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Photo by Allen Weeks by Photo MUSIC AND LYRICS BY BOOK BY BY SUGGESTED BY A FILM BY ORIGINALLY PRODUCED AND DIRECTED ON BROADWAY BY HAROLD DIRECTED BY PETER ROTHSTEIN MUSIC DIRECTION BY JASON HANSEN CHOREOGRAPHY BY HEIDI SPESARD-NOBLE

JAN 23 - MAR 3, 2019 • RITZ THEATER Theater Latté Da presents A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Book by Hugh Wheeler Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick Suggested by a Film by Ingmar Bergman Originally Produced and Directed on Broadway by Directed by Peter Rothstein** Music Direction by Jason Hansen† Choreography by Heidi Spesard-Noble

FEATURING Mark Benninghofen*, Grace Chermak, Bradley Greenwald*, Elizabeth Hawkinson, Susan Hofflander*, Riley McNutt, Rodolfo Nieto, Britta Ollmann*, Sally Wingert*, and Mabel Weismann.

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors **Member of SDC, the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union †Member of Twin Cities Musicians Union, American Federation of Musicians

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC will be performed with one 15-minute intermission.

Opening Night: Saturday, January 26 at 7:30 pm ASL Interpreted and Audio Described Performance: Thursday, February 7 at 7:30 pm

Post-show Conversations: Thursday evenings Jan 31, Feb 7, 14, 21, and 28 Sunday afternoons Jan 27, Feb 3, 10, 17, 24, March 3

Post-show Happy Hour with the cast: Friday February 8 and 22

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.MTIShows.com

The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited. As a courtesy to the performers and other patrons, please check to see that all cell phones, pagers, watches, and other noise-making devices are turned off.

Theater Latté Da is grateful for the generosity of our A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC Production Sponsors Kathy and Allen Lenzmeier.

Thank you to our media sponsor

2 A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Book by Hugh Wheeler Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick Suggested by a Film by Ingmar Bergman Originally Produced and Directed on Broadway by Harold Prince

THE CAST THE PRODUCTION TEAM

Fredrik Egerman ...... Mark Benninghofen* Director...... Peter Rothstein** † Anne Egerman...... Grace Chermak Music Director...... Jason Hansen Choreographer ...... Frid ...... Bradley Greenwald* Heidi Spesard-Noble Assistant Director...... Sara Ochs Countess Charlotte Malcolm...... Elizabeth Hawkinson Dramaturg...... Elissa Adams Madame Leonora Armfeldt ...... Susan Hofflander* Scenic Designer ...... Joel Sass Henrik Egerman ...... Riley McNutt Costume Designer ...... Rich Hamson Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm...... Rodolfo Nieto Lighting Designer ...... Marcus Dilliard^ Petra...... Britta Ollmann* Asst. Lighting Designer ...... Smaida Mara Rizzotto Fredrika Armfeldt...... Mabel Weismann Sound Designer ...... C Andrew Mayer^ Desirée Armfeldt...... Sally Wingert* Stage Manager ...... Tiffany K. Orr* Assistant Stage Manager ...... Amanda K. Bowman* Technical Director ...... Bethany Reinfeld THE MUSICIANS Properties Master ...... Abbee Warmboe † Music Director/ ...... Jason Hansen Hair & Wig Designer ...... Paul Bigot † Woodwinds ...... Mark Henderson Asst. Costume Designer ...... Dakota Blankenship † Wardrobe...... ...... Carolyn Boulay Tiffany Clem † Scenic Charge ...... Angelique Powers ...... Joe Englund † Master Electrician ...... Micayla Thebault-Spieker ...... Greg Angel Audio Engineer ...... Nicholas Tranby Stage Management Intern ...... Lydia Wagner

Followspot Op...... Katie McLean, Wesley Cone Sub Followspot Op...... Ben Eng SETTING Carpenters ...... Eric Charlton, Whitley Cobb, Time: Turn of the Century Ty Waters Place: Electricians ...... Jeremy Ellarby, Claudia Errickson, Nick Fetting, Garvin Jellison, Grant E. Merges, Karin Olson, Joe Vaske Drapers ...... Susan Fick, Barb Portinga, *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors Milly Oudoff, Rebecca Karlsted **Member of SDC, the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, Stitchers ...... Jen Haggerman, Lillian Lee, a national theatrical labor union † Member of Twin Cities Musicians Union, American Federation of Musicians Yelena Rowen, Dakota Blankenship ^Member of the United Scenic Artists, a national union that represents designers Scenic Painters ...... Josie Everett, Jeni Tolifson, and scenic painters for the American theater Stefanie Darby

THEATER LATTÉ DA • LATTEDA.ORG 3 LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR

Theater Latté Da’s first production was a musical revue Silly, silly people, Denise Prosek and I put together called Lost in Boston. Patient and polite It was an evening of songs all cut from Broadway shows. Crying in their teacups Many of the songs landed on the cutting-room floors of Shying from the night Boston theaters and rehearsal studios, as Boston was the When now it smiles, it smiles for lovers chief city at the time for out-of-town tryouts. (I’ve always When next it smiles, it smiles for fools loved that our first foray shed light on discarded and The last it smiles, it smiles for them: forgotten gems.) The others, the rememberers, the truly silly people...

Sondheim wrote a song for A Little Night Music called “Silly Ironically, or perhaps not, I believe these cut lyrics best People” for the character of Frid, Madame Armfeldt’s butler, capture the soul of the show, which is at silly and to sing. It was cut in Boston. Regarding “Silly People,” tragic, romantic and cynical, fanciful and profound. Sondheim writes, “Wrong songs take just as much time to write as right songs, and are frequently good ones, but Sondheim’s frequent collaborator Hal Prince directed they are often impossible to spot as wrong until you see the premiere in Boston. Hal once described the show as them in performance. And what a disappointment they are, “whipped cream with knives.” According to Sondheim, “Hal especially when they’re good.” was more interested in the whipped cream and I was more interested in the knives.” The lyric reads: I have wanted to stage A Little Night Music for years; as a Lie here with me on the grass director I love to both whip the cream and to sharpen the Let the wind be our words knives. I believe it is one of the most dynamic works written As the night smiles down for the musical theater. I hope you love it as much as I do. Don’t they know, don’t they? I’m glad you’re here. No, they don’t, do they? Silly people

Voices glide by, let them pass Let them float in their words ‘Til they slowly drown Don’t they know, don’t they, what they want? Peter Rothstein Founding Artistic Director MUSICAL NUMBERS

ACT ONE ACT TWO

Overture Night Waltz Night Waltz It Would Have Been Wonderful Now Perpetual Anticipation Later Soon The Miller’s Son Glamorous Life (Reprise) Remember Send in the Clowns (Reprise) Last Waltz Liaisons In Praise of Women Every Day a Little Death A Weekend in the Country

4 A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC Costume Renderings by Rich Hamson ABOUT THEATER LATTÉ DA

THE CAST OF ONCE Founded in 1998, Theater Latté Da is in its 21st season of PHOTO BY DAN NORMAN presenting original and re-imagined musical theater. Our Mission Theater Latté Da (TLD) seeks to create new connections between story, music, artist, and audience by exploring and expanding the art of musical Theater Latté Da seeks to create new connections theater. TLD is dedicated to expanding the American Musical Theater with between story, music, artist, and audience by work that speaks to a contemporary audience. Theater Latté Da has fostered innovation and diversity since its conception. We believe in work that is exploring and expanding the art of musical theater. bold and collaborative; we act with integrity and gratitude. These values are integral to the organization’s health and drives the discussion at every stage of decision-making. Through productions that transcend the conventional, Our Values the organization helps solidify the Twin Cities’ reputation as a place where progressive art plays a vital role. We believe in work that is bold and collaborative; we act with integrity and gratitude. Theater Latté Da is the leading nonprofit professional theater in the Twin Cities that exclusively produces musical theater. Since its inception, TLD has BOLD We make bold choices in support of our mission and vision, both on and off stage. By illuminating the unseen, presented 73 Mainstage productions, including 11 world premieres and 11 area giving voice to the unheard, and empathizing with the premieres. Each has garnered critical acclaim and earned its artists and TLD a unknown, we open eyes, ears and hearts. host of awards, including: seven IVEY Awards for overall excellence, National Endowment for the Arts, the Gabriel Award for Broadcast Excellence, and COLLABORATIVE We believe musical theater to be the most the American Theater Wing National Theater Award. In addition collaborative of art forms, incorporating music, drama, to our Twin Cities presence, TLD’s original production All is Calm: The poetry, dance and design. We are inspired and strengthened Christmas Truce of 1914 celebrated its 12th anniversary with a North American through inclusive partnerships with artists, organizations and tour and an Off-Broadway debut at the Sheen Center in this our diverse community, and embody a collaborative spirit in past November and December. TLD’s provocative staging of was all we do. remounted at the in Seattle, Washington in October 2017, INTEGRITY We hold ourselves to the highest standards of artistic and Asolo Repertory Theater in Florida in May 2018. TLD’S production of and fiscal integrity. We are committed to honesty, equality and will be remounted at Asolo Repertory this May. transparency in all aspects of our administration and art.

