DMPA: The Phantom of the Opera - September 10-21, 2014

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Contents

From the President & CEO............................................... 5 From the Chair................................................................ 7 Annual Fund Donors....................................................... 9

J AC K V I C T O R EXCLUSIVE COLLECTION

The Phantom of the Opera.............................................. 13 The Phantom of the Opera Cast.. ..................................... 15 The Phantom of the Opera Musical Numbers.................. 17 The Phantom of the Opera Who’s Who in the Cast.......... 19 The Phantom of the Opera Staff and Credits.................

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Des Moines Performing Arts Board of Directors........... 58 Des Moines Performing Arts Staff................................ 59 Guest Information....................................................... 60

FROM THE PRESIDENT & CEO

Dear friends, Welcome to the Des Moines Civic Center and to the new production of The Phantom of the Opera, presented as part of the Willis Broadway Series.

Our first engagement of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera in 1997 forever changed the landscape of touring Broadway in Des Moines. At the time, the Civic Center had limited experience in presenting multi-week engagements. Only the first national tour of Annie had been presented for a two-week run in 1981 and again in 1982.

We presented the 1997 engagement of Phantom for a record five weeks, and 100,000 people from throughout Iowa and beyond attended. It was a major cultural coup, and the economic impact on Central Iowa was tremendous.

That run helped us launch our first Broadway subscription series. It also established the level of quality that is still the foundation of the shows we present in the Willis Broadway Series.

Those who have seen previous performances of The Phantom of the Opera will notice several changes in this new touring production. While much of the original creative team is represented once again, this production features a new scenic design by Paul Brown, new staging by Laurence Connor – last represented here in 2013 as co-director of the touring production of Les Misérables – and new choreography by Scott Ambler. The production is overseen by Matthew Bourne (choreographer and director of Sleeping Beauty last fall) and producer Cameron Mackintosh.

This production is the second of three musicals by Andrew Lloyd Webber that we are presenting this year. We look forward to seeing you in November for the final installment of the trilogy, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

We hope you enjoy this new production of the epic musical The Phantom of the Opera.

Jeff Chelesvig President & CEO Des Moines Performing Arts 5

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FROM THE CHAIR

Dear friends, Welcome to the Des Moines Civic Center and to the Willis Broadway Series.

On behalf of the Board of Directors, please accept our sincere thanks to our loyal Season Ticket Holders and to our Donors whose generous gifts are the foundation for all we do. We truly appreciate your support.

In addition to the Willis Broadway Series, Des Moines Performing Arts presents The Dance Series, the Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield Family Series, and three offerings within the Prairie Meadows Temple Theater Series – the Temple Comedy Series, Live at the Temple and Lunch Unplugged.

The staff and board take great pride in making our four venues performance homes for our entire community, including the Des Moines Symphony. To embrace our roots, we welcome local artists, dance studios, students and more onto our stages each year.

Des Moines Performing Arts is also a national leader in theater and arts education. More than 50,000 students attend curriculum-connected performances in our facilities each year. Teachers learn to incorporate the arts into traditional classroom topics. The Iowa High School Musical Theater Awards program is elevating and showcasing the work of high schools and their students.

As a non-profit organization, Des Moines Performing Arts requires your help to make all of this happen. We ask for your support as a Donor and appreciate your help in creating a world-class performing arts center.

To learn more about attending any of our performances or about making a donation, please visit DesMoinesPerformingArts.org or call (515) 246-2300.

Thank you for being here. Enjoy the show!

Thomas Brown Chair of the Board of Directors Des Moines Performing Arts

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Des Moines Performing Arts thanks its

PREMIER PARTNERS for their support:

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Polk County Board of Supervisors Prairie Meadows Thomas Press and Donna Paulsen The Principal Financial Group Register Media John Ruan Foundation Trust Mike Simonson Tom Stanberry Jeffrey and Mary Stier UnityPoint Health - Des Moines Vision Iowa Joe and Rhonda Watton Wells Fargo Douglas and Deborah West James and Ann Willer Angela Williams Connie Wimer and Frank Fogarty

welcome Once again the Willis Auto Campus is honored to provide title sponsorship to Des Moines Performing Arts’ main stage season in the form of the 2014-2015 Willis Broadway Series. We recognize the importance of this type of cultural enrichment and appreciate the vitality it brings to our community.

It is our privilege, through our partnership with Des Moines Performing Arts, to bring world class productions like The Phantom of the Opera to Central Iowa.

ENJOY THE SHOW! — Rich Willis, President

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DES MOINES CIVIC CENTER A Des Moines Performing Arts Theater Jeff Chelesvig, President & CEO

IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE REALLY USEFUL GROUP

CAMERON MACKINTOSH PRESENTS

THE NEW PRODUCTION OF

ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER’S

Starring

COOPER GRODIN JULIA UDINE BEN JACOBY and

EDWARD STAUDENMAYER BRAD OSCAR LINDA BALGORD FRANK VIVEROS

JACQUELYNNE FONTAINE HANNAH FLORENCE

At certain performances

GRACE MORGAN plays the role of Christine

Music by ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER Lyrics by CHARLES HART Additional Lyrics by RICHARD STILGOE Book by RICHARD STILGOE & ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER Based on the novel “Le Fantôme de l’Opéra” by GASTON LEROUX Orchestrations by DAVID CULLEN & ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER Musical Supervisor JOHN RIGBY Video & Projection Design by NINA DUNN for Knifedge Sound Design by MICK POTTER Lighting by PAULE CONSTABLE Costume Design by MARIA BJÖRNSON Set Design by PAUL BROWN Choreography by SCOTT AMBLER Directed by LAURENCE CONNOR For THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA National Tour Costume Coordinator for the late MARIA BJÖRNSON CHRISTINE ROWLAND Associate Choreographer NINA GOLDMAN

Casting by TARA RUBIN CASTING MERRI SUGARMAN, CSA

US Musical Supervisor JAMES LOWE

Musical Director RICHARD CARSEY

Associate Director SETH SKLAR-HEYN

Production overseen by MATTHEW BOURNE & CAMERON MACKINTOSH

A CAMERON MACKINTOSH, THE REALLY USEFUL GROUP and NETWORKS Presentation Original Production still running at the Majestic Theater, New York City and Her Majesty’s Theatre, London, UK Musical Staging and Choreography by GILLIAN LYNNE Directed by HAROLD PRINCE

PRESENTED BY DES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS • SEPTEMBER 10-21, 2014

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CAST The Phantom of the Opera................................................................................................... COOPER GRODIN Christine Daaé.............................................................................................................................. JULIA UDINE Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny.......................................................................................................... BEN JACOBY Carlotta Guidicelli............................................................................ JACQUELYNNE FONTAINE (9/12-9/21)

LINDSAY O’NEIL (9/10-9/11) Monsieur Firmin...................................................................................................... BRAD OSCAR (9/10-9/11)

DAVID BENOIT (9/12-9/21) Monsieur André................................................................................................. EDWARD STAUDENMAYER Madame Giry....................................................................................................LINDA BALGORD (9/10-9/13)

MARGUERITE WILLBANKS (9/14, 9/20-9/21)

CHRISTY MORTON (9/16-9/19) Ubaldo Piangi........................................................................................................................FRANK VIVEROS Meg Giry...................................................................................HANNAH FLORENCE (9/10-9/11, 9/13-9/21) MORGAN COWLING (9/12) Auctioneer........................................................................................MARK EMERSON (9/10-9/14, 9/17-9/21)

DAN DEBENPORT (9/16) Porter................................................................................................................................................. ERIC RUIZ Jeweler (Il Muto)/Passarino.............................................................................. CHRISTOPHER M. HOWARD Monsieur LeFévre/Firechief.......................................................................................................JAY LUSTECK Monsieur Reyer....................................................................................................................DAVID FOLEY, JR. Joseph Buquet................................................................................... ALLAN SNYDER (9/10-9/12, 9/16-9/21)

ADAM BASHIAN (9/13-9/14) Wardrobe Mistress........................................................................CHRISTY MORTON (9/10-9/14, 9/20-9/21)

MARGUERITE WILLBANKS (9/16)

AMY DECKER (9/17-9/19) Princess (Hannibal).......................................................................................................CELIA HOTTENSTEIN Princess (Hannibal).............................................................................................................. GRACE MORGAN Wild Woman (Hannibal).............................................................................................KATHRYN MCCREARY Slave Master (Hannibal)................................................................ DUSTIN LAYTON*/ LUKE LAZZARO** Madame Firmin/Confidante (Il Muto)............................................MARGUERITE WILLBANKS (9/10-9/11)

LINDSAY O’NEIL (9/12-9/21) Hairdresser (Il Muto)................................................................................................MERRITT DAVID JANES Don Attilio (Il Muto).....................................................................................................................QUINTO OTT Policeman in Pit....................................................................................................................... NICK CARTELL The Ballet Chorus of the Opera Populaire.....................................................................MORGAN COWLING, ANJELICA BETTE FELLINI, RAMONA KELLEY, ABIGAIL MENTZER, LILY ROSE PECK, MICKI WEINER Swings...............ADAM BASHIAN, DAN DEBENPORT, AMY DECKER, CHRISTOPHER M. HOWARD, ALEXANDRA PERNICE, TARA SWEENEY, MARGUERITE WILLBANKS Dance Captain........................................................................................................................ TARA SWEENEY Assistant Dance Captain................................................................................... CHRISTOPHER M. HOWARD *Tuesdays/Thursdays/Saturdays **Wednesdays/Fridays/Sundays

UNDERSTUDIES

For The Phantom of the Opera – ERIC RUIZ, ALLAN SNYDER; for Christine Daaé – GRACE MORGAN, CELIA HOTTENSTEIN; for Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny – NICK CARTELL, ERIC RUIZ; for Carlotta Giudicelli – KATHRYN MCCREARY, LINDSAY O’NEIL; for Monsieur Firmin – DAVID FOLEY, JR., JAY LUSTECK; for Monsieur André –MARK EMERSON, MERRITT DAVID JANES; for Madame Giry – CHRISTY MORTON, MARGUERITE WILLBANKS; for Ubaldo Piangi – EDWARD JUVIER, JAY LUSTECK; for Meg Giry – MORGAN COWLING, TARA SWEENEY

