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Mary Kate Morrissey Ginna Claire MasonMili Diaz Cole Doman Jon Robert Hall Chad Jennings

Deanna Aguinaga-Whyte Allison Bailey Kerry Blanchard Beka Burnham Lauren Cannon Autumn Crockett Cooper Matt Densky Ryan Patrick Farrell

Nick Gaswirth Napoleon W. Gladney Sara Gonzales Sam Gravitte Lindsay Janisse Chris Jarosz Kelly Lafarga Chase Madigan

Tiffany Rae Mallari Micaela Martinez Andy Richardson Wayne Schroder Jeff Sears Tregoney Shepherd Brandon Stonestreet Ben Susak Olivia Valli Justin Wirick

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Settings Costumes Lighting Sound Eugene Lee Susan Hilferty Kenneth Posner Tony Meola Projections Wigs & Hair Special Effects Technical Supervisor Elaine J. McCarthy Tom Watson Chic Silber Jake Bell Music Arrangements Music Director Dance Arrangements Music Coordinator Alex Lacamoire & Stephen Oremus Adam Souza James Lynn Abbott Michael Keller Associate Set Designer Associate Director Associate Choreographer Production Stage Manager Edward Pierce Lisa Leguillou Corinne McFadden Herrera David O’Brien Casting Press General Management Executive Producers Telsey + Company Phillip Aleman 321 Theatrical Marcia Goldberg Management & Nina Essman

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Something Rotten

Due to media: 7/13/18

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“SOMETHING ROTTEN! isThe Producers PLUS Spamalot

PLUS The Book of Mormon. SQUARED!”—NEW YORK MAGAZINE

Fisher Theatre • Sept. 25–Oct. 7BroadwayInDetroit.com, ticketmaster.com, 800-982-2787 & box office 313-872-1000. Groups (12+): Groups@BroadwayInDetroit.com (subject: Something Rotten!) or 313-871-1132.

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Nothing’s as AMAZING as a MUSICAL! to get things done, tries to help. Nigel falls

for a pretty Puritan named Portia, whose daddy strongly disapproves. Unreliable soothsayer Thomas Nostradamus, nephew of the Nostradamus, looks into the future and tells Nick that theater’s next big thing will be—tahdah!—“musicals,” where peo-ple sing, dance and act all at the same time!

Something Rotten! is laced throughout with humor for Shakespeare aficionados and musical theater geeks.

But as O’Farrell observes, “If it works as a musical for people who don’t know musicals or Shakespeare, then I’m happy. It’s about show business and putting on a show. Just doing that in Tudor times gives it an extra spin.”

“I think it doesn’t matter how much you know,” says director-choreographer Casey Nicholaw, whose other Broadway shows in-clude Aladdin and The Book of Mormon. “My nieces and nephews say it’s their favorite

show that I’ve done, and they don’t know any of the references.”

For the creative team, Something Rotten! has been a challenge, an education and a joy, an experience they still savor as the touring production plays cities all over the United States.

“This was by far the hardest thing I’ve ever done,” Wayne says, “but [it was] so rewarding to sit in a theater and watch all these amazing contributions from people who took it beyond our idea to create this magical, happy experience.”

Something Rotten! is at the Fisher Theatre Sept. 25–Oct. 7. For tickets, please see our ad at left.

The seeds of Something Rotten! were sewn in the mid-1990s by Karey Kirk-patrick, a screenwriter, songwriter and director with credits including The Rescuers Down Under, James and the Giant Peach and Chicken Run, and his brother Wayne Kirkpatrick, a Grammy Award-win-ning songwriter (Eric Clapton’s Song of the Year “Change the World,” Garth Brooks’ “Wrapped Up in You”).

“We were big history buffs. It started with, ‘Wouldn’t it be funny if Shakespeare’s Lon-don were a lot like what Broadway was in the 1930s?’” Karey says. “Then it was, ‘What would it be like to be writ-ing plays in the shadow of William Shakespeare, after Romeo and Juliet just opened?’”

“We thought of two writers,” Wayne says. “What if one went to a soothsayer? Then somewhere along the way it was, ‘What if the two writ-ers were brothers? What if the sooth-sayer’s name was Nostradamus, but he wasn’t the Nostradamus? What if he was a senile, bad soothsayer, his nephew?’ Eventually it was, ‘If we’re going to do this, we should really get serious about it.’”

Karey brought in British comedy writer John O’Farrell, whom he’d met on Chicken Run, to help write the show’s story. The brothers craft-ed the music and lyrics, eventually writing more than 50 songs. What they had, after plenty of revisions and a multi-year devel-opmental process, is a buoyant musical set in Shakespeare’s day that imagines the cre-ation of the very first musical.

Something Rotten! centers around Nick and Nigel Bottom (the last name comes from A Midsummer Night’s Dream), brothers desperate for a hit in Elizabethan London, where William Shakespeare is a rock star-like god of the stage lately given to crib-bing plots.

Nick’s wife Bea, a can-do gal in the style of Shakespearean heroines who cross-dress

Something magical… and Something Rotten!

People sing, dance and act all at the same time!

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CAST(in order of appearance)

Glinda ............................................................................................. GINNA CLAIRE MASONWitch’s Father ....................................................................................... WAYNE SCHRODERWitch’s Mother .....................................................................................KERRY BLANCHARDMidwife ............................................................................................ TREGONEY SHEPHERD Elphaba .......................................................................................... MARY KATE MORRISSEYNessarose ............................................................................................................... MILI DIAZBoq .................................................................................................................COLE DOMANMadame Morrible.................................................................................................JODY GELB Doctor Dillamond ......................................................................................CHAD JENNINGS Fiyero ....................................................................................................... JON ROBERT HALLOzian Official ........................................................................................ WAYNE SCHRODERThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz..........................................................................JASON GRAAEChistery .................................................................................................... CHASE MADIGANMonkeys, Students, Denizens of the Emerald City, Palace Guards and Other Citizens of Oz ............ ALLISON BAILEY, KERRY BLANCHARD,

BEKA BURNHAM, LAUREN CANNON, AUTUMN CROCKETT COOPER, MATT DENSKY, RYAN PATRICK FARRELL, SARA GONZALES, SAM GRAVITTE,

CHRIS JAROSZ, TIFFANY RAE MALLARI, ANDY RICHARDSON,JEFF SEARS, TREGONEY SHEPHERD, BRANDON STONESTREET, OLIVIA VALLI, JUSTIN WIRICK

STANDBY FOR ELPHABACHELSEA EMMA FRANKO

UNDERSTUDIESUnderstudies never substitute for listed players unless a specific announcement

for the appearance is made at the time of the performance.

for Elphaba—OLIVIA VALLI for Glinda—ALLISON BAILEY, BEKA BURNHAM

for Fiyero—SAM GRAVITTE, JEFF SEARS for The Wizard and Dr. Dillamond—NICK GASWIRTH, WAYNE SCHRODER

for Madame Morrible—SARA GONZALES, TREGONEY SHEPHERD for Boq—MATT DENSKY, ANDY RICHARDSON

for Nessarose—BEKA BURNHAM, MICAELA MARTINEZ for Chistery—RYAN PATRICK FARRELL, NAPOLEON W. GLADNEY, BEN SUSAK

for Witch’s Father and Ozian Official—NICK GASWIRTH, JEFF SEARS

SWINGSDEANNA AGUINAGA-WHYTE, NICK GASWIRTH, LINDSAY JANISSE,

MICAELA MARTINEZ, BEN SUSAK

DANCE CAPTAINS/SWINGS NAPOLEON W. GLADNEY, KELLY LAFARGA

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MUSICAL NUMBERS

ACT I“No One Mourns the Wicked” ..................................... Glinda and Citizens of Oz“Dear Old Shiz” ......................................................................................... Students“The Wizard and I” .................................................................... Morrible, Elphaba“What Is This Feeling?” ........................................ Galinda, Elphaba and Students“Something Bad” ........................................................Dr. Dillamond and Elphaba“Dancing Through Life” .....Fiyero, Galinda, Boq, Nessarose, Elphaba and Students“Popular” .....................................................................................................Galinda“I’m Not That Girl” .................................................................................... Elphaba“One Short Day” ....................Elphaba, Glinda and Denizens of the Emerald City“A Sentimental Man” ............................................................................The Wizard“Defying Gravity” .............................Elphaba, Glinda, Guards and Citizens of Oz

ACT II“No One Mourns the Wicked” (reprise) .......................................... Citizens of Oz“Thank Goodness” ........................................ Glinda, Morrible and Citizens of Oz“The Wicked Witch of the East” ................................ Elphaba, Nessarose and Boq“Wonderful” ................................................................... The Wizard and Elphaba“I’m Not That Girl” (reprise) ....................................................................... Glinda“As Long As You’re Mine” ....................................................... Elphaba and Fiyero“No Good Deed” ........................................................................................ Elphaba“March of the Witch Hunters” ..........................................Boq and Citizens of Oz“For Good” .............................................................................. Glinda and Elphaba“Finale” ...............................................................................................................All

TRAVELING ORCHESTRAConductor—ADAM SOUZA

Associate Conductor/Keyboard 2—ADAM R. McDONALDKeyboard 1—BRETT ROWE

Keyboard 3—PHILLIP KIRCHMANGuitars—MIKE ABRAHAM

Drums—CHRISTOPHER JAGO/TIM MULLIGAN

The Wicked touring musicians welcome 10 local musicians who will be playing at all performances in Detroit:

Reed 1—LAURA LARSON; Reed 2—SALLY HEFFELFINGER-PITUCH; Reed 3—SHANNON FORD; Horn—ANDREW PELLETIER;

Trumpet—DAVID AMMER; Trombone—JOHN RUTHERFORD; Bass—CLARK SUTTLE; Percussion—JOHN DORSEY;

Key 3—CT HOLLIS; Key 4—ROBERT CONWAY

Orchestrations adapted by Christopher Jahnke.

