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Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Book by George Furth Originally Produced and Directed on Broadway by Harold Prince Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick 04-07 Sondheim:Layout 1 3/31/11 12:40 PM Page 23 Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Book by George Furth Originally Produced and Directed on Broadway by Harold Prince Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick 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 Alan Gilbert, Music 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 Craig Bierko, Stephen Colbert, Hedwig van Ameringen Guest Jon Cryer, Katie Finneran, Artists Endowment Fund . Neil Patrick Harris, Christina Hendricks, Aaron Lazar, Patti LuPone, Jill Paice, Classical 105.9 FM WQXR is the Radio Station of the New York Martha Plimpton, Anika Noni Rose, Philharmonic. Jennifer Laura Thompson, Jim Walton, and Chryssie Whitehead . Programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Depart - ment of Cultural Affairs , New York Paul Gemignani , Conductor State Council on the Arts , and the Lonny Price , 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 Piano of the New York one-half hours, which includes one intermission . Philharmonic and Avery Fisher Hall. Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center Home of the New York Philharmonic Exclusive Timepiece of the New York Philharmonic April 2011 23 04-07 Sondheim:Layout 1 3/31/11 3:05 PM Page 24 New York Philharmonic Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Book by George Furth Originally Produced and Directed on Broadway by Harold Prince 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 24 New York Philharmonic 04-07 Sondheim:Layout 1 3/31/11 12:40 PM Page 25 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 Hair 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 the Producers: 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. April 2011 25 04-07 Sondheim:Layout 1 3/31/11 12:40 PM Page 26 Musical Program Act One Overture Company 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 Baby Tick-Tock Barcelona The Ladies Who Lunch Being Alive 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 Chicago 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 PACE University . 26 New York Philharmonic 04-07 Sondheim:Layout 1 3/31/11 12:40 PM Page 27 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- actor, 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 Theatre 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 April 2011 27 04-07 Sondheim:Layout 1 3/31/11 12:40 PM Page 28 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, Finishing the Hat , [it’s] the story of what happens inside Robert. It just doesn’t have
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