NOVEMBER 2021
That Golden Girls Show!: A Puppet Parody October 30
Mystery Science Theater 3000 LIVE: Time Bubble Tour November 3
Heather Land: The Age Gap Tour November 12
Billy Prine and the Prine Time Band November 18 Tim Dillon - A Real Hero Tour November 20 KENTUCKYPERFORMINGARTS.ORG
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October 7, 2021 – January 2, 2022 This exhibition examines the artwork that has shaped our collective imagination of the supernatural and paranormal and asks why America is haunted. Image: Agatha Wojciechowsky American (born Germany), 1896-1986 aw 0323, 1963 Watercolor on paper Courtesy of the Collection of Steven Day, New York, NY
This exhibition is organized by the Minneapolis Institute of Art and has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Terra Foundation for American Art, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this exhibition do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Support for this exhibition provided by: The Ford Foundation Alan and Shelly Ann Kamei David A. Jones, Jr. and Mary Gwen Wheeler Northern Trust Robert Lehman Foundation Lopa and Rishabh Mehrotra
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Support for contemporary exhibitions comes from: Augusta and Gill Holland
Exhibition season sponsored by: Cary Brown and Steven E. Epstein Paul and Deborah Chellgren Debra and Ronald Murphy
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PROGRAM
That Golden Girls Show!: A Puppet Parody The Kentucky Center-Bomhard Theater...... 7 Mystery Science Theater 3000 Live: Time Bubble Tour The Brown Theatre...................................... 8 Heather Land: The Age Gap Tour The Kentucky Center-Bomhard Theater.... 11 Billy Prine and the Prine Time Band The Brown Theatre.................................... 13 Tim Dillon – A Real Hero Tour The Brown Theatre.................................... 16
Staff & Support.............................................................. 18 Theatre Services............................................................ 22
THEATRE INFORMATION The Kentucky Center (Whitney Hall, Bomhard Theater, Clark-Todd Hall, MeX Theater) 501 West Main Street; Brown Theatre, 315 W. Broadway; and Old Forester’s Paristown Hall, 724 Brent Street. Tickets: The Kentucky Performing Arts Box Office, 502.584.7777 or KentuckyPerformingArts.org. Reserve wheelchair seating or hearing devices at time of ticket purchase.
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WELCOME TO KENTUCKY PERFORMING ARTS November is a special month for Kentucky Performing Arts. This time of year, we celebrate an idea that harkens back nearly 40 years. An idea to create a place where the community could gather and enjoy everything from grand opera to folksingers — from meetings to celebrations. A place the area’s prominent arts groups, as well as national and internationally renowned artists, could call home. On an unseasonably balmy November evening in 1983, the idea became a reality when The Kentucky Center opened its doors.
Our anniversary month holds a special meaning this year as we celebrate the return of Broadway after our long, and unexpected, intermission. The PNC Broadway in Louisville production of Waitress has been a long time coming, and an unwitting companion to the challenges we have faced over the past three years. Waitress was set to make its Louisville debut in 2018, but was postponed after a fire shut down The Kentucky Center building for two months. Then Waitress was postponed again in 2020 when Kentucky Performing Arts was forced to close all of our venues due to the pandemic. Now, in keeping with the resilience of its main character Jenna, Waitress debuts in Whitney Hall! This month, as we celebrate 38 years of being the community’s home for world class artists, diverse entertainment, and arts education, we also celebrate you. Your support during these challenging times makes it possible for Kentucky Performing Arts to continue providing a place for everyone to gather, learn and grow—to expand their horizons through experiencing a variety of art forms—to reach outside of our walls and bring the educational and healing power of the arts to every corner of the Commonwealth. Before the performance, we encourage you to visit our website, KentuckyPerformingArts.org, and explore strong, exciting, and diverse mix of world premiere works, legendary artists, insightful interviews, uproarious comedy, and cultural phenomena coming to our stages. We thank you for being here tonight and look forward to seeing you again.
Kim Baker President and CEO, Kentucky Performing Arts
For more information, including Frequently Asked Questions, please visit Kentucky Performing Arts COVID-19 Guidelines.
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A NOTE FROM GOVERNOR BESHEAR Since the beginning of this pandemic, Kentucky has been committed to being a leader in our nation’s effort to defeat COVID-19. Each day, we have been laser focused on protecting the health and safety of every citizen in the commonwealth while ensuring Kentucky is positioned to thrive in a post COVID-19 economy.
