Audience | Kentucky Performing Arts | October 2023

SEPT 29, 2023–JAN 7, 2024

AMERICAN ART FROM THE PRINCETON UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM

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Detail: Renee Cox, born 1960, Colgate, Jamaica; active New York, NY

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What an exciting time for the performing arts. What an exciting time to be a lover of the arts. Our 40th Anniversary season is underway and bursting at the seams with artistic experiences as we launch into a month packed with performances. In this magazine, you’ll see the breadth of shows Kentucky Performing Arts is proud to present — and that is just part of the picture. This month, Louisville Orchestra kicks off its season with the Family Series presentation Composing a Story at Old Forester’s Paristown Hall and the Coffee/Classics Series presentation Lasting Legacies, along with Pops Series Fright Night, at The Kentucky Center. Kentucky Opera brings the vivid, larger than life opera Hansel and Gretel to the Brown Theatre, featuring Kentucky Opera’s Youth Chorus. Plus, just in time for Halloween, StageOne Family Theatre presents the delightful story Bunnicula in the Bomhard Theater.

In the coming weeks, we are thrilled to herald the return of Dance Theatre of Harlem to Whitney Hall as part of our Brown-Forman Midnite Ramble Series, presenting a new vision for ballet in the 21st century. Entertainment Events presents the uproariously funny Late Nite Catechism in The Kentucky Center’s MeX Theater. Louisville Ballet’s haunting tale of love and betrayal, Giselle, takes center stage at the Brown Theatre. PNC Broadway in Louisville presents the amazing story of the one-and-only Tina – The Tina Turner Musical.

I encourage you to visit KentuckyPerformingArts.org to see the full calendar of events.

Thank you for joining us this evening. It is through your support that we are able to continue our work of connecting and inspiring through the arts. We hope that you will share your experience and encourage others to be a part of the exciting programming and events at The Kentucky Center, Brown Theatre, and Old Forester’s Paristown Hall that are as rich and diverse as the wonderful community we all share.

Enjoy the show!

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CHELCIE LYNN: 2 FINGERS AND A 12 PACK

Wednesday, October 4, 2023 | 7:00pm | The Kentucky Center – Bomhard Theater

Chelcie Lynn is a comedian, actress, and internet personality extraordinaire. She started building a fan base in 2014 when her sketches featuring her alter ego, "Trailer Trash Tammy" went viral. Her videos have since gained hundreds of millions of views across the internet and have launched her career on screen and in comedy touring. She was named one of Variety’s Top 10 comics to watch in 2021.

Her inaugural stand-up comedy tour, The Tammy Tour: One Trailer Park At A Time, sold out in 2021. Chelcie continued

her cross-country tour in 2022 & 2023 selling out shows. Festivals she was involved with were hosting the Tailgates & Tallboys Festivals and appearing at the Netflix Is A Joke: The Festival. She can be seen in the Duplass Brothers feature film Tangerine as ‘Madame Jillian’ and starred in the digital series Coach Von Pidgeon for Funny or Die & Facebook Watch.

Chelcie will be appearing in the upcoming feature film SWEET DREAMS starring Johnny Knoxville, Mo Amer, and Kate Upton.

PAT METHENY

Friday October 6, 2023 | 8:00pm | The Kentucky Center

Pat Metheny was born in Lee's Summit, MO on August 12, 1954 into a musical family. Starting on trumpet at the age of 8, Metheny switched to guitar at age 12. By the age of 15, he was working regularly with the best jazz musicians in Kansas City, receiving valuable on-thebandstand experience at an unusually young age. Metheny first burst onto the international jazz scene in 1974.

Over the course of his three-year stint with vibraphone great Gary Burton, the young Missouri native already displayed his soon-to-become trademarked playing style, which blended the loose and flexible articulation customarily reserved for horn players with an advanced rhythmic and harmonic sensibility — a way of playing and improvising that was modern in conception but grounded

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deeply in the jazz tradition of melody, swing, and the blues.

With the release of his first album, Bright Size Life (1975), he reinvented the traditional "jazz guitar" sound for a new generation of players.

