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MARCH 2014

CENTER THEATRE GROUP BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2013/2014 OFFICERS

honorary chairman Lew R. Wasserman† chairman Martin Massman president William H. Ahmanson vice presidents Ava Fries Susan Grode secretary Amy R. Forbes treasurer Dr. Steven Nagelberg

The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess Ahmanson Theatre April 22 – June 1, 2014 The cast of The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess. photo by michael j. lutch.

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board members Dean V. Ambrose Pamela Beck Miles Benickes Norris J. Bishton, Jr. Howard Bragman Diana Buckhantz Dannielle Campos Ramirez Joseph C. Carieri Marcy Carsey Nancy de Brier Cástulo de la Rocha Vin Di Bona Dante Di Loreto Frances Flanagan Barbara Fodor Eric R. Garen Kiki Ramos Gindler Patricia Glaser Brindell Roberts Gottlieb Aliza Karney Guren Tim Hanlon Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr. Darell L. Krasnoff Lucy M. Labruzzo Jennifer Altfeld Landau

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Carol Mancino Dale S. Miller Walter Mirisch Jo Muse Edward B. Nahmias Diane Neubauer Edward L. Rada Bill Resnick Michael Ritchie Laura Rosenwald Bruce L. Ross Dan Sernett Cheryl A. Shepherd Jack Simon Maggy Simon Sue Tsao emeritus Harold Applebaum Ronald J. Arnault Judith Beckmen Gordon Davidson Phyllis Hennigan Leonard Hirshan Richard Kagan Nancy Olson Livingston O. Kit Lokey Diane Morton past presidents Lew R. Wasserman† Marshall Berges† Armand S. Deutsch† Walter Mirisch Henry C. Rogers† Richard E. Sherwood† J. David Haft† Lawrence J. Ramer† Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr. Phyllis Hennigan Richard Kagan Martin Massman †Deceased

Center Theatre Group’s Mission: To serve the diverse audiences of Los Angeles by producing and presenting theatre of the highest caliber, by nurturing new artists, by attracting new audiences, and by developing youth outreach and arts education programs. This mission is based on a belief that the art of theatre is a cultural force with the capacity to transform the lives of individuals and society at large.

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Audience Services: 213.628.2772: Ticketing, subscriptions, full customer service including lost ticket replacement, ticket donations, Passport memberships, information about upcoming productions or events, and hotel and restaurant recommendations. Telephone hours: Monday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday through Friday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Saturday noon to 8 p.m., and Sunday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Except major holidays.

Center Theatre Group is a non-profit company that produces worldclass theatre at the Ahmanson Theatre and the Mark Taper Forum at the Music Center of Los Angeles, and the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City.

Walk-Up Box Office Hours: The central box office for Center Theatre Group is located in front of the Ahmanson Theatre at the Music Center, and open Tuesday through Saturday from noon to 8 p.m., Sunday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., and closed on Monday. Remote box offices that are located at the Taper and Douglas are open two hours before performances.

Receive Breaking News at CenterTheatreGroup.org Online ticketing plus information about upcoming productions, advance copies of the program and study guides, downtown restaurants, sponsorship programs, special community activities, and much more.

Season Tickets: 213.972.4444: Subscribers are assigned seats before tickets are released for sale to the general public. Plus, whenever special events are announced at any of our theatres, subscribers have first offer for tickets with no service or convenience fees.

Group and Corporate Services 213.972.8075: Discounts are available for groups of 10-15 or more. A variety of corporate employee/client ticket programs is also offered. Enjoy VIP service for theatre receptions, fundraisers and tour groups.

Flexible payment options and access to purchase tickets before single tickets go on sale.

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Hot Tix: A comprehensive and convenient discount ticket program called Hot Tix offers a $20 ticket to the general public. Beginning three weeks prior to the first performance of each production, Hot Tix can be purchased by phone or in person at CTG’s central box office. Cash or credit card (no checks; limited to two tickets per household). Hot Tix may also be purchased (subject to availability) on the day of performance at the central box office or two hours before the performance at the Taper or the Douglas.

Young Children and Babies: Children under age six are not admitted, unless the production is advertised for younger audiences. Regardless of age, everyone must have a ticket and be able to sit quietly throughout the performance. Babes in arms are not admitted.

Donations: Center Theatre Group is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that supports the Mark Taper Forum, Ahmanson Theatre and the Kirk Douglas Theatre. For further information, call 213.972.7368.

Gift Certificates: 213.628.2772: Available in any amount. They’re perfect for friends, employee recognition and special occasions. Complimentary cards for “Happy Birthday,” “Happy Anniversary,” “Season’s Greetings,” “Congratulations” or “In Appreciation.”

Taper and Douglas Stage Talks: Lively post-show discussions, led by staff who are often joined by members of the cast, are held on selected evening performances. Call Audience Services at 213.628.2772 or visit CenterTheatreGroup.org for a complete schedule.

Late Seating: To minimize disruption, patrons not seated when the performance begins will be asked to watch the lobby monitor until an appropriate break in the performance. Latecomers may also be given alternate seats until intermission.

Fragrances: Please refrain from wearing strong perfumes and cologne. Many people are allergic to heavy scents.

Special Access: Assisted listening devices for persons with limited hearing are available in the lobby at no charge. Accommodations are available for persons in wheelchairs and their companions for all performances. Specific dates are available for American Sign Language interpretation and Audio Description for deaf, hard of hearing, blind and low-vision patrons. Open Captioning for blind and low-vision patrons is available for specific dates at the Ahmanson Theatre and is provided by a generous anonymous Artistic Director’s Circle gift. Call 213.628.2772 or TDD 213.680.4017 or visit CenterTheatreGroup.org/ProjectDate.

Photographs and Recordings: Flash photography can be dangerous to performers and is very distracting to audiences. Photography and any other type of recording device are unlawful, unless authorized by Center Theatre Group. Your use of a ticket constitutes acknowledgement of willingness to appear in authorized photographs and video in public areas of the Music Center and the Kirk Douglas Theatre and releases Center Theatre Group, the Music Center and all others from liability resulting from the use of such photographs.

First Aid: In case of injury or illness, please see an usher.

Lost and Found: For the Ahmanson and the Taper, please contact one of our head ushers after the performance or contact the Lost and Found clerk at 213.972.2600. At the Douglas, contact the Performance Manager at 213.972.4435.

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A History of Excellence Center Theatre Group is Los Angeles’ preeminent non-profit theatre company.

On our three stages — the Ahmanson Theatre, the Mark Taper Forum and the Kirk Douglas Theatre — we present the highest quality and broadest range of theatre: groundbreaking new works, explosive productions of the classics and hit Broadway plays and musicals.

In the most current nine seasons alone, over 170 productions have been selected for presentation, including 38 world premieres. Seventeen productions have subsequently been produced in New York.

The same high standards that we apply to our stages extend to our education and community outreach programs. Through special performances, residencies at schools, discount tickets and educational materials, we reach each year over 19,000 students, educators and community members who would not otherwise experience professional theatre.

We are proud to continue our 47-year tradition of contributing to the culture of our city and to the enrichment of the national theatre community, and we are grateful to our subscribers, donors and board whose generous support makes our work possible.

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The Greatest Band You’ve Never Heard Of Artistic Director’s Circle Members Help Bring a Forgotten Story to the Stage

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he Comedian Harmonists sold millions of records, played to packed houses all over the world and starred in many films until their career was cut short by events that profoundly changed history forever. Many have forgotten their story, but thanks to Artistic Director’s Circle members Ruth Flinkman-Marandy and Ben Marandy — proud supporters of Harmony now onstage at the Ahmanson Theatre — Los Angeles audiences can experience this unforgettable true story of friendship and adversity.

A BRIGHT FUTURE The Comedian Harmonists, the real-life musical group upon which Harmony is based, were dapper and uproariously funny, but fans knew them best for their complex harmonies. Germany’s first “boy band,” the Comedian Harmonists had a vast repertoire ranging from folk and classical music to popular songs of the day. Early in their career, they performed only three or four of their own songs as part of a larger program, but audiences wanted more. Their first full-length concert catapulted them to stardom.

“The shouting, the clamoring of the audience — I was flabbergasted,” remembered the group’s first tenor, Ari Leschnikoff, 45 years later.

“I shed tears of joy.”

Soon they were a global sensation, traveling to Berlin, Munich, Amsterdam, Paris and the United States. In the early 1930s, just one press notice could sell out a prestigious concert hall. They became popular on radio and recordings and starred in as many as 21 films.

They had it all.

AN UNEXPECTED FINALE Then the political climate in Germany began to change. Three of the group’s six members were Jewish, and a fourth was married to a Jewish

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ABOUT RUTH AND BEN

l to r: Douglas Williams, Chris Dwan, Shayne Kennon, Tony Yazbeck, Will Taylor and Will Blum in the Alliance Theatre production of Harmony. photo by greg mooney.

woman. As early as 1932, the Nazis banned them from performing songs

by Jewish composers. By 1934, Nazi Germany barred Jews from performing onstage, and the Comedian Harmonists were forced to cancel their concerts altogether. Their final performance in Germany took place in March of that year. Soon after, the group disbanded.

Their amazing story inspired the legendary Barry Manilow and theatre veteran Bruce Sussman, longtime collaborators, to create a new musical with an original score that celebrates this extraordinary group of friends, ensuring their quest for harmony in the most discordant chapter of human history will never be forgotten. ○

“ We are both thrilled to finally return to our first love — writing a musical together. Especially this one. It has been an indescribable honor to spend all this time in the company of these six extraordinary men.”

–Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman, creators of Harmony.

Center Theatre Group is profoundly grateful to Artistic Director’s Circle members Ruth Flinkman-Marandy and Ben Marandy for their generous support of Harmony at the Ahmanson Theatre. The Artistic Director’s Circle, founded by Brindell and Milton Gottlieb, is comprised of individuals supporting specific areas of Michael Ritchie’s artistic vision with commitments of $100,000 and above. For more information, please call Erin Schlabach at 213.972.3069.

Ruth Flinkman-Marandy and her husband, Ben Marandy, are dedicated philanthropists in their community.

Supporting Center Theatre Group’s production of Harmony with their Artistic Director’s Circle membership seemed like a wonderful match for their philanthropic interests. The context of the show particularly appealed to Ruth, not to mention she has always been a big fan of Barry Manilow.

“I grew up listening to him and watched him grow up,” she said. She even cajoled her kids to listen to him.

“I deeply appreciate what he does.”

A fellow singer herself, Ruth became smitten by the theatre as a child.

She began performing at the age of three and a half. She sang on radio and television in New York through her teens and performed in regional theatre and at social events. She still performs to this day as a soloist and with The Songbirds, formerly the Club 100 Singers.

Ruth is a deeply devoted supporter of the theatre. She has been a CTG subscriber for more than 45 years and joined the Artistic Director’s Circle in 2009.

In addition to her dedication to Center Theatre Group, Ruth is on the boards of Theatre 40, American Friends of Hebrew University, American Technion Society and the American Associates of Ben-Gurion University.

She is also a member of The Music Center, Beverly Hills Theatre Guild, West Coast Jewish Theatre, Ophira Hadassah, the Board of Governors of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and the Malibu Jewish Center and Synagogue.

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ARTS EDUCATION CORPORATE SPOTLIGHT

Center Theatre Group | August Wilson Monologue Competition

Celebrating Excellence Students Honor Playwright August Wilson at the Mark Taper Forum 2014 August Wilson Monologue Competition Los Angeles Regional Finalists gather to prepare for their performances on the Mark Taper Forum stage. photo by ryan miller/capture imaging.

“ All you need in the world is love and laughter. That’s all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.”

–Bertha Holly, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone

by August Wilson

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welve high school students will speak lyrical words like these onstage at the Mark Taper Forum this month during the Los Angeles regional finals of the August Wilson Monologue Competition. Presented by Center Theatre Group Affiliates — a group that volunteers and raises funds for CTG’s education programs — the event brings together a panel of professional judges to select two finalists and one alternate for the seventh-annual national finals. In May, each will travel to Broadway’s August Wilson Theatre, where they will perform with students from seven other participating cities.

COMPETITION WITH A MISSION “The importance of history to me is simply to find out who you are and where you’ve been. It becomes doubly important if someone else has been writing your history.” –August Wilson

Through this program, students of all backgrounds have the opportunity to learn about this important playwright of color and the African-American perspectives he chronicled.

Eliana Pipes, a 2013 national finalist representing CTG, needed this chance.

“This summer I realized I’d never read a play by a black playwright,” she said. “The revelation was astonishing and heartbreaking to me, especially as a person of mixed heritage. Since then I’ve been avidly trying to read more cultural plays and study ethnic characters.”

AN EXPERIENCE TO CHERISH More than 100 students participated in Center Theatre Group’s preliminary auditions in November 2013, representing 34 schools and 39 local cities. A goal of the program is to introduce August Wilson and his work to a new generation.

“Performing in our iconic theatre is an experience to cherish,” says CTG Director of Education and Community Partnerships Leslie K. Johnson.

