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Dear Friends, IN THIS ISSUE 2016-17 PROGRAM VOLUME I 7 An Evening With Jake Shimabukuro ...... September 7 Welcome to the Broadway Center! 9 Art Garfunkel ...... September 24 Whether this is your 10 Arsenio Hall ...... October 1 first visit to Tacoma’s 11 Dr. & the Nite Trippers ...... October 7 historic Theater District or you are 13 Rita Moreno ...... October 16 a longtime friend, LISA MUNET PHOTOGRAPHY 15 Craig Ferguson ...... October 27 thank you for being here. The 2016-17 season is an exciting mix of entertainers, and 17 Seattle Rock Orchestra – A David Bowie . . . . . October 29 we look forward to sharing much joy and 17 Sister’s Back to School Catechism ...... October 29 & 30 celebration with you. The season kicks off with An Evening 18 ONCE ...... November 6 with Jake Shimabukuro, the most celebrated 21 ...... November 10 ukulele artist in the world. He is followed 23 Vienna Boys Choir ...... November 13 by one of the great icons of music – the incomparable Art Garfunkel. Following that 24 Hypnotic Brass Ensemble ...... November 18 are two kings of late night comedy – Arsenio Hall and Craig Ferguson – who are sure to BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2016-17 have the Pantages roaring with laughter. Tiffany Harmon, President • Amanda Nathan, Secretary Dr. John & The Nite Trippers bring Clint Johnson, Treasurer • Deanna Keller, Immediate Past-President their unique brand of New Orleans jazz in Christopher Algeo Nicole S. Hume Kelly Lane Jim Storvick October, before Rita Moreno, the trailblazing Judy Baerg Lisa R. Jangard Connie J. Ladenberg Vic Sweberg star of stage & screen, makes a special Tacoma Jon Bowser Genie Jefferson Darriel W. Menefee Mike R. Wark appearance. Halloween weekend will – Kim A. Fisher Brooke A. Johnson Mark D. Pinto David Fischer, Executive literally – be rocking with Seattle Rock Holly Hayes Kathy S. Keele Jumi Sakurai Director Stephanie B. Howe Sara S. Kendall Kristin Sawin Orchestra – A Tribute to David Bowie, and a different kind of scary comedy with Sisters’ BROADWAY CENTER STAFF Back to School Catechism – the Holy Ghost Executive Leadership Jill Heinecke, Master Teaching Artist and Other Terrifying Tales. David Fischer, Executive Director Gerardo Hernandez, Master Teaching Artist The Broadway tour of smash hit musical Lacey Wright, Associate Executive Director Gabe McPherson, Master Teaching Artist ONCE begins November. Later in the Julie Krilich, Director of Finance Stephanie Pederson, Master Teaching Artist Becky Johnson, Director of Development Leah Scofield,Master Teaching Artist month country legend Kris Kristofferson Scott Painter, Director of Operations Charles Simmons, Master Teaching Artist plays the Pantages, before Vienna Boys Choir, Holly Klindt, Executive Assistant Laura Shepherd, Master Teaching Artist the premier youth choir in the world, make Box Office Bryan Willis, Playwright Vanessa Cadungug, Box Office Manager Events & Venue Rentals a rare Washington appearance. Wrapping the Amanda Oliver, Assistant Box Office Manager Leilani Balais, Associate Director of Events fall up is the up-and-coming hip hop classical Erin White, Box Office Lead Emily Alm, Senior Event Manager Sarah Judy, Box Office Lead Sean Blacketer, Maintenance Coordinator hybrid group Hypnotic Brass Orchestra. 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6 BROADWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS EAP 1_3 S template.indd 1 5/22/14 1:36 PM Broadway Center presents AN EVENING WITH JAKE SHIMABUKURO WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2016 AT 7:30 P.M. PANTAGES THEATER APPROXIMATE RUN TIME: 75 MINUTES WITH INTERMISSION

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MEET JAKE SHIMABUKURO same process of mixing both island and SPONSORS Consider the humble ukulele. It’s an outside influences, both modern and adaptation of a stringed instrument that historical. He’s combined the qualities traveled with Portuguese immigrants of a long line of virtuoso ukulele players who came to work in the sugar cane with modern rock musicians to create a fields of Hawaii. Islanders made the sound that’s uniquely his own but still “machete” their own, mixing external firmly grounded in Hawaiian tradition. influences of classical European music Growing up in Hawaii, Jake’s TED BROWN MUSIC and Spanish with Hawaiian songs. influences include legendary ukulele MEDIA Native Hawaiians renamed the little players like Eddie Kamae, Ohta-San machete the ukulele and it’s become and Peter Moon. Jake also credits icons synonymous with Hawaiian music and like Bruce Lee and Michael Jordan as a Hawaiian culture. source of inspiration.

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encoreartsseattle.com 7 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 In the years since the YouTube clip He has topped Billboard’s World Music Known for his energetic strumming aired, Jake has collaborated with an Chart numerous times, been declared on the ukulele, Jake’s performance array of artists that include Yo-Yo Ma, a musical “hero” by incorporates elements of thoughtful, Jimmy Buffett, Bette Midler, Cyndi Magazine, which also stated: “one of sophisticated arrangements to Lauper, Jack Johnson, Ziggy Marley, the hottest axemen of the past few years spontaneous, improvised passages. In Dave Koz, Michael McDonald, Bela doesn’t actually play guitar.” He has addition to his original compositions, Fleck and The Flecktones, Tommy also won accolades from the disparate his repertoire includes Queen’s Emmanuel, and Lyle Lovett - as well likes of Eddie Vedder who states: “Jake “Bohemian Rhapsody”, Schubert’s “Ave as orchestras around the world. He’s is taking the instrument to a place that I Maria” and Cohen’s “Hallelujah.” sold out world-class venues, played can’t see anybody else catching up with;” Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, been talked about by Perez Hilton and Jake’s life has always centered on the Dr. Sanjay Gupta, wowed audiences ukulele. He started playing at the age on national TV with appearances on of four, urged by his mother, who also "…INGENIOUSLY Jimmy Kimmel Live, Late Night with played. Conan O’Brien, Good Morning America, Jake began his music career in the mid- ARRANGED, and The Today Show, and along the 90’s, performing at local coffee shops A TECHNICAL way has earned comparisons to musical as a sideman with his first band, Pure innovators such as Jimi Hendrix and Heart. But Jake’s solo career began in SHOWSTOPPER…" Miles Davis. 2002 when he signed with Epic Records, Jake has been the subject of an becoming the first ukulele player to sign – THE NEW award winning documentary “Jake with Sony Music. YORK TIMES Shimabukuro: Life On Four Strings,” While his well-received solo releases currently on Netflix. Jake also travels positioned Jake as an established to schools around the world and spreads musician in Hawaii and Japan, his career at Bonnaroo, SXSW, the Playboy positive messages to young people, skyrocketed when a cover of “While Jazz Festival, Fuji Rock Festival, the encouraging them to find their passion My Guitar Gently Weeps” went viral influential TED conference, and even and live drug-free. Although he is on YouTube with more than 13 million performed for Queen Elizabeth II at constantly touring, playing 140 shows views, opening the rest of the world’s the Royal Variety Performance in a year, Jake and his family continue to eyes to Jake and his unique playing style. Blackpool, England. make Hawaii their home.

