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Welcome to the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. We are so glad you’re here! This holiday season is a bit unusual for us. Our annual production of A Christmas Carol is on hiatus while the 40-year-old Stage Theatre is renovated. Plus two productions are not located under the glass canopy of the Arts Complex. Camp Christmas is Off-Center’s newest offsite, immersive experience. Located in The Hangar at Stanley Marketplace, this over-the-top holiday extravaganza showcases yuletide traditions of the past and present. Designed by local artist Lonnie Hanzon, Camp Christmas features built-in photo opportunities for the whole family and is sure to be Denver’s new favorite holiday experience. Across the street from the Arts Complex, our Education and Theatre Company production team is delighted to entertain tiny tots ages Pre-K through third grade with a musical adaptation of the beloved children’s book, Goodnight Moon. While Broadway delights audiences with the return of Jesus Christ Superstar and Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical, not everything is holiday fare. We’re presenting a one-night engagement of John Leguizamo in Latin History for Morons, Jimmy Buffett’s Escape to Margaritaville and the always unexpected antics of The Improvised Shakespeare Company®. Just because Dickens’ famous ghost story is taking a break does not mean our Theatre Company is resting on its laurels. Instead, we’re presenting Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night under the direction of our own Artistic Director, Chris Coleman. Plus we’re gearing up for two all-new productions just after the first of the year with twenty50 and You Lost Me. With so many activities, it’s hard to choose just one…so we hope you come for them all. Your support, both in person and through your generosity, makes the work on our stages, in our classrooms and throughout the community possible. As we reach the end of our calendar year, please consider a donation. Your gift can help us send a child to their very first performance at Goodnight Moon, place a chair in a renovated theatre in time for the return of A Christmas Carol next season, or make sure we can continue to attract top shows and talent from across the country. Thank you for being with us today. To you and yours, have a very happy holiday season. Warm regards,
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Among his many achievements, William Shakespeare is also known for something slightly less laudable: the habit of stealing and adapting plots rather than inventing them. It was a shortcut, practiced also by fellow playwrights. Why bother to invent when so many were there for the taking? It saved time and you could improve on them. Or not. When it came to characters and imagery though, Shakespeare excelled. And, as with the other playwrights of his day, his refashioned plots indulged in elaborate deceit and vindication in all its forms while his subplots usually involved comic rubes and fools who dispensed malapropisms and sly wisdom by the mouthful. His best comedies are the fuel of great fun, propelled by lust, swept away by giddy humor, always dabbling in music while devolving into repeated antics that lead to happy endings. Consider A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It and Twelfth Night. Check out the variations on favorite themes: lovers in distress, disguises, mistaken identities, soldiers and sages, sisters and brothers, lofty peers and silly peons — and, in The Comedy of Errors, more than one set of twins. Twelfth Night has all of these elements and, if not identical twins, then a brother and sister separated by shipwreck and reunited when, thanks to the sister’s decision to disguise as a man, the two are mistaken for one another and revealed to be who they really are. Joy ensues because in Shakespeare’s comedies, joy always ensues.
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These are some of the reasons why Chris Coleman, the DCPA Theatre Company’s Artistic Director, not only chose to do Twelfth Night but also to direct it. “I knew I wanted Shakespeare to be part of this season,” he wrote in an informal exchange of emails. “Having the opportunity to continue exploring his work was one of the draws of this job. I also knew that our last outing was with Macbeth, so it made sense for it to be a comedy. Twelfth Night is among his very best writing in terms of fun of plot, richness of characters and delicious confusion of desire. “Everyone is falling for the ‘wrong’ person in this play. Some kind of desire gets awakened [that] is not aligned with the individuals’ sense of identity or history. The tension around that is very interesting, and very current. I also think there’s a great sense of music and mayhem in the piece that [is] fun to try and capture.” Music opens and ends the play, with plenty of room to add as much or as little of it as you wish, and mayhem influences all of the action in between. “There is both delightful humor and depth of feeling,” Coleman added. “It begins with heartache: Viola thinks her brother is drowned; Olivia grieves the loss of her father and brother; Orsino aches for Olivia’s love, which is scaldingly unreturned. The emotional layers feed the comedy, but also give it resonance.” Good point. The everpresent clowns in these comedies also have a serious function. They counteract the cloying
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potential of all that unrequited loopy love. And the ragged bunch of hangers-on in Twelfth Night are at once more closely related to the primary characters and considerably more cruel than his usual clowns. The moocher, Sir Toby Belch, Olivia’s uncle or cousin (he’s mentioned as both), is a layabout in the household who has no trouble inviting her clown Feste and her attendant Fabian or his own nebbishy friend Sir Andrew Aguecheek to join him in abusing Olivia’s largesse. They’re a roguish crew, aided and abetted in their games by Maria, Olivia’s “gentlewoman,” an elevated title for a housekeeper with a sense of humor who’s the mastermind behind the mischief, especially the nasty prank they play on her stuck-up steward, Malvolio. The entire action takes place in a period Coleman loosely calls “Renaissanceish Mediterranean,” circa 1500, a decent match for Shakespeare’s Illyria, vaguely assumed to be Croatia’s enchanting Dalmatian coast. So the mood for romance is all there. In tune with our times, the cast is a stew of ethnicities, including four actors who also play musical instruments and several artists with lengthy ties to the Denver Center: Larry Hecht, Kim Staunton, Larry Paulsen, Rodney Lizcano and Sam Gregory. Stalwarts Charles MacLeod designed the lighting and Kevin Copenhaver the clothes.
Twelfth Night is among his very best writing in terms of fun of plot, richness of characters and delicious confusion of desire. — CHRIS COLEMAN, DIRECTOR
“My intentions with Shakespeare,” Coleman said, “are always to try and uncover the fundamentals of the language first: get to the heart of the sense of the language and why these humans need to speak these words. Then it’s about helping the actors fully inhabit the truth of the story’s circumstances and fully honor what the characters are up against.” A final footnote: Perhaps to make up for the thread of maliciousness in Sir Toby and friends or the mean trick played by them on the hapless Malvolio or perhaps simply because the words came to him at that moment, one of Shakespeare’s most astonishing rhymed couplets is in this play, only to go largely unheard. Why? Because the words are spoken by Antonio, a peripheral character, in the midst of a heated argument. In Nature there’s no blemish but the mind. None can be called deform’d but the unkind. Words to live by, yet their throwaway spot in the scheme of things underscores how guilelessly Shakespeare squandered his eloquence. There are almost no lines of his you can dissect that don’t possess pith or elegance. Which explains why, after more than 400 years, his works are still with us and likely to remain with us for another 400. SYLVIE DRAKE is a translator, writer, and former theatre critic and columnist for the Los Angeles Times. She is a member of the American Theatre Critics Association, a contributor to culturalweekly.com and occasional contributor to American Theatre magazine and the Los Angeles Times.
