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Dear Audience Member, This month at Center Theatre Group we’re showcasing the depth and breadth of our stages, the synergy of the Los Angeles theatre community, and the genius of American theatre right now. We knew we were lucky to have the opportunity and space to produce the first two plays in Quiara Alegría Hudes’ Elliot Trilogy—2007 Pulitzer Prize finalist Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue at the Kirk Douglas Theatre and 2012 Pulitzer Prize winner Water by the Spoonful at the Mark Taper Forum—concurrently. We got even luckier when Latino Theater Company decided to join us and produce the third and final installment of Elliot’s story, The Happiest Song Plays Last. It is the first time all three plays will run at the same time in one city. These three remarkable plays definitely stand on their own, but the opportunity to see the completed trilogy together and to follow Quiara’s characters through their entire arc is truly impactful. I hope you enjoy the show, and I hope you return (if you’re not returning already) to immerse yourself in one of the great achievements of 21STcentury theatre—an experience you can only have in Los Angeles.

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AROUND CENTER THEATRE GROUP INAUGURAL DISNEY MUSICALS IN SCHOOLS PROGRAM KICKS OFF Last month, five Los Angeles County schools—Harrison Elementary, Hope Street Elementary, Humphreys Avenue Elementary, La Ballona Elementary, and Ritter Elementary—began a 17-week musical theatre residency as part of this year’s inaugural Los Angeles Disney Musicals in Schools program. Educators at each school are partnering with Center Theatre Group teaching artists to learn how to produce, direct, choreograph, and music direct. After a Disney KIDS musical performance at each school, the program will culminate in a Student Share Celebration at the Ahmanson Theatre on May 21, 2018.

Center Theatre Group Artistic Director Michael Ritchie (right) and National Theatre Artistic Director Rufus Norris (left) talked about our new cocommissioning partnership on October 28, 2017, at an event at the home of Center Theatre Group Board Member Pamela Beck (center) and Dennis Beck.

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August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom was among our productions nominated for the 2018 LA STAGE Alliance Ovation Awards, with seven nods for the show, including Best Production of a Play (Large Theatre), Acting Ensemble of a Play, and Direction of a Play for Phylicia Rashad, plus an additional nomination as part of Center Theatre Group for Best Season. Congratulations to all the nominees and winners, who were announced on January 29, 2018 at the Ovation Awards Ceremony. (L–R) Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom cast members Greg Bryan, Nija Okoro, Lamar Richardson, and Jason Dirden at the Ovation Awards Reception at The Pasadena Playhouse on December 4, 2017. Photo by Corey Cano/ Capture Imaging.

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ANNOUNCING THE 2017/18 AUGUST WILSON IN-SCHOOL RESIDENCY PARTICIPANTS Four high schools from across Los Angeles are joining us for this year’s August Wilson In-School Residency: Animo Leadership Charter High School, Carson High School, East Los Angeles Performing Arts Magnet, and Ellen Ochoa Prep Academy. We’re excited to have their students embarking on an in-depth study of Wilson and his theatrical contribution to society. This year’s August Wilson In-School Residency educators and teaching artists. Bottom row (L–R): Janet Borrus, Marcia Barryte, Guadalupe Carrasco, and Tony Sancho. Top row (L–R): Nijeul Porter, Ciera Payton, Donna Simone Johnson, and Craig Robinson.

College and graduate students got feedback on their new musical theatre projects in a special, entirely free Creating a Musical Workshop with Spamilton creator Gerard Alessandrini on December 5, 2017. After brief presentations of their works-in-progress, the students received feedback from Alessandrini; afterward, they received complimentary tickets to Spamilton. “What an amazing opportunity!” said Linda Russano Garcia, a graduate student at California State University, Northridge. “Gerard’s openness and generosity to share his experiences, and the critiques he made, were appreciated. Then, to be able watch his words come to life onstage put his feedback into even greater perspective.”

CENTER THEATRE GROUP GIVES BACK The Center Theatre Group staff celebrated the holiday season by giving back (and wearing their ugliest sweaters and festive attire). Departments across the company competed to collect the most items of clothing—over 4,000 in all— for US Vets and the Siempre Para Los Niños orphanage in Tijuana, Mexico. And a snack sale featuring home-baked goods at The Music Center Annex and Kirk Douglas Theatre raised over $750 for Puerto Rico hurricane relief.

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Quiara Alegría Hudes’ Stunning Elliot Trilogy Lands in Los Angeles Quiara Alegría Hudes’ award-winning Elliot Trilogy of plays—Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue, Water by the Spoonful, and The Happiest Song Plays Last—have appeared at theatres around the country over the past decade. Now, for the first time, they are onstage concurrently in one city. From January 27 through March 19, lucky and ambitious Angelenos can experience all three works in anywhere from seven weeks to a single weekend, courtesy of Center Theatre Group and the Latino Theater Company. “It’s really thrilling. You see one play, and you get that beginning, middle, end—you get that story. But you see two, three of the plays, you get that sense of family all of a sudden,” said Hudes. “You’ve gone through it over time with this family. So I think the ending of the entire trilogy lands in a deeper way.

for us—and really for anyone in Los Angeles who loves theatre,” he said. “We’re taking advantage of the breadth and depth of our programming and of the rich theatre ecosystem of our city by joining forces with the Latino Theater Company to tell an epic story from start to finish.” Hudes wrote the first play in the trilogy, Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue (onstage at the Kirk Douglas Theatre through February 25, 2018), in isolation. But she realized that she had more to say about Elliot, a character based on her cousin, who enlisted in the Marines a few months before President George W. Bush declared war on Iraq. Elliot weaves together his story of going to war in the Middle East with the war stories of his father in Vietnam and his grandfather in Korea.

“I started to realize there’s this generation of kids fleeing the fallout of a domestic war—which was the war on The laughs get deeper, the pain gets more drugs—and actually engaging in a war abroad,” said pronounced. Hopefully the plays are resonating Hudes. “And of course as the war raged on in Iraq, off of each other in ways that will yield rewards.” the story was not done. These young people started coming home and bringing a lot home with them. Center Theatre Group Artistic Director Michael And so I decided, this story’s going to continue, and Ritchie is confident that audiences will be rewarded this is not just going to be the snippet of that story of by the opportunity to immerse themselves in Hudes’ lost innocence—it’s going to be an arc of, how does trilogy. “This is a special moment for our patrons and a child go from that to becoming an adult?” Continues on page 12

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Quiara Allegría Hudes. Photo by Emma Pratte.

A few years later, Hudes began interviewing a different cousin, who had been in recovery for decades, for the play that became Pulitzer Prize winner Water by the Spoonful (onstage at the Mark Taper Forum through March 11, 2018). In Water by the Spoonful, the story of Elliot—who has recently returned home from Iraq—collides with a group of recovering addicts in an online chatroom.

production February 17 – March 19, 2018), finds Elliot “starting to forge his way toward an adulthood that he is choosing and also a life that has chosen him. I wanted to return to the roots, and I chose a very particular Puerto Rican tradition of music, which is called música jíbara, which is basically music from the mountains—folk music,” explained Hudes.

Hudes had modeled Elliot after the Bach preludes and fugues she grew up playing on the piano. “I realized I needed different music for each play,” she said. “So Water by the Spoonful uses jazz. It’s about a moment in this young man’s life when he’s really battling with the internal demons from his childhood and also from his time on the battlefield. So I look at John Coltrane, and in particular I look at a moment in Coltrane’s musical life when he’s switching from a more recognizable, consonant jazz vocabulary to something called free jazz, when there’s much more dissonance at play.”

“I really tried to write the three trilogy plays as a musical score, to feel triumphant at times, to feel pensive at times, to feel forte and piano, and to have all the dynamics you would want out of a great symphony piece or a great mix tape,” she added. “The first

The final act of the trilogy, The Happiest Song Plays Last (onstage at the Los Angeles Theatre Center in a Latino Theater Company

play creates almost a prelude to the second and third, which are bigger and more epic and messier, and they deal with the fallout of the messiness of the individuals involved.” But that doesn’t mean they have to be seen chronologically. “They are not written to necessarily be absorbed that way,” said Hudes. She added with a laugh, “You could three-card-monte it, probably.” Visit ElliotTrilogy.org to learn more.

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BLOCK PARTY The Block Party Is Back at the Douglas

In March 2018, the Kirk Douglas Theatre opens its doors for the second year of our annual Block Party program, a celebration of Los Angeles theatre featuring three recent productions from local companies. Over the course of months, 50 staff members across seven departments ranging from the Box Office to Artistic Development to Education painstakingly reviewed the 50-someodd applications that poured in from across the city. The result is a thrilling display of some of the best L.A. theatre in the last year—Playwrights’ Arena’s Bloodletting, Critical Mass Performance Group’s Ameryka, and Celebration Theatre’s Die, Mommie, Die!

The second show, onstage April 19–29, is AMERYKA from Critical Mass Performance Group.

“Block Party is already a favorite tradition for the organization,” said Center Theatre Group Artistic Director Michael Ritchie. “We cherish the opportunity to work alongside others in the L.A. theatre community and look forward to continuing to learn, share, and experience with our colleagues.”

“One of the unique aspects of AMERYKA is that it is an ensemble-created piece. We developed it together, from nothing, over six years. Each moment of the show is filled with the specific energy, ideas, and inspiration of each person in the company,” said Founding Artistic Director Nancy Keystone, who also wrote and directed AMERYKA in collaboration with the company.

The Artistic Directors of the selected companies echoed Ritchie’s sentiment. “The two things that always move me about the Los Angeles theatre community are the incredible and exciting diversity of the artists and the work, and the sense of collegiality and sincere support that people bring to each other,” said Critical Mass Performance Group Founding Artistic Director Nancy Keystone. The three Block Party shows are emblematic of all this, as well as the quality of work being produced.

Block Party opens with BLOODLETTING by Boni B. Alvarez from Playwrights’ Arena, onstage March 29 – April 8.

Founded in 1985, Critical Mass Performance Group invents categorybusting new works, including historical-poetical epics, adaptations of classic texts, intimate interactive salons, public happenings, and social practice art, performed in traditional and alternative spaces. Charting a course that begins with the American Revolution and continues through the struggle for civil rights, the fight against Communism, and the war on terror, AMERYKA is an epic exploration of human longing for freedom and justice.

The final Block Party show, which plays the Douglas May 10–20, is Celebration Theatre’s DIE, MOMMIE, DIE!

Celebration Theatre was founded in 1982 by gay rights pioneer Charles Rowland and is dedicated to telling the stories of the LGBTQIA community. Today, the company is led by Co-Artistic Directors Michael Matthews and Michael A. Shepperd. DIE, MOMMIE, DIE! is the story of an aging Hollywood actress (played by Drew Droege in drag) scheming to kill her husband. It’s an over-the-top comedy of gay Hollywood proportions.

“The biggest thing about our entire company is that we really care about each other, we really like each other,” said Co-Artistic Director Michael A. Playwrights’ Arena is dedicated to discovering, nurturing, and producing bold Shepperd. “We drink together, we laugh together, we create together, and new works for the stage written exclusively by Los Angeles playwrights. “I I think that sense of community that we have at Celebration is reflected in hope that Block Party will help Playwrights’ Arena prepare for its move to a permanent, larger theatre starting in 2019,” said Founding Artistic Director Jon the work that we do.” Lawrence Rivera. “We hope to leverage our experience by learning valuable That sounds like exactly what we hope for the 2018 edition of information about marketing, development, and board expansion.” Block Party: drinks in the Douglas lobby, laughter (and maybe some tears) in the audience, creation by some of our city’s BLOODLETTING is the story of a woman who travels to the Philippines to spread most talented theatre artists and companies, and a sense her father’s ashes, and discovers her supernatural powers in the process. “It’s a special production because it is set on a remote Philippine island and shines of community for everyone involved. light on native folklore through the eyes of Filipino Americans,” said Rivera.

Block Party receives major support from Aliza Karney Guren and Marc Guren, with generous funding also provided by Joni and Miles Benickes. Additional support is provided by a City of Culver City Performing Arts Grant.

