Performances Magazine - Pasadena Playhouse - February 2019

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The Colburn School transforms gifted musicians and dancers into performers—and offers public classes.

16 PERFORMANCE PARLANCE Everyday words can have entirely different meanings when it comes to the lingo of the performing arts.

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Cast, who’s who, director’s notes, chairman’s letter and donors.

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8 DATELINE Kiss Me, Kate is back on Broadway; All About Eve stars Lily James and Gillian Anderson in London.

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EVENTS ⁄⁄⁄⁄ EXHIBITS ⁄⁄⁄⁄ PERFORMANCES

INTHEWINGS

TWO PIANO PRODIGIES at a master class encounter an even greater talent: the virtuoso Glenn Gould, on the cusp of superstardom. The devastating realization that they will never approach their new rival’s level of artistry changes their lives forever. A meditation on dreams forsaken and hopes unrealized unfolds when L.A. Opera Off Grand presents the West Coast premiere of The Loser Feb. 22-23, marking composer David Lang’s return to the company for the first time since his spellbinding Anatomy Theater. An intimate staging of the work for baritone, piano and chamber ensemble incorporates multiple levels of the spectacular Theatre at Ace Hotel. It stars Rod Gilfry in a role he created for the 2016 world premiere at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House for the Next Wave Festival in New York City. 929 S. Broadway, downtown, 213.235.9614, laopera.org

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Rod Gilfry, at right, in the world premiere of David Lang’s The Loser at BAM’s Next Wave Festival in 2016.

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FIDM MUSEUM’S Art of Motion Picture Costume MUSEUM Design exhibition is a tradition for L.A. movie lovers. The 27th edition features the creativity of costume designers and their teams working in a variety of film genres. In the museum’s history gallery is Majesty and Mystery: Saving a Napoleonic Court Gown. Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned emperor of France in in 1804. Beside him at the coronation was his wife, MarieJosephe-Rose de Tascher de la

Pagerie de Beauharnais—whom he called Josephine. A strict dress code was mandated at royal court functions and the Empress was the arbiter of style.

Ladies wore high-waist gowns and trains made from French silk, satin, lace, velvet and net, with precious-metal embroidery motifs including bees, roses and tulips; the empress may have worn the astonishingly rare ensemble on display. The exhibitions run Feb. 5-April 12; admission is free. 919 S. Grand Ave., downtown, 213.623.5821, fidmmuseum.org

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CUBA’S HOTTEST contemporary dance DANCE company shares a little slice of Havana when the Malpaso Dance Company “brings its breezy, charming surprises” (Los Angeles Times) to the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts’ Bram Goldsmith Theater March 28-30. The troupe was founded in 2012 by resident choreographer and artistic director Osnel Delgado, executive director Fernando Sáez and dancer Daileidys Carrazana. A sparkling program of movement and music will feature works by Delgado and fellow international choreographers Aszure Barton, Cecilia Bengolea and Ohad Naharin. Of Malpaso’s last local appearance, The Times wrote, “a pinch-me moment, one of those times when you catch an artistic dawning.” 9390 N. Santa Monica Blvd., Beverly Hills, 310.746.4000, thewallis.org PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE 7

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DATELINE

SOME MUSICALS GET BETTER with age. Take Cole Porter’s vintage 1948 fizz, Kiss Me, Kate. It’s “Wunderbar,” especially now that Kelli O’Hara and Will Chase play NEW YORK the over-the-top embattled lovers in the Broadway revival previewing Feb. 14 at Studio 54. Fiddler on the Roof, a traditional Broadway tuner about Old World traditions, has been a staple since 1964—but never like this. Performed in Yiddish, with Russian and English surtitles, the latest Fiddler is more than a revival; it’s a rebirth. Previews begin Feb. 11 at off-Broadway’s Stage 42. Via a regional production in 2015 and an off-Broadway run last year, Be More Chill arrives at the Lyceum Theatre on Feb. 13. After a little fine-tuning, this musical about a high-school outcast finds its voice on the Great White Way.

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Steven Skybell and ensemble in Fiddler on the Roof, performed in Yiddish at off-Broadway’s Stage 42.

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STEPHEN SONDHEIM’S UPLIFTING musical Follies returns to the National stage Feb. 12-April 6 following its sold-out run. Set in 1971, it revolves around a lavish soirée thrown at the soon-to-be closed Weissman Theatre. For nostalgia’s sake, the Follies girls return to the stage for their swansong. David Suchet—best known in his role as Agatha Christie’s detective Hercule Poirot—stars in Arthur Miller’s The Price, Feb. 5-

Frederica von Stade in Three Decembers

Stephen Sondheim’s Follies at the National Theatre

April 27 at Wyndham’s Theatre.

The tale revolves around brothers, a policeman and a surgeon, who meet after 20 years of estrangement to sell family assets—and realize how much they’ve lost apart. Downton Abbey’s Lily James and The X Files’ Gillian Anderson are at the Noel Coward Theatre in a new adaptation of All About Eve, based on the Academy Award-winning film about a fading star and her young assistant.

VENERATED MEZZOsoprano Frederica von THE WEST Stade stars in San Diego Opera’s production of Jake Heggie’s Three Decembers, reprising the role she created for the work’s world premiere in 2008 for Houston Grand Opera. Based on a libretto by Gene Scheer and an unpublished play by Terrence McNally, it runs March 8-10 at the Patrick Henry PHAME! theater. Three Decembers explores the truth, lies, resentments and the hopes of a family over the decades. With simple yet profound music that bares the souls of each character, the chamber opera is an intimate meditation on the family we wish for and the family we end up with.

In it, a beloved stage actress and singer is writing her annual Christmas letter, but no letter is enough to make up for the resentments of her now-adult children.

When the truth of their father’s tragic death comes out, can healing and forgiveness follow, or is it too late?

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THE COLBURN SCHOOL TRANSFORMS TALENTED MUSICIANS AND DANCERS INTO PERFORMERS—AND ALSO OFFERS CLASSES TO THE PUBLIC. by LIBBY SLATE

a professional atmosphere.”

The conservatory is for career-oriented students; undergraduate and graduate curricula allow for specialization in chamber music and—new next fall, led by former L.A. Phil music director Esa-Pekka Salonen—in conducting. The Colburn School's Music Academy prepares potential pros for college, its Dance Academy preps for ballet careers.

“Because we are small enough, we pay real attention to all students and their shortcomings,” says Yehuda Gilad, a co-founder of the conservatory, a clarinet professor and music director of the Colburn Orchestra.

While there’s a bureaucracy involved in running most schools, Gilad says, “our school programs are run mostly by a core group of faculty, co-governing and making the artistic decisions. We have a weekly meeting, eight or nine of us. The size of the school allows us to do so.”

Ann Cyrus at Counterpointe, an annual collaboration of the Colburn School’s Music Academy and Dance Academy students. The next Counterpointe takes place March 23.

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N MARCH 2, AN ORCHESTRA THAT HAS performed under conductors Gustavo Dudamel, Michael Tilson Thomas, James Conlon and Plácido Domingo, and whose guest soloists have included Joshua Bell and Pinchas Zukerman, will play a program of Beethoven and Rimsky-Korsakov at Walt Disney Concert Hall.

It’s not the L.A. Phil, which has a matinee concert at the downtown venue the same day. The evening performance is by the Colburn Orchestra, the flagship ensemble of the Colburn Conservatory of Music.

The conservatory in turn is a program of the Colburn School, across Grand Avenue one block south of the concert hall. The school is a gem of music and dance learning for both career-minded students and the general public—and one of Los Angeles’ best-kept secrets.

“We’re the smallest conservatory in the country,” says Colburn School president and CEO Sel Kardan.

“We only have 120 students. The orchestra is the entire student body. They’re a close-knit group. And it creates

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excellence in technique, says institute dean Jenifer Ringer, a former New York City Ballet principal dancer. “We wanted there to be a real sense of progression, to lead the dancers to high levels,” she says.

