHRISTINE RUSSELL (Executive Producer) is a partner at the leading talent agency for composers, Evolution Music Partners, and co-founder/COO of Score Revolution, an online licensing platform for film music. She began as a recording artist at Rondor Music and transitioned from artist to agent when she began managing lyricist Gerry Goffin, whom she has represented for 19 years.

JOHN MILLER (Music Coordinator). More than 100 Broadway shows, including Pippin, Once, Jersey Boys, Newsies, Rock of Ages, Elf, Porgy and Bess, Jesus Christ Superstar, Godspell. Musician (bass): Eric Clapton, Frank Sinatra, Carly Simon.

His album Stage Door Johnny – John Miller: Takes on Broadway is available on PS Classics Records. www.johnmillerbass.com ALAN J. PLADO (Music Director) is ecstatic to be joining the Beautiful family. Broadway national tours (conductor): Dirty Dancing, Jersey Boys, Legally Blonde, Elf The Musical, Memphis, Beauty and the Beast. Off-Broadway/NYC: We’re Still Hot, Just a Matter of Time, The Last Word, Shooting Star (NYMF). Many regional theaters including Ogunquit Playhouse, Alabama Shakespeare, Laguna Playhouse, Phoenix Theater, Geva Theater. Alan serves as the Music Supervisor for Menopause The Musical, and internationally, was the music director/ arranger for the show on the West End (Shaw Theater) and in Dublin, Ireland.

DAVID RUTTURA (Associate Director). As associate director: Beautiful, Network, School of Rock, Spider-Man, Follies, Lombardi, Million 29

Dollar Quartet, White Christmas, A Man for All Seasons (Broadway); Phantom (National Tour); regional projects with The Kennedy Center & La Jolla Playhouse. Directing Projects with Norwegian Cruise Line, Pittsburgh CLO, Ogunquit Playhouse, Gateway Playhouse, Araca Project, Ars Nova and Chick Flick off-Broadway. @davidruttura JOYCE CHITTICK (Associate Choreographer) Recently restaged Tokyo and Australian productions of Beautiful. Co-directed/choreographed My Way (Ivoryton), choreographed Drama League Gala 2016, Lifetime’s AUDC (two seasons, on-screen choreographer), world event for FIFA and three national tours. Beautiful marks Joyce’s 13th Broadway show.

JOEL ROSEN (Production Stage Manager) Tours: Avenue Q, Billy Elliot, White Christmas, In The Heights, Shrek, Flashdance, Dirty Dancing, Cheers Live. Broadway: How The Grinch Stole Christmas!, Imaginary Friends. Off Broadway: Reasons to be Happy, Fat Pig, The Exonerated; Regional: The Color Purple; Over 30 shows Old Globe Theatre, San Diego. Proud Member AEA ANNELISE CASTLEBERRY (Stage Manager) Annelise is thrilled to be back with Beautiful!

Broadway: Cirque du Soleil Paramour, Waitress.

National Tours: Pippin, Cheers Live, Flashdance, Radio City Christmas Spectacular. Off-Broadway: Sweeney Todd, Carnegie Hall presents Candide, Sleep No More, Silence the Musical. Thanks family and friends for endless support. Sending all the snuggles to Lina!

KIMBERLY DAWN NEUMANN (Assistant Stage Manager; Dance Captain, u/s Genie) Bdwy: A Chorus Line – revival (Cassie/Sheila – standby), Urban Cowboy, Annie Get Your Gun, Ragtime.

Off-Bdwy: Finian’s Rainbow (Susan), New Girl in Town. National Tours: Annie (Lily), Kiss Me Kate (Lois/Bianca- u/s), Joseph…, A Chorus Line (Val). Multi-published magazine/book writer; fitness professional. Life is Beautiful! Instagram @dancerscribe KDNeumann.com STEPHEN GABIS (Dialect Coach). Between Broadway and Off Broadway, Stephen has coached over 100 plays. Favorites include Beautiful, Hedwig And The Angry Inch, Once, Jersey Boys, A View From The Bridge. Films/Television: Spotlight, Boardwalk Empire, Salt.

NEURO TOUR (Physical Therapy), provides performing arts physical therapy and backstage treatment to more than 80 musical theatre productions. Credits include: Broadway: The Lion King, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Off-Broadway: STOMP!, Sleep No More. National Tours: Movin’ Out, Billy Elliot, Kinky Boots, Concert Tours: U2, P!nk, Beyonce’, Lady Gaga, and Katy Perry.

CHARLOTTE WILCOX COMPANY (General Manager) has managed more than 70 productions.

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Beautiful – The Carole King Musical. Other Broadway: Bandstand, On Your Feet, Allegiance, Jekyll & Hyde (2012-2013), Godspell, On A Clear Day You Can See Forever, Catch Me If You Can, Elf, West Side Story, Come Fly Away, Grease (all three Broadway productions), Cyrano, The Drowsy Chaperone, The Times Are-A-Changin’, The Wedding Singer, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Full Monty, Jesus Christ Superstar.

PAUL BLAKE (Producer), along with his producing partner, Mike Bosner, produced Beautiful on Broadway, London’s West End, the U.S. tour and the U.K. tour. Together, they also produced the hit Broadway revival of Sunset Boulevard, which starred Glenn Close. For 22 seasons Mr. Blake served as the Executive Producer of the St. Louis Muny, where he produced and/or directed more than 150 shows.

His Tony-nominated musical Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (Co-Writer & Co-Producer) has become the most requested holiday entertainment in theatres across the United States. With Mr. Bosner, he most recently presented the pre-Broadway tryout of their newest musical, Roman Holiday (Co-Writer & Producer), featuring songs by Cole Porter SONY/ATV MUSIC PUBLISHING (Producer), established in 1995 as a joint venture between Sony and Michael Jackson, is the world’s leading music publisher. Sony/ATV owns or administers more than two million copyrights, including those from such iconic music catalogs as EMI Music Publishing, Leiber & Stoller, Mijac Music, Motown and Famous Music. Sony/ATV controls many of the best-known songs ever written, including “New York, New York,” “All You Need Is Love,” “You’ve Got a Friend,” “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” “Over the Rainbow” and “Stand By Me.” In addition, Sony/ATV represents the copyrights of such legendary artists as The Beatles, Leonard Cohen, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, Michael Jackson, Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Queen, The Rolling Stones, Sting, The Supremes, Hank Williams and Stevie Wonder, among others. Its evergrowing list of chart-topping artists and songwriters includes Alicia Keys, Lady Gaga, P!nk, Shakira, Taylor Swift and Kanye West.

