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In 1889 two remarkable institutions that became synonymous with The City of Light opened. One was the Eiffel Tower, a sky-scraping thousand-foot tall, wrought-iron structure erected for the Paris World’s Fair. It remains one of the most visited tourist attractions in the world. The other? A scarlet-colored night spot with a distinctive windmill perched on its roof. Set in the Jardin du Paris, at the foot of the bohemian Montmartre district (where there were once many farms with windmills), the legendary Moulin Rouge (Red Mill) was created as a unique pleasure palace. There the champagne flowed, the ornate décor beguiled, aristocrats and bohemian writers and artists mingled, and staged shows were opulent, risqué and, at times, scandalous. A temple of decadence and dazzle, portrayed in the famed artworks of Toulouse-Lautrec, silent films and talkies, and most recently in a smash hit Broadway musical, the Moulin Rouge has persisted despite fires, wars, boom, bust, and two global pandemics.

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Broadway’s Moulin Rouge! The Musical, the recipient of ten 2021 Tony Awards (including Best Musical) is currently spreading its nostalgic brand of extravaganza and oohla-la to Denver and other major U.S. cities. (The show is also still running on Broadway, in Australia and in London’s West End.) The production is the latest chapter in the epochspanning fascination with the fabled Paris showplace. Adapted from Baz Luhrmann’s inventive 2001 ﬁlm, Moulin Rouge! The Musical in style and spectacle lives up to movie critic Roger Ebert’s description of the movie as “all color and music, sound and motion, kinetic energy, broad strokes, operatic excess.” But what sets the stage, if you will, for the musical’s romantic and pop-song mashup about a young poet’s love aﬀair with a beautiful Moulin Rouge cabaret star? Let’s rewind back to those heady times in the Belle Epoch era, when Paris was giddy with relaxed morals and waning class rigidity, and a host of new show palaces became all the rage.

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The Moulin Rouge is the best known, and most enduring. It sported crystal chandeliers, mirrored walls and a spacious dance floor for performers as well as patrons. As they sipped champagne, the audience watched exuberant variety revues with musical, comedic and acrobatic acts. But the most famous act by far, and a mainstay today, is “le cancan” — the high kicking dance executed at a furious pace by a chorus line of limber, skirt-swishing young women. The can-can, which grew out of the less racy quadrille partner dance, revealed enough black-stockinged female leg in public to be shocking to prim Parisians. But if the effect was titillating, it was leavened with winking humor. The early Moulin Rouge star La Goulue (“The Gourmand”) would kick the top hats off men’s heads. And when she spotted Britain’s Prince of Wales (the future King Edward VII) in the audience, she cheekily called out, “Hey Wales! The champagne’s on you?” La Goulue is one of the dancers immortalized in portraits and posters by Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, a regular at the Moulin Rouge (and nearby brothels). But the kicking, cartwheeling can-can moves he portrayed could also be injurious to the performers — especially the leaping splits that ritually ended a number. Though the Moulin Rouge had a laissez-faire ambience, some routines ignited outrage. For instance, in 1907 the writer-performer Colette kissed her lover, the Duchess of Mornay, onstage in an Egypt-themed routine. At a time when any public display of homosexuality was illicit, the show was promptly banned. During World War I, the original Moulin Rouge burned down in a 1915 blaze. It was rebuilt in 1921, and soon booked such entertainers as Maurice Chevalier. The owners also installed a cinema, and starting in the 1920s Black American acts were booked, including Lew Leslie’s Black Birds and performers from Harlem’s Cotton Club. The Moulin Rouge stayed open in World War II but courted controversy. In German-occupied Paris, the club became a favorite “recreational” hub for Hitler’s officers. The rising chanteuse Edith Piaf faced criticism for singing there, while also helping Jewish friends escape the Nazis. In the 1950s, French and American stars like Lena Horne and Frank Sinatra performed at the Moulin Rouge. And the club’s centenary in 1989 was marked with a celebrity gala featuring such headliners as Ray Charles, Ella Fitzgerald and actress Jane Russell. While today Parisians tend to view it as mainly a tourist attraction, the Moulin Rouge continues to draw crowds to its dinner shows. Since the 1920s, French and Hollywood moviemakers have evoked the glittering past of the cabaret in more than a dozen films. The 1952 hit Moulin Rouge directed by John Huston focused on Jose Ferrer as Toulouse-Lautrec. The 1960 feature Can-Can, adapted from the Broadway musical about habitues of a club based on the Moulin Rouge, drew global attention when Russian leader Nikita Kruschev visited the movie set. In 2001, Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge!, with its eye-popping visuals and ingenious postmodern pastiche of modern pop tunes, made a huge splash. And Luhrmann gave his blessing to the Broadway adaptation, serving as a “guide” and supporter for the musical. Like its namesake, Moulin Rouge! The Musical has had staying power, despite having to cancel some performances due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact with its splashy scenic design, mash-up score of tunes by such pop favorites as Lady Gaga, Adele and Beyonce, romantic panache and vibrant theatricality, it can serve as a sparkling diversion in a difficult era — a role that the Moulin Rouge itself has played for more than a century.

Thomas Stearns Eliot is widely regarded as one of England’s greatest writers and was awarded the 1948 Nobel Prize for Literature “for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry.” While Eliot was writing about cats at a time when they served the useful purpose of keeping mice in check, he had a lifelong affection for them, often sending letters and poems about his own cat to his godson, Tom Faber, and making up unusual or outlandish names for cats for friends. Practical Cats was originally going to include poems about consequential dogs as well; however, Eliot ultimately felt that it would be “impolite to wrap cats up with dogs.” The book was eventually titled Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, in reference to Eliot’s alias among his friends. Most of the poems were written between 1936 and 1938. Many of the cats were modelled on notable figures: Macavity is styled on Moriarty, the infamous villain who challenged Sherlock Holmes; Skimbleshanks was based on Rudyard Kipling’s The Long Trail, and Gus the theatre cat mentions Henry Irving, a great actor in the Victorian era. Grizabella the glamour cat, however, remained incomplete and unpublished as Eliot felt it was becoming too sad for his intended youthful audience. Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats was first published in October 1939 just after the outbreak of WWII and sold for 3 shillings and sixpence a copy. Today they are recognized as classics and have been given their second (of nine lives) in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s long-running musical, Cats.

Webber grew up reading Eliot’s poems as a child. In the late 1970s, he set about adapting the poems into a stage musical with collaborators Trevor Nunn (director) and Gillian Lynne (choreographer). Nunn was intrigued by the premise of Cats but felt that some narrative arch was vital to making the piece work. When the unﬁnished poem about Grizabella was sent to Webber, Nunn felt it was the key to the whole piece. With music by Webber and lyrics by Nunn, Grizabella and her memorable song, “Memory,” were used to form a story that the other poems and dance would complement. Cats debuted at the New London Theatre in the West End in 1981 and, as of 2019, remains the fourth-longest-running Broadway shows and the sixth-longest-running West End show in history. This article was compiled from material provided by Cats.

