Krysta Rodriguez & Scott Barnhardt Coming Home 1.27
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Kalani Pe'a 2.8
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WELCOME IT IS MY PLEASURE TO WELCOME YOU TO AN AWARD-WINNING SEASON AT THE BARCLAY.
This season, Irvine Barclay Theatre has managed to do the nearly impossible. We’ve curated a season with artists who, collectively, have garnered an extraordinary number of high caliber awards and nominations. 117 Grammy nominations; 49 Grammy Award wins; 21 Tony nominations; 12 Tony Award wins; 18 Emmy nominations; 4 Emmy Award wins, 5 Oscar nominations. Plus, there’s even one Pulitzer Prize and one Royal Knighthood. It’s a season steeped with top-notch artists, including Broadway luminary Sutton Foster, flamenco great Diego el Cigala, and country music star Kathy Mattea. The expanded Jazz@theBarclay, and our signature Contemporary Dance series feature first-class talent from across the nation and around the world. As always, we are indebted to all who help us maintain the Barclay as a unique community resource: our staff and our Board of Directors; our public partners—the City of Irvine and UCI; and you, the audience. I especially want to thank our 2018–2019 season sponsor, City National Bank, for its enthusiastic support. We look forward to working together to make Orange County an even better place to live. Please check out the Barclay patron guide, available in the lobby. There is a lot to discover in the new year. We hope you’ll join us.
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KRYSTA RODRIGUEZ & SCOTT BARNHARDT COMING HOME
Sponsored by: Jerry and Whitney Mandel
January 27, 2019 | Cheng Hall This performance is presented without an intermission.
Krysta Rodriguez
A NOTE FROM THE ARTISTS
Scott Barnhardt
Thank you for attending Coming Home!
Vocals Vocals
Christopher W. Smith Music Director
Musical Theatre Conservatory of the Orange County School of the Arts Student Performers
Ceci Balagot Ava Bassinne Juliette Boland Reagan Gift Bella Gil Jodie Kiyokawa Noi Maeshige Bella Zoila Smith
Student Assistants
Allison Lindblom Joseph Sable
In the summer of 2017, Krysta Rodriguez performed a concert for OCSA’s Season Premiere event at the majestic Balboa Bay Club, directed and staged by her (much) old (-er) friend Scott Barnhardt. Unable to resist the urge, as they were preparing that concert, Krysta and Scott sang two duets together — just for the fun of it…cracking jokes, telling stories and singing harmonies under the stars. And something clicked.
When approached by Jerry Mandel to come together for an entire evening of song, here at Irvine Barclay Theatre, they jumped at the opportunity. It is not very often you are given the chance of performing with one of your best friends in a gorgeous venue in your hometown. Carpe Diem!
This is a labor of love for both Krysta and Scott, and one that could not have happened without the gracious support of Jerry and Whitney Mandel, Ginny Hayward and the stupendous staff of the Broadway Cabaret at the Barclay series, Ralph Opacic, our Music Director Christopher W. Smith, music/transcription support from Ben Rauhala, Mina Bloom, Eric Kalver and Jared Sheahan, production support from OCSA staff members Karen Rymar and Amelia Barron, endless emotional support from our significant others, Peter Westervelt and JP Karliak, and, of course, our families and friends. We are so appreciative of our formative years spent in the vibrant artistic community in the Orange County area, and it means the world to be able to be “Coming Home” for this opportunity and experience. Enjoy!
Krysta & Scott
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS Krysta Rodriguez is absolutely thrilled to be “Coming Home”!
As an Orange County native and graduate of the Orange County School for the Arts, she relishes any chance she has to return to her old stomping grounds. Since leaving OC, she has been a mainstay on Broadway and television alike.
She was most recently seen on the small screen co-starring with John Lithgow on the NBC series Trial & Error. On television, Rodriguez is best known for her scene-stealing turn on the second season of NBC’s Smash as fan-favorite Ana Vargas. Other television credits include recurring roles on Quantico, Chasing Life and guest starring roles on Younger, The Mysteries of Laura, Inside Amy Schumer and Gossip Girl. On Broadway, Rodriguez was in the critically acclaimed revival of Spring Awakening as Ilsa and headlined the original Broadway cast of First Date opposite Zachary Levi. Her extensive Broadway credits include original companies of The Addams Family (Wednesday Addams); In the Heights; Spring Awakening; Good Vibrations; and A Chorus Line (Bebe, Revival). She later got to perform the role of Diana in A Chorus Line at the famed Hollywood Bowl to much critical acclaim. Other credits include Theresa Rebeck’s What We’re Up Against and playing Anita in West Side Story with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C. Next, you can catch Rodriguez on the new Netflix series, Daybreak, to premiere in 2019 opposite Matthew Broderick. Enjoy the show!
