Performances Magazine San Diego | The Old Globe, December 2024

Dr. Seuss

A Celebration of Music on the Danube

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ourney along Strauss’s “Blue Danube” and be among the first to experience AmaWaterways’ newest river cruise for music enthusiasts. Delight in a behind-the-scenes tour of Budapest’s magnificent Opera House, marvel at Mozart’s birthplace in Salzburg and enjoy live musical performances, including a professional choir while visiting Austria’s beautiful Melk Abbey.

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P1 Program

Cast, performances, who’s who, director’s notes, donors and more.

6 In the Wings

2 Pianos 4 Hands at North Coast Rep; Miracle on 34th Street at New Village Arts; Lightscape at San Diego Botanic Garden; local ballet productions of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker; and concerts at Jacobs Music Center.

12 Feature:

Three Local Takes on A Christmas Carol

Three local theater companies—Cygnet Theatre, The Old Globe and La Jolla Playhouse—channel Charles Dickens in different ways.

17 Travel

The coast-hugging Pacific Surfliner offers 11 round trips daily between SoCal’s premier performing-arts hubs, Los Angeles and San Diego.

32 Parting Thought

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High Notes

SYMPHONY

ALL HAIL THE holiday season, with plenty of festive concerts at the Jacobs Music Center. Among them, the San Diego Symphony presents Noel Noel, Dec. 13-15, when the San Diego Master Chorale and San Diego Children’s Choir join the Symphony orchestra for a familyfriendly evening of holiday classics and sing-alongs. Guest conductor Christopher Dragon returns to lead the musical magic across three days of matinee and evening productions, which will feature special appearances by the likes of Cat Conner, Loren Smith and Ken Johnson. On Dec. 19, Jacobs Music Center welcomes 11-member vocal ensemble Voctave for a special holiday spectacular, “It Feels Like Christmas.” The Billboard-topping a cappella group is known for performing intricate arrangements of music from Broadway, Disney, jazz standards and, of course, Christmas music. (Note: San Diego Symphony does not appear in this show.) And bring the kiddos for “Elf in Concert,” Dec. 21-22. The classic holiday film starring Will Ferrell will be shown on a high-definition big screen; while the San Diego Symphony orchestra performs John Debney’s brilliant score of the movie live in concert. 750 B St., downtown, sandiegosymphony.org

From left: vocal ensemble Voctave; Jacobs Music Center.

Timeless Tchaikovsky

NO HOLIDAY SEASON is truly complete without The Nutcracker, and San Diego’s top classical ballet companies present the best of Tchaikovsky’s timeless ballet. Golden State Ballet returns to the San Diego Civic Theatre Dec. 13-22 for its staging, choreographed by artistic director Raul Salamanca. The production

features live music by the San Diego Symphony—with John Stubbs as music director and principal conductor, and Dana Zimbric as conductor. goldenstateballet.org San Diego Ballet dances into The Magnolia performing arts theater in El Cajon for two performances on Dec. 21—featuring more than 100 exquisitely costumed

dancers. sandiegoballet.org Recipient of the coveted Tommy Award for “Best Nutcracker” in town, City Ballet of San Diego, brings Elizabeth Wistrich’s choreography—accompanied by the City Ballet Orchestra, conducted by John Nettles—to the California Center for the Arts, Escondido, Dec. 20-23. cityballet.org

BALLET

Golden State Ballet’s stunning staging of The Nutcracker

Holiday Lights in Encinitas

AFTER THE SUN sets in Encinitas, go walking in a winter wonderland. Merging nature and art, the acclaimed holiday spectacle Lightscape returns to San Diego Botanic Garden for its third annual installment. Wear your comfy shoes for a festive evening stroll along a 1-mile, inclined trail filled with illuminated, colorful installations by international artists—from the popular Tunnel of Lights to the glowing California Poppies. The immersive experience features two brandnew installations this year, including the Flame Skimmer Dragonfly; plus seasonal libations and treats available for purchase along the route. Lightscape runs through Jan. 5, but not to worry if you miss it: The property offers 37 acres of enchanting gardens and paths; and hosts artsy events and experiences year-round. 300 Quail Gardens Drive, Encinitas, 760.436.3036, sdbg.org

MIRACLES & MAGIC

CELEBRATE THE SEASON with New Village Arts, which presents Miracle on 34th Street: A Live Musical Radio Play, Nov. 22-Dec. 24; it’s a heartwarming musical adaptation of the classic. newvillagearts.org Hilarious duo Richard Todd Adams and Matthew McGloin take the stage at North Coast Rep to deliver the popular musical comedy show, 2 Pianos 4 Hands, Dec. 12-29, performing hits from Billy Joel to Bach as they lament on their would-be careers as concert pianists. northcoastrep.org Prepare to be dazzled by some of the most mind-blowing illusionists in the world at Broadway San Diego’s family-friendly show, The Illusionists: Magic of the Holidays, Dec. 26-27 at San Diego Civic Theatre. broadwaysd.com

The beloved musical, Dr. Seuss’s How The Grinch Stole Christmas!, runs through Dec. 31 at The Old Globe, with fan favorite Andrew Polec leading the fun as the grumpy, green Grinch. theoldglobe.org

THEATER

The Illusionists show; family fun at the San Diego Botanic Garden’s Lightscape.

Get ready for an interlude of riotous laughter as Richard Todd Adams and Matthew McGloin take us on a musical comedic journey about their wouldbe careers as concert pianists. The talented duo trade stories about piano lessons, pushy parents, and eccentric teachers while playing everything from Bach to Billy Joel. This show not only hits all the right notes, it tickles the ivories and your funny bone too.

DIRECTED BY TOM FREY

A poignant depiction of intelligent, curious, and creative women facing the trials of a new country, focusing on the Asian immigrant experience. Filled with emotion, this play delves into themes of the human condition, examining relationships and desires with a compelling mix of drama and humor. This moving play invites you to explore the intricacies of the human heart.

DIRECTED BY KAT YEN

Channeling Charles Dickens

Three Local Theaters Present Different Takes on A Christmas Carol by

STEPHANIE SAAD

DURING THE HOLIDAY SEASON, there are some warhorses you can rely on being presented by your local performing arts groups. The Nutcracker, for example, is a mainstay of ballet companies that often pays the bills for the rest of the year. Here in San Diego, Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! has become

a reliable family-friendly hit at The Old Globe. And of course, many theater companies add Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol to their repertoires around this time.

This year, though, three of our leading local theater companies are each approaching the latter holiday classic in their own ways. Cygnet Theatre is presenting its own musical adaptation. The Old Globe offers a one-man show, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story

“Every time I do it, hear it, watch it, I experience something new. As one grows old with it, different themes and characters sing out as if hidden all this time, waiting for you to catch up to them.”— Sean Murray

Director, Sean Murray, who also directs and stars in the show, Cygnet Theatre’s A Christmas Carol, Nov. 29-Dec. 24, is adapted from the original and features original music by Billy Thompson. Audiences will also enjoy creative stagecraft, puppetry and live sound effects.

“I have been a fanatical fan of the book for so many years,” Murray says. “Every time I do it, hear it, watch it, I experience something new. As one grows old with it, different themes and characters sing out as if hidden all this time, waiting for you to catch up to them. There are discoveries to be made /CONTINUED ON PAGE 24

Welcome to The Old Globe and this production of Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Our goal is to serve all of San Diego and beyond through the art of theatre. Below are the mission and values that drive our work. We thank you for being a crucial part of what we do.

OUR MISSION

The mission of The Old Globe is to preserve, strengthen, and advance American theatre by: Creating theatrical experiences of the highest professional standards; Producing and presenting works of exceptional merit, designed to reach current and future audiences; Ensuring diversity and balance in programming; Providing an environment for the growth and education of theatre professionals, audiences, and the community at large.

OUR VALUES

The Old Globe believes that theatre matters. Our commitment is to make it matter to more people. The values that shape this commitment are:

TRANSFORMATION

Theatre cultivates imagination and empathy, enriching our humanity and connecting us to each other by bringing us entertaining experiences, new ideas, and a wide range of stories told from many perspectives.

INCLUSION

The communities of San Diego, in their diversity and their commonality, are welcome and reflected at the Globe. Access for all to our stages and programs expands when we engage audiences in many ways and in many places.

EXCELLENCE

Our dedication to creating exceptional work demands a high standard of achievement in everything we do, on and off the stage.

STABILITY

Our priority every day is to steward a vital, nurturing, and financially secure institution that will thrive for generations.

IMPACT

Our prominence nationally and locally brings with it a responsibility to listen, collaborate, and act with integrity in order to serve.

LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT

We are making theatre matter to more people on the ancestral home and unceded lands of the Kumeyaay, also known as Tipai-Ipai, a tribe of Indigenous peoples who live at the northern border of Baja California in Mexico and the southern border of California in the United States. Their Kumeyaay language belongs to the Yuman–Cochimí language family. The Kumeyaay have stewarded through generations the lands and waterways of what is now known as San Diego.

SOCIAL JUSTICE ROADMAP

The Old Globe has embarked on a series of steps to intensify and accelerate change at all levels of our institution. Learn more about this work by visiting www.TheOldGlobe.org/Roadmap .

THEATRE THAT LIVES BEYOND THE STAGE

Beyond the stage is where our work begins. Learn more at www.TheOldGlobe.org/Beyond.

CLAIRE MULCAHY

ABOUT US

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

George C. Guerra† CHAIR

Evelyn Olson Lamden†° IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR

DIRECTORS

Jules Arthur†

Terry Atkinson†

Valerie A. Attisha

Richard M. Brenner

Christian Buckley†

Eleanor Y. Charlton

Nicole A. Clay†°

Donald L. Cohn†°

Elaine Bennett

Darwin†°

Ann Davies†°

George S. Davis

Mark Delfino

Silvija Devine*

Barry Edelstein

Pamela A. Farr†

Harold W. Fuson Jr.†°

Jennifer Greenfield

Dirk Harris

Nishma Held†

Susan Hoehn

Jeff Hughes

Daphne H. Jameson

Peter Landin

Pamela Hamilton Lester

Keven Lippert

Monica Medina

Noelle Norton, Ph.D.

David Jay Ohanian

Deirdra Price, Ph.D.

Sandra Redman

Paula Powers† SECRETARY

Sue Sanderson†

Karen L. Sedgwick†

Jean Shekhter

Timothy J. Shields

Karen Tanz

Debra Turner

Alison Valentine

Vladimir Victorio

Pamela J. Wagner

Cassandra Weinlein

Sheryl White†°

Margarita Wilkinson

Karin Winner

Vicki L. Zeiger†°

Anthony S. Thornley† TREASURER

HONORARY DIRECTORS

Mrs. Richard C. Adams*

Clair Burgener*

Mrs. John H. Fox*

Audrey S. Geisel*

Paul Harter*

Gordon Luce*

Dolly Poet*

Deborah Szekely

Hon. Pete Wilson

EMERITUS

DIRECTORS

Garet B. Clark

J. Dallas Clark*

Bea Epsten*

Sally Furay, R.S.C.J.°*

Kathryn Hattox°*

Bernard Lipinsky*

Delza Martin*

Conrad Prebys*

Darlene Marcos Shiley

Patsy Shumway

Harvey P. White

Carolyn YorstonWellcome* †Executive Committee member °Past Chair *In memoriam

David Israel Reynoso

Shelley Butler

Aaron Coleman

Inda Craig-Galvan

Bernardo Cubria

Justin Emeka

Nathan Englander

Fiasco Theatre

Keelay Gipson

RESIDENT ARTISTS

Delicia Turner Sonnenberg James Vásquez

COMMISSIONED ARTISTS

Keiko Green

Dea Hurston*

Tony Meneses

Richard Nelson

Katya Ojeda and Luis Gerardo Villegas

Marisela Treviño Orta

Joel Perez

Kemp Powers

Heather Raffo

Tori Sampson

Eddie Torres

Daniel J. Watts

Sam White

Whitney White

Laura Winters

ASSOCIATE ARTISTS

Craig Wright Powers Playwriting Fellows

Mathilde Dratwa

Nimisha Ladva

Seayoung Yim

In recognition of their unique contribution to the growth of The Old Globe and their special talent, we take great pride and pleasure in acknowledging as Associate Artists the following individuals who have repeatedly demonstrated, by their active presence on our stages and in our shops, that wherever else they may work, they remain the heart and soul of the Globe.

William Anton

Gregg Barnes

Jacqueline Brookes*

Lewis Brown*

Victor Buono*

Wayland Capwell*

Kandis Chappell

Eric Christmas*

Patricia Conolly

George Deloy

Tim Donoghue

Richard Easton*

Tovah Feldshuh

Monique Fowler

Robert Foxworth

Ralph Funicello

Lillian Garrett-Groag

Harry Groener

A.R. Gurney*

Joseph Hardy

Mark Harelik

Bob James

Charles Janasz

Peggy Kellner*

Tom Lacy*

Diana Maddox

Nicholas Martin*

Dakin Matthews

Deborah May

Katherine McGrath*

John McLain

Jonathan McMurtry*

Stephen Metcalfe

Robert Morgan

Patrick Page

Ellis Rabb*

Steve Rankin

William Roesch*

Robin Pearson Rose

Marion Ross

Steven Rubin

Ken Ruta*

Douglas W. Schmidt

Seret Scott

Richard Seer

David F. Segal

Richard Seger*

Diane Sinor*

Don Sparks

David Ogden Stiers*

Conrad Susa*

Deborah Taylor

Irene Tedrow*

Sada Thompson*

Paxton Whitehead*

James Winker

Robert Wojewodski

G. Wood*

*In memoriam

FROM BARRY

This year Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! celebrates its 27th holiday season at The Old Globe. That’s an astonishing run by any measure: presidents and potentates have come and gone, but The Grinch endures. Children who were featured in our company two decades ago are now adults with kids of their own. And new generations of theatregoers continue to settle into our seats for their first dose of Seussian sweetness and magic.