There’s also a focus on exposing students to different dance genres and to other arts; the 16 students in the Dance Academy, the school’s ballet training program, tour a museum every month for inspiration.

The institute offers classes for all ages and experience.

The Colburn’s Community School of Performing Arts provides instrumental, jazz, vocal and music theory instruction as well as performing opportunities to the public. An early-childhood program starts at 7 months.

"We have choral groups for adults, and jazz ensembles," says Community School Dean Susan Cook. Community students potentially give recitals on Fridays.

A complete roster of Colburn School public performances can be found at colburnschool.edu/calendar/.

Upcoming dance events include Tap Fest (March 9, $10) and Counterpointe, a collaboration of Music Academy and Dance Academy students (March 23, free).

The Colburn School experience is like “baking the cake,” Gilad says. “To take a student, and see the transformation, because of guidance, into a great human and a great player…. We love to bake the cake.”

Italian pianist Rodolfo Leone earned a Master of Music at Colburn Conservatory of Music and is now in its Artist Diploma program.

Right, the Community School’s Chan Ho Yun with Herbert Zipper Scholar Mayte Castro.

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A number of faculty members are current or former L.A. Phil players; others come from farther away: One soloist at the Disney Hall concert, Italian pianist Rodolfo Leone, followed his teacher, Fabio Bidini, when Bidini relocated from Berlin to the Colburn School.

Leone earned a Master of Music degree at the conservatory and now, at 27, is in its Artist Diploma program.

Leone appreciates the chance to play chamber music at Colburn, the abundance of practice rooms and the prep in nonmusical aspects of the profession, such as media-interview training. “A very important part is the weekly performance forum, where three or four people perform and the whole school is invited," he says.

The Colburn School has its roots in the piano: It began in 1950 as the Preparatory School, established by USC to offer children piano lessons. As the school grew to include other instruments and ensembles, it attracted the attention of wealthy construction businessman and amateur violist Richard D. Colburn, who became its chief benefactor. The school moved to its current home in 1998 and in 2007 added a second building; it was renamed the Colburn School of Performing Arts, officially the Colburn School, in the 1995-96 school year. The school has performance spaces, notably the 400-seat Herbert Zipper Recital Hall, named for another supporter, as well as rehearsal spaces, student housing and a library and cafe that are open to the public.

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PERFORMANCE PARLANCE EVERYDAY WORDS CAN HAVE ENTIRELY DIFFERENT MEANINGS WHEN USED IN THE PERFORMING ARTS. by LIBBY SLATE

The first two rows of audience seating at the Broad Stage are semicircular and placed on large wheeled platforms—aka wagons —that can be removed if the space is needed for an orchestra pit or opera or dance staging.

Wagons can also be used onstage to move sets. To indicate where sets go and performers stand during a scene, productions use “spike marks,” small pieces of colored tape stuck to the floor.

“Anything that needs to be brought on and off stage will have a mark,” says Kevin Williams, properties designer for both the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts in La Mirada and McCoy Rigby Entertainment, which produces the venue’s Broadway series; Singin’ in the Rain plays April 19-May 12. “We could have 15 to 20 colors. You can dictate which colors blend in with a scene but can still be seen [by actors and crew]. Fluorescent orange can be seen in blue The Broad Stage concert shell includes “clouds,” panels high above the performers’ heads that reduce ambient noise and reverberation and direct sound toward the audience.

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HEN IS A STAGE NOT A STAGE? The surface upon which most performances unfold may be known by that word to audiences, but to theater tech folks, it’s the “deck.” The acoustic panels above musicians’ heads at some concert venues are “clouds.” And if you’ve noticed that the configuration of orchestral sections can vary from concert to concert, that’s “American seating” versus “European seating.”

Not generally known to patrons, arts lingo makes for interesting vocabulary. Maybe you’ve been seated on “wagons” and not known it. You’ve probably witnessed “practicals” in more than a few plays and musicals.

“Each performance genre has its own personality,” says Ernest Figueroa, producer at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica, which presents a variety of performances. The “deck” reference for the stage, he explains, is from vaudeville days, when “the only people who knew how to do rigging were seamen, and they worked on the ship’s deck.”

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[scene] transitional lighting.” Audience members seated in upper levels can also see the spikes.

So that no patron sees what’s happening in the wings, narrow curtains on each side of the stage, called “legs,” block the audience’s view. “They can also reduce the size of the stage, to isolate the look toward center stage,” Williams says. “Borders” are shorter curtains across the width of the stage that mask lighting setups and scenery stored above the stage.

Lighting props designed to be switched on and off —e.g., lamps, sconces and chandeliers—are called “practicals.” Linens, pillows, set curtains, bedding and other non-wardrobe fabric items are “soft goods.” And onstage food and drink are “consumables,” literally to be consumed by the actors; the term also applies to an item that is destroyed in each performance.

Both La Mirada and the Broad Stage present concerts; Figueroa notes that the Broad Stage concert shell includes panels called “clouds”—so-named because they are high above the performers’ heads—that reduce ambient noise and reverberation and direct sound toward the audience. “They look like a wooden ceiling onstage,” Figueroa says.

The L.A. Phil doesn’t use a shell for its performances at the Walt Disney Concert Hall downtown. On stage, the orchestra is configured in one of two ways: American or European seating.

“In American seating, you have the first violins to the left of the conductor, then going clockwise, the second violins, violas, cellos and the basses behind the

violas and cellos,” explains L.A. Phil personnel manager Jeff Neville. In European seating, among other differences, the first and second violins face each other.

“Disney Hall was built with the concept of having American seating,” Neville says. “As you look at the orchestra, the two risers on the right-hand side are slightly wider than the left, to compensate for the larger [cello and bass] instruments.”

Guest conductors can choose their seating arrangement, though L.A. Phil music and artistic director Gustavo Dudamel has the final say. Neville cites an example: “For larger works, Zubin Mehta likes the violins facing one another,” he says. “You can hear the inner voices more clearly.”

However the musicians are seated, their scores bear some lingo of their own.

The markings for crescendo (get louder) followed by decrescendo (play softer) over a passage are commonly referred to as “hairpins” and closely resemble those accessories; the same holds true in choral music.

Whole notes, an oval shape, are “footballs.” A fermata, indicating a prolonged note or rest, is symbolized by an eyebrow-like arc over a dot—a “bird’s eye.”

Violins are usually called “fiddles” in folk music; classical players also use that appellation. Trombones are “bones.”

And if you ever find yourself thinking you’re on a wagon, listening to bones under clouds on a deck.... you’ll know you’ve decoded the idioms of the performing arts world.

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The L.A. Phil, led by Gustavo Dudamel, in European seating configuration. Left, props and spike marks at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts.

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Katharine McDonough Dylan Saunders

Iara Nemirovsky Benjamin Schrader

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Ryan Dietz Gregory North Candace J. Washington

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Cast of Characters

CAST

In order of appearance Little Boy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Father . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Mother . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Younger Brother . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Grandfather . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Coalhouse Walker, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Sarah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Booker T. Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Tateh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Little Girl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Harry Houdini . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

J.P. Morgan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Henry Ford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Emma Goldman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Evelyn Nesbit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Harry Thaw, Policeman, Fireman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Coalhouse’s Friend, Henson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Kathleen, Clerk, Welfare Official . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Willie Conklin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Sarah’s Friend, Gospel Singer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Luké Barbato Smith* Zachary Ford* Shannon Warne* Dylan Saunders* Gregory North* Clifton Duncan* Bryce Charles* Dedrick Bonner* Marc Ginsburg* Iara Nemirovsky* Benjamin Schrader* Tom G. McMahon* Ryan Dietz* Valerie Perri* Katharine McDonough* Michael Deni* Cornelius Jones Jr.* Molly Stilliens Michael Thomas-Visgar Candace J. Washington

All actors play multiple roles besides those listed.

