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Inner Circle Volume 25 | Spring 2020
Announcing the
2020-2021 Beyond Series ASU Gammage Residency Artist
ASU GAMMAGE’S 2020-2021 BROADWAY SEASON
We know you are going to love these amazing shows and will want to share them with your friends and family!
Our donors and subscribers who support us year after year make it possible for us to bring the Best of Broadway to the Valley of the Sun. Thank you for your loyalty and support of ASU Gammage. This season has been filled with shows that have made audiences laugh, cry, and give standing ovations and we still have three amazing shows left on the 19-20 season for you to delight in. We are excited for another amazing season. Loaded with hits direct from Broadway such as the Tony Award®-winning Best Musical HADESTOWN, Disney’s FROZEN, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD and favorite storylines like MY FAIR LADY and TOOTSIE, we know you are going to love these amazing shows and will want to share them with your friends and family! This is another season you will not want to miss. As our Season Subscribers know, it pays to subscribe! We are dedicated to ensuring that our subscribers benefit from their loyalty with the best price for the best seats! Season Subscribers also receive exclusive benefits including flexible payment plans, ticket exchange options, advance purchase opportunities and more!
While there are abundant perks for Season Subscribers, we offer even more benefits for our ASU Gammage VIP Donors. VIP Donors enjoy benefits from preferred seating areas and reserved parking at ASU Gammage to exclusive VIP Donor experiences. ASU Gammage VIP Donor Club members also strengthen our award-winning Cultural Participation programs, which provide critical inschool arts curriculum and live theater experiences for underserved schools and community support organizations. Thank you for your sustaining support of ASU Gammage. We look forward to seeing you at the theater.
Colleen Jennings-Roggensack ASU Vice President for Cultural Affairs Executive Director of ASU Gammage
ASU Gammage Rising Star Awardee
JAMES D. GISH
ASU Gammage awarded the 2020 Rising Star Award to James D. Gish at the February 21 curtain call for BEAUTIFUL – The Carole King Musical. James is currently playing the role of Gerry Goffin in the national tour. James moved to Bullhead City, Arizona when he was 11 and graduated from ASU in 2017 with a business degree before honing his theater talent at Phoenix Theatre Company, where he landed the role of Jack Kelly in NEWSIES.
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Meet Ragan Warner
Season
Announcement
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TOOTSIE Original Broadway Company. Santino Fontana and Company. Photo by Matthew Murphy, 2019.
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Jati Lindsay
Lemon Andersen
ASU Gammage Inner Circle Volume 25 | Spring 2020 Executive Editor: Colleen Jennings-Roggensack Editor in Chief and Project Manager: Erica Lin Managing Editor: Theresa Dickerson Editorial Team: Kari Amarosso, Heather Fuentes, Allie Gold, Michelle Johnson, CAP, OM, Arianna Jones, Tim Walling Contributing Writers: Stacey Bailey, Ellie Borst, Theresa Dickerson, Jennifer Haaland, Victor Hamburger Graphic Design: Anna Glenn
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COVER: Disney’s FROZEN, Caroline Bowman as Elsa in Frozen North American Tour. Photo by Deen van Meer.
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OKLAHOMA! Damon Daunno & Mary Testa (c) Little Fang Photo.
Big. Bold.Brilliant.
THE BAND’S VISIT
In addition, returning to the ASU Gammage stage as a season option is Valley favorite - JERSEY BOYS! “This season is going to wow our audiences! Our shows will change, move, entertain and excite,” said Colleen Jennings-Roggensack, ASU Vice President for Cultural Affairs and Executive Director of ASU Gammage. “This is a BIG season that you will not want to miss!”
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This season is jam-packed with everything you could hope for in a Broadway season including the winner of eight 2019 Tony Awards® Best Musical HADESTOWN; the much-anticipated Tempe premier of beloved Broadway hit Disney’s FROZEN; and the return of a “theatrical landmark that has transformed theater and the way we think about history.” (The New York Times) – HAMILTON! This season will also include Broadway favorites TOOTSIE and MY FAIR LADY, 2019 Winner of Best Revival of a Musical OKLAHOMA!, and the powerful adaptation of an American classic, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD.
This is a BIG season that you will not want to miss!
SEPTEMBER 15-20, 2020 The critically acclaimed smash-hit Broadway musical THE BAND’S VISIT is the winner of 10 Tony Awards®, including Best Musical, making it one of the most Tony-winning musicals in history. It is also a Grammy Award® winner for Best Musical Theater Album. In this joyously offbeat story, set in a town that’s way off the beaten path, a band of musicians arrive lost, out of the blue. Under the spell of the desert sky, and with beautiful music perfuming the air, the band brings the town to life in unexpected and tantalizing ways. Even the briefest visit can stay with you forever. The cast of world-class performers is led by award-winning Israeli actor Sasson Gabay, star of the original film and the Broadway production. With a Tony- and Grammy-winning score that seduces your soul and sweeps you off your feet, and featuring thrillingly talented onstage musicians, THE BAND’S VISIT rejoices in the way music makes us laugh, makes us cry, and ultimately, brings us together. 4
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HAMILTON PERFORMANCES BEGIN OCTOBER 13, 2020 HAMILTON is the story of America then, told by America now. Featuring a score that blends hip-hop, jazz, R&B and Broadway, HAMILTON has taken the story of American founding father Alexander Hamilton and created a revolutionary moment in theatre—a musical that has had a profound impact on culture, politics, and education. With book, music, and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, direction by Thomas Kail, choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler, and musical supervision and orchestrations by Alex Lacamoire, HAMILTON is based on Ron Chernow’s acclaimed biography. It has won Tony®, Grammy®, and Olivier Awards, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and an unprecedented special citation from the Kennedy Center Honors.
