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November 2017 About TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Volume 49, No. 4 Welcome to TheatreWorks Silicon Valley and our 48th season of award-winning theatre! Led by Founding Artistic Director Robert Kelley and Managing Director Phil Santora, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley presents a wide range of productions and programming throughout the region. Founded in 1970, we continue to celebrate the human spirit and the diversity of our community, presenting contemporary plays and musicals, revitalizing Paul Heppner Publisher great works of the past, championing arts education, and nurturing new works for the American theatre. TheatreWorks has produced 66 world premieres Susan Peterson and over 160 US and regional premieres. In the 2017/18 season, we add the Design & Production Director world premieres of The Four Immigrants: An American Musical Manga and Ana Alvira, Robin Kessler, The Prince of Egypt and four more regional premieres to our résumé. Shaun Swick, Stevie VanBronkhorst Production Artists and Graphic Design TheatreWorks’ 2016/17 season included the world premiere of Confederates, as well as regional premieres of The Life of the Party, Calligraphy, and Hershey Mike Hathaway Felder, Beethoven, which broke all our box office records, becoming the high- Sales Director est-grossing show in TheatreWorks’ history. In the course of the year, shows Amelia Heppner, Marilyn Kallins, that debuted here were produced at theatres around the world. Terri Reed San Francisco/Bay Area Account Executives With an annual operating budget of $8 million, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley produces eight mainstage productions at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto Brieanna Bright, Joey Chapman, Ann Manning and the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, and a special add-on Seattle Area Account Executives holiday production at the Lohman Theatre on the campus of Foothill College in Los Altos. Seventeen years ago, we launched the New Works Initiative, Carol Yip Sales Coordinator dedicating ourselves to the development of new plays and musicals. The Initiative has since supported over 160 new works through retreats, workshops, staged readings, developmental productions, and the annual New Works Festival, inspiring The Mercury News to call us “a premiere breeding ground for new musicals, which has put the company on the national map.“ TheatreWorks Silicon Valley believes in making theatre accessible to the entire Silicon Valley community. Our Education Department reaches on average 25,000 students from 70 schools in 7 counties annually. It sponsors outreach Paul Heppner programs that include the Children’s Healing Project at Lucile Packard President Young Playwrights Project Children’s Hospital, the , specially-priced student Mike Hathaway matinees, extensive school tours, post-show discussions, theatre camps, and Vice President programs for youth. Genay Genereux For more information on our 2017/18 season, New Works Festival, and Accounting & Office Manager Education programs, please visit theatreworks.org or call 650.463.1960. Sara Keats Marketing Manager

AFFILIATIONS—TheatreWorks Silicon Valley is a member of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT) and Ciara Caya operates under agreement between LORT and Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), the union of professional actors Customer Service Representative & and stage managers in the United States. TheatreWorks is a constituent member of Theatre Communications Administrative Assistant Group, Inc., the national organization for the nonprofit professional theatre. TheatreWorks is a member of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre, a national service organization for musical theatre. In addition, TheatreWorks is a member of Theatre Bay Area, the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce, and the Mountain View Chamber of Commerce. TheatreWorks’ 2017/18 Season is presented in cooperation with the City of Mountain View and the City of Palo Alto, Community Services Department, Division of Arts and Sciences. Corporate Office

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2 THEATREWORKS EAP full-page template.indd 1 11/7/17 3:55 PM In this Issue From the Board Chair

2 About TheatreWorks This is the special time of year when we present a show that has wide appeal to families. The holiday season is family time—and a great Silicon Valley opportunity to introduce young people to the joys of theatre. Bringing children and young adults to the theatre can have a life-long impact. 6 Give the Gift of TheatreWorks It did for me when I saw the Tony Award musical Fiorello as a young- ster. It presented a compelling story of how Fiorello H. La Guardia 9 TWSV Theatre Camps cleaned up corruption in New York City in the early 1900s by helping close down Tammany Hall’s corrupt political machine. The story and 10 Director’s Notes the music have stuck with me ever since and the experience kindled my lifelong enjoy- ment of live theatre.

Perhaps you are already here with family. If not, and you enjoy Around the World in 80 Days as much as I do, I hope you will return with your children or grandchildren in tow. In addition to a delightful entertainment experience, they just might get hooked on theatre or develop a new interest in the arts. There is ample evidence that a well- rounded education, including the arts, is important to the growth of successful citizens of the future. Many of our schools do a great job beginning this exposure, but TheatreWorks adds immensely to their efforts to engage our kids.

Since this is the Season of Giving, you might also consider giving one of TheatreWorks’ Holiday Gift Packages to friends or family. They are available in either a three- or four- play package at a price well below the cost of single tickets. And the second half of our season is a great one: Hershey Felder returns, this time with his powerful musical tribute Our Great Tchaikovsky; he’s followed by the timely political drama Skeleton Crew, about labor relations in an American auto plant; next is the breathtaking musical Jules Verne The Bridges of Madison County, a story of love found and lost; and finally comes Finks, based on the 1950s Red Scare and its impact on the lives of America’s artists and 11 Our Journey with Jules Verne actors. Our Holiday Package makes a thoughtful, exciting gift, and I hope you will take advan tage of this chance to share an irresistible invitation to a life-long love of theatre.

15 TheatreWorks Silicon Valley presents Mike Kahn AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS

How It Was Possible to Trot 16 BOARD OF TRUSTEES the Globe in the 1800s Mike Kahn, Chair Jayne Booker Charlotte Jacobs Nancy Ginsburg Stern 17 Who’s Who Cabell Chinnis Roy Johnson Debra Summers Bill Coughran Derry Kabcenell Lynn Szekely-Goode Season of Giving Sarah Donaldson Michael Kahn Ewart Thomas 25 Peggy Woodward Forbes Julie Kaufman Tzipor Ulman Matt Fuller Robert Kelley Kristina Vetter 26 Contributors Ciro Giammona Ellice Papp Holly Ward Anne Hambly Phil Santora Lisa Webster 29 TWSV Staff Judy Heyboer Loren Saxe Jane Weston Larry Horton Barbara Shapiro Gayla Lorthridge Wood 30 TWSV General Information BOARD EMERITUS Nancy Meyer, Founder • William F. Adler • Edward T. Anderson, MD • Doug Barry • Lauren Berman • Chuck Bernstein • Sharon Anthony Bower • Michael Braun • Polly W. Bredt • Bruce C. Cozadd Continue the conversation online! • Jeff Crowe • Peggy Dalal • Yogen Dalal • Jenny Dearborn • Susan Fairbrook • Michael R. Flicker • Peggy Woodford Forbes • Dan Garber • Doug Garland • Aaron Gershenberg • Marcia Goldman • Emeri Handler • Susan M. Huch • Perry A. Irvine • Nancy Lee Jalonen • Lisa Jones • Gina Jorasch • Roberta R. Katz • Tom Kelley • Robin Kennedy • Michael Kwatinetz • Dick Maltzman • Suzanne Martin • Patti McClung • Don McDougall • Bruce McLeod • Cynthia S. Miller • Leslie Murphy- Chutorian • Eileen Nelson • Karen Nierenberg • Carrie Perzow • Carey Pickus • Margot Mailliard @TheatreWorksSV Rawlins • John Reis • Eddie Reynolds • Sandi Risser • Lynn Wilson Roberts • Ray A. Rothrock • Adam #AroundTheWorldTWSV Samuels • Denise Stanford • Rosina Lo Sun • James Sweeney • Cathie Thermond • Helaina Titus • Robert J. Van der Leest, MD • Mark Vershel • Ronni Watson • Elissa Wellikson

4 THEATREWORKS In this Issue From the Board Chair

2 About TheatreWorks This is the special time of year when we present a show that has wide appeal to families. The holiday season is family time—and a great Silicon Valley opportunity to introduce young people to the joys of theatre. Bringing children and young adults to the theatre can have a life-long impact. 6 Give the Gift of TheatreWorks It did for me when I saw the Tony Award musical Fiorello as a young- ster. It presented a compelling story of how Fiorello H. La Guardia 9 TWSV Theatre Camps cleaned up corruption in New York City in the early 1900s by helping close down Tammany Hall’s corrupt political machine. The story and 10 Director’s Notes the music have stuck with me ever since and the experience kindled my lifelong enjoy- ment of live theatre.

Perhaps you are already here with family. If not, and you enjoy Around the World in 80 Days as much as I do, I hope you will return with your children or grandchildren in tow. In addition to a delightf ul entertainment experience, they just might get hooked on theatre or develop a new interest in the arts. There is ample evidence that a well- rounded education, including the arts, is important to the growth of successful citizens of the future. Many of our schools do a great job beginning this exposure, but TheatreWorks adds immensely to their efforts to engage our kids.

Since this is the Season of Giving, you might also consider giving one of TheatreWorks’ Holiday Gift Packages to friends or family. They are available in either a three- or four- play package at a price well below the cost of single tickets. And the second half of our season is a great one: Hershey Felder returns, this time with his powerful musical My legacy. My partner. tribute Our Great Tchaikovsky; he’s followed by the timely political drama Ske leton Crew, about labor relations in an American auto plant; next is the breathtaking musical Jules Verne The Bridges of Madison County, a story of love found and lost; and finally comes Finks, based on the 1950s Red Scare and its impact on the lives of America’s artists and 11 Our Journey with Jules Verne actors. Our Holiday Package makes a thoughtful, exciting gift, and I hope you will take You have dreams. Goals you want to achieve during your lifetime and a legacy advantage of this chance to share an irresistible inv itation to a life-long love of theatre. you want to leave behind. The Private Bank can help. Our highly specialized and 15 TheatreWorks Silicon Valley experienced wealth strategists can help you navigate the complexities of estate planning and deliver the customized solutions you need to ensure your wealth presents Mike Kahn is transferred according to your wishes. AROUND THE WORLD IN

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EAP full-page template.indd 1 10/17/17 9:49 AM Give the Gift of A POWERFUL MUSICAL TRIBUTE A BOLD AMERICAN DRAMA A SOARING MUSICAL ROMANCE A PLAY FOR THEN AND NOW TheatreWorks Hershey Felder Skeleton Crew The Bridges of FINKS AND SAVE 50% FOR THE HOLIDAYS! Our Great Tchaikovsky By Dominique Morisseau Madison County By Joe Gilford Directed by Jade King Carroll Directed by Giovanna Sardelli Music by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Book by Marsha Norman REGIONAL PREMIERE Drama Desk Award Best Play Nominee theatreworks.org 650.463.1960 Written and Performed by Hershey Felder Music and Lyrics by Jason Robert Brown A makeshift family of autoworkers navigates CALIFORNIA PREMIERE Directed by Trevor Hay Based on the novel by Robert James Waller the recession in this funny, tough, and With the 1950s Red Scare in full swing, the REGIONAL PREMIERE Directed by Robert Kelley tender American drama. Will their Detroit House Un-American Activities Committee Brilliant composer Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky plant survive? Ambitious dreams and 2014 Tony Award Best Score attacks “subversion“ in the arts. When a springs to life through the hands and corporate deception interweave, pushing This sweeping musical romance about the romance blossoms between a rising comic insight of piano virtuoso Hershey Felder, friendships to the limit. When the line roads we travel and the bridges we dare to and a firebrand actress, they face being whose time-traveling tale of culture and between blue collar and white begins to cross recalls the unexpected affair of a blacklisted along with their friends and repression explores the mystery surround- Does blur, how far over the lines is each of them devoted Italian-born housewife and a rov- fellow artists. Will they lose their careers ing some of the greatest music ever not willing to step? Don’t miss this riveting ing National Geographic photographer— or betray each other and be branded for- include written. From the unforgettable ballets Swan T new drama from one of America’s hottest four sensual, heart-stirring days that would ever as “finks“? Based on the true story of chaikovsky Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker, young writers. never be forgotten. Set amidst the cornfields comedian/actor Jack Gilford, this stunning to the outrageous 1812 Overture and the Contains mature language. of Iowa in 1965, it is an intimate remem- comic drama is written by his son. brilliant symphonic works, this powerful “Warm-blooded, astute. A deeply brance of love both lost and found, bril- Contains mature language. musical tribute travels to Czarist times to liantly adapted by a Pulitzer Prize play- ponder the inevitable enigma of genius. American play!“ The NY Times “A testament to an indomitable spirit.“ wright and Tony Award composer from one The Huffington Post From the creator and performer of Hershey Mar 7–Apr 1 of America’s favorite novels. Felder as Irving Berlin and Beethoven. Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto “A breathtaking sweep of feelings.“ Jun 6–Jul 1 “Stunning! Potent! Brings beautiful life to The NY Times Mtn View Center for the Performing Arts Tchaikovsky.“ San Diego Union-Tribune Apr 4–29 Jan 10–Feb 11 Mtn View Center for the Performing Arts Mtn View Center for the Performing Arts

6 THEATREWORKS Give the Gift of A POWERFUL MUSICAL TRIBUTE A BOLD AMERICAN DRAMA A SOARING MUSICAL ROMANCE A PLAY FOR THEN AND NOW TheatreWorks Hershey Felder Skeleton Crew The Bridges of FINKS AND SAVE 50% FOR THE HOLIDAYS! Our Great Tchaikovsky By Dominique Morisseau Madison County By Joe Gilford Directed by Jade King Carroll Directed by Giovanna Sardelli Music by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Book by Marsha Norman REGIONAL PREMIERE Drama Desk Award Best Play Nominee theatreworks.org 650.463.1960 Written and Performed by Hershey Felder Music and Lyrics by Jason Robert Brown A makeshift family of autoworkers navigates CALIFORNIA PREMIERE Directed by Trevor Hay Based on the novel by Robert James Waller the recession in this funny, tough, and With the 1950s Red Scare in full swing, the REGIONAL PREMIERE Directed by Robert Kelley tender American drama. Will their Detroit House Un-American Activities Committee Brilliant composer Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky plant survive? Ambitious dreams and 2014 Tony Award Best Score attacks “subversion“ in the arts. When a springs to life through the hands and corporate deception interweave, pushing This sweeping musical romance about the romance blossoms between a rising comic insight of piano virtuoso Hershey Felder, friendships to the limit. When the line roads we travel and the bridges we dare to and a firebrand actress, they face being whose time-traveling tale of culture and between blue collar and white begins to cross recalls the unexpected affair of a blacklisted along with their friends and repression explores the mystery surround- Does blur, how far over the lines is each of them devoted Italian-born housewife and a rov- fellow artists. Will they lose their careers ing some of the greatest music ever not willing to step? Don’t miss this riveting ing National Geographic photographer— or betray each other and be branded for- include written. From the unforgettable ballets Swan T new drama from one of America’s hottest four sensual, heart-stirring days that would ever as “finks“? Based on the true story of chaikovsky Lake, Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker, young writers. never be forgotten. Set amidst the cornfields comedian/actor Jack Gilford, this stunning to the outrageous 1812 Overture and the Contains mature language. of Iowa in 1965, it is an intimate remem- comic drama is written by his son. brilliant symphonic works, this powerful “Warm-blooded, astute. A deeply brance of love both lost and found, bril- Contains mature language. musical tribute travels to Czarist times to liantly adapted by a Pulitzer Prize play- ponder the inevitable enigma of genius. American play!“ The NY Times “A testament to an indomitable spirit.“ wright and Tony Award composer from one The Huffington Post From the creator and performer of Hershey Mar 7–Apr 1 of America’s favorite novels. Felder as Irving Berlin and Beethoven. Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto “A breathtaking sweep of feelings.“ Jun 6–Jul 1 “Stunning! Potent! Brings beautiful life to The NY Times Mtn View Center for the Performing Arts Tchaikovsky.“ San Diego Union-Tribune Apr 4–29 Jan 10–Feb 11 Mtn View Center for the Performing Arts Mtn View Center for the Performing Arts

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12/6, 12/13, & 12/20 AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS POST-SHOW DISCUSSIONS Question and answer with the cast and staff following the performance

1/17, 1/24, 1/31 OUR GREAT TCHAIKOVSKY POST-SHOW DISCUSSIONS Question and answer with Hershey Felder following the performance

1/10 @ noon FUTUREWORKS LUNCHEON Annual luncheon with Robert Kelley and Phil Santora honoring our supporters who Congratulations. have remembered TW in their ∂ Campers learn acting, movement, and stage craft skills in a fun, playful, estate planning You’ve Just Discovered Amazing. and engaging way! Garden Court Hotel Campers make new friends and work together in a team! Palo Alto Only a mile from downtown Los Gatos, El Sombroso Oaks offers independence, ∑ Campers learn from professional Teaching Artists who are experienced community, and maintenance-free living — with no entrance fee — for people age 62 ∏ 1/30 @ 7:30pm artists and educators! and older. Our one-, two-, or three-bedroom rental properties are comfortable, fully HERSHEY FELDER SING-ALONG Campers create a new character to bring to life with their new Hershey will take you through updated, single-level homes, each with great light, great storage, a roomy kitchen, a π theatrical skills! 100 years of American music detached garage, and a deck for enjoying the outdoors. ∫ Campers show off all that they have learned during a final presentation from the Gershwins, Jerome Kern, and Irving Berlin to For more information or to arrange for a personal tour, for family and friends! Bernstein, Sondheim and many please call Jyl Campana at 408.402.6211. Grades K–5 more—and you’re invited to April 2–6 in Palo Alto and April 9–13 in Menlo Park sing along! NEW: Join us for Spring Camp in Los Altos, April 9–13 MVCPA Tuition is $350 Sibling Discounts (Use code 2SBSIBS @ check-out online) 2/12 @ 6pm Need-based scholarships and extended care are available. SEASON RELEASE PARTY Subscribers, donors, and For information on our Summer Theatre Camps in Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Ages 62 and older friends gather to hear what’s in and Los Altos, please visit our website at store for TheatreWorks’ theatreworks.org/youth-programs 15860 Poppy Lane and 117 Fancher Court, Los Gatos, CA 95030 2018/19 Season MVCPA Five Fun Facts About TWSV Events TheatreWorks Spring Theatre Camps Dec, Jan, Feb