Stage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Assistant Stage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Dance Captain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Fight Captain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

ORCHESTRA

Conductor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Contractor/Clarinet 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Associate Conductor/Keys 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Keys 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Drums/Percussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Hand & Mallet Percussion/Tympani . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Horn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Flute/Piccolo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Oboe/English-horn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Clarinet 2/Bass Clarinet/Flute/Soprano Sax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Trumpet 1/Piccolo Trumpet/Flugelhorn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Trumpet 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Trombone 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Bass Trombone 2/Tuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

String Synthesizer 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Banjo/Electric Guitar/Acoustic Guitar/Mandolin . . . . . . . . . . .

Double Acoustic String Bass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Jill Gold* Julie Ann Renfro* Candace J. Washington Marc Ginsburg*

Darryl Archibald Darryl Tanikawa John Gentry Tennyson Ryan Whyman Alan Peck Tyler Smith Melissa Hendrickson Julie Burkert Victoria Sabonjohn Gary Rautenberg Chris Maurer Fernando Pullum June Satton Nathan Stearns Alby Potts III Brian LaFontaine Shane Harry

SET TING

The present. The warehouse of a national historical museum.

INTERMISSION

There will be one 15-minute intermission.

*Appearing through the courtesy

of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States

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Cast of Characters

Clifton Duncan

Shannon Warne

Bryce Charles

Marc Ginsburg

Zachary Ford

Katharine McDonough

Iara Nemirovsky

Valerie Perri

Dylan Saunders

Benjamin Schrader

Luké Barbato Smith

Dedrick Bonner

Michael Deni

Ryan Dietz

Cornelius Jones Jr.

Tom G. McMahon

Gregory North

Molly Stilliens

Michael Thomas-Visgar

Candace J. Washington

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SONG LIST

ACT ONE Prologue Ragtime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Company Scene 1

Dock in New York Harbor/At sea Goodbye, My Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mother Journey On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Father, Tateh, Mother

Scene 2

A vaudeville theater, New York City The Crime Of The Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Evelyn Nesbit, Mother’s Younger Brother, Ensemble

Scene 3

Mother’s garden, New Rochelle What Kind Of Woman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mother

Scene 4

Ellis Island/Lower East Side A Shtetl Iz Amereke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tateh, Little Girl, Immigrants Success . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tateh, J.P. Morgan, Harry Houdini, Ensemble

Scene 5

The Tempo Club, Harlem/Ford’s assembly line Gettin’ Ready Rag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coalhouse Walker Jr., Sarah’s Friend, Coalhouse’s Friend Henry Ford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Henry Ford, Coalhouse, Ensemble

Scene 6

Railroad station, New Rochelle Nothing Like the City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tateh, Mother, Little Boy, Little Girl

Scene 7

Emerald Isle Firehouse

Scene 8

Mother’s house, New Rochelle Your Daddy’s Son . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sarah New Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Father, Mother, Younger Brother, Coalhouse, Sarah, Ensemble A hillside above New Rochelle Wheels of a Dream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coalhouse, Sarah

Scene 9

Scene 10 A union hall in New York City/Lawrence, Massachusetts/A train The Night that Goldman Spoke at Union Square . . . Younger Brother, Emma Goldman, Ensemble Lawrence, Massachusetts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ensemble Gliding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tateh Scene 11 New Rochelle & New York City Justice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coalhouse, Ensemble President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sarah Till We Reach That Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sarah’s Friend, Coalhouse, Emma Goldman, Younger Brother, Mother, Tateh, Ensemble

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SONG LIST

ACT TWO Scene 1

The streets of New Rochelle/Mother’s house Coalhouse’s Soliloquy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coalhouse Coalhouse Demands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Company

Scene 2

The Polo Grounds What A Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Father, Little Boy, Ensemble

Scene 3

Mother’s house Atlantic City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Evelyn Nesbit, Harry Houdini New Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Father

Scene 4

Atlantic City/Million Dollar Pier/Boardwalk Atlantic City, Part II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Crime of the Century (Reprise) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Buffalo Nickel Photoplay, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Our Children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Scene 5

Harlem/Coalhouse’s hideout Sarah Brown Eyes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coalhouse, Sarah He Wanted To Say . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Emma Goldman, Younger Brother, Coalhouse, Coalhouse’s Men The beach, Atlantic City Back to Before . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mother

Scene 6 Scene 7

Ensemble Evelyn Nesbit, Harry Houdini Baron Ashkenazy Mother, Baron Ashkenazy

The Morgan Library, New York City Look What You’ve Done . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Booker T. Washington, Coalhouse, Coalhouse’s Men Make Them Hear You . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coalhouse

Epilogue Ragtime/Wheels of a Dream (Reprise) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Company

Marin Mazzie 1960–2018

This production of Ragtime is dedicated in memory of Marin Mazzie Marin Mazzie was a three-time Tony Award nominee and originated the role of Mother in Ragtime on Broadway (1998). In 2004, she was seen in Pasadena Playhouse’s production of 110º in the Shade.

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Who’s who Pasadena Playhouse — The Pasadena Playhouse is a place where people have gathered for over 100 years to experience bold and important theater. As the official state theater of California, our mission is to enrich people’s lives through theater, community programs, and learning initiatives.

Clifton Duncan Coalhouse — Clifton is elated to return to Southern California after starring in The Scottsboro Boys and Macbeth at The Old Globe. Broadway: The Play that Goes Wrong. Off-Broadway: Carmen Jones (dir. John Doyle; Classic Stage Company), Assassins and Hey, Look Me Over!

(City Center Encores!), The Good Person of Szechwan (The Public Theatre), Kung-Fu (Signature Theatre). Regional highlights include Arena Stage, Yale Repertory Theatre, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, American Conservatory Theatre, and Williamstown Theatre Festival. TV: The Onion Sports Dome (Comedy Central), Elementary (CBS), Flesh & Bone (Starz), Proven Innocent (Fox, upcoming). Training: New York University Graduate Acting Program.

Shannon Warne Mother — Shannon is thrilled to be returning to Pasadena Playhouse, having starred as Guenevere in David Lee’s 2010 production of Camelot. Recent: Mrs. Potts in Beauty and the Beast (Sacramento Music Circus), Winifred Banks in Mary Poppins (Music Circus and McCoy Rigby Entertainment), Amy in Having It All (Ovation Nominee, Lead Actress), My Fair Lady starring Jonathan Pryce and Cloris Leachman (Granada Theatre), Maria in The Sound of Music (Cabrillo Music Theatre), Grace in Annie (Musical Theatre West). Awards: Ovation recipient for Baz Luhrmann’s La Boheme (Ahmanson). Member of AEA and MTG. Deepest love to my “tow-headed boy,” Jack, and the steadfast team at BBR. Dedicated in loving memory to the incomparable Marin Mazzie.

Bryce Charles Sarah — Bryce is ecstatic to be making her Pasadena Playhouse debut with Ragtime! She earned her BFA in Musical Theater from AMDA College and Conservatory. Regional Theater: Blues in the Night (dir. Sheldon Epps; The Wallis Annenberg). National Tour: The Book of Mormon (2nd National). TV: Encore, Blackish (ABC); Fuller House, Tales of the City (Netflix); Teachers (TV Land).

She would like to give love and thanks to her supportive family and friends, her team at BBR, and her amazing parents!

Marc Ginsburg Tateh — Marc is thrilled to be playing this bucket list role in this amazing production at the legendary Pasadena Playhouse! Southern California theater: Evita (Che; Ovation Nomination), First Date (Aaron; Ovation Nomination), Shrek (Lord Farquaad; San Diego Critics Nomination), Beauty and the Beast (Lumiere), Man of La Mancha (Quixote/Cervantes), The Producers (Leo Bloom), The Scarlet Pimpernel (Chauvelin), Spamalot (Sir Lancelot and others), and more. Film: Racing Colt (Amazon Prime). “Thanks to David, Mark, Darryl, Jill, the hardworking Pasadena Playhouse team, the incredible folks at Telsey, Steven, my friends, family, beautiful wife Liza, best buddy Egon, and toddler extraordinaire, Phoenix – I love you!”

