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RAGTIME BOOK BY TERRENCE MCNALLY MUSIC BY THEATER LYRICS BY BASED ON THE NOVEL “” BY E. L. DOCTOROW LATTÉ DIRECTED BY PETER ROTHSTEIN MUSIC DIRECTION BY DENISE PROSEK CHOREOGRAPHY BY KELLI FOSTER WARDER DA

SEPTEMBER 21 – OCTOBER 23, 2016 • RITZ THEATER THEATER MUSICALLY Theater Latté Da presents RAGTIME Book by Terrence McNally Music by Stephen Flaherty Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens Based on the novel “Ragtime” by E. L. Doctorow Directed by Peter Rothstein** Music Direction by Denise Prosek*** Choreography by Kelli Foster Warder

FEATURING Sasha Andreev*, Debra Berger, Georgia Blando, Benjamin Dutcher, Daniel S. Hines*, Emily Jansen, Riley McNutt, Soren Thayne Miller, David L. Murray, Jr., Britta Ollmann*, James Ramlet, Noelle Renae Hunter, Traci Allen Shannon*, Andre Shoals*, Dominic Tidmarsh-Kilander, and Julia Fé Foster Warder

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

RAGTIME will be performed with one intermission

Opening Night: Saturday, September 24, 2016 ASL Interpreted and Audio Described Performance: Thursday, October 6, 2016 Post-Show Discussions: Wednesdays, September 28, October 5, 12, and 19; Thursdays, September 29, October 6, 13, and 20; Sundays, September 25, October 2, 9, and 16

RAGTIME is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International [MTI]. All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI, , NY. Tel: 212-541-4684. Fax: 212-397-4684. www.mtishows.com

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

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota Theater Latté Da gratefully through a Minnesota State acknowledges the Marbrook Arts Board Operating Support MARBROOK grant, thanks to a legislative FOUNDATION Foundation for their generous support appropriation from the arts and of this production of RAGTIME. cultural heritage fund.

2 RAGTIME THE MUSICAL FROM THE DIRECTOR

There’s a particular moment in Ragtime that moves me each time I hear it. It’s in the middle of Act One. A young woman descends a staircase and is reunited with the man she loves. It’s a relatively simple action, but the music is epic—a sweeping melody with lush harmonies sung by the entire cast. The lyrics in that moment read,

I’ve Come to Hear New Music Breaking my Heart Opening a Door Changing the World New Music

I truly believe music can do that. It can break a heart. It can open a door. It can change the world. E.L. Doctorow’s celebrated novel uses music as its primary metaphor to tell a story about a nation on the cusp of great change.

It was the beginning of the Twentieth Century and America was up in arms over issues of immigration, racial injustice, labor wages, economic disparity, gender identity, and the role of civil disobedience in a civilized society. One need only take a quick glimpse at our current Presidential election to see precisely these issues at the center—and again we are up in arms. And we should be. As citizens of this great melting pot and citizens of the world, we have the opportunity to decide who we are and who we want to be.

This fantastic cast and creative team have re-imagined Ragtime, an epic Broadway musical for the intimate Ritz Theater (our new home). My hope is that the intimacy of the production heightens the humanity of this great work. We witness characters from wildly different walks of life intersect, change; and create new partnerships, new families, a new America. I hope their story is music to your ears—new music, breaking your heart, opening a door, changing the world.

I’m glad you’re here.

Peter Rothstein Founding Artistic Director Theater Latté Da

Through both our mission and the realization of that mission, Theater Latté Da stands out as a bold innovator, investing in the art of musical theater, moving it forward, and shepherding it to new frontiers for Minnesota audiences and beyond. However, we truly RAGTIME REHEARSAL cannot do it without you. Please consider a gift to Theater Latté Da. Visit latteda.org/give. PHOTOS BY EMILEE ELOFSON

THEATER LATTÉ DA • LATTEDA.ORG 3 Book by Terrence McNally Music by Stephen Flaherty Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens Based on the novel “Ragtime” by E. L. Doctorow

THE CAST THE PRODUCTION TEAM

Tateh ...... Sasha Andreev* Director...... Peter Rothstein**

Emma Goldman ...... Debra Berger Music Director ...... Denise Prosek***

Little Girl ...... Georgia Blando Choreographer ...... Kelli Foster Warder

Harry Houdini, Willie Conlkin ...... Benjamin Dutcher Scenic Designer ...... Michael Hoover

Father, J. P. Morgan ...... Daniel S. Hines* Costume Designer ...... Trevor Bowen

Evelyn Nesbit ...... Emily Jansen Lighting Designer ...... Mary Shabatura

Younger Brother ...... Riley McNutt Sound Designer and Engineer ...... Nik Tranby

Little Boy ...... Soren Thayne Miller Facial Hair Designer ...... Tricia Stogsdill

Coalhouse Walker, Jr...... David L. Murray, Jr. Stage Manager ...... Tiffany K. Orr*

Mother ...... Britta Ollmann* Assistant Stage Manager ...... Amanda K. Bowman*

Grandfather, ...... James Ramlet Dialect Coach ...... Keely Wolter

Sarah ...... Traci Allen Shannon* Fight Choreographer ...... Enneking

Booker T. Washington ...... Andre Shoals* Technical Director ...... Stein Rosburg

Skater, u/s Little Girl...... Julia Fé Foster Warder Properties Master ...... Abbee Warmboe

Coalhouse Walker, III...... Noelle Renae Hunter Assistant Director ...... Eric Norton Dominic Tidmarsh-Kilander Scenic Charge ...... Dietrich Poppen Lighting Operator ...... Micayla Thebault-Spieker THE MUSICIANS Master Electrician ...... Megan Winter Wardrobe Supervisor/Design Assistant ..... Mary Farrell Reeds ...... Mark Henderson Run Crew ...... Aaron Chvatal Reeds ...... David Hawley Electricians ...... Micayla Thebault-Spieker, Guitar// ...... Joe Cruz Brent Anderson, Ray Steveson, Percussion ...... Scott Horey Jesse Cogswell, Paul Epton, Alex Clark, Garvin Jellison, Allana Olson, *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, Courtney Schmitz, Kiki Klun, the Union of Professional Actors Kathy Maxwell, Andy Kedl **Member of SDC, the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union Carpenters ...... Ethan Jensen, Thomas Spalding, *** Member of the Twin Cities Musicians Union, Eric Gebbart, Russell Garrett, American Federation of Musicians Natasha Plouffe, Max Gilbert

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Theater Latté Da is now the very proud owner of the Ritz Theater!

A special THANK YOU to the many generous supporters who made it possible.

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THEATER LATTÉ DA • LATTEDA.ORG 5 THE HISTORY OF RAGTIME From Library of Congress Performing Arts Encyclopedia

Ragtime, a uniquely American, syncopated musical phenomenon, has been a strong presence in musical composition, entertainment, and scholarship for over a century.

