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MARCH 2015 WWW.ACTTHEATRE.ORG WWW.5THAVENUE.ORG A CO-PRODUCTION OF ACT — A CONTEMPORARY THEATRE AND THE 5TH AVENUE THEATRE SEE MORE LEARN MORE KNOW MORE EncoreArtsSeattle.com Q&A BEHIND ARTIST NEWS PREVIEWS THE SCENES SPOTLIGHT March 2015 Volume 12, No. 5 Paul Heppner Publisher Susan Peterson Design & Production Director Ana Alvira, Deb Choat, Robin Kessler, Kim Love Design and Production Artists Marty Griswold Seattle Sales Director Joey Chapman, Gwendolyn Fairbanks, Ann Manning, Lenore Waldron Seattle Area Account Executives Mike Hathaway Bay Area Sales Director Staci Hyatt, Marilyn Kallins, Terri Reed, Tim Schuyler Hayman San Francisco/Bay Area Account Executives Brett Hamil Online Editor Jonathan Shipley Associate Online Editor Carol Yip Sales Coordinator Jonathan Shipley Ad Services Coordinator www.encoreartsseattle.com Leah Baltus Editor-in-Chief Paul Heppner Publisher Marty Griswold Associate Publisher Dan Paulus Art Director Jonathan Zwickel Senior Editor Gemma Wilson Associate Editor Amanda Manitach Visual Arts Editor Catherine Petru Account Executive Amanda Townsend Events Coordinator www.cityartsonline.com Paul Heppner President Mike Hathaway Vice President Erin Johnston Communications Manager Genay Genereux Accounting Corporate Office 425 North 85th Street Seattle, WA 98103 p 206.443.0445 f 206.443.1246 [email protected] 800.308.2898 x113 www.encoremediagroup.com Encore Arts Programs is published monthly by Encore Media Group to serve musical and theatrical events in the Puget Sound and San Francisco Bay Areas. 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A fully-staged production Morse’s battle to stop the war before it began. selected from The Construction Zone 2014 series and co-presented with Washington Ensemble Theatre. ©Levy Moroshan © Anthony White acttheatre.org | 206.292.7676 | 700 Union Street, Seattle 4 5TH AVENUE MUSICAL THEATRE COMPANY / ACT– A CONTEMPORARY THEATRE FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTORS David Armstrong Kurt Beattie Executive Producer and Artistic Director Artistic Director The 5th Avenue Theatre ACT – A Contemporary Theatre This new production of the legendary Off-Broadway musical Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well & Living In Paris is the fifth consecutive collaboration between two of Seattle’s leading theater companies—The 5th Avenue Theatre and ACT – A Contemporary Theatre. This unique and exciting partnership demonstrates just how much can be gained when major arts organizations work creatively together. These co-productions provide each organization with the opportunity to fulfill key artistic goals that would be nearly impossible for us to accomplish on our own. They allow The 5th Avenue the opportunity to bring to its audience some of the many wonderful, smaller-scale musicals that would not be a perfect fit for its home theater, and they provide ACT the ability to include musical theater in its programming on a regular basis. The original production of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well & Living in Paris opened in January 1968 at the Village Gate in New York’s Greenwich Village, where it became a fixture for the next four years. Regional productions soon popped up in virtually every city across America including at the Seattle Rep in 1973. The show also became an international sensation with productions in London, Sydney, Paris, Dublin, Amsterdam, and Copenhagen. A production in Cleveland ran for two and a half years, and another in Johannesburg, South Africa, became the longest-running show in that country’s theatrical history. For our new production we have assembled a stellar group of Seattle based artists that we believe is one of the finest collections of singing actors and accomplished musicians that could be assembled anywhere in the world. We are delighted to come together to create theater for such appreciative, supportive audiences and do- nors. Along with our talented artists, you make Seattle the world-class theater town that it is. As patrons of The 5th and ACT, you are in the vanguard—knowledgeable and eager for the next encounter with this great American art form, and The 5th and ACT are thrilled to provide it for you with this production. 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Griffin David Armstrong Bill Berry Managing Director Executive Producer & Artistic Director Producing Artistic Director and ACT — A Contemporary Theatre Kurt Beattie, Artistic Director Carlo Scandiuzzi, Executive Director present Production Conception, English Lyrics and Additional Material by Music by ERIC BLAU and MORT SHUMAN JACQUES BREL Based on Jacques Brel’s lyrics and commentary Starring ERIC ANKRIM LOUIS HOBSON CAYMAN ILIKA KENDRA KASSEBAUM MATT OWEN TIMOTHY McCUEN PIGGEE with CANDICE DONEHOO GREG STONE Scenic & Lighting Design Costume Design Sound Design TOM STURGE HARMONY ARNOLD CHRIS WALKER Stage Manager Resident Music Supervisor JEFFREY K. HANSON IAN EISENDRATH Associate Director/Choreographer Associate Music Director & Conductor Associate Sound Designer Associate Projection & Assistant Lighting Designer CHRYSSIE WHITEHEAD DWIGHT BECKMEYER BRENDAN PATRICK HOGAN TRISTAN ROBERSON Music Supervision by JOEL FRAM Direction & Musical Staging by DAVID ARMSTRONG JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL & LIVING IN PARIS is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York. ACT THEATRE AND SEASON SPONSORS: A Contemporary Theatre Foundation THE JOHN GRAHAM The Norcliffe Foundation FOUNDATION Katharyn Alvord Gerlich, Eulalie M. & Gian-Carlo Scandiuzzi, Nancy Alvord, Gregory & Diane Lind, Chuck Sitkin, Chap & Eve Alvord, Brian Turner & Susan Hoffman, David & Joyce Veterane, Eric & Margaret Rothchild MARLEEN AND KENNY ALHADEFF, 5TH AVENUE PRODUCING PARTNER ——————————— 2014/15 5th Avenue Season Sponsors ——————————— Media Sponsor Restaurant Sponsor encoreartsseattle.com 7 CAST ERIC ANKRIM* LOUIS HOBSON* (March 7-April 12) CAYMAN ILIKA* KENDRA KASSEBAUM* MATT OWEN* (April 14-May 17) TIMOTHY McCUEN PIGGEE* UNDERSTUDIES CANDICE DONEHOO* GREG STONE* STAGE MANAGEMENT Stage Manager: JEFFREY K. HANSON* Assistant Stage Manager: ERIN B. ZATLOKA* Production Assistant: ADRIENNE MENDOZA BAND Conductor/Piano: DWIGHT BECKMEYER Guitar: GREG FULTON Percussion: CHRIS MONROE Bass: DAVE PASCAL ADDITIONAL MUSIC STAFF Music Coordinator: DANE ANDERSEN March 19 – April 26 May 1 – 24 * Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States ISSAQUAH (425) 392-2202 The use of any recording device, either audio or video, and Please turn off your cell phones and EVERETT (425) 257-8600 the taking of photographs, either with or without flash, pagers prior to the beginning of the is strictly prohibited. Patrons wearing Google Glass must performance. VillageTheatre.org power down the device if wearing them in the theatre. 8 5TH AVENUE MUSICAL THEATRE COMPANY / ACT– A CONTEMPORARY THEATRE MUSICAL NUMBERS ACT I OVERTURE .................................................................... Band MARATHON ..................................................................... All ALONE ......................................................................Timothy MADELEINE...................................................................... All I LOVED ......................................................................Kendra