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We look forward to seeing you at La Jolla Playhouse at your upcoming performance of Side Show. Below is some additional information about the production and the venue to enhance your theater-going experience. Parking Parking is free for all subscribers. For all others parking is $2 (subject to change), Mon-Fri. Upon arrival to campus, please purchase your parking permit from one of the automated pay stations located next to the information kiosk. Simply park, note your space number, and pay $2 at the pay station. Pay stations accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express or cash ($1 and $5), and do not give change. You will not need to return to your car. Parking is free on the weekends. Audience Engagement Events The Playhouse offers unique opportunities for audience members to delve deeper into the play with these special performance series options: Insider Events: Meet with a staff member 1 hour prior to the performance for an insider’s discussion. - Saturday, November 23 at 1:00 pm - Wednesday, December 4 at 6:30 pm Talkback Tuesday: Join cast and crew for a discussion following the performance. - Tuesday, November 12 following the 7:30 pm performance - Tuesday, November 19 following the 7:30 pm performance ACCESS Performance: During this performance, La Jolla Playhouse provides American Sign Language interpretation for audience members who are deaf or hard of hearing and audio description for patrons who are blind or have low vision. - Saturday, November 16 at 2:00 pm Added ASL Interpreted Performance: This performance has added American Sign Language interpretation. - Friday, November 22 at 8:00 pm. Foodie Friday starts at 6:00pm! Open Captioned Performance:This performance has added open captioning for patrons who are deaf or hard of hearing. - Saturday, December 7 at 2:00 pm Discovery Sunday: Explore the themes of the production with special guest speakers. - Sunday, December 8 following the 2:00 pm performance
ADDITIONAL EVENTS Foodie Fridays: Buy a ticket to Side Show and enjoy a complimentary microbrew tasting from Stone Brewing Company. Plus, enjoy San Diego’s finest food trucks. - Friday, November 8 starting at 6:00 pm - Friday, November 22 starting at 6:00 pm - Friday, December 6 starting at 6:00 pm Accessibility A golf cart is available to assist patrons with accessibility issues to and from the parking lot. Please notify the Box Office prior to your performance if you are in need of this service; additionally, you may pull into the five minute parking in front of the theatre, and a friendly La Jolla Playhouse greeter will assist you. Pardon Our Dust – Theatre District Landscape Improvement Project Landscape improvements will include new walkways, exterior plazas, enhanced signage and lighting, as well as permanent seating areas. Additionally, eucalyptus grove restoration will reinforce the unique character of the Theatre District and its connection to the greater UC San Diego campus. La Jolla Playhouse productions will continue without interruption, but please look for signs and ushers to be your guide around the fenced-in work areas. For more information please contact Patron Services. Dining The La Jolla Playhouse Restaurant is closed until further notice. The La Jolla Playhouse Coffee Shop will be open pre-performance until curtain for both evening and matinee performances of Side Show. Please see our website at LaJollaPlayhouse.org/dining or call La Jolla Playhouse Patron Services (858) 550-1010. We also recommend the following nearby restaurants: Dolce Pane e Vino 16081 San Dieguito Road Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067 dolcepaneevino.com
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SIDE SHOW CONTENT WARNING This production contains adult content and cigarettes.
MISSION: La Jolla Playhouse advances theatre as an art form and as a vital social, moral and political platform by providing unfettered creative opportunities for the leading artists of today and tomorrow. With our youthful spirit and eclectic, artist-driven approach, we will continue to cultivate a local and national following with an insatiable appetite for audacious and diverse work. In the future, San Diego’s La Jolla Playhouse will be considered singularly indispensable to the worldwide theatre landscape, as we become a permanent safe harbor for the unsafe and surprising. The day will come when it will be essential to enter the La Jolla Playhouse village in order to get a glimpse of what is about to happen in American theatre.
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CHRISTOPHER ASHLEY ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
A MESSAGE FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Side Show takes us behind the colorful banners of the carnivals of yesterday into the extraordinary true story of two sisters, Daisy and Violet Hilton, who were born conjoined twins in the early 20th century. Continually on display, first in a backroom pub as infants and then in freak shows across three continents, they eventually headlined on vaudeville stages where their talents and charm garnered them fame and fortune. The Hilton sisters’ desire for love and normalcy – to be like everyone else – was profound, but proved elusive. As musical theatre, Side Show tears down the wall of voyeurism that separates us from them and allows us to see how very much alike we all are. From its first incarnation on Broadway in 1997 where it ran for a scant 91 performances, Side Show lingered in the minds of many who saw the show and were moved by its sumptuous score, soaring ballads and fascinating story. When a new opportunity to revisit the show presented itself, with the opportunity to partner with The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, I was inspired by the excitement of its original writing team – composer Henry Krieger and book writer and lyricist Bill Russell – and by director Bill Condon’s enduring passion for the show. This musical theatre dream team have re-entered Side Show with the desire to explore the public and private spaces of so called “freaks,” the power of conjoined twins in the world and in our minds, and how two people who are attached to each other for life can become separate individuals and pursue their own dreams and desires. Welcome to Side Show 2.0.
UP NEXT: The Who & The What
February 11 – March 9 WORLD PREMIERE PLAY BY AWARD-WINNING PLAYWRIGHT AYAD AKHTAR Raised in a conservative Muslim family in Atlanta, the outspoken and brilliant Zarina routinely clashes with her traditional father and sister. Zarina’s one outlet — her recently completed book about women and Islam — threatens to tear her family apart for good. With humor and ferocity, Ayad Akhtar’s The Who & The What examines the giant chasm between our traditions and our contemporary lives.