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When was the last time you talked to a playwright? How about someone at Center Theatre Group who wasn’t helping you out with a ticket? Playwrights, patrons, and theatre company come together in some configuration every night that we operate, yet we rarely have a chance to engage in meaningful dialogues with one another.

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That’s why, in 2013, Center Theatre Group jumped at the chance to participate in Triple Play, a national initiative led by the Theatre Development Fund and Theatre Bay Area. Triple Play “tried to put us all in the same conversation about the value of new work for our audiences—why people go to see it and what obstacles get in their way—so artists and theatres can understand how to make a healthier new play ecology for audiences,” explained Center Theatre Group Literary Manager & Artistic Engagement Strategist Joy Meads.

IN CONVERSATION clearly understand what a play was about before they decided whether or not to come see it. The request I had made turned out to be the best way to keep people from coming to see this play that I dearly loved.”

Triple Play began with conversations in a handful of cities among theatre professionals and local artists “about our perception of the demand for new plays,” said Meads. Center Theatre Group hosted the Los Angeles conversation, which was “lively, passionate, and inspiring,” said Meads, “and made us eager to investigate and get some real information to back up all of our assumptions and expectations.”

Playwright Prince Gomolvilas found a number of his assumptions about audiences turned upside down during the second set of discussions. He was surprised that “audiences don’t care about the ‘World premiere’ designation (and some even see it as a negative because World premieres are ‘untested’).” He also learned that “audiences don’t follow playwrights, don’t know their names, can’t remember their names”; story or synopsis is how people decide whether or not to see a play.

Over the next few years, local playwrights and patrons came together for two stages of focus groups and one-on-one interviews. The first took place during the World premiere of eventual Pulitzer Prize finalist Marjorie Prime at the Mark Taper Forum. Meads had been a champion of Marjorie Prime and was taking notes at the interview sessions, which focused on single-ticket buyers who had already seen the play.

Gomolvilas and Meads’ observations were supported by interviews and surveys collected from theatregoers around the country. The results of the entire Triple Play study are available at theatrebayarea.org. Center Theatre Group also hosted a “share-out” that brought together members of the Los Angeles theatre community and the organizers of Triple Play to talk about the findings.

“One of the things I enjoyed the most when I first read Marjorie Prime was discerning its mysteries from page to page, and my evolving understanding of what was happening,” she recalled. “I had gone to our Marketing department and ask that they not give any spoilers away.” She discovered she was not, in fact, doing the audience a favor. “People kept saying they wanted to

Meads said that Triple Play is already informing her work. “I’m trying to be a partner with our audiences,” she said. “When people see new work, they need more information in order to feel safe taking a risk on it. We need to make sure they understand why a play is exciting or urgent or speaks to the time, and why the playwright felt a pressing need to tell this story right now.”

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“AS A WRITER YOU WRITE IN ISOLATION, BUT THEATRE IS ALL ABOUT COMMUNITY,” playwright Deborah Stein told a group of donors on November 30, 2017 at a special Artists and Educators Forum event at the home of Jody and David Lippman. She went on to explain the value of Center Theatre Group’s L.A. Writers’ Workshop, which creates a community for a group of local playwrights each year as they create new works. “To have a writers’ group like this is a lifeline. It keeps you going. Self-doubt creeps in while you’re all by yourself,” she said. “To hear your work out loud and get the validation of people laughing where you put a joke, or being moved—or even asking questions and people being confused by things—is very useful.”

“One of the special things about the group is we’re there strictly because Center Theatre Group makes so much space for the wide range of our creative exploration,” said Morriseau. “We were all able to support each other’s different ideas and help each other cultivate the different stories we wanted to tell on our own.” She was grateful for the group’s diversity as well. “I had a very emotional moment in our last three-day retreat, where I looked around at our group, I looked at the stories we were telling, I looked at the kind of actors we were going to have in the room because of the kind of stories we were writing, and I thought, ‘Oh this is the community I want to live in,’” she recalled. “I felt so full, learning from all these artists and their cultural perspectives.”

Miles and Joni Benickes founded the Artists and Educators Forum five years ago to support Center Theatre Group programs like the L.A. Writers’ Workshop. Events such as the evening at the Lippmans’ are one benefit members enjoy. “We can pull the curtain back and find out what happens in the creative An Artists and Educators Forum Event with Playwrights process,” said Miles in his Deborah Stein and Dominique Morriseau introduction to the evening. “How does great art get up onstage?” In order to find out, he turned the conversation over to Center Theatre Group Teaching Artist Leslie Ishii.

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Ishii was moderating a discussion between Stein, who wrote and codirected The Wholehearted, which played the Kirk Douglas Theatre in December 2016, and playwright Dominique Morisseau, whose recent work includes the book for Ain’t Too Proud—The Temptations Musical (Berkeley Rep) and Pipeline (Lincoln Center Theater). Both playwrights participated in the 2016/17 L.A. Writers’ Workshop. The writers met once a month beginning in December, just after the presidential election; three writers brought 20-30 pages of new writing to each meeting. “It was a really special year to have this community of artists—to have this vehicle and this place and this community to be working through all these things that were coming up,” said Stein.

Morriseau, who is also a writer on Showtime’s Shameless, talked about how important it is to keep writing for the stage while also writing for the screen. The L.A. Writers’ Workshop “saved my life artistically because you don’t want to let go of one side of what you do because you’re branching out into other sides,” she said. After the initial conversation, Stein and Morriseau each read a brief excerpt from the plays they wrote in the Writers’ Workshop, followed by a question-and-answer session with donors.

“I loved the evening at the Lippmans’ for so many reasons,” said Center Theatre Group Board Member Monica Horan Rosenthal. “The playwrights were both so articulate and compelling when reading their outstanding work and sharing insights into their processes. But I was also moved and inspired by comments made by donors present who shared their passion for deepening the culture of our city and cultivating an audience from the spectrum of its population by developing great work.” Top: Donors at the home of Jody and David Lippman. Bottom (L–R): Deborah Stein, Dominique Morriseau, and Leslie Ishii. Photos by Mike Palma.

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MICHAEL RITCHIE Artistic Director | STEPHEN D. ROUNTREE Managing Director | DOUGLAS C. BAKER Producing Director GORDON DAVIDSON Founding Artistic Director

Presents

ELLIOT, A SOLDIER’S FUGUE Written by

Quiara Alegría Hudes With

Rubén Garfias

Peter Mendoza

Jason Manuel Olazábal

Caro Zeller

Scenic Design

Costume Design

Lighting Design

Sound Design

Sibyl Wickersheimer

Raquel Barreto

Geoff Korf

John Nobori

Casting

Associate Artistic Director

Production Stage Manager

Rosalinda Morales Pauline O’con, CSA

Kelley Kirkpatrick

Maggie Swing

Directed by

Shishir Kurup JANUARY 27 – FEBRUARY 25, 2018 KIRK DOUGLAS THEATRE Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc, New York. Original production produced by Page Seventy-Three Productions Inc. PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P3

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CAST (In Order of Appearance) Ginny.........................................................Caro Zeller Pop.....................................Jason Manuel Olazábal Grandpop.......................................... Rubén Garfias Elliot..................................................Peter Mendoza

Intermission Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue will be performed without an intermission.

Stage Manager Amanda Novoa

Please turn off all electronic devices such as cellular phones and watch alarms. The use of any recording device, either audio or video, and the taking of photographs, with or without flash, is strictly prohibited.

WHO’S WHO RUBÉN GARFIAS (Grandpop). Center Theatre Group: Lydia (Mark Taper Forum). Other L.A.: Taming of La Shrew (LATC), El Grande de Coca-Cola (Odyssey Theatre), Is It Hot in Here... (Egyptian Arena), Up From The Downs (Watts Village Theater), Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone? (Nosotros Theater). New York: Americans or Last Tango in Huahuatenango (San Francisco Mime Troupe), Soldado Razo (El Teatro Campesino). Film: Get Smart’s Bruce and Lloyd: Out of Control, The Perfect Game, Ladrón que roba a ladrón, Redrum, Insidious: Chapter 3, GB: 2525, American Blend. Television: The Good Doctor, Designated Survivor, Stitchers, East Los High, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Criminal Minds. PETER MENDOZA (Elliot). Born and raised in East Los Angeles; studied acting, dancing, and stunt choreography at East Los Angeles College. Theatre: Zoot Suit (u/s Henry Reyna) at the Mark Taper Forum, Salon Mexico (Paco) and El Burlador de Sevilla (Don Juan) at Bilingual Foundation of the Arts, and Measure for Measure (Angelo) at the ELAC Performing Arts Center. Television: Shooter on USA, NCIS on CBS, Snowfall on FX, and Casual on Hulu. Film: Dead Bullet, Nathan’s Kingdom, Parasites, TECATO, and Ana Maria in Novela Land. He volunteers at San Gabriel High School mentoring students in acting. Follow on Instagram: @petertheatre

JASON MANUEL OLAZÁBAL (Pop). Broadway: Anna in the Tropics, Julius Caesar. OffBroadway: Massacre (Sing to Your Children), Guinea Pig Solo (The Public Theater/LAByrinth Theater), The Phantom Lady (The Pearl Theatre), Where’s My Money? (Manhattan Theatre Club). Regional: Anna in the Tropics (Arena Stage), Life Is a Dream (South Coast Rep), Barcelona (CATF). Los Angeles: Short Eyes (LATC). Film: I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore. (Grand Jury Award winner, Sundance 2017), Bad Boys II, Inside Man. Select TV: Dante Esquivel on Fear the Walking Dead, Ramon Prado on Dexter (SAG Award nomination, Best Ensemble), Alex Cruz on Make It or Break It, Madam Secretary, Elementary, Castle, Scorpion, NCIS: LA, Blue Bloods. MFA, UMKC. Jason is a member of NYC’s LAByrinth Theater Company. CARO ZELLER (Ginny). National tour: Placas: The Most Dangerous Tattoo (Pregones Theater NYC, GALA Theatre DC, Salinas, Laney College, LATC, Su Teatro, Merced, San Diego, Long Beach). Regional: Water by the Spoonful (TheatreSquared), La mer (TSFY LA Phil), Fefu and Her Friends (Circle X and JUST Toys Production at Hollyhock House), The Devil’s Wife (Skylight Theatre), Nicky (Coeurage Theatre), Paloma (LATC), American Night: The Ballad of Juan José (L.A. Theatre Works), Swarm Cell (Greenway Court), The Anatomy of Gazellas (Playwrights’ Arena), Scar Tissue (COA), Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare Center of LA), Blood Wedding (Bilingual Foundation of the Arts). Film: Bruising for Besos, Kiss Me. QUIARA ALEGRÍA HUDES (Playwright) is a playwright, author, strong wife and mother of two, barrio feminist, and native of West Philly, USA. Next up is her musical Miss You Like Hell at New York’s Public Theater starting in March. Previously her play Water by the Spoonful won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Hudes co-authored Broadway’s In the Heights with Lin-Manuel Miranda, which received the Tony Award for Best Musical. Hudes is a proud alum and hall of fame inductee at Philadelphia’s Central High School. She curates Emancipated Stories, an online anthology of works written behind bars. The page-long pieces put a personal face on mass incarceration. Instagram: emancipated_stories_project SHISHIR KURUP (Director). Writer: On Caring for the Beast (Currican Theatre); Merchant on Venice (Lark Theatre, Silk Road Rising); DNA Trail (Silk Road Rising); Bliss Point, Ghurba, Birthday of the Century (Cornerstone Theater Company). Composer: Too Noble Brothers (The Public Theater); The Good Person of New Haven (Long Wharf Theatre); Medea (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella (Yale Repertory Theatre); As You Like It (The Pasadena Playhouse). Director: The Happiest Song Plays Last, Water by the Spoonful, Michael Garcés’ Magic Fruit, James McManus’ Love on San Pedro, Sarah Ruhl’s Demeter in the City, Michael Garcés’ Los Illegals. Writer/ director/composer: An Antigone Story. Co-director/composer:

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Everyman in the Mall. Film/TV actor: True Blood, NCIS, Bones, Lost, Heroes, Sleeper Cell, NYPD Blue, Monk, Alias, The West Wing. Awards: TIME/A.S.K. Award, Princess Grace Award, Kennedy Center Award, TCG/Alan Schneider Directing Award finalist, Herb Alpert Award nominee, LA Weekly Award, LA Stage Alliance Ovation Award nominee, Garland Awards, Drama-Logue Awards. Ensemble member, Cornerstone Theater Company. Education: MFA, University of California, San Diego. SIBYL WICKERSHEIMER (Scenic Designer). Center Theatre Group: Eclipsed, Of Equal Measure, No Child, The Stones. Other L.A.: Barbecue, Sex With Strangers, Build, Wrecks, Some Girl(s) (Geffen Playhouse); Reunion, Our Mother’s Brief Affair, A Little Night Music (South Coast Rep); Eric Idle’s What About Dick? (Orpheum Theatre); Encounters Stage for Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Regional: Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, American Conservatory Theater, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, Lookingglass Theatre Company, Portland Center Stage, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Geffen Playhouse, Utah Musical Theatre. International: 1984 (dir. Tim Robbins) and The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (The Actors’ Gang). Opera: Figaro 90210 (LA Opera), Crescent City, a hyperopera (The Industry). Art exhibitions: RAID Projects, Hi-Lite, Weekend, The New Chinatown Barber Shop, Gallery 825, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Andrew Shire Gallery, Hatch Gallery, Latch, Pacific Asia Museum. Associate Professor of Set Design at the USC School of Dramatic Arts. RAQUEL BARRETO (Costume Designer). Regional: Watch on the Rhine (Guthrie Theater, Berkeley Rep); Julius Caesar, The River Bride, Roe, Pericles, The Happiest Song Plays Last, and Water by the Spoonful (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Roe (Arena Stage, Berkeley Rep); The Glass Menagerie, Uncle Vanya, Romeo and Juliet, Pericles, and The Triumph of Love (California Shakespeare Theater); Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill (Actors Theatre of Louisville); The Underpants (Syracuse Stage, Guild Hall); Nero (Magic Theater). Los Angeles: Water by the Spoonful (Mark Taper Forum); Mojada (Getty Villa); Bliss Point, SEED (Cornerstone Theater Company); Hope, La Victima (Latino Theater Company); Kiss, Anna Christie, Passion Play, Ivanov (Odyssey Theatre); Philoktetes (Getty Villa Theater Lab); BODYTRAFFIC dance company (LA Philharmonic, The Broad Stage); American Buffalo (Deaf West). Teaching: design faculty, UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. GEOFF KORF (Lighting Designer). Broadway: Two Trains Running. Off-Broadway: The Shaggs (Playwrights Horizons); Robin Hood (New Victory); The Night Watcher (Primary Stages). Regional: Magic Fruit, Urban Rez, California Tempest (Cornerstone Theater); Henry V, The Happiest Song Plays Last, Water by the Spoonful (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); different words for the same thing, Pyrenees (Kirk Douglas Theatre); The Madwoman in the Volvo, Sight Unseen (South Coast Repertory); Brownsville Song, Roz and Ray, A View from the Bridge, Venus in Fur, The Piano Lesson (Seattle Repertory); The Crucible, Mr. Burns (ACT Theatre, Seattle);

Bringing Down the House, Richard II (Seattle Shakespeare); Festen (New Century Theatre); District Merchants (Folger Shakespeare). Museums: Main Exhibit, Dibner Hall of Science (Huntington Library). Teaching: University of Washington, Seattle. Education: CSU, Chico and Yale School of Drama. JOHN NOBORI (Sound Designer) is a California-based sound designer and composer. His work has been heard in plays produced by such organizations as the Lewis Family Playhouse, The Getty Villa, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Other recent credits include Cornerstone Theater Company’s production of Magic Fruit and South Coast Repertory’s production of Orange. He has been nominated for several awards for excellence in sound design and is the recent recipient of an Ovation Award for his work on The Golden Dragon at The Theatre @ Boston Court. BA, University of California, Irvine. ROSALINDA MORALES AND PAULINE O’CON, CSA (Casting) united their casting experiences from the theatre, independent film, network television, and studio casting worlds in 2008. Combining their professional relationships within the agency and management community and utilizing sources outside of the normal casting criteria, M-O Casting works collaboratively with filmmakers, producers, writers, and directors to create a cast that showcases the increasingly diverse population of audiences today. MAGGIE SWING (Production Stage Manager). Center Theatre Group: Spamilton, Big Night, King of the Yees, Block Party, Vicuña, Throw Me On the Burnpile and Light Me Up. Geffen Playhouse: Big Sky, Barcelona, Guards at the Taj, Discord, The Country House, The Judy Show, American Buffalo. European tour: The Apple Family Plays. Off-Broadway: Regular Singing, Sorry, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Sweet and Sad, Knickerbocker, Compulsion, That Hopey Changey Thing (The Public Theater), Slowgirl (Lincoln Center Theater), Blood Knot, The Orphans’ Home Cycle (Signature Theatre Company). Regional: Bell, Book and Candle (co-production with Long Wharf Theatre), The Orphans’ Home Cycle, Dividing the Estate, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Christmas Carol, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore, The Bluest Eye, and Our Town (Hartford Stage Company). AMANDA NOVOA (Stage Manager). Center Theatre Group: Popol Vuh: Heart of Heaven (Grand Park). Los Angeles/Southern California: Ghost Town, Fellowship, Urban Rez, and Magic Fruit (Cornerstone Theater Company); Lottery Loteria (The Pasadena Playhouse); The Long Road Today/El Largo Camino de Hoy (South Coast Repertory); The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, StinkyKids! The Musical, and Matrimonial Mayhem (The Laguna Playhouse); Diversity Showcase (NBC Universal), Hopscotch— Green Route (The Industry). San Francisco/Northern California: Live and On-Stage (National Performance Network); The Mathematics of Love, Ghost Limb, Mirrors, Smoke, & Getting Woke (BRAVA! for Women in the Arts); La Pastorela (El Teatro Campesino). National tours: /peh-LO-tah/—a futbol framed freedom suite (The Living Word Project).

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CENTER THEATRE GROUP MICHAEL RITCHIE (Artistic Director) is in his 13TH season as Center Theatre Group’s Artistic Director, and has led over 190 productions to the Ahmanson Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, and Kirk Douglas Theatre stages, including the premieres of six musicals that moved to Broadway—The Drowsy Chaperone, Curtains, 13, 9 to 5: The Musical, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, and Leap of Faith—and the Pulitzer Prize in Drama finalist Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo. STEPHEN D. ROUNTREE (Managing Director) joined Center Theatre Group in 2014 as Managing Director. He was previously the President and CEO of The Music Center (2002–2014) and concurrently the CEO of the Los Angeles Opera (2008–2012). He served the J. Paul Getty Trust for 22 years, starting in 1980 as Deputy Director of the Getty Museum, then Director of the Getty Center Building Program, and in 1998, the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for the Getty Trust. He currently serves as a trustee of Occidental College, The Ahmanson Foundation, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, and Polytechnic School. DOUGLAS C. BAKER (Producing Director) is now in his 28TH season at Center Theatre Group. He is an active member of the Broadway League, the Independent Presenters Network, and is a proud member of the Association of Theatrical Press Agents and Managers. In May 2013, Doug received the Broadway League’s prestigious Outstanding Achievement in Presenter Management Award. KELLEY KIRKPATRICK (Associate Artistic Director). Since arriving at Center Theatre Group in 2005, Kelley has produced over 60 productions at the Ahmanson Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, and Kirk Douglas Theatre, many of which have gone on to future lives on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and beyond. In addition to producing shows across Center Theatre Group’s three stages, he has had the

privilege of collaborating with numerous local and national artists to commission and develop new works. NAUSICA STERGIOU (General Manager, Mark Taper Forum and Kirk Douglas Theatre) has worked professionally supporting artists in theatres of all shapes, sizes, and locales including many seasons at Center Theatre Group as General Manager and, previously, as Audience Development Director. She oversees mainstage productions at the Taper and Douglas, as well as new play commissions and developmental productions through Center Theatre Group’s New Play Development. Nausica has taught at USC’s School of Dramatic Arts, and advises and works with local nonprofits including Hollywood Orchard. GORDON DAVIDSON (Founding Artistic Director) led the Taper throughout its first 38 seasons, guiding over 300 productions to its stage and winning countless awards for himself and the theatre— including the Tony Award for theatrical excellence, Margo Jones Award, The Governor’s Award for the Arts, and a Guggenheim fellowship. The Kentucky Cycle and Angels in America (Part One) won the Pulitzer in consecutive years and, in 1994, three of the four plays nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play were from the Taper (Angels in America won). In 1989, Gordon took over the Ahmanson and, in 2004, he produced the inaugural season in the Kirk Douglas Theatre.

IN MEMORIAM The Center Theatre Group family mourns the loss of Richard Dunn, 25, beloved co-worker and friend, who lost his life in a motorcycle accident in January. Since 2014, Rich worked as a carpenter and stagehand at the Kirk Douglas Theatre and during that time his hands touched every set that graced that stage. He was wellknown throughout the L.A. theatre community for his skills and also for his kind-hearted nature, joyful spirit, hatred of sleeves, and love of snacks. He will be missed. “Sun’s out, Guns out.”

Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue is part of Quiara Alegría Hudes’ Elliot Trilogy, which continues at the Mark Taper Forum with Water by the Spoonful.

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ADDITIONAL STAFF FOR ELLIOT, A SOLDIER’S FUGUE Assistant Directors....................................................... Dalia Ashurina, Bruce Lemon Assistant Set Designer........................................................................... Yuri Okahana Assistant Costume Designer.................................................... Whitney Oppenheimer Assistant Lighting Designer..................................................................Meghan Hong Carpentry Crew........................Bryce Gil, Curt Gavin, Randall Pound, Richard Dunn, Kate Harrow, Marcelo Olivas, Thomas Tulak, Todd McGraw, Zephryn Avila Electrics Crew................Lunchbox, Daniel del Busto, Lucas Garrity, Maggie Durago, Chris Kramer, Alif Marchi, Brittany Cobb, Evan Drane, Ed Rehr Prop Lead...................................................................................................Eric Babb Prop Artisans..................................................................... Mara Holland, Erin Walley Prop Carpenter.............................................................................. Donavan Martinelli Scenic Charge.................................................................................Orlando de la Paz Scenic Artist.........................................................................................Carolina Meza First Hand...............................................................................................Pamela Walt Stitcher.....................................................................................................Bert Henert

CREDITS Costumes, props, and sets provided by the Center Theatre Group Shop. Rehearsal and production photography by Craig Schwartz.

FRONT-OF-HOUSE LEADS Trevor Algatt, AJ Meijer, Tarah Pollock

FRONT-OF-HOUSE LEAD SWINGS Chase Anderson-Shaw, Bradford Barnes, Eduardo Fernandez-Baumann, Stephen Lydic, Adrienne Marquand CONCIERGES Brandon Cutts, Olivia Choate, Megan DeHart, Eric Eberle, Amber Espinosa-Jones, Angela Garcia, Tara Griffo, David Hunter Jr., Isaac Jay, Sarah Lindsley, Chelsey Maus, Rachel McVay, Janice Motuapuaka, Nicole Naito, Brenda Phillips, Daniel Rashid, Denise Reynoso, Leve Ross, Diana Spieller, Pia Shah, Michayla Van Treeck

DISCUSSION LEADERS Chase Anderson-Shaw, Candice Clasby, Eduardo Fernandez-Baumann, Jay Lee, Stephen Lydic, Adrienne Marquand, Isabella Petrini, Jor-el Vaasborg CONCESSIONS Brandon Cutts, Megan DeHart, Abilene Gonzalez, Monica Greene, Mike Lanahan, Rachel McVay STAGE DOOR ATTENDANTS Ben Durham, Michael Hanson, Ian Ray, Cory Aycock

ONLINE Center Theatre Group #ElliotKDT Like us on Facebook Center Theatre Group Follow us on Twitter @CTGLA Subscribe on YouTube CTGLA Follow us on Instagram @CTGLA The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers of the United States. This theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

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L-R: Cast members Jason Manuel Olazábal, Peter Mendoza, Caro Zeller, and Rubén Garfias and director Shishir Kurup at the first rehearsal for Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue. Photo by Craig Schwartz.

