PROGRAM: "Curtains" (2006)

F i r st P r o d u ct i o n

Dead End

By Sidney Kingsley Directed by Nicholas Martin August 28 - October 16, 2005 S e c o n d P r o d u ct i o n

The Drowsy Chaperone Music and Lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison Book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar Directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw November 10 - December 24, 2005 U.S. Premiere T h i r d P r o d u ct i o n

The Importance of Being Earnest

By Oscar Wilde Directed by Sir Peter Hall January 17 - March 5, 2006 F o u r t h P r o d u ct i o n

The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets Directed by Robert Wilson Music and Lyrics by Tom Waits Text by William S. Burroughs April 22 - June 11, 2006 F i ft h P r o d u ct i o n

Curtains book by Rupert Holmes Music by John Kander Lyrics by Fred Ebb

original book and concept by Peter Stone additional Lyrics by John Kander and Rupert choreography by Rob Ashford directed by Scott Ellis

Holmes

July 25 - September 10, 2006 World Premiere F i r st B o n u s P r o d u ct i o n

Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake Music by Tchaikovsky Directed and Choreographed by

March 7-19, 2006

Matthew Bourne

S e c o n d B o n u s P r o d u ct i o n

Dame Edna: Back With A Vengeance!

March 28 - April 9, 2006

Center Theatre Group Ahmanson Theatre 39th Season/2005-2006

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A Note from the Artistic Director CEnter Theatre Group Board of Directors

2005/2006 Officers Honorary Chairman Lew R. Wasserman † Chairman

Phyllis Hennigan President

Richard Kagan Vice PresidentS

Susan Grode Barbara Fodor Secretary

Martin C. Washton Assistant Secretary

Ernest M. Hiroshige Treasurer

O. Kit Lokey Assistant Treasurer

Darell L. Krasnoff PAST PRESIDENTS

Lew R. Wasserman† Marshall Berges† Armand S. Deutsch† Walter Mirisch Henry C. Rogers† Richard E. Sherwood† J. David Haft* Lawrence J. Ramer* Stephen F. Hinchliffe Jr. Phyllis Hennigan * Director Emeritus † Deceased

BOARD Members

Harold Applebaum Ronald J. Arnault Pamela Beck Judith Beckmen Sheri J. Biller Marcy Carsey Geoffrey Cowan Gordon Davidson* Charles Dillingham Shelley Freeman Ava Fries Eric R. Garen Patricia Glaser Brindell Gottlieb J. David Haft* Brian Hargrove Tommy Hawkins Charlton Heston* Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr. Leonard Hirshan* James B. Hunt* Andrew Kane Samuel X. Kaplan* Charles R. Kenis* Joanne Corday Kozberg Nancy Olson Livingston* Michael Lynton Carol Mancino Martin Massman Walter Mirisch Diane Morton* Jo Muse John Ohanesian Susan M. Palm Gina Posalski Lawrence J. Ramer* Michael Ritchie Louise Taper James A. Thomas Corina Villaraigosa Frederick R. Waingrow

i love a good surprise.

Especially in theatre and particularly when I know about it.

So imagine my mindset when we announced my inaugural season at Center Theatre Group – more than a year ago now. We left the last slot open and unidentified for “one production still to be announced.”

It was not an intentional strategy to build suspense. Curtains was still in workshops and we were not yet certain it would be ready for a full production. To announce it and then postpone or cancel it were not options I would consider. But if it were ready. . .what a spectacular surprise ending for the season!

Not only is Curtains one of the last collaborations of the phenomenal John Kander and the late Fred Ebb, it is one of their longest awaited productions – nearly two decades in development. And over that time, it has been shaped by an indisputable A-list of theatre talent, beginning with Peter Stone, who wrote Curtains’ original concept and book.

Conceived as a backstage murder mystery, Curtains evolved, both intentionally and unintentionally, into nothing less than a love letter to musical theatre. In its development and in its realization, it pays tribute to the commitment, collaboration and perseverance required by our craft.

Thankfully, it does so on stage with great humor, song and dance. But behind the scenes, there was also long toil and genuine grief.

I first read Curtains five years ago, thanks to director Scott Ellis, who is as responsible as anyone for enabling its world premiere here at the Ahmanson. Scott and I have our own long history, having worked together on so many shows, I’ve lost count of them. Along the way, he earned a reputation as one of our most gifted directors, with two Kander and Ebb musicals already in his credits.

Scott was an early and big believer in Curtains. He staged its first reading with Kander, Ebb and Stone at New York’s Roundabout Theatre five long years ago. After considerable further work on the project, they staged a second reading and were preparing for a third, when Stone passed away.

Determined to get Curtains into production, the team brought on Tony Award-winner Rupert Holmes to help finish the development process. A substantially new book and new songs resulted. But before another reading could be staged, Ebb passed away. This second loss made the effort to get Curtains on the stage all the more vital.

Scott called me once again to discuss producing it. I had just been named Center Theatre Group’s new artistic director and he hoped that this time, I would be in a position to say “yes” to Curtains. I was and I did. It is my greatest privilege to utter that single word “yes,” and with it, commit the powerful resources of CTG to get new work on the stage. But we still had considerable work to do before we got there.

Luckily, talent attracts talent, including Tony Award-winning choreographer Rob Ashford and a truly stellar cast. (Notably, none of whom have exhibited homicidal tendencies.)

And so now – finally – with everything going for it, and still against all odds, we very proudly present the world premiere of Curtains.

I hope it will surprise you, thoroughly entertain you and keep you coming back to the musical theatre we all love so much.

Michael Ritchie

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by special arrangement with Roger Berlind Roger Horchow Daryl Roth

presents

David Hyde Pierce Debra Monk in

CURTAINS Book by

Lyrics by

Music by

Rupert Holmes

Fred Ebb

John Kander

Original Book and Concept by

Additional Lyrics by

Peter Stone

John Kander & Rupert Holmes starring

Karen Ziemba Jason Danieley Jill Paice and

Edward Hibbert also starring

John Bolton Michael X. Martin Michael McCormick Noah Racey Megan Sikora Robert Walden with Nili Bassman Ward Billeisen Jennifer Dunne David Eggers J. Austin Eyer Matt Farnsworth Patty Goble Mary Ann Lamb Brittany Marcin Jim Newman Jessica Lea Patty Joe Aaron Reid Darcie Roberts Christopher Spaulding Set Design by

Costume Design by

Lighting Design by

Anna Louizos

William Ivey Long

Peter Kaczorowski

Sound Design by

Hair & Wig Design by

Dance Arrangements by

Brian Ronan

Paul Huntley

David Chase

Make-up Design by

Fight Direction by

Aerial Effects Design by

Paul Rubin

angelina avallone

Casting by

Production Supervisor

Technical Supervisor

Rick Sordelet Jim Carnahan

peter fulbright

Beverley Randolph

Associate Choreographer

JoAnn M. Hunter Associate Producer

kelley kirkpatrick

Orchestrations

William David Brohn Music Director/Vocal Arrangements

David Loud

Choreography by

Rob Ashford Directed by

Scott Ellis July 25 – September 10, 2006 Ahmanson Theatre This production brought to you in part by the Edgerton Foundation New American Plays Award.

Additional funding by Laura and James Rosenwald & Orinocco Trust.

Official Sponsor

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CAST (in order of appearance)

Randy Weinstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jim Newman Niki Harris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jill Paice

Jessica Cranshaw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patty Goble

Bobby Pepper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Noah Racey

Johnny Harmon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michael X. Martin Roberta Wooster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Darcie Roberts

Bambi Bernstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Megan Sikora

Georgia Hendricks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Karen Ziemba Aaron Fox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jason Danieley

Carmen Bernstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Debra Monk Oscar Shapiro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michael McCormick

Christopher Belling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Edward Hibbert

Lieutenant Frank Cioffi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . David Hyde Pierce

Mona Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mary Ann Lamb Harv Fremont . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Matt Farnsworth

Sidney Bernstein . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robert Walden Detective O’Farrell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . David Eggers Daryl Grady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Bolton Arlene Barucca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nili Bassman

Brick Hawvermale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ward Billeisen

Jan Setler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jennifer Dunne Roy Stetson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . David Eggers

Connie Subbotin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patty Goble

Peg Prentice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brittany Marcin Ronnie Driscoll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joe Aaron Reid Russ Cochran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christopher Spaulding Swings

J. Austin Eyer, Jessica Lea Patty dance captain

David Eggers Understudies

Understudies never substitute for players unless a specific announcement is made at the time of performance.

For Lieutenant Frank Cioffi & Christopher Belling - John Bolton; For Niki Harris - Nili Bassman; For Bambi Bernstein - Jennifer Dunne; For Aaron Fox & Daryl Grady - Matt Farnsworth; For Carmen Bernstein - Patty Goble; For Oscar Shapiro & Sidney Bernstein - Michael X. Martin; For Johnny Harmon & Bobby Pepper - Jim Newman; For Georgia Hendricks & Jessica Cranshaw - Darcie Roberts

Curtains will be performed with one 15-minute intermission.

