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PROGRAM: AN EVENING WITH PATTI LUPONE AND MANDY PATINKIN

Saturday, April 26, 2014 / 8:00 pm / Bing Concert Hall

AN EVENING WITH PATTI LUPONE AND MANDY PATINKIN

Conceived by MANDY PATINKIN and PAUL FORD

Production Design Lighting Design Sound Design KORINS ERIC CORNWELL DANIEL J. GERHARD

Exclusive Tour Direction Tour Marketing/Press Representative AWA PARTNERS C MAJOR MARKETING, INC L. GLENN POPPLETON CATHERINE MAJOR

Musical Direction Choreography by Produced & Managed by PAUL FORD STACI LEVINE

Directed by MANDY PATINKIN

34 Stanford Live Magazine April/May 2014 ARTISTS PROGRAM Patti LuPone Another Hundred People () Mandy Patinkin When Stephen Sondheim (Evening Primrose) Paul Ford, piano A Cockeyed Optimist* & Oscar Hammerstein II () Twin Soliloquies* Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II (South Pacific) * Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II (South Pacific) Some Enchanted Evening, richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II (South Pacific) *South Pacific: music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, book by Getting Married Today Stephen Sondheim (Company) Oscar Hammerstein II and , Loving You Stephen Sondheim () adapted from the –winning A Cockeyed Optimist, Reprise Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II (South Pacific) novel Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener I’m Old-Fashioned & (You Were Never Lovelier) I Have the Room Above Her Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein II (Showboat) **: music by Richard Rodgers, book Baby, It’s Cold Outside (Neptune’s Daughter) and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, based Everybody Says Don’t Stephen Sondheim () on Ferenc Molnár’s play as adapted by Benjamin F. Glazer, original dances by Agnes A Quiet Thing & (Flora the Menace) de Mille It Takes Two Stephen Sondheim (Into ) I Won’t Dance Jerome Kern (Roberta) Selections from South Pacific and Carousel are used by special arrangement with Rodgers I Want a Man & Oscar Hammerstein II (Rainbow) & Hammerstein: An Imagem Company, April in Fairbanks Murray Grand (New Faces of 1956) www.rnh.com. All rights are reserved.

All selections by Stephen Sondheim are *INTERMISSION* used by special arrangement with Stephen Sondheim. Old Folks John Kander & Fred Ebb (70, Girls, 70) Everything’s Coming Up Roses & Stephen Sondheim () The God-Why-Don’t-You-Love-Me Stephen Sondheim () Blues The Hills of Tomorrow Stephen Sondheim (Merrily We Roll Along) Merrily We Roll Along Stephen Sondheim (Merrily We Roll Along) Old Friends Stephen Sondheim (Merrily We Roll Along) Like It Was Stephen Sondheim (Merrily We Roll Along) Oh, What a Circus Sir & Sir () Don’t Cry for Me Argentina Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber & Sir Tim Rice (Evita) Somewhere That’s Green & (Little Shop of Horrors) In Buddy’s Eyes Stephen Sondheim (Follies) You’re a One, Julie ** richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II (Carousel ) ** Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II (Carousel ) If I Loved You, Reprise Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II (Carousel ) What’s the Use of Wond’rin** Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II (Carousel ) If I Loved You, Reprise Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II (Carousel ) You’ll Never Walk Alone** Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II (Carousel )