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A NUEVO QUIXOTE STILL SEEKING TO RIGHT THE WRONGS OF HIS PAST By jose sebastian alberdi, originally written for Hartford Stage in September 2019

Considered one of the most prominent Latino playwrights in North America, Octavio Solís has been produced from New York to California, including in Denver with the DCPA Theatre Company world premiere of Lydia in 2008. He spoke with jose sebastian alberdi about his play, the characteristic humor of the play, and what keeps him writing.

alberdi: How did you become a writer? Solís: I’ve been interested in literature since childhood and I dreamed of becoming a writer, but when I could find no other living writers in the phone book, I abandoned that dream. Then I was stage-bit in high school and actively pursued training for a career as an actor. I occasionally wrote some poetry and got it published, but nothing ever took hold until I devised some punk one-acts that I wrote and directed to feature my acting talent. My theatre folks all loved the writing, but my acting not so much. So that’s where I made a complete shift to playwriting. alberdi: The title of the play, Quixote Nuevo, suggests a new re-imagining of Cervantes’s novel. How do you see this play in relationship to its 17th century source material? Solís: The title does suggest a rethinking of the Quixote saga, but note that I chose the word “nuevo” as opposed to “new.” I wanted to claim the saga as a Latino story, not as a European one. The play adheres to the spirit of the original in its depiction of a comical hero who doesn’t really cope with the harsh world as it is but as it used to be. My Quixote goes out into the desert of West Texas to right the wrongs of his past; and like Cervantes’ knight, conflates his readings of chivalric exploits with his own sad, pathetic life. So, just as in the classic novel, my Quixote explores a world of the lower-income denizens of La Plancha, Texas for the first time in his life and wreaks havoc on the rules that everyone lives by. alberdi: Your play addresses aging, cultural identity, racism; yet it’s also deeply funny — a strong through line between the original novel and your reimagining of it.

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Solís: To my thinking, Cervantes’ novel represents the first instance of a comic epic in the canon. Back then, he was dismayed at how everyone had immersed themselves in the cheap novellas of the time, stories and poems detailing the adventures of knight errants and dragons and damsels in distress, to the same degree that people are immersed in sword and sorcery books, films and video games today. So he determined to give his readers a story of a pretend-knight in order to have them cope with the harsh realities of 16th century Spain, peopled with merchants, shepherds, milkmaids, convicts and obsequious clerics who live in a bankrupt country ravaged by years of war. The juxtaposition of fantasy with reality can result in either a tragic collision or a comical discordance.

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The play adheres to the spirit of the original in its depiction of a comical hero who doesn’t really cope with the harsh world as it is but as it used to be. — OCTAVIO SOLÍS

alberdi: “The Wall” immediately conjures the physical border between Mexico and the United States. But the number of walls in this play seems endless: walls between regret and acceptance, youth and old age, memory and myth. Solís: There are as many varied and disparate attitudes toward [the border wall] as there are people in this country, but in the final analysis, it is only as real as we wish it to be. In this play, it’s the barrier between reality and fantasy; Quixote rides along one side and Sancho along the other, each seeing the world that is exclusively familiar to them, denying the other’s assertions…until one of them (Sancho, usually) dares to peek over the wall into the other’s way of seeing, or until reality smashes them both over the head. But it’s also a metaphor for the invisible wall that the Rio Grande already represents, a line on a map that defines otherness and creates a schism in Quixote’s mind, which is riven in two by his love and his fear, thereby erecting yet another wall inside him, each brick forged in denial. Then there is the wall between life and death, the last barricade of our existence, one which Quixote must bravely confront in order to complete his mission, if he is to feel like he’s atoned for all the mistakes of his life. Walls are everywhere in this work, but none of them are insurmountable. alberdi: Anyone familiar with your work would know that it is oftentimes set in the Texas Borderlands. Apart from being from El Paso, what is it about this landscape that captures your imagination? Solís: For me, this part of the country is a story mill. There are so many struggles and tensions that are wrought in this desert town of El Paso, and almost all of them come as a result of the friction between the two worlds at once separated and united by the Rio Grande border. The hopes and dreams of people swirl in the eddies of this river, and in the hard-scrabble earth baked by the unrelenting sun, lives are lived and lost with casual aplomb. Every time I go home, I can almost hear the ghosts whispering their stories to me through the soles of my feet. What alternative do I have except to write them down? This article was reprinted by permission of Hartford Stage.

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In making the groundbreaking musical Dear Evan Hansen, its creators found an unlikely protagonist. Or rather, Evan Hansen found them. And in this identifiable and universal lost soul, they discovered an uplifting way to connect disconnected families. Dear Evan Hansen, which went on to win six Tony Awards including Best Musical and launched its first national tour in Denver, is a different kind of musical. One that has become a potent reminder of the power of live theatre to change lives.

I think there is some kind of cure in knowing that we’re not alone in [our] loneliness. — JUSTIN PAUL, CO-COMPOSER

“It’s really unbelievable what we are hearing from kids and from parents and from families in crisis,” said Director Michael Greif. “They are telling us that they are seen. They are telling us that things they didn’t feel they could talk about — yes, they can talk about them. They are telling us that the redemption and the forgiveness in Dear Evan Hansen is helping them to get through whatever they are going through, and to accept themselves.” Dear Evan Hansen, as its title implies, is about a letter. It’s also about a lie that snowballs out of control and earns one invisible teenager popularity and internet fame. Perhaps most provocatively: It’s about what happens when a lie 14

actually makes everyone’s lives better. At least for a time. The musical is the invention of co-composers Justin Paul and Benj Pasek who wrote the Oscar-winning music for La La Land and The Greatest Showman. The themes they set out to explore were grief, loneliness and the growing power of social media. Their premise is based loosely on an incident from Pasek’s high school days, when a fellow student willfully faked a connection to a dead classmate to make himself sound more interesting in his college application essays. That musical might have turned out in a dark vein. But that’s not Dear Evan Hansen. The writers instead chose the more diﬃcult, interesting and, they believe, hopeful path. “You want to feel that you are loved and heard and seen and valued when you don’t feel that way behind closed doors,” said Pasek. “That’s very much how I felt at 17 — waiting to like myself and wondering if other people would ever think I was worth liking.” In Evan, and in a mysterious boy in their story named Connor, the writers found the ultimate mantra of their musical: “No one deserves to disappear.” “I don’t think Dear Evan Hansen oﬀers a cure for loneliness,” Paul said, “but I think there is some kind of cure in knowing that we’re not alone in that loneliness. We want kids to know that the sense of isolation is a temporary thing and that whatever pain you feel, you can use it to make something that can help save yourself.”

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MUSIC BY ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER BASED ON “OLD POSSUM’S BOOK OF PRACTICAL CATS” BY T. S. ELIOT THE “CATS” COMPANY: VINNY ANDALORO GRACIE ANDERSON MEGAN ARSENEAU CAROLYN BACON CONNOR ORION BERMINGHAM LEXY BITTNER JOHN ANKER BOW ZACH BRAVO MICHELLE E. CARTER MA X CR AVEN NICK DAVIS K ELLIANN DECARLO DOMINIC FORTUNATO PAUL GIARRATANO TAYLER HARRIS KAYLI JAMISON BRI A N N A K IM A L L I S O N L I A N L AU REN LO U IS K IER A N M ACDO N A L D JOSÉ RAÚL MANGUAL S E A N M CM A N U S CH E L S E A NIC O L E MI T CH E L L TONY MOWATT BRIAN CRAIG NELSON HYLA MAYROSE PERILLO AIDEN PRESSEL TAYLOR JAMES ROSENBERGER CHRISTOPHER SALVAGGIO ELANA VALASTRO INDALECIO DE JESÚS VALENTÍN AND ALEXIA WAITES EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ANGELA ROWLES MUSIC SUPERVISION BY BRIAN TAYLOR MUSIC DIRECTOR JONATHAN GORST MUSIC COORDINATOR TALITHA FEHR CASTING BY HARDT CASTING, PAUL HARDT TOUR BOOKING, MARKETING AND PUBLICITY DIRECTION BOND THEATRICAL TOUR MANAGEMENT TROIKA ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT GREGG DAMANTI GENERAL MANAGER BRIAN SCHRADER PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER BARI JAMES BELLARD COMPANY MANAGER MICHELLE WARBLE ORCHESTRATIONS BY ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER & DAVID CULLEN SCENIC AND COSTUME DESIGN BY JOHN NAPIER LIGHTING DESIGN BY NATASHA KATZ SOUND DESIGN BY MICK POTTER A S S O C I A T E C H O R E O G R A P H E R K I M C R A V E N ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR CHRISSIE CARTWRIGHT C H O R E O G R A P H Y B Y A N D Y B L A N K E N B U E H L E R BASED ON THE ORIGINAL CHOREOGRAPHY BY GILLIAN LYNNE DIRECTED BY TREVOR NUNN

