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A NOTE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

L eonard Bernstein. When I came to know the name, as a young musician in the 1970s, he was already eternal, like Beethoven. But

unlike his predecessor, Leonard Bernstein still lived and worked, and he made appearances on television too. In the 1980s, when I entered Indiana University, the halls echoed his name. The Maestro had recently been in residence on campus. Bernstein oversaw performances of his Mass and his opera, A Quiet Place, at the university. And when I earned a place in the cast of West Side Story at the I.U. Opera House, I was able to live and breathe firsthand the genius of his greatest musical score. Few experiences can surpass the Act I climax, Tonight. My part was small. “The Jets are gonna have their way. Tonight.” My pulse never raced so fast, hanging off of the fire escape, in a sublime musical battle with the Sharks, Anita, Maria, Tony and the entire cast and orchestra. Shortly after I graduated from college, Bernstein left this earth. I felt that I had entered the music profession as a new era commenced, the post-Bernstein era. For these reasons, and many others, I’m proud that West Side Story is VPAC’s second musical theater presentation. We’re proud to welcome back Tom McCoy and Cathy Rigby who are at the helm of this production. Looking ahead to the 2017-18 season, VPAC will join theaters around the world to celebrate Bernstein, on the occasion of what would be his 100th birthday. VPAC will present three performances in three different artistic disciplines starting in November 2017. I will be announcing next season in a few weeks, on May 5. Meanwhile, West Side Story brings

ernstein to VPAC for the first time, with much more yet to come.

Warmly,

Thor Steingraber, Executive Director Valley Performing Arts Center

Warmly,

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President, CSUNDr. Dianne F. Harrison

Vice President of Administration and

Finance, CSUNColin Donahue

Executive Director, VPACThor Steingraber

Associate Executive Director, VPAC

Terence McFarland

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WELCOMING YOU TO VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

CONTENTS

10 ASPEN SANTA FE BALLET

22 WEST SIDE STORY

42 ST. PETERSBURG PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

50 BUSTER KEATON’S THE GENERAL

58 COLBURN ORCHESTRA

ST. PETERSBURG PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

Cover: Aspen Santa Fe Ballet by Rosalie O’Connor; P.03: Thor Steingraber by Luis Luque; P.04-5: St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra courtesy of Stas Levshin; P.07: Ambassadors and Spouses by Luis Luque; P.09: Zac Northcraft by Luis Luque; P.10: Aspen Santa Fe Ballet by Rosalie O’Connor; P.17: Aspen Santa Fe Ballet by Rosalie O’Connor; P.18: Aspen Santa Fe Ballet by Rosalie O’Connor; P.34: St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra courtesy of Opus 3 Artists; P.39: Yuri Temikanov by Stas Levshin; P.40-41: St. Petersburg Philharmonic by Stas Levshin; P.42: The General courtesy of Dennis James; P.45: Richard Kaufman by Eric Stoner; P.48: Dennis James Courtesy of Dennis James; P.49: New West Symphony Courtesy of New West Symphony; P.50: Colburn School; P.55: Colburn Orchestra by Colburn School; P.56-57: Great Hall by Luis Luque; P.58: Art Gallery by Pascal Giacomini; P.59: Aspen Santa Fe Ballet by Rosalie O’Connor and Taj Express Courtesy of Taj Express ; P.60: Usher Holding Tickets by Steve Babuljak; P.62: Porter Pavilion by Joey Solano; P.63: Bistro on the Terrace by Jeff Fasano.

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CHAMPIONS$25,000$49,999

The Colburn FoundationDebbie Valera and Milt Valera ’68

$10,000$24,999

Carol Colburn GrigorHorace Heidt Big Bands FoundationDavid LeeSheila and Stanford L. Kurland Family FoundationMarla Lefton ’83 and Cary LeftonKathleen P. MartinTimothy Wahl and Julia Strickland

PATRONS$5,000$9,999

Sherry LapidesVirginia ManciniManja and Dennis K. Swanson Carolyn C. PowersElizabeth A. PurcellDr. Raul RuizJudith S. and John F. Rothman

$1,000$4,999

Linda and Jeffrey M. AbellJeffrey Baker and Rodney Davis Dr. Marlene BaneJohn Behring and Dr. Shari Tarver BehringBill BergRosalyn and Neal BergJane Berk and James G. Berk ’81 Hon. D. ’11Chuck Berney and FamilyIrene Markham BoydJoan Reynolds BoyettRobert F. and Susan Pfeiler BrownEdwin K. Burke ’59, M.A. ‘69Edwin BurkeCatherine and Dr. Donald Cameron Ph.D.

Allison ClagoJilanne Fager ’63, M.A. ’72 and Richard FagerDr. Bonnie Faherty and Edward G. FeldmanFred FisherThomas J. FordDeanna and Jim GormanTama HolveJon and Susan JoyceHelen Gordon Lowy M.P.H.’75 and Alan LowyMaria S. ParedesThe Jon. Joy and Dr. Gerald PicusBarbara and Sheldon PinchukNancy J. PorterJoyce and David PrimesCynthia and Robert RawitchAndrea Reinken ’80 and Don ReinkenChristi Robinson ’07 and John RobinsonDr. Carol ShubinLinda and Judd T. SwarzmanMarcella and Richard Tyler

FRIENDS$500$999

Sandra and Ronald FriedmanMichael W. GilbertNatalie and Jeffrey M. NoblittFrancine OschinEdward and Peggy RobinCharlene Sievers ’74 and Mike SieversRenee TepperAlma R. Zatarain

$100$499

Nancy and James AllenJudy Benedict Gregory P. BeusingRegina ChinwezeSusan Levy D’AnnaGuadalupe DiazRuth Forman

VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER DONORS 20162017

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VPAC AMBASSADORS ADVISORY BOARD

VALLEY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER DONORS 20162017

Jeffrey Baker

Irene M. Boyd

Joan Boyett

Susan Pfeiler Brown

Ed K. Burke ‘59, M.A. ‘69

Donald Cameron

Rodney Davis

Jilanne Fager ’63, M.A. ’72

Deanna Gorman

Tama Holve

Sherry Lapides

Marla Lefton ’83

Helen Gordon Lowy M.P.H. ’75

Alan Lowy

Francine Oschin ’84

The Hon. Joy Picus

Barbara Pinchuk Andrea

Reinken ’80 Christi

Robinson ’07

Dr. Carol Shubin

Ellen R. Stohl ‘94

Dr. Shari Tarver-Behring

Marcella Tyler

Toni HertzLindsay A. HillKarlyn HirschmannBrenda KannoBarbara and Donald KornblauAliza and Michael LesserBarbara and Gary LuboffMelody MansfieldPatricia and Robert MillerMarisa MorabitoIrving Novick

Dimitri RachmanovNorma RahlRochell RivlinNicholas RolfMichael RyanHelene SchacterRoberta and Ronald SchafferEvy and Fred ScholderMary F. ScottLigia and William ToutantEva Unite

AMBASSADORS AND SPOUSES

Executive Director, Thor Steingraber

Martha Graham and American Music

Martha Graham Dance Company Accompanied by wild Up Christopher Rountree, Conductor A VPAC Original

Diversion of Angels, Dello Joio Cave of the Heart, Barber Dark Meadow, Chavez Maple Leaf Rag, Joplin

Sponsored by Elizabeth Purcell

Saturday, May 13 | 8PM

VPACatCSUN(left) wild Up with Christopher Rountree (right) Martha Graham Dance Company in Cave of the Heart

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Executive Director, Thor Steingraber

Martha Graham and American Music

Martha Graham Dance Company Accompanied by wild Up Christopher Rountree, Conductor A VPAC Original

Diversion of Angels, Dello Joio Cave of the Heart, Barber Dark Meadow, Chavez Maple Leaf Rag, Joplin

Sponsored by Elizabeth Purcell

Saturday, May 13 | 8PM

VPACatCSUN

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Managing a ticket office may not seem like the kind of career you dream about when you’re a

kid, but honestly, my experience has been incredibly rewarding. To this day, I haven’t found anything better than the energy on the night of a show, especially at a place like the Valley Performing Arts Center.

I first got started in ticketing as a college student, as I worked toward (what I thought would be) my future career as a teacher. That was more than a decade ago, and I’ve never looked back. I ended up falling in love with ticketing and working in the performing arts. In addition to being a rewarding job, my life in ticketing has provided me great personal experiences, too. Best of all—I met my wife while working in the ticket office! Since joining the VPAC team last year, she and I have become Valley residents. Thank you for welcoming us to the community.

Buying a ticket is the last “real life” thing our customers do before disappearing into the theater. For us in the ticket office, this can be a little stressful. We only have a few brief moments to provide excellent customer service. But the best part of the job comes next, watching the excited faces of patrons heading into the theater for a transformative experience.

VPAC is one of the few places where the adage “every seat is a good seat” is actually true. Many of our customers know exactly where they like to sit. My advice: consider buying a subscription. In May, tickets will be available for the 2017-18 season. My team and I will be standing by to answer your questions about the shows and the opportunities to take advantage of discounts by purchasing advance tickets to multiple performances.

Don’t ever hesitate to call us. We love answering all your questions. The employees in the ticket office are CSUN students working hard at VPAC, while pursuing their educational dreams.

I’m proud to work at such a beautiful venue, and to serve you, our valued patrons. Though I didn’t dream of running a ticket office when I was a kid, it has turned out to be a dream job. Zac NorthcraftTicket Office Manager

VPAC SPOTLIGHT

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PROGRAM

ASPEN SANTA FE BALLET

EUDAEMONIA BY CHERICE BARTON

LITTLE MORTAL JUMP BY ALEJANDRO CERRUDO

SLEEPLESS BY J IŘÍ KYLIÁN

FRIDAY, MARCH 3 | 8PM

WORLD PREMIERE SPONSORED BY VPAC

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PROGRAMPROGRAM

FOUNDER: BEBE SCHWEPPE

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: TOM MOSSBRUCKEREXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: JEAN-PHILIPPE MALATY

Artists: Craig Black, Katherine Bolaños, Sadie Brown,Jenelle Figgins, Anna Gerberich, Emily Proctor, Seia Rassenti Watson,

Evan Supple, Anthony Tiedeman, Pete Leo Walker, Joseph Watson

PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER: DANNY BACHELDORLIGHTING SUPERVISOR: SEAH JOHNSON

REPRESENTATION

SLEEPLESS

CHOREOGRAPHY: JIŘÍ KYLIÁN MUSIC: DIRK HAUBRICH, COMPOSITION BASED ON WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART,

GLASS HARMONICA + QUARTET, ADAGIO K 617 (1791) COSTUME DESIGN: JOKE VISSER

STAGE DESIGN: JIŘÍ KYLIÁN LIGHTING DESIGN: KEES TJEBBES

STAGED BY: URTZI ARANBURU

Craig Black, Katherine Bolaños, Jenelle Figgins,

Anna Gerberich, Anthony Tiedeman, Pete Leo Walker

 

Premiere: November 11, 2004, Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT II), Den Haag.

Aspen Santa Fe Ballet’s production of Sleepless is made possible

through the generosity of Toby Devan Lewis.

NORTH AMERICA:CATHY PRUZAN

4709 PARADISE DRIVETIBURON, CA 94920

(415) 789-5051 . CPRUZAN@AOL.COM

INTERNATIONAL:MARGARET SELBY, CAMI SPECTRUM

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Intermission

EUDAEMONIAASFB Commissioned Work

Happiness is simple. The way in which we seek it is complicated.

CHOREOGRAPHY: CHERICE BARTONMUSIC: VARIOUS ARTISTS*

LIGHTING DESIGN: SEAH JOHNSON COSTUME DESIGN: DANIELA GSCHWENDTNER

SOUND EDITING AND SOUND DESIGN: JEREMY JURIN

PETE LEO WALKER

Craig Black, Sadie Brown, Jenelle Figgins, Anna Gerberich, Emily Proctor, Seia Rassenti Watson, Anthony Tiedeman, Joseph Watson

Premiere: February 18, 2017, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, Aspen, CO.

 Aspen Santa Fe Ballet’s production of Eudaemonia is made possible through the generosity of Valley Performing Arts Center and Toni and James Kaplan.

*Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, Jimmy Durante, Michael Jurin, Chronomad, Diana Kazakova, David Darling

Intermission

LITTLE MORTAL JUMP

CHOREOGRAPHY AND SET DESIGN: ALEJANDRO CERRUDO

MUSIC: VARIOUS ARTISTS*

LIGHTING DESIGN: MICHAEL KORSCH

COSTUME DESIGN: BRANIMIRA IVANOVA

Craig Black, Katherine Bolaños, Samantha Klanac Campanile, Jenelle Figgins, Evan Supple,

Seia Rassenti Watson, Anthony Tiedeman, Pete Leo Walker, Joseph Watson

 Premiere: March 15, 2012, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Chicago IL.

 Aspen Santa Fe Ballet’s production of Little mortal jump is made possible

through the generosity of Maja and Nicholas DuBrul.

*Music by Beirut: “A Call to Arms” and “La Banlieue,” from the album The Flying Club Cup, courtesy of Ba Da Bing! Records. Used by permission of EMI Music Publishing. Music by Andrew Bird’s Bowl of Fire: “Beware,” from the album Oh! The Grandeur, courtesy of Warner Music Group. Music by Alexandre Desplat: “See How They Fall – Dans Les Champs De Ble” and “A Self-made Hero – Theme De Heroes,” from the album Alexandre Desplat – Jacques Audiard’s Films, courtesy of Silva Screen Records. Music by Philip Glass: “Closing from Mishima,” from the album Philip on Film, as recorded by Kronos Quartet for Nonesuch Records. Used by permission of Dungaven Music Publishing. Music by Hans Otte: “Wassermannmusik,” from the album Aquarian Music. Amiata Records ARNR 0496 and ARNR 0394. Used by permission of Amiata Records. Music by Max Richter: “The Haunted Ocean 5,” from the album Waltz With Bashir, courtesy of Caroline World Service. Used by permission of Embassy Music Corp/LT Music Publishing. “November,” from the album Memoryhouse, courtesy of BBC Worldwide. Used by permission of Universal Music Publishing Group. Music by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan: “Fawn,” from the album Alice, courtesy of Anti Records. Used by permission of Jalma Music.

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ABOUT THE COMPANY Aspen Santa Fe Ballet’s bold vision—top

global choreographers, distinctive ground-breaking repertoire, and virtuoso dancers—has fostered a jewel of a dance company in the American West.

The company’s pioneering spirit arises from a dual set of home cities: Aspen, nestled in the Rocky Mountains, and Santa Fe, grac-ing the Southwestern plateau. Shaping the cultural landscape of these communities—and in uencing the dance field at large is a contemporary ballet company now two decades old.

