Lincoln Center Presents American Songbook
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01-11 Miranda:GP 1/5/12 11:00 AM Page 1 Wednesday Evening, January 11 , 2012 , at 8:30 Lin-Manuel Miranda Utkarsh Ambudkar Gavin Creel Mandy Gonzalez James Monroe Iglehart Christopher Jackson Rebecca Naomi Jones Moeisha Mcgill Jon Rua Chris “Shockwave” Sullivan Alex Lacamoire , Keyboard, Arrangements, and Music Director Cian McCarthy , Keyboard Michael Aarons , Guitar Matt Rubano , Bass Sean McDaniel , Drums Tim Keiper , Percussion Thomas Kail , Director Lisa Szolovits , Assistant Director This evening’s program is approximately 75 minutes long and will be performed without intermission. Major support for Lincoln Center’s American Songbook is provided by Fisher Brothers, In Memory of Richard L. Fisher; and Amy & Joseph Perella. Additional corporate support is provided by Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Wine generously donated by William Hill Estate Winery, Official Wine of Lincoln Center. This performance is made possible in part by the Josie Robertson Fund for Lincoln Center. The Allen Room, Frederick P. Rose Hall Please make certain your cellular phone, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center pager, or watch alarm is switched off. 01-11 Miranda:GP 1/5/12 11:00 AM Page 2 Lincoln Center Additional support for American Songbook is Upcoming American Songbook Events provided by The DuBose and Dorothy Heyward in The Allen Room : Memorial Fund, Logicworks, The Shubert Foundation, Jill and Irwin Cohen, The G & A Thursday, January 12, at 8:30 Foundation, Inc., Great Performers Circle, Chris Thile & Michael Daves Chairman’s Council, and Friends of Lincoln Center. Friday, January 13, at 8:30 Public support is provided by the New York State JD Souther Council on the Arts. Saturday, January 14, at 8:30 Artist hospitality is provided by Zabar’s and William Finn: Songs of Innocence and Zabars.com . Experience MetLife is the National Sponsor of Lincoln Center . Wednesday, January 18, at 8:30 The Works: Jonatha Brooke Celebrates First Republic Bank is the Official Sponsor of the Woody Guthrie at 100 Fashion Lincoln Center Online Experience. Thursday, January 19, at 8:30 Movado is an Official Sponsor of Lincoln Center . LaChanze United Airlines is the Official Airline of Lincoln Friday, January 20, at 8:30 Center . Ozomatli WABC-TV is the Official Broadcast Partner of Saturday, January 21, at 8:30 and 10:30 Lincoln Center . Michael Cerveris: An Idea of South William Hill Estate Winery is the Official Wine of Wednesday, February 1, at 8:30 Lincoln Center . Keren Ann Thursday, February 2, at 8:30 Thurston Moore Friday, February 3, at 8:30 Hello, Gorgeous! Leslie Kritzer Sings Jule Styne Saturday, February 4, at 8:30 and 10:30 Gavin Creel & Stephen Oremus Wednesday, February 8, at 8:30 Bill Callahan The Allen Room is located in Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center. For tickets, call (212) 721-6500 or visit AmericanSongbook.org. Call the Lincoln Center Info Request Line at (212) 875-5766 or visit AmericanSongbook.org for complete program information. We would like to remind you that the sound of coughing and rustling paper might distract the performers and your fellow audience members. In consideration of the performing artists and members of the audience, those who must leave before the end of the performance are asked to do so between pieces, not during the performance. The taking of photographs and the use of recording equipment are not allowed in the building. 01-11 Miranda:GP 1/5/12 11:00 AM Page 3 Lincoln Center Meet the Artists 1 1 2009 Broadway revival of West Side Story , 0 2 , C and is the cocomposer and colyricist of L L , O I Bring It On: The Musical. His first perfor - D U T mance from The Hamilton Mixtape was for S R E L President Obama at the White House for its D N I L Lin-Manuel first-ever poetry jam in 2009. His television E H T Miranda and film credits include The Electric Com- Lin-Manuel Miranda is the Tony Award– pany , Sesame Street , The Sopranos , House , winning composer-lyricist of Broadway’s In Modern Family , and the upcoming The the Heights. In the Heights received four Odd Life of Timothy Green . Please visit 2008 Tony Awards (including Best Orch- linmanuel.com for more information. estrations, Best Choreography, and Best Musical), with Mr. Miranda receiving a Tony Award for Best Original Score as well as a nomination for Best Leading Actor in a Musical. Off-Broadway, In the Heights received the Drama Desk Award for Utkarsh Outstanding Ensemble Performance. In the Ambudkar Heights also took home a 2008 Grammy Award for its original Broadway cast album, Utkarsh Ambudkar is an actor, writer, and DJ and the show was recognized as a finalist living in Los Angeles. A graduate of NYU’s for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in