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COSTUME COLUMN When DCPA Theatre Company Artistic Director Chris Coleman arrived in Denver, a member of his new staff asked him to describe his artistic tastes. One of the things he responded with: “Wouldn’t it be radical to set a Shakespeare play in Shakespearean times?” Following up on that promise, Twelfth Night (Coleman’s first presentation of Shakespeare at the DCPA) is set in roughly the same location and time period that the Bard intended. Ancient Illyria was located in modern-day Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina where trade routes from the Far East ended, making it a multicultural marketplace. It is fitting, then, that costume designer Kevin Copenhaver’s costumes are a melting pot themselves: “I’m borrowing a little Spanish influence, French influence, of course Italian,” with additional traces of Romani and German. Theatre Company regulars may recognize Copenhaver’s distinguishable work for its bold patterns, lush colors and exaggerated silhouettes. Now in his 30th season with the Theatre Company, he has designed such recognizable shows as A Christmas Carol, Crowns, Animal Crackers, Sweeney Todd, and The Who’s Tommy. After Coleman began conversations with Copenhaver about Twelfth Night, he used two words to describe Kevin’s aesthetic: “Renaissance Copenhaver.”
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The first time Jimmy Buffett saw a rehearsal of Escape to Margaritaville, the new musical based on his songs, it was pretty obvious that he was having a good time. “He was smiling and laughing,” recalls Greg Garcia, co-writer of the musical’s book, who was sitting just in front of Buffett. “I kept looking back at him, and he was just loving it. Afterward, I go, ‘That’s the first Jimmy Buffett concert that you’ve ever been to, isn’t it?’ And he looked at me and smiled and said, ‘Yeah, man! I see what the fuss is all about!’” Of course, Escape to Margaritaville isn’t exactly a Jimmy Buffett concert. But its creators say that it does have a tropical party vibe similar to the festive mood at Buffett’s rollicking live shows. Like other so-called jukebox musicals, it takes a set of popular songs and constructs a story around them. Just as Mamma Mia! concocted a plot to connect the hits of Abba, this new show celebrates Buffett’s greatest hits while telling a romantic-comedic story — about a character who’s a bit like Buffett in his younger days as a busker singing songs on the beach. What’s the secret to making a jukebox musical feel more like a real musical, and not just a string of hit tunes? “Every song has to feel inevitable and necessary to the story,” says original Broadway director, Christopher Ashley. “Or it has to be such a pleasurable left turn that you say, ‘Wow, I didn’t see that coming, but I’m so happy about how they used that song.’ Nothing can ever feel shoehorned.” Ashley (who won the 2017 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical for his work on Come From Away) is the artistic director at La Jolla Playhouse near San Diego, which staged the first production of Escape to Margaritaville in May 2017 before heading on to Broadway in February 2018. San Diego Union-Tribune critic James Hebert wrote that the show “delivers just about every bit of what the phrase ‘Jimmy Buffett musical’ promises, from the splashy colors to the steel-drum beats to the palm-fronded beach bar slinging fruity cocktails.” But he also noted that the musical smartly taps into “the undercurrent of wistfulness and regret that runs through even some of Buffett’s more upbeat story-songs.” The depth of those songs attracted Garcia and cowriter Mike O’Malley. The Emmy Award-winning Garcia, creator of television shows such as the TBS series The Guest Book, says he grew up listening to Buffett’s records. “I was always drawn to songs that told stories,” he says. “Jimmy’s songs, a lot of them tell stories. They have characters within them. Certainly, some of them also have a humorous vibe.” Garcia became something of a Parrothead, as Buffett fans are known, and Buffett later became a fan of Garcia’s NBC series My Name Is Earl. O’Malley — who starred in Garcia’s sitcom Yes, Dear from 2000 to 2006 — says listeners are attracted by the “spirit of fun” in Buffett’s songs. “But there’s also this real depth in other parts of his songs,” O’Malley observes. Buffett has an “ability to write songs about what people yearn for, what they regret in their own behavior, and what they strive for in friendships and relationships,” he says.
When Garcia and O’Malley started working on a script four years ago, they knew they’d have to include certain Buffett hits. “You don’t have to be a genius to figure out which ones have to be in it,” Garcia says. “Jimmy says there are ten songs he plays or gets killed.” Those include “Come Monday,” “Cheeseburger in Paradise” and, of course, Buffett’s breakthrough hit from 1977, “Margaritaville.” As Garcia explains, “It was pretty easy to compile the list. But then what do you do? You’ve got this big list of songs. How do you get them in? The trick for us was, we listened to the songs and we started creating characters based on the songs.” The central character they came up with is Tully, a bartender and singer at an island resort (played by Chris Clark). “A guy who lives on the beach,” Garcia says. “A carefree, fun-loving guy. He has relationships that last a week. But then somebody comes into his life that’s a little bit more of a challenge.” That somebody is Rachel, played by Sarah Hinrichsen. She’s “an ecological scientist who has a real career drive, and is not interested in hanging out and getting drunk,” Ashley says. “We created her as the un-Jimmy Buffett character.” And when these two characters fall in love, it pushes them to rethink their attitudes about life.
Buffett has an “ability to write songs about what people yearn for, what they regret in their own behavior, and what they strive for in friendships and relationships.” — MIKE O’MALLEY, CO-WRITER
“When I look at the TV shows that I do, there’s a theme of personal growth,” Garcia relates. “My Name Is Earl was about a guy who wanted to be a better person. And this is a show where you watch these two people help each other become better.” Buffett’s songs take on new meanings when we see these characters singing them. Now, they’re stories about these people. “‘Margaritaville’ is a great song if you’re not the person singing it,” O’Malley muses. “There’s great regret and sadness in that song. How did this woman get away? What did I do in terms of the choices that I made that caused me to be sitting here, wasting away in Margaritaville? When you put yourself in the point of view of a character singing that song, there can be a different emotion than when you’re just shouting it to the rooftops.” In addition to Buffett’s vibrant music, the show draws energy from the choreography of Kelly Devine, who worked with Ashley on the Tony-winning Broadway show Come From Away, and earned a Tony nomination herself. “The dance vocabulary is surprising and athletic and sexy and rock ’n’ roll and imaginative,” Ashley says. “We have real triple threats—people who really can act, really can sing, and really can dance.” The show’s creators often talked with Buffett, seeking his advice and feedback. Garcia says it’s been a “real thrill” to watch Buffett whenever he lights up with joy during a performance. “When you sit down to write the Jimmy Buffett musical — I’ll be honest with you — there’s really only one audience member I care about at the end of the day,” he says. “And it’s Jimmy Buffett.”
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Dr. Seuss’
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical
Based on the book How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss Book and Lyrics by
Music by
TIMOTHY MASON
MEL MARVIN
Additional music and lyrics by ALBERT HAGUE and DR. SEUSS Starring
Philip Huffman
Bob Lauder Jared Starkey and
Christine Aziz Ashley Margaret Morton Michael Paul Eduardo Uribe Rachel Ling Gordon Lily Jane Sofia Lauren Giannetti Mia Francesca Martinez with
Hannah Roberts Brown Samm Carroll Madeline Chandler Joey Donoian Taylor Drumwright Hannah Grace Forsley Madisen Johnson Brian Cedric Jones Ethan James Lynch Katie McConaughy Xavier McKnight James Schultz Neely Scott Andrew Wood Set Designer
Costume Designer
JOHN LEE BEATTY
ROBERT MORGAN
Casting Director
Original Lighting Designer
ALISON FRANCK, CSA Incidental Music/Vocal Arrangements
JOSHUA ROSENBLUM Original Tour Producer
RUNNING SUBWAY THIS TIME OF YEAR CO.
