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Welcome to another incredible season of theatre!

With the launch of our strategic plan, we are more committed than ever to our mission — to engage and inspire through the transformative power of live theatre.

With a goal to create one million engagements by our 50th anniversary, we will present works by legendary playwrights and composers, reintroduce our family package, and “launch” a new project from Off-Center.

This season Broadway and Theatre Company audiences will both experience works by two highly acclaimed artists: Stephen Sondheim (A Little Night Music and Company) and Pulitzer Prizewinner Lynn Nottage (Clyde’s and MJ).

We will kick off the 25th Anniversary tour of MAMMA MIA! and welcome back Disney's Frozen, which originated right here in Denver. We have shows inspired by some of the biggest names in music — Tina Turner, Sting, Michael Jackson, Cher and Ruth Brown.

We are welcoming families with Little Red, Annie, Shrek The Musical, Bluey’s Big Play, The Hip Hop Nutcracker, and A Christmas Carol.

For individuals who like to be on the cusp of the “next big thing,” we will present the world premieres of Cebollas and Rubicon and continue our commitment to the Colorado New Play Summit.

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The prolific novelist, Toni Morrison, wrote in her book Beloved, “Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”

Though Morrison was writing about enslaved people escaping from a plantation, her words aptly describe rock ’n’ roll legend Tina Turner’s life journey. During her life, Tina never shied away from sharing her story of trial and triumph. Her autobiography, I Tina was adapted into the 1993 film What’s Love Got to Do With It? And now, her story is told on stages around the world in the Tony Awardwinning TINA — The Tina Turner Musical.

Written by Katori Hall and directed by Phyllida Lloyd, the musical premiered on London’s West End before transferring to Broadway in 2019. Featuring hits such as “Proud Mary,” “I Can’t Stand the Rain,” “Simply the Best,” and “We Don’t Need Another Hero,” the musical follows Tina from her modest beginnings in the Jim Crow South to surviving an abusive marriage and becoming one of the best-selling recording artists of all time. The musical shows how Tina became a living example of reinvention.

Tina, whose given name was Anna Mae Bullock, was born in Brownsville, Tennessee in 1939. Her parents moved the family to Nutbush when she was a child, but their toxic relationship kept Tina and her sisters bouncing between their parents and grandparents during childhood. When the couple split, and Tina’s mother Zelma Currie moved to St. Louis, she left Tina with her maternal grandmother. That decision strained their relationship for the rest of their lives, but Tina found solace in music.

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For Roz White, who plays Zelma, Tina is the epitome of bravery. White remembers watching Tina’s “Let’s Stay Together” video on MTV at the age of 14. By then, White knew she had a voice, but hadn’t had a role model for a girl with a deeper sound until Tina’s Private Dancer album came out. From then on, White says her grandmother would ask her to sing Tina’s songs whenever she had friends over to play cards. As White got older, she recognized that the ferocity in Tina’s voice and dance moves was rooted in a deeper story.

By the time Tina graduated from high school, she worked cleaning houses and as a nurse’s aide during the day, and sang in clubs at night. In the late 1950s, she met musician and band leader, Ike Turner, who renamed her Tina and helped her secure a recording contract. By 1960, they formed the Ike & Tina Turner Revue and toured the South while releasing Billboard hits. Then, came the 1966 hit “River Deep – Mountain High” and higher hemlines. The single was immensely popular in Europe, and led to Tina gracing the cover of Rolling Stone magazine and to the duo opening up for The Rolling Stones.

This is where her signature moves also caught the eye of little girls around the world. Standing at 5’4” Turner moved her legs when she was dancing like she was running for her life. She shook her body as if possessed by the Holy Spirit, trying to free her of the limited expectations placed on Black women from the South at that time.

Tina’s shimmy and high kicks also became her ticket to freedom. She had followed in her mother’s footsteps

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— ROZ WHITE, “ZELMA”

Tina’s Turner’s illustrious career is marked by 12 Grammy Awards, a sold out 50th anniversary world tour, and an induction into the Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist in 2021 at the age of 81. However, Tina’s true success was ownership of her freed self. She found a pathway to inner peace through Buddhism and meditation; a unique sense of style; a new sound, and the courage to stand on her own. She was never defeated by tragedy, even when she couldn’t see a way out.

“She’s someone who society thought would have a minimal future,” White says. Instead, “she surpassed everything projected on her by her family and the world. The world says a little girl from Nutbush can’t sell out a stadium in Brazil, but she did.”

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and was in an abusive marriage with Ike. Glamorous gowns and glitter disguised the fact that she was fighting for her life behind-the-scenes. In 1976, with four boys, mounting legal fees and pennies to her name, Tina left her marriage to Ike. Just two years after the passage of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, which allowed women to have credit cards, loans and mortgages without a husband or male relative to co-sign, Tina struck out on her own. It was also at a time when divorce was still taboo and when women over the age of 35 were regarded as past their prime.

Tina set out to prove them all wrong. For the next seven years, she scraped to make ends meet, performing in clubs, festivals and lounges in the U.S. and Europe. In her mid-40s, she released her fourth solo album, Private Dancer, donning leather corsets, fish net tights, a blonde wig and red lipstick. This was a new Tina. Turner won three Grammy Awards from Private Dancer, including Record of the Year for “What’s Love Got to Do with It.” She spent the better part of the next decade selling out arenas as well as rebuilding her life and her finances after the fallout of her marriage to Ike. However, she also found love along the way — both within herself and with her husband, record label executive Erwin Bach. The two met while Turner was on tour in Europe and lived in Switzerland for most of their relationship. The two were together until she passed on May 23, 2023.

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There’s a truck stop in eastern Pennsylvania that sells the usual fare: burgers, fries, wraps, sandwiches. There is the occasional elevated offering like the Manuel Luis Echegoyen La Fiesta Burger, a beef patty topped with cotija, avocado, salsa verde and jalapeños. For the most part though, the menu is fairly uninspired, like a ham and cheese sandwich… on white.

But for the kitchen staff, creating each sandwich, no matter how simple, is a work of art, an opportunity to connect with another person. “The sandwich is your pulpit, it’s where you preach the gospel of good eating,” Rafael, one of the cooks, explains.

Welcome to Clyde’s the truck-stop setting for Lynn Nottage’s play of the same name. In it, characters may be talking about sandwiches (and describing some mouthwatering ones), but the story is really about any art.

“I think the play is very intentionally about creative expression and having room to shape your own narrative through art,” Nottage told the Los Angeles Times. “That is really at its core. How do you take the simple ingredients that you have in front of you and create something that is singular and special? Something that when people bite into it, they understand fully who you are and you have a communion.”

Nottage has been seeking communion with audiences for years with plays such as Intimate Apparel, about a black seamstress at the turn of the 20th century; and Ruined (produced by DCPA Theatre Company in 2011), about women in the Congo. More recently she wrote the book for MJ, a jukebox musical about pop star Michael Jackson (touring to Denver in April 2024). Along the way, she’s scooped up two Pulitzer Prizes. Clyde’s might be her most popular play to date. It was the most produced show of 2022 and seems apropos for a society emerging out of lockdown. The truck stop, the play tells us, is a liminal space.

“You here cause you done run outta options, ain’t nobody gonna hire you except for Clyde,” Letitia, another one of the cooks explains. “Cuz if you here, you done something. We all done something. And we just biding our time ’till we can get to another place.”

Everyone working at Clyde’s was once incarcerated, and most of them are now just stuck, marking time: Owner Clyde refuses to change her restaurant, Letita circles back to old flames, Rafael has a stalled love story, and another chef, Jason, is trying to escape a racist past tattooed all over his body.

Jason may be familiar to some audiences. He’s a character in Nottage’s play Sweat (produced by DCPA Theatre Company in 2019), about a factory shutting down in Reading, Pennsylvania.

In it, Jason turns violent against a scab during a factory strike and gives someone a traumatic brain injury. After being released, he’s now washed up at Clyde’s, and his racist gang tattoos do nothing to endear him to Rafael or Letitia, both people of color.

The characters wonder, if I can just dedicate myself to getting better at making a sandwich, what else could improve about my life?

— JAMIL JUDE, DIRECTOR

Jude was also motivated to take on the play because of how it tackles radical imagination and freedom through craft. “The characters wonder, if I can just dedicate myself to getting better at making a sandwich, what else could improve about my life?” explains Jude.

And the play’s central question becomes, can a sandwich really make a difference? Nottage purposefully picked something humble. A sandwich is just a sandwich after all — despite the new found appreciation everyone who has seen “The Bear” has for what it takes to run a good sandwich shop. While the characters wax on about their dream sandwich and strive to put together a tuna melt with reverence, the audience would be forgiven for reluctantly agreeing with Clyde, who comments: “That bitch ass sandwich ain’t gonna change a damn thing.”

Can you even dare to dream when you were incarcerated only to emerge from prison to flip burgers at a godforsaken truck stop?

Montrellous acts as the Orpheus to the other chefs. He’s come into limbo to lead them out through example. They have a perfect right to dream unabashedly, he encourages, and to dedicate themselves to an art form no matter how humble.

And when they finally do look out on that horizon, they may see that getting out of limbo is as simple as hanging up their aprons and walking out the door.

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The three battle each other and Clyde, their foul-mouthed, foultempered boss. She is constantly ready to put someone down physically or emotionally the moment she senses anyone is getting out of line or having fun.

Montrellous, the head chef, who smells like canola oil and patchouli, is Clyde’s antithesis and the calm center of the play. He was also formerly incarcerated, but is a mentor to other cooks.

