2014-15 STORM LARGE AND LE BONHEUR October 15, 2014
BOOM November 29-30, 2014
Y R A U N JA
21-25
“Gloriously Goofy.
Casts the perfect spell over the audience!” - The New York Times
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WELCOME It’s not the easiest way to run a business, but it’s hugely rewarding. After all, the mission of the Barclay is to feel like a home rather than just an auditorium.
Douglas C. Rankin President Irvine Barclay Theatre
photo by K. Gennaro Photography
At a recent gathering of Irvine Barclay Theatre supporters, I made some remarks about how we go about programming and why, and was surprised by how the remarks resonated with the assembled guests. With the launch of the theatre’s 25th season and the printing of this, the second program book of the season, I thought it would be as good a time as any to share them. Apparently, my comments that connected the most were those that described how the Barclay appeals to the whole of the community by serving its parts, by identifying creative niches, cultural communities, genres within dance, music, theater, spoken work, circus, contemporary and traditional, cutting-edge, or simply entertaining. Commercially speaking, the Barclay and its Cheng Hall are too small at 750 seats to compete for a mass market. And yet, with its beautiful hall and great stage (and reputation after 24 seasons), the Barclay is capable of reaching out to diverse artists and audiences – brilliant artists, performers, and programs as well as community and university organizations of every description – and to slivers and segments of audiences determined by interest, taste or cultural background, by youth or age – and sew together what is a dynamic community.
Board of Directors CHAIR Robert Farnsworth CEO Sonnet Technologies, Inc. Francisco J. Ayala Professor and National Medal of Science Laureate University of California, Irvine Jennifer Cheng Community Leader
Michael P. Clark Vice Provost University of California, Irvine
Joseph S. Lewis III Dean, UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts
Mary Ann Gaido Community Leader
Patricia Murphy Hirata Partner McGladrey LLP
Michelle Grettenberg Assistant to the City Manager City of Irvine Michael Kerr Community Leader
Leason Pomeroy LP3 Architecture Mickie L. Shapiro Community Leader
Lynda Thomas Community Leader EX OFFICIO Steven S. Choi, Ph.D. Mayor, City of Irvine Michael V. Drake, M.D. Chancellor, UCI
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STORM LARGE AND LE BONHEUR October 15, 2014 | Cheng Hall
There will be a 15-minute intermission.
Le Bonheur James Beaton, piano Scott Weddle, guitar Matt Brown, electric bass Greg Ekland, drums
STORM LARGE
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Storm Large: musician, actor, playwright, author, awesome. She shot to national prominence in 2006 as a finalist on the CBS show Rock Star: Supernova, where, despite having been eliminated in the week before the finale, Storm built a fan base that follows her around the world to this day. Storm spent the 90s singing in clubs throughout San Francisco. Tired of the club scene, she moved to Portland to pursue a new career as a chef, but a last minute cancellation in 2002 at Dante’s, a rock club in Portland, turned into a standing Wednesday night engagement for Storm and her new band, The Balls. It wasn’t long before Storm had a cult-like following in Portland, and a renewed singing career that was about to be launched onto the international stage. Storm made her debut as guest vocalist with the band Pink Martini in April 2011, singing four sold-out concerts with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. She continues to perform with the band, touring nationally and internationally; and was featured on their CD, Get Happy. Storm has also sung with Grammy winner k.d. lang, pianist Kirill Gerstein, punk rocker John Doe, singer/songwriter Rufus Wainwright and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer George Clinton. She debuted with the Oregon Symphony in 2010, and has returned for sold out performances each year thereafter. Storm made her Carnegie Hall debut in May 2013, singing Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins with the Detroit Symphony as part of
