Taylor Mac's Holiday Sauce

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Monday, January 14, 2019 • 8pm

Broadway @ The Town Hall Kelli O’Hara w/ Seth Rudetsky Friday, February 22, 2019 • 8pm

Farruquito Monday, February 25, 2019 • 8pm

Broadway by the Year®

The Broadway Musicals of 1928 & 1935 Monday, March 11, 2019 • 8pm

Broadway @ The Town Hall Jeremy Jordan w/ Seth Rudetsky Monday, March 25, 2019 • 8pm

Broadway by the Year®

The Broadway Musicals of 1943 & 1951 Thursday, April 25, 2019 • 8pm

A Thousand Thoughts

A Live Documentary by Sam Green and Kronos Quartet Saturday, April 27, 2019 • 8pm

Django A GoGo 2019

Stephane Wrembel Presents a Celebration of Guitar Through the Music of Django Reinhardt Sunday, May 5, 2019 • 7pm

Anoushka Shankar Monday, May 20, 2019 • 8pm

Broadway by the Year®

The Broadway Musicals of 1965 & 1978 Monday, June 17, 2019 • 8pm

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The Broadway Musicals of 1987 & 2015 Friday, June 28 + Saturday, June 29, 2019 • 8pm

John Cameron Mitchell & Stephen Trask The Origin Of Love | The Songs and Stories of Hedwig Monday, July 22, 2019 • 8pm

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TAYLOR MAC’S HOLIDAY SAUCE Conceived, written, performed and directed by

TAYLOR MAC Music Director & Arranger

Set & Costume Design

Co-Director

MATT RAY

MACHINE DAZZLE

NIEGEL SMITH

Lighting Designer

Sound Design

Co-Set Design

JOHN TORRES

JIMIN BRELSFORD

Properties Designer

RAPHAEL MISHLER

JEREMY LYDIC

Stage Manager

Choral Master

Jason Kaiser

Barbara Maier Gustern

Executive Producer

Associate Producer

Linda Brumbach

Alisa E. Regas Co-Produced by

Pomegranate Arts

and

Nature’s Darlings

Featuring

Taylor Mac Vocals Matt Ray Piano, Vocals, Music Director Machine Dazzle

Performer, Costume Design, Set Design with

Bernice “Boom Boom” Brooks Drums Viva DeConcini Guitar/Glockenspiel Antoine Drye Trumpet Greg Glassman Trumpet J. Walter Hawkes Trombone Marika Hughes Cello Dana Lyn Violin Gary Wang Bass With Special Guests

Dusty Childers James Tigger! Ferguson Glenn Marla Elder Choir

Sean Barker, Willard Beckham, Barbara Bleier, Kris Boston, Brenda Broome, Sally Darling, Joan Jaffee, James Mitchell, Roseanna Vitro, Tom Walker Additional Production Team for Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce

Will Neal

Front of House Audio Engineer

Press Representation by Blake Zidell & Associates, Blake Zidell and Matt Gross.

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AB O U T T H E A r ti s t s TAYLOR MAC (who uses “judy”, lowercase sic, not as a name but as a gender pronoun) is one of the world’s leading theater artists. A playwright, actor, singersongwriter, performance artist, director and producer and “Critical darling of the New York scene” (NY Magazine), judy’s work has been performed in hundreds of venues including New York City’s Town Hall, Lincoln Center, Celebrate Brooklyn, The Public Theatre and Playwrights Horizons, as well as London’s Hackney Empire and Barbican, D.C.’s Kennedy Center, Los Angeles’s Royce Hall and Ace Theater (through the Center for the Art of Performance), Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre, the Sydney Opera House, The Melbourne Festival (Forum Theater), Stockholm’s Sodra Theatern, the Spoleto Festival, San Francisco’s Curran Theater and the SFMOMA.

Judy is the author of many works of theater including the soon to be produced plays, Gary, A Sequel to Titus Andronicus, Prosperous Fools, and The Fre, and the previously produced works, A 24-DECADE HISTORY OF POPULAR MUSIC, Hir, The Walk Across America for Mother Earth, Comparison is Violence, The Lily’s Revenge, The Young Ladies Of, Red Tide Blooming, The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac, Cardiac Arrest or Venus on a Half-Clam, The Face of Liberalism, Okay, Maurizio Pollini, A Crevice and The Hot Month.

