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Sundance INSTITUTE at BAM

May 11—21, 2006

Sundance Theatre Songbook Audra McDonald, Host

BAMcafé May 15, 2006, 8PM SUNDANCE THEATRE SONGBOOK

A WELCOME FROM PHILIP HIMBERG

It is my great pleasure to welcome you to the Sundance Theatre Songbook as part of the at BAM series. Tonight’s program is an opportunity to hear the work of a few of the composers and lyricists who have participated in the Labs and workshops that make up the Sundance Institute Theatre Program. And in keeping with Sundance’s commitment to discovery, tonight’s program consists principally of work that is new or has been rarely performed.

While Sundance has become synonymous with independent film, our work in theatre is not as widely known, even though it has had great impact. With three annual programs focused on different stages of the creative process, we work to provide artists with a supportive environment in which the pressures of realizing a finished product are removed. The Sundance Theatre Lab is a three-week intensive workshop held at Sundance, Utah for the development of up to eight new stage works each year. The Sundance Theatre Lab at White Oak in Florida is focused on supporting artists in their development of musical and ensemble theatre. And the Sundance Playwrights Retreat at Ucross Foundation in Wyoming is a writing colony for playwrights and composers. We encourage the participating playwrights, directors, composers, and librettists to experiment with their work and to find and emphasize the elements that make their plays unique.

Work ranging from The Light in the Piazza to Crowns to I Am My Own Wife has come through the Sundance Theatre Program, and tonight’s program reflects the innovative and independent artists we are honored to work with each year. I would like to thank these artists for sharing their work with us, our colleagues at BAM for collaborating with us to present this series, Margaret Whiting and the Mercer Foundation for their invaluable support, and each of you for joining us tonight.

Sincerely,

Philip Himberg Producing Artistic Director Sundance Institute Theatre Program SUNDANCE THEATRE SONGBOOK

A SPECIAL GREETING FROM MARGARET WHITING

As president of The Johnny Mercer Foundation, I am thrilled that we were asked to present this sensational evening. I feel like a proud relative since it was our Johnny Mercer Foundation who funded the original Sundance Theatre Lab workshop for The Light In The Piazza, Broadway’s Tony Award winning musical, featuring ’s triumphant score. The success of that show was very personal to me since I’m Adam’s #1 fan, I adore his mother, , and I did okay with a couple of her old man’s songs.

The Johnny Mercer Foundation’s partnership with Sundance not only yielded three magical years of Theatre Lab Workshops (including the development of new musicals by and Michael Torke, both represented here tonight), but together we also launched a series of unforgettable collaborative weekends called “The Power of American Popular Song” bringing together young songwrit- ers and performers with celebrated icons including Alan and Marilyn Bergman, Jimmy Webb, , Melissa Manchester, and Betty Buckley.

The Johnny Mercer Foundation’s mission is “to preserve and celebrate Our Great American Songbook” because we believe our American Popular Songs are who we are.

Our “Accentuate the Positive” program introduces our rich musical heritage of popular songs to elementary school children all over the country and helps them to understand that these songs belong to them.

We sponsor lyric-writing labs for children as well as teacher-training labs and a student activity guide for kids call “LyricNOTES,” which explains how a song is born, how music and lyrics are conceived and written, and how these songs reflect our passions and ideals and tapestry our lives.

There’s so much more. But I don’t want to gush. Please visit our delightfully animated website at johnnymercerfoundation.org. I’m extremely proud of The Johnny Mercer Foundation and our very special relationship with Sundance. My love and gratitude to everyone who has contributed to this spectacular evening. It’s a night I’ll never forget.

Sincerely,

Margaret Whiting SUNDANCE THEATRE SONGBOOK

Presented by the Johnny Mercer Foundation

Additional music program support is provided by the Shen Family Foundation

Ted Sperling, Director, Sundance Theatre Songbook

— Tonight’s program will include selections from the following —

MARK BENNETT/ JESSICA HAGEDORN Ucross 2003 & Theatre Lab 2005 “Aria” “Don’t Cross the Line” from MOST WANTED from MOST WANTED Daniel Torres, Matt Cavenaugh, Adriane Lenox, singer Valerie MacCarthy, singers James Sampliner, piano James Sampliner, piano

MARK CAMPBELL / STEVEN LUTVAK Theatre Lab 2002 & White Oak 2005 / Ucross 2004 and Theatre Lab 2006 “Exit Right” from SONGS FROM AN UNMADE BED Steven Lutvak, singer and pianist

MARK CAMPBELL / MICHAEL TORKE Theatre Lab 2002 & White Oak 2004 / Theatre Lab 2002 & White Oak 2004 “A Few Days Away” from THE HOUSE OF MIRTH Marla Schaffel, singer Michael Torke, piano

