® HOLLYWOOD PANTAGES THEATRE LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA PLAYBILL.COM 04-03 Love Never Dies Cover - Retro.indd 1 3/9/18 12:29 PM HOLLYWOOD PANTAGES THEATRE TROIKA ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTS Music Lyrics ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER GLENN SLATER Book BEN ELTON Based on The Phantom of Manhattan by FREDERICK FORSYTH Additional Lyrics CHARLES HART Orchestration DAVID CULLEN & ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER Starring GARDAR THOR CORTES MEGHAN PICERNO KATRINA KEMP RICHARD KOONS CASEY LYONS JAKE HESTON MILLER RACHEL ANNE MOORE BRONSON NORRIS MURPHY MARY MICHAEL PATTERSON STEPHEN PETROVICH SEAN THOMPSON and KAREN MASON Chelsey Arce, Erin Chupinsky, Diana DiMarzio, Tyler Donahue, Yesy Garcia, Alyssa Giannetti, Michael Gillis, Tamar Greene, Natalia Lepore Hagan, Lauren Lukacek, Alyssa McAnany, Dave Schoonover, Adam Soniak, John Swapshire IV, Kelly Swint, Lucas Thompson, Correy West, Arthur Wise Set & Costume Design Sound Design Lighting Design Wig & Hair Design GABRIELA TYLESOVA MICK POTTER NICK SCHLIEPER BACKSTAGE ARTISTRY Design Supervisor Technical Director Music Supervisor Casting by EDWARD PIERCE RANDY MORELAND KRISTEN BLODGETTE TARA RUBIN CASTING LINDSAY LEVINE, CSA Tour Booking, Press & Marketing Production Manager Music Coordinator General Manager BROADWAY BOOKING ANNA E. BATE DAVID LAI KAREN BERRY OFFICE NYC TALITHA FEHR Company Manager Music Director Production Stage Manager AARON QUINTANA DALE RIELING DANIEL S. ROSOKOFF Associate Director Executive Producer Associate Choreographer GAVIN MITFORD RANDALL A. BUCK SIMONE SAULT Choreographed by GRAEME MURPHY AO Directed by SIMON PHILLIPS By special arrangement with The Really Useful Group 2 PLAYBILL 04-03 Love Never Dies.indd 1 3/15/18 4:33 PM CAST (In Order of Appearance) The Phantom .........................................................................................GARDAR THOR CORTES Fleck ..................................................................................................................... KATRINA KEMP Gangle .......................................................................................................STEPHEN PETROVICH Squelch ..............................................................................................................RICHARD KOONS Meg Giry ......................................................................................MARY MICHAEL PATTERSON Madame Giry ....................................................................................................... KAREN MASON Christine Daaé ................................................................................................MEGHAN PICERNO Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny .............................................................................. SEAN THOMPSON Gustave ...................................................................................................................CASEY LYONS JAKE HESTON MILLER Ensemble ..........................................................................CHELSEY ARCE, DIANA DiMARZIO, TYLER DONAHUE, YESY GARCIA, TAMAR GREENE, NATALIA LEPORE HAGAN, LAUREN LUKACEK, ALYSSA McANANY, RACHEL ANNE MOORE, BRONSON NORRIS MURPHY, DAVE SCHOONOVER, JOHN SWAPSHIRE IV, KELLY SWINT, LUCAS THOMPSON, ARTHUR WISE ALTERNATES and UNDERSTUDIES Alternates and Understudies never substitute for listed performers unless a specific notice is posted at the time of performance Alternate for The Phantom: BRONSON NORRIS MURPHY Alternate for Christine Daaé: RACHEL ANNE MOORE Understudy for The Phantom: MICHAEL GILLIS, DAVE SCHOONOVER; for Christine Daaé: ALYSSA GIANNETTI; for Madame Giry: DIANA DiMARZIO, LAUREN LUKACEK; for Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny: MICHAEL GILLIS, DAVE SCHOONOVER; for Meg: ALYSSA McANANY, KELLY SWINT; for Fleck: YESY GARCIA, KELLY SWINT; for Squelch: LUCAS THOMPSON, ARTHUR WISE; for Gangle: TYLER DONAHUE, DAVE SCHOONOVER SWINGS ERIN CHUPINSKY, ALYSSA GIANNETTI, ADAM SONIAK, CORREY WEST Dance Captain: ERIN CHUPINSKY Assistant Dance Captain: CHELSEY ARCE MUSICIANS Music Director/Conductor – Dale Rieling Assistant Conductor/Keys 3 – Eric Kang; Keys 1 – Dominic Raffa; Keys 2 – David Robison; Concertmaster – Dmitriy Melkumov; French Horn – Hector J. Rodriguez; Trumpet – Gary Cordell; Bass Trombone/Tuba – Ric Becker; Percussion – Aaron Nix; Keyboard Programmer – Stuart Andrews LOCAL MUSICIANS Violins – Grace Oh, Jen Choi Fischer, Lesa Terry, Ina Veli; Violas – Karen Elaine, Jody Rubin; Cello – Ira Glansbeek; Reed 1 – Sara Andon; Reed 2 – Richard Mitchell; Reed 3 – Jeff Driskill; Bassoon – Judy Farmer; Contra Bass – Mike Valerio; French Horn – Steve Becknell; Local Contractor – Eric Heinly Gardar Thor Cortes is appearing with thePLAYBILL. permissionCO ofM Actors’ Equity Association pursuant