Audience | Kentucky Center Presents | June 2019 | Steve Earle, Paul Thorn, Rob Bell, Iyanla Vanzant

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PROGRAM Steve Earle & The Dukes The Kentucky Center-Bomhard Theater............7 The Paul Thorn Band with Special Guest Scott Miller The Brown Theatre..................................13 Rob Bell: An Introduction to Joy The Brown Theatre.................................18 Iyanla Vanzant: Acts of Faith Remix Tour The Brown Theatre.................................21

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WELCOME! “I am not throwing away my shot!”

-Hamilton And we will certainly not be throwing away our shot as PNC Broadway in Louisville brings the much-anticipated musical phenomenon to The Kentucky Center this month. Exciting events like this are just part of the story as The Center kicks off an amazing summer.

As you’ve surely seen, we are just weeks away from the opening of Old Forester’s Paristown Hall, our new 2,000 standing room venue located in the historic Paristown Pointe neighborhood. The first group of performances was recently announced and includes a unique blend of iconic bands, punk-rockers, singer-songwriters, cutting-edge dance and well-known local artists that truly set the stage for the caliber of performers this new venue will bring to the city and the region.

In addition to the performances you see in this book, we have a number of big events coming to The Kentucky Center and Brown Theatre, including Louisville Orchestra presenting and performing Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire™ in Concert, some big names in the world of magic performing amazing illusions on the Whitney Hall stage in The Magic and the Wonder and Kentucky to the World presenting an amazing conversation with multi-platinum hip-hop music engineer (and Kentucky native) Finis “KY” White.

Outside of our walls, The Center’s educational outreach continues to build lifelong relation- ships with the arts. In June and July, we are partnering with the Kentucky Department of Education to serve hundreds of teachers from Kentucky public schools with Arts Academies throughout the Commonwealth. This month, our award-winning Governor’s School for the Arts gets underway at the University of Kentucky. GSA and its faculty of professional teaching artists guides more than two hundred-fifty of Kentucky’s finest young artists through three weeks of incredibly intense (and incredibly fun) arts instruction.

Of course, GSA creates opportunities far beyond arts instruction. Eighteen colleges and universities welcome GSA alums with scholarships, just for having completed the program.

It is fair to say this will be a monumental summer for The Kentucky Center and for our community. We appreciate you being a part of it. By being here tonight, you are supporting The Kentucky Center’s mission, helping us continue to provide a place for everyone to learn, grow and build a lifelong relationship with the arts.

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91.9 WFPK presents

Steve Earle & The Dukes Tuesday, June 4, 2019 • 7:30 p.m. • The Kentucky Center-Bomhard Theater

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teve Earle, a man who doesn’t mind telling a story, was talking about the first thing Guy Clark ever said to him.

“It was 1974, I was 19 and I had just hitch-hiked from San Antonio to Nashville,” Earle said in mid-Texas-cumGreenwich Village drawl. “Back then if you wanted to be where the best songwriters were, you had to go to Nashville.

There were a couple of places where you could get on stage, play your songs.

They let you have two drafts, or pass the hat, but you couldn’t do both. If you were from Texas, and serious, Guy Clark was a king. Everyone knew his songs, ‘Desperados Waiting For A Train,’ ‘LA Freeway,’ he’d been singing them before they came out on Old No. 1 in 1975.”

“So I was pretty excited when I went into the club and the bartender, a friend of mine says, ‘Guy’s here.’ I wanted him to hear me play. I was doing some of my

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earliest songs, ‘Ben McCullough’ and ‘The Mercenary Song.’ But he was in the pool room and when I go in there the first thing he says to me is `I like your hat.’”

While it was a pretty cool hat, Earle remembers, “worn in just right with some beads I fixed up around it,” Clark did eventually hear his songs. A few months later he was playing bass in Guy’s band.

“Now, I am a terrible bass player... but I was the kid, and that was what the kid did. I took over for Rodney Crowell.