Defeating this pandemic has required collaboration among every Kentuckian, industry and business sector in the commonwealth. The success we have experienced in Kentucky is the direct result of your willingness to do the right thing by wearing a mask and receiving your shot of hope. The spread of COVID-19 created new challenges for every business in the nation, and the performing arts is no exception. Nationally, the decision to embark on a 17-month intermission reinforced the industry’s commitment to protecting artists, performers and patrons was a top priority. Despite the pause, local venues and arts organizations in Kentucky found creative ways to offer programming. These efforts not only allowed patrons to experience the arts, but also provided critical revenue for artists until they could safely return to the stage. I commend Kentucky Performing Arts and many of their partners for joining in these creative productions. Now, as we focus on sprinting out this pandemic, performing arts are in need of our support. The arts and culture sector is a critical economic engine contributing nearly $4.9 billion annually to Kentucky’s economy. With vaccinations readily available to individuals 12 and over, the performing arts sector has the resources necessary to safely return to the stage for all of us to enjoy. This month, Kentucky Performing Arts will welcome its first Broadway performance to the stage in Louisville since the curtain fell in March of last year. I encourage each of you to take advantage of this incredible opportunity to experience arts and culture. After a long intermission, I guarantee you will not be disappointed! Sincerely,
Andy Beshear 63rd Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky
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LEO Weekly – A Little Off Center
THAT GOLDEN GIRLS SHOW!: A PUPPET PARODY Saturday, October 30, 2021 • 3:00pm • The Kentucky Center-Bomhard Theater
That Golden Girls Show! is a brand-new show that parodies classic Golden Girls moments - with puppets! Get set for an evening of cheesecake, laughter, jazzercise, shoulder pads, sex, and the elegant art of the quick-witted put down. From Sophia’s get-rich-quick schemes, to Rose’s tales from St. Olaf, Blanche’s insatiable hunt for men and the Fountain of Youth, and Dorothy’s daily struggle to make sense of her life. Devoted fans will fondly remember our four girls from Miami, and for the firsttimers, this will be a joyful introduction to the brilliance of that television series. The cast includes Miranda Cooper as Sophia, Dylan Glick as Dorothy, Lu Zielinski as Blanche, and Samantha Mason as Rose. With swing support from Nate Rocke.
Direction by Michael Hull, Written by Doug Kmiotek, Puppets by Rockefeller Productions, David Goldstein (Set & Lighting Design), Nate Edmondson (Sound Design), Jessica Marie Lorence (Puppet Supervisor), Gregg Bellón (Production Supervisor), Mason Huse (Associate Production Manager), TBD (Production Stage Manager), TBD (Assistant Stage Manager), TBD (Marketing Director), Krista Robbins (Associate General Manager), General Management by Theater Mogul/Jill Bowman, Exclusive Tour Direction by Broadway & Beyond Theatricals/Victoria Lang, Ryan Bogner and Tracey McFarland, Co-created by Thomas Duncan-Watt, Originally created and produced by Jonathan Rockefeller. Production by Shady Pines Entertainment.
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Kentucky Performing Arts presents
MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 LIVE: TIME BUBBLE TOUR Wednesday, November 3, 2021 • 8:00pm • The Brown Theatre
THE SHOW Following the wildly successful Watch Out for Snakes! Tour in 2017, the 30th Anniversary Tour in 2018, and The Great Cheesy Movie Circus Tour in 2019, Mystery Science Theater 3000 LIVE returns with an all new show! Join host Emily Connor (Emily Marsh) and the world’s greatest – and only – movie riffing robots, Tom Servo (Conor 8
McGiffin), Crow (Nate Begle), and GPC (Yvonne Freese), as they take you on an exhilarating rollercoaster ride through the film Making Contact, imposed by Mad Scientist, Mega-Synthia (Yvonne Freese). Now you can sit in the same theater with your favorite characters and experience this long running comedy phenomenon in a universally-acclaimed LIVE event.
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“Featuring animated toys in an overcrowded childhood during the eighties, complete with an evil ventriloquist dummy, and heavily branded IP at almost every turn...” THE FILM Making Contact (1985) Appears to be a send up — or at least heavily references — every Speilberg movie ever made, including notes of E.T., Poltergeist, The Goonies, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and just a pinch of Lincoln. Featuring animated toys in an overcrowded childhood during the eighties, complete with an evil ventriloquist dummy, and heavily branded IP at almost every turn, you’ll have fun watching as Emily and the Bots try to make sense of it all. Shot on location in Germany.