PHOTO BY COLEMAN SAUNDERS 8 BROADWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Broadway Center presents ART GARFUNKEL: IN CLOSE UP SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2016 AT 7:30 P.M. PANTAGES THEATER APPROXIMATE RUN TIME: TWO 45-MINUTE SETS WITH A 20-MINUTE INTERMISSION

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Blessed with what the New York selling ever. SPONSORS Times described as a “beautiful After Simon & Garfunkel parted ways countertenor,” singer ART in 1970, Garfunkel landed several major GARFUNKEL has made an indelible film roles, including Carnal Knowledge mark on the music world as both a solo (opposite Jack Nicholson), Catch 22 artist and half of the unrivaled Simon and Nicholas Roeg’s Bad Timing/A MEDIA & Garfunkel. He has also enjoyed a Sensual Obsession. His solo debut Angel successful film career, published a book Clare spawned the top 10 hit “All I of poetry and released 12 solo , Know.” His other solo albums include the most recent being Some Enchanted Breakaway (‘75; features the hit “I Evening in 2007. Only Have Eyes For You”), Watermark best: singing for an audience. “Taking Since then, he has been busy as a (‘78; featuring “[What A] Wonderful on the fear and vulnerability of a live husband and father to his two sons, World” with James Taylor and Paul show keeps you vital,” says Garfunkel, 26-year-old James and 10-year-old Simon), Fate For Breakfast (‘79), Scissors who relishes the opportunity to perform Beau Daniel. He is also an avid walker Cut (‘81), The Animals’ Christmas (‘86), new and classic material for fans around who has walked across Japan, the US Lefty (‘88), Garfunkel (greatest hits, ‘88), the world. “I’m a singer trying to get (celebrated in the 1997 concert DVD Up Till Now (‘93), Across America (‘97), away with a lucky job. I try to soothe, Across America) and now Europe. Songs From A Parent To A Child (‘97), to lift...That’s my life.” Garfunkel was originally revered for Everything Waits To Be Noticed (’03), Garfunkel earned his Bachelor of Arts his Grammy-winning, chart-topping Some Enchanted Evening (’07) and The degree at Columbia College, majoring songs and albums with partner and Singer (2012). in Art History; later he earned his fellow NYC native . Their The late ‘80s brought two new Masters degree in Architecture at greatest hits collection, which includes challenges for Garfunkel: he published Columbia University. He lives in New “Mrs. Robinson,” “Scarborough Fair,” Still Water, a collection of poetry in York City with his wife Kim. Garfunkel “The Sound Of Silence,” “The Boxer” ‘89, and began an amazing trek across is an avid reader and has chronicled and “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” America – on foot. But the ‘80s and ‘90s every book he’s read since June 1968 on among others, is one of the biggest found Garfunkel doing what he does his website – 1,227 in all.

encoreartsseattle.com 9 Broadway Center presents ARSENIO HALL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2016 AT 7:30 P.M. PANTAGES THEATER APPROXIMATE RUN TIME: 90 MINUTES WITH INTERMISSION

If you ask different people where they Hall attempted to diversify his career successful five-year run as Executive first saw Arsenio Hall, you’d probably by making numerous appearances on Producer, Hall provided a forum for get a number of different answers. But, television shows such as Solid Gold cutting edge comedy, politics and the it was the success of his Emmy Award- and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny television debut of such pop superstars winning late night talk show The Carson...and doing his first film cameo as Mariah Carey, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Arsenio Hall Show that made Arsenio a in Amazon Women on the Moon, directed Boyz II Men, and countless others. In household name. The versatile actor, by John Landis. 1994, Hall was again ready to grow and comedian and producer first became In 1987, Hall was asked to replace Joan diversify. He resigned from the late involved in the arts at The Cleveland Rivers on the Fox Network series The night gabfest to pursue other personal Playhouse and continued to hone his Late Show. On the strength of his work and professional interests. craft through his Kent State University as interim host, he was signed to a film In 1998, Hall joined the cast of the years. and television deal with Paramount CBS dramedy Martial Law, playing In 1979, Hall moved from Ohio Pictures, which subsequently led to the “Terrell Parker,” a streetwise L.A.P.D. to Chicago, Illinois where he tried opportunity to co-write and co-star in detective, for two years. He followed his hand at stand-up comedy and the hit (Paramount) comedy Coming to this up with a two season stint as Host was discovered by jazz singer Nancy America. of the new Star Search (CBS). And Wilson. In the following few years On January 3, 1989, The Arsenio then, taking on his most challenging Hall toured, opening for twenty major Hall Show made its debut. Virtually task to date, he returned to stand-up headliners including Patti LaBelle, overnight, Hall changed the face of late comedy and toured for the first time in Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner and night television by captivating young over a decade. Hall was featured as the Stevie Wonder. A short time later, viewers across the country. During his comical “Carl Cristall” in Exodus Films’

10 BROADWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS animated feature Igor, starring John Cusack, which was released in theaters nationwide in September, 2008, and on DVD in January, 2009. Arsenio Hall appeared in a memorable cameo starring as “Tasty Freeze” in the highly touted feature comedy Black Dynamite, homage to classic blaxploitation films, which opened in theaters nationwide October 16, 2009 (Sony/Apparition), was released on DVD in February, 2010, and debuted as a new animated series on Adult Swim in July, 2012. In addition, Hall was featured in the HBO Sports Documentary Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals which premiered in March, 2010, as well as the A&E two-hour documentary special The Battle For Late Night, which premiered in April, 2010. He was also featured in the NBA Entertainment documentary The Announcement, which premiered in March, 2012 on ESPN, where he shares his insight and experience surrounding the day of Thursday, November 7, 1991, when Earvin “Magic” Johnson made people stop and watch at the Forum in Inglewood, California, announcing he was HIV-positive and would be retiring from basketball immediately. The documentary gets to the core of Magic’s incredible personal journey and explores how he continues to prosper and thrive two decades later. Hall was featured as a “Guest Mentor” Broadway Center presents on the OWN Network’s Your OWN SPONSORS Show, as well as appearing as guest host on the daily talk show Access Hollywood DR. JOHN LIVE!, CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight and The View. MEDIA On May 20, 2012, Arsenio was & THE NITE crowned the “Celebrity Apprentice” for Season 5 of Donald Trump’s TRIPPERS reality show on NBC, where he FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2016 competed for his charity, The Magic AT 7:30 P.M. Johnson Foundation. PANTAGES THEATER PARTNER Most recently, he returned to late- APPROXIMATE RUN TIME: night television as executive producer 75 MINUTES and host of the CBS Television Distribution/Tribune Broadcasting The legendary Dr. John is a six-time nationally syndicated The Arsenio Grammy Award-winning musician and Hall Show, which aired on stations Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee. around the country during the 2013 - Known throughout the world as the career began in the 1950s when he 2014 season. embodiment of New Orleans’ musical wrote and played guitar on some of legacy, Dr. John is a true icon in the greatest records to come out of the American culture. His colorful musical CONTINUED ON PAGE 12