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Megan Arseneau

Carolyn Bacon

Connor Orion Bermingham

Lexy Bittner

John Anker Bow

Zach Bravo

Michelle E. Carter

Max Craven

Nick Davis

Kelliann Decarlo

Dominic Fortunato

Paul Giarratano

Tayler Harris

Kayli Jamison

Brianna Kim

Allison Lian

Lauren Louis

Kieran Macdonald

Hyla Mayrose Perillo

Aiden Pressel

José Raúl Mangual

Sean McManus

Taylor Christopher James Salvaggio Rosenberger

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Tony Mowatt

Brian Craig Nelson

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Alonzo..................................................................................................................................................... VINNY ANDALORO Bill Bailey/Rum Tum Tugger..................................................................................................................... ZACH BRAVO Bombalurina.................................................................................................................... CHELSEA NICOLE MITCHELL Cassandra......................................................................................................................................................... LEXY BITTNER Coricopat.....................................................................................................................TAYLOR JAMES ROSENBERGER Demeter...........................................................................................................................................................LAUREN LOUIS Grizabella...................................................................................................................................................... TAYLER HARRIS Jellylorum.......................................................................................................................................................KAYLI JAMISON Jennyanydots..................................................................................................................................MICHELLE E. CARTER Mistoffelees.......................................................................................................................................... PAUL GIARRATANO Mungojerrie.......................................................................................................................................................MAX CRAVEN Munkustrap.............................................................................................................................................................NICK DAVIS Peter/Bustopher Jones/Asparagus..........................................................................................JOHN ANKER BOW Plato/Macavity............................................................................................................................................AIDEN PRESSEL Pouncival.........................................................................................................................................DOMINIC FORTUNATO Rumpelteazer..................................................................................................................................................ALLISON LIAN Sillabub................................................................................................................................................................BRIANNA KIM Skimbleshanks.................................................................................................................... CHRISTOPHER SALVAGGIO Tantomile.......................................................................................................................................................ALEXIA WAITES Tumblebrutus............................................................................................................................................SEAN MCMANUS Victor/Old Deuteronomy...................................................................................INDALECIO DE JESÚS VALENTÍN Victoria...................................................................................................................................... HYLA MAYROSE PERILLO The Cats Chorus..................................................................................CAROLYN BACON, KELLIANN DECARLO, JOSÉ RAÚL MANGUAL, TONY MOWATT SWINGS GRACIE ANDERSON, MEGAN ARSENEAU, CAROLYN BACON, CONNOR ORION BERMINGHAM, KELLIANN DECARLO, KIERAN MACDONALD, JOSÉ RAÚL MANGUAL, TONY MOWATT, BRIAN CRAIG NELSON, ELANA VALASTRO DANCE CAPTAINS AIDEN PRESSEL & GRACIE ANDERSON UNDERSTUDIES Understudies never substitute for listed performers unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the performance. For Bill Bailey/Rum Tum Tugger: JOSÉ RAÚL MANGUAL, BRIAN CRAIG NELSON, TAYLOR JAMES ROSENBERGER; for Grizabella: CAROLYN BACON, LAUREN LOUIS, KELLIANN DECARLO; for Mistoffelees: DOMINIC FORTUNATO, KIERAN MACDONALD; for Munkustrap: JOSÉ RAÚL MANGUAL, TAYLOR JAMES ROSENBERGER; for Peter/Bustopher Jones/Asparagus: TONY MOWATT, CHRISTOPHER SALVAGGIO; for Victor/Old Deuteronomy: JOHN ANKER BOW, TONY MOWATT

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SCENES & MUSICAL NUMBERS Act I Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats............................................................................................................................Company The Naming of Cats................................................................................................................................................Company Invitation to the Jellicle Ball............................................................................. Victoria, Mistoffelees, Munkustrap The Old Gumbie Cat.................................Munkustrap, Jennyanydots, Jellylorum, Demeter, Bombalurina The Rum Tum Tugger..................................................................................................... Rum Tum Tugger, Company Entry of Grizabella..........................................................................Grizabella, Demeter, Bombalurina, Company Bustopher Jones: The Cat About Town........................................................................................Bustopher Jones, Jennyanydots, Bombalurina, Jellylorum, Company Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer.................................................................................... Mungojerrie, Rumpelteazer Old Deuteronomy................................................................ Munkustrap, Rum Tum Tugger, Old Deuteronomy Song of the Jellicles and the Jellicle Ball.....................................................................................................Company Memory........................................................................................................................................................................ Grizabella

Act II Introduction to Act II/The Moments of Happiness............................................. Old Deuteronomy, Sillabub Gus the Theatre Cat......................................................................................................................Jellylorum, Asparagus The Awefull Battle of the Pekes and the Pollicles.........................................Asparagus, Old Deuteronomy, Munkustrap, Company Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat...................................................................................... Skimbleshanks, Company Macavity, The Mystery Cat................................................................................. Demeter, Bombalurina, Company Magical Mister Mistoffelees...............................................................Mistoffelees, Rum Tum Tugger, Company Memory.........................................................................................................................Sillabub, Munkustrap, Grizabella Journey to the Heaviside Layer........................................................................................................................Company The Ad-dressing of Cats...............................................................................................Old Deuteronomy, Company Finale

Prologue — “Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats” additional lyric material written by Trevor Nunn and Richard Stilgoe “Memory” lyric written by Trevor Nunn, based on poems by T.S. Eliot

THERE WILL BE ONE 15-MINUTE INTERMISSION

CATS ORCHESTRA Music Director/Conductor: JONATHAN GORST Associate Music Director/Keyboard 3: JONATHAN CRAFT Keys 1: MAMI MATSUURA Keys 2: SHANE FFRENCH Flute/Bb Clarinet/Tenor Sax: ERIC LAMPMANN Bb Clarinet/S Sax/B Sax: BRIAN T. LANG Guitar: NICK GREATHOUSE; Bass: JOHN TONEY Drums/Percussion: PAUL HANNAH Music Supervisor: BRIAN TAYLOR; Keyboard Programmer: STUART ANDREWS Music Coordinator: TL MUSIC TALITHA FEHR