CHRISTOPHER DROBNY Theatre Lab 2000 “Josephine’s Farewell” from K Erin Hill, singer Christopher Drobny, piano SUNDANCE THEATRE SONGBOOK

SCOTT FRANKEL / White Oak 2005 & 2006 “Sure Of You” from Celia Keenan-Bolger & Matt Cavenaugh, singers Dan Lipton, piano

MICHAEL FRIEDMAN White Oak 2006

“Song of Progressive Disenchantment” “Lost Horizon” from NOBODY’S LUNCH Caitlin Miller & Trey Lyford, singers Caitlin Miller & Trey Lyford, singers Michael Friedman, piano Michael Friedman, piano

JENNY GIERING Ucross 2006

“House on the Hill” “Sea Prayers” Jenny Giering, singer Jenny Giering, singer Brendan Milburn, piano Brendan Milburn, piano

RICKY IAN GORDON White Oak 2003

“Is It Too Late?” “God Is True” from MY LIFE WITH ALBERTINE from DREAM TRUE Kelli O’Hara, singer Kelli O’Hara, singer Ricky Ian Gordon, piano Ricky Ian Gordon, piano

ADAM GUETTEL Theatre Lab 2002 “Dividing Day” from THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA Fred Hersch, arranger Audra McDonald, singer , piano SUNDANCE THEATRE SONGBOOK

ANDREW LIPPA Ucross 2002

“Finally Found My Thing” “A Story of My Own” from JERRY CHRISTMAS , singer Celia Keenan-Bolger & David Reiser, singers James Sampliner, piano Andrew Lippa, piano

STEVEN LUTVAK Ucross 2004 & Theatre Lab 2006 “Poison in My Pocket” from KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS Steven Lutvak & Malcolm Gets, singer Steven Lutvak, piano

DUNCAN SHEIK / Theatre Lab 2000

“The Lover from Hell” “ A Purple Trail” from NERO from THE NIGHTINGALE , singer / guitar Mandy Gonzalez & Duncan Sheik, singers Dan Lipton, piano

STEWART WALLACE Theatre Lab 2001 “You Can Live Enough” from SUPERMAX Bill Youmans, singer Dan Lipton, pianist

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE THEATRE PROGRAM Philip Himberg, Producing Artistic Director Deborah Stover, Associate Producer Christopher Hibma, Coordinator SUNDANCE THEATRE SONGBOOK

Composer/Lyricist Bios The Scarlet Letter with Marsha Norman and a new commission with Mark Campbell for the MARK BENNETT Transport Group. Awards: Larson Award, 2econd Composer/co-lyricist for Most Wanted (in col- Stage’s Klinsky Prize, Loewe Award, Clifton Art- laboration with writer Jessica Hagedorn and ist in Residence at Harvard, Sundance’s 2006 director ), which was a commission Ucross Residency. Workshops and readings at from the La Jolla Playhouse and was included Barrington Stage, Theatreworks/Palo Alto, Wil- in both the 2005 Sundance Theatre Lab and liamstown, The O’Neill. the 2003 Sundance Playwrights Retreat at Ucross. His scores, songs, and sound designs for MICHAEL FRIEDMAN has been the composer/ Broadway, Off-Broadway and regional theaters lyricist for the Civilians’ Nobody’s Lunch (59E59 include Henry IV ( Theater), and P.S. 122), Gone Missing (, The Seagull (Mike Nichols, Director), Golda’s National Tour, and London’s Gate Theatre), and Balcony, The Goat, Lily Tomlin’s The Search..., Canard, Canard, Goose? as well as for Darko A View from the Bridge, Mad Forest, Dead End, Tresnjak’s The Blue Demon (Huntington). With A Christmas Carol, Songs From an Unmade Steve Cosson, he wrote Paris Commune (La Bed, Jessica Hagedorn’s Dogeaters, and scores Jolla Playhouse). His music has also been heard for eight Shakespeare productions for the New in the Signature Theatre’s current production York Shakespeare Festival/Joseph Papp Public of ’s Landscape Of The Body, in Theater. Currently he is on the music Christopher Durang’s Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild and sound for next season’s Tom Stoppard trilogy, Christmas Binge, as well as All Wear Bowlers, The Coast of Utopia (directed by Jack O’Brien) God Hates The Irish, Fully Committed, and at as well as developing a new musical for Nicholas NYSF/Public, NYTW, , Martin and the Huntington Theatre . Roundabout, Soho Rep, Theater for a New Bennett is the recipient of Obie, Bessie, and Audience, Signature, La Mama, and The Acting Ovation Awards and multiple Drama Desk and Company, Hartford Stage, Humana Festival, ART, Lucille Lortel Award nominations. London’s Soho Theatre, and for six seasons at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. His film work CHRISTOHER DROBNY includes On Common Ground and Affair Game. Composer/Librettist: K (from the writings of He was the dramaturg for the recent Broadway Kafka), Sundance Theatre Lab; Kissing And revival of A Raisin in the Sun, directed by Kenny Horrid Strife, Company of Philadelphia; Leon. Currently, he is working on musical theater Composer: Lucy’s Lapses, Portland Opera, commissions from The La Jolla Playhouse, Hun- Playwrights Horizons New Theatre Wing; Fire tington Theatre Company, The Kennedy Center, In The Future, Minnesota Opera New Music- Playwrights Horizons, The Foundry Theatre, and Theatre Ensemble; Arranger/Conductor: with The Civilians. He is an artistic associate at Verboten, Huntington Theatre (Boston); and New York Theatre Workshop, was a MacDowell two collaborations with Anne Bogart, Marathon Fellow, and is a founding associate artist of the Dancing (En Garde Arts) and American Silents Obie-Award-winning Civilians. He is a graduate (Columbia University). of Harvard College.

