PASSION Digital Program

MUSIC & LYRICS BY STEPHEN SONDHEIM BOOK BY JAMES LAPINE BASED ON THE FILM PASSIONE D’AMORE DIRECTED BY ETTORE SCOLA DIRECTED BY JUSTIN LUCERO MUSIC DIRECTION BY JASON HANSEN MOVEMENT DIRECTION BY EMILY MICHAELS KING

JUN 4 - JUL 13, 2025 • THE RITZ THEATER PASSION - 1

Artistic Director JUSTIN LUCERO

Managing Director ELISA SPENCER-KAPLAN

PRESENTS

PASSION Music & Lyrics by STEPHEN SONDHEIM Book by JAMES LAPINE Based on the film PASSIONE D’AMORE Directed by ETTORE SCOLA Directed by JUSTIN LUCERO** Music Direction by JASON HANSEN† Movement Direction by EMILY MICHAELS KING Scenic & Lighting Designer

Costume Designer

Wig, Hair & Makeup Designer

Props Designer & Supervisor

PAUL WHITAKER^

EMMA GUSTAFSON

AMBER BROWN

MADELAINE FOSTER

Associate Lighting Designer

ANDREW VANCE

Director of Production

ALLEN WEEKS

Sound Designer

PETER MORROW Fight Director

AARON PREUSSE

Assistant Director

ZACH CHRISTENSEN Technical Director

BETHANY REINFELD

With gratitude to our Production Partner

RITA OLK

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

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CAST Lieutenant Torasso Fosca Clara Giorgio Doctor Private Augenti & Understudy Giorgio Sergeant Lombardi & Understudy Colonel & Doctor Colonel Ricci Major Rizzoli Lieutenant Barri

PHINEHAS BYNUM ERIN CAPELLO ISA CONDO-OLVERA DYLAN FREDERICK* BRADLEY GREENWALD* THEO JANKE-FURMAN RILEY McNUTT ERIC MORRIS* RODOLFO NIETO* ADÁN VARELA*

UNDERSTUDIES

STAGE MANAGEMENT

for Fosca & Clara HOPE NORDQUIST for Torasso, Barri, Rizzoli, Augenti & Lombardi WESLEY FRYE

Stage Manager SHELBY REDDIG* Assistant Stage Manager JOELLE COUTU*

ORCHESTRA Conductor & Piano Winds Double Bass Violin Cello

Jason Hansen† Ryan Golden† Greg Hippen† Renata Steve† Diane Tremaine†

PRODUCTION TEAM Production Stage Manager Associate Production & Company Manager & Stage Management Swing Casting Supervisor Dramaturg Lighting Supervisor & Light Board Operator Audio Supervisor & Sound Board Operator Costume Supervisor Costume Shop Assistant & Dresser / Wardrobe Head Scenic Carpenter Lead Carpenter Scenic Charge Carpenters / Props Artisans Lead Scenic Artist Scenic Artists Head Electrician Electricians

Audio Technician Stitchers Stage Management Swing

Shelby Reddig* Christian Erben Sheena Janson Kelley Elissa Adams Andrew Norfolk Corinne Steffens Amber Brown Ash Kaun Matthew Smith Whitley Cobb Sara Herman Alana Duffy, Halle Pelfrey, Kris Schmidt Erika Soukup Taury Himmerich, Abbey Ortiz Dante Benjegerdes Sasha Blinnikova, Lane Bode, Kevin Champion, Wesley Cone, Shannon Elliott, Paul Epton, Andy Glischinski, Bevibel Harvey, Zach Staad, Jacqulin Stauder, Tristan Wilkes Julie Zumsteg Caroline Amaral Zaltron, Laura Jones Rachael Rhoades*

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers **Associate Member of SDC, the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union ^Member of the United Scenic Artists, a national union that represents designers and scenic painters for the American theater † PASSION - 3 Member of Twin Cities Musicians Union, American Federation of Musicians

PROGRAM NOTE Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Passion is often called one of the most divisive works in the American musical canon. It’s certainly among the most emotionally daring. This is not a traditional love story—it’s a meditation on obsession, vulnerability, and the aching rawness of human need. Adapted from a 19th-century Italian novel by way of an Italian film, the musical strips love of its sweetness and sentimentality. What remains is something hauntingly elemental: desire that destabilizes, longing that unsettles, and love that leaves scars.

Our production reimagines Passion as a memory play—less a linear tale than a psychological landscape. The story unfolds in fractured recollection, triggered by a final letter received by Giorgio, our protagonist. What follows is not reality, but Giorgio’s reconstruction of events: moments looping, collapsing, bleeding into one another like memories do. The dreamlike theatricality of a memory filter aligns perfectly with noir structure in that they are both fragmentary, out of time, and seemingly unreliable—yet hindsight ultimately brings the most clarity. Noir’s intentional nonlinearity and muddled universes undercut conventional notions of love and fate. We are inside Giorgio’s mind, where past and present swirl together, where sense is fleeting, and where love and trauma are indistinguishable.

Seen through this lens, every character is trapped—by illness, by beauty standards, by patriarchy, by delusion. Most of all, by love. Fosca, the character who has long polarized audiences, emerges not as a monster but as a deeply human figure. Her relentless need, her unfiltered emotional intensity, and her vulnerability are disturbing not because they are unnatural, but because they are recognizable. Today, we see her through the language of trauma, of mental health, of emotional honesty. She demands to be seen fully—and in doing so, she holds up a mirror to us all.

Passion contains no irony, no tidy resolution. Its score pulses with arioso intensity, like obsession itself—continuous, saturated, and unsparing. This is a show that doesn’t ask to be liked; it asks to be felt. In the end, it’s about transformation—the terrifying, beautiful kind that comes when we allow ourselves to be truly seen.

That’s the risk. That’s the reward. And that’s the Passion.

Justin Lucero Director

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A NOTE FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR As the curtain rises on PASSION, I find myself filled with deep gratitude—and more than a little awe. This production marks the culmination of my first full season as Artistic Director, and it just so happens to be Theater Latté Da’s 99th production.That number—99— feels heavy with meaning: a reflection of the company’s extraordinary legacy, and a thrilling signal that our 100th is just over the horizon.

And what a season this has been. From the bold to the intimate, the revelatory to the joyous, this has been one of the most successful seasons in our company’s history—measured not just by ticket sales or accolades (though those certainly came), but by the conversations in the lobby, the standing ovations, the gasps of recognition, the silent tears, and the music that stayed in your head long after the lights dimmed. You showed up. Again and again. And for that, I am deeply thankful.

To close this deeply personal season with Stephen Sondheim’s PASSION feels especially resonant. This is the 12th Sondheim piece produced by Theater Latté Da, following landmark productions of Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, Assassins, Sunday in the Park with George, Company, A Little Night Music, Merrily We Roll Along, and more. No other writer appears more frequently in our history—and it’s not hard to see why. Sondheim’s work is rigorous, unflinching, and deeply human. His work dares to ask the hardest questions about love, time, memory, morality, and meaning—and it does so with wit, honesty, and breathtaking craft.

PASSION may be his most emotionally naked piece. It’s a love story, yes—but a twisted, raw, and ultimately redemptive one. In choosing this work to conclude my first season, I was drawn to its intensity, its intimacy, and its uncompromising commitment to the power of feeling. What better way to end a season rooted in bold, music-driven storysharing than with a piece that sings— literally and figuratively—of obsession, vulnerability, and the terrifying beauty of surrender?

As we stand on the edge of our 100th production—and the 100th anniversary of our home at the historic Ritz Theater—I hope you’ll join us again next season.

Subscriptions are on sale now, and trust me, you won’t want to miss what’s coming.

We’ll celebrate the past, yes—but we’ll also charge boldly into the future, with a lineup that honors our legacy while pushing the boundaries of what music theater can be. We’ll revisit the classics, embrace the experimental, laugh loudly, feel deeply, and—as always—sing.

Thank you for being here for this unforgettable moment. Thank you for making this season a success. And thank you—sincerely—for letting me begin this journey with you. I can’t wait for what’s next.

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Theater Latté Da is in our 27th season of presenting original and reimagined musical theater.

Theater Latté Da is the leading nonprofit professional theater in the Twin Cities that exclusively produces musical theater. Since our inception, TLD has presented 98 Mainstage productions, including 17 world premieres and 17 area premieres. Each has garnered critical acclaim and earned its artists and TLD a host of awards, including: seven IVEY Awards for overall excellence, National Endowment for the Arts, the Gabriel Award for Broadcast Excellence, the American Theater Wing National Theater Company Award, and the 2019 Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience.

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Theater Latté Da creates new and impactful connections between story, music, artist, and audience—exploring and expanding the art of musical theater.

