Program Notes for To Life! Celebrating Bock & Harnick on Broadway

Friday, August 18, 2017 | 7:30PM Saturday, August 19, 2017 | 7:30PM

PROGRAM

TO LIFE! CELEBRATING BOCK & HARNICK ON BROADWAY

INTERMISSION

(World Premiere Production)

Selections from the following musicals by JERRY BOCK & SHELDON HARNICK: The Apple Tree Fiorello!

She Loves Me

JERRY BOCK & SHELDON HARNICK Orch. Don Walker From Fiddler on the Roof: "Tradition" "Matchmaker" "If I Were a Rich Man" "To Life" "Miracle of Miracles" "Sunrise, Sunset" "Wedding Dance" "Do You Love Me?" "Far from the Home I Love" "Anatevka"

conductor Rob Fisher vocalists Danny Burstein, Susan Egan, Leah Horowitz SACRA/PROFANA This concert is made possible, in part, through the generosity of Phyllis and Daniel Epstein.

Performance at Embarcadero Marina Park South

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS ROB FISHER is an

DANNY BURSTEIN is a 6-time Tony Award nominee whose 16 Broadway credits include: Fiddler on the Roof

internationally recognized

(Tony nomination, Outer

music director, conductor

Critics Circle and Drama

and pianist, and a leading

Desk Awards), Cabaret

figure in American music

(Tony, Drama Desk and

and musical theatre. He has

Outer Critics Circle Award

been a guest of virtually

nominations); The Snow

every major orchestra in the

Geese; Golden Boy (2013

country as conductor

Tony and Outer Critics Circle nominations); Follies (2012 Tony,

or pianist.

Astaire and Grammy Award nominations, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards); Women on the Verge of a Nervous

Fisher is currently represented on Broadway as the score

Breakdown; South Pacific (Tony and Drama Desk nominations,

supervisor and arranger for An American in Paris, which earned

Outer Critics Circle Award); The Drowsy Chaperone (Tony and

him a Grammy® nomination. Additionally, he is represented as

Ovation Award nominations); Saint Joan; The Seagull; Three Men

the music supervisor and arranger for Chicago: The Musical, which

on a Horse; A Little Hotel on the Side; The Flowering Peach; A Class

recently celebrated 20 years on Broadway.

Act; Titanic and Company.

He was founding music director and conductor of Encores! at

Mr. Burstein’s Off-Broadway credits include: Bottom in A

New York City Center until 2005, a series that earned a 2000

Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Public Theater, Talley’s Folly

Tony Award. Mr. Fisher was awarded the Lucille Lortel Award

(Lucille Lortel and Drama League nominations); Mrs. Farnsworth;

for Outstanding Special Achievement in 1997 for his work on

Psych; All in the Timing; Merrily We Roll Along; Weird Romance

Encores!, and he conducted the series’ Grammy® Award–

and I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change. He appeared at

winning Chicago cast album. Last season, Fisher served as music

The Metropolitan Opera as “Frosch” in the Jeremy Sams/

supervisor of the Tony-winning Broadway revival of Anything

Douglas Carter Beane production of Die Fledermaus. Film/TV

Goes, and in April of 2012 he conducted a one-night gala

credits include: Indignation, The Family Fang (directed by Jason

performance of The Sound of Music at Carnegie Hall.

Bateman); Blackhat (directed by Michael Mann); “Lolly Steinman” on Boardwalk Empire (directed by Martin Scorsese); Louie; The

Mr. Fisher has been producer/music director of Lincoln Center’s

Good Wife; Transamerica; Absolutely Fabulous; Ed; all the Law

“American Songbook” series’ tributes to Gershwin, Porter and

& Order series; Elementary; Deception; Affluenza; American

Bernstein. Recent collaborations have included performances

Milkshake; Nor’easter; Construction; The Sounding and Trust,

with such artists as Kristin Chenoweth, Kelli O’Hara, Idina Menzel

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and David Hyde Pierce. In 2007 he led My Fair Lady with the New York Philharmonic, and he most recently appeared with the Philharmonic in October 2012, conducting “Mr. Keillor at 70” with Garrison Keillor. Mr. Fisher was music director and conductor for “Ira at 100,” a gala concert at Carnegie Hall broadcast on PBS’s Great Performances, and he appeared twice on the PBS series In Performance at the White House for President and Mrs. Clinton. For four seasons Mr. Fisher was music director for Garrison Keillor’s American Radio Company of the Air and remains a frequent guest on A Prairie Home Companion.