“He has a servant’s heart,” says Sekou Laidlow, who plays Montrellous.

“And that kind of depth of humanity is what I think people should witness, particularly from one who has endured the confines of prison. It is a direct critique of what society says Black men are.”

The play’s emotional depths are one thing that drew director Jamil Jude to the show. He was last at the DCPA in 2022 when he directed Choir Boy. For that show, he had to get his actors to showcase the soul-stirring nature of gospel music. For this one, he needed his performers to learn… knife skills?

Yep. There’s actual cooking on stage (with real knives). “It’ll be a little smell-o-vision for the audience,” Jude says. But also culinary skills were necessary to “learn just how these characters go about their job in this kitchen,” Jude adds.

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FESTE INVESTMENTS B.V. NATTERING WAY PAUL DAINTY DAVID MIRVISH KATORI HALL MARK RUBINSTEIN LTD WARNER CHAPPELL MUSIC MARC DAVID LEVINE PETER MAY ROY FURMAN CARL MOELLENBERG CAIOLA PRODUCTIONS JAMIE DEROY WENDY FEDERMAN INDEPENDENT PRESENTERS NETWORK JOHN GORE ORGANIZATION AL NOCCIOLINO NO GUARANTEES IRIS SMITH SONY MUSIC PUBLISHING UNIVERSAL MUSIC PUBLISHING CATHERINE ADLER EVA PRICE ANITA WAXMAN in association with TINA TURNER present

Book by KATORI HALL With FRANK KETELAAR and KEES PRINS Starring ARI GROOVER RODERICK LAWRENCE

NAOMI RODGERS

WYDETTA CARTER

ROZ WHITE

SARAH BOCKEL DAELYANNA KELLY BENSON ANTONIO BEVERLY BEN BOGEN KAREN BURTHWRIGHT ALIYAH CALDWELL BRIANNA CAMERON MAX FALLS ZACHARY FREIER-HARRISON GORDIA HAYES TAKIA HOPSON CRYSTAL JOY SYMPHONY KING KENDALL LESHANTI PARRIS LEWIS NATALIA NAPPO NIA NELSON-WILLIAMS WILDIN PIERREVIL TERANCE REDDICK SHARI WASHINGTON RHONE ERIC SIEGLE CHRISTINE SUDDETH JEFF SULLIVAN ROWAN VICKERS KRISTOPHER STANLEY WARD GERARD M. WILLIAMS Executive Producers TINA TURNER and ERWIN BACH General Management BESPOKE THEATRICALS

Production Stage Manager ERIC SPROSTY

Tour Booking Agency THE BOOKING GROUP MEREDITH BLAIR KARA GEBHART

Production Management JUNIPER STREET PRODUCTIONS, INC

Tour Marketing & Publicity Direction BOND THEATRICAL

International Executive Producer JAMES TRINER

Company Manager JEFF FEOLA

Associate Director SHARIKA NILES

Associate Choreographer JANET ROTHERMEL

Fight Direction SORDELET INC

Casting THE TELSEY OFFICE PATRICK GOODWIN CSA

Tour Music Supervisor ALVIN HOUGH, JR.

Orchestrations ETHAN POPP

Music Director/Conductor ANNE SHUTTLESWORTH

Music Coordinator JOHN MILLER

Lighting Design BRUNO POET

Sound Design NEVIN STEINBERG

Projection Design JEFF SUGG

Wigs, Hair and Makeup Design CAMPBELL YOUNG ASSOCIATES

Original Musical Supervision, Arrangements, and Additional Music NICHOLAS SKILBECK Set and Costume Designer MARK THOMPSON Choreographer ANTHONY VAN LAAST Director PHYLLIDA LLOYD Originally produced at the Aldwych Theatre, London on 17 April 2018 by Stage Entertainment, Joop van den Ende and Tali Pelman

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Ari Groover

Naomi Rodgers

Roderick Lawrence

Wydetta Carter

Roz White

Sarah Bockel

Daelyanna Kelly Benson

Antonio Beverly

Ben Bogen

Karen Burthwright

Aliyah Caldwell

Brianna Cameron

Max Falls

Zachary Freier-Harrison

Gordia Hayes

Takia Hopson

Crystal Joy

Symphony King

Kendall LeShanti

Parris Lewis

Natalia Nappo

Nia Nelson-Williams

Wildin Pierrevil

Terance Reddick

Shari Washington Rhone

Eric Siegle

Christine Suddeth

Jeff Sullivan

Rowan Vickers

Kristopher Stanley Ward

Gerard M. Williams

Tina...................................................................................................ARI GROOVER, NAOMI RODGERS Ike............................................................................................................................ RODERICK LAWRENCE Gran Georgeanna..................................................................................................... WYDETTA CARTER Zelma................................................................................................................................................ROZ WHITE Rhonda.................................................................................................................................. SARAH BOCKEL 1st Police Officer, Phil Spector, Terry Britten, First Suit.......................................ERIC SIEGLE Richard Bullock, Club Announcer............................................KRISTOPHER STANLEY WARD Raymond................................................................................................................ GERARD M. WILLIAMS Ikette #1.........................................................................................................................ALIYAH CALDWELL Ikette #2......................................................................................................................KENDALL LESHANTI Ikette #3.................................................................................................................................TAKIA HOPSON Ikette #4................................................................................................................................... PARRIS LEWIS Roger Davies........................................................................................ZACHARY FREIER-HARRISON Craig..................................................................................................................................WILDIN PIERREVIL Alline.......................................................................................................................................... PARRIS LEWIS Erwin Bach.....................................................................................................................................MAX FALLS 2nd Police Officer, TV Host, Carpenter, Martyn...............................................ROWAN VIKERS Ronnie............................................................................................................................ANTONIO BEVERLY Young Alline, Young Craig.....................................DAELYANNA BENSON, NATALIA NAPPO Young Anna-Mae.........................................................BRIANNA CAMERON, SYMPHONY KING Alline’s Friends................................................................... ALIYAH CALDWELL, TAKIA HOPSON, CRYSTAL JOY, KENDALL LESHANTI Ensemble.........................................ANTONIO BEVERLY, ALIYAH CALDWELL, MAX FALLS, ZACHARY FREIER-HARRISON, TAKIA HOPSON, CRYSTAL JOY, KENDALL LESHANTI, PARRIS LEWIS, WILDIN PIERREVIL, ERIC SIEGLE, CHRISTINE SUDDETH, ROWAN VICKERS, KRISTOPHER STANLEY WARD, GERARD M. WILLIAMS UNDERSTUDIES For Tina— KAREN BURTHWRIGHT, PARRIS LEWIS; for Ike—ANTONIO BEVERLY, GORDIA HAYES, WILDIN PIERREVIL; for Zelma—CRYSTAL JOY, SHARI WASHINGTON RHONE; for Gran Georgeanna—CRYSTAL JOY, SHARI WASHINGTON RHONE; for Raymond—GORDIA HAYES, TERANCE REDDICK; for Richard Bullock—GORDIA HAYES, TERANCE REDDICK; for Young Anna-Mae—NATALIE NAPPO; for Young Alline/Young Craig—BRIANNA CAMERON; for Rhonda— KAREN BURTHWRIGHT, CHRISTINE SUDDETH; for Alline, Ikette #4: KAREN BURTHWRIGHT, NIA NELSONWILLIAMS, SHARI WASHINGTON RHONE; for Ikette #1: KAREN BURTHWRIGHT, NIA NELSON-WILLIAMS, SHARI WASHINGTON RHONE; for Ikette #2: KAREN BURTHWRIGHT, NIA NELSON-WILLIAMS, SHARI WASHINGTON RHONE; for Ikette #3: KAREN BURTHWRIGHT, NIA NELSON-WILLIAMS, SHARI WASHINGTON RHONE; for Phil Spector, Terry Britten, 1st Police Officer: BEN BOGEN, JEFF SULLIVAN; for Roger Davies: BEN BOGEN, JEFF SULLIVAN; for Erwin Bach: BEN BOGEN, JEFF SULLIVAN; for Craig: GORDIA HAYES, TERANCE REDDICK; for Ronnie: GORDIA HAYES, TERANCE REDDICK; for Carpenter, TV Host, 2nd Police Officer, Martyn: BEN BOGEN, JEFF SULLIVAN; for Club Announcer: GORDIA HAYES, TERANCE REDDICK Dance Captain: KAREN BURTHWRIGHT Assistant Dance Captain: BEN BOGEN Fight Captain: JEFF SULLIVAN SWINGS BEN BOGEN, KAREN BURTHWRIGHT, GORDIA HAYES, NIA NELSON-WILLIAMS, TERANCE REDDICK, SHARI WASHINGTON RHONE, JEFF SULLIVAN