Scott Barnhardt couldn’t be happier to be singing alongside Krysta Rodriguez in this concert, Coming Home. Scott is an actor, director/choreographer and educator who has returned to southern California as the director of the Musical Theatre Conservatory at Orange County School of the Arts (OCSA). He is a graduate of OCSA (MT ’97), earned his BA from Wagner College and recently received his MFA in Playwriting from UCLA. His acting credits include the original Broadway cast of The Book of Mormon (Elder Harris/Elder Thomas, u/s Elder McKinley, Asst. Dance Captain) and the Deaf West Broadway revival of Big River at Roundabout Theatre Company. Other NYC credits: Yank! (workshop); Bye Bye Birdie (City Center Encores!) and Behind the Limelight/Chaplin (NYMF). National 6 | IRVINE BARCLAY THEATRE
tours: The Boy Friend directed by Julie Andrews; Big River; the Detroit Company of White Christmas and the Japanese tour of Disney on Classic with the Tokyo Philharmonic. Film/TV: Frozen (Troll); South Park; The 2012 Tony Awards and national commercials for Truth Campaign, Nike and Ocean Spray.
Writing credits: Gamers (Hollywood Fringe Festival, 2017 O’Neill Playwrights semi-finalist, UCLA New Play Festival); [feel the difference] (Coppola One-Act Festival); The Gift (devised piece, UCLA); The Joan Crawford Project, Happy Songs (Metropolitan Room); Penelope-PCSA (digital webseries); and material for Transcendence Theatre Company in Sonoma, California.
At OCSA, he directed and choreographed The Drowsy Chaperone and Xanadu, directed the High School premiere of Jasper in Deadland as well as the last two OCSA Season Premiere events staring Krysta Rodriguez and David Burnham, respectively, at the Balboa Bay Club. This spring, he will be helming a production of Evita with OCSA students at the Beverly O’Neill Theatre in conjunction with Musical Theatre West. Awards and grants include the 2004 Tony Honor (Big River), Grammy Citation for Best Cast Album (The Book of Mormon), Tim Robbins Playwriting Award, Sono Osato Scholarship, Caroline H. Newhouse Scholarship and the George Burns & Gracie Allen Fellowship in comedy.
Christopher W. Smith (Music Director) currently serves as the resident music director of the Musical Theatre Conservatory of OCSA, where he has music directed Sweet Charity; The Mystery of Edwin Drood; The Fantasticks; Footloose; Guys & Dolls; A Little Off; Club 1010; 25th Annual Putnum County Spelling Bee; The Drowsy Chaperone; Jasper in Deadland; and Xanadu.
He has been performing as a solo and collaborative artist for over 25 years. Christopher is an accomplished performer with a passion for duo piano work and other collaborations such as musical directing, chamber work and vocal coaching.
Christopher has a long history of working in musical theater as a music director and pianist. Some highlights of productions that he has worked on are: Crazy for You (OCSA); Rocky Horror and Chicago (No Square Theatre); Les Miserables (Musical Theatre West); Spring Awakening and Rent (Saddleback College); 13 (Old Town Temecula Community Theater). In addition to performing, Christopher enjoys teaching piano, coaching vocalists, and teaching musical theater at the Laguna Playhouse! Christopher received his Master of Fine Arts degree in music (collaborative piano) from UC Irvine. He currently resides with his wife, Joy, and son, Grayson, in Mission Viejo.
MUSICAL THEATRE CONSERVATORY OF THE ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS The award-winning Orange County School of the Arts (OCSA) Musical Theatre Conservatory provides a creative, challenging, and nurturing environment that offers bright and talented students unparalleled preparation for higher education and a profession in the arts with a commitment to excellence, innovation, professionalism, and integrity. Founded in 1987 by visionary educator Dr. Ralph Opacic, OCSA has grown from a small after-school arts program into one of the premier arts schools in the nation. This innovative public charter school embraces and encourages artistic creativity and academic excellence, and produces lifelong learners who matriculate to top tier colleges, universities, and conservatory programs.
Each year, the conservatory offers a number of unique and exciting performance opportunities, where students have the chance to demonstrate the artistic skills and talents they have gained throughout their time in the program, much like this performance of Coming Home. Our students are provided with one-of-a-kind opportunities to meet, work with, and learn from renowned guest artists and alumni, university faculty, and industry leaders in an environment of creativity, respect and collaboration.
The Musical Theatre Conservatory, currently under the leadership of Director Scott Barnhardt and Assistant Director Karen Rymar, offers a rigorous and comprehensive course of study for serious musical theatre students in grades 7 through 12 who aspire to achieve a career on stage, in film and television or in the recording arts.