Sometimes Taylor acts in other people’s plays (or co-creations). Notably: Shen Teh/Shui Ta in The Foundry Theater’s production of Good Person of Szechwan at La Mama and the Public Theater, Puck/Egeus in the Classic Stage Company’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and in the two-man vaudeville, The Last Two People On Earth opposite Mandy Patinkin and directed by Susan Stroman.

Mac is a MacArthur Fellow, a Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Drama and the recipient of multiple awards including the Kennedy Prize, a NY Drama Critics Circle Award, a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship in Drama and Performance Art, the Herb Alpert in the Arts Award, the Peter Zeisler Memorial Award, the Helen Merrill Playwrights Award, 2 Bessies, 2 Obies, and an Ethyl Eichelberger Award. An alumnus of New Dramatists, judy is currently the resident playwright at the Here Arts Center.

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AB O U T T H E A r ti s t s MATT RAY (Piano/Vocals/Music Director/Arranger) is a Brooklyn-based pianist, singer, songwriter, arranger, and music director. His arrangements have been called “wizardly” (Time Out NY) and “ingenious” (NY Times) and his piano playing referred to as “classic, well-oiled swing” (NY Times) and “to cry for” (Ebony). For his work on Taylor Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music he and Mac shared the 2017 Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired By American History. Notable live performances include playing at Carnegie Hall with Kat Edmonson, headlining his own show at Lincoln Center, playing the Hollywood Bowl with reggae legend Burning Spear, and touring the Caribbean and Central America with his piano trio as a US Department of State Jazz Ambassador. Other work includes music directing The Billie Holiday Project at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, penning a string and piano arrangement for the fifth season finale of Showtime’s Nurse Jackie, music directing for Justin Vivian Bond, performing with Joey Arias, a month of shows at the Edinburgh Fringe with Lady Rizo, music directing Taylor Mac’s Obie award winning play The Lily’s Revenge at the HERE Arts Center in New York, and cowriting songs for and performing in Bridget Everett’s one-hour Comedy Central special Gynecological Wonder as well as Everett’s hit show Rock Bottom. Matt has released two jazz albums as a leader: We Got It! (2001) and Lost In New York (2006); and one album of original pop/folk material called Songs For the Anonymous (2013).

MACHINE DAZZLE (Set Design/Costume Design/Performer) has been dazzling stages via costumes, sets, and performance since his arrival in New York in 1994. Credits include Julie Atlas Muz’s I Am The Moon And a You Are The Man On Me (2004), Big Art Group’s House Of No More (2006), Justin Vivian Bond’s Lustre (2008), Taylor Mac’s The Lily’s Revenge (2009), Justin Vivian Bond’s Re:Galli Blonde (2011), Taylor Mac’s Walk Across America For Mother Earth (2012), Chris Tanner’s Football Head (2014), Soomi Kim’s Change (2015), Pig Iron Theater’s I Promised Myself To Live Faster (2015), Bombay Ricky Prototype Festival (2016), Taylor Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music (2016-Present), Opera Philadelphia’s Dito and Aeneus (2017), Spiegleworld’s Opium (Las Vegas 2018)... Beware!!!! Conceptualist-as-artist meets DIY meets “glitter rhymes with litter,” Machine was a co-recipient the 2017 Bessie Award for Outstanding Visual Design and the winner of a 2017 Henry Hewes Design Award.

NIEGEL SMITH (Co-Director) is a Bessie Award winning theater director and performance artist. He is the Artistic Director of NYC’s Obie Award winning theater, The Flea; board member of A.R.T./New York; and ringleader of Willing Participant, an artistic activist organization. His theater work has been produced by The Alley, HERE Arts Center, Hip Hop Theatre Festival, Magic Theatre, Mixed Blood, New York Fringe Festival, New York Live Arts, Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, Playwrights Horizons, Pomegranate Arts, The Public Theater, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Summer Play Festival and Under the Radar, and his participatory walks and performances have been produced by Abrons Arts Center, American Realness, Dartmouth College, Elastic City, The Invisible Dog, Jack, The New Museum, Prelude Festival, PS 122, the Van Alen Institute and Visual AIDS. He often collaborates with playwright/performer Taylor Mac and with artist Todd Shalom. Smith was co-director of the critically acclaimed A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, winner of the Kennedy Prize in Drama, the Edwin Booth Award and a Pulitzer Prize finalist.

