Kentucky Performing Arts | December 2019

DECEMBER 2019

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Straight No Chaser– The Open Bar Tour December 1 Whine Down with Jana Kramer and Mike Caussin December 5 Over the Rhine December 12 Joan Shelley December 13 A Charlie Brown Christmas Live On Stage December 15

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Straight No Chaser The Open Bar Tour The Kentucky Center-Whitney Hall............. 6

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Whine Down with Jana Kramer & Michael Caussin The Kentucky Center-Bomhard Theater...... 8 Over the Rhine The Kentucky Center-Bomhard Theater.... 10 Joan Shelley The Kentucky Center-Bomhard Theater.... 12 A Charlie Brown Christmas Live on Stage Brown Theatre.......................................... 15

Staff and Support........................................................... 21 Theatre Services .............................................................. 30

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NEW SPACES & MEANINGFUL EXPERIENCES

Hello Fellow Lovers of the Arts!

For 36 years, The Kentucky Center served as a beacon for the arts in our region. But we are more than a building or simply an organization. Our name, “The Kentucky Center,” does not reflect the breadth of what we do.

This is why we are now changing our name to Kentucky Performing Arts. Both inside our venues and out in the community, Kentucky Performing Arts seeks to better the artistic vibrancy of our region by creating new spaces and meaningful experiences that help connect people to the community to build lifelong relationships with the arts.

Our iconic building is merely a part of our larger mission. And we have evolved in recent years to better fulfill that mission. In 2018, we expanded beyond our Main Street building when The Kentucky Center Foundation purchased the historic Brown Theatre.

Then, in July of this year, we expanded again by opening our brand new 2,000 person standing room venue, Old Forester’s Paristown Hall.

This family of venues – The Kentucky Center, The Brown Theatre and Old Forester’s Paristown Hall – is a reflection of our commitment to the arts and to the people in our region – providing spaces that offer a multitude of experiences to satisfy any artistic or musical taste. In addition, our Education and Community Arts efforts increase access by bringing the arts to every corner of the Commonwealth.

While the names of our venues are not changing, there will be one change in the way you purchase tickets. Tickets are still sold in The Kentucky Center building, by phone at 584-7777, but now online sales are available directly through our new website, KentuckyPerformingArts.org.

We encourage people to visit the new website to engage, participate and connect through the arts. We invite you to come, be moved by all the arts has to offer. This is an exciting time as we march into the future with a new vision, while always staying true to our mission of building lifelong relationships with the arts.

Kim Baker, President and CEO, Kentucky Performing Arts

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Glenview Trust Enriching Life Series

STRAIGHT NO CHASER-THE OPEN BAR TOUR Sunday, December 1, 2019 • 7:00pm • The Kentucky Center-Whitney Hall

If the phrase “male a cappella group”

conjures up an image of students in blue blazers, ties, and khakis singing traditional college songs on ivied campuses... think again. Straight No Chaser (SNC) are neither strait-laced nor straight-faced, but neither are they vaudeville-style kitsch. They have emerged as a phenomenon with a massive fanbase, numerous national TV appearances and proven success with CD releases. Straight No Chaser is the 6

“...nine unadulterated human voices coming together to make extraordinary music...” real deal, the captivating sound of nine unadulterated human voices coming together to make extraordinary music that is moving people in a fundamental sense... and with a sense of humor. On the road, Straight No Chaser has built a reputation as an unforgettable live act.

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Kentucky Performing Arts presents WHINE DOWN with JANA KRAMER & MICHAEL CAUSSIN Thursday, December 5, 2019 • 8:00pm • The Kentucky Center-Bomhard Theater

Jana Kramer is an American actress

and an ACM award winning country music singer. She is known for her role as Alex Dupre on the television series One Tree Hill. She made her acting debut in an independent horror film Dead/ Undead. The following year, Kramer guest appeared on All My Children, 8

which marked Kramer’s television debut.

Kramer has since continued to appear in a number of television shows such as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice, CSI: NY, and recurring roles on NBC’s Friday Night Lights, CW’s 90210, and HBO’s dramedy television series Entourage. Kramer went on to

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“In May 2018, Kramer launched her podcast with iHeartRadio Whine Down with Jana Kramer and Michael Caussin where she shares advice and chats everything from motherhood, relationships and beyond with her cohost and husband Michael Caussin” pursue her film career and landed roles in Click, Prom Night. She then went on to star in Country Crush and 20th Century Fox’s feature Heart of the Country.