A deep commitment to curating new ballets while cultivating choreographic talent has resulted in a catalogue of adventurous repertoire. A European sensibility glossed with American ebullience forges ASFB’s aes-thetic, as the company has come to epitomize the contemporary-classical genre.

The dance company sits at the heart of an unusually multifaceted arts organization. ASF dance invention ows from this solid foundation, a wellspring of creativity.

ABOUT THE ARTISTSBEBE SCHWEPPE (Founder) grew up in

Augusta, Georgia and started dancing at the Georgia Dance Theatre under Frankie Levy at the age of seven. She was invited by Robert Joffrey to study at his school in New York on a full scholarship at age 11. Bebe moved to Aspen in 1975 and 15 years later founded the Aspen Ballet School. Her presence was a catalyst in the region. In 1996, she invited Jean-Philippe Malaty and Tom Mossbrucker to develop a small professional company in Aspen. Through their combined energies,

the Aspen Ballet Company was born a year later. Shortly after, new performing oppor-tunities beckoned in Santa Fe, upon which the company was renamed Aspen Santa Fe Ballet. Bebe speaks with pride when she considers the changes that have occurred over the years to her “baby.” “The Company has evolved to having earned a name of its own ASF . What a treat! It is recogni ed by other artists and respected by all. This is of course due in large part to Jean-Philippe and Tom.” She cites that “their strength has been in their unique ability to perceive and design a repertoire that entertains all parts, whether it’s the audience or the dancer.” Tom and Jean-Philippe have “greatly succeeded” in realizing her dreams for the company, she says. “I am thankful that I had the dream and was lucky and persistent enough to convince JP and Tom to relocate from New York City. Never did I imagine that one day the company would be performing nationally and internationally and never did I imagine that one day they would be performing works by internationally famous choreographers. Although I had the dream, I never imagined so much. I feel very lucky.”

JEAN-PHILIPPE MALATY (Executive Director), was born in the Basque region of France. After receiving his baccalaureate in dance, he accepted scholarships to study at Mudra, Maurice Béjart’s school in Brussels and at John Cranko’s ballet academy in Stuttgart. Invited by acclaimed instructor David Howard to study in New York, Jean-Philippe traveled to America under Howard’s tutelage. Jean-Philippe’s performance career began with Joffrey II. He also danced as a guest artist with Los Angeles Classical Ballet,

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Ballet Hispanico and the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Jean-Philippe segued from the stage to an administrator role while still in his 20s. A key member of Aspen Santa Fe Ballet’s start-up team, Jean-Philippe has been central to developing the company’s unique dual-city-based hybrid business model. He directs operations in two locations, overseeing a $4 million budget that he allocates to the company, two schools, an esteemed present-ing series and an award-winning folkloric outreach program. ean Philippe’s first love is teaching and when his schedule permits, he conducts master classes at schools and universities. In 2013, Jean-Philippe shared an honor with Artistic Director Tom Moss-brucker when the Santa Fe Community Foundation bestowed its Piñon Award on the company. In , the enver onfils Stan-ton Foundation granted Jean-Philippe a Livingston Fellowship in recognition of his significant leadership role in Colorado’s non profit sector. In , in recognition of ASF ’s contribution to the field of dance, Jean-Philippe and Tom were honored with the Joyce Theater Foundation Award. A natu-ralized U.S. citizen, Jean-Philippe is proud to have forged a company alive with American energy, invention and eclecticism.

TOM MOSSBRUCKER (Artistic Director) has been artistic director of Aspen Santa Fe Ballet since 1996. For the past 17 years, Tom has built a prestigious arts organization sharing two homes in Aspen and Santa Fe. In his role as artistic director, Tom cultivates highly sophisticated and challenging works of contemporary ballet. His shining achieve-ment is ASFB’s roster of 27 ballets created on commission by leading global choreog-

raphers. Tom began to dance at age four, studying tap in his hometown of Tacoma, Washington. He pursued classical ballet training at the School of American Ballet and the Joffrey Ballet School. His 20 years as a principal dancer with the Joffrey Ballet, performing in over 70 ballets under the di-rect coaching of founders Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino, coincided with a period of high artistic achievement for the company. Tom danced in ballets by great 20th century choreographers: Fredrick Ashton, George Balanchine, Laura Dean, William Forsythe, i i yli n, Mark Morris, Paul Taylor and

Twyla Tharp. Signature roles included Iago in Jose Limon’s The Moor’s Pavane, Champi-on Roper in Agnes DeMille’s Rodeo, Billy in Eugene Loring’s Billy the Kid and Romeo in John Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet. This rich dance background Tom brings to coaching dancers today. In 2013, Tom shared an honor with Executive Director Jean-Philippe Malaty when the Santa Fe Community Foundation bestowed its Piñon Award on the company. In 2010, in recognition of ASFB’s contribution to the field of dance, Tom and Jean-Philippe Malaty were honored with the Joyce Theater Foundation Award. A former board member of Dance USA, Tom currently serves on the board of The Gerald Arpino and Robert Joffrey Foundation.

CHOREOGRAPHERSCHERICE BARTON, a choreographer, di-

rector and creative consultant that possesses a unique eye for transforming dance into emotional and visually stunning work from the stage to the screen. Cherice has worked with George Lucas, choreographing Disney/

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ucasfilm’s Strange Magic and was part of the original creative team of the epic Broadway production Spiderman/Turn off the Dark. Ms. Barton is proud to have been the resident choreographer and casting evaluator for Franco Dragone’s Cirque Aquatic Spectacle Le Reve at the Wynn Resort in Las Vegas and choreographer of the off-Broadway produc-tion Wearing Lorca’s Bowtie, presented at the Duke on 42nd Street. She has also worked as a choreographic associate of America’s Got Talent. An extensive background in the conception and production of live events combined with a recent immersion into television, film and animation has led Ms. Barton to collaborate on numerous notable projects including productions by Ameri-can Ballet Theater, The Grammy Awards, Disney, Aszure Barton & Artists, Ballet British Columbia, Dragone Entertainment Group, acob’s Pillow ance Festival, Chut pah!

Festival and many more. She is frequently asked to choreograph, lecture and conduct master classes for such distinguished insti-tutions as The Juilliard School, New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Pace University, Marymount Manhattan College, SUNY Purchase College, Barnard College at Columbia University, Loyola Marymount Uni-versity, UCSB and The Banff Center School of Fine Arts. Cherice recently joined forces with her sister Charissa, as they launched their LA-based Creative Production Company BARTON MOVEMENT under the umbrella of which they birthed Axis Connect, a bi-coastal program designed to create opportunities for emerging professional dancers, connecting them with a vast network of their talented associates. Cherice and Charissa also collabo-

rated in choreographing Katy Perry’s critically acclaimed appearance at the Staples Centre in Los Angeles for the 57th Grammy Awards. Cherice Barton’s performance career has spanned more than 20 years in over 30 countries across six continents. Born in Canada, and the eldest of three Barton sisters—all successful artists—she is proud to continue developing the Barton name as a creative force while at the same time devoting her heart to her beautiful daugh-ters, Summer and Willow, and to her beloved husband, Jeremy.

ALEJANDRO CERRUDO was born in Madrid, Spain and trained at the Real Con-servatorio Profesional de Danza de Madrid. Alejandro Cerrudo’s professional career began in 1998 and includes work with Victor Ullate Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet and Nederlands Dans Theater 2. Cerrudo joined Hubbard Street Dance Chicago in 2005, was named Choreographic Fellow in 2008 and became the company’s first esident Chore-ographer in 2009. Thirteen works choreo-graphed to date for Hubbard Street include collaborations with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Nederlands Dans Theater. These pieces and additional commissions are in repertory at companies around the U.S. as well as in Australia, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands; touring engagements have brought his work still further abroad, to audiences in Algeria, Canada, Morocco and Spain. In March , Pacific Northwest al-let invited Cerrudo to choreograph his first work for the company, Memory Glow, upon receiving the Joyce Theater Foundation’s second Rudolf Nureyev Prize for New Dance. Additional honors include an award from

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the Boomerang Fund for Artists (2011) and a Prince Prize for Commissioning Original Work from the Prince Charita-ble Trusts for his acclaimed first evening-length work, One Thousand Pieces. Cerrudo is one of four choreog-raphers invited by New York City Ballet principal Wendy Whelan to create and perform original duets for Restless Crea-ture, and he was recently announced the 2014 USA Donnelley Fellow by United States Artists.

JIŘÍ KYLIÁN is hailed as one of the world’s foremost living choreographers, i yli n was born in Prague and

studied at the city’s Conservatory and London’s Royal Ballet School before joining the Stuttgart Ballet (Germany) under John Cranko in 1968. In 1973, he was invited by the Nederlands Dans Theater in Den Haag as a guest choreog-rapher. By 1975, he was appointed the company’s Artistic irector. i achieved his international breakthrough with Sin-fonietta in 1978, set to music composed by his compatriot eo an ek. is international reputation kept growing with such works as Symphony of Psalms (1978), Forgotten Land (1981), Svadeb-ka (1982), Stamping Ground (1983) and L’Enfant et les Sortilèges (1984). Apart from developing choreographic works, yli n has also built up a uni ue organizational structure for and within the Nederlands Dans Theater, adding two new dimensions to the Dutch ballet company. The world-famous Nederlands Dans Theater I has been expanded by Nederlands Dans Theater II (“The Young ASPEN SANTA FE BALLET

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and Dynamic Company” of dancers between the age of 17 and 22) and Nederlands Dans Theater III (dancers/performers beyond the age of 40)—each company with a distinctively individual repertoire. In April , i yli n celebrated 20 years directing the Ned-erlands Dans Theater by mounting the large-scale dance production Arcimbol-do, which involved all the dancers of Nederlands Dans Theater I, II and III. On that occasion, he received one of the Netherlands’ highest honors, becoming Officier in de Orde van Oranje Nas-sau. In , yli n passed the artistic direction to the new generation. He stayed connected to the company as a choreographer until December 2009. In the years between 1973 and today he has created 74 ballets for NDT. His entire body of work counts 98 creations to date. esides creating for N T, yli n has made original works for the Stutt-gart Ballet, Paris Opera, Swedish Televi-sion, Bayerisches Staatsballet München and the Tokyo Ballet. His creations are danced by more than 100 companies and schools world-wide.

ABOUT THE DANCERSCRAIG BLACK is in his sixth season

with Aspen Santa Fe Ballet. The Califor-nia native was captain of his San Jose high school’s nationally ranked dance team. Craig received his BFA from The Juilliard School, where he was award-ed the 2010 Princess Grace Award in Dance. He won the 2011 Lorna Strassler Award for Student Excellence at Jacob’s ASPEN SANTA FE BALLET

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Pillow Dance Festival. Craig’s summer pro-grams were at Springboard Danse Montreal, Nederlands Dans Theater and the Pillow. “We are all super involved. We all love what we

I love the challenge in that. It gives me the push I need to step it up to the next level.”

KATHERINE BOLAÑOS, a native of Okla-homa City, is in her 13th season with ASFB. Katherine began her professional career with Ballet Oklahoma where she remained for seven years performing mostly classical roles. As a guest artist with the Los Angeles Ballet Ensemble, she toured extensively in Taiwan and China. “I love the partnering in contem-porary work and moving in a way that’s very slow, expressive and creature-like. I enjoy rehearsing in the studio as much as perform-ing on stage. The studio gives the freedom to grow artistically. On stage I feel like I’m in a different world.”

SADIE BROWN, now in her fourth season with Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, began to dance in her hometown of Evansville, Indiana. She also studied at the Boston Ballet School, The Harid Conservatory and the Walton School for Girls in Grantham, England. Sadie performed for three seasons with the Grand Rapids Ballet and as a guest artist with Evansville Dance Theater, Evansville Ballet and Michigan Classic Ballet. Her guesting with Ballet Bratislava took her to Slovakia and Austria. “Dance allows me to explore emotions on such deep levels. When it’s time to perform, all those emotions come out. There is no better feeling than to have such free expression.”

JENELLE FIGGINS joins Aspen Santa Fe Ballet from Dance Theatre of Harlem. The

Washington, D.C. native began training at the historic Jones-Haywood School of Ballet and Duke Ellington School of the Arts. She then won a full scholarship to Dance Theatre of Harlem’s Kennedy Center residency. After earning a BFA with honors from SUNY Purchase, she attended Springboard Danse Montreal. Jenelle is a 2014 recipient of the Princess Grace Award. “I want to continue to learn by pairing movement with aspects of humanity. There is so much self-discovery in collaboration—and being part of a creation process makes me happy.”

ANNA GERBERICH began her training at Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet with Mar-cia Dale Weary. In 2004, she was invited by Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux and Patricia McBride to apprentice with the Charlotte Ballet, and in 2005 she was hired into the company. Within four years, under Bonnefoux she was promoted to Principal. After 11 years with Charlotte Ballet, Anna accepted a position with the Joffrey Ballet. At Joffrey she had the opportunity to work with numerous choreographers including John Numier among others. Anna received the Pointe Magazine NERDA Award of Promise in 2001 and was awarded the Barbara Weisberger RDA Founders Award of Excellence in 2004. In 2014, Anna had the pleasure to appear in the Kennedy Center Honors, performing Balanchine’s Who Cares in acknowledgment to Patricia McBride.

EMILY PROCTOR, a graduate of The Juil-liard School, is marking her 10th season with Aspen Santa Fe Ballet. A native of Raleigh, North Carolina, Emily trained at the North Carolina School of the Arts. Prior to joining ASFB, she had the opportunity to tour with

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Hell’s Kitchen Dance in Aszure Barton’s Come In, which starred Mikhail Baryshnikov. Emily was selected as one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” in 2010. “I had career-saving foot surgery that went well. I’m so grateful to be back doing what I love, which gives my life a wonderful sense of purpose.”

SEIA RASSENTI WATSON danced with Flamenco Y Mas as a youngster in Arizona, then trained in classical ballet with Linda Walker at the Tucson Regional Ballet. After graduating from the Kirov Academy of Ballet in Washington, D.C., she danced with North Carolina Dance Theater where she worked with Dwight Rhoden. Seia is in her eighth season with ASFB. “I feel most comfortable in the contemporary mode. I trained classically because I knew it would help me become a better dancer. But I really love the freedom and personal expression of the work we do here. I found my niche.”

EVAN SUPPLE, a native of Toronto, Ontario, trained at Elite Danceworx before moving on to earn a BFA from Marymount Manhattan College, Class of 2016. While at Marymount, he danced in works by Dwight Rhoden, Paul Taylor, Aszure Barton, Des-mond Richardson and Alexandra Damiani. He also toured internationally as a member of the Nikolais-Louis Dance Theatre in 2013. Additionally, Evan was a featured soloist in the closing ceremony of the 2015 Pan-Am Games. He spent summers with Complex-ions, Canada’s National Ballet School and Springboard Danse Montreal.

