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3 presents AL JARREAU

Friday, January 21, 2011, 8:00 PM

There will be one 20-minute intermission. The taking of photographs or use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.

BIOGRAPHy Discovered in 1975 following a stint at the Bla Bla the distinction in the three categories of Jazz, Pop, and R&B. Cafe in Los Angeles, AL JARREAU garnered widespread Jarreau’s multi-octave range and diverse sound encom- acclaim and the international limelight with a repertoire passing Gospel, Jazz, Pop, and African and Latin American described by The New York Times as a “Pop-Funk style with idioms have earned him prestige and critical accolades. He Brazilian and Afro-Cuban inflections.” Jarreau’s debut is “the voice of versatility,” cheered the Chicago Tribune. The album We Got By earned him a German Grammy for “Best Detroit News called the revered singer-songwriter “one of the New International Soloist.” The crooner soon embarked on world’s greatest natural resources.” a six-Grammy-winning streak, which included “Best Male Jarreau’s versatility extends beyond the recording stu- Pop Vocal” for Breakin’ Away and “Best Jazz Vocal” for Look dio and stage. He performed to wide acclaim as Teen Angel to the Rainbow, All Fly Home, and Blue Rondo a la Turk. Jar- in the hit Broadway musical . He also has appreared reau scored two more R&B Grammys for Heaven and Earth on New York Undercover and Touched by an Angel. In 2001, and God Bless the Child, a popular collaboration with George Jarreau received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame to Benson. With the R&B Grammys, Jarreau became part of commemorate his achievements and far-reaching influence an exclusive and elite group of entertainers who have won in the entertainment industry. n

4 presents AN EVENING WITH ROBERTA FLACK

Saturday, January 22, 2011, 8:00 PM

This performance will not include an intermission. The taking of photographs or use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.

BIOGRAPHy Named one of VH1’s “100 Greatest Women of Rock Relatively unknown at that point, Flack was propelled & Roll,” songbird ROBERTA FLACK blazed a trail of into the international spotlight when screen legend Clint chart-topping tunes, including Feel Like Makin’ Love, The Eastwood chose The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face as Closer I Get to You, Tonight I Celebrate My Love, and Set music for his directorial debut, the acclaimed crime drama the Night to Music. The icon’s timeless hits include the Play Misty for Me. The record scored a Grammy for “Record Grammy-winning songs The First Time Ever I Saw Your of the Year” in 1972. Face, Where Is the Love, and Killing Me Softly With His Song. Flack’s versatility has been the key to her endurance “There isn’t another Pop-Soul singer around with [her] ver- in the music industry. She has performed with the National satility and refinement,” proclaims The New York Times. Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C., and critically In her early teens, Flack’s exceptional mastery at Clas- acclaimed orchestras in Australia, including the Melbourne, sical piano attracted the attention of Howard University, Queensland, Adelaide, Tasmanian, West Australian, and which awarded her a full music scholarship. She entered Sydney symphonies. She founded the Roberta Flack School Howard at age 15, making her one of the youngest students of Music at the Hyde Leadership Charter School in the ever to enroll there. As a student teacher, Flack was dis- Bronx, which provides innovative and free music education covered while singing and playing the piano at a Washing- to underprivileged students. ton Jazz club, paving the way to a recording contract with In 1999, Flack received a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Atlantic Records. Fame. n

5 presents BALLETX Artistic Directors MATTHEW NEENAN and CHRISTINE COX

Dancers COLBY DAMON, LAURA FEIG, JUSTIN FLORES, JENNIFER GOODMAN, TARA KEATING, ANITRA N. KEEGAN, LUKE MANLEY, and JOEL PROUTY

Choreographers MATTHEW NEENAN ANNABELLE LOPEZ OCHOA TOBIN DEL CUORE

Lighting Design DREW BILLIAU

Costume Design MARTHA CHAMBERLAIN

President, Curran Events, Inc. GABRIELLE GOSSNER

Sunday, January 23, 2011, 3:00 PM

There will be two 15-minute intermissions. The taking of photographs or use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.

6 PROGRAM Subject to change

STILL@LIFE (Premiered July 23, 2008 at The Wilma Theater, Philadelphia, PA)

Choreography: Annabelle Lopez Ochoa Staging: Tara Keating Music: Johann Sebastian Bach, Count Unico Wilhelm Van Wassenaer Lighting Design: Drew Billiau Costume Design: Martha Chamberlain Performers: I. Colby Damon, Joel Prouty, Laura Feig, Justin Flores, Jennifer Goodman, Anitra N. Keegan, Tara Keating, and Luke Manley

II. Anitra N. Keegan and Joel Prouty – Laura Feig and Luke Manley – Colby Damon, Justin Flores, and Jennifer Goodman – Anitra N. Keegan and Joel Prouty – Laura Feig and Luke Manley

III. The Company

As a source of inspiration for her piece, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa borrowed from the Renaissance paintings

and sculptures of Michelangelo. The frozen moment depicted in a tableau vivant has always been fascinating to the choreographer, although she never really understood the beauty of still life onto which bowls of fruit are painted. Ochoa decided to put life and movement to the most Biblical fruit that is usually encountered on still lifes and liturgical paintings: the apple. Still alive or Still@Life is the choreographer’s fantasy as to what would happen if one of those religious paintings came to life. The choreographer uses Michelangelo’s development as a red thread for the structure of her piece, following the start of his career as a sculptor and ending with his painting of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, which occurs as an explosion of colors.

INTERMISSION

7 BESIDE MYSELF (Premiered November 17, 2010 at The Wilma Theater, Philadelphia, PA)

Choreography: Tobin Del Cuore Music: Ben Frost, Beats Antique, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Mason Bates & Chanticleer, Nico Muhly, and Sigur Rós Lighting Design: Drew Billiau Costume Design: Martha Chamberlain Performers: Laura Feig, Anitra N. Keegan, Colby Damon, and Justin Flores

Beside Myself is inspired by consciousness, duality, and our unique ability as humans to be aware of our own existence … to remember, forget, observe, change, heal, destroy, and love ourselves.

This piece is made possible with grant support from The New Essential Works (NEW) Program and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

INTERMISSION

FREQUENCIES (Premiered August 8, 2001 at The Arden Theatre, Philadelphia, PA, by Phrenic New )

Choreography: Matthew Neenan Staging: Tara Keating Music: Will Gregory, Money Park, Pete M. Wyer, and Jump Little Children Original Lighting Design: John Hoey Lighting Design: Drew Billiau Costume Design: Martha Chamberlain (wings courtesy of Joan Shepp) Performed by: Colby Damon, Joel Prouty, Laura Feig, Justin Flores, Jennifer Goodman, Anitra N. Keegan, and Tara Keating

Frequencies is a spiritually driven work based on the Biblical story of Jacob. The Philadelphia Inquirer writes, “When dance is like this, it makes me feel as if I were in heaven … a masterpiece!”

Still@Life and Frequencies are supported by Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through Dance Advance.

8 BIOGRAPHies BALLETX produces original choreography that Ballet under the direction of John McFall and she spent 10 expands the vocabulary of Classical dance for all audi- years becoming a principal dancer with the company. She ences. BalletX is a new Philadelphia dance company with has also performed as a member of Morphoses/The Wheel- an ambitious goal: to redefine Ballet and bring it into the don Company, The National Ballet of Canada, BalletX, new century. While firmly rooted in rigorous Classical Bal- Chautauqua Ballet, and Ballet NY. Feig has toured the let training and technique, BalletX brings a Contemporary United States, Canada, and Japan in the featured role of sensibility to the art form, infusing its work with a new vi- Judy in ’s Movin’ Out. Feig has danced prin- sion of athleticism, emotion, and intimacy. BalletX reflects cipal roles in , , Cinderella, The the daring vision of two gifted dancers and choreographers, Nutcracker, Coppelia, and . Feig has performed Matthew Neenan and Christine Cox. As longtime dancers leading roles in works by Julia Adam, , with the , they were looking for new Matthew Neenan, Michael Pink, Ben Stevenson, and Lila ways to express their vision of dance. In 2000, Neenan, York. Feig has had many roles created for her by choreog- Cox, and two others created Phrenic New Ballet, which raphers Christine Cox, Christopher Hampson, Edwaard quickly won acclaim for its stylish, skillful performances and Liang, Alexei Ratmansky, , and Stanton its dazzling choreography. In 2005, the artistic directors of Welch. Phrenic New Ballet agreed that they were starting to move JUSTIN FLORES (Dancer) began his dance train- in different directions. United by a shared love for Ballet, ing at age 16 with Debbie Busby. He is a graduate of the a professional history with the Pennsylvania Ballet, and a Academy and holds a bachelor of fine arts yearning to explore uncharted artistic horizons, Neenan and degree from the University of Oklahoma. Flores has danced Cox decided to devote themselves to challenging the Classi- with the Eugene Ballet, Smuin Ballet, ODC Dance, The cal tradition. BalletX is the resident dance company at the Foundry, Liss Fain Dance Company, Lawrence Pech Dance prestigious Wilma Theatre. Company, Capacitor Performance Group, and Deborah COLBY DAMON (Dancer) was born and raised in Slater Dance Theater. He has performed in the United Richmond, Virginia. Damon received his early training at States, Canada, Central and South America, and Europe. the Richmond Ballet and at age 15 left home to attend the JENNIFER GOODMAN (Dancer) was born in Virginia School of the Arts under the direction of David Romeo, Michigan. She received her training in the Detroit Keener, Martha Faesi, and Petrus Bosman. Damon spent area under the direction of Mary Kashinsky, Mary Geiger, summers training at the Boston Ballet. Upon graduation, and Cornelia Sampson. After high school, Goodman at- Damon joined the Sacramento Ballet where, for five years, tended the Joffrey summer program on scholarship in New he danced soloist and principal roles in numerous Classi- York and was then asked to join the Joffrey II dancers under cal and Contemporary works, including pieces by George the direction of Jeremy Blanton and Gage Bush. Within a Balanchine, Dwight Rhoden, Trey McIntyre, Helen Pickett, year, Goodman was invited to join the with and Ron Cunningham. In 2007, Damon relocated to Brook- former director Gerald Arpino. Goodman moved to Chi- lyn, New York, to pursue a freelance career. Since then, cago with the company, where she danced for 16 years. he has worked with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Mark She has toured internationally with the world-renowned Morris Dance Group, and Thang Dao Dance Company, Rock Ballet Billboards and appeared in Robert Altman’s The in addition to working on projects with Luca Veggetti and Company. Goodman has performed an extensive reper- John Selya. Damon is currently pursuing his bachelor of arts toire, including by Arpino, Robert Joffrey, George degree in dance through the New York LEAP program. He Balanchine, Anthony Tudor, Leonard Massine, Agnes de has danced with BalletX since 2008. Mille, Nijinsky, Vicente Nebrada, Frederick Ashton, Jerome LAURA FEIG (Dancer) is a native of New York. She Robbins, John Cranko, Twyla Tharp, Paul Taylor, and Pilo- trained at the Seiskaya Ballet Academy and later studied bolus, and had a role created for her by Donald Byrd. Good- with Maggie Black. Feig began her career with the Atlanta man has performed numerous roles in Joffrey’s Nutcracker,