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MICHAEL RITCHIE Artistic Director | STEPHEN D. ROUNTREE Managing Director DOUGLAS C. BAKER Producing Director

ARTISTIC NEEL KELLER...............................................................Associate Artistic Director KELLEY KIRKPATRICK................................................. Associate Artistic Director DIANE RODRIGUEZ..................................................... Associate Artistic Director LINDSAY ALLBAUGH.............................................................. Associate Producer PATRICIA GARZA ...................................Artistic Development Program Manager JOY MEADS ............................ Literary Manager/Artistic Engagement Strategist ANDREW LYNFORD ...................................................................Casting Associate IAN-JULIAN WILLIAMS ....................................Program Coordinator, Block Party MATTHEW BOURNE, DANAI GURIRA, ANNA D. SHAPIRO ......................................................................Associate Artists DAVID ADJMI (FADIMAN), JON ROBIN BAITZ, SHEILA CALLAGHAN (FADIMAN), STEVE CUIFFO, JUSTIN ELLINGTON, WILL ENO (FADIMAN), DANAI GURIRA, JENNIFER HALEY, DAVID HENRY HWANG, NAOMI IIZUKA, LARS JAN, RAJIV JOSEPH, LISA KRON, KIMBER LEE, YOUNG JEAN LEE, LAURAL MEADE, RICHARD MONTOYA, LYNN NOTTAGE, QUI NGUYEN, DAN O’BRIEN, DENIS O’HARE, LISA PETERSON, WILL POWER (FADIMAN), RAINPAN 43, MARCO RAMIREZ, KEN ROHT, AL SMITH, ROGER GUENVEUR SMITH, GOB SQUAD, PAULA VOGEL, TRACEY SCOTT WILSON (FADIMAN)..........Commissioned Artists JEFF AUGUSTIN, MARCUS GARDLEY, ALESHA HARRIS, LAURA JACQMIN, MOLLY SMITH METZLER, MATTHEW PAUL OLMOS, JIEHAE PARK ............L.A. Writers’ Workshop Members HANA S. KIM......................................................Sherwood Award Recipient, 2018 EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS LESLIE K. JOHNSON............. Director of Social Strategy, Innovation and Impact TYRONE DAVIS........................................ Director of Education and Engagement KATHRYN MACKENZIE ......................................Department Operations Director TRACI KWON.................................................. Arts Education Initiatives Director CAMILLE SCHENKKAN..................................Next Generation Initiatives Director JESUS REYES...................................................Community Partnerships Director ADAM NICOLAI.................................................Arts Education Program Manager FELIPE M. SANCHEZ....................................Program Manager, Emerging Artists and Arts Professionals JENNIFER HARRELL............................................................. Operations Assistant DEBRA PIVER................................................................. Resident Teaching Artist MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION NAUSICA STERGIOU................................................................... General Manager ........................................................... (Mark Taper Forum, Kirk Douglas Theatre) JEFFREY UPAH ........................................ General Manager (Ahmanson Theatre) KATIE SOFF......................................................................... Asst General Manager .................................................. (Mark Taper Forum, Kirk Douglas Theatre, NPD) CASEY MCDERMOTT..........................................General Management Associate MEGAN ALVORD....................................................................... Company Manager ........................................................... (Mark Taper Forum, Kirk Douglas Theatre) ERIC SIMS...................... Director of Theatre Operations (Kirk Douglas Theatre) MAX OKEN..............................................Facility Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) JAQUELYN JOHNSON................................House Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) SONDRA MAYER............................Concessions Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) ALANA BEIDELMAN.......................... Executive Assistant to the Artistic Director EVELYN STAFFORD....................... Executive Assistant to the Managing Director PRODUCTION DAWN HOLISKI................................ Production Department Operations Director JOE HAMLIN............................................ Technical Director/Production Manager .............................................................................................. (Ahmanson Theatre) SHAWN ANDERSON..................................Master Carpenter (Ahmanson Theatre) STAN STEELMON................................ Master Propertyman (Ahmanson Theatre) JAMES WRIGHT....................................... Master Electrician (Ahmanson Theatre) ROBERT SMITH...................................... Master Soundman (Ahmanson Theatre) SHANE ANDERSON................................................... Flyman (Ahmanson Theatre) MICHAEL GARDNER.......................... Wardrobe Supervisor (Ahmanson Theatre) PATRICE K. MADRIGAL........................................... Hair and Make-up Supervisor .............................................................................................. (Ahmanson Theatre) CHRISTINE L. COX.......................................House Manager (Ahmanson Theatre) JONATHAN BARLOW LEE...................... Production Manager (Mark Taper Forum) EMMET KAISER.........................................Master Carpenter (Mark Taper Forum) ROBERT RUBY..................................... Master Propertyman (Mark Taper Forum) BONES MALONE...................................... Master Soundman (Mark Taper Forum) JEFF PORTER............................................Master Electrician (Mark Taper Forum) DENNIS SEETOO.................................. Wardrobe Supervisor (Mark Taper Forum) RICK GEYER.............................. Hair & Make-up Supervisor (Mark Taper Forum) LINDA WALKER ........................................... House Manager (Mark Taper Forum)

CHRISTOPHER REARDON......................................................Production Manager ...........................................................................................(Kirk Douglas Theatre) KATIE POLEBAUM.................................Stage Supervisor (Kirk Douglas Theatre) AARON STAUBACH..............................Master Electrician (Kirk Douglas Theatre) ADAM PHALEN .............................................. Head Audio (Kirk Douglas Theatre) SEAN MEYER .......................................... Light Board Programmer and Operator ...........................................................................................(Kirk Douglas Theatre) CAMBRIA CHICHI............................Wardrobe Supervisor (Kirk Douglas Theatre) CHAD SMITH............................................................ Associate Technical Director KRYSTIN MATSUMOTO............................................. Assistant Technical Director LEE O’REILLY............................................................ Assistant Technical Director SEAN KLOC...................................................................................... Shop Foreman ANDREW THIELS............................................................................... Prop Director MERRIANNE NEDREBERG..............................................Associate Prop Manager JON WARD........................................................................Associate Prop Manager CANDICE CAIN........................................................................... Costume Director BRENT M. BRUIN..............................................................Costume Shop Manager MADDIE KELLER..................................................................... Costume Generalist WHITNEY OPPENHEIMER...............................................................Shop Assistant SWANTJE TUOHINO........................................................................................Tailor ELIZABETH LEONARD.............................................................. Facilities Manager JULIO A. CUELLAR.......................................................................Driver/Custodian JOE HALLAM, RYAN HOWARD.....................................................................Drivers PETER WYLIE....................................................................Production Coordinator FINANCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND HUMAN RESOURCES CHERYL SHEPHERD...........................................................Chief Financial Officer SARAH STURDIVANT.................................... Director of Finance and Technology SUZANNE BROWN...................................................................................Controller DANNY LAMPSON OPSTAD...................................................Accounting Manager NAKISA ASCHTIANI......................................................... Senior Staff Accountant ALEGRIA SENA........................................................................... Staff Accountant XOCHITL RAMIREZ.................................................. Accounts Payable Supervisor KERRY LARICK.....................................................................Accounting Assistant JESSICA HERNANDEZ................................................................. Payroll Manager JUAN MARTINEZ......................................................................... Payroll Specialist STAN GRUSHESKY............................................ Director of Information Systems MANDY RATLIFF..............................................Sr. Database & Web Administrator ASH LEWIS......................................................................Help Desk Administrator JODY HORWITZ........................................................Director of Human Resources PJ. PHILLIPS.................................................Senior Human Resources Generalist MOSS ADAMS............................................................................................. Auditor MICHAEL C. DONALDSON, LISA A. CALLIF..................................... Legal Counsel GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER......................................................... Legal Counsel INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT YVONNE CARLSON BELL..........................Director of Institutional Advancement PATRICK OWEN.................................. Deputy Director, Advancement Operations LIZ LIN........................................................................... Director of Development, ...................................................................... Artist and Entertainment Relations CHARITY WU................................................ Director of Major Gifts Stewardship BECKY BIRDSONG................................... Major Gifts and Planned Giving Officer KATY HILTON........... Associate Director of Foundation and Government Support LAURA HITE.......................................................................Manager of Major Gifts DANIELLE LESNER............................... Associate Director of Donor Engagement MANDI OR.................................................... Associate Director of Special Events ROBBIE MARTIN..................................Associate Director of Corporate Relations JENNIFER CHAN........................................................ Special Events Coordinator DONALD JOLLY.......................................................Donor Experience Coordinator JAZMINE JONES ....................................................... Donor Relations Coordinator KIM OKAMURA ............................................................................ Grants Manager EMILY GIBSON............................Institutional Advancement Research Associate ERIN SCHLABACH........................................Manager of Major Gifts Stewardship ERIC SEPPALA......................................Board Liaison and Executive Assistant to ............................................................the Director of Institutional Advancement MATTHEW SUTPHIN................................... Institutional Advancement Associate KRISTIN YAMAKA...............................................Corporate Relations Coordinator EDUARDO MOLLINEDO-PIÑÓN.............................Donor Membership Coordinator MIKE RATTERMAN........................................................ Donor Advisor Supervisor AL BERMAN, KATE CAMPBELL, ELIZABETH DELLORUSSO, DAVID GARVER, JESSICA KATZ, BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ, NICOLE SCIPIONE, PAUL VITAGLIANO, BILL WALTON ................................................................................ Donor Advisors KARLA GALVEZ, JUSTINE PEREZ................................ Donor Services Associates WAUKENA CUYJET, MURRAY E. HELTZER, CECILIA MONTES............................................................Development Volunteers

Center Theatre Group would like to thank its exceptional staff for their ongoing commitment, dedication, and extraordinary efforts.

MARKETING DEBORAH WARREN..............................................................Director of Marketing KYLE HALL.......................................................Advertising & Promotions Director GARRETT COLLINS.......................... Senior Marketing Manager, Strategy & CRM ARIE LEVINE........... Senior Marketing Manager, Ahmanson & Mark Taper Forum KIYOMI EMI.........................................Marketing Manager, Promotions & Events EMYLI GUDMUNDSON.........................Marketing Manager, Kirk Douglas Theatre LAUREN VAN VLEET............................................. Sales & Marketing Coordinator DEANNA McCLURE...............................................................................Art Director IRENE T. KANESHIRO....................................................... Senior Design Manager SANDI SILBERT............................................................................ Senior Designer TARA NITZ.................................................................................. Graphic Designer JAVIER VASQUEZ........................................................................ Graphic Designer COMMUNICATIONS JAMES SIMS..............................................................Director of Communications JASON MARTIN........................................................................... Head of Publicity KRISTI AVILA............................................................................................ Publicist KAREN BACELLAR.........................................................................Junior Publicist SARAH ROTHBARD.................... Senior Manager, Communications and Editorial ARIELLE LAUB.........................................................Communications Coordinator SARAH GOLDBAUM.........................................................Digital Product Manager HAL BANFIELD......................................................................Multimedia Producer TICKET SALES AND SERVICES SHAWN ROBERTSON............................................................ Ticket Sales Director SKYPP CABANAS........................................................ Ticket Operations Manager NICOLE MEDINA.....................................................Ticket Operations Coordinator MICHAEL ZOLDESSY........................................................ Account Sales Manager SANDY CZUBIAK........................................................... Audience and Subscriber ....................................................................................................Services Director JENNIFER BAKER, CHERYL HAWKER, RICHARD RAGSDALE.......................................... Audience Services Supervisors ALICE CHEN................................................. Audience Services Asst. Supervisor GARY HOLLAND, DEBORAH REED........................................... Audience Services ....................................................................................................Sales Associates SAM AARON, JEREMIE ARENCIBIA, KIMBERLY ARENCIBIA, VICKI BERNDT, CARLOS D. CHAVEZ, JR., KAITLYN GALVEZ, MICHAEL ESPINOZA, ANASTASHIA GARCIA, EILEEN PEREZ, LEX SAVKO, TEVIN WILLIAMS.......................................... Audience Services Representatives DANUTA SIEMAK................................................ Subscriber Services Supervisor CHRISTINA GUTIERREZ ........................... Subscriber Services Asst. Supervisor IRENE CHUANG, LIGIA PISTE, PETER STALOCH....................Subscriber Services ..........................................................................................Senior Representatives SARAH K. GONTA .................................................................. Box Ofﬁce Treasurer  ANGELICA CARBAJAL, KISHISA ROSS................................. Assistant Treasurers  MICHAEL KEMPISTY, KEVIN LAUVER, MICHAEL SALTZMAN, CRIS SPACCA............................................................................... Box Ofﬁce Staff KERRY KORF.................................................................. Priority Services Director SUSAN F. TULLER..................................... Priority Services Operations Manager CANDICE WALTERS............................................ Priority Services Sales Manager PAUL CUEN.................................................................. Priority Services Manager KRISTEN SCHRASS...................................Priority Services Assistant Supervisor .....................................................................................................Representatives BEALENE AHERN, CLAY BUNKER, MAGGIE DODD, NATALIE DRESSEL, SOFIJA DUTCHER, MARC “BYRON” DROTMAN, FRANK ENSENBERGER, LOU GEORGE, BRAD GRIFFITH, SHEP KOSTER, JORDAN KRSNAK, IAN PRICE, MICHAEL SMITH, DIANE WARD................................................................................Representatives