Lighting Designer
ACME SOUND PARTNER
Orchestrator
Dance Music Arranger
MICHAEL STAROBIN General Management
JEREMY OLEKSA
Original Sound Designer
PAT COLLINS
BIG LEAGUE PROD. GINA WILLENS
Sound Designer
CHARLIE MORRISON
DAVID KRANE
Costumes
SARAH SMITH
Associate Producer
DR SEUSS ENTERPRISES, L.P
Associate Director and Associate Choreographer
Technical Supervisor
DON GILMORE
Executive Producer
ANTOINETTE DIPIETROPOLO Original Choreographer
Music Supervisor
PETER LEIGH-NILSEN
DANIEL SHER Co-Choreographer
JOHN DELUCA
BOB RICHARD Director
MATT AUGUST Original Production Conceived and Directed by
JACK O’BRIEN
Based on the production produced by The Old Globe, San Diego California Originally commissioned by and produced at The Children’s Theatre Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota Produced by permission of Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P.
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CAST
IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE
Old Max.................................................................................................................................................BOB LAUDER Cindy-Lou Who (Alternating)...................................................RACHEL LING GORDON, LILY JANE Papa Who-...................................................................................................................................EDUARDO URIBE Mama Who.....................................................................................................ASHLEY MARGARET MORTON Grandpa Who................................................................................................................................. MICHAEL PAUL Grandma Who............................................................................................................................. CHRISTINE AZIZ Annie Who (Alternating)...............SOFIA LAUREN GIANNETTI/MIA FRANCESCA MARTINEZ Citizens of Whoville.................................................................................................................SAMM CARROLL, MADELINE CHANDLER, JOEY DONOIAN, BRIAN CEDRIC JONES, ETHAN JAMES LYNCH, KATIE MCCONAUGHY, JAMES SCHULTZ Who Kids........................................................HANNAH ROBERTS BROWN, TAYLOR DRUMWRIGHT, HANNAH GRACE FORSLEY, MADISEN JOHNSON, XAVIER MCKNIGHT, NEELY SCOTT, ANDREW WOOD Young Max.................................................................................................................................... JARED STARKEY The Grinch...................................................................................................................................PHILIP HUFFMAN
SWINGS BRIAN CEDRIC JONES, HANNAH ROBERTS BROWN
UNDERSTUDIES Understudies never substitute for listed players unless a specific announcement for the appearance is made at the time of the performance. For The Grinch: JOEY DONOIAN, JAMES SCHULTZ For Old Max: MICHAEL PAUL, JAMES SCHULTZ For Young Max: BRIAN CEDRIC JONES For Mama Who: MADELINE CHANDLER For Papa Who: ETHAN JAMES LYNCH For Grandma Who: SAMM CARROLL For Grandpa Who: JOEY DONOIAN
Who Likes Christmas?.......................................................................................................Citizens of Whoville This Time of Year........................................................................................................Old Max and Young Max I Hate Christmas Eve.............................................. The Grinch, Young Max, Papa Who, Mama Who,
Grandma Who, Grandpa Who, Cindy-Lou Who, Danny Who, Annie Who and Boo Who
What Cha Ma Who..........................................................................................................The Grinch, Who Kids Welcome, Christmas*.........................................................................................................Citizens of Whoville I Hate Christmas Eve (Reprise)........................................................................................................The Grinch It’s the Thought That Counts.........................................Grandma Who, Grandpa Who, Mama Who,
Papa Who, Citizens of Whoville and Who Kids
One of a Kind............................................................................................................................................The Grinch Now’s the Time............................................. Papa Who, Mama Who, Grandma Who, Grandpa Who You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch*..........................................................Old Max, Young Max, The Grinch Santa for a Day....................................................................................................Cindy-Lou Who, The Grinch You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch* (Reprise)........................................................................................ Old Max Who Likes Christmas? (Reprise)...................................................................................Citizens of Whoville One of a Kind (Reprise).........................................................Young Max, The Grinch, Cindy-Lou Who This Time of Year (Reprise)..................................................................................................................... Old Max Welcome, Christmas* (Reprise)....................................................................................Citizens of Whoville Santa for a Day (Reprise)...........................The Grinch, Cindy-Lou Who and Citizens of Whoville Who Likes Christmas? (Reprise)......The Grinch, Young Max, Old Max and Whos Everywhere * Music by Albert Hague and lyrics by Dr. Seuss. Published by EMI Robbins Catalog, Inc. “Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical” will be performed without an intermission
THE GRINCH ORCHESTRA MUSIC DIRECTOR, CONDUCTOR —PETER LEIGH-NILSEN Associate Music Director, Keys 1 — Alexander Tom Keys 2 — Wendy Feaver Reed 1 — Joe Graziosi Reed 2 — Brett McDonald Reed 3 — Marybeth Kern Trumpet 1 — Victor Medina Trumpet 2 — Dustin Beardsley Trombone — Eric Spencer Bass — Ethan Chiampas Drums/Percussion — Ashley Baier
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WHO’S WHO PHILIP HUFFMAN (The Grinch) I would like to thank all the incredibly strong women in my life that have made me into the person I am today. Their ability to continue to strive through constant adversity has been an inspiration to me throughout my life. Whether it was the struggle to survive the corporate climb, becoming a Forensic Psychologist, or raising such kind-hearted children, it has all been admirable. To thank all that have loved me, from my first kiss and to all the hearts that parted with our last goodbye. I take this moment to acknowledge the insurmountable impact you’ve had on me and thank you for such meaningful memories. I would also like to thank specifically my Gramcracker for all the love she sends, my mother for all the credit she takes, and all The Who’s down in Whoville for giving me something to loath. Follow our tour pup on IG: @TheRealTandyMan BOB LAUDER (Old Max) Thrilled to be back for his 9th climb up Mt. Crumpet, Bob first survived two years in Titanic, A New Musical - 1st National Tour (Mr. Thayer). Regional theatre; Kismet (Hajj), The Student Prince (Dr. Engel), Bernstein’s Mass - Hollywood Bowl (Bass Soloist), & The Wizard of Oz (Cowardly Lion). He earned Dramalogue Awards for Paint Your Wagon (Ben Rumson) and Evita (Juan Peron) in Los Angeles. He’s worked with Bob Gunton, Roger Daltrey, John Lithgow, & Kristen Chenoweth among others. An operatic baritone, Bob’s sung La Bohéme (Marcello), Verdi’s Falstaff (Falstaff), Carmen (Escamillo), and many more. Before joining Grinch in 2010, Bob was charming audiences as Santa Claus in the Las Vegas Christmas Spectacular, “Believe in the Magic”. At home he’s the video producer for Front Sight in Nevada, an FAA certified drone pilot, food photographer, and proud Dad of Bobby & Billy! JARED STARKEY (Young Max) is thrilled to be returning to his Grinch family for a second year. Jared, a Connecticut native, grew up on a Christmas Tree Farm but is now based in NYC. New York Credits: Two by Two; feat. Chip Zien & Christine
