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CITY CENTER AT THE CENTER OF THE ARTS FOR 75 YEARS Arlene Shuler, President & CEO Chris Fenwick Encores! Off-Center Artistic Director Encores! Off-Center Creative Advisor Encores! Off-Center Music Director

NEW YORK CITY CENTER Encores! Off-Center

Music and Lyrics by Book by by

Featuring Chuck Cooper Raúl Esparza Jin Ha Brandon Contreras Rheaume Crenshaw Daniel J. Edwards Marina Kondo Jay Lusteck Liz McCartney Matt Moisey Shereen Pimentel Sharone Sayegh Vishal Vaidya

Scenic Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer Sound Designer Donyale Werle Clint Ramos Mark Barton Leon Rothenberg

Music Coordinator Production Stage Manager Seymour Red Press Cynthia Cahill

Casting by Laura Stanczyk, CSA

Music Director James Moore

Directed and Choreographed by Will Davis

Originally commissioned by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Bounce, an earlier version of this play, was originally produced by the , , Illinois on June 30, 2003 (Robert Falls, Artistic Director; Roche Schulfer, Executive Director). Off-Broadway premiere of by in 2008 (Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director; Andrew D. Hamingson, Executive Director).

Leadership Support for Encores! Off-Center is provided by Stacey and Eric Mindich Fund for Musical Theater Major Support is provided by Ford Foundation Series Sponsors Stacy Bash-Polley • Luigi Caiola and Sean McGill • Elizabeth and Dean Kehler • Andrew Martin-Weber • Paula and Ira Resnick • Nathalie and Pablo Salame

Support for Road Show is provided by Perry and Marty Granoff • The Ted and Mary Jo Shen Charitable Gift Fund RS RS A A E E Y Y

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ROAD SHOW THE ORCHESTRA

CAST OF CHARACTERS Music Director and Conductor (In Order of Appearance) James Moore

Associate Music Director ...... BRANDON URANOWITZ Rick Hip-Flores

Assistant Music Director ...... RAÚL ESPARZA Josh Clayton

Hollis Bessemer ...... JIN HA

Mama Mizner ...... MARY BETH PEIL Danny Percefull Dylan Schwab Papa Mizner ...... CHUCK COOPER Rebecca Steinberg Violins Una Tone Monica Davis Sara Jacovino

Viola Drums/Percussion THE ENSEMBLE Jocelin Pan Eric Poland BRANDON CONTRERAS, RHEAUME CRENSHAW, DANIEL J. EDWARDS, MARINA KONDO, JAY LUSTECK, LIZ MCCARTNEY, MATT MOISEY, Cello Bass SHEREEN PIMENTEL, SHARONE SAYEGH, VISHAL VAIDYA Caryl Paisner Peter Donovan

Woodwind Dave Noland David Young Mark Thrasher This production is being presented as a in which the will be performing with their scripts in hand. RS RS A A E E Y Y

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ROAD SHOW THE ORCHESTRA

CAST OF CHARACTERS Music Director and Conductor (In Order of Appearance) James Moore

Associate Music Director Addison Mizner...... BRANDON URANOWITZ Rick Hip-Flores

Assistant Music Director Wilson Mizner ...... RAÚL ESPARZA Josh Clayton

Hollis Bessemer ...... JIN HA

Mama Mizner ...... MARY BETH PEIL Piano Trumpet Danny Percefull Dylan Schwab Papa Mizner ...... CHUCK COOPER Rebecca Steinberg Violins Una Tone Trombone Monica Davis Sara Jacovino

Viola Drums/Percussion THE ENSEMBLE Jocelin Pan Eric Poland BRANDON CONTRERAS, RHEAUME CRENSHAW, DANIEL J. EDWARDS, MARINA KONDO, JAY LUSTECK, LIZ MCCARTNEY, MATT MOISEY, Cello Bass SHEREEN PIMENTEL, SHARONE SAYEGH, VISHAL VAIDYA Caryl Paisner Peter Donovan

Woodwind Dave Noland David Young Mark Thrasher This production is being presented as a concert performance in which the actors will be performing with their scripts in hand. RS RS A A E E Y Y

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ROAD SHOW SYNOPSIS of MUSICAL NUMBERS

What A Waste (Prologue) ......

