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Legends of the 50s and 60s

June 18 – 27, 2019 41st Season

KYLE A. DOUGAN Producing Artistic Director

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LEGENDS OF THE 50s & 60s: GREATEST HITS With CURTIS BANNISTER ADIA BELL JUSTIN BRILL LYDIA BURKE ROBIN K. DASILVA GILBERT DOMALLY EVAN TYRONE MARTIN Music Director & Conductor Jermaine Hill Guitar Dave Saenger

Trumpet Gregory Strauss

Bass Chuck Webb

Drums Justin Akira Kono

Members of Chicago Federation of Musicians, Local 10-208

Production Manager Bob Silton Co-Directors Kyle A. Dougan & Martin L. Woods JOYCE SAXON is the 2021 Music Theater Works Season Sponsor. 1

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A B O U T M U S I C T H E AT E R WO R K S MUSIC THEATER WORKS is a resident professional not-for-profit music theater founded in 1980. During its 40-year history it has presented more than 150 productions and intimate presentations. MUSIC THEATER WORKS is a professional theater company whose mission isto present works for the musical stage including historic repertoire, revitalizing the Golden Age of Broadway and earlier works, celebrating the Great American Songbook and introducing modern classics. The company uses collaborations among theaters, other artistic disciplines, social service agencies, local business, educational institutions and others to create musical theater for the 21st century. Audiences know that at MUSIC THEATER WORKS they will experience musical theater, which is often unavailable on the stages of commercial theaters and opera houses, in beautiful, colorful modern productions with professional artists and live orchestra. For more about MUSIC THEATER WORKS, including information on repertoire and past productions, visit our website at www.MusicTheaterWorks.com. LEGENDS OF THE 50s & 60s: GREATEST HITS is supported in part by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency. Please contact your representative to let them know you support State funding for the arts. The MUSIC THEATER WORKS Paul S. Mavros Building, Administrative Office and Joyce Saxon Rehearsal Center are located at 516 4th Street, Wilmette, Illinois 60091. The Office phone number is (847) 920-5360. The Joyce Saxon Rehearsal Center is an ideal venue for a variety of events, from rehearsals and dance classes to meetings and celebrations. For rental information, call (847) 920-5360.

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A F E W WO R D S F R O M T H E A R T I S T I C D I R E C TO R Welcome home! We have a new home at the North Shore Center of the Performing Arts, but our commitment to great music and great theater has not changed. When I think of home, I think of family. You are family. You come to our shows, bringing your friends and relatives to laugh, cry, and enjoy our company. You celebrate anniversaries, birthdays and holidays with us. We have welcomed your children and grandchildren to our YouthREACH programs, and we have all applauded their accomplishments. We are a family in every sense of the word. As our family, you supported us through the most difficult year in our history. Granted, this year may not be much easier, but because of you and your commitment to this family, we will be back and better than ever. You have made it clear that you are here for us, and we thank you. Thanks to you, we will continue to celebrate the musicals we all love. I need to thank the many people who made sacrifices and commitments this past year to support Music Theater Works. My gratitude goes out to our donors and subscribers for their financial support of the company, to our board of directors for their leadership, and to our education team for going the extra mile to create youth programs online. I am very grateful to our wonderful staff. Throughout this pandemic they have not only supported the company but also me, as I step into a new position amid so many challenges. Finally, I would like to thank our performers, orchestra, technicians, directors and designers. These artists have a deep commitment to our community, and help us to see the world in a more empathetic light. I am glad you are all part of our family. I must also thank the team working on this concert--the singers, band, artistic staff, and Martin Woods and Jermaine Hill for their high artistic standards and promoting a creative working environment. Finally, as I start this season and welcome all of our family back home, I would be remiss not to thank my family for giving me the support to live my dreams. I would especially like to thank my father for the traits he instilled in me that help me to get through the hard work of creating musicals. Thanks, Dad, for teaching me tenacity, kindness, and confidence. I hope you are proud. Thank you all for coming. Enjoy the show! Kyle A. Dougan Producing Artistic Director, Music Theater Works