VINNY ANDALORO (Alonzo) is thrilled to be making his national tour debut. Favorite credits: West Side Story, Newsies (The LEX), Carousel, The Wedding Singer. BFA in Musical Theatre from The Boston Conservatory. Thank you, Mom and Dad, for everything! IG:@vinny_andaloro www.vinnyandaloro.com GRACIE ANDERSON (Female Swing/ Dance Captain) is thrilled to be making her National Tour debut with CATS! Gracie graduated from Marymount Manhattan College as a Gold Key recipient for her BFA in Dance. Many thanks to Kim, Grace and the entire Jellicle team. Love to Craig, Mom and Zoey! @gracieanderson___ MEGAN ARSENEAU (Female Swing). This is Megan’s first national tour! Previously, she played Peggy Sawyer (42nd Street), Kristine (A Chorus Line) and Catherine (Pippin) at Weathervane Playhouse. Megan is a proud alum of Wright State University - Never Raider Down! <3 – Instagram: Megskilove – www.meganarseneau.com CAROLYN BACON (Female Swing/ Booth) is excited to join her first national tour! Regional: Carousel, South Pacific, The Fantasticks. TV: “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”. Proud feminist. Currently writing a play about violence against women, female killers, and finding community. Love to Brian and Mom. Get vaccinated and stay safe! www.carolynannebacon.com CONNOR ORION BERMINGHAM (Male Swing) graduated from Pace University. He’s thrilled to make his national tour debut with CATS. Credits: All Shook Up at WestchesterBroadway-Theatre and Dance-Lab NY. Connor partnered Misty Copeland for Bernstein’s-Centennial-Tribute and was featured on “SYTYCD”. Connor trained at Jacob’s Pillow and is represented by CESD. (@connor_orion_) LEXY BITTNER (Cassandra) is making her Touring debut with CATS! Lexy is from Pittsburgh, PA and has trained with Boston Conservatory, Lincoln Park Performing Arts, Pittsburgh

Ballet Theatre, Elite Dance by Damian, Michele’s Dance Center, Juilliard and Hubbard Street (SI). Dreams do come true, so excited! JOHN ANKER BOW (Peter/Bustopher Jones/Gus). BA Rider University. National Tours: Kinky Boots (George), Ragtime (Henry Ford), A Christmas Carol (Jacob Marley). International: Disney Cruise Line. Regional: Les Mis (Thenardier), Spamalot (Arthur), Drowsy (Man in Chair), Forever Plaid (Smudge), Noises Off (Lloyd), Peter Pan (Hook). Podcast: Flop of the Heap. ZACH BRAVO (Bill Bailey/Rum Tum Tugger) is thrilled to be making his national tour debut in CATS. Readings: The Wanderer; Regional Theater: Matilda, Evita, Mamma Mia!, Footloose. Grateful to casting and the creative team, CTG, my friends and family, especially my parents. www.zachbravo.com MICHELLE E. CARTER (Jennyanydots) is elated to be tapping across the country with CATS! REGIONAL: Signature Theatre- A Chorus Line, Barrington Stage Company - The Royal Family of Broadway, Olney Theatre CenterMatilda & Elf, MacHaydn Theatre 2017. Marymount Manhattan College grad. Take 3 Talent. @idtapthat03 www.michelle-e-carter.com MAX CRAVEN (Mungojerrie) A 2020 graduate from AMDA New York. Max is excited to make his national tour debut in CATS! He is grateful for this entire cast and team on tour. A million thanks to Max’s friends, family, and teachers for their support! IG:@maxcraven_ NICK DAVIS (Munkustrap). A recent graduate from Penn State’s Musical Theatre program, Nick is thrilled to join the company of CATS! Previous National Tour: A Christmas Story, The Musical! As always, thanks to his parents for their constant love and support! www.nickudavis.com @nickudavis KELLIANN DeCARLO (Female Swing/Booth). NY: Radio City Christmas Spectacular (Singer).

Regional: CATS (Grizabella), Beauty and the Beast (Belle u/s), Miss Saigon (Ellen). Concerts: Delaware Valley Symphony. BM, Rider University, kellianndecarlo.com, @kellianndecarlo. For Mom - love you. DOMINIC FORTUNATO (Pouncival) is a graduate of Mercyhurst University. He is very excited to make his touring debut. His dance credits include SoMar Dance Works and Syracuse City Ballet. His most recent credit is CATS with Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines. PAUL GIARRATANO (Mistoffelees) is thrilled to be making his national tour debut! Credits: West Side Story (Fifth Avenue Theater). Company: Spectrum Dance Theater, Dance Lab New York, Keigwin+Company (guest). B.F.A dance, SUNY Purchase. Lots of love to family, friends and MTA. TAYLER HARRIS (Grizabella). Credits include: Much Ado About Nothing (Public Theater), 50in50 Letters To Our Sons (Billie Holiday Theatre), Godspell (Prima Theatre). Western Carolina University (2018). Much love to her family, friends and Hudson Artist’s Agency for all their love and support. Taylerharris.com KAYLI JAMISON (Jellylorum). Recent credits include: Kate Monster (Avenue Q- MTKC), Evelyn Nesbit (RagtimeMusic Theatre Heritage) Shelly (Hairspray- Starlight Theater). Kayli lives in Brooklyn with her husband Jesse and dog Pippin. She would like to thank them, her family and friends for all their love and support! BRIANNA KIM (Sillabub). Current: Twyla Tharp, John Selya (NY City Center) Performance: Abbott Awards (Al Blackstone, Billy Griffin, SDC 60th, Agnes De Mille Tribute), IHeartDanceNYC (Tyler Hanes) Film: Broadway4Biden (Chris Gattelli, Grady Bowman) Pre-Production: The Outsiders (Lorin Latarro); Kanyok Arts Initiative Alum; Instagram @bri.kimm ALLISON LIAN (Rumpleteazer) is a proud graduate of NYU Tisch.

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She worked on the National Tour of Finding Neverland (Swing) and HBO’s Gossip Girl. Other: Hair, Xanadu, Godspell, and Voyeur. Love to family and friends, the boy, and her favorite felines. @msallisonlian Meow! LAUREN LOUIS (Demeter). CATS is Lauren’s first national tour! She worked for Disneyland as a principal vocalist & dance swing while getting her Musical Theatre BFA from CSU Fullerton. Regional credits; West Side Story & A Chorus Line. She’d like to thank the team, her family & friends! @laurenalouis KIERAN MACDONALD (Male Swing) is thrilled to be making his National Tour debut in CATS. Credits: NUVO Dance Convention, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”, Gucci, Alessia Cara. Thanks to Jim and everyone at Bloc. Endless love and appreciation to my family for their never-ending support. www.kieranmacdonald.com @iamkieranmacdonald JOSÉ RAÚL MANGUAL (Male Swing). Touring debut. A dream come true. Regional: Walnut Street Theatre, Arden Theatre Company, Shakespeare in Clark Park, On the Rocks (Philadelphia Fringe), American Pops Orchestra. To the CATS team, my supporters, Dr. Fleming and Amina! www.JoseRaul.org. You are capable. SEAN MCMANUS (Tumblebrutus) is thrilled to be making his national tour debut. Regional: Newsies (The LEX), Sound of Music (Paper Mill) and A Chorus Line (Interlakes). BFA: Boston Conservatory. He sends love and enormous gratitude to his amazing family, friends, Troika and The Collective. @smcmanus3 CHELSEA NICOLE MITCHELL (Bombalurina) is a native of Baltimore, Maryland. She is an undergraduate at Point Park University majoring in modern dance. Regional credits include SOUL: The Stax Musical. Chelsea is immensely grateful to God, family and friends for their ever-present love and support. IG:@_nicmitch TONY MOWATT (Male Swing/Booth). Off-Broadway: Little Match Girl (St. Luke’s Theatre), Whiskey Pants: The Mayor of Williamsburg (HERE). NYC/