Zachary Ford Father — Zachary’s glad you’re here. Camelot (Pasadena Playhouse), Dear World starring Tyne Daly (Valley Performing Arts Center), Spamalot (Wynn Casino), Million Dollar Quartet, Oklahoma, and Parade (3D Theatricals), End of the Rainbow (McCoy Rigby Entertainment & Laguna Playhouse), Young Frankenstein, Big Fish (Musical Theatre West), LA Philharmonic, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre.

Cast Recordings: Stephen Flaherty’s Loving Repeating, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra’s West Side Story. LA workshops: Heathers, Empire Burlesque. TV: Young and the Restless (CBS), Liv & Maddie (Disney). Zachary’s a Roosevelt University grad, Studio School professor, Musical Theatre Guild member, and AMT Artists client. Love to his family. All together now.

Katharine McDonough Evelyn Nesbit — Katharine is thrilled to be making her Pasadena Playhouse debut!

Southern California: Mary Poppins and My Fair Lady (Musical Theatre West), Frozen (Hyperion Theatre), Newsies (Moonlight Productions), The Music Man (Norris Theatre), EMPIRE (La Mirada Theatre, Dir. Marcia Milgrom-Dodge). Katharine is also the Artistic Director of Contempo Productions, a Los Angeles non-profit theater company. Recent directing credits include The Scarlet Pimpernel (Hollywood Fringe Festival and Chromolume Theatre).

All the love in the world to Dad, Mom, Meg, Cal, and Carolyn.

This one is for Andy – who gave me new music.

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Valerie Perri Emma Goldman — Broadway Nationals: Evita, Jerome Robbins’ Broadway.

Off-Broadway: Diamonds (Circle in the Square), Angry Housewives (Minetta Lane), On the Swing Shift (Manhattan Theater Club). Southern California: The World Goes ‘Round (Reprise 2.0), The Graduate (Laguna Playhouse), Hello Dolly (3D Theatricals), Sunset Boulevard (Musical Theater West, Moonlight Amphitheater), Closer than Ever, The Sweepers (International City Theater). TV: Criminal Minds (CBS), ER, Another World (NBC), Who’s the Boss (ABC). Film: Grease, The Out of Towners, Dickie Roberts (Paramount), George of the Jungle (Disney). Recording: Valerie Perri: Sweet Conversation.

Married to Cliff Lipson. Twin sons, musicians Jack and Benny Lipson, aka jackbenny. Thanks AMT Artists!

Dylan Saunders Younger Brother — Dylan returns to Pasadena Playhouse after last season’s King Charles III. TV: Turn: Washington’s Spies (AMC, recurring), American Koko (ABC, executive produced by Viola Davis), Chicago Fire (NBC), and Kevin From Work (ABC Family). Theater: Mark Taper Forum, Boston Court, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Theatre Apostrof (Prague, CZ) and the National Theatre of London (Connections Festival). Voiceover: Disney, Nickelodeon, Fox, and video games. Founding Member: StarKid Productions (240 million YouTube views, multiple Billboard-charting original cast recordings). BFA: University of Michigan.

Benjamin Schrader Harry Houdini — Broadway: The original cast of The Book of Mormon (Eugene O’Neill Theater), Ragtime (Neil Simon Theater), Avenue Q (Golden Theatre). Broadway 1st National Tours: Peter and the Starcatcher (dir. Roger Rees), Avenue Q, Big River. TV/Film: True Detective (HBO), Frozen (Walt Disney Animation), Revenge (ABC), Coop and Cami (Disney Channel). Benjamin Schrader is a headlining magician at the world famous Magic Castle in Hollywood and is a freelance magic consultant for Walt Disney Imagineering. He is the founder/ host of the Magic|Bar speakeasy in Encino, CA.

Who’s who

Iara Nemirovsky Little Girl — Iara is excited to help bring Ragtime to life at Pasadena Playhouse. Iara made her professional debut as Summer, rocking out across the country in the First National Tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s School of Rock. She is a proud member of the Los Angeles Drama Club, the nation’s youngest Shakespeare troupe, where she has appeared as Puck, Ariel, Hecate, Lavinia.

Thank you CESD, Telsey+Company. Love and gratitude to my family, friends and teachers.

Luké Barbato Smith Little Boy — Luké is thrilled to make his Pasadena Playhouse debut.

He most recently appeared in the National Broadway tour of Fun Home. Luké appeared at the Wallis Annenberg and the Kennedy Center in Debbie Allen’s Freeze Frame... Stop the Madness. Film: Smallfoot. Television: The Goldbergs, Tyrant and Grey’s Anatomy. Commercials: Ford GT, Wendy’s, Direct TV, Disney and more. Luké voiced Oscar in Summer Camp Island (Cartoon Network). Luké is grateful for the support of all the family, friends, and his creative team that make it possible for him to do what he loves.

Dedrick Bonner Booker T. Washington — Dedrick is thrilled to make his Pasadena Playhouse debut!

Regional: Spamilton (Center Theatre Group); Sister Act (5 Star Theatricals); Little Shop of Horrors (Glendale Center Theatre); The Christians (Center Theatre Group), Ain’t Misbehavin (International City Theater, Long Beach); Tarzan (West Coast Premiere). National Tour: Dreamgirls TV: The Preachers (FOX 11; recurring). Film: You Can’t Fight Christmas (TV One Original), Mega Church Murder (Lifetime). Thank you to the amazing cast and crew for sharing the power of storytelling through song.

Michael Deni Male Ensemble — Michael is so excited to be making his Pasadena Playhouse debut! Mamma Mia (Hollywood Bowl; Dir Kathleen Marshall), UMPO Bridesmaids (Rockwell Table and Stage; Dir. Marissa Jaret Winokur), Mutt House (Kirk Douglas Theater; World Premiere), Bye, Bye, Birdie and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Candlelight Dinner Theater). A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Romeo and

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Who’s who Juliet (West Virginia Public Theater; Hero). TV: Crazy Love (Lifetime), Betrayed and Murder Among Friends (Investigation Discovery). Thanks so much to David, Neville, Josiah, and the team at Telsey and Company for this amazing opportunity!

Ryan Dietz Henry Ford — Pasadena Playhouse Debut! Southern California: Daryl in Bright Star (Musical Theater West), The Nerd, 1776 (Palos Verdes Performing Arts Center); Olaf & Duke in Frozen: Live (Disneyland). TV/Film: The Orville, The Mick (FOX); Celebrity Ghost Stories (Biography Channel), Target Audience (Showtime), The Joke, Office Jam. Commercial: TurboTax (National), Twinings Tea, etc. New York: A Wonderful Life, Chess (Actors Fund Concerts), Illyria (Prospect Theater Company), Star Messengers (La MaMa), etc. Tours: 1776, All the Great Books (Abridged). Regional: Geva Theater, Paper Mill Playhouse, Great Lakes Theater, Cleveland Play House, etc. BM in Music Theatre from Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory. For Josh & HS. Cornelius Jones Jr. Coalhouse’s Friend — He was most recently seen on stage in The Hollywood Bowl’s production of Annie (dir. Michael Arden, Tony Nominee) and on the small screen in FOX’s A Christmas Story LIVE. Theater Highlights: The Lion King (New Amsterdam Theater & Minksoff Theater), A Chorus Line (The Hollywood Bowl), Thou Shalt Not (formerly Plymouth Theater), Smokey Joe’s Cafe (US Tour). Regional: Laughter on the 23rd Floor (The Garry Marshall Theater), The Little Mermaid, Shrek, Sister Act (Moonlight Amphitheater; San Diego Theater Critic Nominee for Featured Actor, 2016) Television: SWAT, I’m Dying Up Here, Criminal Minds, Law & Order: SVU. Solo Performance and writing credits: FlagBoy and Shadows & Lights. Cornelius is a graduate of The University of the Arts, New York University (MA), and is a Certified Yoga Teacher (ERYT-200). Online: corneliusjonesjr.com

Tom G. McMahon J.P. Morgan — Tom is honored to make his Pasadena Playhouse debut. Southern California: Zoot Suit (Mark Taper Forum), Sunset Blvd., Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, White Christmas, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Musical Theatre West), Damn Yankees, Kiss Me Kate, Peter Pan (Cabrillo Music Theatre), Promises, Promises (Music Theatre Guild), Serrano (Matrix Theater), Bronies!