Pedi (Japheth), Those Musclebound Cowboys... (Sam). Favorite Regional: Peter and the Starcatcher (Peter), A Chorus Line (Frank, Mark, U/S Mark/ Larry), Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol, Sweeney Todd (Tobias). Love and thanks to my family, my wonderful teachers, Julio, DePoto, Bartoli, Eric, and Nancy. Carson-Adler Agency. @JaredStarkey www.JaredStarkey.com CHRISTINE AZIZ (Grandma Who) a Canadian Comedy Award nominee and Second City Conservatory graduate, Christine performed in the Canadian Premiere of Reefer Madness (Mae Hart House), and the new musical The Next Big Thing (Gayle - Axelrod, NJ). For TV: “The Firm” (NBC), “Covert Affairs” (USA) and “12 Monkeys” (SyFy). She recently performed her tribute to Beatrice Lillie at The Duplex (NYC). www.christineaziz.com ASHLEY MARGARET MORTON (Mama Who) is thrilled to join the cast of The Grinch! Credits: Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Belle - Plan B Entertainment), The 39 Steps (Woman - International City Theater), The Sandalwood Box (Claudia Mitchell - Flea Theater). Many thanks to her excellent reps, her incredible family, and as always, to Zack www.ashmorton.com MICHAEL PAUL (Grandpa Who, U/S Old Max) is a graduate research student at Empire State College, studying Performativity as it relates to Performance Studies, gender and politics. He is delighted to be returning to Big League Productions for his second season. EDUARDO URIBE (Papa Who) is thrilled to be returning to Whoville this year! Other national tours include: Legally Blonde The Musical (Nikos), Jesus Christ Superstar (Swing), and Sweet Charity (Vittorio). Mom and Dad, thank you for your love and support. Sammy, you are my everything! I love you always and forever. Insta: @eduardouribe92 RACHEL LING GORDON (Cindy Lou Who) age 7, is excited to be in Whoville for her national tour debut! Credits include runways at NYFW,
commercials, Hansel & Gretel (Gretel) and other productions with RFKT. Gratitude to Grinch Family, Alison Franck, Abrams, Zoom Talent, Alyson Isbrandtsen, Denise Simon and ALL who helped Rachel find her voice. Woo-Who! @rachelingordon LILY JANE (Cindy Lou Who) is delighted to be making her professional theatre debut. Her favorite community theatre roles have been Piglet in Winnie the Pooh and Michael in Peter Pan. She is inspired by and following in the theatrical footsteps of her Nana. She has gratitude to God, the Zoom Talent team and her family. @agirlandagriff SOFIA LAUREN GIANNETTI (Annie Who) is ecstatic to make her touring debut in Grinch! She’s a 5th grader, actress, singer, dancer and YouTuber from South Florida. Regional Credits: Annie, A Christmas Story. Film/TV includes: “Sick Minded” (Production), “Boca Witches” (Clara - Amazon Prime, Fall ’20). She’s grateful to her family, and to Matt August and Franck casting for this opportunity. MIA FRANCESCA MARTINEZ (Annie Who) is thrilled to be making her national tour debut and join the cast of The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. Mia would like to thank her family, Jeanette, Keandra, and Nancy Carson for all their love and support without them this wouldn’t be possible! HANNAH ROBERTS BROWN (Ensemble, Swing, Assistant Dance Captain) is thrilled to return to Whoville! National Tours: PAW Patrol Live, Chuggington Live, Charlotte’s Web. Regional: Urinetown (Hope Cladwell), Hairspray (Amber/Associate Choreographer), Chicago (Roxie). For Gram. SAMM CARROLL (Ensemble, U/S Grandma Who) is ecstatic to be joining the Grinch tour this year! Credits: Violet (Violet), Gypsy (Louise), South Pacific (Nellie). Love to my family, Jeremy, & Stanley. MADELINE CHANDLER (Enesemble, U/S Mama Who) is overjoyed to be back with the Grinch this holiday
(Anchorage Concert Association), Legally Blonde (Elle Woods), Bye Bye Birdie (Gloria). @katiekay224
JOEY DONOIAN (Ensemble, U/S Grinch, U/S Grandpa) National tour debut! Recent Regional: Hair (Margaret Mead/Tribe - Dallas Theater Center), Buyer & Cellar (Alex More - Uptown Theater). Love to everyone involved!
XAVIER MCKNIGHT (Ensemble) is psyched to be joining Whoville! Credits: Spelling Bee (Leaf Coneybear - The Theater Barn), Bring It On The Musical (Twig - Black Spectrum Theatre), 1776 (Courier - Waterfront Playhouse). Much love to my family, friends and Tommy!
TAYLOR DRUMWRIGHT (Ensemble) last seen as Boo Who and now celebrating her 4th year on tour in a new track! Credits: Chuggington Live! (Wilson-National Tour), Smurfs Live! (Host-National Tour), Next to Normal (Natalie-Gov School) and Cinderella (Dance Captain-Sandler Center). Love you Mom and Dad! HANNAH GRACE FORSLEY (Ensemble) just released her single “cRaZy CoLoRs” on all streaming platforms. She is currently co-producing her first EP with John Campos. Follow @hgtheforce on Instagram and visit her bio for more info. MADISEN JOHNSON (Ensemble) is excited to return to Whoville! Madisen is based in NYC. Credits: Urinetown (Little Sally), Annie (Orphan Swing - National Tour), Disney Dreams (Featured Dancer). Thanks to my family and God! BRIAN CEDRIC JONES (Ensemble, U/S Young Max, Swing, Dance Captain) is NY based and delighted to return to Whoville! Recent credits: Maria de Buenos Aires (New York City Opera) Legally Blonde (Singapore), MAMMA MIA! (Pepper - DDP Louisville), VeggieTales Live! (National Tour), Scooby Doo Live! (Cairo, Egypt). Love to my family and Big League. ETHAN JAMES LYNCH (Ensemble, U/S Papa Who) Thrilled to be new in Whoville! Credits: 25th Annual... Spelling Bee (Leaf Coneybear - The Theatre Project), She Loves Me (Waiter - The Princeton Festival), My Fair Lady (Freddy - Playhouse 22) My thanks are plentiful! ethanjameslynch.com KATIE MCCONAUGHY (Ensemble) is so excited to be back In Whoville! Credits: “My Crazy Ex” (Lifetime), Hairspray (Brenda), My Fair Lady
JAMES SCHULTZ (Ensemble, U/S Grinch, U/S Old Max) is excited to be back! Credits: Proof (Hal), Les Misérables (Thenardier), First Date (Aaron), 42nd Street (Julian Marsh), Curtains (Aaron Fox). Love to my family, friends, FSE Talent, and Amanda. www.jamesschultz.net @jamesdschultz NEELY SCOTT (Ensemble) is overjoyed to be returning to Whoville. Credits: Scooby-Doo Live! (Velma - Saudi Arabian Nat’l Tour), Annie (Duffy/ Child Wrangler - Fireside Theatre), Alice Between (Alice - Alliance Theatre), Chicago (Hunyak - Nashville Reperatory). Peace & love to all. @neelyescott ANDREW WOOD (Ensemble) is excited to be returning to Whoville! Credits: Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (Danny Who - National Tour). Cabaret (Emcee - FDU), She Loves Me (Arpad - FDU), Six-South (Cyrus - NY Theater Summerfest). Love to my family!! DR. SEUSS (Writer) Dr. Seuss was born Theodor Geisel in Springfield, Massachusetts on March 2, 1904. After attending Dartmouth College and Oxford University, he began a career in advertising. Dr. Seuss’s first children’s book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, hit the market in 1937, changing the world of children’s literature forever. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1984, two Emmy awards and three Academy awards, Seuss was the author and illustrator of 44 books, many of which have been made into audiocassettes, animated television specials and videos. His books include The Cat in the Hat, which infused 236 simple words with rhythm, rhyme and humor, and Green Eggs and Ham which used only 50 words. Even after his death in 1991, Dr. Seuss continues
to be the world’s best-selling author of children’s books. DR. SEUSS ENTERPRISES, L.P. is a leading children’s entertainment company focused on protecting Theodor Seuss Geisel’s (Dr. Seuss) legacy and thereby ensuring that each generation can experience the genius of Dr. Seuss. The company was established in 1993 and is based in San Diego, CA. Dr. Seuss Enterprises’ global endeavors complement Dr. Seuss’s iconic books and include films, TV shows, stage productions, exhibitions, digital media, licensed merchandise, and other strategic partnerships. Ted Geisel once said he never wanted to license his characters to anyone who would “round out the edges” – a guiding principle at Dr. Seuss Enterprises. For more information about Dr. Seuss and his works, visit seussville.com and follow us on Instagram and Facebook. JACK O’BRIEN (Original Director) Broadway: The Hard Problem; Carousel; The Front Page; It’s Only A Play; Macbeth; The Nance; Dead Accounts; Catch Me If You Can; Impressionism; The Coast of Utopia (Tony Award®); Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Tony nominations); Henry IV (Tony Award®); Hairspray (Tony Award® and Drama Desk Award); Imaginary Friends; The Invention of Love (Tony nomination; Drama Desk Award); The Full Monty (Tony nomination); More to Love; Getting Away With Murder; Pride’s Crossing; The Little Foxes; Hapgood (Lucille Lortel Award); Damn Yankees (Tony nomination); Two Shakespearean Actors (Tony nomination); Porgy and Bess (Tony Award®, Most Innovative Revival); St. Louis Woman; The Most Happy Fella. For the Metropolitan Opera, Il Trittico. London: Love Never Dies, March 2010; Hairspray (Olivier Award); His Girl Friday (National Theatre). Artistic Director of the Old Globe Theatre, San Diego, from 1981-2007. Six productions for PBS’s “American Playhouse.” Actor (film): “Sex and the City.” Awards: Artserve Michigan 2008 International Achievement Award; 2008 Theatre Hall of Fame Inductee; 2005 John Houseman Award; 2007 and 2001 Joan Cullman Award for Extraordinary Creativity, 2004 Thomas Degaetani Award (USITT), 2002 “Mr. Abbott”