At that time Gordon Lightfoot’s ‘Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald’ was a top ten hit, which was amazing, a six and half minute story song on the radio. So Guy said, ‘we’re story song writers, why not us?’ So we went out to cash in on the big wave.”

The success of “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” was not replicated, but Earle reports that being the 19-yearold bass player in Guy Clark’s band was “a gas.” At least until Earle went into a bar and left the bass in the back seat of his VW bug, from which it was promptly stolen. “It was a nice Fender Precision bass that belonged to Guy, the kind of thing that would be worth ten grand now. He wasn’t so happy about that.”

More than forty years later, Steve Earle, just turned 64, no longer wears a cowboy hat. “It was more than all the hat acts,” Steve contended. “My grandmother told me it was impolite to wear a hat indoors.”

As for Guy Clark, he’s dead, passed away in 2016 after a decade long stare-down with lymphoma. But Earle wasn’t ready to stop thinking about his friend and mentor. “No way I could get out of doing 8

this record,” Steve said when we talked over the phone from Charlotte, North Carolina, that night’s stop on Earle’s ever peripatetic road dog itinerary. “When I get to the other side, I didn’t want to run into Guy having made the Townes record and not one about him.”

Townes van Zandt (subject of Earle’s 2009 Townes) and Guy Clark were “like Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg to me,” Steve said. The mercurial Van Zandt (1944-1997) who once ordered his teenage disciple to chain him to a tree in hopes that it would keep him from drinking, was the On The Road quicksilver of youth. Clark, 33 at the time Earle met him, was a longer lasting, more mellow burn.

“When it comes to mentors, I’m glad I had both,” Earle said. “If you asked Townes what’s it all about, he’d hand you a copy of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. If you asked Guy the same question, he’d take out a piece of paper and teach you how to diagram a song, what goes where. Townes was one of the all-time great writers, but he only finished three songs during the last fifteen years of his life. Guy had cancer and wrote songs until the day he died...He painted, he built instruments, he owned a guitar shop in the Bay Area where the young Bobby Weir hung out. He was older and wiser.

You hung around with him and knew why they call what artists do disciplines.

Because he was disciplined.”

“GUY wasn’t really a hard record to make,” Earle said. “We did it fast, five or six days with almost no overdubbing. I wanted it to sound live...When you’ve got a catalog like Guy’s and you’re only doing

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sixteen tracks, you know each one is going to be strong.”

When he was making Townes, Earle recorded “Pancho and Lefty” first; it was a big record, covered over by no less than Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and Bob Dylan. “You had to go into the bar and right away knock out the biggest guy in the room,” Earle recalled.

With GUY it was a different process.

Clark didn’t have that one career-defining hit, but he wasn’t exactly unknown.

“Desperados,” “LA Freeway” were pre“Americana” style hits. “New Cut Road” charted for Bobby Bare and was recorded

by Johnny Cash. “Heartbroke” was a # 1 country record for Ricky Skaggs in 1982.

But when you added it up, Clark’s songs wove together into variegated life tapestry, far more than the sum of the parts.

Earle and his current, perhaps bestever, bunch of Dukes take on these songs with a spirit of reverent glee and invention. The tunes are all over the place and so is the band, offering max energy on such disparate entries as the

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bluegrass rave-up “Sis Draper” and talking blues memoir of “Texas 1947.”

Earle’s raw vocal on the sweet, sad “That Old Time Feeling” is heartbreaking, sounding close enough to the grave as to be doing a duet with his dead friend.

You can hear little hints of where Earle came from. The stark “Randall Knife” has the line “a better blade that was ever made was probably forged in Hell,” which wouldn’t be out of place in a Steve Earle song. Also hard to beat is “The Last Gunfighter,” a sardonic western saga to which Earle offers a bravura reading of the chorus: “the smell of the black powder smoke and the stand in the street at the turn of joke.”

