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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.

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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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SCOTT RUDIN ROY FURMAN JAMES L. NEDERLANDER ELI BUSH UNIVERSAL THEATRICAL GROUP ROGER BERLIND WILLIAM BERLIND JOHN GORE ORGANIZATION LEN BLAVATNIK PETER MAY THE ARACA GROUP INDEPENDENT PRESENTERS NETWORK JAY ALIX & UNA JACKMAN SCOTT M. DELMAN STEPHANIE P. M c CLELLAND AL NOCCIOLINO WENDY FEDERMAN & HENI KOENIGSBERG PATTY BAKER & GOOD PRODUCTIONS BENJAMIN LOWY ERIC CORNELL & JACK SENNOTT EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS

JOEY PARNES

SUE WAGNER

JOHN JOHNSON

PRESENT

BETTY BUCKLEY HELLO, DOLLY! IN

ALSO STARRING

LEWIS J. STADLEN BASED ON THE PLAY “THE MATCHMAKER” BY

THORNTON WILDER

BOOK BY

MUSIC AND LYRICS BY

MICHAEL STEWART JERRY HERMAN ORIGINALLY PRODUCED ON THE NEW YORK STAGE BY

DAVID MERRICK

FEATURING

NIC ROULEAU ANALISA LEAMING

SEAN BURNS KRISTEN HAHN COLIN Le MOINE MORGAN KIRNER JESSICA SHERIDAN WALLY DUNN MADDY APPLE DANIEL BEEMAN BRITTANY BOHN GIOVANNI BONAVENTURA ELIZABETH BROADHURST WHITNEY COOPER DARIUS CRENSHAW JULIAN D eGUZMAN ALEXANDRA FROHLINGER DAN HORN COREY HUMMERSTON MADISON JOHNSON NATHAN KEEN BETH KIRKPATRICK BEN LANHAM IAN LIBERTO KYLE SAMUEL SCOTT SHEDENHELM TIMOTHY SHEW MARIA CRISTINA SLYE CASSIE AUSTIN TAYLOR DAVIS WAYNE BRANDON L. WHITMORE CONNOR WINCE SCENIC AND COSTUME DESIGN

SANTO LOQUASTO ORCHESTRATIONS

MUSIC DIRECTOR

LARRY HOCHMAN VOCAL ARRANGEMENTS

ROBERT BILLIG DANCE ARRANGEMENTS

DON PIPPIN HAIR, WIGS & MAKE UP DESIGN

PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER

MUSIC SUPERVISION

ANDY EINHORN

SEYMOUR RED PRESS

CASTING

TELSEY + COMPANY

NATIONAL PRESS REPRESENTATIVE

DKC/O&M

TOUR BOOKING AGENCY

SCOTT LEHRER

MUSIC COORDINATOR

DAVID CHASE

CAMPBELL YOUNG ASSOCIATES BRIAN J. L’ECUYER

SOUND DESIGN

LIGHTING DESIGN

NATASHA KATZ

THE BOOKING GROUP

PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR

WILLIAM JOSEPH BARNES

TOUR MARKETING AND PRESS

ALLIED TOURING

COMPANY MANAGER

MIKE McLINDEN

PRODUCTION MANAGER

AURORA PRODUCTIONS

ORIGINAL PRODUCTION DIRECTED AND CHOREOGRAPHED BY

GOWER CHAMPION WARREN CARLYLE JERRY ZAKS CHOREOGRAPHED BY

DIRECTED BY

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CAST OF CHARACTERS (in order of appearance)

Dolly Gallagher Levi............................................................................................................ BETTY BUCKLEY Ambrose Kemper.....................................................................................................................COLIN LeMOINE

Horace Vandergelder.......................................................................................................... LEWIS J. STADLEN Ermengarde.......................................................................................................................... MORGAN KIRNER

Cornelius Hackl.......................................................................................................................... NIC ROULEAU Barnaby Tucker............................................................................................................................ .SEAN BURNS Minnie Fay................................................................................................................................KRISTEN HAHN Irene Molloy...................................................................................................................... ANALISA LEAMING

Mrs. Rose.........................................................................................................................BETH KIRKPATRICK Ernestina........................................................................................................................... JESSICA SHERIDAN

Rudolph....................................................................................................................................... WALLY DUNN

Stanley........................................................................................................................... SCOTT SHEDENHELM Judge....................................................................................................................................... TIMOTHY SHEW Court Clerk............................................................................................................................ DANIEL BEEMAN TOWNSPEOPLE, WAITERS, ETC.....................................................MADDY APPLE, DANIEL BEEMAN, GIOVANNI BONAVENTURA, ELIZABETH BROADHURST, DARIUS CRENSHAW, JULIAN DeGUZMAN, ALEXANDRA FROHLINGER, DAN HORN, COREY HUMMERSTON, MADISON JOHNSON, BETH KIRKPATRICK, BEN LANHAM, KYLE SAMUEL, SCOTT SHEDENHELM, TIMOTHY SHEW, MARIA CRISTINA SLYE, CASSIE AUSTIN TAYLOR, DAVIS WAYNE, BRANDON L. WHITMORE, CONNOR WINCE UNDERSTUDIES Swings and understudies never substitute for listed performers unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the appearance.

For Dolly Gallagher Levi—BETH KIRKPATRICK, JESSICA SHERIDAN; for Ambrose Kemper— GIOVANNI BONAVENTURA, COREY HUMMERSTON; for Horace Vandergelder—WALLY DUNN, TIMOTHY SHEW; for Ermengarde—BRITTANY BOHN, ALEXANDRA FROHLINGER; for Cornelius Hackl—DANIEL BEEMAN, IAN LIBERTO; for Barnaby Tucker—JULIAN DeGUZMAN, SCOTT SHEDENHELM; for Minnie Fay—ALEXANDRA FROHLINGER, MADISON JOHNSON; for Irene Molloy—MADDY APPLE, ELIZABETH BROADHURST; for Ernestina—ELIZABETH BROADHURST, BETH KIRKPATRICK. SWINGS BRITTANY BOHN, WHITNEY COOPER, DARIUS CRENSHAW, NATHAN KEEN, IAN LIBERTO DANCE CAPTAIN IAN LIBERTO ASSISTANT DANCE CAPTAIN

BRITTANY BOHN

The photographing or sound recording of any performance or the possession of any device or such photographing or sound recording inside this theater, without the written permission of the management, is prohibited by law. Violators may be punished by ejection and violations may render the offender liable for money damages.