ANTHONY TIEDEMAN, a graduate of The Juilliard School, brings to Aspen Santa Fe Ballet his exposure to works by master choreographers Merce Cunningham, Paul

Taylor and Jose Limon. Training in Lar Lubo-vitch’s choreography led Anthony to join Lar Lubovitch Dance Company for its Fall 2014 Joyce Theater season. A New Jersey native, Anthony has traveled abroad for summer intensives at Springboard Danse Montreal and Nederlands ans Theater. When I first saw Aspen Santa Fe Ballet at the Joyce, I was blown away by the intense physicality and strong, yet beautiful, technique. It’s a balance I try to bring to my own dancing.”

PETE LEO WALKER joins Aspen Santa Fe allet following five seasons with Char-

lotte Ballet, where he performed a diverse repertoire of neoclassical and contemporary works. A native of Jacksonville, Florida, Pete began training at Dansations Performing Arts Center and continued at the Nutmeg Conser-vatory for the Arts. Pete is a 2011 recipient of the Princess Grace Award. In 2013, he was featured as one of Dance Magazine’s “Top 25 to Watch.” “My mom was a part of the Rock Steady Crew in Brooklyn. She taught me to pop and lock, so contemporary classical ballet is the closest to my heart—with a tech-nical element.”

JOSEPH WATSON, now in his eighth season with Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, began formal dance training at TWIGS (To Work In Gaining Skills), a respected after-school program in his hometown of Baltimore. After graduating from the Baltimore School for the Arts, Joseph attended The Juilliard School, earning his BFA in dance. He was a member of North Carolina Dance Theatre prior to joining ASFB. “I try not to overthink a per-formance. I just tell myself that I’m about to go on stage to do what I love. I love the zen feeling I get when I’m out there.”

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PROGRAM

WEST SIDE STORYBOOK BY ARTHUR LAURENTSLYRICS BY STEPHEN SONDHEIMMUSIC BY LEONARD BERNSTEIN

MCCOY RIGBY ENTERTAINMENTLA MIRADA THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

FRIDAY, MARCH 10 | 8PMSATURDAY, MARCH 11 | 3 & 8PM

SUNDAY, MARCH 12 | 3PM

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PROGRAMPROGRAM

WEST SIDE STORYBased on a conception of JEROME ROBBINS

Book byARTHUR LAURENTS

Music byLEONARD BERNSTEIN

Lyrics bySTEPHEN SONDHEIM

Executive ProducersTOM MCCOY & CATHY RIGBY MCCOY

Starring

WITHADRIAN ARRIETA, SOPHIA BORRELLI, JEAN-LUC CAVNAR-LEWANDOWSKI, MAX CHUCKER, AUTUMN

CROCKETT COOPER, MAGGIE DARAGO, JAKE DUPREE, EMILY FRAZIER, LANCE GALGON, ERIK GRATTON, JOE HART, NATALIE ISCOVICH, APRIL JOSEPHINE, DANIELLE KAY, CHRIS MEISSNER,

GABRIEL NAVARRO, DINO NICANDROS, NICH O’NEIL, CLARICE ORDAZ, STEVEN RADA, JOSHUA RIVERA, MARK SHUNKEY, BAILEY DAY SONNER, ALYSSA WELDON, JUSTIN MICHAEL WILCOX, TIME

WINTERS, ADAM ZIV

Scenic DesignSTEPHEN GIFFORD

Wardrobe DesignTOMMY MARQUEZ

Lighting DesignSTEVEN YOUNG

Sound DesignJULIE FERRIN

Hair/Wig/Makeup DesignKATIE MCCOY

General ManagerANA LARA

PATTI MCCOY JACOB DAVID NESTOR

Musical DirectorBRENT CRAYON

ChoreographerJOHN TODD

DirectorRICHARD ISRAEL

Production Stage ManagerJOHN W. CALDER, III

Assistant Stage ManagerLISA PALMIRE

Casting DirectorJULIA FLORES

Technical DirectorMICHAEL ROMAN

EDDIE EGAN, ASHLEY MARIE, MARLENE MARTINEZ, MICHAEL STARR, ARMANDO YEARWOOD, JR

Entire Original Production Directed and Choreographed by JEROME ROBBINS

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PROGRAM

CASTIn alphabetical order

Nibbles………….....……........…………….…………………….……………………….ADRIAN ARRIETA*Ensemble………………………………...……..………………..………………..………..SOPHIA BORRELLIBig Deal……….………………..……............……………….JE.AN-LUC CAVNAR-LEWANDOWSKIA-Rab………………………...…………….…....……….……….…………………………..MAX CHUCKER*Conseula………….………..………………….........………….………..AUTUMN CROCKETT COOPERGraziella………….…….........…………………….......…….……………….………….MAGGIE DARAGOSnowboy………….………............………………….......….…………………………………JAKE DUPREE*Tony……………….…………………..…………………….......…………………………………EDDIE EGAN*Ensemble...………………………............……..…………….……..………………..………..EMILY FRAZIERGlad Hand……….………………….............…………….......…………………………..LANCE GALGONKrupke………………………...…………….........…………….....………………………….ERIK GRATTON*Lt. Schrank……….……………………………............………........………………………………JOE HART*Rosalia…………….………………………………...............……......….……………NATALIE ISCOVICH*Francisca………….……………………………………........................……………….APRIL JOSEPHINE*Anybodys………….….…………………………………..........................…………………..DANIELLE KAYMaria……………….……….......…………………………………................……………….ASHLEY MARIEAnita………………..……....…..................…………………………………........MARLENE MARTINEZ*Baby John………..………………..……........………………………………….......….CHRIS MEISSNER*Pepe………………..…………………........….....…….……………………………...…GABRIEL NAVARROChino……………………………………...……......…………………......……………DINO NICANDROS*Luis……………………………………………….......………..…………………………………….NICH O’NEILTeresita…………………………………………........………....……………………………..CLARICE ORDAZAnxious…………………………………………….......…………....…………………………..STEVEN RADA*Indio……………...……………………………................…………....…………………….JOSHUA RIVERA*Gee-Tar………………………………………………........………….....………………….MARK SHUNKEY*Velma…………………………………………………….….....……….......…………..BAILEY DAY SONNERRiff………………...…………………………………..........…....………......………………MICHAEL STARR*Minnie…………..………………………………………................……….......………….ALYSSA WELDONAction…………..……………………………....…………..................……..JUSTIN MICHAEL WILCOX*Bernardo……..……………………………...…………….....................ARMANDO YEARWOOD, JR*Doc……………..……………………..…………….......……….....…......………………….TIME WINTERS* Ensemble...…………………………………………………..…………...........……..………..EMILY FRAZIERDiesel………………………………………………………………….....……….…………………….ADAM ZIVProduction Stage Manager……………………..…………....................…………...... JOHN CALDERAssistant Stage Manager…………………………...……………......................………….LISA PALMIREDance Captain……………………………………………...……........................……..JOSHUA RIVERA*

*MEMBERS OF ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION. THE UNION OF PROFESSIONAL AND STAGE MANAGERS IN THE UNITED STATES

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PROGRAM

WEST SIDE STORY ORCHESTRA

Musical Director/Conductor - Brent CrayonRhea Fowler - Violin 1, Nolan Livesay - Violin 2

Hillary Smith - CelloGary Wicks - Double Bass

Gene Burkert - Alto Sax, Clarinet, Flute, PiccoloSean Franz - Alto Sax, Clarinet, Flute Piccolo

Bob Carr - Baritone Sax, Clarinet, Bass ClarinetChristopher Gray - Trumpet 1, Walt Simonsen - Trumpet 2

Rachel Berry - French HornJim Boltinghouse - Trombone

Eric Heinly - DrumsNick Stone - Percussion

Keyboard 1 - Christy CrowlKeyboard 2 - Christopher SmithMusic Contractor - Eric Heinly

PLACEUpper West Side of New York City

TIMESummer, 1957

ACT ONEPROLOGUE…………………………….……………………..........……………..…...……...Danced by Jets and SharksJET SONG……………………………….……………………….....……………….........……………...…..……..Riff and Jets“SOMETHING’S COMING”…….……………………………....…..………………......……..……………..………...TonyTHE DANCE AT THE GYM………….…………………………........……………………...…......……….Jets and Sharks“MARIA”………………………………….………………………………....………………………...............……..………...Tony“TONIGHT”……………………………….……………………………........…………..…...……………......Tony and Maria“AMERICA”……………………………….……………………………....................….….Anita, Rosalia and Shark Girls“COOL”…………………………………….…………………………………...................……….……………Riff and the Jets

There will be one fifteen-minute intermission during this performance.

ACT TWO

“ONE HAND, ONE HEART”…………………………….....……………….........……...………….…..Tony and Maria“TONIGHT” (QUINTET AND CHORUS)………….........…...…………….....…….…………...…………..CompanyTHE RUMBLE……………………….…………………………….......................….….Riff, Bernardo, Jets and Sharks

“I FEEL PRETTY”………………………………………….........................…......Maria, Rosalia, Consuelo, Francisca“SOMEWHERE”…………………….…………................……………....……...Danced by Company; Sung by Tony“GEE, OFFICER KRUPKE”…………..…..…………................…….......…………………..Action, Snowboy and Jets“A BOY LIKE THAT”…………………….....………………….........…..........……………...……………..Anita and Maria“I HAVE A LOVE”…………………………...…………………….......................……...………………...Maria and AnitaTAUNTING……………………………………...……………………..............……......………………...Anita and the JetsFINALE…………………………………………….....……………………..........………............…..………………..Company

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ADRIAN ARRIETA (Nibbles) is thrilled to be part of the cast of WSS. After moving to LA from NYC just one year ago, he

is still enjoying the beautiful weather and is loving the town. Previous to the cross country move Adrian disembarked from 1 year on the Broadway National of Rodgers and Hammer-stein’s Cinderella as the ‘Fox/Footman’. Other favorite credits include High School Musical, Midnight Madness!, Oliver and Peter Pan at PaperMill PlayHouse. He would like to thank Dustin at The Mine, AEA, his family/friends and Beyoncé for giving birth to twins in 2017.

JEAN-LUC CAVNAR-LE-WANDOWSKI (Big Deal) was last seen in the world premier of I’ll Be Home For Christ-mas debuting at

The Arvada Center. Other credits include: Holland America Cruise Line, Footloose (BDT Stage), Tarzan (Arvada Center), She Loves Me (Arvada Center), Oklahoma! (Cabrillo Musical Theatre), Singing in the Rain (San Diego Musical Theatre) and A Little Shop of Horrors (Little Theatre of the Rockies). Grad-uate from The University of Northern Colora-do in Musical Theatre and Dance. Big thanks to this incredible creative team for making

him a part of the gang. Huge love to Mom, Dad, Rachel and everyone else who lifts him up with constant love and support.

MAX CHUCKER (A-Rab) After playing the role of A-Rab on the National tour of West Side Story, Max is thrilled to revisit one of his favorite shows!

Max was last seen as Young Frank in Merrily We Roll Along at the Wallis Annenberg Center. Recent credits include performances at The Badminton Teatro, Goodspeed Opera House, Music Theatre of Wichita, The Wagon Wheel Theatre, Post Playhouse and Virginia Musical Theatre. Proud BM Musical Theatre Major at Florida State University. Many thanks to the West Side Team and Jennie at Bloc Agency. Much love to Emmy, Mom and the 408.

AUTUMN CROCKETT COOPER (Consuelo) began training in dance and acrobatics at the age of three at DC Dance Factory in her native state

of Tennessee. Her exceptional talents soon led to television performances with LeAnn Rimes, Billy Gilman and CeCe Winans. Autumn’s unique combination of contortion, dance and acrobatics was soon recognized by the Edge Performing Arts Center, an elite company

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in Los Angeles that provided her with a full scholarship. She continued her movement training with Cirque Schools LA’s professional program. Her career took off soon afterwards, including appearances with Rihanna in the MTV Video Music Awards, the movie I Kissed a Vampire, Americas Got Talent, the CW’s hit show The 100 and numerous commercials. She has performed in live stage shows such as Odyssey Dance Theater, Troupe Vertigo, Le Ombré, Eclipse, La Mirada Theatre production of Cats, the stage show for Pixar movie Inside Out choreographed by Dave Scott, along with performing for the Academy of TV, Arts and Sciences hosted by Kenny Ortega. Recently she has been traveling and performing her contortion and aerial act with the Cirque de la Symphony. And when she is not traveling with them, she is performing with the new hit show Frozen Live at the Hyperion Theater.

MAGGIE DARAGO (Graziella) was born and raised in Thousand Oaks, CA and is a recent grad of the UCLA Ray Bolger Musical Theater Program.

Maggie has appeared in several California regional productions, and after graduating from college she had the opportunity to perform in A Chorus Line at the Hollywood Bowl. Maggie could not be more thrilled to work with the amazing team at La Mirada Theatre on one of her dream shows. She would like to thank her family, Anthony Boyer and all of the folks at DDO Artists Agency.

JAKE DUPREE (Snowboy) is so excited to be doing West Side Story! Credits include, Tour: Cathy Rigby Is Peter Pan (Pirate/Indian). Region-

al: Mary Poppins and Cats (Tumblebrutus) at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts. West Side Story (Snowboy), Peter Pan (Nana/Crocodile), Mary Poppins, A Chorus Line at Sacramento Music Circus. Cats (Mister Mistoffelees) at the Palos Verdes Performing Arts Center. Beauty & The Beast (Magic Car-pet for Theatricals. e is a group fitness instructor and host and has been featured on PopSugar Fitness, The Doctors, Cosmopoli-tan and the Wall Street Journal. All thanks and love to Howard, his family and friends, Steven and the amazing agents at Connor Ankrum Associates! Follow him on Insta-gram jakedupree!

