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As you enjoy these two family favorites, I wanted to take a moment to invite you to return with your smallest theatre fans to our presentation of Goodnight Moon. Offered as our third Theatre for Young Audiences production, Goodnight Moon will run from October 4 through February 16. Intended for children ages Pre-K through second grade, we hope to welcome more than 40,000 youth to their very first play — more than half of whom will attend on full or partial scholarship.

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The mantra of the new touring Broadway musical Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is not, intentionally, “It Must Be Seen to Be Believed.”

It’s rather, “It Must Be Believed to Be Seen,” said Assistant Director Matt Lenz, who calls the Denver-bound stage adaptation a celebration of “pure imagination” – at once a nod to both the beloved song from the original film and the new stage musical’s Act I-ender: “Beyond this door, surprise is in store.

But it must be believed to be seen.”

Roald Dahl’s classically dark 1964 source book and the iconic 1971 Gene Wilder film that followed gleefully terrified a generation of British and American schoolchildren (and secretly delighted their parents) because it was a cautionary tale that dared to show bad things happening to bad children.

What impressionable kid could ever forget seeing gluttonous Augustus Gloop getting sucked up to the Fudge Room? Greedy Violet blowing up into a large blueberry? The TV-obsessed Mike Teavee (get it?) getting shrunk down to just a few inches tall?

“That’s why my parents loved it,” Lenz said. “It was the morality of it. We all know Roald Dahl was an controversial figure but for all of his flaws, he made some powerful points about the ways we teach our kids.”

The first stage adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory opened in 2013 in London’s West End, where it played for nearly four years. When it was inevitably marked for Broadway and Director Sam Mendes was unavailable to supervise the transfer, the creative team turned to the legendary Jack O’Brien and Lenz (his longtime assistant) to join London composers Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, a move that reunited the core creative team from Hairspray.

“That was an opportunity for us to take a fresh look,” Lenz said. What they found out, it turns out, is that turning popular movies into musicals is tricky. “Everybody and their sister has been grappling with how to do that well for decades – to greater and lesser successes,” Lenz said.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was a bit of both.

The London reviews had been mixed, but the show was certainly a long-running commercial success. Some, it seemed, simply wanted the 1971 film transported literally to the stage. Others wanted a more three-dimensional musical-theatrical experience that stood alone. It was impossible to satisfy everyone.

“When a film is universally loved for five decades,” Lenz said, “your overwhelming task is meeting people’s expectations – and expectations can vary widely from person to person. Our question for Broadway was: ‘How do we deliver peoples’ favorite moments from the movie, while also making it our own?’ ” The London production was a visual spectacle that took the audience from spectacular room to spectacular room in the chocolate factory.

But O’Brien thought that violated the spirit of the source story, Lenz said: It left little to the imagination.

“OUR QUESTION FOR BROADWAY WAS: ‘HOW DO WE DELIVER PEOPLES’ FAVORITE MOMENTS FROM THE MOVIE, WHILE ALSO MAKING IT OUR OWN?’ ”

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“So the driving conceptual guide for Broadway became ‘pure imagination,’ ” Lenz said. “The set was no longer fully representational of every single room in the factory. We tried to create an environment where the five Golden Ticket winners had to use their own imaginations.”

Lenz said O’Brien approached the show with great joy, humor and kindness.

But the most brilliant creative decision he made for Broadway, he contends, was to have young adult actors play all of the children’s roles – except for sweet Charlie, who proves in the end to be Wonka’s soulmate. (Charlie is played by three rotating 10- to 12-year-olds.)

“Charlie is a truly kind boy whose imagination remains intact. And because he is actually played by a kid, you automatically feel for him more,” Lenz said.

“Conversely, Charlie is a truly kind boy whose imagination remains intact. And because he is actually played by a kid, you automatically feel for him more.”

The score retains the two major fan favorites from the film: “The Candy Man” and “Pure Imagination,” both originally composed by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley. But O’Brien asked Shaiman and Wittman to turn “Candy Man” into a more flourishing musical theatre opening number. They also contributed several original songs.

Often once a show closes on Broadway, the production heartland audiences sometimes see are necessarily diminished to accommodate the vagaries of various road houses. But the announcement of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’s first national tour last year presented yet another opportunity for the creative team to revisit what worked (and what didn’t) – and they happily took it, Lenz said.

“We know we didn’t get it totally right on Broadway,” Lenz said. “But with nine months between Broadway and the tour starting, we were able to have some perspective and make some really good changes,” Lenz said. The factory set, with its three walls and a ceiling, was jettisoned in favor of what Lenz calls “complete video surround – which gives you infinitely more possibilities,” he said.

After wrapping and unwrapping this particular candy bar so many times along the way, Lenz said, the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Denver audiences will see has something for everyone. “It’s nostalgia told in a contemporary way,” he said. “You’ll see it coming, but it will still surprise you.

“And as crazy and eccentric as this piece is, I think it throbs with humanity and heart and truth.”

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RCI THEATRICALS

Commissioned by DMITRY BOGACHEV Choreographed by

PEGGY HICKEY Directed by

DARKO TRESNJAK SPONSORED IN DENVER BY

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CAST

Lila Coogan

Stephen Brower

Jason Michael Evans

Joy Franz

Tari Kelly

Edward Staudenmayer

Ronnie S. Bowman Jr.

Kristen Smith Davis

Alison Ewing

Peter Garza

Jeremiah Ginn

Brett-Marco Glauser

Brad Greer

Lucy Horton

Mary Illes

Fred Inkley

Kourtney Keitt

Beth Stafford Laird

Mark MacKillop

Kenneth Michael Murray

Delilah Rose Pellow

Taylor Quick

Matt Rosell

Sareen Tchekmedyian

Addison Mackynzie Valentino

Lyrica Woodruff

(in order of appearance)

Little Anastasia ................................................................................................ DELILAH ROSE PELLOW** ADDISON MACKYNZIE VALENTINO* Dowager Empress..........................................................................................................................JOY FRANZ Tsarina Alexandra ....................................................................................................................LUCY HORTON Tsar Nicholas II. ............................................................................................................................BRAD GREER Young Anastasia ..................................................................................................................... TAYLOR QUICK Maria Romanov ........................................................................................................KRISTEN SMITH DAVIS Olga Romanov ..............................................................................................................LYRICA WOODRUFF Tatiana Romanov .............................................................................................................. KOURTNEY KEITT Alexei Romanov .............................................................................................. DELILAH ROSE PELLOW** ADDISON MACKYNZIE VALENTINO* Countess Lily .................................................................................................................................... TARI KELLY Gleb...........................................................................................................................JASON MICHAEL EVANS Dmitry .................................................................................................................................STEPHEN BROWER Vlad ......................................................................................................................EDWARD STAUDENMAYER Anya................................................................................................................................................LILA COOGAN Paulina ......................................................................................................................................... TAYLOR QUICK Marfa..............................................................................................................................KRISTEN SMITH DAVIS Dunya ..................................................................................................................................... KOURTNEY KEITT Count Ipolitov...............................................................................................................................BRAD GREER Gorlinsky .........................................................................................................................................FRED INKLEY Count Leopold .............................................................................................................................FRED INKLEY Russian Doorman .................................................................................................................... PETER GARZA Count Gregory .............................................................................................................................BRAD GREER Countess Gregory ..................................................................................................................ALISON EWING Odette in Swan Lake ..................................................................................................LYRICA WOODRUFF Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake ................................................................................... MARK MacKILLOP Von Rothbart in Swan Lake .........................................................................RONNIE S. BOWMAN, JR. Suitors, Soldiers, Comrades, Ghosts, Parisians, White Russians, Waiters, Reporters, Cygnets in Swan Lake............................................ RONNIE S. BOWMAN JR., KRISTEN SMITH DAVIS, ALISON EWING, PETER GARZA, BRETT-MARCO GLAUSER, BRAD GREER, LUCY HORTON, MARY ILLES, FRED INKLEY, KOURTNEY KEITT, MARK MacKILLOP, TAYLOR QUICK, MATT ROSELL, LYRICA WOODRUFF SWINGS JEREMIAH GINN, BETH STAFFORD LAIRD, KENNETH MICHAEL MURRAY, SAREEN TCHEKMEDYIAN UNDERSTUDIES For Anya—BETH STAFFORD LAIRD, TAYLOR QUICK; for Dmitry—BRETT-MARCO GLAUSER, MATT ROSELL; for Vlad—JEREMIAH GINN, FRED INKLEY; for Dowager Empress—ALISON EWING, MARY ILLES; for Countess Lily—ALISON EWING, LUCY HORTON; for Gleb—PETER GARZA, BRAD GREER Dance Captain KENNETH MICHAEL MURRAY

*Thu. Eve. 8/8, Sun. Mat. 8/11, Sat. Eve. 8/17, Sun. Mat. 8/18 **All other performances.