All of us at The Old Globe are doing a lot of thinking about this amazing show’s run. We think about how much the world has changed since its first year, and how much The Grinch has given us an anchor of constancy and love throughout. We think about how the Globe has grown since the beginning in 1998: three sizes, just like the Grinch’s heart, and thanks in no small part to him! Mostly, though, we think about the impact this show has made on hundreds of thousands of San Diegans. This sweet story has become central to how our city celebrates the holiday season, and we are simultaneously astonished and delighted that this is so. But it’s been Dr. Seuss who has conferred magic on all of us through this story. His beautiful imagination, as interpreted by the creators of this musical, is what has been so meaningful for so many over such a long period of time. The Old Globe has merely been the vessel. We salute Dr. Seuss and his legacy, and we thank Dr. Seuss Enterprises and its visionary CEO and president Susan Brandt for a productive and happy partnership that we hope flourish for many, many more years.

The Grinch is on our stage thanks to the generosity of Audrey Geisel, one of the Globe’s most valued friends. I had the special privilege of getting to know Audrey in the last years of her life. I’d visit her office in La Jolla, which was the very room in which her late husband Theodor Geisel, Dr. Seuss himself, wrote and drew the books that have become cherished by children worldwide. It was a true thrill to be there, and a special delight to be able to thank Audrey in person for her ongoing support. Now it is an honor to memorialize her here by noting that her ongoing largess will sustain and stabilize this institution for generations to come. She changed the Globe in her lifetime by setting this production in motion, and in her death she supports us through a powerful legacy.

I’m blessed that my work at the Globe puts me in yearly contact with this happy and spectacular (and big and green and hairy) tradition. In The Grinch I see the ways that the art form of theatre really does its work. Theatre brings strangers together to create one audience, one community. It shows us great and moving stories like this one: a classic fable about healing and family and love and the balm that is the holiday spirit. And, magically, it makes us feel better.

On behalf of the Board, artists, and staff of The Old Globe, I wish you a joyous holiday season. And I thank you for helping us deliver to San Diego 27 extraordinary years of theatre magic.

Thanks for coming. Enjoy the show.

Barry Edelstein

ERNA FINCI VITERBI ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

PRESENTS

Timothy J. Shields AUDREY S. GEISEL MANAGING DIRECTOR

TIMOTHY MASON

John Lee Beatty SCENIC DESIGN

Robert Morgan† COSTUME DESIGN

Anita Ruth ORCHESTRATOR Joshua Rosenblum VOCAL ARRANGEMENTS AND INCIDENTAL MUSIC

Pat Collins LIGHTING DESIGN

MARVIN

Jess Slocum PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER BOOK AND LYRICS BY

David Krane DANCE MUSIC ARRANGER

ADDITIONAL CHOREOGRAPHY BY

Melanie Chen Cole SOUND DESIGN

Caparelliotis Casting and Kim Heil, CSA CASTING

ORIGINAL CHOREOGRAPHY BY

DIRECTED BY

MUSIC DIRECTOR

ORIGINALLY CONCEIVED AND DIRECTED BY

Produced by special arrangement with Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P. How the Grinch Stole Christmas! book and characters™ and © 1957 Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P. Dr. Seuss properties™ & © 2024 Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P. All Rights Reserved.

“Welcome Christmas” and “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” were written by Theodor S. Geisel and Albert Hague and are used by permission of Dr. Seuss Enterprises and EMI Robbins Catalog, Inc. All rights reserved. Originally commissioned by Minneapolis Children’s Theater, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Original Stage Manager, D. Adams.

Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage Old Globe Theatre Conrad Prebys Theaatre Center

November 6 – December 31, 2024

CAST

(in order of appearance)

OLD MAX ............................................................................. David Michael Garry*

CINDY-LOU WHO ......................................... Arden Johnson (P) -or- Sofia Barredo (R)

PAPA WHO Xavier Reyes*

MAMA WHO ................................................................................ Ariella Kvashny*

GRANDPA WHO ............................................................................... Larry Raben*

GRANDMA WHO ............................................................................... Bets Malone*

BOO WHO Aiden Granum (R) -or- Christopher Smyres (P)

ANNIE WHO ..................................................... Iris Manter (R) -or- Liliana Lopez (P)

DANNY WHO .............................. Justin Roach (R) -or- Melvin Matthew Pluciennik (P)

BETTY-LOU WHO .................. Charlotte McClaskey (R) -or- Kalia Brooke Concepcion (P)

YOUNG MAX Tommy Martinez*

THE GRINCH ................................................................................... Andrew Polec*

GROWN-UP WHOS ............................................ Summer Broyhill*, Berto Fernández*, Luis Herrera*, Patricia Jewel*, Liliana Rodriguez*, Lance Arthur Smith*

TEEN WHOS ..................................................... Jad Marrewa (R) -or- Milla Toker (P)

LITTLE WHOS

Esme Cuaresma (P), Kiyo Cadwell (R), Ezra Floersheimer (P), Dhani Solorio (R), Daniel Smyres (P), Alina Mari Panganiban (R), Anabel Rodriguez (R), Keeva Gazelle Tye-Wagner (P)

SWINGS

Jacob Caltrider*, Bethany Slomka*

UNDERSTUDIES

for Mama Who — Summer Broyhill*; for Grandpa Who — Berto Fernández*; for Papa Who, Young Max — Luis Herrera*; or Grandma Who — Patricia Jewel*; for Annie Who, Betty-Lou Who — Amani Solorio; for Old Max — Larry Raben*; for The Grinch — Lance Arthur Smith*; for Boo Who, Danny Who — Eli Pletner; for Cindy-Lou Who — Iris Manter

P = Pink Team

R = Red Team

SETTING

Late December, someplace very near Who-ville.

There will be no intermission.

STAGE MANAGEMENT

Production Stage Manager ...................................................................... Jess Slocum*

Assistant Stage Manager ................................................................. Amanda Salmons*

Assistant Stage Manager ........................................................................ Karla Garcia*

PRODUCTION STAFF

Associate Director ............................................................................. Noelle Marion

Associate Music Director..................................................................... Randi Rudolph

Assistant Costume Design ........................................................................ Katie Knox

Associate Lighting Design Chris Rynne

Assistant Lighting Design Stephanie Lasater

Studio Teacher Abby Smith

Additional Studio Teacher Robert Freels

Child Supervisor Aaliyah Thompson

Dance Captain Summer Broyhill*

Stage Management Apprentice Ana Karen Esparza Aguilar

†Associate Artist of The Old Globe.

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

Si desea una sinopsis de esta obra en Español o en Inglés, favor de pedírsela al acomodador que le entregó este programa. If you would like a synopsis of this production in English or Spanish, please request it from an usher.

James Vásquez has directed Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! every year since 2009, and was a cast member even before that. That’s a long time in Who-ville! These are 10 of his favorite stories and factoids from his time with San Diego’s favorite holiday musical.

Getting “Ready”

We have a phrase in rehearsal when getting ready to start a runthrough of a song or moment. I will say, “Ready, steady,” and all the kids respond back with “ready, steady, freddy, spaghetti....”

A new word gets added every year. I think our response is up to about 17 words at this point. I can’t remember them, but somehow the kids do, and it gets passed down year after year.

Onstage Mishaps, Part 1

A stage manager’s nightmare, but during one show the automation malfunctioned and the Who-ville house just starting spinning. I was playing Grandpa Who at the time. I grabbed Eileen Bowman, who was playing Grandma, and we dodged the house and ran offstage. (It wasn’t really that dramatic—but it is a funny memory.)

A Certain Sparkle

John Lee Beatty’s set always shines—but it’s also literal. There’s glitter on the set pieces, and a new coat of glitter is added every year when the sets are brought out of storage. It helps make everything look bright and new for another season.

Onstage Mishaps, Part 2

Years ago we had a terrible storm in San Diego. At the end of the show when it “snows,” all of the Whos stage left got a little more than they bargained for. There was a tiny leak in the roof above, and we started feeling the rain onstage. And with the soap bubbles used as snow, some of it started to foam up on us.

Whatchama-who Weekend

We have a whole weekend dedicated to staging and perfecting “Whatchama-who.” Starting with “no noise, no toys” and slowly adding toys and building up to noise. We also have a Who-ville secret language surrounding “Whatchama-who.”

And Speaking of Toys…

For a long time, there were a bunch of little hidden toys throughout the set. All black-and-white toys: a stuffed orca, a panda bear, a Stormtrooper. Onstage, we can see them. But from the audience, they blend right into the rest of the world.

Who’s Who in Who-ville

We don’t list these names in the program, but everyone in the Who ensemble has a unique name we use, all derived from the look of their costume. For example, Scallop has a dress with curved, scalloped edges, and Palm Springs’ shirt looks like he could be on vacation. Can you guess which characters are named Lady Bug, Phyllis, and Bootsie?

It’s Tough Being a Grinch

The Grinch costume can be hot and heavy. The green hair alone on the costume weighs eight pounds! Our actors make it look easy, but as soon as The Grinch gets offstage, you can usually find him sitting right in front of a fan with a large water bottle nearby.

A Long Way Down

The Grinch elevator, used to help The Grinch slide down the red proscenium, was only installed about seven years ago. Until that point, The Grinch held on tightly and wiggled his way down the wall.

Grinchy Legacy

One of the nice things about this show running for so many years is that people have been with it for a long time. So at the closing party each year, we give badges out for folks who have been with the show for 5, 10, 15, 20 years. We continued this during the pandemic by mailing badges to everyone involved in the radio version. We even have an unofficial Grinch Hall of Fame!

MUSICAL NUMBERS

“Welcome Christmas” (“Fah Who Doraze”) Who Chorale

“Who Likes Christmas?” ................................................................. Who Family, Grown-Up Whos, Little Whos

“This Time of Year” Old Max, Young Max

“I Hate Christmas Eve” The Grinch, Young Max, Papa Who, Mama Who, Grandpa Who, Grandma Who, Cindy-Lou Who, Danny Who, Annie Who, Betty-Lou Who, Boo Who “Whatchama-who” .................................................................................................................. The Grinch, Little Whos

“Welcome Christmas” (Reprise) Who Chorale

“I Hate Christmas Eve” (Reprise) ................................................................................................................ The Grinch

“It’s the Thought That Counts”............................... Papa Who, Mama Who, Grandpa Who, Grandma Who, Who Family, Who Shoppers and Who Merchants, Little Whos

“This Time of Year” (Reprise) Old Max, Young Max

“One of a Kind” .................................................................................................................................................. The Grinch

“Now’s the Time” Papa Who, Mama Who, Grandma Who, Grandpa Who “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” Young Max, Old Max, The Grinch “Santa for a Day” ...................................................................................................................................... Cindy-Lou Who “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” (Reprise) Young Max, Old Max, Audience

“Who Likes Christmas?” (Reprise) Who Chorale

“One of a Kind” (Reprise) .................................................................... The Grinch, Young Max, Cindy-Lou Who

“This Time of Year” (Reprise) Old Max

“Welcome Christmas” (Reprise) Who Family, Grown-Up Whos, Little Whos

Finale ...................................................................................... The Grinch, Cindy-Lou Who, and Whos Everywhere

WHO-CHESTRA

Music Director, Conductor ....................................................................... Elan McMahan

Associate Music Director, Keyboard ..................................................... Randi Rudolph

Woodwind 1 Greg Armstrong

Cello Erica Erenyi

Violin 2 Adrian Evarkiou-Katu

Violin 1, Concertmaster, Orchestra Contractor ......................... Healy Henderson

Percussion......................................................................................................... Tim McMahon

Bass ...................................................................................................................... Michael Pearce

Woodwind 2 John Rekevic

Alternate Percussion Danny Chavrin

Alternate Keyboards Justin Gray, Korrie Yamaoka

Rehearsal Piano .............................................................................................. Randi Rudolph

Synthesizer Programming......................................................................... Taylor Peckham

The musicians are represented by the American Federation of Musicians, Local 325 San Diego.

SOFIA BARREDO

(Cindy Lou Who, Red Team) is thrilled to be making her professional debut in Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! She is 8-years-old and a fourth grader at Calvary Christian Academy. She enjoys playing the piano, guitar, and loves to travel. Credits: Matilda (CYT San Diego). She is grateful to God, and with lots of love and appreciation to her parents, family, friends, and her vocal coach, Jackie Maraya Griffin. Many thanks to The Old Globe for this incredible opportunity! @iamsofiabarredo on Instagram.

SUMMER BROYHILL

(Grown-Up Who Ensemble) The Old Globe: Lady Montague in Romeo and Juliet, Amiens in As You Like It. Globe/ USD Shiley Program: Feste in Twelfth Night, Calphurnia and Lepidus in Julius Caesar. Broadway: Hairspray. National tours: Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Hairspray. Off Broadway: Killer Therapy (Players Theatre), The Independents (Soho Playhouse), The Day Before Spring (York). Favorite regional: The Last Five Years (Virginia Stage Company, Weathervane), Jane in Tarzan (Tuacahn), Lilli/Katharine in Kiss Me, Kate opposite Davis Gaines (concert), Sandy in Tootsie (Moonlight Stage). Education: M.F.A from Globe/USD Shiley Program, B.M. from FSU. Other: member of the Writers Pool for Playground-LA. summerbroyhill.com, @summerbroyhill on Instagram.