encoreartsseattle.com 11 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11 Crescent City, including recordings by Professor Longhair, Art Neville, Joe bringing life to flowers Tex and Frankie Ford. for over 25 years Dr. John headed west in the 1960s, where he continued to be in demand as a session musician, playing on records music arts poetry by Sonny and Cher, Van Morrison, movement foreign language Aretha Franklin and The Rolling Stones’ Early Childhood and Grades Exile On Main St. During that time he TacomaWaldorf.org launched his solo career, developing the charismatic persona of Dr. John The 909 PACIFIC AVE, TACOMA, WA 98402 Nite Tripper. A legend was born with 253.572.2327 BLITZFLORIST.COM his breakthrough 1968 album Gris- Gris, which introduced to the world his unique blend of voodoo mysticism, Bli 082410 fl ower 1_12.pdf , rhythm & blues, psychedelic rock and Creole roots. Several of his many career highlights include the masterful album Sun, Moon and Herbs in 1971 which included cameos from and Mick Jagger and 1973’s In The Right Place, which contained the chart hits “Right Place Wrong Time” and “Such A Night.” In addition to his six Grammy wins (1989, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2008 and 2013), he has received six other Grammy nominations over the years. In 2007 he was nominated for Sippiana Hericane, his Hurricane Katrina benefit $20disc. After Hurricane Katrina Dr. John immediately stepped up to the waivedplate with generous relief fund-raising concerts and recordings. In 2007 he was also inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame and the Blues Hall of Fame. In 2008 he released City That Care Forgot, winning him a Grammy for Best Contemporary Blues Album. The arts are essential to the His album Locked Down, released in 2012 with Dan Auerbach of The Black health of our community. Keys, also won a Grammy for Best Contemporary Blues Album. In 2013 MultiCare is proud to support the Broadway Center Dr. John was awarded an honorary doctorate from Tulane University and performing arts in Tacoma. alongside His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Dr. John’s critically acclaimed Ske- Dat-De-Dat: The Spirit of Satch is a tribute to New Orleans music legend Louis Armstrong. Dr. John and the album’s co-producer and arranger Sarah Morrow released “Ske-Dat-De-Dat” multicare.org in fall, 2014. After a half century of MultiCare Health System creating music for others and himself, Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital & Clinics ~ MultiCare Allenmore Hospital ~ MultiCare Auburn Medical Center Dr. John continues to write, arrange, MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital ~ MultiCare Tacoma General Hospital ~ MultiCare Clinics produce and interpret with a passion that has yet to wane.

12 BROADWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS EAP 1_2 V template.indd 1 8/9/16 10:55 AM Broadway Center presents RITA MORENO SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2016 3:00 P.M. PANTAGES THEATER APPROXIMATE RUN TIME: 90 MINUTES WITH INTERMISSION

Octogenarian Rita Moreno still remains one of the busiest stars in show business. She just completed production on the Latino remake of Norman Lear’s classic sitcom, One Day at a Time, which will premiere on Netflix in January 2017. Prior to that, Rita appeared in guest-starring roles in primetime TV series such as, Getting On, Jane The Virgin, Grey’s Anatomy and Grace and Frankie. In December 2015, she received a Kennedy Center Honor for her lifetime contributions to American culture. Prior to that she served as the Grand Marshal of the National Puerto Rican Day Parade in and released her ‘first ever’ all Spanish language album, Una Vez Mas, produced by her good friend, Emilio Estefan. Rita currently lends her voice to the character, “Abuelita” in the children’s animated series, Nina’s World, which airs on NBC- TV’s Sprout Network. She also was the voice of “Aunt Mimi” in the animated film,Rio 2. Her first book, Rita Moreno: A Memoir, published by Celebra Books,

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PHOTO BY AUSTN HARGRAVE encoreartsseattle.com 13 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 13 appeared in the delightful Singin’ in with Jimmy Coco; Circle Rep’s Size of instantly became a New York Times the Rain starring Gene Kelly and was the World; and more recently the female Bestseller. In 2011, she premiered her featured as Tuptim in the classic The version of Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple. one-woman show, Life Without Make-up, King and I with Yul Brynner and Ms. Moreno’s diverse regional theatre an original stage production about her Deborah Kerr. Although early roles roles include Lola in Damn Yankees, Anne life and also appeared as a season regular sometimes found her typecast as a Sullivan in The Miracle Worker, Doris in on the TV Land series Happily Divorced, Mexican spitfire or Indian maiden, she The Owl and the Pussycat and Mama Rose playing Fran Drescher’s mother. also broke the Latina mold playing an in Gypsy. At Berkeley Rep, she received In addition, Ms. Moreno frequently Irish teacher, an Italian widow, a female rave reviews for her interpretation of travels for concerts and lectures. Such evangelist, a proper Englishwoman and Maria Callas in Terrence McNally’s play creative diversity has been the hallmark a Southern belle. After her Academy Master Class in 2004 and, two seasons of Ms. Moreno’s nearly 70-year career. Award for West Side Story, Ms. Moreno later, she received similar acclaim for her She belongs to an elite group of only was acknowledged as a major big-screen portrayal of Amanda Wingfield in that twelve living performers who have talent. company’s The Glass Menagerie. won entertainment’s grand slam of the Other significant film appearances Ms. Moreno has guest starred on a wide industry’s most prestigious awards: The include: The Night of the Following Day variety of television productions in the Oscar, The Emmy, The Tony and The with Marlon Brando in 1967; with James U.S. and abroad. She is proud to have Grammy. Her Oscar win came in 1962 Garner in Marlowe; as Alan Arkin’s been a featured artist for many years on when she starred as Latina spitfire Anita girlfriend in Popi; and in Mike Nichol’s The Electric Company, the highly regarded in the film version of West Side Story educational show for children. She for which she also won The Golden "“…SHE HAS BEEN IN SHOW starred in her own TV series based on Globe. The Tony was for her 1975 the film 9 to 5. Additionally, she played BUSINESS FOR BETTER THAN comedic triumph as Googie Gomez in opposite Burt Reynolds in B.L. Stryker Broadway’s The Ritz. The Grammy was 60 YEARS, AND THERE ARE and was a series regular with Bill Cosby for her 1972 performance on The Electric VERY FEW HOUSES SHE in the NBC Cosby Mystery Series. In 2007, Company Album, based on the long- DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO she starred in the CBS series Cane and running children’s television series. She most recently she was one of the leads in BRING DOWN.”" won not one, but two Emmys – the first the highly acclaimed HBO series OZ. for a 1977 variety appearance on The – THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER She performs concerts across the Muppet Show and the following year for a country and often appears as a guest dramatic turn on The Rockford Files. artist with symphony orchestras. In Over the decades, she has collected production of Carnal Knowledge. She January 1993, she was invited to perform dozens of other show business awards, reprised the role of Googie Gomez in at President Clinton’s inauguration including a star on the Hollywood Walk the film version of The Ritz, followed by and later that month sang at the White of Fame in 1995. A favorite of Chicago Alan Alda’s The Four Seasons, Columbia House. In 2002 she appeared as the guest audiences and critics, Ms. Moreno Pictures’ acclaimed I Like it Like That artist with the San Francisco Symphony received that city’s coveted Joseph and Angus with George C. Scott. in a production of Candide. Ms. Moreno’s Jefferson Award in 1968 as Serafina in More recently she starred in the indie latest endeavor has been in cabaret where The Rose Tatoo and in 1985 was awarded feature Carlo’s Wake with Christopher she has met with great critical success. the prestigious Sara Siddons Award for Meloni and in Blue Moon opposite Ben In addition to film, stage, television her hilarious portrayal of Olive Madison Cazzara. In addition, she appeared in the and concert commitments, Ms. Moreno in the female version of The Odd Couple. highly acclaimed movie Pinero starring fills her spare time by lecturing to Ms. Moreno was born Rosa Dolores Benjamin Bratt and in John Sayles film, various organizations and university Alverio in Humacao, a small town Casa de los Babys. audiences on such varied topics as The near the Puerto Rican rain forest. At Her long stage career has included Value of Diversity to our Culture, The age 5, she moved with her mother to starring roles on both sides of the Power of Language, Getting Older without New York where the precocious child Atlantic. In London, she appeared in Hal Getting Old and A History of the Arts in soon began dance lessons. She made her ’s 1962 production of She Loves Me Film TV & Theatre. She is also involved Broadway debut at just 13 in Skydrift, and in the 1997 West End run of Sunset with a number of civic and charitable starring Eli Wallach. Then, in true Boulevard. In New York, she has starred organizations and events. Hollywood tradition, a talent scout in Lorraine Hansbury’s The Sign in Ms. Moreno has served on The spotted her and arranged for the teen to Sidney Brustein’s Window, opposite Robert National Endowment for the Arts and meet MGM mogul Louis B. Mayer, who Shaw in Gantry and with Jimmy Coco as a Commissioner for The President’s signed her to a film contract. in The Last of the Red Hot Lovers. She White House Fellowships. She has Her Hollywood career advanced received a Tony Award nomination for served as a member of The President’s steadily, including early films with her role in The National Health in 1974, Committee on the Arts and Humanities. stars such as Richard Widmark, Esther followed by her 1975 Tony win for The Rita was also recently honored by her Williams, Mario Lanza, Susan Hayward, Ritz. Other New York credits include: peers as the 50th recipient of the Screen Tyrone Power and Gary Cooper. She Anne Meara’s After Play; Wally’s Café Actors Guild Life Achievement Award.