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Award (SDCF); 2001 Joe A. Callaway Award (SDCF). Member, College of Fellows of the American Theatre; Honorary Doctorate, University of San Diego; Honorary Doctorate, University of Michigan. Author: Jack Be Nimble (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). TIMOTHY MASON (Book & Lyrics) Broadway: Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical (2006 & 2007). Off-Broadway: Levitation, Only You, Babylon Gardens (with Timothy Hutton and Mary-Louise Parker) and The Fiery Furnace (with Julie Harris), all produced by Circle Rep. Regional: the Old Globe, San Diego; Actors Theatre of Louisville; South Coast Rep; Seattle Rep; Victory Gardens, Chicago; the Jungle Theatre and the Guthrie Theatre Lab, Minneapolis; and the Royal National Theatre, London. Tim’s historical thriller, “The Darwin Affair,” is now available from booksellers everywhere. MEL MARVIN (Composer) Bway; Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical, Cymbeline, A History of the American Film, Tintypes (Tony Award® nom.), Yentl, Fascinating Rhythm. Innumerable scores for productions of plays, from Shakespeare (Lincoln Center Theater, Guthrie, A.R.T., Arena Stage, Hartford Stage, McCarter, etc.) to Kushner (Angels in America, Mark Taper Forum), Musicals for young audiences: Little Miss Hollywood, Madeline’s Rescue, Strega Nona Meets Her Match, Mr. Popper’s Penguins, A Cricket in Times Square, Gold. Opera: Guest From the Future, premiered at Bard Summerscape in 2004, and Buwalsky, Opera Spanga, Holland, Yale, the Skirball Center, NYC (2004) Recently: Elmer Gantry at D.C.’s Signature Theatre, Truth and Reconciliation at the O’Neill Theater Center, workshops of Perfect 36. Head Faculty Composer and Director of Production, Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. ALBERT HAGUE (Original Composer of “You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch” and “Welcome Christmas”) His music for the original How the Grinch Stole Christmas, especially the songs “You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch” and “Welcome Christmas” are instantly recognized worldwide by young and old alike. His Broadway career includes the standard “Young and Foolish”
from the hit show Plain and Fancy as well as Redhead, for which he won the Tony in 1959. His film and TV career started when he was in his late 50s with the role of Professor Shorofsky in the movie Fame and the “Fame” TV series, and continued with many small roles in movies such as Space Jam and The Story of Us. Born in 1920 in Berlin, he escaped the Nazis via music scholarships in Rome and Cincinnati and settled in NY. The music from The Grinch is his most enduring achievement. MATT AUGUST (Director) Matt August is a theatre and film director whose productions have broken box-office records on Broadway (How the Grinch Stole Christmas), played Off-Broadway, in many major Regional theatres, in festivals, on National Tours, at the Grand Ol’ Opry and three holiday seasons at Madison Square Garden. They have been featured on television, radio and been performed at the White House for President Bush and several Veteran organizations. He has directed World Premieres, American Premieres, Regional Premieres that have been recognized with nominations and awards from LA’s Ovation, Washington DC’s Helen Hayes, Arizona’s Mac, San Francisco’s Bay Area Critics, Broadway World, Utah’s Audience Choice and Australia’s Helpmann Awards. His work has appeared on Year End Top-Ten lists for the LA Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Huffington Post, Arizona Republic, Oakland Tribune, Tucson Sun, San Jose Mercury News and NPR/KQED. He has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Old Globe Theatre, Drama League, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Acting Company, Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center, the Juilliard School, and San Francisco’s Zen Center. In addition to theatre, he was awarded the Panavision New Filmmakers Grant and directed the Award Winning short family film “How to Get to Candybar” which has played at festivals around the world. He recently directed the American Regional Premiers of King Charles III and In the Heights; the world premiere of Discord-The Gospel According to Jefferson, Dickens and Tolstoy, Shakepeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, and Norris’ Clybourne Park. He was the Associate Director to Jack O’Brien on three Broadway shows and is currently in pre-production for both the feature film and play “LP/
OP,” produced by Freestyle Picture Company. JOHN DELUCA (Original Choreography) Currently producing the live-action feature The Little Mermaid. Old Globe: Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical. Film: Mary Poppins Returns, Into the Woods, Pirates of the Caribbean, On Stranger Tides, Nine, Memoirs of a Geisha, Chicago, The Terminal. TV: “Tony Bennett: An American Classic,” “75th Annual Academy Awards,” “Kennedy Center Honors.” Broadway/ New York theatre: Minnelli on Minnelli, Broadway Sings Elton John, Deborah Voight on Broadway, Sweet Adeline (City Center Encores!), Two Gentlemen of Verona (The Public Theater). National tour: The Boy Friend, Chita & All That Jazz, Music of the Night, Brigadoon. Two Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe nominations, two AFI Top Ten Films, American Musical Theatre Award, Choreography Media Honors, two American Choreography Awards, Hamilton Behind the Camera Award, and the Chita Rivera Award. BOB RICHARD (Choreographer) of the Broadway and touring productions of Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! for the past 14 years. Off Broadway he directed and choreographed Inventing Mary Martin: The Revue of a Lifetime (Joe A. Callaway Award nomination) and The Road to Qatar. He has directed at North Shore Music Theatre, Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, and Theatre By The Sea, including productions of Peter Pan, The Music Man, Beauty and the Beast, and Chicago. He just choreographed West Side Story at The 5th Avenue Theatre, Theatre Under The Stars, and Pioneer Theatre Company, and internationally in Shanghai, Beijing, and Singapore. Bob is a guest master instructor at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. He has received a Footlight Award, Gypsy Rose Lee Award, Ivey Award, Ernie Award, and San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award. Most recently his work has been seen in Tokyo, Japan and soon to open the New National Tour of An American in Paris. ANTOINETTE DIPIETROPOLO (Associate Director and Choreographer) Director/ Choreographer/Creator: “MasterChef
JOHN LEE BEATTY (Scenic Designer) His 115 Broadway productions include: Junk, Disgraced, Other Desert Cities, Venus in Fur, Chicago, Good People, Proof, Doubt, The Color Purple, The Sisters Rosensweig, A Delicate Balance, The Heiress, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Talley’s Folly, Burn This, Fifth of July, Rabbit Hole, Penn & Teller and more. Education: Brown, Yale School of Drama. Awards: Tony, Obie, Outer Critics, Drama Desk, Theater Hall of Fame. ROBERT MORGAN (Costume Designer) Broadway: The Full Monty, Imaginary Friends, I’m Not Rappaport and Sherlock’s Last Case. OffBroadway: Saturn Returns and Pride’s Crossing, Lincoln Center; The Loves of Anatol, Circle in the Square. 101 Dalmatians. Forty years of designing for regional theatres across the U.S; founding Associate Artist, Old Globe Theatre, San Diego.