written by
Ayad Akhtar directed by KIMBERLY SENIOR
LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE presents Michael S. Rosenberg Managing Director
Christopher Ashley Artistic Director
Book and Lyrics by
Bill Russell
Music by
Henry Krieger
Additional Book Material By
Bill Condon
ChoreographY BY
Anthony van Laast Directed by
Bill Condon Featuring Brandon Bieber*, Erin Davie*, Matthew Patrick Davis*, Lauren Elder*, Manoel Felciano*, David Kirk Grant*, Matthew Hydzik*, Javier Ignacio*, Robert Joy*, Kelvin MooN Loh*, Michelle London*, Zonya Love*, Barrett Martin*, Nicholas Mongiardo-Cooper*, Emily Padgett*, Don Richard*, Blair Ross*, Keala Settle*, Hannah Shankman*, David St. Louis* Music Supervision and New Vocal/Dance Arrangements Original Arrangements Music Director/Conductor Orchestrations Scenic Design Costume Design Lighting Design Sound Design Hair and Wig Design Special Makeup Effects Design Makeup Design Associate Director Associate Choreographer Accent Consultant Dramaturg Casting Production Stage Manager Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager Producing Director Production Manager
Sam Davis David Chase Greg Jarrett Harold Wheeler David Rockwell Paul Tazewell Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer Kai Harada Charles G. LaPointe Dave Elsey and Lou Elsey Cookie Jordan Dave Solomon Janet Rothermel Ursula Meyer Shirley Fishman Laura Stanczyk, CSA Linda Marvel* CJ LaRoche* Jess Slocum* Dana I. Harrel Linda S. Cooper
produced in association with THE JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS David M. Rubenstein, Chairman | Michael M. Kaiser, President | Max A. Woodward, Vice President Original Broadway Production Directed and Choreographed by Robert Longbottom Original Broadway Production Produced by Emanuel Azenberg, Joseph Nederlander, Herschel Waxman, Janice McKenna, Scott Nederlander
THE CAST (in alphabetical order) Brandon Bieber....................................................................3 Legged Man, Brother #1, Reporter #1, Party Guest, Cupid, Crew Erin Davie................................................................................................................................................................... Violet Hilton Matthew Patrick Davis...................................................... Geek, Doctor #3, Spectator, Reporter #6, Musician, Cupid, Townie Lauren Elder................................................................................. Venus di Milo, Spectator, Party Guest, Cherub, Townie, Crew Manoel Felciano....................................................................................................................................................... Terry Connor David Kirk Grant................................................................................................................................................. Musician, Swing Matthew Hydzik........................................................................................................................................................Buddy Foster Javier Ignacio...........................................Dog Boy, Houdini, Spectator, Brother #3, Reporter #4, Waiter, Cupid, Townie, Crew Robert Joy.................................................................................................................................................................................. Sir Kelvin Moon Loh.............................................................................Half Man Half Woman, Doctor, Musician, Director, Townie Michelle London................................................................................................................................................................. Swing Zonya Love..................................................................... Hottentot, Spectator, Reporter #7, Party Guest, Cherub, Townie, Crew Barrett Martin....................................... Roustabout #2, Judge, Spectator, Brother #2, Reporter #2, Ray, Cupid, Cowboy, Crew Nicholas Mongiardo-Cooper.......................................... Roustabout #1, Doctor Weldon, Spectator, Brother #4, Reporter #3, Party Guest, Cupid, Townie, Crew Emily Padgett..............................................................................................................................................................Daisy Hilton Don Richard.......................Reptile Man, Doctor #1, Martin Arnold, Spectator, Reporter #5, Film Crew, Townie, Tod Browning Blair Ross.................................................Bearded Lady, Auntie, Spectator, Reporter #6, Guest #3, Cherub, Town Floozy, Crew Keala Settle............................................................................................. Fortune Teller, Spectator, Party Guest, Cherub, Townie Hannah Shankman.....................................................Tattoo Girl, Spectator, Reporter #8, Party Guest, Cherub, Cowgirl, Crew David St. Louis........................................................................................................................................................................Jake
Side Show is performed with a 15-minute intermission. Associate Scenic Designers ...............................................Joe Celli, Dick Jaris Associate Lighting Designer ............................................................Vivien Leone Associate Costume Designer .................................................... Erick Sundquist Video & Projection Design ..................................................... Marilia Maschion Assistant Lighting Designer........................................................Jenna Pletcher Second Assistant Lighting Designer....................................Kristin Swift Hayes
Assistant Sound Designer......................................................Chris Luessmann Directing Assistant...................................................................................Karen Li Assistant Scenic Designer.............................................................TJ Greenway Assistant Video Designer................................................................. Ryan Legge Production Assistants....................Amy Duffy, Ryan Heath, Sarah Kolman Stage Management Interns.............................Lindsay Kipnis, Steph Marron
Understudies David Kirk Grant (Terry, Sir); Michelle London (Violet, Daisy)
SIDE SHOW ORCHESTRA Music Director/Conductor/Keyboard.....................................................Greg Jarrett Keyboard 2.........................................................................................Steven Withers Flute/Clarinet/Bass Clarinet/Soprano, Alto Saxes............................John Rekevics Flute/Piccolo/Clarinet/Bass Clarinet Tenor Sax/Oboe/English Horn................................................................... John Reilly Trumpet/Flugelhorn.............................................................................Andrew Elstob French Horn.................................................................................... Jane Zwerneman Trombone/Bass Trombone/Tuba...............................................................David Ryan
Electric, Acoustic Guitars/Banjo......................................................Michael Higgins Electric, Acoustic Bass.....................................................................Tim Christensen Drums/Percussion...........................................................................Nathan Hubbard Contractor............................................................................................... Lorin Getline Keyboard Programmer........................................................................... Randy Cohen Associate Keyboard Programmer..................................................... Taylor Williams
All musicians are represented by the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada.
MUSICAL NUMBERS ACT ONE
ACT TWO