But in the end GUY leads the listener back to its beginning, namely Guy Clark, which is what any good “tribute” should do.

Indeed, it was a revelation to dial up a video of Guy Clark singing “Desperados Waiting For A Train” on Austin City Limits sometime in the 1980’s. Looking as handsome as any

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man ever was in his bluegrass suit and still brown, flowing hair, Clark sings of a relationship between a young man and an older friend. Saying how the elder man “taught me how to drive his car when he was too drunk to,” the young narrator describes a halcyon fantasy in which he and friend were always “desperados waiting for a train.” As time passes, however, the young man despairs. To him, his friend is “one on the heroes of this country.” So why is he “dressed up like some old man?”

Steve Earle delivers these lines well, as he always does. But the author of “Guitar Town,” “Copperhead Road,” “Transcendental Blues” and a hundred more masterpiece songs, would be the first to tell you it is one thing to perform “Desperados Waiting For Train” and another to be its creator. There are plenty of covers better than the original.

But “Desperados...” will forever reside with Guy Clark, the songwriter singing his song, just him and his guitar. That is the main thing GUY has to tell you: to remember the cornerstone, never forget

where you came from. There was another reason, Earle said, he couldn’t “get out of” making GUY. “You know,” he said, “as you live your life, you pile up these regrets. I’ve done a lot of things that might be regrettable, but most of them I don’t regret because I realize I couldn’t have done anything else at the time.”

“With GUY, however, there was this thing. When he was sick–he was dying really for the last ten years of his life–he asked me if we could write a song together. We should do it ‘for the grandkids,’ he said. Well, I don’t know... at the time, I still didn’t co-write much, then I got busy. Then Guy died and it was too late. That, I regret.”

Earle didn’t think making GUY paid off some debt, as if it really could. Like the Townes record, Guy is a saga of friendship, its ups and downs, what endures. It is lucky for us that Earle remembers and honors these things, because like old friends, GUY is a diamond.

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91.9 WFPK presents

The Paul Thorn Band with Special Guest Scott Miller Thursday, June 20, 2019 • 7:30 p.m. • The Brown Theatre

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life in music, coming back to my gospel roots,” says Paul Thorn about his newest album, Don’t Let the Devil Ride. “My message on this record is ‘let’s get together’—I want to help lighten your load and make you smile.”

The son of a preacher man, Mississippi- raised Thorn spent much of

his childhood in church, participating in multiple weekly services with his father as well as at neighboring African American congregations, where he became entranced with the music whose infectious spirit is captured on the new album.

Don’t Let the Devil Ride collects soulful songs originally cut by black southern gospel groups, and features

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guests Blind Boys of Alabama, the McCrary Sisters, the Preservation Hall Jazz Horns, and Bonnie Bishop.

The album was recorded at three temples of sound: the Sam C. Phillips Recording studio, whose namesake gave another son of Tupelo his start; at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, where Thorn worked as a songwriter for legendary producer Rick Hall early in his career; and at Preservation Hall, where horn players from the celebrated jazz venue lent songs a New Orleans vibe.

The new release marks Thorn’s first time recording gospel music, after a dozen albums in roots-rock mode, though his upbringing has previously been reflected in his creation of a body of strikingly original songs. In his own songwriting, Thorn often addresses the foibles of human relationships, although he doesn’t favor the sacred over the profane.

As an accomplished painter, former professional boxer, and seasoned skydiver, Thorn has never shied away from new challenges, but cutting a gospel record was just like going home.

Thorn’s father Wayne was a bishop in the Church of God of Prophecy, a Pentecostal denomination, and Thorn was just three when he began singing and playing tambourine at services.

Congrega-tional participation was valued more than skilled soloists, and Thorn also found a showcase for his talents at Saturday night “singings.”

But his most memorable musical experiences were at an African American branch of his father’s church, the Okolona Sunrise Church of Prophecy.

