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October 2013

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world-class performances at valley performing arts center

Shanghai Ballet: La Sylphide Sat., October 26 – 8:00 PM

Bernadette Peters Sat., October 19 – 8:00 PM

Irish Chamber Orchestra featuring JoAnn Falletta, Conductor, Sir James Galway, Flute, Lady Jeanne Galway, Flute Tue., November 12 – 7:30 PM

Yamato: The Drummers of Japan ROJYOH — The Beat on the Road, 20th Anniversary Sat., October 12 – 8:00 PM

featured artists include: Hamlet: The Acting Company Fri., October 4 – 8:00 PM The Joy Luck Club: Plan-B Entertainment Thu., October 17 – 7:30 PM The Silk Road Ensemble, 15th Anniversary Year Tue., October 22 – 7:30 PM

Shanghai Ballet: The Butterfly Lovers Sun., October 27 – 3:00 PM Turtle Island Quartet with Nellie McKay Thu., November 7 – 7:30 PM Lar Lubovitch Dance Company Sat., November 23 – 8:00 PM

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Mischa Maisky, cello Sun., October 13 – 3:00 PM

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table of contents

october 2013

CEnter Theatre Group Board of Directors 2013/2014 Officers

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

Humor Abuse Mark Taper Forum Sep 17–Nov 3, 2013 Lorenzo Pisoni in Humor Abuse. photo by mark carvin.

Fast Info For the Taper, Ahmanson and Douglas

Program Information

At the Music Center

board members Dean V. Ambrose Pamela Beck Norris J. Bishton, Jr. Howard Bragman Diana Buckhantz Dannielle Campos Ramirez Joseph C. Carieri Marcy Carsey Nancy de Brier Cástulo de la Rocha Vin Di Bona Dante Di Loreto Frances Flanagan Barbara Fodor Eric R. Garen Kiki Ramos Gindler Patricia Glaser Brindell Roberts Gottlieb Aliza Karney Guren Tim Hanlon Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr. Darell L. Krasnoff Lucy M. Labruzzo Jennifer Altfeld Landau

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

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

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Carmina Burana Saturday, November 2 at 2 pm Sunday, November 3 at 7 pm

AT WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL GRANT GERSHON, CONDUCTOR with LA Children’s Chorus Giuseppe Verdi | Te Deum Carl Orff | Carmina Burana

Stacey Tappan soprano

José Adán Pérez baritone

Timothy Gonzales tenor

Taken from the writings of medieval poets, defrocked monks, vagabond scholars and minstrels, Carmina Burana presents a sprawling panorama of hopelessly human lovers with lechers, gamblers, drunkards and maidens behaving at their worst. Verdi’s Te Deum offers a modicum of retribution to balance the program, considered by Grant Gershon as one of his “desert island pieces” because of its lush sound, with every phrase chock full of meaning. Artists, programs, dates and prices subject to change.

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performances Center Theatre Group Publications 2013 Editor Nancy Hereford Art Director Nishita Doshi Copy Editors Liz Lin, Eric Brown, Jennifer Chan Designers Irene Kaneshiro, Haruka Hayakawa, Teresa English Visit us on the web CenterTheatreGroup.org Letters to the Editor can be mailed to 601 W. Temple St., Room 111, Los Angeles, CA 90012 or e-mailed to ctgmedia@CenterTheatreGroup.org Published By SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MEDIA GROUP Publisher Jeff Levy Editor in Chief Benjamin Epstein Art Director Carol Wakano Marketing Director Audrey Nimura Production Manager Ellen Melton Associate Art Director Heidi Schwindt Associate Editor Katie McCarthy Production Artist Ryan Furuya Advertising Directors Lyle Laver, Jessica Levin Account Managers Kerry Brewer, Heather Howard-Heintz, Sara Kemp, Joanna McLean, Mali Mochow, Sarah Trainor Advertising Services Dawn Kiko Cheng Administration Leanne Killian, Beth Moline Christine Noriega, Christina Xenos Regional Representation Northern California: Christine Tye (707) 939-0269 East Coast: Sandra Ourusoff (212) 260-4883 Honorary President Ted Levy

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

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

Walk-Up Box Ofﬁce Hours: The central box office for Center Theatre Group is located in front of the Ahmanson Theatre at the Music Center, and open Tuesday through Saturday from noon to 8 p.m., Sunday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., and closed on Monday. Remote box offices that are located at the Taper and Douglas are open two hours before performances. Receive Breaking News at CenterTheatreGroup.org Online ticketing plus information about upcoming productions, advance copies of the program and study guides, downtown restaurants, sponsorship programs, special community activities, and much more. Season Tickets: 213.972.4444: Subscribers are assigned seats before tickets are released for sale to the general public. Plus, whenever special events are announced at any of our theatres, subscribers have ﬁrst offer for tickets with no service or convenience fees. Group and Corporate Services 213.972.8075: Discounts are available for groups of 10-15 or more. A variety of corporate employee/client ticket programs is also offered. Enjoy VIP service for theatre receptions, fundraisers and tour groups. Flexible payment options and access to purchase tickets before single tickets go on sale.

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Hot Tix: A comprehensive and convenient discount ticket program called Hot Tix offers a $20 ticket to the general public. Beginning three weeks prior to the first performance of each production, Hot Tix can be purchased by phone or in person at CTG’s central box office. Cash or credit card (no checks; limited to two tickets per household). Hot Tix may also be purchased (subject to availability) on the day of performance at the central box office or two hours before the performance at the Taper or the Douglas. David St. Louis in The Royale.

Young Children and Babies: Children under age six are not admitted, unless the production is advertised for younger audiences. Regardless of age, everyone must have a ticket and be able to sit quietly throughout the performance. Babes in arms are not admitted. Donations: Center Theatre Group is a 501(c)(3) non-proﬁt organization that supports the Mark Taper Forum, Ahmanson Theatre and the Kirk Douglas Theatre. For further information, call 213.972.7368.

Gift Certiﬁcates: 213.628.2772: Available in any amount. They’re perfect for friends, employee recognition and special occasions. Complimentary cards for “Happy Birthday,” “Happy Anniversary,” “Season’s Greetings,” “Congratulations” or “In Appreciation.” Taper and Douglas Stage Talks: Lively post-show discussions, led by staff who are often joined by members of the cast, are held on selected evening performances. Call Audience Services at 213.628.2772 or visit CenterTheatreGroup.org for a complete schedule. Late Seating: To minimize disruption, patrons not seated when the performance begins will be asked to watch the lobby monitor until an appropriate break in the performance. Latecomers may also be given alternate seats until intermission. Fragrances: Please refrain from wearing strong perfumes and cologne. Many people are allergic to heavy scents. Special Access: Assisted listening devices for persons with limited hearing are available in the lobby at no charge. Accommodations are available for persons in wheelchairs and their companions for all performances. Specific dates are available for American Sign Language interpretation and Audio Description for deaf, hard of hearing, blind and low-vision patrons. Open Captioning for blind and low-vision patrons is available for specific dates at the Ahmanson Theatre and is provided by a generous anonymous Artistic Director’s Circle gift. Call 213.628.2772 or TDD 213.680.4017 or visit CenterTheatreGroup.org/ProjectDate. Photographs and Recordings: Flash photography can be dangerous to performers and is very distracting to audiences. Photography and any other type of recording device are unlawful, unless authorized by Center Theatre Group. Your use of a ticket constitutes acknowledgement of willingness to appear in authorized photographs and video in public areas of the Music Center and the Kirk Douglas Theatre and releases Center Theatre Group, the Music Center and all others from liability resulting from the use of such photographs. First Aid: In case of injury or illness, please see an usher. Lost and Found: For the Ahmanson and the Taper, please contact one of our head ushers after the performance or contact the Lost and Found clerk at 213.972.2600. At the Douglas, contact the Performance Manager at 213.972.4435.

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An Angel in the Wings

Ava Fries Dedicates her Life to the Arts

va Fries arrived in hollywood four decades ago after earning a degree in English literature and theatre arts at the university of Tulsa. While conquering the TV and ﬁlm industries, she began her tireless work supporting youth and the arts in Los Angeles, most notably for Center Theatre Group.

AN ANGeL At tHe HeLM For two decades Fries has spearheaded Center Theatre Group Affiliates’ Angels’ Night, a biennial gala that under her aegis has raised more than $7 million for arts education. Fries’ service exempliﬁes her belief in the power of theatre to change young people’s lives, a power she feels most potently when observing the Q-and-As after a student matinee. “The students ask such brilliant questions,” she says. “I used to argue against bringing students to shows with mature content, but I quickly realized they relate to the characters and apply what they see onstage to their lives. The beauty of theatre is that young people, maybe even more than adults, see their lives reﬂected onstage and can be changed by it.” A roArING GooD tIMe This year’s Angels’ Night will have a “roaring ’20s” theme and feature entertainment

from a big band, the Crystal Dancers — a professional troupe of dancing ﬂappers — and Distinguished Artist Award-winner Tracie Bennett, star of End of the Rainbow at the Ahmanson Theatre earlier this year. It will be another milestone in Fries’ quest to introduce Los Angeles children to the theatre and to see its magic at work in their lives and hearts.

A cHAMPIoN oF tHe ArtS Ava Fries began her life in the arts as an actress and spokesperson for brands like General Electric, Ford Motor Company and hanes. She eventually started her own business, Avanti Enterprises, for which she developed, among other projects, the TV series Born Famous and the ﬁlm Troop Beverly Hills. Seventeen years ago, Fries merged her professional and philanthropic interests when she joined CTG’s Board of Directors. Now the Board’s vice president, she has chaired the Education Committee and served on the Development, Governance and Finance committees. She has also served as president and is currently ﬁrst vice president for Center Theatre Group Affiliates, an organization that exposes young people to the magic of live theatre. Center Theatre Group is profoundly grateful to Ava Fries for her enduring support and leadership.

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celebrate the roaring ’20s at

Angels’ Night Chair Ava O. Fries Angels’ Night Co-Chair Kim White Peterson Executive Producer Chuck Fries

Saturday evening • October 26, 2013 Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel A Jazz Age-themed benefit with an exciting auction, gala dinner and fabulous entertainment, featuring the incomparable Tracie Bennett, star of End of the Rainbow at the Ahmanson Theatre earlier this year.

Angels’ Night Honorees DISTINGUISHED ARTIST Tracie Bennett

DISTINGUISHED SERVICE TO CENTER THEATRE GROUP

GUARDIAN ANGEL Roberta Haft

Brindell Roberts Gottlieb

Patricia Glaser

Visit AngelsNightLA.org for a preview of the silent and live auctions. To reserve your table or tickets or for more information, call Mandi Or at 213.972.7620. This biennial gala benefits CTG’s Education and Community Partnerships programs.

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Disney Shares its Magic From CTG to Mickey Mouse, Jung Supports Arts in Los Angeles

isney theme parks, resorts and cruise lines feature hundreds of live, family shows. Full-scale theatrical productions like Mickey and the Magical Map (at Disneyland resort) and Finding Nemo – The Musical (at Walt Disney World resort) are favorites with Disney’s littlest guests, but they also thrill their adult companions and remind them that many ﬁrst experiences of great storytelling come from the wonderful world of Disney. Walt Disney Imagineering vice president of theatrical development and CTG Corporate Circle member Michael Jung shares CTG’s vision for creating innovative theatre and reaching out to new audiences. A LoVe oF tHeAtre rUNS DeeP “Walt Disney Imagineering’s relationship with CTG is especially meaningful to me, as this is where I got my professional start. Working at CTG under Gordon Davidson fostered my respect and passion for theatrical development and exposed me to some of the seminal new work in American theatre.”

Michael Jung prepares for Mickey and the Magical Map. ©disney. Joey deBettencourt as the Boy in Peter and the Starcatcher. Photo by Terry Shapiro. The Broadway cast of Peter and the Starcatcher. photo by o&m co.

DISNeY IN tHe SPotLIGHt “This season I am excited that Disney’s Tony Award-winning production of Peter and the Starcatcher will come to the Ahmanson Theatre. This delightful show blends incredible wit, virtuosic performance, and tremendous imagination into a thoroughly entertaining and unique theatrical experience.” IMAGINeerING tHe FUtUre oF tHe ArtS “We live in a precarious time for the future of the arts, making it paramount for individual, corporate and private sector funding to provide creative enrichment and growth in the arts. Disney believes in doing its part in helping Los Angeles to draw world-class artists and support experimental work.”

Walt Disney Imagineering is the unique, creative force behind Walt Disney Parks and resorts that imagines, designs and builds all Disney theme parks, resorts, attractions, cruise ships, real estate developments, and regional entertainment venues worldwide. Imagineering’s unique strength comes from the dynamic global team of creative and technical professionals building on the Disney legacy of storytelling to pioneer new forms of entertainment through technical innovation and creativity.

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Center Theatre Group | The Sunshine Boys

Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz with Anniversary Cake. image by © bettmann/corbis.

All the Fine Messes By Kristin Friedrich

Funny people

— in the form of clowns, comics, and gag men — have long performed alone and in troupes. But the conceit of the comedy duo, or double act, emerged during the late 19th century in rowdy music halls and vaudeville stages. The acts varied. The performers played themselves or played roles in skits that the audiences grew to learn by heart, because the teams returned again and again to the same theatres on the vaudeville circuit. The laughs came from action or dialogue, or some wild brew of both.

(George Burns and Gracie Allen). Effusive and quiet (Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz; Penn Jillette and Teller). If one had an economy of facial and corporeal movement, and the other seemed manic in comparison (Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis).

But the key characterization of the comedy duo was, and is today, an uneven physical or psychological relationship. If one was little, the other was large (Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, David Spade and Chris Farley). Wise and less so

An undercurrent in these duos is the straight man/funny man device, which was inspired by theatre logistics, not comedy potential. Never mind the errant cell phone or candy wrapper — in early American vaudeville days,

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audiences were raucous to the point that dialogue couldn’t be heard at all. It was the straight man’s job to wait until the laughter had crested and slightly receded, and then repeat the comic’s lines over the din, then set up whatever joke was coming up next. He was the conductor — of his partner’s antics, of the set, and of the audience’s momentum and experience. And as the golden years of vaudeville played out in the early 20th century, the duties of the straight man grew — more lines and more physicality, even if that physicality was to just act as ballast to his kinetic partner. Monty Python member Eric Idle called the trope “Red Nose, White Face” in his book The Road to Mars. A robot named Carlton explicates how comedy works: In a duo, there must be a Red Nose (silly and carefree, sometimes to the point of subversiveness) and a White Face (serious and selfconscious). If you wanted to stretch it — and why not, its author was a Python and its messenger a robot — this kind of duo represents the two sides to human nature, the contrast between life and death. Not every double act fits the Red Nose/White Face framework, but there are loads of silly/serious duos — William “Bud” Abbott and Lou Costello, Lewis and Martin, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor, even Farley and Spade. When they work, their rhythm, timing, and choreography seem natural. There’s something magic in the combination, some collective alchemy or chemistry. But the magic doesn’t always carry over into the relationship offstage, or singularize itself into the individual careers of the players once the duo’s run ends.