JENNY GIERING RICKY IAN GORDON’s credits include My Life Current Projects: Caraboo (book—Marsha Nor- With Albertine (2002 AT&T Award), with Richard man, lyrics—Beth Blatt), The Mistress Cycle Nelson at Playwrights Horizons (Cast Record- (book & lyrics—Beth Blatt), Begin Again (book ing PS Classics, Vocal Score Williamson Music), & lyrics—Laura Harrington; commissioned by Dream True ( Award), with Tina the Boston Music Theatre Project). Upcoming: Landau at The Vineyard Theater SUNDANCE THEATRE SONGBOOK

(Recording PS Classics); The Tibetan Book of the Music of Ricky Ian Gordon, Songs For Our Time, Dead, with Jean Claude Van Itallie at Houston and Orpheus and Euridice. Awards include the Grand Opera and The American Music Theater National Institute for Music Theater Award, the Festival; Only Heaven, with Langston Hughes Award, The Gilman and for Encompass Opera (Recording PS Classics); Gonzalez-Falla Music Theater Foundation Award, Stonewall/Night Variations, for En Garde Arts, the Foundation Award, the and States Of Independence, for The American Constance Klinsky Award, a National Institute For Music Theater Festival, both with ; Music Theater Award, an American Music Center and Autumn Valentine, with Dorothy Parker, for award, and numerous ASCAP awards. Opera Omaha’s 1992 Fall Festival. As composer- in-residence at The Lyric Opera of from SCOTT FRANKEL has written the music for Grey 2001—03, he wrote Morning Star, with William Gardens (Playwrights Horizons; Richard Rodgers Hoffman. Mar 13, 2001, at Lincoln Center, he Award), Doll (Ravinia Festival; Richard Rodgers was presented as part of the American Song- Award), and Meet Mister Future (Winner, Global book Series, and on Apr 28 & 29, 2002, there Search for New Musicals). As a music director, were two sold out concerts of Gordon’s music at conductor, and pianist, he has been associated The Guggenheim Museum as part of the Works with the original Broadway productions of Into and Process series. Gordon’s songs have been The Woods, Les Misérables, Jerome Robbins’ performed and recorded by many internationally Broadway, Rags, and , as well as known singers including Renee Fleming, Dawn Off-Broadway’s starring Julie Upshaw, Audra McDonald, , Andrews. Motion picture credits include Mike Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Deborah Voight, Andrea Nichols’ Postcards From the Edge, where he can Marcovicci, and Betty Buckley. Other recordings be seen (and heard) playing for and include two Nonesuch CD’s: Audra McDonald’s Shirley MacLaine. His many recordings include Way Back To Paradise, and Bright Eyed Joy: Barbra Streisand’s Back to Broadway and a slew The Songs Of Ricky Ian Gordon, and Water of original cast albums. Frankel is a two-time Music/A 2 Part Requiem on Of Eternal Light, the fellow of the MacDowell Colony and a graduate of Catalyst/BMG Classics CD with Musica Sacra . conducted by Richard Westenberg. Harolyn Blackwell recorded Genius Child, his cycle of MICHAEL KORIE wrote the lyrics to Grey ten Langston Hughes settings, for RCA Victor, on Gardens, book by , music by Scott the CD entitled, Strange Hurt. Current projects Frankel, developed at The Sundance Institute and include an opera of The Grapes Of Wrath with premiered this season off-Broadway at Play- Michael Korie for Minnesota, Houston, and Utah, wrights Horizons directed by Michael Greif. Also premiering in February 2007. His collabora- with composer Frankel he wrote book and lyrics tion with choreographer Sean Curran, Art Song to Doll (Sundance Institute, Chicago’s Ravinia Dance premiered at The Joyce Theater in June Festival) and Meet Mister Future (Cardiff Festival, 2005, and Orpheus and Euridice premiered as Barrington Stage, 2006). His librettos for part of Lincoln Center’s New Visions, American with composer Stewart Wallace include Harvey Songbook, and Great Performers Series, Oct 5, Milk (San Francisco Opera, 2005, with soprano Elizabeth Futral, directed Opera); Kabbalah (Brooklyn Academy Next Wave and choreographed by Doug Varone (recording; Festival, Dance Theatre Workshop); Where’s Ghostlight Records). Published and represented Dick? (Houston Grand Opera, directed by Richard by Williamson Music, his publications include Foreman); Hopper’s Wife (Long Beach Opera); four songbooks, A Horse With Wings, Genius and Supermax (in progress). His libretto to Child, Only Heaven, and Finding Home. Three The Grapes Of Wrath, composed by Ricky Ian publications herald a new relationship with Gordon, premieres in 2007 at Minnesota Opera, publisher Carl Fischer Music as well: The Piano Utah Opera, and Houston Grand Opera. He has SUNDANCE THEATRE SONGBOOK

