18 2019

Letter from the Executive Director

It has certainly been a tremendous year for The Lyric with 23 sellout performances, including the unforget- table and improvisational Branford Marsalis Quartet performances, Joshua Bell’s elegant and passionate program and the reggae sounds and Jane Lynch good vibes of The Wailers! “A Swingin’ Little Christmas” With your support, our Arts & Dec 11th 2018 I 7:00pm Education programs were impactful and inspiring. More than 200 families and community organizations par- ticipated in Recycled Percussion’s family “junk rock” music workshop, over 2,400 children attended the educational and interactive live performances of the Discovery Series for Young Audiences, aspiring singer/songwriters Features learned the techniques to “Survive as a Working Artist” with Walter Parks and 3 Letter from the Executive Director 64 young emerging local artists were featured in the Youth Arts Celebration. 4 Board of Directors & Staff As the sultry, long days of summer approach, The Lyric has just the ticket 6 Can We Get A Hull Yeah? to keep you cool with blues musician and four-time Grammy Award-winning 8 Historical Timeline Keb’ Mo’, the new Cult Classic Film Series (page 35) and the Free Movie 20 2018-19 Season Lineup Summer (page 36). 22 2018-19 Director’s Circle & Contributors We are very excited to announce the 2018-2019 Season featuring the great- 26 What Role Will You Play est acrobats and martial arts masters of The Chinese Warriors of Peking, 27 Volunteer Bartenders & Ushers the quick wit of Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning Jane Lynch, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award-winning Itzhak Perlman, legendary 28 Theatre Box Office & General Information folk icon Arlo Guthrie, the National Geographic LIVE! Speakers Series: Ocean Soul and Standing at the Water’s Edge, 15-time Grammy Award 28 Seating Chart winner Ricky Skaggs with his band Kentucky Thunder and so much more. 29 LIVE Auction There will be lots of family fun with Mutts Gone Nuts, Illusionist Bill Blagg, 32 Arts & Education and the Chipper Experience where comedy and magic collide! We are not finished yet, so stay tuned for additional shows... 33 The Lyric AWESOME! Summer Camp 35 Cult Classic Film Series Tickets for the upcoming season are on sale to Members only throughout 36 FREE Movie Summer the summer so be sure to get the “fast pass to great seats” and more. When you support The Lyric, you play a leading role in our commitment 37 Rent The Lyric to provide the community with affordable ticket prices, expand cultural 37 Become a Member and arts education programming while we preserve our historic landmark. 38 Group Sales Memberships and donations help us to enhance the quality of life, educate 38 Family Fun Series and inspire our youth and support the local economy. On the THANK YOU to the many members, foundations, corporate partners and cover: patrons for your extraordinary support and Love for The Lyric! The Lyric Theatre is Stay cool this summer, thrilled to announce the 2018-19 season lineup. There is something 18 for everyone bringing 19 you the best music and The Lyric Theatre’s Mission 20 entertainment from “To provide the community with a home for around the world stage. the performing arts that entertains, educates, Kia Fontaine and stimulates the growth of artistic integrity and experience for everyone.”

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Jane Lynch “A Lynch is not new to singing Swingin’ Little or theater. She has a bachelor’s Christmas” featuring degree in theater from Illinois State University and a master of fine arts degree Kate Flannery and from Cornell. She spent 15 years in Chicago, Tim Davis with The acting in the Steppenwolf Theatre Company The Tony Guerrero Tony Guerro Quintet and Second City. Christopher Guest cast her Quintet has been a part (December 11, 2018 7:00pm) You may in several of his “mockumentaries” and she of the Southern California jazz remember Jane Lynch as the Emmy and was also in The 40-Year-old Virgin and Julie scene for many years. It features Sierra Hull Golden Globe Award-winning Sue Sylvester, and Julia. In 2013, she made her Broadway Mar. 2nd 2019 | 7:00pm Tony Guerrero on trumpet and piano; the cheerleading coach from the television debut as Miss Hannigan in Annie. In 2015, Matt Johnson on drums; Mark Visher on she debuted See Jane Sing, an “anti-cabaret” woodwinds; Dave Siebels on keyboards; and show in which she sings with Kate Flannery David Miller on stand-up bass. from The Office, Tim Davis from ABC’s Boy Jane Lynch “A Swingin’ Band, and the Tony Guerrero Quintet. She Little Christmas” featuring Come have yourselves a very swingin’ Kate Flannery and released the album A Swingin’ Little Christmas Christmas. It’s a great way to start the Tim Davis with in 2016 and recorded a Christmas single with The Tony Guerro Quintet season. Dec. 11th 2018 | 7:00pm Dick Van Dyke. The album landed a spot on the Billboard charts and the single, “Winter’s CAN WE GET A Never Cold,” written by Tony Guerrero, went to eight on the charts. The entire group joins her for A Swingin’ Little Christmas. Itzhak Perlman (December 18, 2018 7:00pm) Itzhak Perlman is a Kate Flannery spent 9 years as Meredith, the violin virtuoso without equal and one of HULL YEAH? drunk on NBC’s hit series, “The Office.” classical music’s few superstars. Perlman, She has appeared in The New Girl, who was awarded the Presidential Medal American Housewife, Another Period and of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian Brooklyn Nine Nine. She has appeared with honor, in November 2015, is known for his