The use of any recording device, either audio or video, and the taking of photographs, either with or without flash, is strictly prohibited by law.

Please turn off all electronic devices such as cellular phones, beepers and watches prior to the beginning of the performance.

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MUSICAL NUMBERS ACT I Setting: Saint Petersburg, 1906, 1917 & 1927 Prologue: “Once Upon a December” ......................... Dowager Empress and Little Anastasia “The Last Dance of the Romanovs” ....................................................................................... Ensemble “A Rumor in St. Petersburg” ....................................................................Dmitry, Vlad and Ensemble “In My Dreams” ............................................................................................................................................Anya “The Rumors Never End”..........................................................................................Gleb and Ensemble “Learn to Do It”....................................................................................................... Vlad, Anya and Dmitry “The Neva Flows” ...................................................................................................................Gleb and Anya “The Neva Flows” (Reprise) ...................................................................................................................Men “My Petersburg” ................................................................................................................Dmitry and Anya “Once Upon a December” ......................................................................................Anya and Ensemble “A Secret She Kept” ..................................................................................................................................Anya “Stay, I Pray You” .............................................Count Ipolitov, Anya, Dmitry, Vlad and Ensemble “We’ll Go From There” .................................................................Vlad, Anya, Dmitry and Ensemble “Traveling Sequence”......................................................... Gleb, Gorlinsky, Anya, Dmitry and Vlad “Still” ..................................................................................................................................................................Gleb “Journey to the Past” ................................................................................................................................Anya

ACT II Setting: Paris, 1927 “Paris Holds the Key (To Your Heart)” ...................................Vlad, Dmitry, Anya and Ensemble “Close the Door” ............................................................................................................. Dowager Empress “Land of Yesterday” ..................................................................................Countess Lily and Ensemble “The Countess and the Common Man”.......................................................Vlad and Countess Lily “Land of Yesterday” (Reprise)............................................................................................................... Gleb “A Nightmare” ..............................................................................Romanov Children, Tsar and Tsarina “In a Crowd of Thousands” ...........................................................................................Dmitry and Anya “Meant to Be” ............................................................................................................................................... Vlad “Quartet at the Ballet”......................... Anya, Dmitry, Dowager Empress, Gleb and Ensemble “Everything to Win” .............................................................................................................................. Dmitry “Once Upon a December” (Reprise)................................................Anya and Dowager Empress “The Press Conference” ...............................................................Countess Lily, Vlad and Ensemble “Everything to Win” (Reprise).............................................................................................................. Anya “Still”/“The Neva Flows” (Reprise) ..........................................................Gleb, Anya and Ensemble Finale ................................................................................................................ Anya, Dmitry and Company ORCHESTRA Conductor—LAWRENCE GOLDBERG Keyboard 1—RYAN SIGURDSON Assistant Conductor/Keyboard 2—VALERIE GEBERT Music Coordinator—MICHAEL AARONS Keyboard Programmer—RANDY COHEN LOCAL ORCHESTRA Reed 1—ART BOUTON Reed 2—STEVE PARKER Trumpet—DAWN KRAMER Trombone—JAMES GRAY French Horn—SUSAN MCCULLOUGH Percussion—MARK FOSTER Bass—DAVID CROWE Violin/Concertmaster—BRADLEY WATSON Violin/Viola—NAOMI SMITH Cello—JEFF WATSON Music Contractor—JAMES HARVEY Keyboard Sub—MARTHA YORDY Anastasia utilizes theatrical haze, strobe lights, gunshot sound effects and smoking (vapor e-cigarettes).

LILA COOGAN (Anya). Broadway: Mary Poppins. Regional: Hairspray (Syracuse Stage). Television: ABC’s “What Would You Do?”. BFA in Musical Theatre, Syracuse University. Love and thanks to the Anastasia team, Telsey + Co., The Krasny Office, teachers, family especially mom & dad, Adrian, and everyone who has supported me. For Aunt Val. Lilacoogan.com, @lilcoogs STEPHEN BROWER (Dmitry) is beyond thrilled to take this show on the road.

Broadway: Anastasia (Ensemble, u/s Dmitry). Tour: An American in Paris (Adam Hochberg), Pippin (Swing, u/s Pippin). Immense thanks to the producers and creative team for their trust and open-mindedness; and to Texas State, BRS/Gage, and my chosen family for helping me make this dream a reality. @stephenbrower JASON MICHAEL EVANS (Gleb). New York: Sondheim’s Passion at CSC, On Your Toes at Encores!. Regional: PCLO, Ogunquit Playhouse, Drury Lane Chicago, Stages St. Louis. TV: “Madame Secretary,” “The Good Cop.” Endless love to my incredible family and friends, TalentWorks, Maxime’, Isabelle, Juliette, Telsey+Co, Yadier Molina and everyone at Anastasia. Proud St. Louisan. Home.

Love. Family. CG4L. JOY FRANZ (Dowager Empress).

Broadway: Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Into the Woods (Original, Revival, PBS); A Little Night Music, Company (London), Pippin, Musical Chairs, Sweet Charity, Lysistrata. Many National Tours, Off-Broadway, and regional theatre productions. TV/Film: “Royal Pains,” “Allegiance,” “Carrie Diaries,” “Law & Order,” “Central Park West,” “Horrible People,” many daytime dramas. She is very grateful.

TARI KELLY (Countess Lily). Broadway: Groundhog Day, Something Rotten, Anything Goes, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, The Boy From Oz, Show Boat. Tours: Little Shop of Horrors (Audrey), Show Boat (Ellie), Beauty and the Beast. Selected Regional: End of The Rainbow (Judy Garland - Henry Award), Anything Goes (Reno Sweeney - Carbonell Award), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Millie - Jeff Nomination). TariKelly.com EDWARD STAUDENMAYER (Vlad).

Broadway: Wonderland and Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me. Tours/ Regional: Phantom of the Opera, South Pacific (Guthrie), Anything Goes, A Room With A View (Old Globe),

Spamalot, Spamilton, Beauty and the Beast, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Joseph…, CATS, Noises Off, Forbidden Broadway.

Nominations: Helen Hayes, Barrymore and National Theater Awards. UCLA Graduate.

RONNIE S. BOWMAN, JR. (Ensemble, Von Rothbart in Swan Lake). National Tour: A Chorus Line (directed by Baayork Lee). NY/Regional: LuntFontanne Theater, Delacorte Theater, MSMT, Ivoryton Playhouse. Thanks to God, family, friends, Daniel Hoff Agency, and Telsey & Co. Casting BFA, Hartt ’17.@rsbowman_ KRISTEN SMITH DAVIS (Ensemble, Maria Romanov, Marfa, u/s Odette in Swan Lake). Broadway: Anastasia.

National tours: South Pacific, Evita, White Christmas. Regional theatre: Paper Mill Playhouse, Goodspeed Opera House, Sacramento Music Circus, St. Louis Rep, Arena Stage, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Kansas City Starlight, Cape Playhouse and more. Film: Ted 2. www.kristensmithdavis.com.

ALISON EWING (Ensemble, Countess Gregory, u/s Dowager Empress, u/s Countess Lily). Broadway: Mamma Mia!, Cabaret. National Tours: An American in Paris, Cabaret, Mamma Mia!, Flashdance. Regional: Hand To God (San Jose Stage), Sweet Charity (Center Rep), Harold & Maude, Emma, and Big River (TheatreWorks).

