Letter from the Executive Director We are ringing in Spring with an impressive range of talent from bluegrass prodigy Sierra Hull to the Rita Rudner deep musical roots of Amy Helm, Mar. 31st 2019 the 10-time Grammy-winning 4:00pm & 7:00pm quartet The Manhattan Transfer, Brazilian legend Sergio Mendes, Wings To Fly Dance Company’s HOPE and comedic icon Rita Rudner, The Weight Band featuring members of The Band and The Levon Helm Band, and rock and blues guitarist Albert Cummings. Family Fun with Natalie MacMaster & Donnell Leahy in Visions from Cape Breton, comedy and magic will collide in The Chipper Experience and The Panto Company USA’s production of Beauty and the Beast. Features On behalf of The Lyric League, I am excited to announce the 3rd annual 3 Letter from the Executive Director Youth Arts Celebration on Saturday, April 13th benefiting The Lyric 4 Board of Directors & Staff, Theatre’s Arts & Education Programs. The Youth Arts Celebration Season Sponsors provides local student artists with well-deserved recognition and a 6 Cummings Back for More! performance opportunity on the historic Lyric stage. We hope you will join us for an unforgettable evening of emerging young talent! 8 Historical Timeline 16 Family Fun Series Please consider becoming a sponsor of the 2019 Youth Arts Celebration and make a difference in the development of our future patrons, 20 Arts & Education potential artists, and informed citizens (Page 20). Your support will 24 2018-19 Season Lineup provide master class and residency opportunities for students in area 26 2018-19 Director’s Circle & Contributors schools, The Discovery Series for Young Audiences, a series of school- time shows not only exposing students to live theatre, but correlating 31 Volunteer Bartenders & Ushers theatrical content to standards-based curriculum; our Family Fun Series 32 Theatre Box Office & performances that provide the magic of live entertainment, reinforcing General Information the fundamental values of time spent as a family; and The Lyric’s AWESOME! Summer Camp building character on and off the stage. 32 Seating Chart 35 Rent The Lyric Our AWESOME! Summer Camp is preparing for its 9th year! Themes for this summer’s sessions are “We are the World” where campers will lead the way 38 Lyric’s AWESOME! Summer Camp as responsible stewards of the earth and “Why We Tell the Story” a musical 42 What Role Will You Play celebration where campers will explore history to create a path for the future. 44 Become a Member Today! In our mission to provide the community with a home that educates and stimulates the growth of artistic integrity, our AWESOME! Summer Camp 44 Discovery Series for Young Audiences utilizes performing arts to teach practical life skills and character-building 45 Youth Arts Celebration techniques that translate into everyday life - from teamwork to self-discipline, problem solving to respect. Please see our Arts & Education (page 38) for 46 Group Sales more about our AWESOME! Summer Camp. The Lyric Theatre’s ability to offer these Arts & Education programs and On the present a variety of quality programming is because of YOUR amazing cover: support and generosity. The Manhattan Transfer, Thank you for your support and Love for The Lyric, with its harmonies and versatility that incorporates a variety of genres of music performs The Lyric Theatre’s Mission on The Lyric stage “To provide the community with a home for Sunday, March 24th at the performing arts that entertains, educates, 4:00pm & 7:00pm Kia and stimulates the growth of artistic integrity and experience for everyone.” TheThe FriendsFriends ofof thethe Lyric,Lyric, Inc.Inc. isis aa 501(c)(3)501(c)(3) not-for-profitnot-for-profit organizationorganization TheThe LyricLyric TheatreTheatre BoxBox OfficeOffice (772)(772) 286-7827286-7827 www.LyricTheatre.comwww.LyricTheatre.com 3 Board of Directors President Directors Patty Downing Priscilla Baldwin Considered for Season Frank M. Byers, Jr. 1st Vice President Stephen Fry 6 GRAMMY Paul Shirley Sharon Holt NOMINATIONS