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NEW YORK CITY CENTER Choreographed by JOANN M. HUNTER ARLENE SHULER PRESIDENT & CEO JACK VIERTEL ENCORES! ARTISTIC DIRECTOR ROB BERMAN ENCORES! MUSIC DIRECTOR Featuring THE ENCORES! ORCHESTRA Music Director ROB BERMAN Directed by VICTORIA CLARK Production Stage Manager MATTHEW MELCHIORRE Casting by BINDER CASTING JAY BINDER, CSA & SARAH COONEY Music & Lyrics by KURT WEILL AND ALAN JAY LERNER Music Coordinators KIMBERLEE WERTZ & SEYMOUR RED PRESS Original Orchestrations by KURT WEILL Concert Adaptation by JOE KEENAN Book by ALAN JAY LERNER A Vaudeville in Two Parts Scenic Designer ALLEN MOYER Costume Designer TRACY CHRISTENSEN Lighting Designer PAUL MILLER Sound Designer KAI HARADA Featuring KATE BALDWIN JOHN EDWARDS SARA JEAN FORD ISABELLA HOUSTON BRIAN STOKES MITCHELL OWEN TABAKA CLARKE THORELL ADAM BASHIAN SARAH BOWDEN BRANDON BURKS JONATHAN CHRISTOPHER KERRY CONTE DANIEL EVERIDGE MARIA FAILLA SHILOH GOODIN MARY ILLES ANDREA JONES-SOJOLA CORY LINGNER JOHN-MICHAEL LYLES RENNI ANTHONY MAGEE TIFFANY MANN KRISTIN PIRO ARIANNA ROSARIO HEATH SAUNDERS DAVE SCHOONOVER DANIEL SCHWAIT ALLYSON TUCKER VISHAL VAIDYA RYAN WORSING MINAMI YUSUI NEW YORK CITY CENTER ENCORES! Major support for Encores! is provided by Stacey and Eric Mindich Fund for Musical Theater Season Sponsors Roz and Jerry Meyer The Shubert Foundation Stephanie and Fred Shuman Fund for Encores! Additional support for Love Life is provided by The Ted Snowdon Foundation in honor of Jack Viertel The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, Inc., New York, NY. Love Life is performed under license from The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, Inc., and the Alan Jay Lerner Testamentary Trust.

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N E W YO R KC I T Y C E N T E R

Choreographed byJOANN M. HUNTER

ARLENE SHULER PRESIDENT & CEOJACK VIERTEL ENCORES! ARTISTIC DIRECTORROB BERMAN ENCORES! MUSIC DIRECTOR

FeaturingTHE ENCORES! ORCHESTRA

Music DirectorROB BERMAN

Directed byVICTORIA CLARK

Production Stage ManagerMATTHEW MELCHIORRE

Casting byBINDER CASTING

JAY BINDER, CSA & SARAH COONEY

Music & Lyrics byKURT WEILL and ALAN JAY LERNER

Music CoordinatorsKIMBERLEE WERTZ & SEYMOUR RED PRESS

Original Orchestrations byKURT WEILL

Concert Adaptation byJOE KEENAN

Book byALAN JAY LERNER

A Vaudeville in Two Parts

Scenic DesignerALLEN MOYER

Costume DesignerTRACY CHRISTENSEN

Lighting DesignerPAUL MILLER

Sound DesignerKAI HARADA

FeaturingKATE BALDWIN JOHN EDWARDS SARA JEAN FORD ISABELLA HOUSTON

BRIAN STOKES MITCHELL OWEN TABAKA CLARKE THORELL

ADAM BASHIAN SARAH BOWDEN BRANDON BURKS JONATHAN CHRISTOPHER KERRY CONTE DANIEL EVERIDGE MARIA FAILLA SHILOH GOODIN MARY ILLES

ANDREA JONES-SOJOLA CORY LINGNER JOHN-MICHAEL LYLES RENNI ANTHONY MAGEE TIFFANY MANN KRISTIN PIRO ARIANNA ROSARIO

HEATH SAUNDERS DAVE SCHOONOVER DANIEL SCHWAIT ALLYSON TUCKER VISHAL VAIDYA RYAN WORSING MINAMI YUSUI

NEW YORK CITY CENTERENCORES!

Major support for Encores! is provided byStacey and Eric Mindich Fund for Musical Theater

Season SponsorsRoz and Jerry Meyer The Shubert Foundation Stephanie and Fred Shuman Fund for Encores!

Additional support for Love Life is provided byThe Ted Snowdon Foundation in honor of Jack Viertel The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, Inc., New York, NY.

Love Life is performed under license from The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, Inc.,and the Alan Jay Lerner Testamentary Trust.

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LOVE LIFECAST OF CHARACTERS

(In Order of Appearance)

Johnny Cooper ................................................................................................................. OWEN TABAKA

Elizabeth Cooper ...................................................................................................ISABELLA HOUSTON

Susan Cooper.................................................................................................................... KATE BALDWIN

Sam Cooper .................................................................................................BRIAN STOKES MITCHELL

Hobo ...............................................................................................................................JOHN EDWARDS

Bill / Mr. Cynic ........................................................................................................... CLARKE THORELL

Miss Ideal Man .............................................................................................................SARA JEAN FORD

THE ENSEMBLE

ADAM BASHIAN SARAH BOWDEN BRANDON BURKS JONATHAN CHRISTOPHER KERRY CONTE DANIEL EVERIDGE

MARIA FAILLA SHILOH GOODIN MARY ILLES ANDREA JONES-SOJOLA CORY LINGNER JOHN-MICHAEL LYLES RENNI ANTHONY MAGEE

TIFFANY MANN KRISTIN PIRO ARIANNA ROSARIO HEATH SAUNDERS DAVE SCHOONOVER DANIEL SCHWAIT ALLYSON TUCKER

VISHAL VAIDYA RYAN WORSING MINAMI YUSUI

This production is being presented as a concert performance in which the actorsmay be performing with their scripts in hand.

