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Sponsored by Prudential Investment Management

Saturday Evening, February 1, 2014, at 8:30

Heartbreak Country: Michael John LaChiusa’s Stories of America

with Kate Baldwin, Sherry D. Boone, , Bryce Ryness, Andrew Samonsky, Emily Skinner, and

Mary-Mitchell Campbell , Musical Director and Piano David Gardos , Piano Steven Lyon , Reeds Laura Bontrager , Cello Marc Schmied , Bass Damien Bassman , Drums

Jack Cummings III , Conception and Director

This evening’s program is approximately 75 minutes long and will be performed without intermission.

Major support for ’s American Songbook is provided by Fisher Brothers, In Memory of Richard L. Fisher; and Amy & Joseph Perella. Wine generously donated by William Hill Estate Winery, Official Wine of Lincoln Center. This performance is made possible in part by the Josie Robertson Fund for Lincoln Center.

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Additional support for Lincoln Center’s American Upcoming American Songbook Events Songbook is provided by The Brown Foundation, Inc., in The Allen Room : of Houston, The DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund, The Shubert Foundation, Jill and Wednesday Evening, February 12, at 8:30 Irwin Cohen, The G & A Foundation, Inc., Great & The Milk Carton Kids Performers Circle, Chairman’s Council, and Friends (limited availability) of Lincoln Center. Thursday Evening, February 13, at 8:30 Endowment support is provided by Bank of America. The Songs of Henry Krieger with Erin Davie, Charity Dawson, , Public support is provided by the State , Matthew Hydzik, Rebecca Luker, Council on the Arts. Emily Padgett, Alice Ripley, , & Artist catering is provided by Zabar’s and Zabars.com. Friday Evening, February 14, at 8:30 Beth Orton MetLife is the National Sponsor of Lincoln Center. Saturday Evening, February 15, at 7:30 and 9:30 Movado is an Official Sponsor of Lincoln Center. Jonathan Groff

United Airlines is the Official Airline of Lincoln Wednesday Evening, February 19, at 8:30 Center. Marty Stuart & Connie Smith

WABC-TV is the Official Broadcast Partner of Thursday Evening, February 20, at 7:30 and 9:30 Lincoln Center. Portraits of Joni: Jessica Molaskey Sings Joni Mitchell William Hill Estate Winery is the Official Wine of Lincoln Center. Friday Evening, February 21, at 8:30 Aoife O’Donovan

Saturday Evening, February 22, at 8:30 Ann Harada

Wednesday Evening, March 5, at 8:30 Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music: The 1920s

Thursday Evening, March 6, at 8:30 Deer Tick (limited availability)

The Allen Room is located in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall.

For tickets, call (212) 721-6500 or visit AmericanSongbook.org. Call the Lincoln Center Info Request Line at (212) 875-5766 or visit AmericanSongbook.org for complete program information.

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Meet the Artists Festival, Signature Theatre in Virginia, and Audra McDonald for her Seven Deadly Sins project, which premiered at Zankel Hall in 2004. He accompanied an array of female stars singing songs from the LaChiusa cata - logue in The Girlie Show , which was part of Michael John American Songbook in 2004. His other LaChiusa musicals include (with a book by Michael John LaChiusa—composer, lyri - ), , Los cist, and librettist—established himself as a Otros (with Ellen Fitzhugh), See What I powerful presence on the American musi - Wanna See , , and . cal theater scene after winning 1993 Obie Awards for his musicals Suite Among multiple cast recordings, The Wild and Hello, Again . Mr. LaChiusa was repre - Party (Decca Broadway) received a Grammy sented on Broadway during the 1999–2000 nomination for Best Musical Show Album in season by two more musicals, The Wild 2001. Mr. LaChiusa won a 2008 Daytime Party and , which together Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement received 12 Tony Award nominations, gar - in Music Direction and Composition for an nering Mr. LaChiusa nominations for Best episode of Nick Jr.’s Wonder Pets. Queen of Score and Best Book (along with George C. the Mist won the Outer Critics Circle Award Wolfe on The Wild Part y) for each produc - for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical tion. He received his first Tony Award nomi - in 2012, and Giant was nominated for nation for Best Book (co-written with Graciela Drama Desk Awards in 2013, as well as the Daniele and Jim Lewis) for Chronicle of a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical. Death Foretold in 1996. Upcoming commissions include an Mr. LaChiusa received the first Stephen Edgerton Commission from the Oregon Sondheim Award (1989), the Gilman and Shakespeare Festival and a musical based Gonzalez-Falla Award on The Minstrels , which he is developing (1995), and the Kleban Prize for Musical with Ellen Fitzhugh and . Theatre (1999). He was the 1998–99 Brena and Lee Freeman Sr. composer-in- residence at the Lyric of and an artist-in-residence at New York Shakespeare Festival’s Public Theater from 1997–98. In 2005 he received Emerson College’s Leonidas A. Nickole Award of Distinction for Artistic Growth and Achieve - Kate Baldwin ment in Musical Theatre as well as the Kate Baldwin recently completed a run on Flora Roberts Award, given annually by the Broadway as Sandra Bloom in Big Fish . Her Dramatists Guild. other Broadway credits include Finian’s Rainbow (Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Mr. LaChiusa has been commissioned to Critics Circle award nominations), The Full write musicals and by Houston Grand Monty , Thoroughly Modern Millie , and Opera, Musical Theatre Works, Lincoln . In New York she also per - Center Theater, New York Shakespeare formed in ’s Giant 02-01 La Chiusa_GP 1/24/14 11:23 AM Page 4

