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BOARD OF TRUSTEES | 2 CAPA STAFF | 3 CAPA DONORS AND SPONSORS | 4 THE MIKADO | 13 PILOBOLUS “SHADOWLAND: THE NEW ADVENTURE” | 25 ERTH’S PREHISTORIC AQUARIUM ADVENTURE | 31 THE TEMPTATIONS AND THE FOUR TOPS | 33 ZAKIR HUSSAIN AND MASTERS OF PERCUSSION | 36 BONEY JAMES | 38 DANIEL TIGER’S NEIGHBORHOOD LIVE: KING FOR A DAY! | 40 PATTON OSWALT | 41 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC: SYMPHONY FOR OUR WORLD | 43 DISTANT WORLDS: MUSIC FROM FINAL FANTASY | 45 CAPA CORPORATE MEMBERSHIP PROGRAM | 47

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Trustees Steven P. Brechter Nicole V. Callam Josh Corna Kristina Daiker David English Robert Falcone, M.D. David M. Feinberg John F. Finn Debra Griffin Stephen E. Ifeduba Linda C. Kaufmann T. Earl LeVere Julie M. Lynch Walden W. O’Dell Angela Pace David & Mo Meuse Steve Parrish Amie Preston Ramona Reyes Toshia Safford Michael Schoedinger Susan Tomasky Laura B. Yaroma Sandra Zimmerman Emeritus David Schoedinger

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ADMINISTRATION OPERATIONS President & CEO Chad Whittington Vice President of Theatre Operations Todd Bemis Executive Vice President & Floating Director of Operations Charlie Marino Chief Strategy Officer Elfi Di Bella Stage Door Coordinator Jeff Dümmer Executive Assistant Arline Dimitri Director of Maintenance Phillip Hidy Maintenance Technician Steve Slivka DEVELOPMENT Lead Custodian Marlinda Miller Director of Development Barbara Markus Volunteer Coordinator Janet Rife Director of Grants Judy Smith Assistant Volunteer Coordinator Kristen Paige Strategic Projects Director Tracy Moran Food & Beverage Manager Doug Wiese Manager of Inclusion & Concession Coordinator Melissa Boyd Community Development Diana Pagan Annual Fund Manager Jason Crouse OHIO THEATRE Special Events Manager Julie Weeks Director of Operations Charles R.D. Hammerle, II Grants & Development Assistant Emily Webb Head Carpenter Jason Gay Data Analyst and Project Manager Katie Cullen Operations Desk Attendant Horacio D. Lerma Donor Records Coordinator Devon Broderick Operations Desk Attendant Mary Manson Cecil Operations Desk Attendant Jeremiah Long EDUCATION Custodian Beverly Jones Director of Education Amy Handra Custodian Curtis Almond Custodian Christopher Weatherly FINANCE & HUMAN RESOURCES Staff Accountant Pam Ball PALACE THEATRE Chief Financial Officer John L. Callahan Director of Operations Mark Szwabinsky Sr. Accountant Michael Daniels Head Carpenter Kevin Campbell Controller Deanna Jones EADH Rex Buckingham Human Resources Custodian Tedd Brooks Generalist Dominique C. J. Hoskins Staff Accountant Landy Williams RIFFE CENTER THEATRE COMPLEX Director of Human Resources Hillary Thompson Facility Coordinator Christopher Skinner Payroll & Benefits Accountant Chris Wallace Head Carpenter Derek Warner Staff Accountant Shanna Young SOUTHERN THEATRE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Director of Operations Christopher Skinner Director of IT David Davis Head Carpenter Greg Bryan IT Technician Brian Kovats EADH Paul Kavicky IT Technician Joseph Mueller Custodian Frank Brown

MARKETING LINCOLN THEATRE Director of Marketing/ Executive Director Suzan Bradford Communications Kelly Boggs Technical Director James Cantrell Publicist Rolanda Copley Custodian Sabrina Dukes Broadway Marketing Manager Lisa A. Minken Assistant Technical Director Isaiah Schmackers Digital Marketing Coordinator Jennifer Nodjak Assistant to the Executive Director Kevin Seals Digital Marketing Assistant Lydia Miller Marketing Manager Lydia Ohman HOUSE MANAGERS Marketing Manager Scott Vezdos Hiba Abdouni Edwin C. Gilkey Sandra A. Marketing Assistant Anna C. Schaeffer Deborah A. Archer Richard Greene Rodenkirchen Art Director Sara Maassel Richard J. Bookshaw Victoria S. Hart Jodi B. Shultz Graphic Designer Sarah Allgire David Butcher Denise Marie Hassel David E. Sinclair Design Assistant Stephanie Conner Theresa Couasnon Robyn Patrick Heard Robert T. Stant Richard L. Council James E. Heise Judith A. Stein PROGRAMMING Mary M. Helen Mckinley Rita M. Stevenson Cunningham Winter K. Mead Hollie R. Strauss Vice President of Programming Rich Corsi Claudia J. Dinges Sharon L. Pendy Sandra D. Wilson Programming and Events Manager Craig Daniels Ross A. Fillmore Jacqueline Dozier Grant J. Jackowski Broadway Manager Elizabeth Lamont Ralls Stephen M. Lavelle Venue Sales Assistant Elena Perantoni TICKET OFFICE ASSOCIATES TICKETING SERVICES Christine Baker Melinda Faris Brandon T. Smith Director of Ticketing Michael Marks Stewart Bender Natalie L. Ferris Allison N. Walker Assistant Director of Ticketing Roger Whitaker Karen L. Bovenizer Dawn M. Freese Bradley Keith Wees Subscription/Group Sales William E. Boyd Jennifer Beth Hayes Derrick P. White Coordinator JoLane Campbell Julia E. Buttermore Kyle Johnson Abigail L. Zeszotek Ticket Office Supervisor Whitney R. Dodds Moneett M. Davis Heather Kalman Ticket Office Assistant Aylish Connolly Mark D. Duellman Elise Joy Lawson

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haritable contributions from the following individuals and groups allow CAPA to keep its promise to deliver richer, fuller, more vibrant and Cinteresting lives to the people of central Ohio. Thank you for your investment in the performing arts and CAPA. To join with us and this wonderful group, please contact Jason Crouse at (614) 719-6718 or [email protected]. This list represents gifts and pledges received from July 1, 2017 – February 15, 2019.

CORPORATE, FOUNDATION, & John Gerlach & Company LLP UP TO $1,000 GOVERNMENT SUPPORT McGohan Brabender Advanced Recovery Substance Ohio Commission on Abuse Services $100,000+ Minority Health Barroluco Argentine American Electric Power OhioHealth BKG Services, Inc. Foundation Ohio Small Business CAPA Associates The Columbus Foundation Development Centers El Centro de Servicios Martha G. Staub & Willis H. Overmyer Hall Associates Sociales Inc Liggett funds PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Columbus City Schools Greater Columbus Arts Council SWACO Spanish Immersion Academy Honda of America Mfg., Inc. Team Fishel Columbus Crew SC Nationwide Foundation Vorys, Sater, Seymour Columbus Radio Group Ohio Arts Council & Pease LLP DACA Time PNC Bank Washington Prime Group Dublin Cleaners & State of Ohio New Albany Cleaners Wolfe Associates, Inc. $2,500-$4,999 Franklin County Office on Aging Alexandra Ramos Agency LLC Homes on the Hill CDC $50,000-$99,999 & Erie Insurance Inspire Elementary School Huntington National Bank Bath Fitter Kroger Company L Brands Foundation Boost Mobile Liberty Christian Academy Construction Systems Inc. Lower Lights Christian $25,000-$49,999 Corna Kokosing Construction Co. Health Center City of Columbus Cricket Wireless Maryhaven, Inc. Crane Group Company Dawson Nationwide Foundation John J. & Pauline Gerlach Installed Building Products in honor of Debra Griffin Foundation MetroPCS Ohio Department of Mount Carmel Health System Administrative Services, Equal $10,000-$24,999 Nationwide Children’s Hospital Opportunity Division Battelle Memorial Institute The Ohio State University OSU Center for Ethnic Studies Cardinal Health Foundation Department of Spanish OSU Office of Diversity Dorothy E. Ann Fund of & Portuguese and Inclusion The Columbus Foundation OSU Wexner Medical Center Our Lady of Guadalupe Center G & J Pepsi-Cola Bottlers, Inc. Rodriguez Bell & DiFranco at Catholic Social Services Kimball Midwest Law Office, LLC La Petite Academy of Polaris National Endowment State Farm Mutual Primrose School of for the Arts Automobile Insurance Co. Johnstown Road NiSource Stedman Floor Co., Inc. Raymond & Pauline Kahn Porter, Wright, Morris Tom E. Dailey Foundation Cultural Arts Endowment Fund & Arthur LLP Trillium Farms St. Vincent Family Center PVS Chemicals Yum! Brands Foundation, Inc. State of Ohio - Office of Reinberger Foundation in honor of Bob Walter Workforce Development The Robert J. Weiler Company Tortilla Safelite AutoGlass $1,000-$2,499 Walnut Township Local Schools Acloche $5,000-$9,999 Burgerim Gourmet Burgers & Bar IN-KIND Abbott Nutrition The Chester Family Foundation Alexandra Ramos Agency LLC Abercrombie & Fitch Columbus Partnership & Erie Insurance BakerHostetler Columbus Public Health Barroluco Argentine Big Lots, Inc. Columbus State Community DoubleTree Suites by Hilton CASTO College Hotel Columbus Downtown Columbia Gas of Ohio Crabtree Insurance Inc. Hilton Columbus Downtown Columbus Commons Donatos Huntington National Bank Crabbe, Brown & James LLP Grange Insurance Companies Jonathan Koo Danbert Heidelberg Distributing Co. Kroger Company Duke’s Mayonnaise The Ohio State University Nationwide Children’s Hospital Electrical Service Office of the President Pat & Gracie’s Professionals, Inc. Otterbein University WBNS-10TV Fifth Third Bank Pat & Gracie’s

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INDIVIDUAL DONORS Kristina Daiker David Fitkin Arline Dimitri Daren & Jessica Foster $10,000+ Sean & Karen Edwards Dr. Miriam Freimer & Anonymous David English Dr. Edward Levine Meredith & Jay Crane Haskell Fought Dareth Gerlach Elfi Di Bella Debra Griffin DeeDee & Herb Glimcher in honor of Todd Bemis John & Victoria Hart Fund of Mrs. Barbara Z. Golan Bebe & John Finn The Columbus Foundation Steve & Kay Gold Larry & Marion Fisher Ann & Tom Hoaglin in memory of Muriel Gold Hattie & Robert Lazarus Fund of Terrilyn & Stephen Ifeduba Babette T. Gorman The Columbus Foundation Sue Jablonski Willie & Katie Grové Meuse Family Foundation Donna & Larry James Krista B. Hazen Cindy G. Owens honoring Steve & Diane Jones Robin & Peter Hersha Stewart Owens & Monica & Doug Kridler Dale Heydlauff The Owens Family William & Amy Largent Cindy & Larry Hilsheimer Joan & Steve Parrish T. Earl LeVere Frederick M. & Judith K. Isaac Bob & Peggy Walter Rod & DeeAnne Marlow Patrick Jarvis Andrew Poczik Elisa & Dave McCurdy Eric Johnson & Rachel Mauk Pat & Wally O’Dell David Jones $5,000-$9,999 Alicia & Greg Overmyer Evan Jones George S. Barrett Angela L. Pace Mary Kazan Sally Crane Cox & Cary Cox Parrott Family Fund of Drs. Scott Kurzer & Shu Wang Beth Crane & Richard McKee The Columbus Foundation Ray & Kemberly Lang Jamie Crane & Tim Miller Ruth Tallman Pifer Florence Lathen Michael & Paige Crane Fund of Endowment Fund Robert B. & Barbara J. Laughon The Columbus Foundation Ann & Ron Pizzuti The Liles Family Robert Edward Falcone Curt & Peggy Robson Talvis P. Love Felicia & David Feinberg Toshia Safford Lurie Family Charitable Fund of Heather Grant & Stephen D. Steinour The Columbus Foundation Michael Petrecca Claudia & Blane Walter Judge Julie M. Lynch Stephanie & Jack Green R. Blane & Claudia Walter The Markus Family Thomas R. Gross Family Family Fund of The Jeff & Vickie Mauk Foundation Columbus Foundation Luke & Mary Beth McCormick Joe Hamrock & Marta & Scott Whitlock Sandra McLoney Lori Gulen-Hamrock Mr. & Mrs. William C. Wolfe, Jr. Ruth & Fred Miller Richard & Julie Helmreich Laura & Jeff Yaroma Cameron & Molly Mitchell Nancy Jeffrey (d.) Sandra & Michael Zimmerman Patricia Morrison Linda C. Kaufmann Stephen & Lynda Nacht Barbara B. Lach $500-$1,968 Suzy Nick Karen F. Lane Fund of Anonymous (6) Edwin L. & Mary Jane Overmyer The Columbus Foundation Robert Allen & Diane Weaver Family Fund of The Amie Preston George & Vanessa Arnold Columbus Foundation Connie & Harrison Smith, Jr. Sine-Marie Ayres Robert Palmer & Susan Simms Fund Pamela Ball Sherry Plante George Thomas Deirdre & Gary Barton Sue Porter & Mike Sayre Susan Tomasky & Judith & Ashley Bird in honor of Larry & Marion Fisher Ron Ungvarsky Paul & Lynn Blower Lou Ann & Buss Ransom Kara J. Trott & Robert Philips Charitable Fund Brad Reardon Charlotte A. Yates Victor Boft Elizabeth B. Riley Jane H. Zimmerman (d.) in memory of Mr. George T. & Dean & Marsha Rinehart Dr. Valentina V. Boft Darryl & Kimberly Rogers $1,969-$4,999 Erin Boggs Barbara Rupple Anonymous (2) Michael Braun & Jeffrey Smutny Dr. Philip & Mrs. Elizabeth Nick Akins Paul Burns Samuels Mary & Michael Anderson Patty & John Callahan Jay & Joyce Schoedinger Steven Brechter & Robert & Marilyn Carbonara David R. Schooler Christina Madriguera Dr. Melanie Corn & Tom & Sarah Shaffer Dorothy Burchfield Tanner Johnson Arthur E. Shepard Family Fund Nicole V. Callam Jim Craft of The Columbus Foundation Ida Copenhaver & Jim Ginter Eugene C. D’Angelo Jr. (d.) Jim & Tammy Sites Josh & Amy Corna Lois & Edward Del Grosso Bruce & Susan Smith Dan & Christie Crane Chad & Adrienne Delligatti Marlee & Rick Snowdon Dr. Rob & Shannon Crane Ann & Tom DiMarco Charitable Fund Dr. & Mrs. Jerome J. Cunningham Keith Dufrane Charles & Joan Stadler Dr. Patricia A. Cunningham & John & Flo Ann Easton Jane & Tim Stehle Dr. Craig R. Hassler Cindi Englefield & Dave Koehler Allison H. Steiner