the Spring for Music festival. The New York Times called her “sensational,” and the classical music world instantly had a new star. In 2007, she took a career departure and starred in Portland Center Stage’s production of Cabaret with Wade McCollum. The show was a smash hit, earning Large glowing reviews. Her next endeavor, the autobiographical musical memoir, Crazy Enough, played to packed houses in 2009 during its unprecedented 21-week sold out run in Portland. Storm went on to perform a cabaret version of the show to critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Adelaide Festival in Australia, and Joe’s Pub in New York. Her memoir, Crazy Enough, was released by Simon and Schuster in 2012. It was named Oprah’s Book of the Week and was awarded the 2013 Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. Storm is featured in Rid of Me, a film by Portlander James Westby, starring Katie O’Grady and Theresa Russell. In November and December of 2010, she starred at the Mark Taper Forum with Katey Sagal and Michael McKean in Jerry Zak’s production of Harps and Angels, a musical featuring the work of Randy Newman. In the 2013/14 season, Storm and her band, Le Bonheur, performed in many new cities around the country, including Las Vegas, Boston and Minneapolis in an evening called Taken By Storm. In June 2014, she appeared at the Ojai Festival with the exciting new orchestra, The Knights and the vocal ensemble Hudson Shad. Later in the summer, she debuted at the Grant Park Music Festival in Chicago. On October 7, 2014, Storm and Le Bonheur released a record designed to capture their sublime and subversive interpretations of the Great American Songbook. Entitled simply, Le Bonheur, and released on Pink Martini’s Heinz Records, the recording is a collection of tortured and titillating love songs; beautiful, familiar, yet twisted...much like the lady herself. Storm and her band have hit the road in support of this new release. Storm will also make her debut with The New York Pops orchestra at Carnegie Hall, The Cincinnati Symphony, The Houston Symphony and The RTE Concert Orchestra in Dublin, amongst others. Storm is also busy creating a new musical with The Public Theater in New York City. LE BONHEUR James Beaton (Piano). A native of Bronx, N.Y, James is a composer, music director, and pianist living in Portland, Oregon. After graduating from The Evergreen State College, he toured and recorded extensively with the rock band, Everclear, before co-founding the notorious cabaret band, The Balls. He has collaborated with Storm Large for the past decade; and was the composer and music director of her one woman show, Crazy Enough, which debuted at Portland Center Stage in 2009 with further productions in Australia and at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Since 2010, they have annually premiered new works with the Oregon Symphony, and their new musical, The Everleigh Club, is being developed at The Public Theater. In 2014, James was the music director for Lizzie, the Lizzie Borden rock musical, at Portland Center Stage.
Matt Brown (Electric Bass). An Oregon native, multiinstrumentalist Matt Brown currently plays with Storm Large, Redray Frazier, Sarah Gwen and Miss Michael Jodell. Most recently, Matt has been a member of She & Him, The Motels, Casey Neill and the Norway Rats, Mike Coykendall and the Golden Shag, and The Baseboard Heaters, among others. Matt currently operates a recording studio called EchoTone in Portland. Greg Eklund (Drums) has been playing drums with Storm Large for five years, starting with recording the soundtrack to her one woman show, Crazy Enough, in 2009. Previously the drummer for the rock band, Everclear (Capitol Records, 1994-2003), as well as the multi- instrumentalist/singersongwriter for The Oohlas (Island Def Jam Music Group).
Scott Weddle (Guitar) is a native of Montana and a graduate of Lewis and Clark College. He was a guitarist and contributing songwriter for the Portland Americana band, The Flatirons, prior to forming the cabaret-pop group, Amelia. Scott played drums in the Portland Center Stage production of Storm Large’s Crazy Enough in 2009 and is currently the guitarist in Storm’s band, Le Bonheur. He also plays guitar for the acclaimed Portland singer/songwriter Sarah Gwen.
Management Opus 3 Artists 470 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 212-584-7500 www.opus3artists.com
Record Label Heinz Records Allegro Media Group 20048 NE San Rafael Street Portland, Oregon 97230-7459 (503) 491-8480 Publicist Amanda Sweet Bucklesweet Media www.bucklesweetmedia.com
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11/29 BOOM
November 29-30, 2014 | Cheng Hall
This event is sponsored by:
HumanKind Philanthropic Fund Kari and MIchael Kerr There will not be an intermission.
KDOONS and WYRD Productions Producer Rick Miller Writer/Director/Performer* Jeff Lord Executive Producer
David Leclerc Projection Designer Bruno Matte Lighting Designer
Creighton Doane Composer & Sound Designer
Yannik Larivee Set/Costume/Props Designer Olivier Bourque Stage & Production Manager Ravi Jain Directing Consultant
Logograph Graphic Design, Multimedia and Marketing Craig Francis Director of Outreach Marketing Ardon Bess Laurence Davis, on video*
*WYRD Productions engages under the terms
of the Independent Theatre Agreement, professional Artists who are members of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association.