9 including Clara and the Sugar Plum Fairy. Goodman has received honors in both the Dance Education Syllabus and also danced soloist roles in Giselle, Cinderella, The Dream, the Royal Academy of Dance examinations. She continued and Romeo and Juliet. Goodman is currently dancing at The her training at the Royal Academy of Dance in England, Metropolitan Opera and with Avi Scher & Dancers. She is Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet in Carlisle, and Penn- very happy to be dancing her second season with BalletX. sylvania Ballet School in Philadelphia. After graduating TARA KEATING (Dancer) began her training at from high school, she began her professional career with age 7 at the Pioneer Valley Ballet in Northampton, Mas- Pennsylvania Ballet, Ohio Ballet Company, and American sachusetts. She attended the Juilliard School under the Repertory Ballet. Keegan then moved to New York and direction of Benjamin Harkarvy, where she received a continued her dancing career with Dances Patrelle, Cham- bachelor of fine arts degree in dance. Keating received the ber Dance Project, and Ballet NY, where she was featured Jerome L. Greene Fellowship and the “Most Outstanding as Desdemona in John Butler’s Othello. During this time Dance Major” Award from the National Dance Associa- in her career, Keegan was featured in roles choreographed tion. She began her professional career with the American by Alonzo King, Donald Byrd, Laura Dean, Heinz Poll, Repertory Ballet and then joined Twyla Tharp’s company, George Balanchine, Thaddeus Davis, William Soleau, and where she performed internationally and at City Center in Stanton Welch. Upon joining BalletX, she has worked with New York. Keating joined the Pennsylvania Ballet in 1998 choreographers such as Christine Cox, Matthew Neenan, and was promoted to soloist in 2003. During her 10-year Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, Jodie Gates, Edwaard Liang, Alex career, she danced leading roles in numerous Classical and Ketley, and Meredith Rainey. Keegan is a graduate of Ma- Contemporary works, such as Emilia in José Limón’s The son Gross School of Arts at Rutgers University. Moor’s Pavane; Hippolyta, Hermia, and Helena in George LUKE MANLEY (Dancer) was born in Dowagiac, Balanchine’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream; principal roles in Michigan. He studied dance on scholarship at the School Jerome Robbins’ Fancy Free and The Concert; Paul Taylor’s of Ballet Chicago under the direction of Daniel Duell and Company B and Arden Court; and in several premieres by Patricia Blair, and at the Hubbard Street Dance Center. Matthew Neenan. Throughout Keating’s career, she has Manley has danced professionally with River North Dance originated roles in world premieres by renowned choreog- Chicago, American Repertory Ballet, the Lyric Opera of raphers, including Val Caniparoli, Jorma Elo, Annabelle Chicago, the Saint Louis Ballet’s Salute to tour, and Lopez Ochoa, Trey McIntyre, Helen Pickett, Septime We- Armitage Gone! Dance. bre, and . In 2005, Keating became JOEL PROUTY (Dancer), a native of Phoenix, Ari- a member of BalletX and has danced in every performance zona, received his training at the School of Ballet Arizona, since its inception. She has traveled nationally and inter- the Phoenix School of Ballet, and The Royal Winnipeg nationally with the company. Keating was the producing Ballet School. He became a member of the corps de ballet director in 2006 and 2007 for Shut Up and Dance, an annual with the Houston Ballet and The Royal Winnipeg Ballet. benefit for MANNA, which was created by dancers of the In 2000, Prouty was a finalist in the New York International Pennsylvania Ballet. She was the recipient of the “City Pa- Ballet Competition and received the Prince Edward Award per Choice” Award in 2002. Keating is on faculty at various from The Royal Winnipeg Ballet Foundation. He was also a schools and has taught master classes at Broadway Dance finalist in the USA International Competition in Jackson, Center in New York and at NADAA dance conventions Mississippi, in 2002. Since joining the Boston Ballet in throughout the country. Keating had a residency at Buck- 2001, he has danced as Lead Russian in The Nutcracker, the nell University, where she set an excerpt from Neenan’s Peasant pas de trios in Swan Lake, the son in George Bal- Frequencies. In 2009, Keating assisted Neenan in the setting anchine’s , Alain in La Fille Mal Garde, in Jorma of his new Ballet At the Border for the Pennsylvania Ballet, Elo’s Plan to B, and in Mark Morris’ Drink to Me Only With as well as his Carmina Burana and The Crossed Line. Thine Eyes. ANITRA N. KEEGAN (Dancer) began her train- CHRISTINE COX (Artistic Director) began her ing at the Academy of Dance Arts in New Jersey, where she Ballet training with the Pennsylvania Ballet School, the

10 Philadelphia High School for the Performing Arts, and the City Ballet’s Choreographic Institute, Sacramento Ballet, Joffrey and San Francisco Ballet schools. Cox has danced Indiana University, BalletX, Phrenic New Ballet, Opera with BalletMet, America Repertory Ballet Theatre, and the Company of Philadelphia, and LaGuardia High School of Pennsylvania Ballet. She appeared with Ballet Hispanico Performing Arts. He has received numerous awards and and performed for President George H.W. Bush at the grants for his choreography from the National Endowment Ford Theatre. Cox has premiered works by choreographers of the Arts, Dance Advance funded by the Pew Charitable such as Ib Anderson, Rennie Harris, James Kudelka, John Trusts, the Choo San Goh Foundation, and the Indepen- McFall, Trey McIntyre, Matthew Neenan, Kevin O’Day, dence Foundation. Neenan received the David Parsons, Kirk Peterson, and Christopher Wheeldon. Ballet’s Choreographic Institute’s Fellowship Initiative Some of Cox’s featured roles include Rum and Coca-Cola in Award and a 2008 fellowship from the Pennsylvania Coun- Paul Taylor’s Company B; Vortex in Alvin Ailey’s The River; cil on the Arts. In 2009, Neenan was the grand prize winner Choleric in George Balanchine’s ; of Sacramento Ballet’s Capital Choreography Competition Eve in Margo Sappington’s Rodin, Mis En Vie; the Cowgirl and was the first recipient of the Jerome Robbins NEW in Agnus DeMille’s Rodeo; and one of the principal females Program Fellowship for his work At the Border for the Penn- in Jerome Robbins’ Fancy Free and The Concert. Cox co- sylvania Ballet. Neenan was recently named “Best Dance founded Phrenic New Ballet in 2000 and choreographed Talent” by the editors of Philadelphia Magazine’s annual several works for the company as well as for Shut Up and “Best of Philly” list. He currently serves on the Dance USA/ Dance, an annual AIDS benefit presented by the Dancers Philadelphia Advisory board and will be joining the Board of Pennsylvania Ballet. She has been awarded fellowship of Trustees for National Dance USA. grants from the Independence Foundation and The Penn- ANNABELLE LOPEZ OCHOA (Choreographer) sylvania Council on the Arts for her choreography. In 2004, completed her dance studies at the Royal Ballet Academy of Cox co-founded BalletX with Neenan. In 2006, she staged Antwerp in Belgium. She appeared with various companies Neenan’s 11:11 for the Pennsylvania Ballet and rehearsed in , including the Modern-Jazz dance company the company for the New York premiere at City Center. Djazzex. In 1997, Ochoa joined the Scapino Ballet Rotter- She has received two Rocky Awards for “Outstanding dam, where she danced as a soloist for seven years. In 2003, Achievement in the Arts” and has worked for seven years as she decided to focus on choreography. Ochoa has created assistant rehearsal director for the children in Balanchine’s works for the Scapino Ballet Rotterdam, Dutch National The Nutcracker. She currently choreographs and teaches at Ballet, Djazzex, Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève, The The University of the Arts, Swarthmore College, and sur- Royal Ballet of Flanders, Gran Canaria Ballet, the Gothen- rounding studios in the area. burg Ballet, State Modern Ballet Ankara, Pennsylvania MATTHEW NEENAN (Artistic Director and Ballet, BalletX, BJM-Danse Montreal, Luna Negra Dance Choreographer) began his dance training at the Boston Theater Chicago, Ballet National de Marseille, Saarbrucken Ballet School and with noted teachers Nan C. Keating and Ballet, Jacoby & Pronk, Chemnitzer Ballet, and Ballet Jacqueline Cronsberg. Neenan later attended the LaGuardia Hispanico. Ochoa has also created works for theater, Opera, High School of Performing Arts and the School of Ameri- musical theater, and for Dutch fashion designers Viktor can Ballet. From 1994 to 2007, Neenan danced principal & Rolf’s project in the Van Gogh Museum. Her signature roles with the Pennsylvania Ballet in works by George piece Before After, which was created for the Dutch Na- Balanchine, John Cranko, Paul Taylor, Peter Martins, Val tional Ballet in 2002, has been performed at many dance Caniparoli, Jorma Elo, Lila York, Meredith Rainey, Jef- festivals and by the Gothenburg Ballet. Ochoa won the frey Gribler, Christopher Wheeldon, and Jerome Robbins. Hannover Choreography Competition in 2001 with her In 2007, Neenan was named Choreographer in Residence work Clair/Obscur. She also won first prize at the Bornem at the Pennsylvania Ballet. His choreography has been International Competition in 2001 with Replay. In 2007, featured by the Pennsylvania Ballet (12 commissions), The she participated in the New York Choreographic Institute in Washington Ballet, Juilliard Dance Ensemble, New York conjunction with the . In 2009,

