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Welcome to a new year filled with returning favorites, exciting debuts and never-before-seen-but-soon-to-be hits.

In February, we welcome both local guests and industry peers to join us for our annual Colorado New Play Summit. This is an opportunity to hear actors read plays that are currently in development. First, we receive hundreds of script submissions.

Then, we select several to rehearse with a director, a dramaturg who serves as the literary editor and a professional cast. Finally, our actors “read” the play for a live audience.

This is the really exciting part — you experience the play without benefit of lighting, costumes, music and scenery. You simply hear the words and the stage directions while your mind fills in the blanks. The playwright takes in your reactions to help inform minor changes to a scene or major changes to the play. At no other time is the audience’s reaction quite as crucial as in the development of the script.

As part of this year’s Summit, we are delighted to offer: • In the Upper Room by Beaufield Berry (reading) • Wally World by Isaac Gomez (reading) • You Lost Me by Bonnie Metzgar (reading) • twenty50 by Tony Meneses (reading and DCPA commission) • Rattlesnake Kate with music and lyrics of Neyla Pekarek and book

by Karen Hartman (concert reading and DCPA commission) • Finalists in our High School playwriting competition (readings) • Last Night and the Night Before by Donnetta Lavinia Grays (world premiere production) • The Whistleblower by Itamar Moses (world premiere production) These works are at the beginning of their journeys while other current productions are well established in the American theatre — Anna Karenina, Rock of Ages and A Bronx Tale (read Chazz Palminteri’s determination to bring his real-life story to the stage on page 10).

Every aspiring actor, playwright, director and designer needs support and encouragement to foster their abilities. Fortunately, DCPA Education cultivates that talent through a variety of programs.

And those programs are made possible in part through proceeds from our annual Saturday Night Alive gala coming up March 2. This year, we honor former DCPA Chairman Daniel L. Ritchie, feature entertainment by Vanessa Williams and showcase students in our Education program.

Whether you enjoy established playwrights, glittering fundraisers, continuing education, or new diverse works, winter at the DCPA is filled with opportunity. We hope you’ll be part of our journey.

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When Chazz Palminteri was in Denver back in 2009 to promote his one-man play A Bronx Tale, he finished the interview with a daring aside: “A Bronx Tale is a great movie, and it’s a great play,” he said. “And I will tell you something else: One day it’ll be a great musical, too. You watch.”

Seven years later, Palminteri was proven right. Again.

“I just knew,” Palminteri says now of the fully fleshed 1950s musical that played exactly 700 performances on Broadway before hitting the road on its Denver-bound national tour. “It had everything a musical needs. First off, it had a great story. It’s a classic. The characters I wrote are archetypes. If I could get great music, I knew it would click.

And it did. It’s poetic.”

But it took a decade, starting back in 2006, for Palminteri to pull it off. “I would say out of all the things I’ve tried — writing, directing, acting and producing — musicals are the hardest by far, because there are just so many things that could go wrong,” Palminteri said. “You could have a great book, but if the music’s not great, you’re sunk. If you don’t cast it right, you’re done. The wrong director could destroy it. It’s like a circus with a thousand moving parts that you’ve really got to put together just right. It’s hard. But when you hit it like we did, there is nothing like it. People are just going bananas over this show.”

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Palminteri did it by surrounding himself with the most talented people he could find: Four-time Tony winner Jerry Zaks and film legend Robert De Niro as co-directors. Music mogul Tommy Mottola producing. And, after some fits and starts, he landed eight-time Academy Award winner Alan Menken and three-time Tony nominee Glenn Slater to write the music. (Palminteri wrote the book himself.)

“Look it, that doesn’t guarantee it’s going to come out great,” Palminteri said. “But we put a lot of great minds together, and a great musical came out of it.”

Palminteri has been telling his story in one form or another for 30 years. A Bronx Tale is the “semiautobiographical” story of young Calogero (Palminteri’s given name), who at age nine sees local mobster Sonny LoSpecchio commit a murder but won’t give him up to the police. When Sonny takes the boy in, it sets up a clash between his father — a hard-working bus driver — and his new gangster father figure. Ultimately, it’s a story about trying to do what’s right when what’s right isn’t always obvious.

“Look, this is not a gangster story. This is a family story,” Palminteri said. “This is about the triumph of the spirit. This is about a young boy whose father taught him the saddest thing in life is wasted talent.

“Don’t waste your life.”

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Palminteri’s life changed in 1989 when he debuted his play on a Hollywood stage, portraying all 18 characters himself. And from there, he didn’t waste a minute. “My whole career just blew up,” he said. The film rights, he says, became the most sought after property since Rocky.

What happened next is now movie lore: Palminteri wanted to play Sonny. The studio wanted a star. Palminteri was down to $200 in the bank but even when the offer grew to $1 million for Palminteri to hand over his script and walk away, he said no. Until De Niro came to see the play. He told Palminteri: “Look. I’ll play your father. I’ll direct it. You play Sonny. You’ll write. We’ll be partners.”

Palminteri had to wait another three years for De Niro’s schedule to clear, but it was clearly worth the wait. Critics loved the movie. The next year, Palminteri was nominated for an Oscar for Bullets over Broadway — and never again had only $200 in the bank.

Palminteri said he keeps bringing A Bronx Tale back in new forms because there is always a new crop of nine year olds who don’t know the story.

“Some people who never saw the one-man show and never saw the movie, they see the musical for the first time and then go back and revisit the movie,” Palminteri said. “So one feeds off the other.”

But the musical could not work without great music. And the score brings another level of realism to the story, Palminteri says.

“It starts out with four guys on the corner singing doo-wop under a street light,” he said. “That’s what it was like back then. All the different kids had their own kind of music. The music was clashing just like the people were.

Alan Menken is from that time, and so am I, so we were able to really nail it in the story.”

But the musical was ultimately a hit, he said, because it passes the Alfred Hitchcock test.

“Hitchcock said, ‘There are only three things you can do to an audience: You can make them laugh, you can make them cry or you can scare them. That’s it.

And if you do two out of three, you’ve got a hit,’” Palminteri said. “In A Bronx Tale, we make you laugh, we make you cry and we scare you. We do all three.

“I guarantee you the people who come see it in Denver will come again because it’s just that powerful. People cannot get enough of it because they learn something new every time. And I encourage people to bring their families.

It’s a really great piece for young people to see. Boys, girls, from 11 years old to 90. I guarantee they will like it.”

And at the end of this latest interview, Palminteri had one more full-circle prediction to make.

“I’ll leave you with one thing,” he said. “Remember this: One day, there will be a movie of the musical. You mark my words.”

Marked.

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Is it possible to squeeze a roughly thousand-page novel into less than three hours on stage?

Not easily. Ask anyone who’s tried and failed.

Or do as I did: ask Chris Coleman, the DCPA Theatre Company’s Artistic Director, who recognized that the huge but complicated potential of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina might be worth the effort — and did something about it.

Early in this century, Coleman had helped Kevin McKeon, a member of Seattle’s Book-It Repertory Theatre, with an adaptation of David Guterson’s Snow Falling on Cedars that Coleman was mounting in a second production at Portland Center Stage, where he was the Artistic Director at the time.

“Kevin managed to take a very complex — and long — story and condense it into something that felt taut, suspenseful, muscular and poetic,” Coleman said in a recent exchange of emails. “I loved how he boiled things down.

It was impressive.” So impressive that Coleman suggested to McKeon that he might like to consider tackling an adaption of Anna Karenina.

McKeon hadn’t even read the novel. But, as he told an interviewer at the time, “it loomed as a challenge and that’s what hooked me.”

The project took roughly two years to complete, emerging as a hit with Portland audiences when Center Stage held its world premiere in 2012.

“Thinking about the flow of my first season in Denver,” Coleman wrote, “I wanted a big, classic story in The Stage Theatre. I considered Shakespeare, but felt it might be a bit obvious.

I also noted that adaptations of literature had resonated well with [Denver] audiences.

“I’ve been involved in several conversions from page to stage. I love the challenge of translating between mediums. I’ve directed several Chekhov productions, and two Dostoyevskys over the years — and love the wild world of pre-revolutionary Russia. I also knew that, besides being a multilayered love story, Anna K would offer a sweeping epic treatment that could be very dynamic.”

It was Oprah Winfrey, Coleman said, who introduced him to “the beautiful translation of Anna Karenina by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky that came out about a decade ago.

“I was surprised by what a page-turner it was.

So layered and complex. A feast. Definitely on my list of all time greats.”

Shaping the introspection and sheer volume of Anna Karenina into a functional play, however, forced adapter McKeon to seek and find a looser approach with the writing. That never meant playing around with the central story — that of Anna, a St. Petersburg socialite, married to a prominent government official and swept off her feet

by Count Vronsky, a handsome, well-to-do Cavalry Officer. Their passionate affair drastically altered their lives and ended badly. That remains unchanged.

So does a parallel plot involving Constantin Levin, a liberal landowner

and old friend of Anna’s brother. Levin’s well-meaning but lame efforts at a back-to-the-land existence include clumsy attempts at democratizing the handling of serfs on his estate. Aside from counterbalancing the love story, his tale makes room for Tolstoy to offer some of his own complex views on nothing less than faith, politics and the meaning of life.

“Levin and Anna... That is a huge one isn’t it,” Coleman volunteered. “My first impulse is that they might somehow express two different aspects of Tolstoy’s own psyche. He had a very robust and adventurous sex life when he was a young man. The tension that created with the philosopher/social change agent within him likely fueled much of his writing in some way.”

The stage adaptation of Anna that McKeon finally achieved doesn’t attempt to replicate Tolstoy’s dense, detailed and emotional language.

Too novelistic. He needed to find a way to interweave the parallel stories concisely, and he eventually settled on a technique created by Paul Sills in the 1970s called Story Theatre, wherein the characters on stage take on the speaking of the narrative as well as the dialogue.

COSTUME COLUMN With the lavish grandeur of Imperial Russian fashion as his inspiration, Anna Karenina Costume Designer Jeff Cone had his work cut out for him.

“Period costumes, while more intricate and time-intensive, are also much more fun and interesting to design,” says Cone in an interview with Portland Center Stage. Intricate and time-intensive, indeed. Late-19th century fashions in Saint Petersburg were embellished with fur, embroidery, and ornate decorations such as pearls and jewels. At least, that’s what the upper class was wearing.

A parallel story to Anna’s tragic romance is that of Konstantin Levin, a wealthy country landowner who wrestles internally with the class disparities he witnesses around him.

“The people who we spend the most time with in this production are in the top .5% of the economic ladder of that world,” says Chris Coleman, Theatre Company Artistic Director and director of Anna Karenina. “So when we see the more humble people in that world, it’s a sharp contrast.”

As for how to fit 83 costumes into a two-act play with 17 actors that moves at a cinematic clip, Cone hopes you won’t notice at all. “When the actors become their characters, their dress becomes a part of them and their performance. A great costume shouldn’t draw attention away from that performance. If the costumes aren’t noticed, we’ve done our job.”