Theater Latté Da is committed to recognizing, addressing, and opposing racism and discrimination in our work, art, community, and industry. We affirm our resolve to actively create an anti-racist arts organization demonstrating our commitment through action. We believe in the power and impact of equitable, inclusive environments and value the lived experiences of our collaborators. We will hold each other accountable to honor this commitment, in the rehearsal room, the office, the theater and the board room.

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GRATITUDE We are grateful for our artists,

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SONDHEIM’S PASSIONATE

PASSION James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim.

Passion, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine, opened on Broadway on May 9, 1994. It was awarded three Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Book and Best Score.

The musical ran a total of 280 performances, making it the shortest-running musical ever to win the Tony Award for Best Musical.

The article below is excerpted from the New York Times article of the same name by Michiko Kakutani

“Passion is about how the force of somebody’s feelings for you can crack you open,” says Stephen Sondheim, “and how it is the life force in a deadened world.”

Based on Ettore Scola’s brooding neo-romantic movie Passione d’Amore (1981) (which in turn was based on Fosca, an 1869 Italian novel by Iginio Tarchetti), Passion deals, on the surface, with a man’s relationship with two women. Through these two women -- whom James Lapine, the show’s librettist and director, sees as embodying opposing principles of light and dark, order and chaos -- Giorgio will be forced to explore his own deepest feelings and fears.

The show, as Mr. Lapine says, is “sort of about being naked. It reminds you of those moments in life, which we’ve all had, where we were obsessive or possessive or out of control.”

Though Mr. Sondheim’s work has always eschewed the simplistic, Pollyannaish conceits of the old-fashioned musical-comedy romance, the vagaries of passion and commitment have been favorite subjects throughout his long and innovative career. Ambivalence, self-consciousness, fear of caring too much, fear of intimacy and hurt, uncertainty and yearning and regret -- these are the animating emotions of songs as varied as “Send In the Clowns,” “Sorry-Grateful” and “With So Little to Be Sure Of.” Love in Passion is a very different creature indeed. Love in this musical is “an intoxication,” “a great blindness,” “a disease that would cripple us all.” Love, Giorgio will discover, is a rude, cathartic “religion” that possesses the power to indelibly shatter or redeem his life. He will discover a love “Without cause,/ Without sense,/ Without laws.”

Poster for Passione d’Amore

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When Mr. Sondheim first saw the Scola movie in 1983, he says he had an immediate visceral response, and instantly seized upon the idea of turning it into a musical. Initially, the composer and Mr. Lapine -- his collaborator on Sunday in the Park With George (1984) and Into the Woods (1987) -conceived of pairing Passion with another one-act show called Muscle, which dealt with a weight lifter’s efforts to create a perfect body, and touched upon some of the same ideas of beauty and obsession. As work on Passion progressed, however, it evolved into a complete evening in itself, and plans to do it with Muscle were shelved.

“There was some personal connection clearly,” says Mr. Sondheim of his first reaction to the Scola movie. “I think it’s about a desire to open up, a desire to be like Giorgio.” Although Mr. Sondheim told Time magazine in 1987 that he had never been in love, he says his life “has changed a lot” recently, “and it’s one of the coincidences that that happened while I was writing Passion and vice versa.”

At 63 (in 1994), Mr. Sondheim says, “I’m happier now personally than I have ever been.” “It was after a struggle,” he says, “and after a lot of pain -- just the way Giorgio has to struggle a long time.”

Twenty-five years of analysis, he believes, helped lay the groundwork for the richness he now feels in his life: “It’s not entirely luck,” he says. “I think you have to be ready for things.” Because Mr. Sondheim’s songs have tackled groundbreaking subjects (political assassination, phenomenology, urban malaise, cultural decline), because they are written for complicated, frequently conflicted characters, because they evince a taste for the experimental and unexpected, critics have often characterized his body of work as cerebral and cold -- “all mind, no heart,” as a character put it in “Sunday” -- when in fact its virtuosic brilliance cloaks both extraordinary passion and a dazzling array of emotional moods. Indeed, if Mr. Sondheim resembles any composer, it is probably George Gershwin -- not only in his ability to combine American and European influences, classical and popular idioms, but also in simple terms of his music’s ambition and emotional pull.

In the case of Passion, Mr. Sondheim has created a lush, romantic score that mirrors the heightened, operatic nature of the story. Less a series of individual songs than a hypnotic net of music, the show’s score traces the shifting, kaleidoscopic emotions of the characters, even as it draws the audience into the dreamlike world of their fevered passions. Its highly patterned use of motifs to build emotional resonance recalls Sunday in the Park with George while its harmonic language is reminiscent of such soaring ballads as “Johanna” and “The Barber and His Wife” in Sweeney Todd.

Original Broadway poster for Passion

The composer’s literary and musical love of precision, his perfectionism, his fondness for puzzles and mystery stories, even what he calls his Germanic taste for organization -- all are manifestations, in Wallace Stevens’s words, of the artist’s “blessed rage for order.” Just as composing, for him, is about organizing music for a listener’s ear, designing it architectonically to hold together through various rhythmic and harmonic devices, so is writing a way of reinventing and transcending the tumultuous emotions of his childhood, a way of lending the random, messy business of life a sense of harmony and form.

“The analyst I went to had a particular interest in the relationship between creativity and neurosis,” says Mr. Sondheim, “and I spent a lot of time talking to him about how art tries to make order out of chaos, not just the chaos of the world, but the chaos of your own feelings and your own discombobulations.

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Hear more Stephen, Bradley, and Erin plus Leonard and Sarah!

The music of

July 26, 7:30 PM Roseville Lutheran Church The University of Minnesota School of Music and the Oratorio Society of Minnesota Chorus present

The Music of

Bernstein & Sondheim You’ve enjoyed Stephen Sondheim’s Passion with Bradley Greenwald and Erin Capello. Come hear them again along with works by Leonard Berstein and soloist Sarah Lawrence. The concert will feature 100 plus singers, orchestra and soloists, and the most vibrant works by Bernstein and Sondheim, plus selections from their collaboration, West Side Story.

July 26, 2025, 7:30 PM Roseville Lutheran Church

1215 Roselawn Avenue West, Roseville, Minnesota

Tickets at Oratorio.org

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BIOGRAPHIES PHINEHAS BYNUM (LIEUTENANT TORASSO) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Christmas at the Local, All is Calm, Candide, NEXT Festival. THEATER: Artistry: Tick, Tick...Boom!, The Sound of Music. OPERA: MN Opera: Edward Tulane, Carmen, The Anonymous Lover, La traviata, Silent Night, La rondine, Thaïs, Rigoletto, Dead Man Walking, Don Pasquale, Don Giovanni; Mill City Summer Opera: Così fan tutte, Carmen, Sweeney Todd; Skylark Opera: The Most Happy Fella, Don Giovanni. TRAINING: B.A., St. Olaf College ERIN CAPELLO (FOSCA) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Johnny Skeeky, Next to Normal, NEXT Festival (She’s Come Undone, Johnny Schicchi), Puttin’ on the Ritz, Steerage Song, Light in the Piazza, Evita. THEATER: Artistry: Waitress; History Theatre: I am Betty, A Servants’ Christmas (2003, 2022), The Christmas Schooner; Stages Theatre Company: Jack and Rochelle; MN Opera: The Elephant Man; Chanhassen Dinner Theatres: Swing!; Gilbert and Sullivan Very Light Opera Company: The Sorcerer; Cardinal Theatricals: Rocky Horror Live!

ISA CONDO-OLVERA (CLARA) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella. THEATER: Ten Thousand Things: Iphigenia at Aulis, Ten Thousand Voices; Guthrie Theater: A Christmas Carol, The Tempest; An Opera Theatre: The Cradle Will Rock, Dido & Aeneas; Yellow Tree Theatre: Toil and Trouble; Milwaukee Chamber Theatre: Laughs in Spanish; Illinois Shakespeare Festival: The Book of Will, The Tempest, The Comedy of Errors; Texas Shakespeare Festival: The Music Man, Nell Gwynn, The Taming of the Shrew; Teatro Auditorio Nacional: Don Quijote de la Mancha; Teatro del Pueblo: Voces Latinas. READINGS/WORKSHOPS: Playwrights’ Center, History Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Texas Shakespeare Festival. TRAINING: University of Minnesota Guthrie Theater BFA Acting. IG: isacondoolvera DYLAN FREDERICK (GIORGIO) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Merrily We Roll Along. BROADWAY: The Inheritance. OFF BROADWAY: Boy Gets Violent (Ars Nova ANTFEST), Summer Valley Fair (New York Musical Theatre Festival). REGIONAL: Assassins (Yale Repertory Theatre). TELEVISION: Poker Face (Peacock). TRAINING: BFA University of Evansville. MFA Yale School of Drama. FILM: American Theater (2025 Slamdance Grand Jury Prize) is currently on a national screening tour. Follow @americantheaterdoc for upcoming engagements. TEACHING: Contact lemonsquareinfo@gmail.com to request information on upcoming workshops and private coaching BRADLEY GREENWALD (DOCTOR) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Johnny Skeeky (also co-writer, co-director), Christmas at the Local, Twelve Angry Men, La Bohème, A Little Night Music, Steerage Song, Oliver!, C. (also book and lyrics), NEXT Festival. THEATER: Open Eye: The Longest Night, Dear Lenny: Bernstein’s Life in Songs & Letters; Jungle: I Am My Own Wife, The Mystery of Irma Vep; Guthrie: Caroline, Or Change, 1776; History: The Boy Wonder; Ten Thousand Things: My Fair Lady; Children’s Theater Company: A Year With Frog & Toad, The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins; Park Square: The Pirates of Penzance; Frank: The Threepenny Opera, Cabaret; Minnesota Dance Theatre: Carmina Burana, Rumblings. AWARDS: Minnesota State Arts Board Music Fellowship, McKnight Fellowship for Theater Artists, Ivey Award. ALSO: PASSION - 11

BIOGRAPHIES libretto for A Wrinkle in Time, opera by Libby Larsen; co-coordinator MacPhail’s Prelude: Singer-Actor Lab for High School Students.

