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Backstage With The Band’s Visit............................................................ 4 Spend Your Summer With Charlotte Ballet! .........................................12 New Opera Carolina Season Depicts Human Struggles ...................... 16 Superstar Violinist, a Firebird, Sinatra and More at the Symphony......... 18
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George Abud, Harvey Valdes, Ossama Farouk, Sam Sadigursky and Garo Yellin in The Band's Visit.
Backstage With The Band’s Visit
Producer Orin Wolf and Writer Itamar Moses talk about their multiple Tony Award-winning show By Liz Rothaus Bertrand
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hen Orin Wolf saw an early screening of the film The Band’s Visit, he had an immediate impulse: to put it on stage. “It was a moment of clarity for me that doesn’t happen very often in my life,” says Wolf. Some eight years later, his initial inspiration would become one of the most celebrated and critically-acclaimed musicals of all time. Winner of 10 Tony Awards in 2018, this story of an Egyptian military band that gets stranded for one night in a remote Israeli village is now beginning a national tour, and Charlotte audiences will be among the first to see it. The Band’s Visit comes to Knight Theater Aug. 6-25. Tony-winning writer Itamar Moses and Wolf, the show’s lead producer, recently visited Charlotte to talk about the show’s origins, the creative process and some highlights of their journey. Here’s what they had to say: 4
INSPIRATION Wolf, who already had a cultural connection to the story (his wife is Israeli), recalls three things that convinced him it would be ripe for a stage adaptation: 1. People are stuck. “That’s a theme in a lot of the plays that has shaped my love of the theater, spanning everything from Chekhov to O’Neill to Mamet to Moses,” says Wolf. 2. People use a second language to communicate. “I’ve always believed fundamentally that theater as a medium is about the exploration of language and how we communicate,” says Wolf. 3. Musicians are part of the story. “I always have a problem with this Continued on Page 7
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notion that people start singing randomly,” says Wolf, “so the idea that this band was lost and had their instruments on them and were stuck with them felt for me as a sort of a rationalizer of musicals …” THE CREATIVE PROCESS In some ways, this show was easier for Moses to write than other musicals he’s created since a screenplay already existed. “The bones of it were already very sound because the movie’s very good,” he says. The first step was creating a full-length play without any music – keeping the parts that translated to the stage and adding components to fill in the story as needed. One particular challenge of adaptation was conveying emotion when cinematic tricks like actor close-ups and wide pans of the desert weren’t possible. “You have to replace those visual metaphors with theatrical metaphors,” says Moses, who grew up in California, the son of Israeli immigrants. Once they had a script, he and composer David Yazbek (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Full Monty) worked together to find the best moments to add music. The process was collaborative and ongoing, as Yazbek – who is of Lebanese and Jewish descent – created a score unlike anything else on Broadway. Filled with Middle Eastern melodies and instruments, music became a central way the characters connected with one another. HIGHLIGHTS OF THE JOURNEY Winning the Tony was thrilling but Moses says his most gratifying moment took place during previews for the initial off-Broadway run. He and the rest of the creative team kept tinkering with the show until one memorable night. “We
started seeing the audience walking out at the end kind of shaken, and with tears in their eyes and hugging each other,” says Moses. “We realized that this thing we’d been after, this very hard to pin down alchemy that was going to create this deep emotional experience for people, had happened.” Later, when critics agreed and were able to articulate to the public what the creators had intended and the awards started rolling in, it just felt like icing on the cake. For Wolf, looking back at the show’s Broadway success and now bringing it to cities like Charlotte is extremely gratifying. “There’s so much going on in the world that’s daunting and overwhelming and noisy and angry, and yet this gentle show has been embraced by a commercial audience in a commercial industry. And to me it just fills me with optimism,” says Wolf. “It fills me with joy that the world we inhabit made room for the musical The Band’s Visit.”
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Bill Army and Sharone Sayegh in The Band's Visit.