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WORLD PREMIERE

Special Thanks to Artistic Director’s Circle Members for Supporting Center Theatre Group The Artistic Director’s Circle, founded by Brindell and Milton Gottlieb, is comprised of individuals supporting specific areas of Michael Ritchie’s artistic vision for Center Theatre Group. Since its founding in 2005, members have aligned their support with over 50 productions on our stages. The following individuals have made commitments of $100,000 and above. (DONORS LISTED AS OF JANUARY 3, 2018.) Anonymous (2)

Eileen & Ken Kaplan

Judith & Thomas Beckmen

Terri & Jerry Kohl

Thomas Beers

The Labowe Family Foundation

Gail Berman-Masters

The Eugene La Pietra Foundation

Diana Buckhantz & Vladimir & Araxia Buckhantz Foundation

Jody & David Lippman

Joseph & Mara Carieri Susanne & Greg Daniels Nancy & Donald de Brier Erica & Vin Di Bona Kirk & Anne Douglas Louise & Brad Edgerton Amy Forbes & Andrew Murr

GEORG E

EL IOT

DANIEL DERONDA AN L.A. THEATRE WORKS ORIGINAL COMMISSION

MAR 15-18

THE JAMES BRIDGES THEATER/UCLA

Cindy & Gary Frischling Eric & Nancy Garen Kiki & David Gindler Patricia Glaser & Sam Mudie Brindell Roberts Gottlieb Aliza Karney Guren & Marc Guren Ann & Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr. June & Gareth Hughes Stanley Iezman & Nancy Stark

Ruth Flinkman-Marandy & Ben Marandy Louise Moriarty & Patrick Stack Deena & Edward Nahmias Bill Resnick & Michael Stubbs Lloyd E. Rigler - Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation Laura & James Rosenwald & Orinoco Foundation Deidra Norman Schumann Donna Schweers & Tom Geiser Maggy & Jack Simon Judie Stein & Stein Family Foundation Eva & Marc Stern Sue Tsao Sheila & Wally Weisman Misty Widelitz

Artists & Educators Forum ($20,000+)

Adapted from the novel by George Eliot, Daniel Deronda chronicles a young man’s search for his identity, a pursuit which leads him into romance, family secrets and the world of 19th-century Zionism.

The Artists & Educators Forum, founded by Joni and Miles Benickes, is comprised of individuals dedicated to providing significant funding for Center Theatre Group’s New Play Production and Education and Community Partnerships programs.

Directed by Kate McAll

Marla S. Campagna

Starring Joanne Whalley

(DONORS LISTED AS OF JANUARY 3, 2018.)

Melissa & Bob Alvarado Joni & Miles Benickes Joan & Rob Blackman Annette Blum Cástulo de la Rocha & Zoila Escobar In Memory of Morris A. Hazan

UPCOMING

DISGRACED

Dori & Doug Howell

APR 19-22

In Support of New Theatre Artists

Jane Rissman & Richard Sondheimer Bruce & Randy Ross Elliott R. Sernel Eugene & Marilyn Stein Sunshine Stone Donna & John Sussman Anne C. Taubman Peter & Iona Tompkins Karen & William Timberlake

By Ayad Akhtar | Pulitzer Prize Winner — Drama (2013)

Mr. & Mrs. Gerald W. Kehle

Robin & Gary Ungar

SPILL

Kelton Fund/Lenny & David Kelton

Hope Landis Warner

Vicki King

Suzanne V. Wilson

Harry & Arlette Lumer

Marilyn Ziering

MAY 17-20

By Leigh Fondakowski | Starring Jane Kaczmarek

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TICKETS AND INFORMATION

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Renee & Meyer Luskin

Linda S. Peterson

For more information about leadership gifts, please call Erin Schlabach at 213.972.3069. Donors who have made additional gifts to Center Theatre Group’s Endowment or Planned Gifts programs.

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ELI¯NA GARANCˇA MEZZO-SOPRANO WITH ORCHESTRA

KAREL MARK CHICHON / CONDUCTOR MAR 3, 2018 / 7:30PM The superstar mezzo soprano Elı¯na Garancˇa returns to The Broad Stage for one night only, in a sensational concert featuring sensuous and alluring arias, joined by a full orchestra under the baton of internationally renowned Maestro, Karel Mark Chichon.

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CELEBRITY OPERA SERIES AT THE BROAD STAGE SUPPORTED BY A GENEROUS GIFT FROM LLOYD E. RIGLER – LAWRENCE E. DEUTSCH FOUNDATION

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Entertainment Circle

THE SORAYA

The Valley’s Center for the Performing Arts

Center Theatre Group wishes to acknowledge our generous supporters in the Entertainment Circle, who are leaders in the entertainment industry. Thank you to our multi-year donors, whose gifts ensure a secure base for our future. For information, call Donor Engagement at 213.972.7564. (DONORS LISTED AS OF DECEMBER 15, 2017.)

MULTI-YEAR DONORS

Florence C. Agcawili

Karen & Stephen Hillenburg

Greg Basser & Kiera O’Neill

Alicia Hirsch & Jesse Russo

Paula Brand

Sean Johnson & Alex Ocampo

Norman Buckley, In Memory of Davyd Whaley Nick Dudzak

Idea Asylum Productions & Dr. Allegra & Mr. Sheppard Kaufman

Greg H. Dunn

Sarah E. Kiefer

Michael Hanel & Steven Linder

Dr. Peter A. Krikes

Donna L. Herman

Nita Whitaker LaFontaine

Dozar Office Furnishings

Marla E. Levine

Mark Kaplan

Mr. Theodore K. Martinez

James & Melanie Renfroe

Carla Meyer & Charles Arnold

Mr. Charles W. Weeks

Tina J. Miller

Marc Zachary

Lawrence A. Mirisch

ANNUAL DONORS

McCoy Rigby Entertainment & La Mirada Theatre

In Honor of Barry Moss

Mr. Irving H. Anderson

Jonathan B. Murray

Amy Aquino & Drew McCoy

Justin Okin

Corinne Baldassano

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Children in Film

Serendipity Productions

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Bill & Ellie D’Elia

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Bob Doucette & Tom Slotten Bob & Gabrielle Ducsay Nadine Espana Chris Cookson & Lauren Firestone Darcy Fleck Jacque & Bobby Florsheim

Jack & Marlene Susser Brad & George Takei Allison Thomas & Gary Ross Russell Todd Agency Cliff Warner Victoria Weisbart

Catherine Gessner

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Jennifer Crittenden & William Wrubel

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Center Theatre Group Corporate Circle Sheri Biller, Founding Chair The Corporate Circle is comprised of companies that support Center Theatre Group’s education and community partnership programs. Members receive VIP concierge service at theatres in Los Angeles, New York, and London, complimentary and discounted tickets to our shows, business development opportunities, and more. For more information, call 213.972.3192. (DONORS LISTED AS OF JANUARY 1, 2018.)

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CORPORATE CIRCLE MEMBERS STERLING CIRCLE

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BRONZE CIRCLE 21ST Century Fox American Business Bank Brite Ideas Chubb City National Bank

Edison International Fox Television Group Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation Jones Day The Liberty Company

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INTERNATIONAL CURTAIN CALL

2018 Deluxe Opera & Music Tours SAN FRANCISCO RING June 11 – 18, 2018

Wagner's DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN The Runnicles-Zambello Production EVELYN HERTLIZIUS (Brünnhilde) JAMIE BARTON (Fricka & Waltraute) KARITA MATTILA (Sieglinde) RONITA MILLER (Erda) MELISSA CITRO (Gutrune) GREER GRIMLSEY (Wotan) STEFAN MARGITA (Loge) BRANDON JOVANOVICH (Siegmund/Froh) DANIEL BRENNA (Siegfried) FALK STRUCKMANN (Alberich) DAVID CANGELOSI (Mime) ANDREA SILVESTRELLI (Hunding/Fafner) – Deluxe Westin St. Francis Hotel –

VIENNA & MUNICH

Center Theatre Group Inner Circle The Inner Circle is an organization of community leaders who provide outstanding support to Center Theatre Group. In appreciation, members enjoy a host of special benefits, including meet-the-artist receptions, backstage tours, premium theatre seating, and much more. Thank you to our multi-year donors, whose gifts ensure a secure base for our future. For information, call Donor Engagement at 213.972.7564. (DONORS LISTED AS OF DECEMBER 15, 2017.)

GUARDIAN CIRCLE ($18,000+) MULTI-YEAR DONORS

ANNUAL DONORS

Jonna Bollenbacher

Anonymous (2)

Phyllis Kupferstein & Donald O. Farkas

Pamela & Dennis Beck

Kelly Sutherlin McLeod & Steven B. McLeod Family Foundation

Maynard & Linda Brittan

MILAN - VERONA & PUCCINI FESTIVALS July 4 – 16, 2018

MILAN: FIDELIO (Schneider; Skelton, Milling, Pisaroni); IL PIRATA (Yoncheva; Pretti, Alaimo) VERONA: AIDA; CARMEN & NABUCCO [Cast to be announced] PUCCINI FESTIVAL: TURANDOT & TOSCA [Cast to be announced] – 5-Star Hotels – Westin Palace Milan & Due Torri Verona – 4-Star Hotel Villa La Principessa, Lucca –

SALZBURG FESTIVAL August 17 – 26, 2018

L'ITALIANA IN ALGERI (Bartoli); SALOME; THE CORONATION OF POPPEA; THE PEARLFISHERS (Domingo); LONDON SYMPHONY (Rattle-Zimmerman/ Bernstein Symphony#2, Dvorak, Janacek); VIENNA PHILHARMONIC (Welser-Möst; Henze–Tristan; Wagner– Ring Highlights); – 5-Star Sheraton Grand Salzburg Hotel – All Tours Include: – Orchestra Tickets to All Performances – – Buffet Breakfasts – – Selected Gourmet Meals with Wine – – Special Sightseeing & Excursions –

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Linda Brown The Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation

June 24 – July 7, 2018

VIENNA: LOHENGRIN (Dasch, Zhidkova; Ventris, Park, Rasilainen); FALSTAFF (Maestri, Maltmann, Xiahou; Bezsmertna, Bohinec, Fahima); DER FREISCHUTZ (Nylund, Fally; Held, Schager, Dohmen); And NUREJEV GALA BALLET. MUNICH: GALA GRUBEROVA CONCERT; DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER (Pieczonka; Koch, Selig, Muzek); ARABELLA (Harteros, Müller; Mayer, Rydl); PARSIFAL (Stemme; Kaufmann, Pape, Gerhaher, Szabo, Koch); L'ELISIR D'AMORE (Yende; Grigolo, Maestri, Bondarenko) – 5-Star Hotels – Grand Vienna & Kempinski Vier Jahreszeiten Munich

Lynn Booth

Michael A. Enomoto Rhonda C. Evans Susan A. Grode Heather & Paul Haaga Sharon & Joe Hernandez Ellen & Tom Hoberman Lynn & Dreux McNairy Carrie & Ben Mui

Susan & Stephen Chandler

Sheila Muller

Helen & Morgan Chu

Joyce & Deane Ross

Diana Rogovin Davidow

Stanley Iezman & Nancy Stark Mary J. Witt

BENEFACTOR CIRCLE ($12,000+) MULTI-YEAR DONORS

ANNUAL DONORS

I. Mark & Marlene Bledstein

Laura & Harvey Alpert

Doris Luster

Hon. Mary Lou Byrne & Gary W. Kearney

Betsy & Harold Applebaum

Debra Gastler & Andrew Malloy

Connie Elliot Ms. Dana Guerin Lorrie & Richard Gurewitz Marion & Tod Hindin Gail & Stanley Hollander Jennifer L. Jackman Ellen & Jerry Jacobson Debra & Robert Kasirer Vicki & Seth Kogan Joan Kroll & In Memory of Irving Kroll Edward Lewis In Loving Memory of Anna Strahlman Steven Llanusa & Glenn Miya, M.D.