It was revolutionary that [Tolstoy] took this very complex love story, and used it as a motor around which he could take on all the major debates and boiling points of the day.

— CHRIS COLEMAN, DIRECTOR OF ANNA KARENINA AND DCPA THEATRE COMPANY ARTISTIC DIRECTOR This greatly tightens the connective tissue, allowing scenes to flow smoothly one into the next. By using such “theatrical shorthand,” McKeon, who’s an actor and director as well as a writer, compressed long stretches of narrative into fewer lines, while retaining a bracing vitality.

“What is interesting about Tolstoy’s journey with the story,” Coleman pointed out, “is what he thought he was setting out to write, and what he ended up writing. As someone born to enormous privilege, who spent his life trying to upend the social and spiritual status quo, it seems he began thinking he would be condemning the infidelity that leads to Anna’s downfall.

“But the farther he walked on the journey, the deeper his personal involvement in the individual psyches involved, and the poet in him took over. The facets are so various, it’s hard to decide where he landed or if he landed in one place, morally. It was revolutionary that he took this very complex love story and used it as a motor around which he could take on all the major debates and boiling points of the day.”

Denver’s Karenina has a cast of 17 actors, all of them new to the play and to this entirely new production.

“There is no way to replicate the intimacy of the experience of actually reading a novel when you translate it to the stage,” Coleman acquiesced in parting, “but you do gain visual style, tension, action and forward momentum. The trick is making place for the narrative voice and not letting that voice deflate the forward motion.

“It’s a dance.”

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GLENN SLATER

Based on the Play by CHAZZ PALMINTERI with

JOE BARBARA RICHARD H. BLAKE JOEY BARREIRO MICHELLE ARAVENA BRIANNA-MARIE BELL ANTONIO BEVERLY FRANKIE LEONI SHANE PRY MIKE BACKES MICHAEL BARRA SEAN BELL JOSHUA MICHAEL BURRAGE JOEY CALVERI GIOVANNI DiGABRIELE JOHN GARDINER PETER GREGUS HALEY HANNAH KIRK LYDELL ASHLEY McMANUS CHRISTOPHER MESSINA ROBERT PIERANUNZI BRANDI PORTER KYLI RAE PAUL SALVATORIELLO JOSEPH J. SIMEONE BRITTANY WILLIAMS JASON WILLIAMS Scenic Design

Lighting Design

Costume Design

BEOWULF BORITT Hair and Wig Design

Makeup Design

PAUL HUNTLEY Orchestrations

Technical Supervision

ROBERT WESTLEY

HUDSON THEATRICAL ASSOCIATES

Music Direction

Period Music Consultant

Music Coordinator

Company Manager

Production Stage Manager

BRIAN P. KENNEDY

Associate Director

Associate Choreographer

STEPHEN EDLUND

Fight Coordinator

Sound Design

GARETH OWEN

ANNE FORD-COATES

DOUG BESTERMAN

Production Manager

HOWELL BINKLEY

WILLIAM IVEY LONG

JOHNNY GALE

MARC KIMELMAN Casting

NETWORKS PRESENTATIONS

TARA RUBIN CASTING

WALKER WHITE

MERRI SUGARMAN, CSA

JEFF MENSCH Tour Booking, Marketing & Press

BROADWAY BOOKING OFFICE NYC

Executive Producers

JOHN MILLER

KELSEY TIPPINS

General Management

GENTRY & ASSOCIATES GREGORY VANDER PLOEG

Associate Producer

DANA SHERMAN SETH WENIG

LAUREN MITCHELL Music Supervision and Arrangements by

RON MELROSE Choreography by

SERGIO TRUJILLO Direction by

ROBERT DE NIRO AND JERRY ZAKS World Premiere, Paper Mill Playhouse, in Millburn, New Jersey on February 14, 2016 Mark S. Hoebee, Producing Artistic Director

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CAST

(in order of appearance) DOO-WOP GUYS ...................................................................SEAN BELL, JOSHUA MICHAEL BURRAGE, GIOVANNI DiGABRIELE, JOSEPH J. SIMEONE CALOGERO .................................................................................................................................. JOEY BARREIRO SONNY................................................................................................................................................ JOE BARBARA YOUNG CALOGERO ...................................................................................................................FRANKIE LEONI YOUNG CALOGERO (at some performances)...........................................................................SHANE PRY MAN WITH BAT ..................................................................................................................................... SEAN BELL CARMINE............................................................................................................................................ JOEY CALVERI ROSINA ................................................................................................................................. MICHELLE ARAVENA LORENZO..................................................................................................................................RICHARD H. BLAKE POLICE OFFICER .......................................................................................................................... JOEY CALVERI RUDY THE VOICE...................................................................................................................... JOHN GARDINER EDDIE MUSH ..................................................................................................................................... MIKE BACKES JOJO THE WHALE.................................................................................................................... MICHAEL BARRA FRANKIE COFFEECAKE................................................................................................ROBERT PIERANUNZI TONY-TEN-TO-TWO....................................................................................................... PAUL SALVATORIELLO SALLY SLICK .......................................................................................................................................... SEAN BELL HANDSOME NICK ........................................................................................................ GIOVANNI DiGABRIELE CRAZY MARIO...................................................................................................................... JOSEPH J. SIMEONE JESSE............................................................................................................................................. JASON WILLIAMS DENISE ..................................................................................................................................... ASHLEY McMANUS TYRONE.................................................................................................................................... ANTONIO BEVERLY JANE ................................................................................................................................... BRIANNA-MARIE BELL FRIEDA ..........................................................................................................................................BRANDI PORTER GANG LEADER ............................................................................................................................... JOEY CALVERI YOUNG LORENZO ...........................................................................................JOSHUA MICHAEL BURRAGE ENSEMBLE .................................................................................................. MIKE BACKES, MICHAEL BARRA, SEAN BELL, JOSHUA MICHAEL BURRAGE, JOEY CALVERI, GIOVANNI DiGABRIELE, JOHN GARDINER, HALEY HANNAH, KIRK LYDELL, ASHLEY McMANUS, ROBERT PIERANUNZI, BRANDI PORTER, KYLI RAE, PAUL SALVATORIELLO, JOSEPH J. SIMEONE, JASON WILLIAMS SWINGS PETER GREGUS, CHRISTOPHER MESSINA, BRITTANY WILLIAMS UNDERSTUDIES

Understudies never substitue for listed performers unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the performance.

For Calogero: GIOVANNI DiGABRIELE, JOSEPH J. SIMEONE; for Sonny: JOEY CALVERI, PAUL SALVATORIELLO; for Lorenzo: MIKE BACKES, JOHN GARDINER; for Jane: ASHLEY McMANUS, BRANDI PORTER; for Rosina: HALEY HANNAH, KYLI RAE; for Tyrone: KIRK LYDELL, JASON WILLIAMS DANCE CAPTAIN: Christopher Messina ASSISTANT DANCE CAPTAIN: Haley Hannah FIGHT CAPTAIN: Michael Barra THERE WILL BE ONE 15-MINUTE INTERMISSION. PLACE: The Bronx, New York THE TIME: 1960 and 1968

JOE BARBARA

ANTONIO BEVERLY

JOSHUA MICHAEL BURRAGE

RICHARD H. BLAKE

FRANKIE LEONI

JOEY CALVERI

JOEY BARREIRO

MICHELLE ARAVENA

BRIANNA-MARIE BELL

SHANE PRY

MIKE BACKES

MICHAEL BARRA

SEAN BELL

GIOVANNI DiGABRIELE

JOHN GARDINER

PETER GREGUS

HALEY HANNAH

KIRK LYDELL

ASHLEY McMANUS

CHRISTOPHER MESSINA

ROBERT PIERANUNZI

BRANDI PORTER

KYLI RAE

PAUL SALVATORIELLO

JOSEPH J. SIMEONE

BRITTANY WILLIAMS

JASON WILLIAMS

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CAST

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MUSICAL NUMBERS Act One “Belmont Avenue”........................................................................................................ Calogero and Ensemble “Look to Your Heart”.........................................................................................Lorenzo and Young Calogero “Roll ’Em”.............................................................................................Sonny, Young Calogero and Ensemble “I Like It” ............................................................................................................ Young Calogero and Ensemble “Giving Back the Money”..................................................Lorenzo, Young Calogero, Rosina and Sonny “I Like It” (Reprise) .....................................................Calogero, Young Calogero, Sonny and Ensemble “Ain’t It the Truth” .......................................... Calogero, Handsome Nick, Crazy Mario and Sally Slick “Out of Your Head” ..........................................................................................Calogero, Jane and Ensemble “Nicky Machiavelli” .............................................................................. Sonny, Rudy the Voice, Eddie Mush, Frankie Coffeecake, JoJo the Whale and Tony-Ten-To-Two “These Streets”................................................................................. Lorenzo, Sonny, Rosina, and Ensemble

Act Two “Webster Avenue” ..................................................... Jane, Calogero, Tyrone, Jesse, Denise and Frieda “Out of Your Head” (Reprise) ........................................................................................................................ Jane “One of the Great Ones” .............................................................................................................................. Sonny “Ain’t It the Truth” (Reprise) .................................................................................................Tyrone and Jesse “Look to Your Heart” (Reprise).................................................................................................................. Rosina “One of the Great Ones” (Reprise) .....................................................................................................Calogero “Hurt Someone” ................................................................................................................................The Company “In a World Like This”.......................................................................................Calogero, Jane and Ensemble “The Choices We Make” .................................................................................................................The Company

ORCHESTRA Conductor/Keyboards: Brian P. Kennedy Associate Conductor/Keyboards: Noah Landis Assistant Conductor/Keyboards: Lisa LeMay Woodwinds: Theodore Hogarth, Jordan Standlee; Trumpet/Flugel: Jeff Ostroski; Trombone: Craig Watson; Guitars: Brian LaFontaine; Drums: Paul Davis; Acoustic and Electric Bass: Frank Canino Keyboard Programmer: Randy Cohen Music Coordinator: John Miller

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JOE BARBARA (Sonny) is thrilled to reprise this iconic role after playing Sonny in the Broadway production.

Broadway: Grease! (Danny Zuko).

Vegas: Jersey Boys (Gyp). National Tour: Grease! Off-Broadway: Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding, Nunsense, I Come for Love. Regional: Guys n’ Dolls, Beauty and the Beast. TV: “Another World” (Joe Carlino, series regular); “All My Children,” (Paolo Caselli), “Law & Order.” Joe’s the voice of “Ray Boccino” in Grand Theft Auto IV. Film producer: Migraine, (short), 2012 Tribeca Film Festival. Thanks to Chazz Palminteri for his support, and to the entire creative team. Love to Nicole, Joseph, Nicholas, and Mario.