Throughout his career, Pat Metheny has continued to redefine the genre by utilizing new technology and constantly working to evolve the improvisational and sonic potential of his instrument.

Metheny's versatility is nearly without peer on any instrument. Over the years, he has performed with artists as diverse as Steve Reich to Ornette Coleman to Herbie Hancock to Jim Hall to Milton Nascimento to David Bowie. Metheny’s body of work includes compositions for sologuitar, small ensembles, electric and acoustic instruments, large orchestras, and ballet pieces and even the robotic instruments of his Orchestrion project, while always sidestepping the limits of any one genre.

As well as being an accomplished musician, Metheny has also participated in the academic arena as a music educator. At 18, he was the youngest teacher ever at the University of Miami. At 19, he became the youngest teacher ever at the Berklee College of Music, where he also received an honorary doctorate more than twenty years later (1996).

He has also taught music workshops all over the world, from the Dutch Royal Conservatory to the Thelonius Monk Institute of Jazz to clinics in Asia and South America. He has also been a true musical pioneer in the realm of electronic music, and was one of the very first jazz musicians to treat

the synthesizer as a serious musical instrument. Years before the invention of MIDI technology, Metheny was using the Synclavier as a composing tool. He also has been instrumental in the development of several new kinds of guitars such as the soprano acoustic guitar, the 42-string Pikasso guitar, Ibanez’s PM series jazz guitars, and a variety of other custom instruments.

It is one thing to attain popularity as a musician, but it is another to receive the kind of acclaim Metheny has garnered from critics and peers. Over the years, Metheny has won countless polls as "Best Jazz Guitarist" and awards, including three gold records for (Still Life) Talking, Letter from Home, and Secret Story. He has also won 20 Grammy Awards spread out over a variety of different categories including Best Rock Instrumental, Best Contemporary Jazz Recording, Best Jazz Instrumental Solo, Best Instrumental Composition at one point winning seven consecutive Grammies for seven consecutive albums. In 2015 he was inducted into the Downbeat Hall of Fame, becoming only the fourth guitarist to be included (along with Django Reinhardt, Charlie Chrisitan and Wes Montgomery) and it’s youngest member. Metheny has spent much of his life on tour, often doing more than 100 shows a year since becoming a bandleader in the 70’s. At the time of this writing, he continues to be one of the brightest stars of the jazz community, dedicating time to both his own projects and those of emerging artists and established veterans alike, helping them to reach their audience as well as realizing their own artistic visions.

AN EVENING WITH DAVID SEDARIS

Tuesday, October 17, 2023 | 7:30pm | Brown Theatre

David Sedaris is one of America’s pre-eminent humor writers. He is a master of satire and one of today’s most observant writers.

Beloved for his personal essays and short stories, David Sedaris is the author of Barrel Fever, Holidays on Ice, Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, When You Are Engulfed in Flames, Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls, and Calypso, which was a Washington Post Best Book of the Year. He is the author of Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary, a collection of fables with illustrations

by Ian Falconer. He is also the author of an essay length ebook titled Themes and Variations.

Each of these books was an immediate bestseller. He was also the editor of Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules: An Anthology of Outstanding Stories. His pieces regularly appear in The New Yorker and have twice been included in “The Best American Essays.” The first volume of his diaries Theft By Finding: Diaries (1977-2002) was a New York Times best-selling book. As a companion piece to the book, Jeffrey Jenkins published and edited an art book of Sedaris’s diary

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covers, entitled David Sedaris Diaries: A Visual Compendium.

His book, The Best of Me (Little Brown/ Hachette, Fall 2020), is a collection of 42 previously published stories and essays, about which novelist Andrew Sean Greer wrote in The New York Times: “You must read “The Best of Me.” It will be a new experience, knowing that enough time has passed to find humor in the hardest parts of life. More than ever — we’re allowed to laugh.” His other books include second volume of his diaries, A Carnival of Snackery, Diaries (20032020) (Little Brown/Hachette, October 5, 2021); and his latest title, Happy-Go-Lucky (June 2022).

