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DDaaddddyyLLoonnggLLeeggss December 2016 About TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Volume 48, No. 4 Welcome to TheatreWorks Silicon Valley and our 47th season of award-winning theatre. Led by Founding Artistic Director Robert Kelley and Managing Director Phil Santora, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley presents a wide range of productions and programming throughout the region. Founded in 1970, we continue to celebrate the human spirit and the diversity Paul Heppner Publisher of our community, presenting contemporary plays and musicals, revitalizing great works of the past, championing arts education, and nurturing new works Susan Peterson for the American theatre. TheatreWorks has produced 66 world premieres Design & Production Director and 160 US and regional premieres. In the 2016/17 season, we add the world Ana Alvira, Robin Kessler, premiere of Confederates and four more regional premieres to our résumé. Shaun Swick, Stevie VanBronkhorst Production Artists and Graphic Design TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s 2015/16 season included the world premiere of Triangle The Country House, Mike Hathaway the musical , as well as regional premieres of Sales Director Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin, tokyo fish story, Cyrano, and The Velocity of Autumn. Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin broke all our box office records, Marilyn Kallins, Terri Reed, Rob Scott San Francisco/Bay Area Account Executives becoming the highest-grossing show in TheatreWorks’ history. In the course of the year, shows that debuted here were produced at theatres around the world. Brieanna Bright, Joey Chapman, Ann Manning With an annual operating budget of $8 million, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Seattle Area Account Executives produces eight mainstage productions at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto Jonathan Shipley and the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts. Sixteen years ago, we Ad Services Coordinator launched the New Works Initiative, dedicating ourselves to the development of Carol Yip Initiative new plays and musicals. The has since supported over 150 new works Sales Coordinator through retreats, workshops, staged readings, developmental productions, ENCORE and the annual New Works Festival, inspiring The Mercury News to call us “a premiere breeding ground for new musicals, which has put the company on the national map.” TheatreWorks believes in making theatre accessible to the entire Silicon Valley community. Our Education Department reaches on average 25,000 students in 70 schools in 7 counties annually. It sponsors outreach programs that include the Children’s Healing Project at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, the Young Paul Heppner President Playwrights’ Initiative, specially-priced student matinees, extensive school tours, post-show discussions, and theatre camps, classes, and conservatories Mike Hathaway for youth. Vice President Genay Genereux For more information on our 2016/17 season, New Works Festival, and Accounting & Office Manager Education programs, please visit theatreworks.org or call 650.463.1960. Sara Keats Marketing Manager Ryan Devlin AFFILIATIONS—TheatreWorks Silicon Valley is a member of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT) and Business Development Manager operates under agreement between LORT and Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States. TheatreWorks is a constituent member of Theatre Communications Group, Inc., the national organization for the nonprofit professional theatre. TheatreWorks is a member of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre, a national service organization for musical theatre. In addition, Corporate Office TheatreWorks is a member of Theatre Bay Area, the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce, and the Mountain View Chamber of Commerce. TheatreWorks’ 2016/17 Season is presented in cooperation with the City of Mountain 425 North 85th Street Seattle, WA 98103 View and the City of Palo Alto, Community Services Department, Division of Arts and Sciences. p 206.443.0445 f 206.443.1246

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EAP full-page template.indd 1 10/17/16 12:58 PM From the Board Chair In this Issue I’ve been looking forward to this production of Daddy Long Legs since Artistic Director Robert Kelley announced our 47th season last 2 About TheatreWorks February. I remember being totally smitten with the plucky imperti- Silicon Valley nence of its heroine during its world premiere at TheatreWorks in 2010 and then again when it made its way to off-Broadway. I also 6 Give the Gift They’ll Never remember thinking that this tuneful, charming tale would be perfect Forget for our holiday show. The holidays also remind us to say “thanks” to the artists behind Coming Next the scenes. It really does take the proverbial village to mount a production, and we’re 8 CRIMES OF THE HEART often remiss in not recognizing the incredible artistry of the designers, carpenters, electricians, and many, many others who help bring our stories to life. Indeed, a high- light of our monthly Board meetings is a presentation by an “artistic guest,” who 10 PlayMakers Summer Camp embodies not only TheatreWorks’ mission, but also its heart. Recently, our guest was Andrea Bechert, the talented scenic designer of Outside 11 Director’s Notes Mullingar, the upcoming Crimes of the Heart, and many other TheatreWorks shows. We learned about her passion for theatre and her background in architecture, and how 12 About the Play and Creators she merged the two into a very rewarding career. She shared elevation designs for the Mullingar set and spoke about the joy of collaborating with Steve Mannshardt, TheatreWorks’ Resident Lighting Designer, and Chris Fitzer, our Property Master, to thoughtfully light each scene, and populate it with furniture and artifacts that reinforce the mood of the play. To further illustrate the creativity and importance of our designers, we also shared My wealth. My priorities. Joe Ragey’s beautifully detailed diorama of the Daddy Long Legs set, which you’re seeing tonight. Director Kelley explained how the set creates multiple locations by projecting varied American impressionist paintings on the background screen. So much My partner. thought and ingenuity—all contributing to the magic of theatre and its ability to trans- port us to different times, places, and circumstances. Wouldn’t it be great to share all this TheatreWorks magic with everyone you know? Novelist Jean Webster Good news is—you can! Our gift subscriptions are available now, and they’re better than ever. Choose a 4- or 6-ticket flexible passport, multi-show package, or $100 gift 14 Write What You Know You’ve spent your life accumulating wealth. And, no doubt, that wealth certificate. So look no further. Our gift subs are the perfect holiday gift for your family now takes many forms, sits in many places, and is managed by many advisors. and friends, and a terrific way to say “thanks” to everyone at TheatreWorks. 17 TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Unfortunately, that kind of fragmentation creates gaps that can hold your presents DADDY LONG LEGS wealth back from its full potential. The Private Bank can help. Barbara Shapiro 19 Who’s Who The Private Bank uses a proprietary approach called the LIFE Wealth Cycle SM to ind those gaps—and help you achieve what is important to you. 22 Reading Young Adult Fiction BOARD OF TRUSTEES Barbara Shapiro, Chair To learn more, contact: 23 Season of Giving Ralph Dickman Jayne Booker Derry Kabcenell Lynn Szekely-Goode Bill Coughran Michael Kahn Ewart Thomas 24 Coming Soon: CALLIGRAPHY Vice President, Private Wealth Advisor Ciro Giammona Julie Kaufman Tzipor Ulman 4082797734 Anne Hambly Robert Kelley Mark Vershel 26 Contributors [email protected] Judy Heyboer Phil Santora Holly Ward Larry Horton Loren Saxe Lisa Webster or visit unionbank.com/theprivatebank Charlotte Jacobs Nancy Ginsburg Stern Jane Weston 30 TWSV Staff Roy Johnson Debra Summers Gayla Lorthridge Wood 31 TWSV General Information BOARD EMERITUS Nancy Meyer, Founder • William F. Adler • Edward T. 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EAP full-page template.indd 1 9/6/16 11:24 AM From the Board Chair In this Issue I’ve been looking forward to this production of Daddy Long Legs since Artistic Director Robert Kelley announced our 47th season last 2 About TheatreWorks February. I remember being totally smitten with the plucky imperti- Silicon Valley nence of its heroine during its world premiere at TheatreWorks in 2010 and then again when it made its way to off-Broadway. I also 6 Give the Gift They’ll Never remember thinking that this tuneful, charming tale would be perfect Forget for our holiday show. The holidays also remind us to say “thanks” to the artists behind Coming Next the scenes. It really does take the proverbial village to mount a production, and we’re 8 CRIMES OF THE HEART often remiss in not recognizing the incredible artistry of the designers, carpenters, electricians, and many, many others who help bring our stories to life. Indeed, a high- light of our monthly Board meetings is a presentation by an “artistic guest,” who 10 PlayMakers Summer Camp embodies not only TheatreWorks’ mission, but also its heart. Recently, our guest was Andrea Bechert, the talented scenic designer of Outside 11 Director’s Notes Mullingar, the upcoming Crimes of the Heart, and many other TheatreWorks shows. We learned about her passion for theatre and her background in architecture, and how 12 About the Play and Creators she merged the two into a very rewarding career. She shared elevation designs for the Mullingar set and spoke about the joy of collaborating with Steve Mannshardt, TheatreWorks’ Resident Lighting Designer, and Chris Fitzer, our Property Master, to thoughtfully light each scene, and populate it with furniture and artifacts that reinforce the mood of the play. To further illustrate the creativity and importance of our designers, we also shared Joe Ragey’s beautifully detailed diorama of the Daddy Long Legs set, which you’re seeing tonight. Director Kelley explained how the set creates multiple locations by projecting varied American impressionist paintings on the background screen. So much thought and ingenuity—all contributing to the magic of theatre and its ability to trans- port us to different times, places, and circumstances. Wouldn’t it be great to share all this TheatreWorks magic with everyone you know? Novelist Jean Webster Good news is—you can! Our gift subscriptions are available now, and they’re better than ever. Choose a 4- or 6-ticket flexible passport, multi-show package, or $100 gift 14 Write What You Know certificate. So look no further. Our gift subs are the perfect holiday gift for your family and friends, and a terrific way to say “thanks” to everyone at TheatreWorks. 17 TheatreWorks Silicon Valley presents DADDY LONG LEGS Barbara Shapiro 19 Who’s Who

22 Reading Young Adult Fiction BOARD OF TRUSTEES Barbara Shapiro, Chair 23 Season of Giving Jayne Booker Derry Kabcenell Lynn Szekely-Goode Bill Coughran Michael Kahn Ewart Thomas 24 Coming Soon: CALLIGRAPHY Ciro Giammona Julie Kaufman Tzipor Ulman Anne Hambly Robert Kelley Mark Vershel Judy Heyboer Phil Santora Holly Ward 26 Contributors Larry Horton Loren Saxe Lisa Webster Charlotte Jacobs Nancy Ginsburg Stern Jane Weston 30 TWSV Staff Roy Johnson Debra Summers Gayla Lorthridge Wood 31 TWSV General Information BOARD EMERITUS Nancy Meyer, Founder • William F. Adler • Edward T. Anderson, MD • Doug Barry • Lauren Berman • Chuck Bernstein • Sharon Anthony Bower • Michael Braun • Polly W. Bredt • Bruce C. Cozadd • Jeff Crowe • Peggy Dalal • Yogen Dalal • Jenny Dearborn • Susan Continue the conversation online! Fairbrook • Michael R. Flicker • Peggy Woodford Forbes • Dan Garber • Doug Garland • Aaron Gershenberg • Marcia Goldman • Emeri Handler • Susan M. Huch • Perry A. Irvine • Nancy Lee Jalonen • Lisa Jones • Gina Jorasch • Roberta R. Katz • Tom Kelley • Robin Kennedy • Michael Kwatinetz • Dick Maltzman • Suzanne Martin • Patti McClung • Don McDougall • Bruce McLeod • Cynthia S. Miller • Leslie Murphy-Chutorian • Eileen Nelson • Karen Nierenberg • Carrie Perzow • Carey Pickus • Margot Mailliard Rawlins • John Reis • @TheatreWorksSV Eddie Reynolds • Sandi Risser • Lynn Wilson Roberts • Ray A. Rothrock • Adam Samuels • #DaddyLongLegs Denise Stanford • Rosina Lo Sun • James Sweeney • Cathie Thermond • Helaina Titus • Robert J. Van der Leest, MD • Ronni Watson • Elissa Wellikson encoreartsprograms.com 5 Make your 2017 Give the gift they’ 3 Plays for just $99 ($33 per play) 4 plays for just $128 ($32 per play)

A CLASSIC AMERICAN COMEDY AN EAST/WEST COMIC DRAMA Crimes of Calligraphy the Heart By Velina Hasu Houston Directed by Leslie Martinson By Beth Henley Regional Premiere Directed by Giovanna Sardelli Two continents, two cultures, two estranged Winner of the Pulitzer Prize sisters, and the two cousins determined to NY Drama Critics Circle Award bridge the gap between them—all are boldly calligraphed in this Three hard-luck Mississippi sisters are betrayed by their passions international comic drama set in Los Angeles and Tokyo, past and in this Southern Gothic classic—a zany, warm-hearted, and present. East and West collide as biracial American Hiromi and brilliantly imaginative tale of relationships run amok and dreams Japanese free spirit Sayuri confront tradition, prejudice, and their gone awry. In a hurricane of hilarity and hurt, Lenny’s turning heritage of filial duty in one final attempt to reunite their aging parents. 30, Meg’s fresh from rehab, and Babe’s out on bail, testing the “Intimate, sensitive…the emotional stakes are high.” LA Times boundaries of sisterhood in a world full of pitfalls and a town without pity. March 8–April 2, 2017 Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto “Overflows with infectious high spirits.” The New York Times January 11–February 5, 2017 Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts

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A CLASSIC AMERICAN COMEDY AN EAST/WEST COMIC DRAMA A MUSICAL SAGA OF IMMIGRANT AMERICA AN EXTRAORDINARY MUSICAL PLAY Crimes of Calligraphy Rags Hershey Felder, the Heart By Velina Hasu Houston Book by Joseph Stein BEETHOVEN Directed by Leslie Martinson Music by Charles Strouse By Beth Henley Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz By Hershey Felder Regional Premiere Directed by Giovanna Sardelli Directed by Robert Kelley Music by Ludwig van Beethoven Two continents, two cultures, two estranged Winner of the Pulitzer Prize America’s Greatest Unknown Musical Directed by Joel Zwick sisters, and the two cousins determined to NY Drama Critics Circle Award Regional Premiere bridge the gap between them—all are boldly calligraphed in this Hope, good will, and fierce determination light the ragtag Three hard-luck Mississippi sisters are betrayed by their passions international comic drama set in Los Angeles and Tokyo, past and journey of Jewish immigrant Rebecca and her son from European Following his triumph as Irving Berlin, the brilliant Hershey Felder in this Southern Gothic classic—a zany, warm-hearted, and present. East and West collide as biracial American Hiromi and persecution to new lives in the teeming, turn-of-the-century now brings Ludwig van Beethoven to life through the eyes of a brilliantly imaginative tale of relationships run amok and dreams Japanese free spirit Sayuri confront tradition, prejudice, and their tenements of New York in this exhilarating musical from the Viennese Doctor who as a boy spent Beethoven’s last years by gone awry. In a hurricane of hilarity and hurt, Lenny’s turning heritage of filial duty in one final attempt to reunite their aging parents. creators of Fiddler on the Roof and Wicked. A soaring, tuneful the Maestro’s side. Featuring some of the composer’s greatest 30, Meg’s fresh from rehab, and Babe’s out on bail, testing the score highlights this sweeping saga of dreams and disillusion, works, from the “Moonlight Sonata” to the “9th Symphony” and “Intimate, sensitive…the emotional stakes are high.” LA Times boundaries of sisterhood in a world full of pitfalls and a town love lost and inspiration found, of the heart and soul of the the “Emperor Concerto,” this intense, illuminating, and unforget- without pity. March 8–April 2, 2017 American character. table journey through time will immerse you in the astounding Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto “Overflows with infectious high spirits.” The New York Times “A winner, warm and witty. You are tempted to rise cheering.” life of the Maestro and his genius that transcended it all. January 11–February 5, 2017 The Mercury News “A hypnotic production...a chamber music piece of exquisite Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts April 5–30, 2017 beauty.” Chicago Sun Times Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts June 7–July 2, 2017 Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts SILICON VALLEY SEASON THEATREWORKS 2016/17 encoreartsprograms.com 7 Coming Next at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley

A CLASSIC AMERICAN COMEDY Crimes of the Heart By Pulitzer Prize Winner Beth Henley Directed by Giovanna Sardelli

Introducing Our Cast

LAURA JANE BAILEY (Chick Boyle) last LIZZIE O’HARA (Babe Botrelle) recently worked at TW in The Clean House. She won played Cecily in The Importance of Being an SF BATCC Award for her portrayal of Earnest at Flatrock Playhouse. She has Kathleen in Crevice at Impact Theatre. She appeared around the Bay Area in shows has appeared around the Bay Area and in such as The Wild Party (Ray of Light Chicago regional theatre, including Cider Theatre), Anything Goes (Center REP), House Rules (Jeff Award for Best Ensemble) Xanadu (Guggenheim Ent), and The Rocky at Famous Door. Horror Show (Actors Theatre Center).

