Ahmanson Theatre 48th 2014/15 Season
first season production fourth season production Cicely Tyson Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Vanessa Williams Cinderella Blair Underwood in Music by Richard Rodgers The Trip to Bountiful Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II By Horton Foote A New Book by Directed by Michael Wilson. Douglas Carter Beane September 17 – November 2, 2014 Original Book by Oscar Hammerstein II Music Adaptation, Supervision and second season production Arrangements by David Chase Noël Coward’s Orchestrations by Danny Troob Choreography by Josh Rhodes Blithe Spirit Directed by Mark Brokaw. Directed by Michael Blakemore. March 17 – April 26, 2015 December 9, 2014 – January 18, 2015
fifth season production third season production Matilda The Musical Dame Edna’s Based on the Novel by Roald Dahl Glorious Goodbye: Book by Dennis Kelly The Farewell Tour Music and Lyrics by Tim Minchin Sets and Costumes by Rob Howell Directed by Simon Phillips. Choreography by Peter Darling January 24 – March 15, 2015 Directed by Matthew Warchus. May 29 – July 12, 2015
PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P1 Inspiring Our Future
Special Thanks to Center Theatre Group’s Most Generous Annual Patrons Center Theatre Group wishes to thank the following donors for their significant annual gifts and for their belief in the transformative power of theatre.
$1 Million and above Brindell Roberts Gottlieb
$500,000 and above The Ahmanson Foundation
$250,000 and above Center Theatre Group Affiliates Kirk & Anne Douglas The James Irvine Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
$150,000 and above Anonymous Bank of America The Blue Ribbon Patricia Glaser & Sam Mudie Laura & James Rosenwald & Orinoco Foundation The Shubert Foundation, Inc. Eva & Marc Stern Wells Fargo Foundation
$100,000 and above Annenberg Foundation Ann & Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr. Los Angeles County Arts Commission JPMorgan Chase & Co. Deidra Norman Schumann Sue Tsao
$75,000 and above Elisabeth Katte Harris Trust William Randolph Hearst Foundation The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Lloyd E. Rigler — Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation
This list includes gifts made to Center Theatre Group between September 11, 2013, and November 11, 2014.
P2 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE Michael Ritchie, artistic director Edward L. Rada, managing director Douglas C. Baker producing director Gordon Davidson, founding artistic director
Jeffrey Richards Jerry Frankel Steve Traxler Lee Dean John Frost Charles Diamond Will Trice in associaton with Ken Davenport Kathleen K. Johnson Jam Theatricals present Angela Lansbury Charles Edwards Jemima Rooper Charlotte Parry in
with Simon Jones Susan Louise O’Connor Sandra Shipley
Designed By Lighting By Sound By Angela Lansbury’s Costumes By Simon Higlett Mark Jonathan Ben and Max Ringham Martin Pakledinaz
Casting UK Casting Director Associate Director Associate Costume Designer Production Stage Manager Telsey + Company Gabrielle Dawes, CDG Jenny Eastop Bill Butler John M. Atherlay William Cantler, CSA
Production Management Marketing and Publicity Direction UK General Management General Management Aurora Productions, Inc. Type A Marketing Playful Productions UK Richards/Climan, Inc.
Directed by Michael Blakemore
December 9, 2014 – January 18, 2015 Ahmanson Theatre
The Los Angeles engagement of Blithe Spirit is generously supported in part by Artistic Director’s Circle member Misty Widelitz.
PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P3 CAST (in order of appearance)
Edith...... SUSAN LOUISE O’CONNOR Ruth...... CHARLOTTE PARRY Charles...... CHARLES EDWARDS Dr. Bradman...... SIMON JONES Mrs. Bradman...... SANDRA SHIPLEY Madame Arcati...... ANGELA LANSBURY Elvira...... JEMIMA ROOPER
STANDBYS Standbys never substitute for the listed players unless a specific posting or announcement is made at the time of the performance. For Charles, Dr. Bradman: MARK CAPRI For Ruth, Mrs. Bradman: REBECCA DINES For Madame Arcati: SANDRA SHIPLEY For Edith, Elvira: TONI SMITH
Interlude Vocals by Christine Ebersole.
SETTING The living room of the Condomine’s house in Kent, England.
There will be one 15-minute intermission.
Charles Edwards and Jemima Rooper are appearing with the support of Actors’ Equity Association pursuant to an exchange program between American Equity and UK Equity.
P4 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE clockwise from left: (l-r) Charles Edwards, Angela Lansbury and Susan Louise O’Connor in Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit. • Angela Lansbury in Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit • Charles Edwards, Jemima Rooper and Charlotte Parry in Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit. photos by joan marcus.
PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P5 clockwise from left: Blithe Spirit Playbill: © The Noël Coward Collection, Special Collections, Birmingham University; (l-r) Mildred Natwick and Leonora Corbett in the U.S. premiere of Blithe Spirit on Broadway, photo from Vandamm Studio / The New York Public Library; Noël Coward: © NC Aventales AG Private Collection; Clifton Webb in in the U.S. premiere of Blithe Spirit on Broadway, photo from Vandamm Studio / The New York Public Library.
