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A Message from the
CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD Dear Friends, We are thrilled to announce Brian Wilson, as this year’s featured artist for the State Theatre’s Benefit Gala on Saturday, May 16, 2015. A co-founder of The Beach Boys, Wilson, is one of popular music’s most deeply revered figures and the main creative force behind some of the most cherished recordings in rock history. His classic songs include “Surfer Girl,” “I Get Around,” “Don’t Worry Baby,” “God Only Knows,” “Help Me Rhonda,” and “Good Vibrations”...just to name a handful of the more than two dozen Top 40 hits Brian co-wrote, arranged, produced, and performed with his family band, The Beach Boys. Our annual Benefit Gala is the highlight of the State Theatre’s year. The Gala’s proceeds support our artistically acclaimed programming and our nationally recognized arts education programs. Dedicated to making the performing arts accessible to people of all ages and backgrounds, the State Theatre has provided over $2 million in free programs to almost 200,000 people since 1988. Each year, we honor individuals and institutions that have greatly contributed to the State Theatre’s growth. This year’s honorees include Corporate Honoree Investors Bank and Patron Honorees Louis and Sharon Cyktor. Also, this year we are proud to honor Warren R. Zimmerman, State Theatre Interim President & CEO and former Chairman with the Exemplary Leadership Award. In addition to the concert, a Gala ticket includes a dinner reception, open bar, dancing, and live entertainment. The Gala festivities begin at 5pm at The Heldrich Hotel and the performance will begin at 6pm. A portion of each Gala ticket price represents a tax-deductible contribution to the State Theatre. For more information, visit StateTheatreNJ.org/gala or call 732-247-7200, ext. 543. We hope you will consider joining us for this wonderful event. Sincerely,
Douglas M. Garback, Sr. Chairman
BRIAN WILSON
State Theatre offers sincere thanks to
for its generous support of the State Theatre and Anything Goes.
ŠJEREMY DANIEL
March 6-7, 2015
NETworks Presentations LLC Presents
BASED ON THE ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY PRODUCTION Music & Lyrics by
Cole Porter Original Book by
P.G. Wodehouse & Guy Bolton and Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse New Book by
Timothy Crouse & John Weidman Emma Stratton Brian Krinsky Tracy Bidleman Rachelle Rose Clark Michael R. Douglass Roy Flores Kenny Francoeur Richard Lindenfelzer Stephen Mark Drew Martin Mychal Phillips Dennis Setteducati with
Willie Dee Patrick Heffernan Jamie Mills Kaylee Olson Gabriella Perez Lexie Plath Michael Santora Bryan Seastrom Katie Wilson Stewart Annie Wallace Boe Wank Bradley Allan Zarr Original Set Design
Scenic Design Coordinator
Original Costume Design
Lighting Design
Sound Design
Derek McLane
James Kronzer
Martin Pakledinaz
Anthony Pearson
David Bullard
Additional Orchestrations
Original Orchestrations
Music Director/Conductor
Music Coordinator
Dance Arrangements
Bill Elliott
Michael Gibson
Robbie Cowan
John Mezzio
David Chase
Hair & Wig Design
Make-Up and Hair Coordinator
Costume Coordinator
Casting
Paul Huntley
Bemie Ardia
Jimm Halliday
Dale Brown CSA
General Management
Production Manager
Production Stage Manager
Company Manager
Gentry & Associates Mary K. Witte
Ben Neafus
Alex Eberle
Colin Byrne
Duncan Stewart And Company
Press & Marketing
Executive Producer
Tour Booking Agency
Type A Marketing
Orin Wolf
The Booking Group
Original Direction and Choreography by
Sean McKnight and Jennifer Savelli Directed and Choreographed by
Kathleen Marshall Anything Goes is presented by arrangement with Tams-Witmark Music Library Inc., 560 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York 10022 SPONSORED BY
This program is made possible in part through a grant by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.
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CAST (in order of appearance) Elisha Whitney ..................................................................................................MICHAEL R. DOUGLASS Fred, a bartender ......................................................................................................MICHAEL SANTORA Billy Crocker ...................................................................................................................BRIAN KRINSKY Reno Sweeney..............................................................................................................EMMA STRATTON Captain ............................................................................................................................DREW MARTIN Ship’s Purser ...........................................................................................................KENNY FRANCOEUR Crew ........................................................................WILLIE DEE, ROY FLORES, KENNY FRANCOEUR, STEPHEN MARK, MICHAEL SANTORA, BRYAN SEASTROM, BOE WANK, BRADLEY ALLAN ZARR A Reporter.................................................................................................................BRYAN SEASTSROM A Photographer.......................................................................................................................BOE WANK Henry T. Dobson, a minister ................................................................................BRADLEY ALLAN ZARR Luke .....................................................................................................................................ROY FLORES John................................................................................................................................STEPHEN MARK Angels Purity .....................................................................................................................GABRIELLA PEREZ Chastity ...................................................................................................................ANNIE WALLACE Charity .......................................................................................................................KAYLEE OLSON Virtue..............................................................................................................................LEXIE PLATH Hope Harcourt ..................................................................................................RACHELLE ROSE CLARK Mrs. Evangeline Harcourt............................................................................................TRACY BIDLEMAN Lord Evelyn Oakleigh .....................................................................................RICHARD LINDENFELZER FBI Agents .........................................................................................WILLIE DEE, MICHAEL SANTORA Erma...........................................................................................................................MYCHAL PHILLIPS Moonface Martin .................................................................................................DENNIS SETTEDUCATI Old Lady in a Wheelchair.....................................................................................................JAMIE MILLS Quartet...................................................................................MICHAEL SANTORA, BRYAN SEASTROM, BOE WANK, BRADLEY ALLAN ZARR Ship’s Passengers.....................................................WILLIE DEE, PATRICK HEFFERNAN, JAMIE MILLS, KAYLEE OLSON, GABRIELLA PEREZ, LEXIE PLATH, MICHAEL SANTORA BRYAN SEASTROM, KATIE WILSON STEWART, ANNIE WALLACE, BOE WANK, BRADLEY ALLAN ZARR SWINGS PATRICK HEFFERNAN, KATIE WILSON STEWART UNDERSTUDIES Understudies never substitute for the listed players unless a specific posting or announcement is made at the time of the performance. For Reno Sweeney: JAMIE MILLS, ANNIE WALLACE; for Billy Crocker: MICHAEL SANTORA, BRADLEY ALLAN ZARR; for Evelyn Oakleigh: PATRICK HEFFERNAN, BRADLEY ALLAN ZARR; for Moonface Martin: MICHAEL R. DOUGLASS, BRYAN SEASTROM; for Hope Harcourt: JAMIE MILLS, GABRIELLA PEREZ; for Mrs. Evangeline Harcourt: JAMIE MILLS, ANNIE WALLACE; for Elisha Whitney: PATRICK HEFFERNAN, DREW MARTIN; for Captain: BRYAN SEASTROM, BRADLEY ALLAN ZARR; for the Purser: WILLIE DEE, BOE WANK; for Erma: GABRIELLA PEREZ, LEXIE PLATH; for Luke: BRYAN SEASTROM, BOE WANK, for John: ROY FLORES, BOE WANK Dance Captain: KATIE WILSON STEWART Assistant Dance Captain: BRADLEY ALLAN ZARR Production Stage Manager: ALEX EBERLE THERE WILL BE ONE 15-MINUTE INTERMISSION.
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SCENES & MUSICAL NUMBERS ACT ONE Overture Scene 1: A Smoky Manhattan Bar “I Get a Kick Out of You” .............................................................................................Reno Sweeney Scene 2: The Afterdeck of an Ocean Liner “There’s No Cure Like Travel” ...................................................................Captain, Purser, and Sailors “Bon Voyage”....................................................................................................Sailors and Passengers Scene 3: On Deck, that evening “You’re the Top” ................................................................................Reno Sweeney and Billy Crocker “Easy to Love” ................................................................................................................Billy Crocker Reprise: “Easy to Love”..............................................................................................Hope Harcourt Scene 4: Whitney’s Stateroom/Moon’s Adjacent Cabin “The Crew Song” .........................................................................................................Elisha Whitney Scene 5: On Deck, mid-morning “There’ll Always Be a Lady Fair” (Sailor’s Chantey)...................................................................Quartet “Friendship”................................................................................Moonface Martin and Reno Sweeney Scene 6: Evelyn’s Stateroom Scene 7: On Deck, at twilight “ It’s De-lovely”.................................................................................Billy Crocker and Hope Harcourt Scene 8: On Deck, early the following morning “Anything Goes”........................................................................Reno Sweeney, Sailors and Passengers ACT TWO Entr’Acte Scene 1: The Ship’s Nightclub “Public Enemy Number One”..............................................................Captain, Purser and Passengers “Blow, Gabriel, Blow” ...............................................................Reno Sweeney, Angels and Passengers “Goodbye, Little Dream, Goodbye” .............................................................................Hope Harcourt Scene 2: The Ship’s Brig “Be Like the Blue Bird” ..............................................................................................Moonface Martin “All Through the Night” .....................................................Billy Crocker, Hope Harcourt and Quartet Scene 3: On Deck, later that night “The Gypsy in Me”...............................................................Lord Evelyn Oakleigh and Reno Sweeney Scene 4: The Ship’s Brig Scene 5: On Deck “Buddie, Beware”......................................................................................................Erma and Sailors Finale ..........................................................................................................................Full Company
ANYTHING GOES ORCHESTRA Conductor: Robbie Cowan Associate Conductor: Luke Williams Drums: Andrew Maguire Reeds: Luke Meyer, Jordan Standlee, Brett Gregory Trombone: Christopher Caine Trumpets: Paul Stodolka, Elizabeth Stodolka Synthesizer Programmer: Hiro Iida Music Copying: Emily Grishman Music Preparation - Katharine Edmonds/Emily Grishman
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WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST EMMA STRATTON (Reno Sweeney) Regional: Kiss Me, Kate (Kate), Into The Woods (Baker’s Wife), Sweeney Todd (Mrs. Lovett). Stratton is thrilled to be part of Kathleen Marshall’s gorgeous production! Love to her unbelievably supportive family, friends, Trinity, and Tyler. www.emmastratton.com BRIAN KRINSKY (Billy Crocker) National tour: Beauty and the Beast (Beast/Gaston Cover). Regional: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Adam Pontipee), Oliver (Bill Sykes), Seussical (Horton), Brigadoon (Charlie). “Love to Wolf Talent Group, Teresa, Kathleen, Dale, Jennifer, Sean, Mom, Dad, Jesse, Jordan, Cast and Crew. Dedicated to my bright light in the sky Elizabeth.” Wagner College. @BKrinsk TRACY BIDLEMAN (Mrs. Evangeline Harcourt) Off-Broadway: Into the Woods (Witch), Drowsy Chaperone (Chaperone), A Funny Thing... (Domina. Regional: The Mikado (Katisha), Iolanthe (Fairy Queen), Amahl and the Night Visitors (Mother). Bidleman has also performed over 30 operatic roles throughout the U.S. and abroad. You can visit her website at: www.tracybidleman.com. RACHELLE ROSE CLARK (Hope Harcourt) B.F.A.: UC Irvine. Recent credits: Spring Awakening (Wendla/Thea), Avenue Q (Christmas Eve), Nickel Mines. “Love and thanks to my golden friends, amazing UCI professors, the Anything Goes team, Dale Brown, Captain, and my beautiful family. For you, Mom and Dad.” rachelleroseclark.com MICHAEL R. DOUGLASS (Elisha Whitney) NY Theater: Love’s Labour’s Lost (NYSF, Alex Timbers, director), Ragtime, Sanity Is Subjective, Buried Child, The Importance of Being Earnest. Regional: Hank Williams: Lost Highway, Lend Me a Tenor, My Fair Lady, Plaza Suite, Twelfth Night. TV/Film: Big Significant Things, Girl Code, Running With Sharks. Father of Ashley and Sabrina, Grandfather of Abigail. ROY FLORES (Luke) Regional credits include South Pacific, Anything Goes, The King & I, Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Producers. “Love and thanks to my family, David, 7C, Margaret, and Sue (SW Artists), and Dale (Duncan Stewart & Co). Check out my single, ‘Won’t Apologize,’ on iTunes.” For more info visit www.royflores.net KENNY FRANCOEUR (Purser) Regional: Spamalot (Prince Herbert), The Little Mermaid (Scuttle/Chef Louis), The Music Man (Jacey Squires), Spelling Bee (Chip Tolentino). NYU Steinhardt B.M. in vocal performance. www.kenny-francoeur.com RICHARD LINDENFELZER (Lord Evelyn Oak-
leigh) is from Tyngsboro, MA and a proud graduate of Ithaca College. Recent credits include Les Miserables (Bishop) and An Enemy of the People (Hovstad). “LOVE to my family, friends and HDs!” www.richardlindenfelzer.com STEPHEN MARK (John) Regional: Seussical. Performed: Radio City Music Hall, Madison Square Garden, Joe’s Pub. B.F.A.: NYU Tisch. Special thanks to Andrea at DStew & Co, NETworks, Mom, Dad, Kris and Carv. stephenmarkonline.com. #namaste DREW MARTIN (Captain) Previous roles: Phantom (Philippe), South Pacific (Emile), Annie (Warbucks), Secret Garden (Archibald), Closer Than Ever (Man #1), Chess (Greggor), Company (Larry), Forever Plaid (Sparky)...Thanks to Heavenly Father, Family and Friends, Dale Brown and NETworks! “Miss you Gram!” www.drewmartinlive.com MYCHAL PHILLIPS (Erma) National tours: Seussical, Clifford the Big Red Dog: Live! “Hugs to the fabulous AG team and to Dale. Love to M, D, C, A, & G (best fam in the world), Mario (for loving me in spite of 7AM vocal trills), & CMB (for teaching me to “sexy walk”).” www.mychalphillips.com DENNIS SETTEDUCATI (Moonface Martin) is over the “moon” to be a part of such a great production! National touring credits include Elf, Fiddler on the Roof, The Drowsy Chaperone, and The Wizard of Oz. Special thanks to his family, friends, Eddie at Take 3, Dunkin’ Donuts and the Boza! WILLIE DEE (Ensemble) is a native of Dallas, TX. B.F.A., Sam Houston State University. National tours: Shrek (Papa Bear, Donkey u/s), A Chorus Line (Richie), Hairspray (Thad). Regional: Paper Mill Playhouse, McCarter Theatre Center, Flat Rock Playhouse, and Gateway Playhouse. “HUGE thanks to my amazing family!” Proudly represented by MSA Agency. PATRICK HEFFERNAN (Swing) Wagner College: B.A. theater performance, dance minor. NAtional tour: Fiddler on the Roof (Perchik) with PEG. Regional: 42nd Street at Gateway Playhouse, White Christmas at Surflight Theatre, H2$ at Arts Center of Coastal Carolina, various summer theater credits at Mac-Haydn Theatre and the Arundel Barn Playhouse including Singin’ in the Rain (Don Lockwood) and Crazy for You (Bobby Child). JAMIE MILLS (Ensemble; Old Lady in Wheelchair) is excited to be on the S.S. American! Regional: Things to Ruin, The Pokémusical, The Trouble with Words, Swingin’ Christmas, Chicago, Tintypes. UNCo and TUTS alum. “Love and endless thanks