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WRITER’S NOTES “That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.” – Aldous Huxley (1959)
I’m a storyteller, not a historian. Historical facts only interest me inasmuch as they help tell a story, for stories are how we learn from our mistakes – and from each other. BOOM is a collage of stories that I’ve been documenting about the generation that immediately preceded me: stories of the famous and the not-so-famous; stories of the living and the no-longer-living. Each story in itself might be worthy of a full play, but in this case, I’ve chosen to paint them into a larger picture. My hope is that by spiraling through 25 tumultuous years (1945 to 1969), we can all gain perspective not only on who we were, but who we are now and where we’re going. Think of BOOM as a living, breathing time capsule. It starts with a ‘boom,’ it ends with a ‘boom.’ I hope it stirs up your own stories, so that we can share them together in the lobby after the show. Explosively yours, Rick Miller
ABOUT THE ARTISTS Rick Miller (Writer/Director/ Performer) is a Dora and Gemini Award-winning writer/director/ actor/musician/educator who has performed in 5 languages on 5 continents and whom Entertainment Weekly has called “one of the 100 most creative people alive today.” He has created and toured solo shows such as MacHomer; and Bigger than Jesus and HARDSELL with director Daniel Brooks. With Robert Lepage, he has collaborated on Geometry of Miracles, Zulu Time, Lipsynch, and on the film, Possible Worlds. Rick recently taught an interdisciplinary class at University of Toronto called The Architecture of Creativity and co-starred in the Canadian premiere of Venus in Fur (Canadian Stage). He has also developed various projects in partnership with KDOONS, including BOOM and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, all of which involve educational, environmental and youth-empowerment initiatives. Rick is from Montréal , but now lives in Toronto with his wife Stephanie Baptist and their 2 daughters. rickmiller.ca
David Lecrerc (Projection Designer) received his training in graphic design and works in the field of web and video projection. Since 2004, he has worked on a number of internationally-acclaimed theater productions with Robert Lepage and Ex Machina, notably The Andersen Project (recipient of the Elliot Norton Award); Lipsynch, The Blue Dragon, La Tempête (in Wendake); Jeux de Cartes:
PIQUE et CŒUR; and the opera The Tempest, presented at the Metropolitan Opera (New York, 2012) and at the Wiener Staatsoper (Vienna, 2015). He has designed projections for Carole Fréchette’s Je Pense à Yu, directed by Marie Gignac at Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui (Montréal, 2012); Nick Dear’s Frankenstein, directed by Jean Leclerc at Théâtre du Trident (Québec, 2013); and recently, Bernstein’s Candide, directed by Sam Brown and presented by the Opéra National de Lorraine (Nancy, France, 2013). Every year since 2003, he has collaborated on the prestigious Forces AVENIR, recognizing student engagement at the secondary, collegiate and university levels. His films and videos have been presented in a myriad of theatrical and corporate productions in Canada, the U.S. and Europe. studiobionic.com Bruno Matte (Lighting Designer) was born and raised in Quebec City. Despite his various trips abroad, he has never lived in another city. He studied at Cégep Limoilou and in 2005 obtained his diploma in electronic engineering, specializing in broadcasting. His first goal was to work in cinema, but he soon discovered a passion for lighting. He has since worked as a lighting designer for music concerts: Richard Séguin, Plume Latraverse, Michel Rivard, Gregory Charles, Bernard Adamus, Malajube, Keith Kouna, Kid Koala and Half Moon Run, Buddy Guy, Jimmy Cliff, Tryo, Sanseverino, Snoop Dog, Bad Religion, Against Me!, Yellowcard, Enrico Macias, Tower of Power, City and Color, Marianne Faithfull, Cypress Hill, Daniel Lanois and Jake Bugg; TV shows: Belle et Bum and Les Chefs!; Dance shows with La Otra Orilla and La Rotonde; Circus shows: Cirque du Soleil’s Les Chemins Invisibles and Events, Quebec City circus school, Ki-Ai Show and Flip Fabrique; Corporate events; Sporting events; Fashion shows; Stage productions: Ex Machina and Robert Lepage’s Needles and Opium and Hamlet in Russian in Moscow. His new challenge? A big BOOM, by Rick Miller. Creighton Doane (Composer/Sound Designer).Compositions for theater: The Pitmen Painters, The 39 Steps, Theatre Aquarius; Scott Thompson’s The Lowest Show On Earth; Bully, Science Fiction (The Play), Theatre Centre, Toronto; The Norman Conquests, Salt Water Moon, Jitters and The Sunshine Boys, Soulpepper Theatre Company; Frost/Nixon, Canadian Stage; Tuesdays With Morrie, Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company.
