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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 ’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

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.

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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

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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 , the Tony-winning producer of Hamilton .

Mr. Lippa’s Broadway credits include music and lyrics for , directed and choreographed by ; Tony-nominated music and lyrics for ; 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 for best music. Mr. Lippa has been Chenoweth’s music director for many concerts. Recordings include ’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 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 , 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! ( 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 , Thoroughly Modern Millie , and . Regionally Ms. Baldwin has starred in King and I (’s Lyric Opera), Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (San Francisco, Detroit, Toronto), The Women (The Old Globe), Henry V (Shakespeare of New Jersey), I Do, I Do (Westport Country Playhouse), (Williamstown Theatre Festival), and Constellations (Berkshire Theater Group), and (). 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 ’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 ( 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/, Drama Desk Award nomination), and Rent (). Regional highlights include Camae in The Mountaintop (Arena Stage and Alley Theatre/ 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 .

Caroline O’Connor

Caroline O’Connor is about to appear in the new musical Anastasia at the 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 (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 (, 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 , and Cassie in (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 , Edith Piaf in PIAF , Bombshells , and Judy Garland in the world premiere of End of the Rainbow . Ms. O’Connor’s cred - its include Nini Legs in the Air in Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge , 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 (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); , , and Carousel (); West Side Story (); Legally Blonde , Swing! , Les Misérables , and Sunset Boulevard opposite Liz Callaway (all for the Pittsburgh CLO). Mr. Scott’s television credits include First You Dream: The Music of Kander & Ebb (PBS), All My Children , and appearances on the 2006 and 2009 . Recordings include Sondheim on Sondheim , Jerome Kern: The Land Where the Good Songs Go , and Noel and Cole (all available on PS Classics). He is a graduate of the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama.

Paul Staroba

Paul Staroba (musical director, piano) served as the musical director and con - ductor of the 2014 Tony Award Winner for Best Musical, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder , and remains as music supervisor of the show’s national touring company. Other New York conducting credits include, on Broadway: A Little Night Music (with Catherine Zeta-Jones and and also with and ), Next to Normal , and . Off-Broadway credits include Dear Evan Hansen , Carrie , The Blue Flower , Lucky Guy , Happiness , Saved , and Take Me Along . Other selected Broadway keyboard credits include Something Rotten, , , Matilda , Newsies , Sister Act , The Addams Family , West Side Story , Spamalot , In the Heights , Wicked , Grease, Pal Joey, Young Frankenstein , Legally Blonde , A Chorus Line , and Les Misérables . Regional highlights include the following world premieres: (Chicago), I am Anne Hutchinson/I am Harvey Milk (Strathmore), Big Fish (Chicago), and A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (Hartford). Mr. Staroba has enjoyed performing in concert across the country with Kristin Chenoweth and , and has held a position in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular Orchestra for four seasons. His upcoming projects include War Paint on Broadway, starring Patti LuPone and . American Songbook I Meet the Artists

Kristina Musser

Kristina Musser (violin) plays with various orchestras, including the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra at Lincoln Center, the Encores! Orchestra at New York City Center, and the New York Pops at . She can also be seen and heard in numerous Broadway musical pits, including the 2014 Tony Award–winning musical A Gentlemen’s Guide to Love and Murder. Music has taken Ms. Musser around the globe with different musical groups, and she has played on diverse recordings that include many Broadway cast albums, pop music, as well as classical CDs. She has over 20 years teaching experi - ence with all ages, and has taught at the United Nations International School, Diller-Quaile Music School, St. David’s, and the School for Strings. She also gives an annual master class at the Turtle Bay Music School. Ms. Musser holds degrees from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Ithaca College, and the Manhattan School of Music.

Will Curry

Will Curry (viola) enjoys a diverse musical career as a violist, violinist, conduc - tor, and orchestrator. Currently the violist and assistant conductor for the upcoming revival of , Mr. Curry has previously held the positions of violist and assistant conductor with the revivals of Fiddler on the Roof and Les Misérables . Prior to his time in New York, he was engaged as the associ - ate conductor for the Mirvish’s Les Misérables in Toronto and as the assistant conductor and concertmaster for the U.S. touring production of Les Misérables . He has released two albums, Fill in the Words and The Time of Year for Miracles , with actor-singer Ian Patrick Gibb, and can be heard on the cast albums of Fiddler on the Roof and John & Jen . Recently Mr. Curry con - tributed orchestrations to Lawrence Rush’s musical adaptation of Pride and Prejudice . Other orchestration credits include performances by Andrew Lippa, Carole Shelley, Christine Ebersole, Harvey Evans and , Daniel Reichard, and cast members from the 25th anniversary production of Les Misérables . Trained in the Suzuki method, Mr. Curry maintains a small teach - ing studio. A graduate of , he studied viola with Roland Vamos and conducting with Victor Yampolsky.

