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ARLENE SHULER PRESIDENT & CEO JACK VIERTEL ENCORES! ARTISTIC DIRECTOR CITY CENTER ROB BERMAN ENCORES! MUSIC DIRECTOR

NEW YORK CITY CENTER ENCORES!

A in Two Parts Book by Music & Lyrics by and ALAN JAY LERNER

Featuring JOHN EDWARDS SARA JEAN FORD ISABELLA 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 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

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 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 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/ 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//Mandolin Erin Benim Mayland Scott Kuney Lisa Tipton Don Downs Lisa Matricardi Tim Schadt Annaliesa Place Wayne du Maine

Celli 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 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, , 1791 Who Is Samuel Cooper?...... Brian Stokes Mitchell, Kate Baldwin and 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, , 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 ...... Brian Stokes Mitchell

Scene 7: Act: “The Illusion Vaudeville Show” We’re Sellin’ Sunshine ...... John Edwards and Ensemble Madame Zuzu ...... Tiffany Mann, Maria Failla Taking No Chances ...... Clarke Thorell Mr. Right ...... Sara Jean Ford, Kate Baldwin Finale ...... Company

Time: Now Place: Here 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 MEET THE ARTISTS KATE BALDWIN (Susan Cooper) : and crew of Love Life for sharing this story! IG: Hello, Dolly! (Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Crit- @isabellaghouston ic’s Circle nomination) Finian’s Rainbow (Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics nominations), BRIAN STOKES MITCHELL (Sam Cooper) Four Big Fish, , Thoroughly Modern decades of , , Broadway, concerts Millie, and . Off-Broadway: and recordings. His work has earned him Tony, Superhero ( nomination), John & Jen Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle awards (Drama Desk nomination), Giant (Drama Desk (among others), and induction into the Theatre nomination), and Songbird. Film: Brooklyn Broth- Hall of Fame. Stokes has appeared on more than ers Beat the Best. TV: Law & Order: SVU. PBS: 20 recordings and his musical skills include pro- First You Dream: The Music of Kander & Ebb. Solo ducer, arranger, and orchestrator on all three of Recordings: Let’s See What Happens, She Loves his solo , including his newest release, Plays Him. kate-baldwin.com With Music. brianstokes.com

JOHN EDWARDS (Hobo) New York City Cen- OWEN TABAKA (Johnny Cooper) is honored ter Debut! Last seen in the NYC revival of Smokey to make his debut at Joe’s Cafe (Lortel Nominee) Soon to be starring Encores! Credits: A in the Sun (Travis- this summer in MJ: The Musical. Other credits in- Williamstown Theater Festival), The Hands That clude: Broadway and First National Tour of Jersey Could: ’s Future Classics Series (Lincoln Boys (Barry Belson/others). National Tour - Center), (The Kennedy Center), spray (Seaweed J Stubbs). Regional Credits: In The Billy Elliot (Billy Elliot–Signature Theatre), Oliver! Heights (Kennedy Center), (Jimmy (), A Christmas Story National Early). Thank you to The Cooper Company Tour, A Raisin in the Sun (Two River Theater), (Pamela, ChiChi, and Victoria), Jay Binder Cast- (HBO), (NYTW). ing, and Victoria Clark. IG:@therealjohnedwards Tabaka thanks God, family, Carson-Adler, Badiene Magaziner, Connecting Talent Agency, SARA JEAN FORD (Miss Ideal Man) Broadway: Ruobing, and the entire team of Love Life! (Jellylorum), How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Smitty), The of CLARKE THORELL (Bill/Mr. Cynic) Broad- the (Christine Daaé), way; (Karpathy, Higgins), The Front (Petra), Finian’s Rainbow (Arlene). Off Broadway: Page, (Rooster), (Corny), (Louisa)—Original Revival Cast, (Farrell/Barrett), Sinatra...His Way, Mamma (June)—City Center En- Mia!, The Who’s Tommy. Off-Broadway/Other; cores! National Tour: . Regional: Cloud , Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Satellites, (Cunagonde), Sousatzka (Jenny)—world pre- Lone Star Love, , Wise Guys, Twelfth miere, Little House On the Prairie: the Musical Night, Floyd Collins. TV/Film: Elementary, The (Nellie Oleson)—world . BFA: Carnegie Americans, House of Cards, , Mellon University School of Drama. Thank You, (Russ Woggle), The Knick, Boardwalk Vicki & Rob! Love to My Annie Banoo. Empire, Law & Order, Men in Black III, The Post, The Winning Season, and The Sopranos. ISABELLA GRACE HOUSTON (Elizabeth Coo- per) is grateful to God and thrilled to make her ADAM BASHIAN (Ensemble) Thrilled to be back NYC debut in Love Life! She has been performing at Encores after appearing in On Your Toes. Most since age 8; a proud military kid currently living recently seen in the critically acclaimed Octet at in North Carolina. Regional: Beauty and the Beast the Signature Theatre. Broadway/National Tour: (VMT) and Annie (CFRT). Sincere thanks to fam- In Transit (OCR), The Phantom of the Opera. ily, , Lisa Calli, and the numerous mentors Other NYC/Regional: Tamar of the River (OCR), who have continuously supported her Edwin, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity. Film/ for ! Special thanks to the cast TV: House of Cards, Oddities.Thanks to Jay, DSM, MEET THE ARTISTS Laura, and my family. AdamBashian.com @ Got That Way, York, 92nd St Y. Regional: Muny, AdamBashian North Shore, Wichita, Wichita , City Springs Theatre, New SARAH BOWDEN (Ensemble) Originally from Theatre Barn, Theatre By the Sea. kerryconte.com Australia, Bowden most recently played Velma in , directed by Denis Jones at the Maltz Jupi- DANIEL EVERIDGE (Ensemble) Broadway: ter Theatre, and Cherry Sundae in the first national (OBRC). Off Broadway: Drama Desk tour of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. In 2016 and Lucille Lortel award nominations for Lead she played Cassie in at The Actor in Falling (Minetta Lane), Found (Atlantic Bowl opposite Mario Lopez. American Regional: Theatre Company), Fat Camp (Dodger Theat- ’ Broadway (Muny). Cassie— ricals), and Promenade (Encores! Off Center). A Chorus line (TUTS), Germany: , West Side The ’s Die Fledermaus (Ivan Story, 9 to 5, Flashdance, Esmeralda in Disney’s The u/s). Film/TV: The Greatest Showman, Inside Hunchback of Notre Dame. sarahbowden.de Llewyn Davis, Jessica Jones, and The Knick. Eve- ridge is a featured soloist on the Golden Globe BRANDON BURKS (Ensemble) is excited to be and Grammy Award winning soundtrack for The making his City Center debut! Credits include: Greatest Showman. Footloose at The Kennedy Center (Ensemble), Singin’ in the Rain (Cosmo Brown), Tale of the MARIA FAILLA (Ensemble) Broadway: Cats Lion King at Disney’s California Adventure (Scar), Tours: Cats (Revival), Sound of Music, , West After Midnight (Tap Brother/Dance Captain), Side Story (International). Regional: Man of La Dreamgirls (Wayne/C.C. u/s), star- Mancha (Shakespeare Theatre Co), Pirates of ring Cathy Rigby (Pirate/Indian), A Chorus Line, Penzance, The Vagabond King. Kurt Weill Foun- (Richie/Don u/s at The ). All dation Competition glory to God! My muses, I love you. A big thank Award Winner. B.M. Rice University. Love to my you to my fierce team over at Avalon Artists NY. family, Billy and HAA. mariafailla.com @mvf10 @brandon.burks Planty Podcast: @bloomandgrowradio

JONATHAN CHRISTOPHER (Ensemble) Cur- SHILOH GOODIN (Ensemble) Theatre: Par- : National Tour (Ensemble, Burr/ adise Square (Berkeley Rep, Moises Kaufman ). New York: The Black and Bill T Jones), A Chorus Line (Cassie—Gal- Clown, /American Repertory lery Players), Transcendence Theatre, Screwtape Theatre; Octet (Male Understudy), Signature Letters (Off-Broadway), Sousatzka (world pre- Theatre; , miere), Babes in Toyland (Lincoln Center), Rigo- Mufti; Trevor Bachman’s Farmed: A Live Podcast; letto (Santa Fe Opera), Time Machine (NYMF). La Farranucci, Brooklyn Playhouse. Regional/ Also worked at Sacramento Music Circus, Maltz International: Candide, Clarence Brown Theatre; Jupiter, Riverside Theatre, Bay Street Theatre Rent, Aruba National Theatre; Mozart and Salieri, and with McCoy Rigby. Choreo: Assoc for 12th London TimeZone Theatre. Education: McGill Night (Public), Chess (Kennedy Center), The University; University of Michigan. Proud Ber- New World (Bucks County). shilohgoodin.com mudan and Bostonian! Love to family, Wolf Tal- @shilohlovesyou ent, Sarah/Binder casting IG: @geezjawn MARY ILLES (Ensemble) Encores!: Music in the KERRY CONTE (Ensemble) Encores!: Hey, Look Air, Finian’s Rainbow, . Anasta- Me Over!, Lady, Be Good! National Tour: Irving sia First National Tour: Dowager (understudy/ Berlin’s White Christmas (Betty), performer), originated the role of Golde in Fidler (Winifred, u/s Mary). : Roman afn Dakh: National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene. Holiday. Off-Broadway: Irish Rep: Meet Me in Broadway: Phantom of the Opera (Mme. Giry, St. Louis, Ernest in Love, The Irish…and How They understudy/performer), The Music Man (Marian, MEET THE ARTISTS understudy/performer), The Scarlet Pimpernel Opera (Dancer). , Guthrie The- (Marie), , . Regional: Where’s ater (Ensemble a/cast). Tarzan, Muny (Ensem- Charley? At Goodspeed (Dona Lucia). Soloist with ble). Film/tv: Konnect Hq, Lifechurch.tv. IG: The Vienna Philharmonic, Hartford Symphony. @renni_anthony maryilles.net @mkatherineilles TIFFANY MANN (Ensemble) TV: NBC’s Rise, ANDREA JONES-SOJOLA (Ensemble) Thrilled Orange Is the New Black. Broadway: Be More Chill, to return to the City Center stage. Broadway: Porgy Waitress. Off-Broadway: the Opera and Bess. Off-Broadway: (CSC). (Lucille Lortel Award), Invisible Thread, Cabin in Other New York Credits include: , the Sky. Other theater: Dreamgirls (Effie), Live Cabin in the Sky, Annie Get Your Gun, Most Happy at Lincoln Center: , The Color Purple Fella (New York City Center), Candide (Carne- (Celie). Mann is a Texas native and studied Opera gie Hall), , Sweeney Todd (Lincoln Center), at Oklahoma City University. @iamtiffanymann Newton’s Cradle (Outstanding Performance in a Leading Role, New York Musical Festival). KRISTIN PIRO (Ensemble) is thrilled to be back Film: For Colored Girls and Lockdown. TV: FBI, at Encores! She was last seen on the City Center The Blacklist, Mozart in the Jungle, Daylight Day- stage in Paint Your Wagon. Broadway/Tour: Charlie care, and Sound of Music Live (NBC). Training: and the Chocolate Factory, Rocky, An American in AD, University of Cincinnati College-Conser- , Catch Me if You Can, , Flashdance, vatory of Music; MM, University of Kentucky. Saturday Night Fever. She is so grateful to be andreajonessojola.com with this incredibly kind, generous, and talented team! Endless love and thanks to Jay, CORY LINGNER (Ensemble) So happy to be re- Victoria, Joann, Rob, CGF, my family, and my turning to Encores! Past credits include: Encores!: amazing husband! @kpiroette I Married an Angel. Broadway/Tours: (Enoch Snow Jr), Charlie and the Chocolate ARIANNA ROSARIO (Ensemble) is excited Factory, An American In Paris (Adam u/s), and On to be making her City Center debut! Favorite the Town (Chip/Ozzie u/s). Off-Broadway: credits include, Broadway/Tour: Cats (Sillabub, Upon a Mattress (Jester/Astaire Award nom.). ORC), On Your Feet!, Cinderella, . TV: SNL, , Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Regional: Evita (Eva Perón, Bay Street Theater), Parade, GMA, Today Show. A big thanks to the (Carla, Kennedy Center), Buddy Love Life team, my family, and Nicolosi & Co. Holly (Maria Elena, ), West Side Story (Anita, ). TV/Film: / JOHN-MICHAEL LYLES (Ensemble) Off Verdon (FX), West Side Story (Spielberg, FOX). Broadway: (Playwright’s Hori- Proud New World School of the Arts graduate. All zons), This Ain’t No Disco (Atlantic), Sweeney her love to Omar and her family. @ariannarosario Todd (Barrow Street), (Barrow Street), ariannarosario.com Brooklynite (Vineyard), Jasper in Deadland (Pros- pect). City Center Encores: , 1776. Re- HEATH SAUNDERS (Ensemble) Broadway: gional: The Art of Falling (Second City/Hubbard Natasha, Pierre…Great Comet (u/s Pierre, Balaga); Street), Choir Boy (Guthrie). TV: The Other Two, Off Broadway: Alice By (Angus/Caterpillar); Chicago PD, NCIS: New Orleans, The OA. Film: Encores!: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; NYC: Blind. Recordings: A Strange Loop, The Man in the Newton’s Cradle (NYMF, Caleb, music and lyr- Ceiling, Jasper in Deadland. BFA: Pace University ics); Lennon: Through a Glass Onion (u/s Stewart); Musical Theater. @jmlyles1 john-michaellyles.com Regional: Darling Grenadine (Harry, ); (Jesus, Chicago RENNI ANTHONY MAGEE (Ensemble) The- Lyric Opera); Twelfth Night (Feste, Shakespeare atre: Oklahoma!, Denver Center for the Perform- Theatre Company); James