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Music and Lyrics by Book by Originally Produced and Directed on by Harold by

Thursday, April 7, 2011, 7:30 p.m. Spring Gala 15,171st Concert

Friday, April 8, 2011, 8:00 p.m. 15,172nd Concert

Global Sponsor Saturday, April 9, 2011, 2:00 p.m. 15,173rd Concert , Director, holds The Yoko Nagae Saturday, April 9, 2011, 8:00 p.m. Ceschina Chair . 15,174th Concert Guest artist appearances are made possible through the Starring , , Hedwig van Ameringen Guest , , Artists Endowment Fund . , , Aaron Lazar, Patti LuPone, , Classical 105.9 FM WQXR is the Radio Station of the , , Philharmonic. , Jim Walton, and Chryssie Whitehead . Programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the Depart - ment of Cultural Affairs , New York , Conductor State Council on the Arts , and the , Director National Endowment for the Arts . Josh Rhodes, Choreographer Instruments made possible, in part, by Lonny Price and Matt Cowart , Co-Producers The Richard S. and Karen LeFrak Endowment Fund .

This concert will last approximately two and Steinway is the Official of the New York one-half hours, which includes one intermission . Philharmonic and Avery Fisher Hall.

Avery Fisher Hall at Home of the Exclusive Timepiece of the New York Philharmonic

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New York Philharmonic

Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Book by George Furth Originally Produced and Directed on Broadway by Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick Conducted by Paul Gemignani Directed by Lonny Price Choreographed by Josh Rhodes Co-Produced by Lonny Price and Matt Cowart Cast (in alphabetical order) Peter Craig Bierko† Harry Stephen Colbert† David Jon Cryer† Amy Katie Finneran† Robert Neil Patrick Harris April Christina Hendricks† Paul Aaron Lazar† Joanne Patti LuPone Susan Jill Paice† Sarah Martha Plimpton† Marta Anika Noni Rose† Jenny Jennifer Laura Thompson† Larry Jim Walton Kathy Chryssie Whitehead† The Vocal Minority† Alexa Green, Fred Inkley, Rob Lorey, Jessica Vosk Ensemble Callie Carter, Ariana DeBose, Sean Ewing, Ashley Fitzgerald, Lorin Latarro, Lee Wilkins

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Rhythm Section Annbritt DuChateau, Keyboards /Organ Andrew Schwartz, Guitar Paul Pizutti, Drums John Beal, Bass Production Set Designer: James Noone Costume Designer: Tracy Christensen Lighting Designer: Kirk Bookman Sound Designer: Peter Fitzgerald and Wig Designer: Paul Huntley Make-Up Designer: Angelina Avallone Fight Director: Rick Sordelet

Associate Director: Matt Cowart Associate Choreographer: Lee Wilkins Production Stage Manager: Timothy R. Semon Casting Director: Kate Boka Associate Sound Designer: Domonic Sack Stage Manager: Raynelle Wright Production Associate: Laura Skolnik Assistant Conductor: Grant Sturiale LA Vocal Coach: Ben Toth Assistant Director: Michael Schwartz Assistant to the Director: Yael Itzkowitz Assistant to the Choreographer: Bree Branker Assistant to : Tony Humrichouser SDC Observers: Nicolas Minas, Melinda Buckley Production Assistants: Christoph Buchegger, Stephen Gardner, Anna Hendricks, Ben Kawaller, Augie Praley, Maegen Sacco, Lauren Samuelsen Props Supervisor: Buist Bickley Production Electrician: Michael S. LoBue Production Sound Engineer: Ed Chapman Copyist: Katharine Edmonds / Emily Grishman Music Preparation Assistant Set Designers: William J. Moser, Jeremy Barnett Assistant Costume Designer: Amy Ritchings Assistant Lighting Designer: Ed McCarthy Lighting Programmer: Aland Henderson Assistant Sound Designer: Megan Henninger Wardrobe Supervisor: Kristin Gardner Assistant Wardrobe Supervisors: Larry Callahan, Melanie Schmidt Wardrobe Assistant: Pat White Hair Dressers: Jun Kim, Joe Vitale, Vanessa Anderson Make-Up Artists: Robert Amodeo, Barry Berger, Nevio Ragazzini Rehearsal Stand-Ins Chris Cooke , Jen DeRosa, Donell James Foreman, Emily Hughes, Jonathan Karsky, David Kuelz, Mikey LoBalsamo, Sarah Nathan, Rebeca Radoszkowicz, Andrea Ross, Cathryn Salamon, Emily Stockdale, Britton Smith, Bethany Xan Jeffery For the New York Philharmonic John Mangum, Artistic Administrator Alex Johnston, Operations Manager Pamela Walsh, Manager, Artistic Planning Michèle Balm, Operations Coordinator

† The New York Philharmonic This Week, nationally syn - Denotes New York Philharmonic debut dicated on the WFMT Radio Network, is broadcast 52 weeks per year. Radio schedule subject to change; for Alan The New York Philharmonic’s recording series, updated information visit nyphil.org. Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic: 2010 –11 Season, is available through iTunes via an iTunes In consideration of both the artists and the audience, Pass. For more information, visit nyphil.org/itunes. please be sure that your cell phones and paging de - vices have been set to remain silent. Other New York Philharmonic recordings are available on all major online music stores as well as on major The photography, sound recording, or videotaping of labels and the New York Philharmonic’s own series. these performances is prohibited.

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Musical Program

Act One Overture Little Things Sorry-Grateful You Could Drive a Person Crazy Have I Got a Girl for You Someone Is Waiting Another Hundred People Getting Married Today Marry Me a Little

Intermission

Act Two Side by Side by Side (What Would We Do Without You?) Poor Tick-Tock Barcelona The Ladies Who Lunch Bows

Scenes The Place: New York City The Time: 1970

The producers wish to thank EuroCo Costumes, John Kristiansen Costumes, and Capri Shoes for their assistance in this production.

Special thanks to Sabbia in for providing Ms. LuPone’s jewelry for this production.

Additional thanks to Emily Althaus, Chris Jaehnig, Bruce Kiesling, Angela Moore, Ian Pai, Augie Praley, Alice Renier, Amy Rogers, Peter Rothbard , David Rysdahl, Steven Smith, Gerald Sternbach , Maximo Torres, and .

