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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
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Carol Mancino Antonio Manning 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
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Center Theatre Group is a non-profit company that produces worldclass theatre at the Ahmanson Theatre and the Mark Taper Forum at the Music Center of Los Angeles, and the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City.
Audience Services: 213.628.2772: Ticketing, subscriptions, full customer service including lost ticket replacement, ticket donations, Passport memberships, information about upcoming productions or events, and hotel and restaurant recommendations. Telephone hours: Monday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday through Friday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Saturday noon to 8 p.m., and Sunday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Except major holidays. Walk-Up Box Office Hours: The central box office for Center Theatre Group is located in front of the Ahmanson Theatre at the Music Center, and open Tuesday through Saturday from noon to 8 p.m., Sunday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., and closed on Monday. Remote box offices that are located at the Taper and Douglas are open two hours before performances. 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.
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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.
Marylouise Burke and Marin Ireland in A Parallelogram.
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. 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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Center Theatre Group Corporate Spotlight: Michael Jung from Walt Disney Imagineering Disney 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. For more than seven years, Disney divisions, including Walt Disney Imagineering Creative Entertainment, a group of theatrical artists who strive to bring their talent, expertise and experience to the creation of world-class family entertainment, have partnered with Center Theatre Group. 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. Q. Your background is in theatre. Can you talk about your experience and how that relates to your partnership with CTG? 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 as an assistant director, mainstage production coordinator, and eventually, the associate producer for the New Work Festival and the New Play Development programs not only fostered my respect and passion for theatrical development but allowed me to grow and to be exposed to some of the seminal new work in American theatre. Q. Recently, CTG’s board president Bill Ahmanson commented that Los Angeles is “world-renowned as the entertainment epicenter and yet California ranks dead last in state funding for the arts.” Why is it important for companies to step in to fill this gap? We live in a precarious time for the future of the arts, making it paramount for individuals, corporations and private sector funding to support creative enrichment and growth in the arts. For Los Angeles to continue to be relevant in the world cultural scene, it must draw world-class artists and support experimental work and creative fusion. Fortunately Los Angeles has a thriving creative community, and many companies like Disney believe in assuring our creative vibrancy.
Michael Jung prepares for Mickey and the Magical Map. ©disney
Q. Disney has been a supporter of CTG for more than seven years. Why is it that our organizations and missions align so well? Walt Disney Imagineering believes in the power of creativity and imagination to change the world and wants to ensure everyone is exposed to art. Every year we reach out to local and international theatrical companies, foundations and institutions to support exemplary work in an effort to assure live entertainment stays a vital part of our experience for generations to come. Just like CTG, Disney hopes to share our resources to make lasting, positive change in our community, to promote creativity, and to use entertainment to change lives. Q. Disney shows have graced CTG stages in the past. Can you tell us a little about how that will continue this season? It is always thrilling to see Disney Theatrical Group productions like Mary Poppins at the Ahmanson Theatre. For me, it is a little bit like coming home. This season, I am especially excited that Disney’s Tony Award-winning production of Peter and the Starcatcher will come to the Ahmanson. This show is exceptional. Written by Rick Elice and directed by Roger Rees and Alex Timbers, this delightful show blends incredible wit, virtuosic performance and tremendous imagination into a thoroughly entertaining and unique theatrical experience. I can’t wait! n 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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jump into the roaring ‘20s at the event of the season!
A Jazz Age-themed benefit featuring an exciting auction, gala dinner and fabulous entertainment!
Saturday evening October 26, 2013 Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel Ava Fries, event chair Kim Peterson, event co-chair Chuck Fries, executive producer Honoring
Brindell Gottlieb and Patricia Glaser Distinguished Service to CTG
Roberta Haft Guardian Angel
Tracie Bennett End of the Rainbow Distinguished Artist
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. All proceeds from Angels’ Night benefit CTG’s Education and Community Partnerships programs. Every year, these initiatives bring arts education and the power of live theatre to more than 19,000 students, educators and community members in Los Angeles.
