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8 | March 17 - 25, 2018 FELLOW TRAVELERS Synopsis

McCarthy’s latest political troubles; Miss Scene 13. Timothy in France/Hawkins in TIME and PLACE: September 1953 Lightfoot overhears an intimate exchange Chevy Chase to May 1957, in Washington, D.C. between Hawkins and Timothy. Three years pass. Timothy writes letters to Eisenhower is president. Senator Joseph Scene 7. Interrogation Room M304 Hawkins and Mary from France, where he McCarthy is stoking fears that the U.S. An interrogator puts Hawkins through a is stationed. Hawkins is now married to a federal government is full of Communists, series of humiliating tests in an attempt to woman named Lucy, with a house in the Soviet spies, and homosexuals. determine whether or not he is a homosexual. suburbs, but would clearly like to rekindle his relationship with Timothy upon his Scene 8. Timothy’s apartment return. Timothy and Hawkins discuss the PART ONE Scene 14. Brick House Scene 1. Park in Dupont Circle interrogation, McCarthy, and Hawkins’s illicit amusements in New York City. In a house in D.C. that Hawkins has A fledgling reporter, Timothy Laughlin, rented for his afternoon flings with Scene 9. McCarthy’s office sits on a bench reviewing his notes Timothy, Hawkins expresses that he from McCarthy’s wedding when he is Senator Potter warns McCarthy that the cannot be everything Timothy wants. approached by State Department employee “Adams Chronology,” which details Hawkins resolves to end the affair himself. Hawkins Fuller. how Roy Cohn and McCarthy pressured the Army to give Cohn’s friend David Scene 15. Mary’s kitchen/Brick House/ Scene 2. Senator Charles Potter’s office Schine special treatment, will be McCarthy’s Room M304 Timothy is hired as a speechwriter for downfall unless he gives up Cohn. Mary is packing when Hawkins stops by, Senator Charles Potter. Timothy meets distraught. He confesses that in order Tommy McIntyre, who gives him unsolicited Intermission to push Timothy away, he has given advice about Washington politics. Timothy’s name to those investigating Scene 3. Hawkins’s office PART TWO alleged homosexuals. He asks Mary to tell Timothy stops by to drop off a thank-you Scene 10. Mary’s kitchen/Timothy’s Timothy about this betrayal in hopes it gift. He meets Hawkins’s assistant and best apartment will make Timothy hate him. friend Mary, and his secretary Miss Lightfoot, Mary invites Timothy over to warn him of Scene 16. Park in Dupont Circle who mocks Timothy after he leaves. Hawkins’s fickle nature. She tells Timothy His dreams dashed, Timothy decides to Scene 4. Timothy’s apartment she is pregnant from a one-night stand. In leave Washington, D.C., and Timothy is at home cooking soup and Timothy’s apartment, Hawkins rejoices Hawkins Fuller for good. Both writing his sister a letter when Hawkins that he’s been cleared of allegations of heartbroken, they say goodbye. unexpectedly stops by to tell him about the homosexuality. Timothy is shocked by delights of Bermuda, among other things. how Hawkins wants to celebrate. Scene 5. St. Peter’s Church Scene 11. Roof of the Old Post Office In the afterglow of last night’s encounter with Timothy, in agony over his fraught Approximate Timings Hawkins, Timothy is torn betweenhis deep relationship, tells Hawkins he’s Catholicism and his blossoming passion. decided to enlist in the Army. PART ONE 55 minutes

Scene 6. The Hotel Washington Scene 12. Hawkins’s office Intermission 25 minutes At a Christmas party, Timothy is approached Mary tells Hawkins she is quitting, as she by an Army general about enlisting; Mary can no longer work in an atmosphere PART TWO 60 minutes warns Hawkins about his reckless behavior of panic and persecution. Total: 2 hours and 20 minutes with Timothy; McIntyre tells Potter about

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• A production constructed by Chicago Premiere Cincinnati Opera. FELLOW TRAVELERS • Used by arrangement with European American Music Distributors Company, sole U.S. and Canadian agent for Schott An opera by Gregory Spears Helicon Music. Libretto by Greg Pierce

