Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake at Center Theatre Group, December 2019 by Center Theatre Group

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FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

WELCOME TO CENTER THEATRE GROUP At Center Theatre Group, we believe theatre is a cultural force with the power to thrill, inspire, change—and perhaps most importantly, unite. Since you’re here in the audience, I know you believe in theatre, too. Please consider making a donation in support of whatever inspires you—artists, audiences, community— to help ensure that live theatre continues to have a leading presence in Los Angeles. Learn more at CTGLA.org/WeThePeople. As a nonprofit, we rely on supporters like you to help create not only the art you see onstage—but also works that are still in development by world-class artists in Los Angeles and around the country. From our L.A. Writers’ Workshop, a community that supports local playwrights, to our ongoing commissions, which give artists financial, artistic, and technical backing to create new works, our relationships with artists form the core of our work. We are proudly here to serve the greatest possible group of artists, audiences, and community that make up our city—challenging them to create, think about, and ultimately be transformed by live theatre. And you can see that clearly in the two productions we have currently onstage. It is an honor to continue to give August Wilson’s work a stage and an artistic home in Los Angeles through both productions like Jitney and education programs like the August Wilson Monologue Competition and the August Wilson In-School Residency. It’s a privilege to have Ruben Santiago-Hudson return to the Taper to direct a truly great cast of actors. In 1997, Sir Matthew Bourne made his US debut with his Swan Lake at the Ahmanson. An instant hit, Swan Lake went on to become the longest running ballet on Broadway, making Matthew one of the best-known talents in dance and theatre in the world. Over the past two decades, Center Theatre Group has become his home away from home, and we are so glad to welcome him back with this new reimagining of a classic production. Sincerely,

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ON OUR STAGES MATTHEW BOURNE’S SWAN LAKE AHMANSONTHEATRE DEC 3, 2019 – JAN 5, 2020 Thrilling, audacious, witty, and emotive, Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake took the dance world by storm. Collecting over 30 international accolades including an Olivier Award in the UK and three Tonys on Broadway, this is a passionate and contemporary Swan Lake for our times. ®

AUGUST WILSON’S JITNEY MARKTAPERFORUM NOV 22 – DEC 29, 2019 Set in the early 1970s, this richly textured play follows a group of men trying to eke out a living by driving unlicensed cabs, or jitneys. Directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, one of Wilson’s finest interpreters, this acclaimed production received six Tony nominations, winning Best Revival of a Play.

IN THE THEATRE LATE SEATING To minimize disruption, patrons not seated when the performance begins will be asked to wait in the lobby until an appropriate break. Latecomers may also be given alternate seats until intermission.

FRAGRANCES Please refrain from wearing strong perfumes and cologne. Many people are allergic to heavy scents.

LOST & FOUND Contact a head usher or call the lost and found clerk at 213.972.2600 for the Ahmanson and the Taper. Contact the performance manager at 213.972.4435 for the Douglas.

UNTIL THE FLOOD KIRKDOUGLASTHEATRE JAN 24 – FEB 23, 2020 Pulitzer Prize finalist and celebrated performer Dael Orlandersmith explores the social uprising in Ferguson, Missouri following the shooting of teenager Michael Brown. Pulling from her extensive interviews with Missouri residents, Orlandersmith crafts a stunning theatrical experience.

For tickets and more information and to learn about season tickets, group sales, ACCESS performances, and audience & stage talks, visit our website at CTGLA.org or call our Audience Services department at 213.628.2772.

SMOKING IS PROHIBITED Smoking of any kind, including electronic devices, is prohibited.

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YOUNG CHILDREN AND BABIES Children under age six are not admitted, unless the production is advertised for younger audiences. Regardless of age, everyone must have a ticket and be able to sit quietly through the performance. Babes in arms are not admitted.

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A Journey

Through 5,000 Years

SHEN YUN takes you on an extraordinary journey through China’s 5,000 years of divinely inspired civilization. Exquisite beauty from the heavens, profound wisdom from dynasties past, timeless legends and ethnic traditions all spring to life through classical Chinese dance, enchanting orchestral music, authentic costumes, and patented interactive backdrops. It is an immersive experience that will uplift your spirit and transport you to another world. It’s 5,000 years of civilization reborn!

“A fascinating insight into what China’s culture used to be and what I hope one day will be restored to China.”

“It is breathtaking! I am walking away deeply inspired and profoundly moved!”

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around CENTER THEATRE GROUP BILINGUAL COSTUME WORKSHOPS IN BOYLE HEIGHTS

Photos by Cristi Burgos/cbgraphy.

Just in time for Halloween and Day of the Dead, we led skeleton costume-making workshops in Spanish and English at Boyle Heights libraries October 23, 25, and 26, 2019. Thanks to the California Arts Council for their continuing support of programs like these!

KRISTINA WONG FOR PUBLIC OFFICE 2019 Sherwood Award recipient Kristina Wong performed her new work-in-progress for Center Theatre Group staff members on October 9, 2019. A simultaneous reallife campaign and performance art piece, Kristina Wong for Public Office garners big laughs…and has resulted in Wong serving as an elected representative of the Wilshire Center Koreatown Sub-district 5 Neighborhood Council.

Thanks to the Sherwood family, who endowed this award to honor Dorothy and Richard E. Sherwood’s passionate commitment to theatre.

CONGRATULATIONS, 2020 SHERWOOD AWARD FINALISTS

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This fall, we recognized three innovative and adventurous L.A. theatre artists as finalists for our annual Dorothy and Richard E. Sherwood Award (L–R): performance maker Mat Diafos Sweeney, who composes and directs as part of Four Larks, playwright Sigrid Gilmer (who also participated in our L.A. Writers’ Workshop), and director and Teatro Luna + Teatro Luna West Artistic Director Alexandra Meda.

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We’re pleased to announce four new members of the Center Theatre Group Board of Directors.

JILL CHOZEN is a Broadway and national tour theatre investor, philanthropist, past trustee of University Synagogue, and a supporter of theatre, music, dance, education, healthcare, and travel.

GEORGE V. HAUSLER is an executive with J.P. Morgan, where he manages the Public Sector client team that covers the California marketplace.

MASTERING THE ART OF CLOWNING

PHILIP PAVEL is Managing Director of the NoMad Hotel Los Angeles. Previously, he spent 21 years as Managing Director of Chateau Marmont.

BONNIE VITTI is President of The Louis & Harold Price Foundation, and serves on the boards of Oakwood School and The Harold & Pauline Price Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation at UCLA’s Anderson School of Business.

Bill Irwin (bottom, in hat) led a master class in the Kirk Douglas Theatre Rehearsal Room on October 18, 2019 for a group of East Los Angeles College students and members of the local theatre community—offering insights from decades of clowning and performance as well as the creation of his On Beckett.

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CENTER THEATRE GROUP’S NEW YORK SEASON FOUR SHOWS ARE TRANSFERRING THANKS TO PARTNERSHIPS WITH TOP THEATRES

Soft Power

Dana H.

A Play Is a Poem

“PARTNERSHIPS ARE A CENTRAL PART OF OUR STRATEGIC INVESTMENTS AND SUPPORT OF NEW WORK.”

Linda Vista

FOUR OF THE BUZZIEST SHOWS IN NEW YORK CITY THIS SEASON ARE TRANSFERRING THERE FROM CENTER THEATRE GROUP—an exciting moment for Los Angeles theatre that showcases the promise and excitement around one of our tent pole strategies for the creation and support of new work. Center Theatre Group has co-commissioned new plays for many years with top theatres from around the country and the world. In 2017, we formalized the process thanks to the Edgerton Foundation Playwrights Initiative, a $1 million grant to commission at least two shows annually with four different theatres.

(L–R, Top–Bottom) Maria-Christina Oliveras (obscured), Geena Quintos, Billy Bustamante, Conrad Ricamora, Jaygee Macapugay, Jon Hoche, and Daniel May in Soft Power at the Ahmanson. Deirdre O’Connell in Dana H. at the Douglas. Joey Slotnick and Micaela Diamond in A Play Is a Poem at the Taper. Ian Barford in Linda Vista at the Taper. Photos by Craig Schwartz.

“Partnerships are a central part of our strategic investments and support of new work,” said Artistic Director Michael Ritchie. “Co-commissions offer artists more support—both financial and creative—and ensure that a work will have a second production and a continued life after the World premiere. What we’re seeing, too, is that a co-commission or early co-production can have a domino effect and bring new work to still more theatres and bigger audiences.” This fall, Center Theatre Group is co-presenting the Steppenwolf Theatre production of Tracy Letts’ Linda Vista, an audience Continues on page 12

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and critical favorite from our 18/19 Taper Season, on Broadway at Second Stage’s Hayes Theater. Second Stage is one of our Edgerton Foundation Playwrights Initiative partners, and Steppenwolf Artistic Director Anna D. Shapiro is also one of our Associate Artists. A few days after the first performance of Linda Vista, David Henry Hwang and Jeanine Tesori’s Soft Power arrived at The Public Theater for a run that was extended due to audience demand weeks before performances began. Soft Power is a co-commission and co-production with The Public and made its World premiere at the Ahmanson to close out our 50 anniversary celebration as part of our 17/18 Season.

by Kenny Leon, at Second Stage—the first production of an Edgerton Foundation Playwrights Initiative co-commission. To celebrate, see some of these shows, and get an inside look at how our seasons are programmed, donors traveled to New York in October along with the company’s leadership team. The trip included meetings with Broadway and tour producers, private backstage tours of Hadestown and Moulin Rouge!, and dinner and drinks with the creative team and cast of Soft Power.

This winter, our co-production of Lucas Hnath’s Dana H.—which had its World premiere at the Douglas this past spring—will appear OffBroadway at the Vineyard Theatre after a lauded Chicago run at the Goodman Theatre, another Edgerton Foundation Playwrights Initiative partner. And in the spring, Ethan Coen’s A Play Is a Poem heads from the Taper, where its World premiere launched our 2019/20 Season, to Atlantic Theater Company. In addition, fall in New York also included the World premiere of Pulitzer Prize finalist Will Eno’s The Underlying Chris, directed

A high point was a toast by donors, staff, producing partners, and friends to Linda Vista, Soft Power, Dana H., and A Play Is a Poem at Sardi’s on October 11, 2019. Playwrights Letts, Tesori and Hwang, and Hnath as well as director Neil Pepe were all in attendance for a festive celebration of the power of L.A. nonprofit theatre. “Los Angeles is as exciting a city as there is right now for theatre. But you don’t have to take my word for it,” said Ritchie. “Our partners in New York and around the country agree, too, and by the time the season is over, I think New York audiences will feel the same way.”

(Clockwise, from top left) Center Theatre Group Managing Director/CEO Meghan Pressman, playwright David Henry Hwang, and Center Theatre Group Artistic Director Michael Ritchie at Opening Night of Soft Power. Photo by Simon Luethi. Center Theatre Group Board members, donors, and staff at Sardi’s celebration. Pressman, Jujamcyn Theaters President Jordan Roth, and Ritchie at Moulin Rouge! Actor Carrie Coons, Hwang, Dana H. playwright Lucas Hnath, Second Stage Associate Artistic Director Christie Evangelisto, and Linda Vista playwright Tracy Letts at Sardi’s.

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Diverse Stories and Remarkable Talents

MEET THE PLAYWRIGHTS OF OUR 2019/2020 FOR ANY PLAYWRIGHT, the opportunity to create and converse in a collaborative setting is a golden one. Especially unique is an environment as immersive and supportive as the L.A. Writers’ Workshop, now beginning its 14 year at Center Theatre Group.

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The seven local playwrights who will be writing new works with our support during the 2019/2020 Season are Adelina Anthony, Ngozi Anyanwu, Jonathan Caren, Dionna Michelle Daniel, Boo Killebrew, Kenneth Lin, and Kemp Powers—and together they offer a diverse medley of both talents and perspectives. Indeed, almost all of this year’s artists also work in Hollywood—writing (Lin, for example, has written on Star Trek: Discovery, House of Cards, and Sweetbitter, while Caren wrote on Netflix’s Gypsy); acting (Anthony on Starz’s Vida, Anyanwu on HBO’s The Deuce); directing (Powers co-directed the 2020 Disney/Pixar feature Soul); and producing (Killebrew is executive producer on the upcoming AMC dramedy Aim High).

The L.A. Writers’ Workshop was founded to take advantage of exactly these kinds of talents. “Los Angeles has become a destination for writers in a way that New York was in the past. There are more fantastic playwrights living in L.A. than ever before,” said Associate Artistic Director/Literary Director Neel Keller. “We wanted the theatre’s new

play development efforts to provide a creative home for the growing number of local writers.”