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Andy & Lori Steiner Joe & Robin Craft Lee Hess & Irene Levine in honor of Tori & Tim Foley Ken & Gina Cristofani Mike & Fernanda Heyeck Nancy Strause David & Tracy Crouse Steven W. Hillyer in honor of Larry & Marion Fisher Larry Cunningham Steven & Sharon Hinshaw Ralph & Joan Talmage Chris Curry & Joann Marcus Diane Holz Brian Taylor & Holly Holtzen Paul & Deborah Cynkar Kimberly Hondel & John Schnell Clement Thurn Andrew Daigneault Richard Hood Preston Tilley Family Fund Shannan & Charles Dankworth in memory of Jack Hood Sheila & Martin Torch Jerome G. & Bette C. Dare Elizabeth Hoover-Story Martha & John Trydahl Marjorie & Elliot Davidoff Len & Teresa Horstman Steven & Cynthia Wanamaker The Jon & Anne Davis Family Brian House Deb & Jim Ward Phil Davis Matthew House Chad Whittington Susan DeLaney Susan L. Hubbell M.D. Kelly Wilson Keith & Christy Dennis David & Sheila Hughes Dudley H. Wright Philip Dietrich William S. Hupp Mary Yerina & Bob Redfield Bernice & Bob Donaldson Fred & Trixie Hyser The Susan & Nathan Yost Fund Trevor & Brooke Donaldson Deidra & Michael Ihlenfeld Sylvia Dorsey Lisa Indest $150-$499 William A. Dorsey Eric Jackson Anonymous (26) John DuBois Karen Jackson Dennis & Barb Adams Mary Duffey Chris & Carolyn Johnson Colleen Adkins Paula English Amanda Jones Amit & Rita Agrawal Hank Evans Deanna Jones Sarah Allgire Joce Fenton Krista Jones & Steph Terry Carol Andreae & Jim Garland Elle & Lawrence Feth Scott A. Jones Randy Applegate Prudence Finn Raymond & Pauline Kahn Jim & Darcy Arnold Richard & Donna Fishback Cultural Arts Endowment Fund Frank Atkinson Sarah Flaherty Rose & David Kandel Jim & Sarah Bacha Robert E. Fletcher Judy & Howard Kander Julia & Edward Badger Scott Foltz Robert Kaplan Gregory Barden Lynn & John Foreman Bill R. Kennedy Christopher & Jennifer Barker Carol & Allan Forsythe Eben Kent Rick & Laureen Barnhart Rob & Linda Forsythe Judye Kirkbride in memory of John L. Barnhart Evelyn & Harvey Freeman Dave & Kay Kolbe Bartley Family Janet A. Freno, M.D. Mary Krasovic Heather & Fred Baughman Robert Fry Beverly & John Kratz Todd Bemis in memory of Carla Fry Paula Kulp in honor of Heather Bemis Richard & Karen Gandarillas DeeDee & Jim Kunk June Bibler & Pam Higgins David & Judy Gawelek Karen Lane Mr. & Mrs. Michael Blaney Michael A. Gillespie & in memory of Audrey S. Ramsey Samuel Bledsoe & Amy M. Levine Ray & Kemberly Lang Katherine Seghers Karen L. Gillmor in memory of Kenneth E. Meiners Robert & Ashley Boich Malini Gnanatheeban Janet & John Lanka Audrey & Mel Bornstein Jack Gold & Jeff Griss Anne LaPidus Jason C. Boylan & Sara Goldhardt Linda Larrimer & Colleen Rosshirt Lisal & Don Gorman Hugh Westwater Suzan Bradford Debra Shackelford Griffin Patrick & Kim Laugherty Dr. Mary Breckenridge & Michael Gruber & Lana Baker Joyce Leahy & George Needham R. Dale Farley, Jr. Richard & Linda Gunther Fund Tom & Ellen Lemberger Mike & Kathy Britt of The Columbus Foundation Jeanne Likins & Joseph Flood John & Kate Brody Bryant Hadley Jim Livecchi Randy & Cathy Brown The Halpern Family Cheri & Nelson Logan Larry Buchanan Michelle & Bobby Handley Katherine J. Logsdon Steve & Vicki Buchenroth Marc Hardman Kristine J. Long Bev & Jerry Burns Phyllis D. Hart Kathy Lopez Deborah Canaday Laura, Dennis, & Jeff & Wendy Luedke Demetri Capetanopoulos Danaya Hartman Richard & Linda Lupton Wayne & Pam Carlson Dr. & Mrs. Randall C. Hastedt Meg MacLeod & Steve Carter / TriCar Ltd. Lois Hatfield Steve Grossman Lucy & Jeff Caswell Dr. & Mrs. CT Hay Joyce Madison Michelle Chambers Jill Hay Trevor Maher in memory of Alison Circle Ralph & Billie Hazelbaker Thomas Hoffmann Stacey Connaughton Dan & Suzanne Helmick Ed & Maureen Malek John & Kathleen Connolly Scot & Kelly Helton Prashant Malhotra & Karen & Jim Conrad Doug & Tricia Herron Lisa Humphrey Joseph & Kathleen Corry Alysia & Timothy Herzog Debbie Marcus & Rex Moskovitz

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Nelson & Nancie Marshall Mark & Sue Real Brad & Julie Wasserstrom Ryan Marshall Donna Reed Donna & Rodney Wasserstrom Toni & John Marshall Mary B. Riegle Jaimee Watkins Jamie C. Martin Janet Rife Jeff Watson in memory of Rosemary Sargent L. Robinson Dr. Gifford Weary & Joy Maurer in memory of Bill Conner Mr. David J. Angelo Elaine E. May Randal & Britt Robinson Dan & Sam Wegner Mr. & Mrs. James May Valerie & Ronnie Robinson Aaron & Bethany Weir Max & Kathie McCalla Mary & Paul Rodgers Robert & Gloria Werth John & Laura McCoy Carmella Ross Douglass & Donna White Don McDowell Steve & Lauri Rowe Gaston White Renee & Thomas McElligott Brian Rudzik Elizabeth & Scott Wise Michael & Krista McKelvey Andrew Russell Maureen & Tom Withgott Peter McMurtrie Gayle & Greg Ruwe William & Mary Woods Mark McPeek Linda & Richard Schlanger Anne Jeffrey Wright Tony Meacock Kira Schmitt Julie Yale Stephanie Medors William Schrader John & Barbara Young James A. Medsker Family Fund Scott Schumann DDS Shanna Young CJ Melton Michael Schwaiger Marcia Zand in honor of Randy Rainbow John Scranton Michael & Jeannie Zatezalo Lois Merrill Dale & Sally Seiberling Jay E. Michael Stanley & Diana Sells $100-$149 Patrick & Jennifer Miller Kevin & Stephanie Shawler Anonymous (16) P.D. & Jaye Miller Timothy Sherfey & Robin & Wallace Adamson Richard W. Moffitt Pamela Rudolph John J. Allison Malcolm & Barbara Mogren Robert & Donna Shipka Jane & Joseph Amato Betty Montgomery John & Janine Sickmeyer Christie Angel Tim Moore & Ken Hunger Joan Simon & Hugh Clark Charles E. Ansley Gary & Teresa Morin Teri & Norm Slick Sarah Bahleda Dr. & Mrs. Gregory Morrison Gary L. Smith in memory of Cantor Bat-Ami & Jordan & Richard Smith Margaret “Maggie” Nourse Rabbi Jay Moses T&M Snitchler Jim & Jay Bahnsen Robert Murray Randy J. Sokol Andy Basista Brad Myers Mike & Rica Sommer Fred Baum, Sr. Rion & Alli Myers Christin Spahn Dorothy & Rod Beehner Sarah Nagy Mike & Beth Sprague Lu Ann Beetham Vandemark Jane & Sam Narotski Warren Stancourt Julie Bickle Larry & Peg Neal Jessica Steele Jane Black Caryn E. Neumann Andrew Stefanick Betsy Blake Gerald & Ann Newsom Stefanini Family James Blazek Allan & Kay Nichols Sue Stewart Erin Blue Ting-Ing Okajima Richard & Vicki Stoddard Jim & Margaret Boggs in memory of Shigeo Okajima Steve Stolte & Mary P. Borgess Sue Ann & Don Ordaz Mardy Hanlon-Stolte Jane & Mike Brady Joe O’Riordan Mark & Melissa Sull Deborah Broderick in memory of Barbara O’Riordan Carla & Sean Sullivan in honor of Devon Broderick Brad Ostroff Sheridan & Richard V. Herb & Bev Brown Brenda & Don Osuga Swisshelm Joe & Miranda Burke Kristen Oyler Thomas Szykowny Bobbie Burnworth Karen & Eric Pacht Robert Tannous Liz Burrell Robert Penrod & R. Michael Taylor Glenna Butler Rhonda K. Adams Penrod Douglas S. Terpstra Patricia & James Caldwell Lynn Pepper J. Kenneth & Melissa Thien Bill & Karla Calhoon John & Sandy Petrie Greg Thomas Kathryn Campanini Romaine & Allan Pollchik Jeff Thompson Anne E. Carey Susan Posey Nancy L. Tomei Mary Louise Casanta Paul & Christina Pryor Christine Toscano Bruce & Doris Casto Psalm 96:3 Fund of Mark & Sharon Tranovich David & Barbara Celek The Columbus Foundation Larry & Becky Trover Rob Chaffee Mark & Irina Puskarich Dave Tumen Derek & Kari Childs Dr. & Mrs. Leonard Quick Rosalie & Ed Ungar Todd Clark Fred & Kathy Ransier Julie & Leonard Verne Deanna Clifford James & Diane Ray Michael & Linda Wagner Dee Cody Mary Raynor Janice Walker Lou Ann Coffing James A. Readey Rhonda Walkup April Compton & Gerald McFee in memory of Linda G. Readey Randolph & Sandra Ware Rosemary & Michael Cox

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Dr. Lori Cronin, DDS Suzanne Karpus Seth & Erin Powell William L. Curlis Veena P. Kasbekar Charlotte A. Prior Mike & Sharon Curtin Susan Kesselman Stella Randolph Gail Davis Cynthia Kipker Ramona Reyes Dr. Stephanie R. Davis Wallace Mike & Gina Kirkpatrick Teri Richardson in honor of Violet Whittington Andrew Klein Bryant & Sandra Riley Ken & Cindy Decker Catherine Kocarek Pam Riley James & Anita DiCello in honor of Don & Don & Karen Roberts Dr. & Mrs. Jack Dingle Maureen Kocarek Cheryl Roller & Chuck Taylor Melissa & Doug Dixon John D. Kost Jack & Sandy Ryan Meredyth & Glenn Donaldson Mark Kotur & Linda Kotur Dr. & Mrs. Thomas N. Ryan John DuBois Michael & Judy Krasnoff Marcy Samuel Phyllis Duryee Bill & Ruth Lantz Jim & Patty Sapp James & Mary Jo Early Susan Lapp Steve A. Schafer & Janet S. Duerr Albert Easley Alice & Gavin Larrimer Rodger Schellhaas Carol Edwards Sarah H. Larrimer Jayne & William Schott in memory of Edgar & Norman & Beth Lehman Richard & Sharon Schrock Jerry Pauline Edwards James Lehnerd Andrew Shadwick Sitaramesh Emani Jane M. Leiby Marcia Katz Slotnick Linda & Bernie Erven David P. Lighthill Retta & Elliot Slotnick Kathy D. Espy Sam & Marilyn Litton Cindy Smith in honor of Arline Dimitri Bob Loversidge David Smith Stephen Fechtor Bonnie & Ron Lucas Judy C. Smith Brad Feinknopf Dr. & Mrs. M. R. Lutmerding Marilyn R. Smith in honor of Arline Dimitri Sara Maassel Mike & Heather Smith Donald L. Feinstein in honor of Todd Bemis Dr. & Mrs. Stuart Smith Dan & Robin Field Andrea Maitland Mark Snider Martha Fisher John Mariotti Sergio Soave Bonny Fowler Brenda L. Martinez Don & Virginia Songstad Samuel Freeman Jr. Mark Massen Ronald & Patty Spangler Andrew Gardiner in honor of the Home Kathy Standley Julie Gay of the CSO Cathy Stang David Gellert Joseph & Debra Mattera Johnny Steiner Catherine Gilliam Charles & Bonnie May Matthew W. Stoltzfus Ronald Gilliland Jason Mayberry & Family Patricia J. Stone Philip Glandon Roberto McClin & Dale Masel Jedd & Cindy Stucky Keith E. Golden & Diane & George McCloy Louise Swanson Jodie K. Meizlish John & Gera McEwen Jenifer M. Takats MD & William Goldsmith Dale & Traci Michalak Todd Engen Gayle M. Gordillo Bill & Jerry Miller Eleanor L. Taylor Gregory A. Gorospe Don Miller / Helms Briscoe Sharon A. Taylor Sally & George Griffiths Al & Louise Minor Mr. & Mrs. Michael H. Thomas Wendy Grindstaff Janice G. Minton Nancy & Ray Traub Donald & Linda Haley James Mohr Allen Tucker, M.D. Laurie & Richard Hall Vaughn & Donna Moore Jim & Karen Turner Christine A. Hank Carl & Ann Morahan Grant & Cheryl Varian Paula Harer Frances M. Morland Nancy Volksen Kay Hedges Michael Muldoon Althea Walker Larry Herrett Alison Murphy & Rick Hartung Dr. & Mrs. Steven Walker Richard & Faye Herriott Jane & Bill Myers John & Joyce Wallach John & Kathryn Hibler Jane Mykrantz & John D. Wallrabenstein Hal Hodson Kiehner Johnson Bonnie Weaver-Miller Leslie Holmes Bruce & Pamela Nestleroth Susan Welsh Richard & Karen Hopper Phyllis & John Newman Lisa M. Westwater Eric Horvath William & Gretchen Northrup David White Nancy Hubschman Brett Oakley Wirt & Pat Whittaker Mark Huffer Elizabeth Olson Byron Williams Susan Hyde John & Christine Olsen William & Celeste Williams David Jackson Tim O’Neill & Mark McGuire Deborah Wilson Janet Jackson Jennifer A. Parker Fred & Jill Winer Julian Johnson William & Tammie Parker Adam Winter Rev. Richard & Janet Jones Jacqueline Pasternack Mary Woods Tami Jones Donald & Nancy Peters Barbara Wooldridge Chris Kacmarsky Patricia A. Peterson Dennis & Margaret Yacobozzi A. W. Kaiser Lisa Pickering Beth-Anne & Chris Zaenger

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An important part of CAPA’s mission is to protect and steward central Ohio’s beautiful historic theatres, and our current capital campaign seeks to secure funds needed to implement critical updates to two of our lovely theatres, the Palace and the Ohio. Thanks to the support of the following individuals and organizations, the Palace’s auditorium has received a full renovation. With a little more help, we can complete the campaign and ensure that both theatres will be ready to shine for decades to come.

