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A WELCOME FROM OUR PRESIDENT Welcome to our 25th Anniversary Season! It seems like it was just yesterday when community volunteers came together in 1994 to reclaim this building from emerging mushrooms and mildew, after sitting boarded up and dormant for years. But here we are 25 years later, a beautiful, awardwinning, leading nonprofit performing arts center, attended by over 240,000 people annually. Over the 18 years that I have had the honor to serve as chief executive of the theatre, there have been so many memorable events and wonderful moments that I’ve had the pleasure to experience with you. I hope the event you will enjoy today generates that same magic and excitement. Furthermore, I have had the opportunity to get to know so many of you over the years and I cannot thank you enough for your enthusiastic support. Thank you for coming to enjoy spectacular productions, and for your continued commitment to MPAC’s growth and success. As a nonprofit performing arts center at the heart of our community, it is with tremendous pride that we serve as the cornerstone to a thriving arts scene in Morristown. The goal of our Board of Trustees, hard-working staff and selfless volunteers is to create a welcoming and inclusive environment that celebrates the diversity of our community. The arts are where all of us can come together to share unique experiences. Exciting things await us this season. Beyond what you see on our stage, we continue to enhance our outreach by hosting more free community events. We are investing in our future generations and working on solutions to meet the growing demand for Performing Arts School classes. We continue to seek means to improve and enhance your experience in every way possible. We may be celebrating 25 years, but we’re just getting going. I look forward to seeing you throughout this season. Warm Regards,

Allison Larena President & CEO

A WELCOME FROM OUR BOARD CHAIRMAN Dear Patron, It is a pleasure to welcome you to our 25th Anniversary Season at MPAC. This season promises to be one of both excitement and anticipation. Excitement, because we again present a great lineup of shows, education opportunities and community events. Anticipation, because we look forward to sharing with you our plans for the future. MPAC is in the early stages of planning an expansion of our facility. Our goal is to expand the very popular and growing Education Department and Performing Arts School; build a smaller secondary performance space; and add loading and parking facilities to improve operational efficiency and enhance our patron experience. We hope to share these plans with you soon. If you are interested in learning how you can support this project, we welcome having a conversation with you. The growth of Morristown over the past 25 years goes hand in hand with the rebirth of MPAC. More and more, towns across the country have seen the value that a strong arts anchor institution such as MPAC can have on economic growth, business development and quality of life. On behalf of the Board of Trustees, we thank you for your generous support of MPAC to help sustain our organization, our programming and our education programs. If you are not yet a member, I sincerely hope that you will consider the value of supporting MPAC, as we work together to make Morristown a vibrant arts community, and a great place to live, work and raise a family. Sincerely,

Gregory J. Supron Chairman, Board of Trustees

THE MIRACLE ON SOUTH STREET Celebrating 25 years!

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The 2019-2020 season marks the 25th anniversary of Mayo Performing Arts Center. Originally built as Morristownʼs premier movie theater in 1937 and called The Community Theatre, MPAC (renamed in 2009) was saved from the wrecking ball in 1994 by a group of community volunteers who envisioned the value a vibrant arts center could have in a town.

On September 29, 1994, a Gala Concert by the Kirov Orchestra of St. Petersburg, conducted by Valery Gergiev, with soloists bass Jerome Hines and pianist Alexander Slobodyanik, marked a new era for Morristownʼs Community Theatre. When he was first introduced to the silent and neglected theatre in early 1993, Mr. Slobodyanik was impressed by its parameters and acoustics. He believed that an unconventional approach, of artistic support and performances of the highest caliber, would prove the theatreʼs potential and “give it new life.” For this mission he gathered the support of his friends and colleagues, artists of international prominence, and created the Morris International Festival of the Arts. In February 1994 he invited his friend, maestro Valery Gergiev to see the theatre with the hope that he would commit to the opening concert. Inside the frigid and icicle-clad hall Mr. Gergiev announced, “The Kirov will play here.” When the lease for use of the Theatre was finally signed in July 1994, the magic began. Inspired by the promise of an extraordinary event, a unique opportunity to save their beloved theatre, hundreds of volunteers came forth to be a part of the massive rehabilitation and preparations for the September 29th concert.

Theatre exterior, 1994

Lobby, 1994

Opening Night Program, 1994

Much has changed since then. Today, Morristownʼs community theatre has blossomed into a world class performing arts center, undergoing four major renovations since 1994. In 2016, MPAC was awarded Outstanding Historic Theatre by the League of Historic American Theatres. MPAC ranks in the top 50 most attended mid-sized performing arts centers in the world, according to Pollstar Magazine. MPAC remains Morristownʼs crown jewel, and has evolved into a world-renowned performing arts center. With over 200 events on its stage every year, MPAC attracts over 240,000 patrons, generates ticket sales in excess of $9 million and has an economic impact of over $15 million on the area. Tony Bennett, Ringo Starr, Jerry Seinfeld, Gladys Knight, and many more of the worldʼs best known performers have graced the stage. It is the Morris County home to the New Jersey Symphony and New Jersey Ballet, and over the years has provided space for many other New Jersey-based arts organizations. Beyond concerts is the growth of MPACʼs education and outreach programs that bring the arts experience to children in communities throughout New Jersey, engaging the next generation of arts lovers in educational programs that instill confidence, inspire learning and encourage teamwork. From after-school classes to field trip programs, our teen Performing Arts Company to the Miracle Project for children on the autism spectrum, and from the annual spring production to our student recognition programs, MPAC education initiatives touch the lives of over 40,000 children and families annually. “The Miracle on South Street,” as it was dubbed by late historian John T. Cunningham, continues to inspire.

Cast of Grease, 2019

Renovations, 2000

Liza Minnelli christens new stage

Front of House Renovations, 2014

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES Gregory J. Supron, Chairman Robert Mulholland, Vice Chairman Anita J. Siegel, Esq., Secretary & Legal Counsel Mary Jane Robertson, Treasurer Allison Larena, President & CEO Edward W. Ahart, Esq. Susan Brauer Christopher R. Carroll, Esq. Mary E. Cobb

Wendy deVries Sally Epstein Edward A. Gramigna, Jr., Esq. Linda Hellstrom John P. Hyland, CFP Unjeria C. Jackson, MD Thomas C. Jardim, Esq. Jefferson W. Kirby Kristin Lynn Tom Malone Marylyn McLaughlin Howard Moseson James F. Quinn Harry J. Riskin, Esq. David Welsh

Trustees Emeriti Joseph M. Goryeb* Bud Mayo* Leonard Sichel The Late Stephen B. Wiley HONORARY BOARD OF TRUSTEES The Honorable Timothy P. Dougherty The Honorable Thomas H. Kean, Sr. Joe Piscopo John Pizzarelli *Former Chair

MPAC STAFF Allison Larena Administration Ed Kirchdoerffer Sasha Pensado Anthony Scareon Charles Miller Adrienne Beck Eric Poluhovich Anna Villegas Kadie Dempsey Julie Dwoskin Julie Royce Caitlin Mugavero Box Office Cheryl Yosh Carolyn Zybura Mimi Leiter Patrick Fragale Denise Biel Marthe Lablans Melissa Montuori Kathleen Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Donnell Marlene Rabiner Sarah Shatz

President & CEO General Manager Finance Director Manager of Administration & Board Relations Programming Consultant Programming Manager Programming Coordinator Programming Assistant Community Engagement Director Office Manager Financial Analyst Finance Assistant Box Office Manager Assistant Box Office Manager Senior Box Office Associate Senior Box Office Associate Box Office Associate Box Office Associate Box Office Associate Box Office Associate Box Office Associate Box Office Associate

Development Marysue DePaola Development Director Justin Wynn Assistant Director of Development Lana Missaggia Membership & Special Events Manager Christina Wolfe Development Manager Gabriella Perruso Development Assistant

Education Cathy Roy Jenny Boeckel Darius Frowner Jon Rodriguez Annie Belkin

Education Director Education Manager Musical Director Performing Arts School Coordinator Performing Arts School Assistant

Marketing Jean Leonard Marketing Director Michael Dundon Audience Development Manager Lauren Soule Digital Design and Platforms Manager Lindsey Fu Creative Manager Maura Cuddihy Digital Marketing Assistant Operations Lee Kaloidis Operations Director Erin Pach Front of House Director Michael Del Vecchio Operations & Starlight Manager Jennifer Clarke Operations and Front of House Coordinator Assistant House Manager Devon Strom Operations Assistant Zachary England Facilities and Maintenance Walter Urban Grounds and Maintenance David Harris Production Chris Ball Katie Wanner Andy West Jamie Westberry Esther Neibart John Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Krinsky Jim Sargent Angelique Mather Karen Kogut Luke Kostuchik Nick Giaimo

Production Director Production Manager Production Manager Production Manager Production Assistant House Union Steward Lighting Director Audio Engineer Hospitality Manager Technical Assistant A2

Where to park for your show Mayo Performing Arts Center offers parking solutions to make your theatre experience stress free. Please refer to your pre-show email or MPACʼs online Preshow Planner for show-specific information. Verizon Lot $7 39 Maple Ave (entrance on Oak St.) Available for many shows exclusively for MPAC patrons.