Before surviving high school in Detroit, Niegel grew up in the North Carolina Piedmont, fishing with his dad, shopping with his mom and inventing tall-tale fantasies with his two younger brothers.

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AB O U T T H E A r ti s t s JOHN TORRES (Lighting Designer) Torres’ work includes designs for dance, theatre, music, fashion and print. In collaboration with Robert Wilson, productions have included: EDDA (Det Norske Teatret Oslo), Cheek to Cheek Live! With Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga (PBS Great Performances). Opera projects include La Traviata and Orfeo et Euryidice at Opera Orchestre National Montpellier and in 2019, Tristan and Isolde at La Monnaie / de Munt in Brussels. Recent Theatre has included Twelfth Night for Shakespeare in the Park, Delacorte Theatre and The Black Clown (A.R.T. Cambridge). In Music, Taylor Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, and Solange Knowles // Cosmic Journey. In Dance, Toss and Rogues with choreographer Trisha Brown, Theatre National de Chaillot/ Paris; And Available Light with choreographer Lucinda Childs, Walt Disney Concert Hall/ Los Angeles. In Fashion, Givenchy S/S 2015 (New York), Yeezy 3 by Kanye West at Madison Square Garden. With director Steven Klein, music videos Chun Li (Nicki Minaj) and Wolves (Kanye West).

JIMIN BRELSFORD (Sound Design) makes things louder. As a freelance designer and engineer, he has worked on a range of domestic and international productions with companies such as Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company, Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People, Half Straddle, Big Dance Theater, and Kneehigh Theatre. Jimin has also served in supervisory roles at New York cultural institutions such as St. Ann’s Warehouse and Celebrate Brooklyn!

JEREMY LYDIC (Co-Set Design/Production Manager) blurs the lines between designer, maker, and manager. Recent credits as Production Manager/Technical Director include Taylor Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music (NY and international tour), De Materie at The Park Avenue Armory, the world tour of Lucinda Childs’ Available Light, and the final production of Robert Wilson and Philip Glass’ Einstein on the Beach in South Korea. As owner of Lydic! Design And Production, he recently made selected props and effects for the Broadway productions of Frozen, Cats, Something Rotten, Fish in the Dark, Gigi, The Last Ship, Book of Mormon, and scores of others.

RAPHAEL MISHLER (Properties Designer) creates visual work for theater. Recent Props credits include A 24-Decade History of Popular Music (St Ann’s & International Tour), What the Constitution Means to Me (NYTW), The Amateurs (Vineyard), Pipeline (Lincoln Center Theatre), and numerous shows at LCT3, Playwrights Horizons and the Foundry. His credits also include puppets for Something Rotten, MCC, Amerinda, Signature Theater, and The Public/NYSF. Also, he creates visuals in the streets with organizations including People’s Puppet’s of OWS, Fight for 15!, New York Communities for Change, JFREJ and Jewish Voice for Peace. He is a Clubbed Thumb affiliated artist.

JASON KAISER (Stage Manager) has worked on the complete A 24-Decade History of Popular Music (St. Ann’s Warehouse, Curran, tour); Oklahoma! and the world-premiere operas Acquanetta and The Source (all three directed by Daniel Fish); Einstein on the Beach and The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic (both directed and designed by Robert Wilson); three world-premiere plays by Athol Fugard; two European tours of Jesus Christ Superstar; international dance tours with Jennifer Muller and Lucinda Childs.

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AB O U T T H E A r ti s t s BARBARA MAIER GUSTERN (Choral Master) is best known as the go-to singing teacher for the downtown performing arts community. She has taught the likes of Debbie Harry, Diamanda Galas, Justin Vivian Bond, Carol Lipnik, Penny Arcade, Our Lady J, and Lady Rizo. Prior to working with Taylor Mac in preparation for the A 24-Decade History of Popular Music show, she sang with opera companies including the New York City Opera, Little Orchestra Society and regional companies in Dayton and Toledo. She was leading lady in many musicals in Summer Stock and regional theaters and sang on cruise ships around the world. She is currently teaching, directing cabaret for the duo Austin Pendleton and Barbara Bleier, performing a bit and writing a book on vocal technique. Working with Taylor Mac is definitely a highlight of her career.