PAT COLLINS (Original Lighting Designer) Broadway: Doubt (Tony nomination), Proof, A Moon for the Misbegotten, The Heidi Chronicles, I’m Not Rappaport (Tony® Award), Execution of Justice (Drama Desk Award), Sherlock’s Last Case, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Baby, Steaming, Orphans, Good People. Lincoln Center: Dying City, An American Daughter, A Delicate Balance, The Sisters Rosensweig, Threepenny Opera (Tony nomination). CHARLIE MORRISON (Lighting Designer) National/international tours: Disney’s The Little Mermaid, A Christmas Story: The Musical, Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical (NYC, Grand Ole Opry, US Tour), A Chorus Line (U.S., Japan, and China), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Miss Saigon, Aida (U.S. and Asia), The Producers, Man of La Mancha, Guys and Dolls, Groovaloo (N.Y.C., L.A., U.S. Tour), Hello, Dolly!, My Fair Lady, The King and I (U.S. and Korea), Spelling Bee, Gypsy, 42nd Street (U.S. and Japan), Smokey Joe’s Café, The Who’s Tommy (Europe and Japan), Titanic, The Music Man and many others. Regional: Paper Mill Playhouse, Guthrie Theater, Shakespeare Theatre Company (D.C.), Goodspeed Musicals, Seattle Repertory, Seattle 5th Avenue, Broadway Sacramento at Music Circus, Theatre Under the Stars, Dallas Summer Musicals, Kansas City Starlight, Pittsburgh CLO, George Street Playhouse, North Carolina Theatre, PlayMakers Repertory, Tulsa Opera and many others. Charlie is the recipient of two Helen Hayes Awards for Outstanding Lighting Design. www.cmlighting.com. JEREMY OLEKSA (Sound Designer) Jeremy is very excited to be designing this show. Previous show designs include; (Off-Broadway) Would You Still Love Me If. . . . (regional) Hamlet, Becky Shaw, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Sunset Boulevard, Spamalot, Legally Blonde, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Sound of Music, Chicago, Mary Poppins, Witches of Eastwick, West Side Story, South Pacific, Buddy, The Buddy Holly Story, 9 to 5 The Musical. Engineered shows include (Broadway) Misery, Bernhardt/Hamet, True West, All My Sons, Rose Tattoo. Special thanks to my wife Becky for being my alarm clock and pouring the coffee.
MICHAEL STAROBIN (Orchestrator) Once on This Island, Sunday in the Park with George, Mrs. Miller Does Her Thing, Freaky Friday, Kid Victory, Falsettos, First Daughter Suite, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, If/Then, Annie, Dogfight, Leap of Faith, Queen of the Mist, The People in the Picture, Sondheim on Sondheim, Next to Normal (Tony Award), The Glorious Ones, Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Adrift in Macao, Bernarda Alba, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Assassins (Tony Award), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, A New Brain, A Christmas Carol, Hello Again, Guys and Dolls (1992), My Favorite Year, In Trousers, Closer Than Ever, Legs Diamond, Romance/Romance, Carrie, Birds of Paradise, Rags, Three Guys Naked, and Von Richthofen. His film credits include The Hunchback of Notre Dame, A Goofy Movie, Life with Mikey, Home on the Range, Tangled, Lucky Stiff, Beauty and the Beast (2017) and Mary Poppins Returns. DAVID KRANE (Dance Music Arrangements) created the dance music and additional score for the Academy Award–winning “Chicago” and the film of “Nine;” created the musical score adaptation for Disney’s “Into the Woods” starring Meryl Streep; produced and arranged Michelle Williams’s vocals for “My Week with Marilyn;” and composed Aspire with Stephen Cole, the first American musical produced in the Middle East. Their musical comedy about that incredible experience, The Road to Qatar!, was produced in Dallas, New York City, and the Edinburgh Festival. It is licensed by josef-weinberger.com, and the album, produced by jayrecords. com, is available on iTunes. Mr. Krane’s many Broadway credits include Cabaret, On the Twentieth Century, and She Loves Me. His latest work is in Disney’s “Mary Poppins Returns” and his own new original musical, Goin’ Hollywood (goinhollywood.com). davidkrane.com PETER LEIGH-NILSEN (Musical Supervisor, Music Director) National/ International Tours: Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas (U.S.), My Fair Lady (China), The Producers (U.S.), Guys and Dolls (U.S.), Bring It On: The Musical (U.S./Tokyo), and Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida (Taiwan). Regional: Peter Pan (North Shore Music Theatre), She Loves Me (The Princeton
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Festival), Chicago (Theatre By The Sea). He recorded keyboards for the Original Broadway recording of How The Grinch… (Sony Masterworks), and teaches with The Broadway Experience (Tokyo/NYC) and The American Musical Theatre Dance Company. Love to Richard and Maggie. ALISON FRANCK (Casting Director) has been a casting director in NYC for over 20 years. She started as an assistant for many Broadway Productions, then she worked in film/ TV for several years, then from 20002010, she was the Resident Casting Director at Paper Mill Playhouse. In 2011 she joined the team at Liz Lewis Casting Partners, where she cast commercials, voice overs, film/TV and theatre. Alison now runs her own company, Franck Casting, where she has currently cast several tours of wellknown musicals including Dreamgirls, An American in Paris, A Christmas Story: The Musical, A Chorus Line, Legally Blonde & Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical. DON S. GILMORE (Technical Supervisor) has provided production management and technical services for over 300 entertainment projects in the U.S. and abroad. Notable projects include Broadway: An American in Paris, Pippin, Rocky Broadway, 700 Sundays, Guys and Dolls, Grinch, The Pirate Queen, Dracula the Musical, Sinatra. Road: Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes, A Christmas Story the Musical, Grinch, The Producers, Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty, Phantom of the Opera, Tallest Tree in the Forest, Guys and Dolls, Hair. Las Vegas: Magic Mike Live, Puppet Up-Uncensored, Paul ZerdinMouthing Off, Frankie Moreno-Under the Influence, Mat Franco-Magic Reinvented Nightly. International: Magic Mike Live London, Berlin and Australia. Other: The Laramie Project, The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Annex, Times Square New Years Eve. Don lives in NYC with his wife, actress Rebecca Holt, and their three children: Luke, Max and Ruby. RUNNING SUBWAY (Producer) is a NYC based entertainment company founded by James Sanna with Joshua Rosenblum. The board includes Ken Munoz, Allen Paik and Steve Tuttleman. Grinch: Broadway & all Tours. Other prods include Sinatra at the London