See Jane Sing, at the Kennedy Center, Joe’s Pub artistry and the joy with which he makes and around the country. Flannery has her own music. With his incredibly rare and valuable he Lyric Theatre is thrilled to announce the 2018-19 season lineup. There is comedy lounge act, the Lampshades, that plays 1714 Soil Stradivarius violin, Itzhak Perlman something for everyone bringing you the best music and entertainment from at comedy festivals around Hollywood. has performed in venues across the world T including at a State Dinner at the White around the world stage. Tim Davis has been touring in See Jane House honoring Queen Elizabeth II, as well Sing for the past three years. His producing as a Presidential Inauguration. credits include all six seasons of Glee, ABC’s Boy Band, Lady Gaga’s 2017 Super Bowl Itzhak Perlman was born in Israel and is filled with juggling, acrobatics, weapons The company of The Chinese Warriors halftime show, A Pentatonix Christmas, Barbra studied at the Academy of Music in Tel The Chinese Warriors handling and live stage combat. of Peking was founded in 1958 as a group Streisand’s 2017 concert Aviv. He received an America-Israel Cultural of Peking (November 18, 2018 of Chinese acrobats and martial artists. tour, Josh Groban’s Foundation Scholarship and came to New 4:00pm & 7:00pm) The Chinese Warriors of Through martial arts and acrobatics, the They have toured the world and in 2016, Stages, and York where he appeared on The Ed Sullivan Peking bring some of the greatest acrobats performers depict the story of an emperor, the company’s performance of “Pagoda television’s The Show, the showcase for talent in so many areas. and martial arts masters in the world to The who, each year, held a royal martial arts of Bowls” was selected by the American Americans and The He studied at Juilliard and won the prestigious Lyric stage for a tale some 400 years old. This tournament inviting warriors from all over UniverSoul Circus to tour the United States Goldbergs. Leventritt Competition in 1964, when he was new production is filled with high-intensity the country. Jugglers, contortionists and with the host circus. Its “Slack Wire” act was 19, and his place as a classical superstar was martial arts and breath-taking acrobatics representatives from all the martial arts picked up by Cirque du Soleil and has toured set. He has appeared numerous times at the and tells the story of two rival martial arts disciplines competed in acts that included with them around the world. White House, received the Kennedy Center disciplines, competing in the ancient Chinese Itzhak Perlman breaking “Steel Bar on the Head,” the “Pagoda Dec. 18th 2018 | 7:00pm Honors and performed at a State Dinner in capital of Peking during the Ming Dynasty. of Bowls,” the “Bicycle of Women Warriors,” The Chinese Warriors of Peking is presented 2007, hosted by President and Mrs. Bush for Under the direction of Qui Jian, the show the “Group of Pyramids” and “Ring Diving.” by the Ministry of Culture of the People’s Her Majesty the Queen and the

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Duke of Edinburgh. For President Obama’s Recently, Perlman has appeared in partnered with some of the most notable In 2015, Migliazza had the opportunity to and the audience gets to know me a little band. Vinny Sr., who plays rhythm guitar, 2009 Inaugural, he premiered a piece written collaboration with several friends, including violinists in the world, including Joshua Bell, perform off-Broadway in the show Boogie better. I guarantee they haven’t seen anything keyboards and sings lead vocals, kicked it for the occasion by John Williams alongside recitals with Pinchas Zukerman. In October Pinchas Zukerman, and Midori. Rohan De Stomp! which he still takes around the like it because not that many people are doing off, but the band also includes his son Vinny cellist Yo-Yo Ma, clarinetist Anthony 2017, he and Zukerman reunited with Zubin Silva teaches masterclasses in collaborative country. “It was a two-piano show,” he said. this music in the authentic way. I have a “The Kid” on keyboards and guitar and Nicky McGill and pianist Gabriela Montero. Mehta in a gala at Carnegie Hall with the piano at the Ishikawa Music Academy in “It was me and a guy, Bobby, who had played personal style, but I stay true to the elements “Stix” on drums and vocals. Rounding out the He also worked with Williams for Steven Israel Philharmonic, celebrating that group’s Japan, and was awarded the Fellowship of the for Chuck Berry for 50 years. He wrote the that made it great in the first place. It’s not group are Joe Bonasorte on guitar, Joe Bari on Spielberg’s film, “Schindler’s List,” in which 80th anniversary. He appears regularly with Royal Academy of Music in 2015. narrative about the origins of the blues. It just banging away, it’s the subtleties of the sax and keyboard and Fernando Tort on bass. he performed the violin solos. pianist Rohan De Silva and in 2017-2018, ran for four months and was really cool. He music, the story-telling, the playing in the recitals took them across North America and had been doing it on the road with an older groove. Even if they think they know what Vinny Adinolfi grew up in…wait for it… Perlman, who has won 16 Grammy Awards on a 10-city tour of Asia. gentleman who didn’t want to stay on the they’re going to see, I think it won’t be what the Bronx, in a neighborhood that included as a performer and is the recipient of a road and he found me.” they’re expecting. I think they’ll be happy.” Dion of Dion and the Belmonts, actor Chazz Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Perlman is the subject of a new documentary, Arthur Migliazza Palminteri and Tommy DeVito of Frankie is also well-known as a conductor. He has Itzhak, which premiered in October 2017 Boogie Woogie Piano They took the show to Russia on behalf of Valli and the Four Seasons. Adinolfi was performed with the New York Philharmonic, as the opening film for the 2017 Hamptons (January 4, 2019 7:00pm) When Arthur the U.S. and played throughout the country, working with record companies and he loved Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, International Film Festival. The documentary, Migliazza, the Boogie Woogie Piano Man, including in Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow. the music of everyone from Dion to the Boston Symphony, National Symphony, and directed by award-winning filmmaker Alison performed at The Lyric Theatre this past “The Russians love Boogie Woogie,” he said. The Bronx Wanderers Spinners to Jim Croce. It didn’t matter what virtually every other top-flight symphony in Chernick, details Perlman’s struggles as a spring, he brought down the house. The “We tend to come up with the cool stuff in (January 7, 2019 6:00pm & 8:30pm & the style of the day was; he loved the classics. the United States. He was musical advisor polio survivor and a Jewish émigré and serves award-winning blues and Boogie Woogie America, but then (our tastes) move on.” January 8, 2019 6:00pm & 8:30pm) Yo’ He was playing with a band and the drummer to the St. Louis Symphony from 2002-2004 to remind us of why art is vital to life. The pianist returns with more of the music that Vinny! No, really, that’s his name. Yo’ Vinny got sick; Adinolfi suggested his 11-year- and was principal guest conductor for the film is scheduled for national release in 2018. leaves you tapping your toes and leaving the For his solo show at The Lyric, he will follow Adinolfi is the founder and patriarch of the old son