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6 In the Wings
The San Diego International Film Festival; Dishwasher Dreams at The Old Globe; SUMO at La Jolla Playhouse; San Diego Opera’s Opening Night concert; Art San Diego’s fair; and more.
8 A New Music State of Mind
Nearly 100 organizations across the state collaborate in November’s anticipated California Festival—an expansive celebration of musical innovation, featuring our own San Diego Symphony.
14 Dining
Our October dining guide features exceptional new restaurants; a new finedining pop-up; Oceanside’s first Michelin-starred dining destination; and more.
24 Parting Shot
The striking architecture of McGill Hall, located on the campus of UC San Diego
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MOVIE MAGIC
THE CITY ROLLS out the red carpet for the San Diego International Film Festival, returning Oct. 18-22— showcasing more than 70 features, documentaries and short films by independent filmmakers across the globe. Produced by the San Diego Film Foundation, the festival marks its 22nd anniversary—“celebrating the power of film” with curated submissions from more than 3,000 filmmakers from 82 countries. The event lineup includes the Opening Night film premiere and reception at
the Museum of Photographic Arts (aka MOPA@SDMA, now housed inside The San Diego Museum of Art) in Balboa Park on Oct. 18; film screenings at AMC UTC 14 at Westfield UTC, Oct. 20-22; Culinary Cinema on Oct. 22, with a cuisinethemed movie followed by food tastings from top local chefs; and The Fest Lounge, featuring select filmmaker panels, cocktails and bites, Oct. 19-22. See website for full schedule, individual ticket pricing and festival passes. sdfilmfest.com
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THE REGION’S ACCLAIMED art and design fair, Art San Diego, returns for its 15th annual installment at the San Diego Convention Center, Nov. 3-5. Presented by Redwood Art Group, the event serves as a marketplace and hub for artists, galleries, dealers and art collectors. Peruse contemporary works by local, national and international artists of note, spanning acrylic and oil paintings, digital works, drawings, sculptures, glass, mixed media and photography. Featured programs include Art Labs, Spotlight Program, Discoveries Collection and the San Diego Art Prize. redwoodartgroup.com In other local art news, the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park has merged with, and is now part of, The San Diego Museum of Art—now operating as MOPA@SDMA. It remains a “pay what you wish” museum, presenting stellar film and photography exhibits. mopa.org
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IN THE WEST Coast premiere of Alaudin Ullah’s one-man show, Dishwasher Dreams—at The Old Globe through Oct. 15—we explore the American Dream through the comedian’s eyes. Ullah takes us from 1930s India to 1970s Spanish Harlem to today’s Hollywood, with music by Avirodh Sharma. theoldglobe.org A coproduction with Ma-Yi Theater Company, La Jolla Playhouse presents the world-premiere play SUMO, through Oct. 22.
Playwright Lisa Sanaye Dring introduces us to six sumo wrestlers who train at an elite facility in Tokyo, revealing what drives them as highly competitive fighters. lajollaplayhouse.org San Diego Opera opens its season on Oct. 25 with a special concert at Balboa Theatre—starring Grammy Award-winning singers Latonia Moore and J’Nai Bridges. sdopera.org At the Civic Theatre Nov. 4, Broadway San Diego brings us Spider-Man: Into the SpiderVerse, Live in Concert—a screening of the film accompanied by a DJ and musicians on stage. broadwaysd.com
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Nearly 100 organizations up and down the state collaborate in November’s California Festival, an expansive celebration of musical innovation.
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THERE’S A SENSE OF OCCASION when three in-demand musical directors gather in one spot. It happened in Paris earlier this year, when the schedules of California’s leading conductors coalesced for the announcement of their brainchild, the California Festival.
The festival, taking place in November, is a collaboration of those maestros and their
orchestras: Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony, and Rafael Payare and the San Diego Symphony.
Yet, it’s much more.
The event—fully called California Festival: A Celebration of New Music—is an unprecedented collective of performances from 95 organizations, happening Nov. 3-19; see
complete schedule at cafestival.org.
Both wide-ranging and focused, the festival is described as a showcase of “the most compelling and forward-looking voices” of works written in the past five years.
“The important thing to remember is that every institution, large or small, is presenting music that they believe in,” Salonen said in Paris. “That’s a big difference between
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From left: maestros Rafael Payare, EsaPekka Salonen and Gustavo Dudamel
every other festival and this one: that we are open, that we want to showcase all the talent and all the ideas in the state.”
The festival extends beyond simple geography. The three conductors, all born and trained in other countries, agree that it starts with the essence of California.
“It is a big melting pot of many, many cultures. At the same time, everybody could still be who they are, and not one is going to [say] you need to fit in,” said Payare. He, like Dudamel, studied under El Sistema, Venezuela’s acclaimed music program for young people.
Payare and the San Diego Symphony have scheduled four festival programs; they include the world premieres of
Juan Colomer’s A Casual Walk to Extinction and Carlos Simon’s Wake Up: A Concerto for Orchestra
“California is a place of innovation naturally. It’s kind of that open [space] to discover new things that I find really interesting,” Dudamel said.
The LA Phil presents six programs as part of the festival. Dudamel conducts performances composed by, and curated with, Mexican composer Gabriela Ortiz, that are “about the identity of what is California and how California in a way is connected to Central and South America.”
Before Salonen leads two programs with the San Francisco Symphony featuring four California composers, he will be in Northridge to conduct the
Colburn Orchestra in a free concert that includes a contemporary work by Elizabeth Ogonek.
“California allowed me to become the kind of musician I wanted to be because there was no external pressure,” said the Helsinki-born Salonen. “The people were like, ‘Yeah, do whatever feels right.’”
That freedom to be innovative is a recurring theme when talking with
musical leaders performing and presenting new works under the initiative.
“Music is a product of where we live,” said Carl St.Clair, the Austin-born music director of Pacific Symphony since 1990. “The West is known for its inventiveness. It’s in its creative juices, which do have a particular flair.”
The Pacific Symphony’s festival offering is called “California Dreamin’,” a program that aims to celebrate the state’s legacy of experimentation and free-spirited artistry; it features a new work by Berkeley composer Gabriella Smith.
Grant Gershon, California native and Los Angeles Master Chorale artistic director, said, “There’s a certain sense of artistic freedom in California and the West Coast in general that has influenced music across the United States, and around the world now.”
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Frida y Diego comes to LA Opera.
The festival features 172 works composed in the last five years, including 32 premieres. The L.A. Master Chorale and Gershon present one of those premieres, In the Arms of the Beloved by jazz pianist Billy Childs, who was born in Los Angeles.
What Gershon called the California ethos has permeated all musical genres, he said.
“A lot of it has to do with the polyglot complexity of communities that make up Los Angeles, San Francisco, the urban centers, the West Coast in general,” Gershon said.
“There are so many different histories, so many different stories, so many different experiences that people are bringing with them to California.”
Such layered stories are explored in American Railroad, a roots-music work to be performed by the Silkroad ensemble in eight California cities including San Diego, Aliso Viejo and Northridge.
With American Railroad,
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Evelyn Olson Lamden† CHAIR
George C. Guerra† INCOMING CHAIR
DIRECTORS
Jules Arthur†
Terry Atkinson†
Valerie A. Attisha
Christian Buckley
Eleanor Y. Charlton
Nicole A. Clay†°
Donald L. Cohn†°
Elaine Bennett
Darwin†°
Ann Davies†°
George S. Davis
Mark Delfino†
Silvija Devine
Barry Edelstein
Pamela A. Farr†
Harold W. Fuson Jr.†°
Jennifer Greenfield
Dirk Harris
Nishma Held†
Susan Hoehn
Zeynep Ilgaz
Daphne H. Jameson
Peter Landin†
Keven Lippert
Monica Medina
Noelle Norton, Ph.D.
David Jay Ohanian
Deirdra Price, Ph.D.
Sandra Redman
Sue Sanderson†
Karen L. Sedgwick†
Jean Shekhter
Timothy J. Shields
Paula Powers† SECRETARY
Karen Tanz
Rhona Thompson
Christine Roberts Trimble
Evelyn Mack Truitt
Debra Turner
Vladimir Victorio
Pamela J. Wagner
Cassandra Weinlein
Margarita Wilkinson†
Karin Winner
Vicki L. Zeiger†°
Anthony S. Thornley† TREASURER
HONORARY DIRECTORS
Mrs. Richard C. Adams*
Clair Burgener*
Mrs. John H. Fox*
Audrey S. Geisel*
Paul Harter*
Gordon Luce*
Dolly Poet*
Deborah Szekely
Hon. Pete Wilson
RESIDENT ARTISTS
EMERITUS DIRECTORS
Garet B. Clark
J. Dallas Clark*
Bea Epsten*
Sally Furay, R.S.C.J. °*
Kathryn Hattox °*
Bernard Lipinsky*
Delza Martin*
Conrad Prebys*
Darlene Marcos Shiley
Patsy Shumway
Harvey P. White
Carolyn YorstonWellcome*
Patricia McGregor David Israel ReynosoDelicia Turner SonnenbergJames Vásquez
COMMISSIONED ARTISTS
Chad Beckim
Shelley Butler
Inda Craig-Galvan
Thelma Virata de Castro
Justin Emeka
Nathan Englander
Fiasco Theatre
Keelay Gipson
José Cruz Gonzáles
Keiko Green
Jessica Hilt
Dea Hurston
Justin Levine
Melinda Lopez and Joel Perez
Donja R. Love
Mona Mansour
Laura Marks
Jonathon Mello
Tony Meneses
Liza Jessie Peterson
Erika Phillips
Heather Raffo
Steve Rosen and
Gordon Greenberg
ASSOCIATE ARTISTS
Tori Sampson
Delicia Turner Sonnenberg
Miki Vale
James Vásquez
Daniel J. Watts
Whitney White
Craig Wright
Karen Zacarías
In recognition of their unique contribution to the growth of The Old Globe and their special talent, we take great pride and pleasure in acknowledging as Associate Artists the following individuals who have repeatedly demonstrated, by their active presence on our stages and in our shops, that wherever else they may work, they remain the heart and soul of the Globe.
William Anton
Gregg Barnes
Jacqueline Brookes*
Lewis Brown*
Victor Buono*
Wayland Capwell*
Kandis Chappell
Eric Christmas*
Patricia Conolly
George Deloy
Tim Donoghue
Richard Easton*
Tovah Feldshuh
Monique Fowler
Robert Foxworth
Ralph Funicello
Lillian Garrett-Groag
Harry Groener
A.R. Gurney*
Joseph Hardy
Mark Harelik
Bob James
Charles Janasz
Peggy Kellner*
Tom Lacy*
Diana Maddox
Nicholas Martin*
Dakin Matthews
Deborah May
Katherine McGrath*
John McLain
Jonathan McMurtry*
Stephen Metcalfe
Robert Morgan
Patrick Page
Ellis Rabb*
Steve Rankin
William Roesch*
Robin Pearson Rose
Marion Ross
Steven Rubin
Ken Ruta*
Douglas W. Schmidt
Seret Scott
Richard Seer
David F. Segal
Richard Seger*
Diane Sinor*
Don Sparks
David Ogden Stiers*
Conrad Susa*
Deborah Taylor
Irene Tedrow*
Sada Thompson*
Paxton Whitehead
James Winker
Robert Wojewodski
G. Wood*
*In memoriam
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FROM BARRY
The Old Globe enjoys an extraordinary reputation as a home for great works of musical theatre. Since the debut here of Into the Woods in 1986, over a dozen world premiere musicals (plus another dozen or so non-musicals) have gone from our stages to Broadway—the most recent of which was this year’s Bob Fosse’s Dancin’. But we’ve also done important work reviving classic musicals in thrilling productions that reveal the inner workings of well-known shows in bracing new ways. Tonight’s reimagined version of Cabaret does precisely that.
This famous musical is nearly 60 years old, which, given how stunningly contemporary it continues to feel, is to me a marvel. Its creators are among the Mount Rushmoreans of the American musical stage: John Kander and Fred Ebb, along with book writer Joe Masteroff, are justly celebrated for this and other works. Bob Fosse, whose 1972 film of the musical enshrined it in the pantheon of greatness, makes his own claim on the show’s history.
But its original director, Harold Prince, really was the artist who guaranteed the show’s immortality. Cabaret was a crucial step in Prince’s development of what he called the “concept musical,” a form that departed from traditional musical theatre dramaturgy by foregrounding metaphor or political meaning and seeing narrative as a means to a larger resonance rather than an end in itself. Cabaret’s Kit Kat Klub is its key conceptual innovation. The musical numbers performed there—which comment on the romantic plots of the play and glance at politics, gender, and sexuality—are the backbone of the show, and they add surprising balance and resonance to the more conventional romance narratives that drive the story.
And the Kit Kat Klub and what happens there, and how generations of interpreters have presented the cabaret in Cabaret, are what has ensured the musical’s continued relevance. In 1966, the Emcee, in Joel Grey’s legendary performance, was more marionette than man, asexual and menacing. By the early 1990s, director Sam Mendes reconceived the character in Alan Cummings’s also legendary star turn as a hypersexualized, androgynous figure of pure id: a personification of the Weimar Republic’s subconscious energies. In the ’60s, the figure of American novelist Clif-
ford Bradshaw was as straight as he was straitlaced, but subsequent revivals liberated his closeted sexuality and restored the conception of the character from Christopher Isherwood’s “Berlin Stories,” the original source material from the 1920s and ’30s. The more that directors surfaced the subterranean impulses in the story, the more their opposing forces gained dramatic power, and the more this musical about the rise of fascism came to be seen as a potent warning to democracies about how fragile they can be at times of populist churn and demagogic fearmongering.
Nazis, sexuality, political ferment: quite the recipe for a musical comedy! The triumph of Cabaret is how entertaining it is, given its conceptual sophistication and thematic seriousness. In this sense, the engine of Cabaret is the tension between its form and its content. We tap our feet at a brassy banger of a score and we grin at sexy dance numbers, all while we hold in another part of our brain our knowledge of what happened in Berlin just a few years after this story ends.
Josh Rhodes’s new revival seizes on this tension Globe audiences remember fondly this brilliant artist’s choreography in Bright Star and direction and choreography of Guys and Dolls, as well as his thrilling directorial work with Baskerville. Josh sees Cabaret as what the artists of 1930s Germany would have called a Gesamtkunstwerk, or “total work of art,” in which many different art forms combine to create a single cohesive whole. Movement, choreography, music, text, and design all work together to make what is as much an installation as a musical, even as drama, comedy, and vaudeville twirl around each other to conjure friction and joy and transport an audience on a tide of emotion. It’s a major achievement, fulfilling Prince’s original hopes for this musical, riffing on the Mendes revival, and, in the end, becoming something all its own. I’m deeply proud to have Josh and his collaborators on the Globe stage, adding to our legacy of excellence in the musical theatre.
Thanks for coming. Enjoy the show.
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Barry Edelstein is the Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director of The Old Globe. Any feedback on tonight’s show or any of the Globe’s work? Email Barry at HiBarry@TheOldGlobe.org and he’ll get back to you!