JEFFREY A. SINE (Producer) is proud to be a part of a remarkable company that is bringing Carole King’s music and story to the stage. Mr. Sine lives in New York City and has produced more than 25 Broadway and West End productions over the past two decades. He has received six Tony nominations and three Tony awards. Love to Samira, Maya, Shailen, Roan and Jon. RICHARD A. SMITH (Producer). With Paul Blake, Mr. Smith has co-produced Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, the Guthrie production of Roman

Holiday, Come Fly With Me, songs by the legendary Sammy Cahn and a national tour of 42nd Street. Prior to working with Mr. Blake, Mr. Smith spent 25 years on Wall Street with Salomon Brothers and Morgan Stanley. Mr. Smith left Morgan Stanley in 1992 as a partner and member of the Management Committee after having built the International Equity Department into a worldwide organization.

MIKE BOSNER (Producer). Mr. Bosner is thrilled to be taking Beautiful out on the road! Beautiful continues its highly successful run on Broadway as well as being mid-way through its first year in London’s West End. Before Beautiful, he served as associate producer of the St. Louis MUNY for five seasons. At the MUNY, Mr. Bosner oversaw more than 35 productions alongside executive producer Paul Blake. He is truly honored to be working with this legendary material, inspiring group of collaborators and his mentor and friend, Mr. Blake.

HARRIET N. LEVE/ELAINE KRAUSS (Producer). Credits include Nice Work If You Can Get It; Ann; War Horse; One Man, Two Guvnors; The Mountaintop; La Cage aux Folles; A Little Night Music; Superior Donuts; Burn the Floor; The 39 Steps; The Crucible; The Diary of Anne Frank; Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; The Norman Conquests; The Good Body; Beebo Brinker; Shockheaded Peter; Stomp.

TERRY SCHNUCK (Producer). Credits include Clybourne Park (Tony); The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (Tony); Bonnie & Clyde; High; Race; Superior Donuts; Burn the Floor; Hair (Tony); Blithe Spirit; The Homecoming; Spring Awakening (Tony); Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me; The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial; ’night, Mother; Enchanted April. OB: Falling, Silence! The Musical, Ministry of Progress.

ORIN WOLF (Producer). Broadway credits include Orphans (Tony nominated), Hands on a Hardbody, Once (Tony Award), That Championship Season and A View From the Bridge (Tony nominated). Orin is the first recipient and the director of the TFellowship for Creative Producing, which was founded by Hal Prince in conjunction with Columbia University. He is the president of NETworks Theatrical Productions.

PATTY BAKER/GOOD PRODUCTIONS (Producer). Broadway: All My Sons, Blithe Spirit, The Best Man, The Miracle Worker, Bonnie & Clyde, Memphis (Tony), …Virginia Woolf (Tony), Glengarry Glen Ross, Matilda. She’d like to thank Carole King for touching all of our lives, Jeffrey Richards for his unflagging optimism and Jay for his unflagging love.

Hunter College graduate.

ROGER FAXON (Producer). Roger, who currently leads A&R Investments, previously was CEO of the EMI Group, where he rejuvenated the business, culminating in its successful sale in 2012. He is proud to have been instrumental in bringing Carole and Gerry, Cynthia and Barry together with Paul and Doug to

create this great show.

LARRY MAGID (Producer). Two Tony awards, four nominations. Outer Critics Circle Award (OffBroadway) and Helpmann Award (Australian Tony) for Billy Crystal’s 700 Sundays. Also Clams on the Half Shell with Bette Midler, among many others. Latest shows include The Rascals: Once Upon a Dream, I’ll Eat You Last with Ms. Midler. International concert and tour producer.

KIT SEIDEL (Producer). Broadway: November, Speed-the-Plow, Blithe Spirit, reasons to be pretty, Race, Enron, Hair (Tony winner), Priscilla Queen of the Desert, A Life in the Theatre, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Tony winner), Glengarry Glen Ross and The Anarchist. Kit is a member of the Art Student League of NYC. LAWRENCE S. TOPPALL (Producer) is the owner of Mazel Musicals, Inc., the company that has presented and produced more than 100 productions for the audiences of south Florida. Broadway credits include The Gathering, the Tony-nominated Say Goodnight Gracie starring Frank Gorshin, Burn the Floor and Looped.

FAKSTON PRODUCTIONS / MARY SOLOMON (Producer). Ken Fakler, Dan Stone and Mary Solomon are thrilled to be on the producing team of Beautiful.

Ken and Dan’s recent Broadway productions include the Tony-nominated shows How to Succeed… and Catch Me…. Mary is a partner in Star Thrower Entertainment.

WILLIAM COURT COHEN (Producer). As chairman of the theatrical general management/ consulting firm, Theatre Now, I was privileged to be associated with more than 125 Broadway and touring productions, theatres, dance companies and concert and cultural attractions.

BARLOR PRODUCTIONS (Producer). Barbara Freitag and Loraine Alterman Boyle both produced the 2010 Tony Award Best Musical Memphis and Tony nominee Catch Me If You Can. MATTHEW C. BLANK (Producer) is the Chairman of Showtime Networks Inc., where he served as CEO for over 20 years. A native New Yorker, he’s been involved in several Broadway and Off Broadway productions in the past. He’s delighted to be a part of Beautiful.

TIM HOGUE (Producer). Founder and president of a private financial consulting firm. I grew up on Carole King’s music and am happy to be a part of Beautiful.