Come Look at the Freaks................................................. Sir and Attractions Like Everyone Else............................................................... Daisy and Violet Very Well Connected......................................Terry and Buddy, Daisy, Violet The Devil You Know.....................................................Jake and Attractions Typical Girls Next Door........................................................ Daisy and Violet You Should Thank Me Every Day........................................................ Auntie Cut Them Apart/I Will Never Leave You....................Doctors, Daisy, Violet All in the Mind....................................................................................Houdini Come See a New Land...............................................................................Sir Feelings You’ve Got to Hide................................................ Daisy and Violet What a Fascinating Pair........................Trial Spectators, Terry, Buddy, Jake Say Goodbye to the Sideshow.............. Terry, Daisy, Violet, Jake, Attractions Brother! Brother........................................................................ The Brothers Ready to Play.......................................................Daisy, Violet, The Brothers The Interview/Buddy Kissed Me............................Daisy, Violet, Terry, Buddy, Jake, Reporters Who Will Love Me as I Am?.................................... Daisy, Violet, Company
Stuck with You/Leave Me Alone...........................Daisy, Violet, Buddy, Ray New Year’s Eve..............................Terry, Daisy, Violet, Buddy, Party Guests A Private Conversaton...........................................................Terry and Daisy 1 + 1 = 3.................................................. Buddy, Daisy, Violet, Ray, Cherubs Sideshow............................................................................. Daisy and Violet Almost as Famous as Them................................................... Sir and Texans You Should Be Loved.............................................................Jake and Violet Our New Beginning............................................................. Daisy and Violet Marry Me, Terry..................................................................................... Daisy I Will Never Leave You........................................................ Daisy and Violet Come Look at the Freaks..........................................................The Company
THE COMPANY Brandon Bieber, 3 Legged Man, Brother #1, Reporter #1, Party Guest, Cupid, Crew La Jolla Playhouse: Limelight (Assoc. Choreographer). Broadway: Anything Goes, Follies, Mary Poppins and On Your Toes (Encores!). Tour: Mary Poppins and White Christmas. Regional: The Kennedy Center, MUNY, PCLO, The Old Globe, Arizona Theatre Co. and Stages St. Louis. Thanks and love to the awesome Side Show creative team, the folks at the Leudtke Agency, Laura Stanczyk, my parents, sisters and Chris. Erin Davie, Violet Hilton La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Broadway: Rosa Bud in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Countess Charlotte Malcolm in A Little Night Music, Young Little Edie in Grey Gardens (Theatre World Award for Outstanding Broadway Debut) and Niki Harris in Curtains. Off-Broadway: The Glorious Ones (Lincoln Center Theater) and Eve Harrington in Applause (Encores!). Tours: Swing!, The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Guys and Dolls. Regional: A Time to Kill (Arena Stage); Sunday in the Park with George (St. Louis Rep); Carousel (Goodspeed); 90 Years of MUNY Magic, Camelot, The Apple Tree, Jekyll & Hyde and The Student Prince. TV: Law & Order, The Good Wife and Orange is the New Black. Matthew Patrick Davis, Geek, Doctor #3, Spectator, Reporter #6, Musician, Cupid, Townie La Jolla Playhouse: The Nightingale, Limelight and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Other regional credits include: A Funny Thing…Forum and Sunday in the Park with George (Reprise); South Street (Pasadena Playhouse); national tours of The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial starring Ed Asner (LA Theatre Works); As You Like It (Weston Playhouse); Love Sweet Love and Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story (Theater League); 1776 (Lamb’s Players). TV: Community, The Sarah Silverman Program, Greek, Days of Our Lives, Veronica Mars, Joan of Arcadia, and currently, you can see him playing a zombie in a national Sprint commercial. As a musician/composer,
Mr. Davis composes and stars in musicals at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in LA & NYC, and performs a solo act highlighting his original songs. www.matthewpatrickdavis.com Lauren Elder, Venus di Milo, Spectator, Party Guest, Cherub, Townie, Crew La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Hair (Broadway, West End, Shakespeare in the Park/NY Public Theater). Other regional credits include As You Like It (Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival). TV: Boardwalk Empire (HBO). Miss Elder performs regularly in nightclubs around New York City, including Joe’s Pub, Birdland, 54 Below and Jazz at Lincoln Center. She recently recorded her debut album of original music. Hear it and learn more at www.laurenelder.com. So much love to my amazing family and friends! Special thanks to Laura Stanczyk for always believing in me! Manoel Felciano, Terry Connor La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Broadway: Sweeney Todd (Tony nomination), Brooklyn, Jesus Christ Superstar and Cabaret. Off-Broadway:Trumpery (Atlantic), Shockheaded Peter and Much Ado About Nothing (NYSF/Public Theater). Regional: Exorcist with Brooke Shields and Richard Chamberlain (Geffen); Scorched, Tales of the City, Clybourne Park, Norman in Round & Round the Garden, Caucasian Chalk Circle, November, Jerry in Zoo Story, Rock ’n’ Roll (A.C.T.); Elektra with Olympia Dukakis (Getty Villa); Tateh in Ragtime (Kennedy Center); Three Sisters (Williamstown, dir. Michael Greif); I Just Stopped By... (The Old Globe) and George in Sunday in the Park... (dir. Jason Alexander). Film/TV: Uncertainty with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Trauma, Life on Mars, The Unusuals, One Life to Live and All My Children. Concerts: Ragtime (Lincoln Center); The World of Nick Adams with Jack Nicholson, Julia Roberts and Sean Penn (SFSO) and Zipperz (Oakland, Marin Symphonies). Singer-songwriter: live@joe’s pub (2006), Moonshot (2007) and SundaySongs (2008). Master Classes, directing: A.C.T., B.U., U.C. Berkeley, Florida. B.A. Yale, M.F.A. N.Y.U. Tisch Grad Acting. www.manoelfelciano.com
THE COMPANY David Kirk Grant, Musician, Swing La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. National touring credits include: Julian Marsh in 42nd Street, Charlie Cowell/Harold Hill in The Music Man, Dick Dead-Eye in H.M.S. Pinafore and The Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance. Mr. Grant’s San Diego credits include: Governor/Innkeeper in Man of La Mancha (SD Critics’ Circle Award nominee, Best Featured Actor), Hugh Dorsey in Parade and Larry in Company (Cygnet); Norbert in The Great American Trailer Park Musical (San Diego REP); Jim in Pump Boys and Dinettes (Lamb’s Players Theatre) and Peron in Evita (Moonlight). Mr. Grant was a co-star on NBC’s The Office and recently finished shooting on location in Montana for the upcoming feature film The Thin Line. He is a proud member of SAG and Actors’ Equity Association.
dir. Baayork Lee) and Thuy in Miss Saigon (Pioneer Theatre Co.). Mr. Loh is also the librettist for Matchmaker Matchmaker, I’m Willing to Settle: A Musical Guide to Internet Dating. Thank you Mom, Dad, The Mine, JWS, Laura Stanczyk, LJP staff, cast and creatives. NYU Steinhardt. Follow this freak at AsianAmericanIdiot.Blogspot.com. Tweet! @kelvinmoonloh
Matthew Hydzik, Buddy Foster is proud to be making his La Jolla Playhouse debut with this amazing re-imagining of one his favorite musicals of all time! Matthew’s Broadway credits include Tony in West Side Story and Kenickie in Grease. Off-Broadway: John in Tomorrow Morning. National tours: Flashdance, Rent, Grease and Fame. Regional favorites include shows at Planet Hollywood Theater of Las Vegas, The George St. Playhouse, Marriott Lincolnshire Chicago, Fulton Opera House and Pennsylvania Centre Stage. Luv to my personal ‘troup’; Ed&Cathy, Nick&Sue, Brennen&Alli, Tabby&Adele, and my true better half, Megan... and the freakish. Makoto.
Zonya Love, Hottentot, Spectator, Reporter #7, Party Guest, Cherub, Townie, Crew is absolutely thrilled to make her debut at La Jolla Playhouse! Broadway: The Color Purple. National Tours: Avenue Q. Regional: Showboat (Sacramento Music Circus); Blues in the Night (Milwaukee Repertory Theatre) and Intimate Apparel (Nevada Conservatory Theatre). Education: B.F.A. in Acting from North Carolina A&T State University, M.F.A. in Acting from The University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Romans 8!!!
