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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CASTING UPDATE January 29, 2013 Contact: Katherine E. Johnson (212) 875-5718; [email protected]

SHULER HENSLEY, , , , and TO JOIN CAST OF THE ’S PRESENTATION OF

RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN’S February 27–March 2

Previously Announced Cast Includes KELLI O’HARA, , and STEPHANIE BLYTHE

Conducted by Directed by Choreographed by WARREN CARLYLE

Production To Be Nationally Telecast on Live From

The New York Philharmonic has announced several additions to the cast of its production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel, February 27–March 2, 2013: will portray Jigger Craigin, Jason Danieley will portray Enoch Snow (replacing the previously announced Alexander Gemignani, who has withdrawn due to scheduling conflicts), Jessie Mueller will portray Pipperidge, Kate Burton will portray Mrs. Mullin, and John Cullum will portray Starkeeper/Dr. Seldon. As previously announced, Carousel will star Kelli O’Hara as Julie Jordan, Nathan Gunn as Billy Bigelow, and Stephanie Blythe as Nettie Fowler. The production will be directed by John Rando, conducted by Rob Fisher, and choreographed by Warren Carlyle. The production’s cast and creative team have earned a combined total of 16 and 32 Tony nominations.

The New York Philharmonic’s production of Carousel will be telecast nationally on , hosted by Audra McDonald, on PBS stations Friday, April 26, 2013, at 9:00 p.m. (check local listings).

Carousel is based on Hungarian playwright Ferenc Molnár’s 1909 play, Liliom, but transfers the story from Europe to the Maine coastline. The musical, which revolves around the tragic romance between carousel barker Billy Bigelow and mill worker Julie Jordan, includes such highlights as “If I Loved You,” “June Is Bustin’ Out All Over,” and “You’ll Never Walk Alone.” The New York Philharmonic has performed selections from Carousel on various programs since (more)

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1946, most recently in March 2011 when Ted Sperling conducted Ms. O’Hara, Mr. Gunn, and the Orchestra in Classic Broadway, an evening of Broadway selections that included “If I Loved You” and the Carousel Waltz.

Artists Rob Fisher — internationally distinguished artistic director, conductor, and pianist — is a leading figure in American music and musical theater. He was founding music director and conductor of Encores! at Center until 2005, a series that earned a 2000 Tony Award. Mr. Fisher was awarded the Award for Outstanding Special Achievement in 1997 for his work on Encores!, and he conducted the series’ Grammy Award–winning cast . Last season, Fisher served as music supervisor of the Tony-winning Broadway revival of , and in April of 2012, he conducted a one-night gala performance of at . Mr. Fisher has been producer/music director of Lincoln Center’s American Songbook Series’ tributes to Gershwin, Porter, and Bernstein. Recent collaborations have included performances with such artists as , Kelli O’Hara, , and . Within the past decade Mr. Fisher has been a guest conductor or pianist of virtually every major orchestra in the U.S. In 2007 he led with the New York Philharmonic, and he most recently appeared with the Philharmonic in October 2012, conducting Mr. Keillor at 70 with Garrison Keillor. Mr. Fisher was music director and conductor for “Ira at 100,” a gala concert at Carnegie Hall broadcast on PBS’s , and he appeared twice on the PBS series In Performance at the for President and Mrs. Clinton. For four seasons Mr. Fisher was music director for Garrison Keillor’s American Radio and remains a frequent guest on A Prairie Home Companion.

John Rando is the Tony and Outer Critic’s Circle Award–winning director of : The Musical. Mr. Rando’s other Broadway credits include A Christmas Story: The Musical, The Wedding Singer, A Thousand Clowns, and ’s The Dinner Party. With City Center Encores!, he has directed Bernstein’s , , , , , , and Strike up the Band. Last winter his production of A Christmas Story: The Musical garnered terrific success in Chicago at the Chicago Theater. His Off-Broadway credits include the 2009 Outer Critic’s Circle Award–winner for Best Musical: The Toxic Avenger, as well as productions at the Roundabout Theatre Company, Class Company, Manhattan Theatre Club, Primary Stages, the Promenade, the Acting Company, and the Pearl Theatre, among others. Mr. Rando’s recent regional credits include his highly acclaimed production of at Barrington Stage Company and a revised version of The Toxic Avenger at the Alley theatre. His other extensive regional credits include productions at The Old Globe Theater, Mark Taper Forum, Geffen Playhouse, American Conservatory Theatre, The Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Philadelphia Theatre Company, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Cleveland Playhouse, Syracuse Stage, and many others. John Rando was a Drama League Directing Fellow and in 2010 was the recipient of the UCLA Department of Theater, Film, and Television Alumni Achievement Award.