and the Giant Peach ing Arts (Will Parker). Porgy & Bess, Metropolitan (Earthworm, Children’s Theater); Jesus MEET THE ARTISTS Christ Superstar Live! on NBC (u/s Judas). Love to Center credits: , and 1776. Broadway: the talented part of my family. Thanks, The Mine. . Recent: Prospect (Einstein’s Very pro-Union. thesaunderscollective.com Dreams), (Dave), Kennedy Center @feeltheheath (How to Succeed), Pennsylvania Shakespeare Fes- tival (), Shakespeare Theatre Com- DAVE SCHOONOVER (Ensemble) National pany, Cincinnati Playhouse, Center Tours: Love Never Dies (u/s Phantom, Raoul, Stage. Education: American University. : Gangle), White Christmas (Sheldrake, Bob u/s), @TweetsbyVish IG: @vishgram Young Frankenstein (Dr. Frankenstein u/s), Cats (Tugger). Off-Broadway: The Fantasticks RYAN WORSING (Ensemble) is thrilled to be (El Gallo standby). Regional: Unmasked (Paper Mill), making his City Center/Encores! debut in Love Annie (Rooster, TUTS), Sweeney Todd (Pirelli, Penn- Life! Broadway: Hello, Dolly!, The Show, sylvania Shakes), Parade (Governor Slaton, Merry- Finding Neverland, Chicago, ’s White go-Round), Young Frankenstein (Dr. Frankenstein, Christmas, Shrek the Musical. Off-Broadway/ Ogunquit Playhouse), Toxic Avenger (Toxie, Hip- Regional: (The New Group), The podrome Theatre), Little Shop… (Orin, Arrow Rock Nutty Professor (TPAC), , St. Lyceum), Ahmanson, Goodspeed, Muny, Hunting- Paul Ordway, Kansas City Starlight, Sacramento ton. Thanks, The Mine. BFA UWSP. Proud AEA Music Circus. Thanks to the Love Life team, The member. LtoR. @schoonyman Mine, Mom, Dad, and the family.

DANIEL SCHWAIT(Ensemble) Encores!: The MINAMI YUSUI (Ensemble) Delighted to make Most Happy Fella, Annie Get Your Gun, and re- her Encores! debut! Broadway: My Fair Lady, Miss cordings of Brigadoon, and ; Saigon, . National Tour/International: Credits in and out of New York include: The Girl, Mary Poppins, Wicked (Japan). Regional: Paper The Ghosts, and the Minotaur, Caesar & Cleopatra, Mill Playhouse, Goodspeed, Maine State Music Androcles and the Lion, Kiss Me, Kate, Love Life, Theatre, Walnut Street, TUTS, Weston, Pasadena Les Misérables, Ancient History, The Secret Garden, Playhouse. Assistant director and translator for the Evita, and Side Show. Schwait has also sung with Japanese premiere production of Spring Awaken- the , Pops, and ing. Many thanks to the entire creative team and Baltimore Symphony. He is an active recording company, everyone at DHA, and family. Native of artist whose recordings can be streamed on iTunes Kanazawa, Japan. @minamiyusui and Spotify. @realdanschwait ALAN JAY LERNER (Book, Music, and Lyr- ALLYSON TUCKER (Ensemble) is delighted to ics) wrote some of the American theater’s most be making her “Encores!” debut. She recently so- memorable musicals. He was born in New York loed with The Duke Ellington Big Band at Bird- City in 1918 and attended Choate and Harvard. land and made her associate directing debut on With , he had his first Broadway American Prophet: Frederick Douglass in His Words, hit in 1947 with Brigadoon. The following year, which is set to premiere next summer in Wash- teaming up with established veteran Kurt Weill, ington, DC. Broadway: : The Dancer’s Lerner had his second success with Love Life. Re- Life; revival (Aldonza, Antonia, suming his partnership with Loewe, the pair had Housekeeper); original revival of (Young their next hit in 1951 with Paint Your Wagon. In Stella); Original Broadway cast: (Sarah); 1956, My Fair Lady, opened on Broadway. Often The Follies, and Oh, Kay! Regional called the “perfect musical,” the show ran for highlights: (Pam); Chicago (Velma; Barry- 2,717 performances and the cast sold more more award nominee); Dames at Sea (Joan); Blues than five million copies. Lerner & Loewe’s 1958 in the Night (Woman); West Side Story (Anita). film musical, , won nine and, in 1960, came the last great success of their part- VISHAL VAIDYA (Ensemble) Thrilled to be nership, , starring and back at City Center for Love Life. Previous City . Lerner went on to collaborate with MEET THE ARTISTS other composers including , Leonard When the Rain Stops Falling (Drama Desk nom); Bernstein, and Andre Previn. He died in 1986 at The Grapes of Wrath and The Mikado at Carnegie the age