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SUSAN EGAN has delivered powerful impressions in theatre, film, television and music. She headlined on Broadway as Thoroughly Modern Millie, won critical acclaim as “Sally Bowles” in Cabaret, starred in Triumph of Love and State Fair, and received Tony Award

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should’ve been an engineer. Don’t ask her which kind – she just

“Belle” in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. Regionally, Egan starred

likes the sound of it.

alongside Carol Burnett in Putting It Together and Tommy Tune in the national tour of Bye, Bye Birdie, and developed works at Yale

However, seven Broadway shows and many regional credits

Repertory, Baltimore Center Stage, South Coast Repertory, and

later, Leah has to admit she has done reasonably well. She last

the Mark Taper Forum. Her film credits include 13 Going on 30,

appeared on Broadway in the acclaimed revival of Follies as

Gotta Kick It Up for the Disney Channel and many award-winning

Young Heidi and, more recently, traveled to Paris to sing the

indies seen at Seattle Film Festival, Sarasota Film Festival,

West Side Story Suite for New York City Ballet. She has been

Slamdance, the HBO Comedy Festival and beyond. Susan has

seen on TV as a sassy nun in NBC’s The Sound of Music Live and

voiced leading characters in the animated features Hercules

at Madison Square Garden performing with Phish in their New

(Meg), Spirited Away (Lin), Porco Rosso (Gina), Lady and the Tramp

Year’s Eve concert (twice!). She has been heard in numerous

II (Angel), Achmed Saves America (Ginny), and is currently on

commercial jingles, including singing “Mm Mm Good!” for

Cartoon Network’s Steven Universe (Rose Quartz). On television

Campbell’s Soup. All in all, not a boring life.

she spent two seasons on WB’s Nikki and guest-starred on House, NUMB3RS, NYPD Blue, Arli$$, Drew Carey, Party of

Leah lives in New Jersey with her husband Matty D. Stuart,

Five, Great Performances and others. Susan has headlined with

actor and DJ extraordinaire, and her genius toddler, Penelope.

more than 50 symphony orchestras worldwide, including

In addition to work, she enjoys reading the latest great novels

concerts at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center

and then making her friends read them, watching too many TV

and the Hollywood Bowl, and has over 40 recording credits

shows, eating sushi, and staring longingly at puppies in pet

including her solo CDs: All That and More, So Far, Winter Tracks,

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CoffeeHouse (Best Vocalist 2004), Susan Egan LIVE, The Secret of Happiness and 2015’s Softly. She is an accomplished master teacher in music performance, obsessive gardener, happy wife and leader to her daughters’ two Girl Scout troops. Find out more at www.SusanEgan.net, @IAmSusanEgan, Facebook.com/ OfficialSusanEgan. n

Concert Sponsor Spotlight

PHYLLIS AND DANIEL EPSTEIN

LEAH HOROWITZ was born and raised on Staten Island, home of the Staten Island Ferry, Ralph’s Ices and the best pizza in New York City. Raised by a speech pathologist mother from West Virginia and a banjo player father from Brooklyn, Leah grew up with no discernable New York accent in a house filled with music and cats. She and her mother were heavily involved in community theater (as actor and costumer, respectively) and spent most of their nights and weekends with show people. When it came time to go to college, Leah thought she’d major in some sort of science – acting seemed too impractical and unstable a profession. An acceptance to NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts changed her mind.

Cut to the present, and Leah still sometimes thinks maybe she

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DAN and PHYLLIS EPSTEIN have been involved with the San Diego Symphony for the last several years.

Both have served on the board during this time.

Dan and Phyllis are sponsoring the world premiere concert To Life! Bock and Harnick on Broadway.

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