Company - HAMILTON National Tour - (c) Joan Marcus.
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Rebecca Naomi Jones & Damon Daunno (c) Little Fang Photo.
OKLAHOMA! December 1-6, 2020 This is OKLAHOMA! as you’ve never seen or heard it before— reimagined for the 21st century, and now the Tony Award Winner for Best Revival of a Musical. Funny and sexy, dark and jolting, “this production shocked me and moved me. This is the OKLAHOMA! that was there all along.” raves New York Magazine. Direct from an acclaimed run on Broadway, OKLAHOMA! “lets us experience Rodgers and Hammerstein’s greatness anew.” (The New Yorker).
Eva Noblezada and the Original Broadway Cast of Hadestown. Credit: Matthew Murphy.
HADESTOWN January 12-17, 2021 COME SEE HOW THE WORLD COULD BE. Welcome to HADESTOWN, where a song can change your fate. Winner of eight 2019 Tony Awards® including Best Musical and the 2020 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, this acclaimed new show by celebrated singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell and innovative director Rachel Chavkin (NATASHA, PIERRE & THE GREAT COMET OF 1812) is a love story for today... and always. HADESTOWN intertwines two mythic tales — that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of King Hades and his wife Persephone — as it invites you on a hell-raising journey to the underworld and back. Mitchell’s beguiling melodies and Chavkin’s poetic imagination pit industry against nature, doubt against faith, and fear against love. Performed by a vibrant ensemble of actors, dancers and singers, HADESTOWN is a haunting and hopeful theatrical experience that grabs you and never lets go.
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MY FAIR LADY February 9-14, 2021 From Lincoln Center Theater that brought you THE KING & I and SOUTH PACIFIC, comes “a sumptuous new production of the most perfect musical of all time” (Entertainment Weekly), Lerner & Loewe’s MY FAIR LADY. Director Bartlett Sher’s glowing production is “thrilling, glorious and better than it ever was” (New York Times). “Every so often a revival comes along that reminds you how indispensable great theater can be” (NY1). Boasting such classic songs as “I Could Have Danced All Night,” “The Rain in Spain,” “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly” and “On the Street Where You Live,” MY FAIR LADY tells the story of Eliza Doolittle, a young Cockney flower seller, and Henry Higgins, a linguistics professor who is determined to transform her into his idea of a “proper lady.” But who is really being transformed?
Shereen Ahmed as Eliza Doolittle (on stairs) and Company in The Lincoln Center Theater Production of Lerner & Loewe’s MY FAIR LADY.
TOOTSIE Original Broadway Company. Santino Fontana and Company. Photo by Matthew Murphy, 2019.
TOOTSIE March 16–21, 2021 TOOTSIE is a laugh-out-loud love letter to the theater that tells the story of Michael Dorsey, a talented but difficult actor who struggles to find work until one show-stopping act of desperation lands him the role of a lifetime. Featuring a hilarious Tony®- winning book by Robert Horn and an outrageously clever score by 2018 Tony® winner David Yazbek (THE BAND’S VISIT, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), this New York Times Critic’s Pick is a “joyful delight” (The Washington Post) that’s “so packed with punchlines, it should be a called a jokebox musical!” (Bloomberg). “In these turbulent times, when the world seems out of balance, we need a place to let the good times roll,” raves Rolling Stone. “TOOTSIE is it!”
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Disney’s FROZEN April 8-25, 2021 Critics are calling FROZEN, “A can’t miss Broadway event” (NBC), and now it’s joining Disney’s smash hit musicals THE LION KING and ALADDIN on tour across North America! FROZEN is an all-new production created for the stage by an award-winning creative team, led by Academy Award® winners Jennifer Lee, Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, and Tony Award®-winning director Michael Grandage. It features the songs you know and love from the original film plus an expanded score with a dozen new musical numbers. FROZEN is an unforgettable, magical adventure, which Newsday calls, “A serious megahit with amazing special effects, eye-popping costumes.”
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Company of Frozen North American Tour. Photo by Deen van Meer.
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD June 8-13, 2021 All rise for Academy Award® winner Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork. The New York Times Critic’s Pick TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD is “the most successful American play in Broadway history. It has not played to a single empty seat” (60 Minutes). Rolling Stone gives it 5 stars, calling it “an emotionally shattering landmark production of an American classic,” and New York Magazine calls it “a real phenomenon. Majestic and incandescent, it’s filled with breath and nuance and soul.” With direction by Tony Award® winner Bartlett Sher, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD — “the greatest novel of all time” (Chicago Tribune) — has quickly become “one of the greatest plays in history” (NPR).
Ed Harris and Kyle Scatlife in in To Kill a Mockingbird. Photo by Julieta Cervantes.
Season Option JERSEY BOYS May 21-23, 2021 They were just four guys from Jersey, until they sang their very first note. They had a sound nobody had ever heard … and the radio just couldn’t get enough of. But while their harmonies were perfect on stage, off stage it was a very different story – a story that has made them an international sensation all over again. Go behind the music and inside the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons in the Tony and Grammy Award®-winning true-life musical phenomenon, JERSEY BOYS. From the streets of New Jersey to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, this is the musical that’s just too good to be true.
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(L to R) Corey Greenan, Jon Hacker, Eric Chambliss and Michael Milton Photo: Joan Marcus.
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Staff Profile
Ragan and her husband Jared at Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, 2019.
Meet Ragan Warner: ASU Cultural Affairs’ HR Manager
By Ellie Borst
From staff environmentalist, to office constructor, to therapist, to ergonomics handler — ASU Cultural Affairs Human Resources Manager, Ragan Warner, does far more than listed in her job description.