EDDIE EGAN (Tony) is thrilled to be a part of anoth-er McCoy Rigby/La Mirada production, having previously appeared in Next To Normal (Gabe) and Pride &

Prejudice (Bingley). Other credits: The Radio City Christmas Spectacular (Vocalist), The Last Five Years (Jamie) at Shadowland Theatre, Miss Saigon (Chris) and My Fair Lady (Freddy) at Flat Rock Playhouse, Next to Normal (Gabe)

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at San Diego Musical Theatre, The Who’s Tommy (Tommy) at Moonlight Amphitheater and Little Night Music (Henrik) at White Plains PAC. Many thanks to this AMAZING cast, team and crew, as well as to Avalon Artists and my incredible friends and family for their constant support! www. ddie ganOnline.com

LANCE GALGON (Glad Hand) is absolutely ecstatic to be back with La Mirada. Originally hailing the Bay Area, he received his theatrical de-gree from Fuller-

ton College and has been performing all around the Orange County and LA area since. Favorite credits include King Louis XI in Hunchback of Notre Dame (La Mirada), Frederic in Pirates of Penzance (OBC Theatre), Production Tenor in Singin’ in the Rain (Musical Theatre West) and Clyde in Bonnie and Clyde (Costa Mesa Playhouse). He would like to thank the cast and crew for their talents and friendships! e would also like to thank his parents, friends, family and the Lord for all the support and love he could ask for. Phillipians 4:13 Lancegalgon.com

ERIK GRATTON (Krupke) is mak-ing his La Mirada (and Los Angeles) debut! e spent 10 years living in New York and working all over the country before

making the move west. Over the years he’s played Shrek and Homer Simpson and Billy Pilgrim along with Hamlet and Rosalind. New York: New York Classical Theatre, Metropol-itan Playhouse. Regional: ACT Theatre, Ari-zona Theatre Company, Human Race Theatre Company, Meadow Brook Theatre, Village Theatre, Heart of America Shakespeare Fes-tival, North Shore Music Theatre, American Heartland Theatre and Delaware Theatre Company. TV/Film: GRIMM, All My Children. Love to Krista and his family in Kansas City and Seattle.

JOE HART (Lt. Schrank) Broadway: Bonnie & Clyde, Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public. National Tours: Priscilla Queen of the Des-ert, Annie Get Your

Gun, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. Ovation Award Supporting Actor Angels Of Lemnos, Ovation Nomination Best Actor Woman in Black (Road Theater), Ovation Nomination Ensemble Empire (La Mirada). Recently appeared in Search For Signs Of Intelligent Life (LGBT Center). Other award winning shows include Floyd Collins (La Mirada ,Ovation Production), Bouncers (LA Drama Critics) and Napoli Milionaria (Ovation Production). Film: Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, Last Call At Murray’s, Inside Out, Lawnmowerman, Kuffs, The Presidio. TV: I Love Dick, Criminal Minds, Desperate Housewives, Medium, Num-b3rs. Thanks Richard, Julia, John, Josh and The Rigby McCoy Family.

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NATALIE ISCOVICH (Rosalia) Credits include: LA Opera’s Macbeth with Plac-ido Domingo, Aida with Pacific Sym-phony. Tours: Ru-dolph the Musical

(Mccoy Rigby/Herkon). Regional: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (MTW), The Full Monty, Beauty and the Beast (3DT), The Addams Family, Tarzan, Side Show, Seussical the Musical (3DT), In the Heights, Kiss Me Kate and Bye Bye Birdie (CMT). She attended Chapman University where she received a B.F.A in Dance Performance. Thanks to her family and Anthony Boyer.

APRIL JOSEPHINE (Francisca) “The legacy of Storytell-ing is the thread of humanity.” April is honored to be telling such a beautiful and

necessary story. Select Stage credits include Nt’l Tours: Rudolph...(McCoy Rigby Ent.), Up Here (La Jolla Playhouse), Joseph…Dreamcoat, Se-ussical, Side Show (3-D Theatricals), 42nd Street(MTW), Guys & Dolls, The Music Man, (Lamb’s Players Theater), My Fair Lady, Anything Goes, (Moonlight Stage Productions), Grease, Anything Goes, Man Of La Mancha (Welk Resort Theater) and Ragtime (SDMT). April is also a regional choreographer and proud dance studio owner. Finally, April would like to thank her agent, Nicole ernersesian at FS !

DANIELLE KAY (Anybodys) has dreamed of playing a Jet for as long as she can remember, so she is unbelievably excited to make her La Mirada

debut in her very favorite musical! Si year old Danielle is screaming with excitement right now. anielle is finishing up her final year at UCLA studying Dance and Theater. Recent cred-its include: Annabella/Margaret/Pamela in The 39 Steps, Young Frankenstein (PVPA) and Hello Dolly (3D Theatricals). Danielle would like to thank Mom, Dad, Ryan, Rachel, Lauren, Jules, Bora, Topher and Shamicka for being the most amazing support system she could ask for.

ASHLEY MARIE (Maria) This is Ashley’s McCoy Rigby/La Mirada Theatre debut and she is so honored to be playing Maria once again MTW ! She

was most recently seen as The Mistress in Evita at Musical Theatre West and has been fortu-nate enough to be a part of their Reiner Staged Reading Series in Li’l Abner, On The Twentieth Century and The Boys from Syracuse. Other credits include: Dorothy (Wizard of Oz), Isabel (Pirates of Penzance), and Wendy (Peter Pan). She is looking forward to becoming a proud member of A A thanks to McCoy igby! Ash-ley would like to thank her family, friends,

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Julia Flores, the creative team and Craig at Avalon Artists Group. “Tonight won’t be just any night!

MARLENE MARTINEZ (Anita) is honored to be joining the La Mirada Theatre family with West Side Story! Most recently she played Mrs. Popper in

Mr. Popper’s Penguins at South Coast Repertory Theatre after coming off the Broadway National Tour of Mamma Mia! She has performed along-side The L.A. Philharmonic at The Walt Disney Concert Hall, The San Diego Symphony, and many other cultural music bands at the Broad Stage and Hollywood Bowl. She has a B.F.A in Musical Theatre from Cal State Fullerton. Film: Grandma and A Single Man. Thank you to my fianc and family for their endless love and support! marlenevmartine

CHRIS MEISSNER (Baby John) A recent graduate of the Ray Bolger Musical Theater Program at UCLA, he has been featured in Grease: Live! (FOX), Car-

rie: The Musical (DTLA/La Mirada), and West Side Story and in Concert starring Cheyenne Jackson (San Francisco Symphony). You can hear him perform the role of Baby John on the Grammy nominated cast album Bernstein: West

Side Story which can be found on Spotify/Apple Music. Currently, he is performing as Olaf in Frozen - Live at the Hyperion (Disney California Adventure). Also a writer, his 10-minute musi-cal You’re Invited was a finalist for the Founda-tion of New American Musical’s SHOWSEARCH competition in 2015 (directed by Richard Isra-el). A very special thank you to his family and friends, the amazing WSS creative team, Tom and Cathy, Flores Casting, the dedicated team of women at BBR and KP. Follow him at: chris-meissner.com // @chris_meissner

GABRIEL NAVARRO (Pepe) is ecstatic to be back with McCoy Rigby Entertain-ment and in the United States performing! e is just off the plane

from Tokyo Disney Sea where he was Aladdin in their Valentines Nights Concert! Other Recent Credits: San Diego Musical Theatre’s

DINO NICANDROS (Chino) is excited to be returning to the McCoy/Rigby family. His previous credits with McCoy/Rigby include: Hunch-

back of Notre Dame (Voice of Quasimodo), the first and second National Tours of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Musical (Boss Elf), Mary Poppins (Robertson Ay) and Les

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Miserables (ensemble). A graduate from Pepperdine University, with a BA in Theatre Arts, Dino has been seen on stages all across Los Angeles and California. Select regional credits include: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Finch)—Candlelight Pavilion, Hunchback of Notre Dame (ensemble)—Sacramento Music Circus, The Addams Family (Lucas)—3-D Theatricals, Sondheim on Sondheim (Norm Lewis track)—Lewis Family Playhouse, and Secret Garden: Concert (Dickon)—Rubi-con. Endless thanks to Richard, Brent, John, Julia, Tom, Cath and the rest of the McCoy/Rigby family. Special love and gratitude to my parents, my sister, Anthony Boyer and the entire team at DDO Artists Agency. www.dnicandros.com

NICH O’NEIL (Luis) grew up in Reno, Neva-da, and moved to Los Angeles for school. He received his BFA in Musi-cal Theatre at

AMDA: College and Conservatory for the Performing Arts. Throughout his journey, Nich has dawned many diverse roles such as: Aladdin (Aladdin), Enjolras (Les Miser-ables), Bobby (Cabaret), Old Man Strong/Billy Boy Bill (Urinetown) and Ching Ho (Thoroughly Modern Millie). Nich would like to thank his friends and family for endless support, and is thrilled to be joining the West Side Story family.

CLARICE ORDAZ (Teresita) is an accomplished professional dancer born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. At age 19 she worked

her way up to the top 5 girls on Season 8 of the FOX show So You Think You Can Dance where she also got the opportunity to tour the country. Since then, she has been selected to dance on a handful of TV shows like Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris, Blunt Talk, Shake It Up and X Factor. Along with these shows, she has also performed in numerous music award performances such as American Latin Music Awards, Brit Music Awards, Country Music Television Awards, Billboard Awards and Grammy Awards. Three achievements in her professional career that Clarice is most proud of include being 1 of 6 girls selected to tour the world as a backup dancer on Taylor Swift’s RED Tour, becoming new cast member ‘Abril’ on Season 4 of the Hulu original show East Los High and dancing in the opening scene of the movie La La Land. Clarice’s next major goal is to be on Broadway. Fortunately, the-ater work is nothing new to her. Four years in a row Clarice was a part of the ensemble in the Lythgoe Family Production’s holiday plays that show annually at the Pasadena Playhouse. Clarice is so excited to work with McCoy Rigby Entertainment in their newly re-imagined version of West Side Story!

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STEVEN RADA(Anxious) recent-ly returned from Madison Square Garden in NYC with the tour of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. Regional: Any-

thing Goes - Utah Shakespeare Festival, A Chorus Line (Paul) West Side Story (Anx-ious), & Evita (Ensemble) – Musical Theater West, and Cats (Mungojerrie) - SDMT. Ste-ven has also performed in Redcar Newsboys at DCA and holds a BA in Theater Arts from Azusa Pacific University. Thank you to the creative team; his agent Nicole at FireStart-er Entertainment; and a special thanks to his Mom, Dad, Andrea and Eddie. “Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another.”

JOSHUA RIVERA (Indio) is excited to be making his debut with McCoy Rigby Entertainment. Originally from Chicago, Joshua trained at Center

Stage Dance Studio. He graduated with a BA in Dance from Loyola Marymount Uni-versity in Los Angeles. Credits include: Coen Brothers’ film, Hail, Caesar, principal dancer of The Shout at the El Portal Theatre, La Bohéme (LA Opera), “Play It Again, Dick”, Evita (Cabrillo MT), A Cinderella Christmas

at the Pasadena Playhouse and working for the El Capitan Theatre stage show of The Good Dinosaur. He thanks his family, his friends and his amazing agents at GTA for their support. @shuarivera

MARK SHUNKEY (Gee-Tar) is grateful to join the McCoy Rigby team for his favorite musical. He’s appeared in Broadway’s

Wicked as Chistery and both National tours of Wicked as the Boq understudy and Chis-tery. Other credits include Aida (national tour), A Christmas Carol (NSMT), and the 50th Anniversary production of West Side Story (5th Ave Theater). Big thanks to Kelly, my family, my agents at MSA, Mccoy Rigby, Flores Casting and the creative team.

BAILEY DAY SONNER (Velma) is overjoyed to be making her a Mirada debut!

Credits include: Cats (Sillabub), Hello, Dolly! (Minnie Fay), Grease (Patty

Simcox) and Beauty and the Beast (Silly Girl). Bailey is a year-round performer at Legoland, CA. As always, love to the fam, especially Funky Jams.

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MICHAEL STARR (Riff) is thrilled to be back at La Mi-rada! Thank you to this fantastic cast and team! Proud graduate from UCLA’s Ray Bolger MT

program. Recent regional credits: Currently Hans in the world premiere of Frozen directed by Tony nomimated Liesl Tommy, A Chorus Line at the Hollywood Bowl directed by Baayork Lee (Don), L.A. Opera’s Wonderful Town and Salome, Kiss Me Kate with Gentle-man’s Guide team Darko Tresnjak and Peggy Hickey. Empire The Musical directed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge, The L.A. premiere of Carrie the Musical (George), the world premiere of Psyche: “A Modern Rock Opera” (Eros), Foot-loose (Ren), Legally Blonde (Warner), Grease (Kenickie), Spamalot (Lance-lot), Joseph…(Joseph), White Christmas (Mike) MTW’s production of Oklahoma! as well as it’s west coast premiere of Big Fish the Musical. Thanks to a wonderful family, Julia Flores and the lovely ladies at BBR for their ongoing support and love! mjstarr

ALYSSA WELDON (Minnie) is honored to be a part of one of her dream shows West Side Story! Credits include: Harry Potter World

(Universal Studios Hollywood), Oklahoma!

(Cabrillo Music Theatre), Grease, Saturday Night Fever (EPlus Productions), Disney Cruise Line (Dancer, Swing), Spirit of Christmas Spirit Productions and various short films

and plays. Certificate of ance from The Alvin Ailey School. Special thank yous to the La Mirada & WSS team, my supportive family, friends, boyfriend and awesome agents at Go 2 Talent Agency.

JUSTIN MICHAEL WILCOX (Action) is hon-ored to be back at La Mirada per-forming alongside these wonderful people. Last seen in A Chorus Line at

The Hollywood Bowl as Al and at The Montal-ban Theater in Hollywood playing Al Jolson in I Only Have Eyes for You (Ovation nominated). Produced by Corky Hale and directed by Kay Cole. Also at La Mirada in Empire, First Date, (where he received LA Ovation nominations for best ensemble and best supporting actor in a musical) and Billy Elliot. L.A. credits: GCT’s Dirty Rotten Scoundrels as Freddy, Musical Theater West’s Singing in the Rain/Cosmo, 3DT’s 9 to 5/Joe, Third Street’s The Full Monty / Ethan and Iago at Disney’s Aladdin: A Musical Spectacular. Other credits: National tours of A Chorus Line, A Christmas Carol, Guys and Dolls and Cameron Mac’s Oliver! Film/ TV: The Mindy Project, General Hospital, SNL, Guiding Light, Shorts, Independents and many voice over projects. He sends love to his friends, family and this amazing cast for all their love and support. Love to K.M.R., Os-

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brink, Julia and Keeeeelllleey Dooorrrnneey, Tom, Kathy and..YOU for supporting live theater!

TIME WINTERS (Doc) was happily in La Mirada’s The Little Mermaid, Mary Poppins and Camelot. Other Theatres: The Blank: LBJ in Tragedy Of Jfk,

L.A. Shakespeare Center’s Twelfth Night, Pasadena Playhouse: Pygmalion. Geffen: Yes, Prime Minister; A Noise Within: The Tempest, Cymbeline; South Coast: How The World Began, Boston Court: Good Book Of Pedant-ry, Amadeus (Broadway), and others. FILM: Lavalantula, Runaways, Life & Death Of Peter Sellers, A Little Princess, Doc Hollywood, Thinner, Sneakers, Gremlins 2 , More. TV: Shameless, About A Boy, Criminal Minds, Carnivale, Star Trek:N.G., and others. He is married to the talented Actress/Dialect Coach Tracy Winters.