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MUSICAL NUMBERS ACT I “Etherland—Sound of Mystic Law”...........................................................Tina, Gran Georgeanna “Nutbush City Limits”........................................................ Richard, Young Anna-Mae, Ensemble “Don’t Turn Around”.................................................................Tina, Gran Georgeanna, Ensemble “Shake a Tailfeather”..................................................................Alline, Girlfriends, Tina, Ensemble “Rocket 88/Matchbox”................................................................................................................................Ike “She Made My Blood Run Cold”......................................................................... Ike, Tina, Ensemble “It’s Gonna Work Out Fine”...........................................................Zelma, Ike, Alline, Tina, Ikettes “A Fool in Love”...........................................................................................................................Tina, Ikettes “Let’s Stay Together”.........................................................................................................Raymond, Tina “Better Be Good to Me”................................................................................................... Tina, Ensemble “I Want to Take You Higher”................................................................................................Tina, Ikettes “River Deep—Mountain High”.......................................................................................Tina, Ensemble “Be Tender With Me Baby”................................................................................... Ike, Tina, Ensemble “Proud Mary”............................................................................................... Tina, Ike, Ikettes, Ensemble “I Don’t Wanna Fight No More”................................................................................... Tina, Ensemble ACT II “Private Dancer”..........................................................................................................................................Tina “Disco Inferno”......................................................................................................................Tina, Ensemble “Open Arms”....................................................................... Rhonda, Tina, Craig, Ronnie, Ensemble “I Can’t Stand the Rain”.......................................................................................... Tina, Ike, Ensemble “Tonight”.........................................................Young Anna-Mae, Gran Georgeanna, Tina, Roger “What’s Love Got to Do With It”.................................................................................Tina, Ensemble “Don’t Turn Around” (reprise)..............................................................................................Zelma, Tina “We Don’t Need Another Hero”..........................................Tina, Young Anna-Mae, Ensemble “(Simply) The Best”............................................................................................................ Tina, Ensemble THERE WILL BE ONE 15-MINUTE INTERMISSION. ORCHESTRA Music Director: ANNE SHUTTLESWORTH Associate Music Director: PATRICIA “TISH” DIAZ Guitars—RALPH AGRESTA Bass—JOHN TONEY Drums—TAURUS LOVELY Keyboards—ANNE SHUTTLESWORTH, PATRICIA “TISH” DIAZ Electronic Programmers: Phij Adams, Lucy Baker Music Coordinator: John Miller Synthesizer Tech: Randy Cohen, Cohen Keyboards LOCAL MUSICIANS Trumpet/Flugel—Jake Boldman Reed 1—Matt Burchard Guitars—Russ Callison Trombone—Mason Cooke Reed 2—Adam Gang Percussion—Tohbias Juniel Music Contractor—Jim Harvey

The use of any recording device, either audio or video, and the taking of photographs, either with or without flash, is strictly prohibited. Please turn off all electronic devices such as cellular phones, beepers and watches.

NAOMI RODGERS (Tina Turner) is an AMDA New York Graduate. Had tour debut in the 1st National Tour: Frozen (Ensemble u/s Bulda) I give all glory and honor to God for being the head of my life!!! So much gratitude to my family for your endless support, Telsey, and to my mom who is my everything! I love you! This is for Broom!! #wedidit Jeremiah 29:11 @naomiprincessrodgers ARI GROOVER (Tina Turner) is excited to be telling the story of Tina once more! Broadway: Tina The Musical (Alline, Tina U/S) Head Over Heels, Holler If Ya Hear Me. Off-Broadway: Little Shop of Horrors (2020 Lucielle Lortel Nominee for Ronnette), Bare The Musical. Choreography: Burn All Night (A.R.T.). Film: In the Heights (Warner Bros.), Spider-Man: Homecoming (Sony). TV: The Get Down (Netflix), Law & Order: SVU. Ari is a DJ who goes by “Ari Grooves”. www.arigrooves.com RODERICK LAWRENCE (Ike Turner).

Actor. Blacktivist. President & Co-Founder of Black Man Films. Film: Silent Partner, Speak Up Brotha!, Harlem Fragments. Theater: Lion King (National Tour), The Prince of Egypt, John Leguizamo’s Othello: The Remix, August Wilson’s Seven Guitars, Godspell (PCLO), Off-Broadway’s Bars and Measures. Baldwin Wallace University. Big love to Ma, Pops, Evan & Jr, Shelby, Granny, Aunties Cindy & Buffy, Cousins, Vicky, SQ, BMF, & my agents at DGRW. All praise to God for all that I am and am becoming. @rodericklaw WYDETTA CARTER (Gran Georgeanna It’s so FABTABULOUS to be a part of this show! National Tours: How to Succeed in Business…, Dreamgirls, Menopause the Musical. Regional Credits: Porgy & Bess (Court Theatre), Raisin (Skylight Theatre), Bridges of Madison County (Marriott), Little Rock Nine (Theatreworks, Palo Alto). TV/film: “Chicago P.D.,” “PowerBook IV: Force,” “Deli Boys.”

Thank you, family, friends, DGRW and all who love and support live theatre. Proud to be a member of AEA. ROZ WHITE (Zelma Bullock). National Tour: Dreamgirls, (Regional); Amen Corner (Shakespeare Theater), Seven Guitars (Arena Stage), Marie and Rosetta (Mosaic Theater Company), Bessie’s Blues (Studio Theatre) Crowns (Indiana Rep), Anne and Emmett

(MetroStage), Pearl Bailey by Request (Milwaukee Rep), Black Pearl Sings (Alliance For New Music Theatre).

Love to Howard University and Duke Ellington School of the Arts. I love you Anthony, King, and Mom (RIP).

SARAH BOCKEL (Rhonda) is thrilled to be a part of Tina Turner’s incredibly inspiring story. Broadway/ National Tour: Beautiful-(Carole King) Regional: Into The Woods (Baker’s Wife,) Paramount Theatre. Beautiful (Carole King,) Ogunquit Playhouse. TV: The Equalizer. Love to Dylan and the boys. @debockel DAELYANNA KELLY BENSON (Young Alline, Young Craig). 12 year old triple threat attends Debbie Allen Middle School. Movie: Hostile Territory. Song: “Free The Bun.” TV: “RAISING A F***KING STAR” (E!). She’s ecstatic to be part of TINA! Shouts to her dads, coaches, & Kurt Domoney, Lisa Calli, Pat Goodwin. Follow @Daelyanna_Daily ANTONIO BEVERLY (Ronnie, Ensemble, u/s Ike) Tour: A Bronx Tale (Tyrone), Cinderella (Ensemble, Lord Pinkleton/ Jean-Michel u/s) Regional: Cinderella (Ensemble) Paper Mill. Pronouns: They/ Them. @thebeverleigh BEN BOGEN (Swing, Assistant Dance Captain). Broadway: FROZEN (Olaf u/s, Weselton u/s), National Tour: WICKED, JERSEY BOYS (Frankie Valli alternate/asst dance captain).

Off Broadway: JERSEY BOYS, ONLY HUMAN. Tv: “Pose” season finale.

Regional: ACT of CT, PCLO, NC Theatre, Hartford Stage. BFA, University of Michigan. Major gratitude to Brian, Pat, Mom, Dad, and the entire TINA creative team for this opportunity. @benmbogen KAREN BURTHWRIGHT (Dance Captain, Swing, u/s Tina Turner, u/s Rhonda). Broadway: Paradise Square, Jesus Christ Superstar (2012 Revival). 1st National Tours: Mamma Mia!, Hairspray, Dirty Dancing. Regional: 2020 Merritt Award Winner Best Supporting Actor ‘Shug Avery’ TCP at Neptune Theatre. Special thanks to the Telsey team and THNYC. Love to Mommy! @kburth. Ps 28:7.

ALIYAH CALDWELL (Ikette, Ensemble) National tour debut! SWING-The Broadway Musical (Norwegian Cruise Lines), Hairspray (Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines). Education: Ava Fields Dance Ministry, Baltimore

School for the Arts, BFA in Dance/ Dance Choreography from Towson University. #TheDancingZeta BRIANNA CAMERON (Young AnnaMae, u/s Young Alline/Young Craig) is making her Broadway debut in Tina.

She is a 4th-grade honor student that is grateful to her family and friends for their love and support. Credits include Lego broadway musical, equalizer, Ziwe, and Jamvan. She is the 2022 first-place winner of Amateur Night at the Apollo Theatre.

MAX FALLS (Erwin Bach, Ensemble) is so excited for his National Tour debut. Regional credits include Meadow Brook Theatre, Virginia Stage Company, TheatreSquared, Gretna Theatre, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Lyric Rep and others. BFA in Acting from Utah State University. Big thanks to Mom, Dad, sister, and Caroline for their constant love and support. @max_falls ZACHARY FREIER-HARRISON (Roger Davies, Ensemble). Theater: Mamma Mia! (Royal Caribbean), A Christmas Carol (Palace Theater), Lost in Yonkers (Jewish Theater of San Francisco), A Christmas Story (San Jose Repertory Theater). Film/TV: Three Ways Out (We Make Movies), Lambda (Means of Production). Training: Northwestern! @zachdfh GORDIA HAYES (Swing, u/s Ike) Recent grad of Baldwin Wallace University. Regional: Rent, Hair, Kinky Boots. Endless love to my amazing family, friends, Josh, and Telsey & Co. Luke 1:37 TAKIA HOPSON (Ikette, Ensemble) is a Southern Methodist University graduate from Atlanta, GA. Takia choreographed for professional companies and performed in TV/Film and stage productions in Atlanta. Takia is excited to be making her national tour debut with this incredible cast!

CRYSTAL JOY (Ensemble, u/s Zelma, u/s Gran Georgeanna). MOTOWN the Musical (Broadway), HBO’s “Vinyl,” 1st National tours of MEMPHIS the Musical and Legally Blonde the Musical as well as Hair: The American Tribal Love Rock Musical on the West End. Helen Hayes-nominated for the role of “Lorrell Robinson” in Dreamgirls.

