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Dear Friends, began its unusual and successful life more suited to a less upscale — and more youthful first as a program for live television’s “golden age,” an and daring — part of Manhattan. The thrust staging, era when classic plays, great opera productions, clas- unusual for a big musical in New York, intimately con- sical ballets, and Leonard Bernstein’s Young People’s nected audiences to the turbulent action on stage. Concerts were routinely broadcast “live from New La Mancha was on the fault lines. In many ways, it York.” The dramas featured major stars of stage and pointed the way toward approaching serious issues screen along with prominent writers and directors of in musical theater. In just a few seasons the era. In 1959, the “DuPont Show of the Month” pre- and would appear, continuing to change the sented ’s teleplay, “I, ,” popular perception of what the genre should be. “[La based on ’ 1,000 page 17th century Mancha] looked back to the golden age of musicals Spanish novel, to 20 million American viewers. Thus such as and Carousel… while it simulta- the seeds of the musical were planted in a Manhattan neously celebrated the value of eccentricity, originality, television studio, and the speech that would become and abandon,” writes theater scholar Robert Sennet. its most famous song, “The Impossible Dream,” was almost cut before air time — twice!— until the actor Man of La Mancha has since been performed in almost playing the title role (the great Lee J. Cobb) insisted it fifty countries — a story so beloved and universal be reinstated. that it resonates around the world. I hope it speaks to you tonight, and that you might even linger on its The show began its life as a musical just up the road relevance today, with a prison incarceration problem from Westport Playhouse in 1965. The refurbished of massive scale and a surging mass of desperate Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Connecti- humanity attempting to cross our borders to make cut had opened its doors as a home for musicals just impossible dreams come true. three seasons earlier. Wasserman’s retooled and retitled Man of La Mancha, now with music by and lyrics by , would be its first world premiere. In his 2003 memoir The Impossible Musical, MARK LAMOS Wasserman perhaps arguably suggested that, “All of Artistic Director [Goodspeed Opera’s] success and fame, stretching many decades now, is due to a venturesome new musical that opened in the summer of 1965 called Man of La Mancha.” When the show was ready for New York, the produc- ers decided it would be wiser to place it closer to the flourishing downtown”“ scene in , with its counter-culture 1960s energy, instead of the more obviously commercial uptown Broadway. They felt its story of one man fighting the odds, ennobling all he sees, and dreaming impossible dreams, was

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10 WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE | 2018 SEASON PRESENTS Man of La Mancha WRITTEN BY DALE WASSERMAN MUSIC BY MITCH LEIGH | LYRICS BY JOE DARION PRODUCTION DIRECTED BY MARK LAMOS

SCENIC DESIGN COSTUME DESIGN LIGHTING DESIGN Wilson Chin Fabian Fidel Aguilar Alan C. Edwards

SOUND DESIGN MUSICAL STAGING BY CHOREOGRAPHER Domonic Sack Marcos Santana & Mark Lamos Marcos Santana

MUSIC DIRECTOR MUSIC SUPERVISOR FIGHT DIRECTOR / INTIMACY COACH Andrew David Sotomayor Wayne Barker Michael Rossmy

PROPS MASTER CASTING PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER Samantha Shoffner Tara Rubin Casting Ryan Gohsman Eric Woodall, CSA

Original Production staged by Originally produced by Albert W. Selden and Hal James Man of La Mancha is presented by arrangement with Tams-Witmark Music Library, Inc., 560 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York 10022

SPECIAL FUNDING PRODUCTION SPONSORS PRODUCTION PARTNERS EDUCATION SPONSORS MAUREEN & EDWIN SCHLOSS BARBARA & JOHN SAMUELSON CAROL & PETER SELDIN THE GRAHAM FOUNDATION OF CT BARBARA & JOHN STREICKER THE DAVID & GERI EPSTEIN PRIVATE FOUNDATION

CORPORATE PRODUCTION SPONSOR CORPORATE PRODUCTION PARTNER

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ALDONZA Gisela Adisa*

PEDRO/PRISONER Ceasar F. Barajas*

PADRE/PRISONER Carlos Encinias*

PACO/GUARD/HORSE/PRISONER Michael Scott Gomez*

CERVANTES/DON QUIXOTE Philip Hernandez*

ANTONIA/PRISONER Paola Hernandez

SANCHO/PANZA/PRISONER Tony Manna*

INNKEEPER/TENORIO/PRISONER Michael Mendez*

CAPTAIN/ANSELMO/PRISONER Ian Paget*

MARIA/HOUSEKEEPER/PRISONER/ON-STAGE GUITAR PLAYER Lulu Picart*

GUARD/JUAN/HORSE/PRISONER Jermaine Rowe*

GOVERNOR/PRISONER David Sattler*

DUKE/CARRASCO/PRISONER Clay Singer

BARBER/JOSE/PRISONER Esteban Suero*

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association

SETTING A prison in the city of Seville and various places in the imagination of Miguel de Cervantes.

Man of La Mancha will be performed with a 15-minute intermission

This theatre operates under an agreement between The League of Regional Theatres and ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the .

The Director is a member of the STAGE DIRECTORS AND CHOREOGRAPHERS SOCIETY, a national theatrical labor union.

Westport Country Playhouse employs members of the INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF THEATRICAL STAGE EMPLOYEES, Local 74.

The Scenic, Costume, Lighting, and Sound Designers in LORT theatres are represented by United Scenic Artists Local USA-829, IATSE.

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act I Overture I Really Like Him Orchestra Sancho Man Of La Mancha What Does He Want Of Me Don Quixote, Sancho Aldonza It’s All The Same Little Bird, Little Bird Aldonza, Muleteers Anselmo, Pedro, Muleteers Dulcinea Barber’s Song Don Quixote, Muleteers Barber I’m Only Thinking Of Him Golden Helmet Of Mambrino Antonia, Housekeeper, Padre Don Quixote, Sancho, Barber, Muleteers We’re Only Thinking Of Him To Each His Dulcinea (To Every Man His Dream) Carrasco, Antonia, Padre, Housekeeper Padre The Missive The Impossible Dream (The Quest) Sancho Don Quixote

act II The Combat A Little Gossip Orchestra Sancho

The Dubbing / Knight Of The Woeful Countenance Dulcinea REPRISE Innkeeper, Don Quixote, Aldonza, Sancho Aldonza The Abduction The Impossible Dream (The Quest) REPRISE Anselmo, Pedro, Fermina Don Quixote The Impossible Dream (The Quest) REPRISE Man Of La Mancha (I, Don Quixote) REPRISE Don Quixote Don Quixote, Sancho, Aldonza Man Of La Mancha REPRISE The Psalm Don Quixote Padre Aldonza Finale Aldonza Company

MUSICIANS Ben Clymer Joseph Russo Trombone String Bass Nicholas DiFabbio Marshall Sealy Guitar French Horn Daniel Louis Duncan Arei Sekiguchi Trumpet Percussion Simon Hutchings Reeds

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orn outside of in 1547, the Battle of Lepanto. After his recovery, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, he was based mainly in Naples for the considered by many to be the following three years, making expeditions Binventor of the modern novel, is regarded as from there to places throughout the the greatest writer in the Spanish language. Mediterranean. It was in 1575, while His most famous work, Don Quixote, has sailing from Italy to Barcelona, that his been translated into more languages than ship was attacked, and he was captured any other book except the Bible. While the by Barbary pirates. Imprisoned in North adventures of the novel’s protagonist are many, Cervantes’ real-life adventures give [∏his] five-year captivity the title character a run for his money. left an indelible impression… In 1570 Cervantes enlisted in a regiment the traumatic experience of the Spanish Navy Marines, and was continuously speaks through wounded three times in October 1571 [Cervantes’] work. in the victory over the Ottoman fleet at MARIA ANTONIA GARCÉS