12/6, 12/13, & 12/20 AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS POST-SHOW DISCUSSIONS Question and answer with the cast and staff following the performance

1/17, 1/24, 1/31 OUR GREAT TCHAIKOVSKY POST-SHOW DISCUSSIONS Question and answer with Hershey Felder following the performance

1/10 @ noon FUTUREWORKS LUNCHEON Annual luncheon with Robert Kelley and Phil Santora honoring our supporters who have remembered TW in their ∂ Campers learn acting, movement, and stage craft skills in a fun, playful, estate planning and engaging way! Garden Court Hotel ∑ Campers make new friends and work together in a team! Palo Alto Campers learn from professional Teaching Artists who are experienced ∏ 1/30 @ 7:30pm artists and educators! HERSHEY FELDER SING-ALONG π Campers create a new character to bring to life with their new Hershey will take you through theatrical skills! 100 years of American music ∫ Campers show off all that they have learned during a final presentation from the Gershwins, Jerome for family and friends! Kern, and Irving Berlin to Bernstein, Sondheim and many Grades K–5 more—and you’re invited to April 2–6 in Palo Alto and April 9–13 in Menlo Park sing along! NEW: Join us for Spring Camp in Los Altos, April 9–13 MVCPA Tuition is $350 Sibling Discounts (Use code 2SBSIBS @ check-out online) 2/12 @ 6pm Need-based scholarships and extended care are available. SEASON RELEASE PARTY Subscribers, donors, and For information on our Summer Theatre Camps in Palo Alto, Menlo Park, friends gather to hear what’s in and Los Altos, please visit our website at store for TheatreWorks’ theatreworks.org/youth-programs 2018/19 Season MVCPA

encoremediagroup.com/programs 9 Our Journey with Jules Verne and Director’s Notes by Robert Kelley “AROUN the WORL“ THE INCENSE OF INNOVATION Jules Verne, author magazine, or scientific report that I came across.“ He At TheatreWorks we consider our holiday shows a special gift to our community, a chance to share of Around the was particularly interested in science and geography, the joy, energy, and good will of the season with our friends throughout the Bay Area. This year’s World in Eighty a fact that had a direct impact on his body of work. gift is a fun-filled adventure overflowing with global intrigue, budding romance, and theatrical Days, was born In 1856, Verne served as best man in an old invention: Around the World in 80 Days. Adapted from Jules Verne’s popular novel of 1872, this February 8, 1828 in friend’s wedding, and found himself enamored with enchanting play captures an era of exploration that radically changed the parameters of global Nantes, France. His the bride’s sister, a widow with two children named communication—an era not unlike our own. father was a lawyer, Honorine de Viane Morel. The couple wed the follow- and his mother ing year, and Verne began working as a stockbroker I’m always looking for great shows for the holidays. When I read Around the World in 80 Days last came from a family in order to secure a financial future for the young year I realized it had both holiday resonance and extraordinary potential. Playwright Mark Brown’s of navigators and family. But despite his obligations, he continued to adaptation was wonderfully theatrical, a precursor of beloved TheatreWorks shows The 39 Steps ship owners. write during his free hours. and The Hound of the Baskervilles. Both had created a huge story with a tiny cast, calling on the Growing up in a Verne’s literary aspirations were finally realized in imagination of both actors and audience to create multiple locations, a dizzying array of characters, bustling port city, 1862, when he met Pierre-Jules Hetzel. A well- and a wealth of laughter. When Around the World’s protagonist, Phileas Fogg, wagered that he travel and adventure established publisher, Hetzel was planning to launch a could circumnavigate the globe from London in eighty days, his deadline to return was promising stories were a part family magazine to promote scientific knowledge, indeed: December 21. Holiday season! What’s more, his journey included a wild dash across the Jules Verne of Verne’s life from wrapped up in entertaining fiction. Recognizing Verne United States in the snows of early winter. Snow! I knew we had a holiday show in the making. a young age. It is as the ideal writer to bridge science and fiction, Hetzel said that one of Verne’s teachers was the widow of a agreed to publish Verne’s first novel, Five Weeks in a But Verne’s story offered much more than a holiday ending. While many of his most popular novels naval captain lost at sea, but that she insisted he was Balloon, and offered him a long-term contract to write were brilliant science fiction, Around the World in 80 Days was a celebration of a just-achieved alive and merely castaway somewhere, and would for his new publication, Magasin d’Éducation et de reality of the 1870s—the possibility of circling the globe entirely via man-made inventions: steam return home one day to tell his story. Coming of age in Récréation (Magazine of Education and Recreation). trains crossing entire continents and steamships sailing vast oceans at unheard of speeds. If such this environment, it seems hardly surprising that Verne With a steady income, Verne was once again able to travel was the exhilarating technology of its day, Verne foresaw its challenges; one leg of his would go on to pen some of the world’s greatest devote himself full-time to writing. journey was taken by default via ancient means—an elephant across India—while another accessed adventure stories. Verne’s second novel, The Adventures of Captain a truly retro contraption: a sail-driven sledge racing across the snow-covered plains of Nebraska. Verne’s literary career did not seem so inevitable to Hatteras, was first published in serial installments in his father, however. In 1847, Verne was sent to Paris to Hetzel’s Magasin, then later in book form. The printed Our theatrical adaptation of Verne’s novel chronicles a rare moment in history, when international attend law school, with the expectation that he would volume included a forward from the publisher, travel and global communication vastly expanded in a remarkably short period of time. Here in inherit the family practice. While pursuing his degree, announcing that Verne’s works would comprise a series Silicon Valley, 150 years later, we are the creators and inheritors of just such a moment: we Verne entered into Paris literary circles, befriending titled Voyages Extraordinaires (Extraordinary Voyages), launched both personal computing and the Internet in less than a decade, vastly expanding global Alexandre Dumas and his son, among others. Verne with an aim “to outline all the geographical, geological, communication and interaction in the process. If Jules Verne captured the sense of adventure, grew passionate about the theatre, and through his physical, and astronomical knowledge amassed by innovation, and progress that defined his era—he also defined our own. connection with Dumas, had his first play produced by modern science and to recount, in an entertaining and the Opéra-National in 1850. picturesque format that is [Verne’s] own, the history of Industrial progress is the background of this journey, but the potential of human contact is actually The following year, Verne agreed to pen stories the universe.“ The Voyages series would eventually its theme. While Phileas Fogg might easily become the CEO of a Silicon Valley startup, his journey about geography, science, history, and technology for number more than fifty volumes, including Verne’s best- toward love and happiness presents a much more challenging proposition. A 19th century embodi- a magazine called Musée des familles (The Family known works, Journey to the Center of the Earth, From ment of geek culture, Fogg approaches life by the book, by the clock, by the conviction that a Museum). The second story he published, Voyage in a the Earth to the Moon, Twenty Thousand Leagues dispassionate scientific approach can give life meaning. His eighty days abroad will offer him a Balloon, was later described by Verne as “the first Under the Sea, and Around the World in Eighty Days. fascinating choice between control and collaboration, between an isolation he never regretted and indication of the line of novel that I was destined to Today, Verne is regarded as one of the fathers of a partnership he never imagined. Love. It’s a choice that goes beyond science, beyond control, follow.“ Verne accepted a job as secretary at Theatre science fiction. Many of his tales, though rooted in beyond time—a choice that defines humanity. Perhaps, Jules Verne suggests, it is a choice worth Lyrique to allow him plenty of time to devote to writ- science, focus on technological elements (such as a journey around the world. ing, dashing his father’s hopes that he’d ever make a submarines and space travel) that were not yet reality career in the legal profession. during his lifetime. Around the World in Eighty Days, To the warmth of the holidays, we delight in adding the thrill of adventure, the ring of laughter, and One of the hallmarks of Verne’s writing was that however, does not fall into this category. The tale of the resonance of romance. We offer a festive toast to everyone in our extended theatre family: every piece was meticulously researched. He recalled globetrotting protagonist Phileas Fogg was inspired, As you travel the world, may you savor the incense of innovation and the power of love. that, “Even before I began writing stories, I always Continued on page 13 took numerous notes out of every book, newspaper,

10 THEATREWORKS Our Journey with Jules Verne and Director’s Notes by Robert Kelley “AROUN the WORL“ THE INCENSE OF INNOVATION Jules Verne, author magazine, or scientific report that I came across.“ He At TheatreWorks we consider our holiday shows a special gift to our community, a chance to share of Around the was particularly interested in science and geography, the joy, energy, and good will of the season with our friends throughout the Bay Area. This year’s World in Eighty a fact that had a direct impact on his body of work. gift is a fun-filled adventure overflowing with global intrigue, budding romance, and theatrical Days, was born In 1856, Verne served as best man in an old invention: Around the World in 80 Days. Adapted from Jules Verne’s popular novel of 1872, this February 8, 1828 in friend’s wedding, and found himself enamored with enchanting play captures an era of exploration that radically changed the parameters of global Nantes, France. His the bride’s sister, a widow with two children named communication—an era not unlike our own. father was a lawyer, Honorine de Viane Morel. The couple wed the follow- and his mother ing year, and Verne began working as a stockbroker I’m always looking for great shows for the holidays. When I read Around the World in 80 Days last came from a family in order to secure a financial future for the young year I realized it had both holiday resonance and extraordinary potential. Playwright Mark Brown’s of navigators and family. But despite his obligations, he continued to adaptation was wonderfully theatrical, a precursor of beloved TheatreWorks shows The 39 Steps ship owners. write during his free hours. and The Hound of the Baskervilles. Both had created a huge story with a tiny cast, calling on the Growing up in a Verne’s literary aspirations were finally realized in imagination of both actors and audience to create multiple locations, a dizzying array of characters, bustling port city, 1862, when he met Pierre-Jules Hetzel. A well- and a wealth of laughter. When Around the World’s protagonist, Phileas Fogg, wagered that he travel and adventure established publisher, Hetzel was planning to launch a could circumnavigate the globe from London in eighty days, his deadline to return was promising stories were a part family magazine to promote scientific knowledge, indeed: December 21. Holiday season! What’s more, his journey included a wild dash across the Jules Verne of Verne’s life from wrapped up in entertaining fiction. Recognizing Verne United States in the snows of early winter. Snow! I knew we had a holiday show in the making. a young age. It is as the ideal writer to bridge science and fiction, Hetzel said that one of Verne’s teachers was the widow of a agreed to publish Verne’s first novel, Five Weeks in a But Verne’s story offered much more than a holiday ending. While many of his most popular novels naval captain lost at sea, but that she insisted he was Balloon, and offered him a long-term contract to write were brilliant science fiction, Around the World in 80 Days was a celebration of a just-achieved alive and merely castaway somewhere, and would for his new publication, Magasin d’Éducation et de reality of the 1870s—the possibility of circling the globe entirely via man-made inventions: steam return home one day to tell his story. Coming of age in Récréation (Magazine of Education and Recreation). trains crossing entire continents and steamships sailing vast oceans at unheard of speeds. If such this environment, it seems hardly surprising that Verne With a steady income, Verne was once again able to travel was the exhilarating technology of its day, Verne foresaw its challenges; one leg of his would go on to pen some of the world’s greatest devote himself full-time to writing. journey was taken by default via ancient means—an elephant across India—while another accessed adventure stories. Verne’s second novel, The Adventures of Captain a truly retro contraption: a sail-driven sledge racing across the snow-covered plains of Nebraska. Verne’s literary career did not seem so inevitable to Hatteras, was first published in serial installments in his father, however. In 1847, Verne was sent to Paris to Hetzel’s Magasin, then later in book form. The printed Our theatrical adaptation of Verne’s novel chronicles a rare moment in history, when international attend law school, with the expectation that he would volume included a forward from the publisher, travel and global communication vastly expanded in a remarkably short period of time. Here in inherit the family practice. While pursuing his degree, announcing that Verne’s works would comprise a series Silicon Valley, 150 years later, we are the creators and inheritors of just such a moment: we Verne entered into Paris literary circles, befriending titled Voyages Extraordinaires (Extraordinary Voyages), launched both personal computing and the Internet in less than a decade, vastly expanding global Alexandre Dumas and his son, among others. Verne with an aim “to outline all the geographical, geological, communication and interaction in the process. If Jules Verne captured the sense of adventure, grew passionate about the theatre, and through his physical, and astronomical knowledge amassed by innovation, and progress that defined his era—he also defined our own. connection with Dumas, had his first play produced by modern science and to recount, in an entertaining and the Opéra-National in 1850. picturesque format that is [Verne’s] own, the history of Industrial progress is the background of this journey, but the potential of human contact is actually The following year, Verne agreed to pen stories the universe.“ The Voyages series would eventually its theme. While Phileas Fogg might easily become the CEO of a Silicon Valley startup, his journey about geography, science, history, and technology for number more than fifty volumes, including Verne’s best- toward love and happiness presents a much more challenging proposition. A 19th century embodi- a magazine called Musée des familles (The Family known works, Journey to the Center of the Earth, From ment of geek culture, Fogg approaches life by the book, by the clock, by the conviction that a Museum). The second story he published, Voyage in a the Earth to the Moon, Twenty Thousand Leagues dispassionate scientific approach can give life meaning. His eighty days abroad will offer him a Balloon, was later described by Verne as “the first Under the Sea, and Around the World in Eighty Days. fascinating choice between control and collaboration, between an isolation he never regretted and indication of the line of novel that I was destined to Today, Verne is regarded as one of the fathers of a partnership he never imagined. Love. It’s a choice that goes beyond science, beyond control, follow.“ Verne accepted a job as secretary at Theatre science fiction. Many of his tales, though rooted in beyond time—a choice that defines humanity. Perhaps, Jules Verne suggests, it is a choice worth Lyrique to allow him plenty of time to devote to writ- science, focus on technological elements (such as a journey around the world. ing, dashing his father’s hopes that he’d ever make a submarines and space travel) that were not yet reality career in the legal profession. during his lifetime. Around the World in Eighty Days, To the warmth of the holidays, we delight in adding the thrill of adventure, the ring of laughter, and One of the hallmarks of Verne’s writing was that however, does not fall into this category. The tale of the resonance of romance. We offer a festive toast to everyone in our extended theatre family: every piece was meticulously researched. He recalled globetrotting protagonist Phileas Fogg was inspired, As you travel the world, may you savor the incense of innovation and the power of love. that, “Even before I began writing stories, I always Continued on page 13 took numerous notes out of every book, newspaper,

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5,000 Years of Civilization Reborn Verne recalled, by “a tourist advertisement seen by The show was first chance in the columns of a newspaper.“ Verne’s produced by the ambitious eighty-day itinerary, though fantastic, was Utah Shakespeare possible at the time it was written, and indeed a Festival in 2001, number of explorers embarked on such trips during the where Brown had years leading up to and after Verne’s tale. been a member of Like the majority of Verne’s works, Around the the acting company. World in Eighty Days appeared first in serial form. The In the years since, SHEN YUN’S unique artistic vision last installment was published on December 21, 1872— Brown says Around expands theatrical experience the same date that Phileas Fogg was scheduled to the World in 80 into a multi-dimensional, finish his fictional world tour. As readers followed Days has been seen inspiring journey through one of Phileas’ progress, some believed the story to be true, “off-Broadway twice, and it is said that railways and shipping companies all across the US, humanity’s greatest treasures— lobbied to be included in Verne’s writing. Canada, England, the five millennia of traditional As Verne’s commercial appeal swelled, the literary South Africa, Playwright Mark Brown Chinese culture. community began to view him as a popular entertainer Turkey, India, and rather than a serious writer. Science fiction as a genre Bangladesh—it’s Prepare for an experience that was in its infancy, and the fact that British and American even been produced in the Himalayas.“ Brown’s other will take your breath away. publishers marketed abridged versions of his tales to works include The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge; The Quest children did nothing to enhance his reputation. Verne for Don Quixote; Love, the Cracksman; China, the admitted, “the great regret of my life is that I have Whole Enchilada; and Tom Jones (both musical and never taken any place in French literature.“ non-musical adaptations). “Breathtaking!” Nonetheless, Around the World in Eighty Days was This winter, TheatreWorks audiences will join theatregoers around the globe who have already been —Curtain Up popular with readers, and it wasn’t long before the story traveled from the page to the stage and beyond. dazzled by Brown’s fast-paced, theatrically inventive Verne and playwright Adolphe d’Ennery adapted the retelling of one of the world’s most beloved adventures. novel into a play, which was performed in Paris on and –Katie Dai “Marvelous dance... off for the next sixty-four years. The first movie adapta- Absolutely perfect music.” tion appeared in 1919, a German film starring Conrad Veigt. In 1938, Around the World in 80 Days was —Brooklyn View presented as a radio drama on The Mercury Theatre broadcast on the Air, featuring Orson Welles, just one week before that program’s infamous broadcast of War Where’s the Balloon? “This is the highest and of the Worlds. In 1946, Welles produced and starred in Around the World the best of what humans a musical adaptation called , loosely In a 1956 film adaptation of Around the inspired by Verne’s work, with songs by Cole Porter. World in 80 Days, Fogg and Passepartout can pproduce.” For well over a century, Verne’s tale has inspired travel from Paris to Spain in a hydrogen novelists, filmmakers, playwrights, television producers, —Olevia Brown-Klahn, singer and musician balloon. The scene proved so iconic, it and other artists all over the world. There have been no became enmeshed in society’s perception of fewer than seven stage adaptations (three of them the tale, even appearing on book covers. In musicals), at least eight movies, five television series, the novel, however, Fogg only briefly enter- many board games, interactive fiction, even an amuse- tains the idea before dismissing it as “highly Tickets on Sale Now! ment park, all based on, inspired by, or parodying risky, and in any case, impossible.” Though Around the World in Eighty Days . some of his science-fiction writings included Award-winning playwright Mark Brown is among balloon travel, Verne himself believed the the legion of artists to adapt Verne’s tale, penning a idea to be mere fantasy. In our adaptation, ShenYun.com/CA madcap adventure that employs “many characters, few playwright Mark Brown has followed Verne’s Shen Yun returns to Northern California actors“ in what Brown calls his signature style. His first novel, rather than Hollywood’s invention. play, a retelling of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Fresno San Jose San Francisco Sacramento Berkeley 888.633.6999 Prince, had four actors playing over a dozen characters. In his third play, Around the World in 80 Days, nearly Dec 26–27 Dec 28–30 Jan 1–7 Jan 9–10 Jan 12–14 ALL- N E W 2018 PROGRAM William Saroyan Center for the War Memorial Community Zellerbach Hall forty characters are brought to life by only five actors. Performing Arts Opera House ACCOMPANIED BY LIVE ORCHESTRA