“Yet even more importantly, these students will gain confidence and a deeper appreciation for August Wilson — a significant African-American playwright about whom we believe every young person should know.” ○

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Center Theatre Group | August Wilson Monologue Competition

SAVE THE DATE SATURDAY MARCH Center Theatre Group’s

Season Celebration 2014 Honoree BANK OF AMERICA A special evening to benefit CTG’s Education and Community Partnerships featuring a special performance of

Center Theatre Group’s 2014 August Wilson Monologue Competition Los Angeles Regional Finalists. photo by ryan miller/capture imaging.

2014 August Wilson Monologue Competition Los Angeles Regional Finalists Maggie Cannan, Studio City Lana Cosic, Pasadena Erendira Di Giuseppe, Los Angeles Jonah Gould, Los Angeles Wayne Mackins-Harris, Los Angeles Ayanna McKnight, Pomona

Wendy Morrow, Los Angeles Leaf Rickard, Burbank Derrick Rose, Yucaipa Shan Shaikh, Panorama City Mykaela Sterris, Fullerton Taylor Walker, Pacoima

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To follow the students’ journey to New York, visit TheGrid.CenterTheatreGroup.org and search “August Wilson.” To learn more about Center Theatre Group’s August Wilson Program, visit CenterTheatreGroup.org/AugustWilson.

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THE SCENE

Center Theatre Group | Donor Trips

Good Times on the High Seas The CTG Cruisers enjoy the Captain’s Farewell Dinner onboard the Crystal Symphony. Front row (l to r): Ben Marandy, Carolyn Fried, Mary Cutler, Babette Goldberg. Back row (l to r): Ruth Flinkman-Marandy, Kiki Gindler, David Gindler, Betty Phillips, Wes Schaefer, Cathy King-Schaefer, Becky Birdsong, Karen Donahoe, Deborah Deming and John Kinikin.

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hen Inner Circle Ambassador Cathy King-Schaefer and her husband, Wes, were asked to chair this year’s donor cruise, they immediately accepted. From November 2–16, the Schaefers led a group of 17 Center Theatre Group donors and subscribers on a luxurious cruise from New York City to Miami, tailor-made for film and theatre enthusiasts. This was CTG’s second voyage with our friends from Frosch Classic Cruise and Travel and the awardwinning Crystal Cruises, and neither disappointed! Travelers enjoyed lavish meals, live music, ballroom dancing, guest lectures and special movie screenings.

A Q-AND-A WITH M-AND-K CTG Artistic Director Michael Ritchie and his wife, actress Kate Burton, were two of the featured artists onboard who shared anecdotes about their lives on- and offstage.

Michael and Kate confided about the ups and downs of their early careers, but each said they feel as if they’re now hitting their stride.

“I loved traveling by land, air and sea to end up in a theatre on a cruise ship, listening to Michael and Kate chat about their careers and their life together to a full house of fans,” said CTG Board member Kiki Gindler.

When asked what CTG production had been the most meaningful to him to date, Michael replied, “Dead End. It was my inaugural production and our son’s first time onstage.”

“SUNDAY, MONDAY, HAPPY DAYS” Hollywood legend and CTG Entertainment Circle member Garry Marshall was also on board. He and his wife, Barbara, made a surprise appearance at CTG’s first cocktail gathering in the Palm Court. Later, the Schaefers attended an exclusive dinner with Mr. Marshall where he talked about his extraordinary career and signed copies of his memoir.

“It was such a treat and a dream come true,” Cathy said. ○

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A LARGER THAN LIFE STORY

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BEATY Directed by MOISÉS KAUFMAN WORLD PREMIERE PRODUCTION

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BACKSTAGE TOUR CORPORATE SPOTLIGHT

Center Theatre Group | Donor Benefits

Off to Neverland CTG Donors Go Behind the Scenes of Starcatcher

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enter Theatre Group donors stepped into the imaginative world of Peter and the Starcatcher when the show’s production stage manager, McKenzie Murphy, and company manager, Erica Norgaard, led a backstage tour in January.

Whether longtime theatregoers or enthusiastic college students, attendees were transfixed by this up-close view of the show’s magic. Here are some secrets they learned about the production:

• In addition to their evening shows, the actors rehearsed twice a week while on tour.

• The set designer wanted the giant pineapple, seen at the top of the proscenium arch, to be the first thing people saw because pineapples are symbols of hospitality.

Welcome to the world of imagination!

• To reduce the show’s carbon footprint, scenic designer Donyale Werle made the proscenium with recycled materials, including approximately 300 wine corks!

• If the blue backdrop in Act II looked familiar, perhaps that’s because much of the material was recycled from productions of Disney’s The Little Mermaid.

• Starcatcher took up residence in the Ahmanson Theatre for six weeks, one of the touring production’s longest runs.

Some cities on the tour route only had the show for one or two nights.

• Actors from all over the country — Los Angeles, Chicago and everywhere in between — traveled to New York for the chance to tour with this spectacular production.

top to bottom: A close-up of the Peter and the Starcatcher proscenium mid-construction • The completed proscenium. photos provided by the peter and the starcatcher touring production.

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Contributions from theatre-lovers like you enable the organization to delight, educate and inspire diverse audiences through the power of theatre. In appreciation of their support, CTG brings its donors closer to the magic onstage through events like this. To learn more, contact Donor Relations at 213.972.7327, or email DonorRelations@CenterTheatreGroup.org.

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Cause for Celebration Tim Hanlon Shares His Passion for Theatre

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Tim Hanlon, right, and his husband, Anthony Klatt. photo by steve cohn photography.

ells Fargo demonstrates an enduring commitment to the Los Angeles arts scene and to educational programs at Center Theatre Group as a season sponsor, a Sterling-level Corporate Circle member and now as sponsor of Season Celebration, an annual gala that benefits CTG’s Education and Community Partnerships programs. For Wells Fargo and Executive Vice President Tim Hanlon — head of the organization’s charitable arm, the Wells Fargo Foundation — supporting arts education is critical to building and sustaining community.

IS THERE A COMMON THREAD BETWEEN THEATRE AND BANKING? Both, when done right, help people lead richer lives.

Drawn to its energy and diversity, Hanlon moved to L.A. five years ago with his husband, Anthony Klatt. A devoted supporter of many causes in the L.A. area, Hanlon has served on the board at the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, the Hammer Museum, the Palm Springs International Film Society and CTG. ○

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE THING TO DO WHEN YOU ARE NOT AT WORK OR THE THEATRE? We have two rescue dogs, and often it seems our lives revolve around them. I’m active in the animal rescue community and have a real passion for all animals, though dogs will always have a huge place in my heart.

Wells Fargo is proud to support organizations working to strengthen our communities.

Through the efforts of its enthusiastic team member-volunteers and its contributions, Wells Fargo shares its success within our communities by giving back to non-profits and educational institutions addressing vital community needs and issues.

PLAYS OR MUSICALS? Depends.

I’ve left some musicals, like Spring Awakening, convinced I’d just seen the reinvention of theatre. I’ve left some plays, like The Lieutenant of Inishmore, convinced my life had changed.

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WHICH PLAYWRIGHT WOULD MAKE THE BEST LUNCH DATE? Can you imagine lunch with Noël Coward?

WHAT PLAYWRIGHT WOULD YOU TRUST TO WRITE YOUR LIFE STORY? Anna Deavere Smith is one of the most talented human beings on the planet. I don’t know what she’d do with my little life story, but it would be amazing in her hands.

WHICH THEATRICAL TALENT OR THEATRE-MAKING SKILL WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO HAVE? Set design is magic. That craftspeople can read a play, envision a set and make it appear — that’s an enormous talent.

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DONOR RECOGNITION

Center Theatre Group | Donor Recognition

Corporate Circle

Foundation Support

The Corporate Circle comprises companies that support Center Theatre Group’s community and educational programs. Members receive VIP concierge service at theatres in Los Angeles, New York and London; complimentary and discounted tickets to CTG shows, business development opportunities and more. For more information, call Jamie Cataldo at 213.972.7536. (Donors listed as of February 3, 2014.)

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Mark Taper Forum

47th Season 2014

FIRST SEASON PRODUCTION

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

by Christopher Durang Directed by David Hyde Pierce Based on the Broadway Direction of Nicholas Martin.

January 29 – March 16, 2014 SECOND SEASON PRODUCTION

The Tallest Tree in the Forest

A Play with Music Written and Performed by Daniel Beaty Directed by Moisés Kaufman World Premiere Production.

April 12 – May 25, 2014 THIRD SEASON PRODUCTION

David Suchet in

The Last Confession

by Roger Crane Directed by Jonathan Church United States Premiere Presented in the Ahmanson Theatre.

June 7 – July 6, 2014 FOURTH SEASON PRODUCTION

Buyer & Cellar

Featuring Michael Urie Written by Jonathan Tolins Directed by Stephen Brackett West Coast Premiere.

July 9 – August 17, 2014 FIFTH SEASON PRODUCTION

Marjorie Prime

by Jordan Harrison Directed by Pam MacKinnon World Premiere.

September 10 – October 19, 2014 SIXTH SEASON PRODUCTION

What the Butler Saw

by Joe Orton Directed by John Tillinger.

November 12 – December 21, 2014

SEASON BONUS OPTIONS

Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty

A Gothic Romance Music composed by Tchaikovsky A New Adventures Production Co-Presented with Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at the Music Center Presented in the Ahmanson Theatre.

November 21 – December 1, 2013 Christopher Plummer in

A Word or Two

Written and Arranged by Christopher Plummer Directed by Des McAnuff Presented in the Ahmanson Theatre.

January 19 – February 9, 2014

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Inspiring Our Future Special Thanks to Center Theatre Group’s Most Generous Annual Patrons Center Theatre Group wishes to thank the following leaders for their significant annual gifts and for their belief in the transformative power of theatre. $1,000,000 and above

Brindell Roberts Gottlieb $250,000 and above

The Dream Fund at UCLA Donor Advised Fund Center Theatre Group Affiliates Kirk & Anne Douglas The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation $150,000 and above

Eva & Marc Stern Wells Fargo Foundation Jeanette Shammas The Blue Ribbon Laura & James Rosenwald & Orinocco Foundation The Shubert Foundation, Inc. Bank of America $100,000 and above

Anonymous Debra & Norris Bishton JPMorgan Chase & Co. $75,000 and above

Elisabeth Katte Harris Trust The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation William Randolph Hearst Foundation Lloyd E. Rigler — Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation

This list includes gifts made to Center Theatre Group between December 6, 2012, and January 6, 2014.

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Presents

BY

CHRISTOPHER DURANG WITH

MARK BLUM CHRISTINE EBERSOLE SHALITA GRANT DAVID HULL KRISTINE NIELSEN LIESEL ALLEN YEAGER SET DESIGN

COSTUME DESIGN

LIGHTING DESIGN

DAVID KORINS

GABRIEL BERRY

DAVID WEINER

WIG, HAIR AND MAKE-UP DESIGN

CASTING BY

ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

COOKIE JORDAN

MARK B. SIMON, CSA DANIEL SWEE, CSA

KELLEY KIRKPATRICK

ORIGINAL MUSIC AND SOUND DESIGN

MARK BENNETT PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER

DAVID S. FRANKLIN

DIRECTED BY

DAVID HYDE PIERCE BASED ON THE BROADWAY DIRECTION OF NICHOLAS MARTIN

Original Broadway Production Produced by Joey Parnes Larry Hirschhorn Joan Raffe/Jhett Tolentino Martin Platt & David Elliott Pat Flicker Addiss Catherine Adler John O’Boyle Joshua Goodman Jamie deRoy/Richard Winkler Cricket Hooper Jiranek/Michael Palitz Mark S. Golub & David S. Golub Radio Mouse Entertainment Shadowcatcher Entertainment Mary Cossette/Barbara Manocherian Megan Savage/Meredith Lynsey Schade Hugh Hysell/Richard Jordan Cheryl Wiesenfeld/Ron Simons S.D. Wagner John Johnson in association with McCarter Theatre Center and Lincoln Center Theater.

Originally commissioned and produced by McCarter Theatre, Princeton, N.J., Emily Mann, Artistic Director; Timothy J. Shields, Managing Director; Mara Isaacs, Producing Director. And produced by Lincoln Center Theater, New York City, under the direction of Andre Bishop and Bernard Gersten in 2012.

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

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photo by joan marcus.

clockwise from left: Director David Hyde Pierce, Kristine Nielsen, Christine Ebersole, David Hull,

Liesel Allen Yeager, Mark Blum and Shalita Grant.

CAST (in order of appearance) Vanya................................................................................................... Mark Blum Sonia............................................................................................Kristine Nielsen Cassandra........................................................................................ Shalita Grant Masha......................................................................................Christine Ebersole Spike..................................................................................................... David Hull Nina........................................................................................ Liesel Allen Yeager UNDERSTUDIES Understudies never substitute for listed performers unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the performance.

For Cassandra – Ngozi Anyanwu; For Sonia and Masha – Susan Denaker; For Vanya – David Pevsner; For Spike – Brad Schmidt; For Nina – Georgia Warner.

STAGE MANAGERS Michelle Blair and Denise Yaney ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR Bryan Hunt TIME/PLACE Set in the present, a lovely farm house in Bucks County, PA. There will be one 15-minute intermission.

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

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MY LIFE WITH CHEKHOV

BY CHRISTOPHER DURANG

i read plays from a very young age. Probably because

had very long speeches, and after a while I felt that I wasn’t ready to read Chekhov.