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(Drama Desk nomination) and City Center’s mixed-race woman’s harrowing escape Fiorello! . Her regional credits include The from slavery disguised as a white man. Women (Old Globe), Henry V (Shakespeare Learn more at sherryboone.com. Theatre of New Jersey), and (Williamstown). On television she has appeared in Law & Order: SVU and ’s for PBS. Her film credits include Brothers Beat the Best . She has released the solo record - ings Let’s See What Happens and She Marc Kudisch Loves Him on PS Classics. Ms. Baldwin is On Broadway, Marc Kudisch has appeared a graduate of . in (Tony and Drama Desk nominations), , Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Tony nomination), (Drama Desk nomination), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Tony and Drama Desk nominations), Bells Are Ringing , The Wild Party , , The Scarlet Pimpernel , Beauty and the Sherry D. Boone Beast , and Joseph and the Amazing Sherry D. Boone’s Broadway credits Technicolor Dreamcoat . His Off-Broadway include , Jelly’s Last Jam , and the credits include The Blue Flower , See What title role in Marie Christine . Off-Broadway I Wanna See (Drama Desk nomination), The she appeared in (Transport Minister’s Wife , The Thing About Men , The Group), and her London credits include Glorious Ones , and City Center Encores! pro - at Royal Festival Hall. She has par - ductions of Girl Crazy and No Strings . On the ticipated in national tours of The Phantom New York operatic stage, he has appeared in of the Opera , Les Misérables , and and The Pirates of Pen - . Her regional theater credits zance . His regional theater credits include include and Eliza in My Fair The Highest Yellow , The Golden Age , , Lady . She appeared in the opera The The Sycamore Trees , and Summer and Scrimshaw Violin at the and Smoke . On television and film, Mr. Kudisch Green Eggs and Hamadeus at the Mostly has appeared in Break-In , Sex and the City , Mozart Festival. Ms. Boone debuted with All My Children , Loving , Late Show with the National Symphony Orchestra at the David Letterman , and . Kennedy Center in Rob Kapilow’s And Furthermore, They Bite! and Two by Seuss . She has been a guest soloist with the Orchestra, Nashville Symphony, and the Toronto and Hartford Symphony Orchestras. She is founder and artistic director of Opera at , a cut - ting-edge opera dedicated to Bryce Ryness increasing opera audiences around the Bryce Ryness’s Broadway credits include globe. With Opera at Home, she collabo - Woof in the Tony Award–winning revival of rated with composer Sean Jeremy Palmer (Drama Desk nomination), Leap of to produce and direct Ellen Craft: A New Faith , and Legally Blonde . Off-Broadway he American Opera , based on true events of a appeared in Around the World in 80 Days , 02-01 La Chiusa_GP 1/24/14 11:23 AM Page 5