Due to the nature of her job, Ragan’s office has become a “sounding board” for many people in the office. “Whether it is about work, school or life, I’m glad I can be someone people feel comfortable around,” she said.
Over the past 15 years, Ragan has played many different parts at ASU Cultural Affairs. She began as a student worker in 2003 after moving from her hometown in Oklahoma, but quickly moved up to an office specialist after just two weeks. From there, she moved toward HR and has stayed in the department since.
“I’ve worn a lot of hats,” she smiled as she explained her career.
“I answer questions like, ‘Why was 10 dollars taken out of my paycheck? I just had a full-time employee quit, what should I do?’” she explained.
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Ragan is known around the workplace for being a person many can rely on — even including heavy-duty tasks. When the office needed a wall torn down for a renovation, Ragan stepped up to the plate and took the matter into her own hands coordinating the construction project to create more private offices. To date, Ragan has coordinated furniture for 24 different spaces.
“I like a good challenge,” she said. “I like saying ‘yes’ to new things.” Despite her many unnamed jobs, the most important thing Ragan brings to ASU Cultural Affairs is her positivity, work-ethic and friendship. Inside and outside of the workplace, Ragan is always the upbeat, optimistic, sharp-witted person her co-workers know and admire. She proclaimed herself as a “Jeopardy” addict, font enthusiast and lover of self-motivation novels. In the latest novel she read, she found the words she lives by:
The ASU Gammage elevator ground breaking, 2016.
“Happiness is something you create in your head, something you grow yourself. No one can diminish it, it is self-created. The concept of joy is that other things can enter in and create joy in your life. Ever since I started drawing the distinction between external joy and internal happiness, I have found that I am a lot happier. Happiness is inside of me, no one can ruin it.”
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(L-R): Ragan’s sister Brooke, Ragan, her step-mom Cindy and her Dad Wayne in Texas, 2018.
Whether it is about work, school or life, I’m glad I can be someone people feel comfortable around.
” Ragan with her mom, Sandy, at Tohono Chul in Tucson, September 2019.
Ragan’s nephew, Callen, age 8, Ragan, and her niece, Sydney, age 4, hiking in CA, 2019. Backpacking in the Tonto National Forest, 2009. ASU Gammage staff from one of the 50 for 50th community service projects. Staff members read books to kids that live in a shelter.
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Sponsor Profile “The power of the creative process and community participation are every bit as important as the performances. Not to diminish the performance experience, that is key, but this work is also about longer-term community change.” — JAC K Y A LLI N G , CH I EF P H I L A N T H R O P Y O F F I CER , A R IZO N A CO M M U N I T Y F O U N DAT I O N
To Community and Beyond! By Jennifer Haaland
The buzz of “an ever-better Arizona” keeps Chief Philanthropy Officer Jacky Alling and her team at the Arizona Community Foundation (ACF) ready to explore and support an infinite number of giving opportunities. Launching grants, matching donors with projects and creating initiatives, ACF included the sponsorship of ASU Gammage’s Beyond series in its 2019-2020 philanthropy cycle. “The Beyond season aligns with many of ACF’s core values by providing access to all people through its outreach and education programs,” Alling began. “It engages multi-cultural artists and 12
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themes. It offers unique audience participation programs.” Carefully curated, world class artists present compelling work. Dancing their way deep into our consciousness or humming their indelible messages artfully under our skin, often from the ASU Gammage stage, it’s the kind of work Beyond programs have been providing for more than 25 years. They offer master classes. They connect with Valley residents through public performances and artist residencies. These programs truly are “Connecting Communities.™” “Take HOME, for example,” Alling continued, referring to the Beyond large-
scale performance project in October that revolved around the life-cycle of how a house is converted into a home. “ACF has a 10 year history of making significant investments in supporting affordable housing and community improvement. Many of the themes in HOME address some key issues in those areas. [The audience experienced ideas like] gentrification and access to decent, safe, affordable housing.” Providing another connection, Alling described the third autumn performance on the Beyond Season through the ACF’s perspective. “In Kealoha’s THE STORY OF EVERYTHING performance, there are some important themes of
stewardship of our earth. The same themes are central to much of our work in the environment, specifically in [the Foundation’s] work around water in Arizona, through our New AZ Innovation prize competitions.” The Foundation’s impressive work runs wide and deep. Alling detailed the scope, saying “Other areas in our philanthropic agenda, aside from Arts and Culture, are Environment and Sustainability, Community Improvement and Development, Health Innovations and Quality Education.” Value alignment between ACF and ASU Gammage Beyond programming continue this winter. While FLIGHT explored the plight of two orphaned brothers desperately seeking safety, ACF works tirelessly to provide basic needs for Arizona’s most vulnerable populations, and programs that build strong communities for all ages. When Dancing Earth performed BETWEEN UNDERGROUND AND SKYWORLD, a multimedia dance theater work to illuminate the spiritual and cultural aspects of renewable energy, they addressed similar issues as ACF does
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the Foundation’s work more meaningful. “We actually sat down as an interdepartmental team to talk about ACF’s participation ‘beyond’ the [ASU Gammage] grant,” Alling smiled. “We have a multitude of donors we intend to engage in attendance to some events. These include individuals and corporate fund holders. We also want to engage members of our many giving circles and initiatives such as the Latina giving circle, the Asian women’s giving circle and members of our Black Philanthropy initiative, for example.” In her role as Chief Philanthropy Officer, Alling rallies her staff and their allies daily to do whatever it takes for our Grand Canyon state. One by one, the individual
The Beyond season aligns with many of ACF’s core values by providing access to all people through its outreach and education programs.