She read to me from Winnie-the-Pooh when I was little—not a play, of course, but lots of good dialogue.

My two favorite characters were windbag Owl, who bored everyone, and gloomy, worrying Eeyore.

So I went back to reading Blithe Spirit or the musicals I loved, such as Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel.

my mother did.

My mother loved James Thurber and Noël Coward and The New Yorker. Thurber had lots of wonderful dialogue, too. And I find the arch sound of Coward’s dialogue very funny. My mother’s and my favorite Coward play was Hay Fever, about the chaotic and grandiose Bliss family and how they ignore and insult their houseguests.

So I was hungry to read the famous plays, the classic plays.

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(Chekhov in my childhood)

When I was 14, I tried to read my first Chekhov play. I always looked at the cast of characters to figure out who was who.

The Russian names in Chekhov, though, intimidated me.

Irina Nikolayevna Arkadina (Madame Treplev by marriage) was the first character listed in The Seagull.

Much harder to take in than Judith Bliss in Hay Fever.

Then there was Konstantin Gavrilovitch Treplev (Kostya), who was Irina Nikolayevna Arkadina’s son. But below him on the list was Boris Aleksyeevich Trigorin, who was “a writer.”

And the character names in the text were Arkadina, Treplev and Trigorin. And the last two names seemed similar to me, as well as unfamiliar. And the characters

I wrote comic plays of my own, as well as two musical comedies that my Catholic high school put on. My college guidance counselor was a smart and worldly priest, and he suggested I apply to all these famous schools. My grades were good but not spectacular, but he told me that I should stress the playwriting I had done in school.

To my utter surprise, I got into Harvard.

CHEKHOV ENCOUNTER NO. 2

(The Seagull)

Harvard did not have a theatre major, which I knew when I applied. I thought that, as a would-be playwright, maybe I should be well-rounded. Which I am not. In terms of my education, I ended up only semi-rounded, with large, gaping holes in my knowledge. I really couldn’t be a contestant on Jeopardy!

The English department did offer some theatre classes.

And during the first week of my freshman year I auditioned to get into an acting seminar.

The list of who got in was posted, but there was a throng of people standing in front of it. I decided to wait until the crowd thinned out, and I stood by a striking young woman who was barefoot and wisely avoiding the crowd so as not to have her feet trod upon.

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I was bushy-tailed and friendly my freshman year (before I entered the Dark Night of My Soul sophomore year), and I asked the barefoot young woman how her audition for the George Hamlin acting seminar had gone. She looked at me and said, in a resonant voice, “Mr. Hamlin said my Saint Joan was the finest he had ever seen.”

Well, that was a bit of a conversation stopper. I later wished I had said, “Ah, that’s what he said to me, too.”

But I didn’t. Plus, he hadn’t. I think he found my Saint Joan to be mediocre. And she got into the seminar, and I didn’t. But a few years later I got to see her in a student production of Three Sisters, and she was very good. But I am ahead of myself. I still hadn’t figured out how to read Chekhov.

I signed up for an enormous lecture class called “Contemporary American and British Theatre, From the 1950s Through the Present.” This sounded like bliss to me. And it was taught by a famous professor who was also a playwright—William Alfred, a much beloved teacher and scholar, who in 1965 had had an offBroadway success with his Irish-family play Hogan’s Goat, which gave the actress Faye Dunaway her first professional success.

The class was in a large lecture room. Professor Alfred walked to the podium. He announced that in order to fully understand modern American and British drama, we needed to know something about the plays that preceded them. And so we were going to read a Greek tragedy, a Roman play, a Molière, a Shakespeare, a Chekhov, a Shaw, etc., until we got to the modern-day playwrights. This was rather far from the published syllabus, but it also sounded terrific.

Seagull the play I had The assigned Chekhov was The Seagull, tried to read when I was 14.

Three Sisters, which I had not read yet. He chose the complicated scene where Baron Tuzenbach is talking to Irina, who says that she will marry him even though she’s not in love with him. She no longer believes that she can be happy. The baron accepts this, and they are to marry the next day. But there is an unspoken upset between them, because they both know that he is about to go off and fight a duel. And they are saying nothing about it. And Professor Alfred read this scene with such a sense of fragility and the uncertainty of life that I suddenly heard how the characters were meant to chatter and then to express something deeply felt, but then to rush back to chatter again. I feel that he showed me the enormous vulnerability and sadness that can lie right beneath commonplace conversation, both in Chekhov and in life.

My senior year, I was lucky to be accepted into a small playwriting seminar that he taught.

CHEKHOV ENCOUNTER NO. 3

(The Seagull and Vanessa Redgrave)

I went to the movies a great deal in college. And, in my sophomore year, suddenly there was a movie version of The Seagull, directed by Sidney Lumet. It was meandering, and the talented Simone Signoret wasn’t right for Arkadina.

But, oh my, there was Vanessa Redgrave playing Nina.

I think it’s an impossibly difficult role, but Redgrave’s portrayal was the perfect Nina I had imagined when I read the play for Professor Alfred’s class. Her Nina was charming but so, so intense—her youth was painfully raw, her insecurity palpable, her infatuation with the theatre was almost humorous, and she gushed at everyone a bit too much. She was spectacular.

But the character’s youthful hope dies very quickly.

Konstantin falls in love with her, but when she doesn’t respond he suddenly deposits a dead seagull at her feet.

This was seemingly his extremely inappropriate way of saying, “Please don’t ignore me. I love you.” Nina, meanwhile, falls for the writer Trigorin. They fall in love, she has a baby, the baby dies, Trigorin loses interest in Nina. In Act 4, she comes back secretly to visit Konstantin. In despair and grief, she keeps saying, “I am a seagull.”

I did better reading the play this time—and I made my own character list, which was easier to follow.

It is very hard to play that scene. But Ms. Redgrave knew how to make that mad scene work. It’s an imperfect film, but watch it for her sometime.

But it wasn’t until Professor Alfred read scenes aloud that I had the door to Chekhov opened for me.

(Three Sisters)

In a rumpled suit, and with a friendly Irish face, Alfred was a brilliant lecturer, full of wisdom, but he was also a wonderful reader of plays. For some reason, he read aloud not from The Seagull but from

I mentioned my Dark Night of the Soul during my sophomore year. It might also be called depression. And it lasted into my junior year as well. I lost my Catholic faith (I left it on the ground, like a dead seagull), and I

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lost my bushy-tailed exuberance and could only react to dark, despairing literature.

A teaching fellow whose small class I was in correctly pointed out to me that I didn’t like the poet Wordsworth because I was angry that he wasn’t Beckett. That was quite an accurate statement he made, and his taking the time to try to unravel my brain helped me a lot in managing to pass his course. Later, in my 30s, I grew to like Wordsworth. But all that rattling on about nature drove me crazy in my youth. I wanted psychological angst and hopelessness. That is, I didn’t want it, but it’s what I was feeling, and I needed it reflected back to me so I felt less alone. The melancholy of Chekhov suited me very well.

In my junior year, I saw Three Sisters. It was being done by the Harvard Dramatic Society.

The production was directed by an undergrad, Leland Moss, who had been inspired by Jerzy Grotowski, a famous experimental Polish theatre director. This inspiration made for some nontraditional staging in the play—when the star-crossed lovers Masha and Vershinin had a scene, other actors would say their dialogue, while Masha and Vershinin would get down on their knees and growl and purr and paw each other. I guess they were leopards in love or something. Maybe they were lions. I don’t think they were raccoons, because they weren’t eating garbage.

Sorry to be flip, and I’m sure the growling-crawling behavior is far from a fair description of what Grotowski meant. And I know that he was significant in the history of experimental theatre. Though, as a comic writer, I find it hard not to look back at the “inner animal” sections and find them kind of funny.

Besides which, what I really liked about the production was all the regular acting in it. Most of the play—twothirds, maybe?—was just young actors embodying their roles with intelligence and passion. And the play was new to me; I had not read it.

Of course, I did know that the recurring lament of the three sisters was their desire to “go to Moscow,” where they grew up and where life seemed stimulating and hopeful.

I already liked Beckett and the existential feel of waiting for Godot, who never came, and the three sisters seemed a precursor to that. They longed to go to Moscow, and yet they never went. The ending of Waiting for Godot is this: Vladimir: Well? Shall we go?

Estragon: Yes, let’s go.

They do not move. End of play.

Which is similar to Olga, Masha and Irina. “Oh, my sisters, let’s go to Moscow.” They do not move.

The cast was excellent. That barefoot girl who got into the acting seminar played Masha and was terrific. (Her name was Susan Yakutis.) Nancy Cox was very good as the oldest, already spent sister Olga. And the sisters’ beloved brother Andrei was played by a Harvard senior named André Bishop. Yes, that André Bishop, who is the artistic director of Lincoln Center Theater. (I didn’t know him then.) He was poignant and tortured as Chekhov’s Andrei.

A strange thing happened in this production. Laurie Heineman was so good as Irina that she became the protagonist for me.

It is Irina’s “name day” (birthday) in Act 1, and Heineman’s Irina was so convincingly full of excitement and youthful hope for the future that I was riveted. When she was onstage, I watched only her. I clocked her every movement and emotional shift.

In Act 3, time has not been kind to Irina. She has a boring job at the Town Council. She imagined she’d meet the man of her dreams once they moved to Moscow. But they keep not going to Moscow, and instead her only choice is a loveless marriage to Baron Tuzenbach. She is disappointed in her beloved brother Andrei, who has made a disastrous marriage to the bullying Natasha and is gambling and has given up his dreams of being a professor. They have all given up their dreams.

Heineman’s shift from joy to despair was riveting.

Starting with a startling “Where has it all gone to?... where is it?,” Irina quickly progresses to how hopeless her life seems, how she feels muddled and is forgetting everything. She says, “I don’t remember the Italian for ‘window’ or ‘ceiling.’ And every day I’m forgetting more and more….”

Because I had never read the play, the weird specificity of forgetting foreign words for “window” and “ceiling” jumped out at me as a beautiful and heartbreaking line.

It positively haunted me. It embedded itself in my brain.

I guess Three Sisters is actually my favorite Chekhov play.

CHEKHOV ENCOUNTER NO. 5

(Oh, Uncle Vanya)

I read Uncle Vanya on my own. And I saw a wonderful production directed by Mike Nichols in 1973 at Circle in the Square, with an exciting cast of George C. Scott, Nicol Williamson, Julie Christie, Elizabeth Wilson, Lillian Gish and Barnard Hughes. I paid 10 dollars for standing room, and it was thrilling to see.

And if the “Italian for window and ceiling” lines haunted me in Three Sisters, it was Sonia’s devastating lines at the end of the play that transfixed me here. Vanya has had an emotional meltdown and has tried to shoot the professor, missing each time. And now Vanya and his PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P 7

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niece Sonia are left alone, both rejected by the people they love, and both with no hope of any kind. Like me on Mondays. (No, just kidding.)

And Sonia says, “What can we do? We shall go on living.

We shall suffer through a long succession of tedious days and tedious nights.”

Reading the play, I stopped right there. “Long succession of tedious days.” I don’t feel that every day, though I did during my middle two years at college. And I don’t know why I find that such a despairing sentiment doesn’t depress me; it moves me. It shows me that other people feel awful at certain times. It’s the opposite of the people who rush in and say “Cheer up!” to you when it’s the wrong time to say that. Oh, I don’t know. I guess I love the emotional sadness in Chekhov.

CHEKHOV ENCOUNTER NO. 6

(Chekhov meets Dostoyevsky meets Chris and Albert)

My senior year at college, my depression lifted. A longer story, but lifted it did. I was accepted into the Yale School of Drama with a play that I had written in two days—a burst of energy after not writing for a couple of years.

I made three important friendships at Yale: fellow playwright Albert Innaurato, actress Sigourney Weaver, and fellow playwright Wendy Wasserstein.

Albert and I were both raised Catholic, and we both had nuns in our plays. We had a brief period of distrust—was the school big enough for two nun-writing authors?

However, Albert made me laugh, and we became friends.

We co-wrote and performed in two cabaret pieces. And we also wrote a very odd, playful musical together—The Idiots Karamazov. The setup was that Constance Garnett was translating The Brothers Karamazov, but she was old and crazy and kept mixing it up with Chekhov and Eugene O’Neill and Charles Dickens—it was a literary roller coaster.

It was done first as an undergrad project (directed by Albert). Then it was a Drama School project, starring acting student Meryl Streep as Constance. (Whatever happened to her? Ha-ha.) And then, as a professional production at the Yale Repertory Theatre, still starring Meryl, and I was unexpectedly cast as the monk Alyosha.

In the first scene, Constance introduces the Karamazov brothers, but when they enter they sing a spirited song called “O, We Gotta Get to Moscow.” The lyrics included

these lines: “O, we gotta get to Moscow, make a checkoff list and pack, and we’ll leave this town behind us, and we’re never coming back….O, we gotta get to Cleveland, San Francisco or L.A., and we’ll sell the cherry orchard, and we’ll give the pits away.…Goodbye now, Uncle Vanya, don’t you cry now, Gotta get to Moscow, Moscow right now!”

It was a crazy and chaotic play, and it was Albert’s and my first professional production.

CHEKHOV ENCOUNTER NO. 7

I had the idea to write Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike a few years ago, when I realized that I was now the age that Vanya was (or seemed to be). And, like Vanya and other Chekhov characters, I started to reassess choices made in the past.