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“There might be ten people playing the tambourine, but the rhythm was locked in, and they’d let me play bass. I loved the Appalachian gospel of my parents’ church, but it was a treat to play with those musicians. They worshiped in a different way and the music was different, and I feel blessed to have been in that church setting.” The sermons in Church of God of Prophecy churches warned sinners of fire and brimstone, and it wasn’t uncommon for congregants to speak in tongues. But the lasting legacy for Thorn wasn’t a strong sense of guilt, as it was for many others who grew up in Pentecostal churches. “I think that they use guilt to intimidate you, but I don’t buy into that anymore. There ain’t no love in that.”

Instead he continues to be inspired by the strong sense of communion that was fostered by musical fellowship. “One of things that I take a lot of pride in is that I love everybody, and what I learned in church paid dividends. When I’m up there entertaining it’s also a glimpse of what my life has been, and how gospel music has molded me into who I am.”

Thorn’s parents wouldn’t allow him listen to secular music at home (in his teens, he had to hide his only two LPs Elton John and Huey Lewis - from his father), so he listened at friends’ houses to KISS, Peter Frampton and the bawdy “chitlin’ circuit” comedy albums that he credits with inspiring the dark sense of humor that pervades his lyrics. But gospel music remains Thorn’s most abiding musical touchstone, the sounds that first stirred his soul.

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gospel artist Elvis Presley died– “the world stood still in Tupelo,” he recalls– and while the King’s records weren’t a major influence, Thorn emphasizes the similarity of their early experiences.

“Elvis literally went to a lot of the same churches I did. It’s almost identical how we started. When they filmed him from the waist up, it wasn’t vulgar, it was the moves he learned in church, dancing in the spirit.”

At 18 Thorn was caught sneaking out his bedroom window to romance a young neighbor, and his father presented the ultimatum of publicly repenting or “disfellowship” - losing his church membership. He chose the latter, and immediately took out a loan to buy a

trailer (where he lived ‘in sin’ with that girlfriend), landed a full-time job at a furniture factory, and joined the National Guard.

Tupelo presented few avenues for professional musicians, but Thorn soon met his longtime songwriting partner Billy Maddox, who had strong ties to the musical hub of Muscle Shoals. The duo began writing under contract for Rick Hall, owner of the legendary Fame Recording Studios, where Thorn cut demos of their songs.

As a performer, Thorn was playing solo gigs in Tupelo for $50 a night, and further supplemented his factory income with boxing. He learned to box from his paternal uncle Merle, a one-time pimp

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celebrated in “Pimps and Preachers,” Thorn’s autobiographical song about his two mentors: “One drug me through the darkness/One led me to the light/One showed me how to love/One taught me how to fight.”

Thorn would box fourteen professional fights (10-3-1) as a middleweight between 1985 and 1988, with his most prominent match against four-time World Champion Roberto Duran. He lasted a respectable six rounds before a doctor stopped the fight due to multiple cuts.

Although proud of his boxing career, Thorn says that he’s not surprised he’s achieved more success as a performer. “I went a long way in boxing, and got to fight one of the greatest, but the reason Duran beat me and everyone else was that he had the ability to relax under extreme pressure. When I was in the ring I was nervous and afraid, but when I’m on stage I’m comfortable. I’ve been singing in front of people all my life, and I know what I’ve got to do.”

The songs on Don’t Let the Devil Ride, co-produced by Billy Maddox and Colin Linden, likewise fall into that same comfort zone.

“We’re bringing Paul’s fans under the tent at a revival,” says Maddox, who likewise grew up listening to black gospel. “A lot of emotion goes on in those places, with people being saved while the band’s playing behind them.”

The exuberance of the music, says Thorn, evokes the warm-hearted nature of these social gatherings. “The first track, ‘Come On Let’s Go,’ it’s talking about going to church—that I can’t wait 16

to see you, and see you how you’ve you been doing,” says Thorn.