11 her pieces Zip Zap Zoom and Nube Blanco were included in in several leading roles, including Katherina in The Taming the list of “10 Best Dance Highlights of the Year” in San of the Shrew, Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty, Swanhilda in Diego and Chicago. Coppelia, Myrtha in Giselle, Dewdrop and Sugarplum Fairy TOBIN DEL CUORE (Choreographer) began danc- in George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker, and Helena and ing and choreographing at age 12 in Norway, Maine. At Divertissement pas de deux in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. age 17, he created a solo that won first prize in the student She has also had featured roles in Balanchine’s Ballo della category at a choreographic competition in Maine. Del Regina, The Four Temperaments, , , Cuore was noticed by adjudicator and Ballet teacher Samuel , , and ; Paul Taylor’s Company B and Kurkjian who invited him to train at the Walnut Hill Arden Court; and Christopher de Ambois’s Franklin Court. School. Del Cuore received his bachelor of fine arts degree Chamberlain has created roles for such choreographers as Trey from the Juillard School. In 2001, he joined Hubbard Street McIntryre, Kevin O’Day, Jessica Lang, Jeffrey Gribler, and Mat- Dance Chicago, where he worked with choreographers thew Neenan. Chamberlain has designed and created costumes Ohad Naharin, Nacho Duato, Lar Lubovitch, Jorma Elo, for many of Neenan’s Ballets, including The Crossed Line, Marguerite Donlon, Christopher Bruce, Susan Marshall, 11:11, As It’s Going, Keep, and The Last Glass. n and Daniel Ezralow. Del Cuore has danced in works by Kiri Kylian, William Forsythe, and Twyla Tharp. In 2006, Del CCPA SEASON SCHEDULE TO Cuore and Alejandro Cerrudo created Fuel, which took CHANGE IN 2011-2012 third prize at the Hannover International Choreographic Competition. Del Cuore has filmed video works for or- Starting next season, the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts (CCPA) will implement a change ganizations in Chicago, including Hubbard Street Dance to future CCPA performance schedules that will Chicago, Ballet Chicago, Illinois Institute of Technology, allow the theater to present more of your favorite Fairmont Hotel, and East Bank Club. entertainers. DREW BILLIAU’s (Lighting Design) credits include The CCPA’s 2011-2012 Season will begin in July Fidelio; Falstaff; ; La Cenerentola; The Marriage 2011 and conclude in March 2012. of Figaro; Così Fan Tutte; Don Carlo; Faust; Die Fledermaus; Macbeth; Don Pasquale; Turandot; Flamingo Winnebago; Starting the CCPA season in July will expand the The Melting Bridge and El Conquistador ( tour); Faust range of popular performer options available to the theater. Many of the most popular ( Opera); All My Sons (Arden Theater); 2 Dif- entertainers the CCPA has presented have ferent, M.O.M., and Risk of Flight (BalletX); and Hamlet greater touring availability during this time. This (Lantern Theater). Billiau has also designed for the Pennsyl- modified schedule also will allow the CCPA vania Ballet, the Iowa Playwrights Festival, Stagewest, Freedom to provide greater availability for special event Theater, and Peoples Light & Theatre. He is the lighting coor- requests that it receives throughout the year, but has previously been unable to accommodate. dinator and resident lighting designer for the Opera Company of Philadelphia, associate professor of lighting design for the Reminders of this scheduling change will be University of the Arts, and associate designer in the corporate/ made throughout the current season. The 2011- industrial design firm Fine Design Associates. 2012 Series Subscription and Season Package Brochure will be mailed in March 2011 instead MARTHA CHAMBERLAIN (Costumer Design) was of May. The CCPA’s ticketing procedures will not born and raised in Media, Pennsylvania, and began her dance change. Ticket orders for the entire season will training at age 5 at the Fellowship House. She studied with be accepted according to the schedule included Donna Muzio, Paul Klocke, and Cherie Noble at The Dance in the 2011-2012 Series Subscription and Season Center and The School of American Ballet’s summer program. Package Brochure. The City of Cerritos and She is a graduate of Friends Select and The School of Penn- the CCPA look forward to seeing you often at the theater for performances in this and future sylvania Ballet. Chamberlain danced with the Pennsylvania seasons. Ballet as Juliet in John Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet in 2000, and

12 presents MARTINA FILJAK, PIANO

Wednesday, January 26, 2011, 7:30 PM

There will be one 20-minute intermission. The taking of photographs or use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.

Please hold your until after all movements of a work have been performed, and do not applaud between movements. Thank you for your cooperation.

As a courtesy to the performers and your fellow patrons, please mute all cellular phones, pagers, and watch alarms prior to the start of the performance.

PROGRAM

Piano Sonata No. 13 in B-flat Major, K. 333 Allegro (1756-1791) Andante cantabile Allegretto grazioso

Ballade No. 1 in d minor, Op. 10 Johannes Brahms Andante (1833-1897)

Ballade No. 3 in b minor, Op. 10 Johannes Brahms Intermesso: Allegro

Ballade No. 2 in b minor Franz Liszt Allegro moderato (1811-1886) Allegretto Allegro deciso Allegro moderato Andantino INTERMISSION

13 Piano Sonata No. 4 in c minor, Op. 29 Sergei Prokofiev “From Old Notebooks” (1891-1953) Allegro molto sostenuto Andante assai Allegro con brio, ma non leggiero

Prelude and Nocturne for the Left Hand, Op. 9 Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)

Islamey: An Oriental Fantasy Mily A. Balakirev Allegro agitato (1837-1910) Andantino espressivo Allegro vivo Presto furioso

BIOGRAPHY Since making her orchestral debut at age 12 with tion, and the 2001 International Johannes Brahms Compe- ’s celebrated Soloists Chamber Orchestra, tition. In 2009, Filjak garnered an honorary medal from the MARTINA FILJAK has taken the globe by storm with her president of the Republic of Croatia for her achievements. mastery of the piano. Born in Zagreb and raised in a fam- She received the 1993 Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra Prize ily of pianists, Filjak is a graduate of the Music Academy of and the 1998 Jeunesses Musicales Prize, two awards that dis- Zagreb and the Vienna Conservatory. The Cleveland Plain tinguish her as one of Croatia’s foremost young musicians. Dealer calls Filjak “a musician of unusual sophistication, Filjak has performed with esteemed orchestras in discipline and personality.” Croatia and abroad, including the , Her rise to the top includes a long list of honors, the Symphony Orchestra, the Croatian Chamber including first place in the prestigious 2009 Cleveland Orchestra, and the Chamber Orchestra of South Africa. She International Piano Competition, the 2008 Maria Canals has worked with renowned pianists, including Cyprien Kat- Competition, the 2007 G.B. Viotti International Competi- saris, Stephen Kovacevich, and Jean Bernard Pommier. n

14 NETworks presents

Conceived and Originally Choreographed and Directed by Michael Bennett Book by Music by Lyrics by James Kirkwood & Marvin Hamlisch Edward Kleban Nicholas Dante Originally Co-Choreographed by

with Netanel Bellaishe Carleigh Bettiol Eric Carsia Erica Cenci Kieron Cindric Justin Clynes Matthew Couvillon Seth Danner Gaspare DiBlasi Gina Duci Suzanna Dupree Paul Flanagan Julia Freyer David Glenwright David Grindrod Cassandra Hlong Rylyn Juliano Mickey Junior-Ayer Ashley Klinger Eric Mann Nick Nerio Emily Rice Ryan Steer Chelsea Swanderski Jessi Trauth Megan Wean Hardy Weaver Karley Willocks

Scenic Design by Costume Design by Lighting Design by Sound Design by Robin Wagner Theoni V. Aldredge Tharon Musser Shannon Slaton

Costume Coordinator Adapted by Jimm Halliday

Music Direction/Conductor Orchestrations by Vocal Arrangements by Joey Chancey Jonathan Tunick Don Pippin Bill Byers & Hershy Kay

Casting by Tour Press and Marketing General Management Binder Casting Type A Marketing Gregory Vander Ploeg Nikole Vallins Gentry & Associates

Production Manager Production Stage Manager Company Manager Jason Juenker Jay McManigal Jack Stephens

Executive Producer Kary M. Walker

Associate Director Associate Choreographer Peter Pileski Luis Villabon

Direction and Choreography Re-Staged by

Original Tour Direction by Bob Avian

Original Broadway production produced by the New York Shakespeare Festival, Joseph Papp, Producer, in association with Plum Productions, Inc. is presented by arrangement with TAMS-WITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. 560 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York 10022

15 THE COMPANY

Larry ………...... ………...... …………………... NETANEL BELLAISHE Lois ………...... ……………………………....……………………..... CARLEIGH BETTIOL Don …………...... ………………………………………………………….…. ERIC CARSIA Bebe ……………...... ……………………………………………………..….. ERICA CENCI Greg ………………...... ……………...... …………………..…………….. JUSTIN CLYNES Tom ……………………...... …………....………………………. MATTHEW COUVILLON Roy …………………………...... ……………………………………...…… SETH DANNER Paul ……………………………...... ………………………………..… GASPARE DI BLASI Diana ………………………………...... ………………………………….…….. GINA DUCI Sheila …………………………………...... …………………………… SUZANNA DUPREE Al …………………………………………...... ……………………...…. PAUL FLANAGAN Judy …………………………………………...... ……………………..…… JULIA FREYER Frank ………………………...... ………………...... ………...…. DAVID GLENWRIGHT Mark ……………………………………………………...... ………….. DAVID GRINDROD Connie ………………………………………………...……...... …… CASSANDRA HLONG Cassie …………………………………………...... ………………..……. RYLYN JULIANO Richie ………………………………………………...... ………… MICKEY JUNIOR-AYER Kristine …………………………………………………...... ………… ASHLEY KLINGER Mike ……………………...... ………...... …………...… ERIC MANN Butch ………………………………………………...... ………………………. NICK NERIO Vicki …………………………...…………………………...... ……………..…… EMILY RICE Tricia ……………………………………………………………...... …...… MEGAN WEAN Zach …………………………………………………………………...... …… RYAN STEER Val …………………………………………………………………...... ……. JESSI TRAUTH Bobby ………………………………………………...... ………………... HARDY WEAVER Maggie …………………………………………...…...... …………… KARLEY WILLOCKS