Presbyterian Church

65 South Street (across the street from MPAC) Available for many shows. Prepaid Only. Limited spaces.

$12

New! United Methodist Church

50 South Park Place Approx. 1/3 mile from MPAC. Prepaid Only.

Morristown Town Hall

200 South Street (entrance on Franklin Street) Approx. 1/3 mile from MPAC. Free after 5 PM.

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Nearby Municipal Lots & Garages:

For more information about municipal lots, visit townofmorristown.org.

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DeHart Street Garage Ann/Bank Street Garage Dalton Street Garage

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The Highlands Garage Dumont Street Lot Franklin & Elm Street Lot

Prepay at the Box Office

Donʼt get caught in lines at the garage to pay for parking at the end of your night! MPAC patrons can pay for DeHart, Ann/Bank, and Dalton Garage parking at the MPAC Box Office. *Offer only good for cars parked after 5 PM on MPAC show nights. $10 flat event rate. Must exit garage by 11 PM.

Free Shuttle Service MPAC operates a FREE shuttle service for select performances from the Dehart Street Garage and Verizon Lot. Check your pre-show email or MPAC's online pre-show planner for availability.

**All rates subject to change.

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Reserve your parking in advance on mayoarts.org!

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Saturday, January 11, 2020

As a courtesy to the artists and for the uninterrupted enjoyment of your fellow patrons, please turn off all electronic devices. No portion of this performance may be photographed, recorded, filmed, taped, broadcast or mechanically reproduced without the written consent of the Artist and/ or the Presenter. Mayo Performing Arts Center is not responsible for lost or stolen items. Program subject to change.

REZA: EDGE OF ILLUSION Reza is recognized as one of todayʼs most highly sought-after entertainers in the touring illusion industry, delivering innovative, engaging and spectacular performances worldwide.

resorts and large corporations across the Midwest. Fast forward to present day. The once youth magician prodigy is today one of the fastest rising stars in the industry, with his mind set on changing the world's Rezaʼs recent tour and television perception of magic. Over the last decade, appearances have astounded over 30 million Reza has garnered a world-wide buzz and viewers from across the world on networks loyal fan base with his passion for creating such as MTV, A&E, The CW, PBS, Reelz, CX, signature grand-scale illusions. Fuji, and Telemundo as well as live venues Reza’s unique brand of entertainment including the Alamodome (San Antonio), has landed him on popular reality shows Philips Arena (Atlanta), Villanova Pavilion across 31 countries, including recent US (Philadelphia), and Mundo Imperial Forum TV appearances on A&E’s Duck Dynasty (Acapulco), to name a few. Rezaʼs new show and The CW’s Penn & Teller: Fool Us. More Edge of Illusion is a ground-breaking grand than a magic show, Reza infuses stage scale production which Reza simultaneously of the art production elements, masterful designed to connect with the audience. comedic timing, and numerous interactive & Reza began making his presence felt in inspirational moments, allowing the audience the world of illusion at a very young age. to experience the magic first hand. Perhaps His focus in the art began at the early age Reza’s greatest secret is his uncanny ability of seven after being inspired by a magic to communicate his performance art on such show in his hometown of Brookings, South a personal level. Dakota. By the age of fourteen, Reza was landing significant gigs performing for

Reza is intriguing, engaging, and captivating. He isnʼt just a magician. He is an entertainer.

Sunday, January 12, 2020

TAKE ME HOME: THE MUSIC OF JOHN DENVER The untimely death of John Denver in 1997 was a tragedy that was felt the world over. Such a void in the musical world left Johnʼs ardent fans demanding that his music survive. CBS television responded by producing a made for TV movie: Take Me Home: The John Denver Story, in which Jim Curryʼs voice was selected as the voice of John Denver.

symphony orchestra accompaniment. In an exclusive arrangement with renowned Grammy Award-winning arranger, composer, and conductor Lee Holdridge, Jim and Lee have re-created the symphony scores originally written for John Denver for the benefit of presenters with orchestral venues.

True, Jim Curryʼs natural voice has to be heard, but he also has to be seen to understand the pleasant coincidence that captures the natural essence of John Denverʼs persona and music. Curryʼs heartfelt delivery envelops the crowd as multi-platinum hits such as “Rocky Mountain High,” “Annieʼs Song” and “Country Roads” fill the atmosphere. Superimposed with multiDemand for Jim Curryʼs incredible show led media images of wildlife photos and videos, him to develop further material for optional this is a show that truly fills up your senses. Jim Curry has now created the ultimate tribute experience, emerging as the top performer of John Denverʼs music today. Often performing with John Denverʼs former band members, Jim Curryʼs tribute is the first and only fulllength John Denver tribute to headline in Las Vegas and has been celebrated nationally and internationally.

Thursday, January 16, 2020

TERRY FATOR: THE VOICE OF ENTERTAINMENT One might think that with finding success after 25 years of performing at county fairs and oddball venues, the moral of singercomedian-celebrity impressionist Terry Fator’s story might be the cliché of: Never give up on your dreams. But, when it comes to Fator’s story of success after 40, that old adage doesn’t quite ring true.

success at a younger age. It can screw your brain up. Just look at a lot of today’s young stars. But at 42, you have perspective and you’re more grounded so that when the time comes that all of a sudden millions of people see and like what you do, it doesn’t go to your head too much.”

Fator’s story began long before America’s Got Talent. His first taste of entertainment came at age eight when he tried his hand at magic with the help of a hypnosis book. “I unsuccessfully tried to hypnotize my friends, but then in fifth grade I found a book on ventriloquism and that came pretty quickly for me. I was always fascinated with all forms of entertainment, but especially magic and puppets. But other kids in school were doing magic, and I wanted to be original so ventriloquism became my thing,” says Fator, who rounded out his creative endeavors by taking on the lead in many school and church That “something” was NBC’s hit competition plays as a kid, and later fronted the band show, America’s Got Talent. After turning Texas the Band from the late ‘80s through down a chance to compete on the first season 2001. He was close to signing a record deal of the show, his fans wrote the show saying with Warner Bros. until they told him he had they just had to have Fator on. Producers to take the ventriloquism out of his band called Fator and invited him to audition. After performances. That was a deal-breaker for seeing, and liking, Season 1 of the show, Fator the entertainer. went for it, and in 2007 the then 42-year-old comedian became the America’s Got Talent As a young kid, Fator would practice talking Season 2 champ, taking home the $1 million without moving his lips in the privacy of his prize and title of “Best New Act in America.” closet and while he was working odd jobs, hiding his rehearsals from his unsupportive “It was the big break I had worked for my father. At age 10, he bought a $20 puppet entire life,” he says. from Sears, but its head and eyes didn’t move, It wasn’t long before Sin City would recognize making it hard to really get his act down. His Fator as the headlining act he was destined mother took the puppet apart, gave him a to be. In 2007, he signed a $1.5 million deal to whole new body and slapped a wig on his perform at the Las Vegas Hilton. The following head – Fator was on his way to practicing with year Fator signed what has been described a real puppet that he named Josh. He soon as “one of the largest entertainment deals in graduated to a semi-professional puppet, Las Vegas history” to headline his own show, which he used until age 18, and onto his “Terry Fator: The VOICE of Entertainment,” first real professional puppet that he named at The Mirage Hotel & Casino. In 2015, the Walter T. Airdale, a country singer, who is still show celebrated its sixth anniversary at the a part of his act today. Little by little Walter iconic Strip resort which followed a contract was joined by an eclectic cast of characters, extension that finds Fator calling The Mirage including Winston, the Impersonating Turtle; home through 2019. Emma Taylor, the selfie-taking tween with “I’m grateful that I didn’t find success until the big voice; Maynard Tompkins, the Elvis my 40s,” admits Fator, who hails from Dallas, Impersonator; Duggie Scott Walker, the Texas. “I’m not sure I could’ve handled annoying neighbor and many others. “I actually don’t believe in not giving up,” laughs Fator, 49, who was ranked No. 2 on Forbes’ list of the top-earning comics just behind comic legend Jerry Seinfeld in 2013. “It’s okay to give up because I did. I worked for 25 years playing every fair, small club and kids’ party I could and it just felt like it wasn’t going to happen. I resigned myself to just playing kids parties. That was okay for me. But, I didn’t stop working and doing the thing that I love to do and getting better at it. Once I did that, something finally happened for me.”