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Musical Numbers

Act One “Wide Open Spaces”. . . . . . . . Jessica, Niki, Bobby, Bambi, Ensemble “What Kind of Man?” . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carmen, Oscar, Aaron, Georgia “Thinking of Him” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Georgia, Aaron, Bobby “The Woman’s Dead” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Entire Company “Show People” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carmen, Cioffi, Entire Company “Coffee Shop Nights” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cioffi “In the Same Boat 1” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Georgia, Niki, Bambi “I Miss the Music” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aaron “Thataway!” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Georgia, Ensemble Act Two

“He Did It” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Entire Company “Kansasland” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Niki, Randy, Harv, Bambi, Ensemble “It’s A Business” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carmen, Stagehands “In the Same Boat 2” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bobby, Randy, Harv “Thinking of Him” – Reprise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aaron, Georgia “A Tough Act To Follow” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cioffi, Niki, Ensemble “In the Same Boat 3” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Entire Company “In the Same Boat” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Entire Company “A Tough Act To Follow” – Reprise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Entire Company Setting Act One The Colonial Theatre in Boston, 1959, during the out-of-town tryout of the new musical Robbin’ Hood!

Act Two The same, much later that night The Curtains Orchestra Conductor – David Loud Woodwind 1 – Sal Lozano; Woodwind 2 – Glen Berger; Woodwind 3 – Brian Scanlon; Woodwind 4 – Bob Carr; French Horn 1 – Nathan Campbell; French Horn 2 – Marni Johnson; Trumpet 1 – Chris Eble; Trumpet 2 – Ramon Flores; Trombone 1/Music Contractor – Robert Payne; Trombone 2 – Craig Ware; Guitar – Thom Rotella; Percussion – Cliff Hulling; Associate Music Director/Piano and Synthesizer – Sam Davis; Bass – Ken Wild; Drums – Bruce Doctor

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Kander and Ebb:

Still Dreaming

By Frank Dwyer

First you dream, Dream about incredible things Then you look And suddenly you have wings.

You can fly...

But first you dream.

–“First You Dream” Steel Pier (1997)

You may not believe this, but in 1626, when Peter Minuet bought the island of Manhattan from local Native Americans for $24 worth of trinkets, no one serenaded the Dutch governor about his “vagabond shoes” or pointed out that his “little town blues” were “melting away.” In 1789, when General Washington was sworn in as our first president, on the second-floor balcony of the new Federal Hall at the corner of Wall and Nassau, no handy chorus imagined him waking up the next morning in “a city that doesn’t sleep” to find himself “king of the hill, top of the heap.” In 1885, when the French frigate “Isere” sailed into Sandy Hook with Bartholdi’s new Statue of Liberty (350 pieces in 214 crates), no crooner on the dock promised the large green immigrant that if she could “make it there” she could “make it anywhere.”

Why did so many illustrious New Yorkers (or New Amsterdamers) have to carry on without the blessing of “The Theme from New York, New York,” the great city’s ubiquitous anthem? Because John Kander (music) and Fred Ebb (lyrics) did not write it until 1977. The song, written for the Martin Scorsese movie, was a happy accident, born in anger. Kander and Ebb had just played five new songs for the movie team. Scorsese and leading lady Liza Minnelli were delighted, but Robert De Niro thought maybe the key song should be stronger. “We walked out of there,” Kander said, “highly insulted that some actor was going to tell us how to write a song.” They ended up very grateful to De Niro.

They were also, on balance, more than happy with the ambiguous contribution of Frank Sinatra, whose rendition truly made them, collectively,

King of the hill Head of the list,

Cream of the crop At the top of the heap.

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Those lyrics may not sound quite right to you, but they’re the ones Ebb wrote. Sinatra, sometimes a little shaky with memorization, found himself ad-libbing to cover all Kander’s notes: “A-number-one, Top of the list, King of the hill, A-number-one.” “‘A-number-one,’” Ebb griped. “... I don’t even like it. But, you know, you’re grateful to him, because he gave you this enormous hit.”

“The Theme from New York, New York” is that rara avis of popular music, an iconic song: one that seems to have been not so much written as always present and plucked out of the air, more like intelligent design than the old inspirationperspiration drudgery of evolution. Do Kander and Ebb have any more of these iconic songs in their repertoire?

You decide:

“What good is sitting alone in your room?

Come hear the music play; Life is a cabaret, old chum, Come to the cabaret.”

“Come on, babe,

Why don’t we paint the town?

And all that jazz!”

“Cabaret” and “All That Jazz” are certainly contenders, but songs don’t have to be iconic to possess a mysterious, uncanny power. “Old songs are more than tunes,” Ben Hecht noted. “They are little houses in which our hearts once lived.”

Most of us have had those special moments when a song came through for us, in a magical way. According to their longtime friend and muse, Liza Minnelli, Kander and Ebb were particularly good at writing songs like that. “Of all the songwriters I know,” she wrote, “I hear their songs and think,

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Yes, that’s what I meant. That’s what I want to say. And that’s how I want to say it.”

From the day they met in 1962 until Ebb’s untimely death in 2004, in the longest collaboration in the history of the American musical theatre, Kander and Ebb have built a lot of little houses for hearts. The story of the partnership and friendship they have enjoyed is told in the charming and revealing Colored Lights, a series of interviews with both men conducted by Greg Lawrence. They met at the suggestion of a mutual friend, and, Ebb recalled, “It was a case of instant communication and instant songs. Our neuroses complemented each other.” “The really lucky thing,” according to Kander, “– and I cannot tell you how this happened – is that when we first began to work together we fell into a way of working that allowed us to enjoy what we were doing. We never made an intellectual decision about that. We just fell into a way of working that was pleasurable...

Everything afterward is hard as hell. But even when there’s trouble out of town and concepts change or songs change, the act of writing is never unpleasant for either of us.”

Their first hit, “My Coloring Book,” premiered on the Perry Como Show in 1962 and was recorded by a number of singers, including the young Barbra Streisand. Their first Broadway musical, the now-legendary Flora, the Red Menace, came three years later. It lasted only 87 performances, but it made Minnelli a star: she won a Tony for her Flora.

Cabaret (1966) was, according to Broadway historian Ethan Mordden, “the essential 60s musical. It could not have happened before the 1960s,” he wrote, “...and the decade is inconceivable without it.” Created under the collaborative genius of director Hal Prince and set in Berlin in the decadent

but fascinating last days of the Weimar Republic, Cabaret changed our idea of what a musical comedy could be. It was – and still is – wild, dangerous, shocking, moving and seductive. The songs are inspired, and many possess that uncanny popular-song power. One, in fact – the lyrical Nazi anthem “Tomorrow Belongs to Me,” is so iconic it’s positively eerie:

The sun on the meadow is summery warm, The stag in the forest runs free, But gather together to greet the storm, Tomorrow belongs to me.

“I received letters,” Ebb said, “accusing me of using an actual Nazi anthem...They said, ‘How dare you put that on the stage?’ But the song didn’t exist before we wrote it.”

In 1968, Kander and Ebb had two shows on Broadway: The Happy Time, done in by an over-elaborate production (Ebb likened it to “The Glass Menagerie at Radio City Music Hall”), and Zorba, based on the popular Hollywood movie. Prince, who directed the musical, has called Zorba “something of a masterwork,” but the show didn’t achieve success until the revival, with Anthony Quinn recreating his movie role. The collaborators thought Quinn was “terrific,” “astonishing” – but he did give the creative team something of a problem. He was, according to Kander, rhythm-deaf, the way some people are tone deaf. But he had seen the movie so often he really believed he could dance, and the fact is from the waist down that’s not Quinn in the movie. But like people who believe their own publicity, he thought of himself as someone who could dance. Quinn pulled it off and achieved a personal triumph.

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(l to r) Debra (l to r) Director Scott Ellis and Set Designer Anna Louizos.

The collaborators had a different sort of problem with the geriatric cast of 70, Girls, 70 (1971). “Everybody but one kid,” Kander said, “was eligible for Social Security.” “One day,” Ebb continued, “one of the 80-year-old men was sitting next to me watching the rehearsal of a musical number. ‘That’s a swell number,’ he said to me. I said, ‘Well, you better get the hell up there. Aren’t you in it?’” Their worst moment may have happened during the pre-Broadway workshop of Kiss of the Spider Woman (1992). They had written a big tap number for the show, and one night the lead dancer forgot to put on his tap shoes. (The show survived and went on to win the Best Musical Tony.)

The Act (1978), Woman of the Year (1981) and The Rink (1984) all did well enough in their first Broadway incarnations, but sometimes it takes a while for critics and audiences to catch up with Kander and Ebb. It even took an acclaimed revival and an Academy Award for Best Picture to lift Chicago to its rightful place, so we shouldn’t be surprised when all the hoopla and ballyhoo finally catches up with Flora, the Red Menace or the unaccountably undervalued Steel Pier.

And yet for Kander and Ebb, there’s something better than ballyhoo:

When it all comes true Just the way you planned, It’s funny but the bells don’t ring.

It’s a quiet thing.

–“A Quiet Thing,” Flora, the Red Menace

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There is of course some sadness as well as joy, as we wait for the curtain to open on Curtains, because it is the final Kander and Ebb show, and because Fred Ebb is no longer here to enjoy it with us. By all accounts, he was a loving and generous collaborator, and for both Kander and Ebb “collaborator” means “everybody,” even, as Ebb put it, “Stagehands who go out there and get a scene changed in a minute.” They began working on Curtains years ago with their good friend Peter Stone, who had the idea for the show, but it is a new collaborator, Rupert Holmes, who began anew with Fred and John in 2003 to make this premiere possible. Holmes, the only person to win Tony Awards for book, music and lyrics for the same show, his 1986 musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood, has given the show a brand new book and, with Kander, co-written additional lyrics.