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Notes on the Program By James M. Keller, Program Annotator

Company a narrative line entirely. Sondheim has sum - marized its “notion” thus: Stephen Sondheim A man with no emotional commitments re - Stephen Sondheim has been Broadway’s assesses his life on his thirty-fifth birthday leading composer-lyricist for half a century; by reviewing his relationships with his he did not achieve that distinction by repeat - married acquaintances and his girlfriends. ing himself. He has proved to be one of mu - That is the entire plot. sical theater’s most ingenious creators, constantly confronting new challenges to The work’s genealogy traces back to solve and uncovering novel artistic paths to George Furth, the well-known character explore. Each of his major works — 15 full- , who, as a therapeutic exercise, had scale musicals to date — has been ground - written a series of 11 short, one-act plays breaking in its way, each unique. His works that mostly involved three characters. The have often grown out of well-established tra - dramatis personae were completely unrelated ditions of Broadway show writing, but, like from play to play, but in most cases two of the any master chef, he reinvents the recipes he characters were in a relationship with each inherits. Theatrical formulas may provide other, and the other was a “third wheel” — an points of departure for Sondheim, but noth - outsider. When plans for a production of a ing in the oeuvre of his maturity is habitual group of the plays dissolved, Furth consulted or formulaic. with Sondheim; Sondheim consulted with his Company falls near the beginning of his pi - director-producer colleague Harold Prince, oneering output, and its flavor was so unan - who saw in them the glimmer of a musical. ticipated that it left many in the audience To make the disparate scenes come together wondering what to make of the piece. Certainly it In Short was not a “book musi - Born: March 22, 1930, in New York City cal” per se — the sort of clearly scripted narra - Resides : in New York City tive play with integrated Work composed: 1970 (with preliminary work beginning the preceding year); the song and dance that had book is by George Furth; Sondheim served as both composer and lyricist by then dominated the Broadway stage for a World premiere: April 26, 1970, at the Alvin in New York, following tryouts in Boston good 25 years, in such works as Oklahoma!, My New York Philharmonic premiere and most recent performance: the Phil - Fair Lady, and Man of harmonic first performed excerpts from Company on May 20, 2008, Marvin Ham - lisch, conductor, and most recently on March 16, 2010, Paul Gemignani, conductor La Mancha . It struck many viewers as lacking Estimated duration: ca. 130 minutes

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together and whose unmarried state does not compare unfavorably to the relationships of the various couples, which are portrayed as having both pluses and minuses. “Company does have a story,” wrote Sond - heim in his recent book, ,

[it’s] the story of what happens inside Robert. It just doesn’t have a chronological linear plot. As far as I know, prior to Com - pany there had never been a plotless musi - cal which dealt with one set of characters from start to finish. … Audiences kept wait - In the Composer’s Words ing for something to happen, some incident that would lead to another that would lead In his extraordinary book Finishing the Hat, published to another, and were baffled when nothing just six months ago by Knopf, Stephen Sondheim ex - did. The show takes place not over a period plains a challenge he needed to confront while imag - of time, but in an instant in Robert’s mind, ining Company, a show in which the songs do not serve to advance a plot: perhaps on a psychiatrist’s couch, perhaps at the moment when he comes into his I decided to hold the score together through sub - apartment on his thirty-fifth birthday. ject matter: all the songs would deal either with marriage in one sense or another, or with New York City. … That solution led to a bigger difficulty: Although it’s not a book musical, Company I knew almost nothing about the primary subject. did have antecedents. Sondheim has ac - I had never married, or even been in a long-term knowledged that its impetus may have de - relationship. … How could I write about relation - rived from Allegro, an unsuccessful 1947 ships (a buzzword in the sixties) without merely reiterating the received wisdom I’d gleaned from musical by and Oscar Ham - plays and movies and ? … I asked Mary merstein II, which traced the life of a central Rodgers, a songwriter herself, to tell me what she character through memories of incidents that knew about marriage. … She had recently begun seem almost arbitrary. Sondheim’s first job in her second attempt at it and she knew enough to know what she didn’t know, which made her com - commercial theater was as Hammerstein’s ments fresh, personal discoveries rather than assistant for that production. Although it was predigested truisms. I took notes — literally — as surely dispiriting for an aspiring professional we talked. For me it may have been secondhand to cut his teeth on a show that was destined experience, but it was experience nonetheless, and … enough to give me the confidence to go to fail, the theatrical challenge that Allegro ahead and write the score. failed to conquer may well have led him to de - vise Company . Sondheim’s show also draws from the showbiz tradition of revues, the va - into a self-standing work, Sondheim and riety shows that grew out of and Furth amalgamated the various “outsider” might typically include unrelated songs, characters into a single person: Robert (or dance numbers, comedy routines, and other “Bobby,” “Bobby baby,” “Bobby bubi,” and so such acts. The scenes of Company spin on), the glue that binds the show’s vignettes revue-like around Robert, but he serves as

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their anchor. It was enough to convince audi - two trombones, timpani, drum set, vibra - ences to give this brave new show a try — and phone, scraper, cabasa, tambourine, finger it went on to play for 705 performances in its cymbal, xylophone, orchestra bells, triangle, initial Broadway run. temple blocks, castanets, chime, bell tree, vi - braslap (or Flexitone), Acme siren, ratchet, Instrumentation: this performance em - police whistle, wood block, guitar (playing ploys an expanded by acoustic and electric guitars and banjo), elec - Jonathan Tunick that calls for three flutes tric bass (doubling acoustic bass), synthe - (two doubling alto flute, one doubling pic - sizer, and strings (without any violas or colo), oboe and Englis h horn, three clarinets double basses). (one doubling bass clarinet), bassoon, alto sax - ophone, two tenor saxophones (one doubling Acknowledgment: Company is presented clarinet and bass clarinet), two baritone saxo - through special arrangement with Music The - phones (both doubling clarinet), two horns, atre International (MTI). All authorized per - three trumpets (two doubling flugelhorns), formance materials are also supplied by MTI.

Isn’t It Ironic?

In Finishing the Hat, Stephen Sondheim writes of an aspect of this show’s intellectual character that was new to audiences in 1970, although it would become endemic in the theater in ensuing decades:

Company was my first full immersion in evening-length irony — irony not merely employed as a tone for stray in - dividual songs like “Gee, Officer Krupke” [in ] and Cora’s number in , but as the modus operandi of an entire score. Company, in fact, was the first Broadway musical whose defining quality was neither satire nor sentiment, but irony. It was an observational musical, told at a dry remove from be - ginning to end; in that sense, it was a descendant of Al - legro, although Allegro had not a drop of irony in its heartfelt soul. Of course, many plays, from Restoration comedy onward, have been purveyors of irony — Brecht built a body of work on it — and a number of musicals like contained ironic moments, but Company was suffused with it. Most of the shows I did with Hal [Prince] had this observational aspect to them, the ex - ceptions being and, to a lesser extent, , both of which, not without signifi - cance, had been suggestions of mine. The truth is that Hal was the ironist (witness and Lovemusik, among others, both of which he encouraged and di - rected), and I the romantic ( Sunday in the Park with George and , for example), which is one of the reasons that our collaboration was so good.

