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CITY CENTER AT THE CENTER OF THE ARTS FOR 75 YEARS Arlene Shuler, President & CEO Anne Kaufman, , Chris Fenwick, Encores! Of-Center Artistic Director Encores! Of-Center Creative Advisor Encores! Of-Center Music Director

New York City Center Encores! Off-Center

Book and Lyrics by Maria Irene Fornes Music by Al Carmines

Starring Mark Bedard Becca Blackwell Eddie Cooper Daniel Everidge Ruby Floyd Marcy Harriell James T. Lane Bonnie Milligan Kent Overshown Bryonha Marie Parham Don Darryl Rivera Soara-Joye Ross Steve Routman Saundra Santiago J.D. Webster

Scenic Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer Sound Designer Donyale Werle Clint Ramos Mark Barton Leon Rothenberg

Music Coordinator Original Orchestrations by Production Stage Manager Seymour Red Press Eddie Sauter Cody Renard Richard

Casting by Laura Stanczyk, CSA

Choreographed by Hope Boykin

Music Director Greg Jarrett

Directed by Laurie Woolery

Leadership Support for Encores! Of-Center is provided by Stacey and Eric Mindich Fund for Musical Theater Major Support is provided by Ford Foundation Series Sponsors Stacy Bash-Polley • Luigi Caiola and Sean McGill • Elizabeth and Dean Kehler • Andrew Martin-Weber • Paula and Ira Resnick • Nathalie and Pablo Salame RS A E Y

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PROMENADE

CAST OF CHARACTERS (In Order of Appearance)

105 ...... JAMES T. LANE 106 ...... KENT OVERSHOWN Jailer...... MARK BEDARD Servant ...... BRYONHA MARIE PARHAM Waiter/Injured Man/Soldier II ...... STEVE ROUTMAN Dishwasher/Driver/Soldier I ...... DON DARRYL RIVERA Mr. R...... EDDIE COOPER Miss I ...... CARMEN RUBY FLOYD Mr. S ...... J.D. WEBSTER Mr. T ...... DANIEL EVERIDGE Miss O ...... SOARA-JOYE ROSS Miss U...... MARCY HARRIELL Miss Cake ...... BONNIE MILLIGAN

Mother ...... SAUNDRA SANTIAGO

Mayor ...... BECCA BLACKWELL

The original production of Promenade premiered on April 9, 1965 at the Judson Poets’ Theatre in . It moved Of- to the Promenade Theatre and opened on June 4, 1969. The Promenade Theatre was named after the show.

Promenade is presented by special with SAMUEL FRENCH INC.

This production is being presented as a concert performance in which the actors may be performing with their scripts in hand. RS A E Y

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THE ORCHESTRA

Music Director and Conductor Greg Jarrett

Associate Music Director Danny Percefull

Assistant Music Director Josh Clayton

Piano Greg Jarrett

Violins Keats Diefenbach

Woodwind Steven Lyon

Trupmet Tim Schadt

Trombone Bruce Bonvissuto

Drums/Percussion Eric Poland

Bass Bill Ellison

#PromenadeNYCC • @NYCityCenter RS A E Y

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PROMENADE SYNOPSIS of MUSICAL NUMBERS

Dig, Dig, Dig ...... James T. Lane & Kent Overshown

Unrequited Love ...... Marcy Harriell, Soara-Joye Ross, Carmen Ruby Floyd, Eddie Cooper, J.D. Webster, Daniel Everidge, James T. Lane, Kent Overshown, Don Darryl Rivera & Steve Routman

Isn’t That Clear ...... J.D. Webster & Company

Don’t Eat It ...... Marcy Harriell, Soara-Joye Ross, Carmen Ruby Floyd, Eddie Cooper, J.D. Webster, Daniel Everidge, James T. Lane & Kent Overshown

Four ...... Eddie Cooper, Soara-Joye Ross, Daniel Everidge, J.D. Webster, Carmen Ruby Floyd, Marcy Harriell, James T. Lane, Kent Overshown, Don Darryl Rivera & Steve Routman

Chicken Is He ...... Bonnie Milligan & Company

Four (Reprise) ...... Eddie Cooper, Daniel Everidge, J.D. Webster, Soara-Joye Ross, Carmen Ruby Floyd, Marcy Harriell, James T. Lane, Kent Overshown, Don Darryl Rivera & Steve Routman

The Moment Has Passed ...... Soara-Joye Ross

A Flower ...... Carmen Ruby Floyd

Après Vous...... Mark Bedard, James T. Lane & Kent Overshown

Bliss I ...... James T. Lane, Kent Overshown & Bryonha Marie Parham

Bliss II ...... Eddie Cooper, Daniel Everidge, J.D. Webster, Soara-Joye Ross, Carmen Ruby Floyd, Marcy Harriell & Bonnie Milligan