“Last year we poured close to $67 million in grants and scholarships into the community. Five percent of that total was earmarked for the arts,” she said. ACF doesn’t just put its money where its mouth is. It puts people where its money is. Actively participating in the programs they financially sponsor makes
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as it forms partnerships that protect, preserve and responsibly manage Arizona’s natural resources in both urban and rural areas.
building blocks are laid, building relationships and securing a stronger community foundation.
“I oversee the team at ACF that works with donors, families, corporations and communities to set up charitable funds that give grants and scholarships throughout Arizona. Our mission is: Lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better Arizona. So while we do exert leadership in much of our grant making
and initiatives, we also facilitate our donors’ giving to help them achieve their philanthropic goals over time,” Alling said. What Alling does today is in some ways an extension and augmentation of what she did once upon a time with none other than ASU Vice President for Cultural Affairs and Executive Director of ASU Gammage Colleen JenningsRoggensack. In a 2014 interview for the book ASU Gammage: 50 Years of Connecting CommunitiesTM , Alling had reflected about what became the duo’s joint mission while she was serving as Director of Ticketing Services at ASU Gammage in 1992. “She moved the dial,” Alling had recalled. “Colleen announced we were going to start connecting to diverse communities in meaningful ways...to schools, to senior centers. I was pretty excited about that. We wanted to make the arts come alive beyond the stage in a variety of ways.” Now, almost 30 years later, the two women continue to go above, and through Beyond (and many other means), serving Arizona as only the Arizona Community Foundation and ASU Gammage can. “I was very lucky that Colleen JenningsRoggensack allowed me to be an early part of building ASU Gammage’s Cultural Participation programs,” Alling said in closing. “Through that experience I learned how much more impact these programs have on individuals and communities than meets the eye. The power of the creative process and community participation are every bit as important as the performances. Not to diminish the performance experience, that is key, but this work is also about longer-term community change.”
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1. L to R: Stephen Smith, Emily Bautista (Kim), Lorri Smith, and Anthony Festa (Chris) 2. L to R: Christine Bunuan (Gigi), Red Concepción (The Engineer), Shirley Kruger, Anthony Festa (Chris), Emily Bautista (Kim) and Haven Je (Tam), Patricia Hardy 3. Machrina and Dale Leach pose with MISS SAIGON cast members
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4. L to R: Emily Bautista (Kim), Jesse Saywell, Esther Almazan (ASU Gammage Scholar), and Anthony Festa (Chris) 5. L to R: Tori Cord, Red Concepción (The Engineer), Pat Langlin-Brazil, Jim Cord, Jayden Cord 6. L to R: Red Concepción (The Engineer), Sharon Lytle-Breen, Marilyn Whitaker, Anthony Festa (Chris), Emily Bautista (Kim) 7. L to R: Dylan Marsh, Red Concepción (The Engineer), Anthony Festa (Chris), Emily Bautista (Kim), Nathanael Pretlow
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8. L to R: Rhet Andrews, Philip Ancheta (Ensemble), Eric Badiqué (Ensemble), Marcia Andrews 9. L to R: Eric Badiqué (Ensemble), Lemon Andersen (ASU Gammage Residency Artist), Philip Ancheta (Ensemble) Photo Credit: Tim Trumble Location: P.F. Chang’s
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4. L to R: Valerie McQuaid, Jake Levy (Dmitry), Leslie McDonnell, Ed Staudenmayer (Vlad), Jason Michael Evans (Gleb), Scott Hendrixson, Mekayla Rodriguez 5. L to R: Jake Levy (Dmitry), Austin and Casey Miller, Ed Staudenmayer (Vlad), Jason Michael Evans (Gleb) 6. Kylie Edwards (Ensemble) and Mary Way 7. L to R: Lila Coogan (Anya), Joe Goldblatt, Joy Franz (Dowager Empress)
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4. Anastasia Cast 5. L to R (seated): Ron Starkman, Mollie Trivers, Aaron and Brenda LaTowsky. L to R (standing): Susan Starkman, Laurie Dennhardt, Jeremiah Ginn (Swing), Anna De Jesus, Anthony and Mindi D’Elia 6. L to R (seated): Nancy and Herb Lienenbrugger, Julie Curtis, Vickie Gibbons. L to R (standing): Jenness Weldon, Cyndi DeBoer, Lyrica Woodruff (Ensemble), Christine Minch, Eva Ward
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7. L to R (seated): Pat and Carl Harris, Bill and Sue Ahearn. L to R (standing): Peter Means, Janice Gale, Ron Harten, Kylie Edwards (Ensemble), Mary and Bill Way 8. L to R (seated): Shirley and Fred Brown, Lyman Davis, Rita Ginsberg. L to R (standing): Michelle Johnson, Victoria Neill, Kenneth Michael Murray (Swing), Carol Schaupner, Mae Self 9. L to R (seated): Lisa Stone, Leah Pallin-Hill, Robert and Mary Ann Wright. L to R (standing): Greg Yagi, Alan Paulson, Ronnie Bowman (Ensemble), Brad and Veronique Kerr, Julie Mate 10. L to R (seated): Emily Brzezinski, Jonathan Nektalov, Lewis Penrose, Mario Romero. L to R (standing): Susan Cotton, Tammy Scrivner, Peter Garza (Ensemble), Keri and Steven Richardson Photo Credit: Tim Trumble Location: ASU Gammage
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Lemon Andersen
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Sweeter Voices with Lemon’s By Jennifer Haaland
“Arizona has a voice,” poet extraordinaire and ASU Gammage Artist in Residence Lemon Andersen avowed. “I’m here to teach how to use that voice. To help build that voice in the community, of the community.” As a poet, Andersen learned to reach a wider audience by performing his craft. Then he discovered that beyond a creator and presenter of intricately crafted words, he is at heart, a teacher. “Spoken Word is really about mastery. We are mastering the performing art of poetry. I don’t think of myself as a Spoken Word artist,” Andersen clarified. “Because I’m a poet, I aim to perform poetry. I’m a student of the craft.” Andersen’s ASU Gammage story began about 10 years ago when his voice sounded as ASU Gammage’s Senior 18
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Director of Programs & Organizational Initiatives Michael Reed was attending “Under the Radar,” a small theater festival in New York. Andersen was there performing his “County of Kings” poetry, the title a play on words because he is a Brooklynite, and thereby a resident of Kings County. “In my work, I do see a lot of artist’s projects that are not yet fully developed,” Reed said by way of providing context. “The second I saw Lemon, I knew we were seeing the exceptional.” Beyond superb talent, Lemon Andersen has been the exception in many varied ways. His name and childhood, for instance. He grew up a blonde boy (his biological father a Norwegian) in his Puerto Rican family and neighborhood. The ‘Lemonhead’ teasing nickname about
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his light skin and hair became tolerable and unique when he shortened it to Lemon and let it stick. Another unusual exception he enjoys as a poet is the 2003 Tony Award® he and his peers won in Russell Simmons’ DEF POETRY JAM. Referring to himself as an “Aristotle thug,” Andersen is also an ex-con who long ago turned the corner away from prison, ensuring he’s the exception to prison recidivism, too.
