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PROGRAM: AN EVENING WITH PATTI LUPONE AND MANDY PATINKIN

Saturday, April 26, 2014 / 8:00 pm / Bing Concert Hall

AN EVENING WITH PATTI LUPONE AND MANDY PATINKIN

Conceived by MANDY PATINKIN and PAUL FORD

Production Design Lighting Design Sound Design DAVID KORINS ERIC CORNWELL DANIEL J. GERHARD

Exclusive Tour Direction Tour Marketing/Press Representative AWA PARTNERS C MAJOR ENTERTAINMENT MARKETING, INC. L. GLENN POPPLETON CATHERINE MAJOR

Musical Direction Choreography by Produced and Managed by PAUL FORD STACI LEVINE

Directed by MANDY PATINKIN

34 Stanford Live Magazine April/May 2014 ARTISTS PROGRAM Patti LuPone Another Hundred People () Mandy Patinkin When Stephen Sondheim (Evening Primrose) Paul Ford, Piano A Cockeyed Optimist* & Oscar Hammerstein II () Twin Soliloquies* Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II (South Pacific) * Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II (South Pacific) *South Pacific: music by Richard Rodgers, Some Enchanted Evening, Reprise richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II (South Pacific) lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, book by Getting Married Today Stephen Sondheim (Company) Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan, Loving You Stephen Sondheim () adapted from the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel Tales of the South Pacific by James A Cockeyed Optimist, Reprise Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II (South Pacific) A. Michener I’m Old-Fashioned Jerome Kern & Johnny Mercer (You Were Never Lovelier) I Have the Room Above Her Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein II (Showboat) **: music by Richard Rodgers, book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, based Baby, It’s Cold Outside (Neptune’s Daughter) on Ferenc Molnár’s play Liliom as adapted by Everybody Says Don’t Stephen Sondheim (Anyone Can Whistle) Benjamin F. Glazer, original dances by Agnes A Quiet Thing & (Flora the Red Menace) de Mille It Takes Two Stephen Sondheim () Selections from South Pacific and Carousel I Won’t Dance Jerome Kern (Roberta) are used by special arrangement with Rodgers I Want a Man Vincent Youmans & Oscar Hammerstein II (Rainbow) & Hammerstein: An Imagem Company, April in Fairbanks Murray Grand (New Faces of 1956) www.rnh.com. All rights are reserved.

All selections by Stephen Sondheim are used by special arrangement with Stephen *INTERMISSION* Sondheim.

Old Folks John Kander & Fred Ebb (70, Girls, 70) Everything’s Coming Up Roses & Stephen Sondheim (Gypsy) Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin’s performance Stephen Sondheim () is generously supported by Marcia and John The God-Why-Don’t-You-Love-Me Goldman. Blues The Hills of Tomorrow Stephen Sondheim (Merrily We Roll Along) Merrily We Roll Along Stephen Sondheim (Merrily We Roll Along) Old Friends Stephen Sondheim (Merrily We Roll Along) Like It Was Stephen Sondheim (Merrily We Roll Along) Oh, What a Circus Sir & Sir () Don’t Cry for Me Argentina Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber & Sir Tim Rice (Evita) Somewhere That’s Green & (Little Shop of Horrors) In Buddy’s Eyes Stephen Sondheim (Follies) You’re a Queer One, Julie Jordan** richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II (Carousel ) If I Loved You** Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II (Carousel ) If I Loved You, Reprise Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II (Carousel ) What’s the Use of Wond’rin** Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II (Carousel ) If I Loved You, Reprise Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II (Carousel ) You’ll Never Walk Alone** Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II (Carousel )

PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE. Please be considerate of others and turn off all phones, pagers, and watch alarms, and unwrap all lozenges prior to the performance. Photography and recording of any kind are not permitted. Thank you.

