PERFORMANCES Murder for Two

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CONTENTS 12 TONY TV

Many theater figures have migrated to television over the years—but it’s not a one-way street.

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Cast, who’s who, director’s notes, chairman’s letter and donors.

6 IN THE WINGS

Sound of Music’s 50th and Frank Sinatra’s 100th at Hollywood Bowl; Janis Joplin back in Pasadena.

8 DATELINE

An Act of God and Amazing Grace in New York; Light Shining in Buckinghamshire in London.

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INTHEWINGS

The Hollywood Bowl marks several milestone anniversaries with its pops programming this season. Power up your DeLorean, recharge your flux capacitor, and celebrate the 30th of Back to the Future on June 30: View it in HD on the Bowl’s big screen with the Los Angeles Philharmonic performing Alan Silvestri’s score, and about 15 minutes of new music, live. This year’s Sing-A-Long Sound of Music, June 26, celebrates the beloved film’s 50th anniversary with interactive fun-packs, costumes and, of course, multitudes of fans. The Count Basie Orchestra and numerous guest stars gather July 22 to toast the Frank Sinatra centennial; Old Blue Eyes was one of the most important musical figures of the 20th century and one of the best-selling artists of all time.

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LACO @ the Movies Salutes Disney MUSIC Animation Studio with nine historic animated shorts June 13 at the Theatre at Ace Hotel. The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra program includes the world premiere of two restored “Oswald the Lucky Rabbit” shorts created

by Walt Disney himself and lost for 50 years—Poor Papa (1927) and Africa Before Dark (1928)—with new scores by Mark Watters; “The Sorcerer’s

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Apprentice” from Fantasia, marking its 75th anniversary with a newly restored print, and The Band Concert, the first Technicolor Mickey Mouse cartoon, celebrating its 80th; and the first-ever live accompaniment to the “Silly Symphony” short Music Land (1935), which pits the Land of Symphony against the Isle of Jazz. Dustin Hoffman chairs the LACO benefit that follows.

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Blues singer Mary Bridget Davies was nominated for a 2014 THEATER Tony Award, for best performance by an actress in a leading role in a musical, for her Broadway run with A Night With Janis Joplin. She wowed local crowds in 2013 with an earlier incarnation of the show, the highest-grossing production in Pasadena Playhouse history.

Pre-Broadway acclaim included critics’ picks from the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post and three Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards. Davies and the show about the rock ’n’ roll legend return to the playhouse July 21-Aug. 16.

“A Night With Janis Joplin is an onstage party.... [Davies] rockets through at least a dozen of Joplin’s best-known songs, and sings them with a throbbing fervor that is often riveting,” wrote the New York Times. 39 S. El Molino Ave., Pasadena, 626.356.7529, pasadenaplayhouse.org PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE 7

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On TV, actor Jim Parsons, as physicist Sheldon Cooper, knows all there is to know about the big bang theory. But on Broadway, as the Almighty in NEW YORK David Javerbaum’s new comedy, An Act of God, he explains creation from a more divine perspective, eight shows a week at Studio 54. The real-life story of how John Newton came to create one of the world’s most popular hymns is told in Amazing Grace, the new Broadway musical. The sweet sound of redemption resonates throughout the Nederlander Theatre; previews begin June 25.

Amazingly graceful is one way to describe Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. During its season at Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater, June 10-21, the troupe presents the world premiere of “Odetta” and repertory favorites including the aptly named “Grace.”

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Light Shining in Buckinghamshire at the National Theatre

Preparing Detti’s Galileo at the Court of Isabella (1878) for Pageant of the Masters

The National Theatre LONDON shows Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, the passionate, patriotic play by Caryl Churchill about England in the aftermath of a bloody civil war, through June 22. The people who rose up against the tyrannical king are now left to settle old scores, stabilize politics and survive.

Beginning June 19, audiences at the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, at the heart of one of the capital’s best-loved parks, are treated to the Anton Chekhov masterpiece The Seagull. In it, the drama among guests watching a play in a country house moves from jealousies to betrayal. Classic Arthur Miller comes to the Noël Coward: Willy Loman’s regrets and bleak future are the focus of Death of Salesman, on through July 18.

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Pageant of the Masters, July 8-Aug. 31 in Laguna Beach, among the world’s most distinctive theatriTHE WEST cal productions, this year explores “The Pursuit of Happiness.” The show’s renowned tableaux vivants (“living pictures”) re-create works of art—Edward Percy Moran’s painting of Betsy Ross presenting the first American flag to Gen. George Washington, for instance—using live people. Narration and orchestral accompaniment are also live. A ticket includes unlimited season admission to the adjacent open-air Festival of Arts, named one of the nation’s top art festivals by USA Today.

And if its 140 artists aren’t enough, Art-A-Fair and Sawdust Festival, each with its own personality and sensibilities, are also along Laguna Canyon Road. Don’t fret if you miss either Motown the Musical or The Phantom of the Opera in Hollywood; both productions go directly to Segerstrom Center of the Arts in Costa Mesa, Motown June 16-28 and Phantom Aug. 5-16.

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THE THEATER-TELEVISION CONNECTION.

WHEN CASTING DIRECTOR MARK SAKS ATTENDED the 2006 Pasadena Playhouse production of Sister Act, he noted a particular member of the ensemble: Patina Miller, a recent Carnegie Mellon University graduate he’d met there. He saw her perform again, as the show’s star in London and on Broadway and in the 2013 Broadway revival of Pippin, for which she won a Tony Award. In 2014, he cast her as Daisy Grant, press coordinator for U.S. Secretary of State Elizabeth McCord (Tèa Leoni) in the CBS drama Madam Secretary.

“I thought Patina did an amazing job in Pippin,” recalls Saks, who began his career as assistant casting director at San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre.

“I wanted an African-American woman in the role.

There was something so compelling about her.”

Miller isn’t the only Tony winner in the Madam Secretary cast. Bebe Neuwirth, who plays McCord’s chief of staff, has two, for Sweet Charity and Chicago. Keith Carradine, who plays the president, has been twice Tony-nominated; Zeljko Ivanek,

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who plays his chief of staff, has three nominations.

McCord’s assistant is played by Erich Bergen, who starred as Bob Gaudio in the Ahmanson Theatre production and first national tour of Jersey Boys.

Over the years, theater figures Madam Secretary cast includes, at have increasingly migrated to far left, Patina television. Sutton Foster stars in Miller (Tony Award for Pippin) and the TV Land comedy Younger.

Erich Bergen Andrew Rannells is a regular (Jersey Boys star at the Ahmanson). on HBO’s Girls and starred in the series The New Normal. Norbert Leo Butz, best known for his musical theater romps, turns serious for the Netflix streaming series Bloodline. Audra McDonald was a co-star of the medical drama Private Practice. Playwright Theresa Rebeck created the Broadway-set series Smash, and playwright Jon Robin Baitz created the drama Brothers and Sisters and, this season, wrote the pilot for and was an executive producer of NBC’s miniseries The Slap.

This year’s Tony Awards ceremony, airing June 7 on CBS, is co-hosted by two Broadway

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veterans with strong won back-to-back Tonys for television presences: Alan Other Desert Cities and The Cumming of CBS’ The Good Assembled Parties. “That’s Wife—also cast by Saks— a tribute to the openheartedand Kristin Chenoweth. ness of the Broadway Bringing so many theater community,” she says. performers to television Behind the cameras, the reflects the New York-based transition from stage to teleSaks’ own background. “I’m vision was fairly smooth for almost always pulling from Sheldon Epps, artistic director the New York pool, where of Pasadena Playhouse, who most actors are of the had theater-directing credits Back on Broadway after years away, Judith Light won back-to-back Tony Awards, one for Other theater,” he says. “Because before helming episodes of Desert Cities, above, and a Tony nomination.