Jackie & Howard Banchik Shelley & Rick Bayer Fran R. Berger Bill Cohn & Dan Miller

Janice & Bruce Miller Andy & Laura Mintzer Olivia & Anthony Neece

Roberta A. Conroy

Chris & Dick Newman/C & R Newman Family Foundation

Corbell Family

Christine Marie Ofiesh

Nancy & Donald de Brier

Jack & Jane Pollock

Joanna Exacoustos

Laura & David Quigg

Larry Field

Dr. Harry E. Rice, M.D.

Roslyn & Abner Goldstine

Barbara Roberts

Annie Gross In Loving Memory of Georges Gross

Natalie Roberts & David Roberts z”l

Shirley J. Hess

Michael Rogers

The Jim Hicks Family Foundation

Gloria Sherwood

Lorraine & Jesse Hizami

Rosemary Simmons Marcia & David M. Spaid

In Memory of Salem Ludwig

Mr. & Mrs. James L. Hunter

Mildred M. & Earl Moon

Marcia S. Jones

Kari L. Nakama

Dr. & Mrs. Jack Kavanaugh

Arline M. Nakanishi

In Memory of Lynn Kinikin

Dr. Peggy Renner & Dr. Robert Nelson

Alice & Nahum Lainer

Terence Tchen & Emily Breckenridge

Mrs. Gayle Leventhal

In Memory of Honey Sanders

Elinor & Rubin Turner

Lee Levin

Julia Voce

Marlene & Sandy Louchheim

Dana & Matthew Walden

Nina & Steven Sheldon

Phyllis J. & Steven F. Spierer Stone Family Donna & John Sussman

Tracy A. Stone The Sugimoto Family Foundation Peter & Susan Van Haften Roberta & James Vigneau Doug & Ellen Weitman Jerrie D. Whitfield & Richard W. Motika Martin & Rosalind Zane

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Garrick Ohlsson

Calder Quartet

Colburn Orchestra

Simone Porter

FRI / FEB 23 / 7:30pm

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West Los Angeles

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Mid-Wilshire Area

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Pico-Robertson Area

8520 W. Pico Blvd. (at La Cienega)

Mar-Vista Area

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Studio City

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Canoga Park

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PATRON CIRCLE ($8,000+) MULTI-YEAR DONORS

ANNUAL DONORS

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Alan & Barbara Faiola

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Jay & Donna Gallagher John Gallardo Lesley & Dr. Kenneth H. Geiger

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Marylyn Ginsburg & Chuck Klaus

Jeff Mandel

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Emily & Phillips Marshall

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Gary & Denise Kading

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Cari & Marty Kavinoky

Louis & Harold Price Foundation

In Memory of Mille Kern Diane Kessler Janice A. Kido

Dr. & Mrs. Daniel Wallace

Genni Klein

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Joanne C. Kozberg

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Diane Morton

Mr. & Mrs. Randy Snyder

Robert & Sally Neely

Judy Stone

Gail Neiman

Ellen & Steve Sugerman

Cindy & Ken Norian

Laney & Thomas Techentin

Bob & Renee Nunn

Sandra Tufts

Judy Nussenblatt

Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Volk

Norman & Margrit Oberstein

Seymour Waterman & Family

Mary Kay Park

Alan Wilson & Ina Coleman

Dennis J. Perrone & Zoe Tan

Jenene J. Wilson & Kristiana A. Wilson

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FELLOW CIRCLE ($4,000+) MULTI-YEAR DONORS: Anonymous (4), Helen Allan, Carol L. Archie & Edward L. Keenan, Jill Banks Barad, Susan Baumgarten, Dr. Martine Bauwens, Drs. Jack & Barbara Berman, Bill Bohnert, Karlyn & Chuck Boppell, Alice Desobry Bowens, Neil H. & Karen Hochman Brown, Anne Bruner & James Bremner, David Burch, Allen B. Cagle, M.D., Lynne Campbell, The Castaldo Family, Rita Chenoweth, Nancy Cypert, Julia Donoghue, Robin C. Dumas, Jack & Cynthia Edelstein, David & Joyce Evans, Laura E. Fox, M.D. & John D. Hofbauer, M.D., Sylvia Fredricks, Howard & Suzanne Furst, Michael Galindo & Mary Quon Jung, Freddi & Marvin Gelfand, Maggi Phillips & Mario Gerla, Jeri & Keith Gertzman, Mr. & Mrs. Efrain Gonzalez, Edith Gould, James D. & Margaret A. Gray, Mr. Jeffrey L. Hall & Mr. Kevin A. Yoder, Harris Family Foundation, Johnny Ruth Harrison, M.D., Al & Sandy Haveson, Zvia Hempling, Ofer B. Ho, Linda R. Kaplan, Michael & Deborah Klein, Thea & Neal Koss, Joan & Chris Larkin, Karen & Tim Lavrouhin, Ron & Pat Lebel, Christine Lee, Drs. Anu & Ali Leemann, James & Karen Lefever, Michael Levin & Andy Abowitz, Pamela & Mark Litvack, Sandra & Kenneth Malamed, Amy & Harold Masor, Gordon & Dale McWilliams, Gretchen & Marshall Milligan, Steven Modglin, Mary Lou Mooney, Loula Moschonas & James Edgerton, Wendy A. Moss, Richard Newcome, Marianne & Michael Newman, Mary Rose & Edward Ortega, Tye Ouzounian & Karyn Wong, Norman Dixon & Patrick Owen, Elsie & Peter Paterno, Helen Pekny, Mr. Stephen Pescetti, Dr. & Mrs. Irv Posalski, Mr. & Mrs. Albert Praw, Cheryl & Joel Prell, Kirk & Cathy Reynolds, Craig E. Rogers, Robyn & Steven Ross, John Salter, Beatrice (Tina) Castillo & Gail Sandford, Stephen J. Sass & Dr. Steven Hochstadt, John R. Sealy, M.D., Scott Shagrin, Christine Shaner, James & Alexis Sheehy, Howard & Stephanie Sherwood, Steven E. Shulem, Jan & Carl Siechert, Charlene & Mike Sievers,

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FELLOW CIRCLE (CONTINUED) Kurt & Keli Skarin, Stephen & Judith Slagle, Judith & Stan Solomon, Alfred & Betty Spivak, Jacque & Herb Spivak, Mr. & Mrs. Mitchell Sussman, Dr. Allan & Roslyn Holt Swartz, Michelle Tesoro, Norman & Barbara Weiler, Leilani Whitney, Valerie & Nathaniel E. Williams, Denise J. Winner | ANNUAL DONORS: Anonymous (5), Gay & Harry Abrams/Abrams Artists Agency, Brenda & Alan Abramson, Amy & Bob Abramson, Andrew Aichlmayr, Dr. O. Allen Alpay, Susan Alschuler, Paula & Douglas Anderson, Robert C. Anderson, Suzanne & Bill Attig, James Baer, Melanie & Gregory Barbee, Eric & Jasna Baron, Norma Barretta, Barbara Bauer & Lawrence Cox, Chris & Rose Bauss, Marjorie Beale, Beth Bennett & Larry McAdams, James P. Bennett & Company, Elliot, Roberta, Dayna, & Alison Berkowitz, Jeffrey & Susan Berman, Jo Bernard & B. K. Phillips, Carole Black, Nathalie Blossom & Howard Levy, John S. Borsum & Mark Ehrenstein, In Memory of Larry & Evilo Bouchey & Manny Carbajal, Ms. Susan M. Brewer, Janice R. Brittain, Dr. Leon & Rochelle Brooks, Stu Brower, Dr. Lisa Bukaty & Mr. Raymond M. Bukaty, The Burleigh Family, Sean & Teresa Burton, Carol & Ken Carlson, In Memory of Linda Rivera-Venezia, Eric Chien, Mr. & Mrs. Brenton Chinn, Nicholas Chrisos, Mary Coates, Dr. Frederic H. Corbin, M.D., Richard Jr. & Darlene Crook, Trisha Curry, Louise & Jeffrey Davis, Jonathan de Armas, Dr. Allison Diamant, Mike & Jamie DiFiori, Jessie J. Duffy, Dr. & Mrs. William Duxler, Mr. & Mrs. James Eldridge, Earl & Karen Enzer, Louise & Charles Escoffery, Victoria I. Evers, Frances & Terry Flanagan, Pat Fleming, The Franke Family Trust, Joanne Freed & Richard C. Mendelson, Rosalie Friis-Ross, Dr. & Mrs. Jerry Garrett, Kate & Dr. Stephen Geller, Daniel & Cynthia Glick, Stephen Glick & Sylvia Turk, Gary Jackson & Linda Globerman, M.D., Lenore S. & Bernard A. Greenberg Fund, Beverly & Felix Grossman, Claudia & Tom Grzywacz, Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Guerin, Roberta L. Haft, Sam Harris, Mark & Julie Harrison, Steve & Toya Harrison, Michael S. Lurey & Laurie Hasencamp, Hays & Clark Family, Michelle & Dr. Alan Heilpern, Gail & Murray Heltzer, Dr. Stephen D. Henry & Rudy Oclaray, Fritz Hoelscher, Rand Hoffman & Charlotte Robinson, Jim & Gloria Hopper, Mr. & Mrs. William H. Hurt, Susan & Larry Ivanjack, Roslyn & Warren Jacobson, Lee Ann & Riley Janek, In Memory of Wayne Jervis, Jr., Gordon Johnson & Barbara Schnell, Mark A. Kadzielski, Judith & Russell Kantor, Regina & Richard G. Kaplan, Elyse & Stanley Katz, Michael Keir, Jackie A. Kern, Karen & Bob Knapp, Gail J. Levine, V. P. Sessions, Bill Kobin & Frances Goodman, Norman & Leslie Koplof, Mr. & Mrs. Stan Krasnoff, Castro Krinel, Sharon & Joel Krischer, The Kwon Family Foundation, In Memory of Alfred R. Lander, Mr. & Mrs. Jack D. Lantz, Sharon Lapid, Gloria D. Lee, Bob Leibowitz, M.D., Curtis Lelash, Constance Leonard, Dinny & David Lesser, Carrie & Mark Levinson & Emily, Lauren & Max, Jananne LoCasale, Philip LoGiudice, M.D., Mr. & Mrs. Mark S. Louchheim, Alan Ludwig, M. Michele Martin, Susan D. Martynec, James A. Zapp & Elizabeth A. McGlynn, Tony Melia, Helen Michaels, Lary & Mary Anne Mielke, Joanne & Joel Mogy, Sue & Monty Mohrman, Toni & Tom Morgan, Ron Myrick, Patty & John Nickoll, Marc I. Nishino, D.D.S., Becky Novy, Valerie Oishi, Dr. Willa O. Olsen, Janie & Allan Orenstein, Christina Owen & Marvin Isaacson, Jennifer N. Owens & Jay T. Ornellas, John Paley, Mr. & Mrs. Mark M. Panatier, Barry & Jane McCullough, Frank & Arlene Pirolo, The Polinger-Cohen Foundation, Paulene Popek, Mrs. Eleanor Pott, Charlie & Kristi Proctor, Drs. Laurence & Isabell Purdy, Gail & Gary Rachelefsky, F. Ronald & Deborah Rader, Michele & Dudley Rauch, Rona Cele Resnick, Mr. & Mrs. Marvin Ring, Fred & Suzie Rose, Lois Rosen, Ellen & Mike Rosenberg, Barbara & Peter Rosenthal, In Honor of Robert Edward Sabol, Janet Salter in Memory of Maxwell Hillary Salter, Drs. Joan & Harry Saperstein, June Sanders Sattler, Linda & Clifford Schaffer, Marlene & Roger Schaffner, Scott & Julie Schumacher, Carol (Jackie) & Charles H. Schwartz, Amy & Andy Schwartz, Greg Scott, Jean L. Scroggy, Robert & Cathy Sevell, Linda M. Sherman, Ruth Silveira, Debra J. Silvera-Sheehan, Harlean & Joseph Silverman, Shani Smolens & In Memory of Dr. Bernard Smolens, Drs. Debra & Philip Sobol, Sue & Steve Soldoff, Allen & Arleen Steiner, Bobbie Stern, Susan R. Stockel, Sullivan & Hargreaves Court Reporters, Jayashree & Jeff Sung, I.H. Sutnick, Robin & David Swartz, Mari & Randall Tamura, Michael & Arlene Taylor, Mary & Peter Tennyson, Patricia R. Torres, Wendie Warwick & Ken Pierce, Jessica M. Weisel, Luke & Colleen Welsh, Pat West, Ms. Jean M. Wilkinson, Edward Wolkowitz Family, Evan Wooten, Virginia & Greg Young, Myrna & Stanley Zimmerman, The Zolkover Family