Dance Captain NETANEL BELLAISHE Swings KIERON CINDRIC and CHELSEA SWANDERSKI Understudies For Al: KIERON CINDRIC, SETH DANNER, and DAVID GLENWRIGHT; For Bebe: CARLEIGH BETTIOL, MEGAN WEAN, and CHELSEA SWANDERSKI; For Bobby: KIERON CINDRIC, MATTHEW COUVILLON, and DAVID GLENWRIGHT; For Cassie: CARLEIGH BETTIOL and JESSI TRAUTH; For Connie: CARLEIGH BETTIOL and CHELSEA SWANDERSKI; For Diana: ERICA CENCI and EMILY RICE; For Don: KIERON CINDRIC, SETH DANNER, and DAVID GLENWRIGHT; For Greg: SETH DANNER and DAVID GLENWRIGHT; For Judy: EMILY RICE and MEGAN WEAN; For Kristine: MEGAN WEAN and CHELSEA SWANDERSKI; For Larry: MATTHEW COUVILLON and SETH DANNER; For Maggie: EMILY RICE and CHELSEA SWANDERSKI; For Mark: KIERON CINDRIC and MATTHEW COUVILLON; For Mike: NETANEL BELLAISHE, MATTHEW COUVILLON, and NICK NERIO; For Paul: NETANEL BELLAISHE, SETH DANNER, and NICK NERIO; For Richie: MATTHEW COUVILLON and NICK NERIO; For Sheila: CARLEIGH BETTIOL and EMILY RICE; For Val: CARLEIGH BETTIOL, MEGAN WEAN, and CHELSEA SWANDERSKI; For Zach: NETANEL BELLAISHE, ERIC CARSIA, and JUSTIN CLYNES

16 MUSICAL NUMBERS

I Hope I Get It …………………………………………..……………...... ………… Company

I Can Do That …………………………………..…………………...... ……...... …………… Mike

And …………………………………………..………...... ……. Bobby, Richie, Val, and Judy

At the Ballet ……………………...... ………………………...……… Sheila, Bebe, and Maggie

Sing! …………………………………...... ………………….………………… Kristine and Al

Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen, Hello Love ……………...... …….....……...…………… Company

Nothing ………………………………………………………...... ……………….…….. Diana

Dance: Ten; Looks: Three …………...……………………………...... …….……………. Val

The Music and the Mirror …………………………………………...... ……...... ………. Cassie

One ……………………………………………………..……………...... …………. Company

The Tap Combination ………………………………..………………………...... ….. Company

What I Did for Love ……………………………...... ………..……...……. Diana and Company

One: Reprise ………………………...... ……………………….……………………. Company

AN AUDITION Time: 1975 Place: A Broadway Theater “This show is dedicated to anyone who has ever danced in a chorus or marched in step … anywhere.” – Michael Bennett

A CHORUS LINE ORCHESTRA Conductor: JOEY CHANCEY Assistant Conductor/Keys: CHRIS CURCIO Reeds: SEAN IMBODEN, MIKE LIVINGSTON, and TREVOR DAVIS Trumpets/Flugelhorns: CHRIS IMHOFF and ERIC DICKSON Trombones: CLAIR SOCCI Drums/Percussion: PHIL COIRO

This performance will not include an intermission. The taking of photographs or use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.

17 BIOGRAPHies NETANEL BELLAISHE (Larry and Dance Captain) participated in Cortland Repertory Theatre’s latest season was born in Israel. He is a graduate of the American Musi- as a featured dancer in The Pajama Game and Brigadoon. cal and Dramatic Academy in New York. Bellaishe’s dance Thanks to Jeff Shade. credits include Bat Dor Dance School and Company, Israeli SETH DANNER (Roy) is thrilled to be “on the Ballet, The Israeli Opera, and Ido Tadmor Dance Company. line.” His regional credits include Les Liaisons Dangereuses His musical theater credits in Israel include Chicago, Guys (Syracuse Stage) and The Meaning of Life (45th St. Theatre). and Dolls, A Chorus Line, Song and Dance, and Joseph and the Danner graduated from Syracuse University with a bachelor Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Bellaishe won the Born to of fine arts degree in musical theater. Tremendous thanks go Dance Competition in 2008. to my family, friends, the Davids, Baayork, and Nikole. CARLEIGH BETTIOL (Lois) is thrilled to be join- GASPARE DI BLASI (Paul) is ecstatic to be joining ing the cast of A Chorus Line. She was most recently on the line on his first national tour. Di Blasi has appeared tour with Disney’s Beauty and the Beast as a Townsperson/ in Tony & Tina’s Wedding Off-Broadway. His other credits Enchanted Object. Thanks to family and friends for their include , High School Musical 2, Thoroughly support, love, and encouragement. Modern Millie, Dracula, and . Love to my family, ERIC CARSIA (Don) graduated from Ithaca College Sandy, Baayork, and Binder Casting. Di Blasi is dancing for with a bachelor of arts degree in drama. He is thrilled to be Rachel. a part of NETwork’s A Chorus Line. Thanks to family and GINA DUCI (Diana) is making her national tour friends, Baayork Lee, and the crew for this amazing oppor- debut. For Duci, it’s a dream come true to be “on the line.” tunity. Her credits include Bye Bye Birdie (North Shore Music ERICA CENCI’s (Bebe) credits include a national Theatre), Ordinary Days (York Theatre), and tour with Cats (Rumpleteaser) and, for regional, (Yorktown Stage). Duci earned a bachelor of fine arts degree (Tootles), Company (Kathy), Smokey Joe’s Café (Shimmy in musical theater from Penn State University. Thanks to Girl), and Children of Eden (Child Storyteller) and its all who have guided and inspired me. For Mom and Dad, I American premiere recording. Thanks to my amazing family love you. BB, you’re the best. and friends for their unending support. SUZANNA DUPREE (Sheila) is ecstatic to be KIERON CINDRIC (Swing) is a native of Findlay, making her national tour debut. She is a native of Raleigh, Ohio. His credits include a tour with Bye Bye Birdie and, North Carolina, and a graduate of The Boston Conservatory. for regional, A Wonderful Life (Clarence), Irving Berlin’s Dupree’s regional credits include Chess, , Cinder- White Christmas, Footloose, and Singin’ in the Rain. Cindric ella, Little Shop of Horrors, and Camelot. Love and thanks graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University with a to NETworks, Binder Casting, Baayork, and my wonderful bachelor of arts degree in art history and French. This is for family and friends for their never-ending support. Mom, who introduced me to A Chorus Line in sixth grade. PAUL FLANAGAN (Al) has spent the last two JUSTIN CLYNES (Greg) is thrilled to make his years working with Nickelodeon’s The Backyardigans on the national tour debut. He appeared on Broadway in The Ritz national tour and television show. His other credits include and, for regional, A Chorus Line, The Full Monty, and Dis- Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, West Side Story, Fiddler on the ney’s Beauty and the Beast. His television credits include 30 Roof, and Footloose. Love to everyone. Rock; Ugly Betty; CSI: NY; and All My Children. A special JULIA FREYER (Judy) is from Grand Rapids, Michi- thank you to Stephen Harding, my family, and Click Man- gan. She is proud to have graduated from Penn State Uni- agement. For more information, visit www.justinclynes.com. versity with a bachelor of fine arts degree in musical theater. MATTHEW COUVILLON (Tom) is thrilled to be Freyer’s credits include Curtains, The Producers (Pittsburgh joining A Chorus Line. He graduated from the University of CLO), and The Apple Tree (Pennsylvania Centre Stage). Louisiana at Lafayette with a bachelor of fine arts degree in Love to Edie and MTX. performing arts with a concentration in dance. Couvillon DAVID GLENWRIGHT (Frank) is a native of

18 Rochester, New York, and is excited to be a part of this car). Nerio earned a bachelor of fine arts degree in musical show. After performing in numerous regional theaters across theater from Syracuse University. Much love and thanks to the country, Glenwright is thrilled to be on tour with A his family, friends, and teachers for their constant faith and Chorus Line. Love to family, friends, and Nana Ingutti. Live support. the dream. EMILY RICE (Vicki) is thrilled to make her tour DAVID GRINDROD (Mark) is excited to make his debut with A Chorus Line. Her regional credits include The tour debut with A Chorus Line. Grindrod received training Sound of Music (Maria), The 25th Annual Putnam County at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Stageworkz, Spelling Bee (Logainne), and Into the Woods (Cinderella). Talent Machine, and Indian Creek. He sends his love to Rice graduated from Elon University with a bachelor of fine his phenomenal family, incredible friends, and stupendous arts degree in musical theater. Phil 4:13. For more informa- teachers. This is for my Mom. Catch the energy. tion, visit www.emilyriceonline.com. CASSANDRA HLONG (Connie) is from McLeans- RYAN STEER (Zach) grew up in Norman, Okla- ville, North Carolina. She is excited to make her profession- homa, and graduated from the University of Central al debut. Hlong plans to pursue a bachelor of fine arts degree Oklahoma with a degree in musical theater and dance. He in musical theater after the tour. She would like to thank is thrilled to be making his national tour debut. Steer’s re- friends and family for the inspiration to follow her heart. gional credits include Cats (Munkustrap), Hairspray (Link), RYLYN JULIANO (Cassie) is a native of Rochester, Oklahoma! (Will), 42nd Street, and Ragtime. Many thanks to New York, making her national tour debut. Juliano’s re- NETworks, Binder Casting, Baayork, and the gang. Love to gional credits include High School Musical; No, No Nanette; MD&T. A Chorus Line; and Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story. Thank CHELSEA SWANDERSKI (Swing) is a Detroit you, NETworks, Binder casting, Baayork, and MSA for this native. She is excited to be returning to NETworks after a wonderful opportunity. Love to my family. recent tour with Hairspray (Shelley/Tracy u/s). Swanderski MICKEY JUNIOR-AYER (Richie) is making his has also appeared in (Mistress/Ensemble). Much love national tour debut with A Chorus Line. He has appeared in to family and friends, especially to Dad for the unending several regional theater productions and with dance compa- love and support. This one’s for Mom. nies. “I’m very thankful for any success I may encounter. I’ve JESSI TRAUTH (Val) is originally from Montana. not only waited a lifetime, I’ve worked just as long to see Trauth earned a bachelor of fine arts degree from New York one dream come to fruition.” University. Her roles include Velma in West Side Story ASHLEY KLINGER (Kristine) is thrilled to be (European tour), Sally Bowles in Cabaret (choreography by finishing her final year at Point Park University on the road. Tony Stevens), Connie in 1940’s Radio Hour (New York Klinger’s credits include the film Love and Other Drugs (prin- Stage and Film), and Wendy in Peter Pan (Merry-Go-Round cipal dancer), Texas Family Musicals, Pittsburg Airport After Playhouse). Love and thanks to all who helped make this Hours (YouTube), and performing with Cuyahoga Valley dream a reality. Youth Ballet. MEGAN WEAN (Tricia) is an Ohio native and ERIC MANN (Mike) is a native of Little Rock, proud graduate of Wright State University. Wean is ecstatic Arkansas, and a recent graduate of Elon University. Mann’s to be a part of this iconic show. Much love and thanks credits include The Who’s Tommy (regional), Gypsy (Arkan- to God, her amazing family, and Scott. This one’s for you sas Repertory Theatre), West Side Story and (North Mom, keep fighting! Carolina Theatre), Big River (Galveston Island Musicals), HARDY WEAVER (Bobby) is proud to be a New and Bigfork Summer Playhouse. Many thanks to my family Orleans native and honored to be part of this amazing and friends. musical. He has appeared in a national tour with Cats as NICK NERIO’s (Butch) credits include Chicago Skimbleshanks. Weaver has performed for regional the- (Aaron/Ensemble, national tour), Gypsy (Yonkers, New aters, including Gateway Playhouse, Seaside Music Theater, York), and, for regional, West Side Story (Chino); Kiss Me, Dutch Apple, Tulane Summer Lyric, Le Petit Theatre, and Kate (Gremio); and Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party (Os- ’s Project. Weaver gradu-