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PATTI LUPONE Frayn’s Noises Off, ’s The Miss Daisy; and Witness. Her TV credits Pattie LuPone is thrilled to be reunited Old Neighborhood, Terrence McNally’s include American Horror Story: Coven, with her Evita costar for this concert. Master Class, and her own concert Glee, 30 Rock, Ugly Betty, NBC’s Author of bestseller Patti LuPone On Broadway; and three Will and , the Emmy Award– Patti LuPone: A Memoir, Ms. LuPone’s solo concerts at Carnegie Hall. She also winning PBS broadcasts of Passion and most recent Broadway appearances performs three other concerts: Coulda, Sweeney Todd, PBS ’ include David Mamet’s The Anarchist Woulda, Shoulda; The Lady with the , Oz, the TNT film Monday and the new musical Women on the Torch; and The Gypsy in My Soul. Night Mayhem, Frasier (1998 Emmy Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, for nomination), Law and Order, An which she was nominated for Tony, Beginning in 2000, she’s appeared Evening with Patti LuPone (PBS), and Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle regularly in the Ravinia Festival’s ABC’s Life Goes On. Her recordings Awards. Other recent New York Sondheim series, starring as Mrs. include Far Away Places, Patti LuPone stage appearances include her debut Lovett in Sweeney Todd, Desiree in A at Les Mouches, the 2008 Broadway cast with the Ballet as Little Night Music, Fosca in Passion, recording of Gypsy, The Lady with the guest soloist in their new production Cora Hooper in Anyone Can Whistle, Torch, Sweeney Todd (both the 2006 of The Seven Deadly Sins and her Madame Rose in Gypsy, and in two Broadway revival cast recording and performance as Joanne in the New York different roles in Sunday in the Park 2000 live performance recording on the Philharmonic’s production of Company. with George. A graduate of the first class New York Philharmonic Special Editions of the Drama Division of New York’s label), Matters of the Heart (cited as Winner of the Tony, Drama Desk, and a founding member one of the best recordings of 1999 by and Outer Critics Circle Awards for of ’s Acting Company, both Time Out New York and the Times Best Actress in a Musical and the in which she toured the country for four of London), Pal Joey, Heatwave with Drama League Award for Outstanding years, her subsequent New York credits John Mauceri and the Hollywood Bowl Performance of the Season for her include Dario Fo’s Accidental Death of Orchestra, Sunset Boulevard, and Patti performance as Madame Rose in the An Anarchist; David Mamet’s The Water LuPone Live. Visit www.pattilupone.net most recent Broadway production of Engine, Edmond, and The Woods; and for more information. Gypsy, her other stage credits include Israel Horovitz’s Stage Directions. Other her debut with the Los Angeles Opera in performances in musicals include Pal Weill-Brecht’s Rise and Fall of the City Joey for City Center Encores, Anything MANDY PATINKIN of Mahagonny; the world premiere of Goes (Tony Award nomination, Drama In his 1980 Broadway debut, Mr. Jake Heggie’s opera To Hell and Back Desk Award), The Cradle Will Rock, Patinkin won a Tony Award for his with San Francisco’s Philharmonia Oliver!, Evita (Tony and Drama role as Che in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Baroque Orchestra; Mrs. Lovett in Desk Awards for Best Actress in a Evita and was nominated in 1984 for ’s production of Sweeney Musical), Working, and The Robber his starring role as George in the Pulitzer Todd (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Bridegroom. In London, she won the Prize–winning musical Sunday in the Circle nominations; Drama League Olivier Award for her performances as Park with George. In 1991, he returned Award for Outstanding Contribution Fantine in the original production of Les to Broadway in the Tony Award–winning to ); the title role in Miserables and in the Acting Company musical The Secret Garden, and in 1997, Marc Blitzstein’s Regina, a musical production of The Cradle Will Rock. he played a sold-out engagement of version of Lillian Hellman’s The Little She also created the role of Norma his one-man show Mandy Patinkin in Foxes at the Kennedy Center; Fosca Desmond in Sunset Boulevard and Concert, with all profits benefiting five in a concert version of Passion, which re-created her Broadway performance charitable organizations. Mandy’s other was also broadcast on PBS’s Live From of Maria Callas in Master Class. solo concerts, Dress Casual, Celebrating ; a multicity tour of her Sondheim, and Mamaloshen have been theatrical concert Matters of the Heart; Ms. LuPone’s films include Union presented both on Broadway and off. the City Center Encores production of Square, directed by Nancy Savocca; Can-Can; the New York Philharmonic’s Parker, directed by Taylor Hackford; In 2009, Mr. Patinkin celebrated the productions of Candide and Sweeney City by The Sea; Heist and State and 20th anniversary of performing his solo Todd (New York Philharmonic debut); Main, both written and directed by concerts with a two-week run of all his performances on Broadway in Michael David Mamet; Summer of Sam; Driving concerts in repertory at New York’s