” “To me, Nike is not a sneaker. Nike is a platform, a bigger one than any theater,” Andersen explained. “It’s never been about products. I’m going for a real connection. There is a place for poetry in every medium, a connection to a truth. It’s a place that lets me reel them in.” Lemon Andersen’s voice is one that’s heard because of its resonating message, not its flash or volume. His metered words and naked phrases are somehow exactly
His poetry performances ooze and meld together all of those exceptional truths and more. And Michael Reed was not the only talent-seeker to take wide-eyed notice. “It took me 20 years to become an overnight success,” Andersen chuckled. “The people who have known me all along, they have no idea the sweat and lifeblood I’ve spent. I’m married to the process not the results, and I protect the magic. When I have people over, I lock my office. That’s my sacred space.” The success the outside world sees, however, might leave bystanders a little star struck. Andersen has worked closely with Spike Lee on Netflix, with LeBron James’ production company, with Nike marketers and on Hollywood studio sets. He sees, however, little difference between those big names and his more humble work at the New York Public Theater or as an ASU Gammage Artist in Residence on the Arizona State University campus and in the community.
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the verse listeners need. His work hits home, perhaps, because of his studied, understated approach. “I’m in the service business,” Andersen said simply, though unable to resist a poetic reference. “I decided to take the road less traveled. The way I build relationships…There’s no wanting, no expectations. My only question is, ‘How can I serve?’ I try to do my best, to serve well. I’m always working to move the needle forward.” The less traveled ‘service business’ approach suits Andersen’s teaching style well. This fall while he worked with students at an academy in an underserved and troubled Phoenix school district, the formula paid big returns. “I treat the classroom like I do the stage. It’s critical. I give them my best,” Andersen said. “It fits perfectly with the ASU Gammage mission of ‘Connecting Communities™’ I love being a glue for that.” Andersen delved into specifics, saying, “We weren’t just talking about poetry, we were doing it. The lesson I
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gave blew them away: ‘How do I build an arc? How do I create a character (if it’s too hard, too painful to relay it as my own story)?’ And we did it in their language, on their terms.” Reed interjected, “It’s important to Lemon that he connects with young people who may not know their path yet. He is helping them write their own identity.” “ASU Gammage helps me create more work for the people I most want to help,” said Andersen, addressing how teaching morphs into empowerment in his students. “I’m lucky to have had mentors. I share the knowledge, technique and craft from people so much smarter and better than me....” A couple of upcoming audience opportunities that will likely also demonstrate how effectively he’s honed the “service” approach are a television series and a new solo show. For the TV series, Andersen is drawing on his own life, his wife and daughters – currently 8, 16 and 18 – to be specific. He’s under contract and busily writing about what it’s like living in a house full of women. And he calls it, fittingly, “The Lemons.”
“During my residency, I’m also working on a solo show, a play for ASU Gammage,” Andersen said. “It has 13 characters, 13 different amendments. I call it ‘When Aliens Fall From the Sky.’” His description of his own writing blended seamlessly into a discussion of what his Arizona students are writing. He described witnessing the deprivation and struggles that surface in their words. “There is definitely an identity crisis in Arizona. We need to help Arizona’s identity rise to the surface. I tell my students, ‘You don’t have to perform. Instead, be a storyteller. Tell your story. They will listen to you’. Ever a poet, Andersen followed, “I’ve told them, if you confuse Spoken Word with written word then you won’t write as well. It starts on the page. Only then, [after we write], do we get to speaking the words... the microphone, the inflection, the stage presence.” “It’s what happens when serving kids out on the street is the next stage of your humanity, your artistry,” Andersen said in a reflective moment about the lives he’s affecting. “I’m never going to stop teaching.” And what results are Arizona voices rising, like their mentor’s, resounding with sweet moments of crystallized
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I tell my students, ‘You don’t have to perform. Instead, be a storyteller. Tell your story. They will listen to you.’
truth. It’s like Andersen’s own words from “County of Kings” are offering final inspiration to the state’s newly emerging voice:
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“Watch me!... Watch me take my lemons and make the best damn lemonade.”
ASU Gammage gratefully acknowledges Jenny Norton and Bob Ramsey for supporting Lemon’s three-year residency and Joan Cremin for commissioning a new work by Lemon to be premiered on February 27, 2021.