It’s In Your Hands Now ...... Chuck Cooper

Gold! — Part I ...... Brandon Uranowitz, Raúl Esparza, Mary Beth Peil, Ensemble

Brotherly Love ...... Brandon Uranowitz, Raúl Esparza

Gold! — Part II...... Brandon Uranowitz, Raúl Esparza, Ensemble

The Game ...... Raúl Esparza Chuck Cooper Raúl Esparza Jin Ha Addison’s Trip ...... Brandon Uranowitz, Raúl Esparza, Ensemble

New York Sequence ...... Brandon Uranowitz, Raúl Esparza, Ensemble

Isn’t He Something! ...... Mary Beth Peil

Land Boom! ...... Matt Moisey

Talent ...... Jin Ha

You ...... Brandon Uranowitz, Jin Ha, Ensemble Mary Beth Peil Brandon Uranowitz The Best Thing That Ever Has Happened ...... Brandon Uranowitz, Jin Ha

The Game Reprise ...... Raúl Esparza

Addison’s City ...... Jin Ha, Raúl Esparza, Brandon Uranowitz

Boca Raton ...... Brandon Uranowitz, Raúl Esparza, Ensemble

Get Out ...... Brandon Uranowitz #RoadShowNYCC • @NYCityCenter

Go ...... Raúl Esparza, Brandon Uranowitz

Finale ...... Company RS RS A A E E Y Y

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ROAD SHOW SYNOPSIS of MUSICAL NUMBERS

What A Waste (Prologue) ...... Company

It’s In Your Hands Now ...... Chuck Cooper

Gold! — Part I ...... Brandon Uranowitz, Raúl Esparza, Mary Beth Peil, Ensemble

Brotherly Love ...... Brandon Uranowitz, Raúl Esparza

Gold! — Part II...... Brandon Uranowitz, Raúl Esparza, Ensemble

The Game ...... Raúl Esparza Chuck Cooper Raúl Esparza Jin Ha Addison’s Trip ...... Brandon Uranowitz, Raúl Esparza, Ensemble

New York Sequence ...... Brandon Uranowitz, Raúl Esparza, Ensemble

Isn’t He Something! ...... Mary Beth Peil

Land Boom! ...... Matt Moisey

Talent ...... Jin Ha

You ...... Brandon Uranowitz, Jin Ha, Ensemble Mary Beth Peil Brandon Uranowitz The Best Thing That Ever Has Happened ...... Brandon Uranowitz, Jin Ha

The Game Reprise ...... Raúl Esparza

Addison’s City ...... Jin Ha, Raúl Esparza, Brandon Uranowitz

Boca Raton ...... Brandon Uranowitz, Raúl Esparza, Ensemble

Get Out ...... Brandon Uranowitz #RoadShowNYCC • @NYCityCenter

Go ...... Raúl Esparza, Brandon Uranowitz

Finale ...... Company RS A E Y

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Brandon Contreras Rheaume Crenshaw Daniel J. Edwards