Madam Secretary is not an Frasier and Friends. With most action show, but takes place in an office, usually shows shot with multiple cameras before a studio the dialogue is more suited to people in theater.” audience, “I treated it as a 22-minute play, with Saks helps stage actors adapt to TV by telling three days of rehearsal, one day of camera blocking them that “acting is being private publicly. You and then opening night,” says Epps, who recently keep the scope of it a little more intimate—you’re directed episodes of the Nickelodeon sitcom Instant not projecting to the balcony.”

Mom. “The process is pretty much the same.”

Early in her career, actress Judith Light had to Working with cameras, planning shots to direct adjust from stage to small screen for the daytime the viewers’ focus, was new. “In theater, it’s all drama One Life to Live. One day she told her about the composition of the stage picture, which director that she didn’t know what she was doing. you achieve with blocking, lighting and design “The director said, ‘Think of [each day] as going choices,” Epps says. Television combines “composiinto a rehearsal,’ ” relates Light, who recurred on tion and camera work. If you stage something corthe Dallas reboot and plays the ex-wife of a transrectly, the cameraman will know where to shoot.” gender woman on the Amazon Studios streaming Thanks to his long theater career, Epps became series Transparent. “ ‘Then you’re going into dress known as an actor’s director in television, someone rehearsal. Then you’re going into opening night.’ who knows how to talk to actors. “The writers and I applied that stage metaphor always.” The same producers might want the pace of a scene to be metaphor helped for a weekly episode, when she faster, but ‘Go faster’ is never a good direction— starred in the prime-time sitcom Who’s the Boss? the actors will just garble the scene,” he explains.

When Light first returned to the stage after many “ ‘Find the urgency in the scene’ is better.” Epps years away, she discovered that television’s fast has brought some of his television relationships to pace made it easy for her to fit quickly into a new the Playhouse, producing shows by writers and role but that then she had to, as she says her producers and hiring actors he’s worked with. manager terms it, “go back and slow down—do the For Epps, there hasn’t been that much difference depth work.” When she returned to the Broadway between directing theater and television. For Light, stage, she was nominated for a 2011 Tony Award who’s now worked extensively in both, each for her first play, Lombardi, and the next two years medium “has informed the other.”

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MURDER FOR TWO

FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR I’M THRILLED TO WELCOME YOU TO MURDER FOR TWO, a part-musical and part-mystery homage to the whodunit genre, with a hattip to Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle. Upon seeing the play for the first time, I was struck by how much can be accomplished by creative and talented minds in the world of theater. Two actors, a piano and tour de force performances create an entire world for the audience. Without an orchestra, a cast of dozens, or sets and costumes galore, we are as magically and happily transported into this funny, sweet and irreverent romp, as if we were regaled by legions of actors and musicians.

Scott Schwartz, Joe Kinosian and Kellen Blair have teamed up to infuse this piece with unbridled energy. With the incomparable Jeff Blumenkrantz and Brett Ryback — the original New York cast reunited — they have taken that energy to new heights.

As we embark on the last Audrey play of 2014/2015, I thank you for coming along for the ride this season. From The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens and Leo Tolstoy: Discord, into Switzerland and now Murder for Two, our goal, as always, is to infuse this intimate space with variety and surprises. We hope you have found both of these elements and so much more in this season of plays. We look forward to seeing you next season.

Enjoy the show.

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LETTER FROM THE CO-CHAIRS

BOARD OF DIRECTORS MARTHA HENDERSON CO-CHAIR

PAMELA ROBINSON HOLLANDER CO-CHAIR

PATRICIA KIERNAN APPLEGATE RANDALL ARNEY BETH BEHRS DR. GENE D. BLOCK HAROLD A. BROWN GIL CATES JR. VICE CHAIRMAN

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WELCOME TO OUR FINAL SHOW IN THE 2014/2015 Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater season: Murder for Two. Hailed by The New York Times as “ingenious,” we know this “musical whodunit” will delight Los Angeles audiences all summer long. Congratulations to Joe Kinosian and Kellen Blair for creating this unique, musical murder mystery and to Scott Schwartz for directing this high-energy production.

As the 2014/2015 season draws to a close, we would like to highlight the extraordinary generosity of our Geffen Playhouse Board of Directors, Trustees, Advisory Board, major donors and season sponsors, without whom we could not exist. Our deepest gratitude to the loyal subscribers and single ticket buyers who return season after season to support our art onstage, who are bold enough to join us on this artistic journey every year. Thank you for your trust and loyalty, as we could not create new work or take chances bringing world premieres or American premieres to our stages without such dedicated patrons in the audience.

Our sincere thanks to all of you for joining us today and for being such an integral part of the season. We cannot wait for you to see what our 20th anniversary season brings in 2015/2016. We hope you enjoy Murder for Two and look forward to hearing your thoughts about this hilarious musical murder mystery!

Enjoy the show!

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THE CHAMELEON PRODUCTION MANAGER DANIEL IONAZZI ON THE EVERVERSATILE CHARMS OF THE AUDREY SKIRBALL KENIS THEATER

BY REBECCA HAITHCOAT

Jake Broder and band in Louis & Keely: Live at the Sahara. Photo by Michael Lamont.

THE AUDREY SKIRBALL KENIS THEATER at the Geffen Playhouse is never the same space twice.

In fact, the Audrey morphs so often that if a theatergoer isn’t familiar with the layout, one might assume the Geffen houses three or four stages instead of two. Daniel Ionazzi, the Geffen’s Production Manager, chuckles at the idea.

“When we [were designing it], it wasn’t high on the priorities that it be that versatile,” he says.

Yet it is, and that a theater transforms as easily as its actors is not only poetic, it’s fitting. For last spring’s production of Greg Pierce’s Slowgirl, there was seating on both sides of the performance space, only the second time the Audrey had been arranged thusly. Louis & Keely: Live at the Sahara, which had a successful run at the Geffen in 2009, converted the Audrey into a lounge straight out of Vegas. During the recent production of Joanna Murray-Smith’s Switzerland, a spiral staircase and backdrop painted with a sweeping vista of snowy mountains gave the illusion of a much larger set — despite the happy fact that while Seth Numrich wielded a knife and Laura Linney punched on her typewriter, they were within arm’s reach of many audience members.

“Designers have done a great job of understanding how the space works and adapting to it,” Ionazzi says. “They’re really successful at coming up with new ideas that make it look different every time you go in.”

Ionazzi and Gil Cates began discussing plans for a second theater in 2002 or 2003. The original inspiration for the Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater came from Italy’s Piccolo

Teatro di Milano, which was partially inspired by the Teatro Farnase in Parma, Italy. “[The Farnase] has a very deep thrust and is a very beautiful space. The Piccolo is a modern version of that,” Ionazzi continues. “But the idea was to stay away from the nondescript black box syndrome. [We wanted] to give it some character so it could live as it is with a single artist onstage and not have to worry about dressing or decorating the room.”

The team was restricted by the footprint of the property, so they wanted flexibility. They designed the center section’s curve to be fixed, with side seating that wrapped around but could be changed up if a designer so desired.

Only a handful of musicals and concerts — Alan Cumming’s I Bought a Blue Car Today, Louis & Keely: Live at the Sahara, Mona Golabeck in The Pianist of Willesden Lane and now Murder for Two — have been performed in the Audrey. Still, it’s certainly equipped to maximize auditory pleasure. “It wasn’t specifically designed for concerts,” says Ionazzi. “But the acoustics are conducive to musical performance.”

Still, with its many and attractive attributes, Ionazzi namechecks The Jacksonian and says his favorite aspect of the Audrey is its intimacy.

“To see that caliber of performer so intimately is great,” he enthuses. “That’s been the highlight of that space. That’s what’s been remarkable — that you’re so close, and that it can transform and be different things.”

It’s hard to tell whether he means the actors, or the Audrey.