So what do we wish for them – for Kander and Ebb, Holmes, Stone and all the collaborators, including the stagehands?

Thunderous acclaim, or that deeper “quiet thing,” when “happiness comes in on tiptoe”? Perhaps it’s enough just to sit back, watch, listen, and rejoice that a new Kander and Ebb show has moved from dream to wings, and will soon be soaring with all the others.

Frank Dwyer has enjoyed a 20-year collaboration with Nicholas Saunders. Together, they have translated 19 Russian plays, including Chekhov’s The Wood Demon, which Frank directed at the Mark Taper Forum, and the Antaeus Company’s Chekhov X 4, which won the L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award for translation.

Who’s Who DAVID HYDE PIERCE (Lieutenant Frank Cioffi). Broadway: Spamalot, The Heidi Chronicles, Beyond Therapy. Off-Broadway: originated roles in Jules Feiffer’s Elliot Loves, Harry Kondoleon’s Zero Positive, Mark O’Donnell’s That’s It, Folks!, Richard Greenberg’s The Maderati and The Author’s Voice; Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing at New York Shakespeare Festival; Peter Brook’s production of The Cherry Orchard at BAM. Los Angeles: Center Theatre Group - Terrence McNally’s It’s Only a Play; Reprise - The Boys from Syracuse; Geffen - Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks with Uta Hagen; Actors’ Gang - The Guys. Regional: various plays at the Guthrie, Goodman and Long Wharf Theatres. Film: Down with Love, Full Frontal, Wet, Hot, American Summer, A Bug’s Life, Treasure Planet, Osmosis Jones, Wolf, Nixon, Sleepless in Seattle, Little Man Tate, Crossing Delancey. Television: The Powers That Be, The Outer Limits, Titus and Frasier.

DEBRA MONK (Carmen Bernstein).

Broadway: Chicago, Reckless, Thou Shalt Not, Ah, Wilderness!, Steel Pier (Tony nomination), Company, Picnic (Tony nomination), Redwood Curtain (Tony), Nick & Nora, Prelude to a Kiss, Pump Boys and Dinettes (Co-Author, Tony nomination). Off-Broadway: Show People, The Seagull, The Time of the Cuckoo (Obie), Death Defying Acts, Three Hotels, Assassins, Oil City Symphony (Co-author, Drama Desk Award). Regional: Three Hotels (Helen Hayes Award, Kennedy Center), Seattle Rep, Old Globe, Yale Rep, Bay Street, ATL, Williamstown. Film: The Savages, The Producers, Palindromes, Milwaukee, Minnesota, Center Stage, Devil’s Advocate, In & Out, Substance of Fire, Extreme Measures, Bridges of Madison County, Jeffrey, Fearless, Prelude to a Kiss, Reckless, Mrs. Winterbourne, Bed of Roses. Television: Frasier, The Music Man, Eloise, Law & Order, Ellen Foster, Redwood Curtain, Nero Wolfe, NYPD Blue (Katie Sipowicz, Emmy Award).

KAREN ZIEMBA (Georgia Hendricks).

Broadway: contact (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards), Never

Gonna Dance (Outer Critics Circle Award, Tony nom.), Steel Pier (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle noms.), Chicago, 42nd Street, A Chorus Line, Crazy For You (Joseph Jefferson Award, L.A. Drama Critics nom.). Off-Broadway: And The World Goes ‘Round (Drama Desk Award), I Do! I Do! (Drama Desk nom.). NYC Opera: 110 In The Shade, The Most Happy Fella, Candide. Encores! At City Center: Bye Bye Birdie, The Pajama Game, Ziegfeld Follies of 1936, Allegro. Regional: Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare Theatre, D.C./ Hartford Stage), Leading Ladies (Ford’s Theatre, D.C.), House And Garden (GeVa Theatre, N.Y.), The Three Penny Opera (Williamstown Theatre Festival), The Opposite of Sex (Magic Theatre, San Francisco). Film and Television: The Producers (2005), Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order: SVU, The Kennedy Center Honors, Pedalfoot; and for PBS, My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies, Gershwin at 100 and Stephen Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall. Karen is a proud member of Actors’ Equity.

JASON DANIELEY (Aaron Fox).

Broadway: Candide (Theatre World Award, Drama Desk nomination), The Full Monty (also Old Globe and West End). Encores!: A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, Strike Up The Band, Allegro. Off-Broadway: Trojan Women, Dream True, Floyd Collins.

Regional: The Highest Yellow (Helen Hayes Award), Brigadoon (L.A. Reprise), 110 In The Shade (Pasadena - Back Stage West Award), Casino Paradise, Beauty (La Jolla).

Tours: Phantom of the Opera. Concerts: South Pacific (PBS 2006) and Carousel (both at Carnegie Hall), Candide and Of Thee I Sing/Let ‘Em Eat Cake (both at San Francisco Symphony), Opposite You with wife Marin Mazzie. He’s also a repeat guest artist with New York, Boston, Philly Pops, San Francisco Symphony, L.A. Phil at the Hollywood Bowl plus many others.

Albums: Floyd Collins, Candide, The Full Monty, Stephen Schwartz Album, A Splash of Pops, My Favorite Things, Dream True, Jule Styne In Hollywood, South Pacific and Opposite You. www.MarinandJason.com.

JILL PAICE (Niki Harris). Broadway: The Woman in White (Laura Fairlie). West End: World premiere The Woman in White (Laura, Original Cast Recording), Night of 1000 Voices (Royal Albert Hall). Other New York: The Gig (Lucy, Original Cast Recording), Weird Romance (Delphi, Susan). Vegas: Mamma Mia (Sophie).

Tour/Regional: Les Misérables, Gypsy.

Education: Graduate of Baldwin-Wallace College. Member of Equity.

EDWARD HIBBERT (Christopher Belling).

Broadway: The Drowsy Chaperone, Noises Off (revival), The Green Bird, Me and My Girl, Alice in Wonderland.

Off-Broadway: Oscar Wilde in Gross Indecency, My Night With Reg, Privates on Parade, Jeffrey (Obie and Drama-Logue Awards), Lady in the Dark (Encores!). West End: The Mystery of Irma Vep, Lend Me A Tenor, Twelfth Night. Regional: Love! Valour! Compassion!

(Barrymore Award), The Importance of Being Earnest (Connecticut Critics’ Circle Award), Rough Crossing and No Time for Comedy (Bay Street). Center Theatre Group: The School for Scandal (Taper), The Drowsy Chaperone (Ahmanson).

Film: Uptown Girls, The Paper, Everyone Says I Love You, The First Wives Club and upcoming – Anamorph, The Prestige.

Television: includes 11 seasons as Gil Chesterton on NBC’s Frasier and Once Upon A Mattress with Carol Burnett and Tracey Ullman. Member of Actors’ Equity.

JOHN BOLTON (Daryl Grady).

Broadway: original companies of Monty Python’s Spamalot, contact and Titanic, all three of which won the Tony Award for Best Musical. Also on Broadway: How to Succeed… (frequently starring as Finch), Damn Yankees (plus the tour with Jerry Lewis) and concerts of Dreamgirls, Funny Girl and Chess. Off-Broadway: Five Course Love, It’s Only Life, many productions with Riverside Shakespeare Company.

Regional: world premieres of The Opposite of Sex, Señor Discretion Himself, PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P

Paper Moon. Film: Eleven, The Savages.

Television: roles on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Ed, Raven’s World, Guiding Light, As the World Turns. He currently plays District Attorney John Summerhill on ABC’s All My Children. Education: B.A. in Journalism, but he left writing for the theatre because he wanted something steady.

MICHAEL X. MARTIN ( Johnny Harmon). Broadway: has performed Don Quixote, Jud, Javert, Scrooge, Fred/Petrucio, John Dickenson and roles in King David and All Shook Up. Off-Broadway: Bed and Sofa, Captains Courageous, Jack’s Holiday, Anyone Can Whistle (Carnegie Hall). Encores! at City Center: Kismet, Bye Bye Birdie, Pardon My English, Can-Can, Do Re Mi. Regional: 15 seasons and 100 productions include work at the Denver Center, American Conservatory Theater, Cleveland Playhouse, PCPA Theaterfest, California Actors Theatre and the Wilma. Film and Television: The Producers, Peggy Sue Got Married, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Perry Mason. Drama-Logue Awards: All My Sons, Bus Stop, Camelot and All’s Well That Ends Well. Member of Actors’ Equity since 1978.

MICHAEL McCORMICK (Oscar Shapiro). Broadway: recent revival of The Pajama Game, Kiss Me, Kate (1st Gangster), 1776 (John Adams), Sam Mendes’ Gypsy, Kiss of the Spider Woman (also at the Ahmanson), Marie Christine and La Bête. Off-Broadway: A Man of No Importance (Lincoln Center), The Prince and the Pauper, An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Bouef (Primary Stages), Mafia on Prozac (EST), Scapin and Arturo Ui (CSC), In a Pig’s Valise (Second Stage), The Regard of Flight (with Bill Irwin), Charlotte Sweet, Tomfoolery and Coming Attractions (Playwrights Horizons). National Tours: The Producers (Franz Liebkind), Les Misérables (Thenardier). Television: the three Law & Orders, Cosby, My Favorite Broadway, Candide Concert. Film: The Producers, A Couch in New York, A Very Serious Person. Member of AEA since Broadway debut in Oliver, 1964.