SYMPHONY KING (Young Anna-Mae) is based out of Los Angeles, CA but originally from Long Island, NY. Very early, Symphony displayed dynamic

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gifts in the areas of singing, dancing and performing taking after her musical parents who chose her name to reflect their love story. At the age of 7 she discovered her passion for musical theater, once telling her mom “this is my purpose in life.” She went on to star in local Jaxx Theater as the Genie in Aladdin, and Sandy in Grease Jr. Symphony delights in learning and is a gifted student with a love for architecture, as well as a loving big sister. She also loves to laugh and be silly. This girl with dreams as big as her voice is excited to embrace this journey and can’t wait to conquer the path that is before her.

KENDALL LESHANTI (Ikette, Ensemble). Broadway Tour debut.

Senior at Pace University (Commercial Dance). Credits: Disney’s Hercules (Paper Mill Playhouse), Mariah Carey’s: Merry Christmas To All, Bring It (Lifetime). Kendall’s love for the arts fuels her commitment to inspire through theater, television, and film. @Kendall_Leshanti PARRIS LEWIS (Alline, Ikette, u/s Tina Turner) is a native of Brooklyn, NY honored to be touring with TINA. National Tours: The Color Purple (Church Lady Jarene/Olivia), Hairspray (Dynamite/Pearl). STONEWALL (New York City Opera), Pray (Ars Nova), A Time Like This (Carnegie Hall), Bars Workshop (The Public Theatre), Richard Tucker Gala (Carnegie Hall).

ENDLESS LOVE TO MY VILLAGE! ig @renaissancewoman_ NATALIA NAPPO (Young Alline/Young Craig, u/s Young Anna-Mae). I’m grateful to be making my debut on my 1st national tour! I would love to thank God, my family, friends, Ms. LaFrances, Bonnie, Ms. Sherma, Amelia, DEA Music School and the Tina Turner production for believing in making my dreams a reality.

NIA NELSON-WILLIAMS (Swing) National Tour Debut! Grateful to be working on this production with this beautiful cast! Blessed to have friends and family who support me endlessly!

Regional: A Bronx Tale (Frieda), 42nd Street (Ensemble, U/S Peggy Saywer), Footloose (Urleen). @thenialeenw WILDLIN PIERREVIL (Craig, Ensemble, u/s Ike) He/They. is a proud Haitian-American theatre maker and content creator (@NOTWILDLIN) from Orlando, FL. In the Southern Breeze (Off-Broadway), Choir Boy (Yale Rep, Steppenwolf, Portland Center Stage). Wildlin is so excited to be making his national tour debut

with TINA, continuing his legacy of convincingly playing a teenager. Love to PMA, Steph, and Dwayne TERANCE REDDICK (Swing) is a Las Vegas native. Broadway: Les Misérables. Performing has always been my passion, being of service is just as important. Teaching and coaching are my ways of paying forward. @terancereddick “Gods Favor is more precious than Life”.

SHARI WASHINGTON RHONE (Swing) Principal Dancer Jazz Antiqua, L.A. company The Lion King, Asst. Dir. Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre, Soloist Lula Washington Dance Theatre, Choreographer Disneyland resort, Proud Mary, Bella Donna, Soulicious, and Pam Darden’s Marvelettes Revue, Director Jaxx Theatricals. Love to Dan, Morgan and Mayumi.

ERIC SIEGLE, (Phil Spector, Ensemble) he/him. After his Broadway debut with TINA, Eric is ecstatic to join the tour. Regional: Babes in Arms (Val Lamar), Once (Billy). Proud Baldwin Wallace graduate (Music Theater) and current Berklee College student (Music Production). Much love to his family, friends, and BWA. @ericrsiegle CHRISTINE SUDDETH (Ensemble, u/s Rhonda). National Tour debut!

Previously: AIDA Cruises, Drowsy Chaperone (Janet), Seussical (Mayzie LaBird). Proud published vocal research author. Pace MT ‘21.

Endless thanks to family, friends, Kacie & my team, Pat & the whole Telsey Company, and, above all, God. @christinesuddeth JEFF SULLIVAN (Swing, Fight Captain).

From Newfoundland, Canada. Tours: Finding Neverland (J.M. Barrie), West Side Story, Beauty and the Beast, The Producers. Regional: Paper Mill, Tuacahn, Engeman, Surflight. TV: “Hudson & Rex.” NYFA Alum. Thankful for DGRW + Pat + TINA Team! Love to Matthew, Dad and brothers. In memory of Mom; “Don’t turn around…” @jeff__sullivan ROWAN VICKERS (John Carpenter, Ensemble). Broadway: Lobby Hero u/s (Second Stage Theater). OffBroadway: Nat Turner In Jerusalem (New York Theatre Workshop, World Premiere); The Sensuality Party (The New Group, New York Premiere); Picnic, Come Back Little Sheba (Transport Group/Best Revival Drama Desk Nom. for Picnic); Sex Object (The PIT). Regional: Bad Jews (Studio

Theatre, DC); The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Santa Cruz Shakespeare); Measure For Measure (Santa Cruz Shakespeare/California Shakespeare Theatre); Macbeth (Stratford Festival, Canada); Peter Pan (The Grand Theatre, Canada). Film/Television: Silo (Apple TV); Instinct (CBS); Mayday (Discovery); Law and Order: SVU (NBC); Labor, Lies And Murder (Lifetime). Training: Juilliard. Endless thanks to Dave and Sarah at Creative Talent Company; all my love to Leigha, Mum, Dad, Erin, and Arden! Follow me on Instagram: @rowan.s.v KRISTOPHER STANLEY WARD (Richard Bullock, Club Announcer, Ensemble) is thrilled to be returning to the road! Tours: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, 1st Nat’l (Drifter), Shrek The Musical, North American (Understudy Donkey).

Selected Theatre/NYC Workshops; In The Heights (Oregon Caberet Theatre), Hairspray (TUTS & FST), Xanadu (Stages Repertory Theatre), Sueños: Our American Musical (OSF Workshop & NYC EP). Special thanks to the creative team, casting, Pantera/Murphy The Agency & my Ward Family. Instagram: @iamkristopherward GERARD M. WILLIAMS (Raymond, Ensemble) Grateful to join the Tina Family, Music Education: Berklee College of Music, Broadway World Regional Nominee for Best actor in a musical. Served as Musical Administrator at The River Church in Durham NC. National Tours: The Color Purple (Grady) My Fair Lady (loverly quartet). Regional shows: Ragtime (Coalhouse), The Scottsboro Boys, Dreamgirls (Wayne/Frank), Jesus Christ Superstar, Assassins (Proprietor), Sister Act. Cruises: Celebrity Cruises. IG: @gmonwilliams TINA TURNER. With a career that has spanned more than half a century, the legendary rock performer Tina Turner was one of the world’s bestselling artists of all time. She first rose to fame in the 1960s partnering with her thenhusband Ike Turner, achieving great acclaim for their live performances and catalogue of hits. Later, Turner enjoyed an international solo career with her 1984 album Private Dancer, earning her widespread recognition and numerous awards including three Grammys. She went on to deliver more chart-topping albums and hits, receiving a further eight Grammy Awards and reportedly selling more concert tickets than any other solo performer in history. The revered singer was

KATORI HALL (Book). Memphis native Katori Hall is a Pulitzer Prize and Olivier Award-winning playwright. Her works include The Mountaintop, Hurt Village, Our Lady of Kibeho and The Hot Wing King, which premiered in spring 2020 at Signature Theatre, rounding out her three-play residency. She is also the creator and EP of the hit TV drama “P-VALLEY,” which will return in 2022.

Hall is a proud member of the Ron Brown Scholar Program and the CocaCola Scholar Program.

FRANK KETELAAR AND KEES PRINS (Book). Playwrights Ketelaar and Prins have enjoyed award-winning success such as the smash hit bio-musical Hij Gelooft in Mij, which ran for three years in Amsterdam. They also collaborated on the Prix Europa and International Emmy Award-winning feature film De Uitverkorene.

PHYLLIDA LLOYD (Director). Donmar all-female Shakespeare trilogy (London and St. Ann’s Warehouse), The Taming of the Shrew (The Public Theater at the Delacorte), Mary Stuart (Donmar Warehouse, Apollo and Broadway; Tony nomination), Josephine and I (Bush Theatre/Joe’s Pub). Mamma Mia! (London, Broadway, worldwide), The Ancient Mariner (BAM). Film: Mamma Mia! (Universal), The Iron Lady (Pathe/DJ Films), Gloriana A Film (Illuminations, International Emmy), Herself (Element Pictures). Opera: in London, Paris, Copenhagen, Tokyo, Barcelona, Toronto.

ANTHONY VAN LAAST (Choreo­ grapher). TINA (worldwide; Tony nomination, Outer Critics Circle Award), Mamma Mia! (worldwide; Dora Mavor Moore Award), Sister Act (worldwide, Olivier nomination), Side Show (Broadway), Bombay Dreams (Tony nomination, Drama Desk nomination), Andrew Lloyd Webber‘s Song and Dance (Green Room Award). Concerts: Cher, Kate Bush, Sarah Brightman.

Films: Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, Beauty and the Beast, Mamma Mia!; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Awarded the CBE by the Queen for services to dance.

MARK THOMPSON (Set & Costume Design). Awards/nominations: two Critics Circle Awards, five Olivier Awards and seven Tony Award nominations. Theatre in NYC: Charlie and

the Chocolate Factory; The Taming of the Shrew; Mamma Mia!; A Raisin in the Sun (set only); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; God of Carnage; Life (x) 3; Bombay Dreams; Art; Follies (set only); La Bête; One Man, Two Guvnors; The Blue Room; Arcadia. Met Opera: The Queen of Spades, Macbeth.