P6 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE Noël Coward The Impossibility of Love
t all began with the actress Joyce Carey. On May 2, 1941, comedy. He had already realized from a study of Private Ishe took a train for Portmeirion in North Wales. She’d Lives that “a character could stand on a stage and say one had one of her plays, Sweet Aloes, produced in the West thing and the audience would know he actually meant End and was now working on another based on Keats and something else!” Pinter would elaborate on that insight Fanny Brawne. As a travelling companion, she took her in his own work ever after. great friend Noël Coward. When they returned to London six days later, Joyce was still wrestling with Fanny Brawne. Comedy was always Coward’s way of making a serious Coward had the completed manuscript of Blithe Spirit. point. “I am light-minded. I would inevitably write a comedy if – God help me! – I wanted to write a play with “For some time past an idea for a light comedy had been a message.” Perhaps it was his deliberate intention to rattling at the door of my mind,” said Coward, “and I appear trivial, never to wear his heart anywhere near his thought the time had come to let it in and show it a little sleeve. What he might have said was that he realized courtesy…. Beyond a few typographical errors, I made no that comedy and tragedy are essentially two sides of the corrections, and only two lines of the original script were same coin. With the 20-20 clarity of hindsight, however, ultimately cut.” it becomes clear that beneath the brittle carapace of witty words, much of his work had as its unifying theme the The play opened only a month later on June 16 in tragic impossibility of love. Manchester, and then at London’s Piccadilly Theatre on July 2. It ran for 1997 performances, outlasting In Private Lives, Elyot and Amanda cannot live with each World War II (a West End record until The Mousetrap other or without each other. In their struggle, which will overtook it). go on after they steal away and the play ends, they leave the debris of everyone who comes near them, and will go Some early critics were skeptical of the subject matter. on doing so, for this is not an ending but an intermission. How could audiences be expected to find death amusing They are unconscious killers. in the middle of a war? Yet, clearly they did. The Daily Mail summed it up as “fantastic fun” and, paraphrasing The same thing happens in Design For Living for Gilda, Shelley, concluded: Otto and Leo. The secondary characters who cross their paths are irrelevant to their selfish needs and casually Hail to thee, Blithe Spirit, discarded as they work out the variations in their Bird thou’ll never get. romance-à-trois. Others must clean up the emotional mess. In Fallen Angels, Julia and Jane have settled for And it never has, even though it’s one of the most revived predictably boring marriage until the prospect of a visit of his plays. from the Gallic lover they had once shared suggests the possibility of an old flame rekindling the odd ember. Coward gave the play the subtitle “An Improbable Comedy” but Harold Pinter sensed a deeper meaning, common In Blithe Spirit, Charles Condomine is, for the purposes to many of Coward’s major plays. When he directed a of the play, a bigamist. As played by Cecil Parker in the revival of Blithe Spirit at The National Theatre in 1976, original production, he is a conventional middle-aged Pinter insisted to his cast at the start of rehearsals that man, comfortable, if not ecstatic, in his second marriage he considered the play to be neither improbable nor a to Ruth. Then the shade of his first wife, Elvira, returns,
PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P7 If Love were all, I should be lonely –Bitter Sweet
reminding him of the lows and also a few of the highs of A later verse captures a more realistic, if more what once was. But Blithe Spirit is only incidentally about disappointing, realization. ghosts and the hereafter. It’s really about marital discord in the present continuing for all time. The impossibility of I am no good at Love. love, doubled. My heart should be wild and free I kill the unfortunate golden goose, Coward’s expressed view of love and marriage was Whoever it may be, consistent from very early on. It may end in tragedy as With over-articulate tenderness in The Astonished Heart or Bitter Sweet, or in futility, as in And too much intensity. Easy Virtue. At its most romantic, love is something that I am no good at Love. nearly but never was and now never will be, as in Brief I betray it with little sins, Encounter. Never was and therefore able to endure as For I feel the misery of the end romance unsoiled in the minds of Laura and Alec. In the In the moment that it begins minds of the audience too, which is presumably why The And the bitterness of the last good-bye Guardian recently placed Brief Encounter at the top of its Is the bitterness that wins. poll for the most romantic film of all time. Casablanca and Gone With The Wind were second and third respectively. In Blithe Spirit, Charles Condomine lives to love again. But what are his chances? Does anyone in a Coward Over the years and through his plays, poems and songs, play live happily ever after? Coward conducted a constant debate about love through his characters. In a late life television interview, Coward is asked to sum up his life in one word. “Well, now comes the terrible “Tell me, tell me, tell me, what is Love?” asks the young Sari decision as to whether to be corny or not. The answer is in Bitter Sweet. “Is it some consuming flame / Part of the one word. Love. To know that you are among people you Moon, part of the Sun / Part of a dream barely begun?” love and who love you. That has made all the successes wonderful – much more wonderful than they’d have been Later in the same 1929 play, Manon, the café chanteuse, anyway. And that’s it, really.” expresses what has come to be seen as Coward’s considered conclusion: So perhaps the answer is not romantic love, but loving. ○
I think if only - Barry Day Somebody splendid really needed me, Editor of The Letters of Noël Coward Someone affectionate and dear, Cares would be ended if I knew that he Wanted to have me near. But I believe that since my life began Barry Day has written and compiled a number of books The most I’ve had is just on Noël Coward including Star Quality: The Treasures of A talent to amuse. Noël Coward (Andre Deutsch), The Letters of Noël Coward Heigh, ho, if love were all. (Knopf/Methuen) and The Complete Lyrics of Noël Coward (Overlook/Methuen).