ARMANDO YEARWOOD JR. (Bernardo) is hon-ored to return to La Mirada Theatre for West Side Sto-ry. Theatre works include Seussical: The Musical at the

Redondo Beach Civic Light Opera, directed by Stephanie Coltrin, Twist: An American Musical at the Pasadena Playhouse, directed by Debbie

Allen, Oz the Musical directed by Todrick Hall, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers at La Mirada Theatre directed by Glenn Casale, In the Heights National Tour directed by Michael Balderrama, West Side Story International Tour directed by Joey McNeely, Kiss Me, Kate! at the Pasadena Playhouse, directed by Shel-don Epps, Dame Edna’s Glorious Goodbye Tour directed by Simon Phillips and Frozen: Live at the Hyperion, directed by Liesl Tommy. You can also see Armando in the ouTube ed film Ghostmates, directed by Jack Henry Robbins, as a Bollywood Dancer, and he recently made an appearance as a dancing football player in the ABC comedy The Real O’Neals. Armando would like to thank his friends and family for their continued support.

ADAM ZIV (Diesel) is from NYC and graduat-ed from Princeton University, where he obtained a Certificate in Theater from the Lewis Center for

the Arts, danced, choreographed and served as Artistic Director for diSiac dance company, performed in works by Rebecca Lazier and Mark Morris, and studied choreography with Susan Marshall. Favorite theater roles include The Oresteia (Orestes, Agamemnon), Anti-gone (Creon), Twelfth Night (Orsino), Measure for Measure (Lucio), Romeo & Juliet (Ty-balt), A Doll’s House (Helmer, Krogstad), Hed-da Gabbler (Lovborg) and HALF: A Divorce Farce. In NYC, he danced Off-Broadway in the award winning 8 Million Protagonists,

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as well as for De Funes Dance and Ensem-ble Dance. In L.A., he has danced for C.Eule Dance, RhetOracle Dance Company, Epiphany Dance Company, For Dance Company and recently made his debut with Sean Greene’s Shieldwall Dance Company in Santa Barbara. Coming up, his choreography will be featured in Dance On the Edge in San Diego, and make its big screen debut in El Lay, a new docu-mentary about artists in Los Angeles. As a choreographer, he has shown work at multiple venues in NYC and LA, including Dixon Place, El Portal Theater and Rockwell Table and Stage. He is absolutely thrilled to be working with this amazing team on West Side Story. www.adamzivkovic.com

CREATIVE TEAMARTHUR LAURENTS (Book) An award-win-

ning playwright, screenwriter, librettist, direc-tor and producer, Arthur Laurents has been responsible for creating the librettos of many Broadway shows including Gypsy, Anyone Can Whistle, Do I Hear A Waltz?, Hallelujah, Baby! and Nick & Nora. He wrote the screenplays for The Snake Pit, Anna Lucasta, Anastasia, Bonjour Tristesse, The Way We Were and The Turning Point. He also wrote the plays Home Of The Brave, The Time Of The Cuckoo and A Clearing of The Woods. He directed I Can Get It For You Wholesale, Anyone Can Whistle, Gypsy, La Cage Aux Folles, Birds Of Paradise and Nick & Nora.

LEONARD BERNSTEIN (Composer) Few composers capture their time and become the iconic voice of their age. Leonard Bernstein found his “voice” in the early 1940s and pro-jected the sound of urban and urbane America

from the period of World War II to the anti-war movements of the 1970s and the restoration of freedom in Europe, with the fall of the Berlin Wall and Soviet communism. Writing for small ensembles, symphony orchestras, Broadway, film and opera houses, eonard ernstein projected a simple message of understanding and hope employing both complex and simple forms and styles - yet always sounding like “Bernstein,” a voice best known in his score to West Side Story. Exploring his output, one finds the famous and obscure works that both are re ective of their times and somehow also preserve and encapsulate them. Every-where one hears his internal struggle to sound inevitable as the tumultuous era of the second half of the 20th century unfolded itself. He is as once linked with the music of Benjamin Britten and Dimitri Shostakovich, as well as George Gershwin and Aaron Copland. While his music finds its spiritual home in his world view, his music speaks with a New York accent, even though he was born in Massachusetts. His love affair with Europe and his sensitivity to his Russian and Jewish roots are never far from his lyrical expressivity, with its fragile sense of optimism, its loneliness, its humor and its demand for acceptance. All of this is wrapped in the rhythmic propulsion of a great American urban landscape. He has left us an aural image of his time and place and, at the same time, an eternal voice of humanity.

STEPHEN SONDHEIM (Lyrics) wrote the music and lyrics for Saturday Night (1954), A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Fo-rum (1962), Anyone Can Whistle (1964), Com-pany (1970), Follies (1971), A Little Night Music (1973), The Frogs (1974), Pacific

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Overtures (1976), Sweeney Todd (1979), Mer-rily We Roll Along (1981), Sunday In The Park With George (1984), Into the Woods (1987), As-sassins (1991), Passion (1994) and Road Show (2008) as well as lyrics for West Side Story (1957), Gypsy (1959) and Do I Hear A Waltz? (1965) and additional lyrics for Candide (1973). Anthologies of his work include Side by Side by Sondheim (1976), Mar-ry Me A Little (1981), You’re Gonna Love To-morrow (1983), Putting It Together (1993/99) and Sondheim On Sondheim (2010). He composed the scores of the films Stavisky (1974) and Reds (1981) and songs for Dick Tracy (1990) and the television production Evening Primrose (1966). His collected lyrics with attendant essays have been published in two volumes: “Finishing the Hat” (2010) and “Look, I Made A Hat” (2011). In 2010, the Broadway theater formerly known as Henry Miller’s Theatre was renamed in his honor.

RICHARD ISRAEL (Director) is thrilled and grateful to be returning to MRE/La Mirada Theatre, where he directed last year’s pro-duction of Rent and 2014’s Floyd Collins (LA Stage Alliance Ovation Awards for Directing and Outstanding Musical in a Large Venue). Most recently, Richard was the on-set Avenue Q coordinator for the upcoming HBO series Big Little Lies. Recent directing credits include Our Town at the Actor’s Co-Op, From Foster Care To Fabulous for NY Fringe, Promises Promises for MTG and the original Jeff Marx/Fat Mike musical Home Street Home at San Francisco’s Z-Space. Other directing credits include The Baker’s Wife, 110 In The Shade (LA Stage Alli-ance Award for Outstanding Musical in an In-timate Venue), Kiss Me Kate for Cabrillo Music

Theatre, Glorious! for ICT, Avenue Q for DOMA Theatre and the multiple-Ovation nominated Having It All for the Laguna Playhouse. Inti-mate theatre credits include Bronies!, The Full Monty, The Burnt Part Boys and Falsettos (all for the Third Street Theater), as well as Gypsy, Assassins, Big and the west coast premiere of Anita Bryant Died For Your Sins (all for West Coast Ensemble Theatre). For the Rubicon The-atre he has directed George Gershwin In Concert and The Secret Garden In Concert, and for MTG he has directed Road Show, High Fidelity and Violet, among others. He is on the musical the-atre faculty of AMDA and is the recipient of the L.A. Drama Critics Circle Career Achievement Award for Directing.

JOHN TODD (Choreographer) a native of the Carolinas, received his training at the prestigious North Carolina School of the Arts, receiving a full scholarship at the age of 15. Taking his training into the world, John has worked with such luminaries as Martha Gra-ham, Agnes de Mille, Hal Prince, Twyla Tharp and contemporary artists Robert Zemeckis, Coppola and Paul Feig. John’s most recent experiences include directing/choreographing West Side Story at the Triandi Stage in Athens, Greece, choreographing multiple episodes of Days Of Our Lives for NBC, Kiss Me Kate at the Herod Atticus Theater in Athens, Greece. John’s television credits include: The Last Ty-coon (with Kelsey Grammer), Saving Mr. Banks, Mad Men, About A Boy, Ronna and Beverly, Marvel’s Agents of Shield, as well as choreo-graphing the movie musical Samantha Spade Ace Detective. Mr. Todd has also created 3 works for the prestigious Houston Ballet. For more info, please visit www.johnjtodd.com

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BRENT CRAYON (Musical Director) has had the privilege to work with such notable artists as Stephen Schwartz, Jason Robert Brown, Daisy Prince, John Caird, Paul Gordon, Richard Maltby, Jr., Scott Schwartz and John Bucchi-no. Favorite theaterical productions include the West Coast premieres of Songs For A New World, Tick, Tick...BOOM!, and First Date, and the world premieres of Stephen Schwartz’s Snapshots, John Bucchino’s It’s Only Life, and Bubble Boy, The Musical. An accomplished and multi-faceted musician, Brent has been a featured performer in ensembles throughout Southern California, including Santa Mon-ica Symphony Orchestra, The Long Beach Symphony Orchestra and the Ventura Chamber Orchestra.

JULIA FLORES (Casting Director) Twen-ty-two seasons with McCoy Rigby Enter-tainment and La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts. MRE productions include touring productions of The Little Mermaid, Peter Pan starring Cathy Rigby, Camelot starring Lou Diamond Phillips and Jesus Christ Superstar starring Carl Anderson. Onstage Series productions include American Idiot, Spring Awakening and Floyd Collins. Additional credits include productions for Boston Court Theatre, A Noise Within, The Pasadena Playhouse, Theatreworks, Denver Center Theatre, Ensemble Theatre Compa-ny, B Street Theatre, Universal Studios, Los Angeles Philharmonic, 24th Street Theatre, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Portland Center Stage and eprise!. edicating this to the best parents ever, my amazing Mom and Dad, Emilio and Lupe Flores. I love you both more than words can say.

STEPHEN GIFFORD (Scenic Design) is a Los Angeles based scenic designer whose work has been seen from Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Theatre to Alaska’s Juneau Lyric Opera. In the Los Angeles area he has worked with Ensemble Theatre Company Santa Barbara, La Mirada Performing Arts Center/McCoy Rigby, The Colony Theatre, A Noise Within, The The-atre @ Boston Court, The Antaeus Company, International City Theatre, Laguna Playhouse, 3D Theatricals, The Falcon Theatre and many more. Stephen has had the honor of design-ing multiple large-scale musicals with McCoy Rigby Entertainment; productions include Billy Elliot, First Date, Rent, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and First Date. He has a longstanding relationship with Sacramento Music Circus where he has designed more than 10 produc-tions in the last five years. Stephen has also spent many years designing for industrial theatricals and exhibits for clients like Nike, AT&T and Ralph Lauren. His design for The Pro Football Hall of Fame’s The Game for Life, a fully immersive hologram theater, has been lauded throughout the industry. Stephen has garnered many awards and nominations from the Los Angeles Ovation Awards, Broadway World and the Los Angeles Critics Circle from which was honored with the Bob Z Award for Career Achievement in Scenic Design.

THOMAS G. MARQUEZ (Costume Design) Mr. Marquez’ designs have been seen on the stage, television and film. On the stage he has designed for production and theatre compa-nies across the nation including North Shore Music Theatre, Musical Theatre of Wichita, Musical Theatre West, McCoy/Rigby Enter-tainment, Reprise Theatre Company, American

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Musical Theatre of San Jose, Hermosa Beach Playhouse and Plan-B Entertainment. On the road Mr. Marquez has designed national and regional touring productions of Cabaret for the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle, Dreamgirls, Evita, Plan-B Entertainment’s Little Shop of Horrors and A Chorus Line. A partial list of his regional theatre credits include Sweet Charity, Chica-go, Showboat, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, Swing, Carousel, Damn Yankees, Pip-pin, 42nd Street, City of Angels, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Gypsy, Grease, Singing in the Rain, RENT, The Producers, and Little Abner. His world premiere stage productions include Nev-er Gonna Dance, Lullaby of Broadway and Bingo.

STEVEN YOUNG (Lighting Design) Recent work at La Mirada Theatre/McCoy Rigby includes The Last Five Years, American Idiot, Rent, Billy Elliot, Les Misérables and Next to Normal. Steven’s other credits include over 30 concerts for the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles; Putting It Together, and A Year With Frog and Toad for South Coast Repertory; Bou-levard of Broken Dreams at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, A Time for Love for Studio Arena Theatre; plus God Save Gertrude and Para-dise Lost : Shadows and Wings for Theatre@Boston Court, and Spring Awakening. Awards include three Los Angeles Ovation Awards, the A Weekly Award, five arland Awards, and

the LADCC Angstrom Lifetime Achievement Award. As Principal Designer for lighting design firm Visual Terrain, Steven has designed two attractions for Wuhan Movie Park in China, the USA Pavilion at the 2012 World Expo in Yeosu, South Korea, the Dragons Wild Shoot-ing theme park attraction at Lotte World in Seoul, Northern Lights, an immersive media

experience in Edmonton Canada and Beyond All Boundaries for the National WWII Museum in New Orleans, in addition to retail stores at the A uarium of the Pacific in ong each and Leica Camera in West Hollywood. See www.syoungld.com / www.visualterrain.net

JULIE FERRIN (Sound Design) Ms. Ferrin is honored to be designing West Side Story with this ama ing team, cast and crew! ulie recently designed ONCE ON THIS ISLAND with 3D Theatricals, PETER PAN and BEAUTY AND THE BEAST with Encore Entertainment and two tours of RUDOLPH THE RED NOSED REINDEER that toured the USA. Ms. Ferrin is president of Sound Advice LLC, a sound design, engineering and rental company. Please visit www.soundadvicedesigns.com for more information and follow us on Facebook at Sound Advice LLC. Julie is a proud member of USA 829 and IATSE Local 504. Thank you for supporting the arts and enjoy show!

TERRY HANRAHAN (Properties Design) is delighted to be going into her 18th year with McCoy Rigby, and to still be enjoying the craziness of manufacturing alternative worlds out of seemingly the air, but really the imagina-tions of the incredible directors and designers with whom she is so grateful to be working. And on a lot of days, she’s grateful just to be vertical. To Tom and Cathy, everybody at La Mirada Theatre, and all of our wonderful au-diences who make these incredible adventures possible, Merc !