It emerged in its published form during the mid-1890s and quickly spread across the continent via published compositions. By the early 1900s ragtime flooded the music publishing industry. The popularity and demand for ragtime also boosted sale of pianos and greatly swelled the ranks of the recording industry. Ragtime Leaf Rag.” Although Stark was impressed by the musicality of the seemed to emanate primarily from the Southern and Midwestern piece, the technical difficulty of the piece led him to question its states with the majority of activity occurring in Missouri salability. – although the East and West coasts also had their share of composers and performers. Ragtime’s popularity promptly spread After some encouragement from his son, John Stark agreed to to Europe and there, as in America, soon became a fad. publish “Maple Leaf Rag” thus beginning a profitable business relationship for himself and Joplin and insuring immortality for It is not easy to define ragtime. Like jazz, another distinctly ragtime. By 1914 “Maple Leaf Rag” had sold 1 million copies and American musical art form, ragtime’s composers, practitioners, Stark had amassed over 50 rags in his catalog. and admirers each see its boundaries differently. However, these groups are distinguished by subgroups of purists who The Fad generally agree on, and stand by, a precise definition: A genre of Ragtime was everywhere by the early 1900s – in sheet music, musical composition for the piano, generally in duple meter and piano rolls, phonograph records, and ragtime piano playing containing a highly syncopated treble lead over a rhythmically contests, as well as in music boxes, vaudeville theaters, and steady bass. A ragtime composition is usually composed with three bordellos. Publishing houses churned out piano rags and ragtime or four contrasting sections or strains, each one being 16 or 32 songs at a furious pace. Ragtime also appeared in arrangements measures in length. for orchestras and wind bands. The majority of this music was the popular sort of ragtime that was cranked out mostly by Tin Pan This definition describes much of the music of the itinerant Alley hacks. As with all types of music, there is always a bigger pianists who traversed the South and Midwest and eventually market for a less subtle, more digestible version of the original, congregated in Missouri to produce an oeuvre of core ragtime more complicated, form. compositions. These roving composers include Scott Joplin, Charles Hunter, Thomas Turpin, Louis Chauvin, Charles L. The overabundance and popularity of ragtime was not always met Johnson, and many others. with enthusiasm. For example, at the 1901 convention of the American Federation of Musicians in Denver, “Resolutions were Ragtime, the word, probably began life as a description of musical adopted characterizing “ragtime” as “unmusical rot.” Members meter. The term is a contraction for “ragged time,” denoting a were encouraged to “make every effort to suppress and [to] style of playing piano or banjo where the melody is “broken up” discourage the playing and the publishing of such musical trash.” into short, syncopated rhythms while a steady overall beat is either played (piano) or implied (banjo). Taking a simple, conventional, and unsyncopated melody and breaking up the rhythm was The Fad Fades known as “ragging;” therefore, the resulting music was said to be “Ragtime” as a catchall name for syncopated popular music in “ragged time.” remained popular through the 1910s. Ragtime’s popularity faded around 1917 with the rise of another catchall term – “jazz” – used The Heart of Ragtime to describe peppy, noisy, popular music. Note that musicians Ragtime developed in African American communities throughout active in New Orleans during the early 1900s who were later the southern parts of the Midwest, particularly Missouri. Bands recognized as “jazz musicians” frequently, if not always, referred to would combine the structure of marches with Black songs and the hot music they played as “ragtime.” dances such as the cakewalk. Missouri, located in the center of America, was the heartland of ragtime. It can be stated categorically, however, that the ragtime music of Joplin, Joseph Lamb, James Scott, and others had become nearly The most influential and memorable music publisher was John forgotten by 1920. Ragtime did not disappear, nor was it “replaced” Stark, a Civil War veteran and peripatetic ice cream salesman who by jazz. However, it seems to have been supplanted by the novelty loved music. Stark met Scott Joplin in 1899 when the latter came piano style that was ironically based on many of the traits found in into Stark’s store to demonstrate his still unpublished “Maple ragtime – traits that had become anachronistic by 1920.

6 RAGTIME THE MUSICAL HISTORICAL FIGURES FEATURED IN RAGTIME The encyclopedia of World Biography

Harry Houdini J.P. Morgan A famous illusionist and stunt Arguably the most powerful performer, Houdini was born banker and businessman in in Hungary and grew up in America at the turn of the 20th Appleton, Wisconsin and New century, Morgan was shrewd York City. Houdini loved his and efficient. Many argued that mother dearly and was personally his methods disregarded the and professionally devastated by needs of people outside of the her death. wealthy elite.

Emma Goldman Henry Ford An activist, anarchist, and Invented his first car in 1896, and feminist, Goldman gave fiery released the Model T in 1908. speeches and wrote controversial Ford’s assembly line production books, articles, and pamphlets methods revolutionized the about the issues she most manufacturing industry. He is supported. She was never afraid credited with “Fordism”: mass to be arrested for her actions or production of inexpensive goods her words. Eventually, Goldman’s coupled with high wages for activism led to her deportation workers. Ford had a global vision, to Russia. with consumerism as the key to peace.

Evelyn Nesbit Admiral Robert Peary The inspiration of the Gibson Determined to reach the North Girl ideal popular in the early Pole, Admiral Peary was the 1900s, Nesbit was the wife of the first to do so in 1909 with the wealthy Harry K. Thaw. Thaw’s assistance of his crew consisting anger about Nesbit’s affair with of 23 men, including his lifelong architect led him assistant Matthew Henson. to murder White. The ensuing trial was a sensation, and Nesbit’s fame rose. Nesbit modeled, acted, and performed in a variety of vaudeville acts throughout her career.

Booker T. Washington Matthew Henson An educator, orator, and activist, Accompanied Admiral Peary on Washington was born a slave, many expeditions over the years and later worked to improve race as his assistant. Out of all of the relations in the South and across members of Peary’s exploration the United States. In 1881, he group, only Henson and the founded the Tuskegee Institute, Admiral arrived at the North Pole one of the most prestigious with their guides. Historically Black Colleges in the United States.

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SASHA ANDREEV (TATEH) BENJAMIN DUTCHER regional premiere), Morticia Addams (The is honored to return to (HARRY HOUDINI, WILLIE Addams Family), Mayzie La Bird (). Theater Latté Da, having CONKLIN) a native of St. BFA Minnesota State been in the original cast of Paul, is thrilled to be University, Mankato. Steerage Song (Fitzgerald working with Theater Latté Theater, Lab Theater, Da for a third consecutive RILEY MCNUTT (YOUNGER Regional Tour) and in the NEXT series. He season. A graduate of the University of BROTHER) performed with was recently seen in Park Square Theatre’s Minnesota’s School of Music, Ben appeared Theater Latté Da last year in Sons of the Prophet and in the one-man show last season as Jonas Fogg in ; The All Is Calm: The Christmas Buyer and Cellar with Hennepin Theatre Demon Barber of Fleet Street and as a soloist, Truce of 1914, and is very Trust. Stage credits include the Guthrie vocal captain, and member of the company pleased to be returning this Theater, Jungle Theater, Mixed Blood of All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914. season. He recently appeared in Artistry’s Theater, Yellow Tree Theater, Chanhassen Previous credits include Tony in Theater productions of as Motel Dinner Theatres, Paul Bunyan Playhouse, Latté Da’s , as well as Bello in La and in Phantom as Phillipe. Riley has worked Theatre de la Jeune Lune, and Actors Fanciulla del West and Bobby Lembeck in the with Minnesota Orchestra in Carousel; Theatre of Louisville. Sasha has been seen world premiere of The Manchurian Candidate with Skylark Opera in , Wonderful as host of A&E’s Operation Build, HGTV’s with Minnesota Opera. Ben will be returning Town, and The Vagabond King; and in many Curb Appeal, on Evine (formerly ShopNBC) this winter to again tour All is Calm: The productions with Minnesota Opera. Born and in numerous commercials & films. Christmas Truce of 1914. and raised in Wisconsin, Riley is happy Originally from St. Petersburg, Russia, to have made a home among the artists of he is a graduate of Vassar College and the DANIEL S. HINES (FATHER, Minnesota! National Theatre Institute. J. P. MORGAN) is delighted to be making his Theater SOREN THAYNE MILLER DEBRA BERGER (EMMA Latté Da debut with this (LITTLE BOY) is honored to GOLDMAN) is delighted to beautiful, important story. be making his Theater Latté be making her Theater He is new to the Midwest Da debut. Soren originated Latté Da debut! Born after many years living the nomadic actor’s the role of Fregley in the and raised in eastern life. Twin Cities credits: at the world premiere of Diary Montana, Debra relocated Guthrie Theater; Beauty and the Beast and of a Wimpy Kid the Musical at Children’s to the Twin Cities where she traded her Sister Act at Chanhassen Dinner Theatres. Theatre Company. Other credits include cowboy boots for character shoes. She Selected credits: (national tour); Winthrop Paroo in The Music Man (Guthrie holds a Master’s Degree in Theatre Arts Macbeth and Unnecessary Farce at Sierra Theater); Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole with an emphasis in directing from the Repertory Theatre; five different productions Christmas (Children’s Theatre Company); University of North Dakota. She has had of Daniel’s all-time favorite, Oklahoma! A Christmas Carol (Guthrie Theater);The the privilege of working with numerous (Opposite local actress and fiancé Timmy Chanukah Guest (Minnesota Jewish Theatre Twin Cities companies including: the Hays). Gratitude to God and Family for gifts Company); Dr. Seuss’ Seussical the Musical Ordway Center for Performing Arts, Park and unending support. (Ashland Productions); and The Reluctant Square Theatre, Walking Shadow Theatre Dragon (SteppingStone Theatre). Soren is a Company, Yellow Tree Theatre, Actors EMILY JANSEN (EVELYN sixth-grader and enjoys playing and Theater of Minnesota, Ferrari McSpeedy, NESBIT) is thrilled to be singing songs from . Minneapolis Musical Theatre, Swandive returning to Theater Latté Theatre and more. For more information Da after appearing last DAVID L. MURRAY, JR. visit: www.debra-berger.com season as Tessie Tura in (COALHOUSE WALKER, JR.) Gypsy. Most recently, she from New York, is thrilled GEORGIA BLANDO was seen as Marla McGowan in Minneapolis to join the wonderful cast (LITTLE GIRL) is thrilled to Musical Theater’s production of Leap of of Ragtime; working with be making her theatrical Faith. Locally, Emily has appeared onstage an exceptional creative debut in Ragtime. She is a with Paul Bunyan Playhouse, Artistry/BCT, team and an outstanding group of actors. sixth grader who loves to Valleyfair Entertainment, Candid Theater, David has a BFA Musical Theatre Degree read, play and piano, Highland Summer Theater, and Daytrippers from The University of WI-Stevens Point and dance. Georgia would like to thank Theater. Favorite Credits include Lady Theatre and Dance program. His most recent her family, Youth Dance Ensemble, and a of the Lake (, Colorado Henry NYC credits include: The Off-Broadway special thanks to Theater Latté Da for this Nomination for Best Featured Actress in a productions of Vote for me, Legend of the amazing opportunity! Musical), The Witch (Big Fish, Colorado Word, and This Clement World. Regional:

8 RAGTIME THE MUSICAL Violet, Dracula, White Christmas, Seussical Theatre; and The ’s Center. Traci Things That Go Bump in the Night, which The Musical, and Smokey Joe’s Cafe. David is a member of the Acting Company at the was produced on Broadway in 1964. He would like to thank God, his family, the Children’s Theatre Company, and a proud has written the for the musicals Noels, and friends for their unwavering love member of the Actor’s Equity Association. , A Man of No Importance, and support. Psalms 23:6 She is a graduate of Howard University. and and the opera . He won an Emmy Award for BRITTA OLLMANN ANDRE SHOALS (BOOKER Best Drama with his teleplay Andre’s Mother. (MOTHER) previously T. WASHINGTON) is thrilled to He wrote the screenplays for Frankie and appeared with Theater work with Theater Latté Da Johnny, Love! Valour! Compassion! and The Latté Da in , again. He was most recently Ritz. Among his many awards are a Citation Steerage Song: The Tour, and seen in Chanhassen Dinner from the American Academy of Arts and Violet. Other local credits Theatre’s productions of Letters, the New York Drama Critics Circle include Chanhassen Dinner Theatre (Sister Beauty & The Beast and Sister Act. Musical Award for Best New Play, four Drama Act), Old Log Theatre (Best Little Whorehouse theater credits include, The Little Mermaid, Desk Awards, three Hull-Warriner Best in Texas), Flip Theatre (The Last Five Years) Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Play Awards from the Dramatists Guild, and the Children’s Theatre Company (Wizard (Chanhassen Dinner Theatre), Stu for two Obies, two Lortel Awards and two of Oz, The Snow Queen, Pippi Longstocking). Silverton, (Theater Latté Da), and Guggenheim Fellowships. Britta made her Broadway debut in 2008 as Rocky Horror Show Live (Cardinal Theatrics). an understudy for multiple roles in Harvey Dance credits include Zenon Dance STEPHEN FLAHERTY (MUSIC) is the Fierstein’s A Catered Affair. She holds a BFA Company, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane & Co., composer of the Broadway musicals in musical theatre from Jane Comfort Dance, and Susan Marshall Ragtime (Tony, Drama Desk, OCC Awards, and an MA in teaching from Hamline Dance Company. Andre is also a co-founder two Grammy nominations), Seussical University. Proud AEA member. of Boston based fringe theater company, The (Grammy, Drama Desk nominations), Gold Dust Orphans. (Tony nomination, JAMES RAMLET Olivier Award, Best Musical) and Rocky. (GRANDFATHER, HENRY JULIA FÉ FOSTER WARDER (SKATER, u/s Additional Broadway includes : FORD) is pleased to return LITTLE GIRL) is ten years old and attends the The Dancer’s Life (original songs) and to Theater Latté Da for Richfield Dual Language School. Favorite Neil Simon’s Proposals (incidental music). Ragtime. Past appearances performance experiences include Clara in The Stephen has also written four musicals at at Theater Latté Da include Nutcracker for Youth Dance Ensemble and Theatre: Orson Déjaloux in the World Premiere of C., Young Fiona in Shrek at Eagan Community (OCC, Drama Desk nominations), Dessa Judge Turpin in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Theater. ‘Lia’ is thrilled to make her Theater Rose (OCC, Drama Desk nominations), A Barber of Fleet Street, Mr. Bumble in Oliver!, Latté Da debut and thankful to her family Man of No Importance (OCC, Best Musical, and All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914. for their support & encouragement, Drama Desk nomination) and My Favorite He has appeared numerous times at the especially her little brother Will. Year. Other theater includes In Your Arms Guthrie Theater, as well as the Children’s (Old Globe), (Kennedy Theatre Company, Minnesota Jewish Theatre TERRENCE MCNALLY (BOOK) was awarded Center), ( Horizons) Company, the History Theatre, Frank the Dramatists Guild Lifetime Achievement and Loving Repeating: A Musical of Gertrude Theatre, and Nautilus Music-Theater. Also an Award in 2011. He is the winner of Tony Stein (’s Jefferson Award, Best New accomplished operatic performer, James has Awards for his plays Love! Valour! Compassion! Musical.) Film includes (two performed with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Master Class and his books for the Academy Award and two Golden Globe Houston Grand Opera, Santa Fe Opera, and musicals Ragtime and Kiss of the Spider nominations), the documentary After The many others. Woman. In 2010 the John F. Kennedy Center Storm and Lucky Stiff. Mr. Flaherty’s concert for the Performing Arts presented Terrence music has premiered at the Hollywood TRACI ALLEN SHANNON McNally’s Nights at the Opera, a three-play Bowl, Boston’s Symphony Hall, Carnegie (SARAH) is so excited to festival of his work. His other plays include Hall, the Guggenheim Museum and return to Theater Latté Da Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Symphony Space. This year celebrates this season. Past Theater Lips Together, Teeth Apart, A Perfect Ganesh, Stephen’s 32-year collaboration with Latté Da credits include , The Ritz, It’s Only A Play, The lyricist-librettist Lynn Ahrens. Stephen and Aida. Other Minneapolis Lisbon Traviata, Some Men, The Stendhal Lynn are members of the Dramatists Guild theatre credits include Four Women, Park Syndrome, Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone?, Council and co- founders of the Dramatists Square Theatre; The Wizard of Oz, the , Deuce, Dedication or The Stuff Guild Fellows Program. In 2015 they were Children’s Theatre Company; the road of Dreams, Unusual Acts of Devotion, Next, inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame. weeps the well runs dry, Pillsbury House Sweet Eros, Witness and his first play, And Upcoming: the stage adaptation of Anastasia.