RICHARD H. BLAKE (Lorenzo) originated Lorenzo in Broadway’s A Bronx Tale. Other Broadway: Jersey Boys (Tommy), Wicked (Fiyero), Legally Blonde (Warner), The Wedding Singer (Glen), Hairspray (Link), Rent (Roger) Aida, Saturday Night Fever, Matilda, The Prince of Central Park, Macbeth, The Sound of Music. National Tour: Wicked, Saturday Night Fever, Footloose. Film / TV: Life of an Actress, Ascent to Hell, Any Day Now, “Blue Bloods,” “Instinct,” “Kevin Can Wait,” “Elementary,” “All My Children.” Numerous Off- Broadway, commercial and radio credits. His favorite roles are husband and father to his amazing wife and son. @richardhblake on Instagram and Twitter JOEY BARREIRO (Calogero) is jazzed to be here. National Tour: Newsies (Jack Kelly). Regional: Newsies (Pittsburgh CLO and Sacramento Music Circus), Witches of Eastwick (Ogunquit), Ragtime (Westchester Broadway), A Chorus Line (Connecticut Rep), Into the Woods (Studio Tenn).

MICHELLE ARAVENA (Rosina).

Broadway: A Bronx Tale, Rocky, Jersey Boys, A Chorus Line (revival). National Tour: West Side Story, Anita (2010, dir. Arthur Laurents); Jersey Boys (Chicago, First National Tour, Vegas); Les Misérables; Mamma Mia. Favorite Regional: Evita, Eva (St Louis Rep); Jersey Boys, Mary (The Muny); Guys and Dolls, Adelaide (TUTS); Bye Bye Birdie, Rosie (Jeff nom); West Side Story, Anita (Jeff winner); Drury Lane Theater in Chicago. Other: Old Globe,

Goodspeed, Asolo, Walnut Street, ATL. Stewart Talent NY. BRIANNA-MARIE BELL (Jane) made her Broadway debut in A Bronx Tale and is thrilled to continue the journey on its first national tour. Broadway: A Bronx Tale (Denise). National Tour: Flashdance (KiKi), Beautiful – The Carole King Musical (Swing). Regional: Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Cinderella). Thanks to Mom, Dad, Sean and all her family and friends for their endless love and support.

Special thanks to SW Artist. Isaiah 40 28:31 Instagram: @briannamariebell, Twitter: @BriannaMBell ANTONIO BEVERLY (Tyrone) is thrilled to make his first national tour debut! National Tour: Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella (ensemble; u/s Jean-Michel and Lord Pinkleton).

Antonio is also an alumnus of The School at Jacobs Pillow from the 2014 Musical Theater Program. Thanks to God, friends and family! See you on Webster! Instagram/Twitter: @antoniobev3rly FRANKIE LEONI (Young Calogero) is thrilled to make his touring debut in A Bronx Tale and continue in the role he portrayed on Broadway! Thank you to Antonia DeNardo at Millennium Artists, my amazing team at Abrams Artists Agency, Tara Rubin Casting, the cast and crew, and FWCD School.

Special thanks to my parents for their love & support, and a shout-out to my best friend and brother Rocco! Follow @leoniboyz SHANE PRY (Young Calogero at some performances) is extremely grateful to make his professional debut in this awesome role! Other favorite performances include Willy Wonka Jr. (Charlie), “PA Live!,” workshops inspired by Disney’s Descendants (Ben), Frozen (Hans) and Shawnee Riverfest. Huge thanks to Marc, Anya, Paradigm, Tara Rubin Casting, the creative team, DANJ and his dance teachers, Christina, Danny, Midge, mom, dad, Cassidy, family/friends, and God. MIKE BACKES (Ensemble, Eddie Mush) is thrilled to join A Bronx Tale! Vegas: Jersey Boys (Original Cast). National

Tour: Rock of Ages, Footloose, Grease starring Frankie Avalon. TV/Film: “Discovery ID,” “Orange Is the New Black”. NYC: Fat Kid Rules the World.

Special thanks to Merri, the A Bronx Tale team, friends and family, and Pilar for her endless support. This one’s for you Dad! MICHAEL BARRA (Ensemble, JoJo the Whale, Fight Captain) is an original Broadway cast member of A Bronx Tale. He has also toured nationally with Man Of La Mancha as Sancho Panza.

Film/TV: “Gotham,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “The Deuce,” “Blue Bloods,” The Amazing Spider-Man, The Greatest Showman. Manager: Cyd LeVin & Associates. MichaelBarra.com SEAN BELL (Ensemble, Sally Slick).

New York: Forever Plaid: The Event (Smudge), Stardust Road, Ni**er/Fa**ot (F), All American (Edwin Bricker), The Nutcracker and I (Nutcracker).

Regional: A Comedy of Tenors (Max), Mary Poppins (Bert), Forever Plaid and Plaid Tidings (Smudge), Deathtrap (Clifford Anderson), Spamalot, A Chorus Line (Bobby), Saturday Night Fever, Fiddler on the Roof. TV: “Z” (Amazon), “Boardwalk Empire” (HBO), “Red Oaks” (Amazon). SeanWBell.com.

J O S H UA M I C H A E L B U R R AG E (Ensemble) is excited to be doowopping around the country with A Bronx Tale! Broadway: Cats. National Tour: Disney’s Newsies. TV/Film: Disney’s “Newsies the Musical: LIVE.” Regional: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Singin’ in the Rain, Newsies (Sacramento Music Circus). Endless love and gratitude to Mom, Dad, Nick, Andrew. Special thanks to CTG, the creative team, Tara Rubin Casting. For Nonu. @joshuaburrage JOEY CALVERI (Ensemble, Carmine).

Broadway: Rock of Ages (Stacee Jax), Wonderland (Knight). Off-Broadway: Trip of Love (Peter), We Will Rock You, Paris Las Vegas (Galileo). Tour: Saturday Night Fever (Tony/Double J), West Side Story (Action), Grease Das Musical (Kenickie). Regional: Hair (Berger), Cabaret (Emcee), Annie (Rooster). Also a painter. Check out his original rock band Machine Elves.

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WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST

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GIOVANNI DiGABRIELE (Ensemble, Handsome Nick) is honored to be a part of this amazing show.

National Tour: A Chorus Line (Al), Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella.

Regional: Rags (newly revised w/ Stephen Schwartz) at Goodspeed Opera House, Walnut Street Theatre, MSMT, Fulton Theatre. Endless gratitude to the creative team, Tara Rubin Casting, Merri, AIM, Mom, Dad, and his amazing, Italian family. @giovannidg

“Living the Dream!” Kirklydell.com @capnkirklydell

wife to favorite scene partner, John Gardiner. Instagram: @KyliRaeLA

ASHLEY McMANUS (Ensemble, Denise) is a Washington DC native and a graduate of AMDA (NY). National/ International Tour: Dreamgirls (Asst.

Choreographer, Dance Captain, Swing, u/s Lorrell), Rock of Ages (Waitress, u/s Justice). Other favorite credits include Little Shop of Horrors (Chiffon) and Hairspray (Dynamite). She is simply grateful!

JOHN GARDINER (Ensemble, Rudy the Voice). Broadway: A Bronx Tale, Jersey Boys (Tommy DeVito). National/ International Tour: Jersey Boys, The Lion King (Timon). Regional: 20 years of fun stuff. Favorite things – Kentucky Bourbon, a perfectly made sandwich, fresh socks and Blues guitar solos.

Love to Kyli Rae - my wife, fellow Bronx resident, and mother to our little Finnegan. Instagram: @GardinerNYC

CHRISTOPHER MESSINA (Swing, Dance Captain) is thrilled to return to Belmont Avenue once again!

Broadway: Jersey Boys (Frankie Valli), A Bronx Tale (Handsome Nick).

Regional/Tour: Tarzan (Terk), Legally Blonde, Hairspray. Thank you to the creative team, The Dodgers and Tara Rubin for this opportunity. Big thanks to his parents and Jeremy for their love and support! “Happiness is wanting what you have.” Instagram: @ imaMessina

PAUL SALVATORIELLO (Ensemble, To ny Te n - t o -Two ) . B ro a d way : A B r o n x Ta l e . O f f - B ro a d way : Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding. TV: “Ray Donovan” (Showtime), “Iron Fist” (Netflix). Regional: A Bronx Tale (Paper Mill Playhouse). Favorite ro l e s i n c l u d e C h i c a g o ( B i l l y Flynn), The Fantasticks (El Gallo), The Producers (Max Bialystock), Taming of the Shrew (Petruchio). paulsalvatoriello.com

PETER GREGUS (Swing). Broadway: Bob Crewe in Jersey Boys (original cast), Contact (original cast), Ain’t Broadway Grand. NYC: Carnival and Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 (City Center Encores), A Christmas Carol (Madison Square Garden), Up the Rabbit Hole (Theater for the New City). Regional: John and James Jeckyll in Love! Valour!

Compassion! (Provincetown Theater); Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady (New Bedford Theater Festival).

HALEY HANNAH (Ensemble, Assistant Dance Captain). Broadway: Bring It On (u/s Campbell). National Tour: Flashdance (u/s Alex), Bring It On. Selected Regional: Jesus Christ Superstar (Lyric Opera Chicago), Saturday Night Fever (Annette Ogunquit/Gateway/Coastal Carolina), Cutman (Goodspeed). NYC: The Liberace Musical (Acorn Theatre).

TV: back-up singer Demi Lovato/ Jonas Brothers (ABC), dancer Akon/ Lonely Island (Comedy Central).

BFA University of Michigan. Love to Mom and Dad. @haleyhannah25, haleyhannah.com.

KIRK LYDELL (Ensemble) is thrilled to be a part of this company!

Regional: Mamma Mia! (Pepper/ Arrow Rock Lyceum), Rent (Angel/ Weathervane Playhouse) and Hairspray (Porthouse). Thanks to God, my family, friends, and Travis at Hell’s Kitchen for all the love and support!

ROBERT PIERANUNZI (Ensemble, Frankie Coffeecake). National Tour: Bright Star. Select Regional: Mary Poppins, Thoroughly Modern Millie, West Side Story, I Only Have Eyes for You, Cats, Bye Bye Birdie, Meet Me in St. Louis, Dames at Sea, Cinderella and Grease. Grazie mille to amazing family and friends - and to the creative team for bringing me back to my roots. For my doo-wop lovin’ Mama!

BRANDI PORTER (Ensemble, Frieda).

Broadway: A Bronx Tale (Swing).

Regional: Little Shop of Horrors (Chiffon), Avenue Q (Gary Coleman), and Rent (Joanne). Off-Broadway: Pete the Cat (Olive) and Junie B. (Lucille).

Independent Film: Mott Haven. Love to Mom, Armen, my family and friends. Much gratitude to the creative team, casting, CBU Management and JC William Agency. MFA, Boston Conservatory. BFA, Lafayette College IG: @thebrandiporter KYLI RAE (Ensemble). You can catch Kyli singing “My Boyfriend’s Back” in the film Jersey Boys, directed by Clint Eastwood. Broadway: Jersey Boys.