Barry Edelstein
ERNA FINCI VITERBI ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Timothy J. Shields
AUDREY S. GEISEL MANAGING DIRECTOR
PRESENTS
THE ASOLO REPERTORY THEATRE PRODUCTION OF
CABARET
BOOK BY JOE MASTEROFF
BASED ON THE PLAY BY JOHN VAN DRUTEN AND STORIES BY CHRISTOPHER
MUSIC BY JOHN KANDER
Tijana Bjelajac SCENIC DESIGN
Michelle Hart HAIR, WIG, AND MAKEUP DESIGN
Lee Wilkins
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
Alejo Vietti COSTUME DESIGN
Robert Meffe MUSIC DIRECTOR
Natalia Nieves-Melchor ASSOCIATE CHOREOGRAPHER
ISHERWOOD
LYRICS BY FRED EBB
Cory Pattak and Paul Vaillancourt LIGHTING DESIGN
Angela Steiner ADDITIONAL ARRANGEMENTS
Tara Rubin Casting/Felicia Rudolph, CSA CASTING
Rachel Flesher FIGHT DIRECTOR AND INTIMACY STAGING
Emmelyn Thayer DIALECT COACH
DIRECTED AND CHOREOGRAPHED BY JOSH RHODES
Originally co-directed and choreographed by Rob Marshall. Originally directed by Sam Mendes.
Haley Parcher SOUND DESIGN
DeWanda Smith Soeder CULTURAL COMPETENCY CONSULTANT
Anjee Nero PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER
An earlier version of this production of Cabaret premiered at Asolo Repertory Theatre (Michael Donald Edwards, Producing Artistic Director; Linda DiGabriele, Managing Director) in November 2022. Cabaret is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Tams-Witmark LLC. www.concordtheatricals.com.
September 1 – October 8, 2023
Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage Old Globe Theatre
Conrad Prebys Theatre Center
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CAST (in alphabetical order)
CLIFFORD BRADSHAW ....................................................................................... Alan Chandler*
FRÄULEIN KOST, FRITZIE Abby Church*
EMCEE ....................................................................................................................... Lincoln Clauss*
MAX Christian Douglass*
ERNST LUDWIG ......................................................................................................... Alex Gibson*
HERMAN Yoni Haller*
VICTOR .............................................................................................................. Brandon Halvorsen*
HANS Leeds Hill*
TEXAS ....................................................................................................................... Karma Jenkins*
SALLY BOWLES Joanna A. Jones*
FRENCHIE ................................................................................................................Celeste Lanuza*
FRÄULEIN SCHNEIDER Kelly Lester*
HELGA ............................................................................................................................. Trina Mills*
LULU Natalia Nieves-Melchor*
HERR SCHULTZ Bruce Sabath*
BOBBY Michael Seltzer*
ROSIE Amy Smith
SWINGS Emily Bordley, Kaitlyn Mayse*, John Viso
UNDERSTUDIES for Clifford Bradshaw – Christian Douglass*; for Emcee – Yoni Haller*; for Fräulein Schneider – Christine Hewitt; for Clifford Bradshaw, Ernst Ludwig – Leeds Hill*; for Sally Bowles – Karma Jenkins*; for Fräulein Kost, Fritzie, Sally Bowles – Trina Mills*; for Max, Herr Schultz – John Rosen; for Emcee – Michael Seltzer*
Production Stage Manager ....................................................................................... Anjee Nero*
Assistant Stage Manager ................................................................................. Amanda Salmons*
SETTING
Berlin, Germany. 1931.
This production contains two acts with one 15-minute intermission.
PRODUCTION STAFF
Associate Scenic Design ............................................................................................... Jeff Behm
Assistant Scenic Design Laura Swarner
Assistant Scenic Design ....................................................................................... Audrey Casteris
Resident Associate Costume Design Charlotte Devaux
Assistant Costume Design ..................................................................................... Regan McKay
Assistant Lighting Design
Lighting Programmer ............................................................................................
Associate Sound Design
Joshua Heming
Harrison Freni
Joshua Blaisdell
Production Assistant ...................................................................................................Karla Garcia
Stage Management Swing Kendra Stockton*
Stage Management Fellow ........................................................................................ Caleb Cook
Stage Management Apprentice Huai Huang
Dance Captain ........................................................................................... Natalia Nieves-Melchor*
Fight Captain John Viso
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
Si desea una sinopsis de esta obra en Español o en Inglés, favor de pedírsela al acomodador que le entregó este programa. If you would like a synopsis of this production in English or Spanish, please request it from an usher.
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Casting for the Asolo Repertory Theatre production and The Old Globe production of Cabaret by Tara Rubin Casting/Felicia Rudolph, CSA.
Director/choreographer Josh Rhodes creates thrillingly original productions of classic musicals. Drayton Alexander, Literary Associate at Asolo Repertory Theatre in Florida, sat down with Josh to discuss how this production is creating an unforgettable experience of Weimar Berlin.
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Photo by Cliff Roles.
Drayton Alexander: Josh, I’m so happy we have finally gotten you to direct Cabaret
Josh Rhodes: I wanted to be sure that when I did the show, I would have something unique to say, and it took me some time to find the story we could tell that matched the urgency and vitality of this musical—while also being entertaining as hell.
DA: That was one of the biggest surprises for me. I’m so used to seeing this show where the club is seedy with ramshackle performers, but you’ve gone the opposite route: this cabaret is a showcase of phenomenal talent.
JR: And it should be. These cabarets were the height of entertainment, and the more things were falling apart, the greater the shows they put on were. Here’s something fascinating: after 9/11, people couldn’t stock enough alcohol and nail polish, because when you are blue, you will paint those nails and you want to party. So the Kit Kat Klub gives you an escape, but escape doesn’t mean it’s mindless. The cabaret holds a mirror up to society, it makes political commentary, but it’s first and foremost about the energy created by all these young artists who are determined to have a good time and make great art.
DA: Which is so key, because we’re talking the 1920s and early 1930s, which was a real Golden Age for Weimar Germany. Berlin was a hotbed of culture and arts and pushing boundaries.
JR: It was this cultural revolution in Berlin. Germany was a true democracy, political and social opportunities were being created for women, for Jewish people, for gay people, for Black people. It was a haven, and folks were going there from all over Europe for the artists and for the experience. It wasn’t Nazi Germany yet. This was still that sliver of time when something beautiful could happen.
DA: Even as things were going a little crazy. In this brief decade, Germany was going through constant political and economic upheaval. There were high unemployment and a government that couldn’t quite function the way it was supposed to. There was a growing lack of trust in institutions. All of that’s very present in the Kit Kat Klub you’ve created.
JR: This is a show about survivors, about artists who are finding beauty and joy as a way to keep living. When I sat down to work on the set, I said to our brilliant set designer Tijana Bjelajac, “I would love this to be a room that was once glorified by brilliant artists who made something beautiful even though it might be a little older and need a couple more coats of paint.” I wanted to celebrate that artists are thriving in this era, even if the makeup and the nail polish are covering up their poverty, even if while they’re dancing they’re also looking for someone who will buy them a meal afterward.
DA: You say this is a world of survivors, and perhaps the greatest survivor of them all is Sally Bowles. How did you approach this character?
JR: Sally is such a great contradiction: this vibrant life force who is also broken and a bit lost. I think she has an innocence, a guilelessness, and a hedonistic quality that make her feel childlike, but she’s also deeply intelligent. She knows how the world works. And she’s an incredible entertainer. It’s become this cliché—“Oh, Sally’s a bad singer”— but I think it’s so much more compelling if Sally is a phenomenal performer who should be the star of Berlin, but she just can’t quite get her life together. And with Joanna A. Jones in the role, we open wonderful possibilities about Sally’s journey and ambitions that haven’t been seen before. You know, she was sitting in England seeing Josephine Baker be this huge star in Paris, and she thought, “I can do that, I can be Berlin’s Josephine.” And part of the tragedy is that she could, but things keep going wrong along the way.
DA: Without giving anything away, what can you tell us about what you have in store for this production?
JR: Well, for this production, I’ve really pulled out all the stops, so you can expect surprises galore the whole night. The genius of Cabaret is that it is about an event that affected the entire world, millions of people, but it’s told through the lives of six people in a rooming house and another 15 people in a cabaret. It’s this very intimate story that is about the entire world. The final gesture of the show is about finding a way to bring all of us together to remember the larger event.
Reprinted with permission from Asolo Repertory Theatre.
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CABARET
BY DEWANDA SMITH SOEDER , WITH DRAYTON ALEXANDER
Cabaret culture reached its zenith during the Golden Age of Germany’s Weimar Republic. Spanning from 1919 to 1932, this short-lived period has become known for its high living, vibrant urban life, diversity, commitment to democracy, and popularization of new styles of music and dance. Our cabaret brings to life the final days of this sliver of time in Berlin—1931—as the impending rise of Nazi Germany threatened this Golden Age.
The Weimar era saw the birth of sophisticated revolutions in art and entertainment, including Bauhaus, New Objectivism, the silent films of Fritz Lang, and the theatre of Bertolt Brecht. Cabaret stood above all of these as Berlin’s greatest cultural achievement. Immortalized in art and film, Weimar cabaret was recognizable for its color, freedom, decadence, and sharp political commentary. As German society split into polarized camps following inflation, economic depression, and political unrest, the cabarets provided a glitzy paint job covering a sober message of the danger to come.
Berlin was a bustling international metropolis in the 1920s, with tourists flocking from around the world to experience the city’s burgeoning arts and culture scene. Like in Paris, where Josephine Baker was the biggest star of the day, Black culture swept Berlin, with American jazz being the rage in the clubs and cabarets. Across the continent, American artists like Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington were embraced by the avant-garde, Pan-Africanist cabaret culture, and the performing arts served as a main source of income for Berlin’s population of Black Germans.
For our production, we have embraced the possibility that Sally Bowles’s decision to leave England for Berlin was fueled by the dream of becoming the next Josephine, an opportunity denied to her in Britain. This opens up another facet in our story, as Sally and Cliff Bradshaw’s interracial romance is paralleled by the love between Fräulein Schneider, a Christian, and Herr Schultz, a Jew. How safe will either of these relationships be in the years to come?
So welcome to our cabaret, a glamorous, glitzy place where life is beautiful… so long as the chaotic world outside doesn’t slip in through the cracks.
Reprinted with permission from Asolo Repertory Theatre.
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MUSICAL NUMBERS
ACT ONE
“Willkommen” .....................................................................Emcee, Kit Kat Klub Dancers
“Welcome to Berlin” ............................................................................................. Emcee
“So What?” .......................................................................................... Fräulein Schneider
“Don't Tell Mama” ................................................................. Sally, Kit Kat Klub Dancers
“Mein Herr” ............................................................................. Sally, Kit Kat Klub Dancers
“Perfectly Marvelous” Sally, Cliff
“Two Ladies” Emcee, Helga, Bobby
“It Couldn't Please Me More” Fräulein Schneider, Herr Schultz, Emcee
“Tomorrow Belongs to Me” Emcee
“Maybe This Time” Sally
“Money” Emcee, Kit Kat Klub Dancers
“Married” Herr Schultz, Fräulein Kost, Fräulein Schneider, Emcee
“Tomorrow Belongs to Me (Reprise)” Fräulein Kost, Ernst, Guests
ACT TWO
“Entr'acte” Orchestra, Kit Kat Klub Dancers, Emcee
“Married (Reprise)” ..................................................................................... Herr Schultz
“If You Could See Her”.............................................................................. Emcee, Rosie
“What Would You Do?” ................................................................... Fräulein Schneider
“I Don't Care Much” .............................................................................................. Emcee
“Cabaret” ..................................................................................................................... Sally
“Finale”..................................................................................................... Emcee, Company
ORCHESTRA
Music Director, Conductor, Accordion · Robert Meffe
Violin · Healy Henderson
Bass · Ken Dow
Clarinet in B Flat, Tenor Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Bass Clarinet · Greg Armstrong
Trumpet · Steve Dillard
Trombone · Devin Burnworth
Piano · Justin Gray
Percussion, Drums · Tim McMahon
Guitar, Ukulele, Banjo · Vince Cooper
Orchestra Contractor · Healy Henderson
Rehearsal Piano · Justin Gray
All musicians are represented by the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada.
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EMILY BORDLEY
(Swing) The Old Globe: debut. Education: B.F.A. in Dance, minor in Musical Theatre from Point Park University. Credits: Frenchie in Cabaret (Asolo Repertory Theatre), Frenchy in Grease (Axelrod Performing Arts), Aida (Engeman Theater), Evita (Fulton Theatre), 12 Miles Uptown, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (as choreographer); works by Josh Rhodes, Lisa Stevens, Marc Robin, Kiesha Lalama. @emily.bordley.
ALAN CHANDLER
(Clifford Bradshaw) The Old Globe: debut. Regional: Knoxville, Cabaret (Asolo Repertory Theatre), Time Stops (Michael J. Moritz), Oliver!, Gruesome Playground Injuries, Lone Star, Arsenic and Old Lace (HART Theatre), A Streetcar Named Desire, Arcadia, Drowsy Chaperone, The Great God Brown, Dracula (Loessin Playhouse). Education: B.F.A. in Professional Acting from ECU School of Theatre and Dance. Representation: Citizen Skull Management, UGA Talent. @alan_chandler1.
ABBY CHURCH
(Fräulein Kost, Fritzie) Broadway: Rosemary understudy in How to Succeed..., White Christmas. Tours/NY: Billy Elliot (first national), 42nd Street (Asia); multiple City Center Encores!, Irish Rep. Regional favorites: Fräulein Kost in Cabaret (Asolo Rep), Millie in Thoroughly Modern Millie, Polly in Crazy for You (Riverside), Miss Honey in Matilda (VSC), Cinderella in Into the Woods (NCT), Zelayna in the U.S. premiere of Legendale (Human Race Theatre); Goodspeed, The Muny, Stages St. Louis, NSMT, Engeman, Hangar, many more. Current: commercials/print/voice-over for Xifaxan, Delta, Zicam, Dave & Buster’s, Wren, Sling TV. Education: B.F.A. in Acting from Ithaca College. Representation: Bloc.
LINCOLN CLAUSS
(Emcee) The Old Globe: debut. Most recent: Mark Cohen in Rent this summer (The Muny).
Regional credits: Cabaret (Asolo Repertory Theatre), Sweeney Todd (The Muny), Fly (La Jolla Playhouse), Burn All Night (American Repertory The-
ater), Evocation to Visible Appearance (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Peter Pan (Laguna Playhouse). New York: Bat Out of Hell (New York City Center).
Television credits: “Batwoman” (CW), “Girls5eva” (Netflix). Education: alum of Ball State University. @lincolnclauss.
CHRISTIAN DOUGLASS
(Max) The Old Globe: debut. Education: Florida State University/ Asolo Rep Conservatory (2023).
Asolo Rep: Cabaret, Silent Sky, Man of La Mancha. Other regional: Cinderella’s Prince, Wolf in Into the Woods (Bigfork Summer Playhouse), Glen Guglia in Wedding Singer, Pharaoh, Jacob in Joseph..., Gangster in Drowsy Chaperone, Eddie in Mamma Mia! Educational: Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night, Trissotin in Learned Ladies, Everybody, Somebody in Everybody, Matt, Homer in Mr. Burns, Orgon in Tartuffe, Pantalone in Servant of Two Masters. ChristianTDouglass.com.
ALEX GIBSON
(Ernst Ludwig) (he/him/his)
Broadway: SpongeBob SquarePants; Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812. New York/regional theatre: Octet (Signature Theatre, Berkeley Rep; Lucille Lortel nomination, Drama Desk Award), The Unsinkable Molly Brown (Transport Group), Goodnight, Tyler (Alliance Theatre), The Pirates of Penzance (Barrington Stage), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Guthrie Theater). Television: “Doom Patrol,” “Schmigadoon!”
