Thursday Evening, November 21, 2019, at 7:00 Isaac Stern Auditorium / Ronald O. Perelman Stage

presents

78th Concert Season Let ’Em Eat Cake

Music by

Lyrics by

Book by GEORGE S. KAUFMAN and MORRIE RYSKIND

Concert Script Adaptation by Laurence Maslon

MasterVoices Orchestra of St. Luke’s

Ted Sperling, Conductor and Director

PLEASE SWITCH OFF YOUR CELL PHONES AND OTHER ELECTRONIC DEVICES. Andrew Palermo, Musical Staging Tracy Christensen, Costume Coordinator Maarten Cornelis, Lighting Designer Scott Lehrer, Sound Designer Gregory R. Covert, Stage Manager

Bryce Pinkham John P. Wintergreen performance underwritten by Frank Skillern

Mikaela Bennett Mary Wintergreen performance underwritten by Sarah Billinghurst Solomon

David Pittu* Kruger performance underwritten by the Faith Geier Artist Initiative

Kevin Chamberlin Alexander Throttlebottom performance underwritten by The Fund for Musical Theater

Christopher Fitzgerald Narrator/Tweedledee performance underwritten by the Hargrove Pierce Foundation

Fred Applegate Francis X. Gilhooley Bill Buell General Adam Snookfield, U.S.A. Chuck Cooper Matthew Arnold Fulton Lewis J. Stadlen Louis Lippman

Stephen Eisdorfer Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Edsel Romero* Lieutenant Madelyn Miyashita Nursemaid

Supreme Court Justices: Lowell Accola, Jan Constantine, Ron Lee Meyers, Ken Moore, Vivianne Potter, Robert P. Rainier, Lisa Rubin, Mark Spergel

Diplomats: Colton Beach, Jose Guzman, Robert A. James, Bruce C. Johnson, John Patrick Sabatos, Mark Sullivan, Ronny Viggiani, Stephen Weber, Edward Yim

Interpreters: Miriam Baron, Gerilyn Brewer, Nicole Coffaro, Mary Fan, Becca Hare, Joan B. Harris, Nina Hennessey, Paula Mermelstein, Jill Melanie Wirth

Fashion Show Models: Jennifer Molly Bell, Lauren Tucker Cross, Lindsey Gaynor, Lauren Jiang, Samantha Kahn, Madelyn Miyashita Fashion show wardrobe courtesy of Rent the Runway.

*Faith Geier Artists

Tonight’s performance will be performed with a 15-minute intermission.

Supertitles are provided by Digital Tech Services, and are underwritten by Susan L. Baker and Adèle K. Talty.

Let ‘Em Eat Cake (Concert Version) is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com This performance is funded in part by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; The Geier Foundation; the Ira and Leonore Gershwin Philanthropic Fund; the Hargrove Pierce Foundation; and The Roger Rees Fund for Musical Theater, as well as:

Let ’Em Eat Cake

ACT I Overture Tweedledee for President (Ensemble) The Supreme Court (Supreme Court) Union Square (Kruger and Ensemble) Comes the Revolution (Throttlebottom and Ensemble) Mine (Wintergreen, Mary and Ensemble) On and On and On (Ensemble) Finale Act I: I’ve Brushed My Teeth (Lieutenant, General Snookfield) On and On and On (reprise) All the Mothers of the Nation (Mary and Women of the Ensemble) Let ‘Em Eat Cake (Wintergreen and )