Simon was inspired by vaudeville teams that lasted decades and remained friends, as well as those with players that were at each other’s throats. Joe Smith and Charlie Dale were the former, performing together for over 70 years — in clubs, radio, stage, TV and film — much of that time with their “Dr. Kronkheit and His Only Living Patient” skit, which resurfaces in The Sunshine Boys. The partnership is said to be the longest in show business. They retired together; they were buried together (with Dale’s wife). Below the “Smith and Dale” headstone headline, Smith added, “Booked Solid.” Burns and Allen, and Laurel and Hardy, were the same way — two contrasting halves that melded into one persona, one organism. Burns continued with incarnations of his straight man bit in many parts after his beloved Gracie passed away — he slowed things down and listened, then cracked wise to mayhem around him.

l-r: Laurel and Hardy. image by © bettmann/corbis.

“Well, here’s another nice mess you’ve gotten me into!”

Neil Simon’s The Sunshine Boys is about comedians Al Lewis and Willie Clark. As synchronized as they were on stage, they drove each other crazy once the curtain dropped. The friction between opposites — and men who parlay grief and loneliness into comedy — was something Simon also explored in The Odd Couple. But with this play, he could also write a valentine to vaudeville. The character Al retired quietly but Willie, like a lot of vaudevillians, always craved the limelight — and the older he got, the less limelight there was. Something a bit tragic unfolded: Willie the clown became dour and angry, a real life straight man with no outlet.

Laurel and Hardy didn’t quite fall into that straight man/comic framework — they were both comics — but they certainly made a disproportionate looking pair. The wispy Laurel and the taller, bigger Hardy’s brand of slapstick involved cartoon violence and in the silent era, nonverbal interplay. Hardy would often break the fourth wall and look at the camera in exasperation. For talkies, which the duo nicely transitioned into, his dismayed outbursts included versions of the lament: “Well, here’s another nice mess you’ve gotten me into!” (We misquote him today with “Here’s another fine mess” — comedy is an oft-repeated, and oft-misquoted, genre).

After Hardy’s death in 1957, Laurel sent jokes to other comedy writers, but he steadfastly refused to work on screen or stage again, only offering gags to other comedy writers via letters. He needed a foil, he said in interviews; he knew he wasn’t as good on his own.

The buddy act grew through the 1940s as perhaps the greatest straight man/funny man of all, Abbott and Costello, transitioned to film — riding the crest of radio comedy success and zigzagging verbal routines like “Who’s On First?” Bumbling Bob Hope and suave Bing Crosby started their “Road to” movie series (Road to Singapore, Road to Zanzibar, etc.). Desi and Lucy, and Martin and PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE 13

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Center Theatre Group | The Sunshine Boys

A History of Excellence l-r: Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. image by © bettmann/corbis.

Lewis, dominated the ’50s TV airwaves. In the final years of both duos’ runs, their repartee and bemused glances at one another masked the antagonism that fermented offstage. The variety show forum opened up room for plenty of host pairs — Dan Rowan and dim-witted Dick Martin on LaughIn, the Smothers Brothers, and the only nominally straight man Harvey Korman, who cracked up regularly, especially during Tim Conway’s bits, on The Carol Burnett Show. Saturday Night Live birthed many duos — Joe Piscopo and Eddie Murphy, John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, Dana Carvey and Mike Myers, Farley and Spade. We still have duos today; they’re the stuff of buddy movies and copious TV shows (Owen Wilson and Ben Stiller/Vince Vaughn; Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy; KeeganMichael Key and Jordan Peele). But to borrow a phrase from dating parlance, they don’t seem to be in committed relationships. They don’t stay together for decades; they work with a lot of other people besides each other. We live in a long-term attention deficient era. We value novelty and brevity and multiple stimuli. Maybe there is less need for the faithful duos that vaudeville cultivated for us — because these days, for better or worse, every day is its own vaudeville.

enter Theatre Group is Los Angeles’ preeminent non-profit theatre company. On our three stages — the Ahmanson Theatre, the Mark Taper Forum and the Kirk Douglas Theatre — we present the highest quality and broadest range of theatre: groundbreaking new works, explosive productions of the classics and hit Broadway plays and musicals. In the most current eight seasons alone, a total of 133 productions has been selected for presentation, including 33 world premieres. Fifteen productions have subsequently been produced in New York. The same high standards that we apply to our stages extend to our education and community outreach programs. Through special performances, residencies at schools, discount tickets and educational materials, we reach each year over 19,000 students, educators and community members who would not otherwise experience professional theatre. We are proud to continue our 46-year tradition of contributing to the culture of our city and to the enrichment of the national theatre community, and we are grateful to our subscribers, donors and board whose generous support makes our work possible.

Kristin Friedrich is a Los Angeles-based freelancer.

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Season Tickets. centertheatreGroup.org/GoLive 213.972.4444 photo credits (on this page) The cast of the Broadway production of Peter and the Starcatcher, photo by o&m co. (Facing page) top to bottom, leFt to right: roger Guenveur Smith, Luis Alfaro and Trieu Tran. Lorenzo Pisoni in Humor Abuse, photo by terry lorant. Danny DeVito and Judd hirsch in Neil Simon’s The Sunshine Boys, photos by michael birt and Joan marcus. Brian Dennehy. The cast of the Broadway production of Peter and the Starcatcher, photo by o&m co. Larry Joe Campbell, Frank Caeti and Dan Castellaneta in The Second City’s A Christmas Carol Twist Your Dickens!, photo by craig schwartz. Barry McGovern in the Gate Theatre production of I’ll Go On, photo by amelia stein. Christopher Plummer in A Word or Two, photo by david hou. original photograph of Daniel Beaty. photo by nathan yungerberg. The cast of the original Broadway production of The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, photo by michael J. lutch. David Suchet and Brian Bedford in The Last Confession, photo by John haynes. Michael urie in Buyer & Cellar, photo by sandra coudert. The cast of We Will Rock You.

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Center Theatre Group | education and community Partnerships

Accolades, Achievements Student and Adventures CTG Alumni Make a Difference

l to r: Alexa russo and Garrison hall at Pace university • Sarah Guerrero, center, with fellow cast members in Pawn • Emily hwang in a production of Almost, Maine.

tudent alumni of Center Theatre Group’s educational programs have impacted their communities in so many ways, whether advising the company on its programs for youth or writing plays about important issues. Through their creative voices, alumni continue to be a positive inﬂuence in the world. CTG is proud to see these young people grow as leaders and artists.

tHe NeXt roDGerS AND HAMMerSteIN? “The last several months have been insanely eventful for both of us. A highlight was Show Search, a nationwide competition that showcases the original work of young musical theatre writers. After learning we were one of six finalists, Equity actors performed our musical, Today’s the Day, before professional judges. ... We are still shocked and beyond grateful that our work won first place in the high school division.” —Alexa russo and Garrison Hall, first-year musical theatre majors at Pace university, are close friends who participated in CTG’s Student Advisory Committee. INterNAtIoNAL PAWN GAMe “I was incredibly lucky to produce and perform in a studentwritten musical called Pawn at Stanford university. We took the show on a whirlwind summer tour, kicking things off at the Daegu International Musical Festival in South Korea and closing at the New York International Fringe Festival. In between, we stopped in Chengdu, Macau, Beijing and

Vancouver, and had plenty of adventures in each city.” — Sarah Guerrero, a graduate of Stanford university, interned at CTG in 2008 and now pursues her interests in higher learning, theatre and marathon running. A VoIce For WoMeN’S rIGHtS “For seven months, I stayed in a rural village in Ecuador as a Global Citizen Year 2013 Fellow! I apprenticed with a local non-proﬁt that cultivated my passion for women’s rights, explored another culture and language, contributed to a cause I care about and formed lasting relationships … but my experience was less about these external changes in my environment and more about the internal shifts that occurred within me as a result of them.” —emily Hwang, CTG Student Advisory Committee alumna.

For More ALUMNI UPDAteS, visit The GrID, your place for all things theatre, at TheGrid.CenterTheatreGroup.org. For information about Center Theatre Group’s programs for students, including discounted tickets, leadership development opportunities and free workshops with theatre professionals, please visit CenterTheatre Group.org/ EmergingArtists.

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THE ARTS DELIVERED. IN BEVERLY HILLS. WELCOME TO THE WALLIS LOVE, NOËL MAURICE HINES IS TAPPIN’ THRU LIFE

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Opera.

Special Attractions.

Music.

MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY JESSICA LANG DANCE BALLETS JAZZ DE MONTREAL

A COFFIN IN EGYPT

Dance.

Family Concerts.

RUEIBIN CHEN

BASEBALL SWING

RAMIN BAHRANI

TRUMPET OF THE SWAN

ST. LAWRENCE STRING QUARTET

Theater.

Children’s Theater.

WHITE NOËL COWARD’S BRIEF ENCOUNTER

JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS

PARFUMERIE

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Center Theatre Group | Donor events

For tHe tHIrD straight year, a group of CTG donors experienced a weekend of new plays at the annual ojai Playwrights Conference in August. Fifteen donors hobnobbed with the conference’s artists and staff and saw readings of ﬁve new plays, including a one-man show by richard Cabral. Cabral described growing up in East L.A., where he joined a gang at a young age and eventually landed in prison. upon his release, he struggled to get back on his feet until Father Greg Boyle, founder of homeboy Industries, gave him a job and a fresh start. he credited homeboy Industries and theatre with saving his life.

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CTG donor Susan Friedman chats with playwright and actor richard Cabral over brunch.

A Summer of Theatre Magic

clockwise From top: the Fringe at center theatre Group celebrates the closing weekend of A Parallelogram at kendall’s brasserie. CTG staff member Patricia Garza, left, and Fringe member Grace Tuan • l to r: Fringe Members oren rosenthal, hung Tran, Pavan Tiriveedhi, Gabe Willey, Craig Kwiatkowski • Donors aboard the royal Yacht britannia for a transatlantic theatre adventure. Trip chair and CTG Board Member Sue Tsao with (l to r): Artistic Director Michael ritchie, David Boyle, Larry Falconio, Derek Bell, Miles Benickes and Elliott Sernel.

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Left to right: Pavilion Opening Night, December 6, 1964: Opening night party; Mr. Howard Ahmanson, Mrs. Dorothy Chandler, and Mr. & Mrs. Taper with Music Center model; Pavilion Opening Night, December 6, 1964: Mrs. Dorothy Chandler, Zubin Mehta, and architect Welton Becket.

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CTG Introduces New Donor Levels

enter Theatre Group’s Inner Circle debuts a new donor level — the Inner Circle Advocates! For an annual donation of $2,000, you can enjoy some of our most popular donor benefits:

• Front-of-line service at the Ahmanson Box Office.

• Three uses of CTG’s VIP ticket desk.

• Invitations to all Kirk Douglas Theatre opening performances.

In addition to Backstage Tours, Up Close Dialogues with artists and up-to-the-minute theatre news, these exciting benefits are our way of saying thank you for generously supporting the theatre you love. Donors at the Benefactor level ($10,000 and above) will also now receive a gift membership to the Inner Circle at the Associate level! Share your love for the theatre with friends and family by presenting them with the gift of theatre. Your loved ones will thank you for year-round benefits and the privilege of attending donor events and behind-the-scenes experiences that enhance their theatre-going experience. For more information on giving to CTG, email DonorRelations@CenterTheatreGroup.org, or call 213.972.3149.

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Be an Arts Advocate

L Special Thanks to Artistic Director’s Circle Members for Supporting CTG The Artistic Director’s Circle, founded by Brindell and Milton Gottlieb, is comprised of individuals supporting speciﬁc areas of Michael Ritchie’s artistic vision for Center Theatre Group. The following individuals have made commitments of $100,000 and above. (Donors listed as of August 27, 2013) Emerald Circle Kirk & Anne Douglas Brindell Roberts Gottlieb Laura & James Rosenwald & Orinocco Foundation Eva & Marc Stern Ruby Circle Jeanette Shammas Sapphire Circle Anonymous Debra & Norris Bishton Louise & Brad Edgerton Lloyd E. Rigler – Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation Diamond Circle Judith & Thomas Beckmen Margaret M. Bloomfield Diana Buckhantz & Vladimir & Araxia Buckhantz Foundation Joseph & Mara Carieri Ruth Flinkman-Marandy & Ben Marandy Kiki & David Gindler In Memory of Morris A. Hazan Ann & Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr. June & Gareth Hughes Eileen & Ken Kaplan Alice Mathias Donna McKenna Dale S. & Shideh Miller Nancy & Jack Mishkin Olivia & Anthony Neece Timothy A. Regler Maggy & Jack Simon Judie Stein and Stein Family Foundation Sue Tsao Sheila & Wally Weisman Misty Widelitz

Artists & Educators Forum The Artists & Educators Forum is comprised of individuals dedicated to providing significant funding for CTG’s new play development and Education and Community Partnerships programs. For more information, please call 213.972.3069. (Donors listed as of August 27, 2013) Melissa & Bob Alvarado Joni & Miles Benickes Annette Blum Linda Brown Bill Cohn & Dan Miller Erica & Vin Di Bona Dorskind Family Frances & Terry Flanagan Amy Forbes & Andrew Murr Aliza & Marc Guren Heather & Paul Haaga In Support of New Theatre Artists Mr. & Mrs. Gerald W. Kehle Vicki King

Harry & Arlette Lumer Renee & Meyer Luskin Linda S. Peterson Joyce & David Rabinov Bill Resnick Elliott R. Sernel Bui & Herb Simon Jane Rissman & Richard Sondheimer Mr. & Mrs. Ian D. Teague Karen & William Timberlake Robin & Gary Ungar Suzanne V. Wilson

Michael Urie in Buyer & Cellar. photo by sandra coudert. Donors who have made additional gifts to Center Theatre Group’s Endowment.

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Ahmanson Theatre

47th 2013/14 Season

first season production Danny Devito and Judd Hirsch in

Neil Simon’s

The Sunshine Boys Directed by Thea Sharrock September 24 – November 3, 2013 season bonus option

Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty A Gothic Romance Music composed by Tchaikovsky A New Adventures Production November 21 – December 1, 2013

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second season production

Peter and the Starcatcher by Rick Elice Based on the novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson Directed by Roger Rees and Alex Timbers December 3, 2013 – January 12, 2014 special event presentation

A Word or Two

fourth season production

The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin, DuBose and Dorothy Heyward, and Ira Gershiwn Book Adapted by Suzan-Lori Parks Musical Score Adpated by Diedre L. Murray Directed by Diane Paulus April 22 – June 1, 2014 season bonus option David Suchet and Brian Bedford in

The Last Confession by Roger Crane Directed by Jonathan Church United States Premiere June 7 – July 6, 2014 fifth season production Queen and Ben Elton’s

We Will Rock you Created by Ben Elton Musical Supervisors – Queen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor July 15 – August 24, 2014

Written, Arranged and Performed by Christopher Plummer Directed by Des McAnuff January 19 – February 9, 2014 third season production

Harmony A New Musical Music by Barry Manilow Book and Lyrics by Bruce Sussman Directed by Tony Speciale Choreographed by JoAnn Hunter March 4 – April 13, 2014

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Inspiring Our Future Special Thanks to Center Theatre Group’s Most Generous Annual Patrons Center Theatre Group wishes to thank the following leaders for their significant annual gifts and for their belief in the transformative power of theatre. $500,000 and above

Brindell Roberts Gottlieb $250,000 and above

The Dream Fund at UCLA Donor Advised Fund Center Theatre Group Affiliates Kirk & Anne Douglas The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation $150,000 and above

Eva & Marc Stern Wells Fargo Foundation Jeannette Shammas The Blue Ribbon Los Angeles County Arts Commission Laura & James Rosenwald & Orinocco Foundation The Shubert Foundation, Inc. Bank of America $100,000 and above

Anonymous Lloyd E. Rigler – Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation JPMorgan Chase & Co. $75,000 and above

Elisabeth Katte Harris Trust Louise & Brad Edgerton The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation William Randolph Hearst Foundation Debra & Norris Bishton

This list includes gifts made to Center Theatre Group between and June 30, 2012, and August 28, 2013.

