02-10 Paige:GP 2/1/12 10:58 AM Page 1 Friday Evening, February 10 , 2012, at 8:30 Sunday Evening, February 12, 2012, at 6 :30 Elaine Paige (New York concert debut) Tedd Firth , Musical Director and Piano Bob Magnuson , Woodwinds Pete Smith , Guitar John Arbo , Bass David Zippel , Director This evening’s program is approximately 75 minutes long and will be performed without intermission. Major support for Lincoln Center’s American Songbook is provided by Fisher Brothers, In Memory of Richard L. Fisher; and Amy & Joseph Perella. Additional corporate support is provided by Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Wine generously donated by William Hill Estate Winery, Official Wine of Lincoln Center. This performance is made possible in part by the Josie Robertson Fund for Lincoln Center. Steinway Piano Please make certain your cellular phone, pager, or watch alarm is switched off. The Allen Room, Frederick P. Rose Hall Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center 02-10 Paige:GP 2/1/12 10:58 AM Page 2 Lincoln Center Additional support for American Songbook is Upcoming American Songbook Event provided by The DuBose and Dorothy Heyward in The Allen Room : Memorial Fund, Logicworks, The Shubert Foundation, Jill and Irwin Cohen, The G & A Saturday, February 11, at 8:30 and 10:30 Foundation, Inc., Great Performers Circle, Laura Benanti Chairman’s Council, and Friends of Lincoln Center. The Allen Room is located in Frederick P. Rose Hall, Public support is provided by the New York State Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Council on the Arts. For tickets, call (212) 721-6500 or visit Artist hospitality is provided by Zabar’s and AmericanSongbook.org. Call the Lincoln Center Zabars.com . Info Request Line at (212) 875-5766 or visit AmericanSongbook.org for complete program MetLife is the National Sponsor of Lincoln Center . information. First Republic Bank is the Official Sponsor of the Fashion Lincoln Center Online Experience. Movado is an Official Sponsor of Lincoln Center . United Airlines is the Official Airline of Lincoln Center . WABC-TV is the Official Broadcast Partner of Lincoln Center . William Hill Estate Winery is the Official Wine of Lincoln Center . We would like to remind you that the sound of coughing and rustling paper might distract the performers and your fellow audience members. In consideration of the performing artists and members of the audience, those who must leave before the end of the performance are asked to do so between pieces, not during the performance. The taking of photographs and the use of recording equipment are not allowed in the building. 02-10 Paige:GP 2/1/12 10:58 AM Page 3 Lincoln Center Meet the Artists These two concerts for Lincoln Center’s American Songbook mark Ms. Paige’s con - cert debut in New York City. She will next R E reprise her role as Carlotta Campion in L L E Follies at the Ahmanson Theater in Los U M Angeles this summer. For more informa - A V tion, please visit elainepaige.com. E Elaine Paige Award-winning Elaine Paige, actress, singer, Tedd Firth producer, and radio presenter, has made a Tedd Firth (musical director and piano) is a unique and major contribution to the devel - New York City–based accompanist, jazz opment and production of the stage musi - pianist, and arranger. As an accompanist he cal. She has starred in more smash-hit West has worked with Tom Wopat, Lee Ann End and Broadway musicals than anyone Womack, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Maureen else of her generation : Hair , Jesus Christ McGovern, Michael Feinstein, Faith Prince, Superstar , Billy , Anything Goes , Piaf , Sunset Linda Lavin, Christine Ebersole, Darius de Boulevard , Sweeney Todd , The King and I, Haas, Lucie Arnaz, Marilyn Maye, Karen The Drowsy Chaperone, and most recently Akers, Hilary Kole, John Schneider, Mary Follies . She has defined the musical and set Cleere Haran, Margaret Whiting, Carol standards , creating the roles of Eva Perón in Sloane , and many others. Jazz musicians he Evita, Grizabella in Cats , and Florenz in Chess . has performed or recorded with include John Pizzarelli, Houston Person, Frank In 1995 Ms. Paige was awarded an Officer Wess, Mark Whitfield, Red Holloway, Benny of the Order of the British Empire for ser - Golson, and Joe Morello. In New York, Mr. vices to musical theater by Her Majesty Firth has appeared at Carnegie Hall, the Blue Queen Elizabeth II. Note, Birdland, the Iridium, the Algonquin, Café Carlyle , and Feinstein’s at the Regency. A thrilling live performer, Ms. Paige has Numerous national appearances include a played in concert all over the world , from the performance at the White House. As an White House to the Great Hall of the People arranger/orchestrator, Mr. Firth’s work has in Beijing, from the Bolshoi Theatre to been performed by Liza Minnelli, Peter Nero Sydney Opera House. She has appeared on and the Philly Pops, the