• Music Corporation, New York, publisher and copyright owner. Based on the 2007 novel Fellow Travelers by Thomas Mallon • Lyric's production of Fellow Travelers is presented in partnership with the Center on Halsted. Sung in English • Lyric Opera gratefully acknowledges the support of the Robert and Ellen Marks Developed and co-commissioned by American Opera Endowed Chair. G. Sterling Zinsmeyer and Cincinnati Opera • Lyric Opera of Chicago wishes to thank Premiered by Cincinnati Opera on June 17, 2016 at the Jarson-Kaplan Theater, its Official Airline, American Airlines. Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati • This season's projected English titles are funded in part by a generous grant First performed by Lyric Unlimited on March 17, 2018, from the Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation. at the Athenaeum Theatre, Chicago

Cast (in order of vocal appearance): Orchestra Violin I Hawkins Fuller, a state department official JOSEPH LATTANZI* Pauli Ewing, concertmaster Timothy Laughlin, an aspiring reporter JONAS HACKER* Heather Wittels David Volfe Senator Potter’s Assistant/Bookseller/ oo Violin II Party Guest/Technician/French Priest SAM HANDLEY oo Al Wang, principal Tommy McIntyre, a reporter and friend of Sen. Potter WILL LIVERMAN Irene Radetzky Senator Charles Potter/General Arlie/Bartender REGINALD SMITH, JR.* Rika Seko Miss Lightfoot, a secretary in Hawkins’s office VANESSA BECERRA* Viola Melissa Kirk, principal Mary Johnson, Hawkins’s assistant DEVON GUTHRIE* Karl Davies Senator Joseph McCarthy/Estonian Frank/Interrogator MARCUS DELOACH* Cello Lucy AMY KUCKELMAN Mark Brandfonbrener, principal Wei Denton Conductor DANIELA CANDILLARI* Bass Andrew Anderson Director KEVIN NEWBURY Flute Set Designer VITA TZYKUN Eliza Bangert Costume Designer PAUL CAREY* Oboe Lighting Designer THOMAS C. HASE* Jennet Ingle Wigmaster and Makeup Designer SARAH HATTEN Clarinet/Bass Clarinet Assistant Director MARCUS SHIELDS* Susan Warner Stage Manager DONALD CLAXON Trombone Costume Supervisor MADELEINE PRITNER* Reed Capshaw, principal Graeme Mutchler Personnel Manager * Lyric debut and Orchestra Contractor oo Alumni, The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center Christine Janicki