of 67. Hall, at New York City Center (2019). Four Encores! productions, including KURT WEILL (Music & Orchestrations) (1900– and Follies. Encores! Off Center: . Film: 1950) came to the in 1935 after Cradle Will Rock, The Happening, Wanderland, TV: great successes in Germany, including and Homeland, The Truth About the Harry Quebert musical theater works written with leading play- Affair, Almost Family. Educator: Duke University, wrights and poets. His collaborations with Bertolt Pace University, Yale, Juilliard, CCM, Harvard, Brecht yielded some of his most famous works, among others. Dedicated to Lorraine Clark. including , , and Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. Weill fled JOANN M. HUNTER (Choreographer) 20 Germany in 1933 and spent two years in Paris, Broadway shows to her credit as a choreographer, where he wrote his second symphony and The associate choreographer, and performer. Chore- Seven Deadly Sins (with Brecht) for George Bal- ography: Broadway—School of Rock (Broadway, anchine’s Les Ballets 1933. He came to New York US Nat’l Tour, West End, Australia), Disaster, in 1935 for Max Reinhardt’s Eternal Road (Franz On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Broadway Werfel), but before it opened in 1937, the Group Bound. National tour/Regional: Ever After (Alli- Theatre had already produced ance Theatre), World Premieres of August Rush (). Weill’s first Broadway success was with , Beatsville by Glenn Slater, A (; film Sign of the Times by Bruce Vilanch, Harmony score nominated for an Oscar in 1944), followed (Alliance/) by by Lady in the Dark (, ), and Bruce Sussman, and , and (, S.J. Perelman), ’ The Nutty Professor directed by (, ; 1947 . UnMasked, , Tony Award for Composer) and Love Life (Alan Grease, Oliver, and Curtains all at PMP, National Jay Lerner; the first “concept” musical). Lost in the tour of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Directed Debra Stars (Anderson) was Weill’s final Broadway work Monk in her one woman show with special guests before he died at age 50. After his death, Weill’s Ron Rifkin, , , and wife, Lotte Lenya, rekindled interest in his Ger- . Associate Broadway Chore- man works with a landmark series of performances ographer: Spring Awakening, Curtains, The Wedding and recordings that remain classics. Kwf.org Singer, All Shook Up. As a performer, 12 Broadway shows. In development: Rock and Roll Refugee VICTORIA CLARK (Director) Strindberg’s The (Dir/Chor). Dance of Death (); The Trouble With Doug (Fredericia Theater, Denmark); ROB BERMAN (Music Director) is in his 13th Newton’s Cradle (New York Musical Theater season as music director of Encores!, for which he Festival/Best Musical, Best Direction); Scaffolding has conducted more than 30 productions and six by (Barrow Group); Hansel cast recordings. Mr. Berman’s Broadway credits and Gretl and Heidi and Günther (Village The- include Bright Star, Tuck Everlasting, Dames at Sea, ater Festival of New Musicals): Paper Piano by Finian’s Rainbow, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, Mary Jo Shen (Joe’s Pub); Irving Berlin , , Wonderful (Goodspeed); NAMT Festival; Texas Opera Town, and Promises, Promises. For nine years Theater, Chautauqua Opera. Short film: My First he was music director of the Kennedy Center Start (NikoFrank Productions). Actor: Twelve Honors on CBS, for which he won an Emmy Broadway shows including The Light in the Piazza Award for outstanding musical direction. He has (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Awards), conducted for with the (Tony, Drama Desk noms.), Cinder- Philharmonic, and he was also music director for ella (Tony nom.), Gigi (Tony nom). Other NYC: the PBS presentation of A Broadway Celebration: MEET THE ARTISTS In Performance at the White House. Other credits Laughing Room Only. Off-Broadway: Desperate include Sunday in the Park with George (Kennedy Measures, Out of the Mouth of Babes, Clinton—The Center, Award), , Musical, Pageant, Vanities—the Musical, Waiting and Passion (Classic Stage Company). Recordings for Godot. Notable Regional: Stratford Festival, include the complete restored score of Jerome D.C. Shakespeare, Chicago Shakespeare, Idaho Kern’s Roberta for New World Records. Shakespeare, Goodspeed.