Nicky. He was a hit and Palminteri Detroit Symphony from 2001-2005. He is theater happy. a similar format to Boogie Stomp! but with one Bronx Wanderers, who bring their vocal suggested he start a band with his boys. also well-known to audiences abroad as a The violinist has expanded the reach of piano. “I’ll tell the history of Boogie Woogie stylings, great musicianship, high energy and When Vinny, four-years-older than Nicky, guest conductor. classical music through television, and he has Migliazza didn’t begin studying the piano piano and stories about the origins and the real love for the music they sing. The music saw the money his kid brother was bringing won four Emmy Awards, most recently for until he was 13, started with the usual chords players,” he said. “There will be jokes woven is the best of pop and rock from the last six home, he signed on too. the PBS documentary, Fiddling for the Future. and pieces that beginners study, but he was in. It’s kind of a musical tour. I sing and play decades and got its start as a Dion tribute continued on page 12 He has also appeared on Late Night with fortunate that his teacher exposed him to many Arthur Migliazza Boogie Woogie Piano David Letterman, Sesame Street, The Frugal different kinds of music. “One of the things Jan. 4th 2019 | 7:00pm The Bronx Wanderers Gourmet, and Live from Lincoln Center. my first teachers exposed me to was the blues,” Jan. 7th 2019 | 6:00pm & 8:30pm he said in an interview. “I had a kid’s book Jan. 8th 2019 | 6:00pm & 8:30pm For the past two decades, Perlman has been of blues and jazz and it was kind of Boogie involved with music education, encouraging Woogie, with the left hand repeating the bass gifted young string players. With his wife and the right hand the chords. I really liked Toby, he has been involved with the Perlman that. I had old recordings and the emotion and Music Program and he holds the Dorothy style was easy for me to understand. With the Richard Starling Foundation Chair at the left hand playing the bass, you get on auto pilot Juilliard School. so the right hand can operate independently for chords and licks.” Joining Itzhak Perlman for his performance Migliazza eventually had the opportunity is collaborative to study with teachers and mentors Henry pianist Rohan Butler, Ann Rabson and Mr. B. Born. He De Silva. De lived in Arizona for many years and felt Silva has that Tucson had a pretty good blues scene. They admired him, as well, and in 2014, he was inducted into the Arizona Blues Hall of Fame. He was also celebrated in Washington State, where he lived for several years, giving him the 2014 Best of the Blues Award for Best Keyboardist in the state. He was also a finalist in 2010 and 2014 for the prestigious International Blues Challenge in Memphis.

community groups and was used Spring of 1913 May 27, 1925 November 29, 1930 A Brief History of Construction for The “first” Lyric began on Construction of The “new” Lyric Theatre Newly equipped with RCA Photophone to present traveling vaudeville Osceola Avenue near Belle Flora and opened commenced on Flagler Avenue sound picture machines, The Lyric Theatre shows, news weeklies and for its first performance a year later. opened with railroad thriller “Danger movies The Lyric March 15, 1926 Lights' (picture with sound) 1917 The “new” Lyric Theatre opened to the public 1978 The “first” Lyric was abandoned and moved with the feature picture “Skinner’s Dress 1941 The Lyric was purchased by New Theatre to a little wooden structure on Osceola Suit” Life in Christ Church and served The Lyric Theatre fell on hard times after Avenue the depression and closed its doors. Over as a venue for weekly services the following years, it was rented out to 8 9 A LUXURIOUS BEACH ESCAPE... Shore Smiles All Around.

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The elder Adinolfi, with record producing Guthrie, a songwriter, storyteller, social wanted to be in the water, studying sharks. Royal Geographic Society. It’s a story no one Missouri. He has headlined around the in his blood, said that the group had to have commentator, actor and activist, grew up in As a photojournalist, he has spent more than who loves the planet should miss. world and entertained five U.S presidents. a game plan. He told an interviewer for Las a musical household. Dad, of course, was the 10,000 hours under water and he brings his He has won three American Music Awards Vegas Magazine that his boys knew the goal iconic folk singer Woody Guthrie and mom expertise, his passion and his photos to The and two People’s Choice Awards as Best was Las Vegas within 10 years. Covering was Marjorie Mazia Guthrie, a dancer with Lyric Theatre in National Geographic LIVE! Male Entertainer. He also has a star on the songs by K.C & the Sunshine Band, the Bee Martha Graham. The Guthrie home in New Ocean Soul. Hollywood Walk of Fame. Gees, and even Coldplay, the musicians got York had frequent visits from Pete Seeger, Tony Orlando (January a reputation for hard work and high energy. Lee Hays, Ronnie Gilbert and Brownie Skerry began his career shooting shipwrecks 23, 2019 7:00pm) Most of us know Tony For his Lyric show, Tony Orlando will perform In 2016, they got a gig at Bally’s Windows McGhee and the younger Guthrie drew from in New England. His first assignment for Orlando’s “Tie a Yellow Ribbon ‘Round the his greatest hits and talk about a career showroom. all these artists as he set his own style. He National Geographic was 20 years ago and he Ole Oak Tree,” a song that became an anthem spanning decades and with no end in sight. collaborated with Seeger many times over was always ready to take on any underwater for retiring soldiers and was a number one That’s Vegas, baby. some 40 years; their last show together was story. Soon, he began to ask for stories on hit for an entire year. When he returns to at Carnegie Hall in November, 2013, a few ocean-related issues that showed both the The Lyric Theatre, he brings with him an impressive number of hits, from “Candida,” months before Seeger died. magic and the dark side of the ocean, from continued on page 16 the harp seal’s struggle to survive, to the the song that thrust him into the spotlight, to “Knock Three Times,” the top song of The saga of Alice’s Restaurant, the song that National Geographic LIVE! Ocean Soul staggering decline in the world’s fisheries Arlo Guthrie: The became the anthem for anti-stupid, began with photographer Brian Skerry to damaged coral ecosystems rebuilding 1971, selling more than six million copies. Jan. 17th 2019 | 7:00pm ‘Alice’s Restaurant as