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in our community and beyond! Want to create a brighter future? The Barclay has just the ticket! We’re expanding our acclaimed ArtsReach programming to give more students the opportunity to learn with our featured artists, at the theatre and in their own classrooms. Master classes, Q&A’s, interactive workshops, and so much more! ArtsReach inspires young people to explore the arts and helps them develop stronger minds, increased confidence, and a sense of curiosity about the world. These extraordinary programs change lives, and your contributions make them possible.
Please give generously to ArtsReach today! For information contact: Lori Grayson, Director of Development grayson@thebarclay.org | 949.854.4186 | 949.527.2700 ArtsReach is supported by: An Anonymous Fund of the Orange County Community Foundation
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THE 7 FINGERS RÉVERSIBLE
February 1–2, 2019 | Cheng Hall This performance is presented without an intermission.
Production
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ABOUT THE 7 FINGERS
ABOUT RÉVERSIBLE
The 7 Fingers is an arts collective unlike any other. In 2002, the 7 founders set out to redefine circus by stripping down the spectacle to its thrilling essence.
Imagine your grandparents and what they lived through when they were your age. Eight outstanding performers dug through the histories of their families. They unveiled stories from the past and skeletons in the closets that reflected, in some way or another, how they experience life today.
The contemporary company tells stories using deathdefying acrobatics with a life-affirming theatricality that is unique to The 7 Fingers. Since its inception, the company has expanded from its own signature touring shows to creating theatrical experiences as diverse as the very artistic directors themselves: original productions varying from intimate one-man shows to large-scale arena performances, Broadway musicals, artistic collaborations with renowned international artists and companies, production design and direction, special events, Olympic ceremonies, televised performances, fashion, art and music events, immersive experiences and much more. Every one of these projects carries The 7 Fingers’ unequivocal mark. The company has consistently spread its horizons by mixing genres and exploring new ways to tell stories. Fascinated by the human condition, The 7 Fingers create performances that celebrate our world, our time and our humanity. Their shows tour the globe and bring audiences to their feet wherever they go.
In 2018, The 7 Fingers opened their very own Centre of Creation and Production. Situated in the heart of Montréal’s downtown theater district, the new centre houses all of the company’s activities, departments and dreams under one roof.
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Through a unique, riveting mix of theater, circus, dance, music and acrobatics, Réversible is dedicated to a generation who forged the world that we live in today and whose stories might hold the key to a better tomorrow. Our elders lived in a simpler era, when time moved at a less rapid pace. This time in history inspired poetry, imagination, passion, and staggering virtuosity. Are these stories written in our DNA? How will the past guide our evolution in the future?
With The 7 Fingers’ Réversible, be prepared for the best in contemporary circus: moments of pure grace yielding to rushes of adrenalin, as a cast of multi-talented performers travel through time and space. Be part of a vibrant journey that will give you goose bumps: peek through the key hole at a reversible world, where everyday life is turned upside down into new, spectacular universes filled with beauty, emotion and — yes — hope.
Gypsy Snider (Director). Co-founder and acting co-artistic
director of The 7 Fingers, Gypsy Snider wrote, directed and/ or co-directed The 7 Fingers signature shows Réversible, Intersection, Amuse, Loft and Traces. In 2013, under the direction of Diane Paulus, Gypsy integrated and choreographed circus into the Tony Awardwinning revival of the musical Pippin. Gypsy’s work on Pippin earned her a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award.
Other honors include numerous awards for Traces (Outer Critics Circle Award, Best Special Event Award from Off Broadway Alliance, named one of the Top 10 Plays and Musicals of 2011 by Time magazine). Traces ran for a year off-Broadway at New York’s Union Square Theatre. In 2015, Gypsy received the Evolving Circus Award in New York. Gypsy has choreographed televised feature performances for America’s Got Talent, Her Majesty’s Royal Variety Performance, The Illusionist: Darcy Oake’s Edge of Reality on ITV and the Underwear and Denim Fashion Show for Bench Philippines. She is also a guest teacher and guest director at the National Circus School of Montréal. Originally from San Francisco, Gypsy grew up performing as the daughter of the founders of The Pickle Family Circus. After receiving her degree in physical theater from the Accademia Teatro Dimitri in Switzerland in 1993, she performed internationally for 18 years, with Cirque du Soleil and many other circus and theater companies.
AN INTERVIEW WITH DIRECTOR GYPSY SNIDER What is the theme of Réversible?