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ASSOCIATE CIRCLE ($1,200+) MULTI-YEAR DONORS: Barry M. Baker, Robert & Angie Butler, Kathryn Cencirulo, Kathleen & Sarah Doramus, John & Stefanie Lau, Charles Letzgus & Michael McDonald, Bev Moore, Jo An Peters, Maxine Savitz, Juanita Shaw, Barbara Ann Sterling | ANNUAL DONORS: Anonymous (22), Michael & Susan Abeles, David Abshier, Olga S. Alderson, Adrienne Alpert & Family, Debra & Dave Alpert, Dr. Charles & Michaelyn Alson, Lynn K. Altman, Katherine Annuschat, Regina Antonioli & Equestrian Concepts, Mrs. Jacqueline Applebaum, Susan Aprahamian, Stewart & Eileen Balikov, David Baltimore & Alice Huang, Mike & Dana Barker, Carl D. Barnes, Jericho Poppler & Dr. Greg Bartlow, Diana M. Batista, Ginger G. Bauer, Judy & Chuck Beck, Elissa & Sheldon Becker, Lynn & Haim Beliak, David Bender, Mr. & Mrs. Robert Guza, Mr. & Mrs. Steven B. Bergjans, Alan & Marilyn Bergman, Mr. Keither Berkes, Richard Berliner & Judy Korin, Ana Karime Bichsel, Bernie & Beverly Gray Bienstock, Ruth Barry Binder, Peter & Helen Bing, Dr. Linda Blakeley, Ph.D., Marjorie Blatt, Cheryl Bledin, Richard & Patricia Bongeorno, Tim & Becky Borquez, Nancy Brandel, Geri Brawerman, Sandy & Mayer Brenner, Devra Breslow, Leah Broidy, Dr. Susan Brown, Terry Brown & Matthew Shaklee, Willie & Charlene Brownlee, Mari & Ward Bukofsky, Linda Stafford Burrows, Mike & Sandy Buttitta, Dr. & Mrs. George Byrne, Christine Cahill, Mr. & Mrs. Tom R. Camp, Melinda Carmichael, Thomas J. Carmichael, Tracy Casadio, Caver-Davidson Family, Mrs. James L. Chew, Ms. Jean F. Cohen, Carol Comparsi, James M. Cooke, Pete & Bobbie Cooke, Kim & Anthony Cookson, Carrie Cooper, Rosalie Corona, Earl & Christina Cory, Susan G. Cowan, Lois Cox, Judy Tishkoff & Keith Crasnick, Kathryn Crown, Leslie M. Crunelle, Mr. Joseph D. 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ASSOCIATE CIRCLE (CONTINUED)

ﬁlming the camps

John Ford Samuel Fuller George Stevens

from Hollywood to Nuremberg

Dr. & Mrs. John F. Lawrence, Barbara & Tom Leanse, Jack Ledwith, Anne Lehrer, Jo Ann Lee, Diane Levine, Allyn & Jeffrey Levine, In Memory of Malcolm Lewis, Patty Loch, Mr. & Mrs. Richard Lorentz, Kathleen & Raymond Lovell, Allan & Helen Gordon Lowy, Cynthia Lupoff, Eileen & Peter Malis, Mary Mallon-Chavez, Denise M. Mamishian, Darlene Manus, Mr. & Mrs. Dennis G. Martin, Laura & Jim Maslon, Vivian Matsushige, Eleanor Maynard, Mrs. Liliane Quon McCain, Meg McComb, Neil McLean, Mrs. Lucille H. Melcher, Terry & John Merkel, Bob & Rosemary Merzoian, Lynn & Mani Miller, Wendy & Saul Miller, Nicole L. Miner & Celia Ruskin, Creditors Adjustment & Brad Mitteldorf, Katherine Molloy, Francoise Schmutz & Antonio Morawski, Douglas Moreland, Paula C. Moseley, Ed.D, Alden & Jane Munson, Julie & Jean-Baptiste Nadal, Diane Narhi & Stan Ulman, Helen Kim & Richard Nathan, Kenneth Navran, Deanna Neil, Kathleen Nelson, Dr. Anthony Nesburn, Kim Nicholas, Marsha Niles, Roberta Novick & Martin Gardner, Linda Nussbaum & Lawrence Ross, Marc & Shaina Ostroff, Mr. Peter Otto & Jesus Amparan, The Palazzo Family, Allan & Jodi Pantuck, Mr. Robert S. Paris, Joan P. Parker, Bob & Brana Paster, John Peetz, Carole Pelton, Mary Zoe Phillips, Leesa Pielago, Sheila Poncher, Mr. Hilary B. Poochigian, Ruth Shamir Popkin, Jill Poppe, Suzanne & Harvey Prince, Dr. Stephen C. Rabin, John & Sandra Radine, Courtney Rangen, Anat Resnik, Elaine Binder Robinson, Joan G. Robinson, Ernesto & Richard Rocco-Davies, Karen Romney, Ms. Becky Rosales, Arlene & Jerry Rosin, Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Rubin, Ron & Sharon Ryan, Sonia Sabban, Alexandra & Edward Saborio, David A. & Karen Richards Sachs, Harvey & Peggy Saferstein, Leah Saffian, Ms. JoAnne Saltman, Linda R. Saltzman, Victoria & Orman Sartwell, Alexander & Mariette Sawchuk, Tina Saxe, Mia Schiavone, Stanley B. Schneider, Anne Schrader, Karin & Christof Schwab, Robert & Monica Schwaniger, Ruth A. Seigle & Laura Seigle, Harry Selvin, Robin Share, Lynn Sharp, Kevin M. Shiramizu & Michael J. Kerkman, Robyn Schreiber, Jacqueline & Harvey Shulman, In Memory of Ruth & Leon Sirkin, Ken & Marinette Simon, Slater Family Foundation, David & Irene Smith, Karen Smits, Vicki & Lew Snow, Mr. & Mrs. Richard Sobelle, Dr. Marion & Matthew Solomon, Colonel & Mrs. S. M. Soukup, Marilyn & Errol Stambler, Stephen Steging, J. Franklin Stewart, Antoinette Strelich, William R. Stringer, Stephen & Karen Sweeney, Ellen & Wing Tam, William L. Tan, Mr. David Taylor, Karen Thomas, Hon. Sandra Thompson, Sandra & Laurens Thurman, Susan & William Tinkley, Dianne Tomita, Laura Torrance, Gwendolyn Hamilton Tucker, Lynette & Jim Vandeveer, Pamela Villanueva, George Vissio, Elliott & Felise Wachtel, Margaret A. Wagner CPA, Laurie & Ira Waldman, Dr. Christopher Walker, Denise & Peter Walsh, Pat Warford, Janice & Larry Weiner, Robert Wemischner & Leslie Raffel, John & Martha Wengert, Dr. Clyde Wesp, Marshall L. Williams, Dr. Libby F. Wilson, Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Wolf, Stephen E. Wright, Adelle Yeaton, Mr. & Mrs. Richard Yoder-Edney, Kenneth Yoon, George Zimmerman

Government Support On exhibit at Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust through April 30, 2018

Center Theatre Group appreciates the support of the following agencies: California Arts Council The City of Culver City

An exhibit exploring the work of three Hollywood ﬁlmmakers who documented the liberation of concentration camps for the U.S. Armed Forces in 1945, creating footage that was used as evidence at the Nuremberg Trials.

City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs

The exhibition, curated by historian and ﬁlm director Christian Delage, was designed, created, and distributed by the Mémorial de la Shoah (Paris, France), and made possible through the generous support of SNCF.

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JANUARY 30 – MARCH 4 WRITTEN BY Martyna Majok DIRECTED BY Tyne Rafaeli FEATURING Marin Ireland Additional casting to be announced.

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Dominique Morriseau

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DONOR RECOGNITION

Foundation Support These institutions support Center Theatre Groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s operations, arts education programs, artistic development program, or specific projects. For more information, call our grants information line at 213.972.3022. THE AHMANSON FOUNDATION ANNENBERG FOUNDATION CENTER THEATRE GROUP AFFILIATES DORIS DUKE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION EDGERTON FOUNDATION ELISABETH KATTE HARRIS TRUST THE HEARST FOUNDATIONS THE ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION THE RALPH M. PARSONS FOUNDATION LLOYD E. RIGLER-LAWRENCE E. DEUTSCH FOUNDATION LAURA & JAMES ROSENWALD & ORINOCO FOUNDATION THE SHUBERT FOUNDATION, INC. THE HAROLD AND MIMI STEINBERG CHARITABLE TRUST TIME WARNER FOUNDATION INC. DISNEY THEATRICAL GROUP The Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation Employees Community Fund of Boeing California Sascha Brastoff Foundation Brookside Fund Diana Buckhantz & Vladimir & Araxia Buckhantz Foundation The Carol and James Collins Foundation The Culver City Education Foundation Joseph Drown Foundation Fineshriber Family Foundation Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation Lawrence P. Frank Foundation The Friars Charitable Foundation The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Lear Family Foundation The Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation New England Foundation for the Arts The Kenneth T. & Eileen L. Norris Foundation The Perkins Charitable Foundation Rosenthal Family Foundation Sony Pictures Entertainment The Fran and Ray Stark Foundation Dwight Stuart Youth Fund

Sponsors Center Theatre Group is grateful to these companies for their generous support.

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DONOR RECOGNITION

Ovation Circle Planned Gifts

Endowment Gifts

Center Theatre Group is grateful to these donors, whose irrevocable deferred estate gifts to our endowment ensure the organization’s financial well-being for generations to come.

These gifts ensure a stable source of support for new work and Center Theatre Group’s many initiatives to make theatre accessible to underserved audiences.

$1,000,000+

$500,000+

Shirley & Irving Ashkenas

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

EXECUTIVE BOARD

Judith & Thomas Beckmen

Renee & Meyer Luskin

Anne Bruner* Cariline Davis Dyer Ilene Eisenberg Roberta Haft* Christine Harte Tobé Karns Diane Kessler* Thea F. Koss Rita Lee Diane Lesser Jerri Nagelberg Diane Neubauer*

Sheila Poncher* Marsha Tauber Sallai

Kirk & Anne Douglas

John S. Surabian, Jr. and in memory of Faith and Sharon Ann Surabian

June Sanders Sattler*♦ Carmen Schaye Maggy Simon Carole Solomon Marilyn Stambler* Donna Sussman* Janice Brock Wallace* Janice Weiner Rosalind Zane*

Martin Massman

Center Theatre Group Affiliates Kim White Peterson, President

The Affiliates have supported Center Theatre Group since 1971. Through volunteering and fundraising, members introduce young people to the magic of live theatre.