The Cigarette Song ...... Bryonha Marie Parham, James T. Lane & Kent Overshown

Thank You ...... Steve Routman

The Clothes Make the Man ...... Bryonha Marie Parham, James T. Lane & Kent Overshown

Two Little Angels ...... Saundra Santiago, James T. Lane, Kent Overshown & Bryonha Marie Parham RS A E Y

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The Passing of Time ...... James T. Lane & Kent Overshown

Capricious and Fickle ...... Marcy Harriell

Crown Me ...... Bryonha Marie Parham, James T. Lane & Kent Overshown

Sidney N. Phelps ...... Don Darryl Rivera

Madeline ...... Don Darryl Rivera

Two Little Angels (Reprise) ...... Saundra Santiago

Spring Beauties ...... The Company

Après Vous #2 ...... Marcy Harriell, Soara-Joye Ross, Carmen Ruby Floyd, Eddie Cooper, J.D. Webster, Daniel Everidge, Becca Blackwell, Bonnie Milligan, James T. Lane, Kent Overshown & Bryonha Marie Parham

When I Was Born ...... James T. Lane, Kent Overshown, Steve Routman, Don Darryl Rivera, Bryonha Marie Parham & Saundra Santiago

Why Not ...... Bryonha Marie Parham, Steve Routman, Don Darryl Rivera & Saundra Santiago

The Finger Song ...... Eddie Cooper & Company

Little Fool ...... Daniel Everidge & Company

The Laughing Song ...... The Company

A Mother’s Love ...... Saundra Santiago

I Saw a Man ...... Saundra Santiago

All is in the City ...... James T. Lane, Kent Overshown & Company RS A E Y

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Mark Bedard Becca Blackwell Eddie Cooper Daniel Everidge

Carmen Ruby Floyd Marcy Harriell James T. Lane Bonnie Milligan

Kent Overshown Bryonha Marie Parham Don Darryl Rivera Soara-Joye Ross

Steve Routman Saundra Santiago J.D. Webster MEET THE ARTISTS MARK BEDARD (Jailer) Off-Broadway: Desk and awards for Lead Actor in Julius Caesar (TFANA); Pride and Prejudice Falling (Minetta Lane), Found (Atlantic Theatre (Primary Stages); A Midsummer Night’s Dream Company), Fat Camp (dir. Casey Hushion). (Pearl Theater); Fashions for Men (Mint The Metropolitan ’s Die Fledermaus (Ivan Theater). Guthrie/OSF: The Cocoanuts (his own u/s). Film/TV: Portrayed the oddity the Lord of adaptation); Oregon Shakespeare: seven seasons. Leeds in the film The Greatest Showman, Inside Hudson Valley Shakespeare: four seasons. Other Llewyn Davis, Jessica Jones, The Knick. Everidge regional: Roe (Arena Stage, Berkeley Rep); Forum is a featured soloist on the Grammy Award (Geva Theatre); Cymbeline (Shakespeare Theatre winning soundtrack for The Greatest Showman. Company); Boeing Boeing (Seattle Repertory); @daneveridge. gmail.com> Waiting for Godot (Marin Theatre); Love’s Labour’s Lost (Shakespeare and Company). TV/Film: CARMEN RUBY FLOYD (Miss I) Broadway The Good Fight; Instinct; The Knick. Education: Credits: Hello Dolly! (Dolly Levi & Ernestina u/s) UCIrvine. MarkBedard.com (Mama Morton), After Midnight (Creole Love Call), The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (Mariah BECCA BLACKWELL (Mayor) is a NYC based u/s), (Gary Coleman), and The Lion trans actor, performer and writer. Existing between King (Shenzi). Of-Broadway: Crowns, Langston genders, and preferring the pronoun “they,” Hughes’s Little Ham, Blind Lemon Blues, Cabin in the Blackwell works collaboratively with playwrights Sky, and Parade (Encores!). Carmen and directors to expand our sense of personhood has been featured in various television shows, and the body through performance. Some of their commercials, and voiceovers. Original music @ collaborations have been with Madeleine George, iTunes. All Media @CarmenRubyFloyd. Love to her , Half Straddle, Jennifer Miller’s family, Mom, and Dad. Dedicated to unexpected Circus Amok, Richard Maxwell, Erin Markey, blessings, J Bernard, and Jacob Adam. God is Good. Sharon Hayes, Theater of the Two Headed Calf, and Lisa D’Amour. Film/TV includes: High MARCY HARRIELL (Miss U) is thrilled to re- Maintenance, Untitled Noah Baumbach Project, turn to Encores! Select credits include Broadway: Shameless, Deadman’s Barstool, and Jack in the , Lennon, . NY: , Getting Box. Becca is a recipient of the Doris Duke Impact Home, , Sorrows and Rejoicings. Region- Artist Award. Be on the lookout for their solo show al: Fly (DTC), Lucky Duck (Old Globe), Company They, Themself and Schmerm. (Kennedy Center). Film: MiB International, Death , Mania Days, FreezerBurn. TV: Search Party, EDDIE COOPER (Mr. R) Most recently appeared Gone, Elementary, Nurse Jackie, Royal Pains, Legally at : The Cradle Will Rock Mad, NCIS, Ed, Queens Supreme. She is the host of (Mister Junior) and The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui the reality series Re: Fashion on NBCU’s Bluprint, (Roma) both directed by John Doyle. Previous En- alongside her husband Rob. @MarcyHarriell cores! Of-Center credits include: , God Bless You Mr. Rosewater (Jerome), and Little Shop of JAMES T. LANE (105) is from . Horrors (Audrey II). : This West End: The Scottsboro Boys, revival of A Chorus Ain’t No Disco (The D.A.). Bucks County Playhouse: Line (Palladium Theatre). Broadway: Kiss Me, Kate The New World (Miles Standish). Two River: All-male (Paul), King Kong the Musical, The Scottsboro A Funny Thing Happened... (Domina). TV: Delco Boys, Chicago, and . National Proper, Forever, Mozart in the Jungle, recurring on Tours: Jersey Boys, Cinderella, Fame the Musical. Cinemax’s Banshee as Fat Au, and HBO’s Emmy- Regional Theatre: The Old Globe, The Muny, nominated The Night Of. Thanks to my family and A.C.T, and Dallas Theatre Center. Encores!/Of- friends for their love and support. @MrEddieCooper Center: Grand Hotel, Don’t Bother Me... Concerts: with The New York Pops, Ottawa DANIEL EVERIDGE (Mr. T) Broadway: Grease Symphony, and many more. @JamesTLane (OBRC). Of-Broadway: Nominated for Drama