VAUDEVILLE THEN & NOW

Like any vaudeville show, Love Life consists of a series of sketches and acts. The sketches depict the Cooper Family as they progress—without aging—through American history, from 1791 to the present. These sketches alternate with traditional vaudeville acts, such as a magic act and a singing quartet. One of these classic vaudeville acts centers on the “hobo,” an itinerant laborer who travels the country in search of work. Some of the earliest hobo acts subversively questioned soci-etal attitudes towards labor and domesticity. A second generation of hobo performers traded this barbed edge for a deeply sentimental pathos that emphasized the universal desire for family and home. Love Life partakes in this tradition not to make a spectacle of the hobo’s circumstance, but instead to use the cultural trope of the economic outcast to stress the importance of stable family bonds and love. –Victoria Clark, Director

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THE ENCORES! ORCHESTRA

Music Director and Conductor Rob Berman

Associate Music Director David Hancock Turner 

Assistant Music DirectorJosh Clayton

Violins Suzanne Ornstein (concertmaster) Mineko Yajima Bob Zubrycki Lorra Baylis Maura Giannini Laura Seaton Christoph Franzgrote Fritz Krakowski Erin Benim Mayland Lisa Tipton Lisa Matricardi Annaliesa Place

Celli Katherine Cherbas Deborah Assael-Migliore Caryl Paisner

Bass/Tuba John Beal

Woodwinds Andrew Sterman John Winder Todd Groves David Young Don McGeen Trumpets Don Downs Tim Schadt Wayne du Maine

Trombone Mark Patterson

Drums John Redsecker

Percussion Erik Charlston

Piano/AccordianJosh Rosenblum

Guitar/Banjo/MandolinScott Kuney

JOIN US ONLINE

@NYCITYCENTER #LOVELIFENYCC The Encores! production of Love Life utilizes the materialsof the new critical edition edited by Joel Galand

All Original Orchestrations by Kurt Weill, with some assistance on the dance music by Irving Schlein

The Encores! production of Love Life utilizes the materials of thenew critical edition edited by Joel Galand.

All Original Orchestrations by Kurt Weill, with some assistance in 1948 on the dance music by Irving Schlein.

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LOVE LIFESYNOPSIS OF MUSICAL NUMBERS

PART ONE Scene 1: Act: “Presto Change-O” Opening: The Magicians ................................................................................................Owen Tabaka, Isabella Houston

Scene 2: Sketch: “The Cooper Family” Mayville, Connecticut, 1791 Who Is Samuel Cooper? .............................................................Brian Stokes Mitchell, Kate Baldwin and Company Here I’ll Stay .............................................................................................................Brian Stokes Mitchell, Kate Baldwin

Scene 3: Act: “The Go-Getters” Progress ..................................................... Adam Bashian, Daniel Everidge, Cory Lingner, Renni Anthony Magee,

Dave Schoonover, Clarke Thorell, Vishal Vaidya and Ryan Worsing

Scene 4: Sketch: “The Farewell” Mayville, Connecticut, 1821 I Remember It Well ................................................................................................Brian Stokes Mitchell, Kate Baldwin Green-Up Time ..................................................................................................................... Kate Baldwin and Company I Remember It Well (Reprise) ..............................................................................Brian Stokes Mitchell, Kate Baldwin

Scene 5: Act: “The Common ¢ents Quartet” Economics ................................John-Michael Lyles, Heath Saunders, Brandon Burks and Jonathan Christopher

Scene 6: Sketch: “Labor Pains” Mayville, Connecticut, 1857

Scene 7: Act: “Two Tots & a Mom” Mother’s Getting Nervous .........................................................Isabella Houston, Owen Tabaka and Sarah Bowden

Scene 8: Sketch: “Trouble in Paradise” Mayville, Connecticut 1894 My Kind of Night ..............................................................................................................................Brian Stokes Mitchell Women’s Club Blues ..............................................................................................Kate Baldwin and Female Ensemble My Kind of Night (Reprise) ............................................................................................................Brian Stokes Mitchell

Scene 9: Act: “Along the Track” Love Song ........................................................................................................................................................ John Edwards

Scene 10: Sketch: “The Coopers at Sea” A Cruise in International Waters, New Year’s Eve, 1927 I’m Your Man .................................................................................................Brian Stokes Mitchell and Male Ensemble

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LOVE LIFESYNOPSIS OF MUSICAL NUMBERS

PART TWO Entr’acte......................................................................................................................................... The Encores! Orchestra

Scene 1: Act: “The Harmonaires” Ho, Billy, O! ............................................................................................................................................................Ensemble

Scene 2: Sketch: “Radio Night” The Cooper Apartment, New York City, 1948

Scene 3: Act: “America’s Sweethearts” Susan’s Dream ..............................................Andrea Jones-Sojola, Mary Illes, Kerry Conte and Female Ensemble Scene 4: Sketch: “Farewell Again” Sam and Susan’s Bedroom, New York City, 1948 Is It Him or Is It Me? ........................................................................................................................................ Kate Baldwin

Scene 5: Act: “His & Hers” A Ballet ......................................................................................Danced by Arianna Rosario, Cory Lingner, Kristin Piro,

Ryan Worsing, Shiloh Goodin and Renni Anthony Magee

Scene 6: Sketch: “Dinner for One” A Hotel Room, New York City, 1948This is the Life .....................................................................................................................................Brian Stokes Mitchell

Scene 7: Act: “The Illusion Vaudeville Show” We’re Sellin’ Sunshine .........................................................................................................John Edwards and Ensemble Madame Zuzu ............................................................................................................................Tiffany Mann, Maria Failla Taking No Chances .........................................................................................................................................Clarke Thorell Mr. Right ...............................................................................................................................Sara Jean Ford, Kate Baldwin Finale ................................................................................................................................................ Company

Time: NowPlace: Here

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Kate Baldwin

Brian Stokes Mitchell

Sarah Bowden

Daniel Everidge

John Edwards

Owen Tabaka

Brandon Burks

Maria Failla

Sara Jean Ford

Clarke Thorell

Jonathan Christopher

Shiloh Goodin

Isabella Houston

Adam Bashian

Kerry Conte

Mary Illes

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Andrea Jones-Sojola

Tiffany Mann

Dave Schoonover

Ryan Worsing

Cory Lingner

Kristin Piro

Daniel Schwait

Minami Yusui

John-Michael Lyles

Arianna Rosario

Allyson Tucker

Renni Anthony Magee

Heath Saunders

Vishal Vaidya

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MEET THE ARTISTSKATE BALDWIN (Susan Cooper) Broadway: Hello, Dolly! (Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Crit-ic’s Circle nomination) Finian’s Rainbow (Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics nominations), Big Fish, Wonderful Town, Thoroughly Modern Millie, and The Full Monty. Off-Broadway: Superhero (Lucille Lortel nomination), John & Jen (Drama Desk nomination), Giant (Drama Desk nomination), and Songbird. Film: Brooklyn Broth-ers Beat the Best. TV: Law & Order: SVU. PBS: First You Dream: The Music of Kander & Ebb. Solo Recordings: Let’s See What Happens, She Loves Him. kate-baldwin.com