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Michael Ritchie, artistic director Edward L. Rada, managing director

By Special Arrangement with

Richard Willis

Sonia Friedman Productions

Roger Berlind Tulchin Bartner Productions Rupert Gavin Scott M. Delman Darren Bagert/Martin Massman Presents

Danny DeVito Judd Hirsch and

Neil Simon’s

The Sunshine Boys with

Justin Bartha and

Annie Abrams

Matthew Bohrer

Gibby Brand

Benjamin Burdick

Johnnie Fiori

Frank Kopyc

PaSean Wilson

Set and Costume Designer

Hildegard Bechtler Lighting DESIgner

Music

Neil Austin

Adrian Johnston

Sound Designer

Casting

Cricket S. Myers

Production Stage Manager

Jim Carnahan, CSA

Barclay Stiff

Los Angeles Casting

Mark B. Simon, CSA Technical Supervisor

CTG Associate Artistic Director

Matt Towell

Neel Keller

Directed by

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September 24 – November 3, 2013 Ahmanson Theatre PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P 3

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CAST

(in order of appearance)

Willie Clark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Danny DeVito Ben Silverman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Justin Bartha Al Lewis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Judd Hirsch Patient. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gibby Brand V.O. TV Director. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frank Kopyc Eddie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Matthew Bohrer Miss MacKintosh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Annie Abrams Registered Nurse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Johnnie Fiori

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

For Ben Silverman — Matthew Bohrer For Willie Clark — Gibby Brand For Al Lewis and Patient — Frank Kopyc For V.O. TV Director and Eddie — Benjamin Burdick For Registered Nurse and Miss MacKintosh — PaSean Wilson

production stage manager

stage manager

Barclay Stiff

Michelle Blair

ACT I Scene 1: An apartment in an old hotel on upper Broadway in New York City. Early afternoon. Mid-winter, 1972. Scene 2: The following Monday. A few minutes before eleven. ACT II Scene 1: A televison studio. Scene 2: Willie’s apartment two weeks later. Late afternoon. There will be one 15-minute intermission.

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

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Rehearsal Photos

front row (l to r): Judd

Hirsch and Danny DeVito. Bohrer, Gibby Brand, Justin Bartha, Director Thea Sharrock, Johnnie Fiori, Annie Abrams and Frank Kopyc.

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Danny DeVito.

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“I think the mistake that so many writers make is trying to please ‘those people’ — the figurative ‘them’. I try to write what I myself would laugh at at a theatre.” —Neil Simon Justin Bartha in rehearsal for The Sunshine Boys. photo by craig schwartz.

When Frank Rich, former chief theatre critic oF The New York Times, described Neil Simon as “Broadway’s signature playwright for three decades,” he was not exaggerating. Such is Simon’s hit rate on the Great White Way that he has been called the most commercially successful playwright in history. From his debut in 1961, Come Blow Your Horn, which Noël Coward called “the funniest play in New York,” he has produced long-running shows in astonishing numbers. As the author of 34 plays and two dozen screenplays, Simon is unusually prolific. For the best part of four decades, a new Neil Simon comedy appeared every year. During the 1966–67 season, he had four plays running on Broadway simultaneously. Time magazine once called him the “patron saint of laughter.” Underscoring his comedy, however, is a serious intent. His is a laughter born of adversity and, although he is dedicated to the art of comedy, he frequently addresses themes that many would consider no laughing matter. His plays have touched on the Jewish immigrant experience, the loss of a loved one to cancer and the pain of divorce. “I think my attitudes are sort of funny because if you don’t laugh at life, life becomes too depressing to even bear,” Simon said about the original Broadway recording of Sweet Charity, the musical he wrote in 1965 with Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields.

“In The Odd Couple, it’s a rather sad situation of these two men being divorced, but I think if you don’t treat it humorously, it becomes too depressing. Every very depressing subject, from a bad marriage to war, treated humorously makes the point much stronger.” He knows you can use humor not only to give an audience a good time, but also to make that audience consider some of life’s more troubling aspects. This combination of serious intent and comedic form has meant Simon’s gifts have sometimes been underestimated. “He is too popular to be considered ‘art’ and more subtle, especially when writing about comedians and comedy, than the public fondly thinks,” suggested the critic John Lahr, highlighting one of the great paradoxes of Simon’s career. What makes him so funny has a lot to do with his love of language, the dry backchat of the New York streets and the purity of a perfectly timed gag. “He does what he does better than anyone else,” said the theatre scholar Gerald M. Berkowitz. “His plays are built on verbal and visual gags, artfully constructed with the form, rhythm and frequency that will produce the greatest number of laughs.” Both the content and the style of his plays are the product of his formative years. We learn a lot about his background from his semi-autobiographical ‘BB’ trilogy — Brighton Beach Memoirs (1983), Biloxi Blues (1984) and Broadway Bound (1986) — as well

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as the later Lost in Yonkers (1991). He grew up in the Depression years in the Bronx, the son of Mamie, a department store worker, and Irving, a traveling salesman whose inconstant ways led him repeatedly to abandon the family. Big brother Danny, nearly nine years older than Neil, became a substitute father. It was not an especially happy childhood. In addition to the poverty of the Depression years, the brothers had to adapt to their parents’ tempestuous relationship and were sometimes farmed out to relatives. To make ends meet, Mamie would take in lodgers. “The horror of those years was that I didn’t come from one broken home but five,” recalled Simon. “It got so bad at one point that we took in a couple of butchers who paid their rent in lamb chops.” Laughter was a good defense mechanism, a way of protecting himself from the pain and unhappiness of this disrupted lowermiddle-class Jewish upbringing. The young Simon would escape to the movies to seek solace in the comedy of Charlie Chaplin. He said his aim was “to laugh until I was able to forget what was hurting.” His plays bear witness both to this background and to his early career. Like Eugene Jerome, his 15-year-old alter ego at the heart of Brighton Beach Memoirs, Neil Simon had a passion for jokewriting. He got a taste for it when, at the age of 15, he co-wrote a set of sketches with his brother for a staff party at the department store where Danny was working. The two collaborated for the next 12 years, contributing quick-fire comedy material to many of the most popular radio and television shows of the day. Neil would eventually eclipse his brother in terms of fame, but Danny, who died in 2005, was a formidable talent in his own right. Woody Allen, a fellow contributor to Sid Caesar’s TV shows, would later say: “I’ve learned a few things on my own and modified a few things he taught me, but everything, unequivocally, that I learned about comedy writing, I learned from Danny Simon.” He loomed large in Neil’s life too. Figures that bear more than a passing similarity to Danny would appear in Come Blow

Your Horn (a ladies’ man), Plaza Suite (a Hollywood producer) and Brighton Beach Memoirs (a big brother). If you look at the husband-and-wife-style relationship of the disorganized Oscar and the meticulous Felix in The Odd Couple. you can see a reflection of Neil and Danny — indeed, the play was based on an idea by Danny who had divorced and started sharing a flat with a male friend. By 1960, Neil had worked on hit shows starring Phil Silvers, Tallulah Bankhead and Jerry Lewis, as well as the Sergeant Bilko series. This grounding in comedy informed not only his feel for a perfectly crafted joke, but also much of his subject matter. His experience working alongside Mel Brooks and Sid Caesar on The Show of Shows in 1956 fed directly into Laughter on the 23rd Floor (1993), which is about a bunch of joke-writers plying their trade while the McCarthy hearings are in full swing. “Funny is money,” says one character, which could be an epitaph for Simon’s career. The Sunshine Boys is another instance of Simon drawing on his knowledge of the comedy business and there are many more examples of real life creeping into his plays. Barefoot in the Park, which starred a young Robert Redford in 1963, drew on the early years of his marriage to Joan Baim. The inspiration for Chapter Two came from Joan’s death from cancer 20 years after they were married and Simon’s subsequent relationship with Marsha Mason. The critic Sheridan Morley called it “a comedy about death and despair and a very funny one.” Further instances abound of Simon drawing on real life, but wherever his source of inspiration, he has been guided through so many decades of success by a principle he set out as early as 1965: “The only thing that I do try to apply to my writing is something that will please me,” he said. “I think the mistake that so many writers make is trying to please ‘those people’ — the figurative ‘them’. I try to write what I myself would laugh at at a theatre.” And, as a result, he has kept many millions of theatregoers laughing ever since. by Mark Fisher

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Who’s Who DANNY DEVITO (Willie Clark). Theatre credits include The Man with the Flower in His Mouth, Down the Morning Line, The Line of Least Existence, The Contrast, Shoot Anything with Hair That Moves, Where Do We Go From Here?, Vinyl Visits an FM Station, The Shrinking Bride and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Directing credits include Untitled Danny DeVito Project, The Ratings Game, Throw Momma From The Train, War of the Roses, Death to Smoochy and Matilda. Acting film credits include The Lorax, Be Cool, When In Rome, Man on the Moon, Get Shorty, Hoffa, Matilda, Living Out Loud, Junior, Batman Returns, Mars Attacks!, Twins, Romancing the Stone, The Jewel of the Nile, Ruthless People, Tin Men, Other People’s Money, Big Fish, Renaissance Man, The Big Kahuna, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Terms of Endearment, Deck the Halls, Solitary Man, Drowning Mona, The Rainmaker and L.A. Confidential. Producing credits include Freedom Writers, Garden State, Reno 911, Reality Bites, Feeling Minnesota, Gattaca, 8 Seconds, Kate Brasher, UC Undercover, How High, Along Came Polly, Pulp Fiction, Out of Sight, The Caveman’s Valentine and Erin Brockovich. Television credits include It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Taxi, Karen Sisco, Pearl and The Simpsons. You can follow his trollfoot tweets on the social network twitter @dannydevito. JUDD HIRSCH (Al Lewis). Bronx-born actor Judd Hirsch attended CCNY, where he majored in engineering and physics. A blossoming fascination with theatre convinced Hirsch that his future lay in acting. He studied at the AADA and at the famed HB Studios in N.Y. before making his 1966 Broadway debut in Barefoot in the Park. He spent many years at New York’s Circle

Repertory, where he appeared in the first-ever production of Lanford Wilson’s The Hot l Baltimore. After an auspicious TV-movie bow in the Emmy-winning TV movie The Law (1974), Hirsch landed his first weekly series, playing the title character in the detective drama Delvecchio (1976–77). From 1978 to 1982, he was Alex Reiger in one of the most celebrated television ensemble comedies Taxi, earning several Golden Globes and two Emmys in the process. While occupied with Taxi, Hirsch continued his stage career with an off-Broadway production of Lanford Wilson’s Talley’s Folly which earned him an Obie Award. The show subsequently moved to the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles and finally to Broadway where he was nominated for both a Tony and a Drama Desk Award. He won Tony Awards for his starring role in two of Herb Gardner’s best plays, I’m Not Rappaport and Conversations with My Father. He played the role of Willy Loman in Arthur Miller’s classic play Death of a Salesman in Toronto and was in productions of Yazmina Reza’s play Art on Broadway and in Chicago, Toronto and London. He has further expanded his love of theatre by directing productions of Art in Seattle, Miami, New Jersey and Ogunquit, Maine. Judd’s most recent theatre credits include the world premiere of The Whore and Mr. Moore by Michael Christopher at the Dorset Theatre in Vermont and the role of Sigmund Freud in the Broad Theatre Company’s production of Freud’s Last Session which he did in Los Angeles in January of 2013. Judd’s post Taxi TV career continued with a Golden Globewinning turn as John Lacey in Dear John (1988–92), Grocer and Leo (with Bob Newhart), and five seasons of the CBS hit series, Numb3rs. He played Glenn Close’s former law mentor who has, subsequently, fallen on hard times in the 4th and 5th seasons of the critically acclaimed series Damages. Last year he starred in the TNT movie Silent Witness, and this year he has played Marc Maron’s father in several episodes of the cable comedy hit series Maron and can next be seen in a guest starring role on

TNT’s new series Perception. On the feature front Judd was nominated for an Oscar for his iconic performance as Tim Hutton’s psychiatrist in the Academy Award-nominated feature Ordinary People. He played Russell Crowe’s mathematics mentor in another Oscar winning film A Beautiful Mind, and was seen as Jeff Goldblum’s father in the movie blockbuster Independence Day. Recently he starred with Sean Penn in This Must Be the Place, the first English language film by famed director Paulo Sorrentino which was well noticed at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. His other films include King of the Gypsies, Without a Trace, Teachers, The Goodbye People, Running on Empty and, recently the comedy/ action film Tower Heist. JUSTIN BARTHA (Ben Silverman). In 2010, Justin Bartha made his Broadway debut in Ken Ludwig’s Lend Me A Tenor alongside Tony Shalhoub and Anthony LaPaglia (directed by Stanley Tucci). Since then, he has also starred in the off-Broadway plays All New People by Zach Braff, and Asuncion alongside the writer Jesse Eisenberg. Bartha was most recently seen in the third installment of the Warner Bros. franchise, The Hangover III, reprising the role he played in the last two films. He also starred in NBC’s The New Normal created by Ryan Murphy and Ali Adler and will next be seen in CBGB, a biopic about the iconic New York punk club during its heyday in the mid 70s. He last starred in the Todd Solondz feature Dark Horse with Selma Blair, Mia Farrow and Christopher Walken. Prior to that, he starred in the gritty indie drama Holy Rollers with Jesse Eisenberg. Other films include New York, I Love You, the American version of Paris, Je T’aime, and Failure to Launch with Matthew McConaughey, National Treasure and National Treasure: Book of Secrets as Riley Poole alongside Nicholas Cage’s Ben Gates. Bartha studied acting at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts,

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then graduated from their film school. He currently resides in Los Angeles. ANNIE ABRAMS (Miss MacKintosh). Los Angeles/West Coast: Brooke in Noises Off (La Mirada), Philia in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Reprise), Ursula Duran in Tickled Pink (Laguna Playhouse), Clea in The Scene (Ensemble Theatre Company), Sybil in Private Lives (GTC Burbank), Luciana in The Comedy of Errors (A Noise Within), Sybil Vane in The Picture of Dorian Gray (Boston Court), Cécile in Les Liaisons Dangereuses (The Blank), Myrrhine in the premiere of Amy Freed’s Lysistrata (Stanford Summer Theater). TV: Without a Trace, Veronica Mars, Joan of Arcadia, King of Queens, Cold Case, How I Met Your Mother and True Blood. B.A. in Drama from Stanford University. Love to my family and Adam. Much gratitude to Nick Campbell and Jodie Bowman. www. annieabrams.com. MATTHEW BOHRER (Eddie/ Understudy Ben Silverman). CTG debut! A 2010 Harvard College grad, Matthew studied at the A.R.T., acted with the Hasty Pudding, and sang with the Kroks at Carnegie Hall and on a world tour. Regional/International: The oneman show Step into the Night and Jason and Claire (Playwrights Project with Old Globe), The Magic City and Shafted (Edinburgh Fringe), Falsettos (Diversionary). L.A.: Romeo in Romeo and Juliet and Feste in Twelfth Night (La Cañada Shakespeare Fest), Doomsday Cabaret (The Blank), Santa Chata (Casa 0101). Film: Offline, Elie in the award-winning Elie’s Overcoat, currently at festivals. Thanks to my family, Mark, Steven, and the entire creative team. For my grandpa, who kind of looked like Neil Simon. matthewbohrer.net.