a friendly gesture when Guthrie, 15, was themselves. He has shown the world that its He remains a popular headliner in Las Vegas, Back by Popular arrested for littering. He was deemed unfit actions have consequences, whether it’s by Reno and Atlantic City. A well-known record for the army and he wrote a song about it choosing not to wear harp seal fur or having producer and savvy businessman, he was (January 14, that I have contended with it for five decades, Demand Tour’ when he was 19. It quickly became an anti- tuna for dinner. the lead singer for Tony Orlando and Dawn. 2019 7:00pm & January 15, 2019 7:00pm) either by having to learn it again or by not establishment anthem. Their variety show was the first multi-ethnic It was Woody Guthrie’s dream to have doing it, has been an interesting balancing Skerry dives eight months of the year, variety show on television. enough kids to form a family band that would act. I’m surely looking forward to it again For Guthrie, the joy with which people often in extreme conditions beneath Arctic travel the country. Guthrie’s son Arlo has being a centerpiece of my live repertoire.” greeted the 50th anniversary tour was a ice or in predator-infested waters and has The singer was born Michael Anthony fulfilled at least part of the dream with his surprise. “I didn’t think I was gonna to live lived near the bottom of the sea to tell the Orlando Cassavitis. As a teen, he formed a Alice’s Restaurant tour, featuring his daughter, In July 2017, to celebrate the 50th anniversary long enough to have to learn Alice’s Restaurant oceans’ stories. National Geographic recently doo wop group and made demos that reached Sarah Lee Guthrie. The tour will coincide of the original release of Guthrie’s debut again,” he said. “It was a quirky kind of thing published Ocean Soul, a retrospective of record producer Don Kirshner. He was hired with the 50th anniversary of the film Alice’s album, Rhino Records re-released the full to begin with. Nobody writes an 18-minute Skerry’s photographs. In the book and in this to write songs with a group that included Restaurant, starring Guthrie and directed by mono version of the song on 180 gram monologue expecting fame and fortune. The presentation, Skerry takes his audience from Carole King, Neil Sedaka, Barry Mann and Arthur Penn. vinyl. In March 2018, the national recording initial success of the song really took me the glacial waters of the North Atlantic to Bobby Darin. He had his first hit as a singer Registry at the Library of Congress by surprise more than anyone else. The fact the balmy Pacific. A founding member of with “Halfway to Paradise” when he was 17, inducted Alice’s Restaurant Massacree, as it is Arlo Guthrie: The ‘Alice’s Restaurant the International League of Conservation and he went on to record and produce records Back by Popular Demand Tour’ properly known, into a registry honoring as vice president of Columbia/CBS Music. A th Photographers, his work is proof that Jan. 14 2019 | 7:00pm the recording for its cultural, historic and Jan. 15th 2019 | 7:00pm photographs can make a difference. His multiple threat, he continued recording with aesthetic importance on the American images have helped sway policy-makers to Telma Hopkins and Joyce Vincent Wilson as soundscape. implement marine protected areas and to pass lead singer for the group Dawn, and when legislation that will have a lasting impact on “Candida” became a hit, he started That’s all true. It’s also true that “you can get the world’s oceans. using the name Tony Orlando and anything you want at Alice’s restaurant…” Dawn. The group went on to have

Skerry was named a Nikon ambassador 19 other Top 40 hits. in 2015 and Rolex National Geographic Explorer of the Year in 2017. National After the group disbanded, National Geographic Geographic has named one of his Orlando continued as a solo photographs among their 50 Greatest act and has been a regular LIVE! Ocean Soul Photographs of All Times. He is the only in Las Vegas and Branson, with photographer photographer to win the prestigious Peter Benchley Award for Excellence in Media Brian Skerry(January 17, 2019 Tony Orlando 7:00pm) Photographer Brian Skerry was and has appeared on The Today Show and Jan. 23rd 2019 | 7:00pm 13 the summer Jaws scared most people on CBS’s This Morning. He has given his out of the water. Skerry felt differently; he presentations at TED, Harvard and London’s

systems, ADA compliance alterations, box Capital Campaign. Lobby and box office 1987 March 18, 1988 2001 2004-2005 September 2015 With talk of razing Friends of the Lyric entered into a contract office construction, and remodeling of the The Balcony of the theater was remodeled for The expansion of The Lyric was commenced improvements, including new exterior and Drawing inspiration from the organic and the theater, Friends with the New Life in Christ Church and restrooms and dressing room the installation of new balcony seating, an and completed, enlarging the stage by 14 interior entrances, additional Box Office geometric forms of The Lyric’s exterior, The of the Lyric, a group purchased theater elevator was installed and refurbishment of the feet, adding a backstage with flex- dressing service windows, and bar. New orchestra Lyric’s proscenium was ornamented in an Art of concerned citizens, November 12, 1993 lobby and restrooms area, a restroom, and office/storage areas. seating and sound system were installed. Nouveau style. The elegant design contains banded together 1993-1995 The Lyric Theatre was listed on the National The “Star” dressing room also underwent The Lyric’s interior stucco walls were artistry and craftsmanship of the trompe to save the historic With assistance from community grassroots Register of Historic Places renovation including shower and restroom. smoothed out and architectural elements l’oeil art technique. structure efforts and grants, The Lyric Theatre added to the walls and columns. underwent much needed repair 1996 Summer of 2014 Summer of 2016 from marquee improvements, exterior New seating installed in the orchestra section The Lyric was closed for substantial November 11, 2014 Decorative touches utilizing the trompe l’oeil Lyric including balcony parapet, doorway painting, new roofing and air-conditioning and administrative offices constructed renovation as part of the Love The Lyric Grand Reopening art technique were added throughout The transoms, and interior theatre walls. 12 13 A sampling of the neighborhoods where we have sold or listed luxury homes. Can we bring our advisors and expertise to your neighborhood?