Searis and his sister, Amy Sedaris, have collaborated under the name “The Talent Family” and have written half-a-dozen plays which have been produced at La Mama, Lincoln Center, and The Drama Department in New York City. These plays include Stump the Host, Stitches, One Woman Shoe, which received an Obie Award, Incident at Cobbler’s Knob, and The Book of Liz, which was published in book form by Dramatists Play Service.

Sedaris has been nominated for five Grammy Awards for Best Spoken Word and Best Comedy Album. His audio recordings include “David Sedaris: Live for Your Listening Pleasure” and “David Sedaris Live at Carnegie Hall.” A feature film adaptation of his story C.O.G. was released after a premiere at the Sundance Film Festival (2013). Since 2011, he can be heard annually on a series of live recordings on BBC Radio 4 entitled “Meet David Sedaris.”

In 2019 David Sedaris became a regular contributor to CBS Sunday Morning, and his Masterclass, David Sedaris Teaches Storytelling and Humor, was released.

There are over 16 million copies of his books in print and they have been translated into 32 languages. He has been awarded the Terry Southern Prize for Humor, Thurber Prize for American Humor, Jonathan Swift International Literature Prize for Satire and Humor, Time 2001 Humorist of the Year Award, as well as the Medal for Spoken Language from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In March 2019 he was elected as a member into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2020 the New York Public Library voted Me Talk Pretty One Day one of the 125 most important books of the last 125 years.

You can follow David on Facebook at facebook.com/davidsedaris or visit his official website at davidsedarisbooks.com

“Sedaris ain’t the preeminent humorist of his generation by accident” – Whitney Pastorek, Entertainment Weekly

“Sedaris has hit upon the narrative equivalent of Pepsi, or the PlayStation, or oxygen, or the haircut: something that others in the world might actually want and find useful... He’s smart, he’s caustic, he’s mordant, and, somehow, he’s... well, nice.” – Bill Richardson, Toronto Globe and Mail

“Sedaris’s droll assessment of the mundane and the eccentrics who inhabit the world’s crevices make him one of the greatest humorists writing today.” – Chicago Tribune

“Sedaris belongs on any list of people writing in English at the moment who are revising our ideas about what’s funny.” – San Francisco Chronicle

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SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSELIVE IN CONCERT

Friday, October 20, 2023 | 7:30pm | Brown Theatre

Let’s go back to where it all began with this concert event!

Featuring a soundtrack that blends symphonic orchestral music with hiphop, Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse Live in Concert pairs a screening of the Academy Award®-winning animated film with live musicians and turntables featuring a DJ scratcher live on stage. Emmy® winner Daniel Pemberton composed a sprawling score of boundary-pushing original music that

is complimented with song contributions by Post Malone, Lil Wayne, Jaden Smith, and Nicki Minaj.

The hip-hop based score results in a sonic universe that is woven throughout the fabric of the film, supporting its themes of resilience and universal heroism. Joining the tour is The Broadway Sinfonietta, an all-women and majority women-of-color orchestra led by conductor Emily Marshall.

ABOUT THE FILM

Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse introduces Brooklyn teen Miles Morales, and the limitless possibilities of the Spider-Verse, where more than one can wear the mask. A superhero classic for a new generation, Miles is an Afro-Latinx

teen who is bitten by a radioactive spider in the subway and gains mysterious powers. Joined by spider-heroes from parallel universes, Miles must master his new powers to save his city from a villain who could destroy it all.