JOHN EDWARDS (Hobo) New York City Cen-ter Debut! Last seen in the NYC revival of Smokey Joe’s Cafe (Lortel Nominee) Soon to be starring this summer in MJ: The Musical. Other credits in-clude: Broadway and First National Tour of Jersey Boys (Barry Belson/others). National Tour Hair-spray (Seaweed J Stubbs). Regional Credits: In The Heights (Kennedy Center), Dreamgirls (Jimmy Early). Thank you to The Cooper Company (Pamela, ChiChi, and Victoria), Jay Binder Cast-ing, and Victoria Clark. IG:@therealjohnedwards

SARA JEAN FORD (Miss Ideal Man) Broadway: Cats (Jellylorum), How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Smitty), The Phantom of the Opera (Christine Daaé), A Little Night Music (Petra), Finian’s Rainbow (Arlene). Off Broadway: The Fantasticks (Louisa)—Original Revival Cast, Anyone Can Whistle (June)—City Center En-cores! National Tour: Wicked. Regional: Candide (Cunagonde), Sousatzka (Jenny)—world pre-miere, Little House On the Prairie: the Musical (Nellie Oleson)—world premiere. BFA: Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama. Thank You, Vicki & Rob! Love to My Annie Banoo.

ISABELLA GRACE HOUSTON (Elizabeth Coo-per) is grateful to God and thrilled to make her NYC debut in Love Life! She has been performing since age 8; a proud military kid currently living in North Carolina. Regional: Beauty and the Beast (VMT) and Annie (CFRT). Sincere thanks to fam-ily, friends, Lisa Calli, and the numerous mentors who have continuously supported her passion for musical theatre! Special thanks to the cast

and crew of Love Life for sharing this story! IG: @isabellaghouston

BRIAN STOKES MITCHELL (Sam Cooper) Four decades of television, film, Broadway, concerts and recordings. His work has earned him Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle awards (among others), and induction into the Theatre Hall of Fame. Stokes has appeared on more than 20 recordings and his musical skills include pro-ducer, arranger, and orchestrator on all three of his solo albums, including his newest release, Plays With Music. brianstokes.com

OWEN TABAKA (Johnny Cooper) is honored to make his debut at New York City Center Encores! Credits: A Raisin in the Sun (Travis- Williamstown Theater Festival), The Hands That Could: Harlem’s Future Classics Series (Lincoln Center), The Music Man (The Kennedy Center), Billy Elliot (Billy Elliot–Signature Theatre), Oliver! (Goodspeed Musicals), A Christmas Story National Tour, A Raisin in the Sun (Two River Theater), Sesame Street (HBO), Waiting for Godot (NYTW). Tabaka thanks God, family, Carson-Adler, Badiene Magaziner, Connecting Talent Agency, Ruobing, and the entire team of Love Life!

CLARKE THORELL (Bill/Mr. Cynic) Broad-way; My Fair Lady (Karpathy, Higgins), The Front Page, Annie (Rooster), Hairspray (Corny), Titanic (Farrell/Barrett), Sinatra...His Way, Mamma Mia!, The Who’s Tommy. Off-Broadway/Other; Cloud Nine, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Satellites, Lone Star Love, Saturday Night, Wise Guys, Twelfth Night, Floyd Collins. TV/Film: Elementary, The Americans, House of Cards, The Good Wife, 30 Rock (Russ Woggle), The Knick, Boardwalk Empire, Law & Order, Men in Black III, The Post, The Winning Season, and The Sopranos.

ADAM BASHIAN (Ensemble) Thrilled to be back at Encores after appearing in On Your Toes. Most recently seen in the critically acclaimed Octet at the Signature Theatre. Broadway/National Tour: In Transit (OCR), The Phantom of the Opera. Other NYC/Regional: Tamar of the River (OCR), Edwin, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity. Film/TV: House of Cards, Oddities.Thanks to Jay, DSM,

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MEET THE ARTISTSLaura, and my family. AdamBashian.com @AdamBashian

SARAH BOWDEN (Ensemble) Originally from Australia, Bowden most recently played Velma in Chicago, directed by Denis Jones at the Maltz Jupi-ter Theatre, and Cherry Sundae in the first national tour of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. In 2016 she played Cassie in A Chorus Line at The Hollywood Bowl opposite Mario Lopez. American Regional: Jerome Robbins’ Broadway (Muny). Cassie— A Chorus line (TUTS), Germany: Cabaret, West Side Story, 9 to 5, Flashdance, Esmeralda in Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame. sarahbowden.de

BRANDON BURKS (Ensemble) is excited to be making his City Center debut! Credits include: Footloose at The Kennedy Center (Ensemble), Singin’ in the Rain (Cosmo Brown), Tale of the Lion King at Disney’s California Adventure (Scar), After Midnight (Tap Brother/Dance Captain), Dreamgirls (Wayne/C.C. u/s), Peter Pan star-ring Cathy Rigby (Pirate/Indian), A Chorus Line, (Richie/Don u/s at The Hollywood Bowl). All glory to God! My muses, I love you. A big thank you to my fierce team over at Avalon Artists NY. @brandon.burks

JONATHAN CHRISTOPHER (Ensemble) Cur-rent: Hamilton National Tour (Ensemble, Burr/Washington Understudy). New York: The Black Clown, Lincoln Center/American Repertory Theatre; Octet (Male Understudy), Signature Theatre; The Day Before Spring, York Theatre Mufti; Trevor Bachman’s Farmed: A Live Podcast; La Farranucci, Brooklyn Playhouse. Regional/ International: Candide, Clarence Brown Theatre; Rent, Aruba National Theatre; Mozart and Salieri, London TimeZone Theatre. Education: McGill University; University of Michigan. Proud Ber-mudan and Bostonian! Love to family, Wolf Tal-ent, Sarah/Binder casting IG: @geezjawn

KERRY CONTE (Ensemble) Encores!: Hey, Look Me Over!, Lady, Be Good! National Tour: Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (Betty), Mary Poppins (Winifred, u/s Mary). San Francisco: Roman Holiday. Off-Broadway: Irish Rep: Meet Me in St. Louis, Ernest in Love, The Irish…and How They

Got That Way, York, 92nd St Y. Regional: Muny, North Shore, Music Theatre Wichita, Wichita Symphony, City Springs Theatre, New London Theatre Barn, Theatre By the Sea. kerryconte.com

DANIEL EVERIDGE (Ensemble) Broadway: Grease (OBRC). Off Broadway: Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel award nominations for Lead Actor in Falling (Minetta Lane), Found (Atlantic Theatre Company), Fat Camp (Dodger Theat-ricals), and Promenade (Encores! Off Center). The Metropolitan Opera’s Die Fledermaus (Ivan u/s). Film/TV: The Greatest Showman, Inside Llewyn Davis, Jessica Jones, and The Knick. Eve-ridge is a featured soloist on the Golden Globe and Grammy Award winning soundtrack for The Greatest Showman.

