02-01 La Chiusa_GP 1/24/14 11:23 AM Page 1 Sponsored by Prudential Investment Management Saturday Evening, February 1, 2014, at 8:30 Heartbreak Country: Michael John LaChiusa’s Stories of America with Kate Baldwin, Sherry D. Boone, Marc Kudisch, Bryce Ryness, Andrew Samonsky, Emily Skinner, and Mary Testa Mary-Mitchell Campbell , Musical Director and Piano David Gardos , Piano Steven Lyon , Reeds Laura Bontrager , Cello Marc Schmied , Bass Damien Bassman , Drums Jack Cummings III , Conception and 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. 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, The Allen Room pager, or watch alarm is switched off. Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall 02-01 La Chiusa_GP 1/24/14 11:23 AM Page 2 Lincoln Center Additional support for Lincoln Center’s American Upcoming American Songbook Events Songbook is provided by The Brown Foundation, Inc., in The Allen Room : of Houston, The DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund, The Shubert Foundation, Jill and Wednesday Evening, February 12, at 8:30 Irwin Cohen, The G & A Foundation, Inc., Great Sarah Jarosz & The Milk Carton Kids Performers Circle, Chairman’s Council, and Friends (limited availability) of Lincoln Center. Thursday Evening, February 13, at 8:30 Endowment support is provided by Bank of America. The Songs of Henry Krieger with Erin Davie, Charity Dawson, Darius de Haas, Public support is provided by the New York State Joshua Henry, Matthew Hydzik, Rebecca Luker, Council on the Arts. Emily Padgett, Alice Ripley, Keala Settle, & Lillias White Artist catering is provided by Zabar’s and Zabars.com. Friday Evening, February 14, at 8:30 Beth Orton MetLife is the National Sponsor of Lincoln Center. Saturday Evening, February 15, at 7:30 and 9:30 Movado is an Official Sponsor of Lincoln Center. Jonathan Groff United Airlines is the Official Airline of Lincoln Wednesday Evening, February 19, at 8:30 Center. Marty Stuart & Connie Smith WABC-TV is the Official Broadcast Partner of Thursday Evening, February 20, at 7:30 and 9:30 Lincoln Center. Portraits of Joni: Jessica Molaskey Sings Joni Mitchell William Hill Estate Winery is the Official Wine of Lincoln Center. Friday Evening, February 21, at 8:30 Aoife O’Donovan Saturday Evening, February 22, at 8:30 Ann Harada Wednesday Evening, March 5, at 8:30 Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music: The 1920s Thursday Evening, March 6, at 8:30 Deer Tick (limited availability) The Allen Room is located in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall. For tickets, call (212) 721-6500 or visit AmericanSongbook.org. Call the Lincoln Center Info Request Line at (212) 875-5766 or visit AmericanSongbook.org for complete program information. Join the conversation: #LCSongbook 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. The taking of photographs and the use of recording equipment are not allowed in the building. 02-01 La Chiusa_GP 1/24/14 11:23 AM Page 3 Lincoln Center Meet the Artists Festival, Signature Theatre in Virginia, and Audra McDonald for her Seven Deadly Sins project, which premiered at Zankel Hall in 2004. He accompanied an array of female stars singing songs from the LaChiusa cata - logue in The Girlie Show , which was part of Michael John American Songbook in 2004. His other LaChiusa musicals include Giant (with a book by Michael John LaChiusa—composer, lyri - Sybille Pearson), Queen of the Mist , Los cist, and librettist—established himself as a Otros (with Ellen Fitzhugh), See What I powerful presence on the American musi - Wanna See , Little Fish , and Bernarda Alba . cal theater scene after winning 1993 Obie Awards for his musicals First Lady Suite Among multiple cast recordings, The Wild and Hello, Again . Mr. LaChiusa was repre - Party (Decca Broadway) received a Grammy sented on Broadway during the 1999–2000 nomination for Best Musical Show Album in season by two more musicals, The Wild 2001. Mr. LaChiusa won a 2008 Daytime Party and Marie Christine , which together Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement received 12 Tony Award nominations, gar - in Music Direction and Composition for an nering Mr. LaChiusa nominations for Best episode of Nick Jr.’s Wonder Pets. Queen of Score and Best Book (along with George C. the Mist won the Outer Critics Circle Award Wolfe on The Wild Part y) for each produc - for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical tion. He received his first Tony Award nomi - in 2012, and Giant was nominated for nine nation for Best Book (co-written with Graciela Drama Desk Awards in 2013, as well