PETER GARZA (Ensemble, Russian Doorman, u/s Gleb). Regional: West Side Story (Chino/Dance Captain) at the New London Barn Playhouse, A Chorus Line (Paul) at the Lexington Theatre Co., and Jerome Robbins’ Broadway (Ensemble) at The MUNY. IG: peetah_g123 JEREMIAH GINN (Swing, u/s Vlad).

National Tour: A Chorus Line. OffBroadway/NYC: Anything Goes, Murder for Two. Regional: Goodspeed Opera House, The MUNY, Stages St. Louis, Gulfshore Playhouse. BFA from BYU. @jeremiahmginn jeremiahginn.com BRETT-MARCO GLAUSER (Ensemble, u/s Dmitry). National tour debut!

Regional credits include Goodspeed Opera House, Walnut Street Theatre, Riverside Theatre, and Fireside Theatre.

Proud graduate of Pace University’s BFA in Commercial Dance. Endless thanks to Craig and everyone on the Anastasia team, Penny, Brian, and the Wham-Bam Glauser Fam. @bmcglauser

BRAD GREER (Ensemble, Tsar Nicholas II, Count Ipolitov, Count Gregory, u/s Gleb). NY Theatre: Jerry Springer The Opera (The New Group), Bernstein MASS (Lincoln Center). National Tour: The Bridges of Madison County (Paulo, u/s Robert), Altar Boyz, (Mark).

Regional: Working (Act of CT), Les Miserables (Marius, PSF), Legally Blonde (Emmett, Virginia Musical Theatre), Grease (Walnut Street), Joseph...Dreamcoat (Simeon). TV: “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” Brad is a proud member of The Broadway Boys. BFA: Musical Theatre, University of the Arts.

Follow him @bagreer LUCY HORTON (Ensemble, Tsarina Alexandra, u/s Countess Lily) is thrilled to be joining the Anastasia family! Tour: Bridges of Madison County, CATS. Favorite regional: Mary Poppins (FLMTF), Chasing Rainbows (Goodspeed), CATS. Thanks team Boals! Love to Mum, Dad, Jo and Ted. @lfhorton MARY ILLES (Ensemble, u/s Dowager Empress). Broadway: Phantom of the Opera, The Music Man, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Steel Pier, She Loves Me. Golde: Yiddish Fiddler/NYF. Goodspeed: Where’s Charley?, Soloist: Vienna Philharmonic. For Max and Caroline. maryilles.net FRED INKLEY (Ensemble, Gorlinsky, Count Leopold, u/s Vlad). Broadway: Les Miserables (Valjean), Annie (FDR), Addams Family (Lurch). Tour: Beauty and the Beast (Beast), Little Mermaid (King Triton), and more! Fredinkley. com. Love to Mom, Tori, Zach, Kiersten, and Maddie!

KOURTNEY KEITT (Ensemble, Tatiana Romanov, Dunya). An American in Paris (Ogunquit Playhouse), Evita (Asolo Repertory Theater), Oklahoma (Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre), Broadway Bounty Hunter (Barrington Stage). Kourtney thanks LDC Artist Representation and her family. @kourtney_keitt BETH STAFFORD LAIRD (Swing, u/s Anya). Tours: Newsies, Beauty and the Beast (Internat’l), Ghost. Favorite regional: Newsies (Katherine Plumber), Anything Goes (Hope), Mamma Mia (Ali), Nikola Tesla Drops the Beat (Anna), The Little Mermaid (Ariel), Sweeney Todd (Johanna).

MARK MacKILLOP (Ensemble, Prince Siegfried in Swan Lake). Originally from Vancouver, Mark danced 3 seasons with

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the Atlanta Ballet before moving to NYC to pursue theater. West Side Story Intl Tour (Riff), Dirty Dancing US Tour. Mark is excited to be a part of Anastasia. @markmackillop KENNETH MICHAEL MURRAY (Swing, Dance Captain). Broadway: Anastasia, Paramour. Tours: An American in Paris (First National). Regional: The Little Mermaid (The Muny) West Side Story (PSF). Recent graduate from Adelphi University (BFA in Dance). Many thanks to Telsey + Co, Bloc NYC, my family, & Jessica! @kennethhmichael’ DELILAH ROSE PELLOW (Little Anastasia & Alexei Romanov, at certain performances). Broadway: Anastasia (Little Anastasia/Alexei Romanov) National Tour: How the Grinch Stole Christmas the Musical (Cindy Lou Who), TV: “Bull.” A big thank you to the Anastasia creative team, Telsey casting, and Nancy Carson. Love and gratitude to all involved in this beautiful production both on Broadway and Tour, to all who have shared in her journey, and to her family.

TAYLOR QUICK (Ensemble, Young Anastasia, Paulina, u/s Anya).

Thoroughly Modern Millie (Millie, Goodspeed), Oklahoma! (Laurey, Ogunquit), Hairspray (Penny, Maltz Jupiter), Grand Hotel (Flaemmchen), Sound of Music (Liesl). Distinguished Young Woman AR 2012. TCU Alum.

Love to family; thank you DGRW and Telsey + Co. Rejoice Always. @taylorlquick MATT ROSELL (Ensemble, u/s Dmitry) is thrilled to be part of the Anastasia family. Recent credits include: Les Misérables (Bway/Tour), South Pacific (Cable). TV/Film: “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” and “Glee” (pilot). Love to the Rosell Clan, friends, 44 West Management, & Avalon. This is for you Bubbe. @mattrosell SAREEN TCHEKMEDYIAN (Swing, u/s Odette in Swan Lake). National Tour Debut! Previous company: Sarasota Ballet. Thank you to the incredible team of Anastasia and Telsey for believing in me. Endless love to my family, friends, teachers and Derik. @sareentchek ADDISON MACKYNZIE VALENTINO (Little Anastasia & Alexei Romanov, at certain performances) is thrilled to be making her National Tour debut! Special thanks to Telsey + Co., the Anastasia family, Shirley Grant Management, Amelia, Denise, DMO, Yorktown Stage, and my amazing family & friends! @AddisonMValentino

LYRICA WOODRUFF (Ensemble, Olga Romanov, Odette in Swan Lake). So happy to be re-joining this incredible show! A special thank you to casting and the entire creative team.

Broadway: Anastasia (Olga/Odette); Off-Broadway: Finian’s Rainbow (Chita Rivera Award Winner); Premieres: Susan Stroman’s Little Dancer (Kennedy Center), Christopher Gattelli’s In Your Arms (Old Globe Theatre), Marie, Dancing Still (5th Avenue Theatre); TV: “Boston Public” (two seasons), “Private Practice,” “Bunheads,” “Switched At Birth;” Training: School of American Ballet (Mae L. Wein Award Winner for “Outstanding Promise”). @lyricawoodruff TERRENCE McNALLY (Book) is a recipient of the Dramatists Guild Lifetime Achievement Award. He has won four Tony Awards for his plays Love! Valour! Compassion! and Master Class and his musical books for Kiss of the Spider Woman and Ragtime. In 1996, he was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame, and in 2018, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is a member of The Dramatists Guild, Inc. STEPHEN FLAHERTY & LYNN AHRENS (Music & Lyrics) have been collaborators since 1983. They won Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Broadway’s Ragtime, and their show Once On This Island won the 2018 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical.

They were nominated for two Academy Awards and two Golden Globes for the score of Twentieth Century Fox’s animated feature film Anastasia and they are three-time Grammy nominees.

Other Broadway credits include: Seussical, Rocky, My Favorite Year, Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life, the 2009 revival of Ragtime and the current Anastasia; Lincoln Center Theater’s A Man of No Importance, Dessa Rose and The Glorious Ones; Off-Broadway: Lucky Stiff; Kennedy Center world premiere of Little Dancer. Individually, Ms. Ahrens wrote book and lyrics for Madison Square Garden’s A Christmas Carol. She has won the Lilly Award for Lyrics and the Emmy Award for her extensive work in television, including the animated series “Schoolhouse Rock”. Mr. Flaherty composed the score for the recent dance musical In Your Arms (Old Globe), the musical Loving Repeating (Jefferson Award, Best New Musical), incidental music for Neil Simon’s Proposals (Broadway), and has many film and concert

credits. Ahrens and Flaherty received the Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement and are members of the Theater Hall of Fame.

