Blithe Spirit

December 2014

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All-New 2015 Show With Shen Yun Orchestra 30 Country World Tour

“5,000 Years... in one night!”

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he people of China have long held that their magnificent culture was a gift from heaven. Art was primarily a means to explore the connection between humankind and the higher universe. Through the universal language of music and dance, Shen Yun weaves a wondrous tapestry of heavenly realms, ancient legends, and modern heroic tales, taking you on a journey through 5,000 years of authentic Chinese culture. Its stunning beauty, purity, and tremendous energy leave audiences greatly uplifted and deeply inspired.

A Shen Yun performance features 100 world class performers, over 400 sets of exquisite hand-made costumes, a unique orchestra blending East and West, and dazzling animated backdrops – creating a spectacular performance beyond your imagination.

Shen Yun cannot be seen in China today, where traditional culture has been devastated. Yet the nonprofit Shen Yun has become an international phenomenon, bringing the wonders of 5,000 years of civilization to millions across the globe.

Experience the arts connecting heaven & earth! Experience Shen Yun!

“AbsolutelY the No.1 show IN the woRlD.” —Kenn Wells, former lead dancer of the English National Ballet

“I have reviewed over 3,000 shows, none can compare to what I saw tonight.

‘Mind-blowing’! ...Go back and see six times!”

— Richard Connema, Talkin’ Broadway

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“Demonstrating the highest realm in arts, Shen Yun inspires the performing arts world.”

— Chi Cao, Lead actor in Mao’s Last Dancer

“Really out of this world!

There is no word to describe it... if I had to, the words might be ‘divine,’ ‘reborn’ and ‘hope.’

You have to see it to believe it.”

— Christine Walevska, “Goddess of Cello”, watched Shen Yun 4 times

“Go see it to believe it, because otherwise, you are going to miss the most important thing in your life.”

—Joe Heard, former White House photographer, watched Shen Yun 3 times

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

DECEMBER 2014

CENTER THEATRE GROUP BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2014/2015 OFFICERS

honorary chairman Lew R. Wasserman† chairman Martin Massman president William H. Ahmanson vice presidents Ava Fries Kiki Ramos Gindler Susan Grode secretary Amy R. Forbes treasurer Dr. Steven Nagelberg

Cinderella Ahmanson Theatre March 17 – April 26, 2015 The Cast of the National Tour of Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella. photo © carol rosegg.

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board members Dean V. Ambrose Pamela Beck Miles Benickes Norris J. Bishton, Jr. Anne Bruner Diana Buckhantz Dannielle Campos Ramirez Joseph C. Carieri Marcy Carsey Bill Damaschke Nancy de Brier Cástulo de la Rocha Vin Di Bona Dante Di Loreto Frances Flanagan Gary Frischling Eric R. Garen Patricia Glaser Brindell Roberts Gottlieb Aliza Karney Guren Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr. Darell L. Krasnoff Jennifer Altfeld Landau William R. Lindsay Jody Lippman

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Carol Mancino Scott H. Mauro Dale S. Miller Walter Mirisch Jo Muse Edward B. Nahmias Edward L. Rada Michael Ritchie Laura Rosenwald Bruce L. Ross Donna Schweers Elliott Sernel Dan Sernett Cheryl A. Shepherd Jack Simon Maggy Simon Sue Tsao emeritus Harold Applebaum Ronald J. Arnault Judith Beckmen Gordon Davidson Phyllis Hennigan Richard Kagan Nancy Olson Livingston O. Kit Lokey Diane Morton past presidents Lew R. Wasserman† Marshall Berges† Armand S. Deutsch† Walter Mirisch Henry C. Rogers† Richard E. Sherwood† J. David Haft† Lawrence J. Ramer† Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr. Phyllis Hennigan Richard Kagan Martin Massman †Deceased

Center Theatre Group’s Mission: To serve the diverse audiences of Los Angeles by producing and presenting theatre of the highest caliber, by nurturing new artists, by attracting new audiences, and by developing youth outreach and arts education programs. This mission is based on a belief that the art of theatre is a cultural force with the capacity to transform the lives of individuals and society at large.

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FAST INFO

Center Theatre Group

Center Theatre Group is a non-profit company that produces worldclass theatre at the Ahmanson Theatre and the Mark Taper Forum at the Music Center of Los Angeles, and the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City.

Audience Services: 213.628.2772: Ticketing, subscriptions, full customer service including lost ticket replacement, ticket donations, Passport memberships, information about upcoming productions or events, and hotel and restaurant recommendations. Telephone hours: Monday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday through Friday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Saturday noon to 8 p.m., and Sunday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Except major holidays.

Walk-Up Box Office Hours: The central box office for Center Theatre Group is located in front of the Ahmanson Theatre at the Music Center, and open Tuesday through Saturday from noon to 8 p.m., Sunday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., and closed on Monday. Remote box offices that are located at the Taper and Douglas are open two hours before performances.

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(l to r) Colin Sphar (Peter) and Jordan Baker (Cindy) in the world-premiere production of Luna Gale. photo by liz lauren.

Hot Tix: A comprehensive and convenient discount ticket program called Hot Tix offers a $25 ticket to the general public. Beginning three weeks prior to the first performance of each production, Hot Tix can be purchased by phone or in person at CTG’s central box office. Cash or credit card (no checks; limited to two tickets per household). Hot Tix may also be purchased (subject to availability) on the day of performance at the central box office or two hours before the performance at the Taper or the Douglas.

Young Children and Babies: Children under age six are not admitted, unless the production is advertised for younger audiences. Regardless of age, everyone must have a ticket and be able to sit quietly throughout the performance. Babes in arms are not admitted.

Donations: Center Theatre Group is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that supports the Mark Taper Forum, Ahmanson Theatre and the Kirk Douglas Theatre. For further information, call 213.972.7368.

Gift Certificates: 213.628.2772: Available in any amount. They’re perfect for friends, employee recognition and special occasions. Complimentary cards for “Happy Birthday,” “Happy Anniversary,” “Season’s Greetings,” “Congratulations” or “In Appreciation.”

Taper and Douglas Stage Talks: Lively post-show discussions, led by staff who are often joined by members of the cast, are held on selected evening performances. Call Audience Services at 213.628.2772 or visit CenterTheatreGroup.org for a complete schedule.

Late Seating: To minimize disruption, patrons not seated when the performance begins will be asked to watch the lobby monitor until an appropriate break in the performance. Latecomers may also be given alternate seats until intermission.

Fragrances: Please refrain from wearing strong perfumes and cologne. Many people are allergic to heavy scents.

Special Access: Assisted listening devices for persons with limited hearing are available in the lobby at no charge. Accommodations are available for persons in wheelchairs and their companions for all performances. Specific dates are available for American Sign Language interpretation and Audio Description for deaf, hard of hearing, blind and low-vision patrons. Open Captioning for blind and low-vision patrons is available for specific dates at the Ahmanson Theatre and is provided by a generous anonymous Artistic Director’s Circle gift. Call 213.628.2772 or TDD 213.680.4017 or visit CenterTheatreGroup.org/ProjectDate.

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Lost and Found: For the Ahmanson and the Taper, please contact one of our head ushers after the performance or contact the Lost and Found clerk at 213.972.2600. At the Douglas, contact the Performance Manager at 213.972.4435.

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Brent Bruin (foreground - right) leads fabric painting workshop; Leslie Johnson (center – arms folded) looks on.

The idea that education – lifelong learning – is for everybody is important to us.

CTG in the Neighborhood

by Lynne Heffley

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ay “arts education,” and adults are likely to think of it as a kids-only concern.

Center Theatre Group is out to cast a wider net, beyond age limits and classroom walls.

“We are growing the ways that people of all ages can better connect with CTG, deepen their theatre-going experience and explore their own creativity and ideas,” said Leslie Johnson, director of Center Theatre Group’s Education and Community Partnerships department.

“The idea that education – lifelong learning – is for everybody is important to us.”

As Johnson and her department have worked to establish ways to expand and deepen the reach of education at CTG, however, defining what “Community Partnerships” could mean in relation to this large arts institution, and shaping programs around that definition, has been “a bit of a struggle.”

“You can contact a college for an intern, you can contact the school district to find out what schools to partner with,” Johnson said. “With ‘community,’ where do 8 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE

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you begin? What does that mean, how does that work, what should programming look like? And how can you foster a sense of community if there’s no place to commune? Place is important.”

As it turned out, CTG didn’t need to look any farther than its own neighborhood for a community that had not previously been on its radar: the historically arts-rich and primarily Latino community of Boyle Heights, located just east of downtown – where CTG has its 9,945 square-foot costume and prop shop.

When a colleague suggested that the shop could double as a community hub, something clicked, Johnson said. Behind the walls of this warehouse facility in a Boyle Heights industrial area are the tools of the theatrical production trade, and an eye-popping trove of fabrics, trims and accessories, paints, building materials, and some 50 years worth of costumes, props and set pieces.

With a seed grant from the “A-ha! Program: Think It, Do It,” funded by the MetLife Foundation and administered by Theatre Communications Group, The Shop launched in 2013 as a major pilot initiative.

“It was an exciting way to connect with a community that is so close geographically to Center Theatre Group, but terribly underrepresented in our audience demographic,” Johnson said. The opportunity to collaborate with CTG’s production team to demonstrate the skills, craft and care “that go into what you see on stage” was another plus.

Facilitated by CTG Program Manager Jesus Reyes, a long-time Boyle Heights resident and Creative Artistic Director of East LA Rep, The Shop concept began with one question: “What does it mean to be a good neighbor?”

“If I moved into your neighborhood,” Johnson said, “what might you do, what might I do? You might come over to my house and welcome me with some oranges from your backyard. I might have an open house and say, ‘why don’t you come over’”?

With that neighborly perspective, and with the help of theatre artist and community liaison Estela Garcia, The Shop’s initial pilot phase began at four Boyle Heights libraries with several weeks of bilingual and Spanish-only play readings produced by CTG and three smaller local theatre companies: East LA Rep, Casa 1010 and Off the Tracks Theater Company.

Librarians set out books related to the plays and their themes and growing audience interest sparked increasingly lively post-show discussions. Conversation-starting costume displays from CTG productions (Parade, The Cherry Orchard, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone and Zoot Suit) reflected Jewish, Russian, African American and Latino communities with historic ties to Boyle Heights.

CTG teaching artists led costume design workshops and staff collected emails and addresses from the participants, distributed flyers about The Shop at schools and farmers’ markets, attended Boyle Heights Neighborhood Council

meetings “and we literally walked and papered two housing projects across the street,” Johnson said.

“We even bought a Penny Saver ad,” Reyes noted.

When The Shop opened its doors to the public at a March kick-off event, more than 100 people toured the facility and participated in art-making activities – felt flower making, paper masks, hats and bow-tie making, puppet making and stenciling. Following the March event, creative workshops were held in maskmaking, fabric dyeing, furniture painting and upholstery, acting and creative writing.

“I met a cabinet maker, construction workers, people who sew, people doing these things that are so directly related to theatre,” Garcia said, “but that they would never have realized were alike.”

Children took part, but adults were the primary focus, because the crux of the program is that creativity is for everyone. “A lot of parents are willing to sacrifice for their children,” Garcia said, “but they don’t give themselves some time to learn something new, or to just spend an afternoon being creative.” Reaching those people “was a challenge for us,” she said, “but once they came, it was the most rewarding part.”

During a fabric painting workshop, Garcia recalled, one woman said that it transported her to her childhood. “She said it wasn’t ‘because as a child I got to paint, but because I didn’t.’”

Other new ventures that further redefine what education means at CTG are a pilot expansion of post-show discussions at the Ahmanson, and The Grid, a recently launched online informational resource designed for CTG patrons and donors, teachers and community members at large to “enrich the theatre-going experience,” said Johnson.

“To make it more than just ‘I bought a ticket and sat in the audience,’” she said. “We wanted to give folks more insight into all things CTG: more information about our shows and about our programs that aren’t on our stages, more information about our impact in the community, whether we’re sending something to Broadway, or we’re doing a writers' workshop.” A separate “Educator Hub” offers resources for teachers. (Eventually, Johnson said, The Grid and CTG’s main website will become one.)

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In 2008, in the wake of shrinking arts programming in Southern California schools, the role of CTG’s Education department was given a substantial makeover, led by arts and education programming expert Johnson, who had just recently come on board.

It was at that time, to underscore the renewal and expansion of CTG’s educational and outreach mission, that the department added Community Partnerships to its name.

Since then, “education” has become an institution-wide conversation and it is ongoing, as is the revitalization of CTG’s signature theatre arts programming for primary and secondary students, its training of teaching artists, and enrichment and networking opportunities for drama teachers and young emerging artists.

Stand-alone programs at CTG, including the Direct Access Theatre Experience (Project D.A.T.E.) services for visually impaired and deaf or hard-of-hearing patrons and the Richard E. Sherwood Award, a $10,000 grant offered to early career artists, are now under the Education and Partnership umbrella.