New York Pops, and television both in dramatic roles and in her the Detroit, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh , and own television specials. She has released 23 Baltimore symphony orchestras. His televi - solo albums and nine cast recordings, sion credits include the Today show, All My earned eight consecutive gold and four Children , and The Caroline Rhea Show . multi-platinum discs , and achieved chart- topping hits , including “Memory ,” “ Don’t Bob Magnuson Cry for Me Argentina ,” and “I Know Him So Bob Magnuson (woodwinds) has been a Well ,” which have become her signatures. mainstay first-call multi-reed player in New York City since the early ’80s , when he first This year marks the eighth anniversary of her played in the Radio City Orchestra. He hugely successful weekly BBC Radio 2 show , moved on to play for more than 15 Broad- Elaine Paige on Sunday , which is devoted to way shows and was fortunate to break into musical theater and film music and regularly the New York studio scene , where he has attracts more than two million listeners . played for numerous television commercials 02-10 Paige:GP 2/1/12 10:58 AM Page 4 Lincoln Center and movie soundtracks. Mr. Magnuson has David Zippel enjoyed being a sideman on the CDs of David Zippel (director) has received a Tony artists such as Alicia Keys, B.B. King, Tony Award, two Academy Award nominations, Bennett , and many more. two Grammy nominations , and three Golden Globe nominations. He is one of few con - Pete Smith temporary lyricists to have achieved success Pete Smith (guitar) is a New York City –based on Broadway, in Hollywood , and in the pop guitarist who performs in a wide range of music world. His musical credits include City musical settings. As a founding member of of Angels , The Goodbye Girl , The Woman in Grupo los Santos, a vanguard Afro-Cuban White , Just So , Princesses , Going and Brazilian-style quartet, he has played Hollywood , and Pamela’s First Musical . His New York’s Town Hall and concerts through - film credits include Disney’s Hercules , out the U.S. and in Cuba. With Hazmat Disney’s Mulan , The Swan Princess , The Modine he has performed at the Berlin and Wedding Planner , and Captain America . His Montreal Jazz Festivals, as well as in con - songs appear on more than 25 million CDs certs in more than 20 countries. Mr. Smith and have been sung by Stevie Wonder, Mel has worked with Norah Jones, trumpeter Tormé, Christina Aguilera, Barbara Cook, Donald Byrd, Cuban trombone master Juan Michael Bolton, Ricky Martin, Cleo Laine, Nancy LaMott, Sarah Brightman , and Barbra Pablo Torres, Andrew Hill, Ingrid Lucia and Streisand. Mr. Zippel worked with Liza the Flying Neutrinos, Vince Giordano and Minnelli to write Liza’s at the Palace , which the Nighthawks, Gangbé Brass Band (from won a 2009 Tony Award and was recorded Benin), Madeleine Peyroux, Natalie Merch- for PBS. He conceived and directed ant , and Huun-Huur-Tu. Princesses at Goodspeed Musicals, 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle , and the National John Arbo Alliance for Musical Theatre . Mr. Zippel con - John Arbo (bass) studied at Manhattan ceived and directed The Best Is Yet to Come: School of Music. He has been the bassist The Music of Cy Coleman , which premiered for Les Paul and many singers , including at the Rubicon Theatre, played in New York Susannah McCorkle, Nell Carter, Ann at 59E59 Theaters , and earned him a 2010 Hampton Callaway, Lesley Gore , and Indy Award for his direction. A graduate of Nancy LaMott. Mr. Arbo has toured with Harvard Law School, he is delighted not to Woody Herman, Liza Minnelli, and The practice law. Shirelles, and is presently touring with Tony Danza and the English rock band American Songbook Renaissance. He has also played bass for In 1998, Lincoln Center launched American several Broadway shows, including Cyrano Songbook, dedicated to the celebration of de Bergerac , Miss Saigon , 42nd Street , popular American song. Designed to highlight Good Vibrations , The Producers , and A and affirm the creative mastery of America’s Catered Affair . He appeared on the songwriters from their emergence at the turn Broadway stage in 2007’s Coram Boy and of the 19th century up through the present, played the role of Jonas Fogg (and bass) in American Songbook spans all styles and the critically acclaimed 2006 Broadway genres, from the form’s early roots in Tin revival of Sweeney Todd . Mr. Arbo teaches Pan Alley and Broadway to the eclecticism of bass at the New School in New York City today’s singer-songwriters. American Song- and is the author of eMedia Bass Method , book also showcases the outstanding inter - an instructional CD-ROM . preters of popular song, including established 02-10 Paige:GP 2/1/12 10:58 AM Page 5 Lincoln Center and emerging concert, cabaret, theater, and Festival, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, songwriter performers.