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Verne recalled, by “a tourist advertisement seen by The show was first chance in the columns of a newspaper.“ Verne’s produced by the ambitious eighty-day itinerary, though fantastic, was Utah Shakespeare possible at the time it was written, and indeed a Festival in 2001, number of explorers embarked on such trips during the where Brown had years leading up to and after Verne’s tale. been a member of Like the majority of Verne’s works, Around the the acting company. World in Eighty Days appeared first in serial form. The In the years since, last installment was published on December 21, 1872— Brown says Around the same date that Phileas Fogg was scheduled to the World in 80 finish his fictional world tour. As readers followed Days has been seen Phileas’ progress, some believed the story to be true, “off-Broadway twice, and it is said that railways and shipping companies all across the US, lobbied to be included in Verne’s writing. Canada, England, As Verne’s commercial appeal swelled, the literary South Africa, Playwright Mark Brown community began to view him as a popular entertainer Turkey, India, and rather than a serious writer. Science fiction as a genre Bangladesh—it’s was in its infancy, and the fact that British and American even been produced in the Himalayas.“ Brown’s other publishers marketed abridged versions of his tales to works include The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge; The Quest children did nothing to enhance his reputation. Verne for Don Quixote; Love, the Cracksman; China, the admitted, “the great regret of my life is that I have Whole Enchilada; and Tom Jones (both musical and never taken any place in French literature.“ non-musical adaptations). Nonetheless, Around the World in Eighty Days was This winter, TheatreWorks audiences will join popular with readers, and it wasn’t long before the theatregoers around the globe who have already been story traveled from the page to the stage and beyond. dazzled by Brown’s fast-paced, theatrically inventive Verne and playwright Adolphe d’Ennery adapted the retelling of one of the world’s most beloved adventures. novel into a play, which was performed in Paris on and –Katie Dai off for the next sixty-four years. The first movie adapta- tion appeared in 1919, a German film starring Conrad Veigt. In 1938, Around the World in 80 Days was presented as a radio drama on The Mercury Theatre broadcast on the Air, featuring Orson Welles, just one week before that program’s infamous broadcast of War Where’s the Balloon? of the Worlds. In 1946, Welles produced and starred in Around the World a musical adaptation called , loosely In a 1956 film adaptation of Around the inspired by Verne’s work, with songs by Cole Porter. World in 80 Days, Fogg and Passepartout For well over a century, Verne’s tale has inspired travel from Paris to Spain in a hydrogen novelists, filmmakers, playwrights, television producers, balloon. The scene proved so iconic, it and other artists all over the world. There have been no became enmeshed in society’s perception of fewer than seven stage adaptations (three of them the tale, even appearing on book covers. In musicals), at least eight movies, five television series, the novel, however, Fogg only briefly enter- many board games, interactive fiction, even an amuse- tains the idea before dismissing it as “highly ment park, all based on, inspired by, or parodying risky, and in any case, impossible.” Though Around the World in Eighty Days . some of his science-fiction writings included Award-winning playwright Mark Brown is among balloon travel, Verne himself believed the the legion of artists to adapt Verne’s tale, penning a idea to be mere fantasy. In our adaptation, madcap adventure that employs “many characters, few playwright Mark Brown has followed Verne’s actors“ in what Brown calls his signature style. His first novel, rather than Hollywood’s invention. play, a retelling of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince, had four actors playing over a dozen characters. In his third play, Around the World in 80 Days, nearly forty characters are brought to life by only five actors.

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presents AROUN the WORL in 80 AYS Adapted by Mark Brown

From the Novel by Jules Verne

Directed by Robert Kelley

Scenic Designer Joe Ragey S J Costume Designer B. Modern C B Lighting Designer Steven B. Mannshardt L S Sound Designer Cliff Caruthers S C Dialect Coach Kimberly Mohne Hill D Casting Director Leslie Martinson C L Los Angeles Casting Director Julia Flores L J Stage Manager Randall K. Lum S R Coming Next at TheatreWorks Produced by special arrangement with Dramatic Publishing, Woodstock, Illinois.

VISIONARY PRODUCER Cindi Sears HERSHEY FELDER

PRODUCERS

Tom & Polly Bredt • Steve & Gayle Brugler • George & Susan Crow

Gordon & Carolyn Davidson • Sue & John Diekman • Ed Hunter & Michelle Garcia Tom & Sharon Kelley • Mark Stevens & Mary Murphy • Debra Summers & John Baker “Felder is

truly stunning!“ ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS Linda M. Hinton & Vince Foecke • Bill & Janet Nicholls • Susanne Stevens & Monte Mansir Broadway World Music by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Written and Performed by Hershey Felder SHOW SPONSOR Directed by Trevor Hay W ilson S on sin i Goodrich & R os a ti

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS PLAYS NOV 29 – DEC 31, 2017 Jan 10–Feb 11 THE VIDEOTAPING OR OTHER VIDEO OR AUDIO RECORDING OF THIS PRODUCTION IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts theatreworks.org 650.463.1960

14 THEATREWORKS TheatreWorks S I L I C O N V A L L E Y

presents AROUN the WORL in 80 AYS Adapted by Mark Brown

From the Novel by Jules Verne

Directed by Robert Kelley

Scenic Designer Joe Ragey S J Costume Designer B. Modern C B Lighting Designer Steven B. Mannshardt L S Sound Designer Cliff Caruthers S C Dialect Coach Kimberly Mohne Hill D Casting Director Leslie Martinson C L Los Angeles Casting Director Julia Flores L J Stage Manager Randall K. Lum S R Coming Next at TheatreWorks Produced by special arrangement with Dramatic Publishing, Woodstock, Illinois.

VISIONARY PRODUCER Cindi Sears HERSHEY FELDER

PRODUCERS

Tom & Polly Bredt • Steve & Gayle Brugler • George & Susan Crow

Gordon & Carolyn Davidson • Sue & John Diekman • Ed Hunter & Michelle Garcia Tom & Sharon Kelley • Mark Stevens & Mary Murphy • Debra Summers & John Baker “Felder is truly stunning!“ ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS Linda M. Hinton & Vince Foecke • Bill & Janet Nicholls • Susanne Stevens & Monte Mansir Broadway World Music by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Written and Performed by Hershey Felder SHOW SPONSOR Directed by Trevor Hay W ilson S on sin i Goodrich & R os a ti

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS PLAYS NOV 29 – DEC 31, 2017 Jan 10–Feb 11 THE VIDEOTAPING OR OTHER VIDEO OR AUDIO RECORDING OF THIS PRODUCTION IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts theatreworks.org 650.463.1960

encoremediagroup.com/programs 15 THE CAST How It Was Possible to Trot the Globe in the 1800s (in alphabetical order) Gauthier Ralph, British Consuls, Sir Francis Cromarty, Judge Obadiah, Captain Bunsby, Colonel Proctor, Mudge, Captain Speedy, Maid, et al Ron Campbell Passepartout, John Sullivan Tristan Cunningham Aouda, James Forster, Newsboy Ajna Jai Phileas Fogg Jason Kuykendall Detective Fix, Andrew Stuart, Elephant Owner, Young Parsi, Oyster Puff Michael Gene Sullivan The Actors and Stage Manager employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

PLACE & TIME May 10, 1869 Celebration of completion of the Transcontinental Phileas Fogg’s original route around the world From London around the world. 1872. Railroad ANDREW J. RUSSELL, PHOTOGRAPHER - NATIONAL PARK SERVICE. AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS will be performed with one 15-minute intermission. In this day and age, it’s hard to imagine a world in Railway had been laying tracks to connect Bombay which the far-flung edges of the globe seemed only to (now Mumbai) with the interior of the Indian Peninsula, Foley and Special Effects Artist Cameron Wells exist on maps, experienced through the writings of and ultimately to the eastern port city of Calcutta (now explorers, inaccessible to the common man. Though Kolkata). The Howrah-Allahabad-Mumbai line opened ACKNOWLEDGMENTS European nobility had been making grand tours of the on March 7, 1870, making it possible to travel all the Francis Hamada • Alyssa Oania • Naomi Arnst continent since the mid-1600s, it wasn’t until the 1800s way across the peninsula by rail. that travel agencies started promoting tourism as a These three events, happening in such quick leisure activity, and even then the world seemed impos- succession, suddenly made the world seem much smaller. sibly large to traverse. During the years immediately A number of adventurers began making journeys Who’s Who “Chef Cecil B. DeGrille“ for Teatro Award winner for her work in The leading up to Around the World in Eighty Days, however, around the world, many of whom published stories of Zinzanni and received a Fox Taming at Marin Shakespeare a number of major events made headlines that no their travels. In 1872, Thomas Cook led the first organ- RON CAMPBELL Fellowship for Distinguished Company. She is honored to be doubt piqued the imaginations of people the world ized tourist trek around the globe. His accounts were (Sir Francis/Cromarty/ Achievement and London, San working with TheatreWorks for the over, removing many of the obstacles to global travel. published in 1873, too late to have influenced Verne’s et al) Previously at Francisco, LA, and Chicago Drama first time. On May 10, 1869, Leland Stanford, then President writing, although an advertisement for Cook’s trip is TheatreWorks: Peter Critics Awards. of the Central Pacific Railroad, drove the ceremonial thought to have been Verne’s original inspiration. and the Starcatcher, AJNA JAI (Aouda) “Last Spike“ that completed the First Transcontinental Perhaps not surprisingly, the increasing ease of The Hound of the TRISTAN is excited to be Railroad. For the first time, the eastern US railway global travel went hand in hand with a reawakening of Baskervilles, Twelfth CUNNINGHAM making her network was joined with the west, creating a continuous, colonial aspirations. The years from 1870–1914 are Night. Mr. Campbell (Passepartout) TheatreWorks 1,912 mile stretch across the country. Cross-country known as the New Imperialism, the era during which was the “King of the Clowns“ with started performing debut. She can be travel, which would once have taken upwards of six most of Africa and parts of Asia were colonized by Cirque du Soleil in Europe, USA, and when she was ten seen in recent TV months, could now be completed in just one week. The western powers. Expanding their territories was seen as Japan and toured closer to home as with Vermont’s shows The Affair route had an immeasurable impact on the American a way to enrich the mother countries, amass political R. Buckminster Fuller in The History Circus Smirkus. (Showtime), Bull West, revolutionizing both settlement of the land and power, and aid in “civilizing missions.“ British colonial- (and Mystery) of the Universe. Other After touring for (CBS), High Maintenance (HBO), development of the economy. ism is particularly germane to Around the World in credits include leading roles at The eight years, she changed her focus and Limitless (CBS). Her regional Halfway around the world, on November 17, 1869, Eighty Days, as much of the action plays out on British Old Globe, Old Red Lion (London), to acting and graduated with a BFA credits include touring with the the Suez Canal opened. Just six months after the North soil, despite the fact that the protagonists are literally American Conservatory Theater, Mark from SUNY Purchase Acting Shakespeare Theatre of New American continent was connected coast-to-coast, the traveling around the world. Taper Forum, Habima Theatre (Israel), Conservatory. Some of her Bay Area Jersey in A Midsummer Night’s Suez Canal introduced passage from the Mediterranean Though Verne is often thought of as a science Huntington Theatre Company credits include A Winter’s Tale, The Dream (Hermia) and with The Sea to the Red Sea, allowing vessels to pass from the fiction writer, a man whose ideas were way before their (Boston), Seattle Repertory Theatre, Comedy of Errors, Measure for Hangar Theatre in Around the northern Atlantic Ocean to the northern Indian Ocean time, Around the World in Eighty Days was in many ways Intiman Theatre, Mercury Theatre Measure, and A Midsummer Night’s World in 80 Days (Aouda). Ms. without having to navigate around the Africa continent. a reflection of current events in the early 1870s. Though (Chicago), California Shakespeare Dream with California Shakespeare Jai also owns and manages The canal made travel between Europe and the Far his attention to time zones may have been somewhat Theatre, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Theater, The Arsonists with Aurora Pondicheri, a restaurant in New East considerably easier for people, goods, and ideas. prescient—the International Meridian Conference Aurora Theatre, San Diego Repertory Theatre Company, and Tree with the York City serving up Indian flavors 1870 saw the connection of an important network standardizing the clock worldwide wouldn’t occur for Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, Los San Francisco Playhouse. She is a with NYC flair. of railroads in India. Since its incorporation by the another decade—Verne’s globe-trotting adventure is a Angeles Theatre Center, and The proud member of Actors Equity Association and a TBA and BATCC British Parliament in 1849, the Great Indian Peninsula fantastic tale rooted squarely in its own time. –Katie Dai Actors Gang. Mr. Campbell created

16 THEATREWORKS THE CAST How It Was Possible to Trot the Globe in the 1800s (in alphabetical order) Gauthier Ralph, British Consuls, Sir Francis Cromarty, Judge Obadiah, Captain Bunsby, Colonel Proctor, Mudge, Captain Speedy, Maid, et al Ron Campbell Passepartout, John Sullivan Tristan Cunningham Aouda, James Forster, Newsboy Ajna Jai Phileas Fogg Jason Kuykendall Detective Fix, Andrew Stuart, Elephant Owner, Young Parsi, Oyster Puff Michael Gene Sullivan The Actors and Stage Manager employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

