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WAYNE BRADY 5 HUEY LEWIS & THE NEWS 7 BILLY CHILDS 11 GARRISON KEILLOR 13 THE NUTCRACKER BALLET 18 MANHATTAN TRANSFER 31 Download the ACA iPhone app Follow us on #itsbetterlive CIRQUE DREAMS HOLIDAZE 37 ANCHORAGE CONCERT ASSOCIATION WINTER PROGRAM 1 WINTER PROGRAM

DEAR SUBSCRIBERS, ACA STAFF AND BOARD 4 DONORS, AND FRIENDS, WAYNE BRADY OCT 21 5 HUEY LEWIS & THE NEWS NOV 8 & 9 7 Do you remember what you were doing BILLY CHILDS NOV 15 11 25 years ago? A quarter century is a long time. It’s about a third of the whole human GARRISON KEILLOR NOV 20 13 life span. In Alaska, 25 years has some heft THE NUTCRACKER BALLET NOV 29 - DEC 1 18 to it. Considering we are about to celebrate the centennial of our community in a couple MANHATTAN TRANSFER DEC 14 31 of years, the fact that we’re celebrating the CIRQUE DREAMS HOLIDAZE DEC 26 - 29 37 25th birthday of the Alaska Center for the THANK YOU ACA SUPPORTERS 40 Performing Arts (PAC) is something to crow about.

The Anchorage Concert Association has been closely tied to the In celebration of this wonderful building, we packed as many great PASSION PAC since the day it opened. Our fi rst performance was Rudolf names as we could fi nd. Huey Lewis, Martin Short, Wayne Brady, Nureyev and the Stars of the Paris Opera Ballet on January 4, Garrison Keillor, Bela Fleck, West Side Story, David Sedaris, and 1989. That year we had 14 events. Later that same year we Chick Corea. This is an incredible list of performing artists. We are added the Nutcracker to our season. Since then, we have grown proud they are part of this very celebratory year. and grown. This season we are busting at the seams with 31 events! We are lucky to have this facility, and we want to fi ll it as much as we can. Our goal is to keep the stages alive and exciting so that in How has ACA managed to grow and become such an important another 25 years, audiences will still be thrilled and excited that the part of the performing arts in our community? It is due in large PAC is part of our community. part to having such a wonderful facility in which to play. Without the PAC, Anchorage wouldn’t have access to shows like Lion King, Mamma Mia! or Blue Man Group. The PAC’s mere existence has elevated our community and the quality of arts we get to experience. Jason Hodges, Executive Director

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BIOGRAPHY HUEY LEWIS AND THE NEWS Emmy award winning Wayne Brady is one of the most versatile “The Wayne Brady Show” for two years. Brady picked up two performers in show business today. He has been entertaining Emmys for Outstanding Talk Show Host and theshow won an TH audiences with his acting, improv, singing, and dancing on Emmy for Outstanding Talk ShowIn fi lm, Brady recently provided “SPORTS” 30 ANNIVERSARY TOUR television, fi lm, and the stage. a voice for the upcoming animated feature, Foodfi ght! for Lions 7:30 PM, FRIDAY & SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8 & 9, 2013 Gate. He starred in the Screen Gems feature, Crossover, and the Currently, Brady has made a big splash in Vegas with his hit stage independent feature The List, a romantic comedy with Sydney ATWOOD CONCERT HALL show “Makin It Up.” The improv and musical extravaganza can be Tamiia Poitier and Illeana Douglas. Brady was also featured in Fox seen daily from Thursday through Monday at the Venetian Hotel Searchlight’s Roll Bounce. through 2009. The show has been met with critical acclaim and heralded as “pure genius,” “hysterically funny” and “amazing.” Brady began his career performing in local theaters in Orlando, FL. Brady also can be seen on Fox hosting the hit show “Don’t Forget In 2005, he completed a run playing Billy Flynn in the Broadway the Lyrics,” a game show in which contestants are charged with production of Chicago. Currently, Brady can be seen in his fi nishing the rest of popular songs to win up to 1 million dollars. improvisational musical variety show “Making It Up” at the Venetian Don’t Forget the Lyrics will return with new episodes in the fall of Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. 2008. This September Wayne will see one of his dreams through when he releases his fi rst musical album for Peak records. The album, which includes R& B and old school tracks will drop September.

In television, Brady has guest starred on “The Dave Chappelle Show,” “30 Rock,” “How I Met Your Mother,” “Dirt,” and “Everybody Hates Chris.” He became well known for his improvisational skills on ABC’s “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” for which he won an Emmy and earned four Emmy nominations. Brady went on to host his own syndicated talk/variety show

HUEY LEWIS - VOCALS & HARMONICA (ORIG. BAND MEMBER) LOL HALSEY - MANAGER/TOUR MANAGER BILL GIBSON - DRUMS (ORIG. BAND MEMBER) RICK FANTL - PRODUCTION MANAGER JOHNNY COLLA - GUITAR & SAX (ORIG. BAND MEMBER) TERI TAYLOR - PRODUCTION ASSISTANT SEAN HOPPER - KEYBOARDS (ORIG. BAND MEMBER) RALPH ARISTA - STAGE MANAGER, GUITAR TECH JOHN PIERCE - BASS PLAYER VADIM CANBY - KEY TECH JAMES HARRAH - GUITAR PLAYER ROBB DAVENPORT - DRUM TECH MARVIN MCFADDEN - TRUMPET JIM MORAN - FRONT OF HOUSE JOHNNIE BAMONT - BARITONE SAX GREG MAHLER - MASTER ELECTRICIAN ROB SUDDUTH - TENOR SAX GREGG MALTBY - LIGHTING DESIGNER

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BIOGRAPHY 2013 marks the 30th anniversary of one the most infl uential and celebrated albums in pop / rock history. Peaking at #1 on the Billboard Charts, selling over 10 million copies worldwide, a Grammy Award, and a Diamond Award in Canada, “Sports” is the anthem of a generation.

Over half of the albums songs (“The Heart of Rock & Roll”, “Heart & Soul”, “I Want a New Drug”, “Walking on a Thin Line”, “If This Is It”) were huge hit singles. They have memorable hooks, and an economical precision. MEMORIES FROM THE STAFF AT ANCHORAGE CONCERT ASSOCIATION “Sports” has struck a chord with audiences of all ages and persuasions. So many people have special memories associated with this unique collection of songs. My fi rst experience was being led around on a tour as part of my interview process to get the job as the

Huey Lewis and the News are releasing a special digitally Anchorage Concert Association’s Executive Director. What I remember were lots of keys and doors and no windows remastered 30th Anniversary edition of the album, with live to the outside world. As we walked the hallways backstage, I had no idea which way I was going. Also, I remember bonus tracks. how quiet it was back there. In some ways, it felt like a horror movie with the intrepid heroes walking long hallways in In 2013 Huey Lewis and the News are commemorating the dim light. milestone with their “Sports” 30th Anniversary World Tour. Fans One doorway led to a hallway which led to another and then to a fl ight of stairs which led to another hallway will hear the band perform the songs from “Sports”, plus many other hits and surprises. and then we were in the Discovery Theatre. We took another door and a series of different hallways and eventually we were in the Atwood Concert Hall. This experience stands out to me because I knew if I got this job, it would be “Masterful practitioners of an eclectic pop-rock that blends the rich harmonies of California rock and the metronomically completely different than my experience in Fairbanks. The PAC was a big building with big stages and big audiences plucked beat of new wave, with strong rhythm and blues to fi ll. This was a serious performing arts facility that demands respect. infl uences, into an ingratiating brew.” - New York Times Each time I walk out on stage to give a curtain speech, I’m reminded how lucky I am to get to do the work I do and how much more fun the PAC is when it is fi lled with thousands of people. — JASON HODGES, ANCHORAGE CONCERT ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

The impact the PAC has had on my life is greater than I can sometimes comprehend. I was born and raised in Anchorage and though I’m a few years older, the ACPA building and I really grew up at the same time. I can easily recall many memories that make me smile. My fi rst Broadway show was the ACPA’s fi rst Broadway show (I saw Cats when I was 7 years old. I still remember the hideous red sweater my mom let me pick out to wear.) I can vividly recall sitting in the balcony watching my fi rst school performance (Princess and the Pea), looking up and down and around inside the Atwood Concert Hall, just amazed at the colors and height of this new building. The fi rst date I went on (we saw Gladys Knight and the Pips) I worried that my singing along was bothering those around me; until I saw everyone else singing along too. I sat next to my wife during the fi rst event I watched as an employee of the Anchorage Concert Association (Moscow Chamber Orchestra and Olga Kern). As the conductor raised his baton, she looked at me and smiled, as if to say “Look what we get to be a part of!” Now as someone raising a family in this community, I like being able to say, “I don’t remember what living in Anchorage was like before the ACPA.” I shudder at the thought of what life would have been like without it. —JASON GRENN, ANCHORAGE CONCERT ASSOCIATION MARKETING DIRECTOR