Since 1998, TLD has performed in venues throughout the Twin Cities, ranging GRATITUDE We are grateful for our artists, audiences, donors, from the intimate 120-seat Loring Playhouse to the historic Pantages Theater board and staff. We recognize that each individual plays an in downtown Minneapolis. To deepen our relationship with Twin Cities important role in this organization’s success, and we actively audiences and to better reach the communities we serve, Latté Da decided to seek out opportunities to acknowledge each person’s make a permanent home in northeast Minneapolis. In 2016, TLD became the contribution. proud owner of the historic Ritz Theater, a 240-seat theater with administrative offices, rehearsal space, dressing rooms, and box office.

THEATER LATTÉ DA • LATTEDA.ORG 5 SONDHEIM ON A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC

chance, but to our dismay, he said he would be interested only if wrote the music. I licked my wounds and abandoned the wish and we scrambled to find a similar piece to adapt. We searched our memories for movies and plays and I came up with Ingmar Bergman’s —a sexual farce with existential overtones in which the apparent tragedy is comically averted, but the submerged one is not. We wrote Bergman for permission to adapt his piece. He granted us the rights, withholding only the title, a restriction that I welcomed since I already had a title I wanted to use: A Little Night Music.

My favorite musical form has always been that of Theme and Variations and [ A Little Night Music, with its multiple couples all grappling with love], I thought would be the perfect occasion on which to work out such a structure in both musical and theatrical terms (Rachmaninoff’sRhapsody on a Theme of Paganini is for me the apotheosis of the form, which may be the reason his presence pops up so often in the score.)

“In any event, for someone who the loves the perennial puzzle of trying Hal Prince and Stephen Sondheim (1981) to make a score into something more than just a string of numbers, the A Little Night Music premiered on Broadway in idea of a Theme and Variations in 1973, winning the Tony Award for Best Musical. which the Theme was a metric one The production was the third collaboration between Stephen Sondheim, who wrote music seemed workable.” and lyrics, and director, Hal Prince. Their previous collaborations included Company (1970) and (1971). – Stephen Sondheim They would go on to work together onPacific Overtures, Sweeney Todd and Merrily We Roll Along. For A Little Night Music, Sondheim and Prince asked Hugh Wheeler, a British An evening of waltzes alone would soon become playwright whose work they both admired, to provide monotonous, but variations on the basic three-beat meter the book (Wheeler would work with them again in 1979, could supply plenty of variety: polonaises, mazurkas, penning the book for Sweeney Todd). In his book, Finishing sarabands, gigues and more, are all versions of triple the Hat, Sondheim shares recollections about the genesis of meter—enough so that even with a relentless succession A Little Night Music: of threes throughout the evening I should be able to avoid repetitiousness. I think I did and, in the course of writing “In 1964, shortly after Hal Prince’s triumphant switch them, I got to like the show enormously, not the least from producer to producer-director with , because of Hugh’s supple and surprisingly ageless libretto. A Little Night Music he and I decided that we’d like to do a romantic musical, Whenever I have to go see (major something flowing and -like. We were attracted by revivals, school productions, some friend’s granddaughter the idea of adapting Jean Anouilh’s Ring Around the Moon playing Fredrika) I fret in advance that it will seem like (L’Invitation au Chateau), an elegant high comedy which homework, and find, once the lights have dimmed, that I observed the Greek unities of time and situation (the action have an exhilarating time watching it.” occurs entirely during a weekend at a country estate) which had been a hit in London and New York. In our naïve self-assurance, we assumed that Anouilh would jump at the

6 A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC BERGMAN’S SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT THE FILM THAT INSPIRED A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC

In 1955, Ingmar Bergman wrote the screenplay for Smiles of a Summer Night in the midst of a nearly debilitating bout of depression. His love life was in turmoil, he was practically broke, and though his talent was recognized and admired by those who knew him, his work had failed to generate the kind of popular interest that would justify further financial backing of his projects. In that respect, Smiles of a Summer Night was far from just a frothy comedy romance made for light-hearted laughs in an elegant turn-of-the-century (19th-to-20th, that is) setting; rather, it was close to an all-or-nothing wager on Bergman’s part. Happily for him and his future artistic collaborators, Bergman’s gambit paid off. His film caught on with the Swedish audience, winning him an artistic and commercial reprieve. The next two films he would go on to make were two of his most well-known: The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries. Chances are pretty good that we will see a bit (or more) of our own romantic and erotic foibles in at The humor found inSmiles of a Summer Night grows out least one of the characters, so none of us emerge of Bergman’s ingenious juxtaposition of eight emblematic unscathed... characters, four men and four women, who enter the story at various conditions of romantic frustration, either but Bergman also does a great job of skewering the through a missing or mismatched partner, or due to pretensions and vulnerabilities of those rivals and resistant personal tensions that prohibit them from finding the hearts who have thwarted our aspirations along the way as freedom and sense of satisfaction that adults constantly well, allowing us to laugh and in a small way, enjoy a sweet seek to escape from the tensions of life. taste of retribution as we see our adversaries lampooned. The sharp parlays of dialog are reminiscent of the barbed humor that infused The Importance of Being Earnest, with the added advantage of being just a bit more explicit and candid about what goes on behind closed doors than Oscar Wilde’s Victorian milieu would allow. Bergman’s knowing commentary on the battle of the sexes, conveyed in sharp- witted dialog that translates effectively from the Swedish, obviously stems from one who’s experienced quite a bit of love’s agony and ecstasy, and taken careful notes along the way.

Smiles of a Summer Night remains at hand as an easily Smiles of a Summer Night recommended entry point for any Bergman novices to begin their appreciation. And for those of us who are prone With these eight prototypes of modern humanity in to occasionally forget its primary lessons, an occasional view, we’re thus set up to enjoy the spectacle as Smiles of a reviewing of Smiles of a Summer Night will help us to Summer Night goes through its motions like the amusingly- lighten up our leaden handling of those most delicate crafted clockwork figures that Bergman puts before us affairs of the heart, reminding us that love is, after all, a late in the film. We’re first drawn in to appreciate the perpetual juggling of three balls, the names of which are awkwardness of the relational arrangements that have heart, words and loins. How easy it is for our eyes to get resulted from the ungainly mix of social conventions distracted, our minds to fixate on any one of those balls, and complicated personal choices. Though the emphasis for our hands to slip and for the whole delicate pattern to is of course on male-female romance, the man-to-man, come crashing down in a limp and disappointing heap! woman-to-woman and intergenerational clashes are just as invigorating. - David Blakeslee; Criterion Collection Reflections

THEATER LATTÉ DA • LATTEDA.ORG 7 A STORY TOLD IN 3/4 TIME

Stephen Sondheim is known for his love of “It Would Have Been Wonderful,” “Every Day a Little puzzles and games. Nowhere is his love for the Death.”) These songs of alienation and yearning for cohesion intricacies of these pastimes more apparent than and balance all represent the unstable number three drawn in his construction of A Little Night Music. to the stable number two—the triangle yearning to be Spend time with the piece and, like staring at an Escher reconciled to the proper couple.” painting, interlocking patterns, repetitions, and refractions begin to reveal themselves—notably those involving the Far from being just the intellectual folly of Sondheim and number and concept of three. From Ingmar Bergman’s film, Wheeler’s collective genius, the presence and recurrence of Smiles of a Summer Night, Sondheim and Wheeler pluck the number three grounds us amidst the kaleidoscopic sexual several key triplicates—the three generations of Armfeldt machinations of the characters, carrying us through the play women (Madame Armfeldt, Desirée, and Fredrika) and a until all of the puzzle pieces fall, finally, and satisfyingly, into summer night that smiles three times. Jonathan Tunick, place. who created the lush orchestrations for A Little Night Music, describes in the introduction to the published version of the - Elissa Adams, Dramaturg and Associate Artistic Director play how the idea of three builds and multiplies:

“Although easier on the audience than most of Sondheim’s musicals, A Little Night Music is by no means simplistic. Like all great romantic works, it is classically precise in structure. Hugh Wheeler brings to the musical’s book the exactitude of a mystery writer, creating between the various characters an effectively geometrical pattern of interrelationships, based, like the score, upon the number three:

Frid Henrik Fredrik Carl-Mangus

Bradley Greenwald, Rodolfo Nieto, and Mark Benninghofen

Petra Anne Desirée Charlotte

A chain of triangles: in each of these connected relationships, the unstable number three is drawn to the stable number two, as the various mismatched couples disengage and find their proper partners.

It was Sondheim’s intention that the score be entirely in triple time—a Waltz musical in the style of turn-of-the- century Viennese , consisting almost exclusively of various permutations of triple time such as the Waltz (“Soon,” “You Must Meet My Wife”), the Mazurka (“Remember,” “The Glamorous Life”), the Sarabande (“Later,” “Liasons”), Polonaise (“In Praise of Women”), the Etude (“Now,” “Everday a Little Death”) and the Gigue (“A Weekend in the Country”). In addition to the music being in ¾ meter, Sondheim tends towards trios with the characters separated (“Now,” “Later,” “Soon”) and duets regarding a third person (“You Must Meet My Wife,”