Most recently, Kramer can be seen on Hallmark Channel’s Love at First Bark and Lifetime’s Christmas in Mississippi.

Kramer began her musical career in 2012 releasing her debut album Jana Kramer

followed by her sophomore album Thirty One in 2015. Seven of her singles charted on Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay, including the top 10 platinum selling hits “Why Ya Wanna” and “I Got the Boy”. Kramer was nominated for an ACM award for ‘Best Female Vocalist of the Year’ and won ‘New Female Vocalist of the Year’ by the Academy of Country Music in 2016.

In May 2018, Kramer launched her podcast with iHeartRadio Whine Down with Jana Kramer and Michael Caussin where she shares advice and chats everything from motherhood, relationships and beyond with her cohost and husband Michael Caussin.

The couple splits time between Los Angeles and Nashville with their two children Jolie and Jace.

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91.9 WFPK presents

OVER THE RHINE Thursday, December 12, 2019 • 8:00pm • The Kentucky Center-Bomhard Theater

One December, not long after Over the

Rhine began recording and touring, we were invited to perform some seasonal songs on a public radio station in Cincinnati. It was Christmastime and apparently they thought we were up to the task. We worked up a few carols and traditional tunes and Karin even read a poem by Thomas Hardy called, The Oxen.

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It actually felt really good and conjured up an unusual mix of feelings from childhood: innocence, loss, wonder, joy, sadness. I think we were surprised.

People must have tuned into the radio broadcast, because we began receiving inquiries as to whether we had recorded any of our Christmas songs. I don’t think

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we had considered it at the time, but any young, struggling songwriter is open to the suggestions of the marketplace, and people were persistent.

In December of 1996 – can it really be over 20 years ago? – we recorded and released our first song cycle of some of the Christmas carols that still haunted us. We included a few original tunes and called our wintry mix The Darkest Night Of The Year. We played a special “darkest night” release concert on winter solstice in an old theater in Cincinnati. Folks began snatching up copies and seemed to agree that they hadn’t heard anything quite like it.

We began playing concerts around the Midwest every December and found that the rooms were usually packed full of people who had bundled in out of the cold with prized compatriots. Hats and scarves abounded. If you stepped outside during intermission, you could make ghosts with your breath in the crisp night air. And it was dark – oh so dark: a time of year with its own music.

A decade later, in 2006, we released our first full collection of original Christmas/ holiday songs called Snow Angels. What is it about Christmas music and the undeniable gravitational pull it exerts on some songwriters? So many Christmas songs had already been written. I think we were genuinely curious about the ones that hadn’t yet been written.

We continued to tour every December and these special year-winding-down concerts began to feel like an annual tradition – gatherings of extended musical family, without whom, we’d be homeless.

By the time we released our third holiday album of original songs, Blood Oranges In The Snow, in December of 2014, Karin suggested we had discovered a new genre of music: Reality Christmas.

“So many Christmas songs had already been written. I think we were genuinely curious about the ones that hadn’t yet been written.”

It’s true: if you’ve buried a loved one, or lost a job, or battled a chronic illness, that stuff doesn’t go away during the holidays. It can be a complicated season for many of us.

And then there’s family.

When Karin and I make the annual holiday pilgrimage home to visit family and pull into the driveway and turn off the car, one of us inevitably looks over at the other and says, “Tie a rope around my waist, I’m goin’ in.”

In 2019, more than twenty years after releasing our first holiday CD, we are still at it. This year, we will be leaning into three-part harmonies and making an intimate but hopefully holy ruckus.

It won’t be all Christmas music: we’ll certainly mix in tunes from many of our records along the way. But hopefully it’s still true: hopefully you haven’t heard anything quite like it.

Maybe a midnight snow will fall and turn each streetlight into its own private snow globe. Maybe, regardless of whatever reality Christmas brings, we’ll hear a faint echo of a song once rumored to have been sung by angels, a song of peace on earth, goodwill toward all…

We’ve never heard anything quite like it.