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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Gives $1 Million to Ensemble Work
Special Thanks to Artistic Director’s Circle Members for Supporting CTG
Center Theatre Group has been awarded a four-year, $1 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The grant will make possible a program focusing on collaboratively created contemporary work from ensembles, devisers and writers, supporting the creative arc from commissioning through development and production.
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.
The program will build on the work generated by a multiyear 2009 Mellon Foundation grant supporting the development of collective contemporary work. Increasingly part of the regional theatre scene, collective contemporary work combines performance, technology, imagery, music, heightened text and often, but not exclusively, a nonlinear narrative.
Emerald Circle Kirk & Anne Douglas Brindell Roberts Gottlieb Laura & James Rosenwald & Orinocco Foundation Eva & Marc Stern
“In the last few years, we have seen the ensemble movement grow and flourish in this country,” said CTG’s director of New Play Production Diane Rodriguez. “This program is part of that movement, and we look forward to finding innovative models and opportunities to support those theatre makers who create collectively.” Diane Rodriguez, CTG’s Director of New Play Production.
The 2009 Mellon grant supported projects such as Rude Mechs’ I’ve Never Been So Happy (Kirk Douglas Theatre, 2011), Daniel Alexander Jones’ Jomama Jones: Radiate (DouglasPlus, 2012) and Guillermo Calderón’s Neva (a collaborative tour presented at Upstairs@KDT in June and then at South Coast Repertory and La Jolla Playhouse). Projects currently in development include Hope by Evelina Fernandez and the Latino Theatre Company, Western Society by Gob Squad, Party People by Universes, Straight White Men by Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company, and Lester Bangs by Erik Jensen and Jessica Blank. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is a private philanthropic institution that makes grants on a selective basis in five core program areas: higher education, information technology, art history and conservation, performing arts, and conservation and the environment. The foundation’s performing arts program focuses on achieving long-term results by providing multiyear grants to leading organizations in the disciplines of music, theatre and dance. To learn more about The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and its mission, visit Mellon.org. n
(Donors listed as of July 31, 2013)
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 Erica & Vin Di Bona Diana Buckhantz & Vladimir & Araxia Buckhantz Foundation 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 Jerri & Dr. Steven Nagelberg Olivia & Anthony Neece Timothy A. Regler Maggy & Jack Simon Judie Stein and Stein Family Foundation Sue Tsao Sheila & Wally Weisman Misty Widelitz Donors who have made additional gifts to Center Theatre Group’s Endowment.
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LAUSD Partners With CTG for Arts Education Program “We can’t meet the needs of all learners without the arts,” says Dr. Steven J. McCarthy, K-12 Arts Coordinator for the Los Angeles Unified School District and Professor of Arts Integration at the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education.
“We have visual learners, we have auditory learners, and we have students that need to get up and move about in order to fully comprehend the information and form their own opinions,” he says. “Arts in every classroom can make this happen.” In the 2013–2014 school year, LAUSD’s new Arts at the Core plan will bring the district one step closer to realizing this vision. The exciting program incorporates the arts into every subject area, including English, math, social studies and science. As the leader who oversees arts instruction for LAUSD’s 640,000 students, McCarthy will guide the plan’s implementation. Arts organizations like Center Theatre Group will be powerful partners in embracing this change, he says. “We have exceptional arts teachers in our district but do not have the resources to hire enough credentialed arts teachers to fully meet the needs of every child in our huge school district, the second largest in the nation. And we don’t always have the financial resources to keep our technology current. So we partner with arts organizations that have the most up-to-date technology, and we collaborate with teaching artists who are working professionals in their art form and knowledgeable in the art of instruction.”
LAUSD K–12 Arts Coordinator Dr. Steven J. McCarthy and his colleague, elementary theatre educator Lea Woods, at CTG’s Student Ambassadors culmination ceremony in April. photo by ryan miller/capture imaging.