Thursday, January 16, 2020 After decades of performing, Fator felt at the end of his creative rope. “It was just so discouraging because I felt I had something big to offer that millions would want to see, but I couldn’t find that break. Even five months before America’s Got Talent, I did a show in 1,000-seat theater and only one person showed up. I was so down. I thought, ‘Why am I doing this? It’s never gonna happen. I’ll never have millions of people that enjoy my gift.’ But then I thought, ‘Wait a second. I’m lucky that I get to do what I love and I do love this. So what if I always have to play for first graders or kids parties or county fairs? I’m still doing what I love and I’m not going to stop. It’s better than going to work at a real job to just pay the bills,’” says the showbiz journeyman.

Fator: Las Vegas charted four times platinum), and numerous memorable television appearances. The industry has certified him a bona fide superstar, as well, with Simon Cowell declaring Fator to be “one of the best entertainers in the world” and The Best of Las Vegas Awards honoring “Terry Fator: The VOICE of Entertainment” with awards for Best Show, Best All-Around Performer, Best Impersonator and Best Overall Show.

Today, Fator impersonates more voices than he can count with the help of more than a dozen characters singing everything from Nat King Cole, Garth Brooks, Roy Orbison, Dean Martin, Elvis, Louis Armstrong, Bruno Mars and many more.

“The best thing about all of this is that now my creativity is not shackled by my lack of finances. Now, if I have an idea I can actually do it and do it right,” he says. In 2013, Fator released a country music album It Starts Tonight as well as a children’s book Lamu, The Christmas Kitten which is a story of the life of Jesus Christ as told through the eyes of his cat. In 2014, Terry Fator: Live in Concert, a DVD showcasing Fator’s 2013 Las Vegas show, was released nationwide and simultaneously an updated version of the Las Vegas stage show was launched.

Today, Fator finally has that audience of millions who enjoy his work through his sold-out and award-winning live show, multiplatinum selling DVDs (his debut DVD, Terry

What’s next? “I just always want to entertain. That’s it. I never had fans before and now that I do I just want to keep them smiling and laughing,” he adds.

Saturday, January 18, 2020

Audra McDonald As a courtesy to the artists and for the uninterrupted enjoyment of your fellow patrons, please turn off all electronic devices. No portion of this performance may be photographed, recorded, filmed, taped, broadcast or mechanically reproduced without the written consent of the Artist and/ or the Presenter. Mayo Performing Arts Center is not responsible for lost or stolen items. Program subject to change.

AUDRA MCDONALD Audra McDonald is unparalleled in the breadth and versatility of her artistry, as both a singer and an actor. The winner of a record-breaking six Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and an Emmy Award, she was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2015 and received a 2015 National Medal of Arts—America’s highest honor for achievement in the arts— from President Barack Obama. Blessed with a luminous soprano and an incomparable gift for dramatic truth-telling, she is as much at home on Broadway and opera stages as she is in roles on film and television. In addition to her theatrical work, she maintains a major career as a concert and recording artist, regularly appearing on the great stages of the world. Born into a musical family, McDonald grew up in Fresno, California, and received her classical vocal training at the Juilliard School. A year after graduating, she won her first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater. She received two additional Tony Awards in the featured actress category over the next four years for her performances in the Broadway premieres of Terrence McNally’s Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998), for an unprecedented total of three Tony Awards before the age of 30. In 2004 she won her fourth Tony, starring alongside Sean “Diddy” Combs in A Raisin in the Sun, and in 2012 she won her fifth—and her first in the leading actress category—for her role in The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess. In 2014 she made Broadway history and became the Tony Awards’ most decorated performer when she won her sixth award for her portrayal of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill—the role that also served as the vehicle for her Olivier Award-nominated 2017 debut in London’s West End. In addition to setting the record for most competitive wins by an actor, she also became the first person to receive awards in all four acting categories. McDonald’s other theater credits include The Secret Garden (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry IV (2004), 110 in the Shade (2007), her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut in Twelfth Night (2009), Shuffle Along, or, The

Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed (2016), and Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2019). McDonald made her opera debut in 2006 at Houston Grand Opera, where she starred in a double bill: the monodrama La voix humaine by Francis Poulenc and the world premiere of Send by Michael John LaChiusa. She made her Los Angeles Opera debut in 2007 starring alongside Patti LuPone in John Doyle’s production of Kurt Weill’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. The resulting recording won McDonald two Grammy Awards, for Best Opera Recording and Best Classical Album. On the concert stage, McDonald has premiered music by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Adams and sung with virtually every major American orchestra— including the Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, National Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, and San Francisco Symphony— and under such conductors as Sir Simon Rattle, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Leonard Slatkin. She made her Carnegie Hall debut in 1998 with the San Francisco Symphony under the baton of Michael Tilson Thomas in a season-opening concert that was broadcast live on PBS. Internationally, she has sung at the BBC Proms in London (where she was only the second American in more than 100 years invited to appear as a guest soloist at the Last Night of the Proms) and at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, as well as with the London Symphony Orchestra and Berlin Philharmonic. It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS program Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years that first introduced McDonald to television audiences as a dramatic actor. She went on to co-star with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the lauded 1999 Disney/ ABC television remake of Annie, and in 2000 she had a recurring role on NBC’s hit series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. After receiving her first Emmy nomination for her performance in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit, directed by

Saturday, January 18, 2020 Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson, McDonald returned to network television in 2003 in the political drama Mister Sterling, produced by Emmy Award-winner Lawrence O’Donnell, Jr. (The West Wing) and starring Josh Brolin. In early 2006 she joined the cast of the WB’s The Bedford Diaries, and over the next season she had a recurring role on NBC’s television series Kidnapped. In 2008 she reprised her Tony-winning role in A Raisin in the Sun in a made-for-television movie adaption, earning her a second Emmy Award nomination. From 2007 to 2011, she played Dr. Naomi Bennett on the hit ABC medical drama, Private Practice. In 2013, her critically acclaimed performance as the Mother Abbess in NBC’s live telecast of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music, opposite Carrie Underwood as Maria, was watched by an estimated 18.5 million people across America. She received a fourth Emmy nomination for her role in HBO’s film special of Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill in 2016. Having first appeared as US attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS’s legal drama The Good Wife in 2009, she joined the cast of CBS All Access’s The Good Fight as a season regular in 2018. McDonald also makes regular television appearances as a performer, host, and talkshow guest. A familiar face on PBS, she has headlined telecasts including an American Songbook season-opening concert, a presentation of Sondheim’s Passion, a Rodgers and Hammerstein tribute concert titled Something Wonderful, and five galas with the New York Philharmonic: a New Year’s Eve performance in 2006, a concert celebrating Sondheim’s 80th birthday, Carnegie Hall’s 120th anniversary concert, One Singular Sensation! Celebrating Marvin Hamlisch, and, most recently, Sweeney Todd. She was also featured in the PBS television specials A Broadway Celebration: In Performance at the White House and A Celebration of American Creativity, singing at the request of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. McDonald has appeared three times on the Kennedy Center Honors; been profiled by 60 Minutes, Today, PBS NewsHour, and CBS Sunday

Morning; guest co-hosted The View with Barbara Walters; and been a guest on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and David Letterman; The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon; Late Night with Jimmy Fallon; The Late, Late Show with James Corden; The Colbert Report; CBS This Morning; Live with Kelly and Ryan; NewsNation with Tamron Hall; PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton; Iron Chef America; The Megan Mullally Show; The Rosie O’Donnell Show; RuPaul’s Drag Race; The Tavis Smiley Show; The Talk; The Wendy Williams Show; and The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore. In 2012, McDonald was named the new official host of the PBS series Live From Lincoln Center, and she won her first Primetime Emmy Award for hosting the Creative Arts Special Program in 2015, having previously been nominated in 2013. She has also performed on numerous Tony Awards telecasts; in 2013, she closed the show by performing a rap duet with Neil Patrick Harris. McDonald launched her film career with Seven Servants in 1996; her list of credits has since grown to include The Object of My Affection (1998), Cradle Will Rock (1999), It Runs in the Family (2003), The Best Thief in the World (2004), She Got Problems (2009)—a mockumentary movie musical written, starring, and directed by her sister, Alison McDonald—and Rampart (2012). She recently appeared opposite Meryl Streep in Ricki and the Flash (2015), in the moviemusical Hello Again (2017), and—as Madame de Garderobe—in Disney’s live-action Beauty and the Beast (2017). As a recording artist, McDonald has enjoyed a long relationship with the Nonesuch label, interpreting songs from the classic (Gershwin, Arlen, and Bernstein) to the contemporary (Michael John LaChiusa, Adam Guettel, and Ricky Ian Gordon). The New York Times named her first Nonesuch album, 1998’s Way Back to Paradise, as Adult Record of the Year. Following the bestselling How Glory Goes in 2000 and Happy Songs in 2002, she released the 2006 album Build a Bridge, stretching her repertoire to include songs by the likes of Randy Newman, Elvis Costello/ Burt Bacharach, Rufus Wainwright, and Nellie

AUDRA MCDONALD McKay. Sing Happy, recorded live with the New York Philharmonic, was released in 2018 by Decca Gold, marking McDonald’s first solo recording with full orchestra. Her ensemble recordings include the acclaimed EMI version of Bernstein’s Wonderful Town conducted by Sir Simon Rattle, the New York Philharmonic release of Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd, and Dreamgirls in concert, as well as the first recording of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Allegro and Broadway cast albums of Carousel, Ragtime, Marie Christine, 110 in the Shade, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, and Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill. She is also featured on a number of audiovisual recordings available on DVD and Blu-ray, including Sondheim! The Birthday Concert; Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square; Weill—Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny; Bernstein—Wonderful Town; Audra McDonald: Live at the Donmar, London; and My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies.