JOSHUA MARX (Barnette Lloyd) appeared THERESE PLAEHN (Lenny Magrath) off-Broadway in Good, Jennifer’s Birth, and appeared on Broadway in The Heidi Sex Tips. Regionally he played Jack in Chronicles as an understudy, and as Emily Flatrock Playhouse’s The Importance of Webb in Our Town at Huntington Theatre Being Earnest, Mercutio in Alabama Company (2013 Elliot Norton Award for Shakespeare Festival’s Romeo and Juliet, Outstanding Production). She has appeared and Stanley in TheatreSquared’s One Man on numerous TV shows, including Mr. Two Guvnors. Film appearances include Robot, Odyssey, Hatfields & McCoys, Blue Dayroom, Poor Rock, and Cheap Fun. Bloods, Brooklyn, and more.

SARAH MOSER (Meg Magrath) appeared TIMOTHY REDMOND (Doc Porter) last in TW’s The Great Pretender (2014), Laugh appeared at TW in An Entomologist’s (2013 New Works Festival), and Time Love Story (2014 New Works Festival). He Stands Still (2012), and the Education has been seen regionally in Glengarry Glen touring show Olive and the Big Bully Battle. Ross (TheatreFirst), Clybourne Park (Center She has also appeared around the Bay Area REP), and strangers, babies (Shotgun at Berkeley Rep, SF Playhouse, Palo Alto Players). TV appearances include Nash Players, Magic Theatre, and more. Bridges, The Zen Yin Cult, and Westward.

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A CLASSIC AMERICAN COMEDY Crimes of the Heart By Pulitzer Prize Winner Beth Henley Directed by Giovanna Sardelli

Introducing Our Cast

DON’T MISS IT! Jan 11–Feb 5 Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts theatreworks.org 650.463.1960

EAP full-page template.indd 1 11/1/16 4:05 PM Upcoming Director’s Notes from Artistic Director Robert Kelley TWSV Events Jan and Feb I must love somebody at Christmas 1/10 @ 7:00pm INVITED DRESS REHEARSAL and there’s only you. WITH PHIL SANTORA Inner Circle members (donors So you’ll have to put up with it. $1,500 and above) are invited – Jerusha in Daddy Long Legs to attend final dress rehearsal of Crimes of the Heart to t TheatreWorks we consider our holiday shows Since that exhilarating world premiere, Daddy’s meet with Managing Director a special gift to our community, a chance to path back to TheatreWorks has been extraordinary, Phil Santora for a casual share the joy, energy, and good will of the season a journey that took it around the world. In the pre-curtain chat. RSVP required. with our friends throughout the Bay Area. This year’s intervening years it toured to theatres across the Contact [email protected] gift is the reprise of a musical premiere that delighted country, touched down in Manitoba, performed in for more info. A all of us not long ago: Daddy Long Legs. Based on Tokyo with a Japanese cast, and in London’s West MVCPA Jean Webster’s epistolary novel published in 1912, End with its original TheatreWorks cast intact. It this enchanting, intimate musical is one of an elite ultimately opened off-Broadway at the Davenport 1/18, 1/25, 2/1 few we have found worthy of revival at the holidays, Theatre in October 2015, running for nine months CRIMES OF THE HEART including Jane Austen’s EMMA, Oliver!, Peter Pan, and winning Caird the Drama Desk Award for POST-SHOW DISCUSSIONS and Into the Woods. Outstanding Book of a Musical. Last summer, Question and answer with the translated into Korean, Daddy found new fans in cast and staff folowing the Daddy Long Legs is an exhilarating love song, a turn- Seoul. And rumors have begun of a new national performance. of-the-last-century journey to a world of great wealth tour in the fall of 2017. MVCPA and grave poverty, rigid class distinctions, and self- satisfied men in power confronted by dissatisfied How to explain this exceptional response to a 1/29 @ 12:00 noon PlayMakers Summer Camp women at the gates. From the dark corridors of an chamber musical made up entirely of letters PRODUCER BRUNCH upstate orphanage to an Ivy League women’s college, written over a century ago? Start with an enthralling, Pre-event opportunity to meet Let your little “actor” express themselves at PlayMakers Summer Camp and eventually to the glittering lights and newfangled spirited, and brilliant heroine who comes of age the Writers’ Showcase artists, for this Summer 2017! Our professional Teaching Artists are experienced motorcars crowding Manhattan, you will soon feel before our eyes, intellectually, socially, and donors of $10,000 and above. theatre artists and educators who are eager to share their expertise. the excitement and promise of America in a time of romantically. Add John Caird’s flowing adaptation, TheatreWorks Green Room change. Here, you’ll meet one of the brightest and which brings an isolated and withdrawn Jervis to most charming heroines to ever grace either novel or life in ways unimagined in the original novel. Weave Sobrato Center for Nonprofits During this two week-long camp, students (K–6) will learn acting, playwrit- stage, revealed entirely in her own letters. in Paul Gordon’s engaging, romantic score and Redwood Shores ing, musical theatre, and stage craft skills in a fun, playful, and engaging evocative, amusing lyrics. And finally realize that way. At the end of the session, campers show off their freshly acquired Webster’s Daddy-Long-Legs was adapted to the stage its underlying themes—honesty vs. deception, 1/29 @ 2:00pm skills for friends and family, giving them the opportunity to relish in by playwright/director John Caird (Tony Award for loneliness vs. love, the meaning of charity, and the WRITERS’ SHOWCASE their mastery of improvisation, a new dance move, or the play they have Les Misérables, Olivier Award for Nicholas Nickleby) undervalued potential of women—are as relevant Performances of new work in created. and TheatreWorks favorite composer/lyricist Paul today as they were a century past. Inspired by a early development for donors of Gordon (Tony Award nominee for Jane Eyre). After charismatic new cast, an intimate theatre, and a $3,000 and above. Sessions available in Palo Alto and Menlo Park! our acclaimed production of their Jane Eyre and our beloved team of TheatreWorks designers, it is a TheatreWorks Rehearsal Hall Tuition is $640. world premiere of Gordon’s Emma, the pair offered pleasure to meet Daddy Long Legs all over again. Sobrato Center for Nonprofits Need-based scholarships and Sibling Discounts are available. Daddy Long Legs to TheatreWorks as a co-production Redwood Shores with the Rubicon Theatre in Ventura and Cincinnati To the warmth of the holidays, we delight in adding For more information on sending your little “PlayMaker” to PlayMakers Playhouse in the Park. It opened there in the fall of the joy of music, the ring of laughter, and the 2/13 @ 6:00pm Summer Camp, contact: 2009 before debuting at TheatreWorks in January of resonance of romance. On this festive occasion SEASON RELEASE PARTY 2010 starring Megan McGinnis and Rob Hancock. we offer a love-filled toast sure to bring cheer to Associate Director of Education Katie Bartholomew All are welcome to attend this Sensitively directed by Caird, who has graciously everyone in our extended theatre family. And as 650.463.7154 or [email protected]. free event, announcing offered several of his innovations for this production, Jerusha says, “You’ll have to put up with it.” TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s Daddy captivated audiences and critics alike, and an 2017/18 Season. onslaught of requests for a revival began almost MVCPA immediately after it closed.

10 THEATREWORKS Upcoming Director’s Notes from Artistic Director Robert Kelley TWSV Events Jan and Feb I must love somebody at Christmas 1/10 @ 7:00pm INVITED DRESS REHEARSAL and there’s only you. WITH PHIL SANTORA Inner Circle members (donors So you’ll have to put up with it. $1,500 and above) are invited – Jerusha in Daddy Long Legs to attend final dress rehearsal of Crimes of the Heart to t TheatreWorks we consider our holiday shows Since that exhilarating world premiere, Daddy’s meet with Managing Director a special gift to our community, a chance to path back to TheatreWorks has been extraordinary, Phil Santora for a casual share the joy, energy, and good will of the season a journey that took it around the world. In the pre-curtain chat. RSVP required. with our friends throughout the Bay Area. This year’s intervening years it toured to theatres across the Contact [email protected] gift is the reprise of a musical premiere that delighted country, touched down in Manitoba, performed in for more info. A all of us not long ago: Daddy Long Legs. Based on Tokyo with a Japanese cast, and in London’s West MVCPA Jean Webster’s epistolary novel published in 1912, End with its original TheatreWorks cast intact. It this enchanting, intimate musical is one of an elite ultimately opened off-Broadway at the Davenport 1/18, 1/25, 2/1 few we have found worthy of revival at the holidays, Theatre in October 2015, running for nine months CRIMES OF THE HEART including Jane Austen’s EMMA, Oliver!, Peter Pan, and winning Caird the Drama Desk Award for POST-SHOW DISCUSSIONS and Into the Woods. Outstanding Book of a Musical. Last summer, Question and answer with the translated into Korean, Daddy found new fans in cast and staff folowing the Daddy Long Legs is an exhilarating love song, a turn- Seoul. And rumors have begun of a new national performance. of-the-last-century journey to a world of great wealth tour in the fall of 2017. MVCPA and grave poverty, rigid class distinctions, and self- satisfied men in power confronted by dissatisfied How to explain this exceptional response to a 1/29 @ 12:00 noon PlayMakers Summer Camp women at the gates. From the dark corridors of an chamber musical made up entirely of letters PRODUCER BRUNCH upstate orphanage to an Ivy League women’s college, written over a century ago? Start with an enthralling, Pre-event opportunity to meet Let your little “actor” express themselves at PlayMakers Summer Camp and eventually to the glittering lights and newfangled spirited, and brilliant heroine who comes of age the Writers’ Showcase artists, for this Summer 2017! Our professional Teaching Artists are experienced motorcars crowding Manhattan, you will soon feel before our eyes, intellectually, socially, and donors of $10,000 and above. theatre artists and educators who are eager to share their expertise. the excitement and promise of America in a time of romantically. Add John Caird’s flowing adaptation, TheatreWorks Green Room change. Here, you’ll meet one of the brightest and which brings an isolated and withdrawn Jervis to most charming heroines to ever grace either novel or life in ways unimagined in the original novel. Weave Sobrato Center for Nonprofits During this two week-long camp, students (K–6) will learn acting, playwrit- stage, revealed entirely in her own letters. in Paul Gordon’s engaging, romantic score and Redwood Shores ing, musical theatre, and stage craft skills in a fun, playful, and engaging evocative, amusing lyrics. And finally realize that way. At the end of the session, campers show off their freshly acquired Webster’s Daddy-Long-Legs was adapted to the stage its underlying themes—honesty vs. deception, 1/29 @ 2:00pm skills for friends and family, giving them the opportunity to relish in by playwright/director John Caird (Tony Award for loneliness vs. love, the meaning of charity, and the WRITERS’ SHOWCASE their mastery of improvisation, a new dance move, or the play they have Les Misérables, Olivier Award for Nicholas Nickleby) undervalued potential of women—are as relevant Performances of new work in created. and TheatreWorks favorite composer/lyricist Paul today as they were a century past. Inspired by a early development for donors of Gordon (Tony Award nominee for Jane Eyre). After charismatic new cast, an intimate theatre, and a $3,000 and above. Sessions available in Palo Alto and Menlo Park! our acclaimed production of their Jane Eyre and our beloved team of TheatreWorks designers, it is a TheatreWorks Rehearsal Hall Tuition is $640. world premiere of Gordon’s Emma, the pair offered pleasure to meet Daddy Long Legs all over again. Sobrato Center for Nonprofits Need-based scholarships and Sibling Discounts are available. Daddy Long Legs to TheatreWorks as a co-production Redwood Shores with the Rubicon Theatre in Ventura and Cincinnati To the warmth of the holidays, we delight in adding For more information on sending your little “PlayMaker” to PlayMakers Playhouse in the Park. It opened there in the fall of the joy of music, the ring of laughter, and the 2/13 @ 6:00pm Summer Camp, contact: 2009 before debuting at TheatreWorks in January of resonance of romance. On this festive occasion SEASON RELEASE PARTY 2010 starring Megan McGinnis and Rob Hancock. we offer a love-filled toast sure to bring cheer to Associate Director of Education Katie Bartholomew All are welcome to attend this Sensitively directed by Caird, who has graciously everyone in our extended theatre family. And as 650.463.7154 or [email protected]. free event, announcing offered several of his innovations for this production, Jerusha says, “You’ll have to put up with it.” TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s Daddy captivated audiences and critics alike, and an 2017/18 Season. onslaught of requests for a revival began almost MVCPA immediately after it closed.

