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Friday Evening, April 19, 2013, at 8:00

Kerrigan & Lowdermilk

with , Jennifer Cody, , Nikki M. James, Jeremy Jordan, Laura Michelle Kelly, Carrie Manolakos , , and Josh Young

Chris Fenwick , Musical Director and Victoria Paterson , Violin , Matt Hinkley , Guitar , 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 ’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

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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 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

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by Page 73), Imaginary Love (Hapgood Meet the Artists 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

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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 , Theatre, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, La (Mark Taper Forum) , and , Jolla Playhouse, Perry-Mansfield New directed by Trevor Nunn (Menier Chocolate Works Festival, ASCAP/Disney Workshop, Factory). On film he has appeared in Theatre Club, York Theatre, Lark , 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 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 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

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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 .

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 , 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 . 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 - , Taboo , , The try as well as internationally with her musi - Best Little Whorehouse in (Actors cal director , Michael Rafter , featuring songs Fund), , , 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 . Off-Broadway, she created original Sutton Foster: Live at the Café Carlyle . She roles in ’s The Wild Party has graced the stages of , (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

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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 Musical for her role as Nabulungi in The as a Brooklyn-based 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 ( ; 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 in the Warner Bros. way). She has workshopped Lizzie in Baby film Joyful Noise , and he originated the role (/NJPAC) and Beehive of Jack Kelly in Disney’s hit musical on Broadway. In concert, Ms. James has Newsies , for which he received a Tony appeared with the New York Pops at nomination for Best Performance by a Carnegie Hall honoring Lynn Ahrens and Leading Actor in a Musical. Stephen Flaherty. Her original cast albums include The Book of Mormon , Bernarda Alba , and All Shook Up . Her film credits include the upcoming Lucky Stiff and The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby . On televi - sion, she has appeared on 30 Rock , Law & Laura Michelle Order: Criminal Intent , Third Watch , and The Kelly Jury . Ms. James holds a bachelor of fine arts degree in drama from NYU. Laura Michelle Kelly originated the title role in on stage, for which she received an Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical. Other West End credits include The Lord of the Rings , Speed-the- Plow (opposite and ), Beauty and the Beast , Les Misérables , Mamma Mia! , , and Whistle Down the Wind . Ms. Kelly appeared on Broadway in the revival of and reprised her award- winning role in Mary Poppins . Other 04-19 Kerrigan:GP 4/11/13 12:53 PM Page 6

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London credits include The Second Mrs. tour of . Her debut album, Echo , is Tanqueray and Peter Pan . On film and tele - a lyrical blend of folk, pop , and soul. vision she has appeared in ’s : The Demon Barber of Fleet Street , Miss Marple: Nemesis , and Goddess , which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival this past season. Ms. Kelly’s recordings include The Storm Inside (EMI), the motion picture soundtrack to Sweeney Andy Mientus Todd , and the original cast recordings of Mary Poppins , Fiddler on the Roof , and The Andy Mientus is currently appearing as Lord of the Rings . series regular Kyle in Smash on NBC. Previous credits include Spring Awakening (first national tour, directed by Michael Mayer), Carrie (MCC Theater ), February House (New York Stage and Film), (Pioneer Theatre Company), (Music Theatre of Wichita), the film Central Carrie Manolakos Park Joker , and many developmental work - shops, including new work for Roundabout Carrie Manolakos began 2013 singing with Theatre Company, the Public, McCarter Phish at Madison Square Garden for the Theatre , and the New York Musical Theatre band’s much anticipated New Year ’s Eve Festival. Mr. Mientus trained at the concert. Already positioned in the Top 100 University of Michigan in musical theater of the iTunes Pop Chart with her debut and Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the album, Echo , Ms. Manolakos became an Arts in drama.

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cities across the country , and catching the U H Josh Young attention of stars such as Alec Baldwin, Trey Anastasio, and . She Josh Young received a 2012 Tony Award most recently was featured in Enter- nomination and Theatre World Award for tainment Weekly for performing one of the his critically acclaimed Broadway debut as 12 best Radiohead covers of all time , and Judas in ’s Jesus she has also been featured in the New York Christ Superstar , directed by Des McAnuff. Times , the New Yorker , the Huffington Post , He appeared in two seasons of the and the Daily Beast , as well as on MTV and Stratford Shakespeare Festival , where his MSN Now. She was selected for Elle mag - credits include Judas in Jesus Christ azine’s 30 Under 30: The Essential Names Superstar , Connie Rivers in Grapes of to Know. Ms. Manolakos has a background Wrath , and Che in directed by Gary in musical theater, with Broadway credits Griffin, earning a BroadwayWorld Toronto including the lead role of Sophie in Mamma Award for each. Mr. Young appeared as Mia ! and Elphaba on the second national Marius in the U.S. national tour of Les 04-19 Kerrigan:GP 4/11/13 12:53 PM Page 7