KIYO CADWELL

(Little Who Ensemble, Red Team) is a talented 9 year old who has been passionate about theatre and music since she could talk. She has performed locally in The Wizard of Oz, Newsies, Seussical, and Annie. Kiyo has sung the national anthem at the Point Loma Summer Concerts, Peninsula Softball, and the Easter Sunrise at Cabrillo National Monument. She loves singing, especially songs by Adele. You can also find her playing softball, surfing, and skateboarding. She dreams of becoming a professional singer. Kiyo is ecstatic to be performing at The Globe and would like to thank all of her family and friends for their never-ending support!

JACOB CALTRIDER

(Swing) The Old Globe: Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Rocky Horror. Other performances: Camelot (Laguna Playhouse), 33 1/3 – House of Dreams, Manifest Destinitis, Violet (San Diego Rep), Rocky Horror, Spring Awakening, Assassins, Parade, Little Shop of Horrors,  Cabaret,  Sweeney Todd,  A Christmas Carol,  The History Boys (Cygnet Theatre), West Side Story (San Diego Musical Theatre), Homos, or Everyone in America, Marry Me a Little, Harmony, Kansas, Twist, Yank!, The Daddy Machine (Diversionary Theatre), Spelling Bee, A Christmas Carol (North Coast Rep), An American Christmas, Les Misérables, Twelfth Night, The Festival of Christmas (Lamb’s Players).

KALIA BROOKE CONCEPCION

(Betty Lou-Who, Pink Team) is excited to be making her Old Globe theatre debut. She is a seventh grader at the San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts. Other credits include Matilda in Matilda (SDSCPA), Annie in Annie (Met2), Young Fiona in Shrek (Met2), and Young Kangaroo in Seussical (Met2). Representation: Raynard Pearson with Work Talent. Thank you to all her vocal/acting/music/dance coaches Karyn Overstreet, Geno Carr, Mattie Mills, Clarence Banta, Rayme Sciaroni, Colette Hopper, Ellen Warkentien, and the Danceology Performing Arts Campus. Blessed to have the love and support of her parents, grandparents, three older brothers, and aunts/ uncles.

ESME CUARESMA

(Little Who Ensemble, Pink Team) Fifth grader, beyond grateful and delighted to return to Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Enjoys all types of dance, singing, guitar, and playing with her dog Beauty. Credits: Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, The Nutcracker (The Dance Academy Del Mar), Grace for President (San Diego Junior Theatre). Thank you to The Old Globe for this amazing opportunity, lots of love to Maisy, Mommy, Daddy, and all of her supportive teachers, friends, and family. Wishing everyone in Who-ville a very merry Grinchmas!

BERTO FERNÁNDEZ

(Grown-Up Who Ensemble) Thrilled to return to The Old Globe in Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Favorite credits: Next to Normal (OTC), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (CCAE Theatricals), Kinky Boots, Ragtime (Moonlight Stage), Evita, La Cage aux Folles, Rock of Ages (Cygnet), Head Over Heels (Diversionary), The Addams Family (Welk), In the Heights, Catch Me If You Can, Sister Act (SDMT), Beauty and the Beast Live on Stage (Disney World), O Wondrous Night (SeaWorld), Jesus Christ Superstar, Little Shop of Horrors (Lyric Theatre of Puerto Rico). Honors: 2022 Craig Noel Actor of the Year Award from the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle. bertoworld.com.

EZRA FLOERSHEIMER

(Little Who Ensemble, Pink Team) is thrilled to be making her Old Globe debut. Credits include Fregley in Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Amanda Thripp in Matilda (San Diego Junior Theatre). She is in fifth grade at Hardy Elementary school, where she enjoys serving on student council. She loves to read, crochet, and play guitar. She hopes to become an entertainment lawyer when she grows up.

DAVID MICHAEL GARRY

(Old Max) The Old Globe debut! Broadway: The Phantom of the Opera, Evita, Carousel!, The Last Ship, A Bronx Tale, Sweeney Todd, and Company. Off Broadway: Sweeney Todd (Barrow Street), Roadshow (The Public), Beowulf (Irish Repertory Theater). Regional: A Bronx Tale (Paper Mill Playhouse), The Last Ship (CIBC Theater, Chicago), The Heart of Robin Hood (A.R.T), Ragtime (The Kennedy Center). Film/television: “American Horror Story,” “Godfather of Harlem,” “Jessica Jones,” “Better

Nate Than Ever,” “Blue Bloods,” “Prodigal Son,” “Elementary,” and more. Education: B.F.A. in trombone performance from Western Michigan University. @dgarrynyc on Instagram.

AIDEN GRANUM

(Boo Who, Red Team) is happy to be making his professional debut in Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Aiden’s recent credits include JoJo in Seussical Jr. and Tweedle Dee in Alice in Wonderland Jr. (Scripps Theatre Arts). Aiden enjoys participating in acting classes with San Diego Junior Theatre and vocal instruction with Karen Lammers. Aiden is a fifth grader in Scripps Ranch where he is a Lighthouse Leader and part of the Safety Patrol. In his free time, he loves playing baseball, building Legos, and hanging out with his family, friends, and dog Paddington. @aidengranum.

LUIS HERRERA

(Grown-Up Who Ensemble) is thrilled to be making his Old Globe debut with Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

Off-Broadway: Aloha Boricua (Puerto Rican Traveling Theater) Regional: In the Heights (Cleveland Playhouse), La Havana Madrid (South Coast Repertory), Guys and Dolls, Rent (ACT), Man of La Mancha (Plaza Theatricals), Sweeney Todd (Park Playhouse), Once on This Island (Porchlight Music Theatre). @luisherreraofficial on Instagram.

PATRICIA JEWEL

(Grown-Up Who Ensemble) The Old Globe: Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Hair. Regional: Waitress (The Muny) Once on This Island, King John (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Tarzan, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Moonlight Stage), The Bodyguard (Welk Theatre), Chicago (Anchorage Concert Association), OLIVÉRio: A Brazilian Twist (MainStreet Theatre Company), Little Shop of Horrors (New Village Arts), Ragtime (Candlelight Pavilion), Shrek (Center Stage Theater), Sister Act, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Hairspray (Performance Riverside). Cabaret Debut: Patricia Jewel: Gems of Stage and Screen. Other selected credits: commercials for Stella Rosa, Fujifilm, Aimmune, OpenTable. Education: B.A. in Music and Psychology from University of Redlands. @iampatriciajewel.

ARDEN JOHNSON

(Cindy-Lou Who, Pink Team) Pinching herself every day to be returning to Whoville! Recent Credits: Cindy-Lou Who in Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (The Old Globe), Grace in Junie B. Jones (SDMT), Matilda in Matilda Jr. (Trinity Theatre), Wendy in Peter Pan (The Rock Academy), Kai in Finding Nemo Jr. (YAT). Training: voice, acting, dance (all styles), gymnastics, and cheer. She would especially like to thank the dedicated team at The Old Globe for this opportunity of a lifetime! Merry, Merry Grinchmas to all!

ARIELLA KVASHNY

(Mama Who) The Old Globe: Countess Andrenyi in Murder on the Orient Express, La Gente/Pilar, Victoria US in Destiny of Desire, Mama Who in Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (4 years) Recent credits: Daisy Arujo in Mystic Pizza (Ivoryton Playhouse), Eva Peron in Evita (Cygnet Theatre), Gloria Estefan in On Your Feet! (Moonlight Stage), Ensemble/Camila, Daniela, Abuela Claudia US in In the Heights (Cleveland Playhouse), Cindy Lou Huffington in The Marvelous Wonderettes (Welk Theatre), Menas in Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare Orange County), Ensemble/Faith US in Brooklyn the Musical (MOXIE). Education: graduate of UC Irvine with a B.F.A. in Musical Theatre and Honors in Acting. ariellakvashny.com, @ariellakvashny on Instagram and TikTok.

LILIANA LOPEZ

(Annie Who, Pink Team) is thrilled to be making her Old Globe theatre debut. Other credits include Annie in Annie, Anne in The Greatest Showman. She is a fifth grader at John Muir Language Academy where she participates in flamenco and choir. In her free time, she enjoys swimming, karate, skiing, and traveling with her family. She is so grateful to The Old Globe for this incredible opportunity! Also, special thanks to her piano/ voice instructor, Laynee Dell, and theater director, Ben Greene.

BETS MALONE

(Grandma Who) Off Broadway: The Marvelous Wonderettes (also cast recording). International: Fame, 42nd Street. Regional: Ragtime, Beauty and the Beast, Victor/Victoria, Fun Home, Mamma Mia!, Aida, Titanic, Seussical, Big Fish, Pride and Prejudice, Mary Poppins, Next to Normal, Sweeney Todd, 1776, Once Upon a Mattress, Evita,Into the Woods, Annie Get Your Gun, All Shook Up, Children of Eden. Voice-over: Barbie as the Island Princess, ScoobyDoo! Music of the Vampire. Proudly married to Steven Glaudini, Artistic Director of Moonlight Stage Productions, and mom to Sami the wonder dog.

IRIS MANTER

(Annie Who, Red Team) Excited to return to Whoville! Musical Theatre: Cindy-Lou Who in Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas (The Old Globe); Young Cosette in Les Miserables - School Edition, Molly in Annie Jr., Young Anna in Frozen Jr., Mowgli in Jungle Book Jr. (Junior Actors Company); Bobbi Jean Piper in Junie B. Jones Jr. (San Diego Musical Theatre Academy). Many thanks for the love and support of her friends and family, Amber Bartlett, and furry sidekick, golden retriever Rainbow Butterfly Gumdrop.

JAD MARREWA

(Teen Who, Red Team) is thrilled to return to The Old Globe in Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! His previous credits include Young Tarzan in Tarzan the Musical (Moonlight Stage), Rising Stars 2023 (CCAE Theatricals), and Mary Poppins (Moonlight Youth Theatre). Jad is a student at the San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts. When he is not singing, dancing,

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acting, or playing violin, trumpet, piano, drums, or harmonica, you’ll find him reading, writing, composing, or doing flips at parkour. Jad would like to thank The Old Globe for this amazing opportunity and extends his heartfelt gratitude to his teachers, friends, and family. You can follow him on Instagram: @jadmarrewa.

TOMMY MARTINEZ

(Young Max) Thrilled to be back at The Old Globe—life is a dream here! Broadway: Newsies, world premiere of Summer Stock (Goodspeed Musicals), NBC’s Hairspray Live! Hollywood Bowl/national tour/ Off Broadway/Canada: Kinky Boots, Katy Perry, Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Baa Baa the Sheep in Little Baby Bum Live! Thanks to Nimmy, Mom, Nana, Dad, Cricket, James, and everyone at the Globe. @atleastimfunny on Instagram, @iwasbornperfect on TikTok, Tommy Martinez on YouTube.

CHARLOTTE MCCLASKEY

(Betty-Lou Who, Red Team) is ecstatic to spend her first Christmas in Whoville! She is a creative, inquisitive, and observant fifth grader. She has a passion for all things musical theatre, and enjoys guitar, tap, and drawing. Previous credits: Kate in Annie, JoJo in Seussical, Lavender in Matilda, Addams Family, Shrek (CYT), Noel Noel at the Rady Shell (San Diego Symphony). Thank you to everyone at The Old Globe for this amazing opportunity and experience, and to her family and friends for their continuous love, support, and encouragement.

ALINA MARI PANGANIBAN

(Little Who Ensemble, Red Team) Delighted and grateful to return to The Old Globe in Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Ready to have another memorable holiday with the cast and crew of such a wonderful production! Credits 4S Dance Academy Ballet: Bluebird in Sleeping Beauty, Water Nymph in Mermaid’s Tale, Starry Night Fairy in Journey to Neverland; Snow Flurry Leader, Lemondrop, Soldier, Flowerbud in The Nutcracker. 4S Dance Academy Musical Theater: Constable, Glinda Understudy, Ensemble in A Little Bit Wicked. Alina enjoys ballet and hip hop dancing, singing, doing voice overs, reading, rollerblading, sewing, and spending time while making wonderful memories with family and friends. Wishing everyone a Happy Who-liday season!

ELI PLETNER

(Understudy) Excited to be returning to Who-ville! Theater: Freddy Hamilton in School of Rock (Moonlight Stage), Greg Heffley in Diary of a Wimpy Kid (San Diego Junior Theatre), Little Who Ensemble in Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (The Old Globe), JoJo in Seussical (Act Live Now), Crutchie in Newsies Jr. (La Canada Junior Theater). TV: hero spot in Valley Strong Credit Union commercial. Honors: Presidential Award for Achievement in Music (drumming, guitar, vocals). Thank you to everyone at The Old Globe, School of Rock San Diego, Warren-Walker School, family, and friends for their support. IG: @the.eli.pletner.

MELVIN MATTHEW PLUCIENNIK

(Danny Who, Pink Team) is excited to be back at The Old Globe. Previous roles: Little Who Ensemble in Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (The Old Globe), James in School of Rock (Moonlight Stage), JoJo in Seussical Jr., Bruce in Matilda Jr., Charlie in Willy Wonka Jr., Young Simba in The Lion King Jr., Aladdin in Aladdin Jr., Hans in Frozen Jr. , Tamatoa in Moana Jr. (STAR Repertory Theatre), ensemble in Moana Jr. (MYT). Special thanks to his parents, his brother Dwight, his family, Scott, Meredith and Megan Kolod at STAR Repertory for encouraging him to explore his love of acting, his voice tutor Rebecca Huber, and his piano teacher Dmitry Kirichenko. IG: @melvinpluciennik

ANDREW POLEC

(The Grinch) Adding on a fourth “layear” of Grinch dip! Other Globe: Berger in Hair, Crime and Punishment, A Comedy. West End: Strat in Bat Out of Hell (London Coliseum, Dominion Theatre; Joe Allen Best West End Debut Award). Off Broadway: The Beautiful Lady (La MaMa), The Fantasticks (Theatre Center).