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to Todd with ATB, Momma, Daddy, and Benka.” KAYLEE OLSON (Charity) is delighted to debut with Anything Goes! Her love for dance flourished at Innovative Dance Studio in her hometown of Wilsonville, OR. Living in New York, she performed with Norwegian Cruise Line, and at Lady Gaga’s Art Pop event. GABRIELLA PEREZ (Purity) B.F.A. NYU. Favorite roles: A Chorus Line (Diana), West Side Story (Anita), Sweeney Todd (Johanna). Performed: Radio City Music Hall, Joe’s Pub, Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Choreography includes: My Fair Lady, 9 to 5, Bonnie & Clyde, original pieces. www.gabbyperez.com. LEXIE PLATH (Virtue) is thrilled to be in Anything Goes! Favorite credits include Young Frankenstein (Inga), A Chorus Line (Sheila), Les Miserables (Fantine), and Chicago (Hunyak). B.F.A. music theater performance from Western Michigan University. MICHAEL SANTORA (Ensemble; Quartet) is thrilled to be a part of Anything Goes! Regional: Singin’ in the Rain (Don Lockwood), Crazy for You (Bobby), The Music Man (Harold Hill), Anything Goes (Billy). “Love to Mom, Darci, and Mousey!” BRYAN SEASTROM (Ensemble; Quartet) NY: Fabulous!, Brindlebeast. Regional: Peter Pan, White Christmas, Singin’ in the Rain. National tour: A Kid’s Life!. PCPA and College of Santa Fe (BFA) grad. Thanks Kathleen and company, Dale Brown, ATB Talent. Love to family and “Lady Fair,” Mary. KATIE WILSON STEWART (Swing; Dance Captain) is a proud native of Asheville, NC. Favorite regional credits include Chicago (Velma), Urinetown (Hope Cladwell), The Boy Friend (Masie), and Footloose (Urleen). B.F.A., East Carolina University. “Thanks to my amazing friends and mentors, Jim and Marianne. Love to Jake, Mom, Dad, M & M.” ANNIE WALLACE (Chastity) Regional: A Chorus Line (Sheila), A Funny Thing…Forum (Panacea), Will Rogers Follies (Ensemble). Other: Anything Goes (Reno), Into the Woods (Baker’s Wife), The Wild Party (Queenie). B.F.A. Texas State University. “Thank you Kaitlin, Michael, Mom and Dad. Go Bobcats!” BOE WANK (Ensemble; Quartet) NYC by way of OH-IO! Favorite credits: All Shook Up (Dean), Beauty and The Beast (LeFou), Little Women (Laurie), A Chorus Line, and The Drowsy Chaperone. “All love to the family, BWMT, The Luedtke Agency, and all cast and creative.” BRADLEY ALLAN ZARR (Ensemble; Quartet;
Assistant Dance Captain) is delirious to be performing with this de-lovely company! Tours: Drowsy Chaperone (Robert Martin), Spamalot, and Catch Me If You Can. Lousy with gratitude for Dale at Duncan Stewart Casting, Michael at The Roster, friends and family—especially Mom. COLE PORTER (Music & Lyrics) was born in Peru, IN in 1891. He attended Yale. In the late 1920s he gained renown for many great songs, among them “Night and Day,” “You’re the Top,” “Begin the Beguine,” and “I Get a Kick Out of You.” His 1930s were highlighted by such Broadway offerings as Anything Goes, Gay Divorce, and Jubilee. A crippling accident in 1937 left him in constant pain yet he continued to write memorable scores, among them Kiss Me Kate, Can Can, and Silk Stockings. He died in 1964. GUY BOLTON (1884-1979) and P.G. WODEHOUSE (1881-1975) were both born in England. Together, with Jerome Kern, they wrote the famed Princess Theatre musicals. Usually, they collaborated on the book, and Wodehouse wrote the lyrics. Bolton, with one collaborator or another, or on his own, had a hand in well over 100 musicals and straight plays as well as numerous film scripts and
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novels. Wodehouse wrote 97 books―most notably the “Jeeves” novels―and countless short stories, articles, essays and films. In addition to Anything Goes, their work together includes Oh, Boy!, Leave It To Jane, Oh, Lady! Lady!!, Sitting Pretty, Oh, Kay!, and Rosalie. HOWARD LINDSAY & RUSSEL CROUSE (Co-Authors of the Original Book) The Lindsay and Crouse partnership stands as the longest of any writers in theatrical history. It began in 1934, when they rewrote the libretto for Anything Goes. Their Life With Father (1939) holds the record for the longest-running play on Broadway. They also wrote The Sound of Music (with Rodgers and Hammerstein), State of the Union (Pulitzer Prize), Call Me Madam (with Irving Berlin), and The Great Sebastians, and produced Arsenic and Old Lace. Prior to their teaming up, Howard Lindsay (1889-1968) was an actor, stage manager, director, and playwright. Russel Crouse (1893-1966) was a newspaperman, press agent, author, and librettist. TIMOTHY CROUSE (Co-author of the New Book) has been a contributing editor of Rolling Stone and the Village Voice, as well as the Washington columnist for Esquire, and is an O. Henry Prizewinning short story writer. He is the author of The Boys on the Bus, a classic account of the role of the press in presidential campaigns and the son of Russel Crouse, one of the original authors of Anything Goes. JOHN WEIDMAN (New Book), has written the books for a wide variety of musicals, among them Pacific Overtures, Assassins, and Road Show, all with scores by Stephen Sondheim, and Contact, co-created with director/choreographer Susan Stroman. Since his children were pre-schoolers, Weidman has written for Sesame Street, receiving more than a dozen Emmy® Awards for Outstanding Writing for a Children’s Program. From 1999 to 2009 he served as president of the Dramatists Guild of America. KATHLEEN MARSHALL (Director & Choreographer) Broadway, as director/choreographer: Nice Work If You Can Get It, Anything Goes, The Pajama Game, Grease, and Wonderful Town; as choreographer: Boeing-Boeing, Little Shop of Horrors, Follies, Seussical, Kiss Me, Kate, 1776, and Swinging on a Star. Off-Broadway: Two Gentlemen of Verona (New York Shakespeare Festival), Saturday Night (Second Stage), Violet (Playwrights Horizons), and As Thousands Cheer (Drama Dept). City Center Encores!: Bells Are Ringing, Carnival, Hair, and Babes in Arms; artistic director for four seasons. Regional: Living on Love (Williamstown Theatre Festival); The
Unsinkable Molly Brown (Denver Center Theatre). ABC/Disney: Once Upon a Mattress and Meredith Willson’s The Music Man (Emmy® nomination). She has received three Tony® Awards (out of nine nominations), three Drama Desk Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Awards, the Astaire Award, the George Abbott Award, and the Richard Rodgers Award. She is an associate artist of the Roundabout Theatre Company. For Scott, Ella, and Nathaniel, and in loving memory of Martin Pakledinaz. DEREK McLANE (Original Scenic Design) Broadway designs include Beautiful, The Heiress, Nice Work, The Best Man, Follies, Anything Goes, How to Succeed, Bengal Tiger, Million Dollar Quartet, Ragtime, 33 Variations, The Pajama Game, I Am My Own Wife. Off-Broadway: The Last Five Years, Ruined, Lie of the Mind, Hurlyburly. He designed the 2013 and 2014 Academy Awards®, AWARDS: Winner of 1997 and 2004 OBIE Awards, 2004, 2005, 2007 Lucille Lortel Awards; 2009 Tony® Award, 2011 Drama Desk Award, 2014 Emmy® Award. JAMES KRONZER (Scenic Coordinator) Broadway: Glory Days. Off-Broadway: Opus, Under the Bridge. National tours (Design Adaptation): Shrek, Spamalot, The Producers, and Addams Family. TV: Over 60 stand up comedy specials for Netfix, Showtime, and Comedy Central starring comedians such as Aziz Ansari, Nick Cannon, and Sinbad. Awards: Eight Helen Hayes (D.C). Two Barrymore (Philadelphia). He is a member of United Scenic Artists. www.jameskronzer.com. MARTIN PAKLEDINAZ (Original Costume Design) NY theater includes The Glass Menagerie (Lortel nomination); The Pajama Game (Tony® nomination); Lend Me a Tenor (Hewes Award, Tony® and OCC nominations); Thoroughly Modern Millie; Blithe Spirit (Tony® nomination); Kiss Me, Kate; The Wild Party (Lippa); Golden Child; and The Life. Opera: Iphigenie en Tauride (Metropolitan Opera), The Bartered Bride (Juilliard), Tristan and Isolde and Adriana Mater (Paris Opera/Bastille), L’amour de Loin (Salzburg, Paris/Chatelet, Santa Fe, Helinski and works throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Japan). Awards include two Tonys®, Drama Desk, Obie, Lucille Lortel, among others. JIMM HALLIDAY (Costume Coordinator) has been a proud member of the NETworks family since 1999, having designed or coordinated dozens of national tours.With Santo Loquasto, Halliday won the 2010 Helen Hayes Award for the acclaimed production of Ragtime at the Kennedy Center and has been the resident costume designer at New
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York’s Mac-Haydn Theatre for the past 30 years. Special thanks and gratitude to dear friend and colleague Seth Wenig for all his insight and guidance. ANTHONY PEARSON (Lighting Design) Other Desert Cities, My Brilliant Divorce, and Hamlet (Asolo Rep), Celtic Fyre (Busch Gardens). Associate lighting designer for Broadway shows: Pippin, Kinky Boots, Porgy & Bess (U.S. tour), We Will Rock You (U.S. tour), Shatner’s World, Hugh Jackman Back on Broadway, Other Desert Cities, 9 to 5 (U.S. tour), Chicago (International), Finian’s Rainbow, Looped, Boeing Boeing, The Drowsy Chaperone (U.S. tour and West End), Rent (Asia tour). Other projects include New Years Eve Celebrations from Times Square NYC and his hometown of Sydney, Australia. DAVID BULLARD (Sound Design) Sound Design: Men’s Lives (Bay Street), Ninth and Joanie (LABrynth), Amadeus (Old Globe—Critics Circle Nomination), One Night Only: Al Pacino, The Unexpected Man (Drama Desk, Lortel Nomination). Associate design: Phantom of the Opera, Warhorse, Sondheim on Sondheim, Sweeney Todd, Pacific Overtures, Xanadu, Gem of the Ocean, Radio Golf. Live work with Donny & Marie, Steve Reich, and Musicians. ROBBIE COWAN (Music Director/Conductor) National tours: Elf, Shrek, Damn Yankees! Regional: Sweeney Todd, Triassic Parq, Singin’ in the Rain, and more in CA, CO, WA, and NY. Cowan has been lucky enough to perform in venues ranging from Carnegie Hall to the Kennedy Center, from Notre Dame to National Public Radio. M.M., San Francisco Conservatory; B.A. in music and philosophy, Gonzaga University. Born and raised in Anchorage, AK. www.robbiecowan.com JAMES LOWE (Music Supervisor) Broadway: Les Misérables, Anything Goes, Gypsy. National tour: Phantom of the Opera (U.S. music supervisor), My Fair Lady, The Light in the Piazza. Houston Grand Opera: Le nozze di Figaro, Carmen, The Little Prince; Lyric Opera of Chicago: Oklahoma!; Glimmerglass Festival: Camelot, Utah Opera: Florencia en el Amazonas, Of Mice and Men; Houston Ballet: The Nutcracker. Concerts with Elton John, Randy Newman, Booker T. Jones. Grammy® nomination: Anything Goes cast recording (co-producer and conductor). www.jameslowemusic.com. BILL ELLIOT (Additional Orchestrations) Tony® nomination orchestrator Nice Work If You Can Get It; Grammy® nomination co-producer of Nice Work cast album; Emmy® nomination music director Michael Feinstein PBS Special The Sinatra Legacy; producer and arranger of Michael Feinstein’s Con-
cord albums The Sinatra Project and The Good Life; prolific arranger for the Boston Pops, New York Pops, Hollywood Bowl orchestra, and other orchestras. Arrangements for TV and film include Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, Northern Exposure, Wedding Crashers. JOHN MEZZIO (Music Coordinator) has conducted many national tours, including State Fair starring John Davidson, Victor Victoria starring Toni Tennille, Seussical the Musical starring Cathy Rigby, Cinderella starring Eartha Kitt and Deborah Gibson, the Royal National Theatre’s revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!, and The Wedding Singer. Additionally, Mezzio was the associate conductor for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Starlight Express at the Las Vegas Hilton. Mezzio was musical coordinator for several national tours, including Sweet Charity starring Molly Ringwald, Annie starring John Schuck and Mackenzie Phillips, Hairspray, The Producers, Spring Awakening, Shrek the Musical, and Memphis. He is currently the musical coordinator for Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (U.S. and international tours), Anything Goes, and Elf the Musical. DAVID CHASE (Dance Arranger) Anything Goes is Chase’s fifth Roundabout production and umpteenth show with Kathleen Marshall. Thirty Broadway and West End shows as music director and/or arranger. “For my mother, who made me take tap in first grade. The feet couldn’t do it, but somehow the hands remembered the rhythms.” Music education: Harvard biology degree. ROB FISHER (Vocal Arranger) founding music director of City Center Encores! from 1994-2005, is the score supervisor for the upcoming An American in Paris and supervising music director of Chicago worldwide. Other Broadway: Anything Goes, Hair, The Apple Tree, Wonderful Town, Threepenny Opera. Symphony: NY Philharmonic (Carousel, My Fair Lady), San Francisco (Sweeney Todd), Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago. Opera: Chicago Lyric (Sound of Music). BERNIE ARDIA (Make-up and Hair Coordinator) has enjoyed a 30-year career, starting in television. Mr. Ardia has designed over 75 productions including the recent Canadian Company of Cameron Mackintosh’s Les Misérables, NETworks’ tour of Billy Elliot. Highlights include Ragtime at The Kennedy Center, Kiss of the Spider Woman with Chita Rivera, Starlight Express, Cinderella with Eartha Kitt and Debbie Gibson. It has been a thrill working with so many talented performers including, Jeanne Cooper, Ramin Karimloo, Anita Gilette, Mary Wilson, Makenzie Phillips, and even
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Judge Judy! Ardia is also the author of Barbra Streisand in New York City. COLIN BYRNE (Company Manager) North American tours: Memphis, Disney’s Beauty & the Beast (assistant company manager). Regional: Maine State Music Theatre’s 2012 and 2013 seasons (assistant company manager). Many thanks to his family and friends for their continued love and support. “And to my Crush – You still amaze me.” ALEX EBERLE (Production Stage Manager) Regional: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The Merchant of Venice (The Old Globe), Hairspray, Fiddler on the Roof, All My Sons, See How They Run (Barrington Stage Company), RED (Triad Stage). B.F.A., University of North Carolina School of the Arts. “Thanks M&D!” SEAN MCKNIGHT (Co-Associate Director & Choreographer) began his choreographic career with Hot Mikado for which he was an Ovation! and LA Drama Critics Circle Award nominee. He made his New York City debut as director/choreographer with the sold-out concert Broadway Classics at Carnegie Hall. Other credits include: Dance Austria!—The Big Waltz at Lincoln Center, Hershey Park, and extensive work for BC/EFA. He holds a B.F.A. in musical theater from the University of Michigan and is currently on faculty at Pace University. JENNIFER SAVELLI (Co-Associate Director & Choreographer) Originally from Cleveland and trained by mother Dianne, Savelli is thrilled to be serving as Kathleen Marshall’s associate director and choreographer after setting the first national tour of Anything Goes! She originated the role of Charity in the hit revival on Broadway and she served as dance captain. She has also assisted Marshall on Broadway’s Boeing Boeing. Savelli has choreographed for Carnival Cruises and The Philadelphia Orchestra. Her career includes numerous performances on Broadway, in concert, television, and film. Love to my family! ORIN WOLF (Executive Producer) is the President of NETworks Presentations and, having joined the company just one year ago, is especially excited to make Anything Goes his inaugural tour. Prior to joining NETworks, Wolf founded and ran Off Broadway Booking and produced Broadway shows. Current Broadway productions include Beautiful–The Carole King Musical and Once (Broadway Tony® Award Winner, London, and national tour). He is a graduate of the Commercial Theater Institute and was awarded the T-Fellowship for Creative Producing at Columbia University in con-
junction with Hal Prince and is now the Director. DUNCAN STEWART CSA/BENTON WHITLEY CSA (Casting) Broadway/New York: On the Town, Pippin, Chicago, La Cage, The Band Wagon (Encores), Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Natasha Pierre & Great Comet of 1812, Pageant, People Sing (Carnegie Hall). West End/London: Thriller Live, Menier Chocolate Factory. National tours: We Will Rock You, Pippin, Chicago, La Cage, Flashdance. Regional: A.R.T., Bay Street, Alley Theatre, RCCL. Casting Associate Andrea Zee. dstewartco.com TYPE A MARKETING (Marketing & Press) is an independent, full-service marketing company specializing in Broadway and national tours. Current/upcoming roster: Broadway: Gigi, Les Misérables, Kinky Boots, The Phantom of the Opera, and Side Show. Tours: Anything Goes, Blithe Spirit, Dirty Dancing, Flashdance – The Musical, I Love Lucy: Live on Stage, Nice Work If You Can Get It, and Million Dollar Quartet. www.typeamktg.com THE BOOKING GROUP (Booking) is Broadway’s premiere booking agency representing more than 18 Tony® Award winning best musicals and plays since its inception in 1996. TBG has booked several long running tours such as the “Best Musical of the Century” The Book of Mormon, the most Tony® Award winning musical in history Mel Brooks’ The Producers, the worldwide hit Mamma Mia!, and the groundbreaking musical Rent. TBG is committed to bringing the best of Broadway to North America and beyond. NETWORKS PRESENTATIONS LLC (Producer) from its inception nearly 20 years ago has been an industry-leading producer of touring musical theatre productions and remains committed to delivering quality entertainment to its audiences. Having toured over 60 productions extensively throughout North America, NETworks is now expanding its tours into many international markets including South America, Greece, Italy, Turkey, and South East Asia. Its current touring season includes Cameron Mackintosh’s The Phantom of the Opera, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Dirty Dancing, Blue Man Group, Flashdance, Anything Goes, and Elf the Musical.