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Choreographer Warren Carlyle most recently directed and choreographed Chaplin at the Barrymore Theater and the hit show : Back on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theater. He also choreographed The Mystery of Edwin Drood (), A Christmas Story (Lunt Fontanne), and the recent Broadway revival of ’s at the Marriot Marquis Theater. Mr. Carlyle directed and choreographed the critically acclaimed, Tony- nominated Broadway revival of Finian’s Rainbow at the St. James Theater, A Tale of Two Cities on Broadway at the Theater, and the Broadway-bound Cotton Club Parade (Jazz at Lincoln Center and City Center). Also in New York, he choreographed , On the Town, Finian’s Rainbow, Juno, and Stairway to Paradise (all for City Center Encores!); 101 Dalmatians (Madison Square Garden/Tour); You Again (New York Fringe Festival); Working (Zipper Theater); Slut! (ATA); Roundabout 40th Anniversary Gala (); and The 24-Hour Musicals (The Public Theater). Mr. Carlyle produced, directed, and choreographed the tour of Hugh Jackman in Performance (Curran Theater San Francisco, Toronto’s Princess of Theater); created the musical staging for the new Randy Newman revue Harps & Angels (Mark Taper Forum in ); directed and choreographed the award-winning Limelight (), Buddy’s Tavern (O’Neill Theater Center; Rodgers Award Winner), and (Goodspeed); and choreographed Follies (Kennedy Center and Ahmanson Theater in Los Angeles), (Stratford Shakespeare Festival ), A Christmas Story (U.S. tour), (Kennedy Center), Dancing in the Dark (Old Globe Theater, San Diego), (, Goodspeed; CT Critics Circle Award for Best Choreography), The Bakers Wife (Goodspeed), and Pageant (Second City Chicago). He is represented on film and television by Deception starring Hugh Jackman, Hope and Faith, An Evening at the Pops, and Elton John’s Made in England music video.

Kelli O’Hara (Julie Jordan) has established herself as one of Broadway’s great leading ladies. She currently stars in the ten-time Tony-nominated Broadway musical Nice Work If You Can Get It opposite , for which she received her fourth Tony nomination for Lead Actress in a Musical. Ms. O’Hara garnered rave reviews for her recent role as Cathy Whitaker in the musical adaptation of Far From Heaven at Williamstown Theater Festival. She earned her first Tony and nominations for her role in The Light in the Piazza in 2005. In 2006 she joined Harry Connick, Jr. on Broadway in the Tony-winning production of The Pajama Game and received Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Award nominations. Ms. O’Hara starred in the Tony-winning revival of at Lincoln Center, garnering Tony and Drama Desk nominations. In 2011 Ms. O’Hara made her Public Theater debut in King Lear and in 2010 starred as Ella Peterson in City Center Encores!’ production of Bells Are Ringing. In addition to her critically acclaimed performance as Eliza Doolittle in the New York Philharmonic production of My Fair Lady, Ms. O’Hara has performed at Carnegie Hall with the New York Pops, at the Kennedy Center and the National Symphony Orchestra with Marvin Hamlisch, and with the Boston Pops under Keith Lockhart. She has performed three times at the Kennedy Center Honors, in tributes for , , and . Her film and television credits include Sex and the City 2, Blue Bloods, The Key to Reserva, The Dying Gaul, Alexander , NUMB3RS, All My Children, and the animated series Car Talk. Ms. O’Hara’s voice can be heard on numerous cast recordings, and her two solo , (more) Carousel Casting Update / 4

Always and Wonder in the World, are currently available on Ghostlight Records. Following this special engagement, Ms. O’Hara will return to Nice Work If You Can Get It at the on Sunday, March 3.