BERNICE “BOOM BOOM” BROOKS (Drums) is a drummer, producer, and teaching artist who has performed and shared the stage with such greats as Tito Puente, Gregory Hines, Patti Labelle, and many Jazz and R&B greats. She was a part of JALC The History of Blues with Marion Cowings and has a national commercial airing, Five Fine Fillies, for Bank of America.

VIVA DECONCINI (Guitar/Glockenspiel) plays guitar like a flaming sword, a screaming train, a ringing bell, and a scratching chicken. She sings like if Freddy Mercury had been a woman. She’s played everywhere from Bonnaroo to Monterey Jazz Fest, and been featured in Guitar Player Magazine. Her last 2 records Rock & Roll Lover and Rhinestones & Rust charted on CMJ.

ANTOINE DRYE (Trumpet) Antoine Drye is a New York-based trumpeter. He’s worked in and out of the Jazz scene with a wide range of artists, from Ellis Marsalis, Mike Longo, Houston Person, The Brand New Heavies, Wilson Pickett, Daniel Lanois and Paul Simon. With such a broad resume, it’s only fitting that Drye joyfully adds Taylor Mac! In addition to work as a trumpeter, Drye is a partner at The Samurai Hotel recording Studio in Astoria, Queens, which produces a wide range of music for international artists and entertainers, movies, commercials and recordings.

GREG GLASSMAN (Trumpet) has shared the stage and recording studio with some of the greatest voices in jazz, including Clark Terry, Marcus Belgrave, Roswell Rudd, Sheila Jordan, Oliver Lake, Sherman Irby, and John Esposito. He has performed around the world with a diverse array of artists including The Skatalites, Oscar Perez’s Nuevo Comienzo, and Burning Spear. Mr. Glassman’s current focus is his quintet, co-led with Stacy Dillard, which holds a residency of 8 years at Fat Cat in Greenwich Village.

J. WALTER HAWKES (Trombone), originally from Pascagoula, MS, is a four-time Emmy Award-winning composer/trombonist/ukulele player. J. has been an active performer, composer, and arranger/ orchestrator in New York City for two decades. He has played and/or recorded with some people you’ve possibly heard of, (Norah Jones, Elvis Costello, Jon Hendricks, John Lithgow), and many more you haven’t. It’s possible that he’s freaked out your kids with the music he’s composed for Wonder Pets, Third & Bird, Blue’s Clues as well as other TV cartoony gems. He is now the Musical Director of Peg + Cat, an animated show teaching math concepts to preschoolers on PBS.

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AB O U T T H E A r ti s t s MARIKA HUGHES (Cello) is a native New Yorker, a cellist, a singer, a song-writer and a storyteller on The Moth. Marika has performed and/or recorded with Whitney Houston, Lou Reed, Anthony Braxton, David Byrne, Henry Threadgill, Adele and D’Angelo among others. She is a teaching artist/director at Young Arts, a teacher at the Heifetz Institute and works with the Carnegie Hall Lullaby Project. She has performed on the Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Saturday Night Live.

Marika leads her bands Bottom Heavy and The New String Quartet. She lives in the countryside of Kings County.

DANA LYN (Violin) is a violinist/fiddler, pianist and enthusiastic bass player; Dana Lyn is at home in a wide range of musical genres. She has worked and performed with Stew and Heidi Rodewald, Ethan Hawke, avant-cellist Hank Roberts, D’Angelo and the Vanguard, Susan McKeown, Martin Hayes and the Walkmen, among others. As a composer, she has received commissions from Brooklyn Rider, the National Arts Council of Ireland, the Inception Orchestra and the Apple Hill String Quartet. She has released eight albums under her name, all of which she produced or co-produced. Currently, her own projects include a mixed quintet, Mother Octopus, a collaboration with actor Vincent D’Onofrio called Slim Bone Head Volt, and a duo with guitarist Kyle Sanna. Most recently, Dana was an artist-in-residence at the Baryshnikov Arts Center and is currently a member of the Joe’s Pub Working Group. Dana is also a well-versed fiddle player in the Irish tradition.

GARY WANG (Bass) has been playing professionally in New York City for over 25 years, performing, touring and recording with artists including Anat Fort, Taylor Mac, Ben Monder, Chris Cheek, Matt Ray, Madeleine Peyroux, T.S. Monk, Molly Ringwald, Dena DeRose, among many others. Gary has also been involved in composing and music production, most recently, his own solo project Shapes On Parade, with two albums released on Bandcamp in the last two years. He is a member of the San Francisco-based band The Invisible Cities, and has also contributed production and overdubbing work to projects by numerous artists, including Michael Leonhart, Sam Sadigursky, and Goh Nakamura, among others. Gary also composed and recorded the music for several recent collaborations with choreographer Kakuti Lin and the Full Circle Dance Company.