Regional: Escape to Margaritaville (Moonlight Stage), Legacy of Love (Bucks County Playhouse), The General from America (Hudson Valley Shakespeare), Ivanov, A Christmas Carol (Trinity Repertory), Where the Wild Things Are (Providence Fringe). Film/ television: “Katy Keene,” “Prodigal Son,” “Wheel of Fortune.” Music: Disillusioned Funk. Other: 2021 First Prize Winner of the Lotte Lenya Competition. Education: B.A.s in English, Music from University of Rochester, M.F.A. in Theatre from Brown University. Socials: @andrewpolec

LARRY RABEN

(Grandpa Who) The Old Globe: Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Sparky in the original Forever Plaid, Mr. Roberts. Broadway: Leo Bloom in The Producers (also the entire Las Vegas run). Other: Dirty Blonde, Bright Ideas (Laguna Playhouse), Art, Boeing-Boeing (Coyote StageWorks), Into the Woods, Young Frankenstein (Moonlight Stage), I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (Off Broadway), The Andrews Brothers (Ovation Award), Spamalot (Musical Theatre West), Bye Bye Birdie (Music Circus), Curtains, Betty Blue Eyes (Music Theatre Wichita), Forbidden Broadway Greatest Hits: Vol. 1 (Ovation Award), Vol. 2 (Ovation nom). Film: Forever Plaid: The Movie. Other: Artistic Director of Theatre at The Welk Resort, author of children’s book Ibby Makes a Wish

XAVIER REYES

(Papa Who) is a proud born and raised Puerto Rican! Having worked all over the US, Puerto Rico, Japan, and Canada, selected credits include: Off-Broadway: CATS: The Jellicle Ball (Jennyanydots). National Tour: Kinky Boots Broadway First National. Regional: Rafael in Lynn Nottage’s Clyde’s (George Street Playhouse and Playmakers Repertory Company), Oscar in Sweat (Pioneer Theatre Company), Anna in the Tropics (Barrington Stage), Che in Evita (Virginia Musical Theatre), In the Heights and Hair (Geva Theatre), Moliere’s Scapin (Pioneer Theatre Company), Trading Places directed by Kenny Leon (Alliance Theatre). Education: B.F.A. Ithaca College. @XavierReyesActor on Instagram.

JUSTIN ROACH

(Danny Who, Red Team) is beyond thrilled to be making his professional debut in Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Other favorite roles include Dormouse in Alice in Wonderland (JCompany), King Arthur in Spamalot (JCompany), Crush in Finding Nemo (JCompany), and Aladdin understudy in Aladdin (Junior Actors Company). Thank you to the Old Globe for this opportunity, to his coaches who helped him prepare for this role, and to his friends and family for their love and support. Enjoy the show!

ANABEL RODRIGUEZ

(Little Who Ensemble, Red Team) is delighted to be making her debut at The Old Globe and be part of Who history! She is grateful to everyone who has helped make her dream of performing on stage come true. Anabel is a third grader at Del Sur Elementary, where she discovered her love for musical theatre with Music Pillars. When she’s not singing karaoke in the car, dancing at 4S Dance Academy, or dreaming of the stage, she enjoys spending time with her family, her best friend, and her beloved pup Sugar. Anabel wishes you a joyful Who-liday season!

LILIANA RODRIGUEZ

(Grown-Up Who Ensemble) The Old Globe: Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Regional: West Side Story (Starlight Theatre Kansas City), In The Heights (Cleveland Playhouse) Sunday In The Park With George (CCAE Theatricals), An American in Paris (Musical Theatre West), The Wedding Singer, Something Rotten!, On Your Feet! (Moonlight Stage), Evita (Cygnet Theatre), Catch Me If You Can, All Shook Up (SDMT), I Too Sing America and 1968: Revolution Remastered (Goodman Theatre). @lilianarodriguez_10 on Instagram.

BETHANY SLOMKA

(Swing) The Old Globe: Hair, Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! New York: Toughest Girl Alive (Fringe). Select Regional: Tarzan, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, regional premiere of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Tuacahn), Hairspray (SD Rep, Welk, SDMT; Craig Noel Award nomination), Sister Act (Moonlight Stage, SDMT), world premiere of 33 1/3 – House of Dreams (SD Rep), Every Brilliant Thing, Sunday in the Park with George (CCAE Theatricals), Rent, Grease, How to Succeed… (Welk), Sunset Boulevard (Moonlight Stage), Suds (NVA), Joseph…, Legally Blonde, 9 to 5, Ragtime, Man of La Mancha (SDMT). Television: “Encore!” on Disney+. @beeslom on Instagram.

LANCE ARTHUR SMITH

(Grown-Up Who Ensemble) (he/him), The Old Globe: Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! October Sky, Life After. Broadway LAB: October Sky (also Fight Director). San Diego: Jersey Boys (CCAE Theatricals); Redwood, Like They Magical (La Jolla Playhouse); Spamalot, The Bodyguard, Mamma Mia!, My Fair Lady (Welk); Million Dollar Quartet, Around the World in 80 Days (Lamb’s Players); La Cage aux Folles, Bed and Sofa (Cygnet); Victor/Victoria, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Mamma Mia!, Guys and Dolls (Moonlight Stage); Intimate Apparel (San Diego

Rep); Tomfoolery, Romance/Romance (North Coast Rep); A Piece of My Heart (Mo`olelo); Tuesdays with Morrie (Vista’s Broadway Theater). Regional: Julius Caesar (Kingsmen Shakespeare); The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Merchant of Venice, Return to the Forbidden Planet (ARK); Carousel, Grease (PCPA). Proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

CHRISTOPHER SMYRES

(Boo Who, Pink Team) is excited to make his professional theatre debut with The Old Globe as Boo Who alongside his twin brother, Daniel! In fourth grade, Christopher loves all things musical theatre and being on stage. Credits: Nine (Coronado Playhouse), Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Grace for President (San Diego Junior Theatre), Finding Nemo (JCompany), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Roustabouts Theatre), Peter Pan (Kids on Stage Productions). Thanks to his coaches, family and friends for all of their encouragement and support, and to The Old Globe for this incredible opportunity! @christophersmyres on Instagram

DANIEL SMYRES

(Little Who Ensemble, Pink Team) is thrilled to make his professional debut at The Old Globe alongside his twin brother, Christopher, in Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Credits: Nine (Coronado Playhouse), Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Grace for President (San Diego Junior Theatre), Finding Nemo (JCompany), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Roustabouts Theatre), Peter Pan (Kids on Stage Productions). Daniel enjoys mountain biking, skiing, playing tennis and surfing. He is grateful to The Old Globe for this amazing opportunity, and to his coaches, friends and family for their love and support. Wishing everyone a Merry Grinchmas! @danielsmyres on Instagram

DHANI SOLORIO

(Little Who Ensemble, Red Team) (he/ him/el) Credits: Rafael in El Milagro del Recuerdo (San Diego Opera), Nemo in Finding Nemo, Jr. Also: Junie B. Jones the Musical, Jingle All the Way (YAT), and various performances at school and church. Dhani is a talented artist who also loves to draw, sculpt, and build Legos. Honored to be making his debut at The Old Globe. Grateful to all who have welcomed him to Whoville and made this production possible, and his family, friends, and teachers for their support!

AMANI SOLORIO

(Understudy) (she/her/ella) Theatre: Teen Ensemble in Into the Woods (Moonlight Stage), Mean Girls (San Diego Junior Theatre), Junie B. in Junie B. Jones the Musical, Chip in Beauty and the Beast. Also: 13, Matilda, Jingle All the Way (Young Actors’ Theatre), The Lion King Jr. (Francis Parker Drama Club). Film: Luna in Bye Luna, Caroline in Forgetting Caroline, Silent Memory. Voice-over: Alex in Alex and Friends. Thrilled and honored to return to The Old Globe. Thankful for this wonderful opportunity, to all who made it possible, and to her family, friends, and teachers for their support!

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MILLA TOKER

(Teen Who, Pink Team) Thrilled to return to The Old Globe in Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Credits: Matilda in Matilda (SDJA). Little Who Ensemble in Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (2022, 2023), Soloist in In This Together, and Jasmine in Aladdin (JCompany), Tweedledum, Caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland (Kids on Stage Productions), brand ambassador for TruChef, ambassador for InMotion Photo Studio. Jazz, lyrical, hip-hop, contemporary, tap, and acro dancer (RAD/ YAGP Ballet), The Nutcracker (The Dance Academy Del Mar). La Jolla Playhouse Summer Conservatory. Thank you to everyone at The Old Globe for this wonderful opportunity, and to her always supportive parents, brother, family, friends and teachers. Merry Grinchmas!

KEEVA GAZELLE TYE-WAGNER

(Little Who Ensemble, Pink Team) is 11-years-old and a sixth grader at Paul Ecke Central Elementary School. She has had the following roles in the Junior Actors Company: Pua in Moana Jr., Lavender in Matilda Jr., and Miss Hannigan in Annie Kids. Keeva takes singing lessons with Ben Goniea and dance classes (lyrical and ballet) with Stage Door Dance. In her free time she likes to sing and play with her baby sister, Lily, and her brother, Jet.

TIMOTHY MASON

(Book and Lyrics) (1950–2023) The Old Globe: Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Broadway: Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Circle Repertory: Levitation, Only You, Babylon Gardens, The Fiery Furnace. Actors Theatre of Louisville: In a Northern Landscape. American Conservatory Theater’s Young Conservatory: Ascension Day, The Less Than Human Club, Time on Fire, Mullen’s Alley, My Life in the Silents, The Life to Come Other titles: South Coast Repertory, Seattle Rep, Victory Gardens, Jungle Theatre, Royal National Theatre. Novel: The Darwin Affair, The Nightingale Affair (Algonquin Books).

MEL MARVIN

(Composer) The Old Globe: Tintypes, Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Broadway: Yentl, A History of the American Film, Tintypes (Tony nomination), Fascinating Rhythm, The Grinch, Cymbeline. Theatre: 11 Off Broadway shows, dozens of scores, from Shakespeare to Kushner, for America’s bestknown regional theatres, including Lincoln Center, Arena Stage, Guthrie Theater, ART, ACT, La Jolla Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum (where he wrote the original music for the world premiere of Angels in America). Opera: Guest from the Future, Buwalsky, Truth and Reconciliation, Isolation. Other: Head Faculty Composer, Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.

JACK O’BRIEN

(Conceived and Directed Original Production) The Old Globe: Artistic Director, 1981–2007. Broadway: Shucked, All My Sons, Carousel, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Front Page, It’s Only a Play, Macbeth, The Nance, Catch Me If You Can, The Coast of Utopia, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Henry IV, Hairspray, The Invention of Love, The Full Monty, more. Other work: national tours, West End, Metropolitan Opera, San Diego Opera, PBS’s “American Playhouse.” Awards: three Tony Awards, six additional nominations, 2008 Theatre Hall of Fame inductee. Books: Jack in the Box, Jack Be Nimble: The Accidental Education of an Unintentional Director

JAMES VÁSQUEZ

(Director) The Old Globe: Resident Artist; Under a Baseball Sky, American Mariachi (world premieres); Hurricane Diane, Tiny Beautiful Things, Rich Girl (West Coast premieres); Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson – Apt. 2B, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Hair, The Rocky Horror Show, Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! National credits: Signature Theatre, Goodspeed Musicals, Denver Center Theatre Company, Cleveland Play House, Dallas Theater Center, Children’s Theatre Company, Marriott Theatre, Two River Theater; developmental workshops with South Coast Repertory, La Jolla Playhouse, Lively McCabe Entertainment. Education: The Juilliard School. jamesvasquez.com

JOHN DELUCA

(Original Choreography) Film: The Little Mermaid (2023), Mary Poppins Returns, Into the Woods, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Nine, Memoirs of a Geisha, Chicago, The Terminal. Television: Tony Bennett: An American Classic, “The 75th Annual Academy Awards,” “The Kennedy Center Honors.” Awards: two Emmys, three Golden Globe Best Film nominations, three AFI Top Ten Best Films, three National Board of Review Top Ten Films, four Critic’s Choice Best Film nominations, BAFTA nomination, Choreography Media Honors, two American Choreography, Hamilton Behind the Camera, Humanitas Writing, Chita Rivera Award. Theatre director/choreographer: Broadway, Off Broadway, City Center’s Encores!, The Public Theater, regionally.

BOB RICHARD

(Additional Choreography) Broadway/Tour: Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! for the past 18 years. Off Broadway: Directed/Choreographed Inventing Mary Martin: The Revue of a Lifetime (Joseph A. Callaway Award nomination), The Road to Qatar! As Director: North Shore Music Theatre, Ordway Center, Theatre By The Sea, 5th Avenue Theatre, Theatre Under The Stars, Pioneer Theatre Company. International: Shanghai, Beijing, Singapore, Tokyo, London, Christchurch, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. National Tours: Legally Blonde, Guys and Dolls, Hello Dolly, An American in Paris, South Pacific. Awards: Footlight Award, Gypsy Lee Award, Ivey Award, Ernie Award, San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award.

ELAN MCMAHAN

(Music Director) The Old Globe: Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax, As You Like It, Inherit the Wind, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Regional: Ragtime, In the Heights, West Side Story, Titanic, Big Fish, Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music, 50 more productions (Moonlight Stage Productions), Sunday in the Park with George (CCAE), Forbidden Broadway (North Coast Rep), Into the Woods (New Village Arts). Education: B.Mus. in Piano Performance from Brigham Young University, M.Mus. in Piano Performance from St. Louis Conservatory of Music. Awards: San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Craig Noel Award for Outstanding Musical Direction (2012, 2015, 2017, 2023). Other work: associate faculty at MiraCosta College.