The idea was that we were going to base the characters in our story on characters that were very deeply inherent in ourselves. So, I sent the cast out in November 2015 to start looking into their genealogy. They had to go at least to their grandparents, but some of them went as far as their greatgrandparents and their great-great-grandparents. I wanted them to create characters based on where they came from, a past that they were not even aware of. The idea was that in studying that past, they might see a deeper, stronger path to how they became the people that they are. And the idea was that we would then construct characters to tell the story of Réversible based on events that occurred in these artists’ DNA pool over the last 150 years. This has proven to be the deepest and most exciting part of creating Réversible. Every day they’d come back with new stories about their grandparents or their great-grandparents, things they had no idea about. One girl found out she was Jewish, she had no idea. One girl who is Swiss found out that her Japanese grandmother had abandoned an arranged marriage in Japan and ran away with a Swiss man. She became the first woman to immigrate to this tiny Swiss village. The stories are just incredible. What we’re feeling in this current generation is that we are uprooted. We are not as connected to family and past as we were even 50 years ago. What is the creative process of Réversible?
The process for Réversible is based on the creative process The 7 Fingers have been developing over the past 15 years. We begin with a spark, an idea, a desire to express and
explore a concept that fascinates us, something that we feel will fulfill our search for a better humanity, for a better understanding of who we are. We write the concept — the story writing happens in our minds, at the writing table between The 7 Fingers — and we develop the idea together, we take a storyline, a vehicle to explore the capacity of storytelling through circus, and then we cast a show of characters based on that desire and through improvisation. We create a playground in which we ask the artists to improvise on themes, structures, situations, so that they are able to bring in their own quality — their own flavor — and together we create the show. The artists enter the process almost a year before the premiere. Their contribution is fundamental; creating this way is heavily based on improvisation, on a very personal way of working. I propose concepts, music, stage designs, situations, a theatrical framework onto which the artists must improvise to fill this canvas.
Of course, there are choreographed segments and images that are already very clear to me before, but I always expect the artists to go further. It’s a very organic, very creative, and always surprising process, one that allows us to create one entity that is separate from us, an entity that takes us further than something that any of us might have imagined alone. Artist Representation: Columbia Artists Management LLC Jake Rosenblum jrosenblum@columbia-artists.com www.columbia-artists.com
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RÉVERSIBLE CREDITS PRODUCTION Les 7 Doigts de la Main (The 7 Fingers) Direction
Gypsy Snider
Associate Director
Isabelle Chassé
Movement Design Collaborators
Philip Chbeeb & Hokuto Konichi (AXYZM) On Stage
Maria del Mar Reyes Vincent Jutras Jérémi Lévesque Natasha Patterson Hugo Ragetly Julien Sillliau Émilie Sillliau Emi Vauthey Set & Props
Ana Cappelluto Lights
Yan Lee Chan Costumes
Geneviève Bouchard
Chinese Pole Choreography
Shana Carroll
Choreographic Assistant
Kyra Jean Green Music Direction
Colin Gagné
in collaboration with
Sebastien Soldevila Original Music, Sound Design and Music Arrangement
Singers & Musicians
Guido Del Fabbro Alexandre Désilets Cédric Dind-Lavoie Dominiq Hamel Frannie Holder Ines Talbi Julie-Blanche Vandenbroucque Leif Vollebekk Spike Wilner Acrobatic Coach
Francisco Cruz
Handstands Coach
Olaf Triebel
Teeter Board Coach
André St-Jean Props Master
Cloé Alain-Gendreau Project Manager
Chloé Rondeau Stage Manager
Sabrina Gilbert
Stage Manager and Tour Manager
Julie Brosseau-Doré Technical Director
Louis Héon Rigging
Guillaume Ménard-Crête Photos (unless otherwise noted)
Alexandre Galliez
Original music available at BandCamp
THE 7 FINGERS Founders and Artistic Directors
Shana Carroll Isabelle Chassé Patrick Léonard Gypsy Snider Sébastien Soldevila Samuel Tétreault
Touring and Development Director
Tina Diab C.E.O.
Nassib El-Husseini
Colin Gagné
in collaboration with
Raphaël Cruz, Ines Talbi, and Dominiq Hamel With the support of Coproduction
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Commissioning Partner
La Strada (Graz)
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PEAK EXPERIENCE JAZZ AT LAST
February 7, 2019 | Cheng Hall This performance will include a 15-minute intermission.
Series Sponsor: Ken and Helene Rohl
PEAK EXPERIENCE JAZZ Ron Kobayashi
Carl Saunders
Ann Patterson
Kendall Kay
Piano
Alto, Tenor, Soprano Saxophone, Oboe, Flute
Rickey Woodard Tenor Saxophone
Trumpet Drums
Mike Peak
Bass & Leader
Barbara Morrison Guest Artist
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PEAK EXPERIENCE JAZZ This popular and dynamic group plays straight-ahead jazz. Its audience consists of those discerning people who love and appreciate this music and recognize it as America’s own indigenous art form and gift to the world.