THE CAST Emily Marsh Emily is a puppeteer, singer, and actor. She was most recently seen in the MST3K LIVE Social Distancing Riff Along Special and Behind the Scenes at Supermarket short during the 2020 Turkey Day Marathon. As a puppeteer, Emily was a part of the BBC TV show Moon and Me, the newest show created by Andy Davenport, creator of Teletubbies, which debuted in the U.S. on Universal Kids. Emily was also the puppeteer for ‘Slingy,’ Sling TV’s newest slinger in their new commercial campaign with a puppet built by Muppets veteran Tim Clarke. Emily has also performed theatrical
puppetry all over the country. Favorite credits have included Rudolph the RedNosed Reindeer at the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta and Gruff: An Eco-Puppet Musical with Doppleskope Theatre Company in New York City. Emily has been an MST3K fan since childhood and is beyond thrilled to be back on the road with the MST3K Live cast. emilykmarsh.com @emily.k.marsh Conor McGuffin Conor McGiffin is fulfilling a childhood dream to be a part of this hilarious show as Tom Servo. Hanging with Crow, Cambot, Gypsy, Emily, and the myth himself, Joel Hodgson, is the professional thrill of his life! He even got to write part of tonight’s festivities. He is a proud University of Michigan graduate, Dover High School graduate, and is one of 6 people in American history to have actually lived in Delaware. His most recent productions include GUYS AND DOLLS (Clear Space Productions), FINDING NEVERLAND (National Tour), A GENTLEMEN’S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER (National Tour), and THE GREAT CHEESY MOVIE CIRCUS TOUR (National Tour). You may have also seen him on Zoom trying to connect his headphones to the Bluetooth, or through a pair of binoculars from your van, you creep. To Mom, Dad, and Bridget, I love you all! Keep circulating the URL. See you in the Gizmoplex! Nate Begle Nate is a Puppeteer, Voice Actor and most importantly... a lifelong “MSTie”! Nate has puppeteered for film, TV, and stage. He has worked with The Jim Henson Company, Sesame Street, HBO, Universal Studios and The Walt Disney Company, where he opened WDW’s Muppet Show!
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His voice work includes commercials, animation, video games, audiobooks, e-learning, and he can currently be heard as the promo voice and announcer for The Wendy Williams Show! “MST3K is very much a part of who I am as a person and performer. It helped inform my sense of humor, and fed my love of movies, comedy and puppetry!” Nate’s passion has always been bringing characters to life. He is truly honored to return as Crow for the live show and beyond excited to also write and perform on the new 13th season! natebegle.com Instagram: @nate_begle. Twitter: @NateBegle. Yvonne Freese Yvonne Freese is ecstatic to be hitting the road again as new MAD Mega
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Synthia and sweet one-eyed purple GPC! Yvonne grew up on a dairy farm outside of Lanesboro, MN where her love of performing outgrew the audience of her animals, which landed her at Northern State University. Where she studied Music Ed and Musical Theater. When not on tour, Yvonne resides in Minneapolis where she has performed with a number of regional houses including; Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion, Pillsbury House, Stage’s Children’s Theater, Really Spicy Opera Co, Open Eye Theater, Science Museum of MN and Teatro del Pueblo. Thank you to all Msties everywhere for being the best fans! Follow her @yifreeze and www.yvonnefreese.com
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Kentucky Performing Arts presents
HEATHER LAND: THE AGE GAP TOUR Friday, November 12, 2021 • 8:00pm • The Kentucky Center-Bomhard Theater
Comedienne, author, and singer Heather Land tells it like it is with sarcasm and Southern charm. People are in love with her smart-alecky comedic wit that fuels her hysterical filter-faced “I Aint Doin it” videos, with over 300 million views. Heather’s stand-up comedy tours I Ain’t Doing It and Unfiltered, played to sold audiences out across the country, and fans loved her 2021 virtual comedy show A Quarantine Christmas. From failed diets to raising teenage kids in a blended family, Heather has seen it all and has the airbrushed T-shirts to prove it.
Her specialty is finding the funny in the frustrating and reminding us all to laugh at ourselves. She loves her people, good coffee, boho clothes, and good music. When she’s not on the road doing comedy shows, you can find her at home outside of Nashville, Tennessee, with her new husband and two amazing teenagers, writing music and enjoying her latest book, A Perfect 10: The Truth About Things I’m Not and Never Will Be. Learn more about Heather at heatherlandofficial.com.