PLACE & TIME May 10, 1869 Celebration of completion of the Transcontinental Phileas Fogg’s original route around the world From London around the world. 1872. Railroad ANDREW J. RUSSELL, PHOTOGRAPHER - NATIONAL PARK SERVICE. AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS will be performed with one 15-minute intermission. In this day and age, it’s hard to imagine a world in Railway had been laying tracks to connect Bombay which the far-flung edges of the globe seemed only to (now Mumbai) with the interior of the Indian Peninsula, Foley and Special Effects Artist Cameron Wells exist on maps, experienced through the writings of and ultimately to the eastern port city of Calcutta (now explorers, inaccessible to the common man. Though Kolkata). The Howrah-Allahabad-Mumbai line opened ACKNOWLEDGMENTS European nobility had been making grand tours of the on March 7, 1870, making it possible to travel all the Francis Hamada • Alyssa Oania • Naomi Arnst continent since the mid-1600s, it wasn’t until the 1800s way across the peninsula by rail. that travel agencies started promoting tourism as a These three events, happening in such quick leisure activity, and even then the world seemed impos- succession, suddenly made the world seem much smaller. sibly large to traverse. During the years immediately A number of adventurers began making journeys Who’s Who “Chef Cecil B. DeGrille“ for Teatro Award winner for her work in The leading up to Around the World in Eighty Days, however, around the world, many of whom published stories of Zinzanni and received a Fox Taming at Marin Shakespeare a number of major events made headlines that no their travels. In 1872, Thomas Cook led the first organ- RON CAMPBELL Fellowship for Distinguished Company. She is honored to be doubt piqued the imaginations of people the world ized tourist trek around the globe. His accounts were (Sir Francis/Cromarty/ Achievement and London, San working with TheatreWorks for the over, removing many of the obstacles to global travel. published in 1873, too late to have influenced Verne’s et al) Previously at Francisco, LA, and Chicago Drama first time. On May 10, 1869, Leland Stanford, then President writing, although an advertisement for Cook’s trip is TheatreWorks: Peter Critics Awards. of the Central Pacific Railroad, drove the ceremonial thought to have been Verne’s original inspiration. and the Starcatcher, AJNA JAI (Aouda) “Last Spike“ that completed the First Transcontinental Perhaps not surprisingly, the increasing ease of The Hound of the TRISTAN is excited to be Railroad. For the first time, the eastern US railway global travel went hand in hand with a reawakening of Baskervilles, Twelfth CUNNINGHAM making her network was joined with the west, creating a continuous, colonial aspirations. The years from 1870–1914 are Night. Mr. Campbell (Passepartout) TheatreWorks 1,912 mile stretch across the country. Cross-country known as the New Imperialism, the era during which was the “King of the Clowns“ with started performing debut. She can be travel, which would once have taken upwards of six most of Africa and parts of Asia were colonized by Cirque du Soleil in Europe, USA, and when she was ten seen in recent TV months, could now be completed in just one week. The western powers. Expanding their territories was seen as Japan and toured closer to home as with Vermont’s shows The Affair route had an immeasurable impact on the American a way to enrich the mother countries, amass political R. Buckminster Fuller in The History Circus Smirkus. (Showtime), Bull West, revolutionizing both settlement of the land and power, and aid in “civilizing missions.“ British colonial- (and Mystery) of the Universe. Other After touring for (CBS), High Maintenance (HBO), development of the economy. ism is particularly germane to Around the World in credits include leading roles at The eight years, she changed her focus and Limitless (CBS). Her regional Halfway around the world, on November 17, 1869, Eighty Days, as much of the action plays out on British Old Globe, Old Red Lion (London), to acting and graduated with a BFA credits include touring with the the Suez Canal opened. Just six months after the North soil, despite the fact that the protagonists are literally American Conservatory Theater, Mark from SUNY Purchase Acting Shakespeare Theatre of New American continent was connected coast-to-coast, the traveling around the world. Taper Forum, Habima Theatre (Israel), Conservatory. Some of her Bay Area Jersey in A Midsummer Night’s Suez Canal introduced passage from the Mediterranean Though Verne is often thought of as a science Huntington Theatre Company credits include A Winter’s Tale, The Dream (Hermia) and with The Sea to the Red Sea, allowing vessels to pass from the fiction writer, a man whose ideas were way before their (Boston), Seattle Repertory Theatre, Comedy of Errors, Measure for Hangar Theatre in Around the northern Atlantic Ocean to the northern Indian Ocean time, Around the World in Eighty Days was in many ways Intiman Theatre, Mercury Theatre Measure, and A Midsummer Night’s World in 80 Days (Aouda). Ms. without having to navigate around the Africa continent. a reflection of current events in the early 1870s. Though (Chicago), California Shakespeare Dream with California Shakespeare Jai also owns and manages The canal made travel between Europe and the Far his attention to time zones may have been somewhat Theatre, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Theater, The Arsonists with Aurora Pondicheri, a restaurant in New East considerably easier for people, goods, and ideas. prescient—the International Meridian Conference Aurora Theatre, San Diego Repertory Theatre Company, and Tree with the York City serving up Indian flavors 1870 saw the connection of an important network standardizing the clock worldwide wouldn’t occur for Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, Los San Francisco Playhouse. She is a with NYC flair. of railroads in India. Since its incorporation by the another decade—Verne’s globe-trotting adventure is a Angeles Theatre Center, and The proud member of Actors Equity Association and a TBA and BATCC British Parliament in 1849, the Great Indian Peninsula fantastic tale rooted squarely in its own time. –Katie Dai Actors Gang. Mr. Campbell created

encoremediagroup.com/programs 17 Who’s Who (Lenny) and The Importance of Being into Turkish. Tom Jones, his adapta- Who’s Who including Constellations, Rags, credits include When the Rain Earnest (Ernest) with Sacramento tion of the ribald Henry Fielding Outside Mullingar, Triangle, Stops Falling at Dragon Theater Theatre Company; and Les Liaisons Sweeney Todd, Water by the and Venus in Fur at San Jose Stage JASON novel, received its world premiere Man in Love for Kansas City Dangereuses (Valmont), Ideation China–The Spoonful, 33 Variations, The Pitmen Company. Ms. Hill just finished KUYKENDALL in 2014. His musical Repertory Theatre, Death of a (Brock), and Stupid F#%*ing Bird Whole Enchilada Painters, Snow Falling on Cedars, serving as the Assistant Director (Phileas Fogg) is was named Salesman and We are Proud to (Trig) at Capital Stage. Mr. Kuykendall The North Pool, Doubt, Theophilus on ACT’s world premiere of A thrilled to be back Outstanding Musical of the 2008 Present for San Jose Stage Company, also produces and directs for the North, Arcadia, Jane Eyre, Baby Taj, Thousand Splendid Suns. She has after appearing in New York International Fringe Troilus and Cressida for Oregon camera. Visit NKmedia.biz for his The Little and Anna in the Tropics. An published three books with Smith & TheatreWorks’ The Festival. His adaptation of Shakespeare Festival; Born documentary, feature film, commer- Prince Associate Professor in Acting at Kraus: Great Scenes in Dialect for Country House set box office records at the Yesterday for Alley Theatre, Circle cial work, and more. Santa Clara University, she continues Young Actors and Monologues in (Michael) and The Hippodrome Theatre and the Mirror Transformation for Marin to teach, direct, and coach through- Dialect for Young Actors, Volumes Elephant Man (Treves). He is a Orlando Theatre Project. His play Theatre Company; TRAGEDY: a Poe–Deep Into That Darkness out the Bay Area. Recent directing I and II. member of Sacramento’s B Street MICHAEL GENE tragedy for Berkeley Repertory Peering Theatre’s Acting Company, where SULLIVAN hasn’t won a thing but is a Theatre; The Happy Ones for Magic (Detective Fix) has he has performed in over 50 darn good play and should be Theatre; Detroit and The Elaborate appeared in productions, including Who’s Afraid produced more often. He’s currently Entrance of Chad Deity for Aurora TheatreWorks’ of Virginia Woolf, The Explorer’s working with Paul Mirkovich, his Theatre Company; Happy Days for Cyrano, Peter and Enchilada Club, The 39 Steps, Detroit, and The collaborator on , on a Guthrie Theater; Julius Caesar for the Starcatcher, Hound of the Baskervilles. Other musical adaptation of the novel The Acting Company; Bug for SF The Hound of the Tom Jones regional credits include A Long Day’s . Mr. Brown lives in Los Playhouse; and Ubu Roi and A Baskervilles, 33 Variations, Twentieth Journey Into Night (Edmund) and the Angeles and dreams of living in a Dreamplay for Cutting Ball Theater. world premiere of Lanford Wilson’s Century, Twelfth Night, Violet, Two chateau in France. Gentlemen of Verona, and Once on translation of Henrick Ibsen’s Ghosts ROBERT KELLEY (Director) Please This Island. Other recent credits (Oswald) with Arizona Theatre JULES VERNE (Author of the novel) see bio on page 23. Company; Born Yesterday (Paul) and include Black Odyssey (California was a novelist, poet, and playwright Shakespeare Theater); She Loves Women in Jeopardy (Jackson/Kirk) born in France in 1828. Although he B. MODERN (Costume Designer) Me, Stage Kiss, and Dogfight (SF with Center Rep; Of Mice and Men trained to become a lawyer (follow- returns to TheatreWorks where she Playhouse); Leaving the Blues (New ing in his father’s footsteps), he designed The Country House, Peter Conservatory Theatre); It’s a quickly abandoned that career to be and the Starcatcher, The Hound of Wonderful Life (Marin Theatre a writer. He is the creator of the the Baskervilles, Big River, The Company); The Tempest (African famous adventure series, Voyages Pitmen Painters, The 39 Steps, American Shakespeare Company); Extraordinaires , which includes Superior Donuts, The Chosen, and Proud to Freedomland and Ripple Effect (San Journey to the Center of the Earth Third. Regional theatre design Francisco Mime Troupe); as well as From the Earth to the Moon (1864), credits include productions for Support work with American Conservatory The Adventures of Captain (1865), Oregon Shakespeare Festival; The Theater, Magic Theatre, Berkeley Hatteras Twenty Thousand (1866), Old Globe; Denver Center Theatre Repertory Theatre, Lorraine Leagues Under the Sea TheatreWorks (1870), Company; Santa Cruz Shakespeare; Hansberry Theatre, Denver Center Around the World in Eighty Days Geva Theatre Center, New York; Theatre Company, and the San Eight Hundred Leagues (1873), and Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; Francisco Shakespeare Festival. He on the Amazon (1881). He is the American Players Theatre, WI; Asolo is a member of the Tony Award- second-most translated author in Repertory Theatre, FL; Indiana winning (and never silent) San Personal attention the world since 1979, ranking Repertory Theatre; and Jewel Francisco Mime Troupe, where he has between Agatha Christie and Theatre Company. Opera credits thoughtful litigation acted in, written, and/or directed William Shakespeare. He died in include productions at Opera final resolution over 25 shows, a Playwrights 1905 in France. Theatre of Saint Louis and Opera

FAMILY LAW FAMILY Foundation Resident Playwright, a Our goal is to preserve our San José. She has received four 2017 Djerassi Arts Fellow, and the client’s dignity and humanity. CLIFF CARUTHERS (Sound Drama-Logue Awards, three Dean author of the critically-acclaimed Designer) is pleased to be Goodman Choice Awards, and a adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984. designing his 70th production for Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle TheatreWorks. Recent work includes Award. Ms. Modern is an Associate FA M I LYLAW G R OUP, P. C . Constellations, MARK BROWN (Playwright) is an TheatreWorks’ Artist at Santa Cruz Shakespeare, Around the Outside Mullingar, The Loudest Man award-winning writer. and at Geva Theatre Center. 575 Market Street, Suite 4000 World in 80 Days has been on Earth American Night Irma San Francisco, CA 94105 ; and produced around the world, from Vep 415.834.1120 for California Shakespeare KIMBERLY MOHNE HILL (Dialect www.sflg.com Elektra Dead Metaphor Off-Broadway to Baridhara Dhaka, Theater; and Coach) has served as Dialect Coach Bangladesh and has been translated for American Conservatory Theater; on over 25 shows for TheatreWorks,

18 THEATREWORKS Who’s Who (Lenny) and The Importance of Being into Turkish. Tom Jones, his adapta- Who’s Who including Constellations, Rags, credits include When the Rain Earnest (Ernest) with Sacramento tion of the ribald Henry Fielding Outside Mullingar, Triangle, Stops Falling at Dragon Theater Theatre Company; and Les Liaisons Sweeney Todd, Water by the and Venus in Fur at San Jose Stage JASON novel, received its world premiere Man in Love for Kansas City Dangereuses (Valmont), Ideation China–The Spoonful, 33 Variations, The Pitmen Company. Ms. Hill just finished KUYKENDALL in 2014. His musical Repertory Theatre, Death of a (Brock), and Stupid F#%*ing Bird Whole Enchilada Painters, Snow Falling on Cedars, serving as the Assistant Director (Phileas Fogg) is was named Salesman and We are Proud to (Trig) at Capital Stage. Mr. Kuykendall The North Pool, Doubt, Theophilus on ACT’s world premiere of A thrilled to be back Outstanding Musical of the 2008 Present for San Jose Stage Company, also produces and directs for the North, Arcadia, Jane Eyre, Baby Taj, Thousand Splendid Suns. She has after appearing in New York International Fringe Troilus and Cressida for Oregon camera. Visit NKmedia.biz for his The Little and Anna in the Tropics. An published three books with Smith & TheatreWorks’ The Festival. His adaptation of Shakespeare Festival; Born documentary, feature film, commer- Prince Associate Professor in Acting at Kraus: Great Scenes in Dialect for Country House set box office records at the Yesterday for Alley Theatre, Circle cial work, and more. Santa Clara University, she continues Young Actors and Monologues in (Michael) and The Hippodrome Theatre and the Mirror Transformation for Marin to teach, direct, and coach through- Dialect for Young Actors, Volumes Elephant Man (Treves). He is a Orlando Theatre Project. His play Theatre Company; TRAGEDY: a Poe–Deep Into That Darkness out the Bay Area. Recent directing I and II. member of Sacramento’s B Street MICHAEL GENE tragedy for Berkeley Repertory Peering Theatre’s Acting Company, where SULLIVAN hasn’t won a thing but is a Theatre; The Happy Ones for Magic (Detective Fix) has he has performed in over 50 darn good play and should be Theatre; Detroit and The Elaborate appeared in productions, including Who’s Afraid produced more often. He’s currently Entrance of Chad Deity for Aurora TheatreWorks’ of Virginia Woolf, The Explorer’s working with Paul Mirkovich, his Theatre Company; Happy Days for Cyrano, Peter and Enchilada Club, The 39 Steps, Detroit, and The collaborator on , on a Guthrie Theater; Julius Caesar for the Starcatcher, Hound of the Baskervilles. Other musical adaptation of the novel The Acting Company; Bug for SF The Hound of the Tom Jones regional credits include A Long Day’s . Mr. Brown lives in Los Playhouse; and Ubu Roi and A Baskervilles, 33 Variations, Twentieth Journey Into Night (Edmund) and the Angeles and dreams of living in a Dreamplay for Cutting Ball Theater. world premiere of Lanford Wilson’s Century, Twelfth Night, Violet, Two chateau in France. Gentlemen of Verona, and Once on translation of Henrick Ibsen’s Ghosts ROBERT KELLEY (Director) Please This Island. Other recent credits (Oswald) with Arizona Theatre JULES VERNE (Author of the novel) see bio on page 23. Company; Born Yesterday (Paul) and include Black Odyssey (California was a novelist, poet, and playwright Shakespeare Theater); She Loves Women in Jeopardy (Jackson/Kirk) born in France in 1828. Although he B. MODERN (Costume Designer) Me, Stage Kiss, and Dogfight (SF Pinewood is an independent, coeducational, non-profit, with Center Rep; Of Mice and Men trained to become a lawyer (follow- returns to TheatreWorks where she Playhouse); Leaving the Blues (New K–12 college-prep school. Students benefit fromsmall ing in his father’s footsteps), he designed The Country House, Peter Conservatory Theatre); It’s a quickly abandoned that career to be and the Starcatcher, The Hound of class size, challenging academic curricula, Wonderful Life (Marin Theatre a writer. He is the creator of the the Baskervilles, Big River, The Company); The Tempest (African famous adventure series, Voyages Pitmen Painters, The 39 Steps, American Shakespeare Company); Extraordinaires through , which includes Superior Donuts, The Chosen, and K Freedomland and Ripple Effect (San Journey to the Center of the Earth 12 Third. Regional theatre design and a wide choice of Francisco Mime Troupe); as well as From the Earth to the Moon Passionate Expertise enrichment activities. (1864), credits include productions for work with American Conservatory (1865), The Adventures of Captain We offer an environment where each student is Oregon Shakespeare Festival; The High Academic Expectations Theater, Magic Theatre, Berkeley Hatteras Twenty Thousand a respected and vital member of our (1866), Old Globe; Denver Center Theatre Repertory Theatre, Lorraine Leagues Under the Sea (1870), Company; Santa Cruz Shakespeare; Unlimited Exploration educational community. We invite you to explore Hansberry Theatre, Denver Center Around the World in Eighty Days Geva Theatre Center, New York; the opportunity for your student to become a part of the Theatre Company, and the San Eight Hundred Leagues Grounded Moral Examples (1873), and Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; Pinewood tradition of academic excellence. For more Francisco Shakespeare Festival. He on the Amazon (1881). He is the American Players Theatre, WI; Asolo Confident Self-Expression information, please visit our website. is a member of the Tony Award- second-most translated author in Repertory Theatre, FL; Indiana winning (and never silent) San the world since 1979, ranking Repertory Theatre; and Jewel www.pinewood.edu Francisco Mime Troupe, where he has between Agatha Christie and Theatre Company. Opera credits acted in, written, and/or directed William Shakespeare. He died in include productions at Opera over 25 shows, a Playwrights 1905 in France. Theatre of Saint Louis and Opera Foundation Resident Playwright, a San José. She has received four 2017 Djerassi Arts Fellow, and the CLIFF CARUTHERS (Sound Drama-Logue Awards, three Dean author of the critically-acclaimed Designer) is pleased to be Goodman Choice Awards, and a adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984. designing his 70th production for Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle TheatreWorks. Recent work includes Award. Ms. Modern is an Associate Constellations, MARK BROWN (Playwright) is an TheatreWorks’ Artist at Santa Cruz Shakespeare, Around the Outside Mullingar, The Loudest Man award-winning writer. and at Geva Theatre Center. World in 80 Days has been on Earth; American Night and Irma produced around the world, from Vep for California Shakespeare KIMBERLY MOHNE HILL (Dialect Elektra Dead Metaphor Off-Broadway to Baridhara Dhaka, Theater; and Coach) has served as Dialect Coach Bangladesh and has been translated for American Conservatory Theater; on over 25 shows for TheatreWorks,