To join this group, please contact Barbara Markus at 614-719-6702 or [email protected].

This list reflects gifts and pledges made through February 15, 2019.

COMMUNITY PARTNER SUPPORT Randy & Cathy Brown Alice Graham CAPA Associates Bobbie Burnworth Heather Grant & American Electric Power Liz Burrell Michael Petrecca Foundation Debbie Cacchione Stephanie & Jack Green Battelle Memorial Institute Nicole V. Callam Debra Griffin The Columbus Foundation Angel Campbell Joy! Grubbs Richard H. & Ann Shafer Fund, Beth Cavendish Laurie & Richard Hall James Overstreet Fund, Alison Circle Gary Hamm Martha G. Staub Fund Todd Clark Niki Hanselman Crabbe, Brown & James, LLP Deanna Clifford Tracy Harger Crane Group Co. Lisa Colosimo Angela Harper Donatos Jim Craft John and Victoria Hart Fund of Grange Insurance Companies Sally Crane Cox & Cary Cox The Columbus Foundation Honda of America Mfg, Inc. Beth Crane & Richard McKee Jeffry Hartel Huntington National Bank Dan & Christie Crane David & Sara Hayes Nationwide Foundation Jamie Crane & Tim Miller Robert Hayman The Ohio State University Michael and Paige Crane Fund John Heck Office of the President of The Columbus Foundation Ann Heineman Reinberger Foundation Dr. Rob & Shannon Crane Richard & Julie Helmreich State of Ohio Andrew Daigneault Julie Henahan Wolfe Associates, Inc. Elizabeth Daniels John & Kathryn Hibler Jerome G. & Bette C. Dare Leslie Holmes INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT Jacqui Denton-Stickel Jeffrey Holst Anonymous (30) Elfi Di Bella Len & Teresa Horstman Robin & Wallace Adamson Mary K. Dickinson Nancy Hubschman Chris Allen Ann & Tom DiMarco Brian Huhman Deborah Allen Arline Dimitri Phyllis Humphrey-Alvoid Sarah Allgire Meredyth & Glenn Donaldson Roxann Hutchison Jane & Joseph Amato Trevor & Brooke Donaldson Susan Hyde Michael Anderson Scott & Christine Drab Stephen Ifeduba Joseph & Ann Aquilio Keith Dufrane Cheryl Jackson Elizabeth Arnold Lynn Ebright Eric Jackson Vanessa & George J. Arnold Kathleen Endrizzi Karen Jackson James Arter Paula English Pat & Tom James Julie & Ed Badger Robert Edward Falcone Terry Janis Sarah Bahleda Felicia & David Feinberg Nancy Jeffrey (d.) Pamela Ball Glenn Fickel Fred Jeffreys John & Kim Bartley Bebe & John Finn William C. Jennison Robert & Cynthia Bell Larry & Marion Fisher Eric Johnson & Rachel Mauk Todd Bemis Martha Fisher Deanna Jones June Bibler & Pam Higgins Lynn & John Foreman Evan Jones Julie Bickle Samuel Freeman Jr. Rev. Richard & Janet Jones James Bieber Dr. Miriam Freimer & Scott A. Jones Jane Black Dr. Edward Levine A. W. Kaiser Barbara Bloetscher Theresa Furey Abram W. Kaplan Erin Blue E. Ann Gabriel Robert Kaplan Carole Bockey Therese Gallego J.G. Kassel Monroe & Cathy Bond Julie Gay Judye Kirkbride John Brandt David Gellert Greg & Joyce Kirstein Steven Brechter & John Giusto Andrew Klein Christina Madriguera Malini Gnanatheeban Ted & Deborah Knapke Ann Brennan Mrs. Barbara Z. Golan Richard & Barbara Kochick John & Kate Brody William Goldsmith John D. Kost James & Lisa Brosnahan Nancy Goss Mark Kotur & Linda Kotur

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Susan Kreis Charles Alan Nekvasil Dr. & Mrs. Stuart Smith Michael & Kathryn Krotz Bruce & Pamela Nestleroth Mitchell & Liz Snay Barbara B. Lach Caryn E. Neumann Marlee and Rick Snowdon David & Barbara Lambert Phyllis & John Newman Charitable Fund Chris Landes Gerald & Ann Newsom Allan & Phyllis South Alice Lane Thomas G. Nicholson Mike & Beth Sprague Karen F. Lane Fund of Pat & Wally O’Dell Cathy Stang The Columbus Foundation Elizabeth Olson Florence Stokes Susan Lapp L.E. Olson Sandy & Jack Stoller Sarah H. Larrimer Ed & Mary Jane Overmyer Steve Stolte & Patrick & Kim Laugherty Ms. Angela L. Pace Mardy Hanlon-Stolte Robert B. & Barbara J. Laughon Elaine Paris Jan S. Stone Hattie and Robert Lazarus Fund Parrott Family Fund of Patricia J. Stone of The Columbus Foundation The Columbus Foundation Mark Strong Tom & Ellen Lemberger Jonathan & Amy Perrin Jedd & Cindy Stucky Rodney A. Lester Patricia Perry William Styer & Carol Anelli Thomas Lloyd Patricia A. Peterson John Tapee Carl & Lorena Long John & Sandy Petrie Douglas S. Terpstra Bob Loversidge Brenda Petruzella Sally & Andy Thissen Richard & Linda Lupton Marilyn J. Phelps Jim Thompson Dr. & Mrs. M. R. Lutmerding Cortney J. Porter Clement Thurn Judge Julie M. Lynch Susan Posey Susan Tomasky & Sara Maassel Amie Preston Ron Ungvarsky Joyce Madison Charlotte A. Prior Mark Tranovich Kristina Maki Psalm 96:3 Fund of Kara J. Trott & Robert Philips The Markus Family The Columbus Foundation Rosalie & Ed Ungar Rod & DeeAnne Marlow M. Purcell Barbara J. Vance Craig Martin Stella Randolph Grant & Cheryl Varian Mark Massen Melissa Rapp Nancy Volksen Joseph & Debra Mattera Brad Reardon Timothy Wagner Joy Maurer Ms. Ramona Reyes Rhonda Walkup Stephen Mayer Geneva Rice John & Joyce Wallach Diane McAlllister Ms. Janet Rife R. Blane and Claudia Walter Pamela McClafferty Tim & Lin Riffle Family Fund of The Molly J. McCormick Elizabeth B. Riley Columbus Foundation Rosemarie McCormick Dean & Marsha Rinehart Deb & Jim Ward John & Laura McCoy Doug & Leslie Rittenhouse Melody Weaver Don McDowell Jean & Richard Robbins Thomas Weeks Sandra McLoney Ernest E. Robinson III Mary Weldele Coco Cindy McNichols Dick & Kitty Rohrer Robert & Gloria Werth Cynthia & C. Dennis McNulty Cheryl Roller & Chuck Taylor Gary West Mark McPeek Nancy Root Elizabeth Wetherholt Elizabeth McPherson Jack & Sandy Ryan Sara White Kristene McQuirt Toshia Safford Wirt & Pat Whittaker Susan Meyer Victor & Deborah Sauerhoff Regine Williams Dale & Traci Michalak Robert Schnack Jamie J. William-Anderson Shereen Midkiff Stanley & Diana Sells Ellen Wilson Bill & Jerry Miller Rita Sheets-Coleman Linda Woggon Stephen & Alicia Miller Barbara Shramo Barbara Wooldridge Malcolm & Barbara Mogren Joan Simon & Hugh Clark Janet Worman R. Todd Monroe James Singer Harry Wozniak Sharon Montgomery Dave & Trish Sirkoski Charlotte A. Yates Gary & Teresa Morin Beth Sliwowski Shanna Young Frances M. Morland Cindy Smith Sandra & Michael Zimmerman Raymond & Carol Mularski Jennita Smith Barbara Zirke Jane & Bill Myers Judy C. Smith

10 CAPA CAPA 11 12 CAPA SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 2019 7:30 PM Albert Bergeret, Artistic Director SUNDAY, MARCH 10, 2019 THE MIKADO 2 PM or, The Town of Titipu SOUTHERN THEATRE Libretto by Music by Sir William S. Gilbert Sir Arthur Sullivan First Performed at the Savoy Theatre, London, England THE MIKADO March 14, 1885 Prologue Written by David Auxier-Loyola Director & Assistant Director: Choreographer: Kelvin Moon Loh David Auxier-Loyola Music Director & Conductor: Albert Bergeret Producer: David Wannen Costume Design: Makeup: Quinto Ott James Mills Scenic Design: Lighting Design: Anshuman Bhatia Benjamin Weill Production Stage Assistant Stage Manager: Manager: Joshua Strone Annette Dieli

The New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players’ Orchestra conducted by Albert Bergeret

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Richard Temple/The Mikado of Japan...... Chris White* Nanki-Poo (His son, disguised as a wandering minstrel)...... John Charles McLaughlin* Arthur Sullivan/Ko-Ko (Lord High Executioner of Titipu)...... David Macaluso* Richard D’Oyly Carte/Pooh-Bah (Lord High Everything Else)...... Matthew Wages* W.S. Gilbert/Pish-Tush (A Noble Lord)...... David Auxier* Leonora Braham/Yum-Yum ...... Sarah Caldwell Smith* Jesse Bond/Pitti-Sing (Three sisters, Wards of Ko-Ko)...... Amy Maude Helfer* Sybil Grey/Peep-Bo } ...... Rebecca Hargrove Rosina Brandram/Katisha (An elderly lady, in love with Nanki-Poo)...... Cáitlín Burke*

Ensemble of Noblemen, Schoolgirls, and Townspeople Jamie Buxton*, Brooke Collins*, Camilo Estrada, Michael Galante, Andrew Herr*, Maurio Hines*, Hannah Holmes*, Sarah Hutchison*, James Mills*, Lance Olds*, Kendrick Pifer*, Chris-Ian Sanchez*, Angela Christine Smith*, Viet Vo*

Scenes: Prologue - Offices of the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, 1884 Acts I & II - The Imagined Town of Titipu There will be one 15-minute intermission. Latecomers will be seated at an appropriate interval in the performance.

*These actors and stage managers are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

COMPANY & PRODUCTION STAFF

Artistic Director/General Manager...... Albert Bergeret Executive Director...... David Wannen Director of Administration & Box Office...... Joseph Rubin Wardrobe...... Gail J. Wofford, Annette Dieli Concession Sales...... Alan Hill Company Photographer...... Carol Rosegg, William Reynolds Orchestra Contractor...... John Giattino, Quality Concerts, LLC

The photographing or sound recording of this performance or possession of any device for such photographing or sound recording is prohibited.

14 CAPA SYNOPSIS OF THE MIKADO

Nanki-Poo, a wandering minstrel, has come to the town of Titipu in search of Yum-Yum, a girl with whom he has fallen in love. Ko-Ko, her guardian, had been condemned to death under the Mikado’s capricious law against flirting, but has since been appointed Lord High Executioner on the assumption that he will be unwilling to enforce a law of which he himself must be the first victim. While Ko-Ko plans to marry Yum-Yum himself, Nanki-Poo woos the beautiful girl. Yum-Yum returns his affection, but she is unwilling to defy her guardian.

Meanwhile, Ko-Ko learns that his post is to be abolished by the Mikado for non-performance of duty. His search for a victim is interrupted by the appearance of the despondent Nanki-Poo bent on suicide. The two men strike a deal that Nanki-Poo may marry Yum-Yum, if he will agree to become Ko-Ko’s first victim at the end of a month.

The general rejoicing that follows this announcement is halted by the arrival of Katisha, an elderly lady of the Mikado’s court. Thwarted in her efforts to claim Nanki-Poo as her lover, she attempts to reveal his true identity, but the entire town shouts her down as the act ends.

Act II finds Yum-Yum and Nanki-Poo preparing for their wedding. But Ko-Ko produces a surprise—“by the Mikado’s law, when a married man is beheaded, his wife is buried alive!” Yum-Yum is having second thoughts when the approach of the Mikado himself is announced.

Ko-Ko panics and decides that a dead body will not be needed if the proper papers are produced. He sends Nanki-Poo away to marry Yum-Yum and prepares a “certificate” of Nanki-Poo’s execution.

The Mikado arrives in town, accompanied by Katisha, and is delighted to receive the news that there has been an execution until he sees the name of the victim. Ko-Ko now learns for the first time that Nanki-Poo is the son of the Mikado. Along with Pooh-Bah and Pitti-Sing, who have acted as witnesses to the fake execution, Ko-Ko is sentenced to be boiled in oil for “compassing the death of the Heir Apparent.”

