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This evening’s program is approximately 75 minutes long and will be performed without intermission.
Please make certain all your electronic devices are switched off.
Major support for Lincoln Center’s American Songbook is provided by Amy & Joseph Perella. Endowment support provided by Bank of America This performance is made possible in part by the Josie Robertson Fund for Lincoln Center.
Steinway Piano The Appel Room Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall American Songbook
Additional support for Lincoln Center’s American Songbook is provided by Meg and Bennett Goodman, Rita J. and Stanley H. Kaplan Family Foundation, Inc., The DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund, Jill & Irwin B. Cohen, The Shubert Foundation, Great Performers Circle, Chairman’s Council, and Friends of Lincoln Center. Public support is provided by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature American Airlines is the Official Airline of Lincoln Center Nespresso is the Official Coffee of Lincoln Center NewYork-Presbyterian is the Official Hospital of Lincoln Center Artist catering provided by Zabar’s and Zabars.com
UPCOMING AMERICAN SONGBOOK EVENTS IN THE APPEL ROOM:
Wednesday, February 15, at 8:30 pm Liz Callaway Sings Maltby & Shire
Thursday, February 16, at 8:30 pm Laura Mvula
Friday, February 17, at 8:30 pm Jamie Lidell & The Royal Pharaohs
Saturday, February 18, at 8:30 pm Santino Fontana
Wednesday, February 22, at 8:30 pm Indie.Arie
Thursday, February 23, at 8:30 pm Buffy Sainte-Marie
Friday, February 24, at 8:30 pm William Bell
Saturday, February 25, at 8:30 pm Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder
The Appel Room is located in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall.
For tickets, call (212) 721-6500 or visit AmericanSongbook.org. Call the Lincoln Center Info Request Line at (212) 875-5766 or visit AmericanSongbook.org for complete program infor - mation.
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We would like to remind you that the sound of coughing and rustling paper might distract the performers and your fellow audience members. In consideration of the performing artists and members of the audience, those who must leave before the end of the performance are asked to do so between pieces . Flash photography and the use of recording equipment are not allowed in the building. American Songbook I Meet the Artists
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M received the coveted Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical. That year she was listed as one of People magazine’s 50 Most Beautiful People and Essence magazine’s 30 Women to Watch.
Ms. Headley continued her musical success on the pop charts with her 2002 debut album on RCA Records, This Is Who I Am . Two songs, “He Is” and “I Wish I Wasn’t,” emerged as Top 5 R&B and Dance chart hits. She earned numerous accolades for This Is Who I Am, including Grammy Award nominations for Best New Artist and Best Female R&B Vocal Performance. Her long-awaited second solo album, In My Mind , was released in 2006. The opening single became Ms. Headley’s first No. 1 hit, topping the Dance and R&B charts. In 2009 she released Audience of One, which won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album.
In 2016 Ms. Headley made a triumphant return to Broadway playing Shug Avery in The Color Purple . She has performed on television on The View , The Ellen DeGeneres Show , The Tonight Show with Jay Leno , and The Late Show with David Letterman . She was the spokesperson for the March of Dimes and led its “I Want My 9 Months” campaign, and also serves on the board of directors for the Catalyst Charter Schools in Chicago.
Ron Colvard
Ron Colvard (musical director, piano) is a seven-time Arizoni Award nominee and winner for Best Musical Direction for Chicago and Into the Woods. He works in multiple genres and mediums as a singer, pianist, arranger, and orchestrator. As a musical director, he has conducted staged events across the U.S., Canada, Asia, and Europe, including the Los Angeles premiere of How the Grinch Stole Christmas starring John Larroquette. Before that he was music director and conductor for Grinch at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego for seven years. Other credits include associate conductor for American Songbook I Meet the Artists
Dancing in the Dark starring Scott Bakula (Old Globe), assistant conductor for the first national tour of the Tony Award–winning musical Hairspray , and national tours of Legally Blonde , Wicked , A Chorus Line , Jersey Boys , Avenue Q, and The King & I starring Stefanie Powers.
Most recently Mr. Colvard was a music producer for the opening of Shanghai Disneyland. He is working on “World of Color—Season of Light,” a nighttime show at Disney California Adventure Park for Tokyo Disneyland. For Disneyland’s diamond celebration, he did vocal arrangements and was a ses - sion producer for Neil Patrick Harris.
American Songbook
In 1998, Lincoln Center launched American Songbook, dedicated to the cele - bration of popular American song. Designed to highlight and affirm the cre - ative mastery of America’s songwriters from their emergence at the turn of the 19th century up through the present, American Songbook spans all styles and genres, from the form’s early roots in Tin Pan Alley and Broadway to the eclecticism of today’s singer-songwriters. American Songbook also show - cases the outstanding interpreters of popular song, including established and emerging concert, cabaret, theater, and songwriter performers.