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GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE IN ASSOCIATION WITH

Jayson Raitt Latitude Link

Barbara Whitman

Omneity Entertainment / Richard G. Weinberg

Paula Marie Black

Steven Chaikelson Paula Kaminsky Davis

Pittsburgh CLO

Second Stage Theatre Casey Reitz, Executive Director Carole Rothman, Artistic Director Christopher Burney, Curator and Associate Artistic Director PRESENT

Book and Music by

Book and Lyrics by

Joe Kinosian

Kellen Blair

Jeff Blumenkrantz Scenic Design

Featuring

Brett Ryback

Costume Design

Beowulf Boritt

Lighting Design

Music Director

Casting

Calleri Casting

Wendy Seyb

Production Stage Manager

Production Supervisor

National Press Representative

Matt Ross Public Relations

Jill BC Du Boff

Choreographer

David Caldwell Cate Cundiff

Sound Design

Jason Lyons

Andrea Lauer

Associate Producer

Production Core

General Management

Snug Harbor Productions

Tom Casserly

Exclusive Tour Direction

AWA Partners

Directed by

Scott Schwartz The world premiere of Murder for Two was presented on May 12, 2011 at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Chicago, IL. Barbara Gaines, Artistic Director, Criss Henderson, Executive Director.

Murder for Two was developed for Chicago Shakespeare Theater by Rick Boynton, Creative Producer.

New York premiere produced by the Second Stage Theatre, New York, 2013

Opening Night: Wednesday, June 3, 2015 OPENING NIGHT SPONSORS

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PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES

BRETT RYBACK (Marcus) Brett Ryback is an actor, composer, and playwright based in Los Angeles. He originated the role of Marcus Off-Broadway in Murder for Two at Second Stage and New World Stages. Recent TV/ Film appearances include: Modern Family, How I Met Your Mother, House and the Coen brothers’ upcoming film, Hail, Caesar! Regional theater credits include: The History Boys (Ahmanson Theatre); The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Mark Taper Forum); The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Little Shop of Horrors, Broadway Bound (La Mirada Theatre for Performing Arts); and the world premieres of The Prince of Atlantis, Dr. Cerberus (South Coast Repertory) and Upright Grand (Theatreworks, Palo Alto). His plays and musicals include: Liberty Inn: The Musical (Ovation nominations Best Book, Best Music/Lyrics), Darling (Weston Playhouse New Musical Award, featured on NBC’s The Apprentice), The Tavern Keeper’s Daughter (Best Musical, Pasadena Weekly) and The Many Selves of Mia Scott. He was commissioned to write music for Just A Little Critter Musical for First Stage Milwaukee, which will premiere in February 2016, and this past winter he was invited to participate in the Johnny Mercer Writers Colony at Goodspeed Musicals to develop his latest project Passing Through. brettryback.com

ZACH SPOUND (Understudy for The Suspects) Zach Spound is proud to be working with the Geffen Playhouse. Recent credits include Floyd Collins (La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts); A Class Act (Porchlight Music Theatre); Masque of the Red Death (Noho Arts Center); and Othello, Love’s Labors Lost and La Ronde (Shakespeare Santa Cruz). Last year, he wrote and starred in a short film, Vegetables. Zach is also the music director and arranger of The Unauthorized Musical Parody of Cruel Intentions at Rockwell Table & Stage. Also a composer, he is writing a new musical called Leap. Proud graduate of Northwestern University. Thanks to family.

MATTHEW WRATHER (Understudy for Marcus) Matthew Wrather is an actor whose career began as a child in his native Los Angeles and spans two decades and three continents. Matt appeared alongside Sam Waterston in Travesties at Long Wharf Theatre and alongside Ed Asner in the short film The Raft. Additional film credits include the titular character in Lucas Mirelles’s black comedy A Bad Person and a would-be terrorist with pangs of conscience in Iris Hefler’s Brother’s Keeper, produced by

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JEFF BLUMENKRANTZ (The Suspects) Jeff Blumenkrantz has performed on Broadway in Into the Woods (1987), Threepenny Opera (1989), Damn Yankees (1994), How to Succeed in Business… (1995), and A Class Act (2001), as well as OffBroadway in Murder for Two (Lortel Award nomination) and in the City Center Encores production of Anyone Can Whistle. Regional theater credits include productions at La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe, Kennedy Center, Long Wharf Theatre and Asolo Repertory Theatre. On camera, Jeff can be seen in 30 Rock, The Good Wife, Ugly Betty, Joseph … Dreamcoat, Will and Grace, Law and Order and the PBS telecasts of the New York Philharmonic concerts of Sweeney Todd and Candide. Also a musical theater composer/lyricist, Jeff received a Tony Award nomination as one of the co-writers of the score of Urban Cowboy. He is the recipient of the 2011 Fred Ebb Award as well as commissions from Lincoln Center Theater, Carnegie Hall and Guggenheim Works and Process. Most recently, he released a CD titled I’ve Been Played: Alysha Umphress Swings Jeff Blumenkrantz, featuring his jazz songs and arrangements. His songs have been recorded by Audra McDonald, Sutton Foster, Rebecca Luker and Victoria Clark, among others. To hear Jeff’s music, check out The Jeff Blumenkrantz Songbook podcast by visiting either iTunes or jeffblumenkrantz.com.

Academy Award-winner Bobby Moresco. Stage work includes Lt. Charles in The Adding Machine, directed by SITI Company’s J. Ed Araiza, and the initial reading of Paula Vogel’s A Civil War Christmas, directed by Tina Landau. Matt is an accomplished singer, pianist, and composer, with two full-length musicals and dozens of musical theater songs to his credit. He is founder and editor-in-chief of Overthinking It, a successful website for pop culture nerds. He holds an MFA from UCLA and his BA from Yale.

JOE KINOSIAN (Book and Music) Joe Kinosian is the co-recipient of Chicago’s Joseph Jefferson Award recognizing Murder for Two as Best New Musical following its record-breaking run at Chicago Shakespeare Theater; Joe was also nominated for Best Actor as The Suspects. Murder for Two had its Off-Broadway premiere at Second Stage Uptown, going on to a year-long run at New World Stages. Joe’s work with Kellen Blair has been showcased at The Kennedy Center, The York Theater and on Broadway at the Theatre World Awards. Joe received the ASCAP Foundation Mary Rodgers/ Lorenz Hart Award and the Harrington Award from the BMI Workshop. Joe also appeared in Dirty Blonde with Emily Skinner (Hangar Theater) and the NYC premiere of Dear Edwina OffBroadway. kinosianandblair.com KELLEN BLAIR (Book and Lyrics) Kellen Blair is the Drama Desk-nominated co-creator of Murder for Two (OffBroadway: Second Stage Theatre and New World Stages. World premiere: Chicago Shakespeare Theater).

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PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES Rodgers / Lorenz Hart Award (2013). Their work has been showcased on Broadway, the Kennedy Center and theaters across the country. Kellen is excited to be developing a new musical farce with Joe titled The More Things Change; he’s also working with Broadway composer Larry Grossman on a new show called Scrooge in Love. Updates, videos, song demos and sheet music can be found at kinosianandblair.com.

A huge thank you to the most supportive family ever!