The Musical (Third Street Theater). TV: How to Get Away with Murder, Scandal (ABC), Weeds (Showtime), Bad Judge (NBC), I Didn’t Do It (Disney), Sam & Cat (Nickelodeon), Rake (FOX), Ringer (CW). Film: Book Club (Paramount). You may also recognize him from United Healthcare’s hit Dirty Dancing commercial.

Gregory North Grandfather — Greg joyfully reunites with Mssrs. Lee and Archibald. Previously at the Playhouse: 12 Angry Men. Broadway: Grand Hotel opposite Cyd Charisse, Into the Woods, Secret Garden, Christmas Carol.

Tour: Les Misérables, Phantom, Show Boat. World Premieres: Rock of Ages, Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Last Ship. Regional: Hunchback of Notre Dame, Comedy of Tenors, Peter Pan, Fantasticks, Pride & Prejudice, Marjorie Prime, Barrymore, King Charles III. Kennedy Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Rep., Sacramento Music Circus, Reprise!, Hollywood Bowl. Film/TV: 11.22.63, Elizabethtown, Law & Order, How to Get Away With Murder, Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders. Proud Equity member. Online: gregorynorthactor.com Molly Stilliens Female Ensemble — Molly is honored to be a part of this production at the beautiful Pasadena Playhouse. Favorite past productions include: Unauthorized Musical Parody of Bridesmaids (Rockwell Table and Stage, dir. Marissa Jaret Winokur), Unauthorized Musical Parody of Jurassic Park (Rockwell Table and Stage; dir. Nathan Moore), Memphis (Five Star Theatricals; dir. Robert Schneider), Ragtime (Pacific Conservatory Theater), Into the Woods (Performance Riverside; Valerie Rachelle) and Taming of the Shrew (Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival). Special thanks to the creative team, Mom and Dad, the girls, the squad, Jake, and especially Nicole at Firestarter Entertainment. She hopes you enjoy the show and take the message home with you.

Michael Thomas-Visgar Willie Conklin — Michael is a Los Angeles based Actor and Director. Southern California: Parade (3D Theatricals), Man Of La Mancha (McCoy Rigby Entertainment), 1776 (Moonlight), Frozen, Live At The Hyperion (Disney), Thenardier’s Inn: A Les Miserables Cabaret (Creating Arts Studios), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Merely Players Shakespeare Company). National Tour: Why Do You Stand There in The Rain? (Scottish National Tour). Michael would like to thank the entire creative team, his agent Nicole, his Mother and Alison for their support.

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Terrence McNally Book Writer — Terrence was awarded the Dramatists Guild Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011. He is the winner of Tony Awards for his plays Love! Valour! Compassion! and Master Class and his books for the musicals Ragtime and Kiss of the Spider Woman. In 2010 the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts presented Terrence McNally’s Nights at the Opera, a three-play festival of his work. His other plays include Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Lips Together, Teeth Apart, A Perfect Ganesh, Corpus Christi, The Ritz, It’s Only A Play, The Lisbon Traviata, Some Men, The Stendhal Syndrome, Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone?, Bad Habits, Deuce, Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams, Unusual Acts of Devotion, Next, Sweet Eros, Witness and his first play, And Things That Go Bump in the Night, which was produced on Broadway in 1964. He has written the librettos for the musicals The Full Monty, A Man of No Importance, The Rink and The Visit and the opera Dead Man Walking. He won an Emmy Award for Best Drama with his teleplay Andre’s Mother. He wrote the screenplays for Frankie and Johnny, Love!

Valour! Compassion! and The Ritz. Among his many awards are a Citation from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best New Play, four Drama Desk Awards, three Hull-Warriner Best Play Awards from the Dramatists Guild, two Obies, two Lortel Awards and two Guggenheim Fellowships.

Stephen Flaherty Composer — Stephen Flaherty is the composer of the Broadway musicals Ragtime (Tony, Drama Desk, OCC Awards, two Grammy nominations), Seussical (Grammy, Drama Desk nominations), Once on This Island (Tony nomination, Olivier Award, Best Musical) and Rocky. Additional Broadway includes Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life (original songs) and Neil Simon’s Proposals (incidental music).

Stephen has also written four musicals at Lincoln Center Theatre: The Glorious Ones (OCC, Drama Desk nominations), Dessa Rose (OCC, Drama Desk nominations), A Man of No Importance (OCC, Best Musical, Drama Desk nomination) and My Favorite Year. Other theater includes In Your Arms (Old Globe), Little Dancer (Kennedy

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Candace J. Washington Sarah’s Friend — Candace is excited to make her Pasadena Playhouse debut!

Candace attended Biola University and earned a degree in Voice (Emphasis: Music in Worship) from the Conservatory of Music, B.A. in Clinical Psychology, and minor in Theology.

Performed for 4 years on the L.A. Clippers Dance Team, sang National Anthem for multiple NBA games, and starred in L.A. Clippers Dance Squad (E! Network). Southern California: Ragtime (Center Stage Fontana), Cabaret (McCoy Rigby Entertainment), Parade (3D Theatricals), In The Heights (Musical Theater West).

Candace is a Disney AGVA (American Guild of Variety Artists) Principal Swing and plays Princess Tiana (Mickey’s Magical Map), Dime (Five & Dime), Magical Map Dancer, and DeeJay (Disney Junior). Huge thank you to my family and to KMR Talent Agency!

Center), Lucky Stiff (Playwrights Horizons) and Loving Repeating: A Musical of Gertrude Stein (Chicago’s Jefferson Award, Best New Musical.) Film includes Anastasia (two Academy Award and two Golden Globe nominations), the documentary After The Storm and Lucky Stiff. Mr. Flaherty’s concert music has premiered at the Hollywood Bowl, Boston’s Symphony Hall, Carnegie Hall, the Guggenheim Museum and Symphony Space. This year celebrates Stephen’s 32-year collaboration with lyricist-librettist Lynn Ahrens. Stephen and Lynn are members of the Dramatists Guild Council and co-founders of the Dramatists Guild Fellows Program.

In 2015 they were inducted into the Theater Hall Of Fame.

Online: ahrensandflaherty.com.

Lynn Ahrens Lyricist — Lynn Ahrens won Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards and received two Grammy nominations for Broadway’s Ragtime. For Twentieth Century Fox’s animated feature film Anastasia, she was nominated for two Academy Awards and two Golden Globes. She and longtime collaborator Stephen Flaherty received the Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement, and in 2015 they were inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame.

Broadway: Anastasia, Once On This Island (Olivier Award, Best Musical; Tony nominations, Best Book and Score), Seussical (Grammy nomination), My Favorite Year, Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life, Rocky; Madison Square Garden’s A Christmas Carol; Ragtime (2010 Broadway revival). Off-Broadway and regional: Lincoln Center Theater’s Dessa Rose, The Glorious Ones (both Drama Desk-nominated) and A Man of No Importance (Outer Critics Circle Award, Best Musical); Lucky Stiff; Little Dancer (Kennedy Center world premiere). Film and television credits include A Christmas Carol (NBC-TV); Camp (IFC Films); Schoolhouse Rock (ABC-TV) and others. (Emmy Award and four Emmy nominations).

She is a Council member of the Dramatists Guild of America, a co-founder of the Dramatists Guild Fellows Program, and a Lilly Award winner for Lyrics. Online: ahrensandflaherty.com.