Few of the songs here are well known. Maddox found most of them while digging through releases from small gospel labels in Mississippi and Alabama. “We just picked things that had a great pocket,” he says. “One person described the feel as ‘gospel lyrics set to stripper music’ and that’s pretty close.

The songs are slinky and greasy and right in Paul’s wheelhouse.”

The most familiar track here is no doubt Thorn’s relaxed tempo version of the O’Jays “Love Train,” a song whose feel-good qualities readily adapt to a gospel setting. The Mighty Clouds of Joy, whose records Thorn listened to as a teen, made it a staple of their live performances.

The other songs stretch back much farther, but their themes–of redemption, taking stock of one’s life, and resilience in the face of troubles–are universal, making them readily adaptable to the fresh takes here. Nashville’s McCrary Sisters, for instance, lend a buoyant feel to “You Got to Move,” a northeast Mississippi standard, best known through a solemn, slide guitar take by Mississippi Fred McDowell.

The sisters’ father was a founder of the Fairfield Four, a capella gospel singers whose live radio broadcasts on CBS in the ‘40s and ‘50s were extremely influential. Fellow guest artists the Blind Boys of Alabama, founded in 1944, were founders of the “hard gospel” quartet style that dominated the era from which many of the songs on this record where

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drawn. Also joining Thorn on vocals is Texas-born Bonnie Bishop, who attributes her soulful singing style to spending her formative years in Mississippi. Both Maddox and Thorn were longtime friends with Hall and the Phillips family, and Maddox says that recording in Memphis and Muscle Shoals was a natural extension of the whole process, and the only proper way to honor this particular body of work.

“We were returning to the Motherland.”

Rick Hall died in January of 2018, making the whole experience that much more poignant for Thorn and co-producer Maddox.

“The last time I saw Rick he came into the FAME studio to say hello,” Maddox recalls. “We invited him to sit down and listen to the playback of a track we’d just finished. He closed his eyes and leaned over the console as the music played.

“About halfway through the tune he turned the monitors down, looked me right in the eye and said, ‘What have you done?’ I asked him what he meant.

Then he got this big grin on his face and said, ‘Well, that sounds just like me.’

That moment validated everything about this record for me and Paul.”

Produced by The Kentucky Center and Production Simple.

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AC Entertainment presents

Rob Bell: An Introduction to Joy Saturday, June 22, 2019 • 8 p.m. • The Brown Theatre

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ob Bell is the New York Times best-selling author of Love Wins, What We Talk About When We Talk About God, The Zimzum of Love, How To Be Here and What is the Bible?. His podcast, called The RobCast, is the #1 spirituality podcast and iTunes named it Best of 2015. He’s been profiled in the New Yorker, toured with Oprah, and in 2011 Time Magazine named him one of the 18

100 Most Influential People in the World. He has a regular show at Largo, the legendary comedy and music club in Los Angeles, where he lives with wife Kristen and their three children.

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Mills Entertainment and The Kentucky Present

Iyanla Vanzant: Acts of Faith Remix Tour Saturday, June 29, 2019 • 8 p.m. • The Brown Theatre

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yanla Vanzant, internationally acclaimed Spiritual Life Coach, New York Times Best-Selling Author, and Emmywinning television personality, returns to the stage with the Acts of Faith Remix Tour, a landmark inspirational and interactive event celebrating the 25th anniversary updated release of this internationally acclaimed best-selling book.

The encouragement, inspiration and faith-building wisdom found within the “little purple book” goes from page to stage as Iyanla, with her signature straighttalk, love and humor, gifts her diverse audience with the healing of their hearts, the empowerment of their minds, and the stirring of their souls. This national tour will travel to thirty-plus cities to

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bring the beloved thought leader up-close and in-person to her dedicated fans.

Best known for her eponymous hit talk show, best-selling books and audios, and her numerous appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Iyanla is the host and executive producer of Iyanla: Fix My Life, the number one unscripted show on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network (#1 original series on all of TV broadcast and cable among African American Women 25-54 and Women 18+).