MARIA FAILLA (Ensemble) Broadway: Cats Tours: Cats (Revival), Sound of Music, Evita, West Side Story (International). Regional: Man of La Mancha (Shakespeare Theatre Co), Pirates of Penzance, The Vagabond King. Kurt Weill Foun-dation Lotte Lenya Competition Lys Symonette Award Winner. B.M. Rice University. Love to my family, Billy and HAA. mariafailla.com @mvf10 Planty Podcast: @bloomandgrowradio

SHILOH GOODIN (Ensemble) Theatre: Par-adise Square (Berkeley Rep, Moises Kaufman and Bill T Jones), A Chorus Line (Cassie—Gal-lery Players), Transcendence Theatre, Screwtape Letters (Off-Broadway), Sousatzka (world pre-miere), Babes in Toyland (Lincoln Center), Rigo-letto (Santa Fe Opera), Time Machine (NYMF). Also worked at Sacramento Music Circus, Maltz Jupiter, Riverside Theatre, Bay Street Theatre and with McCoy Rigby. Choreo: Assoc for 12th Night (Public), Chess (Kennedy Center), The New World (Bucks County). shilohgoodin.com @shilohlovesyou

MARY ILLES (Ensemble) Encores!: Music in the Air, Finian’s Rainbow, Lost in the Stars. Anasta-sia First National Tour: Dowager (understudy/ performer), originated the role of Golde in Fidler afn Dakh: National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene. Broadway: Phantom of the Opera (Mme. Giry, understudy/performer), The Music Man (Marian,

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MEET THE ARTISTSunderstudy/performer), The Scarlet Pimpernel (Marie), Steel Pier, She Loves Me. Regional: Where’s Charley? At Goodspeed (Dona Lucia). Soloist with The Vienna Philharmonic, Hartford Symphony. maryilles.net @mkatherineilles

ANDREA JONES-SOJOLA (Ensemble) Thrilled to return to the City Center stage. Broadway: Porgy and Bess. Off-Broadway: Carmen Jones (CSC). Other New York Credits include: Brigadoon, Cabin in the Sky, Annie Get Your Gun, Most Happy Fella (New York City Center), Candide (Carne-gie Hall), Parade, Sweeney Todd (Lincoln Center), Newton’s Cradle (Outstanding Performance in a Leading Role, New York Musical Festival). Film: For Colored Girls and Lockdown. TV: FBI, The Blacklist, Mozart in the Jungle, Daylight Day-care, and Sound of Music Live (NBC). Training: AD, University of Cincinnati College-Conser-vatory of Music; MM, University of Kentucky. andreajonessojola.com

CORY LINGNER (Ensemble) So happy to be re-turning to Encores! Past credits include: Encores!: I Married an Angel. Broadway/Tours: Carousel (Enoch Snow Jr), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, An American In Paris (Adam u/s), and On the Town (Chip/Ozzie u/s). Off-Broadway: Once Upon a Mattress (Jester/Astaire Award nom.). TV: SNL, Tony Awards, Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, GMA, Today Show. A big thanks to the Love Life team, my family, and Nicolosi & Co.

JOHN-MICHAEL LYLES (Ensemble) Off Broadway: A Strange Loop (Playwright’s Hori-zons), This Ain’t No Disco (Atlantic), Sweeney Todd (Barrow Street), The Flick (Barrow Street), Brooklynite (Vineyard), Jasper in Deadland (Pros-pect). City Center Encores: Big River, 1776. Re-gional: The Art of Falling (Second City/Hubbard Street), Choir Boy (Guthrie). TV: The Other Two, Chicago PD, NCIS: New Orleans, The OA. Film: Blind. Recordings: A Strange Loop, The Man in the Ceiling, Jasper in Deadland. BFA: Pace University Musical Theater. @jmlyles1 john-michaellyles.com

RENNI ANTHONY MAGEE (Ensemble) The-atre: Oklahoma!, Denver Center for the Perform-ing Arts (Will Parker). Porgy & Bess, Metropolitan

Opera (Dancer). Guys and Dolls, Guthrie The-ater (Ensemble a/cast). Tarzan, Muny (Ensem-ble). Film/tv: Konnect Hq, Lifechurch.tv. IG: @renni_anthony

TIFFANY MANN (Ensemble) TV: NBC’s Rise, Orange Is the New Black. Broadway: Be More Chill, Waitress. Off-Broadway: Jerry Springer the Opera (Lucille Lortel Award), Invisible Thread, Cabin in the Sky. Other theater: Dreamgirls (Effie), Live at Lincoln Center: Sweeney Todd, The Color Purple (Celie). Mann is a Texas native and studied Opera at Oklahoma City University. @iamtiffanymann

KRISTIN PIRO (Ensemble) is thrilled to be back at Encores! She was last seen on the City Center stage in Paint Your Wagon. Broadway/Tour: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Rocky, An American in Paris, Catch Me if You Can, Memphis, Flashdance, Saturday Night Fever. She is so grateful to be working with this incredibly kind, generous, and talented team! Endless love and thanks to Jay, Victoria, Joann, Rob, CGF, my family, and my amazing husband! @kpiroette

ARIANNA ROSARIO (Ensemble) is excited to be making her City Center debut! Favorite credits include, Broadway/Tour: Cats (Sillabub, ORC), On Your Feet!, Cinderella, West Side Story. Regional: Evita (Eva Perón, Bay Street Theater), In The Heights (Carla, Kennedy Center), Buddy Holly (Maria Elena, Ogunquit Playhouse), West Side Story (Anita, Opera North). TV/Film: Fosse/Verdon (FX), West Side Story (Spielberg, FOX). Proud New World School of the Arts graduate. All her love to Omar and her family. @ariannarosario ariannarosario.com