Among other programs that are carrying CTG’s education banner: “Front and Center,” a partnership with other arts organizations that supports the Culver City Unified School District in providing comprehensive theatre education; and the August Wilson Monologue Competition and August Wilson In-School Residency Program that expose teens to the late playwright’s work and spark their own creative efforts, while sustaining Wilson’s legacy and his close association with CTG. Johnson has also overseen the establishment of new educational parameters for CTG’s Internship Program for university and college students or recent graduates. “This is our vehicle to develop the arts leaders of the next era,” she said.

Eligibility is not based on age, but on experience. “You don’t have to be a 19-year-old to need an internship,” said Program Manager Camille Schenkkan. “By expanding the places where we do outreach, by ensuring that the internships are paid and keep to set hours a week – we are really strict about that – we hope to increase the kinds of students and diversity of students who are able to consider careers in theatre.”

The Shop is now a full-fledged CTG program. Up next, in addition to a continuation of the library partnerships in Boyle Heights, it will include two participatory arts engagement projects for adults and families, funded by a $600,000 grant from the Irvine Foundation: The iconic El Teatro Campesino will bring its Mayan creation myth-inspired Popol Vuh: Heart of Heaven project to The Shop as a Boyle Heights-based version of the theatrical pageant that the company presents in Central California. Participants will make masks, costumes and large-scale puppets and the project culminates in a performance by community and ETC members at Grand Park in Downtown Los Angeles. Among the artists-in-residence at The Shop: ETC’s Producing Artistic

l-r: Jesus Reyes and El Toro at one of the first events at The Shop.

“ This is our vehicle to develop the arts leaders of the next era...”

Director, Kinan Valdez (son of Luis Valdez, whose play Zoot Suit had its ground-breaking premiere at the Mark Taper Forum in 1978).

The Irvine grant will also extend CTG’s new vision for community outreach by funding Through the Looking Glass for residents of Leimert Park and Montebello, created and facilitated by performance artist Jerry Quickley. It will have participants from each community meet separately to explore cultural stereotypes and write “autobiographies” of their counterparts in the other community workshop.

When the groups meet, “We’re going to have them reimagine, restate and redraft their views of the other as we work on closing the gap between what’s imagined, what’s real, what messages social groups send and how they are received,” said Quickley, who initially created Through the Looking Glass with students at Stanford and incarcerated youth.

“At the end of the day, it’s an effort to find out more about ourselves by exploring the others around us.” The program will culminate in staged readings of a theatre piece performed by the community members and created by Quickley from the participants’ work.

Making a meaningful commitment to reach out to the diverse communities that lie within CTG’s area of service – while at the same time furthering the institution’s long-established and growing educational mission – is “huge,” Johnson said.

“But we’re a big organization,” she said, “and we can do more than one thing. I think we have a responsibility to do both.” ○

–Lynne Heffley is a Los Angeles-based freelance arts writer and editor.

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Season Welcome Bishtons Celebrate Arts Education

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o kick off the school year, over 150 donors, board members, government leaders, school district leaders, principals, teachers and Center Theatre Group youth program alumni gathered on September 27 at the stunning home of CTG Board member Norris Bishton and Education Committee member Debra Bishton. Guests enjoyed the gorgeous views of Los Angeles while connecting with fellow arts education practitioners and supporters.

The program began with a warm welcome from Norris Bishton, who let his guests in on a little secret: They were consuming wine that had been made from grapes grown on the Bishtons’ property. Guests then heard powerful testimonies from past program participants of the Young Audiences Program, CTG Student Ambassadors, CTG Student Body and the August Wilson In-School Residency Program. To top the evening off, 2014 August Wilson Monologue Competition national finalist Mykaela Sterris treated everyone to a moving performance of her winning monologue from Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. ○

“ Meeting and talking with other arts education professionals creates stronger relationships and invites new collaborations.”

–Participating Educator

Norris Bishton welcomes guests to his home. • (l to r) Host Debra Bishton with educators Doug Holtzinger and Elizabeth Rubino. • (l to r) Educators Anthony Aguilar and Cristina Fernandez. • Resident Teaching Artist Khanisha Foster, left, discusses the CTG Student Ambassador Program with program alumnus Henry Tran. photos by ryan miller/capture imaging.

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A Tale of Conviction The Blue Ribbon Helps Bring Rebecca Gilman’s Luna Gale to the Stage

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ith an Evening Standard Award, a Harper Lee Award and a Pulitzer Prize nomination, Rebecca Gilman is one of the most celebrated playwrights working in the American theatre today. Thanks in part to The Blue Ribbon (see sidebar on page 18), Los Angeles audiences can now see the world-premiere production of Gilman’s latest work at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. Called Luna Gale, this unforgettable tale of conviction and passion showcases the playwright’s bold, courageous voice.

INSPIRATION KNOCKS Creativity can spark in the oddest places. In the case of Luna Gale, Gilman’s inspiration traces to a minor hiking injury and her subsequent visit to the emergency room, where she encountered a young, meth-addicted couple.

“The woman was talking on her cell phone in what sounded like a drug deal,” Gilman says. “Then she got a call — I think it might have been her mother — and suddenly she was giving instructions about her children. Her demeanor changed; she seemed competent and together. I looked at her and thought, ‘Is it possible you’re a good mother? Despite the fact you’re a meth addict and your boyfriend is completely passed out next to you?’”

The unexpected contradictions in the young woman’s behavior helped crystallize a play Gilman had been thinking about for 10 years.

TACKLING DIFFICULT ISSUES No stranger to controversial topics, Gilman has explored class, political correctness, sexism and racial identity in her work. With Luna Gale, she examines the plight of a child born to drug-addicted parents and caught in a dysfunctional social services system. continues on page 18

Center Theatre Group is profoundly grateful to The Blue Ribbon for its generous support of Luna Gale at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. Luna Gale premiered at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, where its director, Robert Falls, also serves as artistic director.

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THE BLUE RIBBON CELEBRATES LUNA GALE You might remember first visiting The Music Center as a guest of The Blue Ribbon Children’s Festival, an annual admission-free program specifically designed for fifth-graders.

Chances are you were greeted by members of The Blue Ribbon, dressed in their red, white and blue pinafores, welcoming young minds to experience the exuberance of the performing arts.

Since 1970, The Blue Ribbon Children’s Festival has served more than 800,000 children in Los Angeles County. Members of The Blue Ribbon dedicate their time and resources to the event’s planning, funding and staffing.

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“Rebecca uses strong social situations as backgrounds, and then she transcends them,” director Robert Falls says of his fourth collaboration with Gilman. “I think she’s among the best, if not the best writer to be in a room with because she’s practical and extremely unsentimental.

She knows exactly what she wants.”

Caroline, the play’s protagonist, is a veteran social worker determined to save baby Luna Gale. But what seems like a “typical” case is shadowed by hidden motives, long-held secrets and moral ambiguity.

“Not everyone gets an equal opportunity from birth,” Gilman says.

“Whenever I see people whose lives have been shut down early because they simply weren’t given the basic tools to succeed, I think that’s kind of criminal. … You can really judge how well a society functions by how its most vulnerable members are treated. If we can’t take care of our children, we are failing. We’re not doing our job.” ○

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But that’s not all The Blue Ribbon does for Los Angeles' downtown performing arts center. Since its founding in 1968, this women’s membership group has raised more than $72 million to support The Music Center and its resident companies.

In November and December, they lend their support to Center Theatre Group’s presentation of the Goodman Theatre’s world premiere production of Luna Gale — just one more example of their commitment to bringing exciting theatre, music, opera and dance to the L.A. community. ○

(l to r) Carla Sands, President of The Blue Ribbon, Judith Beckmen, Blue Ribbon Member and Center Theatre Group Board Emeritus, and Michael Ritchie, Artistic Director of Center Theatre Group.

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A Lifelong Theatre-Lover Artistic Director’s Circle Member Misty Widelitz Supports Blithe Spirit

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rowing up in New York, Misty Widelitz began her love affair with the theatre at an early age.

She fondly remembers being in school plays and studying acting at New York University before meeting her late husband, Milton. They met on Thanksgiving, which remains Misty’s favorite holiday — a wonderful time to celebrate with family, give thanks and help others, Misty said.

After moving to Los Angeles with their three young sons, Misty continued to fulfill her love for the stage as an audience member and by getting involved with many organizations that support arts education.

When Center Theatre Group announced its plans for Blithe Spirit starring Angela Lansbury at the Ahmanson Theatre, Misty did not hesitate to align her Artistic Director’s Circle support with the production. She had recently met the actress at Career Transition for Dancers’ annual gala, which honored Lansbury for her contributions to the arts. Misty admires Lansbury’s lifelong passion for theatre, a passion she shares and hopes to commemorate through her support of Blithe Spirit.

She also wanted to play a small part in bringing Lansbury’s captivating performance as Madame Arcati to Los Angeles.

Had she continued a career in the theatre, Misty imagines she’d be an acting teacher. Arts education, she says, benefits children and families

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in many ways, and that’s why she donates to organizations like Center Theatre Group.

The hardest thing in her life was losing her beloved husband of 62 years, Milton. However, she reminds herself to stay positive and finds strength through the many lifelong friends she has met through The Blue Ribbon, the Children’s Burn Foundation and Center Theatre Group. Misty counts her blessings every day that she is in the position to help others, and hopes that her gift can inspire everyone to give a little.

In addition to enjoying theatre performances, Misty loves traveling the world, seeing her grandchildren and walking her darling pooch, Camelot. ○

The Artistic Director’s Circle, founded by Brindell and Milton Gottlieb, is comprised of individuals supporting specific areas of Michael Ritchie’s artistic vision for Center Theatre Group. For more information, call Erin Schlabach at 213.972.3069.

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An actor’s life is about taking risks, sometimes calculated and sometimes not. My professional life has mirrored that: I have had multiple careers in my life and have enjoyed some level of success in all of them because I was willing to take risks. I hope I continue to do that. Sometimes you just have to step off the ledge and see what happens. ○

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Center Theatre Group is Los Angeles’ preeminent non-profit theatre company.

On our three stages — the Ahmanson Theatre, the Mark Taper Forum and the Kirk Douglas Theatre — we present the highest quality and broadest range of theatre: groundbreaking new works, explosive productions of the classics and hit Broadway plays and musicals.

CORPORATE SPOTLIGHT ART IN THE COMMUNITY

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The same high standards that we apply to our stages esidents of the East Los Angeles neighborhood of Boyle Heights extend to our education and are encouraged to make theatre a part of their everyday lives community outreach programs. through Center Theatre Group’s The Shop initiative. The organization Through special performances, hosts a variety of activities in its costume and prop shop in Boyle residencies at schools, discount Heights, as well as at libraries and other venues in the area. Since tickets and educational materials, The Shop project launched in January 2014, over 1,000 community we reach each year over 19,000 members have participated. You can read more about this project on students, educators and page 8. ○ community members who effectively address the growing challenges confronting our society, it’s important would not To otherwise experience professional to havetheatre. a partner with 60 years of UPCOMING experience EVENTS helping philanthropists give smarter.

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To see examples of work made at The Shop by residents of Boyle Heights, please visit the display in the lower lobby of the Ahmanson Theatre. For more information about Center Theatre Group’s The Shop initiative, please visit CenterTheatreGroup.org/TheShop.

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Know Your KDT Season Donors Gather for Inaugural Event

Donors listen to highlights of the 2015 Douglas Season.

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n honor of the Kirk Douglas Theatre’s 10th birthday this year, Center Theatre Group launched a brand-new donor event called Know Your KDT Season. Inspired by our popular Season Preview — in which Artistic Director Michael Ritchie shares how a CTG season comes together — this new annual tradition focused on the eclectic mix of work at CTG’s Culver City venue.

including the upcoming productions of Chavez Ravine (January 27-March 1, 2015) and Girlfriend (July 12-August 9, 2015). DouglasPlus offerings include a work in progress (Throw Me on the Burnpile and Light Me Up in May 2015) and a CTG commission performed in an unconventional space (How to Be a Rock Critic in June 2015).

Associate Artistic Director Diane Rodriguez and Literary Manager Joy Meads began by asking donors to name the Douglas productions they found particularly memorable. With works like Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (2008), Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (2009) and The Nether (2013) on donors' minds, the discussion ultimately celebrated the Kirk Douglas Theatre’s identity as L.A.’s home for innovative, thought-provoking and adventurous theatre.

In May 2015, CTG will also partner with 24th Street Theatre to present Walking the Tightrope, a sweet and funny story about a grandfather who, while trying to tell his five-year-old granddaughter that Grandma is gone, builds a beautiful new relationship with her.

Rodriguez and Meads also discussed how nontraditional models of creating new work are reshaping American theatre, including what audiences will see at the Douglas this year. CTG’s Artistic Development Program contributes to these efforts by commissioning not just traditional playwrights but also ensembles and artists who devise their work through improvisation and experimentation. Audience and community members often participate in this process by attending readings and workshops.