She has been honored by two of America’s leading academic institutions, receiving the prestigious 2018 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT, and an honorary doctorate from Yale University.

In addition to her professional obligations, McDonald is a passionate advocate for equal rights, LGBTQ causes, and underprivileged youth. Her outspoken activism for marriage equality helped put the issue on the national agenda. In 2009, she joined Twitter to promote the cause, using the Twitter handle @AudraEqualityMc, and in 2011 she joined pro-equality marchers in Albany to lobby New York state senators in the days leading up their groundbreaking vote for legalization. In 2012, she and her now husband, actor Will Swenson, received PFLAG National’s Straight for Equality Award. McDonald was featured in marriage equality and anti-bullying campaigns for Freedom to Marry, NOH8, and PFLAG NYC. The Human Rights Campaign, America’s largest civil rights organization for LGBTQ equality, recognized her work with McDonald’s other theater accolades include its 2009 Ally for Equality and 2018 National five Drama Desk Awards, five Outer Critics Equality Awards. Circle Awards, an Ovation Award, a Theatre World Award, Roundabout Theatre’s Jason As a member of the Covenant House Robards Award for Excellence in Theatre, International Board of Directors, which a Rockefeller Award for Creativity, and oversees programs for homeless young the Drama League’s 2012 Distinguished people in 27 cities in six countries across the Performance and 2000 Distinguished United States, Canada, and Latin America, Achievement in Musical Theatre Awards. McDonald actively devotes her time and Besides her six Tony wins, she received talents to spreading awareness about at-risk nominations for her performances in Marie youth. For her ongoing contribution to the Christine and 110 in the Shade, five NAACP cause, she was honored in 2017 alongside Image Awards nominations, and an Olivier Chelsea Clinton, Gayle King, and Blake Award nomination from her West End debut Lively as one of Variety magazine’s “Power of Women” and received Covenant House’s in Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill. Beacon of Hope Award the following year. As one of today’s key cultural figures, McDonald was inducted into Lincoln Center’s A dog lover, McDonald adopted her canine Hall of Fame as a member of its inaugural companion, Butler, from Eleventh Hour class, which included Louis Armstrong, Rescue, a volunteer-based, non-profit Plácido Domingo, Yo-Yo Ma, Leontyne Price, organization that saves dogs from death and Harold Prince, and named Musical row. Of all her many roles, her favorites are America’s “Musician of the Year,” a title the ones performed offstage: passionate previously bestowed on such luminaries advocate for equal rights and homeless youth, as Leonard Bernstein and Beverly Sills. wife to actor Will Swenson, and mother.

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In addition to touring, The 5 Browns are published writers. Their book, Life Between the Keys, a lighthearted collection of personal stories, was published by Phoenix Books in March 2009. The group was also featured in a PBS TV special, “The 5 Browns In Concert,” which aired on PBS stations throughout the country. A highlight for the quintet was a commissioned five-piano concerto written by famed composer Nico Mühly. Under the direction of Maestro James Conlon, the concerto premiered in 2011 at the Ravinia Festival with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The 2017/18 season will include the release of their 7th album with Grammy® award-winning producer Adam Abeshouse, which in addition to musical favorites from their childhood will also feature an illustrated book authored by NY Times best seller Liesl Shurtliff. The 5 Browns are managed by IMG Artists, LLC, and are exclusive Steinway Artists. -*Due to maternity leave, Melody Brown will be replaced by Stephen Beus for this this event. Stephen Beus “Mesmerizing… explosive… intelligent… he belongs on the world stage” (Salt Lake Tribune). In the space of four months, American pianist Stephen Beus won first prize in the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, first place in the Vendome Prize International Competition (Lisbon) and he was awarded the Max I. Allen Fellowship of the American Pianists Association (Indianapolis). As a result of winning the Juilliard School Concerto Competition Mr. Beus made his Carnegie Hall debut with the Juilliard Orchestra and James DePreist, playing Prokofiev Concerto No. 3. He has also performed as guest soloist with the Gulbenkian Symphony (Lisbon), Oxford Philomusica, the Tivoli Symphony (Copenhagen), the Tbilisi National Opera Orchestra, the Northwest Sinfonietta (Seattle), the Royal Philharmonic of Morocco (Casablanca), the Vaasa Symphony Orchestra (Finland) as well as with the Hamburg, Indianapolis, Nashville,

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Mr. Beus holds degrees from Whitman College, The Juilliard School, and Stony Brook University, and his teachers have included Leonard Richter, Robert McDonald, Gilbert Kalish, Christina Dahl, and Paulette Richards. He has recorded on the Endeavor Classics, Harmonia Mundi, and Centaur Born and raised on a farm in eastern Records labels. Stephen Beus is a Steinway Washington, Mr. Beus began lessons at age Artist and currently teaches at Brigham 5 and made his orchestral debut four years Young University. For more details, visit later. He went on to win numerous national www.stephenbeus.com.

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665 Martinsville Rd, Basking Ridge; 908-647-3000 From the smokey wood flavors of seasonal appetizers and entrees, to the finely executed desserts, we at 3 West strive to keep customers coming back for more. 3westrest.com

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54 South Street, Morristown; 973-538-0550 Aikou restaurant blends traditional culinary art with the modern concept of fine dining in an elegant contemporary atmosphere. aikoumorristown.com

Black Horse Tavern & Pub

1 West Main Street, Mendham; 973-543-7300 Indulge in the area’s finest cuisine. Enjoy choice steaks, signature salads, and some of the freshest seafood this side of the Jersey shore from our Oyster and Clam Bar. Live guitar music fills the night on Fridays and Saturdays. blackhorsenj.com

Blue Morel Restaurant & Wine Bar

2 Whippany Road, Morristown; (973) 451-2619 (at the Westin Governor Morris) Combines the finest seasonal ingredients from local, regional, organic and sustainable farms with the culinary creativity of Chef Thomas Ciszak and Chef Kevin Takafuji. Blue Morel creates a farm to table experience serving New American Cuisine, Sushi and a Seafood Raw Bar. bluemorel.com

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4 Pine Street, Morristown; 973-538-1999 Right across the street from the theatre. Authentic Irish Pub with cozy atmosphere and great food and drink. Private room available for parties. dublinpubmorristown.com

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90 South Street; 862-260-9700 South+Pine is an american eatery focusing on using fresh seasonal ingredients to create artistic, and of course, delicious dishes. Chef/Owner Leia Gaccione, former Executive Chef & Chef de Cuisine for Bobby Flay, brings her talent to Morristown with this little gem. A casual and inviting environment, South + Pine is family friendly and located just next door to MPAC. southandpine.com

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80 Elm Street; 973-889-8698 TOWN bar + kitchen is a contemporary American restaurant located just across the street from the Morristown train station. Offering a diverse menu along with extensive wines, beers, and cocktails in a chic, urban atmosphere - TOWN has something for everybody. townbarandkitchen.com

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In the early years, Darlene’s background vocals as lead singer for The Blossoms behind The Righteous Brothers, Dionne Warwick, Marvin Gaye, Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley (to name but a few) set the stage for her emergence as a star in her own right.

At the Academy Awards, Darlene sang her powerful acceptance speech on behalf of all of the performers in the winning film Twenty Feet From Stardom. As she raised the Oscar, the entire house stood with a cheering ovation lead by the wildly applauding Bill Murray. It was another special moment in a great career. A Grammy award soon followed for the soundtrack of the film.

Her Billboard hits include: “He’s A Rebel,” “The Boy I’m Gonna Marry,” “Wait ‘Til My Bobby Gets Home,” “He’s Sure the Boy I Love” and the #1 holiday classic “Christmas Baby Please Come Home,” a song that she performed annually with Paul Shaffer and the CBS Symphony Orchestra on The Late Show With David Letterman for some 29 years before David retired last December.