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CRAIG Friday, September 23, 7:30pm American Fool – John Cougar Tribute FERGUSON AAT | $18/$15 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2016 AT Friday, October 7, 7:30pm IN SEPTEMBER Patitude – 7:30 P.M. Pat Benatar Tribute PANTAGES THEATER 2015, FERGUSON AAT | $18/$15 APPROXIMATE RUN TIME: Saturday, Ocotber 8, 7:30pm 75 MINUTES LAUNCHED HIS The Led Zeplin Experience featuring No Quarter Craig Ferguson entered the world of FOURTH ORIGINAL AAT | $25/$22 late night comedy following a diverse Saturday, November 12, 7:30pm and eclectic career that encompasses STAND-UP COMEDY Kings of Hollywood – film, television and the stage. Ferguson Eagles Tribute SPECIAL ON EPIX AAT | $20/$18 can currently be seen on the nationally syndicated game show “Celebrity ENTITLED, CRAIG Friday, December 2, 7:30pm An Inspirational Christmas Name Game,” for which he was FERGUSON: JUST with Elvis recently awarded the Daytime Emmy AAT | $23/$20 for Outstanding Game Show Host, for BEING HONEST, the second year in a row. The third season is set to premier on September WHICH WAS October 21, 28 & 31, 7pm 19th. Ferguson was previously the host NOMINATED FOR A October 22 & 29, 6pm of CBS’s “The Late Late Show with October 22 & 29, 9:30pm Craig Ferguson” for 10 years, which set GRAMMY FOR BEST The Night of the Living Dead all-time viewer records and earned him a COMEDY ALBUM. AAT | Pre-Sale: $15/$13; Primetime Emmy nomination. ($20/$18 at the door) In September 2015, Ferguson launched deeply meaningless to the profoundly his fourth original stand-up comedy meaningful.” In May 2016, Craig special on EPIX entitled, “Craig completed The New Deal Tour, a 60- Ferguson: Just Being Honest,” which show comedy stand-up tour across North was nominated for a Grammy for Best America. Ferguson was last seen in his on Sale now! original History Channel show, “Join or Comedy Album. The special was filmed www.auburnwa.gov/arts at New York City’s Town Hall and Die.” 253-931-3043 focuses on topics spanning from “the CONTINUED ON PAGE 16

encoreartsseattle.com 15 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 15 Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Ferguson got his start in the entertainment industry as a drummer for some of the worst punk bands in the U.K. After several stints on the English comedy circuit, Ferguson brought his act to America in 1995 to star with Betty White and Marie Osmond in the ABC comedy, “Maybe This Time.” From 1996-2003, Ferguson starred on “The Drew Carey Show,” playing Carey’s boss, ‘Nigel Wick.’ FERGUSON HAS ALSO BECOME A HUGE SUCCESS ON THE NORTH AMERICAN COMEDY CIRCUIT. HE HAS PERFORMED ALL OVER THE COUNTRY AND SOLD OUT CARNEGIE HALL AND RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL.

Ferguson has also become a huge success on the North American comedy circuit. He has performed all over the country and sold out Carnegie Hall and Radio City Music Hall. Ferguson’s first three stand-up comedy specials include, “A Wee Bit O’ Revolution,” “Does This Need To Be Said,” and “I’m Here to Help,” for which he received a Grammy nomination for Best Comedy Album. His film credits include, “How to Train Your Dragon,” “How to Train Your Dragon 2,” “Winnie The Pooh,” “Brave,” “Niagra Motel,” “Lenny the Wonder Dog,” “Prendimi l’anima,” “Life Without Dick,” “Chain of Fools” and “Born Romantic.” He has also written the feature films “The Big Tease” and “Saving Grace.” Ferguson has released two New York Times bestselling books, Between The Bridge and The River and American On Purpose, a book about why and how he became an American.

16 BROADWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS EAP 1_3 S template.indd 1 8/10/16 9:27 AM Broadway Center presents SEATTLE ROCK ORCHESTRA A TRIBUTE TO DAVID BOWIE Broadway Center presents SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2016 AT 7:30 P.M. PANTAGES THEATER SISTER'S BACK APPROXIMATE RUN TIME: 115 MINUTES WITH INTERMISSION

TO SCHOOL SPONSORS tributes to , Stevie Wonder, Led Zeppelin, Michael Jackson, Pink CATECHISM: Floyd, , Muse, Beck and The THE HOLY GHOST AND Smashing Pumpkins, as well as high profile collaborations with the likes of OTHER TERRIFYING TALES Elvis Costello, Macklemore, DeVotchKa, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2016 Allen Stone, The Lonely Forest, Sir AT 3:00 P.M. & 7:30 P.M. Mix-a-Lot, and Big Star’s Third (feat. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2016 members of The Posies, R.E.M., Nada AT 3:00 P.M. Seattle Rock Orchestra (SRO) was born Surf & Pearl Jam). THEATRE ON THE SQUARE out of the desire to marry the unabashed In 2012 SRO launched the Seattle Rock APPROXIMATE RUN TIME: 120 performance energy of rock’n’roll with Orchestra Summer Intensive, a week MINUTES WITH INTERMISSION the broader palette of musical nuances long summer day camp for middle & treasured in classical music. Founded by high school musicians. In 2012 also SRO bassist & composer Scott Teske, SRO contributed strings to the song “Neon It is that time of year again and Sister started modestly in 2008, performing their is preparing her classroom for another Cathedral” on Mackelmore’s 2012 album first show as a 13-piece string orchestra. long year of Catechism. You are in The Heist, and released its own debut EP As word of the ensemble and its mission store for another hysterical lesson with in 2013 featuring songs by Radiohead, spread, the size of the group and the profile “Back To School Catechism: The Holy The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Stevie Ghost and Other Terrifying Tales.” In of the performances matured rapidly, Wonder and Beck. this session we find out the Church’s leading within months to high-profile 2014 saw another expansion of the take on all the familiar Halloween tales collaborations with Jeremy Enigk, Damien organization with the addition two of Ghosts and Goblins. Full of Sister’s Jurado, Jesse Sykes and Rosie Thomas. more ensembles: Seattle Rock Orchestra signature class participation, you may get 2009 brought the orchestra to center stage Quintet, SRO’s preminent chamber hands on experience in how to build a with its sold out re-imagining of Arcade ensemble, as well Seattle Rock Orchestra Catholic appropriate Halloween costume. Fire’s debut album Funeral, followed by Social Club, a new community orchestra ENTERTAINMENT EVENTS, a move to the Moore Theatre for their designed to give even more performance INC. is based in New York City. EEI 2010-2011 season and tributes to David opportunities to Seattle’s thriving culture has made its mark on the theatrical Bowie, The Beach Boys, Radiohead of adult amatuer orchestral musicians. touring industry by offering a variety and Queen, as well as performances at Now a professional 50+ piece orchestra of new and exciting plays and musicals Sasquatch Music Festival in both 2010 with strings, woodwinds, brass, to an ever growing list of professional and 2011. SRO continued to develop its percussion and a rotating cast of guest presenting organizations throughout the reputation for high quality, high energy vocalists, SRO is embarking on its sixth country. shows over its next few seasons with full season of programming.