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COMING SOON to KENTUCKY PERFORMING ARTS NOVEMBER 9 – 14
Waitress PNC Broadway in Louisville The Kentucky CenterWhitney Hall
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Swan Lake Louisville Ballet Robert Curran, choreographer Whitney Hall louisvilleballet.org
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Billy Prine & The Prine Band 7PM, Brown Theatre
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Schumann & Brahams Louisville Orchestra Classics Series 8PM, The Kentucky CenterWhitney Hall
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Louisville Orchestra Holiday POPS 8PM, The Kentucky CenterWhitney Hall
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NS2 and Kentucky Performing Arts present
BILLY PRINE AND THE PRINE TIME BAND with Special Guest Jason Wilber from the John Prine Band Thursday, November 18, 2021 • 7:00pm • The Brown Theatre
Billy Prine (the younger brother of John Prine) formed and led his first bar band in Chicago at the tender age of twelve. Chicago in the 1960’s and early 1970’s was wide open, just as FM radio was evolving, with all types of music, but especially the blues from the famed Chess Records and country music with the National Barn Dance, which was a precursor to the Grand Ole Opry. Growing up in such a rich musical city allowed Billy to develop his unique style of American roots music and absorb a
myriad of influences firsthand by seeing Buck Owens and the Buckaroos, The Rolling Stones and Chicago’s innumerable blues legends such as Howlin’ Wolf, Paul Butterfield, Muddy Waters, Michael Bloomfield, and many more. As any true child of the late 60’s and early 70’s, Billy headed west to California for several years before heading back east again with his thumb out in the wind catching rides back to Chicago. This unto itself is another education,
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which took him through the heartland and even as far south as New Orleans. But the call of family was strong and Billy served as his brother John Prine’s tour manager in the late 70s, which included hanging at Sam Phillips recording studio in Memphis, Tennessee in 1979 while John was recording his Pink Cadillac album with Knox and Jerry Phillips producing. Jerry and Knox’s father – the iconic Sam Phillips – stepped in to produce two tracks for the first time in years at the recording console. In the 1980s, he became one of the original bartenders at the world-famous Bluebird Café in Nashville, Tennessee when it opened in 1982. He was a deejay at the famous Nashville nightspot Chevy’s where he would stroll in for his shift in white tails and a white top hat spinning all the hip records. And while residing in Nashville, Billy would head back to Chicago to blow the doors off the joints there with his band Billy and the Bangers. Let’s revisit the early years – this is when Billy had the opportunity to see Johnny Cash when he was four years old. As the decade of the 60’s progressed, Billy witnessed Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Sergio Mendes and Brazil 66, Flatt and Scruggs, Ernest Tubb and his Texas Troubadours in concert, among others. All these influences along with the Beach Boys and early Fleetwood Mac would inform and influence the artist that Billy Prine is today. You can hear all these influences in his writing and performing while he truly remains his own man dedicated to the blues and country music. In the 1990s, Billy took his talents in A&R to Oh Boy Records where he curated and produced the series Live from Mountain Stage (the iconic and long-running radio 14
show from Charleston, West Virginia) for Blue Plate Records, which was distributed by Oh Boy Records. The 1990’s also found Billy as the overnight weekend deejay on Lightning 100 – WRLT100.1FM in Nashville. As the new millennium arrived and led into the 2010’s, Billy crafted his performing and songwriting in Nashville. This led to Billy’s new record, A Place I Used To Know, released on July 10, 2020, and produced by Michael Dinallo. The podcast Prine Time will feature various tracks from the EP and is sure to knock your socks off!
JASON WILBER Jason Wilber is an American singer, guitar player, songwriter, and recording artist. In addition to his work as a solo recording artist, he is also known as the long time lead guitar player for singersongwriter John Prine. Other artists Jason has accompanied live or in the studio include Iris Dement, Greg Brown, Tom Russell, Sheryl Crow, Mary Gauthier, Todd Snider, Simrit, Hal Ketchum, Tim Grimm, Krista Detor, Greg Trooper, Carrie Newcomer, Kim Fox, Bill Wilson, and Over the Rhine. Jason Wilber’s solo albums include Lost In Your Hometown (1998), Behind the Midway (2000), King For A Day (2004), Lazy Afternoon (2006), Live and Otherwise Volume 1 (2006), Ghost of Summers Past (2009), Live and Otherwise Volume 2 (2009), Secret Window (2014), Echoes (2016) and Reaction Time (2017). Jason Wilber’s work with John Prine includes the Grammy Award winning CD Fair & Square, and the Grammy nominated CDs Live On Tour and In Spite of Ourselves (which spent 32 weeks on the Billboard Country Charts). In addition to playing guitar on John
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Prine’s 2017 album For Better or Worse, Jason also served as a Co-Executive Producer. Jason has accompanied John Prine on duet recordings with Iris Dement, Allison Krauss, Susan Tedeschi, Emmylou Harris, Miranda Lambert, Kathy Mattea, Amanda Shires, Fiona Prine, Lucinda Williams, Josh Ritter, Patty Loveless, Lee Ann Womack, Connie Smith, Melba Montgomery, Morgane Stapleton, Kacey Musgraves, and Sara Watkins. From 2006-2016, Jason Wilber hosted the syndicated radio series, In Search of a Song, which featured long form interviews with singers, songwriters, musicians, and producers. Jason Wilber served as Co-Executive Producer on the compilation CD Coal Country Music featuring Willie Nelson, Gillian Welch, Ralph Stanley, Jason and
the Scorchers, Kathy Mattea, Justin Townes Earle, Natalie Merchant, Diana Jones, Tom T. Hall, Bonnie Raitt, John Prine, Jean Ritchie, and other artists, who all contributed their talents to benefit the Alliance for Appalachia’s work to stop Mountain Top Removal in rural Appalachia. Jason Wilber’s past TV and radio appearances include The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, The Colbert Report, Sessions At West 54th Street, The Grand Ole Opry, Live with Regis and Kathy Lee, CNN Entertainment Week, The Road, Mountain Stage, E-Town, Austin City Limits, and The Late Show with David Letterman.