ALLEN MOYER (Scenic Designer) City Cen- KAI HARADA (Sound Designer) Broadway: Head ter Encores!: Mack & Mabel, High Button Shoes, I Over Heels, The Band’s Visit (Tony, Drama Desk Married an Angel, , Hey, Look Me Awards), Amélie, Sunday in the Park With George, Over!, , , The Golden Allegiance, Gigi, ; , First Date, Apple, The New Yorkers, and Big River. Recent: Follies (Tony, Drama Desk Nominations), and Million Paradise Square (Berkeley Rep) and Log Cabin Dollar Quartet. Other: Mack & Mabel, Evita, A (). Broadway Credits Include: Chorus Line, Grand Hotel (City Center), Candide The Lyons, Lysistrata Jones, After Miss Julie, Grey (LA Opera), Marie (5th Avenue), The Black Clown Gardens (Tony and nomina- (ART), Tommy, Little Shop of Horrors, Chess (Ken- tions, Henry Hewes Award), Thurgood, The Little nedy Center), Silent Night (WNO), Hinterm Hori- Dog Laughed, The Constant Wife, and Twelve Angry zont (Berlin), Soft Power (Public). Education: Yale. Men. Off Broadway: Far From Heaven (Playwrights Horizons), Giant (). Extensive SEYMOUR RED PRESS (Music Coordinator) re- opera credits include Orfeo Ed Euridice for the ceived the Tony Honor for Excellence in Theater. Metropolitan Opera, productions for the New Credits include more than 100 shows, including York City Opera, the Santa Fe Opera, Canadian the original ; Dreamgirls; Nine; Bring ’da Opera Company, , Welsh Noise, Bring in ’da Funk; at Liberty; National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Scottish and the acclaimed revivals of , Guys Opera, and more. Also Romeo and Juliet, On Mo- and Dolls, Carousel, A Funny Thing Happened on the tifs of Shakespeare, and Curlew River with the Mark Way to the Forum, and . Screen Morris Dance Group, and Carousel With the New credits include Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre York Philharmonic. Dame, ’ The Birdcage, and Paramount’s In and Out. He is an ASCAP composer whose TRACY CHRISTENSEN (Costume Designer) compositions have sold over 100,000 records. His designed Lady in the Dark, starring Victoria Clark playing career has segued from Tommy Dorsey and (MasterVoices), the Broadway revival of Sunset to . This season Boulevard starring , and Candide at on Broadway: West Side Story and Chicago. with . Recent pre- mieres: Scotland, PA (Roundabout), Passing KIMBERLEE WERTZ (Music Coordinator) Music Through (Goodspeed), and Kate Hamill’s Coordinator/Contractor for the Tony Awards and Off-Broadway adaptation of Pride & Prejudice. Kennedy Center Honors for 24 years; Academy Other projects: Love’s Labour’s Lost (Folger), Awards, , 9/11 Commemorations, ! (Asolo), The Lifespan of a Fact (The- Super Bowl halftime shows, A Capitol Fourth, aterWorks Hartford), Sweeney Todd starring Democratic National Conventions, Disney Holi- Emma Thompson, and Souvenir (Broadway). days. Mozart in the Jungle and Marvelous Mrs. Maisel tracychristensen.com Season 1. Broadway: A Year With Frog and Toad, and as associate with Red Press, Hello, Dolly!, PAUL MILLER (Lighting Designer) Previously Carousel, King Lear, West Side Story, The Lehman for Encores: Hey Look Me Over!, Big River, Irma Trilogy. Delighted to be working with Rob, Red, La Duce, , Lost in the Stars, Music and the Encores orchestra! in the Air, Where’s Charley. Broadway: Ruben and Clay’s Christmas Special, Amazing Grace, The RICK SORDELET (Fight Director) and his son Illusionists, , Freshly Squeezed, and partner, Christian Kelly-Sordelet, created MEET THE ARTISTS Sordelet INC. Their 74 Broadway credits include Curtains; Wicked. Various Off-Broadway & Re- Beauty and the Beast, , and Tina: gional credits, too. AEA Member since 2003. The Tina Turner Musical. Television: more than 1,200 episodes of stunt coordination for Guiding MICHELLE SCALPONE (Stage Manager) Broad- Light. Film: Ben Is Back starring Julia Roberts. way: Fish in the Dark, Matilda, Forever Tango, Chaplin. They have 65 international production credits Tours: Matilda, . NYC: Dragon Spring including Ben Hur Live (Rome, European tour). Phoenix Rise (The Shed), White Devil (Red Bull), Christian teaches at CUNY Harlem and HB Sakina’s Restaurant (Audible), Jerry Springer the Studio, and both are on faculty at Esper Studio. Opera (The New Group), GOODBAR, King Lear, They, with their partner, author David Blixt, also Fun Home, Romeo & Juliet (starring run an e-publishing company called Sordelet INK and ) (Public Theater), Satchmo at the for the emerging author. Instagram: @sordeletinc Waldorf; Women’s Project, Atlantic, Rattlestick. sordeletinc.com TV: Encore! (Disney+), NBC’s Live. Re- gional: Kennedy Center, Bucks County, Goodspeed, BRADLEY ROGERS (Dramaturg) is a drama- Williamstown, Old Globe. Education: University of turg, scholar, and writer. As an assistant professor Arizona & Juilliard. For Mom, Dad, and Julie of theater studies and English at Duke University, he oversees the school’s musical theater program, JONATHAN BACH (Assistant Stage Manager) which produced a workshop of Love Life in 2018, is thrilled to be making his Encores! debut! As with Ms. Clark as director. Forthcoming this fall a sub stage manager, Bach works on Broadway are a book on musical theater as well as an article at Wicked. His Broadway PA credits include: A