JOEL HYATT (Producer). Co-founder and CEO of Current TV. Previously, Hyatt was founder and CEO of Hyatt Legal Plans and on the faculty of Stanford Business School.

MARIANNE MILLS (Producer). Producing credits include Frozen, 33 Variations, Catch Me If You Can (Tony nominations), Burn the Floor, All My Sons, Lysistrata Jones. Board member MCC and Labyrinth theatres. Thanks to partner Sharon Fallon.

MICHAEL J. MORITZ, JR. (Producer). Broadway 31

producer, record producer, music director, entertainment entrepreneur from Youngstown, Ohio. Broadway: Big Fish, A Night With Janis Joplin. Nat’l tour: Evita. michaelmoritz.com STYLES FOUR PRODUCTIONS (Producer).

StylesFour Productions: Broadway: Orphans, Once, Driving Miss Daisy, The Pee-wee Herman Show, Talk Radio, Spring Awakening. Off-Broadway: Judy Gold’s 25 Questions, Hand to God. London credits: Once.

BRUNISH & TRINCHERO (Producer). 6 Tony Nominations, 2 Tony Awards: Pippin, Porgy and Bess; Mothers and Sons, Peter and the Starcatcher, On The Town, Beautiful - The Carole King Musical.

Brunish: Come From Away, Fiddler on the Roof (Tony Nominations). Trinchero: Untold Stories of Broadway.

JEREMIAH J. HARRIS (Producer) is the founder and chairman/CEO of Production Resource Group, the world’s leading supplier of entertainment technology.

Jere has been active in the theatre industry since 1970 and has provided production management services for more than 500 productions, including Beauty and the Beast, Starlight Express and Dancing at Lughnasa. As the founder of Scenic Technologies, Jere revolutionized scenic automation with its patented Stage Command® motion control system, used on hundreds of shows, including The Phantom of the Opera and Wicked. Most recently, Jere co-produced with Michael Cohl the successful turnaround of the recordbreaking production of Broadway’s Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark, regarded as the most technically complex production ever mounted on a Broadway stage.

BROADWAY BOOKING OFFICE NYC (Tour Booking, Engagement Management, Press and Marketing) is a leading theatrical tour booking, marketing and press company representing awardwinning musicals and plays. Currently: Jersey Boys, Cameron Mackintosh’s spectacular new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables, Miss Saigon, Beautiful – The Carole King Musical, A Bronx Tale, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, Sting starring in The Last Ship, Be More Chill, The Ferryman, Potted Potter, The Heroin Diaries Musical, The Crown Dual, The New Colossus, the Lythgoe Family Panto productions including Aladdin and His Winter Wish and A Cinderella Christmas, and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies. bbonyc.com _____________________________________________________________ STAFF FOR BEAUTIFUL —The Carole King Musical _____________________________________________________________ GENER AL MANAGEMENT CHARLOTTE WILCOX COMPANY Charlotte W. Wilcox Matthew W. Krawiec Claire Epstein Ryan Smillie Gabrielle Nieporent Dina S. Friedler Stephen Donovan Nicole Hindley _____________________________________________________________

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COMPANY MANAGER - Nicole McClendon ASSISTANT COMPANY MANAGER - Mia Rosenfeld _____________________________________________________________ TOUR BOOKING, ENGAGEMENT MANAGEMENT, PRESS & MARKETING BROADWAY BOOKING OFFICE NYC Steven Schnepp Kent McIngvale, Jenny Bates, David Freeland Zach Stevenson, Sean Mackey, Stacey Burns Danny Knaub, Rachel Peterson, Phil Della Noce _____________________________________________________________ CASTING Stephen Kopel, CSA _____________________________________________________________ PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT JUNIPER STREET PRODUCTIONS Hillary Blanken Guy Kwan Chris Batstone Ana Rose Greene Joseph DeLuise Victoria Bullard Ross Leonard Sadie Alisa Hannah Wilson _____________________________________________________________

Production Stage Manager............................................Joel Rosen Stage Manager..............................................Annelise Castleberry Assistant Stage Manager................... Kimberly Dawn Neumann Sub Stage Manager....................................................Nicole Gross Dance Captain.................................... Kimberly Dawn Neumann Associate Director.................................................. David Ruttura Associate Choreographer........................................Joyce Chittick Associate Scenic Designer............................... Erica Hemminger Associate Costume Designer....................................Rory Powers Associate Lighting Designer.......................................John Viesta Assistant Lighting Designer...................................Tyler M. Perry Moving Light Programmer.....................................Trevor Dewey Assistant Wig & Hair Deisgner..................Ashley Rae Callahan Production Carpenter........................................... Joel Brandwine Head Carpenter............................................................Todd Koval Flyman.......................................................................Chad Stanner Deck Carpenter..........................................................Jonesy Jones Production Electricians..........Randall Zaibek, James J. Fedigan Head Electrician................................................Mitchell Girgasky Assistant Electrician / Lead Follow Spot Operator............. Tyler Ericson Production Propmaster.............................................Mike Pilipski Head Props.......................................................................Laura Rin Assistant Props.............................................................Parker Wall Production Audio.........................................Charles Rees Parsley Assistant Production Audio....................................Mike Rukstad Sound Engineer.................................................Robert McGarrity Assistant Sound Engineer............................................. Will Koch Production Wardrobe Supervisor................. Donna Landis Peck Production Wardrobe Associate....................... Meghan Calhoun Wardrobe Supervisor.............................................Felicia Genther Dresser...............................................................Stephanie Ebeling Production Hair Supervisor..................................Bobbie Zlotnik Hair/Make-Up Supervisor...................Brandee Danielle Huston Music Preparation Services................................Russell Bartmus Physical Therapy.................................................. NEURO TOUR Dialect Coach...............................Stephen Gabis, Barbara Rubin Legal Counsel.........................Sendroff & Baruch/ Jason Baruch Accountant................................................ WithumSmith+BrownRobert Fried, CPA, Karen Kowgios, CPA and Anthony Moore, CPA Comptroller..................... Galbraith & Company/Amanda Hayek Production Photography............................................ Joan Marcus Production Video........................................................ David Kane Payroll Services............................................... Checks + Balances

Banking............................City National Bank/ Stephanie Dalton Insurance Broker.. Reiff and Associates, LLC/ Regina Newsom Merchandise.......................................................The Araca Group Merchandise Manager.................................................. Ron Leone Information Management Services..........Marion Finkler Taylor Contracts Coordinator..........................................Dina S. Friedler Travel Services................................. Tzell Travel/ “The A Team” Housing Services.........................................................Road Rebel _____________________________________________________________ MUSIC CREDITS “Be Bop a Lula” by Tex Davis and Gene Vincent. Sony/ATV Songs LLC (BMI) and Three Wise Boys Music LLC (BMI).