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Who’s who David Lee Director — Stage: Wonderful Town (LA Opera); On the Twentieth Century, Assassins, Company, A New Brain, Applause, Working, Forum, Zorba (Ovation Nomination: Best Director), Elegies, Two By Two, Gigi (Reprise!); Light Up the Sky, Do I Hear A Waltz?, 110 in the Shade, Diva, Can-Can (Ovation Award: Best Director), Camelot, Art, Casa Valentina (Pasadena Playhouse); Present Laughter, Camelot (Two River Theater Company); South Pacific (Hollywood Bowl; with Reba McEntire); Can-Can (Papermill Playhouse; co-author new libretto); How I Fell In Love (Williamstown Theater Festival), Can-Can (City Center Encores – author concert adaptation; starring Patti LuPone); Dear World (Soraya Theater; with Tyne Daly). Television: The Jeffersons, Cheers (writer, producer), Wings, Frasier (co-creator, director, writer, executive producer), Everybody Loves Raymond (director). Awards: Nine Emmys (nineteen nominations), Golden Globe, People’s Choice (twice), Directors Guild Award, Producers Guild Award, Television Critics Award (three times), British Comedy Award, Humanitas Prize (three times), the Peabody.

Darryl Archibald Musical Director — The Color Purple (2015 revival tour), Motown: The Musical (Broadway 2016 and national tour), Wicked at the Pantages Theater (substitute conductor), Memphis (Broadway tour), Disney’s The Lion King (Broadway tour – vocal coach/assistant conductor), Dear World with Tyne Daly (VPAC), Jonathan Dove’s Innocence (Banff Centre and Manhattan Theatre Club), Two By Two with Jason Alexander, How To Succeed... with John O’Hurley, The Fantasticks with Eric McCormack, Once On This Island with Ledisi, Li’l Abner with Cathy Rigby and Fred Willard (Reprise), Great Expectations, My Fair Lady, 1776, Camelot, and Forever Plaid (Utah Shakespearean Festival), The Wiz (The Muny), A Hollywood Holiday Celebration (ABC), The Fountain Show and Christmas Trolley Show (The Grove Los Angeles).

Mark Esposito Choreographer — Mark has choreographed for theater, television, commercials and music videos: Pasadena Playhouse (Camelot and Casa Valentina), The Hollywood Bowl, LA Reprise Series, La Mirada Theater,

Musical Theater West, Sacramento Music Circus, Coachella Valley Repertory Theatre, Universal Studios, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, Music Theater of Wichita, North Shore Music Theater, Bass Hall and Casa Manana, Ogunquit Playhouse Two River Theater, Globus Theater Company (Russia), York and Signature Theater Companies (New York City). Associate Director and Choreographer for The Radio City Music Hall Christmas Show and Yuletide Celebration with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Mark has performed in over 16 Broadway and National Tours. Former faculty at University of Michigan.

Tom Buderwitz Scenic Designer — Previously designed Casa Valentina (LASA Ovation Award), The Whipping Man (LASA Ovation Award), A Song At Twilight, Fallen Angels, Art, Dangerous Beauty, Camelot, Mauritius, The Last Five Years, I Do! I Do!, and Private Lives for the Pasadena Playhouse.

Other Theaters: Center Theatre Group, South Coast Repertory, Geffen Playhouse, Wallis-Annenberg Center, The Kennedy Center, The Second City, The Goodman, The Shakespeare Theatre, Berkeley Repertory, Intiman Theatre, Denver Center Theatre Company, Chautauqua Theatre Company, Portland Center Stage and Utah Shakespeare Festival among many others. Six Los Angeles Stage Alliance LASA Ovation Awards (31 Nominations), 3 Emmy Award Nominations, and an Art Directors Guild Award nomination.

Kate Bergh Costume Designer — Casa Valentina (LADCC Award, Ovation Nomination), It’s a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street, Art, Sleepless in Seattle, Amahl and the Night Visitors (Pasadena Playhouse). School for Lies, City of Conversation, Metamorphosis, Woyzeck (Ensemble Theatre), Hopscotch, the Mobile Opera (The Industry with Ann Closs-Farley), 100 Aprils, Super Variety Match Bonus Round, Bled for the Household Truth, Cock (Rogue Machine), Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally (Theater Planners), The Graduate, Twelve Angry Men (Laguna Playhouse), Gigi, Cabaret (Backstage Garland Award – Reprise Theatre), Side Show, Shrek the Musical (Ovation Nomination), The House in Scarsdale (Theatre at Boston Court). Kate works in all mediums telling stories with costumes – theater, opera, dance, film, television, commercials.

Online: levaillantdesign.com Jared A. Sayeg Lighting Designer — Jared is the recipient of Ovation and LADCC Kinetic Lighting Awards. His designs for theatre, opera, ballet, themed attractions, exhibits, and architectural installations have been seen throughout the world. Broadway/National Tour: The Illusionists. Regional: Center Theatre Group, South Coast Repertory, McCoy Rigby Entertainment, 5th Avenue Theatre, International City Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, 3D Theatricals, Reprise!, Ensemble Theatre Company, Laguna Playhouse, Virginia Stage Company, The Colony Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. Notable projects include, four seasons at LA Opera, lighting Pope Benedict XVI in NYC, and Four USA International Ballet Competitions. Member of United Scenic Artists Local 829 and serves as a trustee on its executive board. Online: www.jaslighting.com

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Hana Sooyeon Kim Projection Designer — Regional: Eve’s Song (Public Theater; dir. Jo Bonney), Fun Home (Baltimore Center Stage; dir. Hana Sharif), Untranslatable Secret of Nikki Corona (Geffen Playhouse; dir. Jo Bonney), Little Black Shadows (South Coast Repertory; dir. May Adrales). Opera: Wonderful Town (LA Opera; dir. David Lee), Fallujah (New York City Opera and Long Beach Opera; dir. Andreas Mitisek). Video Art Installation: Pearls of the Planet (Annenberg Space for Photography), Emille (Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York). Awards: Center Theater Group Sherwood Awards, Princess Grace Award (Theater Design), Helen Hayes Award, StageScene LA Award, Stage Raw Award, and multiple Ovation Award nominations.

Online: hananow.com Social: @hana.s.kim

Who’s who

Philip G. Allen Sound Designer — Broadway: Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks. National Tour: Jesus Christ Superstar. Regional: Annie, Mamma Mia, A Chorus Line, Spamalot, Hair, Chicago and The Producers (Hollywood Bowl), Spring Awakening (Deaf West), The Ten Commandments (Dolby Theatre), Valley of the Heart, Zoot Suit, Harps and Angels: The Music of Randy Newman, Pippin, The House of Blue Leaves, The Talking Cure, Like Jazz, Big River, and Flower Drum Song (Mark Taper Forum), Casa Valentina, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Blame it on the Movies, and Art (Pasadena Playhouse), and the first 15 seasons of Reprise Theatre Company shows at UCLA. Mr. Allen created and oversees the BFA program in Sound Design at USC.

Julie Ann Renfro Assistant Stage Manager — Julie is excited to be returning to the Playhouse after recently touring with A Night with Janis Joplin (2018 North American Tour).

Previous Pasadena Playhouse credits include: The Fantasticks, Casa Valentina, and Breaking Through. Other theater credits include: South Coast Repertory, LA Opera, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Shakespeare Orange County, Laguna Playhouse, Sydney Independent Theater Company, and Long Beach Shakespeare Company. Julie is from Costa Mesa, CA where she received her B.A. in Theatre Arts from Vanguard University and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. LYBNC!