Other credits: Scar in Disney on Classic (Tokyo Philharmonic), Adele Live in New York City (Radio City Music Hall/NBC). AlexGibsonOnline.com.
YONI HALLER
(Herman) The Old Globe: debut. Regional: West Side Story (The Muny), Cabaret (Asolo Repertory Theatre), Mamma Mia! (North Shore Music Theatre, Theatre By The Sea), A House Without Windows (Goodspeed Festival of New Musicals), A Chorus Line, She Loves Me (New London Barn Playhouse). Rep: Ann Steele Agency. Education: B.F.A. from The Hartt School, Walnut Hill School for the Arts.
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BRANDON HALVORSEN
(Victor) The Old Globe: debut. Regional: An American in Paris (Musical Theatre West), Newsies (McCoy Rigby/La Mirada Theatre, 5-Star Theatricals, The Lexington Theatre Company, PCPA/ Solvang Theaterfest), Hairspray (The Muny), West Side Story (The Lexington Theatre Company), Mamma Mia!, Beauty and the Beast (McCoy Rigby/ La Mirada Theatre), Cats (Palos Verdes Performing Arts). Television/film: “Bite Size Halloween,” (Hulu/20th Digital), 100-plus-award-winning film Koreatown Ghost Story with Margaret Cho, Binary, Where No One Lives, Bitchy. Education: B.F.A. in Music Theatre from Elon University. @brandostar on Instagram.
CHRISTINE HEWITT
(Understudy) First national tour: Sunset Boulevard (The Really Useful Group). Regional: Eleanor – An American Love Story (Ford’s Theatre), Sister Amnesia in Nunsense (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Lina Lamont in Singin’ in the Rain (North Carolina Theatre), The Lady of the Lake in Spamalot (Cygnet Theatre, Moonlight Stage), Frau Blucher in Young Frankenstein (SDMT), Tina, Lola Albright in the world premiere of 33 1/3 – House of Dreams (SD Rep), Woman in Tomfoolery (NCT), Amanda replacement in For Whom the Southern Bell Tolls (Roustabouts Theatre Co.), Mrs. Anderssen in A Little Night Music, Jacqueline in La Cage aux Folles (Cygnet Theatre), Miss Sandra in All Shook Up (Moonlight Stage). itschristinehewitt.com.
LEEDS HILL
(Hans) (he/him) The Old Globe: debut. Broadway/national tour: Bobby, Emcee understudy (for Alan Cumming) (performed), “Two Ladies, violin, dance captain in Cabaret. Additional national tours: Neleus in Mary Poppins. Regional: Cosmo understudy (performed) in Singin’ in the Rain (Ogunquit), Hans, Ernst understudy (performed) in Cabaret (Asolo Rep), Ozzie in Jerome Robbins’ Broadway (The Muny), Greg in A Chorus Line (TUTS), Lumiere understudy (for Gavin Lee) in Beauty and the Beast (Paper Mill), Hanna in La Cage (Riverside, North Shore). Other: proud AEA member. Education: CCM MT. @leedshill on Instagram.
KARMA JENKINS
(Texas) National tours: Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Regional theatre: Legally Blonde (KC Starlight), Rock of Ages (TUTS), West Side Story (5th Avenue Theatre), In the Heights (Stages St. Louis), The Wiz (The Muny). Film/television: “The Time Travelers Wife,” “The Last O.G.,” “Power Book II: Ghost.” @karmanoelle on Instagram.
JOANNA A. JONES
(Sally Bowles) Broadway: Hamilton. Off Broadway: School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play (MCC). West End: Thriller Live. Regional: Hamilton (Pantages Theatre), Gotta Dance (Bank of America Performing Arts Center), Kiss Me, Kate (Pasadena Playhouse), Hair (Hollywood Bowl), Baz: Star Crossed Love (Palazzo Vegas), Parade (3-D Theatricals), Caroline, or Change, Hairspray (PCPA), Showboat (Sacramento Music Circus), Sugar (Music Circus). Television/film: “Good Trouble,” All These Engagements, Mufasa: The Lion King, NBC’s Hairspray Live!, “The Sing-Off.” Education: bachelor’s degree in Theater from University of California, Los Angeles. @joannaalexisjones on Instagram.
CELESTE LANUZA
(Frenchie) (she/ella) The Old Globe: Guys and Dolls. Regional: Fandango with Butterflies (and Coyotes) (La Jolla Playhouse), West Side Story (Guthrie Theater), Amelia in Mother Road (San Diego Rep), Duende in Maria de Buenos Aires (San Diego Opera, Arizona Opera), Tiger Lily in Peter Pan (Moonlight Stage Productions). Film/television: choreographer, principal dancer in Huella (Amazon Prime), principal dancer in “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” Fuego (PBS). Honors: Doreen Montalvo award. Education: M.F.A. in Choreography UC Irvine, B.F.A. in Dance and Musical Theater from University of the Arts. Other: original music on all platforms. celestelanuza.com, @senoritaarranca on Instagram.
KELLY LESTER
(Fräulein Schneider) Originally from Los Angeles, now based in NYC. Recent: Fräulein Schneider in Cabaret (Asolo Rep, La Mirada). Off Broadway: Jan in Wom-
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an of the Year, Denise in The Baker’s Wife. Regional: Princess Puffer in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Mame in Mame, Pennywise in Urinetown, Hannah in The Spitfire Grill, Marion in The Boy from Oz, Adult Women in Spring Awakening. Television: “The Blacklist,” “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “City on a Hill,” “Sprung,” Halston, “Angie Tribeca.” Film: Your Place or Mine, Becoming Bond, Mr. Church, J. Edgar. KellyLester.com, @kellylesternyc
KAITLYN MAYSE (Swing) (she/they) National tours: Cinderella in Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Julia understudy in Bandstand. Select regional: Sister Act (The Muny), Attina in The Little Mermaid (TUTS), Belle in Beauty and the Beast (Variety St. Louis), Mother in Ragtime (COCA’s 10th anniversary celebration), Cabaret (Asolo Rep), Oklahoma! (Engeman Theater), Martha Jefferson in 1776 (Cardinal Stage). @kaitlynmayse.
TRINA MILLS (Helga) Regional credits: Glinda in The Wiz, Sheila in A Chorus Line, Florinda, Baker’s Wife understudy in Into the Woods, Beggar Woman understudy in Sweeney Todd, Velma in West Side Story, Shawanda in Elf The Musical, Mrs. Krumholtz in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (5th Avenue Theatre), Jersey Boys, Paint Your Wagon, Chess (The Muny), Evita, The Sound of Music, Knoxville (Asolo Repertory Theatre), Tommy (The Kennedy Center). Education: B.A. in Acting from Western Washington University.
NATALIA NIEVES-MELCHOR (Lulu, Associate Choreographer) Born in Puerto Rico, raised in South Carolina. Theatre: West Side Story (Lyric Opera of Chicago, The Muny), Cabaret (also dance captain and associate choreographer; Asolo Repertory Theatre), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (as swing and assistant choreographer), Legally Blonde (The Muny), On Your Feet! (Westchester Broadway Theatre, The Muny). Television: “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” choreographed by Marguerite Derricks, “Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade” directed and
choreographed by Willdabeast, Janelle Adams, Miguel Zarate. Education: B.F.A. in Commercial Dance from Pace University. @natalianievesm.
JOHN ROSEN
(Understudy) The Old Globe: A Catered Affair, The Constant Wife. Regional: Ella, Old Jews Telling Jokes (SD Rep), Rock of Ages, La Cage aux Folles (Cygnet Theatre), A Jewel in the Crown City, Persuasion, Explorer’s Club, Big Fish, Shadowlands, Beau Jest, Dinner with Marlene, The Nerd, Festival of Christmas 2015, Oz, West Side Story, You Can’t Take It With You, Fiddler on the Roof, Around the World in 80 Days, Joe Versus the Volcano, Guys and Dolls, The Music Man, Harvey, The Fantasticks, Room Service, The Winslow Boy, American Rhythm, Charlie’s Aunt (Lamb’s Players Theatre)
BRUCE SABATH
(Herr Schultz) (he/him) Broadway: Larry in the Tony Award–winning Best Revival Company. New York: Drama Desk winner Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish, OCC nominee Cagney, Drama Desk nominee Hello Again, The Gig, Platinum. Regional highlights: Asolo Rep, Bucks County Playhouse, Nixon in Frost/Nixon at Caldwell Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Geva Theatre, Portland Stage, Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof at Stages St. Louis (BroadwayWorld Award). Other theatre: creator, star of Searching for Tevye (MAC Award nomination). Television: “The Blacklist,” “Elementary,” “Madam Secretary,” “FBI: Most Wanted,” “Mrs. Maisel,” “Ramy,” “Limitless.” Education: Harvard, Wharton, William Esper Studio. BruceSabath.com, @bsabath on Instagram.
MICHAEL SELTZER
(Bobby) Broadway: West Side Story. Regional: Cabaret (Asolo Repertory Theatre), Chess, Paint Your Wagon, Jersey Boys (The Muny), Hair, Lost in Yonkers, Guys and Dolls, Mamma Mia! (Weston Theatre Company). Education: B.F.A. in Musical Theater from The Boston Conservatory. michaelseltzer.org.
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AMY SMITH (Rosie) The Old Globe: debut. Broadway national tour: swing, Odette in Swan Lake understudy in Anastasia. Select regional, New York credits: The Light Rail (Feinstein’s 54 Below), The Nutcracker (Moscow Ballet), Tosca (New York Metropolitan Opera/Opera Las Vegas); productions with CCAE, North Coast Repertory Theatre, Tuacahn Center, Moonlight Stage Productions, Sundance, Hale Centre Theatre. Feature film: Kelly in Miracle Valley. Education: B.F.A. in Music Theatre from BYU (2020), Broadway Dance Center Professional Semester (2021). Representation: Avalon Artists Group. @ames__smith on Instagram.
JOHN VISO
(Swing) (he/him) New York City–based performer born and raised in Kansas City. Education: B.F.A. in Musical Theatre from Ball State University. Representation: The Price Group. Credits: Cabaret (Asolo Rep), MSC Cruises (RWS Entertainment), A Chorus Line, Newsies (The Lexington Theatre Company), Anything Goes, Newsies (Porthouse Theatre), Bright Star (Phoenix Theatre). Upcoming: My Fair Lady (national tour). @visoinlights.
JOE MASTEROFF
(Book) (1919–2018) had one dream from infancy: to write for the theatre. After a four-year stint in the Air Force, he came to New York to face his future: book writer or book seller? Before long he had three shows on Broadway bearing his name: The Warm Peninsula starring Julie Harris, and two musicals, She Loves Me and Cabaret, for which he was the book writer. His other work included the libretto for 70, Girls, 70 and Desire Under the Elms, and book and lyrics for Six Wives and Paramour
Thanks to indulgent parents, the New Dramatists, Hal Prince, and many others, Masteroff retired and lived in subdued luxury until his death.
JOHN VAN DRUTEN
(Original Play) (1901–1957) was an English playwright and theatre director. He began his career in London and later moved to America, becoming a US citizen. He was known for his plays of witty and urbane observations of contemporary life and society.
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD
(Original Stories) (1904–1986) was a novelist,
playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist. He was homosexual and made this a theme of some of his writing. He was born near Manchester in the north of England in 1904, became a U.S. citizen in 1946, and died at home in Santa Monica, California, in January 1986.
JOHN KANDER
(Music) is a Tony, Emmy, and Grammy Award–winning composer, recipient of the Kennedy Center Honor, and member of the American Theater Hall of Fame. With frequent collaborator Fred Ebb, he composed the scores to dozens of Broadway musicals, including Cabaret, Zorba, Chicago, The Act, Woman of the Year, The Rink, Kiss of the Spider Woman, and Steel Pier.
FRED EBB
(Lyrics) (1928–2004) Award-winning lyricist, librettist, and director who frequently collaborated with composer John Kander. Theatre: Flora the Red Menace; Cabaret; The Happy Time; Zorba; 70, Girls, 70; Chicago; The Act; Woman of the Year; 2x5; The Rink; And the World Goes ’Round; Kiss of the Spider Woman; Steel Pier; The Skin of Our Teeth; Curtains Film: Cabaret; Norman Rockwell: A Short Subject; Lucky Lady; New York, New York; Funny Lady; Kramer vs. Kramer; A Matter of Time; Places in the Heart; French Postcards; Stepping Out; Chicago. Television: Liza with a Z; Goldie and Liza Together; Ol’ Blue Eyes Is Back; Baryshnikov on Broadway; An Early Frost; Liza in London.
JOSH RHODES
(Director and Choreographer) The Old Globe: Guys and Dolls, Baskerville, Bright Star, Working. Broadway: Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, It Shoulda Been You, First Date, Bright Star. West End: Carousel, Sweeney Todd. NY City Center Encores!: Dear World, Mack & Mabel, Grand Hotel. Regional theatre: Spamalot, The Who’s Tommy (Kennedy Center), Cabaret, Hair, Evita, Guys and Dolls, Sound of Music, Knoxville (Asolo Rep), Chess, Paint Your Wagon, Jersey Boys (The Muny). Television: Sweeney Todd, Company, Sondheim! The Birthday Concert (PBS). Film: Beau, The Musical.
TIJANA BJELAJAC
(Scenic Design) Los Angeles–based, international set designer and visual artist; works include set designs, paintings, installations, and sculptures. Selected credits: Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors (Capital Rep, Off Broadway September 2023), The Little Mermaid (Sierra Rep), Cabaret (Asolo Rep), Beauty
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and the Beast (Misi Productions, Colombia), Othello (Actors’ Shakespeare Project), My Fair Lady (New Harmony). As associate designer: The Magic Flute (Opera Australia), The Egyptian Helen (Teatro alla Scala), Little Shop of Horrors (Westside Theatre). Honors: Kahn Award, BroadwayWorld Awards for Best Scenic Design. teeyana.com, @tijanabjelajac on Instagram.
ALEJO VIETTI
(Costume Design) The Old Globe: Crime and Punishment, A Comedy, Lost in Yonkers, Engaging Shaw, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Broadway Bound, Allegiance, Familiar, The Underpants. Broadway: Allegiance (Drama Desk nomination), Beautiful (West End, Japan, Australia, U.K. tour, U.S. tour; Olivier nomination), Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn. Selected Off Broadway: Titanique (Lucille Lortel Award), Amy and the Orphans (Roundabout), Storefront Church (Atlantic), Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Nightingale (MTC). Others: Radio City Music Hall Rockettes, Kennedy Center, City Center’s Encores!, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Minnesota Opera, Donesk Opera (Ukraine), Colorado Ballet. International: Hunchback of Notre Dame (Japan, Germany, Austria), West Side Story (world tour), Barnum & Bailey Circus Honors: 2010 TDF/Irene Sharaff Young Master Award. @alejo_vietti_costume_design on Instagram.
CORY PATTAK
(Co-Lighting Design) The Old Globe: Dog and Pony. NYC: The Lucky Star, Final Follies, Stalking the Bogeyman, Handle with Care, Skippyjon Jones, Unlocked. Regional: Resident Lighting Designer for Broadway Center Stage at The Kennedy Center; Weston Playhouse, Portland Stage, Ordway, Goodspeed, KC Rep, Everyman, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Asolo Rep, Miami New Drama, Olney Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare, Tuacahn Center, Ogunquit Playhouse. Other: In the Heights in Puerto Rico, shows for Norwegian Cruise Line, MSC Cruises. National tour: Flashdance. International: Sunset Boulevard, Singin’ in the Rain, Pretty Woman (Brazil). Upcoming: Spamalot (Broadway), A Wonderful World (New Orleans, Chicago), The Great Gatsby (Paper Mill). corypattak.com. @corypattak on Instagram.