The pair then previewed the diverse selection of plays and musicals by local and national playwrights appearing at the Kirk Douglas Theatre this season,

The event ended with a lively question-and-answer session about what donors have appreciated at the Kirk Douglas Theatre over the years, and how we can strive for more diverse and daring theatre in future seasons. ○

Contributions from theatre-lovers like you enable the organization to delight, educate and inspire diverse audiences through the power of theatre. In appreciation of their support, CTG brings its donors closer to the magic onstage through events like this. To learn more, contact Donor Relations at 213.972.7564, or email DonorRelations@CenterTheatreGroup.org.

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DON’T MISS THIS ONCEIN-A-LIFETIME EVENT!

THIS IS A NIGHT YOU WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER! Featuring Grant Gershon conducting signature works performed by the Los Angeles Master Chorale as well as a unique collaborative performance of the banquet scene from Nixon in China with LA Opera.

The Music Center, LA Dance Project and the LA Phil team up for the presentation, sponsored by Center Dance Arts, of a new work choreographed by Justin Peck danced to Helix composed by Esa-Pekka Salonen in a live simulcast performance by the LA Phil conducted by Music Director Gustavo Dudamel.

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The Trip to Bountiful

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September 17 – November 2, 2014 second season production

Noël Coward’s

Blithe Spirit

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December 9, 2014 – January 18, 2015 third season production

Dame Edna’s Glorious Goodbye: The Farewell Tour Directed by Simon Phillips.

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fourth season production Rodgers and Hammerstein’s

Cinderella Music by Richard Rodgers Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II A New Book by Douglas Carter Beane Original Book by Oscar Hammerstein II Music Adaptation, Supervision and Arrangements by David Chase Orchestrations by Danny Troob Choreography by Josh Rhodes Directed by Mark Brokaw.

March 17 – April 26, 2015 fifth season production

Matilda The Musical Based on the Novel by Roald Dahl Book by Dennis Kelly Music and Lyrics by Tim Minchin Sets and Costumes by Rob Howell Choreography by Peter Darling Directed by Matthew Warchus.

May 29 – July 12, 2015

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SIMON JONES (Dr. Bradman).

Broadway: The Real Thing, Benefactors, Getting Married, School for Scandal, Real Inspector Hound and FifteenMinute Hamlet, Herbal Bed, Ring Round the Moon, Private Lives, Waiting in the Wings and Blithe Spirit (with Angela Lansbury, also in London). Off-Broadway includes Death Takes a Holiday, Home, Privates on Parade, Cocktail Party, Long Island Sound. Television includes Brideshead Revisited; Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; Blackadder; Newhart; Oz; Murder, She Wrote; Cosby Mysteries and Law & Order. Films include Brazil, Twelve Monkeys, Miracle on 34th Street, Devil’s Own, Club Paradise, American Friends, Privates on Parade and Monty Python’s Meaning of Life. Other work includes 12 years as Co-Artistic Director of TACT (off-Broadway); award-winning work on radio; audio books. Details at www.simonjonesinfo.com.

SUSAN LOUISE O’CONNOR (Edith) made her Broadway debut in Blithe Spirit with Angela Lansbury, receiving a Theatre World Award, the Dorothy Loudon Fellowship and an Outer Critics Circle nomination. Her other theatre credits include productions with Rattlestick Theatre, Urban Stages, Huntington Theatre, Premiere Stages, Cincinnati Playhouse, St. Louis Rep, Abingdon Theater, La MaMa, Collaboration Town and Barrington Stage. Susan recently guest-starred on Law & Order: SVU and Orange is the New Black. Additional film, TV and web credits include Boardwalk Empire,

Law & Order: CI, Doomsdays, Flying Scissors, Coming Up Roses, Acts of Worship, Front Cover, Project Beth and Wallflowers. She stars in, co-wrote and co-produced the web series Lucy Knows Love. www.susanlouiseoconnor.com.

SANDRA SHIPLEY (Mrs. Bradman, standby Madame Arcati). Broadway: The Importance of Being Earnest, Blithe Spirit, Equus, Pygmalion, Retreat From Moscow, Vincent in Brixton, Indiscretions. Off-Broadway / Tour: Anything Goes (tour), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Encores), Suddenly Last Summer, Deep Blue Sea and Arms and the Man (Roundabout), Kindertransport (MTC), Stuff Happens, Venus (Public). Regional: ART, Humana, Hartford, Huntington, La Jolla, Long Wharf, Old Globe, Williamstown, Guthrie. U.K.: RSC, Royal Court, West End. Film / TV: Monument Ave, Law & Order: SVU, Third Watch and Lipstick Jungle. Elliot Norton Award Medal for Theatre Excellence.

MARK CAPRI (standby Charles, Dr. Bradman).

Broadway: Private Lives, Blithe Spirit.

Roundabout: On Approval (Theatre World Award).

West End: Man and Superman Metropolitan Opera: Iphigenie En Tauride. Mark Taper Forum: Arcadia.

Leading roles at Shakespeare Theatre D.C., McCarter, South Coast, Berkeley and Seattle Reps, Pasadena Playhouse, Old Globe, others.

Film: The Empire Strikes Back, Titanic, others. Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

REBECCA DINES (standby Ruth, Mrs. Bradman). Recent roles include Margie in Good People and Sarah in Time Stands Still.

Favorite roles include Liz in Present Laughter and Pamela (et al) in The 39 Steps. Critics Circle Awards for Ruth in The Homecoming, Alexa Vere de Vere in As Bees In Honey Drown and Lorraine Sheldon in The Man Who Came To Dinner. Southern California appearances include The Laguna Playhouse and South Coast Rep. A native of Australia, Rebecca appeared in the cult TV drama Prisoner Cell Block H in its final year.

TONI SMITH (standby Edith, Elvira) received her BFA from NYU and her MFA from UCLA. Representative Roles: Elizabeth Benning, Young Frankenstein; Claudia Nardi, Nine; Cathy, The Last Five Years; Electra, Electra; Bobbi, Some Girls; The Young Wife, Hello Again; Helena, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Catherine, Pippin; Ghost of Christmas Past / Belle, A Christmas Carol.

NOËL COWARD (Playwright). Born in 1899 in Teddington, England, Noël Coward maintained an illustrious and multifaceted career as actor, director, producer, playwright, songwriter, cabaret artist and author. Following his first adult role in Charley’s Aunt, and the writing of his first song, “Forbidden Fruit,” in 1915, he went on to produce and star in many of his hit plays and musicals, including The Vortex, Hay Fever, Bitter Sweet, Private Lives, Design for Living, Tonight

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at 8:30, Present Laughter, This Happy Breed, Sail Away and Suite in Three Keys. He became a huge star in the U.S. following his appearance in cabaret in Las Vegas in 1955 and subsequent TV specials for CBS. His film work includes Cavalcade (Academy Award, Best Picture), In Which We Serve, Brief Encounter and The Scoundrel. He published collections of short stories, verse, a novel Pomp and Circumstance and his two-part autobiography, Present Indicative and Future Indefinite.

Coward was knighted in 1970 and died in his beloved Jamaica in 1973.

MICHAEL BLAKEMORE (Director) became the first director to win a Tony Award both for a musical (Kiss Me, Kate) and a play (Copenhagen) in the same year, 2000. Michael was Associate Director at The National Theatre where productions included The National Health, Long Day’s Journey into Night, Macbeth, The Cherry Orchard, After the Fall and Copenhagen. On Broadway, productions include Noises Off (also at the Ahmanson Theatre); the Tony Award-winning City of Angels; The Life, voted best musical of 1997 by the Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Drama League; Kiss Me, Kate which received 12 Tony nominations.

He also directed Death Defying Acts, three one-act plays by David Mamet, Elaine May and Woody Allen. He has written and directed two films, A Personal History of the Australian Surf (Standard Film Award 1982) and Country Life. His books include a novel, Next Season (1968), and two memoirs, Arguments with England (2004) and recently, Stage Blood.

SIMON HIGLETT (Designer).

Simon has designed numerous productions in London’s West End, for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Donmar, Royal Court, Almeida, Old

Vic, most major U.K. theatres and opera worldwide. His credits at the Shakespeare Theatre, Washington D.C include Lady Windermere’s Fan for which he won the Helen Hayes Award for Best Design.

Prelude To A Kiss. National Tours: The Gershwins’ Porgy And Bess, Anything Goes, Fela, Young Frankenstein, The 101 Dalmatians, Fiddler on the Roof with Topol, Little Shop of Horrors, The Producers, Stardust with Betty Buckley.

MARK JONATHAN (Lighting Design).

Mark has created drama, opera, ballet and musical lighting designs at LA Opera, Washington National Opera, ABT, Houston Ballet, Broadway and Charleston and in the UK, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico and South Africa. He received a Drama Desk nomination for Prometheus Bound. www.markjonathan.com.

LORA K. POWELL (Stage Manager).

Broadway/NY: Annie Get Your Gun, Chicago, The Life, Annie, The Wizard of Oz. LA: Harmony, The Scottsboro Boys, Backbeat, Seminar, Follies, Parfumerie, Maurice Hines is Tappin’ Thru Life, Wicked, The Producers, The Lion King, Disney’s Aladdin— A Musical Spectacular, Scary Musical the Musical. National Tour: Wicked.

BEN and MAX RINGHAM (Sound Design). Recent credits include Richard III (Trafalgar Studios), Adler and Gibb (Royal Court), Boeing Boeing (Sheffield Crucible), I Can’t Sing (London Palladium), Blithe Spirit (Gielgud Theatre), Perfect Nonsense (Duke of York’s Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Michael Grandage Company), The World of Extreme Happiness (National Theatre Shed) and Tartuffe (Birmingham Rep).

MARTIN PAKLEDINAZ (Miss Lansbury’s Costumes). Broadway: Nice Work If You Can Get It (Tony nomination),The Normal Heart, Anything Goes (Tony nomination), The Pajama Game (Tony nomination), Lend Me a Tenor (Hewes Award, Tony and Outer Critics nominations), Thoroughly Modern Millie, (Tony Award winner), Kiss Me, Kate (Tony Award winner), Blithe Spirit, Chaplin.

JOHN M. ATHERLAY (Production Stage Manager). Broadway: Fela, Xanadu, Beauty and The Beast, A Small Family Business, The Seagull,

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AURORA PRODUCTIONS (Production Management). Current: The Book of Mormon (Broadway / National Tours), Once (Broadway / National Tour), Matilda, Hedwig, This is Our Youth, Indian Ink, Amazing Grace, A Delicate Balance, The Real Thing, The River, The Elephant Man, and Honeymoon in Vegas. Aurora has been providing technical supervision and production management to the entertainment industry since 1989. www.auroraprod.com.

TELSEY + COMPANY (Casting).

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Newsies, Million Dollar Quartet. Film: The Intern, Ithaca, Focus, A Most Violent Year, Into the Woods, The Last 5 Years, Stage Fright, Song One. TV: Peter Pan Live!, Masters of Sex, commercials. www.telseyandco.com GABRIELLE DAWES (U.K. Casting Director) is a freelance Casting Director, and an Associate of Chichester Festival Theatre. Over 60 productions for London’s West End, Chichester and U.K. regional theatres include King Lear (also BAM), The Norman Conquests (also Broadway), Macbeth (also BAM and Broadway).

Television includes Macbeth directed

by Rupert Goold, and Kwame Kwei Armah’s Elmina’s Kitchen. Films include Perdie (BAFTA award for Best Short Film) and The Suicide Club.

RICHARDS/CLIMAN, INC. (General Management). Founded in 1997 by David R. Richards and Tamar Haimes (formerly Climan). Current: You Can’t Take It With You, It’s Only A Play, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella.

Past Broadway/Tours: All The Way, Anything Goes, August: Osage County, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, The Glass Menagerie, Twelve Angry Men, Annie.

JEFFREY RICHARDS (Producer) is honored to renew his association with Dame Angela Lansbury, having presented the Broadway production of Blithe Spirit in 2009, the London production of Blithe Spirit in 2014, and the 2012 Broadway production of Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, in which she co-starred. This year Mr. Richards will be represented on Broadway with You Can’t Take It With You, The Heidi Chronicles and Wolf Hall, Parts I and II, the latter marking his 40th Broadway production. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University.

A few decades ago.

JERRY FRANKEL (Producer) received

Tony Awards for All the Way (2014), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? (2013), Glengarry Glen Ross (2005), August: Osage County, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, Hair, Spring Awakening and Death of a Salesman. Past Broadway: Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, The Glass Menagerie, Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, Bonnie & Clyde, The Merchant of Venice, Race, Blithe Spirit, Reasons to Be Pretty, Will Ferrell’s You’re Welcome America. Film: Tracy Letts’ August: Osage County.

STEVE TRAXLER (Producer) founded Jam Theatricals with his partner Arny Granat 20 years ago. Today the company manages 30 subscriptionseries markets across the country.

Steve has produced many shows on Broadway, working with playwrights including David Mamet, Harold Pinter, Will Eno and Tracy Letts. He also produced the movie August: Osage County, starring Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep and the HBO special You’re Welcome America, starring Will Ferrell.