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and most talented dogs in show business and compared to “a modern day Sammy Davis of Legally Blonde as Cece/District Attorney. and his band, Kentucky Thunder, returns. IBMA’s Instrumental Group of the Year, their people, too. They’ll steal your heart and Jr. meets Barry White,” and Sonny Paladino After Legally Blonde closed, she was offered Skaggs, whose music spans the country features Paul Brewster on tenor vocals and make you laugh. is the music supervisor for Natasha, Pierre the role of Sandy in the national tour music spectrum from bluegrass to gospel rhythm guitar, Scott Mulvahill on bass and the Great Comet of 1812, as well as for the company of Grease. That led to her work to mainstream, is a multi-talented musician and bass vocals, Russ Carson on banjo, Jake upcoming revival of Smokey Joe’s Café. as Sherrie Christian in Rock of Ages, Daisy who plays the mandolin, fiddle, mandocaster Workman on lead guitar, Mike Barnett on Hilton in Side Show, and originated the role and banjo. For his Lyric show, he and the fiddle and Dennis Parker on baritone vocal Nolfi is leaving Broadway because the Doo of Lucy Grant in Steve Martin and Edie band will perform songs from his long and and guitar. The Doo Wop Project Wop Project means that much to him. “It’s Brickell’s Bright Star. In 2016, she joined illustrious career, including “Sis Draper,” (January 28, 2019 7:00pm) The Doo Wop my priority,” he said, “We’re just maximizing Sutton Foster in a limited, off-Broadway “Return to Sender” and “Road to Spencer.” Ricky Skaggs has spent “a life full of music.” Project starts at the beginning of the its potential and we’re on a mission to keep revival of Sweet Charity, and then she starred unique sound, when five guys sang tight the music alive. We have ideas to bring it to as Mrs. Bucket in Charlie and the Chocolate Skaggs was born in Kentucky and began harmonies on street corners, and first, second and third graders and get them Factory. Padgett grew up in North Carolina, playing the mandolin when he was 6. When takes the audience on a music interested in harmony singing. We did our but left the South to study at the American bluegrass pioneer Bill Monroe came to journey through the Crests and Yakov Smirnoff first show at my daughter’s school. She’s Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York. Martha, Kentucky to perform, the audience Happily Ever Laughter Belmonts to Smokey Robinson seven and they had a blast. I want to be an old After graduating from the two-year program, wouldn’t let him leave until “Little Ricky” th and the Temptations to the man, listening to kids singing this music and she was quickly booked as Demeter on the Skaggs, 6, came on stage with his mandolin. Feb. 13 2019 | 7:00pm Four Seasons and modern understanding where it came from, with its non-Equity national tour of Cats. After a A year later, he appeared on television with doo-wopified songs from African-American roots and how every group, year, she left the tour and started attending Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs. He was Maroon 5, Michael Italians, Jews and Irish had a stake in it.” open calls in the city while balancing odd still a teen when he began his professional Jackson and Jason jobs, a time-honored tradition. bluegrass career, joining Ralph Stanley’s Mraz. They band, the Clinch Mountain Boys. Skaggs have the You’ll have an enchanted evening. never looked back. authentic sound, Broadway at the Not content with the status quo, the musician the vocal Movies: Celebrating pushed the limits of the bluegrass genre chops 80 years of Movie with progressive bands such as Country and the Ricky Skaggs and Gentlemen and J.D. Crowe and the New creativity Musicals Starring South. By the late 1970s, he had turned his Mutts Gone Nuts to recreate or re- Kentucky Thunder th Josh Young & Emily (February 9, 2019 4:00pm & 7:00pm) It focus to mainstream country music and Jan. 27 2019 | 2:00pm & 5:00pm imagine some of (February 6, 2019 7:00pm) will be a toe-tapping good time when 15- joined Emmylou Harris’ Hot Band. In 1981, the biggest hits in Padgett Take one touch of Broadway musical magic. time Grammy Award winner Ricky Skaggs he released his debut album, Waitin’ for the pop and rock history and they return to The Add a pinch of Hollywood glamour. Take a Sun to Shine, which topped the country charts Lyric Theatre to take the audience along for Mutts Gone Nuts spoonful of real onstage chemistry and clever with two Number One hits. In 1997, he (January 27, 2019 2:00pm & 5:00pm) Show the ride. banter. The result is , a returned to his bluegrass roots with Bluegrass biz lore says you should never compete with Broadway at the Movies musical journey through 80 years of movies Rules! A series of Grammy-Award-winning kids or animals, but Scott and Jane Houghton Two of the founders of the Doo Wop and musicals. The Lyric Theatre show, albums with his band, Kentucky Thunder, of Mutts Gone Nuts didn’t take it to heart. Project are named Dominic, which is starring Broadway veterans Josh Young and followed. The comedy duo returns to The Lyric with confusing, especially as they are both such Emily Padgett, will highlight some of the all their adorable rescue dogs for a high- nice guys. Dominic Scaglione played Frankie best of Broadway and Hollywood, with songs In addition to his 15 Grammy Awards, Skaggs energy, high-wire show for the entire family. Valli in Jersey Boys and Dominic Nolfi played from The Wizard of Oz, West Side Story, has won eight Country Music Association