HEATH SAUNDERS (Ensemble) Broadway: Natasha, Pierre…Great Comet (u/s Pierre, Balaga); Off Broadway: Alice By Heart (Angus/Caterpillar); Encores!: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; NYC: Newton’s Cradle (NYMF, Caleb, music and lyr-ics); Lennon: Through a Glass Onion (u/s Stewart); Regional: Darling Grenadine (Harry, Marriott Theatre); Jesus Christ Superstar (Jesus, Chicago Lyric Opera); Twelfth Night (Feste, Shakespeare Theatre Company); James and the Giant Peach (Earthworm, Seattle Children’s Theater); Jesus

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MEET THE ARTISTSChrist Superstar Live! on NBC (u/s Judas). Love to the talented part of my family. Thanks, The Mine. Very pro-Union. thesaunderscollective.com @feeltheheath

DAVE SCHOONOVER (Ensemble) National Tours: Love Never Dies (u/s Phantom, Raoul, Gangle), White Christmas (Sheldrake, Bob u/s), Young Frankenstein (Dr. Frankenstein u/s), Cats (Tugger). Off-Broadway: The Fantasticks (El Gallo standby). Regional: Unmasked (Paper Mill), Annie (Rooster, TUTS), Sweeney Todd (Pirelli, Penn-sylvania Shakes), Parade (Governor Slaton, Merry-go-Round), Young Frankenstein (Dr. Frankenstein, Ogunquit Playhouse), Toxic Avenger (Toxie, Hip-podrome Theatre), Little Shop… (Orin, Arrow Rock Lyceum), Ahmanson, Goodspeed, Muny, Hunting-ton. Thanks, The Mine. BFA UWSP. Proud AEA member. LtoR. @schoonyman

DANIEL SCHWAIT(Ensemble) Encores!: The Most Happy Fella, Annie Get Your Gun, and re-cordings of Brigadoon, and The New Yorkers; Credits in and out of New York include: The Girl, The Ghosts, and the Minotaur, Caesar & Cleopatra, Androcles and the Lion, Kiss Me, Kate, Love Life, Les Misérables, Ancient History, The Secret Garden, Evita, and Side Show. Schwait has also sung with the New York Philharmonic, Boston Pops, and Baltimore Symphony. He is an active recording artist whose recordings can be streamed on iTunes and Spotify. @realdanschwait

ALLYSON TUCKER (Ensemble) is delighted to be making her “Encores!” debut. She recently so-loed with The Duke Ellington Big Band at Bird-land and made her associate directing debut on American Prophet: Frederick Douglass in His Words, which is set to premiere next summer in Wash-ington, DC. Broadway: Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life; Man of La Mancha revival (Aldonza, Antonia, Housekeeper); original revival of Follies (Young Stella); Original Broadway cast: Ragtime (Sarah); The Will Rogers Follies, and Oh, Kay! Regional highlights: Baby (Pam); Chicago (Velma; Barry-more award nominee); Dames at Sea (Joan); Blues in the Night (Woman); West Side Story (Anita).

VISHAL VAIDYA (Ensemble) Thrilled to be back at City Center for Love Life. Previous City

Center credits: Road Show, and 1776. Broadway: Groundhog Day. Recent: Prospect (Einstein’s Dreams), Arena Stage (Dave), Kennedy Center (How to Succeed), Pennsylvania Shakespeare Fes-tival (Crazy for You), Shakespeare Theatre Com-pany, Cincinnati Playhouse, Baltimore Center Stage. Education: American University. Twitter: @TweetsbyVish IG: @vishgram

RYAN WORSING (Ensemble) is thrilled to be making his City Center/Encores! debut in Love Life! Broadway: Hello, Dolly!, The Cher Show, Finding Neverland, Chicago, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, Shrek the Musical. Off-Broadway/Regional: Sweet Charity (The New Group), The Nutty Professor (TPAC), Paper Mill Playhouse, St. Paul Ordway, Kansas City Starlight, Sacramento Music Circus. Thanks to the Love Life team, The Mine, Mom, Dad, and the family.

MINAMI YUSUI (Ensemble) Delighted to make her Encores! debut! Broadway: My Fair Lady, Miss Saigon, The King and I. National Tour/International: Mary Poppins, Wicked (Japan). Regional: Paper Mill Playhouse, Goodspeed, Maine State Music Theatre, Walnut Street, TUTS, Weston, Pasadena Playhouse. Assistant director and translator for the Japanese premiere production of Spring Awaken-ing. Many thanks to the entire creative team and company, everyone at DHA, and family. Native of Kanazawa, Japan. @minamiyusui

ALAN JAY LERNER (Book, Music, and Lyr-ics) wrote some of the American theater’s most memorable musicals. He was born in New York City in 1918 and attended Choate and Harvard. With Frederick Loewe, he had his first Broadway hit in 1947 with Brigadoon. The following year, teaming up with established veteran Kurt Weill, Lerner had his second success with Love Life. Re-suming his partnership with Loewe, the pair had their next hit in 1951 with Paint Your Wagon. In 1956, My Fair Lady, opened on Broadway. Often called the “perfect musical,” the show ran for 2,717 performances and the cast album sold more than five million copies. Lerner & Loewe’s 1958 film musical, Gigi, won nine Academy awards and, in 1960, came the last great success of their part-nership, Camelot, starring Richard Burton and Julie Andrews. Lerner went on to collaborate with

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MEET THE ARTISTSother composers including Burton Lane, Leonard Bernstein, and Andre Previn. He died in 1986 at the age of 67.

KURT WEILL (Music & Orchestrations) (1900–1950) came to the United States in 1935 after great successes in Germany, including operas and musical theater works written with leading play-wrights and poets. His collaborations with Bertolt Brecht yielded some of his most famous works, including The Threepenny Opera, Happy End, and Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. Weill fled Germany in 1933 and spent two years in Paris, where he wrote his second symphony and The Seven Deadly Sins (with Brecht) for George Bal-anchine’s Les Ballets 1933. He came to New York in 1935 for Max Reinhardt’s Eternal Road (Franz Werfel), but before it opened in 1937, the Group Theatre had already produced Johnny Johnson (Paul Green). Weill’s first Broadway success was Knickerbocker Holiday (Maxwell Anderson; film score nominated for an Oscar in 1944), followed by Lady in the Dark (Ira Gershwin, Moss Hart), One Touch of Venus (Ogden Nash, S.J. Perelman), Street Scene (Elmer Rice, Langston Hughes; 1947 Tony Award for Composer) and Love Life (Alan Jay Lerner; the first “concept” musical). Lost in the Stars (Anderson) was Weill’s final Broadway work before he died at age 50. After his death, Weill’s wife, Lotte Lenya, rekindled interest in his Ger-man works with a landmark series of performances and recordings that remain classics. Kwf.org