Marina Kondo Jay Lusteck Liz McCartney Matt Moisey

Shereen Pimentel Sharone Sayegh Vishal Vaidya

RoadShow19_Playbill_Program.indd 6 7/15/19 1:27 PM MEET THE ARTISTS CHUCK COOPER (Papa Mizner) won a Tony Village (Gwendolina), Katy Keene (Mrs. Lacey), Award for his performance in ’s The (Jackie), Dawson’s Creek (Grams), Life. He has been featured in 16 Broadway shows Law & Order: SVU, The Fringe. Film: The Song in every theatrical genre, from Shakespeare to mu- of Sway Lake, Here and Now, Collateral Beauty, sical comedy. His favorite role is being a father to The Contest, Mirrors, The List, Flags of Our Fathers, Eddie, Alex, and Lilli. He is gratefully married to The Reagans, Stepford Wives, Odd Couple II. playwright Deborah Brevoort. ChuckCooper.net BRANDON URANOWITZ (Addison Mizner) RAÚL ESPARZA (Wilson Mizner) Recent: Televi- has received a 2019 Tony Nomination and Drama sion: No Way Back (NBC). Theater: The Resistible Desk nomination for his role in . He had Rise of Arturo Ui (CSC), Chess (Kennedy Center). previously been nominated for a Tony and Drama Broadway: Leap of Faith; The Homecoming (Tony Desk award nominee for and a Tony and nom., ); Company (2007 Tony Grammy award for An American in Paris. Addi- nom., Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards); tional Broadway credits include The Band’s Visit Taboo (Tony nom., Drama Desk Award); Chitty and of Broadway. Off-Broadway: Encores! Chitty Bang Bang; ; The Rocky Horror Show and ’s touring produc- (). Off-Broadway: The Nor- tion of . Regional: Torch Song Trilogy (Studio mal Heart; Tick, Tick... BOOM! (, Dra- Theatre, Award nom.) and Broadway ma Desk nom.) Regional: Sunday in the Park with Bound (The Old Globe). Film: The Marvelous Mrs. George and Merrily We Roll Along (Kennedy Cen- Maisel, Dietland, Blue Bloods, , ter Sondheim Celebration); Slaughterhouse-Five Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and Stage Fright. and Fur (Steppenwolf); Cry, the Beloved Country Upcoming: inFosse/Verdon on and Richard II (Goodman Theatre); HOLA Jose FX, The Kitchen. @BranUran Ferrer Acting Award. Film: Ferdinand, Find Me Guilty. TV: Law & Order: SVU, The Path. BRANDON CONTRERAS (Ensemble) is honored to be a part of such incredible history and join the JIN HA (Hollis Bessemer) will next be seen on long line of fellow artists with New York City Center in the upcoming FX series Devs. His Encores! Off-Center. TV:Mr. Robot. NY: Our Lady stage credits include Aaron Burr in of 121st Street (Off-Broadway), Almost Famous in Chicago, the Public Theater’s production of (Developmental Lab), Jerry Springer: The (The Troilus and Cressida, and the 2017 revival of New Group), The Connector (NYTW), The Secret M. Butterfly, marking his Broadway debut. Ha Garden (Developmental Lab), and The Hamilton was also recently featured in NBC’s Jesus Christ Mixtape (The Public). Tour: (1st Superstar: Live in Concert. Ha is a graduate of National). Regional: Drury Lane Theatre, Berkshire NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Theatre Group, Portland Center Stage, Pioneer Theatre Co. and Artists Repertory Theatre. B.F.A. MARY BETH PEIL (Mama Mizner) Broadway: from Pace University. BrandonaContreras.com (Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Award Nominations), Les Liaisons Dangereuses, RHEAUME CRENSHAW (Ensemble) Broadway: , , Women on the Verge of a Nervous Groundhog Day, Amazing Grace. National Tours: Breakdown, Sunday in the Park with George, , Waitress (1st National). Off-Broadway: Don’t (Tony nomination). Off-Broad- Bother Me, I Can’t Cope (NYCC Encores! Off- way: Many productions with Atlantic Theater Center); Alternating Currents (Working Theater). (ensemble member and Obie winner), Cheever Regional: Smokey Joe’s Café (FLMTF/MGR), Evening, Later Life (Playwrights Horizon), First Golem of Havana (Miami New Drama/Barrington Ladies Suite (), Sylvia (MTC), Stage/LaMama), in the Sun (St. Louis (NYTW). Regional: Hartford Stage, Black Repertory Co.), Black Nativity (Congo , , About Face, Square/Goodman), Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Crossroads/ Long Wharf, Yale Rep, Kennedy Center. TV: The NJPAC). Workshops: The Family Resemblance