19 ated from Florida State University with a bachelor of fine Witches of Eastwick for . Avian proudly arts degree. Thanks to Binder Casting, Baayork, and much serves on the board of the Miami City Ballet. love to family and friends. This is for all of my friends living JAMES KIRKWOOD (Book) was a Broadway and and auditioning. television actor as well as half of the comedy team Kirkwood KARLEY WILLOCKS (Maggie) is a native of An- and Goodman before taking up writing. His novels include napolis, Maryland. She earned a bachelor of fine arts degree There Must Be a Pony!, Good Times/Bad Times, P.S. Your Cat in musical theater from Shenandoah University. Willocks is Dead!, Some Kind of Hero, and Hit Me With a Rainbow. His is delighted to be embarking on her first national tour. Her nonfiction books include American Grotesque and Diary of a regional credits include 42nd Street (Peggy), Irving Berlin’s Mad Playwright: Perilous Adventures on the Road With Mary White Christmas, High School Musical, and Footloose. She is Martin and Carol Channing. The book is about the road tour very grateful to be here today. Peace and love. of his play Legends. Kirkwood’s other plays include the dra- JOEY CHANCEY’s (Music Director / Conductor) matizations of There Must Be a Pony! and UTBU. national tours include Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, A NICHOLAS DANTE’s (Book) real name is Conrado Chorus Line (1st National), The Wedding Singer (1st Nation- Morales. He danced in the chorus of Applause and other al), The Wizard of Oz (Conductor), and Joseph ... Dream- Broadway shows as well as various television shows and coat. Love to Baayork for welcoming me into the family. nightclubs while pursuing his dream of becoming a writer. This is for Mom, Dad, and Mimi. Training: BM, Shenan- His friend, Michael Bennett, called and asked him to col- doah Conservatory. laborate on the first draft of the book for A Chorus Line. The MICHAEL BENNETT (Conception, Original final result earned him a Pulitzer Prize, a Tony Award, and Director, and Choreographer) choreographed Promises, many other honors. He also wrote the screenplay Fake Lady Promises; ; Company; (co-director Harold and Jolson Tonite, a musical based on the life of Al Jolson. Prince); and , for which he wrote and directed. In MARVIN HAMLISCH (Music) is the composer of 1973, Bennett made his debut as a dramatic director with the Broadway musicals They’re Playing Our Song, Sweet Smell Twigs featuring Sada Thompson. A Chorus Line – which he of Success, and A Chorus Line, for which he shares a Pulitzer conceived, choreographed, and directed – won nine Tony Prize. Hamlisch composed more than 40 film scores, includ- Awards. In 1976, Bennett and the authors of A Chorus ing the Oscar-winning score and song The Way We Were. Line were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for drama. In 1979, He received a third Oscar for his adaptation of Scott Joplin’s he produced, directed, and choreographed , which music for the film The Sting. Hamlisch is the principal pops was nominated for eight and won. Bennett conductor with the Pittsburg Symphony Orchestra and the garnered yet another Tony Award for his 1981 National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C. He and directed its acclaimed 1985 Broadway revival. The film is a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music and Queens adaptation of Dreamgirls was released in December 2006. College. BOB AVIAN (Original Tour Director and Original EDWARD KLEBAN’s (Lyrics) first Broadway musi- Co-Choreographer) received Tony Awards as co-choreog- cal was A Chorus Line. In 1975, his lyrics won Tony, Drama rapher of the original production of A Chorus Line and for Desk, and Olivier awards as well as a Pulitzer Prize. Kleban’s Ballroom, for which he was co-producer. He also produced music and lyrics for Broadway’s A Class Act (2001) was the highly acclaimed Broadway and national companies of posthumously nominated for Tony and Drama Desk awards. Dreamgirls. Avian choreographed Follies () followed In addition to Kleban’s legacy as a songwriter, he created the by and Sunset Boulevard (London and Broad- Kleban Foundation, which awards grants to aspiring theater way), which received two Tony Award nominations. He lyricists. To date, the foundation’s grants total more than $3 won an Olivier Award for “Best Choreography” for Alain million. Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg’s . BAAYORK LEE (Director and Choreography Re- Avian choreographed Off-Broadway with Staging) performed in 12 Broadway shows and created the Julie Andrews and on Broadway featuring Carol Burnett. role of Connie in A Chorus Line. As Michael Bennett’s Upon returning to London, Avian choreographed The assistant choreographer on A Chorus Line, Lee has directed

20 many national and international companies. Her directing Superstar; Lenny; Promises, Promises; The Great White Hope; credits include and Bombay Dreams (national and Hair. He has also designed for The Metropolitan Opera, tours); ’s Cinderella (New York Swedish Royal Opera, Vienna State Opera, and the Royal City Opera); Barnum (Australia); Carmen Jones (Kennedy Opera Covent Garden. Wagner has received Tony, Drama Center); Porgy and Bess and (Euro- Desk, and Outer Critics Circle awards. He is a trustee of the pean tour); Gypsy; and A New Brain. Lee’s choreography Public Theater and a member of the Theatre Hall of Fame. credits include (Shaw Festival); Cocoanuts, THEONI V. ALDREDGE’s (Costume Design) select Camelot, Damn Yankees, Helen Hayes’ nominated Animal Broadway credits include Sweet Bird of Youth; Who’s Afraid Cracker, and (Arena Stage, Washington, D.C.); of Virginia Woolf?; Anyone Can Whistle; A Chorus Line; The and Goya, Sly, and The Merry Widow (Washington Opera, Threepenny Opera; 42nd Street; Dreamgirls; Gypsy; and Annie, The Kennedy Center). Lee is the co-author of the book On Barnum, and La Cage aux Folles (Tony Awards). Her film the Line: The Creation of A Chorus Line. She is the recipient credits include The Mirror Has Two Faces, The First Wives of the 2003 Asian Woman Warrior Award from Columbia Club, Addams Family Values, Moonstruck, Network, The College for “Lifetime Achievement” and the 2010 APAHA/ Rose, and The Great Gatsby (Academy Award). Aldredge George W.H. Bush Asian Heritage Award for “Individual has received the New York City Liberty Medal and the Cos- Achievement.” Lee created the non-profit company Nation- tume Guild Career Achievement Award, and was inducted al Asian Artist Project to support arts education and bridge into the Theatre Hall of Fame in 1986. For more than 20 the Asian American performer with the communities across years, he was principal designer for the New York Shake- the country. For more information, visit www.naaproject.org speare Festival. or www.achorusline.org. THARON MUSSER (Lighting Design Original PETER PILESKI (Associate Director) was assistant Production) has designed for Broadway’s Long Day’s Journey director for the Broadway revival of A Chorus Line and its into Night; ; Applause; Follies; Same Time, Next Year; first national tour. Pileski assisted director-choreographer ; ; ; Bob Avian on Miss Saigon, Sunset Boulevard, and Follies Broadway Bound; A Chorus Line; Ballroom; Dreamgirls; The (London). His Off-Broadway credits include An Evening Act; The Real Thing; Tribute; They’re Playing Our Song; and in Bloorsbury, Romeo and Juliet, and HMS Pinafore. Pileski’s 42nd Street. Musser won Tony awards for Follies, Dreamgirls, regional credits include Kiss Me, Kate; Promises, Promises; and A Chorus Line. Patience; and Dark of the Moon. For television, he produced NATASHA KATZ (Lighting Design Adaptation) is and directed USA Network’s Calliope and the Sci-Fi Chan- currently represented on Broadway by The Little Mermaid. nel’s Inside Space. Her Broadway credits include The Coast of Utopia and Aida LUIS VILLABON (Associate Choreographer) has (Tony Awards), A Chorus Line, The Country Girl, The 25th played the role of Paul and performed in later staged produc- Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Disney’s Beauty and the tions of A Chorus Line at Austin Musical Theatre, Northern Beast, Tarzan, Sweet Smell of Success, , Stage in Vermont, and in the Italian national tour. He also Twelfth Night, Dance of , The Capeman, and Gypsy. was director-choreographer for Ogunquit Playhouse’s 2009 Katz has also designed extensively for Off-Broadway and production. Villabon was Paula Abdul’s assistant choreog- regional theaters. Her dance and Opera credits include New rapher for Reefer Madness and Master of Disguise. A special York City Ballet, the Royal Ballet, American Ballet The- thanks to Baayork Lee for this opportunity and Peter Pileski atre, The Metropolitan Opera, and New York City Opera. for welcoming me aboard. Katz installed permanent lighting for Niketown in New ROBIN WAGNER’s (Scenic Design) Broadway York and London, and for The Big Bang at the Museum of designs include Young Frankenstein; The Producers; The Boy Natural History in New York. From Oz: Kiss Me, Kate; Saturday Night Fever; Side Show; SHANNON SLATON (Sound Design) designed the Angels in America; Victor/Victoria; Jelly’s Last Jam; Crazy for tours for Aeros; Kiss Me, Kate; Bring in ’da Noise, Bring in You; Jerome Robbins’ Broadway; Chess; 42nd Street; Dream- ’da Funk; The Full Monty; Contact; Tap Dogs; Hairspray; The girls; ; A Chorus Line; Jesus Christ Producers; and The Wedding Singer. On Broadway, Slaton