That support comes from regular meetings of the playwrights—along with members of the company’s Artistic staff—to share, discuss, and improve their developing works in an encouraging space. “It can be a lonely occupation, so I think the impulse to band together in a community where you can share the thrills and burdens of writing a play is important,” Keller noted. The Workshop kicks off with conversations with experts in the subject matter of their plays. In the past, Center Theatre Group has invited everyone from a plastic surgeon and a theologian to a UFO researcher. At the end of the year, actors are brought in for readings that allow the playwrights to better envision how their works will appear onstage. Participants both past and present also have the opportunity to showcase their work in the annual L.A. Writers’ Workshop Festival, which features public readings of selected new works by former Workshop participants. (Top–bottom) Ngozi Anyanwu, Boo Killebrew, Kenneth Lin, Adelina Anthony, Kemp Powers, Dionna Michelle Daniel, and Jonathan Caren.

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HOW DAEL ORLANDERSMITH SPEAKS TO PEOPLE and Why She’s Bringing Until the Flood Home to the Kirk Douglas Theatre

DAEL ORLANDERSMITH STARTS THE CONVERSATIONS her audiences

“Center Theatre Group has been so supportive. When we did Bones, other people wouldn’t touch it, and I will always be grateful to Michael Ritchie for that,” she said. Orlandersmith’s three previous plays at the Douglas include two World premieres. In 2010’s Bones she chronicled a difficult reunion among family members with a traumatic past, and in 2014’s Forever she told the story of her fraught relationship with her abusive mother. Continues on page 18

Dael Orlandersmith. Photo by Robert Altman.

need. In her newest groundbreaking work, Until the Flood, that means thinking and talking about Ferguson, Missouri, where in 2014 a white police officer shot and killed an unarmed black teenager named Michael Brown. After successfully touring nationally and internationally, she’s bringing this solo show to the Kirk Douglas Theatre, which has in many ways become an artistic home away from home.

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“The content is very difficult,” acknowledged Orlandersmith of Until the Flood. “The challenge every night is to tackle that stuff,” she added. “But I have to do that.” She portrays eight different composite characters whose stories are based on extensive interviews she conducted in Ferguson in 2015. They include Hassan, a black teenage “street kid,” Dougray, a racist landlord, and Connie, a white teacher who tries to empathize with both Brown and the officer who shot him.

“I do what I have to do as an actor. Sometimes when we see certain people, they remind us of an aspect of ourselves that we don’t like,” said Orlandersmith of portraying these characters. “I wonder, am I seeing something about myself I don’t like? And then I tackle it. It’s my responsibility to be a storyteller and to be an actor.” Until the Flood began during rehearsals for Forever, which was also directed by Center Theatre Group Associate Artistic Director/Literary Director Neel Keller. “The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis reached out to ask if Dael would create something that addressed what was happening in their city,” said Keller. “She asked me to collaborate with her on the new play. So, we have been working together on Until the Flood since the very beginning.” Keller and Orlandersmith first met in 1994, when he directed a production of Romeo and Juliet at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. “I love working with Dael. She always challenges me and, probably more importantly, always surprises me,” said Keller.

Orlandersmith, for her part, relies on Keller to help her take a step away from the material. “There’s certain things Neel has told me to do and suggested that I do that are now becoming clearer,” said Orlandersmith. “When you’re wearing both the actor and the writer hat, you need that second perspective.” Both Orlandersmith and Keller weren’t sure what audiences would make of Until the Flood at first— particularly because it was premiering just miles away from where the story is set, in St. Louis. “I wondered what would happen with that community, and they took to that piece, my God they were wonderful, they were so glad they were there,” said Orlandersmith. “I don’t speak

for people, I speak to people, and I made that very clear. I’m not a politician.”

Nine productions later—across America and in Galway, London, and Edinburgh, where Until the Flood won two of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe’s most prestigious awards— that still holds true. “It was very moving to see how strongly European audiences connected to this very American piece. Dael acknowledges the multiplicity of truth swirling around the events at the heart of the play. By allowing her composite characters to speak their often contradictory truths, she is able to capture something elemental about this very human, very complicated situation,” said Keller. Added Orlandersmith, “I hope that people are listening, and I hope it invokes a certain kind of thought and communication.”

“I HOPE THAT PEOPLE ARE LISTENING, AND I HOPE IT INVOKES A CERTAIN KIND OF THOUGHT AND COMMUNICATION.”

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(L–R) Teaching Artists Matias Ponce, Mara Palma, Carissa Pinckney, and Ramy El-Etreby, Resident Teaching Artist Debra Piver, and Teaching Artist Peter Mendoza.

BRINGING THE CLASS TO THE STAGE, AND THE STAGE TO THE CLASS Center Theatre Group Relies on our Teaching Artists to Help Educate and Inspire the Next Generation AT CENTER THEATRE GROUP, WE BELIEVE IN THE VALUE OF BRIDGING WHAT STUDENTS LEARN IN THE CLASSROOM WITH WHAT THEATRE PROFESSIONALS DO EVERY DAY. Enter our Teaching Artists, creative professionals who integrate their art form, perspectives, and skills into our educational programming. These educators move seamlessly between the classroom and the Los Angeles stages—including ours. Bernard K. Addison, a veteran of our Education programs, appeared on our stages most recently in 2018’s Water by the Spoonful and 2017’s Citizen: An American Lyric; our 2017 Zoot Suit revival cast featured Teaching Artists Melinna Bobadilla and Rocío López. In addition, many of them are on the faculty at schools and institutions around the region. Our Teaching Artists—we work with 40 or more each season—are also playwrights, directors, choreographers, and designers. They all bring a wealth of hands-on experience and real-world philosophy that benefit students across many different programs we offer, including Student Matinees, Disney Musicals in Schools, and our August Wilson program. This year, two of the new Teaching Artists we welcomed to our Student Matinee faculty are familiar faces at Center Theatre Group. Actors Peter Mendoza and Matias Ponce were inspired to come on board after participating in the program during their own stints in leading roles on Center Theatre Group stages. Mendoza played the titular role in 2017’s Elliot, a Soldier’s Fugue at the Douglas and appeared in last year’s production of Sweat at the Taper, and Ponce played Henry Reyna in our acclaimed Zoot Suit revival.

“I was unprepared for how involved and engaged the students would be,” recalled Mendoza of the Elliot Student Matinee performances, which were followed by Q&As with the cast. “It was an amazing experience that I wanted to continue—interacting and getting students excited about great theatre.” Both Mendoza and Ponce began their Teaching Artist experience helping immerse high school students into the world of John Leguizamo’s Latin History for Morons. Their work on the program includes team-building exercises with staff and fellow Teaching Artists, Educator Conferences with participating teachers, and in-school pre- and post-show visits. They know firsthand how valuable it is to provide opportunities to students to see and engage with live theatre, especially those who may never have considered getting involved in theatre, performance, or art as a whole.

Ponce described the Student Matinee Program as the perfect opportunity to “share my love for theatre and how it can revolutionize the minds of youth through freedom of expression and break the stereotypes our youth have been taught.” But perhaps the most important asset the Teaching Artists can bring to their efforts is their firsthand knowledge of the power of theatre to change lives for both the actors/creators and the audience. “Theatre is such a giving and inspiring art form that connects you to the world and your community,” explained Mendoza. “It gives you a voice and the ability to play. There is nothing that can compare to the connection between the audience and the characters/actors.”

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AUGUST WILSON’S

CENTER THEATRE GROUP

JITNEY

NOV 22 – DEC 29, 2019 MARK TAPER FORUM

Seven Guitars Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Two Trains Running

CENTER THEATRE GROUP HAS CELEBRATED AUGUST WILSON’S WORK ON AND OFF OUR STAGES FOR THE PAST THREE DECADES. We’re proud to have this new Jitney, directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, join a list of productions of Wilson’s magisterial American Century Cycle that feature some of the most talented actors of our time, including Laurence Fishburne, Viola Davis, Phylicia Rashad, and of course Santiago-Hudson himself. Beginning with 1990’s The Piano Lesson, Center Theatre Group joined a network of regional theatres producing Wilson’s plays across the country. As Founding Artistic Director Gordon Davidson wrote in our program, “This ‘theatre network’ has afforded plays the opportunity of moving from one theatre to the next with a kind of continuity— one different from commercial touring—an opportunity which promotes the play’s ongoing development.”

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The dividends paid off immediately, as the Yale Repertory Theatre/ Center Theatre Group production of The Piano Lesson moved to Broadway, where it went on to win the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play and receive five Tony Award nominations. Similar arrangements followed for Two Trains Running, King Hedley II, Gem of the Ocean, and Radio Golf. ®

(L–R, Top–Bottom) Ruben SantiagoHudson, Tommy Hollis, Viola Davis, and Michele Shay in 1996’s Seven Guitars. Lillias White in 2016’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Laurence Fishburne in 1992’s Two Trains Running. January LaVoy, Glynn Turman, Gabriel Brown, Lillias White, Skye Barrett, and Keith David in 2013’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. Charles Brown and Harry Lennix in 2000’s King Hedley II. Photos by Craig Schwartz.

Center Theatre Group is also committed to bringing Wilson’s work to a new generation through our education programming, which includes the August Wilson Monologue Competition and the August Wilson In-School Residency. Both programs give students hands-on introductions to The American Century Cycle and an opportunity to connect Wilson’s stories to their own lives. This year, we’re also bringing approximately 1,500 students from across Southern California to Jitney through our Student Matinee Program. Continues on page 24

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“This ‘theatre network’ has afforded plays the opportunity of moving from one theatre to the next with a kind of continuity—one different from commercial touring—an opportunity which promotes the play’s ongoing development.” —Founding Artistic Director Gordon Davidson The Piano Lesson

Radio Golf

August Wilson Monologue Competition Regional Finals (L–R, Top–Bottom) August Wilson Monologue Competition at the Taper. Photo by Ryan Miller/ Capture Imaging. S. Epatha Merkerson and Lou Myers in 1990’s The Piano Lesson. John Earl Jelks and Rocky Carroll in 2005’s Radio Golf. Photo by Craig Schwartz. Phylicia Rashad in 2003’s Gem of the Ocean. Photo by Craig Schwartz. Viola Davis and Keith David in 1996’s Seven Guitars.

Gem of the Ocean

Seven Guitars

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“The Workshop continues to evolve based on the ideas and suggestions of the writers who participated the year before,” said Keller. “Those writers give feedback on how we can better support the next group—it’s really led by the writers, what questions they have for us and what they’re interested in.” That extends to the lives of the plays themselves. “When a writer joins our group, it’s because we enjoy their work, and we think they can benefit from this kind of environment,” said Keller. “We encourage them to work

on whatever ideas are exciting them the most at this moment. We don’t necessarily know what they are writing about. We let their passions and interest lead the way.”

It’s too early to say what this year’s plays will be—more often than not, they morph and evolve over the course of the season—but we’re excited about the unique and necessary perspectives of this group, some of whom are already familiar to Los Angeles theatre audiences. Anyanwu’s Good Grief made its World premiere at the Douglas in 2016, while IAMA Theatre Company and the Latino Theater Company premiered Caren’s Canyon earlier this year. Kemp Powers’ One Night in Miami premiered at Rogue Machine Theatre in 2013 and went on to earn awards including the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Ted Schmitt Award for Outstanding World Premiere, four NAACP Theatre Awards, and two LA Weekly Theater Awards. As a group, the playwrights have been produced at prominent regional theatres around the country, including the Long Wharf, Vineyard, Atlantic, Roundabout, and The Public.