DUSTY CHILDERS (Special Guest) is a director, dramaturg, designer, storyteller and curator. His body and body of work has graced the likes of St. Ann’s Warehouse, Sid Gold’s, Joe’s Pub, Abrons Art Center, The Wild Project, Dixon Place, Judson Memorial Church, Intl. Center of Photography, Parsons, Institute of Contemporary Art, La MaMa, Signature Theatre, NY Live Arts, Irving Plaza, The Whitney, BAM, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Metropolitan Bar, House of Yes, and Soho Playhouse. He has worked with Justin Sayre, Nayland Blake, Ana Matronic, Stephen Winter, Bitch, Miguel Gutierrez, Silas Howard, World Famous *BOB*, and Amber Martin among others

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AB O U T T H E A r ti s t s JAMES TIGGER! FERGUSON (Special Guest) “The Godfather of Neo-Boylesque” is a burlesque artist/actor/dancer who has performed in NYC since 1988 & around the world since 1993. A pioneer in the 90s burlesque renaissance who won the first-ever “King of Boylesque” title at Burlesque Hall of Fame in Las Vegas. His act was banned at Rome’s Gay Village. He has headlined festivals all around Europe, Australia, North America & South America. Tigger! has been delighted to work/play with his SisterResister Taylor Mac for many years.

GLENN MARLA (Special Guest) has been described as a “Downtown Prophet” and an “obese transvestite in tights” Mx Marla is a Brooklyn-based theater and puppet artist, art therapist and beauty pageant queen (Miss LES, Mr. Coney Island). Most recently Glenn has been playing with puppets, debuting their solo puppet show Scarcity Freezer last fall at IRT Theater and just completing the Puppet Lab residency at St. Anne’s Warehouse where they began development on The Wild Unwanted. .

POMEGRANATE ARTS For the past twenty years, Pomegranate Arts has worked in close collaboration with a small group of contemporary artists and arts institutions to bring bold and ambitious artistic ideas to fruition. Founder and Director Linda Brumbach, along with managing director Alisa E. Regas produced the Olivier Award-winning revival of Einstein on the Beach, the multi-award winning production of Taylor Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music and the Drama Desk Award winning production of Charlie Victor Romeo. Since its inception, Pomegranate Arts has produced over 30 major new performing arts productions and tours for Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Lucinda Childs, Dan Zanes, London’s Improbable, Sankai Juku, Batsheva, and Bassem Youssef and collaborated on new productions with the Kronos Quartet, Leonard Cohen, Robert Wilson, and Frank Gehry. Pomegranate Arts hopes to continue to build a community of institutions and individuals that are inspired by the artists who help bring beauty and truth into the world, ask important questions, and take bold risks. pomegranatearts.com Pomegranate Arts’ Production Team Linda Brumbach Founder and Director/ Executive Producer

Alisa E. Regas Managing Director, Creative/ Associate Producer Adam Thorburn Business Manager Jeremy Lydic Production Manager Rachel Katwan Associate General Manager/ Line Producer Willa Ellafair Folmar Associate Company Manager Brit Katke Office Manager/ Executive Assistant Photography | Cover: Taylor Mac © Little Fang Photography | Pg 3: Taylor Mac © Luiz C. Ribeiro

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SETH RUDETSKY M O N D AY, J A N U A R Y 1 4 2019 • 8PM

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A group of Suffragists’ fight for the 19th Amendment led them to build a meeting space to educate people on the important issues of the day. During its construction, the 19th Amendment was passed, and on January 12, 1921 The Town Hall opened its doors and took on a double meaning: as a symbol of the victory sought by its founders, and as a spark for a new, more optimistic climate. In 1921, German composer Richard Strauss performed a series of concerts that cemented the Hall’s reputation as an ideal venue for musical performances. Since, Town Hall has been home to countless musical milestones: The US debuts of Strauss, and Isaac Stern; Marian Anderson’s first New York recital; in 1945, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker introduced bebop to the world; Bob Dylan’s first major concert in ‘63; and much much more.

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