as the Daniele and Jim Lewis) for Chronicle of a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical. Death Foretold in 1996. Upcoming commissions include an Mr. LaChiusa received the first Stephen Edgerton Commission from the Oregon Sondheim Award (1989), the Gilman and Shakespeare Festival and a musical based Gonzalez-Falla Musical Theatre Award on The Minstrels , which he is developing (1995), and the Kleban Prize for Musical with Ellen Fitzhugh and Graciela Daniele. Theatre (1999). He was the 1998–99 Brena and Lee Freeman Sr. composer-in- residence at the Lyric Opera of Chicago and an artist-in-residence at New York Shakespeare Festival’s Public Theater from 1997–98. In 2005 he received Emerson College’s Leonidas A. Nickole Award of Distinction for Artistic Growth and Achieve - Kate Baldwin ment in Musical Theatre as well as the Kate Baldwin recently completed a run on Flora Roberts Award, given annually by the Broadway as Sandra Bloom in Big Fish . Her Dramatists Guild. other Broadway credits include Finian’s Rainbow (Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Mr. LaChiusa has been commissioned to Critics Circle award nominations), The Full write musicals and operas by Houston Grand Monty , Thoroughly Modern Millie , and Opera, Musical Theatre Works, Lincoln Wonderful Town . In New York she also per - Center Theater, New York Shakespeare formed in the Public Theater’s Giant 02-01 La Chiusa_GP 1/24/14 11:23 AM Page 4 Lincoln Center (Drama Desk nomination) and City Center’s mixed-race woman’s harrowing escape Fiorello! . Her regional credits include The from slavery disguised as a white man. Women (Old Globe), Henry V (Shakespeare Learn more at sherryboone.com. Theatre of New Jersey), and She Loves Me (Williamstown). On television she has appeared in Law & Order: SVU and Stephen Sondheim’s Passion for PBS. Her film credits include Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best . She has released the solo record - ings Let’s See What Happens and She Marc Kudisch Loves Him on PS Classics. Ms. Baldwin is On Broadway, Marc Kudisch has appeared a graduate of Northwestern University. in 9 to 5 (Tony and Drama Desk nominations), The Apple Tree , Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Tony nomination), Assassins (Drama Desk nomination), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Tony and Drama Desk nominations), Bells Are Ringing , The Wild Party , High Society , The Scarlet Pimpernel , Beauty and the Sherry D. Boone Beast , and Joseph and the Amazing Sherry D. Boone’s Broadway credits Technicolor Dreamcoat . His Off-Broadway include Ragtime , Jelly’s Last Jam , and the credits include The Blue Flower , See What title role in Marie Christine . Off-Broadway I Wanna See (Drama Desk nomination), The she appeared in First Lady Suite (Transport Minister’s Wife , The Thing About Men , The Group), and her London credits include Glorious Ones , and City Center Encores! pro - Carmen at Royal Festival Hall. She has par - ductions of Girl Crazy and No Strings . On the ticipated in national tours of The Phantom New York operatic stage, he has appeared in of the Opera , Les Misérables , and A Little Night Music and The Pirates of Pen - Carousel . Her regional theater credits zance . His regional theater credits include include Master Class and Eliza in My Fair The Highest Yellow , The Golden Age , Zorba , Lady . She appeared in the opera The The Sycamore Trees , and Summer and Scrimshaw Violin at the 92nd Street Y and Smoke . On television and film, Mr. Kudisch Green Eggs and Hamadeus at the Mostly has appeared in Break-In , Sex and the City , Mozart Festival. Ms. Boone debuted with All My Children , Loving , Late Show with the National Symphony Orchestra at the David Letterman , and Bye Bye Birdie . Kennedy Center in Rob Kapilow’s And Furthermore, They Bite! and Two by Seuss . She has been a guest soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Nashville Symphony, and the Toronto and Hartford Symphony Orchestras. She is founder and artistic director of Opera at Home, a cut - ting-edge opera company dedicated to Bryce Ryness increasing opera audiences around the Bryce Ryness’s Broadway credits include globe. With Opera at Home, she collabo - Woof in the Tony Award–winning revival of rated with composer Sean Jeremy Palmer Hair (Drama Desk nomination), Leap of to produce and direct Ellen Craft: A New Faith , and Legally Blonde . Off-Broadway he American Opera , based on true events of a appeared in Around the World in 80 Days , 02-01 La Chiusa_GP 1/24/14 11:23 AM Page 5 Lincoln Center Hair , and See Rock City and Other Show .