Overture from Candide Music by Leonard Bernstein Craig Turley Orchestra Guest Conductor, Dr. Clark McAlister Concert Master, Stewart Kitts Welcome Steven Caras, Arts & Entertainment District Event Producer and Director Jim Peppelman, Wealth Director, PNC Bank; Arts & Entertainment District Presenting Sponsor “Votre Toast” from Carmen Music by Georges Bizet Jason Duika, Palm Beach Opera Young Artist, Baritone Excerpt from legendary musical parody and winner of Special Tony Award, Forbidden Broadway Gerard Alessandrini, Creator, Writer and Director Gina Kreiezmar, star of Forbidden Broadway Accompanied by Craig D. Ames Excerpt from Pas de Duke Choreography by Alvin Ailey, Music by Duke Ellington, “Old Man Blues” Jacquelin Harris and Kirven Douthit-Boyd, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater West Palm Beach Arts & Entertainment District Mission Declaration Howard Pincus, Board Chair, West Palm Beach Downtown Development Authority The Honorable Jeri Muoio, Mayor, City of West Palm Beach Rena Blades, President and Chief Executive Officer, Cultural Council of Palm Beach County Raphael Clemente, Executive Director, West Palm Beach Downtown Development Authority Excerpt from Forbidden Broadway Gina Kreiezmar Accompanied by Craig D. Ames Finale "Because" Music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney "Aquarius" and "Let the Sunshine In" Music by Galt MacDermot Dreyfoos School of the Arts Theatre Department Palm Beach Atlantic University Concert Choir Young Singers of the Palm Beaches with Dreyfoos School of the Arts Dance Department Featuring Ryan Redmond, Rasta Thomas' Bad Boys of Dance company member, 2008 Dreyfoos graduate Choreography by Maria Konrad and Ryan Redmond Performer Biographies and Headshots Media Contact Only: Lauren Fifarek O’Donnell Agency O: 561-832-3231 C: 517-974-6293 [email protected] Steven Caras (Arts & Entertainment District Event Producer and Director) Steven Caras’ life in the arts began as a dancer with the New York City Ballet. For fourteen years under the leadership of its founder, the legendary George Balanchine, he would dance worldwide in numerous masterpiece works choreographed by Balanchine in addition to being featured in many Jerome Robbins ballets. During this inspirational time, Mr. Caras was also encouraged and mentored as a photographer by Mr. Balanchine whose support led him to a luminous second career as one of the most revered image makers of dance in history. His body of work–in access of 120,000 photographs–is considered today to be one of the most valuable and historically significant dance photography collections of all time. In the early 1990's, Mr. Caras spent several years as ballet master and company photographer with Miami City Ballet prior to becoming their director of development for the organization's northern, tri-county operation. From 2008 through 2010, Mr. Caras returned to Palm Beach County where he served for two years as Palm Beach Dramaworks' first director of development. Today, Mr. Caras is very active in his travels as a keynote speaker, emcee/interviewer, arts consultant and guest teacher, but he also plays a critical role in Palm Beach County philanthropy as a trustee on a private foundation along with his work as the founding chairman of two local charities, The Randolph A. Frank Prize for the Performing Arts and College Drive. He is the recipient of the 2014 Career Transition for Dancers "Heart & Soul" award, presented to him at the organization's annual Palm Beach fund raiser by Broadway legend Chita Rivera. The PBS documentary, Steven Caras: See Them Dance, is a tribute to Caras' accomplishments with a special emphasis on the artistry and magnitude of his photographic collection. The film has aired on multiple PBS stations nationwide, garnering two major honors: a 2012 Emmy Award in the category of Arts and Entertainment and the Grand Remi Award for 'Best Television Film of 2012' at the 45th Annual Worldfest-Houston International Film Festival. Photo Credit: Jacek Gancarz Estelle Parsons (Special Guest Speaker, Academy Award-winning Actor) Estelle Parsons, a theatre legend whose illustrious stage career spans six decades, was last seen on Broadway earlier this year as Alexandra in The Velocity of Autumn, for which she received her fifth Tony Award nomination. Although she has spent most of her professional life in the theatre, she is most widely known for her Academy Award-winning performance as Blanche Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde and her 10 years playing Beverly, mother of the title character in the hit sitcom Roseanne. In the theatre, she made an indelible impression as the tyrannical eighth-grade teacher in Roberto Athayde's classic about totalitarian power, Miss Margarida's Way, which she performed on Broadway, all over the United States, and in London, Dublin, Turkey, and