01-31 Miller_GP 1/22/14 11:48 AM Page 1 Sponsored by Prudential Investment Management Friday Evening, January 31, at 7:30 and 9:30 Patina Miller James Sampliner , Musical Director, Arranger, and Keyboards John Benthal , Guitar Mark Vanderpoel , Bass Rich Mercurio , Drums Charles Randolph-Wright , Director This evening’s program is approximately 75 minutes long and will be performed without intermission. These performances are being recorded by Live From Lincoln Center for future broadcast; cameras will be present. 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. These performances are 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 01-31 Miller_GP 1/22/14 11:48 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 Saturday Evening, February 1, at 8:30 Irwin Cohen, The G & A Foundation, Inc., Great Heartbreak Country: Michael John LaChiusa’s Performers Circle, Chairman’s Council, and Friends Stories of America of Lincoln Center. with Kate Baldwin, Sherry D. Boone, Marc Kudisch, Bryce Ryness, Andrew Samonsky, Endowment support is provided by Bank of America. Emily Skinner, & Mary Testa Public support is provided by the New York State Wednesday Evening, February 12, at 8:30 Council on the Arts. Sarah Jarosz & The Milk Carton Kids (limited availability) Artist catering is provided by Zabar’s and Zabars.com. hursday Evening, February 13, at 8:30 The Songs of Henry Krieger MetLife is the National Sponsor of Lincoln Center. with Erin Davie, Charity Dawson, Darius de Haas, Joshua Henry, Matthew Hydzik, Rebecca Luker, Movado is an Official Sponsor of Lincoln Center. Emily Padgett, Alice Ripley, Keala Settle, & Lillias White United Airlines is the Official Airline of Lincoln Center. Friday Evening, February 14, at 8:30 Beth Orton WABC-TV is the Official Broadcast Partner of Lincoln Center. Saturday Evening, February 15, at 7:30 and 9:30 Jonathan Groff William Hill Estate Winery is the Official Wine of Lincoln Center. Wednesday Evening, February 19, at 8:30 Marty Stuart & Connie Smith Thursday Evening, February 20, at 7:30 and 9:30 Portraits of Joni: Jessica Molaskey Sings Joni Mitchell Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc., is pleased to announce that this evening’s perfor - Friday Evening, February 21, at 8:30 mance will be telecast on PBS as part of the Aoife O’Donovan series Live From Lincoln Center , which is made possible by a major grant from MetLife. Support The Allen Room is located in Jazz at Lincoln for Live From Lincoln Center is provided by the Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall. Robert Wood Johnson 1962 Charitable Trust, Thomas H. Lee and Ann Tenenbaum, The For tickets, call (212) 721-6500 or visit Robert and Renée Belfer Family Foundation, AmericanSongbook.org. Call the Lincoln Center and Mercedes T. Bass. Info Request Line at (212) 875-5766 or visit AmericanSongbook.org for complete program This program is scheduled to air on PBS on information. Friday, March 28 at 9 p.m. (check local listings). 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. 01-31 Miller_GP 1/22/14 11:48 AM Page 3 Lincoln Center Meet the Artists Poetry. She also appeared in the Public Theater’s pre-Broadway revival of Hair dur - ing its 2008 run at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. Her regional theater credits Y include First You Dream , a Kander and Ebb E L R U revue at the Kennedy Center; Sister Act at H R E the Alliance Theatre and Pasadena T E P Patina Miller Playhouse; and the Philadelphia Theatre Patina Miller currently stars as the Leading Company production of Being Alive. Prior Player in the Broadway revival of Stephen to her numerous theater credits, Ms. Miller Schwartz’s 1972 musical, Pippin. For this appeared in the renowned daytime soap role she earned a Tony Award for Best opera All My Children. She recently per - Leading Actress in a Musical and an Outer formed her first solo concert at the Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Kennedy Center in December 2013. Actress in a Musical, as well as Drama League, Fred and Adele Astaire, and Ms. Miller received a degree in musical Broadway.com Audience Choice award theater from Carnegie Mellon University. nominations. She previously performed the She currently resides in New York City. role of Leading Player in the American Repertory Theater production of Pippin James Sampliner from December 2012 to January 2013. James Sampliner (musical director, arranger, and keyboards) is a veteran of the Ms. Miller was recently cast as Com - New York theater