Kids, parents and grandparents will love the Tommy DeVito. The two agree that the Doo Carousel, The Sound of Music, Les Mis, and Awards, including the prestigious adorable pooches and the humans who they Wop Project first saw the light of day on the favorite Disney musicals. Entertainer of the Year Award in 1985. For allow on stage with them. third floor of the August Wilson Theatre the last two decades, he has continued to during their run in Jersey Boys. Dominic Nolfi Josh Young is a frequent performer at the make his mark in the world of country Known as the “disorderly duo,” the confirmed this in an interview this year. “It Stratford Festival, where he has performed in music, releasing the popular album Houghtons have been performing together as really was Dominic (Scaglione’s) idea,” he The Grapes of Wrath, Evita, as Che Guevara, Mosaic with the Grammy-winning a comedy team since 1985. They were known said. “He felt there was a lack of guys our and Kiss Me Kate. For his performance as Che songwriter and producer Gordon for blending physical comedy and circus age singing traditional doo wop. We could fill Yakov Smirnoff he won the Broadway World Toronto Award Kennedy. The song “Return to artistry and they traveled the world from that void.” for Best Actor in a Musical. He also played Sender,” from that album, was Happily Ever Tokyo to Las Vegas. The two performed at Marius in a tour of Les Miserables. He played nominated for two Grammys Laughter(February 13, 2019 Lee Greenwood’s theater in Tennessee and Fill that void they have, and more. Nolfi the role of Judas in the 2011-2012 revival of in the gospel genre. In 2010, 7:00pm) When Yakov Maumovich Pokhis as the featured comedy act at Dolly Parton’s has just finished a run as Crazy Mario in Jesus Christ Superstar and he was nominated Skaggs was inducted into the emigrated to the United Stated from the theaters in Orlando, Myrtle Beach and the Broadway production of A Bronx Tale for a Tony. He also won a Theatre World Gospel Music Hall of Fame Soviet Union, he took jobs bartending at Branson. In 2005, the two discovered that to devote full time to the Doo Wop Project. Award for an outstanding Broadway debut. and received the Cliffie Stone resorts in the Catskills. When he decided to adding dogs to the act unleashed even more He is mega-talented, but he and the “other In 2015, he starred in the musical Amazing Pioneer Award from the do stand-up comedy, he took his American comic potential and Mutts Gone Nuts was Dom” are only part of an ensemble of mega- Grace as John Newton, a role he originated. Academy of Country Music. name from the vodka popular at the resort. born. It features nine canine acrobats, dogs talented guys. Charl Brown originated the He can be heard on the cast recording. Kentucky Thunder, eight- Yakov Smirnoff returns with comedy about like Chico, the hoop-jumping Chihuahua/ role of Smokey Robinson in Motown: The time winners of the the very messy business of being human. Corgi mix, Fritz, the jump-roping American Musical, and received a 2013 Tony Award Emily Padgett is known for her work on Eskimo, high-flying Frisbee dogs, tight wire nomination for it. Russell Fischer, who has Broadway. In 2007, she made her Broadway Smirnoff is a bit of a Renaissance man. He dogs, dancing dogs, magic dogs and Sammie the falsetto, won the role of Joe Pesci in debut in Grease as a member of the ensemble Ricky Skaggs got his start in stand-up in the late 1970s and the Talking Dog. You’ll have a great time the Broadway company of Jersey Boys on and Kentucky Thunder and as a swing, understudying Sandy, Patty th was a roommate of comedian Andrew Dice enjoying the antics of some of the cutest his 22nd birthday. Dwayne Cooper has been Feb. 9 2019 | 4:00pm & 7:00pm and Cha-Cha. In 2008, she joined the cast continued on page 30 16 For tickets and information, call The Lyric Theatre Box Office at772-286-7827 or visit www.LyricTheatre.com. All shows and times are subject to change. 17 18 For tickets and information, call The Lyric Theatre Box Office at772-286-7827 or visit www.LyricTheatre.com. All shows and times are subject to change. 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Thank you to all those generous contributors who have donated $100 or more to The Lyric Theatre as of May 15, 2018. Diamond Patron Linda Lambrecht Jim & Jan Hogan Linda & Craig Harlan James H. LoPrete Jan Hart & Alan Jacobson Robin Henn If we have inadvertently overlooked your name in this listing, please accept our sincere apology and notify our Development ($5,000 & Up) Louis and Nellie Sieg Fund Lynn & Bud Johnson Mary & Richard Holleman Director, Linda Prange, at 772.220.1942, extension 209. Janice Binger Andrea Lutz Christopher Jones Ellyn & Howard Kaye In Memory of Kappy & Edna Kappler Macaroni Kid Stuart/Port St. Lucie Paul Jones Sheila Kelsey Milton Fine Tim McCreary Ned & Joyce Kenna Mr. & Mrs. Philip Kron The following donors have generously committed to providing PNC Wealth Management The Black Marlin Dottie Kohl Barbara Lisman sustained support of The Lyric over a five-year period as part of Bob & Ralf Massey Vince & Angie Laviano Lucido & Associates P.A. 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24 For tickets and information, call The Lyric Theatre Box Office at772-286-7827 or visit www.LyricTheatre.com. All shows and times are subject to change. The Friends of the Lyric, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization The Lyric Theatre Box Office (772) 286-7827 www.LyricTheatre.com 25 A heartfelt THANK YOU to the volunteers of The Lyric Theatre!