National/ International Tour: Rock of Ages, Flashdance, Jersey Boys, Mamma Mia!, Grease, Fame. Regional: Million Dollar Quartet, Footloose, Cats, Aida, Tarzan. All-time favorite roles: New Mama to Finnegan Ray Gardiner, and

JOSEPH J. SIMEONE (Ensemble, Crazy Mario) is thrilled to return to the Bronx (Original Broadway Cast).

Mr. Simeone was last seen starring in A Chorus Line at New York City Center. Upon graduating Juilliard (Dance & Music Composition), he danced for Merce Cunningham, Pina Bausch, and Twyla Tharp. Other Broadway credits: The Phantom of the Opera, West Side Story (Riff). To see his paintings, or hear his tunes, visit JosephJSimeone.com and follow on Instagram: @Simeonesays.

BRITTANY WILLIAMS (Swing) is overjoyed to be performing in her first national tour! She is an Ailey School and AMDA NY alumnus. Regional: Mamma Mia! at Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Annie Get Your Gun at Westchester Broadway Theatre. Glory to God! Thanks to my family, teachers, Tara Rubin Casting, and the BXT team!

Instagram: @brittany_nicolew JASON WILLIAMS (Ensemble, Jesse).

National/International Tour: Dreamgirls (South Korea), Madagascar Live!

(Skipper). Regional: Smokey Joe’s Cafe (Victor), Burt and Me (Jerry), Lysistrata Jones (Tyllis), Tarzan, Memphis, Chicago. Directorial: PJ Masks Live!

(Asst. Dir/Choreographer), Daniel Tiger Live! (Asst. Dir/Choreographer). Thanks to Merri Sugarman and the team of Tara Rubin Casting, and to my amazing family and friends for their love and unwavering support! Instagram: @blueranger83 CHAZZ PALMINTERI (Book) wrote and performed his one-man show, A Bronx Tale for the first time in 1989 before moving it Off-Broadway. In 2007, he brought the critically acclaimed show to Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre, where he was nominated for an Outer

ALAN MENKEN (Music). Stage credits include God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater; Little Shop of Horrors; Beauty and the Beast; A Christmas Carol; The Little Mermaid; Sister Act; Leap of Faith; Newsies; The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz; Aladdin; The Hunchback of Notre Dame; A Bronx Tale. Film credits include The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Newsies, Aladdin, Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, Home on the Range, Enchanted, Tangled, Sausage Party.

Television credits include “Galavant,” “Tangled.” Awards include one Tony (Best Score), one Olivier (Best Musical), eight Oscars (four Best Score and four Best Song), 11 Grammy Awards (including Song of the Year), seven Golden Globes. Other: Induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, Billboard’s #1 single (“A Whole New World”) and album (Pocahontas).

GLENN SLATER (Lyrics) is a three-time Tony nominee for the international hit musicals The Little Mermaid, Sister Act and School of Rock, and a co-creator of Disney’s worldwide smash Tangled (Grammy winner, Oscar and Golden Globe noms.). With frequent collaborator Alan Menken, he wrote all the songs for both seasons of ABC-TV’s cult-favorite “Galavant” (Emmy nominee) as well as Seth

Rogen’s animated comedy Sausage Party, Disney’s Home on the Range and Broadway’s Leap of Faith. In the West End, Glenn provided book and lyrics for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies. Other work includes an Emmy-nominated song for ABC’s “The Neighbors” and the critically acclaimed revue Newyorkers at MTC. Glenn lives in NYC with composer/lyricist/wife Wendy Leigh Wilf and sons Benjamin and Daniel. Twitter: @SlaterLyrics ROBERT DE NIRO (Director), considered one of America’s greatest actors, won the 1974 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Godfather: Part II and the 1980 Academy Award for Best Actor for Raging Bull. He received Academy Award nominations for Taxi Driver, The Deer Hunter, Awakenings, Cape Fear and Silver Linings Playbook. De Niro is a four-time New York Film Critics Circle Award winner in addition to winning the 1981 Golden Globe Award for Raging Bull. A recipient of the 2011 Cecil B. DeMille Award and the 2009 Kennedy Center Honors, he was nominated for seven Golden Globe Awards and six BAFTA Awards. De Niro made his Broadway debut in 1986 in Cuba and His Teddy Bear, and made his film directorial debut in 1993 with A Bronx Tale.

JERRY ZAKS (Director) most recently directed Hello, Dolly!; Meteor Shower; and A Bronx Tale on Broadway. Mr. Zaks has directed more than 30 productions in New York. He has received four Tony Awards and been nominated eight times. He has also received four Drama Desk Awards, two Outer Critics Circle Awards and an Obie Award. His credits include Meteor Shower, Shows for Days, Sister Act, The Addams Family, Guys and Dolls, Six Degrees of Separation, Lend Me a Tenor, The House of Blue Leaves, The Front Page, A Funny Thing…Forum, Smokey Joe’s Café, Anything Goes, La Cage aux Folles, Little Shop of Horrors, The Man Who Came to Dinner, The Foreigner, A Bronx Tale, Laughter on the 23rd Floor and the original production of Assassins. He began his career directing the extraordinary plays of Christopher Durang including Sister Mary Ignatius…, Beyond Therapy, Baby With the Bath Water and The Marriage of Bette and Boo. He directed the award-winning film Marvin’s Room starring Meryl Streep and Diane Keaton

and Who Do You Love, which was featured in the Toronto Film Festival.

Mr. Zaks is a founding member and serves on the board of Ensemble Studio Theatre. He graduated from Dartmouth in 1967, received an MFA from Smith College in 1969 and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from Dartmouth in 1999. Zaks received the SDC’s George Abbott Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre and is a 2013 inductee to the Theater Hall of Fame.

SERGIO TRUJILLO (Choreographer).

Broadway: On Your Feet (Tony Award nominee, Outer Critics Circle/ Astaire Awards), Memphis (Olivier/ OCC Award, Drama Desk/Astaire Award nominations), Jersey Boys (Drama Desk/OCC/Greenroom/Dora nominations), Summer: The Donna Summer Musical (Chita Rivera Award), A Bronx Tale (Chita Award nomination), The Addams Family, Next to Normal, Hands on a Hardbody (Drama Desk nomination), Leap of Faith (Drama Desk nomination), Guys and Dolls (Astaire Awards nomination), and All Shook Up. As Director/Choreographer: Arrabal (ART-Elliot Norton Award), Gloria Estefan on Broadway (Minskoff Theatre), Flashdance: The Musical (National Tour), White Noise (Royal George Theatre). Other theatre: Invisible Thread (Second Stage Theatre, Astaire Award nomination), Carmen: An Afro-Cuban Musical (Olney TheatreHelen Hayes Award nomination), Freaky Friday (Signature Theatre).

International: Tarzan (Disney), Peggy Sue Got Married (West End), The Sound of Music and West Side Story (Stratford Festival). Upcoming: Ain’t Too Proud (Broadway 2019).

RON MELROSE (Music Supervisor/ Arrangements). Forty-two years of arranging, music direction and supervision, including nineteen Broadway productions. Music Director/ Arranger, Jersey Boys (Helpmann Award, Australia). Music Supervisor, Jersey Boys film. Associate Producer, Jersey Boys cast and Christmas albums. Music Supervisor/Arranger, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical (Broadway), producer of cast album.

Music Supervisor/Arranger, A Bronx Tale (Broadway), co-producer of cast album. Other Broadway highlights: The Act, Annie, Woman of the Year, The Rink, Smile, Sweet Smell of Success. Composer and Lyricist:

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Critics Circle Award. Mr. Palminteri also wrote the screenplay and co-starred in the screen adaptation of A Bronx Tale alongside Robert De Niro. Mr. Palminteri has more than 55 movies to his credit as an actor, writer and director including The Usual Suspects, Bullets Over Broadway (which he was nominated for an Academy Award and won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actor), Analyze This, Hurlyburly, Mullholland Falls, Faithful (also written by Mr. Palminteri), A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, Yonkers Joe, Jolene and, most recently, Legend starring Tom Hardy. Mr. Palminteri has had a recurring role on the hit show “Modern Family” and has starred in “Blue Bloods.” He has won three Emmy Awards for the MSG Network.

Mr. Palminteri directed the HBO series “Oz,” Showtime’s “Women vs Men” and the feature film Noel. His recent performance in A Bronx Tale marked the first time in history that the same actor has written and starred in the Broadway play, the feature film and the musical.

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Fourtune (Off-Broadway), The Silver Swan (NEA Fellowship), The Missing Peace (Washington’s Capitol Fringe).

Education: Harvard (philosophy), Westminster (choral conducting).

Thanks and love to Alexandra and Jake.

BEOWULF BORITT (Scenic Design).

Broadway: Act One (Tony Award), The Scottsboro Boys (Tony Nomination), Thérèse Raquin (Tony Nomination), Come From Away, Bernhardt/Hamlet, Meteor Shower, A Bronx Tale, Prince Of Broadway, Hand To God, Sondheim On Sondheim, …Spelling Bee, LoveMusik, Rock Of Ages, Chaplin, Bronx Bombers, Grace, The Two And Only. Broadway Revivals: On the Town, Sunday in the Park…. Off-Broadway: 100 shows including The Last Five Years, Sleepwalk with Me, and Miss Julie. He has designed for The NYC Ballet and the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus and around the world in England, Russia, China, Australia, and Japan. 2007 OBIE Award for sustained excellence.

WILLIAM IVEY LONG (Costume Design) has over 70 Broadway design credits in addition to his work in television, film, opera and ballet.

He has designed for such artists as Mick Jagger, Siegfried and Roy, The Pointer Sisters, and Joan Rivers. Mr. Long has won 6 Tony Awards, with 15 nominations. He was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in January 2006 and recently completed a 4-year elected term as Chairman of the American Theatre Wing. www.williamiveylong.com HOWELL BINKLEY (Lighting Design).

Broadway: Ain’t Too Proud - The Life and Times of The Temptations, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, Come From Away (2017 Tony nom.), A Bronx Tale, Hamilton (2016 Tony winner/2018 O l i v i e r Awa rd w i n n e r ) , Af te r Midnight (2014 Tony nom.), How to Succeed… (2011 Tony nom.), West Side Story (2009 Tony nom.), In the Heights (2008 Tony nom.), Jersey Boys (2006 Tony winner), Avenue Q, Parade, Kiss of the Spider Woman (1993 Tony nom./Olivier and Dora Award Winner.) Co-Founder/ Resident Lighting Designer Parsons Dance. 2006 and 2016 Henry Hewes Design Awards for Jersey Boys and Hamilton.

GARETH OWEN (Sound Design).