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Childs released his fi rst solo album, ‘Take For Example, This...’ BIOGRAPHY in 1988, on Windham Hill Jazz Records. It was the fi rst of Jazz pianist/composer Billy Childs remains one of the most four raved-about albums on the imprint, culminating with GARRISON KEILLOR diversely prolifi c and acclaimed artists working in music today. the acclaimed ‘Portrait Of A Player,’ in 1993. In 1995 Childs’ Childs’ canon of original compositions and arrangements released ‘I’ve Known Rivers’ on Stretch/GRP Records. In 1996 has garnered him a Guggenheim Fellowship, ten Grammy he released ‘The Child Within’ on Shanachie Records. Songs AMERICA’S FAVORITE STORYTELLER from both recordings garnered his fi rst Grammy nominations. nominations, and three Grammy awards, including Best 7:30PM, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2013 Instrumental Composition for ‘The Path Among the Trees’ Childs’ multiple musical interests also include collaborations, (2011) and ‘Into The Light’ (2005), from his much-heralded jazz/ arrangements, and productions for other acclaimed artists, ATWOOD CONCERT HALL chamber releases, ‘Autumn: In Moving Pictures’ and ‘Lyric’. including Yo Yo Ma, The Kronos Quartet, Wynton Marsalis, Downbeat magazine states, ‘...Childs’ jazz/chamber group has Sting, Chris Botti, and Leonard Slatkin, among others. Childs taken the jazz-meets-classical format to a new summit.’ has received orchestral commissions from The Los Angeles Philharmonic, The Los Angeles Master Chorale, The Detroit Born in Los Angeles in 1957, Childs was already profi cient at Symphony Orchestra, and The Lincoln Jazz Center Orchestra the piano by age 6; he was accepted in USC’s Community (where he presented ‘The Fierce Urgency Of Now,’ a musical School For The Performing Arts at age 16, studying music accompaniment to various texts by Dr. Martin Luther King theory and piano with some of the world’s most renowned Jr., performed by Childs and Wynton Marsalis, as part of the musical scholars. He graduated from USC in 1979 with a inaugural concert series for the launch of the new Jazz At degree in composition. Among Childs’ early infl uences: Herbie Lincoln Center venue). Hancock, Keith Emerson, Chick Corea and others. He credits classical composers such as Paul Hindemith, Maurice Ravel, Most recently, Childs is working on various commissions and and Igor Stravinsky for also infl uencing his love of composition. projects, including upcoming collaborations with the Kronos Child’s performing career was also enriched with early-career Quartet, a concert piece for the jazz/chamber ensemble to be apprenticeships with legendary jazz trombonist J.J. Johnson, performed at Duke University, and an upcoming recording for and trumpet great Freddie Hubbard, in the late 1970s/early Sony, re-imagining the music of Laura Nyro. 1980s. $5 Event Parking 6th & H and 7th & G Parking Garages

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(2003); Homegrown Democrat (2004); Pontoon (2007); Liberty: BIOGRAPHY A Lake Wobegon Novel (2008); and Life Among the Lutherans Garrison Keillor was born in 1942 in Anoka, Minnesota, and (2009). began his radio career as a freshman at the University of Minnesota, from which he graduated in 1966. He went to work Keillor has received numerous awards, including a Grammy for Minnesota Public Radio in 1969, and on July 6, 1974, he Award for his recording of Lake Wobegon Days. He has hosted the fi rst broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion in St. also received two Cable ACE Awards and a George Foster Paul. The show ended in 1987, resumed in 1989 in New York Peabody Award. He is a member of the American Academy as The American Radio Company, returned to Minnesota, and of Arts and Sciences, and recently was presented with a in 1993 resumed the name A Prairie Home Companion. Over National Humanities Medal by the National Endowment for the 3 million listeners on more than 450 public radio stations now Humanities. In 1994, he was inducted into the Radio Hall of hear the show each week. Fame at Chicago’s Museum of Broadcast Communications.

Keillor’s most recent role included playing himself in the With Philip Brunelle, he has performed with many orchestras, movie adaptation of his show, A Prairie Home Companion including the Chicago, Milwaukee, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, (June 2006). It features Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin as the Minnesota, Dallas, and National symphonies. He has appeared singing Johnson sisters, Lindsay Lohan as Streep’s daughter, at Wolf Trap, Carnegie Hall, and other major concert halls as a Woody Harrelson and John C. Reilly as singing cowboys member of The Hopeful Gospel Quartet, and he has performed Lefty and Dusty, and Tommy Lee Jones as the Axeman, who on his own in one-man shows across the country and on tour is dispatched by the radio station’s new corporate owners in broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion. Texas to shut down the show.

He is also the author of many books, including Lake Wobegon Days (1985); The Book of Guys (1993); The Old Man Who Loved Cheese (1996); Wobegon Boy (1997); Me: By Jimmy “Big Boy” Valente As Told to Garrison Keillor (1999); Love Me

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THE NUTCRACKER BALLET ANCHORAGE CONCERT ASSOCIATION PRESENTS

PRODUCTION CREDITS THE NUTCRACKER BALLET PETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY - Music VICTORIA MORGAN - Choreography FEATURING CINCINATTI BALLET CARMON DELEONE - Music Director FRIDAY – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29 – DECEMBER 1, 2013 JOHN EZELL - Scenic Design CARRIE ROBBINS - Costume Design ATWOOD CONCERT HALL TRAD A BURNS - Lighting Design JOHANNA BERNSTEIN WILT - Repetiteur CHRISTOPHER STOWELL - Repetiteur SUZETTE BOYER WEBB - Children’s Ballet Mistress MELINDA L. DOBSON - Production Stage Manager BENJAMIN GANTOSE - Associate Lighting Designer

ACT I, SCENE 3 THE BATTLE THE NUTCRACKER STORYLINE Clara, candle in hand, sneaks downstairs to check on her ACT I, SCENE 1 BLANCHE’S KITCHEN beloved Nutcracker. She fi nds herself in the drawing room and Our story begins on Christmas Eve. There is a fl urry of activity is startled by the sound of scampering feet and the fl ickering as the maids, butlers and chef prepare for a party where friends of tiny eyes. Clara hears the chimes of the big grandfather and family of the Stahlbaums will gather to open presents clock striking midnight as a band of mischievous mice try to and celebrate the holiday. The Stahlbaum’s son, Fritz, and steal away her precious Nutcracker. Drosselmeyer appears their daughter, Clara, try their best to be helpful, but that is not out of the darkness and, with the wave of his arms, the without its complications. tree, parlor furniture and toys begin to grow. A terrible battle ensues between the mice and the toy soldiers. The Mouse ACT I, SCENE 2 THE PARTY King appears, frightening everyone. The Nutcracker, having The Stahlbaum living room is bright and festive with the most escaped the clutches of the mice, has grown to life-size and beautiful Christmas tree imaginable. All the guests and children challenges the Mouse King to a duel. It is a fi erce fi ght, but the are having a marvelous time dancing, laughing and opening Mouse King is distracted by Clara’s imaginary friend Minnie, the gifts when suddenly, Herr Drosselmeyer bursts into the room. poodle, allowing the Nutcracker to wound his foe. As the mice He is an older, mysterious doll maker, who can surprise all with scamper away and the parlor once again grows quiet, Clara unexpected acts of magic. With the swipe of his cloak, dresses watches her Nutcracker magically transform into a handsome change colors and dancing dolls appear. One doll is so beautiful prince. He takes her hand and in a fl urry of transformation that Clara bravely asks if she could have it for Christmas, but they fi nd themselves in a magical snow forest. There, they Mother Stahlbaum is clear that this is not possible. Clara is meet the noble Snow Queen & King who dance with a storm of sad until Drosselmeyer places the most colorful and adorable snowfl akes. As the storm subsides, a beautiful, magical, horse- Nutcracker in her hands. She joyfully dances around the room drawn carriage arrives to take Clara and her Nutcracker Prince showing off her splendid gift. Fritz wishes that Drosselmeyer to the Land of Sweets. had given him the Nutcracker and in his frustration, grabs it from Clara, and breaks it. Immediately, the precocious Fritz is INTERMISSION scolded by his father and sent off to bed. Herr Drosselmeyer, watching from across the room, comes to the rescue and ACT II, THE LAND OF SWEETS mends the Nutcracker. The festivities continue well into the As the curtain opens on Act II, we see a delightful assortment night, highlighted with a stately dance initiated by Clara’s of fi ligree-frosted cakes. It is the Sugar Plum Fairy’s Kingdom, grandparents. As the evening comes to an end, and the guests a place so sweet it attracts people from all over the world. All of depart, Drosselmeyer is the last to bid the family farewell. Just the characters from the Land of Sweets are frolicking and playing before heading up to bed, Herr Stahlbaum brings out one last together when suddenly their Queen, the Sugar Plum Fairy, Sponsored by: gift. He fastens a beautiful and elegant necklace around his arrives. All bow to honor her and her cupcake and gingerbread boy attendants. The Sugar Plum Fairy graces them with a special wife’s neck and there is one last embrace before the parlor dance when suddenly the magical carriage appears carrying Clara grows quiet and dark. and the Nutcracker Prince. The Sugar Plum Fairy welcomes them Promotional Sponsor: Transportation provided by: and they are treated to the kingdom’s most sumptuous delights.

