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STAGES – FALL 2006

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Development

Behind The Scenes

Clint Eastwood To Honor Campaign Donors

As the campaign to build the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts approaches its final chapter, all of the primary goals of the campaign’s first two phases have been accomplished: the project is on schedule and on budget; construction of remarkable venues designed by renowned architects is underway; a multigenerational contract has been executed with the City of Dallas that will help ensure prudent management and quality control of the Center’s future management; and, a responsible, comprehensive business plan for the Center is in development. Since the publication of this newsletter last spring, 11 million in new gifts have been committed increasing the number of donors of $1 million and above to more than ninety and total funding to in excess of $214 million. In addition, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase collaborated to sell $150 million of taxexempt bonds to generate interim campaign financing to keep the project on schedule throughout the construction process. Our staff has expanded to include the next generation of management with the appointment of the Center’s first Vice President of Operations, Michael Rilley, and our first Director of Information Technology, John Webber. The campaign’s final phase, the construction phase, began on August 1 and will continue until the Center’s grand opening in 2009. During the next three years we will raise the remaining funds required to construct the major venues that will comprise the Center; implement the Center’s business plan; develop many of the Center’s ancillary programs and projects; launch the Center’s endowment campaign and prepare for a fortnight of performances and productions celebrating the Center’s grand opening. The campaign to build the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts is the largest and most ambitious cultural project in Dallas’ 150-year history and it is exhilarating to have begun the project’s final phase on schedule and on budget.

Bill Lively President and CEO Dallas Center for the Performing Arts

Million Dollar Donors The Meadows Foundation $1 Million Gift To Aid Center’s Future Operations Future operations at the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts received a major boost from a recent $1 million grant from The Meadows Foundation.The grant is earmarked to help maintain the facilities when they open in 2009. The Meadows Foundation grant to establish a permanent Linda Evans endowment is the first of its kind for the multi-venue Center and will provide an added funding source to ensure maintenance of the buildings will be of the highest quality. The City of Dallas has committed annual funds to sustain operations of the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts once it opens. “We felt we could play an important role for the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts by providing this endowment,” said Linda Evans, president and CEO of The Meadows Foundation. “Every great city needs great arts and cultural facilities that can bring people together.” The Meadows Foundation is among the largest in Texas and enjoys a history of support for cultural, social and educational programs that significantly improve the quality of life in communities. “The Meadows Foundation’s investment in the Center is an encouraging endorsement for our business plan.” said Howard Hallam, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts. “For more than three years, the Center has been developing a dynamic business plan to ensure financial stability from the time of our opening. The Meadows Foundation grant will contribute significantly to our future success.”

The Marquee St. Paul UMC Names New Senior Pastor It’s an exciting time to be a part of the revitalization of the Dallas Arts District said the new senior pastor of the historic St. Paul United Methodist Church, a nearby neighbor to the future Center. “The potential is yet to be realized,” said the Rev. Elzie Odom, Jr. “As the Arts District nears completion, it will become one of the Rev. Elzie Odom, Jr. truly unique places in the world. Where else can you come to one destination and experience so many varied art forms – all within walking distance?” Rev. Odom, a member of the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts President’s Advisory Council, was named senior pastor in June. He previously served as senior pastor of Fellowship UMC in Trophy Club, and spent nearly four years as executive director of the Greater Dallas Community of Churches. As the Dallas Arts District continues to grow and thrive, Rev. Odom says St. Paul will focus on ways to participate in the developing community to bring the church’s unique and historic perspective to all people.

Center Reveals Urban Park Destination

In The Wings Gene and Jerry Jones hosted a private dinner in their home May 24 to honor the sponsors and major supporters of ACT TWO and to announce Dame Julie Andrews as the ACT TWO Mistress of Ceremonies. Ms. Andrews will introduce the Grand Performance

Left to right: C er Hal Brierley and wife Diane, presenting sponsors of Julie Andrews; Dame Julie Andrews; and Center board member Gene Jones and husband Jerry.

by Sir Elton John at the October 25 fundraising gala in The Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center. To purchase one of the few remaining premium packages to the Black Tie gala, please call 214.954.9925 x255.

Left to right: Jerry and Maribess Miller, Center board member; Cynthia Comparin and Denny Alberts, Center board member.