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LYNN AHRENS (LYRICS) provided lyrics for Artist of the Year by the Star Tribune. He ANNIE ENNEKING (FIGHT DIRECTOR) has the Broadway musical Ragtime, winning the has previously been named Theater Artist of been a performing artist for thirty years. Tony Award, Drama Desk and Outer Critics the Year by Lavender, and Best Director by She has acted on almost every stage in the Awards for Best Score and receiving two City Pages. He has been awarded grants and Twin Cities (including Theater Latté Da’s Grammy nominations. In the same year, she fellowships from the National Endowment production of Lullaby) and danced and was nominated for two Academy Awards and for the Arts, Theatre Communications toured professionally across the country. two Golden Globes for the score of Twentieth Group, the Minnesota State Arts Board Annie is a recognized Fight Director and Century Fox’s animated feature film, and the McKnight Foundation. He holds a Associate Fight Instructor with Dueling Arts Anastasia. She wrote both book and lyrics B. A. in Music and Theater from St. John’s International, and has staged violence on for Broadway’s Once On This Island (Tony University and a Master of Fine Arts in numerous area stages (the Guthrie Theater, nominations for Best Book and Best Score); Directing from the University of Wisconsin- Frank Theater, the Children’s Theatre Seussical, now one of the most performed Madison. Peter-Rothstein.com Company, Ten Thousand Things, Park shows in America (Grammy nomination); A Square Theatre, Theater Latté Da). Annie Christmas Carol (Composer, ), DENISE PROSEK teaches the art of stage combat at Augsburg presented for ten years at Madison Square (RESIDENT MUSIC DIRECTOR) College and the University of Minnesota, Garden; ’s Lucky Stiff; has worked extensively as and fronts the rock band Annie and the Lincoln Center Theater’s and The a music director, pianist, Bang Bang. Glorious Ones; and the Kennedy Center world and arranger in the Twin premiere of Little Dancer. In addition to Cities for the past twenty MICHAEL HOOVER (SCENIC DESIGNER) Ragtime, she provided lyrics for My Favorite years, including forty mainstage productions has previously designed sets for Theater Year; Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life; In Your for Theater Latté Da. She has also music Latté Da’s Gypsy, Beautiful Thing, Song Arms; A Man of No Importance (Outer Critics directed for the Children’s Theatre Company, of Extinction, , La Boheme, Circle Award-Best Musical); and Rocky, now the Guthrie Theater, Park Square Theatre, Sunday in the Park with George, A Man of a long-running hit in Europe. Her many Mu Performing Arts, Ordway Center for No Importance, A Christmas Carole Petersen, film and television credits include Camp the Performing Arts, Hennepin Theatre Burning Patience and Wings. Michael also (IFC Films); After the Storm; Lucky Stiff Trust, and the Ivey Awards, among others. designs sets for several other local theaters, (screenplay); Hallmark Entertainment’s A Denise holds a Bachelor of Music from St. including the Guthrie Theater, Park Square Christmas Carol (teleplay, NBC); Schoolhouse Olaf College. She was named a Playwrights’ Theatre, the History Theatre, Torch Theater, Rock (ABC). Additional honors include the Center McKnight Theater Artist Fellow in Mixed Blood Theatre, Girl Friday, Yellow Emmy Award, ’s Olivier Award and 2013–2014, Outstanding Musical Director Tree and the Minnesota Jewish Theater. In the Lilly Award. She serves in 2006 and 2008 from Star Tribune, Best addition to his free-lance career as a scenic on the Council of the Dramatists Guild of Music Director in 2010 from Lavender, designer, Michael is on staff at the Guthrie America and co-founded the Dramatists and Theater Artist of the Year in 2012 Theater, where he supervises the Scenic Art Guild Fellows Program for Emerging Writers. from Lavender. department. With her longtime collaborator, composer Stephen Flaherty, she received the 2014 TREVOR BOWEN (COSTUME DESIGNER) is MARY SHABATURA (LIGHTING DESIGNER) is for Lifetime glad to be back at Theater Latté Da. Previous thrilled to be joining the team for Ragtime! Achievement and in 2015 was inducted into shows with Theater Latté Da include: Lullaby, Based out of the Twin Cities, she is resident the Theater Hall of Fame. All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914, lighting designer for Dark and Stormy Steerage Song: The Tourand Our Town. Twin Productions, and has designed all their PETER ROTHSTEIN Cities credits include: Bars and Measures (The productions, including The Receptionist, (DIRECTOR) has directed 57 Jungle Theater); Scapegoat, Bright Half Life, The Hothouse, Sunshine and And So It Goes. mainstage productions for Prep, The Gospel of Lovingkindness, Death Tax, Shabatura has previously designed at Theater Theater Latté Da, including and the road weeps, the well runs dry (Pillsbury Latté Da (Gypsy), Shapeshift Dance, Artistry 9 world premieres. Other House Theatre); BBQ, Charm, DJ Latinidad’s (Talley’s Folly), The Moving Company (For recent collaborations Latino Dance Party, , Pussy Valley, Sale), The Guthrie/BFA Program at the include the Guthrie Theater, the Children’s HIR, Colossal and (Mixed Dowling Studio (Peter Piper/The Hidden Theatre Company, Minnesota Opera, the Blood Theatre); Nina Simone: Four Women, People) has served as assistant lighting Illusion Theater, Ten Thousand Things The Color Purple (Park Square Theatre); designer at the Guthrie (Cocoanuts), and and Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theater. He is Pericles, Henry IV, Part 1, Romeo and Juliet has worked with The Santa Fe Opera, Utah the creator of All Is Calm: The Christmas (Ten Thousand Things Theatre); U/G/L/Y, Shakespeare Festival, and Penumbra Theater, Truce of 1914 and Steerage Song – a new Choir Boy (Guthrie Theater); pen/man/ship, among others. musical created in collaboration with Dan We Are Pussy Riot (Contemporary American Chouinard. Peter was named the 2015 Theater Festival).