received The Award, Jonathan missioned by Martin McCallum, workshopped Larson Foundation Award, and The Richard both at the O’Neill and with La Jolla Playhouse). Rodgers Award. He lives in New York City with He is the lyricist for Sheik’s critically-acclaimed Ivan Sygoda. album (Nonesuch), and together the two wrote the songs for Michael Mayer’s STEVEN LUTVAK wrote Campaign of the feature film A Home at the End of the World Century with Robert L. Freedman, which was (Warner Classics) as well as the independent commissioned by the American Musical Theater feature Brother’s Shadow. Sater is currently of San Jose, presented by the Chicago Humani- developing two projects for HBO, a pilot for ties Festival, and just won the 2006 California Showtime (with Paul Reiser), and a feature film Musical Theater Award from the Beverly Hills for New Line (with director, Jessie Nelson). He Theater Guild. Other musicals include Esmeralda, continues to work with a variety of composers in Almost September, and The Wayside Inn; he the pop world. scored Hannah Senesh, which has toured the world. Kind Hearts And Coronets will shortly be DUNCAN SHEIK traveled in 1996 to France to seen in a reading at the Huntington Theater in record his debut album for . It Boston. Kind Hearts and Campaign were both earned him a RIAA Gold Record award as well as developed with the help of the Sundance Theatre a Grammy nomination. He followed up his debut Program and the Ucross Foundation. Lutvak with the first single from the Great Expectations wrote the title song to Paramount’s hit film Mad Soundtrack, which also went gold. In 1998 he Hot Ballroom. He has won awards from the NEA, released his second full-length, Humming, on the Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation, Atlantic and then, wishing to make a different and was the first recipient of the Johnny Mercer kind of record, moved to the more adventurous Emerging American Songwriter Award. Known as Nonesuch label for his third release. The resulting a singer/songwriter, he has performed his songs record, Phantom Moon, an all-acoustic collabora- across the country, including at tion with playwright/lyricist Steven Sater, was on with the New York Pops. His debut album is The the 2001 top ten lists of many critics including Time It Takes. The New York Times and The Village Voice. Sheik returned to Atlantic for his fourth release, the STEVEN SATER plays include the long-running more modern Daylight, the first single from which Off-Broadway hit Carbondale Dreams, Perfect went top 20 in the U.S. and was a number one For You, Doll (Rosenthal Prize, Cincinnati Play- hit across Asia. Soon after the release of Daylight, house), Umbrage (Steppenwolf New Play Prize), Sheik composed original music for the Shake- A Footnote To The Iliad (New York Stage and speare in the Park Production of Twelfth Night. Film, The Miniature Theatre of Chester), Asylum Last year Sheik scored his first feature film, A (Naked Angels), Murder At The Gates (commis- Home At the End of the World for Warner Broth- sioned by Eye of the Storm), In Search Of Lost ers Classics, and his original songs and score Wings (Sanford Meisner) and a reconceived ver- for the movie were released on Milan records. sion of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, with music As well as finishing up his fifth record, Sheik is by Laurie Anderson, which played London’s Lyric completing work on his first full-length musical, Hammersmith and toured internationally. Sater , which had its debut at Lincoln has also collaborated with Duncan Sheik on the Center in February. NY premiere of Umbrage (Here); Nero: Another Golden Rome (currently on stage at the Magic TED SPERLING won the 2005 Tony and Drama Theatre), Spring Awakening (workshopped at Desk Awards (with Adam Guettel and Bruce Sundance, featured in Lincoln Center Theater’s Coughlin) for his orchestrations of The Light In Great American Songbook Series, forthcoming at The Piazza, for which he was also music director. the Atlantic Theatre), and The Nightingale (com- Other Broadway credits as music director/con SUNDANCE THEATRE SONGBOOK ductor/ pianist include Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and premiered by Kurt Masur and the New York The Fully Monty, How to Succeed in Busi- Philharmonic; Strawberry Fields, whose “Great ness Without Really Trying, Kiss of the Spider Performances” broadcast was nominated for Woman, Angels in America, My Favorite Year, an Emmy Award; and two evening-length story Falsettos, Drood, Les Misérables, Roza, and ballets, The Contract, and An Italian Straw Hat, Sunday in the Park with George. Sperling was for James Kudelka and the National Ballet of also an original cast member of the Broadway Canada. In 1998 Torke was appointed Associate musical . Off-Broadway credits as music Composer of the Royal Scottish National Orches- director include A Man of No Importance, Wise tra. Naxos released an album including Rapture, Guys, A New Brain, Saturn Returns, Floyd Col- his percussion concerto, and An American lins, Falsettoland, and Romance in Hard Times. Abroad, a tone poem, both of which were com- Sperling’s work as a stage director includes the missioned and performed by the RSNO. In 2003 world premieres of three musicals: See What I Torke founded Ecstatic Records and acquired the Wanna See, Charlotte: Life? Or Theater?, and rights to re-issue the Decca/Argo catalog of his Striking 12, as well as a revival of Lady In The works. The boxed set of the complete recordings Dark starring Andrea Marcovicci. He has con- was selected by The New York Times as one of ducted the scores for the films The Manchurian the top Classical albums of the year. Two new re- Candidate and Everything Is Illuminated, and leases occurred in 2005: Strawberry Fields, and directed the short film, Love Mom, starring Tonya An Italian Straw Hat. Upcoming projects include Pinkins, which has been shown in five interna- opera commissions from the , tional festivals. Sperling has been soprano Audra the Skylight Opera, and a tap concerto for Savion McDonald’s music director since 1999, and Glover. recently conducted her performances at Carnegie Hall and the Houston Grand Opera. Singer Bios