NOAH RACEY (Bobby Pepper). Center Theatre Group: debut. Broadway: starred in Never Gonna Dance in the role Fred P10 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE

Astaire created in the movie Swing Time!, Thoroughly Modern Millie (Ensemble, Associate Choreographer), Follies (Young Theo).

Regional: Ford’s Theatre (Shenandoah, directed by Jeff Calhoun), Goodspeed Opera House (Charley in Tony Walton’s Where’s Charley?), La Jolla (Thoroughly Modern Millie and world premiere of Palm Beach), St. Louis Muny (Crazy For You, West Side Story), Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre (Wizard of Oz, Hot Shoe Shuffle).

Other New York: City Center Encores! productions of Do Re Mi and Babes In Arms. Resident Choreographer for Broadway By The Year series at Town Hall and workshops of Dirty Dancing and Tommy Tune’s Easter Parade.

Other: a Boston Conservatory Graduate, AEA member, and a product of, and strong proponent for arts funding in public schools.

MEGAN SIKORA (Bambi Bernstein).

Broadway: Wicked (u/s Glinda/ Nessarose), Dracula (u/s Lucy/Mina), Wonderful Town, Thoroughly Modern Millie (Ruth), 42nd Street (Lorraine).

Other: A Connecticut Yankee (Angela) for Encores!, MTC’s The Wild Party (Peggy), Anything Goes (Bonnie) for California Musical Theatre, four original cast recordings. Education: B.A. in Dance from Point Park College. Member of Actors’ Equity Association since 1996.

ROBERT WALDEN (Sidney Bernstein).

Off-Broadway: The American Clock.

Regional: Mr. Rickey Calls A Meeting (Pasadena Playhouse - Drama-Logue Award/ Best Actor), Other People’s Money (Old Globe), Jake’s Women (Stage West), House Of Blue Leaves (Cincinnati Playhouse), A History of the American Film (Mark Taper Forum), Dance of Death (Arena Stage), Last Days of Isaac (A.C.T.). Television: Law & Order: SVU, Lou Grant (three Emmy nominations), Brothers (two Cable Ace nominations), The West Wing, Judging Amy. Film: All The President’s Men, Hospital, Whiskey School, Out of Towners, Audrey Rose. Directing credits: Dylan (L.A.

Drama Critics Circle Award, Drama-Logue Award), Danny and the Deep Blue Sea (Beverly Hills Playhouse), After Crystal Night (Odyssey Theatre). Television writing credits: Twilight Zone, Beauty and the Beast, Who’s the Boss and Brothers.

Member: Actor’s Studio. Faculty of The New School MFA program.

NILI BASSMAN (Arlene Barucca).

Broadway: made her debut covering the lead in Never Gonna Dance. Regional: received a 2006 IRNE nomination for her portrayal of Guenevere in Camelot (The Shubert, Boston), co-starred as Amy in Goodspeed’s acclaimed revival of Where’s Charley? Other Regional/ NYC Favorites: Young Phyllis (Follies - Barrington Stage), Abigail (The Crucible - Michael Rupert, dir.), Jean (Brigadoon - Goodspeed), Ginger Rogers (Ginger - Marshall Mason, dir., Randy Skinner, chor.), Masha (The Notebook of Trigorin - Blue Roses), White Christmas (Betty u/s - original company), the Kennedy Center, Pittsburgh CLO, North Shore, Manhattan Theatre Source, the Blue Heron. Film and Television: The Christmas Tree (Sally Field, dir), The Contender (UPN). Concerts: include Broadway by the Year (Town Hall) and a solo appearance with Marvin Hamlisch and The Pittsburgh Pops.

WARD BILLEISEN (Brick Hawvermale).

Center Theatre Group: debut. Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof (2004 revival, original company). National Tours: Chicago, Hello, Dolly!, Radio City Christmas Spectacular and Three Irish Tenors. Other New York: Encores Broadway Bash! 2004 (City Center) and Stephen Sondheim’s 75th Birthday Celebration for Children and Art. Regional: Forever Plaid (Frankie), No, No Nanette (Tom), West Side Story (Tony), Jesus Christ Superstar (Simon Peter), Funny Girl (Production Tenor), Tommy (Lover/Specialist), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph), Singin’ in the Rain (Production Tenor), The Music Man, The Will Rogers Follies and Secret Garden.

JENNIFER DUNNE ( Jan Setler). Broadway: Oklahoma! (u/s Ado Annie), Chicago (Mona). National Tours: Chicago (Mona, u/s Roxie), Annie (Star-to-Be). European Tours: A Chorus Line (Judy, u/s Cassie).

Other New York: Last Dance (N.Y. workshop), True Colors (Lincoln Center Jazz), DanceBreak (SDCF) for Kitty McNamee and Peter Pucci. Regional: A Chorus Line (Walnut Street Theatre), Oliver! (Bet) at Mill Mountain Theatre, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Geminae Twin) at Cherry County Playhouse. Television: The Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O’Brien. Education: Graduate of NYU Tisch School.

DAVID EGGERS (Roy Stetson, Detective O’Farrell, Dance Captain). Broadway: comes to Curtains directly from Kathleen Marshall’s Tony Award-winning revival of The Pajama Game, in which he danced “Steam Heat” and was Dance Captain.

Recent: last summer, he worked with Ms. Marshall as assistant choreographer for The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park production of Two Gentlemen of Verona the Musical. Other Broadway credits: Wonderful Town, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Annie Get Your Gun, Chicago and Saturday Night Fever. Original Cast Recordings: The Pajama Game, Wonderful Town, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Tenderloin (City Center Encores!) and Follies (Papermill Playhouse).

Other: David is originally from Indiana, graduated from Northwestern University, and became a member of Actors’ Equity in 1993. www.shaklee.net/greenlife.

J. AUSTIN EYER (Swing). Broadway: The Secret Garden (Colin). National Tour: Evita, and the Boston company of White Christmas.

Other Theatre: The Wild Party (Burrs), Carousel (Enoch Snow), Children of Eden (God) and Hamlet in Hamlet. Other: beginning his career at age 7, he has credits in television, film, dance, voice and print. As Performer and Choreographer: the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, ‘96 Olympic opening and closing ceremonies, NYMF, Disney World and Universal Studios. Education: BFA from NYU (CAP21) and is a member of the CAP21 Dance Faculty. A proud member of Actors’ Equity.

MATT FARNSWORTH (Harv Fremont).

Broadway: Thoroughly Modern Millie, Cats, Tommy and the Canadian production of Sunset Boulevard.

Off-Broadway: Tony Kushner’s But The Giraffe and Brundibar (New Victory), The Wind in the Willows (New Victory) and the Drama Desk Award-nominated The Audience.

Other New York Theatre: the workshops of Disney’s On the Record, Marty, Dr. Dolittle and The Mancini Project. Regional: Comedy on the Bridge and Brundibar (Berkeley Rep and Yale Rep), Joe Gillis in the Jeff Award nominated Sunset Boulevard (Marriott Lincolnshire), Captain Walker in Tommy (Pittsburgh CLO), Sky in Guys and Dolls (Missouri Rep), Buck in Betty’s Summer Vacation (Yale Rep), Floyd in Floyd Collins (Bay Area Critics Circle nomination), Pete in Summer of ‘42 (Goodspeed) and two summers at the O’Neill Festival. AEA member.

PATTY GOBLE ( Jessica Cranshaw, Connie Subbotin).

Broadway: original casts of The Woman in White, La Cage aux Folles (revival), Kiss Me, Kate and Ragtime. In The Phantom of the Opera, she has performed the role of Christine in Toronto and appeared as Carlotta Guidicelli on Broadway, in Toronto and on the Music Box Tour. National Tours: Kiss Me, Kate, Cats (Jellylorum/Griddlebone) and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Music of the Night. Television: can be seen in the PBS productions of Candide with the New York Philharmonic, and South Pacific at Carnegie Hall. Recent: performed in the N.Y. City Center Encores! production Of Thee I Sing. Regional: The King and I (Anna opposite Lou Diamond Phillips) and The Sound of Music (Mother Abbess).

MARY ANN LAMB (Mona Page). Center Theatre Group: pre-Broadway run of Fosse at the Ahmanson Theatre.

Broadway: contact, Suessical, Fosse, Chicago, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, Song and Dance, Goodbye Girl, Starlight Express and Carrie. Other New York: eight productions with City Center

Encores! series and New Girl in Town (Anna) at the York Theatre. Regional: Lola in Damn Yankees (Music Circus Theater, Sacramento) and roles at the Long Wharf, Huntington and Seattle Rep Theatres.

Film and Television: highlights include working with Rob Marshall on the hit film Chicago and being the subject of PBS’ documentary Working Dancers II. BRITTANY MARCIN (Peg Prentice).

National Tours: The Will Rogers Follies and Dr. Dolittle (Pushmi/ Pullyu). International: Chicago (HunyakMacau International Music Festival).