Council, Dramatists Guild of America. www.ahrensandflaherty.com TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX (Inspired by the Motion Pictures).

One of the world’s largest producers and distributors of motion pictures, Twentieth Century Fox Film includes the component units Twentieth Century Fox, Fox 2000 Pictures, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Fox International Productions and Twentieth Century Fox Animation.

Fox Stage Productions, the live theatre production division of the studio, has offices in New York and Los Angeles and is currently developing numerous legitimate stage properties based on iconic motion pictures in the Fox library, including Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Mrs. Doubtfire and The Devil Wears Prada, among others.

DARKO TRESNJAK (Director) won the 2014 Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder starring Jefferson Mays, and a 2015 Obie Award for The Killer starring Michael Shannon.

Favorite productions include The Ghosts of Versailles with Patti LuPone and Patricia Racette at Los Angeles Opera; The Merchant of Venice with F. Murray Abraham at TFANA and RSC; Titus Andronicus with John Vickery at the Stratford Festival; and The Skin of Our Teeth with Marian Seldes and Kristine Nielsen at WTF. This season, he is making his Metropolitan Opera debut with Samson et Dalila.

PEGGY HICKEY (Choreographer).

Broadway: A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder (Astaire and Outer Critics Circle nominations, Best Choreography). Lincoln Center: My Fair Lady (NY Philharmonic). Regional: Hartford, Old Globe, Goodspeed, Paper Mill, Music Theatre Wichita, California Music Theatre. Opera: Most major opera houses. Film: Woodshock, The Brady Bunch Movie (MTV Award, Best Choreography nomination). Television: “Hansel and Gretel” (Live from Lincoln Center), “Die Fledermaus” (Live from The Kennedy Center), Beck’s “The New Pollution” (MTV Award, Best Choreography). www.peggyhickey.com ALEXANDER DODGE (Scenic Design).

Broadway: Anastasia (Outer Critics nom.), A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics noms.), Present Laughter (Tony nom.), Old Acquaintance, Butley and

LINDA CHO (Costume Design).

Broadway: Lifespan of a Fact, Anastasia (Tony Nom), A Gentlemen’s Guide to Love & Murder (Tony Award); The Velocity of Autumn. Over 200 regional and international design credits in theatre, dance and opera. Recipient of the Craig Noel Award, Connecticut Critic Circle Award, Irene Sharaff Young Master Award, Ruth Morely Design Award. Nominations from Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Henry Hewes, Elliot Norton, Bay Area, Robby, IRNE and Jeff awards. Linda sits on the Advisory Committee for the American Theater Wing. MFA, Yale School of Drama. lindacho.com DONALD HOLDER (Lighting Design).

Broadway: over 50 productions; two Tony Awards (The Lion King and South Pacific) and 13 Tony nominations.

Recent projects include My Fair Lady, M Butterfly, Oslo, She Loves Me, Fiddler on the Roof, The King and I, On the Twentieth Century, The Bridges of Madison County, Golden Boy, Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark, Ragtime, Movin’ Out, Bullets Over Broadway, The Boy From Oz, Thoroughly Modern Millie, many others. Television: “Smash,” seasons 1 and 2 (NBC-Dreamworks).

Film: Oceans Eight.

PETER HYLENSKI (Sound Design).

Grammy, Olivier, five time Tony nominated. Selected Designs include: Frozen, Anastasia, Once On This Island, Something Rotten!, Rock of Ages, After Midnight, Motown, The Scottsboro Boys, Side Show, Rocky, Bullets Over Broadway, Shrek the Musical, On A Clear Day…, Lend Me A Tenor, Elf, Wonderland, Cry Baby, The Times They Are A-Changin’, The Wedding Singer, Sweet Charity, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, Little Women, Brooklyn.

Other credits: Moulin Rouge (Boston), Le Reve at Wynn Las Vegas, Ragtime (London), Rocky Das Musical (Hamburg, Stuttgart), King Kong (Melbourne).

AARON RHYNE (Video & Projection Design). Winner of the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for Outstanding Projection Design for

Anastasia. Broadway: A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder (Drama Desk Award), Bonnie & Clyde. OffBroadway: This Ain’t No Disco, Absolute Brightness…, Bootycandy, Water by the Spoonful, Wild With Happy, Working, The Lily’s Revenge. Opera: Florencia (Florida Grand), The Ghosts of Versailles (L.A. Opera), La Traviata (Wolf Trap). Regional: Hartford Stage, Arena Stage, The Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, Berkley Rep, Williamstown, Asolo Rep, Huntington Theatre Company, The Geffen Playhouse, Shakespeare Theatre, Ford’s Theatre. www.aaronrhyne.com CHARLES G. LaPOINTE (Wig/Hair Design). Over 85 Broadway shows including: Hamilton, The Band’s Visit, Beautiful, Anastasia, SpongeBob SquarePants (2018 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Wig and Hair Design), Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, Torch Song Trilogy, Amélie, Motown the Musical, A Gentleman’s Guide…,The Color Purple, In the Heights. Upcoming Broadway: The Cher Show, Beetlejuice. Television: “The Wiz Live!” (Emmy Award Nomination), “Jesus Christ Superstar Live!” (Emmy Award Nomination), “Bluebloods,” “American Crime,” “Maddoff,” “Hairspray.”

JOE DULUDE II (Makeup Design).

Broadway/West End: Wicked, Beautiful.

Broadway: Spongebob the Musical, Summer: The Musical, Sunday in the Park with George, Anastasia, Holiday Inn, Allegiance, If/Then, Follies, etc. PreBroadway: Beetlejuice. Off Broadway: Sweet Charity, Into the Woods, Wild Party, Show Boat. Television: “Jesus Christ Superstar Live”. Film: The Discovery, Manhattan by the Sea, Ghostbusters.

Adjunct Faculty: Muhlenberg College, Hartt School. www.joe2design.com TOM MURRAY (Music Supervisor).

Broadway: Anastasia, Honeymoon In Vegas, The Bridges of Madison County, Nice Work If You Can Get It, A Little Night Music, Sunday In The Park… London: A Little Night Music (Chocolate Factory, West End), Parade (Donmar), Pacific Overtures (Donmar) Premieres: The Last Five Years (New York, London); The Glorious Ones (Ahrens/Flaherty), Loving Repeating (Flaherty), Saturday Night (US premiere). Four Joseph Jefferson Awards (Chicago) and one Barrymore Award (Philadelphia) for music-direction. Upcoming: The Connector (Jason Robert Brown).

LAWRENCE GOLDBERG (Music Director/Conductor). Conductor of 8

national tours, including Gentleman’s Guide, Les Misérables, South Pacific, The Producers, Sunset Blvd., and Cats.

Broadway credits include Phantom of the Opera, Cinderella, On the 20th Century, Drowsy Chaperone, Thoroughly Modern Millie, and Carousel.

Composer/lyricist of the new musical Grounded For Life, and the Pittsburgh children’s television show “Let’s Read a Story”. Proud union member.

LawrenceGoldbergMusic.com DOUG BESTERMAN (Orchestrations).

Three-time Tony Award winner: Fosse (1999), The Producers (2001), Thoroughly Modern Millie (2002).

Broadway: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Anastasia, A Bronx Tale, It Shoulda Been You, Bullets Over Broadway, Rocky, On a Clear Day…, Sister Act, How to Succeed…, Elf, Young Frankenstein, Tarzan, Dracula, Seussical, The Music Man, Big, Damn Yankees.

International: Me and My Girl. Regional: Little Dancer, The Honeymooners, The Sting. Film/television: Mary Poppins Returns, Beauty and the Beast, Frozen, Mulan, Chicago.

DAVID CHASE (Dance Arranger) has been Dance Arranger, Music Director and/or Music Supervisor for 35 original Broadway productions. Also several West End shows, Radio City Music Hall, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Boston Pops. TV: Music Director/Arranger for NBC’s “The Sound of Music” and “Peter Pan” (Emmy nominations for both).