FFD1.indd 1 9/18/17 5:13 PM MEET THE ARTISTS BONNIE MILLIGAN (Rosita/Miss Cake) was thanks to his family, HTA, and Disney for making recently nominated by both the Drama League this possible! @DonDarrylRivera and the Outer Critics Circle for her Broadway debut in Head Over Heels, for which she won the SOARA-JOYE ROSS (Miss O) NY last saw ; 1st National Tour: Origi- Ross in John Doyle’s reimagined, Carmen Jones nal Pat in Kinky Boots. Of-Broadway: God Bless that garnered her a Lucille Lortel Award, Drama You Mr. Rosewater (Encores!), Gigantic (Vineyard Desk, and Audelco Nomination. Broadway: Les Theatre); Jasper in Deadland (Prospect Theater) Misérables, Dance of the Vampires. National Tour: TV: recurring as Katherine on Search Party (TBS) The Gershwin’s Porgy & Bess. Favorites: The First and Bitsy on Escape at Dannemora (Showtime), Noel (The Apollo), Disenchanted (The Westside), Happy (SyFy). @BeltingBons Dessa Rose (), Single Black Female (, ), Jerry KENT OVERSHOWN (106) Encores! debut! Springer the Opera (Carnegie Hall), Anything Goes On the concert stage, he has appeared with the as Reno Sweeney (Arena Stage). Film: Garden Philadelphia Orchestra and can be heard on the State. TV: Crashing (HBO). In loving memory of recording Bernstein: Mass. Film: Easter Mysteries. my mom, Rita. Soara-Joye.com Tours: The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (Mingo/ u/s Porgy, Sporting Life), Memphis (Wailin’ Joe, u/s STEVE ROUTMAN (Dishwasher, Injured Man, Bobby, Delray, Gator). Regional Theatre: Good- Soldier I) Broadway: La Bête. Of-Broadway: The speed Opera House, Walnut Street Theatre, Two Shaggs (Playwrights Horizons); Fiorello!, Pipe River Theatre, Casa Mañana, The Muny, STAG- Dream, Hey, Look Me Over! (Encores!); Love’s ES St. Louis, Westchester , Labor’s Lost, Much Ado... (NYSF); The Fantasticks. Diamond Head Theatre (Honolulu, HI). Immense TV/Film includes: /Verdon, The Irishman, love to fam, friends, and HCKR! Go blue! The Wolf of Wall Street, Inside Llewyn Davis, The Good Wife, The Blacklist, The Mysteries of Laura, BRYONHA MARIE PARHAM (Servant) was Vinyl. Recent: The Flamingo Kid (Hartford Stage). most recently seen in the National Tour of Regionally, Steve has performed in Shakespeare, as Dr. Charlotte (James Lapine, dir.). Broadway: Chekhov, Feydeau, Odets, Guare, Stoppard, Prince of Broadway, The Gershwins’ Porgy & Bess Coward, and musicals in over 35 theaters across (Serena), After Midnight, Ragtime (Sarah’s Friend), the country. Book of Mormon. Concerts: at Carnegie Hall (Paquette); San Diego Symphony (guest SAUNDRA SANTIAGO (Mother) last appeared artist); Philadelphia Orchestra (principal soloist, on the stage in the Kennedy Center’s In the Bernstein’s Mass); Lincoln Center (Ragtime, Heights (Abuela). You can catch her on the new Showboat); 92nd Street Y (Lyrics & Lyricists: Irving show, Hightown for Starz. Broadway: The Tony- Berlin). Regional: 2018 World Premiere Dave (Tina nominated A View from the Bridge, Chronicle of a Landau, dir.), Arena Stage. TV: Madam Secretary, Death Foretold, and the Tony award-winning Nine. Live from Lincoln Center (Emmy Award), 66th and Many Of-Broadway plays including Spike Heels 68th , The Today Show. and the LCT’s . She’s done a ton of television, most known for portraying Det. Gina DON DARRYL RIVERA (Waiter, Driver, Soldier Calabrese on and twins Jeannie and II) is thrilled to be making his Encores! debut! Joan on Sopranos. She won an Alma award for Originally from Seattle, Don Darryl moved to portraying Carmen on for several NYC in 2013 to make his Broadway debut as the years. Movies include Carlitos Way, House that original Iago in Disney’s Aladdin where he still can Jack Built, Beat Street. A lifetime member of the be seen nightly! Favorite credits include: Seattle Actor’s Studio, she’s thrilled to be performing Children’s Theatre, The 5th Ave Theatre, The Maria Irene Fornes’s and Al Carmines’s eclectic , and Shakespeare Theatre Com- work, Promenade, at City Center. pany. BFA: Cornish College of the Arts. Special