encoreartsprograms.com 11 and moving on to Cincinnati that a universal success and a historic, its globe-trotting adventure. About the Play and Creators March. precedent-setting moment for Whether you read the book, saw the theatre community. the world premiere production, This holiday season, the homecoming of one of Following the rolling world tuned in for the livestream, or are TheatreWorks’ most beloved musicals also marks the premiere, Daddy Long Legs has Nearly seven years after just now becoming acquainted return of one of our favorite composers, Paul Gordon. had numerous regional theatre TheatreWorks’ audiences were with Daddy Long Legs, we hope Since 2003, half a dozen productions of Gordon’s productions throughout the United first introduced to Jerusha and this production brings you the joy works have graced the TheatreWorks stage, including States, as well as international her Daddy Long Legs, we are that so many others around the Jane Eyre Jane Austen’s EMMA (2003), (2007 and productions all over the world. eager to revisit these old friends, world have already experienced. Being Earnest Daddy Long Legs 2015), (2013), and and recreate the magic that first – Katie Dai (2010 and 2016). His tuneful adaptations of highly In 2012, Daddy Long Legs was launched Daddy Long Legs on Original dramaturgy by Vickie Rozell regarded novels and plays have clearly struck a chord translated into Japanese by with TheatreWorks’ audiences. Maoko Imai and staged at Theatre Creation in Tokyo before touring In what he calls his “former life” (that is, before he four other Japanese cities. Later began writing for the theatre), Gordon was a song- that same year, Daddy Long Legs writer for major music publishing companies, with had a month-long run at the several hits on the Billboard Pop Charts. In the 1990s A O K

St. James Theatre in London’s he turned his attention to the stage, and one of his

M A R K I T West End. The show’s Canadian earliest theatrical successes came when he teamed Book writer John Caird and composer/lyricist Paul Gordon premiere came in 2013 at the up with book writer John Caird to pen a musical Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre Jane Eyre adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s . After five in Winnipeg, and in 2016 the Jane Eyre but Gordon, added that “it was ultimately too years in development, opened on Broadway Daemyung Culture Factory in complicated and expensive.” in 2000. Both Gordon and Caird received Tony nomi- Seoul produced the South Korean nations for their writing. Years later, the duo would premiere. team up again to create the musical Daddy Long Legs. Next, Caird wrote a series of imagined responses to Jerusha’s letters by the Daddy Long Legs character. Back in the US, Daddy Long Legs Describing the writing process, Caird explained, John Caird is a highly accomplished writer and enjoyed a triumphant 309 show “We had to extrapolate from the letters she writes to director. He is best known as the original co-director run off-Broadway at New York’s PINEWOOD Les Misérables The Life and him, as to what he’s like and what his motives are. (with Trevor Nunn) of and Davenport Theatre, from Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby We had to do quite a bit of detective work.” Gordon which have won September 2015 to June 2016. added, “That triggered his voice for me. I musicalized multiple awards worldwide, as well as director/librettist The off-Broadway production Children of Eden several of those letters. Then it just grew.” Caird said, of with Stephen Schwartz. He is was nominated for several 2016 “It started to make us ask bigger questions about the Honorary Associate Director at the Royal Shakespeare Drama Desk and Outer Critics material. Their relationship raises a lot of questions Company, Principal Guest Director at the Royal Circle Award; Caird won the about the act of charitable giving. If you are in receipt Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, and directs at Britain’s Drama Desk Award for of cash from someone, how does that affect your National Theatre and extensively in Japan. He wrote Outstanding Book of a Musical. the book for Daddy Long Legs, and directed its world relationship? What does dependence do for friendship? Emotionally it’s very complex.” premiere and several successive productions. The off-Broadway production also made headlines when on The Rubicon Theatre Company in Ventura, CA did Caird’s Japanese-born wife, Maoko, was the one who December 10, 2015, Daddy Long Daddy- two readings of an early draft in June 2008. In 2009, first suggested that Caird and Gordon adapt Legs became the first Broadway Long-Legs it was announced that Daddy Long Legs would ; Jean Webster’s 1912 epistolary novel was or off-Broadway show ever to be receive a “rolling world premiere,” co-produced by immensely popular in Maoko’s home country. Gordon livestreamed. It was broadcast for Rubicon, TheatreWorks, and Cincinnati Playhouse in originally envisioned a one-woman show, since the free from the Davenport Theatre, the Park, wherein the script would evolve from book is made up of letters from the orphan Jerusha and rebroadcast three times in production to production. The first leg opened in to the anonymous (and silent) benefactor she calls 24 hours so audiences in different Ventura in October 2009 with sets and costumes “Daddy Long Legs.” Gordon wrote a ten-song cycle, time zones all over the world constructed by TheatreWorks, then the production then Caird brought in choreographer David Parsons, could watch it. More than 150,000 team traveled to TheatreWorks in December to transforming the show into a dance theatre piece. people in 135 countries tuned in to rehearse revisions, opening here in January 2010 Caird said, “It worked wonderfully well, in a way,” the livestream, which was hailed as

12 THEATREWORKS and moving on to Cincinnati that a universal success and a historic, its globe-trotting adventure. About the Play and Creators March. precedent-setting moment for Whether you read the book, saw the theatre community. the world premiere production, This holiday season, the homecoming of one of Following the rolling world tuned in for the livestream, or are TheatreWorks’ most beloved musicals also marks the premiere, Daddy Long Legs has Nearly seven years after just now becoming acquainted return of one of our favorite composers, Paul Gordon. had numerous regional theatre TheatreWorks’ audiences were with Daddy Long Legs, we hope Since 2003, half a dozen productions of Gordon’s productions throughout the United first introduced to Jerusha and this production brings you the joy works have graced the TheatreWorks stage, including States, as well as international her Daddy Long Legs, we are that so many others around the Jane Eyre Jane Austen’s EMMA (2003), (2007 and productions all over the world. eager to revisit these old friends, world have already experienced. Being Earnest Daddy Long Legs 2015), (2013), and and recreate the magic that first – Katie Dai (2010 and 2016). His tuneful adaptations of highly In 2012, Daddy Long Legs was launched Daddy Long Legs on Original dramaturgy by Vickie Rozell regarded novels and plays have clearly struck a chord translated into Japanese by with TheatreWorks’ audiences. Maoko Imai and staged at Theatre Creation in Tokyo before touring In what he calls his “former life” (that is, before he four other Japanese cities. Later began writing for the theatre), Gordon was a song- that same year, Daddy Long Legs writer for major music publishing companies, with had a month-long run at the several hits on the Billboard Pop Charts. In the 1990s A O K

St. James Theatre in London’s he turned his attention to the stage, and one of his

M A R K I T West End. The show’s Canadian earliest theatrical successes came when he teamed Book writer John Caird and composer/lyricist Paul Gordon premiere came in 2013 at the up with book writer John Caird to pen a musical Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre Jane Eyre adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s . After five in Winnipeg, and in 2016 the Jane Eyre but Gordon, added that “it was ultimately too years in development, opened on Broadway Daemyung Culture Factory in in 2000. Both Gordon and Caird received Tony nomi- complicated and expensive.” Pinewood is an independent, coeducational, non-profit, Seoul produced the South Korean K–12 college-prep school. Students benefit fromsmall nations for their writing. Years later, the duo would premiere. team up again to create the musical Daddy Long Legs. Next, Caird wrote a series of imagined responses to class size, challenging academic curricula, Jerusha’s letters by the Daddy Long Legs character. Back in the US, Daddy Long Legs John Caird is a highly accomplished writer and Describing the writing process, Caird explained, enjoyed a triumphant 309 show through “We had to extrapolate from the letters she writes to K director. He is best known as the original co-director run off-Broadway at New York’s PINEWOOD 12 Les Misérables The Life and him, as to what he’s like and what his motives are. and a wide choice of enrichment activities. (with Trevor Nunn) of and Davenport Theatre, from Passionate Expertise Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby We had to do quite a bit of detective work.” Gordon We offer an environment where which have won September 2015 to June 2016. each student is added, “That triggered his voice for me. I musicalized High Academic Expectations multiple awards worldwide, as well as director/librettist The off-Broadway production a respected and vital member of our Children of Eden several of those letters. Then it just grew.” Caird said, of with Stephen Schwartz. He is was nominated for several 2016 Unlimited Exploration educational community. We invite you to explore “It started to make us ask bigger questions about the Honorary Associate Director at the Royal Shakespeare Drama Desk and Outer Critics the opportunity for your student to become a part of the material. Their relationship raises a lot of questions Grounded Moral Examples Company, Principal Guest Director at the Royal Circle Award; Caird won the Pinewood tradition of academic excellence. For more about the act of charitable giving. If you are in receipt Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, and directs at Britain’s Drama Desk Award for Confident Self-Expression information, please visit our website. of cash from someone, how does that affect your National Theatre and extensively in Japan. He wrote Outstanding Book of a Musical. the book for Daddy Long Legs, and directed its world relationship? What does dependence do for friend- www.pinewood.edu ship? Emotionally it’s very complex.” premiere and several successive productions. The off-Broadway production also made headlines when on The Rubicon Theatre Company in Ventura, CA did Caird’s Japanese-born wife, Maoko, was the one who December 10, 2015, Daddy Long Daddy- two readings of an early draft in June 2008. In 2009, first suggested that Caird and Gordon adapt Legs became the first Broadway Long-Legs it was announced that Daddy Long Legs would ; Jean Webster’s 1912 epistolary novel was or off-Broadway show ever to be receive a “rolling world premiere,” co-produced by immensely popular in Maoko’s home country. Gordon livestreamed. It was broadcast for Rubicon, TheatreWorks, and Cincinnati Playhouse in originally envisioned a one-woman show, since the free from the Davenport Theatre, the Park, wherein the script would evolve from book is made up of letters from the orphan Jerusha and rebroadcast three times in production to production. The first leg opened in to the anonymous (and silent) benefactor she calls 24 hours so audiences in different Ventura in October 2009 with sets and costumes “Daddy Long Legs.” Gordon wrote a ten-song cycle, time zones all over the world constructed by TheatreWorks, then the production then Caird brought in choreographer David Parsons, could watch it. More than 150,000 team traveled to TheatreWorks in December to transforming the show into a dance theatre piece. people in 135 countries tuned in to rehearse revisions, opening here in January 2010 Caird said, “It worked wonderfully well, in a way,” the livestream, which was hailed as

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ad proofs.indd 1 9/12/13 2:11 PM Women were slowly gaining other rights. Before 1900, hospitalized, a bit of background that Webster was born Alice Jane when a woman married, she surrendered all her legal applied to a character in Dear Enemy, the sequel to JChandelear nWebWster ien bFresdotniea,r New York, on July 24, rights to her husband. As an unmarried woman, she Daddy-Long-Legs. 1876. A grand-niece of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), could own property, sign legal documents, and make and a daughter and granddaughter of women very contracts in her own name, but once married every- The main turning point for Webster’s writing came active in suffrage and temperance issues, Webster was thing reverted to her husband. This slowly changed about through her social activism. She had taken a destined from birth to lead a forward-thinking and throughout Webster’s lifetime, as states passed Married course at Vassar on welfare and penal reform, and in creative life. Her father died in 1891, and her matriar- Women’s Property Acts, allowing women some control New York City she became involved with the College chal home was very different from the homes in which over their own property. Webster’s novels helped to Settlement House, an organization that provided many other young women were raised. spotlight these societal problems as they applied to assistance to needy families and orphaned children. independent women, and because of this, they She added the advancement of underprivileged Webster went through many different school environ- were sometimes considered subversive. children to her life of active social causes, and ments, most of which show up in details in her writing that shows most prominently in her most or otherwise influenced her writing career. For After college, Webster moved to famous novel, Daddy-Long-Legs. instance, she studied china painting at the Fredonia New York City, where over the Normal School in 1894, possibly leading to her interest next decade she wrote for Daddy-Long-Legs was published in in self-illustrating Daddy-Long-Legs—she included magazines and publications 1912 to critical and popular pen-and-ink sketches throughout the text, intended to while also publishing several acclaim. It was one of many books be humorous doodles by her young female narrator. books: When Patty Went to being published at the time During her secondary education at the Lady Jane Grey College, Wheat Princess, about women at this period of School she began using the name Jean, to avoid Jerry Junior, The Four-Pools their life: the post-college confusion with her roommate, whose first name was Mystery, Much Ado About search for self, and the juxta- also Alice. Peter, and Just Patty. Her position between marriage and books were successful and career. Many more women were When she began attending Vassar College in 1897, popular, and she was able working outside the home at she was inspired by her time there to write articles to travel, including an this point. But Daddy-Long-Legs for the Vassar Miscellany and short stories which she eight-month world tour that also introduced the story of a eventually published as the collection When Patty included visits to Egypt, India, bright but lonely orphan finding Went to College. Mark Twain praised her first efforts: Burma, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, happiness, a beloved story that “I read most of Jean Webster’s book today; and the Hong Kong, and Japan. resonated around the world, and most of what I read greatly pleased me.” At Vassar, helped advance Webster’s belief that Webster also formed a close friendship with the poet Webster was one of a growing every child should be given the chance Adelaide Crapsey, who is generally considered to contingent of women who were to succeed. To that end, proceeds from have formed the basis for Daddy-Long-Legs’ Jerusha becoming more outspoken, especially in special Daddy-Long-Legs dolls went to help Abbott, being diminutive in stature and spunky by their creative pursuits. In the art world, Mary orphaned children find families. Webster may not nature. Cassatt was becoming a well-known Impressionist have grown up an orphan, but she made their cause painter, while female writers were honing their crafts as personal, and she fought fiercely for children who College at this time was still a rare opportunity for well: Edith Wharton wrote Ethan Frome in 1911, Willa needed a voice. women. The percentage of women in college in 1900 Cather published O Pioneers! in 1913, and Francis Write was 2.8%, and grew only to 7.6% in 1920. There was a Hodgson Burnett wrote The Secret Garden in 1911. Webster and McKinney married in 1915, and divided common fear in society that too much education could Women’s voices were gradually becoming louder, and their time between a New York City apartment and make a woman unfit for marriage. Luckily Webster was Jean Webster was certainly a part of this growth. a Massachusetts farmhouse. In 1916, at age 39, from a family that prided education for women and Webster gave birth to her first child, a daughter What supported her. These years also served to further Around this time, Webster also formed a relationship she named Jean. Sadly, she passed away shortly Webster’s political activism. In 1900, she campaigned with Glenn Ford McKinney, brother of one of her afterwards due to complications from childbirth. A for the presidential election, despite not being able to colleagues at Vassar. Aspects of their courtship eventu- room in the Girls’ Service League and a bed at a vote herself, and was obviously a staunch supporter of ally found their way into her writing: McKinney was the branch of the New York Orthopedic Hospital were You Know suffrage for women. (The Nineteenth Amendment, relative of one of Webster’s friends, like the mysterious both endowed in her memory, a fitting tribute for a giving women the vote, didn’t pass until 1920—sadly, benefactor in Daddy-Long-Legs. He had previously hero who spent so much of her life championing the VASSAR COLLEGE LIBRARY it would be after Webster’s death.) been married to a mentally ill woman who was often causes of underprivileged girls and women. – Syche Phillips