THEO JANKE-FURMAN (PRIVATE AUGENTI & UNDERSTUDY GIORGIO) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella. THEATER: Lyric Arts: 9 to 5, Kinky Boots, Peter and the Starcatcher. TRAINING: Northwestern University.

Theo would like to thank Jean Del Santo, Melissa Hart, and Rich Remedios for their guidance and support.

RILEY MCNUTT (SERGEANT LOMBARDI & UNDERSTUDY COLONEL RICCI & DOCTOR) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Falsettos, Next to Normal, All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914, Hello Dolly!, Twelve Angry Men: A New Musical, A Little Night Music, Six Degrees of Separation, Ragtime; Children’s Theatre Company: Alice In Wonderland; Asolo Repertory Theater: All Is Calm, Twelve Angry Men: A New Musical; Flying Foot Forum: Heaven; Trademark Theater: The Boy and Robin Hood; Artistry: A New Brain, Noises Off, Phantom, Les Misérables, Cabaret, La Cage Aux Folles, Cabaret; Minnesota Orchestra: Carousel; Skylark Opera: Wonderful Town, The Vagabond King, Candide; Ordway Theater: Beauty and the Beast.

ERIC MORRIS (COLONEL RICCI) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Scotland, PA, Falsettos, Assassins. PERFORMING: Guthrie Theater: Guys & Dolls; Artistry: Waitress, The Pajama Game, The Bridges of Madison County; History Theatre: A Servant’s Christmas, Runestone, Lord Gordon Gordon; Nautilus Music-Theater: Twisted Apples; The Barn Theatre: Million Dollar Quartet, Seven Brides, The Wedding Singer, 9 to 5, The Who’s Tommy, Big River. DIRECTING/DESIGN: Artistry: Love & Baseball; VocalEssence: Kristina; Old Log Theatre: A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, Ghost, Tenderly, The Play That Goes Wrong, Escape to Margaritaville; Theatre L’Homme Dieu: Once, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical; The Barn Theatre: SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical; Lakeshore Players: I Am My Own Wife, The Three Musketeers. TRAINING: B.F.A. in Musical Theatre from Ithaca College. Come buzz with us at The Hive Collaborative in St. Paul! We’ve got Musical Theater Bingo every month! www.eric-morris.com & www. thehivecollaborativemn.com.

RODOLFO NIETO (MAJOR RIZZOLI) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Hello, Dolly!, La Bohème, Candide, A Little Night Music, Assassins, Man of La Mancha, All Is Calm (2017 National Tour, 2018 Off-Broadway, 2019-2021 Ritz), Puttin’ on the Ritz. THEATER: Artistry: The Sound of Music, A New Brain; MN Opera: Cruzar la Cara de la Luna; Asolo Rep: Man of La Mancha; Mixed Precipitation: The Odyssey, The Magic Flute; Park Square Theatre: Riddle Puzzle Plot; History Theater: Dirty Business. During the self-isolation of 2020 Rodolfo began writing and performing his own music, producing pieces such as “The Minnesota Beer Song”; and “Un Despertar / An Awakening”, a bilingual concert of Spanish and English songs recorded at The Ritz Theater. www.rodolfo-nieto.com; YouTube: @rodolfonieto8604

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BIOGRAPHIES ADÀN VARELA (LIEUTENANT BARRI) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Twelve Angry Men: A New Musical, NEXT Festival. THEATER: Asolo Repertory Theatre: Twelve Angry Men: A New Musical; Artistry: Sweet Charity, Les Misérables, Carousel; Children’s Theatre Company: Carmela Full of Wishes; History Theatre: Christmas of Swing, Not For Sale; Ordway Center: In the Heights; FRANK Theatre: Good Person of Setzuan, The Visit; Second City: Realish Housewives of Edina (Seasons 1 & 2); Lyric Arts: Evita, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. OPERA: MN Opera: Cruzar la Cara de la Luna, Silent Night, Roberto Devereux, Anna Bolena, La bohème, Flight, Barber of Seville; An Opera Theatre: In Media Res. DIRECTOR: Morris Park Players: Ragtime; Mixed Precipitation: Hit the Wall, #Matter; Gadfly Theatre: Lobstermen in Love.

HOPE NORDQUIST (UNDERSTUDY FOR FOSCA & CLARA) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella. THEATER: The Duluth Playhouse: Peter and The Starcatcher, The Sound Of Music, Young Frankenstein, Kinky Boots, Into The Woods, Footloose; Lakeshore Players: Anything Goes; The History Theater: The Defeat Of Jesse James. Park Square Theater: The Rocky Horror Show. TRAINING: The Stella Adler Studio.

WESLEY FRYE (UNDERSTUDY FOR TORASSO, BARRI, RIZZOLI, AUGENTI & LOMBARDI) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella. THEATER: Lyric Arts: Peter and the Starcatcher, A Chorus Line, The Wedding Singer; Lakeshore Players: La Cage aux Folles, Singin’ in the Rain. Also music director and freelancer for numerous high schools throughout the Twin Cities.

UPCOMING: Lyric Arts: Big Fish; Park Square Theatre: Goosebumps: The Musical, A Chorus Line. TRAINING: B.A. in Voice Performance, Luther College; M.M. in Voice Performance, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. IG: @wesgeorgtenor SHELBY REDDIG (PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Fun Home, School Pictures, The Color Purple, Stones in His Pockets, Christmas at the Local, Falsettos, Next to Normal, We Shall Someday, Hello, Dolly!, Merrily We Roll Along, Jelly’s Last Jam, La Bohème, Puttin’ on the Ritz. THEATER: Children’s Theatre Company: How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Snow White, The Hobbit, Corduroy; MN Opera: Albert Herring; Mixed Blood Theatre: Prescient Harbingers, The Mermaid Hour: Remixed; Perseverance Theater: A Christmas Carol; Jungle Theater: Fly By Night: The Musical; Stages Theatre: Charlotte’s Web. TRAINING: BA in Theater and English from St. Olaf College.

JOELLE COUTU (ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Stage Manager: Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Scotland, PA, Johnny Skeeky, NEXT Festival 2023 & 2024, Stage Manager Swing: Next to Normal, Christmas at The Local, Stones in His Pockets, The Color Purple, Fun Home. THEATER: Lyric Opera of the North: The Radio Hour, Cavalleria Rusticana; Skylark Opera Company: Three Decembers, Eugene Onegin, Amahl and the Night Visitors; Illusion Theater: Red and the Mother Wild, We Take Care of Our Own, Present; History Theatre: Runestone! A Rock Musical, Not in Our Neighborhood; Gilbert and Sullivan Very Light Opera Company: Pirates of Penzance. TRAINING: B.A in Theater and Television Design, Valparaiso University.

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BIOGRAPHIES RYAN GOLDEN (WINDS) THEATER LATTÉ DA: La Bohème, lnto the Woods.

THEATER: Ordway: The Little Mermaid. History Theatre: Glensheen, Beyond the Rainbow. Artistry: Pajama Game, Guys and Dolls, Hairspray, Les Misérables, Candide, The Music Man, Sunday in the Park with George, On the Town, Gypsy, Cabaret, 42nd St, City of Angels, King and I, Into the Woods, Little Shop of Horrors, Sweet Charity, The Drowsy Chaperone, Carousel, Oklahoma!, Phantom of the Opera, Fiddler on the Roof, Kiss me Kate, Singing in the Rain, The Secret Garden, La Cage Aux Folles. TRAINING: M.M. in clarinet, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. B.M. in clarinet, DePaul University GREG HIPPEN (DOUBLE BASS) Jazz, opera, classical, R&B, bluegrass, and good ol’ rock’n’roll . . . you name it, bassist Greg Hippen has probably played it. A 45-year career as a freelance bassist in the Twin Cities area has encompassed performances with the Minnesota Opera, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, A Prairie Home Companion, VocalEssence, Music Saint Croix, Theater Latté Da, the Rose Ensemble and Broadway musicals at the Orpheum Theater in Minneapolis and the Ordway Theater in St. Paul.