VICTORIA CLARK (Director) Strindberg’s The Dance of Death (Classic Stage Company); The Trouble With Doug (Fredericia Theater, Denmark); Newton’s Cradle (New York Musical Theater Festival/Best Musical, Best Direction); Scaffolding by Jeff Blumenkrantz (Barrow Group); Hansel and Gretl and Heidi and Günther (Village The-ater Festival of New Musicals): Paper Piano by Mary Jo Shen (Joe’s Pub); Irving Berlin Revue (Goodspeed); NAMT Festival; Texas Opera Theater, Chautauqua Opera. Short film: My First Start (NikoFrank Productions). Actor: Twelve Broadway shows including The Light in the Piazza (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Awards), Sister Act (Tony, Drama Desk noms.), Cinder-ella (Tony nom.), Gigi (Tony nom). Other NYC:

When the Rain Stops Falling (Drama Desk nom); The Grapes of Wrath and The Mikado at Carnegie Hall, Lady in the Dark at New York City Center (2019). Four Encores! productions, including Juno and Follies. Encores! Off Center: Assassins. Film: Cradle Will Rock, The Happening, Wanderland, TV: Homeland, The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair, Almost Family. Educator: Duke University, Pace University, Yale, Juilliard, CCM, Harvard, among others. Dedicated to Lorraine Clark.

JOANN M. HUNTER (Choreographer) 20 Broadway shows to her credit as a choreographer, associate choreographer, and performer. Chore-ography: Broadway—School of Rock (Broadway, US Nat’l Tour, West End, Australia), Disaster, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Broadway Bound. National tour/Regional: Ever After (Alli-ance Theatre), World Premieres of August Rush with John Doyle, Beatsville by Glenn Slater, A Sign of the Times by Bruce Vilanch, Harmony (Alliance/Ahmanson Theatre) by Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman, and Marvin Hamlisch, and Rupert Holmes’ The Nutty Professor directed by Jerry Lewis. UnMasked, Pump Boys and Dinettes, Grease, Oliver, and Curtains all at PMP, National tour of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Directed Debra Monk in her one woman show with special guests Ron Rifkin, Andrea Martin, Victor Garber, and David Hyde Pierce. Associate Broadway Chore-ographer: Spring Awakening, Curtains, The Wedding Singer, All Shook Up. As a performer, 12 Broadway shows. In development: Rock and Roll Refugee (Dir/Chor).

ROB BERMAN (Music Director) is in his 13th season as music director of Encores!, for which he has conducted more than 30 productions and six cast recordings. Mr. Berman’s Broadway credits include Bright Star, Tuck Everlasting, Dames at Sea, Finian’s Rainbow, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, The Pajama Game, The Apple Tree, Wonderful Town, and Promises, Promises. For nine years he was music director of the Kennedy Center Honors on CBS, for which he won an Emmy Award for outstanding musical direction. He has conducted for Barbara Cook with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and he was also music director for the PBS presentation of A Broadway Celebration:

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MEET THE ARTISTSIn Performance at the White House. Other credits include Sunday in the Park with George (Kennedy Center, Helen Hayes Award), Pacific Overtures, and Passion (Classic Stage Company). Recordings include the complete restored score of Jerome Kern’s Roberta for New World Records.

ALLEN MOYER (Scenic Designer) City Cen-ter Encores!: Mack & Mabel, High Button Shoes, I Married an Angel, Call Me Madam, Hey, Look Me Over!, Grand Hotel, Me and My Girl, The Golden Apple, The New Yorkers, and Big River. Recent: Paradise Square (Berkeley Rep) and Log Cabin (Playwrights Horizons). Broadway Credits Include: The Lyons, Lysistrata Jones, After Miss Julie, Grey Gardens (Tony and Drama Desk Award nomina-tions, Henry Hewes Award), Thurgood, The Little Dog Laughed, The Constant Wife, and Twelve Angry Men. Off Broadway: Far From Heaven (Playwrights Horizons), Giant (the Public Theater). Extensive opera credits include Orfeo Ed Euridice for the Metropolitan Opera, productions for the New York City Opera, the Santa Fe Opera, Canadian Opera Company, English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Scottish Opera, and more. Also Romeo and Juliet, On Mo-tifs of Shakespeare, and Curlew River with the Mark Morris Dance Group, and Carousel With the New York Philharmonic.

TRACY CHRISTENSEN (Costume Designer) designed Lady in the Dark, starring Victoria Clark (MasterVoices), the Broadway revival of Sunset Boulevard starring Glenn Close, and Candide at Carnegie Hall with John Lithgow. Recent pre-mieres: Scotland, PA (Roundabout), Passing Through (Goodspeed), and Kate Hamill’s Off-Broadway adaptation of Pride & Prejudice. Other projects: Love’s Labour’s Lost (Folger), Noises Off! (Asolo), The Lifespan of a Fact (The-aterWorks Hartford), Sweeney Todd starring Emma Thompson, and Souvenir (Broadway). tracychristensen.com

PAUL MILLER (Lighting Designer) Previously for Encores: Hey Look Me Over!, Big River, Irma La Duce, Of Thee I Sing, Lost in the Stars, Music in the Air, Where’s Charley. Broadway: Ruben and Clay’s Christmas Special, Amazing Grace, The Illusionists, Legally Blonde, Freshly Squeezed,

Laughing Room Only. Off-Broadway: Desperate Measures, Out of the Mouth of Babes, Clinton—The Musical, Pageant, Vanities—the Musical, Waiting for Godot. Notable Regional: Stratford Festival, D.C. Shakespeare, Chicago Shakespeare, Idaho Shakespeare, Goodspeed.

KAI HARADA (Sound Designer) Broadway: Head Over Heels, The Band’s Visit (Tony, Drama Desk Awards), Amélie, Sunday in the Park With George, Allegiance, Gigi, Fun Home; On the Town, First Date, Follies (Tony, Drama Desk Nominations), and Million Dollar Quartet. Other: Mack & Mabel, Evita, A Chorus Line, Grand Hotel (City Center), Candide (LA Opera), Marie (5th Avenue), The Black Clown (ART), Tommy, Little Shop of Horrors, Chess (Ken-nedy Center), Silent Night (WNO), Hinterm Hori-zont (Berlin), Soft Power (Public). Education: Yale.