14 THEATREWORKS Women were slowly gaining other rights. Before 1900, hospitalized, a bit of background that Webster was born Alice Jane when a woman married, she surrendered all her legal applied to a character in Dear Enemy, the sequel to JChandelear nWebWster ien bFresdotniea,r New York, on July 24, rights to her husband. As an unmarried woman, she Daddy-Long-Legs. 1876. A grand-niece of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), could own property, sign legal documents, and make and a daughter and granddaughter of women very contracts in her own name, but once married every- The main turning point for Webster’s writing came active in suffrage and temperance issues, Webster was thing reverted to her husband. This slowly changed about through her social activism. She had taken a destined from birth to lead a forward-thinking and throughout Webster’s lifetime, as states passed Married course at Vassar on welfare and penal reform, and in creative life. Her father died in 1891, and her matriar- Women’s Property Acts, allowing women some control New York City she became involved with the College chal home was very different from the homes in which over their own property. Webster’s novels helped to Settlement House, an organization that provided many other young women were raised. spotlight these societal problems as they applied to assistance to needy families and orphaned children. independent women, and because of this, they She added the advancement of underprivileged Webster went through many different school environ- were sometimes considered subversive. children to her life of active social causes, and ments, most of which show up in details in her writing that shows most prominently in her most or otherwise influenced her writing career. For After college, Webster moved to famous novel, Daddy-Long-Legs. instance, she studied china painting at the Fredonia New York City, where over the Normal School in 1894, possibly leading to her interest next decade she wrote for Daddy-Long-Legs was published in in self-illustrating Daddy-Long-Legs—she included magazines and publications 1912 to critical and popular pen-and-ink sketches throughout the text, intended to while also publishing several acclaim. It was one of many books be humorous doodles by her young female narrator. books: When Patty Went to being published at the time During her secondary education at the Lady Jane Grey College, Wheat Princess, about women at this period of School she began using the name Jean, to avoid Jerry Junior, The Four-Pools their life: the post-college confusion with her roommate, whose first name was Mystery, Much Ado About search for self, and the juxta- also Alice. Peter, and Just Patty. Her position between marriage and books were successful and career. Many more women were When she began attending Vassar College in 1897, popular, and she was able working outside the home at she was inspired by her time there to write articles to travel, including an this point. But Daddy-Long-Legs for the Vassar Miscellany and short stories which she eight-month world tour that also introduced the story of a eventually published as the collection When Patty included visits to Egypt, India, bright but lonely orphan finding Went to College. Mark Twain praised her first efforts: Burma, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, happiness, a beloved story that “I read most of Jean Webster’s book today; and the Hong Kong, and Japan. resonated around the world, and most of what I read greatly pleased me.” At Vassar, helped advance Webster’s belief that Webster also formed a close friendship with the poet Webster was one of a growing every child should be given the chance Adelaide Crapsey, who is generally considered to contingent of women who were to succeed. To that end, proceeds from have formed the basis for Daddy-Long-Legs’ Jerusha becoming more outspoken, especially in special Daddy-Long-Legs dolls went to help Abbott, being diminutive in stature and spunky by their creative pursuits. In the art world, Mary orphaned children find families. Webster may not nature. Cassatt was becoming a well-known Impressionist have grown up an orphan, but she made their cause painter, while female writers were honing their crafts as personal, and she fought fiercely for children who College at this time was still a rare opportunity for well: Edith Wharton wrote Ethan Frome in 1911, Willa needed a voice. women. The percentage of women in college in 1900 Cather published O Pioneers! in 1913, and Francis Write was 2.8%, and grew only to 7.6% in 1920. There was a Hodgson Burnett wrote The Secret Garden in 1911. Webster and McKinney married in 1915, and divided common fear in society that too much education could Women’s voices were gradually becoming louder, and their time between a New York City apartment and make a woman unfit for marriage. Luckily Webster was Jean Webster was certainly a part of this growth. a Massachusetts farmhouse. In 1916, at age 39, from a family that prided education for women and Webster gave birth to her first child, a daughter What supported her. These years also served to further Around this time, Webster also formed a relationship she named Jean. Sadly, she passed away shortly Webster’s political activism. In 1900, she campaigned with Glenn Ford McKinney, brother of one of her afterwards due to complications from childbirth. A for the presidential election, despite not being able to colleagues at Vassar. Aspects of their courtship eventu- room in the Girls’ Service League and a bed at a vote herself, and was obviously a staunch supporter of ally found their way into her writing: McKinney was the branch of the New York Orthopedic Hospital were You Know suffrage for women. (The Nineteenth Amendment, relative of one of Webster’s friends, like the mysterious both endowed in her memory, a fitting tribute for a giving women the vote, didn’t pass until 1920—sadly, benefactor in Daddy-Long-Legs. He had previously hero who spent so much of her life championing the VASSAR COLLEGE LIBRARY it would be after Webster’s death.) been married to a mentally ill woman who was often causes of underprivileged girls and women. – Syche Phillips

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Thank you TheatreWorks Daddy LongLegs for bringing so much drama Music & Lyrics by Music & Lyrics by Paul Gordon into our lives. Paul Gordon Book by Book by John Caird Adapted from the 1912 novel by Jean Webster Adapted from the 1912 novel by Jean Webster Directed by Robert Kelley Directed by Robert Kelley 520 Cowper Street, Palo Alto, CA Musical Director William Liberatore www.gardencourt.com Musical Director William Liberatore (650) 322-9000 Scenic Designer Joe Ragey Scenic Designer Joe Ragey Costume Designer Fumiko Bielefeldt Costume Designer Fumiko Bielefeldt Lighting Designer Steven B. Mannshardt Lighting Designer Steven B. Mannshardt Sound Designer Jeff Mockus Sound Designer Jeff Mockus Casting Director Leslie Martinson Casting Director Leslie Martinson New York Casting Director Alan Filderman New York Casting Director Alan Filderman Los Angeles Casting Director Julia Flores Los Angeles Casting Director Julia Flores Stage Manager Deirdre Rose Holland Stage Manager Deirdre Rose Holland DADDY LONG LEGS is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). DADDY LONG LEGS All authoriisz epdre psernftoerdm tahnrcoeu gmha tsepreiaclisa la arerr anlsgoe smuepnptl iewdit hb yM MusTiIc. TMhTeIaSthreo wInst.ecornmational (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. MTIShows.com Originally presented Off-Broadway by Ken Davenport, Michael Jackowitz, Hunter Arnold, Peg McFeeley Golden, Tres Rosas, Originally preBseenn Bteadil eOy,f fD-Barvoidad Bwryaayn bt,y CKaeino lDa aPvreondpuoctrito, nMs,i cCharel l DJaickkeolewri,t zJ,e Hffruenyt eGrr Aovrneo, ladn,d P Mega rMgucFeerietele Hy oGfofmldaenn., Tres Rosas, Ben Bailey, David Bryant, Caiola Productions, Carl Daikeler, Jeffrey Grove, and Marguerite Hoffman. Originally produced by a consortium that includes the Rubicon Theatre Company, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, OCriignicninalnlya tpi rPoldayuhcoeuds be yi na tchoen Psoarkti,u Gme tmha Tt hinecalturde,e Ns tohreth Rligubhtic Tohne Tahtreea, tSrek yCliogmhtp Manuys,i cT hTehaetarterWe,o arnkds SDilaicvoidn EVlazleler.y, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Gem Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Skylight Music Theatre, and David Elzer.

PRODUCERS PRODUCERS Harrell Remodeling Steve & Gayle Brugler • George & Susan Crow Steve & Gayle Brugler • George & Susan Crow Design + Build Tom & Sharon Kelley • Adam Samuels Tom & Sharon Kelley • Adam Samuels is proud to support Nancy Ginsburg Stern & Rick Stern • Barbara Shapiro & Mark Lewis Nancy Ginsburg Stern & Rick Stern • Barbara Shapiro & Mark Lewis

TheatreWorks SHOW SPONSOR SHOW SPONSOR in their production of Garden Court Hotel Daddy Long Legs Garden Court Hotel SEASON SPONSORS harrell-remodeling.com SEASON SPONSORS Garden Court Hotel • J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines • The Mercury News • Sobrato Philanthropies 650.230.2900 Garden Court Hotel • J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines • The Mercury News • Sobrato Philanthropies DADDY LONG LEGS plays November 30–December 31, 2016 License B479799 DADDY LONG LEGS plays November 30–December 31, 2016 The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited. The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited.

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Thank you TheatreWorks Daddy LongLegs for bringing so much drama Music & Lyrics by Music & Lyrics by Paul Gordon into our lives. Paul Gordon Book by Book by John Caird Adapted from the 1912 novel by Jean Webster Adapted from the 1912 novel by Jean Webster Directed by Robert Kelley Directed by Robert Kelley 520 Cowper Street, Palo Alto, CA Musical Director William Liberatore www.gardencourt.com Musical Director William Liberatore (650) 322-9000 Scenic Designer Joe Ragey Scenic Designer Joe Ragey Costume Designer Fumiko Bielefeldt Costume Designer Fumiko Bielefeldt Lighting Designer Steven B. Mannshardt Lighting Designer Steven B. Mannshardt Sound Designer Jeff Mockus Sound Designer Jeff Mockus Casting Director Leslie Martinson Casting Director Leslie Martinson New York Casting Director Alan Filderman New York Casting Director Alan Filderman Los Angeles Casting Director Julia Flores Los Angeles Casting Director Julia Flores Stage Manager Deirdre Rose Holland Stage Manager Deirdre Rose Holland DADDY LONG LEGS is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). DADDY LONG LEGS All authoriisz epdre psernftoerdm tahnrcoeu gmha tsepreiaclisa la arerr anlsgoe smuepnptl iewdit hb yM MusTiIc. TMhTeIaSthreo wInst.ecornmational (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. MTIShows.com Originally presented Off-Broadway by Ken Davenport, Michael Jackowitz, Hunter Arnold, Peg McFeeley Golden, Tres Rosas, Originally preBseenn Bteadil eOy,f fD-Barvoidad Bwryaayn bt,y CKaeino lDa aPvreondpuoctrito, nMs,i cCharel l DJaickkeolewri,t zJ,e Hffruenyt eGrr Aovrneo, ladn,d P Mega rMgucFeerietele Hy oGfofmldaenn., Tres Rosas, Ben Bailey, David Bryant, Caiola Productions, Carl Daikeler, Jeffrey Grove, and Marguerite Hoffman. Originally produced by a consortium that includes the Rubicon Theatre Company, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, OCriignicninalnlya tpi rPoldayuhcoeuds be yi na tchoen Psoartki,u Gme tmha Tt hinecalturde,e Ns tohreth Rligubhtic Tohne Tahtreea, tSrek yCliogmhtp Manuys,i cT hTehaetarterWe,o arnkds SDilaicvoidn EVlazleler.y, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Gem Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Skylight Music Theatre, and David Elzer.