Imagine a new, family-friendly park in the Arts District filled with gardens, water fountains, outdoor seating, shaded lawns and picnic areas. Landscape architects Michel Desvigne and JJR are finalizing plans to create a lush, urban oasis surrounding the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts. The 10-acre Performance Park will weave together the newly designed Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House, Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, Annette Strauss Artist Square and eventually, City Performance Hall, establishing the most significant new performing arts center since New York City’s Lincoln Center. Envisioned as one of the most exciting and dramatic parks in the region, the Performance Park will include a canopy of trees, large expanses of grass, and a series of gardens, fountains, reflecting pools, promenades and walkways. The first public green space in the Dallas Arts District, the Park will provide a new lively destination for families, event patrons, concertgoers, students and individuals from throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth region. “Our team of landscape architects, working closely with our Site Design Committee, chaired by Howard Rachofsky, has designed what will be a truly spectacular setting for our state-of-the-art venues,” said Bill Lively, president and CEO of the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts. “With its breath-taking fountains, gardens and public

spaces, the Performance Park will have something for everyone.” Stretching from Woodall Rogers Freeway to Ross Avenue, the Performance Park will border The Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center to the west and create a bridge to Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts to the east. Guests who arrive and park in the Center’s new 600-space underground garage, currently under construction, will emerge from elevators between the Winspear Opera House and the Wyly Theatre. Paved illuminated pathways will guide visitors to their destinations—whether to the front door of the Winspear Opera House or Strauss Square, across Flora Street to the Wyly Theatre and City Performance Hall, or throughout the gardens. Signature features of the Performance Park will include dramatic fountains and a large donor reﬂecting pool, both of which will be situated on the Piazza in front of the Winspear Opera House and within the boundaries of Strauss Square. Covered by the shade of the Winspear’s three-acre Grand Portico, the Piazza will be open to the public and will be a unique and dynamic setting for pre-and post performance gathering and events. In addition to outdoor café seating on the Piazza in front of the Winspear, sprawling lawns on the eastern and western sides of the Park will provide an ideal setting for picnics and other outdoor activities. Numerous small gardens will be sprinkled throughout the Park, with hundreds of different trees, plants and ﬂowers lending bursts of color to the verdant greenery. Across Flora Street from the Winspear, visitors will traverse through a series of pathways down the Entrance Esplanade leading to the Wyly Theatre Lobby. A performance lawn will be located on the south side of the Wyly, allowing the performance area and seating to extend outdoors when the Wyly Theatre’s glass walls are raised.

The unprecedented success of the campaign to build the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts is directly attributable to the more than ninety families and organizations that have made gifts of $1 million and above through the campaign’s Cornerstone and Founding Family donor programs, and living legend Clint Eastwood will soon be in town to thank Clint Eastwood them for their commitment. These generous families, corporations and foundations who have contributed threshold gifts will be celebrated at a special evening of appreciation September 20 at the W Dallas Victory Hotel. The event, hosted by the Center’s Cornerstone Chairs Sarah and Ross Perot, Jr. and sponsored by Bank of America, will feature Academy Award-winning director and actor Clint Eastwood as the keynote speaker. Eastwood and his wife, Dina, have followed the progress of the campaign to build the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts and are coming to Dallas for the sole purpose of helping to thank the many donors whose generous commitments of $1 million and more have made the campaign to build the Center the most successful project of its kind in the history of Dallas and the southwest. The campaign’s first donor program, the Founding Family Program, was launched at the campaign’s inception in November 2000 and concluded in 2004 with forty-five Founding Families and twenty Founding Corporations and Foundations. The Cornerstone Program is chaired by Sarah and Ross Perot, Jr. and began in January 2005 with a goal to raise $30 million in new gifts from Dallas families and organizations over two years. Under their leadership and along with the dedication from members of the Cornerstone Action Team, in August of 2006 the Program reached its benchmark goal of $30 million comprised of twenty-eight gifts of $1 million or more. With three months remaining in the year, the Cornerstone Program will continue to exceed its goal to increase its private support of the $275 million campaign to construct the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts. The visionary leadership of the families and organizations who have made Founding Family and Cornerstone gifts has not only led to the extraordinary success of the campaign, but has also inspired others to make generous commitments to help build the finest performing arts center in the world.