The use of any recording device, either audio or video, and the taking of photographs, either with or without flash, is strictly prohibited.

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WHO’S WHOMARY KATE MORRISSEY (Elphaba) is airborne with excitement to return to this electric company after touring as the Elphaba Standby in 2016. Off-Broadway: David Byrne’s Joan of Arc: Into the Fire (The Public Theater), Tamar of the River (Prospect Theater). International tour: Hair as Sheila. Regional: Elmer Gantry (Signature Theatre), Lizzie: The Musical (Portland Center Stage), Little Women (Syracuse Stage) and the work-shop of Fun Home (Sundance Lab). Syracuse University. “Epic thanks: Christopher Freer and CGF, Craig Burns, Matt Farnsworth and my friends and family. For TC, Mom and Dad. Never underestimate the pow-er of listening, beauty and beat drops.” @maryspacekate. GINNA CLAIRE MASON (Glinda) is thril-lified to travel by bubble with Wicked on tour! She comes directly from Broadway as the Glinda standby. National tour: Newsies (Katherine u/s), Flashdance (Gloria). Vegas: Duck Commander Musical (Korie). Regional favorites include Thoroughly Modern Millie (Millie), Grease (Sandy), Hairspray (Shelley). NYC concerts: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Rosemary). Recently performed in Japan at the World Musical Concert. B.F.A., Elon University. Many thanks to DGRW, Telsey + Co. and the Wicked creative team. “For mom and dad and my Prince Eric.” Instagram/Twitter: @ginnaclaire. JODY GELB (Madame Morrible) most re-cently played Madame Morrible on Broad-way, after having played the role in the San Francisco company in 2010 and in both na-tional tours. Last spring, she played Joan of Arc’s mother in David Byrne’s rock musical Joan of Arc: Into the Fire at the Public The-ater in NYC. She appeared in the original Broadway companies of The Who’s Tommy, Titanic and Wrong Mountain, and also on Broadway in Big River. JASON GRAAE (The Wizard). Broadway/Off-Broadway: A Grand Night for Singing; Falsettos; Stardust; Snoopy!; Do Black Pat-ent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?; Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (Drama Desk nomi-nation); Forever Plaid (original Sparky); and Spamilton. L.A.: U.S. premiere of Ragtime, Forbidden Hollywood/Broadway (Ovation Award), The Merry Widow, The Grand Duch-ess (L.A. Opera). Winner of L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award. TV/film: “Friends,”

“Six Feet Under,” “Sabrina,” “Rude Awaken-ing,” “Frasier,” Boston Pops, etc. Voice of Lucky the Leprechaun for Lucky Charms cereal for five years.

MILI DIAZ (Nessarose) is honored and overjoyed to join Wicked! Recently, Mili was seen as Nina in In the Heights at the Ol-ney Theater (BroadwayWorld Award) and the Fulton Opera House. Regional: West Side Story (Maria) at Woodstock Playhouse and Rent (Mimi) at Clear Space Theatre.

“Love and thanks to God, the Wicked team, Nicolosi & Co., Telsey + Co, mi familia and Jeffrey.” Pace MT ’17. @sillymili. COLE DOMAN (Boq). National tour de-but! TV: “Modern Family” (ABC), “Shame-less” (Showtime), “American Gods” (Starz!),

“GLOW” (Netflix), “Sharp Objects” (HBO). Film: Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party (Net-flix). Select regional: Bye Bye Birdie, Peter and the Starcatcher (Drury Lane Oakbrook). B.F.A., Roosevelt University. The School at Steppenwolf. “Major thanks to my big sis-ter Ally, Telsey + Co. and my team at GTG.” Follow @cole_doman. JON ROBERT HALL (Fiyero) is a Los Ange-les native. He recently played Tom Chisum in the Emmy Award-winning “Grease: Live!” on Fox, as well as recurring on “Glee.” He also played Stacee Jaxx in the Vegas pro-duction of Rock of Ages at the Venetian. In addition, Jon produces music for young social media stars and helps develop them. His company HallPass Productions is an L.A. staple for many of the heavy-hitting kids in the social media world. Go to his website or DM for ways to work with him. Jonroberthall.com. Insta/twitter/Musical.ly: @jonhall28 and @hallpassproductions. CHAD JENNINGS (Doctor Dillamond) hails from the mighty metropolis of Ya-kima, the “Palm Springs” of Washington. Broadway: Wicked. National tours: War Horse, South Pacific. Regional: Goodspeed (My Paris), 5th Avenue (Sunday in the Park…, West Side Story, Wonderful Town), Village Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre. Film: Money Monster. CHELSEA EMMA FRANKO (Standby for Elphaba) is ecstatic to be making her national tour debut with Wicked. Most re-cently, she was seen as Elsa in the world premiere cast of Frozen: Live at the Hyper-ion in Disney’s California Adventure. Fa-vorite regional credits: Company (Marta), Damn Yankees (Gloria Thorpe), Meet Me in St. Louis (Esther), Oklahoma! (Ado Annie), Monty Python’s Spamalot (Lady of the Lake), Chicago (Roxie Hart), Hairspray, Sunset Bou-levard and Shrek. For mum, dad and SRO. @thechelseaemma. DEANNA AGUINAGA-WHYTE (Swing). Broadway: Mamma Mia! West Side Story, A Chorus Line. Tours: Fame the Musical, Evita, Radio City Christmas Spectacular. B.A. soci-

When native Detroiter and Hamilton producer Jeffrey Seller returned to De-troit for the 2016 Crain’s Detroit Homecom-ing event, he delighted theatre fans with the news that the show would be coming to Detroit in the near future. Earlier this year, Broadway In Detroit granted theatre fans wishes with the announcement of its 2018-19 Season headlined by Hamilton, with Disney’s Aladdin and five other Broad-way hits making their Detroit debut.

The 2018–19 Broadway In Detroit Sub-scription Season features seven shows and opens with Something Rotten, the block-buster musical comedy, at the Fisher The-atre, September–October 2018, followed by the hit Broadway musical Aladdin at the Detroit Opera House, December 2018–January 2019.

The remainder of the Subscription Sea-son shows are in 2019 at the Fisher The-atre: The Play That Goes Wrong, Broadway and London’s award-winning smash com-edy in February; The Lightning Thief—The Percy Jackson Musical, an action-packed theatrical adventure in March; Hamilton, March–April; Waitress, an uplifting come-dy with music by Sara Bareilles in May; and Anastasia, the romantic and adventure-filled new musical inspired by the popular movie in June. Please note that all show dates may be subject to change.

“Detroit theatre goers have been anx-iously awaiting the arrival of Hamilton at the Fisher Theatre and we are thrilled to

include it on a super-stellar 2018–19 Broad-way In Detroit Subscription Season!” said Broadway In Detroit Executive Director Alan Lichtenstein. “And Disney’s Aladdin will be the perfect musical to see at the De-troit Opera House over the holiday season.”

Broadway In Detroit recently announced that three blockbuster Broadway shows will each make return engagements to Detroit in the upcoming season. Back by popular demand, Chicago will return to the Fisher Theatre October 2018.

The Book Of Mormon, winner of nine Tony Awards including Best Musical, returns to Detroit for a fourth time after sold-out and record-breaking engagements, playing at the Fisher Theatre December 2018.

Cameron Mackintosh’s spectacular new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera will make a trium-phant return to the Detroit Opera House January–February 2019. Please note that show dates may be subject to change.

Tickets for Something Rotten and Chicago are on sale now, and tickets for Aladdin are available through pre-sale starting Aug. 20 (please see our ad, page 14). For ticket information for the rest of the season, including details for Hamilton, sign up for the Broadway In Detroit newsletter at BroadwayInDetroit.com.