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Jerusha Abbott Hilary Maiberger DEREK CARLEY JOHN CAIRD (Book) is a director Gruska, premiered at TW in 2013. Jervis Pendleton Derek Carley (Jervis Pendleton) and writer working in theatre, Other shows include Little Miss opera, and musical theatre. He Scrooge; Death: The Musical; The The Actors and Stage Manager employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, is thrilled to be Les Misérables; Front; The Sportswriter. the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. making his wrote the book for and TheatreWorks Jane Eyre; and Little Miss Scrooge paulgordonmusic.com debut. He has (music and lyrics by Paul Gordon); THE ORCHESTRA appeared in the Children of Eden (music and lyrics JEAN WEBSTER (Author) was an Conductor/Piano William Liberatore First National Tour of Flashdance by Stephen Schwartz); Candide American novelist and playwright, Cello Kris Yenney the Musical. Regional credits (music by Leonard Bernstein); and born in 1876. Her best known include Miss Saigon and Titanic at Beggar’s Opera. He won the 2016 works are Daddy-Long-Legs and Guitar Tim Roberts the St. Louis Muny, Big: the Musical Drama Desk Award for Best Book its sequel, My Enemy, and she Orchestra Personnel Manager Diane Ryan and Grease at Wagon Wheel of a Musical for Daddy Long Legs. frequently created strong, likeable, All musicians are members of the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada. Theatre in Indiana, The Dodgers at He wrote and co-directed Siegfried young female protagonists. She the Hudson Mainstage Theatre in and Roy at the Mirage, which ran wrote Daddy-Long-Legs originally PLACE & TIME Los Angeles, and Gay Bride of in Las Vegas from 1990 to 2003. as a Ladies’ Home Journal serial in New England, 1908–1912 Frankenstein at Seacoast Repertory Recordings of his productions have 1912, and it was met with popular Theatre in Portsmouth, New been seen on TV, including Nicholas and critical acclaim. Ms. Webster DADDY LONG LEGS WILL BE PERFORMED WITH ONE 15-MINUTE INTERMISSION. Hampshire. TV/Film credits include Nickleby, As You Like It, The wrote the stage adaptation the Notorious on ABC and the feature Beggar’s Opera, and Twin Spirits. following year, which also became MUSICAL NUMBERS film The Billionaire. Mr. Carley is a He is an Honorary Associate successful, and she traveled with proud graduate of the University of Director of the Royal Shakespeare the touring production for several Act One Michigan where he earned his BFA Company, a Principal Guest Director months. She was a graduate of “Oldest Orphan“...... Jerusha in Musical Theatre. of the Royal Dramatic Theatre Vassar College, supported women’s “Who is This Man?“...... Jerusha (Stockholm), and the author of education and suffrage, and she “Mr. Girl Hater“...... Jerusha and Jervis Theatre Craft, published by Faber worked to fundraise for orphanages HILARY “She Thinks I’m Old“...... Jervis and Faber. johncaird.com and help place children with MAIBERGER adoptive families. She died in 1916 “Like Other Girls“...... Jerusha and Jervis (Jerusha Abbott) (Music and Lyrics) from complications arising from “Freshman Year Studies“...... Jerusha and Jervis is thrilled to be PAUL GORDON was nominated for a 2001 Tony childbirth. “Things I Didn’t Know“...... Jerusha and Jervis making her Award for music and lyrics to Jane “What Does She Mean by Love?“...... Jervis TheatreWorks Eyre (TW 2003). He won the 2015 (Director) Please “I’m A Beast“...... Jerusha debut. National ROBERT KELLEY Jeff Award for Best New Work for see bio on page 21. “When Shall We Meet?“...... Jervis and international tours include Sense and Sensibility, commissioned “The Color of Your Eyes“...... Jerusha and Jervis NetWorks Productions’ Beauty and by Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. “Like Other Girls“ (Reprise)...... Jervis the Beast (Belle). Regional credits FUMIKO BIELEFELDT (Costume He won the 2009 Ovation Award for include The Light in the Piazza Designer) has designed over 60 “The Secret of Happiness“...... Jerusha his music and lyrics to Daddy Long (Clara Johnson) at Theatre Raleigh productions for TheatreWorks, “The Color of Your Eyes“ (Reprise)...... Jerusha and Jervis Legs, which has had productions all and two seasons at Moonlight including Cyrano, Jane Austen’s over the world and recently com- Act Two Amphitheatre where she starred in EMMA, Fallen Angels, Sweeney pleted an off-Broadway run at the “Sophomore Year Studies”...... Jerusha My Fair Lady (Eliza Doolittle) and Todd, Silent Sky, Little Women, Davenport Theatre (two Drama Being Earnest, 33 Variations, Sense “My Manhattan“...... Jervis and Jerusha South Pacific (Nellie Forbush). Desk Award noms, Off-Broadway and Sensibility, Snow Falling on “I Couldn’t Know Someone Less“...... Jerusha Other theatre credits include Aladdin: The Musical Spectacular Alliance Award, three Outer Critic Cedars, The Light in the Piazza, “The Man I’ll Never Be“...... Jervis Circle Awards). Mr. Gordon is the (Jasmine), Cinderella (Cinderella), A Civil War Christmas, Yellow Face, “Christmas in Manhattan“...... Jerusha recipient of the 2007 Bay Area Little Women (Jo March), and The and Emma, which traveled to “Humble Pie“...... Jervis Theatre Critics Circle Award for Marvelous Wonderettes (Cindy Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park “Senior Year Studies“...... Jerusha his book to the musical Emma, Lou). Ms. Maiberger earned her and the Repertory Theatre of St. “Graduation Day“...... Jerusha and Jervis developed at TW and later staged MM in Vocal Performance from Louis (Kevin Klein Awards at The Old Globe. Analog and Vinyl “Charity“...... Jervis Bowling Green State University and Nominee). Her designs have (book, music, and lyrics) premiered “I Have Torn You from My Heart“...... Jerusha and Jervis currently teaches private voice in appeared in the Bay Area at at The Weston Playhouse in 2014. “My Manhattan“ (Reprise)...... Jervis New York City. American Conservatory Theater, “The Color of Your Eyes“ (Reprise)...... Jerusha Being Earnest, written with Jay Aurora Theatre, California “All This Time“...... Jerusha and Jervis

18 THEATREWORKS THE CAST (In order of appearance) Who’s Who

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Shakespeare Theatre, Magic Earnest, Big River, The Secret Pitmen Painters and Superior Donuts. Some of his favorite TheatreWorks Director of Northlight Theatre Theatre, Marin Theatre Company, Garden, A Christmas Memory, A graduate of Occidental College, designs include Little Women, Big (Chicago) and Georgia Shakespeare San Jose Repertory Theatre, and Crowns, Jane Eyre, Ragtime, and she has been a Watson Fellow in River, Sense and Sensibility, The Festival (Atlanta), as well as The Eureka Theatre, among others. Pacific Overtures. He was Musical political theatre, a member of 39 Steps, A Christmas Memory, Development Director for Great She graduated from Waseda Director at American Musical Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, a Merrily We Roll Along, Baby Taj, Lakes Theatre Festival (Cleveland) University (Tokyo) and studied Theatre of San Jose, conducting member of the La MaMa Inter- My Ántonia, Jane Eyre, Peter Pan, and George Street Playhouse (New costume design at Stanford. Ms. over 30 shows including Flower national Directing Symposium, and Triumph of Love, You Can’t Take it Brunswick). He holds an MFA in Bielefeldt has received many Drum Song, Gypsy, A Chorus Line, has served on Theatre Bay Area’s With You, Equus, Conversations Theatre Administration from the design awards, including the 2004 42nd Street, Follies, and Children of Theatre Services Committee since With My Father, Nagasaki Dust, Yale School of Drama and a BA in Eden. Barbara Bladen Porter Special He has won Bay Area Theatre 2002. She was awarded an Individual Honor Song for Crazy Horse, La Drama from Duke University. He Award, Bay Area Theatre Critics Critics Circle Awards for A Little Artist Fellowship in Stage Direction Bete, and Pacific Overtures. He has is Vice President of the National Circle Awards, Dean Goodman Night Music, South Pacific, and from the Arts Council of Silicon received over a dozen Bay Area Alliance for Musical Theatre Board. SF Choice Awards, and Back Stage Damn Yankees (AMTSJ), and Bat Valley for artistic achievement and Theatre Critics Circle Awards, LA Prior board service includes the West Garland Award. Boy: The Musical; Into the Woods; community impact. She leads master Drama-Logue Awards and Dean League of Chicago Theatres, LG Emma; Caroline, or Change; and The classes and audition workshops Goodman Choice Awards for shows Atlanta Coalition of Theatres, and DEIRDRE ROSE HOLLAND Light in the Piazza (TheatreWorks). throughout the Bay Area, and is a he designed for TheatreWorks. the executive committee of the (Stage Manager) is thrilled to be He is also the director of the award- Performance Coach in leadership League of Resident Theatres back at TheatreWorks, having winning Gunn High School Choirs. communication training with Stand (LORT). He was named 2000’s previously worked on Cyrano, and Deliver Group. ROBERT KELLEY (Artistic Director) Best Arts Administrator by 2 Pianos 4 Hands, and the 2014 STEVEN B. MANNSHARDT is a Bay Area native and Stanford Atlanta Magazine New Works Festival production of (Lighting Designer) has been the JEFF MOCKUS (Sound Designer) University graduate. He founded and received The Disappearing Man. Her lighting designer for over 70 designed TheatreWorks’ tokyo fish TheatreWorks in 1970 and has the Atlanta Arts and Business regional theatre credits include: productions at TheatreWorks, having story, Jane Austen’s EMMA, Sweeney directed over 165 TheatreWorks Council’s 1998 ABBY Award for Chester Bailey, Ah Wilderness!, won numerous Bay Area Theatre Todd, Once on This Island, Silent productions, including many world Arts Administrator. and Let There Be Love (American Critics Circle, Theatre Bay Area and Sky, Little Women, Being Earnest, and regional premieres. He has Conservatory Theater); Othello, Dean Goodman Choice Awards for Big River, Of Mice and Men, The received the Silicon Valley Arts Twelfth Night, and Lady his work. His regional design credits Secret Garden, Fly By Night, Council’s Legacy Laureate Award; Windermere’s Fan (California include Long Wharf Theatre, New Superior Donuts, and [title of show]. the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Shakespeare Theater); The Liar Haven; A Contemporary Theatre, His recent work includes Center Paine Knickerbocker Award for (Santa Cruz Shakespeare); Next Seattle; American Repertory Theater, REPertory Company’s Anything Goes lifetime achievement; BATCC Fall, Next to Normal, A Christmas Cambridge; Studio Arena Theatre, and Tenderly: The Rosemary Clooney Awards for Outstanding Direction Carol 2011 and 2012, and Spring Buffalo; Magic Theatre; Pasadena Musical, The Western Stage’s Carrie: for his productions of The Hound of Awakening (San Jose Repertory Playhouse; The Weston Playhouse The Musical, and Santa Cruz Baskervilles; Into the Woods; Pacific Theatre); the World Premiere of Theatre Company, Vermont; Shakespeare’s As You Like It and The Overtures; Rags; Sweeney Todd; Bonnie and Clyde and The Laramie Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Merry Wives Of Windsor. Mr. Mockus Another Midsummer Night; Sunday Project: Ten Years Later (La Jolla Company; and Olympia Theatre, served as Resident Sound Designer in the Park with George; Jane Eyre; Dublin, Ireland. Mr. Mannshardt for San Jose Repertory Theatre on Playhouse); and the Shakespeare and Caroline, or Change; and Back Festival 2011, How the Grinch Stole previously taught lighting design at over 70 productions. He has credits GLEIM Stage West Garland Awards for his Christmas! 2010, and The Mystery Santa Rosa Junior College for 14 with American Conservatory Theater, direction of Side Show and Sunday of Irma Vep (The Old Globe years and now runs an organization Berkeley Rep, Cal Shakes, Marin in the Park with George. He recently Theatre). Ms. Holland holds an MFA dedicated to improving the educa- Theatre Company, and Asian directed Outside Mullingar, Cyrano, in stage management from the tion system for both children and American Theater Company. Further Jane Austen’s EMMA, The Country University of California, San Diego. adults in Nepal. nepal.wwep.org afield, he has worked with Sledge- House, Fallen Angels, Peter and the hammer Theatre, San Diego Rep, Starcatcher, Sweeney Todd, Marry WILLIAM LIBERATORE (Musical LESLIE MARTINSON (Casting PCPA Theaterfest, A Contemporary Me a Little, The Hound of the Director) is TheatreWorks’ Resident Director) is TheatreWorks’ Associate Theatre, Huntington Theatre, Utah Baskervilles, Once On This Island, Musical Director and has conducted Artistic Director and Casting Shakespearean Festival, and Oregon over 25 shows, including The Life Director. Her many TheatreWorks Shakespeare Festival. and Little Women. of the Party, Jane Austen’s EMMA, directing credits include Proof, the Sweeney Todd, Marry Me a Little, regional premieres of Water by the JOE RAGEY (Scenic Designer) has PHIL SANTORA (Managing Once on This Island (2014 TBA Spoonful and Time Stands Still, and designed over 60 shows for Director) joined TheatreWorks in Award), Little Women, Being the West Coast premieres of The TheatreWorks over the last 30 years. 2007. He has served as Managing

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Shakespeare Theatre, Magic Earnest, Big River, The Secret Pitmen Painters and Superior Donuts. Some of his favorite TheatreWorks Director of Northlight Theatre Proud to Theatre, Marin Theatre Company, Garden, A Christmas Memory, A graduate of Occidental College, designs include Little Women, Big (Chicago) and Georgia Shakespeare Support San Jose Repertory Theatre, and Crowns, Jane Eyre, Ragtime, and she has been a Watson Fellow in River, Sense and Sensibility, The Festival (Atlanta), as well as The Eureka Theatre, among others. Pacific Overtures. He was Musical political theatre, a member of 39 Steps, A Christmas Memory, Development Director for Great the Arts in She graduated from Waseda Director at American Musical Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, a Merrily We Roll Along, Baby Taj, Lakes Theatre Festival (Cleveland) University (Tokyo) and studied Theatre of San Jose, conducting member of the La MaMa Inter- My Ántonia, Jane Eyre, Peter Pan, and George Street Playhouse (New San Francisco costume design at Stanford. Ms. over 30 shows including Flower national Directing Symposium, and Triumph of Love, You Can’t Take it Brunswick). He holds an MFA in Bielefeldt has received many Drum Song, Gypsy, A Chorus Line, has served on Theatre Bay Area’s With You, Equus, Conversations Theatre Administration from the design awards, including the 2004 42nd Street, Follies, and Children of Theatre Services Committee since With My Father, Nagasaki Dust, Yale School of Drama and a BA in Eden. Barbara Bladen Porter Special He has won Bay Area Theatre 2002. She was awarded an Individual Honor Song for Crazy Horse, La Drama from Duke University. He Personal attention Award, Bay Area Theatre Critics Critics Circle Awards for A Little Artist Fellowship in Stage Direction Bete, and Pacific Overtures. He has is Vice President of the National thoughtful litigation Circle Awards, Dean Goodman Night Music, South Pacific, and from the Arts Council of Silicon received over a dozen Bay Area Alliance for Musical Theatre Board. final resolutionSF Choice Awards, and Back Stage Damn Yankees (AMTSJ), and Bat Valley for artistic achievement and Prior board service includes the