Our volunteer ushers and bartenders play a vital role in the operation of the hundreds of performances each season and The Lyric Theatre would not be possible without their commitment and donation of time and energy. The Lyric volunteers believe in the mission of providing the community with a home for the performing arts, and they convey this message both inside the Theatre and throughout the areas in which they work and live. The Lyric Theatre is proud to salute not only the tireless efforts and commitment of its volunteers, but also the passion and enthusiasm they demonstrate each and every day. For information on volunteer opportunities at The Lyric, please contact Heather Long, 772-220-1942 extension 204 or at [email protected]. Information and volunteer applications are also available at: www.lyrictheatre.com/volunteer-opportunities

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28 For tickets and information, call The Lyric Theatre Box Office at772-286-7827 or visit www.LyricTheatre.com. All shows and times are subject to change. 29 UPPER BALCONY DISABLED PATRONS: Special seating arrangements can be made with the Box Office LOWER BALCONY at the time you purchase tickets, based on availability. ORCHESTRA WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE continued from page 17 Clay. He began to work in films, appearing across the theater and squishing his 6’ body presentation by a university recruiter sent refined elegance and freedom that few have show Hair sent her across the ocean and she in Moscow on the Hudson. In addition to a into 6”. Oh, yes. He takes that body and passes her on a path to ocean careers and she has achieved,” said Fleck. “And now her vocals began her recording career in Europe. In small role, he helped Robin Williams with it through the blades of an industrial fan. spent 25 years as a writer and photographer, and songwriting have matured to the level of 1975, she recorded “Love to Love You Baby” his Russian dialogue. He was also in The focusing on the balance between human well- her virtuosity.” for radio and it played in the clubs, and by Money Pit with Tom Hanks and Heartburn The illusionist is constantly changing his being and healthy ecosystems. She brings her 1976 it went gold, while the album sold more with Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson. He shows and even if you’ve seen one, you’ve passion to The Lyric with National Geographic For Hull, it’s about being herself. “The than a million copies. Summer was on her appeared in several other movies, on the not seen this one. His goal is to surprise and Live! to talk about her conservation work and moment you start to be yourself, there’s an way. sitcom Night Court, and on The Tonight Show amaze his audience while changing reality how people and coastlines can co-exist. honesty about that, that people connect with,” with Johnny Carson. He had his own show, one city at a time. Quite simply, you won’t Hull said. “This album feels like the story of Now her sister has put together a Celebration What a Country, named after his well-known believe your eyes. Mittermeier spent the first 10-15 years my early twenties, of that searching. Now it of the Life and Music of Donna Summer as tag line. as a photographer on land, focusing on feels like everything worked out the way it told by someone who knew her best. The indigenous people in the rainforests of the was supposed to.” stories and hit songs you remember take you In 1992, Smirnoff bought a theater in Amazon. Her goal was always to use her through a musical journey of her sister’s Branson, Missouri and performed there until photography to inspire conservation groups One of her songs on the album is “I’ll be amazing career. You’ll hear all the stories 2015, where he entertained more than four National Geographic with the images she preserved. Fine.” Come to The Lyric to hear an artist at from the road and the hits you loved. million people. He appeared on Broadway LIVE! Standing at the peace with herself and her talent, making the in a one-man show, As Long as We Both Shall Mittermeier first became a biochemical National Geographic LIVE! best music of her life. You can close your eyes, and you are sure Water’s Edge with Standing at the Water’s Edge Laugh, and gives advice in a column for engineer in marine sciences and then an with photographer Cristina Mittermeier Donna Summer is singing, but you’ll want AARP Magazine. photographer Cristina advocate for the ocean and biodiversity. Feb. 27th 2019 | 7:00pm to open them because Mary encourages the Mittermeier (February 27, She is the writer and series editor of her audience to enjoy the music and become part Advice? What kind of advice? 2019 7:00pm) Photographer and marine own publishing company, Earth in Focus, put out a self-released album when she was 10 of the show. It’s hard for people to stay in biologist Cristina Mittermeier grew up and has produced 24 coffee table books on and began jamming with other musicians in Mary Gaines Bernard their seats while listening to the music and Here’s where the Renaissance man part in the mountains of central Mexico. She conservation issues. Her work has been her family. By the time she was 10, she was Celebrates the Life you’ll want to channel your inner disco. Don’t comes in. Smirnoff was fascinated by the never imagined that her life’s work would published in prestigious scientific publications entering local talent contests and her parents and Music of Donna forget to save the last dance. nature of happiness and of relationships. take her to the water’s edge and beyond. A including Science and Nature, as well as in took her to bluegrass festivals. During the In 2006, he got a master’s degree from popular magazines like National Geographic. International Bluegrass Music Association Summer (March 8, 2019 7:00pm) the University of Pennsylvania in positive She is a Sony Artisan and a National festival, Rounder Records discovered her Donna Summer was known as the Queen of psychology and he is an adjunct professor at Geographic Explorer Mentor, mentoring two and she was mentored by Krauss, who knew Disco. She had 14 Top Ten hits with songs Missouri Sate University, where he teaches a young women starting their careers. Outdoor something about being a child prodigy. On like “Love to Love You Baby, “ “Last Dance,” Natalie MacMaster course on happiness and laughter. He is also a Magazine named her one of the world’s top Nov. 21, 2011, Hull and Krauss, along with “Bad Girls, “On the Radio” and the anthem and Donnell Leahy: painter and after the attacks of September 11, 40 most influential outdoor photographers. Dan Tyminski, performed in the White “No More Tears (Enough is Enough)” Visions from Cape he designed a mural that hung anonymously She is a founder of the International League House. that she sang with Barbra Streisand. Now near Ground Zero until it was removed of Conservation Photographers. Summer’s sister, Mary Gaines Bernard, Breton and Beyond (March 19, 2019 4:00pm & 7:00pm) because of storm damage. The mural was a As she entered her twenties, Hull became Celebrates the Life and Music of Donna Fiddlers Natalie MacMaster and Donnell tribute to the country that took in a family Mittermeier met her partner, underwater dissatisfied with the music she made as a teen. Summer, and she knows of what she sings. Leahy are Canadian treasures. The Canadian of Ukrainian Jews and allowed a boy who photographer Paul Nicklen, in the National She talked to Krauss, the mentor who was Bernard sang with her big sister for more husband-and-wife musical team, who have spoke no English to become