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Assistant Sound......................... Brian “Rudy” Rudell Head Props......................................... Shadow Gilmore Assistant Props....................................... Christina Daly Assistant Wardrobe....................................Tyler Guse Head Hair/Makeup...................................... April Spain Dance Captain.............................. Brian Cedric Jones Assistant Dance Captain......Hannah Roberts Brown Tutor/Wrangler................................... Elizabeth Willis
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Actor John Leguizamo grew up in New York City a Colombian immigrant with very few pop-culture role models who looked like him: Ricky Ricardo in “I Love Lucy.” Speedy Gonzales. Freddie Prinze. “They were far and few between,” he said. “Then we had West Side Story, but I feel conflicted about that,” he added of the iconic gang musical that follows rumbling white and Puerto Rican gangs spinning and snapping and stabbing their way through the Upper West Side of Manhattan. “West Side Story was the only Latin representation we had in popular movies back then, but it was all based on very negative information,” he said. “And on the news, you saw yourself constantly portrayed very negatively. Our positive stories were never celebrated.” It was not until Leguizamo became a grown man that his research led him to great Latin writers such as Gabriel García Márquez, Roberto Bolaño, Isabel Allende, Pablo Neruda and others dating back to the 1800s. And that got him wondering what else he wasn’t taught in school about the contributions of Latin leaders, artists and soldiers throughout history. Leguizamo, an amorphous human encyclopedia who absorbs facts as easily as breathing, has since made himself an expert on the subject, and that has led to his latest one-man theatrical production. Latin History for Morons is not only playing in Denver, it was largely developed right here back in 2017. “Comedy Works was great for me because they gave me the opportunity to really workshop this show,” he said. “I went there for four nights doing two shows a night.” But it wasn’t standup comedy. “No, I just read to these poor people from my notes,” he said. “People in comedy clubs are not used to being read to. And it was a 2½ hour show. I think they were drunk out of their minds, because they just kept pouring the alcohol, and it was the longest show they’ve ever had.” But that was part of the genesis of a show that went on to Broadway and won a special 2018 Tony Award. “Denver people are the ones who helped me make this show,” he said, “and now I’m grateful that I can bring it back to them all polished and retooled.” Leguizamo was motivated to develop Latin History for Morons for his son, who was being bullied and racially profiled in his middle school not far from where Leguizamo was raised. Leguizamo also had grown up feeling othered and second-class, and he was done with that. “I was like, wait a minute. How is this possible with all these contributions from Latin people?” he said. “I wanted to give my son facts and information about Latin heroes to empower him.” But Leguizamo was the one who was changed. Or, as he put it: “Un-moronized.” “I was empowered. I was transformed,” he said. “It was like a domino effect. The information I found started to double and triple and quadruple. I couldn’t believe the incredible amount of Latin contributions to America and the world I found.
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From blasphemy to Broadway to banned to broadcast television, few pop-culture titles have generated the kind of buzz Jesus Christ Superstar has generated along the road to its current 50th anniversary national touring production. A decade after its last major tour, this iconic musical phenomenon is back, buoyed by a jaw-dropping 2018 reimagination that aired as a live concert on NBC and left many critics saying the high-energy staging had set a new standard for live theatrical broadcasts. “What could have felt like a dated rock opera was more like an uproarious arena concert filled with screaming fans,” wrote Deadline critic Dino-Ray Ramos. That Emmy Award-winning effort essentially cast the live audience as the so-called 50,000 screaming Jesus fans that Simon sings are ready to “ride into Jerusalem” and effect the greatest revolution in world history. That ambience is more in line with the kind of energy composer Andrew Lloyd Webber first had in mind when he and Tim Rice dared to imagine the final weeks in the life of Jesus Christ through a decidedly late 1960s rock ’n’ roll lens. “Superstar was written like a radio play, because that was the closest thing we had available to us,” Webber told Rolling Stone magazine. “I think it works best when it’s closer to a rock concert.” The new national tour, helmed by acclaimed director Timothy Sheader and cutting-edge choreographer Drew McOnie, captured a similar live energy as well, and subsequently won the 2017 Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival. From the start, Superstar was slammed as blasphemous. Imagine the audacity of a new rock musical that dared to
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tell the story of Christ’s downfall from the sympathetic perspective of his chief betrayer? The writers couldn’t find a producer at first. “We were told it was the worst idea in history,” Lloyd Webber later recalled. So he and Rice transformed their stage musical into a two-record concept album that was released in 1970, just after The Who’s own two-record celebrity opus, “Tommy.” But Rice was more inspired by the Bob Dylan anthem “With God On Our Side,” which features Judas in its penultimate verse. Rice was fascinated by the idea of Judas not as a craven back-stabber but rather a close friend struggling with the implications of Jesus’ growing popularity. “From a very young age, I had wondered what I might have done in the situations in which Pontius Pilate and Judas Iscariot found themselves,” Rice wrote in his autobiography. “How were they to know Jesus would be accorded divine status by millions and that they would as a result be condemned down the ages?” When the legendary concept album hit No. 1 on the Billboard charts behind songs such as “I Don’t Know How to Love Him,” “Gethsemane,” “Heaven on their Minds” and the title tune, a Broadway staging went from impossible to inevitable. American fans had begun staging unauthorized live performances in churches and theaters around the country. But what bowed on Broadway in 1971 was polarizing. Webber himself called that first (of four) Broadway productions “brash and vulgar” — and he was not alone. The show was banned in South Africa and protested by everyone from the American Jewish Committee to the
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Alvin Crawford, Tyce Green and the company of the North American Tour of Jesus Christ Superstar. Photo by Matthew Murphy.