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EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Orin Wolf
Chief Executive Officer............................................Kenneth Gentry Chief Operating Officer .........................................Scott W. Jackson President..........................................................................Orin Wolf Executive Vice President Production ..............................Seth Wenig Director of Finance........................................................John Kinna Controller................................................................Jennifer Gifford Executive Producers ..............................Kary M. Walker, Dani Davis Associate Producer ..................................................Angela Rowles Director of Booking.........................................Charmaine McVicker Senior General Manager.................................Gregory VanderPloeg General Managers ........................Mary K. Witte, Guy Jordin Heard, Tyler Soltis Associate General Managers .........Bobby Maglaughlin, Curt Owens Assistant General Manager ....................................Penelope Lopez Senior Production Manager ......................................Jason Juenker Production Managers ...............................Ben Neafus, Lauren Dieli Associate Production Manager ...................................Evan Rooney Warehouse Manager.......................................................Brad Korff Director of Marketing/PR ...........................................Heather Hess Database Manager ...................................................Siba Mahanty Music Coordinator .......................................................John Mezzio Office Manager......................................................Buddy Piccolino Administrative Assistant .................................Esther Schwarzbauer
GENERAL MANAGEMENT Gentry & Associates Gregory VanderPloeg Mary K. Witte Penelope Lopez PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT NETworks Presentations LLC Jason Juenker Ben Neafus NATIONAL TOUR MARKETING & PUBLICITY Type A Marketing Elyce Henkin DJ Martin Erica Jacobson Kelly Stotmeister CASTING DUNCAN STEWART AND COMPANY Duncan Stewart CSA, Benton Whitley CSA Andrea Zee, Dale Brown CSA Emily Feinstein, Jeremy Sickles TOUR DIRECTION THE BOOKING GROUP Meredith Blair Kara Gebhart Rich Rundle Brian Brooks Mollie Mann www.thebookinggroup.com COMPANY MANAGER Colin Byrne Production Stage Manager ...........................................Alex Eberle Production Assistant..............................................Lionel Christian Assistant Choreographer........................................Vanessa Sonon Scenic Coordinator .................................................James Kronzer Scenic Assistant ......................................................Jeremy W. Foil Sound Design...........................................................David Bullard Associate Sound Design .......................................Franck Francois Costume Coordinator ...............................................Jimm Halliday Costume Assistant..................................................John Saunders Lighting Desgin....................................................Anthony Pearson Associate Lighting Designer............................Jeremy Cunningham Moving Light Programmer....................................Timothy F. Rogers Head Carpenter.........................................................Kenneth Britt Assistant Carpenter................................................Ashley Harman Flyman.................................................................Stephen Bogaev Head Electrician...........................................Patrick Medlock-Turek Assistant Electrician/Followspot Operator................Nate Eyestone Moving Light Technician .............................................Jesse Sutten Head Sound............................................................Timothy Jarrell Head Properties ......................................................Thomas Rivers Wardrobe Supervisor............................................Kaitlin Saltzman Wardrobe Assistant..................................................Emma Hankin Hair Supervisor ......................................................Karly Anderson Music Programmer .................................................Jason Howland Associate Music Programmer ...........................................Hiro Iida Print Design................................................The Marketing Division Radio Spot Produciton ....................................................CreativeX Television Spot Design/Video Produciton ........................CreativeX Website.............................................................Pit Bull Interactive Production Photography...........................................Jeremy Daniel Hotel Booking.....................................Lisa Morris, Road Concierge Cast Bus ..........................................................Croswell VIP Coach Crew Bus.................................................................Clarion Coach Trucking Services ......................................................Clark Transfer Accounting .........................................NETworks Presentations LLC Tour Accountant........................................................Paula Jenkins HR & Payroll Services ..................................Human Resources Inc Insurance...............................................Maury, Donnelly, and Parr
CREDITS Special thanks to RiverPark Center, Owensboro, KY Rehearsed at Gibney Studios. NEURO TOUR - Official provider of Physical Therapy services Tax & Financial Consulting, Accounting Services, IT Services CliftonLarsonAllen LLP George Wilson, Linda Rubenstein Pat Guerieri, Tim Pizza Make-up provided by Financial Services and banking arrangements by M&T Bank Visit the Anything Goes website at AnythingGoesOnTour.com Backstage employees are represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (or I.A.T.S.E.). The Director is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Inc., an independent national labor union. United Scenic Artists represents designers and scenic artists for the American Theatre.
Sun, March 8, 2015 at 8pm
Los Lobos with special guest Alejandro Escovedo
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Los Lobos
ABOUT THE ARTISTS LOS LOBOS Los Lobos were already East L.A. neighborhood legends, Sunset Strip regulars, and a Grammy® Award-winning band (Best Mexican-American/Tejano Music Performance) by the time they recorded their major label debut How Will The Wolf Survive? in 1984. Although the album’s name and title song were inspired by a National Geographic article about real life wolves in the wild, the band— David Hidalgo, Louie Perez, Cesar Rosas, Conrad Lozano, and Steve Berlin—saw parallels with their struggle to gain mainstream rock success while maintaining their Mexican roots. Perez, the band’s drummer, once called their powerhouse mix of rock, Tex-Mex, country, folk, R&B, blues, and traditional Spanish and Mexican music “the soundtrack of the barrio.” Three decades, two more Grammys®, a worldwide smash single (“La
Bamba”), and thousands of rollicking performances across the globe later, Los Lobos is surviving quite well—and still jamming with the same raw intensity as they had when they began in that garage in 1973. The band chronicles a key moment of their expansive journey on Disconnected In New York City, a dynamic live album that marks the band’s 40th anniversary and launches their new association with 429 Records. Recorded over two nights in December 2012 at The City Winery in NYC, the engaging 12-song set celebrates Los Lobos’ great legacy as a freewheeling and unpredictable live band, which most recently includes touring in Europe with Neil Young and Crazy Horse in June 2013. Disconnected in New York City features fresh interpretations of songs from throughout their three decade recording career, including their first ever live recording of “La Bamba,” their worldwide pop crossover hit from the 1987 film which reached #1 on the U.S. and UK singles chart and whose video won a 1988 MTV Music Video Award. The collection covers the band’s 25 year studio discography, from “Gotta Let You Know” (a bouncy zydeco rocker driven by Hidalgo’s accordion from How Will The Wolf Survive?) through “Tin Can Trust,” a bluesy rock ballad that was the title cut from their last studio release in 2010. As per the literal meaning of its title, Disconnected In New York City sets itself apart from Los Lobos’ other acclaimed live recordings (most notably, 2005’s Live At the Fillmore) by stripping down the instrumentation for a mostly acoustic affair. “We’re well known for our electric, high energy performances but we’ve done acoustic stuff for certain smaller auditorium tours,” Lozano says. “Playing these songs acoustically makes them feel more intimate. We notice that when you play softer and quieter, the audience tends to pay attention to everything we’re doing. When you play rock, they’re thinking more about rhythm than melodies and lyrics, but playing them this way allows for more subtle elements of the songs to stand out.”
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Around the time of their last big anniversary Rolling Stone magazine summed up that distinctive, diverse, and spontaneous Los Lobos aesthetic perfectly: “This is what happens when five guys create a magical sound, then stick together for 30 years to see how far it can take them.” Most fans know that the group came together from three separate units. Hidalgo, the band’s lead vocalist/guitarist (whose arsenal includes accordion, percussion, bass, keyboards, melodic, drums, violin, and banjo) met Perez at Garfield High in East LA and started a garage band. Rosas, who plays guitar and mandolin, had his own group, and Lozano launched a power trio. “But we all hung out because we were friends and making music was just the natural progression of things,” says Perez. “Like if you hang around a barbershop long enough, you’re going to get a haircut.”
Looking back at the historical and cultural sweep of the band, Lozano sees the release of Disconnected In New York City as Los Lobos coming full circle. “A lot of people forget that though we were rock musicians when we got out of high school, the band started off as an acoustic outfit,” he says. “We wanted to play Mexican folk music because those were our roots and there was this whole Chicano awareness thing happening back in the early 70s. We started to pay attention to our traditions and culture, and focused on those styles of music for years. We studied music from every region of Mexico, learned how to play all these authentic instruments. So that’s what we did for ten years until we decided to play rock again by bringing in drum and electric bass.”
Thu, March 12, 2015 at 7:30pm
Rutgers Bands Extravaganza Celebrating 100 Years
PROGRAM Concert Band Timothy G. Smith, Conductor Lassus Trombone
Henry Fillmore (1881–1956)
Folk Song Suite March: Seventeen Come Sunday Intermezzo: My Bonny Boy March: Folk Songs from Somerset
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958)
Benny Goodman: The King of Swing Maureen Hurd, Soloist
Paul Murtha (b. 1960)
Symphony Band Darryl J. Bott, Conductor Commando March
Samuel Barber (1910–1981)
Suite of Old American Dances I. Cake Walk V. Rag Giovanni Garcia – DMA ’17, Guest Conductor The Carnival of Venice Transcribed by Alan Catherall Aaron VanderWeele, Soloist Jerry W. Peel, Guest Conductor Twelve Seconds to the Moon
Robert Russell Bennett (1894–1981)
Herbert L. Clarke (1867–1945)
Robert W. Smith (b. 1958) Wind Ensemble Kraig Alan Williams, Conductor
Icarus and Daedalus Fantasy
Keith Gates (b. 1948)
Metamarch William Berz, Guest Conductor
Steven Bryant (b. 1972)
Moviegoers’ Guide to John Williams
Jay Bocook (b. 1952)
The Combined Bands of Rutgers A Salute to the Big Ten
Thomas Bourgault (b. 1983)
This program is made possible in part through a grant by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Rutgers Bands Extravaganza
ABOUT THE PROGRAM RUTGERS BANDS EXTRAVAGANZA This special concert features music spanning the 100-year history of the Rutgers Band Program, the Big Ten, and historical and popular culture of the past 100 years. The show lineup includes the Rutgers Wind Ensemble, Rutgers Symphony Band, Rutgers Concert Band, and the Rutgers Marching Scarlet Knights, along with numerous faculty soloists and guest conductors from the program’s history. The program includes a salute to Benny Goodman; Twelve Seconds to the Moon, a history of space travel; and Icarus and Daedalus Fantasy, commemorating the achievement of flight. Rutgers faculty guest soloists include Maureen Hurd, clarinet, and Aaron VanderWeele, euphonium.
100 YEARS OF THE RUTGERS UNIVERSITY BAND PROGRAM 1915 Faculty member Leigh Kimball’s correspondence with President William Henry Steele Demarest in December 1915 leads to the creation of the Rutgers University Band program. The earliest known performances take place at baseball games and military drills in the spring of 1916. Kimball has experience as composer, clarinetist, and U.S. Army band veteran. In addition, he serves as French professor at Rutgers College. 1927 Charles W. Cook begins a dual 12-year career as Rutgers band director and
Army private. Rutgers band performances include marching as well as concert programs. The group performs live on the radio (1930) on New York Radio Station WOR. 1941 Band activities are greatly diminished and perhaps halted entirely at points during World War II. In 1941, the band is led by Wilbert Hitchner (Rutgers College ’22) until his deployment in the war effort. He assumes leadership of the band for several years when he returns from the war. 1948 After graduation from The Juilliard School as a concert pianist and experience as a trombonist in the 76th Air Force Band, Martin Sherman arrives as a music faculty member at Rutgers. While Sherman’s job description consists primarily of music history and music theory instruction, directing the band is an “added” activity to his course load. The Rutgers Marching Band assumes an Ivy League approach to drill and style, donning straw hats and red blazers. 1955 Richard Gerstenberger continues the marching-band tradition with the Ivy League approach until 1962. 1960 An attempt at establishing a universitywide wind ensemble on the Douglass campus is made by Gerstenberger and Douglass clarinet professor George Jones. 1961 The Rutgers University Wind Ensemble forms under the direction of Martin Sherman.
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1962 Casomir (Casey) Bork (music supervisor of Roselle Schools) leads the Marching Band from 1962 to 1966. The Rutgers Wind Ensemble performs at the 1964 World’s Fair under Bork. 1965 Initially student-led, the Rutgers Pep Band begins appearing at basketball events. 1966 Scott Whitener arrives as director of bands. The Rutgers Marching Band develops a Big 10 high-step approach and becomes known as the Rutgers Marching 100. 1967 The Rutgers Wind Ensemble performs at New York City’s Town Hall to favorable review in The New York Times. Mason Gross (president of Rutgers University) provides the narrative to Aaron Copland’s Lincoln Portrait for the occasion. In 1968, the group makes a return appearance at Town Hall under Whitener. The Rutgers Concert Band (second indoor band) is formed to accommodate addi-
tional students joining the program. 1969 Rutgers Marching 100 performs at the Rose Bowl Parade in Pasadena, California. In 1970, the Marching Band appears in a segment with Nancy Sinatra, which is performed live on The Ed Sullivan Show. 1973 Women are permitted to join the Rutgers Marching Band. 1980 William Berz is hired as marching band director. The Rutgers Marching Band shifts from high-step marching to glide step. Rutgers plays Princeton in football for the final time. 1982 Rutgers Marching Band reaches 200 members. 1989 The Rutgers Marching Band performs in Ireland as the football team plays University of Pittsburgh in the Emerald Isle Classic. 1993 William Berz assumes leadership of the Wind Ensemble. Their first CD, titled
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Windfall, is recorded in 1995. In all, 24 recordings are released by the wind ensemble from this point until 2009. The group receives a total of 44 entries into the Grammy® nomination entry list. 2000 Timothy G. Smith is named director of the Rutgers Marching Band and the Concert Band. A third band ensemble, the Symphony Band, is created. 2005 The Rutgers Wind Ensemble performs at Carnegie Hall. 2008 Daryl Bott joins the Rutgers band staff and Mason Gross School of the Arts faculty. Bott eventually assumes leadership of the Symphony Band. 2011 Kraig Alan Williams is named director of bands and conductor of the Rutgers Wind Ensemble. 2014 Rutgers Marching Scarlet Knights perform at Super Bowl XLVIII at MetLife Stadium. In addition, the Rutgers drum line performs with the rock group U2 on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The Marching Scarlet Knights enter the field with 250 members in their first year performing in the Big Ten Conference.
MASON GROSS SCHOOL OF THE ARTS Founded in 1976, Mason Gross School of the Arts is the flagship public arts conservatory of New Jersey. Part of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, the school is home to the departments of Dance, Music, Theater, and Visual Arts as well as the Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions, Mason Gross Extension Division, Arts Online, and the Rutgers Center For Digital Filmmaking. Its faculty and alumni rosters include arts professionals recognized nationally and internationally, including Kristin Davis, Calista Flockhart, Avery Brooks, Cleo Mack, William Pope.L, Alice Aycock, Sean Jones, and Cristina Pato. The school’s enrollment of 752 undergraduates and 281 graduate students across four departments, combined with a faculty of 219, ensures students the opportunity to work closely with accomplished artists within their fields.
RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY Established in 1766, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is America’s eighth oldest institution of higher learning. The Rutgers system educates more than 65,000 students and serves the people of New Jersey at universities, research centers, and clinical practices throughout the state. The flagship, Rutgers University–New Brunswick, is one of the nation’s premier public research universities and is the only public institution in New Jersey represented in the prestigious Association of American Universities. Rutgers University is also a member of the Big Ten Conference and its academic counterpart, the Committee on Institutional Cooperation—a consortium of 15 world-class research universities.