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The Cast McKnight Fellowship for Theater Artists, Ivey RILEY MCNUTT (HENRIK) Award (I Am My Own Wife); ALSO: libretto THEATER LATTÉ DA: All MARK BENNINGHOFEN adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time, opera by is Calm: The Christmas Truce (FREDRIK) THEATER Libby Larsen. of 1914 (off Broadway), LATTÉ DA: Sweeney Todd, Six Degrees of Separation, Six Degrees of Separation, To ELIZABETH HAWKINSON Ragtime. THEATER: Let Go and Fall (upcoming); (COUNTESS) THEATER Artistry: Noises Off, , THEATER: Guthrie LATTÉ DA: Sweeney Todd, Phantom, Les Miserables, ; Ghoulish Theater:Juno and the Paycock, Born Yesterday, (upcoming); Delights: Prescription Murder; Old Log Appomattox, Time Stands Still, The Intelligent THEATER: Asolo Theater:How I Became a Pirate; Minnesota Homosexual’s Guide, Great Expectations, St. Repertory Theatre:Sweeney Orchestra: ; Minnesota Opera: Silent Joan, Cyrano, The Merry Wives of Windsor. Todd (upcoming); Park Square Theater:The Night, La Traviata, The Magic Flute; Ordway Other Minneapolis credits: Tyrone and Ralph Pirates of Penzance; Trademark Theater: The Theater:Beauty and the Beast. (Production Ivey Award); History Theatre: Boy and Robin Hood; Theatre Forever: The Lord Gordon Gordon; MJTC: Compulsion; Accident Book; Illusion Theater:Only One RODOLFO NIETO (COUNT) Park Square: Shooting Star; Dark & Stormy Sophie; The Ordway:; THEATER LATTÉ DA: Productions: The Hot House. TV/FILM: Girl Friday Productions: The Matchmaker; , All Movie Stars, Frasier, Drew Carey, Artistry: Carousel; 7th House Theater:Little is Calm (2017 National Hope, The Public Domain, Wilson, La Stanza Shop of Horrors; FILM: 76 Film Co: Friends Tour, 2018 Off-Broadway), Accanto, Older Than America, Herman, USA. Two; TRAINING: Franz Schubert Institut: , Candide PLAYWRIGHT: Uccellini, Lay My Burden German Lied Mastercourse, St. Olaf College: (upcoming); THEATER: Lyric Arts: Guys Down, Wits End. B.M. Vocal Performance. and Dolls; DalekoArts: She Loves Me; Theatre in the Round: 110 in the Shade; Mixed GRACE CHERMAK (ANNE) SUSAN HOFFLANDER Blood Theatre: Safe at Home; OPERA: Lakes THEATER LATTÉ DA: (MADAME) THEATER Area Music Festival: Die Zauberflöte, La Debut; THEATER: The LATTÉ DA: A Little Night Cenerentola; Des Moines Metro Opera: María Old Log Theatre: Guys Music (debut), Candide de Buenos Aires; Minnesota Opera: Tosca, La and Dolls, Beehive: The 60’s (upcoming); THEATER: Fanciulla del West, Werther, La bohéme, Silent Musical, Snow White; Paul Broadway National Tour: Night; www.rodolfo-nieto.com Bunyan Playhouse: Legally Blonde the Musical; The Phantom of the Opera; Guthrie Theater: Theatre in the Round:110 in the Shade; The Merchant of Venice; Ordway: The Sound BRITTA OLLMANN (PETRA) Minot Summer Theatre:Oklahoma!, Godspell. of Music; Chanhassen Dinner Theatre:Beauty THEATER LATTÉ DA: FILM/TV: Target and various industrial and the Beast, Mary Poppins; Lyric Opera Once, Ragtime, Into the commercials. gracechermak.com. Chicago: The Cunning Little Vixen, The Merry Woods, Steerage Song, Violet; Widow, , Pirates of Penzance, BROADWAY: A Catered BRADLEY GREENWALD Tannhäuser, Hänsel und Gretel; Minnesota Affair; THEATER: Asolo (FRID) THEATER LATTÉ Opera: Il Barbiere di Siviglia; Theatre Elision: Rep: Ragtime; Guthrie Theater:Sunday DA: Steerage Song, Oliver!, Ruthless!; Music Theatre Wichita:HONK!, in the Park with George; Ordway Theater: C. (also book and lyrics), Beauty and the Beast, Footloose; Minnesota Mamma Mia!; The Old Globe:A Catered NEXT Festival, Candide Orchestra: La Traviata, Beethoven’s 9th Affair; freeFall Theatre: Daddy Long Legs, Red (upcoming); THEATER: Symphony and Chorale Fantasie, Jungle Book; Velvet; Chanhassen Dinner Theatres:Sister Open Eye Figure Theater:The Longest Skylight Music Theater:Bernstein Revued, Act, Grease. TRAINING: B.F.A., New York Night, Dear Lenny: Bernstein’s Life in Songs Working, Albert Herring, Close Harmony University/Tisch School of the Arts. & Letters; Jungle Theater:I Am My Own Holidaze, El Capitain, The Gondoliers; www.BrittaOllmann.com. Wife, The Mystery of Irma Vep; Ten Thousand Skylark Opera: Iolanthe, La Belle Helène; Things Theater:, As You Like It; Chicago Opera Theater:L’Italiana in Algeri; SALLY WINGERT (DESIRÉE) Children’s Theater Company:A Year With Nautilus Music Theater:Carousel ; Grant Park THEATER LATTÉ DA: Frog & Toad, The Wizard of Oz, The Snow Symphony: The Mikado, , West Underneath the Lintel, Queen, The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins; Side Story; Chamber Opera Chicago: Cosí Six Degrees of Separation, Park Square: The Pirates of Penzance; Artistry: fan tutte, Falstaff, The Hero, The Marriage of Sweeney Todd, Master Class, Follies, The Baker’s Wife; Frank Theatre: The Figaro; Crystal Cathedral: soloist. Cabaret; BROADWAY: La Threepenny Opera, Cabaret; James Sewell Bete; THEATER: Guthrie Theater:Noises Off, Ballet: Nutcracker (not so) Suite; AWARDS: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Indecent, Blithe Minnesota State Arts Board Music Fellowship, Spirit, Private Lives, Other Desert Cities, Native Gardens; Minnesota Jewish Theater:Family 10 A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC Secrets, Woman Before a Glass; Ten Thousand HUGH WHEELER (BOOK) the Minnesota State Arts Board and the RILEY MCNUTT (HENRIK) Things:Doubt ; Mixed Blood: Hir; Yale Rep, was a novelist, playwright McKnight Foundation. He holds a B. A. in THEATER LATTÉ DA: All The McCarter Theater, ART in Boston, and screen writer. He Music and Theater from St. John’s University is Calm: The Christmas Truce Chicago’s Shakespeare Theater; AWARDS: wrote more than thirty and a Master of Fine Arts in Directing from of 1914 (off Broadway), 2014 McKnight Artist Fellowship. mystery novels under the the University of Wisconsin-Madison. www. Six Degrees of Separation, pseudonyms Q. Patrick Peter-Rothstein.com. Ragtime. THEATER: MABEL WEISMANN and Patrick Quentin, and four of his novels Artistry: Noises Off, Fiddler on the Roof, (FREDRIKA) THEATER were transformed into films:Black Widow, JASON HANSEN Phantom, Les Miserables, Cabaret; Ghoulish LATTÉ DA: Debut; Man in the Net, The Green-Eyed Monsterand (MUSIC DIRECTOR/PIANO) Delights: Prescription Murder; Old Log THEATER: Ordway: Dolly The Man with Two Wives. For films he wrote THEATER LATTÉ DA: Theater:How I Became a Pirate; Minnesota Parton’s Smoky Mountain the screenplays for Travels with My Aunt, Once, Assassins, C., Into The Orchestra: Carousel; Minnesota Opera: Silent Christmas Carol, Sound Something for Everyone, A Little Night Music Woods, , ; Night, La Traviata, The Magic Flute; Ordway of Music, Jesus Christ Superstar; Children’s and Nijinsky. His plays include Big Fish, Little THEATER: Children’s Theater:Beauty and the Beast. Theatre Company:Diary of A Wimpy Kid Fish (1961), Look: We’ve Come Through(1961) Theater Company:How The Grinch Stole the Musical, Dr. Seuss’s How The Grinch Stole and We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1966, Christmas, Dr. Seuss’s The Sneeches; Mixed RODOLFO NIETO (COUNT) Christmas; Guthrie Theater:A Christmas adapted from the novel), he Blood Theater:, Next To THEATER LATTÉ DA: Carol, Artistry: Mary Poppins; Minneapolis co-authored with the book for Normal, ; Guthrie Theater:The Great Man of La Mancha, All Orpheum Theater:Steve Martin/Martin Short a new production of the 1919 musical Irene Work, Othello; History Theater:Sweet Land; is Calm (2017 National 2017 Tour; Stages Theatre Company:Flora & (1973), wrote the books for A Little Night Theater Mu: Twelfth Night, A Little Night Tour, 2018 Off-Broadway), Ulysses; Prior Lake Players: ; FILM/TV: Music (1973), a new production of Candide Music; Chanhassen Dinner Theaters: ; Assassins, Candide Christmas Break-In; Spark Moments; various (1973), Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Ten Thousand Things:Romeo & Juliet; Open (upcoming); THEATER: Lyric Arts: Guys television/radio commercials. Fleet Street (1979, based on a version of the Eye Figure Theater, Jungle Theater, the MN and Dolls; DalekoArts: She Loves Me; Theatre play by Christopher Bond), and Meet Me in Fringe Festival, the Hennepin Theater Trust, in the Round: 110 in the Shade; Mixed The Creative Team St. Louis (adapted from the 1949 M-G-M Arkansas Repertory Theater: The Gift Of The Blood Theatre: Safe at Home; OPERA: Lakes musical), contributed additional material Magi, Northern Sky Theater: Boxcar; Alive & Area Music Festival: Die Zauberflöte, La STEPHEN SONDHEIM for the musical (1976), and Kickin’ (co-director); AWARDS: 2018 MN Cenerentola; Des Moines Metro Opera: María (MUSIC & LYRICS) Wrote the wrote a new adaptation of the Theater Award (Latté Da’sAssassins ). de Buenos Aires; Minnesota Opera: Tosca, La music and lyrics for Saturday opera Silverlake, which was directed by Harold Fanciulla del West, Werther, La bohéme, Silent Night (1954), A Funny Thing Prince at the New York Opera. He received HEIDI SPESARD- Night; www.rodolfo-nieto.com Happened On The Way To Tony and Drama Desk Awards for A Little NOBLE (CHOREOGRAPHER) The Forum (1962), Anyone Night Music, Candide and Sweeney Todd. Prior THEATER LATTÉ BRITTA OLLMANN (PETRA) Can Whistle (1964), Company (1970), Follies to his death in 1987 Mr. Wheeler was working DA: Debut; THEATER THEATER LATTÉ DA: (1971), A Little Night Music (1973), on two new musicals, Bodo and Fu Manchu, Resident Choreographer Once, Ragtime, Into the (1974), Pacific Overtures (1976), Sweeney and a new adaptation of The Merry Widow. of Minnesota Opera; Woods, Steerage Song, Violet; Todd (1979), Merrily We Roll Along (1981), Upcoming: Italian Straw Hat, The Fix (World BROADWAY: A Catered Sunday In The Park With George(1984), Into PETER ROTHSTEIN Premiere), La Traviata, Artistry: Footloose; Affair; THEATER: Asolo The Woods (1987), Assassins (1991), (DIRECTOR) has directed 75 Recent MN Opera Productions Include: La Rep: Ragtime; Guthrie Theater:Sunday (1994) and (2008) as well as lyrics mainstage productions for Rondine, Thais, Rusalka, The Shining (World in the Park with George; Ordway Theater: for (1957), (1959) and Theater Latté Da, including Premiere), Dream of Valentino, Grapes of Wrath Mamma Mia!; The Old Globe:A Catered Do I Hear A Waltz? (1965) and additional 11 world premieres. Other (World Premiere); Artistry: Legally Blonde; Affair; freeFall Theatre: Daddy Long Legs, Red lyrics for Candide (1973). Anthologies of his collaborations include Paul Bunyun Playhouse: ; St Olaf: Velvet; Chanhassen Dinner Theatres:Sister work include (1976), the Guthrie Theater, the Children’s Theater Sister Act, Ruddigore; Chanhassen Dinner Act, Grease. TRAINING: B.F.A., New York Marry Me A Little (1981), You’re Gonna Company, Minnesota Opera, the Illusion Theatre:Brigadoon, Midlife Crisis (World University/Tisch School of the Arts. Love Tomorrow (1983), Theater, Ten Thousand Things, Minnesota Premiere); PERFORMER: Minnesota Opera, www.BrittaOllmann.com. (1993/99) and Orchestra, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Seattle’s Chanhassen Dinner Theatre, Minnesota (2010). He composed the scores of the films 5th Avenue Theater, and Asolo Repertory Dance Theater, Ballet of the Dolls, and State SALLY WINGERT (DESIRÉE) Stavisky (1974) and Reds (1981) and songs Theatre. He is the creator ofAll is Calm: The Ballet of Missouri; TRAINING: B.F.A., THEATER LATTÉ DA: for Dick Tracy (1990) and the television Christmas Truce of 1914 and Steerage Song –a University of Utah Ballet Department. Underneath the Lintel, production Evening Primrose (1966). His docu-musical created in collaboration with Six Degrees of Separation, collected lyrics with attendant essays have Dan Chouinard. Peter was named the 2015 SARA OCHS (ASSISTANT Sweeney Todd, Master Class, been published in two volumes: Finishing The Artist of the Year by the Star Tribune, Theater DIRECTOR) THEATER Cabaret; BROADWAY: La Hat (2010) and Look, I Made A Hat (2011). Artist of the Year by Lavender, and Best LATTÉ DA: Assassins, Man Bete; THEATER: Guthrie Theater:Noises Off, In 2010 the broadway theater formerly known Director by City Pages. He has received of La Mancha, A Christmas Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Indecent, Blithe as Henry Miller’s theatre was renamed in his Ivey Awards and has been awarded grants and Carole Petersen, Sweeney Spirit, Private Lives, Other Desert Cities, Native honor. fellowships from the National Endowment for Todd, Our Town, Company; Gardens; Minnesota Jewish Theater:Family the Arts, Theatre Communications Group, THEATER: Children’s Theater Company: THEATER LATTÉ DA • LATTEDA.ORG 11 BIOGRAPHIES

