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Welcome to the 2015-16 Season in Tacoma’s Historic Theater District

Illustrations by Chandler O’Leary

Iconic concerts, inspired dance, belly laughs and more than a few surprises await you. We look forward to sharing a year of dazzling and diverse shows... There are good times ahead! For a listing of more upcoming events, visit BroadwayCenter.org.

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IN THIS ISSUE 2015-16 PROGRAM VOLUME 1 Dear Friends, 7 Queen – It’s a Kinda Magic ...... September 26 Welcome to the 8 Johnny Mathis ...... October 8 Broadway Center! Whether this is 12 Audra McDonald ...... October 25 your first visit to 15 Film Focus: Night of the Living Dead ...... October 30 Tacoma’s historic Theater District or LISA MUNET PHOTOGRAPHY 16 Hal Holbrook in Mark Twain TONIGHT! ...... November 7 you are a long time friend, we thank you for being here and 19 Jeff Daniels & The Ben Daniels Band ...... November 11 are thrilled to share the experience of live performance with you. 20 Los Lobos ...... November 13 Our season begins with a concert that 23 Chris Perondi’s Stunt Dog Experience ...... November 28 takes you to the iconic 1986 world tour with Queen – It’s a Kinda Magic. More 25 Seattle Men’s Chorus: Home for the Holidays ...... December 3 of the Hollywood star power takes the stage - first Johnny Mathis, one of the greatest crooners of all time, will serenade audiences with his velvety voice; and BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2015-16 Audra McDonald, arguably the preeminent Deanna Keller, President • Amanda Nathan, Secretary Broadway singer and actor, will perform Stephanie Howe, Treasurer • Warren Willoughby, Immediate Past-President some of her favorite show tunes. Christopher Algeo Nicole Hume Darriel Menefee Vic Sweberg We invite you to celebrate Halloween Judy Baerg Genie Jefferson Mark Pinto Monique Trudnowski with a screening of the classic horror Lois Bernstein Brooke Johnson Jumi Sakurai Bud Wagner film Night of the Living Dead. Later, Hal Jim Burg Clint Johnson Kristen Sawin Mike Wark Kim Fisher Kathy Keele Bill Sterud Kellie Williams Holbrook brings the great American Tiffany Harmon Connie Ladenburg Jim Storvick author Mark Twain to life in Mark Twain TONIGHT! Jeff Daniels will astound BROADWAY CENTER STAFF the audience with his musical range, and Administration Klair Ethridge, Rentals Sales Coordinator Los Lobos bring their incredible talent David Fischer, Executive Director Jeff Jainga, Event Lead in a concert that highlights their genre- Lacey Wright, Associate Executive Director Matteo Herrera, Event Lead Gini Hawkins, Executive Assistant Ashley Shetler, Event Lead bending talents. Chris Tubig, Event Lead The holiday season features some of Box Office & Marketing Gail Thomason, House Manager our best family programming – first with Jared Wigert, Associate Director of Marketing Carissa Daniels, Concessionaire / Event Aide Mariesa Bus, Assistant Marketing Manager Kirsten Deane-Ajax, Concessionaire / Event Aide Chris Perondi’s Stunt Dog Experience, a Katie Engel, Data and Patron Services Manager Kylie Deloney, Concessionaire / Event Aide show that stars the immense talent of Vanessa Cadungug, Box Office Assistant Manager Peter Edwards, Concessionaire / Event Aide Lisa Hansford, Box Office Sales Representative Cayla Fields, Concessionaire / Event Aide pound puppies. Following that is the Jordan Devereaux, Box Office Sales Representative Cori Mickelson, Concessionaire / Event Aide Seattle Men’s Chorus, a holiday tradition Jasmine Javier, Box Office Sales Representative Mary Morris, Concessionaire / Event Aide Erin White, Box Office Sales Representative Riley Park, Concessionaire/ Event Aide that we are proud to bring to Tacoma Rachel Gardiner, Concessionaire / Event Aide each year. Development Wes Hough, Concessionaire / Event Aide Together, we will experience art, Becky Johnson, Director of Development Robert Swiger, Concessionaire / Event Aide Rachel Shouse, Major Gifts Coordinator Rochelle Wells, Concessionaire / Event Aide community, and life in vibrant downtown Alison Pride, Grant Writer Tacoma. Thank you for joining us, Finance Education & Programs Elliott Kay, Director of Finance and filling our historic theaters with Katie Lappier, Associate Director of Education Shannon Johnson, Finance Manager inspiration and joy. Tony Gomez, Education Manager Aimee Takayoshi, Finance Assistant Marsha Walner, Education Coordinator Angie Hanan, Master Teaching Artist Operations Warmest regards, Jill Heinecke, Master Teaching Artist Scott Painter, Director of Operations Gabe McPherson, Master Teaching Artist Nick Shellman, Stage Department Coordinator Leah Scofield, Master Teaching Artist Warren Crain, Head Carpenter Debbie Armstrong, Master Teaching Artist Royce Baer, Lead Technician (Rialto) Jennifer King, Master Teaching Artist Josh Holcomb, Head Flyman Stephanie Pederson, Master Teaching Artist Rich Tocher, Lead Technician (Theatre on the Square) David Fischer Don Littrell, Sound Technician Executive Director Events and Venue Rentals Olivia Burlingame, Trainee Leilani Balais, Associate Director of Events Mariah Jackson, Trainee Emily Alm, Senior Events Manager Sean Blacketer, Maintenance Coodinator All stage work performed by employees that are Kathryn Philbrook, Volunteer Coordinator represented by IATSE, Local #15.

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6 Date: BROADWAY 8-3-15 CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTSBleed: n/a Advertiser: Charles Wright Academy Printing: 4c, cmyk File name: Production Contact: CWA Encore 4_75x9_875_Fall2015 Amy Senftleben, 253-620-8870, Pub: Encore Media [email protected] Final Size: 4.75”x9.875” Live Area: n/a Broadway Center presents SPONSORS QUEEN - It’s a Kinda Magic SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2015 AT 7:30 P.M. • PANTAGES THEATER APPROXIMATE RUN TIME: 130-MINUTES WITH 20-MINUTE INTERMISSION

GILES TAYLOR vocal range saw him beat many other albums and toured nationally. In 2006 he as Freddie Mercury prime candidates to win the role of gained a formal qualification in Musical Giles was born in Oxford, England and what is to be one of the world’s most Performance and Composition and showed an early interest in music. His formidable tributes to Queen. quickly progressed to a full-time music mother, also a pianist began to teach career, firstly as a session musician for him the piano at the age of five after he RICHIE BAKER Rock, Jazz and Funk artists and more would sit fascinated next to the piano as as Brian May (guitar) recently in theatrical productions. This she played. Richie has been studying and playing/ varied musical background has given However, his real love for performing touring internationally as a professional Steven the diverse grounding he needs and the stage began when he was 12 musician for over 15 years. He is a multi- to take on the unique music of Queen as when he landed his first role in a school instrumentalist, but is particularly well bass player John Deacon. play. It was at this age that he decided to known for his skills as an accomplished pursue further studies into the voice and rhythm and lead guitarist and as such KYLE THOMPSON after finishing school was accepted into was a natural for the role of Brian May as Roger Taylor (drums) the Trinity College of Music, London, to in long-running tribute show Queen - Kyle Thompson started drumming at study music and drama. It’s a Kinda Magic. Richie’s experience the young age of three and made sure From there Giles worked as a session as a session musician in the Pop, Rock not to limit his talents - he is not only musician and vocalist in the UK and and Country music industries has given a drummer a voice that any lead singer worldwide before having a few small him the variety of musical knowledge would die for, he also plays six other roles in the West-End theatre scene. required to do justice to Queen’s music. instruments including guitar, piano, It was the worldwide auditions held bass, saw, percussion and mandolin. As a by Showtime Management early in STEVEN DENNETT professional musician Kyle has performed 2014 that led to Giles landing the role of as John Deacon (bass) many styles of music but Classic Rock is Freddie Mercury in the show ‘Queen – Beginning his musical career as a self- a personal favourite. Having worked for It’s a Kinda Magic.’ taught teen guitarist, Steven Dennett many of the world’s great international Whilst the auditions were tough the grew up in Johannesburg playing in artists, Kyle feels right at home touring combination of Giles’ natural talent as a Punk and Metal bands, including Erebus the world and performing as Roger pianist and his three-and-a-half octave with which he recorded two studio Taylor in Queen - It’s a Kinda Magic.