Design & Construction First Dig Creates 320,000 Cubic Foot Hole For Underground Parking Garage Earlier this summer the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts held its ﬁrst dig on the future site of the Center. The dig created a 44-foot deep hole measuring 400 feet wide by 200 feet long for the 600-space underground parking structure that will be part of the multi-venue Dallas Center for the Performing Arts. Pre-construction work began on the site after the historic groundbreaking events last November, to clear and prepare the area for major construction. After the dig, construction workers on the site of the underground garage placed 110 steel drill shafts, each 30 inches in diameter, in the ground as part of the steel column shoring system to stabilize and prepare the area for excavation. The excavation contractor removes soil in ﬁve foot depths, then a retention system is installed to retain the ground at the perimeter of the garage. Work will continue on the garage to bring the three-level underground structure to near completion. This fall construction will begin on the 215,000 square foot Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House, seating 2,200 and located on the same plot of land on Flora Street, just east of The Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center. Just across the street, foundation work will begin on the more than 80,000 square foot, 12-level Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, seating 600. In early 2009, construction will begin on the completely new Annette Strauss Artist Square. The Dallas Center for the Performing Arts is scheduled to open in the fall of 2009. Good, Fulton & Farrell Architects (GFF), headquartered in Dallas, designed the underground parking structure that will serve patrons of the Center’s venues and the eastern end of the Dallas Arts District.

STAGES – FALL 2006

Leading Roles Ruth Altshuler It was more than her close friendships with Board Vice Chair Caren Prothro and President and CEO Bill Lively that enticed Ruth Altshuler, one of Dallas’ leading philanthropists, to become active in the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts. “This is a tremendous opportunity to be a part of history, and I would support this project in any case,” she said. “Dallas is a special place and needs a spectacular cultural center. The Dallas Center for the Performing Arts will be just that and will be noticed and talked about around the world.” In addition to the President’s Advisory Council, Ms. Altshuler also serves on the Center’s Naming Threshold Committee and she and husband, Dr. Kenneth Altshuler are Founding Family donors for the Foundation. Ms. Altshuler is a strong supporter of the arts as well as many worthwhile charitable and civic organizations locally and nationally. A long-time supporter of SMU, she was chairman of the board of trustees from 2000-2002, serves on the Board of the Library of Congress Trust Fund and is a Commissioner of UNESCO. She also is a life member of the National Advisory Board for the Salvation Army, sits on the Laura Bush Foundation for America’s Libraries and is the founder of the Tocqueville Society, United Way of Dallas.

Jeff Morris Jeff Morris, president and CEO of Alon USA, an oil reﬁner and marketer headquartered in Dallas, understands the importance of investing in the future of children and in the future of a community. Both he and the company he leads are doing just that. Last fall, Alon USA invested in the arts community by presenting the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts with a $1 million gift to help construct the Center, and generously underwriting the November 2005 groundbreaking ceremonies. “The performing arts center is a transforming event for this community,” he said. “The new developments in the Arts District – the hotels, the bridges over Woodall Rodgers, the Trinity River project – will collectively change our city in great ways.” Alon USA has invested in children by establishing the Communities in Schools Endowment with a $1 million gift. CIS is a stay-in-school program for students in Dallas and the North Texas area. In addition to serving on the board of the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, Morris also serves on the board of Communities in Schools and is a strong supporter along with Alon USA of the Trinity River Corridor Project.

Roger Staubach Count former Dallas Cowboy and now businessman Roger Staubach among the growing list of local business leaders lending support to the campaign to build the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts. “You can’t really get a feel for the arts side of Dallas unless you go down there, walk around, see what is going on and take the time to really understand what is taking place,” said the former Dallas Cowboy star. “I did that and now I see that the performing arts center and the other developments in the Dallas Arts District will mean a lot to the city, especially downtown.” Mr. Staubach, who is excelling as chairman of the board and CEO of The Staubach Company, a leading global real estate ﬁrm, believes the people of Dallas are also getting a handle on the Center and embracing its importance to the city. In addition to serving on the board of the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts and AMR Corporation, Mr. Staubach is a long-time supporter of The Children’s Cancer Fund, the Salvation Army and the United Way. He also supports numerous other civic, charitable and professional organizations.

Board Of Directors

President’s Advisory Council

One of the most important contributors to the success of the campaign to build the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts is the leadership that has been provided by the Board of Directors since the campaign’s inception in November of 2000. Twentyfour of the Board’s twenty-seven charter members continue to serve, and an additional thirty-four Dallas leaders have been elected to the Board during the six years of the campaign’s planning and design phases. In its important service over the past ﬁve years, the Board approved the campaign’s rules of engagement and goals; commissioned renowned architects and acousticians to design the Center’s venues; developed strategies to convey the campaign’s messages to audiences in and beyond Dallas; worked with the City of Dallas and the community to support the successful 2003 City of Dallas bond election; rendered key decisions about the Center’s future protocols, governance structure and operating procedures; approved the sale of more than $150 million of tax-exempt bonds to ensure the Center’s construction remains on schedule and on budget; and, generated more than $140 million to help construct the Center. As the campaign enters the construction phase, the Board of Directors will continue to lead the project. Over the next three years Board members will approve the ﬁnal design concept for the Center’s new Annette Strauss Artist Square; approve and help implement the Center’s business plan and governance strategy; develop the Center’s ancillary programs; and, help raise the remaining funds required to construct the Center. The Board of Directors of the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts is, in every sense, a working board whose dedication, service and generosity have helped make the campaign to build the Center the most successful project of its kind in our city’s history.