10 RAGTIME THE MUSICAL TRICIA STOGSDILL (FACIAL HAIR DESIGNER) Education and Access programs. It is a gift to Minnesota Fringe Festival, Keane Sense of is thrilled to be working with Theater Latté do this good work with such good people. Rhythm, and many others. Da. Originally from Kansas, she is now a local wig artist and designer who spends her ABBEE WARMBOE (PROPERTIES DESIGNER) TIFFANY K. ORR (STAGE MANAGER) days as a Wig Assistant at the Guthrie and Theatre Latté Da: Gypsy. Recent Work: Park is celebrating her seven season as the freelances for theaters around the nation at Square Theatre: The Liar, Realistic Joneses, Production Stage Manger at Theater Latté night, including local companies like Park Calendar Girls, Great Expectations; Artistry: Da. While on staff at Latté Da she has stage Square Theater and Artistry. Tricia received ; Mu Performing Arts: managed numerous productions including her Master’s Degree in Wig and Make-Up Tot, You For Me For You; Mill City Summer C., Gypsy, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Design from the University of Cincinnati Opera: Sweeney Todd; Mixed Blood Theater: Fleet Street, Oliver, , Spring Awakening College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). She Charm, An Octoroon; Yellow Tree Theatre: & . While in the Twin Cities, she has started her career in opera at venues such Death of a Salesmen. Representative Theatres: had the opportunity to work with many the and the Kansas 7th House Theatre, Chanhassen Dinner amazing companies including the Guthrie City Lyric. Other credits include American Theatre, DalekoArts, History Theatre, Mad Theater, the Children’s Theatre Company, Players Theatre (Spring Green, WI) and Munchkin Productions, Old Log Theatre, and Pillsbury House Theatre. This summer Alabama Shakespeare Festival (Montgomery, Stages Theatre Company, Stepping Stone Tiffany will be returning to Wichita, KS AL). Tricia was selected for the 2013 Theatre, Theatre Pro Rata, Walking Shadow for her seventh summer, as a part of the USITT Young Designers Forum, and has Theatre Company among others. Training: stage management team at MTWichita. awards from the Kennedy Center American St. Olaf College. Awards: 2015 Ivey Award Tiffany is a proud member of Actors’ College Theatre Festival for her Wig and Recognition “Production Design” for Crime Equity Association. Make-Up Designs. and Punishment. AMANDA K. BOWMAN (ASSISTANT STAGE NICHOLAS TRANBY (SOUND DESIGNER/ KEEELY WOLTER (DIALECT COACH) holds an MANAGER) is delighted to be returning to ENGINEER) is a freelance sound engineer and MA in Voice Studies from the Royal Central Theater Latté Da after having a glorious designer based in St. Paul. He was recently School of Speech and Drama in London. time with Gypsy and NEXT last season. the Sound Engineer for Theater Latté Da’s C., She has served as a voice and accent coach She has spent 12 summer seasons with Gypsy and All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of with the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Music Theatre Wichita, as well as 2 seasons 1914. He was the Sound, Video and Lighting BFA Actor Training Program, the Jungle with the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. Associate at Children’s Theatre Company for Theater, the Children’s Theater Company, Other credits include Casa Mañana, The 4 years; while there he was Associate Sound Walking Shadow Theater Company, Torch Dells Palace Theater, Merrimack Repertory Designer for Shrek: The Musical, Pinocchio, Theater, Classical Actor’s Ensemble, Gremlin Theatre, Wichita Symphony Orchestra, Alice in Wonderland and Robin Hood. He was Theatre, 20% Theatre Company, St. Olaf and Walt Disney World. Proud member also Head Audio Engineer for international College, Lyric Arts Main Street Stage, North of AEA. tours of The Wedding Singer and The Wizard Hennepin Community College, Mounds of Oz. Other venues include Williamstown Park Academy, SPCPA, and many others. ERIC NORTON (ASSISTANT DIRECTOR) is a Theatre Festival, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Keely is also a voice and stage actor, member Twin Cities based theatre director interested Park, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and The of VASTA (the Voice and Speech Trainers in new play development and theatre for . A proud graduate of The Association), and current Tech Columnist for young audiences. Recently, Eric directed the College-Conservatory of Music at University the VASTA Voice publication. premiere of Hazard at the Minnesota Fringe of Cincinnati. Festival. He has also directed productions of ALLEN WEEKS (PRODUCTION MANAGER) Girls Like That, Bunker Girls, The Melancholy KELLI FOSTER WARDER (CHOREOGRAPHER) has been working in the Twin Cites as a Play, and premieres of Committment and feels blessed to be a part of this production. production manager, stage manager, and killing the lightbulb. As an assistant, Eric has Kelli has performed, taught and designer since graduating from Minnesota worked at the Children’s Theatre Company choreographed for a variety of organizations State University, Mankato with a degree in under Peter Brosius, and Walking Shadow including, Theater Latté Da, Chanhassen Technical Production. Before working with Theatre Company with Jon Ferguson. Eric Dinner Theatres, Theater for the Thirsty and Theater Latté Da he was the Production has trained with Double Edge Theatre and is Artistry. She has worked as a choreographer, Manager at Penumbra Theatre and Actors an alumni of the University of Minnesota. teacher, diversity coordinator, and coach Theater of Minnesota, and the Company for over 20 years at a number of Minnesota Manager at Climb Theater. Allen has also schools, as well as schools in La Paz, Bolivia done work with Sample Night Live, Theatre and Panama City, Panama. Kelli is currently Mu, Walt Disney World, Sesame Street Live/ the Director of Education for Hennepin VEE Corporation, ShopNBC, Bloomington Theatre Trust and runs their Spotlight Civic Theatre, Virginia Luoma Dance,

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SEENA HODGES (SENIOR (NAMT), and is a member of the 2016 MUSIC THEATER INTERNATIONAL (MTI) DIRECTOR - MARKETING AND artEquity cohort. Music Theatre International (MTI) is one DEVELOPMENT) has worked of the world’s leading theatrical licensing in the theatrical industry JEAN HARTMAN (SENIOR agencies, granting theatres from around as a producer, marketing DIRECTOR – FINANCE AND the world the rights to perform the greatest director, publicist and OPERATIONS) Jean Hartman selection of musicals from Broadway and audience development associate. Seena is began her career in public beyond. MTI works directly with the Senior Director—Marketing & Development accounting. After a short composers, lyricists and book writers of these for Theater Latté Da after serving as the stint as an entrepreneur in musicals to provide official scripts, musical Director of External Relations for seven the grocery business she served as controller materials and dynamic theatrical resources months. [Currently, Seena and Artistic of several entrepreneurial companies. Jean to over 70,000 professional, community and Director Peter Rothstein, are spearheading previously worked for Carlson Marketing school theatres in the US and in over 60 NEXT 20/20—a robust new works initiative Group, a division of Carlson Companies and countries worldwide. aimed at developing 20 new musicals or in academia teaching at Hennepin Technical plays with music and shepherding many College and the University of St. Thomas. of them to full production.] She is the She served as the CFO for the Sisters of St. Special Thanks former Communications Manager for the Benedict of St. Paul’s Monastery for before Andrew Bourgoin Guthrie Theater and previously worked joining Project for Pride in Living, Inc. as a Lynn Farrington at New York press agency Boneau/Bryan- Finance Manager. Jean joined the Board of Guthrie Theater Brown, developing audiences and creating Theater Latté Da in 2012. She has left the Rich Hamson media opportunities for several Broadway board to serve as Theater Latté Da’s Senior The Jungle Theater shows. Seena is a graduate of the Theatre Director of Finance and Operations. Jean Long Wharf Theatre Management and Producing MFA Program holds a BA in business administration and Penumbra Theatre at where she was a accounting from Southwest Minnesota State Seattle Opera Dean’s Fellow. She serves on the board of University in Marshall, Minnesota, an MBA Children’s Theatre Company directors for the Minnesota Theater Alliance, from the University of St. Thomas, and is a Chanhassen Dinner Theatres is a member of the Membership Committee Certified Public Accountant. Espresso Services International for the National Alliance for Musical Theater Ritz Theater Foundation

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12 RAGTIME THE MUSICAL “I believe it is the responsibility of the American non-profit theater not only to speak to audiences today, but to invest in its future. We do so by investing in our playwrights, composers, and lyricists.” - Peter Rothstein THEATER LATTÉ DA DONORS

Theater Latté Da is grateful to the following individuals and institutions that have invested in the artistic, educational, and outreach programs that further our mission.

Funders are listed for the 12 months ending September 9, 2016. We have made every effort to prepare this donor list accurately. Please accept our sincere apologies for any mistakes or omissions. If you note an error, please Seena Hodges, Senior Director – Marketing and Development at 612-767-5646 or [email protected].

INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board Operating Support grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund, and a grant from the Wells Fargo Foundation Minnesota.

The NARA Fund

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You can have a significant impact on Theater Latté Da’s future. Please consider adding a bequest in your will naming Theater Latté Da on your insurance policy or retirement plan or by donating gifts of stock at any time. We simply could not achieve our goal of exploring and expanding the art of musical theater without you. For more information about planned giving, contact Seena Hodges at [email protected].