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CAST

BETTY BUCKLEY

LEWIS J. STADLEN

NIC ROULEAU

ANALISA LEAMING

SEAN BURNS

KRISTEN HAHN

COLIN LeMOINE

MORGAN KIRNER

JESSICA SHERIDAN

WALLY DUNN

MADDY APPLE

DANIEL BEEMAN

BRITTANY BOHN

GIOVANNI BONAVENTURA

ELIZABETH BROADHURST

WHITNEY COOPER

DARIUS CRENSHAW

JULIAN DeGUZMAN

ALEXANDRA FROHLINGER

DAN HORN

COREY HUMMERSTON

MADISON JOHNSON

NATHAN KEEN

BETH KIRKPATRICK

BEN LANHAM

IAN LIBERTO

KYLE SAMUEL

SCOTT SHEDENHELM

DAVIS WAYNE

BRANDON L. WHITMORE

CONNOR WINCE

TIMOTHY SHEW

MARIA CASSIE AUSTIN CRISTINA SLYE TAYLOR

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SCENES AND MUSICAL NUMBERS ACT ONE Overture..................................................................................................................................................Orchestra Scene 1: Along Fourth Avenue, New York City Scene 2: Grand Central Station “I Put My Hand In”...........................................................................................................Dolly and Company Scene 3: A Street in Yonkers Scene 4: Vandergelder’s Hay and Feed Store, Yonkers “It Takes a Woman”.......................................................................... Vandergelder and the Instant Glee Club “Put on Your Sunday Clothes”...................................Cornelius, Barnaby, Dolly, Ambrose, and Ermengarde Scene 5: The Yonkers Depot “Put on Your Sunday Clothes”..................................................................................... The People of Yonkers Scene 6: Outside Mrs. Molloy’s Hat Shop—Water Street, New York City Scene 7: Inside the Hat Shop “Ribbons Down My Back”............................................................................................................Mrs. Molloy “Motherhood”............................................................................................ Dolly, Vandergelder, Mrs. Molloy, Minnie Fay, Cornelius, and Barnaby “Dancing”............................................... Dolly, Cornelius, Barnaby, Minnie Fay, Mrs. Molloy, and Dancers Scene 8: A Quiet Street Scene 9: 14th Street “Before The Parade Passes By”........................................................................................Dolly and Company ACT TWO Scene 1: From 42nd Street to 14th Street “Penny in My Pocket”................................................................................................................. Vandergelder “Elegance”........................................................................ Mrs. Molloy, Cornelius, Minnie Fay, and Barnaby Scene 2: Outside the Harmonia Gardens Restaurant, on the Battery Scene 3: Inside the Harmonia Gardens Restaurant “The Waiters’ Gallop”..................................................................................................... Rudolph and Waiters “Hello, Dolly!”........................................................................................Dolly, Rudolph, Waiters, and Cooks “The Contest”.........................................................................................Ambrose, Ermengarde, Mrs. Molloy, Cornelius, Minnie Fay, Barnaby, and the Contestants Scene 4: A Courtroom on Centre Street “It Only Takes a Moment”................................................Cornelius, Mrs. Molloy, Prisoners, and Policemen “So Long Dearie”.....................................................................................................................................Dolly Scene 5: Vandergelder’s Hay and Feed Store, Yonkers “Hello, Dolly!”........................................................................................................... Dolly and Vandergelder Scene 6: The Hudson River Valley Finale................................................................................................................................................. Company THERE WILL BE ONE INTERMISSION. ORCHESTRA Conductor—ROBERT BILLIG Keyboard 2/Associate Conductor—TIM LACIANO Keyboard 1—MAX MAMON Percussionist—RICHARD ROSENZWEIG First Trumpet—JEFFREY WILFORE Music Coordinator—SEYMOUR RED PRESS Associate Music Coordinator—KIMBERLEE WERTZ Music Copying—EMILY GRISHMAN MUSIC PREPARATION LOCAL MUSICIANS Woodwinds—PHIL THOMPSON, REESE MANCEAUX, TIM GORDON, JACK MURRAY Trumpets—RUSTY SMITH, BRAD WILCOX Trombones—BRENT BALLARD, SCOTT HARTMAN Violin—JANE HART, TATIANA KARPOVA, MARTHA GEISSLER Cello—SARAH MARKLE Acoustic Bass—TOM HILDRETH

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WHO’S WHO in the CAST BETTY BUCKLEY (Dolly Gallagher Levi) called “The Voice of Broadway” by New York Magazine, a legendary, Tony Award Winning performer, 2012 Theatre Hall of Fame inductee and a 2017 recipient of the Julie Harris Award for Artistic Achievement, given by The Actors Fund. Broadway: Triumph of Love (Tony Award nomination), Sunset Boulevard, Carrie (Outer Critics Circle Award nomination), Song and Dance, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Cats (Tony Award), Pippin, 1776.

London: Dear World; Sunset Boulevard (Olivier Award nomination); Promises, Promises (Evening Standard Award nomination). Off-Broadway: Old Friends (Drama Desk Award nomination), White’s Lies, Elegies, The Eros Trilogy, Juno’s Swans, I’m Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road. Regional: Grey Gardens (Ovation Award nomination), Old Friends, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Threepenny Opera, Buffalo Gal, Camino Real, Gypsy. Film: Split (Saturn Award nomination), The Happening, Wyatt Earp, Another Woman, Frantic, Tender Mercies, Carrie. Television: “Preacher,” “Supergirl,” “Getting On,” “The Leftovers,” “Chicago Med,” “Pretty Little Liars,” “The Pacific,” “OZ,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Without a Trace,” “Eight Is Enough.” Recordings: 18 solo albums (two Grammy Award nominations), most recently Hope released on Palmetto Records in June 2018.

Teacher of scene study and song interpretation for over 45 years. Two Honorary Doctorates for her contribution to musical theater from The Boston Conservatory and Marymount Manhattan College.

LEWIS J. STADLEN (Horace Vandergelder) is the recipient of the Irish Times Award for his performance at Dublin’s Gate Theatre of Arthur Miller’s The Price.

Broadway: The Front Page, Fish in the Dark, The Nance, The Producers, 45 Seconds from Broadway, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Tony Award nomination), The Female Odd Couple, Candide (Tony nomination), The Sunshine Boys, Minnie’s Boys (Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award and Theatre World Award). He starred in the national tours of The Producers, Guys and Dolls, The Time of Your Life, Fiddler on the Roof, and Laughter on the 23rd Floor. His film credits include The Verdict, Serpico, To Be or Not to Be, and In & Out. Television: Dr. Fried on “The Sopranos.”

NIC ROULEAU (Cornelius Hackl) recently finished a record 2,500 performances in The Book of Mormon. He has performed in The Book of Mormon on Broadway, in Chicago (original cast), on the national tour, and on the West End. Television credits include Daddy’s Boy in Tina Fey’s “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” (Netflix) and the 2012 Tony Awards (CBS). Other credits include Legally Blonde (U.S. national tour) and Toy Story: The Musical (Disney). B.M. New York University— Steinhardt.

ANALISA LEAMING (Irene Molloy). Broadway: School of Rock (Rosalie Mullins); The King and I (Anna); Hello, Dolly!; On the Twentieth Century. New York: Pipe Dream, Where’s Charley? (Encores!); The Mikado (Carnegie Hall). National/international tours: Annie, The Sound of Music. Regional: The Muny, Kansas City Starlight Theatre, North Shore Music Theatre, Magic Theatre, Geva Theatre Center, Infinity Theatre Company, 704.372.1000 | BlumenthalArts.org

Barrington Stage Company. Leaming is a Lotte Lenya Competition winner. Creator of “A Balancing Act” podcast. B.M. Eastman School of Music.