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Jujamcyn Theaters and NETworks Presentations present
T H E L I N C O L N C E N T E R T H E AT E R P R O D U C T I O N O F
Music and Lyrics by William Finn
Book by William Finn and James Lapine with (in alphabetical order)
Nick Adams Nick Blaemire Audrey Cardwell Eden Espinosa Thatcher Jacobs Jonah Mussolino Bryonha Marie Parham Max von Essen Josh Canfield Melanie Evans Megan Loughran Set
Costumes
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Lighting
Jennifer Caprio
Hair & Wigs
Tom Watson Music Supervisor
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Associate Choreographer
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Ellenore Scott
Orchestrations
Music Conductor
Michael Starobin
Casting
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Tour Booking, Engagement Management, Press & Marketing
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Choreographer
Spencer Liff Director
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Playwrights Horizons, Inc, New York City, produced MARCH OF THE FALSETTOS Off-Broadway in 1981 and FALSETTOLAND Off-Broadway in 1990.
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Nick Adams
Nick Blaemire
Audrey Cardwell
Eden Espinosa
Thatcher Jacobs
Jonah Mussolino
Bryonha Marie Parham
Max von Essen
Josh Canfield
Melanie Evans
Megan Loughran
Darick Pead
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CAST
(in order of appearance) Marvin................................................................................................................ MAX VON ESSEN Jason (at certain performances).............................THATCHER JACOBS, JONAH MUSSOLINO
Whizzer..................................................................................................................... NICK ADAMS
Mendel................................................................................................................ NICK BLAEMIRE Trina.....................................................................................................................EDEN ESPINOSA Dr. Charlotte...................................................................................BRYONHA MARIE PARHAM
Cordelia.......................................................................................................AUDREY CARDWELL ACT I 1979 ACT II 1981 THERE WILL BE ONE 15-MINUTE INTERMISSION. UNDERSTUDIES and STANDBYS Understudies and Standbys never substitute for listed performers unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the appearance.
For Marvin, Whizzer, Mendel: JOSH CANFIELD, DARICK PEAD; for Trina: AUDREY CARDWELL, MEGAN LOUGHRAN; for Dr. Charlotte, Cordelia: MELANIE EVANS, MEGAN LOUGHRAN. ORCHESTRA Conductor—P. JASON YARCHO Associate Conductor—MAX GROSSMAN Piano—P. JASON YARCHO; Keyboard—MAX GROSSMAN; Reeds—PHILIP VARRICCHIO; Drums/Percussion—JEREMY LOWE; Keyboard Programmer—TAYLOR WILLIAMS, Randy Cohen Keyboards. Music Coordinator—MICHAEL KELLER
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MUSICAL NUMBERS ACT ONE
Four Jews in a Room Bitching......................................................Whizzer, Marvin, Jason, Mendel, Trina A Tight Knit Family........................................................................................................................ Marvin Love Is Blind.................................................................................Marvin, Jason, Whizzer, Mendel, Trina Thrill of First Love........................................................................................................... Marvin, Whizzer Marvin at the Psychiatrist (A Three Part Mini-Opera)........................... Jason, Mendel, Whizzer, Marvin Everyone Tells Jason to See a Psychiatrist.................................................Jason, Marvin, Trina, Whizzer This Had Better Come to a Stop...................................................Marvin, Whizzer, Jason, Trina, Mendel I’m Breaking Down............................................................................................................................ Trina Please, Come to Our House ...................................................................................... Mendel, Trina, Jason Jason’s Therapy............................................................................Mendel, Trina, Whizzer, Marvin, Jason A Marriage Proposal.............................................................................................................Mendel, Trina A Tight Knit Family (reprise) ...........................................................................................Marvin, Mendel Trina’s Song........................................................................................................................................ Trina March of the Falsettos............................................................................. Mendel, Marvin, Jason, Whizzer Trina’s Song (reprise)......................................................................................................................... Trina The Chess Game.............................................................................................................. Marvin, Whizzer Making a Home ......................................................................................... Mendel, Jason, Trina, Whizzer The Games I Play .......................................................................................................................... Whizzer Marvin Goes Crazy.......................................................................Marvin, Mendel, Jason, Trina, Whizzer I Never Wanted to Love You .......................................................Marvin, Mendel, Jason, Trina, Whizzer Father to Son ........................................................................................................................ Marvin, Jason
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Welcome to Falsettoland ...................................................................................................... The Company The Year of the Child........................................... Jason, Trina, Marvin, Mendel, Dr. Charlotte, Cordelia Miracle of Judaism .............................................................................................................................Jason The Baseball Game .............................................................................................................. The Company A Day in Falsettoland........................................................................................................... The Company Everyone Hates His Parents ....................................................................... Mendel, Jason, Marvin, Trina What More Can I Say?..................................................................................................................... Marvin Something Bad Is Happening....................................................Dr. Charlotte, Cordelia, Marvin, Whizzer Holding to the Ground........................................................................................................................ Trina Days Like This I Almost Believe in God.............................................................................. The Company Cancelling the Bar Mitzvah ...................................................................................... Jason, Mendel, Trina Unlikely Lovers ........................................................................Marvin, Whizzer, Dr. Charlotte, Cordelia Another Miracle of Judaism ...............................................................................................................Jason You Gotta Die Sometime .............................................................................................................. Whizzer Jason’s Bar Mitzvah.............................................................................................................. The Company What Would I Do? .......................................................................................................... Marvin, Whizzer
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WHO’S WHO in the CAST NICK ADAMS (Whizzer) originated and starred as Adam/Felicia in the Tony winning Broadway musical Priscilla Queen of the Desert (Winner of two Broadway Audience Choice Awards, American Theater Hall of Fame Honoree, Astaire Award nominee) and is the final actor to star as Fiyero in the First National Tour of Wicked. Other Broadway: A Chorus Line (Larry), Guys and Dolls (Liver Lips Louis, ORC), Chicago (Mary Sunshine standby), La Cage Aux Folles (2010 Tony Winning Revival, OBC), and The Pirate Queen (OBC). TV/Film: “The Other Two” (Comedy Central), Sex and the City 2, An Englishman in New York, “Smash,” “As the World Turns,” “Guiding Light,” “Dancing with the Stars,” Kennedy Center Honors, Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, The Tony Awards, Go-Go Boy Interrupted. Recordings: Priscilla Queen of the Desert, La Cage, The Pirate Queen, Sex And The City 2, Dee Does Broadway, Crossroads Broadway album. BFA Boston Conservatory. @thenickadams NICK BLAEMIRE (Mendel) is honored to join the Falsettos legacy. Broadway: Godspell, Cry-Baby, Glory Days (music/ lyrics). Off-Broadway/Tour: tick, tick… Boom! (Keen Co, Drama Desk nom), Found (Atlantic), Dogfight (2ndStage), The Black Suits (SPF/Public), Altar Boyz (1st National). Regional: SpongeBob (Chicago), The Last Goodbye (Williamstown), Bring it On (Alliance), James Lapine’s Mrs. Miller Does Her Thing (Vineyard). TV/ Film: “Fosse/Verdon,” “The Big C,” “The Good Wife,” “Law and Order,” Whit Stillman’s “Damsels in Distress.” Writing: A Little More Alive (KC Rep, Barrington, film option), Soon (Signature, Stephen Sondheim Citation), Fallout (with Kyle Jarrow), Space Dogs (with Van Hughes and Tina Landau). Go Blue! Love to Ana and Leo McGarry! @blaemire AUDREY CARDWELL (Cordelia, u/s Trina) most recently starred as Alice Murphy in the First National Tour of Bright Star. Other national touring credits include 704.372.1000 | BlumenthalArts.org
