About the Artists
GAY MEN'S CHORUS OF LOS ANGELES message of love, acceptance, and hope and has Kansas City, Missouri. Joe has been involved in GALA Paul Crewes Rachel Fine For over 38 years, the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los reached over 50,000 students in the Los Angeles Choruses for over twenty-four years and has led Artistic Director Managing Director Angeles has built an international reputation for area through our Alive Music Project and an choruses in national and international tours, musical excellence while remaining deeply rooted in additional tens of thousands of young people performances at music festivals and conferences, service to the Los Angeles community. Hailed by the nationally through our It Gets Better Tour. This year collaborated with multiple choirs, arts organizations, PRESENTS Los Angeles Times as “one of the last important links GMCLA expanded their educational outreach to and guest artists. Joe has also participated in to a glorious tradition in music,” GMCLA is one of the include juvenile detention centers in the Los research studies on the LGBT choral movement and country’s largest male choruses with over 250 Angeles area as part of the Arts for Incarcerated currently serves as Artistic Advisor for GALA Choruses. singers. GMCLA has commissioned more than 600 Youth Network. GAY MEN’S CHORUS OF LOS ANGELES new works and arrangements, released fi fteen Joe has graduate degrees in conducting from the albums, appears frequently on national television, DR. JOSEPH P. NADEAU (Artistic Director and UMKC Conservatory of Music and the University of and is the fi rst openly gay chorus to tour central Conductor) Dr. Joseph P. Nadeau is the Artistic Kansas. He regularly serves as guest speaker, Europe (1991), broadcast over Russian television Director and Conductor of the Gay Men’s Chorus of presenter, clinician, and conductor. He has taught at (1999), tour South America (2006), and perform for Los Angeles. Joe came to Los Angeles in 2013, after every educational level from pre-K through college. PRIDE @ THE WALLIS two sitting U.S. Presidents. GMCLA also has an serving fi fteen years as artistic director of Heartland Joe believes in the power of music to make this world extensive youth outreach program that brings a Men’s Chorus and Kansas City Women’s Chorus in a better place for everyone.
Staff Program
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR “Uprising of Love” by Melissa Etheridge “In My Mother’s Eyes” by Robert Seeley and Jonathan Weedman SOLO: Lucio Maramba Robert Espindola
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AND “Carefully Taught” / “Children Will Listen” “Not My Father’s Son” (from Kinky Boots) CONDUCTOR Oscar Hammerstein II & Richard Rogers, by Cynthia Lauper Dr. Joseph P. Nadeau Stephen Sondheim arr. David Maddux SOLO: Melvin Robert ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR AND SOLO: TBA YOUTH OUTREACH COORDINATOR “I Ain’t Afraid” by Holly Near Gavin Thrasher “How Can I Keep From Singing” arr. Steven Milloy Quaker Hymn arr. Scott Farthing ACCOMPANIST “True Colors” By Cynthia Lauper Dr. Cassie Nickols “City Called Heaven” Traditional Spiritual SOLOS: Patrick Magill and David Werthe arr. Josephine Poelinitz PRODUCTION COORDINATOR “I Am Willing” by Holly Near Evan Pavlica “Creep” by Thomas Yorke, Jonathan TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Greenwood, Colin Greenwood, Edward “Raise You Up” (from Kinky Boots) Adam Matthew O’Brien, Philip Selway, Albert Hammond, by Cynthia Lauper and Mike Hazewood arr. Dave Volpe SOLO: Miles Jeffries SOUND PRODUCER Lucio Maramba “You Have More Friends Than You Know” by Mervyn Warren & Jeff Marx LIGHTING DESIGN SOLOS: TBA Steven Young
STAGE DIRECTOR AND “Light” (from Next to Normal) Brian Yorkey CHOREOGRAPHER & Tom Kitt arr. Charles Beale Billy Rugh SOLOS: Chris Etscheid, Steve Holzer, Neil Vyas, and Jim Blackett CHOREOGRAPHER Michelle Benton
COSTUME DESIGN Philip Hayman
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER Dave Cosper
JUNE 3, 2017 AT 8PM Bram Goldsmith Theater
Running time: 90 minutes with no intermission.
PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P9