“Being a large theatre in L.A. gives us the opportunity and responsibility to open our doors and give writers a place to sharpen their playwriting,” said Keller. “It’s important for all of our spirits to have those playwrights here—in the midst of all of our activity. Their presence brings creative energy to our buildings and makes a clear statement that supporting the genesis of new, exploratory work is a central part of what Center Theatre Group is.” The L.A. Writers’ Workshop is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. 26 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE

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NICOLE ALPHONCE, ANDREW ASHTON, JONATHON LUKE BAKER, BENJAMIN BAZELEY, ALISTAIR BEATTIE, CALLUM BOWMAN, ISAAC PETER BOWRY, WILL BOZIER, TOM BRODERICK, MEGAN CAMERON, JOÃO CASTRO, KAYLA COLLYMORE, ZANNA CORNELIS, CAMERON EVERITT, FREYA FIELD, KEENAN FLETCHER, MICHAELA GUIBARRA, PARSIFAL JAMES HURST, SHOKO ITO, JACK JONES, NICOLE KABERA, MARI KAMATA, NICHOLAS KEEGAN, JAMES LOVELL, KATRINA LYNDON, JACK MITCHELL, ANDREW MONAGHAN, HARRY ONDRAK-WRIGHT, ASHLEY-JORDON PACKER, JACK WILLIAM PARRY, BARNABY QUARENDON, SAM SALTER, MARK SAMARAS, ALEX STURMAN, KATIE WEBB, STAN WEST, MAX WESTWELL, CARRIE WILLIS

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CAST The Swan/The Stranger......................................................................................WILL BOZIER OR MAX WESTWELL The Prince.............................................................................................JAMES LOVELL OR ANDREW MONAGHAN The Queen.................................................................................................NICOLE KABERA OR KATRINA LYNDON The Girlfriend..................................................................FREYA FIELD OR KATRINA LYNDON OR CARRIE WILLIS The Private Secretary...........................................................................JONATHON LUKE BAKER OR JACK JONES OR ASHLEY-JORDON PACKER OR MAX WESTWELL

THE SWANS ANDREW ASHTON, JONATHON LUKE BAKER, BENJAMIN BAZELEY, ALISTAIR BEATTIE, CALLUM BOWMAN, ISAAC PETER BOWRY, WILL BOZIER, TOM BRODERICK, JOÃO CASTRO, CAMERON EVERITT, KEENAN FLETCHER, PARSIFAL JAMES HURST, NICHOLAS KEEGAN, JAMES LOVELL, JACK MITCHELL, HARRY ONDRAK-WRIGHT, ASHLEY-JORDON PACKER, JACK WILLIAM PARRY, BARNABY QUARENDON, SAM SALTER, MARK SAMARAS, ALEX STURMAN, STAN WEST

AT THE OPERA HOUSE Moth Maiden........................................................MICHAELA GUIBARRA OR MARI KAMATA OR CARRIE WILLIS Nobleman.................................ALISTAIR BEATTIE OR TOM BRODERICK OR JAMES LOVELL OR SAM SALTER OR ALEX STURMAN Evil Tree Troll...................................................ALISTAIR BEATTIE OR KEENAN FLETCHER OR MARK SAMARAS

GUESTS AT THE ROYAL BALL The French Princess............................................MICHAELA GUIBARRA OR MARI KAMATA OR CARRIE WILLIS Her Escort.....................................CALLUM BOWMAN OR TOM BRODERICK OR JAMES LOVELL OR STAN WEST The Spanish Princess..................................................KAYLA COLLYMORE OR MARI KAMATA OR KATIE WEBB Her Escort......................................................ALISTAIR BEATTIE OR KEENAN FLETCHER OR MARK SAMARAS The Romanian Princess...........................................NICOLE ALPHONCE OR ZANNA CORNELIS OR SHOKO ITO Her Escort..................................................................PARSIFAL JAMES HURST OR SAM SALTER OR STAN WEST The Italian Princess...........................NICOLE ALPHONCE OR KAYLA COLLYMORE OR MICHAELA GUIBARRA OR NICOLE KABERA Her Escort................................................JONATHON LUKE BAKER OR BENJAMIN BAZELEY OR WILL BOZIER OR PARSIFAL JAMES HURST The Hungarian Princess......................................MEGAN CAMERON OR KAYLA COLLYMORE OR FREYA FIELD Her Escort.....................................ANDREW ASHTON OR BENJAMIN BAZELEY OR ASHLEY-JORDAN PACKER The German Princess....................................................................FREYA FIELD OR SHOKO ITO OR KATIE WEBB Her Escort...................................JACK MITCHELL OR ASHLEY-JORDON PACKER OR BARNABY QUARENDON The Monaco Princess...........................NICOLE ALPHONCE OR ZANNA CORNELIS OR MICHAELA GUIBARRA Her Escort..............CALLUM BOWMAN, TOM BRODERICK OR JOÃO CASTRO OR HARRY ONDRAK-WRIGHT Maids and Servants, Dignitaries, Cadets, Queen’s Escort, Performers in “The Moth Ballet,” Bag Lady, Soho Club Goers, Photographers, TV Presenter, Autograph Hunters, Royal Watchers, Spanish Dancers, and Nurses all played by members of the company.

COVERS The Swan/The Stranger.....................................................................................................JONATHON LUKE BAKER Cover The Prince..............................................................................................................................TOM BRODERICK Second Cover The Prince............................................................................................................KEENAN FLETCHER The Queen.....................................................................................................................................MEGAN CAMERON

PHOTOS BY JONNY LEVIN.

For today’s casting, please refer to the cast board in the lobby.

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SCENES PROLOGUE ACT ONE Scene 1 The Prince’s Bedroom The Palace Scene 2 An Opera House Scene 3 Scene 4 The Prince’s Private Quarters Scene 5 The Street Scene 6 A Seedy Club Scene 7 The Street

ACT TWO

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Scene 1 The Palace Gates Scene 2 The Royal Ball

ACT FOUR The Prince’s Bedroom

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The company of Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake. Photo by Johan Perrson.

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WHO’S WHO NICOLE ALPHONCE (Ensemble). Training: Nicole started her training at the Swedish National Ballet School and then moved to England to train at Tring Park School for the Performing Arts. Joined New Adventures: 2018. Other career highlights: Nicole was a full company member in the contemporary dance company Chrysalis London for one year before she started to freelance for two years working with artists and brands such as Robbie Williams, Dua Lipa, Camila Cabello, Emeli Sandé, Reebok, John Lewis, River Island, Selfridges, and others. Nicole has performed on stages such as Gothenburg Opera, 02 Arena, Wembley Arena, and Olympic Stadium for prestigious events like the Brit Awards, MTV Awards, and UEFA Champions League final. She appears in the films Hitman’s Bodyguard, Aladdin, and The Nutcracker and The Four Realms. Dedication: Nicole is forever grateful for this opportunity and can’t wait to start a new chapter in her dance career. ANDREW ASHTON (Ensemble). Training: Laine Theatre Arts 2018 graduate. Joined New Adventures: 2018. Roles and productions with New Adventures: Ensemble in Lord of the Flies (Theatre Royal Newcastle youth cast, 2014). Other career highlights: Dance Captain and understudy Dame in Sleeping Beauty (Hasting/QDOS Entertainment, 2017, dir. Guy Unsworth); David in Company (Laine Theatre Arts, 2017); understudy Dame in Cinderella (Swindon/ QDOS Entertainment, 2016); and Crocodile in Just So (Laine Theatre Arts, 2016). Dedication: Andrew would like to dedicate all his successes to his mum and dad and to his teacher Claire Monaghan as, without their love and dedication, he would not be here today. JONATHON LUKE BAKER (Private Secretary, Ensemble, cover The Swan). Training: Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance. Joined New Adventures: 2018. Other career highlights: performed for Royal Opera, Clod Ensemble, Rambert Company (A Linha Curva), Trajal Harrell, Adidas, Selfridges, and Charlotte Tilbury. Worked on movement for ASOS, SHOWstudio, Nike, i-D, Dazed & Confused, and Gareth Pugh. BENJAMIN BAZELEY (Ensemble). Training: Tring Park School for the Performing Arts. Joined New Adventures: 2018. Other career highlights: upon graduating, Ben joined the contemporary dance company Chrysalis London, where he worked and continued to train whilst performing and working on various performances and shows. From

there, Ben joined the Cunard team on the Queen Victoria, where he was a dancer with their on-board show team. Dedication: Ben would like to thank his friends and family for their continued love and support throughout his journey so far, and all of his dance teachers along the way for pushing him to achieve his dreams. ALISTAIR BEATTIE (Ensemble). Training: The Dance School of Scotland and Elmhurst Ballet School. Joined New Adventures: 2018. Other career highlights: performed as a student with Birmingham Royal Ballet and as an artist with Bucharest National Opera, English National Ballet, Scottish Opera, Teatro Real in Madrid, and Glyndebourne Opera. Dedication: Alistair would like to dedicate this to his mum. CALLUM BOWMAN (Ensemble). Training: Performers College on the Dance Theatre Diploma Course. Joined New Adventures: 2019. Other career highlights include: Beauty and The Beast (Dance Captain & James, New Theatre Royal Portsmouth, 2017), Last Summer Rose (Dance Captain, Captivated, Performers College). Callum appeared in the short film Youth for choreographer Paul Roberts. Dedication: Callum would like to dedicate his performance to his family and all the teachers who have inspired him. ISAAC PETER BOWRY (Ensemble). Training: Elmhurst Ballet School. Joined New Adventures: 2018. Roles and productions with New Adventures: Michael in Lord of the Flies (Glasgow youth cast). Other career highlights: principal dancer with Ballet Theatre UK, principal dancer with Chantry Dance Company, guest principal dancer for the Japanese International Youth Ballet, and guest principal dancer for Midland Theatre Ballet. Dedication: I dedicate these performances to two very influential women in my life: firstly, Jenna Hughes, my very first dance teacher who ignited this burning passion for dance and created the foundations on which my life as a performer was built, to whom I cannot thank enough; secondly, my late grandmother, who always supported, encouraged, and filled my life with love and guidance. Swan Lake had a special place in my gran’s heart and it’s a true blessing and an honor to dedicate the performances to her. WILL BOZIER (The Swan/The Stranger, Ensemble, Dance Captain). Training: Arts Educational School. Joined New Adventures: 2014. Roles and productions for New Adventures: Edward Scissorhands (UK tour); Sleeping

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Beauty (international tour); The Red Shoes (UK and US tour); Harry the Pilot in Cinderella (international tour). Other career highlights: Wicked (Apollo Victoria Theatre); secondcover Eddie in Mamma Mia! (international tour); Moose in Crazy for You (Shaw Theatre); the Eagle in The Old Man of Lochnagar (National Youth Ballet); Four Seasons (Birmingham Hippodrome); Class and Golden Ratio (Sadler’s Wells); Beauty and the Beast (Disney Productions). TOM BRODERICK (Ensemble, cover The Prince). Training: Central School of Ballet. Joined New Adventures: 2013. Roles and productions with New Adventures: Swan Lake (UK and international tour, 2013–2014); Mr Wonderful (2016); and Sleeping Beauty (UK tour, 2016). Other career highlights: Nutcracker Prince in The Nutcracker (Let’s All Dance Productions, 2015) and Alonzo, Plato/Macavity, and understudy Mungojerrie, Munkustrap, and Rum Tum Tugger in Cats (Royal Caribbean Productions, 2016–2018).

Adventures: 2018. Other career highlights: Dance Magazine’s 2017 top 25 to watch and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival alumna. Kayla has performed with various companies: METdance (Houston, USA); Hou Ying Dance Theater (Beijing, China); Brian Brooks Moving Company (New York, USA); and Stephen Petronio Company (apprentice). In stride with her passion for teaching, Kayla founded the dance department at Limai Chinese American (International) School in Beijing, China. ZANNA CORNELIS (Ensemble). Training: Royal Ballet School of Antwerp, Belgium, graduating in 2011. Joined New Adventures: 2018. Other career highlights: upon graduating in 2011, Zanna joined Ballett Chemnitz for two seasons and danced in pieces by company Director Lode Devos, Natalia Horecna, Ben van Cauwenbergh, and Catherine Habasque. She then became a member of Ballett Eisenach, where over the course of five seasons, she danced in many productions by director Andris Plucis (favorite roles including Firebird and White Swan in Swan Lake), in two new productions by Jorge Pérez Martínez, and in several pieces choreographed by colleagues as part of the company’s Young Choreographer evenings. For the 2017 edition, Zanna created Gate 6 for six dancers of the company. During those years, she also performed in the musicals Hair, The Rocky Horror Show, Evita, and Aida, and in a live broadcasted Silvester Show in Dubai.

MEGAN CAMERON (Ensemble, cover Queen). Training: the Royal Ballet School (lower school) and Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance. Joined New Adventures: 2018. Career highlights: The Royal Ballet’s Grand Défilé (the Royal Opera House); The Royal Ballet’s The Nutcracker (the Royal Opera House); Design for Dance collaboration with Central Saint Martins; Mark Baldwin’s The Creation, performed with Rambert (Garsington Opera); and Thursford Christmas Spectacular (Thursford Collection). Dedication: CAMERON EVERITT (Ensemble). Training: Trinity Laban Megan would like to thank all of her family and friends for Conservatoire of Music and Dance. Joined New Adventures: their ongoing love, support, and guidance; without them, 2019. Other career highlights: Marie Schuller’s Fil Bo Riva none of this would have been possible. Megan is eternally “Go Rilla” music video (2018), the role of James in Matthew grateful to her first dance teacher, Sharon Lyndon; her Bourne’s Highland Fling as part of Trinity Laban Historical encouragement and advice has enabled her dreams to Project, and worked on movement with Ellesse. Dedication: come true. Instagram: @Meggymaycameron, Twitter: all of my friends and family for their ongoing love and @Megancameron3. support, especially my mum and dad, Tracy and Merv; I would not be where I am today without all the sacrifices JOÃO CASTRO (Ensemble). Training: CEFAR (Centre and support they have given me. for Artistic Training, Palácio das Artes). Joined New Adventures: 2018. Other career highlights: Ballet Jovem FREYA FIELD (The Girlfriend, Ensemble). Training: London Palácio das Artes (2011–2014), under the direction of Studio Centre. Joined New Adventures: 2013. Roles and Andrea Maia of Balé da Cidade de São Paulo; Baltic Dance productions with New Adventures: German, Hungarian, Theatre in Gdansk (2014–2016), working with Jírí Kylián and Patrick Delcroix; Viva Vive! (Ballet Jovem and Black Box and Italian Princess in Swan Lake (2013–14) and Monica and Frankie in The Car Man (2015). Other career highlights: Dance Company, Denmark and Sweden); and ZfinMalta (2016–2018), performing works by various choreographers, Kiss Me, Kate (Opera North/London Coliseum); The Snowman (Peacock Theatre, West End, and UK tour); including Jose Agudo and Iván Pérez. Wicked (Apollo Victoria Theatre, West End); and Loserville (original West End cast—Garrick Theatre). KAYLA COLLYMORE (Ensemble). Training: Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. Joined New PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P7

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KEENAN FLETCHER (Ensemble, second cover The Swan). Training: Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Joined New Adventures: 2018. Other career highlights: Keenan toured with Scottish Ballet for Peter Darrell’s The Nutcracker.