Olivier Awards for Memphis and Merrily We Roll Along, nominations for Top Hat and End of The Rainbow. Tony nominations for A Little Night Music and End of The Rainbow. Outer Critics Circle Award for Come From Away. Pro Sound Award for Sound Engineer of the Year. Currently: Summer: The Donna Summer Musical and Come From Away on Broadway; Bat Out Of Hell, Strictly Ballroom, Young Frankenstein and 42nd Street in London’s West End; Disney’s Little Mermaid, Disney’s Hunchback Of Notre Dame, A Bronx Tale, Disney’s Beauty and The Beast, and Bat Out Of Hell worldwide. More than 280 other commercial musicals around the world.

PAUL HUNTLEY (Hair & Wig Design).

London-born Paul Huntley has worked on hundreds of Broadway shows since his 1972 arrival in New York, most memorably the original productions of Amadeus, Cats, Evita, Les Misérables, Sweeney Todd, The Producers and Hairspray. A recipient of Drama Desk and Tony Awards, he has also worked with some of the most legendary leading ladies of the cinema, ranging from Bette Davis, Marlene Dietrich and Vivien Leigh to Jane Fonda, Glenn Close, Jessica Lange and Scarlett Johansson. Current shows include Tootsie.

ANNE FORD-COATES (Makeup Design). Broadway: Frozen, On Your Feet!, On the Twentieth Century, Disaster!, It Shoulda Been You, and hair/ makeup design for The Nap. Recent selected hair and makeup design: The Wolves; The Sandbox, Drowning and Funnyhouse of a Negro; Gloria: A Life, Mary Page Marlowe (Off-Broadway); Fellow Travelers (Prototype Festival); Wagner’s Ring Cycle (Washington National Opera); Little Dancer (Kennedy Center); Silent Night; Sweeney Todd (Atlanta Opera). Anne was resident hair and makeup designer for Washington National Opera and the Glimmerglass Festival for a decade, and has designed hundreds of productions for American opera companies.

ROBERT WESTLEY (Fight Coordinator) has choreographed movement and crafted violence for award-winning theater productions, internationally acclaimed opera houses and films, developing unique and exciting performances of dance, clowning, aerial acrobatics, puppetry

and martial art. Broadway: Hand to God (Tony Nomination), Bernhardt/Hamlet, Gettin’ The Band Back Together. OffBroadway: The Thanksgiving Play (Playwrights Horizons), Important Hats of the Twentieth Century (MTC), Verité (LCT3), Teenage Dick (The Public), Things of Dry Hours (New York Theatre Workshop). Regional: The Sting (Paper Mill Playhouse), Romeo & Juliet (Utah Shakespeare Festival), Bedroom Farce (Westport County Playhouse). Film: Victoriana, The Key Man, Fall Down Dead.

HUDSON THEATRICAL ASSOCIATES (Technical Supervision). Over 95 Broadway productions and tours.

Recent: The Cher Show, American Son, The Lifespan of a Fact, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, Hamilton, Aladdin. HTA is a member of Neil A. Mazzella’s HUDSON family which includes Hudson Scenic Studio. Joining Neil on the HTA team for A Bronx Tale are Sam Ellis, Jillian Oliver, Kyle Ferguson and Irene Wang.

DOUG BESTERMAN (Orchestrations).

Three-time Tony Award winner.

Broadway: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Anastasia, A Bronx Tale, It Shoulda Been You, Bullets Over Broadway (Tony nomination), Rocky, On a Clear Day, Sister Act, How To Succeed…(Tony nomination), Elf the Musical, Young Frankenstein (Drama Desk nomination), Tarzan, Dracula, Thoroughly Modern Millie (2002 Tony/ Drama Desk Awards), The Producers (2001 Tony/Drama Desk Awards), Seussical, Music Man (Drama Desk/ Tony nominations), Fosse (1999 Tony), Big (Drama Desk nomination), Damn Yankees (Drama Desk nomination).

International: Me and My Girl, Guys and Dolls. Off-Broadway: Carrie, Weird Romance. Regional: The Honeymooners, The Sting, Little Dancer, Calvin Berger. Film/Television: Mary Poppins Returns, Beauty and the Beast, Peter Pan, The Sound of Music, Frozen, Mulan, Chicago.

BRIAN P. KENNEDY (Music Director/ C o n d u c t o r ) . N a t i o n a l To u r s : Something Rotten First National Tour (Music Director/Conductor), Something Rotten Second National Tour (Assoc. Music Supervisor).

Los Angeles: Carrie, William Finn’s Make Me a Song, Stage Door Supper Club on SiriusXM, Harps & Angels, Re-Animator, Hunchback of Notre

JOHNNY GALE (Period Music Consultant) is a four-time Grammynominated producer, composer, arranger and vocalist who has scored numerous feature films, acted as musical director for the hit series “Boardwalk Empire” and “Vinyl,” scored national TV commercials and performed as a virtuosic guitarist in more than 1,000 shows with a Who’s Who of the music industry. Musical Director and Guitarist on 7 songs for Martin Scorsese’s upcoming film The Irishman.

JOHN MILLER (Music Coordinator).

Broadway (over 130 shows, including): Getting’ The Band Back Together, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, Beautiful, Waitress, Jersey Boys, Once on This Island, Miss Saigon, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Studio Musician (bass): Leonard Cohen, Madonna, Bette Midler, Eric Clapton, Carly Simon, BB King, Portishead, Billy Joel, Bob Dylan www.johnmillerbass.com ST E P H E N E D LU N D ( A ss o c i ate Director). Credits: Hello, Dolly!

(Broadway, National Tour), Meteor Shower (Broadway), A Bronx Tale (Broadway, Paper Mill Playhouse), Sister Act (Broadway, National Tour), Shows for Days (Lincoln Center Theater), Randy Newman’s Harps and Angels (Center Theatre Group) and Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Center Theatre Group). Love to Mom, Dad and David.

MARC KIMELMAN (Associate Choreographer). Choreographer: Saturday Night Fever (National Tour), Man of La Mancha (Stratford Festival), Play It Cool (Off-Broadway), Once on This Island (Toronto, Dora Award), Degrassi, Don’t Talk to Irene (feature film) and Vogue magazine. Associate: A Bronx Tale (Broadway), Once on This Island (Paper Mill Playhouse), “Elementary” (CBS). Assistant: Jesus Christ Superstar (Broadway), We Will Rock You (National Tour). marckimelman.com TARA RUBIN CASTING (Casting).

Selected Broadway: King Kong, The

Band’s Visit, Falsettos, Dear Evan Hansen, Cats, Disaster!, School of Rock, Doctor Zhivago, It Shoulda Been You, Gigi, Bullets Over Broadway, Aladdin, Les Misérables, The Heiress, How to Succeed…, A Little Night Music, Billy Elliot, Shrek, Young Frankenstein, Mary Poppins, Spamalot, …Spelling Bee, The Producers, Mamma Mia!, Jersey Boys, The Phantom of the Opera.

GENTRY & ASSOCIATES (General Manager), from its inception over 20 years ago, has been an industry leading producer and manager of touring musical theatre productions and remains committed to delivering quality entertainment to audiences worldwide.

Having toured over 70 productions internationally, NETworks’ current and upcoming touring productions include Cameron Mackintosh’s The Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables, Elf the Musical, Finding Neverland, The Sound of Music, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The King and I, The Band’s Visit, A Bronx Tale, Falsettos, Fiddler on the Roof and Miss Saigon.

KELSEY TIPPINS (Production Stage Manager). National Tours: Finding Neverland (First National), Dirty Dancing - The Classic Story on Stage, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Elf the Musical (First National), Shrek the Musical (Asia & North America).

Regional: Weston Playhouse, Piedmont Opera, Fabulous Fox Theatre in Atlanta.

Proud graduate of University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Thank you to NETworks. Love to Dan and Ace. @kelseytippins ZACHARY TUCKER (Stage Manager).

Touring: Jersey Boys, Pippin (First National), School of Rock (First National), Dirty Dancing. Regional: Huntington Theatre Company, American Repertory Theater, North Shore Music Theatre. Proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. Much love and thanks to my family.

THERON ALEXANDER (Assistant Stage Manager). Broadway: Summer: The Donna Summer Musical. OffBroadway: Jersey Boys, Little Rock.

Regional: The Outsider; I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change; Curvy Widow; Bad Jews.

JEFF MENSCH (Company Manager) has literally circled the globe twice working with the USO and is delighted

to find himself more figuratively in The Bronx. Other recent adventures of the imagination include Siam for Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The King and I, Austria for The Sound of Music, Ireland for Once, and Memphis for Million Dollar Quartet. Thank you for coming and enjoy the show!

SETH WENIG (Executive Producer) has been with NETworks since its inception in 1995. He spearheaded the international tours of Fosse starring Ben Vereen and Ruthie Henshall. Seth has produced the Lincoln Center Theater production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific and the National Theatre production of War Horse. Together with Cameron Mackintosh, Seth served as Executive Producer for both the U.S. and U.K. tours of the National Theatre’s My Fair Lady, the 25th Anniversary U.S. Tour of Les Misérables, the new The Phantom of the Opera tour, Miss Saigon and A Bronx Tale. He is most proud of his greatest productions – Marlo and Camden.

TOMMY MOTTOLA (Producer) is the head of Mottola Media Group and is one of the most influential music executives in the industry, credited with discovering and guiding Hall and Oates, Carly Simon, John Mellencamp, Céline Dion, Mariah Carey, Beyoncé, Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen, as well as creating what TIME Magazine called the “Latin Explosion” in signing Gloria Estefan, Ricky Martin, Shakira, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony. Starting at 18 as a musician and an Epic Records recording artist, 20 years later he was Sony Music’s global CEO. By making acquisitions such as the Beatles catalog along with Michael Jackson, he enabled Sony to become one of the first majors to make commercial digital downloads available. Recently, he produced the HBO film The Latin Explosion and its companion book, The Latin Explosion: A New America (Penguin 2016). He is a New York Times best-selling author for his memoir, Hitmaker: The Man and His Music (Hachette 2013). He was born in the Bronx and is married to the celebrated Mexican singer, Thalia.

THE DODGERS (Producer) is a producing partnership hatched at BAM in 1978 by six friends. Migrated to NY Shakespeare Festival, then off and on Broadway. Over 150 productions in North America, London, Europe and

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Dame, Silence: The Musical, The Last 5 Years, Hello! My Baby (Arrangements/ Orchestrations). Broadway: 13 (Music Assistant), Honeymoon in Vegas (Music Assistant), Bridges of Madison County (Music Assistant). Graduate of UNCGreensboro. IG: @brianpkennedy

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Australasia; blessed by Broadway’s “Tony’s” (56), London’s “Olivier’s”, Australia’ s Helpmanns. Current Broadway: Summer: The Donna Summer Musical. Other Broadway: A Bronx Tale, Jersey Boys, Groundhog Day, Matilda, 42nd Street, Urinetown, The Farnsworth Invention, Dracula, Jesus Christ Superstar, Into The Woods (’87 and ’02), The Music Man, Titanic, Wrong Mountain, Footloose, Mandy Patinkin, High Society, 1776, ...Forum, The King and I, The Who’s Tommy, Ralph Fiennes’ Hamlet, Guys and Dolls, Once Upon a Mattress, How to Succeed..., Jelly’s Last Jam, The Secret Garden, Prelude to a Kiss, Gospel at Colonus, Big River, Pump Boys and Dinettes. The original producers of Jersey Boys, and currently its tours in North America, the United Kingdom and Australia. They have recently awakened Jersey Boys Off-Broadway in NYC. Offices in Times Square and London’s Covent Garden. Their president is Michael David.