SEAN BURNS (Barnaby Tucker). National tour: Jersey Boys (Joe Pesci, Frankie Valli u/s), Peter Pan 360 (Michael Darling). Regional: Jersey Boys (Ogunquit Playhouse), Titanic (Signature Theatre), Elmer Gantry (Signature Theatre), Defiant Requiem (The Kennedy Center). B.M. Catholic University of America.

KRISTEN HAHN (Minnie Fay). Broadway: A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder; Our Town starring Paul Newman. National tour: A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder (Phoebe). Regional: Guys and Dolls (Maine State Music Theatre), Death Takes a Holiday (Arvada Center). Film: 5 Flights Up, Our Town (PBS Masterpiece Theatre). B.F.A. Carnegie Mellon University.

COLIN LeMOINE (Ambrose Kemper). National tour debut. Regional: Music Theatre Wichita (Newsies, Guys and Dolls, Pippin), Axelrod Performing Arts Center (Annie). B.F.A. musical theater, Indiana University.

Jacob’s Pillow Musical Theatre Dance alum.

MORGAN KIRNER (Ermengarde). Regional: The Little Mermaid (Paper Mill Playhouse, Pittsburgh CLO, Kansas City Starlight Theater, Theatre Under the Stars, The Fox Theatre Atlanta). Huntington Theatre: A Little Night Music (Anne), Sunday in the Park with George (Celeste 1), Merrily We Roll Along. The Boston Conservatory.

JESSICA SHERIDAN (Ernestina, u/s Dolly Gallagher Levi). Broadway/NYC: Hello, Dolly!; Sister Act; Follies; Mary Poppins; Les Misérables; Radio City Christmas Spectacular. National tours: The Bridges of Madison County, The Producers, Beauty and the Beast, How to Succeed…, Footloose. Film: The Producers. Television: “Liza Live from Radio City Music Hall.” Award nominations: Ovation Award (Lead Actress in a Musical) and LA Weekly Award (Best Musical Performance).

WALLY DUNN (Rudolph, u/s Horace Vandergelder).

Broadway: Spamalot, Gypsy, One Mo’ Time, Master Class. National tours: West Side Story, Spamalot, All Shook Up, Master Class. Off-Broadway: BAM, Roundabout.

Regional: Goodspeed, Hangar, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Cleveland Play House, Hartford Stage, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Pittsburgh Public Theater, McCarter Theatre. Film: School of Rock, In & Out. Television: “Madam Secretary,” “30 Rock,” “Law & Order MD.” Proud Equity member.

MADDY APPLE (Ensemble, u/s Irene Molloy).

Broadway: Hello, Dolly!. National tour: Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. Regional: Goodspeed Opera House, Finger Lakes Musical Theater Festival, Ogunquit Playhouse, Riverside Theater. B.F.A.: New York University—Tisch School of the Arts.

DANIEL BEEMAN (Court Clerk, Ensemble, u/s Cornelius Hackl). National tour: Something Rotten! (u/s Shakespeare). Regional: Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Music Theatre Wichita, Kansas City Starlight, Ogunquit Playhouse, Spinning Tree Theatre.

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WHO’S WHO in the CAST BRITTANY BOHN (Assistant Dance Captain, Swing, u/s Ermengarde). National tour: An American in Paris.

Regional: Anything Goes, Mame (Goodspeed); Kiss Me, Kate (Barrington); Peter Pan with Cathy Rigby (Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera). Point Park University.

GIOVANNI BONAVENTURA (Ensemble, u/s Ambrose Kemper). Broadway: Hello, Dolly!; Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella. National tours: Wicked, Elf. Regional: The Old Globe, Hartford Stage, Paper Mill Playhouse. B.F.A. University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music.

ELIZABETH BROADHURST (Ensemble, u/s Irene Molloy, Ernestina). National tours: Mary Poppins (Mrs. Banks, u/s Mary), Annie (Grace) 30th anniversary tour and at Madison Square Garden.

Regional: Denver Center, The Guthrie Theater, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Utah Shakespeare Festival.

B.F.A. The Boston Conservatory.

WHITNEY COOPER (Swing). Off-Broadway: Trip of Love. Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular, New York Spectacular. National tours: Memphis, Flashdance, The Music Man (Zaneeta). Regional: Jerome Robbins’ Broadway (The Muny), Carousel (Louise, Music Theatre Wichita). Other: Shaun T’s “CIZE” dance workout video.

DARIUS CRENSHAW (Swing). Broadway/first national tour: The Color Purple, The Phantom of the Opera, Motown: The Musical. Opera: Un Ticket pour Broadway/Street Scene (Toulon Opera). Film: The Last Five Years. TV: “Saturday Night Live,” “Rent Live.”

New York City Ballet, Cincinnati Ballet.

JULIAN DeGUZMAN (Ensemble, u/s Barnaby Tucker).

Broadway: Newsies; Miss Saigon; Hello, Dolly!. National tour: Newsies. Regional: I Only Have Eyes for You, West Side Story, The King and I. B.F.A. dance and B.A. sociology, University of California, Irvine.

ALEXANDRA FROHLINGER (Ensemble, u/s Ermengarde, Minnie Fay). Broadway: Soul Doctor.

National tours: West Side Story, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella. Off-Broadway: Amerike—The Golden Land (National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, Drama Desk nomination). Regional: The Pajama Game (Arena Stage); Gypsy, Mamma Mia! (Sacramento Music Circus). B.F.A. The Boston Conservatory.

DAN HORN (Ensemble). Broadway: Miss Saigon, Allegiance, Bullets over Broadway, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella. Other credits: First Wives Club (Chicago), The Merry Widow (Metropolitan Opera).

COREY HUMMERSTON (Ensemble, u/s Ambrose Kemper). Broadway: The Book of Mormon; Hello, Dolly!.

National tour: The Book of Mormon. Regional: Newsies, Damn Yankees (Paper Mill Playhouse). B.A. James Madison University.

MADISON JOHNSON (Ensemble, u/s Minnie Fay).

Regional: Mary Poppins (Paper Mill Playhouse); A Chorus Line, Grease, Meet Me in St. Louis, 42nd Street,

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Beauty and the Beast, The Addams Family, and Shrek (The Muny). B.F.A. musical theater, Elon University.

NATHAN KEEN (Swing). Broadway: Hello, Dolly!; Les Misérables. National tours: Finding Neverland, Chicago, We Will Rock You, West Side Story, Ragtime, Les Misérables, Beauty and the Beast. International/ regional: West Side Story (Centennial inter­national tour); Kiss Me, Kate (RTC benefit concert); Spring Spectacular (Radio City Music Hall).

BETH KIRKPATRICK (Mrs. Rose, Ensemble, u/s Dolly Gallagher Levi, Ernestina). Broadway/New York: Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary, Jerry Springer: the Opera (Zandra). National tours: Les Misérables (Madame Thenardier), The Phantom of the Opera, The Sound of Music (Mother Abbess). Regional: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Paper Mill Playhouse, La Jolla Playhouse), Sweeney Todd (Geva).

BEN LANHAM (Ensemble). National tours: An American in Paris (u/s Henri), Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Swing), West Side Story (u/s Riff, u/s Action). Regional: The Muny, North Carolina Theatre, Music Theatre Wichita, Lyric Theatre Oklahoma, Wick Theatre. B.F.A. Oklahoma City University.