Sorrows by Kate Flatt, and I Was a Rat directed by Teresa Ludavico.

NICOLE KABERA (The Queen, Ensemble). Training: Central School of Ballet. Joined New Adventures: 2010. Roles and productions with New Adventures: Italian Princess in MICHAELA GUIBARRA (Ensemble). Training: Central School Swan Lake (2010–11); Swan Lake (3D film); Marshmallow of Ballet. Joined New Adventures: 2018. Other career in Nutcracker!; the Queen, Miss Maddox, and Flossie in highlights: first-cover Meg Giry in The Phantom of the Opera (world tour), Thursford Christmas Spectacular, Lisa in Sleeping Beauty (UK and international tour, 2012–13 and 2015–16); Darlene Upton, Tiffany Covitt, and cover Peg Doctor Foster, New Mother in Call the Midwife, Air Hostess in McMafia, and Christie’s Auction House trailer. Dedication: Boggs in Edward Scissorhands; Gina and Delores in The Car Man (stage production and film); Irina Boronskaja in love and thanks to my wonderful family and friends, my The Red Shoes; and Vivien and cover Sybil/the Stepmother special teacher and confidante Anna, and my inspirational in Cinderella (2017–18). Other career highlights: Nicole childhood ballet teacher, the late Jill Stew. All of your support has led me to dancing in my dream company today. performed for the Royal Opera at the Royal Opera House in Dialogues des Carmélites—Covent Garden, directed by Robert Carsen, and Cendrillon, directed by Laurent PARSIFAL JAMES HURST (Ensemble). Training: London Pelly; performed in the Raymond Gubbay production of La School Contemporary Dance. Joined New Adventures: Bohème, choreographed by Arthur Pita; and performed at 2013. Roles and productions with New Adventures: Ensemble (swans 9, 5, and 14) in Swan Lake, and delivered the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff for Michael Jackson’s tribute concert. Dedication: Nicole would like to thank her a number of New Adventures workshops and projects mum and dad for the ongoing love and support, and her (Dance for Life). Other career highlights: LOL (lots of love) dance teachers, Diane, Cheryl, and Margaret, for helping (Protein Dance); Death in Venice (Garsington Opera); her on her path to becoming a dancer. Upon Awakening and Hell Can Wait (Fallen Angels Dance Theatre), Gary Clarke’s award-winning COAL, Mamma Mia MARI KAMATA (Ensemble). Training: Rambert School of 2, and (In)Visible Dancing (Protein Dance). Dedication: full Ballet and Contemporary Dance. Joined New Adventures: tour dedicated to the family for their continuous support. 2010. Roles and productions with New Adventures: Romanian and Monaco Princess in Swan Lake (2010 SHOKO ITO (Ensemble). Training: Tring Park School for the tour), George and Cordie Marshmallows, cover Ruby/ Performing Arts. Joined New Adventures: 2018. Other Licorice in Nutcracker! (2011 tour), original cast Ardor career highlights: whilst in final year of training, performed and Feral, cover Hiberna and Aurora in Sleeping Beauty works by Drew McOnie, Kerry Nicholls, Ernst Meisner, (2012–13 and 2015–16 tour), Esperanza in Dorian Gray Layla Ellison, Gaz Davis, and Jodie Blemings on the Encore (2013), Candy Covitt, Marylin-Ann Evercreech, cover Kim Dance Company UK tour (2018); and appeared in English Boggs in Edward Scissorhands (2014–15 tour), Early National Ballet’s production of Nutcracker by Wayne Adventures (2017 tour). Other career highlights: dancer in Eagling (2012). NECB2; assistant choreographer for the musical My Name is Shingo, directed by Philippe Decouflé; interpreter for JACK JONES (Private Secretary, Ensemble, Rehearsal Australian associate choreographer Simone Sault in the Director). Training: Royal Ballet School and English National musical Love Never Dies, directed by Simon Phillips. Film Ballet School. Joined New Adventures: 2008. Roles and & TV: IBM International exhibition for Sony Camera; radio productions with New Adventures: Edward Scissorhands, show Sunday Precious (Tokyo Broadcasting System Inc); The Red Shoes, Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, Play Without Ardor Fairy in Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty (Leopard Words, and The Lord of the Flies. Other career highlights: Films and BS Premium Japan); A Beauty Is Born (BBC); Companhia de Dança Contemporânea de Évora (Portugal), Romanian Princess in Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake 3D Companhia de Dança de Almada, and Companhia Olga (Leopard Films); Matthew Bourne’s Christmas (More 4). Roriz. The Red Balloon by Aletta Collins, Harlequin Dances Dedication: Mari would like to thank her wonderful family by Susie Crow, Sheherazade and Jealousy by Morgann and friends for their love and support through the years, Runacre-Temple, DanSense by Enrique Cabrera, Words especially her husband Takuma, who is so understanding Worth with Yorke Dance Project, The Ballroom of Joys and P8 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE

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sending her off to the other side of the world and respecting what she loves to do. Instagram: @marichanchan72.

always letting me be me. And in memory of my brother-inlaw Lee Rowland, for all the years of support.

NICHOLAS KEEGAN (Ensemble). Training: Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance and Dorothy Stevens School of Dance. Joined New Adventures: 2018. Other career highlights: Akram Khan Company (London 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony); Arcade Fire at Earls Court; choreographic assistant for Cie Willi Dorner’s Bodies in urban spaces (2009–17); English National Opera; Glyndebourne Opera; Grand Théàtre de Genéve; James Cousins’ Everything and Nothing for the inaugural New Adventures Choreographer Award; Les Misérables, directed by Tom Hopper; Pet Shop Boys; and Welsh National Opera. Dedication: Mum, Dad, Dorothy Stevens MBE. Franky, Lindy, Mikey—you would know.

ANDREW MONAGHAN (The Prince, Ensemble). Training: Elaine Ferry and Central School of Ballet. Joined New Adventures: 2013. Roles and productions with New Adventures: Harry the Pilot and Malcolm in Cinderella; Julian Craster and Serge in The Red Shoes (original cast); Tantrum, Archie, cover Leo in Sleeping Beauty; Vito, Chad, cover Angelo in The Car Man; Ensemble, cover Prince in Swan Lake. Other career highlights: London 2012 Olympics; Fritz in Birmingham Royal Ballet’s The Nutcracker; Harry in Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella (BBC); Graduate in Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again (Universal); Vito in Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man (Sky Arts); “British Style” for The Queen’s Coronation Festival Gala (BBC); Anna Karenina (Working Title). Andrew was Dancing Times’ Dancer of the Month in January 2017. Dedication: Thank you to my wonderful parents for their ongoing love and support. Twitter: @_andymonaghan, Instagram: @andy.monaghan.

JAMES LOVELL (The Prince, Ensemble). Training: Elmhurst Ballet School (2016–18), graduating a year early to join Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures. Joined New Adventures: 2018. Other career highlights: Fritz in English National Ballet’s Nutcracker (2011 and 2012); appearing on Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch (2016); National Youth Ballet (2017); and Birmingham Royal Ballet’s The Nutcracker (2017). Dedication: my parents and my siblings Emily and Freddie for their ongoing love and support and for the sacrifices they make for me. Also to June and Caroline for making me the dancer I am today. KATRINA LYNDON (The Queen, The Girlfriend, Dance Captain). Training: the Royal Ballet lower and upper school. Joined New Adventures: 2011. Roles and productions with New Adventures: Ruby/Licorice and Cordy Marshmallow in Nutcracker!; Spanish and German Princess in Swan Lake; Monica and Gina in The Car Man; Feral, Hibernia, Miss Maddox, and Flossy in Sleeping Beauty; and Victoria Page, Pamela, and Nadia in the original cast of The Red Shoes. Other career highlights: BBC One’s So You Think You Can Dance (2011) and the Royal Christmas Gala (2017). JACK MITCHELL (Ensemble). Training: Performers College. Joined New Adventures: 2018. Other career highlights: Ensemble and first-cover Ernst in the UK tour of Cabaret; The War of the Worlds (West End); Fiddler on the Roof (BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall); Fiddler on the Roof and Samson et Dalila (Grange Park Opera); and lead male ballet dancer and assistant ballet coach to actress Amber Heard for her role in The Danish Girl. Dedication: my mum for

HARRY ONDRAK-WRIGHT (Ensemble). Training: London Contemporary Dance School. Joined New Adventures: 2018. Other career highlights: began dancing with Flexus Dance Collective based in Wolverhampton and toured annually for five years (2010–15); performed as part of a Lord of the Flies Legacy Project for the Mr Wonderful event commemorating Jonathan Ollivier (2016) and performed in the New Adventures Choreographer Award showcase for Jamaal Burkmar with Shoreditch Youth Dance Company (2016). Dedication: love goes out to those who have supported me on the journey; my friends, family, teachers, choreographers, and inspirational figures. ASHLEY-JORDON PACKER (Private Secretary, Ensemble). Training: Bird College, graduating in 2008 with a National Diploma in Musical Theatre. Joined New Adventures: 2013. Roles and productions with New Adventures: Swan Lake (2013–14). Other career highlights: Thriller Live (Lyric Theatre); Admetus/Macavity in Cats (UK and European tour); Dolce and Gabbana Alta Moda (Milan, Italy); The BFG (Birmingham Repertory Theatre); “Style on Screen,” a specially commissioned piece by New Adventures for the Queen’s Coronation Festival Gala (Buckingham Palace); The Bodyguard (Adelphi Theatre); and Hairspray on-board Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas.

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JACK WILLIAM PARRY (Ensemble). Training: Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. Joined New Adventures: 2018. Other career highlights: National Youth Dance Company: Akram Khan’s The Rashomon Effect/ Vertical Road (Sadler’s Wells/national tour, 2014); Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s Frame[d] (Sadler’s Wells/national tour/ Latitude Festival, 2015); and Alison Curtis-Jones’ Drumstick (London/Switzerland, 2017–18). BARNABY QUARENDON (Ensemble). Training: Tring Park School for the Performing Arts. Joined New Adventures: 2018. Other career highlights: after graduating, Barnaby became a company member of Chrysalis London, where he performed in two of their productions, Lilith (2017) and Savage (2018). Dedication: Barnaby would like to say a massive thank you to his parents. SAM SALTER (Ensemble). Training: Sylvia Young Theatre School and Laine Theatre Arts. Joined New Adventures: 2018. Other career highlights: Wicked (West End); On the Town (West End); Dick Whittington (West End); West Side Story (UK tour); Mary Poppins (UK tour); Classic BRIT Awards, Royal Albert Hall. Commercials and campaigns include Nike, Dr. Martens, Paco Rabanne, Coca-Cola, River Island, Dune London, Reserved, Boohoo.com, Schweppes (directed by Rankin), Qooda, K-Boxx clothing (China). MARK SAMARAS (Ensemble). Training: Janice Marshall Stage School, The Dance School of Scotland, Central School of Ballet. Joined New Adventures: 2017. Roles and productions with New Adventures: Elliott, Wilfred, Monty in Cinderella (UK and international tour 2017–18). Other career highlights: Fritz in The Nutcracker (Ballet Ireland); Hilarion in the original cast of Ludovic Ondiviela’s Giselle. Dedication: Mark would like to thank his family for all their ongoing love and support. ALEX STURMAN (Ensemble). Training: the Urdang Academy. Joined New Adventures: 2014. Roles and productions with New Adventures: Sheldon, Kevin, Young Edward in Edward Scissorhands. Other career highlights: Alex recently finished filming Mary Poppins Returns for Disney (dancer); Qdos Entertainment pantomimes Aladdin and Peter Pan (ensemble); Strictly Come Dancing (Jessie J— dancer); David Beckham H&M commercial (extra); London 2012 Olympic Games (dancer); and Juicy and Delicious workshop at Nuffield Theatre, Southampton (Birfday Cake). Dedication: Alex is very excited to be returning back to the company and would like to thank his mum, dad, aunty, and nan for their everlasting love and support.