Javier Ignacio, Dog Boy, Houdini, Spectator, Brother #3, Reporter #4, Waiter, Cupid, Townie, Crew is ecstatic to take part in Side Show for his La Jolla Playhouse debut. Other regional credits include: Mereb in Aida, Rocky in Damn Yankees, Mr. Mayor in Seussical, Ezekiel in White Christmas (Music Theatre of Wichita); Frankie in Forever Plaid (Alhambra Dinner Theatre); Joly in Les Miserables and the Courier in 1776 (The Actors’ Playhouse). Mr. Ignacio attended Wichita State University and is also a proud member of Actors’ Equity. He would like to thank this amazing cast and the incredible La Jolla Playhouse team for making this an unforgettable experience. Love to Mom, Daniel and Maia! www.javierignacio.com Robert Joy, Sir La Jolla Playhouse: Romeo and Juliet (Drama-Logue Award). Broadway: The Nerd, Hay Fever, Shimada and Abe Lincoln in Illinois. NY Shakespeare Festival: The Death of Von Richthofen as Witnessed from Earth, Lenny and the Heartbreakers, Found a Peanut, The Taming of the Shrew and As You Like It. Other Off-Broadway: June Moon, Life and Limb, Hyde in Hollywood, Lydie Breeze, The Diary of Anne Frank, Pigeon and Good Night Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet). Regional: Big River (world premiere, ART); Privates on Parade (Long Wharf); My Andy (NYSF); The Tempest (Barrie, Ontario, Canada), The Nether (Kirk Douglas Theater). Film: Atlantic City, Ragtime, Desperately Seeking Susan, Fallen, Resurrection, Land of the Dead, The Hills Have Eyes, The Shipping News, Harriet the Spy, Waterworld, Radio Days and Amityville 3D, among others. Over a 35-year television career, Mr. Joy has acted in over 200 episodes and TV movies, comedic and dramatic. For the last 8 years he played Sid Hammerback, the medical examiner on CSI:NY. Kelvin Moon Loh, Half Man Half Woman, Doctor, Musician, Director, Townie La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Recently created the role of The DJ in David Byrne/Fatboy Slim’s Here Lies Love (The Public Theater, dir. Alex Timbers). Select theatre: American Idiot (1st National, dir. Michael Mayer); Jud in Oklahoma! (NAAP,
Michelle London, Swing La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. National Tours: Wicked. Regional: Legally Blonde (STAGES St. Louis and North Carolina Theatre); Grease (Fullerton Civic Light Opera) and Pygmalion (Gallery Theatre). TV/Film: Pretty Persausion; ARLI$$ (HBO) and Drake and Josh (Nickelodeon). Education: American Musical and Dramatic Academy in Los Angeles. MichelleLondon.com
Barrett Martin, Roustabout #2, Judge, Spectator, Brother #2, Reporter #2, Ray, Cupid, Cowboy, Crew La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Broadway: Nice Work if You Can Get It, How to Succeed... (2011 revival), Addams Family, Guys and Dolls (2009 revival), Young Frankenstein, Wicked and the infamous Urban Cowboy. National Tours: Movin’ Out, Wicked (Chicago), Copacabana and Footloose. Other theatre credits include: Associate Choreographer on Broadway’s Scandalous, City Center Encores’ productions of Follies and Stairway to Paradise. Various regional credits as well as film and TV: various SNL spots, The Producers movie, Kennedy Center Honors and The Miraculous Year (HBO pilot), to name a few. Mr. Martin is thrilled to be a part of this production and thankful to both the creative team as well as the La Jolla Playhouse staff and crew. Nicholas Mongiardo-Cooper, Roustabout #1, Doctor Weldon, Spectator, Brother #4, Reporter #3, Party Guest, Cupid, Townie, Crew La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Off-Broadway: Julius Caesar. Other N.Y. credits: subUrbia, The Female Terrorists Project, Iolanthe, Slavs!, Sympathetic Magic and Three Days of Rain. Regional: Our Lady of 121st Street, Dr. Tedrow’s Last Breath, Blood Brothers, Ferdinand the Bull, Behind the Gates, Slaughterhouse-Five and Speed Merchant (Action! Theatre); Junie B. Jones, Lucky Duck, The Borrowers and The Night Fairy (SCR); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (CLOSBC) and Lonesome Traveler (Rubicon Theatre/The Laguna Playhouse). Originated Ira Gershwin in Words By at North Coast Repertory (Craig Noel/SDTCC nomination, Best Actor in a Musical). Graduate of NYU and the High School of Performing Arts. Emily Padgett, Daisy Hilton is thrilled to be making her La Jolla Playhouse debut! Broadway: Rock of Ages, Legally Blonde and Grease. National Tours: Flashdance the Musical, Grease and Cats. Regional: White Noise (Royal George Theatre). NY Workshops: Diner, Peter and I, Beyond the Music. TV: Louie and America’s Got Talent. Thanks to Marianne Wells, the gang at Soffer-Namoff Entertainment and Bill Condon for this amazing opportunity. Love you BM.
THE COMPANY Don Richard, Reptile Man, Doctor #1, Martin Arnold, Spectator, Reporter #5, Film Crew, Townie, Tod Browning Mr. Richard was “on the moors” at La Jolla Playhouse with Jane Eyre in 1999. Broadway credits include Brocklehurst in Jane Eyre and Mr. Cladwell in Urinetown, as well as national tours of Wicked and Sunset Boulevard, plus a turn as Mr. Farley in Stephen Soderbergh’s film King of the Hill. Regional favorites include Lisbon Traviata, Sherlock’s Last Case, Making God Laugh, Sweeney Todd and Falsettoland. A passion for urban gardening guides his free time... he’s never happier than when ankle-deep in dirt, with a hoe by his side and a hose in his hand. Thank you, Craig. Blair Ross, Bearded Lady, Auntie, Spectator, Reporter #6, Guest #3, Cherub, Town Floozy, Crew La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Ms. Ross was most recently seen on Broadway in the role of Lady Beaconsfield in the revival of Jekyll & Hyde, directed by Jeff Calhoun. Other Broadway/ National Tours: 42nd Street. Off-Broadway: Being Audrey, Exactly Like You, Smoke on the Mountain, etc. Regional: The Old Globe, Goodspeed, Walnut Street, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Kennedy Center, Ford’s, etc. TV: Law & Order: SVU and lots of commercials. Education: B.A. in Art History from Vassar College. Keala Settle, Fortune Teller, Spectator, Party Guest, Cherub, Townie La Jolla Playhouse: Hands on a Hardbody. Keala Settle appeared in the original Broadway cast of Hands on a Hardbody after making her debut in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. On tour, she has performed the roles of Tracy Turnblad in Hairspray and Bloody Mary in South Pacific. She recently played the Narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Ogunquit Playhouse. Thanks to CJ LaRoche for writing this. Google.com Hannah Shankman, Tattoo Girl, Spectator, Reporter #8, Party Guest, Cherub, Cowgirl, Crew is making her La Jolla Playhouse debut. Broadway and West End: Hair. National Tours: Les Miserables and Rent. NYC Theatre/Workshops: The Last Goodbye, Kaspar Houser, Girls in Trouble and Beauty Queen. Regional: Tommy (Berkshire Theatre Group); Rent (Syracuse Stage); After the Revolution and Golden Gate (Williamstown Theatre Festival); and Pippin (ReVision Theatre). TV/ Film: The 85th Annual Academy Awards. Education: B.F.A. from University of Michigan, Acting. An enormous thank you to the entire creative team, The Mine, Laura Stanczyk, my wonderful family, Eric and Charlie! David St. Louis, Jake La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Film: Shrader House, At Your Convenience, Trigger Effect and Temptation. TV: NCIS, Third Watch, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, A Royal Birthday, The Jury, One Life to Live, Homicide: Life on the Streets and The Secret Path. Broadway: Harlem Song, Rent, Jesus Christ Superstar and The Scarlet Pimpernel. Regional: The Royale (Kirk Douglas Theatre); Intimate Apparel (Pasadena Playhouse); Thunder Knocking at the Door (Cincinnati Playhouse); Ruined (Geffen Playhouse/ Intiman Theatre); Parade (Mark Taper Forum); Cousin Bette (Antaeus Theater Co.); The Life (Jaxx Theatricals); Ragtime (PCPA Theatre); Porgy and Bess (Zach Scott Theatre); Golden Boy (Long Wharf Theatre); Henry V (Shakespeare Theatre); Candide (Arena Stage) and Bessie’s Blues (Studio Theatre). Awards: Ovation Award (Parade), Helen Hayes Award (Bessie’s Blues). 2012 Lunt Fontanne Fellow.