Left: Hamilton National Tour Company, photo © Joan Marcus 2018. Right: Clinton Greenspan (Aladdin), Aladdin North American Tour, photo by Deen van Meer, © Disney.

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WHO’S WHOology, Cal State University of Long Beach and 200 Hour Yoga Alliance Certification.

“Love and gratitude to husband Blake and our daughter Kya for sharing this Wicked dream adventure.” ALLISON BAILEY (Ensemble, u/s Glinda). National tour debut! Regional credits: Goodspeed and New London Barn Playhouse. The Boston Conserva-tory ’14. “Thanks to God and much love to my family, DGRW and Telsey + Co.” Allison-Bailey.com. KERRY BLANCHARD (Ensemble) is so happy to be a part of Wicked. Thanks to everyone at Wicked, Telsey and MSA. “All my love to my wonderful family and amaz-ing friends for their never-ending support, love and laughter.” BEKA BURNHAM (Ensemble, u/s Glinda, Nessarose). Back in Oz! Previously with the company for almost two years. BoCo ’14.

“Love and thanks to Craig/Telsey, DGRW, my Wicked family, Mom and Dad and espe-cially my pup, Root.” LAUREN CANNON (Ensemble). Thrilled to be in Oz! Credits include West Side Story (nat’l/int’l/Ogunquit Playhouse), Radio City Christmas Spectacular and recently seen on the 2016 Tony Awards. “Love to my family.” @L_cannon. AUTUMN CROCKETT COOPER (En-semble). Credits include Rihanna, LeAnn Rimes, Billy Gilman, CeCe Winans, I Kissed a Vampire (film), “America’s Got Talent,” CW’s “The 100,” Cirque de la Symphonie, Odyssey Dance Theatre, Eclipse, Frozen Live, La Mirada Theatre production of Cats and West Side Story. MATT DENSKY (Ensemble, u/s Boq). NYC: How the Grinch… (Young Max u/s, MSG), Kris Kringle (Sky, Town Hall). Regional: The Little Mermaid, Rock of Ages, SantaLand Dia-ries. B.F.A.—CCM. Thanks to Cooper Com-pany/Gotham Talent. Love to Mom, Dad and Chris. MattDensky.com. RYAN PATRICK FARRELL (Ensemble, u/s Chistery). A Michigan native. Began danc-ing at age 8. Ryan is thrilled to join Wicked on tour. Credits include Wicked (Chicago), Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Cats na-tional tour (Mistoffelees), Copacabana (Mill Mountain), Princess Cruises, Chase Brock Experience (Joyce Soho) and Boyz II Men. Love to Mom and Dad. NICK GASWIRTH (Swing, u/s Witch’s Father, Ozian Official, The Wizard, Dr. Dil-lamond). Broadway: …Great Comet of 1812, A Christmas Story. N.Y./regional: Second-

hand Lions (Seattle 5th Ave), I Am Harvey Milk (Lincoln Center), The Gig (NYMF), Yeast Nation (FringeNYC). B.F.A. Univer-sity of Michigan. Proud member AEA. nickgaswirth.com. NAPOLEON W. GLADNEY (Dance Cap-tain, Swing, u/s Chistery). B.F.A. dance per-formance, Chapman University. Select credits include Wicked first/second nat’l tours, Me & Caesar Lee (Chor.), Odyssey Dance Theatre European tour, Backhaus Dance, “The Late Late Show,” “Good Morn-ing America” and The Dance Cartel. @na-pogladney. SARA GONZALES (Ensemble, u/s Madame Morrible). Webster University B.F.A. in mu-sical theater. Regional: Bridget in Bring It On (L.A.), Daniela in In the Heights (L.A.) and more. Award-winning jazz vocalist, performing internationally at IAJE in To-ronto, Monterey Jazz Festival and 54 Below. Saragonzales.weebly.com. SAM GRAVITTE (Ensemble, u/s Fiyero) couldn’t be happier to join the Wicked family. Recent shows include Once, Joseph… and other university shows. B.A.: Princ-eton. “Love to my family. Go Tigers’ La-crosse!” @samgravitte. LINDSAY JANISSE (Swing, u/s Witch’s Mother) is so happy to be rejoining her Wicked family! Broadway: Wicked, Rock of Ages. Tour: Rock of Ages (national), Wick-ed (Los Angeles). Film/TV: Winter’s Tale,

“Smash.” “All my love to my family!” CHRIS JAROSZ (Ensemble). La La Land,

“Glee,” Radio City’s New York Spectacular, Cirque du Soleil, “SYTYCD.” Excited to be joining the national tour of Wicked. “Love to my Mom, Dad and my MSA family.” KELLY LAFARGA (Dance Captain, Swing) feels honored to join Wicked. Film: Step Up 2: The Streets, Step Up 3D. TV: “Glee,” “Bones,” “How I Met Your Mother,” “DWTS.” Tours: Eve, Donnie Klang. Marymount Manhattan College. Thanks Mom, Nina, and Sasha for their endless love and support. “Dad, I love and miss you always.” CHASE MADIGAN (Chistery). West Side Story (Broadway), Radio City Christmas Spec-tacular, The New York Spectacular, Rock the Ballet (international tour). Thrilled to be joining the national tour of Wicked! Love to Mom and Dad! TIFFANY RAE MALLARI (Ensemble) has been lucky to perform for the past 10 years. Some accomplishments include High School Musical 3, Cirque du Soleil’s Viva! Elvis and Disneyland’s California Adventure. MICAELA MARTINEZ (Swing, u/s Nes-sarose). A dream come true! Most recently

Aladdin

Due to media: 7/13/18

Publication:Broadway In Detroit playbill program for WickedRun dates: Augw. 8–Sept. 2, 2018Size: full-page with bleedtrim size: 5-3/8 in. w. x 8-3/8 in. h.bleed: 1/8 in.inside margin: 1/4 in.Proof: 7/10/18; 6:58PM

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Detroit Opera House & Fisher Theatre box offices.Groups (12+): Groups@BroadwayInDetroit.com (subject: Aladdin) or 313-871-1132. 6:30PM Jan. 6.

ALL SALES FINAL. No exchanges or refunds. Blackout dates and other restrictions may apply. Standard Ticketmaster service fees apply to online and phone orders. Dates, times, prices, and cast subject to

change without notice. Offer may be revoked without notice. Limit 11 tickets per person per 7-day period. All prices include $4 facility fee. Tickets must be purchased by Sept. 8, 2018.

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WHO’S WHOseen in Frozen: Live at the Hyperion. First national tours: Sister Act (Ensemble, u/s Mary Robert), Walking the Tightrope (Esme). Regional favorites: The Addams Family (Wednesday), Spring Awakening (Wendla). Instagram: @micccccmart. ANDY RICHARDSON (Ensemble, u/s Boq). Broadway: Newsies (OBC), Gypsy, How the Grinch Stole Christmas. National tours: Kinky Boots, Newsies. Regional: Sacramento Music Circus, Paper Mill Playhouse. “Endless love to my family!” B.A. from NYU. Instagram: @aricha3. Twitter: @AMRichardson3. WAYNE SCHRODER (Witch’s Father, Ozian Official, u/s The Wizard, Doctor Dilla-mond). Broadway: 9 to 5, A Christmas Carol. Tours: 9 to 5. Off-Broadway: The Prince and the Pauper, Mimi le Duck. Film: The Producers, Brando, Welcome Home. Television: “Guid-ing Light,” “All My Children.” Concert: Kristina at Carnegie Hall and Royal Albert Hall in London. JEFF SEARS (Ensemble, u/s Fiyero, Witch’s Father, Ozian Official). National tours: The Book of Mormon (first national) and Avenue Q. Off-Broadway: Avenue Q (Princeton/Rod). Regional: Goodspeed, Riverside The-atre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Stages St. Louis. Carnegie Mellon University. KU grad. For Mom and Dad. @jeffdsears. TREGONEY SHEPHERD (Midwife, u/s Madame Morrible) is excited to make her home in Munchkinland. Broadway: Been there. National tours: Done that. Regional theater: Check. One woman shows: Check again. Education: D.M.A. vocal performance. Love to Lafayette. TregoneyShepherd.com. BRANDON STONESTREET (Ensemble) is thrilled to be in the land of Oz! National tours: Matilda, Elf and Flashdance. Interna-tional tour: West Side Story. “Many thanks to my parents, MSA and this incredible cast and crew. BEN SUSAK (Swing, u/s Chistery) is very grateful to be back with the Munchkin-land family! Credits: Cirque du Soleil,

“SYTYCD,” Lady Gaga, Britney Spears, Flor-ence + the Machine, Ke$ha, Kelly Clarkson,

“American Music Awards,” “Video Music Awards,” “Billboard Awards,” “DWTS,” “American Idol,” San Francisco Ballet. OLIVIA VALLI (Ensemble, u/s Elphaba) re-cently completed two solo shows at Fein-stein’s/54 Below in New York City. Other credits include The Threepenny Opera (Jen-ny), Wendy’s Shadow (Young Wendy) and Foolerie (Kate). Thanks to Telsey + Co., her

family and friends. B.F.A. in musical the-ater from Montclair State University. Fol-low her on Instagram @oliviafvalli and Twitter: @olivia_valli. JUSTIN WIRICK (Ensemble). Joined Jan. 2010. 3,000+ performances. 20 Green Girls. Denizen of Pittsburgh, Pa. Travel enthusiast: eight plus years of touring, 50 states, eight provinces, 15 countries. Pas-sions/hobbies: Wicked, gymnastics, figure skating, fundraising, event coordinat-ing, photography, motivational speaking.