RUTGERS WIND BANDS The Rutgers Band program celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2015. Scott Whitener and William Berz developed a rich heritage from the late 1970s through the beginning of the 21st century. Director of bands Kraig Alan Williams, appointed in September 2011, is implementing plans to meet the challenges of joining the highprofile Big Ten, the oldest Division I collegiate athletic conference in the nation. The Rutgers Wind Ensemble, with a history of Grammy®-listed recordings, continues to present repertoire at the highest artistic and performance levels. A Symphony Band now complements the Wind Ensemble. Rounded out with a University Concert Band offered in the spring, the wind bands are now meeting the needs of over 250 students, both music majors and nonmajors, who enjoy the merits of performing in a concert ensemble setting. Since 1915 the Marching Scarlet Knights have demonstrated support for Rutgers University athletic teams. Originally begun as an 11-member band to play music for weekly drills of the Rutgers College Cadet Corps, the band has gone on to play the school’s fight songs, to sing the school’s alma mater, and to provide the university with school spirit and a robust tradition.
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Wed, March 18, 2015 at 8pm
George Thorogood & The Destroyers
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George Thorogood & The Destroyers
ABOUT THE ARTIST GEORGE THOROGOOD & THE DESTROYERS In 1973, a barely-out-of-his-teens Wilmington guitarist piled his gear into the drummer’s Chevy van to play their very first gig at a University of Delaware dorm. More than four decades, over 8,000 live shows, and some 15 million albums sold worldwide later, that same maverick guitar-slinger is still making electrifying music, still thrilling audiences, and is still the most bad-to-the-bone performer in rock. For George and his longtime band—Jeff Simon (drums, percussion), Bill Blough (bass guitar), Jim Suhler (rhythm guitar), and Buddy Leach (saxophone)—their new Badder Than Ever Tour is indestructible proof that staying true to yourself and the music can still mean something. And with a catalog of classics that includes “Who Do You Love”, “I Drink Alone”, “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer”, “Move It On Over”, “Bad To The Bone” and more, being able to share it with audiences is what will always matter. Surprisingly, Thorogood began his career as a solo acoustic act. “I was more of a Robert Johnson/Elmore James type country-blues player,” he explains. “I wasn’t very good at it, but I’d gotten enough feedback from artists like Brownie McGhee and Willie Dixon who thought I had something going. But I knew I needed more.” George called high-school friend and drummer Jeff Simon, and with the addition of a bass player—as well as Jeff’s van–the electric trio soon graduated from basement rehearsals to local gigs. “We knew there was still time for one supercharged boogie-blues combo to make it. We relocated to Boston, and toured New England and the Delaware Valley nonstop. Crowds loved us. The acts we were opening for, like Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf, loved us. We were playing great, but still could-
n’t get a record deal. Back then, a band without a record deal was like an actor without a SAG card. We couldn’t earn more than $200 a night.” Nevertheless, their self-titled and now-classic debut would soon be certified Gold. And for audiences and radio alike, the band instantly embodied—and continues to define—powerhouse rock with bar band roots, unchained attitude and a fierce love of its country, blues, and R&B history. Over the course of sixteen studio albums (including six Gold and two Platinum discs), they would storm the charts by putting their own stamp on nuggets by Hank Williams, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, John Lee Hooker, Elmore James, and more, while simultaneously delivering hit GT originals that crackle with humor and swagger. “I’ve always balanced one against the other,” George explains, “and I follow my heart as far as what I can do. You don’t ask Woody Allen to make a western and you can’t expect Clint Eastwood to do Shakespeare. You find what you’re good at and stick to it. Let’s face it; ‘Get A Haircut’ isn’t a song for Carly Simon. It’s for Thorogood.” As for his signature certified classic “Bad To The Bone,” George knows the simple truth of his definitive badass anthem. “It’s the ultimate fantasy of the cool tough guy,” he says. “I wrote ‘Bad To The Bone’ to perform it live for the rest of my life.” In fact, ask anyone who’s seen a GT&D performance—from that first show at Lane Hall, through legendary appearances on SNL and Live Aid, the opening slot on the Rolling Stones historic ’81 tour, their own record-breaking 50/50 tour, or any of their current 100+ shows per year—and it’s ferociously clear that the band’s reputation as worldwide road warriors remains untouchable. Ultimately, the 2015 Badder Than Ever tour is 50% celebration, 50% declaration and 100% Thorogood throwdown.
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A Play By
Rick Elice Based on the novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson Music By
Wayne Barker Scenic Design
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Donyale Werle
Paloma Young
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THE CAST OF CHARACTERS (in order of appearance) Boy .............................................................................................................BRYAN WELNICKI Black Stache ...................................................................................................JOE BEUERLEIN Molly ............................................................................................................AISLING HALPIN Prentiss ......................................................................................................JAMES CRICHTON Fighting Prawn .....................................................................................THOMAS DEMARCUS Mrs. Bumbrake ................................................................................................TIM HACKNEY Lord Aster ......................................................................................................ANDY INGALLS Ted .....................................................................................................................NICK LEHAN Slank ............................................................................................................GABE MARTINEZ Captain Scott ............................................................................................MICKEY RAFALSKI Alf .......................................................................................................................SHAUN RICE Smee .............................................................................................................ANDREW SKLAR
UNDERSTUDIES Understudies never substitute for listed performers unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the performance For Molly/Ted/Mrs. Bumbrake — ELIZABETH WYLD; for Boy/Ted/Prentiss — NIC MARRONE; for Black Stache/Lord Aster/Slank/Captain Scott — MAGARIN HOBSON; for Smee/Fighting Prawn/Alf/ Mrs. Bumbrake — MARC CORNES; Music Director/Keyboard — MAX GROSSMAN Drums/Percussion — JEREMY LOWE Arrangements by Wayne Barker Additional Arrangements by Marco Paguia
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WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST BRYAN WELNICKI (Boy) is honored to take to the stage as one of his greatest boyhood heroes. Graduate of NYU Steinhardt and proud student of Michael Ricciardone. National tour: The Addams Family (Lucas Beineke). NYC and regional credits include: Sweeney Todd (Tobias); The Addams Family (Lucas Beineke); Pryor Rendering (Dewar); King David (Absalom). A big, booming thanks to The Roster. All the love to Mom, Dad, Laura, and the rotten bunny. insta/twitter: @bwelnicki. “Nothing is forever. That’s the rule.” JOE BEUERLEIN (Black Stache) can’t believe two things: how lucky he is, and that he agreed to do another show with Thomas DeMarcus. National tours: Monty Python’s Spamalot (Prince Herbert, Historian, Fred, et al.); A Christmas Carol. NYC: Othello, Lend Me a Tenor (Gallery Players). Regional: Hedwig in Hedwig, Frank in Rocky Horror, Gary Lejeune in Noises Off; TV: Famous Crime Scenes (VH1). Beuerlein will next be seen in the second national tour of Whichever
Play Christian Borle Just Closed: The Musical. Big thanks to Mark and everyone at Phoenix! IG: @burrline AISLING HALPIN (Molly) is thrilled to be a part of this magical show! NYC: One Thrilling Combination at the Public Theatre. National tours: A Chorus Line, Radio City Christmas Spectacular. Favorite regional credits: Little Women (Amy); Dames at Sea (Ruby); The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Olive); The Producers (Ulla); Chicago (Roxie). Halpin would like to thank Team Boals for all of their guidance and support, her incredible family and friends who always believed she could fly and her Tim for being her favorite boy! Proud Syracuse University graduate. aislinghalpin.com “To have faith is to have wings.” MARC CORNES (u/s Smee/Fighting Prawn/Alf/Mrs. Bumbrake) is thrilled to be going on his first national tour with such an amazing show! NYC credits include Propaganda! The Musical (Ted); Parade (Britt Craig); Urinetown! The Musical (Hot Blades Harry); Assassins (John Hinckley). Other fav credits are The Producers
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(Franz Liebkind); Pajama Game (Joe); Cinderella (Portia). Cornes would like to thank Greg, Mom, Miller, Steph, and Dani and his amazing NYC family. For Momma. JAMES CRICHTON (Prentiss) New York credits: Crichton in Deadland (Jasper U/S) with Prospect Theater Company, as well as readings of the musicals Housewarming (Tom) at NYMF and The Mudge Boy (Duncan Mudge). Crichton has a B.F.A. in acting from Hofstra University. He thanks The Luedtke Agency and, of course, his family. @james_crichton / james-crichton.com THOMAS DEMARCUS (Fighting Prawn) Having toured the country as Hines in The Pajama Game and as Mother, Father, Brother (and a host of other filthy medievals) in Monty Python’s Spamalot, DeMarcus is pleased that his childhood Halloween skills of Pirate have finally paid off. Other regional credits include: The Glass Menagerie (Jim); Fiddler on the Roof (Motel); and H2$ (Frump). DeMarcus has also not appeared on Law & Order. This performance is dedicated to his Mother, Father, and Brother (who are not at all filthy). “For what, we ask, is life without a touch of Poetry in it?” TIM HACKNEY (Mrs. Bumbrake) National tour: The Drowsy Chaperone (Robert u/s); Regional: Playhouse on Park—Angels in America Part 1: Millennium Approaches (Joe Pitt); Bucks County Playhouse—Godspell (Jesus); Oklahoma! (Will Parker). NYC: Hudson Guild—The Whaleship Essex (Charles Ramsdell). Proud graduate of The William Esper Studio in NYC. For Lindsay. MAGARIN HOBSON (u/s Black Sache/Lord Aster/Captain Scott/Slank) is thrilled to be a part of this brilliant play. He received a B.F.A. in acting from Brigham Young University. Credits include Richard in Making God Laugh, Lachie in The Hasty Heart, Florindo in Servant of Two Masters, Don Armado in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Johnny Case in Holiday, and Robert in Boeing Boeing. Hobson enjoys whistling and eating Korean food with his hot wife (although, she usually prefers Thai). “For to have faith is to have wings.” ANDY INGALLS (Lord Aster) is delighted to travel the country with this wonderful, fullhearted show! His recent credits include Solyony in Three Sisters (Highly Impractical Theatre), Watson in Watson: The Musical (WVMTF: Best
Musical Winner), Albert Peterson in Bye Bye Birdie! (dirs. Kevin Cahoon & Dontee Kiehn), Michael in Rum and Vodka (Houston Premiere; Houston Press Theatre Award), and various folks in Coast of Utopia (Main Street Theater, second U.S. Production). Ingalls would like to thank his parents, sisters and brothers for their immeasurable support. NICK LEHAN (Ted) DC AREA: Kennedy Center: Camelot in concert with Brian Stokes Mitchell; Signature Theatre: Elmer Gantry, Company, Sycamore Trees (Understudy to Tony Yazbeck); Studio Theatre: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson; Olney Theatre Center. Cinderella, Joseph..., Big River. Favorites roles include: Sir Galahad in Spamalot, Frederick in The Pirates of Penzance, and the Tenor in A Grand Night for Singing. Education: The Catholic University of America. NIC MARRONE (u/s Boy/Prentiss/Ted) is a Georgia native and M.F.A. graduate of the New School for Drama class of ‘14 where he appeared in As You Like It (LeBeau/Amiens), Red Light Winter (Matt), and The Old Forever New Things by Daniel Kitrosser (Willy). He would like to thank Phoenix Entertainment, the NSD Hurricanes, and the workings of the universe along with the strength of his mother, the humor of his father, and the lessons taught to him by the rest of his incredible, weird family. This one is for the nephews and nieces from Uncle Rump. GABE MARTINEZ (Slank) can’t think of a better show than Starcatcher to make his return to the theater world after three years at sea, singing on cruise ships all over the world with Carnival Cruise Lines and with his wedding band, The Sultans of Swing. Favorite credits include Spelling Bee, Bat Boy (Irene Ryan Nomination), A Flea In Her Ear (Irene Ryan Nomination), Forever Plaid, and Punch Theatre’s The Skin You Leave Behind. Martinez is a proud graduate of Muhlenberg College, class of 2010. Much love to Mom, Dad and Em for all the love and support. MICKEY RAFALSKI (Captain Scott) Credits: The Stephen Foster Story (Stephen Foster), Oklahoma! (Curly), The Rocky Horror Show (Rocky), South Pacific, Spamalot, Peter Pan, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, Sweeney Todd, and more.