PAUL VAILLANCOURT
(Co-Lighting Design) Off Broadway: Off Peak (59E59). Regional: Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them (Kitchen Theatre Company), Soft, Fifth Planet (Williamstown Theatre Festival), The Burdens
(Miles Square Theatre), October Storm (Hudson Stage Company). pvaillancourtdesigns.com.
HALEY PARCHER
(Sound Design) Seattle-based sound designer. Recent design credits: Guys and Dolls, Sunset Boulevard, Spamalot (Kennedy Center), Beauty and the Beast, The Wiz, Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd, And So That Happened (5th Avenue Theatre), Mamma Mia! (Village Theatre), How Can I Love You (Cave B), American Idiot, Violet, The Nance, The Last World Octopus Wrestling Champion, We’ve Battled Monsters Before (ArtsWest).
MICHELLE HART
(Hair, Wig, and Makeup Design) (she/her) Credits: Sarasota Ballet, Palm Beach Dramaworks, freeFall Theatre, Urbanite Theatre, Florida Studio Theatre, Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe, Banyan Theatre, Ruth Eckerd Hall, Venice Theatre, Dorset Theatre, Barrington Stage, OpenStage Theatre. Additional hair and/or makeup: Joan Rivers, Doris Roberts, Martin Short, Jane Russell, Arlene Dahl, Soledad Villamil, Jane Pauley, Richard Dreyfuss, Castille Landon, Christopher Higgins, Mary Mara, Heather Robb, Lauren Sweetser, Justin Long, Paul Downs, Douglas Sills, Nia Hills. Music videos: “Second Chance” by Shinedown, “Reverse Cowgirl” by T-Pain. Film/TV: Lady of the Manor; Paradise, FL; The Real Stephen Blatt. Other: Resident Hair/Wig & Make-up Designer for Asolo Repertory Theatre, FSU/Asolo Conservatory.
ROBERT MEFFE
(Music Director) Broadway: associate conductor for Little Women, the last six years of Les Misérables; keyboards for the 2012 revival of Evita, Newsies, The Phantom of the Opera, Avenue Q, Spelling Bee, Grey Gardens, Bombay Dreams. National tours: music director for Evita, The Phantom of the Opera; associate conductor for Les Misérables, Sunday in the Park with George. Off Broadway: Myths and Hymns, Violet, The Prince and the Pauper, Gutenberg! The Musical! Television: “Encore!” (Disney+), Earth to America (TBS), “Live at Lincoln Center: Renée Fleming” (PBS). Other: head of the M.F.A. Musical Theatre Program at San Diego State University.
ANGELA STEINER
(Additional Arrangements) (she/her/hers) The Old Globe: Hair. Regional: A Little Night Music, Rattlesnake Kate, Indecent, The Who’s Tommy, Oklahoma!, Twelfth Night, A Christmas Carol (Denver Center for the Performing Arts), Crazy for You, Cabaret,
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Sweeney Todd (Asolo Repertory), Cabaret (Barrington Stage), Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Geva Theatre). Education: B.M. in Piano Performance and Piano Accompanying from Wichita State University, M.M. in Collaborative Piano from University of Northern Colorado. angelasteiner.com.
RACHEL FLESHER
(Fight Director and Intimacy Staging) The Old Globe: Destiny of Desire, Dial M for Murder. Theatre: Cassils’s Human Measure (REDCAT), There’s Always the Hudson (Woolly Mammoth), Relentless, Twilight Bowl (Goodman Theatre), Kill Move Paradise, Rutherford and Son, In the Next Room (TimeLine Theatre), The Pillowman, Wolf Play, Hang Man (Gift Theatre), The Most Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, The Burials, Constellations (Steppenwolf Theatre). Television: intimacy coordination for shows on Netflix, FX, Fox, HBO, Paramount+, CBS, Hulu, Showtime, ABC. Honors: SAG-recognized Intimacy Coordinator, certified Intimacy Director and Intimacy Coordinator, certified Fight Instructor, Fight Director with Fight Directors Canada.
DEWANDA SMITH SOEDER
(Cultural Competency Consultant) President of Smith-Soeder Enterprises, LLC; Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) strategist who developed her cultural competency process based on her research thesis, “Theatre as a Diversity Intervention.” Notable consulting engagements: Hadestown (Broadway, national tour), Little Shop of Horrors (Off Broadway), Asolo Repertory Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Education: M.A. in Psychology; Certified Diversity Professional (CDP); Prosci Certified Change Practitioner, Instructional Design and Development, Human Behavior and Interaction, Emotional Intelligence; adjunct professor of Psychology.
LEE WILKINS
(Associate Director) The Old Globe: Guys and Dolls, Bright Star. Broadway, as associate choreographer: Bright Star, It Shoulda Been You, First Date, Cinderella. Other: Chess, Joseph…, Seven Brides…, Paint
Your Wagon, Jersey Boys (The MUNY), Carousel (English National Opera), Dear World, Mack & Mabel, Grand Hotel, Big River (Encores!), Cabaret, Sound of Music, Evita, Guys and Dolls (Asolo), SPAMalot (5th Avenue), On the Town (LA Philharmonic), Company (Avery Fisher Hall), Minsky’s (Ahmanson).
Television: “The Late Show” (CBS), “Hatfields and
McCoys” (NBC pilot), “Alpha House” (Amazon).
Direction: D23 (Disney), NBC Upfront (Radio City Music Hall), Little Mermaid (Casa Mañana), First Date (Straz Center). Broadway, as performer: original cast of Elf, SPAMalot, Wonderful Town, Kiss Me, Kate. leealanwilkins.com, @leeawilkins on Instagram.
TARA RUBIN CASTING
(Casting) The Old Globe: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Twelfth Night, Dancin’, Scrooge, Despereaux, Gods of Comedy, Life After, Heart of Rock & Roll, Much Ado, Tempest, Guys and Dolls, Othello, Two Gentlemen, Dog and Pony, Room with a View, others. Selected Broadway: Back to the Future, Here Lies Love, Bad Cinderella, Dancin’, KPOP, Mr. Saturday Night, Six, Ain’t Too Proud, Band’s Visit, Sunset Boulevard, Dear Evan Hansen, Cats, Falsettos, School of Rock, Aladdin, Billy Elliot, Shrek, Spamalot, Spelling Bee, The Producers, Mamma Mia!, Jersey Boys, Phantom of the Opera. Selected Off Broadway: Sing Street, Trevor, Between the Lines, Gloria: A Life. Film: Here Today.
EMMELYN THAYER
(Dialect Coach) The Old Globe: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Dial M for Murder. Regional: Noises Off, Sweeney Todd, Man from Nebraska, Private Lives, History Boys (Cygnet Theatre), Good People (Carlsbad Playreaders), Frozen (ion theatre company). The Old Globe and University of San Diego Shiley Graduate Theatre Program: Voice and Speech faculty; Cloud 9, Rites of Passage, Measure for Measure, Mother Courage and Her Children, Thesis Night, 12 Ophelias. USD Department of Theatre: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge, The Mail Order Bride, Arcadia. Honors: Horrigan Award, Craig Noel M.F.A Fellowship. emmelynthayer.com.
ANJEE NERO
(Production Stage Manager) The Old Globe: Destiny of Desire, Come Fall in Love, Almost Famous, The Gardens of Anuncia, The Heart of Rock & Roll, Bright Star, Allegiance, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Benny & Joon, October Sky, Rocky Horror Show, Life After, The Wanderers, Ebenezer Scrooge’s BIG San Diego Christmas Show, The Twenty-Seventh Man, A Room with a View, Kingdom, The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale, Be a Good Little Widow, more. Broadway: Bright Star. Regional highlights: Bright Star (Kennedy Center), Fly, Sideways, Ruined, A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
(Bios continued on page 18)
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See how our work
Beyond the stage is where our work begins.
When a fire burned The Old Globe to the ground in 1978, it sparked something else: a passion in our city. Children donated money from their paper routes. Strangers held fundraisers. And together, we rebuilt.
That spark still lights our way today. It drives us to do more than put on shows. It inspires us to enrich our community beyond our four walls.
One world-class production at a time, we entertain San Diegans and fuel the local economy. We tell stories that spark new perspectives, and we train the artists who will stage them. We represent cultures and listen to voices that reflect our vibrant and diverse city.
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Mattie Love, Karli Dinardo, and Ioana Alfonso in Bob Fosse’s Dancin’
Photo by Julieta Cervantes.
lives beyond the stage.
And we don’t just act. We interact. We create theatre in places where it’s seldom seen: community centers, shelters, correctional facilities, and beyond, making theatre accessible to all. We serve the public through theatre.
Our programming touches lives and lifts spirits—so that we might all find joy, beauty, and vulnerability within ourselves, each other, and the world around us.
We make theatre matter, to more people and in more places.
Join us in theatre that lives beyond the stage.
theoldglobe.org/beyond
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Gill Sotu at Juneteenth Celebration AXIS event.
Photo by Beto Soto.
ARTISTS
Herringbone, The Seven (La Jolla Playhouse), Ruined (Huntington Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre), Kiss Me, Kate (Hartford Stage), Venice (Center Theatre Group), Antigone (SITI Company).
AMANDA SALMONS
(Assistant Stage Manager) The Old Globe: Destiny of Desire, Come Fall in Love, Bob Fosse’s Dancin’, Life After, The Blameless, American Mariachi, October Sky, Rain, The Metromaniacs, The White Snake, Inherit the Wind, over 30 more productions. Regional: Blueprints to Freedom: An Ode to Bayard Rustin (La Jolla Playhouse), Kiss Me, Kate (Hartford Stage), The Foreigner, See How They Run, The Rivalry (Lamb’s Players Theatre), The Gondoliers, The Pirates of Penzance, Candide, Trial by Jury (Lyric Opera San Diego). Education: UC San Diego.
KENDRA STOCKTON
(Stage Management Swing) The Old Globe: The XIXth, Come Fall in Love, The Taming of the Shrew, Trouble in Mind, Hair, Almost Famous, As You Like It, The Gods of Comedy, Familiar, Clint Black’s Looking for Christmas, Much Ado About Nothing, Benny & Joon, October Sky, Bright Star, Dog and Pony, Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (as production assistant). Regional: House of Joy (San Diego Rep), Home of the Brave, #SuperShinySara, Guards at the Taj, The Orphan of Zhao, The Who & The What (La Jolla Playhouse), The Loneliest Girl in the World (Diversionary Theatre), miXtape (Lamb’s Players Theatre), White Christmas (San Diego Musical Theatre).
ASOLO REPERTORY THEATRE
(Co-Presenter) In its 65th season, Asolo Repertory Theatre is recognized as one of the premier professional theatres in America and located in Sarasota, Florida. Operating in true rotating repertory, its skilled actors and craftsmanship breathe life into this distinctive method, allowing audiences to enjoy multiple productions within days. Presenting up to six annual shows, from classics to contemporaries and bold musicals, Asolo Rep thrives as a self-contained theatre district. Collaborating with top industry artists and nurturing emerging talents through FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training, the theatre, led by Producing Artistic Director Peter Rothstein and Managing Director Ross Egan, crafts innovative performances and inclusive community programs, securing its legacy. Explore more at asolorep.org.
BARRY EDELSTEIN
(Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director) is a stage director, producer, author, and educator. His Globe directing credits include The Winter’s Tale, Othello, The Twenty-Seventh Man, the world premiere of Rain, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Hamlet, the world premiere of The Wanderers, the American premiere of Life After, Romeo and Juliet, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, and, during the pandemic, Hamlet: On the Radio. He also directed All’s Well That Ends Well as the inaugural production of the Globe for All community tour, and he oversees the Globe’s Classical Directing Fellowship program. In addition to his recent Globe credits, he directed The Wanderers Off Broadway with Roundabout Theatre Company this year and The Tempest with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2018. As Director of the Shakespeare Initiative at The Public Theater (2008–2012), Edelstein oversaw all of the company’s Shakespearean productions as well as its educational, community outreach, and artist-training programs. At The Public, he staged the world premiere of The Twenty-Seventh Man, Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice, Timon of Athens, and Steve Martin’s WASP and Other Plays. He was also Associate Producer of The Public’s Broadway production of The Merchant of Venice starring Al Pacino. From 1998 to 2003 he was Artistic Director of Classic Stage Company. His book Thinking Shakespeare is the standard text on American Shakespearean acting. He is also the author of Bardisms: Shakespeare for All Occasions. He is a graduate of Tufts University and the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.
TIMOTHY J. SHIELDS
(Audrey S. Geisel Managing Director) joined The Old Globe as Managing Director in 2017. In his time in San Diego, he has enjoyed becoming involved in the community. He currently serves as a board member of the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce’s LEAD program; an advisory board member of the San Diego Downtown Partnership; and Vice President of the Balboa Park Cultural Partnership. He brings to San Diego many decades of not-for-profit theatre experience. He was Managing Director of Princeton, New Jersey’s McCarter Theatre Center (2009-2017); Milwaukee Repertory Theater (1998–2009); and Geva Theatre
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Center in Rochester, New York (1992–1998). He has also held administrative positions at Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis, Denver Center Theatre Company, and McCarter Theatre Center in an earlier period of his career. He served as President of the League of Resident Theatres and as Vice President of the board at Theatre Communications Group. He has been the Chair of the ArtPride NJ board; a member of Milwaukee’s Latino Arts Board; and a board member of the Cultural Alliance of Greater Milwaukee. He holds a B.F.A. in Drama Production from CarnegieMellon University in his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
TAKING PHOTOS IN THE THEATRE
Audience members may take photos in the theatre before and after the performance and during intermission. If you post photos on social media or elsewhere, you must credit the production’s designers by including the names below.
Tijana Bjelajac, Scenic Design
www.teeyana.com, @tijanabjelajac
Alejo Vietti, Costume Design @alejo_vietti_costume_design
Cory Pattak and Paul Vaillancourt, Lighting Design
www.corypattak.com, @corypattak
www.pvaillancourtdesigns.com
Haley Parcher, Sound Design
Michelle Hart, Hair, Wig, and Makeup Design
Please note: Photos are strictly prohibited during the performance. Photos of the stage are not permitted if an actor is present. Video recording is not permitted at any time in the theatre.
CASTING
Tara Rubin Casting
Tara Rubin CSA; Merri Sugarman, CSA; Claire Burke, CSA; Peter Van Dam, CSA; Felicia Rudolph, CSA; Xavier Rubiano, CSA; Kevin Metzger-Timson, CSA; Louis DiPaolo; Spencer Gualdoni, CSA; Olivia Paige West; Frankie Ramirez
PATRON INFORMATION
ASOLO REPERTORY THEATRE
Peter Rothstein, Producing Artistic Director
Ross Egan, Managing Director
Corinne Deckard, General Manager
Vic Meyrich, Director of Production & Facilities
Sarah Johnson, Development Director
Eric Pugh, Marketing Director
Sara Brunow, Education & Engagement Director
Ron McDonough, Finance/HR Director
Celine Rosenthal, Associate Artistic Director
Mike Rodgers, Production Manager
SPECIAL THANKS
David Covach and Jordan Jeffers at Asolo Repertory Theatre
For more information about ticket policies and patron services, please visit www.TheOldGlobe.org.
