02-15 Chenoweth:GP 2/5/13 12:31 PM Page 1 Friday Evening, February 15, 2013, at 7:30 and 9:30 Kristin Chenoweth The Dames of Broadway…All of ’Em!!! Mary-Mitchell Campbell , Musical Director and Piano Dave Phillips , Bass Damien Bassman , Drums Tyler Hanes , Vocals Will Taylor , Vocals Johnny Stellard , Vocals Constantine Germanacos , Vocals Richard Jay-Alexander , Director This evening’s program is approximately 75 minutes long and will be performed without intermission. Major support for Lincoln Center’s American Songbook is provided by Fisher Brothers, In Memory of Richard L. Fisher; and Amy & Joseph Perella. Additional corporate support is provided by Bank of America and PVH Corp. Wine generously donated by William Hill Estate Winery, Official Wine of Lincoln Center. This performance is made possible in part by the Josie Robertson Fund for Lincoln Center. Steinway Piano Please make certain your cellular phone, pager, or watch alarm is switched off. The Allen Room Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall 02-15 Chenoweth:GP 2/5/13 12:31 PM Page 2 Lincoln Center Additional support for Lincoln Center’s American Upcoming American Songbook Events Songbook is provided by The DuBose and Dorothy in The Allen Room : Heyward Memorial Fund, The Shubert Foundation, TopPatch, Inc. , Jill and Irwin Cohen, The G & A Saturday Evening, February 16, at 8:30 Foundation, Inc., Great Performers Circle, Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman Chairman’s Council, and Friends of Lincoln Center. Wednesday Evening, February 27, at 8:30 Public support is provided by the New York State Kathy Mattea Council on the Arts. Thursday Evening, February 28, at 8:30 Artist catering is provided by Zabar’s and Lost in the Trees Zabars.com . Friday Evening, March 1, at 7:30 and 9:30 MetLife is the National Sponsor of Lincoln Center . The Songs of Tom Kitt & Brian Yorkey with Alice Ripley, Brian d’Arcy James, and Movado is an Official Sponsor of Lincoln Center . Idina Menzel United Airlines is the Official Airline of Lincoln Saturday Evening, March 2, at 8:30 Center . Ingrid Michaelson WABC-TV is the Official Broadcast Partner of The Allen Room is located in Jazz at Lincoln Lincoln Center . Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall. William Hill Estate Winery is the Official Wine of Upcoming American Songbook Events Lincoln Center . in the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse : Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc., is Friday Evening, March 29, at 8:00 pleased to announce that this evening’s perfor - Lindsay Mendez & Marco Paguia mance will be telecast on PBS as part of the series Live From Lincoln Center , which is made Saturday Evening, March 30, at 8:00 possible by a major grant from MetLife. Support Meow Meow for Live From Lincoln Center is provided by the Robert Wood Johnson 1962 Charitable Trust, Friday Evening, April 5, at 8:00 Thomas H. Lee and Ann Tenenbaum, The Robert Cristin Milioti and Renée Belfer Family Foundation, Mercedes T. Bass, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Saturday Evening, April 6, at 8:00 Green Sneakers, for Baritone, String Quartet, In the New York area, the telecast will be broad - Empty Chair, and Piano cast on Thirteen/WNET New York on Sunday, Ricky Ian Gordon , Composer March 24, at 8 p.m. Jesse Blumberg , Baritone Voxare String Quartet The Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse is located at 165 West 65th Street, 10th Floor. For tickets, call (212) 721-6500 or visit AmericanSongbook.org. Call the Lincoln Center Info Request Line at (212) 875-5766 or visit AmericanSongbook.org for complete program information. We would like to remind you that the sound of coughing and rustling paper might distract the performers and your fellow audience members. In consideration of the performing artists and members of the audience, those who must leave before the end of the performance are asked to do so between pieces. The taking of photographs and the use of recording equipment are not allowed in the building. 02-15 Chenoweth:GP 2/5/13 12:31 PM Page 3 Lincoln Center and San Francisco Symphony. One of her Meet the Artists proudest accomplishments was performing Bernstein’s Candide at Lincoln Center with the New York Philharmonic. She also had the honor of playing a sold-out solo concert G at the famed Metropolitan Opera House. N O R T S Ms. Chenoweth starred as Carlene S I R H Cockburn in the ABC series G.C.B. She C Kristin Chenoweth previously was seen on Broadway as Fran Emmy and Tony Award –winner and Kubelik in the revival of Promises, Oklahoma Hall of Fame inductee Kristin Promises , starring alongside Sean Hayes at Chenoweth effortlessly transitions the Broadway Theatre. On film, Ms. between stage, television , and film with Chenoweth’s credits include You Again , the captivating grace that only she can pro - Deck the Halls , RV , Bewitched , Running ject. On television, she starred in ABC’s