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Hair , and See Rock City and Other Show . Her other Broadway credits include Destinations (). Regional Jekyll & Hyde , James Joyce’s The Dead , theater credits include Sleeping Beauty , Dinner at Eight , and Billy Wakes , Floyd Collins , Leap of Faith , and Elliot . Other New York credits include the . He performed in the national tour City Center Encores! productions of Pardon of Rent . His band, Ryness, has released My English and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn , two albums, which are available on iTunes. as well as Fanny Hill at the York. Her record - He served as the voice of Thug in the film ings include Duets and Unsuspecting Tangled . On television, Mr. Ryness has Hearts , both with Alice Ripley, and a self- appeared on Law & Order: SVU , Just for titled solo album. Ms. Skinner is a graduate Kicks , Late Show with David Letterman , of Carnegie Mellon University. and The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien .

Andrew Mary Testa Samonsky Mary Testa most recently appeared in the Andrew Samonsky played Lt. Joseph opera Nicole , which opened the 2013 Cable in Lincoln Center’s Tony Award– Next Wave Festival at BAM. She is winner winning production of , in of two 2012 Drama Desk Awards, one in which he was also seen on the Live From recognition of three decades of outstand - Lincoln Center broadcast on PBS. He ing work and one for Queen of the Mist . received a Drama Desk nomination for the On Broadway she has appeared in Guys role of Frank Russell in Michael John and Dolls , Xanadu (Drama Desk nomina - LaChiusa’s Queen of the Mist (Transport tion), Chicago , (Tony nomina - Group). He originated roles in tion), Marie Christine (cast album), On the and ’s Little Miss Sunshine as Town (Tony nomination), A Funny Thing Joshua Rose at , and in Happened on the Way to the Forum (cast the Scissor Sisters’ Tales of the City as album), , Marilyn , and . Beauchamp Day at ACT. He was seen on She also appeared in the City Center Broadway in Scandalous as well as in City Encores! production of The Ziegfeld Center’s Merrily We Roll Along . Mr. of 1936 (cast album). Her Off-Broadway Samonsky appears on the cast recordings credits include Queen of the Mist (Trans - of Queen of the Mist , Merrily We Roll port Group; Drama League and Lucille Along , and Disney’s On the Record . Lortel Award nominations), Love, Loss, and What I Wore , Regrets Only , (Drama Desk and Drama League nominations; cast album), First Lady Suite (Transport Group; Drama Desk nomi - nation), String of Pearls (Drama Desk nomi - nation), , From Emily Skinner Above (), Lucky Stiff , A New Emily Skinner is best known for her Tony- Brain (cast album), Tartuffe , nominated performance as Daisy Hilton in (Obie Award), Scapin (Classic Stage Com - the original Broadway production of Side pany), and In Trousers (cast album). Her 02-01 La Chiusa_GP 1/24/14 11:23 AM Page 6