Finale Ultimo ($50,000 and above) David A. Wilson and Michael Peterman Angus and Margaret Wurtele

Grand Finale ($25,000–$49,999) Carol and Kim Culp Marti Morfitt and Patrick Weber Benjamin and Helen Liu Kathleen and Paul Rothstein

Curtain Call ($10,000–$24,999) Kent Allin and Tom Knabel Dan and Carol Greenwald Lorri Steffen and Paul Zenner Jack Burbidge in loving memory of his wife Nancy Jones Patricia Zalaznik Nancy Christopher Rence

Eleven O’clock Number ($5,000–$9,999) Anonymous Lisa and Dan Hoene Dr. Luis A. Pagan-Carlo and Wayne Zink Timothy Dordell and Kirk Ballard Douglas and Suzanne Tacheny Kubach Joe Sammartino Mary and Randy Carlson Rita and Benedict Olk Jane Zilch

Show Stopper ($1,000–$4,999) Mark Addicks and Thomas L. Hoch Ingrid and Chris Culp Bill Jones Mary and Paul Reyelts Anonymous (2) Fran and Barb Davis Matt Kiser and Chris Nichol Jaime A. Roman and Jim Bernier Tyler Aman and Andrew Maresh Rob Dingmann Greg and Cyndi Klaus Ken and Nina Rothchild Paul Amann and Cory Johnson JoAnne Pastel and Bill Dunlap Kathy and Allen Lenzmeier Peter Rothstein and Omar Guevara-Soto Chris Andersen Scott Eastman Carolee Lindsey and Darolyn Gray The Patricia Ryan Family Joe Andrews and Scott Benson Karla Ekdahl and Peter Hutchinson Jim Macknick and John Pemberton Linda and Steven Sandvig James Assali and Michael Mauch Steve Euller and Nancy Roehr Mary and Mark Maher Thomas Senn and Mark Manion Dan Avchen and David Johnson Carol Fjalstad Jim and Kristin Matejcek Jim and Cindie Smart Barbara Brin and John Beal James P. Gearen Mary H. and J. Milo Meland Family Fund Ann and Tom Stanley Jean M. and Jim Becker Mary Beidler Gearen of the Minneapolis Foundation Kevin Streeter Brian and Cade James Miller Brian Gilligan Linda and Jim Milow John Sullivan Patricia Johnson and Kai Bjerkness Ron Goldser Shawn Monaghan and Greg Plotnikoff Michael and Terri Uline Jeff Bores and Michael Hawkins Barb Gurstelle Kim and David Motes Bill Underwood and Chris Everett Annemarie Bossert and Thomas Lovett Edmund and Sandra Hall Curt D. Nelson Mary W. Vaughan Al Bradley Kath Hammerseng and Mo Kennedy Sandy and Neil Spidel Neumann Bill Venne and Douglas Kline Jeff Brockmann and Shane Swanson Jay Harkness and Jean Storlie George Niece Ashish and Julia Vimal Scott Cabalka Jean and Jim Hartman Kendall and Jay Nygard Jay Waldera Jane and Wallace Campbell Todd Hartman Ben Olk III and Kris Berggren Ruth and David Waterbury Darlene J. and Richard P. Carroll Family Margie and Tom Hebig Ruth Parriott Carol and Tom Windfeldt Fund of the Minneapolis Foundation Steve Horan Jim Payne David Young and Edward Williams, Jr. Shelli Chase and John Feldman Dennis and Nora Hunchar Shannon Pierce and Rachael Kroog Joe Dowling and Siobhan Cleary Jim and Sandi Jensen Gene and Pat Radecki Ogden and Jane Confer Bruce and Jean Johnson Gary Reetz

Entr’acte ($500–$999) Mary Alberts Meg DeLapp David and Mary Maas Trish and Ralph Scorpio Summer and Rob Altergott Jennifer Patti Duffy and Sean Duffy David and Marilee Mahler Miriam Seim Jennifer and Joseph Armitage Patricia Fair and Randall Arnold Drew Mattson Mariana and Craig Shulstad Karen and John Arnold in memory of Howard Dixon and Jerry Foss Jim and Liane Mattson Jeff Slywka Peggy Ahcan Ray Goettl Gretchen Alberts Mellies James Snustad and David Wehrspann Karen Bachman Lisa Goodman Mary Weber Nord Danielle St. Germain-Gordon Maria Bales in memory of Kent Bales Joan Growe and Thomas Moore Patricia Ploetz Karen Sternal and Lowell Pickett Stan and Cindy Bandur Randy Hartten and Ron Lotz Denise Prosek and Milton Ferris Marcia and John Stout Randy Beard Ashley Herring Ann and Kevin Quiring Marcus Strom Gary Bennett and Mike Olafson Joanne and Allen Hinderaker Fred Quirsfeld and Linda Campbell Patrick J. Troska Susan S. Boren and Steve King Mary and Jim Holland James Rickert Katherine and Martijn van de Ruijtenbeek Priscilla Brewster Victoria and Douglas J. Holmen Randy and Tara Roth Frank and Frances Wilkinson Robert Bruininks and Susan Hagstrum Bernadette and Jeffrey Janisch Kristin Rothstein Dick and Diane Wright Shawn Bryant and Michael Grouws John Kundtz and Thomas Amon Peggy and Bill Roush Stacey W Christensen Gloria and Bill Levin Sandy Ryan and David Myhre Duane Faber and Peter Couture Susan and Michael Lewis Paul Schumann

Overture ($499 and Greg and Penny Anderson Annette Atkins and Tom Joyce Roger Battreall Matt and Amy Anderson Marcia Aubineau Diana Bauman under) Nancy E. Anderson Michael Bahr Robert and Mary Beck Anonymous (13) Sasha Andreev Randy and Ann Bailey Les Bendtsen Mary Adair and Gerald Jorgenson Rita Andrescik John Balchunas Mark Benninghofen on behalf of Shout Lorie Afremov Mark and Connie Andrew Thomas Barber Radio Productions John Agacki Howard Ansel David Burbank and Jean Barry Burbank Ruth Ann and Jim Benson Dorothy A. Akin Greg Anthony Daniel Barnes and Elaine Wilson Ann M. Biggar Suzette Allaire Stuart Appelbaum and Jean King Thomas Bates Michael J. Bird Family Robert Allen Sergio Arce Jan Battles John Birge THEATER LATTÉ DA • LATTEDA.ORG 15 INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT

Michael Bisping Aklilu Dunlap Jessica Horstkotte Julene Maruska Paul and Marcia Bjerke Charla and Jeffrey Eccles Margaret and Mark Hottinger Jeff Masco David Bjork and Jeff Bengtson B. Economon Rachel and Bradly Hove Julie Matonich Beth-Ann Bloom Brad C. Eggen Char Hovi Ron and Mary Mattson John and Judy Borger Kristin Elizondo Jason Howard and Chad Keast Julie May Dr. Stuart and Sue Ellen Borken Gayle Englund George and Kim Hudachek Nadine Mayer SueEllen Borken Todd Ereth Ellen Hughes Scott Mayer and John Zeches Rosanne Borscheid Janelle Erickson Ann Huidekoper Jill Mccallion Barbara Boysen Rebecca Erickson Susan Humiston Anne Mahle and David McCarthy J. Colleen Breen Maurice Failer Bryan Huntington The Francis J. Ryan Family Erik Brendtro and John Sweet Marie and Robert Feely Thomas and Vicki Hurwitz Michael McDaniel Peggy Brennan Don Feeney Betsy Husting Lisa McLean Laurie Brickley George Ferguson Hugh Huston Rebecca McNamara Judy and Arnie Brier Karen Fiedler Mark and Jeanne Innerbichler John McNaught Amanda and Michael Brinkman Sara and Karl Fiegenschuh Carol Jackson Laurie and Dave Mech Michelle Pett and Eric Britt Stephen Field and Stephen Herzog Barbara Jacobson Terry Fitzgerald and Susan Mendesh- Joanne Brockington Michael Fincher Jeanne Jacobson Fitzgerald Eric Brook in honor of Cat Brindisi & Robert and Sharon Fischer Christina Jansa Maria L. Mengel in memory of Luise R. David Darrow Brad Fisher Kristi Jereska Mengel Molly Brown and Cameron Porter Amy and Jack Fistler Kim Johnson Douglas and Cindy Merrigan Lisa Brosseau and Allen Giles Mary A. Fitzpatrick Nancy Johnson Cindy Mertens and Ken Kapsner Craig Bryan Deborah Fletcher Rita Johnson Margaret Michaelson Stephen Bubul Gerald Foley Mary A. Jones Barb Michaels-Rauen John Buchholz Susan Foss Roger and Louise Jones Joseph Miklausich Carole Buller Kelli Foster Warder Charles and Sally Jorgensen Jennifer Melin Miller David Burbank and Jean Barry Burbank Ron Fraboni Katherine Kamphoff Judy Miller Barbara Burke Gene and Charlotte Frampton Paula Karjalahti Kevin Miller and Robert Jardin Kenneth Burke Dr. Paul Froeschl Darla Kashian and Samantha Grosby Sonny and Amy Miller Jimmy Burnett Amy Fulco James R. and Mary M. Kaster Diane Millis Doug Burns Cathy and Nat Fuller Jeremiah and Pamela Kearney Barb Minnerath George Calger Amy Funk Miriam Kelen Sherry Minnick Virginia and Stewart Campbell Barbara and Bob Gaertner Margaret Anderson Kelliher and David Tracey Mittelstadt Tim Carl Lynn and Bart Galle Kelliher Katharine Mohana Peter Carlsen and Sylvia Frank Karen Gardner Linda Kelsey Eric Molho Peter Carlson and Bradley Betlach Gayle C. Gaskill Iryna Khasabova LuAnn Monahan Kimberley Carlton Elaine Gaston and Mark Scannell Lori Mobley Miriam Monasch Cindy Carpenter and Gregg Roberts Mark Gilberstadt Jeanette Klauder and Charles A. Cox David and Leni Moore Family Foundation Sheldon and Lili Chester Manon Gimlett Margaret Kloster Peter Moore Brooks Christensen Jerome Girton Tracy and Craig Knighton Mary Morris John Christiansen Lynn Glesne Sharon Knopp Kate Morton-Peters and Stan Oleson Jeffrey Cloninger Nathalie Godin Douglas Knowlton David Moskovitz Edward Coblentz Barbara Golden Andrew Kocsis Bronson Mulleitner Ralph and Ruth Colby Barbara and Michael Goldner Larissa Kokernot and Karl Gajdusek Will Murray David Colwell Chris Goodnight Mary Kokernot Sara Mushlitz Tomie and Jim Conaway Joyce Gordon and Jane Sulzle Ioannis Koutlas Brad and Marta Musolf Meghan Condon Tim Grady and Catherine Allan Sarita Krishnan Nicholas Naumann Ann and Doug Cooley Myra and Roger Greenberg Lisa Krohn Christine Nelson Barbara Corbusier Bonnie Mulligan and Charlie Greenman Hunter Kroll Eric and Robin Nelson Stewart Corn Carrie Griffin Mark Krug Marlys J. Nelson Mary Corniea Patrick Griffin Judith Kuller Roxanne Nelson Jeanne and David Cornish Christine and Bill Griffith Joe Kuznik Scott Nelson Gretchen and David Crary Judith Grimes Al Kvaal Susan and Jeff Nelson Brian Cross Polly Grose Catherine Lacher Zachary Nelson-Winters Steve and Paula Crouse Tessa Gunther and Scott Hagg Jon C. Lahann James Nepp Patricia Cummings Paul and Kate Habegger Mary Kay Langager Nicholas Nett Scott Cummings Virginia Haggart Judy Larsen Nelson and Beth Neubrech Lynda Dahl Jennifer Marshall and Matthew Haines David Larson Karle and Diane Nolte Vida Dam Lindsy Halleckson Rod and Jan Larson Tracy Nordstrom Gregory Damiani Lisa Tyler-Hammock and Zach Hammock Huey and Nancy Lee Lynn Noren Nancy Darcy Susan Johnson Hanlon Sally Leighninger Hugh and Mary Norsted Thomas and Mary Darnall Paul Hardt Sigrun Leonhard Glyn Northington and Stan Kolden David Darrow Stephanie Harney Helen Leslie Marvel Norton Tom E. Davis Craig Harris and Candy Kuehn Diana Lewis Gary P. Nygaard Donna DeMatteo Marlys and Norman Harris Archibald and Edith Leyasmeyer John O’Donnell Jane and Bob DeMay Jean and Jim Hartman in honor of the Jennifer Liang Dana Offerman Charles Denny marriage of Jaime Roman and Jim John Lillemo Lynn Olson Susan Albrecht and Nancy Desmond Bernier Catherine J. Little Scott Olson David Miller and Mary Dew Phebe Haugen Rebecca Loader and Michael Ritchie Bonnie Ostlund Caroline Dey Jeffrey D. Bores and Michael Hawkins James Loeffler Mary O’Toole Christine DeZelar-Tiedman Judith Hawley Mary and Doug Logeland Carol and Keith Ottoson Michael DiBlasi Margo and Dennis Heaney Rebecca Lowe Mary Claire Owen Marcus and Cynthia Dilliard Donald Helgeson and Sue Shepard Mark Lutjen Philip Oxman and Harvey Zuckman James and Sharon Dimond Richard Helm Judith Maas Marcia and Russ Palma Cheryl Divine Mark and Mary Henderson Katherine and Timothy Machacek Felicia Palmer Kathy Dodge and Steve Downing Christopher Hermann Katherine Macke Annie and Chris Palmieri Nathan Doege Sandy Hey Rhoda and Don Mains Bonnie Palmquist Peter Donohue Joan Higinbotham Anita Makar Mary Jane and Bruce Pappas Al and Nancy Dorris Seena Hodges and Ansa Akyea Eileen Maler Agneta Parr Bruce Doughman Keri Hommez Will and Willene Mangham Steve Passeri Annie Doughty and Jim Detmar Patricia Hoolihan and Chris Fisher Joanne Manthe Robert Payne Amanda Downs Nanette Hoover Susan L. Maples Ron Pentz Robbie Droddy David Horn Paul Marcus Dr. Ronald G. Perrier Bridget Drummond Gail and Jeff Horner William Margolis Laurette Petersen