Cinderella (Ella), Anything Goes and Elf. Regional credits include The Old Globe (Sarah Brown, Guys and Dolls), Asolo Repertory Theatre (Sarah Brown, Guys and Dolls), Houston TUTS, Atlanta TOTS, Dallas Summer Musicals, North Shore Music Theatre, The MUNY, Red Mountain Theatre Company and Pennsylvania Centre Stage. Audrey holds a BFA from Penn State University. @akatcard EDEN ESPINOSA (Trina) is most recognized for her portrayal of Elphaba in Wicked. Other Broadway credits include Brooklyn in Brooklyn the Musical, and Maureen in Rent. Regional credits are Sadie Thompson in Rain, Flora in Flora the Red Menace, Eva Peron in Evita, Emma Borden in the rock musical Lizzie, and she played Mary Flynn to rave reviews in Merrily We Roll Along. She was Daniela in Kennedy Center’s In The Heights, and most recently she originated the role of Tamara De Lempicka in the world premiere of Lempicka. Her TV appearances include “Law and Order,” “Ugly Betty,” and “Elementary.” Voiceover credits are Tangled the Series, Robot Chicken, “MAD TV,” Elena of Avalor, and Titan Maximum. Eden’s debut album, “Look Around” and new album of original music Revelation are available at digital retail outlets. edenespinosa.com @edenespinosa THATCHER JACOBS (Jason) is honored to make Falsettos his national tour debut. Youth productions include: Best Christmas Pageant Ever the musical, A Christmas Story the musical, Gypsy, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Special thanks to First Stage professional theatre in Milwaukee, WI. Thanks to Mara Entertainment, my parents, friends and family for this incredible opportunity. JONAH MUSSOLINO (Jason). Broadway: A Bronx Tale (Young Calogero). National tour: Les Misérables (Gavroche). Other Credits: Gypsy (Newsboy-Gallery Players and LaGuardia), Ragtime (EdgarGallery Players). Champion ballroom 9D
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dancer. Thanks to Mom, Dad, Talia, Mema, Barry Kolker, Bill Perlman, Tara Rubin Casting, creative team, Amelia DeMayo, Mark Schneider, family & friends. Instagram: jonah.mussolino BRYONHA MARIE PARHAM (Dr. Charlotte). Broadway: Prince of Broadway, Book of Mormon, After Midnight, The Gershwin’s Porgy & Bess (Serena), Ragtime (Sarah’s Friend). Off Broadway/ NY: Candide (Carnegie Hall), NY Philharmonic’s Showboat and Sweeney Todd (Beggar Woman), Ragtime (Lincoln Center), World Premiere: DAVE (Arena Stage), Prince of Broadway (Tokyo Orb). Concert: New York Philharmonic, San Diego Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra (MASS). Regional: The Gershwin’s Porgy & Bess (ART), Ragtime (Kennedy Center), Civil War (NETworks), HAIR (Sacramento Music Circus), Dreamgirls (Effie White at NSMT), Little Shop of Horrors (Berkshire Theatre Festival) and many more! Television: “Madame Secretary,” “Showboat” and “Sweeney Todd LIVE at Lincoln Center” for PBS (Emmy), 66th/68th Annual Tony Awards®, The Today Show.Twitter/Instagram: @BryonhaMarie MAX VON ESSEN (Marvin) Broadway: Anastasia, An American in Paris (Tony/ Drama Desk/Grammy nominations), Evita, Les Misérables revival, Dance of the Vampires, closing company of original Les Misérables, Jesus Christ Superstar. NY: Yours Unfaithfully, Death Takes a Holiday, Hello Again, Jerry Springer: The Opera, Finian’s Rainbow. Tours: Xanadu, Chicago, West Side Story. TV/Film: “Law & Order: SVU,” “Elementary,” “Boardwalk Empire,” “The Good Wife,” “Royal Pains,” “Gossip Girl,” Seven Lovers, Sex and the City 2, Submissions Only (webseries). Max’s solo album, “Call Me Old Fashioned” now available. @maxizpad. JOSH CANFIELD (u/s Marvin/Whizzer/ Mendel). Broadway: Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 (with 9E
Josh Groban); Doctor Zhivago. TV: “Survivor” (Season 29, CBS), “Any Dream Will Do” (BBC). Off-Broadway: Natasha...Comet of 1812 (Anatole). Select Regional: Cabaret (Emcee), Anything Goes (Billy), Memphis (Huey), Hair (Claude), The Rocky Horror Show (Rocky), Godspell (Jesus). Graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Thanks to 9Muse, Michael, Kaitlin, TRC, and Hunter. @itsjoshcanfield MELANIE EVANS (u/s Dr. Charlotte/ Cordelia). 1st National Tours: School of Rock and Motown. Other Credits: Radio City Christmas Spectacular, NBC Diversity Showcase, Blue Bloods. Thank you to Tara Rubin Casting and Andreadis Talent. Instagram:melevansny. MEGAN LOUGHRAN (u/s Dr. Charlotte/ Cordelia/Trina) Sweeney Todd (Lincoln Center); F Theory (NJ Rep); Chicago City Limits Improv (NYC & tour); Fancy Nancy: The Musical (NYC & tour); winner of NYC’s Cabaret Showdown. Education: Yale University. meganloughran.com DARICK PEAD (u/s Marvin/Whizzer/ Mendel) National/International tour: Into the Woods (Rapunzel’s Prince, Florinda, Milky White); Beauty and the Beast (Beast). Regional Theatre: Beauty and the Beast (Beast) Maine State Music Theatre, Touchtones (Brad) Arden Theatre, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Freddy Benson) Hale Theater. Instagram: d_piddy1213 JAMES LAPINE (Co-author/Director) has also worked with William Finn on A New Brain, Muscle, Little Miss Sunshine, and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. He has written the book for and directed Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, Passion and the multi-media revue Sondheim on Sondheim. He has written five plays and directed many Broadway and and off-Broadway productions as well as four films. His HBO documentary Six By 704.372.1000 | BlumenthalArts.org