Center Theatre Group offers workshops, leadership development programs, and no- and low-cost opportunities for students to experience professional live theatre. To learn more about CTG’s educational programming, visit CenterTheatreGroup.org/Education.
Exposure to high-quality artworks and the professionals who create them gives students a lens for looking at the world, analyzing problems, and developing and defending their opinions, McCarthy says. Moreover, arts instruction provides the chance to build teams, learn work-life skills, and think critically and creatively, all important aptitudes for the 21st century. But partnerships with arts organizations like CTG go beyond providing instructional support in the classroom, McCarthy says. Seeing a matinee at one of CTG’s theatres can make a difference in students’ lives. “It’s important for youth to see what the world has to offer. ‘This exists, and it’s within your reach.’” n
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 July 31, 2013) Melissa & Bob Alvarado Joni & Miles Benickes Annette Blum Linda Brown Bill Cohn & Dan Miller
Dorskind Family 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
Donors who have made additional gifts to Center Theatre Group’s Endowment.
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Center Theatre Group is Los Angeles’ preeminent non-profit theatre company. on our three stages — the Ahmanson Theatre, the Mark Taper Forum and the Kirk Douglas Theatre — we present the highest quality and broadest range of theatre: groundbreaking new works, explosive productions of the classics and hit Broadway plays and musicals. 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.
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Artistic Director Michael ritchie and actress Kate Burton.
FrOm mONrOe tO GLeAsON tO bUrtON, Crystal Cruises rolls out the red carpet for its Film and Theatre voyage, presented in partnership with Center Theatre Group. Artistic Director Michael ritchie and his wife, actress Kate Burton, share insider show business tales on this one-of-a-kind trip, tailor-made for film and theatre enthusiasts! Sail from New York to Miami aboard the Crystal Symphony, with stops in Baltimore, Charleston, Savannah, Jacksonville, Turks and Caicos Islands, Curaçao and Aruba, plus a full itinerary of show-stopping entertainment. A few of the highlights: susan Griffiths, an internationally acclaimed Marilyn Monroe tribute artist, brings her uncanny talent to the sea with her new cabaret show, Marilyn – Memories, Music and Magic. Crystal fan-favorite jim brochu returns with Character Man, his newest tribute to some of Broadway’s greatest character actors, including Jackie Gleason and Zero Mostel. L.A.’s troubadour theater Company performs multiple commedia dell’arte productions onboard, including a satirical Shakespeare-meets-disco musical theatre performance of A Midsummer Saturday Night’s Fever Dream.
For more information, contact Deborah Deming at Frosch Classic Cruise and Travel at 800.688.8500, or visit LuxuryCruiseExperts.com/CTG.
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“Perhaps only Ireland could give birth to a theater work quite so grandly and ripely word-driven.” —The New York Times Brian Dennehy
THE STEWARD OF CHRISTENDOM By Sebastian Barry Directed by Steven Robman With Brian Dennehy
Nov 26, 2013 – Jan 5, 2014 CentertheatreGroup.org/taper 213.628.2772 Brian Dennehy in Krapp’s Last Tape at the Goodman Theatre. photo by liz lauren.
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CTG Introduces New Donor Level
Corporate Circle Members Enjoy Festive Annual Get-Together On Friday, May 31, more than 60 Corporate Circle members and friends attended CTG’s Corporate Circle Member Night. This annual networking event featured a festive reception followed by complimentary tickets to Kander and Ebb’s Tony Award-nominated musical The Scottsboro Boys at the Ahmanson Theatre. Generously underwritten by Corporate Circle member Wells Fargo, this year’s event included dinner and drinks at Kendall’s Brasserie. Guests peeked behind the scenes thanks to cast member JC Montgomery (Mr. Tambo and Samuel Leibowitz in the show), who explained how the show subverted minstrel stereotypes to tell the true story of the Scottsboro Boys, nine African-American youths jailed in 1931 for a crime they didn’t commit.