LET ’S ALL DO OUR PART!
We are proud that this program, as with all our programs year-round, is made with paper from wood in regrowth areas that are specially planted for use in the printing industry, making the process sustainable, renewable, and safe for our environment.
As you exit the theatre, feel free to leave your gently used program on the program stand for future audiences to use. Or you can put it in any of the recycle bins in the lobby or on our plaza.
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The musicians are represented by the American Federation of Musicians, Local 325 San Diego.
This theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.
The Directors are members of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, an independent national labor union.
This Theatre operates under an Agreement with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local No. 122.
The Scenic, Costume, Lighting and Sound Designers in LORT Theatres are represented by United Scenic Artists Local USA-829, IATSE.
veteran's visions
by gill sotu, Arts engagement programs manager
Since I was a child, I’ve always thought of San Diego as a military town. My father was stationed here in the Navy, so my family drove from Chicago to San Diego when I was six months old. Eighteen years later, I was reporting for duty as a seaman myself at the naval station at 32nd Street. And 20 years after enlisting, now I’m a Teaching Artist at The Old Globe.
So I am honored to be a part of the team that is highlighting, teaching, encouraging, and giving voice to those who previously served our country at Veterans Village of San Diego (VVSD). Each year VVSD helps thousands of our most vulnerable veterans reclaim their lives through programs that offer transitional and permanent housing, mental health counseling, substance use treatment, and employment and training services.
Since 2012 The Old Globe’s Arts Engagement Department has run a myriad of theatre programs at VVSD. Behind the Curtain is an interactive workshop that showcases all that goes on behind the scenes at both our large and smaller productions. Globe for All brings one of Shakespeare’s plays to life each year with our M.F.A. graduates and presents it directly to the VVSD facility—it’s about as intimate as you can get with the Bard’s work. coLAB is a program where theatre makers conduct a series of workshops in an attempt to understand the stories from this community, and create works together with participants to represent them. Our Veterans Apprentice Program brings folks from VVSD into
the Globe to work behind the scenes to learn the craft of theatre. (In fact, a lot of people have moved on to carve out careers in theatre with us and other companies because of this program.)
And one program in particular stands out. Community Voices is a 10-week playwriting program that equips veterans with the building blocks of storytelling through the short play format. At the end of the program, we bring in professional actors to perform a reading of all the works created in class for the participants and their guests. As a fellow creator, I can tell you there is something magical about having something you write come alive in front of you. It is a jolt of your own essence brought to life. Since I have taught at VVSD, I have heard participants tell me how much they enjoy creating their own stories, engaging in the different theatre exercises, and really getting a chance to be themselves and play.
What I have seen in real time not only allows our veterans to tell their stories, from the silly to the gravely serious, but it also enables San Diego’s thriving artistic community to interact with veterans in an authentic way.
I am a proud resident of both worlds: the veteran and the artistic. Being a part both sides, seeing them support, champion, and learn from each other, is something I never saw coming, but wouldn’t trade for anything.
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arts engagement events
Join The Old Globe’s Arts Engagement Department for a lineup chock-full of exciting events and learning opportunities. Visit www.TheOldGlobe.org/Arts-Engagement to learn more.
SEPTEMBER
Saturday, September 9: Globe
Learning: Monologue Coaching with Lamar Perry
Time to get audition-ready! Motivate your monologue, connect with your character, and polish your audition performance in this personalized monologue coaching led by special guest Lamar Perry. Ages 18 and above.
Saturday, September 16: AXIS: Mexican Independence Day Celebration
Mexican Independence Day festivities will come to life at The Old Globe! Bring the whole family for food, cultural presentations, kids’ crafts, and more, all for free on the Globe’s plaza.
OCTOBER
Sunday, October 29: AXIS: Día de Muertos/Day of the Dead Celebration
Join us for the Día de Muertos/Day of the Dead AXIS event as we celebrate with an exciting lineup of cultural offerings inspired by the holiday, including live music, dance performances, workshops and more!
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(from top) Globe Learning Play! Workshop with Jesse Perez, 2020; photo by Nick Abadilla. AXIS Mexican Independence Day Celebration, 2022; photo by Brandon Salas. AXIS Día de Muertos/Day of the Dead Celebration, 2021; photo by Rich Soublet II.
LEAD PRODUCTION SPONSORS
MAJOR PRODUCTION SPONSORS
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OUR THANKS
ELAINE AND DAVE* DARWIN
TERRY ATKINSON
DARLENE MARCOS SHILEY
PAMELA FARR AND BUFORD ALEXANDER
EDUARDO CONTRERAS/ THE SAN DIEGO U-T
KAREN AND STUART TANZ
PRODUCTION SPONSORS
JULES AND MICHELE ARTHUR
THE JO SEPH COHEN AND MARTHA FARISH NEW PLAY DEVELOPMENT FUND
ARTIST SPONSORS
FOR JOSH RHODES (DIRECTOR AND CHOREOGRAPHER) ALICIA AND JONATHAN ATUN
FOR LINCOLN CLAUSS (EMCEE) CALIFORNIA BANK & TRUST
FOR JOANNA A. JONES (SALLY BOWLES) GAIL AND DOUG HUTCHESON
FOR ROBERT MEFFE (MUSIC DIRECTOR) AND ORCHESTRA GARY AND JERRI-ANN JACOBS
Please join The Old Globe’s generous family of donors and help make theatre matter to more people. For more information on how to get involved with the Friends of The Old Globe or Circle Patrons, contact the Globe’s Philanthropy Department at (619) 684-4145 or cdufour@TheOldGlobe.org, or give online at www.TheOldGlobe.org/Donate. All donors receive special benefits and behind-the-scenes experiences that bring you closer to the theatre you love.
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Bobbie Ball
Sandra D. Barstow
Jan Bart
Barbara Beaumont
Nancine Belfiore
Alan Benaroya
Barbara Bolt
Richard J. Bonacci
Nancy Brock
Robert and Pamela Brooks
George and Karen Bullette
Dr. and Mrs. Edgar D. Canada
Stanley Nadel and Cecilia Carrick
Harry and Sandra Carter
Pamela and Jerry Cesak
Jean Cheng
Doris and Wayne Christopher
Garet and Wendy Clark
Joseph Cohen and Martha Farish
R. Patrick and Sharon Connell
Richard and Stephanie Coutts
Jane Cowgill
Gigi Cramer
Patricia W. Crigler,
Ph.D., CAPT, USN (Ret.)
Carlos and Patricia Cuellar
Ronald D. Culbertson
Elaine and Dave* Darwin
Ann Davies, in Memory of John Davies
Darlene Gould Davies*
Dr. Cynthia and Mr. Martin Davis
Caroline S. DeMar
Douglas Druley and Judee Sedler
Bernard J. Eggertsen and Florence Nemkov*
Dr. and Mrs. Robert Epsten*
Robert and Stacey Foxworth
Hal and Pam Fuson
Alan Gary and Joanee Udelf
Arthur Getis*
Nancy Reed Gibson*
Norman and Patricia Gillespie
Robert Gleason and Marc Matys
Cathryn Golden
Marcy Goldstone
Jim and Linda Good
Cherie Halladay Tirschwell
Bernard* and June Harland
Ellie Lynch and Patrick Harrison
David and Debbie Hawkins
Liz and Gary Helming
In memory of Mack Lewis
Char and Mike* Hersh
Jill Denison Holmes
Bruce* and Jane Hopkins
Jeff and Thao Hughes
Craig and Mary Hunter
Sonia and Andy* Israel
Janis N. Jones
David K. Jordan
Robert Kilian and Kathleen M. Slayton*
Marilyn Rogers Kneeland*
Bill and Linda Kolb
Regina Kurtz, in loving memory of Al Isenberg
James and Janice LaGrone
Jean* and David Laing
Peter and Michelle Landin
Dr. Ronald and Mrs. Ruth W. Leonardi
Jerry Lester Foundation
Pamela Hamilton Lester in memory of Jim Lester
Richard L. Matta
Heather Manion
Cynthia McIntyre
Thomas and Randi McKenzie
Dr. Margaret McKerrow
Judith Menzel
Chris and Jill Metcalf
Paul I. and Margaret W. Meyer
Paul Miller and Julie Greb
Chuck and Angela Mol
Laurie D. Munday
Michael G. Murphy
Harvey* and Marsha Netzer
Ronald J. Newell
Jacqueline and Jerome* Niederman
Greg and Polly Noel
Carol Novick*
Rich and June Nygaard
Gale and James Petrie
Gail Lee Powell
Paula and Brian Powers
Sarah B. Marsh-Rebelo and John Rebelo
The Old Globe is deeply grateful to the many patrons who have made plans to leave a legacy to the theatre they cherish. These gifts ensure that The Old Globe will continue to flourish in the years ahead. Thank you.
Louis and Nancy Regas
Jeannie and Arthur* Rivkin
Tom and Mary Roberts
Nancy J. Robertson
Esther Rodriguez
Dr. Julie A. Prazich and Dr. Sara Rosenthal
Joan Salb*
Beverly and Warren* Sanborn
Robert and Lisa Shaw
Bruce Sherman
Darlene Marcos Shiley
Dr. Dee E. Silver, M.D.
B. Sy* and Ruth Ann Silver
Stephen M. Silverman
Dolores and Rodney Smith
Marisa SorBello and Peter Czipott
Nancy A. Spector and Alan R. Spector
Kathleen A. and Thomas E. Stark
Ann E. Steck*
Jeanette Stevens
Diane Stocker
Peter Stovin and Marilyn Johns*
Miriam Summ*
Eric Leighton Swenson
Linda Tallian
Anne C. Taubman
Randy Tidmore
Evelyn Mack Truitt
Suzanne Poet Turner and Michael T. Turner
Ginny Unanue
Jordine Von Wantoch*
Lian von Wantoch
Pamela J. Wagner
Peggy Ann Wallace
Holly J.B. Ward
Sarah Woodruff Watkins
Joy and Stephen Weiss
Judith Wenker
Lynne Dunaho Wheeler
Sheryl and Harvey P. White
Mr.* and Mrs. H.D. Wolpert
Chester Yamaga and Jean Samuels
Carolyn Yorston-Wellcome*
Anonymous (18)
For information on how to leave a legacy gift to the theatre, please call Associate Director of Philanthropy, Major Gifts and Legacy Giving, Bridget Cantu Wear at (619) 684-4144 or email bcantuwear@TheOldGlobe.org.
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The Old Globe is deeply grateful to our Artistic Angels and Benefactors, whose vital support of the Annual Fund helps us make theatre matter to more people. For additional information on how to support the Globe at these extraordinary levels, please contact Bridget Cantu Wear at (619) 684-4144 or bcantuwear@TheOldGlobe.org.
Artistic Angels ($200,000 and higher annually)
Benefactors ($100,000 to $199,999)
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TERRY ATKINSON KAREN AND DONALD COHN† IN MEMORY OF ANNETTE AND DICK FORD
THE THEODOR AND AUDREY GEISEL FUND PAULA AND BRIAN POWERS
ELAINE AND DAVE* DARWIN
ANN DAVIES PAMELA FARR AND BUFORD ALEXANDER
HAL AND PAM FUSONJOAN AND IRWIN JACOBS FUND OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
DARLENE MARCOS SHILEY† In memory of Donald Shiley
THE ERNA FINCI VITERBI ARTISTIC DIRECTOR FUND In memory of Erna Finci Viterbi
KAREN AND STUART TANZ SHERYL AND HARVEY WHITE FOUNDATION VICKI AND CARL ZEIGER
†Charter Sponsor since 1995
*In Memoriam
ANONYMOUS
EDUARDO
THE ROY COCKRUM FOUNDATION
CONTRERAS/ THE SAN DIEGO U-T
The Theodor and Audrey Geisel Fund provides leadership support for The Old Globe’s year-round activities.
THE ESTATE OF DAVID J. NOVICK AND CAROL L. NOVICK
THE ESTATE OF CAROLYN YORSTON-WELLCOME
THE GENO BARCONE AND ED HASTINGS FUND FOR ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE
EXTRAORDINARY LEADERSHIP
Since the founding of The Old Globe in 1935, heroic leadership has made the theatre a cultural icon in San Diego and a leader in the American theatre. The following individuals and organizations, recognized for their tremendous cumulative giving, comprise a special group of friends who have played leading “behind-the-scenes” roles, helping to create productions on our three stages and our programs in the community.
— $25 million and higher —
The Theodor and Audrey Geisel Fund
Donald* and Darlene Shiley
— $11 million and higher — Conrad Prebys*
City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture
— $9 million and higher —
Karen and Donald Cohn
Sheryl and Harvey White
— $7 million and higher — Kathryn Hattox*
Viterbi Family and The Erna Finci
Viterbi Artistic Director Fund
— $4 million and higher —
The James Irvine Foundation
Paula and Brian Powers
The Shubert Foundation
— $3 million and higher —
David C. Copley Foundation County of San Diego
— $1 million and higher — Mary Beth Adderley
Terry Atkinson
Bank of America
Bentivoglio Family Fund
Diane and John* Berol
Stephen and Mary Birch Foundation, Inc.
California Arts Council, A State Agency
California Bank & Trust
California Cultural & Historical Endowment
J. Dallas and Mary Clark*
Joseph Cohen and Martha Farish
Peter Cooper and Erik Matwijkow
Valerie and Harry Cooper
Elaine and Dave* Darwin
Ann Davies
Una Davis and Jack McGrory
Silvija and Brian Devine
Helen Edison*
Pamela Farr and Buford
Alexander
Hal and Pam Fuson
Globe Guilders
HM Electronics, Inc.
Joan and Irwin Jacobs
The Kresge Foundation
The Lipinsky Family
Estate of Beatrice Lynds*
Peggy and Robert Matthews Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
Victor H.* and Jane Ottenstein
The Conrad Prebys Foundation
Price Philanthropies Foundation
Estate of Dorothy S. Prough*
Qualcomm
Jeannie and Arthur* Rivkin
Jean and Gary Shekhter
Karen and Stuart Tanz
Theatre Forward
Gillian and Tony Thornley
United
Wells Fargo
Carolyn Yorston-Wellcome*
Vicki and Carl Zeiger
Anonymous (1) *In memoriam
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Financial support is provided by The City of San Diego. The California Office of the Small Business Advocate Mid-America Arts Alliance (M-AAA)
PUBLIC SUPPORT
CORPORATE DONORS
Artistic Angels
($200,000 and higher annually)
Benefactors ($100,000 to $199,999)
Ovation Circle ($75,000 to $99,999)
Chicago Title Company
Menon Renewable Products, Inc.
Modern Times
Ranch & Coast Magazine
RKG Wealth Management
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Founder Circle ($5,000 to $9,999) Craig Noel Circle ($3,000 to $4,999)
Alliant Construction Management, Inc.
Edward Jones Financial Advisor, David S. Tam
Event Audio Services, Inc.
Band of the Kumeyaay Nation TravelStruck Become a Corporate Partner of The Old Globe. Contact Sam Abney at (619) 684-4109 or sabney@TheOldGlobe.org.
Higgs Fletcher & Mack, LLP Marsh & McLennan Agency MFRG-ICON Construction Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP RAHD Group Special
Sycuan
Producer Circle ($50,000 to $74,999)
Artist Circle ($25,000 to $49,999)
Director Circle ($10,000 to $24,999)
Royal Property Management Group, Inc.