Grammy nod for Nice Work album.

Music training: Harvard Biology degree.

MICHAEL AARONS (Music Coordinator).

Broadway: Head Over Heels, Pretty Woman, Frozen, SpongeBob Squarepants, Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, Anastasia, School of Rock.

Upcoming Broadway: Halftime. Current tours: Hamilton (Chicago), Hamilton (national tours), Anastasia. Aarons is a partner of M2 Music with Michael Keller.

TELSEY + COMPANY (Casting).

Broadway/Tours: Beetlejuice, Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus, Oklahoma!, Be More Chill, Network, The Cher Show, The Prom, Pretty Woman, My Fair Lady, Mean Girls, Frozen, Come From Away, Waitress, Hamilton, Kinky Boots, Wicked, Hello, Dolly!, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, On Your Feet!.

Off-Broadway: Atlantic, Classic Stage, MCC, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Second Stage. Film: Mary Poppins Returns, Ben Is Back. TV: “Rent,” “Murphy Brown,” “This Is Us,” “House of Cards,” “One Day at a Time,” commercials. www.telseyandco.com

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Hedda Gabler. Off-Broadway: Harry Clarke (Vineyard) The Liar (CSC); Ripcord (MTC); Rapture, Blister, Burn (Playwrights); Lips Together, Teeth Apart (Second Stage); Observe the Sons of Ulster… (LCT, Lortel winner).

West End: All New People. Opera: Samson et Dalila (Met), Thirteenth Child (Santa Fe), The Ghosts of Versailles (L.A. Opera), Dinner at Eight (Minnesota & Wexford), Il Trittico (Berlin). Training: Yale.

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PATRICIA L. GRABB (Production Stage Manager). Broadway: The Cripple of Inishmaan. Film: Newsies. National Tours: Newsies, A Christmas Story, Mary Poppins, We Will Rock You, Young Frankenstein, 101 Dalmatians, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Cats, A Christmas Carol, Miss Saigon. International Tour: Swing! (Japan) Other credits: Here Lies Love at Seattle Repertory Theatre, Papermill Playhouse, PA Centre Stage.

BFA Stage Management, Penn State University. Love to her family.

RICHARD A. LEIGH (Production Stage Manager) National Tours: The Color Purple, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! at Madison Square Garden, The Bodyguard, Jersey Boys, Hair, Bring It On: The Musical, Ghost The Musical, My Fair Lady, and Hello Dolly! w/ Sally Struthers. Also, Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida (Taiwan) and Guys & Dolls – National Tour (Asst. Director). Regional: The Color Purple and The Bodyguard at Paper Mill Playhouse. Much love to my parents, my family, and to Peter.

RACHEL E. WINFIELD (Stage Manager).

National Tour debut! Off-Broadway: Dido of Idaho, Against the Hillside (Ensemble Studio Theatre), NY Theatre: New York Rep, Caborca Theatre Company, Playwrights Horizons, New Victory Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Roundabout Theater, The Public. MFA Stage Management: University of Iowa.

Love to parents and friends.

ELLEN GOLDBERG (Assistant Stage Manager). Broadway: She Loves Me, Dames at Sea, Gigi. Off-Broadway: The Last Match, Sell/Buy/Date, Ghost Stories, A Month in the Country, Kung Fu, Fun Home. Regional: Soft Power (Center Theatre Group); Dangerous House, Where Storms Are Born (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Cloud 9 (Hartford Stage); Little Dancer (The Kennedy Center). Graduate of Fordham College at Lincoln Center. For Grandma Rose.

DENNY DANIELLO (Company Manager) celebrates more than 20 years on the road! National Tours: The Humans, Cabaret, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Anything Goes, West Side Story, Grease, The Drowsy Chaperone, Sweet Charity, Little Women, Chicago, The Exonerated, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. For the best nephews—Dylan and Rocco—ever!

AURORA PRODUCTIONS (Production Management): Anastasia (tour); Bat Out Of Hell; Beetlejuice; Book of Mormon (Bdwy and tour); Frozen; Hello Dolly (tour); Mean Girls; Rock

Of Ages; Toni Stone; Tootsie; To Kill A Mockingbird. Aurora has been providing technical supervision and production management to the entertainment industry since 1989.

RCI THEATRICALS (General Manager).

Broadway Productions include Hadestown, Oklahoma!, American Son, Torch Song, Children of a Lesser God, Fiddler on the Roof, The Visit, You Can’t Take It With You, All the Way, Bullets Over Broadway, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, August: Osage County. Upcoming: The Great Society, The Sound Inside, The Inheritance, Jagged Little Pill. www.rcitheatricals.com BOND THEATRICAL GROUP (Booking, Marketing & Publicity Direction) is a fully independent booking, marketing and publicity company for live entertainment productions. Current tour marketing and booking projects include Blue Man Group, CATS, Clueless, Girl from the North Country, First Date, Jesus Christ Superstar, Kathleen Turner’s Finding My Voice, Latin History for Morons, An Officer & A Gentleman, Once on This Island and Spamilton. Current marketing and publicity projects include Anastasia, The Band’s Visit, Dear Evan Hansen, Diana, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical, Escape to Margaritaville, Fiddler on the Roof, Moulin Rouge!, Oklahoma!, The Color Purple, The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway and The Prom.

THE BOOKING GROUP (Tour Booking Agency). Since its inception in 1996, The Booking Group has represented 25 Tony Award-winning Best Musicals and Plays. Current touring productions include: Hamilton; Anastasia; Come From Away; Dear Evan Hansen; Hello, Dolly! starring Betty Buckley; The Book of Mormon; School of Rock; Waitress; On Your Feet!; Rent: The 20th Anniversary Tour; Fiddler on the Roof; The Play That Goes Wrong; The Color Purple and Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. Future productions include: Mean Girls; My Fair Lady; Pretty Woman; The Cher Show; To Kill a Mockingbird and Tootsie.

STAGE ENTERTAINMENT (Producer).

Founded in 1998 by Dutch television and theatre entrepreneur Joop van den Ende, Stage Entertainment is a firstclass theatrical production company focusing on musical theatre in Europe.

It owns and operates a network of 20 theatres where it mostly produces musicals developed by international partners and its creative teams. With

offices in the Netherlands, Germany, the U.K., Spain, Russia, France and Italy, SE produces some of the best-known titles in musical theatre including The Lion King, Mamma Mia! and Phantom of the Opera. The Management Board consists of Arthur de Bok (CEO), Marijn de Wit (CFO) and Fleur Mooren-la Bastide (COO). Stage Entertainment is widely known for the exceptional quality of its shows and the warm hospitality extended to its audiences.

Visit stage-entertainment.com BILL TAYLOR (Producer). After five years working in the music business with Iron Maiden, Bill joined the Really Useful Group in 1989. As CEO of RUG (1997– 2005), he oversaw productions of over 30 shows around the world including Cats, The Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph… Dreamcoat and Sunset Boulevard. In 2001, he acquired, for RUG, 13 West End theatres including the London Palladium and Theatre Royal Drury Lane. As CEO of Stage Entertainment UK/USA (2005– 2016), his West End, Broadway and touring U.K./U.S. productions include Hairspray (Olivier Award), Strictly Come Dancing, Disney’s High School Musical, Sister Act (Olivier, Tony nom.), Rocky, and Anastasia. Love to Will and Sophie.

TOM KIRDAHY (Producer) is currently producing Hadestown on Broadway and The Jungle and The Inheritance in the West End. In 2017, he produced Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? in the West End. He was the lead producer of the 2015 Broadway hit It’s Only a Play starring Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick and the Tony Award nominated Kander and Ebb musical The Visit starring Chita Rivera. Off-Broadway he produced the NY Times Critic’s Pick White Rabbit Red Rabbit. Additional nominations: Mothers and Sons, After Midnight, Ragtime and Master Class.