LEE DEAN (Producer) has over 100 producing credits winning 31 major awards. West End / Broadway: End of The Rainbow; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ?; The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?; Copenhagen; Democracy; Arcadia; The Invention of Love; blue/ orange; Dinner; Duet For One; All The Fun Of The Fair; Alarms & Excursions; Feelgood; Comic Potential; Things We Do For Love; Bedroom Farce; Damsels in Distress; Dead Funny; The Memory of Water; In Flame; Abigail’s Party; Glorious!; Daytona; King Charles III; Blithe Spirit.

JOHN FROST (Producer) is Australia’s most prolific and successful theatre producer, responsible for the Australian productions of The Producers, Chicago, Doctor Zhivago, The

Phantom of the Opera and Wicked.

Recent successes include South Pacific, Driving Miss Daisy with Angela Lansbury and James Earl Jones and An Evening with Julie Andrews.

Broadway credits include the Tony Award winning productions The King and I, Hairspray and Exit the King.

West End credits include Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Lady Windermere’s Fan, Blithe Spirit and The Bodyguard.

CHARLES DIAMOND (Producer).

West End Productions: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ?, the Almeida productions of Duet for One and King Charles III, Complicite’s production of Endgame with Mark Rylance, Design for Living, End of The Rainbow, Long Day’s Journey into Night, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, The Duck House, Blithe Spirit with Angela Lansbury. Touring Productions: The Clean House, Basket Case, Ladies in Lavender, Wife After Death, The Dishwashers, King Lear with Frank Langella at BAM. WILL TRICE (Producer). Tony Awards for All The Way, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Porgy and Bess as well as nominations for The Glass Menagerie and The Best Man. Also this season on Broadway — You Can’t Take it With You, The Heidi Chronicles, and Wolf Hall.

KEN DAVENPORT (Producer). It’s Only a Play, Kinky Boots, Mothers and Sons, The Bridges of Madison County, Macbeth, Godspell, Blithe Spirit (Broadway/West End), Altar Boyz, Awesome 80s Prom and others.

Created “Be a Broadway Star” board game, and iPhone app AT THE BOOTH. For more, read his blog TheProducersPerspective.com.

Upcoming: Gettin’ the Band Back Together, Somewhere in Time.

KATHLEEN K. JOHNSON (Producer).

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Broadway: A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (2014 Tony Award), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (2013 Tony Award), David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross, Race and A Life in the Theatre, Nicky Silver’s The Lyons, Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, Tracy Letts’ Superior Donuts, Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit, HAIR (2009 Tony Award).

JAM THEATRICALS (Producer), founded by Arny Granat and Steve Traxler, manages 30 subscriptionseries markets throughout North America, and recently took over the management and programming of the National Theatre in Washington, D.C. They have produced over 40 Broadway shows, winning a total of seven Tony Awards for producing All The Way, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Hair, August: Osage County, The History Boys, Glengarry Glen Ross and Monty Python’s Spamalot.

ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 49,000 actors and stage managers in the United States.

Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society.

Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. www.actorsequity.org.

FOR CENTER THEATRE GROUP MICHAEL RITCHIE (Artistic Director) is in his 10th season as Center Theatre Group’s Artistic Director, and has led over 174 productions to the Ahmanson, Taper and Douglas stages since his arrival in 2005.

From 1996 to 2004 Michael was the Producer of the Williamstown Theatre Festival and prior to that he was a Production Stage Manager in NYC. At CTG, he premiered six musicals that moved to Broadway – The Drowsy Chaperone (which won 13 Tony Award nominations), Curtains (eight Tony nominations) 13, 9 to 5: The Musical, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and Leap of Faith. He has produced 39 world premieres including the musicals Minsky’s, Venice and Sleeping Beauty Wakes, and the plays Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (a Pulitzer Prize finalist that also moved to Broadway),Water & Power and Yellow Face, and he presented a broad range of plays and musicals ranging from Dead End to The Black Rider to Edward Scissorhands to blockbusters such as God of Carnage, Mary Poppins, Jersey Boys and August: Osage County. In addition, Michael inaugurated CTG’s New Play Production Program, designed to foster the development and production of new work.

EDWARD L. RADA (Managing Director) returned to Center Theatre Group in 2011 after previously serving as CTG’s Chief Financial Officer for 12 years (1996–2008).

Rada spent three years (2008– 2011) as President of the Music Center Foundation, a non-profit corporation that holds and invests the endowment and reserve funds for the Music Center and its resident companies (including CTG). Prior to his years at CTG, he was the Director of Finance at The Old Globe in San Diego and principal of Rada & Associates, an accounting firm that specialized in entertainmentrelated non-profit organizations and theatrical productions. He is a graduate of Occidental College in Los Angeles with numerous postgraduate coursework and credentials.

He currently serves on the board of directors for Entertainment Industry Foundation, Theatre @ Boston Court, and United Support of Artists for Africa/USA for Africa, among other affiliations. He also serves on the board of trustees for the pension, health and welfare and 401(k) plans of I.A.T.S.E. Local 33 Stagehands Union.

DOUGLAS C. BAKER (Producing Director) is now in his 25th season at CTG. Previously, he managed Broadway and touring productions including Tru, Born Yesterday, The Gospel at Colonus, Annie, A Chorus Line, Working, The Wiz and Legends!, which premiered at the Ahmanson Theatre in 1986 and starred Mary Martin and Carol Channing. Doug is a member of the Achievement Hall of Fame of Chagrin Falls Schools in Ohio and a graduate of Albion College. He is an active member of the Broadway League, the Independent Presenters Network and is a proud member of the Association of Theatrical Press Agents and Managers. In May 2013 Doug received The Broadway League’s prestigious Outstanding Achievement in Presenter Management Award.

JEFFREY UPAH (General Manager, Ahmanson Theatre) has worked in management at Center Theatre Group since 2006 on more than 50 musicals, plays and special events including both pre-Broadway productions and Broadway tours.

Some of his favorites include Follies, God of Carnage and The Black Rider (having previously worked on Robert Wilson productions in Boston, Houston and São Paulo, Brazil).

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Yale Repertory Theatre, American Repertory Theatre and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, among others. He graduated magna cum laude with his studies in film and theatre from Washington University in St. Louis, and received an MFA in theatre management from the Yale School of Drama.

GORDON DAVIDSON (Founding

Artistic Director) led the Taper throughout its first 38 seasons, guiding over 300 productions to its stage and winning countless awards for himself and the theatre — including the Tony Award for theatrical excellence, Margo Jones Award, The Governor’s Award for the Arts and a Guggenheim fellowship.

The Kentucky Cycle and Angels in America (Part One) won the Pulitzer

in consecutive years and, in 1994, three of the four plays nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play were from the Taper (Angels in America won). In 1989 Gordon took over the Ahmanson and, in 2004, he produced the inaugural season in the Kirk Douglas Theatre.

Charles Edwards and Jemima Rooper in the 2014 West End production of Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit. photo by johan persson.

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STAFF FOR NOËL COWARD’S BLITHE SPIRIT GENERAL MANAGER RICHARDS/CLIMAN, INC. DAVID R. RICHARDS TAMAR HAIMES Michael Sag Kyle Bonder Rachel Welt Aaron DiFrancia

COMPANY MANAGER Erik Birkeland

PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT AURORA PRODUCTIONS, INC. Gene O’Donovan, Ben Heller Chris Minnick, Isaac Katzanek, Jarid Sumner, Liza Luxemberg, Anthony Jusino, Katie Hesketh, Andrew McCarthy, Helen Jones, Melissa Mazdra & Rob Ward

TOUR MARKETING & PRESS REPRESENTATIVE TYPE A MARKETING Elyce Henkin DJ Martin Bethany Larsen

Special Assistant to Angela Lansbury....... Tom Rhoads Banking..................Signature Bank / Thomas Kasuika; .......................... Mary Ann Fanelli; Margaret Monigan Insurance..................DeWitt Stern / Peter Shoemaker; .............................................................. Anthony Pittari Accountants...................Fried and Kowgios, CPAs, LLP Comptroller..........................................Elliott Aronstam Legal Counsel..........................Lazarus & Harris, LLP / ............. Scott R. Lazarus, Esq.; Robert C. Harris, Esq. Payroll......................... Checks & Balances Payroll, Inc. Housing..........................Road Concierge / Lisa Morris Travel Agent........................... Tzell Travel / Andi Henig .................................................................. A Team Tour Advertising........................creativeXs / Don Phillips Jr., ....................... Julian Roca, Mary Littell, Clint Jackson, ...... Preston Burford, Casey Harris, Jason Rasmussen Production Photographer..........................Joan Marcus Artwork Photography............. Wesley Mann / AUGUST Merchandise............................... Max Merchandising / ........................................................... Randi Grossman Original UK Art........................................................AKA L.A. Casting................................... Mark B. Simon, CSA Company Mascots............................... Skye and Franco

SPECIAL THANKS Jo Allan PR, Alan Brodie, Robert Callely.

GENERAL PRESS REPRESENTATIVE JEFFREY RICHARDS ASSOCIATES Irene Gandy Alana Karpoff Thomas Raynor Christopher Pineda

Rehearsed at Center Theatre Group.

BlitheSpiritThePlay.com CASTING TELSEY + COMPANY Bernie Telsey CSA, Will Cantler CSA, David Vaccari CSA, Bethany Knox CSA, Craig Burns CSA, Tiffany Little Canfield CSA, Rachel Hoffman CSA, Justin Huff CSA, Patrick Goodwin CSA, Abbie Brady-Dalton CSA, Cesar A. Rocha CSA, Andrew Femenella CSA, Karyn Casi CSA, Kristina Bramhall, Condrad Woolfe, Rachel Nadler, Rachel Minow, Sean Gannon, Scott Galina

Production Stage Manager................ John M. Atherlay Stage Manager........................................ Lora K. Powell Miss Lansbury’s Wigs.............................. Paul Huntley Associate Director................................... Jenny Eastop Associate Scenic Designer........................Paul Weimer Associate Costume Designer............................ Bich Vu UK Associate Lighting Designer............... Adam Povey Associate Lighting Designer.......................Jared Sayeg Associate Sound Designer............. Christopher Cronin Production Assistant.......................... Genevieve Kersh Assistant to the Company Manager...........Sarah Bedo Production Props....................................... Lizzie Frankl Production Sound........................Bruce Landon Yauger Moving Light Programmer.....................Chris Osborne Head Carpenter......................................Hector Guivas Head Props................................................ Clista Jarrett Assistant Props...........................................Erica Benoit Head Electrician........................................ Mark Vlahos Wardrobe Supervisor.......................Barbara Oleszczuk Hair/Wig Supervisor................................Susan Gustaf Dresser..................................................... Mary Fleming

Used by permission. “ALWAYS” Music and lyrics

by Irving Berlin. This selection is used by special arrangement with The Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization, on behalf of the Estate of Irving Berlin, www.irvingberlin.com. “FARE THEE WELL” from the Paramount Pictures film “Many Happy Returns,” written by Sam Coslow, published by Sony/ATV Harmony, Copyright 1934 Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC. All rights administered by Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, 424 Church Street, Nashville, TN 37219. All rights reserved. Used by permission

“BLITHE SPIRIT” © 1941 N.C. Aventales AG, successor in title to the Estate of Noel Coward.

Copyright Agent Alan Brodie Representation Ltd., Fairgate House, 78 New Oxford Street, London WCIA IHB, www.alanbrodie.com

The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers of the United States.

The following employees are represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Machine Operators, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, its Territories and Canada, AFL-CIO, CLC: Stage Crew Local 33; Local Treasurers and Ticket Sellers Local 857; Wardrobe Crew Local 768; Make-up Artists and Hair Stylists Local 706.

CREDITS UK Wigs Supervisor Matt George; Set built and painted by Rocket Scenery, UK; Additional Set and Prop Modifications by F&D Scenic Changes, Calgary Canada; Miss Lansbury’s Costumes by Barbara Matera Ltd.; Ladies’ Costumes made by Sasha Kier, Hilary Wili and Robert Gordon; Lighting Equipment from PRG Lighting; Sound Equipment from Sound Associates. In Los Angeles, wigs prepared by Carol F. Doran, and costumes prepared at the Center Theatre Group Costume Shop.

MUSIC “SOMEDAY I’LL FIND YOU” (Noel Coward) © 1947 Chapell Music LTD. (PRS) All rights on behalf of Chapell Music LTD. (PRS) Adiministered by Chapell & Co. (ASCAP) All rights reserved. Used by permission.

“I’LL SEE YOU AGAIN” (Noel Coward) © 1929 (Renewed) WB Music Corp. (ASCAP) All rights reserved. Used by permission. “SOMETHING VERY STRANGE (FR. “SAIL AWAY”)” (Noel Coward) © 1961 Chappell & Co., Inc. (ASCAP) All rights reserved. Used by permission. “WHY DOES LOVE GET IN THE WAY?” (Noel Coward) © Chappell Music LTD. (PRS) All rights reserved. Used by permission. “IT’S ONLY ME” (Noel Coward) © Chapell Music LTD. (PRS) All rights reserved. Used by permission. “YOU WERE THERE” (Noel Coward) © Chapell Music LTD. (PRS) All rights reserverd.