FFD1.indd 1 9/18/17 5:13 PM MEET THE ARTISTS J. D. WEBSTER (Mr. S) was last seen in Cabin musicals. His work as a composer/lyricist and as in the Sky and returns to City Center having a minister at Judson Memorial Church were in- appeared in 18 Encores! productions. Broadway: strumental in the nurturing of avant garde artists The Color Purple (Revival Tour), Porgy and Bess and creation of the Of-Of Broadway movement (Mingo), , Ragtime, Showboat. Of- associated alongside La MaMa E.T.C. and Café Broadway: , Pericles, Two Gentlemen of Cino. Carmines was hired at Judson Church as an Verona (Public Theater), NYMF, Mufti. Concert: assistant minister in 1961 and was asked to start , Bernstein’s Mass, Spring Is Here a theater alongside playwright Robert Nichols. (Carnegie Hall), My Fair Lady (NY Phil). TV: The two demands of the theater’s programming (Heavenly Friend), South Pacific (Henry), were no religious drama and no censorship. The and Ira Gershwin at 100 all on PBS. Webster appears Judson Poets’ Theater emerged and blossomed as Simon in the musical film Easter Mysteries. as a seminal force against the commercializa- tion and conformity of the plays and musicals on MARIA IRENE FORNES (1930–2018) (Book Broadway and Of-Broadway at the time. Car- and Lyrics) has been called the greatest and mines wrote 80 musicals, , and oratorios, least known dramatist of our time. She’s written of which ten graduated to Of-Broadway houses. more than 40 plays, won nine OBIE awards, and Among them are Home Movies and Softly Con- mentored thousands of playwrights across the sider the Nearness ( for Best Music), globe. Of-Broadway’s Signature Theatre devoted In Circles (Vernon Rice for its entire 1999–2000 season to her work, and Music and Obie Award for Best Musical), Peace her epic What of the Night? was a finalist for the (Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music), 1990 Pulitzer Prize. Theater luminaries like Tony Promenade, Christmas Rappings, W.C., The Faggot Kushner, Caryl Churchill, , Lanford (Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics and Wilson, and have credited Fornes Outstanding Music). Carmines earned an Obie as an inspiration and influence. But Fornes did not Award for Sustained Excellence in 1979 and the set out to become a playwright. After arriving in Robert Chesley Award for gay and lesbian play- New York City from Cuba in 1945, she worked writing in 2003. mostly in textiles and even traveled as a painter to Paris in the 1950s. Not until the 1960s did Fornes LAURIE WOOLERY (Director) is the Director of write what she considered to be her first real Public Works at and has worked play—Tango Palace—which catapulted her into at theaters across the country such as the Oregon the vanguard of the Of-Of-Broadway theater Shakespeare Festival, Yale Repertory, Trinity movement. Often referred to as the American Repertory, South Coast Repertory, Cornerstone theater’s “Mother Avant-Garde,” Fornes Theater and others. Woolery has directed world steadfastly refused to adhere to any rules or premieres of plays by Mary Kathryn Nagle, formulas in playwriting. As a teacher and director Charise Castro Smith, , Marisela of the INTAR Hispanic Playwrights in Residence Trevino Orta, and Aditi Kapil among others. Lab in the 1980s, she mentored a generation of Woolery created a musical adaptation of As You Latino/a playwrights including Cherríe Moraga, Like It with Shaina Taub featuring 200 New Yorkers Migdalia Cruz, Nilo Cruz, Caridad Svich, and that premiered at the . Woolery Eduardo Machado. In 2005, while presenting serves on the Board of the Latinx Producers Action Fornes with the Theater Practitioner Award at Network and Latinx Theatre Commons. She is a TCG’s conference in Seattle, Machado said: founding member of The Sol Project. “None of us would be here without her.” GREG JARRETT (Music Director) Broadway: AL CARMINES (Music) (1936–2005) (Music) Gigi, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Dames at Sea, Side Rev. Al Carmines’ career was highlighted by the Show, , The Nance. Of-Broadway: The development of experimental theatre in the 60’s Cradle Will Rock, Pacific Overtures, The Beast in and 70’s when he wrote and starred in several the Jungle, Red Eye of Love, Passion, Death Takes