encoreartsseattle.com 17 Broadway Center presents ONCE SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2016 AT 3:00 P.M. PANTAGES THEATER

APPROXIMATE RUN TIME: 2 HOURS 15 MINUTES WITH INTERMISSION

FROM THE BIG SCREEN TO THE BROADWAY STAGE How the Academy Award- winning indie film sensation was transformed into the 8-time Tony Award-winning Broadway

musical Photo: © Joan Marcus In 2007, the charming, off-beat Irish filmOnce opened to glowing reviews and quickly developed a fervent following. The touching, lyrical musical and told them it wasn’t for me. There’s SPONSORS tells the story of two down-on-their- no tradition of musical theater in Ireland, luck musicians, an angst-ridden Dublin so I rubbished the idea. Then they told street singer/songwriter who works me John Tiffany was attached to it as as a vacuum repairman, and a Czech director.” immigrant who sells flowers in order to The two men are longtime friends, support herself and her family. Girl (as and although Tiffany also had doubts she is known) initiates a friendship with as to the viability of the material as a MEDIA Guy (as he is known), and in the course Broadway musical, he convinced Walsh of a week they make music together, not to reject the idea outright. “John fall in and part, but not before said, ‘Let’s just take two days, and we changing each other’s li ves. The can read the screenplay and listen to the movie’s stars, and Marketa songs and talk about it.’ So I said, ‘Okay, Irglova, also wrote much of the score, we’ll do two days. And that’s all we’ll PARTNER and received an Oscar for their beautiful do.’” ballad, “Falling Slowly.” Not quite. “Those two days convinced Once is simultaneously graceful and us that we wanted to do this show,” gritty, and has a naturalism and intimacy says Tiffany. That was the beginning that are generally best achieved in film. of a journey that led to Broadway and Which explains why the noted Irish eight 2012 , including playwright Enda Walsh was less than Best Musical, Best Book (Walsh), and way I work. And when I was approached enthusiastic when he was asked to write Best Direction of a Musical (Tiffany). about Once, I hadn’t even seen the film. a Broadway musical based on the movie. The show became such a critical and But one of my best friends said, ‘You “I guffawed when my agent called and commercial success that it spawned a will love the music.’ So I downloaded asked me to speak to the producers,” London production and a U.S. national the soundtrack, and absolutely loved it. says Walsh. “I said, ‘What a stupid idea.’ tour. I’d never heard music like that, and the It’s a two-hander with very little plot. “I never think about adapting films for music is the reason why I wanted to do It’s delicate. So I called the producers the stage,” says Tiffany. “That’s not the the show. Not just the music itself, but the fact that it’s a story about creating

18 BROADWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS music, a story about the healing power piece is how sometimes we meet people G.Wi lson. of music. Immediately I thought, ‘We’re who we don’t necessarily stay with JOHN TIFFANY (Director) won going to be able to see actors create forever, but they give us the resources Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics that music in front of us’ That’s really to move on to the next part of our life,” Circle awards for his work on Once. exciting. Actors have played instruments says Tiffany. “There’s something very Recent work: The Glass Menagerie onstage for years, but not always in a truthful in that. People have said to (Broadway & A.R.T.); Let The Right show about making music.” me, ‘When I was sitting in the theatre One In; Macbeth (also Broadway); In reading through ’s watching Once, I felt like I was watching Enquirer; The Missing; Peter Pan; The screenplay, Walsh discovered there was it with everyone I’ve ever loved, House of Bernarda Alba; The Bacchae; much he could relate to. “I’m a big whether or not they’re still in my life.’” Black Watch (Laurence Olivier Award for fan of the movie Brief Encounter, and I CREATIVE TEAM Best Director, Critics’ Circle Award for saw similarities,” says Walsh. “There’s Best Director); Elizabeth Gordon Quinn; a bittersweet pang that really hurts. ENDA WALSH (Playwright) is an Irish playwright living in London. He Home: Glasgow (all National Theatre Very quickly I thought I was a good of Scotland); Jerusalem (West Yorkshire match for the material. I tend to write is the winner of numerous international awards, and his work has been translated Playhouse); Las Chicas del Tres y Media characters that are inarticulate and Floppies (Granero Theatre, Mexico lonesome, and something comes into and produced worldwide. Recent plays: Misterman (Landmark, Ireland); Penelope, City; Edinburgh Festival Fringe); If their life that changes them. And from Destroyed True, Mercury Fur, The Straits listening to the songs, I thought it The New Electrical Ballroom, The Walworth Farce (all Druid Theatre, Ireland). Other (Paines Plough); Gagarin Way (Traverse, might be good for me to do something Edinburgh). Education: University of about Ireland, which was so hurt in the plays: Chatroom, The Small Things, Bedbound, Disco Pigs. Shorter plays: How Glasgow (M.A. in Theatre and Classics). recession. I thought it would be sweet Associate Director (National Theatre of to do a little love letter to Dublin. That These Desperate Men Talk, Lynndie’s Gotta Gun, Gentrification, My Friend Duplicity, Scotland, 2005–2012). Radcliffe Fellow was my way in.” (Harvard University, academic year The 12 adult members of the cast play Room 303. Film: Hunger. Walsh was awarded the Tony Award and the Outer 2010–11). Associate Director (Royal at least one instrument, and are onstage Court). virtually throughout the show. “I didn’t Critics Circle Award for his work on want anyone onstage who we didn’t get Once. (Movement). to know intimately,” says Tiffany. By GLEN HANSARD (Music and Lyrics). For Once, Steven won the Obie, Lortel individualizing each character, adds Film: The Commitments, Once. Albums: and Calloway awards. Broadway: Walsh, “we built a community, and that Strict Joy, the soundtrack of Once The Glass Menagerie (Also A.R.T.), became the heart of the piece. They’re (Academy Award, Best Original Song, American Idiot, Peter and the Starcatcher an ensemble of misshapen people who “Falling Slowly”), , The (Lortel Award). West End: The Curious sing and tell the story. Watching them Cost, Burn the Maps, Set List: Live in Incident of The Dog in the Night-Time. play the music and sing and find their Dublin, For the Birds, Dance the Devil, International: the Musical (Stage voice is very beautiful and very strong. Fitzcarraldo, Another Love Song. Entertainments), Rigoletto (Met Opera), But in addition to making it about The Full Monty (Sheffield),Let The Right MARKÉTA IRGLOVÁ (Music and community, we also wanted the show to One In, Black Watch (Olivier Award, Lyrics). Film: Once. Albums: The be hugely communal. So how do we do Best Choreographer) (National Theatre Swell Season, the soundtrack of Once that? We allow the audience onstage.” of Scotland), The Light Princess (Royal (Academy Award, Best Original Song Prior to the start of the show, the National Theatre), What’s It All About “Falling Slowly”), Strict Joy, Anar. audience is welcome to come onstage (NYTW), Lovesong, Beautiful Burnout, and mingle with the cast, who are JOHN CARNEY (Writer and Director Othello (TMA Award, Best Director) having a jam session. This bonding of the Film, Once) is a Dublin-based (Frantic Assembly, founding Artistic ritual doesn’t merely break the fourth writer-director who came to the world’s Director). wall; it obliterates it. “We wanted the attention following the box office hit MARTIN LOWE (Musical Supervisor, audience to own the experience,” says and critically acclaimed musical feature Orchestrations and Additional Material) Walsh. As the show unfolds, the focus is, filmOnce , which garnered multiple was awarded Tony, Grammy, Drama of course, on the relationship between Independent Spirit, Sundance and Desk and Obie awards for his work Guy and Girl, but the audience also Raindance awards. Previously, John on Once. Theater: Once (NYTW); catches glimpses of the lives of the other was a bassist in the Irish rock band the Jedermann (Salzburg Festival); The Light characters. “We needed to be sure that Frames, where he met Glen Hansard. Princess; War Horse; Caroline, or Change; there are all these other love stories in These musical roots continue to be Jerry Springer: The Opera; A Funny Thing the air. Each person is riffing off a love evident in John’s work with his latest Happened on the Way to the Forum; Nation that’s been lost, that got away. That was production, Can a Song Save Your Life?, (National Theatre); An Appointment the key: for the audience to feel part of heading into production in NYC. Other With the Wicker Man; The Wolves in the the experience, and also to look at the upcoming projects include Dogs of Babel Walls (National Theatre of Scotland/ people on the stage and go, ‘They’re us.’” for David Heyman and Nathan Kahane Improbable); Mamma Mia! (London, The material has proved to be as starring Steve Carell and a feature Tokyo, Seoul, international tour, powerful onstage as it is on film. “I adaptation of M.R. James’s Casting the think what’s very moving about the Runes for Barbara Broccoli and Michael CONTINUED ON PAGE 20