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Sondheim won a Peabody Award and an Emmy nomination for direction. He has been nominated for twelve Tony Awards® winning three times along with receiving five Drama Desk Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. He was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 2011. WILLIAM FINN (Author). He has written/composed: In Trousers (L.A. Drama Critics Award), Falsettos (two Tony Awards: Best Book [with James Lapine] and Best Original Score), March of the Falsettos (Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Musical, L.A. Drama Critics Award), Falsettoland (two Drama Desk Awards and Lucille Lortel Award for Best Musical), Romance in Hard Times (Public Theater), A New Brain (Lincoln Center/Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical) Elegies: A Song Cycle (Lincoln Center), and Little Miss Sunshine (book by James Lapine). He has also written lyrics for Tango Apasionado, a great unseen dance piece by Graciela Daniele with music by Astor Piazzolla. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (book by Rachel Sheinkin) which ran for three years on Broadway is consistently produced throughout the world. He graduated from Williams College, where he was awarded the Hutchinson Fellowship in Musical Composition and currently teaches a weekly master class at NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. Under his mentorship, 10 world premiere musicals and 6 workshops have been produced in the Musical Theatre Lab at Barrington Stage Company in the Berkshires. SPENCER LIFF (Choreographer). Broadway: Head Over Heels, Falsettos, Spring Awakening (Deaf West revival), Hedwig and the Angry Inch. He’s best know for his work on the past 9 seasons of FOX’s “So You Think You Can Dance,” which have earned him 2 Emmy Award nominations for Best Choreography. Other TV: “Dancing with the Stars,” “How I Met Your Mother,” “One Day At A Time” (Netflix), “Parks 704.372.1000 | BlumenthalArts.org
and Recreation,” “Mike and Molly,” “2 Broke Girls,” “Alexa & Katie” (Netflix), The Latin Grammy Awards, The Emmy Awards, & “Best Time Ever” with Neil Patrick Harris (producer/choreographer). Film: Speech and Debate. Other regional theater includes Singin’ in the Rain (Director/Choreographer La Mirada), Little Shop of Horrors (The Kennedy Center), the world premiere of The Man in The Ceiling (Bay Street Theater), Aladdin (Laguna Playhouse Director/Choreo), Sleepless in Seattle the musical (Pasadena Playhouse), Circus in Winter (Goodspeed), Two Gentlemen of Verona: A Rock Opera (Shakespeare Theatre Company), Oliver! (Human Race Theatre), World Of Color (Disneyland). As a performer he’s been seen on Film, TV, and in five Broadway shows winning the 2008 Astaire Award for Best Male Dancer on Broadway . Twitter & Instagram @spencerliff DAVID ROCKWELL (Scenic Design). Broadway: The Hard Problem, The Nap, Pretty Woman, Lobby Hero, She Loves Me (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards), On the Twentieth Century (Tony nom.), You Can’t Take It With You (Tony nom.), Kinky Boots (Tony nom.), Lucky Guy (Tony nom.), Hairspray (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle noms.), and upcoming productions of Kiss Me Kate and Tootsie. Off Broadway: the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park. Founder and President of Rockwell Group, the architecture firm which recently renovated the Hayes Theater for Second Stage. Honors: AIANY President’s Award, Cooper Hewitt National Design Award, Presidential Design Award. JENNIFER CAPRIO (Costume Design) Broadway: Falsettos, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. West End: The Lion (St. James). National/ International tours: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Lion, …Spelling Bee, Kaleidoscope on Celebrity Cruise Line NYC/OffBroadway: Call Me Madam (Encores!), 9F