Nathan Gunn (Billy Bigelow) has sung leading lyric baritone roles at The Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, , Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Paris Opéra, Theatre an der Wien, and Bavarian Staatsoper. He created the roles of Clyde Griffiths in Tobias Picker’s An American Tragedy, Father Delura in Peter Eötvös’s Love and Other Demons, Alec Harvey in André Previn’s , and Paul in Daron Hagen’s Amelia. Mr. Gunn has appeared regularly with The Cleveland Orchestra and the Boston, Chicago, and symphony orchestras. He has appeared with the New York Philharmonic in Camelot (broadcast live on PBS’s Great Performances) in 2008, Sondheim: The Birthday Concert in 2010, and Broadway’s Classic Hits alongside Kelli O’Hara in 2011. Other engagements have included Showboat at Carnegie Hall and the Lyric Opera of Chicago, appearances with Mandy Patinkin at the Ravinia Festival, cabaret shows at New York City’s famed Café Carlyle, and a performance of and Trudie Styler’s Twin Spirits in the Allen Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Mr. Gunn’s recording of Britten’s Billy Budd with Daniel Harding and the London Symphony Orchestra won a 2010 Grammy Award. Other recordings include Just Before Sunrise, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s , Rossini’s The Barber of , and American Anthem. This season, Mr. Gunn returns to The Met for Rossini’s Le Comte d’Ory, Dallas Opera for Dominick Argento’s The Aspern Papers, and the San Francisco Opera for the world premiere of Mark Adamo’s The Gospel of Mary Magdalene. He also appears in recital in Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall and Boston’s Jordan Hall, among others. Nathan Gunn received the first-annual Beverly Sills Artist Award and the Pittsburgh Opera Renaissance Award. He is an alumnus of the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artists Program and won the 1994 Metropolitan Opera National Council Competition. He was recently named director of the American Repertoire Council at the Opera Company of Philadelphia and is a professor of voice at his alma mater, the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.

Mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe (Nettie Fowler) has appeared at The Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and Paris Opéra. She has performed the title roles in Bizet’s Carmen, Saint-Saëns’s Samson and Dalilah, Offenbach’s La Grande Duchesse, Gluck’s Orpheus and , and Handel’s Julius Caesar in Egypt. Her other roles have included Isabella in Rossini’s The Italian Girl in Algiers; Frugola, Principessa, and Zita in Puccini’s The Triptych; Fricka in Wagner’s Das Rheingold and Die Walküre; and the Verdi roles of Amneris in Aida, Azucena in Il Trovatore, Ulrica in Un ballo in maschera, and Mistress Quickly in Falstaff. An accomplished concert singer, Ms. Blythe has appeared with the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Met Orchestra, Halle Orchestra, and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, as well as at the Tanglewood, Mostly Mozart, and Ravinia festivals and the BBC Proms. She has been presented in recital at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall, Alice Tully Hall, 92nd Street Y, Town Hall, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vocal Arts Society in Washington, D.C., Cleveland Art Song Festival, University Musical (more) Carousel Casting Update / 5

Society in Ann Arbor, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, and Shriver Hall in Baltimore. Ms. Blythe starred in The Metropolitan Opera’s live HD broadcasts of Orpheus and Eurydice, The Triptych, Handel’s Rodelinda, and Wagner’s complete Ring Cycle. Her recordings of works by Mahler, Brahms, and Wagner and of arias by Handel and Bach are available on the Virgin Classics label. This season, Ms. Blythe returns to The Metropolitan Opera for the new production of Un ballo in maschera, Il Trovatore, and the complete Ring Cycle, and she tours the U.S. with two of her highly acclaimed programs — We’ll Meet Again: The Songs of Kate Smith and an all-American song program — culminating in a recital in Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium.

Shuler Hensley (Jigger Craigin) has appeared on Broadway as The Monster in Young Frankenstein (which he reprised on the U.S. national tour); Kerchak in ; Jud Fry in Oklahoma! (also at The National Theatre and London’s West End), earning him Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Olivier awards; and Javert in Les Misérables. He has been seen Off-Broadway in Fiorello!, The Whale, Silence! The Musical, Sweet and Sad, That Hopey Changey Thing, and The Great American Trailer Park Musical. Mr. Hensley’s other credits include Brothers of Darkland County, All About Us, The Phantom of the Opera (as The Phantom), and The Most Happy Fella at Lincoln Center’s American Songbook series. His opera appearances have included Berg’s Wozzeck and Blitzstein’s Regina. Mr. Hensley has performed with the New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, and the New World Symphony orchestras. His television credits include Ed, Deadline, Gary Powers, Law & Order: SVU, Criminal Intent, and The Jury. Mr. Hensley has appeared in the films After.Life; The Legend of Zorro; Van Helsing; Monday Night Mayhem; Someone Like You; The Bread, My Sweet; and Opa! This past year, he was awarded “Stage Performance of the Year” by New York magazine in recognition for his work in The Whale.