KATIE McCOY (Hair/Makeup Design) Recent designs for La Mirada Theatre/McCoy Rigby include the world premiere of Jane

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Austen’s Pride and Prejudice a Musical, Rent, First Date, Mary Poppins, Carrie the Musical, Billy Elliot, Les Misérables, Miss Saigon, The 39 Steps, Life Could Be A Dream, American Idiot, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Lend Me a Tenor. She has served as Head of Wigs on national tours of The Little Mermaid, Elf the Musical, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer the Musical and Cathy Rigby is Peter Pan. Katie’s credits as a stylist include Hairspray, The Buddy Holly Story, Steel Magnolias, Little Shop of Horrors and many shows at The Sacramento Music Circus. Katie has also served as a styling consultant for recitals at McCoy Rigby Conser-vatory of the Arts and for NBC Sports. Current-ly residing in Southern California, Katie’s great-est joy comes in knowing that she has made an impact on the quality of the show through the work she does behind the scenes.

JOHN W. CALDER, III (Production Stage Manager) Equity member since 1980. NYC (25 years), LA Credits: for McCoy-Rigby Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame; 13 Things About Ed Carpolotti starring Penny Fuller; Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Pajama Game, Damn Yankees, Oklahoma!, Disney’s Mary Poppins, Forbidden Broadway-2 (Ovation Award Winner), R&H’s Cinderella (Sally Struthers), Light in the Piz-za, She Loves Me and The Piano Lesson (Tonya Pinkins.) National Tours: West Side Story, White Christmas, A Chorus Line (Donna McKech-nie), Dreamgirls (Jennifer Holliday), Anything Goes (Chita Rivera), Hello, Dolly! (Madeline Kahn), Hal Prince’s Showboat, Sound Of Music (Debby Boone), The Producers, Carou-sel (Patrick Wilson), Les Miserables, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, 42nd Street and premiere of Disney’s High School Musical-ON STAGE. He’s

worked with: President Bill Clinton, Secretary Hillary Clinton, Al, Gore, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Muhammad Ali, Gwen Verdon, Meryl Streep, Angela Lansbury, Jane Powell, Barbara Cook, Julie Andrews. Musical theater collector (+10,000 Recordings.) JWCalder3@gmail.com

MCCOY RIGBY ENTERTAINMENT (Tom McCoy & Cathy Rigby McCoy, Executive Producers) Cele-brating its 21st Anniversary season at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts, McCoy Rigby Entertainment (MRE), is one of the world’s pre-mier theatrical production companies. Headed by Executive Producers Tom McCoy and Cathy Rigby, MRE has produced over one hundred mu-sicals, plays and concerts featuring some of the biggest stars in the industry today. In addition, MRE has launched several Emmy Award-win-ning and Tony Award-nominated Broadway, international and national touring productions including: Peter Pan, Seussical the Musical and Annie Get Your Gun, all starring Cathy Rigby; Frank Wildhorn’s Jekyll and Hyde starring American Idol contender and Tony Award nom-inee Constantine Maroulis along with Grammy Award nominee and R&B superstar Deborah Cox; Jesus Christ Superstar starring Carl An-derson and Sebastian Bach; Camelot starring Michael York and Lou Diamond Phillips and Happy Days written by Gary Marshall and Paul Williams. Peter Pan starring Cathy Rigby has made four stops on Broadway and received four Tony Award nominations including Best Revival of a Musical and Best Actress in a Musical. The A&E TV network premiere of Peter Pan, starring Cathy Rigby, received one Emmy Award and four Emmy Award nominations. MRE’s other credits include numerous award-winning documenta-ries and stadium events.

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STAFF & CREW FOR WEST SIDE STORY COMPANY

Production Stage Manager…………………............…..............…………………………. JOHN W. CALDER III Assistant Stage Manager………....……………….........…….……………………………………..….LISA PALMIRELighting Designer………………………………………….......……....……………………………....STEVEN YOUNGSound Designer…………………………………………............…………………………………………..JULIE FERRINScenic Designer………………………………….....………….....…………………………………STEPHEN GIFFORDSet Builder………………………………….....….…...SETS TO GO/MARK HENDERSON AND TIM FARMERProperties Designer…………………......…….......……………………………………………….TERRY HANRAHANWardrobe Designer……………………............………………………………………………...TOMMY MARQUEZHair/Wig/Makeup Designer…………............……………………………………………………..KATIE MCCOYContractor…………………………………….......…….....………………………………………………….ERIC HEINLYAudition and Rehearsal Pianist…………...………...........……………………………...…………BRENT CRAYONCasting Director………………………………......…………......…………………………………………JULIA FLORESCasting Assistant……………………………........…………….....…………………………………….KELLY DORNEYDance Captain………………………………….......……………...……………………………………….JOSH RIVERAHead Wardrobe………………………………...…………………..………………..….DONNA MACNAUGHTONWig Running Head……………………….......…………………...……….……………………....ELIZABETH BOHKSDresser………………………………………….......………………….…….………………………...….RYAN NORTONDresser……………………………………................……………….…….………………………………...….KAZ LIPUTDresser………………………………………........…………………….….…………………………...KRISTY YANNICHDresser…………………………………….........………………………..……………………………...….DEREK MILLER

MCCOY RIGBY ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCTION STAFF

Executive Producers………………….............……………..…….TOM MCCOY AND CATHY RIGBY MCCOYOffice Manager……………………………...........……………………………………………………………ANA LARAProduction Manager……………………....…........……………………………………………………...PATTI JACOBContracts, Payroll Manager……………...……...........….…………………………………………..DAVID NESTORTechnical Director…………………………….......…….......………………………………………MICHAEL ROMANSocial Media/Marketing………………….....………….......……………………………………LINDSAY BROOKSProduction Accountant................................................................................................ELISSA SZIEFFAccountant Assistant......................................................................................................KATIE KING

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PROGRAM

ST. PETERSBURG PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

YURI TEMIRKANOV , ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AND CHIEF CONDUCTOR

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ST. PETERSBURG PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAYuri Temirkanov, Artistic Director & Chief Conductor

Garrick Ohlsson, Piano

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) .................................Piano Concerto No.1 in D minor, Op.15I. Maestoso II. Adagio III. Rondo: Allegro non troppo Garrick Ohlsson, piano

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David V. Foster, President & CEOLeonard Stein, Senior Vice President, Director, Touring DivisionRobert Berretta, Vice President, Manager, Artists & Attractions

Tania Leong, Associate, Touring DivisionSamantha Cortez, Associate, Attractions

Irene Lönnblad, Tour ManagerThomas Eirman, Stage Manager

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ST. PETERSBURG PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

FIRST VIOLIN Lev Klychkov –

ConcertmasterPavel Popov Alexander Zolotarev Iurii Ushchapovskii Valentin Lukin Tikhon Lukianenko Olga Rybalchenko Anna Fenster Natalia Sokolova Sergei Teterin Vera VasilevaNikolai Tkachenko Aisylu Saifullina Sergei Tiutiunik Tatiana Makarova Iaroslav ZaboiarkinLev Mikhailovskii Grigory Sedukh

SECOND VIOLINIlia Kozlov – Principal Igor Zolotarev Tatiana Shmeleva Dmitrii Petrov Liubov Khatina Ekaterina Belaya Dmitrii Koriavko Argine Stepanian Ruslan Kozlov Elizaveta Petrova Nikolai Dygodyuk Konstantin BasokMariia Irashina-Pimenova Mikhail Alekseev Semen Klimashevskiy Vladimir Shuliakovskii

VIOLAAndrei Dogadin –

Principal

Iurii DmitrievAleksei Bogorad Denis Gonchar Dmitrii Kosolapov Konstantin BychkovIosif Nurdaev Mikhail Sokolov Aleksandr Chizhov Leonid Lobach Anton Shestakov Dmitrii Kreshchenskyi Alexey Koptev lena Panfilova

CELLO Dmitrii Khrychev –

PrincipalTaras Trepel Sergei Cherniadev Nikita Zubarev Aleksandr Kulibabin Dmitry Eremin Andrei fimovskii Mikhail Slavin Nikolai Matveev Stanislav Lyamin Evgenii Kogan

DOUBLE BASSArtem Chirkov –

PrincipalRostislav Iakovlev Oleg Kirillov Nikita Makin Mikhail Glazachev Nikolai Chausov Aleksei Ivanov Aleksei Chubachin Nikolai SyraiArsenii Petrov

FLUTE Marina Vorozhtsova

PrincipalDmitry TerentievOlesia Tertychnaia Olga Viland

FLUTE PICCOLO Ksenia Kuelyar-Podgaynova

OBOE Artem Isaev – PrincipalPavel SokolovArtem Trofimenko

ENGLISH HORN Mikhail Dymskii

CLARINETAndrei Laukhin –

PrincipalNikita Liutikov Denis Sukhov Aleksandr Vasilev

BASS CLARINETVitalii Rumiantcev

BASSOONMark Kreshchenskyi Vasily ChernichkaAnton Gutsevich

CONTRABASSOONMikhail Krotov

HORNIgor Karzov Stanislav Avik Oleg Skrotskiy Anatolii Surzhok Nikolai DubrovinOleg Egorov

TRUMPETViacheslav Dmitrov Bogdan DekhtiarukAlexey BelyaevMikhail Romanov

TROMBONEMaksim Ignatev –

Principal Dmitrii Andreev Denis Nesterov Vitaly Gorlitskiy

TUBADmitrii Karakhtanov

PERCUSSIONDmitrii Klemenok Mikhail Lestov Ruben Ramazyan Alexandr Mikhailov Anton Nazarko Artemy Znamenskiy

HARPAnna Makarova Andres Izmaylov

PIANO AND CELESTAMaxim Pankov

LIBRARIANMikhail Aleynikov

STAGE MANAGERGrigorii Grigorev

TECHNICIANAlexander Vinogradov

EXECUTIVE DIRECTORIlya Teplyakov

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ST. PETERSBURG PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

The history of the St. Petersburg Philharmon-ic Orchestra—according to The Guardian’s defi-nition, “one of the greatest and most exciting orchestras in the world”—began in 1882, when Alexander III had decreed the establishment of the Imperial Music Choir. Transformed into the Court Orchestra at the beginning of the

th century, for the first time in ussia, the orchestra performed the symphonic poem “Ein Heldenleben” and “Thus spake Zarathustra” by R.Strauss, Mahler’s First Symphony and Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony, Scriabin’s “Poem of Ecstasy,” and Stravinsky’s First Symphony.

A.Nikish and R.Strauss conducted the orchestra as well as A.Glazunov, who dedicat-ed the “Festival Overture” to the orchestra. In 1917, the Court Orchestra became the State Orchestra and was headed by S.Koussevitz-ky. In 1921, the orchestra was incorporated into the newly founded Petrograd Philhar-monia, the first of its kind in the country. The unprecedented in scale activities of the orchestra drew a new and sometimes far from the classical music audience to its Grand Hall. Outstanding Russian musicians underwent a rigorous test of their conducting skills with the orchestra. Such legendary Western conductors as B.Walter, F.Weingartner, G.Abendroth, O.Fried, E.Kleiber, P.Monteux, and O.Klemperer; soloists V. orowit and S.Prokofiev, performed with the orchestra. The orchestra mastered a vast contemporary repertoire. In 1918, it pre-sented the premiere of Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony”, in 1926—Shostakovich’s First Symphony.

The year 1938 ushered in a half-century of the “Age of Mravinsky”—years of hard work,

which earned the orchestra a place among the most prominent orchestras of the world. In , the orchestra embarked on its first foreign trip and gave the first overseas per-formance in the country’s symphonic perfor-mance history. This was followed by regular tours around the world, performing at the most prestigious European festivals. A unique and creative alliance formed between D.Shostakov-ich and E.Mravinsky, to whom the composer dedicated the Eighth Symphony. The conductor and the orchestra performed five of Shostakov-ich’s symphonies for the first time. Alternating as the second conductor of the orchestra were K.Sanderling, A.Jansons and M.Jansons; at the podium were L.Stokowsky, L.Maazel, Z.Mehta, K.Mazur, E.Svetlanov, G.Rozhdestvensky; com-posers: B.Britten, A.Copland, Z.Kodaly, W.Lu-toslawski, L.Berio, K.Penderecki, and soloists: V.Cliburn, G.Gould, A.Benedetti Michelangeli, I.Stern, S.Richter, E.Gilels, D.Oistrakh, L.Kogan, E.Virsaladze, G.Sokolov, V.Tretyakov, N.Gutman, and V.Spivakov.

Since 1988, Yuri Temirkanov has led the orchestra. Recently, the orchestra has been ranked in the top 20 orchestras in the world (according to Gramophone magazine), has participated in the most prestigious music fes-tivals, added to its resume the season opening of Carnegie Hall and performed the premieres (world, Russian) of the works by Penderecki, Nono, Shchedrin, Tishchenko and Slonimsky.

The plans for 2016/2017 Season include collaboration with such conductors as M. Janowski, M. Venzago, J.-C. Casadesus, I. Marin, V. Sinaisky, T. Sanderling and soloists: D. Matsuev, R. Buchbinder, N. Lugansky, K. Gerstein, J. Fischer, S. Khachatryan, A. Kniazev, N. Kutcher, among others.

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YURI TEMIRKANOVSince 1988, Yuri Temirkanov has been the

Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, with whom he regularly undertakes major international tours and recordings.

He began his musical studies at the age of nine. When he was 13, he attended the Leningrad School for Talented Children where he continued his studies in violin and viola. Upon graduation, he attended the Leningrad Conservatory where he completed his studies in viola and later returned to study conducting, graduating in 1965. After winning the All-So-viet Conducting Competition in 1966, Yuri Temirkanov was invited by Kirill Kondrashin to tour Europe and the USA with David Oistrakh and the Moscow Philharmonic.

Yuri Temirkanov made his debut with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic in 1967 and was then invited to join the orchestra as Assistant Conductor to Yevgeny Mravinsky. In 1968, he was appointed Principal Conductor of the Leningrad Symphony Orchestra where he remained until his appointment as Music Director of the Kirov Opera and Ballet (now

the Mariinsky Theatre) in 1976. He remained in this position until 1988.

Maestro Temirkanov has appeared with lead-ing European orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Dresden Staatskapelle, London Philharmonic, London Symphony, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, La Scala, Milan and others.

In 1979, he was appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orches-tra; and in 1992, he was named Principal Conductor, a position he held until 1998. From 1992 to 1997, he was also the Principal Guest Conductor of the Dresden Philharmonic and from 1998 to 2008 Principal Guest Conduc-tor of the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra. He was the Music Director of the Baltimore Symphony from 2000 till 2006, and Principal Guest Conductor of the Bolshoi The-atre until 2009. From 2010-2012, he was Music Director of Teatro Regio di Parma.

His numerous recordings include collabora-tions with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Danish National Radio Sym-phony Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic.