RENATA STEVE (VIOLIN) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Johnny Skeeky, La Bohème, MacBeth and the Weïrd Sisters (workshop). THEATER: Freelance violinist around Minnesota. TRAINING: B.M. in Violin Performance, Butler University; M.M in Violin Performance, Boston Conservatory.

DIANE TREMAINE (CELLO) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Into the Woods, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Parade. THEATER: Guthrie: Into the Woods, West Side Story, Secret Fall of Constance Wild, Caroline or Change, A Christmas Carol, 1776, Sunday in the Park With George, Pirates of Penzance. History Theatre: Glensheen, Fireball. Illusion Theatre: My Ántonia. Park Square Theatre: Into the Woods. Chanhassen Dinner Theatre: Newsies, I Do I Do, Oklahoma!.

Ordway: The Secret Garden, The King and I, The Sound of Music, Fiddler on the Roof, My Fair Lady. Orpheum: Miss Saigon, Evita. TRAINING: B.M. in cello performance, studied under János Starker, Indiana University STEPHEN SONDHEIM (MUSIC & LYRICS) was an American composer and lyricist whose brilliance in matching words and music in dramatic situations broke new ground for Broadway musical theater. Precocious as a child, Sondheim showed an early musical aptitude among other wide-ranging interests. Under the tutelage of a family friend, Oscar Hammerstein II, he studied musical theater.

He also studied music at Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, and wrote college shows there. When he graduated in 1950, he received the Hutchinson Prize for composition, a fellowship. He then studied further in New York City with the composer Milton Babbitt. In the early 1950s Sondheim wrote scripts in Hollywood for the television series Topper. After returning to New York City, he wrote incidental music for the play The Girls of Summer (1956). He made his first significant mark on Broadway, though, as the lyricist for Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story, which opened in 1957. He then wrote the lyrics for Gypsy (1959; music by Jule Styne). A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum—based on comedies by the Roman playwright Plautus—opened on Broadway in 1962, with music THEATER LATTÉ DA - 14

BIOGRAPHIES and lyrics by Sondheim. It ran for 964 performances and won the Tony Award for best musical. Two years later, however, his Anyone Can Whistle closed after only nine performances.

After contributing lyrics to Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965; music by Richard Rodgers), Sondheim focused solely on shows in which he wrote both music and lyrics. He won Tony Awards for best score for Company (1970), on contemporary marriage and bachelorhood; Follies (1971), a tribute to early 20th-century Broadway that includes many pastiche songs; A Little Night Music (1973; film 1977), based on Ingmar Bergman’s film Smiles of a Summer Night (1955); and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979; film 2007), a macabre tale set in Victorian-era London. All were either produced or directed by Harold Prince, as were Pacific Overtures (1976), in which Sondheim looked to Japanese Kabuki theater for stylized effects, and Merrily We Roll Along (1981), adapted from a 1934 play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. Sondheim next collaborated with playwright-director James Lapine to create Sunday in the Park with George (1984), a musical inspired by the painting Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by pointillist Georges Seurat. Sondheim and Lapine paired again for Into the Woods (1987; film 2014), which deconstructs and interweaves the plots of familiar fairy tales, and Passion (1994), a melodramatic romance based on the Italian film Passione d’Amore (1981). Both shows won the Tony Award for best score. Assassins (1990) explores the lives of nine historical characters, such as John Wilkes Booth, who either assassinated U.S. presidents or attempted to do so. Later Sondheim works include Bounce (2003; retitled Road Show in 2008), about the colourful adventures of a pair of early 20th-century American entrepreneurs.

Sondheim’s acerbic lyrics hit responsive chords with many theatergoers. Most critics agree that his work marked a break from more traditional and sentimental musical comedies of the earlier decades of the century. Several revues of his work were staged, among them Side by Side by Sondheim (1976), Putting It Together (1992), and Sondheim on Sondheim (2010). In 2000 he received the Japan Art Association’s Praemium Imperiale prize for theater/film, and in 2008 he was honored with a special Tony Award for lifetime achievement in the theater. The book Finishing the Hat (2010) is a collection of Sondheim’s lyrics, with his own commentaries on them. Sondheim, an enthusiast for games and puzzles, cowrote two nonmusical mysteries: the film The Last of Sheila (1973), with Anthony Perkins, and the play Getting Away with Murder (1996), with George Furth. He also notably wrote five songs for the movie Dick Tracy (1990), winning an Academy Award for “Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man).” The HBO documentary Six by Sondheim (2013) chronicled his life and artistic process. In 2015 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

JAMES LAPINE (BOOK) has written the book for and directed Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, Passion and the multi-media revue Sondheim on Sondheim. He also directed Merrily We Roll Along as part of Encores! at New York City Center. With William Finn he has collaborated on March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland, later presented on Broadway as Falsettos, A New Brain, Muscle and Little Miss Sunshine at Second Stage Theatre. On Broadway, he has also directed David Henry Hwang’s Golden Child, The Diary of Anne Frank, Michel Legrand’s Amour, and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. He directed Jenny Allen’s solo piece I Got Sick and Then I Got Better with Darren Katz.

Lapine directed the 2012 Broadway revival of Annie. He co-produced and directed the HBO documentary Six By Sondheim. In 2014, Lincoln Center Theater produced his stage adaptation of the Moss Hart memoir Act One. Lapine has also directed several productions off-Broadway as well as three films. He is the recipient of three Tony Awards, five Drama Desk Awards and PASSION - 15

BIOGRAPHIES the Pulitzer Prize. In 2011, he was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame. Lapine is a member of the Dramatist Guild Council and for the last twelve years has been a mentor for TDF’s Open Doors Program. He is also on the board of Ars Nova Theatre. He currently lives in New York City.

JUSTIN LUCERO (DIRECTOR) Prior to serving as Artistic Director for Theater Latté Da, Justin was a professor of Directing and Associate Chair for The John Wells Directing Program at Carnegie Mellon University and Artistic Director for El Paso Opera for eight of his fourteen seasons there. He is the recipient of prestigious engagements such as a Directing Fellowship with Asolo Repertory Theatre (Florida), a Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation Observership at South Coast Repertory (Los Angeles), a FAIR Assistantship with Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and a Directing Attachment at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre (London’s West End). He was named to the 2021-2022 BIPOC Leadership Circle by artEquity/David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, is a 2022-2023 Theatre Communications Group Rising Leaders of Color awardee, and was selected as a member of the 2023 OPERA America Leadership Intensive cohort, a highly selective program which identifies and develops “leaders who will move opera forward for years to come.” He served on the Blue Ribbon Panel with The American Theatre Wing and the Broadway League to select the 2023 Tony Award winner for Excellence in Theatre Education, and continues to be a grants evaluator for the Texas Commission on the Arts, the National Alliance for Musical Theatre, and the National Endowment for the Arts. In addition, Justin served as a member of TCG’s board-level governance in the inaugural Next Generation Taskforce, is Co-Chair of NAMT’s New Works Committee, and is now among NAMT’s Board of Directors. Training: London’s East 15 Acting School (MFA in Directing with Distinction.

JASON HANSEN (MUSIC DIRECTOR, CONDUCTOR & PIANO) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Fun Home, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, The Color Purple, Stones in His Pockets, Falsettos, Next to Normal, Hello, Dolly!, Christmas at the Local, Merrily We Roll Along, Jelly’s Last Jam, Bernarda Alba, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, A Little Night Music, Once, Assassins, C., Into The Woods, Our Town, Aida; NEXT Festival: She’s Come Undone, The Last Babushka, A Child’s Christmas In Wales; THEATER: Children’s Theatre Company: An American Tail, Cinderella, Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas!, Dr. Seuss’ The Sneetches; Guthrie Theater: A Christmas Carol, Little Shop Of Horrors, Into The Woods, Guys and Dolls, Othello; Mixed Blood Theatre: Passing Strange, Next to Normal, Avenue Q; History Theatre: Blended Harmony, I Am Betty, Sweet Land; Stages Theatre Company: Once on This Island, Tuck Everlasting; Theater Mu: Twelfth Night, A Little Night Music; Chanhassen Dinner Theatres: Newsies; Ten Thousand Things: Romeo and Juliet; Arkansas Repertory Theatre: The Gift Of The Magi; Northern Sky Theater, Illusion Theater, Artistry, TigerLion Arts, Open Eye Figure Theatre, Jungle Theater, the MN Fringe Festival, the Hennepin Theatre Trust; Alive & Kickin’; AWARDS: 2018 MN Theater Award (Latté Da’s Assassins).