Carol Doran Wig & Hair Designer — Pasadena Playhouse: Shout, Sister, Shout!, Pygmalion, Kiss Me Kate, Baby It’s You, Stormy Weather, Mask, Sister Act the Musical, and more. Los Angeles: Over 70 productions for Center Theater Group (Mark Taper Forum, Ahmanson Theatre, Kirk Douglas Theatre), Geffen Playhouse and Deaf West Theatre. Regional: Cirque du Soleil, South Coast Repertory, La Jolla Playhouse, Goodman Theatre, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, Asolo Repertory Theatre. Broadway: Spring Awakening, Big River, King Hedley II, Seven Guitars. Television: Fargo, Goliath, Hell on Wheels, The Walking Dead, Grey’s Anatomy, and more. Over 80 feature films including: Bad Santa (1 & 2), American Sniper, Transcendence, Thor,The Dark Knight Rises, Eagle Eye, For Your Consideration, Gods and Monsters. Online: caroldoranwiggedout.com

Rhonda Kohl Assistant to the Director & Choreographer — Rhonda recently choreographed and assistant directed on Native Gardens (Dir. Jason Alexander, Pasadena Playhouse). Rhonda was the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation Fellow on the Broadway debut of In Transit (Circle in the Square) with Kathleen Marshall, who she assisted again on Mamma Mia (Hollywood BowI), Damn Yankees Reading (Roundabout Theatre), and was Associate for on Sweet Charity (Reprise 2.0). Directing credits: Around the World in 80 Days (Actors Co-op; LA Times Critic’s Choice), For The Love Of (Theatre of NOTE, CTG Block Party), Pocket Universe (Hollywood Fringe). Assistant Directing: King Charles III (Pasadena Playhouse), Barbecue and Long Day’s Journey (Geffen Playhouse). SDC Associate Member. Online: rhondakohl.com Social: @rhondakohl

Jill Gold Stage Manager — Jill celebrates Ragtime as her 38th show at the Pasadena Playhouse and her 16th show directed by David Lee. She has stage managed over 175 Equity shows for companies such as McCoy Rigby, the Geffen Playhouse, Reprise, Los Angeles Theater Center, Sacramento Music Circus, and Mark Taper Forum. Jill toured the US with Les Miserables, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, City of Angels, and Wicked, as well as Germany and Austria with Sisterella. Jill teaches Stage Management at Occidental College,Advanced Stage Management at UCLA, and is proud to have co-authored Stage Management

by Lawrence Stern (Taylor & Francis, 2017). Thanks, David!

Telsey + Company Casting — Broadway/Tours: Beetlejuice, Oklahoma!, Be More Chill, Network, The Cher Show, The Prom, Pretty Woman, My Fair Lady, Mean Girls, Frozen, Anastasia, Come From Away, Waitress, Hamilton, Kinky Boots, Wicked, Hello, Dolly!, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, On Your Feet!. Off-Broadway: Atlantic Theater Company, Classic Stage Company, MCC Theater, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Second Stage Theater. Film: Mary Poppins Returns, Ben Is Back, The Greatest Showman, Into the Woods, Rachel Getting Married. TV: Rent: Live, Murphy Brown, This Is Us, House of Cards, NCIS: New Orleans, One Day at a Time, commercials. Online: telseyandco.com

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MEMBERS $100,000 + David DiCristofaro Brad & Pamela King Dottie & Bob King Terri & Jerry Kohl Wendy Munger & Leonard Gumpart Anne Rothenberg Corky Hale Stoller & Mike Stoller Rich Webster $50,000 Anonymous Erin & Jeremy Baker Avery & Andy Barth Jane Kaczmarek Sheila Grether-Marion & Mark Marion Ken & Tracy McCormick Bingo & Gino Roncelli Dr. Frank & Shelley Williams $25,000 Anonymous Susan Dietz & Lenny Beer The Bill Bordy Trust Darrell Brooke & Arline Zagarnaga Michele & Roger Engemann Julie & Don Hopf Dennis Cornell Gayle & Tad Lowrey Michael Mackness & Eric Sigg Leigh T. & Harry Olivar Bill Resnick & Michael J. Stubbs Lilah Stangeland $10,000 Anonymous (2) Chantal & Steve Bennett Dorothy Falcinella Judith & Stanley Farrar Brenda & Bill Galloway Harvey & Ellen Knell Shelly & Dennis Lowe Diane & Craig Martin

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David Grannis Susan Groshen Carol & Andy Grosz Debra Hammond Catherine & Darryl Hany Leslie Harwood Ann Hassett Nannette Hatch Holly Hawkins Reginald Hendrickson Robin Hirabayashi Waymon Hobdy Rena Hochleitner Sean Holland Elisabeth Hunt Robert Hunt Marie Ida Dr. Joseph Indenbaum Kathryn E. James Karen Jarnagin Edward & Mona Jasnow Jane E. Johnson Tom Jones Anne & Paul Kalsman Joanne Kay Michael Kearney Vicki Keros Tom Kester Carole Key Ann & Ken Kimball Jill Klein Jay Knight Barbara Kolberg Michael Korney Dr. E. Eugene Kunzman Anthony Lanzetta Darlene & Michael Larin Diane Lau Donna Lynn Leavy Phaedra & Mark Ledbetter Sandra Lee Maria Leos Debbie Levine Victor Levine David Lewis Alison Lifland Terry Linick Diane Link Steven Llanusa Shirley Lohr Dr. Robert Loitz Richard Lorentz Luther & Carol Luedtke Karen & Robert Lynn Art Manask Patricia Mann Dr. Marguerite Marsh Jamie Martin Michael A. Martin German Martinez Sharon Matsumoto Karen & Robert Matter Susan Mayeda Paul McCallum John McClary Larry McDonald Joyce McGilvray

Michael McKay Dr. Dorothy McVann Mario L. Mejia Christopher Meyer Jessie Milano Joanne Daly Rosetta Miller Marguerite Hougasian Dr. Hassan Mohaghegh Maggie Moir Francois Morissette Janice & David Moritz Christa Morones Richard Mouw Robert Mulein Emory Myrick Valerie Naftzger Dennis Nasitka Judith Nelson Nancy O’Hara Sid Olshan Susan Olson Jennifer Olson-Mullin Jay & JoLynne Orringer Sharyl Overholser Kimberly & Jim Overton Joe Palacios Jane Palmer Teri Papanastassiou Edward Parker R. L. Parker Anthony & Carolyn Pearson M. Helen Baatz John Poer Nancy Porter Rebecca Posthuma Denise Prew Sharon Quan Cynthia M. Ramirez Irene Reznick John & Esther Rich William Rietzel Donald Roback Martin Roden Christine Roman Hilde Rosenbluth Barbara Rosenthal Dana & Eileen Roth Virgil Roth Geraldine Rothenberg Sue Rottner Donna Ruiz Theresa Ryan Edward Saborio Doreen Sam Dr. Robert Schechter Diane Schultheis Eileen Schultz John Scott Richard Shaw Carl P. Siechert Gerald Silver Barbara Sinclair Betty & Norri Sirri Richard M. Slavett Patricia Sloman Grant Smith

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Board of Directors

Chair Brad King Vice Chairs Sheila Grether-Marion Jane Kaczmarek Treasurer Darrell Brooke Secretary Sheri Ball

Centennial Partners Anonymous Erin & Jeremy Baker Susan Dietz & Lenny Beer MaryLou Boone Marilyn & Don Conlan David DiCristofaro Judith & Stanley Farrar Sheila Grether-Marion & Mark Marion Jane Kaczmarek Pamela & Brad King Dottie & Bob King

Directors Erin Baker MaryLou Boone Dennis Cornell Carolyn Di Pane David DiCristofaro Peggy Ebright Danny Feldman Julie Gutierrez Jim McCarthy Ken McCormick Bingo Roncelli Anne Rothenberg Lilah Stangeland In Memoriam David Angell Theodore Fitch Behr Betty Ann Koen Brooks Roger Stangeland

Special thanks to Corky Hale Stoller and Mike Stoller for their extraordinary support.

Chair Emeriti David M. Davis Michele Dedeaux Engemann Albert Lowe Kerry McCluggage Margaret Sedenquist Board Members Emereti Kathy Arntzen Road Carol Burnett Linda Griffey Ralph Hirschmann Frank Kleemann Dennis Lowe Tad Lowrey Rao Makineni Abel Ramirez Lyn Spector Elliot Stahler Corky Hale Stoller Mike Stoller Greg Stone Leslie Tolan James Watterson

Centennial Partners are a group of dedicated supporters whose gifts of $25,000 or more honor the past century of contributions that the Playhouse has made to the community and recognize its potential to continue this impact for the next hundred years.