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Studied at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City. Vocal Training: Bruce Kolb, DMA. Rafalski is a proud Hoosier, originally from Carmel, IN. Tons of love and thanks to family and friends. Enjoy the show! www.MickeyRafalski.com; @mickeyrafalski SHAUN RICE (Alf) is thrilled to be a part of this magical production. Many thanks to Phoenix Entertainment and much love to Tams and Miss Scarlett. Tours: Uncle Fester in The Addams Family (US/Asia); How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Gilligan’s Island: The Musical, Curious George, Live!, and Thomas and Friends Live. Regional Theatre: The Addams Family (Ogunquit/Gateway); Great American Trailer Park Musical, Gutenberg! The Musical, I Love a Piano! @shaunpuffyrice ANDREW SKLAR (Smee) is excited to join the cast of Peter and the Starcatcher. He was last seen playing Lonny Barnett in the U.S. national tour of Rock of Ages. Other credits include Gangster #1 in Kiss Me Kate and Milt Fields in Laughter on the 23rd Floor. Personal thanks to Mom and Dad, Phoenix, Ronnie James, Noel, and my friends and family. Hahdang. “Ain’t it wonderful to be alive when the rock-n-roll plays.” ELIZABETH WYLD (u/s Ted/Mrs. Bumbrake/ Molly) is thrilled to be making her national tour debut. Regional credits include Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, Thea in Spring Awakening, Dainty June in Gypsy, and Denise in Smoke on the Mountain. Film: Charlie in Ghosting (Third Child Productions). B.F.A. in musical theater from Shenandoah Conservatory. Love and thanks to friends and family all over for their continuous support. More on www.elizabethwyld.com. “To have faith is to have wings.” RICK ELICE (Playwright) Broadway: Jersey Boys (Tony® Award, Best Musical); The Addams Family. In the works: Superfly (directed and choreographed by Bill T Jones); Dog and Pony (world premiere, Old Globe in San Diego, 2014). Elice is proud to share this five-time Tony® Awardwinning production of Peter with you. “When I was a boy, I wished I could fly...and work in the theater. Thanks to Roger Rees and Alex Timbers, I do.” ROGER REES (Director) Peter and the Starcatcher (co-director, Tony® nomination, Obie Award); Mud, River, Stone (Playwrights Hori-
zons); Arms and the Man (Roundabout); Here Lies Jenny (Zipper). U.K.: Bristol Old Vic: Julius Caesar, Turkey Time, John Bull. Artistic director, Williamstown, 2005–07: Film Society, Rivals, Taming of the Shrew, Double Double, Late Middle Classes, Anything Goes, Herringbone (WTF, McCarter, La Jolla); Red Memories (NYS&F); Merry Wives of Windsor, Love’s Labour’s Lost (OldGlobe); The Primrose Path (Guthrie); Treemonisha, The Juniper Tree, A White House Cantata, The Firebrand of Florence (Collegiate Chorale, NY). OZ (HBO). ALEX TIMBERS (Director) is a two-time Tony® nominee and the recipient of Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards as well as two Obie Awards. Peter and the Starcatcher (co-director, Tony® nomination, Obie Award); The Pee-Wee Herman Show, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (also book writer; Drama Desk, Lortel, and OCC Awards, Tony® nomination); A Very Merry... (Obie Award); Gutenberg! The Musical! (Drama Desk nom.); Hell House (Drama Desk nom.); Here Lies Love (OCC nom. and Drama Desk nom.). WAYNE BARKER (Composer) Tony® nomi-
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nation and Drama Desk award for Peter and the Starcatcher. Broadway: Dame Edna: Back With a Vengeance! (composer, co-lyricist with Barry Humphries). Regional: The Primrose Path, The Great Gatsby (Guthrie); Twelfth Night and The Three Musketeers (Seattle Rep). TV: A Little Curious. Other: Mark Bennett’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (orchestrations), Chicago City Limits, The Raymond Scott Orchestrette, orchestras worldwide. Upcoming: Let Me Live!; Dramatists Guild; Artistic Associate for New Musicals at NYTW. STEVEN HOGGETT (Movement) Recent work includes Let The Right One In (NTS); The Full Monty (Sheffield Crucible); The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time (National Theatre & West End); Rigoletto (Met Opera); The Glass Menagerie, Once, Peter and the Starcatcher, and American Idiot (B’way). Hoggett was associate director (movement) on Black Watch for the National Theatre Scotland (Olivier Award—Best Choreographer). Hoggett was founder and artistic director of Frantic Assembly Theatre Company. SHAWN PENNINGTON (Direction recreation) has worked extensively across North America and Asia as a stage manager, director, actor, and production supervisor. Broadway and national touring credits include Wicked, Peter and the Starcatcher, Next to Normal, Sondheim on Sondheim, Rock of Ages, Spelling Bee, The Pajama Game, Gypsy, Man of La Mancha, Will Rogers Follies, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Fame, and Camelot. He has enjoyed a 15 year relationship with Phoenix Entertainment and served as production supervisor for their ground breaking tours of Fame in South Korea and China. In 2008 he was a guest artist at the Beijing Academy of Performing Arts. Regional U.S. credits include Sundance Theatre Lab, The Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, The Fulton Opera House, The Prather Family of Theatres, and the NYC workshops of many new musicals including In Transit, Dust and Shadow, and The Ledge. PATRICK McCOLLUM (Movement recreation) Credits include: Broadway: The Last Ship (associate choreographer), Rocky (associate fight choreographer), Peter and the Starcatcher (movement associate), Wicked (dance supervisor). OffBroadway: Murder Ballad (associate
choreographer). DONYALE WERLE (Set Design) Broadway: Peter and the Starcatcher (2012 Tony® Award); Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (2011 Tony® nom.). Other: The Explorers Club (MTC); Brokeology (Lincoln Center Theater); Allegiance (Old Globe); Bare (New World Stages); Paper Mill; Vineyard; The Public; NYTW. Obie, Lortel and Hewes awards. Member of Broadway Green Alliance. PALOMA YOUNG (Costume Design) NY: Peter and the Starcatcher (Tony® Award); Natasha, Pierre... (Kazino); Brooklyn Babylon (BAM Next Wave); Wildflower (Second Stage). Regional: Troublemaker..., You Nero (Berkeley Rep); Current Nobod, Hoover Comes Alive! (La Jolla); Titus Andronicus (California Shakespeare Theatre); Heart of Robin Hood (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Old Globe); Pride and Prejudice, Charlotte’s Web (South Coast Rep); 1001 (Mixed Blood). Graduate of UCSD. JEFF CROITER (Lighting Design) Broadway: Newsies, Peter and the Starcatcher (Tony® Award); Soul Doctor, The Performers, The Anarchist, The Pee-Wee Herman Show, Next Fall, Kiki and Herb. Other NYC: Comedy Of Errors, Loves Labors Lost, Old Jews Telling Jokes, Silence, Love, Loss, and What I Wore, A Lie of the Mind, Ordinary Days, Almost Maine, and Jennifer Muller The Works. DARRON L WEST (Sound Design) is a Tony® and Obie award-winning sound designer whose work has been heard in more than 500 productions nationally and internationally. Other accolades include the 2012 Princess Grace Statue and Lortel, AUDELCO and Henry Hewes awards. He is a founding member of Anne Bogart’s SITI Company and Former Resident Sound Designer, Actors Theatre of Louisville. ANDY GROBENGIESER (Music Supervisor) most recently worked on the world premiere of Bull Durham at the Alliance Theater. Broadway: Ghost, Disney’s The Little Mermaid (including the Grammy®-nominated Original Cast Recording); Elton John’s Lestat. First national tours: Peter and the Starcatcher, Shrek the Musical, Disney’s The Lion King, Miss Saigon, Les Miserables, and multiple seasons working with the Rockettes on the touring Radio City Christmas Spectacular. Degrees
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from Millikin University ’91 and the University of Texas-Austin ’94. Hometown: Altamont, IL. MAX GROSSMAN (Music Director/Keyboards) is thrilled to be joining the national tour of Peter And The Starcatcher! Recent theater credits include Paper Mill Playhouse, Gallery Players, Hangar Theater, and Interlakes Theater. He most recently served as a music director and accompanist at Marymount Manhattan College. As a pianist, Grossman has performed numerous solo recitals and was a soloist with the Tampa Bay Symphony. B.M. from Stetson University and MM from Ithaca College. maxtgrossman@gmail.com JEREMY LOWE (Percussion) is a percussionist who lives and works in the New York City area. He recently returned from the first national tour of Peter and the Starcatcher and is honored to be continuing with this show. He received his masters in music performance from New York University. He has performed with Hans Zimmer at Superman: Man of Steel world premier afterparty, as well as members of the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center. lowepercussion.com SCOTT ORLESKY (Technical Supervisor) Technical Supervision on national and international tours of Peter and the Starcatcher, Camelot, Rock of Ages, Spamalot, The Color Purple, Fame, Grease, Peter Pan, The National Ballet of the Ukraine’s Nutcracker, A Ballet Fantasy, What’s Done In the Dark, Unforgettable: The Nat King Cole Story, and Big Comfy Couch, to name a few. His work has garnered him a Dora Mavor Moore award for theatrical design, an IALD award for architectural lighting, and an ISES award for large scale special events. MARK MINNICK (Casting) has cast exceptional talent in over 30 productions. National tours: The Color Purple, Monty Python’s Spamalot, The Pajama Game, Gypsy, Grease, Fame, and last seasons tours of Rock of Ages and The Addams Family. International tours: Sing Along Santa (Korea); Grease (China, Korea, Turkey): Fame (China, Korea): Rock of Ages (Puerto Rico, Singapore), and The Addams Family (Singapore). ALLIED LIVE (Marketing and Press) is a fullservice marketing and advertising agency representing Broadway shows, national tours, performing arts institutions, and experiential en-
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major productions as producer and/or director on both the national and international stage. Productions include Peter and the Starcatcher, Rock of Ages (North America tour, Republic of Singapore); The Addams Family, Monty Python’s Spamalot, The Color Purple, Godspell, The Will Rogers Follies, Ring of Fire, Man of La Mancha, Gypsy, and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Directing credits include Camelot (currently touring North America); Smokey Joe’s Café, The Pajama Game (North America tour); Fame (Korea and China tours); Grease (China tour, Malaysia, Macau and Turkey) and Sing Along Santa (Korea and North America tour). McFadden is a partner in Baker Park Associates, Inc. and founding member of both Phoenix Productions and Phoenix Asia Group. When not traveling, he shares his quiet time with his wife, LeAnne, and their sons, Sam and Liam. PHOENIX ENTERTAINMENT (Producer) is an independent theatrical producing and management enterprise founded and helmed by long time colleagues Stephen B. Kane and Michael McFadden. Its primary mission is to develop, produce, manage and present the very finest in touring Broadway musicals and family entertainment worldwide. Over the past three decades the Phoenix team has produced and/or supervised over 100 live productions on four continents. Current and recent touring projects include Camelot, Peter and the Starcatcher, Ragtime, Rock of Ages, Monty Python’s Spamalot, The Addams Family, The Color Purple, and the longrunning Korean language production of Grease. Its overseas affiliate, Phoenix Asia Group, brings international booking, producing, presenting, classical artist representation and theatrical investment to the collective production and management capabilities of Phoenix Entertainment. www.phoenix-ent.com.
Thu, March 19, 2015 at 7pm PRODUCERS PHOENIX ENTERTAINMENT www.phoenix-ent.com MANAGING PRODUCER .....................................STEPHEN B. KANE ARTISTIC PRODUCER.....................................MICHAEL McFADDEN ASSOCIATE PRODUCER .........................................MARK MINNICK STAFF FOR PETER AND THE STARCATCHER COMPANY MANAGEMENT..........................ARTHUR J.M. CALLAHAN PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR ..........................................JINAY LENA DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS.........................................LISA MATTIA CASTING DIRECTOR...............................................MARK MINNICK TECHNICAL SUPERVISOR ......................................SCOTT ORLESKY ASSOCIATE GENERAL MANAGER.................................RICH HIXON PRODUCTION ACCOUNTANT ............................DEBORAH HARMON
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Don Felder An Evening at the Hotel California
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ABOUT THE ARTIST DON FELDER Don Felder is renowned as a former lead guitarist of The Eagles, one of the most popular and influential rock groups of our time. The band s record-setting compilation Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975) sold over 29 million copies in the U.S. alone and was awarded by the RIAA the top-selling album of the 20th Century. Currently Don and The Eagles have sold more than 83.5 million albums. A member of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame since 1998, Felder served as a member of The Eagles for 27 years, putting his mark on numerous Eagles milestones. Felder originated the music and co-wrote The Eagles biggest hit – the iconic, Grammy®-studded smash “Hotel California” – along with fan favorites like “Victim of Love” and “Those Shoes.” He became immediately celebrated for his lyrical, signature guitar work on legendary songs like “Hotel California,” “One of These Nights,” “New Kid In Town,” and numerous more. “Hotel California” was recently voted the #1 Best 12 String Guitar Song in the world by Guitar World magazine. After leaving the group in 2001, Felder also became a New York Times bestselling author when his riveting confessional memoir Heaven and Hell: My Life in The Eagles proved a major
commercial triumph upon publication in 2008 and went on to become a New York Times best seller. Four time Grammy® award winner, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member, New York Times best-selling author, amazing guitarist, and captivating performer is the best way to describe Don Felder today. Felder has not only worked with The Eagles but also in both sessions and live performances for numerous music legends spanning the musical spectrum: The Bee Gees, Peter Frampton, Bob Seger, Michael Jackson, Alice Cooper, Kenny Loggins, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Boz Scaggs, Warren Zevon, Joni Mitchell, Stevie Nicks, Vince Gill, Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Paul Simon, Diana Ross, Barbra Streisand – and even old friend, Steven Stills. Don is currently touring worldwide in support of his new CD The Road To Forever which features some of the best musicians and close Felder friends in the business including Crosby, Stills & Nash, Tommy Shaw (from STYX), Randy Jackson (American Idol), Steve Lukather, and David Paich (Toto). The latest single “Wash Away The Pain” has reached #4 on the classic rock media charts between Eric Clapton and The Rolling Stones and has been critically acclaimed throughout the industry.
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SCRAP•ARTS•MUSIC artistic directors Gregory Kozak + Justine Murdy starring: Gregory Kozak Spencer Cole Jill Cooper Greg Samek Malcolm Shoolbraid all music composed by: Gregory Kozak instrument designer & choreographer: Gregory Kozak lighting designer: Justine Murdy costumes: Justine Murdy + Janet Dundas pre-show music: “Scrapology”
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ABOUT OUR INVENTED INSTRUMENT SHOW Many people are surprised to learn that Gregory Kozak not only wrote all the music performed today, but he invented and created all the instruments as well. Many were made by shaping, bending, and welding great-sounding—and looking—salvaged material into musical sculptures. Our ensemble of exceptional and highlytrained musicians has refined the innovative techniques used to generate the rich array of sounds and textures that infuse the compositions. We’ve named all our compositions and the instruments we created. Below we list the instrument names, what they were made from, and the composition in which they first appear. Enjoy the discovery! WHORLIES A composition named after the simple instruments that we use… Whorlies generate a variety of pitches depending on spin speed and length of bilge hose. CONUNDRUM This complex drumming number begins with Gregory on his one-of-a-kind, home made con-
traption (aka “traps set”); soon after, players with mobile drums of varying design join the action. Instruments include: Mini-Zig Traps set—invented drum kit created from scrap and spun metals; Ziggurat drums—our signature drum with a large drum-head and stepped spun aluminum drum shell which spin in the stand and produce different pitches depending on where it’s struck; Hourglass drums—made of spun aluminum and stainless, pivots at the middle, has two drum-heads and creates the second highest pitches of the drums; Humunga drums—barrel shaped, made of spun aluminum, and the lowest pitched, most bass of the mobile drums; B-52 drums—a single-headed drum made from steel oil cans manufactured in 1952 which we cleaned up, put on scrap stainless steel stands, and mounted with used Kevlar drum-heads; Junk-ona-Stick—“cymbal trees” made with threaded rod and whatever sound makers Gregory could find! RIBS Ribs features a collection of carefully selected found metal objects, arranged on specially-made tables that amplify the exotic musical sounds the group is able to generate, thanks to their evolved technique. New instruments introduced to the stage include: Sigh-chordions—aerophonic instruments made from plumbing fixtures & accordion reeds which create chords & single notes; The Ribs—curved stainless steel bars of various lengths; Wooden Table Box Resonators—hollow, rolling tables that act as sound amplifiers; and a variety of Found Metal including steel hose couplings and a brass plate. PHONK Phonk begins with two performers striking and tossing coils high in the air that soon develops into a full on rhythmic powerhouse. New instruments introduced in this piece include: Alumosprings—hollow, coiled aluminum which are lighter than they look; Scorpion drums—highpitched drums made from big-O irrigation hose & plumbing coupling joints on stands that can support up to three drums; and Thunder Sheets—flexible brass sheets and glass lifters.
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DELTA A solo piece featuring the Half Moon—a discarded rock cymbal Gregory ground and re-used to create a rich variety of warm sounds that subtly evoke the blues.
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MAGNUM OPUS FOR BOWLS AND PLATES One by one, musicians join the stage with their own AlumoPlate—an aluminum pot-bottom cutaway, each playing a unique rhythm using open and bell tone sounds. Rhythms intertwine then break apart from each other before plates are swapped for gong-like Bowls, found at a scrap yard and tuned with a grinder. SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED Like giant building blocks for adults, this composition is built around the bass sounds of the PVC tower—created from salvaged ABS pipe of varying lengths which are struck with gym matt paddles created from flooring recycled from a gymnastic club and cut into a ping pong paddle shape. The composition ends after a rhythmic interchange between PVC and Marine exhaust hose—which is hollow rubber tube formerly used to channel exhaust gases, cut to various lengths. ENGINE OF THE FUTURE Engine is a multi tonal piece that features several of the drum instruments used in a new way to suggest a giant rocket ship. New instruments
incorporated in the piece include: Aluminum rods—found in a dumpster near a metal shop; and Annoyophones—made from dishwasher hose, bagpipe reeds, and balloons. ARTILLERY PEACE We try to make an instrument from material we find at the venue we are performing in. The ubiquitous soda can and bicycle spoke are always easy to find and recycle. Artillery Peace begins with the Flying Can of Danger; Artillery Shell Chimes—stainless steel artillery shells cut to different lengths to create a variety of church-bell like chimes; and various noise makers including plastic venting hose, a bike bell, a suction cup, and a 2” x 4”. ANNOYOPHONIA The return of the Annoyophone (first debuted in Engine of the Future)—but this time there are five. What can we say? Why are the simplest instruments the hardest to play? SYNTHESOID PLASMATRON Synthesoid Plasmatron was one of the first pieces we performed. It’s in an odd time signature, is very physical and energizing to perform.
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It incorporates all the spun aluminum drums; the Plankophone—a marimba made from 2” x 4” and 2” x 6” wooden planks and legs made from railing of a building being torn down; the Chime Array—made from scrap stainless steel which supports artillery shell chimes; the Gong Array—made of curly legs made from monkey bar “seconds” and large chunks of scrap stainless steel boat railings that support three gongs. 13 STRINGS & SIGHCHORDIONS It’s perhaps surprising to see what an innovative percussionist can do when he invents a stringed instrument... This composition starts with Gregory on his Mojo—an instrument created from a sailboard mast, steel bowls, balloons, wood, aluminum scraps, and piano & bass strings. He is joined by three performers playing numerous Sigh-chordions (previously described), and another playing the Nail Cello, a stainless steel plate with rods that are bowed while on top of a drum. HIP HOP A drum solo competition to end all others...Each player struts his stuff. BOPCHI BOP Inspired by Gregory’s boyhood memories of songs his Ukrainian granny used to sing to him. AGREEMENT A highly choreographed piece we first debuted at an NBA Basketball half-time event. You need to be ‘in agreement’ for this piece to climax the way it does...