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BIOGRAPHIES EMILY MICHAELS KING (MOVEMENT DIRECTOR) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Falsettos. CHOREOGRAPHY: Guthrie Theater: Emma, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Playmakers Repertory Company, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Kansas City Repertory Theatre: Emma; Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Moving Company: Love’s Labour’s Lost; 7th House Theater: Hair, Jonah and the Whale (also co-director). CREATION: Solo Performance (selected): Magic Girl, Digital, In Person, Chicken Wing, Star Keeper; E/D: The Show, Animus, Lewis/Clark; Walker Art Center’s Choreographer’s Evening: Start Select, We Are Crafty; Trademark Theater: The Hollow; many shows with Live Action Set including The 7 Shot Symphony. TRAINING: University of Minnesota; The Ailey School. Emily is a 2025 McKnight Fellow. www.emilymichaelsking.com IG: @emilymichaelsking PAUL WHITAKER (SCENIC & LIGHTING DESIGNER) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Next to Normal, Twelve Angry Men: A New Musical, Sweeney Todd, Evita, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Light in the Piazza, Lullaby. New York credits include work at The Public Theater, MCC Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage Theatre, Atlantic Theater Company and others.

Regional credits include The Guthrie, The Alley, Yale Repertory Theatre, The Denver Center, The Geffen Playhouse, South Coast Repertory, La Jolla Playhouse, The Children’s Theatre Company, The Long Wharf Theatre, The Huntington Theatre Company, Center Stage, Hartford Stage, Dallas Theater Center, MN Opera, San Diego Opera, and others. Paul is a Partner for Schuler Shook, a lighting design and theatre planning firm. www. schulershook.com www.paulwhitakerdesigns.com AMBER BROWN (COSTUME DESIGNER) THEATER LATTÉ DA: We Shall Someday, Christmas at the Local; MN Opera: Double Bill; Pillsbury House Theatre: What Washed Ashore Astray, bull-jean, Great Divide II: Plays on the Politics of Truth, Almost Equal To, The Great Divide: Plays for a Broken Nation; Illusion Theater: Groucho Marx Meets T.S. Eliot, We Take Care of Out Own, Five Minutes of Heaven; Old Log Theatre: The Play That Goes Wrong, The Emperor’s New Clothes; Park Square Theatre: Aubergine; Mixed Blood Theatre: Interstate, Autonomy, Corazón Eterno, Agnes Under the Bigtop.

PETER MORROW (SOUND DESIGNER) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Stones in His Pockets, Next to Normal, Lullaby. SELECTED FAVORITES: Pillsbury House Theatre: What to Send Up When It Goes Down, Passage; Ten Thousand Things: Iphegenia in Aulis; Children’s Theatre Company: Locomotion; Park Square Theatre: Baskerville, Marie & Rosetta; Stages Theatre Company: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, The Hobbit, Iron Hearted Violet, Hidden Heroes; Wonderlust Theatre: Capital Play Project, Incarceration Play Project; Yellow Tree Theatre: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Sherwood; The Guthrie Theater: Solo Emerging Artists, Stories from the Drum. TRAINING: BA MSISS & MA Music & Media Technology from Trinity College Dublin.

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BIOGRAPHIES EMMA GUSTAFSON (HAIR & MAKEUP DESIGNER) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Fun Home, Scotland, PA, Johnny Skeeky, The Color Purple, Next to Normal, Hello, Dolly!, Merrily We Roll Along. THEATER: MN Opera: Barber of Seville, The Snowy Day, Elixir of Love, Cruzar la Cara de la Luna, Song Poet, Daughter of the Regiment, Rinaldo, Anonymous Lover; Geva Theatre Center: Little Women, A Christmas Carol; Park Square Theatre: Holmes/Poirot; Theater Mu/ History Theatre: Blended Harmony; Jungle Theater: Cambodian Rock Band; Open Eye Figure Theatre: The Chinese Lady; Ten Thousand Things: Emilia, Thunder Knocking On The Door; Children’s Theatre Company: Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Bina’s Six Apples, Annie; Mixed Blood: Roe. TRAINING: B.A. in Theatrical Design, Augsburg University; Wig Apprentice, Santa Fe Opera; Cosmetology License, Aveda Institute Minneapolis MADELAINE FOSTER (PROPS DESIGNER/SUPERVISOR) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Fun Home, School Pictures, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Scotland, PA. THEATER: Peninsula Players: I Oughta Be In Pictures, The Angel Next Door, Million Dollar Quartet, Mary’s Wedding, The Stranger; Indiana Repertory Theatre (Assistant Prop Supervisor and Carpenter): Little Shop of Horrors, The Folks at Home, Fannie, A Christmas Carol, Frankenstein, Clue, Shakespeare’s Will, Oedipus, Flyin’ West, Sense and Sensibility, The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin, The Reclamation of Madison Hemings, Fahrenheit 451, The Book Club Play, The House That Jack Built, Mrs. Harrison, Cyrano, No. 6, Tuesdays with Morrie, This Wonderful Life, Murder on the Orient Express, The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963, Morning After Grace, And So We Walked, The Little Choo-Choo That Thinks She Can; Theater at Monmouth: The Story of My Life, An Iliad, Richard II, The Importance of Being Earnest, As You Like It. TRAINING: B.A. in Theatre, William & Mary.

AARON PREUSSE (FIGHT DIRECTOR) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Debut. THEATER: Guthrie: Over 25 productions including Dial M for Murder, Vietgone, Sweat; Children’s Theatre Company: Alice in Wonderland; Ordway: The Pirates of Penzance; MN Opera: Carmen; Park Square Theatre: Hamlet; Lakeshore Players: Misery, Commonweal Theatre Company: Deathtrap; Red Bird Theatre: Buried Child; Gremlin Theatre: Dial M for Murder; Theatre Pro Rata: The Illusion; Lyric Arts: Superior Donuts; Exposed Brick Theatre: Muyehpen; Theatre in the Round: The Three Musketeers; Old Log Theatre: The Play That Goes Wrong. FILM/ TELEVISION Stunt Coordinator: The Fence and the Fox, Profile of a Killer; Utility Stunts: Marmalade, Body Language, Christmas Break-In, Thin Ice. www.fakefighting.com ANDREW VANCE (ASSOCIATE LIGHTING DESIGNER) THEATER LATTÉ DA: The Color Purple. THEATER: Theatre in the Round: The Seagull; Morris Park Players: Ragtime; SOAR: Grease; Washington & Lee: Speech & Debate; Naples Players: Blithe Spirit; Alley Theatre: An Act of God; Omaha Playhouse: The Whipping Man, Biloxi Blues; 4th Wall Theatre Company: As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; AD Players: To Kill a Mockingbird, Godspell, The Miracle Worker, The Diary of Anne Frank, Arsenic & Old Lace. Also, assistant for many lighting designers in Minneapolis and across the country. Theatres include the Guthrie Theater, Children’s Theatre Company, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Alley Theatre, Goodman Theatre.

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BIOGRAPHIES ZACH CHRISTENSEN (ASSISTANT DIRECTOR) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Scotland, PA, Falsettos. THEATER: Guthrie Theater: Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V; Playwrights’ Center: The Lion Tamer; Frank Theatre: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui; Six Points Theater: Survivors; Jackdonkey Productions: Henry V, 503, The Dumb Waiter (MN Fringe Audience Choice Award), A Drug Play (STL Fringe Artistic Innovation Award), Far Away, Assassination of Ferdinand, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare abridged, The Zoo Story, Dock Work, Working Act; Flying Foot Forum: Shuffle Off to Split Rock. TRAINING: BFA Acting at North Dakota State University, Guthrie Actors Lab, Dell’Arte International. www.zachchristensen.com @zach_christensen_ ELISSA ADAMS (DRAMATURG) THEATER LATTÉ DA: C., Lullaby, Assassins, Five Points, Underneath the Lintel, Once, A Little Night Music, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, To Let Go And Fall, Chicago, Bernarda Alba, Jelly’s Last Jam, Twelve Angry Men: A New Musical, Merrily We Roll Along, Christmas At The Local, Hello Dolly!, Next to Normal, Falsettos, Stones in His Pockets, The Color Purple, Johnny Skeeky, Scotland, PA, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, School Pictures, Fun Home, NEXT Up & NEXT Festival (Producer). THEATER: Director of New Play Development at Children’s Theatre Company (1998- 2017); Sundance Theatre Lab; Playwrights’ Center; TRAINING: MFA in Dramaturgy, UC San Diego.

BETHANY REINFELD (TECHNICAL DIRECTOR) describes Technical Direction as “Building worlds for characters to come to life in”. She has done 30 plus productions and 5 NEXT Festivals with Latté Da. She holds a M.F.A in Theater and Drama with a specialization in Technical Direction from UW Madison. She also has a B.F.A. in Design Tech with an emphasis in Technical Direction and Scenic Design from UMD. She has worked with Mixed Blood Theatre, Normandale Community College, Yellow Tree Theatre, Jungle Theater and Sesame Street Live/VEE Corporation to list a few.

