February 24, 2014

& the Vineyard’s musical theatre future

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VINeyarD THeaTre

WITH a SPeCIaL SaLuTe TO aKa6:00pmCocktails

7:30PM Dinner and remarks

Jennifer Garvey-BlackwellExEcutivE ProducEr

Jill S. GabbeBoard chair

8:30PM Gala Performance

Musical dirEction By Jon SpurneydirEctEd By Rachel Chavkin

associatE ProducEr Robert LevinsteinProduction stagE ManagEr Abigail Strange

We wish to express our gratitude to the Performers’ Unions: Actors’ Equity Association, American Guild of Musical Artists, American Guild of Variety Artists, & SAG-AFTRA through Theatre Authority, Inc. for their cooperation in permitting the Artists to appear in this event.

Vineyard Theatre

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Very SPeCIaL THaNKS TO Our GaLa SuPPOrTerS

Kathleen & Henry ChalfantCity National Bank/ Richard V. McCuneCon Edisongabbegroup/Jill & Jim GabbeKen & Rande GreinerMark Lerner & Steven FrankWilliam A. Popeleski, Jr. & I. Steven GoldsteinAnnette Stover & Richard Feiner

Douglas Aibel

Loraine Boyle

Ted Chapin

Jane Chesnutt

John Coles

Joe DiPietro

Megan Foley

Barbara Freitag

Roy Furman

Ellen Gould

Kip Gould

Iliana Guibert

Nancy Heller & Holly Gewandter

Kate Lear

Scott Moore

Enid Nemy

Rick Nicita

Daniel Posener

Mike Schall

David Schwartz & Trudy Zohn

Michael Simonson & Beth Lief

Paula Wagner

Shawn Wietstock

William Morris Endeavor

Kate Babb Shone & Chanel

Faith West Events

our thanks to all ticket buyers, whose support for this event and for the vineyard is invaluable.

abOuT VINeyarD THeaTrevinEyard thEatrE is one of America’s preeminent non-profit theatre companies. Dedicated to the creation and production of bold new plays and musicals, our premieres include the Tony Award®-winning avEnuE q, Kander and Ebb’s thE scottsBoro Boys, Nicky Silver’s thE lyons, Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Wig out!, Bell & Bowen’s [title of show], Will Eno’s MiddlEtoWn, Becky Mode’s Fully coMMittEd, the Laura Nyro musical Eli’s coMin’, Jenny Schwartz’s god’s Ear, Colman Domingo’s a Boy and his soul, Douglas McGrath’s chEcKErs, and two Pulitzer Prize-winning dramas, hoW i lEarnEd to drivE and Edward Albee’s thrEE tall WoMEn. Works premiered at The Vineyard have garnered two Pulitzer Prizes, three Tony Awards, and numerous OBIE, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics, and New York Drama Critics Circle Awards, and Vineyard Theatre is proud to be the recipient of special OBIE, Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Awards for Sustained Excellence. Our artistic development and education programs serve hundreds of artists and students each season. It is our goal to bring a spirit of adventure and risk to the art of making theatre, and to produce new work that challenges both our audiences and artists.

THe WaLL STreeT JOurNaL

“The Vineyard is now a staple in New York, premiering Pulitzer-Prize winning plays, launching Tony-winning musicals and

nurturing some of the city’s most talented playwrights.”

Mary-Louise Parker and David Morse in HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE The cast of AVENUE Q. Linda Lavin and Dick Latessa in THE LYONS.

Photos by Carol Rosegg.

THe NeW yOrK TIMeS

“Vineyard Theatre has the longevity and track record of a theater three times its size.”

Jeff Bowen, Hunter Bell, Heidi Blickenstaff and Susan Blackwell in [title of show]. Colman Domingo in A BOY AND HIS SOUL.

Photos by Carol Rosegg.

The cast of THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS.