FFD1.indd 1 9/18/17 5:13 PM MEET THE ARTISTS a Holiday, Crazy for You. Several Encores! Of- Hammer, Café Variations, The Glory of the World. Center shows as Associate MD. Regional: August Film/TV: NBC’s Jesus Christ Superstar Live, Rush. Albums: Beast in the Jungle, Gigi, Red Eye Live, Peter Pan Live, The Tony Awards, The Grammy of Love, Side Show, Side Show: Added Attractions. Awards, Match Game on ABC. Love to RFS. Education: University of Michigan. DONYALE WERLE (Scenic Designer) is a HOPE BOYKIN (Choreographer) is an educator, Brooklyn based set, installation, and urban garden creator, mover, and motivator. She was an original designer. Broadway: Peter and the Starcatcher member of Complexions and joined Philadanco, (Tony Award), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Tony where she received the acclaimed Bessie award. nom), In Transit and Allegiance. Of-Broadway: 6 Currently a 20-year member of The Encores! Of-Center seasons including Songs for American Dance Theater, she continues to build the New World, Little Shop of Horrors, Assassins, and and create work as a 2018–2019 Urban Bush , MCC, Roundabout, Signature, Lincoln Women Choreographic Center Fellowship Can- Center Theater, Public, Vineyard, New York The- didate. She has choreographed for numerous ater Workshop, and . Regional: Good- dance companies including Philadanco, Minnesota speed, 5th Avenue Theatre, Gefen, ACT, Writer’s Dance Theater, and Dallas Black Dance Theatre. Theatre, La Jolla, Old Globe, Hartford Stage, Pa- In 2016, Boykin presented her third work of cho- permill Playhouse, Denver Center, Two River The- reography for the Alvin Ailey American Dance ater. Awards: Tony, Obie, Lucille Lortel, Hewes Theater called r-Evolution, Dream. Commissioned Design Award, Drama Desk, and Outer Critic’s by Damian Woetzel and the Kennedy Center for Circle nominations. Afliations: Broadway Green Demo 2018, Boykin had the honor of choreo- Alliance, USA Local 829. Donyale speaks inter- graphing, writing, and performing with New York nationally on sustainable design and is currently City Ballet principal Lauren Lovette. Serving working towards a Certificate of Horticulture from as artistic lead for Kennedy Center Dance Lab Brooklyn Botanic Garden. @midwoodgardens (KCDL), a two-week summer dance program for high school students, is a confirmation of the mis- CLINT RAMOS (Costume Designer) Has designed sion of HopeBoykinDance, which includes leading costumes for every show at Encores! Of-Center young, aspiring artists. THERE ARE NO LIMITS. since its inception. Broadway: , Torch Song (Tony nom), on This Island (Tony, Outer CODY RENARD RICHARD (Production Stage Critics, Drama Desk noms), Six Degrees of Sepa- Manager) Happy to be back at City Center for his ration, In Transit, Sunday in the Park with George, 4th production with Encores! Broadway: , (Tony Award), Elephant Man, . More Paramour, Kinky Boots, Motown, After Midnight, than 200 national and international design credits. Ghost, Cyrano de Bergerac, Lysistrata Jones, Dear Awards: Tony, 2 Obies, 3 ATW Henry Hewes, 3 Evan Hansen, If/Then, The Lion King. TV: Jesus Christ , among others. Head of De- Superstar Live!, Live!, The Wiz Live!. Cirque sign at Fordham University. @clintramos du Soleil: OVO, Wintuk. Of-Broadway/NY: , Carnegie Hall, Public, At- MARK BARTON (Lighting Designer) has de- lantic, 2nd Stage. Selected Regional: Williamstown, signed the lighting for every Encores! Of-Center The Muny, TUTS, Kansas City Rep, Alley Theatre, show since the series’ inception. Broadway: Amélie STL Rep. Webster Conservatory. @codyrenard (co-designed with Jane Cox), The Real Thing, Violet, and The Realistic Joneses. Of-Broadway: JASON PACELLA (Stage Manager). Broadway: Admissions (Lincoln Center Theater); Signature Farinelli and the King, Miss Saigon. Of-Broadway: Plays (Lortel Award), John (Hewes Design Award), Alice by Heart; Mother of the Maid; ; and Paradise Park (Signature Theater); Hamlet, After the Blast; Venus; As You Like It; Love, Love, February House, and Titus Andronicus (Public); The Love; The Odyssey; The Tempest; Scenes from a Mar- Watson Intelligence, , The Big Meal, and Circle riage. Regional Theatre: Cardboard Piano, Dot, Steel Mirror Transformation (Playwrights Horizons);

