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Carl Rosa Company Production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s

MUSIC LYRICS W. S. Gilbert

DIRECTED AND RE-CREATED BY Peter Mulloy

CONDUCTED BY Martin Handley

CHOREOGRAPHY RE-CREATED BY David Furnell

TOUR MANAGER STAGE MANAGER Tim Speechley Rebecca Clatworthy

TECHNICAL STAGE MANAGER Felix Dunning

WARDROBE MANAGER WIG DRESSER David Morgan Gemma Dandridge

Friday, May 2, 2008, 8:00 PM Saturday, May 3, 2008, 8:00 PM

There will be one 20-minute intermission. The taking of photographs or use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.

2 CAST

The Mikado of Japan ...... STEVEN PAGE Nanki-Poo ...... LINCOLN STONE (Mikado’s son is disguised as a wandering minstrel who is in love with Yum-Yum) Ko-Ko ...... FENTON GRAY (Lord High Executioner of Titipu) Pooh-Bah ...... BRUCE GRAHAM (Lord High everything else) Pish-Tush ...... BARRY CLARK (Noble Lord) Yum-Yum ...... CHARLOTTE PAGE (Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing, and Peep-Bo are sisters and wards of Ko-Ko) Pitti-Sing ...... WARD Peep-Bo ...... LESLEY COX Katisha ...... SYLVIA CLARKE (An elderly lady in love with Nanki-Poo)

Ensemble of School-Girls, Nobles, Guards, and Coolies ANNA FLANNIGAN • BETSY PENNINGTON • CARMEN VASS FRANCESCA ELLIS • JANE QUINN • CAROLINE GRAHAM DAVID FURNELL • GEORGE RAE • BEN PAUL • PATRICK MUNDY FRED BROOM • MICHAEL KERRY • ROSS FINNIE • CURTIS DABEK DAN BORUCHOWITZ • TOBY HUNT

Covers The Mikado ...... CURTIS DABEK Nanki-Poo ...... MICHAEL KERRY Ko-Ko ...... GEORGE RAE Pooh-Bah ...... FRED BROOM Pish-Tush ...... ROSS FINNIE Yum-Yum ...... LESLEY COX Pitti-Sing ...... JANE QUINN Peep-Bo ...... BETSY PENNINGTON Katisha ...... CAROLINE GRAHAM

3 SYNOPSIS

ACT I A courtyard of Ko-Ko’s official residence

Nanki-Poo, the son of the Mikado – having assumed the disguise of a traveling musician – has fled from his father’s court in order to escape marriage with the elderly Katisha. He has fallen in love with the beautiful Yum-Yum, but has been prevented from marrying her. Yum-Yum’s guardian Ko-Ko also wants to marry her. In the beginning of the first act, Nanki-Poo hurries back to court after hearing that Ko-Ko has been condemned to death for flirting. Nanki-Poo hopes that Yum-Yum will now be free to marry him. Nanki-Poo soon learns from Pooh-Bah and Pish-Tush that Ko-Ko has become Lord High Executioner – thus preventing his death sentence from being carried out – and that he is to marry Yum-Yum that afternoon. A letter from the Mikado presents Ko-Ko with a challenge. The Mikado orders him to execute somebody or lose his position as Lord High Executioner. Ko-Ko is considering whom to execute when Nanki-Poo appears, intent on committing suicide because he cannot marry Yum-Yum. Ko-Ko proposes that Nanki-Poo marry Yum-Yum for one month and then submit to public execution. General rejoicing follows this solution, after which Katisha appears, searching for her beloved Nanki-Poo. Driven away, she seeks an audience with the Mikado.

ACT II Late 1895

Yum-Yum and Nanki-Poo are happily preparing for their wedding. Ko-Ko arrives with distressing news of a law he has just discovered: When a married man is executed, his wife must be buried alive. Nanki-Poo decides to kill himself at to save Yum-Yum. This presents another problem for Ko-Ko, as he will now need to find someone else to execute. Nanki-Poo offers himself for immediate decapitation but Ko-Ko cannot perform the task without some practice. An alternative solution emerges. Pooh-Bah makes a false affidavit, stating that Nanki-Poo has been executed, freeing Yum-Yum and Nanki-Poo to leave the country. When the Mikado arrives, Ko-Ko thinks that he has come to check up on whether the execution has been carried out. Ko-Ko produces the affidavit and describes the decapitation in gruesome detail. It transpires, however, that the Mikado has come with Katisha in search of his lost son. When it becomes clear that the person Ko-Ko has executed is the Mikado’s son, Ko-Ko and his accomplices are declared guilty of the dreadful crime of killing the Heir Apparent. They quickly explain the falsehood and produce Nanki-Poo alive. Katisha is furious after learning that Nanki-Poo has married Yum-Yum. However, Ko-Ko resolves the situation by offering his own hand to Katisha who, after some persuasion, accepts him. The Opera ends in general happiness and celebration.

4 ACT I ACT II

Overture SOLO Braid the raven CHORUS OF MEN Pitti-Sing and Chorus of Girls If you want to know who we are SONG SONG AND CHORUS The sun, whose rays are all ablaze A Wand’ring Minstrel I Yum-Yum Nanki-Poo MADRIGAL SONG Brightly dawns our wedding day Our Great Mikado, virtuous man Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing, Nanki-Poo, and Pish-Tush Pish-Tush and Chorus TRIO SONG Here’s a how-de-do! If I marry you Young man, despair, likewise go to Yum-Yum, Nanki-Poo, and Ko-Ko Pooh-Bah with Nanki-Poo and Pish-Tush ENTRANCE OF MIKADO AND KATISHA RECITATIVE Mi-ya-sa-ma, mi-ya-sa-ma And have I journey’d for a month Nanki-Poo and Pooh-Bah SONG A more humane Mikado never did in Japan exist CHORUS WITH SOLO Mikado and Chorus Behold the Lord High Executioner! Ko-Ko TRIO AND CHORUS The criminal cried as he dropped him down SONG Pitti-Sing, Ko-Ko, Pooh-Bah, and Chorus As some day it may happen Ko-Ko with Chorus of Men GLEE See how the Fates their gifts allot CHORUS OF GIRLS Pitti-Sing, Katisha, Ko-Ko, Pooh-Bah, and Mikado Comes a little train of little ladies TRIO The flowers that bloom in the spring Three little maids from school are we Nanki-Poo and Ko-Ko with Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing, Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo, and Pitti-Sing with Chorus of Girls and Pooh-Bah

QUARTET RECITATIVE AND SONG So please you, Sir, we much regret Alone, and yet alive Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo, Pitti-Sing, and Pooh-Bah Katisha with Chorus of Girls SONG DUET On a tree by a river, a little Tom-tit sang, Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted Willow, tit-willow Yum-Yum and Nanki-Poo Ko-Ko

TRIO DUET I am so proud There is beauty in the bellow of the blast Ko-Ko, Pooh-Bah, and Pish-Tush Katisha and Ko-Ko

FINALE, ACT I FINALE, ACT II With aspect stern and gloomy stride For he’s gone and married Yum-Yum

INTERMISSION

5 BIOGRAPHIES STEVEN PAGE (Mikado) was awarded a scholarship in Les Miserable; and the original cast of Blood Brothers at to study at the National Opera Studio. Page has sung with the Albery Theatre. His regional credits include M.C. in major Opera companies and in the U.K. His Cabaret, Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors for the Leicester Opera credits include Alidoro in La Cenerentola and Spencer Haymarket, and Jack in for the Manchester Coyle in Owen Wingrave (Royal Opera House); the title roles Library Theatre. He played Ko-Ko in The Mikado and in Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro (English National Jack Point in Yeomen of the Guard for D’Oyly Carte Opera Opera); the title role in Don Giovanni and the Count in The Company. Gray sang the role of Bunthorne in Patience for Marriage of Figaro (Scottish Opera); Nick Shadow in Rake’s the Carl Rosa Opera Company. He has also directed The Progress (New Israeli Opera); Sharpless in Madama Butterfly Mikado and Iolanthe for D’Oyly Carte Opera Company; (Opera North); Paolo in Simone Boccanegra; Calchas in Madama Butterfly for English Festival Opera at the Queen La Belle Helen; Guglielmo in Così fan Tutti; Marcello in La Elizabeth Hall; and tours of La Bohème, La Traviata, and Bohème; Chorebe in Les Troyens; Ford in Falstaff; Balstode Carmen. For three years, he was Julian Clary’s director for in Peter Grimes; Pizarro in Fidelio; Minsk Man in Jonathan Cinderella (Brighton and Richmond) and his one-man shows Dove’s Flight; Anubis in The Second Mrs. Kong; Papageno Amore (West Beth Theatre in ) and Natural Born in The Magic Flute; Olin Blitch in ’s Susanna; Mincer (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and national tour). Prus in Makropoulos Case; The King of Clubs in The Love for Gray directed the premiere of the latest Charles Miller/ Three Oranges; and Leporello in Don Giovanni. Page’s other Kevin Hammonds musical When Midnight Strikes followed theater credits include (Donmar Warehouse), the title by Mickey Rooney’s pantomime debut in Cinderella at the role in (Opera North and Brisbane, Australia), Sunderland Empire. the title role in The Mikado, the Captain in H.M.S. Pinafore, BRUCE GRAHAM (Pooh-Bah) was born in Scotland the Pirate King in (Carl Rosa Opera and attended the University of Edinburgh. In 1978, he Company), After Aida (The Old Vic), and . His film joined the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company and played many of credit includes La Scala, and his television credits the Gilbert & Sullivan character roles. Since his affiliation include Chekhov in Yalta, Don Giovanni, Flight, and Various with D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, Graham has been in Proms. Page has also been heard on radio in various demand throughout the country, appearing with national and concerts. Opera companies, including Opera della Luna, the Buxton LINCOLN STONE (Nanki-Poo) is originally from Gilbert & Sullivan Festival, and University College Opera. Australia. Stone trained in musical theater at the National He spent many years on the West End stage, where he Institute of Dramatic Art in and was principal tenor appeared in eight hit musicals including Me and My Girl, for Opera West. His theater credits include Archibald in Follies, Phantom of the Opera, Sunset Boulevard, and . He The Secret Garden and Enjolras in Les Miserables (Willoughby had the honor of appearing in a Royal Variety Command Theatre), Frederic in The Pirates of Penzance (Parramatta Performance. Although other aspects of Graham’s work have Theatre), Jesus in Godspell (Townsville Theatre), and Johnny ranged from film and television to old-time music hall and Angel in Cruisin’ (original cast Hills Centre Theatre). pantomime, he has appeared around the world in recent years Stone’s theater credits in the U.K. include Ensemble in with the Carl Rosa Opera Company as a principal performing Desperately Seeking Susan, Cover Robert and Adolpho in The the works of Gilbert & Sullivan. Drowsy Chaperone (Novello Theatre), Georg in She Loves BARRY CLARK’s (Pish-Tush) career has Me and principal soloist in Cole (Upstairs at the Gatehouse), encompassed Opera, , and Oratorio. He has Valentin in Kiss of the Spider Woman (Emery Theatre), and appeared with the Scottish Opera, Dublin Grand Opera, Man 2 in Closer Than Ever (Bridewell). He has also been New Sadlers Wells Opera, D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, principal production singer and headline cabaret performer and the Carl Rosa Opera Company. Clark’s roles include on the Queen Mary II and the Queen Elizabeth II. Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, Ottavio in Don Giovanni, FENTON GRAY’s (Ko-Ko) West End credits Don Basilio in The Marriage of Figaro, Lionel in Martha, include Gus: The Theatre Cat in Cats; Pimp/Clacquesous Continued on page 7