Regional: Tesla, an Elektrical Spectacle (workshop); Twisted Operettas (Joe’s Pub); An Octoroon (Kean Stage); Titanic (Rodeheaver Auditorium); The Producers, Legally Blonde, Chicago (Woodstock Playhouse) @baloneytones / For Sandra and Gloria BRIAN CRAIG NELSON (Male Swing) is thrilled to be joining the Cats family. He holds a BFA in Ballet from the University of Utah. Past companies include: Ririe-Woodbury, BodyVox, and Tuachan. Brian is extremely happy to have the support and love of so many friends and his family. @clownfish2113 HYLA MAYROSE PERILLO (Victoria) is incredibly delighted to be making her tour debut in the national tour of CATS! She is a Marymount Manhattan College alumni and Michigan native. Thank you to my Mom, Dad, family and friends for their endless love and support in this journey! AIDEN PRESSEL (Plato/Macavity/ Dance Captain) is a recent graduate from Pace University in New York City where he received his BFA in Commercial Dance. Aiden is represented by MSA in New York. He is thrilled to be joining the touring company of CATS. @aidenpressel TAYLOR JAMES ROSENBERGER (Coricopat) is thrilled to be on the road with these Jellicle cats! Theater: Beauty and the Beast (Paper Mill Playhouse), All Shook Up (Westchester Broadway Theater) Television: “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (Amazon). Pace University BFA Commercial Dance alum! Thanks to Mom, Dad, friends and MSA! @TaylorJRose CHRISTOPHER SALVAGGIO (Skimbleshanks). National Tour Debut! NYC based, Rochester, NY born/ raised. BFA Musical Theatre Nazareth College. Recent credits: Chicago (Arizona Broadway), The Little Mermaid (Argyle Theatre), Joseph […] Dreamcoat (Axelrod PAC). Love and thanks to family, friends, The Luedtke Agency, CATS team. KZL. Christophersalvaggio.com. @salvaggio_chris.

ELANA VALASTRO (Female Swing). National tour debut! Regional favorites: West Side Story, Godspell (New London Barn Playhouse), Little Mermaid (Northern Stage), Spamalot, Fiddler on the Roof (Saint Michael’s Playhouse). Oceania Marina Cruise. Cornell University 2017. Endless thanks to Mom, Dad, Laura, Michael. @elanavalastro, elanavalastro.com INDALECIO DE JESÚS VALENTÍN (Victor/Old Deuteronomy). Works include: In the Heights (Piraguero/ Graffiti Pete U/S), Songs for a New World (Man 1), Cinderella (Prince Charming), Dogfight (Eddie Birdlace U/S), Elf the Musical (Buddy the Elf U/S), Damn Yankees (Smokey), RENT (Featured Soloist). @idjvalentin ALEXIA WAITES (Tantomile) is ecstatic to be making her National Tour debut in CATS! Alexia is a graduate of Pace University’s Commercial Dance program in NYC. Endless thanks to her agents at LDC Artist Representation and her entire family for the constant love and support. @alexia_waites ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER (Composer) has composed the scores of some of the world’s most famous musicals. From Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1968) to Cinderella (2021) his work has been consistently seen on world stages. Before the covid pandemic hit, Lloyd Webber had shows continually running in the West End for 48 years and on Broadway for 41. When Sunset Boulevard joined School Of Rock, Catsand Phantom of the Opera he equalled Rodgers and Hammerstein’s record of four shows running simultaneously on Broadway. He is one of the select group of artists with EGOT status, having received Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Awards. Lloyd Webber owns seven London theatres including the iconic London Palladium and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Over the past three years the latter has been completely restored and renovated at a cost of over £60 million. It is one of the biggest projects ever undertaken by a private theatre owner in recent times. His mantra that every penny of profit made from his theatres is ploughed back into the buildings has meant that

THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT (Poet & Lyricist) was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on September 26, 1888. He was educated at Harvard, the Sorbonne in Paris and Merton College, Oxford. He settled in England in 1915 and taught briefly at two schools before joining Lloyds Bank in the city of London. His first volume of poems, Prufrock and Other Observations, was published in 1917. The Waste Land, his most famous work, was first published in 1922. In 1925 he left the bank to become a director of the publishing house of Faber. There have been several individual and collected editions of his poetry, as well as volumes of his literary and social criticism; he also wrote a number of verse plays, including Murder in the Cathedral, which was commissioned for the Canterbury Festival of 1935. T.S. Eliot had a great affection for cats, and “Possum” was his alias among his friends. Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats appeared in October 1939 and was the basis for CATS. He received many honors and distinctions, among them the Order of Merit and the Nobel Prize for Literature. Eliot died in January 1965 and was posthumously awarded the 1983 Tony Award for the book of CATS. TREVOR NUNN (Director). From 1968 to 1986, he was the youngest-ever artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, directing more than 30 productions, from classics to new works including Nicholas Nickleby and Les Misérables. He was later director of the National Theatre,

where award-winning productions included Not About Nightingales, Troilus and Cressida, Oklahoma!, The Merchant of Venice, Summerfolk, My Fair Lady, A Streetcar Named Desire, Anything Goes and Love’s Labour’s Lost. He directed the world premieres of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia and Rock ’n’ Roll; and of CATS, Sunset Boulevard, Starlight Express, Aspects of Love and The Woman in White by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Other theatre includes Hamlet, Richard II, Inherit the Wind, Kiss Me Kate (Old Vic); A Little Night Music (West End and Broadway); Heartbreak House, Flare Path, The Tempest (Theatre Royal, Haymarket); All That Fall (59E59); The Wars of the Roses (Rose Theatre); Pericles (TFANA). GILLIAN LYNNE, 1926-2018, (Original Choreography). Leading soloist with Sadler’s Wells/Royal Ballet and London Palladium star dancer, Gillian Lynne was the original creator and collaborator on countless musicals. Her distinctive style led to her record-breaking work on Cats (Olivier Award). Broadway: Tony nominations for Cats, Phantom and Aspects of Love; How Now, Dow Jones, Pickwick, The Roar of the Greasepaint.., Jeeves Takes Charge, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. West End: productions include My Fair Lady, Songbook, Tomfoolery; numerous productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company and Royal Opera House. Ballets include Lippizaner, The Brontës and Journey at the Bolshoi. Television productions include “A Simple Man” (BAFTA) and “The Muppet Show” Series. Films include Half a Sixpence, Man of La Mancha and Yentl. Awards include The Mr. Abbott Award, Queen Elizabeth II Coronation, Olivier Special Award and in 2014 she became a Dame of the British Empire. In 2015 her “White Cat” solo was honored by the American Dance Machine. In 2018, Andrew Lloyd Webber renamed the New London Theatre: the Gillian Lynne Theatre. www.lynneandlandfoundation.co.uk. ANDY BLANKENBUEHLER (Choreographer) is a three-time Tony Award winner for his choreography in the Broadway productions of Bandstand, In The Heights and Hamilton for which he also received

