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04-19 Kerrigan:GP 4/11/13 12:53 PM Page 1 Friday Evening, April 19, 2013, at 8:00 Kerrigan & Lowdermilk with Michael Arden, Jennifer Cody, Sutton Foster, Nikki M. James, Jeremy Jordan, Laura Michelle Kelly, Carrie Manolakos , Andy Mientus, and Josh Young Chris Fenwick , Musical Director and Piano Victoria Paterson , Violin Dave Eggar , Cello Matt Hinkley , Guitar Charlie Rosen , Bass Damien Bassman , Drums Ted Sperling , Director This evening’s program is approximately 75 minutes long and will be performed without intermission. Major support for Lincoln Center’s American Songbook is provided by Fisher Brothers, In Memory of Richard L. Fisher; and Amy & Joseph Perella. Additional corporate support is provided by Bank of America and PVH Corp. Wine generously donated by William Hill Estate Winery, Official Wine of Lincoln Center. This performance is made possible in part by the Josie Robertson Fund for Lincoln Center. Steinway Piano Please make certain your cellular phone, Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse pager, or watch alarm is switched off. 04-19 Kerrigan:GP 4/11/13 12:53 PM Page 2 Lincoln Center Additional support for Lincoln Center’s American Upcoming American Songbook Event in the Songbook is provided by The DuBose and Dorothy Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse : Heyward Memorial Fund, The Shubert Foundation, TopPatch, Inc. , Jill and Irwin Cohen, The G & A Saturday Evening, April 20, at 8:00 Foundation, Inc., Great Performers Circle, Ben Sollee Chairman’s Council, and Friends of Lincoln Center. Note: This performance has limited availability. Public support is provided by the New York State Council on the Arts. The Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse is located at 165 West 65th Street, Tenth Floor. Artist catering is provided by Zabar’s and Zabars.com . For tickets, call (212) 721-6500 or visit AmericanSongbook.org. Call the Lincoln Center MetLife is the National Sponsor of Lincoln Center . Info Request Line at (212) 875-5766 or visit AmericanSongbook.org for complete program Movado is an Official Sponsor of Lincoln Center . information. United Airlines is the Official Airline of Lincoln Center . WABC-TV is the Official Broadcast Partner of Lincoln Center. William Hill Estate Winery is the Official Wine of Lincoln Center . We would like to remind you that the sound of coughing and rustling paper might distract the performers and your fellow audience members. In consideration of the performing artists and members of the audience, those who must leave before the end of the performance are asked to do so between pieces. The taking of photographs and the use of recording equipment are not allowed in the building. 04-19 Kerrigan:GP 4/11/13 12:53 PM Page 3 Lincoln Center by Page 73), Imaginary Love (Hapgood Meet the Artists Theatre 2011), and Transit (Lark Play- wrights ’ Week 2010) , and she is a member of Interstate 73. She teaches libretto writ - ing at Primary Stages. D R A W Mr. Lowdermilk composed music for The D O Amazing Adventures of Dr. Wonderful and O W Her Dog ! (with playwright Lauren Gunder- Y N N son, at the Kennedy Center in 2011) and E J Red (with librettist Marcus Stevens) , which Kerrigan & Lowdermilk received an Alan Menken Award and the Kait Kerrigan (words) and Brian Lowdermilk 2005 Richard Rodgers Award. (music) made their Off-Broadway debut in 2006 with their adaptation of Henry and Kerrigan & Lowdermilk are alumni of the Mudge , still touring nationally. In 2011 they BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre released their first album , Our First Workshop, co-founders of the digital sheet Mistake , which charted at No. 1 on the music company NewMusicalTheatre.com, iTunes Singer/Songwriter chart. Their new and proud members of the Dramatists album , Kerrigan-Lowdermilk Live , docu - Guild and ASCAP. For more information, ments a concert tour that resulted from visit kerrigan-lowdermilk.com. their breakout $35 ,000 Kickstarter cam - paign; the album will be released this spring. Other musicals include The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown , Tales from the Bad Years , The Woman Upstairs , Wrong Number , The Freshman Experiment (freshmanexperi - Michael Arden ment.com ), Republic , and Flash of Time , which is currently running at the Kimmel Michael Arden’s theater credits include Big Center in Philadelphia . Their songs have River , The Times They Are A-Changin’ , been recorded and performed internation - Bare , It’s Only Life , Swimming in the ally and their musicals have been devel - Shallows , ACE , Juno , As You Like It , The oped at the Goodspeed’s Norma Terris Winter’s Tale , The Secret Garden , Pippin Theatre, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, La (Mark Taper Forum) , and Aspects of Love , Jolla Playhouse, Perry-Mansfield New directed by Trevor Nunn (Menier Chocolate Works Festival, ASCAP/Disney Workshop, Factory). On