Theatre Critics Circle Awards, LA LAW FAMILY West Garland Award. Boy: The Musical; Into the Woods; community impact. She leads master Our goal is to preserve our Drama-Logue Awards and Dean League of Chicago Theatres, LG Emma; Caroline, or Change; and The classes and audition workshops client’s dignity and humanity. Goodman Choice Awards for shows Atlanta Coalition of Theatres, and DEIRDRE ROSE HOLLAND Light in the Piazza (TheatreWorks). throughout the Bay Area, and is a he designed for TheatreWorks. the executive committee of the (Stage Manager) is thrilled to be He is also the director of the award- Performance Coach in leadership League of Resident Theatres back at TheatreWorks, having winning Gunn High School Choirs. communication training with Stand (LORT). He was named 2000’s FA M I LYLAW G R OUP, P. C . previously worked on Cyrano, and Deliver Group. ROBERT KELLEY (Artistic Director) Best Arts Administrator by 2 Pianos 4 Hands, and the 2014 STEVEN B. MANNSHARDT is a Bay Area native and Stanford Atlanta Magazine and received 575 Market Street, Suite 4000 New Works Festival production of (Lighting Designer) has been the JEFF MOCKUS (Sound Designer) University graduate. He founded San Francisco, CA 94105 The Disappearing Man. Her lighting designer for over 70 designed TheatreWorks’ tokyo fish TheatreWorks in 1970 and has the Atlanta Arts and Business 415.834.1120 regional theatre credits include: productions at TheatreWorks, having story, Jane Austen’s EMMA, Sweeney directed over 165 TheatreWorks Council’s 1998 ABBY Award for www.sflg.com Chester Bailey, Ah Wilderness!, won numerous Bay Area Theatre Todd, Once on This Island, Silent productions, including many world Arts Administrator. and Let There Be Love (American Critics Circle, Theatre Bay Area and Sky, Little Women, Being Earnest, and regional premieres. He has Conservatory Theater); Othello, Dean Goodman Choice Awards for Big River, Of Mice and Men, The received the Silicon Valley Arts Twelfth Night, and Lady his work. His regional design credits Secret Garden, Fly By Night, Council’s Legacy Laureate Award; Windermere’s Fan (California include Long Wharf Theatre, New Superior Donuts, and [title of show]. the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Shakespeare Theater); The Liar Haven; A Contemporary Theatre, His recent work includes Center Paine Knickerbocker Award for (Santa Cruz Shakespeare); Next Seattle; American Repertory Theater, REPertory Company’s Anything Goes lifetime achievement; BATCC Fall, Next to Normal, A Christmas Cambridge; Studio Arena Theatre, and Tenderly: The Rosemary Clooney Awards for Outstanding Direction Carol 2011 and 2012, and Spring Buffalo; Magic Theatre; Pasadena Musical, The Western Stage’s Carrie: for his productions of The Hound of Awakening (San Jose Repertory Playhouse; The Weston Playhouse The Musical, and Santa Cruz Baskervilles; Into the Woods; Pacific Theatre); the World Premiere of Theatre Company, Vermont; Shakespeare’s As You Like It and The Overtures; Rags; Sweeney Todd; Bonnie and Clyde and The Laramie Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Merry Wives Of Windsor. Mr. Mockus Another Midsummer Night; Sunday Project: Ten Years Later (La Jolla Company; and Olympia Theatre, served as Resident Sound Designer in the Park with George; Jane Eyre; Dublin, Ireland. Mr. Mannshardt for San Jose Repertory Theatre on Playhouse); and the Shakespeare and Caroline, or Change; and Back Festival 2011, How the Grinch Stole previously taught lighting design at over 70 productions. He has credits GLEIM Stage West Garland Awards for his Christmas! 2010, and The Mystery Santa Rosa Junior College for 14 with American Conservatory Theater, direction of Side Show and Sunday of Irma Vep (The Old Globe years and now runs an organization Berkeley Rep, Cal Shakes, Marin in the Park with George. He recently Theatre). Ms. Holland holds an MFA dedicated to improving the educa- Theatre Company, and Asian directed Outside Mullingar, Cyrano, in stage management from the tion system for both children and American Theater Company. Further Jane Austen’s EMMA, The Country University of California, San Diego. adults in Nepal. nepal.wwep.org afield, he has worked with Sledge- House, Fallen Angels, Peter and the hammer Theatre, San Diego Rep, Starcatcher, Sweeney Todd, Marry WILLIAM LIBERATORE (Musical LESLIE MARTINSON (Casting PCPA Theaterfest, A Contemporary Me a Little, The Hound of the Director) is TheatreWorks’ Resident Director) is TheatreWorks’ Associate Theatre, Huntington Theatre, Utah Baskervilles, Once On This Island, Musical Director and has conducted Artistic Director and Casting Shakespearean Festival, and Oregon over 25 shows, including The Life Director. Her many TheatreWorks Shakespeare Festival. and Little Women. of the Party, Jane Austen’s EMMA, directing credits include Proof, the Sweeney Todd, Marry Me a Little, regional premieres of Water by the JOE RAGEY (Scenic Designer) has PHIL SANTORA (Managing Once on This Island (2014 TBA Spoonful and Time Stands Still, and designed over 60 shows for Director) joined TheatreWorks in Award), Little Women, Being the West Coast premieres of The TheatreWorks over the last 30 years. 2007. He has served as Managing

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You are about to meet an infectious, joyous orphan named Jerusha, Daddy Long Legs’ leading lady. She finds hope and possibility in the stories she writes, Reading YA Fiction and her collection will soon grow before your This holiday season, eyes! Like Jerusha, TheatreWorks loves telling These days it seems as if many adults have at least sampled Young Adult (YA) Fiction. A 2012 survey by Publishers Weekly showed that 55% of YA stories, knowing they lift spirits, empower change, sales are to adults aged 18 or over, with 28% going to the 30–44 age group. fill TheatreWorks’ and impact lives. And when asked, 78% of these adults confirmed that they were purchasing books for their own reading. It would seem that the broad appeal of YA shelves with stories Every year we share stories like Daddy Long Fiction is becoming even broader. Legs with over 25,000 local students, 350 artists Why are these books, typically written for readers in their teens and early from around the world, and nearly 100,000 20s, so appealing for adult readers? Some say it’s the escapism factor, as that transform lives. regional patrons—including yourself. If you believe The Chronicles of Narnia, Harry many YA series portray fantastical settings ( in the power of storytelling, I invite you to give a Potter, The Hunger Games, etc). Some say it’s the ease of reading: these books are usually page-turners, devoured quickly and then set aside for gift during this “Season of Giving” and join their sequel. They are generally less violent or sexual than the average TheatreWorks in sharing stories that inspire general fiction fare. They also have good reread value, with characters you thousands of grateful theatregoers, including the want to revisit. many students who attend our student matinees! Jean Webster’s Daddy-Long-Legs is an example of turn-of-the-century Young Adult fiction that captivated an audience of adults. Written in 1912, With your gift today, you’ll join a committed famil y the book follows Jerusha “Judy” Abbott through her four years of college, of donors who will gift stories this season. Your from ages 17–22. Along with L.M. Montgomery’s Anne Shirley of Green support will help us fill our bookshelf in the lobby, Gables and Louisa May Alcott’s March sisters of Little Women, Jerusha on which every volume is one of the many stories has found a place in the canon of literature alongside other young women dealing with issues like college, career, and marriage. The book was so Use the envelope in this program to make your gift we have premiered over the years, with each popular when it was published that Jean Webster adapted it into a today or visit us online at theatreworks.org/give representing $1,000 in gifts to TheatreWorks successful stage play in 1914. Afterwards it enjoyed numerous adaptations, or call 650.463.7155. during this “Season of Giving.” We have over 200 including film versions (1919, 1931, 1935, 1955, and a Korean film in 2005), premieres to add to our shelves, so be generous musical anime and TV specials (1979, 1990), and musical stage versions knowing that your gift will enable us to create (1952 and our very own 2009 version). exceptional stori es for years to come! At fewer than 200 pages, Daddy-Long-Legs is short but satisfying: the tale of a young woman navigating her way through the universal topics of love, With gratitude from your humble storyteller, self-worth, and happiness, while discovering the empowering potential of women in turn-of-the-last century America. It’s a wonderful read for this holiday season—and both the book and the musical make the perfect gift for someone on your holiday shopping list, no matter their age. Surely Robert Kelley, Artistic Director Jerusha, voracious reader that she is, would approve! – Syche Phillips Dear Friends,

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Finding laughter in life’s tough questions. Calligraphy By Velina Hasu Houston Directed by Leslie Martinson

PLAYWRIGHT VELINA HASU HOUSTON is an internationally celebrated writer with over twenty theatre and opera commissions. She is a Fulbright Scholar and Playwright-in- Residence at the Pasadena Playhouse. She is the leading US playwright to extensively explore the US/Japan relationship through a bilateral, global view of identity. Her 1981 play Tea, about five Japanese war brides, inspired Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club. Ms. Houston’s work has been produced around the world to critical acclaim.

“Intimate, sensitive. The emotional stakes are high.” Los Angeles Times

March 8–April 2 Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto theatreworks.org 650.463.1960

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Finding laughter in life’s tough questions. Calligraphy By Velina Hasu Houston Directed by Leslie Martinson

“Intimate, sensitive. The emotional stakes are high.” Los Angeles Times

March 8–April 2 Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto theatreworks.org 650.463.1960

Untitled-2 1 9/30/16 2:46 PM TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Contributors THE PRODUCER CIRCLE Eileen Nelson & Hugh Franks Chet & Marcie Brown Helen Helson Beth & Charlie Perrell TheatreWorks Producers have made a gift of $10,000 or more. They are invited to exclusive events with visiting artists, and on special theatre trips. Producers may select Margo & Roy Ogus Eric Butler MD & David & Noreen Henig Carrie Perzow & Von Leirer a production to follow from “page to stage” by attending the design presentation, rehearsals, and opening nights. Producers also receive all Inner Circle benefits. Tom Rindfleisch & Carli Scott Suzanne Rocca-Butler Craig & Deborah Hoffman Carey & Josh Pickus Contact Hans Cárdenas at 650.463.7155 or [email protected] for more information. 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Gilmartin Nancy & Bill Grove Shauna Mika & Rick Callison Paul & Barbara Weiss David & Ann Crockett Diane & Howard Crittenden Caroline Beverstock Barbara Gunther Sondra Murphy & Jeremy Platt Elissa Wellikson & Tim Shroyer Elaine Baskin & Ken Krechmer Suzanne Martin & John & Wynne Dobyns Randy Curry & Kay Simon Charlotte & David Biegelsen Peter & Laura Haas Melinda Nasif & Michael Scruggs Karen Carlson White Ann S. Bowers John Doyle David E. Gold & Richard & Josephine Ferrie Wendell & Celeste Birkhofer Jim & Linda Hagan James Niemasik Ken & Ruth Wilcox Gayle & Steve Brugler Mendelsohn Family Fund Irene Blumenkranz Gayle Flanagan Bob & Martha Bowden Kovin Hagan Lynn & Susan Orr Lynn Wilson & Howard Roberts Linda M. Hinton & Vince Foecke Lynda & Steve Fox Bruce Cozadd Rebecca & James Morgan Lauren & Darrell Boyle Elaine & Eric Hahn Ellice & Jim Papp Neil & Ann Wolff Edward Hunter & Michelle Garcia Peter & Rose Friedland Michael & Leslie Braun Russell & Debbie Hall David Pasta in memory of Bill & Sue Worthington Gordon & Carolyn Davidson Cynthia Sears Charlotte Jacobs & Terry & Carolyn Gannon in honor of Kathy Bridgman Jane Hamlin & Steven Schow Gloria J.A. Guth Sylvia & Ron Gerst Barbara Shapiro & Roderick Young Robert Kelley Ellen & Marc Brown Susan Heller Anne & Larry Hambly Mark Lewis Sue & Dick Levy Jerre & Nancy Hitz Judy Heyboer & Brian Shally Rick Stern & Rob & Ann Marangell D & J Hodgson Family Foundation Julie Kaufman Nancy Ginsburg Stern Richard Niblock Stanley Johnson Benefactors Barbara Jones Tom & Sharon Kelley Mark & Teri Vershel Bill & Janet Nicholls ($750 to $1,499) Joe, Nancy, Sam & Sara Ragey Louise Karr Phil Kurjan & Noel Butler Lisa Webster Anonymous • Sally Abel • Mr & Mrs. Charles E. Benjamin • Robert Block • Cheryl Booton & Robert Mannell • Sharon & John Brauman • Marni Brown & Gabe Garcia • Ron & Lila Schmidt Hal & Iris Korol H. Hans Cardenas • Lee & Amy Christel • Robert A. Cook • Ronald & Marion Dickel • James J. Elacqua • Suzanne & Allan Epstein • Joseph & Sondra Glider • Sue & Bill Michelle & Michael Kwatinetz Watkins Family Charitable John & Catharine Kristian Gould • Mary Ann & John Grilli • Candace Hathaway & Chuck Bernstein • Mitzi Henderson • In memory of Bridget Ross • Nancy Lee Jalonen • Dean & Patricia Johnson Dorothy Lazier Trust Directors Bill & Terry Krivan • Mary Louise Johnson • Carl Jukkola & Desmond Lee • David & Joyce Kim • Michael & Ina Korek • Stephen & Nancy Levy • George & Ann Limbach • Richard & Charlene Mark & Debra Leslie Carol Watts ($3,000 to $5,999) Arlene & Jack Leslie Maltzman in memory of Carol Adler • Anders & Juneko Martinson • Sharon & Harris Meyers • Gus Meyner in memory of Miriam • William & Sue Miklos • Annie Nunan* • Heidi & Jorge Ochoa • Bob Rodert & Bev Kiltz • Mary Rodgers in memory of David Rodgers • Nancy & Magnus Ryde • Emil J. & Barbara Sarpa • David & Harriet Schnur Carole & Michael Marks Janne & Bill Wissel Carol Bacchetti Janet Littlefield & William Coggshall • Perry Segal • Todd Smith • Sheri Sobrato • Denise & Jim Stanford • Polly Taylor in memory of Ted Taylor • Arlene & Bruce S. White • Judith & Peter Wolken • Joel & Paul & Debbie Baker Kevin McCoy Linda Zizmor Joel & Wendy Bartlett The Merrimac Fund Contributions listed were received between 11/7/2015 and 11/7/2016. Program deadlines and space limitations prevent us from listing all of our greatly appreciated patrons. Jim Bassett & Lily Hurlimann Buff & Cindy Miller For corrections, or to make a contribution, please contact Michelle Piasecki at 650.463.7132 or [email protected]. The BelleJAR Foundation Myrna & Hy Mitchner, PhD * Indicates donors whose gifts include in-kind goods or services. + Indicates members of the Encore Club, who make ongoing monthly or quarterly gifts.