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ad proofs.indd 1 9/12/13 2:11 PM education system for both children artistic achievement and community Who’s Who and adults in Nepal. impact. She is a Performance Coach www.nepal.wwep.org in leadership communication train- RANDALL K. LUM (Stage Manager) ing with Stand and Deliver Group. has stage managed TheatreWorks’ The Prince of Egypt, Constellations, LESLIE MARTINSON (Casting Rags, Outside Mullingar, Director) is TheatreWorks’ Associate JOE RAGEY (Scenic Designer) has Confederates, The Velocity of Artistic Director and Casting designed over 60 shows for Autumn, Jane Austen’s EMMA, Director. Her many TheatreWorks TheatreWorks over the last 30 years. The Country House, Fallen Angels, directing credits include the world Some of his favorite TheatreWorks The Four Immigrants: Little Women, Big The Lake Effect, Peter and the premiere of designs include An American Musical Manga, River, Sense and Sensibility, The 39 Starcatcher, Water by the Spoonful, Calligraphy, Proof, Steps, A Christmas Memory, Merrily Marry Me a Little, Once on This the regional Water by the Spoonful, We Roll Along, Baby Taj, My Ántonia, Island, Little Women, Time Stands premiere of and the West Coast premieres of Jane Eyre, Peter Pan, Triumph of Still, and Other Desert Cities. Other The Pitmen Painters and Superior Love, You Can’t Take it With You, credits include five years at Oregon Donuts. A graduate of Occidental Equus, Conversations With My Shakespeare Festival (Equivocation; Father, Nagasaki Dust, Honor Song American Night: The Ballad of College, she has been a Watson for Crazy Horse, La Bete, San Juan Jose; Dead Man’s Cell Fellow in political theatre, a and member of Lincoln Center Director’s Pacific Overtures. He has received FIND YOUR Phone; Ruined; The Unfortunates), Lab, a member of the La MaMa over a dozen Bay Area Theatre Denver Center Theatre Company, International Directing Symposium, Critics Circle Awards, LA Drama- La Jolla Playhouse, Center Theatre and has served on Theatre Bay Logue Awards and Dean Goodman Group, The Old Globe, American Passions Area’s Theatre Services Committee Choice Awards for shows he Conservatory Theater, Berkeley since 2002. Silicon Valley Creates designed for TheatreWorks. Repertory Theatre, California AT HARKER! named her an Arts Laureate for Shakespeare Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Laguna Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, and 18 seasons and over 90 productions as Resident Stage Manager at South Coast Repertory (Wit, Intimate Apparel, Three Days of Rain, Blue Door, The At Harker we believe art is essential for a rich, Further Adventures of Hedda well-rounded education. From preschool to Gabler, Kimberly Akimbo). Preschool-Grade 12 graduation we nurture and encourage stu- dents to explore the arts through dozens of STEVEN B. MANNSHARDT choices, from stone carving to musical theater. (Lighting Designer) has been the lighting designer for over 70 Our teachers are working artists themselves productions at TheatreWorks, and will inspire and guide your children to having won numerous Bay Area discover their creative gifts. Join us! Theatre Critics Circle, Theatre Bay Area, and Dean Goodman Choice Harker’s new Rothschild Performing Arts Awards for his work. His regional design credits include Long Wharf Center opening in 2018! Theatre, New Haven; A Contemporary Theatre, Seattle; Founded in 1893, The Harker School is a Pre-12, college American Repertory Theater, preparatory school in San Jose that has earned international recognition for its top academics, quality teachers and Cambridge; Studio Arena Theatre, students’ achievements. Buffalo; Magic Theatre; and the Pasadena Playhouse. He currently teaches lighting design and stage management at San Jose State University and previously taught lighting design at Santa Rosa Junior College. He also runs an organiza- tion dedicated to improving the The Harker School | San Jose, CA | K-12 | Preschool | Summer | www.harker.org

Untitled-1 1 9/21/17 1:57 PM education system for both children artistic achievement and community Who’s Who and adults in Nepal. impact. She is a Performance Coach www.nepal.wwep.org in leadership communication train- RANDALL K. LUM (Stage Manager) ing with Stand and Deliver Group. has stage managed TheatreWorks’ The Prince of Egypt, Constellations, LESLIE MARTINSON (Casting Rags, Outside Mullingar, Director) is TheatreWorks’ Associate JOE RAGEY (Scenic Designer) has Confederates, The Velocity of Artistic Director and Casting designed over 60 shows for Autumn, Jane Austen’s EMMA, Director. Her many TheatreWorks TheatreWorks over the last 30 years. The Country House, Fallen Angels, directing credits include the world Some of his favorite TheatreWorks The Four Immigrants: Little Women, Big The Lake Effect, Peter and the premiere of designs include An American Musical Manga, River, Sense and Sensibility, The 39 Starcatcher, Water by the Spoonful, Calligraphy, Proof, Steps, A Christmas Memory, Merrily Marry Me a Little, Once on This the regional Water by the Spoonful, We Roll Along, Baby Taj, My Ántonia, Island, Little Women, Time Stands premiere of and the West Coast premieres of Jane Eyre, Peter Pan, Triumph of Still, and Other Desert Cities. Other The Pitmen Painters and Superior Love, You Can’t Take it With You, credits include five years at Oregon Donuts. A graduate of Occidental Equus, Conversations With My Shakespeare Festival (Equivocation; Father, Nagasaki Dust, Honor Song American Night: The Ballad of College, she has been a Watson for Crazy Horse, La Bete, San Juan Jose; Dead Man’s Cell Fellow in political theatre, a and member of Lincoln Center Director’s Pacific Overtures. He has received Phone; Ruined; The Unfortunates), Lab, a member of the La MaMa over a dozen Bay Area Theatre Denver Center Theatre Company, International Directing Symposium, Critics Circle Awards, LA Drama- La Jolla Playhouse, Center Theatre and has served on Theatre Bay Logue Awards and Dean Goodman Group, The Old Globe, American Area’s Theatre Services Committee Choice Awards for shows he Conservatory Theater, Berkeley since 2002. Silicon Valley Creates designed for TheatreWorks. Repertory Theatre, California named her an Arts Laureate for Shakespeare Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Laguna Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, and 18 seasons and over 90 productions as Resident Stage Manager at South Coast Repertory (Wit, Intimate Apparel, Three Days of Rain, Blue Door, The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler, Kimberly Akimbo).

STEVEN B. MANNSHARDT (Lighting Designer) has been the lighting designer for over 70 productions at TheatreWorks, having won numerous Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle, Theatre Bay Area, and Dean Goodman Choice Awards for his work. His regional design credits include Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven; A Contemporary Theatre, Seattle; American Repertory Theater, Cambridge; Studio Arena Theatre, Buffalo; Magic Theatre; and the Pasadena Playhouse. He currently teaches lighting design and stage management at San Jose State University and previously taught lighting design at Santa Rosa Junior College. He also runs an organiza- tion dedicated to improving the

encoremediagroup.com/programs 21 PHIL SANTORA (Managing Director) of the National Alliance for Musical Who’s Who joined TheatreWorks in 2007. He has Theatre Board. Prior board service served as Managing Director of includes the League of Chicago CAMERON WELLS (Foley Artist) is Northlight Theatre (Chicago) and Theatres, Atlanta Coalition of a dramaturg, dialect coach, and Georgia Shakespeare Festival Theatres, and the executive commit- performer who has interned at (Atlanta), as well as Development tee of the League of Resident TheatreWorks in the artistic depart- Director for Great Lakes Theatre Theatres (LORT). He was named ment over the past two years. His Festival (Cleveland) and George 2000’s Best Arts Administrator by acting credits at Santa Clara University Street Playhouse (New Brunswick). Atlanta Magazine and received the Arcadia include Bernard in , Jacob in He holds an MFA in Theatre Atlanta Arts and Business Council’s Awake & Sing! The , The Narrator in Administration from the Yale School 1998 ABBY Award for Arts Good Doctor The , Gonzalo in of Drama and a BA in Drama from Administrator. Tempest In The , and Piraguero in Duke University. He is Vice President Heights. Other credits include Ezekiel Cheever in The Crucible (Los Bing Concert Hall Stanford University Altos Stage Company); Simon Stimson in Our Town (UpStage Left); chorus in La Cenerentola and Carmen (Music Academy of The West). As a The perfect gift for the holidays dialect coach, his work will next be heard in Insignificance at The This winter, join us on a journey from Cremona, Italy to the Dragon Theatre. He has trained with island of Bali—all without leaving the Bay Area. Aldo Billingslea, Kimberly Mohne Tickets are still available for these amazing shows. Hill, Scott Kaiser, Bill and Cheri Steinkellner, and numerous others. He thanks his family and friends for their love and support. DECEMBER FEBRUARY MARCH ROBERT KELLEY (Artistic Director) Fri Sat is a Bay Area native and Stanford DECEMBER 8 FEBRUARY 3 University graduate. He founded The Red Violin Cameron Carpenter TheatreWorks in 1970 and has Screening with directed over 175 TheatreWorks Live Orchestra Fri productions, including many world FEBRUARY 9 Fri and regional premieres. He has Sat DECEMBER 15 Darlene Love DECEMBER 9 received the Silicon Valley Arts Winter Acoustic Tour The Hot Sardines’ Brandi Carlile Council’s Legacy Laureate Award; Holiday Stomp Fri & Sat the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle MARCH 16 & 17 Machine de Cirque Paine Knickerbocker Award and JANUARY Jerry Friedman Award for Lifetime Achievement; BATCC Awards for Fri Outstanding Direction for The Youth save 50% on Hound of the Baskervilles; Into the JANUARY 19 full-priced tickets. St. Louis Symphony Woods; Pacific Overtures; Rags; Wed Sweeney Todd; Another Midsummer FEBRUARY 28 Fri & Sat Night; Sunday in the Park with JANUARY 26 & 27 Çudamani: Gamelan Thu George; Jane Eyre; Caroline, L.A. Dance Project and Dance of Bali and DECEMBER 14 or Change; and Back Stage West Happy, Joyous Hanukkah Garland Awards for his direction of The Klezmatics Side Show and Sunday in the Park with George. He recently directed Constellations, Rags, Daddy Long Legs (Theatre Bay Area Award for SEASON MEDIA SPONSORS Outstanding Director of a Musical, BUY live.stanford.edu 2017), Outside Mullingar, Cyrano, TICKETS 650.724.2464 and Jane Austen’s EMMA.

EAP full-page template.indd 1 10/5/17 12:27 PM PHIL SANTORA (Managing Director) of the National Alliance for Musical Who’s Who joined TheatreWorks in 2007. He has Theatre Board. Prior board service served as Managing Director of includes the League of Chicago CAMERON WELLS (Foley Artist) is Northlight Theatre (Chicago) and Theatres, Atlanta Coalition of a dramaturg, dialect coach, and Georgia Shakespeare Festival Theatres, and the executive commit- performer who has interned at (Atlanta), as well as Development tee of the League of Resident TheatreWorks in the artistic depart- Director for Great Lakes Theatre Theatres (LORT). He was named ment over the past two years. His Festival (Cleveland) and George 2000’s Best Arts Administrator by acting credits at Santa Clara University Street Playhouse (New Brunswick). Atlanta Magazine and received the Arcadia include Bernard in , Jacob in He holds an MFA in Theatre Atlanta Arts and Business Council’s Awake & Sing! The , The Narrator in Administration from the Yale School 1998 ABBY Award for Arts Good Doctor The , Gonzalo in of Drama and a BA in Drama from Administrator. Tempest In The , and Piraguero in Duke University. He is Vice President Heights. Other credits include Ezekiel Cheever in The Crucible (Los Altos Stage Company); Simon Stimson in Our Town (UpStage Left); chorus in La Cenerentola and Carmen (Music Academy of The West). As a dialect coach, his work will next be heard in Insignificance at The Dragon Theatre. He has trained with Aldo Billingslea, Kimberly Mohne Hill, Scott Kaiser, Bill and Cheri Steinkellner, and numerous others. He thanks his family and friends for their love and support.

ROBERT KELLEY (Artistic Director) is a Bay Area native and Stanford University graduate. He founded TheatreWorks in 1970 and has directed over 175 TheatreWorks productions, including many world and regional premieres. He has received the Silicon Valley Arts Council’s Legacy Laureate Award; the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Paine Knickerbocker Award and Jerry Friedman Award for Lifetime Achievement; BATCC Awards for Outstanding Direction for The Hound of the Baskervilles; Into the Woods; Pacific Overtures; Rags; Sweeney Todd; Another Midsummer Night; Sunday in the Park with George; Jane Eyre; and Caroline, or Change; and Back Stage West Garland Awards for his direction of Side Show and Sunday in the Park with George. He recently directed Constellations, Rags, Daddy Long Legs (Theatre Bay Area Award for Outstanding Director of a Musical, 2017), Outside Mullingar, Cyrano, and Jane Austen’s EMMA.

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This Season of Giving, help inspire stories from across the globe!

Join our hero from Around the World in 80 Days, Phileas Fogg, as he charts our progress to raise $275,000 this holiday season. The stories we share enable theatregoers and students to visit countries like Egypt (The Prince of Egypt), Ireland (Outside Mullingar), India (Baby Taj), and many, many more!

These stories illuminate numerous cultures present right here in our community, building bridges and celebrating diversity. Your gift—big or small—enables us to share more diverse stories right here in the Bay Area.

Oh, and don’t forget to check out Phileas’ progress in the lobby or online! For every $25,000 raised, he will share stories told on our stages, revealing where each story is set along with fun facts about the production.

Thank you for joining us on this incredible journey!

Give online at bit.ly/TWSeason or by mail: PO Box 50458, Palo Alto, CA 94303-0458

You can also discuss your impact and benefits with Director of Development Ronnie Plasters at 650.463.7135 or [email protected]

EAP full-page template.indd 1 8/11/17 2:13 PM TheatreWorks Season of Giving

This Season of Giving, help inspire stories from across the globe!

Join our hero from Around the World in 80 Days, Phileas Fogg, as he charts our progress to raise $275,000 this holiday season. The stories we share enable theatregoers and students to visit countries like Egypt (The Prince of Egypt), Ireland (Outside Mullingar), India (Baby Taj), and many, many more!

These stories illuminate numerous cultures present right here in our community, building bridges and celebrating diversity. Your gift—big or small—enables us to share more diverse stories right here in the Bay Area.

Oh, and don’t forget to check out Phileas’ progress in the lobby or online! For every $25,000 raised, he will share stories told on our stages, revealing where each story is set along with fun facts about the production.

Thank you for joining us on this incredible journey!

Give online at bit.ly/TWSeason or by mail: PO Box 50458, Palo Alto, CA 94303-0458

You can also discuss your impact and benefits with Director of Development Ronnie Plasters at 650.463.7135 or [email protected]