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The work of GREGORY Baryshnikov Arts Center. He currently holds a in June to portray Anthony/Sweeney Todd. SPEARS (Composer) commission from Manhattan Theatre Club/Sloan Lattanzi enjoys strong relationships with blends aspects of Baroque Foundation. His work has been developed with Cincinnati Opera, where he has been heard in style, minimalism, and Naked Angels, The New Group, Atlantic Theatre multiple productions, and with Seattle Opera, romanticism to create a Company, Asia Society, the Rattlestick Theater, where he was a Young Artist and was most distinctive sound. Spears and the Public Theater's Under the Radar festival. recently heard in Katya Kabanova. Lattanzi has been commissioned Pierce is an alumnus of Oberlin College (B. A.) has created roles in workshops of operas by by Lyric Unlimited and Warren Wilson College (M. F. A. in Creative Jake Heggie (Great Scott), Daniel Catán (Meet (Jason and the Argonauts), Writing). He is a member of the Dramatists Guild John Doe), and Clint Borzoni (The Copper Cincinnati Opera, Houston Grand Opera, and the Writers Guild of America. (See Librettist's Queen). The baritone made a highly successful Seraphic Fire, and the JACK Quartet, among Statement, pg. 16.) international debut singing Britten's War many others organizations. Fellow Travelers Requiem with the Orchestra e Coro Sinfonica premiered at Cincinnati Opera in June 2016 and JONAS HACKER di Milano "Giuseppe Verdi.” received its New York premiere earlier this season (Timothy Laughlin) has at the PROTOTYPE Festival. Spears’s opera, O established himself as DEVON GUTHRIE Columbia, recently received its world premiere a singer to watch, with (Mary Johnson), who at Houston Grand Opera. His first opera, Paul’s recent debuts in companies created her role in Fellow Case, was developed by American Opera Projects and orchestras across the Travelers at the work’s and premiered by Urban Arias in 2013. It was United States. A recent Cincinnati Opera world restaged at the PROTOTYPE Festival and later graduate of the Academy premiere, reprised it in the presented in Pittsburgh Opera’s new production. of Vocal Arts, he returns work’s New York premiere Spears is currently writing a double trumpet this season to Annapolis Opera (Laurie/Little earlier this season. Other concerto commissioned by Concert Artists Women, following Ferrando/Così fan tutte in recent engagements Guild and the BMI Foundation for trumpeter 2015) and makes his Opera San José debut as the include Daisy Buchanan/The Great Gatsby(New Brandon Ridenour, as well as a new vocal work Prince/Alma Deutscher’s Cinderella. Active in England Conservatory, Tanglewood); First commissioned by New York Polyphony. He oratorio, Hacker has appeared as tenor soloist in Lady/The Magic Flute (Opera Philadelphia); also recently completed the soundtrack for the Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Columbus Chocholka/The Cunning Little Vixen (New British feature film Macbeth (Kit Monkman, Symphony, and in a quartet rendition of Bach’s York Philharmonic); Bubikopf/Der Kaiser von director), which is currently in post-production. Cantata No. 150 with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Atlantis (Central City Opera); and Donna Elvira/ He has won prizes from BMI and ASCAP, as well Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting. He will be Don Giovanni (Tanglewood). At The Juilliard as awards and fellowships from the American spending this summer in France as a participant School, the soprano’s roles included Donna Academy of Arts and Letters, the Fulbright in the Mozart Residency program of the Festival Elvira, Sidonie/Armide, Drusilla/L’incoronazione Foundation (Fellowship to Denmark 1999- d’Aix-en-Provence. Hacker has also been a Filene di Poppea, and Laurie/The Tender Land.Other 2000), and the Vagn Holmboe Competition. Young Artist at Wolf Trap Opera (Sospiro/ recent highlights include Pamina in Simon (See Composer's Statement, pg. 16.) Gassmann’s comic opera L’opera seria, Roderick McBurney’s new production of The Magic Flute Usher/Glass’s The Fall of the House of Usher, at London’s English National Opera; two seasons GREG PIERCE Bastianello/Musto’s Bastianello, two recitals with singing with The Paul Taylor Dance Company (Librettist) pianist Steven Blier). The tenor was a 2016 Grand for performances of Beloved Renegade; her The Vermont native’s Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National debut with the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis as Slowgirl, the inaugural play Council Auditions and a recipient of the Robert Pulcheria/Handel’s Riccardo Primo; an acclaimed of Lincoln Center's Claire Jacobson Award in the 2017 George London Santa Fe Opera debut as Marzelline/Fidelio, Tow Theater (LCT3), was Foundation competition. and Susanna/The Marriage of Figaro at the Saito subsequently produced by Kinen Festival. On the concert platform, Guthrie Steppenwolf Theatre and JOSEPH LATTANZI has performed a Huang Ruo Chamber Concert the Geffen Playhouse, (Hawkins Fuller) earned with Mimesis Ensemble at Carnegie Hall and among others. LCT3 also produced Her Requiem considerable acclaim in was heard in Handel’s Messiah with the Santa Fe (Lincoln Center Theater commission).Cardinal this role in Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. was commissioned and produced by Second Stage Opera’s world premiere Theatre. Pierce’s two musicals with composer of Fellow Travelers, as VANESSA BECERRA John Kander are The Landing(Vineyard Theatre well as in the work’s New (Miss Lightfoot), a in New York) and Kid Victory (coproduction York premiere earlier this native of Fort Worth, of Vineyard Theatre and Virginia’s Signature season. A 2017 Sullivan Texas, is a recent Theatre). With director Stephen Earnhart, Foundation Award recipient, the baritone is a graduate of LA Opera’s Pierce co-wrote The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle former member of the Arizona Opera Studio, Domingo-Colburn-Stein (Edinburgh International Festival premiere, later where most prominent among his roles were the Young Artist Program. seen at the Singapore Arts Festival). Vermont title role/Don Giovanni, Dandini/Cinderella, Appearances with that Stage Company commissioned and produced and Riolobo/Daniel Catán’s Florencia en el company include The Pierce’s The Quarry, with music by his brother Amazonas. Earlier this season Lattanzi appeared Magic Flute, The Marriage of Figaro, La traviata, Randal. Pierce has received fellowships from the at Virginia Opera as Sonora/La fanciulla del and The Ghosts of Versailles (heard on a Grammy- Edward F. Albee Foundation, Yaddo, The Djerassi West (debut) and Demetrius/A Midsummer winning recording). While in the program, she Institute, the New York Public Library, and the Night’s Dream. He returns to Atlanta Opera was a Regional finalist of the Metropolitan Opera