“Beautiful” by Carole King. Colgems-EMI Music Inc. (ASCAP).

“Chains” by Gerry Goffin and Carole King. Screen Gems-EMI Music Inc. (BMI). “Happy Days Are Here Again” by Milton Ager and Jack Yellen. EMI Robbins Catalog Inc. (ASCAP). Special lyrics by Douglas McGrath and Cynthia Weil. “He’s Sure the Boy I Love” by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil. Screen Gems-EMI Music Inc. (BMI).

“I Feel the Earth Move” by Carole King. Colgems-EMI Music Inc. (ASCAP). “I Go Ape” by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield. Screen Gems-EMI Music Inc. (BMI) and Universal/BMG (BMI). “It Might As Well Rain Until September” by Gerry Goffin and Carole King.

Screen Gems-EMI Music Inc. (BMI). “It’s Too Late” by Carole King and Toni Stern. Colgems-EMI Music Inc. (ASCAP). “Little Darlin’”

by Maurice Williams. Cherio Corporation (BMI). “The Locomotion”

by Gerry Goffin and Carole King. Screen Gems-EMI Music Inc. (BMI). “Love Potion #9” by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. Sony/ ATV Tunes LLC (ASCAP). “Oh Carol” by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield. Screen Gems-EMI Music Inc. (BMI) and Universal/BMG (BMI). “On Broadway” by Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. Screen Gems-EMI Music Inc. (BMI). “One Fine Day” by Gerry Goffin and Carole King. Screen Gems-EMI Music Inc. (BMI). “Pleasant Valley Sunday” by Gerry Goffin and Carole King.

Screen Gems-EMI Music Inc. (BMI). “Poison Ivy” by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. Sony/ATV Tunes LLC (ASCAP). “So Far Away” by Carole King. Colgems-EMI Music Inc. (ASCAP). “Some Kind of Wonderful”

by Gerry Goffin and Carole King. Screen Gems-EMI Music Inc. (BMI).

“Splish Splash” by Bobby Darin and Jean Murray. EMI Unart Catalog Inc. (BMI), Trio Music Co. Inc. (BMI) and Alley Music Corp. (BMI).

“Stupid Cupid” by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield. Screen GemsEMI Music Inc. (BMI) and EMI Longitude Music (BMI). “Take Good Care of My Baby” by Gerry Goffin and Carole King. Screen GemsEMI Music Inc. (BMI). “There Goes My Baby” by Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, Ben King, George Treadwell and Lover Patterson. Sony/ATV Songs LLC (BMI). “Up on the Roof” by Gerry Goffin and Carole King. Screen Gems-EMI Music Inc. (BMI). “Uptown” by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil. Screen Gems-EMI Music Inc. (BMI). “Walking in the Rain” by Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil and Phil Spector. Screen Gems-EMI Music Inc. (BMI), EMI Blackwood Music Inc. obo Mother Bertha Music (BMI). “We Gotta Get Out of This Place” by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil. Screen Gems-EMI Music Inc. (BMI). “Who Put the Bomp” by Barry Mann and Gerry Goffin. Screen Gems-EMI Music Inc. (BMI). “Why Do Fools Fall in Love” by Morris Levy and Frankie Lymon. EMI Longitude Music (BMI) and EMI Full Keel Music (ASCAP). “Will You Love Me Tomorrow” by Gerry Goffin and Carole King. Screen Gems-EMI Music Inc. (BMI). “Yakkety Yak” by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. Sony/ATV Tunes LLC (ASCAP). “(You Make Me Feel Like a) Natural Woman” by Gerry Goffin, Carole King and Gerald Wexler. Screen Gems-EMI Music Inc. (BMI). “You’ve Got a Friend” by Carole King. Colgems-EMI Music Inc. (ASCAP).

“You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling” by Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil

and Phil Spector. Screen Gems-EMI Music Inc. (BMI), EMI Blackwood Music Inc. obo Mother Bertha Music (BMI). _____________________________________________________________ CREDITS Scenic items fabricated by PRG-Scenic Technologies, a division of Production Resource Group, LLC, New Windsor, NY. Show control and scenic motion control featuring Stage Command Systems® by PRG-Scenic Technologies, a division of Production Resource Group, LLC, New Windsor, NY. Additional scenery built, painted and electrified by Show Motion, Inc., Milford, CT. Lighting equipment from PRG Lighting. Audio equipment from PRG Audio. Ladies wear by Tricorne, Inc., Roberta Hamelin, John Cowles, Krostyne Studios, Shana Albery, Miro Affonso and Christopher Schramm. Men’s wear by Ed Dawson, Arur and Tailors, Top Hat Imagewear, Mardana, and Miro Affonso. Props provided by Prop N Spoon LLC. Additional props provided by BB Props and Printing Plus. Makeup provided by M-A-C _____________________________________________________________ Rehearsed at Rehearsed at Pearl Studios, New 42nd Street Studios, The Ailey Studios, and Ripley-Grier Studios _____________________________________________________________ SPECIAL THANKS Martin Bandier, Steven Banks, Caroline Barnard, Mark Bennett, Charles H. Googe, Jr., Carole Shorenstein Hays, Greg Holland, George Lane, Jane Read Martin, Patricia Masera, Stella Morelli, Ellen Pilipski, Joshua Pilipski Pulos, Bruce Scavuzzo, George Sheanshang _____________________________________________________________ The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.