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

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PATTI LUPONE in ’s ; Summer of Sam; Driving Pattie LuPone is thrilled to be reunited , David Mamet’s The Old Miss Daisy; and Witness. Her TV credits with her Evita costar for this concert. Neighborhood, Terrence McNally’s include American Horror Story: Coven, Author of bestseller , and her own concert Glee, 30 Rock, Ugly Betty, NBC’s Patti LuPone: A Memoir, Ms. LuPone’s Patti LuPone On Broadway; and three Will and Grace, the Emmy Award– most recent Broadway appearances solo concerts at Carnegie Hall. She also winning PBS broadcasts of Passion and include David Mamet’s performs three other concerts: Coulda, , PBS Great Performances’ and the new musical Women on the Woulda, Shoulda; The Lady with the , Oz, the TNT film Monday Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, for Torch; and The Gypsy in My Soul. Night Mayhem, Frasier (1998 Emmy which she was nominated for Tony, nomination), Law and Order, An Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Beginning in 2000, she’s appeared Evening with Patti LuPone (PBS), and Awards. Other recent New York regularly in the Ravinia Festival’s ABC’s Life Goes On. Her recordings stage appearances include her debut Sondheim series, starring as Mrs. include Far Away Places, Patti LuPone with the Ballet as Lovett in Sweeney Todd, Desiree in A at Les Mouches, the 2008 Broadway cast guest soloist in their new production Little Night Music, Fosca in Passion, recording of Gypsy, The Lady with the of The Seven Deadly Sins and her Cora Hooper in Anyone Can Whistle, Torch, Sweeney Todd (both the 2006 performance as Joanne in the New York Madame Rose in Gypsy, and in two Broadway revival and Philharmonic’s production of Company. different roles in Sunday in the Park 2000 live performance recording on the with George. A graduate of the first class Special Editions Winner of the Tony, Drama Desk, of the Drama Division of New York’s Label), Matters of the Heart (cited and Outer Critics Circle Awards for and a founding member as one of the best recordings of 1999 Best Actress in a Musical and the of ’s Acting Company, by both Time Out New York and the for Outstanding in which she toured the country for four Times of London), , Heatwave Performance of the Season for her years, her subsequent New York credits with John Mauceri and the Hollywood performance as Madame Rose in the include Dario Fo’s Accidental Death of Bowl Orchestra, Sunset Boulevard, most recent Broadway production of An Anarchist; David Mamet’s The Water and Patti LuPone Live. Visit www. Gypsy, her other stage credits include Engine, , and The Woods; and pattilupone.net for more information. her debut with the Opera Israel Horovitz’s Stage Directions. Other in Weill-Brecht’s Rise and Fall of performances in musicals include Pal the City of Mahagonny; the world Joey for City Center Encores, Anything MANDY PATINKIN premiere of ’s opera To Goes (Tony Award nomination, Drama In his 1980 Broadway debut, Mr. Hell and Back with ’s Desk Award), The Cradle Will Rock, Patinkin won a Tony Award for his Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra; Mrs. Oliver!, Evita (Tony and Drama role as Che in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Lovett in ’s production of Desk Awards for Best Actress in a Evita and was nominated in 1984 for Sweeney Todd (Tony, Drama Desk, Musical), , and The Robber his starring role as George in the Pulitzer Outer Critics Circle nominations; Bridegroom. In London, she won the Prize–winning musical Sunday in the Drama League Award for Outstanding Olivier Award for her performances as Park with George. In 1991, he returned Contribution to ); the Fantine in the original production of Les to Broadway in the Tony Award–winning title role in Marc Blitzstein’s Regina, Miserables and in the Acting Company musical The Secret Garden, and in 1997, a musical version of Lillian Hellman’s production of The Cradle Will Rock. he played a sold-out engagement of The Little Foxes at the Kennedy Center; She also created the role of Norma his one-man show Mandy Patinkin in Fosca in a concert version of Passion, Desmond in Sunset Boulevard and Concert, with all profits benefiting five which was also broadcast on PBS’s re-created her Broadway performance charitable organizations. Mandy’s other Live From ; a multicity of in Master Class. solo concerts, Dress Casual, Celebrating tour of her theatrical concert Matters Sondheim, and Mamaloshen have been of the Heart; the City Center Encores Ms. LuPone’s films include Union presented both on Broadway and off. production of Can-Can; the New Square, directed by Nancy Savocca; York Philharmonic’s productions of Parker, directed by Taylor Hackford; In 2009, Mr. Patinkin celebrated the Candide and Sweeney Todd (New York City by The Sea; Heist and State and 20th anniversary of performing his solo Philharmonic debut); and performances Main, both written and directed by concerts with a two-week run of all his