GIBBY BRAND (Patient/Understudy Willie Clark). Broadway: Beauty and the Beast (Cogsworth), Neil Simon’s Rumors, Passion, Little Me, Peter Pan. Regional: South Coast Rep, Seattle Rep, Goodspeed Opera House, Cincinnati Playhouse, St. Louis Rep. Moscow tour of William Gibson’s Rag Dolly in the first international exchange with the former Soviet Union. CTG: Big River, The Dinner Party. L.A.: Doc Baugh, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Geffen Playhouse), The Abbess, The Comedy of Errors (A Noise Within), Music Man (Hollywood Bowl), Titanic (South Bay CLO), 1776, Flora, the Red Menace (Reprise). Films: Raise Your Voice, Auto Focus, Father of the Bride, F/X. TV: Recurring on Ally McBeal, The Practice, Numb3rs, Parks and Recreation, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Desperate Housewives, Boston Legal, The West Wing, Law & Order. Gibby is married to writer Lucy Chase Williams. JOHNNIE FIORI (Registered Nurse). U.K. theatre credits include Shakespeare Sonnet Walks (The Globe Theatre, director, Mark Rylance), The Sunshine Boys (Savoy Theatre, director, Thea Sharrock), Vernon God Little (Young Vic, director, Rufus Norris), Hairspray (Shaftesbury Theatre, director, Jack O’Brien), Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Royal Exchange Theatre, director, Jacob Murray), The Exonerated (Riverside Studios, director, Bob Balaban), 1984 (Royal Opera House, directors, Loren Maazel and Robert Lepage), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Shaftesbury Theatre, director, Michael Mayer), 125th Street (Shaftesbury Theatre, director, Rob Bettison) and The Wiz (Hackney Empire, director, Jamie Hind). Film: Powder Room directed by MJ Delaney. Johnnie is an American recently living in London and is both pleased and honored to be making her L.A. theatre debut for her friends and family. www.johnniefiori. com.

FRANK KOPYC (V.O. TV Director/ Understudy Al Lewis/Patient). Broadway: Sweeney Todd, Sunday in The Park With George, Follies in Concert, Happy End. Regional: Twelfth Night (Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival), The Sum of Us (Alliance Theatre), Hot Mikado (Ford’s Theatre, Washington, D.C., Helen Hayes Award). Noises Off (Cleveland Playhouse). Film: Total Recall, Father of The Bride, The Last Boy Scout, Dunston Checks In. TV: Parks and Recreation, Grey’s Anatomy, The Closer, The West Wing, Star Trek DS9, 3rd Rock From The Sun, Murphy Brown and The Last Newhart. BENJAMIN BURDICK (Understudy V.O. TV Director/Eddie). Benjamin is a native of Idaho, and a graduate of Yale University. He is thrilled for his first opportunity to work with CTG. Regional: Blood and Gifts (La Jolla Playhouse), God of Carnage (The Hippodrome, Gainesville), The Real Thing (ETC, Santa Barbara). Other L.A.: Arcadia (Sierra Madre), Rock-nRoll (Los Angeles premiere), Light Up The Sky (L.A. Weekly nomination, Best Actor in a Comedy), Travesties (L.A. Weekly winner, Best Actor in a Comedy), Neil LaBute’s Autobahn (West Coast premiere). Film: The Stranger, Tattoo: A Love Story (Grand Jury Prize, Florida Film Fest), The Board Room (HBO and Montreal Comedy Festivals). Television: Arrested Development, Enlightened, CSI, Awake (recurring), The Glades, The Mentalist, Entourage, Monk, Conspiracy (series regular), 24, Las Vegas, Born Free (series regular). PASEAN WILSON (Understudy Miss MacKintosh/ Registered Nurse). Broadway: Once On this Island (Booth Theatre). Los Angeles: How We PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P 9

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Got On (B Street Theatre), Cassiopeia (Theatre @ Boston Court), GLWITWCT (Nate Holden Theatre). Regional: Dreamgirls. Off-Broadway: Song of Sheba, Miss Morning (National Black Theatre), Body Shop (Westbeth Theatre), Love Scrawls (La Mama, Etc), We Shall (Guinivere Theatre), Mama I Want to Sing (Heckscher Theatre). Film: Scary or Die, If You Could Say it In Words, Tapped Out, Surviving Eden, Carman: The Champion, Striptease, Love Cycle, Same Difference. TV: Greek, Beverly Hills, 90210, America’s Most Wanted, One on One, Another World. PaSean is thrilled to be making her Ahmanson Theatre debut. In addition to acting, PaSean is currently producing the documentary The Stranger Within: Fibroid Stories. NEIL SIMON (Playwright). The world’s most beloved playwright, his works include Come Blow Your Horn, Little Me, Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, Sweet Charity, The Star-Spangled Girl, Plaza Suite, Promises, Promises, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, The Gingerbread Lady, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, The Sunshine Boys, The Good Doctor, God’s Favorite, California Suite, Chapter Two, They’re Playing Our Song, I Ought to Be in Pictures, Fools, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues, The Odd Couple (female version), Broadway Bound, Rumors, Lost in Yonkers, Jake’s Women, The Goodbye Girl, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, London Suite, Proposals, Hotel Suite, The Dinner Party, 45 Seconds From Broadway, Oscar and Felix and Rose’s Dilemma as well as the motion pictures After the Fox, The Out-ofTowners, The Heartbreak Kid, Murder by Death, The Cheap Detective, Seems Like Old Times, Only When I Laugh, Max Dugan Returns, The Slugger’s Wife and The Marrying Man, and the books Rewrites and The Play Goes On. His plays won numerous Tony Awards and he received the Pulitzer Prize for Lost in Yonkers, as well as the Sam S. Shubert Foundation Award, Kennedy Center Honors, a UCLA Medal, the Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award, the William Inge

Theater Festival Award for Distinguished Achievement in the American Theater, the Writers Guild Laurel Award and an American Comedy Award for Lifetime Achievement. THEA SHARROCK (Director). Recent credits include The Bodyguard A New Musical, 13, After the Dance, Happy Now?, The Emperor Jones and Free for the National Theatre. As artistic director of The Gate, she directed The Chairs, The Emperor Jones and Tejas Verdes. As artistic director at Southwark Playhouse, her productions included A Doll’s House, Mongoose, Trip’s Cinch and The Sleeper’s Den. She is an associate of The Old Vic, where she directed Cause Célèbre. Other theatre work includes Plenty at Sheffield Crucible; Mrs. Klein and Cloud Nine at the Almeida; As You Like It at Shakespeare’s Globe; Private Lives, Don Juan, The Fight for Barbara and The Deep Blue Sea at Theatre Royal, Bath for Peter Hall. As winner of the James Menzies-Kitchin Memorial Trust’s Young Director of the Year Award 2000, she directed her first production, Top Girls, at the Battersea Arts Centre, which then went on tour before transferring to the West End. Other West End credits include The Misanthrope, Equus (also Broadway), A Voyage Round My Father (also Donmar) and Heroes. TV: She has just finished filming the Christmas special of Call the Midwife, last year she filmed Henry V, starring Tom Hiddleston, for Sam Mendes and the BBC. HILDEGARD BECHTLER (Set and Costume Designer). Broadway/OffBroadway: Arcadia by Tom Stoppard, The Seagull with Kristin Scott Thomas, Hedda Gabler with MaryLouise Parker, Primo with Anthony Sher, My Name is Rachel Corrie. Recent West End shows include Top Hat

(2012 Olivier Award nomination), Passion Play, Old Times, Blithe Spirit, The Misanthrope. After The Dance winner of 2011 Olivier Award for Best Costume Design and Iphigenia at Aulis - Evening Standard Best Designer nomination (National Theatre). Opera: The Damnation of Faust directed by Terry Gilliam (English National Opera) and The Letter at Santa Fe Opera plus other productions at Royal Opera House, La Scala Milan, Paris Opera, Opera Australia and Canadian Opera Company. Future work includes La Traviata (Glyndebourne Festival Opera). Film design: Primo (HBO/ BBC) and Krapp’s Last Tape starring Harold Pinter. NEIL AUSTIN (Lighting Designer). Recipent of the 2010 Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for Red at the Golden Theatre, New York and the 2011 Laurence Olivier Award for The White Guard at the National Theatre, London. Previously for CTG: Parade, Red. Broadway: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Evita (Drama Desk nomination), Red, Hamlet (Tony and Drama Desk nominations), The Seafarer, Frost/ Nixon. National Tours: Evita, Frost/ Nixon, King Lear and The Seagull starring Ian McKellen. Other New York: King Lear at BAM starring Derek Jacobi, all-female Julius Caesar at St. Ann’s Warehouse. Extensive shows in the U.K. for the National Theatre, Donmar Warehouse, Royal Opera House, Royal Shakespeare Company and in the West End. ADRIAN JOHNSTON (Music). British Theatre includes The Sunshine Boys (Savoy Theatre, London), After The Dance (National Theatre), Cause Célèbre (Old Vic), Plenty (Sheffield Crucible), Coriolanus (RSC).Film includes Becoming Jane, Kinky Boots, Red Riding 1974, Brideshead Revisited, Jude, Welcome To Sarajevo, The Lawless Heart, Lassie. Television includes Dancing On The Edge, Henry V, The Lost Prince, Gideon’s Daughter, Capturing Mary, Shooting The Past, Perfect Strangers, Shackleton

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(Emmy Award - Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries), The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tipping The Velvet, Broken Glass, Our Mutual Friend, Touching Evil.

Pillowman, Chitty, Democracy, La Cage, Millie, Noises Off, Into The Woods, True West, Copenhagen. Film: Home At The End Of The World, Flicka. Television: Glee (Emmy nomination).

CRICKET S. MYERS (Sound Designer). Broadway: Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Drama Desk Award, Tony nomination). OffBroadway: Marvelous Wonderettes. Mark Taper Forum: Joe Turner, Vigil, Burn This, The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Ovation nomination), Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, The Subject Was Roses, The School of Night, Nightingale. Kirk Douglas Theatre: The Wake, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Ovation nomination), The Little Dog Laughed (Ovation nomination), Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet, Come Back, Little Sheba. Regional: Sideways, The Nightingale (La Jolla Playhouse), Book Club Play (Arena Stage), In the Wake (Berkeley Rep), Wrecks, Some Girl(s), Emergency (Ovation, NAACP nomination; Geffen), The Fantasticks, Elemeno Pea, Three Days of Rain, Trip to Bountiful (South Coast Rep), Crowns, Orson’s Shadow (Pasadena Playhouse), Marvelous Wonderettes (Laguna Playhouse). Cricket has earned 13 Ovation nominations, as well as winning an LADCC and a Garland Award. www.cricketmyers. com.

MARK B. SIMON, CSA (Los Angeles Casting). CTG: The Royale (Artios nomination), Neva (Kirk Douglas Theatre); The Scottsboro Boys, End of the Rainbow, Backbeat (Ahmanson Theatre); A Parallelogram, Los Otros (Mark Taper Forum). Prior to joining the CTG casting department, Mark worked as a New York-based independent casting director for clients including Hal Prince, Jason Robert Brown, Graciela Daniele, Susan Stroman, Patricia Birch, Stephen Sondheim, Marvin Hamlisch, Nick Hytner, Alfred Uhry, Carol Burnett, Jeremy Sams, New York City Opera and the Radio City Christmas Spectacular on projects including 13, Parade, The Last Five Years, Show Boat, Candide, 3hree, Hollywood Arms, Bounce, LoveMusik, Paradise Found, Sweeney Todd, Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life, Sweet Smell of Success and Ragtime. Treasurer of the Board, Casting Society of America.

JIM CARNAHAN, CSA (Casting) also serves as Roundabout’s director of artistic development. Roundabout: Big Knife, Talley’s Folly, Drood, If There Is…, Harvey, Anything Goes, Sondheim on Sondheim, Hedda Gabler, Liaisons Dangereuses, Sunday in the Park..., The Ritz, 110 in the Shade, Pajama Game, 12 Angry Men, After the Fall, Assassins, Twentieth Century, Big River, Nine, Joe Egg, Cabaret, Follies, Major Barbara, Man Who Came To Dinner, Betrayal, Side Man, 1776. Other Broadway: Matilda, Once, Peter and the Starcatcher, Clear Day, The Scottsboro Boys, American Idiot, Mountaintop, Jerusalem, Arcadia, Boeing-Boeing, Spring Awakening, Curtains, Faith Healer, Festen, Woman in White,

BARCLAY STIFF (Production Stage Manager). Broadway: The Assembled Parties, The Other Place, Don’t Dress For Dinner, Wit, The House of Blue Leaves, Elling, Enron, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Mary Stuart, The Country Girl, The Seafarer, Inherit the Wind, Losing Louie, Shining City, Whoopi, Hedda Gabler, The Price. Off-Broadway: Gruesome Playground Injuries, Farragut North, Beauty of the Father, A Picasso, House/Garden, From Door to Door, Juvenilia, Frank’s Home, Debbie Does Dallas, Fully Committed. Williamstown: eight seasons. MICHELLE BLAIR (Stage Manager). For CTG: A Parallelogram, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Backbeat, Krapp’s Last Tape, Red, Los Otros, Clybourne Park, Vigil, Poor Behavior, Burn This, Leap of Faith, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Parade, Lydia, The School of Night, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Distracted, Nightingale, Without Walls, Lewis and Clark Reach the Euphrates, all wear bowlers (also at the Barbican Theatre, Berkeley Rep., La Jolla Playhouse and Studio Theatre), Flight,

Nothing But The Truth, Stones in His Pockets, Topdog/Underdog and “QED” at Lincoln Center Theater. Other favorites include The Pee-wee Herman Show at Club Nokia, A Long Bridge Over Deep Waters with Cornerstone Theater Company and Amnesia Curiosa with the gentlemen of Rainpan 43. Graduate of the University of Southern California and the University of Amsterdam. Mom to five-year-old Liam and one-year-old Imogen. MATT TOWELL (Technical Supervisor). West End: The Book of Mormon (Prince of Wales), Quartermaine’s Terms, The Bodyguard, A Chorus of Disapproval, The Sunshine Boys (Savoy), Master Class (Vaudeville), Much Ado About Nothing (Wyndham’s), The Wizard of Oz (Palladium), Private Lives (Vaudeville), Legally Blonde (Savoy), La Bête (Comedy), Priscilla Queen of the Desert (Palace), The Sound Of Music, Kiss Me, Kate, Bombay Dreams, Acorn Antiques, Smaller, Tonight’s the Night, Movin’ Out. U.K. National: Ghost, The Sound of Music, Grease, Cats, Saturday Night Fever, The King and I, Starlight Express, Fosse, Chicago, The Sound of Music. International: Batman Live (world arena tour), Priscilla Queen of the Desert (Sao Paulo), Saturday Night Fever (Johannesburg), Mamma Mia! (South Africa and world tour), Starlight Express (New Zealand), Cats (Sao Paulo, Germany and Italy). RICHARD WILLIS (Co-Producer). Mr. Willis is a producer, theatre operator and owner of Richmark Entertainment and Seven Arts Productions with offices in New York and Los Angeles. He has operated The Wadsworth and Brentwood Theatres in Los Angeles for the past 15 years. A few producing credits include Neil Simon’s The Sunshine Boys (West End), Noel Coward’s Hay Fever (West End), One Man, Two Guvnors (Broadway), War Horse (North America), Priscilla Queen of the Desert (Broadway), Jerusalem (Broadway), Next Fall, 33 Variations, Souvenir, Jay Johnson: The Two and Only, Eve Ensler’s The Good Body, Golda’s Balcony, Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry Jam, Steve Tyrell in Concert, Adam Pascal Live, Ennio and more.