“People often ask me — what is faith?” says Iyanla. “Faith is not believing, trying, or hoping. Faith is the internal knowing that motivates you to act! Faith produces doers who are obedient to their inner voice. Faith builds the endurance we need to face life’s trials.

Today, it’s not enough to read and reflect. That’s why I’m doing the Acts of Faith Remix Tour to challenge us to go forth and become ‘faith-in-action’ world-changers.”

Acts of Faith: Daily Meditations for People of Color is published by Simon & Schuster and is available for purchase at all booksellers.

About Iyanla Vanzant Iyanla Vanzant is the host and executive producer of OWN’s acclaimed and award-winning series, Iyanla: Fix My Life. She is one of the country’s most celebrated writers, public speakers, and among the most influential, socially engaged, and acclaimed spiritual life coaches of our time. Dedicated to facilitating the growth and evolution of

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human consciousness, Iyanla’s body of work spans over three decades and includes 18 published books, 6 New York Times best-sellers (translated into 23 languages and with sales exceeding twelve million copies), CDs, television, radio and stage performances. Her most recent book, the 25th anniversary edition of Acts of Faith is a celebrated international classic. When not writing or appearing on television, Iyanla lectures and facilitates workshops nationally and internationally. With her no-nonsense approach and underlying message of, “live better by loving yourself,” Iyanla has ignited a universal flame of personal transformation.

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Annual Support Dan Forte & Chris Schuster Dr. Brent Garrett & Mrs. Glenda Marker Linda & Jerry Grasch Mr. Jan Grayson Andrew & Holly Greene Michael & Martha Hardesty Jerry Abramson, matched by Hardscuffle, Inc. Herman & Gail Harrington Dr. John and Mrs. Christel Hollis Anne Sunshine Ison Jeffrey & Margaret Jamner Ms. Karen L. Keith Dan & Sharon Kessler Ms. Ann B. Kirwan Damon & Julie Lange Mr. Lance & Mrs. Marie Larsen Mr. Dean Lause David & Phyllis Leibson Ms. Diane Loy Mr. Robin Luckett Mary Magsanoc-Deoki & Parsana Deoki Malibu Jacks Beth & Richard Marchetti 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 Caroline Nourse & Ben Jeffers Mr. & Mrs. Michael Phelps Mike Porto & Kevin Moore Drs. Catherine Newton & Gordon Strauss Henry & Sharon Potter Ms. Linda Remington Chuck & Mary Ellen Schmidt Bjaya Shrestha & Josh Shock Mrs. Pamela Sirls Mr. & Mrs. Darin Smith George & Karin Sonnier Mr. Mitchell Stallsmith Ms. Bobbie Stelle Mr. David Steinberger Mr. Hunter Strickler Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Sturgeon The 10th Planet Ms. Stacy Tuttle Brian Wallace & Nelda Lewis Wallace Ms. Kristen Webb-Hill Mr. & Mrs. John J. Werst III Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Wolff Dr. Eric Woodroff Michael & Jeanne Wright $250 - $499 Doug & Kelly Abney Anonymous