Yannik Larivée (Set/Costume/Props Designer). Originally from Montréal, Yannik Larivée trained at the National Theatre School of Canada and at Central Saint-Martins in London. Now based in Toronto, he works extensively throughout Canada and Europe. Selected production credits include: Salome for Edmonton Opera; Die Fledermaus at the Staatstheater Nürnberg; Die Entfuhrung Aus Dem Serail for the Opéra National du Rhin, France; Barbe-Bleue for Opera Zuid in the Netherlands and Opera National de Lorraine in France; Watch Her, Wolf’s Court and Monument for The National Ballet of Canada; One of Three for American Ballet Theatre at Lincoln Center, New York; Dreamland for the Royal Swedish Ballet; Castle Nowhere at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Entertaining Mr. Sloane and Twelve Angry Men for Soulpepper Theatre Company; 4:48 Psychosis for Necessary Angel;
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The Flood Thereafter for Canadian Stage; Tancredi, Don Giovanni and Renard for the Canadian Opera Company; Dangerous Liaisons, The Odd Couple, Houdini, Amadeus (Critics Circle Award), I Am My Own Wife and Hedda Gabler for Montreal’s Segal Theatre; Simpl and Interiors at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa; Past Perfect, John & Beatrice and Wild Mouth for Tarragon Theatre; Vida at the Royal Alexandra Theatre and Teatro Nacional de Cuba in Havana. www.yanniklarivee.com
Olivier Bourque (Stage & Production Manager) received his degree in stage and technical management in 2009 and was given the opportunity to work at the heart of Ex Machina, Robert Lepage’s production company. His first years there were spent as the head stage technician for operas and large-scale touring productions. In 2012, a first occasion arose in which he could combine his passion for work and travel: he began to tour the U.S. with Lepage’s acclaimed Andersen Project. Since then, his taste for “the road” has only multiplied. He began working as a stage manager and technical director on smaller projects, notably with Québécois youth-theatre companies, touring eastern Canada. Always on the hunt for new challenges, Olivier later joined Rick Miller’s BOOM team as the stage and production manager – no small feat, given the show’s technical complexity.
Ravi Jain (Directing Consultant) is an award-winning actor, director and artistic director of Why Not Theatre, a Toronto- based company with whom he has produced and created over 18 productions, which have played in over 20 cities around the world. Acting credits include the Dora Award-winning SPENT and A Brimful of Asha. His company was in residence at The Theatre Centre when he developed I’m So Close (winner of the Spotlight Award at SummerWorks 2009). He has assisted notable directors: Daniel Brooks, Richard Rose and Jennifer Tarver. Ravi directed Nicolas Billon’s triptych of plays (Greenland, Iceland and Faroe Islands) entitled Fault Lines, which was awarded the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama in 2013. In 2011, Ravi was a member of the DiverseCity Fellows program, which aims to diversify leadership across sectors in Toronto. Ravi is on the programming committee 8 | IRVINE BARCLAY THEATRE