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Beyond
Beyond 20-21 brings internationally acclaimed artists and extraordinary performances to ASU Gammage ASU Gammage has just announced 2020-2021 Beyond, a season with eight shows that span the disciplines of the performing arts. The season kicks off on Saturday, September 26 with Tamilla Woodard’s immersive theatrical event AMERICAN DREAMS that imagines a world where the only way to become a U.S. citizen is by competing in a nationally televised game show run by the U.S. government. Step Afrika! will bring DRUMFOLK to ASU Gammage on October 3. DRUMFOLK explores the Stono Rebellion of 1739, an event in history that would forever transform African American life and culture. Founded in 1994 as
the first professional company dedicated to the tradition of stepping, Step Afrika! is now one of the Top 10 African American dance companies. Renowned choreographer, performer, writer, educator and ASU institute professor Liz Lerman brings her new evening-length dance-theater piece, WICKED BODIES to ASU Gammage on January 23. WICKED BODIES explores the persistence across time and culture of old crones, evil stepmothers and the use of the female body as a source of fear by governments and institutions. Kronos Quartet in collaboration with composer Michael Abels, poet Nikky Finney and choral director
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Dance Theatre of Harlem. Anthony Santos & Amanda Smith. Photo by Rachel Neville.
Valérie Sainte-Agathe, is developing AT WAR WITH OURSELVES, an evening length work for string quartet and chorus that will explore race relations, social justice and civil rights in 21st century America at ASU on February 13. ASU Gammage is proud to welcome back Dance Theatre of Harlem on February 20, an iconic American dance company. The company will perform a mixed repertoire that will highlight the brilliance of this oneof-a-kind American dance treasure. The ensemble’s 14 racially diverse artists bring new life to the art form of classical ballet by using its familiar language to celebrate African American culture. Dance Theatre of Harlem is an unparalleled institution in the world of dance, not only in this country, but around the world. Sojourn Theatre’s DON’T GO invites six strangers to meet onstage for the first time on March 4 and connect across differences through surprising tasks, epic story and dialogue. On March 27, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company returns to the ASU Gammage stage with THE DEEP BLUE SEA, a new work that revolves around the interplay of single and group identities. Jones conceived this highly personal work in pursuit of the elusive “we” during these fractious times through a cast of 100 dancers/ community members, and a deconstructed text from
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Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” and Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. Rounding out the 2020-2021 season, ASU Gammage Residency Artist Lemon Andersen will perform WHEN ALIENS FALL FROM THE SKY, an evening-length work showcasing his rare award-winning talents on February 27. Beyond is a performance series like no other and we look forward to sharing this season with you.
SPONSORS OF BEYOND 20-21 The Abbett Family Foundation APS Joan Cremin Steve and Hope Leibsohn
Jenny Norton and Bob Ramsey Rojon and Jay Hasker Andrew and Marcia Meyer
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Changing the mind of a robot
“ We are rethinking how a robot’s ‘mind’ should work in order to make it more amenable to providing on-the-job training and collaborating with humans.” — S I D D H A R T H S R I VA S TAVA , A S S I S TA N T P R O F E S S O R , S C H O O L O F C O M P U T I N G , I N F O R M AT I C S , A N D D E C I S I O N SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
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Research and big thinking on how AI will impact the future of work in Arizona and beyond ASU engineering by the numbers
Story by K A R I S H M A A L B A L What happens when technology advancements threaten to automate people’s jobs? The question is on the minds of many as research and development in artificial intelligence and machine learning rapidly grows. A new project led by Siddharth Srivastava, an assistant professor in the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering at Arizona State University, aims to help alleviate this concern. Srivastava and his multidisciplinary team are creating autonomous systems that are not only more adaptable and efficient in manufacturing environments, but also have built-in intelligent tutoring systems that will cooperate with factory workers and retrain them to use AI technology so they are not displaced from their jobs. Funded by a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation as one of its Convergence Accelerator awards, the project is highly focused on using AI to augment the workplace rather than replace workers. “Suppose you have this new robot, it’s very efficient, but you need to hire five computer science graduates to operate and maintain it instead of five current factory
workers,” Srivastava says. “That’s not feasible, first of all because we don’t have that many computer science graduates in society. Our idea is that instead of getting people to enroll in a new college program again, what we can do instead is design our AI systems, our robots, in a way that will help people to come on board.” Srivastava is collaborating with ASU faculty members in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering and the School for the Future of Innovation in Society to bring the project to life. “We have 10 team members, including experts in robot control, tutoring systems and human systems engineering — a field that involves thinking about how the robot and the human would interact and how you would build a situation where the human trusts the robot,” Srivastava says. “We also have experts in law to help solve the sociotechnical aspects of the problem.” “It’s not about changing the hardware, it’s about how to change the software,” Srivastava says. “We’re thinking about how it should act and what it should do. We are rethinking how a robot’s ‘mind’ should work in order to make it more amenable to providing on-the-job training and collaborating with humans.”
