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Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller/arr. Steven ReinekeOn Broadway

Julie Styne/arr. Robert Russell BennettSelections from Gypsy Julie Styne/Bob Merrill/arr. Larry Moore“Don’t Rain on My Parade” from Funny Girl Stephen Sondheim/arr. Steven Reineke“Children Will Listen” from Into the Woods Charles Strouse/arr. Steven Reineke“Put on a Happy Face” from Bye Bye Birdie Stephen Flaherty/Lynn Ahrens/arr. Neil Douglas Reilly“The Streets of Dublin” from A Man of No Importance Claude-Michel Schõnberg“Bring Him Home” from Les Misérables

Tuesday, April 10, 20188:00pm

Wednesday, April 11, 20182:00pm & 8:00pm

Thursday, April 12, 20188:00pm

Steven Reinekeconductor

Stephanie J. Blockvocalist

Ramin Karimloovocalist

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John Kander/Fred Ebb/arr. Tommy Newsom/Tim Berens“Gimme Love” from Kiss of the Spiderwoman Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein II/orch. Edward B. Powell“If I Loved You” from Carousel Leonard Bernstein/arr. Jack MasonSelections from West Side Story

Intermission

Richard Rodgers/orch. Robert Russell BennettSouth Pacific Overture John Kander and Fred Ebb“Ring Them Bells” Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II“Ol’ Man River” from Showboat Stephen Flaherty/arr. Steven ReinekeRagtime from Ragtime

Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein II/orch. Robert Russell Bennett“I Have Dreamed” from The King and I Stephen Sondheim/arr. Roland Shaw“Move On” from Sunday in the Park with George Richard Rodgers/orch. Robert Russell BennettCinderella Waltz from Cinderella Stephen Sondheim/arr. Jonathan Tunick“Being Alive” from Company Stephen Schwartz/arr. Randall Craig Fleisher“Defying Gravity” from Wicked

Steven Reineke’s appearance with the TSO on April 11 is generously supported by Sarah and Ross Kerr.

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THE ARTISTS

Steven Reinekeconductor

Steven Reineke has established himself as one of North America’s leading conductors of popular music. He is the Music Director of the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, Principal Pops Conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and Principal

Pops Conductor of the Houston Symphony and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Reineke is also a frequent guest conductor with The Philadelphia Orchestra and has been on the podium with the Boston Pops, The Cleveland Orchestra, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Ravinia. His extensive North American conducting appearances include concerts in San Francisco, Kansas City, Seattle, Edmonton, Pittsburgh, Vancouver, Ottawa, Detroit, Milwaukee, and Calgary.

On stage, Reineke has created programs and collaborated with a range of leading artists from the worlds of hip-hop, Broadway, television, and rock, including Common, Kendrick Lamar, Nas, Sutton Foster, Megan Hilty, Cheyenne Jackson, Wayne Brady, Peter Frampton, and Ben Folds, among others. In 2017, National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” featured Reineke leading the National Symphony Orchestra performing live music excerpts between news segments—a first in the show’s 45-year history.

As the creator of more than 100 orchestral arrangements for the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Reineke’s work has been performed worldwide and can be heard on numerous Cincinnati Pops Orchestra recordings on the Telarc label. His symphonic works Celebration Fanfare, Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and Casey at the Bat are performed frequently. His numerous wind ensemble compositions are published by the C.L. Barnhouse Company and are performed by concert bands worldwide.

A native of Ohio, Reineke is a graduate of Miami University of Ohio, where he earned bachelor’s degrees with honours in both trumpet performance and music composition. He currently resides in New York City with his husband, Eric Gabbard.

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Stephanie J. BlockvocalistThese performances mark Stephanie J. Block’s TSO début.

Stephanie has established herself as one of Broadway’s most versatile leading ladies. She has most recently starred in the New York revival of Falsettos (Tony Award Nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, Drama Desk Award Nomination

for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical, Outer Critics Award Nomination, Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical), Little Miss Sunshine (Drama Desk Award Nomination for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical), The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Tony Award Nomination for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical and Drama Desk Award Nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Musical), Anything Goes, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, 9 to 5: The Musical (Drama Desk Award Nomination for Best Actress in a Musical), Wicked, The Pirate Queen, and The Boy from Oz. She starred in the first national touring company of Wicked as Elphaba (Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Actress, Carbonell Award for Best Actress in a Musical). Television credits include: Rise, Orange is the New Black, Homeland, and Madam Secretary.

Stephanie has sung with numerous symphony orchestras around the US. Her voice can be heard on the original cast recordings of The Boy from Oz, The Pirate Queen, and 9 to 5: The Musical (GRAMMY® Nomination), and of course her own album, This Place I Know. She is a proud member of The Musical Theatre Guild and has been a member of Actors’ Equity since 1995. For more information, please visit Stephaniejblock.com.

Ramin KarimloovocalistThese performances mark Ramin Karimloo’s TSO début.

Theatre credits include: Anastasia (Gleb – Broadway), White Rabbit Red Rabbit (New York City), Evita (Che – Vancouver Opera), The Secret Garden (Archibald Craven), Prince of

Broadway (Tokyo and Osaka), Les Misérables (Valjean – Tony Award Nomination), The Phantom of the Opera (Phantom – West End), Love Never Dies (Phantom – Olivier Award Nomination), Miss Saigon (Chris), Sunset Boulevard (Joe Gillis), Pirates of Penzance.

TV/Film credits include: Blue Bloods (CBS), The Spa (Sky), Life’s Too Short (BBC), The Phantom of the Opera, and Les Misérables 25th Anniversary (Universal). Follow him on Twitter: @raminkarimloo