ANNUAL FUND DONORS
In order to make theatre matter in the lives of more people, The Old Globe—a not-for-profit theatre—relies on the support of our community. We thank our Circle Patrons and Friends of The Old Globe members for these generous annual fund gifts that help us deliver great theatre and life-changing arts engagement programs.
Artistic Angels ($200,000 and higher annually)
Terry Atkinson
The Geno Barcone and Ed Hastings Fund for Artistic Excellence
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
California’s Office of the Small Business Advocate
The City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture
Karen and Donald Cohn ♥
In memory of Annette and Dick Ford
HM Electronics, Inc.
The Estate of David J. Novick and Carol L. Novick
Benefactors ($100,000 to $199,999)
The James Silberrad Brown Foundation at the San Diego Foundation
California Arts Council, A State Agency
The Roy Cockrum Foundation
Elaine and Dave* Darwin
Ann Davies ♥
Pamela Farr and Buford Alexander ♥
Hal and Pam Fuson ♥
Ovation Circle ($75,000 to $99,999)
Elizabeth Cushman Edelman
Theatre Forward Gillian and Tony Thornley
Producer Circle ($50,000 to $74,999)
Jules and Michele Arthur
Diane Berol in memory of John Berol
The Binford Family
Ric and Eleanor Charlton
Nikki and Ben Clay ♥
The Joseph Cohen and Martha Farish New Play Development Fund ♥
Mr. and Mrs. Brian K. Devine ♥
Richard and Jennifer Greenfield
George C. Guerra
Daphne H. and James D. Jameson
Las Patronas
Artist Circle ($25,000 to $49,999)
Alicia and Jonathan Atun
Bank of America
California Bank & Trust
California Humanities
City National Bank
County of San Diego
Elaine Galinson and Herb Solomon
Deborah A. and David A. Hawkins
Nishma and John Held ♥
Hervey Family NonEndowment Fund at The San Diego Foundation
Leonard Hirsch, in memory of Elaine Hirsch
Gail and Doug Hutcheson
Jerri-Ann and Gary Jacobs
Dr. William and Evelyn Lamden
Carol and George Lattimer
The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation
Pamela Hamilton Lester in memory of Jim Lester
Sandy and Arthur* Levinson
Susan and John Major
Paula and Brian Powers ♥ Price Philanthropies Foundation
Darlene Marcos Shiley, in memory of Donald Shiley
The Shubert Foundation
The Theodor and Audrey Geisel Fund
The Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director Fund ♥
Univision San Diego
The Estate of Carolyn Yorston-Wellcome
Joan and Irwin Jacobs Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation
Qualcomm
Karen and Stuart Tanz ♥
Sheryl and Harvey White Foundation
Vicki and Carl Zeiger ♥
Anonymous (1)
Pamela J. Wagner and Hans Tegebo
Brent Woods and Laurie Mitchell
Laurents / Hatcher Foundation
Lolly & Duck MDM Foundation
Patrons of the Prado Sempra
Jean and Gary Shekhter ♥
Dee E. Silver, M.D.
The Lodge at Torrey Pines
Peggy and Robert Matthews Foundation
Mid-America Arts Alliance National Endowment for the Arts
The Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation
Barbara J. Petersen
Tom and Lisa Pierce
The Allison and Robert Price Family Foundation
Chris and Elizabeth Prine
Sue and Edward “Duff” Sanderson
The Estate of Jeffrey E. White United U.S. Bank
Viasat
The Westgate Hotel
Richard and Shari Sapp
Reneé Schatz
Evelyn Mack Truitt
The Donna Van Eekeren Foundation
VAPA Foundation and The San Diego Foundation
Wilkinson Family Charitable Fund
Anonymous (1)
P28 PERFORMANCES
MAGAZINE OUR THANKS
Director Circle ($10,000 to $24,999)
Karen and Jim Austin ♥
Jan and Rich Baldwin
Melissa Garfield Bartell and Michael Bartell
Joan and Jeremy Berg
The Bjorg Family
Robert D. Blanton
Break-Away Tours
Beth and Rich Brenner
Bright Event Rentals
Robert and Pamela Brooks
Christian and Bridget Buckley ♥
George and Karen Bullette
Alice and YT Chen, The Chenzyme Foundation
Cox Communications
Carlo and Nadine Daleo
George Davis ♥
Frederik and Irene Defesche
Marguerite Jackson Dill, in memory of George Dill ♥
Nina and Robert Doede
Douglas Druley and Judee
Sedler
Bernard J. Eggertsen and Florence Nemkov*
Enberg Charitable Foundation
Dan and Phyllis Epstein
The Estate of Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. (Bea) Epsten
Carol Spielman-Ewan and Joel Ewan
Susanna and Michael Flaster
Drs. Tom and Jane Gawronski
Carol L. Githens
Kimberly Godwin and Tom Wilcox
Ms. Cheryl Haimsohn
Laurie Sefton Henson
Kate Herring
Teresa and Harry Hixson, Jr.
Susan and Bill Hoehn
John and Sally Hood Family Foundation
HoyleCohen, LLC
Thao and Jeff Hughes
Zeynep Ilgaz
Sonia and Andy* Israel
Hal and Debby Jacobs
Robert Kilian, in memory of Kathleen M. Slayton
Sherry and Larry Kline
The Estate of Marilyn Rogers
Kneeland
Brooke Koehler
Laura Kyle, in memory of Bob Kyle ♥
Peter and Michelle Landin
Benjamin and Kimberly Lee
Verónica and Miguel Leff
Marshall Littman
Marcia A. Mattson
Founder Circle ($5,000 to $9,999)
Thomas and Randi McKenzie
Don and Judy McMorrow ♥
Christopher Menkov and Jennifer Fisher in memory of Elizabeth Meyer
Judith Morgan
Geri Musser
Darrell Netherton and Robert Wheeler
Caroline and Nicolas Nierenberg
Polly and Greg Noel
Nordson Corporation Foundation
Jerry and Phyllis Olefsky
Open Gym Holdings and Working Class Catering
Susan Parker
David and Mary Ann Petree
PNC Bank
Peggy and Peter Preuss
John and Marcia Price Family Foundation
Joan and Richard Qualls
Gerry and Jeannie Ranglas
ResMed Foundation
Colette Carson Royston and Ivor Royston
Stan Siegel
The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust
Bill and Diane Stumph
Rhona Thompson
Debra Turner
Stanley and Anita Ulrich
University of San Diego
Vino Carta
Sue and Bill Weber
Chris and Pat Weil
Shirli Weiss and Sons
Stephen and Joy Weiss ♥
Dr. Steve and Lynne Wheeler
James E. and Kathryn A. Whistler
Phil and Ann White
The Wickline Family
Karin Winner
The Witz Family
AC and Dorothy Wood
Chester Yamaga and Jean Samuels ♥
Anonymous (1)
Alliant Construction Management, Inc. • Lisa and Steve Altman • Barry and Susan Austin • David A. and Jill Wien Badger • Toni and Deron Bear • Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation • Tina Belinsky • Gary and Barbara Blake • Elizabeth and Steven Bluhm • Dr. Herman and Irene Boschken • James and Karen Brailean • Mr. and Mrs. William Briggs • Nancy and Matt Browar • Julia R. Brown • Glenn and Jolie Buberl • Dr. Stephanie Bulger • Joanie and Pete Camana • Harry and Sandra Carter♥ • Greg and Loretta Cass • Carol and Jeff Chang ♥ • Linda Claytor • Vicki Colasurdo • Cliff and Carolyn Colwell • Jane Cowgill • Berit and Tom Durler • Edward Jones Financial Advisor, David S. Tam • Richard Forsyth and Kate Leonard • William and Eva Fox Foundation (administered by Theatre Communications Group) • Bill and Judy Garrett • Joyce Gattas • Robert Gleason and Marc Matys ♥ • Mr. William and Dr. Susan Glockner • Dean J. Haas • Casey and Maybritt Haeling • Guy and Laura Halgren • Norm Hapke and Valerie Jacobs Hapke • In Memory of James Jessop Hervey • Higgs Fletcher & Mack, LLP • The Estate of Alexa Hirsch • Dana Hosseini and Stacie Young • Wayne Hyatt • David K. Jordan • Webster B. and Helen W. Kinnaird • John Kirby and Anthony Toia* • Curt and Nancy Koch • Drs. Janice and Matt Kurth • James and Jan LaGrone ♥ • Jean* and David Laing ♥ • Ronald and Ruth W. Leonardi • Paul Levin and Joanna Hirst • Sheila and Jeffrey Lipinsky • Jackie and Charlie Mann Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation • Marsh & McLennan Agency • Elizabeth and Edward McIntyre • Bob Meinzer Jr. and Steve McIntee • Paul and Maggie Meyer •
MFRG-ICON Construction
• Dr. Howard and Barbara Milstein
• Rebecca Moores
• Sheldon Morris and Catriona Jamieson •
Michael and Christine Pack
• Bernard Paul and Maria Sardina
• Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP
• Scott Peters and Lynn Gorguze
• Julia and Alexa Querin
• Chris and Angy Peto
• RAHD Group
• Joseph and Sara Reisman
• Gale and James Petrie
Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation
Snyder
• Amy Roth
• Special Event Audio Services, Inc.
Iris and Matthew Strauss
• Ann and Tim Rice
• Tina Rounsavell
• Russ and Marty Ries
• Rich and Christy Scannell
• Nancy and Alan Spector and Family
• Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation
• Jeannie and Arthur* Rivkin
• Robert and Lisa Shaw
• Kathleen and Al Steele
• Deborah Szekely
• Dave and Phyllis
• Nancy J. Robertson • Robert Rosenberg
♥
• Ms. Jeanette Stevens
• Brenda and Robert Tomaras
• Dr. Doris
•
Trauner and Mr. Richard Stanford
Zeller • Emma and Leo Zuckerman
• TravelStruck
• Greta and Stephen Treadgold
• C. Anne Turhollow, in memory of Michael J. Perkins ♥ • Carol Vassiliadis • Carol and Larry Veit • Lian von Wantoch, in memory of Jordine and Harvey Von Wantoch ♥ • Britt
• Tatiana Zunshine and Miles Grant • Anonymous (4)
PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P29
Craig Noel Circle ($3,000 to $4,999)
Diana and Don Ambrose • Lucy Anderson
Randolph
• Edward and Pamela Carnot ♥ • Lisa and David Casey
• Anita Busquets and William Ladd
• Chicago Title Company
• Robert Caplan and Carol
• In loving memory of Stanley E. Anderson • Drs. Gabriela and Michael Antos • Judith Bachner and Eric Lasley • Bobbie Ball • Diana (DJ) Barliant and Nowell Wisch Endowment Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation • Jack and Sue Ellen Benson • Darcy Bingham • Richard and Eileen Brown
• Doris and Wayne Christopher • Jan and Tom
Ciaraffo • Garet and Wendy Clark • Ms. Heidi Conlan/The Sahan Daywi Foundation
• R. Patrick and Sharon Connell
• Pamela Cooper • Gigi Cramer, in memory of Ed Cramer • Charley and Barb Crew, in memory of Michael Crew • Ronald D. Culbertson • Joe and Lani Curtis • Darlene G. Davies*, in memory of Lowell Davies • Drs. Charles Davis and Kathryn Hollenbach • Richard De Bethizy • Angie DeCaro ♥ • Jim and Sally Ditto • Sally Dubois and Dan Porte* • Chris Duke and Harriet Kounaves • Vicki and Chris Eddy • Hilit and Barry Edelstein • Bill Eiffert and Leslie Hodge • Arlene Esgate • Michael Fenison • Dieter Fischer/Dieter's Mercedes Service Inc. • Michael and Rocio Flynn • Dr. Ben and Susan Frishberg • Dorothy and Robert Ganz • Norman and Patricia Gillespie • Wendy Gillespie • Fred and Lisa Goldberg • Louise and Doug Goodman • Edry Goot • William D. Gore • Judi Gottschalk • Charles Gyselbrecht and Eric Taylor • Thomas and Cristina Hahn ♥ • Julia Carrington Hall • Pat and Rick Harmetz • Gordon and Phyllis Harris • Richard and Linda Hascup • Phil and Kathy Henry • Jill Holmes, in honor of Suzanne Poet Turner • Geoffrey and Sunshine Horton • Gary and Carrie Huckell • The Jasada Foundation • Jerry* and Marge Katleman • Edythe Kenton • John Kikuchi and Debra Coggins • Jo Ann Kilty • Ken and Sheryl King • Jane and Ray* Klofkorn ♥ • Bill and Linda Kolb • Terry and Mary Lehr • The Leist Family ♥ • Jeffrey and Hillary Liber Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation • Robin J. Lipman • Robin B. Luby • Sally and Luis Maizel • Eileen A. Mason • Dennis A. McConnell • Oliver McElroy and Karen DeLaurier • Mrs. Joseph McGreevy • Mim and Bill McKenzie • Trevor and Teresa Mihalik • Ilene Mittman in memory of Dr. Charles Mittman • Brad Monroe and Dr. Therese Botz • Akiko Charlene Morimoto and Hubert Frank Hamilton, Jr. • Nancy and James Mullen • Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Munzinger • Joyce Nash • Lyn Nelson • Mark C. Niblack, M.D. ♥ • Michael and Linda Niggli
• Noelle Norton and Erwin Willis ♥
• Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Pastore • Anita Pittman • Dr. Julie A. Prazich and Dr. Sara Rosenthal • Ranch & Coast Magazine
• Linda Rankin and Rodney Whitlow • Vivian Reznik, M.D. and Andrew Ries, M.D. • RKG Wealth Management
• Royal Property Management Group, Inc. • Ryde Family Memorial Foundation at The San Diego Foundation • Julie and Jay Sarno
• Robert Schapiro • In memory of Axel • Richard Shapiro and Marsha Janger • Lari Sheehan • Timothy J. Shields • Drs. Joseph and Gloria Shurman • Mark Silver and Katherine Michaud • Alan and Esther Siman • Sing Your Song, Inc. • Nancy Steinhart and Rebecca Goodpasture
• Mike Stivers • Louise and Jack Strecker • Karen and Don Tartre ♥
• Christine and Kent Trimble • True Life Center • Susan and Larry Twomey ♥ • U.S. Department of Education
• Peggy Ann Wallace
• Judith Wenker
• Catherine and Frank White • Steve and Rachel Willey
• Alex Yañez and Brent Garcia • Charlie Zieky and Bob Berman
• Helene and Allan Ziman Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation
• Anonymous (8)
Starting in 2022, Friends of The Old Globe donors will be recognized for their total giving from the preceding fiscal year. Your giving in 2022 will be recognized throughout 2023.