ORCHESTRA

Under the direction of RICHARD CARSEY Associate Music Director: JAMIE JOHNS Violin: GARRY IANCO; Keyboards: ELAINE DAVIDSON, CHRIS KONG, RUTH KWAN

LOCAL MUSICIANS

Reeds: SONJA GILES, JIM ROMAIN, CLARENCE PADILLA, KEVIN JUDGE; French Horn: BRET SEEBECK; Violins: JULIE FOX HENSON, TRACY ENGMAN FINKELSHTYNE; Viola: SHERIDA JOSEPHSON; Cello: MARY PSHONIK; Bass: ALAN HENSON Musical Contractor: HAROLD JANSEN

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MUSICAL NUMBERS PROLOGUE The stage of the Paris Opera House, 1911..........................................................Auctioneer, Raoul & Company

OVERTURE ACT ONE - Paris, late 19th century SCENE 1 The Dress Rehearsal of Hannibal Think of Me......................................................................................................... Carlotta, Christine & Raoul SCENE 2 After the Gala Angel of Music..................................................................................................................... Christine & Meg SCENE 3 Corps de Ballet Dressing Room Little Lotte/The Mirror (Angel of Music)....................................................Raoul, Christine & The Phantom SCENE 4 The Labyrinth Underground The Phantom of the Opera..................................................................................... The Phantom & Christine SCENE 5 The Phantom’s Lair The Music of the Night............................................................................................................... The Phantom SCENE 6 Beyond the Lake, the Next Morning I Remember/Stranger Than You Dreamt It............................................................ Christine & The Phantom SCENE 7 Backstage Magical Lasso.............................................................................Buquet, Meg, Madame Giry & Ballet Girls SCENE 8 The Manager’s Office Notes/Prima Donna.......................................................................... Firmin, André, Raoul, Carlotta, Piangi, Madame Giry, Meg & The Phantom SCENE 9 A Performance of Il Muto Poor Fool, He Makes Me Laugh.................................................................................... Carlotta & Company SCENE 10 The Roof of the Opera House Why Have You Brought Me Here?/ Raoul, I’ve Been There............................................. Raoul & Christine All I Ask of You................................................................................................................... Raoul & Christine All I Ask of You (Reprise)........................................................................................................... The Phantom

ENTR’ACTE ACT TWO - Twelve months later SCENE 1 The Grand Ballroom at the Opera House, New Year’s Eve Masquerade/Why So Silent?.....................................................................................................Full Company SCENE 2 Backstage........................................................................................................Raoul & Madame Giry SCENE 3 The Manager’s Office Notes/Twisted Every Way.................................................................. André, Firmin, Carlotta, Piangi, Raoul, Christine, Madame Giry & The Phantom SCENE 4 A Rehearsal for Don Juan Triumphant......................................... Christine, Piangi, Reyer, Carlotta, Madame Giry & Company SCENE 5 A Graveyard in Perros Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again..........................................................................................Christine Wandering Child/Bravo, Bravo...................................................................The Phantom, Christine & Raoul SCENE 6 Before the Premiere.................................................Raoul, André, Firmin, Firemen & The Phantom SCENE 7 Don Juan Triumphant.......................................................... Carlotta, Piangi, Passarino & Company The Point of No Return.......................................................................................... The Phantom & Christine SCENE 8 The Labyrinth Underground Down Once More/Track Down This Murderer.........................................................................Full Company SCENE 9 The Phantom’s Lair...................................................... Christine, The Phantom, Raoul & Company The use of any recording device, either audio or video, and the taking of photographs, either with or without flash, is strictly prohibited.

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WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST Jekyll & Hyde. West End: The Producers. OffB’way: Forbidden B’way, The Body Beautiful, Bells Are Ringing (Encores!). Regional: Barrington Stage, Asolo Rep, Arena Stage, Old Globe. Film: Ghost Town, The Producers. TV: Smash, The Good Wife and three Law & Orders.

COOPER GRODIN (The Phantom). Credits include: Shakespeare in the Park’s Into The Woods, Drama Desk-nominated The Golden Land, Les Misérables (25th anniversary tour), El Gallo in The Fantasticks, Zorro in Zorro (China), Billy in Carousel, The Count in A Little Night Music, Governor Slaton in Parade, Grendel (City Opera, Julie Taymor dir.), Zaide (Peter Sellars dir.), Paul McCartney’s Ecce Cor Meum (Carnegie Hall debut). Concerts: NY Phil. Films: Music and Lyrics, Salt. His album, It’s The Little Things, is now available on iTunes. For his beautiful parents, Tara Rubin, Merri Sugarman, teachers, coaches, and About Artists Agency. CooperGrodin.com

DAVID BENOIT (Monsieur Firmin). Broadway/ National Tours: Jekyll & Hyde (Bishop/Spider), Avenue Q (Nicky/Trekkie), Les Misérables (Thénardier), Dance of the Vampires, Young Frankenstein (Kemp/Blind Hermit), All Shook Up (Sheriff Earl). Off Broadway: Forbidden Broadway, Forever Plaid, The Big Bang. Regional: Romance in Hard Times (Polly), Adding Machine (Mr. Zero - Helen Hayes Best Actor nom.) For: Mom, Dad and Pio.

JULIA UDINE (Christine Daaé) is honored to be making her touring debut with this new production of The Phantom of the Opera. Theater credits include: Jack’s Back (Jenny), West Side Story (Maria). TV: Law and Order SVU, All My Children. Much love and thanks to her wonderful family, friends, and teachers, especially Melissa Daniels, Andrea Duffin and Bruce Kolb for their inspiration and endless support!

EDWARD STAUDENMAYER (Monsieur André) recently starred as Lord Evelyn in the National Tour of Anything Goes. Broadway: Wonderland and Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me. Ed spent 19 years with Forbidden Broadway, taking him Off-Broadway, around the world and onto three cast recordings. Tours and regional: A Room With A View, Spamalot, Beauty and the Beast, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Joseph…, Cats, Noises Off. Nominations: Barrymore and National Theater Awards. UCLA Graduate.

BEN JACOBY (Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny) has called Chicago his home for the past year and comes to Phantom directly from the Chicago-area Marriott Theatre. Regionally, Ben has appeared at the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Maine State Music Theatre and in several productions at the Utah Shakespeare Festival. He holds undergraduate degrees in English Literature and Theatre from Denison University and an MFA in Acting from UC Irvine. Love and thanks to ALL family and friends.

LINDA BALGORD (Madame Giry). Broadway: The Pirate Queen (Queen Elizabeth I - Drama Desk Award Nomination), Gypsy (2008 Revival Mama Rose Standby), Cats (Grizabella), La Cage Aux Folles (Revival - Marie Dindon), Passion.

National Tours: Sunset Boulevard (Norma Desmond), Aspects of Love (Rose Vibert).

Off-Broadway: Death Takes A Holiday (The Contessa). Myths and Hymns with the Prospect Theatre Company, Jerry Springer The Opera in Concert at Carnegie Hall.

JACQUELYNNE FONTAINE (Carlotta Giudicelli). Regional: The Student Prince (Kathie, Pittsburgh CLO), A Little Night Music (Charlotte, Indiana Rep Theater), The Sound of Music (Elsa, North Shore), A Room With A View (Ragazza, Old Globe). Opera (US/Italy): La Traviata (Violetta), Le Nozze di Figaro (Susanna). Awards: Loren Zachary Grand Nat. Finals (Winner), Miss California 2006, Top Ten Miss America 2007 and the talent award, singing “Vissi d’arte” from Puccini’s Tosca. JacquelynneFontaine.com

FRANK VIVEROS (Ubaldo Piangi) is grateful to be a part of this incredible production! He originated the roles of Bloat The Blowfish in Disney’s Finding Nemo: The Musical, and Iron Chef in Off-Broadway’s Yellow Brick Road.

Favorites: Caroline, or Change (Bus/Dryer), Once on this Island (Agwe), Buddy (Apollo), Songs for a New World (Man 1), Children of Eden (Cain), Sweeney Todd (Beadle). Thanks to God for Meg, Merri Sugarman & Tara Rubin, my friends and incredible Familia. Gracias! @Frrankly

BRAD OSCAR (Monsieur Firmin). B’way: Big Fish, Nice Work…, The Producers (Tony® nom.), The Addams Family, Spamalot, Jekyll & Hyde, Aspects of Love. Nat’l Tours: Young Frankenstein,

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WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST HANNAH FLORENCE (Meg Giry) is so happy to be a part of Phantom. Broadway: Scandalous.

NY: It’s a Bird…It’s a Plane…It’s Superman (Encores!), Where’s Charley? (Encores!), Anna Nicole (NYC Opera/BAM). Mary Poppins (1st National Tour). TV: One Life to Live. NYU alumna. Thanks to Tara Rubin Casting, Nicolosi & Co, friends and family. @yeshannahbanana

MORGAN COWLING (Corps de Ballet, u/s Meg Giry). NYC: Once We Lived Here (Off-Broadway), Bull Durham (Workshop). Regional: Hello, Dolly!; The Madness of May; Disney’s Wishes (Original Cast). Australia: Guys and Dolls, Seussical, Marriage of Figaro, Coram Boy, The Crucible.

Western Australian Academy of Perf. Arts alum.

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GRACE MORGAN (Christine Daaé at certain performances, Princess). Regional: Grease (Sandy, Forestburgh Playhouse). A Little Night Music (Anne, Indiana Repertory Theatre). BFA University of Michigan. Thanks to Tara Rubin Casting, Carson-Adler and my family. For my husband, Daniel. To God be the glory!