FFD1.indd 1 9/18/17 5:13 PM MEET THE ARTISTS (Bingham Camp Theatre Retreat, The O’Neill musical TABOO. She has toured with Cinderella, Theater Center), Sundance Theater Lab. Film/TV: The Little Mermaid, Wicked, Les Miserables, and The Subways (Novonovous Prod.), #INSOCIAL (Insta Phantom of the Opera. Regional credits include series), Drama Queenz (web series). , PIRATES!, Mary Poppins, Souvenir, , and the Kennedy Center production DANIEL J. EDWARDS (Ensemble) is so grateful of . TV: Bull, Murphy Brown, Law & to be a part of Encores! Off-Center. He is a proud Order SVU, and The Blacklist. adopted son of a Christmas Tree farmer and dental hygienist. Some stage credits include MATT MOISEY (Ensemble) Broadway/National (Broadway Revival), The King and I (1st National Tour: , Les Misérables. East- Tour), Disney’s Mulan (Tuacahn), and more. He also man ’14. Matt is so thrilled to join this starry En- lends his voice to animation such as Yu-Gi-Oh!, cores! Off-Center team! Special thanks to Laura Pokémon, and Gundam. Shout out to his wonder- Stanczyk, James Moore, Will Davis, the team at ful wife, family, friends, and to everyone watching. Henderson Hogan, John Weidman, Jonathan Tu- nick, and Stephen Sondheim. Wow! Matt is cur- MARINA KONDO (Ensemble) is overjoyed rently learning to play the harp. Endless love to to be making her NYCC Encores! Off-Center friends and family! debut! NYC/Regional: KPOP (Ars Nova), Made in America (The Public), , The Little Mermaid, SHEREEN PIMENTEL (Ensemble) is making and Beauty and the Beast (The Muny). National her New York City Center debut. She is current- Tour: ’s The King & I. TV: Succession ly a recipient of a Kovner Fellowship at the Juil- (HBO). As a musical ambassador of Japan, she liard School. Theater: Young Nala in performs internationally. A proud graduate of (Broadway); Rapunzel in Into the Woods (Juil- The University of Michigan. So much love and liard). She would like to thank her family, CGF gratitude to BRS/Gage, Laura Stanczyk, family, Talent. and The Link program. and Nick. @marinakondo SHARONE SAYEGH (Ensemble) most recent- JAY LUSTECK (Ensemble) is thrilled to return ly originated the role of Anna in The Band’s Visit to Encores! Off-Center! Selected credits are on Broadway (OBC). Other Broadway: Mamma Broadway: A Tale of Two Cities. Off-Broadway: Mia! Off-Broadway: The Band’s Visit (Atlantic, , , Of Thee I Sing, Juno, World Premiere); The Wildness (Ars Nova, World Fanny, Pipe Dream, Showboat (Encores!), The Bells Premiere); Scheherazade (Prospect). Regional: La of Christmas (), Beowulf (Irish Rep- Jolla Playhouse, The Muny, Rep, San Jose ertory Theatre). National Tours: Deaf West’s Big Rep. TV: Instinct (CBS), Limitless (CBS). Work- River, The Phantom of the Opera, . shops: Bengal Tiger... (Lark), Sheila Levine... (Dir. Regional: 1776, The Full Monty, Sweeney Todd, ), Hooray for Iceboy (Dir. John Fiddler on the Roof, The Mikado, Knickerbocker Rando), War is F*cking Awesome (Dir. Leisl Tom- Holiday. Proud AEA member. Love to Shevhan my). @sharonesayegh and Bridget! JayLusteck.com VISHAL VAIDYA (Ensemble) Encores!: 1776; LIZ MCCARTNEY (Ensemble) was part of City Broadway: Groundhog Day; Recent Regional: Arena Center’s Off-Center production of God Bless Stage (Dave), Kennedy Center (How to Succeed...), You Mr. Rosewater with Santino Fontana in 2016, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival (), and the Broadway revival of Sunday in the Park Shakespeare Theatre Company, Cincinnati Play- with George starring which began house, Baltimore Center Stage. Education: Amer- at City Center. Other Broadway: , ican University. Twitter: @TweetsbyVish , , Mamma Mia, The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, Thoroughly Modern Millie, STEPHEN SONDHEIM (Music and Lyrics) The Dance of the Vampires, and the wrote the music and lyrics for