21 mixed Man of La Mancha; Bombay Dreams; A Christmas A Chorus Line, and Dreamgirls. For more information, visit Carol: The Musical!; Sweet Charity; Jersey Boys; Dirty Rotten www.typeamktg.com. Scoundrels; Spring Awakening; and Legally Blonde. He is also AWA TOURING (Tour Booking and Engagement the production sound designer for The Phantom of the Opera. Management) is a full-service live entertainment agency, For Off-Broadway, he designed Capture Now, Henry Noodle, distributing musicals, plays, and variety attractions do- and Blue Flower, and assisted on Hurly Burly. Slaton’s re- mestically and internationally. Its current roster includes gional designs include The Last Five Years; Hallelujah; Baby; American Idiot; The Phantom of the Opera; A Chorus Line; and Tick, Tick … BOOM! A Christmas Story: The Musical!; Dreamgirls; Cirque Dreams JONATHAN TUNICK (Orchestrator) is long Illumination; Cirque Dreams Holidaze; Love, Loss, & What regarded as Broadway’s preeminent orchestrator. His credits I Wore; Traces; DreamWorks Madagascar Live!; Nickelodeon include A Catered Affair, LoveMusik, 110 in the Shade, The Presents Storytime Live!; Garfield Live!; The Music of James Apple Tree, A Chorus Line, The Color Purple, Sweeney Todd, Bond; and The Merchant of Venice. Titanic, Passion, Into the Woods, Nine, A Little Night Music, KARY M. WALKER (Executive Producer) was Follies, and Company. He has written film scores for Mike executive producer for Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre in Nichols, Franco Zeffirelli, and Sidney Lumet. Tunick’s film Chicago for 22 years before joining NETworks in 2001. and television credits include Sweeney Todd; Blazing Saddles; Walker developed the Marriott into a musical theater with Young Frankenstein; Murder, She Wrote; and Columbo. For re- the largest musical theater subscription audience in the cordings, Tunick has arranged and conducted for Bernadette United States. The Marriott consistently received high Peters, Judy Collins, Itzhak Perlman, Placido Domingo, critical praise for quality, innovation, and development of Johnny Mathis, Bette Midler, Barbra Streisand, and Paul new works, garnering multiple Joseph Jefferson Awards for McCartney. Tunick is one of five individuals who has won “Excellence.” Walker is a founding board member of the Tony, Emmy, Grammy, and Academy awards. National Alliance for Musical Theatre and former president JAY BINDER C.S.A./NIKOLE VALLINS (Cast- of the League of Chicago Theaters. For NETworks, he has ing), with Jack Bowdan C.S.A. and Mark Brandon and Sara been executive producer of tours for Kiss Me, Kate; Seussi- Schatz, have cast more than 70 Broadway shows, including cal; Contact; Cabaret (Korea/Japan); Annie (five years); Rent Gypsy, A Chorus Line, The Thirty Nine Steps, Is He Dead?, (four years); Sweeney Todd; and The Drowsy Chaperone. Inherit the Wind, Journey’s End, Butley, Well, Who’s Afraid of NETworks PRESENTATIONS, LLC (Producer) Virginia Woolf?, Sweet Charity, Wonderful Town, Movin’ Out, was founded in 1995 by Kenneth Gentry, Seth Wenig, and Urinetown, 42nd Street, A Class Act, Dinner Party, Music Scott Jackson. NETworks has produced and managed more Man, The Iceman Cometh, Charlie Brown, High Society, The than 70 national and international touring productions. Sound of Music, The Lion King, Proposals, Disney’s Beauty and The company’s previous productions include Oliver!; Little the Beast, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Chicago, The King and Women with Maureen McGovern; Jekyll & Hyde; Kiss of the I, Damn Yankees, Lost in Yonkers, Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, Spiderwoman; Cinderella featuring Eartha Kitt and Deborah and The Goodbye Girl. Jay Binder Casting film and televi- Gibson; Fosse with Ben Vereen and Ruthie Henshall; The sion credits include Hairspray, Dreamgirls, Chicago, Once Light in the Piazza; co-produced with Cameron Upon a Mattress, The Music Man, Warner Bros., and Sony Mackintosh; Oklahoma!; ’s Swan Lake; Pictures Television. The company is an eight-time Artios Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street; Annie; Hair- award-winner. spray; and The Wizard of Oz. NETworks’ other hits include TYPE A MARKETING (Marketing) is an inde- Disney’s Beauty and the Beast; Young Frankenstein; Handel’s pendent, full-service marketing company specializing in Messiah Rocks: A Joyful Noise; Spring Awakening; A Cho- Broadway and national tours. Its current Broadway clients rus Line; South Pacific (Lincoln Center); Blue Man Group include The Phantom of the Opera; American Idiot; Promises, (national tour); and Les Misérables’ new 25th Anniversary Promises; Million Dollar Quartet; How to Succeed in Business Tour. n Without Really Trying; La Bête; and The Addams Family. The company’s national tours include The Phantom of the Opera,

22 STAFF FOR A CHORUS LINE Tax Consultant ...... Brent A. Turner, One Source PSG EXECUTIVE PRODUCER IT Services ...... George W. Wilson, One Source PSG Kary M. Walker Trucking …………....…………...... ………. Janco, Ltd GENERAL MANAGEMENT Cast Bus ……..………....… Croswell VIP Motorcoach Gentry & Associates, Inc. Crew Bus ...... …………....……….…. Clarion Coach Scott W. Jackson, Gregory Vander Ploeg For NETworks Presentations TOUR PRESS & MARKETING Chief Executive Officer ...... …………… Ken Gentry TYPE A MARKETING Chief Operating Officer …....………… Scott W. Jackson Anne Rippey Michael Porto Executive Producers ...... Seth Wenig, Kary M. Walker DJ Martin Andrew Cole Associate Producer ….……….....………. Angela Rowles TOUR DIRECTION PROVIDED BY Senior General Manager …...... … Gregory Vander Ploeg AWA Touring Associate General Manager ……….….....….. Kim Reiter Alison Spiriti Matt Chinn Robin Mishik-Jett Production Manager ……….………....….. Jason Juenker CASTING Assistant Production Manager …….....…. Hector Guivas JAY BINDER CASTING Production Coordinator ……...... …. Kaitlin Ciccarelli Jay Binder CSA Marketing/PR …………....……...….....….. Heather Hess Jack Bowdan CSA, Mark Brandon, Nikole Vallins CSA Playbill Creation & Maintenance ....……. Tuckey Requa Assistant: Patrick Bell Music Coordinator ……………...... …....…. John Mezzio COMPANY MANAGER Controller ………………...... ……....… Paula L. Jenkins Jack Stephens Assistant Controller ………..………...... Jennifer Gifford PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER Accounts Payables ….....………….....……... Laura Carey Jay McManigal Accountant ………………...... …….……. Lisa Blank Associate Choreographer ……...... …… Luis Villabon Office Manager ……………...... …… Buddy Piccolino Assistant Costume Coordinator ..…...... John Saunders Office Assistants ………...... ………..……. Nancy Kerr Associate Lighting Designer ……...... Yael Lubetzky Office Intern ……...... …….....…… Jessica Tramondozzi Lighting Programmer ………….…...... Tommy Hague Credits Assistant Sound Designer ….…...... … David Stollings Additional Arrangements and Head Carpenter ...... ……...……...... Kaitlin Ciccarelli Orchestral Enhancement by NOTION Music, Inc. Flyman ……....………………….....…… Andrew Shaw Rehearsed at Chelsea Studios, New York, NY Head Electrician ……………….....…… Curtis Sharma Special Thanks to Assistant Electrician …...... ……..... Dwayne Thomas John Fisher and the Shubert Performing Arts Center, Head Audio ……….....…...………....…. Chris Devany New Haven, CT. Head Props ……..…………………....……. Ame Vessa Financial Services and Banking Arrangements by Head Wardrobe ………………...... ……. Emily Shaw M&T Bank Print Design, Radio and Television Spot Production ... Visit the A Chorus Line website at ..….…………….……...... Cosmic Deisgn, HMS Media www.achorusline.com Website …...... …..… Pit Bull Interactive www.facebook.com/achorusline David Risley, Allison Cabellon, Deborah Boyd, John Brisson All stage work performed by Production Photography ……....………… Phil Martin employees represented IATSE. Merchandising...Randi Grossman, Max Merchandising Accounting .…….....…. NETworks Presentations, LLC United Scenic Artists represents the designers and scenic painters for the American Theater. Legal…...... Franklin, Weinrib, Rudell & Vassallo, P.C. Payroll Services ……...... …………….….. ADP Insurance …………….……....…. DeWitt Stern Group Travel Agency ………...………....… Carlson Wagonlit Accommodations booked by...Lisa Morris, Road Concierge 23 presents ANJANI DANCE THEATRE/ ANJANI’S KATHAK DANCE OF INDIA Founder, Artistic Director, Choreographer, and Educator ANJANI AMBEGAOKAR

Associate Artistic Director, Associate Choreographer, and Principal Dancer AMRAPALI AMBEGAOKAR

Dancers ZURI ERANI, SHILPA GOPINATH, AMI JAIN, AVANTI KELKAR, SHALINI MUJUMDAR, PRITHA MULTANI, DIVYA PATIL, and SANGITA SANYAL

Guest Artists ABHISHEK KURUP SHAKTI DANCE COMPANY SHER FOUNDATION Founder and Artistic Director VIJI PRAKASH

JESS and JAG TOORAY MANVEER SEHMI ABHIJIT KURUP SHARANYA MUKHOPADHYAY

Vocalists CHARENJEET SARIKA RAVINDRAN

Musicians SHRI RAMESH KUMAR, TABLA PT. RAMESH MISRA, SARANGI

Friday, February 4, 2011, 8:00 PM

There will be one 20-minute intermission. The taking of photographs or use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.

Anjani’s Kathak Dance of India has been awarded several grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council. The company is on the Council’s touring program roster.