DAN DEBENPORT (Swing). Favorite credits: The Sound of Music (Captain von Trapp), Les Misérables (Bishop of Digne), The Music Man (Oliver Hix, 1st National Tour), other classics and new works. TV: Law & Order: SVU (Judge Aidala), 3 feature films and counting. Baylor University and SWBTS grad. Thanks to my friends, family and my CLA family. Reach for the stars and hold fast to the Hand that hung them!

ADAM BASHIAN (Swing) is thrilled to be joining the Phantom phamily with this iconic production!

Favorites: On Your Toes (Encores!), Tamar of the River (Prospect Theatre), Yeoman of the Guard (NYGASP), In Transit, Dr. Zhivago (preBroadway readings). TV: House of Cards. Bass voice in Meredith Monk’s Songs of Ascension.

Thanks to Laurence, Merri, DSM, and the family.

Montclair State Alum 2011. AdamBashian.com NICK CARTELL (Policeman in Pit, Fight Captain, u/s Raoul). National Tour Debut.

Broadway: Jesus Christ Superstar (u/s perf: Jesus/Judas/Annas), Scandalous (OBC Rec). OffBroadway: Frankenstein (OC Rec). Regional: Numerous. Thank you to cast, crew, Tara Rubin Casting, Gotham Talent, family and my amazing wife Christine. NickCartell.com@nickcartell

AMY DECKER (Swing). Tours: The Will Rogers Follies (Betty Blake, opposite Larry Gatlin). NY: Ophelia (Ophelia), Songs…New World (Woman 1).

Regional: The Sound of Music (Maria), The Game (Madame de Tourvel), White Christmas (Betty), The King and I (Anna). Bachelors: Manhattan School of Music. Thanks to the Creative Team and agent Lisa Price at The Price Group. Love to Ryan.

AmyDecker.com MARK EMERSON (Auctioneer, u/s Monsieur André). London: Angels in America (Prior, Lyric Hammersmith). NYC: A Picture of Autumn (Mint Theater). Regional: Sunday in the Park with George, Merton of the Movies (Merton), The Wiz, Zhivago. MFA: UCSD. Love to Family and Jake!

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WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST ANJELICA BETTE FELLINI (Corps de Ballet).

Performed at the New York State Theater, Kennedy Center and Saratoga Springs Performing Arts Center. Studied at The School of American Ballet, San Francisco Ballet and Joffrey Ballet in NYC. At age 7, she worked with Susan Stroman on the Little Dancer workshop at Lincoln Center Theatre as “Marceline.” Anjelica completed her classical training with Edward Ellison of Ellison Ballet.

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CHRISTOPHERM.HOWARD(Swing,Assistant Dance Captain). Phantom marks Christopher’s second US National Tour following the National Tour of Billy Elliot (Older Billy, Ensemble).

Christopher has also toured internationally with A Chorus Line (Larry), danced for Dayton Ballet, earned two degrees from SUNY Buffalo and was a DAVID FOLEY, JR. (Monsieur Reyer, u/s scholarship recipient to the Joffrey Ballet School.

Monsieur Firmin). New York/National tours: @C_M_Howard Shrek the Musical (Shrek u/s), Forbidden Broadway, NEWSical. Favorite regional credits: MERRITT DAVID JANES (Hairdresser, u/s Nathan in Guys and Dolls (STAGES St. Louis, Monsieur André). A UMaine and Circle in the Kevin Kline Award nomination), Burrs in The Square grad originally from Colchester, VT. Wild Party (freeFall Theatre Company), Marlin in Tours: Catch Me If You Can (Hanratty, 1st Nat’l), Finding Nemo the Musical. All my love, KD3!

Shrek (Farquaad), Beauty and the Beast (Lumiere), Sweeney Todd (Sweeney), The Wedding Singer CELIA HOTTENSTEIN (Princess, u/s (Robbie Hart - 1st Nat’l). Other: Carnegie Hall, Christine). National Tour Debut! Proud 2013 Broadway’s Beacon Theatre, Notre Dame graduate of The Boston Conservatory. Thanks to Cathedral in Paris. MerrittDavidJanes.com Mom, Dad, and Booey, my family and friends, Merri Sugarman and Tara Rubin Casting, EDWARD JUVIER (Jeweler, Passarino, u/s Laurence Connor, Fran Charnas, DGRW and last, Ubaldo Piangi). Broadway/Tour: Les Misérables.

WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST NY: Fanny (York), Smoking Bloomberg (NYMF, Best of Fest Award), Drat! The Cat! (ODTC).

Regional/Stock: Disney’s Aladdin (Genie, Regional Prem), The Drowsy Chaperone (Aldolpho, Kevin Kline Nom), I Do! I Do! (Michael), Bat Boy (Rick/Lorraine), Guys and Dolls (Nicely-Nicely), Laughter on the 23rd Floor (Max).

production directed by Hal Prince. National tour: Joseph…Dreamcoat (Levi, TOTS - Atlanta).

Regional favorites: Gigi (Reprise/LA), Oklahoma!

(Lyric Opera of Chicago), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Sacramento Music Circus). Dance: San Francisco Ballet, San Francisco Opera, School of American Ballet. @lukelazzaro

RAMONA KELLEY (Corps de Ballet) is from Berkeley, CA. She holds a BFA in Dance from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She danced the principal role of ‘Betsy’ in Twyla Tharp’s Come Fly Away. Ramona has also performed with Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance, Sidra Bell and Oakland Ballet among others.

JAY LUSTECK (Monsieur LeFévre, Firechief, u/s Monsieur Firmin, u/s Ubaldo Piangi).

Broadway: A Tale of Two Cities. NYC/OffBroadway: Pipe Dream, Fanny, Juno, Of Thee I Sing, Damn Yankees (City Center Encores!), Beowulf (Irish Rep), Showboat in concert (Carnegie Hall). National Tours: Deaf West’s Big River, The Phantom of the Opera. Regionally: 1776, A Tale of Two Cities, The Full Monty. AEA. Love to Shevhan and Eliza! JayLusteck.com

DUSTIN LAYTON (Slave Master). Broadway: The Phantom of the Opera. Off-Broadway: Silence, The Musical. Other: Phantom (Las Vegas), Carousel (VA Opera), North Carolina Dance Theatre. Proud member AEA. Love to Mom, Dad and Destiney. @dustinklayton LUKE LAZZARO (Slave Master) is thrilled to return to Phantom after originating the Las Vegas

KATHRYN MCCREARY (Wild Woman, u/s Carlotta Guidicelli) is overjoyed to be a part of this production! National Tour: Avenue Q. Regional favorites: Spring Awakening; Smokey Joe’s Café; Caroline, or Change; The Women of Brewster Place; The Sound of Music; All Shook Up; Rent.

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WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST BA College of Wooster, MM the Ohio State University. Thank you Mom, Dad, Jessie, John and doggies!

Regional: West Side Story (Graziella) and The Music Man. Thanks to Tara Rubin Casting, family and friends.

ABIGAIL MENTZER (Corps de Ballet) is a New York City native. She received training at the School of American Ballet and New York City Opera. Ms. Mentzer danced as a Soloist with The Pennsylvania Ballet before joining the cast of The Phantom of the Opera. She can be seen in Darren Aronofsky’s feature film Black Swan. Thanks to her family and friends for their love and support.

ERIC RUIZ (Porter, u/s The Phantom, u/s Raoul).

Theater: King Lear with Billy Porter (King Of France/Knight), Twilight In Manchego (Esau), South Pacific (Lt. Cable), The Who’s Tommy (Cousin Kevin). Television: General Hospital, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, The Good Wife.

ALLAN SNYDER (Joseph Buquet, u/s The Phantom) is thrilled to be a part of Phantom!

Broadway: Les Misérables (final cast, original production), Off-Broadway: The Fantasticks.

Select Regional: The Scarlet Pimpernel (Percy), Kiss Me Kate (Fred/Petruchio), The Full Monty (Jerry). Thanks to the Phantom team, Dulcina Eisen Associates, parents, teachers and most of all to my beautiful wife, Kate.

CHRISTY MORTON (Wardrobe Mistress, u/s Madame Giry). National Tours: The Addams Family, Cinderella, Dr. Dolittle. NY/Regional: The York, NYMF, Fringe, Emelin, Pittsburgh CLO, Sacramento Music Circus, Signature DC, Alliance, Barrington Stage, North Shore, Radio City, Kennedy Center, NCT, Riverside, Fulton.

BFA: University of Michigan.

TARA SWEENEY (Corps de Ballet, u/s Meg Giry, Dance Captain), a Kansas City native, is classically trained in both ballet and voice, having studied with The Kansas City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, North Carolina School of the Arts. Favorites: Spamalot (2nd Nat’l), Hello, Dolly! (Dance Captain), Steel Pier (Precious McGuire). Thank you to Ann, Ms. Jane, Niko, Mom and Dad and my shiny new hubby, Glenn.

LINDSAY O’NEIL (Madame Firmin, Confidante, u/s Carlotta). Broadway/Tour: A Christmas Story, The Musical (Mother u/s), Cats (Jellylorum/Griddlebone). New York: The Most Happy Fella, Little Me, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Encores!), Carousel (New York Philharmonic), W.S. Gilbert... (Lyrics and Lyricists), Babes In Toyland (Avery Fisher Hall) and An American In Paris. Education: M.M. - Manhattan School of Music and B.M. - Eastman School of Music. Love and thanks to my family and Jason.

MICKI WEINER (Corps de Ballet) is thrilled to join the Phantom family. NYC: The Chase Brock Experience, New York Theatre Ballet. Tours: Zorro.

Regional: How To Succeed…(Goodspeed Opera).

Commercial: Dance On Broadway (Nintendo Wii & PS3). Thanks to Take 3 and love to my family!