P8 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE Who’s Who
ANGELA CHARLES and Them (Hampstead Theatre), LANSBURY EDWARDS (Charles Where Do We Live (Royal Court). (Madame Arcati) Condomine) plays Film: What If, One Chance, The Black has enjoyed an Lady Edith’s Dahlia, Kinky Boots, A Sound of unprecedented publisher lover Thunder. Television: Blandings, career of over 70 Michael Gregson in Lucky 7, Atlantis (Series 1 & 2), years beginning as Downton Abbey. As Frankenstein’s Wedding, A Bouquet of a star of motion well as Blithe Spirit, Barbed Wire, Poirot: The Third Girl, pictures before continuing as an recent performances in London’s Lost in Austen, Hex, As If, The Railway award-winning stage actor in New West End include Bertie in the Children. Jemima was nominated for York and beyond. This production of original stage play The King’s Speech, Best Supporting Actress for What’s Blithe Spirit began in London in and Benedick in Much Ado About On Stage Awards 2011 (One Man, January 2014, and in 2013 she toured Nothing at Shakespeare’s Globe; he Two Guvnors), 2010 (All My Sons) and Australia in Driving Miss Daisy with was nominated as Best Actor at the for Best Performance in Musical for James Earl Jones and Boyd Gaines. Evening Standard Awards for both of Theatre Awards UK 2011 (Me And Other recent Broadway appearances these. On Broadway he led the My Girl). are Gore Vidal’s The Best Man (2012), Tony-winning production of The 39 A Little Night Music (2010), her first Steps, having originated the role of CHARLOTTE appearance as Madame Arcati in a Richard Hannay in London, where it PARRY (Ruth 2009 revival of Blithe Spirit, winning won the Olivier Award for Comedy. Condomine) was her a fifth Tony Award, and in Work at London’s National Theatre a member of the Terrence McNally’s Deuce (2007). includes Marsden in Eugene inaugural year Her 1957 Broadway debut was as Bert O’Neill’s Strange Interlude, for which of Sam Mendes’ Lahr’s wife in Hotel Paradiso. In 1960, he won the 2014 Clarence Derwent Bridge Project, she returned as Joan Plowright’s Award, and This House, for which he performing The mother in Shelagh Delaney’s highly was again nominated by the Evening Cherry Orchard and The Winter’s acclaimed A Taste of Honey and in Standard. For television he recently Tale at BAM, in the West End and 1964 she starred in her first musical, completed work on Arthur and internationally. Broadway: The Anyone Can Whistle. Lansbury George, a new series about Sherlock Winslow Boy, Coram Boy, The Real returned to Broadway in triumph in Holmes author Arthur Conan Doyle, Thing, The Importance Of Being 1966 in Mame, for which she won and on Ripper Street for the BBC. He Earnest. Off Broadway: Equivocation her first Tony Award. She received played Michael Palin in the BAFTA- (MTC), Bluebird (Atlantic), Look others for Dear World (1968), Gypsy nominated TV film Holy Flying Circus Back In Anger and Howard Katz (1974) and Sweeney Todd (1979). (BBC). Films include Philomena, (Roundabout). For Sir Peter Hall From 1984-1996 she starred as Batman Begins and Mansfield Park. Company at BAM, Center Theatre Jessica Fletcher, mystery-writing Group and London: As You Like It amateur sleuth, on Murder, She JEMIMA ROOPER and The Importance Of Being Earnest. Wrote, the longest-running detective (Elvira). Most Regional: Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion drama series in television history, recently Jemima (Old Globe), world premiere of John winning her four Golden Globe has been seen on Patrick Shanley’s Pirate (New York Awards. A three-time nominee, she the West End stage Stage and Film), world premiere received an Oscar for Lifetime in Breeders and of Albee’s Me, Myself & I, and The Achievement in 2013. A member of Blithe Spirit. Other Birthday Party (McCarter Theatre). In the Theater and Television Halls of theatre credits the U.K. - West End: The Colby Sisters, Fame, a Kennedy Center Honors and include One Man, Two Guvnors (NT, The Real Thing, The Cherry Orchard, National Medal for the Arts recipient, Tour, West End, Broadway), Me and The Winter’s Tale. TV: The Safe House in 2014 Queen Elizabeth II named My Girl (Sheffield Crucible), All My (ITV), Extreme Ghost Stories (ITV). her a Dame of the British Empire. Sons (West End), The Power of Yes Film: The Park Bench, The Importance (NT), The Great Game: Afghanistan Of Being Earnest. Charlotte has (Tricycle), Her Naked Skin (NT), A narrated over 50 audiobooks. Respectable Wedding (Young Vic), Us
PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P9 SIMON JONES (Dr. Law & Order: CI, Doomsdays, Flying REBECCA DINES Bradman). Scissors, Coming Up Roses, Acts of (standby Ruth, Mrs. Broadway: The Real Worship, Front Cover, Project Beth and Bradman). Recent Thing, Benefactors, Wallflowers. She stars in, co-wrote roles include Getting Married, and co-produced the web series Margie in Good School for Scandal, Lucy Knows Love. People and Real Inspector www.susanlouiseoconnor.com. Sarah in Time Hound and Fifteen- Stands Still. Minute Hamlet, Herbal Bed, Ring SANDRA SHIPLEY Favorite roles include Liz in Present Round the Moon, Private Lives, (Mrs. Bradman, Laughter and Pamela (et al) in The 39 Waiting in the Wings and Blithe Spirit standby Madame Steps. Critics Circle Awards for Ruth (with Angela Lansbury, also in Arcati). Broadway: in The Homecoming, Alexa Vere de London). Off-Broadway includes The Importance of Vere in As Bees In Honey Drown and Death Takes a Holiday, Home, Privates Being Earnest, Blithe Lorraine Sheldon in The Man Who on Parade, Cocktail Party, Long Island Spirit, Equus, Came To Dinner. Southern California Sound. Television includes Brideshead Pygmalion, Retreat appearances include The Laguna Revisited; Hitchhiker’s Guide to the From Moscow, Vincent in Brixton, Playhouse and South Coast Rep. Galaxy; Blackadder; Newhart; Oz; Indiscretions. Off-Broadway / Tour: A native of Australia, Rebecca Murder, She Wrote; Cosby Mysteries Anything Goes (tour), Gentlemen appeared in the cult TV drama and Law & Order. Films include Prefer Blondes (Encores), Suddenly Prisoner Cell Block H in its final year. Brazil, Twelve Monkeys, Miracle on Last Summer, Deep Blue Sea and 34th Street, Devil’s Own, Club Arms and the Man (Roundabout), TONI SMITH Paradise, American Friends, Privates on Kindertransport (MTC), Stuff Happens, (standby Edith, Parade and Monty Python’s Meaning Venus (Public). Regional: ART, Elvira) received of Life. Other work includes 12 years Humana, Hartford, Huntington, La her BFA from as Co-Artistic Director of TACT Jolla, Long Wharf, Old Globe, NYU and her (off-Broadway); award-winning work Williamstown, Guthrie. U.K.: RSC, MFA from UCLA. on radio; audio books. Details at Royal Court, West