24 PROGRAM

Made in Mumbai II

SYNOPSIS

The inception of celebrating music from Indian cinema through Classical Kathak, collaborating with various dance forms as part of India’s 60 years of independence, arose in early 2007. The idea honors some of the greatest musicians whose music has created lifetime memories. From the past to the present, from music composers Shankar-Jaikishan to A.R. Rehman and directors such as Raj Kapoor, Mani Ratnam, and Sanjay Leela Bansali, I am amazed at the musicality of the compositions. After successfully presenting Made in Mumbai at UCLA’s Royce Hall, the desire for exploring an innovative vocabulary of dance, combined with new dance mediums to create fresh flavors (Rasa) of emotions (abhinaya) and brilliant rhythmic techniques, gave birth to the idea of Made in Mumbai II. I believe that Classical dance is the heart and soul of Indian dance. – Anjani Ambegaokar

BIOGRAPHies ANJANI DANCE THEATRE/ANJANI’S Anjani’s Kathak Dance of India, Amrapali has danced at KATHAK DANCE OF INDIA is led by pioneer Anjani the Hollywood Bowl, Ravinia Festival Chicago, World Mu- Ambegaokar, who was recognized by the National Endow- sic Institute in New York, the United Nations in Washing- ment for the Arts for her achievements in Kathak dance. ton, D.C., and the National Geographic Society. She also Lead choreographer for Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s 2008 performed in Dralion and with Grammy-winning composer The Clay Cart, Ambegaokar guest choreographed for Cirque and master trumpeter Mark Isham. Also an actress, Am- Du Soleil’s Dralion. rapali has appeared on the television shows Heroes, Alias, Celebrated for its diverse works fusing Flamenco, Boston Legal, ER, and the Golden Globe-winning drama Hip Hop, Bollywood, Folk, Modern dance, and the Indian Grey’s Anatomy. Kathak, Anjani Dance Theatre/Anjani’s Kathak Dance of Anjani Dance Theatre/Anjani’s Kathak Dance of India includes Ambegaokar’s daughter, Amrapali, who won India’s Made in Mumbai II program, a showcase of vibrant a Solo Silver Medal in NBC’s hit show Superstars of Dance. Indian music and exceptional technical mastery, features The Los Angeles Times called Amrapali “a joyous monument Bollywood and Bhangra guest performers and accompani- to multiculturalism.” ment by live musicians. n As the principal dancer for Anjani Dance Theatre/

25 presents ETHAN BORTNICK, SOLO PIANO

Saturday, February 5, 2011, 8:00 PM

This performance will not include an intermission. The taking of photographs or use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.

BIOGRAPHY With the ability to play almost any tune by ear, May 2007. He has performed with the music industry’s top ETHAN BORTNICK has developed a wide-ranging luminaries, including Elton John, Natalie Cole, Smokey repertoire that encompasses Classical masterpieces, timeless Robinson, Beyoncé, Reba McEntire, Nelly Furtado, and the Jazz standards, and hot Pop and Rock chart-toppers. At age Orlando and Naples Philharmonic orchestras. The pianist 3, Bortnick began playing the piano by mimicking music is the youngest entertainer to score a PBS special, Ethan he heard, whether it was from the radio or the popular Bortnick and His Musical Time Machine, which showcases his Baby Einstein products. By age 5, he was composing his own Classical, Pop, and Jazz repertoire. pieces. USA Today hailed, “[He] tackles music with fervor One of the youngest philanthropists in the world, and focus.” Bortnick has helped raise millions of dollars for charities Bortnick has appeared on Good Morning America, around the world, including the Miami Children’s Hospital, The Martha Stewart Show, and The Tonight Show With Jay the Boys & Girls Club, the American Heart Association, Leno, on which he made his national television debut in and the Starkey Hearing Foundation. n

26 presents GARRISON KEILLOR

Sunday, February 6, 2011, 3:00 PM

This performance will not include an intermission. The taking of photographs or use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.

BIOGRAPHY Recognized as one of America’s best storytellers, Time magazine, Keillor has won a George Foster Peabody Minnesota native GARRISON KEILLOR began his Award, a National Humanities Medal from the National radio career at the University of Minnesota. He worked for Endowment for the Humanities, and a 1987 Grammy for Minnesota Public Radio and hosted the first broadcast of “Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Recording” of the A Prairie Home Companion in St. Paul. Based on the ficti- popular Lake Wobegon Days. In 1994, he was inducted into tious Minnesota town Lake Wobegon and its hardworking the Radio Hall of Fame at Chicago’s Museum of Broadcast residents and their old-fashioned values, the radio program Communications. today boasts more than 3 million listeners on more than 500 Keillor played himself in the 2006 movie adaptation public radio stations. of A Prairie Home Companion, featuring Meryl Streep, Lily Keillor is also an author and penned the bestselling Tomlin, Woody Harrelson, John C. Reilly, and Tommy Lee books Lake Wobegon Days, The Book of Guys, The Old Man Jones. n Who Loved Cheese, and Love Me. A frequent contributor for

27 presents TEATRO LIRICO D’EUROPA TURANDOT by Giacomo Puccini

Libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni Based on Friedrich Schiller’s version of the play Turandot by Count Carlo Gozzi

ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS OF TEATRO LIRICO D’EUROPA

Artistic and Stage Director GIORGIO LALOV

Musical Director KRASSIMIR TOPOLOV

Lighting Designer GUEORGUI BOYUKLIEV

Super Titles MAESTRO INTERNATIONALE

Friday, February 11, 2011, 8:00 PM Saturday, February 12, 2011, 8:00 PM

There will be one 20-minute intermission. The taking of photographs or use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.

28 CAST

A Mandarin ………………………....………………….…………. VLADIMIR HRISTOV

Liù, a young slave girl ………...... ……..… SNEJANA DRAMTCHVA

The Unknown Prince, Calaf …..………………………...... …….…. SIMON KYUNG LEE

Timur, Calaf’s father (an exiled Tartar King) ……....…...... ………. WILLIAM POWERS

Ping, the Grand Chancellor ………………………..…....………… PLAMEN DIMITROV

Pang, the General Purveyor ………………….………….…....…………. YURI NIKOLOV

Pong, the Chief Cook ……………………………………....……….. GUEORGUI DINEV

The Emperor Altoum ………………………………………....…………. MARIO NENOV

The Princess Turandot …………………………...... …..……...... OLGA CHERNISHEVA

Imperial guards, priests, Mandarins, officials, slaves, soldiers, and the people of Peking

Time and Place: Legendary – The Forbidden City, Peking

SYNOPSIS

ACT I Outside the Forbidden City

A crowd has gathered at the walls of Peking, awaiting the execution of Turnadot’s latest victim, the Prince of Persia. Another young prince, Calaf, who is unknown to the people of Peking, enters the scene. In the midst of the crowd, he recognizes his father Timur, an exiled Tartar King, who has fallen down from exhaustion. A young slave girl named Liù, who is secretly in love with Calaf, accompanies the King. Only Timur and Liù know the true identity of Calaf. The crowd cries out for Turandot to spare the Prince of Persia, but Turandot appears and signals for the execution to be carried out. As soon as Calaf sees Turandot, he falls deeply in love with her and all the elements of a “heroic quest” begin. The three ministers – Ping, Pang, and Pong – try to discourage Calaf from accepting the challenge to solve the riddles, but they fail. (The three ministers are comical characters derived from the tradition of commedia dell’arte, and provide a direct contrast with the very serious and noble characters of Turandot and Calaf.) Timur and a tearful Liù also beg Calaf not to risk his life, but as Act I closes, Calaf bravely strikes the gong that announces he is the new suitor.

INTERMISSION

29 ACT II Scene I: A Palace Pavilion

At the royal palace, the three ministers prepare both a wedding ceremony and a funeral ceremony in anticipation of Calaf’s fate. In a fit of depression, the three men reminisce about how happy they were before the birth of Turandot when China was not plagued by her horrible executions. They pray that love will conquer her heart and peace will return once again.

Scene II: In the Palace

In the palace courtyard, the Old Emperor Altoum, Turandot’s father, sits high on a throne. He vainly asks Calaf to reconsider. Turandot enters and with the aria In Questa Reggia (In This Kingdom), explains that she wishes to avenge the rape and murder of her ancestor Lo-u-ling who was abducted by a conquering Prince. It is this incident that has turned Turandot against men forever. She desires above all else to remain a virgin. She poses the three riddles to Prince Calaf and, to her absolute horror, he solves each correctly. She collapses in despair and pleads with her unyielding father to release her from her own decree. Still hoping to win her love, Calaf tells Turandot that if she can discover his name by daybreak, he will pay the forfeit and surrender his own life.

ACT III The Palace Garden

In the palace garden, Calaf hears Princess Turandot’s latest decree: “On pain of death, no one in Peking shall sleep until the name of the unknown prince is revealed.” Calaf sings the aria Nessun Dorma (No One Sleeps), reflecting on his firm devotion and love for Turandot and his strong belief that he will conquer her with love. The mob threatens him with drawn daggers to learn his name. Ping, Pang, and Pong try to tempt Calaf from his quest with worldly pleasures, but fail again. Sud- denly the guards drag in Timur and Liù, who had been noticed in the company of Calaf. Calaf tries to convince the mob that neither of them knows his secret. Turandot tries to question Timur, but Liù steps forward saying that she alone knows the true identity of the stranger. The guards torture Liù, but she does not divulge his name. Finally, Liù tells the Princess Turan- dot that because of the sacrifice she will now make Turandot at last learn to love. Liù snatches a dagger, stabs herself and dies at the feet of Timur. Turandot is deeply moved by the selflessness of Liù’s expression of love. Her once cold heart begins to thaw. Calaf and Turandot are left alone. They sing a duet that climaxes in a passionate kiss. The kiss shames the virgin Turandot who weeps, showing emotion for the first time. She pleads with Calaf to leave her alone forever, but he tells her his name, placing his destiny in her hands. Trumpets announce the coming of dawn and the crowd enters. Turandot announces joyfully that she knows the name of the unknown stranger, “His name is love.” The court salutes the power of love and life that has transformed Turandot and restored peace to Peking.