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kanov hosts the annual International Winter Festival Arts Square in St Petersburg. Unique in its concept, the festival gathers artists of the highest caliber, confirming the status of St. Petersburg as one of the cultural capitals of Europe.

Maestro Temirkanov has been awarded the Order “For Merit for the Country” of all the four degrees. In 2003 and 2007, he received the Ab-biati Prize for Best Conductor, and in 2003 was named Conductor of the Year in Italy. Recently, he was made an Honorary Academician of San-ta Cecilia. In 2012, he was awarded “The Com-mander of the Order of the Star of Italy”, in 2014 the Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Prize, and in 2015 the “Order of the Rising Sun” (Ja-pan) and “Una vita nella musica” Prize (Italy). In November 2015, Yuri Temirkanov was made the Honorary Conductor of the Academia Santa Cecilia Choir and Orchestra.

GARRICK OHLSSON, Piano Since his triumph as winner of the 1970 Cho-

pin International Piano Competition, pianist Garrick Ohlsson has established himself world-wide as a musician of magisterial interpretive and technical prowess. Although long regarded as one of the world’s leading exponents of the music of Frédéric Chopin, Mr. Ohlsson com-mands an enormous repertoire, which ranges over the entire piano literature. A student of the late Claudio Arrau, Mr. Ohlsson has come to be noted for his masterly performances of the works of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, as well as the Romantic repertoire. This season his vast repertoire can be sampled in concerti ranging from Rachmaninoff’s popular Third and rarely performed Fourth, to Brahms Nos. 1 and 2, Beethoven, Mozart, Grieg and Copland in cities including Toronto, San Francisco, Liverpool and Madrid ending with a spring US West Coast tour with the St. Petersburg Philhar-monic. In recital he can be heard in LA’s Walt Disney Concert Hall, New York, New Orleans, Hawaii and Prague.

A frequent guest with the orchestras in Aus-

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tralia, Mr. Ohlsson has recently visited Perth, Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Hobart as well as the New Zealand Symphony in Wellington and Auckland. An avid chamber musician, Mr. Ohlsson has collaborated with the Takacs, Cleveland, Emerson and Tokyo string quartets, among other ensembles. Together with violinist Jorja Fleezanis and cellist Michael Grebanier, he is a founding member of the San Francisco-based FOG Trio.

Mr. Ohlsson can be heard on the Ara-besque, RCA Victor Red Seal, Angel, BMG, Delos, Hänssler, Nonesuch, Telarc, Hyperion and Virgin Classics labels. His 10-disc set of the complete Beethoven Sonatas, for Bridge Records, has garnered critical acclaim, including a Grammy for Vol. 3. The latest CDs in his ongoing association with Bridge Records are Close Connections, a recital of 20th century pieces, and two CDs of works by Liszt with Scriabin complete sonatas due for release this season.

A native of White Plains, NY, Garrick Ohls-

son began his piano studies at the age of 8 at the Westchester Conservatory of Music; at 13 he entered The Juilliard School in New York City. is musical development has been in u-enced in completely different ways by a suc-cession of distinguished teachers, most notably Claudio Arrau, Olga Barabini, Sascha Gorod-nitzki, and Irma Wolpe. Although he won First Prize at the 1966 Busoni Competition in Italy and the 1968 Montréal Piano Competition, it was his 1970 triumph at the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw, where he won the Gold Medal (and remains the single American to have done so), that brought him worldwide recognition as one of the finest pianists of his generation. Mr. Ohlsson was awarded the Avery Fisher Prize in 1994 and received the 1998 University Musical Society Distinguished Artist Award in Ann Arbor, MI. He is also the 2014 recipient of the Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance from the Northwestern University Bienen School of Music. He makes his home in San Francisco.

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PROGRAM

BUSTER KEATON’STHE GENERAL

NEW WEST SYMPHONY

RICHARD KAUFMAN, CONDUCTOR

DENNIS JAMES, ORGANIST

SATURDAY, MARCH 25 | 8PM

MEDIA SPONSORS KUSC AND KPCC

LIVE DISCUSSION WITH ACTOR JAMIE FARR ABOUT FILM, COMEDY & KEATON

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FILM NOTESOnce when Keaton was asked why he

thought THE GENERAL looked much more authentic than GONE WITH THE WIND, he pondered for a moment and then replied with complete modesty, “Well, they went to a novel for their story. We went to history.” The story is based on a curious reminiscence of the Civil War, William Pittenger’s “The Great Locomotive Chase,” in which the author, a Northern soldier, recalled a daring raid in which he had taken part in 1862. A party of 20 men, led by James J. Andrews and disguised as Southerners,

made their way from Tennessee into Atlanta, and seized a train while its passengers were at breakfast. Their object was to run the train north to Chattanooga, where they would join up with Union troops, having burnt bridges and cut communications along the route. Despite delays, they were within only a few miles of their destination when the crew of the train, on a borrowed locomotive, overtook them and forced them to abandon their prize. Fourteen of the raiders were captured; eight of this number were subsequently hanged and the rest exchanged. Another six involved in the raid escaped.

The train and the chase were obvious attractions to Keaton, and this story gave him the weight of dramatic motive that he always sought in his comedy subjects. The major change was to see the story from the point of view of the Southern pursuers. “You can always make villains out of the Northerners, but you cannot make a villain out of the South.” The film’s production was not inordinately e pen-sive, even though there were no doubles used, no process shots or miniatures.

THE GENERAL is an anthology of the great-est gags ever devised about railway trains. “Give me a locomotive or things like that to play with,” remembered Keaton 40 years later, and as a rule I find some way to get laughs

out of it.” Production began in the summer of 1926 in Oregon, the only region where there remained long stretches of narrow gauge track that could accommodate authentic Civil War engines. For one climactic gag, Keaton actually had a full-size locomotive plunge into a river. After wrapping the shot, the crew sim-ply left the train there where it sat as a local tourist attraction for 40 years. Five hundred

THE GENERALBUSTER KEATON 1927

CREDITSDirected by Buster Keaton and Clyde BruckmanProduced by Joseph M. Schenck for Buster Keaton ProductionsStory by Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckmanfrom “The Great Locomotive Chase” by William PittengerScreenplay by Al Boasberg and Charles SmithEdited by Sherman KellCinematography by J. Deveraux Jennings and Bert HainesLighting Effects by Denver HarmonTechnical Director: Fred Gabourie

CASTBuster Keaton as Johnnie GrayMarion Mack as Annabelle LeeGlan Cavender as Captain AndersonJim Farley as General ThatcherFrederick Vroom as a Southern generalJoseph Keaton, Mike Donlin and Tom Nawn as Union generalsCharles Smith as the fatherFrank Barnes as the brother

Compilation Musical Score realized by Dennis James utilizing the original 1927 James C. Bradford cue-sheet score instructions distributed with the film during its initial release.

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members of the Oregon National Guard were recruited to play soldiers.

The final result is a film comedy epic in scale and startling in its realism. It is less the gags you remember than the image of the lonely, brave, beautiful, foolish little figure in relentless pursuit of the two things that he loves most and that have been stolen away from him. His relationship to both is passion-ate and touching. When he is carried off on the driving-bar of the train he has become part of his machine. And his relationship with Marion Mack is beautiful. The poor girl was roughly handled: at one point she is bundled into a sack and ung around with the freight. (“Oh God, that girl...had more fun with that picture than any film she’d made in her life. I guess it’s because so many leading ladies

in those days looked as though they had just walked out of a beauty parlor. They always kept them looking that way—even in covered wagons, they kept their leading ladies looking beautiful at all times. We said to thunder with that, we’ll dirty ours up a bit and let them have some rough treatment.”)

THE GENERAL is unique and perhaps per-fect. In form and method, it is like no other comedy, not even another Keaton picture. Here, uniquely, the dramatic action and the comic business are one and interdependent. You never feel that the story is simply an excuse for the comedy or that the gags are a decoration planted on the story. Keaton was typically vague and modest about the way his films ac uired their characteristic and striking visual qualities. He said that he always chose

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the actual camera set-ups “when it was import-ant for the scene I was going to do. If I had an incidental scene—someone runs in, say, and says, ‘here, you’ve got to go and do this’—the background wasn’t important. Then I generally just told the cameraman that I had these two characters in the scene, two full length figures, and asked him to pick a good-looking back-ground. He would go by the sun. He’d say, ‘I like that back cross-light coming in through the trees. There are clouds over there right now, so if we hurry up we can still get them before they disappear.’ So I would say, ‘Swell,’ and go and direct the scene in front of the camera-man’s set-up. We took pains to get good-look-ing scenery whenever we possibly could, no matter what we were shooting.”

Every shot in THE GENERAL has the authen-ticity and the unassumingly correct composi-tion of a Matthew Brady Civil War photograph. Keaton never considered the matter: he just assumed that whatever he did must be authen-tic—visually as well as psychologically—as possible. “In THE GENERAL I took that page of history and I stuck to it in all detail. I staged it exactly the way it happened...And I staged the chase exactly the way it happened.”

e insisted that the film be shot on loca-tion so that the breathtaking pine forests and mountains would look the same as the ones Pittenger and his companions traversed 65 years earlier. He found two ancient locomo-tives and converted them to the authentic appearance of 1860s trains. His insistence that they should be powered by steam engines and fuelled with wood resulted in a forest fire during the course of the shooting. Even the women’s clothes were so accurate that you do not even notice them; and, of course, Keaton’s

own clothes—even to the coarse textures of the woolen cloth of his calling suit—are straight out of Daguerreotypes. So, as James Agee pointed out, was his face.

Compiled from Buster Keaton, by David Robinson

Plus screening program notes by Charles Stromeyer

III and Christopher Steger

ABOUT THE ARTISTSRICHARD KAUFMAN has devoted much of

his musical life to conducting and supervising music for film and television productions, as well as performing film and classical music in concert halls and on recordings. The 2016-17 season marks his 11th season with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra concert series “CSO at the Movies” and his 26th season as Principal Pops Conductor of Pacific Symphony. e holds the permanent title of Pops Conductor Laureate with the Dallas Symphony.

In May of 2015, Kaufman made his conduct-ing debut with the Boston Pops Orchestra, sub-stituting for John Williams at the Annual Pops Film Night, and Mr. Williams graciously invited Richard to share the podium at the annual Tanglewood Film Night in August 2016. In July, two days before its official theatrical release, Richard conducted the San Diego Symphony in a live performance of Michael Giacchino’s new score for Star Trek Beyond, accompanying the film in its gala world premiere.

Kaufman regularly appears as a guest con-ductor with symphony orchestras throughout both the United States and around the world including those in Cleveland, Atlanta, St. Louis, London, Liverpool, the RTE Concert Orchestra in Dublin, Indianapolis, San Diego and the Roy-al Scottish National Orchestra. In addition to

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conducting “traditional” concert presentations, Kaufman often leads performances of complete film scores in concert, synchroni ing the music to the actual film as it is shown on the screen above the orchestra. These legendary film titles include Singin’ in the Rain, The Wizard of Oz, Psycho, Casablanca, The Bride of Frankenstein, Pirates of the Caribbean, Silverado, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Amadeus, Star Trek and various silent films.

Kaufman received the 1993 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance. In addition to his two recordings with the London Symphony Orchestra, he has recorded CDs with the Nuremberg Symphony, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and the Brandenburg Philharmonic in Berlin.

He has conducted for performers including John Denver, Andy Williams, Mary Martin, Nanette Fabray, Sir James Galway, Diana Krall, Chris Botti, The Beach Boys, Peter Paul and Mary, obert oulet, avid Copperfield, The Righteous Brothers and Art Garfunkel.

As a violinist, Kaufman performed on numer-ous film and television scores including Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Saturday Night Fever and (in a moment of desperation) Animal House. He has recorded with artists including John Denver, Burt Bacharach, Neil Sedaka, The Carpenters and Ray Charles.

Kaufman joined the music department of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios in 1984 as music coordinator and for the next 18 years supervised music for MGM. He received two Emmy Award nominations, one for the animat-ed series The Pink Panther, in the category of Outstanding Music Direction and Composition, and another for Outstanding Original Song co-authored for the series All Dogs Go to Heav-

en. For the MGM television series In the Heat of the Night, Kaufman composed songs with actor/producer Carroll O’Connor. He conducted the scores for films including Guarding Tess and Jungle to Jungle. As a unique part of his career in film, aufman has coached various actors in musical roles including Jack Nicholson, Dudley Moore and Tom Hanks.

In 2012, Kaufman received the “Distin-guished Alumni Award” from California State University, Northridge (CSUN). While a student at CSUN, he composed the University’s Alma Mater and Fight Song. He has appeared as a guest speaker at various universities including USC, Georgia and the California State Uni-versities at Northridge and Fullerton. He is a member of the Music Advisory Board of the Young Musicians Foundation.

Born in Los Angeles, Kaufman began violin studies at age 7, played in the Peter Merem-blum California Junior Symphony and was a member of the Young Musicians Foundation Debut Orchestra. He attended the Berkshire Music Festival at Tanglewood in the fellowship program and earned a B.A. in Music from Cal-ifornia State University, Northridge. Kaufman lives in Southern California with his wife,

ayle, a former dancer in film, television and on Broadway. His daughter Whitney is a grad-uate (with honors) of Chapman University in Orange, Calif., and for 2 ½ years was a member of the cast of the National Tour of Mamma Mia! Richard Kaufman is proud to be represented by Opus 3 Artists.

For 50 years DENNIS JAMES has played a pivotal role in the international revival of silent films presented with live music accom-paniment. e began professional film scoring

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while he was enrolled as a music student at Indiana University in the late 1960’s. James now tours under the auspices of the Silent Film Concerts production company perform-ing to silent films with solo organ, piano and chamber ensemble accompaniments in addition to presentations with major sympho-ny orchestras throughout the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand and Europe. James is renowned for providing the most comprehensive selection of silent films with historically authentic musical scoring presen-tations available today.

A featured solo performer on the inter-national film festival circuit, ames appears regularly at annual Los Angeles, San Francis-co, Washington D.C. and Philadelphia events as well as the Pordenone and Rome (Italy) Festivals Cinema Muto. Recent overseas appearances include a sellout three perfor-mance series at the Sydney Opera House in

Australia, his debut with silent films for the dedication performance of the Esplanade Concert Hall pipe organ in Singapore plus country wide silent film tours in ngland and New Zealand, and he was the premier silent film performer for the Chungmuro International Film Festival in Seoul, Korea. ames may be seen accompanying films at the

National Gallery of Art, Walker Contemporary Art Center, Cleveland Museum of Art, New York Museum of Modern Art, Chicago Art Institute and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, as well as the Louvre Museum in Paris, Palazzo Delle Espisozioni in Rome, Konzaer-thaus in Vienna and Grosser Salle at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. James has performed film programs under the auspices of the American Film Institute, National Film

egistry, ibrary of Congress, Pacific Film Archive, George Eastman House, American Federation of the Arts, UCLA Film and Tele-

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vision Archive plus the British Film Institute and Germany’s Goethe-Institut.