End. Film / TV: Representative www.simonjonesinfo.com. Monument Ave, Law & Order: SVU, Roles: Elizabeth Third Watch and Lipstick Jungle. Elliot Benning, Young Frankenstein; Claudia SUSAN LOUISE Norton Award Medal for Theatre Nardi, Nine; Cathy, The Last Five O’CONNOR (Edith) Excellence. Years; Electra, Electra; Bobbi, Some made her Broadway Girls; The Young Wife, Hello Again; debut in Blithe MARK CAPRI Helena, A Midsummer Night’s Spirit with Angela (standby Charles, Dream; Catherine, Pippin; Lansbury, receiving Dr. Bradman). Ghost of Christmas Past / Belle, a Theatre World Broadway: Private A Christmas Carol. Award, the Dorothy Lives, Blithe Spirit. Loudon Fellowship and an Outer Roundabout: On NOËL COWARD (Playwright). Born Critics Circle nomination. Her other Approval (Theatre in 1899 in Teddington, England, Noël theatre credits include productions World Award). Coward maintained an illustrious and with Rattlestick Theatre, Urban West End: Man and Superman multifaceted career as actor, director, Stages, Huntington Theatre, Metropolitan Opera: Iphigenie En producer, playwright, songwriter, Premiere Stages, Cincinnati Tauride. Mark Taper Forum: Arcadia. cabaret artist and author. Following Playhouse, St. Louis Rep, Abingdon Leading roles at Shakespeare his first adult role in Charley’s Aunt, Theater, La MaMa, Collaboration Theatre D.C., McCarter, South Coast, and the writing of his first song, Town and Barrington Stage. Susan Berkeley and Seattle Reps, Pasadena “Forbidden Fruit,” in 1915, he went recently guest-starred on Law & Playhouse, Old Globe, others. on to produce and star in many of Order: SVU and Orange is the New Film: The Empire Strikes Back, his hit plays and musicals, including Black. Additional film, TV and web Titanic, others. Royal Academy The Vortex, Hay Fever, Bitter Sweet, credits include Boardwalk Empire, of Dramatic Art. Private Lives, Design for Living, Tonight
P10 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE at 8:30, Present Laughter, This Happy SIMON HIGLETT (Designer). JOHN M. ATHERLAY (Production Breed, Sail Away and Suite in Three Simon has designed numerous Stage Manager). Broadway: Fela, Keys. He became a huge star in the productions in London’s West End, Xanadu, Beauty and The Beast, A U.S. following his appearance in for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Small Family Business, The Seagull, cabaret in Las Vegas in 1955 and Donmar, Royal Court, Almeida, Old Prelude To A Kiss. National Tours: The subsequent TV specials for CBS. Vic, most major U.K. theatres and Gershwins’ Porgy And Bess, Anything His film work includes Cavalcade opera worldwide. His credits at the Goes, Fela, Young Frankenstein, The (Academy Award, Best Picture), Shakespeare Theatre, Washington 101 Dalmatians, Fiddler on the Roof In Which We Serve, Brief Encounter D.C include Lady Windermere’s Fan with Topol, Little Shop of Horrors, The and The Scoundrel. He published for which he won the Helen Hayes Producers, Stardust with Betty Buckley. collections of short stories, verse, a Award for Best Design. novel Pomp and Circumstance and LORA K. POWELL (Stage Manager). his two-part autobiography, Present MARK JONATHAN (Lighting Design). Broadway/NY: Annie Get Your Gun, Indicative and Future Indefinite. Mark has created drama, opera, Chicago, The Life, Annie, The Wizard Coward was knighted in 1970 and ballet and musical lighting designs of Oz. LA: Harmony, The Scottsboro died in his beloved Jamaica in 1973. at LA Opera, Washington National Boys, Backbeat, Seminar, Follies, Opera, ABT, Houston Ballet, Parfumerie, Maurice Hines is Tappin’ MICHAEL BLAKEMORE (Director) Broadway and Charleston and in Thru Life, Wicked, The Producers, is the only director ever to win Tony the UK, Belgium, Canada, China, The Lion King, Disney’s Aladdin— Awards for both a play, Copenhagen, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, A Musical Spectacular, Scary Musical and a musical, Kiss Me, Kate, in the Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico and South the Musical. National Tour: Wicked. same year. Other accolades include Africa. He received a Drama Desk three Drama Desk Awards and Tony nomination for Prometheus Bound. TYPE A MARKETING (Marketing & nominations for Joe Egg, Noises Off, www.markjonathan.com. Press) is an independent, full-service City of Angels, Lettice and Lovage marketing company specializing and The Life. Recent Broadway: BEN and MAX RINGHAM (Sound in Broadway and national tours. Democracy, Deuce and Is He Dead? Design). Recent credits include Current/upcoming roster—Broadway: Off-B’way: Death Defying Acts. In Richard III (Trafalgar Studios), Adler It Shoulda Been You, Kinky Boots, Les England, he was Laurence Olivier’s and Gibb (Royal Court), Boeing Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera associate at the National Theatre, Boeing (Sheffield Crucible), I Can’t and Side Show. Tours: Anything directing him in Long Day’s Journey Sing (London Palladium), Blithe Goes, Dirty Dancing, Flashdance – Into Night. NT productions include Spirit (Gielgud Theatre), Perfect The Musical, I Love Lucy: Live on Afterlife, The National Health, The Nonsense (Duke of York’s Theatre), Stage, Nice Work If You Can Get It Front Page, Macbeth, The Cherry A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Million Dollar Quartet. www. Orchard and After the Fall. West (Michael Grandage Company), typeamktg.com. End successes include Three Sisters, The World of Extreme Happiness Design for Living, Benefactors, Uncle (National Theatre Shed) and AURORA PRODUCTIONS Vanya and The Sisters Rosensweig. Tartuffe (Birmingham Rep). (Production Management). Current: RSC: Privates on Parade (also film). The Book of Mormon (Broadway / Royal Court: Don’s Party and Shaw’s MARTIN PAKLEDINAZ (Angela National Tours), Once (Broadway Widowers’ Houses. Film: Country Lansbury’s Costumes). Broadway: / National Tour), Matilda, Hedwig, Life and A Personal History of the Nice Work If You Can Get It (Tony This is Our Youth, Indian Ink, Amazing Australian Surf. Books: Next Season nomination),The Normal Heart, Grace, A Delicate Balance, The Real and his memoir, Arguments With Anything Goes (Tony nomination), Thing, The River, The Elephant Man, England, and, most recently, Stage The Pajama Game (Tony and Honeymoon in Vegas. Aurora has Blood. He is the recipient of an Order nomination), Lend Me a Tenor been providing technical supervision of the British Empire, and, from (Hewes Award, Tony and Outer and production management to the Australia, the Order of Australia. Critics nominations), Thoroughly entertainment industry since 1989. Modern Millie, (Tony Award winner), www.auroraprod.com. Kiss Me, Kate (Tony Award winner), Blithe Spirit, Chaplin.
PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P11 TELSEY + COMPANY (Casting). Hall, Parts I and II, the latter marking JOHN FROST (Producer) is Broadway / Tours: Honeymoon in his 40th Broadway production. He is Australia’s most prolific and Vegas, The Last Ship, Love Letters, This a graduate of Wesleyan University. successful theatre producer, is Our Youth, If/Then, Pippin, Motown, A few decades ago. responsible for the Australian Kinky Boots, Rock of Ages, Wicked, productions of The Producers, Newsies, Million Dollar Quartet. Film: JERRY FRANKEL (Producer) received Chicago, Doctor Zhivago, The The Intern, Ithaca, Focus, A Most Tony Awards for All the Way (2014), Phantom of the Opera and Wicked. Violent Year, Into the Woods, The Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (2013), Recent successes include South Last 5 Years, Stage Fright, Song One. Glengarry Glen Ross (2005), August: Pacific, Driving Miss Daisy with Angela TV: Peter Pan Live!, Masters of Sex, Osage County, The Gershwins’ Porgy Lansbury and James Earl Jones commercials. www.telseyandco.com and Bess, Hair, Spring Awakening and and An Evening with Julie Andrews. Death of a Salesman. Past Broadway: Broadway credits include the Tony GABRIELLE DAWES (U.K. Casting Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, The Award winning productions The King Director) is a freelance Casting Glass Menagerie, Gore Vidal’s The Best and I, Hairspray and Exit the King. Director, and an Associate of Man, Bonnie & Clyde, The Merchant West End credits include Priscilla, Chichester Festival Theatre. Over 60 of Venice, Race, Blithe Spirit, Reasons Queen of the Desert, Lady productions for London’s West End, to Be Pretty, Will Ferrell’s You’re Windermere’s Fan, Blithe Spirit and Chichester and U.K. regional theatres Welcome America. Film: Tracy Letts’ The Bodyguard. include King Lear (also BAM), The August: Osage County. Norman Conquests (also Broadway), CHARLES DIAMOND (Producer). Macbeth (also BAM and Broadway). STEVE TRAXLER (Producer) founded West End Productions: Who’s Afraid Television includes Macbeth directed Jam Theatricals with his partner of Virginia Woolf?, the Almeida by Rupert Goold, and Kwame Kwei Arny Granat 20 years ago. Today the productions of Duet for One and King Armah’s Elmina’s Kitchen. Films company manages 30 subscription- Charles III, Complicite’s production include Perdie (BAFTA award for Best series markets across the country. of Endgame with Mark Rylance, Short Film) and The Suicide Club. Steve has produced many shows on Design for Living, End of The Rainbow, Broadway, working with playwrights Long Day’s Journey into Night, The RICHARDS/CLIMAN, INC. (General including David Mamet, Harold Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, The Duck Management). Founded in 1997 by Pinter, Will Eno and Tracy Letts. He House, Blithe Spirit with Angela David R. Richards and Tamar Haimes also produced the movie August: Lansbury. Touring Productions: The (formerly Climan). Current: You Can’t Osage County, starring Julia Roberts Clean House, Basket Case, Ladies Take It With You, It’s Only A Play, and Meryl Streep and the HBO in Lavender, Wife After Death, The Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella. special You’re Welcome America, Dishwashers, King Lear with Frank Past Broadway/Tours: All The Way, starring Will Ferrell. Langella at BAM. Anything Goes, August: Osage County, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, LEE DEAN (Producer) has over 100 WILL TRICE (Producer). Tony Awards The Glass Menagerie, Twelve Angry producing credits winning 31 major for All The Way, Who’s Afraid of Men, Annie. awards. West End / Broadway: End of Virginia Woolf and Porgy and Bess as The Rainbow; Who’s Afraid of Virginia well as nominations for The Glass JEFFREY RICHARDS (Producer) is Woolf?; The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?; Menagerie and The Best Man. Also honored to renew his association Copenhagen; Democracy; Arcadia; this season on Broadway — You with Dame Angela Lansbury, having The Invention of Love; blue/ orange; Can’t Take it With You, The Heidi presented the Broadway production Dinner; Duet For One; All The Fun Chronicles, and Wolf Hall. of Blithe Spirit in 2009, the London Of The Fair; Alarms & Excursions; production of Blithe Spirit in 2014, Feelgood; Comic Potential; Things We KEN DAVENPORT (Producer). It’s and the 2012 Broadway production Do For Love; Bedroom Farce; Damsels Only a Play, Kinky Boots, Mothers of Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, in in Distress; Dead Funny; The Memory and Sons, The Bridges of Madison which she co-starred. This year Mr. of Water; In Flame; Abigail’s Party; County, Macbeth, Godspell, Blithe Richards will be represented on Glorious!; Daytona; King Charles III; Spirit (Broadway/West End), Altar Broadway with You Can’t Take It With Blithe Spirit. Boyz, Awesome 80s Prom and others. You, The Heidi Chronicles and Wolf Created “Be a Broadway Star” board