in Modern Drama on Love Life. Eternal gratitude to Christmas Carol and Straight White Men. During Vicki and JMK! jbradleyrogers.com the inaugural season at The Shed, he was on the stage management team of Dragon Spring Phoenix BINDER CASTING/ JAY BINDER, CSA & Rise. He is a proud graduate of the UNCSA SARAH COONEY (Casting) Binder Casting class of 2019. Thanks to Matthew, Michelle, and was founded by Jay Binder, CSA in 1984. Binder Alessandra. Love to family, friends, and mentors! Casting has cast more than 80 Broadway pro- ductions, dozens of National Tours, off-Broadway THE ENCORES! ORCHESTRA Chosen for shows, full seasons for more than 25 regional the- their versatility and virtuosity, the musicians of aters, as well as feature , episodic television, The Encores! Orchestra are experts in all eras and commercials. Binder has also cast for Encores! and styles of theater music, from the of at New York City Center since its inception in Sigmund Romberg to the jazz-inflected scores of 1994. Additionally, the office was featured in the Harold Arlen to the classic 1960s Broadway sound documentary, Every Little Step. Binder Casting is of and . a twelve-time recipient of the Artios Award for excellence in casting. Part of RWS Entertainment THE KURT WEILL FOUNDATION, INC. Group. Staff: Jay Binder, CSA, Mark Brandon, promotes and perpetuates the legacies of Kurt CSA, Chad Eric Murnane, CSA, Sarah Cooney, Weill and Lotte Lenya by encouraging an appre- Kyle Coker, Anthony Pichette and Jarrett ciation of Weill’s music through support of per- Reiche. bindercasting.com formances, recordings, and scholarship, and by fostering an understanding of Weill’s and Lenya’s MATTHEW MELCHIORRE (Production Stage lives and work within diverse cultural contexts. It Manager) Encores!: Cabin in the Sky, 1776, Do I administers the Weill-Lenya Research Center, a Hear a Waltz. Encores! Off-Center: Assassins, Grant and Collaborative Performance Initiative Really, Rosie!. He is currently the stage manager Program, the Lotte Lenya Competition, the Kurt for the & Tour. Broadway: Weill/Julius Rudel Fellowship, the The Light in the Piazza, Coram Boy, (with Kurt Weill Prize for scholarship in music theater, Jude Law), ’s , The Lion King, and publishes the Kurt Weill Edition and the Kurt MEET THE ARTISTS Weill Newsletter. Building upon the legacies of Foundation, Atlantic Philanthropic Service Com- both Weill and Lenya, the Foundation nurtures pany, and the Howard Gilman Foundation. For 11 years talent, particularly in the creation, performance, Ms. Shuler worked at Lincoln Center for the Per- and study of musical theater in its various mani- forming Arts, where she was vice president for festations and media. Since 2012, the Kurt Weill planning and development and then senior vice Foundation has administered the musical and lit- president of planning and external affairs. In June erary estate of composer . Kwf.org 2003 she was named president and CEO of New York City Center, where she had performed as a JACK VIERTEL (Artistic Director) has led En- member of The at the start of her ca- cores! since 2000, overseeing 57 productions reer. Her accomplishments at City Center include and counting. He is also senior vice president leading the renovation of the theater in 2010–11 of Jujamcyn Theaters, which owns and operates and conceiving the acclaimed Fall for Dance Fes- five Broadway theaters presenting The Book of tival, which premiered in September 2004. In rec- Mormon, Frozen, Mean Girls, Moulin Rouge, and ognition of her significant contributions to dance, . He was a producer of the Broadway she was awarded the 2009 Capezio Dance Award. revival of Gypsy starring Patti LuPone, which was Ms. Shuler serves as a member of the Pocantico first seen at Encores! in 2007, and he was rep- Committee of the Rockefellers Brothers Fund and resented on Broadway by Finian’s Rainbow, first the advisory board of the Trust for Mutual Under- seen at Encores! in 2008. He helped shepherd six standing. She is also a member of the New York of August Wilson’s plays to Broadway and worked State Bar Association. on the original Broadway productions of , Into , and M. Butterfly, among NEW YORK CITY CENTER has played a defining others. He conceived last season’s Broadway mu- role in the cultural life of the city since 1943 when sical , and conceived and co-produced it was founded by Mayor with Smokey Joe’s Café, the Encores! Stairway the mission to make the best in the performing to Paradise and Cotton Club Parade, which trans- arts accessible to all. The distinctive neo-Moor- ferred to Broadway as After Midnight, as well as ish theater welcomes 300,000 visitors annually the recent Hey, Look Me Over!. He served as to experience internationally acclaimed artists on dramaturg for The Wedding Singer and Hairspray the same stage where legends like George Bal- on Broadway, and is the co-author of the musical anchine, Leonard Bernstein, and Barbara Cook Time and Again. Viertel spent two years as drama- made their mark. For over 25 years, the treasured, turg of the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, and Tony-honored Encores! series has given new life began his work in theater as a critic for the Los