VINeyarD bOarD OF DIreCTOrSJill S. Gabbe chair

Ken Greiner vicE chair

Annette Stover PrEsidEnt

William A. Popeleski, Jr. vicE PrEsidEnt

Judy Kuhn sEcrEtary

Richard McCune trEasurEr

Christopher W.D. Gould at largE

Douglas AibelCeline Armstrong

Kathleen ChalfantJane Chesnutt

John ColesJennifer Garvey-Blackwell

Nancy HellerTerry KinneyMark LernerJoe Morton

Daniel M. PosenerDavid Schwartz

MarK LerNer & STeVeN FraNKCongratulatePauLa VOGeL aWarD WINNer

CHrISTOPHer CHeNand join Vineyard Theatre

in celebrating the music of Dory Previn.

THaNK yOu FOr beING a CHaMPION FOr OrIGINaL aMerICaN VOICeS.

VINeyarD STaFFDouglas Aibel artistic dirEctor

Jennifer Garvey-Blackwell ExEcutivE ProducEr

Eric Pargac MarKEting dirEctor

Ali Skye Bennet associatE ProducEr

Erica Mann ManagEMEnt assistant

Henry Russell Bergstein casting

Julie Berger Education assistant

Christopher Chen Paula vogEl aWard

PlayWright-in-rEsidEncE

Maggie Baker, Samantha Ciavarella housE ManagErs

David S. Berlin, Esq., Schreck Rose Dapello & Adams, LLP counsEl

David J. Schwartz, Debevoise & Plimpton, counsEl

Sam Rudy, Shane Marshall Brown, Sam Rudy Media Relations PrEss rEPrEsEntativEs

Sarah Stern co-artistic dirEctor

Dennis Hruska dirEctor oF BusinEss aFFairs

Jordan McArthur MarKEting ManagEr

Katie Roscher Box oFFicE ManagEr

Miriam Weiner litErary associatE

Dax Valdes Education associatE

Sonia Feigelson artistic & dEvEloPMEnt rEsidEnt

Drayton Hiers litErary intErn

Charlotte Murray, Katie Roscher, Sonia Feigelson scriPt rEadErs

Chris Czyz, Maggie Baker, Libby Fox, Anthony Freitas, Kaitlin Stern Box oFFicE staFF

Nancy Heller, Peck & Heller counsEl

Schall & Ashenfarb accountant

Carol Thomas accounting consultant

Carol Rosegg PhotograPhEr

DOry PreVINdory PrEvin was an influential American lyricist, singer-songwriter, playwright and poet. During her lifetime, Previn released six acclaimed albums of original songs, including ON MY WAY TO WHERE, MARY C. BROWN AND THE HOLLYWOOD SIGN, MYTHICAL KINGS AND IGUANAS and REFLECTIONS IN A MUD PUDDLE. She was the lyricist of several Oscar nominated songs, including “You’re Gonna Hear From Me” and “Come Saturday Morning”. After a successful period in Hollywood in the 1960s, collaborating with her then-husband Andre Previn on numerous popular songs for film - including “Faraway Part of Town” and “Theme from Valley of the Dolls,” Ms. Previn rose to prominence in the 1970s, writing and performing a remarkable collection of powerful, witty and haunting songs chronicling her own often harrowing autobiographical experiences, with extraordinary honesty, passion, humor and insight. Ms. Previn also wrote several works for the stage, including a musical version of her acclaimed album MARY C. BROWN AND THE HOLLYWOOD SIGN and several autobiographical works of nonfiction including BOG TROTTER and MIDNIGHT BABY. Ms. Previn passed away in 2012 at the age of 86.

MIKe NICHOLS

“Dory Previn’s lyrics are first-rate poems, which is a rarity. Dory Previn is a poet and that is rarer still.”

THeODOre S. CHaPIN, intro to ‘THe DOry PreVIN SONGbOOK’

“Dory Previn defines the word ‘extraordinary’. She has lived through more in this lifetime than many of us can hope to live in several.

And she has put it all down on paper.”

-rOberT NaSH, ‘reCOrD WOrLD’

“One of the most articulate, perceptive and sensitive of modern songwriters, she goes deep beneath the surfaces of the relationships between people…Dory Previn’s songs are unlike those of anyone in the music business.”

Photos courtesy of Joby Baker.

CaSH bOx MaGazINe

“She is an extraordinary songwriter, one distinguished by her intelligence and candor. She is a superior artist.”

Photos courtesy of Joby Baker.

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