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ELVIN BISHOP & CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE ELVIN BISHOP in 1962), he is as vital and creative an artist today as he was when he first hit the national scene in 1965 with The Paul Butterfield Blues Band. He is still as slyly good-humored and instantly crowd-pleasing as he was when he was effortlessly creating solo hits during the 1970s. His reemergence on Alligator Records in the late 1980s and into the 1990s, along with his more recent releases on Blind Pig and Delta Groove, insure his place on the short list of bona fide blues guitar heroes. Elvin’s music mixes thick blues grooves with timeless rock flavors spiced with a touch of country, a dab of Moms Mabley’s and Pigmeat Can’t Even Do Wrong Right, with hilariously Markham’s ribald black comedy, and the laid spot-on cover art by musician/artist Paul back feel of his Northern California home. His Thorn, finds Bishop firing on all cylinders and guitar playing seems to improve with every having fun while doing it. Fueled by his stellar performance, and his songwriting is filled with road band, Bishop has created another clever revelations and homespun wisdom. highlight in a career chock full of them. Five Living Blues says Elvin’s guitar playing is of the songs are Bishop originals, including “as full of fresh licks and unbounded energy “Let Your Woman Have Her Way,” on which as the day he and Mike Bloomfield set the Bishop’s friend Mickey Thomas sings the blues/rock world on its ear.” lead (this is the first time Thomas, the ex- Born in Glendale, CA on October 21, 1942, Jefferson Starship singer, has recorded with Elvin grew up on a farm in Iowa before Bishop since he provided vocals on Bishop’s relocating to Oklahoma when he was ten. classic hit “Fooled Around And Fell In Love”). He first got hooked on the blues listening to An outstanding instrumental version of late night R&B radio as a teenager, and began Jimmy Reed’s “Honest I Do” harkens back collecting, listening to and absorbing blues to Elvin’s childhood: this was the very first music. Once Bishop realized that many of his blues song he heard coming from Nashville’s favorite records were recorded in Chicago, WLAC, the late night R&B 50,000 watt he used his 1959 National Merit Scholarship powerhouse radio station, beaming all the as a way to get closer to his blues heroes way to his Oklahoma home. In the 1950s in by enrolling in the University of Chicago—its Oklahoma, everything was racially separated campus surrounded on three sides by the except the radio (“They couldn’t segregate South Side black community. “The first thing I the airwaves,” Bishop recalls). With the did when I got there,” Elvin recalls, “was make addition of his Grammy Award-winning pal friends with the guys working in the cafeteria. Charlie Musselwhite on “Old School” “and Within fifteen minutes I was into the blues No More Doggin’”, Can’t Even Do Wrong scene.” Leaving his physics studies behind, Right hits its target at every turn. The album Bishop turned to blues music full time. He is sure to find a place in the hearts and ears befriended bluesman Little Smokey Smothers of his many longtime fans, and will open the and would hang out with him for hours on door to scores of those just joining Elvin’s end. Smothers liked young Bishop and took neverending party. the willing student under his wing, teaching Although Bishop has been performing his Elvin how to really play—and live—the blues. rollicking brand of electrified front porch In short order, Elvin became an accomplished blues for over 50 years (his first professional and innovative player. Many years later, in gig was as guitarist for Junior Wells’ band 2000, Elvin and Smothers recorded their only On the title track of his new album, Can’t Even Do Wrong Right, legendary blues guitarist, songwriter and singer ELVIN BISHOP spins a tale of a not-too-smart criminal getting caught by his own foolish missteps. The shaggy dog story, fueled by Bishop’s down-home delivery and deep blues slide guitar, is an affirmation of the Chicago Sun-Times’ ebullient praise: “It’s impossible not to like Bishop. He’s always singing something lowbrow and uplifting.” With his buoyant and deceptively loose-sounding ensemble behind him, he’s also playing some of the most spirited and distinctive blues slide guitar today.

Thursday, February 20, 2020 album together, the appropriately titled That’s in 1995 with Ace In The Hole, delivering noholds-barred sets of rootsy blues fueled by My Partner!, for Alligator. After Elvin crossed paths with harmonica Elvin’s wicked guitar playing and tongue-inplayer and fellow University of Chicago cheek originals. With 1998’s The Skin I’m In, student Paul Butterfield, the two began serious guitar playing and humorous looks at a true blues statement sitting in together at black blues clubs, often aging made the album th jamming with Buddy Guy and Otis Rush. for the end of the 20 century. Entertainment They first formed The Paul Butterfield Blues Weekly described the album as “sheer, Band in 1963, adding Jerome Arnold on unpretentious joy.” bass, Sam Lay on drums and Mark Naftalin on keyboards. Prior to cutting their debut LP in 1965, Michael Bloomfield joined the group as second lead guitarist, and created a groundbreaking, all-star band. The self-titled The Paul Butterfield Blues Band introduced electric Chicago blues to the rock audience for the first time. With the release of East/ West in 1966, the band’s popularity hit an all-time high. Their straight Chicago blues sounds drifted further into progressive and experimental rock ‘n’ roll and—with two world-class lead guitarists on board— the band helped pave the way for groups featuring multiple virtuoso guitarists, like The Allman Brothers and Derek and the Dominos. The Rolling Stone Record Guide says that Bishop, along with Bloomfield, recorded “brilliant guitar passages that did as much as anything to establish the mystique and heroism of modern rock guitarists.”

Towards the end of the 1960s, after recording three albums with The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Elvin decided to move on, heading for the San Francisco area. “I liked it there. I didn’t have to look over myshoulder,” Bishop recalls. He became a regular at the famed Fillmore Auditorium jam sessions, playing alongside Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, B.B. King and many others before embarking on a solo career. He recorded first for Fillmore Records, then Epic and then for Capricorn, where his career took off. He charted with “Travelin’ Shoes” before scoring big in 1975 with “Fooled Around And Fell In Love” (the song reached number three on the pop charts). After a seven-year recording hiatus, Elvin returned to his blues roots in 1988, signing with Alligator and releasing Big Fun to critical and popular acclaim. He followed in 1991 with Don’t Let The Bossman Get You Down! and

As Bishop continues to tour and release new music, his stature just continues to grow. Through the years his music has appeared in film and television, including the 1997 use of “She Puts Me In The Mood” (from Big Fun) in Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown. In 2005 he performed on the internationally televised Grammy Awards broadcast alongside Keith Urban, Tim McGraw, Gretchen Wilson, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Allman Brothers’ guitarist Dickey Betts. He recently appeared in the documentary Born In Chicago. In 2012 and 2013 he was nominated for inclusion into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame as a member of The Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Now, with Can’t Even Do Wrong Right, Bishop again is ready to share his happy-golucky vibe with his fans around the world. His guitar/vocal/songwriting triple-threat talent, along with his ability to deliver a rollicking good time wherever he goes, assures his not-to-be-missed live performances are consistently packed to the gills with cheering fans. The Chicago Tribune says Bishop plays “good-time music guaranteed to put a smile on your face...serious playing, potent slide guitar and razor-sharp licks.” Musically, it’s as if Elvin Bishop can do no wrong, and that is perfectly all right. CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE Charlie Musselwhite’s journey through the blues was from his birth in Mississippi to Memphis, Chicago and California. Arriving in Chicago in the early sixties, he was just in time for the epochal blues revival. In 1966 at the age of 22 he recorded the landmark Stand Back! to rave reviews. A precipitous relocation to San Francisco in 1967, where his album was being played on underground radio, found him welcomed into the

ELVIN BISHOP & CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE counterculture scene around the Fillmore West as an authentic purveyor of the real deal blues. Fifty years of nonstop touring, performing and recording have reaped huge rewards. Charlie Musselwhite is living proof that great music only gets better with age. This man cut his (musical) teeth alongside Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf and everyone on the South side of Chicago in the early 1960’s. Thank your lucky stars that he is still with us telling the truth with a voice and harp tone like no other.

Charlie has been collaborating with the world’s finest Artists for many years, including Ben Harper, Cyndi Lauper, Eddie Vedder, Tom Waits, Bonnie Raitt, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Gov’t Mule, INXS, Mickey Hart and Japan’s Kodo Drummers, George Thorogood, Eliades Ochoa, Cat Stevens and personal friend and best man at his wedding John Lee Hooker.

Musselwhite, more than any other harmonica player of his generation, can rightfully lay claim to inheriting the mantle of many of the great harp players that came before him with music as dark as Mississippi mud and as More than 20 albums later he is at the top uplifting as the blue skies of California. In an of his game, a revered elder statesman of era when the term legendary gets applied to the blues nowhere near ready to hang up auto-tuned pop stars, this singular blues harp his harps, his depth of expression as a singer player, singer, songwriter and guitarist has and an instrumentalist unexcelled and only earned and deserves to be honored as a true master of American classic vernacular music. growing deeper.