How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Sneetches; Theatre:Snow, The Warrior Within; The Children’s Theater Company:How the Grinch Theater Mu: Immigrant Journey Project, Jungle: Orsen Wells presents Moby Dick, The Stole Christmas; The Guthrie:A View From the Middle Brother, Yellow Fever, , Blue Room, Souvenir; Park Square Theatre: Bridge; Pillsbury House Theater:No Child; Four Destinies, Little Shop of Horrors, Flower over 15 productions including A Tale of Two Park Square Theater:Taking Steps; Phoenix Drum Song, Happy Valley, The Walleye Kid, Cities, The Heiress and many more. Theater:Cabaret, The Women, Will Rogers 99 Histories, Pacific Overtures; Park Square Follies. Proud AEA Member. Theatre:The Snow Queen, The Language MARCUS DILLIARD Archive; Ordway: Broadway Songbook of the (LIGHTING DESIGNER) AMANDA K. BOWMAN 1950s; Mixed Blood Theatre:Avenue Q; THEATER LATTÉ (ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER) Walking Shadow Theatre Company:An Ideal DA: Assassins, Man of La THEATER LATTÉ DA: All Husband; Minneapolis : Mancha, Peter and the is Calm (3 years), Assassins, Sunday in the Park with George; AWARDS: Starcatcher, C., All is Calm, Peter and the Starcatcher, Asian American Emerging Artist. Our Town, Cabaret, Steerage Song, Aida, Song Ragtime, Gypsy; THEATER: of Extinction, Violet, The Full Monty, Old Jungle Theater:The Wolves; Park Square ELISSA ADAMS Wicked Songs, Susannah; THEATER: Guthrie Theatre:Henry and Alice: Into the Wild, The (DRAMATURG) THEATER Theater, Minnesota Opera, The Jungle (curious case of) the Watson Intelligence; Music LATTÉ DA: C., Lullaby, Theatre, Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Children’s Theatre Wichita: 14 seasons; Cincinnati Assassins, Five Points, Theatre Company, Ordway Music Theater; Playhouse in the Park. Proud AEA member. Underneath the Lintel, AWARDS: Sage Award, Vey Award, McKnight Once, NEXT Festival Foundation Theater Artist Fellowship (2); ABBEE WARMBOE (Producer); THEATER: Director of New TRAINING: Professor at University of (PROPERTIES MASTER) Play Development at Children’s Theatre Minnesota department of Theatre Arts and THEATER LATTÉ DA: All Company (1998- 2017); Sundance Theatre Dance. is Calm, Once, Underneath Lab; Playwrights’ Center; TRAINING: MFA the Lintel, Five Points, in Dramaturgy UC San Diego C ANDREW MAYER Assassins; THEATER: (SOUND DESIGNER) Park Square Theater:Marie and Rosetta, The JOEL SASS (SCENIC THEATER LATTÉ DA: Agitators; Penumbra Theatre:For Colored Girls, DESIGNER) THEATER Assassins; THEATER: This Bitter Earth; Interact Center: Hot Funky LATTÉ DA: Peter and the Guthrie, Minnesota Opera, Butt Jazz; Old Log Theater:Lend Me a ; Starcatcher (scenic design Jungle Theatre, History Trademark Theater: Understood; Ten Thousand and director), Five Points; Theatre, Mixed Blood, Park Square, Children’s Things:Scapin, The Good Person of Szechwan, THEATER: Open Eye Theatre Co., Pillsbury House, Minnesota Park and Lake; Theater Mu: The Korean Figure Theatre Associate Artistic Producer, Jewish Theatre Co.; Great River Shakespeare Drama Addict’s Guide to Losing Your , Guthrie, Jungle Theater, Park Square, Oregon Festival (Winona), Arkansas Rep (Little Two Mile Hollow; Ordway: Mamma Mia!, Shakespeare Festival, History Theater, Arizona Rock), SeaGlass Theatre (LA), ACT (San Jesus Christ Superstar; Guthrie Theater:Guess Theatre Company, the Ordway, California Francisco), Philadelphia Opera, Everyman Who’s Coming to Dinner; History Theatre: Shakespeare Theater, Theatre de la Jeune Lune; Theatre (Baltimore) AWARDS: 2008-09 Lord Gordon Gordon; Mixed Blood Theatre: AWARDS: McKnight Fellowship, TCG’s Alan McKnight Artist Fellowship, Audelco Award The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Schneider Director Award, Ivey Awards, “Best for Pure Confidence at 59E59 (NYC); Time, Vietgone; AWARDS: 2018 MN Theater Of” acknowledgments; www.joelsass.com. Producing Director, Acadia Repertory Theatre, Awards Honoree for Exceptional Design, Mount Desert Island, Maine 2017 Ivey Award for Production Design RICH HAMSON (COSTUME and Execution for Six Degrees of Separation, DESIGNER) THEATRE TIFFANY K. ORR (STAGE Overall Excellence for Ragtime; UPCOMING LATTE DA: La Boheme, MANAGER) THEATER PROJECTS: Ten Thousand Things:Into the Spring Awakening, Cabaret, LATTÉ DA: Over 20 Woods; History Theater:Stewardess ; Penumbra C., A Light in the Piazza, productions including: Theatre:Benevolence Gypsy, Floyd Collins, Man Once, Five Points (world of La Mancha, A Christmas Carol Peterson, premiere), Assassins, Man PAUL BIGOT (WIG AND ; THEATER: Chanhassen Dinner of La Mancha, Six Degrees of Separation, HAIR DESIGNER) THEATER Theatre, resident costume designer with over Ragtime, C. (world premiere), Gypsy, Sweeney LATTÉ DA: Oliver, 30 productions including Holliday Inn and Todd, Cabaret, Spring Awakening, Evita; Sweeney Todd, Gypsy, Man upcoming Mamma Mia; Children’s Theatre: THEATER: Music Theater Wichita: Over 40 of La Mancha, Assassins; Annie, Shrek, Mulan, Disney’s High School productions including: Pippin, Guys & Dolls, THEATER: Chanhassen Musical; The Guthrie: Other Desert Cities, Newsies, Mamma Mia, Hello Dolly, Big Fish, Dinner Theatres: Camelot, Grease, Sister Act, Lake Hollywood, Thief River, A Body of Water; Billy Elliott, West Side Story, Mary Poppins, Newsies, Holiday Inn; Artistry: Hairspray, The Minnesota Opera:Cosi fan tutti; Illusion Sunset Boulevard, Gypsy; Ordway: Annie; Best Little Whorehouse in , The Drowsy

12 A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC Chaperone, Little Shop of Horrors, Follies; Guthrie Theater: Full-time Wig Technichian; Tours (Hair and Makeup Supervisor): Hairspray, Wizard of Oz the Musical, La Cage Aux Folles, Flashdance the Musical.

MUSIC THEATRE INTERNATIONAL Music Theatre International (MTI) is one of the world’s leading theatrical licensing agencies, granting theatres from around the world the rights to perform the greatest selection of musicals from Broadway and beyond. Founded in 1952 by composer Frank Loesser, and orchestrator Don Walker, MTI is a driving force in advancing musical theatre as a vibrant and engaging art form. MTI works directly with the composers, lyricists and book writers of these musicals to provide official scripts, musical materials and dynamic theatrical resources to over 70,000 professional, community and school theatres in the US and in over 60 countries worldwide. MTI is particularly dedicated to educational theatre, and has created special collections to meet the needs of various types of performers and audiences. MTI’s Broadway Junior™ shows are 30- and 60-minute musicals for performance by elementary and middle school-aged performers, while MTI’s School Editions are musicals annotated for performance by high school students.