MICHAEL TORKE MATT CAVENAUGH just finished the sold-out With his two best known early pieces, Ecstatic run of Grey Gardens at Playwrights Horizons Orange and Yellow Pages, written in 1985 while where he played the dual roles of Joe Kennedy still a composition student at Yale, Michael Jr./Jerry Torre. Broadway: Urban Cowboy. Na- Torke practically defined post-Minimalism, a tional Tours: Thoroughly Modern Millie. Selected music which utilizes the repetitive structures regional credits include 2 Lives (George Street of a previous generation to incorporate musical Playhouse), Palm Beach (La Jolla Playhouse), techniques from both the classical tradition and Carousel (Pittsburgh CLO), Princesses (Good- the contemporary pop world. At 23, Torke cut speed), Anything Goes (TUTS), Footloose short his graduate study to begin his professional (TBTS), Dorian (Denver Center), john and jen career in New York City, where he was soon (Kitchen). TV: One Life to Live. Film: Sexual signed by Boosey and Hawkes (the publisher of Dependency. Cavenaugh was a part of Grey Stravinsky and Copland), became an exclusive Gardens at Sundance at White Oak as well as recording artist with Argo/Decca Records, and Most Wanted in NYC. A native Arkansan, he is a began his five-year collaboration with Peter Mar- graduate of Ithaca College. tins and New York City Ballet. Highlights since then include: Color Music (1985–89), a series MALCOLM GETS of orchestral pieces that each explore a single, New York theater: Amour (Tony and Drama Desk specific color; Javelin, recorded both for Argo nominations), Finian’s Rainbow (Drama League and for John William’s Summon the Heroes, the nomination), Polish Joke, Boys and Girls, The official 1996 Olympics album; Four Seasons, a Apple Tree, , A New 65-minute oratorio commissioned by the Walt Brain, Merrily We Roll Along (Drama Desk nomi- Disney Company to celebrate the millennium nation, ), The Two Gentlemen SUNDANCE THEATRE SONGBOOK

