FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSIT Y
MANDY PATINKIN IN CONCERT: BEING ALIVE WITH ADAM BEN-DAVID ON PIANO
MARCH 9, 2024
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSIT Y
MANDY PATINKIN IN CONCERT: BEING ALIVE WITH ADAM BEN-DAVID ON PIANO
MARCH 9, 2024
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Opening Nights at Florida State University is excited to bring the very best performing arts, music, dance, comedy, literature and visual arts to our campus and community.
In March, the lineup continues with the best in music and stage. Stage and screen legend Mandy Patinkin and award- winning author Jesmyn Ward will also perform. Emerging bluegrass artists Damn Tall Buildings will put on a show at Goodwood Museum & Gardens.
Finally, April brings multiple collaborations for the visual arts, music education, community outreach and family programs. The month kicks off with seven-time Grammy® Award winner Terence Blanchard with the E-Collective and the Turtle Island Quartet, a special partnership event with the FSU College of Music.
April continues with our annual collaboration with the Chain of Parks Art Festival. Dean
Mitchell is the featured artist this year. A partnership with Word of South will bring Rising Appalachia to town for a free community concert. Opening Nights will conclude its 2023–24 season with the iconic folk duo Indigo Girls on May 1.
We cannot think of a better time and opportunity to become a member of Opening Nights and to show your support of our mission to present exceptional artists. These performances create a thriving cultural life in our community and create priceless educational experiences on campus and throughout the community. Ask any Opening Nights associate about these philanthropic opportunities.
Thank you for sharing our season with us. We look forward to many more outstanding performances coming your way in 2024, Tallahassee’s bicentennial year.
When the carnival comes to town, two boys unearth the terrifying and horrible secrets that lurk within Cooger and Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show and learn the consequences of wishes, as a sinister and evil force is at work in Green Town, Illinois.
October 12-14 at 8 p.m.
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A young student drifts into an ever-changing relationship with an art major while his best friend’s engagement crumbles, unleashing a drama that peels back the skin of two modern-day relationships.
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Music and Lyrics By Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin
The ultimate tribute to girl power, Legally Blonde will take you from the UCLA sorority house to the Harvard halls of justice with the timely coming-of-age story of Broadway’s brightest heroine.
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18 Jesmyn Ward Author
21 Damn Tall Buildings Bluegrass
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5 Terence Blanchard featuring The E-Collective & Turtle Island Quartet Jazz
6 Dinosaur World Live! Family, Educational
18 Chain of Parks Art Festival Presenting Artist Dean Mitchell Visual Art
27 Rising Appalachia Rock, Blues
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1 Indigo Girls Rock
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SATURDAY, MARCH 9
Ruby Diamond Concert Hall • 7:30 PM
Mandy Patinkin has been fortunate to carve out a varied career including theater, the concert stage, film, television, and as a recording artist. In his 1980 Broadway debut, Mandy won a Tony Award for his role as Che in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Evita, directed by Hal Prince, and was nominated in 1984 for his starring role as George in the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, Sunday in the Park with George. Mandy’s other stage credits include Compulsion, Paradise Found, The Tempest, Enemy of the People, The Wild Party, Falsettos, The Secret Garden, The Winter’s Tale, The Knife, Leave It to Beaver is Dead, Rebel Women, Hamlet, Trelawney of the ‘Wells, ’ The Shadow Box, The Split, Savages, and Henry IV, Part I.
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“The most complete entertainer of his generation.”
— The Toronto Star
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PRODUCER
Staci Levine/Groundswell Theatricals
MUSIC DIRECTOR & ACCOMPANIST
Adam Ben-David
LIGHTING DESIGN
Nathan W. Scheuer
SOUND DESIGN
Daniel J. Gerhard
ASSOCIATE SOUND DESIGNER
Ellen Fitton
SOUND MIXER
Eli Walker
PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR
Richard Hester
PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER
Julia Jones
STAGE MANAGER
Thomas Gates
PRESS & MARKETING REPRESENTATIVE
Catherine Major/ C Major Entertainment
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For more information on Mandy Patinkin in Concert, visit mandypatinkin.org
This concert will be performed without intermission. Please silence all electronics. The use of cameras, audio and/or visual recording devices is prohibited.