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Live Nation and Kentucky Performing Arts present
TIM DILLON – A REAL HERO TOUR Saturday, November 20, 2021 • 7:00pm • The Brown Theatre
Tim Dillon is a Standup comedian, writer, and actor. He was a new face at the Montreal Comedy Festival in 2016. He won the title of New York’s Funniest 2016 at Carolines NY Comedy Festival. In 2017 he was name do the top ten comics you need to know by Rolling Stone magazine. He had two specials premiere in 2018, a Comedy Central Half Hour and a Netflix Quarter hour. He created and hosts Tim Dillon’s Real NY Tour which takes 16
the audience on a double-decker bus through Manhattan. He has performed at the Oddball Comedy Festival, the Glasgow Comedy Festival, SXSW, among others. He has been on the Chris Gethard show on Fusion, Gotham Comedy Live on AXS tv, Fox’s Red Eye, Tru TV’s Comedy Knockout, and season two of WYFD with Big Jay Oakerson on Seeso. He hosts a Podcast called The Tim Dillon Show.
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CRAFTING THE VERNACULAR November 20, 2021 – April 3, 2022 | Kentucky Museum of Art & Craft Material culture refers to the visual features of shared social space. The observable codes that we transmit through images, patterns, objects, architecture, clothing, hairstyles, and rituals are all elements of the collective, familial, and personal realities of society. Artists Ché Rhodes, SaraBeth Post, Corey Pemberton, Cedric Mitchell, Leo Tecosky, and Nate Watson all have a foundation working in the traditional craft vernacular of glassblowing. Likewise, they engage with expressive conditions for making art, in glass and other mediums, through the symbolic glass lenses of individual and collective experience in America. Ché Rhodes started the renowned glass art program at the University of Louisville in 2005 where he continues to educate and
innovate the medium. He studied glass production with the late artist Stephen Rolfe Powell at his studio at Centre College in Danville, KY. While Rhodes is a devoted practitioner and scholar of glassmaking traditions, he is also keen to explore new methods and tools that advance the capabilities for working with glass, incorporating new technologies, new concepts and frameworks for presenting glass as a creative material within institutions dedicated to contemporary art. Alongside friends and colleagues, Rhodes will present work that expands beyond glass into sculpture, jewelry, graffiti, painting and design. Catch the exhibit Nov. 20, 2021–April 3, 2022 at the KMAC Museum.
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ANNUAL SUPPORT Commonwealth of Kentucky, The Honorable Andy Beshear, Governor Tourism, Arts & Heritage Cabinet | The Honorable Mike Berry, Secretary | The Kentucky General Assembly Kentucky Performing Arts Foundation, as of 9/30/21.
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Marian & Thomas Hayden Mr. & Mrs. John Hayes James E. & Sarah Haynes Mr. James Hite Hays Ms. Beverly Hearn Mr. & Mrs. Hearn Mr. Ryan Hernandez Mr. William Herndon Joe & Kelly Hertzman Ms. Deborah Hibberd Cathy Hill Dr. Frederick K. Hilton Mr. & Mrs. Jason Hines Ms. Mary Jane Hoben Jonathan & Janet Hodes Mr. David Hogan Augusta Brown Holland & Gill Holland, Jr. Dr. John & Mrs. Christel Hollis Dr. Keith Hornung Rainer Hoyer Jalileah Huddleston Gary & Brenda Huntoon Dave & Rebekah Hussung Ms. Marybeth Irvine Anne Sunshine Ison Harry & Sherry Jacobson-Beyer Jeffrey & Margaret Jamner Caroline & Ben Jeffers Mr. & Mrs. William H. Jenkins Mrs. Anita Jones Sandra Jones Stephen & Mary Jones Chris & Ashley Kaelin Ian & Denise Kalina Charlie & Teresa Kamer Charles & Robyn Kane Ms. Peace Karalakulasingam Mr. & Mrs. Morton L. Kasdan Dr. Daniel Kean Mr. & Mrs. W.W. Benton Keith The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Kentucky Department of Education Kentucky Music Educators Association Kentucky State Parks** Ms. Mary Jane R. Kephart Dan & Sharon Kessler Dr. Nancy Kiesow-Webb & Dr. Chuck Webb Chris & Jessica Kipper Mr. Ray Kirkland Gerald & Dana Kirpes Ms. Ann B. Kirwan Mr. David Klaphaak Rolf Klein Marjorie & Robert Kohn Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Kosse Kroger Community Rewards Diane Kyle Mr. Eugene Lacefield & Ms. Mary Margaret Lowe Ms. Judith Landis Damon & Julie Lange Amy &. Sterling Lapinski Mr. Lance & Mrs. Marie Larsen