SHEENA JANSON KELLEY (CASTING SUPERVISOR) THEATER LATTÉ DA: 2023-2024 Season (The Color Purple, Stones in His Pockets), 2024-2025 Season (Cinderella, Fun Home, Passion) THEATER CASTING: Artistry: Godspell, Shrek: The Musical; Children’s Theatre Company: Casting Director 20142018; Ordway Center for Performing Arts: 42nd Street, Smokey Joe’s Café, Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol (staged reading); OTHER: A Queen’s Ball: A Bridgerton Experience (Netflix, Shondaland).

CORINNE STEFFENS (AUDIO SUPERVISOR & SOUND BOARD OPERATOR) Corinne currently works all across the Twin Cities as a freelancer in all things theater tech, with an emphasis on sound and musical theater. Credits include: Theater Latté Da: Fun Home, School Pictures, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Scotland, PA, Johnny Skeeky, The Color Purple, Christmas At The Local, Falsettos, Hello, Dolly!, Jelly’s Last Jam; US National Tour: All Is Calm, Emojiland the Musical; Guthrie Theater: Little Shop Of Horrors, Into The Woods, Vietgone; Lyric Arts: The Rainmaker, Peter And The Starcatcher. Corinne is also the Tech Director for the MN Fringe Festival.

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BIOGRAPHIES ANDREW NORFOLK (LIGHTING SUPERVISOR & LIGHT BOARD OPERATOR) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Fun Home, School Pictures, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Scotland, PA, Johnny Skeeky, The Color Purple, Stones in His Pockets, Christmas at the Local, Falsettos, Next to Normal, We Shall Someday, Hello, Dolly!. OPERA: The Santa Fe Opera: Carmen, The Barber of Seville, Falstaff, Tristan und Isolde, M. Butterfly. LIGHTING DESIGN: Lyric Arts: The Pavilion, 9 to 5 - The Musical; UMD Theatre: MAXA - The Maddest Woman In The World, The Little Prince; Stage 2 Theatre Company: Firebringer, The Spoon River Project, The Trail to Oregon. TRAINING: B.F.A. in Theatre, Lighting Design Emphasis, University of Minnesota - Duluth.

ASH KAUN (COSTUME SHOP ASSISTANT, WARDROBE MAINTENANCE & DRESSER SWING) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Fun Home, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Scotland, PA, Johnny Skeeky, The Color Purple, Stones in His Pockets, Christmas at the Local, Falsettos, Next to Normal, We Shall Someday, Hello, Dolly!, Merrily We Roll Along, Twelve Angry Men, La Bohème, To Let Go and Fall. THEATER: Guthrie: Shakespeare’s History Plays; Exposed Brick Theatre: Muyehpen; Jungle Theater: 5, Christmas at Pemberley (series); Mill City Summer Opera: Carmen; North Hennepin Community College: She Kills Monsters; Park Square Theatre: Airness, Jefferson Township Sparkling Junior Talent Pageant, Romeo and Juliet, The Agitators; Penumbra Theatre: Benevolence, This Bitter Earth; Ten Thousand Things Theater: Thunder Knocking on the Door; Theater Mu: Fast Company. TRAINING: B.F.A. in Directing/Design/Playwriting, Augsburg University.

SARA HERMAN (SCENIC CHARGE) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Fun Home, School Pictures, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Scotland, PA, Johnny Skeeky, The Color Purple, Stones in His Pockets, Christmas at the Local, Falsettos, Next to Normal, We Shall Someday, Hello, Dolly!, Merrily We Roll Along, Twelve Angry Men, La bohème, Jelly’s Last Jam, Chicago, Peter and the Starcatcher.

THEATER: Minnesota Opera: Dinner At 8; Mill City Opera: Così fan tutte; Jungle Theater: Fly By Night; Circus Juventas: Twisted, Hugge, Steam, Nordrsaga, Alice in Wonderland, 1001 Nights. TRAINING: B.A. University of MN Morris, Colbalt Studios.

CHRISTIAN ERBEN (STAGE MANAGEMENT SWING) THEATER LATTÉ DA: Heaven Can Wait - Workshop (Stage Manager); Scotland, PA (Stage Management Swing); School Pictures (Stage Management Swing); NEXT Festival 2024 (Production Manager). THEATER: Ordway Center for the Performing Arts: Beauty & the Beast (Covid Safety Manager & Company Management Assistant); Artistry MN: The Sound of Music (Assistant Stage Manager); Theater Mu: Again - A New Musical (Assistant Stage Manager); Lyric Arts: A Taste Of Things To Come (Stage Manager), The Servant of Two Masters (Assistant Stage Manager); Lakeshore Players: She Loves Me (Stage Manager); Anything Goes (Stage Manager).

UPCOMING: Jackdonkey Productions: Henry V (Stage Manager & Production Manager); Lyric Arts: Big Fish (Assistant Stage Manager). TRAINING: B.A. in Theatre, Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX. christianerben.com

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THEATER LATTÉ DA DONORS Theater Latté Da is one of only a few theaters in the country dedicated solely to producing and presenting new and adventurous musical theater that speaks to contemporary audiences and advances the art of musical theater. We truly could not do this without the generosity of our many individual and institutional donors. Thank you for your commitment.

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INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT Theater Latté Da’s mission is to create new and impactful connections among story, music, artist, and audience by exploring and expanding the art of musical theater. We are guided by our values that our work be bold, inclusive and collaborative, and strive to act with integrity and gratitude both on and off the stage. By illuminating the unseen, giving voice to the unheard, and empathizing with the unknown, Theater Latté Da strives to open eyes, ears, and hearts.

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Sandy and John Hey Dennis and Nora Hunchar Nancy Jones Christine Larsen and Scott Peterson Pat and Sara Mack Katherine Murphy Curt D. Nelson Jennifer and Jay Novak Steve Passeri and Tim Evens

Gary Reetz Colleen C. Ryan and Tom Merz Ann and Pat Ryan Linda and Steven Sandvig Lorri Steffen and Paul Zenner Michael and Terri Uline Erin and Mark Vannelli Kevin Winge and Kevin Shores Patricia Zalaznik

Show Stopper ($1,500–$4,999) Anonymous (2) Elissa Adams and Michael Margulies Theresa Alewine John Bale E. Thomas Binger and Rebecca Rand Fund of The Minneapolis Foundation David Bjork and Jeff Bengtson Lee and Craig Blowers Jeffrey D. Bores and Michael Hawkins Allan Bradley and Derrill Pankow Jimmy Burnett Carol Chomsky and Steve Liss Marguerite Cowles Edward and Kathryn Craig Tanner Curl and Emily Dussault Julie A. Darst Charitable Giving Account David and Margaret Dines Carol M. Downie and Gregory J. Thomas Joe and Lois Duffy Meghan and Sean Elliott Steve Euller and Nancy Roehr John Fishpaw and Kim Krohn Ron Frey and Steven Thompson Dr. Lynn Glesne Andrew and Tina Grzeskowiak Diane Harder and Thomas Eckstein Jean and Jim Hartman Kate Haugen Sandy and John Hey Bill Jones Judy and Frank Jossi *In remembrance

Deirdre and Wes Kramer David and Sheila Lein Mac and Mary Lewis Carol Lichterman David and Susan Lima Peggy and Dave Lucas Pat and Sara Mack Margery Martin and Dan Feidt* Kristin and Jim Matejcek James Lockhart and Janie Mayeron Jodi and Mike Mooney Bridget and Sam Morehead Tom and Conchy Morgan Nicholas Naumann and Joe Chadwick Dr. Katherine J. Nevins Judy Nobles Glyn Northington and Stan Kolden Sandra Overland Steve Passeri and Tim Evens Patricia Ploetz John Polta and Anne Tuthill Polta Prospect Creek Foundation of Bruce and Martha Atwater Maria and David Reamer Daniel and Emily Shapiro Kris Lang-Shasky and John Shasky Ted and Mary Jo Shen Rolf* and Janet Skjei Russell Kaplan and Elisa Spencer-Kaplan Neil Neumann and Sandy Spidel Neumann Jon and Kristine Stevens PASSION - 23