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23,903 students in engineering and technology in fall 2019
#4 master’s degrees awarded by school – American Society for Engineering Education, 2018
#8 online graduate engineering programs for veterans –U.S. News and World Report, 2020
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ASU 365CU The ASU 365 Community Union offers FREE yoga classes for ASU students and local community members What better activity to bring everyone together to engage Sun Devil Stadium in its capacity as a brand-new shared community space? The very meaning of the word “Yogah (योगः)” translated from sanskrit is widely understood as a “union” or a merging – of Mind & Body, Body & Breath, Self & Whole, Consciousness & Infinite. Widely practiced for centuries in the East, this integrative and transformative discipline has gained enormous popularity in recent years due to its acclaimed and demonstrative effects on individuals’ physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. In an age of nearconstant digital distraction, yoga is especially loved for its beneficial and productive effects related to stress management & mitigation, enhanced concentration ability, focus, and overall balance. The LiveWell Stadium Yoga Series brings together some of the most foundational and impactful studios and instructors from around the Valley to share their wisdom and teaching expertise with our community. Classes are All-Levels and can be enjoyed by anyone, regardless of experience. Come see us this Spring and see what all ‘the Ohm’s’ about! Don’t miss the last two classes this spring: Thursday, April 16 at 6:30 pm Coca-Cola Sun Deck at Sun Devil Stadium
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Helado Negro brings his eclectic sound to the Valley with a stop on the Coca-Cola Sun Deck at Sun Devil Stadium on Friday, April 3 at 8 p.m. The music of New York-based artist Roberto Carlos Lange, better known by his stage name Helado Negro, embraces a personal and universal exploration of aura – seen, felt, emitted. Lange’s visibility has blossomed beyond a community of fans long established through a rigorous recording and touring career, with moments like “Young, Latin and Proud” and “It’s My Brown Skin” aligning with a larger social demand for basic rights amongst marginalized people and the universal imperative to love, be loved, and thrive. Lange’s latest record This Is How You Smile’s has been called one of the top records of 2019 by critics. This Is How You Smile invites listeners on a walk through the changing colors of early mornings and evenings, writing, recording, or hearing a friend, a figure emerges, and there you are.
Wednesday, April 22 (Earth Day) at 8:30 a.m. Sun Devil Stadium Field
Helado Negro continues to be one of the most influential Latinx musicians and has played some of America’s most iconic performing arts venues.
For more information on 365 Community Union events visit asu365communityuion.com/wellness
Don’t miss him under the stars at Sun Devil Stadium on the Coca-Cola Sun Deck on Friday, April 3 at 8 p.m.
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Violist and composer Nokuthula Ngwenyama curates the Valley’s only annual chamber music series featuring 21st century composers umama womama to debut at Composer’s Choice on Fri., May 15 at ASU Kerr Violist and composer Nokuthula “Thula” Ngwenyama returns to ASU Kerr on Fri. May 15 for a special edition of her annual series, Composer’s Choice, a co-production of ASU Kerr, Phoenix Chamber Music Society and Peace Mama Productions. Now in its fourth year, Composer’s Choice will welcome umama womama, a chamber music powerhouse ensemble consisting of Ngwenyama, flutist Valerie Coleman and harpist Hannah Lash. All three women are prolific composers and have performed in prestigious venues around the globe. Described as one of the “Top 35 Female Composers in Classical Music” by The Washington Post, University of Miami Frost School of Music professor and Grammy®-nominated Imani Winds founder Coleman brings Tennessee grit and lyricism. With works that range from flute sonatas that recount the stories of trafficked humans during Middle Passage and orchestral and chamber works based on nomadic Roma tribes, to scherzos about moonshine in the Mississippi Delta region and motifs based from Morse code, her body of work has been highly regarded as a deeply relevant contribution to modern music. She has received commissions from Carnegie Hall, American Composers Orchestra, The Library of Congress, National Flute Association, The San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, The Brooklyn Philharmonic, Chamber Music Northwest and many more. Lash’s works have been described by the New York Times as “striking and resourceful…handsomely brooding.” Commissioned by The Fromm Foundation, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Carnegie Hall among many others, Lash has received numerous honors and prizes, including the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a fellowship from Yaddo Artist Colony, the Naumburg Prize in Composition, the Barnard Rogers Prize in Composition, the Bernard and Rose Sernoffsky Prize in Composition and numerous academic awards. She serves on the composition faculty at Yale University School of Music. Gramophone proclaimed Ngwenyama, the evening’s curator, as “providing solidly shaped music of bold, mesmerizing character.” She was chosen for the coveted Fulbright Scholar Program, Avery Fisher Career Grant and Duncanson Artist-in-Residency at the Taft Museum. She is past director of the Primrose International Viola Competition and the American Viola Society. Recent highlights of her career include an appearance with the Sinfonietta Cracovia performing Penderecki’s Viola Concerto, performing with the Phoenix Symphony and Maestro Ignat
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Solzhenitsyn, recitals in Los Angeles and Oakland and appearing with Bruno Mars on “Saturday Night Live.” Ngwenyama is the first composer-in-residence of the Phoenix Chamber Music Society, appointed in their 57th season. She plays an Antonius and Hieronymus Amati viola from 1597, on permanent loan from the Biggs Collection. umama womama will perform a kaleidoscope of their own works, plus a bit of Gubaidulina and Debussy. Loosely meaning “mother, those women” in Zulu, umama womama’s spring 2020 launch and performance at ASU Kerr is the season-closing show of the 2019-2020 season. “The Composer’s Choice annual series has brought fascinating and adventurous performances to ASU Kerr, showcasing modern composers from film, TV, video games and the concert hall,” said ASU Kerr General Manager Tracey Mason. “A violist and composer like our venue’s namesake Louise Lincoln Kerr, Nokuthula Ngwenyama helps connect us to the spirit and personality of the viola, Mrs. Kerr and her venue.”