I live in a stone farmhouse with my partner, the writeractor John Augustine, on a small hill in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. I choose to live here for the quiet and the trees, and there is a small pond where a blue heron comes and sees what is available to eat.

But I started to think to myself, what if I didn’t live here with my partner but with my adopted sister, and the two of us had spent 15 years taking care of our elderly and eventually incoherent parents. What if we never left the house we lived in as children, and felt jealous of our older sister, who was a glamorous stage and film star.

She sends us money, but our lives feel empty and unexciting. What if my life had been closer to a Chekhov play?

By the way, I also have cherry trees around the house.

About nine of them, I’d say. Very pretty two weeks a year.

My play is not a parody. It is set in the present day. Once I finished the first draft, I started to say to people, “The play takes Chekhov characters and themes and puts them into a blender.” Throughout my life, I keep reacting and reacting to Chekhov. ◆ Christopher Durang is an award-winning playwright whose work has appeared on and off-Broadway, including the Tony-nominated A History of the American Film, the Obie Award-winning Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You, and Miss Witherspoon, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. With Marsha Norman, he is the co-chair of the Playwriting Program at Juilliard.

Reprinted with permission from the Lincoln Center Theater Review.

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Who’s Who

MARK BLUM (Vanya) returns to the Taper after an absence of 30 years. Broadway: The Assembled Parties, The Best Man (both revivals), Twelve Angry Men, The Graduate, A Thousand Clowns, Lost In Yonkers, My Thing of Love, The Merchant. Off-Broadway: The Model Apartment, The Good Mother, Lonely I’m Not, We Live Here, Picked, After The Revolution, The Singing Forest, Mourning Becomes Electra, The Long Christmas Ride Home, The Waverly Gallery, Mizlanski Zilinski, Little Footsteps, It’s Only A Play, Gus and Al (Obie Award), Key Exchange, Table Settings, Say Goodnight Gracie.

Films: I Don’t Know How She Does It, Shattered Glass, Desperately Seeking Susan, Crocodile Dundee, The Presidio, Blind Date, Worth Winning, Lovesick, Miami Rhapsody.

TV: Indictment: The McMartin Trial, The Defenders, The Judge, Jesse Stone: Innocents Lost, Capital News, Sweet Surrender, The Good Wife, Damages, Mercy, Fringe, The Sopranos, The West Wing, Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order: SVU, CSI: Miami, NYPD Blue, Frasier, The Practice, Judging Amy, Roseanne, Wings, Miami Vice, St. Elsewhere.

CHRISTINE EBERSOLE (Masha). Ms. Ebersole received virtually every off-Broadway award and her second Tony Award for Leading Actress in a Musical for her “dual role of a

lifetime” as Edith Beale and Little Edie Beale in Grey Gardens. Other memorable performances include her Tony Award-winning performance in the revival of 42nd Street, Steel Magnolias, On the Twentieth Century, Oklahoma, Camelot, Dinner at Eight, The Best Man and Blithe Spirit. Film credits include The Wolf of Wall Street, The Big Wedding, Confessions of a Shopaholic, Black Sheep, Richie Rich, Tootsie and Amadeus. Ms. Ebersole was a regular cast member on Saturday Night Live (‘81- ‘82). Other television credits include American Horror Story: Coven, Royal Pains, Ugly Betty, Boston Legal and Will and Grace. She can currently be seen in the comedy series Sullivan and Son on TBS. www. christineebersole.com SHALITA GRANT (Cassandra).

Broadway: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Tony nomination, Theatre World Award recipient).

Off-Broadway: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (LCT, Martin E. Segal Award recipient); The Philanderer (Pearl Theatre); Measure for Measure, The Winter’s Tale, The Merchant of Venice (The Public Theater); Roxy Font (Fringe NYC).

Regional: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (McCarter Theatre); Luck of the Irish (Huntington Theatre); The Laramie Project (England); Unaccompanied Minors (Vanguard Arts); The Children’s Hour (Everyman Theatre); A Raisin in the Sun, Into the Woods (Mainstage Theater); Body and Soul (Baryshnikov Arts Center). Film:

Empire Corner, Invisible, Rehearsing a Dream (Academy Award nom., Best Documentary Short, 2006).

Television: The Good Wife. Education: The Juilliard School. Affiliated with NFAA Arts.

DAVID HULL (Spike). CTG Debut. Recently seen as Cooper in the New York premiere of Really Really (MCC). And recently not seen as the understudy for Daniel Radcliffe, Nick Jonas and Darren Criss in the recent Broadway revival of How To Succeed... Other Credits: The Book of Mormon (Elder Grant), Wicked (Fiyero u/s), A Chorus Line (Mark). Regional: Calvin Berger (George Street Playhouse), Saved (Kansas City Rep), High Button Shoes (Goodspeed) and Gypsy starring Patti LuPone. Film/TV: The Big C, Smash and the forthcoming feature film You Must Be Joking. University of Michigan graduate. Thanks to this amazing cast and creative team, Armen and Sean at ICM, Sarah and Nick at 3 Arts, and to his hilarious friends and family.

KRISTINE NIELSEN (Sonia).

Broadway: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Tony nomination), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, To Be or Not to Be, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Spring Awakening, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Green Bird, Jackie, The Iceman Cometh. With Christopher Durang: Why Torture Is Wrong, and PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P 9

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the People Who Love Them (Drama League, Outer Critics Circle noms.), Miss Witherspoon, Betty’s Summer Vacation (Obie, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle noms.), Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge.

Off-Broadway: Crazy Mary, Our Leading Lady, Dog Opera (Obie Award). Has appeared at many regional theatres including the Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse and the Taper. Film: Morning Glory, That’s What She Said, The Savages, Adelaide, Small Time Crooks.

Television: Political Animals, Smash, Law & Order, Law & Order: CI, Third Watch, NBC’s live broadcast of The Sound of Music. Education: MFA, Yale School of Drama; B.S., Northwestern.

LIESEL ALLEN YEAGER (Nina) is excited to explore L.A. and make her Center Theatre Group debut!

Previous credits include Broadway: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Lincoln Center: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.

Off-off- Broadway: Too Much, Too Soon (Lesser America), The Sporting Life (Studio 42). Film: A Picture of You. Television: The Good Wife, How to Make It in America.

Education: The Juilliard School.

Thank you to Chris for his beautiful, funny play.

NGOZI ANYANWU (Understudy for Cassandra) is a recent MFA grad from UC San Diego. UCSD Credits: Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Titus Andronicus, Hedda Gabler and June Moon. Other Credits: As You Like It (directed by Eve Best), War (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater) and Castronauts (NYMF). Regional Credits: Hair, Showboat and The

Crucible. She is a also graduate of Point Park University.

SUSAN DENAKER (Understudy for Sonia and Masha).

London West End Theatre: Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Budgie, Blockheads, Country Life.

Regional: Abuela Claudia, In The Heights; understudy Beth in Tribes and Bernstein (performed) in November, Mark Taper Forum; Lola in Come Back, Little Sheba; Aunt Alicia in Gigi; Paulina in A Winter’s Tale; Sweet Bird of Youth and Our Town, La Jolla Playhouse; Beatrice in A View From the Bridge; Marta in Company; Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Breaking Legs. Film/ Television: American Friends, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, As Time Goes By, Just a Gigolo, Me and My Girl, Royce, The Woman He Loved, Passport to Murder. She has recorded over 100 audio books.

DAVID PEVSNER (Understudy for Vanya). Stage: F*cking Men (U.S. premiere), Corpus Christi, Fiddler on Broadway with Topol, When Pigs Fly (original N.Y./L.A. cast), Party (original N.Y. cast), MTLA’s Chicago, Lucid by Proxy’s Into the Woods, It Must Be Him (L.A. premiere). Film: Scrooge and Marley (Ebenezer Scrooge), Joshua Tree: 1951, Role/Play, Corpus Christi: Playing with Redemption, Waiting in the Wings, Love and Teleportation.

TV/Web: Modern Family, Grey’s Anatomy, Liz and Dick, Law & Order: LA, Desperate Housewives, The LXD, Old Dogs and New Tricks.

Songwriter: Adam and Steve, Naked Boys Singing, and the one-man musicals To Bitter and Back and Musical Comedy Whore.

BRAD SCHMIDT (Understudy for Spike). Broadway: Lombardi (Circle in the Square).

Off-Broadway: Corktown (Signature Theatre), New Girl in Town (Theresa Lange Theatre), Peer Gynt (Shapiro Theatre). Regional: Lombardi (Fox Cities PAC). Los Angeles: The Bacchae (Getty Villa), West (Electric Lodge), FooteNotes and Mad Forest (Open Fist Theatre). Film: Dead Men Float, Eden, Bill, Tunnel Rats. TV: CSI: New York, Entourage, The Studio, Joey, Summerland, As the World Turns, Guiding Light and is currently on season three of House of Lies on Showtime as J.C. Butterman.

Thanks to Larry Moss, Deb Aquila, Alan Hergott and SMS. Love to my wife Julianna and son Jaxon.

GEORGIA WARNER (Understudy for Nina) has loved enacting Jill in Equus (with Alec Baldwin), Slippy Helen in The Cripple of Inishmaan and Pip in Moby Dick Rehearsed (with Peter Boyle) at the John Drew Theatre/ Guild Hall; Curley’s Wife in Of Mice and Men at Pioneer Theatre Company (director Mary B. Robinson); Abigail in The Crucible at Northern Stage; Margot in The Diary of Anne Frank at Bay Street Theatre; and Polly in Transport at Irish Arts Center (director Tony Walton), plus many more plays and several nifty indie films. She would like to thank DHP, Mark and Mike for this exhilarating opportunity! www.GeorgiaWarner.com CHRISTOPHER DURANG (Playwright). His plays include A History of the American Film (Tony nomination), Sister Mary Ignatius

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Explains It All for You (Obie Award), Beyond Therapy (off and on Broadway), Baby with the Bathwater, The Marriage of Bette and Boo (Obies for playwriting, Jerry Zaks’ direction, ensemble acting; Dramatists Guild Hull Warriner Award), Laughing Wild, For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls, Betty’s Summer Vacation (Obies for playwriting, Nicholas Martin’s direction, Kristine Nielsen), Miss Witherspoon (2005 Pulitzer finalist), Why Torture is Wrong and the People Who Love Them. For Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, he won the 2013 Tony Award for Best Play. Cabaret: Das Lusitania Songspiel, coauthored and performed by Sigourney Weaver and Durang (Drama Desk nominations for both performers); Chris Durang and Dawne (Bistro Award for Durang and cohorts John Augustine and Sherry Anderson).

He won the Harvard Arts Medal, the PEN/Laura Pels Award for a Master American Dramatist; recently inducted in the Theater Hall of Fame. For 20 years he and Marsha Norman have been cochairs of the Juilliard Playwriting Program. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild Council. www.christopherdurang.com DAVID HYDE PIERCE (Director).

CTG: Curtains, It’s Only a Play.

Broadway: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Tony nomination), La Bête, Accent on Youth, Curtains (Tony Award), Spamalot, The Heidi Chronicles, Beyond Therapy. Off-Broadway: The Landing, Close Up Space, Elliot Loves, Zero Positive, That’s It, Folks!, The Maderati, The Author’s Voice, Summer, Hamlet, Much Ado, Peter

Brook’s The Cherry Orchard.

Regional: Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks with Uta Hagen at the Geffen Playhouse, various roles at the Guthrie, Goodman and Long Wharf Theatres. Film: The Perfect Host, Down with Love, Full Frontal, Wet Hot American Summer, A Bug’s Life, Treasure Planet, Wolf, Nixon, Sleepless in Seattle, Little Man Tate, Crossing Delancey. TV: The Powers That Be, The Outer Limits, Titus, Frasier (Emmy and SAG Awards).

As Director: Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and Anselmi & Hargrove’s musical It Shoulda Been You at the George Street Playhouse.

NICHOLAS MARTIN (Broadway Director). Broadway: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Tony Award nomination), Present Laughter, Butley, Match, Hedda Gabler, The Rehearsal, You Never Can Tell. Off-Broadway: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Saturn Returns, The New Century, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (Drama Desk nomination), Chaucer in Rome, The Time of the Cuckoo (LCT); Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them (The Public Theater); Fully Committed (Vineyard Theatre, Cherry Lane); Full Gallop (MTC, Westside Theatre); Betty’s Summer Vacation (Obie Award, Drama Desk nomination), Sophistry (Playwrights Horizons); Bosoms and Neglect (Signature Theatre).

Regional: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, She Stoops to Conquer (McCarter); The House of Blue Leaves (Mark Taper Forum); Dead End (Ahmanson Theatre); Pygmalion, Macbeth (Old Globe); The Verizon Play (Humana); The Show Off, The Circle, A Cheever Evening (Westport Country Playhouse); My Wonderful Day (Two River Theater). Former artistic director of Williamstown Theatre Festival and Boston’s Huntington Theatre.

DAVID KORINS (Set Design).