The program for the first Broadway run of Company

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New York Philharmonic

2010 –2011 SEASON ALAN GILBERT, Music Director, The Yoko Nagae Ceschina Chair Daniel Boico, Assistant Conductor , Laureate Conductor, 1943–1990 Kurt Masur, Music Director Emeritus

VIOLINS Marilyn Dubow OBOES The Sue and Eugene The Shirley and Jon Liang Wang Concertmaster Mercy, Jr. Chair Brodsky Foundation Chair Principal The Charles E. Culpeper Martin Eshelman Evangeline Benedetti The Chair Chair Quan Ge Sherry Sylar* Sheryl Staples Judith Ginsberg Eric Bartlett Robert Botti Principal Associate Stephanie Jeong The Mr. and Mrs. James E. The Lizabeth and Frank Concertmaster The Gary W. Parr Chair Buckman Chair Chair The Elizabeth G. Beinecke Elizabeth Dyson Chair Hanna Lachert Maria Kitsopoulos ENGLISH HORN Michelle Kim Hyunju Lee Assistant Concertmaster Joo Young Oh Sumire Kudo Qiang Tu The Joan and Joel Smilow The William Petschek Daniel Reed Chair Family Chair Mark Schmoockler Ru-Pei Yeh Enrico Di Cecco The Credit Suisse Chair Na Sun in honor of Paul Calello CLARINETS Carol Webb Vladimir Tsypin Mark Nuccio Yoko Takebe Wei Yu Wilhelmina Smith++ Acting Principal Minyoung Chang+ VIOLAS The Edna and W. Van Alan Clark Chair Hae-Young Ham BASSES Pascual Martinez The Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Principal Eugene Levinson M. George Chair The Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Forteza P. Rose Chair Principal Acting Associate Principal Lisa GiHae Kim The Redfield D. Beckwith Rebecca Young* The Honey M. Kurtz Family Kuan-Cheng Lu Chair Chair Irene Breslaw** Orin O’Brien Newton Mansfield The Norma and Lloyd Alucia Scalzo++ The Edward and Priscilla Acting Associate Principal Chazen Chair Pilcher Chair The Herbert M. Citrin Chair Amy Zoloto++ Kerry McDermott+ Dorian Rence William Blossom E-F LAT CLARINET Anna Rabinova Katherine Greene The Ludmila S. and Carl B. Pascual Martinez Charles The Mr. and Mrs. William J. Hess Chair The Shirley Bacot Shamel McDonough Chair Randall Butler Forteza Chair Dawn Hannay David J. Grossman BASS CLARINET Fiona Simon Vivek Kamath Satoshi Okamoto Sharon Yamada Peter Kenote Amy Zoloto++ Elizabeth Zeltser Kenneth Mirkin FLUTES The William and Elfriede Judith Nelson BASSOONS Ulrich Chair Robert Langevin Robert Rinehart Principal Judith LeClair Yulia Ziskel The Mr. and Mrs. G. Chris The Principal Andersen Chair Chair The Pels Family Chair Marc Ginsberg Kim Laskowski* Principal Sandra Church* Lisa Kim* CELLOS Mindy Kaufman Roger Nye In Memory of Laura Mitchell Carter Brey Arlen Fast Soohyun Kwon Principal PICCOLO The Joan and Joel I. Picket The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Mindy Kaufman CONTRABASSOON Chair Samuels Chair Arlen Fast Duoming Ba Eileen Moon* The Paul and Diane Guenther Chair

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HORNS PERCUSSION STAGE REPRESENTATIVE Philip Myers Christopher S. Lamb Louis J. Patalano Principal Principal The Ruth F. and Alan J. Broder Chair The Constance R. Hoguet of AUDIO DIRECTOR Stewart Rose++* the Philharmonic Chair Lawrence Rock Acting Associate Principal Daniel Druckman* Cara Kizer Aneff** The Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Ulrich * Associate Principal R. Allen Spanjer Chair ** Assistant Principal Erik Ralske+ Kyle Zerna + On Leave Howard Wall ++ Replacement/Extra David Smith++ HARP Principal TRUMPETS The New York Philharmonic uses The Mr. and Mrs. William T. Knight III the revolving seating method for Philip Smith Chair Principal section string players who are The Paula Levin Chair listed alphabetically in the roster. KEYBOARD Matthew Muckey* In Memory of Ethan Bensdorf HONORARY MEMBERS OF THE Thomas V. Smith HARPSICHORD SOCIETY Lionel Party Pierre Boulez TROMBONES Stanley Drucker PIANO Principal The Karen and Richard S. LeFrak The Gurnee F. and Marjorie L. Hart Zubin Mehta Chair Carlos Moseley Chair Harriet Wingreen Amanda Davidson* Jonathan Feldman David Finlayson The Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen Chair ORGAN BASS TROMBONE James Markey LIBRARIANS The Daria L. and William C. Foster Lawrence Tarlow Chair Principal Sandra Pearson** TUBA Sara Griffin** Alan Baer Principal ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL MANAGER TIMPANI Carl R. Schiebler Markus Rhoten Principal The Carlos Moseley Chair Kyle Zerna **

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The Artists

Craig Bierko (Peter) received Tony, Drama Stephen Colbert (Harry) is the host and ex - Desk, and Outer Critics Circle award nomi - ecutive producer of The Colbert Report, the nations for his performance as Harold Hill in Emmy and Peabody Award –winning series on the 2000 Broadway revival of The Music . The series has received a Man, and played Sky Masterson in the recent total of 18 Primetime Emmy nominations, and Broadway revival of . On film the musical special A Colbert Christ - he has appeared as Timothy in the 1996 ac - mas: The Greatest Gift of All! won a Grammy tion movie The Long Kiss Goodnight; Max for Best Comedy Album. The Colbert Report Baer in Man; and Tom Ryan in deployed to Iraq in June 2009 on a USO tour Scary Movie 4. titled ”Operation Iraqi Stephen: Going Com - Mr. Bierko’s other film and television cred - mando” to tape and perform in front of the its include Damages, Head Case, Meet Bill, troops. The Colbert Report is the first television Superhero Movie, Unhitched, Boston Legal program in USO history to produce a week of (third season), For Your Consideration, shows in a combat zone. Beginning in 1997, Danika, (fourth season), Ally Mr. Colbert was the longest-tenured and most McBeal, Fear and Loathing in , ’Til diverse correspondent on The Daily Show There Was You, and Wings. with Jon Stewart. He also co-created Comedy Central’s first-ever live-action narrative series, Strangers with Candy . His other appearances on camera include and Law & Order: Criminal Intent . He was a cast member and writer on ABC’s The Dana Car - vey Show, wrote for Live (SNL) ; and was the voice of Ace on the SNL animated series The Ambiguously Duo.

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He was also the voice of the President of the Fierstein’s Torch Song Trilogy, taking in the Dreamworks animated the role from Broadway to ; film Monsters vs. Aliens . Mr. Colbert’s book, I starred as Eugene Jerome on Broadway in Am American (And So Can You!), spent 29 ’s ; and weeks on best-seller list. played Jack in the Los Angeles premiere of Raised in Charleston, South Carolina, Stephen Boys Life. As a filmmaker Jon Cryer co- Colbert graduated from Northwestern Univer - wrote, produced, and starred in two well- sity and quickly made a name for himself as a received independent films on which he col - member of Chicago’s famed Second City im - laborated with director Richard Schenkman: prov troupe, where he met Amy Sedaris and The Pompatus of Love and Went to Coney Paul Dinello. The three moved to New York Island on a Mission from God… Be Back by City, where they created and starred in Exit 57, Five . He is the son of actor David Cryer and a half-hour sketch comedy series that ran for writer/actress Gretchen Cryer. three seasons on Comedy Central.