Intermission

ACT II Opening Act II: Blue, Blue, Blue (Wintergreen and Ensemble) The League of Nations (Mary, Wintergreen, Kruger, Diplomats, Interpreters, Army) Up and At ’Em (Supreme Court and Ensemble) The Trial of Throttlebottom (Company) The Trial of Wintergreen (Company) Hanging Throttlebottom in the Morning (Lieutenant and Ensemble) Finale Ultimo (Entire Company) Notes ON THE PROGRAM 1933 was not a good year. In the recognized. During the run of Of Thee depths of the Great Depression, one I Sing, Throttlebottom had become so out of every four adults was out of beloved by the public that his name work. A series of vast dust storms entered the language as a synonym for devastated the heartland of the United a harmless incompetent in public office. States. In Germany, Adolf Hitler became Chancellor. (On the plus side, Wintergreen and his confederates are Prohibition was finally repealed.) voted out of office in favor of John P. Tweedledee. After the Supreme Court Against this dark background, the refuses to throw out the election results, creators of the Pulitzer prize-win- the politicians open a shop selling blue ning musical —George shirts designed by Mary Wintergreen. Gershwin, music; Ira Gershwin, lyrics; When the business fails, they decide and George S. Kaufman and Morrie to start a revolution. The one thing Ryskind, book—decided to write a they have a lot of is blue shirts, and sequel. The original show had sati- Wintergreen explains, “You can’t have rized the American political system, a revolution without shirts.” (In 1933, telling the story of John P. Wintergreen, it was not yet clear how terribly unfun- who runs for president of the United ny the brownshirts of Germany and States—and wins—on a platform of the blackshirts of Italy would prove to Love, promising to marry the winner be.) With the help of the army (who of a national beauty contest. Although has been bribed by being offered the it contained some biting and cyni- war debt), Wintergreen seizes President cal satire, the show had maintained a Tweedledee and declares a dictator- lighthearted mood. Let ’Em Eat Cake, ship of the proletariat. He is in turn mirroring the year of its birth, would deposed by the radical rabble-rouser prove to be much darker and more Kruger. Before the end of the eve- problematic. Like its predecessor, it sat- ning, the audience will see the Supreme irized politics and the Supreme Court. Court in chains, most of the main To this it added commentary on the characters condemned to be executed, army, Fascists, radicals, the League Throttlebottom with his head in the of Nations, businessmen, fashion, and guillotine, and the military threatening even baseball. to take control of the country.