Broadway: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Motown, Annie, Bring It On, Chinglish, An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, Magic/Bird, Godspell, The Pee-Wee Herman Show, Lombardi, Passing Strange and Bridge & Tunnel. David has worked extensively both off-Broadway and regionally. Opera credits include the world premiere operas of The Gospel of Mary Magdalene at the San Francisco Opera, and Oscar and Life Is A Dream at Santa Fe Opera. David served as creative director to Kanye West, designing several concerts in the United States and abroad. He received a Drama Desk Award, a Lucille Lortel Award, three Henry Hewes Awards and the 2009 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Design.

Dad to Stella and Vivian. www.

DavidKorinsDesign.com GABRIEL BERRY (Costume Design) specializes in collaboration on new work. Notable productions include the world premieres of the works of Maria Irene Fornes, Richard Foreman, Charles Ludlam, Samuel Beckett, Philip Glass, John Guare, Christopher Durang, Mabou Mines, Peter Sellars, John Adams, Tito Puentes, Yoshiko Chuma, Lucinda Childs, Ethyl Eichelberger, Nick Jones, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Osvaldo Golijov, Meredith Monk and Ellen Stewart. Awards include Obies, Bessies and a silver medal from the Prague Quadrennial for her contribution to experimental theatre.

DAVID WEINER (Lighting Design).

Center Theatre Group: American Night: The Ballad of Juan Jose, Venice (2011 L.A. Ovation Award), This Beautiful City. Broadway: Romeo & Juliet, Dead Accounts, Grace, Godspell, The Normal Heart, reasons to be pretty, Butley, Dinner at Eight (LCT), Betrayal (Roundabout), The Real Thing.

Off-Broadway: MCC, MTC, Second

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Stage, Playwrights Horizons, The Public, N.Y. Theatre Workshop, Theatre for a New Audience, Vineyard, Atlantic. Regional: The Goodman, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, South Coast Repertory, The Guthrie, La Jolla Playhouse, The Alley, McCarter, Huntington, ART, Kansas City Rep, Williamstown, Berkeley Rep. Museum Design: NC State Museum of Natural Sciences Nature Research Center - Raleigh, NC. Awards: 2012 Lucille Lortel Award (Through a Glass Darkly), 2011 Drama Desk nomination (Small Fire), 2005 Lucille Lortel Award (Rodney’s Wife). www.DavidWeinerDesign.com MARK BENNETT (Original Music and Sound Design). Broadway (Lincoln Center Theater): Macbeth, Vanya and Sonia…, The Coast of Utopia (Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Score; Henry Hewes Award, Outstanding Sound Design), Henry IV. Broadway: Dead Accounts, Driving Miss Daisy, A Steady Rain, Henry IV, A Streetcar Named Desire, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Golda’s Balcony, The Goat, Lily Tomlin’s The Search…

(Ovation Award-CTG), The Lion in Winter, A View From the Bridge.

CTG: Dead End, Without Walls, The House of Bernarda Alba (Ovation nomination). Getty/Hall Walls: Plato’s Symposium. La Jolla Playhouse: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Craig Noel Award), His Gal Friday, Most Wanted, Dogeaters.

The Globe: Pygmalion, Twelfth Night. Off-Broadway: The Bridge Project 2009-2012 (BAM/Old Vic), Talley’s Folly, An Iliad (Obie Award, Craig Noel Award); Mad Forest. Awards: 1998 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Sound Design, 14 Drama Desk nominations.

COOKIE JORDAN (Wig, Hair and Make-up Design). Broadway: Fela!, Motherf**ker with the Hat, Lombardi, The Miracle Worker, A View from the Bridge, South

Pacific. Off-Broadway: King Lear, Neighbors, Hurt Village, Angels in America. Other: The Wiz (City Center); Cunning Little Vixen, Le Grand Macabre (N.Y. Philharmonic); White Noise (Royal George); You, Nero (Arena); The Wiz, Joseph...

(Dallas Theater Center); Liberty Smith, 1776 (Ford’s Theatre).

New York City Opera and the Radio City Christmas Spectacular on projects including 13, Parade, The Last Five Years, Show Boat, Candide, 3hree, Hollywood Arms, Bounce, LoveMusik, Paradise Found, Sweeney Todd, Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life, Sweet Smell of Success and Ragtime. Treasurer of the Board, Casting Society of America.

BRYAN HUNT (Associate Director) was the assistant director for the world premiere of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike at the McCarter Theatre, Lincoln Center Theater and on Broadway. His directing credits include Alien Sex Comedy (New Light Theater Project), As You Like It, Caroling Through the Woods (Theater Hikes - CO), Pretty, Smart, Poetic (Westport Country Playhouse), Henry V (Great River Shakespeare Festival - SYA) and Urinetown: The Musical (Margo Jones Theatre). In addition to Vanya..., he has served as assistant director at several regional theatres including Westport Country Playhouse, 92Y, Baltimore Center Stage, Goodman Theatre and Dallas Theater Center.

He is currently producing director of the Iron Curtain Theater Company in NYC and was a founding member of the Island Theatre Company in Chicago.

DANIEL SWEE, CSA (Casting). As casting director for Lincoln Center Theater, he has cast more than 70 productions including Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, The Nance, Golden Boy, War Horse, Other Desert Cities, The Coast of Utopia, In the Next Room, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Awake and Sing!, Henry IV, The Invention of Love, Contact, The Heiress, Arcadia, Carousel and The Sisters Rosensweig.

Additional Broadway productions include God of Carnage, Mary Stuart, Exit the King, Frost/Nixon, The Crucible, Art and The Heidi Chronicles. Films include The Hours, The Crucible, The Object of My Affection, The Great New Wonderful and Cold Souls.

MARK B. SIMON, CSA (Casting).

CTG: The Black Suits, The Royale (Artios nomination), Neva (Kirk Douglas Theatre); The Sunshine Boys, The Scottsboro Boys, End of the Rainbow, Backbeat (Ahmanson Theatre); The Steward of Christendom, A Parallelogram, Los Otros (Mark Taper Forum). Prior to joining the CTG casting department, Mark worked as a New York-based independent casting director for clients including Hal Prince, Jason Robert Brown, Graciela Daniele, Susan Stroman, Patricia Birch, Stephen Sondheim, Marvin Hamlisch, Nick Hytner, Alfred Uhry, Carol Burnett, Jeremy Sams,

DAVID S. FRANKLIN (Production Stage Manager). Center Theatre Group Highlights: An Enemy of the People, Baz Luhrmann’s La Bohème, Art, Romance, The Cherry Orchard, Curtains, Nightingale, The History Boys, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Parade, The Subject Was Roses, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Randy Newman’s Harps and Angels, God of Carnage, Vigil, Waiting for Godot, Los Otros, Red, Seminar, Tribes, A Parallelogram, Humor Abuse and The Steward of Christendom. Other Los Angeles: Los Angeles Theatre Center in its heyday from 1985-

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1990, Pasadena Playhouse and Geffen Playhouse. Regional: Seattle Rep, Intiman Theatre. New York: Public Theater. Tours: Europe - Quotations from a Ruined City, Law of Remains (with Reza Abdoh’s Dar a Luz company).

MICHELLE BLAIR (Stage Manager).

For CTG: The Steward of Christendom, The Sunshine Boys, A Parallelogram, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Backbeat, Krapp’s Last Tape, Red, Los Otros, Clybourne Park, Vigil, Poor Behavior, Burn This, Leap of Faith, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Parade, Lydia, The School of Night, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Distracted, Nightingale, Without Walls, Lewis and Clark Reach the Euphrates, all wear bowlers (also at the Barbican Theatre, Berkeley Rep., La Jolla Playhouse and Studio Theatre), Flight, Nothing But The Truth, Stones in His Pockets, Topdog/ Underdog and “QED” at Lincoln Center Theater. Other favorites include The Pee-Wee Herman Show at Club Nokia, A Long Bridge Over Deep Waters with Cornerstone Theater Company and Amnesia Curiosa with Rainpan 43. Mom to five-year-old Liam and one-yearold Imogen.

DENISE YANEY (Stage Manager).

Most recently stage-managed Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike on Broadway. Other Broadway credits include Time Stands Still, American Buffalo, The Homecoming, The Retreat From Moscow, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Redwood Curtain and As Is; In the Next Room, Awake and Sing! and Morning’s at Seven (Lincoln Center); The Columnist, Good People, Accent on Youth, Brooklyn Boy and Sight Unseen (MTC); The Road to Mecca, Old Acquaintance, Major Barbara and The Play’s the Thing (Roundabout). Off-Broadway: LCT, MTC, Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage and Circle Rep (company member). Regional:

Hartford Stage, Arizona Theatre Company, Long Wharf and Bay Street.

MICHAEL RITCHIE (Artistic Director) is in his eighth season as Center Theatre Group’s Artistic Director, and has led over 130 productions to the Ahmanson, Taper and Douglas stages since his arrival in 2005. From 1996 to 2004 Michael was the Producer of the Williamstown Theatre Festival and prior to that he was a Production Stage Manager in NYC. At CTG, he premiered six musicals that moved to Broadway — The Drowsy Chaperone (which won 13 Tony Award nominations), Curtains (eight Tony nominations) 13, 9 to 5: The Musical, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and Leap of Faith. He has produced 33 world premieres including the musicals Minsky’s, Venice and Sleeping Beauty Wakes, and the plays Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (a Pulitzer Prize finalist that also moved to Broadway), Water & Power and Yellow Face, and he presented a broad range of plays and musicals ranging from Dead End to The Black Rider to Edward Scissorhands to blockbusters such as God of Carnage, Mary Poppins, Jersey Boys and August: Osage County. In addition, Michael inaugurated CTG’s New Play Production Program, designed to foster the development and production of new work.

EDWARD L. RADA (Managing Director) returned to Center Theatre Group in 2011 after previously serving as CTG’s Chief Financial Officer for 12 years (1996 – 2008).

Rada spent three years (2008 –

2011) as President of the Music Center Foundation, a non-profit corporation that holds and invests the endowment and reserve funds for the Music Center and its resident companies (including CTG). Prior to his years at CTG, he was the Director of Finance at The Old Globe in San Diego and principal of Rada & Associates, an accounting firm that specialized in entertainment-related non-profit organizations and theatrical productions. He is a graduate of Occidental College in Los Angeles with numerous post-graduate coursework and credentials. He currently serves on the board of directors for Entertainment Industry Foundation, Theatre @ Boston Court, and United Support of Artists for Africa/USA for Africa, among other affiliations. He also serves on the board of trustees for the pension, health and welfare and 401(k) plans of I.A.T.S.E. Local 33 Stagehands Union.

DOUGLAS C. BAKER (Producing Director) is now in his 23rd season at CTG. Previously, he managed Broadway and touring productions including Tru, Born Yesterday, The Gospel at Colonus, Annie, A Chorus Line, Working, The Wiz, and Legends!, which premiered at the Ahmanson Theatre in 1986 and starred Mary Martin and Carol Channing. Doug is a member of the Achievement Hall of Fame of Chagrin Falls Schools in Ohio and a graduate of Albion College. He is an active member of the Broadway League, the Independent Presenters Network and is a proud member of the Association of Theatrical Press Agents and Managers. In May 2013 Doug received The Broadway League’s prestigious Outstanding Achievement in Presenter Management Award.

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KELLEY KIRKPATRICK (Associate Artistic Director). Since arriving at CTG in 2005, Kelley has produced over 40 productions at the Ahmanson Theatre, Mark Taper Forum and Kirk Douglas Theatre, many of which have gone on to future lives on Broadway, offBroadway and beyond. In addition to producing shows across CTG’s three stages, he has had the privilege of collaborating with numerous local and national artists to commission and develop new works.

NAUSICA STERGIOU (General Manager, Mark Taper Forum and Kirk Douglas Theatre) has worked professionally supporting artists in theatres of all shapes, sizes and locales including many seasons at Center Theatre Group as General Manager and, previously, as Audience Development Director.

She oversees main stage

productions at the Taper and Douglas, as well as new play commissions and developmental productions through CTG’s New Play Development. Nausica has taught at USC’s School of Dramatic Arts, and advises and works with local not-for-profits including Daukayev Ballet Theatre and Hollywood Orchard. MFA, Yale School of Drama and Outward Bound trekker.

Award, The Governor’s Award for the Arts and a Guggenheim fellowship. The Kentucky Cycle and Angels in America (Part One) won the Pulitzer in consecutive years and, in 1994, three of the four plays nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play were from the Taper (Angels in America won). In 1989 Gordon took over the Ahmanson and, in 2004, he produced the inaugural season in the Kirk Douglas Theatre.

GORDON DAVIDSON (Founding Artistic Director) led the Taper throughout its first 38 seasons, guiding over 300 productions to its stage and winning countless awards for himself and the theatre — including the Tony Award for theatrical excellence, Margo Jones

Additional staff for Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike Associate Set Designers ................. Amanda Stephens, Sarah Wreede New York Costume Design Assistants .......................... ....... Andrea Hood, Albulena Borevci, Heather Stanley Resident Assistant Lighting Designer ........................... ...................................................................Heather Graff Assistant Lighting Designer .............. John A. Garofalo Associate Sound Designer......................... Josh Liebert Prop Artisan .................................................. Zach Istrin New York Prop Coordinator .................... Susan Barras Production Assistants........... Lauren Klein, Andrew Lia

CREDITS Costumes provided by the Center Theatre Group Costume Shop and additional staff: First Hand - Lydia Harmon; Stitcher - Agnes Ingram; Specialty Costumes provided by Carmel Dundon, and New York Theatre Workshop - Jeffrey Wallace. Rehearsal photography

by Joan Marcus. Production photography by Craig Schwartz.