SCOTT SCHWARTZ (Director) Scott Schwartz directed Murder for Two Off-Broadway at New World Stages and Second Stage Uptown. On Broadway, he directed Golda’s Balcony and Jane Eyre (co-directed with John Caird). His other Off-Broadway work includes Bat Boy: The Musical (Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Circle Awards, Outstanding OffBroadway Musical; Drama Desk Award nomination, Outstanding Director of a Musical); tick, tick…BOOM! (Outer Critics Circle, Outstanding OffBroadway Musical; Drama Desk nomination, Outstanding Director of a Musical); Rooms: A Rock Romance; The Foreigner starring Matthew Broderick (Roundabout Theatre Company); Kafka’s The Castle (Outer Critics Circle nomination, Outstanding Director of a Play); and No Way to Treat a Lady. He also directed Golda’s Balcony on tour, in London, in Los Angeles at the Wadsworth Theatre and in San Francisco at American Conservatory Theater. He directed the world premiere of Séance on a Wet Afternoon at Opera Santa Barbara and subsequently at New York City Opera. Schwartz’s other recent credits include the US premiere of The Hunchback of Notre Dame (La Jolla Playhouse), the world premiere of Secondhand

Lions (5th Avenue Theatre), the world premiere of Theresa Rebeck’s What We’re Up Against (Alley Theatre), Arsenic and Old Lace starring Tovah Feldshuh and Betty Buckley (Dallas Theater Center) and a re-envisioning of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Paper Mill Playhouse, Theatre Under The Stars, Theatre on the Square and North Shore Music Theatre; 2008 IRNE Award, Outstanding Director of a Musical). He is the Artistic Director of Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor, NY, a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, an Associate Artist at the Alley Theatre and a graduate of Harvard University.

WENDY SEYB (Choreographer) Carnegie Hall with Sting, Kevin Spacey, James Taylor, Renée Fleming; The Pee-Wee Herman Show (Broadway and HBO). Off-Broadway: The Toxic Avenger Musical (Lortel, Dora, Callaway nominations); Click, Clack, Moo (Lortel Nomination); Murder for Two. Director/Choreographer: How You Look at It (Sacramento Ballet), Birthday Sax (Ars Nova), That Reminds Me... (web series). Shows for Disney, Cartoon Network, Richard Frankel Productions and Nickelodeon. Her narrative dance comedies are created for short films, spec commercials, music videos and esteemed NYC venues including Dance Theater Workshop, Joyce SoHo and Baryshnikov Arts Center. wendyseyb.com.

BEOWULF BORITT (Scenic Design) Beowulf Boritt designed the Off-Broadway production of Murder for Two. Broadway: Act One (Tony Award), The Scottsboro Boys (Tony nomination), On The Town, Sondheim On Sondheim, …Spelling Bee, LoveMusik, Rock Of Ages, Chaplin, Bronx

Bombers, Grace, The Two And Only. Off-Broadway: More than 50 shows, including Toxic Avenger, Last Five Years, Miss Julie, Roundabout Theatre Company, Manhattan Theatre Club, Public Theater, Second Stage Theatre, Vineyard Theatre, MCC Theater, Primary Stages and The New Group. Other designs: The Seven Deadly Sins (New York City Ballet) and the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. He received a 2007 OBIE Award for sustained excellence.

ANDREA LAUER (Costume Design) Recent design credits include Broadway’s Bring It On, American Idiot (Broadway and touring productions). OffBroadway: What’s It All About, Michael Mayer’s upcoming Brooklynite, STREB’S event at the 2012 London Cultural Olympiad, in addition to theatrical, dance and opera productions in New York and around the country. Lauer is also a stylist for various artists, musicians and publications. Her work can be seen in Rolling Stone, Vogue, Interview, OUT Magazine, The 52nd Annual Grammy Awards, The Tony Awards, red carpet events, music videos and promo shoots.

JASON LYONS (Lighting Design) Broadway: Hand to God, On The Town, Bronx Bombers, Let It Be, Bring It On, Rock of Ages (Vegas, Toronto, Australia, London and Nat. Tours), The Threepenny Opera, Barefoot In the Park, Good Vibrations. Recent: Heathers; The Commons of Pensacola (Manhattan Theatre Club); Murder for Two, Nerds (Philadelphia Theatre Club); Venice (Public Theater); Hello Dolly (Goodspeed Musicals); All in the Timing (Primary Stages); Medieval Play (Signature Theatre);

Uncle Vanya (Classic Stage Company); White Noise (Royal George Theatre); Broke-ology, Clay (Lincoln Center Theater); Happy Hour, 2 by Pinter, Scarcity (Atlantic Theater Company); 10 years with The New Group including The Good Mother, Marie & Bruce, Abigail’s Party, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Hurlyburly.

Faculty: Purchase College. jasonlyonsdesign.com JILL BC DU BOFF (Sound Design) Broadway: The Heidi Chronicles, Hand to God, Disgraced, Picnic, Wit, Other Desert Cities, Good People, The Constant Wife, The Good Body, Bill Maher: Victory... Off-Broadway includes Lincoln Center Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, Atlantic Theater Company, Vineyard Theatre, MCC Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Public Theater, Second Stage Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, Women’s Project Theater, New Georges, Flea, Cherry Lane Theatre, Signature Theatre, Clubbed Thumb (Affiliate Artist), Penguin Rep. Regional: Baystreet Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse, Westport Playhouse, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Portland Stage Company, Long Wharf Theatre, The Alley, New York Stage and Film, Humana Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival and Adirondack Theatre Festival. Radio: Executive Producer: New Yorker Out Loud, Studio 360, Naked Radio, RadioLab. Drama Desk and Henry Hewes nominations.

Awards: Ruth Morley Design Award, OBIE for Sustained Excellence, Lilly Award. Audio Producer for The New Yorker; Adjunct Professor, Sarah Lawrence College. Love to Adam.

DAVID CALDWELL (Music Director) Music Director of Forbidden Broadway since 2004. He composed music and lyrics for All

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PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES Of Mice and Men, Venus in Fur, 33 Variations, Raisin in the Sun, Chicago, James Joyce’s The Dead. Some past Off-Broadway includes: Buyer & Cellar, The Hill Town Plays, The Revisionist, All in the Timing, Passion, My Name is Asher Lev, Fuerza Bruta, Silence! The Musical.

Also Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Classic Stage Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Flea, Long Wharf Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Playwrights Horizons (10 seasons). Lots of TV and film including Mike Cahill’s I Origins, Sundance 2014. Awarded 12 Artios Awards for Outstanding Casting Achievement. Member CSA.

J. SCOTT LAPP (Assistant Director) J. Scott Lapp is thrilled to be back on Murder for Two after working on the initial runs at Second Stage Uptown and New World Stages! Associate/ Assistant Directing credits include Broadway: Bonnie & Clyde; Off-Broadway: Murder for Two (New World and Second Stage Theatre); Regional: Into the Woods (Fiasco/The Old Globe), Secondhand Lions (5th Ave), Somewhere in Time (Portland Center Stage), Good People (The Old Globe), A Room With A View (The Old Globe), Somewhere (The Old Globe), Bonnie & Clyde (La Jolla Playhouse, solo Repertory Theatre), Limelight: The Story of Charlie Chaplin (La Jolla Playhouse), Xanadu (La Jolla, Nat’l Tour). Current Projects: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Paper Mill Playhouse) and The Untitled John Mayer Project (NY workshop). He also works as the co-artistic producer of Cabaret at The Merc and is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.

Love and thanks to God, Scott, Parents and Chelsea. Live blessed. jscottlapp.com

CATE CUNDIFF (Production Stage Manager) Cate is so thrilled to be back at the Geffen! Select Los Angeles stage management credits include Switzerland, The Break of Noon, Death of the Author (Geffen Playhouse); Memphis (Cabrillo Music Theatre); When You’re in Love the Whole World is Jewish, Salam Shalom, Good Bobby (Greenway Court Theatre); When You Wish (Pat Boone/ Dean McClure/The Freud Theatre); ModRock (El Portal); Man of La Mancha, Godspell, Jesus Christ Superstar (GPC/ The Brehm Center); This, Venice (Center Theatre Group); Dissonance (The Falcon); Oedipus the King Mama (The Falcon/Troubadours) and Battle Hymn (Circle X). She recently spent time in New York working as a company manager for Bard SummerScape. A New Orleans native, Cate attended the University of Louisiana theater program. Proud Equity member.

Love to family and friends.