Of Verona (Obie Award), Hello Again, Juno, The Show, The Chris Rock Show, and in Tim Moliere Comedies. He has sung all over the Robbins’ film Cradle Will Rock (she also appears country, most recently at the Hollywood Bowl, on the soundtrack). Hill is a voice-over artist Disney Hall, and Birdland. Television includes with The William Morris Agency. Law and Order, Remember WENN, and Caro- line in the City (Richard). Films are Thirteen CELIA KEENAN-BOLGER is currently perform- Conversations About One Thing, Love in the ing on Broadway in The 25th Annual Putnam Time of Money, and the recent Adam and Steve. County Spelling Bee (Tony Award Nomination, He can be heard on a dozen Original Cast CD’s, , Theatre World Award). She including : Mostly Sondheim, his has appeared Off-Broadway in Michael John Carnegie Hall debut. He is currently appearing LaChiusa’s Little Fish (Second Stage Theatre), in Terrence McNally’s new play Some Men at Kindertransport (MTC), Spelling Bee (Second Philadelphia Theatre Company. Stage Theatre), and Summer of ’42 (Variety Arts). Favorite regional credits include Johanna MANDY GONZALEZ was last seen on Broad- in Sweeney Todd (Kennedy Center Sondheim way in the musical Lennon, based on the life of Celebration), Emily in Our Town (The Intiman John Lennon and Yoko Ono. She has performed Theatre), and Clara in The Light In The Piazza on Broadway as Princess Amneris in the Elton (Goodman Theatre). Concerts: The Lincoln John/ musical , and starred op- Center American Songbook Series with Adam posite Michael Crawford as Sarah in Dance of Guettel, An Evening with Audra McDonald at the the Vampires. Gonzalez is perhaps best known Michigan Theatre, West Coast premiere of Bill for her OBIE Award-winning performance in Finn’s Elegies: A , World AIDS Day the Off-Broadway production of Eli’s Comin’, Concert of Secret Garden (Martha). Keenan-Bol- the musical based on the lyrics and music of ger graduated from the singer/songwriter Laura Nyro. Gonzalez has also Program. performed as a back-up singer for the Divine Bette Midler on her Millennium Tour of the U.S. ADRIANE LENOX is no stranger to Broadway, and Canada. She is a proud member of the having appeared in shows that include Ain’t Broadway Inspirational Voices. Film/TV credits Misbehavin’; ; How to Succeed in include: Julie Taymor’s Across the Universe, In Business Without Really Trying; and Kiss Me, God’s Hands, NBC’s Third Watch, and Guiding Kate among others. NY audiences remember Light. She can be heard on the film sound tracks her particularly for her Obie and AUDELCO of Urban Legend, Tricks, and Mulan 2. Award-winning, multiple-characters perfor- www.mandygonzalez.net mance in Dinah Was. Off-Broadway has also seen her in Miss Evers’ Boys, Cavedweller, ERIN HILL is a harpist/singer-songwriter who Spunk, Suzan-Lori Parks’ The America Play, has also been known to act and play lots of The Venus Hottentot, Beehive, and others. TV other instruments. She’s played and sung with appearances include Law & Order (original and , Joan Osborne, , SVU) and Third Watch. Look for her on “the big Martha Wainwright, Lenny Pickett (of SNL), screen” in new films that include Black Snake John Flansburgh (of They Might Be Giants), Moan, Griffin and Phoenix, and Where God Left Levon Helm (of The Band), on Broadway (in His Shoes. She has worked regionally at such Sam Mendes’ Cabaret), and plays regularly theaters as Arena Stage, receiving the Helen with Will Lee (of Letterman), Jimmy Vivino (of Hayes Award for Outstanding Actress in a musi- Conan), Patti Rothberg, G.E. Smith (of SNL), cal in its acclaimed production of On the Town, and Garth Hudson (of The Band). Many of Hill’s as well as at Berkeley Rep, Yale Rep, the Mark songs have science fiction-laced lyrics, as she is Taper Forum, the Long Wharf Theatre, and the a huge sci-fi buff. She has been on Chappelle’s Alliance Theatre. SUNDANCE THEATRE SONGBOOK

