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The Red Shoes to Grace Belk Theater Stage New adaptation of hit film designed to dazzle your senses
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beloved fairytale and Academy Award-winning movie, The Red Shoes has seduced audiences and inspired generations of dancers with its tale of obsession, possession and one girl’s dream to be the greatest dancer in the world. Victoria Page lives to dance, but her ambitions become a battleground between the two men who inspire her passion. Matthew Bourne’s magical new adaptation of the legendary Powell and Pressburger film will be at Belk Theater Oct. 17-22. It reunites the team who brought you New Adventures’ worldwide hit Sleeping Beauty, with sumptuous designs by Lez Brotherston (set Ashley Shaw as Victoria Page in The Red Shoes. and costumes), Paule Constable (lighting) and with Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles Paul Groothuis (sound). and Martin Scorsese. His work ranges “Set in the theatrical world of a from the witty and playfully robust to touring dance (ballet) company, it is the achingly romantic and bittersweet. actually about dance and dancers,” said The music will be played live by the New Bourne. "The film’s genius is to make Adventures Orchestra. that theatrical world at times surreal, “If anyone wants a lesson on how to larger than life and highly cinematic. My tell a story with pure dance, they should challenge will be to capture some of that ring up Matthew Bourne. The man is a surreal, sensuous quality within the more master of narrative, a wizard at staging natural theater setting.” the apparently unstageable,” acclaimed This production is set to a new Sarah Crompton for WhatsOnStage. score arranged by Terry Davies using “This ballet needed no explanation the mesmerizing music of golden-age or description – all of the emotion was Hollywood composer Bernard Herrmann, most famous for his collaborations See The Red Shoes on Page 6 4
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Ashley Shaw as Victoria Page and Sam Archer as Boris Lermontov in The Red Shoes.
of red silk by a rich female customer, to excellently conveyed to the crowd, whose make a pair of dancing slippers for her mouths were left constantly ajar by the daughter. Using red leather along with sublime spectacle. The entire show was the silk, he worked very carefully on the faultless from start to end – and a real shoes, only to have the woman tell him tribute to the skill of the phenomenal they were trash. She said he had done company and a fantastic display of nothing but spoil her silk. "In that case," the tremendous talent of Sir Matthew he said, "I may as well Bourne,” added the "The entire show was spoil my leather too," U.K.’s Express & Star newspaper. faultless from start and he cut up the shoes in front of her. The Red Shoes to end." was first written by An intoxicating U.K.'s Express & Star Danish poet and drama where life author Hans Christian Anderson. imitates art with fateful He explained the origins of the story in consequences, this new adaptation of an incident he witnessed as a small child. The Red Shoes is designed to dazzle your By his report, his father was sent a piece senses and break your heart.
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FOX THEATRICALS
BARBARA WHITMAN
CAROLE SHORENSTEIN HAYS TOM CASSERLY LATITUDE LINK TERRY SCHNUCK/JACK LANE SCOTT DELMAN NATHAN VERNON ELIZABETH ARMSTRONG JAM THEATRICALS THE FORSTALLS SPENCER ROSS KEN WHITNEY
and KRISTIN CASKEY & MIKE ISAACSON present
The Public Theater Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director
Patrick Willingham, Executive Director production of
Music by
Book & Lyrics by
JEANINE TESORI
LISA KRON
Based on the graphic novel by ALISON BECHDEL starring
ROBERT PETKOFF SUSAN MONIZ KATE SHINDLE ABBY CORRIGAN CARLY GOLD JADYN SCHWARTZ KALLY DULING ROBERT HAGER HENRY BOSHART LUKÉ BARBATO SMITH Scenic & Costume Design
Lighting Design
Sound Design
DAVID ZINN
BEN STANTON
KAI HARADA
Orchestrations
Music Director
Music Coordinator
JOHN CLANCY
MICAH YOUNG
ANTOINE SILVERMAN
Hair & Wig Design
Casting
Company Manager
Production Stage Manager
RICK CAROTO
JIM CARNAHAN, CSA JILLIAN CIMINI, CSA
MICHAEL CAMP
SHAWN PENNINGTON
Tour Booking Agency
Tour Marketing & Press
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General Management
THE BOOKING GROUP
BROADWAY BOOKING OFFICE
JUNIPER STREET PRODUCTIONS
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Music Supervision
CHRIS FENWICK Choreography by
DANNY MEFFORD Directed by
SAM GOLD The world premiere of FUN HOME was produced by The Public Theater in New York City on October 22, 2013. FUN HOME was developed, in part, at the 2012 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab at White Oak and the 2012 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab at the Sundance Resort.