New York: Radio City Rockette. Regional: West Side Story (NSMT), Anything Goes (Houston TUTS) and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Other: former member of Sarasota Ballet. Education: NCSA graduate.

JIM NEWMAN (Randy Weinstein).

Broadway: Minnelli on Minnelli (cast album), Happy in Steel Pier (cast album), Sunset Boulevard, The Who’s Tommy.

Off-Broadway: John Denver in Almost Heaven: Songs of John Denver (Promenade), George Bush/Osama Bin Laden in Newsical! (Studio 54), Millard in On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (Encores!), Destry in Destry Rides Again (York) as well as A Good Swift Kick (Variety Arts) and Up Against It (NYSF/ Public). First National Tours: Bill Calhoun in Kiss Me Kate, Josh Baskin in Big and Levi in Joseph...Dreamcoat. Regional: Peter in The Pavilion (Penguin Rep) Jerry Lukowski in The Full Monty (Arvada Center), the Leading Player in Pippin (Papermill Playhouse), Henry in Kander and Ebb’s Over and Over (Signature Theatre) and Cole! (Theatre on the Square, Drama-Logue award for best actor). Film: Out of Sync. Television: Hope and Faith, All My Children, One Life to Live, The Rosie O’Donnell Show, The Magic of Music.

JESSICA LEA PATTY (Swing). Center Theatre Group: originally from Jupiter, Florida, Jessica is thrilled to be making her Ahmanson debut. Broadway: The Boy From Oz, PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P 11

starring Hugh Jackman. National Tours: Cats, Fosse. Regional: the world premiere of Frank Wildhorn’s Waiting For The Moon, Grease (Sandy), Beauty and the Beast, Cats, West Side Story, Music Man. Television: 2004 Tony Awards, Conviction.

Education: graduate of Florida State University’s BFA Music Theatre program.

JOE AARON REID (Ronnie Driscoll). New York Theatre: Kismet (City Center Encores!), Legally Blonde (Workshop). Regional: Ragtime (Paper Mill Playhouse), Camelot (North Shore Music Theatre), Beauty and the Beast (Places des Artes, Montreal/ Lyric Theater, Baltimore). Regional Workshops: Romeo and Juliet: The Musical (Terrence Mann, Christopher D’Amboise), Owl Creek (Jamibeth Margolis). Television: Mandy Moore’s Drop the Pilot, Guiding Light. Education: BFA in Musical Theatre from Ithaca College.

DARCIE ROBERTS (Roberta Wooster).

Broadway: Aida (Amneris standby), Dream (Ingenue), Crazy For You (Polly, Irene, Tess standby). National Tours: Thoroughly Modern Millie (Millie - Helen Hayes nom.), Copacabana (Lola), Busker Alley (Libby), 42nd Street (Peggy - European), Aspects Of Love. Other New York: On A Clear Day… (Muriel) at City Center Encores! The Bubbly Black Girl… (Scarlett) at Playwrights Horizons.

Regional: Evita (Eva), Funny Girl (Fanny), Ragtime (Mother), A Chorus Line (Cassie, Maggie), Crazy For You (Polly - Barrymore Award nom.), Cabaret (Sally - Indy Award), My Fair Lady (Eliza), Damn Yankees (Lola), 42nd Street (Peggy). Los Angeles: Baby (Lizzie - Drama Logue Award) at Golden Theatre. Television: All My Children. www.darcieroberts.com.

CHRISTOPHER SPAULDING (Russ Cochran). Center Theatre Group: honored to be making his debut in such inspiring company. Education: a recent graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, CAP21. Last seen in Footloose (Willard) at Chicago’s Marriott Lincolnshire. New York: Sweeney Todd P12 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE

(Anthony), Working (“Mason” singer), Hotel Sarajevo (Ilija). Commercial print campaign for Verizon. Proud member of Actors’ Equity.

winners), Baryshnikov on Broadway, Goldie and Liza Together, Funny Lady, Lucky Lady, New York, New York, Steppin’ Out and Chicago, the movie. In 1985 their song “New York, New York” became the official anthem of New York City. At the time of the unfortunate death of Mr. Ebb, Kander and Ebb had several projects in different stages of completion waiting in the wings, The Visit which had a successful run at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago starring Chita Rivera, All About Us (a musical adaptation of Thornton Wilder’s play The Skin of our Teeth) and The Minstrel Show.

Life goes on.

RUPERT HOLMES (Book, Additional Lyrics). Broadway: The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Tony Awards for both his book and his score, and the Tony Award for Best Musical; identical honors from the New York Drama Desk), Accomplice (Edgar Award, The Mystery Writers of America), Solitary Confinement starring Stacy Keach, Say Goodnight Gracie (Tony nomination, Best Play, National Touring Broadway Award, Best Play). Other New York: Thumbs (Helen Hayes Theatre Company), Twelfth Night (Delacorte Theater, New York Shakespeare Festival, original songs and score). Regional: Marty with John C. Reilly, book by Holmes, score by Strouse and Adams (Huntington Theatre, Boston).

Television: created and wrote Emmy Award-winning series Remember WENN. Novels for Random House: Where the Truth Lies (Nero Wolfe Award nominee, Best American Mystery Novel 2004, Booklist Top Ten Debut Crime Novels), Swing (San Francisco Chronicle 2005 Top Ten Fiction). Holmes is grateful for the creative assistance of Teressa Esposito throughout his work on this musical.

PETER STONE (Original Book and Concept). Broadway: Titanic, 1776, The Will Rogers Follies and Woman of the Year (all Tony Award winners for Best Musical), My One and Only, Sugar, Two By Two and Kean. Film: won an Academy Award for his screenplay Father Goose, the Edgar (Mystery Writers of America) for his film Charade and the Christopher Award for the screen adaptation of 1776, other films include The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3, Sweet Charity, Who’s Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? and Just Cause. Television: won the Emmy Award for an episode of The Defenders. Mr. Stone is the only writer to ever win the Tony, Oscar and Emmy.

JOHN KANDER (Music) and FRED EBB (Lyrics). The John Kander and Fred Ebb collaboration of four decades has created what many would consider Broadway standards and contemporary classics. One of their first collaborations became a hit song for Barbra Streisand, “My Coloring Book,” earning John and Fred a Grammy nomination. In 1965 the pair worked on their first Broadway show Flora, the Red Menace. Produced by Hal Prince and directed by George Abbott, Flora also introduced a rising new star - Liza Minnelli. Followed by: Cabaret (Tony Award for music and lyrics), The Happy Time, Zorba, 70 Girls 70, Chicago, The Act, Woman of the Year (Tony Award for music and lyrics), The Rink, Kiss of the Spider Woman (Tony Award for music and lyrics) and Steel Pier. Their collaboration also transferred itself to movies and television as they wrote original material for the Academy Awards, Liza with a Z and HBO’s Liza Minnelli’s Steppin’ Out (both Emmy

SCOTT ELLIS (Director). Recent: Entertaining Mr. Sloane with Alec Baldwin, Douglas Carter Beane’s The Little Dog Laughed (Drama League nom.) and Twelve Angry Men (Tony, Drama Desk noms., Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk Awards, Best Revival). Broadway: The Boys From Syracuse, The Man Who Had All the Luck with Chris O’Donnell, The Rainmaker with Woody Harrelson and Jayne Atkinson, 1776 (Drama Desk, Tony nom. Best Director), She Loves Me (Tony nom., Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards), Picnic (Outer Critics nom.), Company, A Month in the Country with Helen Mirren, Steel Pier (Tony nom., Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards).

London: She Loves Me (Olivier Award).

Off-Broadway: The Waverly Gallery, The Dog Problem, That Championship Season, Dark Rapture, And the World Goes ‘Round: The Songs of Kander and Ebb (Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards) and Flora, the Red Menace (Drama Desk

nom). NYC Opera: 110 in the Shade, A Little Night Music with Jeremy Irons and Juliet Stevenson, also with Victor Garber, Judith Ivey and Zoe Caldwell (L.A. Opera).

Director/co-conceiver of “Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall” and Great Performances’ “My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies.” Mr. Ellis is the Associate Artistic Director of the Roundabout Theatre Company.

ROB ASHFORD (Choreographer).

Broadway: The Wedding Singer (Tony and Drama Desk noms.), Thoroughly Modern Millie (2002 Tony Award - Best Choreography; Olivier and Drama Desk noms.), The Boys from Syracuse (Roundabout). London: Guys and Dolls (Olivier nom.), A Funny Thing Happened…, Once in a Lifetime (National Theatre), just opened new production of Evita directed by Michael Grandage. Other New York: Pardon My English, Tenderloin, A Connecticut Yankee, Bloomer Girl (Encores!), Time and Again (MTC), Dawn Upshaw (Lincoln Center). Regional: Marty (Huntington), 3hree (Ahmanson), Princesses (5th Ave. Theatre), Pippin (Papermill Playhouse), A Christmas Carol (McCarter). Film: Beyond the Sea directed by and starring Kevin Spacey. Upcoming: the new musicals Cry Baby, Ever After and Leap of Faith directed by Taylor Hackford.

Other: serves on the executive board of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.