NICHOLAS SKILBECK (Original Musical Supervision, Arrangements, and Additional Music). Recent work includes TINA—The Tina Turner Musical (London, Hamburg). Oliviernominated for his work on Follies. West End Olivier Award-winning productions: Follies, Gypsy, Sweeney Todd, Hairspray and Billy Elliot. Other credits include Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (West End, Broadway) and musical director for Kate Bush: Before the Dawn at the Hammersmith Apollo.

Compositions: Quand la Guerre Sera Finie. Books: The Singing and Acting Handbook – Games and Exercises for the Performer.

BRUNO POET (Lighting Design) is an Olivier and Knight of Illumination award-winning lighting designer working throughout the world in theatre, opera, live music, dance and events.

Notable productions include Bjork’s Cornucopia (The Shed), Akhnaten (Met Opera), Miss Saigon (Broadway and U.S. tour), Sigur Rós (Radio City Music Hall and Madison Square Garden), Other Stories (City Ballet), Apollo 11 (U.S. tour).

NEVIN STEINBERG (Sound Design). Broadway: TINA – The Tina Turner Musical (Tony nomination), Hadestown (Tony Award), Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, The Cher Show, Bandstand, Bright Star, It Shoulda Been You, Mothers and Sons, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Tony nomination), The Performers, Magic/ Bird. Over 30 Broadway productions with Acme Sound Partners and five additional Tony nominations: The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Fences, Hair, In the Heights.

JEFF SUGG (Projection Design) is an award-winning and Tony nominated designer with over 20 years in the performing arts. His work ranges from experimental to classical to Broadway.

Credits include Broadway: All My Sons, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sweat, Bring It On: The Musical, 33 Variations. West End: TINA—The Tina Turner Musical. Music: Fire in My Mouth (NY Philharmonic), Anthracite Fields

(Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer Prize-winning piece), Prince’s final appearance on “SNL.” CAMPBELL YOUNG ASSOCIATES (Hair, Wigs & Makeup Design).

Broadway: To Kill a Mockingbird; Carousel; Hello, Dolly!; Groundhog Day; Head Over Heels. West End/Broadway: Company, TINA–The Tina Turner Musical (DD Award for Outstanding Wig & Hair Design), A Christmas Carol, The Ferryman, Jerusalem, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, Ghost, Billy Elliot. West End: Back to the Future, Cinderella, Anything Goes, Leopoldstadt. TV: “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Downton Abbey.”

ALVIN HOUGH, JR. (Tour Music Supervision). Broadway: Once On This Island, The Color Purple, Motown, Scandalous. National tours: Memphis, Dreamgirls. Off-Broadway: Working, Hercules, Big River. TV/film: “Dear Evan Hansen,” “Pose,” “tick, tick,…BOOM!,” “Vivo.” Originally from D.C., Alvin also has two degrees in meteorology from Harvard and Georgia Tech. He sends love to his wife, Rebecca, and their children, Samuel and Camille. alvinhoughjr.com ETHAN POPP (Orchestrations). 2014 Grammy Award Nomination (Motown the Musial), 2013 and 2021 Tony Award Nominations (Motown the Musical and TINA—The Tina Turner Musical), 2022 Olivier Award Nomination (Back to the Future). Theatre: Back to the Future, Mrs. Doubtfire, School of Rock, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Motown the Musical, Rock of Ages, Tarzan, We Will Rock You, Disney’s Aida, and many more. Television: “Last Week Tonight,” “Smash,” others. Film: Bohemian Rhapsody, The Greatest Showman. Love to Vanessa and Aldrin! ethanpopp.com ANNE SHUTTLESWORTH (Music Director). Broadway: Annie, Les Misérables, Miss Saigon. National Tours: Wicked, Jesus Christ Superstar, Spamalot, Miss Saigon, Les Misérables, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas with Ann-Margaret, Dreamgirls, Annie.

Music Supervisor for the Riverside Theatre in Vero Beach, FL. IRNE award nominee and Carbonell Award winner.

Also worked with Meat Loaf, Engelbert Humperdinck, Metallica, Jason Robert Brown, Aaron Lazar, and Kate Baldwin.

Much love to A, C, K, Mom and Dad. And for E, all love and thanks.

JOHN MILLER (Music Coordinator).

Over 140 Broadway shows, including: Death of a Salesman, A Beautiful Noise,

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inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991 and again as a solo artist in 2021. She continues to be voted as one of the most successful female rock ‘n’ roll artists of all time.

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MJ, Mrs. Doubtfire, Ain’t Too Proud, Oklahoma!, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Waitress, Jersey Boys.

Studio musician (bass) for Leonard Cohen, Madonna, Eric Clapton, BB King, Portishead, Billy Joel, Bob Dylan.

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JANET ROTHERMEL (Associate Choreographer). Broadway: Mamma Mia!, Sister Act, Side Show, Joseph…

Dreamcoat. TV: “Dancing With the Stars,” Tony Awards, Miss USA/ Universe. Film: Beauty and the Beast (2017), Mamma Mia! (2008).

SORDELET INC. (Fight Directors).

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BESPOKE THEATRICALS (General Manager) Partners Amy Jacobs & Devin Keudell manage Broadway musicals, plays and tours. Current and recent productions include: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, MJ The Musical, Beetlejuice, and Hangmen.

Upcoming projects include Back to the Future: The Musical and Soul Train. Bespoke Theatricals has supplied executive producer and general management services to a variety of theatrical productions, international tours and concerts including Mamma Mia! on Broadway, on the Royal Caribbean, in Mexico, Brazil and Argentina and After Midnight on NCL Cruises. General managers in the firm include David Roth, Danielle Saks, and Kate Egan.

JUNIPER STREET PRODUCTIONS (Production Manager) is Hillary Blanken, Sadie Alisa, Guy Kwan, Ana Rose Greene, Victoria Bullard, Ross Leonard, Christopher Batstone, Hannah Wilson and Abby Filiaggi.

JSP has helped create over 100 productions. Currently on Broadway and the road: A Christmas Carol, A Strange Loop, Ain’t No Mo, & Juliet, Cinderella, Come From Away, Dear Evan Hansen, Funny Girl, Harry Potter, Kimberly Akimbo, MJ: The Musical, Moulin Rouge, Some Like It Hot ,Take Me Out and The Piano Lesson. www.juniperstreet.com NEUROSPORT (Physical Therapist).

Elizabeth Dougherty PT. Leaders in performing arts and entertainment medicine. We are honored and grateful to work with this amazing production of TINA—The Tina Turner Musical.

ERIC SPROSTY (Production Stage Manager) Broadway: Jekyll & Hyde revival, Movin’ Out, Fosse. National Tours: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, The Phantom of the Opera, Jekyll & Hyde, West Side Story, Spring Awakening, The Drowsy Chaperone, Movin’ Out, Contact. Regional: The Paper Mill Playhouse, Santa Barbara Civic Light Opera, Pittsburgh Playhouse, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera. Education: BFA in Theatre Production at Point Park University and MFA in Production Management at Boston University.

CAITLIN KELLERMEYER (Stage Manager) is a proud alumnus from Sam Houston State University.

Select Broadway/National Tours: Kiss Me Kate (2019 Revival), A Bronx Tale (1st National), Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (National).

Additionally, she has worked for The Walt Disney Company, Forestburgh Playhouse, Westport Country Playhouse, Theatreworks USA, TUTS, Transcendence Theater Company, and La Jolla Playhouse. Caitlin sits as an adjudicator for the Stephen Sondheim Awards. Much love to the family and #kellermeyerkids! @cakellermeyer @tinatoursms JANETTE BRAGGS (Assistant Stage Manager) With roots in Chicago, Las Vegas, Southern California, and New York, Janette is beyond thrilled to travel the country with TINA! Select credits include: Beetlejuice The Musical (Broadway), The Prom (1st National Tour), and Trevor the Musical (Off-Broadway). She sends all her love to her family and friends! Instagram: @janettebraggs @tinatoursms THE BOOKING GROUP (Tour Booking Agency) Since its inception in 1996, The Booking Group has represented 27 Tony Award® winning Best Musicals and Plays. Current tours include: Hamilton; Dear Evan Hansen; Come

From Away; The Book of Mormon; 1776; Hadestown; Mean Girls; Pretty Woman; Six; Anastasia; Chicago; Fiddler on the Roof; Hairspray; My Fair Lady; R.E.S.P.E.C.T; To Kill A Mockingbird; and Tootsie. Future tours include: Almost Famous; Funny Girl; Mamma Mia!; MJ The Musical; Mrs. Doubtfire; A Strange Loop; The Devil Wears Prada; The Wiz; Sing Street; The Karate Kid; and West Side Story.

BOND THEATRICAL (Marketing & Publicity Direction) is an independently-owned booking, marketing and publicity company for live entertainment productions.

STAGE ENTERTAINMENT (Producer), founded in 1998 and attracting 7 million visitors per year, is a first-class theatrical producer and presenter. It owns and operates a network of 16 theatres in Europe where it produces some of the best-known musical titles developed by international partners, such as The Lion King, Hamilton and Mamma Mia! Stage Entertainment also develops premium original content, such as TINA—The Tina Turner Musical and Anastasia. The company operates in the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, in the West End in London and on Broadway in New York. www.stage-entertainment.com JAMES L. NEDERLANDER (Producer). President of Nederlander Organization. Credits: Mr. Saturday Night starring Billy Crystal; Tina - The Tina Turner Musical; To Kill a Mockingbird; Thoughts of a Colored Man, The Lehman Trilogy; Moulin Rouge!; The Band’s Visit; On Your Feet!; My Fair Lady; Mean Girls; The Humans; The Elephant Man starring Bradley Cooper; I’ll Eat You Last starring Bette Midler; Kinky Boots; Next to Normal; The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; Movin’ Out, and many others.