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National Council Auditions and the recipient Mazzoli, Lee Hoiby, Deborah Drattell, and AMY KUCKELMAN of a top award from the Pasadena Opera Guild. Paul Schoenfield. The baritone has sung many (Lucy), who debuted at Highlights of the current season have included principal roles with New York City Opera and Lyric in The King and I debuts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under has also been heard at the Bard Summerscape (2015/16), has previously the direction of Gustavo Dudamel (Papagena/The Festival, the PROTOTYPE Festival, American appeared with Lyric Magic Flute), the San Francisco Symphony under Opera Projects, On Site Opera, and the major Unlimited singing multiple Michael Tilson Thomas (Paquette/Candide), and companies of Seattle, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, roles in Gregory Spears’s Opera San José (title role/Alma Deutscher's Boston, and St. Louis, among many others. In Jason and the Argonauts Cinderella). Later this season the soprano will concert he has performed with such leading (world premiere). She sing Glauce/Medea at Opera Omaha, Johanna/ orchestras as the New York Philharmonic, the was a scholarship recipient at the Manhattan Sweeney Todd at Atlanta Opera, and Maria London Symphony Orchestra, and the Munich School of Music, where she graduated in 2015 in Bernstein’s famed West Side Story at The Philharmonic. DeLoach first attracted attention with a bachelor’s degree in vocal performance. Glimmerglass Festival (Francesca Zambello’s abroad as winner of London’s inaugural Wigmore In MSM’s production of Lehár’s The Land of new co-production between Lyric, Glimmerglass, Hall International Song Competition. He later Smiles she sang Lisa, the female lead. In 2014 and Houston Grand Opera). Becerra made returned to Europe for debuts at the Teatro she portrayed Alice/Rossini’s Le Comte Ory at her professional debut in 2014 at Fort Worth Comunale di Bolzano (Jean-Philippe Boesmans’ the I Sing Beijing Festival, while also appearing Opera in Daniel Crozier’s With Blood, With Ink, Julie) and at Opera Ireland in Dublin (Jake at the Suzhou Cultural Center Theater and the subsequently released on CD. Heggie’s Dead Man Walking). This season he Hangzhou Theater. In 2011 she participated as a will be heard in the Brahms Requiem (Artists young artist in the International Lyric Academy in WILL LIVERMAN Series Concerts of Sarasota), Messiah (Tucson Italy, where she sang Nella/Gianni Schicchi. This (Tommy McIntyre), an Symphony), and Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti/ summer she will be a Des Moines Metro Opera alumnus of Lyric’s Arias and Barcarolles (Boston Lyric Opera). Young Artist. Among the major conductors and Ryan Opera Center, has directors with whom Kuckelman has worked are sung nine roles with REGINALD Lee Blakeley, Ron Daniels, Peter McClintock, the company, most SMITH, JR. and E. Loren Meeker. recently Dizzy Gillespie/ (Senator Charles Potter, Daniel Schnyder’s Gen. Arlie, Bartender), SAM HANDLEY Charlie Parker’s Yardbird an Atlanta native, is an (Senator Potter’s Assistant, (2016/17). Liverman premiered that role at alumnus of Houston Bookseller, Party Guest, Opera Philadelphia and reprised it at London’s Grand Opera Studio Technician, French Priest), English National Opera. The baritone recently and a former Grand a Ryan Opera Center starred as Rossini’s Figaro at Kentucky Opera, Finals winner of the alumnus, has been heard and later this season he will portray Mozart’s Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. at Lyric in more than Papageno at Milwaukee’s Florentine Opera and Last season the baritone made company debuts a dozen roles, among Central City Opera in Colorado. He made his with San Francisco Opera, The Dallas Opera, them Peter Quince/A Seattle Opera debut as Raimbaud/Le Comte Ory. Opera Memphis, and Opera Carolina, as well as Midsummer Night’s Dream and Tom/Un ballo in Other performance highlights include Figaro at his concert debut with Marin Alsop conducting maschera. Highlights of the current season include Madison Opera and Utah Opera, Tarquinius/The the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. This season Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (National Centre Rape of Lucretia and Beaumarchais/Corigliano’s he debuts with Opera Hong Kong (Amonasro/ for the Performing Arts in Beijing – the bass- The Ghosts of Versailles at Wolf Trap Opera, and Aida), Portland Opera (Monterone/Rigoletto) and baritone has also sung this work at San Francisco Andrew Hanley/Kevin Puts’s The Manchurian at Lincoln Center (Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 Opera), the Verdi Requiem (Champaign-Urbana Candidate (world premiere) at Minnesota Opera. with the National Chorale). Smith has previously Symphony Orchestra, Elmhurst Symphony Liverman also has portrayed Sam/The Pirates appeared with the major companies of St. Louis, Orchestra), and The Mikado (Northwest Indiana of Penzance (Atlanta Opera), the Protestant Cincinnati, Houston, and Toledo. Concert Symphony Orchestra). Last season Handley Minister/Menotti’s The Last Savage(The Santa Fe highlights include appearances with the Houston was heard as Alberich/The Essential Ring in Opera), and the title role/Noye’s Fludde at his alma Symphony Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony Jonathan McPhee's new distillation of Wagner's mater, Wheaton College. In 2015 Liverman won Orchestra, and the Tchaikovsky Symphony Ring cycle, with both the Lexington Symphony the Stella Maris International Vocal Competition, Orchestra at Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow. and Symphony New Hampshire. He also sang the Gerda Lissner Charitable Fund Award, and a A recent recipient of both the Sara Tucker Pish-Tush/The Mikado with DuPage Opera and top prize from Opera Index, Inc. Study Grant and a Sullivan Foundation Career Mozart's Requiem with Sarasota Orchestra, while Grant, Smith is an alumnus of the University of also joining the roster of the Metropolitan Opera MARCUS DELOACH Kentucky and the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis for Der Rosenkavalier. Other recent highlights (Senator Joseph McCarthy, and Wolf Trap young-artist programs. include Escamillo/Carmen (European debut at Estonian Frank, Theater Aachen, new production), The Magic Interrogator) created Flute (Opera Colorado), Roger Waters’s opera Ça these roles in at Opera Ira (Nashville Symphony), The Barber of Seville Philadelphia, later reprising (Atlanta Opera), and Salome (Severance Hall and them at New York’s Carnegie Hall with The Cleveland Orchestra PROTOTYPE Festival. under Franz Welser-Möst). He has also been featured in world premieres of major works by Missy