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Sunday, February 23, 2020

CANDID CAMERA'S LOL TOUR WITH PETER FUNT “Candid Camera’s LOL Tour With Peter Funt,” has pleased audiences nationwide. Peter’s hilarious stage comedy is blended with clips, quips and behind-the-scenes tales from the show’s funniest moments. Candid Camera holds a unique place in entertainment history as the only show to have produced new episodes in each of the last eight decades – from Allen Funt’s debut in 1948 through Peter’s recent run on TV Land. Peter’s latest show was a “Top Pick” in People Magazine and praised by The New York Times. The LOL stage show incorporates the best Candid Camera clips in a fast-paced, laugh-filled romp through the decades. Peter’s topical humor is blended with audience participation and special surprises to make the show a great night of fun. PETER FUNT Peter Funt, star of “Candid Camera’s LOL Tour,” is a TV host, speaker and columnist, continuing the Funt Family tradition of catching people in the act of being themselves. In addition to hosting the landmark series Candid Camera, Peter writes frequent opeds for The New York Times and Wall Street Journal as well as his weekly syndicated column. His writing and public appearances contain the same pointed social observations that have made Candid Camera popular since its invention by Peter’s dad, Allen, back in 1947.

Peter also follows in his father's footsteps as President of Laughter Therapy Foundation, a non-profit started by Allen Funt in 1982. Laughter Therapy sends special videos, at no charge, to critically ill people throughout the U.S.

Peter received his degree in journalism from the University of Denver. In 2010 he returned to the Denver campus to be honored as a Master Scholar in Arts and Humanities, and in 2011 delivered the keynote at the annual Alumni Symposium. He is a past winner of the Silurianʼs Award for radio news Peter Funt made his first appearance on reporting, for his ABC News coverage of Candid Camera when he and the legendary racial disturbances in Asbury Park, N.J., and series were each just three years old. Peter a recipient of the Angel Award for television. posed as a shoeshine boy who charged $10 per shoe! Since that time he has appeared in Peter is founder of the Monterey County hundreds of Candid Camera sequences and Young Journalists program in California, hosted over 200 network episodes, most which provides training for high school students pursuing careers in news. He also recently on TV Land. inaugurated the Courtroom Journalism In addition to his hidden-camera work, Peter competition in Monterey County in Funt has produced and hosted TV specials on the Arts & Entertainment and Lifetime conjunction with the Lyceum Organization, cable networks. He also spent five years as and has conducted a similar statewide event an editor and reporter with ABC News in for the Constitutional Rights Foundation in Los Angeles. New York. His book, Cautiously Optimistic, is a collection of essays observing the social scene. He also authored Gotcha! for Grosset & Dunlap on the lost art of practical joking. Earlier in his career he was Editor of the monthly On Cable Magazine.

Peter and his wife, Amy, reside in Central California. They have two children, Stephanie and Danny. Peter’s favorite pastimes are golf, baseball, tennis and people-watching. He is at work on a new version of Candid Camera for late 2019.

Saturday, February 29, 2020

AIR SUPPLY Graham Russell & Russell Hitchcock met on May 12, 1975, the first day of rehearsals for Jesus Christ Superstar in Sydney, Australia; they became instant friends with their common love for The Beatles and, of course, singing.

simple yet majestic songs created a unique sound that would forever be known as Air Supply. However, it is the live shows that always hold audiences captive around the world. They were the first Western group to tour China, Taiwan, and countless other countries that before would not allow pop music across their borders. In 1983 they recorded “Making Love Out Of Nothing At All” by Jim Steinman which solidified the group as a permanent force in modern music. This song was released on The Greatest Hits album which soared past 7 million copies.

After the showsʼ performances at 10:30, they would play pizza parlors, coffee bars and night clubs with just one guitar and two voices. They quickly gained a reputation for great harmonies and for original songs that Graham was constantly writing. They made a demo on a cassette of two songs, “Love and Other Bruises” and “If You Knew Me” and took it to every record company in Sydney. “Lost in Love”, “All Out of Love”, “The One That Everyone turned it down but one — CBS You Love”, “Sweet Dreams”, and “Making Love Records — who admired their unique style. Out Of Nothing At All” have each achieved They made a single in one afternoon and it multi-million plays on the radio. shot to number one on the national charts. In 1986 the groupʼs music was still playing Air Supply was born! That same year, they endlessly on radio. That same year, Graham opened for Rod Stewart across Australia and was married to actress Jodi Varble from then throughout the U.S. and Canada playing Rochelle, Illinois, who also was his leading all of the famous huge venues before Rod lady in the video for “Making Love Out Of would take the stage. They found new fans, Nothing At All.” but did not break the U.S. market. Air Supply began to tour with lavish Back in Australia they had to start again productions in places that no one had been and made a record called Life Support. On before. In South America and Asia they this record were some treasures of songs, became a part of everyoneʼs life. In 1988, Air including “Lost in Love” which went Top 10 in Supply was asked to participate in Australiaʼs Australia and somehow found its way to music bicentennial celebration and to play for HRH industry executive Clive Davis in New York. Prince Charles and HRH Princess Diana, Clive immediately signed Air Supply to Arista where they learned both were already ardent Records and in 1980, “Lost in Love” became fans. This engagement would be one of their the fastest selling single in the world, leaping most treasured moments in their career. to the top of all of the charts. Now Air Supply In 1989, they recorded The Earth Is album was on their way. The second single was “All selling over a million copies outside of Out of Love,” and that went up the charts the U.S. This album was followed by The even quicker. Vanishing Race CD and, with the singles Seven top-five singles later, Air Supply at that time had equaled The Beatlesʼ run of consecutive top five singles. The albums Lost in Love, The One That You Love, Now & Forever, and The Greatest Hits sold in excess of 20 million copies. “Lost in Love” was named Song of the Year in 1980, and, with the other singles, sold more than 10 million copies.

“Goodbye” and “Itʼs Never Too Late”, again saw multi-platinum success. The following albums, News from Nowhere, Yours Truly, and Across the Concrete Sky all gave their second greatest hits album multi-platinum status as they traveled the world each and every year.

In 2000, a new production company was founded to be devoted to Air Supplyʼs entire The trademark sound of Russell Hitchcockʼs future product, called A Nice Pear, which soaring tenor voice and Graham Russellʼs gave them complete creative control.

Saturday, February 29, 2020 In July 2005, their live DVD, It Was 30 Years Ago Today celebrated 30 years of success around the world and in that same month, Air Supply smashed attendance records when, in Cuba, at one show they played to 175,000 people. Also 2005 saw the release of The Singer and the Song, an acoustic album of many of their big hits which received critical acclaim.

was the first single “Dance With Me,” which earned Air Supply a prominent feature article in Billboard Magazine titled “Still Supplying The Hits After 35 Years.”

Just weeks after composer and vocalist Graham Russell was honored with a BMI Million-Air Certificate recognizing 3 million performances of the duoʼs hit “All Out Of In May 2010, the long-awaited album, Mumbo Love,” Air Supplyʼs new song was the #1 Jumbo – also the duoʼs first studio recording most added track on the FMQB AC40 Chart, in eight years – was released. Recorded at and also one of the most added on the Graham Russellʼs home studio near Park City, R&R (Radio and Records) AC Chart and the Utah and at Odds Onʼs state of the art facilities Mediabase AC chart. in Las Vegas with top session musicians and an orchestra, Mumbo Jumbo was produced In 2013, the duo was inducted into the by Russell and engineered by Odds Onʼs Australian Recording Industry Association’s Sean OʼDwyer, whose credits include Pink Hall of Fame. Air Supply celebrated their 40th Floyd, Randy Newman and Blink-182. Among anniversary in 2015 and continue to delight the 14-tracks, released by Odds On's label, audiences all over the world.

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Thursday, March 5, 2020

MILOS: THE VOICE OF THE GUITAR Miloš Karadaglić Firmly positioned as a leading exponent of his instrument, “The hottest guitarist in the world” (Sunday Times), Miloš Karadaglić, continues to top record charts and delight audiences worldwide. His first three releases on Deutsche Grammophon achieved major chart successes around the globe and turned him into “classical music’s guitar hero” (BBC Music Magazine) overnight. His 2014 recording of Rodrigo’s concertos had the Sunday Times calling him “The King of Aranjuez”, while Blackbird - The Beatles Album (2016) was received with unanimous acclaim. Miloš has appeared in recital at almost all major concert halls and festivals around the globe and has worked with many of the world’s leading orchestras and conductors. He is also the first ever classical guitarist to have performed in solo recital at the Royal Albert Hall in London, The Guardian commenting: “More extraordinary by far, however, was the way a single guitarist... could shrink the Hall’s cavernous space into something so close.” The Independent concluded: “... a sleight of hand that makes Karadaglić not only a magician, but a serious and accomplished musician”. In August 2018, Miloš returned to the Royal Albert Hall with the BBC Symphony Orchestra to give the world premiere of ‘Ink Dark Moon’, an exciting new guitar concerto written for Miloš by Joby Talbot. The performance, part of the 2018 BBC Proms, was received with great enthusiasm, with BachTrack commenting that “Karadaglić provided a supremely tailored performance, exploring the full range of sounds and colours.”