6 Camille in The Merry Widow, Alfred in Die Fledermaus, P&O cruise ship Victoria and playing the lead role in the Fenton in Falstaff, and Don Jose in Carmen. He has Don’t Misunderstand Me at the English Theatre appeared as Goro in Madama Butterfly and has specialized of Hamburg. Ward has played Atlanta in Jason and the in other character roles such as Spoletta in , Beppe Argonauts and Molly Wesley in the national tour of John in Pagliacci, and Arturo in Lucia di Lammermoor with the Wesley. She also played Sarah Jane Moore in Assassins, London City Opera. Clark performed in a new version of Madame Thenardier in Les Miserables for Pimlico Opera, The Impresario and Trial by Jury for Covent Garden Festival. Helen in Wonderful Town, and Dinah in for He has sung Oratorios in the U.K. and Ireland. His works Grange Park Opera. Ward has toured with the Carl Rosa include Messiah, The Creation, Requiem, Hiawatha, and Opera Company playing Hebe in H.M.S. Pinafore. She Crucifixion. recently completed the company’s England tour, playing CHARLOTTE PAGE (Yum-Yum), who studied Leila in Iolanthe and Edith in The Pirates of Penzance. She is with Joy Mammen at the Royal Academy of Music, was a delighted to be rejoining the company. finalist in the prestigious Kathleen Ferrier Competition. LESLEY COX (Peep-Bo) studied at the Royal She has sung more than 30 principal roles in Opera most Northern College of Music with Elizabeth Vaughn and notably the First Niece in Peter Grimes for the Royal Opera, Sandra Dugdale. She was awarded the equity trust fund Covent Garden at the Savonlinna Festival; Gretel in Hansel and the Arthur Anderson Bursaries. Her credits include and Gretel for Welsh National Opera and Opera Northern Fiordiligi and Despina in Così fan Tutti for Music Theatre Ireland; Galatea in Acis and Galatea for the English Bach London, Miss Silverpeal in Der Schauspieldirektor with Wyn Festival at the Linbury Studio Theatre, Covent Garden; the Davies for the Buxton Opera Festival, Polly Peachum in The title role in Lucia di Lammermoor for Haddo House Opera; Beggar’s Opera, the Mistress in the national tour of , Aldimira in Erismena for Opera Theatre Company in the and Maria in The Sound of Music. Her recent roles include U.K. and Ireland at the Aldeburgh Festivals; and Melisande Josephine in H.M.S. Pinafore for Opera della Luna, Yum- in Pelléas et Mélisande for Atelier Lyrique. She also starred as Yum in The Mikado, Elsie Maynard in Yeomen of the Guard, Christine in Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty’s Theatre Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance, Gianetta in The Gondoliers in London for 18 months. Page has sung many of the leading for Carl Rosa Opera Company, Angelina in Trial by Jury soprano roles in the Gilbert & Sullivan repertoire for D’Oyly for Covent Garden Festival, and Eurydice in Orpheus in the Carte Opera Company, Carl Rosa Opera Company, and the Underworld for Opera Holland Park. As a co-director of Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company. She has performed Reckless Productions, Cox recently presented Music of Life worldwide, including an extensive tour of Strauss Galas for directed by Simon Callow at the Palace Theatre in London. Raymond Gubbay. Her recent engagements include Yum- SYLVIA CLARKE (Katisha) studied at the Yum in The Mikado and Phyllis in Iolanthe for Carl Rosa Conservatorium of Music Opera School in Sydney, Australia. Opera Company in the West End; in Die Fledermaus A member of the Sydney Operetta Touring Theatre for Opera Holland Park; Doll in the European premiere of Company and Opera Australia, she also was a former resident Vera of Las Vegas by Darren Arek Hagen; Miss Rowan in the mezzo-soprano with the West Australian Opera Company. world premiere of a newly commissioned play Let’s Make An Her Operatic repertoire includes Ulrica in Un Ballo in Opera by Simon Butteriss; Miss Rowan in The Little Sweep Maschera, Amneris in Aida, Mistress Quickly in Falstaff, for Aldeburgh Festival; and Mimi in La Bohème for Opera Suzuki in Madama Butterfly, La Principessa in Suor Angelica, Project. Page is involved in the development of Me Me, a Auntie in Peter Grimes, Mother in The Consul, Marcellina in new project for Opera Circus with David Glass. The Marriage of Figaro, Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus, Hata in VICTORIA WARD (Pitti-Sing) trained at The Bartered Bride, Third Lady in Die Zauberflöte, and all the Mountview Theatre School in London. Her credits include contralto roles in the Gilbert & Sullivan Operas. Clarke’s Linda in Blood Brothers’ national tour, a soloist in The Best concert repertoire includes Guissepe Verdi and Wolfgang of the Musicals, Constance in The Three Musketeers’ national Amadeus Mozart’s Requiem, Dream of Gerontius, Music tour, and Polly Peachum in The Beggar’s Opera with the Makers; Antonin Dvořák and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s . She also has enjoyed working on Continued on page 8

7 Stabat Mater, Petite Messe Solennelle, Messiah, Judas Maccabeus, Mass in b minor; ’s Spring Symphony and Cantata Academica, Vesperae Solennes de Confessore; and Antonio Vivaldi’s Gloria. Recently, she performed in Les Noces for the Michael Clark Company at the Barbican. PETER MULLOY (Director) re-launched the Carl Rosa Opera Company in 1998 with La Bohème. Mulloy was born in Middlesbrough and at age 15, created Costume Cavalcade, a company that supplied scenery and costumes for Opera, television, and theater. This led to Monty Berman asking Mulloy to create a dedicated design and to hire staff for Opera. Productions have included television films of Gilbert & Sullivan Operetta and Operas, including La Traviata, La Bohème, , and Arabella for the Vienna State Opera and La Scala Milan. During this period, Mulloy trained as an actor and received his acting medals and diploma in drama from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. In 1991, he began vocal training with Neil Howlett at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, then continued his studies at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. As a director, Mulloy received an international award for Operetta for The Pirates of Penzance ( and Philadelphia) and “Best Director” at the Waterford Festival for Iolanthe. He supervised the restoration of costumes from the original 1885 The Mikado at the Savoy Theatre for the Buxton Gilbert & Sullivan Festival. The costumes were last used in the 1953 film The Story of . He was then invited to research the original settings and costume design for Rosie Chambers on Mike Leigh’s film Topsy-Turvy. The Oscar-winning sets and costumes can be seen in Carl Rosa Opera Company’s The Mikado. As artistic director for Carl Rosa Opera Company, Mulloy also has directed and designed Iolanthe, Die Fledermaus, The Pirates of Penzance, and re-created Yeomen of the Guard, The Gondoliers, H.M.S. Pinafore with Timothy West, and The Merry Widow in South Africa. He is a guest lecturer in Opera production at Birkbeck College in London. Mulloy recently created and supplied costumes for several productions, including Don Giovanni (Tokyo Opera), Anna Boleyna (Tower of London), Trelawney of the Wells (Finborough), Falstaff (Stanley Hall Opera), Treasure Island and The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Scoop at More London), and the Kenneth Branagh film As You Like It. g

8 presents ED McMAHON’S MEMORIES OF THE TONIGHT SHOW Sunday, May 4, 2008, 3:00 PM

This performance will not include an intermission. There will be a question-and-answer session with the audience. The taking of photographs or use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.

BIOGRAPHY ED McMAHON’S MEMORIES OF THE Besides his tenure on The Tonight Show, McMahon TONIGHT SHOW takes a stroll down memory lane with hosted the popular syndicated talent show Star Search from funny and touching anecdotes about America’s popular 1983 to 1995. The program helped launch the careers late-night TV talk show. In this lighthearted tribute, Ed of many entertainers, including singers Britney Spears, McMahon also shares insight into his 46-year friendship with Christina Aguilera, Jessica Simpson, and ; Television Academy Hall of Fame inductee , and comedians , Brad Garrett, Dave Chappelle, who died in 2005 after a long battle with emphysema. , and Martin Lawrence. Along with Emmy McMahon’s partnership with Carson started on the winner Dick Clark, McMahon co-hosted NBC’s TV’s set of Who Do You Trust?, a popular TV game show in the Bloopers & Practical Jokes. McMahon starred in 1982’s crime ’50s and ’60s for which Carson was the host and McMahon movie Butterfly, the 1967 drama The Incident, the 1994 the announcer. After four years of developing and polishing remake of Love Affair, and the Fun With Dick and their unique banter, both left the game show in 1962 to Jane in 1977 and Full Moon High in 1981. join The Tonight Show, with Carson assuming hosting duties A board member of the Muscular Dystrophy and McMahon taking to the as the announcer. Association, McMahon has co-emceed comedian Jerry With the dynamic duo at the helm of The Tonight Show until Lewis’ annual labor of love, The Muscular 1992, the program was a hit during the pair’s three-decade Dystrophy Telethon, more than 35 years. He has also run. Their camaraderie and the simple formula – which officiated numerous times at one of America’s favorite consisted of Carson performing comedy routines, bouncing annual traditions, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. As jokes off of McMahon, and chatting with A-list celebrities the official presenter for the American Family Publishing and newcomers hoping to break into showbiz – yielded sweepstakes, he surprised Grand Prize winners at their homes phenomenal success. The talk show, which has claimed to hand-deliver checks. multiple , drew millions of families to their A decorated Marine fighter pilot during World War TV sets five nights a week, securing its solid standing as an II and the Korean War, McMahon remained active in the American institution. The Tonight Show, which won multiple Marine Reserves until 1966 when he retired as a full colonel. American Comedy Awards and Directors Guild of America This versatile TV personality has also penned several books, honors, changed the overall landscape of TV entertainment including Here’s Ed: The Autobiography of Ed McMahon, Art and the face of American culture, paving the way for a long of Public Speaking, SuperSelling, For Laughing Out Loud: My string of similar late-night talk shows. Life and Good Times, and Here’s Johnny! g