“Success is where preparation and oppor-tunity meet. Follow my adventures on IG @justinwirick88.” STEPHEN SCHWARTZ (Music and Lyr-ics) has contributed music and/or lyrics to Godspell, Pippin, The Magic Show, The Baker’s Wife, Working (which he adapted and directed), Rags, Children of Eden and the opera Séance on a Wet Afternoon. For film, he collabo rated with Alan Menken on the scores for Disney’s Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Enchanted, and wrote the songs for the DreamWorks animated feature The Prince of Egypt. Mr. Schwartz is artis tic director of the ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshops and serves on the council of the Dramatists Guild. He is a member of the Theater Hall of Fame, the Songwriters Hall of Fame and has been giv-en a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Awards in clude three Academy Awards, four Grammy Awards, the Isabelle Steven-son Tony Award and a tiny handful of ten-nis trophies. Defying Gravity, a book about his profes sional career, is available from Applause Books. stephenschwartz.com. WINNIE HOLZMAN (Book) received a Tony nomination and a Drama Desk Award for Wicked. Other theater work: the musical Birds of Paradise (with composer David Evans); One of Your Biggest Fans; Post-Its: Notes on a Marriage (both written with her husband, actor Paul Dooley); and Choice, which premiered at the Hunting-ton Theatre in Boston. Holzman got her start writing for the ground-breaking TV drama “Thirtysomething” and went on to create the series “My So-Called Life,” which starred Claire Danes. She executive produced (again with Marshall Herskov-itz and Edward Zwick) “Once and Again,” collaborated with her daughter, Savannah Dooley, on the ABC Family series “Huge” and, most recently, teamed with Cameron Crowe on the Showtime series “Roadies.” Features include ’Til There Was You. Also an actress, Ms. Holzman appeared in Jerry Maguire and as Larry’s wife’s therapist on

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Photos, top: Friend Like Me; left: Michael James Scott (Genie); next page, left: Clinton Greenspan (Aladdin) & Isabelle McCalla (Jasmine); Aladdin North American Tour. Next page, top: Arabian Nights Men; bottom: Arabian Nights Women; Aladdin Original Broadway Cast. © Disney. Photos by Deen van Meer.

Discover a whole new world at Disney’s Aladdin, the hit Broadway musical. From the producer of The Lion King comes the timeless story of Aladdin, a thrilling new production filled with unforgettable beauty, magic, comedy and breathtaking spectacle. It’s an extraordinary theatrical event where one lamp and three wishes make the possibilities infinite.

Here are nine reasons that audiences and critics agree, Aladdin is “Exactly what you wish for!” (NBC-TV):

1 Jazz Roots

While the animated film was in devel-opment, the character of the Genie was based on jazz greats Cab Calloway and Fats Waller. Though this concept was eventual-ly changed for the film, it was brought back to life for the Broadway show.

2 Those Dancing Feet

Featuring an extended tap break, glitter-ing gold costumes and massive towers de-signed in art deco style, the musical num-ber “Friend Like Me” is an homage to Busby Berkeley’s 1933 classic movie musical 42nd Street. (It’s fitting, since Aladdin on Broad-way plays at the New Amsterdam Theatre on 42nd Street.)

3 Transcontinental Style

The costume design team thought globally to bring Aladdin’s fashions to the stage, im-porting fabrics from nine different coun-tries listed on the next page.

4 Everyone’s In Stitches

More than 350 people in 28 shops have helped construct the costumes for Aladdin, including one craftsperson who also makes the angel wings for the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show.

5 Broadway’s Best Bling

The show’s dazzling costumes are made from literally millions of Swarovski® Crys-tals. In fact, just one costume piece used in the finale of “Friend Like Me” contains 1,428 sparkling beads!

6 Another Hit From The Hitmaker

Aladdin’s director/choreographer Casey Nicholaw also co-directed and choreo-graphed the 2011 Tony®-winning Best Mu-sical The Book of Mormon, giving him two blockbuster hits running on Broadway at the same time.

7 Magic Moments

With 84 special effects—including pyro-technics, lifts, transformations and a magic carpet that actually flies—Aladdin is always more than meets the eye.

8 It’s The Big Time, But Bigger

It takes 180 people to deliver each per-formance of Aladdin. This includes actors, stage crew, musicians, dressers, hairstylists, make-up artists, ushers and box office staff.

Aladdin’s Costumes by the Numbers

• There are 2,039 different fabrics and trims used in the show’s costumes. Fabrics are from Morocco, Turkey, In-dia, Uzbekistan, Guatemala, France, Italy, Germany, and China.

• There are 337 costumes in the show, based on 134 individual designs.

• 102 costume changes take place in less than one minute.

• There are 8,644 Swarovski rhine-stones on each man’s gold finale cos-tume in “Friend Like Me.”

• Jasmine’s wedding dress weighs 12 lbs. because of all the crystal beading.

9 The Winning Team

Aladdin comes from a creative team with armfuls of accolades. Collectively, the show’s creators have won 20 Grammy® Awards, 17 Tony Awards® and 13 Academy Awards®—a total of 50 major awards!

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WHO’S WHOTheatre Program, and a member of the Dramatists Guild. JOE MANTELLO (Director). Broadway: The Boys in the Band, Three Tall Women, Blackbird, The Humans, Airline Highway, The Last Ship, Casa Valentina, I’ll Eat You Last, The Other Place, Other Desert Cities, Pal Joey, 9 to 5, November, The Ritz, Three Days of Rain, The Odd Couple, Glengarry Glen Ross, Assassins (Tony Award), Take Me Out (Tony Award), Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Design for Living, Proposals, Love! Valour! Compassion! Off-B’way: Dog-fight, The Pride, A Man of No Importance, The Vagina Monologues, bash, The Mineola Twins, Corpus Christi. As an actor: The Glass Me-nagerie, The Normal Heart (Tony nom. and on HBO), Angels in America (Tony nom.) and The Baltimore Waltz. Recipient of Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Helen Hayes, Clarence Derwent, Obie and Joe A. Callaway awards. He is a member of Naked Angels and an associate artist at the Roundabout. WAYNE CILENTO (Musical Staging). Broadway: Sweet Charity (Tony nom.), Aida, The Who’s Tommy (Tony, Drama Desk, Astaire awards), How to Succeed… (Tony nom.), Dream: The Johnny Mercer Musical (director/choreographer; Tony nom., Best Choreography), Jerry’s Girls, Baby (Tony nom.). West End: The Who’s Tommy (Oliv-ier nom.). Other credits: Off-Broadway’s A Hot Minute and Angry Housewives, national tour of Spirit, …Forum at La Jolla (San Diego Drama Critics and Drama-Logue awards). Performer credits: A Chorus Line (Mike, original cast), The Act, Seesaw, Perfectly Frank, Irene, Big Deal, Rachel Lily Rosenblum and Dancin’ (Tony nom.). He has done mu-sical staging for Liza Minnelli, Barry Ma-nilow, Chita Rivera, Billy Joel, Donna Sum-mer and Pete Townshend. EUGENE LEE (Scenic Designer) is resident designer at Trinity Rep and a resident art-ist at Long Wharf Theatre. He is the pro-duction designer of “Saturday Night Live,”