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Sakina’s Restaurant (Audible), Perfect Arrangement, A Walk with Mr. Heifetz, In Transit (Primary Stages); Little Children Dream of God (Roundabout); Little Miss Sunshine, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Second Stage); Cherry Lane; LaMama; ETC; Ensemble Studio Theatre. Over 150 productions in LORT theaters including: The Kennedy Center, Guthrie, Alley Theatre, Paper Mill Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival (five seasons), Goodspeed Musicals (four seasons), La Jolla Playhouse, Dallas Theater Center (16 productions), Opera: Salome, La Bohème, Roméo et Juliette (Minnesota Opera); Pagliacci, Tosca, Barber of Seville, Sweeney Todd (Mill City Summer Opera); Florida Grand Opera; Opera Colorado; Opera Boston. TV: “Sesame Street” (Assistant Costume Designer, Seasons 47-50) JEFF CROITER (Lighting Design). Broadway: Falsettos, Bandstand, Holiday Inn, Something Rotten!, Disaster!, Penn & Teller, Newsies, Peter and the Starcatcher (Tony Award®), Mothers and Sons, A Time to Kill, Soul Doctor, Jekyll & Hyde, The Anarchist, The Performers, The Peewee Herman Show, Next Fall, Kiki & Herb. Off-Broadway includes: The Other Josh Cohen; Daniel’s Husband; Popcorn Falls; The True; Smokey Joe’s Café; Jerry Springer Opera; Tiny Beautiful Things; Cost of Living; Sweet Charity; The Last Five Years; Almost Maine; Ordinary Days. Other credits include The Big Apple Circus; Penn & Teller (Las Vegas); Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall; Jennifer Muller/The Works. Received Tony, Hewes and Bass awards and Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Lortel, Ovation, Irne and Audelco nominations. DAN MOSES SCHREIER (Sound Design). Broadway: The Iceman Cometh, Falsettos, American Psycho, The Visit, Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Sondheim on Sondheim, A Little Night Music, Gypsy (Patti Lupone), Radio Golf, John Doyle’s production of Sweeney 9G
Todd, Gem Of the Ocean, Pacific Overtures, Assassins, Into The Woods, Topdog/Underdog, Dirty Blonde, Noise/ Funk. He has composed scores for the Broadway productions of Merchant of Venice (Al Pacino), Julius Caesar (Denzel Washington), The Tempest (Patrick Stewart). Recent Off-Broadway designs include the Yiddish Fiddler on the Roof and Carmen Jones at CSC. Awards: 5 TONY Awards nominations, 4 DRAMA DESK Awards. Dan played oboe and english horn in the original band of March of the Falsettos. TOM WATSON (Hair and Wig Design) headed the wig/makeup department at the Metropolitan Opera for 17 years. He has designed more than 80 Broadway productions including: Wicked, Rock of Ages, The King & I (LCT & Tour), Therese Raquin, Fiddler on the Roof, Oslo (LCT&London), Falsettos, The Little Foxes, Junk (LCT), The Parisian Woman, My Fair Lady and most recently, King Kong and True West. VADIM FEICHTNER (Music Supervisor). Broadway: Falsettos (revival); The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Off-Broadway: Fly By Night, A New Brain (City Center Encores!); Little Miss Sunshine; Nobody Loves You; Elegies: A Song Cycle; The Other Josh Cohen; The Memory Show; Infinite Joy; The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; The Burnt Part Boys; Ordinary Days; Long Story Short; I Sing!; Songs of Innocence & Experience; As You Like It (The Public). TV: “Last Week Tonight.” MICHAEL STAROBIN (Orchestrations). LCT: The Glorious Ones, Bernarda Alba, A New Brain, Hello Again, My Favorite Year. Other theater includes First Daughter Suite, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, If/ Then, Annie, Dogfight, Queen of the Mist, The People in the Picture, Sondheim on Sondheim, Next to Normal, Grinch, Adrift in Macao, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Assassins, Tom Sawyer, 704.372.1000 | BlumenthalArts.org
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A Christmas Carol, Guys and Dolls, In Trousers, Sunday in the Park with George, Once on This Island, Closer Than Ever, Legs Diamond, Romance/Romance, Carrie, Birds of Paradise, Rags, Three Guys Naked, Von Richtofen. ERIC SANTAGATA (Associate Director). is happy to be returning to Falsettos after serving as Associate Director on the Broadway production. Recently, he served as Associate Director/ Choreographer on the new play, The Beast in the Jungle with direction and choreography by Susan Stroman and music by John Kander. He is an original creative team member of the critically acclaimed musical The Scottsboro Boys where he was the Assistant Director/Choreographer, working on all seven U.S. productions and two U.K. productions (The Young Vic and The West End). As a performer, Broadway credits include Prince Of Broadway, Bullets Over Broadway, Chaplin and The Apple Tree. He serves on the board of Westport Country Playhouse’s resident conservatory, the Broadway Method Academy and teaches theater arts across the country. ELLENORE SCOTT (Associate Choreographer). Broadway: King Kong (Associate Choreographer), Head Over Heels (Associate Choreographer), Cats Revival (Assistant Choreographer), Falsettos Revival (Assistant Choreographer). Off-Broadway: Pride and Prejudice at Cherry Lane Theater (Choreographer). Artistic Director of ELSCO Dance Company. Instagram: @ellenorescott P. JASON YARCHO (Music Conductor). Broadway: Wicked, Bullets Over Broadway, Shuffle Along, An American In Paris. Off Broadway: Cagney. Tours: Wicked (1st and 2nd National Tours), Bright Star. Other Credits: The Obie Awards, Papermill Playhouse, Westport Playhouse, Playwrights Horizons, The Muny, Barrington Stage Company, Cincinnati Pops. Masters Degree in Orchestral Conducting from CCM. 704.372.1000 | BlumenthalArts.org