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DANIELA PROTOTYPE Festival. He also has directed (Minnesota Opera, world premiere), Bernstein’s CANDILLARI for Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, San Mass (Philadelphia Orchestra), El Niño (San (Conductor) is an Francisco Symphony, and the major companies Francisco Symphony), and Ricky Ian Gordon’s internationally sought- of Toronto, Kansas City, Montreal, and St. Louis. Orpheus and Eurydice and Green Sneakers (Urban after conductor, pianist, (See Director's Statement, pg. 17.) Arias). Other operatic work includes productions and composer. A native for the Virginia, Palm Beach, Wolf Trap, and of Slovenia, she served the VITA TZYKUN (Set Central City opera companies. Slovenian National Opera Designer) debuted at Lyric as assistant conductor, earlier this month with a THOMAS C. HASE chorus master, and principal coach for more than new production of Faust. (Lighting Designer) has 20 productions. She has been assistant conductor She has created sets, created lighting for for the European Opera Centre in partnership costumes, and projections Broadway (Tony-Award with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, and with for the Bolshoi Theatre winning revival of Sarasota Opera. As a collaborative pianist, she (Russia), Den Norske Company) and for opera performed at Carnegie Hall with Julian Wachner Opera, Santa Fe Opera, and theater internationally. and Novus NY and has worked with Bryn Terfel, LA Opera, and Seattle Opera, among others. His operatic work has Dame Felicity Lott, Håkan Hagegård, Carol Her work has also appeared at the Wexford been seen at the major Vaness, and Martina Arroyo, as well as with Opera Festival, and the PROTOTYPE Festival companies of Los Angeles, New York City, composers Dominick Argento and William (NYC). Recent projects include set design for The Seattle, Dallas, Miami, Portland, New Orleans, Bolcom. Candillari is founder and artistic (R)evolution of Steve Jobs (Santa Fe Opera, world and Boston. He has also worked extensively in director of Gravity Shift, a New York-based premiere), costume design for Dinner At Eight American regional theaters, from Cincinnati chamber orchestra, and has recorded for NPR and (Minnesota Opera, world premiere), and costume Playhouse in the Park to Center Stage Theatre, extensively in Europe. Highlights in the current design for Russia’s premiere of The Passenger Alliance Theatre, and Dallas Theater Center, season include conducting Acquanetta at the 2018 (Yekaterinburg State Academic Opera and Ballet among others. Hase’s work has been seen PROTOTYPE Festival, with Bang on a Can Theatre, Bolshoi Theatre). Numerous film and internationally at London’s Barbican Centre, All-Stars as the orchestra, leading the Manhattan television credits include art direction for Lady Dublin’s Abbey Theatre, Opera North (U.K.), School of Music Philharmonia in concert, opening Gaga’s ABC Thanksgiving Special and production Finnish National Opera, Dutch National Trinity Wall Street’s TOTAL EMBRACE: design for several award-winning feature films. Opera, and the opera companies of Giessen Leonard Bernstein at 100 in a concert featuring Tzykun is a founding member of GLMMR, a (former resident lighting designer), Munich, Bernstein’s Songfest and Mahler’s Des Knaben New York-based interdisciplinary art collective Marseille, and