We hope you’ll join us, Linford Detweiler With Karin close by Nowhere Else Clinton County, Ohio

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91.9 WFPK presents

JOAN SHELLEY with special guest JAKE XERXES FUSSEL Friday, December 13, 2019 • 8:00pm •The Kentucky Center-Bomhard Theater

Joan Shelley is a songwriter and singer

who lives near Louisville, Ky., not far from where she grew up. Like the River Loves the Sea is her fifth album. She draws inspiration from traditional and traditionally-minded performers from her native Kentucky, as well as those from Ireland, Scotland, and England, but she’s not a folksinger. Her disposition 12

“...her work instead wrestles with the possibility of reconciling, if only for a moment, the perceived “natural” world with its reflection...in the human heart, mind, and footprint.” aligns more closely with that of, say, Roger Miller, Dolly Parton, or her fellow Kentuckian Tom T. Hall, who once

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explained—simply, succinctly, in a song—“I Witness Life.”

She’s not so much a confessional songwriter, although Like the River… gets closest to such subjectively emotional impressions as perhaps any album to date, and she sings less of her life and more of her place: of landscapes and watercourses; of flora and fauna; of seasons changing and years departing and the ineluctable attempt of humans to make some small sense of all—or, at best, some—of it. Her perspective and performances both have been described, apparently positively, as “pure,” but there’s no trace of the Pollyanna and there’s little of the pastoral, either: her work instead wrestles with the possibility of reconciling, if only for a moment, the perceived “natural” world with its reflection—sometimes, relatively

speaking, clear; other times hopelessly distorted—in the human heart, mind, and footprint.

Since the 2015 release of her album Over and Even, Shelley has crossed the country and toured Europe several times as a headlining artist, sharing shows with the likes of Jake Xerxes Fussell, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Doug Paisley, Daniel Martin Moore, the Other Years, and Michael Hurley. She has opened for Wilco, Chris Smither, Andrew Bird, and Richard Thompson. Jeff Tweedy produced her previous record at The Loft in Chicago.

She’ll be familiar to readers of guitarcentric magazines for having appeared, in the same season, on the covers of Fretboard Journal and Acoustic Guitar.

She’ll be doubtless more familiar to more listeners in the wake of Like the River Loves the Sea.

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Kentucky Performing Arts presents

A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS LIVE ON STAGE Sunday, December 15, 2019 • 1:30 and 5:00pm • Brown Theatre

Everyone’s favorite holiday classic comes to life in the all-new touring production A Charlie Brown Christmas Live On Stage.

Join Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus, and the whole Peanuts gang as they produce their own Christmas play and ultimately learn the true meaning of the season. A Charlie Brown Christmas Live On Stage is a present the whole family can enjoy! Adapted from Charles M. Schulz’s timeless story of the spirit of Christmas, A Charlie Brown Christmas

Live On Stage features the unforgettable music of Vince Guaraldi, as well as a concert of beloved holiday carols performed by the Peanuts characters.

There’s no better way to discover the magic of the season!

ABOUT CHARLES M. SCHULZ Source: www.SchulzMuseum.org

On the morning of Sunday, February 13, 2000, newspaper readers opened their comic pages as they had for nearly fifty

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years to read the latest adventures of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the rest of the Peanuts Gang. This Sunday was different, though; mere hours before newspapers hit doorsteps with the final original Peanuts comic strip, its creator Charles M. Schulz, who once described his life as being “one of rejection,” passed away peacefully in his sleep the night before.

It was a poetic ending to the life of a devoted cartoonist who, from his earliest memories, knew that all he wanted to do was “draw funny pictures.”

the day, including the highly-stylized illustrations of Dick Tracy and Little Nemo in Slumberland. Newspaper editors in the late 1940s and ’50s, however, promoted a post-War minimalist model, pushing their cartoonists to shrink strip size, minimize pen strokes, and sharpen their humor with daily gags and cerebral humor for an ever-increasingly educated audience.

Schulz’s dry, intellectual, and self-effacing humor was a natural fit for the evolving cultural standards of the mid-20th century comics.

The poetry of Schulz’s life began two days after he was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 26, 1922, when an uncle nicknamed him “Sparky” after the horse Spark Plug from the Barney Google comic strip. Sparky’s father, Carl, was of German heritage and his mother, Dena, came from a large Norwegian family; the family made their home in St. Paul, where Carl worked as a barber.

Throughout his youth, father and son shared a Sunday morning ritual reading the funnies; Sparky was fascinated with strips like Skippy, Mickey Mouse, and Popeye. In his deepest desires, he always knew he wanted to be a cartoonist, and seeing the 1937 publication of his drawing of Spike, the family dog, in the nationallysyndicated Ripley’s Believe It Or Not newspaper feature was a proud moment in the young teen’s life.