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QUINTO OTT (Don Attilio) is thrilled to be joining Phantom (the first Broadway show he ever saw!). Recent Credits: Die Zauberflöte (Music Academy of the West), The Mikado, HMS Pinafore, Pirates of Penzance, Yeomen of the Guard (NYGASP), Oliver!; Hello, Dolly! (MacHaydn Theater). QuintoOtt.com

MARGUERITE WILLBANKS (Swing, u/s Madame Giry). Broadway: Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Madame de la Grande Bouche). National Tours: A Christmas Story the Musical!, Young Frankenstein (Frau Blucher), Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, The Secret Garden. Regional: Man of La Mancha (Maria, TUTS), Paramour (She, Old Globe), La Cage Aux Folles (Marie Dindon, Riverside Theatre), Pride and Prejudice (Mrs. Bennett, NYMF).

LILY ROSE PECK (Corps de Ballet) has performed with Aspen/Santa Fe Ballet, The Santa Fe Opera and was on the 3rd National US Tour of The Phantom of the Opera.

ALEXANDRA PERNICE (Corps de Ballet) trained with American Ballet Theater, Orlando City Ballet and is a graduate of Point Park University.

Performance credits include: Paramount Pictures, Orlando City Ballet, internationally with PCDC and at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.

ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER (Composer, Book and Orchestrations) is the composer of The Likes of Us, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor

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WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, By Jeeves, Evita, Variations and Tell Me on a Sunday (later combined as Song & Dance), Cats, Starlight Express, The Phantom of the Opera, Aspects of Love, Sunset Boulevard, Whistle Down the Wind, The Beautiful Game (now called The Boys in the Photograph), The Woman in White, Love Never Dies and Stephen Ward. He composed the film scores of Gumshoe and The Odessa File and a setting of the Latin Requiem mass. As well as many of his own shows, his producer credits include Daisy Pulls It Off, Lend Me a Tenor, Shirley Valentine, La Bête, the ground-breaking Bollywood musical, A. R. Rahman’s Bombay Dreams, his smash hit productions of The Sound of Music and The Wizard of Oz at the London Palladium and the films of The Phantom of the Opera and the acclaimed Australian production of Love Never Dies. He pioneered television casting for musical theatre with the Emmy Award®-winning BBC series How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?. His awards include seven Tonys®, three Grammys® including Best Contemporary Classical Composition for Requiem, seven Oliviers, a Golden Globe, an Oscar®, two International Emmys®, the Praemium Imperiale, the Richard Rodgers Award for Excellence in Musical Theatre and the Kennedy Center Honor.

He currently owns six London theatres, including the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and the London Palladium. He was knighted in 1992 and created an honorary life peer in 1997.

Prince Edward, He’s also the co-owner of Music Theatre International, the world’s largest library of secondary rights of the great musicals. Cameron was knighted in the 1996 New Year’s Honours for his services to the British Theatre and has recently been the first British producer elected to the Theater Hall of Fame.

CHARLES HART (Lyrics) was born in London and educated in Maidenhead and Cambridge. He has written words for musicals (The Phantom of the Opera, Aspects of Love, The Kissing-Dance, The Dreaming); opera (The Vampyr - BBC TV); and miscellaneous songs; as well as both words and music for television (Watching, Split Ends - Granada TV) and radio (Love Songs - BBC Radio). His Two Studies for String Quartet was performed by the Sacconi Quartet in February 2005 at London’s Purcell Room. Charles Hart’s photographs have appeared on posters and in playbills, as well as publications ranging from Attitude to the Daily Telegraph, and, in 2003, he was one of three photographers to feature in an exhibition organized

by UNICEF to celebrate the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. He lives and works in London.

RICHARD STILGOE (Additional Lyrics and Book) has spent fifty years as a performer and writer in all forms of the performing arts. He wrote lyrics for Cats, Starlight Express, The Phantom of the Opera, The Magistrate and Road Rage, and music and lyrics for Bodywork, Brilliant the Dinosaur and Orpheus – the Mythical. His broadcasting work has earned him the New York Radio Festival Gold Award, three Monaco Festival Prizes and the Prix Italia. In 1997, he founded the Orpheus Centre in Surrey, where young disabled people prepare for independent living through a series of performing arts courses. He was High Sheriff of Surrey in 1998, during which year he was awarded the OBE. He owns and drives a JCB, and has five children and eleven grandchildren. In the Jubilee honours list of 2012, Richard was knighted for charitable service through the Alchemy Foundation.

CAMERON MACKINTOSH (Producer), for nearly 50 years, has been producing more musicals than anyone else in history, including the three longest-running musicals of all time: Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera and Cats.

His new hit production of Miss Saigon is breaking box office records in London. Later this year, his successful new production of Barnum (co-produced with Chichester and Michael Harrison) will begin a UK tour, and in the autumn he will also produce a new production of Stephen Sondheim’s Putting It Together. Other worldwide successes include Mary Poppins (co-produced with Disney), Little Shop of Horrors, Side by Side by Sondheim, Five Guys Named Moe, The Witches of Eastwick and his reinventions of Oliver!, My Fair Lady, Oklahoma! and Carousel. Cameron, with Working Title and Universal, produced the hugely successful awardwinning film version of Les Misérables. He owns nine West End theatres: Prince of Wales, Gielgud, Queen’s, Wyndham’s, Noël Coward, Novello and

LAURENCE CONNOR (Director) Credits include: Les Misérables (Broadway and Australia), Jesus Christ Superstar (UK and Australian Arena Tour), the entirely new stage production of The Phantom of the Opera (UK Tour), Oliver! (UK Tour) and the new version of Miss Saigon (West End, UK Tour and Worldwide). Laurence is also the Co-Director of the new version of Les Misérables

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WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST (Worldwide). He directed the 25th Anniversary concert of The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall and the 25th Anniversary concert of Les Misérables at the O2 in London both of which were simultaneously broadcast in cinemas worldwide and subsequently released on DVD. DVD credits include: Jesus Christ Superstar (World Arena Tour), The Phantom of the Opera 25th Anniversary Concert (Royal Albert Hall), Les Misérables (O2 Arena). Awards include: Miss Saigon - UK/ Manchester Evening News Award for Best Touring Musical, Korea/Best New Foreign Production and Best Ensemble in a Musical, Australia/The Green Room Award for Best Director of a Musical; Les Misérables - UK/Best Musical at the Manchester Evening News Awards.

SCOTT AMBLER (Choreographer). As a member of Matthew Bourne’s company since 1991, Scott created many roles including The Prince in Swan Lake. Choreography includes The Hostage (RSC); Mrs Hartley and the Growth Centre (BBC); I Giganti della Montagne and La Calisto (Musica nel Chiostro - Batignano); Die Stein der Weisen (Garsington); Time and the

Conways (National Theatre); Enron (Chichester/ RoyalCourt/West End/Broadway) Sondheim’s Passion (Donmar Warehouse); Earthquakes in London (National Theatre/UK Tour); Lord of the Flies (New Adventures - Theatre Royal Glasgow); The Merchant of Venice (RSC); Decade (Headlong); The Phantom of the Opera (UK Tour); Chariots of Fire (Hampstead/Gielgud - Olivier Nominee); Richard II (BBC); Der Zigeunerbaron (Stadttheater Klagenfurt); This House (National Theatre); #AIWW (Hampstead); Candide (RSC).

TV and film appearances include Nutcracker!, The Car Man, Swan Lake, Mrs Hartley and the Growth Centre, Roald Dahl’s Red Riding Hood, Late Flowering Lust, Drip – A Love Story and OK2. Scott is an Associate Artist with Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures.

PAUL BROWN (Set Design). Born in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, Paul trained under Percy Harris, Motley design course. Theatre credits include: As You Desire Me, The Country Wife, The Sea, Marguerite (West End); The Tempest, Naked, Richard II, Coriolanus, King Lear, Platonov (Almeida); Emperor and Galilean, The False

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WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST Servant, Oedipus (National Theatre); Hamlet (Tokyo); Giselle (La Scala). Opera credits include: Otello (Zurich); Aida (Bregenzer Festspiele); Die Gezeichneten (Teatro Massimo, Palermo); The Fairy Queen, Pelleas et Melisande, Lulu, The Turn of the Screw, Don Giovanni (Glyndebourne Festival Opera); Mitridate, re di Ponto, Falstaff, Tosca, I Masnadieri, The Midsummer Marriage (Royal Opera, Covent Garden); King Arthur (Chatelet); Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Moses und Aron (Metropolitan Opera, New York); Die Zauberflöte (Salzburg); Peter Grimes, Parsifal (Paris Opera); Don Carlos (Sydney); Tristan und Isolde (Deutsche Oper, Berlin); Rigoletto (Madrid); Thais (Chicago); Katya Kabanova, Lucio Silla, The Tempest, The Marriage of Figaro (Santa Fe); L’incoronazione di Poppea (Bologna); La Traviata (Arena di Verona); Anna Bolena (Verona); Mephistopheles (Amsterdam); The Magic Flute (Bolshoi); Die Frau ohne Schatten, Elektra (Mariinsky, St Petersburg); He Had It Coming, Fidelio (Birmingham Opera Company); Tannhauser (San Francisco); Zemire et Azor, Tom Jones (Drottningholm Court Theatre); Vanessa (Los Angeles). Films include: Up at the Villa.

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MARIA BJÖRNSON (Costume Designer). In 1990, she was awarded The Observer’s Experts’ Expert, the Theatre Designers’ Designer and in 1999, the 19th Franco Abbiati Prize. She received numerous awards for The Phantom of the Opera designs, two Tony® Awards, two Outer Critics’ Circle Awards, two Drama Critics’ Awards, for Best Costume and Set. Musical theatre also includes: Aspects of Love (London and Broadway), and Follies (Shaftesbury).