Guitar”, this programme sees him perform solo and with various ensembles throughout the United Kingdom, Europe, Asia and the United States. “No other guitarist can match his graceful blend of personal charisma and technical finesse.” (The Independent) Miloš remains committed to commissioning new repertoire, especially when it comes to the repertoire for guitar and orchestra. 2018/19 included another concerto world premiere of Howard Shore’s first ever guitar concerto, which was commissioned for Miloš by the National Arts Centre Orchestra Ottawa and Alexander Shelley. Miloš is a passionate supporter of music education and acts as a Patron of Awards for Young Musicians as well as Ambassador for Live Music Now, the London Music Fund and the Wigmore Hall’s Learning Programme. Taking every opportunity to promote classical music to the widest possible audience, Miloš often finds himself in the role of radio and TV presenter, having appeared as a mentor for the nationwide talent competition Guitar Star on Sky Arts, in addition to co-presenting the 2014 BBC Young Musician competition and returning as a member of the jury in 2018. Born in Montenegro in 1983, Miloš first started playing the guitar at the age of 8. At 16, he successfully applied for a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music and moved to London where he continues to live while keeping close ties with his family and homeland. He was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in 2015. In 2016 BBC Music magazine included him amongst six of the greatest classical guitarists of the last century.

In the 2018/19 season, Miloš curates a musical journey through the repertoire that Miloš records exclusively for Decca Classics/ has been most important to him so far in Universal Music. He performs on a 2007 his life and career. Titled “The Voice of the Greg Smallman guitar.

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2019-2020 SUPPORTERS We wish to thank our donors for their generous support of our Annual Fund* $100,000 and higher F. M. Kirby Foundation New Jersey State Council on the Arts $40,000 - $99,999 The Blanche & Irving Laurie Foundation Jacobs Levy Equity Management/ Bruce I. Jacobs and Kenneth N. Levy The John and Margaret Post Foundation $15,000 - $39,999 BASF Corporation Chambers Center by Palm Health The Hyde & Watson Foundation $10,000 - $14,999 ADP Automatic Data Processing, Inc. Foundation Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Goldman Sachs Gives/Todd and Nina Hohman Paragano Family Foundation $5,000 - $9,999 The Allergan Foundation The Arnold F. Baggins Foundation, Inc. Bayer Corporation The Conger Family Foundation John DaSilva Memorial Foundation

The Walter F. and Alice Gorham Foundation, Inc. Jersey Central Power & Light, A FirstEnergy Company The Sandra Kupperman Foundation McCarter & English, LLP MetLife Foundation George A. Ohl, Jr. Trust PNC Financial Services Group William E. Simon Foundation, Inc. Wells Fargo $1,000 to $4,999 Braunschweiger Jewelers Lewis D. Brounell Charitable Trust Kristin Elliott Charitable Fund Irene and Barry Fisher Hope Keil and Liza Bianchi-Keil James B. Luke Family Charitable Foundation McGuinn Family Foundation RBC Wealth Management The Ruth Silverman-Rosenbloom and Victor H. Rosenbloom Charitable Foundation, Inc. TD Bank N.A. VaynerMedia As of December 22, 2019 *Excludes fundraising events and membership gifts

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MAIN LOBBY BUILDING PROJECT Mayo Performing Arts Center has completed renovating and expanding its main lobby and plaza area. The Campaign for the Project exceeded its goal and raised over $2.5 million in gifts and pledges. Now we are examining ways to add more upgrades to the venue and better facilities for our patrons and look forward to keeping you informed of our progress.

We would like to thank the following donors for their generous support of the Main Lobby Building Project:

$300,000 and above The Gagnon Family F.M. Kirby Foundation

$250,000 - $299,999

A.P. Kirby, Jr. Foundation, Inc. John and Margaret Post Foundation

$100,000 - $249,999

Jay and Wendy Birnbaum The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation Paula and William Marino Eileen and N. Larry Paragano Sr.

$50,000 - $99,999

Conger Family Foundation Jeanne and Joseph Goryeb Jacobs Levy Equity Management Gail and Ben Lobel Mary Jane Robertson and Jock Clark

$25,000 - $49,999

Linda and Jay Hellstrom The Hyde and Watson Foundation Jenny and Jeffrey Kalajian Sudy and Bud Mayo Carol and Robert Mulholland Maxine and Harry Riskin Clementina, Debra and Ron Sanes Wendy and Gregory Supron

$10,000 - $24,999

Gar Wood N. Burwell The Ellis Family The Walter F. and Alice Gorham Foundation Kathy and Greg Heher Unjeria C. Jackson, MD and Larry E. Thompson Dr. and Mrs. Bruce I. Jacobs Karen and Jefferson Kirby Larena Construction LLC

Pamela and Joseph Longo James K. Malloy Marylyn and Thomas McLaughlin Helen and Jim Quinn Anne and Robert Rooke Elise and Thomas J. Ross, Jr. Brenda and Leonard Sichel Anita J. Siegel Claudia and Kenneth Silverman Joseph Weber

$5,000 - $9,999

Daniel and Meryl Alesandro Sally Epstein Matthew and Teresa Finlay Edward and Beth Gramigna Anita Hotchkiss and Christopher Martin Marcia and Peter Hunter Thomas Jardim and Karen Fountain MATTHEW 18:5 Foundation Lary Wasserman

$1,000 to $4,999

The Elliott Averett Family Mr. and Mrs. Stephen D. Bach Rev. Janet Broderick Louise and Malcolm Chamalian Theresa de Leon Nancy and Flo Brown Foley Joan and James Lynch Dana and Eric Macy Lois and Peter Mancuso Dr. Edward and Norlyn Poto Michael Shoblock Marilyn and Mark Talve Foundation The Wallerstein Foundation for Geriatric Life Improvement Neva and Rich Watson As of December 22, 2019

Naming Opportunities are available for gifts ranging from $500 to $500,000. Donations at every level make an impact! Please call Marysue DePaola at 973-539-0345 ext. 6503 or email mdepaola@mayoarts.org for more information on how to be a part of this exciting project!

THE STARLIGHT SOCIETY

MPAC gratefully acknowledges its Starlight Society members for their generous contributions, providing the theater’s leading source of annual support each year. President’s Circle: $10,000 and up Edward W. and Catherine F. Ahart Wendy and Jay Birnbaum Jim and Donna Chambers Mary E. and David L. Cobb Rob and Nancye Falzon Joe and Jeanne Goryeb Sheridan and John Greeniaus Walter and Jennifer Hass John and Kristin Hyland Unjeria C. Jackson, MD and Mr. Larry Thompson Ellen and Jonathan Lewis Bud and Sudy Mayo Nancy and Howard Moseson Mary Jane Robertson and Jock Clark Clementina, Debra and Ron Sanes Hank and Jacke Schram Claudia and Kenneth Silverman Mr. Jon Stewart Wendy and Greg Supron David and Lisa Welsh Producer’s Circle: $5,000-$9,999 Sheri and Steve Alexander Theresa Augustine-Christie Michael and Karen Byrne Betty Carroll Chip Carver and Anne DeLaney Ann and Art Corwin Gordon and Cindy Crawford Donna and Kenneth Eberle The Ellis Family Frederick and Katherine Fultz Tobi and George Goldman Antonia Ann Gollob Jay and Linda Hellstrom Richard and Cindy Johnson Jennifer and Jeffrey Kalajian Paula and Bill Marino Nancy and David Medford Pam Mondelli and Paul Pazniokas Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mulholland Mr. and Mrs. James Nason Ms. Carolyn Olenowski Eileen and Carlos Rodriguez Bob and Anne Rooke Allan and Barbara Staats Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Sullivan Director’s Circle: $3,000-$4,999 Patti Aresty Wendy Aresty and Chris deVries Ginger Brennan Gregg and Jackie Buckalew Mr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Carroll, Jr. Nick and Elizabeth De Angelo

Harriett and Bob Druskin Ms. Sarah R. Epstein Tom and Susan Fuller Steve and Kathy Gillen Dana Griffith and Jack Hogoboom Jerry Happ Alan and Bonnie Kaufman Karen and Jeff Kirby Andy and Kristin Lynn Don and Fran MacMaster Caren Frankel and Dr. Jory Magidson Thomas and Marylyn McLaughlin Marianne and Walter Morris John O'Grady and Brad Motta John and Lucy Orfan Robert and Meredith Pagano Eileen Paragano Mr. and Mrs. Scott Pester Carole and Jack Plaxe Ms. Jaime Raskulinecz and Ms. Linda Varas Mr. and Mrs. Larry Sailer Dr. Michael and Mrs. Alice Samach Marcia and Mark Schiffer Robert and Sherry Scott Leonard and Brenda Sichel Anita J. Siegel Susan and Rick Sinay Artist’s Circle: $2,000-$2,999 Arnie and Ruth Aprahamian Richard and Connie Batherman Ms. Dawn Berg Mr. and Mrs. Robert Boutillier Dr. James and Mary Chimenti Christie Family Foundation James and Doreen Costello Robin and Tim Devaney Mr. and Mrs. Ronald T. Dollard John and Lisa Ennis Stephen L. and Ann Marie Feld Friend of MPAC Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Gardner Mr. Richard Genabith Orren and Trish Grushkin Ms. Paula Hartman Mr. Mark S. Hartmann, Jr. and Shelby C. Rhodes Virginia and Russell Hawkins Marcia and Peter Hunter Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Israel Brad M. Kaplan Esq. Drs. Ezra and Bonnie Kazam Anand and Neeta Khubani Mr. and Mrs. Robin Kinney Frederick K. Kleen, III and Virginia DeLalla Joan and Joe LaRusso Mr. and Mrs. David A. Lewis