encoreartsseattle.com 19 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 19 Stockholm, Shanghai); The Full Monty; ; Cats; Les Misérables (West End). Recordings: Once, Mamma Mia! (original London cast and movie

FEATURING THE TACOMA soundtrack), Jerry Springer: The Opera. SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Martin was musical director for Mamma Mia! the movie (Universal). 03.17.17 BOB CROWLEY (Scenic and Costume Design) Theater includes TACOMA DOME THEATER STAGE T A C O M A , W A The History Boys (National Theatre; PURCHASE TICKETS AT THE TACOMA DOME Broadway, Tony Award); Les Liaisons BOX OFFICE, TACOMADOME.ORG OR Friendly Elegance  Classic Comfort CHARGE BY PHONE AT 800.745.3000 Fine Handmade American Craft Dangereuses and The Plantagenets (RSC, at LeRoy Jewelers, 940 Broadway, Tacoma 253-274-1630 Olivier Award); Don Carlos (Met); Pavane and (Royal Ballet); La Traviata (ROH); Alice in Wonderland (ROH, AS 072414 flowers 1_12.pdf Canada). Broadway: The Coast of Utopia (Tony), Carousel (Tony), Disney’s Aida (Tony), Tarzan, Mary Poppins (Tony), The Year of Magical Thinking. Crowley won a Tony Award for his work on Once. Recipient of the Royal Designer for Industry Award and the Robert L.B. Tobin Award for Lifetime Achievement in Theatrical Design. NATASHA KATZ (Lighting Design) won a Tony for her work on Once. She has designed extensively for plays, musicals, dance, opera and architectural installations in the USA and throughout the world. Recent Broadway: Motown, Follies, Hedda Gabler, Sister Act, The Addams Family, The Coast of Utopia: Salvage, Aida and Beauty and the Beast. Awards: Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Broadway League Touring Award, Whatsonstage, The Lucille Lortel and The Ruth Morly Design Award. Natasha is thrilled to be working on Once again. CLIVE GOODWIN (Sound Design). Broadway: The Glass Menagerie, Once (Tony Award, Best Sound Design of a Musical). London West End: Once. Off Broadway: Once (Lortel nomination for Outstanding Sound Design), What’s It All About. American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.), Cambridge, MA: Pippin, The Glass Menagerie, Once; Prometheus Bound; The Blue Flower (IRNE and Elliot Norton awards for Best Sound Design of A Musical); Cabaret, with Amanda Palmer. Worldwide: Sound designer/ engineer for Radiohead, Underworld, Pulp. Film/television: Greetings from Tim Buckley, “Dancing with the Stars” (BBC), “Later with Jools Holland” (BBC), “The Sound of Musicals” (BBC).

20 BROADWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS PHOTO BY ASH NEWELL

Broadway Center presents SPONSOR KRIS KRISTOFFERSON THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2016 AT 7:30 P.M. PANTAGES THEATER PARTNER APPROXIMATE RUN TIME: 90 MINUTES