IAN LIBERTO (Dance Captain, Swing, u/s Cornelius Hackl). Broadway: Hello, Dolly!; How to Succeed…; Promises, Promises; Billy Elliot; Chaplin. National tours: The Book of Mormon, Evita, A Chorus Line (Bobby). Regional: The Hollywood Bowl, Paper Mill Playhouse, Theatre Under the Stars, Sacramento Music Circus, Marriott Lincolnshire, Ravinia. B.F.A.: Millikin University.

KYLE SAMUEL (Ensemble). National tour debut.

Regional: Jerome Robbins’ Broadway (The Muny), Newsies (The Fulton and Maine State Music Theatre), Mike in A Chorus Line (directed by Baayork Lee).

B.F.A. musical theater, Pace University.

SCOTT SHEDENHELM (Ensemble, u/s Barnaby Tucker). Regional: Newsies (Paper Mill Playhouse), West Side Story (Riverside/Westchester/Engeman), A Chorus Line (Riverside), The Little Mermaid (North Shore Music Theatre).

TIMOTHY SHEW (Judge, u/s Horace Vandergelder).

Eleven Broadway shows, including Les Misérables (Jean Valjean), Guys and Dolls, Bye Bye Birdie, The Visit. National tours: The Light in the Piazza, Les Misérables. Films: Tangled, Chicago, Shaggy Dog. Television: “Madam Secretary,” “Law & Order.” Proud AEA member for 40 years.

MARIA CRISTINA SLYE (Ensemble). National tours: The Bodyguard, Ghost, Elf. Regional: West Side Story (Anita, Virginia Repertory Theatre), Jesus Christ Superstar (The Muny), The Bodyguard (Paper Mill Playhouse), A Chorus Line (Diana Morales, Engeman Theater), Seven Brides… (Dorcas, Ogunquit Playhouse), In the Heights (Carla, Hanger Theatre), Cats (Rumpleteaser, Cortland Repertory Theatre).

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WHO’S WHO in the CAST CASSIE AUSTIN TAYLOR (Ensemble). National tour debut. Regional: Eileen Evergreen in Nice Work if You Can Get It, Miss Dorothy in Thoroughly Modern Millie, Katherine u/s in Newsies (Music Theatre Wichita), Singin’ in the Rain (The Muny). B.F.A. musical theater, Brigham Young University.

DAVIS WAYNE (Ensemble). National tour debut.

Regional: Riff in Jerome Robbins’ Broadway (The Muny), Chasing Rainbows: The Road to Oz (world premiere), Pittsburgh CLO, Pioneer Theatre Company, North Shore Music Theatre, Theatre By The Sea. B.F.A. musical theater, Pace University.

BRANDON L. WHITMORE (Ensemble). National tour debut. Regional: The Muny, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, North Carolina Theatre and Fireside Dinner Theatre.

B.F.A. dance performance, The University of the Arts.

CONNOR WINCE (Ensemble). National tour: Disney’s The Little Mermaid. Regional: world premiere of Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Sacramento Music Circus, Maine State Music Theatre, Westchester Broadway Theatre.

MICHAEL STEWART (Book) was still relatively early in his theatrical career when he had his first smash hit in 1960 with Bye Bye Birdie, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Book. His subsequent Broadway shows include Carnival! (Drama Critics Circle Award); Hello, Dolly! (Tony Award, Drama Critics Circle Award); George M! (with Francine and John Pascal); Mack & Mabel (Tony nomination); The Grand Tour; 42nd Street (with Mark Bramble; Tony Award); and Harrigan and Hart (Tony nomination). He is also the lyricist of Barnum (music by Cy Coleman, Tony nomination) and I Love My Wife (Tony nomination).

Mr. Stewart died in 1987.

JERRY HERMAN (Music & Lyrics) remains one of the most iconic and beloved composers in the American theater. His legendary scores have spawned such standards as “I Am What I Am,” “The Best of Times,” “Mame,” “If He Walked into My Life,” “We Need a Little Christmas” and “Hello, Dolly!” His first Broadway musical, Milk and Honey (1961), ran for 543 performances. He made history in 1964 with Hello, Dolly! (10 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, a Broadway record held for 37 years), which was followed by yet another smash, Mame, in 1966. With Dolly! and Mame still running, Herman had the rare distinction of having three Broadway shows playing simultaneously when Dear World opened in 1969. In 1974, Mack & Mabel opened (and remains one of his best-loved scores) and was followed by 1979’s The Grand Tour. Herman’s most recent Broadway show, La Cage aux Folles, became another phenomenon, winning the Tony Award in 1984 for Best Musical. It was successfully revived in 2004 and 2010, winning the Tony for Best Revival each time. Two of Herman’s most cherished songs from Hello, Dolly! are the emotional highlights of the Disney-Pixar classic Wall-E, cementing Herman’s place in American popular culture.

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Richard Rodgers Award, the Oscar Hammerstein Award, the Frederick Loewe Award, membership in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Theater Hall of Fame and most recently, The Kennedy Center Honor.

GOWER CHAMPION (Original Director and Choreographer) is a name synonymous with some of the greatest musicals in Broadway history. In addition to Hello, Dolly!, which cemented his reputation as a legendary theater artist and garnered him Tony Awards for both Direction and Choreography, he directed and choreographed Bye Bye Birdie (Tony Awards for Direction and Choreography), Carnival! (Tony nomination for Direction), I Do! I Do! (Tony nomination for Direction), The Happy Time (Tony for both Direction and Choreography), Sugar (Tony nominations for Direction and Choreography), Mack & Mabel (Tony nominations for Direction and Choreography), and 42nd Street (Tony for Choreography, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Choreography, Tony nomination for Direction). His first Broadway credit as choreographer, Lend an Ear, won him his first Tony Award for Choreography in 1949. He studied dance from an early age and, at the age of 15, toured nightclubs with his friend Jeanne Tyler and later with Marge Belcher, who eventually became his wife. During the late 1930s and early 1940s, Champion worked on Broadway as a solo dancer and choreographer. After serving in the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II, the team of Gower and Marge Champion became one of the most popular attractions on television variety shows, appearing on “Jack Benny,” “Garry Moore,” “Dinah Shore,” “The Ed Sullivan Show,” and in their own series, “The Marge and Gower Champion Show,” in 1957. The pair also appeared in several film musicals with Bing Crosby (Mr. Music, 1950), Kathryn Grayson and Howard Keel (Show Boat, 1951; Lovely to Look At, 1952), Debbie Reynolds (Give a Girl a Break, 1953), Betty Grable (Three for the Show, 1955), Esther Williams (Jupiter’s Darling, 1955) and occasionally earned their own top billing (Everything I Have Is Yours, 1952). Gower Champion died in 1980 on the day that 42nd Street, his last great hit, opened on Broadway. He was awarded the last of his eight Tony Awards posthumously.