Theatre includes: The Cherry Orchard (RNT), The Blue Angel, Camille, Hamlet, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Way of the World (RSC); Plenty, Phèdre, Britannicus, The Lulu Plays, (Almeida), Hedda Gabler (Duke of York’s). Opera includes: Don Giovanni, Sleeping Beauty, Kátya Kabanová, Der Rosenkavalier (ROH), Macbeth (La Scala), Cosi fan tutte (Glyndebourne), Carmen, Die Walkure, Toussaint L’Ouverture (ENO), The Queen of Spades (Netherlands Opera), The Janá’ek Cycle (WNO/Scottish Opera). Winner 1979 and 1988, Golden Troika Quadrennial awards Prague. Maria died in 2002. MariaBjornson.com PAULE CONSTABLE (Lighting Designer) Recently: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The

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WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST include: Aida (Royal Albert Hall); Backbeat (Duke of York’s Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mariinsky Theatre); Emperor and Galilean (National Theatre); Northern Ballet’s Cleopatra; The Armstrong and Miller Live UK comedy tour and Katy Brand’s UK comedy tour (Mick Perrin); and this production of Richard Strauss’ Die Frau ohne Schatten (Mariinsky Theatre) that won Golden Mask Awards for Best Opera Production and Best Design. Recent live events include: Wella’s ITVA Awards and trend catwalk show in Paris; illuminations at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, for the new St John’s Bible launch; projection design for the opening ceremony of the World Indoor Athletics Championships in Doha; and a courtyard installation for Hermes in the Musee de la Chasse in Paris. Forthcoming projects include: The Flying Dutchman (ENO) and La Boheme (WNO).

Cripple of Inishmaan and Peter and Alice for the Michael Grandage Company; The Light Princess for the National Theatre; the new production of Les Mis. She has received Olivier Awards for His Dark Materials (NT, 2005), Don Carlos (West End, 2006), The Chalk Garden (Donmar, 2009) and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night in 2013 plus the 2011 Tony® Award for Best Lighting for War Horse on Broadway and an LA Critics Circle Award 2011 for Les Mis and in 2013 for War Horse. Her opera designs have been seen all over the world; recently Figaro, Die Meistersinger and Billy Budd (Glyndebourne); Medea (ENO) and Anna Bolena, Don Giovanni, Satyagraha and at the Metropolitan Opera. Dance: Sleeping Beauty and Dorian Gray for Matthew Bourne.

MICK POTTER (Sound Designer) Saturday Night Fever (London, New York and 10 productions worldwide), Starlight Express (Las Vegas, US/UK/ Scandinavian Tours), Tell Me On a Sunday (London/ UK Tour), Scrooge The Musical (London, US/ UK Tours), Jesus Christ Superstar (UK Tour), Bombay Dreams (London, New York), The Woman in White (London, New York, 2005 Laurence Olivier Award for best Sound Design), Hair (London), Whistle Down the Wind (London), Revival of Evita (London), The Sound of Music (London/ Toronto/UK Tour), Joseph ... Dreamcoat (London), Phantom – The Las Vegas Spectacular (Las Vegas, 2006 Parnelli Award best Sound Design), Ich war noch niemals in New York (Hamburg, Stuttgart), Der Schuh des Manitu (Berlin), Zorro (London/ Paris/Japan), Sister Act (London, Hamburg), Les Misérables - 25th Anniversary production (O2 Arena, UK/Spain/Tour), Love Never Dies (London).

PAUL KIEVE (Illusion Consultant) West End includes: Ghost - the Musical (and Broadway), Matilda, Zorro, The Tempest, The Lord of the Rings, Our House, The Witches of Eastwick, Scrooge, The Witches, The Woman in White. RSC: The Winter’s Tale, The Cherry Orchard, The Tempest (Sam Mendes). National Theatre: Theatre of Blood, La Grande Magia, Mrs Affleck, Her Naked Skin. Opera: L’Heure Espagnole (ROH); Das Rheingold (Strasbourg); Macbeth (Hamburg).

Ballet: Alice in Wonderland (Royal Ballet & ENB); Aladdin (Scottish Ballet). Arena tours: Holiday on Ice, Batman Live. TV: “Cranford,” “I’d Do Anything,” BBC’s “History of Magic,” “Heroes of Magic.” Film: Hugo, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Book: Hocus Pocus (Bloomsbury). Received British Magical Society Award for outstanding contribution to magic and is a gold star member of the Inner Magic Circle. stageillusion.com

CHRISTINE ROWLAND (Costume Coordinator for the late Maria Björnson) has worked in both subsidized and commercial theatre. She was resident costume supervisor at the National Theatre for several years and was head of costume at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Work for Cameron Mackintosh includes: Carousel (London, New York, Japan); Oliver! (London, Toronto, Sydney); The Witches of Eastwick (London, Melbourne); My Fair Lady (London, US Tour) and Mary Poppins (London, New York). Other musicals include: The Secret Garden (RSC, London); Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (London, New York) and Gypsy (New York).

ANGELA COBBIN (Hair and Wig Creator) Ms. Cobbin’s extensive career includes Madame Tussaud’s, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and National Theatre, where productions include Guys and Dolls, Richard III, and The Madness of George III. Royal Shakespeare Theatre: The Seagull and The Beckets. West End: The Iceman Cometh, Lulu, Ivanov, Orpheus Descending, To the Green Fields Beyond, The Graduate, Chicago, Lenny, Jesus Christ Superstar, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and Ragtime. For Cameron Mackintosh: The Witches of Eastwick, Mary Poppins (London, New York, Holland, Tours),

NINA DUNN (Video & Projection Design, for Knifedge). Recent projects for theatre and opera

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WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST Betty Blue Eyes, Les Misérables (2011), The Phantom of the Opera (2012 U.K. tour), Oliver (U.K. tour). Bregenz Festival: Fidelio and Porgy and Bess. Film: Saint Ex and Clandestine Marriage.

Television: “Spitting Image,” “Bramwell,” and “Dylan Thomas­—Return Journey.” “Best wig I’ve ever seen” —Barry Humphries.

DAVID CULLEN (Orchestrations) is best known as the orchestrator of musicals in London and New York, particularly those of Andrew Lloyd Webber: Cats, Starlight Express, Song and Dance, Aspects of Love, Sunset Boulevard,

By Jeeves, Whistle Down the Wind, The Beautiful Game, The Phantom of the Opera, The Woman in White, Love Never Dies and, most recently, The Wizard of Oz. Other musicals he has orchestrated include: Abbacadabra, Children of Eden, Shogun the Musical, Stepping Out, Edna - the Spectacle and some London revivals: CanCan, The Baker’s Wife, Carmen Jones and the Donmar production of Parade. Records which he has arranged include: the America album by the King’s Singers,Christmas With Kiri by Kiri Te Kanawa, I Am What I Am by Shirley

Bassey and A Different Hat with Paul Carrack and the RPO. He provided orchestrations for Geppetto and Cinderella and the movie of The Phantom of the Opera.

JOHN RIGBY (Musical Supervisor) As a musical director/conductor his credits include: the German productions of Miss Saigon and Starlight Express; the West End productions of Beautiful and Damned, Carmen Jones, Carousel (Opera North), The Drowsy Chaperone, The King and I, Sinatra at the Palladium, The Last Empress, Marguerite, Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera, Peter Pan, The Pirates of Penzance and The Producers. As musical supervisor his credits include the UK Tours of The Producers, The King and I, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, The Poor Soldier, Cameron Mackintosh’s 25th Anniversary UK Tour of The Phantom of the Opera and the arena world tour of Jesus Christ Superstar starring Tim Minchin and Melanie C. He regularly conducts many of the UK’s major orchestras and is currently the co-supervisor of Cameron Mackintosh’s new production of Miss Saigon in the West End.

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WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST Production Overseen by MATTHEW BOURNE. Matthew Bourne is widely hailed as the UK’s most popular and successful Choreographer/ Director. He is the creator of the world’s longest running ballet production (Swan Lake), a five-time Olivier Award winner and the only British director to have won the Tony® Award for both Best Choreographer and Best Director of a Musical. He has been Artistic Director of New Adventures (formally Adventures in Motion Pictures) since 1987.

During this time, Bourne has created new audiences for dance with groundbreaking work both at home and internationally, including Nutcracker!, Highland Fling, Swan Lake, Cinderella, The Car Man, Play Without Words, Edward Scissorhands, Dorian Gray and Sleeping Beauty. Bourne choreographed several major revivals of classic musicals including Cameron Mackintosh’s productions of Oliver! (1994 and 2009), My Fair Lady (2002). In 2004, Bourne co-directed (with Richard Eyre) and choreographed (with Stephen Mear) the West End and Broadway musical, Mary Poppins.

THE REALLY USEFUL GROUP (Producer) was founded in 1977 by Andrew Lloyd Webber and is wholly owned by him. At the heart of RUG’s business are the musicals of Andrew Lloyd Webber, including Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, By Jeeves, Evita, Variations, Tell Me on a Sunday, Cats, Starlight Express, The Phantom of the Opera, Aspects of Love, Sunset Boulevard, Whistle Down the Wind, The Boys in the Photograph, The Woman in White, Love Never Dies and Stephen Ward. In addition to his own musicals, Andrew’s productions include A. R. Rahman’s Bombay Dreams, the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic The Sound of Music and The Wizard of Oz (London Palladium and Toronto).

The Really Useful Group is an international entertainment company, with offices in London and Sydney that produce and coordinate Lloyd Webber’s works throughout the world.

The company’s theatre and concert production, recording, merchandising, music publishing and licensing divisions provide specialized services for Lloyd Webber’s works and also to other producers and authors.

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WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST SETH SKLAR-HEYN (Associate Director).

Broadway: The Phantom of the Opera (Production Supervisor), Evita (Associate Director), A Little Night Music (Associate Director), Finian’s Rainbow (Associate Director), Good Vibrations (Associate Director), Mary Stuart (Assistant Director), Rock’n’Roll (Assistant Director), Frost/Nixon (Assistant Director), The Coast of Utopia (Assistant to the Director). U.S. Tour: Billy Elliot (Resident Director). Seth directed the U.S. Tour of Frost/Nixon and the current U.S. Tour of Evita. Seth serves as Executive Producer for Cameron Mackintosh Inc. in N.Y. Graduate of Vassar College.