36 Stanford Live Magazine April/May 2014 Public Theater, the very space he began version of ’s his concert career. He continued the for BBC/WGBH-; and episodes celebration with a critically acclaimed of Three Rivers, The Larry Sanders two-week run of Mandy Patinkin Show (1996 Emmy nomination), Law in Concert in London’s West End and Order, Boston Public, Touched at the Duke of York’s Theatre. Mr. by an Angel, and . Patinkin’s other stage credits include the world premiere of Compulsion, a In 1989, Mr. Patinkin began his concert new play by Rinne Groff and directed career at . This by Oskar Eustis, in which he appeared coincided with the release of his first in productions at Yale Rep, Berkeley solo album entitled Mandy Patinkin. Rep, and finally at the Public Theater in Since then, he has toured extensively, early 2011; Paradise Found (London’s appearing to sold-out audiences across ); the United States, Canada, London, (); Enemy of and Australia and performing songs the People (Williamstown Theater from writers including Stephen Bri 121112 glimmer 1_3v.pdf Festival); The Wild Party (2000 Tony Sondheim, Richard Rodgers and Oscar GLIMMER, nomination); ; The Winter’s Hammerstein II, , Randy GLAMOUR, Tale; The Knife; Leave It to Beaver Is Newman, , and Harry Dead; Rebel Women; ; Trelawney Chapin, among others. In 1990, he GLEAM of the “Wells”; ; The released his second solo album entitled Split; Savages; and Henry IV, Part I. Mandy Patinkin in Concert: Dress A sumptuous array of Casual on CBS Records. His 1994 Mr. Patinkin’s feature film credits include recording, Experiment, on the Nonesuch sparkling textiles— Everybody’s Hero, The Choking Man, label, features songs from decades metallic brocades, Pinero, The Adventures of Elmo In of popular music from Irving Berlin to beaded French laces, Grouchland, Lulu on the Bridge, Men Alan Menken. Also recorded on the satins, velvets and with Guns, The Princess Bride, Yentl Nonesuch label are Oscar and Steve, (1984 Golden Globe nomination), The Leonard Bernstein’s New York, Kidults, embellishments. Music of Chance, Daniel, , and Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim. Impromptu, The Doctor, Alien Nation, In 1998, he debuted his most personal Dick Tracy, The House on Carroll project, Mamaloshen, a collection of Street, True Colors, Maxie, and Squanto: traditional, classic, and contemporary Indian Warrior. He won a 1995 Emmy songs sung entirely in . The Award (as well as a Golden Globe recording of Mamaloshen won the nomination) for his performance in the Deutschen Schallplattenpreis (Germany’s CBS series Hope and recently equivalent of the Grammy Award). In starred in the CBS series Criminal October 2007, Mr. Patinkin debuted Minds as FBI profiler Jason Gideon and a new concert with dear friend Patti in the Showtime original series Dead LuPone, and they continue touring their Like Me as the reaper Rube Sofer. Mr. show, An Evening with Patti LuPone Patinkin returns to TV in the Emmy and Mandy Patinkin, throughout and Golden Globe Award–winning the United States, Australia, New Showtime original series Zealand, and most recently during a as CIA agent Saul Berenson. His other nine-week Broadway run at the Ethel television appearances include the role Barrymore Theatre. He continues to 146 GEARY STREET · SAN FRANCISCO of Kenneth Duberstein in the Showtime collaborate with An Evening with JUST OFF UNION SQUARE film Strange Justice; Quasimodo Mandy Patinkin and Nathan Gunn 415.392.2910 · MON - SAT 10 - 6 WWW.BRITEXFABRICS.COM opposite Richard Harris in the TNT film and most recently The Last Two presentation of The Hunchback; a film People on Earth: An Apocalyptic