Bill Russell, Book Writer and Lyricist wrote the book and lyrics for Side Show, receiving a Tony Award® nomination for book and sharing a nomination with composer Henry Krieger for score. Mr. Russell co-wrote the book and lyrics for OffBroadway’s long-running musical Pageant (with collaborators Frank Kelly, Albert Evans and Robert Longbottom) and directed it at the King’s Head Theatre in London. The production transferred to the West End, received two Olivier Award nominations, and won that prestigious prize for “Best Supporting Performance in a Musical” for Miles Western’s portrayal of Miss West Coast. He authored the book and lyrics for Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens (music by Janet Hood), directing it in New York and in London’s Fringe and West End, among many others, including a celebrity benefit in New York which was recorded by Fynsworth Alley. Other credits as bookwriter/lyricist include: Off-Broadway’s Fourtune and The Texas Chainsaw Musical (co-author), Family Style (Minneapolis), Lucky Duck (originally Everything’s Ducky, with Henry Krieger and Jeffrey Hatcher), and Kept with Henry Krieger and Steven Chbosky. He adapted the book of Call Me Madam for City Center Encores! starring Tyne Daly. The Last Smoker in America, for which he wrote the book and lyrics with composer Peter Melnick, opened Off-Broadway in 2012 and the Original Cast Recording was recently released on the Yellow Sound Label. Henry Krieger, Composer began composing for Off-Off Broadway in his twenties, a venue that led to his meeting with playwright-lyricist Tom Eyen. Together with director-choreographer Michael Bennett, they created the long-running Broadway hit musical, Dreamgirls, which opened at the Imperial Theatre on December 20, 1981. Dreamgirls won six Tony Awards®, and Mr. Krieger was nominated for his now-legendary score, for which he won the Grammy Award® for Best Original Cast Album. Dreamgirls generated new success with new audiences as a Dreamworks film written and directed by Bill Condon. The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards®, including three nominations for Mr. Krieger for “Love You, I Do,” “Listen” and “Patience.” He received a Grammy Award® for “Love You, I Do.” Side Show, his most recent Broadway musical, was directed and choreographed by Robert Longbottom with book and lyrics by Bill Russell. The musical received four Tony® nominations, including Best Score. His last collaboration with Bill Russell resulted in Up in the Air, which made its world premiere at the Kennedy Center in 2008 under the direction of Amon Miyamoto. Bill Condon, Director and Additional Book Material is happy to be reuniting with Henry Krieger, having previously collaborated with him on the film adaptation of the Broadway smash Dreamgirls. Mr. Condon directed from his own screenplay and was nominated for a Directors Guild of America Award. Condon also wrote and directed Kinsey, for which he won the 2005 Best Director Award from the British Directors Guild. He previously wrote and directed Gods and Monsters, which earned him an Academy Award® for Best Adapted Screenplay. Mr. Condon wrote the screenplay for the film version of the musical Chicago, for which he received a second Oscar® nomination. More recently, Condon directed The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Parts 1 and 2, as well as The Fifth Estate, which is currently playing in theatres. Anthony van Laast, Choreographer La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Worldwide: Sister Act (Olivier Award nomination; Astaire Award nomination; Das Musical Award, Germany); Mamma Mia! (Dora Award, Canada); Bombay Dreams (Tony Award® nomination); Jesus Christ Superstar; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Olivier nomination; Das Musical Award); Song and Dance (Green Room Award, Australia). West End: Candide (Olivier Award - Best Musical), A Little Night Music, Into the Woods, Chess, Whistle Down the Wind, Hair (Olivier nomination). Film: Never Say Never Again, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Mamma Mia!. Las Vegas: Siegfried and Roy. In 1999, Her Majesty The Queen made Mr. van Laast an MBE for services to Dance.
THE COMPANY Sam Davis, Music Supervision and New Vocal/Dance Arrangements La Jolla Playhouse: Palm Beach: The Screwball Musical. Broadway as Arranger or Conductor: Big Fish, Drood, Scandalous, Curtains and The Apple Tree; Musical Supervisor for Dreamgirls at the Apollo (also national tour, Korea and South Africa). Kennedy Center: Trumpet of the Swan (orchestrator) and Susan Stroman’s Little Dancer (dance music arranger). As composer: Bunnicula (National Alliance Award, DR2 Theater), Love and Real Estate (59 E 59), The Red Eye of Love (Amas Theater Company) and the album Love on a Summer Afternoon (P.S. Classics). Winner of the Jonathan Larson Award for Composition and a graduate of the University of Michigan. www.samdavismusic.com Greg Jarrett, Music Director/Conductor La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Off-Broadway: Passion (Classic Stages, Assoc. MD); Death Takes a Holiday (Roundabout, Assoc. MD). City Center Encores!: The Cradle Will Rock (Assoc. MD); I’m Getting My Act Together... (Assoc. MD), plus several others. Regional: The Producers at The Hollywood Bowl (Assoc. MD); ...Spelling Bee (Paper Mill, Assoc. MD) and 92Y Lyrics and Lyricists: Stage Door Canteen (Assoc. MD). Education: B.M. in Composition and Music Theory from the University of Michigan. Harold Wheeler, Orchestrations La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Mr. Wheeler holds the distinction of being the first African-American to conduct the annual Academy Awards® and a Broadway musical, Promises, Promises. Other Broadway credits include The Wiz (original production), A Chorus Line, Lena Horne –The Lady and Her Music, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Dreamgirls and Never Gonna Dance. He received Tony Award® nominations for Little Me, Swing!, The Life, The Full Monty, Hairspray and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and won a Drama Desk Award for his work on Hairspray. He composed the score for the film Love! Valor! Compassion! and acted as co-Musical Director for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Currently, he is the Musical Director for the ABC series Dancing with the Stars. He is married to actress/singer Hattie Winston. David Rockwell, Scenic Designer La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Broadway: Lucky Guy (Tony Award® nomination), Kinky Boots (Tony® nomination), Catch Me if You Can, Hairspray (Tony®, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Award nominations), Legally Blonde (Drama Desk nomination), Harvey, The Normal Heart, Dead Accounts, A Free Man of Color, The Rocky Horror Show (Drama Desk nomination) and All Shook Up (Drama Desk nomination). Other work: Dolby Theatre, W Paris-Opéra, 2010’s Academy Awards® (Emmy® Award), Imagination Playground, Lincoln Center’s Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center and Hudson Yards’ future Culture Shed. He is the founder of Rockwell Group, a New York-based architecture and design firm. Paul Tazewell, Costume Designer La Jolla Playhouse: Sideways, His Girl Friday, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Jesus Christ Superstar, Memphis, The Wiz, Private Fittings and Palm Beach. Broadway: A Streetcar Named Desire, Memphis, In the Heights, The Color Purple, Bring in ’da Noise… (Tony nominations); Magic/Bird, Jesus Christ Superstar, Lombardi, The Miracle Worker, Guys and Dolls, Caroline, or Change, A Raisin in the Sun, Drowning Crow, Elaine Stritch: At Liberty, On the Town, Fascinating Rhythm and Def Poetry Jam. Off-Broadway: Ruined, McReele, Flesh and Blood, Fame, Boston Marriage and Harlem Song. Stratford Shakespeare Festival: A Word or Two, Pirates of Penzance, Henry V, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Tempest, Macbeth, Caesar and Cleopatra and Romeo and Juliet. Regional: Guthrie, NYSF, Old Globe, Arena Stage, Shakespeare Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Alliance and Pasadena Playhouse. Opera: Faust (English National Opera); Porgy and Bess (Chicago Lyric, San Francisco Opera, L.A. Opera, Washington Opera); Magdalena (Théâtre du Châtelet); Little Women (New York City Opera, Glimmerglass Opera); Treemonisha (St. Louis Opera). Awards: Three Helen Hayes Awards plus Lucille Lortel, Jefferson, Princess Grace and Irene Sharaff awards.
Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer, Lighting Designers are design partners for Broadway, film and the music industry. Broadway highlights include Lucky Guy, Angels in America, Jelly’s Last Jam, Bring in ‘da Noise, Bring in ‘da Funk, Ragtime, Marie Christine and Chita Rivera: A Dancer’s Life. Concert highlights include Neil Young, Whitney Houston, David Bowie, The Rolling Stones, Fishbone and Parliament Funkadelics. Side Show reunites their collaboration with Bill Condon, having provided lighting design for his films Chicago and Dreamgirls. Kai Harada, Sound Designer La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Broadway: Million Dollar Quartet, Follies (Drama Desk and Tony Award® nominations) and First Date. OffBroadway: Spandex! The Musical and Fun Home (Public Theatre). Regional: Rent, Secondhand Lions (5th Avenue); She Loves Me (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); First You Dream (Kennedy Center) and Zorro (Alliance Theatre). Touring: Barbie Live! International: Hinterm Horizont (Berlin). Associate design credits to Tony Meola: Kiss Me, Kate; Man of La Mancha and Wicked. Education: Yale University. Charles G. LaPointe, Hair and Wig Design La Jolla Playhouse: His Girl Friday, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, A Dram of Drummhicit, Peer Gynt and Bonnie & Clyde. Broadway: After Midnight, Beautiful, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Soul Doctor, Motown, Jekyll and Hyde, Clybourne Park, Bring It On, Newsies, The Columnist, Magic/Bird, Bonnie & Clyde, The Mountaintop, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Merchant of Venice, Memphis, Henry IV, Cymbeline, Lombardi, Fences, Looped, Miracle Worker, Superior Donuts, 33 Variations, Guys and Dolls, In the Heights, Jersey Boys, The Color Purple, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, Good Vibrations and A Raisin in the Sun. Dave Elsey and Lou Elsey, Special Makeup Effects Design La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Creature FX Designers Dave and Lou Elsey have demonstrated an extraordinary ability to create memorable characters using make up and animatronics for the last twenty years. Between the two, they have worked as a special makeup-effects artists on such films as Mission: Impossible, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Braveheart, X-Men First Class and The Mummy. They are well known by genre fans for their work on the sci-fi TV series Farscape, for which they designed and maintained 600 different creatures. For his role as the Creature Shop Supervisor for Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, Mr. Elsey and his team were responsible for bringing to life all of the animatronics and prosthetic creatures, which garnered an Academy Award® nomination for Achievement in Makeup. They also supervised and/or created creatures for Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are and collaborated with Rick Baker for the Universal picture The Wolfman, earning the Academy Award® for Achievement in Makeup. Cookie Jordan, Makeup Designer La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Broadway: After Midnight, Fela, Motherfu**er with the Hat, Lombardi, Fela, The Miracle Worker, A View from the Bridge and South Pacific. Off-Broadway: Hurt Village, Angels in America (Signature Theater); King Lear, Neighbors (Public Theater). National Tour: Flashdance. Regional: White Noise (Royal George Theater); You, Nero (Arena Stage); The Wiz, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Dallas Theater Center); Liberty Smith, 1776, Hello, Dolly (Ford’s Theater); Le Grand Macabre, Cunning Little Vixen (New York Philharmonic). Ursula Meyer, Accent Consultant La Jolla Playhouse: Blood and Gifts, Zhivago, Sweet Bird of Youth, Notes from Underground, The Farnsworth Invention and The Importance of Being Earnest. Regional: South Coast Rep, Guthrie Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Co., The Old Globe, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Yale Rep, ACT – Seattle, Utah Shakespeare. Awards: Distinguished Teaching Award – 2007, UC San Diego. Teaching: Yale School of Drama, UCSB, currently UC San Diego. Training: ADVS Central School London, M.F.A. U.W. Seattle, Designated Linklater Teacher.
THE COMPANY Shirley Fishman, Resident Dramaturg Now in her 12th season at the Playhouse, Ms. Fishman most recently served as Dramaturg on Sideways, Glengarry Glen Ross, An Iliad, Hands on a Hardbody, American Night and other projects in development. Other shows include Ruined, Surf Report, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Bonnie & Clyde, Creditors, Herringbone, Unusual Acts of Devotion, the Playhouse’s production of Xanadu and UC San Diego’s The Revenger’s Tragedy, directed by Christopher Ashley. At the Joseph Papp Public Theater she dramaturged such projects as Jessica Hagedorn’s Dogeaters, Two Sisters and a Piano by Nilo Cruz and Tina Landau’s Space, among others, and was co-curator of the New Work Now! annual new play festival. She serves as a Playwright’s Dramaturg for UC San Diego’s Wagner New Play Festival and has been a Dramaturg at the Sundance Theatre Lab, Magic Theatre, Native Voices at the Autry and Playwrights Project, among others. She is an M.F.A. graduate of Columbia University’s Theatre Theory/Criticism/Dramaturgy program. Laura Stanczyk, CSA, Casting La Jolla Playhouse: Sleeping Beauty Wakes. Selected Broadway, OffBroadway and tours: After Midnight, A Night with Janis Joplin, Follies, Lombardi, Ragtime, Impressionism, Seafarer, Radio Golf, Coram Boy, Translations, Damn Yankees, Dirty Dancing, The Glorious Ones, Cripple of Inishmaan, Tryst, Flight and Urinetown. Premieres of Are You There McPhee, Cotton Club Parade, Harps and Angels, Me Myself & I, Fetch Clay Make Man, Gruesome Playground Injuries and Golden Age, as well as Master Class, Lisbon Traviata, Shawshank Redemption and Long Day’s Journey into Night. Regionally: The Kennedy Center, Shakespeare Theatre of Washington, DC, McCarter, Wilma, Alley, Drury Lane, Signature and ACT. Linda Marvel, Production Stage Manager La Jolla Playhouse: Hands on a Hardbody, 33 Variations and The Scottish Play. Broadway: Hands on a Hardbody, Fela!, 33 Variations, The Little Dog Laughed, How to Succeed in Business.... Off-Broadway: premieres of Sam Shepard’s The God of Hell and Michael Weller’s Beast, and productions at Second Stage, Playwrights Horizons, NYTW, MCC and TFANA. Ms. Marvel is an adjunct professor in the MFA Stage Management program at Columbia University.