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SONIA FRIEDMAN PRODUCTIONS (Co-Producer). Sonia Friedman Productions is a West End and Broadway theatre production company responsible for some of the most successful theatre productions in London and on Broadway over the past few years. Since 1990, Sonia has developed, initiated and produced over 130 new productions and won numerous Olivier and Tony Awards. Recent and upcoming productions include: the U.K. premiere of The Book of Mormon, Mojo, Chimerica, Twelfth Night and Richard III, Merrily We Roll Along, Old Times, The Sunshine Boys, Jerusalem, Betrayal, Much Ado About Nothing, The Mountaintop, Legally Blonde The Musical, The Children’s Hour, La Bête, Nice Work If you Can Get It, A Chorus of Disapproval, Hay Fever, Absent Friends, Master Class, Top Girls, Arcadia, Clybourne Park, All My Sons, Private Lives, A Flea in Her Ear, A View From the Bridge, La Cage aux Folles, The Norman Conquests, A Little Night Music, Othello, Dancing at Lughnasa, Boeing-Boeing, No Man’s Land, The Seagull, Maria Friedman: Re-arranged, Under the Blue Sky, That Face, Dealer’s Choice, Hergé’s Adventures of Tintin, Rock ‘n’ Roll, In Celebration, The Dumb Waiter, Donkey’s Years, Love Song, Faith Healer, The Woman in White, Celebration, Shoot the Crow, Otherwise Engaged, As You Like It, The Home Place, Whose Life is it Anyway?, By the Bog of Cats, Guantanamo: ‘Honor Bound to Defend Freedom’, Endgame, Jumpers, See You Next Tuesday, Hitchcock Blonde, Absolutely! {perhaps}, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Ragtime, Macbeth, A Day In the Death of Joe Egg, Afterplay, Up for Grabs, On an Average Day, Noises Off, A Servant of Two Masters, Port Authority, Spoonface Steinberg, Speedthe-Plow. Prior to forming Sonia Friedman Productions, Sonia spent three years as the producer for the Ambassador Theatre Group. Before joining ATG she was the producer and co-founder of Out of Joint, now one of Britain’s leading theatre companies. From 1989 to 1993 Sonia was a producer at the National Theatre, specializing in touring productions and theatre for young people. Sonia Friedman Productions is a subsidiary of the Ambassador Theatre Group.

For a full list of SFP’s theatre credits please visit www.soniafriedman.com.

Cats, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, West Side Story, Flashdance.

ROGER BERLIND (Co-Producer). Recent productions include Kiss Me, Kate, Copenhagen, Proof, Medea, Doubt, The History Boys, Faith Healer, The Vertical Hour, The Year of Magical Thinking, Curtains, Gypsy, Equus, 13, A Little Night Music, La Bête, Arcadia, Jerusalem, Death of a Salesman, Nice Work If You Can Get It, One Man Two Guvnors, Clybourne Park, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Lucky Guy. Current productions are The Book of Mormon and the revival of Annie.

RUPERT GAVIN for Incidental Colman (Co-Producer). Incidental Colman is the producing partnership between Rupert Gavin and Dan Colman, who between them have been responsible over the last 35 years for producing and co-producing an extraordinary range of theatre productions from West End to regional, from Broadway to the back of beyond, from drama to comedy, from visual spectacular to children’s entertainment, from mime to musical. At all times, their aim is to be innovative and, when faced with a boundary, they refuse to be defeated by it. To date, this path has delivered an exceptional range of dramatic successes, six Olivier Awards and only one show raided by the police, which led to arrests. Recent co-productions have included West Side Story (Sadler’s Wells, U.K. and Australian tour); A View From the Bridge (West End); Jerusalem (West End and Broadway); All My Sons (West End), Betrayal (West End); The Children’s Hour (West End); Legally Blonde (West End, U.K. tour and Australian tour); South Pacific (Barbican and U.K. tour); Absent Friends (West End); Long Day’s Journey Into Night (U.K. tour and West End); The Sunshine Boys (West End and Los Angeles); Twelfth Night and Richard III (Shakespeare’s Globe, West End and Broadway), Jumpy (West End) and Brainiac (West End).

ROBERT G. BARTNER and NORMAN TULCHIN (CoProducers). Bob Bartner and Norman Tulchin produce frequently on Broadway and in the West End and together have garnered seven Olivier Awards and seven Tony Awards. Broadway: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess (Tony Award), The Book of Mormon (Tony Award), Jerusalem, La Cage Aux Folles (Tony Award), The Motherf**ker With The Hat, La Cage Aux Folles (Tony Award), A View From the Bridge, The Norman Conquests (Tony Award), Boeing-Boeing (Tony Award), Rock ‘n’ Roll, Company (Tony Award) and Sweeney Todd. Upcoming: Betrayal, Twelfth Night – Richard III. U.S. Tour: Book of Mormon. In the West End: Trafalgar Transformed with Jamie Lloyd (Macbeth, The Hothouse, The Pride), The Audience, A Chorus Line, Book of Mormon, The Bodyguard, Richard III/ Twelfth Night, A Chorus of Disapproval, Top Hat (Olivier Award), Posh, Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Olivier Award), South Downs/ The Browning Version, Sweeney Todd, Absent Friends, Hay Fever, Top Girls, Ghost, Betrayal, Flare Path, Clybourne Park (Olivier Award), La Bête, Jerusalem, Legally Blonde (Olivier Award), The Misanthrope, No Man’s Land, The Mountaintop (Olivier Award), Dancing at Lughnasa, Carousel, Sunset Boulevard, La Cage Aux Folles (Olivier Award), That Face, A View From the Bridge, Elling, The Dumb Waiter, Company, Rock ‘n’ Roll, Guys and Dolls (Olivier), Eh Joe, Porgy & Bess, Donkeys’ Years, Hitchcock Blonde. Upcoming: Chimerica, Perfect Nonsense! U.K. tour:

SCOTT M. DELMAN (Co-Producer). Scott M. Delman is the Managing Partner at DGZ Capital, a private equity firm, where he spends his days singing show tunes and contemplating new theatrical ventures. Mr. Delman has co-produced over 30 Broadway and West End plays and musicals, winning Tony Awards for The Book of Mormon and Death of a Salesman. Nevertheless, his son Edward and daughter Rebecca remain his favorite mainstage productions. DARREN BAGERT/MARTIN MASSMAN (Co-Producers). Darren Bagert is currently producing the comedy Buyer & Cellar and the awardwinning play My Name Is Asher Lev. Broadway Shows: The Glass Menagerie (currently), The Best Man (Tony

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nominee), Company (Tony winner), Sweeney Todd (Tony nominee), Long Day’s Journey (Tony winner) and others. Martin Massman is glad to have Neil Simon back to CTG, “We missed you.” MICHAEL RITCHIE (Artistic Director) is in his eighth season as Center Theatre Group’s Artistic Director, and has led over 130 productions to the Ahmanson, Taper and Douglas stages since his arrival in 2005. From 1996 to 2004 Michael was the Producer of the Williamstown Theatre Festival and prior to that he was a Production Stage Manager in NYC. At CTG, he premiered six musicals that moved to Broadway — The Drowsy Chaperone (which won 13 ® Tony Award nominations), Curtains (eight Tony nominations) 13, 9 to 5: The Musical, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and Leap of Faith. He has produced 33 world premieres including the musicals Minsky’s, Venice and Sleeping Beauty Wakes, and the plays Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (a Pulitzer Prize finalist that also moved to Broadway), Water & Power and Yellow Face, and he presented a broad range of plays and musicals ranging from Dead End to The Black Rider to Edward Scissorhands to blockbusters such as God of Carnage, Mary Poppins, Jersey Boys and August: Osage County. In addition, Michael inaugurated CTG’s New Play Production Program, designed to foster the development and production of new work. EDWARD L. RADA (Managing Director) returned to Center Theatre Group in 2011 after previously serving as CTG’s Chief Financial Officer for 12 years (1996–2008). Rada spent three years (2008–2011) as President of the Music Center Foundation, a non-profit corporation that holds and invests the endowment and reserve funds for the Music Center and its resident companies (including CTG). Prior to his years at CTG, he was the Director of Finance at The Old Globe in San Diego and principal of

Rada & Associates, an accounting firm that specialized in entertainmentrelated non-profit organizations and theatrical productions. He is a graduate of Occidental College in Los Angeles with numerous post-graduate coursework and credentials. He currently serves on the board of directors for Entertainment Industry Foundation, Theatre @ Boston Court, and United Support of Artists for Africa/USA for Africa, among other affiliations. He also serves on the board of trustees for the pension, health and welfare and 401(k) plans of I.A.T.S.E. Local 33 Stagehands Union. DOUGLAS C. BAKER (Producing Director) is now in his 23rd season at CTG. Previously, he managed Broadway and touring productions including Tru, Born Yesterday, The Gospel at Colonus, Annie, A Chorus Line, Working, The Wiz, and Legends!, which premiered at the Ahmanson Theatre in 1986 and starred Mary Martin and Carol Channing. Doug is a member of the Achievement Hall of Fame of Chagrin Falls Schools in Ohio and a graduate of Albion College. He is an active member of the Broadway League, the Independent Presenters Network and is a proud member of the Association of Theatrical Press Agents and Managers. In May 2013 Doug received The Broadway League’s prestigious Outstanding Achievement in Presenter Management Award. Doug fondly recalls working as a college intern on the original Broadway production of The Sunshine Boys with Jack Albertson and Sam Levene.

artistic staff member Neel has helped produce a wide range of plays and musicals at CTG, including the world premieres of The Second City’s A Christmas Carol: Twist Your Dickens!, Leap of Faith, Randy Newman’s Harps and Angels, 13, Yellow Face, Poor Behavior, Bones, Of Equal Measure, Minsky’s and Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo. Before joining CTG, Neel served as Artistic Director of Chicago’s Remains Theatre, Associate Artistic Director at La Jolla Playhouse and was on the staffs of Williamstown Theatre Festival, Lincoln Center Theater, the American National Theatre, and Jerome Robbins’ Broadway. GORDON DAVIDSON (Founding Artistic Director) led the Taper throughout its first 38 seasons, guiding over 300 productions to its stage and winning countless awards for himself and the ® theatre — including the Tony Award for theatrical excellence, Margo Jones Award, The Governor’s Award for the Arts and a Guggenheim fellowship. The Kentucky Cycle and Angels in America (Part One) won the Pulitzer in consecutive years and, in 1994, three of the four plays nominated for the Tony ® Award for Best Play were from the Taper (Angels in America won). In 1989 Gordon took over the Ahmanson and, in 2004, he produced the inaugural season in the Kirk Douglas Theatre.

NEEL KELLER (Associate Artistic Director). For CTG Neel has directed the world premieres of Jennifer Haley’s The Nether and Jessica Goldberg’s Good Thing, the American premiere of David Greig’s Pyrenees, the decidedly silly Stones in His Pockets, and many readings and workshops for CTG’s varied new play development initiatives. As a senior PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P 13

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ADDITIONAL CREDITS FOR THE SUNSHINE BOYS

For the London Production For Sonia Friedman Productions Producer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sonia Friedman Assistant to Sonia Friedman . . Heather Mason Executive Director & General Manager . . . . . . . . . Diane Benjamin Head of Production . . . . . . . . . . . . Pam Skinner Associate Producer . . . . . . . . . . . . Lucie Lovatt Associate Producer . . . . . . . . . . . Fiona Stewart Assistant General Managers . . . . . . . . . Lil Lambley, Ben Canning Production Assistants . . . . . . . . . . David Nock, Teddy Rose, Ben Prudhoe Literary Associate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jack Bradley Chief Executive Officer (New york) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . David Lazar Production Accountant . . . . . . . . . Melissa Hay SFP Board . . . . . Helen Enright, Howard Panter, Rosemary Squire For Richmark Entertainment/Seven Arts Productions Owner/Producer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Richard Willis President. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Erinn Tobin General Manager . . . . . . . . . . Sarah Khambatta Accounting Department . . . . . . . . .Jean Garvey Production Manager . . . . . . . . Michael Lovejoy Original U.K. Sound Designer Ian Dickinson for Autograph Original U.K. Sketch Consultant Jos Houben

For the Ahmanson Theatre Production Company Manager . . . . . . . . . . Kimberly Helms Assistant Costume Designer . . . . Candice Cain U.K. Costume Design Consultant . . Laura Hunt Costume Design Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kathryn M. Poppen Assistant Lighting Designer . . Robert Halliday Technical Consultant . . . . . . . . .Dave Simmons Wig Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Rick Geyer Production Assistant . . . . . . . . . David Mancini Prop Shopper . . . . . . . . . . . . Shannon Dedman Immigration . . . . . . . . . . . . Entertainment visa Consultants/David King, Lisa Carr Credits Lighting equipment from Hollywood Rentals. Sound equipment from Jabworks. Scenery for London and U.S. by Souvenir Scenic Studios. International cargo by Rock-It Cargo. London costume rentals from Angels. Costumes also provided by the Center Theatre Group Costume Shop and additional staff : Tailor - Swantje Tuohino; Tailor’s Assistant - Iris Marshall; Stitcher - Leonardo Lopez, Agnes Ingram. Original artwork design by aka. Artwork photography by Michael Birt and Joan Marcus. Los Angeles production and rehearsal photography by Craig Schwartz. Special Thanks Maggie Lunn (U.K. Casting); Scott Lazarus, Robert Harris; Carol Bressi-Cilona; 101 Productions, Ltd: Wendy Orshan, Jeffrey M. Wilson, Elie Landau, Ron Gubin, Chris Morey. ONLINE CenterTheatreGroup.org #SunshineBoys Like us on facebook Center Theatre Group Follow us on Twitter @CTGLA Subscribe on youTube CTGLA

The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers of the United States. 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 following employees are represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Machine Operators, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, its Territories and Canada, AFL-CIO, CLC: Stage Crew Locals 33; Local Treasurers and Ticket Sellers Local 857; Wardrobe Crew Local 768; Make-up Artists and Hair Stylists Local 706. The Director is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union. United Scenic Artists represents the designers and scenic painters for the American theatre. The Press Agents, Company and House Managers employed in this production are represented by the Association of Theatrical Press Agents and Managers. Center Theatre Group is a member of the American Arts Alliance, the Broadway League, Independent Producers’ Network (IPN), LA Stage Alliance, League of Resident Theatres (LORT), National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) and the Theatre Communications Group (TCG).

