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ARLENE SHULER PRESIDENT & CEO NEW YORK JACK VIERTEL ENCORES! ARTISTIC DIRECTOR CITY CENTER ROB BERMAN ENCORES! MUSIC DIRECTOR NEW YORK CITY CENTER ENCORES! A Vaudeville in Two Parts Book by ALAN JAY LERNER Music & Lyrics by KURT WEILL and ALAN JAY LERNER Featuring KATE BALDWIN JOHN EDWARDS SARA JEAN FORD ISABELLA HOUSTON BRIAN STOKES MITCHELL OWEN TABAKA CLARKE THORELL ADAM BASHIAN SARAH BOWDEN BRANDON BURKS JONATHAN CHRISTOPHER KERRY CONTE DANIEL EVERIDGE MARIA FAILLA SHILOH GOODIN MARY ILLES ANDREA JONES-SOJOLA CORY LINGNER JOHN-MICHAEL LYLES RENNI ANTHONY MAGEE TIFFANY MANN KRISTIN PIRO ARIANNA ROSARIO HEATH SAUNDERS DAVE SCHOONOVER DANIEL SCHWAIT ALLYSON TUCKER VISHAL VAIDYA RYAN WORSING MINAMI YUSUI Scenic Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer Sound Designer ALLEN MOYER TRACY CHRISTENSEN PAUL MILLER KAI HARADA Concert Adaptation by Music Coordinators Original Orchestrations by JOE KEENAN KIMBERLEE WERTZ & SEYMOUR RED PRESS KURT WEILL Production Stage Manager Casting by MATTHEW MELCHIORRE BINDER CASTING JAY BINDER, CSA & SARAH COONEY Featuring THE ENCORES! ORCHESTRA Choreographed by JOANN M. HUNTER Music Director ROB BERMAN Directed by VICTORIA CLARK Major support for Encores! is provided by Stacey and Eric Mindich Fund for Musical Theater Season Sponsors Roz and Jerry Meyer The Shubert Foundation Stephanie and Fred Shuman Fund for Encores! Additional support for Love Life is provided by The Ted Snowdon Foundation in honor of Jack Viertel The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, Inc., New York, NY. Love Life is performed under license from The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, Inc., and the Alan Jay Lerner Testamentary Trust. LOVE LIFE CAST OF CHARACTERS (In Order of Appearance) Johnny Cooper ................................................................................................................. OWEN TABAKA Elizabeth Cooper ...................................................................................................ISABELLA HOUSTON Susan Cooper.................................................................................................................... KATE BALDWIN Sam Cooper .................................................................................................BRIAN STOKES MITCHELL Hobo ...............................................................................................................................JOHN EDWARDS Bill / Mr. Cynic ........................................................................................................... CLARKE THORELL Miss Ideal Man .............................................................................................................SARA JEAN FORD THE ENSEMBLE ADAM BASHIAN SARAH BOWDEN BRANDON BURKS JONATHAN CHRISTOPHER KERRY CONTE DANIEL EVERIDGE MARIA FAILLA SHILOH GOODIN MARY ILLES ANDREA JONES-SOJOLA CORY LINGNER JOHN-MICHAEL LYLES RENNI ANTHONY MAGEE TIFFANY MANN KRISTIN PIRO ARIANNA ROSARIO HEATH SAUNDERS DAVE SCHOONOVER DANIEL SCHWAIT ALLYSON TUCKER VISHAL VAIDYA RYAN WORSING MINAMI YUSUI VAUDEVILLE THEN & NOW Like any vaudeville show, Love Life consists of a series of sketches and acts. The sketches depict the Cooper Family as they progress—without aging—through American history, from 1791 to the present. These sketches alternate with traditional vaudeville acts, such as a magic act and a singing quartet. One of these classic vaudeville acts centers on the “hobo,” an itinerant laborer who travels the country in search of work. Some of the earliest hobo acts subversively questioned soci- etal attitudes towards labor and domesticity. A second generation of hobo performers traded this barbed edge for a deeply sentimental pathos that emphasized the universal desire for family and home. Love Life partakes in this tradition not to make a spectacle of the hobo’s circumstance, but instead to use the cultural trope of the economic outcast to stress the importance of stable family bonds and love. –Victoria Clark, Director This production is being presented as a concert performance in which the actors may be performing with their scripts in hand. THE ENCORES! ORCHESTRA Music Director and Conductor Rob Berman Associate Music Director David Hancock Turner Assistant Music Director Josh Clayton Violins Bass/Tuba Drums Suzanne Ornstein John Beal John Redsecker (concertmaster) Mineko Yajima Woodwinds Percussion Bob Zubrycki Andrew Sterman Erik Charlston Lorra Baylis John Winder Maura Giannini Todd Groves Piano/Accordian Laura Seaton David Young Josh Rosenblum Christoph Franzgrote Don McGeen Fritz Krakowski Guitar/Banjo/Mandolin Erin Benim Mayland Trumpets Scott Kuney Lisa Tipton Don Downs Lisa Matricardi Tim Schadt Annaliesa Place Wayne du Maine Celli Trombone Katherine Cherbas Mark Patterson Deborah Assael-Migliore Caryl Paisner The Encores! production