Mr. Kevin Addington Mr. Jacob Allen Mr. & Mrs. William Altman Walter E. App & Donna W. Tilson Ms. Lourdes Christine Baez Ms. Nina Bain Dr. Eric Baker & Dr. Tara Odle-Baker Mark & Kathy Barrens Mr. & Mrs. Donald Baxter Barry Bernson Scott & Lisa Black Turner P. Berry & Kendra D. Foster Mr. & Mrs. Keith Board Mr. & Mrs. James W. Boone Ms. Margaret Brandt Mr. Samuel B. Brown Laura Lee Brown & Steve Wilson Robert E. Milward Fund at Blue Grass Community Foundation Terry & Sara Burd Mr. Jack & Mrs. Barbara Butorac Mrs. Karen Byrley Mr. Lee Cantrel Mr. Scott Caro Keith & Rene Cartwright Marica Chacona Jennifer & Ben Chandler John Clark Greg & Susan Cohen Stacey Combs Dan & Donna Cooper Mr. John B. Corso Core Fluency Pilates/Laura Blackburn Thomas & Malvina Craig Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Czor Ms. C.S. Dalgleish Katie E. Demos Ms. Laurie Duesing Ms. Karen Dunn Mrs. Maria J. Eckerle Mr. Michael Eckstein Mr. and Mrs. John Elder Patience Elsner Mr. Glenn Epperson Dr. Robert Esterhay & Ms. Ruth Mattingly Dr. Vilma Fabre LaVonne & Brian Fingerson Douglas & Cathi Ford Mr. & Mrs. Gregg Fowler Mr. & Mrs. Gene Gardner Donna Geddes Sheldon & Nancy Gilman Ms. Anne Glosky Dr. & Mrs. Richard Goldwin Mr. & Mrs. Steve Greenlaw Mr. & Mrs. John W. Hampton Mr. Bill Harned Pamela Harris Mr. & Mrs. William Harrison Mr. & Mrs. John Hayes Mr. Joseph Hertzman Ms. Mary Jane Hoben Mrs. Diane Hobscheid Mr. David Hogan Mr. Gary Huntoon

Harry & Sherry JacobsonBeyer Ms. Mary Jones Ryan & Caroline Jordan Mr. Christopher Kaelin Ian & Denise Kalina Charlie & Teresa Kamer Charles & Robyn Kane Mr. Patrick Kanewske Danielle Kannapell Mr. & Mrs. Morton L. Kasdan Michael & Jessica Kinnick Mr. Ray Kirkland Marjorie & Robert Kohn Mr. Eugene Lacefield & Ms. Mary Margaret Lowe Ken Lampton Ms. Judith Landis Mr. & Mrs. Sterling Lapinski Dr. & Mrs. Andrew Laurel John & Lilia Lawson Dr. Leonard Leight Mr. Joseph Lewis Ms. Anne Liechty Dr. Bertina Lin Anne Locke Jim & Lois Luckett Mr. James D. Ludwig Beth & Richard Marchetti Martha & Jerry Martin Craig & Karen Matthews James Mauch & Sharon Smith Mr. Kevin McDonald Ken & Cindy McFarland Mr. William Mitchell Linda and David Miles Ms. Ann Thomas Miller Steve & Pat Miller Jack & Marilyn Monohan Mr. David Moody Mr. Benjamin Moore James & Chambers Moore Mrs. Pat Moremen Mr. Anthyun Muask Jacqueline Montgomery Cynthia Murphy Dr. Gloria Murray Mr. Alan Nakamura Robert & Sharon Nesmith Kevin & Emily Nolan Norton Healthcare Mrs. Judith Olliges

Ms. Nancy Roberts Mr. Stinson Robinson Alan & Beatrice Rosenberg Mark & Kay Rountree Theodore Schatzki Curtis & Ashley Rose Schneider Ms. Shelby Schulten Mr. Terry Schwartz Mr. Mason Scisco Ms. Susan G. Zepeda & Dr. Fred P. Seifer Dr. & Mrs. Saleem Seyal Ellen & Max Shapira Mr. Richard W. Sharpe Ms. Valerie Shelton Brett & Andrea Shepherd Ralna and Gregory Simpson Trip & Tina Sizemore Mr. & Mrs. Edward Skarbek Mr. Darrell 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 Barbara & Richard Sweet Bob Taylor & Linda Shapiro Dr. Don Stevens Mr. & Mrs. Brian Stevenson Mr. Chris & Mrs. Emily Stewart Mr. John Tederstrom & Mr. Mark Cannon Ms. Brenda Thompson Mrs. Karen Thompson Mr. & Mrs. Steve Thompson Ms. Suzanne Thompson Fernando & Rebecca Trevino Earl & Barbara Trevor Ms. Karen Troutman Mrs. Melanie Twyman Mr. Charles Ullrich David & Susan Vislisel Ms. Kellie Vogt Mr. Jim Wagner Tom Waller Signature Homes Ann Waterman & Niles Welch Karyn Waters, 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 Dr. Floyd T. Wilkerson Ms. Grace Wooding Ms. Ann C. Wright & Mr. Richard W. Gasteiner, Jr. Dr. John C. Wright & Mrs. Kay Roberts Dr. Kenneth & Shelly Zegart