JOHN LEE BEATTY

(Scenic Design) The Old Globe: The Underpants, Much Ado About Nothing, Richard II, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Love’s Labor’s Lost, Redwood Curtain. Broadway: 118 productions; Plaza Suite, Sweat, Disgraced, The Nance, Good People, Venus in Fur, Other Desert Cities, The Royal Family, The Color Purple, Rabbit Hole, Doubt, Chicago, Proof, A Delicate Balance, The Heiress, The Sisters Rosensweig, The Most Happy Fella, Burn This, Ain’t Misbehavin’,Talley’s Folly, Fifth of July, Crimes of the Heart. Off Broadway: The Whipping Man, Sylvia, The Substance of Fire, A Life in the Theater, Lips Together…, MTC, Circle Rep, Encores! Awards: Tonys, Obies, Drama Desks, Outer Critics Circles, Theater Hall of Fame. Education: Brown, Yale School of Drama.

ROBERT MORGAN

(Costume Design) The Old Globe: Associate Artist. Broadway: Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, The Full Monty, Imaginary Friends, I’m Not Rappaport, Sherlock’s Last Case. Off Broadway: Pride’s Crossing, Saturn Returns (Lincoln Center), The Loves of Anatol (Circle in the Square). Television: American Playhouse’s The Skin of Our Teeth, A Christmas Carol. West End: The Full Monty. Regional: Ahmanson, American Conservatory Theater, American Players Theatre, Denver Center, Guthrie, Huntington, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, McCarter, Milwaukee Rep, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Portland Center Stage, Seattle Rep, Studio Arena Theater, Williamstown. Awards: two Drama Desk nominations, 12 Drama-Logue Awards.

PAT COLLINS

(Lighting Design) (1932–2021) The Old Globe: Camp David, Twelfth Night, Cymbeline. Broadway: Orphans, Good People, Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Doubt (Tony nomination), Sight Unseen, Proof, A Moon for the Misbegotten, A Delicate Balance, The Sisters Rosensweig, Conversations with My Father, The Heidi Chronicles, I’m Not Rappaport (Tony Award), Execution of Justice (Drama Desk Award), Ain’t Misbehavin’, The Threepenny Opera (Tony nomination), Once Upon a Mattress, An American Daughter. Other work: Off Broadway, Lincoln Center, Mark Taper Forum, McCarter, Berkeley Rep, Seattle Rep, Hartford Stage, Alley, Center Stage, Long Wharf, Guthrie, Goodman, ART, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, over 100 international opera productions.

MELANIE CHEN COLE

(Sound Design) (she/her) The Old Globe: Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson – Apt 2B, Henry 6, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Noura, Tiny Beautiful Things, The Imaginary Invalid. Regional credits: Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Alley Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Cleveland Playhouse, Dallas Theater Center, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Geffen Playhouse, Goodman Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Indiana Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Milwaukee Rep, Northern Stage, PlayMakers Rep, South Coast Rep, Studio Theatre, and the Utah Shakespeare Festival. Education: MFA in Theatre and Dance from UC San Diego. melaniesound.com, @melaniechencole.

ANITA RUTH

(Orchestrator) As orchestrator/arranger/musical director: over 150 musicals in the last 30 years. As musical director: Chanhassen Dinner Theatres (1968–1988). As freelance music director/orchestrator: Children’s Theatre Company, Bloomington Civic Theatre, Theatre Mu, others. Guthrie Theater: three Shakespeare productions (as arranger/music director), A Christmas Carol for many years (as music director). Other work: orchestrated two operas composed by Mel Marvin: one presented in Holland, one at Bard College (2004).

JOSHUA ROSENBLUM

(Vocal Arrangements and Incidental Music) Broadway: Miss Saigon, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Wonderful Town, The Music Man, Falsettos, Anything Goes. Off Broadway, as composer/lyricist: BUSH IS BAD, Fermat’s Last Tango, Einstein’s Dreams (Drama Desk nomination). Guest conductor: Brooklyn Philharmonic, New Jersey Symphony, American Repertory Ballet. Pianist: New York Pops (Carnegie Hall), City Center Encores! Faculty member: NYU (conducting), Yale University (composition). Music director: Pit Stop Players. Education: B.A. in Music, Yale (summa cum laude), M.Mus. in Piano, Yale School of Music. Author: Closer Than Ever: The Unique Six-Decade Songwriting Partnership of Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire. Wonderful family: Joanne, Julian, Phoebe.

DAVID KRANE

(Dance Music Arranger) (he/him/his) Film/television: Best Picture Oscar winner Chicago, Nine, Into the Woods with Meryl Streep, My Week with Marilyn with Michelle Williams, Mrs. Santa Claus with Angela Lansbury, Cinderella with Whitney Houston, Annie with Kathy Bates, Mary Poppins Returns with Emily Blunt and the new live-action The Little Mermaid with Melissa McCarthy. Broadway: 35 shows including Cabaret with Alan Cumming, Kiss of the Spider Woman with Chita Rivera, Victor/Victoria with Julie Andrews, She Loves Me with Laura Benanti. Original shows: Aspire, The Road to Qatar!; his latest, Goin’ Hollywood will premiere in London next year goinhollywood.com, davidkrane.com, @davidkranemusic on Twitter and Instagram.

CAPARELLIOTIS CASTING

(Casting) The Old Globe: Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson - Apt 2B, Fat Ham, Stir, King James, English, The Age of Innocence, Exotic Deadly, Under a Baseball Sky, What We Talk About…, Dial M for Murder, Mala, Shutter Sisters, Hurricane Diane, Noura, They Promised Her the Moon, Tiny Beautiful Things, Barefoot in the Park, The Wanderers, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Skeleton Crew. Select Broadway: Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, Grey House, Ohio State Murders, Macbeth, The Minutes, King Lear, Hillary and Clinton, Ink, The Waverly Gallery, Meteor Shower, A Doll’s House, Part 2, Jitney, Blackbird, Disgraced. Additional theatre: MTC, Signature, Atlantic. Television: “New Amsterdam” (NBC), “American Odyssey” (NBC).

JESS SLOCUM

(Production Stage Manager) The Old Globe: Henry 6, The Age of Innocence, Twelfth Night, Under a Baseball Sky, Dial M for Murder, El Borracho, Hurricane Diane, Noura, They Promised Her the Moon, Familiar, The Imaginary Invalid, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Love’s Labor’s Lost, tokyo fish story, In Your Arms, Bright Star, Othello, Water by the Spoonful, Pygmalion, A Room with a View, Robin and the 7 Hoods, over 30 more. Regional: The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical; Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord; Indecent; Side Show; Ruined; The Third Story; Memphis (La Jolla Playhouse), Noura (Shakespeare Theatre Company). Education: Vanderbilt University.

AMANDA SALMONS

(Assistant Stage Manager) The Old Globe: Henry 6, Ride, Destiny of Desire, Come Fall in Love, Life After, The Blameless, October Sky, Rain, The Metromaniacs, The White Snake, Inherit the Wind, over 40 more productions. Regional: Blueprints to Freedom: An Ode to Bayard Rustin (La Jolla Playhouse), Kiss Me, Kate (Hartford Stage), The Foreigner, See How They Run, The Rivalry (Lamb’s Players Theatre). Education: UC San Diego.

KARLA GARCIA

(Assistant Stage Manager) The Old Globe: Measure for Measure As Production Assistant: Henry 6, Stir, King James, Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Cabaret, Exotic Deadly, Mala Education: M.A. in Theatre Arts from University of California, Santa Cruz.

RANDI RUDOLPH

(Associate Music Director) (she/her) is a conductor, music director, and collaborative pianist. Comfortable with a baton and at the keyboard, she is especially interested in works that bridge the gap between musical theater and opera. Recent music director credits include Tootsie, 42nd Street (Moonlight Amphitheater), Daddy Long Legs, A Chorus Line (Phoenix Theatre), Tick, Tick … Boom! (Cygnet Theatre), and Assoc. Musical Director for The Prom (First National). She recently completed her Doctorate of Musical Arts in Conducting at Arizona State University, where she researched rhythmic notation in Broadway pop rock scores. Masters of Music in

ARTISTS

Conducting from Ithaca College, and Bachelors of Arts in Music from Stanford University.

BARRY EDELSTEIN

(Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director) is a stage director, producer, author, and educator. His Globe directing credits include The Winter’s Tale, Othello, The Twenty-Seventh Man, the world premiere of Rain, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Hamlet, the world premiere of The Wanderers, the American premiere of Life After, Romeo and Juliet, the world premiere of What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, the two-part epic Henry 6, and, during the pandemic, Hamlet: On the Radio. He also directed All’s Well That Ends Well as the inaugural production of the Globe for All community tour, and he oversees the Globe’s Classical Directing Fellowship program. In addition to his recent Globe credits, he directed The Tempest with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2018 and The Wanderers Off Broadway with Roundabout Theatre Company in 2023. As Director of the Shakespeare Initiative at The Public Theater (2008–2012), Edelstein oversaw all of the company’s Shakespearean productions as well as its educational, community outreach, and artist-training programs. At The Public, he staged the world premiere of The Twenty-Seventh Man, Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice, Timon of Athens, and Steve Martin’s WASP and Other Plays. He was also Associate Producer of The Public’s Broadway production of The Merchant of Venice starring Al Pacino. From 1998 to 2003 he was Artistic Director of Classic Stage Company. His book Thinking Shakespeare is the standard text on American Shakespearean acting. He is also the author of Bardisms: Shakespeare for All Occasions. His podcast “Where There’s a Will: Finding Shakespeare” was produced by the Globe and Pushkin Industries. He is a graduate of Tufts University and the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.

TIMOTHY J. SHIELDS

(Audrey S. Geisel Managing Director) joined The Old Globe as Managing Director in 2017. In his time in San Diego, he has enjoyed becoming involved in the community. He currently serves as a board member of the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce’s LEAD program; an advisory board member of the San Diego Downtown Partnership; and a board and executive committee member of the Balboa Park Cultural Partnership. He brings to San Diego many decades of notfor-profit theatre experience. He was Managing Director of Princeton, New Jersey’s McCarter Theatre Center (2009-2017); Milwaukee Repertory Theater (1998–2009); and Geva Theatre Center in Rochester, New York (1992–1998). He has also held administrative positions at Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis, Denver Center Theatre Company, and McCarter Theatre Center in an earlier period of his career. He served as President of the League of Resident Theatres and as Vice President of the board at Theatre Communications Group. He has been the Chair of the ArtPride NJ board; a member of Milwaukee’s Latino Arts Board; and a board member of the Cultural Alliance of Greater Milwaukee. He holds a B.F.A. in Drama Production from Carnegie-Mellon University in his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

This theatre 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 Directors are members of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, an independent national labor union.

This Theatre operates under an Agreement with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local No. 122.

The Scenic, Costume, Lighting and Sound Designers in LORT Theatres are represented by United Scenic Artists Local USA-829, IATSE.

CASTING

CAPARELLIOTIS CASTING

David Caparelliotis, CSA

Joseph Gery

Elena Sgouros

Kim Heil

TAKING PHOTOS IN THE THEATRE

Audience members may take photos in the theatre before and after the performance and during intermission. If you post photos on social media or elsewhere, you must credit the production’s designers by including the names below.

Joh Lee Beatty, Scenic Design

Robery Morgan, Costume Design

Pat Collins, Lighting Design

Melanie Chen Cole, Sound Design www.melaniesound.com, @melaniechencole

Please note: Photos are strictly prohibited during the performance. Photos of the stage are not permitted if an actor is present. Video recording is not permitted at any time in the theatre.

PATRON INFORMATION

For more information about ticket policies and patron services, please visit www.TheOldGlobe.org.

a rts engageme n t a banner year for

Looking at the year in review, I see fresh vision aligned with excellence in programming, which provided magical, surprising, and impactful experiences for our many friends and partners. Here is just a glimpse into our year in Arts Engagement:

globe for all

Globe for All brings an abbreviated adaptation of a Shakespeare play to audiences that may have never interacted with Shakespeare or a live theatrical event, and is performed in their neighborhoods. Our play this year was As You Like It, and it delighted community members from Oceanside to Tijuana.

In 2024, Globe for All grew! Our beloved GFA went from a three-week tour to now being on the road for four weeks. We typically perform in churches, libraries, schools, correctional facilities, and community centers. This year we added new partners like TERI Campus of Life, which serves our neurodiverse friends in North County, as well as several new high schools and learning centers.

camp studio

Camp Studio made its premiere at the Old Globe serving nearly 60 students in second through eighth grades. This was the first camp held at The Old Globe for elementary and middle schoolaged children in over 20 years! Our camp attracted students from all over the region and we had a blast exploring classes like acting, puppetry and devised theatre, dance, and music. We are excited to add this program to our department’s mission.

H6 was a major milestone moment for our theatre. Thousands of San Diegans participated with some form of engagement that was facilitated by way of workshops, classes, walk-on opportunities, being filmed and incorporated into the play, or simply taking a moment to build a rose with us on the plaza. We did in fact make history with our partners and we are excited to see how this experience shaped our future.

Two of our Arts Engagement team members were selected to present their workshop titled, Reflecting Shakespeare: a Model for Building Performance and Communities in Vulnerable Populations at the International Teaching Artist Conference in New Zealand. We were thrilled to be able to represent The Old Globe and the important work facilitated by our rehabilitative program on an international stage!

henry 6 engagement

reflecting shakespeare abroad

PRODUCTION SPONSORS

GEORGE C. GUERRA

ARTIST SPONSOR

FOR ANDREW POLEC (THE GRINCH)

GEORGE S. DAVIS

GRINCH CHILDREN’S INITIATIVES SPONSORS

The Old Globe wishes to acknowledge and thank the following generous sponsors of the Children’s Initiatives for Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, including free student matinees for young children enrolled in Title I schools and a sensory-friendly performance for families.