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Clara is reunited with Minnie, her poodle, and together they recount debut of Peter Pan in London during a 28-performance run with SCENIC DESIGNER LIGHTING DESIGNER the fi erce battle between the Nutcracker and the Mouse King. The Atlanta Ballet at Royal Festival Hall. During his 12-year tenure as JOHN EZELL TRAD A BURNS entire kingdom cheers as the Nutcracker reenacts his victory. Each Assistant, and later Resident Conductor of Cincinnati Symphony John Ezell is an internationally recognized scenic designer, having Mr. Burns’ career has spanned theatre, dance, amusement parks, character honors them with a special dance. As the celebration Orchestra, DeLeone served on its staff with Music Directors Max designed for such prestigious institutions as the Royal Danish as well as architectural and retail lighting. Designing over fi ve continues, the Land of Sweets transforms into a beautiful garden Rudolf, Thomas Schippers, Walter Susskind and Erich Kunzel. Ballet, the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Cullberg Ballet, the hundred productions during the last two decades, his varied work full of fl owers with fl owing petals and one brilliant pink rose. He was also selected personally by Maestro Erich Leinsdorf to Swedish Riksteater and the Royal Theatre Olympics in Istanbul. has been seen around the world. Designs include works for New Finally, the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Cotton Candy Cavalier participate in an intensive master conducting seminar at Lincoln His credits also include designs for Broadway, the New York York Theatre Workshop (NYC), The Public Theatre (NYC), La do a grand dance as a special treat for Clara. All the characters Center. He is also a much-in-demand drummer, equally at home Shakespeare Festival, the Public Theatre, the York Theatre and Mama ETC (NYC), HERE (NYC), Classic Stage Company (NYC), join together for a rousing fi nale. As their dancing concludes, the in the recording studio or leading his own “Studio Big Band” in the Roundabout. He was Artistic Associate of the Tony Award North Shore Music Theatre, The Cleveland Play House, Cleveland magical carriage appears to take Clara and her Prince through concert. DeLeone is a proud recipient of Cincinnati’s Post-Corbett winning Crossroads Theatre and Cincinnati Playhouse as well as Public Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Cedar Point, ValleyFair, the mountains, further and further away from the Land of Sweets. Award for excellence in the arts. the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C., Olde Globe in San Knott’s Berry Farm, Kings Island, Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Suddenly, Clara opens her eyes and she fi nds herself at home Diego, Asolo Theatre, Lyric Opera, Blackstone Theatre, Second Disneyland Japan, Disney Sea, Disney Cruise Lines, Carnival in the parlor room with her imaginary friend by her side and her ARTISTIC ASSOCIATE City in Chicago, the historic Market Theatre in Johannesburg and Cruise Lines, Universal Studios Florida & Japan, Woodstock Ice beloved Nutcracker watching over her, always. JOHANNA BERNSTEIN WILT the Hong Kong Repertory, among many others. He was a designer Productions, and The Family of Charles M. Schulz. Mr. Burns Johanna Bernstein Wilt joined Cincinnati Ballet in and art director for CBS, PBS-TV and Swedish State Television and is beginning his 12th season as the Resident Lighting Designer PRODUCTION & ARTISTIC BIOS 1981 and danced for 11 seasons before becoming a consultant to the design collection at the Beinecke Rare Book for Cincinnati Ballet, He has had the privilege of designing world Ballet Mistress in 1992. Bernstein Wilt has staged and Manuscript Library at Yale. His drawings have been exhibited premieres for such notable choreographers as Val Caniparoli, CHOREOGRAPHER ballets for notable choreographers such as in galleries internationally. His work has received the Award for James Kudelka, Trey McIntyre, Donald Byrd, Donald McKayle, VICTORIA MORGAN Victoria Morgan, Septime Webre, Kirk Peterson, Experimental Television Art in Milan, two Corporation for Public Kirk Peterson, Bart Cook, Septime Webre, Victoria Morgan, Adam Since 1997, Victoria Morgan has served as David Nixon, Peter Anastos and Jessica Lang to Broadcasting Awards for Excellence in Prime Time Drama and Hougland, Jessica Lang, Devon Carney, Viktor Kabaniaev, Darrell Artistic Director for Cincinnati Ballet. In 2008, name a few, at Cincinnati Ballet and other ballet twelve Critic’s Circle Awards for best professional sets. John was Grand Moultrie, Missy Lay Zimmer & Andrew Hubbard, Viktor as the company entered its 45th Anniversary companies. She recreated, in conjunction with Frederic Franklin, recognized for contributions to the American Theatre on the 75th Plotnikov, Mauricio Wainroit, Luca Veggetti, and Sarah Slipper. Season, Morgan took on the additional role as CBE, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Movements of Léonide Massine’s anniversary of the founding of the Yale Drama School. He is the His dance lighting design has also been seen at American Ballet an executive leader, serving as both the Artistic Seventh Symphony for Cincinnati Ballet, which has received recipient of Washington University in St. Louis 2001 Distinguished Theatre, National Ballet of Canada, Boston Ballet, Atlanta Ballet, Director and CEO of Cincinnati Ballet. Morgan praise in The New York Times as well as many other national Alumni Award, and he is a Fellow of the College of the American Houston Ballet, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Spectrum Dance, Ballet came to Cincinnati Ballet after nearly a decade and international dance publications. Her choreographic credits Theatre at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Met, Ballet British Columbia, Verb Ballets, Inlet Dance Theatre, as resident choreographer for the San Francisco Opera. She was include Everyday Is a New Beginning, for Cincinnati Ballet’s New Ballet Hawaii and Lafayette Ballet Theatre. a principal dancer for San Francisco Ballet (1978-1987) and Ballet Works during the 2008-2009 Season, and A Hero’s Prayer for the COSTUME DESIGNER West (1969- 1978). She performed lead roles for television and 2011-2012 New Works to commemorate her 30 years of work at CARRIE ROBBINS PRINCIPAL DANCERS Cincinnati Ballet. Her latest project was re-staging Septime Webre’s fi lm, and her choreography was featured in the PBS documentary Carrie Robbins’ costume design credits include more than thirty ALICE (in wonderland) for Cincinnati Ballet in the 2012-2013 CERVILIO MIGUEL AMADOR The Creation of O.M.O. She serves on the boards of Dance Broadway shows, among them, Grease, Agnes of God, Yentl, Season. She became Artistic Associate in August 2013. Camaguey, Cuba Magazine and DanceUSA, has served on the NEA evaluation Octette Bridgeclub, Sweet Bird of Youth, Frankenstein, Happy End, Joined in 2004 panel, was presiding judge for the 2005 New York International Boys of Winter, Cyrano and White Christmas. Her awards and “I didn’t want to be a dancer,” says Amador, now Ballet Competition and for the 2006 Benois de la Danse Awards CBII MANAGER/ACADEMY COACH nominations include two Tony Award nominations, fi ve Drama Desk in his eighth year as Principal Dancer at Cincinnati Gala in Russia. Morgan graduated Magna Cum Laude with an Awards, Maharam, USITT/Prague International, L.A. Dramalogue, SUZETTE BOYER WEBB Ballet. Initially athletic and interested in playing M.F.A. from University of Utah. The University honored her as a Suzette Boyer Webb, Cincinnati Ballet II Company Henry Hughes, F.I.T-Surface Design and Audelco. Robbins’ regional the saxophone, Amador’s parents gently nudged Distinguished Alumna in 2009. She was honored as a 2009 YWCA Manager and Children’s Ballet Mistress, is a work includes M. Butterfl y and On the Verge for the Arena Stage in him towards ballet at the age of nine, and he’s Career Woman of Achievement, received special recognition from former Principal Dancer with Cincinnati Ballet. D.C., American in Paris for the Alley Theatre in Houston as well as been hooked ever since.“It’s one of those things that is so hard, and Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber’s WE Celebrate Women’s Prior to retuning to Cincinnati Ballet, Suzette The Tempest and Flea in Her Ear for the Mark Taper Forum. Her you wake up in the morning and your body basically doesn’t want Business Awards and was a member of Leadership Cincinnati USA served on the Dance Division faculty at the opera design includes Death in Venice for Glimmerglass, Samson to move because it’s so tired and it’s so sore and in so much pain, Class 33. University Of Cincinnati College Conservatory Of et Delila (San Francisco Opera and Houston Grand), Sarah but you go and do it, and after you do it, the next day you just love Music for many years. There, she received the Caldwell’s Opera Company of Boston and Hamburg Staatsoper. In it again. I love it. It’s like an addiction. It’s a really hard career, but it University of Cincinnati’s Outstanding Adjunct Teacher of the Year New York City, Robbins has designed many productions for Lincoln CINCINNATI BALLET MUSIC DIRECTOR becomes this passion, this addiction. You just need it.” award. Suzette began her early training with Tom Adair and Mme. Center Repertory Theatre, Chelsea Theatre/BAM, Acting Company/ CARMON DELEONE Seda Sorvillo, a pupil of Mikhail Mordkin, the dance partner of Julliard and NY Shakespeare Festival. Her fi lm and television Maestro Carmon DeLeone is celebrating his 45th famed ballerina Anna Pavlova. Working under the direction of David credits include In the Spirit, Saturday Night Live and PBS Arts in SARAH HAIRSTON Season as Music Director of Cincinnati Ballet. McClain, Frederic Franklin and Ivan Nagy at Cincinnati Ballet, America. Known for her drawing ability, Robbins’ work was featured Charleston, South Carolina He is also Music Director of the Middletown Suzette danced in repertoire