FFD1.indd 1 9/18/17 5:13 PM MEET THE ARTISTS Bad Jews and Look Back in Anger (Roundabout); Stars), as well as seven seasons with Binder Cast- Measure for Measure (co-designed with Ryan ing. Broadway, Of-Broadway & Tours: Side Show, Seelig); Fondly Colette Richland, Arguendo, The After Midnight, A Night with Janis Joplin, , Select, The Sound and the Fury, and Gatz (Elevator Lombardi, Ragtime, Impressionism, Seafarer, Radio Repair Service); Notes from Underground and Chair Golf, Coram Boy, Translations, Dirty Dancing, All (TFANA). Other New York credits include Soho Our Children, The Woman in Black, The Glorious Rep, Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company, NYTW, Ones, Cripple of Inishmaan, Noura, Little Rock, BAM, Juilliard Opera, MCC, Women’s Project, Fetch Clay Make Man, Tarrell McRaney’s Brother/ Target Margin, New Georges, Clubbed Thumb, Sister Plays. Other Theater: The Kennedy Center and P.S. 122. Regional: Center Theater Group, for the Performing Arts (In the Heights, H2S, Little Guthrie, A.R.T., Actors Theatre of Louisville, La Shop of Horrors, , Tommy); Druid Jolla Playhouse, Yale Rep, Huntington, Long Theatre, Ireland; Theatre Royal Bath; Hartford Wharf, Berkeley Rep, Denver Center, Cincinnati Stage; The Shakespeare Theatre of Washington, Playhouse, Boston Lyric Opera, and Curtis Opera DC; McCarter Theatre Center; The Wilma; and Theater. Obie Award for Sustained Excellence. Chicago Shakespeare Theatre; among others.

LEON ROTHENBERG (Sound Designer) NYCC: CHRIS FENWICK (Encores! Of-Center Music Encores! Of-Center (2013–present), Fall for Director) is currently a vocal producer on Steven Dance (2008–2016), , 1776. Spielberg’s film of . He recently Recent Broadway: Hillary and Clinton, The Waverly music supervised Fun Home at the in Gallery, ’s The New One, The Boys London; at Center Theatre Group in in the Band. Recent New York: Primary Stages, Los Angeles; and the Broadway revival of Once on Playwrights’ Horizons, Second Stage, Manhat- This Island (2018 Tony Award, Best Revival). He tan Theatre Club. Select Regional: A.C.T., Two music directed the Broadway revival of Sunday in River Theater, City Theater Pittsburgh, Gefen, the Park with George. Fenwick music directed the Huntington Theatre, Arena Stage, Old Globe. Public Theater and Broadway productions of Fun International: Cirque du Soleil, National Theatre Home (2015 Tony Award, Best Musical) and music of Cyprus, and Dijon Festival. Tony Award: The supervised the national tour. He music directed the Nance. Klaxson.net original productions of Michael John LaChiusa’s , Los Otros, , and See What I SEYMOUR RED PRESS (Music Coordinator) Wanna See. He has also served as music director for received the Tony Honor for Excellence in The- concerts with Patti LuPone at Carnegie Hall, Ra- ater. Credits boast more than 100 shows, includ- vinia Festival, and many more. Fenwick was music ing the original ; Dreamgirls; Nine; Bring in director of the Encores! Of-Center productions ’da Noise, Bring in ’da Funk; and at of Gone Missing; Assassins; God Bless You, Mr. Liberty. Credits also include acclaimed revivals Rosewater; Runaways; The Wild Party; Little Shop of Anything Goes, Guys and Dolls, Carousel, A of Horrors; ; ; Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Faust; tick, tick…BOOM!; I’m Getting My Act and Flower Drum Song. Screen credits include Together…; and The Cradle Will Rock. Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Mike Nichols’ The Birdcage, and Paramount’s In and (Encores! Off-Center Out. He is an ASCAP composer whose composi- Artistic Director) New York: Fire in My Mouth tions have sold more than 100,000 records. His (NY Philharmonic); The Lucky Ones (Ars Nova); playing career has segued from Hundred Days (NYTW, Z Space, The Know The- and to . This ater); Mary Jane (Lortel Award for Direction, season on Broadway: King Lear and Chicago. NYTW, Yale Rep); Marvin’s Room (Roundabout Theatre Company); Assassins (Encores! Off- LAURA STANCZYK CASTING Encores!: Center); Sundown; Yellow Moon (Women’s Proj- Cotton Club Parade, Damn Yankees (Summer ect/Ars Nova); A Life (Lortel nomination, Drama