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

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

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.

The Theatre Managers, Press Agents, and Company Managers employed in this production are represented by the Association of Theatrical Press Agents & Managers.

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

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COLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

T W E N T I ET H A N D F I NA L SE R I E S CONC E RT

Cantus Christmas 2019

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DECEMBER 17 | 7:30 PM

Cantus Christmas 2019

Message of the Season—Music of the Masters

Cantus Columbus and String Orchestra William J. Bullock, conductor

Steven Tharp, tenor

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Janie Lee Bullock, pianist

Jeff R. McLelland, organist

concise program, personnel and biographies are given here. See insert for the Introduction, Program Notes, Texts and Personnel, as well as an Overview of this series of which this concert is the final installment.

PROGRAM please hold applause

until the end of the concert. at the symbol , stand and join in singing.

Recorded Preface: 1 – Conductor’s Introduction to the Series’ First Concert in December 2000 2 – Robert Shaw’s Introduction to the PBS Broadcast of His 1986 Atlanta Christmas Concert

I. Prelude Ferenc Liszt (1811–1886) Rorate coeli [Rain Righteousness, O Heavens] transcribed William J. Bullock (opening of prelude to the oratorio Christus, 1866) STRING ORCHESTRA | FROM 2000 CONCERT

II. Prophecy and Preparation Johannes Brahms O Savior, Burst from Heav’n on High (1833–1897) (chorale from motet O Heiland, Op. 74, No. 2, 1860) CHORUS | FROM 2000 CONCERT

arr. Andrew Carter O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (b. 1939) (chorus on a French processional chant, 1986) CHORUS, ORGAN | FROM 2000 CONCERT

George Frideric Handel Comfort Ye, My People (1685–1759) (recitative from oratorio Messiah, HWV 56, 1741) TENOR, STRING ORCHESTRA, HARPSICHORD | FROM 2000 CONCERT

George Frideric Handel And the Glory of the Lord (1685–1759) (chorus from oratorio Messiah, HWV 56, 1741) CHORUS, STRING ORCHESTRA, HARPSICHORD | FROM 2000 CONCERT

Dale Wood People Look East (1995) (1934–2003) (chorale prelude on the 17th-century carol Besançon) ORGAN | FROM 2018 CONCERT

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Richard Willis (1819–1900) arr. William J. Bullock

 It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (chorus on a 19th-century American hymn, 2007)

FULL ENSEMBLE, AUDIENCE | FROM 2007 CONCERT

III. Birth and Infancy Michael Praetorius (1571–1621)

Psallite Unigenito / See How the Infant Small (chorus on a macaronic carol, from Musae Sioniae, 1609)

CHORUS | FROM 2006 CONCERT

Antonion Vivaldi (1675–1741)

Winter, First Movement (violin concerto from The Four Seasons, Op. 8, No. 4, c.1720)

SOLO VIOLIN, STRING ORCHESTRA, HARPSICHORD | FROM 2002 CONCERT

James Hopkins (b. 1939)

Hodie Christus natus est [This Day Christ Is Born] (motet on a Christmas Vesper plainchant, 1976)

CHORUS, ORGAN | FROM 2001 CONCERT

arr. Dan Forrest (b. 1978)

This Shepherds’ Carol (chorus on the 19th-century carol Die Hirten auf dem Felde, 2010)

CHORUS, STRING ORCHESTRA, PIANO | FROM 2017 CONCERT

Heinrich Herzogenberg (1843–1900) transcribed William J. Bullock

Shepherd’s Music (Pastorale) (No. 23 of the oratorio The Birth of Christ, Op. 90, 1894)

STRING ORCHESTRA, ORGAN | FROM 2016 CONCERT

John Jacob Niles (1892–1980)

What Songs Were Sung (Appalachian Christmas song, 1960)

TENOR, PIANO | FROM 2003 CONCERT

arr. David Willcocks (1919–2015)

 O Come, All Ye Faithful (chorus on an 18th-century English hymn, 1961)

FULL ENSEMBLE, AUDIENCE | FROM 2004 CONCERT

IV. Epiphany and Adoration arr. Alice Parker (b. 1925) and Robert Shaw (1916–1999)

How Unto Bethlehem? (chorus on a traditional Italian folk carol, 1953)

CHORUS | FROM 2010 CONCERT

Alexandre Guilmant (1837–1911) arr. William J. Bullock

Triumphal March, Op. 34 (arrangement of an 1872 organ-piano march concertant, 2014)

ORGAN, STRING ORCHESTRA | FROM 2015 CONCERT

arr. Paul Christiansen (1914–1997)

Oh, How Beautiful the Sky (chorus on the Danish folk carol deilig er den himmel blå, 1951)

CHORUS, SOLO QUARTET | FROM 2005 CONCERT

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arr. Eugene Butler Good People All, This Christmastime (1935–2013) (chorus on the Irish Wexford Carol, 2003) CHORUS, SOLO VIOLIN, PIANO | FROM 2013 CONCERT

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Church Sonata No. 15 in C Major, K. 328 (1756–1791) (organ trio sonata, 1779) STRING ORCHESTRA, ORGAN | FROM 2012 CONCERT

Hugo Wolf Lead Me, Child, to Bethlehem (art song from (1860–1903) Spanisches Liederbuch, No. 5 of Geistliche Lieder, 1890) TENOR, PIANO | FROM 2009 CONCERT

arr. Mack Wilberg (b. 1955)  The First “Nowell!” transcribed William J. Bullock (chorus on a 17th-century English carol, 2010) FULL ENSEMBLE, AUDIENCE | FROM 2016 CONCERT

V. Departure and Aspiration Norman Dello Joio (1913–2008)

The Holy Infant’s Lullaby (chorus on the Hispanic folk carol Duérmete mi niño, 1962)