Barbara Morrison (Guest Artist, Vocals) is the founder and president of The California Jazz and Blues Museum and the Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center. She is an adjunct professor of vocal jazz at UCLA.
Barbara has performed with The Clayton Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, Count Basie, Tony Bennett, Terrance Blanchard, Kenny Burrell, Ray Charles, Dizzy Gillespie, Dr. John, Chaka Khan, Keb’ Mo’, James Moody, Ester Phillips, Lou Rawls, Joe Sample, Jimmy Smith, Mel Tormé, Cedar Walton, Dionne Warwick, Joe Williams, Gerald Wilson, Nancy Wilson, Stevie Wonder and many other major artists.
Ron Kobayashi (Piano) is a composer, arranger, recording artist, record label owner and educator.
Ron has performed with Andrea Miller, Mel Tormé, Margaret Whiting, Peter Frampton, Kenny Burrell and other major artists. He performed for President Bill Clinton in 1992 and has been the music director of the Hollywood Diversity Awards for many years. Ron is a faculty member at the Orange County High School of the Arts and Biola University.
Ann Patterson (Alto, Tenor, Soprano Saxophone, Oboe, Flute) is a composer, arranger, recording artist and educator. She is a recipient of the prestigious Jazz Educator Award, presented by the Los Angeles Jazz Society. She has been the leader of the all-female 17-piece big band, Maiden Voyage, for over 30 years. Ann has recorded and/or toured with many renowned artists such as Ray Charles, Etta James, Sheena Easton, Lou Rawls, Melissa Manchester, The Temptations and Neil Sedaka.
Rickey Woodard (Tenor Sax) is a Concord recording artist, composer and arranger. Rickey has performed, toured and recorded with The Clayton Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, Diana Krall, Gladys Knight, Michael Bublé, Paul Anka, Ray Charles, B.B. King, Horace Silver, Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald and many other major artists. Carl Saunders (Trumpet) is the composer, recording artist, educator and leader of the Carl Saunders Be Bop Big Band. He has recorded and/or toured with Stan Kenton, John Williams, Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, Paul Anka, Robert Goulet, Harry James, Si Zentner and many other major artists.
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Barbara Morrison
Kendall Kay (Drums) is a recording artist on many high profile jazz, R & B and pop productions.
He is a first-call drummer for such major artists as Kenny Burrell, Alan Broadbent, Phil Upchurch, Kyle Eastwood, Ron Escheté, Cecilia Coleman, Jack Jones, Lamont Johnson, Melanie Jackson, Kiki Ebsen, Rickie Lee Jones and others.
Mike Peak (Bass & Leader) is a composer, arranger, record
producer and educator. He is a 2018 California Jazz & Blues Museum Hall of Fame inductee. Mike is an advisory board member of the Vail Jazz Foundation and is the executive board member of the Orange County Musicians’ Association Local 7, A.F.M. He has performed with Joe Pass, John Chiodini, Llew Matthews, Gerald Clayton, Paul Kreibich, Dee Dee McNeil, Dick Weller, Sal Cracchiolo, Barbara Morrison, Yve Evans, Peggy Duquesnel, Carol Chaikin, Stacy Rowles and many others.
Artist Representation: The Peak Experience Jazz Ensemble 949.425.9192 mikepeak@cox.net
February 15 & 16, 2019 8:00 p.m.
Kei Akagi & Friends: Winifred Smith Hall $19 | $14 | $6
photo by Paul R. Kennedy
An Evening of Modern Jazz with the Tokyo Trio
Arts Box Office (949) 824-2787 | www.arts.uci.edu/tickets
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xciting changes are underway at the Barclay this season! We’re significantly expanding our ArtsReach programming, bringing more artists to local students and community members for a variety of learning opportunities. In December, the Barclay partnered with board member Liza Krassner to host a very special outreach event at the theatre. Under her leadership, we collaborated with the Regional Center of Orange County (RCOC) to bring children with developmental disabilities and their families to the theatre to watch a private sound check and dress rehearsal with jazz trumpeter Dr. Bobby Rodriguez and his band. Participating families had the exclusive opportunity to meet one-on-one with Dr. Rodriguez in a supportive environment before his Latin Jazz Christmas show at the Barclay that evening.