Andreis van Eertvelt (1590-1652) The Battle of Lepanto, 1622. Oil on copper. Africa and kept as a slave, he made four Though Cervantes is known primarily unsuccessful escape attempts before he for Don Quixote, it is said that, above all, was ransomed by his parents in 1580 he wanted to be a dramatist. He penned and sent back to Spain. According to sixteen dramatic works: eight full-length Cervantes scholar Maria Antonia Garcés, plays and eight short farces. Most of them this “five-year captivity in Algiers left an are lost to history, but two survive. El Trato indelible impression on his fiction. From de Argel details his experiences in pirate the first works written after his liberation…this traumatic experience continuously speaks through his work.” That was not the last time Cervantes was imprisoned. Returning to Spain, he attempted to live a fairly modest life as a tax collector in the Kingdom of Granada. But, after successfully gathering funds owed Fortunino Matania (1881-1963) Cervantes Brought Before Hassan Pasha, King of Algiers. Color lithograph. Undated. the Crown, he deposited the money with a Sevillian banker who captivity and La Numancia depicts the went bankrupt soon thereafter, leaving tragic and violent events of the siege of Cervantes’ accounts unpaid. Though he Numantia by the Romans. was sent to jail for only several months, it During his later years, Cervantes did proved to be a turning point in his life. not tire of his literary pursuits. In the Cervantes later remarked that it was at last three years of his life, he published this time he had the idea to write Don two novels and a collection of tales. He Quixote, which follows the adventures had just finished a final adventure novel of a country nobleman named Alonso entitled Los Trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda Quixano who, exhilarated by romantic when he died in Madrid in 1616 of what stories of old, adopts the name Don modern scholars believe was type-2 Quixote de la Mancha and sets out to diabetes. Despite the fact that Don Quixote revive chivalry, right wrongs, and restore was a success in his lifetime, and he was justice to the world. The musical Man hard at work until the day he died, his of La Mancha draws from this period of financial issues never ceased. Cervantes Cervantes’ life, staging his invention died penniless, but his imagination will of the Quixote legend while he is live on forever. < imprisoned in Seville. Don Quixote in Culture

The term quixotic, commonly defined as “exceedingly idealistic or impractical,” would not be in the English lexicon today if it hadn’t been for Cervantes’ famous hero. There have been over 200 adaptations of Don Quixote, including films, ballets, operas, and musicals. But even if you have never read the novel nor seen even one adaptation, Don Quixote even forced Pablo Picasso out of his the legacy of Don Quixote de la Mancha cubist and surrealist wheelhouse. This popular sketch is known far and wide. from 1955, entitled Don Quixote, might be the single most instantly recognizable image of the character.

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, a 2018 movie by Terry Gilliam and Tony Grisoni, is a very loose adaptation of the novel, and is well known for the struggles in getting it to production, a process spanning almost 30 years.

The Spanish comic book Epi, Blas y los demás featured Bert and Ernie as Don Quixote and , respectively, in the story “Un Escudero y su Hidalgo” (“A Squire and His Gentleman.”)

Quixotic Houses by Steve Greenberg. This cartoon was published in 2002 in the Ventura County Star as a comment on the rising housing prices in California. MAN OF LA MANCHA 19 20 WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE | 2018 SEASON MAN OF LA MANCHA 21 22 WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE | 2018 SEASON WCP | WHO'S WHO

Gisela Adisa* Carlos Encinias* Aldonza Padre/Prisoner Westport Country Playhouse Westport Country Playhouse debut. Broadway: Beautiful. debut. Carlos is originally First National Tour: Sister Act. from Albuquerque, New NY Theatre: Trial (Beckmann and studied Theatre Theater); Marie Christine at BYU. Broadway: Les (3LD); Caroline, or Change Miserables (Feuilly), Mamma (Gallery Players); Futurology Mia (u/s Eddie/Father A), (National Black Theater). Scandalous (Ramon), Good Regional: (People’s Light, nomination Vibrations (u/s Jan/Class Pres.). Off-Broadway: for Barrymore Award for Excellence in Theatre). Altar Boyz (Juan/Abe/Mark), Mapmaker’s Opera TV: “Younger,” “Royal Pains.” Film: Shield, Ride (Roberto). Regional: (Che) at Phoenix Theatre, By Night, Chasing Taste, Jamerican. Gisela holds a Christmas Story (u/s Santa Claus) at Papermill, I B.A. in Drama and African Studies from Fordham Am Anne Hutchison/Harvey Milk at Strathamore University and is a proud member of Broadway with Kristen Chenoweth and Andrew Lippa, world Inspirational Voices, Broadway Serves and premiere of Vices: A Love Story (Man 1) at Caldwell Vocal Ease. Thanks to my brother Eric for his Theatre Company, Cinderella (Prince) at Sundance unbending support. More at www.iamgisela.com, Theatre. Thrilled to be a part of this unique and @imGisela and @GiselaAdisa on Instagram. special piece! For Joe, Luca and Marco.

Ceasar F. Barajas* Michael Scott Gomez* Pedro/Prisoner Paco/Guard/Horse/Prisoner Westport Country Playhouse Westport Country Playhouse debut. Ceasar is honored debut. Michael is so grateful to join the Westport to be making his debut at Country Playhouse & to WCP! He is a Dallas native be back in prison! He’s a and recent MFA graduate of multi-hyphenated performing the ART/MXAT at Harvard threat with international University. Regional credits credits. Some Broadway include: La Cage Aux Folles, Regional faves include: Man of La Mancha (Pedro, Mary Poppins, , Seussical, and Shakespeare Theatre Company, Helen Hayes Catch Me If You Can in Dallas; Gypsy, A Chorus Award Nominee); (Graffiti Pete/ Line, and The Rocky Horror Show in Phoenix; The Assoc. Choreographer, Walnut St Theatre); Sir Donkey Show, Assistance, and Charlotte’s Web in ’s From Here to Eternity (Hal/Pvt. Ruiz, . Thanks to Mom, Dad, Matthew, Andrew, Ogunquit Playhouse). Film (selected): Hello and Jaime Baker at Baker Management, Lisa Price Again (opposite Audra McDonald), L.A.dy Dior and Yvan Mfuranzima at The Price Group, and (opposite Marion Cotillard). TV (selected): wonderful friends for their support! Instagram: The Last O.G. (opposite Tracy Morgan), Bull, @mr_mikegomez The Good Fight, Law & Order: SVU, Gotham. Please visit www.ceasarfbarajas.com. THANK Paola Hernandez YOU Mark Lamos, mi compadre Marcos Antonia/Prisoner Santana & Eric Woodal! My undying Love to Westport Country Playhouse my Team, my ride or dies Irene & Gina at DDO debut. Paola is really excited Artists Agency & mi familia. to be part of this beautiful cast! Born and raised in Puerto Rico. Proud Circle in the Square Theater School Alumna. Recent credits: National Tour (Mimi Marquez), Rent National Tour (Swing, U/S Mimi, Maureen), Twelfth Night (Viola), Spring Awakening (Martha), Legally Blonde (Vivienne), (Dynamite), Godspell, . Gracias to my familia. www.paola-hernandez.com Follow: @phtanon

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Philip Hernandez* Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Cervantes/Don Quixote (ACT of Connecticut), How the Grinch Stole Westport Country Playhouse Christmas (Old Globe), Billy Elliot (North Carolina debut. Philip is the only actor Theatre), Grease (North Shore Music Theatre), in Broadway history to play Hello! My Baby! (Goodspeed-Norma Terris), The Jean Valjean and Inspector Music Man (Weston Playhouse), The Full Monty Javert in Les Misérables. He (AMTSJ), Paquito's Christmas (Kennedy Center). also played principal roles BFA: University of . in the Original Broadway Casts of Kiss of the Spider Ian Paget* Woman and Paul Simon’s The Capeman. T.V. roles Captain/Anselmo/Prisoner include: “Bull,” “Blue Bloods,” “The Blacklist,” “The Westport Country Playhouse Path,” “Gotham,” “Nurse Jackie,” “Elementary,” debut. Most recently seen “Hostages,” “Damages,” “Person of Interest,” and in This Ain’t No Disco at “Law and Order.” His favorite role is being “Dad” Atlantic Theatre Company to twenty-one year old Mariah and four year (World Premiere). Broadway: old Tallulah. As a coach in NYC, Philip prepares Soul Doctor, Leap of Faith, actors for work on-camera and onstage. Find Mamma Mia. The New York him at www.PhilipHernandez.net or on Spectacular at Radio City & Instagram @philip24601 Music Hall (Dir/Chor: Mia Michaels). West End: A-rab in West Side Story (Olivier Nomination). Tony Manna* Regional: Paul in A Chorus Line (Muny), Escape Sancho Panza/Prisoner to Margaritaville (La Jolla Playhouse), How to Westport Country Playhouse Succeed… (Tuts), Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots debut. Tony has appeared (La Jolla Playhouse), Dreamgirls (Tuts). TV: in several productions Off- Mike Hunt on “The Queen’s Project,” “Lip Sync Broadway, including These Battle,” “Mozart in the Jungle,” “One Life to Live,” Paper Bullets (Atlantic Theater “America’s Got Talent,” “The Jimmy Fallon Show,” Company), Timon of Athens “Saturday Night Live.” Film: , Step Up (The Public Theater), and Revolution. ipaget.com @ianpaget_ The Hasty Heart (Keen Company), among others. Regionally, he's Lulu Picart* appeared at the Geffen Playhouse and in several Maria/Housekeeper/Prisoner/ shows at Yale Repertory Theatre, including On Stage Guitar Player Cymbeline, Black Snow, The Taming of the Shrew, and Westport Country Playhouse You Never Can Tell. TV credits include: “Maniac” debut. Tours: Rodgers & (Netflix), “Elementary” (CBS), “Z: The Beginning Hammerstein’s Cinderella of Everything” (Amazon), “The Exorcist” (FOX), (First National), Listen To Your and “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (Amazon). Heart (with David Friedman). He is a proud member of New Neighborhood Off-Broadway: Disenchanted and a graduate of the Yale School of Drama. (Lortel nomination, Best tonymanna.com Featured Actress). Regional: 1776 (Rutledge), Man of La Mancha (Aldonza), Mame (Gooch), Rent (Joanne), Michael Mendez* The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Eddie/Dr. Scott), Innkeeper/Tenorio/Prisoner Wit (Susie), South Pacific (Bloody Mary), Sweeney Westport Country Playhouse Todd (Johanna), I Love You Because, Edges, Hair, debut. Michael was most How to Succeed (with the Orlando Philharmonic), recently seen in Hey, Look Finding Nemo: the Musical. Film: Frozen (Blu-Ray Me Over! at Featurette), Going in Style. Comedy Warehouse Center Encores! featuring alum. Host of the 10k Dollar Day podcast. Connect: Joel Grey, Vanessa Williams, @lulupicart. and Bebe Neuwirth. New York: Chaplin (Broadway), Fat Camp (Off Broadway). Regional: : The Red Sox Version (Goodspeed Opera House), Peter and the Starcatcher (Weston Playhouse),