TRIBECA PRODUCTIONS (Producer).

Founded by Jane Rosenthal and Robert De Niro in 1998, Tribeca Productions has produced more than 25 films, grossing over $2 billion worldwide. Producers of the 1993 film, A Bronx Tale. Additional credits: Little Fockers, What Just Happened?, The Good Shepherd, Rent, House of D, Meet the Fockers, Analyze That, About a Boy, Showtime, Meet the Parents, The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle, Flawless, Analyze This, Wag the Dog, Marvin’s Room, Thunderheart. TV: “The Wizard of Lies,” “About a Boy.” Theatrical: We Will Rock You, one of the longest-running musicals in London’s West End. Rosenthal and De Niro co-founded the Tribeca Film Festival and the Tribeca Film Institute.

E VA M E R E E N T E R TA I N M E N T (Producer). Founded in 2007 by veteran producer John N. Hart.

Together, John and Evamere partner Charles Stone have produced The Glass Menagerie starring Cherry Jones, the acclaimed musicals Once and The Band’s Visit, and Seminar starring Alan Rickman. Over his career, Mr. Hart has produced more than 17 films including Boys Don’t Cry, You Can Count on Me and Revolutionary Road. Broadway credits include the record-breaking revival of Chicago, Annie Get Your Gun, and in partnership with the Dodgers, The Who’s Tommy, Guys and Dolls

starring Nathan Lane, H2$ starring Matthew Broderick and Hamlet starring Ralph Fiennes. Evamere is joined by Sophie Gould as producing associate.

LAUREN MITCHELL (Associate Producer). As producer, Broadway: Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, A Bronx Tale The Musical, Jersey Boys, Matilda, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Farnsworth Invention, Urinetown, Into the Woods (’02 revival), Wrong Mountain, High Society. As actress, Broadway: The Boys From Syracuse, Me and My Girl, Nine, Annie, Into the Woods (original cast and PBS “American Playhouse”).

PAPER MILL PLAYHOUSE (Original Producer), a pioneer in the not-forprofit regional theatre movement, is the recipient of the 2016 Regional Theatre Tony Award. Paper Mill opened in 1938 and has been consistently recognized for the artistry of its productions and its commitment to supporting the development of new works and emerging artists. A leader in accessibility, Paper Mill is a nationally recognized center for musical theatre education and performance whose award-winning programs impact more than 35,000 students annually.

Paper Mill productions have moved to Broadway, toured nationally, been filmed for Showtime and PBS and produced original cast recordings. Mark S. Hoebee, Producing Artistic Director.

ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION (“Equity”), founded in 1913, is the U.S. labor union that represents more than 50,000 actors and stage managers.

Equity seeks to foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of society and advances the careers of its members by negotiating wages, working conditions and providing a wide range of benefits including health and pension plans. Actors’ Equity is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. #EquityWorks

STAFF FOR A Bronx Tale General Management Gentry & Associates Gregory Vander Ploeg Jamey Jennings Steve Varon Pearce Landry-Wegener Nicole Gehring Production Management NETworks Presentations Jason Juenker Hector Guivas Evan Rooney Walker White Emma Downey Tour Engagement, Marketing and Press Broadway Booking Office NYC Steven Schnepp Kent McIngvale, Jenny Bates, David Freeland, Zach Stevenson, Sean Mackey, Stacey Burns, Danny Knaub, Rachel Peterson, Phil Della Noce BBONYC.com Casting TARA RUBIN CASTING Tara Rubin CSA, Merri Sugarman CSA, Kaitlin Shaw CSA, Laura Schutzel CSA, Claire Burke CSA, Peter Van Dam CSA, Xavier Rubiano CSA, Felicia Rudolph CSA, Louis DiPaolo, Kevin Metzger-Timson, Juliet Auwaerter Company Manager Jeff Mensch Assistant Company Manager David Haines Associate Director Stephen Edlund Associate Choreographer Marc Kimelman Assistant Choreographer Brittany Conigatti Production Supervisor...............................Beverly Jenkins Production Stage Manager........................ Kelsey Tippins Stage Manager.............................................. Zachary Tucker Assistant Stage Manager..................... Theron Alexander Associate Scenic Designer....................Jared Rutherford Associate Lighting Designer...........................Ryan O’Gara Assistant Lighting Designer ......................Naftali Wayne Associate Sound Designer ............................ Josh Liebert Associate Hair & Wig Designer....Giovanna Calabretta Production Carpenter............................................Eric Pesci Production Electrician......................................Justin Petito Production Audio...........................................Wallace Flores Head Carpenter............................................. Dan Laushman Deck Carpenter............................................ Kaitlin Ciccarelli Flyman.............................................................. Alex Groveman Head Electrician............................................ Mike Anderson Asst Electrician.................................................. Liam Marlow Head Sound Engineer............................. Anthony Cuozzo Assistant Audio................................................Sherie Farmer Head Properties......................................John “Seth" Leach Head Wardrobe............................................. Emily Fauscett Wardrobe Assistant...................................... Emily Westing Hair and Makeup Supervisor.......................... Jillian Floyd Moving Light Programmer.................................Alex Fogel Costume Coordinator....................................Jimm Halliday Assistant Costume Coordinator.... Matthew E. Solomon Costume Assistant..........................................Mailey Shimon Costume Intern.................................... Molly Farrell-Savage Children’s Tutor and Wrangler............. Carolyn Dunning Assistants to Mr. De Niro.................... Morgan Billington, Michael Kaplan, Katherine Wernet Associate to Mr. Menken .................................... Rick Kunis Assistant to John Miller.....................Jennifer Coolbaugh Assistant Fight Coordinator............Leighton Schlanger Production Assistants.. Kelsey Aycock, Jenn Chandler, Caitlin Kellermeyer, Alex Laughlin, Mandy Scott, Andrew Wenzel National Press Office .................... Boneau/Bryan-Brown Music Preparation.............................................Anixter-Rice Services Physical Therapy...... NEURO TOUR Physical Thearapy,

Inc., Carolyn Lawson Print, Broadcast and Digital Marketing Materials....AKA Production Photography................................Joan Marcus Merchandising............................................The Araca Group Merchandise Manager.............................. Anthony V. Haro Accounting..........................NETworks Presentations LLC Technical Production Accounting............ Joel T. Herbst Legal Services............................... F. Richard Pappas, Esq. HR & Payroll Services....................Human Resources inc.

Housing............. Road Concierge, an ALTOUR Company Travel Agency.................................................. Janice Kessler, Carlson Wagonlit Travel Trucking.............................................................. Clark Transfer

THE DODGERS Dodger Properties President .....................................................................Michael David Executive Producer .............................................Dana Sherman Partner Emeritus ..................................................Edward Strong Director of Creative Development...............Lauren Mitchell Director of Business Administration...............Pamela Lloyd Director of Marketing ........................................Jessica Ludwig Director of Finance ........................................ Paula Maldonado Production Manager......................................................Jeff Parvin Associate General Manager......................... Caitlyn Thomson Project Coordinator/Investor Relations.......Andrew Serna Production Coordinator ..................................Lyndsey Goode Sales Director..............................................Ann E. Van Nostrand Senior Finance Associate............................. Mariann Fresiello Office & Atelier Manager.......................................Shelley Little Executive Assistant .................................................Blane Barton General Management Assistant .........................Nicole Crisci Front Desk Receptionist ..................................Hayley Watkins Special Events................................................................John Haber Counsel to Dodger Properties.................................Nan Bases Consultant to Dodger Properties ......Sally Campbell Morse CPA to Dodger Properties .............................................Ira Schall Dodgers-at-Large Danny Austin, Deborah Barrigan, Patrick Bell, Sam Burgess, Sandra Carlson, Richard Hester, Aaron Rogers, Maureen Rooney, Julia Sattler, Linda Wright TRIBECA PRODUCTIONS Co-Founder/Partner .................................. Jane Rosenthal Co-Founder/Partner....................................Robert De Niro Senior VP of Production .................................Berry Welsh Executive VP of Communications ..........Tammie Rosen Production Coordinator.......................................Isaac Katz Credits Scenery built and painted by Hudson Scenic Studio.

Lighting equipment by PRG Lighting. Sound equipment

by Sound Associates, Inc. Props and additional scenery provided by Brenbri Props. Rigging by Christie Lights.

Stage Weapons by J&M Special Effects. Costumes made by Cego, Giliberto Designs, Jennifer Love Costumes, Schneeman Studio Limited, Tricorne Inc., Sarah Timberlake Studios, Dale Di Bernardo, Joelyn Wilkosz. Millinery by Arnold Levine. Embroidery by This Is It. Dyeing and painting by Julianne Krobuth. Vintage jewelry by Ilene Chazan of Decorative Arts. Special Thanks to Bra*Tenders for hosiery and undergarments.

Rehearsed at RWS Studios; Long Island City.

Special Thanks to The Auditorium Theatre, Rochester Broadway Theatre League, and NAC Entertainment, Albert Nocciolino, President & CEO

IN MEMORY It is difficult to imagine producing anything without the presence of beloved Dodger family members James Elliot Love, Jean-Michel Quincey and Seth Gelblum. James, Jean-Michel and Seth stood at the heart of all that is good about the theatrical community.

They are missed, but their spirits abide.

Tax & Financial Consulting, Accounting Services CliftonLarsonAllen LLP Brian Enverso, Pat Guerieri Insurance Broker Services Maury Donnelly and Parr, Inc. Robert B. Middleton, Sr and Meghan Shriver Financial Services and banking arrangements by SunTrust Bank ABronxTaleMusical.com Facebook, Instagram: @BronxTaleMusical Twitter: @BXTaleMusical #ABronxTaleMusical The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.

All stage work performed by employees represented

by IATSE. United Scenic Artists represents the designers and scenic painters for the American Theatre.

The Musicians employed in this production are members of the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada.

The Director and Choreographer are members of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, an independent national labor union.

The Press Agents employed in this production are represented by the Association of Theatrical Press Agents & Managers.

This production is produced by a member of The Broadway League in collaboration with our professional union-represented

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ITAMAR MOSES ON SPEAKING YOUR TRUTH IN

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Acclaimed playwright Itamar Moses was working on a new play when he had a wild thought: How funny would it be if he wrote a character who walked into every single scene and just dropped a verbal grenade?

Think about it: “What if someone approached the most important people in his life and told them the one unspoken thing that no one is ever supposed to say, and no one ever wants to hear?” said Moses.