ranging from the classic to modern. in the Time-Life Series – Collectibles and this spring saw the Joined in 2001 Symphony and Conductor Laureate of the Illinois She has performed in works by choreographers Frederic Franklin, release of the book The Designs of Carrie Robbins. In 2008-2009, After seeing a Broadway production of Cats as Philharmonic Orchestra. At Carnegie Hall, he Ivan Nagy, George Balanchine, Ruth Page, Peter Anastos, John Robbins was co-curator of a groundbreaking exhibit “Curtain Call: a child, watching the actors prowl around on served as Conductor and Host of the Family Butler, Sir Kenneth McMillian, Ben Stevenson, Vincente Nebrada Celebrating a Century of Women Designing for Live Performance” stage, Hairston was hooked on the limelight. Concert Series. He has conducted frequent and James Truitte. She has appeared in the PBS productions of at the NY Public Library for the Performing Arts. Robbins was “Unfortunately I cannot sing, so classical ballet performances in Europe with Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra Ruth Page’s Billy Sunday and Alice in Wonderland. Master Teacher of Costume Design at NYU Tisch School of the seemed to be a better route to take!” she says. and has been named Illinois “Music Director of the Year.” He has Arts for many years, producing a stream of award-winning young Dancing since nearly three years old, Hairston trained at Calvert composed many original scores for ballet, including Princess & the costume designers across the country. Brodie School of Dance under Ann Brodie, North Carolina School of Pea and his best known work, Peter Pan. DeLeone conducted the 20 ANCHORAGE CONCERT ASSOCIATION WINTER PROGRAM 21 THE NUTCRACKER BALLET the Arts and Boston Ballet, where she then danced professionally GEMA DIAZ Tuzer as his professional mentor and his mother for her boundless COURTNEY CONNOR JONES before joining Cincinnati Ballet. Hairston faced her share of Pinar del Rio, Cuba support of his career. Outside of dance, Grubbs and his wife, Huntington Beach, CA adversity since joining Cincinnati Ballet in 2001, overcoming two Joined 2005 Connie, love spending as much time as they can with their Joined 2006 grueling ACL injuries in three years. “It was a struggle to come Born in Pinar del Rio, Cuba and raised in Havana, two children. Connor Jones knows about stepping up to the back both times, and I felt at times that people would not trust Diaz has been dancing since the age of three. plate. In March 2012, after both female principal my dancing and believe in me again,” she says. “However, then She trained with The National Ballet School in PATRIC PALKENS dancers at Cincinnati Ballet and a third fi ll-in from I realized that if I believed in myself, that was all that mattered.” Havana and The Vocational Ballet School in Santa Lewistown, MT Tulsa Ballet became injured, Connor Jones took Hairston also credits her students at Cincinnati Ballet’s Otto M. Clara, dancing with Ballet Nacional de Cuba for the spotlight and performed the lead female role Budig Academy with immense emotional support and inspiration. “It three years. Diaz won a silver medal in the International Ballet Joined 2011 Palkens has trained and performed with in Rite of Spring. In the summer of 2009 she traveled to Russia makes this amazing career I have even more worth it....to be a role Competition of Cuba in 1999, and has toured all over the world. Orlando Ballet, Pacifi c Northwest Ballet, Ballet and performed the role of Giselle, and other soloist/principal roles model for a child is the best feeling.” Upon joining Cincinnati Ballet in 2005, Diaz says “there is always Chicago, Escuela de Ballet del Teatro Municipal in various ballets. “Going to Russia and dancing there for two and something new to dance and new choreographers. Dance is the de Santiago, Chile and The Dance Syndicate, a half months changed my approach to dancing and strengthened JANESSA TOUCHET best way I can express myself. It’s very rewarding when it gets to Montana. As a principal dancer with Orlando my technique,” she says. Connor Jones was promoted to Soloist New Orleans, Louisiana people.” Diaz enjoys dancing with Cincinnati Ballet because she Ballet, Palkens performed in the world premiere of Robert Hill’s this year, due in no small part to her tenacity. Her past six years Joined in 2001 has learned “different ways to dance” and enjoys learning new Homage at the Grand Opening Gala of the Waldorf Astoria in of growth here at Cincinnati Ballet have given her the opportunity Touchet will never forget her 19th birthday. repertoire. “It makes me feel alive.” Orlando. After joining Cincinnati Ballet in 2011, Palkens quickly rose to deepen her understanding of what it is to be a performer; of That was the day Victoria Morgan came to through the ranks to Soloist in 2012. Following a last-minute stand- combining strong technique with spirit and emotion in order to share Pacifi c Northwest Ballet, to audition Touchet’s LIANG FU in—and wildly successful—performance as Romeo in 2012-2013’s a sense of true emotion with the audience. professional division. “Directors from everywhere Qingdao, China Romeo & Juliet, Palkens was promoted to Senior Soloist for the auditioned us, but nobody ever picked me,” she Joined 2008 2013-2014 50th Anniversary Season. ROMEL FROMETA says. “I remember thinking she wouldn’t like me anyway, so I told Liang Fu was born in Qing Dao, China. He Havana, Cuba myself to just have fun, and after it was over, she said, ‘I’d like to began his dance education in one of the world’s Joined 2012 talk to Janessa’.” Crossed wires with communicating Touchet’s most prestigious ballet institutions, the Beijing Frometa began dancing in 1992 at the acceptance of Morgan’s apprenticeship offer led to a planned spot Dance Academy, under the direction of Cao Jing Provincial School of Ballet “Alejo Carpentier” with Memphis Ballet, but Morgan called one last time and Touchet Rong. After graduating from the Academy in 2001, he accepted in Cuba, and continued in the National School was able to come to Cincinnati Ballet instead. “I was meant to be an invitation to join the Singapore Dance Theater (SDT), where of Ballet until 1998, joining the Ballet Nacional here. I started as an apprentice and moved all the way through he danced until 2006. During his years with SDT, he performed de Cuba in 2001, under the artistic and technical the ranks. I had always had my heart and mind set on Cincinnati many solo and principal roles in the company’s classical and of Alicia Alonso. At the age of 21, Castellon was named principal Ballet.” Prior to joining Cincinnati Ballet, Touchet trained with the contemporary ballets. His repertoire there included works by dancer at Ballet Nacional, later spending three years dancing Delta Festival Ballet under the direction of Joseph Giacobbe, Marius Petipa, Jiri Kylian, Ohad Naharin, August Bournonville, in Spain, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. Castellon Giacobbe Academy of Dance, Hartford Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, Choo San Goh, and many other world famous choreographers. In joined Cincinnati Ballet in 2012, and enjoys the different dance Pacifi c Northwest Ballet. 2003, he was invited to perform at the celebrated Gala of Benois experiences he is having here. de La Danse Competition at Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, Russia. Following this honor, he went on to win fi rst prize at the Asia SENIOR SOLOISTS Pacifi c International Ballet Competition 2005 in Tokyo, Japan. He MAIZYALET VELÁZQUEZ Cieba, Puerto Rico RODRIGO ALMARALES joined Universal Ballet Company in Seoul, Korea in 2007. In the short period of time spent there, he enriched his repertoire with Joined 2007 Havana, Cuba works by Oleg Vinogradov and Vassili Vainonen, among several A native of Puerto Rico, Velázquez began her Joined 2011 other choreographers. Fu joined Cincinnati Ballet in 2008. He was training at Ballet Concierto de Puerto Rico, Rodrigo Almarales trained with National Ballet promoted to Soloist in 2010 and Senior Soloist in 2012, where he training in both the conservatory and company. School (Cuba), National Ballet School (Mexico), enjoys the feeling of being “one big family” with dancers and staff. She graduated from the Virginia School of the Arts National Ballet School (Canada) and Hamburg in 2007, where she studied under David Keener Ballet School. Rodrigo performed as a soloist and the late Petrus Bosman. Velázquez joined Cincinnati Ballet ZACK GRUBBS from 2007 to 2009 with the Deutsche Oper Am Rhein in Germany upon graduation, and was promoted to Soloist in 2012. She enjoys Dallas, TX and was a top-seven fi nalist on Italian television show Amici in working with Cincinnati Ballet because it offers the opportunity to Joined 2002 2009. He spent the 2010-11 season with Boston Ballet before perform both classical and contemporary repertoire. joining Cincinnati Ballet in 2011. Rodrigo’s extensive performance Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, Grubbs began experience includes full-length ballets such as The Nutcracker, his dance training to supplement his gymnastic Giselle, Swan Lake, Cinderella, Don Quixote and The Sleeping education. He trained at various ballets across the Beauty. He was a bronze medal recipient in the Varna International country, including Boston Ballet, where he was a Ballet Competition in 2008 and in the Korea International Ballet member of the company for four years. Grubbs Competition in 2009. In 2012 he was the silver medal recipient for came to Cincinnati in 2002, was promoted to soloist in 2005 and the Helsinki International Ballet competition. He has performed in senior soloist in 2008. Grubbs has also performed in several operas SOLOISTS multiple international galas and has performed principal roles with with the Santa Fe Opera in 1999, the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis the Mongolian National Ballet and the Tokyo Komaki Ballet. in 2005 and the Cincinnati Opera in 2007. He acknowledges Tanju