When Ko-Ko goes to Nanki-Poo for help, the minstrel explains that he originally disguised himself in order to escape Katisha’s attentions, and he has no intention of being anything but “dead” until she is married to someone else. To save his own neck, Ko-Ko woos and wins the lady in record time. When the Mikado returns from lunch to find his son still alive, and Ko-Ko married to Katisha, the story is tied up in true topsy-turvy Gilbertian fashion.

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OVERTURE

ACT I

“IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHO WE ARE” (Opening Chorus and Recitative)...... Nanki-Poo and Men “A WAND’RING MINSTREL I” (Solo and Chorus)...... Nanki-Poo and Men “OUR GREAT MIKADO, VIRTUOUS MAN” (Solo and Chorus)...... Pish-Tush and Men “YOUNG MAN, DESPAIR” (Song)...... Pooh-Bah, Nanki-Poo, and Pish-Tush “AND HAVE I JOURNEYED FOR A MONTH” (Recitative)...... Nanki-Poo and Pooh-Bah “BEHOLD THE LORD HIGH EXECUTIONER” (Chorus and Solo)...... Ko-Ko and Men “AS SOME DAY IT MAY HAPPEN” (Solo and Chorus)...... Ko-Ko and Men “COMES A TRAIN OF LITTLE LADIES” (Chorus)...... Girls “THREE LITTLE MAIDS FROM SCHOOL ARE WE” (Trio and Chorus)...... Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo, Pitti-Sing, and Girls “SO PLEASE YOU, SIR, WE MUCH REGRET” (Quartet and Chorus)...... Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo, Pitti-Sing, Pooh-Bah, and Girls “WERE YOU NOT TO KO-KO PLIGHTED” (Duet)...... Yum-Yum and Nanki-Poo “I AM SO PROUD” (Trio)...... Pooh-Bah, Ko-Ko, and Pish-Tush “WITH ASPECT STERN AND GLOOMY STRIDE” (Finale of Act I)...... Ensemble

ACT II

“BRAID THE RAVEN HAIR” (Opening Chorus and Solo)...... Pitti-Sing and Girls “THE SUN, WHOSE RAYS ARE ALL ABLAZE” (Song)...... Yum-Yum “BRIGHTLY DAWNS OUR WEDDING DAY” (Madrigal)...... Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing, Nanki-Poo, and Pish-Tush “HERE’S A HOW-DE-DO!” (Trio)...... Yum-Yum, Nanki-Poo, and Ko-Ko “OUR MIKADO, GREAT MIKADO” (Entrance of the Mikado, Chorus, and Duet)...... Mikado, Katisha, Girls, and Men “A MORE HUMANE MIKADO” (Solo and Chorus)...... Mikado, Girls, and Men “THE CRIMINAL CRIED AS HE DROPPED HIM DOWN” (Trio and Chorus)...... Ko-Ko, Pitti-Sing, Pooh-Bah, Girls, and Men “SEE HOW THE FATES THEIR GIFTS ALLOT” (Glee)...... Mikado, Pitti-Sing, Pooh-Bah, Ko-Ko, and Katisha “THE FLOWERS THAT BLOOM IN THE SPRING”(Song)...... Nanki-Poo. Ko-Ko, Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing, and Pooh-Bah “ALONE, AND YET ALIVE!” (Recitative and Song)...... Katisha “WILLOW, TIT-WILLOW” (Song)...... Ko-Ko “THERE IS BEAUTY IN THE BELLOW OF THE BLAST” (Duet)...... Katisha and Ko-Ko “FOR HE’S GONE AND MARRIED YUM-YUM” (Finale of Act II)...... Ensemble

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DAVID AUXIER (Pish-Tush/Director/Prologue Author) Isaac Asimov Award Recipient for Artistic Achievement 2015-16. Favorite NYGASP roles: Captain Corcoran (Pinafore), Sergeant (Pirates), Pish-Tush (Mikado). Auxier has been co-director and company choreographer since 2010 and has worked in or on all 13 G&S operas. He wrote and directed the award-winning hit G&S cabaret revue I’ve Got a Little Twist, and wrote the book for NYGASP’s original G&S à la Carte! David is also a MAC Award-nominated songwriter and is currently penning an all-original musical. www.davidauxier.com

CÁITLÍN BURKE (Katisha) NATIONAL TOUR: The Sound of Music (Mother Abbess U/S perf.), dir. Jack O’Brien. NEW YORK: Honor (Ayame), Mademoiselle Modiste (Franchette), Amahl and the Night Visitors (Mother). REGIONAL: Così fan tutte (Fiordiligi/Dorabella), Dido and Aeneas (Sorceress), Hansel and Gretel (Witch), South Pacific (Bloody Mary), The King and I (Lady Thiang), Into the Woods (The Witch). LONDON: The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado, Iolanthe, H.M.S. Pinafore. Principal at The Kennedy Center, City Center, Lincoln Center, The Royal Hall (U.K), National Arts Center (Ottawa), Ed Mirvish Theatre (Toronto), Wolf Trap. SOLOIST: Royal Festival Orchestra (UK), Rochester Symphony, Detroit Chamber Winds. For my family and Dan. www.CaitlinBurke.org

JAMIE BUXTON (Ensemble) NYGASP: The Mikado, Iolanthe, Princess Ida, Ruddigore. TOURS: A Chorus Line, Hair, Click Clack Moo, Radio City Christmas Spectacular. REGIONAL: Me and My Girl (IRNE Best Actress Nom), 42nd Street, Oklahoma!, Gypsy, Hairspray, Disney Cruise Line. Current student of the NYU Graduate Music Theatre Writing Program. Writer: “First Date with Henry the Eighth” (short play, presented by Shiyr Productions, NYC), “For Me & My Gal” (short film, dir. Victoria Clark), featured composer at Anything You Can Do Concert at Dixon Place.

BROOKE COLLINS (Ensemble) has performed all 13 operettas in the G&S canon. Favorite roles include Josephine (H.M.S. Pinafore), Angelina (Trial by Jury), Ella (Patience), Fiametta (The Gondoliers), and Phylla (Utopia, Limited). She has sung in Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Radio City Music Hall, and the Kennedy Center, and has received awards from the Commission on Presidential Scholars in the Arts, and the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. Brooke attended the Walnut Hill School for the Arts, Harvard University, and the Peabody Conservatory.

CAMILO ESTRADA (Ensemble) is thrilled to be back with NYGASP for another incredible production! Past NYGASP productions include The Yeomen of the Guard and The Mikado. Camilo is currently performing in an educational regional tour with the company S.T.A.R. at The Director’s Company. Other recent credits include Aladdin in Aladdin: A Musical Panto with People’s Light and Pásek in Príhodyˇ liˇsky Bystrouˇsky with dell’Arte Opera Ensemble. Camilo holds a BFA in vocal performance from Carnegie Mellon University.

MICHAEL GALANTE (Ensemble) NYGASP since 1987! Michael has performed the entire G&S canon and The Rose of Persia with NYGASP. Credits include Lord Dramaleigh in Utopia, Limited, and Francesco in The Gondoliers. Other theatre credits include: Flute (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Fenton (The Merry Wives of Windsor), Lennie (Of Mice and Men) and Moonface (Anything Goes). Michael was the 2008-09 recipient of NYGASP’s Isaac Asimov Award for Artistic Achievement.

REBECCA L. HARGROVE (Peep-Bo) is pleased to be joining the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players as Peep Bo in The Mikado. She recently debuted the role of The Mother in the world premiere of Joseph C. Phillips’s one woman opera, The Grey Land. Her previous stage credits include Cabin in the Sky with New York City Center Encores!; Los Elementos (Literes), La Campana Sommersa (Respighi), I Pagliacci (Leoncavallo), and Aleko (Rachmaninoff) with New York City Opera; Afram ou la belle Swita (Jenkins) and Porgy and Bess (Gershwin) with Spoleto Festival USA. Follow her updates at www.RebeccaLHargrove.com and IG: @rhargrov.

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AMY MAUDE HELFER (Pitti-Sing) Entire G&S canon with NYGASP since 2008, including: Phoebe, Tessa, Pitti-Sing, Kate, Melissa, Angela, Saphir, Leila, Kalyba. Opera/oratorio: Dinah (Trouble in Tahiti) at Boheme Opera NJ, Cherubino at Dayton Opera, Lord Nelson Mass at Carnegie Hall, Baba the Turk with String Orchestra of Brooklyn, Mercédès at Opera Theater of CT, Nancy (Albert Herring) at Bronx Opera. Operetta/musical theatre: Mrs. Lovett (Sweeney Todd) at Hawaii Performing Arts Festival, Phoebe (Yeomen) at Winter Opera Saint Louis, Petra (Night Music). Lotte Lenya Competition semi-finalist (2013). Upcoming: Vera Boronel (Consul) at Bronx Opera, Sondheim concert at Sanibel Music Festival. Proud member of AEA. For Mom. www.amymaudehelfer.com

ANDREW HERR (Ensemble) NYGASP credits include Pooh-Bah (The Mikado), Scynthius (Princess Ida), Pirates of Penzance, HMS Pinafore, Ruddigore, and The Gondoliers. Other past credits include Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bottom), Play On (Billy), Amigo Duende (Barrigon), and Barefoot in the Park (Paul) among others. He is also a proud member of AEA. Enjoy the show!

MAURIO HINES (Ensemble) is a native of Durham, NC. At the Glimmerglass Young Artist Program, Hines made his debut as Matthew Kumalo in Kurt Weill’s Lost in the Stars. Recently, he worked with Lyric Opera of Chicago in Porgy and Bess, was a featured dancer in Hawaii Opera’s Flying Dutchman, Torasso (Passion) with the Confidential Music Theatre Project, Nikos (Zorba) at the Clay and Wattles Theatre Company, The Mikado with NYGASP, and Oklahoma! with Denver Center Theatre Company. Hines received a bachelor’s degree in vocal performance at Greensboro College and a masters of music at East Carolina University.

HANNAH HOLMES (Ensemble) joined NYGASP with The Mikado in 2016, and has since performed in Ruddigore and HMS Pinafore. An Iowa native, Hannah’s love for G&S began at Ohio Light Opera, where she performed in Pirates of Penzance (Kate), Gondoliers (Vittoria), Ruddigore, and HMS Pinafore. Other favorite roles at OLO include May DeVere (Fifty Million Frenchmen), Old Lady (Candide), Lois Lane (Kiss Me, Kate), and Molly Grant (One Touch of Venus). In NYC, she has performed with the Victor Herbert Renaissance Project in The Red Mill, in concert with the Friends of Mozart, and with the Interarts Festival at Juilliard. www.hannahmezzo.com

SARAH HUTCHISON (Ensemble) Proud NYGASP-er both in New York and on tour since 2009! Other recent projects: Tennessee Williams’ Not About Nightingales (Empirical Theatre); various readings at the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop; and recording projects at Avatar Studios and with Grammy Award-winning sound engineer/producer Mikaelin “Blue” BlueSpruce. She is grateful for her amazing family and friends’ continued love and support. Graduate of Muhlenberg College. Proud member of Actors’ Equity and the Patrick Page Studio. “Keep calm and patter on...”

DAVID MACALUSO (Ko-Ko) A graduate of Manhattan School of Music, David has performed in new works, recordings, and musicals throughout the US, Off-Broadway, and abroad. He was managing producer/performer/collaborative director in NYGASP’s Cox & Box. Credits include Sir Joseph/Buttercup in NY Drama Desk Award-nominated Pinafore! (Vortex Theater) and Robin Oakapple/co-producer of the internationally-acclaimed House of Murgatroyd at the International G&S Festival in England. Favorite roles include Ko-Ko, Strephon, Grosvenor, Luiz, Molina (Spiderwoman), Falke (Fledermaus). Visit DMac.info

JOHN CHARLES MCLAUGHLIN (Nanki-Poo) NYGASP since 2013 debut in The Mikado at NY City Center. Recently seen in Princess Ida at NYU Skirball Center. Regional: Passion (Arden Theatre Co.), My Fair Lady (Cardinal Stage), Once Upon a Mattress (Princeton Music Festival) New York: Hard Times, Peter/Wendy, McGoldrick’s Thread, The Biscuit Club (The Cell Theater, Resident Artist). Originally from Hammond, IN, he studied music at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. www.jcmclaughlin.com

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JAMES MILLS (Ensemble) has worked with NYGASP for more than a decade, performing the entire G&S canon, as well as stage managing, tech directing, and associate directing. Recently seen as Jack Point (Yeomen) and John Wellington Wells (Sorcerer), other notable NYGASP roles include Major-General Stanley (Pirates), Reginald Bunthorne (Patience), Lord Chancellor (Iolanthe), and Sir Joseph Porter (HMS Pinafore). James is co-star and co-writer of the all-new drag musical, The Hell’s Kitchenettes, and also works as a stage director for the College Light Opera Company in Falmouth, MA, where he recently mounted Pirates of Penzance and the CLOC Jubilee Gala. He is a proud member of AEA.

LANCE OLDS (Ensemble) NYGASP since 1997: 11 of the 13 (all but Grand Duke and Sorcerer). Lance married company member Lauren Wenegrat 10 years ago and they are the proud parents of Anwyn and Declan. First national tour Footloose (understudied Christian Borle). Off-Broadway: Mark Twain’s Blues. Regional: Kennedy Center, Seattle Rep, Weston Playhouse. Film/TV: MTV’s “Eye Candy,” Far from Heaven, ballroom danced in Enchanted, Stepford Wives, Mona Lisa Smile, Kate & Leopold. On-camera and singer/songwriter clips at www.lanceolds.com

KENDRICK PIFER (Ensemble) Soprano Kendrick Pifer is thrilled to be making her debut with NYGASP this season! Pifer has a diverse repertoire of contemporary and traditional musical theatre, opera, and art song. Favorite past credits include Mi (Das land des Lächelns), Alysha (Moving Right Along: The World of Jeff Blumenkrantz), a Soloist (Side by Side by Sondheim), and Hope Harcourt (Anything Goes). She is an alumnus of Manhattan School of Music where she studied classical voice with Neil Rosenshein.