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

The Director is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Inc., an independent national labor union.

Center Theatre Group is a member of the American Arts Alliance, the Broadway League, Independent Presenters Network (IPN), LA Stage Alliance, League of Resident Theatres (LORT), National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) and the Theatre Communications Group (TCG)

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C E N T E R T H E A T R E G R O U P L.A.’s Theatre Company

MICHAEL RITCHIE, Artistic Director EDWARD L. RADA, Managing Director DOUGLAS C. BAKER, Producing Director ARTISTIC NEEL KELLER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Artistic Director KELLEY KIRKPATRICK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Artistic Director DIANE RODRIGUEZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Artistic Director PIER CARLO TALENTI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of New Play Development LINDSAY ALLBAUGH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Producer PATRICIA GARZA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Artistic Development Program Manager JOY MEADS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Literary Manager/Artistic Engagement Strategist MARK B. SIMON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Casting Director MEG FISTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Casting Associate ROBIN CAMPBELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Casting Department Coordinator DAVID ADJMI (FADIMAN), JESSICA BLANK, SHEILA CALLAGHAN (FADIMAN), TIM CROUCH, STEVE CUIFFO, JUSTIN ELLINGTON, QUETZAL FLORES, GINA GIONFRIDDO, GOB SQUAD, MATT GOULD, DANAI GURIRA, JENNIFER HALEY, JOE HORTUA, DAVID HENRY HWANG, JOE ICONIS, BRANDEN JACOBS-JENKINS, ERIK JENSEN, RAJIV JOSEPH, GRIFFIN MATTHEWS, LAURAL MEADE, DAN O’BRIEN, EVANGELINE ORDAZ, DAEL ORLANDERSMITH, WILL POWER (FADIMAN), RAINPAN 43, MARCO RAMIREZ, MATT SAX, THE DEBATE SOCIETY, YOUNG JEAN LEE THEATER COMPANY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Commissioned Artists JOSH ALLEN, EVELINA FERNANDEZ, DOROTHY FORTENBERRY, JC LEE, ALEX LEWIN, KIM ROSENSTOCK, KEN ROHT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CTG Writers’ Workshop Members EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS LESLIE K. JOHNSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Education and Community Partnerships KATHRYN MACKENZIE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Department Operations TRACI CHO KWON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Arts Education Initiatives CAMILLE SCHENKKAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Program Manager, Next Generation Initiatives JESUS REYES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Program Manager, Community Partnerships KATRINA FRYE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Program Associate MELISSA HERNANDEZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Program Associate ROSEMARY MARSTON-HIGDON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Program Associate KELLY MUCHNICK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Communications Coordinator SHANNON WINSTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Department Coordinator KHANISHA FOSTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Resident Teaching Artist DEBRA PIVER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Resident Teaching Artist MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION NAUSICA STERGIOU . . . . . . . . General Manager (Mark Taper Forum, Kirk Douglas Theatre) JEFFREY UPAH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . General Manager (Ahmanson Theatre) SUZANNE HEE MAYBERRY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant General Manager (Mark Taper Forum) KATIE BRUNER SOFF . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant General Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre, NPD) ALANA BEIDELMAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Executive Assistant to Artistic Director TIFFANY MOON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . General Management Associate ERIC SIMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Theatre Operations (Kirk Douglas Theatre) TOM BURMESTER . Audience Experience Design/Front of House Mgr (Kirk Douglas Theatre) LAUREN BAXA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant Performance Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) MAX OKEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Facility Assistant (Kirk Douglas Theatre) SONDRA MAYER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Concessions Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) PRODUCTION DAWN HOLISKI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Production Department Operations Director JOE HAMLIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Technical Director/Ahmanson Production Manager SHAWN ANDERSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Master Carpenter (Ahmanson Theatre) ANDREW W. ARNOLD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Flyman (Ahmanson Theatre) STAN STEELMON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Master Propertyman (Ahmanson Theatre) JIM BERGER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Master Electrician (Ahmanson Theatre) ROBERT SMITH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Master Soundman (Ahmanson Theatre) MICHAEL GARDNER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wardrobe Supervisor (Ahmanson Theatre) PATRICE K. MADRIGAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hair and Make-up Supervisor (Ahmanson Theatre) CHRISTINE L. COX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . House Manager (Ahmanson Theatre) CHAD SMITH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Technical Director SAM CRAVEN-GRIFFITHS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Technical Director ANDREW THIELS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Prop Manager MERRIANNE NEDREBERG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Prop Manager SARAH KRAININ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Prop Associate CANDICE CAIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Costume Director BRENT M. BRUIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Costume Workroom Supervisor MADDIE KELLER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Costume Generalist WHITNEY OPPENHEIMER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shop Assistant SWANTJE TUOHINO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tailor ELIZABETH LEONARD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Production Operations Manager JULIO A. CUELLAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Driver/Custodian BO FOXWORTH, BRIAN SLATEN, PETER WYLIE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Drivers JENNIFER ACHTERBERG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Production Administrator JONATHAN BARLOW LEE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Production Manager (Mark Taper Forum) KATE COLTUN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Production Manager (Mark Taper Forum) EMMET KAISER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Master Carpenter (Mark Taper Forum) ROBERT RUBY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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Priority Services Director SUSAN F. TULLER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Priority Services Operations Manager JAY BURNS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Priority Services Sales Manager PAUL CUEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Priority Services Manager CANDICE WALTERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Priority Services Assistant Supervisor CAROLE BAXTER, CELI BOWLING, RACHEL BRINK, ZOE CANNER,ESTEBAN CRUZ, MAGGIE DODD, NIC DRESSEL, SOFIJA DUTCHER, MARC “BYRON” DROTMAN, SAMANTHA ELSE, LOU GEORGE, LISA KESSLER, SHEP KOSTER ,ALI LAFFER, MATT PELFREY, DONALD RIZZO, KEN SALLEY, KRISTEN SCHRASS, BOBBI LYNNE SCOTT, ANDREW SEVERYN, MICHAEL SMITH, QUINN SULLIVAN, BINOY THOMAS, DIANE WARD, JIM WATERMAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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Center Theatre Group would like to thank its exceptional staff for their ongoing commitment, dedication and extraordinary efforts.

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Inspiring Our Future Special Thanks to Center Theatre Group’s Most Generous Annual Patrons Center Theatre Group wishes to thank the following donors for their significant annual gifts and for their belief in the transformative power of theatre. $1 Million and above

Brindell Roberts Gottlieb $500,000 and above

The Ahmanson Foundation $250,000 and above

Center Theatre Group Affiliates Kirk & Anne Douglas The James Irvine Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation $150,000 and above

Anonymous Bank of America The Blue Ribbon Patricia Glaser & Sam Mudie Laura & James Rosenwald & Orinoco Foundation The Shubert Foundation, Inc. Eva & Marc Stern Wells Fargo Foundation $100,000 and above

Annenberg Foundation Ann & Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr. Los Angeles County Arts Commission JPMorgan Chase & Co. Deidra Norman Schumann Sue Tsao $75,000 and above

Elisabeth Katte Harris Trust William Randolph Hearst Foundation The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Lloyd E. Rigler — Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation

This list includes gifts made to Center Theatre Group between September 11, 2013, and November 11, 2014.

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Michael Ritchie, artistic director Edward L. Rada, managing director Douglas C. Baker producing director Gordon Davidson, founding artistic director

Jeffrey Richards

Jerry Frankel Steve Traxler Lee Dean Charles Diamond Will Trice

Ken Davenport

in associaton with Kathleen K. Johnson

John Frost

Jam Theatricals

present

Angela Lansbury Jemima Rooper

Charles Edwards Charlotte Parry in

with

Simon Jones Susan Louise O’Connor Sandra Shipley Designed By

Lighting By

Sound By

Miss Lansbury’s Costumes By

Simon Higlett

Mark Jonathan

Ben and Max Ringham

Martin Pakledinaz

Casting

UK Casting Director

Associate Director

Associate Costume Designer

Production Stage Manager

Telsey + Company William Cantler, CSA

Gabrielle Dawes, CDG

Jenny Eastop

Bill Butler

John M. Atherlay

Production Management

Marketing and Publicity Direction

UK General Management

General Management

Aurora Productions, Inc.

Type A Marketing

Playful Productions UK

Richards/Climan, Inc.

Directed by

Michael Blakemore December 9, 2014 – January 18, 2015 Ahmanson Theatre The Los Angeles production of Blithe Spirit is generously supported in part by Artistic Director’s Circle member Misty Widelitz.

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CAST (in order of appearance) Edith.................................................................................SUSAN LOUISE O’CONNOR Ruth................................................................................................ CHARLOTTE PARRY Charles..........................................................................................CHARLES EDWARDS Dr. Bradman........................................................................................... SIMON JONES Mrs. Bradman................................................................................... SANDRA SHIPLEY Madame Arcati..............................................................................ANGELA LANSBURY Elvira.................................................................................................. JEMIMA ROOPER

STANDBYS Standbys never substitute for the listed players unless a specific posting or announcement is made at the time of the performance.

For Charles, Dr. Bradman: MARK CAPRI For Ruth, Mrs. Bradman: REBECCA DINES For Madame Arcati: SANDRA SHIPLEY For Edith, Elvira: TONI SMITH

Interlude Vocals by Christine Ebersole.

SETTING The living room of the Condomine’s house in Kent, England.

There will be one 15-minute intermission.

Charles Edwards and Jemima Rooper are appearing with the support of Actors’ Equity Association pursuant to an exchange program between American Equity and UK Equity.

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clockwise from left: (l-r) Angela Lansbury and Susan Louise O’Connor in the 2009 Broadway revival of Noël Cowards’ Blithe Spirit. photo by robert j. saferstein.

Charles Edwards. Simon Jones. Jemima Rooper. all three photos of the 2014 west end production of noël coward’s blithe spirit by johan persson.

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clockwise from left: Blithe Spirit Playbill: © The Noël Coward Collection, Special Collections, Birmingham University; (l-r) Mildred Natwick and Leonora Corbett in the U.S. premiere of Blithe Spirit on Broadway, photo from Vandamm Studio / The New York Public Library; Noël Coward: © NC Aventales AG Private Collection; Clifton Webb in in the U.S. premiere of Blithe Spirit on Broadway, photo from Vandamm Studio / The New York Public Library.

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Noël Coward

The Impossibility of Love I

t all began with the actress Joyce Carey. On May 2, 1941, she took a train for Portmeirion in North Wales. She’d had one of her plays, Sweet Aloes, produced in the West End and was now working on another based on Keats and Fanny Brawne. As a travelling companion, she took her great friend Noël Coward. When they returned to London six days later, Joyce was still wrestling with Fanny Brawne.

Coward had the completed manuscript of Blithe Spirit.

“For some time past an idea for a light comedy had been rattling at the door of my mind,” said Coward, “and I thought the time had come to let it in and show it a little courtesy…. Beyond a few typographical errors, I made no corrections, and only two lines of the original script were ultimately cut.”

The play opened only a month later on June 16 in Manchester, and then at London’s Piccadilly Theatre on July 2. It ran for 1997 performances, outlasting World War II (a West End record until The Mousetrap overtook it).

Some early critics were skeptical of the subject matter.

How could audiences be expected to find death amusing in the middle of a war? Yet, clearly they did. The Daily Mail summed it up as “fantastic fun” and, paraphrasing Shelley, concluded:

Hail to thee, Blithe Spirit, Bird thou’ll never get.

And it never has, even though it’s one of the most revived of his plays.

Coward gave the play the subtitle “An Improbable Comedy” but Harold Pinter sensed a deeper meaning, common to many of Coward’s major plays. When he directed a revival of Blithe Spirit at The National Theatre in 1976, Pinter insisted to his cast at the start of rehearsals that he considered the play to be neither improbable nor a

comedy. He had already realized from a study of Private Lives that “a character could stand on a stage and say one thing and the audience would know he actually meant something else!” Pinter would elaborate on that insight in his own work ever after.

Comedy was always Coward’s way of making a serious point. “I am light-minded. I would inevitably write a comedy if – God help me! – I wanted to write a play with a message.” Perhaps it was his deliberate intention to appear trivial, never to wear his heart anywhere near his sleeve. What he might have said was that he realized that comedy and tragedy are essentially two sides of the same coin. With the 20-20 clarity of hindsight, however, it becomes clear that beneath the brittle carapace of witty words, much of his work had as its unifying theme the tragic impossibility of love.

In Private Lives, Elyot and Amanda cannot live with each other or without each other. In their struggle, which will go on after they steal away and the play ends, they leave the debris of everyone who comes near them, and will go on doing so, for this is not an ending but an intermission.

They are unconscious killers.