film he has appeared in Manhattan Theatre Club, York Theatre, Lark Source Code , Bride Wars , The Good Play Development Center, and Primary Shepherd , My Eleventh , and The Odd Life Stages. Together they received a 2006 of Timothy Green . Mr. Arden’s television Jonathan Larson Grant and a 2004–05 credits include Anger Management , Dramatists Guild Fellowship, and they have Over/Under , GCB , Nurse Jackie , Royal held residencies at the Orchard Project and Pains , Unforgettable , Off the Map , Kings , the MacDowell Colony. The Closer , The Forgotten , Bones , The Return of Jezebel James , Cashmere Mafia , Ms. Kerrigan received the 2009 Kleban Grey’s Anatomy , and Numb3rs . In concert Award for libretto writing. As a playwright, he has appeared with Barbra Streisand and she has written Disaster Relief (developed Chris Botti and at venues such as 54 04-19 Kerrigan:GP 4/11/13 12:53 PM Page 4 Lincoln Center Below, Feinstein’s, and Joe’s Pub. Mr. Arden writes and directs for the Forest of Arden Theatre Company in Los Angeles. He is a graduate of The Juilliard School. Sutton Foster Sutton Foster is an award-winning actor, singer , and dancer who has performed in Jennifer Cody ten Broadway shows. She originated roles in the Broadway productions of The Jennifer Cody is thrilled to perform the song Drowsy Chaperone , Little Women , Young she first sang in Henry and Mudge at the Frankenstein , and Shrek the Musical , in Lucille Lortel Theatre. She was nominated addition to her Tony Award –winning perfor - for a Theatre World Award for precocious mances in Anything Goes and Thoroughly Annie . Ms. Cody has spent the last few Modern Millie . Currently, she is starring in years lending her voice to movie and televi - ABC Family’s new series Bunheads , cre - sion characters and commercials. She won ated by Amy Sherman-Palladino. Ms. an Annie Award for creating the voice of Foster was first seen on television on Star Charlotte La Bouff in Disney’s The Princess Search at age 15, and has more recently and the Frog . She is the voice of Darcy on appeared in Johnny and the Sprites , Flight Nickelodeon’s Winx Club and Lucy on of the Conchords , Sesame Street , Law & Robot and Monster . On Broadway, Ms. Order: SVU , and Royal Pains . As a solo Cody has performed in Shrek the Musical , artist, she has performed all over the coun - The Pajama Game , Taboo , Urinetown , The try as well as internationally with her musi - Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Actors cal director , Michael Rafter , featuring songs Fund), Seussical , Grease , Beauty and the from her debut solo album, Wish , as well Beast , No , No , Nanette (Encores !), and as her follow-up CD, An Evening with Cats . Off-Broadway, she created original Sutton Foster: Live at the Café Carlyle . She roles in Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party has graced the stages of Carnegie Hall, (Manhattan Theatre Club ), Charles Busch’s Feinstein’s, Joe’s Pub , and Lincoln Center’s Judith of Bethulia (Theater for the New American Songbook series, among many City ), and Henry and Mudge . Ms. Cody’s others . In 2011 Ms. Foster received an additional television credits include honorary doctorate from Ball State Uni- American Dad , Phineas and Ferb , Law & versity , where she also is on faculty as a Order , Gravity Falls , The Daily Show , and teacher and advisor to the department of Late Show with David Letterman . theater and dance . Upcoming projects include the film Lucky Stiff , where she plays Jason Alexander’s wife, and Khumba , an animated film where she voices Fifi, the cheerleading zebra . 04-19 Kerrigan:GP 4/11/13 12:53 PM Page 5 Lincoln Center G R U B M A H A S S I L E M Nikki M. James Jeremy Jordan Nikki M. James is the winner of the 2011 Tony Award nominee Jeremy Jordan cur - Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a rently stars in NBC’s musical drama Smash Musical for her role as Nabulungi in The as a Brooklyn-based composer creating a Book of Mormon , which she is currently groundbreaking rock musical. Mr. Jordan is starring in. On Broadway she has also from Corpus Christi, Texas , and studied at appeared in All Shook Up (Lorraine) and The Ithaca College, where he earned a bachelor Adventures of Tom Sawyer . Her additional of fine arts degree with honors in perfor - theater credits include Romeo and Juliet mance theater. In 2009 he received his (Juliet), Caesar and Cleopatra (Cleopatra Broadway start understudying the lead in opposite Christopher Plummer) at Stratford the hit musical Rock of Ages . He went on to Shakespeare Festival, Dorothy in The Wiz star as Tony in the revival of West Side (La Jolla Playhouse ; Craig Noel Award) , Story and as Clyde Barrow in the Frank Adela in Bernarda Alba (Lincoln Center Wildhorn musical Bonnie and Clyde . Last Theater), Otillie in House of Flowers year Mr. Jordan starred opposite Queen (Encores!), and Walmartopia (Off- Broad- Latifah and Dolly Parton in the Warner Bros.