Wednesday, February 1, 2017, at 8:30 pm m a r g Andrew Lippa & Friends o r With Kate Baldwin, Joaquina Kalukango, Caroline O’Connor, and Matthew Scott P e h Paul Staroba , Musical Director and Piano T Kristina Musser , Violin Will Curry , Viola Anik Oulianine , Cello This evening’s program is approximately 75 minutes long and will be performed without intermission. Please make certain all your electronic devices are switched off. Major support for Lincoln Center’s American Songbook is provided by Amy & Joseph Perella. Endowment support provided by Bank of America This performance is made possible in part by the Josie Robertson Fund for Lincoln Center. Steinway Piano The Appel Room Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall American Songbook Additional support for Lincoln Center’s American Songbook is provided by Meg and Bennett Goodman, Rita J. and Stanley H. Kaplan Family Foundation, Inc., The DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund, Jill & Irwin B. Cohen, The Shubert Foundation, Great Performers Circle, Chairman’s Council, and Friends of Lincoln Center. Public support is provided by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature American Airlines is the Official Airline of Lincoln Center Nespresso is the Official Coffee of Lincoln Center NewYork-Presbyterian is the Official Hospital of Lincoln Center Artist catering provided by Zabar’s and Zabars.com UPCOMING AMERICAN SONGBOOK EVENTS IN THE APPEL ROOM: Thursday, February 2, at 8:30 pm John Ondrasik of Five for Fighting With string quartet Friday, February 3, at 8:30 pm Okkervil River Saturday, February 4, at 8:30 pm Heather Headley Wednesday, February 15, at 8:30 pm Liz Callaway Sings Maltby & Shire Thursday, February 16, at 8:30 pm Laura Mvula Friday, February 17, at 8:30 pm Jamie Lidell & The Royal Pharaohs Saturday, February 18, at 8:30 pm Santino Fontana Wednesday, February 22, at 8:30 pm Indie.Arie The Appel Room is located in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall. For tickets, call (212) 721-6500 or visit AmericanSongbook.org. Call the Lincoln Center Info Request Line at (212) 875-5766 or visit AmericanSongbook.org for complete program infor - mation. Join the conversation: #LCSongbook We would like to remind you that the sound of coughing and rustling paper might distract the performers and your fellow audience members. In consideration of the performing artists and members of the audience, those who must leave before the end of the performance are asked to do so between pieces . Flash photography and the use of recording equipment are not allowed in the building. American Songbook I Meet the Artists Andrew Lippa s t Andrew Lippa is a Tony- and s Grammy-nominated composer and i t lyricist. His hit song “Evil Like Me,” r written for Kristin Chenoweth and featured in Disney’s 2015 movie A Descendants , hit No. 1 on the e Billboard 200 album chart. Other recent highlights include his com - h Y t H posing and conducting a world pre - P R U miere piece, Rising Tide , for pianist M t W E Lang Lang and the Guangzhou H T T e A Symphony Orchestra, and the 2016 M e premiere of his concept opera, I am Anne Hutchinson/I Am Harvey Milk , at Strathmore, starring Chenoweth as M Hutchinson and Mr. Lippa as Milk. This summer, Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will present the world premiere of The Man in the Ceiling , a musical based on Jules Feiffer’s award-winning novel with music and lyrics by Mr. Lippa. He will also play the role of Uncle Lester in the production, directed by Jeffrey Seller, the Tony-winning producer of Hamilton . Mr. Lippa’s Broadway credits include music and lyrics for Big Fish , directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman; Tony-nominated music and lyrics for The Addams Family ; and music for Aaron Sorkin’s play The Farnsworth Invention . Off-Broadway credits include The Wild Party (book/music/lyrics), which won the Outer Critics Circle Award for best musical and Drama Desk Award for best music. Mr. Lippa has been Chenoweth’s music director for many concerts. Recordings include Julia Murney’s CD I’m Not Waiting ; The Addams Family ; Big Fish ; The Wild Party ; You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown , which earned him a Grammy Award nomination; A Little Princess ; and John & Jen . Mr. Lippa also produced the original cast recording of Bat Boy . In addition to Tony and Grammy nominations, Mr. Lippa’s honors include a shared Emmy for Nickelodeon’s The Wonder Pets , the Gilman/Gonzalez- Falla Theater Foundation Award, ASCAP’s Richard Rodgers/New Horizons Award, and Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Mr. Lippa serves as president of the Dramatists Guild Fund. American Songbook I Meet the Artists Kate Baldwin Kate Baldwin appears in the 2017 revival of Hello Dolly! this spring as Irene Molloy. Previously she starred on Broadway in Finian’s Rainbow (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Award nominations) and Big Fish, as well as in Fiorello! (New