Kris Kristofferson has been making graduate earned a Rhodes scholarship things happen his entire life. Born in to study literature at Oxford, where Texas and raised in a military family, he he boxed, played rugby and continued was a Golden Gloves boxer who studied to write songs. After graduating from pilot and achieved the rank of Captain. creative writing at Pomona College Oxford, Kristofferson served in the In 1965, Kristofferson turned down in California. The Phi Beta Kappa army as an Airborne Ranger helicopter CONTINUED ON PAGE 22 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 21 over the world, in most recent years in an assignment to teach at West Point a solo acoustic setting, which puts the HARMONY HARMONYand, inspired by songwriters like Willie focus on the songs. “There’s an honesty Nelson and Johnny Cash, moved to in the sparseness. It feels like direct HARMONY HARMONYNashville to pursue his music. communication to the listener,” he says. “When I was in the army, I was “I still have more fun when I’m with the one of the few people outside of his band, but being alone is freer, somehow. HARMONY HARMONYpersonal friends who knew about It’s like being an old blues guy, just Willie Nelson,” Kristofferson recalls. “I completely stripped away.” HARMONY HARMONYlistened to a disc jockey who happened Many would have hung their hat by to be a Willie fan. He would play now. Instead, Kristofferson barely has HARMONY HARMONYWillie’s songs and talk about him all paused for breath. He’s released several the time. By the time I got to Nashville, recent high watermarks including he was a superhero to me. For guys like the increasingly intimate A Moment me, Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson of Forever (1995), The Austin Sessions HARMONY were two gods we worshipped. Then (1999) and This Old Road (2006), and HARMONY HARMONYWillie and I got to be best friends. I he produced some of his finest work came from a position of idolizing him with the deeply personal Closer to the to finding out he’s the funniest son of a Bone (2009) and Feeling Mortal (2013). HARMONY HARMONYbitch you could be around.” Kristofferson has reached living legend “It’s a lovely fit to be able to After struggling in Music City for status, but that hasn’t changed or continue my life here at several years, Kristofferson achieved hindered his creativity. His current CD, Franke Tobey Jones. A remarkable success as a country The Cedar Creek Sessions, was recorded beautiful place to enjoy friends songwriter at the start of the 1970s. live at Austin’s Cedar Creek Recording and family and share my violin His songs “Me and Bobby McGee,” Studio in June 2014. Released in time music, which I began playing for Kristofferson’s 80th birthday in when I was five years old.” “Help Me Make It Through the Night,” “Sunday Morning Coming Down,” 2016, the double-CD set is a snapshot –Jane S. and “For the Good Times,” all chart- of the legendary songwriter in the Call Michelle or Shirley topping hits, helped redefine country twilight of his life. today for a tour. songwriting. By 1987, it was estimated In addition to many other awards, 253-752-6621 that more than 450 artists had recorded Kristofferson is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, winner 5340 N. Bristol St., Tacoma Kristofferson’s compositions. of the prestigious Johnny Mercer FrankeTobeyJones.com His renown as a songwriter triggered Facebook.com/franketobeyjones Kristofferson’s successful career as a Award from the Songwriter Hall of performer and that, in turn, brought Fame, and was honored with the him to the attention of Hollywood, American Veteran’s Association’s leading to his flourishing career as a “Veteran of the Year Award” in film actor. Kristofferson has acted in 2002. For Kristofferson’s 70th more than 70 films. In 1977 He won birthday in 2006, his friends and a Golden Globe for Best Actor in “A admirers gifted him with a tribute Star Is Born.” He’s appeared in cult CD, The Pilgrim: A Celebration of Kris favorites including the “Blade” trilogy, Kristofferson. Stars including Willie “Lone Star,” “A Soldier’s Daughter Nelson, Russell Crowe, Emmylou Never Cries,” “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Harris, Gretchen Wilson, Rosanne Anymore,” “Blume In Love,” “Cisco Cash, and Brian McKnight recorded Pike,” and “Pat Garrett and Billy the 17 of Kristofferson’s compositions for Kid.” Recent films include “Fast Food the tribute. In 2007, Kristofferson Nation,” “Dreamer: Inspired By A was honored with the Johnny Cash True Story,” “The Jacket,” “Silver Visionary Award from Country Music City,” “He’s Just Not That In To You,” Television and in 2009 BMI lauded and “Dolphin Tale.” Kristofferson with the Icon Award. He Heralded as an artist’s artist, the received the Frances Preston Music three-time GRAMMY winner has Industry Award from the T.J. Martell recorded 29 albums, including three Foundation in March, 2012. In 2014, with pals Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash Kristofferson was honored with a Independent Living Assisted Living and Waylon Jennings as part of the GRAMMY Lifetime Achievement Skilled Nursing Highwaymen. Kristofferson has spent Award and the PEN Song Lyrics of Memory Care three decades performing concerts all Literary Excellence Award.

22 BROADWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS not enough money to pay for the Boys upkeep, and the choir started to give concerts outside of the chapel in 1926, performing motets, secular works, and – at the Boys’ request – children’s operas. The impact was amazing. Within a year, the choir performed in Berlin (where Erich Kleiber conducted them), Prague and Zurich. In 1928 they performed in Athens and Riga followed by Spain, France, Denmark, Norway and Sweden (1929), the United States (1932), Australia (1934) and South America (1936). Since 1926, the choir has undertaken close to 1000 tours in 100 different countries. Present Today there are 100 choristers from 30 different nations between the ages of ten and fourteen, divided into four

PHOTO BY LUKAS BECK touring choirs. Between them, the four choirs give around 300 concerts Broadway Center presents and performances each year in front of almost half a million people. Each group spends nine to eleven weeks VIENNA BOYS CHOIR of the school year on tour. They SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2016 AT 3:00 P.M. visit virtually all European countries, PANTAGES THEATER and they are frequent guests in Asia, APPROXIMATE RUN TIME: 90 MINUTES Australia and the Americas. Together with members of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and the men Biography for the imperial court, at mass, concerts of the Vienna State Opera Chorus, and private functions, and on state Boys have been singing at the court in the Vienna Boys Choir maintains the occasions. Vienna since the 14th century. In 1498, tradition of the imperial musicians. At Musicians like Heinrich Isaac, more than half a millennium ago, Holy Hofmusikkapelle (Chapel Imperial) Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Johann Roman Emperor Maximilian I moved they provide the music for the Sunday Joseph Fux, Wolfgang Amadeus his court and his court musicians to Mass in Vienna’s Imperial Chapel, as Mozart, Antonio Caldara, Antonio Vienna. He gave instructions that there they have done since 1498. In 2012, the Salieri, Christoph Willibald Gluck, and were to be six singing boys among his choir participated for the fifth time in Anton Bruckner worked with the choir. musicians; the boys came from different the New Year’s Concert of the Vienna Composers Jacobus Gallus, and Franz parts of the Holy Roman Empire, from Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Schubert were themselves choristers. the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, and Mariss Jansons. Brothers Joseph Haydn and Michael Austria. Historians have settled on 1498 Acclaimed director Curt Faudon has Haydn, members of the choir of St. as the foundation date of the Vienna created four films with the Choir. The Stephen’s Cathedral, frequently sang Chapel Imperial (Hofmusikkapelle) and first, Silk Road: Songs Along the Road and with the imperial Boys choir. in consequence, the Vienna Boys Choir. Time (2009) featured never before seen In 1918, after the breakdown of Until 1918, the choir sang exclusively performances around the world and the Habsburg Empire, the Austrian exclusive behind the scenes access. Songs SPONSORS government took over the court opera, for Mary, a biography of the Virgin Mary its orchestra and the adult singers, but in 21 motets and songs followed in 2013. not the Boys choir. Josef Schnitt, who In 2015 they released Bridging the Gap – became Dean of the Imperial Chapel the Power of Singing and Good Shepherds. in 1921, turned the Vienna Boys Choir Also in 2015, the Choir entered a long- MEDIA into a private institution. The former term partnership with Universal Music – choir boys of the imperial court became Deutsche Grammophon; the first release the Wiener Sängerknaben (Vienna was a holiday recording, Merry Christmas Boys Choir) and the imperial uniform From Vienna. was replaced by the sailor suit, then the height of boys fashion. There was CONTINUED ON PAGE 24

encoreartsseattle.com 23 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 23 Repertoire The choir’s repertoire includes everything from medieval to contemporary and experimental music. Motets and lieder for Boys choir form the core of the touring repertoire, as do the choir’s own arrangements of quintessentially Viennese music, waltzes and polkas by Lanner and Strauss. Both the choir and the Chapel Imperial have a long tradition of commissioning new works, going back to Imperial times, when composers like Mozart, Haydn, and Bruckner wrote for the ensemble. Austrian composers Heinz Kratochwil, Balduin Sulzer, Wolfram Wagner, and Gerald Wirth have written works for today’s boys. Benjamin Britten penned a vaudeville which could be performed on tours, and Australian composer PHOTO BY RAY YAU Elena Kats-Chernin wrote her “Land of Broadway Center presents SPONSORS Sweeping Plains” for them. The Vienna