“Here Comes The Sun” Written by George Harrison Published by Harrisongs, Ltd. (ASCAP) Used by Permission. All rights reserved.

“Some Day My Prince Will Come” Music by Frank Churchill Lyrics by Larry Morey

Rehearsed and photographed at the NEW 42ND STREET Studios. ®

ONLINE CenterTheatreGroup.org #VanyaSonia Like us on Facebook Center Theatre Group Follow us on Twitter @CTGLA Subscribe on YouTube CTGLA The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers of the United States. 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 Press Agents, Company and House Managers employed in this production are represented by the Association of Theatrical Press Agents and Managers.

The Director is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union.

Center Theatre Group is a member of the American Arts Alliance, the Broadway League, Independent Producers’ Network (IPN), LA Stage Alliance, League of Resident Theatres (LORT), National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) and the Theatre Communications Group (TCG).

The following employees are represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Machine Operators, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, its Territories and Canada, AFL-CIO, CLC: Stage Crew Local 33; Local Treasurers and Ticket Sellers Local 857; Wardrobe Crew Local 768; Make-up Artists and Hair Stylists Local 706.

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(l-r): Kristine Nielsen, David Hull, Shalita Grant, Director David Hyde Pierce, Associate Director Bryan Hunt,

Christine Ebersole and Mark Blum.

(l-r): Christine Ebersole, Mark Blum and Shalita Grant.

Kristine Nielsen.

David Hull and Liesel Allen Yeager.

photos by joan marcus.

Mark Blum and Shalita Grant.

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MICHAEL RITCHIE, Artistic Director EDWARD L. RADA, Managing Director DOUGLAS C. BAKER, Producing Director ARTISTIC NEEL KELLER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Artistic Director KELLEY KIRKPATRICK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Artistic Director DIANE RODRIGUEZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Producer/Director of New Play Production PIER CARLO TALENTI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Resident Dramaturg/Literary Manager LINDSAY ALLBAUGH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Producing Associate MALCOLM K. DARRELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . New Play Production Associate JOY MEADS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Literary Associate and Artistic Engagement Strategist MARK B. SIMON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Casting Director STEVEN PIESZCHALKSI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Casting Assistant DAVID ADJMI (FADIMAN), JESSICA BLANK, SHEILA CALLAGHAN (FADIMAN), TIM CROUCH, JUSTIN ELLINGTON, GINA GIONFRIDDO, GOB SQUAD, MATT GOULD, DANAI GURIRA, JENNIFER HALEY, JOE HORTUA, ERIK JENSEN, RAJIV JOSEPH, LATINO THEATER COMPANY, GRIFFIN MATTHEWS, LAURAL MEADE, JULIE MARIE MYATT (FADIMAN), DAN O’BRIEN, EVANGELINE ORDAZ, DAEL ORLANDERSMITH, WILL POWER (FADIMAN), RAINPAN 43, MARCO RAMIREZ, MATT SAX, YOUNG JEAN LEE THEATER COMPANY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Commissioned Artists BEKAH BRUNSTETTER, CARLA CHING, JASON GROTE, SARAH GUBBINS, TIM McNEIL, HENRY ONG, MADHURI SHEKAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CTG Writers’ Workshop Members EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS LESLIE K. JOHNSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Education and Community Partnerships PATRICIA GARZA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant Department Director TRACI CHO KWON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of School Partnerships CAMILLE SCHENKKAN . . . . . . . . . Program Manager, Emerging Artists and Arts Professionals JESUS REYES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Program Manager, Community Partnerships KATRINA FRYE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Program Associate NIJUEL PORTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Temporary Program Associate KELLY CHRIST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Communications Coordinator ASHLEY LAMPSON OPSTAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Program Coordinator SHANNON WINSTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Department Coordinator DEBRA PIVER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Resident Teaching Artist MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION NAUSICA STERGIOU . . . . . . . . . General Manager (Mark Taper Forum, Kirk Douglas Theatre) JEFFREY UPAH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . General Manager (Ahmanson Theatre) SUZANNE HEE MAYBERRY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant General Manager (Mark Taper Forum) KATIE BRUNER SOFF . . . On leave - Assistant General Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre, NPP) ALANA BEIDELMAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Executive Assistant to Managing Director PATRICK BELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . General Management Associate EMIKA ABE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yale School of Drama Fellow ERIC SIMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Operations Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) TOM BURMESTER . . Audience Experience Design/Front of House Mgr (Kirk Douglas Theatre) LAUREN BAXA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant Performance Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) MAX OKEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Facility Assistant (Kirk Douglas Theatre) SONDRA MAYER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Concessions Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) PRODUCTION DAWN HOLISKI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Production Department Operations Director JONATHAN BARLOW LEE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Production Manager (Mark Taper Forum) CELESTE SANTAMASSINO . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Production Manager (Mark Taper Forum) EMMET KAISER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Master Carpenter (Mark Taper Forum) ROBERT RUBY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Master Propertyman (Mark Taper Forum) WILLIAM MORNER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Master Electrician (Mark Taper Forum) BONES MALONE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Master Soundman (Mark Taper Forum) DENNIS SEETOO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wardrobe Supervisor (Mark Taper Forum) RICK GEYER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hair and Make-up Supervisor (Mark Taper Forum) LINDA WALKER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . House Manager (Mark Taper Forum) JOE HAMLIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Technical Director/Ahmanson Production Manager CHAD SMITH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Technical Director SAM CRAVEN-GRIFFITHS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Technical Director

JODY HORWITZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Human Resources MADRIO FLEEKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Senior Human Resources Generalist SINGER LEWAK, LLP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Auditor MICHAEL C. DONALDSON, LISA A. CALLIF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Legal Counsel GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Legal Counsel DEVELOPMENT YVONNE CARLSON BELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Development PATRICK OWEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Deputy Director of Development NATALIE BERGESON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Donor Contributions JEAN KLING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Institutional Support LIZ LIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Corporate Relations and Communications CHARITY WU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Individual Giving BECKY BIRDSONG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Major Gifts Officer JAMIE CATALDO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Corporate Relations Manager MANDI OR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Special Events Manager ERIC BROWN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Communications Coordinator JENNIFER CHAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Special Events Associate JUSTIN FOO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Donor Contributions Associate SARAH HARBURG-PETRICH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Development Assistant KATY HILTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Grant Writer DONALD JOLLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Donor Relations Associate for the Inner Circle KRISTEN LEVY-VAUGHAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Individual Giving Assistant JESSICA NASH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Donor Contributions Supervisor MARIA PAREDES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Donor Relations Associate for The Guild COURTNEY ROBERTSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Institutional Giving Associate ERIC SEPPALA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Executive Assistant to the Development Director ERIN SCHLABACH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Major Gifts Coordinator JESSICA THORSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Corporate Relations Coordinator AL BERMAN, ELIZABETH DELLORUSSO, DAVID GARVER, GINA EAST, LILI HERRERA, TONY LEWELLEN, HOLLY RAMOS, NICOLE SCIPIONE, LENA THOMAS, PAUL VITAGLIANO, BILL WALTON, TOM WINKLER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Donor Advisors ADAM BURCH, KARLA GALVEZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Donor Services Associates ANNE BRUNER, MURRAY E. HELTZER, MARCI MILLER, JULIE NADAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Development Volunteers MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS JIM ROYCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Marketing, Communications and Sales NANCY HEREFORD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Media and Communications PHYLLIS MOBERLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Media and Communications Associate JASON MARTIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Media and Communications Associate LYN COWAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Media and Communications Coordinator CHELSEY ROSETTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Media and Communications Coordinator NISHITA DOSHI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Art Director IRENE KANESHIRO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Senior Design Manager HARUKA HAYAKAWA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Graphic Designer TERESA ENGLISH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Graphic Designer SUSAN BARTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Interim Associate Director of Marketing ANDREW DARCEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Advertising Manager KAREN VOCK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marketing Manager JAMES SIMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marketing Creative Manager JEWEL MOORE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marketing Coordinator ROSE POIRIER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Webmaster CRAIG SCHWARTZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Production Photographer LARRY DEAN HARRIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Copywriter CINEVATIVE/MARK CIGLAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Production Video TOM BURMESTER, TREVOR ALGATT, KEVIN MAPP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Event Video ALLIED LIVE: LAURA MATALON, SHANNON WILLETT, KELLY ESTRELLA . . . . . . . . . . . . Advertising Agency

ANDREW THIELS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Prop Manager MERRIANNE NEDREBERG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Prop Manager SARAH KRAININ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Prop Associate CANDICE CAIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Costume Director BRENT M. BRUIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Costume Workroom Supervisor MADDIE KELLER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . On leave - Costume Generalist WHITNEY OPPENHEIMER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Interim Costume Generalist SWANTJE TUOHINO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tailor ELIZABETH LEONARD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Production Operations Manager JULIO A. CUELLAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Driver/Custodian DONAVAN MARTINELLI, EUGENE A. MONTEIRO II, BRIAN SLATEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Drivers JENNIFER ACHTERBERG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Production Administrator

TICKET SALES AND SERVICES SHAWN ROBERTSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ticket Sales Director SKYPP CABANAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ticket Operations Coordinator SANDY CZUBIAK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Audience and Subscriber Services Manager JENNIFER BAKER, CHERYL HAWKER, RICHARD RAGSDALE . . Audience Services Supervisors ALICE CHEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Audience Services Asst. Supervisor SAM AARON, DEBORAH REED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Audience Services Sales Associates

SHAWN ANDERSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Master Carpenter (Ahmanson Theatre) ANDREW W. ARNOLD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Flyman (Ahmanson Theatre) STAN STEELMON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Master Propertyman (Ahmanson Theatre) JIM BERGER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Master Electrician (Ahmanson Theatre) ROBERT SMITH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Master Soundman (Ahmanson Theatre) MICHAEL GARDNER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wardrobe Supervisor (Ahmanson Theatre) PATRICE MIRANDA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hair and Make-up Supervisor (Ahmanson Theatre) CHRISTINE L. COX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . House Manager (Ahmanson Theatre)

DANUTA SIEMAK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Subscriber Services Supervisor CHRISTINA GUTIERREZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Subscriber Services Asst. Supervisor LIGIA PISTE, CELIA RIVAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Subscriber Services Senior Representatives IRENE CHUANG, PETER STALOCH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Subscriber Services Representatives

CHRISTY WEIKEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Production Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) KATE COLTUN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant Production Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) RICHARD PETERSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Master Electrician (Kirk Douglas Theatre) AARON STAUBACH . . . . . . . . . . . . Light Board Programmer/Operator (Kirk Douglas Theatre) ADAM PHALEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Head Audio (Kirk Douglas Theatre) VICTOR COBOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stage Supervisor (Kirk Douglas Theatre) FINANCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND HUMAN RESOURCES MICHAEL F. THOMPSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chief Financial Officer MELODY MATTOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Controller JANIS BOWBEER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant Controller LIZ LYDIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Accounts Payable Coordinator FELICISIMA LAPID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Accounts Payable Specialist DANNY LAMPSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Senior Staff Accountant ALEGRIA SENA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Staff Accountant YUEN KI “ANNIE” LAW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Payroll Manager AMEETA SHARMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Payroll Specialist DAVE ALTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chief Information Officer STAN GRUSHESKY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Information Systems SEAN PINTO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Database and Web Manager MANDY RATLIFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tessitura Administrator JARED WATANABE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Information Systems Analyst

JEREMIE ARENCIBIA, VICKI BERNDT, RJ CANTU, CARLOS D. CHAVEZ, JR., PETER COLBURN, DONALD CRANDALL, GARY HOLLAND, KAY LOCHARD, JUSTINE PEREZ, LEX SAVKO, DANNY SCHMITZ, CRIS SPACCA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Audience Services Representatives

SARAH K. GONTA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Box Office Treasurer KISHISA ROSS, GISELE FRAZEUR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant Treasurers YULIZA BARRAZA, ANGELICA CARBAJAL, MICHAEL KEMPISTY, LEROY PAWLOWSKI, MICHAEL SALTZMAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Box Office Staff MICHAEL ZOLDESSY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Account Sales Manager EILEEN ROBERTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Account Sales Associate KERRY KORF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Priority Services Director SUSAN F. TULLER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Priority Services Operations Manager JAY BURNS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Priority Services Sales Manager PAUL CUEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Priority Services Manager CANDICE WALTERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Priority Services Assistant Supervisor CAROLE BAXTER, MAGGIE DODD, NIC DRESSEL, SOFIJA DUTCHER, MARC “BYRON” DROTMAN, SAMANTHA ELSE, AMBER FRIENDLY, RAYLENE GUTIERREZ, LOU GEORGE, KATE HALL, JERRY JOHNSTON, LISA KESSLER, SHEP KOSTER, MATT PELFREY, DONALD RIZZO, KEN SALLEY, KRISTEN SCHRASS, BOBBI LYNNE SCOTT, ANDREW SEVERYN, ANASTASIA SILVA, MICHAEL SMITH, QUINN SULLIVAN, DIANE WARD, . JIM WATERMAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Representatives INTERNS CATHERINE CAMPBELL, SYNNOVE ERIKSEN, TOBY JACOBROWN, JADE JOHNSON, LAURA SARDISCO

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DONOR RECOGNITION

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Special Thanks to Artistic Director’s Circle Members for Supporting CTG The Artistic Director’s Circle, founded by Brindell and Milton Gottlieb, is comprised of individuals supporting specific areas of Michael Ritchie’s artistic vision for Center Theatre Group. The following individuals have made commitments of $100,000 and above. (Donors listed as of February 3, 2014.)