CALIFORNIA ARTS COUNCIL

BENJAMIN AND KIMBERLY LEE PEGGY AND ROBERT MATTHEWS FOUNDATION VIASAT

Please join The Old Globe’s generous family of donors and help create theatre that lives beyond the stage. For more information on how to get involved with the Friends of The Old Globe, contact Dillon Hoban at (619) 684-4142 or dhoban@TheOldGlobe.org. To get involved as a Circle Patron with a gift of $3,000 or above, contact Bridget Cantu Wear at (619) 684-4144 or CirclePatrons@TheOldGlobe.org. Make a gift at any level online at www.TheOldGlobe.org/Donate. All donors receive special benefits and behind-the-scenes experiences that bring you closer to the theatre you love.

MEMBERS OF THE ARTS ENGAGEMENT GIVING CIRCLE

Thank you to Members of The Arts Engagement Giving Circle for ensuring the continued vibrancy and accessibility of the arts by supporting programs that engage, inspire, and make a lasting impact on youth, young adults, and families throughout San Diego and beyond.

Terry Atkinson

Sam Abney

Tom Bloom

Beth and Rich Brenner

MDM Foundation

Julia Carrington Hall

Linda Claytor

Elizabeth Cushman

Steve and Susan Davis

The Donna Van Eekeren Foundation

Elaine Galinson and Herb Solomon

Robert and Dorothy Ganz

George C. Guerra

Michael Kossman

Drs. Janice and Matt Kurth

Marcia A. Mattson

Michael and Christine Pack

Susan Parker

Barbara J. Petersen

Nancy J. Robertson

Amy Roth

Kathleen and Al Steele

Chris and Pat Weil

Anonymous

The Old Globe is deeply grateful to our Artistic Angels and Benefactors, whose vital support of the Annual Fund helps us make theatre matter to more people. For additional information on how to support the Globe at these extraordinary levels, please contact Bridget Cantu Wear at (619) 684-4144 or bcantuwear@TheOldGlobe.org.

Artistic Angels ($200,000 and higher annually)

FOR EMERGING ARTISTS

THE GENO BARCONE AND ED HASTINGS FUND FOR ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE

THE BERNARD J. EGGERTSEN, M.D. FUND

THE ESTATE OF DAVID J. NOVICK AND CAROL L. NOVICK

Benefactors ($100,000 to $199,999)

THE HENRY DONALD WOLPERT AND BARBARA WOLPERT FAMILY TRUST

THE ESTATE OF CAROLYN YORSTON-WELLCOME

THE JAMES SILBERRAD BROWN FOUNDATION AT THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION

ANONYMOUS (1)

†Charter Sponsor since 1995 *In Memoriam

The Theodor and Audrey Geisel Fund provides leadership support for The Old Globe’s year-round activities.

TERRY ATKINSON THE KAREN AND DONALD COHN† FUND

THE THEODOR AND AUDREY GEISEL FUND PAULA AND BRIAN POWERS THE ERNA FINCI VITERBI ARTISTIC DIRECTOR FUND In memory of Erna Finci Viterbi

ELAINE AND DAVE* DARWIN

ANN DAVIES

PAMELA FARR AND BUFORD ALEXANDER

HAL AND PAM FUSON

GEORGE C. GUERRA

JOAN* AND IRWIN JACOBS FUND OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

JEAN AND GARY SHEKHTER

DARLENE MARCOS SHILEY† In memory of Donald Shiley

KAREN AND STUART TANZ

GILLIAN AND TONY THORNLEY

EVELYN MACK TRUITT TRUST VICKI AND CARL ZEIGER

OUR THANKS

EXTRAORDINARY LEADERSHIP

Since the founding of The Old Globe in 1935, heroic leadership has made the theatre a cultural icon in San Diego and a leader in the American theatre. The following individuals and organizations, recognized for their tremendous cumulative giving, comprise a special group of friends who have played leading “behind-the-scenes” roles, helping to create productions on our three stages and our programs in the community.

— $25 million and higher —

The Theodor and Audrey Geisel Fund

Donald* and Darlene Shiley

— $11 million and higher —

Conrad Prebys*

City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture

— $10 million and higher —

Karen and Donald Cohn

—

$9 million and higher —

Sheryl and Harvey White

—

$7 million and higher —

Kathryn Hattox*

Viterbi Family and The Erna Finci

Viterbi Artistic Director Fund

—

$4 million and higher —

The James Irvine Foundation

Paula and Brian Powers

The Shubert Foundation

—

$3 million and higher — David C. Copley Foundation County of San Diego

— $1 million and higher —

Mary Beth Adderley

Terry Atkinson Bank of America

Bentivoglio Family Fund

Diane and John* Berol

Stephen and Mary Birch Foundation, Inc.

California Arts Council, A State Agency

California Bank & Trust

California Cultural & Historical Endowment

J. Dallas and Mary Clark*

The Roy Cockrum Foundation

Joseph Cohen and Martha Farish

Peter Cooper and Erik Matwijkow

Valerie and Harry Cooper

Elaine and Dave* Darwin

Ann Davies

Una Davis and Jack McGrory

Silvija and Brian Devine

Helen Edison*

Pamela Farr and Buford

Alexander

Hal and Pam Fuson

Globe Guilders

HM Electronics, Inc.

Joan* and Irwin Jacobs

PUBLIC SUPPORT

The Kresge Foundation

The Lipinsky Family

Estate of Beatrice Lynds*

Peggy and Robert Matthews Foundation

National Endowment for the Arts

Victor H.* and Jane Ottenstein

Prebys Foundation

Price Philanthropies Foundation

Estate of Dorothy S. Prough*

Qualcomm

Jeannie and Arthur Rivkin*

Jean and Gary Shekhter

Karen and Stuart Tanz

Theatre Forward

Gillian and Tony Thornley

Evelyn Mack Truitt*

United Wells Fargo

Carolyn Yorston-Wellcome*

Vicki and Carl Zeiger

Anonymous (1)

*In memoriam

CORPORATE DONORS

Artistic Angels

($200,000 and higher annually)

Circle ($75,000 to $99,999)

Artist Circle ($25,000 to $49,999)

Director Circle ($10,000 to $24,999)

Benefactors

($100,000 to $199,999)

to $74,999)

Founder Circle ($5,000 to $9,999)

AssuredPartners

Books & Records

Higgs Fletcher & Mack, LLP

Marsh & McLennan Agency

Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP TravelStruck Vino Carta

Noel Circle ($3,000 to $4,999)

Edward Jones Financial Advisor, David S. Tam

Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Ranch & Coast Magazine

RKG Wealth Management

Become a Corporate Partner of The Old Globe. Contact Doug Oliphant at (619) 684-4140 or doliphant@TheOldGlobe.org.

Craig

Ovation

Producer Circle ($50,000

OUR THANKS ANNUAL FUND DONORS

In order to make theatre matter in the lives of more people, The Old Globe—a not-for-profit theatre—relies on the support of our community. We thank our Circle Patrons and Friends of The Old Globe members for these generous annual fund gifts that help us deliver great theatre and life-changing arts engagement programs.

Artistic Angels ($200,000 and higher annually)

Terry Atkinson

The Geno Barcone and Ed Hastings Fund for Artistic Excellence

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

The City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture

The Roy Cockrum Foundation

The Karen and Donald Cohn Fund for Emerging Artists

The Estate of Bernard J. Eggertsen, M.D.

The Theodor and Audrey Geisel Fund

HM Electronics, Inc.

The Estate of David J. Novick and Carol L. Novick

Benefactors ($100,000 to $199,999)

The James Silberrad Brown Foundation at the San Diego Foundation

California Arts Council, A State Agency

Elaine and Dave* Darwin Ann Davies ♥

Pamela Farr and Buford Alexander ♥

Hal and Pam Fuson ♥

George C. Guerra

Joan* and Irwin Jacobs Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation

Ovation Circle ($75,000 to $99,999)

Diane Berol in memory of John Berol

Ric and Eleanor Charlton

Elizabeth Cushman

Edelman Laurents / Hatcher Foundation

Producer Circle ($50,000 to $74,999)

Jules and Michele Arthur

Beth and Richard Brenner

Nikki and Ben Clay ♥

The Joseph Cohen and Martha Farish New Play Development Fund ♥

Mr. and Mrs.*

Brian K. Devine ♥

Leonard Hirsch, in memory of Elaine Hirsch

Susan and Bill Hoehn

Las Patronas

Carol and George Lattimer

Artist Circle ($25,000 to $49,999)

Alicia and Jonathan Atun

Bank of America

Break-Away Tours

Christian and Bridget Buckley ♥

California Bank & Trust

California Humanities

City National Bank

David C. Copley Foundation

County of San Diego

George Davis

Elaine Galinson and Herb Solomon

Richard and Jennifer Greenfield

Deborah A. and David A. Hawkins

Hervey Family NonEndowment Fund at

The San Diego Foundation

Sonia and Andy* Israel

Jerri-Ann and Gary Jacobs

Dr. William and Evelyn Lamden

Pamela Hamilton Lester in memory of Jim Lester

Paula and Brian Powers ♥

Prebys Foundation

Price Philanthropies Foundation

Darlene Marcos Shiley, in memory of Donald Shiley

The Shubert Foundation

The Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director Fund ♥

The Henry Donald Wolpert and Barbara Wolpert Family Trust

The Estate of Carolyn Yorston-Wellcome

Qualcomm

Jean and Gary Shekhter ♥

Darlene Marcos Shiley, in memory of Donald Shiley

Karen and Stuart Tanz ♥

Gillian and Tony Thornley

The Estate of Evelyn Mack Truitt

Vicki and Carl Zeiger ♥ Anonymous (1)

United Pamela J. Wagner and Hans Tegebo

Sheryl and Harvey White Foundation

Sue and Edward “Duff” Sanderson

Les J. Silver and Andrea Rothschild-Silver

U.S. Bank

The Donna Van Eekeren Foundation

Sandy and Arthur* Levinson

The Lodge at Torrey Pines

Lolly & Duck

Susan and John Major

MDM Foundation

National Endowment for the Arts

Nordson Corporation Foundation

Michael and Christine Pack

Patrons of the Prado

Barbara J. Petersen

Tom and Lisa Pierce

The Westgate Hotel

The Estate of Jeffrey E. White

Wilkinson Family Charitable Fund

Brent Woods and Laurie Mitchell

PNC Bank

The Prado at Balboa Park

The Allison and Robert Price Family Foundation

Richard and Shari Sapp

Sempra

University of San Diego

Urban Kitchen Catering

Viasat

Anonymous (2)

Director Circle ($10,000 to $24,999)

Applegate Family Foundation Fund at Rancho Santa Fe Foundation

Karen and Jim Austin ♥

Jan and Rich Baldwin

Melissa Garfield Bartell and Michael Bartell

Joan and Jeremy Berg

The Sheri and Les Biller

Family Foundation

The Bjorg Family

Robert D. Blanton

Bright Event Rentals

Robert and Pamela Brooks

George and Karen Bullette

Joanie and Pete Camana

Alice and YT Chen, The Chenzyme Foundation

Cox Communications

Creative Partners Productions

Carlo and Nadine Daleo

Marguerite Jackson Dill, in memory of George Dill ♥

Nina and Robert Doede

Douglas Druley and Judee Sedler

Leon Embry

Enberg Charitable Foundation

Dan and Phyllis Epstein

The Estate of Mr. and Mrs.

Robert M. (Bea) Epsten

Carol Spielman-Ewan and Joel Ewan

Susanna and Michael Flaster

Drs. Jane and Tom* Gawronski

Carol L. Githens

Kimberly Godwin and Tom Wilcox

William D. Gore

The Gruber Family Trust

Nishma and John Held

Laurie Sefton Henson

Kate Herring ♥

In Memory of James Jessop Hervey

Teresa and Harry Hixson, Jr.

John and Sally Hood

HoyleCohen, LLC

Thao and Jeff Hughes

Gail and Doug Hutcheson

Jerry and Nina Jackson

Jay Jeffcoat

Robert Kilian, in memory of Kathleen M. Slayton

John Kirby, in loving memory of Anthony Toia

Sherry and Larry Kline

Curt and Nancy Koch

Brooke Koehler

Jules and Gwen Knapp Charitable Foundation

Drs. Janice and Matt Kurth

Laura Kyle, in memory of Bob Kyle♥

James and Jan LaGrone ♥

Peter and Michelle Landin

Founder Circle ($5,000 to $9,999)

Benjamin and Kimberly Lee

Verónica and Miguel Leff

Sheila and Jeffrey Lipinsky

Marshall Littman

Peggy and Robert Matthews Foundation

Marcia A. Mattson

Thomas and Randi McKenzie

Don and Judy McMorrow ♥

Christopher Menkov and Jennifer Fisher in memory of Elizabeth Meyer

Mid-America Arts Alliance

Jennifer Moores and Family

Judith Morgan

Geri Musser

National Endowment for the Arts

Darrell Netherton and Robert Wheeler

Caroline and Nicolas Nierenberg

Polly and Greg Noel

Jerry and Phyllis Olefsky

Open Gym Holdings

Susan Parker

David and Mary Ann Petree

John and Marcia Price Family Foundation

Joan and Richard Qualls

RAHD Group

Gerry and Jeannie Ranglas

ResMed Foundation

Vivian Reznik, M.D. and Andrew Ries, M.D.

Kalpana and James Rhodes

Robert Rosenberg

Joan G. Salb & Jack B. Salb Trust

San Diego Municipal Employees Association

Drs. Joseph and Gloria Shurman

Stan Siegel

Dee E. Silver, M.D.

Snake Oil Cocktail Company

Special Event Audio Services, Inc.