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CAST (In order of appearance) Alison.....................................................................................................................KATE SHINDLE Small Alison.............................................................................................................CARLY GOLD Small Alison (at certain performances)........................................................ JADYN SCHWARTZ Bruce................................................................................................................ROBERT PETKOFF Medium Alison.................................................................................................ABBY CORRIGAN Helen.......................................................................................................................SUSAN MONIZ Christian.................................................................................................LUKÉ BARBATO SMITH John...................................................................................................................HENRY BOSHART Joan.......................................................................................................................KALLY DULING Roy/Mark/Pete/Bobby Jeremy............................................................................ROBERT HAGER
UNDERSTUDIES Understudies never substitute for players unless a specific announcement for the appearance is made at the time of the performance. Standby for Bruce: MICHAEL WINTHER; Standby for Helen, Alison: AMANDA NAUGHTON; for Small Alison, Christian, John: NOELLE HOGAN; for Medium Alison, Joan: CAROLINE MURRAH; for Roy/Mark/Pete/Bobby Jeremy: ANTHONY FORTINO Dance Captain: ANTHONY FORTINO FUN HOME WILL BE PERFORMED WITHOUT AN INTERMISSION
FUN HOME ORCHESTRA Music Director/Keyboards: MICAH YOUNG Associate Music Director: ALEX HARRINGTON Guitars: JAKOB REINHARDT; Basses: ALAN STEVENS HEWITT; Reeds: PHILIP VARRICCHIO; Drums/Percussion: JOHN DOING; Cello: MARLENE BALLENA; Violin/Viola: JANE HART BRENDLE
Music Coordinator: ANTOINE SILVERMAN Electronic Music Programming: BILLY JAY STEIN/STRANGE CRANIUM Music Copying: KAYE-HOUSTON MUSIC/ANNE KAYE, DOUG HOUSTON
The use of any recording device, either audio or video, and the taking of photographs, either with or without flash, is strictly prohibited. Please turn off all electronic devices such as cell phones and pagers prior to the beginning of the performance.
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WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST ROBERT PETKOFF (Bruce). Broadway: All The Way with Bryan Cranston, Anything Goes, Ragtime, Spamalot, Fiddler On The Roof and Epic Proportions. London: The Royal Family with Dame Judi Dench and Tantalus. Regional: Sweeney Todd, Hamlet, Troilus & Cressida, Follies, Romeo & Juliet, Compleat Female Stage Beauty and The Importance Of Being Earnest. Film: Irrational Man, Vice Versa, Milk and Money, Gameday. TV: Elementary, Forever, Law and Order: SVU, The Good Wife and more. Robert is an award-winning audiobook narrator. SUSAN MONIZ (Helen). Broadway: Grease – Sandy & Rizzo. Regional: Follies – Sally (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); October Sky – Elsie (world premier); Peggy Sue Got Married – Peggy (world premier); Kismet (Joseph Jefferson award); Into the Woods, 9 to 5, Carousel, (Marriott Theatre); The Merry Widow, The Sound Of Music, (Chicago Lyric Opera); Hot Mikado (Ford’s Theatre); Phantom, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Fulton Theatre); Shadowlands, The Spitfire Grill, (Provision Theatre); Evita, BIG, (Drury Lane Theatre). TV: Chicago PD; Romance, Romance (A&E). KATE SHINDLE (Alison). Broadway: Legally Blonde (Vivienne), Cabaret (Sally Bowles), Wonderland (Hatter), Jekyll & Hyde. Elsewhere: Rapture, Blister, Burn (Catherine), After the Fall (Maggie), Restoration, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Gypsy, Into the Woods, The Last Five Years, First Lady Suite, The Mousetrap. Film/TV: Lucky Stiff, SVU, White Collar, Gossip Girl, The Stepford Wives, Capote. Kate is a longtime activist, author of Being Miss America: Behind the Rhinestone Curtain and President of Actors’ Equity Association. twitter.com/AEApresident ABBY CORRIGAN (Medium Alison). Stage: Cabaret, A Chorus Line (TCS); 704.372.1000 | BlumenthalArts.org
Shrek (Blumey Award), In The Heights, Peter Pan, Rent (NWSA); Next to Normal (QCTC); Film/TV: Headed South For Christmas (Painted Horse), A Smile As Big As The Moon (Hallmark), Homeland (HBO), Rectify (Sundance), Banshee (Cinemax). Thanks Michael, Sam, Jeanine, Lisa and Jim, Mom, Dad and Emma! AbbyCorrigan.com CARLY GOLD (Small Alison) is thrilled to make her professional debut! Heartfelt thanks and overwhelming gratitude to the Fun Home creative team for this amazing opportunity: Jamie Pillet/Victoria Kress/ Bonnie Shumosky - Abrams Artists; Ellyn Marsh, Janine Molinari. Special thanks to Mom, Dad, family and friends for their endless love and support. Dreams are worth dreaming! JADYN SCHWARTZ (Small Alison at certain performances) is honored to play this special role in her National Tour debut! She’s grateful to the Fun Home creative team for this amazing opportunity. Special thanks to Alyson Isbrantsen, Jason Bercy & Jillian Cimini. Love and thanks to Mom, Dad, Jules, Jilly, family and friends for your love and support. Instagram: @jadynschwartz KALLY DULING (Joan). Broadway: Fun Home. Regional: Into the Woods (TUTS), The Tall Girls (Alliance), Next to Normal (Baltimore CenterStage), Fifth of July (Williamstown/Bay Street), Bus Stop (Fulton) Little Women (John Engeman). TV: The Good Wife, One Bad Choice, etc. Voiceovers: Nickelodeon, Scholastic, Fischer Price, etc. Huge thanks to Dave, Wolf Talent and the Fun Home family. Love to my family, especially B and Ellie Mae! @kallyduling ROBERT HAGER (Roy/Mark/Pete/ Bobby Jeremy). Broadway: Doctor 9B
WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST Zhivago, Spring Awakening (OBC), How To Succeed…, Bye Bye Birdie. Regional/ Tour: Bonnie & Clyde (Clyde), Kiss Of The Spider Woman (Molina), Spring Awakening, Next To Normal (Gabe), Parade (Frankie). “Quiero Soñar” original song by Hager and Alex McCabe in film Top Five. Thanks Chris, Cynthia and family. Go AEA! @robihager HENRY BOSHART (John) is grateful for this opportunity to make his professional debut! Many thanks to Dave McKeown and Shirley Grant Management, Trapper Felides, Random Farms Theater, Broadway Workshop and the entire Fun Home Family. Love to Charlie, Amelia, Mom & Dad, Grandparents, teachers and friends for believing in me and supporting my dreams. LUKÉ BARBATO SMITH (Christian) is thrilled to join the cast of Fun Home. He recently appeared at the Kennedy Center in Debbie Allen’s Freeze Frame… Stop The Madness. Luké can be seen in commercials for the Ford GT, Wendy’s, DirecTV, Disney and more. His television credits include The Goldbergs and Tyrant. ANTHONY FORTINO (Understudy Roy/Mark/Pete/Bobby Jeremy). National Tour debut! Favorite Regional: Catch Me If You Can (Frank Abagnale, Jr.), South Pacific (Lt. Cable), The Last Five Years (Jamie), Lord of the Flies (Jack). Proud graduate of Texas Christian University (TCU). All my love to Katie and my family. anthonyfortino.com NOELLE HOGAN (Understudy Small Alison, John, Christian) is so excited and grateful to be making her National Tour debut in this beautiful show! TV: HBO Succession. Special thanks to 4Nancy Carson and Karen Lampiasi/LTM. Unending love and thanks to my Mom, 9C
Dad, sister, brothers, dance teachers at Brava Dance and friends! Following my dreams! For Grandfather. CAROLINE MURRAH (Understudy Medium Alison, Joan). Regional: Next to Normal (Beck Center), The Secret Garden (Great Lakes); Training: IAA, Baldwin Wallace; Thanks to Michael Rafter, Luedtke Agency, Fun Home Family; Love to my family, teachers, BWMT16, Gabe. AMANDA NAUGHTON (Standby for Helen, Alison). Broadway: Into the Woods (2002), The Secret Garden (also the tour). Umpteen Off-Broadway and Regional appearances. Television: Betty Roberts on AMC’s Remember WENN, Law & Order, Payne, Chappelle’s Show. Film: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Mexico City. Personal: wonderful husband, marvelous child, adorable dog. Love to my entire family. Thanks, BRS/Gage. MICHAEL WINTHER (Standby for Bruce). Broadway: 33 Variations, Mamma Mia!, 1776, Artist Descending a Staircase, Damn Yankees. Off-Bway includes: Songs From An Unmade Bed (NYTW); Laramie Project Cycle (BAM); Hapgood (LCT). Regional: Lots! Concerts include: Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, White House. Recent Film/TV: Blacklist, Mysteries of Laura, Boardwalk Empire, Hostages, Leverage, Jumper. Graduate: Williams College. LISA KRON (Book & Lyrics). 2015 Tony Award winner for Best Book of a Musical and Best Score of a Musical for Fun Home. Other plays include In The Wake, Well and the Obie Award winning 2.5 Minute Ride. Acting credits include Well (Tony nom. Best Actress) and Good Person of Szechwan (Lortel Award-Outstanding Featured Actress). She has received Guggenheim, Sundance and MacDowell fellowships, Doris Duke Performing Artist, Cal Arts/ 704.372.1000 | BlumenthalArts.org
WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST Alpert, and Helen Merrill Awards, and grants from the Creative Capital and NYFA. Lisa is a founding member of the OBIE and Bessie Award-winning theater company The Five Lesbian Brothers and serves on the boards of the MacDowell Colony, the Sundance Institute and on the Council of the Dramatists Guild of America. JEANINE TESORI (Music). For Broadway: Fun Home (2015 Tony Award winner); Violet; Caroline, or Change; Shrek the Musical; Thoroughly Modern Millie; Twelfth Night (LCT); John Guare’s A Free Man of Color. Delacorte: Mother Courage (starring Meryl Streep). Opera: A Blizzard on Marblehead Neck (libretto, Tony Kushner; Glimmerglass); The Lion, the Unicorn and Me (libretto, J.D. McClatchy; Washington National Opera). Her songs are featured in the recent Netflix revival of Gilmore Girls. She is the artistic director/co-founder of A Broader Way, an arts empowerment program for girls from underserved communities; the founding artistic director of Encores! Off-Center; and a lecturer in music at Yale University and Columbia University. Ms. Tesori is a member of the Dramatists Guild. SAM GOLD (Director). Broadway: Fun Home (2015 Tony Award winner), The Glass Menagerie (Belasco), A Doll’s House, Part 2 (Golden), The Real Thing (Roundabout), The Realistic Joneses (Lyceum), Picnic (Roundabout), Seminar (Golden; Ahmanson, L.A.). Recent: John (Signature Theater; Obie Award, Drama Desk Nomination), The Mystery of Love & Sex (Lincoln Center); Fun Home (The Public; Obie Award, Lortel and Drama Desk nominations);The Village Bike (MCC); The Flick (Playwrights Horizons, Lortel nomination); Uncle Vanya (Soho Rep, Drama Desk nomination); The 704.372.1000 | BlumenthalArts.org