for the Daniels Spectrum, the artist advisory committee for ArtReach Toronto, and he sits on the Board of Directors of the Laidlaw Foundation. He was awarded the 2012 Pauline McGibbon Award; is a resident artist at Soulpepper Theatre Company; and was the inaugural artistic directorin- residence at The Theatre Centre. He was selected to be part of the roster of clowns for Cirque Du Soleil. PRODUCTION HISTORY Originally commissioned by the Stratford Festival in 2011, BOOM is produced by WYRD Productions and KDOONS. The show was developed from 2012 to 2014 in a series of workshops at Ex Machina’s La Caserne in Quebec City. A January 2014 work-in-progress run was presented by Theatre Calgary in association with the High Performance Rodeo. Over the course of 2014, several U.S. cities hosted the touring version of the show, including Tulsa OK (Tulsa PAC) and Mt. Vernon WA (McIntyre Hall). Irvine Barclay Theatre in Irvine, CA hosted the official U.S. premiere on November 29, 2014. Toronto’s Mirvish Productions is presenting the Canadian premiere of BOOM at the Panasonic Theatre on January 15, 2015. THANK YOUS BOOM has been a labor of love for over 3 years, and there are many people to whom we owe thanks: Antoni Cimolino, Bob White and the Stratford Festival; Des McAnuff; Jeff Lord; Sean Lynch; Ravi Jain; Robert Lepage and Kevin McCoy; Michel Bernatchez and Ex Machina; Jason Knight; Michael Levine; Moses Znaimer; Louis-Xavier Gagnon-Lebrun; Dennis Garnhum and Theatre Calgary; Michael Green and One Yellow Rabbit; Peggy Shannon and Peter Fleming at Ryerson Theatre School; Mary Eva at Heritage Regional High School; The Miller and Baptist clans for allowing us to use family photos and videos. And a special heartfelt thank you to Kurt Miller and Donna Baptist, whose stories beat at the heart of BOOM.
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Staff Douglas C. Rankin, President Ginny W. Hayward, Assistant to the President
Christopher Burrill, General Manager Lori Grayson, Special Projects - Development Karen Drews Hanlon, Director of Communications Gary Payne, Director of Finance
Jeff Stamper, Production Manager Tim Owens, Assitant Production Manager Luanne Bauer, Box Office Manager Brianna Sparks, Assistant Box Office Manager Ryan Main, Patron Services Manager Nathan Dwyer, Bar Manager Helena Danovich, Marketing Assistant Michelle Maasz, Social Media Manager Ingrid Strayer, Finance Assistant
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Annual Fund for
EXCELLENCE
THANK
YOU
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. BRAVO BARCLAY PRESENTING SPONSOR $10,000 AND ABOVE
Drs. Francisco and Hana Ayala* Cheng Family Foundation* Bobbi Cox* Anne C. Earhart* Haskell & White LLP James and Dolores Kase Kari and Michael Kerr* National Endowment for the Arts O’Melveny & Myers LLP Pacific Life Foundation Sonnet Technologies, Inc.* Elizabeth R. Steele Trisha Steele Lynda Thomas
BRAVO BARCLAY PARTNER $5,000 - $9,999
BRAVO BARCLAY BENEFACTOR $2,500 - $4,999
BRAVO BARCLAY PATRON $1,000 - $2,499
Allergan Foundation Erika Dadura-Crane and Marc Crane Michelle Rohe The HumanKind Philanthropic Fund William Gillespie Foundation
Rick and Wendy Aversano Damien and Yvonne Jordan Karen McCulley Salwa and Sabri Rizkalla Richard and Ann Sim Simon Foundation for Education and Housing Diane Stovall Alan and Barbara Wiener*
Mr. and Mrs. James Alexiou Robert and Delphi Ballinger Bravi9, Inc. Fiorenza Comunian and Fernando De La Fuente Ginny Davies Barbara Klein* Helen and Fritz Lin Carl Neisser Peter and Alexandra Neptune Tom and Amber Orradre William and Janice Parker William and Barbara Roberts Deborah and Frank Rugani Pamela and Martin Sapetto Edward and Helen Shanbrom Family Fund Western States Arts Federation