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Center 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:
“The Member Night is CTG’s way of saying thank you to our Corporate Circle members for their generosity,” said Corporate Circle Chair Angel Zapata. “It’s also a great way for all of us to reconnect and come together for a fun night at the theatre.” n
• 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. n
l to r: JC Montgomery, Mr. Tambo from The ScottsboroBoys, and Wells Fargo Foundation’s Angel Zapata.
Please contact Center Theatre Group Donor Relations at 213.972.3149 or DonorRelations@CenterTheatreGroup.org for more details. l to r: Sempra’s Celeste Easton, Randy Morrow and Cheryl Shepherd.
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How I Spent My Vacation Summer Theatre Research Sparks New Teaching Practices this summer, five educators spent their break discovering ways to inspire their theatre teaching practices through Center Theatre Group’s Theatre Educator Fellowship program. Funded by JPMorgan & Chase Co., the program grants teachers up to $5,000 to pursue their own courses of study related to issues or challenges they face in the classroom. “We ended the day with an inspirational lecture by Maxine Greene. She is a true role model for aesthetic teaching. I loved her belief that art changes lives when encountered and experienced fully. She said that it should develop a sense of questioning and help us understand ambiguity. Living with ambiguity is the best way to live life because it keeps you seeking and alive to possibilities.” –Elizabeth Rubino, an elementary educator who studied drama for special education students in New York.
“[I took a workshop] given by Teatro Experimental Fontibón, a Colombian-based group that addresses bullying and school violence with Theatre of the Oppressed techniques. Their philosophy emphasizes prevention, community building and developing emotional intelligence to make it harder for bullying to happen in the first place, all with theatre, of course.” –Juan Carrillo, who traveled to Bogotá, Colombia, to study Theatre of the Oppressed.
This year’s crop of talented educators traveled as far as Stratford-upon-Avon to delve into their research questions, which explored topics ranging from using improvisation to reduce bullying to bringing Theatre of the Oppressed techniques into the classroom to increase student comprehension and parent involvement. Now, they return to their classrooms with ideas to reinvigorate their practice. Here are some highlights from their journeys.
“From Friday evening to Sunday morning, the group of us listened, wrote, danced, improvised, wrote, yelled, cried, laughed and wrote some more. … I noted every exercise we did, inspired to think about how I will bring this work to my students: what I think will work with them, what I would leave out, what I would tweak to make more meaningful.” –Melissa Weber Bales, who attended a writing workshop at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, Calif.
“This atmosphere of committed and excited theatre teachers expressing their passions about Shakespeare has been so enlivening for me. As the only theatre teacher at my school, this kind of intellectual and artistic energy reminds me of being in grad school.” –David Levine, who traveled to Stratfordupon-Avon to see how rehearsal techniques can be more effective than traditional academic models of teaching dramatic literature.
“Sunday evening at 7 p.m. I completed the Improv 2 weekend intensive at The Second City. … I learned even more games and structures that I can adapt for teambuilding in my classroom. My mind is spinning with ideas. … I am envisioning all kinds of ways I can … create a safe, kind classroom environment in which no bully could
ever thrive!” –Alicia Wollerton, who focused her study on creating a positive learning environment.
To read more about the Theatre Educator Fellows’ discoveries, visit their blogs at CenterTheatreGroup.org/Fellowships.
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George Takei, left, and Artistic Director Michael Ritchie.
Fringe members with George Takei and CTG board member Sue Tsao, right.
In June, fans of George Takei and young supporters of Center Theatre Group met the Star Trek star, social media personality and theatre artist at an event for The Fringe @ CTG. During the program, Artistic Director Michael Ritchie interviewed the special guest and longtime CTG supporter about his life in the theatre. Takei described how his childhood and professional life recently collided in Allegiance, a show inspired by his internment during World War II. The musical premiered at The Old Globe in San Diego last year and heads to Broadway in 2014. Allegiance follows a Japanese family in the weeks after Pearl Harbor, when the U.S. government moves them from their California home to a Wyoming internment camp. Takei, who was five when he entered the Rohwer War Relocation Center, hopes the musical encourages people to learn from past mistakes and to prevent history from repeating itself. Many in the Japanese-American community have become personally invested in the project, yet the story’s themes of love, family and redemption are universal. For Takei, sharing the production with diverse audiences has confirmed the power of theatre to bring people together, encourage compassion and promote empathy.