Katie Finneran (Amy) appeared on Broad - Jon Cryer (David) won an Emmy Award for way last season as Marge MacDougall in the Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series revival of Promises, Promises, for which she for his work as Alan Harper in CBS’s No. 1 received Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics comedy, . He initially Circle awards. She also won Tony, Drama gained attention on the big screen opposite Desk, and Outer Critics Circle awards for her Demi Moore in No Small Affair, followed by performance in the Broadway revival of his performance as an endearing misfit in ! Her other Broadway appear - John Hughes’s Pretty in Pink . He also ap - ances include Mauritius, Cabaret (as Sally peared as Jim “Wash Out” Pfaffenbach in Bowles) , , Neil Simon’s Hot Shots! His first foray into television was , The Heiress, In the Summer - playing the title role in The Famous Teddy Z house, My Favorite Year, Two Shakespearean on CBS . In addition, he starred in two shows , and On Borrowed Time . Off-Broad way for FOX — Getting Personal and Partners — Ms. Finneran has been seen in Love, Loss and was seen on ABC’s The Trouble with Nor - and What I Wore; You Never Can Tell; Pig mal . On stage, Mr. Cryer has hit the boards on Farm; Arms and the Man; Li’l Abner; Bosoms both sides of the Atlantic: he played David in and Neglect; A Fair Country; and Edith Stein .

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She made her debut in the West End tour, Los Angeles, San Diego). From his film production of David Lindsay-Abaire’s Fuddy debut opposite in Clara’s Meers . In film she has appeared in Baby on Heart and his role as the title character of Board, Untitled Peter Farrelly Film, Broken Doogie Howser, M.D., to his recent turns in Bridges, Firehouse Dog, Miss Congeniality 2, the Harold & Kumar films and ’s Bewitched, You’ve Got Mail, Liberty Heights, online sensation , Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along and Night of the Living Dead. Ms. Finneran Blog, Mr. Harris has enjoyed a career span - has been a regular on the television series ning more than 20 years in the industry . He The Inside, Wonderfalls, and Bram and Alice. won for his guest-starring role She may also be familiar to television audi - on and for hosting the 63rd Annual Tony ences for her roles on , Damages, Awards. Additionally, he hosted and co- Royal Pains, Oz, and Sex and the City. produced the 61st Annual Emmy Awards. He currently stars as in CBS’s , earning multiple Emmy and Golden Globe Award nominations and a People’s Choice Award for Favorite TV Comedy Actor. Following his recent turn in Beastly, Mr. Harris’s upcoming film appear - ances include and A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas . He will soon make his film directorial debut with a romantic comedy provisionally titled Aaron & Sara , starring Josh Hutcherson and Emma Roberts. He made his theatrical directorial debut with the comedy I Am Grock (El Portal Theatre, North Neil Patrick Harris (Robert) made his New ), and mixed his loves of York Philharmonic debut as in and theater in directing The Expert at the the Orchestra’s 2000 production of Stephen Card Table (2008 Edinburgh Festival). Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd. His Broadway Earlier this year, he made his musical direc - appearances include The Balladeer/Lee Har - torial debut with the ’s recent vey Oswald in the Tony Award –winning mu - staging of . sical, ; the –winning production of , opposite ; and the emcee in Cabaret at . Ad - ditional theater credits include (, Los Angeles); , with the Los Angeles Philharmonic (Holly - wood Bowl); The Paris Letter ( Theatre, Los Angeles); tick, tick…BOOM! (Me - nier Chocolate Factory, London); (, San Diego); and Rent (; second na tional

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TNT, ER for NBC (in a recurring role), and The Court, opposite , on ABC.

Christina Hendricks (April) appears as Joan Harris (formerly Holloway) on AMC’s critically acclaimed series Mad Men, winning Aaron Lazar (Paul) recently played the role her first Emmy nomination in the category of of prosecutor David Wilentz in Dustin Lance Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. Black’s J. Edgar, a film starring Leonardo Di - She has also starred in Kevin Hill on UPN Caprio and directed by (late opposite . Her television guest ap - 2011 release). Other film or television cred - pearances have included Without a Trace, its include The Notorious Bettie Page , Ugly Cold Case, and recurring roles on Joss Whe - Betty, White Collar, New Amsterdam, and All don’s Firefly, Notes from the Underbelly, and My Children. Mr. Lazar has performed with the Life. Ms. Hendricks recently completed pro - New York Pops, led by Steven Reineke, and duction on The Weinstein Company’s I Don’t the National Symphony Orchestra, with Marvin Know How She Does It, a comedy about a fi - Hamlisch. He has performed the role of Billy nance executive who is the breadwinner for Bigelow in a concert version of with her husband and two kids, also starring Sarah the Boston Pops conducted by Keith Lock - Jessica Parker, Pierce Brosnan, and Olivia hart, Lt. Cable in at The Holly - Munn; the film is to be released in 2012. She wood Bowl led by Paul Gemignani, and Gabey can be seen in the film Drive, starring opposite in with English National , Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan. She re - among other appearances. On Broadway Mr. cently finished production on Paper Street Lazar originated roles in A Tale of Two Cities; Films’ Detachment, opposite Adrian Brody in the world premiere of Impressionism, star - and James Caan, and Leonie, alongside Emily ring and ; the revival Mortimer. Other film credits include Life As of Les Misérables (for which he received a We Know It, La Cucina, South of Pico, and Drama Desk nomination); and in last year’s re - Driving Lessons with and vival of Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Hope Davis. Christina Hendricks began her Music, with Catherine Zeta-Jones, Angela career as the opportunistic, career-climbing Lansbury, , and Elaine intern on Showtime’s Beggars and Choosers Stritch. Aaron Lazar also heads Integrated before she signed with John Wells Produc - Arts, a company that merges his passions tions for shows that in clude The Big Time on for the arts and education. Current projects