PUBLIC PARTNERS
City of Irvine University of California, Irvine *Denotes a member of Movementum, the Barclay’s dance support group
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ENCORE CIRCLE ENTHUSIAST $250-$999 Anonymous Oscar R. Aguirre Wendy Arraki John W. Ballantyne Dr. Michael Bear Linda Berquist Rosanna Brichta Bruce and Michelle Carter Dean and Kaly Corey Pamela Cotten John Coyne Kenneth J. Craig, Jr. Bob and Burnetta Denham Walter Dietiker Roger du Plessis* Joel and Melanie Durst Melissa and Michael Fox Mary Ann Gaido Alison Goldenberg Robert and Margaret Green Sanjiv and Geeta Grover Chuck and Ginny Hayward Richard and Sara Hess David Hulse and Kerry Bartelt Fred and Elise Karam Noboru Kasai Judy Kaufman and George Farkas Dr. and Mrs. Solly Krom Robert E. Lee* Phuong and Joseph S. Lewis III Molly Lynch and Alan Andrews Janie Merkle Donald and Ui Natenstedt Lauren and Richard Packard John and Charlene Pasko Rob and Randa Phair Edward Pope and Antoinette Olivera Helga Pralle Britta and Tracy Pulliam Claudia Ried and Alan Kraemer Sandy Robertson Rohl LLC - Kenneth and Amber Rohl Nancy Lee Ruyter Louise Schwennesen John Sorich Alison and Richard Stein* Thomas and Marilyn Sutton Jennifer Szabo* Erica and Fred Taylor Thomas and Elizabeth Tierney Kira Torreblanca Sylvia C. Turner Vendini, Inc. Alfred Villasenor Emily Vogler and Daniel Flynn Charles and Marilyn Wright Sophie Yang
NATIONAL CHOREOGRAPHERS INITIATIVE 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. Anonymous Betty B. Anderson Betsy Andrews and Alex Moad Mrs. Alan V. Andrews Ann Marie Deangelo Productions Ballet Barres West William H. Bardens Victoria Barrett Fran Bass and Mark Ishimaro, MD Dr. Michael Bear Honorable Marian Bergeson Paul Blank Theodore Bradshaw
ENCORE CIRCLE SUPPORTER $100 –$249 Larry and Phyllis Agran Corinne Akahoshi and Daniel Futterman Richard Alexander Alice and Ara Apkarian Thomas and Linda Bacon Diane and Dennis Baker* Sarah and David Ball Joe Ball Ms. Lindy Balmer* Rivka Barasch Betty Barry George and Linda Bauer Craig Behrens Richard Belman Henry Bennett Scott Berry* Jeannie Berryman Susan and Steven Bierlich Richard H. Bigelow Eric S. Blum Suzanne Boras Dale Brandon Brien Amspoker and Ellen Breitman Scott Brinkerhoff Diana Brookes Jon and Donna Brownell Susan Bryant Douglas T. Burch, Jr. Linda and Roland Bye Harold and Eleanor Carpenter Terry Causey Cyndie Chen Deanna Choi Mrs. Roya Cole Frank Crance and Andrea Bouas Anahid Crecelius Hilary Davis and Dr. Sandy Ratner Shari Dill Joan M. Donahue Sharon Dubruyne Col. and Mrs. Alan Dugard Rad and Toni Dwyer* Dr. and Mrs. Robert T. Eagan Rosalie and Jon Elder Janet and Howard Emery David Falconer Nancy Field Cathie Fields Christine Fluor and Walter Scacchi* Roberta Fox Mark A. Franzen Thelma Friedel Elisabeth and Lester Fruth Heather Fuller Steve Geary Conrad Giedt and Linda Clemens Marcella Gilmore and Edward Muehl
S. Glass Family Valerie Glass Gilbert Gluck Ben and Sandie Goelman Janice and Raymond Grant Anita Gregory, M.D. Paul and Nancy Groner Nancy and Gary Guardabascio Matthew and Annemarie Hall Jim and Berri Harris Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Hartman Paul and Nancy Hegness Colin Henderson June and Miles Herman David Herzlinger Lance and Risa Hicks Emory Hillman* Robert and Virginia Hilton Bradley Hrbacek IBM Matching Grants Program Robert Ingold* Judy and Terry Jones Peg and Bob Jordan Joel and Jennifer