ABOUT THE COMPANY GREGORY KOZAK (co-founder, artistic director, instrument designer, musician) composes music, creates innovative instruments and choreographs movement. He is both an ensemble musician and a concert soloist. He is Artistic Director of Scrap Arts Music, a creation and performance-based company he co–founded with Justine Murdy in 1998. His world-class five-member touring ensemble, ‘ScrapArtsMusic’, exclusively plays his 145+ invented instruments and his original repertoire at leading international festivals and theatres around the world. A musician schooled in jazz and world music who draws inspiration from the avant-garde composers of the 20th century, Kozak learned the art of welding in order to
create instruments that could give voice to his unique musical vision. “Kozak’s instruments tend to be, in the spirit of American composer Harry Partch, mutated versions of the familiar, whether twirling hoses that render an airborne layer of sound or mini-versions of concertina accordions. Their capabilities are limited but distinctive, resulting in ethereal sounds that meld willingly with traditional instruments and give them a whole new cast.” —Philadelphia Inquirer. Kozak’s concern over our throw-away society inspired him to build his instruments exclusively from industrial scrap and found objects. A musician first and foremost, Kozak was recently commissioned by the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) to compose a new work inspired by the theme of Extase! (Ecstasy) for the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. The 13-minute piece made its debut at the 2009 WSO New Music Festival and featured Gregory as soloist with his latest invention, the 28-foot long, 22stringed instrument dubbed the “Chariot of Choir”. Components of this invented instrument demonstrate Kozak’s signature re-use of scrapped materials, including parts from a BC saw mill, a mini submarine ballast, and a flying saucer prop from a low-budget sci-fi flick – all serving ingenious musical functions in their re-purposing. “Gregory Kozak’s ‘Concerto for Chariot of Choir and Strings’ provided the magic for the night.” —Winnipeg Free Press Innovative exploration and collaboration have characterized much of Gregory Kozak’s artistic and professional career. His first show of original work toured the US and made an acclaimed Broadway debut in February 1998. “They have evoked the primitive, embodied the hip and reached out to an almost extraterrestrial avantgarde.”—The New York Times Later that year, Gregory Kozak and partner Justine Murdy established Scrap Arts Music - an artistic company devoted to creating new instruments that would further Gregory’s compositional and performance possibilities. Soon after a group of five spirited and uniquely talented performers was playing before large crowds at sporting arenas and international arts festivals. Gregory’s second CD of original music, Phon, featuring five performers and 100+ of his handcrafted invented instruments, was released in
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2001. ScrapArtsMusic has since toured the world performing its signature invented instrument extravaganza before literally hundreds of thousands of fans in Canada, USA, UK, Hong Kong, Macau, Australia, Netherlands, Mexico, Belgium, Spain, Guatemala, and Taiwan. The Scrap Arts Music concept has opened up dynamic and unexpected opportunities that both excite and inspire. Gregory Kozak studied jazz at Carl Berger’s ‘Creative Music Studios’ in Woodstock, NY and NYC’s ‘New School for Social Research’. He has studied privately with the world’s greatest masters of music, including Pandit Pran Nath (North Indian singing), Abraham Adzenyah (West African Drum and Dance), Elaine Agnew (composition) and Steve Berrios (Afro-Cuban drumset). JUSTINE MURDY (co-founder, artistic director, manager, lighting and costume designer) brought her enthusiasm for nature and a wide-ranging experience in architecture, history, and design to the innovative musical world of Gregory Kozak, collaborating to transform his work from outsider street performance to world-class spectacle. Their collaboration began in 1995 while Murdy was
completing her master’s degree in advanced studies in architecture at the University of British Columbia and Kozak had just founded his first invented instrument project. Since that time Murdy’s contributions have included co-founding Scrap Arts Music with Kozak in 1998; instrument, costume, and lighting design; technical, tour, and stage direction; and bookings, management and marketing. SPENCER COLE hails from North Vancouver’s coastal mountains. Born to professional musicians in 1986, he excelled first in piano, then classical percussion, touring with the National Youth Orchestra of Canada. In 2000, he began to explore the realms of jazz. As his interests expanded into experimental music, he attended the School for Improvised Music in Brooklyn, studying with Jim Black and Tyshawn Sorey, and then later at the Banff Centre, studying with Clarence Penn and Han Bennink. In 2008, he earned a Bachelor of Music degree in Jazz Performance from the University of Toronto under the tutelage of Terry Clarke. He is the recipient of the Fraser Macpherson Galaxie Rising Star Award. Spencer is a Toronto-based freelance musician
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and composer who has recently performed in the Stratford Festival and is a member of the strange pop/rock outfit “Weaves.” He joined SCRAP•ARTS•MUSIC in 2008. JILL COOPER is a hyper-talented, multi-instrumentalist from Victoria British Columbia, and Scrap Arts Music’s latest addition joining the company in 2013. Born in 1994, Jill started playing violin at age five, guitar at age ten, and the drums at age 13. By the tender age of 14, Jill was busking with her older sister at Victoria’s famous Inner Harbour, where she honed her performance chop and wowed tourists with her incredible voice. Jill’s natural athleticism attracted the attention of several recruiters for college and university basketball teams, and explains why, in addition to her formidable music skills, she is so well-suited to Scrap Arts Music! While not on tour, Jill is continuing her university studies in science, as well as teaching drums and performing as a singer, drummer, and violinist. In 2013 she toured Tennessee USA debuting her second CD. GREG SAMEK received his Bachelors of Music Education from the University of Windsor and a Masters of Music in Percussion Perform-
ance from the University of Toronto. He is an alumnus of the Detroit Civic Orchestra, the Band of the Ceremonial Guard and the National Youth Orchestra of Canada. He has performed with Beverly Johnston, Liam Teague, NEXUS, PAS International Convention, and Evelyn Glennie. He also performed in the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Closing Ceremonies. Greg is a member of Marimba Duo, Sonore Percussion Trio, and has traveled the globe with SCRAP•ARTS•MUSIC since 2008. Greg trains for marathons and enjoys yoga in his spare time. MALCOLM SHOOLBRAID was born in Vancouver, and moved to Salt Spring Island when he was six. He began to study the drums at age 16, which quickly become an obsession. In addition to a rich musical career, Malcolm has worked as a house-builder, logger, and commercial fisherman. A member of Scrap Arts Music since 2000, Malcolm took sabbatical in 2008 to start a family and to establish a water-bottling enterprise called Saltspring Water Co., purveyors of Saltspring’s Finest Natural Water. He rejoined the ensemble in 2011 and is dreaming about his next surf-camping adventure.
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Joshua Bell in Recital Joshua Bell, violin Sam Haywood, piano
PROGRAM LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)
Sonata No. 4 for Violin and Piano in A minor, Op. 23 Presto Andante scherzoso, pìu Allegretto Allegro molto
EDVARD GRIEG (1843-1907)
Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano in F Major, Op. 8 Allegro con brio Allegretto quasi andantino Allegro molto vivace —Intermission—
JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833-1897)
Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano in G Major, Op. 78 Vivace, ma non troppo Adagio Allegro molto moderato
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PROGRAM NOTES Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 4, in A minor, Op. 23 LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Born December 16, 1770, in Bonn Died March 26, 1827, in Vienna Beethoven wrote Sonata No. 4, Op. 23 and Sonata No. 5, Op. 24 more or less simultaneously during 1800 and 1801. He originally intended that they be paired as Op. 23, Nos. 1 and 2, but when the publisher’s engraver made the mistake of preparing some of the printing plates for them in different formats, the simplest way to deal with the problem was to make them into separate publications, Op. 23 and 24. Beethoven dedicated them to Count Moritz von Fries, a wealthy Chamberlain at the Imperial Court, a banker, art collector, and music-lover who had probably commissioned them. Fries commissioned the C-Major String Quintet, Op. 29 at about the same time, and it is dedicated to him. Beethoven became caught in an enormous tangle of lawsuits as a result of some liberties that Fries took with the publication rights, but by 1816, all was forgiven and the composer dedicated his Symphony No. 7 to the Count. At a chamber music evening at Count Fries’s house in the spring of 1800, when Beethoven was beginning these sonatas, Daniel Steibelt (1765-1823), a composer trying to compete with Beethoven, decided to challenge Beethoven’s reputation as the best pianist in Vienna. A week after hearing the variations in Beethoven’s Clarinet Trio at Fries’, one evening, Steibelt improvised on the same tune in a manner that was obviously intended to impress the company with the superiority of his skills. It soon became evident to everyone that his “improvisations” were not extemporaneously conceived. He had carefully prepared them, which infuriated Beethoven. Beethoven picked up the cello part of a Steibelt quintet that was on the evening’s program, put it on the piano’s music rack upside down, picked out a tune from it with one finger and then improvised with such power and imagination that Steibelt left the room before Beethoven
had finished. Steibelt’s reputation in Vienna was permanently damaged; his next concert was a failure, but he did later succeed in one area where Beethoven had had a minor failure. Czar Alexander I, who never paid Beethoven for the dedication of the three violin sonatas, Op. 30, made Steibelt music director of his court in St. Petersburg in 1810. The Sonata in A minor, Op. 23 is a great advance over its predecessors in several ways. Beethoven is now clearly at ease with his advanced musical ideas. The music does not strain for effect. Changing moods do not interrupt its flow. The complex counterpoint in parts of the unusual Presto first movement, which must have been so difficult to write, is easy and agreeable to the listening ear. This movement has been said to foreshadow the more famous Kreutzer sonata in its experimental nature. It is a quickly paced movement with so compact an exposition of its basic ideas that when Beethoven begins to develop them, wholly new but related themes spill out of his imagination. Next comes an extraordinary middle movement, Andante scherzoso, più allegretto, a bright movement in a major tonality, that combines the contrasting functions of both slow movement and scherzo with the dramatic structure of the usual first-movement sonata-form. Returning to the minor home key again in the finale, Allegro molto, Beethoven presents the listeners with a free rondo with even more of the kind of counterpoint that enriched the first movement. Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 in F Major, Op. 8 EDVARD GRIEG Born June 15, 1843, in Bergen, Norway Died September 4, 1907, in Bergen, Norway Edvard Grieg, Norway’s greatest composer, had interests that were highly progressive for his time, in particular an enthusiasm for the nationalistic idea of writing music specifically Norwegian in character. Although the prosperous Scandinavian middle-class insisted that Germany was the only source of music of any value, Grieg held to his own ideals, and even-
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tually succeeded in creating a new style, both personal and national. Grieg’s friendship with the Norwegian violinist Ole Bull, whom he first met when he was a teenager, was significant for the young composer. Grieg spent the summer of 1864 at Bull’s home in Rungsted, near Copenhagen, playing chamber music with his eccentric virtuoso mentor. It is thought that Bull prompted Grieg to compose the first of his three violin sonatas. By then, Grieg was twenty-two and had completed several years of study at the Leipzig Conservatory, where he had studied German Romanticism, especially the music of Brahms and Schumann. To what he had learned from his training, which can be detected as the influence of Schumann’s music, Grieg added the melodies and harmonies of Norwegian folk music thus the sonata contains a strong presence of German Romanticism although it is also infused with melodies and harmonies of the Norwegian folk music with which the young composer was rapidly becoming enchanted.
In this work it is clear that Grieg is sensitive to the properties of the violin even though he had no experience as a string player. As a whole, this sonata, which explores harmonic and rhythmic frontiers, is strongly characterized by its fresh and youthful character and lovely, compelling melodies, although it has a traditional and somewhat stiff formal construction. The first movement, Allegro con brio, displays harmonic experimentation including chromatic writing, modality, and bitonality. In sonata form, it contains many lyrical ideas, which blossom in the sunny, rustic character that mingles with intimations of Norwegian folk music. The buoyant first movement begins with two quiet opening chords from the piano; then the violin begins the sweet and hopeful main theme. The first movement ends surprisingly quietly. Although one hears discreet echoes of Norwegian folk music, not least in the modal inflections of much of the melodic material, it took Grieg a little while to marry form and folk.
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In the second movement, Allegretto quasi andantino—più vivo—Tempo I, which joins a slow movement and a scherzo and trio, Grieg re-creates the sound of the music of the hardingfele, a traditional stringed instrument of the violin family, used originally to play Norwegian folk music. The trio uses the double-stopping and pedal points of a springar, a festive Norwegian folk dance with an uneven 3/4 rhythm, traditionally performed by a man and a woman. The trio is a foreshadowing of how Grieg would continue to transform principal elements from traditional Norwegian folk music in his works. The outer sections feature an older style folk dance and a folk-derived Grieg hallmark: a descending three-note figure, a minor second followed by a major third; its presence is so frequent in Grieg’s music that it is sometimes referred to as the ‘Grieg motif’ or ‘Grieg formula’. (One place where he used it again is in the beginning of the first movement of the Piano Concerto, Op. 16.) The finale, Allegro molto vivace, is in sonata form, much like the first movement. It builds its structure from three sparkling, contrasting melodies. This movement, in an outgoing jovial mood, is even more energetic than the opening movement; its rhythmic elements attract particular attention. It also affords more opportunities for virtuosity in both instruments without ever allowing them to stray too far from intimations of tenderness. The sonata was first performed in Oslo in 1865 in the first concert devoted entirely to Norwegian music. Grieg himself played the piano in the performance; the violinist was the Swede Anders Petterson. In 1866, Peters, a Leipzig publisher, issued the piece in only 125 copies, but it was probably one of that small run that introduced Liszt to the sonata. In 1868, Liszt wrote to tell Grieg how much he admired the three-movement sonata, now rarely performed: Sir, I am glad to be able to tell you of the sincere pleasure that I have derived from reading through your Sonata, Op 8. It bears witness to a talent for composi-
tion—vigorous, reflective, inventive, and of excellent material—which has only to follow its own way to rise to the heights. I assume that in your own country you receive the success and encouragement you deserve. You will not lack these elsewhere, either: and if you come to Germany this winter, I warmly invite you to visit Weimar for a while, so that we may get to know each other. Liszt’s enthusiastic support greatly enhanced Grieg’s reputation and raised awareness of his compositional gifts. The sonata was performed often in the composer’s lifetime by the preeminent violinist Josef Joachim. In recent years this beautiful work has been rarely performed. Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1, in G Major, Op. 78 JOHANNES BRAHMS Born May 7, 1833, in Hamburg died April 3, 1897, in Vienna In his first 20 years, Johannes Brahms made an astonishing leap, from a miserable childhood in the downtrodden harbor area of Hamburg to an eminent position as a distinguished young composer. He began his career as a musician at the age of 12 by giving piano lessons for pennies, and at 13, he was playing in harbor-side sailors’ bars. By the age of 16, however, he had progressed to playing Beethoven’s Waldstein Sonata and one of his own compositions in a public concert. In April 1853, just before his 20th birthday, he set out from Hamburg on a modest concert tour, traveling mostly on foot. In Hanover, he called on the violinist Joseph Joachim, who at 22 had just become the head of the royal court orchestra there. Joachim was so impressed by Brahms that he gave him a letter of introduction to Liszt in Weimar and sent him to see Schumann in Düsseldorf. Robert Schumann was then Germany’s leading composer, and his wife, Clara, was one of Europe’s greatest pianists. When the Schumanns heard Brahms play, they took him into their home. Although this sonata purports to be Brahms’s Violin Sonata No. 1, according to the
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reflections of a student of Brahms, Brahms had presumably discarded five violin sonatas that he had composed before he wrote this one, the first that he thought good enough to preserve and present to the world. He wrote this work during the summers of 1878 and 1879, when he had already become a mature artist. It was his only piece of chamber music from the productive period in which he composed his Symphony No. 2, the Academic Festival and Tragic Overtures, the Violin Concerto, and Piano Concerto No. 2. This sonata, like the Violin Concerto, Op. 77, owes a great deal to Joachim and to Clara Schumann, who by then was a widow. Clara was a distinguished pianist and composer in her own right. When Brahms sent Clara a manuscript copy of this new work, she wrote back, “I must send you a line to tell you how excited I am about your Sonata. It came today. Of course I played it through at once, and at the end could not help bursting into tears of
joy.” Ten years later, when Clara was 70 years old and in failing health, she still loved the sonata and treasured the friendship of both Joachim and Brahms. From her house in Frankfurt she wrote a touching letter to Brahms, in which she said, “Joachim was here on Robert’s eightieth birthday and we had a lot of music. We played the [Op. 78] Sonata again and I reveled in it. I wish that the last movement could accompany me in my journey from here to the next world.” This sonata is one of the most lyrical compositions among all of Brahms’s instrumental works. The violin always has the leading voice, and the piano writing is always so clear and transparent that an imbalance never exists between the two instruments. There are only three movements, not the usual four frequently considered traditional for a sonata; Brahms wrote to his publisher, clearly in jest, that since he came up one movement short, he would therefore accept 25% less than his usual
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fee for this work. As in many of Brahms’ compositions, the movements are intimately interrelated. A three-note motto figure is common to all three movements. A mood of gentle nostalgia permeates the first movement, Vivace ma non troppo, and sets the tone and character for the entire sonata. Brahms here works much like Beethoven had before him; he introduces a germ out of which the themes for the whole movement eventually evolve and grow. The second movement is a solemn and dramatic Adagio, and the third, a rondo, Allegro molto moderato, contains an episode in which Brahms brings back the slow movement theme. The principal melodic material of this movement, however, comes from a related pair of his songs, “Regenlied” (“Rain Song”) and “Nachklang” (“Reminiscence”), Op. 59, Nos. 3 and 4. Rhapsody No. 1, Sz. 87 BÉLA BARTÓK Born March 25, 1881, in Nagyszentmiklós, Hungary Died September 26, 1945, in New York The Hungarian composer, Béla Bartók, devoted a large part of his life to the systematic study of the folk music of Hungary, Rumania, and Slovakia. His particular interest was in identifying the special characteristics of the music of each region specifically; until his time, the music of the itinerant Gypsies had been grouped together loosely as generically Hungarian. Liszt influenced many of Bartók’s compositions, especially the several works to which Bartók gave the title Rhapsody, but Liszt based his famous Hungarian Rhapsodies principally on the music of the Gypsy people, while Bartók used that of the Hungarian peasant. Bartók assimilated the folk musical language so thoroughly that it is often impossible to tell where the folk music in his works ends and his original composition begins. In 1928, Bartók wrote two rhapsodies for violin and piano that are based principally on folk dance tunes from Hungary and Rumanian Transylvania, which had been part of Hungary before the First World War. Rhapsody No.