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Jermaine Rowe* Dramatic Arts, and his high school diploma Guard/Horse/Prisoner down the street. Big thanks to the Westport Westport Country Playhouse Country Playhouse, Robert/Bloc, and Mom for debut. Jermaine is a multi- the home cooked meals. Follow him on instagram faceted theatre artist. @claybsinger Broadway: , Fela! Regional: Macbeth, Esteban Suero* Titus Andronicus, Noon Day Barber/Jose/Prisoner Sun, Batboy. Film: Bwoy, Westport Country Playhouse Freedom, and was an original debut. Esteban is a Miami, cast member in the National Theatre Live Fela! FL native currently residing Operas: Il Barber de Seville, The Tales of Hoffman. in New York City, with two Former dancer with Dance Theatre of Harlem performance degrees from and National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica. the University of Miami and Original works include A Drema on an Isalnd, Oklahoma City University. Mom’s Eulogy, The Other, Solitary, Storyteller– Past credits include: Will Musical. He holds an MFA in Theatre from Bloom in Big Fish, Che in Evita, Angel in RENT, and Sarah Lawrence College, and is a CUNY Adjunct Lead Vocalist in the National Tour of Rockin’ Road Professor in Acting. to Dublin. He is very excited to be on this next adventure with the Westport Country Playhouse. David Sattler* A giant thank you to the entire team here, a warm Governor/Prisoner hug with so much love to the Clear Talent Group, David is pleased to make and endless gratitude to Tara Rubin Casting for his debut with Westport this opportunity. @estesuero Country Playhouse. Tours/ Regional: European Tour of *Member of Actors’ Equity Association Grease (Danny), Kiss Me Kate (Fred/Petruchio), Hunchback Dale Wasserman of Notre Dame (Phoebus), Book Evita (Che), (Billy), Wasserman wrote for theater, television and film All Shook Up (Chad), (Bobby), West for more than 50 years and is best known for Side Story (Tony), Carousel (Billy), Beauty & the musical Man of La Mancha, a multiple Tony The Beast (Beast), (Sid), Award winner. He also wrote the stage play One The Who’s Tommy (Tommy), Get Your Gun Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, based on ’s (Frank), (Stone), On The Town novel, which has won several . (Gabey), (Conrad), Damn Yankees Both shows continue to be produced nationally (Joe Hardy), Miss Saigon (John), Blood Brothers and internationally, with an estimated 300 (Narrator), Joseph… (Pharaoh), Children of Eden productions per year. In January 1979, Dale met (Adam/Noah), (Cinderella’s Martha Nelly Garza, who became his wife, loyal Prince/Wolf), and the world premiere of partner and loving companion. More than , Prince of Egypt. Dale commented that Martha Nelly was the best thing that ever happened to him (aside from his Clay Singer work on Man of La Mancha) and that it was their Duke/Carrasco/Prisoner 30-year partnership that had been the greatest Westport Country Playhouse: contribution to extending his life and his talents Romeo and Juliet. Clay is to age 94. Together, they worked on numerous thrilled to return to Westport musicals and several new plays, including and work with such an the autobiographical Burning In The Night. On outstanding group of artists. December 21, 2008, Dale Wasserman, with his He recently made his Off- loving wife at his side, passed away peacefully Broadway debut in Single of natural causes at his home in Paradise Valley. Rider. Other credits include Martha N. Wasserman is now the sole Owner/ Love the Struggle (SheNYC) and Fountain (New Licensor of Dale’s intellectual properties and Vic reading). He earned his BFA at Carnegie spends her life promoting his works all over Mellon University, certificate in classical the world. acting from the Academy of Music and

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Mitch Leigh Mark Lamos Music Director/Artistic Director Leigh composed Man of La Mancha, which originally Westport Country Playhouse: Artistic Director opened in 1965 and went on to win since 2009. Broadway: Our Country's Good (Tony five Tony Awards including Best Musical. Man of La nomination); The Rivals, Cymbeline, Seascape Mancha ran for 2,328 performances on Broadway, (Tony nomination, best revival) for Lincoln making it one of the greatest musicals of all time, Center Theater; The Deep Blue Sea; The Gershwins' spawning numerous national and international Fascinating Rhythm. Off-Broadway: Tiny Alice, productions. His other Broadway scores include Measure for Measure (Lortel Awards for both); Cry For Us All, Sarava, Chu Chem, and Ain’t Broadway productions at Playwrights Horizons, Primary Grand. He is the recipient of numerous awards Stages, Signature Theatre, The Public Theater, including the NY Drama Critics Circle Award and Shakespeare in the Park (As You Like It). He the Contemporary Classics Awards from the was Artistic Director of Hartford Stage for 16 Songwriters’ Hall of Fame for “The Impossible seasons (1989 Tony Award). Other theater: Kennedy Dream,” and he is the first composer to receive the Center, Canada's , Guthrie Yale Arts Award for Outstanding Achievement in Theater, Yale Repertory Theatre (Associate Artist), Musical Composition. He has been honored as the A.C.T., The Old Globe, Delaware Rep, Ford’s Theatre, only living composer whose work was included in D.C.'s Shakespeare Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare the Metropolitan Opera’s Centennial Celebration. Theater, and others. He was the first American to Mr. Leigh produced and directed Yul Brynner’s direct a company in the former Soviet Union (Desire farewell tour of . In 2001 the Music Under the Elms at Moscow's Pushkin Theatre), and School at Yale University was named Leigh Hall. the first to act as dramaturge in the creation of a ballet, Alexei Ratmansky's The Tempest for American Joe Darion Ballet Theatre. His work in opera is extensive. Lyrics For the Metropolitan Opera: New productions of Darion has worked in every field in which words I Lombardi with Luciano Pavarotti, and Wozzeck are put to music, from popular songs to works (both televised for “Great Performances”), for the concert stage. His opera based on Don as well as the world premiere of Harbison's Marquis’ immortal characters Archy and Mehitabel, The Great Gatsby, and Adriana Lecouvreur with was turned into the Broadway musical Shinbone Placido Domingo. He created many productions Alley, for which Mr. Darion supplied book and for NYC Opera, including televised productions lyrics. Popular songs for which he has supplied of Paul Bunyan, Tosca, Central Park, and the lyrics include “Ricochet,” “Changing Partners,” Madama Butterfly (Emmy Award). Other opera: and “Midnight Rain,” selling in the tens of millions. Glimmerglass, Bergen National, Gothenberg, One of the most popular has been “The Impossible Munich Biennale, London's Barbican, L'Opera Dream” from Man of La Mancha, which won Darion du Montreal, Chicago Lyric, Santa Fe, St. Louis, the Tony Award for Best Lyrics. He also supplied Dallas, , and others. Lamos began the lyrics for the Broadway musical Illya Darling, his career in the theater as an actor on and adapted from the film Never on Sunday. In addition Off-Broadway and in regional theater and made to the Tony Award, he has the Outer Critics Circle his film debut in Longtime Companion. He was Award, the Gabriel Award, the Ohio State Award, awarded the Connecticut Medal for the Arts as and the International Broadcasting Award. well as honorary doctorates from Connecticut College, Trinity College, and the University of Miguel de Cervantes Hartford. In October 2016, he was the recipient Author Don Quixote of the John Houseman Award. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, considered by many to be the inventor of the modern novel, is regarded Wilson Chin as the greatest writer in the Spanish language. In Set Design addition to Don Quixote, his most famous work, he Westport Country Playhouse: I Do! I Do!, Tartuffe. penned sixteen dramatic works: eight full-length World premieres include Next Fall (Broadway), plays and eight short farces. Most of them are lost Pass Over (LCT3/Spike Lee film/Steppenwolf), to history, but two survive: El Trato de Argel and Pulitzer Prize winner Cost of Living (MTC/ La Numancia. For more information on Cervantes, Williamstown), Teenage Dick (Ma-Yi/Public), please see the program notes on page 16. The Thanksgiving Play (Playwrights Horizons), Wild Goose Dreams (Public/La Jolla), Sakina’s Restaurant (Audible/Minetta Lane), The Jammer (Atlantic), My Mañana Comes (Playwrights