CALLERI CASTING — JAMES CALLERI, PAUL DAVIS, ERICA JENSEN (Casting) Broadway: The Elephant Man, Hedwig and The Angry Inch,

PRODUCTION CORE (Production Supervisor) Production Core lends support and guidance to theater companies that produce high quality theatrical performances

and need direction/support on the collaboration, planning and execution of the production process. The Production Core team is James E. Cleveland, Jared Goldstein, David Upton, Ron Grimshaw, Maggie Davis, Chasmin Hallyburton, Julie Shelton, Amber Mathis, S.M. Payson, Leah Vogel, Esti Bernstein, Gayle Riess, Felicia Hall, Darielle Shandler, A.J. Jacobs and Grace Richardson.

Current projects include: Nevermore at New World Stages, 50 Shades! The Musical at the Elektra Theatre, Sex Tips for Straight Women from a Gay Man at the 777 Theatre, Dinner With the Boys at the Acorn Theatre, Hamlet at Classic Stage Company, Because of Winn-Dixie at the Delaware Theatre Company and The Last Two People On Earth: An Apocalyptic Vaudeville Tour. productioncore.net

A Song. Regional: Murder for Two, Nine Wives, Love Makes the World Go ‘Round, Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory, Being Alive, The Grave White Way. Live events: Sting and Patti LuPone in Uprising of Love; Christina Aguilera and dancers from the movie Burlesque on Dancing with the Stars, The American Music Awards and X Factor (UK); cast of the movie Hairspray on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Today Show and Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade; concerts in Poland and Israel for the documentary 100 Voices: A Journey Home.

Jayson spent seven years on the producing team at Pasadena Playhouse.

SNUG HARBOR PRODUCTIONS (General Management) Credits include: Broadway: Ring of Fire and Elaine Stritch at Liberty (Tony Award); George Gershwin Alone and Death of a Salesman (Tony Award, starring Brian Dennehy); The Price and Fool Moon (Tony Award). OffBroadway: Murder for Two; Piece of My Heart; Martin Moran’s All the Rage (Lortel Award); Eve Ensler’s Emotional Creature; Elective Affinities (starring Zoe Caldwell); Make Me A Song: The Music of William Finn; Evil Dead The Musical; Almost, Maine; The Tricky Part (Obie Award); Peter Brook’s Tierno Bokar.

BARBARA WHITMAN (Producer) Current productions include Fun Home and Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Tony Award, Best Musical Revival). Other credits include If/Then starring Idina Menzel, Hands on a Hardbody, Red (Tony Award, Best Play), Next to Normal (Pulitzer), Hamlet starring Jude Law, 33 Variations starring Jane Fonda, Mary Stuart, Legally Blonde — The Musical, …Spelling Bee, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and A Raisin in the Sun. A native New Yorker, Barbara attended NYU’s Gallatin School and received an MFA in Theatre Management and Producing from Columbia University. She’s on the Board of the Tectonic Theater Project and the Leadership Council of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Her proudest productions are her sons, Daniel and Will.

JAYSON RAITT (Producer) Jayson Raitt produces and develops new musicals.

Broadway: Rock of Ages.OffBroadway: Murder for Two, Make Me A Song: The Music of William Finn, Vanities A New Musical. London: Make Me

STEVEN CHAIKELSON (Producer) Steven is a professor in the Columbia University School of the Arts, where he runs the MFA Theatre Management & Producing Program and serves as advisor to the T Fellowship, founded by Harold

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I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten and Uh-Oh Here Comes Christmas, both based on the writing of Robert Fulghum.

He conducted the American premiere of Stephen Schwartz’ Children of Eden. He arranged and orchestrated Marvin Hamlisch’s song “I’m Really Dancing” for Career Transitions for Dancers’ 25th Anniversary Gala, featuring Angela Lansbury, Chita Rivera and Bebe Neuwirth.

He is interviewed at length in Oliver Sacks’ book about music and the brain, Musicophilia.

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PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES Prince. He is a co-author of Theatre Law: Cases and Materials, the first and only law school textbook devoted to theater law, and a regular contributor to the theater volumes of Entertainment Industry Contracts, published by LexisNexis. Through his company, Snug Harbor Productions, Steven general manages productions on and Off-Broadway, around the United States and internationally.

Producing credits include Private Jokes, Public Places in NYC and London; the Off-Broadway premiere of Murder for Two; Criss Angel Mindfreak and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children.

SECOND STAGE THEATRE (Producer) Founded in 1979 under the leadership of artistic director Carole Rothman, Second Stage Theatre produces a diverse range of premieres and new interpretations of America’s best contemporary theatre including the 2010 Pulitzer Prize winner Next to Normal

by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey; the 2012 Pulitzer Prize winner Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Alegria Hudes; The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown; Dogfight by Benj Pasek, Justin Paul, and Peter Duchan; By the Way, Meet Vera Stark

by Lynn Nottage; Trust and Lonely, I’m Not by Paul Weitz; and Bachelorette by Leslye Headland. The company’s more than 130 citations include the Pulitzer Prize, seven Tony Awards and the 2002 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Body of Work. 2ST.com.

LATITUDE LINK (Producer) Latitude Link is led by threetime Tony Award- winning producers Ralph and Gail Bryan. They are currently represented on Broadway

by Jersey Boys, Matilda The Musical and Hedwig and the Angry Inch, as well

as the upcoming Broadway productions of Doctor Zhivago and Fun Home. Their current national/international hits include Jersey Boys and Memphis. latitudelink.com.

on tour, Tail!Spin!. Investor: Vanya…, Cinderella, Nice Work…, The Trip to Bountiful, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, 54 Below and others. Avid photographer and theater lover.

OMNEITY ENTERTAINMENT / RICHARD G. WEINBERG (Producer) Richard has been involved with numerous film and television projects through his tenure with Columbia, CBS, Savoy and Sundance. Theater investments include, among others, The Producers, Hairspray, The Immigrant, Spider-Man and A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder. Richard and his partner Tommye Giacchino are United States pro/am ballroom champions. Thanks to wife, Diane, parents, children and family.

CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER (Producer) Recipient of the Regional Theatre Tony Award, CST is one of America’ s largest, most celebrated theaters, producing a year-round season encompassing more than 600 performances at its home on Chicago’s Navy Pier. CST’s work is regularly represented on stages around the world including the Donmar Warehouse, Sydney Festival, Royal Shakespeare Company and Market Theatre of Johannesburg. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Barbara Gaines and Executive Director Criss Henderson, CST produces extraordinary classics from the past and present, contemporary dramas, musical theater and premieres of new works — including Murder for Two, which CST developed in 2011. chicagoshakes.com

PAULA MARIE BLACK (Producer) London currently running: Made in Dagenham (Adelphi Theatre), Lead Producer of The Scottsboro Boys (Garrick Theatre). Broadway currently running: On the Town (Lyric Theatre); Tony Award winner for Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Belasco Theatre); Of Mice and Men; Tony Award nomination for Twelfth Night, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet; Tony Award nomination for The Trip to Bountiful; Hands on a Hardbody.

Off-Broadway: Natasha, Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812, Little Miss Sunshine and Murder for Two. “My producing efforts honor the works of women directors and playwrights. I honor those who have not had a voice; I dedicate my support of the art of theater to you.”

PAULA KAMINSKY DAVIS (Producer) Owner: Gem Financial Services, PKDManagement, Epkam Ventures, Drama League Board Member. Producer: Rock of Ages. Assoc. Producer: Heidi Chronicles, Becoming Dr. Ruth, Ann, Peter and the Starcatcher

AWA PARTNERS (Exclusive Tour Direction) AWA Partners represents the joint forces of AWA Touring Services, Off-Broadway Booking/OBB and AVID Touring Group. The new roster includes I Love Lucy Live on Stage, A Christmas Story — The Musical, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! — The Musical, Mandy Patinkin in Concert, An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, Celebrity Autobiography, among many others. Past projects include Green Day’s American Idiot, The Phantom of the Opera, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, DreamWorks’ Madagascar Live and Monty Python’s Spamalot.