Champion ($1,000 to $2,999)
Alpert-Von Behren Family • Dede Alpert • Lynell Antrim • Jeff and Donna Applestein • Helen Ashley • Toni Atkins and Jennifer LeSar • Katherine Austin • Dr. Stephen Miller Baird • Judson Ball • Sandra D. Barstow, in memory of Margaret Peninger • Sondra and Robert Berk Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation • Edgar and Julie Berner • Giovanni and Carolyn Bertussi • Paul Black • Norma and Craig Blakey • Robert Blanchard and Lynda Forsha • Kathryn Brown • Duane and Sandra Buehner • Laurie Burgett • John Burns and Dr. CC Cameron • California Lawyers for the Arts • Raedel Calori and The Backman Family • Oleg and Ruth Carleton • Gary and Lynette Cederquist • Jean Cheng • Janet and Maarten Chrispeels • Ms. Lisa Churchill and Dr. Susan Forsburg • Richard Clampitt and Rachel Hurst • Lee Clark and Jerry Pikolysky • Katharine Cline and Michael Lee • The Marilyn Colby and Evans Family Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation • Marge Cole • Gail Conklin and David Hamilton • Pamela Cooper • Charles Deem • Hon. Vincent Di Figlia • Donna Donati • Stephen and Sandra Dorros • Jacqueline and Stanley Drosch • Scott and Candi Drury • Joanne Morrison Ehly • Arthur Engel • Jean and Sid* Fox • Beverly Fremont • Donna and Jack Galloway • Cheryl and Steven Garfin • Doug Gillingham and Dana Friehauf • Gayle and Dwight Gordon • Euvoughn Greenan • Philip and Lydia Greiner • The Hafner Family • Mike Haines • Patrick Harrison and Eleanor Lynch • Kevin Harvey • Tom and Lynn Hawkins • Allan Heider and Jennifer Jett • Brent and Dina Helbig • Jamie Henson and Robert Houskeeper • Ingo and Tracy Hentschel • Sara Hickmann • Shirley Hinkley • Peggy and John Holl • Jane and Bruce* Hopkins • Martin and Susan Hupka • Stephanie and Carl Hurst • Joseph and Eileen Innecken • Joe and Phyl Ironworks • Jay Jeffcoat • Ryan Jefferies • Janis Jones
• Kenneth and Marilyn Jones
• Angela and Matthew Kilman • Tae and Sallay Kim • Damien and Constance
Lanyon • Jasna Markovac and Gary Miller • Dr. Ted and Marcy Mazer • Veronica McQuillan and Paul Daffinee • Monica Medina ♥
Ginny and Marshall Merrifield
Arthur and Ellen Moxham
• Rena Minisi and Rich Paul
• Cathy Muslin
Newell • Katie and Mike Nicoletti
Micki Olin and Reid Abrams
Kevin and Coreen Petti
Catherine Rempel
Rottenstein
Foundation
•
• Modern Times Beer • Ursula and Hans Moede • Martha and Chuck Moffett •
• Navy Federal Credit Union
• David J. Noonan • Mikki Nooney
• Dianna Orth
• Marsha J. Netzer • Joan and Charles* Neumann • Ronald J.
• William and Catherine Norcross • Kimberly and David Ohanian •
• Christopher and Susan Pantaleoni
• Dan and Connie Pittard
• Rudy and Erica Robles
• Adele Rabin
• John and Diane Parks
• Raghu and Pam Rau
• Bingo and Gino Roncelli
• Robert Rubenstein and Marie Raftery
• Denis and Kristine Salmon
• Susan Salt
Richard and Meredith Schoebel • Karen Sedgwick
• L. Robert and Patricia Payne
• Sarah B. Marsh Rebelo and John G. Rebelo
• Steve Ross and Hyunmi Cho
• Dawn and Phil Rudolph
• Paige Bosacki Santos
• Lynne and Glenn Rossman
• Joy
• Ryde Family Memorial Foundation at The San Diego
• Sheryl and Bob Scarano
• Gretchen Shugart and Jonathan Maurer
• Lillian Schafer
• Kathy Schneider
• Mitchell and Elizabeth Siegler
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•
•
•
Susan and Gerald Slavet
• Malcolm E. Smith
• Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Swanson
• Andrew and Heidi Spurgin
• Clifford and Kay Sweet
• Steve Steinke
• Phyllis Tachco
• Diane Stocker
• Lisa Striebing
• John and Gail Tauscher
• Anne Taylor
• Thomas
• Ronald and Susan Styn
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OUR THANKS
Champion ($1,000 to $2,999) (continued)
• Casey and Julie Tibbitts • Teresa Trucchi • Joel and Anne-Marie Tubao • Suzanne Poet Turner and Michael T. Turner • Vainio Fund
Templeton and Mary E. Erlenborn • Charles Tiano
• Natalie C. Venezia and Paul A. Sager • Vezabeza • Gladfred Viery • Karen Walker • The Ward Family Charitable Fund • Stuart Weisman • J.D. and Linda Wessling • The Samuel L. Westerman Foundation • Carol and Dennis Wilson • Lise Wilson and Steven Strauss • Withum • Cass Witkowski Family
• Joseph and Mary Witztum • Howard and Christy Zatkin • Anonymous (14)
Advocate ($500 to $999)
Robin Allgren • The Ally Family • Mr. Alexander S. Ardwin • Jeanne Atherton • Drs. Andrew Baird and Linda Hill • Mark and Mariel
Bartlett • Tania and Greg Batson • Sharon Beamer • Jo A. Berman • Sheila Bhalla • Joyce and Bob Blumberg • Ellie Bradford •
Carole Wilson • Cherisse and Edward Brantz • Beth Bruton • Terri Bryson • Gavin and Grace Carter • Andrew Chang • Marlee
Chapman and John Wehbring • Caroline Connor • Will and Lisette Conner • Bryan Crail and Tim Reed • Sally Curran and Keith
De Conde • John and Michelle Dannecker • Linda Davies • Caroline DeMar • Don and Julie DeMent • Gail Dill • Mary Donnelly •
Carol L. Dunbar
• Duncan and Kathleen Engel • James and Louise Esposito • Jay Evarts • Cynthia and Lawrence
• James and Renée Dean Dunford, MD • Jeff Dunigan • Gayle and Rodney Eales • Gary and Rachel Edwards • Eric Emont and Barbara Snyder Emont
Fields
• Paula Fitzgerald and Christopher Nielsen
• Joy Gao and Hui Zhao • Mark and Corrine Harvey • Salah Hassanein • Liz and Gary
• Susan Fox • Judith and Dr. William Friedel • Catherine R. Friedman • Dr. Richard and Randee Friedman • John and Natalie Fulton
Helming • Kaaren Henderson Kerlin • Jill and Steve Herbold
• Christine Hickman and Dennis Ragen • Robert and Sabine Hildebrand •
Larry Imrie and Ingrid Nielsen • Denise Jackson and Al Pacheco • Dr. Steven Jaeger and Joe Zilvinskis • Steve and Linda Jahnke • Nancy
Janus • Stephen Jennings
• David and Susan Kabakoff • Nan and Gery Katona • Wilfred Kearse and Lynne Champagne • Dr. Gerald and Barbara Kent • Bill and Lynne Ketchie • Dorothy and Robert Knox • Marvin Kripps, M.D. • Guliz Kuruoglu • Christopher and Monica
Lafferty • Dan and Maria Lai
• Alexis Lasheras • Lava Propane • Susan E. Lerner • Zita Liebermensch • Eric and Lori Longstreet • Sande
• Ronald McCaskill and Robyn Rogers •
L. Hall and Kyle E. Lovel • Jain Malkin • Neil Malmquist • Deborah and Fred Mandabach • Mercy and Ron Mandelbaum • Scott Markus and Luci Lander • Timothy Mason • Rev. Stephen J. Mather • David McCall and William Cross
Nathan McCay
• Douglas and Edie McCoy
• Harry and Patty McDean
• Christine McFadden • Cynthia McIntyre
• Maggi McKerrow • Ron McMillan • Tessa A. McRae • Nathan Meyers and Vicki Righettini • JR Morgan • Dr. Robert and Ms. Anne Morrison • William and MaryRose Mueller
• Charles and Susan Muha • Rich and June Nygaard • Lou Ochoa and Paige Kerr • Thomas and Tanya O'Donnell • Linda and Larry Okmin • Stephen B. O'Neill • Max and Fredda Opalsky • Donna O'Rourke • Alejandro and Babette Ortiz • Barbara L. Parry, M.D. • Stephanie Pellette • Eve Pritchard • Dr. Jean Francois Pulvenis de Séligny • Dianne and Bruce Ramet • Leslie Reed • Neal and Jennifer
Reenan • Vivien Ressler • Michael and Deborah Rider • Patrick and Marti Ritto • Tom and Mary Roberts • Sheryl Rowling • Dr. Norman and Barbara Rozansky • Jackie Schoell • Martin* and Connie Schroeder • Joseph Shuman and Judy Persky • Linda and Harold Scott • Colin Seid • Dr. Katharine Sheehan and Dr. Frederick Walker* • Allen and Julie Shumate • Michele and John Shumate • Beverly and Howard Silldorf • Anne and Ronald Simon • Kathie Adams and Myke Smith • Norman and Judith Solomon • John and Lynn Spafford • Brad Spitz and Jo Guinn • Hilton and Deb Stemwedel • Patricia Stromberg • Eric and Marian Suggs • Dan and Katie Sullivan • Norm and Laura Swauger • Inez Thomas • Laurel Trujillo and Dennis MacBain • Melissa Usher • Roberto and Mary Valdes • Renato and Myrrha Villanueva • John Walsh • Rex and Kathy Warburton • Rosanne and Dean Weiman • Michael S. and Paula D. West • Drs. Christine White and Joseph Traube • Maria V. White • Joyce Williams • Lee Wills-Irvine • Andrew and Carisa Wisniewski • Emil and Caroline Wohl • Bonnie J. Wright • Brendan M. and Kaye I. Wynne • Mary Ann Yaghdjian, MSRE • Helena Yao • James and Suzy Yates • Anonymous (25)
*In memoriam
♥ Globe Sustainers: donors who have pledged multiyear gifts
This list is current as of August 4, 2023. We regret any omissions or errors. Please contact Janet Myott at jmyott@TheOldGlobe.org to make a correction to this list.
PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P31
Barry Edelstein
Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director
ARTISTIC
Kim Heil · Artistic Producer and Head of Casting
Rebecca Myers · Interim Associate Producer
ARTS ENGAGEMENT
Adena Varner · Director of Arts Engagement
Katherine Harroff · Associate Director of Arts
Engagement and Producer of Community Innovation Vietca Do, Erika Phillips, Laura Zablit · Arts Engagement Programs Managers
Randall Eames, James Pillar, Gill Sotu, Valeria Vega · Arts Engagement Programs Associates
Juliana Gassol · Arts Engagement Operations Coordinator
Askari Abdul-Muntaqim, Trixi Agiao, Andréa Agosto, Hannah Beerfas, Veronica Burgess, Rachel Catalano, Desireé Clarke, Kandace Crystal, Lettie De Anda, Farah Dinga, Vanessa Duron, Randall Eames, Shairi Engle, Gerardo Flores Tonella, Alyssa Kane, Kimberly King, Erika Malone, Mayté Martinez, Niki Martinez, Jake Millgard, James Pillar, Tara Ricasa, Soroya Rowley, Jassiel Santillán, Catherine Hanna Schrock, Gill Sotu, Scott Tran, Miki Vale, Valeria Vega, Thelma Virata de Castro, Eric Weiman · Teaching Artists
EQUITY, DIVERSITY, INCLUSION, AND ACCESS
Jamila Demby · Director of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Access
FINANCE
Michelle Yeager · Director of Finance
Miranda Osguthorpe · Senior Accountant
Eugene Landsman · Payroll Administrator
Trish Guidi · Accountant
Lisa Sanger-Greshko · Accounts Payable/Payroll Assistant
GENERAL MANAGEMENT
Alexander Orbovich · General Manager
Alexandra Hisserich · Associate General Manager
Jeff Sims · Assistant General Manager
Jasmin Duong, Denise Lopez, Prosper
Phongsaiphonh · COVID Compliance Officers
Carolyn Budd ·
Assistant to the Artistic and Managing Directors
Tim Cole · Receptionist
FACILITIES
Crescent Jakubs · Facilities Director
TJ Miller · Custodial Supervisor
Raul Alatorre, Violanda Corona, Bernardo Holloway, Milton Johnson, Carolina Lopez de Orellana, Nancy
C. Orellana Lopez, Carlos Perez, Victor Quiroz, Vicente Ramos, Brock Roser, Ellie Webb · Building Staff
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Dean Yager · Information Technology Director
Justin Brown · Systems Administrator
Brittany Summers · Information Technology Assistant
FRONT OF HOUSE
Katie Lugo · Front of House Manager
Maria Smith · Associate Front of House Manager
Lex Bezdeka, Oliver de Luz, Karen Lefferts, Victoria Weller · House Managers
HELEN EDISON GIFT SHOP
Barbara Behling, Judy Martinez, Joey Ramone Ugalde · Gift Shop Supervisors
LADY CAROLYN ’ S PUB
Patrice Aguayo · Pub Manager
Kimberly Belliard, Deborah Montes, Rashad Williams · Pub Shift Supervisors
Elizabeth Herrera, Shah Kalbassi, Hannah
Kistemaker, Ian Lacy, David Ortiz, Nicholas Pettas, Johnny Quiroz, Cheyla Rios-Lemke, Carolyn Soderberg · Pub Staff
PUBLIC SAFETY
Mike Orona · Public Safety Manager
Shea Husted · Public Safety Lead
Perla Aguilera, Willie Caldwell, Janet Larson, Danny
Mejia, Aisha Parker, Carol Rogers, Andrew Vargas, Jose Vizcaino · Public Safety Team
HUMAN RESOURCES
Sandy Parde · Director of Human Resources
Melissa Becker · Human Resources Generalist
Lorraine Gutierrez · Human Resources Assistant
MARKETING
Timothy J. Shields
Audrey S. Geisel Managing Director
Dave Henson · Director of Marketing and Communications
Patty Onagan Consulting · Public Relations Director
Mike Hausberg · Associate Director of Communications
Nina Garin · Associate Director of Marketing
Joyelle Cabato · Marketing Manager
Chanel Cook · Digital and Print Publications Designer
Rita Corona · Communications Associate
Stephanie Ochoa · Public Relations Associate
Katie Rodriguez · Marketing Assistant
SUBSCRIPTION SALES
Scott Cooke · Subscription Sales Manager
Arthur Faro, Janet Kavin, Ken Seper, Cassandra Shepard, Grant Walpole · Subscription Sales Representatives
TICKET SERVICES
Brianne Siegel · Assistant Director of Ticket Services
Junior Denton, Kathy Fineman, Cynthia Navarro · Lead Ticket Services Representatives
Matt Pequeno ·
Group Sales Manager/Lead Ticket Services Representative
Manuel Aguilar, Mio Rose Aldana, Carmen Amon, Kari Archer, Tyler Blevins, Sofia Cassidy, Jamie Criss, Ruby Dinkins, Jessica Pressman, Brenton Warren · Ticket Services Representatives
NEW PLAYS AND DRAMATURGY
Danielle Mages Amato ·
Director of New Plays and Dramaturgy
Sonia Desai · Literary Associate
PHILANTHROPY
Tony Jennison · Interim Director of Philanthropy
Bridget Cantu Wear · Associate Director of Philanthropy, Major and Legacy Giving
Moneé Gardner ·
Associate Director of Philanthropy, Individual Giving
Sam Abney ·
Associate Director of Philanthropy, Strategic Partnerships
Doug Oliphant · Associate Director of Philanthropy, Annual Giving and Operations
Janet Myott · Philanthropy Administrator
Katie Walsh · Donor Stewardship Coordinator
Dillon Hoban · Annual Giving Coordinator
Caren Dufour · Philanthropy Assistant
Kassi Tompkins Gray · Events Director
Haley French · Events Coordinator
Kaya Ortega · Institutional Giving Associate
DONOR SERVICES
Corinne Bagnol, Adriane Carneiro, Connie Jacobson, Felicita Johnson, Robert Lang, Barbara Lekes, David Owen, Bianca Peña, Stephanie Reed, Barry Rose, Frank Kensaku Saragosa, Sara Stavros · Suite Concierges
PRODUCTION
Robert Drake · Senior Producer
Benjamin Thoron · Production Manager
Leila Knox · Associate Production Manager and Production Stage Manager
Debra Pratt Ballard · Producing Associate
Ron Cooling · Company Manager
Jennifer Watts · Associate Company Manager
Jerilyn Hammerstrom · Production Office Coordinator
Grace Herzog · Company Management Assistant
TECHNICAL
Joe Powell · Technical Director
Todd Piedad, Lucas Skoug · Assistant Technical Directors
Eileen McCann · Charge Scenic Artist
Audrey Casteris · Resident Design Assistant
Diana Rendon · Scenery Office Coordinator
Gillian Kelleher · Head Shop Carpenter
Matt Giebe · Head Shop Carpenter, Festival Brandon Resenbeck ·
Stage Carpenter/Head Rigger, Globe
Jason Chohon · Charge Carpenter, White
Chris Bridges, Keri Ciesielski, Danny Clark, Evan Gove, Gilbert Guzman, Sloan Holly, David Johnson, Stephen Longfellow, Michael Lovett, Hugo Mazariegos, Warren Pelham, Michael Przybylek, Heather Rawolle, Albert Rubidoux, William Slaybaugh, Jazen Sveum · Carpenters