The same thing happens in Design For Living for Gilda, Otto and Leo. The secondary characters who cross their paths are irrelevant to their selfish needs and casually discarded as they work out the variations in their romance-à-trois. Others must clean up the emotional mess. In Fallen Angels, Julia and Jane have settled for predictably boring marriage until the prospect of a visit from the Gallic lover they had once shared suggests the possibility of an old flame rekindling the odd ember.

In Blithe Spirit, Charles Condomine is, for the purposes of the play, a bigamist. As played by Cecil Parker in the original production, he is a conventional middle-aged man, comfortable, if not ecstatic, in his second marriage to Ruth. Then the shade of his first wife, Elvira, returns,

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If Love were all, I should be lonely –Bitter Sweet

reminding him of the lows and also a few of the highs of what once was. But Blithe Spirit is only incidentally about ghosts and the hereafter. It’s really about marital discord in the present continuing for all time. The impossibility of love, doubled.

Coward’s expressed view of love and marriage was consistent from very early on. It may end in tragedy as in The Astonished Heart or Bitter Sweet, or in futility, as in Easy Virtue. At its most romantic, love is something that nearly but never was and now never will be, as in Brief Encounter. Never was and therefore able to endure as romance unsoiled in the minds of Laura and Alec. In the minds of the audience too, which is presumably why The Guardian recently placed Brief Encounter at the top of its poll for the most romantic film of all time. Casablanca and Gone With The Wind were second and third respectively.

Over the years and through his plays, poems and songs, Coward conducted a constant debate about love through his characters.

“Tell me, tell me, tell me, what is Love?” asks the young Sari in Bitter Sweet. “Is it some consuming flame / Part of the Moon, part of the Sun / Part of a dream barely begun?”

Later in the same 1929 play, Manon, the café chanteuse, expresses what has come to be seen as Coward’s considered conclusion:

I think if only Somebody splendid really needed me, Someone affectionate and dear, Cares would be ended if I knew that he Wanted to have me near.

But I believe that since my life began The most I’ve had is just A talent to amuse.

Heigh, ho, if love were all.

A later verse captures a more realistic, if more disappointing, realization.

I am no good at Love.

My heart should be wild and free

I kill the unfortunate golden goose,

Whoever it may be,

With over-articulate tenderness

And too much intensity.

I am no good at Love.

I betray it with little sins,

For I feel the misery of the end

In the moment that it begins

And the bitterness of the last good-bye

Is the bitterness that wins.

In Blithe Spirit, Charles Condomine lives to love again.

But what are his chances? Does anyone in a Coward play live happily ever after?

In a late life television interview, Coward is asked to sum up his life in one word. “Well, now comes the terrible decision as to whether to be corny or not. The answer is one word. Love. To know that you are among people you love and who love you. That has made all the successes wonderful – much more wonderful than they’d have been anyway. And that’s it, really.”

So perhaps the answer is not romantic love, but loving. ○ Barry Day Editor of The Letters of Noël Coward

Barry Day has written and compiled a number of books on Noël Coward including Star Quality: The Treasures of Noël Coward (Andre Deutsch), The Letters of Noël Coward (Knopf/Methuen) and The Complete Lyrics of Noël Coward (Overlook/Methuen).

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Who’s Who

ANGELA LANSBURY (Madame Arcati) has enjoyed an unprecedented career of over 70 years beginning as a star of motion pictures before continuing as an award-winning stage actor in New York and beyond. This production of Blithe Spirit began in London in January 2014, and in 2013 she toured Australia in Driving Miss Daisy with James Earl Jones and Boyd Gaines.

Other recent Broadway appearances are Gore Vidal’s The Best Man (2012), A Little Night Music (2010), her first appearance as Madame Arcati in a 2009 revival of Blithe Spirit, winning her a fifth Tony Award, and in Terrence McNally’s Deuce (2007).

Her 1957 Broadway debut was as Bert Lahr’s wife in Hotel Paradiso. In 1960, she returned as Joan Plowright’s mother in Shelagh Delaney’s highly acclaimed A Taste of Honey and in 1964 she starred in her first musical, Anyone Can Whistle. Lansbury returned to Broadway in triumph in 1966 in Mame, for which she won her first Tony Award. She received others for Dear World (1968), Gypsy (1974) and Sweeney Todd (1979).

From 1984-1996 she starred as Jessica Fletcher, mystery-writing amateur sleuth, on Murder, She Wrote, the longest-running detective drama series in television history, winning her four Golden Globe Awards. A three-time nominee, she received an Oscar for Lifetime Achievement in 2013. A member of the Theater and Television Halls of Fame, a Kennedy Center Honors and National Medal for the Arts recipient, in 2014 Queen Elizabeth II named her a Dame of the British Empire.

CHARLES EDWARDS (Charles Condomine) plays Lady Edith’s publisher lover Michael Gregson in Downton Abbey. As well as Blithe Spirit, recent performances in London’s West End include Bertie in the original stage play The King’s Speech, and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare’s Globe; he was nominated as Best Actor at the Evening Standard Awards for both of these. On Broadway he led the Tony-winning production of The 39 Steps, having originated the role of Richard Hannay in London, where it won the Olivier Award for Comedy.

Work at London’s National Theatre includes Marsden in Eugene O’Neill’s Strange Interlude, for which he won the 2014 Clarence Derwent Award, and This House, for which he was again nominated by the Evening Standard. For television he recently completed work on Arthur and George, a new series about Sherlock Holmes author Arthur Conan Doyle, and on Ripper Street for the BBC. He played Michael Palin in the BAFTAnominated TV film Holy Flying Circus (BBC). Films include Philomena, Batman Begins and Mansfield Park.

JEMIMA ROOPER (Elvira). Most recently Jemima has been seen on the West End stage in Breeders and Blithe Spirit. Other theatre credits include One Man, Two Guvnors (NT, Tour, West End, Broadway), Me and My Girl (Sheffield Crucible), All My Sons (West End), The Power of Yes (NT), The Great Game: Afghanistan (Tricycle), Her Naked Skin (NT), A Respectable Wedding (Young Vic), Us

and Them (Hampstead Theatre), Where Do We Live (Royal Court).

Film: What If, One Chance, The Black Dahlia, Kinky Boots, A Sound of Thunder. Television: Blandings, Lucky 7, Atlantis (Series 1 & 2), Frankenstein’s Wedding, A Bouquet of Barbed Wire, Poirot: The Third Girl, Lost in Austen, Hex, As If, The Railway Children. Jemima was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for What’s On Stage Awards 2011 (One Man, Two Guvnors), 2010 (All My Sons) and for Best Performance in Musical for Theatre Awards UK 2011 (Me And My Girl).

CHARLOTTE PARRY (Ruth Condomine) was a member of the inaugural year of Sam Mendes’ Bridge Project, performing The Cherry Orchard and The Winter’s Tale at BAM, in the West End and internationally. Broadway: The Winslow Boy, Coram Boy, The Real Thing, The Importance Of Being Earnest. Off Broadway: Equivocation (MTC), Bluebird (Atlantic), Look Back In Anger and Howard Katz (Roundabout). For Sir Peter Hall Company at BAM, Center Theatre Group and London: As You Like It and The Importance Of Being Earnest.

Regional: Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion (Old Globe), world premiere of John Patrick Shanley’s Pirate (New York Stage and Film), world premiere of Albee’s Me, Myself & I, and The Birthday Party (McCarter Theatre). In the U.K. - West End: The Colby Sisters, The Real Thing, The Cherry Orchard, The Winter’s Tale. TV: The Safe House (ITV), Extreme Ghost Stories (ITV).

Film: The Park Bench, The Importance Of Being Earnest. Charlotte has narrated over 50 audiobooks.

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Advocate Circle ($2,400+) Anonymous (6), Davis Alexander, Lynne & Donald Alschuler, Liz & Lou Altman, Art Works Hollywood, Inc.*, Ms. Audrey Bahr, Mr. David Bailey & Mr. Ronald Shalowitz, Deborah G. Baine, Jill Banks Barad, Melanie & Gregory Barbee, John & Carol Barcal, Elizabeth Bawden, Mr. & Mrs. Steven B. Bergjans, Jamie & Joel Berman, Mr. & Mrs. John Bettfreund, Marjorie Blatt, Mrs. Lois Bock, Harriet Rossetto & Rabbi Mark Borovitz, James & Lauren Briggs, Wendi Bromley*, Willie & Charlene Brownlee, The Burleigh Family, Linda Stafford Burrows, Dr. & Mrs. George Byrne, Christine Cahill, Laura Calderone, Thomas J. Carmichael,

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Landsburg, Marlee & Katharine Lauffer, Julie Lawrence, Ms. Grace Leonard, Pam, Amanda, Lianna & Eddie, Perforated stainless steel purse by Wendy Stevens Allyn & Jeffrey Levine, Richard & Vivian Levy, Julia & Anthony Lewinter, Linden Optometry, Loris & Kory Lunsford, Doris Luster, Richard & Myra Mannheimer Family, Suzanne J. Marks, Mr. & Mrs. Dennis G. Martin, Ms. Jeanne Hoffa, Sharon Matsumoto & Ron Rose, Daniel M. Mayeda & Susan I. Rosales, Kathleen McCarthy Kosttan, James A. Zapp & Elizabeth A. McGlynn, Bill Meyenberg & Doug Loewy, Lorraine & LAPhilStore.com • 213.972.3440 • 131 S. Grand Ave., Los Angeles Craig Meyer, Julien Minard, Helene G. Mochedlover, Dr. Open during and after evening concerts • 10am-5pm daily Theodore & Mrs. Mary J. Mock, Rob & Leslie Nagby, Dr. Diane C. Narhi, M.D., Jack Needleman, Donn Nelson, Dr. Anthony Nesburn, Isabel Friend Newman, Ms. Jane Nobbs, Linda Nussbaum & Lawrence Ross, Valerie LAPhil_PerformancesDECPhilStore.indd 1 10/27/14 6:21 PM Oishi, Norman Dixon & Patrick Owen, Mr. & Mrs. Mark M. Panatier, Ms. Sandra J. Paskus, Thomas Payne, Sharon Pember, Mary Phillips, Frank & Arlene Pirolo, Eleanor Pott, Patricia A. Powell, Cheryl & Joel Prell, Erwin “Sonny” & Jean Raffle, Charles Reinhart, Margo Reymundo*, Tim Reynolds, M.D., Laurie & Stuart Rice, Tom & Gerry Rische, Lois Rosen, Lauren Ross, Anna J. Rundle, In Honor of Robert Edward Sabol, Lee Anne & David Sanderson, Mr. & Mrs. John Schulte, Suzie & Michael Scott, Linda M. Sherman, Susan & Michael Shore, Mr. & Mrs. Harvey Shulman, Nancy Signer, Ruth Silveira, Bruce & Nancy Silverman, Harlean & Joseph Silverman, Dr. & Mrs. Robert J. Simon, Nancy Horii, Ruth & Harvey Solomon, Diane & James Staes, Tom & Kerstin Stempel, Robert Stephenson, Mr. James C. Stewart, Maria Straith, Stephen J. Strauss & Harriet M. Rolnick*, Deborah K. Streiber, Jayashree & Jeff Sung, Jack & Marlene Susser, Ellen Tam, Ronald & Shelly Tamkin, Michael N. Taylor, Stephen Taylor, Sheila & Lawrence Teplin, Michelle Tesoro, William & Susan Tinkley, Eileen T’Kaye & David Bischoff*, Russell Todd Agency*, Sissie Torrance, Ms. Patricia R. Torres, Paulette Toumazos & Michael Lorenz, Jean Trutanich, J. R. Vincent, Ms. Diane Levine & Mr. Robert Wass, Carol Webster & Chris Enterline, Mr. Charles W. Weeks*, Dr. Libby F. Wilson, Karen & Bill Wolett, Jill Wondries, Dr. Merilynn Yamada, Dr. & Mrs. Gary Yontef, Kenneth & Soyoung Yoon, Wally T. Zajac, Myrna & Stanley Zimmerman