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KATIE WEBB (Ensemble). Training: Royal Ballet Associate program, and graduated with honors in 2009 from the Arts Educational School, Tring. During training, she performed with Birmingham Royal Ballet and English National Ballet. She won the prestigious Markova and Cecchetti Barbara Fewster Awards in 2009. Roles and productions with New Adventures: Betty, Judy, cover Cinderella, and dance captain in Cinderella (2018–19); Edward Scissorhands (2014–15); Frankie/Mercedes in The Car Man; Feral/ Ardor Fairy, Queen in Sleeping Beauty; and Svetlana, Lady Neston, cover Vicky in The Red Shoes. Other career highlights: joined Scottish Ballet Company in 2009, and during her five years, performances included Matthew Bourne’s Highland Fling, Christopher Bruce’s Shift, Jirí Kylián’s 14’ 20”, Christopher Hampson’s Silhouette, A Streetcar Named Desire, Ashley Page’s Pennies from Heaven, Fearful Symmetries, Kenneth MacMillan’s Song of the Earth, and Krzysztof Pastor’s Romeo and Juliet. TV/film credits include Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella (2017), The Car Man (2015), and StreetDance 3D. Instagram: @katiewebb152. STAN WEST (Ensemble). Training: Northern School of Contemporary Dance. Joined New Adventures: 2018. Career highlights: stage: Olivier Award-winning Angels in America at the National Theatre in 2017; film: Mary Queen of Scots, choreographed by Wayne McGregor in 2017; and music artists: MØ, MNEK, and Dua Lipa. Instagram: @stan_west. MAX WESTWELL (The Swan/The Stranger, Private Secretary). Training: Tring Park School for the Performing Arts. Joined New Adventures: 2018. Other career highlights: alternate Jerry Mulligan in An American in Paris (original West End cast); Flower Cavalier in Disney feature film The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (released in 2018); and soloist at English National Ballet, performing roles such as Romeo in Nureyev’s Romeo and Juliet, Nutcracker, Lescaut in Manon, Jírí Kylián’s Petite Mort, Liam Scarlett’s No Man’s Land, and many more. CARRIE WILLIS (The Girlfriend, Ensemble). Training: the Royal Ballet School (White Lodge) and Laine Theatre Arts. Joined New Adventures: 2014. Roles and productions with New Adventures: ensemble in Swan Lake (UK and international tour 2013–14). Other career highlights: West End and London credits: Chess (ENO); swing and understudy to Milo Davenport in An American in Paris (Dominion Theatre); McQueen (St. James Theatre, London);

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You Won’t Succeed on Broadway If You Don’t Have Any Jews (St. James Theatre, London); and Der Rosenkavalier (the Royal Opera House). Graziella in West Side Story (Salzburg Festival); Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (UK tour); Mack and Mabel (UK tour of Chichester Festival Theatre’s production); and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (UK tour). Witness for the Prosecution (BBC One) and Tiller Girl in John Bishop’s Christmas Show in 2013 and 2014 (BBC One). Dedication: to my family and agent for their continued support.

successful musicals Mary Poppins (which is currently enjoying a West End revival), My Fair Lady, and Oliver! He has seven honorary doctorates and in 2018 received an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from University of Oxford. He is also a companion of Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts and a proud patron of many organizations, including Tring Park School of the Performing Arts, the Arts Educational Schools, London, and Laine Theatre Arts. In 2015, he became the first dance figure to be given the Stage Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Theatre, presented by the UK Theatre Awards. He received the OBE in 2001 and was knighted in the Queen’s New Year Honours in 2016; in the same year he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Award in recognition of his outstanding services to dance. In 2019, Matthew was presented with the Special Olivier Award, making him joint holder of the most ever Olivier Awards, alongside Dame Judi Dench.

MATTHEW BOURNE’S NEW ADVENTURES is an iconic and ground-breaking British dance-theatre company, famous for telling stories with a unique theatrical twist. For over 30 years Matthew Bourne and New Adventures have delighted, inspired, and nurtured people of all ages and backgrounds: audiences, artists, and the next generation. We create world class productions and engaging projects, reaching thousands worldwide every year. New Adventures has LEZ BROTHERSTON (Set and Costume Designer). For New received numerous international awards and an incredible Adventures: Lez is an associate artist of New Adventures. 12 Olivier Award nominations, including six wins. New His long collaboration with Matthew Bourne includes Adventures has created 12 full-length productions and a Romeo and Juliet, The Red Shoes, Sleeping Beauty, triple-bill of short works. This award-winning repertoire Edward Scissorhands, Lord of the Flies, Swan Lake, A Play has inspired and thrilled millions of people worldwide. In 2019 the company premiered its 12 full-length production, Without Words, Highland Fling, Dorian Gray, Cinderella, and The Car Man. Other credits: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Romeo and Juliet. Investing in the future of dance and The Rover, The Empress, and Much Ado About Nothing theatre, New Adventures engages in inclusive projects (Royal Shakespeare Company); Me and My Girl and Fiddler with thousands of people of all ages and ability, as well as on the Roof (Chichester); Twelfth Night and Romantics emerging artists across the UK and around the world. Anonymous (Shakespeare’s Globe); Flowers for Mrs Harris, Show Boat, and Pride and Prejudice (Sheffield Crucible); SIR MATTHEW BOURNE (Artistic Director, New Adventures; 946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips (Kneehigh/ Associate Artist, Center Theatre Group). Matthew Bourne Globe Theatre); Oh! What a Lovely War (Stratford East/ is firmly established as the UK’s most popular and West End); Hysteria (Hampstead Theatre); Long Day’s successful choreographer and director. He is the creator Journey Into Night, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Rise of the world’s longest-running ballet production, a record and Fall of Little Voice; and Under the Blue Sky (West End); breaking eight-time Olivier Award winner, and the only Sister Act (West End/worldwide); Women Beware Women British director to have won the Tony Award for both Best and Really Old, Like 45 (National Theatre); Hedda Gabler, Choreographer and Best Director of a Musical. Matthew Design for Living, and Dancing at Lughnasa (Old Vic); Duet started his dance training at the comparatively late age for One (Almeida and West End); My City and Measure of 22 and danced professionally for 14 years, creating for Measure (Almeida); L’elisir d’amore (Glyndebourne); many roles in his own work. As Artistic Director of his first and Lez designed, co-wrote, and co-directed Les Liaisons company, Adventures in Motion Pictures, from 1987 until 2002, Matthew created many award-winning works. Further Dangereuses with Adam Cooper (Japan and Sadler’s Wells). Awards: Swan Lake (New York–1999 Tony Award) and hit productions were created when New Adventures was Cinderella (1998 Olivier Award, Critics’ Circle and Ninette launched in 2002, becoming the UK’s busiest and most de Valois Awards for Outstanding Contribution to Dance). successful dance company and the major exporter of British dance across the world. Matthew is also a West End and Broadway choreographer; a 25-year relationship with producer Cameron Mackintosh has resulted in the globally TH

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PAULE CONSTABLE (Lighting Designer). For New Adventures: Paule is an associate artist of New Adventures. Credits include Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake, The Red Shoes, Sleeping Beauty, Dorian Gray, Highland Fling, and Play Without Words. National theatre credits include Nine Night, Pericles (Public Works); Pinocchio, Follies, Mosquitoes, Angels in America, This House (also West End and Chichester); The Curious Incident of the Dog in the NightTime (also West End and Broadway, Olivier Award for Best Lighting 2013, Tony Award for Best Lighting); War Horse (also West End and Broadway, 2011 Tony Award for Best Lighting); and His Dark Materials (2005 Olivier Award for Best Lighting). Also: Wolf Hall (RSC, West End and Broadway); Heisenberg for Elliott Harper at the Wyndhams; The Chalk Garden (Donmar—2009 Olivier Award for Best Lighting); Ear for Eye for The Royal Court; Happy Days (Young Vic); Seventeen, Herons, Blasted (Lyric Hammersmith); Local Hero (Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh); Don Carlos (Sheffield Crucible and West End, Olivier Award for Best Lighting); and Les Misérables in Concert: The TH 25 Anniversary at the O2, together with designing the TH lighting for the new 25 anniversary production of Les Misérables (worldwide and on Broadway). Opera includes: productions for the Royal Opera House, Glyndebourne, ENO, Metropolitan Opera New York, Norwegian Opera, Vienna State Opera, and Salzburg Festival. DUNCAN MCLEAN (Projection Designer). For New Adventures: Swan Lake, The Red Shoes, Cinderella. West End credits include Magic Goes Wrong (Vaudeville); Tree (MIF/Young Vic); The Jungle (Playhouse Theatre); Labour of Love (Noël Coward); Committee... (A New Musical), Saint Joan, Limehouse, One Night in Miami, Privacy, City of Angels, Phyllida Lloyd’s Shakespeare Trilogy (Donmar Warehouse); Love in Idleness (Menier Chocolate Factory/Apollo); The Hairy Ape, A Flea in Her Ear, The Tempest, The Real Thing, The Norman Conquests, and All About My Mother (Old Vic); Hangmen (Royal Court/ Wyndham’s); The Bodyguard (Adelphi Theatre/UK tour); Shrek the Musical (Theatre Royal Drury Lane/UK tour); Derren Brown: Infamous (Palace Theatre/UK tour); and FROST/NIXON (Gielgud). New York theatre includes Privacy (Public Theater); The Tempest (St. Ann’s Warehouse); and The Norman Conquests (Circle in the Square). International theatre includes: Starlight Express (Bochum, Germany); An American in Paris (Linz, Austria); The Bodyguard (Australia/North America/Europe/China/Korea); EVITA (international tour) and Ghost The Musical (Germany). Other theatre includes The League of Gentlemen Live Again!

(Hammersmith Apollo & UK tour); Still Game Live, Still Game Live 2, and Gary: Tank Commander (SSE Hydro); The Christmasaurus (Hammersmith Apollo); Nativity! The Musical; One Love: The Bob Marley Musical, and The Exorcist (Birmingham Rep); Single Spies and If Only (Chichester Festival Theatre/UK tour). ETTA MURFITT (Associate Artistic Director). For New Adventures: Romeo and Juliet, The Red Shoes, Swan Lake, Early Adventures, Cinderella, Dorian Gray, Edward Scissorhands, Highland Fling, Nutcracker!, The Car Man, The Infernal Galop, The Percys of Fitzrovia, Deadly Serious, and Town and Country. Other credits: choreography for Orpheus in the Underworld (dir. Emma Rice for ENO); choreographer and Nora in Emma Rice’s Wise Children; A Clockwork Orange (Everyman Theatre); Twelfth Night and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Globe); Tin Drum, The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk, 946, Wild Bride, Midnight’s Pumpkin, Steptoe and Son, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, and Dead Dog in a Suitcase (Kneehigh); A Chorus of Disapproval (Harold Pinter Theatre); Rufus Norris’ Sleeping Beauty (Birmingham Rep); Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Chichester and Theatre Royal Haymarket); Le Nozze di Figaro (Holland Park Opera); The Way of the World (Wilton’s Music Hall); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Albery Theatre); and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (West Yorkshire Playhouse). Television and film includes Clara in Nutcracker! (BBC/ NVC); Rita in The Car Man (Channel 4); Swan Lake, Late Flowering Lust, Roald Dahl’s Little Red Riding Hood, and Mrs Hartley and the Growth Centre (BBC); Storm (Aletta Collins/BBC Dance for the Camera) and Matthew Bourne’s Christmas (Channel 4). Etta is an associate artist at the Globe and with Kneehigh Theatre Company, as well as the Associate Artistic Director of New Adventures and Re:Bourne. KERRY BIGGIN (2018 Re-Stager, Resident Director). Training: The Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance. For New Adventures: Kerry is a Resident Artist for New Adventures. She has assisted in staging various works for the company and has been resident tour director on Sleeping Beauty, Edward Scissorhands, and Nutcracker! Kerry has also been rehearsal director for Cinderella, Swan Lake, and previous NACA winner James Cousins Company. Her performing credits include Queen Eleanor in the original cast of Sleeping Beauty; Early Adventures (25 anniversary tour); the title role in Cinderella; The Girlfriend and The Spanish Princess in Swan Lake; Rita and Delores in The Car Man; Kim Boggs in original cast TH

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of Edward Scissorhands; The Sylph and Effie in Highland Fling; Clara and Liquorice Lady in Nutcracker! Other credits: Kerry has also danced for Michael Clark, Phoenix Dance, Scottish Dance Theatre, Neville Campbell, JazzXchange, Kerry Nicholls and Ballet Creations; in Wayne Sleep’s tour “Dance,” The O2 Central Arena Show, The Snowman, and with British Artist Martin Creed on Ballet (Work No 1020). TV and film credits include Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty, Matthew Bourne’s Christmas, Clash of the Titans, Nutcracker!, The Snowman, Radox “Bath” and “Shower” adverts, Dancing In The Street (BBC); and pop promos for Scatman John. As Resident Artist, Kerry leads on creating and delivering a wide variety of projects for New Adventures and teaches in dance establishments across the UK and internationally.