9 NETworks Presentations, LLC presents

THE BRAND NEW PRODUCTION

BOOK BY MUSIC BY LYRICS BY Original Broadway Production Directed by Martin Charnin • Presented on Broadway by Produced by Irwin Meyer Stephen R. Friedman Lewis Allen Alvin Nederlander Associated, Inc. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Icarus Productions

Based on Little Orphan ™ • Used by permission of Tribune Media Services David Barton • Lynn Andrews • Abby Stevens • J. Michael Zygo • Cheryl Hoffman • Jeffrey B. Duncan and Amanda Balon as Annie Jaida-Iman Benjamin Annalisa DiBernardo Grace Elizabeth Etzkorn Marina Rose Macherone Abby Spare Madison Zavitz Matt David Jolie Dufrene Justin Glaser Andy Meyers Sunny Naughton Ricky Pope Corey Scheys Pat Sibley Tug Watson Chelsey Whitelock Alexander Yepremian

SET DESIGN ORIGINAL COSTUME DESIGN LIGHTING DESIGN SOUND DESIGN Ming Cho Lee Theoni V. Aldredge Ken Billington and Peter Hylenski Jason Kantrowitz MUSICAL SUPERVISION/ Keith Levenson MUSIC COORDINATOR MUSICAL DIRECTOR ADDITIONAL COSTUMES HAIR DESIGN John Mezzio CONDUCTOR DESIGNED BY Bernie Ardia Kelly Ann Lambert Jimm Halliday

PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR GENERAL MANAGER CASTING Justin Reiter Dawn Marie Bernhard Patricia Pearce Gentry Gentry & Associates Bob Cline PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER COMPANY MANAGER David Zack Ken Leist

TOUR MARKETING AND PRESS EXCLUSIVE TOUR DIRECTION ANIMALS BY TMG – The Marketing Group The Booking Group William Berloni Meredith Blair EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ORIGINAL BROADWAY MUSICAL STAGING BY CHOREOGRAPHED BY Kary M. Walke Peter Gennaro Liza Gennaro ENTIRE PRODUCTION DIRECTED BY Martin Charnin Annie is licensed by Music Theatre International, New York, NY. Exclusive Tour Direction: The Booking Group Friday, May 9, 2008, 8:00 PM Saturday, May 10, 2008, 2:00 PM & 8:00 PM Sunday, May 11, 2008, 3:00 PM

There will be one 20-minute intermission. The taking of photographs or use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.

10 CAST (in order of appearance) Molly ...... ANNALISA DiBERNARDO Pepper ...... MADISON ZAVITZ Duffy ...... MARINA ROSE MACHERONE July ...... JAIDA-IMAN BENJAMIN Tessie ...... ABBY SPARE Kate ...... GRACE ELIZABETH ETZKORN Annie ...... AMANDA BALON Miss Hannigan ...... LYNN ANDREWS Bundles McCloskey ...... JUSTIN GLASER Apple Seller ...... ANDY MEYERS Dog Catcher ...... MATT DAVID Sandy ...... MIKEY Lt. Ward ...... TUG WATSON Sophie the Kettle ...... PAT SIBLEY Grace Farrell ...... ABBY STEVENS Drake ...... RICKY POPE Mrs. Pugh ...... PAT SIBLEY Cecille ...... CHELSEY WHITELOCK Annette ...... JOLIE DUFRENE Mrs. Greer ...... RUTHIE ANN MILES Oliver Warbucks ...... DAVID BARTON Star to Be ...... COREY SCHEYS Rooster Hannigan ...... J. MICHAEL ZYGO Lily St. Regis ...... CHERYL HOFFMANN Bert Healy ...... ANDY MEYERS Fred McCracken ...... TUG WATSON Jimmy Johnson ...... JUSTIN GLASER Sound Effects Man ...... MATT DAVID Ronnie Boylan ...... JOLIE DUFRENE Bonnie Boylan ...... RUTHIE ANN MILES Connie Boylan ...... CHELSEY WHITELOCK Oxydent “Hour of Smiles” Producer ...... PAT SIBLEY H.V. Kaltenborn’s Voice ...... ARCHIE T. TRIDMORTEN F.D.R...... JEFFREY B. DUNCAN Ickes ...... MATT DAVID Howe ...... TUG WATSON Hull ...... ANDY MEYERS Perkins ...... PAT SIBLEY Morgenthau ...... JUSTIN GLASER White House Marine ...... ALEXANDER YEPREMIAN Justice Brandeis ...... MATT DAVID Street People, Warbucks’ Staff, New Yorkers, and Hooverville-ites ...... ENSEMBLE

Ensemble MATT DAVID • JOLIE DUFRENE • JUSTIN GLASER • CHERYL HOFFMANN • ANDY MEYERS • RUTHIE ANN MILES RICKY POPE • COREY SCHEYS • PAT SIBLEY • TUG WATSON • CHELSEY WHITELOCK • ALEXANDER YEPREMIAN

Understudies Understudies never substitute for listed players unless a specific announcement for the appearance is made at the time of the performance. For Oliver Warbucks - RICKY POPE For Miss Hannigan - PAT SIBLEY For Annie - GRACE ELIZABETH ETZKORN For Grace - JOLIE DUFRENE For F.D.R. - ANDY MEYERS For Rooster - TUG WATSON For Lily - CHELSEY WHITELOCK For Boylan Sisters - COREY SCHEYS For Drake - JUSTIN GLASER For Healy - MATT DAVID For Molly - MARINA ROSE MACHERONE For Star to Be - RUTHIE ANN MILES For Sandy - LOLA Orphan Swing - SUNNY NAUGHTON Dance Captain - COREY SCHEYS Assistant Dance Captain - TUG WATSON

Orchestra Music Director - Kelly Ann Lambert Assistant Conductor/Keyboard - Elizabeth L.K. Berman; Trombone - Andrew Jaeger; Trumpet - Sukhbir Channa Reeds - Ira Berman, Rick Kissinger; Drums - Tom Bradford

11 SCENES AND MUSICAL NUMBERS

ACT ONE December 11-19, 1933

SCENE 1: The New York Municipal Orphanage (Girls Annex), St. Mark’s Place Maybe ...... Annie It’s the Hard-Knock Life ...... Annie and the Orphans It’s the Hard-Knock Life (Reprise) ...... The Orphans SCENE 2: Lower Broadway Tomorrow ...... Annie SCENE 3: A Hooverville Underneath the Brooklyn Bridge We’d Like to Thank You Herbert Hoover ...... Hooverville-ites and Annie SCENE 4: Hannigan’s Office at the Orphanage Little Girls ...... Miss Hannigan Little Girls (Reprise) ...... Miss Hannigan SCENE 5: The Warbucks Mansion at Fifth Avenue and 82nd Street I Think I’m Gonna Like It Here ...... Grace, Annie, Drake, Cecille, Annette, Mrs. Pugh, Mrs. Greer, and Servants SCENE 6: From Fifth Avenue to Times Square N.Y.C...... Warbucks, Grace, Annie, Star to Be, and New Yorkers SCENE 7: Miss Hannigan’s Office at The Orphanage Easy Street ...... Miss Hannigan, Rooster, and Lily SCENE 8: Warbucks’ Study You Won’t Be an Orphan for Long ...... Grace, Drake, Mrs. Pugh, Cecille, Annette, Servants, and Warbucks Maybe (Reprise) ...... Annie

INTERMISSION

ACT TWO December 21-25, 1933

SCENE 1: The NBC Radio Studio at 30 Rockefeller Center You’re Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile ...... Bert Healy, The Boylan Sisters, and the Hour of Smiles Family SCENE 2: The Sewing Room at the Orphanage You’re Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile (Reprise) ...... The Orphans Easy Street (Reprise) ...... Miss Hannigan, Rooster, and Lily SCENE 3: Washington: The White House Tomorrow (Reprise) ...... Annie, F.D.R., Warbucks, and The Cabinet SCENE 4: The Gallery at the Warbucks Mansion Something Was Missing ...... Warbucks SCENE 5: The East Ballroom of the Warbucks Mansion Annie ...... Grace, Drake, and The Staff I Don’t Need Anything But You ...... Warbucks and Annie Maybe (Reprise) ...... Annie A New Deal for Christmas ...... Annie, Warbucks, Grace, F.D.R., The Orphans, and The Staff

