2018 2019 SEASON SHOWCASE Contents 4 Letter from the President 4 Board of Directors and Staff 9 MISS SAIGON 24 Comprehensive Campaign 25 Institutional and Government Support 26 Individual Support 28 Matching Gifts 28 Honickman Family Society Emily Bautista as ‘Kim’ and Anthony Festa as ‘Chris’ in the 30 Kimmel Center Staff North American Tour of MISS SAIGON singing “Sun and Moon”. Photo: Matthew Murphy The use of cameras and recording equipment is prohibited during the performances. As a courtesy to the performers and fellow audience members, please turn off all beepers, watch alarms, and cellular phones. Latecomers and those who leave the concert hall during the performance will be seated at appropriate intervals. Showcase is published by the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Administrative Offices, 1500 Walnut Street, 17th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19102 For information about advertising in Showcase, contact OnStage Publications Proud Season Sponsor 937-424-0529 | 866-503-1966 e-mail: [email protected] www.onstagepublications.com @KIMMELCENTER #ArtHappensHere #BWYPHL KIMMELCENTER.ORG#ArtHappensHere 3 Kimmel Center Cultural Campus KIMMEL CENTER, INC., OFFICERS AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS Teresa Bryce Bazemore, Chair Anne C. Ewers, President and CEO Robert R. Corrato, Vice-Chair Jane Hollingsworth, Vice Chair Michael D. Zisman, Treasurer and Chair-Elect Jami Wintz McKeon, Secretary David P. Holveck, Immediate Past Chair Bart Blatstein Richard D. Carpenter Reverend Luis A. Cortés, Jr. Dear friends, Katherine D. Crothall Robert J. Delany Sr. James F. Dever, Jr. Welcome to the Academy of Music on the Kimmel Center Frances R. Graham Cultural Campus, the two-week home of this brand-new Michael B. Hill production of Miss Saigon. We are thrilled to host this lavish Philip P. Jaurigue Obra Kernodle story, rich with history, that captures the power of love Brook J. Lenfest and war with devastating clarity. This cast and score make Jeffrey A. Leonard it impossible to deny the genius of musical mastermind Sara Lomax-Reese P. Edward Lovelidge Cameron Mackintosh. Jeffrey P. McFadden Stanley Middleman At the center of Miss Saigon is an unforgettable, bi-continental Elizabeth Murphy love story for the ages. Across our Campus, we specialize in Ronald Rubin Mark H. Samuels helping couples’ love stories spring to life through surprise Anne Faulkner Schoemaker proposals, rehearsal dinners, wedding ceremonies, and rockin’ Matthew A. Taylor receptions. Did you know, in tandem with our partners at Sherry Varrelman Laurie Wagman Garces Events, we were selected as a winner of a “2019 Best Tony G. Werner of Weddings” award from The Knot? It’s such a thrill to know Mario Zacharjasz that couples who come to the Kimmel to celebrate their love story are getting an experience worthy of a standing ovation! TRUSTEES EMERITI Sidney Kimmel The Hon. Bob P. Casey* Part of the magic of experiencing the Kimmel Center’s The Hon. Edward G. Rendell Broadway Philadelphia presentations is each show’s ability The Hon. Tom Ridge to sweep its audience off into new worlds, enabling us to George M. Ross* Willard G. Rouse III* experience other nations, peoples, and times. Our freshly- *Awarded posthumously announced 2019-20 season does just that; with a combined 44 Tony Awards®, these shows boast internationally-renowned EXECUTIVE STAFF creative teams and blockbuster songs. Productions premiering Anne C. Ewers, President and CEO J. Edward Cambron, Executive Vice President in Philadelphia for the first-time-ever include:Come From and COO Away, the 7-time Tony nominee that shares the 9/11 story Stan Applegate, Senior Vice President through a lens of hospitality, grace, and great resiliency; Tony- and CFO Crystal Brewe, Senior Vice President and Grammy Award-winning Dear Evan Hansen, the musical of Strategic Marketing and Communications that stunned Broadway from songwriting duo Benj Pasek and Ross Richards, Senior Vice President Justin Paul (of The Greatest Showman fame); Mean Girls, of Facilities and Operations the movie-turned-musical from superstar comedian PRESIDENT’S (and Philly-area native) Tina Fey; Tony Award winners LEADERSHIP COUNCIL SpongeBob SquarePants and The Band’s Visit; and Escape to Wynne Amick Margaritaville, the perfect recipe for a good time with Jimmy David Cohen Buffet’s greatest hits. New and favorites returning by popular Stephen Cozen Lisa Crutchfield demand include RENT; Cirque Dreams: Holidaze; Hello Peter Dean Dolly!; Riverdance; Les Misérables; Jesus Christ Superstar; Thomas A. Decker Waitress; and Summer: The Donna Summer Musical. John A. Francis William Hankowsky Lisa Kabnick Sign up for our Ovation weekly e-newsletter and connect David Marshall with us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter; together