Special Thanks

Chanhassen Dinner Theatre Matt Jurek Children’s Theater Company Manny’s Piano Movers Custom Tubes Company Minnesota Opera Lynn Farrington Normandale Community College

Heidi Spesard-Noble, Sara Ochs, Peter Rothstein, and Elissa Adams

Scenic Design by Joel Sass

Sally Wingert

THEATER LATTÉ DA • LATTEDA.ORG 13 THEATER LATTÉ DA DONORS Thank you for your commitment to our 21st season. Theater Latté Da is one of only a few theaters in the country dedicated solely to producing and presenting new and adventurous musical theater that speaks to contemporary audiences and advances the art of musical theater. We truly could not do this without the generosity of our many individual and institutional donors. Thank you for your support.

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Theater Latté Da’s mission is to create new connections between story, music, artist, and audience by exploring and expanding the art of musical theater. We are guided by our values that our work be bold and collaborative, and strive to act with integrity and gratitude both on and off the stage. By illuminating the unseen, giving voice to the unheard, and empathizing with the unknown, Theater Latté Da strives to open eyes, ears, and hearts.

Please consider a tax-deductible contribution to Theater Latté Da today and join us in bringing great musical theater to life.

Grand Finale ($25,000 and above)

Carol and Kim Culp Marti Morfitt and Patrick Weber Rita and Benedict Olk

Curtain Call ($10,000–$24,999)

Patricia Johnson and Kai Bjerkness The Rence Campbell Household Kent Allin and Tom Knabel Bill and Jane Johnson, Noreen Charitable Trust Kathleen and Paul Rothstein Nancy Jones Dick and Diane Wright *In remembrance Kathy and Allen Lenzmeier Margaret and Angus* Wurtele

14 A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC Eleven O’clock Number ($5,000–$9,999)

Jane and Ogden Confer Jennifer Melin Miller and David Miller Kathy Vaughn Rob Dingmann and Ethan Reynolds Gary Reetz Patricia Zalaznik Timothy Dordell and Kirk Ballard Ann and Pat Ryan Jane Zilch Ron Frey and Steven Thompson Cara Sjodin and Scott Stensrud Lisa and Dan Hoene Lorri Steffen and Paul Zenner Dennis and Nora Hunchar John Sullivan

Show Stopper ($1,500–$4,999)

Anonymous (2) Jeff and Gail Gibbs Warren D. Mosier Thomas Senn and Mark Manion Jean M. and Jim Becker Sandra and Edmund Hall Kim and David Motes Ann and Tom Stanley Jack Burbidge in loving memory of Jean and Jim Hartman Curt D. Nelson Jay Harkness and Jean Storlie his wife Nancy Sandy and John Hey Marvel Norton Michael and Terri Uline Scott Cabalka Jim and Sandi Jensen Dr. Luis A. Pagan-Carlo and Libby and John Utter Mary and Randy Carlson Bruce and Jean Johnson Joe Sammartino Bill Venne and Douglas Kline Ingrid and Chris Culp Matt Kiser and Chris Nichol Gene and Pat Radecki Ruth and David Waterbury Kirk and Kathy Davis Christine Larsen and Scott Peterson Jaime A. Roman and Jim Bernier Marjorie and Irving Weiser Fran and Barb Davis Michael and Catherine Lee Randy and Tara Roth Carol and Tom Windfeldt Janet and Mark Ditter Carol Lichterman Ken and Nina Rothchild Jodi and Jim Young Joe Dowling and Siobhan Cleary Mary and Mark Maher Peter Rothstein and Omar Guevara Karla Ekdahl and Peter Hutchinson Jim and Kristin Matejcek Soto Steve Euller and Nancy Roehr Drew Mattson Colleen Ryan Martha Gabbert Penny Meier The Ryan Family

Entr’acte ($500–$1,499)

Anonymous Thomas Caswell & Nancy Tessmer John Kundtz and Thomas Amon Kathy and Michael Ruhland Elissa Adams and Michael Margulies Sheldon and Lili Chester Al Kvaal Susan and John Ryan Mary Alberts Ann and Doug Cooley Diana and Kenneth Lewis Peter and Mary Sandberg Steve Alberts and Jackie LePore Alberts Meg DeLapp Kerry Sarnowski and Susan Lowum Linda and Steven Sandvig Albrecht Family Foundation Thomas and Mary Lou Detwiler Mark and Barbara Lyons Marjorie Schroeder Greg and Penny Anderson Adrienne Diercks David and Marilee Mahler Paul Schumann Jan & Greg Aplin Sara and Jock Donaldson James Lockhart and Janie Mayeron Carol Schirmers Stuart Appelbaum and Jean King Lucas Erickson Mary H. and J. Milo Meland Family Fund Anne Simpson Scott Appelwick and Ed Sootsman Duane Faber and Peter Couture Gretchen Alberts Mellies Sandy and Neil Spidel Neumann Ward and Kathleen Armstrong Gerald Foley Sonny and Amy Miller Stephen Strand Karen and John Arnold in memory Ron Fraboni Linda and Jim Milow Kevin Streeter of Peggy Ahcan Ron Frey and Steven Thompson David and Leni Moore Family Foundation Brian Svendahl Annette Atkins and Tom Joyce Matt Fulton MTKC Richard Rosow and Dan Avchen and David Johnson James P. Gearen Sara Mushlitz Vicki Underland-Rosow Stan and Cindy Bandur Susan Genaw and Lee Humphries Brad and Marta Musolf Bill Underwood and Chris Everett Barbara Brin and John Beal Mark Gilberstadt Marlys J. Nelson Diane Van Tassell and Steven Eggimann Mary Beidler Gearen Ray Goettl Karle and Diane Nolte Patricia Vayda Les Bendtsen Lisa Goodman Mary Weber Nord Paula Vesely Judy and Dennis Berkowitz Richard Gould James Olson Michael Wagner David and Janet Berry Christine and Bill Griffith Jim Payne Jay Waldera Scott and Sarah Bjelde Diane Harder and Thomas Eckstein Jeffery Perkey and Robert Spikings David Warner David Bjork and Jeff Bengtson Shannon Harris Carol Peterson Kevin Winge and Kevin Shores Jeff Bores and Michael Hawkins Jeffrey Hatcher Mark Peterson and Donna Gibbons Fremajane Wolfson Jean Borgerding Joanne and Allen Hinderaker Shannon Pierce and Rachael Kroog Michelle Woster and Peter Quale Al Bradley Mark Addicks and Thomas L. Hoch Patti Pinkerton David Young and Edward Williams, Jr. Shawn Bryant and Michael Grouws Steve Horan David Pote and Linda Tapsak Jodi and Jim Young Tom and Barb Burke Bernadette and Jeffrey Janisch William and Andrew Collis-Prather Ellen Butler Sylvia and Sam Kaplan Denise Prosek and Milton Ferris Virginia and Stuart Campbell Gina and Kurt Kastel Jeff Reed Darlene J. and Richard P. Carroll Family Cyndi and Greg Klaus Jake and Donna Romanow Fund of the Minneapolis Foundation Scott and Deborah Knight Kristin Rothstein

Overture ($100–$499)

Anonymous (6) Carolyn Becker-Paulson Carol Brozic Jeanne and David Cornish Libby Alberts Patricia Beithon Philip and Carolyn Brunelle Jeanne Corwin Mary Alberts Ruth Ann and Jim Benson Stephen Bubul Gretchen and David Crary Susan Albrecht and Nancy Desmond Dan Berg and Welcome Jerde John and Rick Buchholz Kathy M. Dahl Robert Allen Joan Berg Mary Burke Roberta and John Dahler Grant Amadio Chelsea Berglund Sheryl Burkhardt Tom E. Davis Matt and Amy Anderson Robert Bergstrom Jennifer Burleigh-Bentz Jennifer Debrow Vic and Phyllis Anderson Bill Bertram Jimmy Burnett Lisa Dethloff Rita Andrescik Tim Beutell Russ Bursch and Lee Mauk Michael DiBlasi Joe Andrews and Scott Benson Marilyn Bierden Peter Carlsen and Sylvia Frank Alison Didier Howard Ansel Jeannette and Jeff Bineham Craig Carnahan Marcus and Cynthia Dilliard Jennifer and Joseph Armitage Christopher Bineham and Harrison David Rivers Cindy Carpenter and Gregg Roberts James and Sharon Dimond James Assali and Michael Mauch Thomas Boatman Brooks Christensen Kristofer S. Djupedal Reade Bailey John and Kathleen Boone Darolyn Clark Peter Donohue John Bale Susan S. Boren and Steve King Burton and Rusty Cohen Nancy Dorris Jennifer Bankers-Fulbright Dr. Stuart and Sue Ellen Borken Jeremy and Michael Cohen-Elyanow Jane Doyle Thomas Barber John and Kate Boyle Ruth Colby Jeff Duffin and Andy Groves Diana Bauman Bryan Bradford Sheila Cole-Schmitt and Tom Schmitt Michael Dunne Kathleen Baxter Mary Brady David Colwell Linda Eckman Robert and Mary Beck Judith and Arnie Brier Tomie and Jim Conaway Erika Eklund