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (LCPA) serves three primary roles: pre - senter of artistic programming, national leader in arts and education and com - munity relations, and manager of the Lincoln Center campus. A presenter of more than 3,000 free and ticketed events, performances, tours, and educa - tional activities annually, LCPA offers 15 programs, series, and festivals includ - ing American Songbook, Great Performers, Lincoln Center Festival, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Midsummer Night Swing, the Mostly Mozart Festival, and the White Light Festival, as well as the Emmy Award–winning Live From Lincoln Center , which airs nationally on PBS. As manager of the Lincoln Center campus, LCPA provides support and services for the Lincoln Center complex and the 11 resident organizations. In addition, LCPA led a $1.2 billion campus renovation, completed in October 2012. American Songbook
Lincoln Center Programming Department Jane Moss, Ehrenkranz Artistic Director Hanako Yamaguchi, Director, Music Programming Jon Nakagawa, Director, Contemporary Programming Jill Sternheimer, Director, Public Programming Lisa Takemoto, Production Manager Charles Cermele, Producer, Contemporary Programming Mauricio Lomelin, Producer, Contemporary Programming Andrew C. Elsesser, Associate Director, Programming Regina Grande Rivera, Associate Producer Nana Asase, Assistant to the Artistic Director Luna Shyr, Senior Editor Olivia Fortunato, Programming Assistant
For American Songbook Rocky Noel, Lighting Design Scott Stauffer, Sound Design Angela M. Fludd, Wardrobe Assistant Janet Rucker , Company Manager
Rocky Noel
Lighting designer Rocky Noel returns to Lincoln Center’s American Songbook after recently completing two weeks on Broadway with Kristin Chenoweth in My Love Letter to Broadway . Mr. Noel calls New York City home and has worked extensively with artists such as Liza Minnelli, Barbra Streisand, Alan Cumming, Chita Rivera, Christine Ebersole, Elaine Paige, Stephanie J. Block, and Joel Grey, among countless others.
Scott Stauffer
Scott Stauffer has been the sound designer for Lincoln Center’s American Songbook since 1999. His Broadway design credits include A Free Man of Color , The Rivals , Contact (also in London and Tokyo), Marie Christine , Twelfth Night , and Jekyll & Hyde . Off-Broadway Mr. Stauffer has worked on Subverted , Promises, Hereafter , A Minister’s Wife , Bernarda Alba , Third , Belle Epoque , Big Bill , Elegies , Hello Again , The Spitfire Grill , Pageant , and Hedwig and the Angry Inch . His regional credits include productions at the Capitol Repertory Theatre, University of Michigan, Hanger Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and Alley Theatre. His concert credits include many Lincoln Center galas, as well as the Actors Fund concerts of Frank Loesser , Broadway 101 , Hair, and On the Twentieth Century . At Carnegie Hall he has worked with Chita Rivera and Brian Stokes Mitchell. As a sound engineer, Mr. Stauffer has worked on The Lion King , Juan Darién , Chronicle of a Death Foretold , Carousel , Once on This Island , and the original Little Shop of Horrors.
FEB • PM & PM FAMILY CONCERT: WHO IS LOUIS ARMSTRONG? Vocalist Catherine Russell and trumpeter Anthony Hervey take your family on a musical adventure through the life of Louis Armstrong ROSE THEATER
FEB – • : PM & : PM FREDDY COLE QUARTET: SONGS FOR LOVERS Featuring pianist/vocalist Freddy Cole, bassist Elias Bailey, drummer Quentin Baxter, and guitarist Randy Napoleon DIZZY’S CLUB COCA-COLA
FEB – • PM DIANNE REEVES Grammy Award-winning vocalist Dianne Reeves returns for Valentine’s Day weekend ROSE THEATER
FEB • PM & : PM BRIANNA THOMAS: IT HAD TO BE YOU Soulful vocalist Brianna Thomas returns to Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola for a seductive Valentine’s Day performance Valentine’s Day prix-fixe menu included; special pricing applies. DIZZY’S CLUB COCA-COLA
FEB – • PM JAZZ OF THE ‘’s: OVERFLOWING WITH STYLE Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and music director Chris Crenshaw perform the music of Miles Davis, Art Blakey, Gerry Mulligan, and more ROSE THEATER FEBRUARY
frederick p. rose hall box o ce centercharge dizzy’s club coca-cola broadway at 60th st. ground fl. 212-721-6500 212-258-9595
The Jazz for Young People Family Concert is funded through the generosity of Mica and Ahmet Ertegun JAZZ & POPULAR SONG SERIES MICHAEL FEINSTEIN, DIRECTOR
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Alphonso Horne Photo by Lawrence Sumulong