CHRIS-IAN SANCHEZ (Ensemble) NYGASP since 2004: entire G&S canon! Other credits include Passing It On (Coconut Grove Playhouse with Len Cariou), Gastone in La Traviata (Queens Symphony Orchestra), Thuy in Miss Saigon (Actor’s Playhouse - Carbonell nomination, Virginia Music Theatre, Carousel Dinner Theatre, and Surflight Theatre!), Mereb (Aida), Judah (Joseph), Roger (Grease) and Tommy Keeler in Annie Get Your Gun (Surflight Theatre), and James the Elder in Jesus Christ Superstar (K.C. Starlight Theatre). Worked with NY City Opera in Dead Man Walking, Carmen, and L’Etoile.

SARAH CALDWELL SMITH (Yum-Yum) Debut with NYGASP: Mabel (Pirates of Penzance) at New York City Center. Smith’s principal roles include the title role in Patience, Yum-Yum (Mikado), Rose Maybud (Ruddigore), Gianetta (Gondoliers), and Constance (Sorcerer) among others. She also tours with NYGASP’s award-winning cabaret, I’ve Got a Little Twist. NYC: City Center Encores! (Music in the Air), VHRP LIVE! (title roles in Naughty Marietta and The Fortune Teller, Grace Holbrook in The Princess Pat, Gretchen in The Red Mill), Avery Fisher solo debut as Infant Casmira (Candide) with National Chorale, Blondchen (Die Entführung aus dem Seraglio).

VIET VO (Ensemble) is EXTREMELY honored to be back working with NYGASP! Originally from Hawaii, he has survived 12 years in NYC. He was a business marketing major before he broke up with the program and shocked his parents by pursuing acting professionally (Sorry, Mom and Dad). THEATRE: Evita, A Christmas Story, In the Soundless Awe, Fishing for Wives. TV/FILM: “LOST,” “The Blacklist,” “Kim Jong Style,” “MANIFEST.” A Huge Mahalo nui loa to David, Al, and Cast. Mom, Dad—thank you for letting me fly. Lina—thank you for teaching me to fly.

ANGELA CHRISTINE SMITH (Ensemble) Smith has completed the G&S canon and roles include Dame Hannah, Katisha, Queen of the Fairies, Little Buttercup, Ruth, Lady Blanche, Lady Jane, Dame Carruthers, Duchess of Plaza-Toro, Baroness von Krakenfeldt, and Mrs. Partlet. She is a proud member of NYGASP’s award-winning cabaret show I’ve Got a Little Twist. Additional credits include the title role in The Princess Pat with the Victor Herbert

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Renaissance Project LIVE,; recipient of the Isaac Asimov Award for Artistic Achievement, Ardea Arts, Opera Singers Initiative, Belleayre Festival Opera, Light Opera of New York (LOONY), Opera Saratoga, and Opera Delaware.

MATTHEW WAGES (Pooh-Bah) began his professional endeavors in Opéra Comique with NYGASP, and recently completed the entire G&S canon. ‘Dramatis Personae’: Wilfred Shadbolt (Yeomen of the Guard), Sir Despard (Ruddigore), Pooh-Bah/Carte (Mikado), Sir Marmaduke (The Sorcerer), Florian (Princess Ida), Bouncer (Cox & Box), Lord Mountararat (Iolanthe), Giuseppe Palmieri (Gondoliers), Major Murgatroyd (Patience), Dick Deadeye & Bill Bobstay (H.M.S. Pinafore), Sergeant of Police & Samuel (Pirates of Penzance), Sir Roderic (Ruddygore: Revisited) at the International G&S Festival in Harrogate, UK, I’ve Got A Little Twist, and principal bass with VHRP, Live!

CHRIS WHITE (The Mikado) Chris is a graduate of Webster Conservatory. His favorite classical credits include Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Theatre at Monmouth), and Julius Caesar, Comedy of Errors (Nebraska Shakespeare). Chris has also toured the country in Of Ebony Embers, a solo play chronicling the lives of four Harlem Renaissance artists. Highlights of Chris’ musical credits include A Funny Thing... Forum, Little Shop of Horrors, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, and live productions at Walt Disney World and Hong Kong Disneyland. Follow Chris’ artistic adventures on IG: @chriswhiteonstage!

WHO’S WHO IN THE COMPANY

ALBERT BERGERET (Founder/Artistic Director/General Manager) Bergeret is a career- long professional specialist in the works of Gilbert & Sullivan, having performed, staged, conducted, and designed every opera in the repertoire over a 40-year period. He has directed G&S productions for university students and residency programs for elementary schools. He has been hailed as “The leading custodian of the G&S classics” by New York Magazine (Peter Davis) and his work as both stage and musical director has been widely acclaimed in the press both in New York and on tour throughout the US, Canada, and the UK. Bergeret founded NYGASP in 1974 and has served as artistic director/general manager since its inception. He has conducted and staged all 13 works in the G&S canon as well as the company’s smash-hit production of George Gershwin’s Of Thee I Sing. He has conducted programs with the Buffalo Philharmonic, Orchestra London in Ontario, Northwest Indiana Symphony, and the Erie Philharmonic in a program featuring Metropolitan Opera baritone Robert Goodloe. With NYGASP, he has also conducted and directed such diverse personalities as Hal Linden, Steve Allen, John Astin, Pat Carroll, Noel Harrison, John Rubenstein, Louis Quilico, Lando Bartolini, and John Reed, O.B.E.

ANNETTE DIELI (Assistant Stage Manager and Wardrobe) Entire Gilbert and Sullivan canon with NYGASP! Hartford Stage Company (running crew), Bronx Opera (props, costume assistant), props for Out of The Box Theater Company. Stage manager and props for a new musical, It’s a Brand New World, with Three Act Theater Company. Artistic director of her own puppet company.

KELVIN MOON LOH (Assistant Director) has directed and choreographed for MCC Theater Fresh Plays, Hyper Aware Theater Co., Gladshot Productions, and numerous MAC-nominated cabaret performances. Kelvin is the book writer for Matchmaker Matchmaker I’m Willing to Settle which was performed at A.R.T. Second Stage and NYMF. As a performer, Kelvin was recently seen in The SpongeBob Musical in Chicago, The King and I (Broadway/Lincoln Center), Side Show (Broadway/St. James), Here Lies Love (Public Theater), and American Idiot (1st national tour). Thank you NYGASP and my love, Anthony. www.KelvinMoon.com

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JOSEPH RUBIN (Director of Administration & Box Office) is an expert on American music 1890-1949 and recently completed a concert tour of Over There: The Music of World War I commemorating the centennial of the Armistice. A native of Canton, Ohio, he founded the Canton Comic Opera Co. in 2003 and has restored and conducted such forgotten American operettas as The Prince of Pilsen, Madame Sherry, The Rose of Algeria, and the original 1902 The Wizard of Oz. Rubin is also the curator of The Ted Lewis Museum (Circleville, OH). Upcoming concerts: “I’ll See You in My Dreams: The Music of Isham Jones” and a tribute to Hal Kemp and his orchestra. www.josephnrubin.com

JOSHUA STRONE (Production Stage Manager) is a graduate of University of Miami in theatre arts, motion pictures, and music business and entertainment industries (2015). Joshua first appeared with NYGASP in 2005, performing in Gondoliers and Yeomen of the Guard. Since then, he has worked as associate producer for Write Act East Side, Quantum Entertainment, and Greg Shaffert Productions, serving as an agent for Chita Rivera and Jackie Evancho, as well as being the house manager and event services coordinator for BCPA. He is excited to bring the culmination of his skills back to NYGASP as their production stage manager.

DAVID WANNEN (Executive Director/Producer) is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music in vocal performance and holds a post baccalaureate in business from Columbia University. Wannen is a veteran of the NYGASP stage and a member of the NYGASP board of directors. Since 2007–08 he has been the sole official representative of the company in the national touring market. Wannen is producer of the all-new, critically acclaimed production of The Mikado, and co-producer of I’ve Got a Little Twist, NYGASP’s original cabaret. His other responsibilities for NYGASP include fundraising, marketing, board development, and strategic planning. Wannen is past president of North American Performing Arts Managers and Agents, recently completing six years of service as an officer of the board.

BENJAMIN WEILL (Lighting Designer) Benjamin Weill is thrilled to be back for his fifth season as resident lighting designer for NYGASP. He is the recipient of the BroadwayWorld New Jersey award for Best Lighting Design of a Musical. He was recently involved in Emma: The Musical - available on StreamingMusicals.com. Other shows include The Pirates of Penzance, HMS Pinafore, Fiddler on the Roof, Les Misérables, Ruddigore, South Pacific, …Charlie Brown, Songs for a New World, The Diary of Anne Frank, Into the Woods, Book of Days, The Crucible, Cloud 9, and Cyrano de Bergerac. www.benjaminweilldesign.com

GAIL J. WOFFORD (Costume Designer/Co-Founder of NYGASP) holds a Master of Arts in theatre arts from Texas Tech University. As resident costume designer, she designed and constructed costumes for The Mikado, The Pirates of Penzance, H.M.S. Pinafore, The Yeomen of the Guard, Iolanthe, Trial by Jury, and other operettas. Gail was costume coordinator for N.J. State Opera for 12 years and head of wardrobe for the NY Grand Opera. She has executed projects for WNET, Channel 13, National Tour of Dreamgirls, the film Mission Apollo, and worked with numerous opera companies throughout the US.

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by David Auxier-Loyola and David Wannen

When its 132-year history is taken into account, The Mikado is undoubtedly the most popular piece of musical theatre of all time. For decades, a production of G&S’s satirical opera could be seen somewhere in the English-speaking world every day of the year. Its libretto has found its way into our language with expressions such as the “grand Pooh-Bah” and “Let the punishment fit the crime.” Several films have been made of or about the work, including Mike Leigh’s 1999 film Topsy-Turvy, which presented an intimate portrait of the characters of Sir W.S. Gilbert, Sir Arthur Sullivan, and the repertory cast of the original D’Oyly Carte Opera Company following G&S’s inspiration and development of the very first Mikado production.

Recently, a great deal of controversy has arisen around The Mikado in New York and in other cities across the US In 2015, when the Asian-American community raised concerns over representation and casting, NYGASP listened for a simple reason – it was the right thing to do. We believed that, with the necessary time and effort, we could develop a new way to present The Mikado, one that performers and audiences from all backgrounds would enjoy.

We also knew we had to maintain the artistic integrity of the piece. Some life-long fans of Gilbert and Sullivan expressed concerns about losing a classic part of the G&S repertoire, or suffering changes to The Mikado that would render the comic opera unrecognizable. NYGASP worked with Asian-American arts leaders to build an inclusive cast and creative team, and to institute new performance practices for the current production – all while striving to uphold The Mikado’s characters, storytelling, themes, and most of all, its universal satire of human nature.

Oscar Wilde, a contemporary of Gilbert’s and a fan of G&S, wrote that “Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life” (The Decay of Lying). When it comes to The Mikado and the world we are living in today, it seems Wilde’s proclamation is proven true. Imbedded in the controversy is a quintessential Gilbertian irony – presenting The Mikado provides a stage for exploring the broader issues of race, equity, diversity, and inclusion in our world. We are all too aware that our politics are too often dominated by polarized identities and ideologies that tempt us to hunker down in social media-fueled trenches filled with like-minded acquaintances who only reinforce our thinking.

Instead of succumbing to this temptation, NYGASP reached out to new colleagues from diverse backgrounds to devise a solution worthy of the challenge before us. Our costumes, choreography, and direction are completely original – unrestricted by the traditions of past performance practice. Most importantly, the representation of life on stage is no longer a depiction of Japanese people, but rather a fantastical portrait of Victorians in a dream world that is inspired by the Japanese culture captivating England at the time of The Mikado’s creation.

While we can’t speak for others, those involved in our efforts have agreed that the written libretto required very little revision. There are moments that clearly show Gilbert was a man of the 19th century with phrases, for example, that make comments about “Japanese attitudes.” Consequently, we are instituting revisions to those references are part of the new performance practice.

Our company has also, for its entire history, firmly held the belief that modern topical references are appropriate to make the audience’s experience as immediate as it was for the audiences of the 19th century. Londoners would have understood many of Gilbert’s references to popular figures and places of the time. We believe that theatre is a living medium and that judicious revisions are appropriate, whether they be for reasons of entertainment, understanding, or changing cultural sensibilities.

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However, it is the universal truth of The Mikado that has endured and delighted us through the decades. There is nothing more universal than death, and in The Mikado, Gilbert’s dark humor makes us laugh at this most common of all aspects of the human condition. Vanity, acting before thinking of the consequences, the artifices of social behavior, the corrupting influence of power, and many other easily identifiable foibles are all the objects of Gilbert’s wit. Are these not deliciously topical in today’s socio-political environment?

Add to this heady mixture an element of genuine pathos for the piece’s villainess and one quickly recognizes why this story still intrigues and fascinates us more than 130 years after its creation.

We hope you enjoy our new production of The Mikado. Please pass your love of Gilbert & Sullivan to our youth so that they may sing its beauty “with joyous shout and ringing cheer” for the ages to come.

ABOUT NEW YORK GILBERT & SULLIVAN PLAYERS

Now in its 44th year of operation, New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players (NYGASP) is America’s preeminent professional Gilbert & Sullivan repertory ensemble. Under the dynamic leadership of Artistic Director Albert Bergeret, who has been hailed as “the leading custodian of the G&S classics” by New York Magazine, NYGASP has created its own special niche in the cultural mosaic of New York City and the nation. Since its founding in 1974, the company has presented over 2000 performances of the G&S masterpieces throughout the US, Canada, and the UK, captivating audiences of all ages.

Bergeret’s vision for his company’s mission is clear – to build and maintain an ensemble of professional repertory singers, actors, dancers, and musicians dedicated to bringing quality performances of the Gilbert & Sullivan masterpieces to as wide an audience as possible. To do so, he has developed a unique blend of creative spontaneity and classical precision which is neither revisionist in nature nor mired in the rigidity of the more typical view of “tradition.” NYGASP’s productions are charged with contemporary energy while retaining that traditional respect for the shows themselves which is so important to Gilbert & Sullivan enthusiasts. The use of elaborate, but relevant, choreography and movement are particularly important elements. Where possible, topical references from the 19th century are updated when the original intent would be lost on a modern musical theatre audience, but without disturbing the shape or scope of the material as written. Gilbert’s satire of human foibles and sophisticated wit remain intact, while Sullivan’s evocative scores, which need no revision at all, are given the full range of vocal and orchestral color for which they call.