Latecomers will be seated at the discretion of management. Patrons with disabilities: wheelchair seating is available in a variety of theatre locations. When ordering your tickets, please indicate any special needs. For our hearing-impaired guests, the theatre is equipped with listening devices; please contact an usher for assistance.

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thiS ProDUction oF the SUnShine BoYS oriGinateD in London in the spring of last year with Danny Devito playing Willie Clark and Richard Griffiths playing Al Lewis. It was to be Richard’s last performance on stage.

Richard was the most original actor of his generation. He had a sensitivity that others could only wish for. As Willie says of Al, “There’ll never be another one like him.” He was a wonderful man, an incredible story teller, and the warmest, most gentle friend you could ever ask for. I was lucky enough to work with him seven times over twelve years. Every show has a journey, this one is unique. Richard and I worked together for the first time in 2001 with George Segal and Paul Freeman in a production of Art in London. We all became great friends. years later, I worked again with George and Richard Benjamin at the Geffen Playhouse. It was through Richard Benjamin and George that Richard (Griffiths) and I first learned of The Sunshine Boys. And in turn it was Richard’s suggestion that we approach Danny Devito to make his London debut to play alongside him. And now, Judd Hirsch joins Devito for the first time since Taxi, 30 years ago. With this parallel of the play itself, the circle is complete as this new production begins at the Ahmanson, the original home of so many of Neil Simon’s plays. Thea Sharrock

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C enter T heatre G roup L.A.’s Theatre Company Michael Ritchie, Artistic Director EDWARD L. RADA, Managing Director Douglas c. baker, Producing Director

ARTISTIC NEEL KELLER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Artistic Director KELLEY KIRKPATRICK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Artistic Director DIANE RODRIGUEZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Producer/Director of New Play Production PIER CARLO TALENTI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Resident Dramaturg/Literary Manager LINDSAY ALLBAUGH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Producing Associate Malcolm K. Darrell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . New Play Production Associate Joy meads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Literary Associate and Artistic Engagement Strategist mark b. simon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Casting Director andy crocker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Casting Associate kEvin L. cordova . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Casting Administrator DAVID ADJMI (FADIMAN), JESSICA BLANK, JUSTIN ELLINGTON, GINA GIONFRIDDO, GOB SQUAD, DANAI GURIRA, JENNIFER HALEY, JOE HORTUA, ERIK JENSEN, RAJIV JOSEPH, LATINO THEATER COMPANY, LAURAL MEADE, JULIE MARIE MYATT (FADIMAN), DAN O’BRIEN, EVANGELINE ORDAZ, DAEL ORLANDERSMITH, WILL POWER (FADIMAN), MARCO RAMIREZ, matt sax, THEATRE MOVEMENT BAZAAR, YOUNG JEAN LEE THEATER COMPANY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Commissioned Artists Bekah Brunstetter, Carla ching, jason grote, sarah gubbins, tim mcneil, henry ong, madhuri shekar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CTG Writers’ Workshop Members EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS LESLIE K. JOHNSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Education and Community Partnerships PATRICIA GARZA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant Department Director TRACI CHO KWON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of School Partnerships CAMILLE SCHENKKAN . . . . . . . . . Program Manager, Emerging Artists and Arts Professionals ASHLEY OPSTAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Program Associate VICTOR VAZQUEZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Program Associate BRANDON TURNER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Temporary Program Associate Kelly CHRIST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Communications Coordinator SHANNON WINSTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Department Coordinator DEBRA PIVER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Resident Teaching Artist MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION Nausica Stergiou . . . . . . . . . . General Manager (Mark Taper Forum, Kirk Douglas Theatre) JEFFREY UPAH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . General Manager (Ahmanson Theatre) SUZANNE HEE MAYBERRY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant General Manager (Mark Taper Forum) KATIE BRUNER SOFF Assistant General Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre, New Play Production) Alana beidelman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Executive Assistant to Managing Director LIZ LYDIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant to Producing Director ERIC SIMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Operations Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) TOM BURMESTER . . Audience Experience Design/Front of House Mgr (Kirk Douglas Theatre) MIKE KINDLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Facilities Assistant (Kirk Douglas Theatre) LAUREN BAXA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant Performance Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) Sondra Mayer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Concessions Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) PRODUCTION DAWN HOLISKI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Production Department Operations Director JOE HAMLIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Technical Director/Ahmanson Production Manager SHAWN ANDERSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Master Carpenter (Ahmanson Theatre) ANDREW W. ARNOLD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Flyman (Ahmanson Theatre) STAN STEELMON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Master Propertyman (Ahmanson Theatre) JIM BERGER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Master Electrician (Ahmanson Theatre) ROBERT SMITH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Master Soundman (Ahmanson Theatre) MICHAEL GARDNER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wardrobe Supervisor (Ahmanson Theatre) PATRICE MIRANDA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hair and Make-up Supervisor (Ahmanson Theatre) CHRISTINE L. COX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . House Manager (Ahmanson Theatre) CHAD SMITH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Technical Director SAM CRAVEN-GRIFFITHS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Technical Director SARAH SOWELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shop Foreperson ANDREW THIELS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Prop Manager MERRIANNE NEDREBERG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Prop Manager SARAH KRAININ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Prop Associate CANDICE CAIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Costume Shop Director BRENT M. BRUIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Workroom Supervisor MADELINE KELLER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Costume Generalist SWANTJE TUOHINO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tailor ELIZABETH LEONARD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Production Operations Manager JULIO A. CUELLAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Driver/Custodian DONOVAN MARTINELLI, EUGENE A. MONTEIRO II, BRIAN SLATEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Drivers JENNIFER ACHTERBERG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Production Administrator JONATHAN BARLOW LEE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Production Manager (Mark Taper Forum) CELESTE SANTAMASSINO . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Production Manager (Mark Taper Forum) emmet kaiser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Master Carpenter (Mark Taper Forum) ROBERT RUBY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Master Propertyman (Mark Taper Forum) WILLIAM MORNER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Master Electrician (Mark Taper Forum) BONES MALONE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Master Soundman (Mark Taper Forum) DENNIS SEETOO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wardrobe Supervisor (Mark Taper Forum) RICK GEYER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hair & Make-up Supervisor (Mark Taper Forum) LINDA WALKER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . House Manager (Mark Taper Forum) CHRISTY WEIKEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Production Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) KATE COLTUN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant Production Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) RICHARD PETERSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Master Electrician (Kirk Douglas Theatre) ADAM PHALEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Head Audio (Kirk Douglas Theatre) FINANCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND HUMAN RESOURCES MICHAEL F. THOMPSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chief Financial Officer MELODY MATTOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Controller JANIS BOWBEER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant Controller FELICISIMA LAPID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Accounts Payable Specialist DANNY LAMPSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Senior Staff Accountant ALEGRIA SENA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Staff Accountant yuen ki “annie” Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Payroll Manager AMEETA SHARMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Payroll Specialist

JODY HORWITZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Human Resources MADRIO FLEEKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Senior Human Resources Generalist SINGER LEWAK, LLP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Auditor MICHAEL C. DONALDSON, LISA A. CALLIF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Legal Counsel GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Legal Counsel DEVELOPMENT YVONNE CARLSON BELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Development PATRICK OWEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Deputy Director of Development NATALIE BERGESON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Donor Contributions JEAN KLING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Institutional Support LIZ LIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Corporate Relations and Communications CHARITY WU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Individual Giving BECKY BIRDSONG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Major Gifts Officer jAMIE CATALDO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Corporate Relations Manager MANDi OR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Special Events Manager Eric Brown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Communications Coordinator jennifer chan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Special Events Associate JUSTIN FOO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Donor Contributions Associate katy hilton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Grant Writer Donald Jolly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Donor Relations Associate for the Inner Circle CAMERON LEE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Development Assistant Kristen Levy-Vaughan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Individual Giving Assistant JESSICA NASH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Donor Contributions Supervisor maria paredes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Donor Relations Associate for The Guild BECKY PIERCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Events and Major Gifts Assistant COURTNEY ROBERTSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Institutional Giving Associate ERIC SEPPALA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Executive Assistant to the Development Director ERIN SCHLABACH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Major Gifts Coordinator AL BERMAN, ELIZABETH DELLORUSSO, GINA EAST, lili herrera, TONY LEWELLEN, HOLLY RAMOS, NICOLE SCIPIONE, lena thomas, BILL WALTON,REHA ZAMANI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Donor Advisors ADAM BURCH, Karla Galvez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Donor Services Associates ANNE BRUNER, Murray E. Heltzer, marci miller, julie nadal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Development Volunteers MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS JIM ROYCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Marketing, Communications and Sales NANCY HEREFORD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Media and Communications PHYLLIS MOBERLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Media and Communications Associate JASON MARTIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Media and Communications Associate LYN COWAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Media and Communications Coordinator CHELSEY ROSETTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Media and Communications Coordinator nishita doshi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Art Director IRENE KANESHIRO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Senior Design Manager Haruka hayakawa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Graphic Designer TERESA ENGLISH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Graphic Designer ANDREW DARCEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Advertising Manager KAREN VOCK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marketing Manager JAMES SIMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marketing Creative Manager JEWEL MOORE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marketing Coordinator ROSE POIRIER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Webmaster CRAIG SCHWARTZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Production Photographer LARRY DEAN HARRIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Copywriter CINEVATIVE/MARK CIGLAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Production Video TOM BURMESTER, TREVOR ALGATT, KEVIN MAPP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Event Video ALLIED LIVE: LAURA MATALON, SHANNON WILLETT, KELLY ESTRELLA . . . . . . . . . . . . . Advertising Agency TICKET SALES AND SERVICES SHAWN ROBERTSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ticket Sales Director SKYPP CABANAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ticket Operations Coordinator SANDY CZUBIAK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Audience and Subscriber Services Manager JENNIFER BAKER, CHERYL HAWKER, RICHARD RAGSDALE . . Audience Services Supervisors ALICE CHEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Audience Services Asst. Supervisor SAM AARON, DEBORAH REED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Audience Services Sales Associates jeremie arencibia, VICKI BERNDT, RJ CANTU, CARLOS D. CHAVEZ, JR., PETER COLBURN, DONALD CRANDALL, GARY HOLLAND, KAY LOCHARD, JUSTINE PEREZ, LEX SAVKO, DANNY SCHMITZ, CRIS SPACCA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Audience Services Representatives DANUTA SIEMAK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Subscriber Services Supervisor CHRISTINA GUTIERREZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Subscriber Services Asst. Supervisor LIGIA PISTE, CELIA RIVAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Subscriber Services Senior Representatives irene chuang, peter staloch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Subscriber Services Representatives SARAH K. GONTA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Box Ofﬁce Treasurer KISHISA ROSS, GISELE FRAZEUR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assistant Treasurers  YULIZA BARRAZA, ANGELICA Carbajal, michael kempisty,   LEROY PAWLOWSKI, MICHAEL SALTZMAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Box Ofﬁce Staff MICHAEL ZOLDESSY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Account Sales Manager EILEEN ROBERTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Account Sales Associate KERRY KORF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Priority Services Director SUSAN F. TULLER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Priority Services Operations Manager JAY BURNS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Priority Services Sales Manager paul cuen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Priority Services Manager Carole Baxter, DANNY BROWN, Rusty collins, SUZANNE “MAGGIE” DODD, Marc “Byron” Drotman, SAMANTHA ELSE, Lou George, KATE HALL, Jerry Johnston, LISA KESSLER, SHEP KOSTER, MATT PELFREY, Ken Salley, BOBBI LYNNE SCOTT, Michael Smith, quinn sullivan, CANDICE WALTERS, DIANE WARD, JIM WATERMAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Representatives INTERNS ERIC BABB, CAMBRIA CHICHI, MARIA HERNANDEZ, CHRISTINA HJELM, E.J. JOHNSON, MARAN MCLEOD, LEE O’REILLY, JAI PELLERIN, ISABELLA PETRINI, SAARON RAMIREZ

DAVE ALTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chief Information Officer STAN GRUSHESKY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director of Information Systems SEAN PINTO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Database And Web Manager MANDY RATLIFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tessitura Administrator JARED WATANABE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Information Systems Analyst

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Corporate Circle The Corporate Circle comprises companies that support Center Theatre Groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s community and educational programs. Members receive VIP concierge service at theatres in Los Angeles, New York and London; complimentary and discounted tickets to CTG shows, business development opportunities and more. For more information, call Jamie Cataldo at 213.972.7536. (Donors listed as of August 27, 2013)

Sheri Biller, Founding Chair Corporate Circle Cabinet Jennifer Altfeld Landau, Chair Jonathan Axel Dannielle Campos Ramirez Celeste Easton

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CAP UCLA is dedicated to the advancement of the contemporary performing arts in all disciplines—dance, music, spoken word and theater as well as emerging digital, collaborative and cross-art platforms created by today’s leading artists.

OCTOBER AT ROYCE HALL Thu-Fri, Oct 3-4

Lucy Guerin Inc Weather Sat, Oct 5

Dave Holland Prism and The John Scofield Überjam Band Tue, Oct 8

Goran Bregovic Wedding and Funeral Band Champagne for Gypsies Thu, Oct 10

Idan Raichel Project Sat, Oct 12

Robert Wilson, Philip Glass and Lucinda Childs Creating Einstein on the Beach Tue, Oct 15

Robert Wilson John Cage’s Lecture on Nothing Fri, Oct 18

Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby with Kentucky Thunder Sat, Oct 26

They Might Be Giants Kids Show and Rock Show

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Inner Circle | Judith Beckmen, Chair Donors who provide outstanding annual support are recognized as part of Center Theatre Group’s Inner Circle. Members enjoy artist dialogues, backstage tours and more. For information, call Donald Jolly at 213.972.3149. (Donors listed as of July 15, 2013).