Emerald Circle ($1 million+) Kirk & Anne Douglas Brindell Roberts Gottlieb Laura & James Rosenwald & Orinocco Foundation Eva & Marc Stern Ruby Circle ($500,000+) Jeanette Shammas Sapphire Circle ($250,000+) Anonymous Debra & Norris Bishton Louise & Brad Edgerton Lloyd E. Rigler – Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation

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Diamond Circle ($100,000+) Judith & Thomas Beckmen Margaret M. Bloomfield Diana Buckhantz & Vladimir & Araxia Buckhantz Foundation Joseph & Mara Carieri Ruth Flinkman-Marandy & Ben Marandy Eric & Nancy Garen Kiki & David Gindler In Memory of Morris A. Hazan Ann & Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr. June & Gareth Hughes Eileen & Ken Kaplan Renee & Meyer Luskin Alice Mathias Donna McKenna Dale S. & Shideh Miller Olivia & Anthony Neece Timothy A. Regler Deidra Norman Schumann Maggy & Jack Simon Judie Stein and Stein Family Foundation Sue Tsao Sheila & Wally Weisman Misty Widelitz

Artists & Educators Forum ($20,000+)

The Artists & Educators Forum, founded by Joni and Miles Benickes, is comprised of individuals dedicated to providing significant funding for CTG’s new play development and Education and Community Partnerships programs. For more information about leadership gifts, please call Erin Schlabach at 213.972.3069. (Donors listed as of February 3, 2014.)

Melissa & Bob Alvarado Joni & Miles Benickes* Annette Blum* Linda Brown Bill Cohn & Dan Miller Erica & Vin Di Bona Dorskind Family* Frances & Terry Flanagan Amy Forbes & Andrew Murr Aliza & Marc Guren Heather & Paul Haaga In Support of New Theatre Artists Mr. & Mrs. Gerald W. Kehle Vicki King

Harry & Arlette Lumer Linda S. Peterson* Joyce & David Rabinov Bill Resnick Chester James Semel, M.D. Elliott R. Sernel* Bui & Herb Simon Jane Rissman & Richard Sondheimer* Sunshine Stone Mr. & Mrs. Ian D. Teague* Karen & William Timberlake Robin & Gary Ungar Suzanne V. Wilson

*Five-year $100,000 commitment.

Donors who have made additional gifts to Center Theatre Group’s Endowment or Planned Gifts programs.

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Inner Circle

Frances Flanagan, Inner Circle Chair The Inner Circle is an organization of community leaders who provide outstanding support to Center Theatre Group. CTG also wishes to acknowledge its generous supporters in the Entertainment Circle, who are leaders in the entertainment industry (denoted below with *). In appreciation, members enjoy a host of special benefits, including meet-the-artist receptions, backstage tours, premium theatre seating, and much more. For information, call Donald Jolly at 213.972.3149. (Donors listed as of January 2, 2014.)

SEASON

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Dido & Aeneas/ Bluebeard’s Castle

Guarantor Circle ($15,000+) Betsy & Harold Applebaum Rob & Joan Blackman Jonna Bollenbacher Lynn Booth Maynard & Linda Brittan Marcy Carsey Susan & Stephen Chandler Morgan & Helen Chu Jay & Donna Gallagher Patricia Glaser & Sam Mudie Annie & Georges Gross Lydia Hao Leonard Hirshan & Family Joyce & Don Kaiserman Kelton Fund/Lenny & David Kelton Darell & Elizabeth Krasnoff Joyce & Kent Kresa Janay & Eugene La Pietra Nahum & Alice Lainer Lee Levin

Doug Little* Carolyn & Kit Lokey The Isabel Foundation Harry & Arlette Lumer Kelly Sutherlin McLeod & Steven B. McLeod Family Foundation Edward & Deena Nahmias Kay & Bob Rehme Michael Ritchie & Kate Burton Melissa L. Rhone Catherine Schreiber & Miles Ruthberg Drs. Joan & Harry Saperstein Rary Simmons George Takei & Brad Takei* Lynda Thomas Roberta & James Vigneau Mr. & Mrs. William M. Wardlaw

Benefactor Circle ($10,000+) Anonymous (2) Robert & Sara Adler William J. Aisley Geraldine & Harold Alden Constance A. Austin G.W. Bailey* Jackie & Howard Banchik Greg Basser & Kiera O’Neill* Shelley & Rick Bayer Laurie Benenson Phyllis M. Berger Carole Black Howard Bragman Rose Marie Browning & Michael Fletcher Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Burdorf Beth Burnam Lou Colen Roberta A. Conroy Dr. & Mrs. Frederic Corbin Eunice & Hal David Ms. Diana Davidow Nancy & Donald de Brier Cástulo de la Rocha & Zoila Escobar Dante Di Loreto Connie Elliot Rhonda C. Evans Dennis L. Field & H. Douglas Galt Polly Fleming Barbara & Peter Fodor Ava & Charles Fries Cindy & Rick Goldman Roslyn & Abner Goldstine Susan A. Grode Timothy G. Hanlon & Anthony Klatt Shirley J. Hess Lorraine & Jesse Hizami Ellen & Tom Hoberman Mary N. Howey

Mr. & Mrs. James L. Hunter James Jennings & Deidre Steine Jacqueline & Marvin Jubas Andrew & Denise Katz Dr. & Mrs. Jack Kavanaugh Diane Kessler Laura King & Charles Nagurka In Memory of Salem Ludwig Joanne & Roger Kozberg Sheila Krasnoff Sandra Krause & William Fitzgerald Jeff & Griselda Kreitzman Joan Kroll & In Memory of Irving Kroll Lucy Labruzzo & Jim Zaniboni David & Tam Lachoff Jennifer & Rodger Landau In Memory of Malcolm Lewis In Loving Memory of Anna Strahlman John Liebes Phillips & Emily Marshall Martin Massman Carol & Douglas Mancino William O. McClure Janis B. McEldowney Betty L. McMicken Margot & Mitch Milias Janice & Bruce Miller Carrie & Ben Mui Sheila Muller Kari L. Nakama Arline M. Nakanishi Chris & Dick Newman/ C & R Newman Family Foundation

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Benefactor Circle (continued) Joan & Fred Nicholas Christine Marie Ofiesh Michael R. Oppenheim Dr. Mary Kay Park Dr. Renee Boblette & Dr. Robert G. Patterson Ann & Donald Petroni Gregory Pickert & Beth Price Jack & Jane Pollock Edward L. Rada Harry E. Rice, M.D. David & Natalie Roberts Barbara & Peter Rosenthal Bruce & Randy Ellen Ross Joyce & Deane Ross Greg Scott Dan Sernett Nina & Steven Sheldon Cheryl A. Shepherd Marcia & David M. Spaid Phyllis J. & Steven F. Spierer

Stanley Iezman & Nancy Stark Eugene & Marilyn Stein Clumeck Stern Schenkelberg & Getzoff Stone Family Judy Stone Lisa A. Sugimoto Donna & John Sussman Anne C. Taubman & David Boyle Peter & Iona Tompkins Elinor & Rubin Turner Peter & Susan Van Haften Carol Vernon & Robert Turbin Jerrie D. Whitfield & Richard W. Motika Jenene J. Wilson & Kristiana A. Wilson Mary J. Witt The Wolkowitz Family Marilyn Ziering

Patron Circle ($6,000+) Anonymous (7) Elizabeth Alexander & Daniel Glober Russi Taylor Allwine Laura & Harvey Alpert Chris & Yvonne Amantea Robert C. Anderson James Asperger & Christine Adams Laura Awazu & David Moromisato Cheryl & Elliott Balbert Angela Bardowell Linda Barnett Mark & Jody Barnhill Philip & Norma Barretta Anne Barry Lois Barth & Michael Schubach Susan Baumgarten Fran R. Berger Alan & Marilyn Bergman Dr. Saul Jay & Jan Berman Charles Berney & Family I. Mark Bledstein Family Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Morgan Yvonne Bogdanovich & Family Bill Bohnert Tracey Boldemann-Tatkin & Stan Tatkin Chuck & Karlyn Boppell John Bowab* Paula Brand The Saul Brandman Foundation Geri Brawerman Pamela & J. Garfield Broussard David Burch Beth Burnam Joan & Allan Burns Dr. & Mrs. Ronald Busuttil Dr. & Mrs. George Byrne Andy Cadiff * In Memory of John W. Carner Kristin & Carolyn Carty Paula & Richard Castanon Arthur & Katheryn Chinski

Nicholas Chrisos Mary Coates Dr. & Mrs. Lawrence J. Cohen The Terry L. Cole Family Corbell Family Donald & Zoe Cosgrove Reverend Daniel J. Coyle Nancy Cypert Lee & Janet Dicker Kenneth Donaldson Julia Donoghue Anne M. Dougherty & David B. Dobrikin Bob & Gabrielle Ducsay Ms. Anita H. Dymant & Mr. Richard Drooyan Michael A. Enomoto Joanna Exacoustos Lynda & Al Fadel Alan & Barbara Faiola Larry Field Chris Cookson & Lauren Firestone Pat Fleming Judith R. Forman & Richard N. Weiner James W. Franke Cindy & Gary Frischling Mr. & Mrs. Homer Garten Debra Gastler & Andrew Malloy Dr. & Mrs. Stephen Geller Rocky & Deborah Gentner Jeri & Keith Gertzman Marylyn Ginsburg & Chuck Klaus Eleanor Gorman Edith Gould Dr. Ellen Smith Graff Beverly & Felix Grossman Lisa Guerin Dana Guerin Lorrie & Richard Gurewitz The Harshberger Family Dr. & Mrs. Chester Hasday Dr. & Mrs. Randy W. Hawkins Hays & Clark Family

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Patron Circle (continued) Betty & Irwin Helford Zvia Hempling Winifred C. Hervey* Phil Hettema Alicia Hirsch & Jesse Russo* Walmilly Foundation Sam Ho, M.D. Elizabeth Hoage Rand Hoffman & Charlotte Robinson Dorothy Hoffman Gail & Stanley Hollander Joan H. Hotchkis Harold Igdaloff Jennifer L. Jackman & John P. Hott Jerry & Ellen Jacobson Carol & Bruce Johnston Mary Quon Jung & Michael Galindo Gary & Denise Kading Deborah & Ivan Kallick Alan & Sharon Kane Ms. Debra Kasirer Hon. Mary Lou Katz Cari & Marty Kavinoky Gary W. Kearney Mille & Bob Kern Janice A. Kido In Memory of Lynn Kinikin Annette & Dr. Charles Kleeman Sharon L. Kline Bob & Karen Ulman Knapp Ellen & Harvey Knell J. Koenig Vicki & Seth Kogan Norman & Leslie Koplof Thea & Neal Koss Deborah & Jacob Kotzubei The Paul Kowal Charitable Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Stan Krasnoff Carol Krause Nita Whitaker LaFontaine Sharon Lapid/LFCF Infiniti of Thousand Oaks Dr. & Mrs. Martin S. Lasky Craig Lawson & Terry Peters Michael & Sandy Leahy Barbara & Andrew Leigh Gordon Lemke & Brian Rogers Ronald Levenson & Marcia Gold Levenson Mrs. Gayle Leventhal Edward Lewis Janell & Randall Lewis Steven Llanusa & Glenn Miya, M.D. Marlene & Sandy Louchheim Crystal & Elwood Lui Mr. & Mrs. Matt Lyons Sandra & Kenneth Malamed Mrs. Sheldon C. & Mr. Jeff Mandel Barbara & Garry Marshall* Theodore K. Martinez* Melanie McDaniel Dreux & Lynn McNairy M. Wayne Metcalf Barbara & Fred Miller Lee & Ron Miller

Philip & Joan Miller Lawrence A. Mirisch* Patricia Mock & Judson Mock Joanne & Joel Mogy Mary Lou Mooney Diane Morton Patricia W. Mullenbach & Mary Mullenbach Hooper Sylvia & Ron Myrick Robert & Florence Nairin Robert & Sally Neely Deidra Norman Schumann Judy Nussenblatt Margrit and Norman Oberstein Valerie Oishi Gail & Gerald Oppenheimer Mr. Peter T. Paterno Dennis J. Perrone Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Pescetti Dr. & Mrs. Irv Posalski Ruth & Allen Potts Dr. Sheila Phillips & Michael Powell Drs. Laurence J. & Isabell B. Purdy Dean Madeline Puzo Gail & Gary Rachelefsky Mr. Richard J. Ramirez, Jr.* Paula F. Reach Mr. & Mrs. Boyd C. Reeves Ms. Carlene Ringer Belinda Robins Barbara & Bill Roberts Elaine Binder Robinson William & Sue Roen Lois Rosen Ellen & Mike Rosenberg Jaclyn B. Rosenberg Leonard J. & JoAnn Roth Maggie Russell Dana Saladen Janet Salter in Memory of Maxwell Hillary Salter Faith Annette Sand & Albert Gleaves Cohen In Memory of Honey Sanders Wes Schaefer & Cathy King-Schaefer Eloise Schlesinger & Peggy J. Schlesinger Martin Salvin & Barbara Schneider Peter & Susan Schwab Todd W. Seabold Ruth & Mitchell Shapiro Nina Shaw & Wallace Little* Gloria Sherwood Loretta H. Shine Jan & Carl Siechert Louis & Mary Silver Foundation Stephen & Judith Slagle Shani Smolens & In Memory of Dr. Bernard Smolens Drs. Debra & Philip Sobol Sue & Steve Soldoff Judith & Stan Solomon Betty & Al Spivak Tracy A. Stone Rick & Barbara Sulier