Realistic Joneses (Yale Rep, CT Critics Circle Award); The Big Meal (Playwrights Horizons, Lortel Award); Look Back in Anger (Roundabout, Lortel nomination);Circle Mirror Transformation (Playwrights Horizons; Drama Desk nomination, Obie Award); The Aliens (Rattlestick, Obie Award). Resident director at Roundabout Theatre Company. Training: Juilliard. ALISON BECHDEL (Author of Graphic Novel) created the comic strip “Dykes to Watch Out For,” which ran in lesbian and gay publications from 1983 to 2008. In 2006 she gained a wider readership with the publication of Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, a graphic memoir about her relationship with her closeted gay father. She followed this with a second memoir, Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama. She’s currently working on a book about the body and trends in physical fitness, called The Secret to Superhuman Strength. She is the recipient of a 2014 MacArthur Fellowship. DANNY MEFFORD (Choreographer). Credits include current Broadway hit Dear Evan Hansen after productions at Second Stage Theatre and Arena Stage, Tony Award-winning Best Musical Fun Home (Lortel nomination), currentlyrunning national tour of The Sound of Music for director Jack O’Brien, Much Ado About Nothing at the Delacorte Theatre, The Bridges of Madison County on Broadway, Love’s Labour’s Lost (Drama Desk nomination), Poster Boy at the Williamstown Theater Festival, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson at the Public Theater and on Broadway (Astaire and Lortel nominations). Danny graduated summa cum laude from the University of Evansville and holds an M.F.A. from Brown. 9D
WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST DAVID ZINN (Scenic & Costume Design). Broadway: Set Design for The Humans (2016 Tony Award); Set and Costume Design for Fun Home (2015 Tony nomination for Set Design), Airline Highway (2015 Tony nomination for Costume Design), The Last Ship, Seminar; Sets for The Real Thing, Violet, The Realistic Joneses; Costumes for Good People, Other Desert Cities, Bengal Tiger…, In the Next Room (Tony, Drama Desk noms.), Xanadu. Off-Broadway: Set and Costume Design for The Flick, Circle Mirror Transformation (Playwrights Horizons). Additional Set and Costume Designs: The Spongebob Musical, Amelie and other regional work at the Steppenwolf, Guthrie, Berkeley Rep, Yale Rep, Mark Taper Forum, Actors Theater of Louisville and the Intiman and ACT in Seattle. BEN STANTON (Lighting Design). Broadw ay: Six Degrees of Separation, Fully Committed, Deaf West’s Spring Awakening (2016 Tony Nomination), Fun Home (2015 Tony nomination), An Enemy of the People, Seminar. Recent OffBroadway: Yen, The Legend of Georgia McBride, The Nether (MCC); Incognito, Murder Ballad, The Whipping Man (MTC); The Christians, Marjorie Prime (Playwrights Horizons); Fun Home (Public Theater); Piece of My Heart, Our Lady of Kibeho, Kung Fu, Angels in America (Sign ature Theatre); Belleville (NYTW); Into the Woods (Delacorte). Concert designs (Selected): Regina Spektor, Sufjan Stevens, St. Vincent. Recipient of the 2015 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design. KAI HARADA (Sound Designer). Broadway: Amélie; Sunday in the Park With George; Allegiance; Gigi; Fun 9E
Home; On the Town; First Date; Follies (Tony Award & Drama Desk Nominations); and Million Dollar Quartet. Other: Poster Boy (Williamstown); Beaches (Drury Lane); Brooklynite (Vineyard); Little Dancer and First You Dream (Kennedy Center); Zorro (Moscow; Atlanta); Hinterm Horizont (Berlin); Sweeney Todd and Pirates of Penzance (Portland Opera); and She Loves Me (Oregon Shakespeare Festival). Audio Consultant for the revival of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Education: Yale University. CHRIS FENWICK (Music Supervisor) most recently music directed the Broadway productions of Sunday in the Park with George and Fun Home. Music Director of the original productions of Michael John LaChiusa’s Giant, Los Otros, Queen of the Mist and See What I Wanna See. Public Theater credits include Fun Home, Road Show, and Mother Courage and Her Children, starring Meryl Streep. Music director for Patti LuPone at Carnegie Hall, Ravinia Festival and many more. He is the music director of City Center Encores! Off-Center. JOHN CLANCY (Orchestrations). Broadway: Fun Home (2015 Tony nomination), Tuck Everlasting, Shrek the Musical (Tony and Drama Desk noms. w/ Danny Troob), Cats 2016 (Arranger), Seattle 5th Avenue Theatre: Jasper in Deadland. Public Theater: Fortress of Solitude, Fun Home (Drama Desk nom.). String arranger for Rhianna: NBA All-Star Game. Goodspeed: Just So. As a drummer and/or music director, Clancy has worked with Randy Newman, Carly Simon, Corey Glover, Solange Knowles, Dev Hynes, Chrissy Amphlett, Kasim Sulton, Danielia Cotton, Alexa Joel, Constantine Maroulis (“American Idol”), Kidz Bop Live! national 704.372.1000 | BlumenthalArts.org
WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST tours; and worked with Bono and Edge on Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark. MICAH YOUNG (Music Director). Broadway: White Christmas, Mamma Mia, Spring Awakening, Mary Poppins. OffBroadway/Regional: Murder Ballad (Studio Theatre), Pageant (Drama Desk nom. Best Revival), A Christmas Memory (Outer Critics Circle nom. Best Musical). Crossing Swords, (Best Music Director, NYMF). Interlochen, MSM, Constance Keene, Maria Asteriadou. micahyoungmusic.com, ontheblogway.com ANTOINE SILVERMAN (Music Coordinator) has coordinated Fun Home, Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark, Tuck Everlasting, Soul Doctor, Murder Ballad and Love’s Labour’s Lost as well as countless live and recording projects as varied as Foo Fighters, Audra McDonald, Fall Out Boy, Rod Stewart and Idina Menzel. RICK CAROTO (Hair & Wig Design). Broadway Design Team: Fun Home, Rocky. Other Broadway: Lucky Guy (Tom Hanks), Evita (Ricky Martin), A Delicate Balance (Glenn Close), Private Lives (Kim Cattrall) and many others. Film: Glenn Close Personal Hairstylist for Wilde Wedding and Bastards, Romeo and Juliet (Orlando Bloom), NBC’s The Sound of Music Live and Peter Pan Live. JIM CARNAHAN, CSA (Casting). Roundabout’s Director of Artistic Development. Roundabout: The Cherry Orchard, Holiday Inn, She Loves Me, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Robber Bridegroom, Noises Off, Therese Raquin, Old Times, On the Twentieth Century, Real Thing, Cabaret, Violet, Dinner with Friends, Machinal, Winslow Boy, Drood, Cyrano, Harvey, Anything Goes, Pajama Game, 12 Angry Men, Assassins, Nine, Big River. Other Broadway: Burn This, 704.372.1000 | BlumenthalArts.org
Matilda, Fun Home, Constellations, The River, You Can’t Take It With You, Rocky, Once, Peter and the Starcatcher, Jerusalem, Scottsboro Boys, American Idiot, Spring Awakening, Pillowman. Film: Seagull, Home at the End of the World, Flicka. TV: Glee (Emmy nom.) PORTIA KRIEGER (Associate Director) mostly directs new plays, mostly in New York. Recently: The Tomb of King Tot (Clubbed Thumb), Friend Art (2ST Uptown), and The Bachelors (Lesser America). Drama League, Lincoln Center Theater Lab alum. portiakrieger.com MARY GIATTINO (Associate Choreographer). Assoc./Asst. Choreographer credits: Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, Dear Evan Hansen, Billy Elliot, Lady Be Good, No No Nanette, Of Thee I Sing. She has choreographed at several Regional Theaters, performed on Broadway, danced for U.S. Presidents and kicked her heels as a Radio City Rockette. Mary is the proud owner of Stage Door School of Dance, in NY. Thank you Danny! marygiattino.com JUNIPER STREET PRODUCTIONS (Production Management) is Hillary Blanken, Ana Rose Greene, Guy Kwan, Joseph DeLuise, Victoria Bullard and Ross Leonard. Over the last 18 years, JSP has helped create over 60 Broadway and OffBroadway productions, over 20 national tours and numerous Las Vegas productions. Selected shows include: Dear Evan Hansen, In Transit, Oh Hello, War Paint, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Fully Committed, Waitress, The Color Purple, Fun Home, Something Rotten, Beautiful, Spider-Man, Memphis, The Producers and Fosse. BILLY JAY STEIN (Electronic Music Programmer) is a Grammy Awardwinning music producer, composer, 9F
WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST pianist/keyboardist and music director. Credits: Beautiful, 2016 Rio Olympics, Radio City Rockettes NY Spectacular, Tuck Everlasting, Spider-Man, Jekyll & Hyde, Flashdance, Sex and the City. strangecranium.com, strikeaudio.com SHAWN PENNINGTON (Production Stage Manager). Broadway: Wicked, Next to Normal, Sondheim on Sondheim. National Tours: If/Then, Peter and the Starcatcher, Rock of Ages, Spelling Bee, The Pajama Game, Gypsy, Will Rogers Follies, Smokey Joe’s Café. Regional: Up Here (La Jolla Playhouse), Little Miss Sunshine (Sundance Theatre Lab), Dallas Center for the Performing Arts. Love to Mom, Dad, Mark and Beth! GEOFF MAUS (Stage Manager). First National Tour: Matilda the Musical. Broadway: Matilda the Musical. OffBroadway: The Woodsman, Austin, BARE. Others: The Juilliard School (Guest Artist Production Stage Manager, 2013-2014). Proud member of Actors’ Equity. HEATHER ENGLANDER (Assistant Stage Manager). National Tours: If/Then. Broadway: Amazing Grace, Finding Neverland, If/Then. Off-Broadway: Doctor Faustus (CSC); Dying For It (ATC); Much Ado…(NYSF); Far From Heaven (Playwright’s Horizons); Killers And Other Family (Rattlestick); Talley’s Folly (Roundabout); GIANT, Into The Woods, Love’s Labor’s Lost (NYSF); The Bad Guys (Second Stage). Education: Barnard College. e2. BUIST BICKLEY (Production Properties Supervisor). Select Broadway: Blackbird, Hughie, The Color Purple, Thérèse Raquin, Sylvia, Old Times, An Act of God, The Visit, The Heidi Chronicles, The Audience, The Elephant Man, It’s Only a Play, The Last Ship, Act One, Machinal, 9G