Hosted by CTG board member Sue Tsao at Duplex on Third, the event attracted more than 85 guests eager to meet Takei and to learn more about The Fringe, a group of young professionals in their 20s, 30s and 40s who love theatre and believe in its importance in Los Angeles. As Fringe President Rebecka Biejo explained, Fringe membership dues support CTG programs for new plays and emerging artists. “We are the next generation of theatre-goers investing in the next generation of theatre-makers,” added Nichole Curtis, a member of The Fringe’s leadership board. Ritchie thanked The Fringe for its role in making sure stories like Takei’s continue to be shared with new audiences. Inspired by Takei’s passion for theatre, his incredible story and The Fringe’s mission, many guests decided to join the young professionals group. “Frankly, I wanted The Fringe in my life,” said Clint Schaff, one of the group’s newest members. “After years of involvement in youth and high school theatre, I’ve truly missed the theatre, and this group gives me the opportunity to see great plays regularly, while also driving awareness, giving back and meeting new friends across Los Angeles.” n
To learn more about The Fringe or to purchase a gift membership, visit CenterTheatreGroup.org/Fringe or call 213.972.3097. 22 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE
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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
photos by michael birt and Joan marcus.
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
in
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
Thea Sharrock
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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.
back row (l to r): Matthew
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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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 BrantLucich & 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, 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,
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Donor Recognition Associate Circle (continued) 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 GriďŹƒth, 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 & 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,
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Complicite and Setagaya Public Theatre:
Shun-kin Based on the writings of Jun’ichiro Tanizaki Directed by Simon McBurney Original Music by Honjo Hidetaro “A distant world of ceremony, secrets and furtive sexual desire is conjured with shadow-strewn grace...”
—The New York Times
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Opening Night Benefit This powerful performance from a Japanese cast is based on texts that examined the sequestered lives of women in pre-modern Japanese society. The mysterious world of shamisen player Shun-kin and her dutiful servant Sasuke sets the backdrop for a tale of devotion, passion and power, where beauty is unforgiving and love is blinding.
In Japanese with English surtitles Co-produced by Complicite, Setagaya Public Theatre, Tokyo and the Barbican, London. Presented in association with RADAR L.A., an international festival of contemporary theater. Media Sponsors: KPCC 89.3FM, Los Angeles magazine
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Associate Circle (continued) 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 Horii, In Memory of Giuliano Solari, Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Soldate, William Sollfrey, Davia Solomon, Ricardo Sosapavon & Marcus Otto, Phillip K. Sotel / Charles Fairchild, Colonel & Mrs. S. M. Soukup, Martin & Patricia Spear, Michelle & David Spiegel, Merrilee B.