Kassel, as well as the Singapore Wunderhorn, and conducting Fellow Travelers in fusing fine art, audiovisual technology, and live Arts Festival and Tokyo Metro Arts Center. In her Minnesota Opera debut. performance. Her work was recently showcased in 2010, he was on the original design team for a solo exhibition at OPERA America’s National Rufus Wainwright’s opera Prima Donna (world KEVIN NEWBURY Opera Center in New York; in major exhibitions in premiere) at Sadler’s Wells in London. Hase is (Director), who has Tel-Aviv and Toronto; and in Entertainment Design resident lighting designer and director for the returned to Lyric this magazine. Tzykun received 2016 International Cincinnati Opera Summer Festival. Among his season to direct a new Opera Awards nomination for “Best Design.” upcoming productions are Dr. Zhivago (Malmö production of Faust, Opera), The Color Purple(Milwaukee Rep), and has previously directed PAUL CAREY (Costume Iolanta (Dallas Opera). the company’s Norma Designer) works in (2016/17), Bel Canto theater, opera, film, and SARAH HATTEN (2015/16, world premiere, commercial media. Born (Wigmaster and Makeup telecast on PBS), and Anna Bolena (2014/15). in Oregon, raised in the Designer) has worked His recent credits include Norma (San Francisco, Midwest, and an alumnus in a wide repertoire at Barcelona, Valladolid, Toronto, with Houston of Sarah Lawrence College Lyric, Des Moines Metro coming up later this season), Maria Stuarda and the Yale School of Opera, and Michigan (Seattle Opera), Eugene Onegin (Portland Drama, he apprenticed Opera Theatre, as well as Opera), and numerous world premieres: Fellow in the Paris atelier of Master Tailor Mika’ela Columbus Opera, Toledo Travelers (Cincinnati Opera), Mason Bates’s The Fisher. Carey has designed the costumes for The Opera, the Cabrillo (R)evolution of Steve Jobs (Santa Fe Opera), Kevin Odyssey The Winter’s Tale, and The Tempest (Public Music Festival, and the University of Cincinnati Puts’s The Manchurian Candidate (Minnesota Theater’s Public Works Initiative at the Delacorte College- Conservatory of Music. She has also Opera), Theodore Morrison’s Oscar (Santa Fe, Theatre). Further New York and regional credits worked at the Glimmerglass Festival and the revived at Opera Philadelphia), and Kansas include Kansas City Choir Boy (PROTOTYPE major opera companies of Los Angeles, Omaha, City Choir Boy (national tour). The rarities he Festival, U.S. tour), City Of (Playwright’s Realm), Cleveland, Sarasota, and Central City, as well as has directed range from Antonio Cognoni’s Bad Jews (Long Wharf), Trouble in Mind (Yale Wisconsin’s American Players Theatre and, in Don Bucefalo, Mercadante’s Virginia (both for Rep), A Kind of Alaska (New York Live Arts), Los Angeles, the Pantages Theatre and the Geffen Wexford Festival Opera), and Weber’s Euryanthe the U. S. premiere of The Tender Mercies (One Playhouse. Hatten earned a B. A. in music at (Bard Summerscape) to Marvin David Levy’s Year Lease), Three Days of Rain (Amphibian), Simpson College. Sarah Hatten is the Marlys Mourning Becomes Electra (Miami). He has and three productions for New York University/ Beider Wigmaster and Makeup Designer undertaken repeat engagements with Park Avenue Atlantic Acting School. Carey’s collaborations Endowed Chair. Armory, Houston Grand Opera, and New York’s with director Kevin Newbury have included Doubt