12 BIOGRAPHIES AMANDA BALON (Annie) is honored to return to Annie Charnin and his NETworks family. He sends love to God, family, in the title role. The 10-year-old Orlando resident has performed and . since age 3. Balon is the recipient of the Broadway Trophy and GRACE ELIZABETH ETZKORN (Kate and U/S: Sarah Award for “Best Child Star in a Musical” and was named Annie) is thrilled to be on tour with Annie. She was last seen in “Champion Performer of the World” in Hollywood, California. Her the American Girl Revue in Chicago. Her other favorites include credits include Annie, A Christmas Carol, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch American Girl Holiday Celebration, Children’s Letters to God (Iris), Stole Christmas!, The Sound of Music, Gypsy, and Mary Poppins. The Music Man (Amaryllis), Cheaper by the Dozen, and Joseph and Balon thanks her family, Martin Charnin, and NETworks, for the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Etzkorn thanks God, her family believing in her. For information, visit www.amandabalon.com. and friends, and everyone who helped make this amazing journey DAVID BARTON (Oliver Warbucks) is ecstatic to be possible. living out his dream – performing professionally – after teaching JUSTIN GLASER (Bundles McCloskey and Ensemble) is theater arts for 25 years. In 1994, Barton created the Steeple making his national tour debut. He received a bachelor of fine arts Players Theatre in Hendersonville, Tennessee, a non-profit theater degree from Northern Kentucky University. He sends love to Mom dedicated to education and community enrichment. His favorite and Dad. roles include those in Oklahoma! (Jud) and Camelot (Merlin). He CHERYL HOFFMANN (Lily St. Regis and Ensemble) would like to thank his Mom, Dad, Cay, Alayna, and Ashlea for graduated from Minnesota State University at Mankato with a always believing in him. bachelor of science degree in theater arts. She has been performing LYNN ANDREWS (Miss Hannigan) is tickled to be joining since 2001. Hoffmann would like to thank Martin Charnin and the cast of Annie in her national tour debut. Her recent credits the NETworks family, Denny, Seth, JR, Gigi, and The Full Monty include Chicago (Mama Morton), Romeo and Juliet (Nurse), and the family. She would like to send love to Mom and Dad. new multimedia sketch comedy, Happy Sunshine Kung Fu Flower MARINA ROSE MACHERONE (Duffy and U/S: Molly) (Ninja #5). She would like to thank her family and friends for their is from Rotterdam, New York, and is making her professional love and support. theatrical debut at age 10. Macherone is actively involved in JAIDA-IMAN BENJAMIN (July) is from Charlotte, North performing arts, musical theater, Jazz, Tap, Ballet, baton, and Carolina. She trained and danced at New York Knicks City Kids acrobatics with the Merritt Dance Center in Schenectady, New and North Carolina Dance Theatre. She performed in Children’s York. She enjoys participating in school plays with Mohon Theatre of Charlotte and competitive cheerleading for Charlotte Masque, water-skiing with the U.S. Water Ski Show team, and All-Stars. Benjamin’s credits include Women of Color in Flight playing the flute. (Young Mae Jemison), Target (in-store model), The Martha Stewart ANDY MEYERS’ (Apple Seller, Bert Healy, and Ensemble) Show, Apollo Theatre, and NBA All-Star Games (performer). She New York credits include the 35th-anniversary revival of Dames at thanks God and her family. For more information, visit Sea, Circle of Friends at American Girl Place Theatre, Art (Yuan), www.jaidabenjamin.com and www.jaidabfan.com. Jesus Christ Superstar (Judas), and The Full Monty (Malcolm). His MATT DAVID’s (Ickes, Justice Brandeis, and Ensemble) regional credits include McCarter Theatre’s Sweeney Todd (Toby) New York credits include Whoop-Up (50th-anniversary celebration), and (Huck Finn). Meyers is a native of Montana. He The Streets of New York, Comings and Goings, Genius Famous, thanks Mom and Dad for all their support. and The Ticket. His regional credits include Boomers, A New RUTHIE ANN MILES (Bonnie Boylan, Ensemble, and Musical (Fort Lauderdale’s Broward Center); Little Shop of Horrors; U/S: Star to Be) was raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, and graduated ; and Oliver! David’s television credits include from NYU Steinhardt with a master’s degree in vocal performance. (NBC/Universal), Stella (), and Her favorite credits include Miss Saigon (Gigi), Chappelle’s Show. This one is for Patrick, Mack, J.J., Andrew, and (Linda Low), and the 2003 revival premiere of (Leah), the new one. directed by Martin Charnin. She thanks her loving ohana [family] ANNALISA DiBERNARDO (Molly) has won many local for their faithful support – Philippians 4. and regional talent competitions for singing and dancing, including SUNNY NAUGHTON (Child Wrangler and U/S: Orphan the 2006 Lisa Maile Talent Showcase. Her credits also include Swing) is just as thrilled to be making her big-time debut in Annie local and regional television commercials. DiBernardo attends as she was her small-time debut at age 9. A graduate of American Dance Theater Performing Arts School in Titusville, Florida. She Musical and Dramatic Academy, Naughton has lived and worked in would like to thank Martin Charnin, NETworks, her family, and for four years until her big break. Thanks Bob and friends for making her dream possible. For information, visit Gloworm. www.annalisadibernardo.com. RICKY POPE (Drake, Ensemble, and U/S: Oliver JOLIE DUFRENE (Ronnie Boylan, Ensemble, and U/S: Warbucks) is thrilled to be part of the Annie tour. His regional Grace) is thrilled to be a part of Annie. She was born and raised in credits include , Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, Can-Can, New Orleans, Louisiana, and is a proud graduate of Louisiana State Anything Goes, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, University. Dufrene is also a recent graduate of New York City’s The Wild Party, and Dirty Blonde. He toured the with American Musical and Dramatic Academy. She sends all of her The Stinky Cheese Man for Dallas Children’s Theatre. He is also a love and thanks to her family and friends. musical director, vocal coach, and composer. JEFFREY B. DUNCAN (F.D.R. and Ensemble) is from COREY SCHEYS (Star to Be, Ensemble, U/S: Boylan Minnesota. He taught voice to Laura Osnes, who is starring on Sisters and Dance Captain) is very excited to be a part of Annie. Broadway as Sandy in Grease. Duncan is happy to return for the She is a graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy third time as F.D.R. on the national tour of Annie. He also played in New York City. Scheys’ favorite credits include Grease (Rizzo), Henry Ford on the national tour of . He thanks Martin Continued on page 14

13 West Side Story (Anita), and Chicago (Velma). She dedicates this a degree in business administration from The University of Tulsa. performance to her family whose support and love keep her going. Leist’s career in musical theater – which has taken place on stage, PAT SIBLEY (Mrs. Pugh and Ensemble) is delighted to backstage, on land, and sea – has provided him the opportunity return to the touring life after playing Aunt Eller in the Oklahoma! to manage productions in more than nine countries. Thanks to tour for three years. She most recently played Mrs. Higgins in the friends and family for their love and support over the years and Prathers Family of Theatres’ My Fair Lady. Sibley is originally from miles. Los Angeles and resides in Seattle. KELLY ANN LAMBERT (Music Director and Conductor) ABBY SPARE (Tessie) is from Massachusetts and is very spent many happy years in the world of music and theater excited to be in Annie. Her credits include Annie (Molly), A education before turning to a life of show business on the road. Christmas Carol (Fan), Oliver! (Fagin Boy), Honk!, and The Music She has directed and conducted national tours of Cinderella and Man. Spare thanks her family for its love and support. She also Seussical: The Musical. She is especially grateful to be a part of the thanks Bob Marks, Diane Hardin, Lisa, Liane, and Christine for Annie team for the third year. Lambert is married to drummer Tom their guidance, and a special thanks to Martin Charnin for this Bradford. opportunity. For more information, visit www.abbyspare.com. KEITH LEVENSON (Musical Director, Supervisor, and ABBY STEVENS (Grace Farrell) is thrilled to be Additional Orchestrations) conducted the Broadway and national performing in Annie. Her favorite credits include tours of Annie, Grease, Jesus Christ Superstar, Big River, Annie (Hope), Pippin (Catherine), Alice in Wonderland (Alice), and Warbucks, and . He was the music supervisor for the Company (Susan). She would like to thank all of her friends and national tours of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas starring Ann- professors at Pace University, where she is currently pursuing a Margret; Tommy; Strike up The Band; and Broadway: The Big Band bachelor of fine arts degree in musical theater. She sends a huge Years. Levenson’s concert and recording credits include The Who, thanks to Mom, Dad, Katie, and Griffin for the laughter and love. Meat Loaf, Alice Cooper, Peter Frampton, Nigel Kennedy, Yes, TUG WATSON (Lt. Ward, Fred McCracken, Howe, KISS, New York Philharmonic, L.A. Symphony, and the British Ensemble, and U/S: Assistant Dance Captain), a 2006 graduate Rock Symphony. His television work includes The Wizard of Oz of Syracuse University, is honored to make his touring debut with in Concert at Avery Fisher Hall, which featured Jewel, Jackson Annie. His Chicago credits include Fiddler on the Roof and Cats Browne, Joel Grey, Roger Daltrey, , Debra Winger, (Theatre at the Center); Kiss Me, Kate (Light Opera Works); and , and The Boys Choir of Harlem. Levenson’s other The Fantasticks (Village Players of Oak Park). Love and thanks to credits include Winchell with Martin Charnin and Starcrossed with family and friends. Jeanine Tesori. CHELSEY WHITELOCK (Connie Boylan and Ensemble) THOMAS MEEHAN (Book) won a Tony Award for the received a bachelor of fine arts degree in musical theater from book of Annie, his first Broadway show, and has since written the the New School University and is an American Musical and books for I Remember Mama, Ain’t Broadway Grand, Annie 2, and Dramatic Arts graduate. Her favorite credits include Guys and Dolls . Meehan, a longtime humor contributor to The (Adelaide); Kiss Me, Kate (Bianca); Chicago (Roxie); Oklahoma! New Yorker, is an Emmy award-winning writer for a television (Ado Annie); Noises Off (Brooke); and Anything Goes (Bonnie). comedy and a collaborator on screenplays that include ’ Whitelock has sung The Star-Spangled Banner for AMA Supercross Spaceballs and To Be or Not to Be. In 1998, Brooks asked Meehan at Angel Stadium. She sends love and thanks to the company, to co-write the libretto of adaptation of Brooks’ family, friends, teachers, and especially Bob Cline. classic 1968 film, . For his libretto, Meehan won his ALEXANDER YEPREMIAN (White House Marine, Dog second Drama Desk and Tony Award. Shortly thereafter, he began Handler, and Ensemble) is thrilled to be making his national tour work on the book of , written in collaboration with Mark debut with Annie. He has been seen in Miss Saigon (Chris); Fame, O’Donnell. The Broadway musical (score by Marc Shaiman and the Musical (Joe Vegas); and at the Tokyo Disneyland Resort. This lyrics by Scott Wittman) was another huge hit. After winning performance is dedicated to his amazing friends and family and to eight including “Best Musical” and “Best Book of a his creators Krikor and Patricia for all that they are and all that Musical,” Meehan garnered his third double-header with a Drama they do. Desk Award and a Tony Award. Most recently, he was represented MADISON ZAVITZ (Pepper) is delighted to return to on Broadway as the co-bookwriter (with Meera Syall) of the Annie for a second year. Her favorite credits include Annie Get American version of the hit London musical Bombay Dreams, Your Gun, The Wizard of Oz, Cinderella, Guys and Dolls, Under giving him the distinction of having three of his musicals running the Bridge, The Nutcracker, and Gypsy. She has also appeared simultaneously on Broadway. He and his wife Carolyn divide their in national televisions shows, commercials, and films. Zavitz is time between a home in Newton, Connecticut, and an apartment thankful for God’s blessings, the devoted support of family and in Greenwich Village, New York. friends, and NETworks for the opportunity to pursue her dreams. CHARLES STROUSE’s (Music) first Broadway musical, J. MICHAEL ZYGO’s (Rooster Hannigan) previous (lyrics by ), won a Tony Award, as tours include The Full Monty (Malcolm) and Oklahoma! (Will did (starring ) and Annie (with lyrics by Parker). He is also an aspiring Country music singer- Martin Charnin). His other musical credits include It’s a Bird, with an of original music. For more information, visit It’s a Plane, It’s Superman; ; ; and www.zygoandthedeuce.com or iTunes. Thanks to my endlessly Tony-nominated musicals , Nick and Nora, supportive family and my wife Jill whom I’d be lost without. Thank , , and . He wrote the music and lyrics you, Lord, for all the amazing blessings in my life. For additional for and the music for Annie Warbucks. Strouse’s film scores information, visit www.thezygos.com. include Bonnie and Clyde, The Night They Raided Minsky’s, and All KEN LEIST (Company Manager) was born and raised in Dogs Go to Heaven. He has won an Emmy Award, two Grammy Tucson, Arizona, but calls Denver, Colorado, his home. He has Continued on page 15