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The fourth of seven children, John jobs around her house. Johnny studied meet at the University of Nevada Johnny Royce Mathis was born on September with Connie for six years learning vocal beat Russell’s highest jump attempt that 30, 1935 in Gilmer, Texas to Clem and scales and exercises, voice production, day. He was often referred to as “the best Mildred Mathis. As a small boy, the family classical and operatic skills. all-around athlete to come out of the San moved to Post Street in San Francisco. It At George Washington High School, Francisco Bay Area”. was there that he learned an appreciation Johnny was known not only for his A fellow student, whose sextet was of music from his father who taught him singing ability but his athleticism as well. working at the Black Hawk nightclub, his first song, “My Blue Heaven”. At age He became a star athlete on the track and brought Johnny in for a Sunday eight, his father purchased an old upright field team as a high jumper and hurdler afternoon jam session. It was at the Black piano for $25. When he brought it home, and played on the basketball team. Hawk that Helen Noga, co-owner of the it wouldn’t fit through the front door. So In 1954, Johnny enrolled at San club, first heard him sing. She decided that evening, Johnny stayed up all night Francisco State College (now called that she wanted to manage his career. to watch his father dismantle the piano, San Francisco State University) with In early September of 1955, Johnny get it into the small living room of their the intention of being an English and landed a job singing weekends at Ann basement apartment and then reassemble Physical Education teacher. While there, Dee’s 440 Club. After repeated attempts, it. Clem Mathis, who worked briefly as a Johnny set a high jump record of 6’-5 Helen convinced George Avakian, then musician back in Texas playing the piano 1/2”. This is still one the College’s head of Jazz A&R at Columbia, to see him. and singing on stage, would continue to top jump heights and was only two Avakian came to the club, heard Johnny teach his son many songs and routines. inches short of the Olympic record of sing and sent the now famous telegram Johnny had proven to be the most eager the time. Just as when he was in high to his record company: “Have found of the children to learn all about music. school, Johnny’s name was frequently phenomenal 19 year old boy who could He sang in the church choir, school mentioned in the sports sections of the go all the way. Send blank contracts.” functions, community events, for visitors Northern California newspapers. In Avakian left for New York after telling in their home as well as amateur shows in fact he & future NBA star Bill Russell Johnny that he would eventually send the San Francisco area. were featured in a 1954 sports section for him. Johnny continued his studies at Johnny was 13 years old when Clem article of the San Francisco Chronicle San Francisco State and gained additional took him to see Connie Cox, a Bay Area demonstrating their high jumping skills fame as a high jumper. In early 1956, voice teacher, who agreed to take on the (Russell #1 & Johnny #2 in the City of Johnny was asked to attend the trials youngster in exchange for his doing odd San Francisco at that time). During one for the 1956 Olympic teams that would

8 BROADWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS travel to Melbourne, Australia that summer. At the same time, Columbia Records requested that Johnny come to New York to start arrangements bringing life to flowers for his first recording session. Clem for over 25 years helped his son decide that his future and best interests were with the recording company. So, Johnny gave up his chance to become a member of the USA Olympic Team. He went to New York to record his first album in March of 1956. The first album was a collection of jazz Friendly Elegance  Classic Comfort oriented renditions of popular standards Fine Handmade American Craft 909 PACIFIC AVE, TACOMA, WA 98402 at LeRoy Jewelers, 940 Broadway, Tacoma 253.572.2327 BLITZFLORIST.COM entitled: Johnny Mathis: A New Sound In 253-274-1630 Popular Song. It included jazz musicians Gil Evans, John Lewis and Teo Macero and songs like “Angel Eyes”, “Easy to AS 072414 flowers 1_12.pdf Bli 082410 fl ower 1_12.pdf Love” and “Babalu”. The album enjoyed only moderate success because jazz vocal meets albums were not good sellers. Nevertheless, Johnny remained in New York and landed Tradition bookings at some of the leading nightclubs such as the Village Vanguard, The Blue INNOVATION Angel and Basin Street East. Soon, Columbia placed Johnny under While Annie Wright Schools have been around since 1884, our the supervision of producer Mitch Miller. academic and arts programs continue to evolve. We offer boys and Mitch favored using Johnny’s voice to girls from Preschool-Grade 12 the opportunity to explore their artistic sing soft, romantic ballads. At his second passion through music, art, theatre and more. Our International recording session, in the fall of 1956, Johnny recorded two singles. These Baccalaureate curriculum and small class sizes offer songs were to become among his most students a unique learning environment. popular all-time greatest hits: “Wonderful, $20 Wonderful” and “It’s Not For Me To Say.” Subsequently, MGM Studios signed waived Johnny to sing “It’s Not For Me To Say” in the film Lizzie . He played a tavern piano bar singer. In 1958, Johnny made another motion picture appearance. This time it was for 20th Century Fox in A Certain Smile. In this movie, he sang the title song playing himself in an elegant nightclub scene. Since then, Johnny’s voice has been used in countless Hollywood movies for theme songs, background music and to enhance a particular setting or segment. “Wonderful, Wonderful” and “It’s Not For Me To Say” reached their peaks on the BILLBOARD pop chart in July of 1957. These successes were followed by the monumental single “Chances Are” which became Johnny’s first #1 hit. In June of 1957, Johnny appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show where he was introduced to the record buying public and became a national celebrity and household name. Columbia Records Learn www.aw.org Call 253.272.2216 Email [email protected] Visit 827 N Tacoma Ave, Tacoma, WA 98403 CONTINUED ON PAGE 10

encoreartsseattle.com 9 continued to release albums of Johnny London Palladium. He performed for 2006 was a very busy year for Johnny, singing beautiful and romantic ballads, President and Mrs. Reagan at the State marking his impressive 50th anniversary classic standards and the best songs from Dinner held in honor of the Prime as a recording star. “Johnny Mathis – Broadway musicals. These albums, like Minister of Japan in April of 1987. Four Gold: A 50th Anniversary Celebration” the singles, became immediate successes years later in April of 1991, he sang for and “A 50th Christmas Celebration” with sales in the millions. It was not President and Mrs. Bush in honor of the were both released and PBS taped a uncommon for Johnny to have as many President of Nicaragua. Most recently, in special called “Wonderful, Wonderful”. as four albums on the BILLBOARD May of 1994, Johnny sang for President The PBS special was later released on Top Albums chart at the same time. In and Mrs. Clinton (along with the other DVD as “Johnny Mathis – Gold: A 50th late 1959, Johnny recorded another song five living First Ladies) at a very special Anniversary Celebration”. 2006 also that became synonymous with the name First Ladies Tribute. marked the year that he was honored of Johnny Mathis, the Erroll Garner He has also been honored by with receiving the Society of Singers composition, “Misty”. entertainment heads of state. In June of coveted Ella Award. Johnny’s accomplishments are numerous 1972, he was awarded his own star on As if this weren’t enough, Johnny and varied. He holds many records and has the famous Hollywood Walk of Fame, continues to be honored in many different set many precedents in the music industry. and has also participated in the Oscars ways. In 2011 he performed for former In 1958, two years after being signed by presentation many times performing Secretary of State Colin Powell, and Columbia Records, Johnny’s Greatest the song nominated in the “Best Song” received the Gold Medal of the Academy Hits was released. It began a “Greatest category. of Achievement at the Academy’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., acknowledging his many accomplishments In 1958, two years after being signed by throughout his career. Most recent honors Columbia Records, Johnny’s Greatest Hits was and accolades include: 2013 Art Gilmore Career Achievement Award from the released. It began a “Greatest Hits” tradition Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters for Radio & copied by every record company since then. Television; 2013 Induction into the brand new America’s Pop Music Hall of Fame; 2014 induction into the Great American Hits” tradition copied by every record Johnny has received five Grammy Songbook Hall of Fame, as well as company since then. Johnny’s Greatest nominations during his career. The first receiving the New Standard Award for his Hits went on to become one of the most was for “Misty” in 1960 in the category continuing career achievements. popular albums of all time and spent an of Best Male Vocal Performance - Single In spite of a very busy tour schedule unprecedented 490 continuous weeks Record or Track. The second was in & many charity events, Johnny still finds (almost ten years) on the BILLBOARD 1992 for “In a Sentimental Mood / time to enjoy a little free time. Johnny Top Albums Chart. This record has been Mathis Sings Ellington” in the category was an avid tennis player until the late noted in the GUINNESS BOOK OF of Best Traditional Pop Performance. He 1960s, when a good friend turned him WORLD RECORDS. also was nominated in 2006 for “Isn’t it on to his now life-long love of golf. He At one point in his career, according to Romantic”, and again in 2011 for “Let plays golf almost every day when he’s record historian Joel Whitburn, Johnny It Be Me – Mathis In Nashville” in the not traveling and has sung at many golf was one of only five recording artists to category of Best Traditional Pop Vocal banquets such as the Ryder Cup. In 1985 have Top 40 Hits spanning each of his Album. His latest nomination occurred and 1986, Johnny hosted his own golf first four decades as a recording artist. in 2014 for “Sending You A Little tournament, The Johnny Mathis Seniors And as of 2013 he has now had a hit in Christmas” also for Best Traditional Pop PGA Classic, which was held in Los every decade of his career thanks to his Vocal Album. Angeles. Johnny has also hosted a charity lovely song with Jim Brickman “Sending Johnny has been inducted into the golf tournament, The Shell / Johnny You a Little Christmas” peaking at #4 Grammy Hall of Fame three times so far Mathis Golf Classic, which was held in on the Billboard Adult Contemporary for “Chances Are”, “Misty”, and “It’s Not Belfast, Northern Ireland. chart! Amazingly, his second #1 Hit For Me To Say”. Most impressive of all Johnny’s other favorite avocation is Single, “Too Much, Too Little, Too Late” is his 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award cooking. He is a gourmet cook who (recorded with Deniece Williams), came by the Academy of Recording Arts and cooks for himself and often others when almost 21 years after his very first #1 Hit Sciences. he’s home or traveling. His mother taught Single, “Chances Are”. In 2004 he sang “Over the Rainbow” him at an early age how to cook up a Johnny has been honored to make with Ray Charles on Mr. Charles’ storm and do it well. He has enjoyed several appearances before various heads “Genius Loves Company”. (Johnny was doing so all his life. of state. Starting in June of 1973, he sang very honored that Mr. Charles requested After almost 60 years as a recording at a State Dinner held in honor of the the song be played at his memorial artist, what’s next for Johnny? “I don’t President of Liberia. In 1978, Johnny service.) Also in 2004, Johnny recorded think about retiring. I think about how I sang for the British Royal Family at A “Isn’t It Romantic” a standards CD that can keep singing for the rest of my life. I Command Performance held at The was released in February 2005. just have to pace myself.”