CJ LaRoche, Stage Manager La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Broadway: The Addams Family. Off-Broadway: Old Jews Telling Jokes (Westside Theatre); The Fantasticks (Snapple Theater Center); Three on a Couch (Soho Playhouse) and Phallacy (Cherry Lane Theatre). National Tour: Flashdance the Musical. NYC: Gallery Players, Prospect Theater Company, The Workshop Theatre Company. Regional: Actors Theatre of Louisville, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Riverside Theatre, John W. Engeman Theater, Dorset Theatre Festival. Many thanks to Marvel for inviting me to the party and much love to Cate because of whom all things are possible. Jess Slocum, Assistant Stage Manager La Jolla Playhouse: Ruined, The Third Story, Memphis, Most Wanted. Broadway: In the Heights. Regional: 2011-2013 Shakespeare Festivals, A Doll’s House, Pygmalion, A Room with a View, The Rocky Horror Show, Rafta, Rafta..., Robin and the 7 Hoods, Alive and Well, Sammy, Cornelia, Since Africa, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, The Glass Menagerie (The Old Globe); Post Office (Center Theatre Group); Tranquillity Woods (Steppenwolf). San Diego: Mo’olelo, North Coast Repertory, Lamb’s Players Theatre. Education: Vanderbilt University. THE JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS is America’s living memorial to President Kennedy and the nation’s busiest performing arts facility, annually presenting more than 2,000 performances for audiences totaling nearly two million. Center-related touring productions, television, and radio broadcasts welcome 40 million more. Now in its 43rd season, the Center presents music, dance, and theater; supports artists in the creation of new work; and serves the nation as a leader in arts education. With its artistic affiliates, the National Symphony Orchestra, Washington National Opera, the Center’s achievements as a commissioner, producer, and nurturer of developing artists have resulted in more than 200 theatrical productions, dozens of new ballets, operas, and musical works. Recent Broadway productions include 2011’s Follies (8 Tony nominations, one win) and 2009’s Ragtime (6 Tony nominations).
Acknowledgements Special thanks to the following for their support of this production: HME • Maria Gonzales, Clear Com • Mystic Beading • McCarter Theatre Costume Shop • Arena Stage Costume Shop Old Globe Theatre Costume Shop • Helen Uffner Vintage Clothing • Western costume • Genesee Dry Cleaners Leather Magic • Inglot • Donna Langman Studio • Tavi Stutz • Doug Grekin • Sharp Business Systems Jack Tantleff Lighting Equipment provided by PRG Lighting • Sound Equipment provided by Sound Associates, Inc. Sound Console provided by Bjorn Van Munster, Salzbrenner Stragetec, Polaris Team
* Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. This theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association. This Theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, an independent national labor union.
This Theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 of the IATSE.
La Jolla Playhouse is a member of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT) and a constituent of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national service organization for the nonprofit professional theatre.
LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE LEADERSHIP Christopher Ashley, Artistic Director has served as La Jolla Playhouse’s Artistic Director since October, 2007. During his tenure, he has helmed the Playhouse’s productions of His Girl Friday, Glengarry Glen Ross, A Dram of Drummhicit, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Restoration and the acclaimed musicals Xanadu and Memphis, which won four 2010 Tony Awards including Best Musical. Prior to joining the Playhouse, he directed the Broadway productions of Xanadu (Drama Desk nomination), All Shook Up and The Rocky Horror Show (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations), as well as the Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration productions of Sweeney Todd and Merrily We Roll Along. Other New York credits include: Blown Sideways Through Life, Jeffrey (Lucille Lortel and Obie Awards), The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, Valhalla, Regrets Only, Wonder of the World, Communicating Doors, Bunny Bunny, The Night Hank Williams Died and Fires in the Mirror (Lucille Lortel Award), among others. Mr. Ashley also directed the feature film Jeffrey and the American Playhouse production of Blown Sideways Through Life for PBS. Mr. Ashley is the recipient of the Princess Grace Award, the Drama League Director Fellowship and an NEA/TCG Director Fellowship. Michael S. Rosenberg, Managing Director has served as Managing Director of La Jolla Playhouse since April, 2009. During his four years at the Playhouse, he has worked in partnership with Artistic Director Christopher Ashley to produce fourteen world premieres, seven Playhouse commissions and the hit musicals Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Hands on a Hardbody and Little Miss Sunshine. He was also instrumental in bringing the Page To Stage workshop of John Leguizamo’s Diary of a Madman to the Playhouse, which transferred to Broadway. Additionally, he fostered the growth of the Playhouse’s award-winning Performance Outreach Program (POP) Tour, achieving the most performances at local schools in Playhouse history. Previously, Rosenberg was Co-Founder and Executive Director of Drama Dept., a New York non-profit theatre company, where he produced new works by the likes of Douglas Carter Beane, Warren Leight, Isaac Mizrahi, Paul Rudnick and David and Amy Sedaris. He has been a part of the producing teams for the Broadway productions of Grey Gardens and American Buffalo and the national tour of Little House on the Prairie. He serves on the boards of La Jolla County Day School and the Theatre Communications Group.
Debby Buchholz, General Manager has served as General Manager of La Jolla Playhouse since 2002. She is a member of the Executive Committee and of the League of Resident Theaters (LORT). In 2009, she received a San Diego Women Who Mean Business Award from The San Diego Business Journal. Previously she served as Counsel to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, DC. She was a faculty member of the Smithsonian Institution’s program on Legal Problems of Museum Administration. Prior to the Kennedy Center, she served as a corporate attorney in New York City and Washington, DC. She is a graduate of UC San Diego and Harvard Law School. Ms. Buchholz and her husband, noted author and White House economic policy advisor Todd Buchholz, live in Solana Beach and are the proud parents of Victoria, Katherine and Alexia. Des McAnuff, Director Emeritus served as La Jolla Playhouse’s Artistic Director from 1983 through 1994, and from 2001 through April, 2007. Under his leadership, the Playhouse garnered more than 300 awards, including the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre. Playhouse to Broadway credits: Jersey Boys (four Tony Awards); Billy Crystal’s 700 Sundays (Tony Award); How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (five Tony nominations); director and co-author with Pete Townshend on The Who’s Tommy (Tony and Olivier Awards for Best Director) and Big River (seven Tony Awards), among others. Film credits: Quills, The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, The Iron Giant (9 Animation Society awards) and Cousin Bette. Recipient of the Drama League’s 2006 Julia Hansen Award, Mr. McAnuff served as Artistic Director at Canada’s Stratford Festival from 2007 through 2012. He recently directed the hit productions of Sideways, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots and Jesus Christ Superstar at the Playhouse.
PATRON SERVICES PATRON SERVICES is located in the lobby area of each theatre. A representative is available to answer questions and hand out assisted listening devices, restaurant guides, performance schedules and subscription information. BARS AND CONCESSIONS are open one hour prior to curtain and during intermissions. To avoid the rush, intermission beverages can be ordered before the show. CAMERAS AND RECORDING DEVICES are strictly
in the theatre. Please check these items with the P13 prohibited PERFORMANCES MAGAZINe House Manager and turn off your camera phone.
PARKING is free for subscribers; $2 for the general public on weekdays (free on weekends). Upon arrival to campus, please enter your parking space number and pay the automated paystations located in the parking lot. Spaces that are not paid for are subject to ticketing by UC San Diego Campus Police. BABES IN ARMS Out of respect for fellow audience members and the performers, babes in arms are not permitted in the theatre during performances.
ACCESSIBILITY
La Jolla Playhouse provides wheelchair-accessible seating and parking. Wheelchair seat locations are available for wheelchair users and a companion at all performances; be sure to advise the reservationist that you require a wheelchair location. Additionally, a golf cart is available to assist patrons with accessibility needs to and from the parking lot. Please notify the Box Office prior to your performance if you are in need of this service; additionally, you may pull into the five minute parking in front of the theatre, and a friendly La Jolla Playhouse greeter will assist you.The Playhouse also provides assisted listening devices for patrons who are hard of hearing. Devices are available, free of charge, at the Patron Services Center prior to performances (subject to availability). Listening Devices Provided in Part by
LATECOMERS or PATRONS WHO LEAVE THEIR SEAT DURING THE PERFORMANCE will be admitted to the standing room section of the theatre at the discretion of the House Manager. They may take their assigned seats at intermission. La Jolla Playhouse accepts no responsibility for inconvenience to latecomers.
