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The Broadway Princess Party starring Laura OsnesSusan EganCourtney Reed Benjamin Rauhala

SAMUELI THEATER December 14 – 16, 2017

Thursday–Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

Out of courtesy to the artists and your fellow patrons, please take a moment to turn

off and refrain from using cellular phones, pagers, watch alarms and similar devices. The use of any audio or videorecording device or the taking of photographs (with or without

flash) is strictly prohibited. Thank you.

The Center applauds:

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Laura Osnes Laura Osnes created the role of Julia Trojan in the new musical Bandstand, which just completed its Tony® Award-winning run on Broadway. Her other Broadway credits include the title role in Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Drama Desk Award; Tony, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League and Astaire Award nomina-tions), Bonnie in Bonnie and Clyde (Tony nomination), Hope Harcourt in the Tony Award-winning revival of Anything Goes (Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Astaire Award nominations), Nellie Forbush in Lincoln Center Theater’s production of South Pacific, and Sandy in the most recent revival of Grease. Other New York/regional credits include The Blueprint Specials, The Threepenny Opera (Drama Desk Award nomination) at the Atlantic Theater Company; City Center Encores! produc-tions of The Band Wagon, Randy Newman’s Faust, and Pipe Dream; The Sound of Music in concert at Carnegie Hall; Carousel oppo-site Steven Pasquale at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Broadway: Three Generations at the Kennedy Center. On television, she has been seen on the CBS series Elementary, in the HBO pilot The Miraculous Year, Sondheim: The Birthday Concert at Avery Fisher Hall, HBO’s documentary Six By Sondheim, and the Kennedy Center Honors salutes to Barbara Cook (2011) and Dustin Hoffman (2012). Her many concerts and cabarets include performing with Michael Feinstein, the New York Philharmonic, The New York Pops, The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, The Boston Pops, The San Francisco Symphony, and The National Symphony Orchestra, as well as appearing in such venues as Carnegie Hall, The Café Carlyle, Feinstein’s/54 Below, Lincoln Center, The Smith Center in Las Vegas, and MN Orchestra Hall. In addition to being heard on several cast recordings, Laura has two solo albums, Dream A Little Dream: Live at The Café Carlyle and If I Tell You: The Songs of Maury Yeston. @lauraosnes

Susan Egan Susan Egan has made powerful impres-sions in theater, film, television and music. She headlined on Broadway in Thoroughly Modern Millie, won critical acclaim as “Sally Bowles” in Cabaret, starred in Triumph of Love and State Fair, and received Tony Award and Drama Desk nominations for “Best Actress” as the original “Belle” in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. Regionally, Egan starred alongside Carol Burnett in Putting It Together and Tommy Tune in the national tour of Bye, Bye Birdie, and devel-

oped works at Yale Repertory, Baltimore Center Stage, South Coast Repertory, and the Mark Taper Forum. Her film credits include 13 Going on 30, Gotta Kick It Up for the Disney Channel, and many award-winning indies seen at Seattle Film Festival, Sarasota Film Festival, Slamdance, the HBO Comedy Festival and beyond. Susan has voiced leading characters in the animated features Hercules (Meg), Spirited Away (Lin), Porco Rosso (Gina), Lady and the Tramp II (Angel), Achmed Saves America (Ginny), and is currently on Cartoon

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About the Artists

Laura Osnes

Susan Egan Courtney Reed

Network’s Steven Universe (Rose Quartz). On television, she spent two seasons on the WB’s Nikki, and guest-starred on House, Numb3rs, NYPD Blue, Arli$$, Drew Carey, Great Performances, and countless oth-ers. Susan has headlined with more than 50 symphony orchestras worldwide, including concerts at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center and the Hollywood Bowl, and has over 40 recording credits including her solo CDs: All That and More, So Far, Winter Tracks, CoffeeHouse (Best Vocalist 2004), Susan Egan LIVE, The Secret of Happiness, and 2015’s Softly. She is an accomplished master teacher in music per-formance, obsessive gardener, happy wife, and leader to her daughters’ two Girl Scout troops. www.SusanEgan.net.

Courtney Reed Courtney Reed can currently be seen playing Princess Jasmine in Disney’s latest Broadway hit Aladdin, directed by Casey Nicholaw. She also had the honor of being a part of the closing cast of the Tony Award-winning musical In The Heights, in which she played Carla, u/s Nina & Vanessa. She made her Broadway debut in Mamma Mia! Favorite Regional: “Andrea” in Once on This Island at Papermill Playhouse directed by Thomas Kail. Television: The Affair, Law & Order: SVU, White Collar, NYC 22 and CSI: NY. Proud graduate of the Theatre Conservatory of CCPA at Roosevelt University. She debuted her first solo con-cert Confessions of a Broadway Princess this past summer at Feinstein’s/54 Below. Twitter/Instagram/Snapchat: @RhodesReed

Benjamin Rauhala

Benjamin Rauhala worked on the music team for both Bartlett Sher’s Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof and the Broadway pro-duction of Duncan Sheik’s American Psycho during the 2016 season. His Off-Broadway credits include David Byrne’s Joan of Arc: Into The Fire at The Public Theater and the current revival of The Marvelous Wonderettes at Theater Row. He is best known for his work touring the country as the music direc-tor for Jeremy Jordan, the Tony-nominated star of Broadway’s Newsies and The CW’s Supergirl. He also tours with Nashville star Kyle Dean Massey, Trial and Error star Krysta Rodriguez, and with Next to Normal Tony nominee Jennifer Damiano. He previously served as music director for Hit List, the meta-musical from the NBC television show SMASH and is an Original Programming Producer at Feinstein’s/54 Below, where he has created dozens of sold-out conce”’Broadway Loves” Series, that has famously honored Britney Spears, Celine Dion and many more beloved pop icons. @brauhala

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Benjamin Rauhala