36 Stanford Live Magazine April/May 2014 concerts in repertory at New York’s presentation of The Hunchback; a film Public Theater, the very space he began version of ’s Broken Glass his concert career. He continued the for BBC/WGBH-Boston; and episodes celebration with a critically acclaimed of Three Rivers, The Larry Sanders two-week run of Mandy Patinkin Show (1996 Emmy nomination), Law in Concert in London’s West End and Order, Boston Public, Touched at the Duke of York’s Theatre. Mr. by an Angel, and The Simpsons. Patinkin’s other stage credits include the world premiere of Compulsion, a In 1989, Mr. Patinkin began his concert new play by Rinne Groff and directed career at the Public Theater. This by Oskar Eustis, in which he appeared coincided with the release of his first in productions at Yale Rep, Berkeley solo album entitled Mandy Patinkin. Rep, and finally at the Public Theater in Since then, he has toured extensively, early 2011; Paradise Found (London’s appearing to sold-out audiences across Menier Chocolate Factory); The Tempest the , Canada, London, (); Enemy of and Australia and performing songs Bri 121112 glimmer 1_3v.pdf the People (Williamstown Theater from writers including Stephen GLIMMER, Festival); The Wild Party (2000 Tony Sondheim, Richard Rodgers and Oscar GLAMOUR, nomination); ; The Winter’s Hammerstein II, , Randy Tale; The Knife; Leave It to Beaver Is Newman, , and Harry GLEAM Dead; Rebel Women; Hamlet; Trelawney Chapin, among others. In 1990, he of the “Wells”; The Shadow Box; The released his second solo album entitled A sumptuous array of Split; Savages; and Henry IV, Part I. Mandy Patinkin in Concert: Dress Casual on CBS Records. His 1994 sparkling textiles— Mr. Patinkin’s feature film credits include recording, Experiment, on the Nonesuch metallic brocades, Everybody’s Hero, The Choking Man, label, features songs from decades beaded French laces, Pinero, The Adventures of Elmo In of popular music from Irving Berlin to satins, velvets and Grouchland, Lulu on the Bridge, Men Alan Menken. Also recorded on the with Guns, The Princess Bride, Yentl Nonesuch label are Oscar and Steve, embellishments. (1984 Golden Globe nomination), The ’s New York, Kidults, Music of Chance, Daniel, , and Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim. Impromptu, The Doctor, Alien Nation, In 1998, he debuted his most personal Dick Tracy, The House on Carroll project, Mamaloshen, a collection of Street, True Colors, Maxie, and Squanto: traditional, classic, and contemporary Indian Warrior. He won a 1995 Emmy songs sung entirely in Yiddish. The Award (as well as a Golden Globe recording of Mamaloshen won the nomination) for his performance in the Deutschen Schallplattenpreis (Germany’s CBS series Hope and recently equivalent of the Grammy Award). In starred in the CBS series Criminal October 2007, Mr. Patinkin debuted Minds as FBI profiler Jason Gideon and a new concert with dear friend Patti in the Showtime original series Dead LuPone, and they continue touring their Like Me as the reaper Rube Sofer. Mr. show, An Evening with Patti LuPone Patinkin returns to TV in the Emmy and Mandy Patinkin, throughout the and Golden Globe Award–winning United States, Australia, New Zealand, Showtime original series Homeland and most recently during a nine-week as CIA agent Saul Berenson. His other Broadway run at the Ethel Barrymore 146 GEARY STREET · SAN FRANCISCO television appearances include the role Theatre. He continues to collaborate JUST OFF UNION SQUARE of Kenneth Duberstein in the Showtime with An Evening with Mandy Patinkin 415.392.2910 · MON - SAT 10 - 6 WWW.BRITEXFABRICS.COM film Strange Justice; Quasimodo and Nathan Gunn and most recently opposite Richard Harris in the TNT film The Last Two People on Earth:

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An Apocalyptic —starring of Patinkin’s CDs, Leonard Bernstein’s Francisco Opera and Oscar and Life Mr. Patinkin and the performance New York, Jerry Hadley’s crossover Is a Dream at the Santa Fe Opera. Mr. artist Taylor Mac, with direction and CDs, and many original cast recordings Korins worked as the creative director to choreography by —and of the above-mentioned shows. Kanye West, designing several concerts Bridges, a new concert starring Mr. in the United States and abroad. He is Patinkin, Paul Ford, and a Middle Ann Reinking (Choreography) won the the recipient of Drama Desk, Lucille Eastern trio. Mr. Patinkin resides 1997 Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Lortel, and three Henry Hewes Awards in New York City with his wife, Critics Circle Awards for Choreography as well as an for Sustained actress and writer Kathryn Grody. for the Broadway revival of Chicago Excellence in Design. He is also the and was nominated for a Tony for father of Stella and Vivian. See more Paul Ford (Music Direction, Piano) was codirection of . Choreography information at davidkorinsdesign.com. the original pianist for the Broadway/ credits include A Tribute to George off-Broadway productions of Stephen Harrison (ABT), Applause (national Eric Cornwell (Lighting Design) has Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with tour), Bye-Bye Birdie (ABC-TV), been associated with Mandy Patinkin’s George, , Passion, Legends (Joffrey Ballet), Nilsson/ tours and Broadway concerts for more , the revival of Pacific Schmillson (Spectrum Dance Company), than 20 years. He has also created Overtures, and the Tony Award– (Williamstown lighting for , , winning revival of Assassins. His other Theatre Festival), Chicago (Civic and Anne Jackson in addition to dozens Broadway/off-Broadway credits include Light Opera Long Beach), Suite to of dance, opera, and theater companies the Roundabout Theatre’s revivals of Pal Sondheim (Pacific Northwest Ballet), in the New York area. Mr. Cornwell’s Joey and 110 in the Shade, Tom Sawyer, Pal Joey (), The lighting work has taken him across High Society, , Rags, A Day in Visit (Goodman Theatre, Signature North America many times and through Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine, The Theatre), and The White City (Thodos Europe, Asia, South America, Australia, Secret Garden, , Falsettos, and Dance). Performance credits include and New Zealand. While waiting for Upstairs at O’Neal’s. Mr. Ford was the in Chicago, Bye-Bye Birdie gigs in Africa and Antarctica to complete pianist for the acclaimed Follies concert (national tour), ’s Dancin’ his world tour, he creates software at Lincoln Center, the Carnegie Hall (1978 Tony nomination), Sweet Charity, for entertainment lighting design. concert performances of Sondheim: A , Coco, Over Here!, Goodtime Celebration at Carnegie Hall, Anyone Charley (1975 Tony nomination), and Daniel J. Gerhard (Sound Design) has Can Whistle, with The Unsinkable Molly Brown. Feature extensive audio-design experience in the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, film credits include All That , both the live and recorded divisions Gypsy with Patti LuPone and the , Micki and Maude, and Movie of the business. He has designed and Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Movie. Ms. Reinking is the producer engineered many live telecast events episodes of PBS’s My Favorite Broadway. of two award-winning documentaries: and shows, such as the , In 2008, he played for the televised Two Worlds, One Planet, concerning the Grammy Awards, Comedy production of with the New high-functioning autism, and In My Central series, The X Factor, Celebrity York Philharmonic and the Carnegie Hands, a story of Marfan syndrome. Apprentice Finale, Robert Klein Show, Hall concerts of South Pacific (with Denis Leary on HBO, Wanda Sykes on Reba McIntyre), , and ABBA’s David Korins (Production Design) HBO, Big Apple Circus, The Today Kristina. Mr. Ford has accompanied has worked on Broadway in Motown, Show, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and Mr. Patinkin on tour, on Broadway Annie, Bring It On, Vanya and Sonia numerous other specials. Mr. Gerhard and off, in Mandy Patinkin in Concert: and Masha and Spike, Chinglish, An has created studio designs for Late Show Dress Casual, Mamaloshen, Celebrating Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy with David Letterman, Who Wants to Sondheim, and An Evening with Patti Patinkin, Magic/Bird, Godspell, The Be a Millionaire, Survivor, The View, and LuPone and Mandy Patinkin. Recent Pee-Wee Herman Show, Lombardi, others. He has designed theatrical and shows include Anyone Can Whistle , and Bridge and multimedia shows in the United States, at Encores, the Encores gala honoring Tunnel. He has also worked extensively Europe, and Japan, such as Sinatra, Stephen Sondheim, and the televised off Broadway and regionally. His opera His Voice, His World, His Way; Damn Sondheim: The Birthday Concert at credits include world premieres of The Yankees; Hello Dolly; A Funny Thing Avery Fisher Hall. He can be heard on all Gospel of at the San Happened on the Way to the Forum;