CENTER THEATRE GROUP MICHAEL RITCHIE (Artistic Director) is in his 15 season as Center Theatre Group’s Artistic Director, and has led over 200 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. TH

MEGHAN PRESSMAN (Managing Director) joined Center Theatre Group as Managing Director in 2019. Previously, she served as Managing Director of Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company (D.C.), Director of Development for Signature Theatre (N.Y.), and Associate Managing Director of Berkeley Rep, in addition to working at numerous other theatre and arts organizations across the country. She is the Vice-Chair

of the National Board for the Theatre Communications Group (TCG). DOUGLAS C. BAKER (Producing Director) is now in his 30 season at Center Theatre Group. He is a Tony Awardwinning producer, 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. TH

JEFFREY UPAH (General Manager, Ahmanson Theatre) has worked in management at Center Theatre Group since 2006 on more than 50 musicals, plays, and special events including both pre-Broadway productions and Broadway tours. Some of his favorites include Follies, God of Carnage, and The Black Rider (having previously worked on Robert Wilson productions in Boston, Houston, and Sao Paulo, Brazil). Prior to Center Theatre Group, he worked in various capacities at the Santa Fe Opera, Yale Repertory Theatre, American Repertory Theater, and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, among others. 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.

PHOTO BY JONNY LEVIN. The company of Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake. Photo by Johan Perrson.

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ADDITIONAL STAFF FOR MATTHEW BOURNE’S SWAN LAKE

2018-19 PRODUCTION Directed by.....................................................Matthew Bourne Re-staged by..........Kerry Biggin, Pia Driver, and Etta Murfitt Resident Director...................................................Kerry Biggin Rehearsal Director...................................................Jack Jones Principal Coaches............Adam Cooper, Dominic North, and Neil Westmoreland FOR SWAN LAKE US TOUR 2019 TOURING CREW US Company Manager.......................................Joel T. Herbst UK Company Manager.........................................Simon Lacey Production Supervisor.......................................Michelle Dunn Deputy Stage Manager.....................................Duncan Parker Head Carpenter...............................................Martin Blackard Production Tour Carpenter....................................Chris Tonini Assistant Carpenter/Flyman.............................Leon Lobsinger Relighter..............................................................Natania Tonini Assistant Electrician...........................................Brian Pearson Assistant Electrician/Projections....Bradley Chelberg Knights Head Audio.................................................................JD Arney Head Props...................................................Andrew Crawford Assistant Props...................................................Stuart Metcalf Head Wardrobe.....................................................Donna Peck Deputy Wardrobe............................................Courtney Walker Assistant Wardrobe..........................................Sarah McIntosh Wigs/Hair................................................................Amelia John Assistant Wigs/Hair..........................................Lela Rosenberg Assistant Wigs/Hair....................................Rebekah Pedersen Company Physiotherapist........................................Amy Bond US General Management.....................Gregory Vander Ploeg and Nicole Gehring For Gentry & Associates, Inc. US Production Manager...............................Corey Krolikowski UK General Management...................................Jennie Green and Gemma Greig-Kicks for GLF Ltd UK Production Manager.......................................Tom McEvilly Assistant Scenic Designer..................................Colin Falconer Production Carpenter......................................Simon Hamilton Flies Handover........................................................Kyra Rossel Props Handover...........................................Charlotte Johnson Production Sound............................................Richard George Sound Equipment................Autograph Sound Recording Ltd Associate Lighting Designer....................................Tom Turner

Production Electricians...................................Jeremy Duncan, Richard Bauermeister Lighting Programmer........................................Catriona Carter Lighting Equipment.......................................................SLX Ltd Set Electrics...................................Howard Eaton Lighting Ltd, Rich Mence, Jeremy Duncan Video Programmer...............................................Emily Malone Projection Equipment.....................Stage Sound Services Ltd Scenery Construction........................Rocket Scenery Ltd and Souvenir Scenic Studios Ltd Scenic Cloth Painting...............Julie Perren of Perren Design of London Ltd Drapery & Cloths.......Chris Claydon Ltd and Gerriets GB Ltd Props Supervisor................................................Lily Mollgaard Production Props Makers...........................Marsha Saunders, Claire Sanderson Corgi Made by.........................................Paradigm Effects Ltd Furniture .....................................................Properly Made Ltd Wardrobe Supervisor.........................................Diane Williams Assistant Wardrobe Supervisor..................Charlotte McGarrie Costume Makers .......................Lal D’Abo, Jane Gill, Amanda Hall ROH, Noami Isaacs, Sasha Keir, Anne-Marie Norton, Suzanne Parkinson, Phil Reynolds, John Sheward, Amanda Ball Tailors..........................Ian Costello, Mark Costello, Chris Kerr, Angelina Pieroni, Sue Smith Millinery ........................................Sean Barrett, Simon Dawes Costume Props.........................Robert Allsopp & Associates Costume Dyeing and Printing............................Nicola Killeen Embroidery.............................................Hawthorne & Heaney Shoes................Lewis Jones, Freeds, Block, Alexander Harr Wigs Supervisor.....................................................Darren Ware Assistant Wigs Supervisor...................................Pav Stalmach Wigs Handover.....................................................Emily Radjen Wigs by.......................................................The Wigs Room Ltd Transport........................................................Sound Moves Ltd Rigging Hires............................................Unusual Rigging Ltd Marketing Agency.....................Elaine McGowan for EMG Ltd Press Representative......................................Simon Raw and Amy Barder for RawPR Production Photography...................................Johan Persson Insurance Brokers........................Andy Rudge for Integro Ltd Production Accountants...........................Nyman Libson Paul

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Music recorded at Air Studios in 2004 by the Swan Lake orchestra, conducted by Brett Morris. Matthew Bourne would like to thank the original lighting designer, Rick Fisher, and the original cast for their invaluable contribution to the 1995 production. International booking enquiries to kayte@greatleapforward. co.uk FOR NEW ADVENTURES Artistic Director..............................................Matthew Bourne Group Managing Director.....................................Robert Noble Executive Director.............................................Imogen Kinchin Associate Artistic Director.......................................Etta Murfitt Head of Operations...............................................Louise Allen General Manager, Productions...............Jennie Green for GLF Resident Artist.......................................................Kerry Biggin Resident Artist..................................................Paul Smethurst Projects Manager......................................Alexandra Ringham Communications Manager....................................Kaasam Aziz Finance Manager............................................Charlotte Walton Administrator................................................................Leah Fox Digital and Projects Assistant..........................Damie Lemomu Assistant to Matthew Bourne.....................Suzanne Boguzas Technical Director.................................................Tom McEvilly Company Managers.................Simon Lacey, Ian Wheatstone Resident Directors.................................................Kerry Biggin, Jack Jones, Neil Westomoreland Press...........................Simon Raw and Amy Barder at RawPR +44 (0) 7818 444 115 Marketing & Media EMG...........................www.emg-ents.com Founder Artistic Associate...................................Scott Ambler, 1960-2018 Associate Artists..................Lez Brotherston, Paule Constable, Terry Davies, Paul Groothuis, Brett Morris

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EDUCATION Every year New Adventures engages in inclusive projects with thousands of people of all ages and ability. Throughout the US tour of Swan Lake there will be workshops and master classes taking place for people of all experiences, from those who have never danced before to professional performers. Our Dance Artists will be delivering workshops in a number of schools across LA, in partnership with Center Theatre Group as part of our commitment to work with our venues to inspire young people to engage in dance. We believe passionately that dance-theatre is for everyone and encourage audiences and communities from all backgrounds to experience our work. Dance Artists......................Alan Vincent and Mami Tomotani Projects Manager...................................... Alexandra Ringham CenterTheatreGroup.org #SwanLake Like us on Facebook Center Theatre Group Follow us on Twitter @CTGLA Subscribe on YouTube CTGLA Follow us on Instagram @CTGLA 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; Local Treasurers and Ticket Sellers Local 857; Wardrobe Crew Local 768; Make-up Artists and Hair Stylists Local 706 The Press Agents, Company, and House Managers employed in this production are represented by the Association of Theatrical Press Agents & Managers. Center Theatre Group is a member of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT), the American Arts Alliance, the Broadway League, Independent Producers’ Network (IPN), LA Stage Alliance, National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT), and the Theatre Communications Group (TCG).

Latecomers will be seated at the discretion of management. Patrons with disabilities: wheelchair seating is available in a variety of theatre locations. When ordering tickets, please indicate any special needs. For our hearing-impaired guests, the theatre is equipped with listening devices; please contact an usher for assistance.

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MICHAEL RITCHIE ♦ Artistic Director | MEGHAN PRESSMAN Managing Director | DOUGLAS C. BAKER♦ Producing Director GORDON DAVIDSON Founding Artistic Director Center Theatre Group would like to thank its exceptional staff for their ongoing commitment, dedication, and extraordinary efforts.

ARTISTIC LINDSAY ALLBAUGH♦.................................................. Associate Artistic Director NEEL KELLER♦................................. Associate Artistic Director/Literary Director KELLEY KIRKPATRICK♦............................................... Associate Artistic Director PATRICIA GARZA♦ ..................................Line Producer, Special Artistic Projects MICHAEL DONOVAN CASTING................................................Casting Consultant SUZANNE HEE MAYBERRY .................................................Casting Coordinator TIFFANY SLAGLE ...................................................................... Literary Assistant MATTHEW BOURNE, DANAI GURIRA, ANNA D. SHAPIRO ......................................................................Associate Artists KRISTINA WONG..............................................Sherwood Award Recipient, 2019 EDUCATION, ENGAGEMENT, AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS KATHRYN MACKENZIE ................................................ Director of Administration TYRONE DAVIS.....................................................Audience Engagement Director TRACI KWON♦................................................. Arts Education Initiatives Director JESUS REYES ♦.................................................Community Partnerships Director CAMILLE SCHENKKAN..................................Next Generation Initiatives Director CARLA JACKSON....................................................................... Program Manager JAQUELYN JOHNSON...........................................Audience Engagement Manager FELIPE M. SANCHEZ............................................................Emerging Artists and Arts Professionals Program Manager ESTELA GARCIA............................................................. Resident Teaching Artist DEBRA PIVER................................................................. Resident Teaching Artist MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION NAUSICA STERGIOU♦................................................................. General Manager JEFFREY UPAH♦ ..........................................................................General Manager KATIE SOFF♦...............................................................Associate General Manager ERIC SIMS ♦................................................................Associate General Manager MEGAN AARON........................Company Manager & Assistant General Manager KEVIN JOHNSON..................................................General Management Associate ALANA BEIDELMAN♦........................ Executive Assistant to the Artistic Director PRODUCTION JOE HAMLIN♦...................................................................... Director of Production KRYSTIN MATSUMOTO.......................................................... Production Manager CHRISTOPHER REARDON......................................................Production Manager KATIE CHEN...........................................................Assistant Production Manager ERIN TIFFANY........................................................Assistant Production Manager ERICA LARSON..................................................................Production Coordinator SHAWN ANDERSON♦.................................. Head Carpenter (Ahmanson Theatre) SCOTT LUCAS...........................................Head Properties (Ahmanson Theatre) JAMES WRIGHT.......................................... Head Electrician (Ahmanson Theatre) ROBERT SMITH♦................................................Head Sound (Ahmanson Theatre) SHANE ANDERSON............................................Head Flyrail (Ahmanson Theatre) MICHAEL GARDNER♦........................ Wardrobe Supervisor (Ahmanson Theatre) MARY WARDE......................................................... Hair and Make-up Supervisor .............................................................................................. (Ahmanson Theatre) CHRISTINE L. COX♦.....................................House Manager (Ahmanson Theatre) EMMET KAISER............................................Head Carpenter (Mark Taper Forum) MARY ROMERO........................................... Head Properties (Mark Taper Forum) AARON STAUBACH♦....................................Head Electrician (Mark Taper Forum) BONES MALONE♦.............................................. Head Sound (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) ADAM PHALEN♦ ............................................ Head Audio (Kirk Douglas Theatre) SEAN MEYER .......................................Head Electrician (Kirk Douglas Theatre) CAMBRIA CHICHI............................Wardrobe Supervisor (Kirk Douglas Theatre) BEN GRAY..............................................Stage Supervisor (Kirk Douglas Theatre) CHAD SMITH♦........................................................................... Technical Director LEE O’REILLY........................................................... Associate Technical Director SEAN KLOC...................................................................................Shop Supervisor MERRIANNE NEDREBERG♦............................................................... Prop Director KATE REINLIB..................................................................Associate Prop Manager ERIC BABB............................................................. Assistant Prop Shop Manager ERIN WALLEY.........................................................................Assistant Prop Lead CANDICE CAIN♦.......................................................................... Costume Director BRENT M. BRUIN..............................................................Costume Shop Manager MADDIE KELLER..................................................................... Costume Generalist WHITNEY OPPENHEIMER..........................Resident Assistant Costume Designer KAT PATTERSON......................................Resident Assistant Costume Designer SWANTJE TUOHINO♦......................................................................................Tailor