He took his artistic studies to a new level when, as a senior in high school and with the encouragement of his mother, he completed a correspondence cartoon course with the Federal School of Applied Cartooning (now Art Instruction Schools).

Two monumental events happened within days of each other in 1943 that profoundly affected the rest of Schulz’s life; his mother, to whom he was very close, passed away at age 50 from cervical cancer, and he boarded a troop train to begin his army career in Camp Campbell, Kentucky. Though Schulz remained proud of his achievements and leadership roles in the army for the rest of his life, this period of time haunted him with the dual experiences of the loss of his mother and realities of war.

As Schulz continued to study and hone his artistic style from the late 1920s through the 1940s, the genre of comic art experienced a great shift. The fullpage comics of the 1920s and ’30s afforded artists the space to reflect the Art Deco details and sensibilities of 16

After returning from the war in the fall of 1945, Schulz settled with his father in an apartment over Carl’s barbershop in St. Paul, determined to realize his passion of becoming a professional cartoonist.

He found employment at his alma mater, Art Instruction; sold intermittent onepanel cartoons to The Saturday Evening Post; and enjoyed a three-year run of his weekly panel comic, Li’l Folks, in the local St. Paul Pioneer Press. These early published cartoons focused on concise drawings of precocious children with large heads who interacted with words and actions well beyond their years. Schulz was honing his skills for the national market. The first Peanuts strip appeared on October 2, 1950, in seven newspapers nationwide. Although being a professional cartoonist was Schulz’s life-long dream, at 27-years old, he never could have foreseen

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the longevity and global impact of his seemingly-simple four-panel creation.

The continuing popular appeal of Peanuts stems, in large part, from Schulz’s ability to portray his observations and connect to his audience in ways that many other strips cannot. As each character’s personality has been fleshed out over the years, readers came to intimately understand Linus’ attachment to his Security Blanket, Charlie Brown’s heartache over the Little Red-Haired Girl, Schroeder’s devotion to Beethoven, Peppermint Patty’s prowess in sports and failure in the classroom, and Lucy’s knowledge of…well…everything. The rise in Snoopy’s popularity in the 1960s had a direct correlation to his evolution from a four-legged pet to a two-legged, highlyimaginative and equal character in the strip, which allowed Schulz to take his storylines in increasingly new directions.

today, the Peanuts Gang continues to entertain and inspire the young and the young at heart.

ABOUT BILL MELENDEZ & LEE MENDELSON Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Mendelson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Melendez

Television producer and filmmaker Lee Mendelson approached Charles M. Schulz in the early 1960s with the idea of producing a documentary on the writer and his Peanuts comic strip. Schulz, who had enjoyed Mendelson’s documentary on Willie Mays, readily agreed. The 1965 documentary, Charlie Brown & Charles Schulz, was the beginning of a 30-year collaboration between Schulz and Mendelson.

While Mendelson was attempting to find a market for the Schulz documentary, he was approached by the Coca-Cola

Schulz’s understated genius lay in his ability to keep his well-known and comfortable characters fresh enough to attract new readers while keeping his current audience coming back for more.

His humor was at times observational, wry, sarcastic, nostalgic, bittersweet, silly, and melancholy, with occasional flights of fancy and suspension of reality thrown in from time to time. When Schulz announced his retirement in December 1999, the Peanuts comic strip was syndicated in over 2,600 newspapers worldwide, with book collections translated in over 25 languages.

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Company, who asked him if he was interested in producing an animated Christmas special for television. Indeed he was, and he immediately contacted Schulz in regards to using the Peanuts characters. Schulz in turn suggested hiring animator and director Bill Melendez, with whom Schulz had worked while creating a Peanuts-themed advertising campaign for the Ford Motor Company. Melendez was the only person Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz trusted to turn his popular comic creations into television specials.

After a hurried six-month production period, A Charlie Brown Christmas aired for the first time on December 9, 1965, on CBS. The show went on to win both the Emmy and Peabody Awards, and was the first of more than 40 animated Peanuts specials created by Mendelson, Melendez, and Schulz.