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR IS REBORN AT 50
“…not only do I appreciate your beautiful rock-opera film, I believe it will bring more people around the world to Christianity than anything ever has before.” — POPE PAUL VI TO NORMAN JEWISON, DIRECTOR THE FILM ADAPTATION OF JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR
Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith to evangelist Billy Graham. (Though Graham did acknowledge that “if the production causes young people to search their Bibles, to that extent it may be beneficial.”) One of the major criticisms of Webber and Rice was having Judas come back from the dead to sing the title song, without taking a stand on the possible resurrection of Jesus. But if you look closely at the final shot of the 1973 film, said Ted Neeley, who played Jesus in the film (and on stage for the next 40 years), you can see a mysterious someone walking in the desert. “And let me just say: Those who have eyes to see will see that mysterious someone,” Neeley told The Denver Post during a 2008 tour stop in Denver. “The reason for that shot is that Norman Jewison and myself took issue with the fact that Tim and Andrew felt the piece needed to end with a crucifixion, showing no suggestion of possible resurrection and ascension,” Neeley said. “So when Norman made the film, that mysterious appearance is to suggest that life does go on, that there was resurrection of the spirit.” Ironically, Jesus Christ Superstar has found favor with Catholic popes across the decades. Jewison, who directed the 1973 film, arranged a special screening for Pope Paul VI. Neeley quotes Paul VI as saying: “Mr. Jewison, not only do I appreciate your beautiful rock-opera film, I believe it will bring more people around the world to Christianity than anything ever has before.” And the current Pope Francis said he enjoyed a recent stage production of Superstar in Rome. From its birth, Superstar reflected the rock roots that defined a generation. It has been credited (and blamed) for ushering in Broadway’s decades-long “British invasion” that brought such mega-hits as Cats and Les Misérables. And as time has passed, it has proven to be one of those musicals that demands to be re-interpreted again and again, as it has been for its 50th anniversary tour.
ll people A are equal Moments are shared Differences are valued Discussion is encouraged
FAMOUS MARY MAGDALENES Yvonne Elliman: Broadway and 1973 film Sara Bareilles: NBC Live in Concert Jenna Rubaii: 50th anniversary national tour FAMOUS JESUSES Murray Head: 1970 concept album Ted Neeley: 1973 film Billy Lewis, Jr.: 2017 Arvada Center staging John Legend: NBC Live in Concert Aaron LaVigne: 50th anniversary national tour FAMOUS JUDASES Ben Vereen: Broadway originator Carl Anderson: 1973 film Tony Vincent: 2000 Broadway (DCPA Theatre Company’s The Twelve) James Delisco Beeks: 50th anniversary national tour
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR NOV 26 – DEC 1 • BUELL THEATRE ASL Interpreted, Audio-described and Open Captioned performance: Nov 30, 2pm
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Carmen Molina, Blanca Primero, Judith Primero, Maria Reyes Soto, Michael Thomas.....................................Custodians Events Dawn Williams.............................................. Director, Event Sales & Marketing Tara Miller......................................... Senior Manager Danielle Bell, Savanna Campbell, Matt Leaver..................................................Managers BROADWAY & CABARET Brook Nichols......Director, Event Technology ADMINISTRATION Tom Duffin...........Manager, Event Technology John Ekeberg.........................Executive Director Colin Dieck, Stori Heleen, Will Stowe, Alicia Bruce.................................General Manager Ian Wells............Specialists, Event Technology Ashley Brown...........................Business Manager MARKETING, SALES & GARNER GALLERIA THEATRE PATRON SERVICES Abel Becerra............................. Technical Director Lisa Mallory........................................Vice President Anna Hookana+, Patrick Berger.............Audience Development Alex Reshetniak+......................Core Stagehands Manager Heidi Bosk.................................Associate Director, DEVELOPMENT PR & Integrated Marketing Shelley Thompson.........................Vice President Rachel Cadden......................... Communications Coordinator Rebecca Clark.......................................Coordinator Megan Fevurly....................... Associate Director Casey Eickhoff, Tamara Fox....................................Manager, Grants Brenda Elliott..........Senior Graphic Designers Marc Ravenhill................Manager, Stewardship Brianna Firestone..........Director of Marketing, Insights & Strategy Megan Stewart..............Events & Development Officer Rachel Garn..................................Email Developer Julie Voorhees....Manager, Capital Campaign Jacquelyn Glover.......Junior Web Developer/ Administration Erin Walker..............Senior Director, Major Gifts Brittany Gutierrez.................... Communications Associate EDUCATION & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Donna Hendricks................Executive Assistant Allison Watrous..................... Executive Director Jeff Hovorka......... Director, Sales & Marketing Patrick Elkins-Zeglarski............................ Director, Emily Kent................................Director, Marketing Education & Curriculum Management Lucas Kreitler.............Junior Graphic Designer Stuart Barr................................. Technical Director David Lenk.......................................Video Producer Claudia Carson.....Teaching Artist & Program Emily Lozow......Marketing & Digital Manager Manager – Playwriting & Bobby G Adam Lundeen...........Marketing Technologist Leslie Channell.............................................. Director, Kyle Malone.....................................Design Director Business Operations Helen Masvikeni..........................Project Manager Emily Doherty.......Teaching Artist & Program Cheyenne Michaels.........Marketing Associate Manager – Theatre for Young Audiences John Moore....................... Senior Arts Journalist Hanna Dotson....................... 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Scenic Design Lisa M. Orzolek...............................................Director Kevin Nelson, Nicholas Renaud...... Assistants Lighting Design Charles R. MacLeod....................................Director Lily Bradford..................................................Assistant Reid Tennis+......................Production Electrician Multimedia Gregory W. Towle............................. Projections & New Technology Supervisor Sound Design Craig Breitenbach........................................Director Alex Billman+, Frank Haas+, Pedro Lumbrano+.................Sound Technicians Stage Management Kurt Van Raden.....Production Stage Manager Rachel Ducat, Heidi Echtenkamp, Corin Davidson, Rick Mireles, Michael Morales, D. Lynn Reiland...........................Stage Managers Scene Shop Eric J. Moore............................. Technical Director Josh Prues, Robert L. Orzolek...............Associate Technical Directors Albert “Stub” Allison.........Assistant Technical Director Louis Fernandez III.................Master Carpenter Ian Macleod, Brian “Marco” Markiewicz............... Lead Technicians Tyler Clark, Amy “Wynn” Pastor, Kyle Scoggins, Mara Zimmerman................Scenic Technicians Prop Shop Robin Lu Payne....................Properties Director Eileen S. Garcia...................Assistant Properties Director Jamie Stewart Curl, Tobias Harding, Georgina Kayes, Tony Nguyen, Katie Webster..................................Props Artisans Paint Shop Jana L. Mitchell...................Charge Scenic Artist Melanie Rentschler...............Lead Scenic Artist Kristin Hamer MacFarlane............Scenic Artist Costume Shop Janet S. MacLeod.......................................Director/ Costume Design Associate Meghan Anderson Doyle......................Costume Design Associate Carolyn Plemitscher, Louise Powers, Jackie Scott, Corrine Serfass................Drapers Cathie Gagnon..........................................First Hand Sheila P. Morris..................................................... Tailor Costume Crafts Kevin Copenhaver.........................................Director Chris Campbell............................................Assistant Wigs Diana Ben-Kiki........................................Wig Master House Crew Doug Taylor+.................Supervising Stagehand Jim Berman+, Stephen D. Mazzeno+, Kyle Moore+, Miles Stasica+, Matt Wagner+.........................................Stagehands Wardrobe Brenda Lawson..............................................Director Mary Capers^, Jessica A. Rayburn^ ...................Wig Assistants Robin Appleton^, Amber Donner^, Anthony Mattivi^, Tim Nelson^, Lisa Parsons Wagner^, Alan Richards^..............................................Dressers *Member, I.A.T.S.E. Local B-7 + Member, I.A.T.S.E. Local 7 ^Member, I.A.T.S.E. Local 719 As of 10/25/2019
Rescued From Darkness and Misery... And Given Incredible Freedom
Over 500 Lions, Tigers, Bears, Wolves and other rescued animals live on a 10,473 Acre Refuge!
Our rescued animals have no family other than those who choose to keep them close to their hearts. Please add them to the list of those you care about this holiday season.
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