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WHO’S WHO

DANIEL PEMBERTON is an Ivor Novello winning and multi-BAFTA nominated composer well known for embracing a wide range of musical mediums — from electronic to orchestral — throughout his work. After more than a decade establishing himself as one of the most inventive and experimental voices in British television — scoring countless Emmy and BAFTA award winning dramas and documentaries such as COMPLICIT (2013), PEEP SHOW (2003–2015), UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS (2010), DESPERATE ROMANTICS (2009), SPACE DIVE (2012), OCCUPATION (2009) and HIROSHIMA (2005) — Pemberton moved into the world of film with the period supernatural thriller THE AWAKENING (2011). His hybrid choral, orchestral and electronic score caught the ear of Ridley Scott who, heavily impressed with the standout work and what he called the composer’s “10,000 hours in the garage” hired the composer to score his feature THE COUNSELOR (2013). He collaborated again with Scott on the director’s first foray into television — THE VATICAN (2014). This work, alongside scores to other features such as BLOOD (2012), IN FEAR (2013) and CUBAN FURY (2014), led him to be named ‘Discovery Of The Year’ at the prestigious World Soundtrack Awards 2014. Other credits include the acclaimed soundtrack to Guy Ritchie’s THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (2015). Featuring a kaleidoscope of unusual instruments — including cimbaloms, harpsichords, bass flutes and exotic percussion — the bold 1960’s influenced music caught the attention of cinema goers and critics alike and has established him as one of the most versatile andexciting voices working in film today. Now collaborating with yet another legendary director —

Academy Award®-winner Danny Boyle — Pemberton continues to approach the world of scoring from a new angle, creating another unique and unexpectedly inventive soundtrack with his latest works — STEVE JOBS (2015), GOLD (2016) and KING ARTHUR: LEGEND OF THE SWORD (2017). Well known for his creative and incredibly versatile approach to writing no two scores ever sound the same.

EMILY MARSHALL is the Associate Conductor/Keyboardist of THE WHO, having just returned from THE WHO’s European/UK tour this past summer. She has performed at iconic venues such as Madison Square Garden, The Hollywood Bowl, The O2, New Orleans Jazz Fest and many more. 2022-2023 touring credits include: THE WHO Hits Back (North America/Europe), JOSH GROBAN’s Harmony Tour and Conductor/ Music Director of OUR PLANET: LIVE IN CONCERT. Her Broadway credits include: Music Director/Vocal Arranger of BE MORE CHILL, JAGGED LITTLE PILL, HEAD OVER HEELS, ELF, AIN’T TOO PROUD, BEAUTIFUL, SCHOOL OF ROCK, MEAN GIRLS, CHARLIE & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, WAITRESS, ANNIE. Tours/Benefits: RATATOUILLE: THE TIKTOK MUSICAL; 1st National Tour of WE WILL ROCK YOU, A CHORUS LINE, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, FLASHDANCE. As a proud member of the Recording Academy, Emily is featured on the Original Broadway Cast Album of BE MORE CHILL & the Original Cast Album of Dave Malloy’s PRELUDES. She has also worked closely with THE BROADWAY SINFONIETTA since its founding in 2020, co-producing, playing and conducting multiple projects with them. Marshall is based out of New York City where she also works as a vocal coach, keyboard programmer, arranger,

supervisor & producer. @emarshallmusic emilymarshallmusic.com

THE BROADWAY SINFONIETTA is an all-women and majority women-ofcolor orchestra and production company renowned for its diverse and innovative creative direction and dedication to musical excellence. The Sinfonietta’s inaugural NYC-based orchestra, The Broadway Sinfonietta, was founded in 2020 by Egyptian-American Orchestrator & Music Supervisor Macy Schmidt (who was recently named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 List for her work with the Sinfonietta). The orchestra has performed with pop stars (such as Brandy and Jordin Sparks), for institutional organizations, and in concert for feature films (such as Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse LIVE). The Sinfonietta’s international footprint is rapidly growing,

performing most recently in Abu Dhabi with an all Arab women orchestra for the Forbes International Women’s Day Gala honoring world leaders Hillary Rodham Clinton, Gloria Steinem, Malala Yousafzai, Billie Jean King, and Ukrainian First Lady Olena Zelenska. As a production company, the Sinfonietta has partnered with brands such as Bloomingdale’s, MAC Cosmetics, and The Atlantic Magazine to create original commissioned content, and been featured in outlets such as NBC, CBS, Rolling Stone, BuzzFeed, Forbes, TIME, Teen Vogue, Elle Magazine, The Washington Post, The Today Show, and more. As a headlining artist, The Broadway Sinfonietta recently made its live full orchestra debut concert presented by Carnegie Hall Citywide, and signed with Sony Masterworks to release recordings of Schmidt’s arrangements. Next, the

orchestra will embark on worldwide touring residencies for its original programming and recorded works.