“The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” and “Late Night with Seth Meyers.” Other Broadway credits: Bright Star, Ragtime, Show Boat and Sweeney Todd. Film credits: Cop-pola’s Hammett, Huston’s Mr. North, Malle’s Vanya on 42nd Street and Demme’s A Mas-ter Builder. B.F.A.: Art Institute of Chicago, Carnegie Mellon. M.F.A.: Yale School of Drama. Three honorary PhDs. Awards: Tony, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Emmy awards; Elliot Norton Award for Sustained Excellence; Pell Award; and DesignxRI Lifetime Achievement Award. A recent in-

ductee into the New York Theater Hall of Fame, he lives in Providence, R.I., with his wife, Brooke. SUSAN HILFERTY (Costume Designer) has designed more than 300 productions for theaters across America and internation-ally. Her directorial collaborators include Athol Fugard (set, costumes, co-director), Michael Mayer, James Lapine, Robert Falls, Robert Woodruff, Joe Mantello, JoAnne Ak-alaitis, Garland Wright, Mark Lamos, Frank Galati, Des McAnuff, Sharon Ott, David Petrarca, Richard Nelson, Christopher Ash-ley, Kenny Leon, Laurie Anderson, Tony Kushner, Carole Rothman, Garry Hynes and Emily Mann. Recent work: Rigoletto at the Metropolitan Opera 2012/2013, Tay-lor Swift Speak Now world tour 2011/2012. Broadway: Present Laughter (Tony nom.), Wonderland, Sondheim on Sondheim, Spring Awakening (Tony nom.), Lestat (Tony nom.), Assassins, Into the Woods (Hewes Award, Tony nom.), Dirty Blonde. She designs for opera, dance, film and TV and chairs De-sign at NYU/Tisch. Her numerous awards include the Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for Wicked. KENNETH POSNER (Lighting Design) has more than 50 Broadway play and musical theater credits. He designs extensively Off-Broadway, for resident theaters and touring productions throughout the United States as well as internationally. Selected Broad-way credits: War Paint, On Your Feet!, Dis-graced, If/Then, Hairspray, Kinky Boots, Pippin, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Legally Blonde, The Coast of Utopia—Shipwrecked, Other Desert Cities, Harvey, The Best Man, The Merchant of Venice, The Royal Family, The Odd Couple, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Goat…, Uncle Van-ya, Side Man, The Little Foxes and The Rose Tattoo. He is the recipient of Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Obie awards. TONY MEOLA (Sound Designer). Broad-way: First Date (associate producer); The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Drama Desk Award); Lysistrata Jones (associate producer as well as sound design); Pal Joey; The Ritz; Laugh Whore; Man of La Mancha; Sweet Smell of Success; Copenhagen; Kiss Me, Kate; Foot-loose; The Lion King (Drama Desk Award); The Sound of Music; A Christmas Carol (MSG); Steel Pier; …Forum; The King and I; Moon Over Buffalo; Smokey Joe’s Cafe; Guys and Dolls; Five Guys Named Moe; She Loves Me; The Red Shoes; Anything Goes. London: Kiss Me, Kate; The Lion King; Smokey Joe’s Cafe; and Anything Goes. National and in-ternational: The Lion King, Les Misérables, Mozart, Der Gloeckner von Notre Dame. Tony is a graduate of Ithaca College’s Depart-ment of Theatre Arts. Thanks, Dick.

ELAINE J. McCARTHY (Projection De-signer). Recent Broadway designs include The People in the Picture, Impressionism, Thur-good, Spamalot, Assassins, Man of La Mancha, Into the Woods and Judgement at Nuremberg. Opera designs include Moby Dick (Dallas Opera), Dead Man Walking (Houston Op-era), Mazeppa (Metropolitan Opera), War and Peace (Kirov and Met Opera), Tan Dun’s The Gate and Peter Sellars’ The Peony Pavilion. Off-Broadway designs include Fre-quency Hopping (set and projection), Embed-ded, The Stendhal Syndrome, Suitcase, Speak-ing in Tongues and The Thing About Men. Regional designs include Distracted (set and projection), Limonade tous les Jours, Fran’s Bed, Once in a Lifetime, Cobb and Hair. She received an Eddy Award in 2003. TOM WATSON (Hair and Wig Design) is head of the wig and makeup department at the Metropolitan Opera. He has designed wigs for more than 80 Broadway produc-tions. Current and recent Broadway de-signs include Wicked, Rock of Ages, How to Succeed…, The Addams Family, Annie, Act One, You Can’t Take It with You, The King and I, The Sound of Music national tour, Dames at Sea, Thérèse Raquin, Fiddler on the Roof (current revival), Bright Star and Long Day’s Journey into Night.

JOE DULUDE II (Makeup Designer). Broad-way and West End: Wicked, Beautiful. Broadway: Spongebob the Musical, Allegiance, Dr. Zhivago, On the Town, If/Then, Follies, Je-kyll & Hyde, The Normal Heart, Grease. Off-Broadway: Into the Woods (Public Theater), The Wild Party (Encores!), Show Boat (NY Philharmonic). Film: The Discovery (key makeup), Central Intelligence, Ghostbusters. Teaching: Pace University, Muhlenberg College, Hartt School. joe2design.com. JAKE BELL (Technical Supervisor) has been a stage manager and technical production manager on Broadway for more than 25 years. Broadway, national and internation-al credits include The Phantom of the Opera, Billy Elliot, Les Misérables, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Miss Saigon, Swan Lake, Dreamgirls, Cats, Chess. STEPHEN OREMUS (Music Supervisor/Ar-ranger) is currently serving as music super-visor/arranger for Disney’s Frozen, which premiered on Broadway this spring. Broad-way: Kinky Boots (2013 Tony Award for Best Orchestrations and 2013 Grammy Award), The Book of Mormon (2011 Tony and Drama Desk awards for Best Orchestrations and 2012 Grammy Award). Worldwide music supervisor/arranger of Wicked; music su-pervisor/vocal arranger/orchestrator of

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“Law & Order,” with sensational characters, gripping plotlines, and crimes ripped from the headlines.

That’s because they were.In 1924, 28-year-old Mau-

rine Dallas Watkins arrived in Chicago, a city quickly becoming a mecca for crime, liquor, and jazz. Watkins was an aspiring writer and play-wright from Harvard Univer-sity, and news writing was

recommended as a way for writers to hone their craft and gain exposure to a broad range of human experiences.

Watkins hit the gold mine at The Chicago Tribune, where she was assigned the Cook County Jail’s infamous “Murderess Row,” where Watkins met, covered, and was ul-timately troubled by Belva Gaertner and Beulah Annan, women she would later im-mortalize as Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart.

A cabaret singer and society divorcee, Belva Gaertner climbed her way into high society. Between divorces from William Gaertner, a man 20 years her senior, she was arrested in March 1924 at the age of 40 for the murder of her 30-year-old lover, Walter Law.

Law was found shot dead in his car after a night on the town with Gaertner. Her best defense was that she didn’t remember what happened. Blaming it on jazz and drink, she played the card of the fallen woman. She used class, charm, and high fashion to turn her image around. The press and all-male jury ate it up, and she was acquitted.

If Gaertner was the classiest murderess in Chicago, Beulah Annan was the prettiest. Annan was 25 years old and married to her second husband when she was arrested in April 1924 for the murder of her lover and boss, Harry Kalstedt.

Annan, who was born in nearby Ow-ensboro, KY, used her Southern charms to manipulate those involved in the case. Every interview and picture was an op-portunity to play out her sob story in the

public eye. She even faked a pregnancy to gain sympathy. Despite being found with the body and confessing immediately af-terwards, Annan altered her story several times and ultimately settled on a story of self-defense. After a celebrity circus with

“sold-out” courtroom seating, Annan, too, was acquitted.

Watkins’ coverage of these trials and those of several other women on Murderess Row were widely read. It was clear that she believed many of the women were guilty and they had gamed the system.

She later channeled all her cynicism and disenchantment into a play titled The Brave Little Women that was ultimately per-formed—to rave reviews—under the name Chicago. Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly were born. Annan’s two lawyers merged into the smooth-talking lawyer Billy Flynn.

Chicago opened on Broadway in 1926 and toured for two years. It was made into a si-lent movie in 1927, and in 1942 it became a movie called Roxie Hart, starring Ginger Rogers. After Watkins’ death in 1969, Bob Fosse bought the rights from her estate and worked with John Kander and Fred Ebb to create Chicago: A Musical Vaudeville, open-ing on Broadway in 1975. The 1996 revival of Chicago is the longest-running American musical in Broadway history, and the sec-ond longest-running musical of all time behind only The Phantom of the Opera.

Watkins’ story was a true original and what some say exemplified a new American style of comedy. Shocking, hilarious, and exploitative, Chicago remains, almost 100 years later, a uniquely American story of celebrity, satire, and cynicism.

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Above: The cast of Broadway’s Chicago, photo Jeremy Daniel, 2013. Left: The writer Maureen Dallas Watkins, photo: The Chicago Tribune.