P12 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE game, and iPhone app AT THE FOR CENTER THEATRE GROUP in San Diego and principal of Rada BOOTH. For more, read his blog & Associates, an accounting firm TheProducersPerspective.com. MICHAEL RITCHIE (Artistic Director) that specialized in entertainment- Upcoming: Gettin’ the Band Back is in his 10th season as Center related non-profit organizations Together, Somewhere in Time. Theatre Group’s Artistic Director, and theatrical productions. He is a and has led over 174 productions to graduate of Occidental College in KATHLEEN K. JOHNSON (Producer). the Ahmanson, Taper and Douglas Los Angeles with numerous post- Broadway: A Gentleman’s Guide stages since his arrival in 2005. graduate coursework and credentials. to Love and Murder (2014 Tony From 1996 to 2004 Michael was He currently serves on the board of Award), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf the Producer of the Williamstown directors for Entertainment Industry (2013 Tony Award), David Mamet’s Theatre Festival and prior to that he Foundation, Theatre @ Boston Glengarry Glen Ross, Race and A Life was a Production Stage Manager Court, and United Support of Artists in the Theatre, Nicky Silver’s The in NYC. At CTG, he premiered six for Africa/USA for Africa, among Lyons, Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, musicals that moved to Broadway other affiliations. He also serves Tracy Letts’ Superior Donuts, Noël – The Drowsy Chaperone (which on the board of trustees for the Coward’s Blithe Spirit, HAIR (2009 won 13 Tony Award nominations), pension, health and welfare and Tony Award). Curtains (eight Tony nominations) 401(k) plans of I.A.T.S.E. Local 33 13, 9 to 5: The Musical, Bloody Bloody Stagehands Union. JAM THEATRICALS (Producer), Andrew Jackson and Leap of Faith. He founded by Arny Granat and Steve has produced 39 world premieres DOUGLAS C. BAKER (Producing Traxler, manages 30 subscription- including the musicals Minsky’s, Director) is now in his 25th season series markets throughout North Venice and Sleeping Beauty Wakes, at CTG. Previously, he managed America, and recently took over the and the plays Bengal Tiger at the Broadway and touring productions management and programming of Baghdad Zoo (a Pulitzer Prize finalist including Tru, Born Yesterday, the National Theatre in Washington, that also moved to Broadway),Water The Gospel at Colonus, Annie, A D.C. They have produced over 40 & Power and Yellow Face, and he Chorus Line, Working, The Wiz and Broadway shows, winning a total of presented a broad range of plays Legends!, which premiered at the seven Tony Awards for producing and musicals ranging from Dead Ahmanson Theatre in 1986 and All The Way, Who’s Afraid of Virginia End to The Black Rider to Edward starred Mary Martin and Carol Woolf, Hair, August: Osage County, Scissorhands to blockbusters such as Channing. Doug is a member of The History Boys, Glengarry Glen Ross God of Carnage, Mary Poppins, Jersey the Achievement Hall of Fame of and Monty Python’s Spamalot. Boys and August: Osage County. In Chagrin Falls Schools in Ohio and addition, Michael inaugurated CTG’s a graduate of Albion College. He is ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION New Play Production Program, an active member of the Broadway (AEA), founded in 1913, represents designed to foster the development League, the Independent Presenters more than 49,000 actors and stage and production of new work. Network and is a proud member managers in the United States. of the Association of Theatrical Equity seeks to advance, promote EDWARD L. RADA (Managing Press Agents and Managers. In May and foster the art of live theatre as an Director) returned to Center Theatre 2013 Doug received The Broadway essential component of our society. Group in 2011 after previously League’s prestigious Outstanding Equity negotiates wages and working serving as CTG’s Chief Financial Achievement in Presenter conditions, providing a wide range Officer for 12 years (1996–2008). Management Award. of benefits, including health and Rada spent three years (2008– pension plans. AEA is a member of 2011) as President of the Music JEFFREY UPAH (General Manager, the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with Center Foundation, a non-profit Ahmanson Theatre) has worked in FIA, an international organization of corporation that holds and invests management at Center Theatre performing arts unions. The Equity the endowment and reserve funds Group since 2006 on more than emblem is our mark of excellence. for the Music Center and its resident 50 musicals, plays and special www.actorsequity.org. companies (including CTG). Prior events including both pre-Broadway to his years at CTG, he was the productions and Broadway tours. Director of Finance at The Old Globe Some of his favorites include Follies,
PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P13 God of Carnage and The Black Rider Washington University in St. Louis, Award, The Governor’s Award for the (having previously worked on Robert and received an MFA in theatre Arts and a Guggenheim fellowship. Wilson productions in Boston, management from the Yale School The Kentucky Cycle and Angels in Houston and São Paulo, Brazil). of Drama. America (Part One) won the Pulitzer Prior to CTG, he was the marketing in consecutive years and, in 1994, manager for the last two of his 11 GORDON DAVIDSON (Founding three of the four plays nominated for seasons with The Santa Fe Opera, Artistic Director) led the Taper the Tony Award for Best Play were and worked in various capacities at throughout its first 38 seasons, from the Taper (Angels in America Yale Repertory Theatre, American guiding over 300 productions to won). In 1989 Gordon took over Repertory Theatre and Jacob’s Pillow its stage and winning countless the Ahmanson and, in 2004, he Dance Festival, among others. He awards for himself and the theatre produced the inaugural season in graduated magna cum laude with — including the Tony Award for the Kirk Douglas Theatre. his studies in film and theatre from theatrical excellence, Margo Jones
l-r: Susan Louise O’Connor, Sandra Shipley, Charles Edwards, Angela Lansbury, Charlotte Parry and Simon Jones in Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit. photo by joan marcus.