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Emilee Elofson Gregg Radecki and Jeralyn Irrthum Kate Morton-Peters and Stan Oleson Kelly Sharp Thomas Emmert Carol Jackson Bonnie Mulligan and Charlie Greenman Gale Sharpe Sharon Engel Diane Jacobson Debra Mundinger James Sheeley Robert Englund Jeanne Jacobson Katherine Murphy Robin Shima Kurt and Sarah Erickson Christina Jansa Jack and Nylce Myers Mariana and Craig Shulstad Hope Esparolini Suzanne Jebe Richard Myers Tonia Shupien Maurice Failer David Johnson Margaret Nelson Brinkhaus Lorri Sills Mary and David Fenske Mary Johnson Joan Nelson Nancy Slaughter Karen Fiedler Mary A. Jones Robert Nesterowich Jim and Cindie Smart Sara and Karl Fiegenschuh Charles and Sally Jorgensen Nicholas Nett Tom Smith Amy and Jack Fistler Scott Kammer Nelson and Beth Neubrech David Smith Margaret Fitzgerald and Hugh Veit Mark Kappelhoff Lynn Noren Bruce Smith Terry Fitzgerald and Susan Mendesh-Fitzgerald Lois Kapteina and David Truckenmiller Gary P. Nygaard Olivia Snortland Carol and Jon Fjalstad Brad Keil Lynn Olson Linnea Sodergren Deborah Fletcher Ann Kim Paul D. Olson and Mark Baumgartner Anthony Sofie Christopher Foss Susan King Jenneke Oosterhoff Wendy Sommer Tim Foster Karen Kirby Carol and Keith Ottoson Dr. Michael Spencer and Lori Wilson Spencer Kelli Foster Warder Tracy and Craig Knighton Sandra Overland Susan Stamson Jinnet Fowles Larissa Kokernot and Karl Gajdusek Annie and Chris Palmieri Jennifer Starr and John Waddle Robert Frame Stan Kolden and Glyn Northington Jaime Pedraza and Stephen Gronewold John Stefany and David Odenbach Gene and Charlotte Frampton Jonna Kosalko Ron Pentz George and Janet Stevens Susan Franklin Mike Kunnick Daniel Pinkerton and Jane Johnston Elizabeth Stevens Patricia Gaarder Joe Kuznik Julie and Jim Podlich Virginia Stewart Barbara and Bob Gaertner Mary Kay Langager Maryanne Poliseno Marcia and John Stout Fred and Gael Gardner Mary Langsjoen John and Anne Tuthill Polta Judy Stuthman Leland and Beverly Gehrke Jane Lansing Sue Porter Donald Sullivan Allen Giles Patty Lawrence Andrea Quanbeck Craig and Janet Swan Robin Gillette Kate and Greg Lawson Debra and Lawrence Que Kari Swan Trey Gladney Andrew Leshovsky and Louis Berg-Arnold John Quinn Chuck & Jennifer Tatsuda Patrick & Elizabeth Goebl Andrew Litecky Ann and Kevin Quiring Jean Taylor Barbara Golden Catherine J. Little Fred Quirsfeld and Linda Campbell Jennifer, Daniel, Raina, & Zoey Tenenbaum Carolee Lindsey and Darolyn Gray Rebecca Loader and Michael Ritchie Maria Reamer Axel Theimer Tom and Jaci Guglielmi James Loeffler John F. Riehle John Theurer Barb Gurstelle Mary and Doug Logeland Allan Riel Doug Tiede Katie Guyer and Steve Grego Jon Michael Logue Julie Robbins Paul and Ruth Tillquist David Halgren Dennis Louie Shannon Robinson William T. Turcotte Peggy Hall and Lee Barry Jeffrey Lovich Patti Rogness Stephanie Untiedt Mark and Mary Jo Hallberg Peggy and Dave Lucas Jamie and Gary Milne Rojek Sara Ursin Kath Hammerseng and Mo Kennedy Linda Luksan and David Munn Susan Rose Angus Vaughan Kristin Harper Mike and Diana Magner Thomas Rosen Tammi Veale Christine Harrison Rhoda and Don Mains Rodney Rowe Matthew and Paul Vork Morrie Hartman and Michael Bahr Will and Willene Mangham Bonnie Russ Marlys Weber Dr. Daniel Hartnett Family Foundation Joanne Manthe Jean Ryan Corliss Weeks Randy Hartten and Ron Lotz Susan L. Maples Sandy Ryan and David Myhre Tammie Weinfurtner Margie and Tom Hebig Wendell Vandersluis and Cynthia Marsh Ann Kathryn Ryan Carol and Sandy Weisberg Donald Helgeson and Sue Shepard Vivian and Jeff Martin Cal and Claudia Ryan-Mosley Lisa Welch Mark and Mary Henderson Jeff Masco Sue Salmela Tammy Darrah Wenberg Christopher Hermann Jim and Liane Mattson Dorene and Ed Sarnoski Gary and Andrew Whitford Holey Wilbur Hill Ron and Mary Mattson Gregg M. Sawyer Elizabeth Wiens Jim and Mary Holland Paul and Julie Mattson Nancy Saxhaug Frank and Frances Wilkinson Joe Holmers Robert and Polly McCrea Jill Schafer Jim and Martha Williams Gail and Jeff Horner Peg McKee Julie Schaper Sally Wingert and Tim Danz Margaret and Mark Hottinger Roni McKenna Heidi Schellhas Mike Wolsted George Hudachek Lisa McLean Bill Schoppert Ann Wynia Scott Hugdahl and Leslie Martens Rebecca McNamara Meg Schuller Jane Young Kathleen and Mark Humphrey Julie Meredith Trish and Ralph Scorpio David Young and Edward Williams, Jr. Marcia Hunter Douglas and Cindy Merrigan Dan and Cyndy Seeman Mark and Penny Ziessman Mary and Jeff Husband David Miller and Mary Dew Sharon and Stephen Segal Betsy Husting Robert Jardin, Kevin Miller, Izzy Miller-Jardin Miriam Seim Hugh Huston Barb Minnerath Jack and Susan Sell Wyn Huynh and Bob Zehrer Eric Molho Marsha and Joel Seltz Mark and Jeanne Innerbichler Joan Growe and Thomas Moore Carole Senty and Richard Miller Places ($50–$99)

