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JUN 18–27, 2021

Season Sponsor Sponsored by Ordway Resident Artists ORDWAY CABARET: LIVE AT THE LOADING DOCK! JUNE 18–27, 2021 Ordway Resident Artists help create new work, explore new ideas, and share ORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 345 Washington St., Saint Paul, MN 55102 their knowledge and expertise with the Ordway community, all in the spirit ordway.org | 651.224.4222 of continued collaboration. The fresh voices of these artists invigorate our organization and play a vital role in creating the artistic and creative culture at the Ordway.

Rod Kaats Please join us to welcome Reese Britts as a new Ordway Resident Artist, joining previously named Resident Artists Jamecia Bennet and Tyler Michaels King Producing Artistic Director . Jamecia Bennett Welcome to ‘the Dock’ – the Ordway’s new stage – and a brand-new version of the pop- show that was last Fall’s surprise hit: Ordway Jamecia Bennett is a 3-time Grammy Cabaret: Live at the Loading Dock. We made this show for this Award winner, NAACP Image Award space and for this moment and just for you. Because, like everything winner, lead vocalist of Sounds that happens at the Ordway, you made this possible. Because of of Blackness, performer with J supporters like you, we have been able to connect people through Movement, and a veteran of Twin live performance even while our indoor stages have been dark. Cities stages, most recently appearing in 42nd Street at the Ordway, Marie Artists, craftspeople and technicians also make a difference. They are and Rosetta at Park Square Theatre, theater-makers because by making stories come to life, they make and Crowns with New Dawn Theatre. magic that we can all share together. If you’re like me (and all of us here at the Ordway), you’re craving this kind of in-person gathering; Reese Britts and especially the particular brand of magic that only theater-makers Reese Britts appeared in Smokey can make. We’ve been deprived this kind of collective experience Joe’s Cafe and Mamma Mia! at the for so long, giving us a new appreciation of how essential it is. Ordway. And in South Pacific at the Tonight, the stories are told with a collection of songs from shows Guthrie Theater; Footloose with in the Ordway’s flagship series:Broadway @ the Ordway and that Artistry; at Lyric Arts in Hairspray, provide a taste of what’s to come and a promise for the future. Rent, and Young Frankenstein; and in Spring Awakening with We’re so glad you’re here with us to hear a few songs and Dangerous Productions. share a few stories. So, take the hand of someone you love and know that you are with friends. We are all here, gathered together, in a place where we belong. Tyler Michaels King -Rod Kaats, Producing Artistic Director Tyler Michaels King is a Twin Cities- based performer, director, creator, and improviser, and is the Artistic Director and Founder of Trademark Theater. He appeared in 42nd Street and West Side THE WAIT IS OVER. Broadway @ the Ordway is back! Story at the Ordway. He holds the 2014 Emerging Artist Ivey Award, the Mark The Broadway musicals in our flagship series for 2021-2022 tell unforgettable stories about heroes—men and women who show us that even during difficult Twain Prize for Comic Performance times when hardships seem insurmountable, we can build a new world, if we from the Kennedy Center National ACT Festival, and was named “Artist of the build it together. Photos by Rich Ryan Year” by City Pages. The Ordway’s beautiful bright lights will be back on Broadway shows in time for the holidays. Imagine it—for the first time in a such a long time, so many people will be together, experiencing the kind of thrill only a Broadway musical can deliver. We can’t wait to welcome you back to the Ordway, where Broadway is where it’s at! SEE BEHIND THE CURTAIN Turn to page 12 of this program for more information about Broadway @ the Ordway 2021-2022. Sign up for the Ordway’s Encore newsletter to receive exclusive stories, news, interviews, events, and offers. ORDWAY.ORG/ENCORE