Let ’Em Eat Cake featured many ele- Musically, the show was very ambi- ments that were familiar to audiences tious. As he would in his next score, from the earlier musical. It reprised , George Gershwin was “Wintergreen for President,” “Of Thee aiming at a creation which used the I Sing,” and the theme song of the language of Broadway but the formal Supreme Court. And many charac- complexity and structure of an . ters returned, reenacted by the same Music and dialogue were integrat- actors who had starred in Of Thee I ed, and the music carried the action. Sing—President and Mrs. Wintergreen, He drew on wide-ranging influences the Supreme Court, and especially including Handel, Schubert, Gilbert Alexander Throttlebottom, the hap- and Sullivan, military marches, Yiddish less vice president whom no one ever music, and the blues. The opening number was a reprise of “Wintergreen and mirthless, and considerably less for President” from the earlier musical. amusing. . . It is not the hearty, guffaw- This song already had incorporated ing burlesque that began the legend.” “Tammany,” The Sidewalks of New Beyond the dark subject matter, there York” and “A Hot Time in the Old were several complaints. There was no Town.” Tweedledee’s campaign song love interest. The second act was staged made use of “Dixie,” “The Battle Hymn entirely in shades of blue—and while of the Republic,” “Hail Columbia,” this elegantly reflected the plot, it was and “Over There,” as well. And these tedious to look at. two complex songs were juxtaposed against each other in counterpoint. The main problem, however, was the sophistication of the music. Reviewers Of Thee I Sing had already featured didn’t quite know what to make of it. an unusual amount of counterpoint, “For all I know,” said the critic John but Let ’Em Eat Cake took this much Anderson, the music “may be great further. Gershwin said, “I’ve written stuff, but you can’t wet a whistle with most of the music for this show contra- it, or take it out for dancing in the puntally, and it is that very insistence streets.” The Catholic World suggested on the sharpness of a form that gives that the musical would be more appro- my music the acid touch it has—which priately reviewed by a music critic rath- paints the words of the lyrics, and is in er than someone from the drama desk. keeping with the satire of the piece.” Explaining his reliance on counter- After ninety performances, Let ’Em Eat point by turning to its greatest creator, Cake closed, and it was never revived. he added, “I feel that Bach will still Only one piece, the love song “Mine,” live when everyone later than Bach earned a place outside the show; it was has been centuries forgotten—because recorded by and Bing there is the logic and the wit and the Crosby. (This song derived from an solidity of scientific form in everything exercise Gershwin had written when he wrote.” he was taking lessons in counterpoint.) For years much of the music and book When the show opened out of town in were believed to be lost, although there Boston, it was one of the year’s hottest were a few attempts at reconstruction, tickets: a pair of opening night tick- but in 1978 the composer’s handwritten ets sold for the huge sum of $17.50. notes were discovered in the Library An estimated two hundred audience of Congress. From this, the Broadway members came up from for scholar John McGlinn reconstructed a the occasion. Reviews were warm. The detailed vocal score, which was then Traveler called it “a brilliant successor orchestrated by Russell Warner, draw- to its famous predecessor,” and added ing on the memories of people who had “the smart audience ate every crumb been involved in the original production. with enthusiastic relish.” Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas It opened in New York on Oct 21, became an advocate of the work, which 1933. The New York reviews were he conducted in a concert performance more mixed. New York Times critic in 1987 at the Brooklyn Academy. Brooks Atkinson praised it as, “a wild, “Let ’Em Eat Cake has operatic dimen- taut, witty, pessimistic bludgeoning of sions,” he said. “You can hear Porgy Knavish politics.” But he added, “After and Bess emerging from the musical a hilarious first act it becomes merciless textures. The score is so deep and rich that it is impossible to comprehend and Bess. But George Gershwin was fully with just one hearing.” perhaps equally proud of it. Its music, he said, was his “claim to legitimacy.” Let ’Em Eat Cake, virtually unheard since 1933 has certainly not followed By Janet B. Pascal, MasterVoices the same path as the triumphant Porgy Writer-in-Residence

THE Artists TED SPERLING, Conductor Ted Sperling is celebrating his sev- and La Voix Humaine starring Audra enth season as Artistic Director of McDonald. Stage direction includes MasterVoices. He won Tony and world premieres of Red Eye of Love, Drama Desk Awards for his orches- The Other Josh Cohen, See What I trations of The Light in the Piazza, Wanna See, Striking 12, and Charlotte: for which he was also music direc- Life? Or Theater?, and a revival of tor. Other Broadway credits include Lady in the Dark. Recent gala per- rapturously received revivals of My formances include with Fair Lady, Fiddler on the Roof, The Vanessa Williams, The Making of A King and I, and ; Guys Chorus Line with Zachary Quinto, The and Dolls, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Pirates of Penzance with , , How to Succeed in Cabaret with Anne Hathaway, Song Business Without Really Trying, My of Norway with , She Loves Favorite Year, and Sunday in the Park Me with , and Lady with George. Off-Broadway credits in the Dark with . Mr. include A Man of No Importance, A Sperling received the 2006 Ted Shen New Brain, Saturn Returns, and Floyd Family Foundation Award for lead- Collins. Opera work includes two NYC ership in musical theater, headed the premieres with MasterVoices by com- Music Theater Initiative at The Public poser : 27 starring Theater, and is is training the next gen- Stephanie Blythe, and The Grapes of eration of theater musicians at NYU. Wrath, starring Nathan Gunn; Dido TV: SNL, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. and Aeneas starring Kelli O’Hara; Visit tedsperling.net.