Donald and Barbara Louria Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Matlesky Elizabeth Mattson Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Mazur Mr. David F. Miller and Ms. Sheila F. Eule Robert L. Parker and Jin Ren Kwok Joyce Prevoznik Elizabeth and Tim Ritter Sue and Eric Robbins Eileen Rolnick Linda and Mike Rosenberg Carol Schautz Maggi Sellers E. Michael Shine and Florence K. Ferguson Michael Shoblock Neil and Sue Thakur Gabrielle Trumbull Deborah Vilage and James Wilkinson Lary Wasserman Conductor’s Circle: $1,250-$1,999 Susan and Ken Adler Charlie and Dianne Ahto Joseph and Teresa Axtell Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bareijsza Laurie and Larry Baruch Lynn and Mitch Baumeister Dr. and Mrs. Charles Becht, IV Mr. and Mrs. George H. Becker, Jr. Kurt and Jill Becker Jack Benvent and Robin Cornick Benvent Ken and Lisa Bodmer Mr. Chuck Bodner and Mrs. Toral Notay-Bodner Michael and Eileen Boos Family Morgan and Amy Bornstein Mr. Michael A. Borodinsky Terry Brannin and Barry Marson Lois Brounell Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Brown Tony and Gina Bruno Denis and Barbara Burke Robert and Francoise Burn Mr. Gar Wood N. Burwell Cynthia and Ed Cashman Robert and Fran Cavalero Mr. Jeffrey Cohen Janet and Robert Cole, MD Stan and Holly Coleman Mary and David Comora Dr. David and Lynda Conyack Linda R. Couch Glenn and Eleanor Coutts Frank and Jeanine Crippen Data Designs, Inc. Ms. Janet DeMeo Paul and Donna DiAntonio

Mr. and Mrs. Anthony L. DiCesare Jean Marie and Robert DiQuollo John and Karen Dubel Tony and Marianne Ehinger James and Melissa Ehlers Sally and Gary Eisenreich Kristin Elliott Kieran and Molly Fagan John and Eileen Farry John and Linda Fedinec Kevin and Cindy Feeley Gary and Joan Feitlin Rich and Dianna Fembleaux Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Foley Mr. and Mrs. James Frame Dorrie and Brian Gagnon Mr. and Mrs. Neil Gagnon Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Gannet Mr. Timothy Gearty Mr. and Mrs. Duke Gillingham Caroline and Richard Godfrey Betty and Arnold Goldstein Lawrence and Rita Gotfried Edward A. Gramigna, Jr. Lawrence and Florence Green Richard and Kathleen Grochala Mr. and Mrs. Richard Habib John J. Hallacy and Dr. Mary Ann LoFrumento Bob and Cynthia Hamburger Dr. and Mrs. Robert Handler Brian and Renee Hansen Michael Harmon Roger and Ameeta Held Amy and Charles Hendershot Barbara Huarte Hill John and Sarah Holman Michael and Eileen Houle Chelsey Kohler and Billy Huzar William Powers and Vina Isaac Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Jaeger Thomas C. Jardim and Karen Fountain Diann and Peter Jinks

Ken and Jackie Kairys Bill and Debbie Keenan Mr. George Kelly and Dr. Janine Kelly Jeffery Aughey and Aileen Kiter Randy Kleinwaks Michael Kohner Ms. Patricia M. Koyce Harry Krystalla Jane and Michael Kurek Mrs. Gloria LaGrassa, Pluckemin Inn Dr. and Mrs. Alan Langsner Allison and Paul Larena Bill and Eileen Levine Adam Levinsohn and Christine St. Peter Barbara and Stuart Levy Steven and Beena Levy Angela and William Lewis Nicky and Paige L'Hommedieu Jeffrey and Lisa Libman Mr. Dennis Lipari Mr. Bruce Lowenhaupt Brian and Tara Luing Kevin and Trisha Luing Mr. and Mrs. Paul Magnani James and Danielle Malloy Mr. and Mrs. Charles Matar Roger and Mary Elyn Matthews Jim and Sue McArdle Nancy McGlynn Will and Dyanna McGuire Ms. Donna McNamara Morris County School of Glass Samantha A. Mueller Mrs. Rachel Mullen Joan Ducey-Munde and Dan Munde Phil and Gen Nicastro Donn and Paula Norton Joyce and Edward OĘźGorman Arnold M. Olshan Anthony and Toni Pecci Mr. and Mrs. Frank Pfeffer Stephen and Lisa Plavin

Judy and Jim Pohlman James Polley Leigh and Randy Porges Martin and Clare Prentice Dr. Kenneth and Dr. Suzy Press Mr. and Mrs. James F. Quinn Drs. Gary and Marie Radford Mr. John Raymonds Amy and John Rhinelander Kurt and Linda Riedener Mark A. Rieger, MD Andrea Rizzo Rick and Terri Rizzuto Peter Rochelle Joseph and Marla Runsdorf James and Barbara Salerno Angelo and Ramona Sappio Nancy and Nelson Schaenen, Jr. Judi and Fred Schiller Rudy and Debora Schloesser Mr. Michael Schramm David and Irene Sharpell Michael and Maria Simoff Craig and Cathy Simon Frederic and Joan Sirota Marg and Glen Skar Molly Dunn and Len Smith Mary Jo Sodano Don and Mary Kaye Sparaco Ms. Chris Stamos Sandy and Jeff Stiles Eileen and Peter Sudler Kevin and Betsy Sullivan Mr. and Mrs. Edward Surette Maureen and Paul Tafuro Carol Thompson Scott and Carmen Turner Thomas and Rebecca Wafer Lisa and Peter Wallburg Judy and Alan Weinstein Michael and Susan Wilk Leonard and Mona Witman Gil and Claire Zweig

As of December 22, 2019

MATCHING GIFTS We are grateful to the following companies who have generously matched their employeesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; charitable gifts to MPAC. Please be sure to check with your Human Resources Department to maximize your support! ADP Aetna AIG Bank of America BD Benevity Big Lots! Coach Deluxe Corporation Deutsche Bank

ExxonMobil Faber Daeufer & Itrato PC Gap Inc. Geico Gen Re Horizon Foundation Johnson & Johnson Kemnay Advisory Services Macy's Inc.

Merck Moretrench American Corp. Novartis Pfizer Prudential Foundation Towne Toyota Inc. Verizon Visa Voya Foundation As of December 22, 2019

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Morristown

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Jacobs Levy Equity Management/ Bruce I. Jacobs and Kenneth N. Levy

Jersey Central Power & Light, A FirstEnergy Company

Korn Hynes Marketing & Advertising

Morris County Real Estate Law, Eagan and Lenney

Peapack-Gladstone Bank

Robyatt Audio

Garden State Eldercare Greystone Intelligence Guarino Wealth Management Heritage Abstract Company Joyce Hilary, Esq. Investment Strategies Group JFL Total Wealth Management Hillary and Richard Lindner Longo Electrical-Mechanical McKirdy, Riskin, Olson & DellaPelle, P.C. Morgan Stanley O. Berk Company, LLC

Pawar Gilgallon & Rudy, LLC Progressive Marketing Dynamics Andrea Martone & Paul Cristelli Realty Executives Platinum Agents Red Oak Capital Advisors Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland & Perretti LLP Shade Tree Garage Tempewick Wealth Management Turpin Real Estate Ryan Dawson, Weichert, Realtors Jill Southren, Weichert Realtor

Chester alstedefarms.com; 908-879-7189

Florham Park jlem.com; 973-410-9222

Morristown morriscountyrealestatelaw.com 973-898-7300

Morristown avisonyoung.com; 973-898-6360

Morristown firstenergycorp.com; 800-662-3115

Bedminster pgbank.com; 908-234-0700

Morristown fjraia.com; 973-539-7878

Morristown kornhynes.com; 973-538-4864

Morristown robyattaudio.com; 885-ROB-YATT

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*As of December 22, 2019

MPACâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S MISSION Mayo Performing Arts Center, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, presents a wide range of programs that entertain, enrich, and educate the diverse population of the region and enhance the economic vitality of Northern New Jersey. The 2019-2020 season is made possible, in part, by a grant from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as support received from the F.M. Kirby Foundation and numerous other foundations, corporations, and individuals.

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