You know…the truth?

“That struck me as very funny and also very dramatic, like a high-wire moment,” said Moses, winner of the most recent Tony Award for writing the book to the Broadway musical The Band’s Visit. “It felt to me like firing a character out of a cannon and watching as the wind resistance from everything he encounters gradually pushes that cannonball back to earth.”

The idea wasn’t right for the play Moses was working on. It worked instead as the tantalizing premise for his new dark comedy, The Whistleblower, the DCPA Theatre Company’s 134th world premiere in its 40-year history.

The play follows a screenwriter named Eli who has been able to carve out a reasonably stable career writing for television in Hollywood. In the opening scene, he realizes his dream when a studio exec gives him the green light to create his own TV drama called, yes, “The Whistleblower.”

It would be about a vagabond journalist who travels the globe infiltrating places of power to ferret out corruption.

But before Eli even gets out of the pitch meeting, he starts to question why making this or any other TV show was ever his dream in the first place.

“Eli is coming into his late 30s, which is the age when you start to think, ‘Well, I guess this is it. This is who I am

and this is the life I have,’” said Moses, 41. “Now of course that’s an illusion. It’s never too late to make a change. But I think that physiologically and psychologically, all of the complacency and the tiredness and the responsibilities that you accumulate over your lifetime start to make it feel like it would be very hard to change. So Eli has this moment where he decides to change everything in his life as quickly as possible.”

Armed with a new sense of spiritual clarity, Eli sets out on a quest to serve up some hard truths to co-workers, family, exes and friends. Not to tell them what’s wrong with their lives, Moses said — although that’s how some of the other characters interpret it. “I think what he sets out to do is something closer to just speaking his own truth,” Moses said. “Essentially what he is saying is: ‘I can’t continue to participate in this relationship in the way I have been because there’s some lie or compromise lurking inside of it. So I’m going to say what I have to say, and maybe that blows this relationship up completely. Or maybe it just means we have to change. But either way, I’m not going to continue allowing this unspoken lie to undergird this relationship.’”

When told the premise sounds a bit like a mashup of Jim Carrey’s character in the film Liar Liar and Siddhartha, Moses said with a laugh: “That’s not actually a terrible comparison.”

The irony of Eli’s quest is that he unconsciously sets out to do exactly in his life what he pitched for his proposed TV protagonist in the world: To expose the dishonesty that lurks just below the surface. And if that all sounds so very serious, DCPA Theatre Company Artistic Director Chris Coleman said, the play is also gut-bustingly funny.

“Itamar is an absolutely brilliant playwright and an exciting voice to have on the season,” said Coleman, who first staged a Moses world premiere back in 2003, when Moses was an unknown playwright and Coleman

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was running Portland Center Stage. “This new play is a hilarious and thought-provoking spiritual journey. When Eli begins telling the truth about the relationships in his life, the people around him think he’s lost his mind. But he comes to a place that I think is very hopeful at the end. When I first read it, I was absolutely knocked out.”

Moses says what often makes a serious subject funny on a stage is simply speed.

“People say if you do tragedy fast enough it becomes comedy,” he said with a laugh. “I could slow this play way down and make an entire play out of just about any of these encounters Eli has. But there’s something about the speed and the matter-of-factness with which he goes about all of it that plays, I think, as comedy. As the play goes on, there are darker and sharper edges, and an underlying kind of despair. But I think, especially for a while, the play is wanting to be very, very funny.”

Moses, who was also an Executive Story Editor on the landmark HBO series “Boardwalk Empire,” is confident Denver audiences will one day soon see his breakout Broadway musical The Band’s Visit, which recently announced its first national touring production. Based on the 2007 Israeli film of the same name, it’s the story of a stranded Egyptian police orchestra that arrives by mistake in a small village in Israel’s Negev Desert and are taken in by the locals.

In the meantime, The Whistleblower will be a featured presentation at this year’s Colorado New Play Summit in February. While Moses has not yet seen the play fully staged before a live audience, he hopes they find The Whistleblower to be “fast, fun and, by the end, a moving and thought-provoking ride.”

Asked what he hopes audiences walk away with after seeing the play, Moses couldn’t resist blowing the comedy whistle: “I want them to walk away with tickets to see it again,” he said with a laugh.

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In that spirit, we are committed to supporting initiatives that help create and preserve opportunities that introduce people to new perspectives and spark thought-provoking conversations. We believe in these values. That is why AT&T is proud to collaborate with the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.

Throughout its 142-year history of innovation, AT&T has collaborated with leaders and institutions to meet their unique academic, cultural and community needs.

In Colorado, our employees mentored nearly 4,000 students through the Aspire Mentoring Academy from 2012 to 2017. And we are eager to do more.

Diverse programming presents a unique opportunity to help foster inclusive artistic landscapes and create new connections Through our entertainment division, WarnerMedia, we plan to tell stories about issues that matter and create content that reflects the reality of our vibrant, global societies.

“Having served Colorado over the last 114 years,” said AT&T Colorado President and DCPA Trustee Roberta Robinette, “AT&T is honored to support the DCPA. At AT&T, we remain dedicated to uplifting creative initiatives that bring people together and — like us — value connections.”

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For Donnetta Lavinia Grays, Last Night and the Night Before is a play you probably think you know going in — but you don’t.

“And that’s the whole point,” the breakthrough playwright and actor said on the eve of the play’s highly anticipated world premiere this month by the DCPA Theatre Company.

“It looks like a simple family drama, and it looks like you might already know all of the players in that drama,” said Grays, who was born in Panama and raised in South Carolina. “But what I tried to do is play on the expectations of what people think they might know and turn that a little bit in order to complicate the storytelling.”

Truth is, most theatregoers have never seen a story, or its players, quite like what Grays is now putting on The Ricketson Theatre stage.

Monique is a lost soul on the run from deep trouble in the Deep South, and when she shows up with her 10-year-old daughter, Sam, on the doorstep of her sister’s Brooklyn brownstone, it shakes up Rachel and her partner Nadima’s orderly New York lifestyle. When we meet Sam’s father, he is loving to a fault. These are characters, Grays says, who defy all expectations and stereotypes. But all of them, it seems, have a secret, which makes Last Night and the Night Before, more than anything, a mystery.

“And it is important to me to have that mystery unfold the way it does because the play moves with memory and surprise and poetry,” said Grays, whose title was inspired by a children’s hand game.

The central mystery revolves around young Sam, who has been through some unknown traumatic event, “and that puts her in the unfortunate position of being at the mercy of the adults who are trying to safeguard her,” Grays said.

“Trauma manifests itself in different ways,” she continued. “And in all black bodies in America right now, I think there is this quiet trauma happening. I know there is for me. When you are confronted with violence or abuse or mistreatment on an ongoing slow roll, the question becomes: How do you deal with that? I think we see in Sam a kid who knows more than she should. And she has to somehow manage that. But eventually that also presents her with a roadmap to healing and joy.”

There has long been an institutional disparity in the American theatre in terms of the gender and race of our storytellers. For decades, as long as a company was presenting at least one story by an African-American playwright, the “black experience” box was checked for the year.

“But that’s such a tricky thing, because how does one fully express ‘the black experience’?” Grays said. “My argument is that there are many, many black experiences. And if you only present, say, the plays of August Wilson, then that becomes the only perspective you get. And the only style of language you get. Over time, you are going to start thinking that is the only experience black people have. So you have to diversify within a culture.

“The audience is going to come into my play with whatever preconceived notions they have and what they are going to discover is, ‘Oh, this is actually a story about a black family that is very different from other black families. This is just this one family’s story.’”

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Many performing arts centers are now proactively trying to offer a wider variety of playwriting voices. This season, for example, the DCPA Theatre Company’s Vietgone, an African-American Oklahoma! and Last Night and the Night Before all have one thing in common: They are, as Grays puts it, “devoid of the white gaze.” That doesn’t mean those stories aren’t for white audiences. The point is rather the opposite: Every story is for all audiences.

“I think a lot of these ‘slot’ plays do manage to teach white audiences about blackness and how to get along with black people. But I’m not interested in that,” she said. “I feel like the burden of talking about race in the American theatre has always been on minorities, and from my perspective, it’s exhausting. For me, it’s more compelling to tell a story that is uniquely and unapologetically black, as opposed to saying this is blackness in relief of whiteness. I think that opens up a completely different way of diversity storytelling.”

SWEAT COSTUME COLUMN

Written by playwright Lynn Nottage, Sweat won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for drama. It is a moving portrayal of today’s working-class America in decline, set in 2000 and 2008 in the city of Reading, Pennsylvania.

The workers in Reading’s central factory form a community where lifelong friendships are made, love blossoms and family members work side-by-side. However with the struggles of layoffs and the threat of a cheaper workforce, the threads of that community begin to fray.

Nottage began working on the play in 2011 by interviewing the residents of Reading, which, at the time, had a poverty rate of 40%. Nottage exposes how deindustrialization and the shifting ethnic composition of a community impacts identity, race relations and the economy.

“I very much wanted the play to be a conversation starter,” said Nottage. “I feel my role as an artist isn’t to come up with solutions, but to ask the right questions at the right moment.”

Experience this Tony-nominated play on the stage of The Space Theatre this spring (April 26 May 26).

The audience is going to come into my play with whatever preconceived notions they have and what they are going to discover is, “Oh, this is actually a story about a black family that is very different from other black families. This is just this one family’s story.”

— DONNETTA LAVINIA GRAYS, PLAYWRIGHT

LAST NIGHT AND THE NIGHT BEFORE JAN 18 – FEB 24 • RICKETSON THEATRE ASL Interpreted and Audio-Described performance: Feb 10, 1:30pm

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In Last Night and the Night Before, Grays presents the loving same-sex relationship between Rachel and Nadima not as the point of the story but simply as part of the fabric of the story.

“Simply put, they’re there because we’re here. We exist,” Grays said.

“Rachel and Nadima are not in the play as a lesson for straight people. As a storyteller, I’m most interested in exploring how does family operate?

How do love relations operate? Who takes out the trash? I think it’s a really radical thing to simply show the everydayness of who we are.”

Last Night and the Night Before was a featured reading at the DCPA Theatre Company’s 2017 Colorado New Play Summit, making it the first play ever to be selected for the Summit by one Artistic Director (Kent Thompson) and put on the mainstage season by another (Chris Coleman).

In announcing the pick, Coleman called the play “a beautiful and a deeply human story.”

“What I feel about Denver is overwhelming,” Grays said deliberately. “It’s a really humbling thing when you have this whole community telling you: ‘This play works. This play is worthy not only of the financial investment but of the artistic and institutional investment. That’s no small thing.

The Denver Center has been buoying the stories of women playwrights [through the Women’s Voices Fund] for years, and for me to be added to that legacy is really pretty cool.”

And the reason Grays believes her legacy play is for all audiences, she said, “is that it is has love at its center.”