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Donor Recognition Associate Circle (continued) St. John, Diane & James Staes, Mr. & Mrs. Errol Stambler, In memory of Shirley Levine Fischer and in honor of Brindell Gottlieb., Paul Steinke & Paul Thomas, Barbara Ann Sterling, Wayne Collett II & Aaron Collett, Terry Stiles, Bunny Stivers, Gail Goldberg Stoter, Maria Straith, Deborah K. Streiber, Antoinette M. Strelich, William R. Stringer, Jayashree & Jeff Sung, Jack & Marlene Susser, Music Center Symphonians, Ellen Tam, Ronald & Shelly Tamkin, Michael Taylor, Sharon Taylor, Stephen Taylor, Erna Taylor-Stark & Larry Stark, Sheila & Lawrence Teplin, Kathy Terry, Michelle Tesoro, Jody Thomas, Martha T. Thompson, Michael F. Thompson, Laurens & Sandra Thurman, William Tierney & Barry Weiss, Charles S. Tilghman, William & Susan Tinkley, Dinah Titcher, Dianne Tomita, Elizabeth Topkis, Ms. Patricia R. Torres, Judith Toscano, Paulette Toumazos & Michael Lorenz, Mr. & Mrs. Philip A. Tremonti, Christine P. Tucker, Gwendolyn Hamilton Tucker, Scott & Lauri Ujita, J. R. Vincent, George Vissio, Margaret A. Wagner CPA, M. June Walden, Laurie & Ira Waldman, Andrew Kevin Walker & Julie Durk, Denise & Peter Walsh, Ms. Diane Levine & Mr. Robert Wass, Seymour Waterman, Elisa Wayne, Thomas & Kathryn Weber, John & Alaine Weiss, Dr. & Mrs. Steve Kahane, Coleen & Louis T. Welsh, Robert Wemischner & Leslie Raffel, Wems Incorporated, Peter & Nora Wendel, Richard Wenk, Martin, Sara & Samantha Widzer, Susan & Joshua Wieder, Katherine & Douglas Wilkinson, Patty & Richard Wilson, Carolee Winstein & Kip Thorne, Karen & Bill Wolett, Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Wolf, Ken & Madeline Wolf, Jill Wondries, Suzanne Wood & Jim MacDonald, Stephen E. Wright, Virginia Yeager, Mr. & Mrs. Richard Yoder-Edney, Dr. & Mrs. Gary Yontef, Kenneth & Soyoung Yoon, Wally T. Zajac, Tim Zeleny, Gary & Carol Zimmerman, Myrna & Stanley Zimmerman, Anne & Alan Zuckerman, Abram & Dayle Zukor
Government Support Center Theatre Group gratefully appreciates the support provided by the following governmental agencies. City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs The City of Culver City Los Angeles County Arts Commission National Endowment for the Arts U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Center Theatre Group wishes to acknowledge the California Arts Council’s many years of generous support.
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Donor Recognition Foundation Support The following foundations provide crucial support to Center Theatre Group in the areas of general operating funds, arts education, new play production, or specific projects. For more information, please call our grants information line at 213.972.3090. (Donors listed as of June 31, 2013)
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Center Theatre Group Affiliates
THE FEW
CTG-A has been a strong support arm of CTG since 1971. Members develop audiences for theatre and further their own theatrical knowledge through a rich program of activities. CTG-A raises significant funds through its biennial fundraiser, Angels’ Night, to support CTG’s Education and Community Partnerships programs. (Listed as of July 1, 2013) 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
THE LAST GOODBYE
THE FEW
Conceived and Adapted by Michael Kimmel Music and Lyrics by Jeff Buckley Directed by Alex Timbers
By Samuel D. Hunter Directed by Davis McCallum
September 20–November 3
A MUSICAL ADAPTATION OF SHAKESPEARE’S ROMEO AND JULIET FEATURING THE EMOTIONAL AND GORGEOUS SONGS OF JEFF BUCKLEY, DIRECTED BY THE BRIGHTEST STAR IN TODAY’S BROADWAY THEATRE.
September 28–October 27
A WORLD PREMIERE COMEDY BY A WRITER HAILED BY THE LOS ANGELES TIMES AS A “FACE TO WATCH IN 2013.”