JERRY ZAKS (Director) was nominated for the 2017 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical for this production. Credits include Meteor Shower, A Bronx Tale: The Musical, Shows for Days, Sister Act, The Addams Family, Guys and Dolls, Six Degrees of Separation, Lend Me a Tenor, The House of Blue Leaves, The Front Page, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Anything Goes, La Cage aux Folles, Little Shop of Horrors, The Man Who Came to Dinner, The Foreigner, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Sister Mary Ignatius…, Beyond Therapy, Baby with the Bath Water, and The Marriage of Bette and Boo. He has received four Tony Awards and eight nominations, and has also received four Drama Desk Awards, two Outer Critics Circle Awards, and an Obie Award. He directed the film Marvin’s Room. Zaks is a founding member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre. He received the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society’s George Abbott Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre and an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Dartmouth College, his alma mater. He is a 2013 inductee into the Theater Hall of Fame.

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WHO’S WHO in the CAST WARREN CARLYLE (Choreographer). Broadway: directed and choreographed After Midnight (Tony Award for Choreography), Chaplin, Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway, Finian’s Rainbow, and A Tale of Two Cities. He choreographed She Loves Me, On the Twentieth Century, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, A Christmas Story, and Follies. He directed and choreographed the 2015 Radio City New York Spring Spectacular starring the Rockettes. Additional New York/international credits: directed and choreographed On Your Toes (City Center Encores!); choreographed “Carousel” (New York Philharmonic, Emmy Award nomination); Girl Crazy, On the Town, Finian’s Rainbow, Juno, Stairway to Paradise (City Center Encores!), and 101 Dalmatians (Madison Square Garden/national tour). Directed and choreographed the sold-out Australian arena tour, Hugh Jackman: Broadway to Oz. Television: staging of the 68th and 69th annual Tony Awards (CBS), “So You Think You Can Dance” (Fox).

STEPHEN EDLUND (Associate Director). Broadway: Hello, Dolly!; Meteor Shower; A Bronx Tale; Sister Act. National tours: A Bronx Tale, Sister Act. Regional/ NYC: Shows for Days (Lincoln Center Theatre), Randy Newman’s Harps and Angels (Center Theatre Group) and Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Center Theatre Group).

SARA EDWARDS (Associate Choreographer).

Broadway: She Loves Me, Follies, Chaplin, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. New York City Center Encores!: No, No Nanette; Of Thee I Sing; On Your Toes; Me and My Girl. Associate Choreographer for Hello, Dolly! on Broadway with Bette Midler, Bernadette Peters, and Donna Murphy. Other associate credits include After Midnight, Follies, The Sting with Harry Connick Jr., Radio City Rockettes Spring Spectacular, and NYC Ballet Something to Dance About: Jerome Robbins Broadway to Ballet.

SANTO LOQUASTO (Scenic and Costume Design) received the 2017 Tony Award for Best Costume Design of a Musical for Hello, Dolly!. Broadway: Cafe Crown (Tony Award for set design), The Cherry Orchard (Tony for costume design), Grand Hotel (Tony for costume design). Total of 22 Tony nominations, among them The Iceman Cometh, Shuffle Along, Bullets Over Broadway, and Fences.

Loquasto has collaborated with Woody Allen on 30 films. Film credits include Radio Days (Academy Award nomination for production design), Bullets Over Broadway (Academy Award nomination for production design) and Zelig (Academy Award nomination for costume design). He received the Michael Merritt Award for Excellence in Design and Collaboration in 2002, was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 2004, received the Pennsylvania Governor’s Award for the Arts in 2006, the Robert L.B. Tobin Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2007, and the Breukelein Institute Gaudium Award in 2013.

NATASHA KATZ (Lighting Design) is a New Yorkbased lighting designer and was nominated for the 2017 Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Musical for this production. She is a six-time Tony Award winner who has designed extensively for theater, opera, dance,

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concerts, and permanent lighting installations around the world. Her recent Broadway credits include Frozen, Meteor Shower, Springsteen on Broadway, Long Day’s Journey into Night, Cats, School of Rock, An American in Paris, Aladdin, Skylight, The Glass Menagerie, Once, Follies, The Coast of Utopia: Salvage, and Aida.

SCOTT LEHRER (Sound Design). Recent credits: Carousel, The Front Page, The Gabriels, Shuffle Along, Fiddler on the Roof, Dames at Sea, The King and I, Living on Love, Honeymoon in Vegas, A Delicate Balance, Love Letters, A Raisin in the Sun, Betrayal, Lucky Guy, Chaplin (Drama Desk Award), Death of a Salesman (Tony Award nomination), over 50 City Center Encores! revivals and South Pacific (first Tony for Sound Design). Record production includes An American in Paris (Grammy Award nomination), Loudon Wainwright’s High Wide and Handsome (Grammy), and Meredith Monk’s mercy.

LARRY HOCHMAN (Orchestrations) won the 2017 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Orchestrations for Hello, Dolly!. Sixteen Broadway shows, including The Book of Mormon (Tony Award, Drama Desk Award), She Loves Me (Drama Desk), and Spamalot. Seven Tony nominations.

Television: composer of “Wonder Pets!” (five Emmy Awards). Twenty-five regional and Off-Broadway shows. Seventeen films including The Informant!

Arrangements: Paul McCartney, Eric Idle, Barbra Streisand, Audra McDonald, Boston Pops, NY Philharmonic.

ROBERT BILLIG (Music Director). Broadway credits include Wicked, Chicago, Song and Dance, and the original productions of Les Misérables, Miss Saigon, Singin’ in the Rain, and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. National tours: Wicked, The Drowsy Chaperone, Young Frankenstein, Les Misérables (25th anniversary), Chicago. Off-Broadway: Little Shop of Horrors. Intimate nightclubs to international symphony orchestras and everything in between.

ANDY EINHORN (Music Supervision). Broadway: Carousel; Hello, Dolly!; Holiday Inn; Bullets Over Broadway; Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella; Sondheim on Sondheim; Brief Encounter; Evita.

National tours: The Sound of Music, The Light in the Piazza, Sweeney Todd, The Lion King. Regional: Goodspeed Opera House, Paper Mill Playhouse, Théâtre du Châtelet, Houston Grand Opera. Symphonic work: New York Philharmonic, Sydney Symphony.

Audra McDonald’s music director. Television: “Six by Sondheim” (Peabody Award), “Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy” (Peabody). B.A. Rice University.

DON PIPPIN (Vocal Arrangements) is among the most revered and honored arrangers and conductors in Broadway history. His countless credits include such classics as Irma La Douce, Oliver! (Tony Award for Best Conductor and Musical Director), 110 in the Shade, Mame, Dear World, Applause, Seesaw, Mack & Mabel, A Chorus Line, The Grand Tour, Cabaret, and La Cage aux Folles. Also, Ankles Aweigh, Foxy, Ben Franklin in Paris, A Broadway Musical, and Woman of the Year.

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DAVID CHASE (Dance Arrangements). Thirty-five Broadway shows as dance arranger, music director, and/ or music supervisor. Also West End, Radio City Music Hall, Boston Pops, Lyric Opera of Chicago. Two Emmy Award nominations. Grammy Award nomination.

SEYMOUR RED PRESS (Music Coordinator) received a Tony Honor for Excellence in the Theatre in 2007. Credits include more than 100 shows, from the original Gypsy through An American in Paris.