The event was a success! Families in attendance were touched by Dr. Rodriguez’s genuine warmth and his sensitivity to the unique needs of his audience:
“Thank you for all your efforts arranging the incredible opportunity for the Regional Center clients attending the rehearsal and meeting Dr. Bobby Rodriguez. Our son Santos was so thrilled and it was a blessing to be able to experience it with him. Music heals Santos and it was obvious again last night.” - Lisa Cline (RCOC parent) RCOC is an extraordinary organization dedicated to supporting this underserved population in Orange County. The Barclay is honored to have played a part in RCOC’s worthy mission. Through meaningful experiences like this, we strive to create more openminded communities, a kinder, more
productive world, and a brighter future for everyone. Thank you, Liza and RCOC! With your help, we are keeping the momentum going so the arts can reach even more people in our community. At the Barclay, our mission is to serve you and yours—to provide joy, inspiration, education, and a cherished place to celebrate life through the arts. With your help, we can continue to uplift our community through the arts! If you’d like to support more outreach events like this at the Barclay, please consider making a contribution to ArtsReach today.
For more information, contact Lori Grayson, Director of Development: grayson@thebarclay.org 949.854.4186
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KALANI PE'A
Sponsored by: The Hiland Foundation The Richard & Elizabeth Steele Fund Hyatt Regency Maui Resort and Spa
February 8, 2019 | Cheng Hall This performance will include a 15-minute intermission.
Kalani Pe'a
Songs will be announced from the stage.
Aiau Koa
Please, no video or audio recording of any kind. The artists will be available after the show to sign CDs.
Vocals Guitar
Kalani Miles Guitar
Wailau Ryder Bass
Allan Cool Manager
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KALANI PE'A In 2017, Kalani Pe'a’s debut album, E Walea (“relaxing at ease with the gentle voices of the birds”), took home the Grammy Award for Best Regional Roots Music Album. It reached No. 1 on the iTunes world music charts and No. 12 on the Billboard world albums charts. In Hawai‘i, Kalani Pe'a was awarded the 2017 Nā Hōkū Hanohano Award (Hawai‘i’s Grammy) for Best Hawaiian Contemporary Album, making history “as the first Hawai‘i recording artist EVER to have received a Grammy Award and a Nā Hōkū Hanohano Award for the same project. No one has accomplished that before.” (Honolulu Star-Advertiser) Accolades continued with his August 2018 sophomore release, No ‘Ane‘i, which reached No.1 on iTunes world music charts and No. 11 on Billboard’s world music charts. No ‘Ane’i (“We Belong Here”), is nominated for a 2019 Grammy Award in the Best Regional Roots Music Album category. Self-described as “Hawaiian contemporary soul,” Kalani Pe'a was awarded a prestigious fellowship from the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation in 2018. With his passion for perpetuating the Hawaiian language, his albums feature his original Hawaiian songs alongside his affectionate arrangements and Hawaiian interpretations of some of his R&B favorites—a nod to the Western music he grew up listening.
Kalani Pe'a sings everything from classical, musicals, ballads, R&B, soul and, of course, Hawaiian music, displaying his wide-ranging talent as a songwriter and music composer. It started at age four when Pe'a was diagnosed with a speech impediment; his mother Pua Leonard introduced her son to singing and music in order to help him pronounce his words. Leonard and Pe'a’s father, Arthur (Ata) Pe'a, who comes from a musical family, encouraged Kalani to take vocal lessons and choir. By the time he was eight years old, Pe'a was winning numerous talent competitions statewide. At age 18, he won Hawai‘i’s Brown Bags to Stardom music talent competition. While a student at Colorado Mesa University (formerly known as Mesa State College), from where he received his degree in mass communications, he garnered first place in the National Association of Teachers of Singing competition of the Colorado/Wyoming chapter, in men’s classical and musical division. “From speech therapy to being a college graduate in communications,” noted Pe'a’s father with humor, “Kalani can’t stop talking and singing.” In the process of planning his debut album, Pe'a contacted Dave Tucciarone, a 13-time Nā Hōkū Hanohano Awardwinning engineer and producer based in Honolulu. “I had to travel every weekend from Maui to meet Dave for seven months, collaborate with my musicians, and just sing my heart out,” Pe'a noted. The hard work paid off with the 2017 Grammy win, followed by his first Nā Hōkū Hanohano award. 18 | IRVINE BARCLAY THEATRE
A fluent Hawaiian speaker and graduate of the Hawaiian language school, Ke Kula ‘o Nāwahīokalaniʻōpuʻu, Pe'a went on to illustrate and publish five Hawaiian language children’s stories. He taught at Kamehameha Preschools in Kona, and worked for eight years as a Hawaiian resource coordinator for Kamehameha Schools on Maui, creating curriculum and teaching Hawaiian culture with a science focus.
He now has the opportunity to focus on his music full-time. He was honored by the Hawai‘i State House of Representatives with an official proclamation in 2017: “It is vital that Native Hawaiian culture and the arts be perpetuated for future generations: Kalani Pe'a is a torchbearer, and we recognize his accolades, accomplishments and continued work on behalf of Native Hawaiians.” www.kalanipeamusic.com.