He is a founding director of Berwin Lee London New York Playwrights, Inc. As an attorney, Kirdahy spent nearly two decades providing free legal services full time to people living with HIV/ AIDS and served for many years on the Executive Committee of the NYC LGBT Center. Chairperson, Broadway League Government Relations Committee.

Upcoming projects include The White Chip.

HUNTER ARNOLD (Producer).

Broadway: Anastasia, Hadestown, Pretty Woman, Gettin’ the Band Back Together, Once On This Island (Tony Award), Dear Evan Hansen (Tony Award), Kinky Boots (Tony Award), Deaf West’s Spring Awakening (Tony nomination),

50 CHURCH STREET PRODUCTIONS (Producer) is led by Rick Costello and Jack Sennott. Broadway credits include A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder (Tony Award), The Trip to Bountiful (Tony nomination) and Gore Vidal’s The Best Man. Touring productions include A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder and Hair. Rick and Jack are also both directors at the Tony Award-winning Hartford Stage Company.

SHUBERT ORGANIZATION (Producer).

Since its founding in 1900, The Shubert Organization has been in the forefront of the American theatre. Under the leadership of Philip J. Smith, Chairman, and Robert E. Wankel, President, The Shubert Organization owns and operates 17 Broadway theatres and six Off-Broadway venues. The company has produced and co-produced hundreds of plays and musicals.

ELIZABETH DEWBERRY (Producer).

Co-producer, The Jungle and The Inheritance. Novelist and playwright.

Advanced member, BMI Musical Theatre Workshop. Board member, Dramatists Guild Foundation.

ALI AHMET KOCABIYIK (Producer).

Co-producer, The Jungle and The Inheritance. Chairman, Borusan Group, Founder, Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra and Borusan Contemporary Art Museum. Recipient, Kennedy Center Gold Medal in the Arts.

CARL DAIKELER (Producer). Broadway: Once on This Island (Tony Award), Anastasia, Gettin’ the Band Back Together, Disaster!, Deaf West Theatre’s Spring Awakening (Tony nomination), The Visit (Tony nomination), It’s Only a Play, The Bridges of Madison County, and Macbeth. Daikeler spent his teens working at his family’s Bucks County Playhouse and is CEO/Co-Founder of Beachbody.com WARNER/CHAPPELL MUSIC (Producer) is the global music publishing company of Warner Music Group and is home to a vast array of legendary songwriters including Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. With offices in more than 40 countries, Warner/Chappell provides deep expertise across a range of creative services and the most innovative opportunities for its songwriters.

42ND.CLUB (Producer) is a Tony Award-winning club for Broadway investors. Principals include Tom

McGrath, Kenneth Kades, Mady Kades and Claire Kenny. www.42nd.club/join PHIL KENNY (Producer) is a technology transactions attorney at Arcus LLC. www.arcuslaw.com JUDITH ANN ABRAMS (Producer).

Tony & Olivier Award winner dedicates Anastasia to all the Immigrants in my family. And to Cristal Rose, Rio, Irma, Arthur, Vic, Jon, Adrienne & Fanny - Born in the U.S.A! www.JudithAnnAbramsProductions.com BROADWAY ASIA (Producer).

Founders Simone Genatt-Haft/Marc Routh, among the largest global production/management/distribution companies; 500 cities, 40 countries, five continents: Select productions: An American in Paris, Amélie, The Producers, Hairspray, The Sound of Music, Cinderella, Great Comet, The Secret, Ice Age Live, Madagascar Live, Fuerzabruta, COOKIN’/NANTA and Peter Pan-Immersive.

UMEDA ARTS THEATRE (Producer).

Theatrical producing company that owns and operates two theatres in Osaka. UAT has been successfully providing live entertainment from the world market, including theatre, musicals, etc. to Osaka, Tokyo and many other cities around Japan.

PETER MAY (Producer) is President and Founding Partner of Trian Partners, an investment firm. Co-producer of King Kong, Tootsie, Waitress; An American in Paris; The Humans (Tony); A View From the Bridge (Tony); Hello, Dolly!; The Elephant Man; Cinderella; Passing Strange; Sweet Smell of Success; and many more. He is also a strong supporter of not-for-profit theatre.

DAVID MIRVISH (Producer) is a theatrical producer who operates four theatres in Toronto. Mirvish Productions has produced plays and musicals throughout Canada, on Broadway and in London’s West End, and presented over 800 touring productions in the city of Toronto.

SANDI MORAN (Producer) is a founding patron of Opera Naples and trustee for the Naples Winter Wine Festival.

Broadway credits include Once On This Island (Tony Award), Allegiance, Deaf West Theatre’s Spring Awakening and The Visit.

SEOUL BROADCASTING SYSTEM (Producer). SBS is Korea’s leading media and entertainment company which made its Broadway producing debut with Anastasia. SBS co-produces musicals, concerts and exhibitions and

is credited in almost every large-scale shows in Korea including Matilda, Seoul Jazz Festival and Kooza.

LD ENTERTAINMENT (Producer).

Mickey Liddell (CEO) & Robert Ahrens.

Film: Jackie, The Zookeeper’s Wife, Anthropoid, Risen, The Grey. Theatre: Dear Evan Hansen (Tony Award), Angels in America (Tony Award), Sunday in the Park with George, Xanadu.

SALLY CADE HOLMES (Producer) proudly made her Broadway producing debut on Anastasia. Other credits include: Puffs (or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic); Associate Producer at Tom Kirdahy Productions; Line Producer of Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Play On! initiative; Producing Associate at Williamstown Theatre Festival; WP Theatre 2016-2018 Producing Lab. www.sallycadeholmes.com SERIFF PRODUCTIONS (Producer).

Carolyn and Marc Seriff both serve as trustees of Zach Theatre in Austin, Texas. Broadway: Anastasia, Tootsie, Once On This Island (Investor), Angels in America (Investor). Off-Broadway: Beast in the Jungle (Investor), Fire and Air (Investor). Bringing Texas investors to Broadway.

VAN DEAN (Producer) is a Tonyand Grammy-winning producer of 12 Broadway shows and 150 albums.

Gratitude to Anastasia producing partner, Mia Moravis.

TAMAR CLIMAN (Producer). Consulting Producer: Jagged Little Pill and Executive Producer: The Heart Of Rock & Roll, and Children Of A Lesser God. Having founded Richards/Climan, Inc., a Theatrical General Management firm, she has managed over 60 Broadway shows and National tours including Anastasia, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Fiddler On The Roof, Twelve Angry Men, and August: Osage County.

HARTFORD STAGE (Regional Premiere) is led by Artistic Director Darko Tresnjak and Managing Director Michael Stotts. In addition to Anastasia, Hartford Stage has presented the world premieres of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, winner of four 2014 Tony Awards including Best Musical; Quiara Alegría Hudes’ Water by the Spoonful (Pulitzer Prize); over 75 new plays and musicals over its 55 year history. hartfordstage.org

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The Visit (Tony nomination), and many others. Upcoming: The Inheritance, The Jungle.