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include producing an educational documen - To Hell and Back, for ’s Phil - tary film package for high school and college harmonia Baroque Orchestra; Weill-Brecht’s students titled The Americana Project, and The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, creating and producing Broadway 101, a for the (debut); and Marc performance/. Blitzstein’s Regina, at The Kennedy Center. She has appeared in the films City by the Sea; ’s Heist and ; Just Looking; ; ; Witness; and on numerous television shows. Her recordings include Patti LuPone Live, Heatwave, , Matters of the Heart, and Sweeney Todd (on the New York Philhar - monic’s Special Editions label); the 2006 and 2008 recordings of Sweeney Todd and ; the Ghostlight Records release of The Lady with the Torch; and Patti LuPone at Les Mouches, a digitally remastered live perform - ance CD of her now-legendary 1980 night - Patti LuPone (Joanne) has appeared on club act. Ms. LuPone is a founding member of stage in Women on the Verge of a Nervous the Drama Division of The Breakdown; Gypsy (for which she received and of ’s The Acting Com - Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle awards, pany . She is the author of The New York Times and the for Distinguished best-seller Patti LuPone: A Memoir. Performance of the Season); Sweeney Todd (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle nomi - nations); Passion, , Can-Can, Noises Off!, and Sweeney Todd (with the New York Philharmonic and others); The Old Neighbor - hood, Master Class, and Patti LuPone on Broadway (Outer Critics Circle Award); Pal Joey, , Oliver!, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, , , , and Evita (Tony and Drama Desk Awards); and , The Water En - gine, and The Robber Bridegroom (Tony Award and Drama Desk nominations). In Lon - don she appeared in Matters of the Heart, Jill Paice (Susan), who recently starred in Master Class, Sunset Boulevard (Olivier the City Center Encores! production of Award nomination), the RSC world premiere Where’s Charley?, appeared on Broadway as production of Les Misérables, and The Cra - Annabella, Margaret, and Pamela in The 39 dle Will Rock (Olivier Award for her perform - Steps, and originated the roles of Niki Harris ances in both productions). Ms. LuPone’s in and Laura Fairlie in The Woman in opera performances in clude ’s White. In London she originated the roles of

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Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind and Grey’s Anatomy; Fringe; ; and Laura Fairlie in Th e Woman in White, and ap - How to Make It in America. On stage Ms. peared in Night of 1,000 Voices at Royal Al - Plimpton most recently starred opposite bert Hall. She performed on the national tour in Pal Joey for the Round - of Les Misérables, and played Sophie in the about Theatre Company (a third Tony nomina - original company of Mamma Mia! in Las tion, Drama Desk nomination for Best Vegas . Ms. Paice received Featured Actress in a Musical, and Drama Award nominations for her roles in the Signa - League nomination). In 2008 Ms. Plimpton ture Theatre productions of and starred in Top Girls for Theatre Ace. She played Lucy in The Gig and Del - Club (Tony and Drama Desk nominations), and phi/Susan in Weird Romance at the York The - starred as Imogen in Lincoln Center Theater’s atre, and is featured on the original cast production of ’s Cymbe - recordings of Curtains, The Woman in White, line . Other theater appearances have included The Gig, and on Broad - (Drama Desk and Outer way. Her television appearances include The Critics Circle awards and a Tony nomination), Beautiful Life and The Wonderful Maladys. Shakespeare in the Park’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shining City, False Servant (Drama League nomination), Hurlyburly, and Hobson’s Choice (, Lucille Lortell nomination). Martha Plimpton is a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Ensemble and was awarded the Award.

Martha Plimpton (Sarah) has been seen on stage, screen, and television, and is currently starring on the television series . She made her film debut in Alan J. Pakula’s Rollover and went on to star in more than 30 films, including , The Mosquito Coast, Running on Empty, Beautiful Girls, Par - Anika Noni Rose (Marta) was seen most re - enthood, 200 Cigarettes, Pecker, and the in - cently as assistant district attorney Wendy dependent feature Small Town Murder Songs Scott-Carr, a surprise candidate running for of - (for which she recently won the Best Actress fice opposite ’s Peter Florrick on The Award at the Whistler Film Festival). Her tele - Good Wife on CBS, and she was the voice of vision appearances have included Law & Order: Princess in Disney’s The Princess & the Special Victims Unit (Emmy nomination for Out - Frog, which received three Oscar nominations. standing Guest Actress in a Drama Se ries); She recently starred as Yasmine in ’s

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For Colored Girls, and made her first trip to Cladwell in (for which she received Africa for the Peabody Award –winning BBC a Tony nomination for Best Leading Actress), and HBO television series The No. 1 Ladies and originated the role of Ariel Moore in Foot - Detective Agency, portraying secretary Ma loose. Her other productions have included Makutsi. Ms. Rose trained at San Francisco’s On the Town, , and Pardon My American Conservatory Theater, and subse - English, at City Center’s Encores!; , quently appeared on Broadway in . at Second Stage Theatre; and the first na - She garnered an Obie Award for the Off- tional tour of Carousel, as Julie Jordan. Ms. Broadway retrospective Eli’s Thompson has toured Europe in concert, and Comin’, and earned a Award for played a murderer on Law & Order: Special her portrayal of Emmie Thibodeaux in Tony Victims Unit . Kushner’s Caroline, or Change, for which she also received a Tony Award, The Theater World Award, The Clarence Derwent Award, and a Drama Desk nomination. On the big screen she played Lorrell Robinson in Bill Condon’s , for which she received a nomina - tion for an NAACP award. Ms. Rose returned to Broadway as Maggie in ’s ac - claimed production of . Her vocal performances have taken her around the world, including an appearance at the 79th Annual , The Vatican, and . She made her solo cabaret debut in New York as part of Lincoln Center’s Jim Walton (Larry) most recently appeared American Songbook this winter. with the New York Philharmonic in Sond - heim: The Birthday Concert! in March 2010. He also starred in the Philharmonic’s 1985 presentation of Sondheim’s : In Con - cert. Among his other credits are Scrambled Feet, Perfectly Frank, Merrily We Roll Along, Stardust, , Sweeney Todd (in the 1989 revival), And the World Goes ’Round, (broadcast on PBS), (2000 revival), Guys and Dolls (2009 re - vival), and (2009 revival). He appeared with his brother, Bob Walton, in City Center’s Encores! production of The Ziegfeld Follies of 1936. With Bob, Jim Walton has Jennifer Laura Thompson (Jenny) starred written several musicals, including Double on Broadway last season in , Trouble (A Musical Tour de Farce) and following her starring role as Glinda in Mid-Life! The Crisis Musical, both li censed . She originated the role of Hope through the Rodgers & Hammerstein Or -

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ganization. Mr. Walton was raised in Marion, Passion , and, most recently, . As a Indiana, and trained at the University of conductor Mr. Tunick has appeared in concert Cincinnati’s Conservatory of Music. with the Buffalo Philharmonic, American Sym - phony Orchestra, and the Symphony Orchestra, and on recordings with Bernadette Peters, , , Paul McCartney, , and Plácido Domingo. Jonathan Tunick is one of only two orchestrators to be inducted into the Ameri - can Theatre Hall of Fame.