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RANDALL ARNEY (Artistic Director) Randall Arney has been a theater professional for over 30 years and has served as Artistic Director of the Geffen Playhouse since 1999. In addition to his artistic programming and oversight at the Geffen, Arney has helmed more than 10 productions for the theater, most recently The Night Alive, Reasons to Be Pretty, Slowgirl, American Buffalo, Superior Donuts, The Female of the Species, The Seafarer, Speedthe-Plow and All My Sons.

Arney is an ensemble member and former Artistic Director of Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre where his directing credits include: Slowgirl, The Seafarer, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Death and the Maiden, Curse of the Starving Class, Killers and The Geography of Luck, among others. Arney also directed Steppenwolf’s world premiere of Steve Martin’s Picasso at the Lapin Agile, as well as the subsequent national and international acclaimed productions. Mr. Arney’s acting credits with Steppenwolf include Born Yesterday, Ghost in the Machine, The Homecoming, Frank’s Wild Years, You Can’t Take it with You, Fool for Love, True West, Balm in Gilead and Coyote Ugly. As the Artistic Director for Steppenwolf from 1987 to 1995, he oversaw the creation of a new stateof-the-art theater which is Steppenwolf’s current home.

Broadway transfers under his leadership include The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, The Song of Jacob Zulu (six Tony Award nominations) and The Grapes of

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PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES acclaimed independent film Order of Chaos. Gil also made his TV directorial debut with an episode of the NBC comedy, Joey, starring Emmy winner Matt LeBlanc. He studied at the National Theatre Institute in Waterford, Connecticut, and holds a BFA in Drama from Syracuse University in 1991.

TOURING STAFF FOR MURDER FOR TWO GENERAL MANAGEMENT SNUG HARBOR PRODUCTIONS Steven Chaikelson Kendra Bator EXCLUSIVE TOUR DIRECTION AWA PARTNERS L. Glenn Poppleton Robin Mishik-Jett Glenn White Jalaina Ross Nicole Hatcher

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Wrath (1990 Tony Award, Best Play). Mr. Arney has an MFA degree in Acting from Illinois State University and has taught master classes and workshops at UCLA, Steppenwolf, around the U.S. and in Tokyo.

NATIONAL PRESS REPRESENTATIVE MATT ROSS PUBLIC RELATIONS Matt Ross Nicole Capatasto Nancy Alligood Stacey Abeles GIL CATES, JR. (Interim Managing Director) Gil Cates, Jr. has proudly served as Geffen Playhouse Board Vice Chairman since 2012 and has years of producing and directing experience in theater, film, and television. Gil’s theater credits include the award winning Names (Matrix Theatre) starring Dixie Carter and Greg Mullavey, The Night I Knocked Out Joe Frazer and Lost 90 Pounds (Gardner Stage Theater), as well as Three Sisters and David Mamet’s A Life In The Theatre (both at Syracuse Stage). Gil’s film credits include The Surface (starring Sean Astin and Geffen Playhouse alumnus Chris Mulkey), Jobs (starring Ashton Kutcher, Josh Gad, Dermot Mulroney, as well as Geffen Playhouse alumni Matthew Modine and Ron Eldard) and the 2011 feature film Lucky (starring Colin Hanks, Ari Graynor, AnnMargret and recent Golden Globe winner Jeffrey Tambor).

In addition, Gil produced and directed the critically acclaimed Life After Tomorrow, featuring Sarah Jessica Parker, which won best documentary at the Phoenix Film Festival and later had its premiere Christmas Eve on Showtime. His other films include Deal (starring Burt Reynolds, Bret Harrison and Charles Durning), The Mesmerist (starring Geffen Playhouse alumnus Neil Patrick Harris), and the critically

CASTING CALLERI CASTING James Calleri, CSA Paul Davis Erica Jensen REGINA MILLER (Chief Development Officer) Regina has been a development professional for over 18 years, working with non-profit institutions, foundations and corporations on strategy, analysis and fundraising. She has worked for Simon Wiesenthal Center, William J. Jefferson Clinton Foundation, Ben Affleck’s Eastern Congo Initiative, Hank Azaria’s Determined to Succeed, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Kind Campaign, Jewish Museum of Prague, among others. Prior to the Geffen, Regina served as the Director of Partnerships for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles and the Inland Empire where she led strategic planning and development while executing policies that advanced the organization’s visibility and growth. Regina also has a strong passion for teaching. After graduating from University of North Carolina School of the Arts and touring the world as a professional dancer, she worked as a teacher in preschools and kindergartens in New York, as well as lecturing at numerous schools in the U.S. and abroad. Regina is also a published author and photographer with Tallefellow Press and Prometheus Books and is currently working on a book with her 11 year old son Jaden.

PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR PRODUCTION CORE James E. Cleveland Production Stage Manager Cate Cundiff Company Manager Nicole Herrington General Management Assistants Erik Kaiko, Katharine Sullivan-Dawes General Management Intern Kappy Kilburn Consulting Stage Manager Kat West Assistant Director J. Scott Lapp Assistant Choreographer Steven Cardona Associate Scenic Designer Jared Rutherford Associate Costume Designer Heather Neil Associate Lighting Designer John Wilder Associate Sound Designer David Sanderson Sound Effects Consultant Daniel Carlyon Associate Production Supervisor Jared Goldstein Assistant to the Production Supervisor Chasmin Hallyburton Production Manager Dave Upton Production Manager SM Payson Production Assistant Leah Vogel Props Susan Barras and Pittsburgh CLO Production Audio Colin Whitely Production Electrician Ben Fichthorn Website Design The Pekoe Group Production Photos Joan Marcus, Jim Cox Program Cover Art aka Production Accountants Fried & Kowgios CPA’s LLP / Robert Fried CPA and Karen Kowgios, CPA Controller Galbraith & Company / Sarah Galbraith, Tabitha Falcone Banking JP Morgan Chase Bank Insurance DeWitt Stern Group, Inc. / Rebecca LaFazia Legal Counsel Sendroff & Baruch, LLP / Jason Baruch, Esq. Payroll Service Checks and Balances Payroll, Inc. PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P9

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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PRODUCTION STAFF FOR MURDER FOR TWO Costume Coordinator E.B. Brooks Light Board Operator Dan Tuttle Sound Board Operator Mitchell Hampton Wardrobe Supervisor/Crew Leia Crawford Stage Crew Joel Fullerton Spot Light Operators Naomi Bennett and Max Weinstein

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Scenery constructed by Tom Carroll Scenery Lighting Equipment provided by 4Wall Sound Equipment provided by Chinchilla Theatrical Trucking by Rock-It Cargo USA, LLC “Stepping Out” Track by Ethan Deppe Murder for Two was developed at the Adirondack Theatre Festival, 2010 Season

SPECIAL THANKS David Bell; 42nd Street Moon; Hangar Theatre; Baystreet Theatre; Tom Caruso; Scott Weinstein; The Bemis and Blair Family; Marcus Stevens; Jessica Amato; The Kinosians; UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television Scene, Prop, Sound and Costume Shops; London Cleaners; Keyboard Concepts

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“Enriching, humorous and replete with most of the brilliant Berlin tunes. You do not want to miss a delicious moment of it!”

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Lyrics & Music by IRVING BERLIN Book by HERSHEY FELDER Directed by TREVOR HAY

Hershey Felder brings to life the remarkable story of Irving Berlin, “America’s Composer.”

From the depths of anti-Semitism in Czarist Russia, to New York’s Lower East Side, and ultimately all of America and the world, Berlin’s story epitomizes the American dream.

Featuring the composer’s most popular and enduring songs from “God Bless America,” to “White Christmas” and beyond, Hershey Felder’s masterful creation of character and musical performance makes this evening with Irving Berlin an unforgettable journey.