Film credits include Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Mike Nichols’ The Birdcage, and Paramount’s In & Out. An ASCAP composer whose compositions have sold over 100,000 records, his playing career has segued from Tommy Dorsey and Benny Goodman to Leonard Bernstein. This season on Broadway: Chicago.

CAMPBELL YOUNG ASSOCIATES (Hair, Wigs & Makeup Design). Broadway: Groundhog Day, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Front Page, The Crucible, Misery, Sylvia, A Delicate Balance, The Last Ship, It’s Only a Play, Betrayal, Les Misérables, SpiderMan: Turn Off the Dark, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, American Psycho, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Matilda, Ghost, Mary Stuart, Billy Elliot. Television: “The Americans,” “House of Cards.”

TELSEY + COMPANY (Casting). Broadway: Network, The Cher Show, The Prom, American Son, Torch Song, Pretty Woman, My Fair Lady, Mean Girls, Frozen, Once on This Island, Anastasia, Come from Away, Waitress, Hamilton, Kinky Boots, Wicked. Film: Mary Poppins Returns, The Greatest Showman, Into the Woods.

Television: “Murphy Brown,” “This Is Us,” “House of Cards,” “Divorce,” “One Day at a Time.”

WILLIAM JOSEPH BARNES (Production Supervisor) has been the Production Stage Manager of over 25 Broadway shows, most recently Hello, Dolly! and Three Tall Women. Previous Broadway productions include the Best Play Tony Award-winning productions of Love, Valour, Compassion; Master Class; Art; Take Me Out; and The Humans and the Best Revival Tony Award-winning productions of Assassins; Glengarry Glen Ross; Boeing, Boeing; Skylight; and Hello, Dolly!.

BRIAN J. L’ECUYER (Production Stage Manager).

National tours as PSM: The Humans; Fiasco Theatre’s Into the Woods, La Cage aux Folles with George Hamilton and Christopher Sieber; Lincoln Center’s South Pacific, The Drowsy Chaperone, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; Deaf West’s Big River; and began his touring career with John Astin’s one man show, Edgar Allan Poe—Once Upon a Midnight across the U.S., Ireland and Australia. Brian recently completed a long run in Las Vegas with Jersey Boys. AEA member for over 20 years.

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AMY RAMSDELL (Stage Manager). National tours: Hamilton, Les Misérables, Elf, Dreamgirls, Once. Past credits include Hamilton (Chicago), Marvin’s Room, God Looked Away (with Al Pacino), Billy Elliot, First Date, Bad Jews, Barcelona, Choir Boy, The Country House, Slowgirl, as well as Geffen Playhouse, Center Theatre Group, The Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse.

ALLIED TOURING (Tour Marketing & Press) is a full-service engagement management agency representing Broadway tours and other live touring events across North America. Current tours: The Book of Mormon; Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella; Hello, Dolly!; Kinky Boots; The Play That Goes Wrong; Rent; Rock of Ages; School of Rock; Something Rotten!; Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. Upcoming tours: Ain’t Too Proud, Bandstand, Clue—Live on Stage, The Lightning Thief, Clint Black’s Looking for Christmas, Mean Girls, The SpongeBob Musical.

AURORA PRODUCTIONS (Production Manager).

Credits include Anastasia (Broadway and tour); Beetlejuice; Bernhardt/Hamlet; The Book of Mormon (Broadway and tour); Carousel; Frozen; Head Over Heels; Hello, Dolly! (Broadway); Mean Girls; School of Rock; Springsteen On Broadway; The Ferryman; The Waverly Gallery; Tootsie. Aurora has been providing technical supervision and production management to the entertainment industry since 1989.

NEUROSPORT (Physical Therapy). Leaders in entertainment and performing arts medicine. “We are honored to be part of the amazing company of Hello, Dolly!.” Highlights: Broadway: The Lion King; Hello, Dolly!; Harry Potter and the Cursed Child; Waitress.

Tours: Movin’ Out, Billy Elliot, Hamilton. Concerts: P!NK, Bette Midler, Katy Perry.

ROY FURMAN (Producer). Current productions: Mean Girls, Pretty Woman, King Kong, Dear Evan Hansen (Tony Award), The Book of Mormon (Tony), The Band’s Visit (Tony). Other Tony winning productions include The Color Purple, The Humans, A View from the Bridge, Spamalot, War Horse, The Curious Incident…, A Raisin in the Sun, and The History Boys. Vice Chairman Jefferies LLC, Vice Chairman Lincoln Center.

JAMES L. NEDERLANDER (Producer) is the president of the Nederlander Organization and son of the late James M. Nederlander (Chairman). Credits include The Present, War Paint, On Your Feet!, The Humans, The Elephant Man, An American in Paris, Kinky Boots, I’ll Eat You Last…, Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth, West Side Story, Next to Normal, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Movin’ Out, Million Dollar Quartet, and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, among many others.

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WHO’S WHO in the CAST UNIVERSAL THEATRICAL GROUP (Producer), the live theater division of Universal Pictures, is currently represented on Broadway by Wicked and Mean Girls.

Additional Broadway credits include Billy Elliot, Bring It On, Shrek, and Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn. ROGER BERLIND (Producer). Recent productions include Dear Evan Hansen; The Book of Mormon; One Man, Two Guvnors; Twelfth Night; Richard III; This Is Our Youth; The Curious Incident…; Fish in the Dark; An American in Paris; and A View from the Bridge.

WILLIAM BERLIND (Producer). Broadway: Dear Evan Hansen, The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, Skylight, Fish in the Dark, This Is Our Youth, The Realistic Joneses, All the Way, Lucky Guy, Grace. OffBroadway: The Flick, Cock.

JOHN GORE ORGANIZATION (Producer).

This family of companies includes Broadway Across America and Broadway.com, under the supervision of John Gore (Chairman and CEO). Productions include Beautiful, Cats, Dear Evan Hansen, Fiddler on the Roof, The Glass Menagerie, Groundhog Day, Indecent, On Your Feet!, and The Present.

LEN BLAVATNIK (Producer) is the founder and chairman of Access Industries, a privately held U.S. industrial group with global strategic investments in various industries. An active philanthropist, Blavatnik provides significant support to the arts and leading educational, cultural and medical institutions throughout the world and has co-produced numerous Broadway and film productions.

PETER MAY (Producer) is President and Founding Partner of Trian Partners. Broadway: The Humans (Tony Award), A View from the Bridge (Tony), The Elephant Man, Cinderella, Waitress, The Crucible, Passing Strange.

THE ARACA GROUP (Producer). Founded in 1997 by partners Matthew Rego, Michael Rego and Hank Unger, the Araca Group produces and merchandises live entertainment and theatrical events on Broadway and around the world.

INDEPENDENT PRESENTERS NETWORK (Producer) includes 40 of America’s leading Broadway presenters whose subscription base totals 475,000.

Broadway/London/national tours: War Paint, Cats, Dear Evan Hansen, Groundhog Day, On Your Feet!, Waitress, The Color Purple, Shuffle Along…, An American in Paris, Kinky Boots, Matilda, The Red Shoes.

JAY ALIX & UNA JACKMAN (Producer).