LAURENCE MASLON, Concert Script Adaptation Laurence Maslon is celebrating his 25th writer and coproducer of the American year as an arts professor at Tisch’s Masters documentary, Sammy Davis, Graduate Acting Program, where he’s Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me, broadcast on also the associate chair. He is the host PBS earlier this year. He edited the and producer of the weekly radio series, Library of America’s acclaimed edition Broadway to Main Street for the NPR- of George S, Kaufman plays, Kaufman affiliate station WPPB-FM, and the & Co. Broadway Comedies. His most series just won the ASCAP Foundation recent book is the companion volume Award for Outstanding Radio to Come From Away, and he’s written Broadcast/Internet Program. He is the a dozen other books on the American musical theater as well as articles for The New Yorker, and . , Washington Post,

BRYCE PINKHAM, John P. Wintergreen Broadway: A Gentleman’s Guide to The Get Down, Proven Innocent, Love and Murder (Tony, Drama Desk, Instinct, Blindspot, The Goodwife, Grammy Nominations), The Heidi Person of Interest. Countries visited: Chronicles (Outer Critics, Drama 22 and counting. Co-Founder of www. League Nomination), Ghost, Bloody zaraaina.org. BA: Boston College, Bloody Andrew Jackson, Holiday Inn MFA in Acting and bio writing in the (no nominations, but people said they third person: Yale School of Drama. really liked them.) TV: Mercy Street, Follow: @theBrycecapades

MIKAELA BENNETT, Mary Wintergreen Mikaela Bennett is a graduate of The Acquanetta in a new opera composed and is celebrated as by Michael Gordon. In the concert hall a singer and actress for her work Mikaela has performed with some of on stage and in the concert hall. In the world’s leading orchestras and in 2019 Mikaela was honored with a 2019 made her return to the BBC Proms ‘ Award for Emerging which was broadcast live on British TV. Artists’. On stage, Mikaela made her Mikaela appeared as Maria in a concert professional debut starring as Penelope performance of with in The Golden Apple at City Center the Orchestra at the 2018 Encores! Mikaela starred as Maria in BBC Proms, has performed with the West Side Story at the Lyric Opera of under Leonard and in the title role in Rodgers Slatkin, the Philadelphia Orchestra & Hammerstein’s Cinderella at the under Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the San MUNY. Mikaela originated the role Francisco Symphony Orchestra and of Norma in Dick Scanlan and Carmel Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra Dean’s new musical Renascence in under Michael Tilson Thomas. Mikaela and at the Prototype has also appeared as a soloist at the Festival she originated the title role of Kennedy Center and .

DAVID PITTU, Kruger David Pittu is a two-time Tony nom- and Outer Critics’ Circle nominations inee, for his work in Hal Prince’s for his work Off-Broadway, and the LoveMusik and the Mark Twain/ St Clair Bayfield Award for his work comedy Is He Dead? Other in Twelfth Night at the Delacorte with Broadway credits include The Front Anne Hathaway and Audra McDonald. Page, The Coast of Utopia, Never Other Off-Broadway highlights include Gonna Dance and the upcoming Girl What’s That Smell: The Music of Jacob from the North Country, which trans- Sterling, (for which he also wrote the fers this spring after a sold-out run book and lyrics, music by Randy Redd; last year at the Public. Earlier this Outer Critics’ Circle nominations for year he appeared with MasterVoices Best Off-Broadway Musical and Best in Lady in the Dark at City Center. Actor in a Musical), Equivocation He has received Drama Desk, Lortel (MTC), The Heir Apparent (CSC), City Center/Encores! revivals of Of Thee I HBO’s upcoming The Plot Against Sing, Bells Are Ringing, It’s a Bird, It’s America. David is also a prolific audio- a Plane...It’s Superman, and . book narrator and received the Best Film and TV credits include Peter Male Solo Performance Jackson’s King Kong, all the Law for The Goldfinch. Other MasterVoices & Order series, Damages, House of concerts: The Firebrand of Florence, Of Cards, and much more, including Thee I Sing.