with Scissors , and The Pink Panther . Pushing Daisies and received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She appeared in Fox’s Glee and was nominated for two Emmy Awards and a People’s Choice Award for Favorite TV Guest Star. Ms. Chenoweth Mary-Mitchell starred as Annabeth Schott on The West Campbell Wing and served as a guest judge on American Idol . On Broadway she delivered Mary-Mitchell Campbell (musical director a Tony-winning performance in You’re a and piano) was recently seen conducting and Good Man, Charlie Brown and originated playing for Carole King, Alicia Keys, and Katy the role of Glinda the Good Witch in Perry at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles Wicked , which earned her a Tony nomina - alongside Quincy Jones. Her New York cred - tion for Best Leading Actress in a Musical . its include Company (Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestrations), The Addams Ms. Chenoweth was recently featured on Family , Carrie , Hello Again (Drama Desk CBS’s The Good Wife . In March she will nomination for Outstanding Orchestrations) , launch her UK concert tour, beginning at In Transit , Sweeney Todd , Road Show , Next the London Coliseum. In 2012 she toured to Normal (Second Stage Theatre), First Lady the world performing songs from her latest Suite , and Sweet Charity (Lincoln Center album, Some Lessons Learned . She was Theater ). Ms. Campbell’s regional credits most recently seen in the films Family include Little House on the Prairie (Guthrie Weekend and Hit and Run . Theater) and 3hree (Prince Music Theater ). Internationally, she has worked on Grace, the Ms. Chenoweth wrote a candid, comedic Musical (with Cy Coleman in Amsterdam) chronicle of her life so far, A Little Bit and Green Violin (St. Petersburg). She Wicked , which was released by Touchstone recorded As I Am with Kristin Chenoweth . in 2009 and debuted at No. 12 on the New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction Best Seller In addition to her musical career, Ms. List. She has collaborated with numerous Campbell is passionate about arts education orchestras, including the Boston Pops, and poverty reduction and is the founder of Chicago and National Symphony Orchestras, Artists Striving to End Poverty (ASTEP); learn 02-15 Chenoweth:GP 2/5/13 12:31 PM Page 4 Lincoln Center more at asteponline.org. She has been fea - Bregovich. Mr. Bassman has performed in tured on the television show Giving and was Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Australia, and named NY1’s New Yorker of the Week for the U.S. and has been a featured soloist with her philanthropic work. She has served on the NDR Radio Philharmonic , Tonkünstler the faculties of NYU, Boston College , and Orchestra, and the MDR and Adelaide The Juilliard School . Ms. Campbell holds Symphony Orchestras. He was featured on a degrees from Furman University and North Live from the Proms 2012 BBC broadcast Carolina School of the Arts. with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. He has also appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman , The View , Oprah , and Good Morning America . Mr. Bassman is the percussion instructor and orchestra coach for the Baltic Youth Phil- Dave Phillips harmonic and the I, Culture Orchestra of Poland, and he is on the faculty of Mary- Bassist and composer Dave Phillips (bass) mount Manhattan College. He has drummed just released his fourth CD with his jazz for Elton John, Barry Manilow, Ben Folds, group , Freedance , and he is currently the John Cameron Mitchell, and Rufus Wain- bassist for Broadway’s The Book of wright, and is the drummer for many New Mormon . He works with such world-music York– based artists, including Kristin Cheno- artists as Kiran Ahluwalia, Kinan Azmeh , and weth, Brian d’Arcy James, Jarrod Spector, Tareq Abboushi , as well as with the adven - Rachel Potter, and the Tom Kitt Band. He turous quartet Spooky Actions , which proudly endorses Toca Percussion. improvises between movements of works by 20th-century composers like Messiaen and Schoenberg . Mr. Phillips’s early training at Mannes College and The Juilliard School, along with his deep love for groove , makes him one of the most highly sought-after musicians in New York. Tyler Hanes Tyler Hanes (vocals) originally hails from Marietta, Georgia, and is thrilled to be back on stage with Kristin Chenoweth. His Broadway credits include Larry in the original revival company of A Chorus Line , Link Damien Bassman Larkin in Hairspray , Charlie in Sweet Charity , The Frogs with Nathan Lane, The Boy from Damien Bassman (drums) wrote and played Oz with Hugh Jackman, Oklahoma! , and the drum/percussion books for the Tony and Urban Cowboy . Other theatrical favorites Pulitzer Prize –winning Next to Normal , The include Johnny Boyle in Juno (Encores !), Color Purple , The Addams Family , High Gabey in On the Town (Paper Mill Play- Fidelity , and Mario Cantone’s Laugh Whore .