The company has in its repertory 13 different complete G&S operettas (cast, orchestra, and crew of 50-80 people), special versions of the most popular operettas designed for children’s audiences, and a variety of charming concert programs created especially for NYGASP’s “Wand’ring Minstrels” ensemble.

The company’s recognition and stature continue to grow. In 2002, the company mounted its first triumphant season at New York’s venerable City Center, playing three of its most popular productions to more than 20,000 G&S enthusiasts in three weeks. NYGASP has now played a total of nine seasons on the City Center stage.

NYGASP’s annual New York season has included performances at the Peter Norton Symphony Space on Manhattan’s Upper West Side since 1978. NYGASP is performing at two venues for the 2018-19 season, the Marjorie S. Deane Little Theatre and the Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College. Productions include The Yeomen of the Guard, The Pirates of Penzance, and a Victorian double bill of Ages Ago and Mr. Jericho.

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The company’s celebrated ensemble of G&S experts, developed by introducing new singers each year from New York’s immense pool of vocal and theatrical talent, has collaborated with such guest artists as world-renowned G&S exponent the late John Reed, O.B.E., in numerous comic baritone roles, Tony winner John Rubinstein and Frank Gorshin both as King Gama in Princess Ida, John Astin as Sir Joseph in H.M.S. Pinafore, Hal Linden and Noel Harrison as the Major General in The Pirates of Penzance, Pat Carroll as Little Buttercup in H.M.S. Pinafore, and Steve Allen as The Mikado.

The company has also produced a unique cabaret act. I’ve Got a Little Twist, created and directed by NYGASP principal David Auxier-Loyola, won a 2010 Bistro Award, is currently touring throughout the country, and appeared in Lincoln Center’s 2011 Atrium series. “Take Gilbert & Sullivan, add a TWIST of Broadway, and stir!” is Twist’s recipe. Highlighting musical theatre’s roots in Gilbert & Sullivan, the show is entertaining for all ages.

Touring activities continue throughout the year, frequently featuring productions from the New York season. In 2010, NYGASP was part of the International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival in Gettysburg, PA. The company returned in 2014 to the International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival in Harrogate, England. NYGASP’s 2019 tours brings the company to venues throughout the West and Midwest.

24 CAPA TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 2019 Shadowland: The New Adventure was created by 7:30 PM Steven Banks Renée Jaworski OHIO THEATRE Matt Kent Itamar Kubovy

in collaboration with original cast members Shawn Fitzgerald Ahern Antoine Banks-Sullivan Krystal Butler Benjamin Coalter Jordan Kriston Derion Loman Sayer Mansfield PILOBOLUS Teo Spencer Mike Tyus

“SHADOWLAND: Original music by THE NEW David Poe ADVENTURE” Additional Sound Design by David Van Tieghem

Lighting Design Set Design Costume Design Thom Weaver Gregory Laffey Andrea Lauer

Performed by Nathaniel Buchsbaum Krystal Butler Quincy Ellis Heather Favretto Marlon Feliz Mistral Hay Teo Spencer Jacob Michael Warren

Touring: IMG Artists · +1.212.994.3500 · imgartists.com General inquiries: +1.860.868.0538 · [email protected] Shadowland Tour Marketing and Publicity: C Major Marketing, Inc. PILOBOLUS.ORG

Major support for Pilobolus Artistic Programming provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art, and by The Shubert Foundation.

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“Shadowland: The New Adventure” uses exploration of mixed media to tell a love story about two people and their quixotic quest to save an imaginary bird. Employing animation, video, and shadow-theater, this madcap adventure dips its toe into the genres of science fiction, film noir, and romantic comedy. “The New Adventure” has toured the globe but has rarely been seen in the US, making this a special treat for local audiences.

ABOUT PILOBOLUS

For 47 years, Pilobolus has tested the limits of human physicality to explore the beauty and the power of connected bodies. We continue to bring this tradition to global audiences through our post-disciplinary collaborations with some of the greatest influencers, thinkers, and creators in the world. Now, in our digitally driven and increasingly mediated landscape, we also reach beyond performance to teach people how to connect through designed live experiences. We bring our decades of expertise telling stories with the human form to show diverse communities, brands, and organizations how to maximize group creativity, solve problems, create surprise, and generate joy through the power of nonverbal communication.

Pilobolus has created and toured more than 120 pieces of repertory to more than 65 countries. We currently perform our work for more than 300,000 people across the US and around the world each year. In the last year, Pilobolus was featured on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” NBC’s “TODAY Show,” MTV’s Video Music Awards, “The Harry Connick Show,” ABC’s “The Chew,” and the CW network’s “Penn & Teller: Fool Us.” Pilobolus has been recognized with many prestigious honors, including a TED Fellowship, a 2012 Grammy® Award nomination, a Primetime Emmy® Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cultural Programming, and several Cannes Lion Awards at the International Festival of Creativity. In 2015, Pilobolus was named one of Dance Heritage Coalition’s “Irreplaceable Dance Treasures.” Pilobolus has collaborated with more than 25 brands and organizations in finance, retail, media, fashion, sports, and more to create bespoke performances for television, film, and live events.

More information at www.pilobolus.org facebook.com/PilobolusDance instagram@Pilobolus twitter@Pilobolus

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NATHANIEL BUCHSBAUM (Dancer) was born in Pittsburgh, PA, and realized his love for movement while attending high school in Florida. He worked as a guest artist with the Tallahassee Ballet, and in 2011, graduated from Florida State University with a BFA in dance. Nathaniel has had the pleasure of working with KineticArchitecture, Amalgamate Dance Company, Gerri Houlihan, Martha Clarke, Brian Brooks Moving Company, and Doug Elkins. His choreography has been featured in the NewGrounds Dance Festival, the Five by Five event in Tampa, and the Amalgamate Artist Series in New York. Nathaniel is honored to have joined Pilobolus’s “Shadowland” in 2012.

KRYSTAL BUTLER (Dancer) began her training at Duke Ellington School of the Arts under the direction of Sandra Fortune and Charles Augins in Washington, DC. She continued her education at Long Island University and earned a BFA in dance. Krystal was a scholarship student at Ailey School Summer Intensive, American Dance Festival, Earl Mosley’s Institute of the Arts, and Arke Danza. She was a member of INSPIRIT, a dance company, and Forces of Nature Dance Theater. Since joining Pilobolus in 2010, Krystal has toured and performed in more than 30 countries with the evening-length shows “Magnifico,” “Shadowland,” and “Shadowland: The New Adventure,” as well as numerous repertory works spanning the company’s 48-year history.

QUINCY ELLIS (Dancer) was born in Waterville, Maine, and spent his youth in gymnastics and figure skating. He earned a BFA in acting from Emerson College, and for nine years, has worked as both an actor and dancer in New York City. He has worked with companies such as The MoveShop, Caliince Dance, DeFunes Dance, and Theatre Raleigh among others. Quincy has also been lucky enough to tour and teach internationally, both as a dancer and actor. His own work, “Savor,” was recently produced in New York City. He’s thrilled to join the cast of “Shadowland” and is incredibly honored to be working with Pilobolus.

HEATHER FAVRETTO (Dancer/Dance Captain) grew up in New Jersey where her hyperactivity as a child drove her parents to place her in dance classes. Years later, she received her BFA in dance from Rutgers University and was awarded the Dance Express Honor for outstanding choreography. Upon graduation, she worked for Douglas Dunn and Dancers, Cleo Mack Dance Project, and Naganuma Dance, while producing her own work in and around NYC. She joined Pilobolus in 2010 to work on a musical adaptation of James and the Giant Peach with Academy Award-winning composers Pasek and Paul. She has since helped create numerous works with Pilobolus and its collaborators. She has had the pleasure and honor of performing in more than 30 countries, as well as on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” and “The Today Show with Kathie Lee and Hoda!” It continues to be a wild ride, and Heather is truly elated to be sharing her love of art and theatre with all of you tonight!

MARLON FELIZ (Dancer) was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in Miami, where she studied classical ballet and modern dance techniques at New World School of the Arts High School while exploring jazz, hip hop, and lyrical dance at a local studio. Marlon later graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in dance performance and choreography. She also trained at the Joffrey Ballet, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, and Northwest Dance Project, and worked with H.T. Chen and Dancers, Human Kinetics Movement Arts, The Moving Beauty Series, and performed onboard Royal Caribbean’s Legend of the Seas. She thanks her family for supporting her passion for dance and was thrilled to join the incredible Pilobolus family in 2014.

MISTRAL HAY hails from Lancaster, PA, and grew up on ballet, training in both Cecchetti and Vaganova styles. Mistral continued her dance education at SUNY Purchase College and now works as a dancer, yoga teacher, and aerialist out of New York City. She has had the pleasure of working with Alison Chase/Performance, Company Stefanie Batten Bland, and Manuel

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Vignoulle M/motions. Mistral has performed with Pilobolus since 2010, including a project that helped them break the world record for most people to fit inside a Mini Cooper (26 people). Mistral is honored to have joined “Shadowland: The New Adventure” in 2016.

TEO SPENCER (Dancer), a Vermont native, studied at the University of San Martin in Argentina, where he specialized in aerial fabric. After completing his studies, Teo performed with Fuerza Bruta and Prix Dami. His credits include a performance for the presidency of Argentina and the award of “best overall performance” at the Denver Aerial Arts Festival. Teo returned to North America with a passion for combining circus and dance, and after completing a year with Pilobolus as an apprentice, was a collaborator in the creation of “Shadowland: The New Adventure” in 2016.

JACOB MICHAEL WARREN (Dancer/Dance Captain) was born in San Francisco, and raised in Boston, where he began tap dancing. Tap gave way to ballet and modern dance, and in 2009, Jake graduated from Marymount Manhattan College with a BFA in dance. Since graduation, Jake has performed in New York and around the world with Armitage Gone! Dance, The Steps on Broadway Ensemble, TakeDance, and Pilobolus’s “Shadowland.” He has done multiple film, musical, and theatrical projects including Wind & Tree, a film by Abe Abraham, and Promise, an experimental theatre piece with Chris D’Amboise and Jed Bernstein. Jake is also a dedicated musician, and a founding member of The Harmonica Lewinskies, a NYC-based blues/rock band.

CREATIVE TEAM

ITAMAR KUBOVY (Executive Producer) oversees the many moving parts of Pilobolus. After joining Pilobolus in 2004, he founded its acclaimed International Collaborators Project, a program that invites artists and thinkers from diverse fields to participate in Pilobolus’s collaborative choreographic process. He also grew the business of Pilobolus Creative Services, collaborating with clients to develop custom movement and storytelling for film, advertising, publishing, and corporate events. Itamar was born in Israel and grew up in New Haven, where he studied philosophy at Yale. Prior to joining Pilobolus, he ran theaters in Germany and Sweden, directed plays by John Guare, co-directed the 2002 season finale of “The West Wing,” and made a film, Upheaval, starring Frances McDormand.

RENÉE JAWORSKI (Co-Artistic Director) received her BFA from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Upon graduating, she began work with MOMIX, performing and teaching throughout the world as well as creating her own work in Philadelphia. She began performing with Pilobolus in 2000. Renée has served as choreographer and creator for exciting projects and collaborations such as the 79th Annual Academy Awards, the Grammy®-nominated video for OKGo’s “All is Not Lost,” “Radiolab Live: In the Dark,” and has worked with myriad outside artists through the International Collaborator’s Project. In 2010, her alma mater honored her with the University’s Silver Star Alumni Award for her work as an artist in the field of dance. Renée lives in Connecticut with her husband and daughter.

MATT KENT (Co-Artistic Director) has worked with Pilobolus since 1996 as a dancer, collaborator, creative director, and choreographer. Past Pilobolus projects include head choreographer for Andre Heller’s “Magnifico,” a large-scale circus production; choreographer for a Sports Emmy-nominated teaser created in collaboration with the NFL network; and choreographer for a television appearance on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien.” His work for Pilobolus on Shakespeare’s The Tempest, co-directed by Teller and Aaron Posner, was nominated for Best Choreography by the L.A. Drama Critics Circle. Outside of Pilobolus, he has worked as zombie choreographer for AMC’s hit series “The Walking Dead;” as movement consultant on the Duncan Sheik musical, Whisper House; and created family and children’s performances with Rob Kapilow. Matt lives in Connecticut with his wife and two sons.

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STEVEN BANKS (Creative Collaborator) Emmy-nominated head writer of “SpongeBob Squarepants.” He wrote and starred in the critically acclaimed one-man play Home Entertainment Center which aired on Showtime and won L.A. Weekly, Drama-Logue, and Bay Area Critic’s Circle Awards and is featured on HULU. He also created and starred in the national PBS series “The Steven Banks Show.” His young adult novel, King of the Creeps, was published by Knopf. His plays include Love Tapes (co-written with Penn Jillette of Penn & Teller) and New York productions of Looking at Christmas and American Love Sex Death. Film and TV credits include “Mom,” My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, The Aristocrats, and “The Jimmy Kimmel Show.” He is currently creating a show for The Disney Channel. He attended Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey’s Clown College.

DAVID POE (Composer) performed, composed, and produced the music for “Shadowland” and “Shadowland: The New Adventure.” He has toured the world with the likes of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and Tori Amos, and his songs have been recorded by several other artists including T-Bone Burnett, Curtis Stigers, Oh Land, Ana Moura, Thomas Dybdahl, Grace Kelly, the cast of “Nashville,” Grace Potter, and Daryl Hall. David’s work also appears in a variety of film and television projects. He has scored numerous films and was named a composer fellow of the Sundance Institute in 2009. Solo recordings include his most recent effort God & the Girl, as well as “Shadowland” and “Shadowland: The New Adventure,” The Late Album, Love Is Red, The Copier: Music for Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, and his self-titled debut produced by T-Bone Burnett. Hear the music from tonight’s performance at davidpoemusic.com

DAVID VAN TIEGHEM (Additional Sound Design) Broadway: Doubt, The Lyons, Romeo and Juliet, The Big Knife, Born Yesterday, Arcadia, The Normal Heart, Reckless, An Enemy of the People, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, A Behanding in Spokane, A Man for All Seasons, Inherit the Wind, Frozen, After Miss Julie, Judgment at Nuremberg, The Constant Wife, The Crucible, Three Days of Rain, The Best Man. Off-Broadway: Wit, The Piano Lesson, Through a Glass Darkly, How I Learned to Drive. Film/TV: Buried Prayers, Working Girls, “Penn & Teller,” “Wooster Group.” Dance: Twyla Tharp, Doug Varone, Elizabeth Streb, Elisa Monte, Michael Moschen. Percussionist: Laurie Anderson, Talking Heads, Brian Eno, Steve Reich. Awards/Nominations: Drama Desk, Obie, Bessie, Lortel, Guggenheim. CDs: Thrown for a Loop, Strange Cargo, Safety in Numbers, These Things Happen.