14 Awards, a Peabody Award, and Oscar Heat from Pajama Game, and his memorable performance in Bells Hammerstein Awards, and a Dramatists’ Guild Frederick Loewe Are Ringing, dancing Mu Cha Cha opposite Judy Holliday. As Award. Strouse is the founder of the American Society of co-choreographer to Jerome Robbins on West Side Story, he created Composers, Authors, and Publishers Musical Theater Workshop the dances for the Sharks, including America, which featured Chita and a member of the Theater Hall of Fame and the Songwriter’s Rivera. Gennaro’s participation in West Side Story brought him Hall of Fame. His upcoming credits include The Night They Raided to the attention of legendary director George Abbot, who hired Minsky’s at the Goodspeed Theater; starring John C. Reilly him to create the dances for the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical on Broadway; and You Never Know, which recently premiered at Fiorello. He became a popular Broadway choreographer creating Trinity Rep in Providence, Rhode Island. Strouse is married to dances for both the stage and screen versions of Meredith Wilson’s director-choreographer Barbara Siman, and they have four children: The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Irene starring , and Ben, Nicholas, Victoria, and William. The Three Penny Opera starring Sting. In 1977, he received the MARTIN CHARNIN (Lyrics/Director) originated the role Antoinette Perry Tony Award for his choreography in Annie. In of Big Deal in the Broadway production of West Side Story, singing addition to his stage work, Gennaro and his troupe of dancers Gee, Officer Krupke, and continued for 1,000 performances. He were a regular feature on television variety shows, including The has been the director, lyricist, composer, librettist, and/or producer Ed Sullivan Show, The Perry Como Show, The Show, for more than 100 productions, including Annie Warbucks, the and The Kraft Music Hall. From 1972 to 1976, Gennaro served as Rock Opera version of Joan of Arc; Loose Lips; Hot Spot; In Persons producer and director at the . With Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson; The Flowering Peach; the revised LIZA GENNARO’s (Choreographer) Broadway credits Goodspeed production of Cole Porter’s Can-Can; Café Crown; include the revival of Once Upon a Mattress, starring Sarah Jessica Mike; The First; On the Swing Shift; A Little Family Business (starring Parker, and the revival of , directed by Gerald Angela Lansbury); Mata Hari; The National Lampoon Show; Lena Gutierrez. Last season she choreographed Loving Repeating: A Horne: The Lady and Her Music; I Remember Mama (music by Musical of Gertrude Stein, composed by Stephen Flaherty, adapted Richard Rodgers); Zenda (music by Vernon Duke); Put It in Writing; and directed by Frank Galati, and presented by About Face Theater Fallout; Kaleidoscope; La Strada; Nash at Nine; Two by Two; and in Chicago. At The Paper Mill Playhouse, she choreographed the concert version of Strike Up the Band. His credits in London Gypsy, starring , and a newly revised version of include Bar Mitzvah Boy, three productions of Annie, a revival of the Lynn Ahrens/Stephen Flaherty musical Ragtime. Gennaro’s Bless the Bride, and The 9 ½ Quid Revue. His Tony award-winning regional credits include Hair at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Annie has become the 19th longest-running American musical in directed by Jon Jory; the world premiere of Martin Guerre at Broadway history. Charnin has directed Annie’s nine national Hartford Stage, directed by Mark Lamos; Babes in Arms directed companies as well as companies in Amsterdam and Australia. His by Garland Wright at The Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis; musical theater collaborators include Peter Allen, Harold Arlen, and Kiss Me, Kate and The Most Happy Fella at The Goodspeed Keith Levenson, Marvin Hamlish, Peter Stone, Mary Rodgers, and Opera House. For the last eight seasons she has choreographed . He has directed Fred Astaire, , Joel productions at The Muny in St. Louis, Missouri. Gennaro, who Grey, Ann-Margret, , Johnny Mathis, , Bebe holds a master’s degree in dance studies from , Neuwirth, Bernadette Peters, , Gilda Radner, is a professor at Barnard College, Marymount , Liv Ullman, Lou Reed, , Joan College, and Hofstra University. She currently conducts oral Rivers, , Chuck D, Jon Stuart, Shirley MacLaine, history interviews with influential musical theater dancers and Marlo Thomas, , , and Catherine choreographers for the Oral History Division of The New York Zeta-Jones (who made her stage debut as Molly in the first London Public Library of the Performing Arts at . production of Annie in 1978). He has conceived, written, and MING CHO LEE (Set Designer) has designed nationally directed seven musical variety television programs, including Annie and internationally for 40 years for Opera, dance, Broadway, and (with Anne Bancroft); The Woman in the Life of a Man; Annie and regional theater. He is the recipient of the National Medal of the Hoods (with Anne Bancroft); George M; ’SWonderful, ’SMarve- Arts, the highest national award given in the arts. Lee’s other lous, ’SGershwin; Cole Porter in Paris; Get Happy; Dames at Sea; awards include the Mayor’s Award for Arts and Culture, a Tony and The Annie Christmas Show. Charnin has received four Tony Award, Outer Critic’s Circle and Drama Desk Awards, three nominations and won three Emmys; three Gold Records; two honorary degrees, and many awards from the theater and Chinese Platinum Records; six Drama Desk Awards; the Peabody Award communities. His work has been shown in a retrospective at the for Broadcasting; and six Grammys, including for Jay-Z’s rap album New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Lee serves as Hard Knock Life, which went triple Platinum. He is directing and a member of the Board of the New Forty Second Street, Inc., has written songs for a one-woman show, There’s Always One More as well as that of the Pan Asian Repertory Theatre and the Song to Sing, for his new bride and former Annie Star to Be, Shelly Non-Traditional Casting Project. He is co-chair of the design Burch. His latest projects include Time-Life’s double disc Annie 30th department of the Yale School of Drama and holds the Donald -anniversary production album, which includes songs from Annie 2, Oenslager chair in design. the continuing national tour of Annie, and Love Is Love. Richard THEONI V. ALDREDGE (Original Costume Designer) Gray was his musical collaborator on Love Is Love. In the Pacific was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in 1986 with more Northwest, which he now calls home, he directed Shadowlands, than 100 Broadway shows to her credit. Her works include Sweet Robin Hood, and the first workshop production of Love Is Love. Bird of Youth, Anyone Can Whistle, , Three Penny PETER GENNARO (Original Broadway Staging) began Opera, Annie (Tony Award), Barnum (Tony Award), , his Broadway career in 1950, dancing in the chorus of Guys and Dreamgirls, La Cage Aux Folles (Tony Award), Gypsy and Who’s Dolls. It was the first of many notable performances, including his Afraid of ? Aldredge’s film credits include The First role alongside and Buzz Miller in ’s Steam Continued on page 16