SEYMOUR RED PRESS (Music Coordinator) re-ceived the Tony Honor for Excellence in Theater. Credits include more than 100 shows, including the original Gypsy; Dreamgirls; Nine; Bring ’da Noise, Bring in ’da Funk; Elaine Stritch at Liberty; and the acclaimed revivals of Anything Goes, Guys and Dolls, Carousel, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and Flower Drum Song. Screen credits include Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Mike Nichols’ The Birdcage, and Paramount’s In and Out. He is an ASCAP composer whose compositions have sold over 100,000 records. His playing career has segued from Tommy Dorsey and Benny Goodman to Leonard Bernstein. This season on Broadway: West Side Story and Chicago.

KIMBERLEE WERTZ (Music Coordinator) Music Coordinator/Contractor for the Tony Awards and Kennedy Center Honors for 24 years; Academy Awards, Emmy Awards, 9/11 Commemorations, Super Bowl halftime shows, A Capitol Fourth, Democratic National Conventions, Disney Holi-days. Mozart in the Jungle and Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 1. Broadway: A Year With Frog and Toad, and as associate with Red Press, Hello, Dolly!, Carousel, King Lear, West Side Story, The Lehman Trilogy. Delighted to be working with Rob, Red, and the Encores orchestra! RICK SORDELET (Fight Director) and his son and partner, Christian Kelly-Sordelet, created

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MEET THE ARTISTSSordelet INC. Their 74 Broadway credits include Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, and Tina: The Tina Turner Musical. Television: more than 1,200 episodes of stunt coordination for Guiding Light. Film: Ben Is Back starring Julia Roberts. They have 65 international production credits including Ben Hur Live (Rome, European tour). Christian teaches at CUNY Harlem and HB Studio, and both are on faculty at Esper Studio. They, with their partner, author David Blixt, also run an e-publishing company called Sordelet INK for the emerging author. Instagram: @sordeletinc sordeletinc.com

BRADLEY ROGERS (Dramaturg) is a drama-turg, scholar, and writer. As an assistant professor of theater studies and English at Duke University, he oversees the school’s musical theater program, which produced a workshop of Love Life in 2018, with Ms. Clark as director. Forthcoming this fall are a book on musical theater as well as an article in Modern Drama on Love Life. Eternal gratitude to Vicki and JMK! jbradleyrogers.com

BINDER CASTING/ JAY BINDER, CSA & SARAH COONEY (Casting) Binder Casting was founded by Jay Binder, CSA in 1984. Binder Casting has cast more than 80 Broadway pro-ductions, dozens of National Tours, off-Broadway shows, full seasons for more than 25 regional the-aters, as well as feature films, episodic television, and commercials. Binder has also cast for Encores! at New York City Center since its inception in 1994. Additionally, the office was featured in the documentary, Every Little Step. Binder Casting is a twelve-time recipient of the Artios Award for excellence in casting. Part of RWS Entertainment Group. Staff: Jay Binder, CSA, Mark Brandon, CSA, Chad Eric Murnane, CSA, Sarah Cooney, Kyle Coker, Anthony Pichette and Jarrett Reiche. bindercasting.com

MATTHEW MELCHIORRE (Production Stage Manager) Encores!: Cabin in the Sky, 1776, Do I Hear a Waltz. Encores! Off-Center: Assassins, Really, Rosie!. He is currently the stage manager for the Steve Martin & Martin Short Tour. Broadway: The Light in the Piazza, Coram Boy, Hamlet (with Jude Law), Monty Python’s Spamalot, The Lion King,

Curtains; Wicked. Various Off-Broadway & Re-gional credits, too. AEA Member since 2003.

MICHELLE SCALPONE (Stage Manager) Broad-way: Fish in the Dark, Matilda, Forever Tango, Chaplin. Tours: Matilda, Jersey Boys. NYC: Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise (The Shed), White Devil (Red Bull), Sakina’s Restaurant (Audible), Jerry Springer the Opera (The New Group), GOODBAR, King Lear, Fun Home, Romeo & Juliet (starring Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline) (Public Theater), Satchmo at the Waldorf; Women’s Project, Atlantic, Rattlestick. TV: Encore! (Disney+), NBC’s The Wiz Live. Re-gional: Kennedy Center, Bucks County, Goodspeed, Williamstown, Old Globe. Education: University of Arizona & Juilliard. For Mom, Dad, and Julie

JONATHAN BACH (Assistant Stage Manager) is thrilled to be making his Encores! debut! As a sub stage manager, Bach works on Broadway at Wicked. His Broadway PA credits include: A Christmas Carol and Straight White Men. During the inaugural season at The Shed, he was on the stage management team of Dragon Spring Phoenix Rise. He is a proud graduate of the UNCSA class of 2019. Thanks to Matthew, Michelle, and Alessandra. Love to family, friends, and mentors!

THE ENCORES! ORCHESTRA Chosen for their versatility and virtuosity, the musicians of The Encores! Orchestra are experts in all eras and styles of theater music, from the operettas of Sigmund Romberg to the jazz-inflected scores of Harold Arlen to the classic 1960s Broadway sound of John Kander and Fred Ebb.

THE KURT WEILL FOUNDATION, INC. promotes and perpetuates the legacies of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya by encouraging an appre-ciation of Weill’s music through support of per-formances, recordings, and scholarship, and by fostering an understanding of Weill’s and Lenya’s lives and work within diverse cultural contexts. It administers the Weill-Lenya Research Center, a Grant and Collaborative Performance Initiative Program, the Lotte Lenya Competition, the Kurt Weill/Julius Rudel Conducting Fellowship, the Kurt Weill Prize for scholarship in music theater, and publishes the Kurt Weill Edition and the Kurt

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MEET THE ARTISTSWeill Newsletter. Building upon the legacies of both Weill and Lenya, the Foundation nurtures talent, particularly in the creation, performance, and study of musical theater in its various mani-festations and media. Since 2012, the Kurt Weill Foundation has administered the musical and lit-erary estate of composer Marc Blitzstein. Kwf.org

JACK VIERTEL (Artistic Director) has led En-cores! since 2000, overseeing 57 productions and counting. He is also senior vice president of Jujamcyn Theaters, which owns and operates five Broadway theaters presenting The Book of Mormon, Frozen, Mean Girls, Moulin Rouge, and Hadestown. He was a producer of the Broadway revival of Gypsy starring Patti LuPone, which was first seen at Encores! in 2007, and he was rep-resented on Broadway by Finian’s Rainbow, first seen at Encores! in 2008. He helped shepherd six of August Wilson’s plays to Broadway and worked on the original Broadway productions of Angels in America, Into the Woods, and M. Butterfly, among others. He conceived last season’s Broadway mu-sical The Prom, and conceived and co-produced Smokey Joe’s Café, the Encores! revues Stairway to Paradise and Cotton Club Parade, which trans-ferred to Broadway as After Midnight, as well as the recent Hey, Look Me Over!. He served as dramaturg for The Wedding Singer and Hairspray on Broadway, and is the co-author of the musical Time and Again. Viertel spent two years as drama-turg of the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, and began his work in theater as a critic for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. His book The Secret Life of the American Musical was published in 2016.