FFD1.indd 1 9/18/17 5:13 PM MEET THE ARTISTS (1954), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the WILL DAVIS (Director and Choreographer) Forum (1962), (1964), Com- Recent/upcoming projects include: Road Show pany (1970), Follies (1971), by Sondheim and Weidman (Encores! Off- (1973), (1974), (1976), Center); Everybody by Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins Sweeney Todd (1979), Merrily We Roll Along (1981), (Shakespeare Theatre Company); India Pale Ale Sunday in the Park with George (1984), Into the by Jaclyn Backhaus (MTC); A Doll’s House, Part 2 Woods (1987), (1991), and (1994) by Lucas Hnath (Long Wharf); Bobbie Clearly by as well as lyrics for (1957), Alex Lubischer (Roundabout Underground); Men (1959), and Do I Hear A Waltz? (1965) and ad- on Boats by Jaclyn Backhaus (Clubbed Thumb ditional lyrics for (1973). Anthologies of and , Lucille Lortel Award his work include (1976), nomination). Davis is an alum of the Soho Rep Marry Me A Little (1981), You’re Gonna Love To- Writer/Director Lab, NYTW 2050 Directing morrow (1983), (1993/99), and Fellowship, and BAX artist-in-residence program. (2010). He composed the scores of the filmsStavisky (1974) and Reds JAMES MOORE (Music Director) Broadway: (1981) as well as songs for Dick Tracy (1990) and Miss Saigon, On the Town, , Follies, South the television production Evening Primrose (1966). Pacific, , , Company. Tours: His collected lyrics with attendant essays have The Producers; Kiss Me, Kate; Crazy for You; And been published in two volumes: the World Goes ’Round. Regional: The Kennedy (2010) and Look, I Made a Hat (2011). In 2010 Center, Signature Theatre, Ford’s Theatre, the Broadway theater formerly known as Henry The Muny. Symphonic: National Symphony Miller’s Theatre was renamed in his honor. Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Santa Barbara Symphony. Music supervisor for the US touring JOHN WEIDMAN (Book) has written the productions of Les Misérables and Miss Saigon. books for a wide variety of musicals, among them Education: Master and Bachelor degrees from Pacific Overtures (Tony nomination for Best Book), the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Assassins (Tony Award for Best Musical Revival), and Road Show (Lucille Lortel nomination for Best DONYALE WERLE (Scenic Designer) is a Musical), all with scores by Stephen Sondheim. He based set, installation, and urban garden also wrote the book for (Tony nomination designer. Broadway: Peter and the Starcatcher for Best Book and Tony Award for Best Musical), (Tony Award), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson co-created with director/choreographer Susan (Tony nom), In Transit and Allegiance. Off-Broad- Stroman; Happiness, score by way: 6 Encores! Off-Center seasons including and , directed by Susan Stroman; Songs for the New World, Little Shop of Horrors, Take Flight and Big (Tony nomination for Best Assassins, and , MCC, Roundabout, Sig- Book), scores by Richard Maltby Jr. and David nature, Lincoln Center Theater, Public, Vineyard, Shire as well as the new book, co-authored with New York Theater Workshop, and Ars Nova. Re- Timothy Crouse, for the Lincoln Center Theater/ gional: Goodspeed, , Geffen, Roundabout Theatre/National Theatre revivals ACT, Writer’s Theatre, La Jolla, Old Globe, Hart- of ’s Anything Goes ( ford Stage, Papermill Playhouse, Denver Center, for Best Musical Revival, Olivier Award for Best Two River Theater. Awards: Tony, Obie, Lucille Musical Production) and Arrabal, score by Gustavo Lortel, Hewes Design Award, Drama Desk, and Santaolalla, directed and co-choreographed Outer Critic’s Circle nominations. Affiliations: by Sergio Trujillo. When his children were pre- Broadway Green Alliance, USA Local 829. Don- schoolers, Weidman began writing for Sesame yale speaks internationally on sustainable design Street, receiving more than a dozen and is currently working towards a Certificate for Outstanding Writing for a Children’s Program. of Horticulture from Brooklyn Botanic Garden. From 1999 to 2009 he served as President of the @midwoodgardens Dramatists Guild of America.