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A F E W WO R D S F R O M T H E C O - D I R E C TO R It is my great honor to join Music Theater Works for such an exciting and necessary show. I’ve always cherished my experiences here as a performer, but the opportunity to be part of the creative process for this company has been sensational. I’m grateful to Kyle Dougan, who after learning of my mother’s career in the 1960s as the lead singer of a girl group, became interested in the stories and anecdotes she shared with me. Through our conversations, Kyle and I both realized the importance of preserving this timeless music and the great potential it has to speak to audiences near and far. I can truly say that this show is not only dear to me, but will warm the hearts of all who are able to experience it. I dedicate these performances to my late mother, the singers, and musicians who paved the way for us during a time that was both challenging and unique. I hope you all enjoy some of the most treasured contributions to the American performing arts: the music of the 50s and 60s. Martin L. Woods Co-Director, LEGENDS OF THE 50s & 60s: GREATEST HITS

P R O D U C T I O N S TA F F Co-Directors........................................................................................ Kyle A. Dougan, Martin L. Woods Music Director.......................................................................................................................... Jermaine Hill Voice-Over Artist........................................................................................................................ Jeff Morrow Production Manager....................................................................................................................Bob Silton Fashion Stylist......................................................................................................................... Justin LeBlanc Hair Stylist.................................................................................................................................. Alice Salazar Orchestra Contractor...........................................................................................................Linda Madonia

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THE PROGR A M PART ONE: THE FIFTIES Fifteen-minute intermission PART TWO: THE SIXTIES LEGENDS OF THE 50S & 60S : THE SONGS AND THE SONGWRITERS “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough”.................................1967 Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson “Ain’t That a Shame”..................................1955 Antoine “Fats” Domino and Dave Bartholomew “At Last”....................................................................................... 1942 Harry Warren and Mack Gordon “Baby Love”.......................................................1964 Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Eddie Holland “Can’t Help Falling in Love” ............... 1961 Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore, George David Weiss “C’est Si Bon”......................................................................................1947 Henri Betti and Jerry Seelen “Come On-a My House”............................................1951 Ross Bagdasarian and William Saroyan “Crazy” ..............................................................................................................................1961 Willie Nelson “Dance to the Music” ..........................................................................................................1967 Sly Stone “Dancing in the Street” .............. 1964 Marvin Gaye, William “Mickey” Stevenson and Ivy Jo Hunter “Do You Love Me” ..................................................................................................... 1962 Berry Gordy Jr. “Don’t Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes”........................................................................ 1952 Slim Willet “Georgia on My Mind” .................................................1930 Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell “Good Vibrations”.............................................................................1966 Brian Wilson and Mike Love “Here Comes the Sun”.......................................................................................... 1969 George Harrison “Hey, Good Lookin’”................................................................................................... 1951 Hank Williams “Hound Dog”....................................................................................1952 Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller “I Can Dream Can’t I?”.................................................................. 1937 Sammy Fain and Irving Kahal “I Put a Spell on You”............................... 1956 Jalacy “Screamin’ Jay” Hawkins and Herb Slotkin “I Want You Back”............ 1969 Berry Gordy, Freddie Perren, Alphonso Mizell. Deke Richards “I’ll Always Love You”.................................. 1965 William “Mickey” Stevenson and Ivy Jo Hunter “I’m Not Sorry for You”............................................................ 1964 John Hurley and Ronnie Wilkins “I’m Sorry”............................................................................................. 1960 Dub Allbritten, Ronnie Self “In the Still of the Night”................................................................................................1937 Cole Porter “Jailhouse Rock”..............................................................................1957 Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller “Johnny B. Goode”.......................................................................................................... 1958 Chuck Berry “La Bamba”........................................................................1958 traditional, adapted by Richie Valens “Let the Sunshine In”............................1969 Galt MacDermot, James Rado and Gerome Ragni “Lollipop”........................................................................................... 1958 Beverly Ross & Julius Dixson “Love Potion No. 9”.........................................................................1959 Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller “Mona Lisa”.....................................................................................1950 Jay Livingston And Ray Evans “Mr. Sandman”.................................................................................................................... 1954 Pat Ballard “My Girl” ............................................................................1964 Smokey Robinson and Ronald White “Peggy Sue”................................................................................. 1957 Jerry Allison and Norman Petty “Proud Mary”..................................................................................................................1968 John Fogerty “Respect”......................................................................................................................... 1965 Otis Redding “Rock Around the Clock”............................................1954 Max C. Freedman and James E. Myers “Shout”.........................................................1959 O’Kelley Isley Jr., Rudolph Isley and Ronald Isley “Sixty Minute Man”............................................................................. 1951 Billy Ward and Rose Marks “Stand By Me .......................................................... 1961 Ben E. King, Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller “Stupid Cupid”.................................................................. 1958 Howard Greenfield and Neil Sedaka 5