Mary Adair and Gerald Jorgenson Mary Anne Ebert and Paul Stembler Marcy Horwitz in honor of Julie Schaper Martha M. and James P. McDermott deEtt Allen B. Economon Ellen Hughes Mary McGuire Carole Anderson Chris Estee Kathleen Humphries Margaret Michaelson Linda Aronson Anna Marie Ettel Mary Ites and Michael Stuart Mary Miesle Timothy Backous Gary and Connie Fallkenstein Sandy Jacobsen Jean Montgomery William Bahl Don Feeney and Diane Carter Foster Johns Nicholas Naumann Alice and Bob Bakken George and Mary Kay Fortier Spalding Joe Kandiko Susan and Jeff Nelson Paul Chrenka And Martha Ballard Alice Fredrickson Madonna Kasbohm Laura Nelson Roger Battreall and Jayne Funk Craig Freeman Linda King and Robert Schauinger Zachary Nelson-Winters Meg Benefield Gayle C. Gaskill Mary Kokernot Lynn Olds Steve Benson Manon Gimlett and Thaxter Cunio Brian Kraft Margaret Olson Susan Bernstein Jerome Girton Jocelyn Laberge Kathleen O’Malley Joseph Bilski Duane and Nancy Graham Jon C. Lahann Elizabeth O’Mara Judith Bird Nancy Grell Diane Landis Jean Orbison Van Heel Paul and Marcia Bjerke Greta Grosch Judy Larsen Agneta Parr Allen Borcherding Gabe Gusmini David Larson Lowell Parsons John and Judy Borger Patricia Haarman Roma Lee and James E. Rasmussen Jeanne Peltier Rosanne Borscheid Norma Hanlon Sally Leighninger Susan Pelton John Brant Jaden Hansen Shelly Leshovsky Cara Pester Peggy Brennan William Haring Kristie Lester Carole R. Peterson Joanne and Drew Brockington Phebe Haugen Jennifer Lewin John Pikala Fran Buesgens Kim Havey and Mike Bisping Edward Linder and Stacey Poirier Deborah E. Pollak Jeannie Campbell Judith Hawley Pamela and Frederick Lott Diana Postlethwaite Peggy Crosby Laura Heglund Jolene and John Madden James Ramlet Pam and Tim Dagoberg Jelan and James Heidelberg Duayne Malewicki Barb Michaels-Rauen Lawrence and Sheila Dalen Janet Herbert Cookie and Paul Mandell Jim Reininger Thomas and Mary Darnall Russell Heuckendorf Kristine Mandler Marilyn Riederer Annie Doughty and Jim Detmar Shellee Hintz Robert and MaryEllen Manske Daniel Riehle Cheryl Divine Catherine Holtzclaw Jennifer Marshall and Matthew Haines Michael Robins Kathy Dodge and Steve Downing Carol Hondlik Barbara and Tom McClellan Scott Romane

16 A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC Judy Romanowich Smith David Sebberson and Meg Lewis Susan Summitt Nancy Walton Pat Rosaves Wendy Short-Hays Javen Swanson Julie Barnes Weaver Steve and Kris Rose Lisa Sinclair Hildy Swedean Lori-Anne Williams Elaine Savick Lisa Slazl Kay Thompson Mary Wingfield Elaine Gaston and Mark Scannell William Smith Harv Thompson and Richard Klemm Marie Wolf Richard Scarlett Roxanne Soth Anna and Bob Tift Maryann Wycoff Jeanne Schleh Tamara Statz Susan Rose Dianne Schmiesing and Victor Zupanc Nanette Stearns Corinna and Andrew Troth Robert and Margaret Schwob Andrea Nordick-Stone Tom Twiss Katie and Ken Searl Claire Stortz Cathy Waldhauser

Season 21 Production Sponsors Legacy Circle We gratefully recognize the following individuals who have chosen to include Dick and Diane Wright - Once Theater Latté Da in their estate plans. These estate gifts will sustain our The Rence Campbell Household -All is Calm artistic excellence and fiscal health for years to come: Kathy and Allen Lenzmeier - A Little Night Music Kent Allin and Tom Knabel - Hedwig and the Angry Inch Marcia Aubineau Bill Venne and Doug Kline Mary Ebert and Paul Stembler John Hemann Anonymous - To Let Go and Fall Patti Pinkerton Stephen Fischer RBC Wealth Management - To Let Go and Fall Kevin Winge and Kevin Shores

If you have included Theater Latté Da in your estate plans but are not listed here, or if you would like to learn more about legacy giving to Theater Latté Da, please Libi Baehr at [email protected] or 651-204-6852.

In-Kind Supporters

Dan Avchen and David Johnson Minnesota Public Radio Chocolat Céleste Northeast Social Fran and Barb Davis Peter Rothstein and Omar Guevara Laurie DeMartino Design Soto We would like to extend a special thanks to Allianz Rob Dingmann and Ethan Reynolds MyTalk 107.1 Hammel Green & Abrahamson The Sheridan Room Life for supporting Season 21 and Theater Latté The Guthrie Theater Jim and Cindie Smart Da’s Senior ticket access program. Jay Harkness and Jean Storlie Stagetime Productions Nancy Jones Mary Meighan, David Ingbar, and Jake Ingbar

NEXT 20/20 is an initiative to cultivate 20 new musicals, or plays with music, over a five-year period. This initiative comes from the belief that it is the responsibility of the regional theater to not only speak to audiences today, but to contribute to the dramatic canon of tomorrow. With NEXT 20/20, Theater Latté Da will invest in the future of the great American Musical and its playwrights, composers, and lyricists through our annual NEXT Festival and world premieres.

Please consider supporting new work through giving to NEXT 20/20 in addition to your annual fund gift. Thank you to the following individuals and organizations or institutions for their commitment to new work through supporting NEXT 20/20.

Anonymous Lisa and Dan Hoene Randy and Tara Roth Elissa Adams and Michael Margulies Jim and Sandi Jensen Peter Rothstein and Omar Guevara Soto You can play a vital Mary Alberts Patricia Johnson and Kai Bjerkness Michael and Kathleen Ruhland Kent Allin and Tom Knabel Nancy Jones Thomas Senn and Mark Manion role in the future of Jean M. and Jim Becker Cyndi and Greg Klaus Lorri Steffen and Paul Zenner the American Musical Sue A. Bennett Carolee Lindsey and Darolyn Gray John Sullivan Theater. Please Jeff Bores and Michael Hawkins Jim and Kristin Matejcek Douglas* and Suzanne Tacheny Kubach Priscilla Brewster Jennifer Melin Miller and David Miller Steven Thompson and Ron Frey contact Libi Baehr at Barbara Brin and John Beal Kim and David Motes Libby and John Utter [email protected] to Scott Cabalka Rita and Ben Olk Bill Venne and Douglas Kline find out how. Shelli Chase and John Feldman Dr. Luis A. Pagan-Carlo and Jay Waldera Jane and Ogden Confer Joe Sammartino Kevin Winge and Kevin Shores Carol and Kim Culp Jim Payne Margaret and Angus* Wurtele Fran and Barb Davis Shannon Pierce and Rachael Kroog David Young and Edward Williams, Jr. Timothy Dordell and Kirk Ballard Gary Reetz Jane Zilch Jay Harkness and Jean Storlie Lewis and Connie Remele Jean and Jim Hartman Christopher Rence *In Remembrance Tom Hoch and Mark Addicks Jaime A. Roman and Jim Bernier

Funders are listed for the past 365 days as of December 31, 2018. Please accept our apologies for any errors or omissions. For corrections, please contact Libi Baehr, Development Manager, at 651-204-6852 or [email protected].

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MAR 27 - MAY 5, 2019 • RITZ THEATER • TICKETS ON SALE FEB 4 Board of Directors Staff THEATER Officers: Peter Rothstein Nancy Jones, Chair Founding Artistic Director LATTÉ Bill Venne, Vice Chair Jay Harkness, Secretary Michelle Woster DA Carolee Lindsey, Treasurer Managing Director THEATER MUSICALLY

Directors: Elissa Adams Denise Prosek Kent Allin Associate Artistic Director Co-Founder Les Bendsten Ogden Confer Allen Weeks Tricia Hofeld Matt Fulton Production Director Production Assistant Ron Frey Katie Guyer Andrew Leshovsky Roni McKenna Sandy Hey Marketing Director Accounting Consultant Lisa Hoene James Jensen Libi Baehr Millie Annis Christine Larsen Development Manager House Manager Kate Lawson Jim Matejcek Emilee Elofson Michael Dunne Penny Meier Marketing Manager Concessions Manager Gary Reetz John “Jake” Romanow Tiffany K. Orr Diane Beck Peter Rothstein, ex-officio Production Stage Manager Concessions Supervisor Thomas Senn Cara Sjodin Renata Nijiya Janet Lewis Brian Svendahl Box Office Manager Grace Peterson Kari Groth Swan Courtney Rust Libby Utter Micayla Thebault-Spieker Kathleen Sullivan Kevin Winge Master Electrician and Zach Windschitl David Young Rentals Coordinator Concessions Staff Jane Zilch Bethany Reinfeld Michael Hanisch Technical Director Videographer

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A gender-bending Shakespeare comedy As You Like It Feb 9 – March 17 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE directed by LAVINA JADHWANI

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A swashbuckling romance Cyrano de Bergerac March 16 – May 5 by EDMOND ROSTAND adapted and directed by JOSEPH HAJ

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