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Realm), By The Water (MTC/Ars Nova), Too James Naughton: Street of Dreams. Designs and Much, Too Much, Too Many (Roundabout). Opera consults on Broadway musicals, opera, movie designs include Lucia di Lammermoor (Lyric premieres, and concert reinforcement. Recent Opera of Chicago), A Florentine Tragedy/Gianni credits include Live at Lincoln Center series, Camelot, Schicchi (Canadian Opera, Dora Award winner) Sinatra, , and Carousel with the and The Ghosts of Versailles (Wolf Trap Opera). New York Philharmonic. Other credits include: www.wilsonchin.com Smokey Joe’s Café, Trip of Love, A Tale of Two Cities, The Fantasticks, Three Mo' Tenors, Movin' Out, Fabian Fidel Aguilar Ring of Fire, Little Shop of Horrors, and The Rocky Costume Design Horror Show. Westport Country Playhouse: Romeo and Juliet. Fabian attended Yale University and Boston Marcos Santana University to pursue theatrical costume design. Choreographer Most recently, he assisted Emily Rebholz on Born and raised in Puerto Rico. Broadway The Low Road(The Public). Design credits include (Assoc.): On Your Feet (Tony® nomination, ¡Bienvenidos Blancos! or Welcome White People! Marquis Theater); Rocky (Tony nomination, Winter (Philadelphia); A View from the Bridge; Seven Garden Theater); Guys & Dolls (Nederlander Spots on the Sun; set and costume for The War Theater). Others: Evita (Bay Street Theatre); In The Boys (East coast premiere); Sotto Voce (Portland Heights, director/choreographer (Olney Theater, Stage); Midsummer; The Moors (Yale Repertory Helen Hayes Award, Broadway World Award); Theater world premier); The Master and , director (Maltz Jupiter, Carbonell Award Margarita (Yale School of Drama); He Left Quietly Nominee); Iggy; Ada; Rosie (Theaterworks (SummerWorks Performance Festival, Toronto); USA); Man of La Mancha (Shakespeare Theater Knives in Hens; Quartet, Zero Scenario; A New Saint Company); Randy Newman’s Faust (City Center for a New World (Yale ). While in Boston he Encores); The Pirates Of Penzance (Stratford worked for various theatres, conservatories, and Shakespeare Festival); (J. Engeman universities including: American Repertory Theater, Theater); Kiss Me Kate (Maltz Jupiter); Brazil Boston Ballet, Moscow Ballet, the Commonwealth Brazil (New Victory Theater); Guys & Dolls Shakespeare Company, and others. In his spare (J. Engeman Theater); Paul Simon’s Capeman, time he likes to paint watercolors or urban sketch. Assoc. (Delacorte Theater); Amor Cubano (Playlist Productions); 88 Keys (Playlist Productions); Alan Edwards Fortress Of Solitude, Assoc. (The Public Theater/ Lighting Design Dallas Theater Center). Film: Chasing Papi, Westport Country Playhouse: Sex With Strangers. Across The Universe, , Annie, Diva Las New York: The First Noel, Macbeth (Classical Vegas. TV: “The Nikki Cox Show,” “Pop Stars,” “Tony Theatre of Harlem), Kill Move Paradise, Carnaval, Awards,” “Stephen Robert Show,” “Good Morning Dutchman (National Black Theatre). Regional: America,” among others. Love to my beautiful Detroit '67 (Chautauqua Theatre Co.); The Tempest wife, Nova. (Public Works); Stagger Lee (Dallas Theatre Center); We Are Proud To Present… (The Guthrie); Michael Rossmy Twisted Melodies (Centerstage Baltimore); Fight Director & Intimacy Coach Henry 4 pt. 2, Fingersmith (Oregon Shakespeare Westport Country Playhouse: The Understudy, Festival); A Delicate Balance; The Piano Lesson A Flea In Her Ear, Flyin’ West, Romeo and (Yale Rep); The Mountaintop (Cleveland Play Juliet, Appropriate, Lettice and Lovage, Camelot, House); Constellations, Deathtrap (Berkshire The Invisible Hand, Art, Red, Broken Glass, Theatre Group); The Black Iris, Madiba (Jeremy The Liar, Nora, Room Service, Harbor, Loot, A McQueen); Maria de Buenos Aires (Mill City in the Sun, Tartuffe, Into the Woods. Broadway: Opera); Carmen (Tri-Cities Opera). He received A Tale of Two Cities. Regional: The Public Theatre, the 2016 Audelco Award for Best Lighting Asolo REP, Yale Repertory Theatre, The Old Globe, Design for Macbeth. Faculty at the Yale School of Geffen Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, McCarter Drama. www.alancedwards.com Theatre, Primary Stages, Delaware REP, SoHo Repertory Theatre, The MUNY, Baltimore’s Center Domonic Sack Stage, Goodspeed Opera House, Paper Mill Sound Design Playhouse, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Huntington Westport Country Playhouse: Love Letters; Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre, Rattlestick Theater, Camelot; I Do! I Do!; A Holiday Garland; Hot ‘n Cole; Pace University, Cherry Lane Theatre, Smith Street A Saint She Ain’t; For The Children; Ancestral Voices; Stage, and others. He was nominated for a 2016

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Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Fight Direction. Samantha Shoffner Michael is a faculty member at the Yale School of Props Supervisor Drama where he teaches Stage Combat, and the Broadway: Children of a Lesser God, Time... Stage Combat Supervisor for all undergraduate Conways, The Price, , China Doll, Noises productions at Yale College. He is also the Creator/ Off, Living on Love (Associate). Props Artisan/ Coach of the physical training program, "The Actor Swing Coordinator: Bernhardt/Hamlet, Pretty as Athlete.” Woman, Fiddler..., An American In (+tour), On Your Feet (+tour), The King and I, Realistic Andrew David Sotomayor Joneses, Nice Work...Get It, Streetcar... Projections: Music Director The Mountaintop. West End: Hairspray Andrew is thrilled to be making his Westport (Maintenance). Off Broadway: The Stonewitch, Is Country Playhouse debut with Man of La Mancha. God Is (Soho Rep), Stuffed (West Side Theatre), Previous music directing credits include the Kid Victory (Vineyard), Alligator (New Georges), Off-Broadway premiere of Curvy Widow, Newsies The End of Longing, Ride the Cyclone (MCC), (Maltz Jupiter Theatre), The Will Rogers Antigone, Macbeth, Three Musketeers (CTH) (Merry-Go-Round Playhouse), Cutman: A Boxing A Better Place (The Duke), Familiar (Playwrights Musical (Goodspeed), Little Shop of Horrors, The Horizons), Sojourners, Songbird (59e59), Drowsy Chaperone, Lucky Stiff, I Love You, You’re Travels...Aunt (KEEN), Seawife, Life of the Party Perfect, Now Change, and Bingo: The Winning (LaGuardia Arts). Regional: A Music Box Christmas Musical. He served as Music Supervisor and (Hersheypark), Macbeth, As You Like It (Hudson Arranger for the new musical South Street at Valley Shakespeare), Company, On Golden Pond, Pasadena Playhouse and has had the pleasure 25th...Spelling Bee (Bucks County). Corporate: of providing arrangements for Rockers On Excedrin/Elite Daily ad, Grammy Awards 2018 Broadway. Most recently, he was Music (painter/sculptor), Samsung Marcel ad. Google Supervisor for the August Facilities designer, Vince Camuto, Under Armour, Intensive. As a composer, he has provided music H&M Coachella (Design). Immersive Events: Ryot, and lyrics for the original musicals 50 Shades Human's Best Friend. Holiday: Burlington, Jack of F***d Up, Committed, and Third Party Ruling, Spade, Cole Haan, Macy's 2010 (Artisan). Film: as well as scores for the short films Cuba 1961: A Production Design: NBC Universal "Cold Cuts with Love Story and Timeless, and the independent Al Roker", "True Love" Disney's Frozen Music Video, feature film, BX3M. He is a proud graduate of "Common Ground" (DNAinfo), Greg Holden "Boys in Stetson University, Florida. the Street." City College of Technology Professor, Props & Paint. Penn State University Alum. www. Wayne Barker smartsetsbysam.com. Music Director Westport Country Playhouse: Camelot, Sing for Tara Rubin Casting Your Shakespeare, She Loves Me, Into the Woods. Casting Broadway: Peter and the Starcatcher (composer; Sixth Season at Westport Country Playhouse. , Tony nomination), Dame Selected Broadway: King Kong (upcoming), Summer: Edna: Back with a Vengeance (composer, lyricist, The Donna Summer Musical, The Band’s Visit, Prince performer). Off- Broadway: Sisters’ Follies (for of Broadway, Indecent, Bandstand, Sunset Boulevard, Basil Twist), Chicago City Limits, Aunt Chooch’s Miss Saigon, , A Bronx Tale, , Birthday. Regional: (American Falsettos, Disaster!, School of Rock, Les Misérables, The Conservatory Theatre); A Confederacy of Dunces Heiress, The Phantom of the Opera, Billy Elliot, Shrek, (Huntington Theatre); Caroline, or Change, A Little , …Spelling Bee, The Producers, Mamma Night Music, The Boys from Syracuse (Center Stage Mia!, Off-Broadway: Smokey Joe’s Café, Baltimore). International/Tours: Dame Edna: The Jersey Boys, Here Lies Love. Selected Regional: Royal Tour; A Night with Dame Edna. Composer: Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Hollywood (La Jolla Playhouse); Laugh (Studio La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe, Asolo Rep.www. Theatre); The Primrose Path, The Great Gatsby tararubincasting.com (Guthrie Theater); The Three Musketeers, Twelfth Night (Seattle Repertory Theatre); HBO Family: A Tara Rubin Casting Little Curious; 2006 Commonwealth Games; 75th Tara Rubin, CSA; Laura Schutzel, CSA; Royal Command Variety Performance. Concert: Eric Woodall, CSA; Merri Sugarman, CSA; Raymond Scott Orchestrette; Baltimore Symphony Kaitlin Shaw, CSA; Lindsay Levine, CSA; Orchestra; Philharmonic; NY Pops; Claire Burke, CSA; Felicia Rudolph, CSA; Chicago, Indianapolis, San Francisco, St. Louis, Xavier Rubiano Pittsburgh symphonies; many others.