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WHO’S WHOBroadway productions/tours of The Book of Mormon, Avenue Q, All Shook Up and 9 to 5; Grammy nominee as co-producer with Dolly Parton of 9 to 5 Broadway cast re-cording. Other credits: music supervisor, vocal arranger and or chestrator: tick, tick…BOOM!; music director: Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party; conductor and contributing or-chestrator for the Oscar-winning Disney film Frozen; music director of “The 87th Academy Awards” telecast and “The Wiz Live!” on NBC TV. WILLIAM DAVID BROHN (Orchestra-tions) received the 1998 Tony Award for Best Orchestrations for Ragtime. Other credits include Mary Poppins, Curtains, Miss Saigon, The Secret Garden, Show Boat, Crazy for You, Carousel, Sweet Smell of Success, Oklahoma! (B’way); Mary Poppins, Oliver!, My Fair Lady, South Pacific (London) and Betty Blue Eyes. He has provided arrangements for Marilyn Horne, James Galway, Placido Domingo and Joshua Bell’s recording on Sony Clas-sical of Bernstein’s West Side Story Suite for Violin and Orchestra. ALEX LACAMOIRE (Music Arrangements). As music director, arranger and/or orches-trator: Dear Evan Hansen (Tony and Gram-my awards), Hamilton (Tony, Grammy and Obie awards, plus a Drama Desk nom.), In the Heights (Tony and Grammy awards), Bring It On, Annie (2012), Working (59E59), The People in the Picture, 9 to 5 (Drama Desk and Grammy noms.), Legally Blonde, High Fidelity, Bat Boy: The Musical (Off-B’way), Godspell (2001 national tour). He’s an Emmy-nominated composer for “Sesame Street.” Love to Mom, Dad, Little Sis, his wife Ileana. ADAM SOUZA (Musical Director). Broad-way: Wicked, Kinky Boots; Tours: Wicked, Kinky Boots, Spamalot, Les Misérables, The Midtown Men. Associate Supervisor of Wicked in Mexico City and São Paolo, Bra-zil. Regional: Next to Normal, TheaterWorks Hartford; NSMT; Goodspeed Musicals, over 15 productions. The Boston Conservato-ry. For MOF. JAMES LYNN ABBOTT (Dance Arrange-ments). Broadway: Aida, Tarzan, Bombay Dreams, Rent, Footloose, Joseph…, Cats, Sun-set Boulevard and Miss Saigon. National tours include Starlight Express, Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Who’s Tommy and Je-sus Christ Superstar. He has performed with Aretha Franklin, Dennis De Young of Styx, Shirley Bassey, Bob Hope, Vanessa Wil-liams and Elton John. Clients include Dr

Pepper, Frito-Lay, American Airlines and General Electric. MICHAEL KELLER (Music Coordina-tor). Broadway: War Paint, Anastasia, Dear Evan Hansen, School of Rock, Hamilton. Up-coming Broadway: Prince of Broadway, The SpongeBob Musical, Frozen, Half Time. Cur-rent tours: Kinky Boots, Hamilton (Chicago), Hamilton (national tour). TELSEY + COMPANY (Casting). Broad-way/tours: Pretty Woman; Straight White Men; My Fair Lady; Carousel; Mean Girls; Frozen; Escape to Margaritaville; SpongeBob SquarePants; Once on This Island; Anasta-sia; Hello, Dolly!; Come from Away; Waitress; Hamilton; Kinky Boots; The Color Purple; On Your Feet!; The King and I; An American in Paris. Off-Broadway: Be More Chill, Sweeney Todd, Atlantic, MCC, Park Avenue Armory, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Second Stage. Film: Mary Poppins Returns, The Greatest Showman, Miss Sloane, Into the Woods, Margin Call, Rachel Getting Married. TV: “Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert,” “This Is Us,”

“House of Cards,” “Divorce,” “NCIS: New Orleans,” “One Day at a Time,” “Atypical,” commercials. telseyandco.com. LISA LEGUILLOU (Associate Director) worked with Joe Mantello on Frankie and Johnny…, Take Me Out and The Vagina Monologues. She appeared in eight Broad-way shows; on TV in “Sex and the City,”

“NYPD Blue” and “NY Undercover;” and in the films Changing Lanes, Center Stage, Ev-eryone Says I Love You and HBO’s “Angels in America.” CORINNE McFADDEN HERRERA (Asso ciate Choreographer) has worked with and assisted Wayne Cilento on Sweet Char-ity (Broadway and national tour) and Wick-ed (Broadway). As a performer, Corinne was featured in the Broadway revival of Sweet Charity and the original companies of Aida and Wicked. She has also appeared in and assistant choreographed numerous commercials and music videos. Thanks to Mom, Dad, Manny and Wayne. EDWARD PIERCE (Associate Scenic De-signer) operates a NYC-based design studio specializing in the production design of Broadway, touring and international stage productions. With his team of artists, Ed-ward provides first-class development and management of designs. Notable collabo-rations include the Tony Award-winning Wicked with Eugene Lee, Billy Elliot, The Pirate Queen, Aida, Ragtime, Cabaret and Noise/Funk. edwardpierce.com. CHIC SILBER (Special Effects). Broadway: Sherlock Holmes; Edward Gorey’s Dracula; The Elephant Man; Amadeus; Nicholas Nick-

leby; Tintypes; Working; The Dresser; Alice in Wonderland; Grand Hotel; Piaf; Orpheus De-scending; Moon Over Buffalo; Footloose; The Civil War; Aida; Kiss Me, Kate; Annie Get Your Gun; Dance of Death; Brooklyn; La Cage aux Folles; Godspell. Circus: Monte Carlo Circus Spectacular, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, Clyde Beatty–Cole Bros. DAVID O’BRIEN (Production Stage Man-ager). Broadway: Godspell, Wonderland, Lend Me a Tenor (2010), Grease, The Pajama Game, Sweet Charity, Fiddler on the Roof (2004), Noises Off, Stones in His Pockets, Cats, Guys and Dolls, among others. Directing credits include 59th FIFA Congress (2009) at At-lantis (Nassau), as well as the most recent national tours of Grease (2008 and 2010). COLLEEN DANAHER (Stage Manager) is thrilled to be a part of the Wicked team. Broadway: Godspell, Wonderland, South Pa-cific, Lend Me a Tenor, Grease, Grey Gardens. Regional: Many productions over several years at the Vineyard Playhouse in beauti-ful Martha’s Vineyard, Mass. Love to LBB. AARON ELGART (Assistant Stage Manag-er). Broadway: Cirque du Soleil’s Paramour, Disaster!, Newsies, Shatner’s World: We Just Live in It, Wit, Bonnie & Clyde, La Cage aux Folles (2010). National tours: Once, Sister Act, The Addams Family, 9 to 5 The Musical. Re-gional: Cutman (Goodspeed Musicals). GREGORY MAGUIRE (Author of Origi-nal Novel) published a dozen novels for children before writing his first adult novel, Wicked. A devotee of children’s fantasy, Maguire’s subsequent novels for adults are variations-on-a-theme: Confes-sions of an Ugly Stepsister considers Cinder-ella as a 17th-century maid from Harlem; Lost evokes the ghost of Charles Dickens’s Scrooge; and Mirror Mirror features a High Renaissance Snow White daunted by the wickedest stepmother, Lucrezia Borgia. Maguire’s novel Son of a Witch, a sequel to Wicked, is followed by A Lion Among Men and the final volume of the Wicked Years, Out of Oz. He lives in Massachusetts and Vermont with his husband, the painter Andy Newman, and their three children. 321 THEATRICAL MANAGEMENT (General Management). Credits include Wicked (worldwide); SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical; War Paint; Oh, Hello on Broad-way; Fully Committed (Broadway revival and original Off-Broadway); Fun Home; If/Then; Peter and the Starcatcher; Bring It On: The Musical; Sister Act; Traces; Next to Normal; The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; The Vagina Monologues; Man of La Mancha; The Graduate; I Love You, You’re Perfect…; and Bat Boy. Other management credits in-

clude The Lion King, Smokey Joe’s Café, The Santaland Diaries, Full Gallop, Smoke on the Mountain, Rent, Guys and Dolls and The Di-ary of Anne Frank. 321 Theatrical Manage-ment includes Nina Essman, Nancy Gibbs, Marcia Goldberg, Ken Silverman, Danielle Karliner Naish and Amy Merlino. MARC PLATT (Producer). Theater: The Band’s Visit (Tony Award); War Paint; Oh, Hello on Broadway; If/Then; Pal Joey; Three Days of Rain; Wicked; Matthew Bourne’s Edward Scissorhands (Drama Desk Award); Family Week. Films: Hotel Artemis, La La Land (Oscar nomination), The Girl on the Train, Bridge of Spies (Oscar nomination), Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, Ricki and the Flash, Into the Woods, Drive, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Nine, Rachel Getting Married, Wanted, Legally Blonde, Legally Blonde 2, Song One, Lost River, Winter’s Tale, 2 Guns, Charlie St. Cloud, Cop Out, The Other Woman, The Seeker, The Perfect Man, Honey and Josie and the Pussycats. Upcoming films: Mary Pop-pins Returns. Television: “Jesus Christ Su-perstar Live in Concert” (NBC), “A Christ-mas Story Live!” (FOX), “Grease: Live!” (FOX, Emmy Award), “Empire Falls” (HBO),