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Composer’s, Librettist’s & Director’s Statements

At left, a protest in Washington during the "Lavender Scare", at right, Julius's, a famous gay bar in Greenwich Village.

Composer’s Statement florid troubadour-like melodies, evocative of courtly longing, represent the fraught and passionate inner life of the lovers. These two styles are often Both politicians and gay men and women in Washington, D. C. in the present at the same time, generating the musical tension and driving the 1950s lived in a world full of coded sensibility – a culture operating under opera toward a tragic collision. The other characters find their own voices the surface and in counterpoint with the rigid formality of 1950s mores. within this paradoxical musical atmosphere. In our operatic adaption of Thomas Mallon’s novel Fellow Travelers, the In an era where living “in the closet” is becoming increasingly rare, world of back-room dealings and power plays underpinning Washington’s it seems more important than ever to put characters like Tim and Hawk political life becomes a hazy reflection of the romantic relationship onstage – not simply as historical victims struggling against oppression, between State Department employee Hawkins Fuller and a young but as ordinary people fighting through life in an era where passionate love reporter, Timothy Laughlin. In both the fraught political world of the and political ambition threatened to destroy one’s world. My hope is that McCarthy era and the private world of Hawk and Tim, dialogue could the nuanced machinery of opera might play some small part reminding us only tell part of the story. My goal was to craft a musical language for of this history, while also preserving in music the sensibility of doubleness Fellow Travelers that would foreground the undercurrent of clandestine that so often defined gay experience in this era. machinations and forbidden longing churning under the surface of Greg Pierce’s elegant adaptation. — Gregory Spears Particularly in Tim and Hawk’s public interactions, love cannot Librettist’s Statement simply “speak” its name. Music must bridge the gap. In the opening scene, we witness a conversation between both men on a park bench in In writing the libretto of Fellow Travelers, my main goal was to tell an Dupont Circle. To any 1950s bystander, the conversation would seem authentic love story of two men who are ensnared in the finger-pointing unremarkable. To Tim it is a pick-up, filled with all the danger, innuendo, frenzy of the “Lavender Scare” of 1950s Washington, D. C. Most of what and anticipation. For him it is also an awakening: love at first sight. I we’ve been taught about this era concerns the McCarthy-led persecution tried to embody both the excitement and the surface ordinariness of the of alleged Communists in the State Department. Very little attention has exchange – a subtle tension likely familiar to any homosexual of the time. been paid to the untold numbers of gay men and lesbians whose lives were From this starting point, I looked for ways to express the innuendo- destroyed because of their sexual orientations or even their affiliations driven world of Hawk and Tim while maintaining a relatively cool with “sexual deviants.” In his novel Fellow Travelers, Thomas Mallon has musical surface, reproducing in the other scenes the layered experience created a rich relationship between State Department employee Hawkins of the original park-bench meeting. I tried to do this by blending two Fuller and newcomer Timothy Laughlin. It is a passionate, surprising, disparate styles: American minimalism and the courtly, melismatic singing complex love that is ultimately snuffed out by the terror of the Lavender style of medieval troubadours. Throughout the piece, minimalist passages Scare. Their relationship – like relationships in all great literature – is represent the hum of office work – secretaries typing, interns rushing both singular and universal. It gives voice to the many silenced same-sex about – and the McCarthy-era political machine, ready to crush. The relationships that tried to bloom during this fraught era.

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At left, Senator Joseph McCarthy with his legal counsel, Roy Cohn; at right, a sadly typical headline during the "Lavender Scare."