TREY LYFORD is the co-creator of rainpan is a major concert and recording artist who 43’s surreal vaudeville All Wear Bowlers (2005 appears regularly on many of the great stages Drama Desk Nomination, IT Award) which of the world. This season, she tours across the continues to play in venues nationally and U.S. in a solo show with her talented ensemble, internationally, most recently La Jolla Playhouse, making stops in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Korea, and the Sydney Opera House. Rainpan Boston, and New York’s Carnegie Hall (where 43’s new piece Amnesia Curiosa premieres this her 2001 solo debut was a sell-out) singing summer at the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival. fresh arrangements of Broadway favorites. In Credits with Michael Friedman and The Civilians March 2006 she will make her operatic debut include Gone Missing, Paris Commune, and [I at Houston Grand Opera featuring Poulenc’s La Am] Nobody’s Lunch. Further credits include Voix Humaine as well as a companion piece ART, Aspen Comedy Festival, LA’s Kirk Douglas entitled Send written by Michael John LaChiusa. Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, La Jolla McDonald has sung regularly with all the major Playhouse, Folger Theatre, and Edinburgh’s Au- American orchestras, including the Boston Sym- rora Nova. Lyford has a BA from phony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the New and an MFA from UCSD. He lives in Brooklyn York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, with his bride Suli and their dog. and the , under many of the world’s greatest conductors, such as John VALÉRIE MACCARTHY Adams, Sir Simon Rattle, Esa-Pekka Salonen, A native New Yorker, Franco-American Mac- and Michael Tilson Thomas. Overseas she is a Carthy made her acclaimed Broadway debut as returning guest artist at London’s BBC Proms, Musetta in Baz Luhrmann production of La Bo- the London Symphony Orchestra, and the Berlin hème. Her alluring and powerful stage presence Philharmonic, and in the current season she has led to appearances with the Tanglewood, returns to the Châtelet Theatre in Paris, this time Ravinia, and New York Musical Theater Festivals with her solo show. Her film and television work as well as the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Next has been well noted with an Emmy nomina- year she will be part of several new productions tion for her performance in HBO’s Mike Nichols at the Grand Theatre of Geneva, Switzerland. production of Wit (opposite Emma Thomson) MacCarthy created and performed a one-woman and strong recognition for her portrayal of Grace touring show entitled Off The Hook—where Farrell in the made-for-television Disney produc- she offers her personal interpretations of tion of . An exclusive recording artist for Menotti’s The Telephone and Poulenc’s La Voix , her three solo discs (Way Humaine—which has been seen in New York Back to Paradise, , and Happy and toured Belgium. She is also a celebrated Songs) comprising both popular standards and jewelry designer. contemporary music theater songs have won a wide audience. AUDRA MCDONALD Earning an unprecedented three CAITLIN MILLER is an associate artist of The before the age of 30 and a fourth last season Civilians. Civilians shows include Canard, (Carousel, Master Class, , and A Raisin Canard, Goose (Joe’s Pub); Gone Missing in the Sun), singer and actress Audra McDonald (‘06 tour); (I Am) Nobody’s Lunch (P.S. 122, is frequently compared to legendary performers 59E59th, Sundance workshop). Other credits such as Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand. include Debbie Does Dallas (Jane St.), Humana But like all great artists, she is a unique force, Festivals in plays by Naomi Iizuka and Jane blending a luscious, classically-trained soprano Martin, and the world premiere of Lee Blessing’s with an incomparable gift for dramatic truth- Black Sheep (Florida Stage). Miller is a member telling. In addition to her theatrical work she of the all-female comedy improv team MS SUNDANCE THEATRE SONGBOOK

JACKSON, winners of the ECNY Award for Best her portrayal of Jane Eyre in the Tony-nominated Improv Group in NY. She is currently a writer on Broadway musical Jane Eyre. Other Broadway the internet comedy series Floaters. credits included Titanic and Les Misérables, as well as starring in the national tours of , My KELLI O’HARA Fair Lady, and The Sound of Music. Schaffel cre- Broadway: The Pajama Game opposite Harry ated the leading roles off-Broadway in Christina Connick Jr., The Light in the Piazza (Tony and Alberta’s Father, by Polly Pen, and Enter the Outer Critics Circle Award nominations), The Guardsman. Her regional credits include leading Sweet Smell of Success opposite John Lithgow, roles in world premiere musicals Jane Eyre, Dracula, Sondheim’s , Jekyll & Hyde. Off- Let Me Sing, They All Laughed, Lucky In The Broadway: My Life With Albertine (Playwright’s Rain, Glimmerglass, Fanny Hill, as well as in the Horizons). Regional:...Piazza (Goodman Theatre/ classics such as West Side Story, A Little Night Intiman Theatre), Beauty (LaJolla Playhouse), Music, and great plays like Fool For Love and Yeston/Kopit’s Phantom (Lucille Lortel Debut Top Girls, among others. Schaffel also starred Award). Film: The Dying Gaul starring Patri- in the critically acclaimed independent feature cia Clarkson and Campbell Scott. Concerts: I Love You! Don’t Touch Me and was last seen Kennedy Center ( and The in the ’ film Cradle Will Rock. TV: National Symphony Orchestra), Carnegie Hall’s a recurring role as the star’s rocker ex-girlfriend Zankel Hall, Lincoln Center (American Song- on Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, and Law book). TV: The Today Show (NBC), Queer Eye and Order: Special Victims Unit and Criminal (Bravo), Breakfast with the Arts (A&E), Freestyle Intent. Her voice can be heard on several record- (HGTV). Recordings: ...Piazza (Nonesuch); ings including Jane Eyre (original Broadway Sweet Smell..(Sony); ...Albertine; Dream True, and world premiere Toronto Cast Julie Styne Goes Hollywood (PS Classics); OCU recording), The Prince of Egypt (soundtrack) and Graduate (Opera)/Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. A Prairie Home Companion Christmas and on Winner of the State Metropolitan Opera Audi- several Saturday morning cartoons. Schaffel is a tions. graduate of The drama division and studied at the Moscow Art Theatre School. DAVID REISER was last seen on Broadway playing a leading role in the Beach Boys musical DANIEL TORRES is thrilled to be performing in Good Vibrations. He previously played the role the Sundance Theatre Songbook this evening, of Chino in West Side Story at La Scala Opera after playing the role of Danny Reyes in Most House in Milan, Italy; he also played the role Wanted last summer in the Sundance Theatre at The Beiteddine Festival in Beirut, Lebanon, Labs. On Broadway, Torres has been seen as and at Bankamura Hall in Tokyo, Japan. He Walter Hartright in The Woman In White and has enjoyed helping to develop roles in new Young Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. Off-Broad- musicals such as The Green Violin, Everything’s way, he appeared as Juan in Altar Boyz. Most Ducky, and most recently Andrew Lippa’s Jerry recent regional: Tobias in Sweeney Todd at the Christmas. Reiser is a proud graduate of The Cleveland Opera. Upcoming: The Pirate Queen University of Michigan and is currently obtaining in Chicago. Graduate of the Cincinnati Conserva- his Masters of Music at The City University of tory of Music. Please visit www.danieltorres.net New York. He is also a singer/songwriter and for more info. you can hear his first record, Storytellers Ball, at DavidReiser.com. WILLIAM YOUMANS Broadway: Dr. Dillamond in Wicked; Alcindoro MARLA SCHAFFEL received a Tony nomina- in Baz Luhrmann’s La Bohème; Astor, The Ma- tion, the Drama Desk Award, a Drama League jor, and Ismay in Titanic; “Arkansas” Boy in Big Award, and the Outer Critics Circle Award, all for River, and The Little Foxes with Elizabeth Taylor SUNDANCE THEATRE SONGBOOK