NINA GOLDMAN (Associate Choreographer) Broadway: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Contact, Swan Lake, The Red Shoes, The Phantom of the Opera. Off-Broadway: Belle Epoque, The Dybbuk, Bloomergirl. Matthew Bourne’s Edward Scissorhands, The Car Man. Regional: The Shape She Makes (ART). Royal Opera House, Great Lakes Theater Festival, National Ballet of Canada, Feld Ballets, Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal. Film/ TV: Swan Lake 3D, The Metamorphosis, Fame.

Sarah Lawrence faculty. Upcoming: Fall 2014 The Little Dancer (Kennedy Center). Hunter College Arnhold Dance Education Graduate student.

RICHARD CARSEY (Musical Director). Tours: La Cage Aux Folles, Little House on the Prairie.

Broadway: The House of Blue Leaves. Lincoln Center: Joshua Schmidt’s A Minister’s Wife.

Music Direction: Marriott, Utah Shakespeare,

Syracuse Opera. Eight seasons Artistic Director Skylight Opera Theatre. Conductor: Mikado (PBS), Richard Wargo’s Ballymore (world premiere).

Actor/pianist: 2 Pianos, 4 Hands (Milwaukee Rep, Actors’ Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Hartford Stage Company - Conn. Critics Circle Award); Souvenir, Old Wicked Songs. Love to Jurg. For my Dad. DAVID RUTTURA (Resident Director) has worked extensively as an Associate Director on Broadway (Spider-Man (Resident Director), Follies, Lombardi, Million Dollar Quartet, White Christmas, A Man For All Seasons), Off-Broadway (Atlantic Theater Company, Roundabout), regionally (Kennedy Center, La Jolla Playhouse, Philadelphia Theatre Co., Old Jews Telling Jokes) and internationally (Ben Hur Live). Directing credits include projects with Gateway Playhouse, Araca Project, Ars Nova, 2g, Joe’s Pub, Fordham University, Ensemble Studio Theatre, among others. Film Credits include the Web-series Dick Punch and stalkTALK. davidruttura.com.

TARA RUBIN CASTING (Casting) Selected Broadway: Bullets Over Broadway, Aladdin, Mothers and Sons, Les Misérables, Big Fish, The Heiress, Ghost, One Man, Two Guvnors (US Casting), Jesus Christ Superstar (US Casting), Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway, How to Succeed.., Promises, Promises, A Little Night Music, Billy Elliot, Shrek, Guys and Dolls, The Farnsworth Invention, Young Frankenstein, The Little Mermaid, Mary Poppins, My Fair

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WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST productions. Currently: Jersey Boys, War Horse, Cameron Mackintosh’s spectacular new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables, Matilda The Musical, Beautiful – The Carole King Musical, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, NETworks presents Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Do You Hear the People Sing , Holland Taylor in Ann, Backbeat, 50 Shades!

The Musical, The Rat Pack is Back!, America’s Got Downton, Scooby Doo Live! Musical Mysteries, Chuggington and Magic Tree House: A Night in New Orleans. bbonyc.com

Lady, Pirate Queen, Spamalot, Jersey Boys, …

Spelling Bee, The Producers, Mamma Mia!, The Phantom of the Opera, Contact. Off-Broadway: Here Lies Love, Love, Loss, and What I Wore.

Regional: Sundance Theatre Lab, Yale Repertory, La Jolla Playhouse, Kennedy Center, Paper Mill Playhouse, The Old Globe.

JOEL T. HERBST (Company Manager) Go Goslings!

ERIC SPROSTY (Production Stage Manager) Broadway: Fosse, Movin’ Out, Jekyll and Hyde. National Tours: Contact, Movin’ Out, The Drowsy Chaperone, Spring Awakening, West Side Story, Jekyll and Hyde. Selected Regional: Ten seasons at Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, three seasons at Paper Mill Playhouse including the PBS filming of Crazy for You.

SETH WENIG (Executive Producer) has been with NETworks since its inception in 1995. He spearheaded the international tours of Fosse starring Ben Vereen and Ruthie Henshall. Seth has produced The Lincoln Center Theatre’s Production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific, Disney’s Beauty and The Beast and The National Theatre’s War Horse. Together with Cameron Mackintosh, Seth served as Executive Producer for both the US and UK tours of the National Theatre’s My Fair Lady, The 25th Anniversary US tour of Les Misérables and the new The Phantom of the Opera tour. He is most proud of his greatest productions—Marlo and Camden.

HEATHER CHOCKLEY (Stage Manager) is a proud member of AEA and IATSE. She has toured extensively, both nationally and internationally, with The Sound of Music, Cats, Sweet Charity, The King and I, Fiddler on the Roof, and the 25th Anniversary Production of Les Misérables among others. Much love to her husband, family and friends.

NICOLE OLSON (Assistant Stage Manager) National: Jersey Boys, Billy Elliot, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (Original Company). Regional: San Jose Repertory (6 seasons including: By the Bog of Cats… with Holly Hunter), TheatreWorks, Portland Center Stage. B.A., Theatre: Univ. of Southern California.

NETWORKS PRESENTATIONS, LLC (Producer), founded in 1995, has continued to grow and expand to become one of the largest producing organizations of touring Broadway musicals in North America and remains committed to delivering quality entertainment to audiences around the world. It’s extensive and diverse list of touring productions include: Cameron Mackintosh’s The 25th Anniversary Production of Les Misérables and the spectacular new production of The Phantom of the Opera; The National Theatre of Great Britain’s production of War Horse; Queen and Ben Elton’s We Will Rock You; Disney’s Beauty and the Beast; Blue Man Group national tour; The Lincoln Center Theater productions of The Light in the Piazza and Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific, as well as Cinderella starring Eartha Kitt and Deborah Gibson, Seussical, Annie, La Cage Aux Folles, Rent, The Producers, Hairspray, Spring Awakening, Sweeney Todd, Billy Elliot the Musical, Elf the Musical, Dirty Dancing and many others.

MICHAEL G. MORALES (Assistant Stage Manager) BFA: Theatrical Stage Management.

1st National Tour: Rock of Ages, National Tour: Mary Poppins, Jesus Christ Superstar, Chicago, Movin’ Out. Pre-Broadway: Wonderland and Miss Abigail’s Guide… Regional: My Fair Lady (The Asolo), West Side Story (The Fulton), A Year with Frog and Toad, The Threepenny Opera (Seaside).

Special thanks to his family and his beautiful wife for their love and support. Proud AEA Member.

BROADWAY BOOKING OFFICE NYC (Tour Booking, Engagement Management, Press & Marketing) is a leading theatrical tour booking, marketing and press company, representing musicals, plays and theatrical

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STAFF AND CREDITS STAFF FOR The Phantom of the Opera

Automated Lighting Programmer..............Tommy Hague Projection Animation Programmer.................Ben Pearcy UK Assoc. Sound Designer..........................Adam Fisher US Assoc. Sound Designer.........................David Bullard UK Production Sound Engineer................... Sean Lawler UK Costume Supervisor...................Roxanne Armstrong US Costume Associate................................Sam Fleming US Costume Supervisor.............................Jimm Halliday US Asst. Costume Supervisors...............John Saunders, Eric Franzen Hair and Wig Creator................................ Angela Cobbin US Hair and Wig Coordinator.......................Gary Martori UK Wig and Make-up Supervisor................ Helen Keane Illusion Consultant........................................... Paul Kieve Music Preparation................ David Hague, Dakota Music Music Contractor.............................................John Miller Keyboard Programming........................... Stuart Andrews Asst. Keyboard Programmer........................Dave Weiser Production Carpenter.......................... Corey Krolikowski Advance Carpenters.............. Don S. Gilmore, Greg Pott Head Carpenter................................. Christopher J. Weir Automation Carpenter............................... Eamon Keane Carpenter.................................................... George Munz Ass’t. Automation/Carpenter...................... D. Wade Jolly Flyman..............................................Timothy P. Callahan Load Out Carpenter.......................... Duncan McPherson Head Electrician......................................... Josh Moberly Ass’t. Electrician...................................... Dirk Van Pernis Ass’t. Electrician/Pyro Tech............................. Mike Berg Advance Electricians..........................Paul Orzechowski, Eric Rimes Head Audio......................................................Mark Clark Ass’t. Audio.............................................Joshua Hummel Advance Audio.............................................. Shelly Franz Head Props........................................... Austin Rodriguez Ass’t. Props.............................................Michael Vergoth Head Wardrobe.......................................... Kaitlyn Barrett Ass’t. Wardrobe.......................................... Emily Staloch Star Dresser............................................... Sally M. Howe Head Wigs........................................................Hailei Call Ass’t. Wigs................................................... Karin Craven Make-up Supervisor................................. Rudy Guerrero Entertainment Safety Consultant................. Scott Oxman, Oxman Safety Physical Therapy Consultant................. Carolyn Lawson, NEURO Tour Print/Advertising Design........Dewynters, Emily Balawejder Radio and Television Spot Production.............Steam UK Website............................................................Dewynters Social Media............................. The Really Useful Group Production Photography..... Alastair Muir, Matthew Murphy Merchandising....................... Platypus Productions, LLC Merchandise Manager................................ Zachary Gray Accounting........................ NETworks Presentations LLC Tour Accountant..........................................Paula Jenkins Legal.......................................... F. Richard Pappas, Esq. HR and Payroll Services............ Human Resources, Inc. Insurance............................................ Maury, Donnelly & Parr – Bob Middleton, Meghan Shriver Travel Agency............................ Carlson Wagonlit Travel Accommodations.................................................Lisa Morris, Road Concierge an ALTOUR Company Technical Production Accounting..........Janice Anderson International Freight.......................... Jackie Jupp Project Management, Ltd.