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MUSIC DIRECTOR Symphony joined forces with Anchorage Opera to VIOLIN 1 VIOLA OBOE TUBA RANDALL CRAIG FLEISCHER perform the largest locally produced opera ever staged CONCERT MASTER Anne Gantz Burns Sharman Piper Mike Martinson in Alaska, Puccini’s Turandot. The ASO proudly col- Kathryn Hoffer Amanda Elfrink Mary Tesch ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR laborated with Anchorage Opera once again in January Britta Helm Emily Weaver, English Horn TROMBONE LINN WEEDA 2005 for the Anchorage premiere of Wagner’s epic, The ASSOCIATE Emily Grossman Christopher Sweeney Flying Dutchman. CONCERT MASTER Elena Shelt CLARINET Jennifer Edwards Celebrating over six decades of music-making in the Mary Dooley Weeda Karyn Grove-Bruce Chris Beheim Patty Devine Last Frontier, the Anchorage Symphony continues as a The vision of the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra Sandra Cox champion of musical and artistic standards for sym- includes fusing the tradition of the symphony with in- Oleg Prosakurnya CELLO Karl Beheim, Bass Clarinet TIMPANI phonic music performance and education throughout novations – a refl ection of the frontier spirit of Alaska. Elise Gelbart Linda Hart Ottum Carolyn Valiquette Southcentral Alaska. In keeping with this vision, the ASO includes program- Laura Lindenmuth Kara-Leigh Bray BASSOON ming of genre-bending performances, including the Heather Threat Kevin Charlestream Kirby Kauffman PERCUSSION The Anchorage Symphony Orchestra originated when world premiere of Echoes, a multi-media work written Linnea Johansen Erika McDonald Hal Nonneman Robert Arms 17 musicians – both amateur and professional – began by Randall Craig Fleischer, which incorporates Native Dawn Lindsay Linda Marsh-Ives Corliss Kimmel HORN David Williamson meeting once a week in 1946. Their common inter- American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawai’ian song VIOLIN 2 BASS Darrel Kincade Steve Alvarez est in music and enthusiasm for creating an organized and dance with orchestra. Nina Bingham Dawn Venters Kelly Haselhuhn community orchestra evolved into one of Alaska’s old- Sun Kang Heidi Herbert-Lovern Cheryl Pierce HARP est arts institutions. Today the Anchorage Symphony The Anchorage Symphony Orchestra and ASO musi- Simona Bruce Zak Akins Dave Donaldson Megan Bledsoe cians are recipients of prominent awards; in 2001, the Orchestra, under the direction of Maestro Randall Dennis Berry Anna Barbee, Assistant Horn Craig Fleischer, is a vibrant and professional group of Anchorage Symphony was honored with the fi rst-ever Cristeta Matias FLUTE CELESTE 80 musicians who consistently win critical acclaim and Mayor’s Arts Award for Outstanding Arts Organization Heather Adrian Roxann Selland Berry TRUMPET Susan Wingrove-Reed enthusiastic approval from audiences. and shortly thereafter was the recipient of the 2001 Caryolyn Harding Leslie Delaney Linn Weeda Governor’s Award for Outstanding Arts Organization. Nate Berry Corinne McVee, Piccolo John Cleveland The Anchorage Symphony Orchestra brings the beauty and joy of orchestral music to Southcentral Alaska through a variety of performances, including the Clas- sic Concert Series, Special Events and Neighborhood Concerts. The ASO also offers Young People’s Con- certs, specifi cally designed for fourth, fi fth and sixth grade students. The interactive concerts introduce classical music to the younger generation, inspiring them to become involved in their school’s orchestra or band program and giving them a broader understand- ing of music.