a star. Smirnoff Geographic cafeteria, and in 2015, they now a confidante. She advised Hull to talk to than 30 years and has all of the stories and won numerous awards and accolades over became a citizen on July 4, 1986. co-founded SeaLegacy, with a mission to banjo-master Bela Fleck. “Sierra lives in the songs to take you on a several decades, travel with their create healthy and abundant oceans for us border area where new ideas mix to create journey through the life six children, who often perform What a country! and the planet. One billion people live on hybrids and sometimes brand new directions,” of the Rock and Roll on stage with them. They our changing coastlines and the two are is he said. “Her own voice was quietly telling Hall of Fame inductee are considered the “reigning dedicated to preserving the balance between her something that was hard to hear over all and five-time Grammy couple of Celtic music” and the coastlines and the humans who love the advice she was getting.” winner who died in have worked separately them. You’ll be enthralled by the stories and 2012. and together with Alison The Magic of Bill images from the front lines of exploration Fleck asked her to play her new songs for him LaDonna Krauss, Yo-Yo-Ma, Shania (February and the efforts to save the oceans. without accompaniment other than her voice Blagg, Live! and the mandolin. “Even when I was fronting Gaines, who Twain, Bela Fleck, Faith 24, 2019 7:00pm) Bill Blagg’s life has a band, I’d always been an ensemble player,” became been magical. The illusionist brings his Hull said. “To do something by myself made Donna show, The Magic of Bill Blagg, Live! me rethink everything.” Summer, to life in a magical journey that began (March 2, 2019 began when his great grandfather gave him Sierra Hull 7:00pm) Sierra Hull is a Lyric favorite. The result was the 2016 album Weighted singing a professional magic book. He went The bluegrass singer, mandolinist and Mind, produced by Fleck. It was nominated at church on to build magic props for his father guitar player first played the Grand Ole for a Grammy for Best Folk Album. To and she and developed his own shows from a Opry when Alison Krauss called her the mandolin and her voice, she added bass appeared lifetime of magic. to the stage. She was 11. Now 26, she player Ethan Jodziewcz. Fleck is heard, as in high has played the White House, Carnegie are Krauss, Abigail Washburn and Rhiannon school Bill Blagg’s specialty is one-of-a-kind Hall and the Kennedy Center and was Giddens. While the album certainly pays musicals in illusions that leave audiences gasping. the first bluegrass musician to receive a homage to its bluegrass roots, this music Boston. A He has the world’s only rideable hover Presidential Scholarship to the Berklee is Hull. She wrote 11 of the 12 songs and role in the board and is known for teleporting College of Music. arranged the 12th. German version The Magic of Bill Blagg, Live! Hull was raised in Tennessee and began Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy: Visions from Cape Breton and Beyond Feb. 24th 2019 | 7:00pm “She plays the mandolin with a degree of of the playing the mandolin when she was 8. She Mar. 19th 2019 | 4:00pm & 7:00pm continued on page 34 30 The Friends of the Lyric, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization The Lyric Theatre Box Office (772) 286-7827 www.LyricTheatre.com 31 32 to becomemusicallycreative withwhateverfoundinstrumentisaround. and proceededdrummingtechniquessongswiththeband.Studentsfamilieswere tolearn alsoencouraged pans, buckets and more were made available tofamiliesandstudents. 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Hill, Carlos Santana and The Chieftains. The raised by a fiddler father from Ontario and from Italian classics like “O Sole Mio” and two combine their Cape Breton heritage with a step dancing mother from Cape Breton, “That’s Amore” to arias from Tosca to the best French, Celtic and Cajun styles, for a show started in the family music business early on. of Broadway (think Phantom.) The late Joan with dazzling fiddling and footwork. The Leahys also maintain a beef farm that Rivers said they were “The Three Tenors was started in Ontario in 1825 by their Irish meet the Rat Pack” and the three friends are 2018 FILM SERIES While the Leahys live in Ontario now, the forebears. known for their light-hearted fun as well as music of their native Cape Breton is never for their music. far from their hearts. MacMaster, who is a MacMaster and Leahy have won numerous member of the Order of Canada, follows in awards, both solo and together. Their album Aaron Caruso has been performing since the footsteps of her uncle, the late fiddler sales have exceeded 1 million and they have he was 6 and he attended the prestigious Buddy MacMaster. Leahy began performing multiple Grammy and Juno, the Canadian Interlochen Arts Academy for high school. as a child with his 10 siblings in the well- Grammy equivalent, awards. They were also He earned a bachelor’s degree in vocal regarded group Leahy, for which he was the awarded an honorary doctoral degree from performance with a minor in Italian from front man. The group was the subject of an Trent University in Canada in 2006. the University of Michigan. He speaks four Academy Award-winning 1985 documentary, languages fluently and can sing in seven, Leahy: Music Most of All, which won for Best Still, it’s all about the music and the dancing, including Russian, Latin and German. He Foreign Student Film. the tunes from so many cultures, the fiddling, studied opera in Italy and New York and the guitars, the bagpipes and accordion. Only has performed in La Boheme and in concerts MacMaster, who could step dance before she about 40 percent of their show is the two of featuring operatic works. could walk, has said that the fiddle brought them playing together. For the rest, they take them together, but that she was in awe of turns or play alone. Alone or together, when Elio Scaccio has also been performing since Leahy’s large family that was able to put a MacMaster and Leahy take the stage, it’s all childhood. In college, he focused in jazz vocal band together. Certainly, she never envisioned about the music, then energy and the fun. technique and performance. He has a pop/ that one day, the two of them would have a classical CD, Lettere D’Amore, which is made family of music-loving kids who wanted to up of original compositions and well-known share the stage with them. Italian classics. AUG 17 • R AUG 31 • R SEP 14 • R Both MacMaster and Leahy have deep roots The Sicilian Tenors Sam Vitale is classically trained and also a in Cape Breton in Nova Scotia. The area is (March 26, 2019 7:00pm) The Lyric Theatre graduate of the University of Michigan’s well-known for the traditional fiddle music presents a variety of talented tenors, but School of Music. He continued his studies brought to North America from the Scottish you’ve got to have a special place for a group in New York under Luigi Veccia and has Highlands. MacMaster first picked up a fiddle called The Sicilian Tenors that has a singer performed the lead tenor roles in Carmen, La when she was 9 and released her first album, named Caruso in it. Aaron is not related Traviata, and Rigoletto, as well as in Phantom Four on the Floor when she was 16. Leahy, to the great Enrico Caruso, but the three of the Opera. He is a proud veteran of the Air singers are all classically trained musicians Force and served in Desert Storm and Desert who bring their lively take on everything Shield.

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