One of the greatest challenges for me as the librettist is to stay April 27, 1953, declared that homosexual men and women, considered truthful to Thomas Mallon’s vision despite that, in terms of form, opera is to be deviants suffering from “sexual perversion,” were banned from so radically different from fiction. Composer Gregory Spears and I agreed working in the US government. Over 5,000 men and women lost their on an approach to the libretto which favors natural speech-rhythms over jobs and many took their own lives. Our opera Fellow Travelers, based on the stylized language of more traditional operas. That said, certain scenes Thomas Mallon’s compelling novel, tells a very intimate story set against culminate in arias where characters express themselves in more heightened, the backdrop of the early 1950’s witch-hunts. In 2018, the story seems poetic language. My goal is to ensure that even though the language may prescient as North Korea, Russia, gender debates and prejudiced Executive shift in tone, there is an overall consistency to each character’s speech, as Orders are all a daily feature of our news cycle. well as a unified sound to the opera’s language as a whole. As relevant and politically charged as the piece is, however, it’s Structurally, Thomas Mallon chose to tell his story in many short the deeply human love stories that make Fellow Travelers so poignant, scenes which favor various characters’ points of view. Our team has especially as rendered by Gregory Spears’s music and Greg Pierce’s text. I chosen to tell the story largely through Timothy Laughlin’s eyes, mostly say love stories because there are several intertwined in the opera. Tim and because he is new to this world, which allows the audience to learn about Hawk are a vibrant match for each other and we fall in love with them, its inner workings as Timothy does. Also, since we can’t include all the root for them, even as we know that circumstances make a conventional material from the novel, following Timothy’s journey gave us a coherent relationship unsustainable, even dangerous. The love story between Tim system for selecting the strongest, most operatic material. and Mary is another relationship that I haven’t often encountered onstage. A large part of my job as librettist is to give the audience a taste Mary is a steadfast friend to Tim and stands up to the injustices of the time, of what things were like during this unsettling era. Fellow Travelers even when everyone else turns their backs. Many of us have had a Mary illuminates what it’s like to try to pursue your desires at a time when being in our lives, giving us strength in the face of rampant homophobia. I can honest could cost you everything. It is also part of my job to point out the imagine Mary if she were living today, at the front of the women’s marches disturbing truth that in many of today’s workplaces Americans still live in and heeding the activist call. fear that their coworkers will discover who they are. At its heart though, my Developing and directing Fellow Travelers has been one of the job is to tell the compelling story of Fellow Travelers, a tremendous journey highlights of my life, both professionally and personally. As a teenager that is rich in all the big emotions that opera does best. coming of age during the AIDS crisis, I could only have dreamed of seeing — Greg Pierce positive examples of true love between two men onstage or onscreen. Being recognized for telling the stories I longed to see has been profound for me. Director’s Statement The Gregs (as I call them) found a way to live inside this story, creating a new theatrical and musical language that leaps off the stage. I truly believe As an openly gay artist, I believe that we stand on the shoulders of the that art can change lives and open hearts and minds; I hope that, after generations that came before us and I feel a responsibility to share their seeing this show, audiences will look deeper into our shared history and, stories. History books rarely mention the details of the “Lavender Scare” perhaps, treat outsiders with a bit more compassion and understanding. that drove the McCarthy era. I certainly did not learn about it in my high- — Kevin Newbury school history class. President Eisenhower’s Executive Order 10450, signed

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Welcome to the Athenaeum Theatre, the oldest, continuously operating Off-Loop theatre in Chicago! Founded 1911.

Mission Today Athenaeum Theatre Productions provides the Chicago non-profit Currently the Athenaeum Theatre has a Main Stage which seats 984 performing arts community a shared space to incubate projects and and three Studio Theatres seating 60, 81 and 87. The Curtain Call Club collaborations by providing high quality and low-cost performance, serves as a bar and reception room for cabaret, comedy, improv, lectures rehearsal, office and reception space supported by a staff of theatre and other intimate events. All public spaces are available for rent. More professionals. than a dozen non-profit arts and education organizations now call the Athenaeum home, either for performance space, office space or both. History Our partners reflect the exceptional diversity, artistry and talent that Chicago has to offer including: Teatro Vista Theatre, Chicago Improv The Athenaeum Theatre opened in 1911 as part of the campus of St. Productions, the Chinese Fine Arts Society, DANCE Chicago, Inaside Alphonsus Catholic Church. Conceived as a “neighborhood playhouse,” Dance, Emerald City Theatre, Full Spectrum Features, Jump Rhythm by the original German-American parish, the Athenaeum Theatre Main Jazz Project, Shattered Globe, Chicago a cappella, The Saints and more! Stage is the oldest continuously operating off-Loop theater in Chicago. With shared resources, space, and experiences, these artists have the The building has housed a diverse roster of organizations and functions opportunity to collaborate and thrive while creating their own unique in its lifetime. In addition to the main opera house there were meeting art. A portion of every ticket sale goes towards the restoration and rooms, a four-lane bowling alley, a small bar and a billiard room. From maintenance of this historic community arts center. Thank you for being 1926 - 1966 the St. Alphonsus Commercial High School, run by the a part of the Athenaeum’s rich legacy and bright future! Sisters of Notre Dame, took over. In 1939 a devastating fire resulted in the total reconstruction of the second floor and the addition of a third. Through the 70s, 80s and 90s the building housed day cares, credit unions and other businesses, eventually returning to its roots with the arts groups and studio theaters operating today.

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