FFD1.indd 1 9/18/17 5:13 PM MEET THE ARTISTS League Nomination); Marjorie Prime (Lortel Nom- that dynamically engages with our broader social ination, Drama League Nomination); Detroit, Your and political environment. Notable shows include Mother’s Copy of the Kama Sutra, and Maple and Gone Missing; ’s Mr. Burns, a Vine (Playwrights Horizons); The Nether, Smokefall post-electric play, named the 4th Best Play of the (MCC); Buzzer (The Public); Belleville (Lortel Nom- past 25 years by ; José Rivera’s ination, NYTW, Yale Rep); You Got Older (Drama Another Word for Beauty; and Michael Friedman Desk Nomination, P73 Productions); The Muscles and Bess Wohl’s Pretty Filthy. The company par- in Our Toes (Labyrinth Theater Company); Some- ticipated in several BAM Next Wave Festivals where Fun, God’s Ear (New Georges and Vineyard and has been produced at major New York and Theater); Stunning, Slowgirl (LCT3). Regional: The regional theaters. TheCivilians.org. Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, Smokefall (Good- man Theatre); And No More Shall We Part, You ARLENE SHULER (New York City Center Better Sit Down: Tales from My Parents’ Divorce, President & CEO) has had a long and distinguished Six Degrees of Separation (Williamstown The- career in the arts. After dancing with the Jofrey ater Festival); Belleville (Yale Rep, Steppenwolf). Ballet, she attended , where Resident Director Roundabout Theater, Artistic she received her B.A. and J.D. degrees. Her arts Associate and founding member of The Civilians, administration career began in Washington, D.C., Clubbed Thumb Associate Artist, and co-creator where she served as program administrator of the of the CT Directing Fellowship, New Georges As- dance program at the National Endowment for the sociate Artist, Artistic Council of Soho Rep, SDC Arts, among other positions. Ms. Shuler returned Executive Board Member. Three OBIES, the Joan to New York as executive director of Volunteer and Joseph Cullman Award for Exceptional Cre- Lawyers for the Arts, and then continued in the ativity from Lincoln Center, the Alan Schneider field of philanthropy in leadership positions with Director Award. the Wallace Funds, General Atlantic Partners Foundation, Atlantic Philanthropic Service Com- JEANINE TESORI (Of-Center Creative Advisor pany, and the Howard Gilman Foundation. For and Founding Artistic Director) Broadway cred- 11 years Ms. Shuler worked at Lincoln Center for its include Fun Home; Violet; Caroline, or Change, the Performing Arts, where she was vice president Shrek The Musical; Thoroughly Modern Millie; Twelfth for planning and development and then senior Night (Lincoln Center Theater); and ’s vice president of planning and external afairs. In A Free Man of Color. Tesori also collaborated with June 2003 she was named president and CEO of Tony Kushner on Mother Courage starring Meryl New York City Center, where she had performed Streep at the Delacorte. Her opera credits in- as a member of the Jofrey Ballet at the start of clude A Blizzard on Marblehead Neck (, Tony her career. Her accomplishments at City Center Kushner; Glimmerglass) and The Lion, the Unicorn include her conception of the acclaimed Fall for and Me (libretto, J. D. McClatchy; Washington Dance Festival, which premiered in September National Opera) as well as the upcoming Blue (li- 2004. In recognition of her significant contribu- bretto, Tazewell Thompson, Glimmerglass) and a tions to dance, she was awarded the 2009 Capezio commission from the Metropolitan Opera. Her Dance Award. Ms. Shuler serves on the board of songs are featured in the Netflix revival of Gilmore the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the George Bal- Girls. She is the co-founder of A Broader Way, an anchine Foundation, and on the advisory board of arts empowerment program for girls from under- the Trust for Mutual Understanding. She is also a served communities; the founding artistic director member of the New York State Bar Association. of Encores! Of-Center; and has been a lecturer in music at and Columbia University. NEW YORK CITY CENTER has played a defining Upcoming: Soft Power at The Public Theater. role in the cultural life of the City since 1943 when it was founded by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia with THE CIVILIANS (The Lobby Project) Founded in the civic mission to make the best in the performing 2001, The Civilians supports ambitious new work arts accessible to all. Today the distinctive