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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*
* Past Presidents
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Entertainment Circle
Ava and Chuck Fries, Co-Chairs
The Entertainment Circle is comprised of leaders from the entertainment industry who provide outstanding support to Center Theatre Group’s play development programs which foster new and emerging talent. In appreciation, members enjoy a host of special benefits including meet-the-artist receptions, backstage tours, premium seating and much more. For membership information, please call 213.972.3149. (Donors listed as of July 15, 2013) 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 Rosemary & Peter Casey Deborah Castro & Creative Productions Paula F. Cwikly Matt Deitrich Bill & Ellie D’Elia Bob Doucette & Tom Slotten Nick Dudzak
Gridworks It’s A Wrap Motion Pictures Cleaning Darcy Fleck Ryan Flynn & David Hernandez Fordney Foundation for Dance Sport Seth Freeman & Julie Waxman Glenn & Cindy Frey Robin & Leonard R. Garner, Jr. Gessner - Nelson Family Laura Gibson Bob Gold & Associates Mr. & Mrs. Manuel Grace Marcy & Edgar Gross Dave & Sally Hackel Mrs. Donna L. Herman Karen Hermelin & Mark Borman Winifred C. Hervey Alicia Hirsch & Jesse Russo Mr. & Mrs. Irwin Jacobson Tom Jacobson & Ramone Munoz
Sean Johnson & Alex Ocampo Idea Asylum Productions & Dr. Allegra & Mr. Sheppard Kaufman Sarah E. Kiefer Julianne LaMarche & Lonnie Burstein David Lee Todd Levin Marla E. Levine 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
Endowment Gifts
Planned Gifts
Center Theatre Group endowment contributions ensure a permanent and stable source of support for new plays and musicals, youth and family productions, and CTG’s many initiatives to make theatre accessible for underserved audiences.
A formal Planned Giving program is available to our donors and subscribers who wish to make irrevocable deferred estate gifts to CTG’s endowment, securing the fiscal health of the theatre for generations to come.
$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
$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+ 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 Diane & Leon Morton $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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Center Theatre Group Corporate Circle
Sponsors
The Corporate Circle comprises companies that support Center Theatre Group’s important community and educational programming to make a positive difference in the lives of young people and families. In recognition of their generosity, Corporate Circle members receive exclusive benefits, including complimentary gala tickets to the Season Celebration; exclusive access to shows in Los Angeles, New York and London; complimentary and discounted tickets for employees; and corporate recognition and business development opportunities. For more information, please call Liz Lin at 213.972.0764. (Donors listed as of May 20, 2013)
Center Theatre Group is grateful to these companies for their generous support.
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Michael Jung Lucy Labruzzo Jeff Levy Carol Mancino
Douglas Mancino Antonio Manning Ed Nahmias Allan Schare
Dan Sernett Angel Zapata
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Platinum Circle
Gold Circle
Silver Circle Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP Microsoft Corporation
Performances Magazine Sidley Austin LLP
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP The Walt Disney Company
Bronze Circle Accenture AECOM Technology Corporation American Business Bank Bigger Dot City National Bank Ernst & Young LLP The Friedman Group Greenberg Glusker Greenberg Traurig Hope A. Bullock, III - BA, Inc.
HUB International Hunton & Williams LLP KLH & Associates LAGRANT COMMUNICATIONS Northern Trust p.g./:R Productions, Inc. Paradigm Patina Group Payden & Rygel Perry, Neidorf & Grassl, LLP
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County of Los Angeles
Through the support of the Board of Supervisors, the County of Los Angeles plays an invaluable role in the successful operation of The Music Center. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
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Gloria Molina
Zev Yaroslavsky
Michael D. Antonovich
first district
third district
fifth district
Mark Ridley-Thomas
Don Knabe
William T Fujioka
second district, chairman
fourth district