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Vaudeville—starring Mr. Patinkin and New York, Jerry Hadley’s crossover Santa Fe Opera. Mr. Korins worked the performance artist Taylor Mac, with CDs, and many original cast recordings as the creative director to , direction and choreography by Susan of the above-mentioned shows. designing several concerts in the United Stroman—and Bridges, a new concert States and abroad. He is the recipient of starring Mr. Patinkin, Paul Ford, and Ann Reinking (Choreography) won the Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, and three a Middle Eastern trio. Mr. Patinkin 1997 Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Henry Hewes Awards as well as an resides in New York City with his wife, Critics Circle Awards for Choreography for Sustained Excellence actress and writer Kathryn Grody. for the Broadway revival of Chicago in Design. He is also the father of Stella and was nominated for a Tony for and Vivian. See more information Paul Ford (Music Direction, Piano) was codirection of Fosse. Choreography at www.davidkorinsdesign.com. the original pianist for the Broadway/ credits include A Tribute to George off-Broadway productions of Stephen Harrison (ABT), Applause (national Eric Cornwell (Lighting Design) has Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with tour), Bye-Bye Birdie (ABC-TV), been associated with Mandy Patinkin’s George, Into the Woods, Passion, Legends (Joffrey Ballet), Nilsson/ tours and Broadway concerts for more Assassins, the revival of Pacific Schmillson (Spectrum Dance Company), than 20 years. He has also created Overtures, and the Tony Award– The Threepenny Opera (Williamstown lighting for , Eli Wallach, winning revival of Assassins. His other Theatre Festival), Chicago (Civic and Anne Jackson in addition to dozens Broadway/off-Broadway credits include Light Opera Long Beach), Suite to of dance, opera, and theater companies the Roundabout Theatre’s revivals of Pal Sondheim (Pacific Northwest Ballet), in the New York area. Mr. Cornwell’s Joey and 110 in the Shade, Tom Sawyer, Pal Joey (Goodman Theatre), The lighting work has taken him across High Society, , Rags, A Day in Visit (Goodman Theatre, Signature North America many times and through Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine, The Theatre), and The White City (Thodos Europe, Asia, South America, Australia, Secret Garden, , Falsettos, and Dance). Performance credits include and New Zealand. While waiting for Upstairs at O’Neal’s. Mr. Ford was the Roxie Hart in Chicago, Bye-Bye Birdie gigs in Africa and Antarctica to complete pianist for the acclaimed Follies concert (national tour), ’s Dancin’ his world tour, he creates software at Lincoln Center, the Carnegie Hall (1978 Tony nomination), Sweet Charity, for entertainment lighting design. concert performances of Sondheim: A Pippin, Coco, Over Here!, Goodtime Celebration at Carnegie Hall, Anyone Charley (1975 Tony nomination), and Daniel J. Gerhard (Sound Design) has Can Whistle, with The Unsinkable Molly Brown. Feature extensive audio-design experience in the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, film credits include All That Jazz, both the live and recorded divisions Gypsy with Patti LuPone and the , Micki and Maude, and Movie of the business. He has designed and Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Movie. Ms. Reinking is the producer engineered many live telecast events episodes of PBS’s My Favorite Broadway. of two award-winning documentaries: and shows, such as the , In 2008, he played for the televised Two Worlds, One Planet, concerning the Grammy Awards, Comedy production of with the New high-functioning autism, and In My Central series, The X Factor, Celebrity York Philharmonic and the Carnegie Hands, a story of Marfan syndrome. Apprentice Finale, Robert Klein Show, Hall concerts of South Pacific (with Denis Leary on HBO, Wanda Sykes on Reba McIntyre), Show Boat, and ABBA’s David Korins (Production Design) HBO, Big Apple Circus, The Today Kristina. Mr. Ford has accompanied has worked on Broadway in Motown, Show, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and Mr. Patinkin on tour, on Broadway Annie, Bring It On, Vanya and Sonia numerous other specials. Mr. Gerhard and off, in Mandy Patinkin in Concert: and Masha and Spike, Chinglish, An has created studio designs for Late Show Dress Casual, Mamaloshen, Celebrating Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy with David Letterman, Who Wants to Sondheim, and An Evening with Patti Patinkin, Magic/Bird, Godspell, The Pee- Be a Millionaire, Survivor, The View, and LuPone and Mandy Patinkin. Recent Wee Herman Show, Lombardi, Passing others. He has designed theatrical and shows include Anyone Can Whistle Strange, and Bridge and Tunnel. He has multimedia shows in the United States, at Encores, the Encores gala honoring also worked extensively off Broadway Europe, and Japan, such as Sinatra, Stephen Sondheim, and the televised and regionally. His opera credits include His Voice, His World, His Way; Damn Sondheim: The Birthday Concert at world premieres of The Gospel of Mary Yankees; Hello Dolly; A Funny Thing Avery Fisher Hall. He can be heard on all Magdalene at the San Francisco Opera Happened on the Way to the Forum; of Patinkin’s CDs, Leonard Bernstein’s and Oscar and Life Is a Dream at the The Pirates of Penzance; and the Radio