Aiau Koa (Guitar) is known for his performances with many of Hawai‘i’s leading artists, including Keali‘i Reichel and Kalani Pe'a. He is also an instructor and practitioner of the martial arts style of Ai Pilau Kenpo, drawn to its heart and soul exemplifying the spirit of ohana or family.
Kalani Miles (Guitar) was raised in Hawai‘i among many diverse cultures, including his own Samoan background. An accomplished guitarist, he has come to appreciate various genres of music, old and new, traditional and contemporary.
Wailau Ryder (Bass) was born on O’ahu, but grew up in the Puna region of the Hawai‘i Island. One of his major influences was his aunt, the well-known musician and Hawaiian educator Lei’ohu Ryder. He is also a gifted vocalist and slack key guitarist. Artist Representation: Pasifika Artists Network Karen A. Fischer karen@pasifika-artists.com www.pasifika-artists.com
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STEEP CANYON RANGERS February 9, 2019 | Cheng Hall This performance will include a 15-minute intermission.
Sponsored by: Jennifer Klein
Woody Platt Lead Vocals, Guitar
Graham Sharp Vocals, Banjo, Guitar Mike Guggino Vocals, Mandolin Nicky Sanders Vocals, Fiddle
Barrett Smith Vocals, Upright Bass Mike Ashworth Vocals, Percussion
STEEP CANYON RANGERS With Out in the Open, Steep Canyon Rangers affirm their place as one of the most versatile and idiosyncratic bands in all of contemporary American music. The Grammy Award-winning, North Carolina-based sextet has spent nearly two decades bending and shaping the bluegrass aesthetic, wedding it to elements of pop, country, folk rock, and more to create something original and all their own. Out in the Open is perhaps Steep Canyon Rangers’ bravest excursion thus far, transcending bluegrass while in many ways getting closest to the genre’s true form thanks to producer Joe Henry’s very traditional approach towards recording.
Steep Canyon Rangers have been expanding the parameters of bluegrass since coming together in 2000. Since then, the genre-defying band has developed a remarkable catalogue of original music —predominantly co-written by Graham Sharp and bassist Charles R. Humphrey III —that links them to the past while at the same time, demonstrates their ambitious intent to bring string-based music into contemporary relevance. IRVINE BARCLAY THEATRE | 19
With that goal in mind, Steep Canyon Rangers have in recent years begun collaborating with some of Americana’s most distinctive producers, working with top studio hands like Larry Campbell (2013’s Tell the Ones I Love) and Jerry Douglas (2015’s Radio) to take newfangled routes in crafting their ever-evolving approach. Out in the Open sees the band teaming up with Joe Henry, an accomplished singersongwriter as well as a three-time Grammy Award-winning producer (Solomon Burke, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Carolina Chocolate Drops) with a particular affinity for American roots music. In July 2017, Steep Canyon Rangers arrived at Fidelitorium Recordings in Kernersville, North Carolina, an intimate studio facility built, owned and operated by legendary producer Mitch Easter (R.E.M., Let’s Active). Having not previously discussed Henry’s plans, the band members were surprised to discover that their producer—with the invaluable help of engineer/mixer Jason Richmond— intended to record in classic fashion, with all six members singing and playing in a room with no overdubs. Though Steep Canyon Rangers had some trepidation, they promptly rose to the challenge.
“We’ve recorded in a circle before,” Platt says, “but with baffles and other ways to isolate yourself. This record, if I stepped six inches to my left, I’d bump into the mandolin player. Six inches to my right, I’m bumping into the banjo player. Our microphones were all over each other, if you turned off my vocal mic, I was in twelve other ones. So really there was no way to fix anything, just like our live show.”
Indeed, Out in the Open was recorded completely live, with “not one overdub,” says Platt. “Not one vocal, not one instrument.” The organic process allowed SCR to work faster than ever before, tracking a dozen songs in just three-anda-half fertile days. Tracks were jammed, rehearsed, played, and recorded with no time wasted, the band moving on to the next song after just a couple of hot takes. “There’s no sleight of hand,” Sharp says. “It may not be straightforward, but it’s honest.”
“What you lose in perfection,” says Platt, “you gain in energy and authenticity.” Though simply recorded, Out in the Open is richly textured and fully etched, the band’s uncanny interplay and exceptional musicianship enabling them to create worlds with only the bare essentials at their disposal. “Going Midwest” was laid down in but a single take, with all of the song’s power and emotion captured in real time.