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Kleinberg, Paul & Sharon Kleiter, Stacy Kling, William Kobin & Frances Goodman, Jean D. Koehler, Jean Korf, Pickerell & Krinel, Fred & Sheri Kuppers, Owen & Sari Kustner, Rosalind La Briola, Mrs. Frumeh Labow, Kelliann Ladd & John Gatti, Suet Lai, Earle & Sharon Lambert, Mr. & Mrs. Herbert A. Lampert, Sally Landau, Leah Landry*, Kim Maria Lattimore, Richard & Ruth Lavine Family Foundation, Dr. & Mrs. John F. Lawrence, Larry Layne & Sheelagh Boyd, Barbara & Tom Leanse, Janeen & David Lee, Betty Fu & Don Lee, James & Karen Lefever, Lucille Leiba, Margie Leis, Lester G. Lennon, Constance Leonard, Ali & Adrienne LeRoi, Dinny & David Lesser, Patricia Levinson, Carrie & Mark Levinson & Emily, Lauren & Max, Donna & Jebb Levy, Paula & Barrett Litt, Mr. & Mrs. LoCasale, Deanna J. Lohse, Mrs. Jan Loomis, Myriam Lopez, Greg & Beverly Loughnane, Sandi Love & Hilly Elkins*, Sondra Murr Love, Maoyeh Lu, Melba Macneil, Ms. Judith Mages, Dr. Mary Stephens & John Malone, Honorable Nora M. Manella, Dorothy Manning, Joseph Mannis, Sarah F. Manson, Darlene Manus, Jean Marcon, Brett J. Markel, Jacqueline Sanchez, Eleanor Portilla Maynard, Mrs. A. A. McCardle, Meg McComb, David McDowell & Richard Bautzer, Jacqueline & Eric Winston, Neil McLean, Mrs. Lucille H. Melcher, Arthur Melville, Ph.D. & Marsha Utain, M.S., Nancy & Joseph Mendoza, Ms. Hwei-Chu Meng, Charlotte A. Mennillo, Bob & Rosemary Merzoian, Helen Michaels, Mr. & Mrs. Irwin M. Miller, Lynn Miller & Diane Elton, Tina J. Miller*, Gleam by Melanie Mills, Tiina & William Mittler--Playwright*, Lynn Miyamoto & Kevin Kroeker, Bev Moore, Francoise Schmutz & Antonio Morawski, Kristen Linden, Toni & Tom Morgan, Doug Morseburg & Kelley Brock, Julie & Jean-Baptiste Nadal, Sharon Nagel, Gail Neiman, Phong Nguyen, MD, Russell Noel, Roberta Novick & Martin Gardner, Becky Novy, Michelle Nuttall, The Nygard Family, Phil Lucier & Drew Oberbeck, Alice Ohanesian, Justin Okin*, Pamela Phillips Oland*, Alan, Sandy, & Oliver Olick, Jill Olmstead, Zoli Aswad Osaze*, Christina Owen & Marvin Isaacson, Bill & Linda Owen, Mr. James Owsley*, Bob & Brana Paster, Mr. & Mrs. Martin B. Pearlman, Mary E. Peel, John Peetz, Ralph Pezoldt, Barry & Jane McCullough, Paul Geissler & Tamra Phipps, Joy & Gerald Picus, Janine Pierce, Paulene Popek, Jill Poppe, Mr. & Mrs. Albert Praw, Samuel Prentice in Loving Memory of Susan Sculley, James P. Bennett & Company, Suzanne & Harvey Prince, Charlie & Kristi Proctor, Robert A. Pugsley, Dr. Stephen C. Rabin, F. Ronald & Deborah Rader, Sandra & John Radine, Mary Lynn & John Rallis, The Ramachandran Family, Tracy L. Ramont, Geoff Wells & Janet Ray, Walter & Maria Rebar, Shirley C. Reed, Pamela Reis, Sean Reycraft*, Patricia Robbins, Joan G. Robinson, Peter Robinson & Buffy Shutt, Bingo & Gino Roncelli, Dr. Janice Roper, Ms. Becky Rosales, Lisa Rosales, Fred & Suzie Rose, Richard Michael Ross, M.D. & Nattawat Uooppanan, Christopher T. Ryan*, Ron & Sharon Ryan, Alexandra & Edward Saborio, David A. & Karen Richards Sachs, Harvey & Peggy Saferstein, Joel, Kai & Piper Saken, Maria Elena Salas, Maryann & Michael Sanders, Lora A. Sandroni, David & Toni Sargent, Victoria & Orman Sartwell, Maxine Savitz, Sheila & Vivek Savur, Alexander & Mariette Sawchuk, Tina Saxe, Judith A. Schefke, Larry & Carole Scherzer, Kelly Schiffer & Carole Schiffer, Nancy & Steven Schneider, Rita & Larry Schneider, Glenn & Eva Schusterman with Delvu Record*, Elizabeth Hradsky, Amy & Andy Schwartz, In Memory of Logan J. Scroggy, Ruth A. Seigle, Harry & Maureen Selvin, Mark & Cindy Serrano, David & Linda Tashman, Juanita Shaw, Toni L. Sherman, Doreen & Jack Shine, Marlene Sirkin Siegel, Drs. Lance & Rochelle Sieger, Scott Sigman, John J. Silva, Debra J. Silvera-Sheehan, Linda Silverman & Ercil Brown, Karen & Gordon Silverstein, Ken & Marinette Simon, Kathleen A. Siu, Martin & Leah Sklar, Drs. Carl Brown & Laura Slaughter, Leslie Smith, Ricardo Sosapavon & Marcus Otto, Colonel & Mrs. S. M. Soukup, Richard Spicer & Carolyn Martin Spicer, Mr. & Mrs. Vladimir Spolsky, Merrilee B. St. John, Tricia Small, Mr. & Mrs. Errol Stambler, Carol Stein Sterling & James Sterling, Barbara Ann Sterling, Jessica Stone*, Gail Goldberg Stoter, Dr. Arthur H. Streeter, Antoinette M. 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Winter 2014 This time of year provides many ways to reflect on who we are and what we have accomplished during the past year. It is a time in which we celebrate the New Year and wish each other health and happiness. We spend these months celebrating our faith, our families and our friends. It is also a time to think of others and about giving to organizations that we know do great work in our community. The list of charitable organizations seems to get longer each year.

Our challenge, as we each think about giving, is to help as many people in our community as we can and for National Council of Jewish Women/Los Angeles to make those donations go as far as possible.

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Foundation Support These institutions support Center Theatre Group’s operations, arts education programs, artistic development program or specific projects.

For more information, call our grants information line at 213.972.3090.

THE AHMANSON FOUNDATION ANNENBERG FOUNDATION CENTER THEATRE GROUP AFFILIATES EDGERTON FOUNDATION ELISABETH KATTE HARRIS TRUST THE WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST FOUNDATION THE JAMES IRVINE FOUNDATION THE ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION THE RALPH M. PARSONS FOUNDATION LLOYD E. RIGLER-LAWRENCE E. DEUTSCH FOUNDATION LAURA & JAMES ROSENWALD & ORINOCO FOUNDATION THE SHUBERT FOUNDATION, INC. STEIN FAMILY FOUNDATION THE WELLS FARGO FOUNDATION The Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation Employees Community Fund of Boeing California Sascha Brastoff Foundation The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Foundation Brookside Fund Brotman Foundation of California Diana Buckhantz & Vladimir & Araxia Buckhantz Foundation The Carol and James Collins Foundation The Culver City Education Foundation James A. Doolittle Foundation Joseph Drown Foundation Entertainment Industry Foundation Fineshriber Family Foundation Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation Lawrence P. Frank Foundation The Friars Charitable Foundation The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation The Green Foundation The Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation National Alliance for Musical Theatre The Kenneth T. & Eileen L. Norris Foundation The Perkins Charitable Foundation Rosenthal Family Foundation Sony Pictures Entertainment Dwight Stuart Youth Fund The Fran and Ray Stark Foundation The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust The Towbes Fund for the Performing Arts, a field of interest fund of the Santa Barbara Foundation

Providing the nation’s most exclusive placements since 1982 Executive & Personal Assistants Chefs Estate Managers Nannies Butlers Housekeepers Baby Nurses Elder Care

Los Angeles • New York San Francisco

Government Support Center Theatre Group appreciates the support of the following agencies.

British Council The City of Culver City City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Los Angeles County Arts Commission National Endowment for the Arts U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Center Theatre Group wishes to acknowledge the California Arts Council’s many years of generous support.

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Center Theatre Group | Donor Recognition

Center Theatre Group Affiliates CTG-A has supported CTG since 1971. Through volunteering and fundraising, members introduce young people to the magic of live theatre. Its biennial gala, Angels’ Night, raises significant funds for CTG’s Education and Community Partnerships programs.

PRESIDENT

Anne Bruner EXECUTIVE BOARD Alice Desobry Bowens Joanne Freed Beverly Haas Roberta Haft* Tobé Karns Diane Kessler* Thea F. Koss Diane Lesser Jerri Nagelberg

Diane Neubauer* Kim White Peterson* Sheila Poncher* June Sanders Sattler Maggy Simon Marilyn Stambler* Donna Sussman* Janice Weiner Rosalind Zane*

MEMBERS Gail Ann Andrews Rita Lee Arthe P. Anthony Annie Maria Lehrer Sandy Avchen Carol LeVeque-Uri Janet Barnet* Marilyn Levin Sue Bass Helen Gordon Lowy ◆ Judith Beckmen* Elizabeth Lu Marjorie Ann Beradino Phyllis Massing Lanie Bernhard Jacqueline Nach Lestrita Boardman Deena Nahmias Roanna Araneta Brown Gina Posalski*◆ Elnora Guerrero Campos Debra Rabinowitz Sharon Reisz Wilma Glenn Chappelle Marlene Theresa Irene Ribner Harriett Chatters Rose Charbonnet Barbara Mansfield Cheyne* Lois Rosen ◆ Judy Rosenberg Mary Levin Cutler Jean Crawford Donald* Gaile Gray Ryan Babe Eagle Bonnie Sachs◆ ◆ Carmen Schaye Ilene J. Eisenberg Gloria H. Ellwood* Kelly Schiffer* Lynda Wolfson Fadel Zrelda Sealey Stephanie Fisher-White Marsanne J. Shapiro ◆ Ruth Flinkman-Marandy Carole Solomon◆ ◆ Ava O. Fries* Robbie J. Solomon Carole A. Gillie Marilyn Stark Linda Goldfein Carol Stein ◆ Linda Goldman Judy Stone Vicky Goodman Betsy Straszheim Debra Gordon Gloria Stroock-Stern Brindell Roberts Gottlieb Roslyn Holt Swartz Joan Greiff Louise Taper Carol Halperin Kathy L. Todd* ◆ Christine Harte Sue Tsao◆ Stephanie Hibler Elinor Turner Audrey Jessup Andrea Valcourt Sondra Jolles Barbara Van Orden Diane Papo Kaplan* Donna Venick* Barbara Krasnoff Fern Wallace Beau Lavine Janice Brock Wallace*◆ * Past Presidents

◆Executive Board Members at Large

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Give the Gift of Art

Center Theatre Group | Donor Recognition

Planned Gifts Center Theatre Group is grateful to these donors, whose irrecovable deferred estate gifts to CTG’s endowment ensure the organization’s financial well-being for generations to come. $1,000,000+ Richard & Julie Kagan Martin Massman Betty McMicken in honor of Jeanette Shammas Diane & Leon Morton Carol Vernon & Robert Turbin $500,000+ Mary Levin Cutler Virginia Hayes Ann & Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr. Merle & Peter Mullin Magda & Frederick R. Waingrow

$250,000+ Bill Cohn & Dan Miller Patricia Glaser & Sam Mudie Edward L. Rada Susan & William Weintraub $100,000+ W. Lee Bailey, M.D. Angela Bardowell Allan & Joan Burns Sandra Krause & William Fitzgerald Deborah M. Hyde Sarah & Andy Kane Dr. & Mrs. Jack Kavanaugh

The Paul Kowal Charitable Foundation Darell L. Krasnoff Joyce & Kent Kresa Steven Llanusa & Glenn Miya, M.D. $50,000+ Pamela & Dennis Beck The Moira Byrne Foster Foundation Mr. Kim L. Hunter Sally & Frank Raab $25,000+ Charles Dillingham & Susan D. Clines

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Experience the Classical Sound First PH Blüthner Grand Piano in the United States. Celebrating our 50 years of Blüthner imports from Leipzig, Germany

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and recording rentals • Harpsichords • Irmler & Haesler Pianos • Henle Editions • Appraisals

Endowment Gifts These gifts ensure a stable source of support for new work and Center Theatre Group’s many initiatives to make theatre accessible to underserved audiences. $500,000+ Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Renee & Meyer Luskin John S. Surabian, Jr. and in memory of Faith and Sharon Ann Surabian Sue Tsao $250,000+ The Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation $100,000+ Betsy & Harold Applebaum Judith & Thomas Beckmen

The Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation Kenneth Corday Center Theatre Group Affiliates Regina Fadiman Barbara & Peter Fodor Ava & Charles Fries Brindell & Milton Gottlieb The Hearst Foundation, Inc. Vicki King Richard G. & Virginia L. Martin Louise Taper $50,000+ Maynard & Linda Brittan

SHARE THE JOY OF THEATRE THIS HOLIDAY SEASON

Ellen & Michael S. Korney Dorothy & Richard Sherwood $25,000+ Abbott Brown Linda Brown Greve Foundation Dr. Tom Hickey Diane & Leon Morton $10,000+ A and J Davidson Skipper Award Fund Levine Foundation Carolyn & Kit Lokey Betty & Sanford Sigoloff

Give a loved one a year of behind-the-scenes access by making a contribution in his or her name. Benefits include Up Close Dialogues with artists, discount ticket offers, backstage tours and more!

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Larry Joe Campbell, Frank Caeti and Dan Castellaneta in the 2012 production of The Second City’s A Christmas Carol: Twist Your Dickens! The Second City’s A Christmas Carol: Twist Your Dickens! photo by craIG schWartZ.