Australia. She has appeared in plays by the great writers of our time, including Edward Albee, Tennessee Williams, Dario Fo, Arthur Miller, Samuel Beckett, Paul Zindel, and Horton Foote. Ms. Parsons starred in Tracy Letts' August: Osage County for a year on Broadway, followed by another year on the road. Other recent credits include Good People by David Lindsay-Abaire, and the George and Ira Gershwin musical Nice Work If You Can Get It, with Matthew Broderick and Kelli O'Hara. In 2012, she was directed by Neil LaBute in Marco Calvani's Things of the World. As a director, she created the New York Shakespeare Festival Players for Joseph Papp in the 1980s. For two seasons, they performed Shakespeare on Broadway for New York City school students and their families in an effort to develop a multicultural audience. She also directed Al Pacino in Oscar Wilde's Salome: The Reading on Broadway. She is a member of the Actors Studio and was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 2004. This winter, she will play a 92-year-old French matron in Palm Beach Dramaworks' production of My Old Lady by Israel Horovitz, which runs from Dec. 5, 2014 through Jan. 4, 2015 at the Don & Ann Brown Theatre. Tim Altmeyer (Special Guest, Professional Actor) Tim Altmeyer was in the Broadway companies of High (2011) with Kathleen Turner; Looped (2010) with Valerie Harper, and Oscar Wilde’s Salome (2003) with Al Pacino, Marisa Tomei, Dianne Wiest, David Strathairn and directed by Estelle Parsons. In 2012, he appeared in the Broadway National Tour of High, also with Ms. Turner. His Off-Broadway credits include the New York premieres of Edward Albee’s Occupant and Horton Foote’s The Last of the Thorntons (with Estelle Parsons), both at the Signature Theatre. Altmeyer was also in the original Off-Broadway company of Edward Albee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Three Tall Women (with Marian Seldes). Other New York credits include St. Ann's Warehouse, HB Playwrights Foundation, Hypothetical Theatre Company, Voice & Vision and the Actors Studio. His regional theatre highlights include premieres of Naomi Iizuka’s Strike-Slip at The Humana Festival of New American Plays/Actors Theatre of Louisville and The Notebook of Trigorin by Tennessee Williams (starring Lynn Redgrave) at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. He has also worked at The O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Pioneer Theatre, Paper Mill Playhouse, PlayMakers Repertory Company, Hippodrome Theatre, Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Vermont Stage Company, and Clarence Brown Theatre. Most recently, Altmeyer played James in Time Stands Still at Hartford TheaterWorks in Hartford, CT. His feature film credits include Five Years, and his television credits include All My Children and Guiding Light. In addition, Altmeyer has appeared in several national network and cable commercials, industrial videos and print ads. His directing credits include Other Desert Cities (Hippodrome Theatre), Not Now Darling and All the Great Books (abridged) (Weathervane Theatre) and the European premiere of Alex Lewin’s Water Street at the 2010 Absolut Gay Theatre Festival in Dublin, Ireland, which was nominated for three Festival awards including Best Production. His directing credits at University of Florida (where he is an Associate Professor and teaches acting) include By the Way, Meet Vera Stark; Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika; The Madwoman of Chaillot; Dark Play or Stories for Boys; and Glengarry Glen Ross. Altmeyer is currently in rehearsal for the Palm Beach Dramworks upcoming production of My Old Lady, which runs from Dec. 5, 2014 through Jan. 4, 2015 at the Don & Ann Brown Theatre. Angelica Page (Special Guest, Professional Actor) Angelica Page who most recently starred on Broadway in the Tony nominated The Best Man, is currently developing Turning Page, a new play, documentary film and book of selected memoirs about her mother, the legendary Geraldine Page. Broadway credits include Anna Christie (Tony Award Best Revival), Side Man (Tony Award Best Play, Helen Hayes Award Best Actress). National Broadway Tour of Pulitzer Prize winning August: Osage County (Tony Award Best Play, Helen Hayes Nomination Best Actress). In Southern Florida she played Honey in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at Coconut Grove Playhouse (Carbonell nomination), EDGE as Sylvia Plath (New Times Award, Outer Critics Circle Nomination) and as Madam Curie in the world premiere of The Radiant. She has been in 18 films including Oscar nominated movies Nobody’s Fool, The Sixth Sense and The Contender. Has appeared on TV for CBS, NBC, ABC, TNT, Showtime and HBO and currently developing a new comedy with Sandra Bernhard for Fox TV. She is a board member of The Actors Studio where