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Audra McDonald is unparalleled in the Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny the World, She Got Problems, Rampart, breadth and versatility of her artistry as at Los Angeles Opera. On television, and most recently Ricki and the Flash. A both a singer and an actress. A record- she was seen by millions as the Mother two-time Grammy Award-winner and breaking six-time Tony Award-winner Abbess in NBC’s The Sound of Music exclusive recording artist for Nonesuch (Carousel, Master Class, Ragtime, A Live! and played Dr. Naomi Bennett Records, she released her fifth solo Raisin in the Sun, The Gershwins’ Porgy on ABC’s Private Practice. She received album for the label, Go Back Home, and Bess, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & her first Emmy Award and fourth in 2013. McDonald also maintains a Grill) and one of Time magazine’s 100 nomination for her role as official host major career as a concert artist, regularly most influential people of 2015, she of PBS’s Live From Lincoln Center, having appearing on the great stages of the has also appeared on Broadway in The also scored nods for Wit and A Raisin in world and with leading international Secret Garden, Marie Christine (Tony the Sun. Other TV credits include The orchestras. An ardent proponent of nomination), Henry IV, and 110 in the Good Wife, Homicide: Life on the Street, marriage equality and an advocate for Shade (Tony nomination). She returns to Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Having at-risk and underprivileged youth, she the stage in the 2015-16 season as Lottie Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 sits on the boards of Broadway Impact Gee in Shuffle Along, Or, The Making of Years, The Bedford Diaries, Kidnapped, and Covenant House. Of her many roles, the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That and the 1999 remake of Annie. On film, her favorites are the ones performed Followed. The Juilliard-trained soprano’s she has appeared in Seven Servants, The offstage: wife to her husband, actor Will opera credits include La voix humaine Object of My Affection, Cradle Will Rock, Swenson, and mother to her daughter, and Send at Houston Grand Opera, and It Runs in the Family, The Best Thief in Zoe Madeline.

12 BROADWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ANDY EINHORN Gene Lewin Music Director and Conductor Drums Andy Einhorn Gene Lewin HARMONY HARMONY boasts Broadway appears on 34 CDs, credits for Rodgers HARMONYwith several more HARMONY + Hammerstein’s soon to be released. Cinderella (OBCR), His eclectic Evita (OBCR), discographyHARMONY ranges HARMONY Brief Encounter, The from the modern Light in the Piazza, jazzHARMONY of HARMONY and Sondheim on Sondheim (OBCR, Fundementia to the electric-violin pop Grammy nom.) He most recently of GrooveLily. Several straight-ahead HARMONY HARMONY served as the music director and jazz projects and singer-songwriter conductor for the Broadway production efforts round out the list. of Woody Allen’s Bullets Over Broadway Gene drums, sings, and composes for (OBCR). GrooveLily, a trio that has been together His tour work includes Sweeney for 16 years and has toured extensivelyHARMONY HARMONYHARMONY Todd, The Light in the Piazza, Mamma in the U.S. and Canada. While they Mia!, and The Lion King. Einhorn has have morphed through many different worked at Goodspeed Opera House, musical scenes (and hair styles), theyHARMONY are HARMONY Signature Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare now focused on creating hybrid musical Festival and PaperMill Playhouse. He theater; performances that feel both like “Music is something we need was principal vocal coach and pianist concert and story. to make life complete. For me, for Houston Grand Opera’s An Evening Gene is also active in New York City’s it’s a personal pleasure I’ve with Audra McDonald, a double-bill jazz scene, performing and recording recaptured at Franke Tobey of Poulenc’s La voix humaine and with many well-respected singers and Jones and have shared with LaChiusa’s Send. instrumentalists. He has appeared on others. It’s a harmonious life!” Einhorn has served as music director CDs with bassists John Patitucci and -Brad N. and pianist for McDonald since fall of Scott Colley, guitarists Ben Monder Call Michelle or Shirley 2011, performing with her at many and Steve Cardenas, jazz legend tenor today for a tour. venues including the Philadelphia saxophonist George Coleman, bassist/ Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, vocalist Jay Leonhart, and many others. 253-752-6621 Los Angeles Opera, Avery Fisher Hall, Originally an engineering major 5340 N. Bristol St., Tacoma and Carnegie Hall. Highlights of his at Princeton University, Gene soon FrankeTobeyJones.com 2014 – 2015 season engagements with changed paths and returned to school Facebook.com/franketobeyjones Ms. McDonald include concerts at to receive a master’s degree from the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Carnegie Manhattan School of Music in 1991. Hall, and Teatro Real in Madrid. He He sends love to wife Suzanne and sons has also music directed for Barbara Elias and Jacob. Cook at Feinstein’s and Toronto’s Royal Conservatory of Music. MARK VANDERPOEL, Other cast albums include Stage Bass Door Canteen and McDonald’s newest Mark Vanderpoel is release, Go Back Home. He served as a native of San the music director for HBO’s Peabody Diego. He holds a Award-winning documentary Six by bachelor’s degree Sondheim and music supervisor for Great from the University Performances Peabody Award winning of California, San special “Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Diego, where he Legacy” on PBS. studied with Andy Einhorn is an honors graduate Bertram Turetzky, and a master’s degree of Rice University. from the California Institute of the Arts. Mr. Vanderpoel is a former member of the San Diego Symphony, as well as various other chamber groups from the area, in addition to ensembles based in Independent Living the Baja California region of Mexico. Assisted Living Skilled Nursing Memory Care CONTINUED ON PAGE 14

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His extensive theater credits include Legally Blonde, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella, See What I Wanna See, Guys and Dolls, the PBS special A Broadway Celebration on In Performance at the White House, Jane Eyre, Bullets Over Broadway, An American in Paris, and many others. Mr. Vanderpoel’s stage and sideman credits include Audra McDonald, Kristin Chenoweth, Kelli O’Hara, Nancy Sinatra, Victoria Clark, Shirley Jones, Sir Cliff Richard, Deborah Voigt, Sandra Bernhard, Clay Aiken, Taylor Hicks, David Johansen, Sigur Rós, Jeff Beck, Richard Klein, and Andrea Bocelli, as well as appearances on the Late Show with David Letterman and America’s Got Talent. Passions include surfing and using his Vitamix.