In 1989, Mandy began his concert career at Joseph Papp’s Public Theater in New York City. Since then, he has toured (and continues to tour) his various solo concerts across North America, in London’s West End, through Australia and New Zealand, as well as on Broadway and Off-Broadway. His newest solo concert is Mandy Patinkin in Concert: Being Alive
In addition to solo concerts, Mandy has created collaborations with artists including opera star Nathan Gunn in An Evening with Mandy Patinkin & Nathan Gunn, touring the US, Australia and New Zealand; with his dear friend Patti LuPone in An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin which has toured since 2007 and played Broadway in 2012; Bridges, a concert with musicians from various countries in the Middle East; The Last Two People on Earth: An Apocalyptic Vaudeville, with Taylor Mac, and direction by Susan Stroman; and most recently with his wife Kathryn Grody in An Evening with Mandy Patinkin & Kathryn Grody, moderated by their son Gideon Grody-Patinkin.
Feature films include Before You Know It, Life Itself, Wonder, Smurfs: The Lost Village, The Queen of Spain, Ali and Nino, Wish I Was Here, The Wind Rises, Everybody’s Hero, The Choking Man, Pinero, The Adventures of Elmo In Grouchland, Lulu on the Bridge, Men with Guns, The Princess Bride, Yentl, The Music of Chance, Daniel, Ragtime, Impromptu, The Doctor, Alien Nation, Dick Tracy, The House on Carroll Street, True Colors, and Maxie
In television, Mandy won a 1995 Emmy Award for his performance in the CBS series Chicago Hope, and starred in the CBS series Criminal Minds and in the Showtime Original Series Dead Like Me, and Homeland as CIA Agent Saul Berenson.
As a recording artist on CBS Records, Mandy released two solo albums, Mandy Patinkin and Mandy Patinkin In Concert: Dress Casual. On the Nonesuch label, Mandy has recorded
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Janet R. ThorntonChildren + Art, Experiment, Oscar & Steve, Kidults and Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim In 1998 he debuted his most personal project, Mamaloshen, a collection of traditional, classic and contemporary songs sung entirely in Yiddish. The recording of Mamaloshen won the Deutschen Schallplattenpreis (Germany’s equivalent of the GRAMMY® Award).
As diverse as his professional life has been, Mandy’s education in the field of social activism has been even more varied and continues to evolve. He has helped raise funds for organizations dear to his heart including Brady Campaign, PAX, Doctors Without Borders, Association to Benefit Children, American Jewish World Service, Search For Common Ground, National Dance Institute, and ACLU. Mandy is a board member of the Arava Institute and continues to work with the International Rescue Committee (IRC), highlighting the plight of refugees worldwide. Mandy resides in New York City with his wife, actress and writer Kathryn Grody.
ADAM BEN-DAVID has been living his “bucket list” dream of accompanying Mandy Patinkin in concert since 2016. He has been active as an arranger, music director, conductor and pianist on Broadway for the past 25 years. Adam’s credits include: The Book of Mormon, Jersey Boys, Spring Awakening, Wicked, High Fidelity, The Light in the Piazza, Bombay Dreams, Aida, and Once Upon a Mattress. He has accompanied numerous artists including Kelli O’Hara, Jarrod Spector, James Taylor, Patti LuPone, and Megan Hilty. Adam is currently composing a theatrical adaptation of the children’s classic From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. He is a graduate of the Juilliard School.
NATHAN W. SCHEUER (Lighting Designer) is a lighting and projection designer based out of NYC and LA. Select credits include Kinky Boots, Singing in the Rain, Jesus Christ Superstar, Aida, Mamma Mia, Les Misérables (The Muny), A Taste of Things
to Come (Broadway in Chicago), After the Curtain (Travis Wall’s Shaping Sound), Oslo, Heisenberg, Admissions (The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis), E/Space, Pretty Peculiar Things, Within Without, Carry Me Anew (Barak Ballet), Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, Seussical (TUTS), Upon This Handful of Earth, Tosca (NYOS), Water by the Spoonful (TheatreSquared), Beneath One’s Dignity, The Sleeping Beauty (LA Ballet), Spamalot (Arkansas Rep). Nathan was the associate designer for Manilow on Broadway and has designed for Selena Gomez, Alice Cooper, and Toby Keith, as well as having worked with companies such as the NYC Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, Lincoln Center Festival, Center Theatre Group, San Francisco Opera, and Spectrum Dance. Proud member of USA 829.