MICHAEL KELLER (Music Coordinator) Current Broadway: Pretty Woman, Dear Evan Hansen, Anastasia, Hamilton, Kinky Boots, The Book of Mormon, Wicked, The Lion King. National tours: Dear Evan Hansen, Hamilton, The Book of Mormon, Wicked, The Lion King. TV: “The Wiz Live!,” “Royal Pains,” “Smash.” TARA RUBIN CASTING (Casting). Selected Broadway: King Kong, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, The Band’s Visit, Prince of Broadway, Indecent, Bandstand, Sunset Boulevard, Miss Saigon, Dear Evan Hansen, A Bronx Tale, Cats, Falsettos, Disaster!, School of Rock, Les Misérables, The Heiress, The Phantom of the Opera, Billy Elliot, Shrek, Spamalot, … Spelling Bee, The Producers, Mamma Mia!, Jersey Boys. Off-Broadway: Gloria: A Life, Smokey Joe’s Café; Jersey Boys; Here Lies Love; Love, Loss and What I Wore. Selected Regional: Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe, Asolo Rep. www.tararubincasting.com BROADWAY BOOKING OFFICE NYC (Tour Booking, Engagement Management, Press and Marketing) is a leading theatrical tour booking, marketing and press company representing awardwinning musicals and plays. Currently: Jersey Boys, Cameron Mackintosh’s spectacular new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables, Miss Saigon, Beautiful The Carole King Musical, A Bronx Tale, Falsettos, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, The Sound of Music, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The King and I and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies. bbonyc.com GREGORY R. COVERT (Production Stage Manager). New York: A Chorus Line (NY City Center 2018); Les Misérables (2014 revival); The Addams Family; Phantom of the Opera; Beauty and the Beast; Brooklyn, the Musical; Sight 9H
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to delivering quality entertainment to audiences worldwide. Having toured over 70 productions internationally, NETworks’ current and upcoming touring productions include Cameron Mackintosh’s The Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables, Finding Neverland, The Sound of Music, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The King and I, The Band’s Visit, A Bronx Tale, Falsettos, Fiddler on the Roof and Cameron Mackintosh’s Miss Saigon. OPENING NIGHT FEBRUARY 12, 2019 STAFF FOR FALSETTOS EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Red Awning/Nicole Kastrino, Orin Wolf GENERAL MANAGEMENT GENTRY & ASSOCIATES Gregory Vander Ploeg Jamey Jennings Steve Varon Pearce Landry-Wegener Nicole Gehring PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT NETWORKS PRESENTATIONS Jason Juenker Hector Guivas Evan Rooney Walker White Emma Downey CASTING TARA RUBIN CASTING Tara Rubin, CSA Merri Sugarman, CSA Kaitlin Shaw, CSA Laura Schutzel, CSA Clare Burke, CSA Peter Van Dam, CSA Felicia Rudolph, CSA Xavier Rubiano, CSA Louis DiPaolo, Kevin Metzger-Timson, Juliet Auwaerter TOUR BOOKING, ENGAGEMENT MANAGMENT, 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 BBONYC.com
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Warehouse Manager..................................... Brad Korff Warehouse Costume Manager........Bobby Maglaughlin REHEARSED AT New Ripley-Grier, New York City CREDITS Scenery and scenic effects built, painted, electrified by Great Lakes Scenic Services, Burlington ON . Lighting equipment by PRG. Sound equipment by Masque Sound. Costumes executed by John Kristiansen New York Inc. Men’s tailoring by Christopher Schramm, Miller’s Oath and Piort Candelario. Shirts by Cego. Rentals from Right to the Moon Alice, Western Costumes, Helen Uffner Vintage LLC. SPECIAL THANKS TO The Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, AR, and Scott Galbraith, Vice President of Programming TAX AND FINANCIAL CONSULTING, ACCOUNTING SERVICES CliftonLarsonAllen LLP Brian Enverso, Kathleen Thies INSURANCE BROKER SERVICES Maury Donnelly and Parr, Inc. Robert B. Middleton, Sr and Meghan Coleman FINANCIAL SERVICES AND BANKING ARRANGEMENTS BY SunTrust Bank ONLINE
FalsettosBroadway.com FalsettosBway #Falsettos 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. All stage work performed by employees represented by IATSE. 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 Director and Choreographer are members of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, an independent national labor union. The Press Agents, Company and House Managers employed in this production are represented by the Association of Theatrical Press Agents & Managers.