Anik Oulianine

Anik Oulianine (cello) is a freelance cellist living and working in New York City. She performs regularly with several orchestras, including the New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, and the American Symphony Orchestra. She is very active in the musical theater world, performing in the Tony Award–win - ning Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder , Grey Gardens , Les Misérables , Aladdin , Fiddler on the Roof , , and many more on and off- Broadway productions. She also enjoys playing chamber music concerts, and American Songbook

likes to donate her services to worthy causes. A native New Yorker, Ms. Oulianine has worked frequently with Paul Staroba.

American Songbook

In 1998, Lincoln Center launched American Songbook, dedicated to the cele - bration of popular American song. Designed to highlight and affirm the cre - ative mastery of America’s songwriters from their emergence at the turn of the 19th century up through the present, American Songbook spans all styles and genres, from the form’s early roots in Tin Pan Alley and Broadway to the eclecticism of today’s singer-songwriters. American Songbook also show - cases the outstanding interpreters of popular song, including established and emerging concert, cabaret, theater, and songwriter performers.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (LCPA) serves three primary roles: pre - senter of artistic programming, national leader in arts and education and com - munity relations, and manager of the Lincoln Center campus. A presenter of more than 3,000 free and ticketed events, performances, tours, and educa - tional activities annually, LCPA offers 15 programs, series, and festivals includ - ing American Songbook, Great Performers, Lincoln Center Festival, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Midsummer Night Swing, the Mostly Mozart Festival, and the White Light Festival, as well as the Emmy Award–winning Live From Lincoln Center , which airs nationally on PBS. As manager of the Lincoln Center campus, LCPA provides support and services for the Lincoln Center complex and the 11 resident organizations. In addition, LCPA led a $1.2 billion campus renovation, completed in October 2012.

Lincoln Center Programming Department Jane Moss, Ehrenkranz Artistic Director Hanako Yamaguchi, Director, Music Programming Jon Nakagawa, Director, Contemporary Programming Jill Sternheimer, Director, Public Programming Lisa Takemoto, Production Manager Charles Cermele, Producer, Contemporary Programming Mauricio Lomelin, Producer, Contemporary Programming Andrew C. Elsesser, Associate Director, Programming Regina Grande Rivera, Associate Producer Nana Asase, Assistant to the Artistic Director Luna Shyr, Senior Editor Olivia Fortunato, Programming Assistant American Songbook

For American Songbook Matt Berman, Lighting Design Scott Stauffer, Sound Design Angela M. Fludd, Wardrobe Assistant Janet Rucker , Company Manager

Matt Berman

Matt Berman is the resident lighting designer for Lincoln Center’s American Songbook. He most recently designed the lighting for Kristin Chenoweth’s My Love Letter to Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, and for “Meow Meow’s Pandemonium” with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Thomas Lauderdale of Pink Martini at Royal Festival Hall. Mr. Berman continues his design work for Chenoweth, , Alan Cumming, Meow Meow, , and Elaine Paige on the road. Through his work with ASCAP and several U.S.-based charities, he has designed for a starry roster that includes Bernadette Peters, Barbra Streisand, Reba McEntire, Melissa Errico, Deborah Voigt, Michael Urie, Stevie Wonder, India.Arie, Garth Brooks, Billy Joel, and Sting. His international touring schedule has allowed him to design for iconic venues such as Royal Albert Hall, Paris Opera, Royal Theatre Carré in Amsterdam, the Sporting Club in Monte Carlo, the Acropolis, the famed amphitheater in Taormina, Sicily, as well as Luna Park in Buenos Aires, and the Sydney Opera House. Closer to home, he has done work for the Hollywood Bowl, Alice Tully Hall, and Carnegie Hall. Other Broadway credits include the Tony Award–winning Liza’s at the Palace , Bea Arthur on Broadway at the Booth Theatre, Nancy LaMott’s Just in Time for Christmas , and Kathy Griffin Wants a Tony at the Belasco Theater.

Scott Stauffer

Scott Stauffer has been the sound designer for Lincoln Center’s American Songbook since 1999. His Broadway design credits include A Free Man of Color , The Rivals , Contact (also in London and Tokyo), Marie Christine , Twelfth Night , and Jekyll & Hyde . Off-Broadway Mr. Stauffer has worked on Subverted , Promises, Hereafter , A Minister’s Wife , Bernarda Alba , Third , Belle Epoque , Big Bill , Elegies , Hello Again , The Spitfire Grill , Pageant , and Hedwig and the Angry Inch . His regional credits include productions at the Capitol Repertory Theatre, University of Michigan, Hanger Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and Alley Theatre. His concert credits include many Lincoln Center galas, as well as the Actors Fund concerts of Frank Loesser , Broadway 101 , , and . At Carnegie Hall he has worked with and Brian Stokes Mitchell. As a sound engineer, Mr. Stauffer has worked on The Lion King , Juan Darién , Chronicle of a Death Foretold , Carousel , Once on This Island , and the original Little Shop of Horrors.