Hope Jochem Sponsors 2nd Vice President Steve McGovern Frank Tidikis Joan McGowan SATURDAY MARCH 9 Eileen D. Morris The Friends of the Lyric, Inc. would like Treasurer Olene Stuart 7:00 PM to thank these sponsors who have Todd Laycock Michael Tenzyk Harold W. Walsh generously helped to underwrite the Secretary Linda Weiksnar THE LYRIC THEATRE costs of our 2018-19 Season. Diane Lawrence 59 SW Flagler Ave. | Stuart, Florida 34994 Artistic Director Emeritus John Loesser GRAMMY-nominated arrangements for voice, multi-wind President Emerita player (NY Philharmonic) & concert pianist of the Ethel Christin WORLD’S FAVORITE MELODIES in 10 languages: “Danny Boy,” “La Vie En Rose,” Advisory Board “Shenandoah” and so much more! 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To advertise, go to lyrictheatre.com/advertise or contact Tickets: Lyric Box Office 772-286-7827 • www.LyricTheatre.com [email protected]. 4 For tickets and information, call The Lyric Theatre Box Office at772-286-7827 or visit www.LyricTheatre.com. All shows and times are subject to change. The Friends of the Lyric, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization The Lyric Theatre Box Office (772) 286-7827 www.LyricTheatre.com 5 For Hull, it’s about being herself. “The 7 Bridges features Jason Manning as Glenn (March 2, 2019 Sierra Hull moment you start to be yourself, there’s Frey, Keith Thoma as Don Henley, Bryan 7:00pm) Sierra Hull is a Lyric favorite. The an honesty about that, that people connect Graves as Randy Meisner/Timothy B. bluegrass singer, mandolinist and guitar with,” Hull said. “This album feels like Schmidt, Rob Evans as the eccentric and player first played the Grand Ole Opry when the story of my early twenties, of that unpredictable Joe Walsh, Blake Hall as Alison Krauss called her to the stage. She CumminGs searching. Now it feels like everything guitar wizard Don Felder and Vernon Roop was 11. Now 26, she has played the White worked out the way it was supposed to.” as Joe Vitale, whom 7 Bridges considers “the House, Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy often unsung hero” of many Eagles studio Center and was the first bluegrass musician One of her songs on the album is “I’ll be albums and live performances. to receive a Presidential Scholarship to the bACK for More! Fine.” Come to The Lyric to hear an artist Berklee College of Music. at peace with herself and her talent, making Jason Manning, who the best music of her life. takes on the role Hull was raised in Tennessee and began of Glenn Frey, playing the mandolin when she was 8. She began as a put out a self-released album when she was piano player e’re ringing in the spring season at The Lyric 10 and began jamming with other musicians when he was in her family. By the time she was 10, she 7 Bridges: The 4. By the time Theatre with an impressive range of talent, from was entering local talent contests and her W Ultimate Eagles he reached parents took her to bluegrass festivals. Texas a comedic icon to a Grammy-winning Brazilian legend! During the International Bluegrass Music Experience (March A&M, he Association festival, Rounder Records 7, 2019 7:00pm) 7 Bridges picked up discovered her and she was mentored by brings six musicians dedicated Krauss, who knew something about being to honoring the Eagles, one of a child prodigy. On Nov. 21, 2011, Hull the most successful rock bands and Krauss, along with Dan Tyminski, in history. Two of the Eagles’ continued on performed in the White House. albums, Their Greatest Hits and page 8 Hotel California, were ranked As she entered her twenties, Hull became among the 20 best-selling albums dissatisfied with the music she made as a in the United States and the band teen. She talked to Krauss, the mentor who is ranked 75 on Rolling Stone’s was now a confidante. She advised Hull to 2004 Greatest Artists of all talk to banjo-master Bela Fleck. “Sierra Time list. lives in the border area where new ideas mix to create hybrids and sometimes brand The musicians of the new directions,” he said.