Richard & Julie Kagan Betty McMicken in honor of Jeanette Shammas Diane & Leon Morton Carol Vernon & Robert Turbin

Gail Ann Andrews Arthe P. Anthony Sandy Avchen♦ Janet Barnet*♦ Sue Bass Judith Beckmen*♦ Marjorie Bender Marjorie Ann Beradino Lanie Bernhard Deena Blum Lestrita Boardman♦ Audrey L. Bornstein Alice Desobry Bowens♦ Roanna Araneta Brown Elnora Guerrero Campos Marlene Theresa Charbonnet Barbara Mansfield Cheyne*♦ Jan Cobert Victoria Cushey Mary Levin Cutler♦ Judi Davidson Babe Eagle Gloria H. Ellwood* Lynda Wolfson Fadel Stephanie Fisher-White Ruth Flinkman-Marandy♦ Joey Freed♦ Carolyn H. Fried Ava O. Fries*♦ Myra Gabbay Carole A. Gillie Linda Goldfein Linda Goldman♦ Dina Goldstein Debra C. Gordon Brindell Gottlieb Carol Halperin Stephanie J. Hibler Audrey V. Jessup Barbara Krasnoff Beau Lavine

*Past Presidents Executive Board Members at Large

♦

$100,000+

Betsy & Harold Applebaum Judith & Thomas Beckmen

Richard & Norma Camp

The Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation

Mary Levin Cutler

Maynard & Linda Brittan—Traub-Brittan Family Trust

Susan Grode Ann & Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr.

Annie Maria Lehrer Marilyn Levin♦ Helen Gordon Lowy Dr. Elizabeth Lu Marianne Mandel Phyllis Massing, Ph.D Leah Mendelsohn Jacqueline Nach Deena Nahmias Olivia Neece Phyllis Parvin Gina Russ Posalski*♦ Anne Reismann Sharon Reisz Irene Ribner Harriett Chatters Rose♦ Lois Rosen♦ Marla Rubin Gaile Gray Ryan Bonnie Sachs♦ Carole Schiffer Kelly Schiffer* Zrelda Sealey Joyce Siegel Robbie J. Solomon Marilyn Lee Stark Carol Stein Debbie Stein Judy Stone Betsy Straszheim Gloria Stroock-Stern Rosalyn Holt Swartz Louise Taper Phyllis Teller Katherine L. Todd* Sue Tsao♦ Roberta Turkat Elinor Turner Carol Le-Veque-Uri Barbara Van Orden Donna Marie Venick* Sue Wittner

The Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation

$500,000+

Virginia Hayes

MEMBERS

$250,000+

Merle & Peter Mullin Linda S. Peterson Sue Tsao Magda & Frederick R.Waingrow

$250,000+

Center Theatre Group Affiliates Kenneth Corday Regina Fadiman Barbara & Peter Fodor Ava & Charles Fries Brindell & Milton Gottlieb The Hearst Foundation, Inc. Vicki King

Pamela & Dennis Beck

Gloria Lothrop

Bill Cohn & Dan Miller

Richard G. & Virginia L. Martin

Amy Forbes & Andrew Murr

Louise Taper

Patricia Glaser & Sam Mudie Edward L. Rada Maggy Simon I.H. Sutnick Susan & William Weintraub

$100,000+

W. Lee Bailey, M.D. Angela Bardowell Allan & Joan Burns Deborah M. Hyde Sarah & Andy Kane Dr. & Mrs. Jack Kavanaugh

$50,000+

Ellen & Michael S. Korney Dorothy & Richard Sherwood

$25,000+

Abbott Brown Linda Brown Greve Foundation Dr. Tom Hickey Diane & Leon Morton

$10,000+

A and J Davidson Skipper Award Fund

The Paul Kowal Charitable Foundation

Levine Foundation

Darell L. Krasnoff

Carolyn & Kit Lokey

Sandra Krause & William Fitzgerald

Betty & Sanford Sigoloff

Joyce & Kent Kresa

For more information on making a planned or endowment gift, call Becky Birdsong at 213.972.7532.

Steven Llanusa & Glenn Miya, M.D. Carol & Douglas Mancino Nan Rae Bruce & Randy Ellen Ross Margaret H. White

$50,000+

The Moira Byrne Foster Foundation Mr. Kim L. Hunter Sally & Frank Raab Wes Schaefer & Cathy King-Schaefer

$25,000+

Charles Dillingham & Susan D. Clines Mr. & Mrs. Walter E. Grauman Bob & Renee Nunn

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THE MUSIC CENTER 2017/2018 MUSIC CENTER BOARD OF DIRECTORS OFFICERS

Lisa Specht Board Chair

SUPPORT The Music Center Annual Fund supports world-class dance, nationally recognized arts education and participatory arts programs that inspire people of all ages and create opportunities for expression. Unrestricted annual support makes it possible for these programs to grow. For more information or to donate, please call (213) 972-4349.

Robert J. Abernethy Cindy Miscikowski Vice Chairs Rachel S. Moore President and Chief Executive Officer Diane G. Medina Secretary

Susan M. Wegleitner Treasurer William Taylor Assistant Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer

MEMBERS AT LARGE

William H. Ahmanson Wallis Annenberg Jill Baldauf

Dannielle Campos

Lois Erburu

Greg T. Geyer

Richard M. Ferry

Lisa Gilford

Bernard A. Greenberg

David Gindler Kiki Ramos Gindler Brindell Gottlieb Maria Rosario Jackson

David Lippman

Bowen “Buzz” H. McCoy

CONTACT

Cynthia M. Patton

General Information (213) 972-7211

Rory Pullens

Lost and Found (213) 972-2600

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Amb. (ret.) Glen A. Holden Amb. (ret.) Lester B. Korn

Cary J. Lefton Richard Lynn Martinez

Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr.

Stuart M. Ketchum

Glenn Kaino

Michael Pagano

Audio Description/Project D.A.T.E. (Direct Audience Theatre Experience) (213) 680-4017

Eli Broad Amb. (ret.) John B. Emerson*

Shelby Notkin

Patina Restaurant Group/ Catered Events (213) 972-7565

Judith Beckmen

Kimaada M. Brown

Darrell D. Miller

Filming (213) 972-7334

Peter K. Barker

Ronald W. Burkle

Darrell Brown

Elizabeth Michelson

Theatre Rentals (213) 972-3600

DIRECTORS EMERITI

Karen Kay Platt Max Ramberg Jay Rasulo Joseph Rice Richard K. Roeder Joni J. Smith

Kent Kresa Robert F. Maguire, III Ginny Mancini Edward J. McAniff Walter M. Mirisch Fredric M. Roberts Claire L. Rothman Cynthia A. Telles James A. Thomas Andrea L. Van de Kamp* Paul M. Watson Thomas R. Weinberger Rosalind W. Wyman * Chairman Emeritus

Catharine Soros Marc I. Stern Cary H. Thompson Walter F. Ulloa Timothy S. Wahl Alyce Williamson Jay Wintrob Rollin A. Ransom General Counsel

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BOARD OF SUPERVISORS COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES Support from the County of Los Angeles Board of Supervisors plays an invaluable role in the successful operation of The Music Center.

FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: JANICE HAHN, Fourth District; KATHRYN BARGER, Fifth District; SHEILA J. KUEHL, Third District, Chair; HILDA L. SOLIS, First District; and MARK RIDLEY-THOMAS, Second District

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Photo: Danielle Klebanow

2017 Spotlight Grand Prize Finalists

Celebrate 30 Years of Excellence The Music Center’s Spotlight program is a journey to excellence that guides young artists to focus their passions, to strive and to succeed. Since 1988, Southern California high school students have come to The Music Center for world-class arts training, scholarships and college and career guidance — at no cost to them. Acting • Ballet • Classical Instrumental • Classical Voice • Jazz Instrumental • Non-classical Dance • Non-Classical Voice

More than $2.2 million awarded in scholarships More than 42,000 alumni including Misty Copeland, Josh Groban, Miles Mosley, Danielle de Niese, Adam Lambert, Liang Wang, Lindsay Mendez and Matthew Rushing.

Join The Music Center as we develop tomorrow’s outstanding artists and leaders. The Music Center’s Spotlight 30th Anniversary Finale Performance

To learn more or get involved, please contact Laura Recchi at (213) 972-4344 or spotlightsupport@musiccenter.org, or visit musiccenter.org/spotlight

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June 5, 2018 Walt Disney Concert Hall

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THE GREATEST LOVE STORY OF ALL TIME ... WITH A TWIST!

MARCH 9 — 17 LIVE ORCHESTRA THE MUSIC CENTER’S DOROTHY CHANDLER PAVILION

M U S I C C E N T E R . O R G | ( 2 1 3) 9 7 2 - 07 1 1

G R O U P S O F 1 0 +: ( 2 1 3) 9 7 2- 8 5 5 5 | M CG R O U P S A L E S@ M U S I CC E N T E R . O R G Joffrey Company Artists: Christine Rocas and Rory Hohenstein. Photo by Cheryl Mann.

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FEBRUARY THU 01 FEB / 8:00 p.m. Water by the Spoonful CENTER THEATRE GROUP Ahmanson Theater Thru 3/11 THU 01 FEB / 8:00 p.m. Bernstein’s Mass with Dudamel LA PHIL Walt Disney Concert Hall Thru 2/4 FRI 02 FEB / 12:15 p.m. EVERY WED/FRI ¡LUNCHTIME! Yoga reTREAT GRAND PARK

THU 08 FEB / 8:00 p.m. Composer Salonen: Concertos LA PHIL Walt Disney Concert Hall Thru 2/11 THU 08 FEB / 8:30 p.m. Okwui Okpokwasili: Poor People’s TV Room REDCAT Roy And Edna Disney/ Calarts Theater SUN 11 FEB / 7:00 p.m. Israel in Egypt LOS ANGELES MASTER CHORALE Walt Disney Concert Hall

SAT 03 FEB / 7:30 p.m. Candide LA OPERA Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Thru 2/18

MON 12 FEB / 8:30 p.m. Morton Subotnick 50th Anniversary of Silver Apples on the Moon REDCAT Roy And Edna Disney/ Calarts Theater

TUE 06 FEB / 7:30 p.m. Renee Fleming in Recital LA OPERA Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

TUE 13 FEB / 8:00 p.m. Chamber Music: All-Beethoven LA PHIL Walt Disney Concert Hall

TUE 06 FEB / 8:00 p.m. Chamber Music LA PHIL Walt Disney Concert Hall

FRI 16 FEB / 8:00 p.m. Composer Salonen: Wing on Wing LA PHIL Walt Disney Concert Hall Thru 2/18

WED 07 FEB / 11:00 a.m. EVERY TUE/WED/THU ¡LUNCHTIME! Food Trucks GRAND PARK

SAT 17 FEB / 8:30 p.m. Eve Belgarian Selections of Book of Days REDCAT Roy And Edna Disney/ Calarts Theater SUN 18 FEB / 7:30 p.m. Peter Richard Conte in Recital LA PHIL Walt Disney Concert Hall TUE 20 FEB / 8:00 p.m. Green Umbrella: Adams Conducts LA PHIL Walt Disney Concert Hall FRI 23 FEB / 8:00 p.m. Muhly & Mussorgsky LA PHIL Walt Disney Concert Hall Thru 2/25 SAT 24 FEB / 11:00 a.m. Toyota Symphonies for Youth LA PHIL Walt Disney Concert Hall Thru 3/10 SAT 24 FEB / 7:30 p.m. Orpheus and Eurydice LA OPERA Dorothy Chandler Pavilion SUN 25 FEB / 7:30 p.m. Trifonov & Babayan LA PHIL Walt Disney Concert Hall

2018 FRI 16 FEB / 8:30 p.m. Kevin Young, Reading REDCAT Roy And Edna Disney/ Calarts Theater

WED 28 FEB / 8:00 p.m. The Oscar ® Concert LA PHIL Walt Disney Concert Hall

Visit musiccenter.org for additional information on all upcoming events. facebook.com/MusicCenterLA

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