Chryssie Whitehead (Kathy) appeared in the Broadway revival of (as Kristine), The Studio (at Signature Theatre), The Producers (on the national tour), All Shook Up (at Goodspeed Opera House), (on the first national tour), Paul Mc - Cartney’s Driving Rain tour, and (as Liane, at Reprise LA!). Her television credits include Paul Gemignani (Conductor) has been the Castle, The Mentalist, Man Up! (ABC ), music director of more than 40 Broadway Melissa & Joey, In Plain Sight, Grey’s Anatomy, and West End shows, including Follies, Pa - Revenge of the Bridesmaids, and Two and a cific Overtures, Candide, A Little Night Music, Half Men. Her films include Every Little Step Sweeney Todd, Evita, Dreamgirls, Merrily We (a documentary on the casting of A Chorus Roll Along, , On the Twentieth Line ), Meet Dave, Save the Last Day, Farm Century, Sunday in the Park with George, Girl in New York, and Riffraff. Ms. Whitehead ’s Broadway, Crazy for You, is on the faculty of the American Musical Dra - Passion, High Society, and Kiss Me, Kate. In matic Academy in Los Angeles and is a pri - 2004 he was the music director for Stephen vate dance teacher and choreographer. Sondheim’s Assassins, , and the Japan National Theatre Company’s produc - Jonathan Tunick (Orchestrator) is Broad - tion of . Mr. Gemignani has way’s preeminent orchestrator, one of only made recordings with the American Theatre to receive the Tony, Emmy, Grammy, and Orchestra in addition to many cast albums; Academy awards. His collaboration with appeared as guest conductor with numerous Stephen Sondheim began with Company orchestras; and is a regular guest conductor (1970) and continued with Follies, A Little at the , Lyric Opera of Night Music, Pacific Overtures, Sweeney Chicago, Royal Opera Company, and the New Todd, Merrily We Roll Along, Into the Woods, York City Ballet. His film work has in cluded

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Sweeney Todd starring , Kramer vs. Kramer, Reds, and Eyewitness . Mr. Gemignani received the 2001 Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the The - ater, the Los Angeles Drama Critics Award (1994), and a special Drama Desk Award for consistently outstanding musical direction and commitment to the theater (1989). In 2003 he was awarded an honorary doctor - ate of musical arts from the Manhattan School of Music; in 2006 he received a Prime Time Emmy Award for Best Musical Direction for a presentation of South Pacific; and the Drama League of New Company marks the return of Lonny Price York honored him for Distinguished Achieve - (Director and Co-Producer) to the New York ment in in 2008. Mr. Philharmonic, where he most recently directed Gemignani served as the music director of and co-produced Sondheim: The Birthday the New York Philharmonic’s concert per - Concert! in March 2010. His previous Phil - formance of Stephen Sondheim’s Follies in harmonic collaborations include star - September 1985; in May 2008 he was the ring (broadcast on Live From conductor and music supervisor of the Orch- Lincoln Center ), Candide starring Kristin estra’s semi-staged performances of Cam- Chenoweth and Patti LuPone ( Great Per - elot; and in March 2010 he conducted the formances , Emmy nomination), and Sweeney Philharmonic’s production of Sondheim: The Todd starring Ms. LuPone and , Birthday Concert!, which aired on PBS and for which he won an Emmy Award. Mr. Price was released on DVD and Blu-ray in directed the Emmy Award –winning produc - 2010 . On January 24, 2011, he was inducted tion of Sondheim’s Passion starring Ms. into the American Theatre Hall of Fame. LuPone, Audra McDonald, and . On Broadway he directed Ms. Mc - Donald in for the Round - about Theatre; Danny Glover in ’s ‘Master Harold’ … and the Boys ; in Sally Marr and Her Escorts (which he co- wrote with Ms. Rivers and Erin Sanders); in Urban Cowboy; and himself in , for which he also co-wrote the book (with Linda Kline) and was nominated for a Tony Award. Mr. Price’s Off-Broadway di - rectorial work has included Visiting Mr. Green starring ; Jules Feiffer’s Grown Ups ; and Mary Pat Gleason’s Stopping Traffic for the . He made his opera directing debut at the Grand Opera

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directing Audra McDonald in Poulenc’s La house; Barnum, at Sarasota’s Asolo Reper - Voix humaine and Michael John LaChiusa’s tory Theatre; They’re Playing Our Song, star - Send . He recently finished shooting his first ring at Los Angeles’s feature film, ‘Master Harold’ … and the Boys , ; Academy, at starring and , Florida’s Maltz Jupiter Theatre; 1776, at the and has directed several episodes of ABC’s ; Breaking Up Is Hard . to Do, at Maine’s Ogunquit Playhouse; Chess Mr. Price’s association with Stephen Sond - and Dreamgirls, at the North Carolina The - heim goes back to 1975, when he worked atre; Bonnie and Clyde, at New York Musical afternoons during his days at the High Theatre Festival; Beautiful Girls, at the Man - School of for Hal Prince on hattan School of Music; and All Singing, All the Prince/Sondheim musical Pacific Over - Dancing, Legends! and Broadway by the tures . Several years later, in 1981, he origi - Year–1954 at Town Hall. He created and di - nated the role of Charley Kringas in Merrily rected the 2009–10 season of Broadway We Roll Along on Broadway. Company was Bares 20 in New York . Mr. Rhodes’s Broad - the first record album he ever bought with way performance credits include Fosse , Bells his allowance. Are Ringing , Sweet Smell of Success , Urban Lonny Price is a member of the Stage Di - Cowboy, , The Boy from rectors and Choreographers Society, a na - Oz, and Chicago . tional theatrical union. Josh Rhodes is a member of the Stage Di - rectors and Choreographers Society, a na - tional theatrical union.

Josh Rhodes (Choreographer) worked on the New York Philharmonic’s March 2010 performances of Sondheim: The Birthday Matt Cowart (Co-Producer and Associate Concert! , which was televised on PBS’s Director) served as associate director for the Great Performances and released on Blu-ray New York Philharmonic’s semi-staged pro - and DVD; Broadway: Three Generations, at duction of Camelot in 2008, and co-producer the Kennedy Center; Get Your Gun, of Sondheim: The Birthday Concert! in March starring Patti LuPone at the Ravinia Festival; 2010. He has worked with Lonny Price on Working, at the Old Globe Theatre and in a numerous other productions during the last new production at Chicago’s Broadway Play - four years, in cluding Annie Get Your Gun (at