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Ryan Gohsman to graduate school, he was associate director of Production Stage Manager marketing for Court Theatre in Chicago, and also Westport Country Playhouse debut. Off-Broadway: worked with Goodman Theatre, American Theater A Letter to Harvey Milk (Theatre Row); Hundred Company, Sansculottes Theater Company, and The Days, Mary Jane (NYTW); The Light Years, Antlia Playground Theater. Pneumatica, Detroit, Maple and Vine (Playwrights Horizons); The Death of the Last Black Man…, Westport Country Playhouse Chéri (Signature); Here Lies Love (The Public, also The mission fo Westport Country Playhouse is consultant for the National Theatre, London to enrich, enlighten, and engage the community production); Pretty Filthy (Civilians); DreamWorks through the power of professionally produced Theatricals; Atlantic Theatre Company; Cherry theater worth talking about and the welcoming Lane; Clubbed Thumb; Target Margin; Rattlestick; experience of the Playhouse campus. The Playhouse HERE. Regional: two seasons at Barrington Stage creates this relationship with the community Co. Opera: The Last Hotel (Edinburgh International and provides this experience in multiple ways by Festival, London’s Royal Opera House, St. Ann’s offering: Live theater experiences of the highest Warehouse, Sky Arts TV), Ouroboros Trilogy (Beth quality, under the artistic direction of Mark Lamos, Morrison Projects), anatomy theater, Thumbprint from May through November; educational and (also LA Opera), Sumeida’s Song (PROTOTYPE). community engagement events and opportunities to further explore issues presented by the work on Michelle Lauren Tuite stage; the New Works Circle, a program dedicated Assistant Stage Manager to the discovery, development, and production of Westport Country Playhouse: The Understudy, new live theatrical works; special performances Grounded. Off Broadway/NYC: A Letter to Harvey Milk and programs for students and teachers with (LDK Productions), CAUGHT (The Play Company), extensive curriculum support material; Script in Charlotte’s Web (TheatreworksUSA), Too Heavy For Hand play readings throughout the year to deepen Your Pocket (Roundabout Theatre Underground), relationships with audiences and artists alike; Jericho (Abingdon Theatre Company). Regional: the renowned Woodward Internship Program Beautiful Star (Triad Stage); Fireflies, Disgraced, during the summer months for aspiring theater and Our Town (Long Wharf Theatre); Tenderly, professionals; Family Festivities presentations The Rosemary Clooney Musical, Calendar Girls, from November through April to delight young South Pacific, , and La Cage Aux Folles and old alike and to promote reading through live (Ivoryton Playhouse). theater; and the beautiful and historic Playhouse campus open for enjoyment and community Michael Barker events year-round. In 2017, The Playhouse proudly Managing Director named the Broadway Method Academy as its Michael Barker joined Westport Country Playhouse resident conservatory program, training hundreds in 2016 from Mill Valley, CA, where he was the of young performers annually. The value of the managing director of Marin Theatre Company. Westport Country Playhouse to all it touches Previously, Barker was general manager of Laguna is immeasurable. Playhouse in Laguna Beach, CA, and managing director for the Los Angeles classical theater For This Production ensemble The Antaeus Company. Before moving Assistant Set Designers: Joo Kim, Anton Volovsek to California, Barker was associate managing Assistant Costume Designer: Asa Benally director at Yale Repertory Theatre and managing Assistant Lighting Designer: Breana McGlockling director of Yale Summer Cabaret, and produced Sound Board Mixer: Emery Roth the first annual Carlotta Festival of New Plays. He Production Assistants: Page Tazewell, Katie Cecil was Seattle Repertory Theatre’s 2008 Managing Cairns, and Elisabeth Barnes-Flint Director Fellow. Barker holds an MFA in theater Props Assistants: Gabby Giacomo, Sean Sanford management from Yale School of Drama and an Props Interns: Jennifer DiDonado, Claire Brady MBA from Yale School of Management. At Yale, Fight Captain: Ceasar F. Barajas he was the recipient of the Daniel and Helene Dance Captain: Jermaine Rowe Sheehan Scholarship for theater management and a Kosciusko Scholarship for outstanding Man of La Mancha rehearsed at Chelsea Studios at students of Polish descent. He served on the Yale TheatreWorks USA School of Management Alumni Advisory Board. He is a member of the inaugural class of artEquity diversity, equity and inclusion facilitators. Prior