ANNA LOUIZOS (Set Designer). Broadway: Avenue Q (2004 Tony Award, Best Musical) also Las Vegas and London, Steel Magnolias, Golda’s Balcony, High Fidelity (Fall 2006). Off-Broadway: The Foreigner with Matthew Broderick (Roundabout), Altar Boyz (Best offBroadway Musical 2005 - Outer Critics Circle Award), Based on a Totally True Story (MTC), tick, tick…BOOM (Jane St.), The Butter and Egg Man (Atlantic), Kafka’s The Castle (M.E.T.). National Tours: Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston), Golda’s Balcony (Valerie Harper), Altar Boyz, Winnie the Pooh and the Perfect Day (Disney Live). Regional: Much Ado About Nothing, Beyond Therapy (Old Globe), The Underpants (Alley), The Baker’s Wife (Paper Mill), Me and My Girl

(Goodspeed). Film: Art Director - The Secret Lives of Dentists. Television: Art Director - Sex and the City (HBO).

WILLIAM IVEY LONG (Costume Designer).

Current Broadway: Hairspray (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards), The Producers (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards), Chicago. Other Credits: Grey Gardens, Sweet Charity, A Streetcar Named Desire, La Cage aux Folles, The Frogs, Never Gonna Dance, Little Shop of Horrors, The Boy From Oz, contact, Cabaret, Big, The Music Man, Annie Get Your Gun, Swing!, The Mystery Of Irma Vep, Smokey Joe’s Café, Crazy For You (Tony, Outer Critics Circle Awards), Guys And Dolls, A Christmas Carol, Six Degrees of Separation, Assassins (Obie Award), Lend Me A Tenor, Nine (Tony, Drama Desk, Maharam Awards). Previous Broadway Collaborations with Mr. Ellis: 1776, Steel Pier, Company, Picnic.

PETER KACZOROWSKI (Lighting Designer).

Broadway: over 30 plays and musicals including The Pajama Game, Seascape, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Wonderful Town, Anna in the Tropics, The Producers, contact, The Music Man, Kiss Me, Kate. Off-Broadway: Grey Gardens, The Paris Letter, My Old Lady, Twelve Dreams, Song of Singapore, Grandchild of Kings, among others. Many shows for NYSF, Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizons, Lincoln Center Theater, Encores! Opera: The Met, NYCO, LAMCO, San Francisco, Houston Grand, Santa Fe, Seattle. Abroad: Royal Opera, Scottish Opera, Opera/North, The Edinburgh Festival, Maggio Festival Florence, L’Arena di Verona, Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Teatro Sao Carlos Lisbon.

Awards: he is the recipient of the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Drama-Logue and Hewes design awards.

BRIAN RONAN (Sound Designer).

Broadway: The Pajama Game, All Shook Up, Twelve Angry Men, “Master Harold”… and the Boys, The Look of Love, The Boys from Syracuse, Fortune’s Fool, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, The Rainmaker, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Little Me, Cabaret, Triumph of Love, 1776 and State Fair. Road Productions: Oklahoma!, Seussical, Spirit and Busker Alley. Associate

Credits: Smokey Joe’s Cafe and Beauty and the Beast (first national tour). Regional: McCarter Theatre’s Christmas Carol, Manhattan Theatre Club’s Wild Party, Time and Again and Newyorkers. Into the Woods (Ordway of St. Paul, MN), Bleacher Bums (Royal George Theatre of Chicago, IL) and A Little Princess (Theatre Works of Palo Alto, CA). Off-Broadway: Spring Awakening, Grey Gardens and Bug for which he won an Obie and the Lucille Lortel Awards.

DAVID LOUD (Music Director, Vocal Arrangements). Broadway: Ragtime, Steel Pier, A Class Act, The Look of Love, The Boys From Syracuse, Company, She Loves Me, Master Class, Merrily We Roll Along.

Off-Broadway: And the World Goes ‘Round, (Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk Awards, Best Musical Revue), Pacific Overtures, Paradise. National Tours: Les Misérables. Regional: Billy Bishop Goes to War starring Scott Ellis, The Visit (world premiere), Harold and Maude (world premiere). Center Theatre Group (Mark Taper Forum): Master Class starring Zoe Caldwell. Television: Broadway: The American Musical for PBS. Education: B.A. Yale University.

WILLIAM DAVID BROHN (Orchestrations). Broadway: Ragtime (1998 Tony Award), Miss Saigon and The Secret Garden (1991 Drama Desk Award for both), Crazy for You, Carousel, Show Boat, Oklahoma!, Sweet Smell of Success, Wicked. London: five National Theatre musicals, six West End musicals, including Miss Saigon, Oliver! and the new Disney/Cameron Mackintosh Mary Poppins (due on Broadway in October).

Stratford-upon-Avon: Secret Garden.

Lincoln Center: A Man of No Importance and Dessa Rose. Ballet Orchestrations: for Agnes de Mille, Twyla Tharp, Lar Lubovitch and Christopher Wheldon.

Recordings: for James Galway, Placido Domingo, Marilyn Horne and Joshua Bell, New York Philharmonic, premiering his adaptation of Prokofiev’s score to Eisenstein’s epic, Alexander Nevsky, at the Los Angeles Music Center, Andre Previn conducting.

PAUL HUNTLEY (Hair and Wig Designer).

Broadway: The Producers, Hairspray, Grey Gardens, Sweeney Todd and The Pirate Queen. Film: Fast Track, Anna Paquin in X-Men: The Last Stand, Ralph Fiennes in Bernard and Doris, Jennifer Lopez in El Cantante, Christopher Walken in Balls of Fury and Susan Sarandon in Enchanted.

Television: Kidnapped. Other: London born, Paul is a Special Tony Award-winner.

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DAVID CHASE (Dance Arrangements).

Taper: Flower Drum Song (Music Director/ Arranger/ Orchestrator, Garland Award.

Broadway (Dance Arranger): The Wedding Singer, Pajama Game, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Flower Drum Song, Kiss Me, Kate, Seussical, Side Show, …Forum. Broadway (Music Director): Pajama Game, Flower Drum Song, Music Man, Side Show, Little Me, Damn Yankees. London (Dance Arranger): Evita, Guys and Dolls. Also: Radio City, Evening at the Pops, Encores!

House of Flowers, Disney’s On the Record.

Film: Beyond the Sea. Music Training: Harvard Biology degree.

RICK SORDELET (Fight Director).

Worldwide: over 40 first class productions of Disney’s musicals on five continents.

Broadway: 34 shows, including Disney’s Tarzan, Beauty and the Beast, Lion King, Aida, Titanic, Urinetown, Virginia Woolf, Frozen, Twelve Angry Men. OffBroadway/Regional: hundreds of shows including Dead End at the Ahmanson Theatre and Romance at the Taper. Opera: Metropolitan Opera House and the Royal Opera House: Cyrano (with Placido Domingo). Film: The Game Plan (starring the Rock), Hamlet (starring Campbell Scott). Television: chief stunt-coordinator for CBS’ Guiding Light. Other: board member Shakespeare Theatre of N.J.; company member Drama Department and Circle East; instructor Yale School of Drama and Neighborhood Playhouse.

Married to Kathleen Kelly with three magnificent children, Kaelan, Christian and Collin.

PAUL RUBIN (Aerial Effects). Broadway: Wicked, Peter Pan, Frozen, The Green Bird, Kiss Me, Kate, Dance of the Vampires, Fiddler on the Roof, Saturday Night Fever and The Pirate Queen. National Tours: Seussical the Musical, Dora the Explorer, Blues Clues Live, Doctor Dolittle, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Spiderman Stunt Spectacular and Cathy Rigby’s farewell Peter Pan tour. Regional: Yeston and Kopit’s Phantom, Pittsburgh CLO’s Casper and La Jolla Playhouse’s Dracula.

Television: The Rosie O’Donnell Show, The Tony Awards, The Tony Danza Show, CNN, A&E’s Peter Pan and Entertainment Tonight. www.TheFlyGuy.com.

ANGELINA AVALLONE (Make-up Designer). Broadway: The Color Purple, Sweeney Todd, The Pajama Game, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Light in the Piazza, Grey Gardens, Lestat, The Odd Couple (with Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane), All Shook Up, Lennon, Seascape, Sweet Charity, The Pillowman, Wonderful Town, Julius Caesar, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Gypsy, A Day in the Death of Joe P14 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE

Egg, Little Shop of Horrors, Dance of the Vampires, Dracula the Musical, Belle Epoque, Henry IV, The Scarlet Pimpernel.

JOANN M. HUNTER (Associate Choreographer). Broadway: As Performer - 12 Broadway shows to her credit; As Associate Choreographer - The Wedding Singer, All Shook Up. Off-Broadway: Lily in God is Cat Spelled Backwards, Ruth in Trayf a New Play. National Tours: June in Chicago, Victoria the white cat in Cats.

Regional: Anita in West Side Story, Cassie in A Chorus Line, Fumiko in Sayonara.

Associate Choreographer - Princesses at 5th Ave. Theatre. London: Asst.

Choreographer Thoroughly Modern Millie. Film: Beyond the Sea. Television: Another World, Loving, All My Children (recurring roles).