Producer Circle ($25,000–$74,999) William Ahmanson Dean V. Ambrose Judith & Thomas Beckmen Joni & Miles Benickes Debra & Norris Bishton Margaret M. Bloomfield Linda Brown Diana Buckhantz & Vladimir & Araxia Buckhantz Foundation Dannielle Campos Ramirez Joseph & Mara Carieri Marcy Carsey Cástulo de la Rocha Erica & Vin Di Bona Louise & Brad Edgerton Frances & Terry Flanagan Ruth Flinkman-Marandy & Ben Marandy Barbara & Peter Fodor Amy Forbes & Andrew Murr Ava & Charles Fries Eric & Nancy Garen Kiki & David Gindler Heather & Paul Haaga Timothy G. Hanlon & Anthony Klatt In Memory of Morris A. Hazan Ann & Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr. June & Gareth Hughes Patricia Glaser & Sam Mudie

Guarantor Circle ($15,000+)

Anne Marie Ketchum Artistic Director Laraine Ann Madden Accompanist

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Renee & Meyer Luskin Kelly Sutherlin McLeod & Steven B. McLeod Family Foundation Marsha J. Naify Chris & Dick Newman/ C & R Newman Family Foundation Christine Marie Ofiesh Linda S. Peterson Melissa L. Rhone Jane Rissman & Richard Sondheimer Drs. Joan & Harry Saperstein Catherine Schreiber & Miles Ruthberg Elliott R. Sernel Rary Simmons Sunshine Stone George Takei & Brad Takei Mr. & Mrs. Ian D. Teague Lynda Thomas Karen & William Timberlake Robin & Gary Ungar Roberta & James Vigneau Mr. & Mrs. William M. Wardlaw Suzanne V. Wilson

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This concert made possible, in part, by the City of Santa Monica Community Arts Grant Program, a project of the Santa Monica Arts Commission, and by the support of the Los Angeles County Arts Commission

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Benefactor Circle ($10,000+) Anonymous (2) William J. Aisley Geraldine & Harold Alden Constance A. Austin Jackie & Howard Banchik Shelley & Rick Bayer Laurie Benenson Carole Black Rose Marie Browning & Michael Fletcher Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Burdorf Beth Burnam Lou Colen Eunice & Hal David Ms. Diana Davidow Michael A. Enomoto Rhonda C. Evans Polly Fleming Cindy & Rick Goldman Roslyn & Abner Goldstine Shirley J. Hess Lorraine & Jesse Hizami Ellen & Tom Hoberman Mary N. Howey Mr. & Mrs. James L. Hunter James Jennings & Deidre Steine Jacqueline & Marvin Jubas Mark A. Kadzielski Andrew & Denise Katz Dr. & Mrs. Jack Kavanaugh Diane Kessler Laura King & Charles Nagurka In Memory of Salem Ludwig Joanne & Roger Kozberg Sheila Krasnoff Sandra Krause & William Fitzgerald Jeff & Griselda Kreitzman Joan Kroll & In Memory of Irving Kroll David & Tam Lachoff In Loving Memory of Anna Strahlman John Liebes Phillips & Emily Marshall William O. McClure Janis B. McEldowney

Betty L. McMicken Janice & Bruce Miller Carrie & Ben Mui Sheila Muller Kari L. Nakama Arline M. Nakanishi Joan & Fred Nicholas Michael R. Oppenheim Dr. Renee Boblette & Dr. Robert G. Patterson Ann & Donald Petroni Gregory Pickert & Beth Price Jack & Jane Pollock Edward L. Rada David & Natalie Roberts Jaclyn B. Rosenberg Joyce & Deane Ross Greg Scott Chester James Semel, M.D. Nina & Steven Sheldon Marcia & David M. Spaid Phyllis J. & Steven F. Spierer Eugene & Marilyn Stein Clumeck Stern Schenkelberg & Getzoff Judy Stone Stone Family Lisa A. Sugimoto Donna & John Sussman Anne C. Taubman & David Boyle Peter & Iona Tompkins Vera Tsai Elinor & Rubin Turner Peter & Susan Van Haften Carol Vernon & Robert Turbin Rae Walker Jerrie D. Whitfield & Richard W. Motika Jenene J. Wilson & Kristiana A. Wilson Mary J. Witt The Wolkowitz Family Dr. Lester Wong & Dr. Cynthia Chock Marilyn Ziering

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I. Mark Bledstein Family Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Morgan Yvonne Bogdanovich & Family Bill Bohnert Tracey Boldemann-Tatkin & Stan Tatkin Chuck & Karlyn Boppell Paula Brand The Saul Brandman Foundation Geri Brawerman Samuel & Helene Soref Foundation Pamela & J. Garfield Broussard David Burch Dr. & Mrs. Ronald Busuttil Dr. & Mrs. George Byrne In Memory of John W. Carner Kristin & Carolyn Carty Paula & Richard Castanon Arthur & Katheryn Chinski Nicholas Chrisos Mary Coates

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Patron Circle (continued) Ms. Carlene Ringer Belinda Robins Elaine Binder Robinson William & Sue Roen Lois Rosen Ellen & Mike Rosenberg Barbara & Peter Rosenthal Leonard J. & JoAnn Roth Maggie Russell Dana Saladen June & Samuel Sale Janet in Memory of Hon. Maxwell Hillary Salter Faith Annette Sand & Albert Gleaves Cohen In Memory of Honey Sanders Wes Schaefer & Cathy King-Schaefer Eloise Schlesinger & Peggy J. Schlesinger Martin Salvin & Barbara Schneider Peter & Susan Schwab Todd W. Seabold Loretta H. Shine Jan & Carl Siechert Louis & Mary Silver Foundation Stephen & Judith Slagle Paseka Teo & Susan Smith Teo Shani Smolens & In Memory of Dr. Bernard Smolens

Drs. Debra & Philip Sobol Judith & Stan Solomon Stephanie & Michael Sourapas Betty & Al Spivak Stanley Iezman & Nancy Stark Tom & Kerstin Stempel Tracy A. Stone Rick & Barbara Sulier Judith D. Tamkin Mr. & Mrs. Randall A. Tamura Terence Tchen & Emily Breckenridge Peter & Mary Tennyson Louis & Harold Price Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Volk Susan & William Weintraub Jessica M. Weisel Doug & Ellen Weitman Barbara & Edmund Wilkinson David Williamson Alan Wilson & Ina Coleman Virginia & Greg Young Arnold H. & Tricia L. Zane Martin & Rosalind Zane

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Fellow Circle (continued) Todd Dickey, Sandra Tufts, Ms. Andrea Valcourt, Tebby & Kathryn Wafer, Dr. & Mrs. Daniel Wallace, Hope Landis Warner, Wendie Warwick & Ken Pierce, John & Charlene Wasilczyk, Carol Webster & Chris Enterline, Dean E. Weichel, Norman & Barbara Weiler, Winifred P. & William Weisinger, Pat West, Carol S. Wharmby, Leilani Whitney, Willett Financial Services, Lori Williams & Stephen Schulte, Valerie & Nathaniel E. Williams, Jean Willner, Denise & Andrew Winner, The Winnick Family Foundation, Ralph M. & Molly Wolveck, Marcie & Howard Zelikow

Associate Circle ($1,000+) Anonymous (32), Michael & Susan Abeles, Cynthia Abrams, Amy & Bob Abramson, Dr. Gladi Adams, Robert W. Adams, M.D., Matthew Adler & Greg Weinberg, Jennifer & Brad Agens, Andrew Agle, Barbara & Glenn Aichele, Davis Alexander, James & Marsha Alexander, Patricia K. Allen, Allysha Almada, Merryl & David A. Alpert, Liz & Lou Altman, Lynn K. Altman, Mrs. Nora Amrani, Paula & Douglas Anderson, Dorothy Manning, Paula & Don Arii, Suzanne & Bill Attig, Rich & Annette Atwood, Audrey L. Bahr, Deborah G. Baine, David Baird, Carol Ann & D.C. Bakeman, Barry M. Baker, Jill Baldauf & Steve Grossman, Dr. Stewart & Eileen Balikov, Jill Banks Barad, Lynn G. Barancik, Gregory & Melanie Barbee, John & Carol Barcal, Howard A. Barmazel, Mrs. Jericho Poppler & Dr. Greg Bartlow, Chris & Rose Bauss, Elizabeth Bawden, Judy & Chuck Beck, John & Linda Belsito, Frederic & Linnea Benning, Delores & Roger Berg, Mr. & Mrs. Steven B. Bergjans, Jeffrey & Susan Berman, Jamie & Joel Berman, Bob Besser, Mr. & Mrs. John Bettfreund, Peter & Helen Bing, Leah M. Bishop & Gary M. Yale, In Memory of Sy & Maxine Gomberg, Michael & Patty Blakely, Louise Blanchard, Rochelle Wilson Blank & William Hellman, Marjorie Blatt, Cheryl Bledin, David & Vivian Block, Mrs. Lois Bock, Richard & Patricia Bongeorno, Harriet Rossetto & Rabbi Mark Borovitz, James Bowling, Linda Bradley, Kim Brant-Lucich & Tony Lucich, Marti Breier, Ronda & Stanley Breitbard, Devra Breslow, Bill & Susan Brewer, James & Lauren Briggs, L.D. Brucker DDS & Shirley White, Dr. Lisa Bukaty & Mr. Raymond M. Bukaty, Ward & Mari Bukofsky, Constance Burg, Lore & Thomas Burger, Jan Burnett, Linda Stafford Burrows, Daniel R. Burschinger, M.D., Robert & Angie Butler, Mike & Sandy Buttitta, Allen B. Cagle, M.D., Laura Calderone, Richard & Norma Camp, Marla S. Campagna, Lynne Campbell, Vickie Camper, Cathy Paul, Carol & Ken Carlson, Melinda Carmichael, Joseph A. Carter, Sandra L. Carter, Jean & Ray Cassetta, Marc Castagnola, Carolyn Castillo, Don & Ellen Castleman, James Castranova, Kathryn Cencirulo, Mrs. Joseph Cerrell, Ling Chan, Catherine & Anthony Chanin, Dorothy Mae Chapple, Rita Chenoweth, Tim Cherry, Mrs. James L. Chew, Eric Chien, Mr. & Mrs. Melvin Chin, Maria & Brenton Chinn, Becky & Mike Clements, Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Clemmer, Timothy Cline Insurance, Ms. Jean F. Cohen, Dr. Melvin S. Cohen, Patricia T. Colby, Father Vince Connor, James M. Cooke, Mary P. Coquillard, Ted Cordes & Bill Derby, Robert L. & Sharon Corkrum, Earl & Christina Cory, Mark Coulombe, Seth Cover, Lois Cox, Michele Crahan, In Memory of Ada Gory, Mr. & Mrs. Steven B. Darling, Maurie Davidson, Louise & Jeffrey Davis, Margaret E. De Grazio, Ron de Salvo, William De Witt, Linda Vanwinkle Deacon & Erika Deacon, Don & Claudine DeFazio, The Delange Family, Kurt Delsack & Linda J. Levenson Delsack, Matt Denoff, Melisa DesJardien, M. Dessecker, Dr. Udaya & Sherin Devaskar, Norma and Al Diaz, Dr. & Mrs. Donald E. Dickerson, Mr. & Mrs. Alvin Dischler, Betty Jean DiVall, Laurie Dix & Moe Blumin, Kathleen & Sarah Doramus, Rabbi Elliot & Marlynn Dorff, Susan B. Downey, Jessie J. Duffy, Mr. & Mrs. Gene B. Duncan, Emily & Fred Edelman, Leslie J. Edmonds, Mr. & Mrs. Fred M. Edwards Jr., Marilee Eils, Jill & Bob Eisfelder, Carol Eliel & Tom Muller, Becky & Rick Thyne, Ken & Kathi Ellis, Dr. Naomi & Mr. Jim Ellison, Bonnie Ellman, Suzanne & Dr. Kenneth Epstein, Louise & Charles Escoffery, Linda & Arthur Eskowitz, Ellen Eubanks, Victoria I. Evers, Jim Bright & Lucy Farber, Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Farrar, Mr. Amnon & Dr. Myra Feffer, In Loving Memory of James A. Feiga,

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Associate Circle (continued) Ronald & Sandra Fein, Justice & Mrs. Robert Feinerman, Stanley Feinstein, Mr. & Mrs. Ed Feo, Conchata Ferrell, Roland & Joy Feuer, In Memory of Robert A. Fisher, Joan & Marty Flax, Mr. & Mrs. Manny Flekman, Ruth Fleming-Stephens, Martha Flores & Kate Roberts, Ms. F. Janet Fluent, Lynne & Michael Flynn, John & Dianne Forbing, Judy & Radon Fortenberry, Betty & Frank Fouce, Victoria Fouce Otter, Mr. & Mrs. Stan Fox, Richard Frank, Patricia L. Frazier, Fran Fredella & Scott Rubin, Joanne Freed, Marilyn Wallace & Sami Freedman, Fran & Jack Freeman, Debra & Roger Friedland, Sharon & Elliott T. Friedman, Mr. & Mrs. Louis Friedman, Sharon & Mark E. Friedman, Susan R. Friedman, Mr. John Fukuoka, Mr. & Mrs. Joseph R. Fusco, Dr. & Mrs. Humberto A. Galleno, Mr. & Mrs. Sol F. Galper, Norma & James Garner, Dr. Robert Gasway & Mrs. Kristen Wong, Frederick & Leslie Gaylord, Lesley & Kenneth Geiger, Dr. & Mrs. Arthur F. Gelb, The Gelfand Family, Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Gershon, Jeanne K. Gerson, Fariba Ghaffari, Bob & Esme Gibson, Karen & Michael Gilbert, Stephen & Linda Gill, Shirley A. Gipson, Traute & Gene Gleeson, Stephen Glick, Bruce & Madelyn Glickfeld, Gary Jackson & Linda Globerman, M.D., Nancy J. Goff, The Gold Family, Donna & Lee B. Gold, M.D., Dr. Irene Goldenberg, Neal Goldman & Mrs. Kate Harrington, Dr. Patricia Goldring, Josh & Cathy Goldsmith, Barbara Gollin, Leonard W. Gomez, Ms. Dorothy Gonzalez, Leticia Gonzalez, The J.B. Berland Foundation, Myles & Barbara Goodson, Goodstein Wealth Management, LLC., Howard & Cambria Gordon, Bill & Sue Gordon, Dr. Jerry & Josephine Gorelick, Donald W. Grant, Marsha Grant, Steve Grant & Bob Loudin, Dr. Stuart & Adrienne Green, Rhonda & Stanley Green, Lory Greenbaum, Roberta Gregg, David & Diane Griffith, Patricia Griggs, Jodi & Robbie Groff, Agnes Grohs, Tom & Claudia Grzywacz, Arlyn Gundersen, Mary Gwynn & Mark Rossen, Dr. & Mrs. Leonard P. Haber, Dennis & Michelle Hackbarth, Michelle Haines, Scott Hall & Rhonda Church, Carol Halperin, Cynthia & Dr. Solomon Hamburg, Daniel Hammond & Linda Bentley, Philip & Kyoko Handler, Debra Harbort, William D. Hardie, Sara & John Harms, Arlene S. Harris, Salli & Bernie Harris, Dr. Patricia Harrison, Gene Hawkins, Christine Shaner, Steve Heagstedt, David Heckel, Alan Heilpern, Steve & Leta Helfrich, Eric & Carol Helm, Terry Herkner, Scott & Flora Herman, Robert D. & Claire Heron, Phil Hettema, Dr. Karen Hill Scott, Mara Hitner, Bunny Hogan, Sonny & Jerry Hollander, Charles S. Holmes, Joanne Holmes, Tama & Greg Holve, David D. Horner, Dina & Michael Horowitz, Michael & Robin Howard, Mr. & Mrs. Gabriel Hrab, Dr. Harold G. Hubbard, Jane Hufnagel, Doris & Mel Hughes, Dorothy K. Hull, Marilyn Hykes, Jody L. Isenberg, David Israeli & Marie Mazzone, Dr. Adel F. Jabour, Hal & Agnes Jackson, Carol & Ron Jacobi, Jake Jacobs, Roslyn & Warren Jacobson, Marion & Frederick Jenks, In Memory of Wayne Jervis, Jr., Sarah E. Johns, Starr & Ralph Johnson, Robert & Marilyn Johnson, Janet Jones, Marcia S. Jones, William Jones, Roz & Jerry J. Joseph, Arthur & Carolyn Kagan, Sandy & Stanley Kahan, Richard Kaltenbrun, Regina & Richard G. Kaplan, Ronald Katz & Leona Shapiro Katz, Laurence & Linda Kaufman, Cynthia & Jerry Kay, Saul & Rima Kay, Diane & Stephen Kay, Sandra Kaye, Claudia E. Kazachinsky & Richard A. Sherer, John & Karen Keller, Neel Keller & Molly Callender, David K. Kellogg, Louanne Kennedy, Morris & Debra Kessler, Linda & Rudy Kessman, Lisa & James Keston, Lynne Rosenberg, Jules Kievits, DannĂŠ Montague-King, J. Catherine King, Ms. Marilyn L. Kizziah, Christine Klasen, Alfred Klein & Geralynn Krajeck, Barry Klein, Dr. Phyllis H. Klein, Irene & Marvin H. Kleinberg, Paul & Sharon Kleiter, Mr. & Mrs. Roman M. Silberfeld, Gaylen Kobayashi, Jean Korf, Pearl & Tim Kraft, Bernelle Krause & Jao Robert Santos, Dr. Paul Krause & Nicola Dill, Sharon & Joel Krischer, Fred & Sheri Kuppers, Carol & Richard Kurland, Bob & Karen Kushell, Owen & Sari Kustner, Benjamin Kwan, Mrs. Frumeh Labow, Lena, Mark, Jodi & Emily Labowe, Howard & Lara L. Ladd, Holly R. Lake, Earle & Sharon Lambert, Leah Landry, Anne & Michael Landsburg, Marlee & Katharine Lauffer, Richard & Ruth Lavine Family Foundation, Julie Lawrence, Larry Layne & Sheelagh Boyd, Barbara & Tom Leanse, Christine Lee, Janeen & David Lee, Betty Fu & Don Lee, Constance Leonard, Ms. Grace Leonard, Cindy Leslie, Dinny &

