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PROGRAM: AUDRA MCDONALD

FRIDAY, JANUARY $&, )($- ! &:'( PM ! BING CONCERT HALL

ARTISTS Audra McDonald, soprano Andy Einhorn, music direction and piano Mark Vanderpoel, bass Gene Lewin, drums

PROGRAM Tonight’s concert will be performed without intermission. The program will be announced from the stage.

AUDRA MCDONALD

We gratefully acknowledge the generous support of the Koret Foundation.

PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE. Please be considerate of others and turn o* all phones, pagers, and watch alarms, and unwrap all lozenges prior to the performance. Photography and recording of any kind are not permitted. Thank you.

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AUDRA MCDONALD 2013, she embarked on a 22-city North nominations for her performances in Audra McDonald is unparalleled in the American concert tour with appearances and . breadth and versatility of her artistry in San Francisco, , , as both a singer and an actress. With Toronto, and Houston, among others. a record-tying five , two ANDY EINHORN Grammy Awards, and a long list of other A familiar face on PBS, she is the In demand as music director, conductor, accolades to her name, she is among series host of Live from Lincoln pianist, orchestrator, arranger, and vocal today’s most highly regarded performers. Center, which televised her recent solo coach, Andy Einhorn boasts Broadway concert for ’s Spring credits for Brief Encounter, The Light Born into a musical family, McDonald Gala. She was also featured in the in the Piazza, the recent revival of grew up in Fresno, , and PBS television special A Broadway Evita, and , received her classical vocal training at the Celebration: In Performance at the which won a Grammy nod for Best . A year after graduating, White House, singing at the request of Original Broadway . she won her first Tony Award for Best President Obama and the First Lady. He is also recognized for his frequent Performance by a Featured Actress in a McDonald has appeared three times collaborations with many of the musical Musical for at Lincoln Center at the Gala, theater world’s biggest stars, including F. Theater, directed by . been profiled by and the Murray Abraham, , She also received Tony Awards for her Today Show, been a guest on Charlie , Ana Gasteyer, and performances in Terrence McNally’s Rose, The Show, The Audra McDonald. He currently serves (1996) and Ahrens and Rosie O’Donnell Show, Tavis Smiley, as music director of the new Broadway Flaherty’s (1998). In 2004 The Wendy Williams Show, and The production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s she won her fourth Tony for A Raisin Colbert Report, and guest cohosted Cinderella, directed by Mark Brokaw. in the Sun, and in 2012 she won her on with Barbara Walters. fifth—and her first in the leading actress After receiving an Emmy nomination As resident music director on the category—for The Gershwins’ Porgy for her performance in the HBO film national tour, Einhorn and Bess, placing her in the illustrious version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning received a Los Angeles Drama company of Broadway legends Julie play Wit, directed by , Critics Circle Award nomination Harris and , the only McDonald reprised her Tony-winning for Outstanding Music Direction. people in Tony history to win five role in in a made- He worked on the first national performance awards. McDonald’s other for-television movie adaption, earning a tour of The Light in the Piazza, and theater credits include The Secret Garden second Emmy Award nomination. From other tour credits include South (1993), Marie Christine (1999), Henry 2007 to 2011, she played Dr. Naomi Pacific, White Christmas, Mamma IV (2004), 110 in the Shade (2007), Bennett on the hit ABC medical drama Mia!, and The Lion King. and her Public Theater “Shakespeare Private Practice. On December 5, 2013, in the Park” debut in Audra McDonald was the Mother Off-Broadway, Einhorn worked alongside Anne Hathaway (2009). Abbess in a live television broadcast on Adam Gwon’s Ordinary Days, of ’s The while international work includes On the concert stage, Audra McDonald Sound of Music on NBC, opposite European premiere of The Light has premiered music by Pulitzer Fräulein Maria of Underwood. in the Piazza. He was music director Prize-winning composer of The 25th Annual Putnam County and sung with virtually every major McDonald’s other accolades include Spelling Bee for the American orchestra—including the four Drama Desk Awards, three Theatre Company and the world- Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Outer Critics Circle Awards, four premiere production of Radio Girl by Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles NAACP Image Award nominations, the Tony-nominated Henry Krieger, at Philharmonic, National Symphony, an Ovation Award, a Theatre World the Goodspeed House. Also at Philharmonic, Philadelphia Award, and the Drama League’s 2000 Goodspeed, Einhorn worked on Flight Orchestra, and San Francisco Distinguished Achievement in Musical of the Lawnchair Man, Amour, and The Symphony—and under such conductors Theater and 2012 Distinguished Boyfriend, directed by the legendary as Sir , Esa-Pekka Salonen, Performance Awards. In addition to . He was music director and Leonard Slatkin. In the fall of her five Tony Awards, she received and orchestrator of Ordinary Days at

+( STANFORD LIVE MAGAZINE JANUARY-FEBRUARY ")!* the Adirondack Theatre Festival, also Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella, through many different musical scenes recently orchestrating Gwon’s The Boy Jane Eyre, Amour, See What I Wanna (and styles), it is now focused Detective Fails at the Signature Theatre See, Legally Blonde, and Guys and on creating hybrid musical theater, and under director Dolls, as well as many others. In performances that feel like both concert Rebecca Taichman for the Oregon addition, he has been performing and story. The band’s credits in this area Shakespeare Festival. He was principal on the rock-and-roll circuit with include a production of Shakespeare’s vocal coach and pianist for the world- David Johansen and Clay Aiken. A Midsummer Night’s Dream (directed premiere production of An Evening with In the summer of 2010, he had the by Tina Landau), Striking 12, and the Audra McDonald at Houston Grand privilege of performing for President autobiographical show Wheelhouse, Opera, which featured the singer in a Obama and assembled dignitaries in A which had its world premiere in 2012 double bill of Poulenc’s monodrama La Broadway Celebration: In Performance at TheatreWorks in Mountain View, voix humaine and the world premiere at the White House, which was California. Lewin is also active in New of Send, a companion piece written by later televised nationally on PBS. York City’s scene, performing and composer Michael John LaChiusa. recording with many well-respected singers and instrumentalists. He has Equally at in the concert hall, GENE LEWIN appeared on CDs with bassists John Andy Einhorn has served as music Gene Lewin drums, sings, and composes Patitucci and Scott Colley, guitarists director and pianist for the Grammy for GrooveLily, a trio that has been Ben Monder and Steve Cardenas, and Tony Award-winning McDonald, together for 16 years and has toured jazz legend tenor saxophonist performing with her at the Philadelphia extensively in the and George Coleman, bassist/vocalist Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Canada. While the trio has morphed Jay Leonhart, and many others. and Sundance Institute. In the fall of 2011 he joined the celebrated singer and actress on a coast-to-coast tour of %LIZABETH

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