CHORUS, PIANO | FROM 2014 CONCERT

Yves Ramette Flight and Escape (appellation for excerpt from (1921–2012) Prelude, Fugue, and Postlude, 1952) STRING ORCHESTRA, PIANO | FROM 2015 CONCERT

Richard Trunk (1879–1968)

Idyl (sixth art song of Sieben Weihnachtslieder [Seven Christmas Songs], Op 61, c.1930)

TENOR, PIANO | FROM 2010 CONCERT

arr. Robert Wetzler The Snow Lay on the Ground (b. 1932) (chorus on a 19th-century Anglo-Irish carol, 1968) CHORUS, ORGAN | FROM 2011 CONCERT

Eric Lebrun Conditor alme siderum [Creator of the Stars of Night] (b. 1967) (from Twelve Preludes on Gregorian Themes, Op. 31, 2014) ORGAN | FROM 2017 CONCERT

Ola Gjeilo The Ground (b. 1978) (chorus from Sunrise Mass, 2010) CHORUS, STRING ORCHESTRA, PIANO | FROM 2012 CONCERT

arr. Antony Baldwin (b. 1957)  Joy to the World transcribed William J. Bullock (chorus on a 19th-century English hymn, 2000) FULL ENSEMBLE, AUDIENCE | FROM 2008 CONCERT

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CONDUCTOR William Bullock, conductor, brings fifty-plus 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.

TENOR Steven Tharp, tenor, enjoys a diverse career as concert vocalist, operatic star, dedicated song recitalist, and recording artist.

His concert repertoire includes the 18th and 19th century vocal masterpieces (the Bach passions, the masses of Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert, and the oratorios of Handel, Haydn and Mendelssohn) and extends to Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius, Schonberg’s Gurre-Lieder, the Verdi Requiem and Britten’s War Requiem. Steven has appeared with numerous orchestras (New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony, etc.) under multiple conductors (Sir Georg Solti, Daniel Barenboim, Kurt Masur, Charles Dutoit, Valery Gergiev, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Marin Alsop, etc.)

Steven’s operatic credits include performances with many opera companies, including among others, the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Netherlands Opera, Badisches Staatsoper, and the companies of Dallas, Houston, Seattle, Memphis, Omaha, Salt Lake City and Miami. The operas of Mozart and Handel hold a special place among the more than sixty opera roles Steven has to his credit, and his keen interest in 18th- and early 19th-century opera has led to roles in lesser known masterpieces such as Gluck’s Les Pèlerins de la Mecque, Haydn’s L’Isola Disabitata and L’Infedeltà Delusa, Scarlatti’s Gli Equivoci nel Sembiante, and Schubert’s Alfonso und Estrella.

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As song recitalist, Steven has appeared at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, the 92nd Street Y, Carnegie’s Weill Hall, the Bard Festival, Caramoor, Newport Chamber Music Festival, Carmel Bach Festival, the New York Festival of Song and venues in Europe, Japan and South America.

Steven has recorded for Decca, Delos, Newport, Albany and Naxos. His world-premiere recording of the complete songs of Edward MacDowell, accompanied by the late James Barbagallo, earned a Grammy Award nomination, and his recording of Frank Martin’s Le Vin Herbé was an “Editor’s Choice” in Opera News. Other recordings include Vaughan Williams’ On Wenlock Edge with the Ciompi Quartet, Handel’s Messiah with the American Bach Soloists, Schubert’s Schwanengesang with Jan-Paul Grijpink and a CD of Fauré songs with Rachelle Jonck.

Recipient of a master of music degree from Wichita State University, Steven is associate professor of music in the School of Music at the University of Missouri.

ORGANIST Jeff R. McLelland, organist, received degrees in organ performance from The University of Southern Mississippi, The Eastman School of Music, and The University of Alabama, where he studied with Paul Andersen, Russell Saunders, and Warren Hutton, respectively. He is a past dean of several chapters of the American Guild of Organists (AGO) and has served on the AGO Executive Council as Regional Councilor for the southeast United States.

A native of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Jeff is director of music and fine arts at Independent Presbyterian Church (IPC) in Birmingham, Alabama. His duties include, besides serving as organist, direction of all choral activities and administration of the nationally prestigious November Organ Recital Series and the annual Religious Arts Festival. He also serves on the board of directors for the Mississippi Conference on Church Music and Liturgy. Prior to assuming his duties at IPC in 2000, Jeff worked for seventeen years in academia in Mississippi, serving as organ professor at Mississippi College and William Carey University. He has worked as a church musician since he was 14 years old.

Jeff performs frequently for churches and AGO chapters throughout the eastern United States. He was a featured performer at the 1997 and 2001 Southeast Region Conventions of the AGO. In August of 2003 he accompanied the Christ Church Cathedral Choir of Cincinnati (Ohio) in a residency at Salisbury Cathedral, England. He has taken the IPC Choir on performance tours to Italy, Prague, Bratislava and Vienna and in 2015 took the choir to Spain for performances at the Sagrada Familía in Barcelona and the Great MosqueCathedral in Córdoba.

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PIANIST Janie Lee Bullock, pianist, has been the pianist for Cantus Columbus since the group’s founding. Currently she is a collaborative pianist for CSU’s Schwob School of Music, where she plays recitals, competitions, master classes, juries and auditions. Having worked as a church musician in Methodist and Episcopal churches for several years, she currently serves First Baptist Church of Columbus as organist/pianist. Janie Lee has always been extensively involved in choral accompanying, and she has been pianist/organist for several choral concert tours throughout Eastern and Western Europe. Specializing in art song literature, she has played numerous vocal recitals and has accompanied MTNA Young Artist competitors in Toronto, Canada and Denver, Colorado. Janie Lee also has been active in musical theater, having served as music director/ pianist/conductor for Broadway productions in Texas, Mississippi, and Georgia. For several years she also served as principal pianist for the Columbus Symphony Orchestra. Janie Lee studied pedagogy and for many years taught group and private piano on all levels, from beginners through college. She received bachelors and masters music degrees from Florida State University and the University of Southern Mississippi, where she collaborated in many vocal and instrumental chamber music programs and musical theater productions.