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Since its inception in 2003, GEAlive has produced and delivered live entertainment projects in over 40 countries worldwide. Many of the productions and artists that the company started working with in its early years are still part of its diversified portfolio today. In its early years GEAlive mainly acted as a producer of international theatrical tours for titles such as De La Guarda, Cirque Mechanics Bounce, Fuego! – The Spanish Dance Spectacular, The Official West End Production of the Blues Brothers, Hair –The Musical and the massively successful French rock-opera Notre Dame De Paris. The cooperation with the late Maestro Ennio Morricone, which began in 2012 and the phenomenal success that followed, saw a shift in the company’s focus to film music as a genre. In recent years GEAlive has produced and still produces touring live screenings with orchestra and choirs of major motion pictures such as The Godfather, Titanic, La La Land (Germany), The Hunger Games and Paddington. In later years, GEAlive produced the first ever concert tour of Hollywood composer

James Newton Howard, which toured 15 European countries. The company also put together the first ever live tour of legendary music producer and pioneer of electronic dance music Giorgio Moroder and outside the realm of film music, GEAlive partnered with Graceland and Sony Music Entertainment on producing Elvis Live on Screen, which was hosted by Priscilla Presley. GEAlive is currently producing the tours of Dirty Dancing in Concert, Space Station Earth, Exhibition Imagine Monet, Ennio Morricone — The Official Concert Celebration and Our Planet for 2023, with more live entertainment coming soon.

Founded by Ollie Rosenblatt in 2011, SENBLA is a London-based concert promoter and production company that operates both nationally and internationally. With an acute focus on delivering a bespoke, tailor-made approach to all our shows and artists we work with, Senbla has become known for its creative input and output. Senbla works across multiple forms of live entertainment from artist touring, one off specially produced shows, performing arts, outdoor concerts, family entertainment, sports, theatre and experiential. In July 2019, Sony Music Entertainment acquired a majority stake in Senbla.

Kentucky Performing Arts presents

JAMES "MURR" MURRAY

Saturday, October 21 | 7:00pm | Brown Theatre

James S. Murray is a writer, executive producer, and actor, best known as "Murr" on the hit television show Impractical Jokers on truTV and The Misery Index on TBS. He worked as the Senior Vice President of Development for NorthSouth Productions for nearly a decade, is the owner of Impractical Productions and co-owner of Bad Woods Entertainment.

In addition, Murr is an international bestselling author. His works include the sci-fi horror Awakened trilogy; suspense thrillers: Don't Move and The Stowaway; and middle grade series: Area 51 Interns. Originally from Staten Island, he now lives in Princeton, NJ with his wife Melyssa and dog Penny. Facebook / Twitter: @ JamesSMurray Instagram: @TheRealMurr Tiktok: @JamesMurrayJokers

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NURSE BLAKE: SHOCK ADVISED TOUR

Tuesday, October 24, 2023 | 8:00pm | Brown Theatre

Blake Lynch, aka Nurse Blake is a nurse, creator, internationally touring comedian, healthcare advocate, and keynote speaker.

Hailed as a "genuine phenomenon" by The New York Times, Blake worked in trauma centers around the country before his career in comedy. As a way to cope with the stress of his nursing job, Blake started posting original comedy videos aimed at his profession. His lighthearted videos connected with nurses, nursing students, and healthcare workers around the world gaining Nurse Blake 3.5M followers on social media and over 300M views. He now takes his comedy to stages around the world bringing nurses together through his humor and inspiration. Nurse Blake's sold out 2022 PTO Comedy Tour began as

a 14 show run and grew to 55 shows due to demand. Nurse Blake will follow that with his massive Shock Advised Comedy Tour which hits 100 cities across North America in 2023.