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film credits include Franny , Eat Pray Love , from Australia. His Broadway credits include The Bounty Hunter , Stay , Tony ’n’ Tina’s Big Fish (keyboard) and Chaplin (associate Wedding , The Business of Strangers , The conductor/keyboard). He served as associ - Out-of-Towners , and Sleepers . On television, ate conductor for the first national tour of In Ms. Testa has appeared on Two Broke Girls , the Heights . Mr. Gardos holds a master’s Over Under , White Collar , Nurse Jackie , degree in orchestral conducting from the Whoopi , Sex and the City , and Law & Order . Univer sity of College-Conserva - tory of Music and a bachelor’s degree in Mary-Mitchell Campbell music education from the Sydney Con- Mary-Mitchell Campbell (musical director servatorium of Music. Selected New York and piano) was recently seen conducting and regional credits include Gloryana , and playing for Carole King, Alicia Keys, and Naughty/Nice , The Great Pretender , Altar Katy Perry at the Dolby Theatre in Los Boys (Westchester), Giving Up Later Angeles alongside Quincy Jones. Her New (Cincinnati), and Tell Me on a Sunday York credits include Company (Drama Desk (Kookaburra Theatre Co., Sydney). Award for Outstanding Orchestrations), The Addams Family , , (Drama Steven Lyon Desk nomination for Outstanding Orchestra - Steven Lyon (reeds) is a New York tions) , In Transit , Sweeney Todd , Road City–based multiple woodwind artist. He Show , (Second Stage regularly performs in various musical set - Theatre), First Lady Suite , and Sweet Charity tings in a variety of musical styles. Mr. Lyon (Lincoln Center Theater ). Ms. Campbell’s has been a member of the Broadway regional credits include Little House on the orchestras of , The Prairie (Guthrie Theater) and 3hree (Prince Addams Family , People in the Picture , and, Music Theater ). Internationally, she has most recently, Second Stage Theatre’s worked on Grace, the Musical (with Cy Little Miss Sunshine , as well as a sub on Coleman in Amsterdam) and Green Violin many other shows. He has recorded with (St. Petersburg). She recorded As I Am with singers including Plácido Domingo, . Rebecca Luker, and Kelli O’Hara, and he has performed with singers including In addition to her musical career, Ms. Kristin Chenoweth, the Irish Tenors, and Campbell is passionate about arts educa - Anne Hathaway. Mr. Lyon attended Temple tion and poverty reduction and is the University and New Jersey City University founder of Artists Striving to End Poverty for undergraduate and graduate studies. (ASTEP); learn more at asteponline.org. She has been featured on the television Laura Bontrager show Giving and was named NY1’s New Laura Bontrager (cello) came to New York Yorker of the Week for her philanthropic City in 1986 to attend The Juilliard School, work. She has served on the faculties of where she received her bachelor’s and NYU, College , and The Juilliard master’s degrees. Ms. Bontrager has School . Ms. Camp bell holds degrees from appeared with many orchestras and cham - Furman University and North Carolina ber music ensembles, in jazz and popular School of the Arts. settings, on Broadway, and frequently in solo recital. Her commitment to contempo - David Gardos rary music has been an essential part of her David Gardos (piano) is a musical director, musical life. Most recently, she recorded conductor, and pianist/keyboard player David Wolfson’s Sonata for Cello and Piano 02-01 La Chiusa_GP 1/24/14 11:23 AM Page 7

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on the Albany Records album Seventeen Songbook 2013 Live From Lincoln Center Win dows . Ms. Bontrager is a longtime PBS broadcast, and his other television member of the cello quartet CELLO and credits include the Late Show with David the Auro suono Trio. She is a certified Letterman , The View , Oprah , Good Morning Suzuki teacher and is a faculty member at America , and the BBC’s Live from the the Diller-Quaile School of Music and the Proms . Mr. Bassman is the percussion Chapin School in . instructor and orchestra coach for the Baltic Youth Philharmonic and the I, Culture Marc Schmied Orchestra of Poland, and he is on the faculty Brooklynite Marc Schmied (bass) has been of Marymount Manhattan College. He has part of the New York music scene for the drummed for Elton John, Barry Manilow, last 20 years. After bass studies at Juilliard Ben Folds, John Cameron Mitchell, and he began performing in the classical, jazz, Rufus Wainwright, and is the drummer for and theater worlds. Classical credits include New York–based artists including Brian the Albany Symphony, Hudson Valley d’Arcy James, Judy Kuhn, Jarrod Spector, Philharmonic, and the Manhattan Chamber Rachel Potter, Ariana DeBose, Farah Alvin, Orchestra. Broadway credits include Kelli O’Hara, and the Tom Kitt Band. He Matilda , How to Succeed in Business proudly endorses Toca Percussion. Without Really Trying , La Cage aux Folles , , On a Clear Day You Can See Forever , Jack Cummings III Cabaret , 1776 , Little Me , Oklahoma! , and Jack Cummings III (conception and direc - . Lincoln Center Theater tor) is co-founder and artistic director of credits include Marie Christine , South Off-Broadway’s award-winning Transport Pacific , The Light in the Piazza , , Group Theatre Company. He most recently The House of Bernarda Alba , and The directed the world premiere of Terrence Glorious Ones . He is often asked if he McNally’s And Away We Go for the Pearl wishes he played the flute. Theatre Company. He is a five-time nominee for Outstanding Damien Bassman Director ( The Audience , The Boys in the Damien Bassman (drums) wrote and played Band , See Rock City and Other Des - the drum/percussion books for the Tony and tinations , Hello Again , and Queen of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Next to Normal , The Mist ). Other favorite Transport Group cred - Color Purple , The Addams Family , High its include the first New York revivals of Fidelity , and Mario Cantone’s Laugh Whore , Michael John LaChiusa’s First Lady Suite and he wrote the drum book for the recent (starring Mary Testa and ), revival of Michael John LaChiusa’s Hello ’s Pulitzer Prize–winning All the Again. As principal percussionist of Absolute Way Home , ’s The Dark at the Ensemble he has toured and recorded with Top of the Stairs (starring Michele Pawk), fusion legend Joe Zawinul and artists such the world premieres of Normal (starring as Paquito D’Rivera, Mike Keneally, Marcel ) and Marcy in the Galaxy , Khalife, Carel Kraayenhof, and Gregor and a deconstruction of the 1928 play The Bregovich. Mr. Bassman has performed in Patsy (starring ). over 20 countries and has been a featured soloist with the NDR Radio Philharmonic, Other New York credits include the world Tonkünstler Orchestra, and the MDR and premieres of A Thousand Words Come to Adelaide Symphony Orchestras. He Mind by Michele Lowe and Scott Richards appeared in Kristin Chenoweth’s American and Polly Pen’s Arlington , both for Inner 02-01 La Chiusa_GP 1/24/14 11:23 AM Page 8