ABOUT VINCE GUARALDI Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Guaraldi

Vincent Anthony “Vince” Guaraldi was an American jazz pianist noted for his innovative compositions and arrangements and for composing music for animated television adaptations of the Peanuts comic strip. While searching for music to accompany a planned Peanuts television documentary, Lee Mendelson heard a single version of Guaraldi’s hit,

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“Cast Your Fate to the Wind,” on the radio.

Mendelson contacted Ralph J. Gleason, jazz columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, and was put in touch with the composer. Mendelson proposed that Guaraldi score the upcoming Peanuts Christmas special, and Guaraldi enthusiastically took the job, performing a version of what became “Linus and Lucy” over the phone two weeks later.

The soundtrack was recorded by the Vince Guaraldi Trio, with drummer Jerry Granelli and bassist Fred Marshall. Guaraldi went on to compose scores for seventeen Peanuts television specials, as well as the 1969 feature film A Boy Named Charlie Brown.

ABOUT ERIC SCHAEFFER Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Schaeffer

Eric Schaeffer is an American actor, writer and director. After graduating with a degree in drama and dance from Bard College, he drove a New York City taxi for nine years, during which time he wrote two stage plays, a novel, twenty screenplays, and various other works. Schaeffer is best known for his independent film, My Life’s in Turnaround (1993), which was made in fifteen days for only $200,000. In 2012, he adapted the stage version of A Charlie Brown Christmas, based on the television special.

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Anonymous Mr. John Abel & Mrs. Nancy Smith Dr. & Mrs. Jesse Adams Dr. Kandis Adkins Mr. & Mrs. William Altman Bill & Sibylla Banks Ms. Becky Becherer Josh & Megan Bentley Hon. Steve Beshear Mrs. Edith S. Bingham Allen Blanc Roofing Mrs. Ann Leah Blieden Ms. Eloise Boarman Mrs. Elaine Bornstein Mike & Paula Britsch Ms. Dace Brown Mr. Dan Burke James and Karen Campbell Dennis & Joyce Cardwell Mr. Joseph Chambers Ann & Stewart Cobb Family Fund Commonwealth Bank and Trust Co. Mr. Thomas Conley Ms. Christine Deeble Dr. & Mrs. John W. Derr Jr. Ms. Clarice Denoux Mr. Christopher Dischinger Mr. Andrew Jay Douds & Mr. David Mawn William & Christi Dukes Eric Eatherly Ms. Donna Embry Ms. Catherine Emrick Dr. Robin Fankhauser Mr. Chuck & Ms. Beth Fitch Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Finnegan Ms. Beverly Hearn Mr. & Mrs. Jason Hines Rainer Hoyer Dan Forte & Chris Schuster Dr. Brent Garrett & Mrs. Glenda Marker Linda & Jerry Grasch Andrew & Holly Greene Michael & Martha Hardesty Jerry Abramson, matched by Hardscuffle, Inc. Herman & Gail Harrington Cathy Hill Dr. John and Mrs. Christel Hollis Anne Sunshine Ison Jeffrey & Margaret Jamner Stephen & Mary Jones Ms. Karen L. Keith Dan & Sharon Kessler Ms. Ann B. Kirwan Damon & Julie Lange Mr. Lance & Mrs. Marie Larsen Mr. Dean Lause

ANNUAL SUPPORT David & Phyllis Leibson Jerry Lindsey Ms. Diane Loy Mr. Robin Luckett Mr. Albert Lyons & Mrs. Margaret Brandt Mary Magsanoc-Deoki & Parsana Deoki John & D’Ann Markert Tom & Joslyn Marksbury Ms. Madelyn Buzzard Mees The Melcher Family Dave & Terri Miller Mr. Anthony Mires Ms. Biljana N. Monsky Jason & Shannon Montgomery Mrs. Terri Montgomery Marti & Hubert Mountz Mr. Glen E. Mowbray & Ms. Colette Crown Mr. David Mudd Dr. Sean Muldoon Esther Nnassanga Caroline Nourse & Ben Jeffers Bryan Peck Mr. & Mrs. Michael Phelps Stephen D. Prather Mr. & Mrs. Brian Manlove Drs. Catherine Newton & Gordon Strauss Annabelle Park Ms. Judith N. Petty Henry & Sharon Potter Mr. and Mrs. Teddy H. Redmon Ms. Linda Remmington Mr. Thaddeus Riley Chuck & Mary Ellen Schmidt Curtis & Ashley Rose Schneider Bijaya Shrestha & Josh Shock Mrs. Cindi Shrader Danny & Amy Singleton Dr. Nicholas Silvestros Mr. & Mrs. Darin Smith George & Karin Sonnier Laura Spaulding Mr. Mitchell Stallsmith Ms. Bobbie Stelle Mr. David Steinberger Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Sturgeon Anne Swope The 10th Planet** Mac & Jessica Thompson Mr. & Mrs. Steve Thompson Mr. & Mrs. David Vogel The Voice-Tribune Brian Wallace & Nelda Lewis Wallace Ms. Kristen Webb-Hill Mr. James & Ms. Catherine Werner P.J. Williams Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Wolff Mark Wood & Barbara Dejean Dr. Eric Woodroof Michael & Jeanne Wright