scene, specializing in mander Paylor in Lionsgate’s The Hunger conducting, performing, arranging, orches - Games: Mockingjay Parts 1 & 2 . She will trating, and recording. His career began at make her feature film debut under the the Williamstown Theatre Festival, where direction of Francis Lawrence. he not only helmed the late-night cabaret series but also conducted four productions In 2011 Ms. Miller made her Broadway on the main stage: Tonight at 8:30 , debut as the gutsy nightclub-singer-turned- Where’s Charley? , The Threepenny Opera , nun Deloris Van Cartier in the stage adapta - and Cabaret and Main . His Broadway cred - tion of Sister Act , which earned her a Tony its include Never Gonna Dance (associate nomination as well as Drama Desk, Drama conductor and song arranger), Brooklyn: League, and Outer Critics Circle award The Musical (conductor/keyboard), The nominations. She originated the role of Wedding Singer (conductor/keyboard), and Deloris in the West End production of Sister Legally Blonde (conductor/keyboard and Act at the London Palladium, where she arranger). In London he served as U.S. received an Olivier Award nomination and a music supervisor for Legally Blonde . WhatsOnStage.com Theatregoers’ Choice Award for Best Actress in a Musical. Off-Broadway Mr. Sampliner has worked on Radiant Baby and Ghetto Superstar (Public Among Ms. Miller’s Off-Broadway credits Theater). His regional credits as musical are Ragtime at Avery Fisher Hall, the City director include Most Wanted (Sundance), Center Encores! production of Kurt Weill In This House , A Wind in the Willows and Maxwell Anderson’s Lost in the Stars , Christmas (Two River Theater), The Black and Manhattan Theatre Club’s Romantic Suits (Barrington Stage Company), and 01-31 Miller_GP 1/22/14 11:48 AM Page 4 Lincoln Center Himself and Nora (Rahway, New Jersey). Mark Vanderpoel As arranger/orchestrator/musical director, his Mark Vanderpoel (bass) is a native of San credits include Being Alive (Westport and Diego. His holds a bachelor’s degree from Philadelphia Theatre Company), The Soul of the University of California, San Diego, Rodgers (Ebony Rep and Reprise Theatre where he studied with Bertram Turetzky, Company), and Sleeping Beauty Wakes and a master’s degree from the California (McCarter Theatre and LaJolla Playhouse). Institute of the Arts. Mr. Vanderpoel is a for - mer member of the San Diego Symphony, Mr. Sampliner most recently served as asso - as well as various other chamber groups ciate conductor for the Broadway-bound from the area, in addition to ensembles Honeymoon in Vegas (Paper Mill Playhouse). based in the Baja California region of His recordings include Brook lyn: The Mexico. His extensive theater credits Musical , The Wedding Singer , Legally include Legally Blonde , Cinderella , See Blonde , At the Corner of Broadway and Soul What I Wanna See , Guys and Dolls , the PBS (with Billy Porter), Love Travels (Julie Reiber), special A Broadway Celebration on In and Coming to My Senses (Jaron Vesely). Performance at the White House , and many Mr. Sampliner plays for various theater lumi - others. Mr. Vanderpoel’s stage and sideman naries including Lillias White, Adriane Lenox, credits include Audra McDonald, Kristin Shoshana Bean, Eden Espinosa, Leslie Chenoweth, Kelly O’Hara, Nancy Sinatra, Odom Jr., Billy Porter, Annaleigh Ashford, Victoria Clark, Shirley Jones, Cliff Richard, Sara Ramirez, and Tracie Thoms. Deborah Voigt, Sandra Bernhard, Clay Aiken, Taylor Hicks, David Johansen, Sigur Rós, John Benthal Jeff Beck, and Andrea Bocelli. Passions include surfing and using his Vitamix. John Benthal (guitar) most recently toured with singers Idina Menzel and Ute Lemper, and he has toured the U.S. and the world Rich Mercurio with artists including R&B/pop singer Regina Rich Mercurio (drums) is a New York–based Belle, saxophonist Warren Hill, jazz artists drummer, producer, and recording studio Chico Hamilton and Charles Earland, owner who has worked with artists including Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and the new- Idina Menzel, Regina Spektor, Jewel, music ensemble Bang on a Can All-Stars. In Enrique Iglesias, Katharine McPhee, Rita New York, he recently played in a new ver - Wilson, Jonatha Brooke, and Ben E. King. He sion of Paul Simon’s Capeman . Mr. Benthal has also played on the Broadway produc - has performed with the American Symphony tions of Little Shop of Horrors , Martin Short’s Orchestra and New York City Ballet and has Fame Becomes Me , and Sister Act .