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“Summertime Blues”................................................................................................ 1958 Eddie Cochran “Tennessee Waltz”................................................................... 1946 Pee Wee King and Tedd Stewart “That’s What Girls Are Made For”.......................... 1961 Harvey Fuqua and Gwen Gordy Fuqua “The Times They Are a-Changin’”..................................................................................1964 Bob Dylan “Then He Kissed Me”........................................ 1963 Phil Spector, Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry. “Think”............................................................................................ 1968 Aretha Franklin and Ted White “Tutti Frutti”.....................................................................1955 Little Richard and Dorothy La Bostrie “Where Did Our Love Go”....................1964 Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland “Who’s Sorry Now”........................................................................................................... 1923 Ted Snyder “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow”...........................................1960 Carole King and Gerry Goffin “Yesterday”.................................................................................................................1965 Paul McCartney “You Can’t Hurry Love”..........................1966 Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman” .............1967 Carole King, Gerry Goffin and Jerry Wexler “You Send Me”...................................................................................................................1957 Sam Cooke

BIOGR APHIES CURTIS BANNISTER appeared with Music Theater Works in RICHARD RODGERS’ GREATEST HITS. In 2020, he joined the cast of the second season of the Peabody Award winning Apple TV+ program, DICKINSON, as Marquis, debuted as Theseus (THE GOSPEL AT COLONUS), and performed in a joint collaboration with Heartbeat Opera, The Broad Stage in Los Angeles and the Mondavi Center, singing excerpts from Beethoven’s FIDELIO (Florestan) in the 2021 Drama League nominated film/visual album “Breathing Free” which celebrates the Black/African American experience. Previous season highlights include Ragotski in Leonard Bernstein’s CANDIDE, featuring Bradley Cooper & Carey Mulligan, Paul (KISS ME KATE), Jamie (THE LAST 5 YEARS), Coalhouse Walker Jr. (RAGTIME), Andre (AINT MISBEHAVIN’) and a return to the role of Sid Sorokin (THE PAJAMA GAME) for his debut with Theatre at the Center. He returns to Music Theater Works this October, as Coalhouse Walker, Jr. in RAGTIME. www.thecurtisbannister.com

ADIA BELL is making her Music Theater Works debut. Her Chicago area credits include CHICAGO SINGS ROCK & ROLL BROADWAY (Porchlight Music Theatre), SKATES: THE MUSICAL (Royal George Theatre) and THE COLOR PURPLE (Drury Lane Theatre). She appeared in THE MUSIC MAN with the Arizona Broadway Theatre and will be seen in CHILDREN OF EDEN at the Arcada Theatre. She received her BFA in Musical Theatre from The University of Arizona. She is represented by Gray Talent Group. @adia_bell JUSTIN BRILL is a full time faculty member of Columbia College Chicago, primarily teaching in the Musical Theatre program. As a performer on Broadway, he was in the original companies of ALL SHOOK UP and HIGH FIDELITY, and appeared in RENT during its 10th anniversary celebration. Other credits include Puck in Britten’s A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM at the Legends of the 50s and 60s

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Metropolitan Opera, the national tour of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, the Las Vegas companies of MAMMA MIA! and MONTY PYTHON”S SPAMALOT, the Ghost of Christmas Past in Madison Square Garden’s A CHRISTMAS CAROL, as well as more than 1000 performances as Boq in the first national tour of WICKED. Other regional credits include Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Pittsburgh Opera, Florida Stage, Fireside Theatre, Theatre at the Center, Marriott Theatre, Drury Lane Theatre, Porchlight Music Theatre, Pittsburgh CLO and Music Theatre of Wichita. Justin serves on the board of advisors for The Beautiful City Project, an organization dedicated to using “musical theatre as a tool to give back to the Chicago community”. Justin was a founding member of Chicago’s FWD Theatre Project, which launched with a concert event at City Winery featuring Jessie Mueller. Directorial credits include Refuge Theatre Project’s LYSISTRATA JONES and several projects at Columbia, including a concert re-imagining of ALLEGRO and a Covid-safe virtual presentation of EDGES.