of Love Life utilizes the materials of the new critical edition edited by Joel Galand. All Original Orchestrations by Kurt Weill, with some assistance in 1948 on the dance music by Irving Schlein. JOIN US ONLINE The Encores! production of Love Life utilizes the materials @NYCITYCENTER #LOVELIFENYCC of the new critical edition edited by Joel Galand All Original Orchestrations by Kurt Weill, with some assistance on the dance music by Irving Schlein LOVE LIFE SYNOPSIS OF MUSICAL NUMBERS PART ONE Scene 1: Act: “Presto Change-O” Opening: The Magicians ................................................................................................ Owen Tabaka, Isabella Houston Scene 2: Sketch: “The Cooper Family” Mayville, Connecticut, 1791 Who Is Samuel Cooper?............................................................. Brian Stokes Mitchell, Kate Baldwin and Company Here I’ll Stay............................................................................................................. Brian Stokes Mitchell, Kate Baldwin Scene 3: Act: “The Go-Getters” Progress ..................................................... Adam Bashian, Daniel Everidge, Cory Lingner, Renni Anthony Magee, Dave Schoonover, Clarke Thorell, Vishal Vaidya and Ryan Worsing Scene 4: Sketch: “The Farewell” Mayville, Connecticut, 1821 I Remember It Well ................................................................................................Brian Stokes Mitchell, Kate Baldwin Green-Up Time ..................................................................................................................... Kate Baldwin and Company I Remember It Well (Reprise) ..............................................................................Brian Stokes Mitchell, Kate Baldwin Scene 5: Act: “The Common ¢ents Quartet” Economics ................................John-Michael Lyles, Heath Saunders, Brandon Burks and Jonathan Christopher Scene 6: Sketch: “Labor Pains” Mayville, Connecticut, 1857 Scene 7: Act: “Two Tots & a Mom” Mother’s Getting Nervous......................................................... Isabella Houston, Owen Tabaka and Sarah Bowden Scene 8: Sketch: “Trouble in Paradise” Mayville, Connecticut 1894 My Kind of Night ..............................................................................................................................Brian Stokes Mitchell Women’s Club Blues ..............................................................................................Kate Baldwin and Female Ensemble My Kind of Night (Reprise)............................................................................................................ Brian Stokes Mitchell Scene 9: Act: “Along the Track” Love Song ........................................................................................................................................................ John Edwards Scene 10: Sketch: “The Coopers at Sea” A Cruise in International Waters, New Year’s Eve, 1927 I’m Your Man................................................................................................. Brian Stokes Mitchell and Male Ensemble LOVE LIFE SYNOPSIS OF MUSICAL NUMBERS PART TWO Entr’acte......................................................................................................................................... The Encores! Orchestra Scene 1: Act: “The Harmonaires” Ho, Billy, O! ............................................................................................................................................................Ensemble Scene 2: Sketch: “Radio Night” The Cooper Apartment, New York City, 1948 Scene 3: Act: “America’s Sweethearts” Susan’s Dream ..............................................Andrea Jones-Sojola, Mary Illes, Kerry Conte and Female Ensemble Scene 4: Sketch: “Farewell Again” Sam and Susan’s Bedroom, New York City, 1948 Is It Him or Is It Me?............................................................................................................................... ......... Kate Baldwin Scene 5: Act: “His & Hers” A Ballet ......................................................................................Danced by Arianna Rosario, Cory Lingner, Kristin Piro, Ryan Worsing, Shiloh Goodin and Renni Anthony Magee Scene 6: Sketch: “Dinner for One” A Hotel Room, New York City, 1948 This is the Life............................................................................................................................... ......Brian Stokes Mitchell Scene 7: Act: “The Illusion Vaudeville Show” We’re Sellin’ Sunshine .........................................................................................................John Edwards and Ensemble Madame Zuzu ............................................................................................................................Tiffany
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