ARLENE SHULER (President & CEO, New York City Center) has had a long and distinguished ca-reer in the arts. After dancing with The Joffrey Ballet, she attended Columbia University, where she received her B.A. and J.D. degrees. Her arts administration career began in Washington, D.C., where she served as program administrator of the dance program at the National Endowment for the Arts, among other positions. Ms. Shuler returned to New York as executive director of Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, and then continued in the field of philanthropy in leadership positions with the Wallace Funds, General Atlantic Partners

Foundation, Atlantic Philanthropic Service Com-pany, and the Howard Gilman Foundation. For 11 years Ms. Shuler worked at Lincoln Center for the Per-forming Arts, where she was vice president for planning and development and then senior vice president of planning and external affairs. In June 2003 she was named president and CEO of New York City Center, where she had performed as a member of The Joffrey Ballet at the start of her ca-reer. Her accomplishments at City Center include leading the renovation of the theater in 2010–11 and conceiving the acclaimed Fall for Dance Fes-tival, which premiered in September 2004. In rec-ognition of her significant contributions to dance, she was awarded the 2009 Capezio Dance Award. Ms. Shuler serves as a member of the Pocantico Committee of the Rockefellers Brothers Fund and the advisory board of the Trust for Mutual Under-standing. She is also a member of the New York State Bar Association.

NEW YORK CITY CENTER has played a defining role in the cultural life of the city since 1943 when it was founded by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia with the mission to make the best in the performing arts accessible to all. The distinctive neo-Moor-ish theater welcomes 300,000 visitors annually to experience internationally acclaimed artists on the same stage where legends like George Bal-anchine, Leonard Bernstein, and Barbara Cook made their mark. For over 25 years, the treasured, Tony-honored Encores! series has given new life to the American musical theater canon, comple-mented in recent years by the Encores! Off-Cen-ter series, which brings today’s innovative artists into contact with groundbreaking musicals from the more recent past. Dance continues to be an integral part of the institution’s mission through programs like the annual Fall for Dance Festival, which exposes new audiences to an international array of artists by offering subsidized tickets. Through its robust education and community programs, City Center brings the performing arts to over 11,000 New York City students, teachers, and families each year and activates all areas of the building with talks, master classes, art exhibitions, and intimate performances that provide audiences an up-close look at the work of the great theater and dance artists of our time.

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SPECIAL STAFF FOR LOVE LIFE

Casting .............................................BINDER CASTING

Jay Binder, CSA, Mark Brandon, CSAChad Eric Murnane, CSA, Sarah Cooney

Kyle Coker, Anthony PichetteJarrett Reiche

Part of RWS Entertainment GroupRyan Stana CEO, Bruston Manuel COO

Technical Supervisor ................................. Mark MongoldProduction Stage Manager ............Matthew Melchiorre Stage Manager..................................... Michelle ScalponeAssistant Stage Manager .......................... Jonathan BachAssociate Director .......................................... Sara BriansFight Director .............................................. Rick SordeletMagic Consultant ......................................... Mark MittonAssociate Choreographer .................................Liz Ramos Associate Scenic Designer .......................... Ryan HowellAssistant Costume Designer ......................... Mike KauklAssistant Lighting Designer ......................Travis McHaleAssistant Sound Designer ..................Michael EisenbergWardrobe Supervisor ...................Gina Loiodice-MontesProduction Manager ................. Julie Shelton-Grimshaw Assistant Production Manager ...............John Rodriguez Assistant Wardrobe Supervisor .................Ryanne LynchWig/Hair Design ......................................... J. Jared Janas Costume Apprentice ............................... Gabrielle Zayas Rehearsal Pianists .................. Mark Mitchell, Evan ReesProduction Sound Mixer ........................Patrick Pummill Moving Light Programmer .....................Parker ConzoneProps Coordinator ................................... Natalie CarneyInterim General Manager ...............................Elie LandauManager, Musical Theater Programs ........... Meg BrownGeneral Management Associate .............Maggie SnyderHarold Prince/Kurt Weill Directing Fellow .........................................Noam Shapiro Production Assistant ............................Alessandra MauroChild Guardian ..........................................Felicia VelascoPhotographer .................................................Joan Marcus

CREDITS

Show art by Ben WisemanAdditional lighting equipment by PRG Lighting

Additional audio equipment by Gibson EntertainmentMagic Illusion Box by Wellington Enterprises

Select costumes constructed by Alison Hublard and Kjersten Lester-Moratzka. Select millinery and crafts

by Arnold Levine. The Producers wish to thank

Goodspeed Costume Collection & Rental, TDF Costume Collection, and Western Costumes for

their assistance in this production.

Patron treats provided by MYZEL’S CHOCOLATES140 West 55th Street, across from City Center

www.myzels.com

SPECIAL THANKS TO

The Kurt Weill Foundation, Kim Kowalke and Brady Sansone at the Kurt Weill Foundation,

The Alan Jay Lerner Testamentary Trust, Richard Boursy & The Papers of Kurt Weill and

Lotte Lenya at Yale University, Dr. Bradley Rogers & the Duke University Department of Theater Studies, Dr. Amy Rogers Schwartzreich & the Pace University

Musical Theater Program, Dr. Joel Galand, Liza and Jenny Lerner, The New York Public Library,

The Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation, Malissa Borden, Huck Borden, John Bundy, Ginna Doyle, Morgan Elton, Lizzy Emanuel,

Michael Gildin, Benji Goldsmith, Mary Houston, Joe Keenan, Doug Middlebrook, Ian Miller,

Mark Mitton, Larry Moore, Liz Ramos, Dave Schoonover, Solon Snider, Ryan Worsing,

Minami Yusui, and William J. Schmeelk, Wellington Enterprises

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

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

The musicians employed in this produc-tion are members of the Associated Mu-sicians of Greater New York, Local 802, of the American Federation of Musicians.

The House Manager employed in this production is represented by the Association of Theatrical Press Agents and Managers.

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

The Professional Association of Playwrights, Lyricists, and Composers

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