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*In remembrance

James Kunz Al Kvaal Greg Kvam and Pat Johnson Arline Lansangan Datu Marcia C. Leatham Andrew Leshovsky and Louis Berg-Arnold Meg Lewis and David Sebberson Mary Lincoln and Mark Schneider Leanne Litfin David A. MacNaughton and Gayle R. Zoffer Katherine Majkrzak Duayne and Dianne Malewicki Susan L. Maples Keith Martinsen Drew Mattson Paul and Julie Mattson Adam Maurer Kevin Mayo Mary H. and J. Milo Meland Family Fund of The Minneapolis Foundation Gretchen Alberts Mellies Douglas and Cindy Merrigan Cynthia Meyer Tyler and Emily Michaels King Lisa Michaux Kelly Milkus David Miller Sonny and Amy Miller Keith Moerer Richard Moore, Jr. Peter and Karla Myers Tammy Nelson Mattson Dirk and Laura Nelson Amy and Mike Newton Karle and Diane Nolte Ann and David O’Fallon Brock Obee Ben Olk III and Kris Berggren Philip Oxman and Harvey Zuckman Marcia and Russ Palma Mary Ann Palmer Jaime Pedraza and Stephen Gronewold Naomi Perman Daniel Peterson and Mark Nelson Karlyn Peterson and Gavin Wilkinson Jim Pfau and Denise Kania Pike Willett Family Fund Patti Pinkerton Maureen and Paul Pranghofer Debra and Lawrence Que John and Elizabeth Quinn Quiring Family Fund of The Minneapolis Foundation Fred Quirsfeld and Linda Campbell Pat and Gene Radecki James and Susan Ramlet Megan Reardon Sadie Reiners Jonathan Riehle and Angela M. Bohmann

Barbara Roen Kenneth and Beth Roering Jaime A. Roman and Jim Bernier Robert Rosenbaum and Maggie Gilbert Tom and Molly Rothstein Family Peggy and Bill Roush Allison Rupp Susan and John Ryan Kenneth and Kathy Sabota Mary and Peter Sandberg Mark Sateren Noel Schenker Paul Schumann The Schwantes Family Singers Judy Schwartau Kathryn Sherwood Steven and Karen Sonnenberg Roxanne and Bill Soth George Spaulding and Mary Kay Fortier Spalding Ann and Eldon Spencer Lynne Stanley Anne Steinfeldt Marcia and John Stout Dana and Stephen Strand Marcia Sullivan Kari Groth Swan Ron and Margaret Tabar Rabindra Tambyraja, MD Lezlie and Louis Taylor Jean Taylor Tammy Taylor John and Jennifer Urbanski Libby and John Utter Daniel Vogel Jeanne Voigt Michael Wagner Cathy and Stan Waldhauser David C. Warner Margaret Weber Corliss Weeks Daniel Weninger Dorene and Alan Wernke Sue and Jim Westerman Jim and Martha Williams Travis Wilson David Young and Edward Williams, Jr. Jodi and Jim Young Jane Zilch Abby Zimmer and Sean O’Brien Nancy Zingale and Bill Flanigan

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Overture ($250 - $499) Anonymous (3) Tom and Cindy Adamson Albrecht Family Foundation Nancy Arnison Dan Avchen and David Johnson Kurt Bachmayer and Lisa Dalke Paul and Mary Bacigalupi Mary Bahneman Daniel Barnes and Elaine Wilson Daniel Baseman and Raymond J. Ottman Judy Bearman and Ken Kaffine Timothy Beekman Joan Berg Darcy Berglund Brad Betlach and Peter Carlson Tim and Beth Beutell Chris Bewell Rosanne Borscheid Annemarie Bossert and Thomas Lovett Sheryl and Mike Burkhardt Kathryn and Winston Cahill Clara Caruso Angela and Neil Christy Patricia Contag Kenneth and Gwen Crabb Audrey Dammer and Jim Boyer Kathryn and Larry Decker Virginia and John Dell Dennis and David Delude-Nafus Holly Denis Sunny Didier Sandy Doll and Ron Christenson Kate Donaldson George Dow Tina Edstam Marsha Eisenberg Matt Erickson Chris Estee John J. Feigal Dr. Patricia Ferrieri Brad and Kathy Fisher Chad Fitch and Denisea Fitch-Elsola Sarah Fjelstul Kim Ford Ron and Barb Fraboni Family Fund Iris Freeman Heather and Bill Froehlich David Gardner and Ronda Willsher Patrick and Heidi George Donna H. Gies and Richard Hamer Jerry Girton Barbara Golden John and Joanne Gordon James Grathwol Karen and John Gray Dolores Gutierrez THEATER LATTÉ DA - 26

Mark and Mary Jo Hallberg Dr. Jo-Ida C. Hansen Jessi Held John and Diane Herman Jean Housh Hugh Huston Diane and Paul Jacobson Mark and Jeanne Jacobson Donald and Pamela Jakes Bonita Janda Suzanne Jebe Martin Johansen Paul Amann and Cory Johnson Jeremiah and Pamela Kearney Dodie and John Kostishack John and Nanciann Kruse Pat Laulainen Susan Law Cindy Leach Judy and Steve Lewis Kathleen S. Lindblad Heather Logelin and Marc Prokosch Dennis Louie Scott Lykins and Jacob Sirek Beth and Mike MacDonald Zoreh Mahdavi Ruth B. Markowitz Kimberly McDevitt Margaret R. McGonagle Cheryl McIntyre Peg McKee and Dean Adams Kathleen McLaughlin and Daryl Skobba Lisa McLean Laurie and Dave Mech Laura Migliorino David and Leni Moore Family Foundation Laurie Mount Bonnie Mulligan and Charlie Greenman Katie Nelsen Joan Nelson Diane Paulu Sandra, Andrew, and Rick Penning Tim Peterson David Pote and Linda Tapsak Nick and Judy Priadka Anne Pudas Bonnie Reiland Sue Salmela and Paul Burnett Carol B. Schirmers Bradley Schmeling Betsy Schmiesing Barbara Schmitt Trish and Ralph Scorpio Miriam Seim Nicole Sexe Gale Sharpe

Margaret Shreves Tonia and Mike Shupien Stephen Silberfarb Greg and Amanda Simpson Pamela Sjodin Deborah Thorp the pros from SLP Susan Snyder and Tom Westlund David Soli and William Margolis Rosemary Soltis Paul Stein and Peg Powers Lisa Stevens and Jeffrey Hatcher Suzanne Stock James Stolz Michele Stowers Tim Strand Sulasalmi Fund of The Minneapolis Foundation Craig and Janet Swan Javen Swanson and Oby Ballinger Hildy Swedean

Julie A. Sweitzer Jennifer, Daniel, Raina, and Zoey Tenenbaum Teresa and Mike Tennis Charlaine Tolkien Katherine and Martijn van de Ruijtenbeek Jennifer Van Wyk Carolyn Vanous Tammi Veale Lynn and Chuck Wallin Lisa Weisman Elisabeth Wierum and Steve Gerde Missy and Kent Wilson Sally Wingert and Tim Danz Jan Withiam Jeanette Woessner Donna and Mike Wolsted Carol A Woodbury Lisa Young Wayne Zink and Christopher Schout

Honor and Memorial Gifts In honor of Stephen Bubul and Lee Lewis Julie Bubul

In honor of Adam Yust Rachel Stassey

In honor of Kevin Zahler Paul Dorn

In honor of Timothy Thomas Cheryl Thomas

In honor Justin Lucero Robert Frame

In honor of Judy Tischleder Ka Vang

In honor of Lane 3 at Latté Da’s Local Legends Bowling Classic Reece Gray

In memory of William A. Velte Mary Lee B. Blomgren

In honor of Fremajane Wolfson Dean Greenburg In honor of the Latté Da Board of Directors Sara Huelle In honor of Bridget Morehead Medtronic Christie Morehead and Alan Zimmerman In honor of Addie Gorlin-Han Jodi and Mike Mooney

In memory of David Norris Paul Kaefer In memory of Vicki Lutz Keith Lutz In memory of Mary Holland Laurie and Dave Mech In memory of Peter Rothstein’s mother, Jean Elizabeth Ryan Rothstein Gretchen Albert Mellies

In honor of Sandy Hey Sally Parks

In memory of Dorris Rose Jesseli Moen Carol Peterson

In honor of Peter Rothstein Tom and Molly Rothstein

In memory of Pamela Espeland John Whiting

In honor of Cara Sjodin The Schwantes Family Singers

In memory of Bill Withiam Jan Withiam

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Legacy Circle We gratefully recognize the following individuals who have chosen to include Theater Latté Da in their estate plans. These estate gifts will sustain our artistic excellence and fiscal health for years to come: Mary Anne Ebert and Paul Stembler Stephen Fischer Joyce G. Gordon* Dr. Jo-Ida C. Hansen John Hemann

Dr. Tom Knabel and Kent Allin Carol Lichterman Patti Pinkerton Bill Venne and Douglas Kline Kevin Winge and Kevin Shores Jane Zilch

If you have included Theater Latté Da in your estate plans but are not listed here, or if you would like to learn more about legacy giving to Theater Latté Da, please contact Development Director Sara Huelle at sarahuelle@latteda.org.

Theater Latté Da was envisioned by Co-Founder Peter Rothstein as a home for the future of the American musical. Latté Da has lived this vision since our beginning, with 15 of our 26 mainstage seasons including world premieres.