W. Adam Bernard · Lead Scenic Artist
Jamie Boyd, Alyssa Kane, Sami Leon, Hannah Murdoch, Archi Rozas,
Kaitlyn Thompson · Scenic Artists
COSTUMES
Stacy Sutton · Costume Director
Charlotte Devaux Shields · Resident Design Associate
Anne Stoup · Assistant to the Costume Director
Katie Knox · Design Assistant/Shopper
Natalie Barshow, Regan McKay · Design Assistants
Erin Cass, Elena Ham, Ingrid Helton, Kathie Taylor · Drapers
Lupita De La Mora, Allison McCann, Susan Sachs, Abigail Zielke · Assistant Cutters
Yangchen Dolkar · Assistant Cutter/Stitcher
Ashley Bowen-Piscopo, Nunzia Pecoraro, Heather
Premo, Veronica von Borstel · Stitchers
Kristin Womble · Craft Supervisor/Dyer/Painter
Sharon Granieri, Christian Woods · Lead Craft Artisans
Megan Woodley · Wig and Makeup Supervisor
Carissa Ohm · Assistant Wig and Makeup Supervisor
Jazmine Choi, Colin Grice · Wig Assistants
Beth Merriman · Wardrobe Supervisor
Kelly Marie Collett-Sarmiento · Wardrobe Crew Chief, Globe
Jazmine Choi Lead Wig/Hair Runner, Globe
Terrie Cassidy, Sunny Haines · Wardrobe Crew, Globe
Maggie Allen · Wardrobe Swing, Globe
Debbie Callahan · Wardrobe Crew Chief, Festival
Teresa Jove, Chanel Mahoney · Wig Run Crew, Festival
Maximillian Sutai Callahan, Stephanie Castro, Keola
Nii, Grace Wong · Wardrobe Crew, Festival
Raven Winter · Wardrobe Swing, Festival
PROPERTIES
David Buess · Properties Director
Kayleb Kirby · Assistant Properties Director
Jeff Rockey · Lead Properties Artisan
Adrian Del Riego, Ryan Grant, Kevin Hoffman,
Stephanie Kwik, Heather Larsen, Trish Rutter ·
Properties Artisans
Jorge Nunez Bahena · Properties Warehouse Supervisor
James Ramirez · Properties Head, Globe
Richard Rossi · Stage and Properties Head, White
Val Philyaw · Properties Head, Festival
Kevin Orlof · Automation Operator
Cain Hause, Marie Mateo, Kendell Northrop · Properties Run Crew
LIGHTING
Stevie Agnew · Lighting Director
Stephanie Lasater · Assistant Lighting Director
Deanna Trethewey · Lighting Assistant
Ryan Osborn · Head Electrician, Globe
Jess Dean · Head Electrician, White
Ashley McFall · Head Electrician, Festival
Amber Montoya, Robert Thoman · Followspot Operators
Joseph Back, Kimberly Decastro, Erwin Frutos, Xavier Luevano, Amber Montoya, Sandra Navarro, Aaron Pavlica, Jenner Price, Kathryn Reams, Robert Thoman, Aiko Whitmore · Electricians
SOUND
Erin Paige-Bhamrah · Sound Director
Evan Eason · Assistant Sound Director
Colin Whitely · Head Sound Technician, Globe
Matt Lescault-Wood · Head Sound Technician, White Marilynn Do · Deck Audio, Globe
Jennifer Lopez · Head Sound Technician, Festival
Camille Houze · Deck Audio, Festival
Aaron Demuth · Audio Swing
Rachel Eaves, Anthony Hernandez, Tanner Osborne, David Westfall · Sound Technicians
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
Jesse Perez · Director of Professional Training
Nicole Ries · Program Coordinator
Danielle Mages Amato, Ray Chambers, Gerhard Gessner, Ka’imi Kuoha, Scott Ripley, Jersten Seraile, Emmelyn Thayer, Eileen Troberman, James Vásquez · M.F.A. Faculty
Jacob Bruce, Corey Johnston, Dana McNeal, Nate Parde, Nicole Ries, Robin Sanford Roberts · M.F.A. Production Staff
Jack O’Brien · Artistic Director Emeritus
Craig Noel · Founding Director
Boldface type denotes members of senior leadership team.
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New Restaurants, a Fine-Dining Pop-Up, a Michelin Star in Oceanside and More by SARAH DAOUST
daily pastas. Think: pappardelle with short-rib ragu; gnocchi ripieni with Asiago cheese and creamy walnuts; spaghetti with Manila clams; and spinach ravioli with artichoke hearts, mascarpone and Parmesan sauce. The eatery also offers entrees, pizzas, salads, antipasti, Italian cocktails, wine, desserts and a brunch menu. 3055 Clairemont Drive, Bay Park, 619.272.0157
From a restaurant fashioned from a decommissioned church in Mexico, to new waterfront dining along Mission Bay, to Oceanside’s first Michelin star, exciting dining experiences await around San Diego County this month.
"The Pasta Lady,” La Pastaia owned and operated by Sicilian natives Priscilla Scardina and Maria Lo Cascio—is Bay Park’s newest dining destination. The Venetian-style trattoria lives up to its name, with a menu centered on house-made
In Lemon Grove, a quaint new Italian outpost invites you to dine: AnniVenti La Trattoria. Owned and operated by the Gagliano brothers, the restaurant draws its name from the family’s original trattoria near Palermo, Italy. The menu features authentic dishes with contemporary twists, including antipasti, salads, pizzas, pastas, calzones, entrees, wine and cocktails. Try the signature Lasagna AnniVenti with with slow-braised beef Bolognese and bechamel; the Mortazza pizza with burrata, imported mortadella (Italian cured pork) and crema di pistachio; and the arancina of the day. 8099 Broadway, Lemon Grove, 619.303.0415
A healthy fine dining pop-up from two talented chefs who are also brothers? Yes, please. Brothers Danny and Dante Romero (Calexico
natives and formerly chefs at French bistro Wormwood) invite you to dine at Two Ducks. Operating Thursdays and Fridays with just 20 seats available, the underground fine-dining pop-up is billed as a roving dinner experience—with the San Diego location (most likely outdoors) of the meal disclosed to reserved guests the evening prior. Diners can expect an approximately three-hour meal comprising around nine courses, with dishes influenced by Mexican and SoCal cuisine and classic French techniques—centered on health-conscious plates made with seasonal, locally sourced produce and proteins. Two Ducks is the predecessor to the Romero brothers’ former pop-up, Tortoise. Tickets are $185 per person and include beverage pairings and gratuity.
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One of five new venues at the renovated Lafayette Hotel, Quixote is a low-lit Mexican restaurant and mezcaleria that feels like a religious experience, literally. The entire space is an actual decommissioned Catholic church from Mexico— complete with baroque banquettes, stained-glass windows, and an altar as the backdrop of Quixote’s bar. The Oaxacan-inspired menu
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offers pulpo, whole grilled fish, crispy lamb belly, crab-corn doughnuts, chili-garlic shrimp tacos and ceviche tostadas. Highlights: the Oaxacan fondue, “Forcefully Crispy” chicken tacos, and the Sudden Death cocktail with agave and absinthe. 2223 El Cajon Blvd., North Park, 619.975.3705
Mission Bay’s Bahia Resort Hotel welcomes a nautical-inspired waterfront dining destination: Dockside 1953. Nestled along the sandy shores of the bay and the resort’s marina, the restaurant serves local, coastal California fare for breakfast, lunch and dinner—with menus dreamt up by executive chef Bryan Stuppy. Dine amid yacht-clubthemed decor—complete with a shaded bayfront patio with fire pits and postcard views. The dinner menu offers cold seafood towers, pan-seared seabass, shrimp arrabbiata, scallops, steak frites and
daily fresh catches. And try a craft cocktail like the Maple Walnut Old Fashioned or Cucumber-Rosemary Collins. For breakfast, savory hits include the signature Bahia Benedict and Beachside Omelet with applewood-smoked bacon. Or satisfy that sweet tooth with the French toast—banana-stuffed brioche with cream cheese, granola crumble and a vanilla-butterscotch glaze. 998 W. Mission Bay Drive, Mission Bay, 858.539.7634
Following a $22.5 million renovation, Hilton San Diego Gaslamp Quarter invites you to hop on over to the property’s whimsical new restaurant. Serving breakfast, lunch and dinner, Wild Hare Bar Garden helmed by executive chef Emiliano Sotelo—offers garden-inspired dishes with locally sourced proteins and produce; plus ingredients from the property’s onsite garden. Menu
highlights: a signature “rabbit dish” with roasted carrots and spiced goat cheese; pan-fried chicken paillard; themed cocktails like the vodka-based “I’m All Ears”; and the Local Carrot Cake and Imperial Beach Churros for dessert. 401 K St., Gaslamp Quarter, 619.231.4040
Find an authentic omakase dining experience at Sushi Ichifuji, a Tokyostyle Japanese restaurant nestled in Linda Vista. The intimate, 10-seat sushi bar by Hiroshi Ichikawa and Masato Fujita offers two seatings nightly (closed Tuesdays), when reserved guests can enjoy an eightcourse omakase (chefs’ choice) meal of seasonal fare—including appetizers, nigiri and sashimi; plates like miso-marinated black cod and steamed egg custard with vegetables; and house-made Houji tea panna cotta with fruit for dessert; plus premium sake, wine and beer.
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Menu offerings at Quixote. Opposite: Dockside 1953.
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The experience is $160 per person. 7530 Mesa College Drive, Linda Vista, 858.565.1179
In Little Italy, hotspot Monello debuts a substantial new cocktail menu—boasting nearly a dozen new Milaneseinspired creations. Among them: the Sbattitore Estivo (Italian for Summertime Slammer), shaken with Layback vodka, lemon, Curious Juniper bluelavender simple syrup, and mint; Giorno Alla Spa (Spa Day), made with Cazadores reposado tequila, St. Germain, Chareau aloe liqueur, agave and lime, topped with soda and cucumber slices; and Pompelmo Amaro (Bitter Grapefruit), with Campari, Noilly Prat vermouth, grapefruit juice, lime, demerara, egg whites and citrus bitters. 750 W. Fir St., Little Italy, 619.501.0030
Nearby, the former Cafe Gratitude space in Little Italy is now home to The Heights—a new modern Italian chophouse with sleek decor and an outdoor dining patio. The menu offers antipasti, salads, house-made pastas, and steak and seafood entrees, cocktails and wine. Try the signature Bolognese Bianca with fettuccine, braised veal and beef, porcini mushrooms and shaved truffle; the
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Bistecca Fiorentina, a 32-ounce porterhouse served on a lava stone with rosemary potatoes and truffle; and the Beef Wellington. 1980 Kettner Blvd., Suite 10, Little Italy, 619.539.7344
In Oceanside, modern Mexican restaurant Valle recently received a coveted Michelin star—making it the North County city’s first and only Michelin-starred outpost. Opened in September 2021 at the beachfront Mission Pacific Hotel, the restaurant quickly became known for its refined cuisine—a blend of flavors and recipes from Baja’s Valle de Guadalupe wine region and northern Mexico. Feast on braised lamb in birria broth, daily fresh catches and A5 wagyu beef; with an eight-course chef’s tasting menu available; plus agave cocktails and Baja wines. 222 N. Pacific St., Oceanside, 866.723.8906
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San Diego Symphony.
“It’s not always been easy to draw audiences to contemporary music,” said Leah Rosenthal, artistic director of La Jolla Music Society. But as the music has changed so has audience acceptance.
“For so long, there was an idea of what new music
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sounded like,” she said. “It was atonal. Now it’s anything goes, from the most tonal beautiful melodies to still challenging sounds.
“It’s a work in progress and our audiences are ... more open to hearing and experiencing new music.”
Contemporary music might not first come to mind when one thinks of chamber music, the heart of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra.
“We’re nerds in the Baroque classical space and we’re excited to celebrate that nerdiness,” said LACO managing director Ricky Dean McWain. “So are our patrons.”
Yet, LACO is so dedicated to championing contemporary composers that it has a club for audience members called South Investment; donors join to underwrite an annual commission by a composer from Los Angeles or with ties to the city.
Its festival program is a prime example of how LACO weaves traditional and new music. Traces, a violin concerto by Nina C. Young, makes its world premiere paired with symphonies by C.P.E. Bach and Felix Mendelssohn.
The new work by Young, associate professor of composition at the USC Thornton School of Music, is a LACO co-commission with the
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LA Opera, a guardian for another art form that relies on a traditional canon, infuses contemporary work into all aspects of its programming, said Christopher Koelsch, president and CEO.
This season, that includes El último sueño de Frida y Diego (“The Last Dream of Frida and Diego”), a new opera by Gabriela Lena Frank, a Californian, and Nilo Cruz.
Since its premiere a year ago, Frida y Diego has been, Koelsch said, “a monster hit for both San Diego and for San Francisco.”
An opera about the relationship between artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera could have been paint-by-numbers, but Frank and Cruz created something much more interesting, Koelsch said.
“I found the experience both aesthetically and spiritually deeply moving. It’s an unconventional structure and it’s an unconventional opera that people have found to be quite delightful.”
It’s scheduled for six performances at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion that overlap with the California Festival.
“I’m thrilled and delighted at the kismet that the two things lined up so, so perfectly,” Koelsch said.
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In his 11 years running LA Opera, Koelsch said he has seen the audience appetite for new music grow exponentially. He gives much credit to Salonen, who made contemporary work essential during his association with the LA Phil.
“Esa-Pekka pretty much single-handedly created this marketplace for audiences for the reception of new music,” Koelsch said. “He was really the person who blew up that old model of how a symphonic program would go.”
As Salonen changed audience expectations at the LA Phil, LA Opera’s contemporary programming benefited.
“I feel like I inherited the mantle of a marketplace that he had created,” Koelsch said.
“Audiences are voting with their feet and with their wallets. They are signaling to us that they are as interested in contemporary artists as they are in the existing canon.”
The 95 organizations taking part in the festival are to one degree or another building back after the post-pandemic slowdowns.
“My hope,” McWain said, “is that a series of events like this with overlapping audiences is a boon for audience development and ... a return home for patrons of the arts.”
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