Her advice to theatregoers: “Just sit back and allow these people into your heart.”

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Larimer Square provides a unique experience that compliments the DCPA’s unmatched cultural offerings. “The combination of Larimer Square’s world-class dining and unrivaled shopping is a perfect match for the theater, music, and immersive performances offered through the DCPA,” said Hermanson, who’s owned and overseen development of Larimer Square for the last 25 years. “Located just two blocks from one another, culture-loving residents and visitors know that the two destinations provide an amazing, only-in-Denver experience.”

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When writer Chris D’Arienzo’s agent let him know that a musical based on ’80s heavy-metal hits was being produced in Los Angeles he knew he was the man to write the book. You might say he couldn’t “fight this feeling any longer,” but D’Arienzo knew he could do justice to some of the biggest hits of his youth by weaving them into a Broadway musical with real heart.

To win the gig, however, he had to impress the producing team.

“It was probably the ballsiest pitch of my life,” he says. When he arrived for the pitch meeting, he saw the writer who had just finished pitching shuffle out of the room with deflated energy, and it lit a spark of inspiration.

“I walked to the conference room where all the producers were sitting and kicked in the door, threw my bag in, took my shirt off (revealing an authentic sleeveless Journey concert T-shirt) and sauntered in like I was some kind of David Lee Roth character.”

In a move that very easily could have gotten D’Arienzo kicked out of the building, he managed to impress the team of neophyte Broadway producers with his guts. They hired him immediately.

D’Arienzo got to work. His gargantuan task was to identify pop and rock songs of the ’80s that he wanted to use, secure the rights, then interlace them to tell a story. “For me it was important to make sure that the songs transitioned seamlessly with the book so that they really acted as dialogue instead of, ‘Hey, let’s take a time out to sing an ’80s pop song’,” he says.

Some bands were understandably resistant to having their most famous rock anthems turned into a Broadway musical.

“I get it,” says D’Arienzo. “If I was a hard rocker and someone told me they wanted to make a Broadway show out of my heavy-metal tunes, I would be very leery. But luckily a lot of them saw what we were trying to do.”

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THE PLAY COSTUME COLUMN THAT GOES WRONG

The Mischief Theatre Company’s show The Play That Goes Wrong has certainly come a long way from its humble beginning in 2012. It premiered in a pub theatre as a one-act play with only four paying members of the public in the audience. No one in the cast or crew ever imagined the show would experience the great success that it has since then.

With an excellent, growing reputation, an extended version of The Play That Goes Wrong opened in London’s West End in 2014. J.J. Abrams saw the show on a whim while in London filming The Force Awakens and was impressed with the company’s Monty-Pythonmeets-Buster-Keaton sense of humor. He decided to bring the show to New York and made his Broadway debut by co-producing the play in 2016.

The Play That Goes Wrong (Mar 5 - 17) is about the opening night of an amateur theatre troupe’s 1920s murder mystery.

With falling set pieces, sticking doors, missed cues and an unconscious leading lady, nothing seems to be going right for them!

This play’s self-deprecating, slapstick humor is enough to make people of all ages roar with laughter.

The Play That Goes Wrong National Tour. Photo by Jeremy Daniel

When asked if there was one song that got away, D’Arienzo says, “I always dreamt of starting the show with [Guns N’ Roses’] ‘Welcome to the Jungle’. I was really bummed when they wouldn’t give it to us, but then I started playing with the opening and re-listened to David Lee Roth’s ‘Livin’ In Paradise’ and I realized that Roth’s song worked so much better…. Although I think ‘Jungle’ is one of the greatest rock songs ever written, I do believe it was a happy accident and a real gift from Diamond Dave!”

With a portfolio of awesome ’80s tunes in hand, D’Arienzo created a plotline that spoke to the spirit of the era. Sherrie (as in ‘Oh Sherrie’) is an aspiring actress just off the bus seeking fame in LA. She lands a job at a bar on the Sunset Strip and meets aspiring rocker Drew, who’s bussing tables waiting to make the big time. Along with other kooky denizens of the Strip, the two set out to save the bar (and the rock’n’roll lifestyle it represents) from greedy developers plotting to tear it down.

D’Arienzo knew two of the songs he had in hand would inform the plot — Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’” and Starship’s “We Built This City.”

“The other songs really informed character more….I always tried to avoid songs that were really literal,” D’Arienzo says of his process. So as our hero and heroine fall in love, we rock out to Foreigner’s “Waiting for a Girl Like You,” and as the characters set out to follow their hearts we hear, “Here I Go Again on My Own” by White Snake, and as the crew protests against the developers, we chant, “We’re Not Gonna Take It.” In 2006, once the script was crafted, the creative team took the show to a bar in LA, where the reception was enormously positive. “[The bar] was packed every night,” says D’Arienzo. “Then we went to Vegas for ten days; that was soul-sucking and horrible….There is nothing worse than trying to do theatre for a room full of really drunk gamblers coming in on Rascal scooters with Margaritas-by-the-Yard hanging around their necks.”

The production moved to off-Broadway in 2008, where it enjoyed a hugely successful run, and in 2009 transferred to Broadway. D’Arienzo spent five months working with the cast and crew to make the transition. “I can say without question [those were] the best five months of my professional life.”

On the other hand, the team was not sure how audiences in New York, that mecca of high art, would receive such a cheeky, low-brow kind of show.

“But people really dug it,” D’Arienzo recalls. “I was relieved, only because we were told from the beginning that New York would absolutely hate us. But we always believed in our show and the majority of people in the Broadway community really embraced [it].”

Note to theatregoers over the age of 35: while the music will leave you dancing nostalgic for a bygone era, the costumes may hit a bit close to home. “There were some really bad looks back then,” acknowledges D’Arienzo, “and I think I tried them all.” Pegged pants, layered tops, polo shirt upon polo shirt (collar up of course), with a button-up on top and a t-shirt underneath, the styles, in retrospect, were not kind.

D’Arienzo has stayed actively involved in the life of the show. In Manhattan he watched over the setting up of the re-opening of Rock of Ages on Broadway. He also adapted the screen play for the feature film based on the musical starring Tom Cruise, Paul Giamatti, Mary J. Blige and Alec Baldwin. In addition to the Broadway and New York runs, the film and the ongoing national tour, the show has enjoyed hit productions in Australia, Asia and England.

The world over, Rock of Ages has proved to be a light-hearted, joyful rock musical and a nostalgic trip down memory lane for audiences.

Never underestimate the power of rock anthems, garish outfits — and a good bit of hairspray.

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Manager Ian Wells ............Event Technology Specialists Ethan Aumann, Nora Caley, Dan Havens ...............................Security Manager Samantha Egle, Jahnice Jones, Clint King ................................Security Supervisor LeiLani Lynch, Aaron McMullen, Stacey Renee Norwood, Margaret Danielle Bell, Savanna Campbell, Matt Leaver ................................Events Managers Ohlander, Dylan Phibbs, Brian McClain ....................Custodial Supervisor Valerie Schaefer, Elizabeth Schreffler, Tara Miller..................................................Sr Manager Elliot Shields, Lauren Veselak, Mica Ward.................................Theatre Company Brook Nichols .....Director, Event Technology House Managers Maggi Quinn .............Director, Capital Projects Volunteer Ushers ...............................................305+ Peter Sifter......Facilities Operations Manager

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Group Sales Jessica Bergin...............Groups Sales Manager Jonalyn Bradshaw ............................Coordinator, Education Sales Patrick Naughton ..Group Sales Coordinator SHARED SERVICES Vicky Miles .......................Chief Financial Officer Jennifer Jeffrey.......................Director, Financial Planning & Analysis Julie Schumaker.................Executive Assistant to the CFO & Board Liaison ACCOUNTING Jennifer Siemers ..........................................Director Sara Brandenburg......... Accounting Manager Michaele Davidson, Linda Erickson....................Senior Accountants Valerie Lingbloom..................Staff Accountant HUMAN RESOURCES Brian Carter............................................Director, HR Jamie Hawkins .............................HR Coordinator Karen Jewell...........................................Director, HR Paul Johnson..............................Payroll Specialist Monica Robles..................Mailroom Supervisor INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Yovani Pina ........................................Vice President Rick Bennett...................................................Director Eric Boone ............................Software Developer Vincent Bridgers ...Ticketing System Analyst Simone Gordon .....................Program Manager Christopher Hoge.................................IT Manager Phillip Johnson ................IT Analyst; Help Desk David Tschan..................................................Director THEATRE COMPANY ADMINISTRATION Charles Varin ..........................Managing Director Allison Taylor Brinkhoff......Company Manager Katie Grayson.... Assistant Company Manager Ann Marshall.............................. General Manager ARTISTIC Chris Coleman ............................. Artistic Director Charlie Miller ........Associate Artistic Director/ Off-Center Curator Douglas Langworthy ...........Literary Director/ Director of New Play Development Melissa Cashion ........................Artistic Producer Grady Soapes ....................Associate Producer/ Director of Casting Lynde Rosario............................Literary Manager PRODUCTION Jeff Gifford .....................Director of Production Kate Coltun .........................Production Manager Matthew Campbell...... Associate Production Manager Julie Brou.............................Production & Artistic Office Manager Scenic Design Lisa M. Orzolek...... Director of Scenic Design Kevin Nelson, Nicholas Renaud....Scenic Design Assistants Lighting Design Charles R. MacLeod .........Director of Lighting Lily Bradford...........Lighting Design Assistant Reid Tennis+.....................Production Electrician

APPLAUSE • JAN – MAR 2019 • 303.893.4100 • DENVERCENTER.ORG

Multimedia Gregory W. Towle.........Projection Supervisor Sound Design Craig Breitenbach .................Director of Sound Alex Billman+, Frank Haas+, Tyler Nelson+...........................Sound Technicians Stage Management Kurt Van Raden ....Production Stage Manager Christoper C. Ewing...Senior Stage Manager Heidi Echtenkamp, Corin Ferris, Rick Mireles, Michael Morales, Kristen O’Connor, 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 Brian “Marco” Markiewicz ... Lead Technician 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................Costume Director/ Costume Design Associate Meghan Anderson Doyle .....................Costume Design Associate Carolyn Plemitscher, Jackie Scott..... Drapers Cathie Gagnon.........................................First Hand Sheila P. Morris .................................................... Tailor Costume Crafts Kevin Copenhaver....Costume Crafts Director Chris Campbell.......Costume Crafts Assistant Wigs Diana Ben-Kiki.......................................Wig Master House Crew Doug Taylor+ ................Supervising Stagehand Jim Berman+, Jennifer Guethlein+, Stephen D. Mazzeno+, Miles Stasica+, Tyler Stauffer+, Matt Wagner+.....Stagehands Kyle Moore+ ........................Assistant Stagehand Wardrobe Brenda Lawson.............. Director of Wardrobe Taylor Malott^, 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 7 ^Member, I.A.T.S.E. Local 719

As of 12/17/18