ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Matthew Gardiner MANAGING DIRECTOR
Maggie Boland
everybody rise signature remembers
everybody rise
signature remembers stephen sondheim Directed & Conceived by Matthew Gardiner Music Direction & Piano Jon Kalbfleisch With Evan Casey Natascia Diaz Erin Driscoll James Gardiner Nicholas McDonough Christopher Mueller Katie Mariko Murray Tracy Lynn Olivera Nova Y. Payton Christopher Michael Richardson Maria Rizzo Awa Sal Secka Bobby Smith Holly Twyford John Leslie Wolfe Rachel Zampelli Stage Manager Kerry Epstein Lighting Design Jonathan Maag Sound Design Ryan Hickey Wardrobe Moyenda Kulemeka Production Management Kimberly J. Scott Followspot Operators L Bruce & Jared Loeb Sponsored by: John Benton and David Briggs through the Briggs-Benton Fund at the Arlington Community Foundation Mike Blank
song list Broadway Baby from Follies Awa Sal Secka, Tracy Lynn Olivera & Nova Y. Payton What More Do I Need? from Saturday Night Erin Driscoll Love, I Hear from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Nicholas McDonough Pretty Women from Sweeney Todd John Leslie Wolfe Loving You from Passion Natascia Diaz Good Thing Going from Merrily We Roll Along Christopher Michael Richardson Not A Day Goes By from Merrily We Roll Along Awa Sal Secka Sooner or Later from Dick Tracy Maria Rizzo
Giants in the Sky from Into the Woods Christopher Mueller A Boy Like That/I Have A Love from West Side Story Natascia Diaz & Katie Mariko Murray Getting Married Today from Company Tracy Lynn Olivera, Katie Mariko Murray & Christopher Mueller Marry Me A Little from Company Bobby Smith Send in the Clowns from A Little Night Music Holly Twyford Our Time from Merrily We Roll Along Nicholas McDonough, James Gardiner & Tracy Lynn Olivera Children Will Listen/Sunday from Into the Woods & Sunday in the Park with George Nova Y. Payton with Full Company
Unworthy of Your Love from Assassins Rachel Zampelli & Evan Casey
song order and list subject to change
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Stephen Sondheim (March 22, 1930 – November 26, 2021) wrote the music and lyrics for Road Show (2008, originally titled Bounce), Passion (1994), Assassins (1991), Into the Woods (1987), Sunday in the Park with George (1984), Merrily We Roll Along (1981), Sweeney Todd (1979), Pacific Overtures (1976), The Frogs (1974), A Little Night Music (1973), Follies (1971, revised in London 1987 and in New York 2001), Company (1970), Anyone Can Whistle (1964), and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962); as well as lyrics for West Side Story (1957), Gypsy (1959), Do I Hear a Waltz (1965), and additional lyrics for Candide (1973). Side by Side by Sondheim (1976), Marry Me a Little (1981), You’re Gonna Love Tomorrow (1983), and Putting it Together (1992, 2000) are anthologies of his work. For film he composed the scores for Stravinsky (1974) and Reds (1981) and songs for Dick Tracy (Academy Award, 1990). He wrote the songs for television’s Evening Primrose (1966), co-authored the film The Last of Sheila (1973) and the play Getting Away with Murder (1966), and provided incidental music for the plays The Girls of Summer (1956), Invitation to a March (1961), and Twigs (1971). He won Tony Awards® for Best Score of a Musical for Passion, Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music, Follies, (1971), and Company. All of these shows won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, as did Pacific Overtures and Sunday in the Park with George, the latter also receiving the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1985). Mr. Sondheim was on the Council of the Dramatists Guild, having served as its president from 1973 to 1981, and in 1983 was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1990, he was appointed the first Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Oxford University, and in 1993 was the recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors. ABOUT SIGNATURE Signature Theatre is a Tony Award®-winning regional theater that broadens and brightens the region’s cultural landscape with its bold productions of challenging new and established works and engaging education and outreach programs. Founded in 1989 by Eric Schaeffer and Donna Migliaccio, and currently under the leadership of Managing Director Maggie Boland and Artistic Director Matthew Gardiner, musical theater is Signature’s “signature,” and the Theatre is renowned for its definitive Sondheim productions, inventive adaptations of overlooked or forgotten works, and investment in fresh new projects. Called a “musical theater powerhouse” and “a dream for patrons” by The Washington Post, Signature combines Broadway-caliber productions with intimate playing spaces and aims to be a leading force in U.S. musical theater. Since its inception, the Theatre has produced 59 world premiere works—including 19 new musical commissions. Signature opens its doors to more than 100,000 people annually from the Washington, DC region and beyond and reaches more than 10,000 students every year through its innovative education programs, including the award-winning initiative Signature in the Schools. Signature has won 134 Helen Hayes Awards for excellence in the Washington, DC region’s professional theater and has been honored with 452 nominations.