London’s Olivier Award. The recent production of Bandstand (director/choreographer) also received the Drama Desk and Chita Rivera Award for Best Choreography. Other Broadway credits include Bring It On, 9 to 5, The People In The Picture, The Apple Tree, Annie, and the recent revival of CATS. Upcoming theatre projects include the new musical Only Gold with British singer/songwriter Kate Nash and the musical Five Points. On television, Mr. Blankenbuehler’s work has been seen most recently on the Emmy Award winning FX series “Fosse/Verdon,” and his choreography will be seen in the upcoming Universal Studio film of the musical CATS. Andy is very proud to have made his concert debut earlier this year with a piece entitled Remember Our Song for the Tulsa Ballet Company. As a performer, Mr. Blankenbuehler has danced on Broadway in Fosse, Contact, Man of La Mancha, Saturday Night Fever, Steel Pier, Big and Guys and Dolls. Originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, Mr. Blankenbuehler resides in New York City, with his wife Elly and two children, Luca and Sofia. Mr. Blankenbuehler is a recipient of a special 2015 Drama Desk Award for his achievement in the theatre. Mr. Blankenbuehler received the 2018 Kennedy Center Honors for his work on the musical Hamilton. JOHN NAPIER (Scenic & Costume Designer) studied Fine Art at Hornsey College of Art and theatre design at the Central School of Arts and Crafts. Credits: Royal Shakespeare Company (associate designer), Royal National Theatre; opera includes the Royal Opera, Glyndebourne, ENO and the Metropolitan Opera; CATS; Starlight Express; Les Misérables; Miss Saigon; Sunset Boulevard; Michael Jackson’s Captain EO; Siegfried & Roy Show at the Mirage (creator/co-director); and Steven Spielberg’s Hook. Awards include four Oliviers (nine nominations), a BAFTA and Tony Awards for Nicholas Nickleby, CATS, Starlight Express, Les Misérables and Sunset Boulevard. American Academy of Achievement member, elected Royal Designer for Industry in 1996 and an Honorary Fellow of the London Institute.

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considerable work has been undertaken across his theatre portfolio during the pandemic, including the complete re-modelling and re-seating of the Gillian Lynne. Lloyd Webber is passionate about the importance of musical education and diversity in the arts. The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation provides 30 performing arts scholarships every year for talented students with financial need and supports a range of projects such as the Music In Secondary School Trust and commissioning research into diversity in theatre. Andrew Lloyd Webber was knighted in 1992 and created an honorary life peer in 1997. To mark his 70th birthday, his bestselling autobiography Unmasked was published by Harper Collins in March 2018.

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NATASHA KATZ (Lighting Designer) is a New York-based lighting designer who has designed lighting for many varieties of entertainment, including dance and opera companies, concerts, regional theatres, Off- Broadway, Las Vegas, TV and permanent lighting installations. She is a six-time Tony Award winner whose recent Broadway credits include Frozen, Springsteen on Broadway, Hello Dolly, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Aladdin, An American in Paris, Once, The Glass Menagerie, Aida and Beauty and the Beast. CATS is her second show with Andrew Lloyd Webber after designing School of Rock on Broadway last season.

KIM CRAVEN (Associate Choreographer). Resident Choreographer - CATS (Broadway). Resident Director - Come Fly Away and Times They Are A-Changin’ (Broadway). Associate Director/ Choreographer Movin’ Out (London). Associate Choreographer - Honeymoon in Vegas (Broadway). Dance Supervisor - Movin’ Out (1st National), Swing! (1st National). Dance Captain - Mamma Mia! (1st National & Vegas), On The Town (Broadway). Associate Choreographer - Damn Yankees and The Full Monty (Papermill Playhouse). Kim began her career with The Pennsylvania Ballet and is part of the faculty at NYCDA.

MICK POTTER (Sound Designer). School of Rock (Drama Desk Award nominee), The Phantom of the Opera (Parnelli Award), Les Misérables (Tony Award nominee, Helpmann Award), Miss Saigon (Broadway World Audience Award, London), Love Never Dies (Green Room Award), CATS (Drama Desk Award nominee), The Woman in White (Olivier Award), Saturday Night Fever, Bombay Dreams, The Wizard of Oz, Sister Act, Joseph, Zorro the Musical, The Sound of Music, Evita, Betty Blue Eyes, From Here to Eternity, Barnum, Sunset Boulevard, Carousel, Chess.

ELLENORE SCOTT (Assistant Choreographer). Broadway: King Kong (associate choreographer), Head Over Heels (associate choreographer), CATS Revival (assistant choreographer), Falsettos Revival (assistant choreographer). Off-Broadway: Pride and Prejudice at Cherry Lane Theater (choreographer). Artistic Director of ELSCO Dance Company. Instagram: @ellenorescott

CHRISSIE CARTWRIGHT (Associate Director). West End, performer: Billy, Irene, Evita, Barnum, Blondel; Choreographer: The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Sherlock Holmes the Musical, Mack and Mabel. Tours: The Entertainer, Devil’s Virtuoso, Annie, The Card, On the Twentieth Century, The Witches of Eastwick, Showbizpops Orchestra’s The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber. TV choreography: Kiss Me Kate, Alas Smith and Jones, Hit Dancing. Associate director/choreographer: Five Guys Named Moe (London, NY, Australia), CATS all over the world, Brick by Bricusse, Dear World. Movement director and musical staging: The Private Ear and The Public Eye, Birdsong, This is the Hour – a celebration of the music of ClaudeMichel Schönberg. Children’s director: Mary Poppins. Resident director: CATS, Joseph…, Sister Act, The Wizard of Oz. Recreation and adaptation of original choreography: Phantom of The Opera (West End and UK tour)

GRACE BUCKLEY (Resident Choreographer) is honored to be working as the resident choreographer for this tour of Cats. She presently serves on faculty for New York City Dance Alliance, Steps on Broadway, and BUILD Dance Series. Many thanks to Kim, Andy, MSA, family and friends for all of your support and love! BRIAN TAYLOR (Music Supervisor). Broadway conducting credits include CATS (Associate Conductor), Evita (Assistant Conductor), An American in Paris, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, and Mary Poppins. Rehearsal pianist for Sunday in the Park With George, Evita, I Married an Angel, Paint Your Wagon, and Lady Be Good! at NY City Center Encores! Keyboard for Jesus Christ Superstar Live on NBC, Associate Conductor for Unmasked at Papermill Playhouse, and most recently, Music Director for Gavin Lee aboard Disney Cruise Lines. JONATHAN GORST (Musical Director) first worked on CATS in 1998 and continued as Music Director for the North American Tour through 2003.

For nearly a decade, he served as both a conductor and Music Director for the US National Tour of Phantom. Other credits include Phantom at the Venetian and The Woman in White - Broadway. Jonathan and his wife Marisa will enjoy seeing the country together with their beloved Pollicle (dogs) “Yoda” and “Chewbacca”. STUART ANDREWS (Keyboard Programmer). Broadway/West End: The Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables, Evita, Mary Poppins, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Woman in White. West End: Miss Saigon, CATS, Stephen Ward, The Wizard of Oz, Betty Blue Eyes, Love Never Dies, Oliver!, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Sound of Music, La Cage aux Folles. TALITHA FEHR (Music Coordinator) has worked on over 70 national and international tours and productions. Highlights include: Sister Act, Mamma Mia!, School of Rock, Come Fly Away, and Love Never Dies, as well as the Vancouver Olympic Ceremonies 2010. She dedicates her work on CATS to the memory of her mentor, Sam Lutfiyya. PAUL HARDT (Casting). Paul has been thrilled to have worked as Casting Director on the following projects: Broadway: West Side Story, Come Fly Away, August: Osage County, A Moon For The Misbegotten, On Golden Pond, Hot Feet, Caine Mutiny Court Martial and the upcoming Once Upon A One More Time. National Tours: West Side Story (US and World tour), A Bronx Tale, Dirty Dancing, Legends!, Whistle Down The Wind, On Golden Pond, August: Osage County and the The Bodyguard. Regional Theatres include: Goodspeed Opera House, Bucks County Playhouse, Delaware Theatre Company, TheaterWorks Hartford VICTORIA TINSMAN (Hair and Makeup Design Coordinator). Thrilled to be back at the Junkyard! Broadway: Pretty Woman, CATS, She Loves Me, Fish in the Dark, Fun Home, Rocky, Amazing Grace, A Delicate Balance, Phantom of the Opera. 2 Seasons at The Alley Theatre. 3 Seasons at Utah Shakespearean Festival. UNCSA BFA in Wigs & Make Up.