This production is produced by a member of The Broadway League in collaboration with our professional union-represented employees.
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experiencing the joy and benefits of dance training. Charlotte Ballet Academy offers Summer Dance camps, classes and workshops for children ages 3-13. Adult drop-in classes are available for ages 14 and up. Mix it up with ballet, tap or power dance for adult drop-in classes. Classes range from beginner to intermediate and advanced, with no commitment or prior dance experience required.
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New Opera Carolina Season Depicts Human Struggles
pera Carolina’s 2019/20 season lineup will appeal to both the opera aficionado and the novice. The emotionally charged season, focusing on different types of human struggles, begins in November with Verdi’s Macbeth. The second show of the season will be Puccini’s La Bohème in January 2020, and the season will conclude with Douglas Tappin’s contemporary opera, I Dream, in April 2020. All shows will be performed at Belk Theater at Blumenthal Performing Arts Center. “Opera shows us the best and worst of the human condition and evokes a strong emotional response,” said James Meena, general director and principal conductor. “This season, we see the full spectrum of the human condition: ambition, lust for power, betrayal, hope, love, triumph, heartbreak and death. Each of our three operas depicts some type of struggle –
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a power struggle, a struggle to stay alive and the civil rights struggle. Each is also a proven crowd pleaser. All are back by popular demand.”
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Superstar Violinist, a Firebird, Sinatra and More at the Symphony
rom a superstar violinist to Stravinsky’s magnificent Firebird, and more, mark your calendars for these can’t-miss moments with the Charlotte Symphony. 1. A superstar violinist performs Mendelssohn. The undeniable reigning virtuoso Itzhak Perlman performs Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto at the Symphony’s Opening Night special this season, Saturday, Oct. 5, at Belk Theater. Perlman, who has performed at the White House honoring Queen Elizabeth II and at the inauguration of President Obama, and who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015, brings his prowess to Charlotte for a one-night-only event not to be missed. 2. A fresh take on old favorites. Jazz singer, pianist and songwriter Tony Desare joins the Symphony to perform the critically acclaimed tribute to everyone’s favorite crooner at “Sinatra and Beyond” Sept. 20 and 21 at Knight Theater.
3. The majesty of The Firebird Suite. The Firebird Suite is Stravinsky’s most popular work for one simple reason: It’s exciting! Chances are you’ve heard or seen references to this work across pop culture. Maestro Warren-Green conducts Stravinsky’s enchanting and masterful work on Oct. 18 and 19. 4. A 26-year-old rising star conducts Dvořák. Venezuelan conductor Ilyich Rivas joins us to conduct Dvořák's timehonored New World Symphony at Belk Theater Nov. 22 and 23. Rivas made his conducting debut at age 16 and has since racked up credentials with some of the top orchestras in the world. 5. The Hallelujah chorus. Handel’s stunning masterpiece, Messiah, is back by popular demand Dec. 6 and 7 at Knight Theater, and it’s certain to have everyone in their seats joining the chorus in singing “Hallelujah!”
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A long tradition of helping our community perform at its best. At Moore & Van Allen we have a long tradition of supporting the arts. Whether they entertain, inspire or simply add beauty to our community, the arts can have an impact on everyone. There are very few things in life that can achieve that. Which, in our minds, is an uncommon art.
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