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encoreartsseattle.com 15 Broadway Center presents Hal Holbrook: Mark Twain Tonight! SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2015 AT 7:30 P.M. • PANTAGES THEATER APPROXIMATE RUN TIME: 75 MINUTES

When the calendar turned to 2014 it laid down a milestone for the longest running show in American Theatre history – the 60th year for Mark Twain Tonight! Clive Barnes of the New York Times reviewed Hal Holbrook’s third New York engagement in 1977: “Hilariously funny. We see him not as the precursor of Will Rogers or even H. L. Mencken, but clearly as a prototypal Lenny Bruce, so anti-establishment you wonder why they allowed him into his century.” Holbrook has shown us Mark Twain the social critic, whom George Bernard Shaw called “America’s Voltaire.” The show doesn’t stop evolving. Three new numbers have added another hour to its revolving repertoire of material: one on the Christian Bible, another from the feuding clans in Huckleberry Finn killing each other off, and another on the fate of the laboring class in America. “Mark Twain never stops surprising me,” says Holbrook. “He keeps firing me up and asking questions.” It was a fateful decision for Holbrook when he sat at his desk in a small $79 a month New York apartment in 1954 and began searching Twain’s writings for material that might work on the stage and feed his family. One key decision he made: Don’t update him. Portray Mark Twain as the aging character the world recognizes – a wild white head of hair, beetle brows and moustache, the white suit, and never break the illusion that it is Twain himself speaking in his own time. Let the audience update him. That has made the show more powerful because human behavior doesn’t change. Neither does its foolishness. That’s the joke. This total disguise of himself, which took as much as four hours when he was younger, has given Holbrook the benefit of another career as himself in motion pictures like Magnum Force, Wall Street, SPONSOR MEDIA Creepshow, Water for Elephants, Lincoln and Into the Wild for which he received an Academy Award nomination. Television films and series earned him five Emmy Awards, a total of twelve nominations. With ninety-eight stage plays in New

16 BROADWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS York and regional theatres around the Holbrook, his first wife. The solo Twain material is uproarious, his ability to hold country, he has said “I’ve been on the was originally created in a Greenwich an audience by acting is brilliant.” It road most of my life.” Village nightclub, where Ed Sullivan was called “one of the treasures of the He is not a Hollywood actor or saw him and first gave him national American Theatre” by Life Magazine. a New York actor. He’s as much an television exposure. Three years later an Seven years later he played New American actor as any in our theatre’s unheralded 34-year old actor debuted York again, won the Tony Award and history because he has never stopped Mark Twain Tonight! just off Broadway to Mark Twain Tonight! was seen on CBS touring America coast to coast in critics who had no idea what to expect. Television before 30 million people. 66 years since graduating college in The New York Times: “There should Ohio and setting out for Texas on the have been posters up all over town school assembly circuit with Ruby to herald his arrival. Mr. Holbrook’s CONTINUED ON PAGE 18

NOTE: While Mr. Twain’s selections will come from the complete list below, we have been utnable to pin him down as to which of them he will do. He claims it would cripple his inspiration. However, he has generously conceded to a printed program for the benefit of those who are in distress and wish to fan themselves.

SELECTION SOURCE SELECTION SOURCE Compliments Collection ...... Miscellaneous Taming the Bicycle ...... Essays Chaucer, Sailor, Tennessee Girl ...... Miscellaneous The Evolution of Man ...... Biography Slow Train, Long Dog ...... Following the Equator Insanity: Elections, War and Petrified Opinions ...... Miscellaneous Charity, Reform, Cats ...... Miscellaneous Huck and Jim ...... Huckleberry Finn My Cigar Habit? ...... Miscellaneous Shooting of Boggs ...... Huckleberry Finn The Marienbad Cure ...... Essays Huck, Jim and ‘Lizbeth ...... Huckleberry Finn A Cyclopedia of Sin ...... Miscellaneous Huck’s Conscience ...... Huckleberry Finn Smoke Rings ...... Miscellaneous Lost in the Fog ...... Huckleberry Finn A Moral Pauper ...... Following the Equator Lynching and China ...... Essays Hunting the Water Closet ...... Mark Twain’s Notebook A Helluva Heaven ...... Letters from the Earth Virginia City ...... Roughing It Slavery: A Holy Thing ...... Autobiography Shoveling Sand ...... Roughing It Man, That Poor Thing ...... Biography The Ant ...... A Tramp Abroad Noah’s Ark ...... Letters from the Earth The Great Landslide Case ...... Roughing It Chief Love ...... Mark Twain in Eruption The Lord Will Provide ...... Autobiography The Creator’s Pet ...... Letters from the Earth The German Opera ...... A Tramp Abroad The War Prayer ...... Europe and Elsewhere A Genuine Mexican Plug ...... Roughing It The Christian Bible ...... Miscellaneous San Francisco ...... Miscellaneous Circumstances ...... Mark Twain In Eruption Crippling the Accordion ...... Sketches Our Civilization ...... Autobiography The Anarchist Story ...... Speeches A Ghost Story ...... Short Stories Baker’s Bluejay ...... A Tramp Abroad Sunrise on the River ...... Life On the Mississippi The Sweet Bye and Bye ...... Essays: The Invalid Story The Get Rich Quick Disease ...... Miscellaneous His Grandfather’s Old Ram ...... Mark Twain’s Notebook The Thin Skin ...... Mark Twain’s Notebook Congress: The Grand Old Asylum ...... Miscellaneous The Virgin Mary ...... Ladies Home Journal The Press ...... Speeches Praying for Gingerbread ...... Autobiography Down There in Washington ...... Miscellaneous Boyhood on the Farm ...... Autobiography Running For President ...... Miscellaneous Taking Along the Window Sash ...... Innocents Abroad The Sandwich Islands ...... Roughing It My Trained Presbyterian Conscience ...... Autobiography The Italian Guide ...... Innocents Abroad How I Stole My Name ...... Life on the Mississippi My Encounter With an Interviewer ...... Sketches Livy ...... Autobiography Accident Insurance ...... Speeches How to Be Seventy ...... Speeches The Supreme Art ...... Letters from the Earth My Ancestor Satan ...... Short Stories White Suit ...... Speeches The Hartford Home ...... Letters Requesting a Hymn Book ...... Mark Twain in Eruption Susy’s Prayer ...... Autobiography Money is God ...... Notebooks Halley’s Comet ...... Biography Decay in the Art of Lying ...... Essays & Miscellaneous Mary Ann ...... Speeches Advice to Youth ...... Speeches

These selections are quotations directly from Mark Twain’s writings, edited together by Mr . Holbrook to create his performance

INTERMISSION: Two? Or One MUSIC: A trombone player was engaged, but is unreliable and should not be expected . NO DOGS ALLOWED IN THE DRESS CIRCLE * * * * * * * * * * Production Supervisor Richard Costabile Assistant to Mr . Holbrook Joyce Cohen Exclusive Tour Direction The Booking Group: Meredith Blair, Mollie Mann, Brian Brooks, Rich Rundle and Klaus Kolmar

encoreartsseattle.com 17 Hal Holbrook was born in Cleveland in the daytime, he developed his original in 1925. When he was two his mother two hours of material in the curve of disappeared, his father followed suit, a baby grand piano at night and Ed and young Holbrook and his two sisters Sullivan caught his act. were raised by their grandfather in The New York stage debut three years South Weymouth, Massachusetts where later was such a stunning success, he his people had settled in 1635. He was quit the soap; the State Department sent TACOMA sent away at the age of seven to one of him on a tour of Europe where he was the finer New England schools, beaten the first American dramatic attraction regularly by a Dickensian headmaster, after World War II to appear behind the and at twelve was sent to Culver Iron Curtain. Military Academy where he learned self- Then he pursued a new career as discipline and discovered acting as an himself, playing Shakespeare, Abe escape from rigid authority. He believes Lincoln in Illinois Off-Broadway, and Culver saved his life. booking Twain in between. He joined

He is not a Hollywood actor or a New York actor . He’s as much an American actor as any . .