Mr. & Mrs. Gord Pageau Erin Palmer & Tyler Kinney Ms. Tara Parker Ms. Cara Patrick Mrs. Anna Pennington Ms. Lynn Pereira Ms. Robyn Peterman Ms. Judith Petty Bernard & Rita Polzin Jeri & Hans Poppe Mrs. Carrie Powers Gordon & Patty Rademaker Kathleen Reno & Tom Payette Mr. & Mrs. Teddy H. Redmon *Value of donated time from Will & Becky Richards Kentucky Center Volunteers Mr. Thaddeus Riley Mr. & Mrs. J. Daniel Rivers Mrs. Barbara Roberts

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The Kentucky Center Board of Directors Bruce Ferguson, Chair Marilyn Schorin, Vice-Chair • Mary R. Nixon, Secretary • Daniel Woodside, Treasurer Lourdes Baez Laura Melillo Barnum Ceci Conway Boden Al Cornish Scott Flynn

Marion C. Forcht Sandra Frazier Juliet Cooper Gray Donna Hall Kristen Webb Hill

Bruce Merrick Libby Parkinson Christopher M. Todoroff Tierra Kavanaugh Wayne Lawson Whiting

Directors Emeriti Madeline Abramson Owsley Brown II (1942–2011)

Wendell Cherry (1935–1991) Gordon B. Davidson (1926–2015) C. Edward Glasscock

Kentucky Center

for the

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

Arts Foundation, Inc.

Board of Directors Phil Lynch, Chair Kim Baker, Vice-Chair • Doug Owen, Secretary • Jeff Kosse, Treasurer Phillip Allen Philip Eschels Maggie Faurest Bruce Flannery Ankur Gopal Leah Huddleston

Lillian Hunt Benton Keith Barry Meyers R. Charles Moyer Melissa Richards-Person Felicia Cumings Smith

Carolyn Tandy Ray Wallace Hollis Weishar Lisa Zangari

Kentucky Center Executive Staff Kim Baker, President and CEO Heather Weston Bell, Senior Vice President, Programming, Events & Education Terri Montgomery, Senior Vice President, Human Resources Amber A. Halloran, Chief Operating Officer Julie Roberts, Vice President, Development Mike Porto, Vice President, Marketing & Communications

The Kentucky Center 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.

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Mrs. Helen Lang Mr. and Mrs. Don E. Parkinson Ms. Terry H. Sales Ms. Helen Stockton Mrs. Murrel Straley Jeanne D. Vuturo

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Foundation Support

We salute the following organizations for their support of The Kentucky Center.

B. J. Killian Foundation

The Gheens Foundation

Jamie Parsley Family Foundation

Keeneland Foundation

The Norton Foundation

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The Kentucky Center Services Tickets For complete event information and to order tickets by phone, call The Kentucky Center Ticket Service at (502) 584-7777 or (800) 775-7777, or order tickets online at kentuckycenter.org. The Kentucky Center 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, The Kentucky Center will “stage” your event. For more information, call (502) 566-5146.

Membership Membership to The Kentucky Center 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. 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.

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• 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.

• Binoculars are now for rent in the lobby for select performances. Rental is $5 per binocular.

An ID must be left as a deposit.

• 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 The Kentucky Center 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 largeprint 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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