James’ recent tour appearances have includ-ed his introduction of a multi-program silent film series at the Mo arteum in Sal burg, Austria, his debut engagement at the Metro-politan Opera company at Lincoln Center in New York City (performing the rarely heard glass armonica part in Donizetti’s Lucia di ammermoor , his debut silent film perfor-

mances at the prestigious Telluride Film Fes-tival (performing his Filmharmonia ensemble score to House on Trubnaya) and international presentations of his new scoring, together with historical keyboard specialist Michael Tsalka, to the restored erman silent film am-let starring Asta Nielsen.

JAMIE FARR was born Jameel Jo-seph Farah on July 1, 1934 in Toledo, Ohio, the only son of Samuel, a gro-cer, and Jamelia, a seamstress.

Farr’s acting career began at age 11 when Jamie won $2 in a local talent contest. He won his first film role as Santini in the M M production The Blackboard Jungle. Over the years he has co starred with Andy riffith, Dick Van Dyke, Bob Hope, Milton Berle, Dean Martin and Lucille Ball.

uring the first television season of M*A*S*H, Jamie was hired for one day’s work as a phony transvestite bucking for a Section 8 discharge. Something about the chomped cigar under the black veil and hairy legs un-der the owing skirt immediately clicked with

the producers and audience; he became a full member of the cast. Feature films include The Greatest Story Ever Told and the Cannonball Run films with urt eynolds. e made his Broadway debut in 1994 in the revival of Guys and Dolls, receiving rave reviews for his portrayed of Nathan Detroit.

Among his many awards are The Ellis Is-land Medal of Honor, two honorary degrees, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. For 28 years he has hosted the nationally acclaimed LPGA golf tournament at the High-land Meadows Country Club.

He has been married to Joy Richards for 54 years and has two children Jonas and Yvonne. Jonas and his wife, Pamela, blessed oy and amie in with their first grand-

child, Dorian.

NEW WEST SYMPHONYFounded in 1995, the New West Symphony

is a professional orchestra that draws its play-ers from the rich talent pool of professional Los Angeles-area musicians. The Symphony is the resident company of Oxnard Performing Arts Center, the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza and Barnhum Hall in Santa Monica. It presents six Masterpiece Series concerts annually, performing major works from the symphonic repertoire with international-ly acclaimed artists as guest soloists. The Symphony also provides quality outreach and educational opportunities for the communi-ties it serves through its annual Symphonic Adventures concert programs for youth, its traveling Music Van, and its partnership with New West Symphony Harmony Project of Ventura County, an after-school program for underserved students.

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PROGRAM

COLBURN ORCHESTRA

YEHUDA GILAD, MUSIC DIRECTORLUDOVIC MORLOT, GUEST CONDUCTOR

WITHMIKYUNG SUNG, DOUBLE BASS

SUNDAY, APRIL 2 | 3PM

THIS PERFORMANCE IS GENEROUSLYSUPPORTED BY THE COLBURN FOUNDATION

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COLBURN ORCHESTRAYEHUDA GILAD, MUSIC DIRECTOR

LUDOVIC MORLOT, GUEST CONDUCTORMIKYUNG SUNG, DOUBLE BASS

PROGRAM

A Carmen Fantasy, for Double Bass and Orchestra (1991) .................... Frank Proto (b. 1941)I PreludeII AragonaiseIII Nocturne-Micaela’s AriaIV Toreador SongV Bohemian Dance

INTERMISSION

Symphonie fantastique (Fantastic Symphony), op. 14 (1830) ................... Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)

I Rêveries – PassionsII Un balIII Scène aux champsIV Marche au suppliceV Songe d’une nuit du sabbat

The Colburn School wishes to thank Wells Fargo for their support of Colburn performances in the community.

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COLBURN ORCHESTRA

VIOLIN Choi, Jung Yun Dietrich, Amelia Fotheringham, Bree Ishizuka-Hobbs,

Alexander James, Felicity Ji, Hannah Kapoor, Jalusha Kastner, Gallia Kim, Fabiola Millar, Emerson Oliverson, Aubree Rios, Eduardo Shin, Michelle Vaillancourt, Madeleine Vayman, Mikhail Vest, Madison Wang, Lucy Wellems, Michaela Yu, Chandler Yu, Natalie Zhou, Hao

VIOLADavis, Ryan Drake, Cassia Kane, Aiden Menees, Tanner Nowik, Johanna Rogers-Beadle, Chris Wernig, Emma

Yevstifeev, Dmitri Yoo, Kyuwon Yu, Hyeree

VIOLONCELLOChoi, Minji Choi, Youna Cooper, James Doyle, Nora Eom, Jangwoo PeterGuo, Qiele Han, Yun Houston, Russell Kim, Dong Nyouk

(“Sunrise”) Kim, Minji Kim, Suyeon Lee, Joanne Sang Min Seo, Chanyoung

Charles Solomonow, Benjamin Xu, Tianlu Zawadiuk, Tate

DOUBLE BASS Arredondo, Nicholas Conrad, Brittany Joyce, Hayden Lillie, Mark Olson, Nathaniel Primera, Luis Scheider, Anna

Soung, Mikyung Windmeier, Eric

HARP Katahara, Alyssa Terada, Ruriko

FLUTE Choi, Si Eon Jeon, Seung Lim, HyeRyung Thomsen, Joachim Trionfo, Anthony

OBOE Brady, Regina Brogadir, Benjamin Feng, Michelle Myers, GretchenTisherman, Nicholas

CLARINETDiaz Guerra, Victor Marino, Taylor Mateo Saez, Cristina Quail, Angelo Yusuf, Afendi

BASSOONBrokken, Jordan Cummings, Justin Deubner, Graham Lane, Jennifer Merchant, Joseph

HORNHodge, Patrick Jenkins, Rachelle Laskey, Alex Mangrum, Martin Torrez, Kaylet Zheng, Julian

TRUMPETHarper, Michael Robson, Nicholas Rogan, Joshua Tanaka, Hayato

TROMBONEDickerson, Jared Ohtake, Masamitsu Rowe, Connor

BASS TROMBONESchulze, Robinson

TUBAConnors, William Dougherty, Cristina

PERCUSSIONChan, Jimmy Lee, Brian Marasti, Jennifer Rosmarin, Charles

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ABOUT THE COLBURN ORCHESTRAFounded in 2003, the Colburn Orches-

tra is the agship ensemble of the Colburn Conservatory of Music. Under the direction of Music Director and Conductor Yehuda Gilad, the Colburn Orchestra performs for Southern California audiences at venues such as Walt Disney Concert Hall, Ambassador Auditori-um, Royce Hall, Segerstrom Concert Hall, and the Valley Performing Arts Center. Since its inception, Gilad and the esteemed faculty at Colburn have invited guest conductors, soloists, and composers to work with the Colburn Orchestra to mirror a professional orchestral experience. The Colburn Orchestra has made four commercial recordings, and concerts have been broadcast on Southern California’s independent television station KCET for the arts series Open Call, as well as classical music radio station KUSC. Dedicated to serving the greater Los Angeles commu-nity, the Colburn Orchestra performs for schools in neighboring communities twice a year, giving five concerts in a one week peri-od to school children of all ages.

LUDOVIC MORLOTThe French conductor Ludovic Morlot has

been Music Director of the Seattle Symphony since 2011. Among the many highlights of his tenure, the orchestra has won two Grammy Awards and gave an exhilarating performance at Carnegie Hall in 2014, as reported in the the New York Times: “The performance Mr. Morlot coaxed from his players was rich with shimmering colours and tremulous energy.”

During the 2016–17 season Ludovic and the Seattle Symphony will continue to invite their audiences to “listen boldly,” presenting

Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges, completing their cycle of Beethoven symphonies and pi-ano concertos and several world premieres, including compositions by Agata Zubel and

abriel Prokofiev. All of this will be comple-mented by the Seattle Symphony’s highly innovative series Sonic Evolution and [unti-tled]. This season will also see the release of several more recordings on the orchestra’s label, Seattle Symphony Media. A box set of music by Dutilleux was recently released to mark the 100th anniversary of the compos-er’s birth.

This season, Ludovic will return to conduct the Los Angeles Philharmonic and make his debut with the Minnesota Orchestra. He has regular relationships with the New York Philharmonic and Chicago Symphony and has also conducted the symphony orchestras in Cleveland and Philadelphia. Ludovic has a particularly strong connection with the Bos-ton Symphony Orchestra, having been Seiji Ozawa Fellowship Conductor in 2001 and subsequently appointed assistant conductor for the orchestra and their Music Director James Levine (2004–07). Since then he has conducted the orchestra in subscription con-certs in Boston, at Tanglewood and on a tour to the west coast of America.

In Europe, Ludovic will this season make his debut with the Vienna Symphony Orches-tra, in the closing concert of the prestigious Wien Modern Festival. He will also make his debut with the Netherlands Radio and Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestras as well as returning to the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. Last season’s engagements included the DSO Berlin and City of Birming-ham Symphony Orchestra. He has also con-

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ducted the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall in London and on tour in Germany. Other recent notable perfor-mances have included the Royal Concertge-bouw, Czech Philharmonic, Dresden Staatska-pelle, Tonhalle, Budapest Festival, Orchestre National de France, Danish National Sym-phony Orchestra and Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestras. Ludovic served as conductor in residence with the Orchestre National de Lyon under David Robertson (2002–04).

Ludovic Morlot was Chief Conductor of La Monnaie for three years (2012–2014). During this time he conducted several new productions including La Clemenza di Tito, Jenufa and Pelléas et Mélisande. Concert performances, both in Brussels and Aix-en-Provence, included repertoire by Beethoven, Stravinsky, Britten, Webern and Bruneau.

Trained as a violinist, Ludovic studied conducting at the Royal Academy of Music in London and then at the Royal College of Music as recipient of the Norman del Mar Conducting Fellowship. Ludovic was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in

in recognition of his significant con-tribution to music. He is Chair of Orchestral

Conducting Studies at the University of Wash-ington School of Music in Seattle.

MIKYUNG SOUNG, DOUBLE BASSTwenty-three-year-old Mikyung Soung is

forging a unique performing career as a solo double bassist. Since her professional solo debut at age 12 with the Guri Philharmonic Orchestra in South Korea, Ms. Soung has performed as soloist with the Staatsorches-ter Rheinische Philharmonie, Philharmonie Baden-Baden, Philharmonia Corea, the Con-cordia College Orchestra and the Korea Na-tional University of Arts Orchestra. Ms. Soung has received top prizes in numerous compe-titions; in 2010, she was awarded First Prize, Audience Prize, and the Special Jury Prize at the Johann-Matthias-Sperger International Double Bass Competition in Germany. She also competed at the 2015 International So-ciety of Bassists Competition, where she won the Thomas Martin Prize and second place in the Solo Division. She earned a Bachelor of Music degree at the Korea National Universi-ty. Ms. Soung is currently an Artist Diploma candidate at the Colburn Conservatory of Mu-sic, where she studies with Peter Lloyd.

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ART GALLERY

In 2011, artist Pascal Giacomini participated in the 2nd Ghetto Biennale, an international art festival based in a Haitian slum. The founders of the event are Vodou (aka Voodoo) sculptors, whose home studios anchor a community of artists and artisans creating an unparalleled output of art for sale on local and foreign art markets.

While there, Giacomini started documenting the feverish artistic activity in this unlikey place. In the process, his project expanded to include an exploration into Haiti’s post-earthquake art scene, its rich culture and love affair with Vodou, one of Haiti’s two national religions.

The insights gained provided powerful enough to inspire a photographic exhibition, a whole new way of approaching Giacomini’s work as a sculptor, and the production of a feature-length documentary (running time, 52 minutes).

Haiti has been called a nation where art is life. People want to know why, and how this is possible in such a poverty stricken place. iacomini’s film, Out of Chaos, An artist’s Journey in Haiti, goes on a mission to illuminate.

OUT OF CHAOS

VPAC ART GALLERY | LOGE LEVELMARCH 10 MAY 13, 2017

AN ARTIST’S JOURNEY IN HAITIPHOTOGRAPHY, SCULPTURE AND DOCUMENTARY FILM

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ARTS EDUCATION

SPRING IS HERE FOR ARTS EDUCATION!

WE HAVE THE FOLLOWING FREE PROGRAMS COMING SOON FOR K12 AND CSUN STUDENTS:

INVITED DRESS REHEARSALASPEN SANTA FE BALLETThursday March 2, 2017

On March 3, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet is presenting a World Premiere performance choreographed by Los Angeles choreographer, Cherice Barton. On March 2, CSUN dancers will have the rare opportunity to go “behind the scenes” at VPAC and observe the Dress Rehearsal of Cherice Barton’s piece.

MATINEETAJ EXPRESS: THE BOLLYWOOD MUSICAL REVUE Generously Sponsored by Carolyn C. PowersThursday April 20, 2017

Taj Express explodes with the sounds of India and Bollywood, capturing the vibrant, expressive spirit of the world of Bollywood movies that have been entertaining billions of people in India for generations. Through a fusion of film, dance and music, this da ling international sensation will take audiences on a live cinematic journey through modern Indian culture and society.

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The Ticket Office is located to the north of Valley Performing Arts Center’s courtyard on Orange Grove Walk across from the Matador Bookstore. Patrons may park in the G3 Parking Structure located on Zelzah and Prairie streets.

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Valley Performing Arts Center’s generous supporters make it all happen—from arts education for young students to a sustainable future for VPAC’s extensive programs and state-of-the-art facility.

VPAC loves to shower its supporters with recognition and perks, so please consider joining our family. In addition to invitations to special events, annual contributions of $2,500 qualify for Porter Pavilion

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For more information on how to make a gift to VPAC, please contact Maria Paredes at 818.677.8849

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IN VENUE DINING OPTIONS

BISTRO ON THE TERRACE

Join us on the 4th Floor Balcony level for a gourmet bistro bite, a glass of wine and a spectacular view of the Valley. Open most evenings (weather permitting) one hour before the show and closing 5 minutes before curtain.

CONCESSIONS IN THE LOBBY

Light fare and drinks available before the show and open during intermissions (by show basis).

Avoid waiting in line and pre-pay for your intermission food and beverage in person before the performance begins!

BISTRO ON THE TERRACE

NEW VPAC DRINK TUMBLERS

ou may now bring a beverage into the concert! Available for purchase at concessions.

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL

STEPHANIE GOODSON AT 8186772076

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