Blake is also the creator of NurseCon at Sea, one of the largest and most popular nursing conferences, and the NurseCon App which provides the free continuing nursing education courses. He previously managed several large programs including The Banned4Life Project, which ended an outdated FDA blood donor policy, and Nurses Support Their Young which promotes healthy work environments. Blake is also the author of the best-selling children's book, I Want To Be A Nurse When I Grow Up, available online and at bookstores everywhere.

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POD SAVE AMERICA LIVE

Saturday, October 28 | 8:00pm | Brown Theatre

Pod Save America brings its signature no-BS conversations about politics to Louisville. There are no off years in politics or political podcasts, and with important elections this fall in states including Louisiana and Virginia, Pod Save America is back on the road. Former Obama administration officials and co-hosts Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, Tommy Vietor, and Dan Pfeiffer break down the political news that makes us laugh, cry, and scream into the void – to help figure

out what matters and what each of us can do about it.

Jon Favreau served as Barack Obama’s head speechwriter from 2005-2013, a role that was far more senior and influential than Jon Lovett’s. Since leaving the White House, Favreau has written and spoken about politics and speechwriting to audiences throughout the world. In 2017, he co-founded Crooked Media, where he’s a co-host of Pod Save America and host of The Wilderness. Jon grew up

outside of Boston, graduated from the College of the Holy Cross, and now lives in Los Angeles with his wife Emily and their dog Leo.

Jon Lovett is a podcast host, former presidential speechwriter, and straight shooter widely respected on both sides. In 2017 he co-founded Crooked Media, where he co-hosts Pod Save America and hosts Lovett or Leave It, two popular podcasts that are very good. Before Crooked, he served as a speechwriter in the Obama White House, co-created a comedy on NBC called 1600 Penn (canceled after one perfect season), and wrote speeches for Hillary Clinton. He recently switched to oat milk.

Tommy Vietor is a cofounder of Crooked Media, cohost of Pod Save America, and the host of the foreign-policy focused Pod

Save the World. In a past life, he worked for President Obama for nine years, including a stint as White House National Security Spokesman. Originally from outside Boston, Vietor now lives in Los Angeles with his wife Hanna and their dog Lucca. He tweets too much.

Dan Pfeiffer, Co-host, Pod Save America — Despite several members of the Morning Joe panel calling for his firing, Dan Pfeiffer served President Obama for eight years as his Communications Director on both the 2008 Campaign and in the White House and finally as Senior Advisor to the President. He is a CNN Political Contributor and the author of Yes We (Still) Can: Politics in the Age of Obama, Twitter, and Trump. Dan was born in Delaware and has been banned from traveling to Russia by Donald Trump's friend Vladimir Putin.

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Keeneland Foundation Inc.