Jason Danieley (Enoch Snow) most recently appeared as George in Sunday in the Park with George at the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. He has starred on Broadway in , co- starring his wife, ; , garnering him an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination; , which he also performed at London’s West End; and in the title role in , which earned him a and Drama Desk Award nomination. Mr. Danieley also had leading roles in City Center Encores! productions of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and Strike Up the Band. Off-Broadway, he has appeared in Dream True, The Trojan Women: A Love Story, and . His regional theater credits include Some Lovers; The Highest Yellow, earning him a Award; Beauty; ; and . The last two also both co-starred Ms. Mazzie, and he received a Garland Award for the latter. As a concert artist, Jason Danieley has had lead roles in Carnegie Hall performances of The Mikado, Carousel, and South Pacific, broadcast on PBS’s Great Performances, and in April 2013, he will star in Song of Norway. Recently he was a part of the 92nd Street Y’s Lyrics & Lyricists’s “The Very Model of a Major Modern Lyricist: W.S. Gilbert and the Broadway He Inspired.” Mr. Danieley has performed with most of the nation’s leading orchestras and is a frequent guest artist of the Boston Pops, having toured extensively and appeared on several of their PBS broadcasts. Special theatrical concerts with Marin Mazzie include Opposite You, He Said/She Said, and (more) Carousel Casting Update / 6 numerous orchestral concerts. Their upcoming special collaboration in February 2013, Ring Them Bells, celebrates the music of and is part of Lincoln Center’s American Songbook series. Mr. Danieley also leads a rural jazz band, The Frontier Heroes. He made his New York Philharmonic debut in SONDHEIM: The Birthday Concert! in May 2010, and his most recent appearance with the Orchestra was in Anywhere I Wander: The Frank Loesser Songbook, in March 2012.

Jessie Mueller (Carrie Pipperidge) can currently be seen in the role of Helena Landless in Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of The Mystery of Edwin Drood at Studio 54. She spent this past summer as Cinderella in Shakespeare in the Park’s production of at the Delacorte Theatre, and appeared last spring in Sweet and Low Down with at Jazz at Lincoln Center. She made her Broadway debut in On a Clear Day You Can See Forever opposite Harry Connick, Jr. Originally from Chicago, Ms. Mueller has appeared in productions at the , Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Writers Theatre, Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre, Drury Lane Oakbrook, and . She has appeared at the Long Wharf Theatre in Carousel, as well as at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Henry IV, Parts I & II. Ms. Mueller is a recipient of the 2012 Theatre World Award and has been nominated for a Drama Desk Award, , and a Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical.

Kate Burton (Mrs. Mullin) has amassed a wide range of credits in theater, film, and television. Her recent film roles include Josh Radnor’s Liberal Arts; 2 Days in New York from writer/director Julie Delpy; Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours with ; and Puncture with Chris Evans. Past film roles include Remember Me (directed by Alan Coulter), Max Payne (John Moore), What Just Happened (Barry Levinson), Celebrity (), The Ice Storm (Ang Lee), The First Wives Club (Hugh Wilson), August (), Trouble in Little China (John Carpenter), Unfaithful (Adrian Lynne), Swimfan (John Polson), Stay (Marc Forester), Sherrybaby (Laurie Collyer), and Quid Pro Quo (Carlos Brooks). Ms. Burton’s upcoming roles include Consent, Barefoot with Evan Rachel Wood, and Mariachi Gringo. On television Ms. Burton has recurring roles in ABC’s , CBS’s , NBC’s Grimm, and HBO’s Veep with Julia Louis Dreyfus. Past recurring roles include Grey’s Anatomy (two Emmy Nominations) and Rescue Me. Onstage Kate Burton starred as Katherine Cornell in the new A.R. Gurney play The Grand Manner at Lincoln Center Theater. Past theater credits include the Tony Award–winning musical Spring Awakening; the Williamston production of The Corn is Green, starring opposite her son, Morgan Ritchie; and the City Center Encores! revival of Applause with . Ms. Burton was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance as the title character in The Constant Wife at the Roundabout Theatre Company; appeared in The Water’s Edge opposite at the Second Stage Theatre; and was Olga in the critically acclaimed West End production of Three Sisters with Kristen Scott Thomas. Ms. Burton received two Tony nominations in 2002, for the title role in Hedda Gabler and for the role of Mrs. Kendall in . She has also starred on Broadway in The Beauty Queen of Leenane (also on the U.K./ tour), An American Daughter, Jake’s Women, Some Americans Abroad (Drama Desk nomination), and (Theater World Award). She has appeared at Williamstown Theatre Festival for 13 seasons. (more) Carousel Casting Update / 7