This fall will mark the beginning of the fifth year in the operation of the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts’ President’s Advisory Council. The Council is comprised of over two hundred Dallas leaders representing many professions who have in common their commitment to the future of Dallas and the quality of its cultural landscape. The Council serves in an important advisory capacity to Bill Lively, President and CEO of the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, responding to key campaign indicators and strategies before their implementation and distribution. The Council also serves as a “leadership conduit” into the community defining for audiences in and beyond Dallas the scope of the venues that will comprise the Center and the cultural and economic ways the Center will impact Dallas and the region for generations to come. Although there is no financial obligation of Council membership, Council members have to date contributed more than $8 million to help construct the Center and have helped introduce the importance of the Center to new audiences. The President’s Advisory Council will continue its important service during the campaign’s construction phase helping define the ways the Center’s venues will enhance the quality of life for the families who will live in Dallas for generations to come.

Howard Hallam Chair, Board of Directors Dallas Center for the Performing Arts

Bess Enloe Roger Enrico Ruben E. Esquivel Trevor Fetter Nancy Halbreich Frederick B. Hegi, Jr. Doug Houser John Howell Gene Jones Robert L. Kaminski Jim Keyes Barbara Thomas Lemmon William H. Lively Nancy Cain Marcus Jay Marshall Maribess Miller Jeff D. Morris D. Roger Nanney Chuck Norris Erle Nye Sarah Perot Howard Rachofsky Geoffrey P. Raynor

Chair Howard Hallam Vice Chair Caren H. Prothro Directors Elaine B. Agather Denny Alberts Lisa Arpey Dolores G. Barzune David Biegler Daniel D. Boeckman Harold M. Brierley Donald J. Carty Jeanne Marie Clossey John T. Cody, Jr. Mary McDermott Cook Mary Anne Cree Linda Pitts Custard John Dayton Robert H. Dedman, Jr. John R. Eagle Matrice Ellis-Kirk

Leonard Riggs, Jr. MD Dr. Marvin E. Robinson Deedie Rose Ken Schnitzer Lynn Flint Shaw Roger Staubach Ronald G. Steinhart Paul Stoffel John Tolleson Dr. R. Gerald Turner Martin J. Weiland Laura Whitley Dr. Kern Wildenthal Dr. William W. Winspear Charles Wyly

Dallas City Councilwoman Angela Hunt’s

Update On The Arts Mark your calendars for November 7, the date Dallas residents will be voting on the largest bond package in the city’s history. The $1.38 billion package represents a victory for the Dallas arts community, with $60.8 million earmarked to construct new cultural arts facilities and renovate existing venues. Of that, $38.2 million will be used to construct the City Performance Hall in the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, providing a venue for small- and medium-sized performing arts groups. Other Arts District projects include muchneeded improvements to the Dallas Museum of Art and The Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, as well as infrastructure improvements to Routh Street. Beyond the Arts District, $3.7 million will be invested in the Latino Cultural Center to construct a black box theater and design phase II of the Center’s master plan. The African American Museum, Dallas Theater Center, Museum of Nature and Science, and other arts venues will also see facility improvements as a result of the bond. I hope you will join me in supporting Proposition 5 on November 7 to ensure these critical investments in the arts.