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GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE STAFF Randall Arney Artistic Director ARTISTIC

Gil Cates, Jr. Interim Managing Director MARKETING & SALES

Mary Garrett Amy Levinson Phyllis Schuringa Young Ji Nick Johnson

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DEVELOPMENT Regina Miller Chief Development Officer Ellen Catania Director of Major Gifts & Corporate/Foundation Partnerships Jessica Brusilow Rollins Director of Education Partnerships & Donor Relations Jamie Mikelich Associate Director of Individual Giving Kristen Smith Eshaya Development & Education Programs Coordinator Development Associate & Scott Kriloff Donor Database Administrator Development Assistant Jessie Sherman Ava Bogle Development Assistant

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Jennifer Zakkai Director of Education & Community Engagement Connor White Resident Teaching Artist & Education Associate

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Rich Gilles James Grabowski Darren Rezowalli

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SAPPHIRE SEAS JEWELRY DESIGN—THE creation of tiny masterpieces whose capacity to elicit emotion far exceeds their diminutive size—is the fashion world’s most expressive art form, whether achieved through galaxies of diamonds or simple hammered brass. Designer Liv Ballard’s exquisitely unconventional collection reminds us just how endless the universe of jewelry can be.

Ballard, a Mississippi native, splits her time between L.A. and Paris, designs out of a home studio and has her pieces handcrafted in Rome. “I

searched a couple of years for a goldsmith who could appreciate what I wanted to do, only to find one who spoke a language I didn’t understand,” she says with a smile. The limitedproduction collection is sold only online and at Maxfield, the chic Melrose Avenue boutique with a penchant for cutting-edge accessories.

The designer’s original item, and her signature piece, is an extraordinary three-dimensional expression of our world: 18-karat-gold continents floating in a sea composed of tiny sapphires, whose graduated shades suggest depth. The

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earth, a sphere that features a delicate diamond equator, even spins on its axis thanks to a brilliant diamond pavé armillary. The sapphire globe ($60,000), which Ballard herself is usually wearing, is frequently customized, with emerald oceans a popular and dramatic alteration.

An all-gold version of this bejeweled world features a diamond-delineated equator and Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, and a diamondencrusted Antarctica that is Ballard’s subtle reminder of a shrinking ice cap. But the real world is light-years away from this flashy indulgence, which includes a sturdy gold chain.

The piece expresses its designer’s own wanderlust, and Ballard recounts that she was on an airplane when the idea first came to her. A popular gift, she reports, the globe can be further customized to commemorate any location— a birthplace or honeymoon destination, for instance— with a sparkling red ruby.

Ballard’s celestial theme continues with a one-of-a-kind solid-gold moon face pendant encircled by a pair of diamond pavé armillary rings ($150,000).

A rotation of the brilliant face, whose forehead is accented

with a ruby bindi, reveals a translucent moonstone, a rare 60-carat gem, on the reverse.

“My work appeals to women who aren’t afraid of getting a lot of attention,” Ballard says of her clientele. “These pieces always spark a conversation.”

Among her most popular items are the “Sacro Vincolo” rings: two diamond-laden gold bands, one with a diamond ball to match the gold chain that forever binds them. A perpetual couple, these bands represent freedom paired with restraint, or the concept of being a slave to love.

In contrast, the “Ucello Libero” necklace ($49,000) features a flat, diamond-clad bird with an emerald eye and tail tethered to an emeraldbeaded chain with gold hardware. Another flat piece depicts a whimsical mermaid whose flesh is crafted with different shades of gold, her tail fins adorned with sapphires fading to white diamonds. “She carries quite a lot of meaning on her slender shoulders,” Ballard says of this more recently introduced piece, “La Sirena.”

Although elegant hoop diamond earrings and relatively staid gold cuffs contribute conventional notes to the collection, Ballard favors strong

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expressions, creating what moves her without commercial marketability driving her design decisions.

Case in point: the tongue-incheek opulence of the “Scaccia Diavolo” charm bracelet of vampire-deterring tools: a mirror, cross, stake, sun face and garlic embellished with diamonds and rubies. “There are a lot of people who take and don’t give,” Ballard says.

“This is an apotropaic piece meant to protect its wearer from those circumstances.”

Gentlemen have not been forgotten in the Liv Ballard collection. Miniature versions of the designer’s signature spinning globes appear as cuff links ($22,000), and a bracelet’s minimalist design and matte gold or sterling-silver construction appeal to men—and occasionally their women.

“It’s masculine and simple, intended for a man to put on and never dream of taking off,” says its creator. Because the bracelet is crafted in two separate pieces, it requires a couple to get it on or off, making it an incredibly intimate gift. —Joseph LeMoyne Liv Ballard Jewelry livballard.com Maxfield 8825 Melrose Ave., L.A. 310.274.8800, maxfieldla.com 36 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE

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There is, however a third option: making one’s way to North Hollywood’s MidcenturyLA, where a huge inventory and low overhead result in satisfying discoveries.

Located in a nondescript light-industrial neighborhood amid body shops and clothing manufacturers—acting

classes and tandoori chicken are offered just up the street— MidcenturyLA’s black façade has a vaguely Streamline Moderne look to it.

But inside, it’s all Scandinavian midcentury, and in such volume it’s almost surreal. Owner David Pierce— a former software developer whose passion for the country and its furniture led to the founding of the company in 2004—believes MidcenturyLA may be the largest dealer of its kind in Southern California.

The showroom alone has 12,000 square feet of space, not to mention a dozen shipping

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Chairs are floor to ceiling at MidcenturyLA; above is a galaxy of light fixtures.

containers packed with merchandise on the property and a 5,000-square-foot warehouse a couple blocks away.

Narrow aisles cut through oceans of clean-lined teak desks and sideboards. Chairs are stacked floor-to-ceiling on shelves. From the rafters hangs a veritable galaxy of midcentury lighting fixtures, most produced in the 1950s or ’60s but every bit as modern as what is being manufactured today.

Pierce acknowledges that some very expensive showrooms in L.A. do a very fine job of importing midcentury furniture from Scandinavia. But he says his company is not about high prices, plush carpeting or pretenses; it’s about accessible pricing. “We want to make clients happy whether they buy from us or not,” Pierce says.

“It’s about the experience, not the transaction.”

Everybody is offered a superbly executed espresso drink upon entering; some regulars feel so much at home that they make their own coffee.

The epitome of sexy Scandinavian midcentury design is an ultra-sleek sixdrawer rosewood desk ($5,000) designed by Kai Kristiansen for manufacturers Preben Skov Andersen and Feldballes

beit t’shuvah thrift stores Møbelfabrik. The minimalist metal drawer pulls, recessed to reinforce the streamlined design, match the capping on floating-style legs. More avantgarde is a rosewood desk reproduction, handcrafted in L.A.; its narrow top was inspired by a design by Danish architect and furniture maker Bodil Kjaer, its legs influenced by a German midcentury style.

Among midcentury lighting is a metal Hans-Agne Jakobsson pendant, reflecting the futuristic approach of many Scandinavian designers from the period, and a frosted glass globe of a seemingly timeless design. A Danish diskstyle pendant ($850)—the kind described as reminiscent of flying saucers—is another sleek study in brass. Rectangular sconces feature translucent white glass with a textured geometric pattern ($750).

More for mood than lighting, a pair of white floral-shaped early-’70s opaline table lamps with chrome bases ($1,300) are from Peill & Putzler, a highly regarded German glassmaker with a strong design tradition.

MidcenturyLA offers intriguing art. The front room shows black-on-white abstracts from Sweden’s Anders Kumlien, and

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SANDWICHED BETWEEN Glendale and Silver Lake, Atwater Village has never been much of a citywide destination, but its steady gentrification has attracted new residents, shops and a vibrant dining scene. Among its most significant restaurants is the recently opened All’Acqua, whose exceptional pedigree has generated a buzz.