KEVIN CHAMBERLIN, Alexander Throttlebottom Kevin Chamberlin has been nominated Road to Perdition, Taking Woodstock, for 3 : Horton in , Suspect Zero, Christmas with the , and Uncle Fester in The Kranks TV: A Series of Unfortunate Addams Family. Other Broadway cred- Events, Modern Family, , Grace its include: Disaster, The Ritz, Chicago, and Frankie and Bertram on Disney Triumph of Love, My Favorite Year. Channel’s Jessie! Film: Die Hard with A Vengeance,

CHRISTOPHER FITZGERALD, Narrator/Tweedledee Broadway: Waitress (Tony nomina- Saturday Night (Second Stage. Drama tion; Outer Critics’ Circle Award and Desk nomination), Gutenberg! The winner for best Musical! (Actors’ Playhouse), Observe featured actor in a musical), An Act The Sons Of Ulster… (Lincoln Center), Of God, The Merchant Of Venice, Die Fledermaus (). Finian’s Rainbow (Tony, Drama Desk, Series regular on SyFy’s Happy!, Outer Critics Circle nominations), Netflix’s Godless, DirecTV’s Almost Young Frankenstein (Tony, Drama There, WB’s Twins. Starred in film, Girl Desk, Outer Critics Circle nomina- Most Likely, opposite Kristen Wiig. tions), original cast, AMOUR Other TV: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Drama Desk nomination), Chicago. (recurring), Blindspot, Elementary, The Off-Broadway: The Winter’s Tale and Good Wife, NBC Pilot Next Caller. The Cripple Of Inishmaan (Public),

FRED APPLEGATE, Francis X. Gilhooley Broadway: The Ferryman (Uncle Pat), Old Globe, St. Louis Rep, Guthrie Wicked (Wizard), Tuck Everlasting (Resident Artist, 3 years, 13 produc- (Joe), The Last Ship (Fr. O’Brien), La tions). Recent television: Crashing, Cage aux Folles (Ms. Renaud), Billions, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, (Msgr. O’Hara), Young Frankenstein Person of Interest; series regular: (The Hermit), (Max, Newhart, FM, Life and Stuff, Woops!, Broadway and London), Sound of and Nine to Five; recurring: Night Music (Max). Fanny! at Encores! and Court, Cosby and Growing Pains; also: Happiness at Lincoln Center. National Will and Grace, Dr. Quinn Medicine Tours: Wicked, , The Woman, ER, Seinfeld, Touched by Producers, Beauty and the Beast. an Angel, Northern Exposure… and Regional Theaters: Alliance, Mark many more. He is married to Cherie Taper Forum, Geffen Playhouse, Sprosty, Liturgy Director at the Shrine of St. Frances Cabrini, dedicated to have three children: Ben, Meredith the patron saint of immigrants. They and Ethan.

BILL BUELL, General Adam Snookfield, U.S.A. Bill Buell’s Broadway credits include: and Twelfth Night. Film and television Ink, Cyrano, The History Boys, Inherit includes: 7 Seconds, Sneaky Pete, Across the Wind, Urinetown, 42nd Street, the Universe, Spy Game, Welcome , Tommy, Big River, Annie. to the Dollhouse, The Love Letter, Off-Broadway includes: Rancho Viejo, for a Dream, Quiz Show, Kin, and Tumacho. Shakespeare in Kinsey, , 30 Rock, the Park: Tartuffe, The Winter’s Tale, Blue Bloods, Curb Your Enthusiasm.