15 Wives Club, , , Network, The WILLIAM BERLONI’s (Animal Trainer) Broadway credits Rose, and The Great Gatsby, for which she received an Oscar include Annie (original Sandy), Legally Blonde the Musical, Awake and The British Society of Film and Television Arts Award. She and Sing, The Woman in White, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Gypsy, is a recipient of The New York Liberty Medal, the Costume Camelot, Frankenstein, The First, Alice in Wonderland, Oliver!, Guild Career Achievement Award, the Irene Sharaff Lifetime Anything Goes, Nick and Nora, La Bete, The Wiz, Annie (20th and Achievement Award, and Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters and 30th anniversary), The Wizard of Oz, and Dinner at Eight. Since Career Achievement Award from De Paul University. For more 1977 he has trained animals for hundreds of Off-Broadway, and than 20 years, Aldredge was the principal designer for Joe Papp’s regional theater productions; tours; movies; television shows; and New York Shakespeare Festival. seven White House performances for presidents Jimmy Carter, KEN BILLINGTON (Lighting Designer) has designed Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and Bill Clinton. Berloni is more than 80 Broadway shows, including Chicago; The Drowsy a published author and recipient of the ASPCA Humanitarian Chaperone; and the U.S. tours of Chicago, , Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, and the American Humane Disney’s High School Musical, White Christmas, and Riverdance for Association Patsy Award. He is currently the director of animal which he is the lighting supervisor. His other projects include Radio behavior at the Humane Society of New York. For more City Christmas Spectacular for 26 seasons, Disneyland’s nighttime information, visit www.theatricalanimals.com. extravaganza Fantasmic!, and Shamu Rocks at Sea World of Florida MUSIC THEATRE INTERNATIONAL (MTI) is one of and San Diego. His many honors include Tony Awards, a Drama the world’s leading dramatic licensing agencies working to protect Desk Award, and a Los Angeles Drama Critics Award. the rights and legacy of composers, lyricists, book writers and supply JASON KANTROWITZ (Lighting Designer) designed scripts, musical materials, and other theatrical resources to theaters for Broadway and New York’s Dame Edna-The Royal Tour; Tru; around the world. With more than 250 titles in its catalogue, Starmites; The Syringa Tree; Ministry of Progress; Tick, Tick…Boom!; MTI has been the driving force in perpetuating musicals such as and Radio City Christmas Spectacular. His national tour credits Guys and Dolls, West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, Annie, Annie include The Phantom of the Opera (associate designer) and Hats! Warbucks, Seussical: The Musical, and A Year with Frog and Toad. Kantrowitz’ international productions include The Producers, MTI is also home of The Broadway Junior Collection, 70-minute Fiddler on the Roof, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, adaptations of Broadway musicals designed for middle-school The Syringa Tree, and Stars On Ice. His other credits include Las students to perform in Annie, Jr.; The Music Man, Jr.; Aladdin, Vegas spectacular Jubilee!; Walt Disney Entertainment’s Fantasmic!, Jr.; and the Kid’s Collection 30-minute musicals for elementary Playhouse Disney Live, Voyage of the Little Mermaid, Festival of schoolchildren to perform in Cinderella and The Jungle Book. For the Lion King, Toy Story, and Finding Nemo - The Musical; Busch more information, visit www.mtimusicalworlds.com. Gardens’ Emerald Beat and Kinetix; and Sea World’s Shamu Rocks, KARY M. WALKER (Executive Producer) was the Pets Ahoy, and Journey to Atlantis. executive producer for Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre in Chicago PETER HYLENSKI’s (Sound Designer) credits include the for 22 years before joining NETworks in 2001. Under his new Broadway revival of Sweet Charity; Little Women; Brooklyn; leadership, Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre developed the largest Ragtime (London’s West End), for which he received an Olivier musical theater subscription audience in the United States. It Award nomination; Opening Doors; Princesses; Children’s Letters to consistently received critical praise for quality, innovation, and God; Laughing Room Only; Dora the Explorer Live; Chef’s Theater; development of new works for the musical theater, garnering Scooby-Doo Live; Ovations!; Spoleto Festival U.S.A. (1999-2002); multiple Joseph Jefferson Awards for excellence. Walker is a Blue’s Clues Live; Exactly Like You; Easter; and Niketown (New York founding member of the National Alliance for and City). Hylenski’s credits as an associate include Cirque du Soleil’s former president of the League of Chicago Theaters. He has been Zumanity, Fosse, Taboo, Seussical: The Musical, The Music Man, executive producer for NETworks tours of Kiss Me, Kate; Seussical: Follies, and Parade. For film he did the re-recording mixer for The Musical; Contact; Cabaret (Korea/Japan); Annie; and . Search for Life (AMNH, Hayden Planetarium), SonicVision (MTV2, NETworks PRESENTATIONS, LLC (Producer), founded AMNH), and Passport to the Universe (Futuriscope Planetarium, by Kenneth Gentry in 1995, has produced and managed more France). than 50 national and international Broadway musical tours and is JIMM HALLIDAY (Additional Costume Designer) is a leader in bringing the highest caliber of theatrical entertainment delighted to be working on this anniversary production of Annie, to communities around the world. Its North American tours his 16th production of this classic and his 14th national tour for include Annie; Hairspray; Rent; Cameron Mackintosh’s Oliver!; NETworks Presentations, including designs for last season’s tour Cinderella, starring Eartha Kitt; The Full Monty; ; of Sweet Charity. His recent credits include Victor/Victoria at the Ragtime; Jekyll & Hyde; Seussical: The Musical; Matthew Bourne’s Papermill Playhouse and the world premiere of Hans Christian ; Little Women – The Broadway Musical, starring Andersen at Maine State Music Theatre. He has designed more Maureen McGovern; The Light in the Piazza; and Mackintosh than 200 musicals in stock around the country, including a 23-year and The National Theatre’s Oklahoma! International tours association with New York’s Mac-Haydn Theatre. include Rent, , Hairspray, Cabaret, Fosse (starring BERNIE ARDIA (Hair Designer) is a California native Ben Vereen), and The Sound of Music (starring Marie Osmond), and has enjoyed a 25-year career that began in television with The traveling to Japan, Korea, China, Singapore, France, Greece, and Young and the Restless. After working for , he never regionally in the United Kingdom. NETworks’ 2007-2008 tours left the theater. Ardia has designed more than 50 productions, include Annie, Hairspray, The Producers, Rent, , including Kiss of the Spider Woman with Chita Rivera and Starlight and Mackintosh/National Theatre of Great Britain’s production of Express at the Las Vegas Hilton. He is very happy to have worked Lerner & Loewe’s My Fair Lady. g with Toni Tennille, Jamie Lynn Sigler, Deborah Gibson, Mackenzie Phillips, Anita Gillette, Mary Wilson, and Judge Judy.

16 STAFF FOR Annie NETworks STAFF Executive Producer Chief Executive Officer ...... Ken Gentry Kary M. Walker Chief Operating Officer ...... Scott W. Jackson Executive Producers ...... Seth Wenig and Kary Walker General Management Associate Producer ...... Angela Rowles Gentry & Associates General Managers ...... Gregory Vander Ploeg Scott W. Jackson, Gregory Vander Ploeg, Dawn Marie Bernhard Dawn Marie Bernhard Assoc. General Manager ...... Sara Jane Baldwin Tour Marketing Representation Production Manager ...... Justin Reiter TMG-The Marketing Group Director of Marketing/PR ...... Heather Hess Tanya Grubich, Laura Matalon, Controller ...... Paula L. Jenkins Mary Alyce Buck, Jacqueline Smith Assistant Controller ...... Jennifer Gifford Chief Accountant ...... Beverly Howard Company Manager Accountant ...... Lisa Blank Ken Leist Accounts Payable ...... Nicole Hughes Payroll ...... Carmen Cox Production Stage Manager ...... David Zack Office Manager ...... Buddy Piccolino Assistant Company Manager ...... Deena Nicol Office Assistants ...... Judy Harris, Nancy Kerr Child Wrangler ...... Sunny Naughton Program Copy ...... Tuckey Requa Head Carpenter ...... Benjamin Neafus Flyman ...... A.D. Garrett Credits Carpenter ...... John Panchello Scenery built and painted by F&D Scene Changes, Ltd. Sound Head Electrician ...... Domenica Boscardin Equipment from PRG Audio, Lighting Equipment from PRG Assistant Electrician ...... Michael Hawkins Lighting, Rehearsed at Chelsea Studios, Natural Herb Cough Drops – Props ...... Corey Kloosh Courtesy of Ricola USA, Inc. JELL-O® brand material used with Head Audio ...... Brad Zuckerman permission from KF Holdings, www.jello.com. Head Wardrobe ...... Megan Moore Additional Arrangements and Orchestral Enhancement by Assistant Wardrobe/Hair ...... Megan Szloboda NOTION Music, Inc. Assistant Director ...... Shelly Burch Assistant Choreographer ...... Antoinette DiPietropolo Financial Services and banking arrangements by Associate ...... Lee Savage Bank of America Assistant Costume Coordinator ...... Emily Goss Assistant Wig/Makeup ...... Steve Jopson EXCLUSIVE TOUR DIRECTION BY: Assistant Lighting Designer ...... Paul Toben THE BOOKING GROUP Associate Sound Designer ...... Gary Poole Meredith Blair, Assistant Sound Designer ...... Jason Choquette Mollie Mills, Tracey McFarland, Kara Gebhart Animals Handled by ...... Alexander Yepremian www.thebookinggroup.com Children’s Tutoring by ...... On Location Education Annie is presented by special arrangement with Tutor ...... Lori Betz MUSIC THEATRE INTERNATIONAL Electronic Music Programming ...... Keith Levenson New York, NY Rehearsal Pianist ...... Karen Dryer www.mtishows.com Print Media Design ...... Solomon Friedman Electronic Media Design ...... HMS Media, Inc. Visit the Annie website at: Production Photography ...... Joan Marcus and www.annieontour.com Phil Martin Printing and Materials ...... herger 3 inc. Website Design ...... David Risely Merchandising ...... MAX Merchandising, Randi Grossman, Chris Bruce (Mgr.) Legal ...... Franklin, Weinrib, Rudell & Vassallo, P.C. Payroll Services ...... ADP Insurance ...... Chubb Group Trucking ...... Clark Transfer Housing/Bussing ...... Road Rebel Airline Travel ...... Carlson Wagonlit Travel

17 presents THE LAURA LOVE DUO Wednesday, May 14, 2008, 7:30 PM

There will be one 20-minute intermission. A question-and-answer session will immediately follow this performance. The taking of photographs or use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.

BIOGRAPHY The media and even her own have Aside from her musical accomplishments, Love struggled to define LAURA LOVE’s colorful style, which has written a harrowing but hopeful memoir, which was embraces the Blues, Bluegrass, Jazz, Folk, Gospel, Reggae, and published by Hyperion Books in 2004. You Ain’t Got Country. Love, however, has called her music “Folk-Funk,” No Easter Clothes chronicles her chaotic childhood with “Afro-Celtic,” or “Hip-Alachian.” Regardless of how she is a suicidal and schizophrenic single mother. When her described, Love has an indisputable and uncanny knack for mother was confined to mental institutions, Love and her enthralling audiences from all walks of life. sister bounced around, living in orphanages, proclaimed, “Her foster homes, convents, and homeless shelters. music is exuberant. … She conveyed the fervor Their biological father – Jazz saxophone player of someone reaching out with an almost frenzied Preston Love who worked with the Count Basie joy to seize the strands of a confusing life and , , Billie Holiday, and Ray weave them into a coherent, life-affirming Charles – refused to acknowledge or accept the vision.” With her simple and yet revolutionary Love sisters. Although wrenching, the tale music, Love has been called “startlingly original” of survival is laced with Love’s trademark wit by Billboard magazine. “Her music is spare, yet and sharp humor. The book was followed by striking. Her voice is ripe, supple, strong, and an album that carried the same title and was impossible to ignore.” Love exhibits timeless well-received. That same determination and and diverse appeal. Fans throughout North America, strength that helped Love endure her tumultuous upbringing Australia, and Europe agree. Her CDs have repeatedly made shine through in daring such as Octoroon, Shum Billboard’s annual Top 10 lists. She has played for massive Ticky, and Welcome to Pagan Place. crowds at various festivals and venues, including New York’s The other half of The Laura Love Duo is Orville Carnegie Hall, San Francisco’s Great American Music Johnson, a recognized master of Country-Blues guitar. Hall, Washington Center for the Arts in Olympia, and the Renowned for his dynamic vocals, Johnson has wowed Aladdin Theater in Portland, Oregon. Northwest crowds with his exciting shows and acclaimed Earlier this year, Octoroon Biography released Love’s recordings. The guitarist, greatly pursued by bands that heartbreaking NēGrass, her bold collaboration with Grammy perform Roots-based music, has earned an impressive winners Tim O’Brien and Michael Bub. A warm acoustic reputation as a side man, session player, and . collection of original and traditional Negro spirituals and The Laura Love Duo has headlined festivals and clubs Folk songs, Love’s NēGrass explores her family’s history and throughout the United States, Canada, and Australia, and touches upon a heritage that dates back to America’s Civil has toured with singer- Patty Larkin and Catie War and the slavery era. Curtis, and the Australian trio Fruit. g

18 presents JON KIMURA PARKER, Friday, May 16, 2008, 8:00 PM

There will be one 20-minute intermission. The taking of photographs or use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.