26 THEATREWORKS TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Contributors THE PRODUCER CIRCLE Eileen Nelson & Hugh Franks Chet & Marcie Brown Helen Helson Beth & Charlie Perrell TheatreWorks Producers have made a gift of $10,000 or more. They are invited to exclusive events with visiting artists, and on special theatre trips. Producers may select Margo & Roy Ogus Eric Butler MD & David & Noreen Henig Carrie Perzow & Von Leirer a production to follow from “page to stage” by attending the design presentation, rehearsals, and opening nights. Producers also receive all Inner Circle benefits. Tom Rindfleisch & Carli Scott Suzanne Rocca-Butler Craig & Deborah Hoffman Carey & Josh Pickus Contact Hans Cárdenas at 650.463.7155 or [email protected] for more information. Paul & Sheri Robbins Jeff & Deborah Byron Anne & Emma Grace Holmes John & Valerie Poggi Mark & Martha Ross Calvin & Jennifer Carr David Hornik & Diane Posnak Visionary Producers Rick Stern & Gordon & Carolyn Davidson Suzanne Martin & John Doyle Rita & Robert Rove Ron & Sally Carter Pamela Miller-Hornik Susan Rabin & David Buchanan ($50,000 and above) Nancy Ginsburg Stern Ranae DeSantis Gillian & Tom Moran Edward & Jane Seaman Josephine Chien & Susan M. Huch In memory of Pearl Reimer Ann S. Bowers Lynn Szekely-Goode & John & Susan Diekman Leslie & Douglas Murphy-Chutorian Bart Sears Stephen Johnson Perry A. Irvine & Karen & John Reis Dr. & Mrs. W. M. Coughran, Jr. Dr. Richard Goode Susan Fairbrook Yvonne & Mike Nevens Ron & Ellen Shulman Nancy Mahoney Cohen Linda Romley-Irvine Eddie Reynolds & Ed Jones Anne & Larry Hambly Mark & Teri Vershel Dan & Catharine Garber Richard Partridge Joyce Reynolds Sinclair & Jodi Corwin & Irv Duchowny in Sudhanshu & Lori Jain Edward & Verne Rice The Dirk & Charlene Kabcenell Lisa Webster & Ted Semple Sylvia & Ron Gerst Adam Samuels Dr. Gerald M. Sinclair memory of Milt, Michael, & Jack Claiborne S. Jones Orli & Zack Rinat Foundation Gayla Lorthridge Wood & Emeri & Brad Handler Philip Santora & Cristian Asher Lisa & Matthew Sonsini Jeff & Amy Crowe Hilary Jones* Alicia Rojas & Howard Lyons Ray & Meredith Rothrock Walt Wood William J. Higgs Dorothy Saxe Susanne Stevens Redwood Serenity Fund Craig & Gina Jorasch Family Fund Betsy Boardman Ross TheatreWorks Board Emeritus Larry Horton & George Wilson Loren & Shelley Saxe Catherine & Jeff Thermond Richard & Anita Davis Jack Jorgenson Alan Russell & Fred Thiemann Producers Leigh & Roy Johnson Martha Seaver & Scott Walecka Odette & Ewart Thomas Scott & Edie DeVine Mr. & Mrs. Abdo Kadifa Ellen & Jerry Saliman Executive Producers ($10,000 to $24,999) Lisa & Marc Jones Leonard Shustek & Donna Dubinsky Brent & Michèle Townshend Douglas Dexter Thomas Kailath & Anu Maitra Joseph & Sandy Santandrea ($25,000 to $49,999) Anonymous (2) Mike & Martha Kahn Larry & Barbara Sonsini Ted & Betty Ullman Dennis & Cindy Dillon Ruth Ann & David Keefer Elizabeth & Mark Schar Bruce Cozadd Marsha & Bill Adler Julie Kaufman & Doug Klein Janet Strauss & Jeff Hawkins Tzipor Ulman & Yigal Rubinstein Carl & Meredith Ditmore Cynthia & Bert Keely Lee & Kim Scheuer Yogen & Peggy Dalal Lois & Dr. Edward Anderson Robert Kelley & Ev Shiro Debra Summers & John Baker Griff & Lynne Weber Monica Donovan Arthur Keller Charles G. Schulz & Claire E. Taylor The John & Marcia Goldman Paul Asente & Ron Jenks Tom & Sharon Kelley Holly Ward & Scott Spector Mark & Sheila Wolfson Pamela Dougherty Chris Kenrick Carolyn Schutz* Foundation Elaine Baskin & Ken Krechmer Robin & Don Kennedy Watkins Family Charitable Fund Jack & Marcia Edelstein Liz & Rick Kniss Pamela & Rick Shames William Green Lucy Berlin & Glenn Trewitt Dick & Cathy Lampman Carol Watts Players Mr. & Mrs. Robert English Woof Kurtzman & Liz Hertz Jack & Dorothy Shannahan Judy Heyboer & Brian Shally Jayne Booker Dorothy Lazier Harriet & Frank Weiss ($1,500 to $2,999) Sue & Jeff Epstein Jim & Marilyn Lattin Sarah Shema & Neyssa Marina Phil Kurjan & Noel Butler Bredt Family Fund at Truckee Mark & Debra Leslie Bart & Nancy Westcott Anonymous (5) Patrick Farris Marcia & Henry Lawson Marge & Jim Shively Michelle & Michael Kwatinetz Tahoe Community Foundation Mark Lewis & Barbara Shapiro Jane Weston & J. Horn Marc & Sophia Abramson Sheldon Finkelstein & Linda Lester Ursula Shultz Mendelsohn Family Fund Steve & Gayle Brugler Marks Family Foundation Bill & Janne Wissel Douglas & Loretta Allred Beatriz V. Infante Donald & Rachel Levy Carolyn & Rick Silberman Morgan Family Foundation Steven & Karin Chase The Marmor Foundation/ Mary Ann Anthony & Ken Fowkes Kathleen Fitts Robert J. Lipshutz & Gerry Sipes Cynthia Sears George & Susan Crow Drs. Michael & Jane Marmor Peter Bacchetti in memory of Peggy Woodford Forbes & Nancy Wong, MD Ellen & Ed Smith Ray Bacchetti Harry Bremond Drs. John & Penny Loeb Pamela Smith Lisa Backus & Anthony Montefusco Diane & Bob Frankle Tom & Sally Logothetti Jim Stephens & Abraham Brown THE INNER CIRCLE Jayne Booker, Chair Shirley Bailey Barbara Franklin & Bernie Loth Malcolm MacNaughton Mark Stevens & Mary Murphy Members of The Inner Circle contribute a minimum of $1,500 each season and enjoy Doug & Marie Barry Francis Franklin Nancy Madison & Michael Price The Sher-Right Fund a variety of benefits including priority subscription seating, VIP ticket purchases and Pat Bashaw & Gene Segre Jay & Joyce Friedrichs Monte Mansir Jerry Strom & Marilyn Austin exchanges, access to house seats on Broadway, and invitations to Meet-the-Artists Jane Baxter & Steve Beck Markus Fromherz & Heike Schmitz Anne B. McCarthy Jan Thomson & Roy Levin events. Contact Hans Cárdenas at 650.463.7155 or [email protected] for more 45 for 45Circle information. Mr. & Mrs. David W. Beach Marilee Gardner Patricia McClung & Allen Morgan Helaina Titus TheatreWorks 45 for 45 Circle members have made a multi-year Betsy & George Bechtel Nancy & Charles Geschke Patricia McGuigan Robert J. Van der Leest, MD pledge of $45,000 or more to honor Robert Kelley and Associate Producers Steven & Michele Boal Don & Deborah Bennett Ciro & Eileen Giammona Gerald & Betty McIntyre Mimi & Jim Van Horne TW’s 45th Anniversary. Contact Hans Cárdenas at 650.463.7155 or ($6,000 to $9,999) Marah & Gene Brehaut Stuart & Marcella Bernstein Kenneth & Susan Greathouse Dave & Carolyn McLoughlin Thomas Vogelsang [email protected] for more information. Anonymous (2) Bruce & Gail Chizen Dr. Barbara L. Bessey in memory Renee & Mark Greenstein Rani Menon & Keith Amidon Margaret & Curt Weil Katherine Bazak & John Dohner Dean & Wilma Chu of Dr. Kevin J. Gilmartin Nancy & Bill Grove Shauna Mika & Rick Callison Paul & Barbara Weiss David & Ann Crockett Diane & Howard Crittenden Caroline Beverstock Barbara Gunther Sondra Murphy & Jeremy Platt Elissa Wellikson & Tim Shroyer Elaine Baskin & Ken Krechmer Suzanne Martin & John & Wynne Dobyns Randy Curry & Kay Simon Charlotte & David Biegelsen Peter & Laura Haas Melinda Nasif & Michael Scruggs Karen Carlson White Ann S. Bowers John Doyle David E. Gold & Richard & Josephine Ferrie Wendell & Celeste Birkhofer Jim & Linda Hagan James Niemasik Ken & Ruth Wilcox Gayle & Steve Brugler Mendelsohn Family Fund Irene Blumenkranz Gayle Flanagan Bob & Martha Bowden Kovin Hagan Lynn & Susan Orr Lynn Wilson & Howard Roberts Linda M. Hinton & Vince Foecke Lynda & Steve Fox Bruce Cozadd Rebecca & James Morgan Lauren & Darrell Boyle Elaine & Eric Hahn Ellice & Jim Papp Neil & Ann Wolff Edward Hunter & Michelle Garcia Peter & Rose Friedland Michael & Leslie Braun Russell & Debbie Hall David Pasta in memory of Bill & Sue Worthington Gordon & Carolyn Davidson Cynthia Sears Charlotte Jacobs & Terry & Carolyn Gannon in honor of Kathy Bridgman Jane Hamlin & Steven Schow Gloria J.A. Guth Sylvia & Ron Gerst Barbara Shapiro & Roderick Young Robert Kelley Ellen & Marc Brown Susan Heller Anne & Larry Hambly Mark Lewis Sue & Dick Levy Jerre & Nancy Hitz Judy Heyboer & Brian Shally Rick Stern & Rob & Ann Marangell D & J Hodgson Family Foundation Julie Kaufman Nancy Ginsburg Stern Richard Niblock Stanley Johnson Benefactors Barbara Jones Tom & Sharon Kelley Mark & Teri Vershel Bill & Janet Nicholls ($750 to $1,499) Joe, Nancy, Sam & Sara Ragey Louise Karr Phil Kurjan & Noel Butler Lisa Webster Anonymous • Sally Abel • Mr & Mrs. Charles E. Benjamin • Robert Block • Cheryl Booton & Robert Mannell • Sharon & John Brauman • Marni Brown & Gabe Garcia • Ron & Lila Schmidt Hal & Iris Korol H. Hans Cardenas • Lee & Amy Christel • Robert A. Cook • Ronald & Marion Dickel • James J. Elacqua • Suzanne & Allan Epstein • Joseph & Sondra Glider • Sue & Bill Michelle & Michael Kwatinetz Watkins Family Charitable John & Catharine Kristian Gould • Mary Ann & John Grilli • Candace Hathaway & Chuck Bernstein • Mitzi Henderson • In memory of Bridget Ross • Nancy Lee Jalonen • Dean & Patricia Johnson Dorothy Lazier Trust Directors Bill & Terry Krivan • Mary Louise Johnson • Carl Jukkola & Desmond Lee • David & Joyce Kim • Michael & Ina Korek • Stephen & Nancy Levy • George & Ann Limbach • Richard & Charlene Mark & Debra Leslie Carol Watts ($3,000 to $5,999) Arlene & Jack Leslie Maltzman in memory of Carol Adler • Anders & Juneko Martinson • Sharon & Harris Meyers • Gus Meyner in memory of Miriam • William & Sue Miklos • Annie Nunan* • Heidi & Jorge Ochoa • Bob Rodert & Bev Kiltz • Mary Rodgers in memory of David Rodgers • Nancy & Magnus Ryde • Emil J. & Barbara Sarpa • David & Harriet Schnur Carole & Michael Marks Janne & Bill Wissel Carol Bacchetti Janet Littlefield & William Coggshall • Perry Segal • Todd Smith • Sheri Sobrato • Denise & Jim Stanford • Polly Taylor in memory of Ted Taylor • Arlene & Bruce S. White • Judith & Peter Wolken • Joel & Paul & Debbie Baker Kevin McCoy Linda Zizmor Joel & Wendy Bartlett The Merrimac Fund Contributions listed were received between 11/7/2015 and 11/7/2016. Program deadlines and space limitations prevent us from listing all of our greatly appreciated patrons. Jim Bassett & Lily Hurlimann Buff & Cindy Miller For corrections, or to make a contribution, please contact Michelle Piasecki at 650.463.7132 or [email protected]. The BelleJAR Foundation Myrna & Hy Mitchner, PhD * Indicates donors whose gifts include in-kind goods or services. + Indicates members of the Encore Club, who make ongoing monthly or quarterly gifts.

encoreartsprograms.com 27 VISIONARY SPONSORS CORPORATE CIRCLE, FOUNDATION, & GOVERNMENT GIFTS Foundations and Corporate Circle members sponsor productions, support new works, and fund education programs for K–12 students. Sponsors may host events at the theatre, receive heightened community visibility, and enjoy other hospitality benefits. Contact Hans Cárdenas at 650.463.7155 or [email protected] for more information. Visionary Sponsors Sponsors Friends ($50,000 and above) ($10,000 to $14,999) ($1,000 to $2,499) The Garden Court Hotel* Adams Wine Group* Anonymous The William & Flora Hewlett The Leonard C. & Mildred F. Applied Materials Excellence in the Foundation Ferguson Foundation Arts Grants, a program of J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines* Harrell Remodeling Silicon Valley Creates The Mercury News* Heising-Simons Foundation ChaseVP* Microsoft Corporation Hengehold Motor Company* The Dramatists Guild Fund The David & Lucile Packard International ProInsurance Services LLC Foundation Benefactors Nikon Precision, Inc. Business, meet The Shubert Foundation ($5,000 to $9,999) Sobrato Philanthropies* Dodge & Cox Investment Managers Matching Gifts Presenting Sponsor Hurlbut-Johnson Charitable Many companies will double or triple their employees’ contributions to nonprofits. ($25,000 to $49,999) Trusts It’s a great way to make your gift to Avant! Foundation Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund TheatreWorks go further at no extra cost. box ofﬁce. National Endowment for the Arts Call 650.463.7155 for more information. Sand Hill Foundation Supporters Stephen Silver Fine Jewelry* ($2,500 to $4,999) * Indicates donors whose gifts include Avidbank in-kind goods or services. Encore Media Group connects businesses and Supporting Sponsors Cooley LLP* ($15,000 to $24,999) Los Altos Community PRESENTING SPONSORS Applied Materials Foundation brands to the best of arts & culture in the Bay Area Carla Befera Public Relations* S. H. Cowell Foundation Fenwick & West LLP The Morrison & Foerster and Seattle. The Kimball Foundation Foundation The Harold & Mimi Steinberg Palo Alto Weekly* We’re proud to have published programs for Charitable Trust Perkins Coie LLP Synaptics TheatreWorks since 2007. Wells Fargo

From shopping centers and jewelers to hospitals and ENDOWMENT FUND schools, smart business owners know Encore is the TheatreWorks Silicon Valley thanks the following lead donors for their extraordinarily generous Endowment gifts. Marsha & Bill Adler • William C. Anderson • Ann S. Bowers • Polly & Tom Bredt • Bruce Cozadd & Sharon best way to get their brand in the spotlight. Hoffman • Peter & Melanie Cross • Yogen & Peggy Dalal • Carl H. Feldman • Kathryn Green • The John & Marcia Goldman Foundation • Emeri & Brad Handler • Hurlbut-Johnson Charitable Trusts • Charles & Roberta SUPPORTING SPONSORS Katz Family Foundation • Patricia McClung & Allen Morgan • The Rathmann Family Foundation • Eddie Reynolds • John & Diane Savage • Joyce Reynolds Sinclair • Lynn Szekely-Goode & Dr. Richard Goode

FUTUREWORKS FutureWorks members have made an estate gift from a will or living trust, a beneficiary designation in an IRA, a gift of life insurance, a gift that returns lifetime income, or another planned gift. Contact [email protected] for more information.