1 consists of two movements, following the traditional pairing of a lassú (slow) and a friss (fast) that are found in folk music throughout the region. Lassú and friss are designations that are also used for the alternating sections of czárdás and other Hungarian folk dances. The lassú is in a simple three-part form, Moderato. It begins with a melancholy tune that originally formed part of a Sunday dance for which there was a folk band accompaniment. The contrasting central section is based on a Hungarian melody that is ornamented and extended before the return of the opening subject. The music runs directly into the lively friss, a succession of varied dance tunes, Allegro moderato, which Bartók had originally heard played on the violin and on the bagpipe and flute, instruments whose sounds are imitated here. The music slows to recall the lassú, pauses for a brilliant cadenza, and then comes to a close. Rhapsody No. 1 is dedicated to Joseph Szigeti, who performed it for the first time on October 22, 1929, in Berlin. The notes are copyright © Susan Halpern, 2015.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS JOSHUA BELL, violinist Joshua Bell is one of the most celebrated violinists of his era. His restless curiosity, passion, and multi-faceted musical interests have earned him the rare title of “classical music superstar.” Now in his third season as the Music Director of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Bell is the first person to hold this post since Sir Neville Marriner formed the orchestra in 1958. Their first recording under Bell’s leadership of Beethoven’s 4th and 7th symphonies from Sony Classical debuted at #1 on the Billboard Classical chart as did the Bach violin concertos which was released September 29, 2014, coinciding with the HBO documentary special Joshua Bell: A Young Arts Master Class. Bell has recorded more than 40 CDs garnering Mercury, Grammy®, Gramophone and Echo Klassik awards. Recent releases include,
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Musical Gifts From Joshua Bell and Friends, French Impressions with pianist Jeremy Denk, the eclectic At Home With Friends, the Defiance soundtrack, Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic, The Red Violin Concerto, Voice of the Violin, and Romance of the Violin, which Billboard named the 2004 Classical CD of the Year, and Bell the Classical Artist of the Year. His discography encompasses critically-acclaimed performances of the major violin repertoire in addition to John Corigliano’s Oscar®-winning soundtrack, The Red Violin.
began his enduring love-affair with opera. At the Royal Academy of Music in London he was mentored by the renowned teacher Maria Curcio, a pupil of Artur Schnabel.
Born in Bloomington, Indiana, Bell received his first violin at age four and at 12 began studying with Josef Gingold, at Indiana University. Two years later Bell came to national attention in his debut with Riccardo Muti and the Philadelphia Orchestra and, at 17, debuted at Carnegie Hall. Bell’s career has now spanned over 30 years as a soloist, chamber musician, recording artist, and conductor and he is an outspoken advocate for classical music and keeping music education in schools. Bell performs on the 1713 Huberman Stradivarius.
Outside his musical world he is passionate about his native Lake District, literature, technology, and magic.
SAM HAYWOOD, piano British pianist Sam Haywood has performed to critical acclaim all over the world. Alongside his busy solo and chamber music career, he is a composer and Artistic Director of the Solent Music Festival. This season he will make his US solo debut at the Kennedy Center. Haywood recently recorded the piano works of Russian pianist-composer Julius Isserlis, grandfather of the cellist Steven Isserlis, for Hyperion. To celebrate Chopin’s bicentennial year in 2010 he made the world première recording on Chopin’s own Pleyel piano, part of the Cobbe Collection. He also features on Joshua Bell’s new album for Sony Masterworks, Musical Gifts and on a CD of the works of the eight-year-old prodigy, Alma Deutscher. Following his early success in the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition, the Royal Philharmonic Society awarded him their prestigious Isserlis Award. Haywood studied with Paul Badura-Skoda in Vienna, where he
Haywood attaches great importance to his work with young people. He is an ambassador to the West Lakes Academy, has written a children’s opera and is regularly involved in family concerts, workshops, and master classes. His Song of the Penguins, for bassoon and piano, is published by Emerson Editions. He has also commissioned works by composers John McLeod and Oliver Davis.
State Theatre offers sincere thanks to
SHERARD AND NAOMI MURPHY for their generous support of the State Theatre and Natalie Cole.
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SHERARD AND NAOMI MURPHY This program is made possible in part through a grant by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Natalie Cole
ABOUT THE ARTIST NATALIE COLE Multiple Grammy®-winning recording artist Natalie Cole was just eight-years-old when her father, legendary crooner Nat King Cole, recorded his first album in Spanish, scoring an unexpected international smash in 1958. Her father’s foreign-language success was a culturally captivating experience for little Cole, who got to travel outside the country for the first time with her famous father. She vividly recalls a trip to Mexico during which she saw her first piñata, posed for pictures “as a señorita” in folkloric dress, and most memorably, witnessed first-hand the adulation and esteem that Latin American fans showed for the King, a pioneering African-American superstar. Now, decades later, the accomplished R&B and jazz vocalist breaks new ground of her own with her first Spanish-language album, Natalie Cole En Español released on Verve/Uni-
versal. In this, her first new studio album in five years, Cole revisits the rich repertoire of ageless Latin standards that once opened new vistas for her father. The 12 lushly orchestrated tracks, produced by Rudy Perez, Billboard’s Latin Music Producer Of The Decade, features Cole’s distinctive take on three classics from her father’s catalog, plus several other carefully chosen selections from the Latin American Songbook. The album features a haunting father/daughter duet on the sensual bolero “AcércateMas,” employing the same recording techniques used for their posthumous pairing on 1991’s “Unforgettable,” which won Record of the Year for the singer and producer David Foster. Now, as chairman of Verve Music Group, Foster was instrumental in bringing to fruition Natalie’s long-time dream of making a Latin album. This project, which Cole has envisioned for at least the past decade, marks a stunning accomplishment for an artist who has never be-
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fore sung in Spanish. Although her new album borrows the Pan-American spirit and the alliterative title of the Nat King Cole original, Cole’s personal, committed performance earns the right to stand on its own. Nat King Cole did not survive to see his daughter follow in his footsteps with her own solo career. He died of cancer in 1965 at age 45. Ten years later, Cole won the first of her nine career Grammy® Awards as Best New Artist of 1975, the year she debuted with the hit “This Will Be,” which also won for Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female. In 1991, her tribute album, Unforgettable…With Love, won Album of the Year and marked a mid-career comeback. In the wake of that album’s success, Cole kicked around ideas for a follow-up, along with her cousin, Carole, who was also her adoptive sister. But hardship, loss and tragedy would get in the way before their plans could be finally realized. Cole was diagnosed with kidney failure
and started getting dialysis treatments three times a week. Appearing on Larry King Live, she made an appeal for a kidney donor. Watching at home was a nurse named Esther who “serendipitously” had been on duty at the hospital one day when Cole was in for treatment. “Oh, I took care of that lady,” the nurse told her niece, Jessica, who was also watching. “She’s so nice, I wish I could help her find a kidney.” Less than two months later, Jessica, who was only 30-years-old and eight months pregnant, died unexpectedly of a stroke. Her aunt came forward and offered the kidney, because her niece was an organ donor. She was a perfect match with Cole. As fate would have it, the donor and her family were immigrants from El Salvador. The experience brought Cole even closer to the culture. Perez, her Cuban-American producer, marvels at the energy and devotion Cole poured into the new project. At first, they hired a language coach who, coincidentally, is the daugh-
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ter of the late Olga Guillot, a revered Cuban singer who had coached Nat Cole during his Havana sessions. But the language came so naturally to Cole, they decided formal coaching was superfluous. In the end, a balance was struck between songs her father had recorded (Cuba’s “Quizás, Quizás, Quizás,” Mexico’s “Noche de Ronda”) and others specifically chosen for Cole (Argentina’s “El Día Que Me Quieras,” Brasil’s “Mañana de Carnaval”). Latin standards such as “Bésame Mucho,” featuring Andrea Bocelli, will be familiar to music lovers everywhere. Americans are sure to recog-
nize the melodies of songs popularized in English, especially Maria Grever’s “Cuando Vuelva A Tu Lado (What a Diff’rence a Day Makes).” Finally, of course, who doesn’t recognize “Oye Como Va,” the Carlos Santana/Tito Puente salsa/rock hit? It was Natalie’s personal choice, which Perez turned into a four-song tropical medley featuring the piano of guest artist Arthur Hanlon. “Bachata Rosa,” another more recent upbeat dance tune, features a duet with its contemporary composer, Dominican superstar Juan Luis Guerra.
GIFTS TO THE STATE THEATRE The State Theater, a nonprofit organization, is deeply grateful to the many individual, corporate and foundation donors that gave to our Annual Giving program from 2/23/14-2/23/15. Their support enables us continue to provide the quality entertainment and educational outreach that is essential to our mission. To find out more about opportunities to support the State Theatre, contact Leah Anglum, Development Associate for Donor Relations, at 732-247-7200, ext. 512 or langlum@statetheatrenj.org.
CORPORATE AND FOUNDATION SUPPORT $100,000 + Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies The Blanche & Irving Laurie Foundation New Jersey State Council on the Arts The J. Seward Johnson, Sr. Charitable Trusts The Star-Ledger / NJ.com $50,000 + Magic 98.3 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation The Heldrich $25,000 + Bank of America The Horizon Foundation for NJ
The Hyde and Watson Foundation Investors Bank The Karma Foundation RBC Wealth Management United Airlines $10,000 + Frank & Lydia Bergen Foundation Thomas and Agnes Carvel Foundation Colgate-Palmolive E. J. Grassmann Trust Ingredion Incorporated Magyar Bank MetLife Foundation Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Miller's Rentals New Brunswick Parking Authority PNC Foundation TD Charitable Foundation Union Foundation
Wells Fargo The Xerox Foundation $5,000 + Chubb Group of Insurance Companies The George Link Jr. Charitable Trust The Curtis W. McGraw Foundation New Millennium Bank The Provident Bank Foundation John Ben Snow Memorial Trust Vornado Realty Trust $2,500 + Credit Suisse Financial Resources Federal Credit Union Gilbane Building Company MagyarBank Charitable Foundation Roberts Florals TD Bank
CHAIRMAN’S COUNCIL Visionary Circle ($25,000+) Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Campbell Louis and Sharon Cyktor Carolyn and Dave Horn Caryl Mackin-Wagner and Michael Wagner Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Markey
Diamond Circle ($10,000+) Ann and Lou Asbaty Mr. and Mrs. Omar Boraie Andrew Chen and Heidi Mass Doug and Diane Garback ~ The Garback Agency Richard and Larisa Leist
Mr. and Mrs. John A. McCrane Susan and Brent Podlogar Dave Retcher Peter and Maggie Stavrianidis Matthew and Tracy Taylor Donna and Jack Walcott Warren and Wendy Zimmerman
Gold Circle ($3,000+) Joan A. Appelson Henry and Lisa Bignell Gil Blitz Campbell Family Foundation E & G Foundation, In Memory of George W. & Edith H. DeVoe Mary Ellen Dundon Mr. and Mrs. John Fischer The Freed Family Thomas and Annette Griffoul Ms. Eileen Harkins Robert Wood Johnson 1962 Charitable Trust Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Korbel Charles and Ruth Larsson Sharon Levine and Bruce Samuels Barbara and Len Littman Andrew and Pamela Lovasz Mr. and Mrs. Duncan L. MacMillan Ron and Lisa Rapolas Salvatore J. and Bernice A. Romano Stolzer Family Foundation Ms. Robin E. Suydam and Mr. Paul Corkery Robert Wilson
Silver Circle ($2,000+) Joseph and Xenia Balabkins Bryan Baugh Mark and Valerie Berkowitz Connie S. Breech Michael and Meredith Bzdak Russell and Stephanie Deyo Henry A Dombrowski and Ann Marie Fairchild Matthew and Liz Drucker Jeff and Janine Erickson John and Jeanne Fitzgerald Andrea Greenberg Horowitz and Mitch Horowitz Mr. and Mrs. Chris Jensen David Kapulsky The Landis Family John and Rosanne Leberfinger Carlo and Michelle Pascetta Rita and David Paszamant Mary C. Russell Rona Solberg Judy and Jack Steinweis Art and Eva Stevens Philip George and Carolyn Timmons Thomas K. Uzzo and Family
PRESIDENT’S COUNCIL Platinum Circle ($5,000+) Isa and Michael Beck Samer and Susan Boraie Susan and Steven Darien Stephan DeMicco and Jeanne M. Fox Scott and Barbra Fergang William and Constance Fortenbaugh Friend of the State Theatre Judd and Carol Hamlin James A. and Elizabeth E. Hance Mr. & Mrs. Timothy W. Harbison Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Harkins Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Hartnett Bill Herman Joseph Light Jeff and Theresa Moeller Patrick and Mary Ellen Morris Sherard and Naomi Murphy Kenneth G. and Jennifer J. Osterman Jaime Raskulinecz and Linda Varas
PATRON’S COUNCIL Guarantor ($1,000+) Anonymous Esta Aranoff Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Ciatto Peter and Nancy Cornell Brother International Corporation Franklin Mutual Insurance Steve and Ann Garvey Dr. Alvin and Joyce Glasgold Todd Harvey Marylu Korkuch Michael and Suzanne Lindemann Bruce A. Lowenhaupt Tim Marshall Kinder Morgan Foundation Thomas Oates Doris and Jack Paster William and Barbara Rivers Frank Santiago and Dana Farrell Senator Bob Smith and Ellen Smith Mr. Tamas Tamas Michael and Jennifer Tillisch Clarendon and Linda Van Norman Walmart Foundation Frank J. Wilson Robert and Gena Zullo Benefactor ($500+) Anonymous (3) Ralph and Yvonne Ambrosio Aetna Roofing Corp. Madeleine Berk and Corey Weiner Robert and Jane Berry Mr. and Mrs. John A. Bradley II David and Karen Briegs Richard P. and Joan Burt Dr. and Mrs. Mark Cadden The Honorable and Mrs. James M. Cahill Dr. and Mrs. Craig J. Campbell Al and Jane Carnegie & Family, in memory of Mark W. Jones Christopher Casey Richard Cianfrone Michael Cohan and Melinda Zito Richard Cooke Ms. Ruth J. Crawford and Ms. Michelle Gorda Alice A. DeVoe and John Szabo Mike and Kate Downey Exceptional Dentistry Craig Ratner, DMD Robert Fazen The Frazee's Mr. and Mrs. Frizalone Don and Kelly Gallagher