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Misérables and as Tony in the international Apprentice , Nurse Jackie , and So You Think tour of directed by Joey You Can Dance . On Broadway she has McNeely. His self-titled debut album and a played for The Addams Family (concertmas - new recording, Still Dreaming of Paradise , ter), West Side Story , Wicked , Cabaret , are available on iTunes, Amazon, and at Beauty and the Beast , , and Josh-Young.com. Porgy and Bess . Her Off-Broadway shows include Giant , The Thing About Men , and I Chris Fenwick Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change . Her Chris Fenwick (musical director and piano ) favorite national and international tours served as musical director for Michael John include Barbra Streisand , Fiddler on the LaChiusa’s Giant (Signature Theatre, Dallas Roof , , , Sunset Boulevard , Theater Center, Public Theater), Los Otros and My Fair Lady . (Center Theatre Group), Queen of the Mist and Hello Again (Transport Group), and See Dave Eggar What I Wanna See (Public Theater). His Two-time Grammy -nominated cellist Dave Broadway credits include Grease , Les Eggar (cello) has performed around the Liaisons Dangereuses , The Pajama Game world as soloist and composer. He has per - (Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical, formed and recorded with artists in many Grammy nomination) , Wonderful Town , genres, including , Andrea and Elaine Stritch at Liberty. His Off- Bocelli, , Josh Groban, The Broadway credits include Here Lies Jenny , Who, , k.d. lang, , Road Show , Happiness , and Mother , , and many Courage and Her Children starring Meryl others. Most recently he was on the road Streep. He has served as musical director with Phillip Phillips , an acoustic four-piece for Patti LuPone at Carnegie Hall, the band. Mr. Eggar holds a doctorate from Ravinia Festival, Lincoln Center, and many The Juilliard School and a bachelor’s more. Mr. Fenwick’s film credits include degree in composition and biophysics from Theater of War . Harvard University.

Victoria Paterson Matt Hinkley Victoria Paterson (violin) is in great demand On Broadway, Matt Hinkley (guitar) served for her musicality and diversity. Equally com - as associate musical director and guitarist/ fortable with classical and popular music, keyboardist/vocalist for Godspell . He is the she performs everywhere from Carnegie orchestrator and music supervisor for the Hall, Birdland, and Madison Square Garden currently running Off-Broadway show to the Late Show with David Letterman and F#%king Up Everything , and he acts as Today . She played at Chelsea Clinton’s wed - musical director and co-arranger for the ding and has performed for luminaries rang - incomparable Caissie Levy. Other collabo - ing from , Diane Sawyer, rations and projects include Jason Robert and Nancy Pelosi to Sean Combs and Brown’s Bridges of Madison County and Jennifer Lopez. Ms. Paterson’s recordings Caucasian Rhythm Kings, boast top-selling classical ratings on Amazon (Things to Ruin musical supervisor and cast and iTunes. Founder of the American album co-producer, Bloodsong of Love Modern Ensemble and the Lumiere String musical director and orchestrator, longtime Quartet, she is passionate about celebrating Rock and Roll Jamboree member), The American music and American . Burnt Part Boys (Playwrights Horizons), Her film and television credits include Whoopi Goldberg’s White Noise (Chicago), Smash , The Social Network , Celebrity Paul Scott Goodman ( ROOMS musical 04-19 Kerrigan:GP 4/11/13 12:53 PM Page 8