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the Ravinia Festival) , starring Patti LuPone , Shakespeare Theatre and ; Broadway: Three Gen - Company, and Chicago Shakespeare Theater. erations (Kennedy Center); My Favorite Mr. Noone’s opera credits include work at the Things, a Rodgers & Hammerstein revue Washington National Opera, Glimmerglass, starring ; Beautiful Girls, a New York City Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Sondheim revue starring , Patti and Canadian Opera. He has also designed LuPone, , Donna McKechnie, many national tours, as well as S weeney and Jenn Colella; and the Broadway revival Todd , Candide , Passion, and Camelot, which of 110 in the Shade (as assistant director) , were broadcast on PBS. He designed the starring Audra McDonald. Most recently, Mr. sets in the New York Philharmonic’s May Cowart directed Camp Wanatachi, a new 2000 production of Sweeney Todd. Mr. electro-musical that premiered Off-Broadway Noone has received Drama Desk, Helen at La MaMa E.T.C. in January 2011. In the Hayes, Design, and summer of 2009 he co-wrote and co-directed LA Stage Alliance Ovation awards. with collaborator Isaac Klein the original mu - sical Dream Machines. Other directing credits Tracy Christensen (Costume Designer) include You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown in has previously collaborated with Lonny Price Washington, D.C. (No Rules Theatre Com - on Candide and Camelot with the New York pany); Kiki Baby (Eugene O’Neill Music The - Philharmonic; at City Center’s En - ater Conference); the world premiere of We cores!; Stopping Traffic at The Vineyard; and Three (Clark Studio Theater, Lincoln Center); Annie Get Your Gun at Chicago’s Ravinia and the critically acclaimed Salacious Uncle Festival, starring Patti LuPone. Her other de - Baldrick (NYC Fringe). He was a 2004–05 sign projects have included the Broadway Kenan Directing Fellow at the Lincoln Center production of Souvenir at the Lyceum, The Institute, is an alumnus of the 2005 Lincoln Ohmies at The Roth Theatre, Cornelia Center Theater Directors Lab, and is a mem - at The Old Globe, Seussical for Theatre - ber of the Society for Stage Directors and works USA (for which she received a Lucille Choreographers. Mr. Cowart is a graduate of Lortel nomination), and Meet Me in St. Louis the University of North Carolina School of the at the . She also Arts, and is currently developing a new musi - worked on Souvenir at The Brentwood The - cal titled Legend of the Word with Isaac Klein ater (Ovation Award), Blue Horizons, the new and . whale and dolphin show for Sea World Or - lando/San Diego, Richard III for the Shake - James Noone (Set Designer ) has designed speare Festival of St. Louis, Regina at The many Broadway and Off-Broadway produc - Kennedy Center, and four seasons with the tions, including Come Back, Little Sheba ,A Chautauqua Theater Company. Ms. Chris - Bronx Tale , Jekyll and Hyde , Three Tall tensen is a faculty member in costume de - Women , Full Gallop, and Fully Committed at sign at SUNY–Purchase. the , Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and Playwrights Hori - Kirk Bookman (Lighting Designer) has de - zons. His regional credits include the Guthrie signed lighting on Broadway for The Sun - Theater, Center Theater Group, shine Boys (starring and Tony Public Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Randall), ( and

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Charles Durning), and Gentlemen Prefer Timothy R. Semon (Production Stage Man - Blondes . Off-Broadway credits include Right ager) has worked on the Broadway produc - You Are , Havana Is Waiting , Force Contin - tions of 9 to 5: The Musical ; Collected uum , My One Good Nerve (), What Stories ; the 2006 revival of A Chorus Line ; Then , The Cook, Recent Tragic Events High Fidelity ; Three Days of Rain; Wicked ; (Heather Graham), Shangai Moon, Mondo and Sondheim’s Assassins . He also worked Drama , The Book of Liz (David and Amy on the first national tours of White Christmas Sedaris), Les MIZrahi (Isaac Mizrahi), Hope and Wicked . He has worked on multiple Off- Is the Thing with Feathers , As Thousands Broadway productions and at several re - Cheer , June Moon , The Green Heart, Bed - gional theaters. Mr. Semon has worked with bound , Playboy of the Western World , Lonny Price and Matt Cowart on Sondheim: Eclipsed , The Importance of Being Earnest, The Birthday Concert! with the New York and Major Barbara . His work with the San Philharmonic, and on Annie Get Your Gun Francisco Symphony has included The with Patti LuPone. He received his bachelors Thomashefskys, Of Thee I Sing, Oedipus in fine arts from the University of Cincinnati– Rex, The Nightingale, A Flowering Tree , College Conservatory of Music. Iolanthe, and most recently, ’s El Ni n˜o. Currently, he is the lighting designer for Kate Boka (Casting Director) has worked ’s new Off-Broadway play The on the Broadway productions of The Impor - Divine Sister . tance of Being Earnest , Bye Bye Birdie , and Wait ing for Godot . She was also involved in Peter Fitzgerald (Sound Designer) was the the national tours of Twelve Angry Men, and sound designer for the New York Philhar - . Her regional work has in - monic’s 2007 production of . He cluded Bruce Hornsby’s SCKBSTD; 42nd is currently designing the sound for the new Street, , on This musical Mask at the Pasadena Playhouse. His Island, A Chorus Line, , Bowery previous credits include at La Jolla Boys, The Full Monty, Les Misérables, and Playhouse; Evil Dead, the Musical; ’s in Chicago; as well as The Night Movin’ Out; Ring of Fire; The Great American Season and Things Being What They Are at Trailer Park Musical; La Cage aux Folles; Vic - Bay Street Theatre . Ms. Boka also serves as tor/Victoria with ; ; casting associate for the Roundabout The - Gypsy; ; Paul Simon’s The Capeman; atre Company and Jim Carnahan Casting. ; M. Butterfly; Barry Her credits as an associate include Arcadia, Mann and Cynthia Weil’s Who Wrote That; Behanding in Spokane , La Bête , Pal Joey, Swing; Minnelli on Minnelli with ; Boeing-Boeing, A Man for All Seasons, Cur - Dream; Threepenny Opera with ; and The tains , and 110 in the Shade on Broadway; Best Little Whorehouse in . In addition, Camelot for the New York Philharmonic; La Mr. Fitzgerald has worked on the plays The Bête and Deathtrap in the West End . Off- Odd Couple , Stones in His Pockets, The Broadway she has worked on Language Beauty Queen of Leenane, and A Thousand Archive, Howard Katz, Pig Farm , Entertaining Clowns . Peter Fitzgerald is president of Sound Mr. Sloane , The Paris Let ter, and Mr. Mar - Associates, Inc., a premier provider of sound malade (for the Roundabout). Her television and video systems to the theater. and film contributions include for

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FOX’s Glee, Showtime’s Brotherhood, and the Soldier, a new opera at San Francisco 20th Century Fox’s Flicka. Opera; and projects for House, Covent Garden, and Milan’s Teatro Rick Sordelet (Fight Director) has worked alla Scala. Mr. Sordelet’s film projects have on 51 Broadway shows including The Lion included The Game Plan, starring Dwayne King , The Scottsboro Boys, That Champi - “The Rock” Johnson, and Dan in Real Life, onship Season, and Wonderland, as well starring Steve Carell and Juliet Binoche. For as on the national tours of Beauty and television he was the stunt coordinator for the Beast, Spring Awakening, and Les Mis - Guiding Light for 12 years. Rick Sordelet is érables . Internationally, he has participated in an instructor at the Yale School of Drama, 52 productions, including , , The for Drama, and The Neigh - Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, and Ben borhood Playhouse. He is a board member Hur Live. His work in opera has included for the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Cyrano de Bergerac, starring Plácido Do- and received the Edith Oliver Award for mingo, and Don Carlo, directed by Nicholas Sustained Excellence from the Lucille Lortel Hytner at The ; Heart of Foundation .