JIM CARNAHAN (Casting) also serves as Roundabout Theatre’s Director of Artistic Development. Shows cast for Roundabout include Pajama Game, Threepenny Opera, Twelve Angry Men, Constant Wife, Pacific Overtures, A Streetcar Named Desire, Assassins, Twentieth Century, Nine, Big River, Joe Egg, Cabaret, Major Barbara, Man Who Came To Dinner, Betrayal, Side Man, View From the Bridge, 1776. Other Broadway: Faith Healer, Festen, Woman in White, Pillowman, La Cage, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Democracy, Fiddler, Millie, Gypsy, Life x 3, Noises Off, Into The Woods, True West, Copenhagen. Off-Broadway: Spring Awakening. Film: A Home at the End of the World, Flicka.

BEVERLEY RANDOLPH (Production Supervisor). Broadway: Little Women, Into the Woods, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Waiting in the Wings, The Sound of Music, Steel Pier, Passion, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, Falsettos, Metro, Cabaret, Roza, Grind, End of the World, A Doll’s Life, Merrily We Roll Along. Nationally and Internationally: Hunchback of Notre Dame, Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, 1992 Tony Awards, Follies in Concert at Avery Fisher Hall, Anna Deavere Smith at Zankel Hall, among others. Equity member over 30 years.

PETER FULBRIGHT/TECH PRODUCTION SERVICES (Technical Supervisor). Recent Broadway Productions/National Tours: Jersey Boys, Hairspray, Bombay Dreams, 42nd Street, Urinetown, Into The Woods, Vampires, Dame Edna, 16 Wounded, Anna…

Tropics, Enchanted April, Frog & Toad, Life X3, Ma Rainey’s, Elephant Man, TopDog, and Blast!. Peter has supervised over 70 Broadway productions and national tours.

Favorites include Aspects of Love, Rocky Horror, Real Thing, Swing!, Amadeus, Sound of Music, On the Town, Scarlet

Pimpernel, Triumph of Love, Footloose, Mattress, Forum, Smokey Joe’s, Moon Over Buffalo, Crazy for You, Guys & Dolls, Joseph..., Secret Garden, Starlight Express, Drood, Singin’ in the Rain, Foxfire.

Scott Taylor Rollison (Stage Manager). Broadway: Little Women, The Frogs, Into the Woods, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Waiting in the Wings, Rent, The Sound of Music. Off-Broadway: Fran’s Bed (PSM), Small Tragedy (Playwrights Horizons), A Bad Friend (Lincoln Center Theater), The Ride Down Mount Morgan (The Public). Other: 25 th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (San Francisco PSM), Sinatra: His Way (Radio City Music Hall).

City Center: My Favorite Broadway: The Love Songs, House of Flowers, 2003 Encores!

Broadway Bash. The Juilliard School: The Listener, A Dream Play. Education: Graduate of Millikin University. Proud member of Actors’ Equity.

DAVID S. FRANKLIN (Stage Manager).

Center Theatre Group: highlights – Bandido!, Gross Indecency, Like Jazz, Nickel and Dimed, Intimate Apparel, The Goat, An Enemy of the People, Baz Luhrmann’s La Bohème, Art, 3hree, A Perfect Wedding, Romance, The Cherry Orchard. Other Los Angeles: Los Angeles Theatre Center in its heyday from 1985-1990, Pasadena Playhouse, Geffen Playhouse. Regional: Seattle Rep, Intiman Theatre. New York: Public Theater. Tours: Europe – Quotations From a Ruined City, Law of Remains (with Reza Abdoh’s Dar a Luz company), North America – Ann Magnuson’s You Could Be Home Now. DAVID SOLOMON (Assistant Director).

Broadway: Assassins, Mario Cantone: Laugh Whore. Also with Scott Ellis: Stephen Sondheim: A Musical Celebration and Reunion: Roundabout’s 40th Anniversary Gala. Television: Laugh Whore (Showtime).

As Writer: Free Donuts (Center Stage, N.Y.), The Sexless Years (Ars Nova, MAC Award nomination). Education: B.A., Vassar College. He has also worked with Mitch Bernard and the Fred Ebb Foundation on the administration and selection of the First Annual Fred Ebb Award and in various capacities with the Roundabout Theatre Company for the past five years.

MICHAEL RITCHIE (Artistic Director) is completing his first season as CTG’s new artistic director. A former stage manager, Michael served as producer of the Williamstown Theatre

Festival in Massachusetts from 1996 to 2004, during which time the mission of the theatre evolved towards a diverse repertory of new plays, U.S. premieres, major revivals and rediscoveries of American classics. The Williamstown Theatre Festival was the recipient of the 2002 Regional Theatre Tony Award.

CHARLES DILLINGHAM (Managing Director) supervises all development, marketing, administrative and financial aspects of CTG’s three theatres.

Prior to CTG, he was CEO of The Entertainment Corporation USA, which presented the Bolshoi Ballet, Bolshoi Opera, Kirov Ballet, Kirov Opera and Royal Ballet at the Metropolitan Opera House and on tour. He was executive director of ABT, managing director of the Brooklyn Academy of Music Theatre Company, general manager of ACT in San Francisco, and an independent producer.

He served on the board of LA Stage

Additional staff for Curtains Company Manager ….............................. Susan J. Blyth Stage Managers ….......................Scott Taylor Rollison, David S. Franklin Assistant Director ….........................… David Solomon Associate to the Playwright............… Teressa Esposito Associate Scenic Designer ……............Mike Carnahan Assistant Scenic Designer................. Zhanna Gurvich Associate Costume Designer …................… Tom Beall Assistant Costume Designer …........… Rachel Attridge Costume Assistants …..............… Matthew Pachtman, Cathy Parrott Assistant Lighting Designer …............ Hilary Manners nd 2 Assistant Lighting Designer ….............… Lisa Katz Moving Light Programmer ……............ Josh Weitzman Assistant Sound Designer …................… Mike Farfalla Dialect Coach …........................................… Kate Maré Music Copyists …................…. Larry Abel, Robyn Pitre Synthesizer Programmer …................. Stuart Andrews Associate Technical Supervisor …...........… Mary Duffe Associate Technical Supervisor....... Colleen Houlehen Technical Intern................................. Meghan VonVett Production Carpenter …......................… Paul Wimmer Automation Carpenter …........................… Erik Hansen Advance Carpenters …........................… Brian Munroe, Andy Bednarek Production Electrician ….....................… Richie Mortell Head Electrician …...........................… Cletus Karamon Production Properties …..................… George Wagner Properties Shoppers …........… Kis Knekt, Zack Bunker Production Sound ….....................… Christopher Sloan Management Associate ….....................… Heidi Neven Production Assistants ................................ Blair Baker, Kimberly McCann, Chris Murry, Tom Rectenwald Stage Management Intern .............… Jacyln Kalkhurst Music Department Interns …................ Aaron Fischer, Jay Navarro

Alliance and on theatre advisory panels at the California Arts Council and the NEA. DOUGLAS C. BAKER (General Manager) is now in his 16th season at CTG. Previously, he managed Broadway and touring productions including Tru, Born Yesterday, The Gospel at Colonus, Annie, A Chorus Line, Working, The Wiz and Legends! starring Mary Martin and Carol Channing which premiered at the Ahmanson Theatre in 1986. From 198285, Baker was executive director of the Independent Booking Office in New York City. He is a graduate of Albion College, serves on the board of ATPAM and is a founding trustee of Musical Theatre Works, devoted to the development of new American musicals.

KELLEY KIRKPATRICK (Associate Producer).

Over the last 12 years, Kelley has been the production stage manager for over 40 shows on and off-Broadway including productions at the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Manhattan Theatre Credits Scenery and Automation from Showmotion, Inc. Performer flying effects equipment created by Hall Associates Flying Effects, a division of Nunnally Enterprises, Inc. Costumes from Barbara Matera, Euro Co. Costumes, JC Theatrical and Custom Footwear, Jennifer Love Costumes, Scafati, T-O Dey Custom Made Shoes, Tricorne. Lighting equipment from PRG Lighting. Sound Equipment from PRG Audio.

Props from The Spoon Group, LLC. Physical Therapy

by PhysioArts, PC and Performing Arts Physical Therapy. Playing Cards courtesy of U.S. Playing Cards, Cincinnati, Ohio. Piano from Keyboard Concepts and Synthesizer rental by SST. Banjo courtesy of Gibson.

Trucking by Clark Transport. Rehearsal photography

by Joan Marcus. Production photography by Craig Schwartz. Rehearsed at the New 42nd Street Studios.

SPECIAL THANKS 101 Productions (Wendy Orshan, Jeff Wilson, Dave Auster), Jeffrey Hillock, Serino Coyne Inc., Bruce Kimmel, Roundabout Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Boneau/Bryan-Brown, John Creech Design and Production, Den Design Studios.

The director would like to thank Adam Brazier, Aldrin Gonzales, Alyson Turner, Ann Arvia, Anne L. Nathan, Bernard Dotson, Betsy Wolfe, Boyd Gaines, Burke Moses, Casey Nicholaw, Chip Zien, Dana Lynn Mauro, Daniel Sherman, Danny Burstein, David Andrew McDonald, Deborah Rush, Deven May, Elizabeth Mills, Erin Dilly, Gavin Creel, Gerry Vichi, Gina Lamparella, Gregg Edelman, Hunter Foster, James Clow, James Naughton, Jennifer Laura Thompson, Jessica Stone, John Dossett, Kerry O’Malley, Kevin Ligon, Kristine Nielsen, Laura Benanti, Lawrence Clayton, Lee Wilkof, Mary Catherine Garrison, Megan Hilty, Mel Johnson, Jr., Melina Kanakaredes, Meredith Patterson, Michael Cumpsty, Michael Mandal, Michele Pawk, Paul Michael

Club, Playwrights Horizons, the Atlantic Theater Company, the Huntington Theatre Company and 12 seasons at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Since arriving at CTG, he has served as associate producer on Dead End, iWitness, Water & Power, all wear bowlers and Solomania!