Kathleen and Al Steele

The Harold and Mimi

Steinberg Charitable Trust

Bill and Diane Stumph

Greta and Stephen Treadgold

Debra Turner

Stanley and Anita Ulrich

Sue and Bill* Weber

Chris and Pat Weil

Shirli Weiss and Sons

Stephen and Joy Weiss ♥

Dr. Steve and Lynne Wheeler

James E. and Kathryn A. Whistler

Karin Winner

Chester Yamaga and Jean Samuels ♥

Anonymous (2)

AssuredPartners • Barry and Susan Austin ♥ • David A. and Jill Wien Badger • Gary and Barbara Blake • Dr. Herman and Irene Boschken • James and Karen Brailean • Mr. and Mrs. William Briggs • Nancy and Matt Browar • Julia R. Brown • Marc and Patty Brutten • Glenn and Jolie Buberl • Harry and Sandra Carter ♥ • Greg and Loretta Cass • Carol and Jeff Chang ♥ • Vicki Colasurdo • Cliff and Carolyn Colwell • Dale Connelly • Pamela Cooper • Jane Cowgill • Connie Custer • Michael and Sheryl Durkin • Berit and Tom Durler • Richard Forsyth and Kate Leonard • Bill and Judy Garrett • Joyce Gattas • Mr. William and Dr. Susan Glockner • Cheryl Haimsohn • Guy and Laura Halgren • Norm Hapke and Valerie Jacobs Hapke • The Harris Family Trust • Higgs Fletcher & Mack, LLP • The Estate of Alexa Hirsch • Dana Hosseini and Stacie Young • Wayne Hyatt • Hal and Debby Jacobs • Deni Jacobs and James Hammermeister • David K. Jordan • Michael Keefe • The Honorable Julia Kelety • Webster B. and Helen W. Kinnaird • Y. Sachiko Kohatsu • Jean* and David Laing ♥ • Ronald and Ruth W. Leonardi • Paul Levin and Joanna Hirst • Jackie and Charlie Mann Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation • Marsh & McLennan Agency • Cynthia McIntyre • Elizabeth and Edward McIntyre • Bob Meinzer Jr. and Steve McIntee • Paul and Maggie Meyer • Rebecca Moores • Mark C. Niblack, M.D. • The Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation • Bernard Paul and Maria Sardina • Scott Peters and Lynn Gorguze • Gale and James Petrie • Peggy and Peter Preuss • Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP • Julia and Alexa Querin • Joseph and Sara Reisman Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation • Ann and Tim Rice • Russ and Marty Ries • Jeannie and Arthur Rivkin* • Nancy J. Robertson • Dennis and Rosy Roccaforte • Tina Rounsavell • Colette Carson Royston and Ivor Royston • Blair and Georgia Sadler • Rich and Christy Scannell • Robert and Nancy Selander • Robert and Lisa Shaw • Lari Sheehan • Sing Your Song, Inc. • Dave and Phyllis Snyder • Nancy and Alan Spector and Family • Brenda and Robert Tomaras • Dr. Doris Trauner and Mr. Richard Stanford • TravelStruck • C. Anne Turhollow, in memory of Michael J. Perkins ♥ • Carol and Larry Veit • The Vigil Family • Vino Carta • Lian von Wantoch, in memory of Jordine and Harvey Von Wantoch ♥ • Judith Wenker • The Wickline Family • Britt Zeller • Emma and Leo Zuckerman • Anonymous (6)

OUR THANKS

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Barry Edelstein

Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director

ARTISTIC

Kim Heil · Artistic Producer and Head of Casting Aleksej Aarsaether, Becks Redman · Associate Producers

ARTS ENGAGEMENT

Adena Varner · Director of Arts Engagement

Erika Phillips · Senior Programs Manager

Randall Eames · Youth Programs Manager

Valeria Vega · Family and Cross-Cultural Programs Manager

Rachel Catalano, Mayté Martinez, James Pillar, Gill Sotu · Arts Engagement Programs Associates

Denise Lopez · Arts Engagement Coordinator

Askari Abdul-Muntaqim, Kayla Adorno, Kayla Bowman, Summer Broyhill, Veronica Burgess, Faith Carrion, Lettie De Anda, Vanessa Duron, Berto Fernández, Gerardo Flores Tonella, Alyssa Kane, Kimberly King, Molly Maslak, Jake Millgard, Zhiely Monraz, Kayla René, Tara Ricasa, Isabel Rodriguez, Soroya Rowley, Jassiel Santillán, Catherine Hanna Schrock, Winnie Sherrod, Sierra, Amira Temple, Scott Tran, Miki Vale, Ramon Villa, Thelma Virata de Castro, Eric Weiman · Teaching Artists

EQUITY, DIVERSITY, INCLUSION, AND ACCESS

Jamila Demby · Director of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Access

FINANCE

Michelle Yeager · Director of Finance

Miranda Osguthorpe · Senior Accountant

Eugene Landsman · Payroll Administrator

Trish Guidi · Accountant

Lisa Sanger-Greshko · Accounts Payable/Payroll Assistant

GENERAL MANAGEMENT

Alexander Orbovich · General Manager

Alexandra Hisserich · Associate General Manager

Jeff Sims · Assistant General Manager

Carolyn Budd · Assistant to the Artistic and Managing Directors

Tim Cole · Receptionist

FACILITIES

Crescent Jakubs · Facilities Director

TJ Miller · Custodial Supervisor

Patrick Aguayo, Raul Alatorre, Arturo Barajas, Violanda Corona, Brandon Hession, Eddie Johnson, Milton Johnson, Carolina Lopez de Orellana, Kevin Ortiz, Carlos Perez, Victor Quiroz, Carlos Ragsdale, Vicente Ramos, Devonte Wallace, Ellie Webb, Breyona Williams · Building Staff

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Dean Yager · Information Technology Director

Justin Brown · Systems Administrator

Brittany Summers · Information Technology Assistant

FRONT OF HOUSE

Katie Lugo · Front of House Manager

Oliver de Luz · Associate Front of House Manager

Alex Bezdeka, Emily Bruning, Jillian Jones, Victoria Weller, Arianna Yunker · House Managers

HELEN EDISON GIFT SHOP

Barbara Behling, Joey Ramone Ugalde, Chris Woodward · Gift Shop Supervisors

LADY CAROLYN’S PUB

Patrice Aguayo · Pub Manager

Kimberly Belliard, Deborah Montes, Rashad Williams · Pub Shift Supervisors

Darlene Barnes, Martin Carranza, Cole Christensen, Miriam Duenas, Elizabeth Herrera, Shah Kalbassi, Ian Lacy, James Lyon, Lachlan MacDonald, Nicholas Pettas, Johnny Quiroz, Juan Vazquez · Pub Staff

PUBLIC SAFETY

Shea Husted · Public Safety Lead

Perla Aguilera, Michelle Ambriz, Joe Lams, Janet Larson, Megan Mair, Chris Moore, Omar Ortega, Aisha Parker, Dan Steinshouer, Andrew Vargas, Jose Vizcaino · Public Safety Team

HUMAN RESOURCES

Sandy Parde · Director of Human Resources

Lorraine Gutierrez · Human Resources Assistant

MARKETING

Timothy J. Shields

Audrey S. Geisel Managing Director

Dave Henson · Director of Marketing and Communications

Patty Onagan Consulting · Public Relations Director

Nina Garin · Associate Director of Marketing and Communications

Joyelle Cabato · Marketing Manager

Chanel Cook · Digital and Print Publications Designer

Rita Corona · Communications Associate

Hotaru Morita · Marketing Database Analyst

Stephanie Ochoa · Public Relations Associate

Katie Rodriguez · Marketing Assistant

SUBSCRIPTION SALES

Scott Cooke · Subscription Sales Manager

Arthur Faro, Janet Kavin, Ken Seper, Grant Walpole · Subscription Sales Representatives

TICKET SERVICES

Brianne Siegel · Director of Ticket Services

Cynthia Navarro · Assistant Director of Ticket Services

Mio Rose Aldana, Junior Denton · Lead Ticket Services Representatives Matt Pequeno · Group Sales Manager/Lead Ticket Services Representative

Manuel Aguilar, Carmen Amon, Kari Archer, Monjolaoluwa Awokoya, Tyler Blevins, Angel Cruz, Kelsey Gonzalez, Caroline Hyatt, Melyssa Mason, Jessica Pressman, Bao Tran Ticket Services Representatives

NEW PLAYS AND DRAMATURGY

Danielle Mages Amato · Director of New Plays and Dramaturgy

PHILANTHROPY

Lauren Bergquist · Director of Philanthropy

Beth Brenner · Interim Director of Philanthropy

Bridget Cantu Wear · Deputy Director of Philanthropy

Anne Myers · Associate Director of Philanthropy, Major Gifts

Doug Oliphant · Associate Director of Philanthropy, Annual Giving and Operations

Jes Wade · Associate Director of Philanthropy

Janet Myott · Philanthropy Administrator

Kathy Fineman · Donor Stewardship Coordinator

Dillon Hoban · Annual Giving Coordinator

Caren Dufour · Philanthropy Assistant

Kassi Tompkins Gray · Events Director

Sara Stavros · Events and Engagement Associate

Jerilyn Hammerstrom · Donor Stewardship and Special Events

Josh Rodriguez · Event Specialist

Kaya Ortega · Institutional Giving Associate

DONOR SERVICES

Corinne Bagnol, Adriane Carneiro, Felicita Johnson, Robert Lang, Barbara Lekes, Bridget Murphy, David Owen, Isabella Pimentel, Stephanie Reed, Barry Rose, Frank Kensaku Saragosa, Izzy Trichet, Vanessa Vargas · Suite Concierges

PRODUCTION

Robert Drake · Senior Producer

Benjamin Thoron · Production Manager

Leila Knox · Associate Production Manager and Production Stage Manager

Debra Pratt Ballard · Producing Associate Ron Cooling · Company Manager

David McMaines · Assistant Company Manager

Kevin Sakrekoff · Production Office Coordinator

TECHNICAL

Joe Powell · Technical Director

Lucas Skoug · Assistant Technical Director

Eileen McCann · Charge Scenic Artist

Audrey Casteris · Resident Design Assistant

Diana Rendon · Scenery Office Coordinator

Gillian Kelleher · Head Shop Carpenter

Matt Giebe · Head Shop Carpenter, LDF

Brandon Resenbeck · Stage Carpenter/Head Rigger, OGT

Jason Chohon · Charge Carpenter, SHW

Chris Bridges, Keri Ciesielski, Evan Gove, Eddie Hernandez, Sloan Holly, Logan Little, Michael Lovett, Michael Przybylek, Albert Rubidoux, James Seiveno, William Slaybaugh, Jazen Sveum · Carpenters

W. Adam Bernard · Lead Scenic Artist

Jessica Amador, Sami Leon, Marie Mateo, HannaH Murdoch · Scenic Artists

COSTUMES

Barb Hicks · Costume Director

Anne Stoup · Assistant to the Costume Director

Katie Knox · Design Assistant/Shopper

Natalie Barshow · Design Assistant

Erin Cass, Kathie Taylor · Drapers

Allison McCann, Abigail Zielke · Assistant Cutters

Nunzia Pecoraro, Heather Premo · Stitchers

Kristin Womble · Craft Supervisor/Dyer/Painter

Christian Woods · Lead Craft Artisan

Megan Woodley · Wig and Makeup Supervisor

Carissa Ohm · Assistant Wig and Makeup Supervisor

Colin Grice · Wig Assistant

Beth Merriman · Wardrobe Supervisor

Kelly Marie Collett-Sarmiento · Wardrobe Crew Lead, OGT

Jazmine Choi · Lead Wig Crew, OGT

Sunny Haines · Wig/Wardrobe Crew, OGT

Maggie Allen · Wardrobe Crew, OGT

Chanel Mahoney · Wardrobe Swing, OGT

Ruby Hays · Wardrobe Crew Lead, SHW

Grace Wong · Wardrobe Crew, SHW

Rue Jarrett · Wig Crew, SHW

Stephanie Castro · Wardrobe Swing, SHW

PROPERTIES

David Buess · Properties Director

Kayleb Kirby, Carolina Lopez · Assistant Properties Directors

Jeff Rockey · Supervising Lead Properties Artisan

Kevin Hoffman · Lead Properties Artisan

Heather Larson, Trish Rutter ·Properties Artisans

James Ramirez · Properties Head, OGT

Richard Rossi · Stage and Properties Head, SHW

Val Philyaw · Properties Head, LDF

Cain Hause · Properties Run Crew

Kevin Orlof · Properties Run Crew Swing

LIGHTING

Stevie Agnew · Lighting Director

Stephanie Lasater · Assistant Lighting Director

Deanna Trethewey · Lighting Assistant

Ryan Osborn · Head Electrician, OGT

Jessica Dean · Head Electrician, SHW

Ashley McFall · Head Electrician, LDF

Jasmin Guldner, Matt Wallace · Followspot Operators

Willow Chan, Brycen Deters, Jasmin Guldner, Logan

Little, Sandra Navarro, Aaron Pavlica, Robert Thoman, Matt Wallace, Maxton Wallet · Electricians

SOUND

Erin Paige-Bhamrah · Sound Director

Evan Eason · Assistant Sound Director

Jennifer Lopez · Head Sound Technician, OGT

Matt Lescault-Wood · Head Sound Technician, SHW

Brandon Ali Boomizad · Head Sound Technician, LDF

Marilynn Do · Deck Audio, OGT

Chloe Lias, Aiko Whitmore · Deck Audio, LDF

Sunny Haines Neitzel · Audio Swing

Aaron DeMuth, Phillip Murphy, Tanner Osborne, David Westfall · Sound Technicians

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

Jesse Perez · Director of Professional Training

Nicole Ries · Program Coordinator

Danielle Mages Amato, Sheri Barber, Elisa Benzoni, Ray Chambers, Nathan Crocker, Gerhard Gessner, Ellie Guans, Alex Henrikson, Ka’imi Kuoha, Jesse Marchese, Emmelyn Thayer, Eileen Troberman, James Vásquez · M.F.A. Faculty

Jacob Bruce, Nate Parde · M.F.A. Production Staff

Jack O’Brien · Artistic Director Emeritus

Craig Noel · Founding Director

OGT = Old Globe Theatre

SHW = Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre

LDF = Lowell Davies Festival Theatre

ON TRACK!