Theater Latté Da is embarking on an ambitious milestone: supporting the development of 25 new musicals or plays with music by 2025. Through NEXT 25x25, we will invest in the future of the great American Musical and its playwrights, composers, and lyricists through world premieres, the annual NEXT Festival, our NEXT Up development program, and NEXT Generation commissions.

To make a gift in support of NEXT 25x25, please contact sarahuelle@latteda.org

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NEXT 25x25 Supporters Elissa Adams and Michael Margulies Addicks Hoch Fund of The Minneapolis Foundation Nancy Agneberg Theresa Alewine Jan and Greg Aplin John Arechar Abby Areshenko Peter Bachman John Bale Oby Ballinger Les Bendtsen and Rick Buchholz Ray DeSpiegler and Michael Birch David Bjork and Jeff Bengtson Betsy Bonestroo Chris Boppre Jeffrey D. Bores and Michael Hawkins Andrea Brennan Dawn Brintnell and Andrew Wattenhofer Jeffrey Brockman and Shane Swanson Cynthia Brown Jimmy Burnett Suzanne Butzow William and Andrew CollisPrather Margie Commerford Anita Cook Tiffany Cooper-Allen and Torrie Allen Carol and Kim Culp Ingrid and Chris Culp Pam and Tim Dagoberg Audrey Dammer and Jim Boyer Fran and Barb Davis Michael DiMucci Gerald Dove Charla and Jeffrey Eccles Matt Erickson Kittie Fahey David Ferris Stephen and Lynn Filipas Gloria Freeman Mary Freeman Ron Frey and Steven Thompson Matt Fulton Patrick Gage Jim and Sonja Gindorff

*In remembrance

Bradley Greenwald and John Novak Nancy Guldberg Roger and Pam Hamilton Kath Hammerseng and Mo Kennedy Ryan Hanson Jay Harkness and Jean Storlie Marlys and Norman Harris Jean and Jim Hartman James Haskins Peter and Emily Hebig Kim Heckmann John Hering and Matt Vonk Sandy and John Hey Lisa and Dan Hoene Wyn Huynh and Bob Zehrer Birdie Jackson Mary Jacobson Sandi and Jim Jensen Martin Johansen Jim Johnson Bill Jones Kathryn Culp Kerfoot and Mike Kerfoot Paul Kluge Dr. Tom Knabel and Kent Allin Allison Knigge Jonna Kosalko and Dan Rabin Mark Kraus Rebecca and Andrew Lahl Christine Larsen and Scott Peterson Kate and Greg Lawson Ariane Laxo Roger J. and Yvonne E. Leick Jeff Lin and Sarah Bronson Elisabeth Loeffler Mary Lundberg-Johnson Pat and Sara Mack Mary and Mark Maher Kristin and Jim Matejcek Kevin Mayo Penny Meier Jennifer Melin Miller and David Miller Gretchen Alberts Mellies Douglas and Cindy Merrigan Barb and Kevin Minnerath Beth Mitchell Laurie Mount

Mark Nelson Nancy Nelson Glyn Northington and Stan Kolden Sharon O’Connor Rita and Ben* Olk Ben Olk, III and Kris Berggren Cindy Olk Mary Olk Michael Ostrem Jim Payne Daniel Peterson Shannon Pierce and Rachael Kroog Maria and David Reamer Jaime A. Roman and Jim Bernier Peter Rothstein and Omar Guevara Soto Kristin and Harps Singh Mary Rothstein David and Liz Rudrud Jean Ryan Sheryl Saterstrom Rachel Schachter Bradley Schmeling Judy Schwartau Gayle Severson Daniel and Emily Shapiro Wendy Short Hays Jacob Sirek Cara Sjodin and Scott Stensrud Hilary and Peter Smith Jim Smith Susan Snyder and Tom Westlund George and Mary Kay Fortier Spalding Russell Kaplan and Elisa Spencer-Kaplan Neil Neumann and Sandy Spidel Neumann Ann and Tom Stanley Lorri Steffen and Paul Zenner Cheryl Stever Tim Strand John L Sullivan Fund of the Minneapolis Foundation Brian and Carrie Svendahl Kari Groth Swan Dennis Tkach Christine Tommerdahl

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Christine Tommerdahl Chris Van Klei Kathryn Vann Erin and Mark Vannelli Carolyn Vanous Jennifer VanWyk Bill Venne and Douglas Kline The LTC Janis Verruso Charitable Fund

Carol Wahl Daniel Weninger Beth Wiggins Frank and Frances Wilkinson Jim and Martha Williams Laurie Windisch Kevin Winge and Kevin Shores Gayle Woodbury

David Young and Edward Williams, Jr. Adam Yust Josh Zenner Peter Zenner

Corporate Matching Gifts

In-Kind

Ameriprise Financial CenterPoint Crowe Consulting Dorsey & Whitney General Mills Intel Foundation Medtronic Microsoft NewRez RBC UnitedHealth Group US Bank Voya Financial Wells Fargo

Cornerstone Copy Center Stagetime Productions

Listings reflect donations made between between June 1, 2024 to June 1, 2025. Please accept our apologies for any errors or omissions.

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Board of Directors Glyn Northington, Chair Les Bendtsen, Secretary Bridget Morehead, Treasurer Theresa Alewine Tiffany Cooper-Allen John Arechar Marcia Aubineau Ethan Berke Stephen Bubul Jimmy Burnett Tanner Curl Carol Chomsky Toya Stewart Downey Keith Ford Judy Jossi Tom Knabel Jeff Lin Justin Lucero, ex-officio Elisa Spencer-Kaplan, ex-officio Lezlie Taylor Ka Vang Fremajane Wolfson Adam Yust

Staff Justin Lucero Artistic Director

Elisa Spencer-Kaplan Managing Director

Elissa Adams Associate Artistic Director & Director of New Work

Maxwell Bolton Director of Marketing

Allen Weeks Director of Production & Operations

Sara Huelle Director of Development

Production Amber Brown Costume Supervisor

Marketing & Guest Services Naomi Brecht Box Office Manager

Whitley Cobb Carpenter

Morgan Gray Marketing Associate

Christian Erben Associate Production & Company Manager

Tre’ Miller Front-Of-House Associate

Sara Herman Scenic Charge Ash Kaun Costume Shop Assistant

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Andrew Norfolk Lighting Supervisor Shelby Reddig Production Stage Manager Bethany Reinfeld Technical Director Corinne Steffens Audio Supervisor Accounting Chris Hagen

Madeline Schulz House Manager Jeremiah Stich Guest Services Manager Kathleen Sullivan Concessions Lead Connor Berkompas, Casey Haeg, Jennica Kruse, Janet Lewis Courtney Rust, and Luciana Stich Concessionaires Development Gillian Constable Development Associate & Access Coordinator Lori Weaver Grant Writer

Legal Counsel Michael Sinder Co-Founders Peter Rothstein Denise Prosek

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THINGS TO KNOW

RESTROOMS

We have fully remodeled our lobby to include All Gender restrooms. Each contains five fully private stalls with ADA accessible facilities.

ACCESSIBILITY

Accessible Seating: Accessible seating is available at the Ritz Theater in Row E, Sidebar P, and Sidebar Q. All other seating requires stairs for access.

Courtesy Wheelchairs: Courtesy wheelchairs are available for use for patrons who may have mobility challenges. Please see our House Manager or Box Office Manager for use.

Bariatric Chairs: Bariatric chairs are available at the Ritz Theater in Sidebars P and Q. ASL Interpreted Performances: We offer ASL-interpreted performances for every production during our season. These performances are usually offered the second Thursday in each production.

Audio Described Performances: Professional audio describers provide narration of on-stage action, costumes, and scenery during the performance. Listening devices are available for patrons to use during the AD scheduled performances.

Open Caption Performances: We offer open captioning for select weekend performances. Captions of the text are displayed on a screen near the stage, more easily read from our sidebar seats. Check the performance calendar for the open captioning dates or call the Box Office at 612.339.3003 for details.

Assistive Listening Devices: We offer assistive listening devices for all performances. Please stop at the Box Office to check one out for use during the performance.

Braille Programs: Please see an usher or our Guest Services Manager to request a braille program for any performance.

Large Print Programs: Large print programs are available upon request. Please see the Box Office or request a copy from an usher.

AUDIENCE INFO & POLICIES COVID-19 Policy: As of the start of this season at the Ritz Theater, we are no longer requiring proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test result. Masks are welcome but optional, EXCEPT for select Sunday matinee performances when they are required. This policy is subject to change.

Photos & Video: Photos of the set are allowed before or after the show and during intermission, but not when artists are onstage. Video or audio recording of any kind is strictly prohibited.

Phones: The ringing of cellular phones or texting is highly disruptive during a performance. These devices should be turned off during the performance.

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