After three years in World War the original Lincoln Center Repertory II, Holbrook completed his college Company in New York and built a career education at Denison University in Ohio, as an actor in a variety of roles with no where the Mark Twain characterization connection to Mark Twain – Man of grew out of an honors project which LaMancha, King Lear, Shylock, Willy gave him and his young wife an Loman onstage, and in 50-odd feature immediate job after graduation, playing films. He has no set program in Mark scenes from Shakespeare to Twain on the Twain Tonight! It changes and evolves and school assembly circuit in the Southwest. he sometimes chooses the material he His first solo appearance as Twain will do as the show goes along. was at the Lock Haven State Teachers Hal Holbrook sailed the 1980 College in Pennsylvania in 1954, a singlehanded race to Hawaii and desperate alternative to selling hats or extensively in the South Pacific to running elevators in New York to keep New Zealand on his 40-foot sailboat, his young family alive. When a radio and Yankee Tar. He has five children, lives television soap opera, The Brighter Day, in Los Angeles and sometimes in rescued them, Holbrook still pursued the Tennessee at the home where his dear Twain character in a Greenwich Village wife, Dixie Carter, grew up. She passed nightclub. While doing the soap opera away in 2010.

The entirety of Mr. Holbrook’s material is protected by copyright law and may not be transcribed or performed in any venue or context without the express permission of Mr. Holbrook. No audio or video transmitting or recording device of any kind shall be used in any manner to reproduce the artist’s performance. Violators will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

The Mark Twain Project at Berkeley, which houses Mark Twain’s papers, is perhaps the most ambitious publishing enterprise in the annals of American literature, issuing scholarly editions of Mark Twain’s work which include a wealth of newly discovered material. If you would like to help the Mark Twain Project continue its exciting research and publication, please send a tax-deductible contribution made payable to The Mark Twain Project, c/o Mark Twain Papers & Project, University of California, The Bancroft Library – Room 475, Berkeley, California 94720-6000.

Thank you. – Hal Holbrook

18 BROADWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Broadway Center presents Jeff Daniels & The Ben Daniels Band WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2015 AT 7:30 P.M. PANTAGES THEATER APPROXIMATE RUN TIME: TWO 45 MINUTE SETS

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JEFF DANIELS - who would later go on to win a Pulitzer such as the The Ark, The Blind Pig, DAYS LIKE THESE is the sixth Prize for his play, TALLEY’S FOLLY - and the Magic Bag, and have toured recording of Jeff Daniels’ music and is taught me so much about the writing to New York City, Washington D.C., available under his independent label process; the love/hate relationship one has and Nashville . As a solo artist, Ben has Boomadeeboom Records. with such a solitary pursuit, the endless stepped on the stage in Austin, TX at Jeff has spent the past twelve years rewriting, the search and struggle to find the Cactus Cafe, as well as The Barns at playing venues such as: The Barns at Wolf a way to say it better. In Hollywood, the Wolf Trap. The son of actor Jeff Daniels, Trap in VA, Club Passim in Boston, MA, joke is ask any actor what he wants to do he has quietly monitored what it takes New York City’s 54 Below, City Winery next and he’ll say, ‘Direct.’ All I wanted to to live life as an artist. Beyond a passed and Birdland, the Cactus Cafe in Austin, do was write. So, I did. Almost forty years down talent, the Ben Daniels Band TX, Ram’s Head Tavern in Annapolis, later, I still am. DAYS LIKE THESE is my believes in hard work, perseverance, and MA, Mucky Duck’s in Houston, TX, The best effort so far.” creatively challenging themselves and Ark in Ann Arbor, MI, Chicago’s Old their audience. School of Folk Music, S.P.A.C.E., and BEN DANIELS With Tommy Reifel on bass, George City Winery, Nashville’s 3rd & Lindley, When Ben Daniels decided he was Merkel on guitar, Wesley Fritzemeier Seattle’s Third Door, Alaska’s Blue Loon going to be a musician, it was more on drums and mandolin, and singer/ in Fairbanks and Latitude 62 in Talkeetna, than a career choice. A natural poet, this songwriter Amanda Merte on vocals, as well as numerous opera houses and young songwriter went to school on Bob BDB’s live show never fails to take over PACs throughout the country. He has Dylan, Robert Johnson, and Jack White, the venue. Their songs become anthems shared the stage with Lyle Lovett, John among others. His lyrics speak directly with arrangements that pull people inside Hiatt and Keb Mo’, and has studied with to a younger generation that hears, sees, their sound. With five CDs under their Stefan Grossman. In 2012, the Martin and thinks about the very things he’s belts – Coming From The C, Checkin’ Guitar Company began selling an OM writing. From their opening song to In To The Michigan Inn, Can’t You See, Jeff Daniels Custom Artist Edition Guitar. the finale of their set, the Ben Daniels The Mountain Home EP, the dual album “When I moved to New York City Band cuts through with their originality, & movie release Old Gold and their most to chase acting as a career, what I didn’t musicianship, and a sound that spans recent release, Roll – the Ben Daniels plan on was being influenced by all the Americana, Blues, Jazz, and Rock. Band has grown to be a formidable playwrights I would work with Offff- Throughout years of touring, BDB group that sounds pleasantly familiar, yet Broadway. In particular Lanford Wilson has played notable venues in Michigan unforgettably unique.

encoreartsseattle.com 19 Broadway Center presents Los Lobos With Opener LeRoy Bell & His Only Friends FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2015 AT 7:30 P.M. PANTAGES THEATER APPROXIMATE RUN TIME: 75 MINUTES WITH INTERMISSION

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Los Lobos still are: country, folk, R&B, blues and traditional studio discography, from “Gotta Let You Louie Perez, Drums, Guitars, Percussion, Spanish and Mexican music “the Know” (a bouncy zydeco rocker driven Vocals soundtrack of the barrio.” Three decades, by Hidalgo’s accordion from How Will The Steve Berlin, Saxophone, Percussion, two more Grammys, a worldwide smash Wolf Survive?) through “Tin Can Trust,” Flute, Midsax, Harmonica, Melodica single (“La Bamba”) and thousands of a bluesy rock ballad that was the title cut rollicking performances across the globe from their last studio release in 2010. Cesar Rosas, Vocals, Guitar, Mandolin later, Los Lobos is surviving quite well By design, Disconnected in New York City Conrad Lozano, Bass, Guitarron, Vocals -- and still jamming with the same raw has songs that have been longtime staples intensity as they had when they began in of Los Lobos’ tours mixed with other David Hidalgo, Vocals, Guitar, Accordion, that garage in 1973. The band chronicles gems that had somehow fallen by the Percussion, Bass, Keyboards, Melodica, a key moment of their expansive journey wayside over the years. The mix includes Drums, Violin, Banjo on Disconnected In New York City, a the midtempo shuffling rocker title track Enrique “Bugs” Gonzalez, Drums/ dynamic live album that marks the band’s from The Neighborhood (1990); the easy Percussion 40th anniversary and launches their new flowing and whimsical (thanks to Berlin’s association with 429 Records. jazzy sax solo) “Oh Yeah” (from This Time, Los Lobos were already East L.A. Recorded over two nights in 1999); the spirited, traditional flavored, neighborhood legends, Sunset Strip December 2012 at The City Winery Rosas penned Spanish language “Chuco’s regulars and a Grammy Award winning in NYC, the engaging 12-song set Cumbia” (from The Town and the City, band (Best Mexican-American/Tejano celebrates Los Lobos’ great legacy as a 2006); the graceful and spiritual “Tears Music Performance) by the time they freewheeling and unpredictable live band, of God” (from By The Light of the Moon, recorded their major label debut How which most recently includes touring 1987); “La Venganza de Los Pelados,” Will The Wolf Survive? in 1984. Although in Europe with Neil Young and Crazy a fiery burst of Latin rock fusion with the album’s name and title song were Horse in June 2013. Disconnected in New mariachi textures (from The Ride, 2004); inspired by a National Geographic York City features fresh interpretations of the soulful, simmering blues of “Little article about real life wolves in the wild, songs from throughout their three decade Things” (from The Town and The City, the band—David Hidalgo, Louie Perez, recording career, including their first 2006); the Latin blues funk classic “Set Cesar Rosas, Conrad Lozano and Steve ever live recording of “La Bamba,” their Me Free Rosa Lee” (from By The Light of Berlin—saw parallels with their struggle worldwide pop crossover hit from the the Moon); and two mid tempo funk pop/ to gain mainstream rock success while 1987 film which reached #1 on the U.S. rock tunes from 2002’s Good Morning maintaining their Mexican roots. Perez, and UK singles chart and whose video Aztlan, “Maria Christina” and “Malaque.” the band’s drummer, once called their won a 1988 MTV Music Video Award. As per the literal meaning of its title, powerhouse mix of rock, Tex-Mex, The collection covers the band’s 25 year Disconnected In New York City sets itself