Extending its reach beyond the concert hall, the ASO offers numerous education and outreach opportunities for both students and the general public. High school and middle school band and orchestra students benefi t from the ASO’s coaching program, scholarship oppor- tunities and masterclasses. Free pre-concert lectures are offered to the public, as well as radio programs and the opportunity to participate in the commissioning of new works through the ASO’s commissioning club, Musica Nova.

The ASO is a frequent collaborator with other arts organizations, including the Anchorage Concert As- sociation, Anchorage Concert Chorus, Alaska Cham- ber Singers and Alaska Dance Theatre. In 2003, the

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for her slot was Cheryl Bentyne, a stunning singer from Mt. world tours, The Manhattan Transfer once again proved BIOGRAPHY Vernon, Washington, and a four-year veteran of The New their uncanny knack for being ahead of the times by It’s been nearly forty years since Tim Hauser, a former Deal Rhythm Band. At Bentyne’s dazzling audition, the other teaming up with the then relatively unknown, but future Madison Avenue marketing executive, paid his bills by Manhattan Transfer members immediately felt her impact, Grammy Award winning, producer Craig Street to record driving a New York City cab while aspiring to form a harmony invited her to join, and, as Paul puts it, “The Transfer’s their tribute to the music of Louis Armstrong (The Spirit vocal quartet sui generis that could authentically embrace second phase began.” Of St. Louis). varied musical styles, and still create something wholly unique in the fi eld of American popular song. The fi rst album featuring the now legendary quartet of The Spirit Of St. Louis was followed by 2003’s live Hauser, Siegel, Paul & Bentyne was 1979’s Extensions album Couldn’t Be Hotter that “fi nally captured the Hauser had been in doo-wop groups, folk groups, and even which earned the band another smash (#1 in New York and magic of their live performances on disc” (AllMusic), in a short-lived quintet named The Manhattan Transfer, but #2 in Los Angeles) with “Twilight Zone/Twilight Tone” – their 2004’s Vibrate, a second foray into Christmas music (An as the sounds of jazz, R&B, pop, rock ‘n’ roll, salsa and updated take on, and, if you will, extension of, the theme Acapella Christmas), and an album of newly recorded swing poured out of brownstones, Hauser now dreamt of to the Rod Serling hosted program of the same name. The symphonic versions of some of their greatest hits (2006’s four-part harmonies without limits. album also featured a vocal remake of the Weather Report The Symphony Sessions). The release of The Defi nitive classic “Birdland,” with lyrics by Jon Hendricks, that would Pop Collection, a 2-disc retrospective of the group’s In the Fall of 1972, Hauser’s taxi fare was an aspiring young go on to be recognized as the group’s anthem, and earn greatest hits, provides not only an opportunity to look singer named Laurel Massé, who was familiar with the sole them their fi rst two Grammy Awards for Best Jazz Fusion back at one of the greatest bodies of work in American album by Hauser’s earlier Manhattan Transfer combo, and Performance, Vocal or Instrumental and Best Arrangement popular music, but also the chance to look ahead to was looking to form a group. A few weeks later, another of For Voices for Siegel’s work on the song. 2013, the 40th Anniversary of a group that is restless, Hauser’s fares invited him to a party where he met Brooklyn adventurous, limitless and, as the Philadelphia Inquirer native Janis Siegel; although already in a group, Siegel The group went from strength to strength, when in 1981, so aptly put it, a group that “still can sound dangerous!” agreed to help out on some demos and before long she was they became the fi rst group ever to win Grammy Awards in the third member of The Manhattan Transfer. As Hauser, both Pop and Jazz categories in the same year – Best Pop Massé and Siegel began rehearsing, Massé’s then-boyfriend, Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for “Boy From who was drumming in a Broadway pit band, introduced New York City,” and Best Jazz Performance, Duo or Group Hauser and Siegel to Alan Paul, who was co-starring in the for “Until I Met You (Corner Pocket),” both from their fi fth original production of Grease, and the rest, as they say, is studio long player, Mecca for Moderns. history. In 1982 and 1983 the group won consecutive Grammy In 1974 the group began performing regularly throughout Awards in the Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo or Group New York City at Trude Hellers, Mercer Arts Center, Max’s category for, respectively, “Route 66 and “Why Not!” The Kansas City, Club 82, and other cutting edge cabaret critical praise and commercial success of the group’s fi rst venues. By the end of the year they were the number one live seven studio albums could hardly have prepared them for attraction in New York City, prompting Newsweek to send a the monumental 12 Grammy nominations they received in writer to their show at Reno Sweeney’s in Greenwich Village 1985 for the album Vocalese. Those 12 nominations made to report on this growing phenomenon. Vocalese the single greatest Grammy nominated album in one year, and cemented the group’s status as one of the Signed to Atlantic Records by the legendary head of the most important and innovative vocal groups in the history of label, Ahmet Ertegun, the group released their self-titled popular music. debut in 1975; the second single from the album, a remake of the Friendly Brothers gospel classic “Operator,” gave the The Manhattan Transfer closed out the decade by group their fi rst national hit. “Operator” took radio stations by completing a ten-year sweep (1980-1990) as the “Best Vocal Alaska National Insurance Company storm, from the opening four-part a cappella intro to Siegel’s Group” in both the annual DownBeat and Playboy jazz polls. emotional lead vocal, eventually peaking in the Top 20. In the 1990s, the group’s restless creative energy found them is proud to be a sponsor of the As “Operator” rose up the charts, the group was invited writing more original material (The Offbeat Of Avenueswhich to make guest appearances on various variety shows and earned them yet another Grammy for Best Contemporary television specials. Hollywood took notice; and the band Jazz Performance), and tackling seasonal standards (The Anchorage Concert Association was soon tapped to helm a weekly hour-long summer Christmas Album arranged by Johnny Mandel, became replacement comedy-variety show. The Manhattan Transfer one of the fi ve best selling Christmas albums on Columbia and Manhattan Transfer! show premiered on August 10, 1975, broadcast in CBS’ – the label with the largest Christmas catalogue, and is an old Ed Sullivan time slot, Sunday nights at 8:00PM. Despite annual shopping mall favorite to this day), children’s music censors restricting performances of some of their more (The Manhattan Transfer Meets Tubby The Tuba), 1950?s risqué songs (“Well Well Well, My Cat Fell In The Well”), and & 1960?s popular music (Tonin’), and, foreshadowing the some in the writing staff trying to appeal to youngsters who success of “Dancing With The Stars,” different genres of normally watched The Wonderful World of Disney at that swing music (Swing). hour, the band still managed to do some wonderful things including featuring Bob Marley and the Wailers in their fi rst If one is judged by the company they keep, this decade US television appearance. found the group recording with some impressive company indeed – Tony Bennett, Bette Midler, Smokey Robinson, In 1978, Massé was injured in a car accident and during her Laura Nyro, Phil Collins, B.B. 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ANCHORAGE CONCERT ASSOCIATION WINTER PROGRAM 43 PATRON INFORMATION THANK YOU FOR Latecomers will not be seated until an appropriate break in the performance, TAKE A BOW as determined by the presenting organization. Cameras and Recording Equipment: The taking of photographs or the use of YOUR CONTRIBUTION any audio or video recording device is strictly prohibited in the theatres unless permission is granted by the promoter. Pagers, Alarm Watches, and Cellular Phones: Please silence your pagers, Doug & Lori Chapados David Floerchinger & Esther Michael, Tasha & Bryce digital watch alarm and cellular telephones before the performance begins. GUARDIAN $50,000-$74,999 PROGRAM Maurice & Agnes Coyle Beth Sullivan Hazen Smoking is permitted outside the building only. THANKS Anita Dalton/Great Northern Paul & Catherine Gardner Leon & Robbie Hickok Bottled water, purchased from the concessionaire, is permitted in the theatres. Guns Michele Girault & Churck Peter & Sharon Hulman Generally, food and beverages are not allowed in the theatres unless otherwise Leslie P. Dean & Don Wright Josephine Huskey advertised. Hopwood Anna* & Patrick Haylock Brett & Martha Jokela Restrooms are located on the Street and Orchestra Levels in the Carr/Gottstein THE LARGEST Christopher Dyke Lee Holmes Craig & Pat Kauffman Lobby; in the Harrison Lobby, they are located on all levels. PART OF OF OUR Baby changing tables are located in restrooms in both lobbies. Dana Fabe & Randall Debby & Don Hudson Bradford Keithley Coat Check is available on the street level of both the Harrison and Carr/Gottstein CHAMPION $25,000-$49,999 COMMUNITY Simpson Jon Katcher & Kate Michaels Nancy & Lowell King lobbies from October 1-May 1. SUPPORT COMES Rundy* & Christie Galles Osamu & Grace Matsutani Kathy Klos & Jim O’Toole Accessible Services Program. The Alaska Center for the Performing Arts has an Dr. Robert Gieringer Thomas & Sue Ellen May David L. Larson Accessible Services Program to better serve patrons who experience disabilities. The Atwood FROM THE Daniel & Cathy Gleason Drs. David Meyers & Marilyn Richard & Lynnetta Lasher It is our goal to provide a fully enjoyable experience to all patrons. Through these INDIVIDUALS AND John & Kathy Halligan Sandford Richard & Ruth Mandsager services, patrons with disabilities should have no hesitation in attending an event Foundation at the Alaska Center. Please call Accessible Services for best available accessible BUSINESSES WHO Richard Helm Peter & Jo Michalski In Memory of Nancy J. Martin seating. For more information, contact Julie Millington, Vice President, at Dona & Roger Helmer Tom & Mary Ann Morahan Amy McFarlane 263-2902 (voice) or 263-2903 (TTY). A brochure about the program is available MAKE A GIFT EACH Michael & Cindy Hulquist Diane & Michael Moxness Dr. Michael & Maya Moriarty at the Center ticket offi ce, the Center administrative offi ce as well as from ushers. BENEFACTOR $15,000-$24,999 YEAR TO ACA. Ryan Jaramillo & Christie Dave & Kris Mulholland Frederick J. Pellum, Jr. Wheelchair Availability: Patrons may borrow a wheelchair, courtesy of the Watson Jo Ann & Ricky Nelson Mixsell-Piccard Family Carolyn Ramey Memorial Fund, for access to and within the theatres. Call Julie at WE THANK THEM, Stephanie Kesler & Peter* Frank & Melodee Parker- Bill* & Nicole Popp 263-2902 or 263-2920. Wheelchair Access is available in all theatres. Provisions are made for wheelchairs at the rear of each theatre and the front of the Atwood AND ENCOURAGE Partnow Chandler Chris Prince Concert Hall. Your advance notice to the Ticket Offi ce is requested. YOU TO JOIN THEM. Joe* & Ellen Kirchner Maia* Nolan-Partnow & Seth Andrew & Carmen Assistance for hearing impaired, through the use of infrared head phones, is Gary Klopfer Partnow Romerdahl & Family available at the House Manager Station on Orchestra Level. Mark* & Julie Korting Ira Perman & Virginia Rusch Jonathan Rubini Children: It is strongly recommended that children under 6 years of age not be Linda & Leah Kumin Pam & Gary Presol Sagraves & Stroud brought to the theatre except for family events specifi cally described as such by SUSTAINER $10,000-$14,999 PRINCIPAL Kristen* & Chris Lindsey Gary Prokosch & Elise Scott & Mary Sailor the performing organization. In any event, all patrons, including children and Sue Linford Huggins Luana & Derald Schoon babies, must have a ticket for admittance. $10,000 & UP John Letourneau & Donna Paul Stoklos Ken & Liz Sherwood Event Parking is available in the Municipal Garage on 7th and G. For a list of Anonymous (1) events scheduled for event parking, visit: http://www.muni.org/parking/index.cfm; Goldsmith David & Marcia Trudgen Rod & Patricia Shipley hourly parking is also available at 6th and H, the Penney’s Garage on 6th and E Drs. William & Carol Mell Tracy Tucker & Micaela George & Betty Skladal Streets, the Fifth Avenue Mall Garage at 5th and C, and on the street. PRINCIPAL Russell & Pamela Minkemann Jones Alison L. Smith & Kurt Personal Apparel: The Management is not responsible for personal apparel or other Barbara Norton & Bradley Michael & Mary Tullius & Egelhofer property of patrons. Patrons are advised to take wraps with them whenever they leave $5,000-$9,999 Cruz Family Del & Cathy Smith Larry & Wilma Carr their seats. Lost and found items may be claimed at the Center offi ce, 8am to 5pm. Pat Redmond Dr. Judith Whitcomb Dora Soria & Spencer Biegel Mary Ellen Segelhorst TICKETING: CenterTix.net; CenterTix is located in the Carr-Gottstein (South) PRINCIPAL $5,000-$9,999 Victor & Myley Rosenbaum Steve & Sherry Teeter Lobby of The Alaska Center for the Performing Arts (across the street from Humpy’s). STG Inc. Richard* M. Rosston William Timmins Phone: (907) 263-ARTS(263-2787) ; 263-2788 (teletypewriter). Patricia A. & Jack W. Smith PROTECTOR Rick & Peggy Tuttle Ticketing Hours: Call Center: Craig & Monique Stowers Willem & Rose Van Hemert CenterTix at the Center: Mon-Fri from 9am to 5pm TRUSTEE $250-$499 Mon – Fri from 9am to 5pm Saturday from 12pm to 5pm Daniel Therry & Justine Anonymous (2) Nancy Gordon & Stephan Saturday from 12pm to 5pm Sunday – Closed $2,500-$4,999 Boccanera Marsha Armstrong Williams Sunday – Closed Anonymous (1) David & Julie Veronick Paula & Larry Blachut Jon I. Wilson The Dorsey & Whitney Events: Box offi ce is open 90 minutes prior to curtain time for ticketed events in Lori Wing Michael & Roberta Bromlow Jacqueline Winn the Center and remains open through the fi rst intermission (or 30 minutes after Foundation Linda* Winters Randal & Valerie Buckendorf Bryan & Andrea Winn curtain time if there is no intermission). Tim* Pearson & Brian Chen Michael & Katrina Buller John & Margaret Wolfe Unable to use your ticket? Call 263-ARTS (2787) Tim & Ann* Rittal Lucian Childs Roger & Janet Worrell EMERGENCY: Fire Exits: There are numerous, convenient and clearly marked Luana & Derald Schoon LEADER fi re exits from all areas of the Center. Note the nearest exit as you take your seat. Rob Church In case of emergency, the ushers will direct an orderly exit. $500-$999 Gordon & Sharon Clawson GIVER Emergency Calls: (during performances) 263-2916. Please leave the following PATRON Anonymous (1) Wendy & Vincent Cruz information in order to be contacted in the facility: the event, theatre, seat number, Aspen Endodontics Rachel & David Dorris $100-$249 and name. First Aid: Contact the nearest usher. TRUSTEE $2,000-$4,999 $1,000-$2,499 Joe & Terry Beaty Brian & Sandy Durrell Anonymous (1) Productions at the Center employ members of I.A.T.S.E. Local 918. Anonymous (1) Joanne & Brian Bennett Peg Faithful & Bob Hume Kim & JoAnn Aasand YAMAHA is the offi cial piano of the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts. The Center Bijan Agarwal Chris & Judy Bockmon William Flynn Steve Aberle & Caryn Rea is most appreciative of the support of the Concert & Artists Division of the Yamaha Providence Anchorage Christopher & Janet Piano Corporation for the placement of its instruments here at the Center. We are also John Braden Robert & Sharon Frascati Jim & Diane Akers thankful for the local support of Washburn Piano Co., Yamaha’s local representative. Anesthesia Medical Group Alexander The Hon. Victor Carlson Larry & Brenda Fulton ALASKA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS MANAGEMENT: The Alaska Kathy Anderson & Patrick Dr. & Mrs. William Clark R. Garner & B. Jackson Jim & Melissa Albert Center for the Performing Arts facilities are managed by Alaska Center for the Speranza Chris Connaker Roland Gower & Cristy Performing Arts, Inc., a non-profi t corporation, under contract to the Municipality Al* & Shelley Biss Tom & Carol Daniel Rogers Brandon & Sandra Allen of Anchorage. Administrative offi ces are located in the Center at 621 West IN-KIND CORPORATE SPONSORS Gene & Louise Bjornstad Tor Daley & Pam Bassett. Julie & John Guerard Janet K. Allen 6th Avenue. Inquiries about booking the theatres should be directed to Cindy Alaska Archives Glacier Brewhouse / Orso Drs. Laurie & Michael Kristin DeSmith Scott & Moira Halbert Debbie Anderson Hamilton, Scheduling & Client Services Manager, 263-2919. Alaska Brands Coca-Cola of Anchorage / Odom Corporation Bleicher Gil & Ruth Ann Dickie Ernie & Sandy Hall Kimberly Anderson USHERING IN THE ARTS: “Ushering in the Arts,” a project of the Alaska Center AVIS for the Performing Arts, is also supported by ConocoPhillips, First National Bank Lynden Transport Tom & Holly Buskirk Carolyn Ellingwood & Dave John Haniszewski Jo Ann & Larry Asher Brown Jug Liquors Alaska, and the ushers themselves. For more information, call Julie Millington, Specialty Imports Michael & Pam* Bruno Bateman Patrick Harings Herbert & Mary Atchison Vice President, at 263-2920. Joe & Tyra Chandler PROMOTIONAL SPONSORS Linda Frank Beez & Jan Hazen Reyne Athanas Visit our new website at: www.myalaskacenter.org Anchorage Daily KLEF 98.1 FM KYMG 98.9 FM See our calendar, purchase tickets online at News KMXS 103.1FM KNBA 90.3 FM 44 Anchorage Press KTUU Channel 2 KEAG 97.3 FM ANCHORAGE CONCERT ASSOCIATION WINTER PROGRAM 45 40 www.CenterTix.net *ACA Board Member ANCHORAGE CONCERT ASSOCIATION SPRING PROGRAM 41 TAKE A BOW