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director ), The Robber Bridegroom (Round- Local 802, and Actors ’ Equity. He is a grad - about Theatre, musical director ), Son of a uate of Berklee College of Music. Learn Gun (Eugene O’Neill Theatre ), Inner Voices more at charlierosen.com . 2012 (musical director of Farhad ), and Ryan Scott Oliver ( 35 MM ). Recordings include Damien Bassman many of the above, plus Glory Days (origi - Damien Bassman (drums) wrote and nal Broadway recording), Natalie Weiss’s played the drum/percussion books for the debut EP (supervisor and guitar/piano), Tony and Pulitzer Prize –winning Next to Kerrigan & Lowdermilk’s Our First Mistake , Normal , The Color Purple , The Addams and Jonathan Reid Gealt’s upcoming Here Family , High Fidelity , and Mario Cantone’s for You: Ballads for Broadway Impact. Mr. Laugh Whore . As principal percussionist of Hinkley also serves as musical director for Absolute Ensemble he has toured and Rachel Potter and Andrew Kober. He lives recorded with fusion legend Joe Zawinul in Manhattan with his wife, Kymberly, and and such world-renowned artists as their two cats. Paquito D’Rivera, Mike Keneally, Marcel Khalife, and Gregor Bregovich. Mr. Bass- Charlie Rosen man has performed in Europe, Asia, the Charlie Rosen (bass) is a composer, per - Middle East, Australia, and the U.S. and former, orchestrator, musical director, and has been a featured soloist with the NDR producer with a record of success in a wide Radio Philharmonic , Tonkünstler Orchestra, variety of musical environments. Recog- and the MDR and Adelaide Symphony nized for astonishing musical talents and Orchestras. He was featured on a Live perfect pitch from a young age, he per - from the Proms 2012 BBC broadcast with forms on bass , keyboard, guitar, and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. He drums. He is noted for excellence in a wide has also appeared on the Late Show with variety of genres, including , rock, and David Letterman , The View , Oprah , and commercial music. Recent Broadway cred - Good Morning America . Mr. Bassman is its include One Man , Two Guvnors (musical the percussion instructor and orchestra director, bass) , 13 (guitar, bass, keys), and coach for the Baltic Youth Philharmonic and Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (associate the I, Culture Orchestra of Poland, and he is conductor, bass, piano). Off-Broadway and on the faculty of Marymount Manhattan regional credits include The Black Suits for College. He has drummed for Elton John, Center Theatre Group (musical director) , Barry Manilow, Ben Folds, The Amazing Adventures of Dr. Wonderful Mitchell, and Rufus Wainwright, and is the and Her Dog ! at the Kennedy Center drummer for many New York–based artists, (orchestrator/track production) , The Unauth- including Kristin Chenoweth, Brian d’Arcy orized Autobiography of Samantha Brown James, Jarrod Spector, Rachel Potter, and for Goodspeed (drums, guitar, bass, flute) , the Band. He proudly endorses Bonfire Night for New York Stage and Film Toca Percussion. (bass, orchestrator) , 6: A New Musical at New York Musical Theatre Festival (musical Ted Sperling director, bass, orchestrator), Charlie Ted Sperling (director) directed the world Rosen’s Broadway Big Band (conductor/ premieres of the musicals The Other Josh arranger) , and numerous performances at Cohen , Striking 12 , , Joe ’s Pub, (Le) Poisson Rouge, Birdland, and Charlotte: Life? or Theater? ; the and Rockwood. Mr. Rosen is an ASMAC American premiere of Peter Pan and Award winner and a member of ASCAP, Wendy ; and a revival of Lady in the Dark 04-19 Kerrigan:GP 4/11/13 12:53 PM Page 9

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starring Andrea Marcovicci. He directed outstanding interpreters of popular song, Knickerbocker Holiday , The Mikado , and including established and emerging concert, the upcoming Song of Norway for the cabaret, theater, and songwriter performers. Collegiate Chorale; this summer, he will American Songbook presentations include direct concert versions of The Pirates of major concert programs in venues around Penzance in Central Park and She Loves Lincoln Center. Me at the Caramoor Festival. Mr. Sperling won the 2005 Tony and Drama Desk Lincoln Center for the Awards for his of The Light Performing Arts, Inc. in the Piazza and was the musical director Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts for the acclaimed revival of South Pacific at (LCPA) serves three primary roles: presen - Lincoln Center Theater. He has put together ter of artistic programming, national leader many evenings for the American Songbook in arts and education and community rela - series, as well as for the Lyrics and Lyricists tions, and manager of the Lincoln Center series at the 92nd Street Y. He conducts campus. A presenter of more than 3,000 three concerts this year with the New York free and ticketed events, performances, Philharmonic, including its spring gala. Visit tours, and educational activities annually, tedsperling.net for more information. LCPA offers 15 programs, series, and festi - vals including American Songbook , Great American Songbook Performers , Lincoln Center Festival , Lincoln In 1998, Lincoln Center launched American Center Out of Doors , Midsummer Night Songbook, dedicated to the celebration of Swing , the Mostly Mozart Festival , and the popular American song. Designed to high - White Light Festival, as well as the Emmy light and affirm the creative mastery of Award –winning Live From Lincoln Center , America’s songwriters from their emer - which airs nationally on PBS. As manager gence at the turn of the 19th century up of the Lincoln Center campus, LCPA pro - through the present, American Songbook vides support and services for the Lincoln spans all styles and genres , from the form’s Center complex and the 11 resident orga - early roots in Tin Pan Alley and Broadway to nizations. In addition, LCPA led a $1.2 bil - the eclecticism of today’s singer-songwrit ers. lion campus renovation, completed in American Songbook also showcases the October 2012. 04-19 Kerrigan:GP 4/11/13 12:53 PM Page 10

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Lincoln Center Programming Department Jane Moss, Ehrenkranz Artistic Director Hanako Yamaguchi, Director, Music Programming Jon Nakagawa, Director, Contemporary Programming Lisa Takemoto, Production Manager Bill Bragin, Director, Public Programming Charles Cermele, Producer, Contemporary Programming Kate Monaghan, Associate Director, Programming Jill Sternheimer, Producer, Public Programming Mauricio Lomelin, Associate Producer, Contemporary Programming Nicole Cotton, Production Coordinator Regina Grande, Assistant to the Artistic Director Julia Lin, Programming Associate Ann Crews Melton, Programming Publications Editor John Ng, Programming Assistant

For American Songbook Matt Berman, Lighting Design Scott Stauffer, Sound Design Kyle Moore, Sound Engineer