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Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Volk Susan & William Weintraub Jessica M. Weisel

Doug & Ellen Weitman Barbara & Edmund Wilkinson David Williamson Jennifer Crittenden & William Wrubel*

Virginia & Greg Young Arnold H. & Tricia L. Zane Martin & Rosalind Zane

Fellow Circle ($3,000+) Anonymous (12), Gay & Harry Abrams/Abrams Artists Agency, Brenda & Alan Abramson, Ilene & Larry Abramson, Florence C. Agcawili, Bertha Aguilar, Dawn Brewer, Andrew Aichlmayr, Ignacio Alfaro, Helen Allan, Dr. O. Allen Alpay, Mr. Domenic Andreone, Carol L. Archie & Edward L. Keenan, Charles Arias, Deanna & Richard Ashby, Suzanne & Bill Attig, Linda A. Ayers, Mr. David Bailey & Mr. Ronald Shalowitz, W. Lee Bailey, M.D., David Baltimore & Alice Huang, Eric & Jasna Baron , Patricia Barry, Ms. Kathy A. Bartkowiak, Barbara Bauer & Lawrence Cox, Dr. Martine Bauwens, Elissa & Sheldon Becker, Bernie Beiser, Bob & Terry Bennett, Beth Bennett & Larry McAdams, Elliot & Roberta Berkowitz, Drs. Jack & Barbara Berman, Ed Bernstein, Bob Besser, Ellen Bienenfeld*, Diane & Kendall Bishop, Nathalie Blossom & Howard Levy, Susan Booth & Christopher Wadden, In Memory of Evilo Bouchey, Alice Desobry Bowens, Lynne Braiman, Paul & Carol Bressan, Sandra Brewer*, Robert Brook & Jackie Kosecoff, Dr. Leon & Rochelle Brooks, Stu Brower, Neil H. & Karen Hochman Brown, Regina & Todd Brown, Anne Bruner & James Bremner, Rick Buche & Vin Reilly*, Todd Michael Buchner, Norman Buckley & Davyd Whaley*, Mr. & Mrs. James Burrows*, John J. Byers, Erica Hiller Carpenter & Kevin E. Carpenter*, Rosemary & Peter Casey*, The Castaldo Family, Deborah Castro & Creative Productions*, Mr. Peter Chapa, The Honorable Judith C. Chirlin, Ruth Choi, Joseph Cochran, Nadege & Jay Conger, Kim & Anthony Cookson, Hon. Candace Cooper, Leah M. Coulter, Christine & Kevin Crombie, Mr. & Mrs. Richard Crook Jr., Robert Cushnir & Perry Lewis, Paula F. Cwikly*, Bill & Ellie D’Elia*, Mr. & Mrs. George DeRoy & Cathy DeRoy, Dr. Allison Diamant, Mike & Jamie DiFiori, Milton L. Dranow & Betty J. Dranow Family Foundation, Nick Dudzak*, Robin C. Dumas, James A. Durant, Dr. & Mrs. William Duxler, Leslie J. Edmonds, Leslie B. Einstein, Earl & Karen Enzer, Lorraine Espinosa Nall, David & Joyce Evans, Carmen & Bob Farmer, Gloria & Morton R. Field, Joseph P. Figlow, Darcy Fleck*, Shirley The only upscale boutique in greater Ford, Laura E. Fox, M.D. & John D. Hofbauer, M.D., Sylvia Fredricks, Lora Fremont, Sharon & Elliott T. Friedman, Los Angeles for women size 12 and up.

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bach’s birthday Iconic violinist Jaime Laredo and his studentturned-star, Jennifer Koh team up for two double concertos. The first is by Bach and the second, Anna Clyne’s Prince of Clouds, is a Baroque-style concerto inspired by Laredo and Koh’s artistic family tree. sat mar 22 @ 8 pm

Alex Theatre, Glendale Music Director

sun mar 23 @ 7 pm Royce Hall, UCLA

James Feddeck conductor Jaime Laredo violin Jennifer Koh violin Mendelssohn “The Fair Melusina” Overture Anna Clyne Prince of Clouds Bach Concerto in D minor for Two Violins Schubert Symphony No. 3 in D major after-party — you’re invited!

Join us for free drinks and appetizers.

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Jeffrey Kahane

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Macbeth

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Planned Gifts Center Theatre Group is grateful to these donors, whose irrecovable deferred estate gifts to CTG’s endowment ensure the organization’s financial wellbeing for generations to come. $1,000,000+ Richard & Julie Kagan Martin Massman Betty McMicken in honor of Jeanette Shammas Diane & Leon Morton Carol Vernon & Robert Turbin $500,000+ Mary Levin Cutler Virginia Hayes Ann & Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr. Merle & Peter Mullin Magda & Frederick R. Waingrow $250,000+ Patricia Glaser & Sam Mudie Edward L. Rada Susan & William Weintraub

$100,000+ W. Lee Bailey, M.D. Angela Bardowell Allan & Joan Burns Sandra Krause & William Fitzgerald Deborah M. Hyde Sarah & Andy Kane Dr. & Mrs. Jack Kavanaugh The Paul Kowal Charitable Foundation Darell L. Krasnoff Joyce & Kent Kresa $50,000+ Pamela & Dennis Beck The Moira Byrne Foster Foundation Mr. Kim L. Hunter Sally & Frank Raab $25,000+ Charles Dillingham & Susan D. Clines

Endowment Gifts These gifts ensure a stable source of support for new work and CTG’s many initiatives to make theatre accessible to underserved audiences. $500,000+ Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Renee & Meyer Luskin John S. Surabian, Jr. and in memory of Faith and Sharon Ann Surabian $250,000+ The Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation $100,000+ Betsy & Harold Applebaum Judith & Thomas Beckmen The Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation Kenneth Corday Center Theatre Group Affiliates Regina Fadiman Barbara & Peter Fodor Ava & Charles Fries Brindell & Milton Gottlieb

The Hearst Foundation, Inc. Vicki King Joyce & Kent Kresa Richard G. & Virginia L. Martin Louise Taper $50,000+ Maynard & Linda Brittan Ellen & Michael S. Korney Dorothy & Richard Sherwood $25,000+ Abbott Brown Linda Brown Greve Foundation Dr. Tom Hickey Diane & Leon Morton $10,000+ A and J Davidson Skipper Award Fund Levine Foundation Carolyn & Kit Lokey Betty & Sanford Sigoloff

craftsmanship or alchemy?

What makes a Strad a Strad— design, craftsmanship, the wood, the varnish?

The centuries-old debate rages on but all agree: a Stradivarius violin sings like no other.

Experience the mystique of the greatest instruments known to man.

stradivarius fiddle-fest

Jeffrey Kahane Music Director

one magical night only

fri mar 28 @ 7:30 pm The Broad Stage Santa Monica

Five virtuosos face-off in a fun-filled display of one-upmanship on the Ruby (1708), Leonora Jackson (1714), Titian (1715), Milstein (1716) and Beechback (1720) Strads.

Program includes: Ravel Pièce en Forme de Habanera Piazzolla Oblivion & Libertango Bartók Romanian Folk Dances

Featuring Margaret Batjer, Chee-Yun, Cho-Liang Lin, Philippe Quint & Xiang Yu with Jeffrey Kahane (piano) and Nico Abondolo (bass) in acrobatic solos, duets, trios and quartets.

Part of Strad Fest LA , LACO’s celebration of luthier Antonio Stradivari’s 370th birthday

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Meet California’s fascinating family-owned wineries, hear their stories, taste their wines, share with your family and friends.

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Center Theatre Group Affiliates CTG-A has supported CTG since 1971. Through volunteering and fundraising, members introduce young people to the magic of live theatre. Its biennial gala, Angels’ Night, raises significant funds for CTG’s Education and Community Partnerships programs.

PRESIDENT

Diane Neubauer EXECUTIVE BOARD Alice Desobry Bowens Anne Bruner Ruth Flinkman-Marandy Joanne Freed Ava O. Fries* Linda Goldman Beverly Haas Diane Kessler* Diane Lesser Jerri Nagelberg

Kim White Peterson* Harriett Chatters Rose Bonnie Sachs Maggy Simon Carole Solomon Marilyn Stambler* Donna Sussman* Janice Weiner Rosalind Zane*

MEMBERS Helen Abbott Gail Ann Andrews Arthe P. Anthony Shirley Rae Ashkenas Sandy Avchen Janet Barnet* Mimi Barry Sue Bass Judith Beckmen* Marjorie Ann Beradino Lanie Bernhard Lestrita Boardman Roanna Araneta Brown Elnora Guerrero Campos Wilma Glenn Chappelle Marlene Theresa Charbonnet Barbara Mansfield Cheyne* Beverly Cohn Mary Levin Cutler Jean Crawford Donald* Babe Eagle Ilene J. Eisenberg Gloria H. Ellwood* Lynda Wolfson Fadel Stephanie Fisher-White Carole A. Gillie Linda Goldfein Vicky Goodman Debra Gordon Brindell Roberts Gottlieb Joan Greiff Roberta Haft* Carol Halperin Christine Harte Stephanie Hibler Audrey Jessup Sondra Jolles Diane Papo Kaplan* Tobé Karns

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INTERNATIONAL CURTAIN CALL 2014 Deluxe Opera & Music Tours 2014 European Music Festival Tours VIENNA WAGNER RING (June 17 – 30, 2014) Jeffrey Tate-Sevn Eric Bechtolf WAGNER'S DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN– CYCLE. featuring Nina Stemme- Brünnhilde, GunBrit Barkmin- Sieglinde; Tom KoniecznyWotan; Lance Ryan- Siegmund; Stephan Gould- Siegfried, Eric Owens- Alberich.

PLUS: Ariadne Auf Naxos (Magee, Schäfer; Klaus-Florien Vogt); Tosca (Urmana; Giordano, Hampson); Janacek's Cunning Little Vixen; and Die Fledermaus.

5-Star Deluxe Hotel Grand-Vienna.

Selected Sightseeing & Meals At Leading Vienna Restaurants •••••••••••••••• BERLIN & DRESDEN (June 2 – 17, 2014) BERLIN– Don Giovanni; Carmen; Maria Stuarda; Billy Budd; Prokofiev' Romeo and Juliette Ballet; PLUS Staatskapelle Concert- Mahler Lieder and Mahler's 1st Symphony (Berlin Philharmonic Theater).

DRESDEN– Così Fan Tutte; Turandot; Simon Boccanegra; and Barber Of Seville.

5-Star Deluxe Hotels: Kempinski BristolBerlin. and Taschenbergpalais- Dresden.

Selected Sightseeing & Meals At Leading Restaurants ••••••••••••••• MUNICH OPERA FESTIVAL (June 29 – July 9, 2014) Macbeth (Netrebko; Keenlyside, Calleja); Frau Ohne Schatten (Pieczonka, Polaski; Botha); La Traviata (Damrau; Calleja, Keenlyside); Guillaume Tell (Poplavskaya; Volle); Der Fliegende Holländer (Pieczonka; Held, König); and Festival Chamber Concert-Lazart Quartet (Beethoven and Bartok String Quartets).

5-Star Deluxe Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten.

Selected Sightseeing & Meals At Leading Munich Restaurants •••••••••••••••• MILAN & VERONA (July 8 – 20, 2014) MILAN La Scala– Così Fan Tutte (Dragojevic, Bengtsson; Plachetka, Sonn); Le Comte Ory (Kurzak; Flòrez, Tagliavini).

VERONA Arena– Aida; Carmen; Ballo In Maschera; Turandot; PLUS Special Placido Domingo Verdi Concert Gala.

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Selected Sightseeing & Meals At Leading Restaurants ••••••••••••••• ROYAL OPERA- GLYNDEBOURNE & EDINBURGH TOURS To Be Announced LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE Contact International Curtain Call 3313 Patricia Ave. – Los Angeles, CA 90064 Ph: (310) 204-4934; (800) 669-9070 E-Mail: Icctours1@aol.com www.IccOperaTours.com

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“Everyone onstage is pretty close to perfect.”

—The New York Times

Peter Brook/ Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord:

The Suit

Based on The Suit by Can Themba,

Mothobi Mutloatse and Barney Simon Direction, adaptation and musical direction by

Peter Brook, Marie-Héléne Estienne and Franck Krawczyk

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A poignant and tragic tale of betrayal and resentment from renowned theater and film director Peter Brook.

Featuring an innovative staging that integrates musicians directly into the action, Brook’s tender production— fresh from sold-out runs in Paris and London— makes Themba’s tightly crafted fable sing.

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