FFD1.indd 1 9/18/17 5:13 PM MEET THE ARTISTS neo-Moorish theater welcomes hundreds of Lobby Projects Curated and Produced by Steve Cosson thousands of visitors to experience internationally and The Civilians acclaimed artists on the same stage that legends Lobby Project Coordinator ...... Amy Ashton like , Leonard Bernstein, and Photographer ...... Joan Marcus Of-Center Apprentices ...... Marisa Arellano, made their mark. For nearly 25 Asher Lloyd Ehrenberg, years the treasured Tony-honored Encores! series Jasmine Lesane, has given new life to the American musical theater Kristen Mendez, canon, complimented by the Encores! Of-Center Jessie Rosso, series, which features seminal Off-Broadway Yichen Zhou musicals filtered through the lens of today’s innovative artists. Dance continues to be an integral CREDITS part of the theater’s mission through programs like Show art by Clara Cornelius the annual Fall for Dance Festival, which exposes Additional lighting equipment by PRG. Additional audio equipment by Gibson Entertainment a new audience to an international array of artists by ofering highly subsidized tickets. City Center Patron treats provided by MYZEL’S CHOCOLATES is also the home to a roster of renowned national 140 West , across from City Center and international companies including Alvin Ailey www.myzels.com American Dance Theater (City Center’s Principal Dance Company) and Theatre Club. SPECIAL THANKS TO Through its robust education and community programs, City Center brings the performing arts Oskar Eustis, Lear deBessonet, Shanta Thake, to more than 9,000 New York City students each Michelle Memran, Morgan Jenness, Emily Sophia Knapp, year and activates all areas of the building with Brisa Areli Muñoz, Dahlia Ramsay, Hannah Schenk, Pablo Hernandez Basulto, Elena Vidaurre Ramos, talks, master classes, art exhibitions, and intimate Laura Ramos Woolery, The Woolery Family, performances that provide audiences an up-close Jennifer Kiger, James Bundy, Victoria Davidjohn, look at the work of the great theater and dance Haley Fragen, Katie Massie, Gail Tierney, artists of our time. Allison Spann, Sergio Cruz, Bria McKenzie, Joe Weinberg, Anna Zabel, Haydon John, Graceson Abreu, Paula Leon-Gambetta, Mia Corbett, SPECIAL STAFF FOR PROMENADE Max Sedacca, Kyra Moskowitz, Ben Diamond, Nora Gentile, Herb Benjamin, Claire Smith, Manager, Musical Theater Programs ...... Meg Brown Alyssa Silver, Bella Maxwell, Anna Rahn, Casting ...... Laura Stanczyk, CSA Andrei Dolezal, Lauren Montes, Kasey Britt, Sarah Cooney Morgan Carmen, Megan King, Myles King, Technical Supervisor ...... Mark Mongold Dejah Poole, Ashley Simpson, Martina Viadanna, Production Stage Manager ...... Cody Renard Richard Herb Benjamin, Claire Smith, Alyssa Silver, Stage Manager...... Jason Pacella Bella Maxwell, Anna Rahn, Lauren Susanne Montes, Associate Director ...... Lori Elizabeth Parquet Morgan Carmen, Meagan King, Max Sedacca, Associate Choreographer ...... Deidre Rogan Kyra Moskowitz, Nora Gentile, Racine M. Romaguera, Associate Scenic Designer ...... Bradley Wehrle Lisa Harding, Ken Goldstein, Larry Moore, Associate Costume Designer… ...... Evan Prizant Michael Gildin, Jim Stenborg, Michelle Ridley, Associate Lighting Designer...... Tess James John Rodriguez Wardrobe Supervisor ...... Gina Loiodice-Montes Assistant Wardrobe Supervisor ...... Alison Valcarel New York City Center would like to thank the Music Assistant ...... Adam Beskind Production Sound Mixer ...... Elizabeth Coleman for their support of the season. Moving Light Programmer ...... Curtis Reik Props Coordinator...... Kate Stack Management Associate/Assistant to the Of-Center Artistic Directors ...... Maggie Snyder Production Assistant ...... Plato Seto

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The actors and stage managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the . The House Manager employed in this production is represented by the Association of Theatrical Press Agents and Managers. Backstage and Front of House Employ- ees are represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (or I.A.T.S.E.). The musicians employed in this produc- tion are members of the Associated Mu- sicians of Greater New York, Local 802, of the American Federation of Musicians. The Director and Choreographer are members of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Inc., an independent national labor union.

United Scenic Artists represents the designers and scenic painters for the American Theatre.

The Professional Association of Playwrights, Lyricists, and Composers

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