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Voices/Premieres. Regional credits include form’s early roots in Tin Pan Alley and A Streetcar Named Desire for Penn- Broadway to the eclecticism of today’s sylvania’s Gretna Theatre, Tony Kushner’s singer-songwriters. American Songbook adaptation of The Illusion for Nevada also showcases the outstanding inter preters Theatre Company, and Violet and The of popular song, including established and Young Man from for Virginia emerging concert, cabaret, theater, and Repertory Theatre. For PBS, he directed a songwriter performers. musical version of A Tale of Two Cities (filmed in Brighton, England) starring Lincoln Center for the Michael York. Mr. Cummings is currently Performing Arts, Inc. developing the new musical The Blonde Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Streak by Dan Lipton and David Rossmer (LCPA) serves three primary roles: presenter for Grove Entertainment. Upcoming pro - of artistic programming, national leader in jects include the Transport Group produc - arts and education and community relations, tions of ’s Almost, Maine and and manager of the Lincoln Center campus. John Van Druten’s I Remember Mama , as A presenter of more than 3,000 free and well as the 2013 Drama Desk Awards. Mr. ticketed events, performances, tours, and Cummings received his master of fine arts educational activities annually, LCPA offers degree from the University of Virginia and 15 programs, series, and festivals including his bachelor’s degree from the College of American Songbook, Great Performers, William and Mary. He is married to actress Lincoln Center Festival, Lincoln Center Out Barbara Walsh. of Doors, Midsummer Night Swing, the Mostly Mozart Festival, and the White Light American Songbook Festival, as well as the Emmy Award–win - In 1998, Lincoln Center launched American ning Live From Lincoln Center , which airs Songbook, dedicated to the celebration of nationally on PBS. As manager of the popular American song. Designed to high - Lincoln Center campus, LCPA provides sup - light and affirm the creative mastery of port and services for the Lincoln Center America’s songwriters from their emer - complex and the 11 resident organizations. gence at the turn of the 19th century up In addition, LCPA led a $1.2 billion campus through the present, American Songbook renovation, completed in October 2012. in spans all styles and genres, from the October 2012. 02-01 La Chiusa_GP 1/24/14 11:23 AM Page 9

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Lincoln Center Programming Department Jane Moss, Ehrenkranz Artistic Director Hanako Yamaguchi, Director, Music Programming Jon Nakagawa, Director, Contemporary Programming Lisa Takemoto, Production Manager Bill Bragin, Director, Public Programming Charles Cermele, Producer, Contemporary Programming Kate Monaghan, Associate Director, Programming Jill Sternheimer, Producer, Public Programming Mauricio Lomelin, Associate Producer, Contemporary Programming Nicole Cotton, Production Coordinator Regina Grande, Assistant to the Artistic Director Julia Lin, Programming Associate Ann Crews Melton, Programming Publications Editor Kristin Renee Young, House Seat Coordinator

For American Songbook Matt Berman, Lighting Design Scott Stauffer, Sound Design Jessica Barrios, Wardrobe Assistant

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