encoremediagroup.com/programs 25 TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Contributors Peter & Laura Haas Mr. & Mrs. David W. Beach Mary Ann & John Grilli Carrie Perzow & Von Leirer Jerre & Nancy Hitz Betsy & George Bechtel Barbara Gunther John & Valerie Poggi THE PRODUCER CIRCLE D & J Hodgson Family Foundation Don & Deborah Bennett Jim & Linda Hagan Diane Posnak TheatreWorks Producers have made a gift of $10,000 or more. They are invited to exclusive events with visiting artists, and on special theatre trips. Producers may select Jack Jorgenson Caroline Beverstock Kovin Hagan Karen & John Reis a production to follow from “page to stage“ by attending the design presentation, rehearsals, and opening nights. Producers also receive all Inner Circle benefits. Chris Kenrick Charlotte & David Biegelsen Elaine & Eric Hahn Eddie Reynolds & Ed Jones Contact Ronnie Plasters at 650.463.7135 or [email protected] for more information John and Catharine Kristian Fumiko & Carl Bielefeldt Russell & Debbie Hall Edward & Verne Rice Bill & Terry Krivan Robert & Letty Block David & Noreen Henig Paul & Sheri Robbins Visionary Producers Rick Stern & George & Susan Crow Dorothy Lazier Arlene & Jack Leslie Neil & Karen Bonke Craig & Deborah Hoffman Bob Rodert & Bev Kiltz ($50,000 and above) Nancy Ginsburg Stern Gordon & Carolyn Davidson Mark & Debra Leslie Janet Littlefield & Bob & Martha Bowden Anne & Emma Grace Holmes Alicia Rojas & Howard Lyons Ann S. Bowers Janet Strauss & Jeff Hawkins Ranae DeSantis Sue & Dick Levy William Coggshall Lauren & Darrell Boyle Judith & Wayne Hooper Alan Russell & Fred Thiemann Dr. & Mrs. W. M. Coughran, Jr. Lynn Szekely-Goode & John & Susan Diekman Mark Lewis & Barbara Shapiro Drs. John & Penny Loeb Michael & Leslie Braun Susan M. Huch Ellen & Jerry Saliman Anne & Larry Hambly Dr. Richard Goode Sarah Donaldson The Marmor Foundation/ Malcolm MacNaughton Kathy Bridgman Perry A. Irvine & Joseph & Sandy Santandrea Cynthia Sears Mark & Teri Vershel Dan & Catharine Garber Drs. Michael & Jane Marmor Suzanne Martin & John Doyle Ellen & Marc Brown Linda Romley-Irvine Carolyn Schutz* Lisa Webster & Ted Semple Gayla Lorthridge Wood & Sylvia & Ron Gerst Gillian & Tom Moran Kevin McCoy Marda Buchholz & Marcie Brown Nurit & Matthew Jacobs Perry Segal TheatreWorks Board Emeritus Walt Wood Emeri & Brad Handler Leslie & Douglas Murphy-Chutorian The Merrimac Fund Eric Butler MD & Sudhanshu & Lori Jain Pamela & Rick Shames Judy Heyboer & Brian Shally Eileen Nelson & Hugh Franks Buff & Cindy Miller Suzanne Rocca-Butler Mary Louise Johnson Jack Shannahan Executive Producers Producers William J. Higgs Yvonne & Mike Nevens Myrna & Hy Mitchner, PhD Jeff & Deborah Byron Claiborne S. Jones Sarah Shema & Neyssa Marina ($10,000 to $24,999) ($25,000 to $49,999) Jan Horn & Jane Weston Ellice & Jim Papp Margo & Roy Ogus Ron & Sally Carter Hilary Jones* Marge & Jim Shively Anonymous Anonymous (2) Larry Horton & George Wilson Richard Partridge Ronnie Plasters Raymond & Patti Chan Craig & Gina Jorasch Family Fund Carolyn & Rick Silberman Marsha & Bill Adler Bruce Cozadd & Hala Kurdi Edward Hunter & Michelle Garcia Philip Santora & Cristian Asher Susan Rabin Buchanan & Rowland & Dawn Chase Mr. & Mrs. Abdo Kadifa Gerry Sipes Dr. Edward & Lois Anderson Yogen & Peggy Dalal Charlotte Jacobs & Dorothy Saxe David Buchanan Josephine Chien & Thomas Kailath & Anu Maitra Mariangela Smania & Pierre Cintra Elaine Baskin & Ken Krechmer The John & Marcia Goldman Roderick Young Loren & Shelley Saxe Orli & Zack Rinat Stephen Johnson Louise Karr Pamela Smith Lucy Berlin & Glenn Trewitt Foundation Leigh & Roy Johnson Martha Seaver & Scott Walecka Adam Samuels Lee & Amy Christel Ruth Ann & David Keefer Todd Smith David & Lauren Berman The Dirk & Charlene Kabcenell Mike & Martha Kahn Leonard Shustek & Donna Dubinsky Tom Rindfleisch & Carli Scott Larry & Sara Condit Cynthia & Bert Keely Art Stamness Jayne Booker Foundation Julie Kaufman & Doug Klein Mark Stevens & Mary Murphy Charles G. Schulz & Claire E. Taylor Jodi Corwin and Irv Duchowny Arthur Keller Jim Stephens & Abraham Brown Bredt Family Fund at Truckee Phil Kurjan & Noel Butler Robert Kelley & Ev Shiro Debra Summers & John Baker Edward & Jane Seaman in memory of Milt, Michael, Woof Kurtzman & Liz Hertz The Sher-Right Fund Tahoe Community Foundation Michelle & Michael Kwatinetz Tom & Sharon Kelley Watkins Family Charitable Fund Bart Sears and Jack Jim & Marilyn Lattin Jan Thomson & Roy Levin Steve & Gayle Brugler Mendelsohn Family Fund Robin & Don Kennedy Carol Watts Joyce Reynolds Sinclair & Jeff & Amy Crowe Henry Lawson & Helaina Titus Steven & Karin Chase Morgan Family Foundation Hal & Iris Korol Harriet & Frank Weiss Dr. Gerald M. Sinclair Richard & Anita Davis Marcia Wells-Lawson Ted & Betty Ullman Fran Codispoti Joe and Nancy Ragey Dick & Cathy Lampman Bill & Janne Wissel Ellen & Ed Smith Scott & Edie DeVine Elizabeth Leep Tzipor Ulman & Dan Rubinstein Sheri Sobrato Douglas Dexter Janet & Phil Levine Les & Judy Vadasz Lisa & Matthew Sonsini Dennis & Cindy Dillon Donald & Rachel Levy Robert J. Van der Leest, MD Jerry Strom & Marilyn Austin Monica Donovan Stephen & Nancy Levy Mimi & Jim Van Horne THE INNER CIRCLE Jayne Booker, Chair Catherine & Jeff Thermond Robert J. Lipshutz & Lorr Members of The Inner Circle contribute a minimum of $1,500 each season and enjoy Pamela Dougherty aine VanDeGraaf-Rodriguez & a variety of benefits including priority subscription seating, VIP ticket purchases and Odette & Ewart Thomas Mr. & Mrs. Robert English Nancy Wong, MD Fred C. Rodriguez exchanges, access to house seats on Broadway, and invitations to Meet-the-Artists Kristina Vetter Patrick Farris Tom & Sally Logothetti Thomas Vogelsang 45 for 45Circle events. Contact Hans Cardenas at 650.463.7155 or [email protected] for more Holly Ward & Scott Spector Sheldon Finkelstein & Richard & Charlene Maltzman in Margaret & Curt Weil information. Griff & Lynne Weber Beatriz V. Infante memory of Carol Adler Elissa Wellikson & Tim Shroyer TheatreWorks 45 for 45 Circle members have made a multi-year pledge of $45,000 or more to honor Robert Kelley and Associate Producers Bart & Nancy Westcott Peggy Woodford Forbes & Marilyn Manning & Arlene & Bruce S. White Mark & Sheila Wolfson Harry Bremond Richard Lonergan Karen Carlson White TW’s 45th Anniversary. Contact Ronnie Plasters at 650.463.7135 or ($6,000 to $9,999) Directors Diane & Bob Frankle Anne B. McCarthy Ken & Ruth Wilcox [email protected] for more information. Anonymous ($3,000 to $5,999) Barbara Franklin & Bernie Loth Patricia McClung & Allen Morgan Bruce & Elinor Wilner Carol Bacchetti Paul Asente & Ron Jenks Players ($1,500 to $2,999) Francis Franklin Rani Menon & Keith Amidon Lynn Wilson & Howard Roberts Dr. Barbara L. Bessey in memory of Paul & Debbie Baker Elaine Baskin & Ken Krechmer Suzanne Martin & John Doyle Anonymous (5) Jay & Joyce Friedrichs Shauna Mika & Rick Callison Neil & Ann Wolff Dr. Kevin J. Gilmartin Joel & Wendy Bartlett Marc & Sophia Abramson Markus Fromherz & Heike Schmitz James Niemasik Judith & Peter Wolken Ann S. Bowers Mendelsohn Family Fund Cabell Chinnis Jim Bassett & Lily Hurlimann Douglas & Loretta Allred Marilee Gardner Lynn & Susan Orr Bill & Sue Worthington Gayle & Steve Brugler Rebecca & James Morgan David & Ann Crockett Anne & Buz Battle Mary Ann Anthony & Ken Fowkes Ciro & Eileen Giammona David Pasta in memory of Linda & Joel Zizmor Bruce Cozadd Cynthia Sears John & Wynne Dobyns Katherine Bazak & John Dohner Shirley Bailey Kenneth & Susan Greathouse Gloria J.A. Guth Gordon & Carolyn Davidson Barbara Shapiro & Mark Lewis Lynda & Steve Fox The BelleJAR Foundation Pat Bashaw & Gene Segre Renee & Mark Greenstein Beth & Charlie Perrell Sylvia & Ron Gerst Rick Stern & David E. Gold & Irene Blumenkranz Marah & Gene Brehaut Bruce & Gail Chizen Anne & Larry Hambly Nancy Ginsburg Stern Ronald Hayden Linda M. Hinton & Vince Foecke Dean & Wilma Chu Judy Heyboer & Brian Shally Mark & Teri Vershel Benefactors Lisa & Marc Jones Nancy Mahoney Cohen ($750 to $1,499) Julie Kaufman Lisa Webster Rob & Ann Marangell Diane & Howard Crittenden Anonymous (2) • Sally Abel • Kathleen Anderson & Jeffrey Lipkin • Doug & Marie Barry • Brigid Barton • Sharon & John Brauman • James B. Brennock • Marni Brown & Tom & Sharon Kelley Watkins Family Charitable Richard Niblock Randy Curry & Kay Simon Gabe Garcia • Burke Family Trust • H. Hans Cardenas • David Cohan • Robert A. Cook • Gwen Crawford • Ron & Marion Dickel • Suzanne & Allan Epstein • Mr. & Mrs. Phil Kurjan & Noel Butler Trust Bill & Janet Nicholls Redwood Serenity Fund Stephen S. Francis • Wesley & Dianne Gardiner • Joseph & Sondra Glider • Jack & Joan Gorham • Sue & Bill Gould • James Heeger & Daryl Messinger • Susan Heller • Mitzi Henderson • Nancy Lee Jalonen • Laurie T Jarrett • Dean & Patricia Johnson • Carl Jukkola & Desmond Lee • David & Joyce Kim • Michael & Ina Korek • Allan & Michelle & Michael Kwatinetz Carol Watts In memory of Pearl Reimer Susan Fairbrook Linda Kramer • George & Ann Limbach • Alexander & Anne Long • Anders & Juneko Martinson • Katherine Mason • Sharon & Harris Meyers • Gus Meyner in memory Richard & Josephine Ferrie Dorothy Lazier Janne & Bill Wissel Ron & Lila Schmidt of Miriam • William & Sue Miklos • Annie Nunan* • Sharon & John Patterson • James & Alma Phillips • Susan Rinne • In memory of Bridget Ross • Mr. & Mrs. John Gayle Flanagan Mark & Debra Leslie Susanne Stevens & Monte Mansir Rudolph • Tom & Nan Ryan • Nancy & Magnus Ryde • Emil & Barbara Sarpa • Lee & Kim Scheuer • David & Harriet Schnur • Ursula Shultz • Barbara & David Sloss* • AV Flox & Yonatan Zunger Carole & Michael Marks Peter & Anne Steiner • Polly Taylor in memory of Ted Taylor • Marilyn Tinderholt • Gary & Cathy Walz Peter & Rose Friedland Contributions listed were received between 10/11/2016 and 10/11/2017. Program deadlines and space limitations prevent us from listing all of our greatly appreciated patrons. Terry & Carolyn Gannon in honor of For corrections, or to make a contribution, please contact Sarah Benjamin at 650.463.7132 or [email protected]. Robert Kelley * Indicates donors whose gifts include in-kind goods or services. + Indicates members of the Encore Club, who make ongoing monthly or quarterly gifts.

26 THEATREWORKS TheatreWorks Silicon Valley Contributors Peter & Laura Haas Mr. & Mrs. David W. Beach Mary Ann & John Grilli Carrie Perzow & Von Leirer Jerre & Nancy Hitz Betsy & George Bechtel Barbara Gunther John & Valerie Poggi THE PRODUCER CIRCLE D & J Hodgson Family Foundation Don & Deborah Bennett Jim & Linda Hagan Diane Posnak TheatreWorks Producers have made a gift of $10,000 or more. They are invited to exclusive events with visiting artists, and on special theatre trips. Producers may select Jack Jorgenson Caroline Beverstock Kovin Hagan Karen & John Reis a production to follow from “page to stage“ by attending the design presentation, rehearsals, and opening nights. Producers also receive all Inner Circle benefits. Chris Kenrick Charlotte & David Biegelsen Elaine & Eric Hahn Eddie Reynolds & Ed Jones Contact Ronnie Plasters at 650.463.7135 or [email protected] for more information John and Catharine Kristian Fumiko & Carl Bielefeldt Russell & Debbie Hall Edward & Verne Rice Bill & Terry Krivan Robert & Letty Block David & Noreen Henig Paul & Sheri Robbins Visionary Producers Rick Stern & George & Susan Crow Dorothy Lazier Arlene & Jack Leslie Neil & Karen Bonke Craig & Deborah Hoffman Bob Rodert & Bev Kiltz ($50,000 and above) Nancy Ginsburg Stern Gordon & Carolyn Davidson Mark & Debra Leslie Janet Littlefield & Bob & Martha Bowden Anne & Emma Grace Holmes Alicia Rojas & Howard Lyons Ann S. Bowers Janet Strauss & Jeff Hawkins Ranae DeSantis Sue & Dick Levy William Coggshall Lauren & Darrell Boyle Judith & Wayne Hooper Alan Russell & Fred Thiemann Dr. & Mrs. W. M. Coughran, Jr. Lynn Szekely-Goode & John & Susan Diekman Mark Lewis & Barbara Shapiro Drs. John & Penny Loeb Michael & Leslie Braun Susan M. Huch Ellen & Jerry Saliman Anne & Larry Hambly Dr. Richard Goode Sarah Donaldson The Marmor Foundation/ Malcolm MacNaughton Kathy Bridgman Perry A. Irvine & Joseph & Sandy Santandrea Cynthia Sears Mark & Teri Vershel Dan & Catharine Garber Drs. Michael & Jane Marmor Suzanne Martin & John Doyle Ellen & Marc Brown Linda Romley-Irvine Carolyn Schutz* Lisa Webster & Ted Semple Gayla Lorthridge Wood & Sylvia & Ron Gerst Gillian & Tom Moran Kevin McCoy Marda Buchholz & Marcie Brown Nurit & Matthew Jacobs Perry Segal TheatreWorks Board Emeritus Walt Wood Emeri & Brad Handler Leslie & Douglas Murphy-Chutorian The Merrimac Fund Eric Butler MD & Sudhanshu & Lori Jain Pamela & Rick Shames Judy Heyboer & Brian Shally Eileen Nelson & Hugh Franks Buff & Cindy Miller Suzanne Rocca-Butler Mary Louise Johnson Jack Shannahan Executive Producers Producers William J. Higgs Yvonne & Mike Nevens Myrna & Hy Mitchner, PhD Jeff & Deborah Byron Claiborne S. Jones Sarah Shema & Neyssa Marina ($10,000 to $24,999) ($25,000 to $49,999) Jan Horn & Jane Weston Ellice & Jim Papp Margo & Roy Ogus Ron & Sally Carter Hilary Jones* Marge & Jim Shively Anonymous Anonymous (2) Larry Horton & George Wilson Richard Partridge Ronnie Plasters Raymond & Patti Chan Craig & Gina Jorasch Family Fund Carolyn & Rick Silberman Marsha & Bill Adler Bruce Cozadd & Hala Kurdi Edward Hunter & Michelle Garcia Philip Santora & Cristian Asher Susan Rabin Buchanan & Rowland & Dawn Chase Mr. & Mrs. Abdo Kadifa Gerry Sipes Dr. Edward & Lois Anderson Yogen & Peggy Dalal Charlotte Jacobs & Dorothy Saxe David Buchanan Josephine Chien & Thomas Kailath & Anu Maitra Mariangela Smania & Pierre Cintra Elaine Baskin & Ken Krechmer The John & Marcia Goldman Roderick Young Loren & Shelley Saxe Orli & Zack Rinat Stephen Johnson Louise Karr Pamela Smith Lucy Berlin & Glenn Trewitt Foundation Leigh & Roy Johnson Martha Seaver & Scott Walecka Adam Samuels Lee & Amy Christel Ruth Ann & David Keefer Todd Smith David & Lauren Berman The Dirk & Charlene Kabcenell Mike & Martha Kahn Leonard Shustek & Donna Dubinsky Tom Rindfleisch & Carli Scott Larry & Sara Condit Cynthia & Bert Keely Art Stamness Jayne Booker Foundation Julie Kaufman & Doug Klein Mark Stevens & Mary Murphy Charles G. Schulz & Claire E. Taylor Jodi Corwin and Irv Duchowny Arthur Keller Jim Stephens & Abraham Brown Bredt Family Fund at Truckee Phil Kurjan & Noel Butler Robert Kelley & Ev Shiro Debra Summers & John Baker Edward & Jane Seaman in memory of Milt, Michael, Woof Kurtzman & Liz Hertz The Sher-Right Fund Tahoe Community Foundation Michelle & Michael Kwatinetz Tom & Sharon Kelley Watkins Family Charitable Fund Bart Sears and Jack Jim & Marilyn Lattin Jan Thomson & Roy Levin Steve & Gayle Brugler Mendelsohn Family Fund Robin & Don Kennedy Carol Watts Joyce Reynolds Sinclair & Jeff & Amy Crowe Henry Lawson & Helaina Titus Steven & Karin Chase Morgan Family Foundation Hal & Iris Korol Harriet & Frank Weiss Dr. Gerald M. Sinclair Richard & Anita Davis Marcia Wells-Lawson Ted & Betty Ullman Fran Codispoti Joe and Nancy Ragey Dick & Cathy Lampman Bill & Janne Wissel Ellen & Ed Smith Scott & Edie DeVine Elizabeth Leep Tzipor Ulman & Dan Rubinstein Sheri Sobrato Douglas Dexter Janet & Phil Levine Les & Judy Vadasz Lisa & Matthew Sonsini Dennis & Cindy Dillon Donald & Rachel Levy Robert J. Van der Leest, MD Jerry Strom & Marilyn Austin Monica Donovan Stephen & Nancy Levy Mimi & Jim Van Horne THE INNER CIRCLE Jayne Booker, Chair Catherine & Jeff Thermond Robert J. Lipshutz & Lorr Members of The Inner Circle contribute a minimum of $1,500 each season and enjoy Pamela Dougherty aine VanDeGraaf-Rodriguez & a variety of benefits including priority subscription seating, VIP ticket purchases and Odette & Ewart Thomas Mr. & Mrs. Robert English Nancy Wong, MD Fred C. Rodriguez exchanges, access to house seats on Broadway, and invitations to Meet-the-Artists Kristina Vetter Patrick Farris Tom & Sally Logothetti Thomas Vogelsang 45 for 45Circle events. Contact Hans Cardenas at 650.463.7155 or [email protected] for more Holly Ward & Scott Spector Sheldon Finkelstein & Richard & Charlene Maltzman in Margaret & Curt Weil information. Griff & Lynne Weber Beatriz V. Infante memory of Carol Adler Elissa Wellikson & Tim Shroyer TheatreWorks 45 for 45 Circle members have made a multi-year pledge of $45,000 or more to honor Robert Kelley and Associate Producers Bart & Nancy Westcott Peggy Woodford Forbes & Marilyn Manning & Arlene & Bruce S. White Mark & Sheila Wolfson Harry Bremond Richard Lonergan Karen Carlson White TW’s 45th Anniversary. Contact Ronnie Plasters at 650.463.7135 or ($6,000 to $9,999) Directors Diane & Bob Frankle Anne B. McCarthy Ken & Ruth Wilcox [email protected] for more information. Anonymous ($3,000 to $5,999) Barbara Franklin & Bernie Loth Patricia McClung & Allen Morgan Bruce & Elinor Wilner Carol Bacchetti Paul Asente & Ron Jenks Players ($1,500 to $2,999) Francis Franklin Rani Menon & Keith Amidon Lynn Wilson & Howard Roberts Dr. Barbara L. Bessey in memory of Paul & Debbie Baker Elaine Baskin & Ken Krechmer Suzanne Martin & John Doyle Anonymous (5) Jay & Joyce Friedrichs Shauna Mika & Rick Callison Neil & Ann Wolff Dr. Kevin J. Gilmartin Joel & Wendy Bartlett Marc & Sophia Abramson Markus Fromherz & Heike Schmitz James Niemasik Judith & Peter Wolken Ann S. Bowers Mendelsohn Family Fund Cabell Chinnis Jim Bassett & Lily Hurlimann Douglas & Loretta Allred Marilee Gardner Lynn & Susan Orr Bill & Sue Worthington Gayle & Steve Brugler Rebecca & James Morgan David & Ann Crockett Anne & Buz Battle Mary Ann Anthony & Ken Fowkes Ciro & Eileen Giammona David Pasta in memory of Linda & Joel Zizmor Bruce Cozadd Cynthia Sears John & Wynne Dobyns Katherine Bazak & John Dohner Shirley Bailey Kenneth & Susan Greathouse Gloria J.A. Guth Gordon & Carolyn Davidson Barbara Shapiro & Mark Lewis Lynda & Steve Fox The BelleJAR Foundation Pat Bashaw & Gene Segre Renee & Mark Greenstein Beth & Charlie Perrell Sylvia & Ron Gerst Rick Stern & David E. Gold & Irene Blumenkranz Marah & Gene Brehaut Bruce & Gail Chizen Anne & Larry Hambly Nancy Ginsburg Stern Ronald Hayden Linda M. Hinton & Vince Foecke Dean & Wilma Chu Judy Heyboer & Brian Shally Mark & Teri Vershel Benefactors Lisa & Marc Jones Nancy Mahoney Cohen ($750 to $1,499) Julie Kaufman Lisa Webster Rob & Ann Marangell Diane & Howard Crittenden Anonymous (2) • Sally Abel • Kathleen Anderson & Jeffrey Lipkin • Doug & Marie Barry • Brigid Barton • Sharon & John Brauman • James B. Brennock • Marni Brown & Tom & Sharon Kelley Watkins Family Charitable Richard Niblock Randy Curry & Kay Simon Gabe Garcia • Burke Family Trust • H. Hans Cardenas • David Cohan • Robert A. Cook • Gwen Crawford • Ron & Marion Dickel • Suzanne & Allan Epstein • Mr. & Mrs. Phil Kurjan & Noel Butler Trust Bill & Janet Nicholls Redwood Serenity Fund Stephen S. Francis • Wesley & Dianne Gardiner • Joseph & Sondra Glider • Jack & Joan Gorham • Sue & Bill Gould • James Heeger & Daryl Messinger • Susan Heller • Mitzi Henderson • Nancy Lee Jalonen • Laurie T Jarrett • Dean & Patricia Johnson • Carl Jukkola & Desmond Lee • David & Joyce Kim • Michael & Ina Korek • Allan & Michelle & Michael Kwatinetz Carol Watts In memory of Pearl Reimer Susan Fairbrook Linda Kramer • George & Ann Limbach • Alexander & Anne Long • Anders & Juneko Martinson • Katherine Mason • Sharon & Harris Meyers • Gus Meyner in memory Richard & Josephine Ferrie Dorothy Lazier Janne & Bill Wissel Ron & Lila Schmidt of Miriam • William & Sue Miklos • Annie Nunan* • Sharon & John Patterson • James & Alma Phillips • Susan Rinne • In memory of Bridget Ross • Mr. & Mrs. John Gayle Flanagan Mark & Debra Leslie Susanne Stevens & Monte Mansir Rudolph • Tom & Nan Ryan • Nancy & Magnus Ryde • Emil & Barbara Sarpa • Lee & Kim Scheuer • David & Harriet Schnur • Ursula Shultz • Barbara & David Sloss* • AV Flox & Yonatan Zunger Carole & Michael Marks Peter & Anne Steiner • Polly Taylor in memory of Ted Taylor • Marilyn Tinderholt • Gary & Cathy Walz Peter & Rose Friedland Contributions listed were received between 10/11/2016 and 10/11/2017. Program deadlines and space limitations prevent us from listing all of our greatly appreciated patrons. Terry & Carolyn Gannon in honor of For corrections, or to make a contribution, please contact Sarah Benjamin at 650.463.7132 or [email protected]. Robert Kelley * Indicates donors whose gifts include in-kind goods or services. + Indicates members of the Encore Club, who make ongoing monthly or quarterly gifts.