ANNUAL SUPPORT Mr. Dean Lause John & Lilia Lawson Pamela Leezer & Henry Harris Joe Lewis Kristy Lewis David & Phyllis Leibson LEO Weekly** LG&E & KU Services Company Ms. Anne Liechty Lincoln Trail Title Jerry Lindsey Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government Louisville Public Media** Louisville Tourism Mr. Todd P. Lowe & Ms. Fran C. Ratterman Ms. Diane Loy George Lucier Jim & Lois Luckett Mr. Robin Luckett Mr. James D. Ludwig Mr. & Mrs. Philip Lynch Robert Major Mr. & Mrs. Brian Manlove Mansbach Foundation Endowment Fund John & D’Ann Markert Tom & Joslyn Marksbury Ms. Jane Martin & Ms. Janet Childress Martha & Jerry Martin William & Sandra Martz Leolie & David Marquez Mr. Anthyun Mask Malinda & Billy Masterson Craig & Karen Matthews James Mauch & Sharon Smith Craig & Lauren Maxey Mr. Darrin & Ms. Becky McElroy Martha McLaughlin Lori & Michael Mehlbauer The Melcher Family Drs. Chris Mescia & Tricia J. Gray Mr. & Mrs. Barry P. Meyers Linda & David Miles Dave & Terri Miller Robert E. Milward Fund at Blue Grass Community Foundation Mr. William Mitchell Jack & Marilyn Monohan Ms. Biljana N. Monsky Mrs. Terri Montgomery Mr. Don & Mrs. Lisa Moore Jim & Chambers Moore Mrs. Pat Moremen Mountjoy Chilton Medley LLP Ms. Eleanor Bingham Miller Mr. & Mrs. R. Charles Moyer Marti & Hubert Mountz Mr. Glen E. Mowbray & Ms. Colette Crown Shivaram Muddappa Mrs. Patricia Muench Dr. Sean Muldoon Cynthia Murphy Martha Miracle Murphy Gloria Jean Murray Mr. Scott Murray Mr. Alan Nakamura
National Conference of Governor’s Schools Robert & Sharon Nesmith Mr. & Mrs. Theodore H. Nixon Esther Nnassanga Ms. Susan H. Norris The Norton Foundation, Inc. Nu-Yale Cleaners** Mr. & Mrs. Dan O’Brien Ms. Ann Ogden Mrs. Judith Olliges Mr. Kevin Olusola Doug & Shari Owen Mr. & Mrs. Gord Pageau Erin Palmer & Tyler Kinney Ms. Meredith Parente & Ms. Carol Mollman Annabelle Park Ms. Tara Parker Mr. & Mrs. Don E. Parkinson Adrian S. Partridge Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Payne Mr. Bryan Peck Ms. Lynn Pereira Mr. Tom Person & Mrs. Melissa Richards-Person Duane Peterson Tony Petrelli Ms. Judith N. Petty Mr. & Mrs. Michael Phelps PNC Bank PNC Broadway in Louisville/ Louisville Theatrical Society Mr. Stuart Pollard Henry & Sharon Potter Ms. Joy Potts Shane Powers Stephen D. Prather Mr. Mark Preischel Gordon & Patty Rademaker Dr. & Mrs. Julio Ramirez Mr. & Mrs. Teddy H. Redmon Tracy Redmon Rick & Becky Reed Ms. Linda Remington Kathleen Reno & Tom Payette Republic Bank Will & Becky Richards Bobby & Caroline Riede Ms. Tammy Rigney Mr. Thaddeus Riley Riverbend Financial Group RJE Business Interiors Mrs. Barbara Roberts Jonathan & Julie Roberts Mr. Stinson Robinson Laura Rogers Alan & Beatrice Rosenberg Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Rounsavall, III Mark & Kay Rountree Loy Rush Michael Schissler & Kristan Milam Ms. Stephanie Schaefer Chuck & Mary Ellen Schmidt Curtis & Ashley Rose Schneider Dr. Marilyn Schorin Rachael Scwhwartz Mr. Terry Schwartz Mr. Mason Scisco David C. Scott Foundation Fund
Ellen & Max Shapira Brett & Andrea Shepherd The Sherwin-Williams Company Mrs. Cindi Shrader Dr. & Mrs. Saleem Seyal Holly Sibrary & Stephen Belcher Lesa & Gregg Siebert Dr. Nicholas Silvestros Ms. Ruth Simons Danny & Amy Singleton Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Sireci Mr. & Mrs. Edward Skarbek Mr. & Mrs. Ted Sloan Drs. Kyle & Laura Slone Mr. & Mrs. Darin Smith Mr. Darrell Smith Jill Smith Irvin & Connie Smith Ms. Laura Smith Mollie Smith Snowy Owl Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Kenney M. Snell Tom & Cara Solley George & Karin Sonnier David & Rebecca Sourwine South Arts Dr. Charles Sowder Laura Spaulding Mr. & Mrs. Ryan Sprau Mr. Mitchell Stallsmith Mr. Robert Steinmetz & Mrs. Barbara Elliott