Michael Giantini Lonnie Gietter Michael Gnapp Paul and Jeanette Goldman Meryl Gonchar Mr. Sidney and Dr. Sharon Granetz George and Carol Gussis Carol Hoagland and Frank Damelio Cadi Houck Stanley E. Judson Ann and John Kosco Jordan B. Krantz Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Lukacs Dr. Barry H. Lustig Mr. and Mrs. William Lynch Jr. & Family Antonio Machado Deborah Anne and Edward Magaziner Patricia Mahlstedt Howard Malitz Joseph F. Marazzo Shirley Martin Stephanie Martin Tammi Matthews Richard and Joan McCormick Mr. and Mrs. Daniel McDonnell Phyllis McQuillan Farryn Melton Michael Graphics, Inc Kevin and Allyson Mooney Gilda and Marc Morales Tina and Victor Ngai Margaret Palermo Robert and Joy Pellegrino Lawrence and Mimi Perfetti, in honor of Kia and Keith Russell and Janet Piparo Mr. and Mrs. Morton A. Plawner, in memory of Efrem Dlugacz Marion Prager-Aubrecht Joseph Quinones Jr. Mary Raftery and Raymond Pell Barbara and Richard Reinhardt Anthony and Janis Scelsa & James and Diane Downey George and Jane Schildge Karen Schmidlin Drs. Anthony and Rosanne Scriffignano Shawn Scott Juliann Shalack David Shushansky Irving and Claire Sinai Kevin J. Smith Anita O. Solomon Peter and Karen Tarricone Blanquita B. Valenti Angelo J. and Rosalind Valetutto Linda Van Derveer Dan Vickery
Mr. Michael Walkiewicz Mr. Adam White Mr. Nicholas W. Williams Patron ($250+) Anonymous James and Jean Andrews Richard and Susan Benitz Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bolanowski Krystyna Borysewicz Mr. and Mrs. Terrill M. Brenner Matthew Brown Diane Campolargo Mark and Stephanie Carey Laura A. Cisar and Robert Gowin Elizabeth Columbo Lori Dacko Rozann Dolce Robert Dreyling Ms. Ilona S. English Lian Brooke Farrer Donna Frandsen Leonard P. and Lois J. Fromer III Bryan and Susan Garruto Ms. Margaret Grove, in memory of Barbara Voorhees Mr. and Mrs. Hans O. Hansen Jean and Claude Heller Patrick and Ann Marie Hill John and Judy Hoffman Mary and Fred Hopke Mr. and Mrs. A. Jodidio Mark W. Jones [19472014] Jerry and Barbara Judin Wayne and Debi Klokis Ravikanth Kolla Casimir A. and Christine W. Kulikowski Edward Kuznaik Bernardette S. Larsen Michael and Sara Levine Mr. and Mrs. John Lucs Deborah Anne and Edward Magaziner Dr. and Mrs. Douglas M. Masi Larry and Pam Mayewski Anthony Mero Adam Modzelewski Donna Marie Monek Michael and Diane Moskal Alan and Kathy Negreann Robert and Ellen Norman On-Tech Consulting Anthony A. Panko Mr. and Mrs. Igor Portnoy Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Post Robert C. Provost Ann and Robert Rafano Michael P. Reilly Richard P. Salvas Harriet and Bart Schneiderman
Stephan and Leslie Sekulich Lois A. Steindl Marjorie Toth James Tuttle UFCW Local 464A Mr. and Mrs. Robert Valentine Allan and Bonnie Warton Bill Conte and Kenny Whitworth Lynda Woodworth and Larry Costello Sarah Yeung Family & Friends ($100+) Anonymous (3) Jeffrey and Gail Aaron Ms. Carol Adelman Bill and Nancy Ainslie Gloria Allston Walter Anderson Marie and Tom Andreano Dr. Robert Andrews Mr. Michael C. Bagarozza Barbara Baier, in memory of Ralph and Barbara Voorhees Stephanie Bartz Glenn Bell and Kathleen Love Mrs. Charlotte Biczi Albert and Mildred Bieber John Birotte Mr. Chris Birrell Mr. and Mrs. Lewis M. Bloom Sandy Book JoAnn Boos Barbara Bowen Bill Braden Harry and Lynn Brennan Donna Broadbent Gary and Janice Broder Dr. and Mrs. Jerry Brown Joseph and Christina Bulman Mark and Frankie Busch Roger Bush Eileen Carney Nichole Chobin Susanne Clark George and Irene Clayton Margaret Cohen Daniel and Suzanne Conklin Bruce and Robin Corini Flora Buchbinder Cowen Kristine Dalrymple Fred and Vivian Daniel Patricia Dewelde, in memory of Miriam Enright Gail and Joe DiPane Michael Doktroski Robert Dour William and Nancyann Downey Jeanne Egan and Nancy Kalletta Claudia Elliott and Donato Diamente
PATRON’S COUNCIL Mr. and Mrs. Allan Ellis Emilia Fardman Lois and Mort Farrah John Fedors, Jr. Lenore and Harvey Feldman Lori and Bob Fink Robert Fischer Barbara Fisk James and Diana Flaherty James and Lucinda Florio Stephen Foley and Elisabeth Kaplan Stuart and Joane Fox, in honor of William Herman Bonnie and Sheldon Freidenreich Lena Fullem Craig Glaser Iris Goldin, in honor of Laura Zagoren Baron Myron Goldman Warren Gooderman Diane H. Gould, in memory of Efrem Dlugacz Gilbert Grant Iris and Jeff Green Kenneth Greene Daniel and Karen Grossman, in memory of Mark W. Jones Robert Hamilton Raymond and Joyce Hanson Renee Hartsook Lucille C. Heller Laurel J. Hook David and Jan Houtman Ms. Barbara Howard Harry, Kathy, and Kara Hudson Robert and Doniki Ibrahim Frank and Susan Iuliano Kathleen and Albert Johnson
Lola Kamp, in honor of Adelaide Zagoren and Ruth Marcus Patt Robert Karabin Dr. Basil and Katherine Kasimis Dr. and Mrs. Melvin Katz Joanne Kerekes and Bill Wetherill Susan and Brian Kheel Alina V. Klein Ervin and Juliet Klein Carl Kling Helene and Robert Knee John Knudson V. Joyce Koppanyi Joyce Kosa Tom Kukla Jennifer Kushinka Miriam W. Lampen Dr. Penelope E. Lattimer Robert and Linda Lecky Mr. and Mrs. Arthur E. Lee George Lee Van Lefford Joyce Levine Karen and David Levinsky Barbara and Milton Loeb Bethsabe MacKnight Mr. and Mrs. G. Magliocca Mr. and Mrs. Richard Marko Lynne Marshall Max Route Professional Services, Inc. Thomas and Joanne McGuire Donna McKim Maul Ms. Mary McGuire and Mr. Frank Coury J. McNulty Stanley Mendelson, in memory of Isabelle Mendelson Linda Metz, in memory of John H. Metz III Caroline L. Meuly
Carol Miller Vincent Minklier Ms. Jill Morrow Drs. Robert and Sandra Moss Mr. Camen J. Nastus Kurt and Barbara Nathan Thomas Michael Niebojewski Naomi Nierenberg Ray and Denise Nolan Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Olson Eugene O'Neill Roberta Panter Ralph Pantozzi Glenn and Judy Parker Patricia Paszamant Ron Paulino Irene Peltzer Evelyn Petercsak John Petrolino The Pichinson Family James and Delores Pope Cesar Prado Robert S. Pritchett Leo Priola Dr. Norbert and Sylvia Psuty Dr. and Mrs. Anthony G. Purpura Charlotte W. Quaintance Joanne Ramundo Jo Ann and Tony Razzano The Rebetje Family Maxine Reichhardt David E. Reuss Frances Robinson Raymond Romano Mr. and Mrs. James Ronk Mr. Lewis and Dr. Marlene Rosenbaum Buena Rosenbloom Karen and Hank Ross Michael and Aerlene Ross Theresa Rudnicki Tony Rustako
David and Frumet Sachs Ronald R. Sauers Karen Schmitt Dr. Peter J. Schroeck and Dr. Alexander E. Pichugin Vanessa Sciorra Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Seda Chuck and Deborah Seeley Barbara and Rick Snepar Arnold Sooklall Eugene and Kathleen Soucek John and Alexis Stashkevetch Susan and Ed Steinfeld Mr. and Mrs. Murray Sternberg Scott Sweeney Leonard and Judith Swerdlow Julia Talarick Annabel Tierney Gary Tinkel Dr. Barbara A. Tocco Michael Tomcho Gabriella Vajtay Peter and Mary Beth Ventrice Jean Volk Henry Ward Maria and Phil Ward Larry Wehr Martin Weissman Eric and Suzanne Westberg Cecelia Widup and Sharron Williamson John and Harriet Worobey Joseph and Kristine Yelencsics Paul Y. Zhang Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Zone
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THE ENCORE SOCIETY The State Theatre’s Encore Society honors those who believe in our mission and, in addition to Annual Giving contributions, support us by including the State Theatre in their will, as a beneficiary of an IRA, retirement plan, or insurance policy or by creating a charitable trust or other planned gift. We thank the following individuals for their vision and continued support. If you have included the State Theatre in your plans or for more information about The Encore Society, please contact Linda Van Derveer at 732-247-7200, ext. 594 or lvanderveer@statetheatrenj.org. Anonymous Connie Breech Friend of the State Theatre Gerald Campagna Alisson Canavera Scott and Barbra Fergang
John and Jeanne Fitzgerald Douglas and Diane Garback Estate of Klaus Peter Kuchel Richard and Larisa Leist Caryl Mackin-Wagner and Michael Wagner
Ken and Jenny Osterman Laura Rothkopf Linda Van Derveer May Van Norman Warren and Wendy Zimmerman
ENDOWMENTS Endowment guarantees financial stability by providing reliable income, year after year, to support the State Theatre’s programs, and is thus the perfect charitable investment opportunity for the donor who wishes to ensure permanence and excellence. Following are our endowed funds of $50,000 or more: Regina and John Heldrich Symphony Endowed Fund Betty Wold Johnson Endowed Fund J. Seward Johnson, Sr. 1963 Charitable Trust Endowed Fund
Robert Wood Johnson 1962 Charitable Trust Endowed Fund David Lloyd Kreeger Endowed Fund George F. Smith Charitable Trust Endowed Fund
Barbara B. Voorhees Symphony Endowed Fund Donna and Jack Walcott Symphony Endowed Fund
THE RICHARD B. SELLARS FUND FOR ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE Established in honor and memory of Richard B. Sellars (1915-2010), leader of the campaign to preserve the State Theatre for future generations, the Sellars Fund provides vitally needed funds for original productions and performance enhancements to increase the artistry and excellence on the State Theatre stage. Ms. Betty Wold Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Markey Professor August J. Molnar
The R. B. Sellars Foundation, in memory of Richard B. Sellars Senator Bob Smith and Ellen Smith
William and Lora Tremayne Adelaide M. Zagoren Warren and Wendy Zimmerman
GOVERNORS’ COUNCIL The State Theatre Governors’ Council includes former members of our Board of Trustees who remain active in the life of the State Theatre. We appreciate their support and continued dedication to our mission. Madiha Boraie Frankie Busch Constance Fortenbaugh Elizabeth Hance
John J. Heldrich Sharon Levine Joseph Light Nancy MacMilliam
Richard McCormick Mort Plawner Robin Suydam Peter Tarricone
MAJOR CAPITAL GIFTS The State Theatre is deeply grateful to the following donors who have made major capital gifts to the theater for production and technology equipment, instruments, cash reserves, and building renovations. These gifts of $25,000 and above assist in fulfilling our mission and attaining higher levels of excellence in serving our patrons. Madiha & Omar Boraie and Boraie Development Company/ Boraie Donor Lounge Family of Ben & Marie Bucca/ Green Room Dave & Carolyn Horn/Renovation of the Theatre & HD Equipment The Hyde and Watson Foundation/ HD Equipment and Sound System
J. Seward Johnson Trusts/ Technology, HD Equipment, and Sound System The Blanche & Irving Laurie Foundation/Technology, Equipment, and Sound System Margrit McCrane & McCrane Foundation/Concert Grand Piano and Piano Restoration
Middlesex County/ Renovation of the Theatre New Jersey Cultural Trust/ Cash Reserve Fund RTS Unified Communications & Stewart Filmscreen Corporation/HD Equipment
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BOARD OF TRUSTEES Douglas M. Garback, Sr.
Peter Stavrianidis
EMERITUS MEMBERS
CHAIRMAN
SECRETARY
Joan Schwartzman Paul Smilow, MD
Scott Fergang
John S. Fitzgerald
VICE CHAIRMAN
TREASURER
Ann H. Asbaty Henry D. Bignell Sam Boraie Sharon Cyktor Matthew Drucker Scott Fergang C. Judson Hamlin Jacqueline Hancock-Pena
Timothy W. Harbison Bill Herman Richard J. Leist Caryl Mackin-Wagner Andrew J. Markey Patrick Morris Sherard Murphy Susan Podlogar Matthew Taylor
EX OFFICIO MEMBERS
The Honorable James M. Cahill, Mayor, City of New Brunswick Ronald G. Rios, Freeholder Director, County of Middlesex H. James Polos, Freeholder Member, County of Middlesex
STAFF ADMINISTRATION
MARKETING
OPERATIONS & PRODUCTION
Warren R. Zimmerman Interim President & CEO
Brian O’Boyle Vice President of Programming & Marketing
Dave Hartkern ∞ Vice President of Operations
Marlene Canavera Executive Assistant DEVELOPMENT Anna Marie Gewirtz Vice President of Development & Strategic Partnerships
Kelly Blithe * Director of Communications Tracy Furr * Art & Web Director Jason Paddock Manager of Event Marketing
Joe Stoltman Director of Production Jessica Trechak * Theater Manager Dan Lyons Bar and Concessions Manager
Sarah Giberson Marketing Coordinator
Hanna Wasserman Production Administrative Assistant
Garry Owen † Group & Advertising Consultant
Tim Bailey * Facility Maintenance
Ben Negreann * Group & Advertising Consultant
Michael G. Sivetz ˚ Head Flyman
Don McKim * Ticket Office Manager
Mike Sivetz ∞ Head Carpenter
Alison A. Hegarty † Ticket Office Assistant Manager
Richard Stanek ∞ Head Technician
EDUCATION
Gary Frangione Ticket Office Shift Supervisor
Lian Brooke Farrer ∞ Vice President of Education
Anna Synek Ticket Office Shift Supervisor
Craig Werner ∞ Master Electrician, Lighting Designer
Erik Stratton Education Associate
Susan Blumert ˚ Ticket Office Sales Associate
FINANCE
Van Lefford Ticket Office Sales Associate
Linda Van Derveer † Director of Major Gifts May R. Van Norman Manager of Corporate and Foundation Relations Leah J. Anglum † Development Associate, Donor Relations Alisson Canavera Development Associate, Special Events
Jerry Campagna, CPA, CGMA * Chief Financial Officer Patricia Lanza † Accounts Payable Clerk, Volunteer Coordinator Joseph Rodriguez † Staff Accountant
Willie Weist † Head Audio The State Theatre is proud to be associated with the professional technicians of IATSE Local #21
AUDITORS Mercadien, PC Certified Public Accountants
† Indicates 5+ years of service * Indicates 10+ years of service 15+ years of service ˚∞ Indicates Indicates 20+ years of service
These programs are made possible in part through a grant by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.
BACKSTAGE WITH YOUR FAVORITE COMEDIANS Below: President's Council members Alice DeVoe and John Szabo with comedian Lewis Black after his sold-out performance on January 16, 2015. Below right: Vice President of Programming & Marketing Brian O'Boyle presenting Lewis Black with a sold-out poster. At right: President’s Council member and show underwriter Joseph Light and friends with Kathy Griffin before she hit the stage for her sold-out show on February 13, 2015.
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STATE THEATRE FAMILY DAY State Theatre presented the 9th annual State Theatre Family Day on Monday, February 16, 2015 featuring performances of Jack Hanna’s Into the Wild Live, workshops, face painting, balloon animals, sing-a-longs, and more. Family Day’s Lead Sponsor is Investors Bank. ©NANCY SWOLENSKY
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