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ANASTASIA TOUR STAFF GENERAL MANAGEMENT RCI THEATRICALS David R. Richards Beverly Edwards Katrina Elliott Danielle Karliner Naish Floyd Sklaver Halle Kilman Megan Ringeling Matt Tolbert Michael Altbaum Denny Daniello Jason Haft Kimberly Kelley Steve Lukens Roseanna Sharrow Aaron DiFrancia Andrew Hartman Christine O’Connell Spencer Smith Ryan Sweeney Ben Diskant Siani Woods Yuchen Xia COMPANY MANAGER Denny Daniello MARKETING & PUBLICITY DIRECTION BOND THEATRICAL GROUP DJ Martin Temah Higgins Mollie Mann Marc Viscardi Matthew Lerner Trish McKeon Phillip Aleman Nick Jaech Nicole Musto Benjamin Nissen Tori Viggiano Brittany Halberstadt Wendy Roberts Madison St. Amour Tammie Ward TOUR BOOKING AGENCY THE BOOKING GROUP Meredith Blair Kara Gebhart Laura Kolarik www.thebookinggroup.com PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT AURORA PRODUCTIONS Ben Heller Chris Minnick Steven Dalton Dave Elmer Liza Luxenberg Ryan Murphy Luke Ricca Geoff Quart Martijn Appelo Tor Rametta Jack Rhea Micah Ammons Hannah Osborne Cori Gardner Gene O’Donovan CASTING TELSEY + COMPANY Craig Burns, CSA Lauren Harris Meghan Ryan PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER ....PATRICIA L. GRABB RICHARD A. LEIGH Stage Manager..................................................Rachel E. Winfield Assistant Stage Manager.................................... Ellen Goldberg Assistant Company Manager ....................... Aaron DiFrancia Associate Director.............................................. Sarah Hartmann Associate Choreographer ..............................................Bill Burns Dance Captain..................................... Kenneth Michael Murray Fight Director ......................................................................Jeff Barry Fight Captain .....................................................Rachel E. Winfield Vocal and Text Coach...................................................Claudia Hill Associate Scenic Designer ..........................Ann Beyersdorfer Assistant Scenic Designers ..........................Gabriel Firestone, Lawrence E. Moten III, Alexander Woodward Associate Costume Designer ................................... Ricky Lurie Assistant Costume Designers .......................Robert Croghan, Sydney Gallas, Robin L. McGee Costume Shoppers ..............................Kitty Cassetti, Annie Le Associate Lighting Designer.................................Vivien Leone Assistant Lighting Designer................................. Kaitlyn Breen Associate Projection Designer ..................................Nick Graci Projection Animators........................................ Gabriel Aronson, Kevan Loney, George Reeve Video Programmer ................................................................... Tao Li Moving Lighting Programmer.................................... Brad Gray Production Carpenter ..................................David "Pfish" Terry Production Electrician.........................................Justin Freeman Production Properties Supervisor ................. Emiliano Pares Production Sound Supervisor......................Walter E. Shaffer Associate Sound ..................................................Jana L. Hoglund Production Audio .......................... Phil Lojo, Simon Matthews Production Video ...................................................... Ian Crawford Music Coordinator.................................................Michael Aarons Keyboard Programmer...........................................Randy Cohen Assistant Keyboard Programmers .................... Jeremy King, Sam Starobin, Taylor Williams Copyist ........................................................................... Russ Bartmus Rehearsal Pianists........................ Josh Cullen, Valerie Gebert, Steven Malone

HEAD CARPENTER ........................... DAVID “PFISH” TERRY Assistant Carpenter/Flyman...................Tim “Rizzo” Dhority Assistant Carpenter/Automation .......................Sarah Walker Head Electrician ............................................................... Billy Paton Assistant Electrician/Video ........................................ Ian Wright Assistant Electrician ..........................................Quentin Mariano Head Audio...................................................................Allison Ebling Assistant Audio ..............................................Gaven Wedemeyer Head Props ...................................................................Nikki Lalonde Assistant Props .............................................................. Lucy Briggs Wardrobe Supervisor .........................................Matty Kelbaugh Assistant Wardrobe.......................................................Curtis Kelly Hair Supervisor .......................................................Sierra Peterson Child Guardian .........................................................Melissa Waters Production Assistants ..............................................Shayna Penn, Christopher Kee Anaya-Gorman Teaching Services/Tutor .......................On Location Tutoring, Melissa Waters Physical Therapy .......NEURO TOUR Physical Therapy, Inc. Medical Director .........................................................Dr. Craig Weil Production Photographer ............................. Matthew Murphy Legal Counsel ......................................... Levine, Plotkin & Menin Accounting .....................................Withum Smith + Brown, PC Payroll .................................................................. Checks & Balances Trucking ......................................................................... Clark Transfer Merchandising ....................... Mollie Turner, The Araca Group Social Media Management .......................Andy Drachenberg For TOM KIRDAHY PRODUCTIONS Associate Producer .......................................Sally Cade Holmes Creative Associate ......................................Alexander Crawford Office Assistants ................................Sam Myers, Joshua Gitta SPECIAL THANKS Stephen Flaherty and Lynns Ahrens would like to thank Neil Costa and Trevor Hardwick.

CREDITS Scenery built, painted, and automated by Show Motion, Inc., Milford, Connecticut; Props by BrenBri Properties; Lighting equipment by PRG Lighting; Sound equipment by PRG Audio; Voice over recording at Kilgore Recording; Video equipment by Sound Associates, Inc.; Costumes Executed by: Eric Winterling Inc.; Redthreaded; Krostyne Studio; Jennifer Love Studio; Sew Good it Hurts; Primadonna Tutus Inc.; Anicete designs, Bra*Tenders; Uniformal Wearhouse; Millenary and Crafts Executed by: Arnold Levine Inc; Danny Logan; Jess Gersz; Caryn Wells Studio; Randy Carfango Production; Shoes Executed by: LaDuca Shoes; Worldtone Dance Shoes. Costume studio assistant: Ryan Neary. Makeup by M•A•C. Opening Night: October 12, 2018 Proctors, Schenectady, NY Production housing & ground transportation by ROAD CONCIERGE, Lisa Morris, Julia Murphy, Brandon Jones Travel Agency: Tzell Travel, Andi & Alan Henig, Jeanne Lafond Rehearsed at THE 52ND STREET PROJECT, New York, NY Technical Rehearsals and Previews held at PROCTORS in Schenectady, NY

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PLEASE BE ADVISED • LATECOMERS and those exiting the theatre are seated at predetermined breaks in designated areas.

• PHOTOS, RECORDING & CELL PHONE USE are prohibited.

• CHILDREN 6+ are welcome in our theatres and must be ticketed.

• DRINKS are allowed in provided containers.

• ASSISTIVE LISTENING DEVICES, LARGE PRINT PROGRAMS & BOOSTER SEATS are available in most theatres. Ask an usher to direct you.

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Members of Denver Theatrical Wardrobe, Wigs, Hair and Make-up, Union 719 Linda Ackerschott Carrie Breidenbach Vonnie Clough Janel Clough Craig Cory Cyndie Cory Laura Cotugno Steve Davies Anne Davis Carolyn Dore Deborah Guess AnnSue Gunter

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If you didn’t know any better, you might be hard-pressed to believe that the same songwriting team wrote the vastly different musicals Lucky Stiff, Ragtime, Once On This Island, Seussical and, now, Anastasia. That span covers madcap farce, historical drama, Caribbean-flavored deities, children’s theater and an adapted animated fantasy adventure.

And that’s just a small sample from the catalog of Theatre Hall of Famers Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, whose newest work, Anastasia, takes on the enduring myth of the Russian Duchess long hoped to have survived the massacre of the Imperial Romanov family.

“Lynn and I don’t like to repeat ourselves. We really try to go in different directions,” Flaherty said of these 26-year collaborators. If you want to know what they might take on next, just imagine the furthest thing possible from the thing they’ve just finished.

“Every time we get done with a show, we ask ourselves, ‘What haven’t we done?’ What country have we not visited?

What historical period have we not yet traveled?’ ” Ahrens said.

And perhaps above all: What musical style have they not yet explored?

“My own personal playlist is insanely eclectic,” Flaherty said. “When I was growing up, I studied classical music, but I was really into R&B. I spent time in Nashville. When Lynn and I had the opportunity to work on Ragtime, I had already played in a ragtime band as a way of putting myself through college. The music for Seussical was based on a lot of the

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music I loved growing up as a kid, from R&B to Spike Jones.”

What most appealed to Ahrens and Flaherty about Anastasia was its irresistible story. “It’s not a true story; we all know that,” said Ahrens. “We know what happened to Anastasia. We know where her ashes are. But the myth that she may have somehow survived has persisted for all these years, even in Russia, where they absolutely love this story.

They want our musical to come there so badly because there is something passionate at its heart, and it is filled with love.”

Anastasia, with a book by longtime collaborator Terrence McNally, is set years after the execution of Tsar Nicholas II and his family. It opens as a young amnesiac shows up in Russia with only a few hazy memories and a keepsake that suggests she might be Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna.

As “Anya” sets out to discover the mystery of her past, two con men make plans to pass her off as the real thing to the Dowager Empress in Paris, hoping to get money from the woman who would be Anastasia’s grandmother. The sadistic Rasputin has been replaced here by Gleb, a Bolshevik general who has orders to hunt down and kill the girl.