to an exchange program between American Equity and UK Equity PLAYBILLVAULT.COM 4 PLAYBILL PLAYBILLVAULT.COM 04-03 Love Never Dies.indd 2 3/15/18 4:33 PM WHO’S WHO provide a unique London home for new musicals in success in television and film as an actor, writer and development. He is passionate about the importance director. He wrote and directed the filmMaybe Baby of music in education and the Andrew Lloyd which starred Hugh Laurie and Joely Richardson. Webber Foundation has become one of Britain’s He supplied the book for and also directed We Will leading charities supporting the arts and in 2016 the Rock You, the colossal hit musical based on the songs foundation funded a major new national initiative of Queen, which has played to millions of people which endowed the American Theatre Wing with worldwide. With Andrew Lloyd Webber he wrote a $1.3 million, three-year grant to support theatre book and lyrics for The Beautiful Game which won education opportunities for underserved young the London Critics’ Circle Award for Best Musical people and public schools across the US. His and which they have recently re-worked as The Boys awards, both as composer and producer, include in the Photograph, a production of which Ben has seven Tonys, seven Oliviers, a Golden Globe, directed himself in Canada. an Oscar, the Praemium Imperiale, the Richard Rodgers Award for Excellence in Musical Theatre, GLENN SLATER (Lyrics) is a three-time Tony a BASCA Fellowship, the Kennedy Center Honor nominee for the international hit musicals The Little and a Grammy for Best Contemporary Classical Mermaid, Sister Act, and School of Rock, and a Composition for Requiem, his setting of the Latin co-creator of Disney’s worldwide smash Tangled Requiem mass which contains one of his best (Grammy Winner, Oscar and Golden Globe known compositions, Pie Jesu. He was knighted noms). With frequent collaborator Alan Menken, by Her Majesty The Queen in 1992 and created an he wrote the songs for the current Broadway hit honorary member of the House of Lords in 1997. A Bronx Tale, as well as the animated comedy BEN ELTON (Book) Prolific author of numerous Sausage Party, Disney’s Home On The Range, and Number 1 hit novels (including Stark, Gridlock, Broadway’s Leap of Faith; for TV, the team penned Popcorn and Dead Famous) and award-winning the ABC cult series Galavant (Emmy nominee) television comedy series (including The Young and the Disney Channel’s Tangled: The Series. Ones, The Thin Blue Line and Blackadder), Ben Most recently, Glenn wrote the book for Beatsville Elton is also one of the UK’s most successful and (with composer/lyricist/wife Wendy Wilf), which influential stand-up comics. He has also achieved debuted at Sarasota’s Asolo Rep. 04-03 Love Never Dies.indd 9 3/15/18 4:33 PM WHO’S WHO FREDERICK FORSYTH (Author, The Phantom SIMON PHILLIPS (Director) began his career of Manhattan) Having been the youngest pilot in in New Zealand before emigrating to Australia in the Royal Air Force at the age of 19, Frederick 1984. He was appointed Artistic Director of the State Forsyth went on to a career in journalism Theatre Company of South Australia from 1990- which saw him working for The Eastern Daily 94 and Artistic Director of the Melbourne Theatre Press and, during the 1960s, for Reuters and Company from 2000-11. His directing credits range the BBC in Paris, East and West Germany and from contemporary and Shakespearean classics to Czechoslovakia. As a freelancer he reported from musicals to opera. He has also directed the premieres the Nigeria-Biafran conflict. He is best known as of many new works by leading Australian writers. the author of highly successful thrillers including Apart from Love Never Dies, Simon’s musical credits The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, The Dogs include Priscilla, Queen of the Dessert, Oliver!, of War and The Fourth Protocol, all of which Chicago, Jesus Christ Superstar, Cabaret, High Society, Company, The Twenty-Fifth Annual Putnam were subsequently filmed. County Spelling Bee, Urinetown the Musical, The CHARLES HART (Additional Lyrics) was born in Drowsy Chaperone and A Funny Thing Happened London and educated in Maidenhead and Cambridge. on the Way to the Forum. He has received eight He has written words for musicals, (The Phantom of Australian Green Room Awards and five Helpmann the Opera and Aspects of Love), opera (The Vampyr, Awards, the most recent being Best New Australian BBC 2) and miscellaneous songs, as well as both Work, for Ladies in Black a new musical he created words and music for television (Watching, Split Ends, with Tim Finn and his wife, Carolyn Burns. Granda TV) and radio (Love Songs, BBC Radio 2). GA BR IELA TY LESOVA (Scenic and Costume Other work includes radio presenting, vocal coaching, Designer) is an award-winning, internationally accompanying, musical direction and musical