Waiting for Godot, The Nance, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Seminar, Other Desert Cities. BROADWAY BOOKING OFFICE NYC (Press and Marketing) is a leading theatrical tour booking, marketing and press company representing award-winning musicals and plays. Currently: Jersey Boys, Cameron Mackintosh’s spectacular new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables, Matilda The Musical, Beautiful – The Carole King Musical, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, The Sound of Music, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The King and I, Fun Home, Love Never Dies, Into The Woods and The Rat Pack is Back!. www.bbonyc.com 321 THEATRICAL MANAGEMENT (General Management) credits include WICKED (Worldwide); War Paint; Oh, Hello on Broadway; Fully Committed (Broadway revival & original OffBroadway); Fun Home; If/Then; The SpongeBob Musical; Peter and the Starcatcher; Bring It On: The Musical; Sister Act; Traces; Next To Normal; 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; The Vagina Monologues; Man of La Mancha; The Graduate; I Love You, You’re Perfect…; and Bat Boy. Other management credits include The Lion King; Smokey Joe’s Café; The Santaland Diaries; Full Gallop; Smoke on the Mountain; Rent; Guys & Dolls; and The Diary of Anne Frank. 321 Theatrical Management includes Nina Essman, Nancy Gibbs, Marcia Goldberg, Ken Silverman, Danielle Karliner Naish, & Amy Merlino. FOX THEATRICALS (Producer). Under the leadership of Kristin Caskey and Mike Isaacson, Broadway credits include The Humans (Tony Award) Fun Home (Tony Award); If/Then; Grace; Bring It On (Tony 704.372.1000 | BlumenthalArts.org
WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST Award nomination); Red (Tony Award); Thoroughly Modern Millie (Tony Award); Legally Blonde; One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Tony Award); Death of a Salesman (Tony Award); The Seagull; ‘night, Mother; Caroline, or Change. Off-Broadway: Fun Home and Traces. For the Independent Presenters Network: Kinky Boots, Matilda, Spamalot, The Color Purple. Fox Theatricals is a division of Fox Associates, owner and operator of the Fox Theatre in St. Louis; led by president Jack Feivou and owners Mary Strauss, Lisa Baudendistel Suntrup, Julie Baudendistel Noonan. BARBARA WHITMAN (Producer). Credits on Broadway include: The Humans (Tony Award, Best Play) Oh, Hello starring Nick Kroll and John Mulaney, Fun Home (Tony Award, Best Musical), Fully Committed starring Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Tony Award, Best Musical Revival), If/Then starring Idina Menzel, Red (Tony Award, Best Play), Next to Normal (Pulitzer), and Spelling Bee. A native New Yorker, Barbara attended NYU’s Gallatin School and received an MFA in Theatre Management and Producing from Columbia University. She’s on the Board of the Tectonic Theater Project. Her proudest productions are her sons, Daniel and Will. CAROLE SHORENSTEIN HAYS (Producer). The San Francisco native is pioneering the redesign of the landmark theatre, the Curran. She is delighted to be a part of the artistic and tech community and is dedicated to the creative disruption and innovation that defines the spirit of the Bay Area. TOM CASSERLY (Producer) is lucky to be a part of Barbara Whitman Productions. He has worked on a range of projects including Oh Hello, Fully Committed, 704.372.1000 | BlumenthalArts.org
Murder for Two and Peter and the Starcatcher. He’s immensely grateful to be on the FH team — thanks to Barbara, Nathan, friends and family! LATITUDE LINK (Producer) is a fourtime Tony Award-winning production company with shows on stages worldwide. Currently running shows on stage: Fun Home (2015 Tony), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2014 Tony), Matilda, Jersey Boys (2006 Tony), Come From Away (Broadway 2017). latitudelink.com TERRY SCHNUCK/JACK LANE (Producer). Broadway producing credits for Terry include: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, You Can’t Take It With You, Matilda, Fun Home (Tony), Clybourne Park (Tony), The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (Tony), Bonnie & Clyde, Hair (Tony) and Spring Awakening (Tony). Off-B’way: Shear Madness. Broadway producing credits for Jack include: Peter and the Starcatcher (Tony nomination), Fun Home (Tony) and The Humans (Tony). Off-B’way: Shear Madness. SCOTT M. DELMAN (Producer) is an inveterate theatre enthusiast and venture capitalist. Over the past decade, he has invested/co-produced and produced over 50 plays and musicals on Broadway, London’s West End and on tour. Scott has earned nine Tony Awards and he’s undoubtedly proudest of the Fun Home team. NATHAN VERNON (Producer). Broadway: Fun Home (2015 Tony Award), Peter and the Starcatcher (2012 Tony Award Nomination), Oh, Hello on Broadway. Special thanks to Tom Casserly, Barbara Whitman, Kristin Caskey and Mike Isaacson. JAM THEATRICALS (Producer) under the direction of founders Arny Granat and 9H
WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST Steve Traxler, manages subscription series in 30 cities throughout North America and has produced more than 45 shows on Broadway, winning nine Tony Awards along the way. THE FORSTALLS (Producer) Scott and Molly Forstall won a Tony Award for Fun Home after years of Scott leading the creation of iPhone and iPad software. They share their love of theatre with their children, Freya and Nils. Also Co-Producers, Eclipsed (Broadway). SPENCER ROSS (Producer) is the founder of SBR Productions LLC, www. sbrproductions.com. Broadway: An American in Paris, Amélie, Come From Away, Significant Other. KEN WHITNEY (Producer) is a retired senior managing director of Blackstone. He and his wife Liz, a former actress, are active supporters of the arts. KRISTIN CASKEY (Producer) is President of Fox Theatricals. With partner Mike Isaacson, Broadway credits include The Humans (Tony Award); Fun Home (2015 Tony Award); If/Then; Bring it On; Red (Tony Award); Legally Blonde (London’s Olivier Award); Thoroughly Modern Millie (Tony Award); One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Tony Award); Death of a Salesman (Tony Award); The Seagull; ’night, Mother; Caroline, or Change. Off-Broadway/national tour: Traces. For the IPN: The Color Purple, Kinky Boots (Tony Award), Matilda. Kristin also programs the U.S. Bank Broadway Series at the Fabulous Fox Theatre in St. Louis, is a member of the Independent Presenters Network and on the Executive Committee and Board of Governors for the Broadway League. Proud Mom to Miles. 9I