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apart from Los Lobos’ other acclaimed live recordings (most notably, 2005’s Live At the Fillmore) by stripping down the instrumentation for a mostly acoustic affair. Lozano, who drives the grooves with his bass and also plays the deep- bodied Mexican 6-string acoustic bass Captivated called the guitarron, says, “It’s funny Readers Sophisticated music arts poetry Sophisticated Consumers because when the venue hired us, movement foreign language they specifically requested that we do Early Childhood and Grades something acoustic to fit its smaller dinner house vibe. The idea popped into TacomaWaldorf.org Advertise in Photo courtesy of Seattle Opera. Bill Mohn photographer our heads to ask them if we could record Performing for you 206.443.0445 x113 it and they were cool with that. “We’re [email protected] well known for our electric, high energy EMG07 Audience 1_12.pdf performances but we’ve done acoustic stuff for certain smaller auditorium tours,” he says. “Playing these songs acoustically makes them feel more intimate. We notice that when you play softer and quieter, the audience tends to pay attention to everything we’re doing. When you play rock, they’re thinking more about rhythm than melodies and lyrics, but playing them this way allows for more subtle elements of the songs to stand out.” Captivated Perez laughs when he calls the Los Readers Sophisticated Lobos Unplugged experience “folk Sophisticated Consumers music for the hearing impaired - it’s still loud because the acoustic instruments are amplified! The idea of making a Advertise in Photo courtesy of Seattle Opera. Bill Mohn photographer record like this came from never having Performing for you the opportunity to work some of our 206.443.0445 x113 favorite songs from over the years into [email protected] EMG07 Audience 1_12bw.pdf our usual sets. Because most tours are done in support of new albums, the fresh material we play means that some favorite older tunes fall away over time. When we thought about making another live album and what would make it different, the logical concept was to The arts are essential to the revisit songs we haven’t played in a while but had been requested by a lot of fans. We had already documented our rock health of our community. show with Fillmore, so we felt kind of liberated to take another approach with MultiCare is proud to support the Broadway Center this one. “There are two challenges and performing arts in Tacoma. releasing a live album, though,” Perez continues. “One is choosing certain songs EMG_07_Audience_1_12.indd 1 11/19/13 11:31 AM over other ones. It’s like having kids. We love Tommy as much as Johnny but one day Johnny gets to go the park today and Johnny stays home. In spite of this, we do cover a lot of ground. The biggest multicare.org problem is the way people sometimes MultiCare Health System perceive live albums, like they’re an Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital & Clinics ~ MultiCare Allenmore Hospital ~ MultiCare Auburn Medical Center afterthought put out to fill some kind of MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital ~ MultiCare Tacoma General Hospital ~ MultiCare Clinics

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encoreartsseattle.com 21 gap. Bands love doing them but fans don’t five guys create a magical sound, then City of Auburn always pay attention. But historically, it stick together for 30 years to see how can be a license for great creativity. Jimi far it can take them.” Most fans know Hendrix did Band of Gypsies to fulfill his that the group came together from three October 2, 3, 9, 10, 16 & 17, 7 pm last recording commitment, but it was separate units. Hidalgo, the band’s lead October 4, 11 & 18, 2 pm one of the most incredible recordings he vocalist/guitarist (whose arsenal includes Auburn Community Players: ever made. Because Disconnected in New accordion, percussion, bass, keyboards, Oklahoma York City marks a key anniversary and melodic, drums, violin and banjo) met AAT | $15/$13 presale; $20/$18 at the door the start of us working with a new label, Perez at Garfield High in East LA and we put a lot of thought into the project, started a garage band. Rosas, who plays from its design and structure and how we guitar and mandolin, had his own group, performed the songs.” and Lozano launched a power trio. “But Steve Berlin is Los Lobos’ saxophonist, we all hung out because we were friends flutist and harmonica player who met the and making music was just the natural band while still with seminal L.A. rockers progression of things,” says Perez. “Like Thursday, November 5, 7:30 pm The Blasters. He joined the group after if you hang around a barbershop long British Export AAT | $17/$15/$10 performing on and co-producing (with enough, you’re going to get a haircut.” TBone Burnett) their breakthrough 1983 Looking back at the historical and Friday, November 6 , 7:30 pm EP …And A Time To Dance. Though he cultural sweep of the band, Lozano sees Friday, November 13, 7:30 pm wasn’t jamming with the others way back the release of Disconnected In New York City Seattle Int’l Comedy Competition in the “Krypton days” (as Perez calls it) as Los Lobos coming full circle. “A lot of AAT | $20/$18 | Ages 18 & over in the barrio garage, Berlin felt it was people forget that though we were rock important to find a special way to mark musicians when we got out of high school, November 7, 6:30 pm his cohorts’ 40th year--just as they had the band started off as an acoustic outfit,” Letters Aloud: From the Front Lines done on their 30th by inviting special he says. “We wanted to play Mexican folk AAT | $17/$15/$10 guests (Dave Alvin, Bobby Womack, Elvis music because those were our roots and Costello, Mavis Staples) to be part of their there was this whole Chicano awareness November 14, 7:30 pm 2004 date The Ride. “Trying to figure out thing happening back in the early 70s. We Whipped Cream & Other Delights: a way to acknowledge 40 years as a band started to pay attention to our traditions Tribute To is harder than you might think,” he says. and culture, and focused on those styles Herb Alpert “We got to play with all of our heroes on of music for years. We studied music from AAT | $20/$18 our 30th so what was something we had every region of Mexico, learned how to November 20 & 21, 7:30 pm not done? So, like Louie said, we thought play all these authentic instruments. So Buddy, Ritchie the best thing was to bring back songs we that’s what we did for ten years until we & The Bopper: rarely if ever play and put them into a fresh decided to play rock again by bringing in Honoring The Day context. We wanted to create something drum and electric bass. the Music Died of value for our fans that would reflect “We were playing this restaurant gig AAT | $20/$18 the mutual appreciation we share with for two years, and some small local clubs, Friday, December 11, 7:30 pm them – starting, of course, with ‘La Bamba,’ playing the same songs, when people V. Contreras | AAT | $17/$15 which we had never documented live in the crowd started shouting out, ‘Do Saturday, Dec. 12, 7:30 pm before. I think it was important also that you know any Beatles or Grateful Dead An Inspirational once we knew the set lists for the shows tunes?’” Lozano adds. “Soon we got fired Christmas With Elvis that we would eventually choose the final from the restaurant and headed back to AAT | $23/$20 tracking from, we didn’t over-think the the garage to write our first original songs Sunday, December 13, 2 pm arrangements. We only rehearsed these that were rock with some accordion on The Gothard Sisters | AAT | $23/$20 shows for a single day. The coolest part of them: ‘Let’s Say Goodnight’ and ‘How how Disconnected worked out is that we Much Can I Do?’ We made a little tape Friday, December 18, 7:30 pm hadn’t been doing some of these songs and gave it to the guys in The Blasters, Tap Root Christmas Show AAT | $17/$15 long enough to worry about how to pull which included Steve Berlin, when we them off. And because we performed them went to see them live on Sunset Strip. Saturday, December 19, 7:30 pm acoustically, we couldn’t just blast everyone They loved our tunes and invited us to Ted Vigil Christmas Show: with power and skate through them. We open their show at the Whiskey-A-Go- A John Denver Tribute AAT | $20/$18 had to be present and make the choices Go, which was the first time Los Lobos that occurred to us in each moment.” performed on the other side of the Los Around the time of their last big Angeles River. We played some originals TICKETS anniversary Rolling Stone magazine and old favorites by Hendrix, Cream, The www.auburnwa.gov/arts summed up that distinctive, diverse Yardbirds and Beatles – all the stuff we 253-931-3043 and spontaneous Los Lobos aesthetic loved as kids. The icing on the cake is that perfectly: “This is what happens when the audience loved it, too.”