OPERATIONS DAWN HOLISKI♦........................................... Director of Operations and Facilities PETER WYLIE........................................................................ Operations Manager ELIZABETH LEONARD................................................... Senior Facilities Manager MAX OKEN................................................................................ Facilities Manager SONDRA MAYER♦..........................Concessions Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) PRECIOUS ALFARO........................................................... Operations Coordinator NIKI ARMATO........................................................................... Facilities Assistant JULIO A. CUELLAR♦................................................................. Facilities Assistant JOE HALLAM..................................................................................................Driver FINANCE, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, 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 XOCHITL RAMIREZ.................................................. Accounts Payable Supervisor KERRY LARICK.....................................................................Accounting Assistant JESSICA HERNANDEZ................................................................. Payroll Manager JUAN MARTINEZ......................................................................... Payroll Specialist TOM MEGALE................................................... Director of Business Applications JANELLE CABRERA TORRES..................... Senior Tessitura & Web Administrator MICHAEL J PALERMO JR.................................................. Systems Administrator CHIMA OMEAKU......................................................................Help Desk Support JODY HORWITZ........................................................Director of Human Resources PJ. PHILLIPS.................................................Senior Human Resources Generalist MELISSA MCCAFFREY...........................................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 TYLER ENNIS................................ Deputy Director of Institutional Advancement JASON CABRAL....................... Director of Advancement Operations & Analytics LOUIE ANCHONDO............................... Director of Events & Corporate Relations ASHLEY TIERNEY.......................................................Director of the Annual Fund TERRA GOULDEN..........................................................Senior Major Gifts Officer LAURA HITE............................Associate Director of Gift Operations & Reporting NIKKI MICHELA................................... Associate Director of Institutional Grants MANDI OR♦...................................................Associate Director of Special Events RYAN WAGNER...............................................Associate Director of Donor Data & .......................................................................................Communication Strategy VANESSA WHEELER..............................Associate Director of Prospect Research MOLLY COTTEN........................................................................ Major Gifts Officer SARAH RIDDLE..................................................................Annual Fund Manager ELIZABETH DELLORUSSO...................................................... Annual Fund Officer DONALD JOLLY♦.................................. Advancement Communications Specialist EDUARDO MOLLINEDO-PIÑÓN.......................... Advancement Database Analyst MIKE RATTERMAN........................................................ Donor Advisor Supervisor ERIC SEPPALA................................................Executive Assistant to the Director ................................................................................of Institutional Advancement OLIVIA BERUMEN......................................... Advancement Operations Associate SOHINI RISAM............................................ Institutional Advancement Assistant AL BERMAN♦, VARTAN MERJANIAN, BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ, NICOLE SCIPIONE, PAUL VITAGLIANO...........................................Donor Advisors KARLA GALVEZ♦, JUSTINE PEREZ♦............................. Donor Services Associates MURRAY E. HELTZER, EARL KLASKY.............................Development Volunteers

MARKETING DEBORAH WARREN..............................................................Director of Marketing GARRETT COLLINS.................................................... Marketing Strategy Director KYLE HALL...................................................................................Creative Director KIYOMI EMI♦.............................Senior Marketing Manager, Promotions & Events EMYLI GUDMUNDSON....................Senior Marketing Manager, Creative Content MARIN ROBINSON............................................Senior Marketing Manager, Media MIMI RIOS..........................................................................Marketing Coordinator CAROLINE THOMPSON/IMPACT 123............................................ Media Planning DEANNA McCLURE........................................................... Art and Design Director IRENE T. KANESHIRO♦..................................................... Senior Design Manager SANDI SILBERT............................................................................ Senior Designer TARA NITZ.....................................................................................Senior Designer JAVIER VASQUEZ............................................. Senior Designer-Digital Specialist COMMUNICATIONS JAMES SIMS..............................................................Director of Communications JASON MARTIN♦......................................................................... Head of Publicity KRISTI AVILA............................................................................................ Publicist KAREN BACELLAR.........................................................................Junior Publicist SARAH ROTHBARD.....................................................Associate Editorial Director TYLER EMERSON............................................................Digital Product Manager MICAELA CUMMINGS........................................................Social Media Specialist SYDNEY SWEENEY.................................................. Communications Coordinator REZA VOJDANI ......................................................Communications Coordinator HAL BANFIELD......................................................................Multimedia Producer TICKET SALES AND SERVICES SHAWN ROBERTSON♦.......................................................... Ticket Sales Director SKYPP CABANAS ♦.......................................... Senior Manager, Ticket Operations NICOLE MEDINA.....................................................Ticket Operations Coordinator MICHAEL ZOLDESSY............................................Senior Manager, Account Sales SANDY CZUBIAK♦.......................................................... Audience and Subscriber ....................................................................................................Services Director JENNIFER BAKER♦, CHERYL HAWKER♦, RICHARD RAGSDALE♦......................................... Audience Services Supervisors ALICE CHEN♦................................................ Audience Services Asst. Supervisor MICHAEL ESPINOZA, GARY HOLLAND....... Audience Services Sales Associates SAM AARON♦, JESSICA ABROMAVICH, KIMBERLY ARENCIBIA, VICKI BERNDT, DAVID BETANCOURT, ALEJANDRA DE PAZ, JONATHAN FLORES, KAITLYN GALVEZ, ANASTASHIA GARCIA, ELIANA HERNANDEZ-FAUSTO, CHRISTINE PEDROZA, EILEEN PEREZ, CHRISTIAN UNGER..............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♦, MICHAEL VALLE♦........................... Assistant Treasurers  KEANA JACKSON, MICHAEL KEMPISTY♦, KEVIN LAUVER, CRIS SPACCA..................................................... Box Ofﬁce Staff KERRY KORF♦................................................................ Priority Services Director CANDICE WALTERS................................. Priority Services Senior Sales Manager PAUL CUEN♦, KRISTEN SCHRASS.............................. Priority Services Managers SOFIJA DUTCHER......................................Priority Services Assistant Supervisor ................................................................................................................................ BEALENE AHERN, REBEKAH BOROUGHS, CLAY BUNKER, MAGGIE DODD, NATALIE DRESSEL, MARC “BYRON” DROTMAN♦, FRANK ENSENBERGER, LOU GEORGE♦, BRAD GRIFFITH, KATHLEEN LITTLEFIELD, CONSTANCE HARCAR, SHEP KOSTER♦, THIEN NGUYEN, JULIANNA OJEDA, IAN PRICE, DIANE WARD, JOE WEBSTER...........................Priority Services Representatives ................................................................................................................................ DAVID JIMENEZ, JESSICA KEASBERRY, RAFAEL MEDINA, EVA WANG......................................................................Interns ♦

On staff for 10+ years.

ARTISTIC DEVELOPMENT & COMMISSIONS As part of our commitment to supporting a new generation of playwrights, we foster and develop a broad range of theatrical work from artists within the diverse communities of Los Angeles as well as from across the nation and abroad. Artists creating new work commissioned by Center Theatre Group this season:

DAVID ADJMI JON ROBIN BAITZ STEVE CUIFFO LISA D’AMOUR WILL ENO JENNIFER HALEY

ALESHEA HARRIS RAJIV JOSEPH LISA KRON KIMBER LEE YOUNG JEAN LEE MATTHEW LOPEZ

TREY LYFORD RICHARD MONTOYA JANINE NABERS QUI NGUYEN LYNN NOTTAGE MARCO RAMIREZ

SARAH RUHL ROGER GUENVEUR SMITH GEOFF SOBELLE LUIS VALDEZ PAULA VOGEL TRACEY SCOTT WILSON KAREN ZACARÍAS

Since 2005, we have invited local playwrights to spend a year researching and writing a new work with the feedback of their fellow writers and artistic staff as part of our L.A. Writers’ Workshop. Our growing community currently contains 103 playwrights. 2019/20 Season members: ADELINA ANTHONY NGOZI ANYANWU JONATHAN CAREN

DIONNA MICHELLE DANIEL BOO KILLEBREW KENNETH LIN KEMP POWERS

Learn more at CTGLA.org/Artists.

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“AUGUST DIEHL AND VALERIE PACHNER EXUDE AN ETHEREAL RAPPORT.” Ti m G r i e r s o n ,

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for your institutional partnership We are deeply appreciative of the below corporate sponsors and grant-making institutions for supporting our work to improve the impact we have on our Los Angeles community. AS OF SEP 1, 2019. ♦

Acknowledges a member of our Corporate Circle.

$250,000+ The Ahmanson Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Laura & James Rosenwald & Orinoco Foundation $100,000+ Bank of America Diana Buckhantz & Vladimir & Araxia Buckhantz Foundation Delta Air Lines Edgerton Foundation The Hearst Foundations Rosenthal Family Foundation The Shubert Foundation, Inc. $50,000+ The Annenberg Foundation Doris Duke Charitable Trust Los Angeles Department of Arts and Culture The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust Dwight Stuart Youth Fund Wells Fargo $25,000+ Anonymous (1) The Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation Center Theatre Group Affiliates JP Morgan Chase & Co. Disney Theatrical Group Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP Lockton Insurance Brokers, Inc. City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs National Endowment for the Arts The Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation The Perkins Charitable Foundation The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Theatre Forward US Bank $15,000+ Anonymous California Arts Council The City of Culver City Culver City Unified School District The DigiTrust Group, LLC The Walt Disney Company Foundation

KPMG The Liberty Company Dale S. & Shideh Miller $10,000+ Walt Disney Live Entertainment Joseph Drown Foundation The Friars Charitable Foundation HBO Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF) Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP Muse Communications The Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation Patina Restaurant Group The Edward A. And Ai O. Shay Family Foundation Synder Family Foundation The Fran and Ray Stark Foundation $7,500+ American Business Bank Canadian Consulate General The Culver City Education Foundation Lawrence P. Frank Foundation Macy’s Malibu Family Wines National Alliance for Musical Theatre Union Bank $5,000+ Sascha Brastoff Foundation The Brookside Fund Chubb City National Bank Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation GI Energy Jones Day Lear Family Foundation Paramount Pictures Payden & Rygel Perry, Neidorf & Grassl, LLP SoCalGas Sally J. Thomas & James A. Thomas USI Insurance Services $1,000+ The Carol and James Collins Foundation Northern Trust Theatre Communications Group

GOVERNMENT SUPPORT

CORPORATE CIRCLE CABINET Sheri Biller, Founding Chair Jonathan Axel, Co-Chair Erin Burke, Co-Chair Anthony Amendola Christopher Bissonnette Dannielle Campos Ramirez

CORPORATE SUPPORT

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The Corporate Circle is comprised of companies that support Center Theatre Group’s education and community partnership programs. Members receive VIP concierge service, complimentary and discounted tickets to our shows, business development opportunities, and more. For more information, call Christy Lamb at 213.972.3667.

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From the writer from Vietgone comes a rousing, romping, music-filled look at the real life of Julie d’Aubigny, a queer 17th century French swordswoman, featuring the outrageous fun and wit of the Vampire Cowboys. T IC K E T S S T A R T A T J U S T $3 0! G E F F E N P L A Y H O U S E.O R G · 310.2 0 8.5 4 5 4 Major support for this world premiere production provided by the Edgerton Foundation New Play Production Fund.

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2020 Deluxe Opera & Music Tours PRAGUE & VIENNA June 17 – July 1, 2020

PRAGUE: CARMEN; RUSALKA; BILLY BUDD; DVORAK'S NEW WORLD SYMPHONY (Czech Phil.); VIVALDI'S FOUR SEASONS AT THE FAMED KLEMENTINUM MIRROR HALL. Old Town Walking Tour, Royal Palace Complex – St. Vitus Cathedral, Jewish Quarter; Excursion to Nelahozeves Castle & Troja Chateau; & More. VIENNA: IL TROVATORE (Rebeka, Rachvelishvili, Kunde, Petean); LA TRAVIATA (Garifulina; Bernheim, Keenlyside); BALLO IN MASCHERA(Stoyanova; Meli); FALSTAFF (Bezsmertna; Maestri); & NUREYEV GALA BALLET. Guided Tours of Palace Schönbrunn, St. Stephans Cathedral, House of Music; Fine Arts & Belvedere Museums; & More. – 5-Star Deluxe Hotels – Art Nouveau Palace Hotel– Prague & Grand Hotel– Vienna

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We would like to take this opportunity to thank the incredibly generous donors who have contributed leadership gifts in support of Center Theatre Group’s 50 Anniversary Campaign. Your loyalty to our theatre and support in honor of our history paves the way for the next 50 years. AS OF SEP. 1, 2019.