Katz Dr. Mitchell Katz and Mrs. Linda Scott-Katz Raouf Kayaleh Mr. and Mrs. Van R. Kelsey III Gene Kent* Jay King Jeff C. Kough Jeannine Kouns Dr. and Mrs. John Lagourgue Dr. Martin G. Langer Christy Langer Edwina Lawrence Jeffrey Levy Alla Liberstein Anne Llewellyn* Willard and Bettina Loomis Junling Ma Christian and Sharon Maas Carolyn and Kerry Mangano William March Duane and Kathleen Mauzey David and Teryl McDermott Terry McDonald* Mary and Wm Scott McDonell Helen McMillan Ken and Gisela Meier Tony and Barbara Mendoza Mark and Jan Merryfield Hiroko and Yoshiharu Moriwaki Janis Morris Sayantani Mukherjee Mr. and Mrs. Mitsuhiko Nakano Julie Nakata Mr. and Mrs. Keith Nelson Teri Neumann Katherine Ahn Newen Ivy Ngo
Michael Noggle James Olney and Laura O’Connor Christian and Darcie Olson Rand Parker Robert Patterson and Renee Boblette Pam Paul Omar and Irene Perez Dolly A. Platt, PhD* Jill Prentice Edward and Betty Quilligan Elaine Ramsay Ramona Reveles Michael Recendez Stephanie Reich Kameel Renner Dennis Repp Laurie Riedinger Margaret C. Riggs Louise Ringwalt Dr. Stephen M. Rochford Mary Ann Schaepper Joann Schaum Karl and Elizabeth Schiller Judith M. Schmidt Linda and Herbert Schwarz* Frances Segal and Michael Friedson Trudy Vermeer Selleck Homayoun Shorooghi Mr. and Mrs. John L. Smith Dorothy J. Solinger Mary and David Solomon Paul Spas Beverly Spring Hugh Stevenson and Jan Burns* Daniel and Jeannette Stokols Beverly and Gary Stoney Michele Suire Margaret and John Sun Alice Swan Celia and Julio Taleisnik Johanna Tilley Hugh and Patricia Todd Gary and Peranza Topjon Marilyn and Angelo Vassos Kathy Vickers and Jeremy Freimund Mr. James Violette* Michael Voronel Kim Waterson Diane Wick Carlos and Peggy Williams Robert and Sara Winokur Jing Wu and Wing Wong Dr. and Mrs. Milford Wyman Dr. Lowell and Ina Zeleznick
Laurie and Bart Brown Gale Edelberg and Bob Butnik David and Beverly Carmichael Bobbi Cox Sophia and Larry Cripe Diane Diefenderfer and David Hanlon Roger du Plessis Gale Edelberg and Bob Butnik Henry and Janet Eggers David Emmes and Paula Tomei Robert Farnsworth Cliff Faulkner and Shigeru Yaji Gilian Finley and Robert Labaree Roberta Fox Mary and Andrew Franklin Sandra French Judith A. Gorski Dr. Burton L. Karson Joanne and Dennis Keith Kari and Michael Kerr Carolyn and Willaim Klein Don and Grace Laffoon Dr. Martin G. Langer
Phuong and Joseph S. Lewis III Kathryn Lynch and Robert McDonnell Molly Lynch and Alan Andrews Jack Lyons Debra Maxwell Sharon McNalley Ed Moen and Janek Schergen John and Margi Murray Mr. and Mrs. Mitsuhiko Nakano Carl Neisser Tom and Marilyn Nielsen Northern Trust Bank of California Anne B. Nutt Mrs. J. Matthew Osborne Marshall Parker John and Charlene Pasko James Penrod Janice and Richard Plastino Dolly A. Platt, PhD Edward and Diana Putz Susan Reeder Louise Ringwalt Barbara Roberts
Robinson Foundation Michelle Rohe Andrew Rose David and Cynthia Runstrom Bruce and Jan Scherer Jack and Katy Schellerman Sally Anne and Don Sheridan Nick and Donna Shubin Igal and Diane Silber Mrs. Ann Sim Jackie Smiley Elizabeth Stahr Elizabeth R. Steele Studio du Corps Pilates Center of Orange County Jennifer Szabo Chris Thayer Karen and Gary Thorne Barbara and Jack Tingley Mary Vensel White and T. Jason White William Gillespie Foundation
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“Magical!
A perfect blend of virtuosic technique, fantasy, and poetry.” - La Presse, Montréal
February 27-March 1