22 BROADWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Broadway Center presents Chris Perondi’s Stunt Dog Experience SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2015 AT 2:30 P.M. & 7:30 P.M. PANTAGES THEATER APPROXIMATE RUN TIME: TWO 35 MINUTE SETS WITH 20 MINUTE INTERMISSION

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This cast of performers and dogs will delight audiences of all ages, with high energy excitement from beginning to end. During Stunt Dog Experience you will witness some of the most incredible stunts and behaviors Directed and created by Chris Perondi ever performed by dogs. The experience has Main Host Chris Perondi “The Stunt Dog Guy” Dog Trainers Chris and Suhey Perondi, amazing tricks, big air stunts, comedy antics, Abby Cline, and Sara Carson . dancing dogs, athletic feats, and is the most Assistant Handlers Steve Collier and Anthony Ortiz Assistant Host & MC Suhey Perondi entertaining show of its kind. Diggy the Dog mascot Steve Collier Tour/Stage Manager Chris Perondi Every show includes interactive crowd Sound Design Chris Perondi participation. It’s not just a show, it’s an Show Script Chris Perondi Prop Equipment Agility Works experience! Audience members will “A dog that leaves a mark on your heart will never be chant and be involved in the excitement forgotten” - Chris Perond of the production. The show will include Cast of Performers: Chris Perondi ...... the. “Stunt Dog Guy”TM “showdowns” that will be judged and won by Suhey Perondi ...... Suhey. . Abby Cline ...... Abby. . audience applause. Don’t forget the athletic Steve Collier ...... Steve . feats! From world class Frisbee catching dogs, Sara Carson ...... Sara. . Performing Stunt Dogs: the Stunt Dog triathlon, weave pole challenges, Owned by Chris and Suhey Perondi to the famous high-jumping phenomenon. You Flashy Ferrari (Cattle dog mix) Crazy Confetti (Terrier mix) will witness the most athletic and talented dogs High-Flying Harley (Belgian Malinois) Spitfire Spinelli (Husky/Cattle Dog mix) in the world. Captain Cooper (Australian Cattle Dog) These stars have been featured on the Oprah Blazing Bentley (Border Collie) Tazmanian Tex (Texas Heeler) Show, Tonight Show, Ellen Show, Animal Shadow Whiskers (Kelpie/Border Collie mix) Planet’s Pet Stars, Fox Sports “You Gotta See Vinny Valentino (Aussie/Border Collie mix) Owned by Abby Cline This!”, the CBS Early Show and much more. Rosie (Corgi/Cattle dog mix) Super Freak (Border Collie) They have also starred in commercials and have Doc Holiday (Australian Cattle Dog) been featured on the news and in magazines all Toby (Australian Cattle Dog mix) Sherlock (Border Collie) across the country. Director Chris Perondi has Petey (Australian Cattle Dog Mix) been entertaining audiences of all sizes since Owned by Sara Carson Hero the Super Collie (Border Collie) 1999. He has produced over 3,500 shows in his Our Mission is to promote responsible pet ownership, pet career. Over 2,000 have been stage shows for adoption, spay and neutering, and encourage everyone to spend more time with their pets at home . We adopt all major theme parks such as Silver Dollar City, our dogs from shelters and rescue groups from across the country and have been promoting this message, along with Dollywood, Worlds of Fun, and the Discovery the importance of spay and neutering since 1999 . Please Science Center in Southern California. check your local shelters before adopting your next pet!

BROADWAY CENTER PRESENTS 70th Annual Holiday Tree Lighting Saturday, November 28, 2015 at 5:00 p .m . PANTAGES THEATER LOBBY TICKETS: A FREE COMMUNITY EVENT Join in celebration for the annual Holiday Tree Lighting tradition. Since World War II, the South Sound community has congregated each winter for the Holiday Tree Lighting. Gather for carols and photos with Santa at this free community event, open to the public. If it isn’t already, make it your family tradition!

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Untitled-18 1 8/28/15 10:18 AM Broadway Center presents Seattle Men’s Chorus: Home for the Holidays THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2015 AT 8:00 P.M. PANTAGES THEATER APPROXIMATE RUN TIME: TWO HOURS WITH 20 MINUTE INTERMISSION

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HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS Shoes), which further the mission of the For his final yuletide concert, Dennis organization by performing throughout Program Coleman is wrapping up his naughty and the Pacific Northwest. nice audience favorites,just for you! In addition to the 650 singing ACT I members, Flying House Productions has NOEL! Come home for the holidays to a base of over 50 volunteers and associate Jingle Bells/Hallelujah THANK YOU! Seattle’s most welcoming celebration members who support both Choruses. A Ave Maria of the season. The proud voices of leading voice for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, O Magnum Mysterium Seattle Men’s Chorus will envelop you and transgender (LGBT) community, CSP - Text Me Merry Christmas in harmony for an FHP offers 30 outreach Gloucester Wassail evening of heartfelt events and 19 mainstage Soul Cake Celebrating $6.4 million in grants and holiday magic — concert performances A PC Christmas sprinkled with a festive annually. Concerts, Speech pinch of fairy dust. We often including scholarships in the last year. What If Carols have presents under nationally-known guest Act One Timing our tree for everyone: artists along with our beloved carols, soaring region’s professional ACT TWO holiday classics, an talents, receive critical ‘Twas the Night Before inspiring tribute to acclaim for their Christmas mothers and their sons, combination of high Home (The Wiz) The Community Foundation partners with community and the cheeky antics musical quality, wit, Not in Our Town you expect from SMC. Bring your and celebration of people of all sexual CSP – Kislev Cowboys members to discover how their time, talent, and friends and family and share in orientations and identities. Over 30,000 Sing Along – 12 Days, the tradition. people attend Flying House Production resources can have maximum impact. Jingle Bells, I’ll Be Home for performances each year at Benaroya Christmas THE ORGANIZATION Hall, McCaw Hall, Cornish Playhouse In this Very Room/Silent Night Flying House Productions is home to at the Seattle Center, and Saint Mark’s Believe (Polar Express) two of the largest community choruses in Cathedral, with thousands more seeing Christmas Rhapsody America: Seattle Men’s Chorus, founded each Chorus in other local performances in 1979, which is also the largest gay throughout Washington every year. Encore men’s chorus in the world with over 350 Flying House Productions cannot Join us and help Mele Kalikimaka singing members; and Seattle Women’s be considered as simply a local arts everyone in our region Chorus, which made its premiere on organization. In addition to the high stage in 2002 and has quickly grown to level of performances it produces, Flying realize their full potential. over 300 singers. Each Chorus currently House Productions is also a “voice for has a small ensemble of 9 to 11 members acceptance” in the community and across www.gtcf.org each (Captain Smartypants and Sensible the nation.

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The Broadway Center’s Education Program is one of the largest How You Can Help arts education programs in There are many ways to support the Broadway Center’s Education Programs: Washington State, serving more • Make a gift at BroadwayCenter.org! than 37,000 students, teachers, • Enroll in classes or summer camp! and families each year. The • Attend Star Chefs on Broadway Broadway Center’s Education Program profoundly strengthens student learning and provides a meaningful training ground for teachers to expand their skills. Photos by jessemichener.com

The Broadway Center partners with Tacoma, Bethel and Puyallup to offer the best teacher education and performing arts programming in the region under the auspices of the Kennedy Center National Partners in Education program in Washington, D.C.

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28 BROADWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Rentals Host your next event with the Broadway Center! Corporate Meetings, Community Gatherings, Receptions, Retreats, Seminars, Theatrical Productions, Weddings and more! The Broadway Center venues are available for your use to meet almost every rental need. Each space has its special attributes depending upon your needs and the expected number of attendees. Each space can be supported by a wide range of technical support systems including theatrical sound, lights, effects, as well as, special video feeds, projections and telecommunication connections. Please contact Rental Services at 253.591.5806 or by email at [email protected]. Take a virtual tour at BroadwayCenter.org.