$250 - $499

Anonymous Doug & Kelly Abney Mr. Kevin Addington In Memory of Alan L. Adelberg Walter E. App & Donna W. Tilson Dr. & Mrs. Joe F. Arterberry Ms. Sheila and Mr. Adam W. Ashley Ms. Joanne G. Bader

Ms. Lourdes Christine Baez Dr. Eric Baker & Dr. Tara Odle-Baker Mark & Kathy Barrens Mr. & Mrs. Donald Baxter Barry Bernson Beth Ward Studios** Mr. Jacob A. Bortell Turney P. Berry & Kendra D. Foster Mr. & Mrs. Keith Board Ms. Lolita Bonds Mr. & Mrs. James W. Boone Laura Lee Brown & Steve Wilson Terry & Sara Burd Mr. Jack & Mrs. Barbara Butorac Mrs. Karen Byrley Mr. Scott Caro Keith & Rene Cartwright Mr. Charles T. Cauble Marica Chacona Jennifer & Ben Chandler John Clark Greg & Susan Cohen Stacey Combs Dan & Donna Cooper Mr. John B. Corso Mr. & Mrs. Denver Cornett III Mr. Nick Covault Ms. Karen Cozine Malvina & Thomas Craig Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Czor Ms. C.S. Dalgleish Dr. Deborah Davis Shaista Deshmukh Louis Deluca & Victoria Faoro Stephen & Theresa Diebold Norman Dixon & Patrick Owen Eric & Claudette Doyle Ms. Laurie Duesing Ms. Karen Dunn Mrs. Maria J. Eckerle Mr. Michael Eckstein Mr. & Mrs. John Elder Ms. Gay Ellison Patience Elsner Mr. Glenn Epperson Mr. & Mrs. Michael Erickson Dr. Robert Esterhay & Ms. Ruth Mattingly Dr. Vilma Fabre LaVonne & Brian Fingerson Mr. & Mrs. Gregg Fowler Ms. Melissa Gaddie Mr. & Mrs. Jim Gaffney Mr. & Mrs. Gene Gardner Donna Geddes Sheldon & Nancy Gilman Dr. & Mrs. Richard Goldwin Patrick & Jody Hamilton Mr. & Mrs. John W. Hampton Mr. Bill Harned Mr. Hood Harris Pamela Harris Ms. Susan Harrison & Mr. Paul Reid Mr. & Mrs. William Harrison Marian Hayden Mr. & Mrs. John Hayes Mr. Joseph Hertzman Hilton Garden Inn Louisville Downtown** Ms. Deborah Hibberd Ms. Mary Jane Hoben Mrs. Diane Hobscheid