(all original casts.) Off Broadway: The Widow BRENDAN MILBURN used to tour around Claire (Horton Foote play, Circle In The Square), the country all the time in a van with his band Miracle Brothers (Vineyard Theatre), Weird GrooveLily; now he stays home and writes Romance (), 12345 ( musicals, produces other people’s records, and theatre Club); Henry V and Flux, (NY Shake- changes his new son’s diaper a lot. Current speare Festival), Orphan of Zhao, and Bombs Projects: Striking 12: The Groovelily Holiday Over Baghdad (Lincoln Center Theater). Film: Show (with Valerie Vigoda and Rachel Sheinkin), Mrs. Soffel, Nadine, Compromising Positions, Sleeping Beauty (with Vigoda and Sheinkin, Fresh Horses, A League of Their Own, Private commissioned by Deaf West), a chamber musi- History of a Campaign That Failed, Roanoak, cal commissioned by the Pittsburgh City Theater, Separate But Equal, Little Match Girl, plus many Watt?!? (with the multiple Emmy award-win- TV shows. ning David Javerbaum), and Wheelhouse (with GrooveLily and Ms. Sheinkin). Jonathan Larson Pianist Bios Award winner, 2006.

DAN LIPTON is a songwriter, arranger, and JAMES SAMPLINER musician whose diverse career bridges pop Broadway: The Wedding Singer, Bklyn: The Mu- music, film, and theater. He has released three sical (music director/conductor), Never Gonna solo albums and received the ASCAPlus Award Dance (associate conductor/arranger). Off- for Popular Music in 2003, 2004, and 2005. Broadway: The Mistress Cycle (NYMF), Ghetto Lipton performs and records with artists like Superstar (Music Supervisor/Orchestrator), feminist hip-hop trio Northern State and indie Radiant Baby (NYSF). Williamstown: Cabaret & rocker Matthew Pop. He also accompanies Main, The Threepenny Opera, Where’s Charley?, acclaimed Nonesuch Records artist Audra Tonight at 8:30, Quark Victory, The Mistress McDonald in concert halls across the country. Cycle, late-night cabaret series. Regional: Most Supporting McDonald, Lipton has played with Wanted (Sundance), Ghetto Superstar (City a number of symphony orchestras and has Theater—Pittsburgh). Arranger/Conductor: Billy performed at Carnegie Hall as well as the White Porter, , Sara Ramirez, Carol House. Other collaborators: actors John Lithgow, Woods, Janine LaManna. Recordings: Bklyn the , Celia Keenan-Bolger; film- Musical—Live!, At the Corner of Broadway and makers Reif Larsen, Corey Rosen, Jeff Yorkes; Soul (Billy Porter). composers Adam Guettel, Duncan Sheik, . Visit danlipton.com. Opening Night Screening and Party presented by: Sundance Institute at BAM Host Committee: Diana Barrett & Robert Vila, Charles M. Diker, Jeanne Donovan Fisher, Barry M. Fox, Dan Klores, Jonathan F.P. & Diana V.C. Rose, Joseph S. Steinberg, and Doug Steiner.

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