CHUCK COOPER, Matthew Arnold Fulton Chuck Cooper won the Tony award Cards,” and “Madam Secretary.” Other for his performance in Cy Coleman’s awards: The Lucille Lortel Award, The “The Life.” He has been featured in San Diego Critics’ Circle Award, The 16 Broadway shows in every theatri- Audelco Award, and Two Drama Desk cal genre from Shakespeare to musical Nominations. His favorite role is Eddie, comedy. His most recent guest star- Alex and Lilli’s father. He is gratefully ring TV appearances include “New married to playwright Deborah Brevoor. Amsterdam,” “City on a Hill,” “Bull,” www.chuckcooper.net. “Power,” “The Good Wife,” “House of

LEWIS J. STADLEN, Louis Lippman Has starred on Broadway in Fish in Awards). In addition, he has starred in the Dark, The Nance, The Producers, the national tours of Hello, Dolly!, The 45 Seconds from Broadway, The Man Producers, , Laughter on Who Came to Dinner (Drama Desk the 23rd Floor, Oklahoma!, The Time of Award nomination), Laughter on the Your Life, and Fiddler on the Roof. He 23rd Floor, the 1996 production of A received the Irish Times award for his Funny Thing Happened on the Way to performance at Dublin’s Gate Theatre the Forum (Tony Award nomination), production of Arthur Miller’s The Price. the female version of The Odd Couple, His film and television credits include the 1974 production of Candide (Tony In & Out, To Be or Not to Be, Windy Award nomination), The Sunshine City, The Verdict, Serpico, Portnoy’s Boys, and Minnie’s Boys (Drama Desk, Complaint, “Smash,” “Damages,” and Outer Critics Circle, and Theatre World “The Sopranos.”

EDSEL ROMERO, Lieutenant Edsel Romero is a New York City MasterVoices in their 75th anniversary based actor. Originally from North season and has had the privilege to Texas, he received his bachelor’s of perform at venues including Carnegie music in music education (choral) from Hall, , Alice the University of North Texas. A clas- Tully Hall, and the Rose Theatre at sically trained , Edsel joined Jazz Lincoln Center. ORCHESTRA OF ST. LUKE’S Bernard Labadie, Principal Conductor James Roe, President and Executive Director Valerie Broderick, Vice President and General Manager

Violin Viola Bass Horn Krista Bennion Feeney Dana Kelley John Feeney Stewart Rose Richard Gilder Co-Principal Viola Principal Principal and Lois Chiles Kaya Bryla-Weiss Concertmaster Co-Principal Viola Flute Trumpet Chair Louise Schulman Elizabeth Mann Carl Albach Alexander Fortes Liuh-Wen Ting Principal Helen and Robert Co-Principal Violin Appel Family Chair Mitsuru Tsubota Cello Oboe John Dent Co-Principal Violin Myron Lutzke Stephen Taylor Thomas Hoyt Robin Bushman Janet Prindle Seidler Principal Christoph Franzgrote Chair Timpani Conrad Harris Daire FitzGerald Reeds Maya Gunji Karl Kawahara Carol and Charles Lino Gomez Principal Anca Nicolau Grossman Family Todd Groves Ellen Payne Chair Mark Thrasher Percussion Susan Shumway Rosalyn Clarke Kory Grossman Robin Zeh Principal

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MasterVoices (formerly The Collegiate at the opening of the United Nations and Chorale) was founded in 1941 by legend- has sung and recorded under the batons ary American choral conductor Robert of esteemed conductors including Serge Shaw and has been under the artistic Koussevitzky, , Leonard direction of Tony Award-winner Ted Bernstein, , Riccardo Muti, Sperling since 2013. Known for its versa- and Alan Gilbert. It has been engaged tility, the group’s repertoire ranges from by top-tier orchestras, including the choral masterpieces and in concert New York Philharmonic and the Israel to operettas and musical theater; it is also Philharmonic, and has appeared at the known for highly theatrical performanc- Verbier and Salzburg Festivals. es of rarely-heard works such as last season’s Lady in the Dark by Concerts regularly feature an inclusive and Ira Gershwin, ’s Babes roster of world-class soloists from in Toyland, ’s Treemonisha, across the musical spectrum, including Tchaikovsky’s Maid of Orleans, and , Stephanie Blythe, Deborah Rossini’s Moïse et Pharaon. The group Voigt, Eric Owens, Nmon Ford, John regularly commissions and premieres new Holiday, Kelli O’Hara, , works; recent seasons included works by , and Victoria Clark, Ricky Ian Gordon and Randall Eng. along with cross–disciplinary collab- orations with such diverse creative As the country’s first interracial and minds as Vogue Editor-at-Large interfaith chorus, the group performed Hamish Bowles, Silk Road visual artist Kevork Mourad, and acclaimed For more information, visit master- choreographer Doug Varone. Roger voices.org. Connect with MasterVoices Rees was the group’s Artistic Associate on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram from 2003–2015. (@mastervoicesny).