FFD1.indd 1 9/18/17 5:13 PM MEET THE ARTISTS CLINT RAMOS (Costume Designer) Has designed Huntington Theatre, Arena Stage, Old Globe. costumes for every show at Encores! Off-Center International: Cirque du Soleil, National Theatre since its inception. Broadway: Burn This, Torch of Cyprus, and Dijon Festival. Tony Award: The Song (Tony nom), on This Island (Tony, Outer Nance. Klaxson.net Critics, Drama Desk noms), Six Degrees of Sepa- ration, In Transit, Sunday in the Park with George, SEYMOUR RED PRESS (Music Coordinator) Eclipsed (Tony Award), Elephant Man, . More received the Tony Honor for Excellence in The- than 200 national and international design credits. ater. Credits boast more than 100 shows, includ- Awards: Tony, 2 Obies, 3 ATW Henry Hewes, 3 ing the original Gypsy; ; Nine; Bring in , among others. Head of De- ’da Noise, Bring in ’da Funk; and at sign at Fordham University. @clintramos Liberty. Credits also include acclaimed revivals of Anything Goes, , , A MARK BARTON (Lighting Designer) has designed Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, the lighting for every Encores! Off-Center show and . Screen credits include since the series’ inception. Broadway: Amélie Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Mike (co-designed with Jane Cox), The Real Thing, Nichols’ , and Paramount’s In and Violet, and The Realistic Joneses. Off-Broadway: Out. He is an ASCAP composer whose composi- Admissions (Lincoln Center Theater); Signature tions have sold more than 100,000 records. His Plays (Lortel Award), John (Hewes Design playing career has segued from Tommy Dorsey Award), and Paradise Park (Signature Theater); and Benny Goodman to . This , February House, and Titus Andronicus season on Broadway: King Lear and Chicago. (Public); The Watson Intelligence, Detroit, The Big Meal, and Circle Mirror Transformation LAURA STANCZYK CASTING Encores!: (Playwrights Horizons); Bad Jews and Look Back , Damn Yankees (Summer in Anger (Roundabout); Stars), as well as seven seasons with Binder Cast- (co-designed with Ryan Seelig); Fondly ing. Broadway, Off-Broadway & Tours:Side Show, Richland, Arguendo, The Select, The Sound and the After Midnight, A Night with Janis Joplin, Follies, Fury, and Gatz (Elevator Repair Service); Notes Lombardi, Ragtime, Impressionism, Seafarer, Radio from Underground and Chair (TFANA). Other Golf, Coram Boy, Translations, Dirty Dancing, All New York credits include Soho Rep, Young Jean Our Children, The Woman in Black, The Glorious Lee’s Theater Company, NYTW, BAM, Juilliard Ones, Cripple of Inishmaan, Noura, Little Rock, Opera, MCC, Women’s Project, Target Margin, Fetch Clay Make Man, Tarrell McRaney’s Brother/ New Georges, Clubbed Thumb, and P.S. 122. Sister Plays. Other Theater: The Kennedy Center Regional: Center Theater Group, Guthrie, A.R.T., for the Performing Arts (In the Heights, H2S, Little Actors Theatre of Louisville, La Jolla Playhouse, Shop of Horrors, The Music Man, Tommy); Druid Yale Rep, Huntington, Long Wharf, Berkeley Theatre, Ireland; Theatre Royal Bath; Hartford Rep, Denver Center, Cincinnati Playhouse, Stage; The Shakespeare Theatre of Washington, Lyric Opera, and Curtis Opera Theater. DC; McCarter Theatre Center; The Wilma; and Obie Award for Sustained Excellence. Chicago Shakespeare Theatre; among others.