“Taking the Stage” (MTV), “Once Upon a Mattress” (ABC), “The Path to 9/11” (ABC). UNIVERSAL STAGE PRODUCTIONS (Producer) is the live-theater division of the world-famous motion picture studio, cur-rently represented by the record-breaking phenomenon Wicked, currently celebrat-

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WHO’S WHOing its 14th hit year on Broadway. Addi-tional credits include Billy Elliot, winner of 10 Tony Awards including Best Musical; Bring It On: The Musical; the Tony Award-winning revival of The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess; and Holiday Inn—The New Ir-ving Berlin Musical with Roundabout The-atre Company. THE ARACA GROUP (Producer). Founded in 1997 by partners Matthew Rego, Michael Rego and Hank Unger, The Araca Group produces and merchandises live entertain-ment and theatrical events on Broadway and around the world. For more informa-tion, please visit araca.com. JON B. PLATT (Producer). Productions in-clude Wicked, The Book of Mormon, Angels in America/Perestroika, Copenhagen, God of Carnage, Death of a Salesman, A Raisin in the Sun, A View from the Bridge, Clybourne Park, Mother/Hat, Jerusalem, Venus in Fur, Betrayal, You’re Welcome America, Driving Miss Daisy, I’ll Eat You Last, The Diary of Anne Frank, No Man’s Land/Waiting for Godot, Exit the King, A Delicate Balance, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Recipient, the 2012 Robert Whitehead Award for Distin-guished Producing.

DAVID STONE (Producer) is currently rep resented by Wicked and The Boys in the Band. He has also produced War Paint, If/Then, Next to Normal, The 25th Annual Put-nam County Spelling Bee, Three Days of Rain, Man of La Mancha, The Vagina Monologues, Fully Committed, Lifegame, The Diary of Anne Frank, Full Gallop, The Santaland Diaries and Family Secrets. David serves on the boards of The Broadway League and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. He also serves on the advi sory boards of V-Day and Second Stage Theatre. David has lectured on theater at Yale, Princeton, Columbia and his alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania.

STAFF CREDITS for WICKEDCASTING

Telsey + CompanyBernard Telsey CSA Craig Burns CSA

Laura Wade Ally KileyGENERAL MANAGEMENT

321 Theatrical ManagementNina Essman Nancy Nagel Gibbs

Marcia GoldbergTECHNICAL SUPERVISION

JAKE BELL PRODUCTION SERVICES LTD.TOUR PRESS REPRESENTATIVE

Phillip Aleman

COMPANY MANAGER .............................................................. Steve Quinn

ENGAGEMENT MANAGER ....................................................... KEN SILVERMANPRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER ..............................................DAVID O’BRIEN Stage Manager ......................................................................Colleen DanaherAssistant Stage Manager ............................................................ Aaron ElgartAssociate Company Manager ......................................................Emily PowellAssistant to Mr. Schwartz ...........................................................Michael ColeAssistant Scenic Designer .........................................................Nick FranconeOz Map Design .......................................................................Francis KeepingAssociate Costume Designer .............................................. Amanda WhiddenAssociate Hair Designer .............................................................J. Jared JanasAssistant Costume Designers ................................................Tricia Barsamian,

Amy C. Bradshaw, Cathy Small, Mary WilsonAssociate Lighting Designer .......................................................Karen SpahnAssoc. Lighting Designer/Automated Lights .............................Warren FlynnAssistant Lighting Designer ............................................................. Joel ShierAssoc. Sound Designer/Prod. Sound Engineer ..............................Kai HaradaAssistant Sound Designer ....................................................Catherine MardisProjections Programmer ..............................................Demfis FyssicopolousAssociate Projection Designer ................................................... Shawn BoyleAssistant Projection Designer .................................................Keri ThibodeauProjection Animators .................................Gareth Smith, Ari Sachter-ZeltzerSpecial Effects Associate ..............................................................Aaron WaitzFlying Effects ....................................................................ZFX Flying IllusionsProduction Carpenter ................................................................. Rick HowardHead Carpenters ........................................................ Ed Lohrer, Rick SchadleAutomation Carpenter ................................................................ Rick SchadleAssistant Carpenters .......................................Forrest Hinman, Terry ThomasFlyman ........................................................................................... Don Hill, Jr.Production Electrician ......................................................... Brendan QuigleyScenic Electrics ...............................................................................Mike WardHead Electrician ........................................................................... Keno GarciaAssistant Electricians ........................................Jacob Martin, Edgar VanegasProduction Properties Supervisor ......................................... George WagnerHead Properties ............................................................................ Bob UzabelAssistant Properties ..........................................................................Noel BellHead Sound Engineer ............................................................... David Romich

Assistant Sound Engineer ..........................................................James WilcoxAdditional Production Staff .........................................................Henry BakerProduction Wardrobe Supervisor ...............................................Alyce GilbertWardrobe Supervisor ..........................................................Cynthia LancasterAssistant Wardrobe Supervisors .....................Glen Moore, Michelle RoussellHair Supervisor .........................................................................Andrea ShairsAssistant Hair Supervisor ........................................................... David BryantMakeup Design .....................................................................Joseph Dulude IIMakeup Supervisor .............................................................. Joyce McGilberryMasks and Prosthetics .................W.M. Creations, Inc., Matthew W. MungleAdvance Carpenters ......................................David Johnson, Edwin Lohrer III,

Dave Rader, Duke Wilson Advance Electrician .........................................................................Eric RimesAdvance Electrics/Sound ....................................................... David TrovarelliAdvance Sound............................................................................ Brian MooreAdvance Wardrobe ...........................................................Ann M. BruskiewitzMusic Preparation .................................................Anixter/Rice Music ServiceSynthesizer Programming ..................................................... Andrew Barrett Guitar Effects Programming .........................................................Lou GarrettProduction Assistants ....................Susan Bero, Sarah Koehler, Joshua Pilote,

Stuart Shefter, Wendy StephensAdvertising .......................................................Serino Coyne/Greg Corradetti

Caroline Thompson, Kevin HirstWebsite ..........................................................................Situation InteractiveMerchandise .........................................................................The Araca GroupBanking .................................................................................Bank of AmericaPayroll ............................................................................ Checks and BalancesAccounting ..................................................................WithumSmith+Brown

Robert Fried, CPA, Karen Kowgios, CPA, Anthony Moore, CPAInsurance ......................................................AON/Albert G. Ruben InsurancePhysical Therapy .........................................................................NEURO TOUR,

Physical Therapy Inc., Cecilee Fleming, DPTHousing and Travel ....................................................................... Road Rebel

Makeup provided by MAC CosmeticsMARC PLATT PRODUCTIONS

Adam Siegel, Greg Lessans, Joey Levy, Jared LeBoff, Ryan Christians, Dan Attanasio, Katie McNicol, TJ Barber

STONE PRODUCTIONSDavid Stone Patrick Catullo Aaron Glick

UNIVERSAL STAGE PRODUCTIONSVice Chairman, NBCUniversal ........................................................ Ron MeyerChairman, Universal Filmed Entertainment .....................................Jeff ShellChairman, Universal Pictures.................................................. Donna LangleyPresident, Universal Pictures ................................................ Jimmy HorowitzSVP, CFO Productions ..............................................................Arturo BarquetVP, Live Theatricals............................................................... Chris HerzbergerVP, Legal Affairs ..............................................................................Keith Blau

321 THEATRICAL MANAGEMENT Heather Allen Amy Merlino Coey

Theresa Cooper Penelope Daulton Katie Engel Justin Gleiberman Marissa Gonzales Danielle Karliner

Rachel Kaufman Ellise Lesser Stuart Levy Uma McCrosson Jason Neufeld Rebecca Peterson Susan Sampliner

Tyler Siems Maan Singh Tinna

EXCLUSIVE TOUR DIRECTIONStephen Lindsay Brett Sirota

The Road Company www.theroadcompany.com

CREDITSScenery built by F&D Scene Changes. Scenic motion control featuring Stage Command Systems© by Scenic Technologies, a division of PRG. Lighting equipment from PRG Lighting; Sound equipment from PRG Audio, both divisions of Production Resource Group LLC. Special effects by Sunshine Scenic Studios and Aztec Stage Lighting. Video projection system by Scharff Weisberg Inc. Projections by Vermilion Border Productions. Costumes by Barbara Matera Ltd., Parsons-Meares Ltd., Tricorne, Eric Winterling, Scafati and Cego. Millinery by Rodney Gordon and Lynne Mackey Shoes by T.O. Dey,

Frederick Longtin, LaDuca and J.C. Theatrical. Flatheads and monkey wings by Michael Curry Design Inc. Chistery growing wings by Robert Allsop. Life-casts by Todd Kleitsch and Sunday Englis. Fur by Fur & Furgery. Undergarments and hosiery by Bra*Tenders, Inc. Antique jewelry by Ilene Chazanof. Specialty jewelry and tiaras by Larry Vrba. Custom Oz accessories by LouLou Button. Custom screening by Olympus Flag and Banner and Gene Mignola. Certain props by John Creech Designs & Den Design Studio. Graphic props by Proper Decorum, Inc. Confetti by Artistry in Motion. Puppets by Bob Flanagan. Spellbooks by Sascha Kaminski. Bedding by Sew & So. Wigs by Watson Associates. Electronic instruments and equipment from Manny’s Music. Guitar amplifiers by Mesa Boogie. Cymbals by Sabian. Drumheads by Remo. Drumheads from Headhunters. Rehearsed at New 42nd Street Studios.