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New York Philharmonic

The New York Philharmonic , founded in 1842 Tennstedt, George Szell (Music Advisor, 1969–70), by a group of local musicians led by American-born and . Ureli Corelli Hill, is by far the oldest symphony Long a leader in American musical life, the Philhar - orchestra in the United States, and one of the monic has become renowned around the globe, and oldest in the world. It currently plays some 180 has appeared in 430 cities in 63 countries on five con - concerts a year, and on May 5, 2010, gave its tinents. In February 2008 the Orchestra, led by then- 15,000th concert — a milestone unmatched by any Music Director Lorin Maazel, gave a historic performance other symphony orchestra in the world. in Pyongyang, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea — Music Director Alan Gilbert, The Yoko Nagae the first visit there by an American orchestra. In Octo - Ceschina Chair, began his tenure in September 2009, ber 2009 the Orchestra, conducted by Music Director the latest in a distinguished line of 20th-century Alan Gilbert, made its debut in Hanoi, Vietnam. The musical giants that has included Lorin Maazel Philharmonic subsequently received the 2008 Com - (2002–09); Kurt Masur (Music Director from 1991 mon Ground Award for Cultural Diplomacy for its his - to the summer of 2002; named Music Director toric performance in Pyongyang, and on November Emeritus in 2002); Zubin Mehta (1978–91); Pierre 16, 2010, received the Asia Society’s Cultural Am - Boulez (1971–77); and Leonard Bernstein, who was bassador Award for its concerts in Pyongyang and appointed Music Director in 1958 and given the Hanoi. Other historic tours have included the 1930 lifetime title of Laureate Conductor in 1969. Tour to Europe, with Toscanini; the first South Ameri - Since its inception the Orchestra has champi - can Tour, in 1951; the first Tour to the U.S.S.R., in 1959; oned the new music of its time, commissioning or the 1984 Asia Tour, including the first tour of India; the premiering many important works, such as Dv oˇrák’s 1998 Asia Tour with Kurt Masur, with the first per - Symphony No. 9, From the New World; Rachmani - formances in mainland China; and the 75th Anniver - noff’s Piano Concerto No. 3; Gershwin’s Piano sary European Tour, in 2005, with Lorin Maazel. Concerto in F; and Copland’s . The A media pioneer, the Philharmonic began radio Philharmonic has also given the U.S. premieres of such broadcasts in 1922 , and is currently represented by The works as Beethoven’s Symphonies Nos. 8 and 9 and New York Philharmonic This Week — syndicated na - Brahms’s Symphony No. 4. This pioneering tradition tionally 52 weeks per year, and available on nyphil.org. has continued to the present day, with works of major On television, in the 1950s and 1960s, the Philhar - contemporary composers regularly scheduled each monic inspired a generation through Bernstein’s Young season, including John Adams’s Pulitzer Prize– and People’s Concerts on CBS. Its television presence has Grammy Award–winning On the Transmigration of continued with annual appearances on Live From Lin - Souls; Stephen Hartke’s Symphony No. 3; Augusta coln Center on PBS, and in 2003 it made history as the Read Thomas’s Gathering Paradise, Emily Dickinson first Orchestra ever to perform live on the Grammy Settings for Soprano and Orchestra; Esa-Pekka Awards, one of the most-watched television events Salonen’s Piano Concerto; Magnus Lindberg’s EXPO worldwide. In 2004 the Philharmonic became the first and Al Largo; and Christopher Rouse’s Odna Zhizn . major American orchestra to offer downloadable con - The roster of composers and conductors who certs, recorded live. The most recent initiative is Alan have led the Philharmonic includes such historic Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic: 2010–11 — figures as Theodore Thomas, Antonín Dv oˇrák, Gustav downloadable concerts, recorded live, available either Mahler (Music Director, 1909–11), Otto Klemperer, as a subscription or as 12 individual releases. Since Richard Strauss, Willem Mengelberg (Music Director, 1917 the Philharmonic has made nearly 2,000 record - 1922–30), Wilhelm Furtwängler, Arturo Toscanini ings, with more than 500 currently available. (Music Director, 1928–36), , Aaron On June 4, 2007, the New York Philharmonic Copland, Bruno Walter (Music Advisor, 1947–49), proudly announced a new partnership with Credit Dimitri Mitropoulos (Music Director, 1949–58), Klaus Suisse, its first-ever and exclusive Global Sponsor.

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The Music Director

EUROPE / WINTER 2010 tour in February 2010. Also in the 2009–10 season he con - ducted world, U.S., and New York premieres, as well as an acclaimed staged presentation of Ligeti’s opera, Le Grand Macabre . In January 2011 Alan Gilbert was named Director of Conducting and Orchestral Studies at The Juilliard School, a position that will begin in fall 2011. This adds to his responsibilities as the first holder of Juilliard’s Chair in Musical Studies, establishing Mr. Gilbert as the principal teacher for all conducting majors at the school. He is also conductor laureate of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Music Director Alan Gilbert , The Yoko Nagae Orchestra and principal guest conductor of Ceschina Chair, began his tenure at the New Hamburg’s NDR Symphony Orchestra . He has York Philharmonic in September 2009. The conducted other leading orchestras in the U.S. first native New Yorker to hold the post , he and abroad, including the Boston, Chicago, ushered in what The New York Times called and San Francisco symphony orchestras; Los “an adventurous new era” at the Philharmonic. Angeles Philharmonic; Cleveland and Philadel - In his inaugural season he introduced a num - phia Orchestras; and the Berlin Philharmonic, ber of new initiatives: the positions of The Munich’s Bavarian Radio Symphony Orches - Marie-Josée Kravis Composer-in-Residence, tra, and Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw held by Magnus Lindberg ; The Mary and Orchestra . From 2003 to 2006 he served as James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence , held in the first music director of the Santa Fe Opera. 2010–11 by violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter; an Alan Gilbert studied at Harvard University, annual three-week festival , which in 2010–11 The Curtis Institute of Music, and The Juilliard is titled Hungarian Echoes, led by Esa-Pekka School. From 1995 to 1997 he was the as - Salonen; and ! , the New York Phil - sistant conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra. harmonic’s new-music series . In the 2010–11 In November 2008 he made his Metropolitan season Mr. Gilbert is leading the Orchestra on Opera debut conducting John Adams’s Doctor two tours of European music capitals; two Atomic. His recording of Prokofiev’s Scythian performances at Carnegie Hall, including the Suite with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra venue’s 120th Anniversary Concert; and a was nominated for a 2008 Grammy Award, and staged presentation of Jan áˇcek’s The Cunning his recording of Mahler’s Symphony No. 9 re - Little Vixen . Highlights of his inaugural sea - ceived top honors from the Chicago Tribune son included a major tour of Asia in October and Gramophone magazine. On May 15, 2010, 2009, with debuts in Hanoi and Abu Dhabi, Mr. Gilbert received an Honorary Doctor of and performances in nine cities on the Music degree from The Curtis Institute of Music.

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