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PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P15 Center Theatre Group L.A.’s Theatre Company Michael Ritchie, Artistic Director EDWARD L. RADA, Managing Director Douglas c. baker, Producing Director ARTISTIC DAVE ALTON ...... Chief Information Officer NEEL KELLER ...... Associate Artistic Director STAN GRUSHESKY ...... Director of Information Systems KELLEY KIRKPATRICK ...... Associate Artistic Director SEAN PINTO ...... Database and Web Manager DIANE RODRIGUEZ ...... Associate Artistic Director MANDY RATLIFF ...... DBA, Tessitura Administrator PIER CARLO TALENTI ...... Director of New Play Development LINDSAY ALLBAUGH ...... Associate Producer JODY HORWITZ ...... Director of Human Resources PATRICIA GARZA ...... Artistic Development Program Manager P.J. PHILLIPS ...... Temporary Human Resources Administrator Joy meads ...... Literary Manager/Artistic Engagement Strategist SINGER LEWAK, LLP ...... Auditor mark b. simon ...... Casting Director MICHAEL C. DONALDSON, LISA A. CALLIF ...... Legal Counsel Meg Fister ...... Casting Associate GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER ...... Legal Counsel ROBIN CAMPBELL ...... Casting Department Coordinator DEVELOPMENT DAVID ADJMI (FADIMAN), JESSICA BLANK, SHEILA CALLAGHAN (FADIMAN), TIM YVONNE CARLSON BELL ...... Director of Advancement CROUCH, STEVE CUIFFO, JUSTIN ELLINGTON, QUETZAL FLORES, GINA GIONFRIDDO, PATRICK OWEN ...... Deputy Director of Development GOB SQUAD, MATT GOULD, DANAI GURIRA, JENNIFER HALEY, JOE HORTUA, DAVID NATALIE BERGESON ...... Director of Donor Contributions HENRY HWANG, JOE ICONIS, BRANDEN JACOBS-JENKINS, ERIK JENSEN, RAJIV JOSEPH, JEAN KLING ...... Director of Institutional Support GRIFFIN MATTHEWS, LAURAL MEADE, DAN O’BRIEN, EVANGELINE ORDAZ, DAEL LIZ LIN ...... Director of Corporate Relations and Communications ORLANDERSMITH, WILL POWER (FADIMAN), RAINPAN 43, MARCO RAMIREZ, matt CHARITY WU ...... Director of Individual Giving sax, The Debate society, YOUNG JEAN LEE THEATER COMPANY ...... BECKY BIRDSONG ...... Major Gifts Officer ...... Commissioned Artists RYAN HONEY ...... Associate Director of Special Initiatives JOSH ALLEN, EVELINA FERNANDEZ, DOROTHY FORTENBERRY, JC LEE, ALEX LEWIN, Eric Brown ...... Communications Manager KIM ROSENSTOCK, KEN ROHT ...... CTG Writers’ Workshop Members katy hilton ...... Grants Manager LAURA HITE ...... Corporate Relations Manager EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS MANDi OR ...... Special Events Manager LESLIE K. JOHNSON ...... Director of Education and Community Partnerships CONNOR BERGMAN ...... Corporate Relations Associate KATHRYN MACKENZIE ...... Director of Department Operations jennifer chan ...... Special Events Associate TRACI CHO KWON ...... Director of Arts Education Initiatives JUSTIN FOO ...... Donor Contributions Associate CAMILLE SCHENKKAN ...... Program Manager, Next Generation Initiatives SARAH HARBURG-PETRICH ...... Development Assistant JESUS REYES ...... Program Manager, Community Partnerships Donald Jolly ...... Donor Relations Associate for the Inner Circle KATRINA FRYE ...... Program Associate JESSICA NASH ...... Donor Contributions Supervisor MELISSA HERNANDEZ ...... Program Associate Kim Okamura ...... Institutional Giving Associate ROSEMARY MARSTON-HIGDON ...... Program Associate maria paredes ...... Donor Relations Associate Kelly MUCHNICK ...... Communications Coordinator ALLAIN ROCHEL ...... Development Assistant SHANNON WINSTON ...... Department Coordinator ERIC SEPPALA ...... Executive Assistant to the Advancement Director KHANISHA FOSTER ...... Resident Teaching Artist ERIN SCHLABACH ...... Major Gifts Coordinator DEBRA PIVER ...... Resident Teaching Artist AL BERMAN, ERIN BUTLER, ELIZABETH DELLORUSSO, DAVID GARVER, TONY MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION LEWELLEN, HOLLY RAMOS, NICOLE SCIPIONE, lena thomas, PAUL VITAGLIANO, Nausica Stergiou . . . . General Manager (Mark Taper Forum, Kirk Douglas Theatre) BILL WALTON ...... Donor Advisors JEFFREY UPAH ...... General Manager (Ahmanson Theatre) ADAM BURCH, Karla Galvez ...... Donor Services Associates SUZANNE HEE MAYBERRY ...... Assistant General Manager (Mark Taper Forum) ANNE BRUNER, Murray E. Heltzer, marci miller, KATIE BRUNER SOFF . . . . . Assistant General Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre, NPD) julie nadal ...... Development Volunteers Alana beidelman ...... Executive Assistant to Artistic Director TIFFANY MOON ...... General Management Associate MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS KORY P. KELLY ...... Director of Marketing and Communications ERIC SIMS ...... Director of Theatre Operations (Kirk Douglas Theatre) constantine lignos ...... Executive Assistant TOM BURMESTER .Audience Experience Design/Front of House Mgr (Kirk Douglas Theatre) LAUREN BAXA ...... Assistant Performance Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) NANCY HEREFORD ...... Media and Communications Director Max Oken ...... Facility Assistant (Kirk Douglas Theatre) PHYLLIS MOBERLY ...... Media and Communications Associate Sondra Mayer ...... Concessions Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) JASON MARTIN ...... Media and Communications Associate CHELSEY ROSETTER ...... Media and Communications