The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.

The musicians employed in this production are members of the American Federation of Musicians.

The Director and Choreographer are members of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, an national theatrical labor union.

United Scenic Artists represents the designers and scenic painters for the American Theatre.

Backstage and Front of the House Employees are represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (or I.A.T.S.E.).

The Press Agent and Company Managers employed in this production are represented by the Association of Theatrical Press Agents & Managers.

This production is produced by members of The Broadway League in collaboration with our professional union-represented employees.

UNITY • HARMONY • ARTISTRY

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We proudly present Preludes & Encores, our recommendations for a great meal before the show, or a place to close the night’s curtain with a delicious dessert. Please consider these wonderful restaurants—and mention that you heard about them in the Broadway In Detroit program. Thanks!

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Andiamo Riverfront • andiamoitalia.com ; and Joe Muer Seafood • joemuer.com • page 27 Detroit Riverfront, Renaissance Center. Type of Cuisine: Italian, Seafood, Price: $$$, Amenities: R,G,V. We are proud to welcome Broadway In Detroit guests before the show, after the show and anytime at all! Enjoy a great atmosphere and professional service with incredible views along the Detroit River.

La Musique • hotelstregisdetroit.com • page 25 New Center, 3071 W Grand Blvd., Detroit, MI 48202. (313) 873-3000. Type of cuisine: American, Price: $$, Amenities: GPRV. Eat. Play. Stay. Park and dine at La Musique in the historic St. Regis Hotel and walk to the Fisher Theatre. Contemporary American Cuisine.

The Maple Kitchen • themapletheater.com • page 26 The Maple Theater, 4135 W. Maple Rd., Bloomfield Twsp., MI 48301. (248) 325-9139. Type of cuisine: American, Price $$, Amenities: FG, V weekends. Present our ad and get $5 off with the purchase of $20 or more. Not valid with other offers.

Mario’s • mariosdetroit.com • page 26 Midtown, 4222 Second St., Detroit, MI 48201. (313) 832-1616. Type of cuisine: Italian, Price: $$$, Amenities: GPRSV. Complimentary shuttle to & from the theatre. Show your tickets and receive 10% off food on your performance date. Afterglow specials too! Party with the people who perform.

Mercury Burger Bar • mercuryburgerbar.com • page 29 Corktown, 2163 Michigan Ave. Detroit MI. 48216, (313) 964-5000. Type of cuisine: American, Price: $. Classic American burger bar, gourmet burgers, hot dogs, grilled bologna, tater tots, Guernsey dairy milk shakes, Michigan craft beers, full bar.

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Ottava Via • ottavavia.com • page 29 Corktown, 1400 Michigan Ave. Detroit MI. 48216, (313) 962-5500. Type of cuisine: Casual/Rustic Italian, Price: $$, Amenities: FR. Stone fired pizza, small plates, pasta, Italian entrees, gelato, outdoor seating, bocci ball in season, full bar.

The Rattlesnake Club • rattlesnakedetroit.com • page 28 300 River Place Drive, Detroit, MI 48207. (313) 567-4400. Type of cuisine: American, Price $$$ GRV. The Rattlesnake Club celebrates 30 years of fine dining in Detroit! Enjoy our innovative cuisine, attentive service and award-winning wine list on Detroit’s Riverfront!

Traffic Jam & Snug • trafficjamdetroit.com • page 28 511 W. Canfield St., Detroit MI, 48201. (313) 831-9470. Type of cuisine: American, Price: $$, Amenities: FGR. Featuring an eclectic menu of vegetarian items, burgers, fresh fish, pastas & salads. Decadent house-made desserts. Free, guarded parking. Minutes from the Fisher Theatre. See our ad to save 15% on your next entrée.

Three restaurants in The Westin Book Cadillac Downtown Detroit, 1128 Washington Blvd. at Michigan Ave., Detroit MI 48226 • page 31: ● Roast • roastdetroit.com, (313) 961-2500. Type of cuisine: American, Price: $$$, Amenities: RV. Iron Chef Michael Symon’s Roast was named a Detroit Free Press Restaurant of the Year.● 24 Grille • spa1924grille.com, (313) 964-3821. Type of cuisine: American, Price: $$$, Amenities: RV. Take 10% off your entire bill with your theatre ticket.● Motor Bar • bookcadillacwestin.com, (313) 442-1600. Type of cuisine: American, Price: $$, Amenities: V. On the second floor, a comfortable location for a classic late night cocktail, dessert or appetizer after the show.

The Whitney • thewhitney.com • page 6 Midtown, 4421 Woodward Ave., Detroit MI 48201. (313) 832-5700. Type of cuisine: American, Price: $$$, Amenities: GPRV. Detroit’s most romantic restaurant. Experience our Prix Fixe Theatre Menu before your next show or join us anytime for dinner or an elegant dessert seven nights a week. Call for reservations during intermission or after tonight’s performance!

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The Westin Book Cadillac celebrates ten years as Detroit’s premiere hotel destination with a fresh new perspective. The three phase, multimillion dollar transformation culminates in 2019 and will celebrate the past, present and future of our beloved city.

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BROADWAY IN DETROIT Volume 56, Number 12

August 8–September 2, 2018The Program for Broadway In Detroit at

The Detroit Opera House

Under the management of Nederlander Detroit, LLC

Executive Director ........................................................... Alan N. LichtensteinAssistant to Mr. Lichtenstein ........................................................ Nancy KingDirector, Corporate Sales/Marketing ............................................Scott MyersSenior Director, Marketing ......................................................... Alyssa CohenAccounting ............................................................................... Barbara JonesBox Office Treasurer ...................................................................Mirena CantuGroup Sales Manager ......................................................................Amy YokinSubscription Manager ................................................Kim MogielskiAdvertising Director ...................................................Debbie Michelson, SMZPress Agent ................................. Brendy Barr, Brendy Barr CommunicationsProgram Design ..............................................Frank Bach, Bach & Associates

The Detroit Opera House 1526 Broadway Street, Detroit, MI 48226

is owned and operated by Michigan Opera Theatre

michiganopera.orgPresident and CEO ..................................................................... Wayne BrownChief Administrative Officer ................................................... Patricia WalkerHouse Manager ...........................................................................Randy ElliottSenior Patron Services Officer ...................................................... John O’Dell

Director of Production.............................................................. David OsborneTechnical Director ................................................................. Daniel T. BrinkerAssistant Technical Director ..................................................Heather DeFauwAssistant Technical Director ..................................................... Kevin NeumanHead Carpenter ...........................................................................John KinsoraHead Propertyman ....................................................................Patrick McGeeHead Electrician ..........................................................................Fred GrahamHead Sound ....................................................................................Chris BakerHead Flyman .............................................................................Robert MartinProduction Electrician ................................................................ Gary GilmoreHead of Wardrobe ............................................................ Mary Ellen ShuffettOrchestra Personnel Manager .................................................. Molly HughesThe photographing or sound recording of any performance or the possession of any device for such photographing or sound recording inside the theater with-out the written permission of the management is prohibited by law. Violations may be punishable by ejection and may render the offender liable for money damages.

Backstage employees are represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (I.A.T.S.E) Local #38.

Lost and Found(Items will be held 30 days) .................................................... (313) 961-3500Emergencies/Security ............................................................. (313) 237-3257Pre-paid Parking ..................................................................... (313) 237-7464Opera House Parking Center ...................................................(313) 965-4052Cadillac Café Reservations ...................................................(313) 307-3123 or

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AGE LIMIT As a courtesy to our patrons, it is the policy of Broadway In Detroit not to admit children under the age of 5. This policy may be altered from time to time based on Shows and Show content. You will be made aware of particular age restrictions during your purchase. Some shows make further age appropriate recommendations and Broadway In Detroit will provide those on its website; however, judgment of the content for each show should be made on an individual basis prior to purchase. When available, Broadway In Detroit provides links to show websites for further information. All patrons, regardless of age, must have a ticket.

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