Michael Kimmel & Missy McKiernan

Mr. Ray Kirkland

Klein Family Foundation

Kentucky Department of Education

Kentucky Music Educators Association

Robert M. Klein

Minjung Ko

Marjorie & Robert Kohn

Kroger Community Rewards

Paul and Wendy Kubitskey

Sean Lair & Casper R. Ter Kuile

Joyce Langley

Mr. Lance & Mrs. Marie Larsen

Amy & Sterling Lapinski

Diane Laughlin

Abhay & Amy Lele

Robin LeMastus

LEO Weekly**

LG&E and KU Foundation

Douglas Lotz & Gentry Easley

Ronald Loughry & Bethany Breetz

Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government

Louisville Tourism

Louisville Public Media**

Louisville Water

Meredith Loveless

Mr. Todd P. Lowe & Ms. Fran C. Ratterman

Heather Lucas

James D. Ludwig

Mr. & Mrs. Philip Lynch

Mansbach Endowment Fund at Foundation for the Tri-State Community

Rebecca Mark

Tom & Joslyn Marksbury

Martha and Jerry Martin

William Martz

Mr. Anthyun Mask

Elizabeth McCoy

C.T. McKenna

Andrea & Andrew McLeroy

Madelyn Mees

Lisa Merchant

Julia Meredith

Kathryn Mershon & Todd Gardner

Drs. Chris D. Mescia & Tricia J. Gray

Katherine Milam

Dave & Linda Miles

Terri & Dave Miller

Loren Mills

Jennifer A. Moore

Pat Moremen

Dennis Morris & Linda Ellingsworth

Mr. Glenn E. Mowbray & Ms. Colette Crown

Mr. & Mrs. R. Charles Moyer

Ann Mudge

Dr. Marcia Myers

Dr. Keith Myrick

Mary & Ted Nixon

Kevin & Emily Nolan

Ms. Susan H. Norris

Northwestern Mutual

The Norton Foundation, Inc.

Jennifer & Dan O’Brien, matched by the GE Foundation Matching Gift Program

Sean O’Leary

Mrs. Judith Olliges

Mr. Kevin Olusola

Alexandra Ottaviano

Doug & Shari Owen

Patrick Owen & Norman Dixon

Stephen & Cindy Owen

Ms. Meredith Parente

C. Grey Pash

Ashley B. Pearl

Aaron and Heather Pennell

Ms. Lynn Pereira

Danielle Perkins

Mr. Tom Person & Mrs. Melissa Richards-Person

Duane Peterson

Nathan Petrie

Mike & Cindy Phelps

Harry Pickens

PNC Bank

PNC Broadway in Louisville/ Louisville Theatrical Association

PNC Foundation

Mr. Stuart Pollard

C.F. Pollard Foundation

Henry & Sharon Potter

Carol & Hank Preston

Jeff & Leigh Anne Preston

Rolf Provan & Yamilca Rodriguez

Gordon and Patty Rademaker

Mr. & Mrs. Teddy H. Redmon

Rick & Becky Reed

Ms. Linda Remington

Republic Bank

Dr. Jeffrey Richardson

For Louise V. Richter

Laura Rigenberger

Mr. & Mrs. J. Daniel Rivers

Jonathan & Julie Roberts

Robert & Clarice Rogers

Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Rounsavall, III

Mark & Kay Rountree

Mr. Anthony & Mrs. Jane Ruhl

Beth Ruley

John W. Russ & Cheryl Ungerleider

Jamie & Michelle Sanders

Billy Santos

Scantland Family Fund

Stephanie Schaefer

Chris Schinaman

Rob Schmidlapp

Dr. Marilyn Schorin

In Memory of Eudora Vance Scott

Seelbach Hotel**

Ann Shake

Ellen & Max Shapira

Linda Shelman

Dr. Nicholas Silvestros

Joseph & Joan Sireci

Larry Sloan & Helen Cohen

Joseph Small

Christopher Smith & Jennifer Bertrand

Irvin & Connie Smith

Jerry Smith

Nathan Smith, matched by GE Appliances, a Haier Company

Mr. & Mrs. Kenney M. Snell

Mary Ann Sodrel

Whitney & Trevor Soergel

Tom & Cara Solley

George & Karin Sonnier

South Arts

Dr. Charles Sowder

Phillip & Karen Sparkes

SquarePeg Group Inc.