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Rainier Michael Boyas Timothy Marek Katharine Rayner Daniel Brown Rebecca Marks John Forest Roemer Colleen Brown Joe and Pamela Melhado Sheryl Romanoff in honor of Devon Chandler Shelley Mendell Judy Sloan Claire and Rusty Cloud Paula Mermelstein Robert Roper Nicole Coffaro Ron Meyers Paulette and Joseph Rose Rachel Colbert Angela and Carl Milner Emilia Saint-Amand Ida Cole Julie Morgan Krimendahl Jennifer Collins Hitomi Nozawa Helen Shin Kathy and Bernard Susan Obel Daisy Soros Compagnon in honor of Judy Doctoroff O’Neill Dr. Mark Spergel Christopher Smeall Judith Oringer Betsey Steeger Lee Dalzell Lisa Pak Jill Steinberg in honor of Aaron and Judy Daniels Clelia Parisi Sahra Lese Mona Dukess Christina Parsons Susan Stumer Katherine Eberenz Janet B. Pascal Thomas and Beverly Tabern Mary Fan Liliane Peck Robert and Barbara Tiffany James Ferrara Krasimira Petkova in honor of Ted Sperling Eileen Fitzgerald and Paul Annie Pichan Mr. and Mrs. David M. Tobey Rosenblum Mikhail Pontenila Catherine and Alex Traykovski Sylvia Floyd Joan Reisman-Brill Dane Twining and Stephen Steven Frankel Ellen Resnick Scanniello Dagmar Friedman Susan and Peter Restler Cheri Walsh Lynn Gilbert Bradford P. Reszel Sandra and George Weiksner Wendy Goldstein Eileen Richter Sue Ann Weinberg Elise Goodman William L. and Pamela S. Frederick Wertheim and Ruth and David Gottesman Richter Angelo Chan Lynda Gould in honor of Laurie Rios Kim Wiley-Schwartz Ted Sperling James Roumeles Roy Yeager and Sumner Chloe Graef Jean-Pierre Roussarie Freeman Erica Gruen in honor of Ted John Sabatos Ed Yim Sperling Henry Saltzman Yvel Dr. Michèle Halpern Marilyn Schotz Judy Francis Zankel in honor Joan B. Harris Kathy Schuman of Ellen Nenner David Hawkins and Ann Andrew Shmerler Joseph Zimmerman and Kirschner Arthur and Beverly Shorin Bonnie Rosenberg Nina Hennessey Margaret and Dmitry Shulman Marnee Hollis Barbara Simon FRIENDS OF Fern K. Hurst in honor of Virginia Stowe MASTERVOICES Lois Conway Debi Sule MEMBER Singchun Hwang Mark Sullivan ($250-$999) Linda and Morton Janklow Susan and Richard Ulevitch Anonymous Clyde B. Jones III Eleanor and Michael Mr. and Mrs. Lowell R. Accola Samantha Kahn Urkowitz Mark Ahramjian Katherine Kasser Norma Vavolizza Mark Akens Edmund Keeley in honor of Stephen Weber Curtis V. and Lorraine N. Emma Gaudio Joan Weiner Anastasio Milene Klein Jacqueline West The Bagby Foundation for Ulrike Klopfer in memory of Joan Wexler the Musical Arts Sally Lindenbaum Carey White Julie Baraz Mr. and Mrs. Arie L. Kopelman Thomas Wiles Miriam Baron Adinah Kranzler Nikisha Williams Nancy Batterman Carol-Marie Labozzetta Erin Winchester Jennifer Bell Luisa Lyons Jill Melanie Wirth Jaclyn Berliant Sandy MacDonald and John Diann Witt Valerie Blechar Devaney Emy Zener Judi and Jay Bosworth Lynn Maier