Broadway: The Front Page, The Humans (Tony Award), Blackbird, Bright Star, A View from the Bridge (Tony), The Crucible, Fish in the Dark, Skylight (Tony), A Gentleman’s Guide… (Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critics Circle Awards). Documentaries: “Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance,” “Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise” for PBS. SCOTT M. DELMAN (Producer) is a theater enthusiast and leading investor in entertainment content. He has

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co-produced or produced more than 50 Broadway and West End dramas and musicals, earning nine Tony Awards and three Olivier Awards along the way.

STEPHANIE P. McCLELLAND (Producer).

Founder, Green Curtain Productions. Ms. McClelland is a multi-award-winning producer with 13 Tony Awards, 12 Drama Desk Awards, 10 Drama League Awards, 10 Outer Critics Circle Awards, and one Olivier Award.

Credits include more than 80 theatrical productions worldwide. Recent credits include 1984, The Book of Mormon, The Front Page, Present Laughter, and Groundhog Day. AL NOCCIOLINO (Producer) is President of NAC Entertainment, a theatrical company specializing in the presentation of touring Broadway shows in the Northeast. For more than 30 years, he has been investing, producing and co-producing Broadway tours and Broadway shows, including, most recently, The Band’s Visit, The Front Page, Cats, On Your Feet!, and Kinky Boots.

WENDY FEDERMAN & HENI KOENIGSBERG (Producer). Tony-winning productions include Angels in America; Dear Evan Hansen; The Band’s Visit; Hello, Dolly!; A View from The Bridge; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; Skylight; A Raisin in the Sun; All the Way; A Gentleman’s Guide…; Pippin; The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess; Hair. Thirty additional Tony Award nominations.

PATTY BAKER & GOOD PRODUCTIONS (Producer) is a Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Tony winner. Co-producer of Three Tall Women, The Iceman Cometh, Carousel, Memphis, Beautiful, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Fiddler on the Roof, among others.

BENJAMIN LOWY (Producer) produces and develops theater for Broadway and stages worldwide.

Last season: Angels in America (Tony Award), Carousel, Mean Girls, Three Tall Women, The Iceman Cometh, all five Tony-nominated. Selected previous: Sunday in the Park with George (revival); A Doll’s House, Part 2. Benjamin also produces theater for The Lowy Salpeter Company.

ERIC CORNELL & JACK SENNOTT (Producer) operate Cornice Productions, a theatrical investment and production company. Eric has worked on numerous Broadway producing and management teams since 2005. ericcornell.com. Jack’s production credits include A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, Anastasia and The Best Man on Broadway, and Murder on the Orient Express at Hartford Stage.

DAVID MERRICK (Original Producer) claimed to be born on November 4, 1954, the night his first Broadway musical Fanny opened. His second production, in 1955, was Thornton Wilder’s comedy The Matchmaker.

He immediately determined it would make a brilliant musical—which, in 1964, turned out to be Hello, Dolly!.

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WHO’S WHO in the CAST ground breaking Look Back in Anger). The following November, he opened three shows in a single week.

At the height of his activity, he had eight productions running simultaneously on Broadway. His musicals included Jamaica with Lena Horne; Destry Rides Again with Andy Griffith and Dolores Gray; Gypsy with Ethel Merman; Take Me Along with Jackie Gleason; Irma La Douce; Do Re Mi with Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker; Carnival! with Anna Maria Alberghetti and Jerry Orbach; I Can Get It for You Wholesale with Elliott Gould and Barbra Streisand; Stop the World—I Want to Get Off and The Roar of the Greasepaint—The Smell of the Crowd with Anthony Newley; Oliver!; 110 in the Shade; I Do! I Do! with Mary Martin and Robert Preston; The Happy Time with Robert Goulet; Promises, Promises with Orbach; Sugar with Robert Morse and Tony Roberts; Mack & Mabel with Preston and Bernadette Peters; and the legendary 42nd Street with Orbach and Tammy Grimes. Notable plays included The Entertainer with Laurence Olivier; The World of Suzie Wong; A Taste of Honey with Angela Lansbury; Becket with Olivier and Anthony Quinn; Sunday in New York with Robert Redford; Luther with Albert Finney; Arturo Ui with Christopher Plummer; One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest with Kirk Douglas; Inadmissible Evidence with Nicol Williamson; Cactus Flower with Lauren Bacall and Barry Nelson; Peter Weiss’ Marat/Sade; Brian Friel’s Philadelphia, Here I Come!; Woody Allen’s Don’t Drink the Water and Play It Again, Sam; Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Travesties; Forty Carats with Julie Harris; Child’s Play; and Peter Brook’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, to name a few.

An 11-time Tony Award winner, Merrick (1911–2000) produced more than 80 plays and musicals.

JOEY PARNES (Executive Producer). Broadway: King Lear; Hillary and Clinton; Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus; To Kill a Mockingbird; The Waverly Gallery; The Iceman Cometh; Three Tall Women; Carousel; Meteor Shower; 1984; A Doll’s House, Part 2; Hello, Dolly! (Tony Award); The Front Page; The Humans (Tony); Bright Star; Shuffle Along…; A View from the Bridge (Tony); Skylight (Tony); A Raisin in the Sun (Tony); A Gentleman’s Guide… (Tony); Betrayal; Vanya and Sonia… (Tony); Hair (Tony); among others.

SUE WAGNER (Executive Producer). Broadway: King Lear; Hillary and Clinton; Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus; To Kill a Mockingbird; The Waverly Gallery; The Iceman Cometh; Three Tall Women; Carousel; Meteor Shower; 1984; A Doll’s House, Part 2; Hello, Dolly! (Tony Award); The Glass Menagerie; The Front Page; The Humans (Tony); Bright Star; Shuffle Along…; A View from the Bridge (Tony); Skylight (Tony); Fish in the Dark; A Raisin in the Sun (Tony); A Gentleman’s Guide… (Tony); Betrayal; Vanya and Sonia… (Tony); End of the Rainbow; Hair.

JOHN JOHNSON (Executive Producer). Broadway: King Lear; Hillary and Clinton; Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus; To Kill a Mockingbird; The Waverly Gallery; The Iceman Cometh; Three Tall Women; Carousel; Meteor Shower; 1984; A Doll’s House, Part 2; Hello, Dolly! (Tony Award); The Glass Menagerie; The Front Page; The Humans (Tony); Bright Star; Shuffle Along…; A View from the Bridge (Tony); Skylight 704.372.1000 | BlumenthalArts.org

(Tony); A Raisin in the Sun (Tony); A Gentleman’s Guide… (Tony); Vanya and Sonia… (Tony). Graduate: Fordham University at Lincoln Center.