2 ORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ordway.org 3 THE ORDWAY PRESENTS MUSICAL NUMBERS* “Be Our Guest” ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������The Company Music by & Lyrics by & “Matchmaker” ...... China Brickey, Ruthanne Heyward, Tyler Michaels King Music by Jerry Bock & Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick “When He Sees Me” �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������China Brickey Music and Lyrics by Sara Bareilles “Miracle of Miracles” �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Reese Britts Music by Jerry Bock & Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, “Who Needs Love?” �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Ruthanne Heyward Music by Zinna Goldrich & Lyrics by Marcy Heisler “Owner of a Lonely Heart” WITH MUSIC FROM By Trevor Rabin, , Chris Squire and Trevor Horn “Every Girl in this Town” AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN Disney’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST By Erik Dylan, Connie Harrington and Caitlyn Smith “Overkill” EVER AFTER FIDDLER ON THE ROOF LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS By Colin Hay “Right Here Waiting” SUMMER: THE MUSICAL TRIANGLE WAITRESS By Richard Marx “” �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������The Company FEATURING By , Buffy Sainte-Marie and “Take My Hand”...... Reese Britts, Ruthanne Heyward, Tyler Michaels King China Brickey Reese Britts Music by Curtis Moore & Lyrics by Thomas Mizer Ruthanne Heyward Tyler Michaels King “Right Before My Eyes” ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Reese Britts Book and Lyrics by Marcy Heisler & Music by Zinna Goldrich “Somewhere That’s Green” ������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Ruthanne Heyward SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCES BY Book and Lyrics by Howard Ashman & Music by Alan Menken Ronnie Allen Rajané Katurah Ann Michels “Gaston”...... Reese Britts and Tyler Michaels King Wesley Mouri Greta Oglesby Thomasina Petrus Music by Alan Menken & Lyrics by Howard Ashman & Tim Rice Louis Sacco Erin Schwab Lily Tung Crystal “Suddenly Seymour” �����������������������������������������������������������������������China Brickey and Reese Britts Book and Lyrics by Howard Ashman & Music by Alan Menken STYLISTS VOCAL DIRECTOR “MacArthur Park” By Jimmy Webb Anthony Andler & Sarah Bahr Louis Sacco “Heaven Knows” By Donna Summer, , MUSIC DIRECTOR “” ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Tyler Michaels King Sanford Moore By Donna Summer “Last Dance” ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������China Brickey and Company DIRECTED BY By “To Life” �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������The Company Rod Kaats Music by Jerry Bock & Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick *Subject to Change

ordway.org 5 AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN COMPANY Book by Dick Scanlan Original Book by Douglas Stewart and Sharleen Cooper Cohen Music by Jack Nitzsche, Buffy Sainte-Marie Lyrics by Will Jennings Disney’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Book by Linda Woolverton Music by Alan Menken Lyrics by Howard Ashman & Tim Rice EVER AFTER Book by Marcy Heisler and Kate Weatherhead China Brickey Reese Britts Music by Zinna Goldrich Lyrics by Marcy Heisler FIDDLER ON THE ROOF Book by Joseph Stein Music by Jerry Bock Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS Book and Lyrics by Howard Ashman Music by Alan Menken Ruthanne Heyward Tyler Michaels King SUMMER: THE DONNA SUMMER MUSICAL Book by Colman Domingo, Robert Cary & Des McAnuff Music and Lyrics by Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, Pete Bellotte, Paul Jabara and others TRIANGLE Book by Thomas Mizer, Curtis Moore and Joshua Scher Music by Curtis Moore Lyrics by Thomas Mizer WAITRESS Book by Jessie Nelson Music and Lyrics by Sara Bareilles Sanford Moore, Music Director