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PREMIERE CIRCLE PRODUCER ($100,000 & ABOVE) Joan & Joel Smilow Mr. Arthur C. Tauck, Jr. Howard J. Aibel* Nancy & David Tillson Cathy and Colin Walker Jane & Richard B. Wolf Eunice & David Bigelow Foundation PATRON ($5,000–$9,999) Stephen Corman Anonymous (2) AMBASSADOR ($50,000–$99,999) Molly Alger and Jay Dirnberger FRIENDS CIRCLE Burry Fredrik Foundation Aquarion Water Company CHAMPION ($1,000–$1,499) CT Department of Economic & Community The Daphne Seybolt Culpeper Memorial Anonymous (2) Development, Office of the Arts Foundation, Inc. Jim Arata Michele & Marc Flaster The Neil & Sandra DeFeo Family Foundation The Ashken Family Lucille Lortel Foundation Jodi & Bill Felton Shelly and Drummond Bell Newman’s Own Foundation Edith Hall Friedheim Jean H. Bennett The Shubert Foundation, Inc. The Goss Family Seth and Vani Birnbaum Barbara and John Streicker Stan Green Prill and Mike Boyle Sandra Wagenfeld Jacobson/Moskovitz Family Aileen & Jeffrey Brill KeyBank SPONSOR ($25,000–$49,999) Jack & Amy Gillis Lucinda E. Knuth Harold Gordon Bank of America Laura & Dale Kutnick Malcolm Gordon & Nan Miller Connecticut Health and Lux Bond & Green Jane Green & Ian Warburg Education Facilities Authority Mr. & Mrs. Robert Pizzella Ms. Shirley Gura Anna Czekaj-Farber Nancy & Roger Sachs The Harry Donenfeld Foundation Kate & Bob Devlin, The Devlin Foundation Ann Sheffer & Bill Scheffler Marta Jo Lawrence Fidelity Investments Mark Manus Jerome Levy Foundation SUSTAINER ($3,000–$4,999) Harold Matzner Judy & Scott Phares Robert & Jan Anestis Peter & Wendy McCabe Pitney Bowes, Inc. Andrea & Theron Hoffman Kimberly Mullen & Brian Foster Barbara & John Samuelson Richard & Terry Lubman The Navon Family Roz & Bud Siegel John & Sharon Miller Jeff Peterson Marietta Battaglia White Anne & Chuck Niemeth Patrice C. Peugnet (In honor of Actor The Winston Foundation Westport Young Woman’s League Christopher Walken) PARTNER ($15,000–$24,999) CONTRIBUTOR ($1,500–$2,999) David & Mindy Pritchard BNY Mellon Anonymous Vivian Rosenberg Cohen & Wolf, P.C. Ballet Etudes (in honor of Nannette Vallas) Paul & Jeanne Russ CT Humanities Bruce and Susan Barnet Deborah Shear Robert & Susan Doran Sharon and Stephen Baum Cleo & Jon Sonneborn Michael Klingher & Lindsay Schine Dr. & Mrs. Garry Boxer Michael and Bridget Streicker Darlene Krenz Arthur Cohen Vincent and Connie VonZwehl Mary Ellen & Jim Marpe Rebecca Colin Sylvia Wall and Pamela Wall National Endowment for the Arts Elwood & Catherine Davis Sara & John Walsh Essex Financial Services Janet & Fred Plotkin / Adolph & Ruth LEADER ($750–$999) Schnurmacher Foundation Mr. R. Bradford Evans on behalf of PTM Gloria & Franchon Smithson Carol & Peter Seldin Charitable Foundation Joan Ross Sorkin Johnna G. Torsone & John McKeon George A. & Grace L. Long Foundation, Bank of America, N.A., and Alan Joan Waricha BENEFACTOR ($10,000–$14,999) Barbara & Greg Joseph SUPPORTER ($350–$749) Athena & Daniel Adamson Steven & Yvette Kohn Anonymous (4) Galia & Adam Clemens Mitzi Lyman & David Geronemus Actors’ Equity Foundation, Inc. Amy & Richard Corn Marianna & Mark McCall Daniel Aibel and David Pittman The David & Geri Epstein Private Foundation Bill & Sue Mitchell Dr. & Mrs. Todd E. Arnold Katia Friend Marjorie Neville & Michael Jacoby Nadine Baccellieri Fiona Garland & Andrew Bentley Allen and Lorraine Noveck Livia Barndollar Jessie A. Gilbert Alan & Frances Offenberg Ruth Barrett Philip & Lisa Green Rina & Howard Pianko Helen Martin Block Joyce Hergenhan The Richenthal Foundation Deborah Harper Bono & Girome Bono Carole Hochman Steve & Frances Rowland Robert Bourguignon and Brandon Bone Beryl & Roger Leifer Susan & Gene Shanks Susan & Michael Boyar Thomas & Paula McInerney Tom & Helen Sheehy Meagan Burns-Min Teresa Nardozzi Patti & Rick Slavin James and Janey Campbell Northwestern Mutual Financial Network, The Lyla & Peter Steenbergen, MD Andrea & David Cross Bender Financial Group Catherine & Chris Stroup Ellen Petrino Paal and Roseann Elfstrum Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth J. Seel Susan S. Ellis

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FRIENDS CIRCLE SUPPORTER ($350–$749) CONT’D Joyce N. Fensterstock Thomas C. Bloch Gael Thomas Ficken & Barry E. Ficken Bettina & David Fiore David & Laurie Boczar Thomas & Anita Field Mary & Frode Foss-Skiftesvik Chris & Laurie Bradbury Sue & Steve Fields Stephanie Ercegovic & Brian Foster Edward & Jane Brennan Michelle Fitzpatrick Sally & Bob Galan Wesley Broderick Carolaline Flaumenhaft Joe Godfrey & Keith Halstead Bernard Shapiro and Michele Brown Heidi & Robert Flicker Ellen Graff & Martin Fox Nancy Brown Tim & Pam Foarde William Gratz & James Bruno Mr. & Mrs. Matthew R. Bud Claire Ford Dorothy & Fred Haas Lois & Robert Bull Howard Forman Scott & Beth Hensel Michael Burnette Marguerite Bunny Franco Alexa Kantgias Craig & Caroline Lazzara Michael E. Loeb The greatest use of life Jane Malakoff Virginia and Timothy Millhiser is to spend it for something Howard & Ginger Morgan that will outlast it. Barry Nalebuff and Helen Kauder William Nolan WILLIAM JAMES Douglas Ormond Karen & Michael Parrella Mr. David Caddis Doris Fuertes Joan Phillips Maureen and Rick Campbell Frank & Jean Gallinelli Playhouse Staff Arlene Carpenter Hilary & Will Gibson Josephine A. Raimondi Katelin Carr and Bevan Moore Jack Gilpin & Ann McDonough Susanne Risoli Nancy Catalano Givenik.com Eva & Paul Rosenblatt (in memory of Paul & Lois Cathcart Carol Gluckman A.R. Gurney) Benjamin Chalfin Betty and Joshua Goldberg Christopher E.G. Saxe Peter & Megan Chenot Susan & Laurence Goldfein Maureen & Edwin Schloss Mrs. Eleanor Cilo Arnold Grant Rick and Becky Scott Dupre Cocrhan Jill Greenberg & Mitchell Lester George & Madeline Shepherd John and Cindy Cody Amy & Michael Greenberg Allen & Leslie Silberman John & Eva-Lena Cody Mimi & Chuck Greenlee Isaac & Ellen Sonsino Yvette Cole James Haag and Todd Samburg Benson & Betty Srere Kevin & Pamela Collins Matt and Kristen Haines Ron & Maryann Stell Jacquelyn Conlon Gladys Handelman Ricki & Stanley Stern Kerry Connell J. Handschumacher Christian & Eva Trefz Dr. & Mrs. Arturo Constantiner Laura and Ted Harlan Mr. & Mrs. Lee D. Vincent Kerry Cooper Roni & Howard Harmetz Barbara Wojtusik (in honor of James Corgel Peter Harrar Michael Barker and Mark Lamos) Shelagh & John Corporon Kevin Harrington Richard & Beth Zucker Paige Couture Aleta Mitchell & Thomas Haskell FRIEND ($150–$349) John Crocco Patricia Hayman Anonymous (6) Christopher Cunningham Marion Heiss Martha & Lawrence Aasen Mr. & Mrs. Robert Dannies Rebecka Hekmat Elizabeth Albertini Carol & Joel Davis Sophie Hekmat Durelle Alexander Patricia & Raymond Dayan Nancy Herzog Mr. & Mrs. Lynn Austin Patricia Delano Louise Kerz Hirschfeld Bob & Barbara Bachner Wendy DiChristina Joyce & Robert Hobbie J. Edward Backus Jo-Ann Dierks Beth Hochhauser Harold & Bernicestine Bailey Joe and Emily DiMiceli Mr. Leigh Hoffman Mr. & Mrs. Henry Banach Jill and Alex Dimitrief Heather Hopkins James R. Barker Gina & Peter Dodge Virginia Hyde Stacy and Howard Bass Alexander Dunev Bob & Bev Iannucci Debra & David Bauer Deborah Dyer Arthur and Mary Ann Jacobs Rebecca & Michael Bellora Frank & Ellen Estes Barbara James Michelle Benner Barbara Ettinger Estelle & Charles Jones Rick & Totney Benson Joanna Exacoustos Nancy Kail Geoffrey Beringer Lee Ann Fallet Honorable Edward & Renie Karazin James Berner & Sheila Ward Mr. & Mrs. Stuart Farber Anna Karidas Nancy & John Billington Dina Ferdman Janet & Leo Karl III Virginia Ferrari Mrs. Mickey Karlan