GENERAL MANAGEMENT Gentry & Associates, Inc Scott Jackson, Gregory Vander Ploeg, Bobby Maglaughlin COMPANY MANAGER Joel T. Herbst ASSOCIATE COMPANY MANAGER Justin A. Sweeney TOUR BOOKING, ENGAGEMENT MANAGEMENT, PRESS AND MARKETING Broadway Booking Office NYC Steven Schnepp, Temah Higgins, Kent McIngvale, Jenny Bates, David Freeland, Judith Hoenig Adelson, Zach Stevenson, Sean Mackey, Scott Praefke, Kayla Burgett NATIONAL PRESS REPRESENTATION The Publicity Office Marc Thibodeau, Michael Borowski CASTING Tara Rubin CSA, Merri Sugarman CSA Eric Woodall CSA, Kaitlin Shaw CSA Lindsay Levine CSA, Scott Anderson ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR Seth Sklar-Heyn PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER Eric Sprosty SUPERVISORY PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER Trinity Wheeler PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR........... JASON JUENKER UK PRODUCTION MANAGER............. SPENCER NEW RESIDENT DIRECTOR.......................DAVID RUTTURA Stage Manager.................................... Heather Chockley Ass’t. Stage Managers.....................Michael G. Morales,

Nicole Olson UK Technical Stage Manager................... Paul Whittaker Fight Director................................................... Joe Bostik Fight Captain.................................................. Nick Cartell Casting Directors................ Tara Rubin, Merri Sugarman Casting Associate......................................... Kaitlin Shaw Casting Assistant..................................... Scott Anderson Production Assistants...................... Stephanie C. Halbedel, Sarah Helgesen UK Draftsman......................................... Timothy Crowdy US Assoc. Scenic Designer................... Christine Peters UK Production Carpenter..........................Damien Soper UK Production Technician....................Richard Paterson UK Automation Programmer........................... Andy Biles UK Properties Supervisor..........................Jonathan Hall UK Assoc. Lighting Designer......................... Rob Casey US Assoc. Lighting Designer...................... Karen Spahn UK Production Electrician.............................. Ian Moulds US Production Electrician..................... Brendan Quigley

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STAFF AND CREDITS Rehearsed at New 42nd Street Studios, New York ­­­­­­­­­­­­­ Credits Scenery constructed and painted by Bay Productions, TR2, Cardiff Theatrical Services, Souvenir Scenic Studio, Art Deco Exim, Howard Eaton Lighting, Ltd. Wild Creations; Scenery Engineering by Delstar Engineering, Silicon Theatre Scenery, Eeldfab; Painted drops provided by Cardiff Theatrical Services, Richard Nutbourne; Additional Scenery by Gerriets International, Gordon Aldred, Rose Brand; Set Electrics by Howard Eaton Lighting, Ltd.; Automation by Silicon Theater Scenery; Rigging by Christie Lights; Rehearsal Set constructed by Scenic Solutions; Clothes painted by Richard Nutbourne, Cardiff Theatrical Services, Bay Productions; Lighting Equipment provided by Christie Lights; Sound Equipment provided by Sound Associates; Sound and Lighting towers provided by Adirondack Studios; Stage Properties provided by MarcusHall Props, MDM, Russell Beck Studio, Paul Harding, C&C Woodcraft, Nicola Kileen Textiles, Catherine Goodley, Rorschach Prop FX, Alex Goacher, Make Stuff, Ltd, Kevin Brookes; Additional props provided by Moonboots; Prosthetics by Prosthetics Renaissance; Pyro and Special Effects by J&M Special Effects; Hats by Sean Barret, Jenny Adey. ‘The Toilet of Venus’ by Francois Boucher reproduced by kind permission of the Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resource/Scala, Florence. ©Photo SCALA, Florence 2012. ‘Section of a Salon’ by Louis-Gustave Taraval reproduced by kind permission of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution/Art Resource, NY/Scala, Florence. ©Photo SCALA, Florence 2012. ‘A Summer Pastoral’

by Francois Boucher reproduced by kind permission of the Trustees of the Wallace Collection, London.

US Warehousing and Freight services..........Shockwave Cargo Trucking..................................................... Clark Transfer For Cameron Mackintosh LTD Directors...................... Cameron Mackintosh (Chairman) Nicholas Allott (Chief Executive) Richard Johnston Deputy Managing Director..........................Robert Noble Financial Controller.................................... Richard Knibb Executive Producer & Casting Director ......Trevor Jackson Executive Producer.......................... Thomas Schönberg Technical Director.................................. Jerry Donaldson Head of Marketing..................................... David Dolman Assistant to Cameron Mackintosh................ Jane Austin Assistant to Nicholas Allott...........................Claire Mistry Assistant to Robert Noble............................ Helen Lloyd Technical Administrator.............................. Charlie Boyle Technical Production Assistant...................Jenny Picken Production Assistant .......................................Rob Ottey For Cameron Mackintosh, Inc. Managing Director.....................................Nicholas Allott Executive Producer................................Seth Sklar-Heyn Production Associate.................................. Shidan Majidi For The Really Useful Group Directors........................................ Andrew Lloyd Webber Madeleine Lloyd Webber Chairman............................................ Mark Wordsworth Managing Director .................................... Barney Wragg Director of Legal and Business Affairs.......Jonathan Hull Chief Financial Officer...............................Isobel Chester Vice President of Europe & the Americas..... Jessica Koravos Executive Assistant to Andrew Lloyd Webber...... Jan Eade Music Content Manager...........................Benjamin Frost Production Manager ................................Jamie Forshaw Production Assistant....................................Hannah Wills

Special Thanks To Norbert Mongeon; Providence Performing Arts Center City of Providence, RI This performance is dedicated to the memory of Eddie Davison, UK Production Stage Manager

For NETworks Presentations Chief Executive Officer............................. Kenneth Gentry Chief Operating Officer...........................Scott W. Jackson President.............................................................Orin Wolf Executive Vice President of Production........... Seth Wenig Director of Finance.......................................... John Kinna Controller...................................................Jennifer Gifford Executive Producers..............Kary M. Walker, Dani Davis Associate Producer................................... Angela Rowles Director of Booking........................... Charmaine McVicker Senior General Manager.................Gregory VanderPloeg General Managers................... Mary K. Witte, Guy Heard, Tyler Soltis Associate General Managers.............Bobby Maglaughlin, Curt Owens Assistant General Manager..................... Penelope Lopez Senior Production Manager........................ Jason Juenker Production Managers.................. Ben Neafus, Laura Dieli Associate Production Manager....................Evan Rooney Assistant Production Manager..................Ashley Harman Warehouse Manager......................................... Brad Korff Director of Marketing/PR............................. Heather Hess Database Manager...................................... Siba Mahanty Music Coordinator......................................... John Mezzio Office Manager.........................................Buddy Piccolino Administrative Assistant.................. Esther Schwarzbauer

Tax & Financial Consulting Accounting Services, IT Services CliftonLarsonAllen LLP George Wilson, Linda Rubenstein Pat Guerieri, Tim Pizza Financial Services and banking arrangements by M&T Bank PRODUCED IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE REALLY USEFUL GROUP The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.

Backstage and Front of the House Employees are represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (or I.A.T.S.E.).

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

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

The Director and Choreographer are members of the society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Inc., an independent national labor union.

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

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

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Photo by Matthew Murphy

By Cameron Mackintosh

exhilarating mayhem Phantom opened at Her Majesty’s Theatre on October 9.

It immediately became one of London’s greatest musical hits.

t’s almost 30 years since my first acquaintance with the Phantom.

One cold February morning in 1984 while I was soaking myself in a long hot bath, Andrew Lloyd Webber telephoned me for a gossip and he brought up the idea of making a musical out of The Phantom of the Opera. Even in my prunelike condition, I recognised that Andrew had come up with another great idea.

Eighteen months later our trio of original stars – Michael Crawford, Sarah Brightman and Steve Barton – opened to rapturous applause on Broadway at the Majestic Theatre. The production is still playing there and it reigns as the longestrunning musical in Broadway’s history.

We screened copies of the 1925 Lon Chaney silent movie and the later wartime version with Claude Rains as the Phantom. Though very enjoyable, neither one made us shout “Eureka!” So we found a copy of the novel by Gaston Leroux, which was out of print, and decided that we preferred that original storyline.

Phantom has become the most phenomenal success of all time, breaking box office records worldwide in countless sell-out productions. Since 1986, only the original version has been presented around the world (with the exception of Poland and Hungary, which were non-replica productions) and its brilliant design by Maria Björnson has become synonymous with Andrew’s sensational score. Just before Maria died at a tragically early age she and I had

The original production went into rehearsal in London on August 18, 1986.

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The Company performs “Masquerade.” Photo: Alastair Muir

and co-directed the hugely successful new production of Les Misérables. He also recently staged the triumphant 25th Anniversary production of Phantom at the Royal Albert Hall. As Choreographer, we Andrew agreed that it was both wanted to work with time to give Phantom a fresh Matthew Bourne’s talented look, so in 2008 I approached Cameron Mackintosh protégé, Scott Ambler. To theatre and opera designer light the show we are lucky enough to Paul Brown to see if he was interested have one of the world’s greatest lighting in taking over the baton from Maria. It turned out that Maria had a special place designers, Paule Constable, and to create the sound the incomparable Mick in Paul’s life as at the beginning of his career he had been a young assistant to Potter. Maria still remains at the heart her at the Royal Opera House. The result of the new Phantom with her glorious costumes, some of which are designs of Paul’s long-developed ideas for this project is a new version of Phantom that found in her archive that she created for the original and were never used. uses a more visceraldramatic approach started discussing a different set design, one that would do more to contrast the Phantom’s darker backstage world with that of the traditional opera world onstage.

to create a visual feast, giving audiences the chance to see their favourite musical all over again through new eyes.

This new version of Phantom premiered in the UK in 2012 and was embraced by audiences and critics alike, breaking records throughout its sellout British tour. For the American production we have been able to build on our British success and fine-tune some of the staging, including making the famous chandelier even more spectacular. We all believe that you will fall in love with the music of the night all over again, as the Phantom is reborn for the 21st Century.

Putting together the rest of the new creative team for this Phantom was a daunting but invigorating task. My choice of director was always going to be Laurence Connor who I first met when he became the Associate Director on the London production of Phantom.