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Pantages Theater Built in 1918 by Alexander Pantages, this restored vaudeville house was designed by architect B. Marcus Priteca and modeled after the theatre at The Palace of Versailles. • 1,169 Seats • Proscenium Stage including a 50 musician orchestra pit beneath Photo by ACT Photography Photo by ACT Photography the apron. Rialto Theater Theatre on the Square • State-of-the-art Meyer M’elodie This Beaux-Arts style theater & Theatre on the Sound System® and professional built in 1918 and fashioned after Square Lobby lighting system European concert halls, was Photo by Jesse Michener With a commanding view • Full fly loft with 1,000 lb capacity restored in the 1990s. of Theatre Square and per line set Pantages Grand Lobby • 742 Seats Broadway, this contemporary • Three private dressing rooms The Pantages Theater Lobby • Thrust stage extending from the space is perfect for intimate • Amenities include showers, was beautifully renovated as part proscenium for 28’. events, meetings, training and of a $5.1 million restoration restrooms, and laundry facilities • Option to remove rows to performances. • Steinway 9’ Centennial grand campaign. Accommodates 744 accommodate a small orchestra standing, 200 seated or 150 • Theater: 302 Seats. Lobby: 150- piano and Charles Walter upright • Four private dressing rooms 200 depending upon event. piano available banquet. An elegant space that is excellent for small gatherings, • Intimate lobby and concessions area • Full lighting and sound • Spacious lobby and attractive capabilities concessions area meetings, receptions and • Green Room and Rotunda as weddings! Breakout Rooms • Proscenium

Studio 2 & 3 Tacoma Armory Located between the Pantages A 20,000 foot open space Theater and Theatre on the Square, perfect for trade shows, these multi-purpose studios can conventions, festivals and be used for small performances, general admission events. trainings, receptions and meetings with a room capacity of 200 standing, 150 lecture, 110 seated. A SPECIAL THANKS TO TACOMA’S RESIDENT ARTS ORGANIZATIONS Photo by ACT Photography Photo by ACT Photography t h a n k y o u t o t h e b r o a d w a y c e n t e r v o l u n t e e r s

The Broadway Center relies on the support 10 Years 20 Years of volunteers to serve the South Sound Myron Anderson Pat Nechols Nancy Adrian and share the arts with our community. In Sandie Carter Suzanne Payne Gloria Aylen recognition of this, the Broadway Center Elizabeth Gilham Jose Rico Marlene Buffington Staff and Board, as well as the Tacoma community, are eternally grateful to the Wayne Gilham Toni Savol Karen Drum following volunteers who have given their Margaret Kent Therese Wooding Phyllis Mansfield time so selflessly for over a decade: Francine Marsh Lora Stonefeld PATRON INFORMATION

For safety and consideration of all patrons and performers, we ask that you observe the following guidelines when attending a performance at the Broadway Center:

THEATER ETIQUETTE FIRE EXITS • Performances start promptly at their scheduled time. Please allow plenty Pantages Theater – Exits are located east and west of the auditorium on both of time to park and find your seat. orchestra and balcony levels. • Late seating is not guaranteed and is at the discretion of the House Rialto Theater – Exits are located on both orchestra and balcony levels. Manager. Theatre on the Square – Exits are located at the front entrance for the lower/ • If you must leave your seat during the performance, you may not be re- main level and on the north side of the building on the upper level. seated until an appropriate break in the performance. NO SMOKING To receive emergency messages, you may leave your name and seat number Smoking is allowed outdoors only at least 25-feet from the theater entrances and with the House Manager. PLEASE remember to silence all cell phone, where receptacles are provided. Electronic smoking devices are not permitted. tablet and electronic devices before entering the theater. Please have hearing aides tuned to no higher than 75% of the maximum volume. PARKING There are various parking options in Tacoma’s Theater District. The following ACCESSIBLE SEATING is for general information only; rates, other than Blue pre-paid parking passes, All theaters are ADA compliant. Please make seating requests at the time of are subject to change. your ticket purchase. Blue pre-paid parking passes are valid at Park Plaza North, Rialto and Subway Parking Lots only. Blue parking passes are valid from the time you ASSISTED LISTENING enter the garage until one hour after the show is over. If you choose to park Headsets are available for our patrons at no cost. A headset allows you to tune longer than this allowance, the parking attendant will add a ticket to your out little noises so you may listen to the performance without distraction. windshield that will restart your post-show parking meter for additional time Please notify a member of the usher staff and one will be provided for you. used (to redeem, place the parking validation in the machine with payment). Please note: the Rialto garage is always locked at midnight, please move your ATTIRE car if you plan to enjoy downtown after the show. A Broadway Center event is always an opportunity to dress up, but there is For all Pantages and Theatre on the Square events, attended parking never a dress code. Attire usually varies from nice casual clothing to formal is available at Park Plaza North Garage (located between 9th and 11th on wear. Many people are allergic to perfumes. Out of consideration for your Commerce), which connects to the theaters through the sky bridge on fellow audience members, please use perfume or cologne in moderation the fifth level. There is a $5 evening rate parking fee ($12.50 all day). The before entering the theater. attendant is on duty for 30 minutes prior and for one hour after the show’s conclusion. For more information, contact Park Plaza North Garage directly BACKSTAGE at 253.572.4908. No guests are allowed backstage prior to, during, or after any performance Limited parking is also available directly across from the Pantages and without proper authorization and identification. Theatre on the Square at the Subway Lot, 916 Broadway. There is an $8 parking fee and no attendant on duty at this lot. Simply place your cash in the CAMERAS OR RECORDING DEVICES machine or your blue pre-paid parking ticket in the box and write the stall number on the ticket. Taking photographs or recording during a performance is not allowed and Street parking is usually available throughout the Theater District. copyright restriction should be considered. However, we do encourage you Electronic meters collect a fee for street parking from 8:00 a.m. until 6:00 to take photos in the lobby or before the show to share your experience with p.m., Monday through Friday. There is a two hour time limit at metered spaces. friends and family. If you plan to park for more than two hours during metered period, please consider an off-street garage. Visit TacomaParking.com for more information. CHILDREN Should your child become restless during a performance, you may be RESTROOMS asked to wait in the lobby. Children under 5 may not be admitted to some Pantages Theater – Located on the lower lobby and balcony levels, women on performances; however our family shows are structured for a younger 2nd floor and men on 3rd floor. ADA accessible restrooms are located on the audience and are enjoyable for the entire family. balcony level and accessible by elevator. A ticket is required for everyone regardless of age. When available, discounts Rialto Theater – Located on the main floor and balcony level. ADA accessible are available for younger audience members. Please contact the Box Office at restrooms are located on the main floor. 253.591.5894 with any concerns. Theatre on the Square – Located in the lobby near the front entrance. CONCESSIONS TICKET INFORMATION Beverages and assorted snacks may be available prior to the performance or during intermission. Refreshments are permitted in the theater lobby unless Box Office Hours otherwise posted. Monday – Friday 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Additionally, the Box Office is open two hours prior to most Broadway Center ticketed events. Please inquire with the Box Office directly regarding holiday hours. 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Friend $75 Premier $360 Pantages Circle $1,200 All above benefits plus: All above benefits plus: • Presale Access to new events • Waived ticket exchange fees [Regular • Access to the Broadway Center Member • Additional $50 ticket voucher good for fee: $3 per ticket. Members’ fee: $0.] Lounge (pre-show and during intermission most ‘Broadway Center presents’ events for most events) • Wait list priority for sold-out shows • $50 gift certificate to either Pacific Grill • Two drink tickets to use at any Broadway or Maxwell’s Speakeasy + Lounge Center event Applause $150 • Exclusive Behind the scenes tour of the All above benefits plus: • 15% off any venue rental Pantages with wine reception for up to 10 guests • Additional 10% off your Subscription Spotlight $600 • Six drink tickets to use at any Broadway (3+ shows) All above benefits plus: Center event • Exclusive invitation to the Annual • $50 ticket voucher good for most ‘Broadway Member Appreciation Event in Center presents’ events Producer’s Circle $1,800 summer 2016. All above benefits plus: • Four guest passes to share for the Broadway • Recognition in Broadway Center’s Center Member Lounge • Additional $50 gift certificate to either Program Pacific Grill or Maxwell’s Speakeasy + • Four drink tickets to use at any Broadway Lounge Center event • A Private Box Seat Party in the Pantages for up to 6 guests including tickets to a LEAVE A LEGACY THROUGH PLANNED GIVING ‘Broadway Center presents’ performance (Mutually agreeable performance and Planned gifts are increasingly important to the continued stability of Broadway Center date, based on availability at the time of for the Performing Arts. There are a range of gift planning opportunities that allow you to reservation) make a lasting difference at the Broadway Center while meeting your personal financial and • Complimentary beverages in the philanthropic goals. Member Lounge during your The Broadway Center encourages you to speak with your attorney or other professional membership period advisors before deciding on a course of action. Our staff would be pleased to provide you • Tickets to a private box seat party for and your advisors with additional information on estate gifts. up to six guests for a ‘Broadway Center For more information, please contact Becky Johnson, Director of Development at presents’ performance on a mutually 253.591.5891or [email protected]. agreeable date. Based upon availability. Talking about this once the show starts is strictly prohibited.

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