BARI JAMES BELLARD (Production Stage Manager) is delighted to join the CATS family. He has worked everywhere from a cruise ship to Walt Disney World. National Tour: The Color Purple. Regional: ...Death of Queens, Eclipsed, All The Way, A Doll’s House, Part 2, The Wolves (Southern Rep Theatre). BA, Loyola University New Orleans. Love to my family and friends! Live your dream! MICHELLE WARBLE (Company Manager) is delighted to join the CATS family. She has managed shows in over 40 countries, including North American tours of STOMP, Disney On Ice and Disney Live. Previously, she worked on college football and the Superbowl for ABC Sports/ESPN. Many thanks to Brandon Griewank for being her inspiration. A. J. ORTH (Assistant Company Manager). Third season with TROIKA Entertainment! Previous AGM credits include School of Rock, Kinky Boots, Escape to Margaritaville, & The Color Purple. Originally from Prairie Village, Kansas, A.J. is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma. BRIAN SCHRADER (General Manager). is beginning his tenth season with TROIKA Entertainment. GM Tour Credits: Tootsie, Cats, School of Rock, The Bodyguard, Escape to Margaritaville, Kinky Boots, The Color Purple, and Annie. Select Associate GM Credits: An American In Paris, 42nd

Street, Annie (US, Jakarta, Singapore), Bring It On (US, Japan), Ghost, Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth, Priscilla, West Side Story, Catch Me If You Can. Graduate of Loyola University New Orleans with a degree in Theatre Arts and Business Administration. Member of ATPAM. TEGAN MEYER (Associate General Manager) is thrilled to join this production of Cats and the Troika team. As Company Manager she toured with Elf, We Will Rock You and the First National Tour of Memphis. On Broadway she was the Associate Company Manager for Bright Star, and the 2010 Tony Award winning production of Memphis. Additional credits include, Off-Broadway: What’s That Smell, Jackie Mason: The Ultimate Jew, The Immigrant and Slut, Broad way: Guys & Dolls, Jackie Mason’s Laughing Room Only, and The Pirate Queen. GREGG DAMANTI (Production Manager). Working in the festival, music, and live entertainment industry for over 20 years. National Tours include: On Your Feet!, CATS, & My Fair Lady. Love to Jen and Ripley! NEURO TOUR (Physical Therapy). Carolyn Lawson PT, founder and CEO of NEURO TOUR and Neurosport, leaders in performing arts medicine. We are honored to be part of CATS. Broadway: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, The Cher Show. Tours: On Your Feet!, Hamilton. TROIKA ENTERTAINMENT (Producer & Tour Management) has been an innovator in touring musical theater for over three decades. TROIKA Entertainment brings the Broadway experience to communities around the world; uniting, inspiring and celebrating our audiences, our employees, and our partners through the magic and energy of live theater. Current productions include CATS, The Phantom of the Opera, Escape to Margaritaville, TOOTSIE, My Fair Lady, Annie, and Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Please visit us at www.troika.com BOND THEATRICAL (Tour Booking, Marketing & Publicity Direction) is

an independently-owned booking, marketing and publicity company for live entertainment productions. Current tour marketing and booking shows include 9 to 5: The Musical, A Soldier’s Play, An Officer and a Gentleman, Annie, Blue Man Group, CATS, Clue, Clueless, Company, Diana, Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical, Dick Clark’s American Bandstand Rockin’ On, Girl from the North Country, Jesus Christ Superstar, Kathleen Turner: Finding My Voice, Lempicka, Love Actually Live, The Lehman Trilogy, May We All, Spamilton, The Brat Pack and What the Constitution Means to Me. Current marketing and publicity shows include 1776, Anastasia, Dear Evan Hansen, Escape to Margaritaville, Fiddler on the Roof, Jagged Little Pill, Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!, The Band’s Visit, The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway, The Prom and Tina: The Tina Turner Musical. THE REALLY USEFUL GROUP (Licensor) is Andrew Lloyd Webber’s producing and licensing company and manages the theatrical rights for all of Andrew’s works, including The Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Sunset Boulevard and School of Rock – The Musical. The Really Useful Group reached over 20 million people across the globe in 2019, from live theatre and concert audiences, cinemagoers, television viewers and music fans, to social media and art lovers. After more than a year of West End theatres being dark due to the COVID-19 pandemic, The Really Useful Group is thrilled that upon the reopening of the West End, The Phantom of the Opera and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat have been joined by Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new production of Cinderella, produced by The Really Useful Group, with lyrics by multi award winning David Zippel and book by 2021 Oscar winner Emerald Fennell. The Really Useful Group continues to work across theatre, film and television as it produces and develops new projects and partnerships worldwide, alongside its ongoing work in education, amateur licensing and music publishing.

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ABIGAIL HAHN (Associate Costume Designer) is a New York based Costume Designer/Stylist. As an Associate, her International credits include: School of Rock (West End and Australia) and Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Shanghai). NY Associate/assistant credits include Broadway: Sunset Boulevard, CATS, School of Rock, Fun Home, Violet, A Christmas Story, Hair. Select Associate credits OffBroadway: The Public Theater (Dry Powder), CSC (Peer Gynt, Allegro), and NY City Center (Wild Party, Little Shop of Horrors, A New Brain, Irma La Douce, Merrily We Roll Along). Additionally, Abby has designed costumes for several commercials and photoshoots.

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CATS TOUR STAFF GENERAL MANAGEMENT & PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT TROIKA ENTERTAINMENT GENERAL MANAGER BRIAN SCHRADER Associate General Manager. . .Tegan Meyer

HEAD CARPENTER . . . . . . . . . . . . IVY LLEWELLYN Flyperson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John White Automation Carpenter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Zach Hankin Head Electrician . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jordan Mitchell Assistant Electrician . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michael Schulz Head Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kevin Thurber Assistant Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clark Boyan Head Props . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Emily Jaeger Assistant Props . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Angela Salazar Head Wardrobe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maya Patrick Assistant Wardrobe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sarah Rekow Hair & Makeup Supervisor . . . . . . . . . Gabe Nunez Assistant Hair & Makeup . . . . . . . . . Amelia Brown

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CASTING HARDT CASTING, PAUL HARDT

Production Assistant . . . . . . . . . John N. Fortunato Associate Keyboard Programmer David Weiser Rehearsal Pianist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ming Aldrich-Gan Drum Sticks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vic Firth Sticks

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Physical Therapy... NEURO TOUR Physical Therapy Athletic Trainer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ariana Senn, ATC Medical Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Craig E. Weil, MD

TOUR BOOKING Temah Higgins Mollie Mann Wendy Roberts Megan Savage Madison St. Amour

Production Photography. . . . . . . . . . Matt Murphy, Murphymade Press and Marketing Television Production . . . . . . . . . . . HMS Media, Inc. Creative Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SpotCo Website & Interactive Marketing . . . . . . . . SpotCo

Backstage and Front of the House Employees are represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (or I.A.T.S.E) The Director-Choreographer is a member of the STAGE DIRECTORS AND CHOREOGRAPHERS SOCIETY, a national theatrical labor union.