Anna Stephens Ms. Sharon Stetter Dr. Don Stevens Stites & Harbison, PLLC Stock Yards Bank & Trust Co. Matthew Stone Drs. Catherine Newton & Gordon Strauss Mr. Jeff Stream Lindy Street Hunter & Audrey Strickler Dr. & Mrs. Gerald F. Sturgeon Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Sturgeon Scott Swalls Barbara & Richard Sweet Anne Swope Keith & Jennifer Tarter Bob Taylor & Linda Shapiro Mr. John Tederstrom & Mr. Mark Cannon Arthur & Mary Thacker The 10th Planet** Tessitura Network** Ms. Brenda Thompson Mac & Jessica Thompson Mr. & Mrs. Steve Thompson Mr. Christopher M. Todoroff Josh Toole Tourism, Arts & Heritage Cabinet Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky Trace3** Fernando Trevino Ms. Karen Troutman Dr. Mureena Turnquest & Dr. Kevin Wells Mrs. Melanie Twyman Bob & Vicky Ullrich
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University of Kentucky College of Design** University of Kentucky College of Fine Arts** University of Kentucky Office of the Provost** USI Insurance Services, LLC Mr. Randall Vaughn David & Susan Vislisel Mr. & Mrs. David Vogel Mrs. Kellie Vogt Mr. & Mrs. Mark Vogt The Voice-Tribune Volunteers of the Kentucky Center* Jim & Libby Voyles Ms. Jeanne D. Vuturo Brian Wallace & Nelda Lewis Wallace Karyn Walters, M.D. Charles & Nina Wardrip Water Energizers** Ann Waterman & Niles Welch Karyn Watters, M.D. Ms. Jennifer Love Webb Ms. Kristen Webb-Hill Nathan & Olivia Webb Mr. & Mrs. Greg Weishar Dr. & Mrs. Robert Weiss Welch Printing** Mr. James & Ms. Catherine Werner John & Marilyn Werst Melany Wessels Ms. Rebecca West WHAS 11** Mr. & Mrs. Stephen F. Wheeler Rick & Denise Whelan Mary Jo White & Tim Shull Lorraine Whitney Antonio Wickliffe P.J. Williams Patty & Jim Williamson Dr. Floyd T. Wilkerson Wilmes & Associates/Architects, PSC Mr. Benjamin Wiseman Eric & Elizabeth Witherspoon Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Wolff Mark Wood & Barbara Dejean Phoebe Wood Rev. Joan Wooden Ms. Grace Wooding Michael & Jeanne Wright David F. Young & Cheryl Cahill Yum! Brands, Inc. The Zamiska Family Dominic & Lisa Zangari Dr. Kenneth & Shelly Zegart Mr. Brian Zehnder & Ms. Melissa Rolf Dr. & Mrs. Nathan Zimmerman Ms. Susan G. Zepeda & Dr. Fred P. Seifer *Kentucky Performing Arts Volunteers’ value of donated time is more than $100,000 annually **In-Kind Donation
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KENTUCKY PERFORMING ARTS BOARD OF DIRECTORS Marianne Butler, Chair • Robert M. Klein, Vice-Chair Mary R. Nixon, Secretary • Gregory J. Bubalo, Treasurer Laura Melillo Barnum Eileen Cooke Brown Hannah L. Drake JP Davis Paula Harshaw
William H. Jones Kate Latts Joseph Leavell Patricia A. Mathison Bruce C. Merrick
Madeline Abramson Owsley Brown II (1942–2011) Wendell Cherry (1935–1991)
Gordon B. Davidson (1926–2015) C. Edward Glasscock
James K. Murphy Stephen T. Owen Lindy Street Rev. Dr. Valerie Washington Sarah Yarmuth
DIRECTORS EMERITI Robert W. Rounsavall, III Rose Lenihan Rubel (1922–2002)
KENTUCKY PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION, INC. BOARD OF DIRECTORS Todd Lowe, Chair Kim Baker, Vice-Chair • Leah Huddleston, Secretary • R.K. Guillaume, Treasurer J. Tim Galbraith Ankur N. Gopal Lillian Hunt Chris Kipper
Phil Lynch R. Charles Moyer Doug Owen Melissa Richards-Person
Eileen Saunders Felicia Cumings Smith Diane Tobin
Ruth Wimsatt Trautwein Lisa Zangari Cindy Zipperle
KENTUCKY PERFORMING ARTS EXECUTIVE STAFF Kim Baker President and CEO
Chris Kaelin Vice President, Operations
Heather Weston Bell Senior Vice President, Community Engagement
Will Richards Vice President, Facilities & Production
Dawn Driskell Vice President, Finance
Julie Roberts Vice President, Development & Advocacy
Rob Schmidlapp Vice President, Information Systems Christian Adelberg Vice President, Marketing & Communications
KENTUCKY PERFORMING ARTS ENCORE SOCIETY The Encore Society recognizes individuals who have demonstrated support for the long-term well-being of Kentucky Performing Arts with an estate gift or notification of their bequest intention or other planned gift.