ROBIN K. DASILVA is making her Music Theater Works debut. Her credits include Nell in AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’ (Porchlight Music Theatre), Martha in A CHRISTMAS MEMORY (Theatre at the Center) and BJ in SMOKEY JOE’S CAFE (Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre). She was a 2019 Jeff Award recipient for her work in MAHALIA JACKSON: MOVING THRU THE LIGHT at Black Ensemble Theater, where she also was Fairy Godmama in THE OTHER CINDERELLA and Woman #3 in WOMEN OF SOUL. @robinkdasilva GILBERT DOMALLY is making his Music Theater Works debut. A Chicago-based artist, his credits include THE COLOR PURPLE (Drury Lane Theatre), THE TOTAL BENT (Haven Theatre), MEMPHIS, DREAMGIRLS (Porchlight Music Theatre), HAIRSPRAY, THE LITTLE MERMAID, JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, ELF, CABARET, LEGALLY BLONDE (Paramount Theatre), MADAGASCAR (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), DESSA ROSE, THE WILD PARTY (Bailiwick Theatre) and NEXT TO NORMAL (Boho Theatre).

LYDIA BURKE returns to Music Theatre Works, where she appeared in RICHARD RODGERS’ GREATEST HITS and THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE EVAN TYRONE DAME. Recent credits MARTIN appeared with include the Danseuse in Music Theater Works in Duke Ellington’s SOPHISTICATED LADIES DUKE ELLINGTON’S (Porchlight Music Theatre), KINKY BOOTS GREATEST HITS. (Paramount Theatre), JUNIE B. JONES, THE Recently, he was Jim MUSICAL (Marriott Theatre), MATILDA Bishop in New York’s (Drury Lane Theatre), AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’ Roundabout Theatre and GHOST: THE MUSICAL (Theatre at the Company’s digital reading of SPUNK by Center). She is a graduate of Millikin Zora Neale Hurston, directed by Chicago’s University’s School of Theatre and Dance. Lilli-Anne Brown. Credits include THE BLACK CLOWN (Lincoln Center 2019 MMF / American Repertory Theatre, Boston), Horton in SEUSSICAL (Marriott Theatre), Ali Hakim in OKLAHOMA! (Marriott Theatre), 7

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Hud in HAIR (Mercury Theatre), Jesus in JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR (Paramount Theatre, Black Theatre Alliance Award nomination), I LEFT MY HEART: A SALUTE TO THE MUSIC OF TONY BENNETT (Mercury Theatre, Jeff nomination), Curtis Taylor, Jr. in DREAMGIRLS (Porchlight Music Theatre, BTAA Nomination), Raymond Deagan in FAR FROM HEAVEN (Porchlight, Jeff nomination), King Triton in THE LITTLE MERMAID (Paramount Theatre and Arkansas Repertory Theatre), Jake in SIDE SHOW (Porchlight, Jeff nomination), Tom Collins in RENT (Paramount) and Harpo in THE COLOR PURPLE (Mercury Theatre). Evan has worked with FWD Theater Project, Chicago Children’s Theater, Silk Road Rising, Arkansas Shakespeare Theater, and made two national tours starring in his one-man shows UNFORGETTABLE: FALLING IN LOVE WITH NAT KING COLE and AN UNFORGETTABLE NAT KING COLE CHRISTMAS with Artists Lounge Live. Evan is represented by Paonessa Talent Agency. JERMAINE HILL (Music Director and Conductor) is working for Music Theater Works for the first time. A Jeff Award-winning music director, actor, singer and arranger, his credits include SOPHISTICATED LADIES and MEMPHIS (Porchlight Music Theatre), TOO HEAVY FOR YOUR POCKET (TimeLine Theatre), THE MUSIC MAN (Goodman Theatre), THE TOTAL BENT (Haven Theatre), NELL GWYNN (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), and RAGTIME (Griffin Theatre). He has performed with Haven Theatre, Erasing the Distance, Onion Labs and appeared in an episode of CHICAGO MED. He is an assistant professor of theatre and coordinator of the musical theatre program at Columbia College Chicago, an ensemble member of Griffin Theatre, and a graduate of Ithaca College and the New England Conservatory of Music.