The stage musical, best known for the song “Journey to the Past,” is an adaptation of the classic animated 1997 film with an original score by Ahrens and Flaherty. “Ever since, we wished someone would make it into a stage musical one day – and take us along for the ride,” Ahrens said.

Nearly 20 years later, they got their wish. And their own journey to the past. “The original film took us on this

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Lila Coogan (Anya) and Stephen Brower (Dmitry) in the National Tour of ANASTASIA.

amazing experience to the Oscars and beyond,” said Ahrens. “But the film was skewed to a much younger audience. And all these years later, here was this chance to revisit the same source material but make it deeper and richer.”

In keeping with their mantra of not repeating themselves, the songwriters dug in to create something completely new. They kept just six songs from the film score and wrote 16 new ones. Ahrens and Flaherty are emphatically not precious with their work.

“We throw things out and rewrite things and try new things like you can’t believe,” said Ahrens. “We wanted to write songs for the Dowager Empress, and give Dimitri more of a voice. And we wanted to create the character of Gleb.”

Then there was the McNally Factor. The master playwright was just honored for Lifetime Achievement at the recent Tony Awards after having opened his 25th Broadway play. Ahrens and Flaherty had previously collaborated with McNally on Ragtime and A Man of No Importance.

“Terrence really wanted to bring his own imprimatur of great writing to the project. We had already made ours,” Ahrens said. No one, Flaherty added, was interested in simply putting the film on the stage.

MISS SAIGON

by Laurence Connor, Director

Miss Saigon (Sep 10 – 22) is one of those musicals that affects you the moment you hear the first chords of music. I was a student when Miss Saigon opened originally on the West End [in 1989], but I can still remember the amazing buzz the show created.

Fourteen years ago, [Producer Cameron Mackintosh] offered me the opportunity to direct a new touring version of the show.

I never imagined that the piece would leave such an imprint on me, nor that it would receive the kind of attention it did, but Miss Saigon proved to me that great writing is at the heart of all powerful drama. Taking on such an iconic musical is never without its challenges, but Miss Saigon became a labour of love, and discovering the journeys and complex relationships between the characters has contributed to some of my happiest rehearsals to date. Because this powerful love story is set against the traumatic backdrop of the Vietnamese conflict, we’ve been able to focus the story in a very truthful way. The number of relationships, families and soldiers whose lives have been affected by this war had a strong impact on how I wanted to tell the story.

“…this is a more grown-up version of the Anastasia tale.

This is more romantic and more adventurous. We have real relationships and real family connections.”

“We really wanted to reconceive the story, re-examine the myth and, frankly, be more historically accurate,” Flaherty said. “We were literally going from a twodimensional medium into a three-dimensional medium, so we felt the characters needed to have more depth and drama in their lives.”

What they came up with, Ahrens believes, is a story that is just as transporting as the source film, but in a more grown-up way. “Obviously, kids can come and have a great time. But this is a more grown-up version of the Anastasia tale,” Ahrens said. “This is more romantic and more adventurous. We have real relationships and real family connections.”

Just before the developing new musical opened in its pre-Broadway debut in Hartford, Ahrens had a moment of dread when she saw a group of grown women enter the lobby dressed as characters from the movie. “They had tiaras and ballgowns and wigs, and I thought, ‘Oh, my God. They’re expecting to see the movie,’ ” Ahrens said.

“After the performance, I went up to one of these young women and I said, ‘What did you think?’ She told me, ‘Well, I got nervous at first because I looked at the Playbill and there were different songs and different characters. And my favorite song ‘Journey to the Past’ wasn’t in the same place as it was in the movie, so I was afraid I wouldn’t like it. But then I saw the show, and I realized that I grew up on the movie – and the musical grew up for me.’ ” To any Anastasia film fans coming to see the musical for themselves, Ahrens says, in a nutshell: “Fasten your seatbelts and prepare for something that’s the same – only different.”

To read more of John Moore’s interview with Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, visit denvercenter.org/news-center.

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The Denver Center for the Performing Arts hosted its 14th annual Women with Hattitude luncheon on May 2. A benefit for the Women’s Voice Fund, which elevates the work of female playwrights and directors, the afternoon featured beneficiaries Donnetta Lavinia Grays (playwright, Last Night and the Night Before) and Neyla Pekarek (composer, Rattlesnake Kate).

More than 600 guests attended the event, which was chaired by Pam Sletten and Paul Jerez with support from Macy’s, University of Colorado, Ray & Denise Bellucci, Margot Gilbert Frank, Mariel Boutique, and Reign Magazine. $60,000 was raised to support female artists. Donations to the Women’s Voices Fund are always welcome.

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COMING UP FROM THE THEATRE COMPANY

INDECENT

The 2019/20 Theatre Company season kicks off with the Tony Awardnominated play Indecent. Experience the dancing, music and history that transports audiences through time in this season opener (Aug 30 – Oct 6).

Here are five fast facts for you to know before you go.

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More than 70 guests were selected to participate in the annual Macy’s Parade of Hats. Awards were given to: Betty Kuhl, Vintage Beauty Jeff & Cindy Kelly and Stephinity Salazar, I Made It Myself Victoria Long, Fabulous Fascinator Michelle Colvis, High Society Dariya Bryant, Wildly Whimsical Melissa Oster, Exquisitely Elegant Victoria Long, Best Derby Hat Fiona Baldwin, Best In Show

1. To bring the traditional folk dancing to the Theatre Company stage, choreographer Dominque Kelley will return to choreograph Indecent. Kelley performed in the Oscar-winning movie La La Land and choreographed last season’s production of Oklahoma!

2. Indecent contains a play within the play and tells the story of the history around the production The God of Vengeance from 1907, which ultimately opened on Broadway in 1923.

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3. Indecent had its world premiere in October 2015 at Yale Repertory Theatre and later had a run on Broadway in 2017 at the Cort Theatre.

4. The Broadway run was nominated for three Tony Awards including Best Play, and won two for Best Direction and Lighting Design in a Play.

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1. Event Co-Chair Paul Jerez with Macy’s Sally Acuna. 2. Betty Hart, First Lady Mary Louise Lee, Rajdulari. 3. Miss Colorado of America Aida Sow. 4. Ms. Senior America Gayle Novak with members of the Denver Center Alliance. 5. Sponsor Marco Fields (Moxxy Women) and daughter Jada Fields.

6. DCPA President & CEO Janice Sinden with DCPA Theatre Company Costume Crafts Director Kevin Copenhaver. 7. Rudy Gambel. 8. Adrienne Ruston Fitzgibbons, Denver Center Alliance President Jennifer Dechtman, Anne Slucky and Shirley Joondeph. 9. Women’s Voices Fund commissioned artists Donnetta Lavinia Grays and Neyla Pekarek. 10. Standing (l-r): Fiona Baldwin, Victoria Long, Jeff Kelly, Stephinity Salazar, Cindy Kelly. Seated (l-r) Melissa Oster, Betty Kuhl, Michelle Colvis, Dariya Bryant. 11. BJ Dyer of Bouquets. 12. Event Co-Chair Pam Sletten. 13. DCPA Theatre Company Artistic Director Chris Coleman.

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5. Although not a musical, the DCPA production includes folk music played by three professional musicians/ actors on stage.

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The University of Colorado is honored to support the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. Together we share a desire to continually enhance our community through the creative platform that theatre offers. Since 1876, CU has celebrated and supported the vibrant energy and creativity of artists from all genres. From establishing the first college in Colorado devoted exclusively to arts and entertainment at CU Denver to recently unveiling the new state-of-the-art Ent Center for the Arts at University of Colorado Colorado Springs, CU is committed to fostering the arts across our campuses and beyond.

With commitment comes opportunity. It’s why our students are able to learn from distinguished faculty and participate in CU-hosted events such as the annual Colorado Shakespeare Festival as well as the Artist Series, a finely curated collection of world-class music, dance and live performances that has been opening the curtain for more than 80 years.

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