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Associate Circle (continued) David Lesser, Chip Letzgus & Michael McDonald, Pam, Amanda, Lianna & Eddie, Allyn & Jeffrey Levine, Donna & Jebb Levy, Dr. & Mrs. Richard F. Levy, Julia & Anthony Lewinter, Richard Lewis, Joyce Lieberman, Linden Optometry, Thomas & Madeline Link, Paula & Barrett Litt, Mr. & Mrs. LoCasale, Dr. Dianne Long, Sondra Murr Love, Kathleen & Raymond Lovell, Maoyeh Lu, Judy & Alan Ludwig, Doris Luster, Melba Macneil, Denise M. Mamishian, Isabel & M. Milo Mandel, Honorable Nora M. Manella, Richard & Myra Mannheimer Family, Sarah F. Manson, Darlene Manus, Barbara & Joe Marino, Brett J. Markel, Suzanne & Wally Marks, Connie L. Martin, Mr. & Mrs. Dennis G. Martin, Rick & Rebecca Martinez, Ray Mathiasen, Jacqueline Sanchez, Seth Maxwell, Daniel M. Mayeda & Susan I. Rosales, Eleanor Portilla Maynard, Claudia Maytum, Dennis J. McCarthy, Kathleen McCarthy Kosttan, Meg McComb, Cheryl McConaughey, David McDowell & Richard Bautzer, Barbara H. McGuire, Lora McPhail & Mark Deischter, Mrs. Lucille H. Melcher, Arthur Melville, Ph.D. & Marsha Utain, M.S., Nancy & Joseph Mendoza, Charlotte A. Mennillo, Andrea & Katherine Mesi, Bill Meyenberg & Doug Loewy, Lorraine & Craig Meyer, Helen Michaels, Michael & Laurie Milhiser, Lynn Miller & Diane Elton, Ms. Lynn E. Miller, Mark Miller, Joan C. Mills, Julien Minard, Maureen Mitchell, Nobuko Mitokawa, Helene G. Mochedlover, Dr. Theodore & Mrs. Mary J. Mock, Bev Moore, Francoise Schmutz & Antonio Morawski, Toni & Tom Morgan, Louise Moriarty, Tom & Joan Morris, Doug Morseburg & Kelley Brock, Dr. Paula C. Moseley, Alden & Jane Munson, John & Sandra Murdock, Art Works Hollywood, Inc., Barry J. Nadell, Rob & Leslie Nagby, Jack Needleman, Donn Nelson, Dr. Anthony Nesburn & The Nesburn Family, Isabel Friend Newman, Russell Noel, Mariann & Tom Nolan, Cindy & Ken Norian, Roberta Novick & Martin Gardner, Linda Nussbaum & Lawrence Ross, Michelle Nuttall, Mr. & Mrs. Richard I. Mueller, Alan, Sandy, & Oliver Olick, Maureen O’Neill, Henry & Cheryl Osowski, Patrick Owen, Bill & Linda Owen, The Panagos Family, Mr. & Mrs. Mark M. Panatier, Sylvia & Robert Paris, Carolyn & Dan Kelly, Nanette F. Pastor-Hanna, Thomas Patrick, Thomas Payne, Mr. & Mrs. Martin B. Pearlman, John Peetz, Sharon Pember, Mary Phillips, Paul Geissler & Tamra Phipps, Joy & Gerald Picus, Janine Pierce, Frank & Arlene Pirolo, Elisabeth Pollon, Paulene Popek, Ruth Shamir Popkin, Ruth Popkin, Jill Poppe, Patricia A. Powell, Mr. & Mrs. Albert Praw, Samuel Prentice in Loving Memory of Susan Sculley, James P. Bennett & Company, Sandra B. Price, Suzanne & Harvey Prince, Charlie & Kristi Proctor, Ms. Erin Quillen, Jeff Quinn, Dr. Stephen C. Rabin, Sandra & John Radine, Erwin “Sonny” & Jean Raﬄe, The Ramachandran Family, Tracy L. Ramont, Karen Ramsdell, Susan Rasmussen, Doreen Ray, Geoff Wells & Janet Ray, Tim Reynolds, M.D., Laurie & Stuart Rice, Tom & Gerry Rische, Patricia Robbins, Joan G. Robinson, Peter Robinson & Buff y Shutt, Ms. Becky Rosales, Lisa Rosales, Lauren Ross, Ruth Aura Ross, Ph.D., Anna J. Rundle, Ron & Sharon Ryan, Mary & Robert Sabol, Alexandra & Edward Saborio, David A. & Karen Richards Sachs, Harvey & Peggy Saferstein, Maria Elena Salas, Rosa M. Salazar, Mr. & Mrs. John Salter, Maryann & Michael Sanders, Lee Anne & David Sanderson, Lora A. Sandroni, Irma & Edward Sands, David & Toni Sargent, Victoria G. Sartwell, Maxine Savitz, Alexander & Mariette Sawchuk, Tina Saxe, Clifford L. Schaffer, Larry & Carole Scherzer, Mia Schiavone, Kelly Schiffer, John & Louise Schilling, Pam Schmidt, Vincent Schodolski & T. Elaine Carey, Mr. & Mrs. John Schulte, Jan & Michael Schwartz, John H. Scott, Suzie & Michael Scott, Mr. & Mrs. Logan J. Scroggy, Ruth A. Seigle, Stephen E. Sellery, Sr., Harry & Maureen Selvin, Dr. Michael & Susan Sequeira, David & Linda Tashman, Mr. & Mrs. Robert Shadur, Marvin & Daryl Shapiro, Drs. Richard Shapiro & Jacquelyn Green, Daniel Shattuck, Edwin L. Shaughnessy, Juanita Shaw, Doreen & Jack Shine, Kevin M. Shiramizu & Michael J. Kerkman, Mr. & Mrs. Del Shofner, Mr. & Mrs. Harvey Shulman, Marlene Sirkin Siegel, Nancy Signer, John J. Silva, Debra J. Silvera-Sheehan, Bruce & Nancy Silverman, Karen & Gordon Silverstein, Dr. & Mrs. Robert J. Simon, Kathleen A. Siu, Martin & Leah Sklar, Anna Slavick, Ms. Allison F. Smith, Leslie Smith, David Snow, Mr. & Mrs. Richard Sobelle, Nancy

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Foundation Support These institutions support Center Theatre Group’s operations, arts education programs, new play production initiatives or specific projects. For more information, call our grants information line at 213.972.3090. THE AHMANSON FOUNDATION CENTER THEATRE GROUP AFFILIATES EDGERTON FOUNDATION ELISABETH KATTE HARRIS TRUST THE WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST FOUNDATION the andrew w. mellon foundation THE MUSIC CENTER FUND FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation LLOYD E. RIGLER-LAWRENCE E. DEUTSCH FOUNDATION LAURA & JAMES ROSENWALD & ORINOCCO FOUNDATION THE SHUBERT FOUNDATION, INC. stein family foundation THE DREAM FUND AT UCLA DONOR ADVISED FUND THE WELLS FARGO FOUNDATION The Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation Employees Community Fund of Boeing California Sascha Brastoff Foundation The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Foundation Brookside Fund Brotman Foundation of California Diana Buckhantz & Vladimir & Araxia Buckhantz Foundation The Carol and James Collins Foundation The Culver City Education Foundation James A. Doolittle Foundation Fineshriber Family Foundation Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation Lawrence P. Frank Foundation The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation The Green Foundation Lear Family Foundation The Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation MetLife Foundation National Alliance for Musical Theatre The Kenneth T. & Eileen L. Norris Foundation The Perkins Charitable Foundation Rosenthal Family Foundation Sony Pictures Entertainment Dwight Stuart Youth Fund The Fran and Ray Stark Foundation The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust Theatre Communications Group The Towbes Fund for the Performing Arts, a field of interest fund of the Santa Barbara Foundation Center Theatre Group is a participant in the A-ha! Program: Think It, Do It, funded by the MetLife Foundation and administered by Theatre Communications Group, the national organization for the professional not-for-profit American Theatre.

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

Diane Neubauer executive board Alice Desobry Bowens Anne Bruner Ruth Flinkman-Marandy Joanne Freed Ava Fries* Linda Goldman Beverly Haas Diane Kessler* Diane Lesser Jerri Nagelberg

Kim White Peterson* Harriett Chatters Rose Bonnie Sachs Maggy Simon Carole Solomon Marilyn Stambler* Donna Sussman* Janice Weiner Rosalind Zane*

members Gail Ann Andrews Arthe P. Anthony Betsy Applebaum Shirley Rae Ashkenas Sandy Avchen Janet Barnet* Mimi Barry Sue Bass Judith Beckmen* Marjorie Ann Beradino Lanie Bernhard Farla Binder Lestrita Boardman Roanna Araneta Brown Elnora Guerrero Campos Wilma Glenn Chappelle Marlene Theresa Charbonnet Barbara Mansfield Cheyne* Susan D. Clines Beverly Cohn Mary Levin Cutler Jean Crawford Donald* Babe Eagle Ilene J. Eisenberg Gloria H. Ellwood* Lynda Wolfson Fadel Stephanie Fisher-White Carole A. Gillie Linda Goldfein Jill Goldstein Vicky Goodman Debra Gordon Brindell Roberts Gottlieb Roberta Haft* Carol Halperin Christine Harte Stephanie Hibler Audrey Jessup Diane Papo Kaplan* Tobé Karns

Thea F. Koss Barbara Krasnoff Dena Krown Beau Lavine Annie Maria Lehrer Carol LeVeque-Uri Marilyn Levin Helen Gordon Lowy Elizabeth Lu Phyllis Massing Jacqueline Nach Deena Nahmias Gail Newman Sheila Poncher* Gina Posalski* Debra Rabinowitz Sharon Reisz Irene Ribner Lois Rosen Gaile Gray Ryan June Sanders Sattler* Kelly Schiffer* Zrelda Sealey Vivian Allene Selwyn Marsanne J. Shapiro Robbie J. Solomon Marilyn Stark Carol Stein Judy Stone Betsy Straszheim Gloria Stroock Roslyn Holt Swartz Louise Taper Kathy L. Todd* Sue Tsao Elinor Turner Kim Ulrich Barbara Van Orden Donna Venick* Fern Wallace Janice Brock Wallace*

Entertainment Circle Ava and Chuck Fries, Co-Chairs Anonymous Mr. Irving H. Anderson Amy Aquino & Drew McCoy G.W. Bailey Corinne Baldassano Greg Basser & Kiera O’Neill Mr. & Mrs. Martin Bell John Bowab

Sandra Brewer Rick Buche & Vin Reilly Norman Buckley & Davyd Whaley Andy Cadiff Kelly Cantley & Kevin Kashima Erica Hiller Carpenter & Kevin E. Carpenter Veronica Cartwright * Past Presidents

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Doug Little Kenneth P. Lombino Barbara & Garry Marshall Theodore K. Martinez Pauline & Roger Mayer Mona Metwalli Lawrence A. Mirisch Justin Okin Orrick Law Firm Zoli Aswad Osaze Mr. James Owsley Patty & Mike Post Shelley Powsner & Stephen Skrovan Don Foster & Erin Quigley Mr. Richard J. Ramirez, Jr. James & Melanie Renfroe Blanche & Bruce Joel Rubin Linda & Jay Sandrich Glenn & Eva Schusterman Nina Shaw & Wallace Little Darin Shea Scott Sigman Keong Sim Stephen J. Strauss & Harriet M. Rolnick Rosalie Swedlin & Robert Cort Eileen T’Kaye & David Bischoff Russell Todd Agency Kirsten Vangsness Justin Wagner Mr. Charles W. Weeks Bonnie Weis Victoria Weisbart Andrew Weyman & Theresa Davis Teri Whittaker Richard Witter Handmade Galleries LA Jennifer Crittenden & William Wrubel Cynthia & Bud Yorkin

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2013/14 REPERTORY SEASON

Tartuffe by

The Guardsman by

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Endgame by

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Planned Gifts Center Theatre Group is grateful to these donors, whose irrecovable deferred estate gifts to CTG’s endowment ensure the organization’s financial well-being for generations to come. $1,000,000+ Richard & Julie Kagan Martin Massman Betty McMicken in honor of Jeanette Shammas Carol Vernon & Robert Turbin $500,000+ Mary Levin Cutler Virginia Hayes Merle & Peter Mullin Magda & Frederick R. Waingrow $250,000+ Diane & Leon Morton Edward L. Rada Susan & William Weintraub $100,000+ W. Lee Bailey, M.D. Angela Bardowell Allan & Joan Burns

Sandra Krause & William Fitzgerald Deborah M. Hyde Sarah & Andy Kane Dr. & Mrs. Jack Kavanaugh The Paul Kowal Charitable Foundation Darell L. Krasnoff $50,000+ Pamela & Dennis Beck The Moira Byrne Foster Foundation Mr. Kim L. Hunter Sally & Frank Raab $25,000+ Charles Dillingham & Susan D. Clines Mr. & Mrs. Walter E. Grauman

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Endowment Gifts These gifts ensure a stable source of support for new work and CTG’s many initiatives to make theatre accessible to underserved audiences. $500,000+ Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Ann & Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr. John S. Surabian, Jr. and in memory of Faith and Sharon Ann Surabian $250,000+ Patricia Glaser & Sam Mudie The Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation $100,000+ Anonymous Betsy & Harold Applebaum Judith & Thomas Beckmen The Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation Center Theatre Group Affiliates Regina Fadiman Barbara & Peter Fodor

Ava & Charles Fries The Hearst Foundation, Inc. Vicki King Joyce & Kent Kresa Richard G. & Virginia L. Martin Louise Taper $50,000+ Maynard & Linda Brittan Ellen & Michael S. Korney $25,000+ Abbott Brown Linda Brown Dr. Tom Hickey Martin Massman Leon Morton Memorial Fund $10,000+ Jane Buel Bradley George A.V. Dunning Carolyn & Kit Lokey Betty & Sanford Sigoloff