KYLE A. DOUGAN (Co-Director / Producing Artistic Director) took on the position of Music Theater Works’ Producing Artistic Director in 2020. He has worked in various capacities with Music Theater Works for close to a decade. He has spent his career producing, casting, directing, fundraising, and teaching. Prior to moving to Chicago, Kyle produced and directed a workshop of new musicals at University of London and stage-managed a series of new musicals with Perfect Pitch: New Musicals at Trafalgar Studios. In the Chicago area he has directed, associatedirected and assistant-directed shows for Chamber Opera Chicago, Theatre at the Center, Big Noise Theater and The Music Theatre Company. He also served as artistic producer of a series of new musicals with Midwest New Musicals, as executive director of FWD Theatre Project and as co-owner of Style Theatrical Casting, a professional casting company in Chicago. He has also served as a member of the Board of the Wilmette Chamber of Commerce and the Membership Committee for the National Alliance for Musical Theatre. MARTIN L. WOODS (Co-Director) returns to Music Theater Works, having appeared in LERNER AND LOEWE’S GREATEST HITS, DUKE ELLINGTON’S GREATEST HITS and GERSHWIN’S GREATEST HITS. Concert work includes the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and other orchestras across the United States, Europe, and Bermuda. He appeared with Lyric Opera of Chicago in PORGY AND BESS, and was Papageno in THE MAGIC FLUTE and Belcore in THE ELIXIR OF LOVE for Lyric’s Opera in the Neighborhoods program. He has lent background vocals and arrangements to such artists as Michael McDonald, Kim Burrell, Smokie Norful and Heather Headley, and performed studio background vocals for the Paramount film THE FIGHTING TEMPTATIONS with Beyoncé Knowles. He recently completed a Legends of the 50s and 60s

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young artist residency with Chicago Opera Theater in conjunction with the Chicago College of Performing Arts’ diploma program. Mr. Woods holds a B.A. in Music from Morehouse College in Atlanta and a M.M. from the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. JUSTIN AKIRA KONO (Drums) is a percussionist, keyboardist, orchestrator, and audio engineer of a musically wide range. Recent credits include SOPHISTICATED LADIES and CHICAGO SINGS ROCK AND ROLL BROADWAY with Porchlight Music Theater, ALL SHOOK UP and FREAKY FRIDAY with Williams Street Rep, and the upcoming KISS ME, KATE with Marriott Theatre. Music direction credits include 9 TO 5, XANADU and PETER AND THE STARCATCHER with Big Noise Theater and the upcoming BROADWAY IN YOUR BACKYARD with Porchlight Music Theater. Justin is currently a music director at First Congregational United Church of Christ in Downers Grove. He plays with several Chicago-area bands including Piano Man: a Tribute to Billy Joel and Elton John, Blue Sky: a Tribute to ELO, Prairie Station, and his very own J-Pop project, Kitsune Kono. DAVE SAENGER (Guitar) was guitarist for the Paramount Theatre’s SECRET OF MY SUCCESS and NEWSIES, the European tour of Base Hologram’s ROY ORBISON & BUDDY HOLLY: THE ROCK ‘N ROLL DREAM, the first national tour of SCHOOL OF ROCK, Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s PETER MAN, and was a substitute on HAMILTON for Broadway in Chicago. www.saenger-guitar.com GREGORY STRAUSS (Trumpet) has played in the Music Theater Works orchestra for THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE, ANYTHING GOES and THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME. Greg is an active private teacher and freelancer, performing often with a variety of ensembles including the Chicago