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FRIENDS CIRCLE FRIEND ($150–$349) CONT’D Michael and Elizabeth Kessler Jolande Niedekker Lida Saw Daniel Kiely & Gretchen Johanns Mr. & Mrs. Scott E. Niven Mark Schiff Lynda Kinney Robert Nixon Barbara and Greg Schindler Michele and Mark Kolier Marna and Stuart Novack MD Lois G. Schine Anatole & Rosaria Konstantin Carole Novick Howie Schmuck Phyllis & Adam Kurzer Salvador & Audrey Novoa Josef & Vicki Schoell Michael Kyle Dacey and Dennis O’Connor Laurie & Charles Schott Warren & Lisa Lagerloef Fran & Ed O’Neill Tricia and Matthew Schwartz Kamala Lakhdhir Alexander Orthwein Jean T. Sells Leona Lamberson Samantha Owades Jennifer Seymour Barbara Lampugnale Penny Palmer Jerome and Catherine Shereshewsky Stephen and Lisa Lawrence Don & Alice Parker Larry & Ruth Sherman The Lederer Family Parks Drivers Edith D. Sillman Gordon and Lynne Leibowitz Dr. & Mrs. Michael F. Parry Ms. Eileen Simonson Ms. Leona R. Lepofsky Penny Pearlman Cheryl P. Slater and James A. Slater, MD Marcia Levy Joan Pendergast Sabina Slavin Doree & Robert Levy John and Elizabeth Peto Sara Lev and Michael Sloan Lillian Lewis Zelie & Andy Pforzheimer Alison and Mark Smith Rita & Stephen Lewis Steve Pincus Kathleen Smith Amber Llorens Dr. and Mrs. Warren R. Pistey Jenny Sozzi Kathy & Wayne Locurto Louis Pittocco Peary & Patti Spaght Tom Lombardi Susan and Richard Plutzer Ken Staffey Marilyn Lord & James Meisner David and Nicole Pogue David and Gayle Stebbins Arline and Marvin Lubin Anne and Saul Pollack Katina Stefanova William Lutkins & Julie Oh John and Kim Porio Sybil & Harold Steinberg James & Margot Mabie Dr. Joan Poster and Dennis Poster (in honor of Warren Steinberg M.D. Mrs. Mary Makowka Meredith Poster) Steve Stockman Peter and Carol Maloney Julie Potack Kristine Story Susan Manicke Carol Quinn & David Mayo Fran & Martin Stuttman Rebecca Martin and John Donoghue Juan Alejandro Ramos Tara Tanzer Richard & Cora Martin Ms. Marilyn Rappoport Jenny Taubman Donald and Amanda Martocchio Lou & Paula Reens Margaret & Alan K. Temple Carolina Mata-Tovar Jim Reesman Nancy Thiel Mr. & Mrs. David S. Matlow Jay & Joyce Riemer Elva & John Thompson Fern & Joseph Mayer Mr. & Mrs. Dominic Rispoli Charlotte and Cooper Tirola Carole & Anthony Mazzarella Megan Robbins Chrissy Toeplitz Teresa and Joseph McCartin William & Irene McCutchen The theatre was created to Leigh & Edward McDermott Jessica McEntee tell people the truth about Andy McGrade Beryl Meiner & Richard Carleton life and the social situation. Nadine Melniker STELLA ADLER Maria Mendoza-Smith Albert Messina Betty & Dan Roberts Laurence and Nikki Untermeyer Lois & Richard Miller Donna Rodenburg Joseph Valerio Elizabeth Molinelli Bruce and Mary Rogers Irma & Henri Van Dam Jack & Lu Morris Cynthia and John Rohrs Ralph & Maria Ventura Robert Morris Daniel Romanello Sarah Vigoda Stanley Morten Benjamin Romney Ms. Olga Vladimirsky Kathleen Mufson Mr. & Mrs. Marc Rosen Donna Volpitta Eric & Adrienne Muntzenberger Howard and Abby Ross Alison Wachstein Tanya Murphy Mr. & Mrs. Michael F. Ross John and Pamela Waesche Ken Nagin & Laurie Brown-Nagin Patricia & Anthony Rotella Janine Waldman` Mark Neidig Dr. & Mrs. Steven Rothenberg Norma & Paul Warner Helen & Melvin Neisloss Ann & Donald Rully Carol & John Waxman Anurag Nema Katherine Ryden Mary & Charles Welch Kenneth Ng Anita Sabatino Brian Welker Richard and Alyona Nicholson Elizabeth & Matt Salem Patricia Wentworth & Mark Fagan Mr. & Mrs. Mark Nickson Molly Sargent

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Eden and Joel Werring Michelle Wiles Cynthia Wood Marion & Joe Wertheim C. Webb Williams & Sallie Walter Williams Richard and Robin Woods James White & Ann Jacobi-White Caroline Williams Dan Woog Myrtis & Roger White Sheryl and Tim Williams Suzanne Zelinski Laura and Paul Whitmore Ruth & Alan Winnick Ronni & Fred Zinn Michael Wilens & Carolyn Longacre Paul Wolff and Michael Johnston

SPECIAL GIFTS BRIDGE TO THE FUTURE WOODWARD INTERNSHIP PROGRAM IN-KIND DONATIONS Howard J. Aibel* SPONSORS Asylum Distillery Judy & Scott Phares Howard J. Aibel* BetterITS Barbara & John Samuelson Eunice & David Bigelow Foundation Patricia Blaufuss Joyce Hergenhan Stephen Corman Broken Shed Vodka Roz & Bud Siegel Robert & Susan Doran Castle Wines & Spirits Czekaj Artistic Productions Jodi & Bill Felton Greenhook Ginsmiths Lindsay Schine & Michael Klingher Michele & Marc Flaster Hilton Garden Inn Barbara & John Streicker Fiona Garland & Andrew Bentley Bruce & Beth Miller The Goss Family Moffly Media NEW WORKS CIRCLE Angela & Mark Graham / The Graham Newman’s Own Foundation Parks Driving Service Michele Flaster, Chair Foundation of Connecticut Judy & Scott Phares Peter & Carol Seldin FOUNDING MEMBERS Carol & Peter Seldin Westport Inn Howard J. Aibel* Roz & Bud Siegel WSHU Public Radio Stephen Corman Barbara & John Streicker Ania Czekaj-Farber Marietta Battaglia White Sandra & Neil DeFeo Ann Sheffer & Bill Scheffler Kate & Bob Devlin Michele & Marc Flaster FRIENDS Susan Jacobson & David Moskovitz Molly Alger & Jay Dirnberger Judy & Scott Phares Patti & Rick Slavin Barbara & John Samuelson Barbara & John Streicker Johnna G. Torsone & John McKeon ANNUAL MEMBERS Darlene Krenz Terry Nardozzi Roz & Bud Siegel Marietta Battaglia White

All gifts as of August 1, 2018 * Deceased

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MAN OF LA MANCHA 39 BENEFACTOR TABLES PATRON TABLES Eunice & David Bigelow Athena & Daniel Adamson Kate & Robert Devlin BNY Mellon Joyce Hergenhan Ania Czekaj-Farber Barbara & John Samuelson Eagle Ridge Investment Management Barbara & John Streicker Kerry & Maggie Lehnerd-Reilly Lucinda E. Knuth BENEFACTORS Darlene Krenz Robert & Jan Anestis Ellen Petrino Mary Ellen & Jim Marpe Pitney Bowes Judy & Scott Phares Alison & Mark Smith Janet & Fred Plotkin Nancy & David Tillson Roz & Bud Siegel Marietta Battaglia White

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PATRONS SUPPORTERS DONORS Molly Alger & Anonymous (2) Anonymous Jay Dirnberger Nancy A. Brown Athena & Daniel Adamson Deborah Harper Bono Craig & Karen Chodash Leslie Byelas & Cohen & Wolf Roselle & Brian Crombie Ellen B. Lubell Amy & Richard Corn Ed & Lisa Friedland Paige Couture Paige Couture Tanya Futoryan Mary Ellen Gallagher Jon and Melissa Ellis Mary Gladden & Mr. & Mrs. Frank Gallinelli Joanne & Edward Froelich Claire Auckenthaler Howard & Rina Pianko Jessie Gilbert William Gratz & Joan & Larry Sorkin Teresa Nardozzi James Bruno Anne & Chuck Niemeth Lance & Terry Lundberg

Jeffrey Peterson Mitzi Lyman & David Geronemus Doug & Dana Robinson Beryl Meiner & Carol & Peter Seldin Richard Carleton Jill & Evan Shapiro Nicole Nardozzi Lyla Steenbergen Kelle & Jeffrey Ruden Jonathan Young Leslie & Eric Seidman Maria Mendoza-Smith Lee & Susan Vincent