THOM WEAVER (Lighting Designer) studied at Carnegie-Mellon and Yale and has previously worked with Matt Kent and Pilobolus on Teller and Aaron Posner’s The Tempest at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. In NY, his work has been seen at NYSF/Public Theatre, Primary Stages, Signature Theatre, Player’s Theatre (Play Dead with Teller), 37ARTS (Frankenstein), Cherry Lane, Lincoln Center Festival, Lincoln Center Institute, and SPF. Thom has worked regionally at CenterStage, Syracuse Stage, Huntington, Milwaukee Rep, Shakespeare Theatre, Asolo, Theatre J, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Williamstown, Folger Theatre, Cleveland Playhouse, Roundhouse Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Hangar, Spoleto Festival USA, City Theatre, Virginia Stage, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, and Yale Rep. Thom has received three Barrymore Awards (21 nominations), four Helen Hayes nominations, and two AUDELCO Awards.

GREGORY LAFFEY (Set Design, Art Direction) is a designer and artist from Pittsburgh, PA. He has focused on stages, props, and costumes for dancers, theater, and film. Gregory now lives in New York City and has been working on various Pilobolus projects since 2009. His favorites include the Pilobolus projects “Shadowland,” “Radiolab Live: In the Dark,” and everything that enables him to travel to other countries.

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ANDREA LAUER (Costume Design) is a costume/set designer and fashion stylist. Recent credits include Red Bull’s School for Scandal at the Lucille Lortel, the German premiere of “Shadowland: The New Adventure” by Pilobolus, and MEOW ROYALE in Tasmania, Australia. Her work has been seen on Broadway (American Idiot, Bring It On), around the country, and internationally. Upcoming projects this fall are MEOW’S PANDEMONIUM with the London Philharmonic at the Royal Festival Hall, and The Blueprint Musicals, under the direction of Tom Ridgely, a site-specific piece on the USS Intrepid as part of The Public’s Under the Radar Festival where she will be doing sets and costumes. Also working as a stylist for various artists, commercials, and publications, her work can be seen in Rolling Stone, Vogue, Interview, OUT Magazine, The 52nd Annual Grammy Awards, The Tony Awards, red carpet events, and music videos.

PILOBOLUS STAFF

Executive Producer...... Itamar Kubovy Co-Artistic Directors...... Renée Jaworski, Matt Kent Charter Artistic Directors...... Robby Barnett, Michael Tracy Senior Company Manager...... Kirsten Leon Education & Community Engagement Manager...... Emily Kent Marketing Manager...... Brigid Pierce Programming & Development Manager...... Hannah Firestone Production Manager...... Anna Bate Dance Captains...... Heather Favretto and Jacob Michael Warren Technical Director...... Eric Taylor Stage Manager...... Krista Mickelson Lighting Supervisor...... Kaili Story

30 CAPA SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 2019 1 PM SOUTHERN THEATRE Woodburn

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CAPA 31 It’s time for a new identity.

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32 CAPA FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2019 8 PM THE TEMPTATIONS PALACE THEATRE or more than 50 years, The Temptations have Fprospered, propelling popular music with a series of smash hits and sold-out performances throughout the world.

The history of The Temptations is the history of contemporary American pop. An essential component THE of the original Motown machine, The Temptations began their musical life in Detroit in the early ‘60s. TEMPTATIONS However, it wasn’t until 1964’s “The Way You Do the Things You Do,” written and produced by Smokey AND THE Robinson, turned them into stars. An avalanche of hits followed—“My Girl,” “It’s Growing,” “Since I Lost My Baby,” “Get Ready,” “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg,” “Beauty FOUR TOPS Is only Skin Deep,” and “I Wish It Would Rain.”

Above and beyond their fabulous vocals, the classic lineup of Otis Williams, Melvin Franklin, Paul Williams, Eddie Kendricks, and David Ruffin, became known for their smooth-stepping and flawless presentations. “The Temptations Walk” became a staple of American style.

When the ‘60s and ‘70s turned political, The Temptations changed their tone, dress, and music with producer Norman Whitfield leading the way. His Temptations hits, many featuring Dennis Edwards who had replaced David Ruffin, burned with intensity— “Runaway Child,” “Cloud Nine,” “I Can’t Get Next to You,” “Papa Was a Rolling Stone,” and “Psychedelic Shack.”

Other stellar singers—Richard Street, Ali-Ollie Woodson, Theo Peoples—joined, adding their luster to the group’s growing fame. No matter the change in personnel, they remained true to The Temptations tradition, surviving the whims of fashion, whether disco or techno, and stuck to their guns. “Great singing,” said Otis, “will always prevail.”

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The current lineup consists of Otis Williams, Ron Tyson, Terry Weeks, Larry Braggs, and Willie Greene Jr.

“The more we change,” says veteran Ron Tyson, “the more we stay true to ourselves. We’re about singing straight-up soul. It’s a style that will live on forever.”

“The Temps have always been known for great lead singers,” says Williams. “Today, we have four of the greatest leads in the proud history of the group.”

The soaring voice of Philadelphia-born-and-raised Ron Tyson is perhaps the best high tenor in the business.

Terry Weeks grew up in Alabama and spent eight years in the Air Force before his chance encounter with Otis after an a cappella audition on a Hollywood street corner. Otis was so impressed that he brought him into The Temptations family.

Larry Braggs is passionate, powerful, and very spiritual. These are also the attributes of the amazing voice of this two-time Grammy-nominated artist. Cut from the same cloth as some of the world’s greatest vocalists, Larry has one of the most notable voices in the business. With a vocal range of more than three octaves and a command of the stage like no other, Larry has become one of the most electrifying entertainers on tour. This has gained him the respect and praise of his peers and fans all over the world.

Willie Greene is a bass vocalist who was born in Birmingham, Alabama. In the early ‘60s, Willie first saw The Temptations on “The Lloyd Thaxton Show” singing “The Way You Do the Things You Do” and “Get Ready.” Even though he was just a child, he knew he was a Temptation forever. He has recorded and performed with Lyle Lovett, Ry Cooder, Dolly Parton, John Fogerty, and George Harrison.

In 2018, The Temptations arrived on the Great White Way for Ain’t Too Proud, an electrifying new musical about the life and times of The Temptations, “the greatest R&B group of all time” (Billboard Magazine, 2017).

THE FOUR TOPS

Originally called The Four Aims, the group recorded their first single in 1956, and spent seven years on the road and in nightclubs, singing pop, blues, Broadway, and mostly four- part harmony jazz. When Motown’s Berry Gordy Jr. found out they had hustled a national “Tonight Show” appearance, he signed them without an audition to be the marquee act for the company’s Workshop Jazz label. That proved short-lived, and Levi Stubbs’ powerhouse baritone lead and the exquisite harmonies of Abdul “Duke” Fakir, Renaldo Benson, and Lawrence Payton started making one smash after another with the writing/producing trio of Holland/Dozier/Holland.

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Their first Motown hit, “Baby I Need Your Loving” (1964), made them stars, and their ‘60s track record is indispensable to any retrospective of the decade. Their songs, soulful and bittersweet, were across-the-board successes. “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch),” a No. 1 R&B and pop smash in 1965, is one of Motown’s longest-running chart toppers. It was quickly followed by a long-time favorite, “It’s the Same Old Song” (No. 2 R&B/No. 5 pop). Their commercial peak was highlighted by a romantic trilogy—the No. 1 “Reach Out, I’ll Be There,” “Standing in the Shadows Of Love,” (No. 2 R&B/No. 6 pop) and “Bernadette” (No. 3 R&B/No. 4 pop). Other hits from the decade included “Ask the Lonely,” “Shake Me, Wake Me (When It’s Over),” “Something About You,” “You Keep Running Away,” “7 Rooms of Gloom,” and their covers of “Walk Away Renee” and “If I Were A Carpenter.” The group was also extraordinarily popular in the UK.

After H/D/H split from Motown, producer Frank Wilson supervised the R&B Top 10 hits “It’s All in The Game” and “Still Water (Love)” at the start of the ‘70s. The Four Tops also teamed with Motown’s top girl group, The Supremes (post-Diana Ross), billing themselves as The Magnificent Seven for a series of albums. They hit with a cover of “River Deep – Mountain High.”

When Motown left Detroit to move to Los Angeles in 1972, the steadfast Tops decided to stay at home, and with another label. They kept up a string of hits with ABC/Dunhill for the next few years—the Top 5 hit “Ain’t No Woman (Like the One I’ve Got);” the Top 10 “Keeper of the Castle;” and the R&B Top 10s “Are You Man Enough (from the movie Shaft in Africa),” “Sweet Understanding Love,” “One Chain Don’t Make No Prison” (later covered by Santana), “Midnight Flower,” and the disco perennial “Catfish.”

In 1980, the group moved to Casablanca Records. The following year, they were at No. 1 again with “When She Was My Girl,” making them one of the few groups to have hits in three consecutive decades. They also scored R&B Top 40s with the ballads “Tonight I’m Gonna Love You All Over” and “I Believe in You And Me,” the original version of the 1996 Whitney Houston smash. And the Tops were heard in the film Grease 2 with “Back to School Again.” By 1983, riding the wave of the company’s 25th anniversary celebration, the Tops were back with Motown and H/D/H. The reunion resulted in the R&B Top 40 hits “I Just Can’t Walk Away” and “Sexy Ways.”

The Tops signed with Arista later in the decade, and racked up their final solo Top 40 hit, “Indestructible,” which was the theme of the 1988 Summer Olympics. That year, they also partnered with Aretha Franklin, a long-time friend from Detroit, for the Top 40 R&B “If Ever a Love There Was.” During this period, Stubbs stepped out and gained notoriety for voicing the man-eating plant Audrey II in the film Little Shop of Horrors, singing the cult classic “Mean Green Mother from Outer Space.”

In 1990, with 24 Top 40 pop hits to their credit, The Four Tops were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Though they would no longer have hits on record, the group continued to be a hit in concert, touring incessantly, a towering testament to the enduring legacy of the Motown sound they helped shape and define. Following Payton’s death in 1997, the group briefly worked as a trio until Theo Peoples, a former Temptation, was recruited to restore the group to a quartet. When Stubbs subsequently grew ill, Peoples became the lead singer, and former Motown artist/producer Ronnie McNeir was enlisted to fill Payton’s spot. In 2005, when Benson died, Payton’s son Roquel replaced him.

For Rolling Stone’s 2004 article, “The Immortals–The Greatest Artists of All Time,” Smokey Robinson remembered, “They were the best in my neighborhood in Detroit when I was growing up (and) The Four Tops will always be one of the biggest and the best groups ever. Their music is forever.”

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2019 Photo akir Hussain’s Masters of Percussion, an outgrowth 8 PM Zof Zakir’s duet tours with his late father, the SOUTHERN THEATRE legendary Ustad Allarakha, began their biennial appearances in 1996 to provide a platform for rarely heard rhythm traditions from India. Over time, the ensemble has expanded to include great drummers and percussionists from many world traditions, ZAKIR including jazz and the occasional stringed instrument. 2019 is the centennial year of Allarakha’s birth, so HUSSAIN this will be a very special Masters of Percussion tour, adding the astonishing Niladri Kumar on sitar, the AND peerless Eric Harland (Charles Lloyd, Sangam) on Western drums, and the Kerala Drummers from the southwestern coast of India. Performing both together MASTERS OF and separately, it will be awe-inspiring because they really are masters and Zakir Hussain is a true maestro PERCUSSION who can bring out the magic in everyone on the stage – and in the audience.

Zakir Hussain is the pre-eminent classical tabla virtuoso of our time and is appreciated both in the field of percussion and in the music world at large as an international phenomenon. A national treasure in his native India, he is one of the world’s most esteemed and influential musicians, renowned for his genre-defying collaborations, including Shakti, the Diga Rhythm Band, Planet Drum, Tabla Beat Science, Celtic Connection, Sangam with Charles Lloyd and Eric Harland, in trio with Béla Fleck and Edgar Meyer, and most recently, with Herbie Hancock. The foremost disciple of his father, the legendary Ustad Allarakha, Zakir was a child prodigy who began his professional career at age 12, accompanying India’s greatest classical musicians and dancers and touring internationally with great success by the age of 18.

As a composer, he has scored music for numerous feature films and major events and composed three concertos. The most recent concerto enjoys

36 CAPA ABOUT THE PROGRAM the distinction of being the first-ever for tabla and orchestra, and was premiered in India in September 2015, in Europe and the UK in 2016, and in the US in 2017 by the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center.

A multiple Grammy Award winner, Zakir is the recipient of countless awards and honors, including Padma Bhushan, National Heritage Fellowship, and Officier in France’s Order of Arts and Letters. In 2015, he was voted “Best Percussionist” by both the DownBeat Critics’ Poll and Modern Drummer’s Reader’s Poll. He has taught at Princeton, Stanford, and the University of California at Berkeley, and is the founder and president of Moment! Records, an independent record label presenting rare live concert recordings of Indian classical music and world music. Zakir was resident artistic director at SFJazz (2013-16), and was presented with their Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017 in recognition of his “unparalleled contribution to the world of music.”