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Anonymous Judith Petsonk and Stephen Donald R. Crawshaw and Ruth Appelhof Eisdorfer Matthew D. Hoffman Susan Baker and Michael Rick Elice Ms. Margaret M. Holda Lynch Judith Ferber Beth Holland Edward Barnes Mr. David Fleiss Thomas S. Hom and Pamela Chris Barry Ms. Priscilla Florindi Miller Kit Smyth Basquin Sylvia Floyd Deborah Innes Nancy Dale Becker Christine Foster Dana Ivey Allison M. Blinken Cathy J. Friedman and Bruce C. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. David Blowers Thomas R. Feyer Robert Jurgrau and Marc William Bodenlos Cantor Rebecca Garfein Gollub Marsilia Boyle Janie Giacomini John Kander Gerilyn Brewer and Henry Nancy Nagel Gibbs Andrew and Katy Kaplan Mueller Andrew J. Goffe and Jeff Priscilla Kauff Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Levin Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Brickman Charles and Jane Goldman Kessler Noreen and Kenneth Buckfire Robert Jurgrau and Marc Mr. and Mrs. Arie L. Dr. Ken Cerniglia Gollub Kopelman Juliana Chen Ms. Margaret Goodman David Kotick Jesse Cohen Mr. Barton Greenberg Mr. Jeffrey Kurnit Ida Cole Marilyn Grosswirth Joan Lebold Cohen and Jennifer Collins Antonia and George Jerome A. Cohen Jan Constantine Grumbach Ann Ledley Lois Conway Elaine Haber Sahra T. Lese Alberto Cribiore Dr. Michele Halpern Arthur J. Levy Mr. Michael Cuttita Kenneth H. and Yvonne S. Karen Lewis Al J. Daniel, Jr. Hannan Chips Lindenmeyr Mary and Palmer Davis Joan B. Harris Vincent Machacek Susan Dramm Molly K. Heines and Thomas Ellen Marcus J. Moloney Deborah and Jason William L. and Pamela S. Dr. Mark Spergel McManus Richter Eva Sperling Gregory Medeiros Laurie Rios Barry W. Stewart Angela and Carl Milner Heidi and Allen Roberts Deborah F. Stiles Michael J. Moran Eileen Fitzgerald and Paul Virginia Stowe Morton Williams Rosenblum Susan Stumer Supermarkets Nancy and Ernst Rothe Adéle K. and John Talty Rochelle and Paul Nelson RoundTable Cultural Michael Thomas Ellen B. Nenner Seminars Elizabeth Tunick Marta and Fernando Lisa Rubin and Dr. Carl Dane Twining and Stephen Nottebohm Mankowitz Scanniello Janet B. Pascal Christie C. Salomon Susan Ulevitch Bruce Patrick Seth Samuels Ronny Viggiani Liliane Peck Beth Samuelson Susan S. and Kenneth L. Elaine and Charles Petschek Faustina Corporation Wallach Sybil and Michael Pollet David Shengold The Walt Disney Company Deb Poppel Susan Shine Foundation Amy and Jason Reed Arthur and Beverly Shorin Joan Weiner Joan Reisman-Brill Ira Siff Jacqueline West Ellen Resnick Barbara Simon Marshall Wise Gerald W. Richman Judy and Morton Sloan Emy Zener Eileen Richter Kimberly Spachman