38 Stanford Live Magazine April/May 2014 The Pirates of Penzance; and the Radio , Footloose, High Society, Blast!, Production Manager, Eric Cornwell City Christmas Spectaculars across , 42nd Street, Wrong Stage Manager/Lighting North America. Mr. Gerhard still Mountain, Into the Woods, , Supervisor, Jason Brouillard performs as a flutist, his original Dracula, and Good Vibrations as a vocation. He graduated from the member of Dodger Management Group. Stage Manager/Lighting Supervisor, Eastman School of Music and has Matthew Aaron Stern performed with such groups as AWA Partners (Exclusive Tour Stage Manager/Lighting the New York Philharmonic, the Direction) represents the joint forces of Supervisor, Ron Vodicka Philharmonic, the San Diego AVID Touring Group and AWA Touring Stage Manager, Laura Skolnik Symphony, the Metropolitan Opera, Services. The organization’s new roster and the Rochester Philharmonic. includes Green Day’s , Sound Mixer, Mark Fiore Cathy Rigby Is Peter Pan, A Christmas Management Associate, Tim Hurley (Producer), owner of Story: The Musical, Mandy Patinkin Staci Levine Assistant to Miss LuPone, Maeve Butler Groundswell Theatricals, is a producer in Concert, An Evening with Patti and general manager working in theater, LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, and Dr. Dresser, Lyle Jones concerts, and event management. Ms. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Associate Choreographer, Levine has produced on Broadway, on The Musical. Past projects include Jim Borstelmann London’s West End, and on tour with The Phantom of the Opera, Disney’s Artwork/Logo, Serino/Coyne shows playing both domestically and , DreamWorks internationally. Current productions Madagascar Live, and ’s Production Photos, Brigitte include An Evening with Patti LuPone . For more information, Lacombe and Joan Marcus and Mandy Patinkin; John Lithgow’s see www.awa-partners.com. Publicist for Miss LuPone, Philip Rinaldi one-man show Stories by Heart; An Evening with Mandy Patinkin and Staff for An Evening with Patti Special thanks to Victoria Traube, Nathan Gunn; The Last Two People LuPone and Mandy Patinkin Carol Kaplan, Nicole Borrelli Hearn, on Earth: An Apocalyptic Vaudeville, and Opus 3 Artists. starring Mandy Patinkin and Taylor Produced and Managed by Mac with direction and choreography Except For This, LLC by Susan Stroman; and all of Mandy Staci Levine Patinkin’s solo concerts. Ms. Levine has produced works by the Exclusive Tour Direction David Simpatico, including the play AWA Partners Mary, the musical drama The Screams (212) 307-0800 of Kitty Genovese (with music by Will [email protected] Todd), and the film Wish Fulfillment. www.awa-partners.com She general managed the off-Broadway L. Glenn Poppleton, Alison play The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant Spiriti, Robin Mishik-Jett, Sean by Fassbinder and was the general Mackey, Jessica S. Francis manager for Dre.dance, a contemporary dance company created by Taye Diggs Tour Marketing and Press and Andrew Palermo. Projects in Representation development include the new musical C Major Entertainment Marketing, Inc. Let Loose the Horses, with music by The Catherine Major Rescues, and They’re Playing His Songs, a musical tribute to the late Marvin For more information on An Evening Hamlisch, created by . with Patti LuPone and Mandy From 1996 to 2005, Ms. Levine was Patinkin, visit these websites: associated with the Dodgers, working www.pattiandmandy.com, on numerous Broadway, off-Broadway, www.pattilupone.net, and and touring productions, including www.mandypatinkin.org.

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