Peggy Stamps

Bob & Silvana Steen

Robert Steinmetz & Barbara Elliot

Mary Clay Stites

Stock Yards Bank & Trust Company

Bill Stone

William Stout

Drs. Catherine Newton & Gordon Strauss

Lindy Street

Dr. & Mrs. Gerald F. Sturgeon

David & Carolyn Tandy

Malissa Taylor

Dr. & Mrs. Arthur Thacker

Ms. Brenda Thompson

Karen Thompson

Rom & Mary Thompson

Mark & Martha Thompson

Dr. Diane Tobin & Mr. Charles Friedman

Josh & Olesia Toole

Tourism, Arts & Heritage Cabinet

Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky

Sandra Trager

Bryan & Ruth Trautwein

Laura G. Turner Charitable Foundation

Bob & Vicky Ullrich

University of Kentucky College of Design**

University of Kentucky College of Fine Arts**

University of Kentucky Office of the Provost**

Sally & Robert Vail

Jonathan Voet

Robert & Bonnie Vogt

Volunteers of the Kentucky Center*

Dina Vuturo

Cindy Walker

Timothy Walker

Gary Wall

Beth Ward

Russ Wardlaw

Nathan & Olivia Webb

Dr. John & Mrs. Linda Weeter

James & Marianne Welch

Ann Waterman & Niles Welch

Welch Printing**

John & Marilyn Werst

Ms. Rebecca West

WHAS 11**

Edyth Wheeler

Stephen & Patricia Wheeler

Chad & Jayne Willett

Benjamin Wiseman

Phoebe Wood

Michael & Jeannie Wright

Ralph Wright

In Memory of Mrs. Irma Yatros

David F. Young & Cheryl Cahill

Dominic & Lisa Zangari

Dr. Kenneth & Shelly Zegart

Mr. Brian Zehnder & Ms. Melissa Rolf

Ms. Susan G. Zepeda & Dr. Fred P. Seifer

Mrs. Ann Zimmerman

Cynthia and Joel Zipperle

*Kentucky Performing Arts

Volunteers’ value of donated time is more than $100,000 annually

**In-Kind Donation

EVENTS CALENDAR

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KENTUCKY PERFORMING ARTS

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Gregory J. Bubalo, Chair • Robert M. Klein, Vice-Chair

Mary R. Nixon, Secretary • Phil Lynch, Treasurer

Laura Melillo Barnum

JP Davis

Hannah L. Drake

Dr. Maryanne Elliott

Paula Harshaw

Madeline Abramson

Owsley Brown II (1942–2011)

Wendell Cherry (1935–1991)

William H. Jones

Kate Latts

Joseph Leavell

Patricia A. Mathison

James K. Murphy

DIRECTORS EMERITI

Gordon B. Davidson (1926–2015)

C. Edward Glasscock

Stephen T. Owen

Dr. Rahul Reddy

Lindy Street

Rev. Dr. Valerie Washington

Sarah Yarmuth

Robert W. Rounsavall, III

Rose Lenihan Rubel (1922–2002)

KENTUCKY PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION, INC.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Todd Lowe, Chair

Kim Baker, Vice-Chair • Open, Secretary • Cindy Zipperle, Treasurer

Carolle Jones Clay

J. Tim Galbraith

Lillian Hunt

Brad Keller

Chris Kipper

R. Charles Moyer

Doug Owen

Rolf Provan

Chase Alexander Burks Sanders

Eileen Saunders

Diane Tobin, Ph.D.

Ruth Wimsatt Trautwein

Lisa Zangari

KENTUCKY PERFORMING ARTS EXECUTIVE STAFF

Kim Baker President and CEO

Heather Weston Bell

Senior Vice President, Community Engagement

Tamekka Cornelius, Ph.D. Director of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Nick Covault Vice President, Education and Community

Dawn Driskell Vice President, Finance

Chris Kaelin Vice President, Operations

Loren Mills Vice President, Human Resources

Will Richards

Vice President, Facilities & Production

Julie Roberts Vice President, Development & Advocacy

Rob Schmidlapp Vice President, Information Systems

Christian Adelberg

Vice President, Marketing & Communications

KENTUCKY PERFORMING ARTS ENCORE SOCIETY

The Honorable & Mrs. Jerry E. Abramson

Anonymous

Mr. and Mrs. Tom & Robbie Bell

Ms. Jennifer L. Bobbitt

Janet R. Dakan

Mrs. William Habich

Mrs. Ada Lee Kane

Mrs. Helen Lang

Kathy Monin

Mr. and Mrs. Don E. Parkinson

Ms. Terry H. Sales

Sharon Sanak

Ms. Helen Stockton

Mrs. Murrel Straley

Jeanne D. Vuturo

Jennifer Love Webb

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.

CORPORATE AND FOUNDATION SUPPORT

We salute the following organizations for their support of Kentucky Performing Arts:

B. J. KILLIAN FOUNDATION

TOURISM, ARTS AND HERITAGE CABINET

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.

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.