Mr. David Hogan Dr. Keith Hornung Mr. Gary Huntoon Harry & Sherry Jacobson-Beyer Mrs. Anita Jones Mr. Christopher Kaelin Ian & Denise Kalina Charlie & Teresa Kamer Charles & Robyn Kane Danielle Kannapell Ms. Peace Karalakulasingam Mr. & Mrs. Morton L. Kasdan Dr. Daniel Kean Kentucky State Parks** Ms. Mary Jane R. Kephart Dr. Nancy Kiesow-Webb & Dr. Chuck Webb Mr. Ray Kirkland Gerald & Dana Kirpes Mr. David Klaphaak Marjorie & Robert Kohn Mr. Eugene Lacefield & Ms. Mary Margaret Lowe Ken Lampton Ms. Judith Landis Mr. & Mrs. Sterling Lapinski John & Lilia Lawson Mr. Joseph Lewis Ms. Anne Liechty Dr. Bertina Lin Lincoln Trail Title Jim & Lois Luckett Mr. James D. Ludwig Ms. Jane Martin & Ms. Janet Childress Mr. Anthyun Mask Craig & Karen Matthews James Mauch & Sharon Smith Mr. William Mitchell Linda and David Miles Ms. Ann Thomas Miller Steve & Pat Miller Robert E. Milward Fund at Blue Grass Community Foundation Jack & Marilyn Monohan Jacqueline Montgomery Mr. David Moody Mr. Benjamin Moore Mr. Don & Mrs. Lisa Moore James & Chambers Moore Mrs. Pat Moremen Ms. Patricia Muench Cynthia Murphy Gloria Jean Murray Mr. Alan Nakamura Robert & Sharon Nesmith Ms. Susan H. Norris Norton Healthcare Mr. & Mrs. Dan O’Brien Mrs. Judith Olliges Mr. & Mrs. Gord Pageau Erin Palmer & Tyler Kinney Ms. Tara Parker Adrian S. Partridge Ms. Cara Patrick Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Payne Mrs. Anna Pennington Ms. Lynn Pereira Ms. Robyn Peterman Duane Peterson Mr. J. Anthony Petrelli Bernard & Rita Polzin

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Ms. Joy Potts Gordon & Patty Rademaker Dr. & Mrs. Julio Ramirez Tracy Redmon Kathleen Reno & Tom Payette Will & Becky Richards Bobby & Caroline Riede Mr. Stinson Robinson Alan & Beatrice Rosenberg Mark & Kay Rountree Loy Rush Ms. Stephanie Schaefer Theodore Schatzki Mr. Terry Schwartz Mr. Mason Scisco Dr. & Mrs. Saleem Seyal Ellen & Max Shapira Ms. Valerie Shelton Brett & Andrea Shepherd Holly Sibrary and Stephen Belcher Ralna and Gregory Simpson Mr. & Mrs. Edward Skarbek Mr. Ted and Mrs. Ronda Sloan Drs. Kyle & Laura Slone Mr. Darrell Smith Ms. Laura Smith Mr. & Mrs. Kenney M. Snell Dr. Charles Sowder Mr. Robert Steinmetz & Mrs. Barbara Elliott Ms. Shawna Stomberger Dr. & Mrs. Gerald F. Sturgeon Mr. Terry D. Sutton Bob Taylor & Linda Shapiro Ms. Sharon Stetter Dr. Don Stevens Mr. & Mrs. Brian Stevenson Mr. Chris & Mrs. Emily Stewart Barbara & Richard Sweet Mr. John Tederstrom & Mr. Mark Cannon Ms. Brenda Thompson Fernando Trevino Earl & Barbara Trevor Ms. Karen Troutman Mrs. Melanie Twyman Mr. Charles Ullrich Mr. Randall Vaughn David & Susan Vislisel Mrs. Kellie Vogt Mr. Jim Wagner Ann Waterman & Niles Welch Karyn Watters, M.D. Ms. Jennifer Love Webb Dr. Mureena Turnquest & Dr. Kevin Wells Melany Wessels Ms. Rebecca West Mr. & Mrs. Stephen F. Wheeler Mary Jo White & Tim Shull Lorraine Whitney Dr. Floyd T. Wilkerson Patty & Jim Williamson Wilmes and Associates/Architects, PSC Phoebe Wood Rev. Joan Wooden Ms. Grace Wooding Dr. Kenneth & Shelly Zegart Ms. Susan G. Zepeda & Dr. Fred P. Seifer *Value of donated time from Kentucky Center Volunteers **In-Kind Donation

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KENTUCKY PERFORMING ARTS BOARD OF DIRECTORS Bruce Ferguson, Chair Kristen Webb Hill, Vice-Chair • Mary R. Nixon, Secretary • Daniel Woodside, Treasurer Lourdes Baez Laura Melillo Barnum Eileen Cooke Brown Marion C. Forcht Sandra Frazier

Donna Hall Paula Harshaw Jeff Kosse Kate Latts Angela Leet

Bruce Merrick Doug Owen Libby Parkinson Lindy Street Tierra Kavanaugh Wayne

DIRECTORS EMERITI Madeline Abramson Owsley Brown II (1942–2011) Wendell Cherry (1935–1991)

Gordon B. Davidson (1926–2015) C. Edward Glasscock

Robert W. Rounsavall, III Rose Lenihan Rubel (1922–2002)