"...PURITY AND LUNG HYPNOTIC POWER, CHILDLIKE SIMPLICITY AND MATURE BRASS COMMAND OF BREATH ENSEMBLE TED BROWN MUSIC CONTROL AND PHRASING, MEDIA IS WHAT THIS ENSEMBLE IS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2016 ALL ABOUT..." AT 7:30 P.M. RIALTO THEATER - THE WASHINGTON POST APPROXIMATE RUN TIME: 90 MINUTES WITH A 20-MINUTE INTERMISSION Boys Choir performs major choral and symphonic works, sometimes as part of the Hofmusikkapelle, sometimes with The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble is a cosmic jazz style of their father. other orchestras and men’s choirs. They family band consisting of seven blood By 1999, the band of brothers are regularly asked to supply soloists for brothers who began their musical discontinued playing with dad in order large choral and orchestral works, such training at the tender ages of four and to find their own sound, growing into as Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms. In five by their father, jazz trumpeter/band the band now known as Hypnotic Brass recent years, they have performed with leader Kelan Phil Cohran (Earth, Wind, Ensemble or HBE. the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the & Fire, Chaka Khan, Sun Ra). The In 2001 HBE independently cut and Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the London boys went on to form the Phil Cohran released their first LP Satin (for which Philharmonic, Staatskapelle Berlin, the Youth Ensemble in 1990. The family they received an American Author’s Oslo Philharmonic and the Pittsburgh toured the United States performing Award). Using street performance as Symphony Orchestra. Over the last the complex original written jazz way to broaden their audience and decade, the choir has worked with, compositions of Cohran and other hone their now distinctive sound, among others, Pierre Boulez, Nikolaus greats such as Duke Ellington, Count they found success at the grass roots Harnoncourt, Mariss Jansons, Zubin Basie, and even the music of classical level, garnering over 50,000 in sales Mehta, Marc Minkowski, Riccardo Muti, greats Bach & Beethoven. Although nationwide. It was around this time that Kent Nagano, Seiji Ozawa, Christian the group’s early musical training Island Def Jam offered Hypnotic Brass Thielemann, Franz Welser-Möst, and encompassed primarily elements of a feature collaboration with renowned Simone Young. The choir also takes part instrumental performance, the brothers producer No I.D. (mentor to Kanye in opera performances at the Vienna State were personally being exposed to the West & ) as well as an Opera, the Vienna Volksoper, and the music of their own generation (hip- accompanying artist /in-house band Salzburg Festival. Choristers appear as hop, rock, reggae to name a few) and recording contract. The band decided to three boys in Mozart’s The Magic Flute. absorbed these components into the stay indie and moved to New York City

24 BROADWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS and followed up their debut album with same time Hypnotic Brass Ensemble the release of their second LP Jupiter. inked an outfitting deal with Dutch The album caught the ear of Blur lead denim giant Gstar Raw, and began and led to distribution their foray into international touring in the UK by Albarn’s imprint Honest with a European tour that featured Jons. By now the musical style of headlining performances at North Sea Hypnotic Brass Ensemble “had Jazz fest, Bread & Butter Barcelona, blossomed and come into its own.” (Lily and the Good The Bad The Queen Koppel/New York Times) at Victoria Park. By 2008 Hypnotic The group’s sound was best put by Brass Ensemble had performed their Fader Magazine’s Edwin Stats who called original tunes in every corner of the the band’s music: “a huge brass bridge world to audiences as big as 110,000 (Glastonbury. Roskilde) and premiered music at venues around the world including London’s Ronnie Scotts, "...JAUNTY Australia’s Sydney Opera House and New York City’s Carnegie Hall. In BANTER AND 2009, following a tour in Lagos, Africa with Damon Albarn & Africa Express BURSTS OF HIP- Hypnotic Brass Ensemble recorded a HOP, THE MUSIC full LP in London and released it under UK Honest Jons label. One of the ITSELF HAS A songs on the album, “War,” became a featured song on the international JOYOUS AND blockbuster movie HUNGER GAMES. HBE signed on with The Agency OFTEN MOVING Group for international touring and set out to blow away audiences at Womad FLAVOR OF AU; Big Chill; Novarra Jazz; Bermuda Jazz Fest; Percpan in Brazil; Pohoda in SOMETHING Czech Republic: Coachella; and many others. ANCIENT, AS IF The brothers were living in London when they recorded the IT WERE BEING record with D.Albarn Welcome to and joined the “Plastic CARRIED BACK Beach 2010 World T” upon its release performing alongside Bobby Womack: TO THE ROOTS Mick Jones from : : & . Hypnotic Brass OF JAZZ." Ensemble gave their signature dose of - THE TELEGRAPH hard brass to every audience on the four-month international tour and earned a spot backing up PRINCE of hypnotic polyphony connecting at the New Power Generation Fest the cosmic jazz of Sun Ra’s Arkestra in Denmark the next year, coming with the urgency of hip-hop and the personally requested by The Artist sweeping emotional scale of a Curtis himself. Since then Hypnotic Brass Mayield blaxploitation opus.” News of Ensemble has grown into an even the ensemble’s sound spread throughout newer sound with their latest efforts the industry, and after Emcee/actor BulletProof Brass and Fly released caught a live HBE’s show, by their very own imprint Pheelco the brothers were asked to join him Entertainment. In 2015 the Hypnotic onstage as part of the Mos Def Big Brass Ensemble signed with Kosson Band (including Robert Glasper, Chris Talent to expand their US Touring. Dave, Casey Benjamin). The group They are now gearing up to release a graced many stages around the globe new installment entitled Bad Boys Of including Jazzstage at Lincoln Center Jazz. and Sheapherds Bush in London. At the

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THEATER ETIQUETTE FIRE EXITS • Performances start promptly at their scheduled time. Please allow plenty of Pantages Theater – Exits are located east and west of the auditorium on both time to park and find your seat. orchestra and balcony levels. • Late seating is not guaranteed and is at the discretion of the House Rialto Theater – Exits are located on both orchestra and balcony levels. Manager. Theatre on the Square – Exits are located at the front entrance for the lower/ • If you must leave your seat during the performance, you may not be re- main level and on the north side of the building on the upper level. seated until an appropriate break in the performance. NO SMOKING To receive emergency messages, you may leave your name and seat number Smoking is allowed outdoors only at least 25-feet from the theater entrances and with the House Manager. PLEASE remember to silence all cell phone, where receptacles are provided. 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For Please notify a member of the usher staff and one will be provided for you. Park Plaza North, you’ll need to provide your license plate number. For the Subway Lot, you’ll need to provide your stall number. ATTIRE Rialto Garage – 909 Market Street (Located just south of 9th on Market Street). The Rialto Garage accepts Cash ONLY. Place $5.00 in the A Broadway Center event is always an opportunity to dress up, but there is corresponding stall number on the payment box. never a dress code. Attire usually varies from casual to formal wear. Many people are allergic to perfumes. Out of consideration for your fellow audience NEW PARKING VALIDATION PROCESS. The blue validation tickets members, please use perfume or cologne in moderation before entering the are no longer accepted as a form of parking validation. The new validation theater. requires a coupon code to be entered at the pay kiosks for both Park Plaza North or Subway Lot. 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