The coast-hugging Pacific Surfliner offers 11 round trips daily between SoCal’s major performing-arts hubs by BENJAMIN EPSTEIN

Live in San Diego and want to see Gustavo Dudamel lead the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall before he takes over at the New York Philharmonic—but don’t want to face five or more hours driving there and back? Not to mention parking and gas?

Live in Los Angeles and want to experience San Diego’s newly renovated Jacobs Music Center or spectacular on-thewater Rady Shell—both of them homes of the San Diego Symphony? Ditto the driving? Readers of Performances Magazine in both cities might consider Amtrak’s Pacific Surfliner—and relax. Listen to music. Read or listen to a book. Watch a movie on your phone. Have a glass of wine. Enjoy the ocean views.

Not surprisingly, the coasthugging Surfliner train represents the second busiest

intercity passenger rail corridor in the U.S. There are 11 round trips daily between San Diego and Los Angeles.

Seating can be Unreserved Coach or

reserved and roomier Business Class upstairs. The Market Cafe offers sandwiches, salads, snacks and sweets; plus craft beer, California wines and cocktails.

Surfliner stops include San Diego’s Santa Fe Depot and L.A.’s Union Station, Spanish Baroque and Mission Moderne masterpieces, respectively. Both are very

near those cities’ major performing-arts venues.

San Diego to Los Angeles TAKE THE SURFLINER from Santa Fe Depot or Old Town to Union

At the Conrad: bar (left) and Japanese whisky milk punch at San Laurel.

Station in downtown Los Angeles; the Los Angeles Music Center is minutes by Uber/Lyft from the station entrance.

Music Center venues include Walt Disney Concert Hall, home of the L.A. Phil and L.A. Master Chorale; the Ahmanson Theatre and Mark Taper Forum, premiere destinations for L.A. theater; and Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, venue for L.A. Opera and the center’s dance series.

You can stay directly opposite the Frank Gehrydesigned Disney Hall, with its asymmetric sweeping curves, at the Conrad

From left: San Laurel's terrace view of Walt Disney Concert Hall; San Laurel's fennel soup.

TRAVEL

Los Angeles, another expression of Gehry’s West Coast modernism. The hotel is centerpiece for The Grand, a Gehrydesigned $1 billion development.

The Conrad is also steps from the land-

mark Broad Museum of Contemporary Art, as well as the Colburn School of Music and MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art).

An arts anchor for the Grand itself is on tap for 2025: Refik Anadol

Studio’s Dataland. The world’s first museum of AI arts, it promises experiences blending “human imagination and artificial intelligence.”

Accommodations at the 305-room luxury Conrad hotel feature floor-to-ceiling windows; there’s a new spa and a rooftop pool and bar with downtown views.

On-property dining: Celebrity chef José Andrés presents the cuisine of his native Spain through a California lens at San Laurel; cocktails are superb. Its terrace directly overlooks Disney Hall.

Off-property: Beautiful new Camélia is a FrenchJapanese bistro in downtown’s Arts District; its owners—chef and beverage director, respectively—are highly regarded for their izakaya and sake bar in nearby Echo Park.

Los Angeles to San Diego SAN DIEGO’S SANTA Fe Depot straddles the waterfront Embarcadero and the city’s Gaslamp Quarter, its celebrated dining-entertainment hub. The station is less than a mile to either of San Diego Symphony’s primary performance venues.

The Broad Museum of Contemporary Art. Below: Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Opposite from top: Camélia's dining room; Halcyon Days nonalcoholic cocktail; the tomato shiso burrata.

Charismatic music director Rafael Payare leads the orchestra at the Jacobs Music Center downtown, recently reopened following a $125 million renovation; and the spectacular outdoor Rady Shell at Jacobs Park, opposite historical Coronado.

The Jacobs Center began life as the Fox Theatre movie palace in 1929. The orchestra took it over, and extensively renovated it, 40 years ago. Its elaborate decor remains; remarkably, rising above it since 1989 is late-modernist Symphony Towers, second tallest skyscraper in San Diego.

The center’s recent revitalization adds a tunable acoustic canopy, state-of-the-art digital sound and lighting, performance configuration including a choral terrace and embedded Robert Morton pneumatic pipe organ, new seating and finishes, restored archi-

RICHARD BARNES

San Diego Symphony at the Jacobs Music Center TRAVEL

tectural details, and enhanced amenities.

The center is a fiveminute walk from the Alma boutique hotel, newly added to Marriott Bonvoy’s Tribute Portfolio. Alma’s design celebrates the region’s Mexican heritage, street culture and tattoo-inspired art.

Notable among some 200 accommodations are four penthouse suites with differing floor-toceiling views of the Pacific Ocean, Coronado and downtown.

On property dining: The Café offers all meals daily; dinner highlights are as diverse as Japanesepurple-potato patatas bravas, braised-lamb rigatoni, and swordfish with coconut forbidden rice.

Off-property: Consider Asian-inspired steakhouse Animae from chefs Brian Malarkey and Tara Monsod; it's newly Michelin-listed and just around the corner from Santa Fe Depot.

Because one performance can change a life.

whenever one dives into its pages or sits down to watch an interpretation of it on film or on stage. Therefore, when I adapted the book, I passionately committed to bring the experience of the show to the stage as written by Mr. Dickens, himself.”

Murray says he hasn’t added anything to A Christmas Carol, but rather reduced it to the essentials. “It is a magical story that covers so much ground, travels through time, ghosts, celebrations of family, homey Christmas dinners, darkness and light. My feeling is that the best version is the one that happens in one’s mind while reading or listening to it. The audience visualizes the special effects to their likings. So, we present the story in a highly theatrical way that welcomes the audiences’ imaginations to fill in the visuals through the use of puppetry, music, live sound effects, and a storytelling approach that invites the audience to participate with us in reexploring this story.

“I let Dickens do the work, and try to get out of his way and just support him with a staging that invites all to rehear and rediscover why this story is so universal. Not as many people have read

“Our version is based largely upon Dickens’ own quite brutal edit of his original manuscript, that he delighted in performing for audiences up until his death.”— Jefferson Mays

the book as one might think; or their opinions may be based upon film versions and other interpretations. But ours goes back to the source at every level, and people new to our production are surprised to hear it as if completely new to them.”

At The Old Globe, A Christmas Carol will be pared down in a different way: as a oneperson show. Written by Jefferson Mays, Susan Lyons and Michael Arden, and directed by the Globe’s Barry Edelstein, A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story Told by Jefferson Mays sees Mays return to the Globe Dec. 12-22, after his San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Award–winning 2013 performance

February 21-23, 2025 at the San Diego Hilton Del Mar

The San Diego Jazz Party has more than 20 of today’s top Mainstream Jazz Performance Artists from around the world. Enjoy live music in an informal jazz club environment at the San Diego Hilton in Del Mar. Attendees can choose the full weekend or special focused programs within the Jazz Party. The Hilton Hotel is offering special rates for those who choose to stay at the hotel.

You may come for the full weekend as a Patron with reserved table seating and full access to all performances including a brunch on Saturday. Or you may purchase tickets for Friday, Saturday, or Sunday performances. This is a unique opportunity to hear some of today’s greatest Jazz Artists performing together right here in San Diego.

Friday Night $55

This intimate evening features Denny Ilett crooning the songs and music from Ol’ Blue Eyes, along with other great classics performed by our talented musicians.

Saturday Night $55

A Taste of Jazz features

Lizzy & the Triggermen performing ‘30s & ‘40s big band favorites. Dance and enjoy the music from The Great American Songbook

Denny Ilett

Lizzy

THE CONRAD

in A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder. Mays will portray more than 50 beloved characters from the classic—from Scrooge and Marley to Tiny Tim and the three Ghosts—in a new version of his acclaimed one-man show.

Joyce DiDonato and Kings Return with Craig Terry: KINGS ReJOYCE!

Some of today’s top vocalists join forces for an unforgettable evening of holiday favorites.

Spanish Harlem Orchestra: Salsa Navidad

Saturday, December 14 • 7:30 PM

Spanish and American holiday songs get an energetic Latin twist with the GRAMMY®-winning Spanish Harlem Orchestra.

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“I think A Christmas Carol is the secondgreatest Christmas story ever told,” Mays says. “Its themes of family, loss, loneliness, poverty, kindness, community, charity, mortality and love are, of course, timeless; and it’s hard to find anything to match it as a tale of personal transformation and redemption. Full of indelible characters who’ve independently impressed themselves upon our collective consciousness, it is shot through with Dickens’ exuberant energy, humor, sense of the grotesque, compassion and social

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Miles G. Jackson and Marco Barricelli in rehearsal at La Jolla Playhouse.

outrage. I don’t think anyone leaving the theater after a production of A Christmas Carol can fail to be affected by it, and be reminded of our shared humanity, and responsibility to one another.

“Our play, unlike the often large and lavish

the audience will delight in hearing Dickens’ own narrative voice, often absent in more fully realized

Adapted by Lance Arthur Smith Original Songs & Arrangements by Jon Lorenz

adaptations.”

Mays points out his solo show will be performed with minimal technical support, and in the round. “I hope it will be like hearing a tale told around a fireside after dinner,” he says. “I will let Dickens’ brilliant words drive and shape the evening, and trust that the most wonderful special effects will be produced in the imaginations of the audience. I hope that this will be an evening which reduces (and perhaps ultimately expands) theater in its purest form: an actor, an engaged, imaginative audience, and a cracking good yarn.”

At La Jolla Playhouse, Your Local Theater Presents: A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, Again is not an adaptation of the classic holiday tale, but rather a comedy about a young actor fresh out of Juilliard named Eddie. He’s hoping to make his mark on the American Theatre, but first has to

San Diego Holiday Classic!

Music by Vince Guaraldi, arranged by Peter Sprague

Playwright Anna Ouyang Moench

“A Christmas Carol is one of the great stories about change—that people can change, that awful people can change into something new, something better.”— Les Waters

pay his dues in a regional production of A Christmas Carol—year after year. The play stays the same, but Eddie finds himself in different costumes as he ages through the male roles over the course of his career. It’s written by award-winning playwright and screenwriter, Anna Ouyang Moench, who received her MFA in Playwriting from UC San Diego; and directed by Les Waters, an Obie Award-winning and Tony-nominated director.

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Your Local Theater Presents: A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, Again receives its world premiere at the Playhouse Nov. 19-Dec. 15.

“A Christmas Carol is one of the great stories about change—that people can change, that awful people can change into something new, something better,” says Waters. “It’s about transformation, and theater at its most essential is about transformation. Anna’s play is an entirely new play about the actors and stage managers who make this much beloved holiday tradition year after year. [It’s] both satire and a love letter to all the people who sacrifice many things in order to make something that audiences cherish.”

Regardless of context, the appeal of A Christmas

Leukemia survivor Avila with her mom at the 2023 Padres Summer Blood Drive.

At La Jolla Playhouse: the set; and actors Juliet Brett and Miles G. Jackson in rehearsal.

Carol seems to be in no danger of waning. “It’s a redemption story. Everyone loves those!” says Edelstein, who is also The Old Globe’s Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director. “Ebenezer Scrooge is an angry, self-centered narcissist who lives entirely cut off from any kind of productive human interaction. The three spirits he meets—past, present and future—show him how necessary it is to make simple, loving connections to others. His last-minute transformations, from loner to family man, from miser to philanthropist, from curmudgeon to delight, inspire us to turn away from our own ‘scrooginess’ and love the people around us.”

For tickets and more info on these three local holiday productions, visit cygnettheatre.com, theoldglobe.org and lajollaplayhouse.org

reprogrammed !

Performances Magazine unveils a digital program platform for shows and concerts

DROP DOWN MENU Table of app contents.

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Stay arts-engaged, access past programs.

THE ESSENTIALS Acts, scenes, synopses, repertory and notes.

CONTRIBUTORS

Donors and sponsors who make it all possible—you!

NO RUSTLING PAGES, no killing trees . . . The new Performances program platform, accessed on any digital device, is among the more enduring innovations to have come out of the pandemic. The platform provides the programs for 20 Southern California performing-arts organizations, from the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Ahmanson Theatre to San Diego Opera, where the app made its debut.

The touchless platform provides cast and player bios, donor and season updates and numerous other

arts-centric features. Audiences receive a link and a code word that instantly activate the app; QR codes are posted, too.

Screens go dark when curtains go up and return when house lights come back on. Updates—such as repertory changes, understudy substitutions and significant new donations—can be made right up to showtime, no inserts necessary. Other features include video and audio streams, translations and expanded biographies.

For those who consider printed

SEARCH

Find whatever it is you want to know—easily.

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Link to your performing-arts companies and venues.

THE PLAYERS

Bios and background for cast, crew and creators.

WHAT’S ON

What’s coming at a glance and ticket information.

programs to be keepsakes, a limited number, as well as commemorative issues for special events, continue to be produced. Collectibles!

Meanwhile, there is less deforestation, consumption of petroleum inks and programs headed for landfills. For the ecologically minded, the platform gets a standing ovation.

When theaters and concert halls reopened after their long intermission, the digital Performances was but one more reason for audience excitement. Activate your link and enjoy the shows. —CALEB WACHS

PHOTO IS COURTESY OF THE OLD GLOBE