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Kenny Alhadeff • Ann Ardizzone The 5th is committed to achieving the highest standards of artistic excellence by Clodagh Ash employing world-class performers and creative artists, utilizing full live orchestras, Les Biller and staging exceptional and imaginative productions. The 5th places a special Robert R. Braun, Jr. emphasis on employing our amazing community of Puget Sound-based artists and Margaret Clapp technicians. Barbara L. Crowe Larry Estrada • We are nationally renowned for our production and development of new musicals. Gary J. Fuller Since 2001, The 5th has premiered 17 new works, nine of which have subsequently Sarah Nash Gates opened on Broadway. They include Disney’s Aladdin, First Date, A Christmas Story, Cyrus Habib Scandalous, Shrek, Catch Me If You Can, The Wedding Singer, and Best Musical Randy Hodgins ® Richard Kagan Tony Award -winners, Hairspray and Memphis. SaSa Kirkpatrick Elizabeth Lund • We are equally acclaimed for our vibrant new productions of musicals from the Heather Sullivan McKay “Golden Age of Broadway” and contemporary classics. These signature revivals John Oppenheimer enthrall fans of these enduring works and introduce these great shows to new Llewelyn G. Pritchard generations of musical theater lovers. David Quinn Ann Ramsay-Jenkins • Our celebrated educational programs serve more than 74,000 young people each Norman B. Rice Elliot Silvers year through a host of projects including our Adventure Musical Theater Touring Bonnie Towne Company, The 5th Avenue Awards, and the unique Rising Star Project. For adults, Eric Trott we offer free-to-the-public events such as the popular Spotlight Night series and pre- Tom Walsh performance Show Talks with Albert Evans. Tracy Wellens Kenneth Willman • We are the largest arts employer in the Pacific Northwest with more than 800 actors, singers, dancers, musicians, creative artists, theatrical technicians and arts PAST CHAIRMEN OF THE BOARD professionals working for us each season. Wanda J. Herndon (2013-2015) • As a non-profit theater company supported by the community, we enjoy the Barbara L. Crowe (2011-2013) Robert A. Sexton (2009-2011) patronage of more than 25,000 season subscribers (one of the largest theater Norman B. Rice (2007-2009) subscriptions in America). More than 300,000 audience members attend our Kenny Alhadeff (2004-2007) performances each year. William W. Krippaehne Jr. (2002-2004) Bruce M. Pym (2000-2002) OUR HISTORIC THEATER John F. Behnke (1998-2000) Faye Sarkowsky (1996-98) A beautiful Seattle landmark, The 5th Avenue Theatre’s breathtaking design was Donald J. Covey (1994-96) inspired by ancient Imperial China’s most stunning architectural achievements, Kenneth L. Hatch (1992-94) including the magnificent Forbidden City. Built in 1926 for vaudeville and silent John D. Mangels (1990-92) Stanley M. Little, Jr. (1986-88) pictures, The 5th Avenue Theatre reigned for decades as Seattle’s favorite movie Robert F. Buck (1988-90) palace. In 1979, 43 companies and community leaders formed the non-profit 5th R. Milton Trafton (1983-86) Avenue Theatre Association. Their goal was to restore the theater to its original W.J. Pennington (1981-83) splendor. The 5th Avenue Theatre re-opened in 1980 as Seattle’s premier home for D.E. (Ned) Skinner (1979-81) musical theater. Founding Managing Director Marilynn Sheldon The 5th Avenue Theatre gratefully acknowledges our 43 original founders and sponsors. Please visit www.5thavenue.org for specific information on these important companies and individuals. WELCOME TO THE WELCOME TO 5TH FROM THE DESK OF DAVID ARMSTRONG EXECUTIVE PRODUCER AND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR THE MUSICAL AND WORLD WAR II his year marked the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II with retrospectives, ceremonies Tand commemorations around the world. So it is entirely appropriate that our next two productions—this world premiere production of Waterfall and the Rodgers & Hammerstein classic The Sound Of Music—are set in that tumultuous time. The stories of both of these shows take place in the late 1930s when the winds of war were gathering force, but their events play out on different continents and in very contrasting cultures. I think it will The Sound of Music is so full of song and joy that it’s easy be fascinating to experience them back to back! to forget that the Nazi menace that drives the story was These are, of course, not the only shows to use World still fresh in its first audiences’ minds—when the show War II as a backdrop for dynamic musical drama. Three opened in 1959 the war had ended only 14 years before. other legendary shows immediately come to mind—South Another WWII-themed musical is just about to open on Pacific, On The Town, and Cabaret. Broadway: Allegiance. With a book by Marc Acito (who Only one of these shows was actually written during the penned our new musical A Room with a View in 2014) it war. When On The Town opened on Broadway in 1942 stars George Takei of Star Trek fame and is based on his the war was in full swing and an Allied victory was by no experience of being sent to a Japanese internment camp means a safe bet.