York City Center Encores!). She received Drama Desk nominations for both Giant (Public Theater) and John and Jen (Keen Company) and starred off- Broadway in Songbird (59E59). She also appeared in the Broadway casts of The Full Monty, Thoroughly Modern Millie , and Wonderful Town. Regionally Ms. Baldwin has starred in King and I (Chicago’s Lyric Opera), Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (San Francisco, Detroit, Toronto), The Women (The Old Globe), Henry V (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey), I Do, I Do (Westport Country Playhouse), She Loves Me (Williamstown Theatre Festival), A Little Night Music and Constellations (Berkshire Theater Group), and South Pacific (Arena Stage). Major concerts engagements include the Boston Pops, New York Pops, the American Songbook series, Kennedy Center, three legendary New York nightclubs (Feinstein’s at the Regency, Birdland, 54 Below), and the major orchestras of Washington, Detroit, Portland, and Phoenix. Ms. Baldwin has been seen on PBS in Stephen Sondheim’s Passion and the Kander-and-Ebb retrospective First You Dream. Her solo recordings are Let’s See What Happens and She Loves Him , both with PS Classics. Joaquina Kalukango Joaquina Kalukango’s Broadway credits include The Color Purple revival, Holler If Ya Hear Me , and Godspell . Off-Broadway she has appeared in The Wild Party (New York City Center Encores!), Our Lady of Kibeho (Signature Theatre), Antony and Cleopatra (Public Theater and Royal Shakespeare Company), Emotional Creature (Signature and Berkeley Rep), Hurt Village (Signature/Theatre World Award, Drama Desk Award nomination), and Rent (New World Stages). Regional highlights include Camae in The Mountaintop (Arena Stage and Alley Theatre/Helen Hayes Award), Sarah in American Songbook I Meet the Artists Ragtime (Hangar Theatre), and Ti Moune in Once on This Island (Hangar). Ms. Kalukango is a graduate of The Juilliard School. Caroline O’Connor Caroline O’Connor is about to appear in the new musical Anastasia at the Broadhurst Theatre playing Countess Lily Malevsky-Malevitch after a sold- out season at Hartford Stage earlier this year. She most recently created the dual roles of Polly/Mary Douvan in the world premiere of the Australian musical Dream Lover : the Bobby Darin Musical . Other roles include Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes (Sydney Opera House/Helpmann Award), Rose in Gypsy (Arts Centre Melbourne), Phyllis in Follies (Chicago Shakespeare Theater/Jeff Award), Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd (Théâtre du Chatelet, Paris), Sarah Jane Moore in Assassins (Milwaukee Repertory Theater), and Life of the Party (Menier Chocolate Factory, London). Ms. O’Connor has appeared on Broadway as Velma Kelly in Chicago and Miss Shields in A Christmas Story the Musical. Her West End credits include Mabel Normand in Mack and Mabel (Piccadilly Theatre/Olivier nomina - tion), Bombshells (Arts Theatre/Olivier nomination), Hildy Esterhazy in On the Town (English National Opera, Théâtre du Chatelet), Romance/Romance , Street Scene (ENO), Matador , The Rink , Cabaret , and Me and My Girl . Regionally she has appeared as Ellie-May Chipley in Showboat (Royal Shakespeare Company, Opera North), Lola in Damn Yankees , Lizzie in Baby , The Witch in Into the Woods , and Cassie in A Chorus Line (U.K. national tour). In Australia she has per - formed Velma Kelly in Chicago , Anita in West Side Story , Aldonza in Man of La Mancha , Fanny Brice in Funny Girl , Edith Piaf in PIAF , Bombshells , and Judy Garland in the world premiere of End of the Rainbow . Ms. O’Connor’s film cred - its include Nini Legs in the Air in Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge , Ethel Merman in the Cole Porter biopic De-Lovely , and Georgia in Surviving Georgia . She has created three one-woman shows: Stage to Screen in Australia, The Showgirl Within in London, and The Girl from Oz in New York. Her solo CDs include What I Did for Love , Stage to Screen , A Tribute to Piaf , and A Tribute to Garland . American Songbook I Meet the Artists Matthew Scott Matthew Scott is fresh off his run as Adam Hochberg in An American in Paris on Broadway. Other Broadway credits include Sondheim on Sondheim , A Catered Affair , and Jersey Boys as well as The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Actors Fund). Regional highlights include The Light in the Piazza (Philadelphia Y D Theatre Company), for which he won O O M the Barrymore Award; Saturday N O S A J Night (York Theatre Company); Beaches , Company , ACE , and Side by Side by Sondheim (all at the Signature Theatre); Chaplin (La Jolla Playhouse); First You Dream: the Music of Kander & Ebb (Kennedy Center); A Wonderful Life (Goodspeed Opera House); Eden and Unknown Soldier (Eugene O’Neill Theater Center); Ragtime , My Fair Lady , and Carousel (Paper Mill Playhouse); West Side Story (the Muny); Legally Blonde , Swing! , Les Misérables , and Sunset Boulevard opposite Liz Callaway (all for the Pittsburgh CLO).