STAFF FOR HELLO, DOLLY! SCOTT RUDIN PRODUCTIONS April Chang Henry Cropsey Jay Figueredo Ryan Nelson Loni Rodgers Adam Rodner Caroline Rugo Patrick Wengler GENERAL MANAGEMENT JOEY PARNES PRODUCTIONS Joey Parnes Sue Wagner John Johnson Jillian Robbins Jesse Rothschild Kyle Bonder David van Zyll de Jong Aliza Wassner Katherine Barton Marina Hyson Alison Kupfer Kendall Booher Lizbeth Cone Megan Curren Mike McLinden Chris Taggart Dylan Glen Celina Lam Katie Titley ASSOCIATE PRODUCER Jillian Robbins Adam Rodner COMPANY MANAGER Mike McLinden PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT AURORA PRODUCTIONS, INC. Ben Heller Chris Minnick Liza Luxenberg Geoff Quart Steven Dalton David J. Elmer Isaac Katzanek Ryan Murphy Luke Ricca Martin Appelo Ben King Michael Shannon Cori Gardner Gene O’Donovan TOUR MARKETING AND PRESS ALLIED TOURING Marya K. Peters Andrew Damer Jennifer Gallagher Janie Dickerson Anne Dailey Meyer Scott Praefke Jacqueline Smith Anne Waisanen Hayden Anderson Jessica W. Cary NATIONAL PRESS REPRESENTATIVE DKC/O&M Rick Miramontez Marie Bshara TOUR BOOKING AND ENGAGEMENT MANAGEMENT THE BOOKING GROUP Meredith Blair, President Kara Gebhart, Vice President Operations ADVERTISING BLT COMMUNICATIONS, INC. Dawn Baillie Mark Barnes Grace Brescia Rebecca Buhler Crystal Causey Jose Cruz Jane Dean Jason Elvrom Dylan Feiner Sergio Gutierrez Junko Kimura Laura Mackey Lori Marchildon David McGreavy Whitney Murdy Giovanni Negron Chris Salamat Billy Stanek Lisa Trublet de Nermont Pen Williamson SPOTCO Scott Johnson

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CASTING TELSEY + COMPANY Bernard Telsey, CSA Craig Burns, CSA Lauren Harris LEGAL COUNSEL GRUBMAN SHIRE MEISELAS & SACKS, P.C. Allen J. Grubman, Lawrence Shire, Jonathan A. Lonner, Adam J. Rosen ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR Stephen Edlund ASSOCIATE CHOREOGRAPHER Sara Edwards ARCHIVAL CONSULTANT Steven Suskin Production Supervisor.............William Joseph Barnes Production Stage Manager...............Brian J. L’Ecuyer Stage Managers............ Eric H. Mayer, Amy Ramsdell Assistant Company Manager.................... Katie Titley Assistant Choreographer...........................Katie Huff Associate Scenic Designers...............Evan Adamson, Jisun Kim Associate Costume Designer....... Matthew Pachtman Assistant Costume Designers................... Justin Hall, Caroline Spitzer Associate Lighting Designer.................. Aaron Spivey Assistant Lighting Designer..................Travis McHale Associate Sound Designer...................... Will Pickens Ms. Buckley’s Makeup Design....................Kate Best Production Carpenter.............................Keith Reese Head Carpenter.................................. Jamie L. Kurtz Assistant Carpenters.......................Robert DiCandia, Sara Ramone, Andy Shaw Production Electrician................................ Dan Coey Head Electrician..................................Adam Lansing Assistant Electricians.................................Jes Halm, Mark “Sparky” Mallory Moving Light Programmer......................... Alex Fogel Production Sound Engineer..............Jason Choquette Sound Engineer...............................Timothy Schmidt Assistant Sound Engineer................. Mason Wisecup Production Properties............................ Pete Sarafin Head Properties................................... Scott Gibson Assistant Properties................................Rayn Jacks Assistant Production Properties..............Colin LaBrie, Lizzie Tredinnick Wardrobe Supervisor...................... Shevhan Lusteck Assistant Wardrobe Supervisor............. Nadine Hettel Ms. Buckley’s Dresser............................Lolly Totero Stitcher........................................... Aughra T. Moon Hair Supervisor................................ Suzanne Storey Assistant Hair Supervisor..................Elaine Jarzabski Ms. Buckley’s Hairdresser................... Inga Thrasher Assistant to Ms. Buckley.................... Cathy Brighenti Production Assistants.......................... Chandler Jez, Michelle Tewksbury Creative Services................. Allied Global Marketing/ Debbie Allamong, Eric Stormoen Accountant................................. Marks Paneth LLP/ Mark A. D’Ambrosi, Patricia M. Pedersen, Michael Saccento Banking...................................... City National Bank/ Stephanie Dalton, Michele Gibbons Insurance.................................... Reiff & Associates/ Dennis Reiff, Regina Newsom

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Payroll Services....... Checks and Balances Payroll, Inc. Physical Therapy.......Neurosport Physical Therapy, LLC Athletic Trainer..................................... Lisa Basarab Medical Director................... Dr. Robert Meislin, M.D. Production Photographer................ Julieta Cervantes Housing and Ground Travel Coordination.............................Road Rebel Entertainment Touring Air Travel Coordination................ Tzell Travel Group/ A-Team Tours Andi Henig & Alan Braunstein CREDITS Scenery and scenic effects built, painted and automated

by ShowMotion Inc. Lighting equipment from PRG. Sound equipment from Masque Sound. Props fabricated

by Behind the Mule Studio, Jerard Studio, Tom Carroll Scenery. Costumes by Costume Armour, Inc., Euro Co Costumes, Inc., Giliberto Designs, Inc., Lynne Baccus, Malabar Ltd., Seamless Costumes Ltd., Timberlake Costumes, Inc., Tricorne, Inc. Hosiery and undergarments provided by Bra*Tenders. Millinery by Albertus Swanepoel, Bee Festival Hats & Bonnets, Kaz Maxine, Rodney Gordon. Custom Footwear by Capezio, LaDuca Shoes, Worldtone Dance. Custom Parasols by Barrington Brolly. Custom Gloves by Wing & Weft Gloves.

Rehearsed at New 42nd Street Studios.

HelloDollyonBroadway.com/Tour 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.

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 Press Agents and Company Managers employed in this production are represented by the Association of Theatrical Press Agents & Managers.

The musicians employed in this production are members of the American Federation of Musicians.

This production is produced by a member of The Broadway League in collaboration with our professional union-represented employees.

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PRODUCER'S CIRCLE (CONTINUED) Peter and Cynthia Buck Caroline and Matt Chambers Karen and Kevin Chapman Lillian M. Chapman Melissa M. and Howard R. Cohen Linda and Richard Cook William Cooper Lori and Roger Cuddy Meg and Jay Dees Tara DellaVecchia and Ryan Zepp Dena R. Diorio Mrs. Roddey Dowd Sr. Christine and James Drost Marcy and Fred Dumas Kayla Freeman Mr Michael Garcia Darcy and Steven Garfinkel Glenn and Krissa Gaston John R. Georgius Robin Gershen Mr. William Gorelick Sharon and Benjamin Hager Amy Hamilton Neil and Sharyn Handelsman Fred Handsel and Ben Bellante Eric Hauser and Phillip Butts

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THE DOCTOR FAMILY FOUNDATION The Arts & Science Council supports Blumenthal Performing Arts’ 2019 fiscal year budget with operating and programmatic grants.

Blumenthal Performing Arts receives support from the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources.

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ummer is the perfect time to try something new or dive deeper into dance. Charlotte Ballet Academy’s Summer Dance program provides a nurturing and structured environment that encourages individuality, creative expression and an appreciation for the art of dance.

Expert instruction is offered to students who are training for professional careers in dance, as well as to those who are interested in simply

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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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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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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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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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