chief executive officer
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The Music Center 2013-2014 Board of Directors Officers
members at large
Lisa Specht
Wallis Annenberg Colleen Bell David C. Bohnett Louise Henry Bryson Fung Der Craig A. Ellis David Gindler Brindell Gottlieb Joyce Hameetman Dennis Haysbert Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr. Amb. Glen A. Holden Richard Jones Carolbeth Korn Amb. Lester B. Korn Nigel Lythgoe Martin Massman Patrick S. McCabe Bowen “Buzz” H. McCoy Mattie McFadden-Lawson Elizabeth Michelson
board chair
Robert J. Abernethy Michael A. Lawson Michael J. Pagano vice chairs
Stephen D. Rountree president and chief executive officer
Karen Kay Platt secretary
Thomas R. Weinberger treasurer
William Meyerchak assistant treasurer and chief financial officer
Directors Emeriti Neal S. Millard Cindy Miscikowski Shelby Notkin Kurt C. Peterson Max Ramberg Joseph Rice Richard K. Roeder Thomas L. Safran Carla Sands Joni J. Smith Catharine Soros Marc I. Stern Cynthia A. Telles Franklin E. Ulf Walter F. Ulloa Timothy S. Wahl Susan M. Wegleitner Alyce Williamson Rosalind W. Wyman Stephen G. Contopulos general counsel
Peter K. Barker Judith Beckmen Eli Broad Ronald W. Burkle Lloyd E. Cotsen John B. Emerson* Lois Erburu Richard M. Ferry Bernard A. Greenberg Joanne D. Hale Stuart M. Ketchum Kent Kresa Robert F. Maguire, III Ginny Mancini Edward J. McAniff Walter M. Mirisch Fredric M. Roberts Claire L. Rothman James A. Thomas Andrea L. Van de Kamp* Paul M. Watson *Chair Emeritus
Support the music center
contact the music center
The Music Center Annual Fund supports world-class dance programming, nationally recognized arts education programs and participatory arts programs that inspire people of all ages and create opportunities for expression. It is only through unrestricted annual support that our innovative programs continue to grow.
General Information Theatre Rentals Filming Patina Restaurant Group/Catered Events Audio Description/Project D.A.T.E. (Direct Audience Theatre Experience) Lost and Found
For more information, please call (213) 972-4349.
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Some of the most daring choreography, conceptually compelling drama, and technically dazzling movement in modern dance history.
NEDERLANDS DANS THEATER 1 October 18—20
musiccenter.org/NDT | (213) 972-0711
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At the Music Center september 2013
Danny DeVito in The Sunshine Boys. Photo by Johan Persson.
Lorenzo Pisoni in Humor Abuse. Photo by Mark Garvin.
LA Opera's 2008 production of Carmen. Photo by Robert Millard.
FriDaY, SeptemBer 6
dance downtown: 60s night 6:30 PM the Music Center / the Music Center Plaza
SaturDaY, SeptemBer 7
tueSDaY, SeptemBer 17
Humor Abuse 8:00 PM Center theater group / Mark taper forum Runs through Nov 3
SunDaY, SeptemBer 22
50th season Celebration 7:00 PM Los Angeles Master Chorale / Walt disney Concert hall
tueSDaY, SeptemBer 24
drum downtown: West African rhythm expedition 10:00 AM the Music Center / grand Park
FriDaY, SeptemBer 20
dance downtown: samba 6:30 PM the Music Center / special evening in grand Park
The Sunshine Boys 8:00 PM Center theater group / Ahmanson theatre Runs through Nov 3
Architects of Air: exxopolis 10:00 AM the Music Center / grand Park Runs through Sept 8, & Sept 13 through 15
SaturDaY, SeptemBer 21
monDaY, SeptemBer 30
Carmen 7:30 PM
LA opera / dorothy Chandler Pavilion Runs through Oct 6
For more information, visit musiccenter.org or call (213) 972-7211.
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10th Anniversary Celebration: opening night Concert and gala 7:00 PM LA Phil / Walt disney Concert hall
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Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra Savion Glover’s STePz Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán Ballroom with a Twist Gala Flamenca Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club featuring Omara Portuondo, Guajiro Mirabal, Barbarito Torres & Eliades Ochoa with special guest Roberto Fonseca Academy of St Martin In The Fields with Joshua Bell, violin
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Brian Stokes Mitchell
Josh Turner Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis Parsons Dance Company Irish Chamber Orchestra featuring JoAnn Falletta, Conductor, Sir James Galway, Flute, Lady Jeanne Galway, Flute and more!
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