The Honorable & Mrs. Jerry E. Abramson Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. Tom & Robbie Bell Ms. Jennifer L. Bobbitt Janet R. Dakan 20
Mrs. William Habich Mrs. Ada Lee Kane Mrs. Helen Lang Kathy Monin Mr. and Mrs. Don E. Parkinson Ms. Terry H. Sales A U D I E N C E
Sharon Sanak Ms. Helen Stockton Mrs. Murrel Straley Jeanne D. Vuturo Jennifer Love Webb
CORPORATE AND FOUNDATION SUPPORT We salute the following organizations for their support of Kentucky Performing Arts:
B. J. KILLIAN FOUNDATION
THE GHEENS FOUNDATION
Welch Printing
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KENTUCKY PERFORMING ARTS SERVICES TICKETS For complete event information and to order tickets by phone, call Kentucky Performing Arts Ticket Service at (502) 584-7777 or order tickets online at KentuckyPerformingArts.org. Kentucky Performing Arts Ticket Service’s hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Saturday, and 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday. Drive-thru ticket service is open 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday. Tickets purchased by phone and online are subject to service charges. On performance dates, the ticket office is open one-half hour past curtain time. Gift certificates are available in any dollar amount at the Box Office and are not redeemable for cash. MAIN PHONE NUMBER (502) 562-0100 PARKING More than 2,000 parking spaces offer direct access to The Kentucky Center from Sixth St. The elevators located in the garage will take you to the main lobby. You may also enter the Riverfront Garage from Fourth or Sixth Sts. Level C of the garage also will give you direct access to the main lobby. At the Brown Theatre, parking is available in the lot across from the theatre, and parking garage entrances are located on Third St., north of Broadway or on Fourth St., north of Broadway. At Old Forester’s Paristown Hall, parking is available in the neighboring Swan Street and Vine Street lots. FACILITIES RENTAL From a wedding reception to a convention, Kentucky Performing Arts’ venues, The Kentucky Center, the Brown Theatre and Old Forester’s Paristown Hall, are the perfect place to “stage” your event. For more information, contact Stacey Hallahan, shallahan@kentuckyperformingarts.org. KPA DONORS Kentucky Performing Arts donors receive a variety of benefits, including buying tickets before the public, priority seating, and no handling fees. For more information, contact (502) 566-5144 or visit SUPPORT KPA on our website. For Corporate Membership benefits, contact Julie Roberts at (502) 562-0100, Ext. 105, or jroberts@kentuckyperformingarts.org. VOLUNTEERS The Volunteer Program offers the public a chance to be a part of the great events at The Kentucky Center, the Brown Theatre and Old Forester’s Paristown Hall. To volunteer, contact the Volunteer Hotline at (502) 566-5141. 22
COURTESY • As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members, please turn off all audible message systems. • The emergency phone number to leave with babysitters or message centers are (502) 566-5128 (The Kentucky Center) and (502) 566-5188 (The Brown Theatre). • Be sure to leave your theater and seat number for easy location. • Cameras and recording devices are not allowed in the theaters. • Latecomers will be seated at appropriate breaks in the program, as established by each performing group. Please be considerate of your fellow audience members during performances. Please remain seated after the performance until the lights are brought up. • Children should be able to sit in a seat quietly throughout the performance. • To properly enforce fire codes, everyone attending an event, regardless of age, must have a ticket. ACCESSIBILITY Wheelchair accessible seating at Kentucky Performing Arts venues is available on every seating and parking level, as well as ticket counters and personal conveniences at appropriate heights. FM and infrared hearing devices are available to provide hearing amplification for patrons with hearing disabilities in all spaces of The Kentucky Center, the Brown Theatre, and Old Forester’s Paristown Hall, including meeting spaces. Audio Description is available for selected performances for patrons who are blind or have low vision. Caption Theater is available for selected performances as a service for patrons who are deaf or hard of hearing. Program materials are available in large-print from your usher. Please make reservations for services at the time you purchase your ticket through the Box Office to ensure the best seating location for the service requested. Call (502) 566-5111 (V), 711 (TRS), or email access@kentuckycenter.org for more information about the range of accessibility options we offer, or to receive this information in an alternate format.
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Calling all Kentucky artists! Home, not to be taken for granted Claudia Hammer (Louisville)
Harvest Time Sallie Clay Lanham (Frankfort)
Beauties of the Bluegrass Linda Pierce (Hopkinsville)
Sir Sean Connery Allyson Coffren (Fort Thomas)
The Gathering Mikey Winsor (Lexington)
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