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.

From 2000 to 2019 the chorus drew sell-out crowds for its annual Christmas concert, A Cantus Christmas, which, patterned after the annual Christmas concerts of famed choral conductor Robert Shaw, recounted the Christmas story with music by master composers and audience carols.

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The chorus continues to present a series of spring concerts. Except for one program, Psalmodic Pleas & Paeans (works by Bach, Handel, Mozart, and others), performed in 2004 at First Baptist Church of Columbus, this series has presented lighter works. It began in RiverCenter’s Studio Theatre in 2001 with Sentimental Journey, a concert of songs from various lands arranged for chorus and mixed instrumental ensemble, and continued in Legacy Hall with two additional concerts of international song arrangements: Traveling with Two Pianos in 2002 and, in collaboration with a piano trio, Strings Attached in 2003.

Since 2007 Cantus Columbus has devoted its spring concert series to a collaboration with the Vega String Quartet, presenting mostly arrangements of songs by the five founders of the so-called Great American Songbook: Cole Porter (2007), Rodgers & Hart (2008), George & Ira Gershwin (2010), Jerome Kern (2014), and Irving Berlin (2019) as well as two concert digests of gems from these concerts: Porter and Gershwin (2016) and Kern, Berlin and Rodgers & Hart (2019). In 2011 the collaboration yielded Sensational Serenades, an impressive concert of rarely heard works by a great diversity of composers: Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Dohnányi, Bizet, Glazunov, Elgar, Sibelius, Wolf, Borodin, Vaughan Williams, Carl Nielsen, Max Bruch, Rudolf Friml, Harry Warren, Glen Miller, Geoffrey Bush and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.

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 706-660-6932 or DEBA264@aol.com or P.O. Box 8832, Columbus, GA 31908. Gary Holloway is treasurer.

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TENORS

Debbie Anderson* Pam Bailey Ken Bailey Denise Bernard Lucy Bowers Tony G. Crosby Carol Holloway Beth Campbell Mark Culpepper April M. Jacobs Carrie Corbett Mark Dermer* Noël Lewandowski Allison Ladshaw Freeman* Luis Diaz II Laura Jane Murphy Stephanie Warnock *solo quartet in "Oh, How Beautiful the Sky"

BASSES Thomas Bernard Myron Douglas Norman Easterbrook Gary Holloway Andrew Markel Chris Waterstraat* Andy White

STRING ORCHESTRA VIOLIN 1 Keren Berz, concertmaster Patrick Ryan Natalya Klenovskaya Ruslan Apostolov Nathan Banks VIOLIN 2 Barbara Careaga-Mitchell, principal Sylvia Wehrs Reisa Fukuda Elena Kolbrek 48

VIOLA Joshiah Coe, principal Meghan Yost Coe Elizabeth Hostetter CELLO Daniel Holloway, principal Ina Petkova-Apostolova Erica Hughes BASS Jackie Pickett, principal

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LEE ROCKER…OF THE STRAY CATS! Grammy-nominated musician and Bass Player Hall of Famer Lee Rocker made his mark singing, playing, standing on, spinning and rocking his giant upright bass as a founding member (along with Brian Setzer and Slim Jim Phantom), of the Grammy nominated music group The Stray Cats, who sold over 10 million albums, garnered 23 gold and platinum certified records, and were music video pioneers of the MTV. The Stray Cat’s worldwide mega hits “Stray Cat Strut”, “Sexy and Seventeen” and “Rock this Town” have become a part of the fabric of rock and roll. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has included “Rock this Town” as one of the 500 most important songs in rock.

From the cover of the Rolling Stone magazine, to appearing on Saturday Night Live, to headlining the US Festival and touring with the Rolling Stones, Lee Rocker has seen and done it all. In addition to The Stray Cats and the Rolling Stones, Rocker has toured and performed with George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Willie Nelson, Leon Russell, and John Fogerty. In 1982 Rocker and his father Stanley Drucker, (classical clarinetist) both received Grammy nominations; this was something that has only occurred twice in the history of the Grammy Awards. In 2012 Lee appeared on Broadway in the hit musical "Million Dollar Quartet" and in 2014 he was inducted into the Bass Player Hall of Fame. Rocker has received numerous honors for his contributions to music and the arts, including being inducted to the Rockabilly Hall of Fame, the Long Island Music Hall of Fame and he is a recipient of the Visionary Artist Award by the City of Laguna Beach California. In his concert performances, Lee Rocker rocks every town and leaves every audience on their feet and cheering.

Lee Rocker has been consistently touring, recording and performing around the globe since 1980 and has cultivated a fanatically loyal following of rockers, rebels and all types of music lovers. He is known for making his upright double bass appear as if it were a lightweight instrument as he spins, throws it in the air, catches and plays it on stages throughout the world. His concert show is a time for him to tell stories about his days on the road and in the music business for the last 35 years – including sharing stories about his adventures lugging the giant piece of equipment around.

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(Written by each individual) BUZZ CAMPBELL (Guitar/Backing Vocals) BUZZ CAMPBELL is an American guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. He founded his group, Hot Rod Lincoln, from San Diego, CA in 1990. Buzz met Lee Rocker while opening for him and approached Lee about producing his first release. Lee produced self-titled CD, Hot Rod Lincoln in 1992 as well as Blue Cafe, the bands third CD, in 1996. The title track, "Blue Cafe”, was written for Buzz by Brian Setzer, original front-man of the Stray Cats. In 2000, Buzz was asked to join Sha Na Na, 1950’s revival group whose legacy includes performing at Woodstock, a cameo in the movie Grease, and their own TV show from 1975-1981. Buzz left Sha Na Na in 2004, after Lee Rocker asked him to join his group. Buzz has been touring the world with Lee ever since and is on all of Lee’s releases since 2004. Buzz penned the song, “Crazy When She Drinks” for Lee, which was released in 2008 on the album, Black Cat Bone. In 2015, Buzz approached Lee with the idea of doing a theater show telling Lee’s musical story.