PROGRAM

Scenes From a Jade Terrace (1987) Alexina Louie Warrior (b. 1949) Memories in an Ancient Garden Southern Sky

Carnaval: Scénes mignonnes sur quatre notes, Op. 9 Robert Schumann 1. Preambule 12. Chopin (1810-1856) 2. Pierrot 13. Estrella 3. Arlequin 14. Reconnaissance 4. Valse noble 15. Pantalon et Colombine 5. Eusebius 16. Valse allemande 6. Florestan 17. Intermezzo: Paganini 7. Coquette 18. Aveu 8. Replique: Sphinxes 19. Promenade 9. Papillons 20. Pause 10. A.S.C.H. – S.C.H.A. 21. Marche des “Davidsbündler” (Lettres dansantes) contre les Philistins 11. Chiarina

INTERMISSION

The Rite of Spring Part I: Part II: (1882-1971) Adoration of the Earth The Sacrifice arranged by Introduction Introduction Jon Kimura Parker Dances of the Young Girls Mystical Circles of the Young Girls Mock Abduction Glorification of the Victim Spring Rounds Summoning of the Ancients Games of the Rival Tribes Ritual Dance of the Ancients Procession of the Sage Sacred Dance - The Victim Dance of the Earth

Exclusive Management: OPUS 3 Artists 470 Park Avenue South New York, New York 10016

19 BIOGRAPHY JON KIMURA PARKER was born, raised, and educated in Vancouver, British Columbia. His extraordinary career has taken him from Carnegie Hall and the Sydney Opera House to Baffin Island and Zimbabwe. He has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, the Chicago Symphony at Ravinia, and the Deutsche Symphonie at the Philharmonie Berlin. He has given recitals in London, New York, Chicago, Munich, Budapest, Sydney, Hong Kong, and Tokyo, and has performed with the Cleveland and Tokyo Quartets, Grammy-winning violinist Joshua Bell, violinist Cho-Liang Lin, and violinist-conductor Pinchas Zukerman. Last season he appeared with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in concert at the Hollywood Bowl. achievement and service to Canada or humanity. A true A versatile performer, Parker has also jammed with Doc Canadian ambassador of music, Parker has given two Severinsen in Calgary and Bobby McFerrin in Philadelphia command performances for Queen Elizabeth II, special shows and Baltimore. for the United States Supreme Court, and concerts for the Parker earned a Gold Medal at the 1984 Leeds prime ministers of Canada and Japan. International Piano Competition. In 1999, he became A committed educator, Parker is a piano professor an officer of the Order of Canada, which recognizes AD PerfArt_Crrts Mi2859 10/26/06 1:33 PM Page 1 at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Currently the E. Stephen Purdom Distinguished Visiting Artist at the Schwob School of Music at Columbus State University in Georgia, he also serves as the artistic advisor of the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival. Parker has given master classes at the Steans Institute, The Banff Centre, the Brevard Music Festival, Caramoor’s Rising Stars program, and The Juilliard School. He performs and lectures in remote regions of Canada as a founding member of the Piano Six Foundation and its touring program, Piano Plus. An active media personality, Parker has hosted two Visit us before or after seasons of the Classical music television series Whole the performance! Notes on Bravo! Canada. He also emceed the Canadian • Serving flavorful varieties Broadcast Corporation (CBC) Radio Two’s five-part series at breakfast, lunch and dinner • Special theatre menus Up and Coming, which showcases the talents of promising • Call ahead for priority seating young musicians in Canada. He played himself in a guest MIMI’S CAFE CERRITOS appearance on the ’s Under the Umbrella Tree (562) 809-0510 Across the street from the Performing Arts Center and was also seen on CNN performing in war-torn Sarajevo. COMPLIMENTARY APPETIZER or DESSERT Parker has been documented frequently on CBC, as well as With purchase of an entrée when you bring ticket stub from today’s performance on PBS’ The Visionaries. LIMIT ONE PER TABLE Parker has recorded for the Telarc label with conductor Yoel Levi, conductor-composer André Previn, and composer Peter Schickele. g

20 presents THE FOLK REUNION featuring THE BRANDYWINE SINGERS THE HIGHWAYMEN and THE LIMELITERS

Saturday, May 17, 8:00 PM

There will be one 20-minute intermission. The taking of photographs or use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.

21 BIOGRAPHIES THE BRANDYWINE SINGERS emerged from Burnett, Chan Daniels, and Steve Trott met. A year later, the 1960s Folk-music boom, carving a niche for itself in the the quintet signed with United Artists (UA), then a start-up national spotlight. With a unique blend of traditional and record label that released the group’s first album, a self-titled contemporary music sprinkled with charming humor, poetry, effort that failed to sell. As a result, the band was promptly and witty stories, the band was widely embraced by the dropped by the label, only to be picked up by an independent American public. distributor who passionately promoted the single Michael, Founded in 1962 by twin brothers Rick Shaw Row the Boat Ashore to disc jockeys, radio stations, and other and Ron Shaw, The Brandywine Singers added a third distributors. The song gained popularity, and in 1961 it member, Les Clark, in 1965. With hit after hit, the group reached the No. One spot on the charts. climbed national music charts, performing throughout The Highwaymen’s album, Standing Room Only, North America with concerts at universities, festivals, and followed, along with more concerts and television nightclubs such as New York’s renowned Copacabana and appearances on Toast of the Town (also known as The Ed Harolds Club in Reno, . The ensemble appeared on Sullivan Show). The Gypsy Rover single was a big hit, and ABC’s Wide World of Entertainment, and the musical variety Cotton Fields became the inspiration for contemporary show Hootenanny, which featured various Pop-Folk acts. musicians such as and Creedence Clearwater After recruiting acclaimed New England singer- Revival. The Highwaymen’s album, The Spirit and the Flesh, songwriter Taylor Whiteside to re-create the sound that was released in 1964, and the group amicably disbanded ignited the legend, The Brandywine Singers recorded the soon after, but still got together occasionally to perform at World-Class Folk album, which returned the group to touring. music festivals and anniversary concerts. The band officially In 1958, Connecticut’s Wesleyan University became reunited in 1987, and today, the quintet includes bassist the birthplace of The Clansmen, who later became THE Johann Helton, who joined The Highwaymen in 1991, HIGHWAYMEN, when Dave Fisher, Steve Butts, Bob replacing Daniels who died in 1975. In 1959, THE LIMELITERS began performing in San Francisco, then the center of America’s burgeoning movement. Unlike most aspiring performers, the group found success almost immediately. A string of best-selling albums led to numerous TV appearances, which made the band a household name. As the musical representative for Coca-Cola, the crew created a rendition of the jingle Things Go Better With Coke, which became highly popular. The group’s other memorable songs include City of New Orleans, A Dollar Down, Lonesome Traveler, and Whiskey in the Jar. The ensemble’s appeal was far and wide, prompting Time magazine to write: “If the button-down, scrubbed-looking Kingston Trio are the undergraduates of big-time Folk singing, The Limeliters are the faculty.” The ensuing decades brought new faces and talent to the group, but the band has always remained true to its signature sound. The Limeliters today consists of tenor Mack Bailey, bassist-songwriter Andy Corwin, and singer-guitarist Gaylan Taylor. With its updated, thrilling blend of harmony, humor, and satire, the trio maintains its appeal with multiple generations. g

22 presents THE SQUIRTS MATT BISSONETTE, BASS GEORGE BERNHARDT, GUITAR RODGER CARTER, DRUMS

opening for Wednesday, May 21, 2008, 8:00 PM

There will be one 20-minute intermission The taking of photographs or use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.

BIOGRAPHY Richard Springthorpe, better known as RICK Springfield made the leap to the big screen in 1984 SPRINGFIELD, has sold more than 18 million records with . The soundtrack for the film generated worldwide and released 17 Top 40 hits. Springfield has also another Top 10 hit, Love Somebody. received several Top 10 honors and a Grammy Award for With the release of his 1985 album, Tao, Springfield “Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male” for his No. One hit, had released five albums in five years. After performing at Jessie’s Girl. the benefit concert and on the American Bandstand Born in Sydney, Australia, Springfield joined the band 25th-anniversary special, he decided to take a break. Zoot in 1969. The band scored several hits and became In 1988 Springfield returned to performing, releasing one of the most popular groups in Australia. After the . An accident shattered his collarbone, forcing group broke up, Springfield went solo and garnered his first him to cancel a tour and all appearances to promote the U.S. success the following year with a re-recording of his album. Australian hit . The song reached No. 14 in After recovering, Springfield returned to television in the United States on the Billboard charts. the series High Tide in 1994. Following his three-year run on During that time, Springfield began to pursue acting, the show, he returned to the stage in 1997, performing for guest-starring in several popular television shows. Not the first time in several years. The following year, the rocker wanting to give up music, he also signed a released Karma, bringing him back to the concert stage. with RCA. In the midst of recording his debut album for During the past 10 years, Springfield has continued the label, he joined the popular soap opera to draw audiences on stage, on screen, and through his in 1981 to play Dr. . Springfield’s popularity recordings. For two years he starred in the popular EFX show skyrocketed, setting the stage for the release of the album in Las Vegas, earning rave reviews. In 2004, he formed the later that year. Powered by his catchy Gomer Records label and released the album Shock/Denial/ Pop-Rock hooks, he dominated the charts with hit after Anger/Acceptance, followed by the 2005 release The Day After hit. His follow-up album, 1982’s Success Hasn’t Spoiled Me Yesterday. g Yet, was another multi-Platinum seller, followed by a third Platinum-seller, 1983’s .