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.

Valley, Peter Benson, Rachel Coloff, Randy Graff, Ric Stoneback, Rosena Hill, Ruthie Henshall, Sally Wilfert, Sean Martin Hingston, Stephen Buntrock, Stephen DeRosa and Stephen Lee Anderson without whom tonight’s performance of Curtains would not have been possible.

The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

The following employees are represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Machine Operators, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, its Territories and Canada, AFL-CIO, CLC: Stage Crew Local 33, Treasurers and Ticket Sellers Local 857, Wardrobe Crew Local 768, Make-up Artists and Hair Stylists Local 706; The managers and press agents of this theatre are members of the Association of Theatrical Press Agents and Managers.

United Scenic Artists represents the designers and scenic painters for the American theatre.

The director and choreographer are members of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Inc., an independent labor union.

Center Theatre Group is a member of the American Arts Alliance, the League of Resident Theatres (LORT), Independent Producers’ Network, League of American Theatres and Producers, LA Stage Alliance and National Alliance of Musical Theatre, and is a constituent of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national service organization for the non-profit professional theatre.

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Michael Ritchie, Artistic Director Charles Dillingham, Managing Director Douglas c. baker, General Manager ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS NEEL KELLER KELLEY KIRKPATRICK ANN E. WAREHAM PERFORMING FOR LOS ANGELES YOUTH (P.L.A.Y.) COREY MADDEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . P.L.A.Y. Producing Director CELESTE THOMPSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Department Manager KIMIKO L. BRODER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Educational Programs Manager RACHEL FAIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Editorial Manager DAN Harper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Educational Programs Associate/ Annenberg Middle School Program Manager KATRINA COLTUN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Production Supervisor NEW PLAY PRODUCTION DIANE RODRIGUEZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Producer LITERARY PIER CARLO TALENTI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Literary Manager michael Sablone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Literary Associate MANAGEMENT & ADMINISTRATION SUSAN BARTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate General Manager JEFFREY UPAH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Acting Assistant General Manager EMILIE BECK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Executive Assistant to Mr. Dillingham LINDSAY ALLBAUGH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Executive Assistant to Mr. Ritchie SUZANNE HEE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant Manager KATIE BRUNER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant to the General Manager IGNACIA DELGADO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Company Manager (Douglas) TONY ROMAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Theatre Manager (Douglas) PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT JONATHAN BARLOW LEE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Production Manager ALYS E. HOLDEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Technical Director MATTHEW S. CARLETON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant Technical Director CELESTE SANTAMASSINO . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Production Manager (Douglas) JESSE AASHEIM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant Production Manager DANA VASQUEZ-EBERHARDT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Production Office Administrator EDWARD E. HAYNES JR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Resident Scenic Designer JON GOTTLIEB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Resident Sound Designer DAWN HOLISKI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Prop Coordinator MICHELLE PHIPPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant Prop Coordinator heather kulibert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Warehouse Supervisor GUSTAVO MENDOZA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Transportation Director AFLAMU JOHNSON, MATHIAS GARCIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Drivers CASTING ERIKA SELLIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director MICHAEL BETTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant VICTORIA TISDALE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Intern Production WILLIAM ANDERSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Master Carpenter TERRY CALLAWAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Master Electrician STAN STEELMON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Master Propertyman ROBERT SMITH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Master Soundman SHAWN ANDERSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Flyman DENNIS SEETOO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Production Wardrobe Supervisor MICHELE ARVIZO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hair Supervisor CHRISTINE L. COX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . House Manager FINANCE, INFORMATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES EDWARD L. RADA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chief Financial Officer MICHAEL F. THOMPSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Controller JANIS BOWBEER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant Controller FELICISIMA LAPID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Accounts Payable Supervisor ALEGRIA SENA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Staff Accountant DANNY LAMPSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Staff Accountant KACEY CAMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Administrative Assistant MILES TEVES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Human Resources Manager ANTHONY GOLDEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Payroll Administrator STAN GRUSHESKY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Information Systems SEAN PINTO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patron Database Administrator RANDOLPH LIM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Senior System Administrator SCOTT LANDES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Web/Network Administrator VIVIAN ELLIFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Office Manager DAMON JOSEPH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Office Services SINGER LEWAK GREENBAUM & GOLDSTEIN, LLP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Auditor MICHAEL C. DONALDSON, LISA A. CALLIF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Legal Counsel GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Legal Counsel DEVELOPMENT YVONNE CARLSON BELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Development PATRICK OWEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Deputy Director of Development LIZ LIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Donor Communications BRUCE W. RISE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Major Gifts

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TRACY MIZRAKI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Director of Corporate Giving CHARITY WU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Director of Special Events NATALIE BERGESON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Telefunding Manager BECKY BIRDSONG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Donor Relations Manager JEAN LAMBORN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Manager of Institutional Support ERICA LOTZER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Special Events Coordinator LAURA KING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Donor Relations Associate HELEN OTA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Executive Assistant to the Development Director HOLLY RAMOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Telefunding Supervisor MANDY RATLIFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Database Associate JENNY SONG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Communications Associate SANDRA SULLIVAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Grants Associate amanda toubale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Grants Writer JASON BASS, AL BERMAN, GINA EAST, JULIETT GARRISON, JUSTINE KLINEMAN, JESS STROUP, PATRICK VARON, ELEANOR WHITLEDGE . . . . . . . . . . Telefunding Representatives MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS JIM ROYCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Marketing and Communications NANCY HEREFORD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Press Director PHYLLIS MOBERLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Senior Press Associate JASON MARTIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Press Associate KEN WERTHER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Press Associate DELPHINE VASKO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Press Assistant Elizabeth levin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Intern CHRISTOPHER KOMURO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Art Director IRENE KANESHIRO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Senior Designer CHARITY CAPILI, nishita doshi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Graphic Designers NAUSICA STERGIOU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Audience Development Director MICHAEL ANDERSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Advertising & Promotions Director JEREMY GREEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marketing Events Manager C. RAUL ESPINOZA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marketing Associate Eric Sims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marketing Production Manager MARCUS GUALBERTO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Advertising Assistant ART PRIROMPRINTR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marketing Assistant EVANIA LEE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marketing Intern TICKET SALES AND SERVICES JOSEPH CARTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ticket Sales Director LLOYD “SKYPP” CABANAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant SANDY CZUBIAK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Audience and Subscriber Services Manager JENNIFER BAKER, CHERYL HAWKER, SCOTT TAYLOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Audience Services Supervisors ALICE CHEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Audience Services Asst. Supervisor WILL MOORE, JERRY TRAINOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Donor Services Associates SAM AARON, LIZ ALAN, ZAND BROUMAND, CARLOS D. CHAVEZ, JR., HESPER COLOHAN, MICHAEL HURLEY, KAY LOCHARD, FRANCISCO MAGDARAOG, SARAH MEARS, RICHARD RUBIO, LEX SAVKO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Audience Services Representatives DANUTA SIEMAK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Subscriber Services Supervisor CHRISTINA GUTIERREZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Subscriber Services Asst. Supervisor LIGIA PISTE, CELIA RIVAS . . . . . . . . . . . Subscriber Services Senior Representatives irene chuang, carla galvez, peter staloch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Subscriber Services Representatives SARAH K. GONTA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Box Office Treasurer KISHISA ROSS, GISELE FRAZEUR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant Treasurers YULIZA BARRAZA, ANGELICA CERDA, LEROY PAWLOWSKI, DAVID LEE PERKINS, MICHAEL SALTZMAN, GEORGE SOVIAK, MATTHEW VASKO . . . . Box Office Staff NADJAH DABNEY, LINDA FONSECA, NIIKA TANIGUCHI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Group Services/Outreach Sales Agents Jennifer HARTMANN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Education Services Agent KERRY KORF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Priority Services Director SUSAN F. TULLER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Priority Services Manager paul cuen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Priority Services Supervisor BETH HARTMAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Priority Services Assistant Carole Baxter, Jay Burns, GABRIELLE CONFORTI, Marc “Byron” Drotman, Lou George, JACQueline Hodgins, Jerry Johnston, Edwin Klein, SHEP KOSTER, Paul “Joseph” Marcoux, Carol “Colette” Poretz, MATT PELFREY, SHANA QUALLS, EDWARD “MAX” RAZOR, Ken Salley, Kimleigh Smith, Michael Smith, Jeffrey Stubblefield, Derik Van Derbeken, ELIZABETH WILLIAMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Representatives CTG COSTUME SHOP CANDICE CAIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director DIAN CAMARILLO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant to Costume Director KATHY CHRISTIANSEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Draper MARTHA ADAMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shopper DIANNE K. GRAEBNER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Milliner/Crafts/Dyer KEN TAMBE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Business Manager JULIO A. CUELLAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Custodian