16 RAGTIME THE MUSICAL Gregory Pilgrim Carol Schirmers Jon Swierzewski Julia M. Yager Daniel Pinkerton and Jane Johnston Ron Schlatter Kristine Szczech Beth Yokom Patti Pinkerton Kimberly Schlesser Christina M Szitta Jane Young Kimberly Pirlet Jackie Schlitz Axel Theimer David Young and Edward Williams, Jr. Craig Poeschl Dianne Schmiesing and Victor Zupanc Marsha Thiel Jodi and Jim Young Maryanne Poliseno Paul K. Schulte Scott Thomas-Forss Jenna Zark and Pete Budd Anne and John Polta Robert and Margaret Schwob Missy Thompson Peter Zenner Elizabeth Polter David Sebberson and Meg Lewis John Thomson Kimberly Ziegler David Pote and Linda Tapsak Dan and Cyndy Seeman Jane Tilka and Bill Dolan Mark and Penny Ziessman Leila Poullada Sharon and Stephen Segal Elizabeth J Tisel Abby Zimmer and Sean O’Brien Thomas Powell Jack and Susan Sell Lori Tolonen and Nell Bean Melissa Zoerb Cynthia Pratt Carole Senty and Richard Miller Christine Tschida Maggie Zoncki Nicole and Charlie Prescott Carol Sersland The Turcotte Family David and Francine Zook Howard Puczko Michael and Shelli Shann Jeff Turner Steven Quick Gale Sharpe Tom Twiss James Ramlet Barbara Shaterian Carol Urness Laura E. Rathe Alice Shea Sara Ursin In-Kind Supporters Doris Rausch Sarah and Dan Sheehan John and Libby Utter Dan Avchen and David Johnson Ben Redshaw Maximillian T. Shemesh and Katharina Jean VanHeel Jean and Jim Becker Jeff Reed Dawn Kohlman-Shemesh Jennifer Van Nevel Jay Harkness and Jean Storlie Susan Reger Kevin Winge and Kevin Shores Wendell Vandersluis and Cynthia Marsh Jean and Jim Hartman Catharine C. Reid Catherine Shreves and Tom Bird Dick VanWagner Jean and Jim Hartman Stan Rein Tonia Shupien Esther Vargas Larkin Hoffman Julianne Renner Laura Silver Tammi Veale Mary Meighan and David Ingbar Steve Restemayer Anne Simpson Paula Vesely Jim and Kristin Matejcek Ethan Reynolds Mike and Sherry Sivo Brenda Vogel Cornerstone Copy Whitney Rhodes Emily Slaby Matthew and Paul Vork Jaime Roman and Jim Bernier John Riehle Nancy Slaughter Michael Wagner Peter Rothstein and Omar Guevara-Soto Julie Robbins Bruce Smith and Marie Prottengeier- Karen Waldron Lorri Steffen and Paul Zenner Michael Robins Smith Nina Warmboe Shannon Robinson Charles Smith G Warren Wes Rodgers Kayley Smothers Marlys Weber Through both our mission and the Jake and Donna Romanow Ron and Kathy Sofie Tammie Weinfurtner realization of that mission, Theater Steve and Kris Rose David Soli Carol and Sandy Weisberg Latté Da stands out as a bold innovator, Steven Rosenberg Wendy Sommer Rebecca and Christopher Wenthold investing in the art of musical theater, Richard Rosow and Vicki Underland- Ashley and Jon Sondergaard Gary and Andrew Whitford Holey moving it forward, and shepherding it to Rosow Bob Shepherd and Larry Sonsthagen Lowell Prescott and Victoria Wilgocki new frontiers for Minnesota audiences David Rotert Kathleen Spehar Jim and Martha Williams and beyond. However, we truly cannot John and Rose Rothstein Leah Spinosa de Vega and Manuel and Mike Wilson Barry Rubin in honor of the marriage of Alejandro Vega Sally Wingert and Tim Danz do it without you. Please consider Jamie Roman and Jim Bernier Teri Springer Ray and Jean Witter a gift to Theater Latté Da. Visit Joan Ruetten Franklin Star Bob and Debby Wolk latteda.org/give. Bonnie Russ Arturo Steely Karyn Wrenshall Cal and Claudia Ryan-Mosley Carla Steen and Jeff Friedl Dylan and Ashley Wright Peter and Mary Sandberg James Stolz Mary Wrobel Gregg M. Sawyer Patricia Strong Ann Wynia

A very special thanks to the generous supporters of NEXT 20/20, Theater Latté Da’s campaign dedicated to the development and creation of new musicals or plays with music. By the year 2020, the company will develop 20 new musicals shepherding many of them to full production.

Anonymous Luis Pagan-Carlo and Patti Johnson and Kai Bjerkness Jim and Sandi Jensen The Ruth Easton Fund of the Joe Sammartino Jim and Kristin Matejcek Cyndi and Greg Klaus Edelstein Family Foundation Gary Reetz Kim and David Motes Thomas Senn and Woody Kent Allin and Tom Knabel Shelli Chase and John Feldman Peter Rothstein and Omar Guevara Manion Timothy Dordell and Kirk Jean and Jim Hartman Kendall Nygaard Libby and John Utter Ballard Jean and Jim Becker Jane Zilch Bill Venne and Douglas Kline Ogden Confer Scott Cabalka Jay Harkness and Jean Storlie Dylan and Ashley Wright Nancy Jones Matt Fulton Carolee Lindsey and Darolyn Gray David Young and Douglas and Suzanne Tacheny Seena Hodges and Ansa Akyea Shannon Pierce and Rachel Kroog Edward Williams, Jr. Kubach Lisa and Dan Hoene Jaime Roman and Jim Bernier

THEATER LATTÉ DA • LATTEDA.ORG 17 PHOTO: KENDALL ANNE THOMPSON, BRADLEY GREENWALD, AND DAVID DARROW IN THEATER LATTÉ DA’S C. PHOTO BY DAN NORMAN.

Founded in 1998 by Peter Rothstein and Denise Our Mission

Prosek, Theater Latté Da is in its 18th year of Theater Latté Da seeks to create new connections combining music and story to illuminate the between story, music, artist, and audience by exploring and expanding the art of musical theater. breadth of the human experience.

Peter and Denise began their successful collaboration in 1994 by privately Our Values producing five original cabarets to showcase Twin Cities talent. They discovered that by placing equal emphasis on music and storytelling, We believe in work that is bold and collaborative; they could weave tapestries of engaging, challenging and often surprising we act with integrity and gratitude. narratives that resonated with people on many levels. Theater Latté Da officially incorporated as a non-profit organization in 1998 and to this BOLD We make bold choices in support of our mission and day remains committed to a rigorous experimentation with music and vision, both on and off stage. By illuminating the unseen, giving voice to the unheard, and empathizing with the story that expands the art form and speaks to a contemporary audience unknown, we open eyes, ears and hearts. challenging us to think deeply about the world in which we live. COLLABORATIVE We believe musical theater to be the most In 1998, Theater Latté Da began performing at the intimate 120- collaborative of art forms, incorporating music, drama, seat Loring Playhouse. By 2007, Theater Latté Da Productions were poetry, dance and design. We are inspired and strengthened playing to sold-out houses. At this time, we began searching for through inclusive partnerships with artists, organizations and spaces with different performance configurations to meet the unique our diverse community, and embody a collaborative spirit in needs of our productions. Since 2007, Theater Latté Da has produced all we do. shows at the Guthrie Theater, Ordway, Pantages Theatre, Southern INTEGRITY We hold ourselves to the highest standards of artistic Theater, History Theatre, Fitzgerald Theater, the Rarig Center Stoll and fiscal integrity. We are committed to honesty, equality and Thrust Theatre, The Lab Theater, MacPhail Center for Music, and the transparency in all aspects of our administration and art. Ritz Theater. Theater Latté Da is now the proud owner of the Ritz Theater. The company is emerging as a leader in the musical theater art GRATITUDE We are grateful for our artists, audiences, form, having produced 62 mainstage productions including 10 world donors, board and staff. We recognize that each individual premieres, 9 area premieres, and dozens of productions celebrated for plays an important role in this organization’s success, and their bold re-imagination. we actively seek out opportunities to acknowledge each person’s contribution.

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Board of Directors Staff Officers: Peter Rothstein Emilee Elofson Jaime M. Roman, President Artistic Director Marketing and Public Relations Associate Nancy Jones, Vice President Jay Harkness, Secretary Denise Prosek Micayla Thebault-Spieker Carolee Lindsey, Treasurer Resident Music Director House Technician

Directors: Seena Hodges Michael Hanisch Kent Allin Senior Director–Marketing and Development Videographer Jean M. Becker Scott Cabalka Jean Hartman ULTRA Creative Ogden Confer Senior Director–Finance and Operations Graphic Design Matt Fulton Lisa Hoene Allen Weeks Elissa Adams, Michael Matthew Ferrell, Jim Jensen Production Manager Tod Peterson Patti Johnson Artistic Associates Cynthia Klaus Natalie Wilson Jim Matejcek Manager of Artistic Programming Kendall Nygard Luis Pagan-Carlo Tiffany K. Orr Shannon Pierce Production Stage Manager Gary Reetz Christopher Rence Peter Rothstein (ex-officio) Thomas Senn Libby Utter Bill Venne David Young Jane Zilch

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THEATER LATTÉ DA • LATTEDA.ORG 19 Written by Tod Petersen and Peter Rothstein Directed by Peter Rothstein Music Direction by Denise Prosek

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