A 2007 inductee into the Theatre Hall of Fame, John Cullum (Starkeeper/Dr. Seldon) first appeared on Broadway in Camelot, and earned his first Tony Award nomination for On a Clear Day You Can See Forever. He has won the Tony for in a Musical twice, for and On the , and earned two more nominations for Urinetown and 110 in the Shade. His other leading roles in musicals on Broadway include 1776, , , and . Equally successful as a dramatic actor, Mr. Cullum played Laertes opposite ’s in 1964. His Broadway dramatic credits include Deathtrap, Doubles, You Never Can Tell, , the title role in Cymbaline, and August: Osage County. In Shakespeare in the Park’s 2011 productions, Mr. Cullum portrayed the King in All’s Well That Ends Well and Escalus in Measure for Measure. He has appeared Off- Broadway in Whistler (Drama Desk Award), (Gala 50th Anniversary), and Old Money. He has earned Drama Desk nominations for Conscientious Objector and Sin (A Cardinal Deposed). Mr. Cullum’s film credits include The Night Listener, The Notorious Bettie Page, , The Secret Life of Algernon, Hawaii, 1776, and Richard Burton’s Hamlet. His extensive television credits include appearing as Holling the bartender in (Emmy nomination); recurring roles on ER, Law & Order: SVU, , and The Middle; and television movies including Inherit the Wind and The Day After. Married to acclaimed dancer and writer Emily Frankel, he directed and acted in several of her plays on and Off-Broadway. His many regional appearances include The Dresser at the Clarence Brown Theater in Knoxville, co-starring his son J.D. Cullum. This past year he has completed many readings for possible upcoming productions; appeared in the star-studded reading of Romeo and Juliet for the ; made guest appearances on the television shows , Royal Pains, and Nurse Jackie; appeared in the upcoming feature film Kill Your Darling; and most recently performed in Detroit at Playwrights Horizons.

* * * Credit Suisse is the Global Sponsor of the New York Philharmonic.

* * * These performances are generously supported by Mr. and Mrs. Harold Mitchell.

* * * Programs of the New York Philharmonic are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. * * * Live From Lincoln Center is made possible by a major grant from MetLife. In addition to underwriting from MetLife, the series is also made possible with generous support from the Robert Wood Johnson 1962 Charitable Trust, Thomas H. Lee and Ann Tenenbaum, The Robert and Renée Belfer Family Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Tickets Tickets for these concerts start at $95. All tickets may be purchased online at nyphil.org or by calling (212) 875-5656, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Saturday, and noon to 5:00 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets may also be purchased at the Avery Fisher Hall Box Office. The Box Office opens at 10:00 a.m. Monday through Saturday, and at noon on Sunday. On performance evenings, the Box Office closes one-half hour after performance time; other evenings it closes at 6:00 p.m. To determine ticket availability, call the Philharmonic’s Customer Relations Department at (212) 875-5656. Ticket prices subject to change.

For press tickets, call Lanore Carr in the New York Philharmonic Marketing and Communications Department at (212) 875-5714, or e-mail her at [email protected]. (more) Carousel Casting Update / 9

New York Philharmonic

Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel

Avery Fisher Hall

Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, February 28, 2013, 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 1, 2013, 8:00 p.m. Saturday, March 2, 2013, 2:00 p.m. Saturday, March 2, 2013, 8:00 p.m.

Music by Book and Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II Based on Ferenc Molnár’s Play Liliom Original Dances by Dance Music Arranged by Trude Rittmann Orchestrations by Don Walker Adapted by Chad Beguelin*

Conducted by Rob Fisher Directed by John Rando* Choreographed by Warren Carlyle* Set Design by Allen Moyer* Lighting Design by Ken Billington* Costume Design by David Woolard* Sound Design by Peter Fitzgerald*

Kelli O’Hara (Julie Jordan) Nathan Gunn (Billy Bigelow) Stephanie Blythe (Nettie Fowler) Shuler Hensley (Jigger Craigin) Jason Danieley (Enoch Snow) Jessie Mueller* (Carrie Pipperidge) Kate Burton* (Mrs. Mullin) John Cullum* (Starkeeper/Dr. Seldon)

RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN Carousel (staged)

*denotes New York Philharmonic debut

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