LEON ROTHENBERG (Sound Designer) NYCC: CYNTHIA CAHILL (Production Stage Manager) Encores! Off-Center (2013–present), Fall for Broadway: Derren Brown’s Secret (upcoming), Dance (2008–2016), Anyone Can Whistle, 1776. , Junk. Off-Broadway: Encores! Recent Broadway: Hillary and Clinton, The Waverly Off-Center, The Park Ave Armory, Second Gallery, Mike Birbiglia’s The New One, The Boys Stage, The Public, The Vineyard, Atlantic Theatre in the Band. Recent New York: Primary Stages, Co, The Culture Project, Theatre for a New Playwrights’ Horizons, Second Stage, Manhat- Audience. National Tours: King Lear (’s tan Theatre Club. Select Regional: A.C.T., Two Globe Theatre); Tristan & Yseult (Kneehigh Theatre River Theater, City Theater Pittsburgh, Geffen, Company). Regional: 19 plus seasons at Berkeley

FFD1.indd 1 9/18/17 5:13 PM MEET THE ARTISTS Repertory Theatre including Notes from the Field: CHRIS FENWICK (Encores! Off-Center Music Doing Time in Education and Let Me Down Easy by Director) is currently a vocal producer on Steven ; The Wild Bride and Tristan Spielberg’s film of West Side Story. He recently & Yseult (dir. Emma Rice); Shakespeare Theatre; music supervised at the Young Vic in Arena Stage; ; Guthrie London; at Center Theatre Group in Theater; McCarter Theatre; Hartford Stage; The Los Angeles; and the Broadway revival of Once on Folger Theatre; ACT; Kansas City Repertory This Island (2018 Tony Award, Best Revival). He Theatre; The Broad Stage; Lookingglass Theatre music directed the Broadway revival of Sunday in Company; among many others. the Park with George. Fenwick music directed the Public Theater and Broadway productions of Fun STEPHEN MILOSEVICH (Stage Manager) Home (2015 Tony Award, Best Musical) and music Broadway: True West, Frozen, School of Rock, Time supervised the national tour. He music directed the and the Conways, Sunday in the Park with George, original productions of Michael John LaChiusa’s Something Rotten!, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, , Los Otros, , and See What I Fun Home, Rocky. NYCC: High Button Shoes; Wanna See. He has also served as music director for Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope; Songs for a New concerts with Patti LuPone at Carnegie Hall, Ra- World; Sunday in the Park with George. Other vinia Festival, and many more. Fenwick was music Off-Broadway includes A Midsummers Night’s director of the Encores! Off-Center productions Dream (Public); Hir, BootyCandy, Mr. Burns... of Gone Missing; Assassins; God Bless You, Mr. (PHZ); American Hero (2ST). Love to Erin. Rosewater; Runaways; The Wild Party; Little Shop of Horrors; A New Brain; Pump Boys and Dinettes; RACHEL A. ZUCKER (Assistant Stage Faust; tick, tick…BOOM!; I’m Getting My Act Manager) Broadway: The Prom, True West, Pretty Together…; and The Cradle Will Rock. Woman, Farinelli and the King, Indecent. Select Off-Broadway: Tiny Beautiful Things, Twelfth ANNE KAUFFMAN (Encores! Off-Center Night, Plenty, Southern Comfort, Grounded, Artistic Director) New York: Fire in My Mouth Under the Radar Festival 2017 (The Public (NY Philharmonic); The Lucky Ones (Ars Nova); Theater); Othello, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hundred Days (NYTW, Z Space, The Know The- Troilus and Cressida, (The Public ater); Mary Jane (Lortel Award for Direction, Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park); Lazarus NYTW, Yale Rep); Marvin’s Room (Roundabout (New York Theater Workshop); Curse of the Theatre Company); Assassins (Encores! Off- Starving Class (Signature Theatre Company). Center); Sundown; Yellow Moon (Women’s Proj- Regional: Resident ASM at Studio Theater and ect/Ars Nova); A Life (Lortel nomination, Drama Roundhouse Theater in Washington, D.C. MFA League Nomination); Marjorie Prime (Lortel Nom- Stage Management, . ination, Drama League Nomination); Detroit, Your Mother’s Copy of the Kama Sutra, and Maple and THE CIVILIANS (The Lobby Project) Founded in Vine (Playwrights Horizons); The Nether, Smokefall 2001, The Civilians supports ambitious new work (MCC); Buzzer (The Public); Belleville (Lortel Nom- that dynamically engages with our broader social ination, NYTW, Yale Rep); You Got Older (Drama and political environment. Notable shows include Desk Nomination, P73 Productions); The Muscles Gone Missing; Anne Washburn’s Mr. Burns, a in Our Toes (Labyrinth Theater Company); Some- post-electric play, named the 4th Best Play of the where Fun, God’s Ear (New Georges and Vineyard past 25 years by ; José Rivera’s Theater); Stunning, Slowgirl (LCT3). Regional: The Another Word for Beauty; and Michael Friedman Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, Smokefall (Good- and Bess Wohl’s Pretty Filthy. The company par- man Theatre); And No More Shall We Part, You ticipated in several BAM Next Wave Festivals Better Sit Down: Tales from My Parents’ Divorce, and has been produced at major New York and Six Degrees of Separation (Williamstown The- regional theaters. TheCivilians.org. ater Festival); Belleville (Yale Rep, Steppenwolf). Resident Director Roundabout Theater, Artistic