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MAKEUP DESIGN JOHN NAPIER Makeup development by Nanci Powell WIGS MISS LEMON LIMITED Jenny Dean & Charles Wright MUSICAL SUPERVISOR FOR ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER David Wilson New dance sequences for “The Old Gumbie Cat,” “The Rum Tum Tugger” and “Magical Mister Mistoffelees” co-arranged by John Clancy PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BARI JAMES BELLARD Assistant Stage Managers . . . . . . . . . Marisa Gorst Assistant Choreographer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ellenore Scott Resident Choreographer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Grace Buckley Dance Captains. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gracie Anderson, Aiden Pressel Associate Scenic Designer . . . . . . . Kevin Depinet UK Associate Costume Designer . . . Tracy Stiles US Associate Costume Designers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lisa Zinni, Abigail Hahn Costume Assistants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chris Hynds, Holly McCaffrey Associate Lighting Designer ... Craig Stelzenmuller Assistant Lighting Designer ...John Bartenstein Moving Light Programmer . . . . . . . . . . . Alex Fogel Associate Sound Designer . . . . Joshua Hummel Associate Production Electrician . . . Carl Gosselin Production Electrician . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Justin Petito Production Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . Heather Augustine

Accounting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Zwick & Banyai, PLLC Employee Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PEOPLE, Inc. Insurance . . . The Arts Insurance Program, LLC. Legal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jean Ward, Esq., Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz Merchandising. . . . . Creative Goods Merchandise LLC Tour Housing & Transportation Provided By Road Rebel

For TROIKA ENTERTAINMENT Chief Executive Officer . . . . . . . . . Angela Rowles Chief Operating Officer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kori Prior General Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brian Schrader Associate General Managers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Madeline M. McCluskey, Tegan Meyer Technical Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dave Burch Production Coordinator . . . . . . . . . . Drew Neitzey Director of Engagements . . . . Barrett Newman Director of Marketing ..... Michael Yuen-Killick Director of Finance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brian Jacob Production Accounting Manager . . . Sheila Lewis Accounting Clerk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Electra Walker Operations Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Melanie Cahill Warehouse Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coree Howard Office Manager/Executive Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . Shaquille Stewart www.troika.com THANK YOU Jay Johnson, Zoe Szcotka, Terra Troxell CREDITS Scenery and automation by TTS STUDIOS, Charleston, SC. Lighting equipment from PRG LIGHTING. Sound equipment by SOUND ASSOCIATES. Rigging equipment by CHRISTIE LIGHTS. Light up and large costumes executed by John Kristiansen New York Inc. Grizabella costume executed by Sasha Keir. Leotards executed by Phil Reynolds. Painting by Nicola Killeen Textile. Jennyanydots painting by Hochi Asiatico. Leg and arm warmers knitted by Jo Thompson. Skimbleshanks and Victor knitted by Marian Grealish. Additional makeup consultation by Karen Dawson.

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Enjoy the beauty of Crested Butte at the Premier Arts Event in Colorado featuring 100+ juried fine artists and a weekend full of family friendly activities. Tickets available June 1st @crestedbutteartsfestival.com

PROUD SPONSOR OF THE DENVER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

We are so grateful to our partners and to the thousands of donors and event participants over the years who have helped to improve and enrich the lives of those in our community. — THE DENVER POST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

The Denver Post is proud to support the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, both through sponsorship of its acclaimed theatre productions as well as with grant funding through The Denver Post Community Foundation. Our longstanding partnership with DCPA has given countless individuals of all ages, the opportunity to experience and develop a lifelong appreciation for the arts. The Denver Post Community believes in giving back to the communities in which it serves and proudly supports hundreds of nonprofits’ programs and events. Support is given in many ways: through The Denver Post Community Foundation, employee volunteering, and in-kind advertising. The Denver Post Community Foundation, a recognized 501 (c)(3) nonprofit agency, raises funds through individual and corporate donations, through its unique signature events and programs and through the annual holiday Season To Share campaign. The overall mission is to improve and enrich the lives of those in our community through support of programs that benefit arts and culture; children and youth; education and literacy; and the provision of basic human services. To date, including recent Season To Share grants issued this spring, over $8,377,750.00 has been raised and distributed. • Signature Events and Programs These well-established events and programs have become staples in the community. They offer partners, participants and volunteers something unique each year. They include: Pen & Podium Literary Lecture Series, Passport To The Arts, and the Colorado State Spelling Bee.

The Denver Post Season To Share

• The Denver Post Season To Share The Denver Post Season To Share holiday fundraising campaign is a program of The Denver Post Community Foundation with Denver Active 20-30 Children’s Foundation as the matching partner for the 2021/22 campaign. This spring, $1,700,000 was granted to 51 metro Denver nonproﬁts, thanks to 3,900 kind donors. These grantees focus on program speciﬁc guidelines of homelessness, hunger, children and youth, and health and wellness. Together We Can Make A Difference denverpostcommunity.com

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APPLAUSE • MAY – JUN 2022 • 303.893.4100 • DENVERCENTER.ORG

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DCPA IN THE COMMUNITY

When Denver Center for the Performing Arts Founder Don Seawell completed his vision for downtown’s Arts Complex, he said it was a gift to the community. But 40+ years later, some individuals still think “that’s not for me.” But we at the DCPA aren’t satisfied with that. We want theatre to be an essential part of Denver life. Whether we are a place for creative fulfillment, meaningful conversation or simply a way to have fun, our aim is to connect with and be in service to our community. In addition to newer programs such as Theatre for Young Audiences and Off-Center — both of which were designed to engage new, untraditional audiences — we are now expanding our community engagement efforts through partnerships and exciting programs including: Shakespeare in the Parking Lot – May 14 Enjoy free adaptations of Shakespeare at area community centers. Visit https://dcpa.today/SITPL for times and locations. City of Westminster Partnership – May 21 in the Westminster Plaza Enjoy three free acting workshops for youth at the Curtain Up Downtown series. Latinx Community Evening – June 9 at Denver Performing Arts Complex In partnership with the Colorado Symphony, we will activate the Arts Complex for a vibrant happy hour with musicians and performers before Quixote Nuevo. Denver PRIDE Parade – June 26 along Colfax Ave The annual Denver Pride Parade is back in person and bigger than ever. Watch for the DCPA’s celebratory float with 100,000 of your closest friends.

SUMME R THEATRE CLASSES 1- and 2-week theatre daycamps for children and teens Adult classes on weeknights All skill levels welcome

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Area Festivals We will pop up our tent and celebrate with revelers at some of the area’s best festivals: Five Points Jazz Festival – June 4 in Five Points Dragon Boat Festival – July 23-24 in Sloan’s Lake Park City of Aurora’s Global Fest – August 20 at the Aurora Municipal Center

Applause -- CATS, May 24-29, 2022

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