TALI PELMAN (Producer) is group creative managing director for Stage Entertainment, responsible for its creative and original content globally across the group and producing a new development slate, of which TINA–The Tina Turner Musical is the first international title to enter production. Tali joined Stage Entertainment following more than a decade of producing plays and musicals in the West End and on Broadway independently and as producer for the Ambassador Theatre Group. A special thank you to my husband and our children, Orion and Anouk.

FESTE INVESTMENTS B.V. (Producer) was founded by renowned producer Joop van den Ende and his spouse Janine to support cultural and theatre events. Joop van den Ende initiated a.o. the London version of Tina Turner the Musical.

NATTERING WAY (Producer). Tom Kirdahy and Hunter Arnold. Select NY/London: Hadestown (Tony); Little Shop of Horrors (Drama Desk and Drama League); The Inheritance (Tony and Olivier); Frankie and Johnny...

(Tony nomination); Anastasia; The Jungle.

PAUL DAINTY AM (Producer). CEO and president of TEG Dainty, touring many of the biggest global music acts and theatre including Hugh Jackman, Queen, Oprah, Eminem, Guns N Roses and Bruno Mars. tegdainty.com DAVID MIRVISH (Producer) is a producer based in Toronto where he operates four theatres. Mirvish Productions produces and presents plays and musicals in Canada, on Broadway and in London’s West End. MARK RUBINSTEIN LTD. (Producer) has produced and general managed over 90 productions in the West End, on tour and internationally including the original West End production of TINA—The Tina Turner Musical. mrluk.com WARNER CHAPPELL MUSIC (Producer) the global music publishing company of Warner Music Group, is home to a wide array of legendary songwriters and a rich catalog of contemporary hits and influential standards.

MARC DAVID LEVINE (Producer).

Upcoming: American Buffalo, Fly More Than You Fall, Hadestown (Tony), Company, The Sound Inside, Carousel (Tony nom), Indecent (Tony nom), On Your Feet!, Sunset Boulevard, among

others. West End: Company (Olivier Award), among others.

PETER MAY (Producer). President of Trian Partners. Tony Awards: Moulin Rouge!, The Inheritance, The Humans; A View From the Bridge; Hello, Dolly!

Producer of To Kill a Mockingbird, An American in Paris, Cinderella and more.

ROY FURMAN (Producer). Current Broadway: Moulin Rouge!, MJ, Dear Evan Hansen (Tony Award), The Book of Mormon (Tony). Off-Broadway: Trevor, Little Shop of Horrors. Other recent Tony winners: The Ferryman, The Band’s Visit.

CARL MOELLENBERG (Producer).

Thirteen-time Tony Award winner. Chairman of Dominion Pictures.

Producing theatre and film is a pure joy and passion.

CAIOLA PRODUCTIONS (Producer) is the Tony Award-winning team of siblings, Luigi and Rose Caiola. Dear Evan Hansen, The Color Purple, All the Way, The Inheritance. Current: Jagged Little Pill.

JAMIE deROY (Producer): 10 Tony Awards. 100+ Broadway and OffBroadway shows. Current: The Piano Lesson, Leopoldstadt, Death of a Salesman, Beetlejuice. Tours: Ain’t Too Proud, To Kill a Mockingbird. Film: Broadway: Beyond The Golden Age, USA: Land of Mustaches. London and tour: Pretty Woman.

WENDY FEDERMAN (Producer).

Thirteen Tony Awards, two Olivier Awards, eleven Drama Desk Awards and eighteen Drama League Awards for her over 90 Broadway, National tourand West End co-productions.

2019 Ellis Island Honoree. Upcoming film: Lilly.

INDEPENDENT PRESENTERS NETWORK (Producer). A consortium of 40 of the leading Broadway presenters in cities throughout America.

Broadway/tours: Moulin Rouge!; Hadestown; Dear Evan Hansen; The Band’s Visit; Hello, Dolly!; and Waitress.

JOHN GORE ORGANIZATION (Producer).

The John Gore Organization family of companies includes Broadway Across America and Broadway.com, under the supervision of 15-time Tony-winning producer John Gore (chairman and CEO). BroadwayAcrossAmerica.com | Broadway.com ALBERT NOCCIOLINO (Producer).

President of NAC Entertainment, a company specializing in the presenta-

tion of touring Broadway shows in the Northeast, has been investing, producing and coproducing Broadway tours and Broadway shows for more than 35 years.

NO GUARANTEES (Producer) is a theatrical production company founded

by Christine Schwarzman, a 2019 Tony Award winner for Best Musical (Hadestown), and a six-time Tony nominee. Producing credits include the NY premiere of Pulitzer Prize finalist Soft Power.

IRIS SMITH (Co-Producer). Tony winner. Broadway: Moulin Rouge! The Musical, The Band’s Visit, Leopoldstadt, Funny Girl, Mr. Saturday Night, TINA – The Tina Turner Musical, Jagged Little Pill, Beetlejuice, Tootsie, The Sound Inside, On Your Feet!. Upcoming: Devil Wears Prada. Off-Broadway: Trevor, Is There Still Sex In The City? Films: The God Committee, Wakefield, People You May Know.

SONY MUSIC PUBLISHING (Producer), established in 1995, is the world’s leading music publisher owning or administering more than 5 million copy-rights, including those of EMI Music and many iconic catalogues.

UNIVERSAL MUSIC PUBLISHING GROUP (Producer) is a leading global music publisher. The company represents music across every genre from some of the world’s most important songwriters and catalogs.

CATHERINE ADLER (Producer).

Producing since 2013. Awards: six Tonys, eight Drama League, one Olivier. Current; The Lehman Trilogy.

Upcoming: Thoughts of a Colored Man, Company. Previous: The Inheritance, Angels in America.

EVA PRICE (Producer) is a threetime Tony Award-winning producer.

Credits: & Juliet, Jagged Little Pill, Oklahoma!, What the Constitution Means to Me, Dear Evan Hansen, Angels in America, Peter and the Starcatcher, On Your Feet!

ANITA WAXMAN (Producer), Tony Award-winning producer, has partnered with Louise and Carl Henric Svanberg, Tom Dokton and Ken and Rosemary Willman to present this production. Proud to be part of this production.

Information in “Who’s Who in the Cast” is provided by the production. Where opinions are expressed, they are those of the players, not necessarily those of this publication.

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TINA TURNER/ERWIN BACH (Exe­ cutive Producers). Tina Turner is recognized as one of the most influential artists of the 21st century. With a career spanning five decades, Tina won 12 Grammys and sold more than 200 million albums worldwide.

Erwin Bach, a record executive for over 30 years, produced music with the 21st century’s most prolific artists.

Director/chairman for EMI in Germany and Switzerland, Erwin worked with musicians such as Paul McCartney, Queen, Lenny Kravitz, Radiohead and Tina Turner. Tina and Erwin married in 2013.

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STAFF FOR TINA—THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL GENERAL MANAGEMENT BESPOKE THEATRICALS Devin Keudell Amy Jacobs David Roth Danielle Saks Associate General Manager...............................................Matty Cogliano COMPANY MANAGER Jeff Feola Assistant Company Manager ...............................................Jared Pereida TOUR BOOKING AGENCY THE BOOKING GROUP Meredith Blair Kara Gebhart TOUR MARKETING & PUBLICITY DIRECTION BOND THEATRICAL bondtheatrical.com DJ Martin Temah Higgins Mollie Mann Marc Viscardi Wendy Roberts Linda Stewart Bailey Ford PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT JUNIPER STREET PRODUCTIONS Hillary Blanken Sadie Alisa Guy Kwan Ana Rose Greene Victoria Bullard Ross Leonard Christopher Batstone CASTING THE TELSEY OFFICE Bernard Telsey, CSA Patrick Goodwin, CSA Rashad Naylor Peter Dunn LEGAL COUNSEL LEVINE PLOTKIN & MENIN LLP Loren Plotkin Conrad Rippy Susan Mindell Daniel Watkins Emily Erstling Kevin Hess LEGAL SERVICES FOR MS. TINA TURNER Dr. Torsten Siefert Kiso Siefert Dropmann Rechtsanwälte PartmbB Rehearsed at New 42nd Street Studios Production Stage Manager ..................................................... Eric Sprosty Stage Manager.............................................................Caitlin Kellermeyer Assistant Stage Manager ..................................................Janette Braggs Associate Scenic Designer.......................................................Brian Webb Associate Costume Designer ...................................................Sky Switser Assistant Costume Designers ................................................ AC Gottlieb, Deijah Martin-Valle Costume Design Membership Candidate........................................................................Jasmine Canjura Associate Lighting Designer ....................................................John Viesta Assistant Lighting Designer .......................................................Abby May Moving Lights Programmer .....................................................Max Narula UK Associate Sound Designer....................................................Simon Fox Associate Sound Designers .................................................Jason Crystal, Jaechelle Johnson, Connor Wang Associate Projection Designer ........................................... Simon Harding Projection Animators................................Elizabeth Barrett, Hannah Tran Associate Hair & Makeup Designer ...................................... Mark Marson Dialect Coach ..................................................................... Deborah Hecht Production Carpenter ..........................................................Erik E. Hansen Head Carpenter .............................................................Timothee Corouble Assistant Carpetner/Flyman ........................................... Nathaniel Reindl Assistant Carpenter/Deck Automation ................................... Aidan Healy Assistant Carpenter ..........................................................Owen Witzeman Production Electricians .............................................Conner VandeVenter, Jeremy Wahlers Head Electrician.....................................................................Jeremy Jones Assistant Electrician/Video & Deck ......................................Jordan Brown Assistant Electrician/Lead Spot Operator ...........................Meghan Hong Advance/Swing Electrician .................................................Andrew Davila Production Sound...............................................Mark Rivet, Mike Wojchik Head Sound ..................................................................... Joshua Boatman Assistant Sound ...................................................................Kevin Thurber Advance Sound ............................................................... Mitchell Prescott Production Video ............................................ Alex Joans, Asher Robinson Video Programmer .................................................................... Dan Scully Production Properties.............................................................Buist Bickley Assistant Production Properties ........................................... Avara Hebert Head Props ...............................................................................Katie Uleau Assistant Props .........................................................................Kyle Gosley Crew Swing ....................................................................... Brylan Ranscht Associate Music Director ............................................Patricia “Tish” Diaz Music Preparation.................................................Josephine Bearden and Russell Bartmus for JoAnn Kane Music Service Music Assistant ...................................................................John Bronston Production Assistants .......................................Nia Blizzard, Nick Carroll, Brian Lynn Wardrobe Supervisor ........................................................Cecilia Gutierrez Assistant Wardrobe Supervisor..........................................Felicia Genther Star Dresser ............................................................................. Emily Stein Hair and Make-up Supervisor............................................ Tyree Robinson Assistant Hair and Make-up Supervisor ........................ Sheena Barfield Hair Assistant .........................................................Tatiana Marie Urusow Bespoke General Manager........................................................ Kate Egan