FFD1.indd 1 9/18/17 5:13 PM MEET THE ARTISTS Associate and founding member of The Civilians, vice president of planning and external affairs. In Clubbed Thumb Associate Artist, and co-creator June 2003 she was named president and CEO of of the CT Directing Fellowship, New Georges As- New York City Center, where she had performed sociate Artist, Artistic Council of Soho Rep, SDC as a member of the Joffrey Ballet at the start of Executive Board Member. Three OBIES, the Joan her career. Her accomplishments at City Center and Joseph Cullman Award for Exceptional Cre- include her conception of the acclaimed Fall for ativity from Lincoln Center, the Dance Festival, which premiered in September Director Award. 2004. In recognition of her significant contribu- tions to dance, she was awarded the 2009 Capezio JEANINE TESORI (Off-Center Creative Advisor Dance Award. Ms. Shuler serves on the board of and Founding Artistic Director) Broadway cred- the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the George Bal- its include Fun Home; Violet; Caroline, or Change, anchine Foundation, and on the advisory board of The Musical; Thoroughly Modern Millie; Twelfth the Trust for Mutual Understanding. She is also a Night (Lincoln Center Theater); and ’s member of the New York State Bar Association. A Free Man of Color. Tesori also collaborated with on Mother Courage starring Meryl NEW YORK CITY CENTER has played a defining Streep at the Delacorte. Her opera credits in- role in the cultural life of the City since 1943 when clude A Blizzard on Marblehead Neck (, Tony it was founded by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia with Kushner; Glimmerglass) and The Lion, the Unicorn the civic mission to make the best in the performing and Me (libretto, J. D. McClatchy; Washington arts accessible to all. Today the distinctive National Opera) as well as the upcoming Blue (li- neo-Moorish theater welcomes hundreds of bretto, , Glimmerglass) and a thousands of visitors to experience internationally commission from the . Her acclaimed artists on the same stage that legends songs are featured in the revival of Gilmore like George Balanchine, Leonard Bernstein, and . She is the co-founder of A Broader Way, an made their mark. For nearly 25 arts empowerment program for girls from under- years the treasured Tony-honored Encores! series served communities; the founding artistic director has given new life to the American musical theater of Encores! Off-Center; and has been a lecturer in canon, complimented by the Encores! Off-Center music at and Columbia University. series, which features seminal Off-Broadway Upcoming: Soft Power at The Public Theater. musicals filtered through the lens of today’s innovative artists. Dance continues to be an integral ARLENE SHULER (New York City Center part of the theater’s mission through programs like President & CEO) has had a long and distinguished the annual Fall for Dance Festival, which exposes career in the arts. After dancing with the Joffrey a new audience to an international array of artists Ballet, she attended Columbia University, where by offering highly subsidized tickets. City Center she received her B.A. and J.D. degrees. Her arts is also the home to a roster of renowned national administration career began in Washington, D.C., and international companies including Alvin Ailey where she served as program administrator of the American Dance Theater (City Center’s Principal dance program at the National Endowment for the Dance Company) and Theatre Club. Arts, among other positions. Ms. Shuler returned Through its robust education and community to New York as executive director of Volunteer programs, City Center brings the performing arts Lawyers for the Arts, and then continued in the to more than 9,000 New York City students each field of philanthropy in leadership positions with year and activates all areas of the building with the Wallace Funds, General Atlantic Partners talks, master classes, art exhibitions, and intimate Foundation, Atlantic Philanthropic Service Com- performances that provide audiences an up-close pany, and the Howard Gilman Foundation. For look at the work of the great theater and dance 11 years Ms. Shuler worked at Lincoln Center for artists of our time. the Performing Arts, where she was vice president for planning and development and then senior

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SPECIAL STAFF FOR ROAD SHOW SPECIAL THANKS TO

Manager, Musical Theater Programs...... Meg Brown Michelle Ridley, John Rodriguez, and Casting ...... Laura Stanczyk, CSA all involved with pre-production. Sarah Cooney Technical Supervisor ...... Mark Mongold Will Davis is indebted to Associate Choreographer Production Stage Manager...... Cynthia Cahill Whitney G-Bowley. Without her collaboration on this Stage Manager...... Stephen Milosevich project, there would be no show tonight. Assistant Stage Manager...... Rachel A. Zucker Associate Director...... Sarah Cook New York City Center would like to thank the Associate Choreographer...... Whitney G-Bowley for their support of Associate Scenic Designer...... Bradley Wehrle the 75th Anniversary Season. Associate Costume Designer…...... Evan Prizant Associate Lighting Designer...... Tess James Wardrobe Supervisor...... Gina Loiodice-Montes The actors and stage managers employed in Assistant Wardrobe Supervisor...... Alison Valcarel this production are members of Actors’ Equity Music Assistant...... Adam Beskind Association, the union of professional actors Production Sound Mixer...... Elizabeth Coleman and stage managers in the . Moving Light Programmer...... Curtis Reik The House Manager employed in Props Coordinator...... Kate Stack this production is represented by Management Associate/Assistant the Association of Theatrical Press to the Off-Center Artistic Directors...... Maggie Snyder Agents and Managers. Production Assistant...... Kirsten Williams Backstage and Front of House Employ- Lobby Projects Curated and Produced by Steve Cosson ees are represented by the International and The Civilians Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (or Lobby Project Coordinator...... Amy Ashton I.A.T.S.E.). Photographer...... Joan Marcus The musicians employed in this produc- Encores! Off-Center Apprentices...... Marisa Arellano, tion are members of the Associated Mu- Asher Lloyd Ehrenberg, sicians of Greater New York, Local 802, Jasmine Lesane, of the American Federation of Musicians. Kristen Mendez, The Director and Choreographer are Jessie Rosso, members of the Society of Stage Yichen Zhou Directors and Choreographers, Inc., an independent national labor union.

CREDITS United Scenic Artists represents the Show art by Clara Cornelius designers and scenic painters for the Additional lighting equipment by PRG. American Theatre. Additional audio equipment by Gibson Entertainment The Professional Association of Playwrights, Patron treats provided by MYZEL’S CHOCOLATES Lyricists, and Composers 140 West 55th Street, across from City Center www.myzels.com

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