30 BIOGRAPHies OLGA CHERNISHEVA’s (Princess Turandot, the City Puccini Festival and Utah Festival Opera. Soprano) career highlights include Maria in Mazeppa; Lee’s other roles include Alfredo in La Traviata, Radames Polina in Pique Dame; Brigitta in Iolanta; Anne Trulove in in Aida, Manrico in Il Trovatore, Riccardo in Un Ballo in The Rake’s Progress; Mlle. Jouvenot in Adriana Lecouvreur Baschera, Rodolfo in La Bohème, the Third Jew in Salome, and Ninetta in The Love for Three Oranges with the Bolshoi Luigi in Il Tabarro, Rinucci in Gianni Schicchi, and a role in I Opera; Mimi in La Bohéme with the Kazan Opera Theater, Lombardi. Gold Coast Opera, and Teatro Lirico D’Europa; Micaëla in SNEJANA DRAMTCHEVA (Liù, Soprano) was Carmen with the Stanislavksy Opera Theater and Teatro born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. She graduated from the Dobrin Lirico D’Europa; Musetta in La Bohéme with the Bolshoi Petkov Music School of Plovdiv, where she studied voice Opera, Sweden’s Malmo Opera Theater, and San Francisco with Ivanka Michaylova. Dramtcheva also graduated from Opera Center’s Merola Opera Program; Tatiana in Eugene Music Academy in , where she Onegin and Persephone in the European premiere of Joel studied with Professor Karnobatlova-Dobreva. She made Feigin’s Opera Mysteries of Eleusis with the Moscow Con- her debut in 1984 with the Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra servatory Opera Studio; the title role in Tosca with Opera conducted by Dobrin Petkov. In 1990, she made her first ap- Illinois; Liù in Turandot with Opera Hong Kong; the title pearance in Die Entführung aus dem Serail with the Sofia Na- role in Madama Butterfly with Gold Coast Opera and Cedar tional Opera and Ballet’s Opera Studio. From 1991 to 1993, Rapids Opera Theatre; the title role in Manon Lescaut with she completed several European tours with the German West Bay Opera; Le Donne di Puccini with Opera Santa Bar- touring company Schlotte as Gilda in Rigoletto, Violetta in bara; and First Soprano in the Russian premiere of Master La Traviata, and Musetta in La Bohème. Her awards include Class. Chernisheva’s concert highlights have included the the second-place prize at the Francesco Vignas competition title role in Francesca Da Rimini with Dicapo Opera Theatre; in Barcelona, Spain; the Grand-Prix in Pamplona, Spain; in b-minor at the Nizhny Novgorod Concert Hall, the the first prize in Pavia, ; and the Audience-Grand-Prix Grand Hall of the Moscow State Conservatory, and Russia’s at the Giuseppe Verdi Competition in Parma, Italy. She was Saratov Opera Theater; Easter Oratorio at Moscow’s Cathe- a finalist in the Belvedere International Opera Competition dral Catholic Church; Fourth Symphony at the Grand Hall in Vienna, . Dramtcheva has made recordings for of the Moscow State Conservatory; and Carmina Burana at Bulgarian National Radio and for companies in other coun- the Grand Hall of Moscow’s Gnessin College. tries. She has been a frequent guest singer in Milan, Bar- SIMON KYUNG LEE (Prince Calaf, Tenor), for- celona, Bilbao, Lille, Madrid, , , Munich, merly a child actor known as Kyung Jae Lee, appeared in Tokyo, Valencia, and Zurich. Last season, she performed the two major films in his native Korea. Lee began his musical roles of Valencienne in The Merry Widow, Violetta in La training in Busan, Korea. In 2003, he studied in Italy where Traviata, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Musetta in La Bohème, he discovered an affinity for the verismo style of Operatic Lola in Cavalleria Rustica, Gilda in Rigoletto, Rosina in Il singing. Carlos Montane and Maestro Ubaldo Gardini gave Barbiere di Siviglia, Adelle in Die Fledermaus, and Micaëla in him the confidence to sing Giuseppe Verdi and Giacomo Carmen for Teatro Lirico D’Europa on U.S. tours. Puccini’s Operas. In 2004, Lee performed in recitals at the PLAMEN DIMITROV (Ping, Baritone) performed first annual Festival Notte Musicali Modenesi in Italy, and various roles with Teatro Lirico D’Europa on tour through- then spent the summer in Orlando participating in Sherrill out the United States for the last five seasons, including Milnes Opera program. Lee’s Operatic career is developing Schaunard in La Bohème, Morales in Carmen, and Ping in under the guidance of Jennifer Larmore and Giacomo Ara- Turandot. He debuted Sharpless in Madama Butterfly and gall. His recent performances include the tenor soloist in Germont in La Traviata, the title role in Rigoletto, and Es- Paukenmesse at with New England Sympho- camillo in Carmen. He also is a principal soloist in Bulgaria ny, the role of Giles Corey in The Crucible, and Cavaradossi with Sofia National Opera and Opera Varna and has been in Tosca. He received rave reviews as Calaf in Turandot with a guest performer in other Eastern and Western European

31 Opera companies. Dimitrov studied at the National Acad- of Vienna and the Basque National Opera of Bilbao; Dead emy of Music in Sofia and is a laureate of several academic Man Walking for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; The competitions. For five years he worked at the Musical Damnation of Faust at the Grant Park Music Festival and the Theater-Sofia in the role of Charlie in Charlie’s Aunt and Casals Festival; the Festival of the Aegean in Athens and Cascada in Die Lustige Witwe. Styros; and the national tour of Teatro Lirico D’Europa’s WILLIAM POWERS (Timur, Bass-Baritone) made Tosca and Rigoletto for the Baltimore Opera Theatre. his New York City Opera debut in 1972 and, since then, VLADIMIR HRISTOV (A Mandarin, Bass) gradu- has performed more than 100 Operatic roles throughout ated from the National Academy of Music in Sofia. He has the United States, Europe, and South America. While been a soloist with Teatro Lirico D’Europa on its U.S. tours the stylistic range of his portrayals spans from Renaissance since 2003. Hristov is also a soloist with the Sofia National to Contemporary, Powers has earned the reputation as a Opera and is a frequent guest soloist with other regional Op- “heavy” due to the dark, penetrating color of his voice. era companies throughout Bulgaria and Eastern Europe. His teachers and mentors, George London and Norman GUEORGUI DINEV (Pong, Tenor) has worked Treigle, have contributed to the dramatic intensity of his professionally in Italy, his native country, for more than 20 delivery. Powers created many new roles for world premieres years on stage and in film. He has performed with Teatro and performed in important revivals, including The Great Lirico D’Europa on tour in the United States since 2000 to Gatsby, Paradise Lost, Wuthering Heights, Holy Blood and outstanding acclaim in different character roles. Crescent Moon, and Sestina D’autunno. Powers has sung the YURI NIKOLOV (Pang, Tenor) has performed roles of Celio in The Love of Three Oranges and performed in with Teatro Lirico D’Europa for several seasons in differ- Gaetano Donizetti’s rarely heard Betly and the French ver- ent supporting roles. Nikolov graduated from the Bulgarian sion of La Favorite for the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and National Conservatory and performs with the State Opera the Opéra Comique in Paris. Powers’ creations include the of Varna. Italian version of Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District for the GIORGIO LALOV (Artistic/Stage Director, Sets, Spoleto Festival and the American premiere of George Frid- and Costumes) is the co-founder of Teatro Lirico D’Europa eric Handel’s Poro, re delle Indie for The Kennedy Center’s and the company’s current general manager and artistic Handel Festival. In 2000, Powers released a solo CD, Rogues director. Lalov was born in Telesh, Bulgaria, in 1958. and Villains, followed by The Worst of William Powers, which His father Lalo, a doctor, and his mother Stoiyanka, an contains several arias from the characters Basilio, Mustafa, elementary-school teacher and Bulgarian Folk singer, were Don Magnifico, Iago, Pizzaro, Alvise, and Boris Godunov. educated patrons of the arts. When his father died, Lalov Powers has also portrayed the villains Mephistopheles, was only 9 years old. Because he was an excellent student, Bertram, Mefisto, Reverend Blitch, Gianni Schicchi, and he was accepted to an elite boarding school in Bulgaria Falstaff. The bass-baritone has performed symphonic rep- where all the lessons were taught in French. When he ertoire, including Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony graduated from high school in 1976, he was fluent in French and Missa Solemnis, and the requiems of Guiseppi Verdi, and English. That year, he entered the Bulgarian National Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Antonin Dvořák, Johannes Academy of Music and toured throughout Italy with a choir Brahms, and Gabriel Faure. These standards are joined by from the university. In Milan, he auditioned for the famous the Contemporary works of William Schuman and Ned international School for Young Opera Singers at La Scala. Rorem, in conjunction with the Chicago, St. Louis, Pitts- He was accepted and made his Operatic debut at La Scala at burgh, Cleveland, Philadelphia, San Antonio, Los Angeles, age 25. After living in Italy for a short time, Lalov became Paris, Cologne, , Prague, Amsterdam, and Vienna fluent in Italian. In 1986 while on tour with an Opera Symphony orchestras. His recent performances include the company in , he met his future business partner, Yves premiere of Der Kaiser Von Atlantis and The Tales of Hoff- Josse, a former Ballet dancer who was booking Opera and man for the Chicago Opera Theater. Powers’ other credits Ballet tours. The two decided to collaborate. By 1988 Josse include Werther of Massenet for the Klangbogen Festival and Lalov were working on what was to become the most

32 successful Opera touring company in Europe. In 1990, Lalov established the Sofia Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. In 1995, Teatro Lirico D’Europa was averaging more than 250 performances a season. It embarked on its first major U.S. tour in 2000. KRASSIMIR TOPOLOV (Musical Director) was educated in Vienna, Austria. In addition to conducting hundreds of performances for Teatro Lirico D’Europa on tour in central Europe and the United States since 1995, he is a frequent guest conductor with Opera companies in Bulgaria and other Eastern European countries. TEATRO LIRICO D’EUROPA, the European Opera touring company formed in 1988 by former Bulgarian Opera singer Giorgio Lalov, has completed more than 3,000 performances worldwide, including seven seasons of U.S. tours. The popular company commemorates its 12th season of U.S. tours in 2010-2011 with 70 performances of sev- eral full-scale Operas, including Tosca, Madama Butterfly, Turandot, and Lucia di Lammermoor. Soloists for the produc- tions were chosen from auditions held in major cities and countries around the world, including Moscow, New York, Prague, St. Petersburg, Kiev, Bratislava, and Sofia. n

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