23 THE TICKET OFFICE is open 10 AM to 6 PM Monday Out of courtesy to the performers and fellow patrons, through Friday and 12 Noon to 4 PM on Saturday and CELLULAR PHONES, PAGERS, AND ALARM Sunday. Hours are extended through the first intermission on WATCHES should be disconnected before the start of the performance days. performance.

TICKETS can be charged to Visa, MasterCard, Discover or DOCTORS AND PARENTS should leave their seating American Express by phoning (800) 300-4345 or (562) 916-8500, locations with exchanges or sitters and have them call or online at www.cerritoscenter.com. Mail orders are processed (562) 916-8508 in case of an emergency. as they are received. Tickets cannot be reserved without payment. THE COAT ROOM is located behind the Grand Staircase.

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GROUPS of 20 or more may purchase tickets at a 10% discount. LOST ARTICLES can be claimed by calling (562) 916-8510. Call (800) 300-4345. ELEVATORS are located near the Grand Staircase and access CHILDREN’S PRICES apply to children twelve (12) years of each level of the Lobby. age and under. Regardless of age, everyone must have a ticket, sit in a seat, and be able to sit quietly throughout the performance. PAY PHONES are located on the Orchestra level behind the We do not recommend children under the age of six (6) attend Grand Staircase and near the restrooms on the Gold Circle level. unless an event is specifically described as suited to that age. PHONIC EAR LIGHTWEIGHT WIRELESS HEADSETS FREE PUBLIC TOURS are conducted by appointment only. for the hearing impaired are available in the Coat Room at no Special tours can be arranged by calling (562) 916-8530. cost. To obtain a headset, a driver’s license or major credit card is required and is returned upon receipt of the equipment at the PARKING is always free in the spacious lots adjacent to the close of the performance. Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts. WHEELCHAIR locations are available in various areas of the FULL-SERVICE BARS are located in the Grand Lobby on the Auditorium. Please contact the Ticket Office at (800) 300-4345. Orchestra level and at the Gold Circle level. Refreshments are not allowed in the Auditorium. LATECOMERS will be seated at the discretion of the house staff at an appropriate pause in the program. SMOKING IS NOT PERMITTED in any City facility. CLOSED-CIRCUIT TELEVISION VIEWING is available in EMERGENCY MEDICAL technicians are on duty at all the Lobby of each seating level and at the Lobby bar. performances. If you need first aid, contact an for assistance. THE CERRITOS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS’ Auditorium and Sierra Room are available for special RESTROOMS are located behind the Grand Staircase on the events on a rental basis. For more information, please call Special Orchestra level and at the Grand Staircase Landing on the Gold Event Services at (562) 916-8510, ext. 2827. Circle level.

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24 THE CERRITOS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS (CCPA) thanks the following CCPA Associates who have contributed to the CCPA’s Endowment Fund. The Endowment Fund was established in 1994 under the visionary leadership of the Cerritos City Council to ensure that the CCPA would remain a welcoming, accessible, and affordable venue in which patrons can experience the joy of entertainment and cultural enrichment. For more information about the Endowment Fund or to make a contribution, please contact the CCPA Administrative Offices at (562) 916-8510.

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Morgan Cindy Shilkret Larry Baggs Susanne and John DeHart Paul Irby Cortland Myers Karen and James Shultz Nancy and Nick Baker LesLee and Karl Delaney Mark Itzkowitz Caroline and Alan Nakken Kathleen Sidaris Debby and Norman Balders Louise and John Dellasante Sharon Jacoby National Endowment Neil Siegel Terry Bales Erin Delliquadri José Iturbi Foundation for the Arts Ina Silverman and Larry Starr Sharon and Gill Barnett Bruce Dickinson James Juliani Alan Negosian Dorothy Simmons Sallie Barnett Jane and Larry Dicus Luanne Kamiya A.J. Neiman Loren Slafer Alan Barry Amy and George Dominguez Gloria and Sherman Kappe New England Foundation Sylvia Sligar In Loving Memory of Linda Dowell Fay and Lawrence Kerneen for the Arts Fred Smith Carol M. Behan Gloria Dumais Joseph Kienle Ronald Nichols So Cal Medical, Inc. Yvette Belcher Stanley Dzieminski Norm Kirschenbaum Toby Nishida Kerry Spears Peggy Bell Lee Eakin Jack and Jacky Kleyh Linda Nomura Craig M. 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Inc. - Ronald Burr William Stringer Paula Briggs Richard Falb Linda and Harry Kusuda George Palomino Richard Surbeck Melanie and Michael Broad Renee Fallaha Patrice and Kevin Kyle Mary Ellen Pascucci Lawrence Takahashi Darrell Brooke Dr. Stuart Farber Carl Laconico Angela and Devy Paul LaVerne Tancill Shelley and Danny Brose Nelson Lane Waynn Pearson Dr. Silas Thomas Mary Brough Heather M. Ferber David Latter Barbara and Paul Penrose Ken Thompson Cheryl and Kerry Bryan Dr. Susan Fox Earnestine Lavergne Jackie and Joe Ploen Joann Tommy Mary and Bob Buell Teresa Freeborn Pat and Maynard Law Merrill Plou Sharon Touchstone Ina Burton June and Takeshi Fujisaki Mr. and Mrs. Harold Leach Forrest Poorman Karen Trace-Verzani Linda and Larry Burton Arthur Gapasin Paolo Ledesma Preserved TreeScapes Int’l- Lilliane K. Triggs Dr. Marjorie Cain Mitchell Lori and Bob Gay Laura and Charles Lee Dennis E. Gabrick Jean Tuohino Robert Campbell Franz Gerich Donna and Todd Lempert Susan Ragone Maria Tupaz Michael Canup Roberta and Dr. Lawrence Jenny and Jim Levy Bijan Ramineh United Parcel Service Michelle Casey Gershon Vanessa Lewis Karen Randall Alex Urbach Yvonne Cattell The Goldsmith Family Marcia Lewis Bev and George Ray Tim VanEck Sylvia and Tuncer Cebeci William Goodwin Teresa and Robert Lidman Bev and George Ray Raman Venkat Chamber Music Society Graham Gosling Los Cerritos Center Charitable Foundation Maria Von Sadovszky of Detroit Debe and Larry Graham Johnny Magsby Robin Raymond Diane and Fred Vunak Joann and George Chambers Suzanne and Bob Grayson Denise Manoogian Sharon Reece and Laurence Charles Wadman Rodolfo Chavez Dr. Jon Grazer Stephen Mao Harma Robert Walters Dr. Philip Chinn Susan and Dr. Robert Green Donna K. Martin Rosalie Relleve Angela S.Wang Genevieve and Ralph Choy Norma and Gary Greene Pamela and John Martin Diane and Richard Renaker Wave Broadband Patricia Christie Kenneth Greenleaf Janice Kay Matthews Nikki and Dennis Repp Anita and Dr. David Weinstein Carlota and Daniel Ciauri Tamra and Kirby Greenlee Pansy and Robert Mattox Betty and Nash Rivera Margie and David Williams Neal Clyde Allen Grogan Cecilia and Ronald Maus Lynne Rose Pamela Wilson Mark Cochrane Roger Hale Carol and William McCune Patricia Rose Charlotte and Howard Winer Michael Cohn Carol and Harry Hanaki Marilyn and Dennis Jean Rothaermel Pornwit Wipanurat Barbara and Jim Conklin Lois and Thomas Harris McGorman Thomas Rothwell Charles Wong Patricia Cookus Hedy Harrison Ursula and Lawrence Melvin Martin Ruby Jeanne Yanez Virginia Correa Howard Herdman Barbara and Edwin Shirley Rundell Jeanette Yee Ron Cowan Saul Hernandez Mendenhall Sharon and Larry Sagert Asuman and Deniz Yilmaz Xavier Zavatsky

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25 Friends of Arts Education at the Cerritos Center It’s for the kids! It is our belief that when you bring the arts into children’s lives, you give them new ways to see the world.

The Friends of Arts Education is a non-profit organization that recognizes the arts as a vital and indispensable part of a comprehensive education. We strive to ensure that all children in our communities have an opportunity to experience the power and beauty of the performing arts.

The arts are an integral part of cultural literacy; they encourage creativity, critical thinking and problem solving. The arts enable students to build self-esteem and self- discipline as well as teach cooperation and effective expression. Research shows that integrating the arts into the school curriculum improves academic achievement, motivates attendance, increases test scores and promotes involvement.

All our programs are provided free of charge to schools and we serve over 100,000 children, teachers and families every year!

The Friends programs are designed to support the California State Board of Education Visual and Performing Arts standards for kindergarten through grade twelve.

We offer: o Daytime Educational Performances by world-class artists o Professional Development Workshops for teachers o Creative Expressions program for students o Performing Arts Scholarships for high school seniors o Artists in the Classroom o Family Arts Festival o Art S.M.A.R.T. activities for at-risk youth detainees Family Arts Festival

Sunday, June 1, 2008 at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

A day of arts and fun for the whole family! Experience hands-on arts activities, the interactive Musical Zoo, and over 40 performances on five different stages.

For more information contact Hélène Trudeau at (562) 916-1300

To find out more about the Friends, make a donation, or get involved, please contact the Friends office at (562) 467-8844 or visit us online at www.friendsofaecc.com

Friends of Arts Education at the Cerritos Center 12700 Center Court Drive Cerritos, California 90703

26 PLATINUM CIRCLE [$12,500 - above] Mrs. Bryan A. Stirrat • Bob & Ann Stoffel • A.J. Taen • Target Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo • B & B Stables/Bob & Verizon • Ms. Karen Trace-Verzani • Waffles of California • Walter Mary Buell • Nick & Nancy Baker • The Boeing Company • BP & Phyllis White • Daniel J. & Linda M. 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27 Present a ticket stub for any show starting at 7:00 PM or later to receive a 10% discount (food only, excludes alcohol). Must be used same evening of the show.

Come in before the show and receive a 10% discount (food only, excludes alcohol) when you present a ticket for the show that day.