Bespoke Associate General Managers ...............Matty Cogliano, Michael Demniak, Lisa Jaeger Bespoke Assistant General Manager ................................Taylor Courtney General Management Office Manager ............................ Kiana Alexander GM Interns....................................................David Newman, Ashlee Reed Special Projects Manager ......................................David van Zyll de Jong Human Resourses Consultant...............................................K + K Reset, Kiah Jones & Karen Robinson Tour Marketing & Publicity Office................................... Bond Theatrical/ Jenny Bates, Phillip Aleman, Melissa Cohen, Steph Kelleher, Nilesha Alexander, Madison St. Amour, Scotland Newton, Elisabeth Reyes, Laura Rizzo, Simon Rosales, Jacob Stuckelman, Janiya Wade, Hannah Wallace Deputy Child Guardian ............................................................April Rozier Tutor/Assistant Guardian..................................................... Marian Smith Children’s Teachers ............................................... On Location Education Assistant to John Miller .............................................. Jennifer Coolbaugh Physical Therapy ......................................................Neurosport NYC, LLC/ Carolyn Lawson Physical Therapist............................................................. Beth Dougherty Legal & Business Affairs ............................Jonathan Hull Associates LLP Visa Consultants.............................................. Wiskoff Law/Carly Wiskoff UK Visa Concierge..................................................Samartin and Friends/ Paul Samartin Accountant ......................................................... Withum Smith & Brown/ Robert Fried, CPA, Karen Kowgios, CPA, Anthony W. Moore, CPA Controller................................................. Galbraith & Co./Amanda Hayek Banking ........................................... City National Bank/Michele Gibbons Rhode Island Banking ................................................... Bank of America/ Brian Velasquez Housing/Ground Transportation ..............................................Road Rebel Travel Agent ........ Tzell Travel/The “A” Team/Andi Henig, Jeanne Lafond, Vickie Okolisan Merchandising ...................................................................Creative Goods FOR STAGE ENTERTAINMENT Chief Executive Officer......................................................... Arthur de Bok Chief Financial Officer ..........................................................Marijn de Wit Chief Operating Officer....................................... Fleur Mooren-la Bastide Group Creative Managing Director ..........................................Tali Pelman International Executive Producer........................................... James Triner Group Commercial Director ...........................................Bob van der Beek Head of International Brand Management ................................................................... Kirsty Doubleday International Sales Strategy Manager ...............................Philipp Happel Associate Producer......................................................................Tim Jones Group Director of Enabling Services .......................................................................Anne Roest Crollius Legal Counsel................................................Sytze Miedema, Annette Vis, Melanie Alzafari Group Treasury Manager...................................................Vincent Tjeertes Director of Group Control ................................................ Rense Mandema Controller........................................................................ Astrid van Dijken Financial Business Analyst .............................................Rami Khrtabeel International Real Estate & Facility Manager ................................................................Matthijs Konijn Group Content Managing Director.............................................Dan Hinde International Executive Producer............................................. Jan Verveer Business Productions Director.........................................Demirhan Kobat Head of International Development.....................................Jamie Wolpert Executive Assistant to Group Creative Managing Director.. .............................................. Brit Felmberg CREDITS Scenery built by Proof Productions. Scenery also by PRG-Scenic Technologies, a division of PRG Broadway, L.L.C., New Windsor, NY. Show control and scenic motion control featuring Stage Command Systems

by PRG-Scenic Technologies, a Division of PRG Broadway, L.L.C., New Windsor, NY. Lighting and projection equipment by Production Resource Group. Sound equipment by Sound Associates. Costumes constructed

by By Barak LLC, Ed Dawson Tailors, Eric Winterling Costumes, Jeff Fender Studio, Joelyn Wilkosz, John Kristiansen New York Inc., Marsha Kuligowski, and Yasemin Esmek.Props built by R Ramos Upholstery, Prop and Paint Creative Studio, BrenBri Props, JP Carrier, Hat Rabbit Studio, Paper Mache Monkey, Props Stitcher Anthony Paul-Cavaretta, and Custom Quilting by Bertie Michaels @stitchstudionyc.

The producers wish to express their gratitude to the original Broadway cast of TINA—The Tina Turner Musical.

MUSIC CREDITS “A Fool In Love” by Ike Turner EMI Unart Catalog Inc (BMI). “Be Tender With Me Baby” by Albert Hammond; Holly Knight BMG Gold Songs (ASCAP). “Better Be Good To Me” by Mike Chapman; Nicky Chinn; Holly Knight BMG Gold Songs, Downtown DLJ Songs, Universal Music (ASCAP). “Disco Inferno” by Leroy Green; Tyrone Kersey Reservoir Media Management, Inc., Almo Music obo Mercy Kersey Music. “Don’t Turn Around” by Albert Hammond; Diane Warren Albert Hammond Music/Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd, Realsongs Publishing, Edition Sunset Publishing/Universal Music Publishing MGB Ltd. “Heartbreak Hotel” by Elvis Presley; Mae Axton; Tommy Durden; Elvis Presley © Sony/ATV Tree Publishing LLC. All rights administered by Sony Music Publishing LLC 424 Church Street, Suite 1200, Nashville, TN 37219 all rights reserved. Used by permission. “I Can’t Stand The Rain” by Ann Peebles, Bernard Miller, Donald Bryant, Irving Music administered by Universal Music Publishing Group Used by permission all rights reserved. “I Want To Take You Higher”

by Sylvester Stewart Mijac Music (administered by Sony Music UK). “I Don’t Want To Fight (No More)” by Billy Lawrie; Lulu Kennedy Cairns; Stephen DuBerry BMG Blue, Fairwood Music (UK) Ltd. “It’s Gonna Work Out Fine” by Rose Marie McCoy; Sylvia McKinney IQ

Music Ltd. “Let’s Stay Together” by Al Jackson, Jr.; Willie Mitchell; Al Green Universal Music Publishing Ltd © Irving Music (BMI) and Al Green Music Inc. (BMI), Kobalt Music Publishing/Songs of Atlas Music.

“Matchbox” by Ike Turner Conexion Music, BMG Platinum Songs.

“Nutbush City Limits” by Tina Turner EMI Music Publishing Limited, licensing courtesy of Sony Music. “Open Arms” by Ben Barson; Martin Brammer; Colette van Sertima EMI Blackwood Music, licensing courtesy of Sony Music; Universal Polygram International Publishing obo Lots of Hits Music. “Physical” by Stephen Kipner; Terry Shaddick 1981 EMI April Music All rights on behalf of EMI April Music Inc. administered by Sony Music Publishing LLC 424 Church Street, Suite 1200, Nashville, TN 37219 all rights reserved. Used by permission, Floating World Music. “Private Dancer” by Mark Knopfler Universal Music Publishing Ltd obo Straightjacket Songs/ Almo Music/Rondor Music. “Proud Mary” by John Fogerty © 1964 Jondora Music (Sage). All rights administered by Concord Music.