Linda Pitts Custard Chair, President’s Advisory Council Dallas Center for the Performing Arts

Chair Linda Pitts Custard Lindalyn Adams Janet H. Albers Mary Anne Alhadeff Allie Beth Allman Ruth Altshuler Charlotte Jones Anderson Giselle Antoni Marilyn Augur Scott Austin Norman P. Bagwell Alice W. Bass Ron Beneke Sally Berry Gil J. Besing Dr. Joanne Stroud Bilby Lucy Billingsley Kathryne S. Bishop Nancy Bittner Jan Hart Black Laura Boeckman Bill Bogart Marla Boone Talmage Boston Denis J. Boulle Delilah H. Boyd Eric Brauss Gillian M. Breidenbach William A. Brewer III Diane Brierley Norman Brinker Toni Brinker Dr. Anne Bromberg Bob Buford Stuart M. Bumpas Mary Frances Burleson Bruce Calder Nancy Carlson Sis Carr Ana Carty Darlene Galassi Cass Elliot R. Cattarulla Joleen Chambers Brent E. Christopher Nita Prothro Clark Patti Cody Cynthia J. Comparin Gail B. Cook Mary Lee Cox

Sally G. Cullum Allen Custard Levi H. Davis Arlene Dayton Patricia Miller Donosky Lowell C. Duncan, Jr. Jane C. Dunne Sally Dunning Jennifer Eagle Fran Eichorst Charles W. Eisemann Molly Engles James R. Erwin Alina R. Esquivel Laura V. Estrada Vernon E. Faulconer Melissa Fetter Edward M. Fjordbak Rebecca Enloe Fletcher I. D. (Nash) Flores III Nita Ford Leah Fullinwider Duncan T. Fulton III Judith Gausnell Gloria McCall Godat Randall G. Goss Dr. Joseph M. Grant Kelly Green Candice J. Haas Jeremy L. Halbreich Fanchon Hallam Donna D. Halstead Sam T. Hamra M.D. Paul W. Harris Orrin Harrison Paula B. Harrison Jess Hay Amy D. Hegi Jan Hegi Libby Hegi Jennifer Houser Sydney Huffines Angela Hunt Caroline Rose Hunt Gregory Hustis Mary Jalonick Graeme Jenkins Michael A. Jenkins Phillip Jones Richard L. Jones Kim Hiett Jordan

Kate Crosland Juett Sue R. Justice Margo R. Keyes Jack M. Kinnebrew John J. Klein Shane Krige Mary Noel Lamont Ann M. Lardner Patti LaSalle Alexandra Lavie Stan Levenson Veletta Forsythe Lill Liz Minyard Lokey Sarah Losinger David M. Love II Michael Lunceford Dr. Bobby B. Lyle Gail Madden Joy S. Mankoff Cheryl Unis Mansour Sara T. Martineau Anita M. Martinez Carol Marvin Holly Mayer Gray Mayes Tom H. McCasland, Jr. P. Mike McCullough Margaret McDermott Linda B. McFarland Janie Strauss McGarr Nancy McGee Ellen McStay Patricia B. Meadows Su-Su Meyer Jan Miller Joyce Mitchell Ruth Ann Montgomery Bob Mow Maria Munoz-Blanco Scott Murray Frank A. Naboulsi Raymond D. Nasher Dana Nearburg Todd Nordeen Lydia Haggar Novakov Rev. Elzie Odom, Jr. Patricia M. Patterson Ginnie Payne Rena Pederson Margot Perot Jan R. Pickens

Nelda Cain Pickens Dr. Alfonso E. Pino III Charles H. Pistor Maria Martineau Plankinton Judy Pollock Ann Pomykal Patricia Porter Darryl D. Pounds Cindy Rachofsky Robert S. Rendell Peggy Riggs Marcy Sands Lisa L. Schnitzer John M. Scott III Diane Scovell Carl Sewell Shelle Bagot Sills Judy Skinner Henry J. “Bud” Smith William T. Solomon Jackie M. Stewart Gayle Stoffel Donald J. Stone Diana Strauss Theodore H. Strauss Sara Stroud Mary Suhm Emily Summers Jack Sweet Barbara Sypult Les Tanaka Dr. Gail Thomas Debbie Tolleson Gail Turner Annette Vaughn Bea Wallace Sarah Warnecke Tucean Webb Patty Weiland Herbert D. Weitzman Jimmy Westcott Kimberly Schlegel Whitman David Wiessman Marnie Wildenthal Donna Wilhelm Ann Williams J. McDonald Williams Rex H. Wooldridge Sharon Worrell J. Michael Wylie as of 8.25.06

The complete list of Standing Committees for the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts can be found on our website www.dallasperformingarts.org.

New DCPA Look The Dallas Center for the Performing Arts is proud to unveil its new graphic identity in this edition of Stages. The new “supernova” logo represents the future direction of the Center: a future brimming with energy, passion and dynamism. Thank you to the Logo and Branding Committee, chaired by Center board member Ruben E. Esquivel, who are responsible for our new look, and a special thanks to the logo’s designers, 2x4, Inc. of New York.

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