6 ORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Theater Latte Da, April Sellers Dance Parchman Hour, Disgraced, To Kill a WHO’S WHO Collective, STRONGmovement, and Mocking Bird, Choir Boy, Crowns. Ten Vail Dance Festival. Sarah teaches Thousand Things: Thunder Knocking theatrical design and technology Park Square: Nina Simone: CHINA BRICKEY Ordway: Smokey Hedwig and the Angry Inch, To Let Joe’s Cafe, Mamma Mia!. Theatre Go and Fall, Assassins, Peter and to emerging artists at Augsburg Four Women. Mixed Blood: Two Mu: Today Is My Birthday. Jungle the Starcatcher, Gypsy, Sweeney University and the University of Queens, One Castle, Black Belts. Theater: Redwood. Park Square Todd, Cabaret, Spring Awakening. Minnesota. She holds a MFA in Illusion: Always and Forever. Lab Theatre: Pride & Prejudice, Romeo Children’s Theater Company: Peter Theatrical Design and Technology Theater: When a Man Loves a Diva. & Juliet. Children’s Theatre Pan the Musical. Chanhassen Dinner from the University of Minnesota, Other Director, Arranger for the vocal Company: Matilda the Musical, The Theatres: Hello Dolly!, The Little a MA in Studio Art from New York jazz ensemble Moore by Four. Threads Wiz, Cinderella, Diary of a Wimpy Mermaid, , Fiddler on University, and a BFA in Theatrical Dance Company: Composer, Warriors Kid. Guthrie Theatre: A Christmas the Roof, Joseph…Dreamcoat, Bye Design and Technology from the of Light. Director of Music at Kingdom Carol. Transatlantic Love Affair: The Bye Birdie. History Theatre: Teen University of Minnesota Duluth. Life Church, N. Minneapolis, MN. Privateer. Penumbra Theatre: Girl Idol: The Bobby Vee Story. Artistry: LOUIS SACCO (Vocal Director) ROD KAATS (Director) is one of the Shakes Loose. Training: BFA Acting, You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, Ordway as Vocal Coach: 42nd Street, producers of Girl From The North Music Minor, Millikin University. Oklahoma!. Illusion Theater: A Night Smokey Joe’s Cafe and Mamma Mia! Country which resumes performances Proud member of Actors Equity. in Olympus. Minneapolis Musical and as a performer, the Ordway’s on Broadway in October. As the Theater: Bat Boy The Musical. Flying world premiere presentation of Ordway’s Producing Artistic Director REESE BRITTS Ordway: Gotta Dance!, Foot Forum; Live Action Set; Actor’s Live at the Loading Dock!, Smokey Dolly Parton’s Smoky Mountain Rod produces and presents the Theater of Minnesota. Founding Joe’s Café, Mamma Mia! Jungle Christmas Carol. Louis has over 30 shows in the Ordway’s flagship member of The Bearded Company/ Theater: Miss Bennet: Christmas years of experience teaching vocal series Broadway @ the Ordway, Break The Dice. Artistic Director and at Pemberley. Guthrie Theater: technique, most recently for the including the musical: Six (the first Founder of Trademark Theater. South Pacific. Artistry: Footloose, A University of Minnesota/Guthrie pre-Broadway production in the New Brain, Lyric Arts: New Voices ANTHONY R. ANDLER (Wardrobe Theater B.F.A. ActorTraining Program Ordway’s 35-year history), the world Cabaret, Hairspray, Rent, Young Stylist) is a local clothing designer, and previously as adjunct professor premiere of Dolly Parton’s new Frankenstein. Dangerous Productions: actor and filmmaker. Anthony owns for the State University musical, Smoky Mountain Christmas Spring Awakening. Training: BFA a local Haberdashery in downtown System, with private students in Los Carol, and the Ordway’s highly , University of St. Paul that is considered a premier Angeles and New York (and now acclaimed productions of Mamma Minnesota Duluth. Upcoming: The mens fashion house. Heimie’s in St. Paul!) His New York students Mia!, Smokey Joes Cafe: The Songs of Music Man at Chanhassen Dinner Haberdashery, a retail flagship of St. include company members from the Leiber and Stoller and the reimagined Theatres. #BlackLivesMatter Paul, specializes in tailored clothing. Broadway productions of Hamilton, 42nd Street (starring Tamara Tunie). Each season we hand select our In the Heights, Other Desert Cities, Rod has launched several new Ordway: RUTHANNE HEYWARD fabrics and design our own Heimie’s Mean Girls and The Lion King. His artist-focused initiatives for the Ordway Cabaret: Live at the Loading in-house collection of clothing coming New York acting credits include the Ordway, including the virtual artist Dock 2020. Chanhassen Dinner out of our partnerships with tailor off-Broadway productions of Silence! conversation series “Meet the Artists,” Theatres: Newsies, Sister Act, Grease, shops in Montreal and . From our The Musical and Room Service and and named Tyler Michaels King and Beauty and the Beast, Fiddler on selection of Ready Made garments Louis and his singing partner Drew Jamecia Bennett as the Ordway’s the Roof, , Skylark to our Made-to-Order and Made- Gasparini have appeared together in inaugural Resident Artists, joined this Opera: On the Town, Mlle. Modiste, to-Measure programs, we pride New York cabaret venues including Spring by new Ordway Resident Artist Wonderful Town, The Vagabond ourselves on traditional classic attire Don’t Tell Mama’s and 54 Below Reese Britts. Rod is thrilled to be (their EP Louis and Drew can be working ‘on the Dock’ on this year’s King, The Gilbert & Sullivan Very with permanence to style and fashion. found on Spotify and iTunes). Ordway Cabaret: Live at the Loading Light Opera Company: Patience, HMS SARAH BAHR (Wardrobe Stylist) Dock for 2021 with this exciting group Pinafore. She can also be seen hosting is a freelance Costume and Scenic SANFORD MOORE (Musical Director/ Piano) Ordway: Ordway Cabaret, of artists and with the Ordway’s on ShopHQ, the in-home shopping Designer for theater, opera, and devoted staff and crew. Thank you network and on many locally dance. Her work has been featured Smokey Joe’s Café. Penumbra: Girl Shakes Loose, By the Way Meet Vera for being here with us tonight. As produced commercials and films. with companies such as the Jungle we like to say, when you’re at the Theater, Minnesota Opera, Ten Stark, The Ballad of Emmet Till, The Ordway: Ordway, you’re where you belong. TYLER MICHAELS KING Thousand Things Theater Company, Amen Corner, I Wish You Love, Black 42nd Street, West Side Story. Guthrie: Penumbra Theater, Trademark Pearl Sings, Black Nativity, Ain’t West Side Story, A Midsummer Theater, Mill City Summer Opera, Misbehavin’, Get Ready, Dinah Was. Night’s Dream, My Fair Lady, A Cincinnati Opera, Mixed Blood Children’s Theater: , Last Stop Christmas Carol. Theater Latté Da: Theater, Yellow Tree Theater, on Mrkt St., Three Little Birds Guthrie:

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