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Center Theatre Group | Donor Recognition

National Corporate Theatre Fund National Corporate Theatre Fund is a not-for-profit created to increase and strengthen support from the business community for this country’s most distinguished professional theatres, including Center Theatre Group. The following donors support these theatres through their contributions to NCTF: Chairman’s Circle ($250,000+) Edgerton Foundation* Ford Foundation* The James S. and Lynne P. Turley Ernst & Young Fund for Impact Creativity** Leadership Circle ($100,000+) CMT/ABC**† The Hearst Foundations** Theatre Executives ($50,000-$99,000) Bank of America* Schloss Family Foundation Wells Fargo** Benefactors ($25,000-$49,999) Buford Alexander and Pamela Farr* BNY Mellon Steven Bunson** Cisco Systems, Inc.* Citi Ernst & Young Priscilla and Keith Geeslin* Goldman, Sachs & Co. LG&E and KU Energy* MetLife Morgan Stanley Pfizer, Inc. Roe Green Foundation* Douglas and Janet True* Pacesetters ($15,000-$24,999) American Express* Bloomberg Southwest Airlines**† Theatermania.com/ Gretchen Shugart George S. Smith, Jr.** James S. Turley* UBS White & Case LLP* Donors ($10,000-$14,999) Christopher Campbell/ Palace Production Center† Paula Dominick** Dorsey & White Foundation Epiq Systems* Alan & Jennifer Freedman**

Ruth E. Gitlin* Marsh & McLennan Companies Jonathan Maurer and Gretchen Shugart** McGraw Hill Financial New York Life Lisa Orberg** Frank Orlowsky** RBC Wealth Management** The Schloss Family Foundation** Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom* Stoddard Family Foundation* Pamela J. Wagner* Willkie Farr & Gallagher Supporters ($2,500-$9,999) Helen Ashley* Mitchell J. Auslander** Dantchik Family Elwood B. Davis* Dorfman and Kaish Family Foundation, Inc. Dramatists Play Service, Inc.* John R. Dutt** Bruce R. and Tracey Ewing** Jessica Farr* Richard Fitzburgh Mason and Kim Granger* Colleen Hempleman* Gregory S. Hurst Howard and Janet Kagan* Joseph F. Kirk** Adrian Liddard* Michael Lawrence and Dr. Glen Gillen* The Maurer Family Foundation** John R. Mathena Ogilvy & Mather† Theodore Nixon* Edison Peres** Thomas C. Quick Seyfarth Shaw LLP* Sills Cummis & Gross * Ann Steck* Karen and Stewart Tanz* John Thomopoulos** Evelyn Mack Truitt Michael A. Wall Isabelle Winkles** *NCTF/Ford Foundation Fund for New Work †Includes in-kind support

**Impact Creativity is an urgent call to action to save theatre education programs in 19 of our largest cities.

Impact Creativity brings together theatres, arts education experts and individuals to help over 500,000 children and youth, most of them disadvantaged, succeed through the arts by sustaining the theatre arts education programs threatened by today’s fiscal climate. For more information on how “theatre education changes lives,” please visit ImpactCreativity.org.

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WHAT ARE YOU DOING FRIDAY NIGHT?

The Fringe @ Center Theatre Group celebrates with the cast of American Idiot and Los Angeles Magazine at Perch in downtown Los Angeles. photo by casey curry.

Find out more about The Fringe @ CTG, a membership group for young professionals who love theatre and believe in its importance in Los Angeles. @ CenterTheatreGroup.org/Fringe Facebook.com/CTGFringe @FringeCTG For more information, or to purchase a Fringe membership for a young professional in your life, contact us at 213.972.7276 or

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Front-row Access With Big Returns George Frideric Handel’s

Joining Center Theatre Group’s Corporate Circle gives you and your organization a way to fund critically needed arts education while enjoying these benefits:

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• Client hospitality • Complimentary tickets • Business-to-business introductions and networking • Free special events (including Opening Nights, Meet the Artists events and Backstage Tours) • Brand recognition • VIP tickets for theatres in Los Angeles, New York and London

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Research shows students exposed to the arts have better critical thinking skills and higher selfesteem, which is why Center Theatre Group provides awardwinning arts education programs to Los Angeles-area youth. Last year, thanks in part to support from Corporate Circle, CTG programs reached 6,407 students from 119 participating schools.

For more information about Corporate Circle and the benefits available to donors, call Laura Hite at 213.972.7536, or email her at lhite@CenterTheatreGroup.org.

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THE MUSIC CENTER 2014-2015 BOARD OF DIRECTORS OFFICERS

MEMBERS AT LARGE

Lisa Specht

Wallis Annenberg Louise Henry Bryson Fung Der Craig A. Ellis David Gindler Brindell Gottlieb Joyce Hameetman Richard B. Jones Carolbeth Korn Nigel Lythgoe Martin Massman Patrick S. McCabe Bowen “Buzz” H. McCoy Elizabeth Michelson Neal S. Millard Darrell D. Miller Cindy Miscikowski Shelby Notkin Diane Paul Kurt C. Peterson Max Ramberg Joseph Rice Richard K. Roeder

BOARD CHAIR

Robert J. Abernethy Michael J. Pagano VICE CHAIRS

Stephen D. Rountree PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Karen Kay Platt SECRETARY

Lisa Whitney ASSISTANT TREASURER AND CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

DIRECTORS EMERITI Carla Sands Joni J. Smith Catharine Soros Marc I. Stern Cynthia A. Telles Franklin E. Ulf Walter F. Ulloa Catalina Joos Vergara Timothy S. Wahl Susan M. Wegleitner Alyce Williamson Rosalind W. Wyman Stephen G. Contopulos GENERAL COUNSEL

Peter K. Barker Judith Beckmen Eli Broad Ronald W. Burkle Lloyd E. Cotsen John B. Emerson* Lois Erburu Richard M. Ferry Bernard A. Greenberg Joanne D. Hale Amb. Glen A. Holden Stuart M. Ketchum Amb. Lester B. Korn Kent Kresa Robert F. Maguire, III Ginny Mancini Edward J. McAniff Walter M. Mirisch Fredric M. Roberts Claire L. Rothman James A. Thomas Andrea L. Van de Kamp* Paul M. Watson * CHAIR EMERITUS

SUPPORT THE MUSIC CENTER

CONTACT THE MUSIC CENTER

The Music Center Annual Fund supports world-class dance programming, nationally recognized arts education programs and participatory arts programs that inspire people of all ages and create opportunities for expression.

It is only through unrestricted annual support that our innovative programs continue to grow.

General Information Theatre Rentals Filming Patina Restaurant Group/Catered Events Audio Description/Project D.A.T.E. (Direct Audience Theatre Experience) Lost and Found

For more information, please call (213) 972-4349.

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COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES

Through the support of the Board of Supervisors, the County of Los Angeles plays an invaluable role in the successful operation of The Music Center.

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS Michael D. Antonovich Mayor of Los Angeles County Hilda L. Solis Mark Ridley-Thomas Sheila J. Kuehl Don Knabe

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Robert Battle Artistic Director

April 15–19, 2015

Masazumi Chaya Associate Artistic Director

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ACCENTURE JOINS THE MUSIC CENTER IN A 50TH ANNIVERSARY SALUTE TO THE SPIRIT OF VOLUNTEERISM

Photo courtesy of Accenture

Sada Juma, Accenture VSO beneficiary and member of the crab farming Kisasasaka Women's Group, Tanzania, with proof of her success.

The Music Center is pleased to spotlight Accenture, one of the world’s leading management consulting and technology services companies, and a Music Center corporate partner. Active in 56 countries, Accenture has offices and operations in more than 200 cities around the world, including here in Southern California. Accenture has worked with 16 of the 25 largest public companies in Los Angeles and two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies headquartered in the Southland.

As a statement of its commitment to the Los Angeles community, this fall Accenture partnered with The Music Center to sponsor a special 50th Anniversary Volunteer Appreciation event saluting the numerous volunteers of both The Music Center and its resident companies. This tribute, held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, followed a Civic Rededication ceremony for The Music Center, also supported by Accenture.

In celebrating its 50th Anniversary, The Music Center acknowledged Dorothy Buffum Chandler’s entrepreneurialism and extraordinary drive, which inspired many in the community to support her dream of a permanent home for the performing arts in Los Angeles.

Thanks to the many volunteers and donors who embraced Mrs. Chandler’s goal, The Music Center was built, and

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history was made. Today, the spirit of volunteerism is pervasive at The Music Center, from the Symphonians who guide visitors through its four venues, to the donors who support arts education and special programming.

Accenture has a long history of giving back to the community through volunteering. Through its corporate citizenship initiative, Skills to Succeed, Accenture aims to equip more than 700,000 people around the world with workplace or entrepreneurial skills by 2015. One example of this commitment in action is the company’s work with Voluntary Services Overseas. This program makes it possible for Accenture employees to take a leave of absence to volunteer their time and professional skills to help local communities in the developing world. Accenture employees in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Italy, Germany and many more locations have applied their business skills to make tangible contributions in challenging environments. In turn, they acquire new skills and find their experience both personally and professionally rewarding.

Here in Los Angeles, Accenture also supports local arts and culture, recognizing their positive role in both economic development and societal enrichment. In addition to its partnership with The Music Center, Accenture has teamed with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on LACMA’s new Art +Technology Lab, a cutting-edge technology exhibit space that promotes innovation and collaboration across disciplines and industries. The company also partners with the California Science Center, Huntington Library & Botanical Gardens, and KCET Public Television on a range of programs designed to enhance the community.

According to Accenture’s Southern California Managing Director Trey Thornton, “It was our pleasure to be a part of The Music Center’s 50th Anniversary and to recognize the many volunteers who are key to sustaining it as a premier arts destination. Much like those who support The Music Center, the energy and expertise of Accenture’s team members enhances our community volunteerism," he added. The Music Center honors Accenture for its visionary leadership in creating initiatives that make a meaningful and sustainable difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities across the Southland and around the world and is grateful for Accenture’s support.

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REDCAT, Performance

At The Music Center December 2014 The Music Center Holiday Sing-Along

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2

What the Butler Saw 8:00 PM Center Theatre Group / Mark Taper Forum Runs through Dec 21 Audra McDonald 8:00 PM LA Phil / Walt Disney Concert Hall

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4

Pictures at an Exhibition with Dudamel 8:00 PM LA Phil / Walt Disney Concert Hall Runs through Dec 7 Rashaun Mitchell and Stephin Merritt: Performance 8:30 PM REDCAT / Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater Runs through Dec 7

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6

50th Anniversary Spectacular 7:00 PM The Music Center / Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Toyota Symphonies for Youth: Jazz and the Orchestra 11:00 AM LA Phil/ Walt Disney Concert Hall Runs through Dec 13

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7

Messiah Sing-Along 7:00 PM LA Master Chorale / Walt Disney Concert Hall

MONDAY, DECEMBER 8

Mati Diop: The Dawn of a Thousand Suns 8:30 PM REDCAT / Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater

Center Theatre Group, Blithe Spirit

Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit 8:00 PM Center Theatre Group / Ahmanson Theatre Runs through Jan 18

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10

Handel: Messiah 7:30 PM LA Master Chorale / Walt Disney Concert Hall Runs through Dec 21

Florencia en el Amazonas 7:30 PM LA Opera / Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Runs through Dec 20

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19

Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody 8:00 PM LA Phil / Walt Disney Concert Hall Runs through Dec 14

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12

CalArts Winter Dance 8:30 PM REDCAT / Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater Runs through Dec 13

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13

Festival of Carols 2:00 PM LA Master Chorale / Walt Disney Concert Hall

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14

Rejoice! A Cappella Christmas 7:00 PM LA Master Chorale / Walt Disney Concert Hall

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16

The Manhattan Transfer Christmas Show 8:00 PM LA Phil / Walt Disney Concert Hall Piano Spheres: Aron Kallay 8:30 PM REDCAT / Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9

Green Umbrella: European Avant-Garde 8:00 PM LA Phil / Walt Disney Concert Hall

For more information, visit musiccenter.org or call (213) 972-7211.

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17

A Chanticleer Christmas 8:00 PM LA Phil / Walt Disney Concert Hall All Mozart 11:00 AM

LA Phil / Walt Disney Concert Hall Runs through Dec 21

The Music Center Holiday Sing-Along 6:30 PM The Music Center / The Music Center Plaza Holiday Organ Spectacular 8:00 PM LA Phil / Walt Disney Concert Hall

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20

Holiday Sing-Along 11:30 AM LA Phil / & 2:30 PM Walt Disney Concert Hall

MONDAY, DECEMBER 22

The Klezmatics: Happy Joyous Hannukkah!

8:00 PM LA Phil / Walt Disney Concert Hall

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23

The Arturo Sandoval Big Band Christmas 8:00 PM LA Phil / Walt Disney Concert Hall

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31

New Year's Eve with Pink Martini 7:00 PM LA Phil / & 10:30 PM Walt Disney Concert Hall

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