Drama . Tisch School of the Arts, he will appear in the Universal Pictures release Pitch Perfect As an actor, Mr. Miranda received a 2007 this spring. New York acting credits include Theatre World Award for Outstanding The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity Debut Performance, and the 2007 Clarence (Second Stage Theatre), Animals Out of Derwent Award for Most Promising Male Paper (Lucille Lortel nomination), and Rafta Performance courtesy of the Actors’ Equity Rafta … (The New Group). Television Association. In May 2009, he received the appearances include pilots Danni Lowinski degree of doctor of humane letters, hon - and Nevermind Nirvana for the Fox oris causa, from Yeshiva University, and Television Network, and The Electric was the youngest recipient of such an Company for Sesame Workshop/PBS. Mr. honor in the University’s 123-year history. Utkarsh is also a member of the hip-hop improv comedy team Freestyle Love Mr. Miranda is a cofounder and member of Supreme, and you can check out his original Freestyle Love Supreme, a popular hip-hop music at myspace.com/thebeatards. improv group that has toured to Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the Aspen Rooftop, Melbourne International , and Montreal comedy festivals. The group performs reg - ularly across the country. Mr. Miranda has contributed new songs to Gavin Creel the revival of Stephen Schwartz’s Working, worked with Arthur Laurents and Stephen Gavin Creel’s Broadway credits include Hair Sondheim on Spanish translations for the (Tony nomination), La Cage aux Folles , and 01-11 Miranda:GP 1/5/12 11:00 AM Page 4 Lincoln Center Thoroughly Modern Millie (Tony nomination). Light , and One Life to Live . She can be On national tour he appeared in Fame: The heard on the film soundtrack of Mulan II , Musical . His West End credits include Hair featured as the singing voice of Mei. and Mary Poppins , and regionally he has appeared in Bounce (Goodman Theatre/ Kennedy Center) and Prometheus Bound (American Repertory Theater). His television credits include Eloise at the Plaza and Eloise at Christmastime . He has released the origi - James Monroe nal recordings Goodtimenation , Quiet , and Iglehart Get Out (forthcoming this spring). Mr. Creel is a graduate of the University of Michigan, a James Monroe Iglehart loves performing on member of Broadway Inspirational Voices, stage with his friends, so when he was and cofounder of Broadway Impact, a grass - asked to be a part of this exciting new pro - roots organization of the theater community ject he jumped at the chance. Mr. Iglehart is and its fans fighting for marriage equality. one of the original cast members of the Tony Award–winning musical Memphis , now entering its third year on Broadway. He was also seen last year as the Genie in Disney’s Aladdin: The New Stage Musical at the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle, hope - fully making its way to Broadway soon. Mr. Mandy Gonzalez Iglehart is a member of the hip-hop improv group Freestyle Love Supreme, where he Mandy Gonzalez is best known for originat - goes by the moniker of J-Soul. He has per - ing the role of Nina Rosario in the Tony formed on the screen and stage in shows Award–winning Broadway and Off- such as The Good Wife, the hit children’s Broadway musical In the Heights . She show The Electric Company , The Wiz (Lion), recently completed a run as Elphaba in the The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Broadway production of Wicked . Ms. Bee , the new indie film We Are the Gonzalez made her Broadway debut in Jim Hartmans , and a variety of different televi - Steinman’s Dance of the Vampires , where sion and radio commercials. His greatest she starred opposite Michael Crawford. role has been the role of Husband to his She has also appeared on Broadway as wife, Dawn. Princess Amneris in the Elton John and Tim Rice musical Aida , and in the Broadway musical Lennon , where she portrayed John Lennon as well as other characters. She received an Obie Award for her perfor - mance in the Off-Broadway production of Christopher Eli’s Comin ’, the musical based on the Jackson lyrics and music of songwriter Laura Nyro. Christopher Jackson is an award-winning Ms. Gonzalez’s film credits include the actor, singer, composer, and lyricist. On upcoming Man on a Ledge, After, Across Broadway, he has starred in Disney ’s The the Universe, and In God’s Hands . Her tele - Lion King in the role of Simba. In 2007 he vision credits include Over/Under (pilot), originated the role of Benny in Lin-Manuel The Good Wife , Third Watch , Guiding Miranda ’s hit show, In the Heights (Drama 01-11 Miranda:GP 1/5/12 11:00 AM Page 5 Lincoln Center Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble Strange and Miracle at St. Anna , both Performance; four Tony Awards). He is an directed by Spike Lee.