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Composers Orchestra, Chicago Children’s Choir, Discover Symphony and numerous theaters in the Chicago area. @gpstrauss CHUCK WEBB (Bass) is bassist, writer, producer and educator, who has toured the world many times performing with such notable artists as Aretha Franklin, Grover Washington Jr., Ramsey Lewis, Bill Withers and many others. As one of Chicago’s top studio bassists, Chuck has performed on hundreds of records, commercial jingles and sound tracks and his musical theater credits include HAMILTON, WICKED, JERSEY BOYS and MOTOWN THE MUSICAL. Chuck is an adjunct professor in the music department at Columbia College Chicago and the owner of Earth Tone Enterprises, producing and composing scores for motion pictures, educational children’s CDs and two jazz CDs. www.chuckwebbmusic.com BOB SILTON (Production Manager) became Music Theater Works’ production manager in 2020. He served as the artistic director of Encore Theatre in Libertyville for seventeen years. He also produced Rockapella at the Genesee Theatre in Waukegan and Ellen Greene (LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS’ original Audrey) in Provincetown, Massachusetts and London, England. Bob has worn many hats in the Chicago-land Theatre including, set/prop design, run crew, wardrobe, and stage management. Past credits include productions with The Marriott Theatre, Drury Lane Theatre, Metropolis Performing Arts Centre, Highland Park Players, Studio 83 Dance, Up & Coming Theatre, Golden Ticket Productions, Northwestern University, Big Deal Productions, Sarah Hall Theatre, Big Noise Theatre, and La Jolla Playhouse.

A D M I N I S T R AT I V E S TA F F Producing Artistic Director................................................................................................Kyle A. Dougan Music Director...............................................................................................................Roger L. Bingaman Business Manager................................................................................................................. Michael Kotze Production Manager....................................................................................................................Bob Silton Director of Audience and Press Services............................................................... Christopher A. Riley Director of Marketing................................................................................................................Aaron Ozee Administrative Assistants............................................................Sasha Cohen, Samantha Kuehnlein Executive Producing Intern......................................................................................................Sarah Rabin YouthREACH Manager............................................................................................................ Anya Plotkin YouthREACH Director....................................................................................................Caryn Ott Hillman YouthREACH Music Director....................................................................................Christopher Richard Development Services......................................................................................................Juno Consulting Graphic Design.............................................................................Dominic Rescigno, Brendan Robson Photography................................................................. Brett Beiner, Rich Foreman, David Ian Grant, Dr. John McMahon, Jennifer Schuman Videography............................................................................................................................ Joe Gallagher Volunteers.......................................................................................................................................The Saints Auditors...........................................................................................................................Brook Weiner L.L.C. BOARD OF DIRECTORS Rosie Rees, President Angel Alajali Stephen G. Baime Jefferson C. Collins Kyle A. Dougan Ted C. Fishman Ralph M. Goren Dr. Joseph Greco. Electra Kontalonis Kate Mattson Rachel Pethiyagoda Pamela T. Pettibone Morris E. Robinson, Sr. Valerie Romano Larson Pamela P. Rosenbusch Catherine Westphal

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GOVERNMENT American Rescue Plan Act CARES Act The Illinois Arts Council State of Illinois Capital Investments in the Arts Village of Wilmette YouthREACH SPONSORS The Ted Fund Elizabeth Louise Smith Fund A.R.T. League Illinois Arts Council Summer Youth Employment in the Arts Ivanhoe Theater Foundation Christ Church of Winnetka Benevolence Committee The Service Club of Chicago

MATCHING GIFTS IBM Foundation The Saints Caterpillar Foundation 2021 DINING PARTNERS Found Kitchen and Social House The Barn Steakhouse Jameson’s Charhouse

2020 SEASON TICKET CONTRIBUTIONS We would also like to thank the following individuals who converted their 2020 subscriptions into donations. Your thoughtfulness and generosity helped Music Theater Works immeasurably during the past year.