encoremediagroup.com/programs 27 VISIONARY SPONSORS CORPORATE CIRCLE, FOUNDATION, & GOVERNMENT GIFTS TheatreWorks SV Staff Artistic Director Robert Kelley Executive Director Phil Santora Foundations and Corporate Circle members sponsor productions, support new works, and fund education programs for K–12 students. Sponsors may host events at the theatre, receive heightened community visibility, and enjoy other hospitality benefits. ARTISTIC SCENERY DEVELOPMENT MARKETING Contact Ronnie Plasters at 650.463.7135 or [email protected] for more information. Associate Artistic Director Technical Director Director of Development Acting Marketing Director Nikon Precision, Inc Visionary Sponsors Sponsors Leslie Martinson Frank Sarmiento Ronnie Plasters Syche Phillips ($50,000 and above) ($10,000 to $14,999) Palo Alto Weekly* The Garden Court Hotel* Adams Wine Group* Perkins Coie LLP* Director of New Works Lead Scenic Artist/Craftsman Associate Director of Art Director The William Randolph Hearst Heising-Simons Foundation Safari True Giovanna Sardelli Tom Langguth Donor Relations Ev Shiro Foundation Hengehold Motor Company* Wells Fargo Foundation H. Hans Cárdenas Company Manager/ Assistant Scenic Artist Box Office Manager The William & Flora Hewlett Casting Associate Heather Kenyon Grants & Communication Manager Alix Josefski Foundation Benefactors Friends Jeffrey Lo Ginnie Redmond J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines* ($5,000 to $9,999) ($1,000 to $2,499) Master Carpenter Marketing & Communications The Mercury News* Robert E. and Adele M. Anonymous Resident Musical Director Bill Roberts Events Manager Manager The David & Lucile Packard Boydston Charitable ChaseVP* William Liberatore Jodi Corwin Heather Orth Carpenters Foundation Foundation Pacific Hearing Service Artistic Staff Assistant Esteban Calvillo, Andrew Clark, Development Operations Manager Digital Media Manager The Shubert Foundation Dodge & Cox Investment Presidio Bank Sobrato Philanthropies* Managers Regarding Arts Jessia Hoffman Rodrigo Frausto, Patrick McKenna Sarah Benjamin Jennifer Gosk Fenwick & West LLP (logo) Artistic Intern Telefunding/Telesales Systems Analyst Presenting Sponsor Harrell Remodeling Matching Gifts Cameron Wells PROPERTIES Constance Gannon Andrew Skelton ($25,000 to $49,999) Hurlbut-Johnson Charitable Many companies will double or triple their employees’ contributions to nonprofits. National Endowment for the Arts Trusts New Works Reading Committee Properties Master Ticket Services Supervisor It’s a great way to make your gift to Christopher Fitzer EDUCATION Michelle Skinner Sand Hill Foundation National Alliance for Musical TheatreWorks go further at no extra cost. Bill Adler, Cristian Asher, Stephen Silver Fine Jewelry* Theatre Call 650.463.7155 for more information. Elaine Baskin, Doug Brook, Properties Stock Manager Director of Education Patron Services Coordinator Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund Amazon Smile Foundation Sue Krumbein, Shareen Merriam, Alfred Rudolph Amy Cole-Farrell Tracy Hayden Supporting Sponsors Rotary Club of Palo Alto Adobe Systems Patty Reinhart, Cindi Sears, Properties Artisan Associate Education Director Ticket Services Representatives ($15,000 to $24,999) ThinOptics Agilent Technologies Scott Walecka Justine Law Katie Bartholomew Andrée Beals, Nancy Melmon, Applied Materials, Inc. The Wilson Sonsini Goodrich Apple Margaret Purdy Carla Befera Public Relations* & Rosati Foundation Avant! Foundation PRODUCTION, Education Associate/ The Leonard C. & Mildred F. PRESENTING SPONSORS Google LIGHTING, & SOUND COSTUMES Master Teaching Artist Graphics Assistant Ferguson Foundation Supporters Hewlett-Packard Company Meghan C. Hakes Katie Dai The Kimball Foundation ($2,500 to $4,999) IBM Production Manager Costume Director SanDisk Corporation Allegra Entertainment Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies David A. Milligan Jill Bowers Master Teaching Artist Public Relations & Advertising The Harold & Mimi Steinberg Avidbank Piper LaGrelius Carla Befera & Co. Microsoft Assistant Production Manager Assistant Costumer Charitable Trust Cooley LLP* Carla Befera, Courtney Heimbuck Netflix Elizar Ivanov Noah Marin Teaching Artists The Morrison & Foerster Rambus Inc. Jake Arky Company Photographers Foundation Operations Manager/ Lead Cutter/Draper * Indicates donors whose gifts include Lauren Berman Kevin Berne, Alessandra Mello Los Altos Community Master Electrician Yen La Wong in-kind goods or services. Caitlin Evenson Foundation Steven B. Mannshardt Wardrobe Manager Matthew Keuter ADMINISTRATIVE Resident Lighting Designer Michaela O’Neill Josh Marx ENDOWMENT FUND General Manager Steven B. Mannshardt Costume Rentals Manager Lauren Mayer TheatreWorks Silicon Valley thanks the following lead donors for their extraordinarily generous Endowment gifts. Scott DeVine Conni Edwards Michileen Oberst Marsha & Bill Adler • William C. Anderson • Ann S. Bowers • Polly & Tom Bredt • Bruce Cozadd & Sharon Sound Supervisor Jed Pasario Business Manager Hoffman • Peter & Melanie Cross • Yogen & Peggy Dalal • Carl H. Feldman • Kathryn Green • The John & Dimitri Wentworth Assistant Cutter/First Hand Kelly Rinehart Jason Hyde Marcia Goldman Foundation • Emeri & Brad Handler • Hurlbut-Johnson Charitable Trusts • Charles & Roberta Production Coordinator Michelle Earney Martin Rojas Dietrich Katz Family Foundation • Patricia McClung & Allen Morgan • The Rathmann Family Foundation • Eddie Database Administrator SUPPORTING SPONSORS Karen Szpaller Resident Wigmaster Cassie Rosenbrock Reynolds • John & Diane Savage • Joyce Reynolds Sinclair • Lynn Szekely-Goode & Dr. Richard Goode Ken Maitz Electricians Sharon Ridge Elissa Stebbins Amanda Wallace Staff Accountant FUTUREWORKS Kat Arguello, Justin Buchs, Hair Stylist Steven Fetter, Carolyn Guggemos, Maryssa Wanlass Barbara Sloss FutureWorks members have made an estate gift from a will or living trust, a beneficiary designation in an IRA, a gift of life Jeanne Naritomi A.C. Hay, Cosmo insurance, a gift that returns lifetime income, or another planned gift. Contact [email protected] for more information. Hom, Front Desk Volunteers Dan Kaminski, Sean Kramer, Anonymous (4) • Marc Abramson • The Estate of William C. Anderson • Ray & Carol Bacchetti • Elaine Baskin & Joan Doherty, Cindi Sears Kyle W. Langdon, Eric Liu, Ken Krechmer • Thomas Beck • Pauline Berkow & Ronald Kauffman • David & Lauren Berman • Jayne Booker • Evan Lola, Harris Meyers, James & Diane Bordoni • Ann S. Bowers • Steve & Gayle Brugler • Marda Buchholz • Carol Buchser • The Estate Gary Nelson, Sean O’Connor, of Cathryn Z. Cannon • Eleanor W. Caughlan • Steven & Karin Chase • Jodi Corwin & Irv Duchowny • Bruce Jeff Spackman, Jarku Tang Cozadd & Hala Kurdi • George & Susan Crow • John & Wynne Dobyns • John & Linda Elman • Frances Escherich SPONSORS • Susan Fairbrook • Harriett Ferziger • Dora Fishman • Gayle Flanagan • Carole & David Florian • Peter & Rose Load-in/Strike Volunteers Friedland • Terry & Carolyn Gannon • Ed Glazier • John & Marcia Goldman • Kathryn Green • Lorie Griswold • Rick Amerson, Deborah Bennett, AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS ADDITIONAL STAFF Judy Heyboer • Maureen Hoberg • Sharon Hoffman • Anne & Emma Grace Holmes • Kenny Hom • Sue Ed Hunter Homestead • Judith & Wayne Hooper • Elaine & Samuel Housten • Susan M. Huch • Edward Hunter & Michelle Fight Director Jonathan Rider Show Carpenter Megan Hall Crafts Nina Parker Garcia • John W. & Nancy Lee Jalonen • Barry Lee Johnson • Stanley Johnson • Claiborne S. Jones • Mike & STAGE MANAGEMENT Production Assistant Dressers Audrey Morton, Costume Volunteers Martha Kahn • Julie Kaufman & Doug Klein • Robert Kelley & Ev Shiro • Jane Kos • Bill & Terry Krivan • Phil Kurjan Annette Koehn Andy Sandoval Taisia Nikonischenko, Resident Stage Manager & Noel Butler • Woof Kurtzman • Marilyn & Robert Man gelsdorf • Steve Mannshardt • Monte Mansir • Suzanne Assistant Lighting Designer Tailor Richard Tran Shareen Merriam Randall K. Lum Martin & John Doyle • Leigh Metzler & Jim McVey • Cynthia S. Miller • Tami & Craney Ogata • Joe & Nancy Ragey Wil Bakal Stitchers Kyo Yohena, Open Captioning Heather Orth • Doris Gottsegen-Reiner • Karen & John Reis • Eddie Reynolds • Betsy Boardman Ross • Adam Samuels • Philip Light Board Operator Justin Buchs Lisa Claybaugh, Nika Cassaro Santora & Cristian Asher • Dorothy Saxe • Loren & Shelley Saxe • Edward & Jane Seaman • Barbara Shapiro & Sound Board Operator And thanks to our fabulous Mark Lewis • Joyce Spencer • Cynthia Sears • Joyce Reynolds Sinclair • Gerry Sipes • Mindy Rauch & Carol Snell Dimitri Wentworth TheatreWorkers! • Esther Sobel • Jim & Mary Southam • Cherrill M. Spencer • Rick Stern & Nancy Ginsburg Stern • Susanne Stevens • Mark Stevenson • Laurie Waldman • Carol Watts • Karen Carlson White • Renee & Herman Winick