All’Acqua is a venture of Claudio Blotta and Adria Tennor Blotta, savvy restaurateurs responsible for Silver Lake’s Barbrix and Beverly Boulevard’s Cooks County, both offering memorable food in

relaxed, unpretentious settings.

Here they deploy veteran chef Don Dickman, who has cooked all over L.A. but should be remembered for his alluringly rustic Italian cuisine at Santa Monica’s short-lived Rocca.

This restaurant, a retrofitted Acapulco, is casual and loud, with noise ricocheting off brick and tile surfaces. The lighting fixtures, hanging from exposed rafters, reflect an industrial-chic vibe, and the bar is backlit but unfussy. An extension of the bar serves as a dining counter with a view into the open kitchen. As at Cooks County, success has resulted in tables

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Bucatini cacio e pepe, with pecorino, ParmigianoReggiano and black pepper

squeezed so tightly together that you should plan on getting to know your neighbors, like it or not.

Among the antipasti are charred asparagus paired with a fried, breadcrumb-coated egg with speck and shavings of Parmigiano-Reggiano. This dish, a survivor from Dickman’s Rocca menu, might have benefited from a saltier cured meat but is nonetheless a strong opener. Braised meatballs, very lightly bound, are served with whipped ricotta that gradually transforms the flavorful tomato sauce from red to pink.

A wide selection of salumi is offered, and a salad of Little Gem lettuce, Gorgonzola, beets and hazelnuts is dressed in a creamy lemon vinaigrette.

Spanish octopus, very slightly charred from a wood-fired grill, is perfectly al dente, arriving with shaved fennel, slightly sweet Castelvetrano olives and various citrus segments.

Bruschetta is amply topped with good-quality burrata and accented with pickled chilies and mint.

Dickman is a skilled pasta chef. He turns out bowls of mezze maniche (think stout rigatoni) with a short rib-porcini ragù, “silk handkerchiefs” blanketed in a spring garlic-

basil pesto and mezzaluna filled with chicken liver in balsamic-brown butter sauce. The latter is more conservatively portioned and uses what some might consider an excessive splash of vinegar, perhaps justified to cut the liver’s richness. Bucatini cacio e pepe, a classic dish with pecorino, Parmigiano-Reggiano and black pepper, is beautifully prepared; the pasta’s starch and some butter create the illusion of a more luxurious cream sauce.

Among pizzas—they’re larger than necessary, relatively thin-crusted and pleasantly charred from the hot oven— the carbonara is a standout.

Layered with panna, pecorino, shards of pork belly, scallions and black pepper, it’s finished with a runny egg to capture the essence of the famous Roman pasta dish that inspired it.

There’s a wide selection of pies coming out of the pizza oven, both tomato-based and blanca.

An abbreviated selection of entrées includes a steak with rustic potatoes, pork osso buco, and grilled swordfish with saffron-scented fregola and an herbaceous salmoriglio sauce.

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and olive-oil gelato, as well as a perfectly executed chocolate-almond tart dusted with sea salt. The wine list, an Italian-American affair with nearly every bottle poured by the glass, complements the menu. Its accessible prices— most bottles are tagged at less than $50—and intriguing, less familiar labels shouldn’t be surprising from the owners of Barbrix, a solid wine bar.

To justify a final glass, All’Acqua offers a small international cheese board— appellations from Vermont to Sardinia can be expected— served with toasted rustic bread and dried-fruit marmalata. It’s one of the few places in town where you can order a single cheese rather than committing to three or five, perfect for a couple craving a single wedge of runny Époisses served at the perfect temperature.

All’Acqua might be the perfect place on the Eastside for sharing a salad, pasta or pizza with a bottle of Dolcetto d’Alba, but think twice if quiet conversation is more important to you than high energy.

—Roger Grody All’Acqua 3280 Glendale Blvd.

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some giant haunting photos of the imposing bows of cargo ships ($2,600) by Canadianborn artist Jock McDonald.

Also from McDonald are aerial views of Southern California freeway interchanges ($850).

They may be hell for motorists, but when viewed from a couple thousand feet above, these ribbons of concrete prove to be among the world’s most ambitious sculptures.

Because prices are more affordable at MidcenturyLA, big names such as Arne Jacobsen and Poul Henningsen are not common, but underappreciated designers such as Denmark’s Illum Wikkelsø, one of the owner’s favorites, are.

“I’m not so academic about the business,” says Pierce. “For me, it’s more about aesthetics than pedigree or provenance.”

In contrast to some Westside showrooms, MidcenturyLA attracts more homeowners than interior designers, but it also sees its share of trade clients and studio set decorators. “We get some people who refuse to shop at Ikea and are willing to build their collections one quality piece at a time,” Pierce observes. —Roger Grody

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WINE ALFRESCO AMERICANS HAVE FINALLY put winter squarely in the rearview mirror and taken to their barbecues. The serious grillmeisters among them understand that putting the ideal char on the steaks and corn is not the only task at hand. There are thirsts to slake; I enjoy a good, dry rosé when flipping the burgers. Dining outdoors does not mean dumbing down the wine experience, and there are a few easy steps anyone can take to enhance it.

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The list includes SonomaCutrer, Bonny Doon, Domaine Laroche, Baileyana and most top-notch wineries in Australia and New Zealand. The screw cap is ideal for picnics because you never have to worry about forgetting the corkscrew!

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The screw cap turns out to be superior for many wines, especially crisp white wines.

a warm day, something cold always refreshes more than something lukewarm.

Avoid plastic stemware.

Sipping wine from plastic often leaves a metallic taste on the palate. Glass is always better, unless the rules of the picnic area forbid it. If you are worried about breakage, use a sturdy water tumbler for the wine.

You’re less likely to have breakage, and the tasting experience will be significantly improved.

TASTING NOTES Dutton-Goldfield 2014 Pinot Blanc (Green Valley, $25) Pinot blanc is sometimes thought of as the poor man’s chardonnay, though the world’s best pinot blanc—from Alsace and northeastern Italy—is anything but Burgundian. An underperformer domestically, pinot blanc in the right hands can be spectacular. Dutton-Goldfield’s expression is that rare flash of brilliance for this grape on our shores. It exhibits Alsatian richness on the palate, with mouth-coating generosity and mouthwatering acidity; it’s floral and spicy with citrus aromas and remarkably complex and rewarding. Surely this is one of the finest, if not the finest, pinot blancs in America.

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Contrarian travelers do much the same, going when others don’t: They visit Yellowstone in winter, when there are no crowds and wildlife viewing is superior, or Las Vegas, with its plentiful pools and air-conditioned wild life, in summer.

Closer to home, Palm Springs is an ideal contrarian summer option. Though many properties, such as the Willows, close

down, Korakia Pensione, a favorite when it’s just the two of us, stays open this summer for the first time; the contrarian contingent must be growing!

Kids in tow, however, we head for the iconic Hyatt Palm Springs. It’s always open in summer and with significantly reduced rates. It’s all spacious suites. And it’s downtown, one block from the Palm Springs Art Museum and within walking distance to four ice cream spots and lots of other shops, restaurants and bars.

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Outside are the pool, cooling misters and cabanas and, facing Palm Canyon, new HooDoo Cocktail Garden. Inside are Share bistro and, in the atrium lobby, remarkable photos

by Taili Song Roth of Clint Eastwood and other A-listers backstage at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.

Palm Springs Restaurant Week is on through June 7. The Palm Springs International ShortFest runs June 16-22.

Thursday evenings, VillageFest (arts, crafts, entertainment, food) takes place downtown, and the museum is free.

Seasonal 60-foot Tahquitz Falls (part of a 2-mile loop) often persists into June. The spectacular Palm Springs Aerial Tramway takes you from the desert floor to a pristine alpine environment. —Joseph Elliott

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