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BUILDING THE FUTURE OF BROADWAY As part of our commitment to the development of new shows, Des Moines Performing Arts regularly invests in Broadway shows in New York and on tour. Building the future of Broadway is an important venture, and often these investments help bring productions to Des Moines early in their national tours.

Des Moines Performing Arts is an investor in these current Broadway productions:

Al Hirschfeld Theatre

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Richard Rodgers Theatre

Lyceum Theatre

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musical productions at 17 participating high schools, offering constructive, artistic feedback to the students.

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n June 2nd, 350 high school students from across Central Iowa burst onto the Des Moines Civic Center stage in a celebration of high school musical theater excellence!

The 2014 Iowa High School Musical Theater Awards Showcase was the culmination of the 2013-14 Iowa High School Musical Theater Awards program, developed and presented

by Des Moines Performing Arts. Now entering its third year, this educationbased initiative recognizes high school musical theater programs and the students that play a role both on stage and behind the scenes.

Throughout the academic year, Central Iowa theater professionals reviewed

Awards were presented during the Showcase to those programs and performers who earned an exemplary level of achievement, including Outstanding Musical, Outstanding Lead and Supporting Performers and Outstanding Technical Achievement.

Students from all 17 participating schools entertained an audience of nearly 2,000 as they performed excerpts from their school’s musical. Highlights of the evening included three interschool Broadway medley performances, under the professional direction of a New York-based musical director and choreographer.

And the Triple Threat Awards Go to...?

The Showcase came to a sensational close when Aliya Ryan (Indianola High School) and Jeffrey Laughrun (Dowling Catholic High School) were named the 2014 recipients of the Triple Threat

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Together, they represented Iowa at the National High School Musical Theater Awards held in New York City, June 25July 1, 2014. They joined 56 peers from across the country for private coaching, master classes and rehearsals with industry professionals. The week ended with the students’ Broadway debut in a performance at the Minskoff Theatre, home of Disney’s The Lion King.

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SAVE THE DATE! The third annual Iowa High School Musical Theater Awards Showcase is June 1, 2015 at the Civic Center.

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Celebrate the Arts From the magic within our hearts, to the inspiration on stage, the arts help us capture the moments that are worth celebrating.

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DES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS BOARD OF DIRECTORS OFFICERS

Thomas Brown * Chair/Compensation Chair Brown NationaLease Mary Kramer * Vice Chair Ambassador, Ret. Thomas E. Press * Treasurer Midland’s Choice Rosemary Parson * Secretary EquiTrust Life Insurance Company Mary Stier * Past Chair The Brilliance Group Karen J. Lynn* Assets Chair Athene USA

Terry Johnson Wells Fargo Wealth Management

Dr. Andy McGuire* Nom/Gov Chair Meridian Health Plan * Indicates member of the Executive Committee

Monica Kirgan Principal Financial Group

DIRECTORS

Tom Ahart Des Moines Public Schools

Christine Lauridsen Sand Lauridsen Group

Robert Brownell Polk County Board of Supervisors

Patrick Mack John Deere Financial

Frank Cownie City of Des Moines

Robert Mahaffey City of Des Moines

Michael Eberle, DVM Eberle Animal Hospital

Bob O’Hollearn Allied Insurance

Jon Garnaas Healthy Living Centers of America

Katie Stocking Happy Medium

Travis Gjoraas Eric T. Crowell* Deloitte Audit Chair UnityPoint Health – Des Moines Sheryl Grimm Community Leader John Craig* Finance Chair Laure Guisinger Sammons Financial Group Holmes Murphy & Associates

Angela Williams The Great Frame Up LEGAL COUNSEL

Mike Kulik Davis Brown Law Firm

HONORARY DIRECTORS

Marvin Alexander Ann Anderson Charles Betts Nancy Bone J.C. Brenton Robert Brenton Florence Buhr Johnny Danos James W. Erickson Miriam Erickson Brown Thomas Flynn Shayla From Linda Garten Gary Gerlach E.J. Giovannetti * Peg Armstrong Gustafson Brian Hart * Christine Hensley H. Lynn Horak Lois James Joseph B. Joyce Ric Jurgens Sam C. Kalainov Dr. John R. Kearns James L. Krambeck * Patricia J. Martin Douglas D. Olson Scott Powell Billie Ray Stanley J. Reynolds James P. Simmons Thomas E. Stanberry* Mary Stier* Thomas Urban Bill Vernon Ann Wagner-Hauser Rhonda H. Watton Douglas A. West James F. Willer

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DES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS STAFF ADMINISTRATION Jeff Chelesvig President & CEO Laura Sweet Vice President & COO Heidi Watkins Finance Director/Controller Bill McElrath Business Director Barbara Hanson Accountant Chris Browning Office Manager

DEVELOPMENT Todd Fogdall Director of Development

MARKETING Barb Preuss Director of Marketing

Tiffany K. Spinner Annual Fund Manager

Cindy Hughes Anliker Communications Manager Summer Evans Marketing Manager

Brett Smith Research Specialist

Matt Spangler Marketing Manager

Rachel Woodhouse Donor Relations Coordinator

Greg Votava Digital Marketing Manager

Vicky Barr Executive Assistant

GUEST SERVICES Joel Cox Guest Services Manager

BUILDING SERVICES Earl Smith Building Services Manager

Allison Ross Assistant Guest Services Manager

Ly Ung Assistant Building Services Manager Building Services Associates: Danny Glover Francisco Hernandez Khom Mao Francisco Mora Irene Perez Hank Teav Dominick Ung

PROGRAMMING & EDUCATION Eric B. Olmscheid Director of Programming & Education Karoline Myers Education Manager

House Managers: Kerry George Shirley Kleywegt * Doug Kouba Evonne Kouba Sharon Montgomery Cynde Pool * Shirley Ramirez Marion Singleton *Temple Theater House Managers

Sarah Bannon Community Programs Coordinator Julie Houghton Programming & Education Coordinator Michelle McDonald School Programs Coordinator

TECHNICAL OPERATIONS Alan Dyer Technical Operations Manager/ Head Electrician Nicholas Romano Stage Operations Manager/ Head Carpenter Greg Tracy Production Manager/Head Audio Jamie L. Stepp Production Supervisor TICKET OFFICE Brooke Bridenstine Ticket Office Staff Manager Misty Enderson Ticket Office Database Manager Jeff Waldschmitt Ticket Office Manager Laura Arenson Customer Service Team Member Candace Bell Customer Service Team Member Margo Jones Customer Service Team Member Chontel Berthelsen Group Sales Coordinator

Des Moines Performing Arts President & CEO Jeff Chelesvig is a member of the The Broadway League. The Broadway League is the national trade association for the Broadway industry. Each year, League members bring Broadway to more than 30 million people in New York and more than 240 cities across the U.S. and Canada.

The backstage employees of Des Moines Performing Arts are represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Local 67.

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GUEST INFORMATION ASL INTERPRETATION

Hall during designated performances. No other food or drink is allowed in the theater.

Des Moines Performing Arts offers American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation for select performances through Deaf Services Unlimited.

ELEVATORS

Elevators to the second level are located in the Nollen Lobby and near the Stoner Theater.

ATM

An ATM is located in the Ticket Office Lobby.

EMERGENCY EXITING

In case of an emergency, please leave through your nearest exit location.

AUDIO DESCRIPTION

The Iowa Radio Reading Information Service for the Blind and Print Handicapped, Inc. (IRIS) offers audio description services for select performances.

Call (515) 246-2300 to reserve a listening device.

LATE SEATING

Late seating will be accommodated by House Staff at the earliest appropriate time. Pay attention to lobby chimes, which are sounded five minutes before the show begins, as well as after intermission.

BINOCULARS

Binoculars are available for rent at the Nollen and Prairie Meadows Lobby Guest Services Counters for $5.

LISTENING DEVICES

Listening devices are available for use at no charge at the Nollen and Prairie Meadows Lobby Guest Services Counters.

BRAILLE AND LARGE PRINT

Playbills for most Broadway productions are available in Braille at the Nollen and Prairie Meadows Lobby Guest Services Counters, compliments of the lowa Department of the Blind. Large print playbills are also generally available.

LOST ITEMS

CAMERAS

The use of cameras or any type of recording devices in the Main Hall is prohibited at all times.

Lost items may be reported or claimed at the Nollen Lobby Guest Services Counter during an event. After an event, please contact our Ticket Office at (515) 246-2300 or stop by Monday through Friday, 9 am. to 5 p.m. Items are kept for 30 days.

CELL PHONES AND MOBILE DEVICES

MEDICAL ASSISTANCE

If you have a medical need, please notify the House Staff.

Medical services are provided by UnityPoint Health – Des Moines in the Prairie Meadows Lobby.

Please turn cell phones and mobile devices off, or set them to the silent mode. Please also refrain from text messaging and using them as light sources during the performance.

PRE-ORDERING DRINKS

Avoid the line at intermission by ordering your drink ahead of time. Order and pay at any open bar before the performance. Pick your drink up at either lobby’s Guest Services Counter during intermission.

CHILDREN

Children age five and above are generally welcome to attend performances. Children younger than five are welcome to attend designated family-oriented productions only. Regardless of age, all guests must present a ticket. Call the Ticket Office at (515) 246-2300 if you are unsure if your child will be admitted.

SPECIAL SEATING NEEDS

Seating is available for all performances for a variety of accessibility requirements (including wheelchair, motorized cart, difficulty with stairs and sight impairment).

Please call the Ticket Office at (515) 246-2300.

COAT/ITEM CHECK

Coats and other personal items may be checked at the Nollen and Prairie Meadows Lobby Guest Services Counters during all Main Hall performances.

TOBACCO USE

CONCESSIONS

WHEELCHAIRS

The use of tobacco products, e-cigarettes, etc. is not allowed in the Des Moines Civic Center or within 15 feet of any entrance.

Des Moines Performing Arts has wheelchairs available to assist guests with mobility concerns. Guest Services staff may be contacted to assist.

Bottled water is permitted in the Main Hall during all performances. Souvenir cups with lids are available for purchase and are allowed in the Main

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