28 THEATREWORKS VISIONARY SPONSORS CORPORATE CIRCLE, FOUNDATION, & GOVERNMENT GIFTS TheatreWorks SV Staff Artistic Director Robert Kelley Executive Director Phil Santora Foundations and Corporate Circle members sponsor productions, support new works, and fund education programs for K–12 students. Sponsors may host events at the theatre, receive heightened community visibility, and enjoy other hospitality benefits. ARTISTIC SCENERY DEVELOPMENT MARKETING Contact Ronnie Plasters at 650.463.7135 or [email protected] for more information. Associate Artistic Director Technical Director Director of Development Acting Marketing Director Nikon Precision, Inc Visionary Sponsors Sponsors Leslie Martinson Frank Sarmiento Ronnie Plasters Syche Phillips ($50,000 and above) ($10,000 to $14,999) Palo Alto Weekly* The Garden Court Hotel* Adams Wine Group* Perkins Coie LLP* Director of New Works Lead Scenic Artist/Craftsman Associate Director of Art Director The William Randolph Hearst Heising-Simons Foundation Safari True Giovanna Sardelli Tom Langguth Donor Relations Ev Shiro Foundation Hengehold Motor Company* Wells Fargo Foundation H. Hans Cárdenas Company Manager/ Assistant Scenic Artist Box Office Manager The William & Flora Hewlett Casting Associate Heather Kenyon Grants & Communication Manager Alix Josefski Foundation Benefactors Friends Jeffrey Lo Ginnie Redmond J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines* ($5,000 to $9,999) ($1,000 to $2,499) Master Carpenter Marketing & Communications The Mercury News* Robert E. and Adele M. Anonymous Resident Musical Director Bill Roberts Events Manager Manager The David & Lucile Packard Boydston Charitable ChaseVP* William Liberatore Jodi Corwin Heather Orth Carpenters Foundation Foundation Pacific Hearing Service Artistic Staff Assistant Esteban Calvillo, Andrew Clark, Development Operations Manager Digital Media Manager The Shubert Foundation Dodge & Cox Investment Presidio Bank Sobrato Philanthropies* Managers Regarding Arts Jessia Hoffman Rodrigo Frausto, Patrick McKenna Sarah Benjamin Jennifer Gosk Fenwick & West LLP (logo) Artistic Intern Telefunding/Telesales Systems Analyst Presenting Sponsor Harrell Remodeling Matching Gifts Cameron Wells PROPERTIES Constance Gannon Andrew Skelton ($25,000 to $49,999) Hurlbut-Johnson Charitable Many companies will double or triple their employees’ contributions to nonprofits. National Endowment for the Arts Trusts New Works Reading Committee Properties Master Ticket Services Supervisor It’s a great way to make your gift to Christopher Fitzer EDUCATION Michelle Skinner Sand Hill Foundation National Alliance for Musical TheatreWorks go further at no extra cost. Bill Adler, Cristian Asher, Stephen Silver Fine Jewelry* Theatre Call 650.463.7155 for more information. Elaine Baskin, Doug Brook, Properties Stock Manager Director of Education Patron Services Coordinator Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund Amazon Smile Foundation Sue Krumbein, Shareen Merriam, Alfred Rudolph Amy Cole-Farrell Tracy Hayden Supporting Sponsors Rotary Club of Palo Alto Adobe Systems Patty Reinhart, Cindi Sears, Properties Artisan Associate Education Director Ticket Services Representatives ($15,000 to $24,999) ThinOptics Agilent Technologies Scott Walecka Justine Law Katie Bartholomew Andrée Beals, Nancy Melmon, Applied Materials, Inc. The Wilson Sonsini Goodrich Apple Margaret Purdy Carla Befera Public Relations* & Rosati Foundation Avant! Foundation PRODUCTION, Education Associate/ The Leonard C. & Mildred F. PRESENTING SPONSORS Google LIGHTING, & SOUND COSTUMES Master Teaching Artist Graphics Assistant Ferguson Foundation Supporters Hewlett-Packard Company Meghan C. Hakes Katie Dai The Kimball Foundation ($2,500 to $4,999) IBM Production Manager Costume Director SanDisk Corporation Allegra Entertainment Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies David A. Milligan Jill Bowers Master Teaching Artist Public Relations & Advertising The Harold & Mimi Steinberg Avidbank Piper LaGrelius Carla Befera & Co. Microsoft Assistant Production Manager Assistant Costumer Charitable Trust Cooley LLP* Carla Befera, Courtney Heimbuck Netflix Elizar Ivanov Noah Marin Teaching Artists The Morrison & Foerster Rambus Inc. Jake Arky Company Photographers Foundation Operations Manager/ Lead Cutter/Draper * Indicates donors whose gifts include Lauren Berman Kevin Berne, Alessandra Mello Los Altos Community Master Electrician Yen La Wong in-kind goods or services. Caitlin Evenson Foundation Steven B. Mannshardt Wardrobe Manager Matthew Keuter ADMINISTRATIVE Resident Lighting Designer Michaela O’Neill Josh Marx ENDOWMENT FUND General Manager Steven B. Mannshardt Costume Rentals Manager Lauren Mayer TheatreWorks Silicon Valley thanks the following lead donors for their extraordinarily generous Endowment gifts. Scott DeVine Conni Edwards Michileen Oberst Marsha & Bill Adler • William C. Anderson • Ann S. Bowers • Polly & Tom Bredt • Bruce Cozadd & Sharon Sound Supervisor Jed Pasario Business Manager Hoffman • Peter & Melanie Cross • Yogen & Peggy Dalal • Carl H. Feldman • Kathryn Green • The John & Dimitri Wentworth Assistant Cutter/First Hand Kelly Rinehart Jason Hyde Marcia Goldman Foundation • Emeri & Brad Handler • Hurlbut-Johnson Charitable Trusts • Charles & Roberta Production Coordinator Michelle Earney Martin Rojas Dietrich Katz Family Foundation • Patricia McClung & Allen Morgan • The Rathmann Family Foundation • Eddie Database Administrator SUPPORTING SPONSORS Karen Szpaller Resident Wigmaster Cassie Rosenbrock Reynolds • John & Diane Savage • Joyce Reynolds Sinclair • Lynn Szekely-Goode & Dr. Richard Goode Ken Maitz Electricians Sharon Ridge Elissa Stebbins Amanda Wallace Staff Accountant FUTUREWORKS Kat Arguello, Justin Buchs, Hair Stylist Steven Fetter, Carolyn Guggemos, Maryssa Wanlass Barbara Sloss FutureWorks members have made an estate gift from a will or living trust, a beneficiary designation in an IRA, a gift of life Jeanne Naritomi A.C. Hay, Cosmo insurance, a gift that returns lifetime income, or another planned gift. Contact [email protected] for more information. Hom, Front Desk Volunteers Dan Kaminski, Sean Kramer, Anonymous (4) • Marc Abramson • The Estate of William C. Anderson • Ray & Carol Bacchetti • Elaine Baskin & Joan Doherty, Cindi Sears Kyle W. Langdon, Eric Liu, Ken Krechmer • Thomas Beck • Pauline Berkow & Ronald Kauffman • David & Lauren Berman • Jayne Booker • Evan Lola, Harris Meyers, James & Diane Bordoni • Ann S. Bowers • Steve & Gayle Brugler • Marda Buchholz • Carol Buchser • The Estate Gary Nelson, Sean O’Connor, of Cathryn Z. Cannon • Eleanor W. Caughlan • Steven & Karin Chase • Jodi Corwin & Irv Duchowny • Bruce Jeff Spackman, Jarku Tang Cozadd & Hala Kurdi • George & Susan Crow • John & Wynne Dobyns • John & Linda Elman • Frances Escherich SPONSORS • Susan Fairbrook • Harriett Ferziger • Dora Fishman • Gayle Flanagan • Carole & David Florian • Peter & Rose Load-in/Strike Volunteers Friedland • Terry & Carolyn Gannon • Ed Glazier • John & Marcia Goldman • Kathryn Green • Lorie Griswold • Rick Amerson, Deborah Bennett, AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS ADDITIONAL STAFF Judy Heyboer • Maureen Hoberg • Sharon Hoffman • Anne & Emma Grace Holmes • Kenny Hom • Sue Ed Hunter Homestead • Judith & Wayne Hooper • Elaine & Samuel Housten • Susan M. Huch • Edward Hunter & Michelle Fight Director Jonathan Rider Show Carpenter Megan Hall Crafts Nina Parker Garcia • John W. & Nancy Lee Jalonen • Barry Lee Johnson • Stanley Johnson • Claiborne S. Jones • Mike & STAGE MANAGEMENT Production Assistant Dressers Audrey Morton, Costume Volunteers Martha Kahn • Julie Kaufman & Doug Klein • Robert Kelley & Ev Shiro • Jane Kos • Bill & Terry Krivan • Phil Kurjan Annette Koehn Andy Sandoval Taisia Nikonischenko, Resident Stage Manager & Noel Butler • Woof Kurtzman • Marilyn & Robert Mangelsdorf • Steve Mannshardt • Monte Mansir • Suzanne Assistant Lighting Designer Tailor Richard Tran Shareen Merriam Randall K. Lum Martin & John Doyle • Leigh Metzler & Jim McVey • Cynthia S. Miller • Tami & Craney Ogata • Joe & Nancy Ragey Wil Bakal Stitchers Kyo Yohena, Open Captioning Heather Orth • Doris Gottsegen-Reiner • Karen & John Reis • Eddie Reynolds • Betsy Boardman Ross • Adam Samuels • Philip Light Board Operator Justin Buchs Lisa Claybaugh, Nika Cassaro Santora & Cristian Asher • Dorothy Saxe • Loren & Shelley Saxe • Edward & Jane Seaman • Barbara Shapiro & Sound Board Operator And thanks to our fabulous Mark Lewis • Joyce Spencer • Cynthia Sears • Joyce Reynolds Sinclair • Gerry Sipes • Mindy Rauch & Carol Snell Dimitri Wentworth TheatreWorkers! • Esther Sobel • Jim & Mary Southam • Cherrill M. Spencer • Rick Stern & Nancy Ginsburg Stern • Susanne Stevens • Mark Stevenson • Laurie Waldman • Carol Watts • Karen Carlson White • Renee & Herman Winick

encoremediagroup.com/programs 29 A BOLD AMERICAN DRAMA SKELETON CREW By Dominique Morisseau REGIONAL PREMIERE Directed by Jade King Carroll A makeshift family of autoworkers navigates the recession in this funny, tough, and tender American drama from one of America’s hottest young writers. Contains mature language. “Warm-blooded, astute. A deeply American play!“ The NY Times March 7–April 1 Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto theatreworks.org 650.463.1960

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CONTACT US GROUP SAVINGS LOST AND FOUND Mailing Address: Savings are available for groups of 10 or more. For Mountain View Center for the Performing PO Box 50458, Palo Alto, CA 94303-0458 For more information, call Michelle Skinner at Arts lost and found, please call 650.903.6568. Phone: 650.463.1950 Fax: 650.463.1963 650.463.7115 or email [email protected]. For Lucie Stern Theatre lost and found, please Email: [email protected] call 650.463.1960. WHEELCHAIR SEATING TICKET SERVICES Seating is available for wheelchair patrons. Please PLEASE REMEMBER Tickets to all TheatreWorks Silicon Valley telephone the Ticket Office in advance so that There is no smoking in the theatres or lobbies. performances are sold through the TheatreWorks special arrangements may be made. Audio or video recording during the show is Silicon Valley Box Office LISTENING SYSTEMS strictly prohibited. Neither food nor drink is Hours: Monday–Friday, 11am–6pm; permitted in the theatres. Please ensure that all Saturday-Sunday, 12pm-6pm Both theatres are equipped with listening electronic devices are set to the “off“ position Phone: 650.463.1960 systems for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. while you are in the theatre. Tickets may also be Please see the house manager for details. obtained through the Children 5 and under are not permitted in Mountain View Center Ticket Office AUDIO-CAPTIONING the theatre. Persons 14 and under must be Hours: Wednesday–Satur day, noon–6pm accompanied by an adult. Every person, Phone: 650.903.6000 Audio captioning for the visually impaired is available at certain performances. Please call regardless of age, must have a ticket. WALK-UP TICKET SERVICES 650.463.1960 for details. Schedules, shows, casts, and ticket prices are subject to change. The walk-up ticket office will open one hour OPEN-CAPTIONED PERFORMANCES prior to each performance. Single ticket purchases are non-refundable, but Open-captioned performances for are exchangeable for $15 per ticket. PERFORMANCE TIMES Around the World in 80 Days: 12/10 at 2pm & 7pm, Some restrictions apply. Wed, Thur, Fri Previews 8pm 12/20 at 2pm Tuesday & Wednesday Eve 7:30pm Our Great Tchaikovsky: 1/28 at 2pm & 7pm, Thursday–Saturday Eve 8:00pm 1/31 at 2pm Visit theatreworks.org Sunday Eve 7:00pm For more information about open captioning, for detailed information or to purchase tickets. Wednesday, Saturday, & Sunday Matinee 2:00pm please contact the box office at 650.463.1960 INDIVIDUAL TICKET PRICES or [email protected]. Starting at $35 (balcony). LATE ARRIVALS Discounts available for Seniors, Educators, and Latecomers will not be seated until appropriate Patrons 35 & Under. For pricing, call intervals, and may not be seated in their exact seat 650.463.1960 or visit theatreworks.org. locations until intermission.

30 THEATREWORKS HOLIDAYS A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS–LIVE! with the San Francisco Holiday Tickets Symphony start at $ 15* OAKLAND INTERFAITH A BOLD AMERICAN DRAMA GOSPEL CHOIR SETH MACFARLANE Dec 3 • 11 am & 3PM Dec 10 • 2PM Dec 16 • 7PM DEC 17 • 2PM Deck the Hall Peter and the Kids Home Alone under 18 Spend Sunday with the kids in this Wolf half Feature Film with the family-friendly event featuring holiday Watch and listen as the price* San Francisco Symphony SKELETON CREW favorites with the Symphony. Enjoy arts See Home Alone on the big screen internationally acclaimed By Dominique Morisseau and crafts, games, treats, and more! SF Symphony Youth Orchestra brings this with John Williams' score performed REGIONAL PREMIERE Directed by Jade King Carroll delightful fairytale to life. Narrated by live by the SF Symphony. Zachary Quinto. A makeshift family of autoworkers navigates the recession in this funny, tough, Dec 3 • 8PM Dec 21 – 23 • 2 & 7:30PM and tender American drama from one of America’s hottest young writers. Holiday Brass Dec 10 • 8PM Contains mature language. Get in the spirit with the mighty DEC 24 • 2PM SF Symphony brass section playing A Merry-Achi Christmas Kids “Warm-blooded, astute. A deeply American play!“ The NY Times A Charlie Brown under 18 holiday favorites. with Mariachi Sol de Mexico® Christmas—Live! half March 7–April 1 Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto theatreworks.org 650.463.1960 price* Mexican and American holiday music The Peanuts holiday classic ® Dec 6 – 7 • 7:30PM performed by Mariachi Sol de México comes to life in this family de José Hernández. friendly concert featuring actors, Cirque de la Symphonie The SF Symphony does not appear in this concert. an animated backdrop and Vince Guaraldi's Talented acrobats fly, tumble, music performed by the SF Symphony. and dance across the stage as the TheatreWorks SV General Information Dec 12 – 13 • 7:30PM SF Symphony performs a program Dec 31 8PM CONTACT US GROUP SAVINGS LOST AND FOUND of classical favorites. Holiday Soul • Mailing Address: Savings are available for groups of 10 or more. For Mountain View Center for the Performing with the Oakland Interfaith A New Year's Event with PO Box 50458, Palo Alto, CA 94303-0458 For more information, call Michelle Skinner at Arts lost and found, please call 650.903.6568. Dec 8 • 7:30PM Gospel Choir Seth MacFarlane Phone: 650.463.1950 Fax: 650.463.1963 650.463.7115 or email [email protected]. For Lucie Stern Theatre lost and found, please Legendary voices CeCe Winans and and the San Francisco Symphony Email: [email protected] call 650.463.1960. Holiday Gaiety WHEELCHAIR SEATING Edwin Hawkins join forces with the Celebrate New Year's with Grammy with Armistead Maupin TICKET SERVICES Seating is available for wheelchair patrons. Please PLEASE REMEMBER Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir and Award-nominated singer, actor, and and the SF Symphony Tickets to all TheatreWorks Silicon Valley telephone the Ticket Office in advance so that There is no smoking in the theatres or lobbies. Paula West for an evening of soul, comedian Seth MacFarlane as he lights up performances are sold through the TheatreWorks special arrangements may be made. Audio or video recording during the show is Join Armistead Maupin (Tales of the City), jazz, and Christmas classics. the stage with a concert of Broadway and jazz hits. Silicon Valley Box Office strictly prohibited. Neither food nor drink is Peaches Christ, Cheyenne Jackson, and Hours: Monday–Friday, 11am–6pm; LISTENING SYSTEMS permitted in the theatres. Please ensure that all a dazzling array of guest stars in a Saturday-Sunday, 12pm-6pm Both theatres are equipped with listening electronic devices are set to the “off“ position Dec 14 – 15 • 8PM Phone: 650.463.1960 systems for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. while you are in the theatre. season spectacular. Tickets may also be Please see the house manager for details. Handel´s Messiah obtained through the Children 5 and under are not permitted in Mountain View Center Ticket Office AUDIO-CAPTIONING the theatre. Persons 14 and under must be Dec 9 • 8PM with the San Francisco Hours: Wednesday–Satur day, noon–6pm accompanied by an adult. Every person, Symphony Chorus Phone: 650.903.6000 Audio captioning for the visually impaired is available at certain performances. Please call regardless of age, must have a ticket. Bach Collegium Japan Hear the exhilarating majesty of Handel's WALK-UP TICKET SERVICES 650.463.1960 for details. Schedules, shows, casts, and ticket prices are Plays J.S. Bach's Christmas Oratorio Messiah with the SF Symphony and Chorus, subject to change. The walk-up ticket office will open one hour OPEN-CAPTIONED PERFORMANCES Famed for their impeccable performances of plus soloists in a holiday tradition you won't prior to each performance. Single ticket purchases are non-refundable, but the Baroque repertoire, the Bach Collegium Open-captioned performances for want to miss. are exchangeable for $15 per ticket. PERFORMANCE TIMES Around the World in 80 Days: 12/10 at 2pm & 7pm, Japan present, J.S. Bach’s magnificent Some restrictions apply. Wed, Thur, Fri Previews 8pm 12/20 at 2pm Christmas Oratorio. Tuesday & Wednesday Eve 7:30pm Our Great Tchaikovsky: 1/28 at 2pm & 7pm, Thursday–Saturday Eve 8:00pm 1/31 at 2pm Visit theatreworks.org Sunday Eve 7:00pm For more information about open captioning, for detailed information or to purchase tickets. sfsymphony.org/holiday • 415-864-6000 Wednesday, Saturday, & Sunday Matinee 2:00pm please contact the box office at 650.463.1960 INDIVIDUAL TICKET PRICES or [email protected]. Starting at $35 (balcony). LATE ARRIVALS Discounts available for Seniors, Educators, and Latecomers will not be seated until appropriate Patrons 35 & Under. For pricing, call intervals, and may not be seated in their exact seat 650.463.1960 or visit theatreworks.org. locations until intermission. Concerts at Davies Symphony Hall unless otherwise noted. Programs, artists, and prices subject to change. *Subject to availability. Box Office Hours Mon–Fri 10am–6pm, Sat noon–6pm, Sun 2 hours prior to concerts Inaugural Partner Official Airline Walk Up Grove Street between Van Ness and Franklin

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