we’ll Marjorie Rendell experience a whole new world through the arts. Lyn Ross Timothy Scheve Molly Shepard Warmly, Brian Tierney James Zug 4 8 CAMERON MACKINTOSH PRESENTS BOUBLIL & SCHÖNBERG’S Starring RED CONCEPCIÓN EMILY BAUTISTA ANTHONY FESTA and STACIE BONO J.DAUGHTRY JINWOO JUNG at certain performances EYMARD CABLING plays the role The Engineer and MYRA MOLLOY plays the role of Kim. Music by CLAUDE-MICHEL SCHÖNBERG Lyrics by RICHARD MALTBY, JR. & ALAIN BOUBLIL Adapted from the Original French text by ALAIN BOUBLIL Additional lyrics by MICHAEL MAHLER Orchestrations by WILLIAM DAVID BROHN Musical Supervision by STEPHEN BROOKER Lighting Designed by BRUNO POET Projections by LUKE HALLS Sound Designed by MICK POTTER Costumes Designed by ANDREANE NEOFITOU Design Concept by ADRIAN VAUX Production Designed by TOTIE DRIVER & MATT KINLEY Additional Choreography by GEOFFREY GARRATT Musical Staging and Choreography by BOB AVIAN Directed by LAURENCE CONNOR For MISS SAIGON National Tour Casting by General Management TARA RUBIN CASTING GREGORY VANDER PLOEG MERRI SUGARMAN, CSA & CLAIRE BURKE, CSA for Gentry & Associates Executive Producers Executive Producer NICHOLAS ALLOTT & SETH SKLAR-HEYN SETH WENIG for Cameron Mackintosh Inc. for NETworks Presentations Associate Sound Designer Associate Costume Designer Associate Lighting Designers Associate Set Designer ADAM FISHER DARYL A. STONE WARREN LETTON & JOHN VIESTA CHRISTINE PETERS Resident Director Music Director Musical Supervisor Associate Choreographer Associate Director RYAN EMMONS WILL CURRY JAMES MOORE JESSE ROBB SETH SKLAR-HEYN A CAMERON MACKINTOSH and NETWORKS Presentation Broadway Philadelphia is presented collaboratively by The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts and The Shubert Organization. 9 CAST (in alphabetical order) ACT I SAIGON—1975 The Engineer ............................................................................................................ RED CONCEPCIÓN Kim ........................................................................................................................... EMILY BAUTISTA Kim (at certain performances) ......................................................................................MYRA MOLLOY Gigi ......................................................................................................................CHRISTINE BUNUAN Yvonne ...................................................................................................................ANNA-LEE WRIGHT Mimi ...................................................................................................................JONELLE MARGALLO Fifi .....................................................................................................................................TIFFANY TOH Dominique ............................................................................................................. MADOKA KOGUCHI Yvette ..........................................................................................................................JACKIE NGUYEN Bar Girls ............................................................ KAI AN CHEE, JULIE EICHER, EMILY STILLINGS John ...................................................................................................................................J. DAUGHTRY Chris ...........................................................................................................................ANTHONY FESTA Marines ...........................ALEXANDER AGUILAR, MATTHEW DAILEY, NOAH GOULDSMITH, McKINLEY KNUCKLE, ADAM ROBERTS, MICHAEL RUSSELL, PAUL SCHWENSEN, NICHOLAS WALTERS, MICHAEL WORDLY Barmen ...........................................................ERIC BADIQUÉ, ADAM KAOKEPT, EMILIO RAMOS Thuy ................................................................................................................................. JINWOO JUNG Embassy Workers, Inhabitants of Saigon, Vendors .......................................................THE COMPANY HO CHI MINH CITY (formerly Saigon) AND ATLANTA—APRIL 1978 Dragon Acrobats ..................... MAX B. EHRLICH, NOAH GOULDSMITH, McKINLEY KNUCKLE Assistant Commissar ............................................................................................... JULIUS SERMONIA Ellen ................................................................................................................................. STACIE BONO Tam ....................................JACE CHEN, TYLER DUNN, RYDER KHATIWALA, FIN MOULDING Vietnamese Army Soldiers ....................ERIC BADIQUÉ, EYMARD CABLING, ADAM KAOKEPT, GARRICK MACATANGAY, MATTHEW OVERBERG, EMILIO RAMOS Citizens of Ho Chi Minh City, Refugees .......................................................................THE COMPANY The use