TO YOU

$5,000,000+ Brindell Roberts Gottlieb Ahmanson Foundation Kirk & Anne Douglas $1,000,000+ Anonymous (2) The Annenberg Foundation Edgerton Foundation Kiki & David Gindler Patricia Glaser & Sam Mudie Aliza Karney Guren & Marc Guren Ann & Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr. Renee & Meyer Luskin The Louis and Harold Price Foundation Laura & James Rosenwal & Orinoco Foundation Rosenthal Family Foundation Sue Tsao

VENICE–VERONA–MILAN June 30 – July 13, 2020

VENICE: ROBERTO DEVEREUX (Mantegna, Jorstad; Scala, Luongo); Handel's RINALDO (Iervolino, Semenzato, Remigio). VERONA: AIDA; NABUCCO; CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA & I PAGLIACCI [Casts tba]; DOMINGO GALA CONCERT. MILAN: LA TRAVIATA (Rebeka; Meli); & BALLO IN MASCHERA (Hernandez; Sartori). Guided Tours Include: Venice–St. Mark– Doge Palace, Accademia & Guggenheim Museums; Verona Center; Milan–Last Supper, VIP Backstage Scala Opera House & Museum. Excursions to Lake Garda and Mantua. – 5-Star Hotels – Danieli –Venice; Due Torri –Verona & Westin Palace– Milan

LONDON–GARSINGTON & GLYNDEBOURNE FESTIVALS July 13 – 26, 2020

LONDON(Royal Opera) & GARSINGTON: TOSCA (Netrebko; Jagde, Terfel); MADAMA BUTTERFLY (Jaho; Puente, Finley) DON CARLO (Gerezmava, Garanca, Fabiano, Furlanetto); RUSALKA; And WEST END MUSICAL TBA. GLYNDEBOURNE FESTIVAL: FIDELIO; ENTFUHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL; & Handel's ALCINA [Casts tba] Guided Tours Include: London–Westminster Abbey & Buckingham Palace, Parliament & Churchill War Rooms, Tate Museums. Excursions to Brighton & Lewes Castle. – 5-Star Hotels – The May Fair –London & Grand Hotel– Eastbourne

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$1,000,000+ Judith & Thomas Beckmen Martin Massman Diane & Leon Morton Peter & Susan Van Haften

$250,000+ Shirley & Irving Ashkenas Pamela & Dennis Beck Bill Cohn & Dan Miller Mr. & Mrs. Jack Simon I.H. Sutnick

OTHER LEGACY GIFTS Linda & Maynard Brittan – Traub Brittan Family Trust Steven Llanusa & Glenn Miya, M.D. Gloria Lothrop Carol & Douglas Mancino Renee & Robert Nunn Nan Rae Randy & Bruce Ross Wes Schaefer & Cathy King-Schaefer Dr. and Mrs. Daniel Wallace Margaret White

50th anniversary campaign support

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We would also like to thank the following donors for making commitments to the 50th Anniversary Campaign through legacy gifts to our Endowment.

$500,000+ Richard & Norma Camp Susan A. Grode Linda S. Peterson

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$100,000+ Yvonne & Derek Bell The Campagna Family Mara & Joseph Carieri Friars Charitable Foundation Manuela & James Goren Bill Resnick & Michael Stubbs Deidra Norman Schumann Cheryl A. Shepherd Donna & John Sussman Hope Landis Warner $50,000+ Anonymous Anne Bruner & Jim Bremner Carol & Stephen Rountree Sunshine Stone Peter & Iona Tompkins

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$250,000+ Anonymous Thomas Beers Joni & Miles Benickes Diana Buckhantz & The Vladimir and Araxia Buckhantz Foundation Cindy & Gary Frischling Center Theatre Group Affiliates Cindy & Gary Frischling Nancy & Eric Garen Vicki King Jody & David Lippman The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Thomas Safran Glenn & Andrea Sonnenberg Judie Stein & J R Stein Family Foundation Matt & Dana Walden

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OUR SUPPORTERS

for being a part of our history The Affiliates have supported Center Theatre Group since 1971. Through volunteering and fundraising, members introduce young people and their peers to the magic of live theatre. We are forever grateful for their long-term support. AS OF SEP. 1, 2019.

PRESIDENT Carmen Schaye EXECUTIVE BOARD Anne Bruner* Ilene Eisenberg Roberta Haft* Christine Harte Thea F. Koss Diane Lesser Jerri Nagelberg Diane Neubauer*

Kim White Peterson* Sheila Poncher* Sharon Reisz Marsha Tauber Sallai June Sanders Sattler* Joyce Sheingold Maggy Simon Carole Solomon Marilyn Stambler* Janice Brock Wallace* Janice Weiner Rosalind Zane*

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

Barbara Krasnoff Beau Lavine Rita Lee 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* Courtney Rangen Anne Reismann Irene Ribner Harriett Chatters Rose Lois Rosen Marla Rubin Gaile Gray Ryan Bonnie Sachs Carole Schiffer Kelly Schiffer* Zrelda Sealey Suzanne M. Shapiro Robbie J. Solomon Marilyn Lee Stark Carol Stein Debbie Stein Judy Stone Betsy Straszheim Gloria Stroock-Stern Donna Sussman* 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

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*Past Presidents | Executive Board Members at Large ◆

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Meet

The Music Center of the 21st Century The Music Center is one of the nation’s largest performing arts centers and a cultural anchor in Los Angeles County. Our programming engine, TMC Arts, convenes artists, communities and ideas to deepen the cultural lives of all. With relevant, engaging arts experiences and arts education programs, TMC Arts reflects the diverse voices and interests of the many communities of Los Angeles. The Music Center is home to and the force behind some of the most creative expression today.

2019/2020 MUSIC CENTER BOARD OF DIRECTORS OFFICERS Cindy Miscikowski Board Chair

Robert J. Abernethy Darrell Brown 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 Charles F. Adams William H. Ahmanson Wallis Annenberg Jill Baldauf

Richard K. Roeder Melissa Ann Romain Maria Salinas Lisa See Matthew J. Spence Marc I. Stern Philip A. Swan Walter F. Ulloa Timothy S. Wahl Alyce Williamson Jay Wintrob Rollin A. Ransom General Counsel ^

Leave of absence

DIRECTORS EMERITI Peter K. Barker Judith Beckmen Eli Broad Ronald W. Burkle

Susan Baumgarten

Amb. (ret.) John B. Emerson*

Phoebe Beasley

Richard M. Ferry

Thomas L. Beckmen

Brindell Gottlieb

Kimaada M. Brown

Bernard A. Greenberg

Dannielle Campos

Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr.

Greg T. Geyer

Amb. (ret.) Glen A. Holden

Lisa Gilford

Stuart M. Ketchum

General Information (213) 972-7211 | musiccenter.org

Kiki Ramos Gindler

Amb. (ret.) Lester B. Korn

Maria Rosario Jackson

Kent Kresa

Carl Jordan

Robert F. Maguire, III

Support The Music Center (213) 972-3333 | musiccenter.org/support

Glenn Kaino

Ginny Mancini

Stefanie Kane

Edward J. McAniff

Terri Kohl

Walter M. Mirisch

Cary J. Lefton

Fredric Roberts

David Lippman

Claire L. Rothman

Richard Lynn Martinez

Joni J. Smith

Bowen “Buzz” H. McCoy

Lisa Specht*

Mattie McFadden-Lawson

Cynthia A. Telles

Elizabeth Michelson

James A. Thomas

Darrell D. Miller

Andrea L. Van de Kamp*

Shelby Notkin

Paul M. Watson

Michael Pagano

Thomas R. Weinberger

Cynthia M. Patton

Rosalind W. Wyman

Karen Kay Platt

* Chairman Emeritus

Welcome to The Music Center! @musiccenterla

Be a Music Center Docent If you love the arts and enjoy sharing this enthusiasm with the public, we invite you to join the Symphonians , The Music Center’s volunteer docents. musiccenter.org/symphonians symphonians@musiccenter.org

Max Ramberg Joseph Rice

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Featured Events at

The Music Center FRI 06 DEC / 8:00 p.m. Beethoven’s Eroica LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall Thru 12/08

SUN 01 DEC / 2:00 p.m. The Magic Flute LA OPERA @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Thru 12/15

SAT 07 DEC / 11:00 a.m. Toyota Symphonies for Youth: The Rite of Spring LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall Thru 12/14

SUN 01 DEC / 8:00 p.m. Dudamel Conducts Rachmaninoff & Stravinsky LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall MON 02 DEC / 8:30 p.m. Happy Birthday Chick Strand! REDCAT @ Roy and Edna Disney / CalArts Theater TUE 03 DEC / 11:00 a.m. LUNCH À LA PARK: Food Trucks REDCAT @ Grand Park Every Tue/Wed/Thur TUE 03 DEC / 8:00 p.m. Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake CENTER THEATRE GROUP / THE MUSIC CENTER @ Ahmanson Theatre Thru 1/05/20 WED 04 DEC / 12:15 p.m. LUNCH A LA PARK: Yoga reTREAT @ Grand Park Every Wed/Fri FRI 06 DEC / 6:30 p.m. Grand Park’s Winter Glow 2019 @ Grand Park Thru 12/25 FRI 06 DEC / 8:30 p.m. CalArts Winter Dance: Repertory Right Now! REDCAT @ Roy and Edna Disney / CalArts Theater Thru 12/07

SAT 07 DEC / 8:00 p.m. Festival of Carols with Eric Whitacre LA MASTER CHORALE @ Walt Disney Concert Hall Thru 12/14 SUN 08 DEC / 7:30 p.m. Los Angeles Children’s Chorus LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall MON 09 DEC / 8:30 p.m. Alexandra Cuesta: Camera Notes (Part One) / Notas de Cámara (Parte Uno) REDCAT @ Roy and Edna Disney / CalArts Theater TUE 10 DEC / 8:00 p.m. A Tribute to Oliver Knussen LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall TUE 10 DEC / 8:00 p.m. Tchaikovsky & Copland with MTT LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall Thru 12/15 WED 11 DEC / 8:30 p.m. Isaura String Quartet: hum REDCAT @ Roy and Edna Disney / CalArts Theater FRI 13 DEC / 8:30 p.m. Reanimating Ancient Worlds: The Short Films of David Lebrun REDCAT @ Roy and Edna Disney / CalArts Theater

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SUN 15 DEC / 8:00 p.m. O Magnum Mysterium LA MASTER CHORALE @ Walt Disney Concert Hall TUE 17 DEC / 8:00 p.m. A Chanticleer Christmas LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall WED 18 DEC / 7:30 p.m. 39th annual Messiah Sing-Along LA MASTER CHORALE @ Walt Disney Concert Hall FRI 20 DEC / 8:00 p.m. Dianne Reeves: Christmas Time is Here LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall SAT 21 DEC / 11:30 a.m. Holiday Sing-Along LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall SAT 21 DEC / 8:00 p.m. Handel’s Messiah LA MASTER CHORALE @ Walt Disney Concert Hall SUN 22 DEC / 3:00 p.m. White Christmas Sing-Along LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall MON 23 DEC / 8:00 p.m. CeCe Winans LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall TUE 24 DEC / 3:00 p.m. 60th Annual L.A. County Holiday Celebration THE MUSIC CENTER @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

Illustrations by: Down The Street Designs

SUN 01 DEC / 1:00 p.m. August Wilson’s Jitney CENTER THEATRE GROUP @ Mark Taper Forum Thru 12/29

TUE 31 DEC / 7:00 p.m. New Year’s Eve with Kristin Chenoweth LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall TUE 31 DEC / 8:00 p.m. Grand Park + The Music Center’s N.Y.E.L.A. GRAND PARK + THE MUSIC CENTER @ Grand Park + The Music Center Plaza

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

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

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DECEMBER NOCHEBUENA FEATURING EUGENIA LEÓN BALLET FOLKLÓRICO DE LOS ÁNGELES MARIACHI GARIBALDI DE JAIME CUÉLLAR Celebrate the holidays with La Diva de México. Sat Dec 14 | 3PM & 8PM VOCTAVE THE SPIRIT OF THE SEASON

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All-American acapella group brings holiday carols and favorites. Sun Dec 15 | 3PM

Dazzling circus troupe makes magic for all ages. Sat Jan 25 | 8PM Sun Jan 26 | 3PM

JANUARY LUCIANA SOUZA THE BOOK OF LONGING FEATURING CHICO PINHEIRO and SCOTT COLLEY Onstage Sessions Jazz Club Vocal jazz veteran performs her album inspired by Leonard Cohen. Fri Jan 17 | 8PM Sat Jan 18 | 8PM ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA PINCHAS ZUKERMAN, PRINCIPAL GUEST CONDUCTOR and VIOLIN SOLOIST Beethoven Symphony No. 7 One of the world’s most sought-after musicians conducts and performs. Fri Jan 24 | 8PM BALLET FOLCLÓRICO NACIONAL DE MÉXICO DE SILVIA LOZANO This thrilling group presents authentic regional dances of Mexico. Thu Jan 30 | 8PM

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