DANIEL J GERHARD (Sound Designer)
is an Emmy Award winner for his work on Jesus Christ Superstar Live! He has designed and engineered many other live telecast events such as Annie Live!, The Democratic Presidential Debates (both NBC and CBS), The NBA Restart: A Brand New Game, The Wiz Live!, Showtime at the Apollo, America’s Got Talent, The X Factor, The Tony Awards, The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and numerous other specials. Dan has created studio designs for “The Late Show” (with David Letterman as well as Steven Colbert), “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver,” “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,” “Survivor,” “The View,” and “The Today Show.” For over 30 years, Dan was responsible for the sound design and music production for the famed Radio City Christmas Spectacular and its touring company Christmas Across America. He has designed theatrical and multi-media shows in the US, Europe, and Japan. Recent credits include A Taste of Things to Come; The Last Two People on Earth: An Apocalyptic Vaudeville; An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin; Sinatra – His Voice, His World, His Way; and John Lithgow’s Stories By Heart. Dan is also an accomplished flutist and a graduate of the Eastman School of Music and has performed
with the NY Philharmonic, the San Diego Symphony, and the Metropolitan Opera.
RICHARD HESTER (Production Supervisor) has been a stage manager and production supervisor for more than 40 years. On Broadway he was the Jersey Boys Production Stage Manager and then spent 16 years staging and maintaining productions in the US as well as all over the world. In addition to Mandy Patinkin’s concerts, Richard is also the Production Supervisor for Patti LuPone’s concert tour. Other Broadway credits include Summer, the Donna Summer Musical; Wicked; The Phantom of the Opera; A Delicate Balance; Titanic; Cabaret as well as Annie Get Your Gun and Gypsy both starring Bernadette Peters. Internationally, he supervised West Side Story in Tokyo’s StageAround Theatre. Twentythree years ago, with Bernadette Peters and Mary Tyler Moore, he helped found and produce Broadway Barks! an annual animal adoption event. His first book, Hold, Please: Stage Managing a Pandemic, was published in March of 2022. richardhester.com
JULIA JONES (Production Stage Manager) career spans 30 years as a Stage Manager for theatres across the country, including 20+ years as a Stage Manager on over 15 major Broadway shows. In addition to Mandy Patinkin’s current concert tour Being Alive, Julia toured with his most recent concert tour Mandy Patinkin in Concert: Diaries. Julia’s Broadway credits include Back to the Future; MJ The Musical; The Illusionists –Magic of the Holidays; Manilow Broadway; Dave Chappelle Live on Broadway; Criss Angel Raw – The Mindfreak Unplugged; Regina Spektor: Live on Broadway; Mel Brooks on Broadway; Pure Yanni; Morrissey; SpongeBob
SquarePants, The Broadway Musical ; Bandstand; An American in Paris; Fish in the Dark; Motown the Musical; Dead Accounts; Ghost the Musical; The Normal Heart; A Little Night Music; The Norman Conquests; Young Frankenstein; Tarzan; Sweeney Todd; and Urinetown
L. GLENN POPPLETON (Exclusive Tour Direction) also represents the tours of A Christmas Story, The Musical; A Conversation with Kathryn Grody and Mandy Patinkin; and the group5productions.com roster of Broadway concerts. Past tours include Cathy Rigby is Peter Pan; Disney’s Beauty and the Beast; and Monty Python’s Spamalot
STACI LEVINE (Producer) has produced on Broadway, Off-Broadway, across North America, London’s West End, Australia, and New Zealand. Current productions include Patti LuPone’s concert tour Don’t Monkey with Broadway; Mandy’s Patinkin’s concert tour Being Alive; the podcast Radio Play Revival; and Arlekin Players Theatre production of The Orchard starring Mikhail Baryshnikov and Jessica Hecht. Staci recently produced the 2023 Drama Desk Awards. Previous productions include An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin; Lisa Lampanelli’s tour of Losin’ It!; John Lithgow’s solo show Stories By Heart; the musical A Taste of Things to Come with direction and choreography by Lorin Latarro; The Last Two People on Earth: An Apocalyptic Vaudeville, starring Mandy Patinkin and Taylor Mac with direction & choreography by Susan Stroman; and Mandy Patinkin’s solo concerts: Dress Casual, Mamaloshen, Celebrating Sondheim, and Diaries. Staci is a member of The Broadway League.
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