“River Deep, Mountain High” by Phil Spector; Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich Mother Bertha Music, licensing courtesy of Sony Music; Songs of Polygram International/Universal Music Publishing Ltd; Trio Music Company (BMI); ABKCO Music, Inc. “Rocket 88” by Jackie Brenston Uni-Chappell Music. “Shake A Tailfeather” by Verlie Rice; Andre Williams; Otha Hayes Kassner Associated Publishers. “She Makes My Blood Run Cold” by Ike Turner Round Hill Music obo Fort Knox Music, and BMG obo Trio Music Company. “(Simply) The Best” by Holly Knight; Mike Chapman BMG Gold Songs (ASCAP) obo Knighty – Knight Music, Music & Media/Mike Chapman Publishing Enterprises. “Sound of Mystic Law” by Tina Turner, Dechen Shak-Dagsay, Regula Curti, Gunther Mende-Kim, Pit Loew From the New Edition BMG Platinum Songs (BMI). “Tonight” by David Bowie; James Osterberg Screen Gems EMI Music, licensing courtesy of Sony Music Published by RZO Music Ltd/ Westbury Music Consultants BMG Bumblebee (BMI) We Don’t Need Another Hero by Terry Britten; Graham Lyle © 1992 WB Music Corp. (ASCAP) and Goodsingle Ltd. (PRS) ‘All rights on behalf of WB Music Corp. administered by Warner/ Chappell North America Ltd; BMG Platinum Songs US (BMI). “What’s Love Got To Do With It” by Terry Britten; Graham Lyle © 1984 WB Music Corp. (ASCAP) and Goodsingle Ltd. (PRS) All rights on behalf of WB Music Corp. administered by Warner/Chappell North America Ltd and BMG Platinum Songs US (BMI). Music clearance services: Manage This Media LLC - Janet Billig Rich, David A. Rich and Lisa Klein Moberly RESOURCE ORGANIZATIONS If you or a loved one has experienced sexual violence, you are not alone. The National Sexual Assault Hotline is available 24/7 with free, confidential support in English and Spanish at 800-656-HOPE (4673) and at rainn.org.

The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline provides 24/7, free and confidential support via phone or chat for people in distress, resources for you or your loved ones, and best practices for professionals. Phone: 1-800-273-TALK (8255) Website: suicidepreventionlifeline.org 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.

The musicians employed in this production are members of the American Federation of Musicians Backstage and Front of the House Employees are represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (or I.A.T.S.E.).

ATPAM, the Association of Theatrical Press Agents & Managers (IATSE Local 18032), represents the Press Agents, Company Managers and House Managers employed on this production.

WARNING The photographing or sound recording of any performance or the possession of any device for such photographing or sound recording inside this theatre, without the written permission of the management, is prohibited by law. Violators may be punished by ejection and violations may render the offender liable for money damages.

With grateful acknowledgement to the State of Rhode Island and Steven Feinberg, the Rhode Island Film & Television Office

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James & Claudia Miller Megan Mistler Jenifer Monks Mr. Jerrod Montoya Henry Moon David Moore Lorna & Bill Moore Mr. Joseph Moreng Ms. Christine Moritz Andrew Morley Michael J. & Mary Moynihan Norman R. Mueller Mark Mulligan Diane Murley Keriann Murphy Ms. Frederica Murray-Crews Sharon Mushkin Jesse Nadelman Ms. Cara Nakata Ted & Jill Nelson Mrs. Debbie New Jenny Nikaido Mr. Michael Niyompong Kent Nossaman Mr. John O’Keeffe Jon Olafson Opera Colorado Elizabeth A. Orr The OtterCares Foundation Mr. Dan Oxender Robin & Stuart Pack Corinne Packer Richard Padgett Mr. William Palmer Chuck & Helina Palmer Susie & Gregory Palmquist Christine Pancoast Mr. Andrew Parker Dr. Frank Parrish & Marcia Parrish Julie Parsons & Frank Nowell

Maura Pasquale Dr. Richard A. Patt & Althea Patt Anatoli Pechkov Jessica Peskin Erik Peters Martha Petrie Paula L. Pinkley Steve Pirner & Kevin Rutherford Persephone Pitchford Mr. Nathan Pittock Mr. and Mrs. Tony Pizzichini Mr. Robert Pletcher Kurt Pletcher Ann Poletti Julia Porterfield Ms. Judith Poulson Joseph Pratt Joan Prusse John Qualley Ms. Jolene Quigley Mrs. Lauren Raheb Julia Ramsey Ms. Nikki Raschbacher Anne Read Dr. Heather Reeder Ms. Adele Reester Patricia Rendoff Mr. Ralph E. Reschke Jr. Mary Carol Riaski Aldo Ricci Alfred Richter Mary Riddell Dr. L. Rosenberg and Mr. Steve Garner Dr. Sarah Rowan Terry Roybal Mr. Mike Rudat Ruth’s Chris Steak House Renee Ryan

Mr. Alan Salazar Mr. Torrey Cosgrove Ms. Nancy Saltzman Mr. Stuart Sanks Tom Satter Mr. Philip Schecter Ms. Brittany Schweer Creigh Senich Ms. Cynthia Settje Mike Shea Laura Sheldon Mr. Timothy Sheppard Mr. Mark Shirley Nancy Siegel Mrs. Adrienne Singleton Ms. Pamela Sletten Ms. Terri Slivka Lynn Slouka Mrs. Ardis Smith Majorie Smith Ms. Marilyn Smith Marlis Smith Michael Smith Cheryl Sparks Ms. Margaret Spencer Kathryn & Hanspeter Spuhler Jeffrey Stevens Peter Stevenson Susan Stiff Tonga Stimpson Mr. Todd Stockbauer Mandi Stoll Ms. Merrie Kippur Mr. and Mrs. Steve and Susan Suggs Ms. Jeanne Surbrugg Mr. Ludvik Svoboda Mr. and Mrs. Chris Swahn Kate Taucher Patti Theil Dillon Thomas

Kimberly Thompson Ellen Thorp Mona Threlkeld Marguerite Tierney Martha Timmers Mary Tindle Gregory Treiber Mark Trenka Ms. Herminia Vigil Julie Voorhees Joe & Gayle Vrablik Kay Wagner Patricia Wagner Nicole Walsh Donna & Tom Ward Mrs. Jennifer Ward Mr. Merle Waterman Wendy Weil David Weiland Ms. Sue Weiske Etta & Michael West Julie Wheeless Ms. Salina Whitaker Ms. Shawna-Gay White Rachel Williams & Mike Weissmann Natalie Willms Mary Ann Wilner Ms. Clara Winter Joe & Pam Woods Mr. Matthew Wozniak Sandra Wu Earl Wylder Christine & Ronald Yaros Mr. David Young Ms. Jaye Zessar John Chapter & Dale Zitek While we make every effort to ensure the accuracy of our donor listings, we apologize for any errors or omissions. Please contact us at 303.446.4812 if we made an error in your acknowledgment so that we can correct our records for future listings. Thank you!

SPECIAL THANKS The DCPA would like to extend an extra measure of gratitude to our Encore Society members, who have made a long-term commitment to the theatre by including us in their estate plans.

Thanks to you, the show will go on!

JOIN THE ENCORE SOCIETY Leslie Alexander and Sophia Dotson in A Little Night Music. Photo by Amanda Tipton Photography

PROUD SPONSOR OF DCPA THEATRE COMPANY, EDUCATION & THEATRE FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES

SAFELY DELIVERING AFFORDABLE, RELIABLE, EVER-CLEANER ENERGY

The company is proud to support the Denver Center for the Performing Arts as a vital element in the state’s creative energy.

Supporting communities is a treasured and fundamental ethic of Chevron employees.

They are proud to volunteer at food banks, environmental projects, fundraisers, and more.

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Chevron and its 1,000-plus Colorado employees are honored to call Colorado home. Chevron is no newcomer to Colorado, and with the acquisition of PDC Energy in late summer 2023, the company is the largest oil and natural gas producer in the state.

Chevron Colorado is focused on safely delivering the affordable, reliable, and ever-cleaner energy this state needs. Its team has reimagined what safely and responsibly producing oil and natural gas looks like with the goal of a lower-carbon future. The result is a transformational design that lowers greenhouse gas emissions by more than 90% and shrinks Colorado’s surface footprint by more than 95%. Learn more at colorado.chevron.com.

Partnering with Communities As the human energy company, Chevron’s dedication to developing people drives its culture and community partnerships. The company is proud to support the Denver Center for the Performing Arts as a vital element in the state’s creative energy. The arts are for everyone, and Chevron’s contribution enables youth theater, budding teen playwrights, Denver’s own theater company and more.

We are proud to partner with communities along the Front Range and the Western Slope. We place a high priority on education, investing several hundred thousand dollars at every level of the educational system.

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At Colorado State University we support students in the College of Natural Resources and established the Chevron Fellows program for Bridge Scholars who are studying science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).

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Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) values are central to several partnerships, including the University of Northern Colorado where we helped establish a DEI initiative for faculty and staff.

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We help underserved and rural learners, refugees and immigrants explore career pathways through Mi Casa Resource Center, Aims Community College and four-year schools.

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We proudly support Girls in Science with the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and CBS4. In Grand Junction, we are a longstanding partner of Eureka! science museum and also invest in robotics programs across the state.

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Environmental partnerships include RiversEdge West to restore riparian waterways; Colorado Canyons Association to deliver outdoor learning in three major Western Slope canyons on the Western Slope, and Water Education Colorado to inform Coloradans about the state’s water resources.

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A unique collaboration with the Kempe Center, other community mental health organizations and Rocky Mountain PBS promotes youth resiliency through videos, a tool kit and other resources for parents and childcare providers.

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We are so grateful to our partners and to the thousands of donors and event participants over the years that have helped to improve and enrich the lives of those in our community.

— THE DENVER POST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

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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 Foundation believes in giving back to the communities in which it serves and proudly supports hundreds of nonprofit 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, over $10,040,250 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 holiday fundraising campaign kicks off on October 29, 2023 and runs through December 31, 2023. Donations up to $1,000,000 will be matched at $.50 per dollar, by our matching partner The Denver Children’s Foundation, making an even greater impact for our neighbors in need. These funds will support more than 50 local nonprofit agencies who prepare children and youth for success in the classroom and in life, protect children and families in need with medical care, nourish those experience hunger, and house those in need of a permanent home. Visit seasontoshare.com for more information.

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The Denver Post Pen & Podium Series

(right) Award-winning author, Barbara Kingsolver

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