to the American musical theater canon, comple- Angeles Herald-Examiner. His book The Secret mented in recent years by the Encores! Off-Cen- Life of the American Musical was published in 2016. ter series, which brings today’s innovative artists into with groundbreaking musicals from ARLENE SHULER (President & CEO, New York the more recent past. Dance continues to be an City Center) has had a long and distinguished ca- integral part of the institution’s mission through reer in the arts. After dancing with The Joffrey programs like the annual Fall for Dance Festival, Ballet, she attended Columbia University, where which exposes new audiences to an international she received her B.A. and J.D. degrees. Her arts array of artists by offering subsidized tickets. administration career began in Washington, D.C., Through its robust education and community where she served as program administrator of the programs, City Center brings the performing arts dance program at the National Endowment for the to over 11,000 New York City students, teachers, Arts, among other positions. Ms. Shuler returned and families each year and activates all areas of the to New York as executive director of Volunteer building with talks, master classes, art exhibitions, Lawyers for the Arts, and then continued in the and intimate performances that provide audiences field of philanthropy in leadership positions with an up-close look at the work of the great theater the Wallace Funds, General Atlantic Partners and dance artists of our time. SPECIAL STAFF FOR LOVE LIFE Patron treats provided by MYZEL’S CHOCOLATES 140 West , across from City Center Casting...... BINDER CASTING www.myzels.com

Jay Binder, CSA, Mark Brandon, CSA Chad Eric Murnane, CSA, Sarah Cooney SPECIAL THANKS TO Kyle Coker, Anthony Pichette Jarrett Reiche The Kurt Weill Foundation, Kim Kowalke and Part of RWS Entertainment Group Brady Sansone at the Kurt Weill Foundation, Ryan Stana CEO, Bruston Manuel COO The Alan Jay Lerner Testamentary Trust, Richard Boursy & The Papers of Kurt Weill and Technical Supervisor...... Mark Mongold Lotte Lenya at , Dr. Bradley Rogers & Production Stage Manager...... Matthew Melchiorre the Duke University Department of Theater Studies, Stage Manager...... Michelle Scalpone Dr. Amy Rogers Schwartzreich & the Pace University Assistant Stage Manager...... Jonathan Bach Musical Theater Program, Dr. Joel Galand, Liza and Associate Director...... Sara Brians Jenny Lerner, The , Fight Director...... Rick Sordelet The Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation, Magic Consultant...... Mark Mitton Associate Choreographer...... Liz Ramos Malissa Borden, Huck Borden, John Bundy, Associate Scenic Designer...... Ryan Howell Ginna Doyle, Morgan Elton, Lizzy Emanuel, Assistant Costume Designer...... Mike Kaukl Michael Gildin, Benji Goldsmith, Mary Houston, Assistant Lighting Designer...... Travis McHale Joe Keenan, Doug Middlebrook, Ian Miller, Assistant Sound Designer...... Michael Eisenberg Mark Mitton, Larry Moore, Liz Ramos, Wardrobe Supervisor...... Gina Loiodice-Montes Dave Schoonover, Solon Snider, Ryan Worsing, Production Manager...... Julie Shelton-Grimshaw Minami Yusui, and William J. Schmeelk, Assistant Production Manager...... John Rodriguez Wellington Enterprises Assistant Wardrobe Supervisor...... Ryanne Lynch Wig/Hair Design...... J. Jared Janas Costume Apprentice...... Gabrielle Zayas The actors and stage managers employed in Rehearsal Pianists...... Mark Mitchell, Evan Rees this production are members of Actors’ Equity Production Sound Mixer...... Patrick Pummill Association, the union of professional actors Moving Light Programmer...... Parker Conzone and stage managers in the United States. Props Coordinator ...... Natalie Carney The House Manager employed in Interim General Manager...... Elie Landau this production is represented by Manager, Musical Theater Programs...... Meg Brown the Association of Theatrical Press General Management Associate...... Maggie Snyder Agents and Managers. /Kurt Weill Backstage and Front of House Employ- Directing Fellow...... Noam Shapiro ees are represented by the International Production Assistant...... Alessandra Mauro Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (or I.A.T.S.E.). Child Guardian...... Felicia Velasco Photographer...... Joan Marcus The musicians employed in this produc- tion are members of the Associated Mu- sicians of Greater New York, Local 802, CREDITS of the American Federation of Musicians. The Director and Choreographer are Show art by Ben Wiseman members of the Society of Stage Additional lighting equipment by PRG Lighting Directors and Choreographers, Inc., Additional audio equipment by Gibson Entertainment an independent national labor union. Magic Illusion Box by Wellington Enterprises United Scenic Artists represents the Select costumes constructed by Alison Hublard and designers and scenic painters for the Kjersten Lester-Moratzka. Select millinery and crafts American Theatre. by Arnold Levine. wish to thank The Professional Association of Playwrights, Lyricists, and Composers Goodspeed Costume Collection & Rental, TDF Costume Collection, and Western Costumes for their assistance in this production.