JOEY EIGHTS (Keys/Harmonica/Backing Vocals) What can be said of Joey Eights other than he is a true rock & roll monster!

They did their best at the Berklee School of Music to channel his brilliance into more refined forms of expression, but his feral hunger for raw, savage rock & roll always found him at the seedy juke-joints & underground blues hops where the primitive, real sounds of pure, unfiltered rock & roll could be found.

He would beat up the pianos in these rough establishments for decades until the drunken crowds were sent into fits of unbridled ecstasy from the pounding fury. He has lately found the perfect outlet for his expression with the Lee Rocker Band, where his appreciation of real, original, unadulterated rock & roll is shared with the other members who quest for the perfection of the pure form. With the collaboration of these like-minded masters, who knows how the world will react to the straight up rock & roll savagery at its purest.

LARRY MITCHELL (Drums) Larry Mitchell was raised in Southern California in the 60’s and has played drums professionally since he was 16 years old, in and around Los Angeles and Nashville. He is currently touring North America with Lee Rocker of the Stray Cats. His professional accomplishments reflect his love of Americana and roots music, which has included touring and recording for many artists such as Heather Myles, Wylie & the Wild West, Jann Browne, Rosie Flores and Trini Lopez to name a few. His studio work includes countless sessions for genres that range from blues to country to rock and pop.

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Bobbie Carter

Jaylin Flegler

Charlene Alford

Melody Carter

Glenn Fleming

Belinda Anderson

Linda Cave

Kathleen Foor

Shelley Anderson

Ricky Chambers

Josephine Ford

Sandra Barker

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Dorothy Garza

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Linda Bugh

Christine Dykes

Carl Burell

Eileen Edwards

Pat Burell

Ruby Elder

Judith Burgess

Laura Ellison

Jack Burnett

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Chyll Perry

John Stafford

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Lynette Jankowski

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Shirley Tate

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Paulette Rameau

Edweena Thomas

Gloria Johnson

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Kitrina Ray

Karin Thompson

Hattie Jones

Ruth Reed-Dorsett

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Dawn Reich

Melode Thornton

Deborah King

Joyce Richburg

Carolyn Tigner

Jan Knowles

Beverly Riley

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Peggy Lambert

Martha Jane Roark

Mike Turner

Carol Lee

Dianne Robinson

Linda Twiggs

Justin Lee

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William Lee, Jr.

Wanda Rutledge

William Vanark

Audrey Lenig

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Claudette Wade

James Lewis

Charmaine Samuels

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Rachel Lewis

Dolores Sanchez

Richard Walker

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Howard Watson

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Norman S. Easterbrook, Executive Director, CEO Carrie Corbett, Director of Marketing John (J.D.) Davis, Technical Director Cherwanda Jones, Operations Director Jannina Marion, Director of Business Affairs, CFO Jim Rutland, Program Director box office

Jennifer Graham, Box Office Manager Shonda Dugan, Assistant Box Office Manager Ethan Hall, Ticketing Associate Amy Lander, Ticketing Associate Zach McDonald, Ticketing Associate Cheryl Mullis, Ticketing Associate Kayla Reid, Ticketing Associate Breanna Webber, Ticketing Associate b u s i n e s s a f fa i r s

Jannina Marion, Director of Business Affairs, CFO Shannon Preston, Accounting Coordinator/HR Asst. development

Tanya Edwards-Jones, Development Associate Cheryl Roberts, Development Assistant marketing

Carrie Corbett, Director of Marketing Amanda Rae, Marketing Manager Gina Tew, Graphic Designer o p e r at i o n s

Cherwanda Jones, Operations Director Ishmun Holcomb, Events Coordinator Heather Watson, Operations Manager Shakeeta Wiliams, Catering Coordinator Karen Lawson, Facilities Services Specialists Billy Johnson, Security Sergeant Terry Karnes, Security Officer production

John (J.D.) Davis, Technical Director Lance Fraker, Assistant Technical Director and Sound Technician Charles Edwards, Head Flyman John Land, Stage Manager Shep Leak, Production Assitant Tina Martin, Lighting Coordinator p r o g r a m m i n g a n d e d u c at i o n

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T I C K E T I N F O R M AT I O N The RiverCenter box office has tickets available for these series and events: TSYS Broadway on Broad­way, Synovus Center Stage, RiverCenter ArtsReach and ArtsReach Matinees. 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.

MY SERIES PACKAGE—Tickets to RiverCenter events may be pur­chased at a 20% savings as a My Series Package. A My Series Package con­sists of at least one ticket to at least five events per patron.

GIFT CERTIFICATES—Available year-round in any dollar amount at the RiverCenter box office.

CUSTOM COMBOS—Tickets to RiverCenter events may be pur­chased at a 10% savings as Custom Combos. A Custom Combo con­sists of at least one ticket to 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, or rivercenter.org 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 with presentation of appropriate ID. 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.

I M P O RTA N T I N F O R M AT I O N 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 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. It opens one hour before each performance and remains open through inter­ mission. The box office is not open on federal holidays 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.

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

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

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

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

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smoke-free facility. Smoking is permitted in outdoor areas only. Thank you for your cooperation.

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

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

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

Food and drink is not permit­ted in the theatres.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(706) 256-3610

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

(706) 256-3632

Group Sales

(706) 256-3612

Rentals

(706) 256-3607

Volunteer Office

(706) 256-3652

Marketing / Ad Sales

(706) 256-3608

Development

(706) 256-3618

ArtsReach

(706) 256-3607

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

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

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

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

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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 $3,292,506, RiverCenter activities result in more than $4.9 million in economic activity. This supports 165 full-time equivalent jobs, represents over $3.5 million in local household income and generates $480,400 in state and local government revenue. With the advent of RiverCenter becoming a location for originating touring productions, this impact will be broadened and become more stable.

RIVERCENTER INC. & Tourism: RiverCenter supports conferences, meetings, productions, and other programs that attract tourists to our community for multiple days. 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 valued at over $175,000, 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. ln addition, RiverCenter’s south wing is home to 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.