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Lawrence R. Lathom David Ledbetter Barbara and Don Leffler Patty and Matthew Lernor Sara and Salvatore Lettieri Patricia and Paul Lewis Fuyu Lin and Samuel Anderson Law Office of Christina M. Lopez, PLLC Lisa Loo LOWY’s Tax Planning & Accounting, PLLC Sharon Lytle-Breen Cheryl and Johan Magnusson Suzan Makaus Rita and Nicole Mann Lindsay and Morgan Mathie Marilyn and Mark McCall Julie and Scott McCallister Celia and Kent McClelland Laurie and James McDonald Robbyn McDowell Karri and Joseph McInerney Dr. Geoffrey McKinzie and Tabitha McKinzie Tamara and Ian McLeod Azar Mehdizadeh and Justin Reynolds John Mertens and Kim Cantor Mary and Kurt Meyer In Memory of J. Eric Miller Ariana and Daniel Mormino Kathryn Morrison Vicki and Neil Motzkin Nagle Law Group Diane Nastro Angela and Jesus Navarro Vickie and Ron Neill Emily and Cory Nelson Pamela and Tom Ng Debbie and Jim Nixon Suzanne O’Hara In Memory of Cindy Olstein Shannon Olwine and Mohit Mehta Dr. and Mrs. Donald A. Opila Jill Ormond and Jay Kramer Darcy Ortiz Dr. John Parente Pam Peacock - Superior Real Estate Services Maryellen and Mark Pendleton The Perfect Companion (Jon D. Siegel) Suzie and David Perkinson Gloria and Jill Pierce-Garcia Nathanael Pretlow In Memory of Dr. Jeannette Pretlow Susan and Mike Pucelik Hari Puri Juliet Rains Carol and Gregory Rath Linda Redman Dean Rennell Herschel and Valerie Richter Rebecca P. Ripley and Tara Ripley Swinehart Sharon and James Robbins Chad Robert Theresa and Rene Romero Kristine Romine Meryl and Rich Rose Rosedale Hair Design Carol Rosensteel Richard Ross Kent and Mira Rossman Julie and Joseph Russomanno
Beth Saiki-Olsen and Morgan Olsen Chloe Saleeby and Kevin Saleeby Jeffrey P. Salomone, M.D. Sherilyn and Joseph Sandor Christine and Frank Scarpati Mark Schiavoni Katherine and Bryan Schlueter Katherine and Randall Schmidt Lyrna and Michael Schoon Janiece and Tom Schubert Ursula and Rick Schultz Ken Schutz and Craig Thatcher Catherine Scott Christa and Donald Scott Elisa Segal Judy Sera-Windell and Robert Windell Nelma and Jim Shearer In Memory of Sylvia Shippy Connie and Darin Shryock Suzanne and Jay Simon Jared Smith Jessica and Keaton Smith Katherine and Mark Strumpf John and Monica Suriano Laura and Michael Suriano Christina and Tim Tarter Toby Teret Taylor Carla and Gary Tenney Tewksbury Financial Group/John and Sunny Tewksbury Karen Thorn Kartika and Eric Thornbrew Dr. Susan Thrasher and Dr. Charles Schwartz Chona and David Tom Deborah and Wilbur Troutman Missy Turner Zeena Ubogy M.D. and Millard Thaler M.D./ Papillon Cosmetic Dermatology Center Steven Urke Dr. Robert and Julia Wacloff John and Katie Wahlman Colleen Smith Walters and Dave Walters Doug Walters Shari and Chuck Warshaver Phyl Wason Suzanne and Craig Weaver Lori and Neal Weinstein Dr. Brian and Dawn Williams Doris and Duly Winkler Carol and Thomas Wood Brigid Wright and John Patton Christopher Zachar Breann and Stephen Zapytowski, Jr. Joseph Zavislak
Morton L. Goodman and Kathleen Niederst Gary and Jacque Griffith Barbara and Joel Hanania Kimberly and Dale Hopely, Jr. Dr. Patty Horn and Sue Purkat William Hosking Michelle Louise Johnson Karen J. Killoren Survivors Trust Sue Klein Cheryl Laurent Devoney Looser and George Justice Julie Mooney Eve and Jim Morse Pam and Gary Passey Valerie and Gregory Patten Timbra and Kevin Peace Valleria Pickett Jim M. Probst Marliese and Glen Reeves Ron and Bev Richards Dawn and Michael Sandlin Jacob Schwarz Michael and Ciby Shaw Marvin E. Smith Richard P. Stahl Sherri Tanis Vicki and Tom Taradash Dr. Jerome and Dr. Selma E. Targovnik Erin and Edward Urbanoski VIP Tours of New York LLC Sandy Wagner Yubeta Family ASU Gammage wishes to thank the hundreds of donors who are not listed due to space limitations.
SUPPORTING MEMBER Natalie and John Ahearn Donna and Kirk Anderson Anonymous Ross and Shirley Berg Neva and Jim Bochenek Judy and Charles Boehmer Melanie and Patrick Burm Stephanie and Brad Butler Cathy and John Calhoun Ann Chafoulias Rhonda Elifritz-Rix Mr. and Mrs. Armando Flores VOLUME 25 | 2020
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Upcoming VIP Donor Events Bassem Youssef
Saturday, April 11 Beyond Series: Bassem Youssef 7 p.m. (Performance) | 8:30 p.m. (Post-Show Party)* Go beyond the performance by joining fellow audience members and Bassem Youssef for a post-show gathering on our beautiful outdoor promenade, open for an hour directly following the show. Post-show gathering free to VIP Donor members and general ticket holders. *space permitting
Tuesday, April 21 Opening Night Party: MEAN GIRLS Join ASU Gammage and cast members from MEAN GIRLS for beverages and light hors d’oeuvres on Opening Night. Exclusive VIP Donor member benefit (Directors Club Member and above).
Tuesday, May 26 Opening Night Party: COME FROM AWAY Join ASU Gammage and cast members from COME FROM AWAY for beverages and light hors d’oeuvres on Opening Night. Exclusive VIP Donor member benefit (Directors Club Member and above).
Photo: Sunny Martini
Please send your VIP Donor Event RSVPs to Tim Walling at tim.walling@asu.edu or 480-965-9915.