MIKE ISAACSON (Producer). Isaacson co heads Fox Theatricals with Kristin Caskey. They have produced more than 20 Broadway musicals and plays, national tours, Off-Broadway plays and London productions. Highlights include The Humans (Tony Award); Fun Home (Tony Award); If/Then; Bring It On: The Musical; Death of a Salesman (1999 Tony Award, Best Revival); Caroline, or Change; Legally Blonde the Musical (2011 Olivier Award, Best Musical); Traces; Thoroughly Modern Millie (2002 Tony Award, Best Musical); and Red (2010 Tony Award, Best Play). Isaacson is also the artistic director and executive producer of the MUNY, America’s legendary outdoor theatre in St. Louis, Missouri, now in its 99th season. THE PUBLIC THEATER is the only theater in New York that produces Shakespeare, plays, musicals, and contemporary pieces in equal measure. The Public continues the work of its founder Joe Papp as an advocate for theater as an essential cultural force, leading and framing dialogue on some of the most important issues of our day. The Public’s wide range of programming includes new work at its flagship home on Astor Place, Free Shakespeare in the Park at the Delacorte, Public Forum, Mobile Unit, Under the Radar, Public Studio, Public Works and nightly music at Joe’s Pub. The Public is the recipient of 59 Tonys, 168 Obies, 53 Drama Desk Awards, 54 Lortel Awards, 32 OCC Awards, 5 Pulitzer Prizes. www.publictheater.org
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STAFF STAFF FOR FUN HOME _____________________________________________________ GENERAL MANAGEMENT 321 Theatrical Management Nina Essman Nancy Nagel Gibbs Marcia Goldberg Ken Silverman _____________________________________________________ COMPANY MANAGER Michael Camp _____________________________________________________ TOUR PRESS AND MARKETING Broadway Booking Office NYC Steven Schnepp Kent McIngvale, Jenny Bates, David Freeland Zach Stevenson, Sean Mackey, Stacey Burns Danny Knaub, Rachel Peterson, Phil Della Noce _____________________________________________________ TOUR BOOKING AGENCY The Booking Group Meredith Blair Kara Gebhart www.thebookinggroup.com _____________________________________________________ CASTING Jim Carnahan Casting Jim Carnahan, CSA Jillian Cimini, CSA Carrie Gardner, CSA Stephen Kopel, CSA Alexandre Bleau Peter Van Dam Louis DiPaolo _____________________________________________________ PRODUCTION MANAGER JUNIPER STREET PRODUCTIONS Hillary Blanken Ana Rose Greene Guy Kwan Joseph DeLuise Victoria Bullard Ross Leonard _____________________________________________________ Production Stage Manager..........Shawn Pennington Stage Manager...............................................Geoff Maus Assistant Stage Manager..................Heather Englander Assistant Company Manager........................Julia Sattler Associate Director......................................Portia Krieger Assistant Director.........................Ashley Brooke Monroe Associate Choreographer........................... Mary Giattino Associate General Manager.....................Tracy Geltman, Amy Merlino Coey Production Consultant...........................Kevin Bertolacci Executive Assistant, Fox Theatricals.............Sally Lindel Associate Scenic Designer...........................Tim McMath Associate Costume Designer.......................Abigail Hahn Costume Shopper............................................. Amy Price Costume Studio Assistant............................ Sarah Dixey Associate Lighting Designer............................Ken Elliott Assistant Lighting Designer........ Lois Catanzaro Gordon Associate Sound Designer................Stephanie Celustka Production Carpenter................................Erik E. Hansen 704.372.1000 | BlumenthalArts.org
Production Electrician................................... Daniel Coey Production Sound Engineer.....................Patrick Pummill Production Properties Supervisor............... Buist Bickley Original Broadway Properties......Faye Armon-Tronscoso Moving Light Programmer............................... Alex Fogel Video Content......................................... Lucy Mackinnon Head Carpenter........................................Kevin Hoekstra Flyman.......................................................... Jason Edens Assistant Carpenter...................................Randy Deboer Head Electrician.............................................Oliver Read Followspot Operator..................................... Kevin Zegan Assistant Electrics............................ Lionel “Train” Riley Head Sound.............................................Douglas Graves Assistant Sound.................................. Michael Weferling Head Props.................................................Lonnie Goertz Assistant Props.......................................Carlos Wauman Wardrobe Supervisor....................................Kristina May Assistant Wardrobe Supervisor............... Jason Flanders Legal Counsel.........................................Nan Bases, Esq. Accounting..............................WithumSmith+Brown, PC Finance and Operations Manager..........Danielle Karliner Naish Production Photographer.............................Joan Marcus Production Assistant.............................Mackenzie Blade Tutoring........................................On Location Education Tutor/Child Guardian............................. Carolyn Dunning Housing and Travel........................................Road Rebel Insurance............... Owens Group Insurance, Bob Owens Banking................................................... Signature Bank Payroll............................................ Checks and Balances Merchandising. ..................................Max Merchandising _____________________________________________________ Rehearsed at Baryshnikov Arts Center _____ and New 42nd Street Studios ______________________________________________________ 321 THEATRICAL MANAGEMENT Heather Allen, Deborah Barrigan, Amy Merlino Coey, Katie Engel, Marissa Gonzales, Colton Hochhalter, Rachel Kaufman, Ellise Lesser, Stuart Levy, Uma McCrosson, Jason Neufeld, Rebecca Peterson, Emily Powell, Steve Quinn, Susan Sampliner, Tyler Siems, Benjamin Simpson _____________________________________________________ CREDITS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Scenery built by Hudson Scenic Studios, Inc. Show Control and Scenic Motion Control featuring Stage Command Systems® by PRG-Scenic Technologies,a divisionof ProductionResourcegroup, L.L.C., New Windsor, NY. Lighting Equipment by Christie Lites. Sound equipment by Masque Sound. Built costumes executed by John Kristiansen New York Inc. Custom Shirts executed by Cego. Specialty props by Prop N Spoon, Ramos Upholstery, Prop & Paint Creative Studio, JP Carrier and Joseph Cairo. 9J
STAFF _____________________________________________________ www.FunHomeMusical.com Facebook, Twitter & Instagram: @FunHomeMusical _____________________________________________________ PUBLIC THEATER STAFF Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director Patrick Willingham, Executive Director Mandy Hackett, Associate Artistic Director Maria Manuela Goyanes, Associate Producer Jordan Thaler and Heidi Griffiths, Casting Terry Morello, Chief Advancement Officer Jeanie O’Hare, Director of New Work Development Jeremy Adams, General Manager Mark Russell, Co-Director of the Under the Radar Festival Shanta Thake, Director of Joe’s Pub Stephanie Ybarra, Director of Special Artistic Projects Tom McCann, Senior Director of Marketing Candi Adams, Director of Communications Ruth E. Sternberg, Production Executive
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The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States. The Director and Choreographer are members of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Inc., an independent national labor union. This production is produced by a member of The Broadway League in collaboration with our professional union-represented employees. Backstage and Front of the House Employees are represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (or I.A.T.S.E.). United Scenic Artists represents the designers and scenic painters for the American Theatre. The Musicians employed in this production are members of the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada. The Press Agents, Company and House Managers employed in this production are represented by the Association of Theatrical Press Agents & Managers.
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MAJOR GIFTS
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$15,000+ CEO PARTNERS
$10,000+ PRESIDENTIAL PARTNERS
LEADERSHIP GRANTS The Arts & Science Council supports Blumenthal Performing Arts’ 2017 fiscal year budget with operating and programmatic grants.
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Maria in Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music.
he spirited, romantic and beloved musical story of Maria and the von Trapp Family will return to the stage of Belk Theater Nov. 24-26 to once again thrill audiences with its Tony®, Grammy® and Academy® award-winning best score, including “My Favorite Things,” “Do-Re-Mi,” “Climb Ev’ry Mountain,” “Edelweiss” and the title song. The Sound of Music features music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, and book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, suggested by “The Trapp Family Singers” by Maria Augusta Trapp. “Every review of the national tour of The Sound of Music (this one included) notes that the production dusts off some traditions and discards others, giving us a clearer view of its creators’ intentions. What emerges is a version like no other I’ve seen,” hailed Lawrence Toppman with The Charlotte Observer. “All I can say is that this new production is one of the finest I have seen in a long, long time,” said Don Grigware with Broadwayworld.com. “It soars with human touches and has a magnificent cast that win our hearts.” The musical enjoyed extraordinary success as the first live television production of a musical in over 50 years when The Sound of Music Live! aired on NBC in December 2013 and was seen by over 44 million people. 2015 marked the 50th anniversary of the film version, which continues to be the most successful movie musical in history.
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