Anonymous (6) • Marc Abramson • The Estate of William C. Anderson • Ray & Carol Bacchetti • Elaine Baskin & Ken Krechmer • Pauline Berkow & Ronald Kauffman • David & Lauren Berman • Jayne Booker • James & Diane Bordoni • Ann S. Bowers • Steve & Gayle Brugler • Carol Buchser • The estate of Cathryn Z. Cannon • Eleanor W. Caughlan • Steven & Karin Chase • Jodi Corwin & Irv Duchowny • Bruce Cozadd • George & Susan Crow • SPONSORS John & Wynne Dobyns • John & Linda Elman • Frances Escherich • Susan Fairbrook • Harriett Ferziger • Gayle Flanagan • Carole & David Florian • Peter & Rose Friedland • Terry & Carolyn Gannon • Ed Glazier • Marcia & To learn what Encore can do for your business, John Goldman • Kathryn Green • Lorie Griswold • Maureen Hoberg • Sharon Hoffman • Anne & Emma Grace visit encoremediagroup.com. Holmes • Kenny Hom • Sam & Elaine Housten • Susan M. Huch • Edward Hunter & Michelle Garcia • John W. & Nancy Lee Jalonen • Barry Lee Johnson • Stanley Earl Johnson • Claiborne S. Jones • Mike & Martha Kahn • Dr. Steve Kelem • Robert Kelley & Ev Shiro • Jane Kos • Bill & Terry Krivan • Phil Kurjan & Noel Butler • Woof Kurtzman • Mr. & Mrs. Robert Mangelsdorf • Steve Mannshardt • Monte Mansir • Suzanne Martin & John Doyle • Leigh Metzler & Jim McVey • Cynthia S. Miller • Tami & Craney Ogata • Doris Gottsegen-Reiner • Karen & John Reis • Eddie Reynolds • Betsy Boardman Ross • Adam Samuels • Philip Santora & Cristian Asher • Dorothy Saxe • Loren & Shelley Saxe • Edward & Jane Seaman • Barbara Shapiro & Mark Lewis • Joyce Reynolds Sinclair • Gerry Sipes • Carol Snell & Mindy Rauch • Esther Sobel • Jim & Mary Southam • Cherrill M. Spencer • Rick Stern & Nancy Ginsburg Stern • Susanne Stevens • Mark Stevenson • Laurie Waldman • Carol Watts • Karen Carlson White • Renee & Herman Winick VISIONARY SPONSORS CORPORATE CIRCLE, FOUNDATION, & GOVERNMENT GIFTS Foundations and Corporate Circle members sponsor productions, support new works, and fund education programs for K–12 students. Sponsors may host events at the theatre, receive heightened community visibility, and enjoy other hospitality benefits. Contact Hans Cárdenas at 650.463.7155 or [email protected] for more information. Visionary Sponsors Sponsors Friends ($50,000 and above) ($10,000 to $14,999) ($1,000 to $2,499) The Garden Court Hotel* Adams Wine Group* Anonymous The William & Flora Hewlett The Leonard C. & Mildred F. Applied Materials Excellence in the Foundation Ferguson Foundation Arts Grants, a program of J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines* Harrell Remodeling Silicon Valley Creates The Mercury News* Heising-Simons Foundation ChaseVP* Microsoft Corporation Hengehold Motor Company* The Dramatists Guild Fund The David & Lucile Packard International ProInsurance Services LLC Foundation Benefactors Nikon Precision, Inc. The Shubert Foundation ($5,000 to $9,999) Sobrato Philanthropies* Dodge & Cox Investment Managers Matching Gifts Presenting Sponsor Hurlbut-Johnson Charitable Many companies will double or triple their employees’ contributions to nonprofits. ($25,000 to $49,999) Trusts It’s a great way to make your gift to Avant! Foundation Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund TheatreWorks go further at no extra cost. National Endowment for the Arts Call 650.463.7155 for more information. Sand Hill Foundation Supporters Stephen Silver Fine Jewelry* ($2,500 to $4,999) * Indicates donors whose gifts include Avidbank in-kind goods or services. Supporting Sponsors Cooley LLP* ($15,000 to $24,999) Los Altos Community PRESENTING SPONSORS Applied Materials Foundation Carla Befera Public Relations* S. H. Cowell Foundation Fenwick & West LLP The Morrison & Foerster The Kimball Foundation Foundation The Harold & Mimi Steinberg Palo Alto Weekly* Charitable Trust Perkins Coie LLP Synaptics Wells Fargo

ENDOWMENT FUND TheatreWorks Silicon Valley thanks the following lead donors for their extraordinarily generous Endowment gifts. Marsha & Bill Adler • William C. Anderson • Ann S. Bowers • Polly & Tom Bredt • Bruce Cozadd & Sharon Hoffman • Peter & Melanie Cross • Yogen & Peggy Dalal • Carl H. Feldman • Kathryn Green • The John & Marcia Goldman Foundation • Emeri & Brad Handler • Hurlbut-Johnson Charitable Trusts • Charles & Roberta SUPPORTING SPONSORS Katz Family Foundation • Patricia McClung & Allen Morgan • The Rathmann Family Foundation • Eddie Reynolds • John & Diane Savage • Joyce Reynolds Sinclair • Lynn Szekely-Goode & Dr. Richard Goode

encoreartsprograms.com 29 TheatreWorks SV Staff Artistic Director Robert Kelley Managing Director Phil Santora

ARTISTIC SCENERY DEVELOPMENT MARKETING Associate Artistic Director Technical Director Director of Development Director of Marketing Leslie Martinson Frank Sarmiento Ronnie Plasters Lorraine VanDeGraaf-Rodriguez 2017/18 Director of New Works Lead Scenic Artist / Craftsman Associate Director of Art Director Giovanna Sardelli Tom Langguth Individual Gifts Ev Shiro H. Hans Cárdenas Company Manager/ Master Carpenter Associate Director of Marketing RELEASE PARTY Casting Associate Bill Roberts Events Manager Syche Phillips Jeffrey Lo Jodi Corwin Carpenters Box Office Manager FutureWorks Fellow Esteban Calvillo, Andrew Clark, Development Operations Manager Alix Josefski Akemi Okamura Rodrigo Frausto, Henry Ing, Michelle Piasecki SAVE THE DATE! Sales Manager Patrick McKenna Resident Musical Director Telefunding Representative Sarah Benjamin William Liberatore Constance Gannon Digital Media Manager Feb 13, 2017 New Works Reading Committee PROPERTIES Jennifer Gosk Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts Bill Adler, Cristian Asher, Properties Master EDUCATION Tessitura Specialist Elaine Baskin, Doug Brook, Be the first to know when Christopher Fitzer Andrew Skelton E Sue Krumbein, Shareen Merriam, Director of Education G Artistic Director Robert Kelley Patty Reinhart, Cindi Sears, Properties Stock Manager Amy Cole-Farrell Marketing & Ticketing Supervisor A Amy Sundberg, Scott Walecka Alfred Rudolph Heather Orth VIPT announces the exciting new 2017/18 Season! Associate Education Director S Artistic Intern Properties Artisan Katie Bartholomew Patron Services Coordinator K Charlynn Knighton Tracy Hayden RSVP: 650.463.7147 or Grace Hoffman Education Associate/ AC Master Teaching Artist Ticket Services Representatives B [email protected] Meghan C. Hakes Andrée Beals, Laura Henricksen, PRODUCTION, COSTUMES Margaret Purdy, Michelle Skinner LIGHTING, & SOUND Master Teaching Artist Costume Director S Piper LaGrelius Graphics Assistant Production Manager Jill Bowers Katie Dai TheatreWorks David A. Milligan Teaching Artists S Assistant Costumer Jake Arky Public Relations & Advertising S I L I C O N V A L L E Y Assistant Production Manager Noah Marin Brittany Caine Carla Befera & Co. A Elizar Ivanov Lead Cutter/Draper Maggie Cole Carla Befera, Molly Kullman P Operations Manager/ Yen La Wong Jennifer Debevec Company Photographers Master Electrician Mary Kalita Costume Rentals Manager Kevin Berne Steven B. Mannshardt Fredrika Keefer Conni Edwards Alessandra Mello TheatreWorks SV General Information Resident Lighting Designer Josh Marx Wardrobe Manager Steven B. Mannshardt Lauren Mayer CONTACT US GROUP SAVINGS LATE ARRIVALS Sarah Hatton Jennifer Mitchell ADMINISTRATIVE Mailing Address: Savings are available for groups of 8 or more. Latecomers will not be seated until appropriate Production Coordinator Assistant Cutter/First Hand Michileen Oberst PO Box 50458, Palo Alto, CA 94303-0458 For more information, call Sarah Benjamin at intervals, and may not be seated in their exact Karen Szpaller General Manager Michelle Earney Kelly Rinehart Phone: 650.463.1950 Fax: 650.463.1963 650.463.7177 or email [email protected]. seat locations until intermission. Scott DeVine E-mail: [email protected] Electricians Martin Rojas Dietrich Stitchers WHEELCHAIR SEATING LOST AND FOUND Kat Arguello, Justin Barnett, Cassie Rosenbrock Database Administrator TICKET SERVICES Nhan Thi Luu, Son Pham Seating is available for wheelchair patrons. Please For Mountain View Center for the Performing Steven Fetter, Carolyn Guggemos, Elissa Stebbins Ken Maitz Tickets to all TheatreWorks Silicon Valley telephone the Ticket Office in advance so that Arts lost and found, please call 650.903.6568. A.C. Hay, Cosmo Hom, Resident Wigmaster Kristina Sutherland performances are sold through the special arrangements may be made. For Lucie Stern Theatre lost and found, please Bookkeeper TheatreWorks Dan Kaminski, Sean Kramer, Sharon Ridge Amanda Wallace Silicon Valley Box Office call 650.463.1960. Jason Hyde LISTENING SYSTEMS Nick Kumamoto, Harris Meyers, Maryssa Wanlass Hours: Monday–Friday, 11am–6pm; Hair Stylist Saturday-Sunday, 12pm-6pm Both theatres are equipped with listening PLEASE REMEMBER Gary Nelson, Jeff Spackman, Staff Accountant Jeanne Naritomi Phone: 650.463.1960 systems for the Deaf and Har Barbara Sloss d of Hearing. There is no smoking in the theatres or lobbies. Jarku Virtanen, Jackson Wijtman Please see the house manager for details. Costume Rentals Interns Tickets may also be obtained through the Cameras and recording devices of any kind Front Desk Volunteers Mountain View Center Ticket Of are strictly prohibited. Neither food nor drink Load-in/Strike Volunteers Laini Katheiser, Sara Yates fice AUDIO-CAPTIONING Rick Amerson, Ed Hunter Joan Doherty, Cindi Sears Hours: Wednesday–Saturday, noon–6pm is permitted in the theatres. Please ensure that Phone: 650.903.6000 Audio captioning for the visually impaired is all electronic devices are set to the “off“ Lighting, Sound, & And thanks to our fabulous available at certain performances. Please call position while you are in the theatre. STAGE MANAGEMENT TheatreWorkers! WALK-UP TICKET SERVICES 650.463.1960 for details. Properties Intern Children 5 and under are not permitted in The walk-up ticket office will open one hour Noah Listgarten Resident Stage Manager OPEN-CAPTIONED PERFORMANCES the theatre. Persons 14 and under must be prior to each performance. Randall K. Lum Open-captioned performances for accompanied by an adult. Every person, DADDY LONG LEGS ADDITIONAL STAFF PERFORMANCE TIMES Daddy Long legs: 12/18 at 2pm & 7pm, regardless of age, must have a ticket. Wed, Thur, Fri Previews 8pm 12/21 at 2pm Schedules, shows, casts, and ticket prices are Assistant Director Kieran Beccia Open Captioning Operator Tuesday & Wednesday Eve 7:30pm Crimes of the Heart: 1/29 at 2pm & 7pm, subject to change. Production Assistant Sarah Benjamin Thursday–Saturday Eve 8:00pm 2/1 at 2pm Single ticket purchases are non-refundable, but Dramaturgy Cheryle Honerlah Davis Banta, Sunday Eve 7:00pm For more information about open captioning, are exchangeable for $15 per ticket. Light Board Operator Justin Buchs Kieran Beccia, Nina McMurtrie, Wednesday, Saturday, & Sunday Matinee 2:00pm please contact the box office at 650.463.1960 Some restrictions apply. Sound Engineer Quinn Pierron Carolyn Murray INDIVIDUAL TICKET PRICES or [email protected]. Show Carpenter Megan Hall Starting at $32 (balcony). Visit theatreworks.org Discounts available for Seniors, Educators, and for detailed information or to purchase tickets. Patrons 35 & Under. For pricing, call 650.463.1960 or visit theatreworks.org.

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