PLEASE SILENCE all electronic devices including cellular phones, watches and pagers before the performance. Safety in the Theatre District La Jolla Playhouse is constantly working with the UC San Diego Police Department and UC San Diego Transportation and Parking Services, which operates the parking lot and security system, to maintain and improve security conditions for patrons and staff members. Additionally, patrons and staff are welcome to use UC San Diego Community Service Officers (CSOs) for an escort to their cars by calling (858) 534-WALK (9255). Further questions regarding security may be addressed to UC San Diego Police at (858) 534-HELP (4357). DOCTORS AND PARENTS expecting calls during the performance should leave their names and seat numbers with the House Manager before the show. Leave the following number with your service: (858) 550-1030. THEATRE TOURS Tour the stages and production shops of the Playhouse facilities and learn more about the history of La Jolla Playhouse and the role that it plays in the community. Contact (858) 550-1070 x101.
Conjoined Twins Excerpted from an Essay by Craig Sanders
There is an extremely rare form of identical twins that occurs perhaps in one out of every 75,000 to 100,000 births or 1 in 200 deliveries of identical twins, that of conjoined twins. Conjoined twins originate from a single fertilized egg so they are always identical and same-sex twins. The developing embryo starts to split into identical twins within the first two weeks after conception but then stops before completion, leaving a partially separated egg which continues to mature into a conjoined fetus. The birth of two connected babies can be extremely traumatic and approximately 40-60% of these births are delivered stillborn with 35% surviving just one day. The overall survival rate of conjoined twins is somewhere between 5-25% and historical records over the past 500 years detail about 600 surviving sets of conjoined twins with more than 70% of those surviving pairs resulting in female twins. While there are dozens of types of conjoined twins, doctors generally divide the types into the more common variations described in the below chart. All of these types can be more broadly categorized as displaying either equal and symmetrical forms or unequal and possible asymmetrical forms.
Scientific Term
Description
Craniopagus
Twins are joined at the cranium (the top of the head or skull). Occuring in just 2% of all conjoined twin cases, this is a very difficult type of twin to separate although advances in medicine have led to more than 35 successful separations. Two female craniopagus twins were successfully separated in Lithuania in 1989, for example.
Thoraopagus
The most common form of conjoined twins, occuring in between 35-40% of all cases. The twins share part of the chest wall, possibly including sharing the heart.
Pygopagus
Twins are likely positioned back-to-back and usually have a posterior connecton at the rump. Occurs in almost 20% of documented cases.
Ischiopagus
About 6% of all conjoined twins have this condition, with the twins joined by the coccyx (lowest part of the backbone) and the sacrum (backbone immediately above the coccyx).
Omphalopagus
Twins are united from the waist to the lower breastbone, probably accounting for about 34% of conjoined cases.
Dicephalus
One body with two separate heads and necks. Abigail and Brittany Hensel of the United States are an example of this very rare type of conjoined twin. The Tocci Brothers, Scottish Brothers and Ritta and Christina were also examples of this type of conjoined twin.
Perhaps the most famous pair of conjoined twins were Eng and Chang Bunker, who were born in Siam (now Thailand) on May 10, 1811 and died within hours of each other on January 17, 1874 at age 62. The Bunker Twins fathered 21 children between them and were successful businessman and ranchers in Wilkes County, North Carolina. Attached by a five-inch connecting ligament near their breastbones, Eng and Chang married sisters Sallie and Adelaide Yates, respectively, and lived fairly private lives when they weren’t touring the world to earn incomes. After their deaths it was determined they could have been successfully separated, a medical option that was never offered to Eng and Chang during their lives. Although Eng and Chang’s fame helped coin the phrase ‘Siamese Twins’, they were not the first pair of conjoined twins recorded in medical annals as there were probably about 100 such pairs known by the time of their 1811 births, a fact which helped the King of Siam reverse an early death sentence on the brothers. In fact, conjoined twins were recorded as early as 945 in Armenia and the first pair of successfully separated twins took place in 1689 by German physician G. König. While there aren’t any documented cases of conjoined triplets, there have been triplet births that featured conjoined twins, most recently Nida and Hira Jamal of Pakistan. Although the two Craniopagus girls were successfully separated, tragically Nira’s heart wasn’t strong enough after the separation and she died shortly after the operation. Today, most pairs of conjoined twins are successfully identified during prenatal examinations. Some types of conjoined twins are much easier to separate while other rare forms lead to complicated and costly procedures that can lead to difficult ethical and moral decisions of separation surgery, especially if the twins share internal organs. Conjoined sisters Angela and Amy Lakeberg of Indiana shared just one heart when born. They were separated August 20, 1993 in a ceremony in which Amy was allowed to die. Tragically, Angela died less than a year later. According to the book ‘Entwined Lives’, there have been approximately 200 attempted surgical separations of conjoined twins, with 90% of these occurring after 1950. Three-quarters of the procedures since 1950 have resulted in one or both of the twins surviving. Several hospitals across the world specialize in these often difficult surgeries. The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has performed more than a dozen successful separation surgeries since its first operation in 1957. The Children’s Hospital of Boston has operated on numerous sets of conjoined twins. Raffles Hospital in Singapore took on the extremely difficult operation of separating 29-year-old Iranian conjoined twins Ladan and Laleh Bijani in July, 2003. While they were able to successfully separate the skulls of this craniopagus set of twins, tragically they were not able to successfully separate the blood stems from their two separate brains and both ladies died on the operating table on July 8th, 2003.
Famous Conjoined Twins
Years
Biddenden Maids – Mary and Eliza Chulkhurst in Kent, England. Wealthy conjoined twins (hips or buttocks) who bequeathed fortune to Church; annual celebration was held in England for centuries where cakes displayed their images.
1100 - 1134
Hungarian Sisters, Helen and Judith – Pygopagus twins who each spoke 4 languages
1701 - 1723
Eng and Chang Bunker – ‘Original Siamese Twins’
1811 - 1874
Millie and Christine McKoy – The Two-Headed Nightingale (Pygopagus Twins)
1851 - 1912
Giacomo and Giovanni Tocci – Inspiration for Mark Twain’s ‘Those Extraordinary Twins’
1877 - 194?
Daisy and Violet Hilton – Vaudeville Performers, Stars of ‘Freaks’ and ‘Chained for Life’
1908 - 1969
Masha and Dasha Krivoshyapovy – Were world’s oldest surviving non-separated conjoined twins at start of 2003.
1950 - 2003?
Ronnie and Donnie Galyon – U.S.’s oldest surviving non-separated conjoined twins
1952 - present
Lori and Dori Schappell – Among the U.S.’s oldest surviving non-separated conjoined twins
1961 - present
Laleh and Ladan Bijani – Iranian twin sisters who died while being separated in surgery in Singapore
1974 - 2003
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