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WCP | BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Barbara K. Streicker, Chair Mark S. Graham HONORARY TRUSTEES ARTIST CIRCLE Michele Flaster, Vice Chair Joyce Hergenhan Elisabeth Morten, Chair A.R. Gurney* Johnna G. Torsone, Vice Chair Carole Hochman Howard J. Aibel* Lynne Meadow Walter Bergen Kenneth Seel, Treasurer James Earl Jones James Naughton Michael Klingher James P. Bradley Carol West Seldin, Secretary Sandra DeFeo Darlene Krenz Richard Slavin, Asst. Secretary Kate Devlin Roger Leifer Robert Devlin Mary Ellen Marpe Robert H. Forrester Athena T. Adamson Teresa Nardozzi Edith Hall Friedheim Harold Bailey, Jr. Ellen H. Petrino Helen Lee Henderson Adam G. Clemens Judy M. Phares Catherine Herman Stephen Corman Janet Plotkin Dan Kail Amy C. Corn Christopher Plummer Bill Mitchell Anna Czekaj-Farber Jake Robards Judith Resnick Ann Sheffer Robert Doran Barbara Samuelson Joel Smilow Katia Friend David Tillson Sharon Sullivan Fiona Garland Marietta Battaglia White John Vaccaro Jessie A. Gilbert Joanne Woodward Steven Wolff Bob Wright WCP | STAFF LEADERSHIP MARKETING MARK LAMOS Artistic Director Cynthia Astmann Graphic Design Director MICHAEL BARKER Managing Director Jennifer Carroll Community and Sales Manager Stephen Emerick Digital Content Manager ARTISTIC Patricia Blaufuss Public Relations Manager David Kennedy Associate Artistic Director Anne Keefe Associate Artist PRODUCTION Bethany Gugliemino Artistic and Management Associate DAVID DREYFOOS Associate Producer/Director of Production Liam Lonegan Directing Fellow RJ Romeo Technical Director/Assoc. Director of Production Laura Silence Family Festivities Coordinator Bruce Miller Company Manager Alexandra Rappaport Associate Company Manager GENERAL MANAGEMENT Anthony Servetas Head Stage Carpenter/Flyman BETH HUISKING General Manager Bob McDevitt Head Electrician/Light Board Operator Geoff Topalian Data Analyst Jon Damast Head Sound/Sound Board Operator Kelly Mikolasy House and Events Manager Jason Thompson Head Shop Carpenter Rich D’Arinzo Facilities Manager Lisa Ficco Wardrobe Supervisor Josh Sinclair Box Office Manager Jess Ploszaj Scenic Artist Eve Lyons Asst. Box Office Manager Aaron Moss Cohen Carpentry/ATD Fellow Jake Krasniewicz Box Office Supervisor; First-Time Subscriber Concierge FINANCE + HUMAN RESOURCES Molly Box Office Associate SHARON BOILINI Director of Finance Kerry Maloney HR and Finance Manager DEVELOPMENT CAROLE SOUTHALL Director of Development Aline O’Connor Associate Director of Development Georgia Sayers Grant Writer Clare Livingston Stephen Corman Development Fellow

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WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGES GENEROUS LEADERSHIP SUPPORT FOR THE 2018 SEASON.

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BNY MELLON WEALTH MANAGEMENT AQUARION WATER COMPANY BNY Mellon Wealth Management is a leading wealth manager. Aquarion Water Company applauds the Westport Country In 2016 it was named by Family Wealth Report as the top U.S. Playhouse for its starring role as one of our area’s most important Private Bank and rated the Top Private Bank for Family Offices by artistic institutions. We also congratulate the public for its Professional Wealth Management magazine. Barron’s ranked it commitment to sustaining not just local cultural resources but the 8th largest U.S. wealth manager in 2016. The firm has more the natural ones as well. With demands on our water supplies than two centuries of experience in providing services to clients growing across our service area, we’ve seen a tremendous who today include financially successful individuals and families, response to our requests for increased conservation. We their family offices and business enterprises, planned giving especially thank all those community members who are now programs, and endowments and foundations. It has nearly $205 limiting outdoor sprinkler irrigation to two times per week billion in total private client assets, as of December 31, 2016, and or less. For many more ideas on conserving water, just visit an extensive network of offices in the U.S. and internationally. aquarionwater.com. And, remember, any time you’re looking for BNY Mellon Wealth Management, which provides investment an alternative to the fine beverages you may be enjoying tonight, management, custody, wealth and estate planning and private Aquarion reminds you that there’s always water. banking services, conducts business through various operating subsidiaries of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation. For more information go to bnymellonwealth.com or follow us on Twitter @BNYMellonWealth.

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FIDELITY INVESTMENTS PITNEY BOWES Fidelity Investments is proud to be a 2017 sponsor of Westport Pitney Bowes is proud to support Westport Country Playhouse as Country Playhouse. Fidelity’s mission is to inspire better futures a sponsor for the Family Festivities series. Pitney Bowes is a global and deliver better outcomes for the customers and businesses we technology company, powering billions of physical and digital serve. We focus on meeting the unique needs of a diverse set of transactions in the connected and borderless world of commerce. customers helping more than 26 million people invest their own Pitney Bowes and the Pitney Bowes Foundation support literacy, life savings. Local investors can access Fidelity’s guidance and education and the diverse community interests of Pitney Bowes investment tools via the web, by telephone, or in person, working employees. We focus our energies on advancing learning and with investment professionals at their local Investor Center. enrichment for students in underserved school districts in an To learn more about Fidelity Investments, visit one of our three effort to help close the academic achievement gap and prepare Fairfield County locations — Stamford, Greenwich, or Fairfield — the future workforce. or call 800-544-9797. Please visit fidelity.com. Fidelity Brokerage Services, Member NYSE, SPIC. 831742.2.0

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2018 CORPORATE CLUB

2018 MEDIA SPONSORS

Moffly Media — publisher of Greenwich, Westport, New Canaan- WSHU is a non-profit, listener-supported group of public radio Darien, Stamford, and athome magazines — celebrates community stations whose mission is to be a unique and independent voice with excellence in design and editorial as well as online content, in our community. Every day, we engage listeners through a custom events and philanthropic partnerships. range of thoughtful programming that includes NPR News, award-winning local news, entertainment and classical music. www.wshu.org.

2018 TECHNOLOGY SPONSOR

2018 IN-KIND SUPPORT

Castle Wine and Spirits is proud to be a Hilton Garden Inn believes that the arts The Westport Inn is well known for its sponsor of Westport Country Playhouse. are the fabric of our society and make contemporary New England hospitality. They have been meeting the needs of a community a better place to live and This boutique hotel offers richly their customers and their community for work. After an evening at the theater, appointed rooms with luxurious more than 20 years. The knowledgeable spend the night at the nearby Hilton bedding and onsite dining. Visit staff can assist you find something to Garden Inn Norwalk and discover why www.wesportinn.com or enjoy from their more than 1500 wines, they were voted Best Hotel 7 years in a call 203-557-8124 to receive the hundreds of spirits and an extensive row. Free shuttles to the Playhouse. Visit Playhouse’s preferred rate. selection of craft beers. Make Castle at norwalkhilton.com or call 203-523-4000. 1439 Post Road East your one-stop wine and beverage shop.

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PRODUCTION PARTNERS PRODUCTION SPONSOR STEPHEN CORMAN CAROLE HOCHMAN AND STAN GREEN

MADE POSSIBLE WITH SUPPORT FROM CT HUMANITIES WE’LL KEEP SCARY THINGS OUT OF THE DRINKING WATER. (YOU TAKE CARE OF THE MONSTERS UNDER THE BED.)

THE BACKYARD. THE KITCHEN.HER BEDROOM. The environment is not just some far off place. It’s freshly washed sheets, your mother’s shoulder, and the glass of water on the nightstand. And it’s why the Natural Resources Defense Council is working to protect the places that are most important to each and every one of us. For easy ways to help protect your own environment, go to NRDC.org.

Because the environment is everywhere. WCP | ABOUT THE PLAYHOUSE

We hope to make your experience here as enjoyable as possible. If you need assistance, please notify the house manager or a member of the staff.

Westport Country Playhouse 25 Powers Court | Westport, CT 06880 BOX OFFICE: (203) 227-4177 westportplayhouse.org

Photo: Robert Benson

BOX OFFICE HOURS EMERGENCY CONTACT 12PM–6PM Tuesday–Friday (and through Babysitters or other emergency contacts may show time on performance days) call the house manager during the performance 11AM–8:30PM Saturday performance days at (203) 227-5137 x196. Please have contacts provide the location of your seats. 11AM–3:30PM Sunday performance days CLOSED Other Saturdays, Sundays, Mondays CONCESSIONS Tickets available online 24 hours a day: A variety of food and beverages are available westportplayhouse.org for purchase at the Playhouse concessions stand on the orchestra level of the lobby. ELECTRONIC DEVICES Beverages are only allowed in the theater in For the enjoyment of all patrons, please silence a souvenir glass purchased at concessions. all cell phones, pagers, and electronic devices No food is allowed in the theater. while in the theater. If you use your phone during intermission, please remember to ACCESSIBILITY silence it for the remainder of the performance. A number of accessible seats for patrons with ASSISTED LISTENING DEVICES mobility requirements are available throughout the theater. A limited number of infrared assisted listening devices are available from the box office to aid If you require an accessible seat, please contact in your enjoyment of the performance. the house manager.

PHOTOGRAPHY The use of photographic or recording devices The Playhouse is a non-profit theater, is strictly prohibited. and can only survive with the PLEASE NOTE: The audience may be generous support of donors like you. photographed by Playhouse staff for archival Please make your gift today. and publicity purposes. If you prefer that your likeness not appear in Playhouse materials, Contact Aline O’Connor please notify the house manager. [email protected] | 203 571 1138

2018 RESTAURANT PARTNERS

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