Coordinator PRODUCTION DAWN HOLISKI ...... Production Department Operations Director LEE QUEZA ...... Art Director JOE HAMLIN ...... Technical Director/Ahmanson Production Manager IRENE KANESHIRO ...... Senior Design Manager SHAWN ANDERSON ...... Master Carpenter (Ahmanson Theatre) JAVIER VASQUEZ ...... Graphic Designer ANDREW W. ARNOLD ...... Flyman (Ahmanson Theatre) LOYDA GUADAMUZ ...... Graphic Designer STAN STEELMON ...... Master Propertyman (Ahmanson Theatre) JIM BERGER ...... Master Electrician (Ahmanson Theatre) CODY LASSEN ...... Marketing Director ROBERT SMITH ...... Master Soundman (Ahmanson Theatre) KAREN VOCK ...... Marketing Manager MICHAEL GARDNER ...... Wardrobe Supervisor (Ahmanson Theatre) KIYOMI EMI ...... Audience Development Manager PATRICE K. MADRIGAL ...... Hair and Make-up Supervisor (Ahmanson Theatre) GARRETT COLLINS ...... Audience Loyalty Manager CHRISTINE L. COX ...... House Manager (Ahmanson Theatre) JAMES SIMS ...... Content Strategy Director CHAD SMITH ...... Associate Technical Director HAL BANFIELD ...... Multimedia Producer SAM CRAVEN-GRIFFITHS ...... Associate Technical Director TICKET SALES AND SERVICES SHAWN ROBERTSON ...... Ticket Sales Director ANDREW THIELS ...... Prop Manager SKYPP CABANAS ...... Ticket Operations Manager MERRIANNE NEDREBERG ...... Associate Prop Manager RACHYL UNDERWOOD ...... Ticket Operations Coordinator SARAH KRAININ ...... Prop Associate MICHAEL ZOLDESSY ...... Account Sales Manager CANDICE CAIN ...... Costume Director KIA GILSTRAP ...... Account Sales Coordinator BRENT M. BRUIN ...... Costume Workroom Supervisor MADDIE KELLER ...... Costume Generalist SANDY CZUBIAK ...... Audience and Subscriber Services Director WHITNEY OPPENHEIMER ...... Shop Assistant JENNIFER BAKER, CHERYL HAWKER, RICHARD RAGSDALE Audience Services Supervisors SWANTJE TUOHINO ...... Tailor ALICE CHEN ...... Audience Services Asst. Supervisor ELIZABETH LEONARD ...... Production Operations Manager SAM AARON, DEBORAH REED ...... Audience Services Sales Associates JULIO A. CUELLAR ...... Driver/Custodian BO FOXWORTH, BRIAN SLATEN, PETER WYLIE ...... Drivers jeremie arencibia, VICKI BERNDT, CARLOS D. CHAVEZ, JR., PETER COLBURN, JENNIFER ACHTERBERG ...... Production Administrator DONALD CRANDALL, Michael Espinoza, GARY HOLLAND, eILEEN PEREZ, JUSTINE PEREZ, LEX SAVKO, DANNY SCHMITZ ...... Audience Services Representatives JONATHAN BARLOW LEE ...... Production Manager (Mark Taper Forum) KATE COLTUN ...... Associate Production Manager (Mark Taper Forum) DANUTA SIEMAK ...... Subscriber Services Supervisor emmet kaiser ...... Master Carpenter (Mark Taper Forum) CHRISTINA GUTIERREZ ...... Subscriber Services Asst. Supervisor ROBERT RUBY ...... Master Propertyman (Mark Taper Forum) LIGIA PISTE ...... Subscriber Services Senior Representative WILLIAM MORNER ...... Master Electrician (Mark Taper Forum) irene chuang, peter staloch ...... Subscriber Services Representatives BONES MALONE ...... Master Soundman (Mark Taper Forum) DENNIS SEETOO ...... Wardrobe Supervisor (Mark Taper Forum) SARAH K. GONTA ...... Box Office Treasurer RICK GEYER ...... Hair & Make-up Supervisor (Mark Taper Forum) KISHISA ROSS, GISELE FRAZEUR ...... Assistant Treasurers LINDA WALKER ...... House Manager (Mark Taper Forum) ANGELICA Carbajal, michael kempisty, LEROY PAWLOWSKI, MICHAEL SALTZMAN, CRIS SPACCA ...... Box Office Staff CHRISTY WEIKEL ...... Production Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) CHRISTOPHER REARDON . . . . .Assistant Production Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) KERRY KORF ...... Priority Services Director RICHARD PETERSON ...... Master Electrician (Kirk Douglas Theatre) SUSAN F. TULLER ...... Priority Services Operations Manager AARON STAUBACH ...... Light Board Programmer/Operator (Kirk Douglas Theatre) JAY BURNS ...... Priority Services Sales Manager ADAM PHALEN ...... Head Audio (Kirk Douglas Theatre) paul cuen ...... Priority Services Manager VICTOR COBOS ...... Stage Supevisor (Kirk Douglas Theatre) CANDICE WALTERS ...... Priority Services Assistant Supervisor CAMBRIA CHICHI ...... Wardrobe Supervisor (Kirk Douglas Theatre) CAROLE BAXTER, CELI BOWLING, RACHEL BRINK, ZOE CANNER,ESTEBAN CRUZ, FINANCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND HUMAN RESOURCES MAGGIE DODD, NIC DRESSEL, SOFIJA DUTCHER, MARC “BYRON” DROTMAN, MICHAEL F. THOMPSON ...... Chief Financial Officer SAMANTHA ELSE, LOU GEORGE, LISA KESSLER, SHEP KOSTER ,ALI LAFFER, MATT MELODY MATTOS ...... Controller PELFREY, DONALD RIZZO, KEN SALLEY, KRISTEN SCHRASS, BOBBI LYNNE SCOTT, JANIS BOWBEER ...... Assistant Controller ANDREW SEVERYN, MICHAEL SMITH, QUINN SULLIVAN, BINOY THOMAS, DIANE XOCHITL RAMIREZ ...... Accounts Payable Coordinator WARD, JIM WATERMAN ...... Representatives FELICISIMA LAPID ...... Accounts Payable Specialist DANNY LAMPSON ...... Senior Staff Accountant INTERNS ALEGRIA SENA ...... Staff Accountant RAMINE AMELI, ALLISON AOUN, CATHERINE AVILA, MARIBEL BARCENA, ERYN PIERCE AMEETA SHARMA ...... Payroll Manager BOLLIN, JAZMINE JONAS, OLIVIA JONES, POLINA MATVEEVA, YAZMINE MIHOJEVICH, MONA PIRNOT, MATTHEW QUINLAN, KIMBERLY WELCH
Center Theatre Group would like to thank its exceptional staff for their ongoing commitment, dedication and extraordinary efforts.
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