Blessed with a lineage of five generations of sitar players, Niladri Kumar is a world-renowned and global icon to reckon with. Under the guidance and training of his father and guru Pandit Kartick Kumar, Niladri, after gaining an in-depth, profound, and sound understanding of Indian classical music, went on to revolutionize the style of sitar playing and further invent his own instrument, the red electric sitar, which he coined as the Zitar. He is hailed as one of the serious exponents of Indian music and has an uncanny, prodigious style in making this music appealing to the youth and the masses at large. Critics state that he has an unmatchable, effortless mastery over the instrument, and it is indeed a unique treat to witness his swift, agile, and magical fingers produce soul-stirring, brilliant compositions. He has inspired many to learn the sitar, and through his illustrious career, has emerged as a one-of-a-kind cause for national pride. He has been bestowed and recognized with several prestigious awards and valued titles and has released more than ten albums. In addition, Niladri has contributed immensely to the Indian film industry. His live performances are known to transport audiences to another world.

Eric Harland is the most “in-demand” drummer of his generation, primarily but not exclusively in the world of jazz. He has worked on more than 400 recordings and film scores and has shared the stage with masters on the order of Betty Carter, Joe Henderson, McCoy Tyner, Michael Brecker, Terence Blanchard, Branford and Wynton Marsalis, Wayne Shorter, Savion Glover, and the SF Jazz Collective. He’s also played with virtually all the current rising stars, including Esperanza Spalding, Jane Monheit, Taylor Eigsti, Julian Lage, Stacie Orrico, and Robert Glasper. He currently works in multiple groups, including James Farm with Joshua Redman, Prism with Dave Holland and Kevin Eubanks, Sangam with Charles Lloyd and Zakir Hussain, Overtone with Dave Holland, Jason Moran, and Chris Potter, and his own Voyager. Outside jazz, he’s also collaborated with Les Claypool’s Primus, John Mayer, Mariah Carey, Steve Miller, and Spike Lee. Eric was the resident artistic director at the SF Jazz Center for the 2014-16 seasons and the artist in residence at the 2014 Monterey Jazz Festival.

Mattannur Sankarankutty Marar and Group: The Drummers of Kerala In the Indian tradition, Mattanuur’s first teacher was his father, and from an early age, he began his studies of Thayambaka, a call-and-response style of drumming using the South Indian chenda, a cylindrical instrument. This art is often associated with the story/play style of Kathakali, a classical south Indian dance form. Eventually, Mattannur was assigned the role of “Mela Pramani,” and performed it in Temple Festivals across southern India. In duet form, he has played with such greats as Ustad Allarakha and Padmashree Umayalpuaram Sivaraman. He was awarded the Padmasree by the president of India in 2009.

The group includes Mattannur’s sons, V. M. Sreekanth and V. M. Sreeraj, and their fellow Keralan Vellinezhi Anand. All three have progressed through life-long training in Thayambaka and temple rituals and have played with outstanding Indian artists including the legendary vocalist Hariharan, both in India and all over the world, from Europe to Hong Kong and most stops in between.

CAPA 37 THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 2019 t’s been a full quarter-century since a young 7:30 PM Isaxophonist and composer released his debut SOUTHERN THEATRE recording as a leader, Trust. In 2017, Boney James released his 16th album titled Honestly. If you sense a direct line between those titles, you’ve already come a long way toward understanding what motivates the four-time Grammy nominee and multi-platinum- BONEY selling musician. “I’m fighting the good fight to be my own artist and not be pigeonholed,” says the genre-blurring James. “With JAMES a record’s title, I always try to find something that will communicate the feeling I get when I listen to it. The feeling I get with this music is a sense of sincerity and intimacy. The word ‘honestly’ really reflects how I aspire to live my life and create my music. One of the great things about music is how powerful it is. It can totally transport people. These are interesting times we are living in and the one thing I can do with the skills that I have is to make music that evokes a feeling and takes people somewhere … to do what I can to try and make the world a more pleasant place.”

Honestly follows futuresoul, James’ 2015 release which spent 11 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Chart. The New York Times raved, “Boney James performs with panache ... His arc as a soloist is emotional ... he can paint a scene.”

Honestly, says James, is quite different sounding than the previous record. “It’s more exposed,” he says of the 10-track collection. “Some of the arrangements are not as dense. A number of the songs have a more buoyant, cheerful, happy quality to them.” James produced the record and co-wrote all but one track, his interpretation of the Johnny Mercer/Hoagy Carmichael classic “Skylark.”

James recruited collaborators and musicians whose work he admires, including chart-topping vocalists/ co-writers Avery*Sunshine (on the title track) and Eric Roberson (on “If I Can’t Hold You”).

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Each track on Honestly reflects a different side of James’ musical personality. “Songs like ‘Kicks’ or ‘Up All Night’ are much more boisterous sounding than the last couple of records,” he says. “Then there’s ‘Skylark,’ a song that I have always loved … a standard which I’ve never recorded before. The track ‘Honestly’ (and first urban adult single) featuring Avery*Sunshine is straight up R&B.” Regarding Avery, James says, “I heard her at a festival we were both playing and then I heard her #1 single ‘Call My Name’ on the radio. I was instantly a fan and just waiting for the right song for us to collaborate.”

First instrumental single “Tick Tock,” one of four songs co-written and co-produced with Jairus Mozee (Anthony Hamilton, Robin Thicke), is one of several on the album featuring a horn arrangement by Jerry Hey, who worked on Michael Jackson’s greatest hits among others. “It’s a very funky track with an insistent groove and the arrangement goes places you don’t expect it to go,” says James.

Although each track on the album has its own definitive feel, James points directly toward some of his greatest influences as having provided inspiration. “I think about Stevie Wonder, Steely Dan, and Earth, Wind & Fire,” he says, also mentioning such iconic R&B and contemporary jazz artists as the Brothers Johnson, Tower of Power, and Grover Washington Jr. as having impacted him. “These are the bands that I grew up loving and the thing that they had was this method of arranging so the music is a character itself. That’s something I aspire to create on my records. The bass line can be a hook or a horn line or keyboard riff that you sing in your head—that’s what I’m trying to create on the record. A tapestry of sounds that puts you in another world.”

James plays tenor and soprano saxophone parts on Honestly and contributes keyboards and drum programming to several of the tracks. But his career might have turned out a lot differently had a music store in his native New Rochelle, New York, had his first choice in stock the day he walked inside. “I wanted to play trumpet, but when we went to the store to rent a trumpet, all they had were clarinets, so I went home with a clarinet. Two years later, I guess I was the best clarinet player in a band full of clarinets and the teacher wanted a sax player so he leaned on me to pick up the saxophone. I didn’t want to do it because it was a much heavier case I’d have to carry. But as soon as I switched, I loved it and it pretty quickly became my favorite thing to do. It still is!”

By the time he entered his teens, James was gigging with bands, and turned pro at 19. He apprenticed as a sideman for artists like Morris Day and the Isley Brothers, picking up pointers on how to present himself onstage and off, and didn’t cut his first album under his own name until he was 30. The independently released Trust led immediately to a major label deal and a string of increasingly successful recordings and live dates.

His skill as a performer as well as a recording artist garnered this notice from the Boston Globe, “James swaggered across the stage like a blacktop hero draining treys on an overmatched opponent. He even weaved his way through the audience, never missing a beat and all but daring the crowd not to have a good time.”

Over the years, James has racked up sales of more than three million records, four RIAA gold albums, four Grammy nominations, a Soul Train Award, nominations for two NAACP Image Awards, and 10 CDs atop Billboard’s Contemporary Jazz Albums chart. In 2009, Billboard named him one of the Top 3 Contemporary Jazz Artists of The Decade along with Kenny G and Norah Jones.

With Honestly, as with futuresoul and the Grammy-nominated The Beat before it, Boney James is making some of the most stellar, wholly realized music of his career. “I’ve just grown up, personally and musically,” he says. “I’m a lot calmer now when I approach making music and have more confidence. I’m a “give 110%” kind of person and I’m enjoying the process more now. I think that comes out in the music. Maybe that’s why this new record is so much fun to listen to. There are parts on the record that still make me smile.”

James lives in Los Angeles with his wife of 32 years, actress/director Lily Mariye, and has written scores for her film projects. Liebig C. Douglas Credit:

SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 2019 Photo he grr-ific musical for little tigers and grown-ups 4 PM Talike is back! The hugely popular “Daniel Tiger’s PALACE THEATRE Neighborhood LIVE!,” based on the #1 PBS Kids TV series, has delighted live audiences on stages across the country.

Now, in its fourth year of touring, your favorite DANIEL characters are hopping back on Trolley and coming to your town with “Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood Live: TIGER’S King For A Day!” Daniel and all his friends invite you for a brand-new adventure in the “Neighborhood of NEIGHBORHOOD Make-Believe” where Daniel learns just what it takes to LIVE: be King. KING FOR A DAY! The beloved characters come alive on stage to captivate you with new songs to sing along to, magical moments, and surprise guests along the way! It’s an event filled with tiger-tastic fun, teaching the valuable lessons of kindness, helping others, and being a friend.

40 CAPA SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 2019 comedian, actor, and writer, Patton Oswalt continues 7 PM Ato find success in all areas of entertainment. From OHIO THEATRE his award-winning comedy specials to his many memorable film roles and guest appearances on his favorite TV shows (including “Parks and Recreation,” for which he received a TV Critics Choice Award), Oswalt continues to choose work that inspires him PATTON and entertains audiences. This past October, Oswalt released his special OSWALT “Annihilation” on Netflix to critical acclaim as he addressed his own devastating loss and dealing with the unexplainable while making it all painfully funny. Last year, he won the Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special for his sixth comedy special “Talking for Clapping” (Netflix) and a Grammy Award for his comedy album of the same name.

Patton plays series regular Principal Durbin on NBC’s midseason series “AP Bio” opposite Glenn Howerton, which premiered in February 2018. He was also on the Netflix show “Lady Dynamite” starring fellow comedian Maria Bamford, on HBO’s “Veep,” and was recently on the big screen in the film adaptation of Dave Eggers’ novel The Circle alongside Tom Hanks and Emma Watson.

Starring opposite Charlize Theron, Oswalt was nominated for a Critics Choice Award for his performance in Jason Reitman’s film Young Adult. In 2009, he also received critical acclaim for his performance in Robert Siegel’s Big Fan. The film was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and Oswalt earned a Gotham Award nomination for his performance.

Oswalt has appeared in many films, including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty with Ben Stiller, Steven Soderbergh’s The Informant!, Observe and Report alongside Seth Rogen, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia, as well as Zoolander, Starsky and Hutch, and Reno 911!: Miami among many others.

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He also provided the voice for Remy the rat in Pixar’s Oscar-winning Ratatouille and has voiced characters on TV shows such as “Archer,” “BoJack Horseman,” “The Simpsons,” “Bob’s Burgers,” “Aqua Teen Hunger Force,” and “Word Girl.” He voices the lead character Happy on SyFy’s “Happy,” which premiered in December 2017. He is also the narrator on ABC’s hit comedy “The Goldbergs.”

On TV, Oswalt had a starring role on Adult Swim’s “The Heart, She Holler,” was a series regular on Showtime’s “United States of Tara,” recurred on the SyFy series “Caprica,” and has had many guest roles on “Veep,” “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” “Parks and Recreation,” “Justified,” “Two and a Half Men,” “Portlandia,” “Bored to Death,” “Flight of the Conchords,” “The Sarah Silverman Program,” “Tim and Eric’s Awesome Show,” and “Seinfeld” among others. He is also very well known for playing Spence on “The King of Queens” for nine seasons. He was also a regular contributor to “Countdown” with Keith Olbermann, “Real Time” with Bill Maher, and Lewis Black’s “Root of All Evil.”

As a comedian, Oswalt has shot seven TV specials and released five critically acclaimed albums, including his Grammy-winning “Talking for Clapping” (for which the one-hour special of the same name earned him an Emmy) and Grammy-nominated “Tragedy Plus Comedy Equals Time” which debuted in 2014. “Finest Hour” also received a Grammy nomination for Best Comedy Album, as well as a Showtime one-hour special of the same name. In 2009, Patton received his first Grammy nomination for his album My Weakness Is Strong (Warner Brothers Records).

Oswalt starred in The Comedians of Comedy which was shot as an independent feature film, a TV series, and a long-running tour. He tours regularly and extensively, headlining in the US, Canada, and the UK. Oswalt also has a regular, bi-monthly show at the new Largo at the Coronet Theater in Los Angeles.

Both of his published books—Zombie Spaceship Wasteland (2011) and Silver Screen Fiend (2015)—are New York Times best sellers.

42 CAPA SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2019 his unprecedented event pairs National Geographic’s 5 PM Tstunning natural history footage with an original OHIO THEATRE symphony composed by Bleeding Fingers Music, performed live by a full orchestra and choir. Driven by a five-part composition, the show brings viewers from the depths of the sea, up to coastlines, over mountains, and soaring into the sky. Each movement results in a powerful musical tribute to the beauty NATIONAL and wonders of our wild world. The 90-minute show highlights groundbreaking imagery and storytelling GEOGRAPHIC: from 130 years of beloved National Geographic history. SYMPHONY FOR OUR WORLD

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CAPA 43 44 CAPA FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2019 aunched in 2007, in conjunction with the 20th 8 PM L anniversary of Final Fantasy, Distant Worlds features OHIO THEATRE the music of the great video game series Final Fantasy and composer Nobuo Uematsu. The concerts are performed by symphony orchestra, choir, and MGP LIVE PRESENTS: renowned vocal and instrumental soloists, under the direction of Grammy Award-winner and acclaimed DISTANT conductor Arnie Roth. With HD video presentations from the Final Fantasy WORLDS: game developers Square Enix projected onto giant screens throughout the event, Distant Worlds presents MUSIC a diverse and constantly expanding repertoire of classic Final Fantasy music from throughout the 30-year history of the game series. With a dedicated FROM FINAL and phenomenal community of Final Fantasy music lovers, Distant Worlds is a unique multimedia concert FANTASY experience that delights audiences all over the globe.

The 10-year running international concert sensation, which has drawn multiple sold-out crowds in Los Angeles, Berlin, London, and more, brings to stage and screen the music and video from one of the world’s best-selling video games of all time. With over 100 musicians on stage, fans will be transported by the excitement and spectacle of Final Fantasy live.

Concerts include the performances of Final Fantasy X: Zanarkand, Final Fantasy XV: Apocalypsis Noctis, Final Fantasy VII: Cosmo Canyon, and more!

For more info visit: http://www.ffdistantworlds.com/

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