38 Stanford Live Magazine April/May 2014 City Christmas Spectaculars across The Music Man, 42nd Street, Wrong Production Manager, Eric Cornwell North America. Mr. Gerhard still Mountain, Into the Woods, , Stage Manager/Lighting performs as a flutist, his original Dracula, and Good Vibrations as a Supervisor, Jason Brouillard vocation. He graduated from the member of Dodger Management Group. Eastman School of Music and has Stage Manager/Lighting Supervisor, Matthew Aaron Stern performed with such groups as AWA Partners (Exclusive Tour the New York Philharmonic, the Direction) represents the joint forces of Stage Manager/Lighting Brooklyn Philharmonic, the San Diego AVID Touring Group and AWA Touring Supervisor, Ron Vodicka Symphony, the Metropolitan Opera, Services. The organization’s new roster Stage Manager, Laura Skolnik and the Rochester Philharmonic. includes Green Day’s American Idiot, Cathy Rigby Is Peter Pan, A Christmas Sound Mixer, Mark Fiore Staci Levine (Producer), owner of Story: The Musical, Mandy Patinkin Management Associate, Tim Hurley Groundswell Theatricals, is a producer in Concert, An Evening with Patti Assistant to Ms. LuPone, Maeve Butler and general manager working in theater, LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, and Dr. concerts, and event management. Ms. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Dresser, Lyle Jones Levine has produced on Broadway, on The Musical. Past projects include Associate Choreographer, London’s West End, and on tour with The Phantom of the Opera, Disney’s Jim Borstelmann shows playing both domestically and Beauty and the Beast, DreamWorks Artwork/Logo, Serino/Coyne internationally. Current productions Madagascar Live, and Monty Python’s include An Evening with Patti LuPone Spamalot. For more information, Production Photos, Brigitte and Mandy Patinkin; John Lithgow’s see www.awa-partners.com: Lacombe and Joan Marcus one-man show Stories by Heart; An Publicist for Ms. LuPone, Philip Rinaldi Evening with Mandy Patinkin and Staff for An Evening with Patti Nathan Gunn; The Last Two People LuPone and Mandy Patinkin: Special thanks to Victoria Traube, on Earth: An Apocalyptic Vaudeville, Carol Kaplan, Nicole Borrelli Hearn, starring Mandy Patinkin and Taylor Produced and Managed by and Opus 3 Artists. Mac with direction and choreography Except For This, LLC by ; and all of Mandy Staci Levine Patinkin’s solo concerts. Ms. Levine has produced works by the playwright Exclusive Tour Direction David Simpatico, including the play AWA Partners Mary, the musical drama The Screams (212) 307-0800 of Kitty Genovese (with music by Will [email protected] Todd), and the film Wish Fulfillment. www.awa-partners.com She general managed the off-Broadway L. Glenn Poppleton, Alison play The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant Spiriti, Robin Mishik-Jett, Sean by Fassbinder and was the general Mackey, Jessica S. Francis manager for Dre.dance, a contemporary dance company created by Taye Diggs Tour Marketing and Press and Andrew Palermo. Projects in Representation development include the new musical C Major Entertainment Marketing, Inc. Let Loose the Horses, with music by The Catherine Major Rescues, and They’re Playing His Songs, a musical tribute to the late Marvin For more information on An Evening Hamlisch, created by David Zippel. with Patti LuPone and Mandy From 1996 to 2005, Ms. Levine was Patinkin, visit these websites: associated with the Dodgers, working www.pattiandmandy.com on numerous Broadway, off-Broadway, www.pattilupone.net and touring productions, including www.mandypatinkin.org , Footloose, High Society, Blast!,

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