Anonymous (4) Mr. and Mrs. Michael Altman Mr. and Mrs. Scott and Louise Anderson Louis Aquila and Sandie Weiss Robert and Marilyn Arensman Mr. Charles Arndt Mr. and Mrs. Alex W. Atkinson Mr. and Mrs. Stephen G. Baime Ms. Teri Bartusek Bruce G. Baumberger Mr. and Mrs. Robert Beilfuss Ms. Suzi Birz Ms. Penelope Boukidis Ms. Linda Bressler Edward and Jo Burr Brenda and Walter Bushala Mrs. Amy Cascarano 13

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Patricia O’Donnell and Philip Castrogiovanni Ms. Eileen Chapman Ms. Amrita Chari Mr. Robert Chatterton Mrs. Ramona H. Choos Dr. Robert D. and Lynn M. Clark Mr. Chris Coleman Mr. Jefferson C. Collins Dr. Ronald Combs Mr. Mark Crane John R. Dainauskas Ms. Camille De Frank Mr. Norm Dinkel Ruth B. and Joseph E. Doninger Nancy and R. Dennis Dougan Mr. and Mrs. Barry and Pamela Dowell Mr. Michael Dybel Ms. Kathleen Edwards

Mrs. Marilyn Elrod Ms. Shirley Esrig Ms. Fran Faller Ms. Marta Fekete Dr. and Mrs. William E. Fishman Dr. and Mrs. Robert Fragen Mr. and Mrs. Ken Freedman Mrs. Carol Friedlander Ms. Kay Friedman Mr. James Fritz Mrs Wanda Frye Mr. Dean Garrison Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gohs Barry Goldman and Victoria Weisenberg Robert J. and Julie P. Gordon Judy and Zave Gussin Ms. Carolyn Haack Ms. Kay Hamel Mr. Michael Heath Ms. Diane Hornstein

2020 SEASON TICKET CONTRIBUTIONS Mr. Stephen Jackson Helen and Jerry Jenkins Mr. Edward Jeszka Mr. Kurt Kaiser Mrs. Rose Kapoun Mrs. Lonny Karmin Dr. Claudia A. Katz Ms. Lindsay Kaufman Mr. Albert Keefer Mr. Thomas Keller Phillip and Maryjane Klein Ms. Susan Klingenstein Ms. Monica Kochis Ms. Electra Kontalonis Mr. Marvin Kopulsky Mr. and Mrs. Burton Kozak Mr. and Mrs. Konstanty Krylow Ms. Lorraine A. Kulpa Ms. Ida Lee Mrs. Sam Lewis Ms. Susanne Liss Mr. David Loewe Ms. Diane Macewicz Charlene Marcus Gloria Marcus Mr. Robert Markey Eric and Kate Mattson Ms. Mary McGinnis Dr. and Mrs. John D. McMahon Mr. Jerome Meites Mr. Loren Miller

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Mrs. Sarah J. Miller Mrs. Margaret W. Mistak Ms. Phyllis Morris Mrs. Gail Neiman Mr. Douglas Niebuhr Ms. Eileen O’Shea James E. and Margo B. Oliff Mr.and Mrs. Daniel Orbach Sue Pastin Mrs. Audrey Paton Mr. and Mrs. Michael S. Perlman Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Pigott Madeleine and Harvey Plonsker Ms. Susan Rabe Ms. Peggy Rainey Ms. Nancy Ratner Ms. Sunny Rittenhouse Ms. Virginia Rogodzinski Ms. Ruth Rosen Pamela R. Rosenbusch Mary Beth and Wolfgang Roth Dr. Shirley Roy Ms. Louise Ryssmann Ms. Joan Safford Mrs. Marilyn J. Sainsot Ms. Charlene Salzman Mr. Ronald Scherubel Ms. Mary Schmidt Mr. and Mrs. Ron Sersen Ms. Louise Simonson

Mr. Leon Skudlarek Ms. Dorothy and Scott Speidel Judy and Vern Squires Ms. Jean Stafford Ms. Jane Stevens Ms. Helen G. Stopek Ms. Maryann G. Strain Thomas and Sue Swigert Ms. Alethia Thompson Mr. Paul Thompson Mr. Thomas Trojan Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tropp Mr. and Mrs. Alan and Betsy Turovitz Mrs. Margot Vaselopulos Mr. and Mrs. John Weber Mary Uppena-Weed Ms. Cherie Weil Mr. and Mr. Robert Yohanan Les and Dianne Zunkel

This list reflects gifts processed between February 1, 2020 and May 7, 2022. If you believe there is an error in your listing, please contact us at info@musictheaterworks.org. Much as they are appreciated, gifts of less than $100 (as well as donations to benefits, auctions, and raffles) cannot be printed due to space limitations.

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