Diane K. Baker Warren & Mary Huss Lee Powelson Kenneth Kesler Cheryl Windham Mike & Deb Hignite Ron & Mel Stokes Bill & Mary Baldwin Rod Hutchings Maxine Rader James & June Kinney In Memory of Nina Prockish Mark & Cynde Hill Joette Storm Corrine Barnell Karrold Jackson Bill & Sharon Radtke DONOR Lynn & Mari Klassert The Wrights Hohl Family Marie Sweezey Tom & Sheila Barrett Burton Janis Leslye Randall $50-$99 Jackie Knue David & Barbara Yanoshek Shelley Hughes Steve & Sally Tachick William & Susan Barrickman Frank Jeffries, Jacki Holzman Karen Reeves Anonymous (8) Trista Koenig Christina Young Jerry Hupp Dewey Taylor Debbie Barry & Jordan Jeffries Patrick Regan Steve Aberle & Caryn Rea Axel & Magda Kopun Kristine Hutchin Terry Thompson Gary & Barbara Baugh Christine Jolley Dallas Rhodes Ron & Judith Acarregui Teri Kostka Danielle Jerry & Bob Platte Patricia Thorn The John Benner Family Richard Judd & Lee Ann Rhyllis Rhodes & Pamela Walter & Betty Arthur Kelly Kowal FRIENDS Kathleen Judy Jeff & Tami Trotter Judy & Steve Boegler Gardner Richter Tim & Angela Astle Sara Lamont Verena Kaeppele Christopher Turletes & Cheryl Thomas & Janet Boling Gary Katsion Steve Rieger & Lisa Davis Alan & Mary Barber Dr. Paul Landen $1-$49 Toni Kahklen Hoffman Stewart Anonymous (11) The Borowski Family E. Jean Kaufman Wendy Robbins Elliott & Dianne Barske Sharon LaRue Kathleen Kennedy David Voisine Deanne Adams Randy & Shari Boyd James & Shannon Keene Lori Robison Greg & Margaret Bauer Karen Lee Gillian King Dr. John Wanek & Ms. Bobbi David Allen Brenda & Patrick Boyden Carrie Keene Donald & Georgia Rogers Mary Ellen Beardsley Judy Lehman Leslie Kleinfeld & Jon Lockert Jo Bobby Martha Andrews Mary A. Bradley Gordon & Shirley Keith Gregory Ronnback & April Katie Bender Penny Leibolt Karen LaMay Ann Watts Cherilyn Ansley Trevor & Sally Bremner William & Wilma Keller Atherton Mark & Kathy Bennett Mauri Long & Phillip Volland Allison Leary Chelsey & Emma W. Dale Avery Sari Brockway Chester & Shirley Kern Rachel Runyan Brenda Bergsrud Allan & Julie Lucht Aina Lenda Stephen & Rosemary Wiener James Bailey & Maria Viteri Bishop Buckle Al & Susan Koch Randy & Sandy Sartain Judy & Michael Blair Carolyn Lyons Don & Fran Lesco Shannon Wilks Randy Barker Pamela & Brian Bue Jeff & Trish Lacey Chad & Nan Schleusner Craig & Ruth Ann Bledsoe Gary Mack Steve Levine Roger Williams Nancy Baum Robert & Anne Bulmer Lucien & Melinda Ann Max & Ellen Schwenne C. Bramwell Anna & Ian McGlcoklin Dan, Jeni & Jasmine Locke Kerry & Lisa Willis Jill Beverlin K. S. Burgess Lafl amme Don & Sherry Shiesl George & Ruth Brogdon Michael & Corinne McVee Kathleen Luchsinger Mary Wilts