Michael Mackness & Eric Sigg Tracy & Ken McCormick Wendy Munger & Lenny Gumport Leigh T. & Harry Olivar Judy Plunkett Bingo & Gino Roncelli Anne Rothenberg Lilah Stangeland Rich Webster Dr. Frank & Shelley Williams Deborah & Robert Wycoff

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Anonymous Lenore Almanzar Ellen Bailey* Estate of Evelyn Bray Marjorie Cates Ross Clark Gary Dahle & Derek Whitefield Estate of Agnes Duncan Peggy Ebright Estate of Harriet L. Freeman Estate of Ada Gory Sue Haynie-Horn & John Horn*

Sheila Grether-Marion & Mark Marion Doug Jones & John Sanger* Annelies Kischkel The Joanie Marx Trust Adele Morse Shirli Nielson* Estate of Charles Pierce Estate of Constance Ropolo Lyn Spector A. Jerald Saldana Lilah & Roger* Stangeland Estate of Bill Watters Jim Watterson Barbara Jean Wolpert *Gift Realized

Acknowledgments reflect gifts given between January 1, 2018 and January 1, 2019. Contributions received after January 1, 2019 will be acknowledged in the next program.

Institutional Partners The Ahmanson Foundation Ann Peppers Foundation Irving Caesar Fund California Arts Council California Cultural and Historical Endowment Caplin Foundation City of Pasadena Arts & Culture Commission Cotsen Foundation of the Art of Teaching The David Lee Foundation Fitzberg Foundation The Helen & Will Webster Foundation The Kenneth T. & Eileen L. Norris Foundation Los Angeles County Arts Commission Milo W. Bekins Foundation The National Endowment for the Arts Ovation LLC Pasadena Community Foundation Pasadena Education Foundation Pesenti Foundation

The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Rosenthal Family Foundation Rotary Club of Pasadena The Sahan Daywi Foundation The Sheri & Les Biller Foundation The Shubert Foundation Sorenson Impact Foundation US Bank The Wallace Foundation Wells Fargo Bank Sponsors Alibaba Pictures dusitD2 Hotel Constance Friends of the Pasadena Playhouse Fort Point Beer Co. Nestlé Waters Playhouse District Association Rusnak Volvo Trader Joe’s USC School of Dramatic Arts

Acknowledgments

Gilmor Brown Society The Gilmor Brown Society recognizes legacy givers who have honored the Playhouse by including the theater in their own will or trust. We are grateful for the legacy of the following individuals whose generosity allows this organization to continue serving our community.

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Producing Artistic Director Danny Feldman Administration & Finance Director of Finance & Administration Lisa Whitney Staff Accountant Nareth Rin Accounting Associate Hector Rodriguez Facilities Staff Sal Fariaz, Danilo Ramos Production General Manager Joe Witt Associate General Manager Kristen Hammack Production Manager Chris Cook Technical Director Brad Enlow Development Director of Development Maryellen Gleason Major Gifts Officer Becky Birdsong Development Associate Kelley Williams Marketing​​&​​Communications Director of Marketing & Communications Kory P. Kelly Marketing Manager Sonia Diaz Audience Development Manager Rachel Park Digital Content Manager Jaclyn Ortiz Marketing Coordinator Julie Ouellette Membership Coordinator Emily Abbott Graphic Designer Caitlin Conlen Videographer Nathaniel Peterson Press Representative Davidson & Choy Publicity Community & Learning Programs Manager Dionna Daniel Patron Services Associate Director of Patron Services Rachyl Underwood Assistant Manager of Patron Services Michelle Jacobson

Patron Services Supervisor William Tolan Lawrence III Patron Services Associates Jordan Adelman, Dionna Daniel, Rafael Goldstein, Matt Kelly Membership Coordinator Emily Abbott Audience Engagement Steven Garry, Carol Osborn House Managers Lenore Bond Almanzar, Sue Haynie-Horn, Patrick J. Oliva, Mark Walter, Steven M. West Ragtime Production Staff Stage Manager Jill Gold Assistant Stage Manager Julie Ann Renfro Production Assistant Emily Joe, Jennifer Slattery Assistant Director & Choreographer Rhonda Kohl Fight Choreographer Bo Foxworth Magic Consultant Benjamin Schrader Dance Captain Candace J. Washington Prop Consultant Michael Angel Prop Master Marissa Bergman Associate Scenic Designer Jessica Peeters, Grace Wang Associate Costume Designer Catherine Velosa Associate Lighting Designer Bo Tindell Associate Wig Designer Danielle Richter Keyboard Programmers Alby Potts III, Ryan Whyman, David Lamoureux, Lonn Hayes Crew Chief Matt Petosa Deck Carpenter Michael Turner Deck Electrician Josh Willis Flyman Dean Wright Master Electrician/Board Operator Lauren Tyler-Rickon Programmer Chris Osborne Video Supervisor Matt Mellinger Spot Operators Vanessa Rodriguez, Benjamin “Jamie” Whiteley Electricians Brittany Deventer, Darci Murphy, Vanessa Rodriguez, Josh Willis, Matt Petosa, Michael Turner, Matt Tsang, Benjamin Whiteley, Derek Jones, Meghan Hong Wardrobe Supervisor Marie Growden

Dressers Jamie Brown, Tammy Minion Wig Supervisor Raenae Kuaea Wig Assistants April Metcalf, Veronica Rodarte Lead Audio Engineer Andrea Allmond Audio 2 Hector Sanchez Audio 3 Nick Sheppard Lead Scenic Artist Johnny LeBlanc Master Carpenter Joel Schlesinger Shop Foreman Gabe Holguin Carpenters Josh Willis, Nelson Arananda, Ryan Shull, Vince Alverado, Sean Mulvena, Trenton Guinta, Hector Sanchez, Isa Mitsuhara Welders Gabe Holguin, Sean Lewellyn, Steven Bonner Riggers Manny Alcarez, Chance Riley Lighting equipment supplied by: Illumination Dynamics Friends​​of​​the​​Pasadena​​Playhouse Board​​of​D ​ irectors President Carolyn Di Pane 1st Vice President Sue Haynie-Horn 2nd Vice President Nancy Ashcraft Treasurer Yvonne Lai Secretary Sharon Zaslaw Directors Doris Arima, Monty Basile, Virginia Browning, Raquel Burgess, Ross Clark, Barbara Cruse, Jerri Faust, Beth Fernandez, Barbara Jacoby, Lillias Krezel, Patti La Marr, Beverly Meissner, Shirley Miller, Patrick Oliva, Betty Parnell, Natalya Pashkova, Jayne Thomas, Grace Woo, Lawrence Yu

The musicians in this production are members of the American Federation of Musicians Local 47.

This theater operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

The scenic, costume, lighting and sound designers in LORT Theatres are represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 of the IATSE. The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited

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Ra suggests that her prints best represent the dRA brand, and the designer particularly favors her oversized dresses. The flared, mid-length Monique dress ($178) features a sweetheart neckline,

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A feminine treatment of an old classic is the Hollie trenchcoat ($188), embellished with subtle ruffling around the collar and running down the front. Offered in navy blue, this piece’s Tencel twill construction is ideal for those cooler L.A. evenings.

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Observing decorative tropical fish shimmering through an artificial aquatic habitat can be mesmerizing, and companies such as Infinity employ unbridled

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His first taste of the business— as a young minimum-wage employee in his native Chicago— was the installation of two massive tanks at the home of NBA superstar Michael Jordan’s house.

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Infinity’s co-founders were the original aquarium TV personalities; they starred in HGTV’s reality series Ultimate Aquariums in 2012, one of the public’s earliest glimpses into this intriguing design specialty. “We’ve branded ourselves as the firm where art meets the science of aquariums,” explains the media-savvy Tiemans, who proved to be ahead of his time.

Since then, series such as Tanked on Animal Planet and Fish Tank Kings on Nat Geo Wild have introduced viewers to the endless possibilities of aquarium design. Shows focus on celebrity clients including Shaquille O’Neal and David Hasselhoff and sometimes involve antics that detract from the true artistry of the medium.

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Starters include a hamachi crudo that makes for a terrific palate-cleansing initiation, with each of four beautifully pinched slices of fish crowned with a small dollop of perfectly tart Meyer lemon-oregano relish and garnished with micro chervil.

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