KENTUCKY PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION, INC. BOARD OF DIRECTORS Phil Lynch, Chair Kim Baker, Vice-Chair • Leah Huddleston, Secretary • R.K. Guillaume, Treasurer Phillip Allen Philip Eschels Maggie Faurest Bruce Flannery

J. Tim Galbraith Ankur Gopal Lillian Hunt Chris Kipper

Todd Lowe Barry Meyers R. Charles Moyer Melissa Richards-Person

Carolyn Tandy Ray Wallace Hollis Weishar Lisa Zangari

KENTUCKY PERFORMING ARTS EXECUTIVE STAFF

Kim Baker Heather Weston Bell Terri Montgomery Amber A. Halloran Julie Roberts Christian Adelberg

President and CEO Senior Vice President, Programming, Events & Education Senior Vice President, Human Resources Chief Operating Officer Vice President, Development 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 The Kentucky Center with an estate gift or notification of their bequest intention or other planned gift.

The Kentucky Center wishes to honor and acknowledge the following for initiating the Encore Society with their extraordinary generosity:

The Honorable & Mrs. Jerry E. Abramson Anonymous Ms. Jennifer L. Bobbitt Janet R. Dakan

Mrs. William Habich Mrs. Ada Lee Kane Mrs. Helen Lang Mr. and Mrs. Don E. Parkinson A U D I E N C E

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Eats The restaurants below are certified and recommended by Audience as premium places for pre-show dinner, drinks or mingling. Let them know we sent you!

Area of Town

Restaurant Name

Reservations

Phone

Address

Notes

Downtown

Repeal Oak-Fired Steakhouse

Yes

(502) 716-7372

101 West Main St.

New steakhouse worth trying and great location.

Downtown

Jeff Ruby’s Steakhouse

Yes

(502) 584-0102

325 West Main St. (Galt House Hotel)

Premium steaks & seafood

Downtown

Bristol Bar & Grille

Yes

(502) 582-1995

614 West Main St.

Wide variety of local favorites

Downtown

Walker’s Exchange

Yes

(502) 272-1834

140 N. 4th St. (Galt House Hotel)

Casual Southern Contemporary

Crescent Hill

Pat’s Steakhouse

Yes

(502) 893-2062

2437 Brownsboro Rd.

Premium steaks since 1958

Crescent Hill

Porcini Restaurant

Yes

(502) 894-8686

2730 Frankfort Ave.

Fine Northern Italian cuisine

Highlands

Jack Fry’s

Yes

(502) 452-9244

1007 Bardstown Rd.

High-end Southern fate & cocktails

Check out our full list of preferred restaurants at Audience502.com

Whiskey Row’s exclusive oak-fired steaks and rare bourbon selection awaits you.

REPE ALLOUISVI LLE .COM

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CORPORATE AND FOUNDATION SUPPORT We salute the following organizations for their support of Kentucky Performing Arts:

B. J. KILLIAN FOUNDATION

THE GHEENS FOUNDATION

JAMIE PARSLEY FAMILY FOUNDATION

KEENELAND FOUNDATION

THE NORTON FOUNDATION

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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 (800) 775-7777, or order tickets online at kentuckycenter.org. Kentucky Performing Arts Ticket Service’s hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Saturday, and noon to 5 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.

INFORMATION HOTLINE (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.

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, call (502) 566-5146.

MEMBERSHIP Membership to Kentucky Performing Arts offers a variety of benefits, including buying tickets before the public, priority seating, and no handling fees. For more information, contact (502) 566-5159 or visit SUPPORT on our website. For Corporate Membership benefits, contact (502) 566-5137.

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 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 is (502) 562-0128.

Be sure to leave your theater and seat number for easy location.

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• Binoculars are now for rent in the lobby for select performances. Rental is $5 per binocular. An ID must be left as a deposit.

• C ameras and recording devices are not allowed in the theaters.

• L atecomers 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 and Brown Theatre, 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), (502) 566-5140 (TTY) 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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WOODFORD RESERVE KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY, 45.2% ALC. BY VOL., THE WOODFORD RESERVE DISTILLERY, VERSAILLES, KY. WOODFORD RESERVE IS A REGISTERED TRADEMARK. ©2019 BROWN-FORMAN. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

QUALITY IS WHAT WE ARE JUDGED AGAINST. IF WE AREN’T GREAT, NOTHING ELSE MATTERS. A U D I E N C E

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