Everette & Glenda Burk In Memory of Dorothy Revell Alex & Susan Slivka Barbara Brown & Tim Jim Menard Mark & Dani Lynch Sandy Wirkkala Radine Boss Mickie Bybee Sheila Lankford & Joe Mathis Elizabeth Smaha Wiepking Judith Moore Steve & Sue Lyons Arlene Wood

Jennifer Caldwell Amy & Brian Laufer Martin Smith Donald & Susan Brusehaber Teresa & Tom Newins Renee Mackey Chuck & Janet Woodfi n Ronald & Chrysti Brevogel Cameron Family Beth Rose & John Levy Shane & Erynn Smith Sam Cardinal Katherine Nitzberg-Parmelee Mark & Cheryl Lovegreen Tom & Anna Woods

Judy Caminer & Roger Marks Mary Ann Lindbeck Jim Somerville Kelley Carpenter Stephen & Barbara Norrell Stephanie Marlin Monica Wright Diana Brinkman Diane Carlyon Robert & Betty Lutje James Stratton & Colleen CARTA (Central Alaska Vicki & John Novak Jan Maruszewski Wyrick Family

Liz & Don Carter Mackey Family Burgh Retired Teachers’ Michael O’Brien P.D. McKinney Sigrid Brudie & Jay Marvin Van & Alice Chaney Kevin & Mayna Madsen Andrew Sullivan & Alice Association) Dave & Mable O’Connor Douglas & Elizabeth Matt Burkholder Yvonne Charles & Family Judith & Lahsen Mahi Bassler Sullivan Donna & Wayne Cherrier Glenn Olson McLaughlin IN MEMORY Jeff & Cheryl Campbell Lane & Jane Chenoweth Cheri Mansfi eld Daniel & Lynnette Sullivan James & Patricia Chesbro Amy Orange-Posma Michael Melear Carey Carpenter OF DOROTHY Linda Christensen Lucinda McBurney Janet Sweeney & Scott Randy & Bonnie Cler Joanna Oudal Ed & Kee Miner John & Pamela Combs Robert & Susan Churchill Tadd & Sarah McCauley Brown Glenn & Pam Cravez Quentin Wright Linda Moffi tt REVELL Dorothy Corbett Gregory Ljubicich Ken & Diane Colley John McClellan & Alma Alexandra & Kai Binder Virginia Crawford Jean Paal Heather Morinitti

Denis & Debbie Corral Upicksoun Jules & Peg Tileston Catherine Crews Deena Paramo Susan Murphy Nancy Todd Jennifer Cottle Eric, Joanna, Shannon & Dr. Tim & Sandra McIntyre Nancy Tileston & Jim Curran Maryann & Gerry DePriest Paula Patterson David & Ann Nale James Cucurull Burke Croft Brian J. & Peggy McMahon Vivien Tincher Jim & Debi Dolan Trisha Plack Chris O’Brien & Cam James & Ann Curro Rita Davila Brenda Mead Nancy Todd Margaret Dorsey Beverly Poon Gordinier DUE TO CHANGES Melody Davis Paula DeLaiarro & Family Lisa Cauble & Julie Mettler Mark Truog & Sarah Frysli Mary Dyson Andrea & Helena Radford William O’Neill III Fonda Deans IN OUR DATABASE, Mario & Rita De La Torre Heather Mildon & Dan Barker Herbert & Anneslia Turner Kathy Egle Renee Rasmussen Dorothy Orr Pat Deis Donald S. & Thelma Dodds Martha Miller Susan Urig & Jim Kubitz Laura L. Farley Leena Reep Susan Owen & Dan Shantz WE MAY HAVE Alejandro Del-Callejo Mike & Karen Driscoll Mitchell Chiropractic Martha A. Valliant John & Caroline Field Steven Reimers The Paperman Family INADVERTENTLY Catherine Ducasse Cornelius & Victoria Eastman Mary Ellen Moreno David Van Tuyl Dale & Annette Funk Charles & Evelyn Rush Leslie Patrick Cathy Dunham MADE RECOGNITION Jim Fitzmaurice & Sue Doug & Judy Morris Mary Lee Vasarajs Janet Girt & Karla Shaw Pat & Mark Ryan Ann Pence Anna & Patrick Eberhardt Gamache Kristin Muir & Family Don & Sherie Vieira Dawn Gray Dothrakian Queen Gina Poths ERRORS. IF YOU SEE Corrine Finnie The Fitzmodios John & Kelly Murphy Virgil Vochoska Rachel Greenberg Jack & Sherrie Simmonds Eric & Deborah Pratt Janice Ford A PROBLEM, PLEASE Don & Anne Fleming Douglas & Delma Myers Ray Wall Ben & Salinda Grenn Betsy Ross Smith James Foster DON’T HESITATE TO David & Maryann Frazier Michael & Joanne Myers David & Shirley Wallingford Karen Grey Paul & Karla Smith Karl & Lori Privoznik Amy Fredeen Jill R. Friedman Bill & Barbara Nagengast Patty Wells Anne Grosshans Gary Soderlund CALL US AT 272-1471 Dale Gardner Noel & Marie Fujimura Katy Nalley & Roy Howard John & Linda Wetherby Cynthia Hanson Judy Stanek Denise Rader Verona H. Gentry AND HELP US KEEP Mark Fullmer Russell & Jean Nogg Dustin Wilde Arne & Melody Hatch Arthur & Norma Stanford Deborah & Keenan Mary Gilson Mark & Allyson Furman Gwen Obermiller Patricia M. Wilson Karen Hay Barbara W. Stek Retherford OUR DATA ACCURATE. Robert Greenan Gelston Family Kimberly O’Donnell David & Ladonn Wilson Janet Higley John & Cindy Sturgeon Kevin Riggan Kim Hagen Bill & Kathy Goodell Joseph Offner Rozanne Wilson-Marsh Scott & Raynae Hipsak Philip & Karn Stutzer Marc & Pamela Robinson ALL DONORS LISTED Arnold & Alberta Harder Dora Gropp Grant Olson Paula Smith & Kenneth Diane Hirshberg Matt & Amie Sullivan Karen Rogers REFLECT DONATIONS Benjamin Hardwick & Lois Callene Monasmith & Mo Mark & Terri Olson Winterberger Morris & Lorrie Horning Michael Sullivan Alex & Toni Romero McCarthy MADE DECEMBER Haddock John & Patricia Page Paul & Jennifer Witt Amber Ingalls-Adkins Lisa Swaney Alinda Ruhle Roger & Sandra Harkins Larry & Judy Helgeson Jim & Dusty Parker Kathy Wood & Kara Burke Peter & Carol Ann Irsfeld Ed & Toni Swearingen Vincent Ryan 2012 THROUGH Karen Harlan Gayle A. Heywood Linda Pearson Steve & Sarah Wright Steve & Lisa Ives Ron & Patti Thorne Ryherd Family SEPTEMBER 2013. Charlene Harrel Mary Hilcoske Lee & Diane Pederson Pat Yenney Dwight Jew Carole Transue Janette Schlereth Lee Henrikson Gerald Hoag Gary & Gabriele Peterson Matthew, Yutashea & Tiger In Memory of Nancy J. Martin Bob & Kathy Vasquez Judy Schurosky THANK YOU! Luke Henry M. Lee Holen Gary & Margaret Phillips Zirkle James Kallman Annetta Walters Donna Gail Shaw Mary Hewitt Milt & Nancy Hummer Tom & Marilyn Pierce-Bulger Jon & Stephanie Zuck Ron & Trudy Keller Marjory Wiley David Snow Teresa Hickerson Melinda Willis Stewart & Mary Stackhouse

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