“We only played it once,” Platt says. “We just walked in there and played it. Joe came over the speaker and said, get in here. We went in, a couple of the guys were crying during the playback. It was special.” 20 | IRVINE BARCLAY THEATRE
Steep Canyon Rangers attempted to fast finish a number of additional songs, but Henry wisely advised them to call it a wrap: Out in the Open was complete. With that, the band returned to the endless highway they call home for near 150 nights a year. Indeed, Steep Canyon Rangers are easily among the hardest working bands in any genre, anywhere, pulling double duty on their own and as collaborators with Steve Martin. Since teaming with the legendary actorcomedian-writer-banjo player in 2009, SCR has produced not one but two unique bodies of work, dual catalogues in constant development —along with their own works. The band has teamed with Martin for 2011’s Grammy Awardnominated Rare Bird Alert and 2017’s The Long-Awaited Album, while also backing Martin’s own partnership with Edie Brickell on both 2013’s Love Has Come For You and the sold out tour that followed (captured for posterity on 2014’s Steve Martin And The Steep Canyon Rangers Featuring Edie Brickell — Live CD/DVD). In addition to the highly anticipated release of Out in the Open, 2018 saw Steep Canyon Rangers uniting with their local Asheville Symphony for a series of unprecedented live performances and the recording of yet another new album, once again pushing their increasingly distinctive music into unexpected terrain.
Out in the Open is an undeniable milestone on Steep Canyon Rangers’ ongoing creative journey, its spirited, eclectic approach recasting the myriad sounds of string-based American music in their own unique image. As they fast approach their second decade, Steep Canyon Rangers are still moving forward, as ever searching for new horizons and musical vistas. Artist Representation: New Frontier Touring John Everhart jeverhart@newfrontiertouring.com www.newfrontiertouring.com
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DOKTOR KABOOM
AND THE WHEEL OF SCIENCE!
February 10, 2019 | Cheng Hall This performance is presented without an intermission.
Doktor Kaboom is the creation of actor/comedian David Epley.
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DOKTOR KABOOM AND THE WHEEL OF SCIENCE! So much science, so little time… Doktor Kaboom is having trouble picking his favorite science demonstrations, so he’s bringing them all! Unfortunately, there are way too many to do them all in one show. The solution: The Wheel of Science! Doktor Kaboom has built a great big spinning wheel and labeled it with everything from optical illusions to chemical reactions to a homemade hovercraft, and more! At least a dozen fantastic demonstrations ready to go. Wherever the wheel stops, that’s what’s next! Will we turn a water bottle into a rocket or catapult bananas across the stage? Electrocute a pickle or create artificial gravity? Who knows? No two shows will be the same. So, step right up, and let’s spin that wheel!
DOKTOR KABOOM / DAVID EPLEY David grew up expecting to be a research physicist. Then a biomedical engineer. Then a mathematician, an astrophysicist, a chemical engineer, a marine biologist. So, he became an actor.
For over 30 years, David has written, directed and performed original comedy shows throughout the United States and around the world. Outdoor festivals and street performance were his primary venues of choice, with
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an occasional stage show thrown in for good measure. In 2006, David decided to bring science, his first passion, back into his life. Blending science and theater has been a dream come true: it has opened multiple doors, and has led to the most fulfilling work of his life. Teaching, inspiring and empowering the minds of our youth, and reminding their parents to be an active part of the equation — how could someone’s work be any more rewarding?
David is a veteran of the U.S. Army, and a former firefighter and EMT. He calls Seattle home, where he lives and loves with his wife and their two wonderful daughters. Artist Representation: Shaw Entertainment Group Simon Shaw simon@shaentertainment.com shawentertainment.com
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Irvine Barclay Theatre gratefully acknowledges the generous contributions of our donors who help support the “big talent” in our “small hall.” Gifts to the Annual Fund for Excellence assist the Barclay in presenting an international roster of performers while keeping tickets reasonably priced. They also support our ArtsReach programs provided to the schools at little or no cost and “family-friendly” programming on stage. The Barclay’s mission also embraces making its beautiful facilities available to diverse community organizations, UCI, and other educational institutions. Thank you to all of our generous donors listed here for their contributions during the previous 12 months! If you would like to join the ranks of those who make it all possible at the Barclay, you may make a donation online at www.thebarclay.org or call 949.854.4607. PUBLIC PARTNERS
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As a partner in the annual National Choreographers Initiative, Irvine Barclay Theatre is also pleased to acknowledge all those who support this important contribution to American dance.
Betty B. and Roy Anderson Betsy Andrews and Alex Moad David Anderson Mrs. Alan V. Andrews Diane and Dennis Baker Ballet Barres West William H. Bardens Dr. Michael Bear Beau Corps Studio Helene Belisle Paul Blank Stacie Brandt Laurie and Bart Brown
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