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Dear friends,
Welcome to the Academy of Music on the Kimmel Center Cultural Campus, the two-week home of this stunning revival of Hello, Dolly!. Part of our 2019-20 season, boasting 44 Tony Awards®, this re-staged classic dazzles with elaborate costuming, comedic mastery, and a leading lady named “Dolly Levi” who, over the years, has been portrayed by Broadway’s biggest names, from Carol Channing to Barbra Streisand.
At the center of Hello! Dolly are three love stories, spanning age and socio-economic status. Across our Cultural Campus, we specialize in helping couples’ love stories spring to life with surprise proposals, rehearsal dinners, wedding ceremonies, and rockin’ receptions. Did you know, with our partners at Garces Events, we were selected as a winner of the 2019 and 2020 “Best of Weddings” award from The Knot? It’s a thrill to know that couples who come to our home to celebrate their love story receive an experience worthy of a standing ovation!
As Philadelphia’s home for brand new jazz, family-friendly programming, comedy legends, and eight esteemed Resident Companies, this spring we showcase renowned (and strong “Dolly Levi-type”) women who inspire us with their passion for the arts, including: former Kimmel Center Theater Residents M’Balia Singley and Deb Margolin, with their respective original works, Turn (February 26 – 29) and TWO BLUES: Two Plays (April 2 – 5); Egyptologist Kara Cooney with National Geographic Live’s When Women Ruled the World (March 18); and Broadway stars Kristin Chenoweth (March 13) and Audra McDonald (April 11). PLUS, experience Vision 2020’s “Seat at the Table” in our Plaza (March – September), celebrating the 100th anniversary of women’s right to vote.
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ORIGINAL PRODUCTION DIRECTED AND CHOREOGRAPHED BY
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BOOK BY
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JERRY HERMAN BASED ON THE PLAY “THE MATCHMAKER” BY THORNTON WILDERTHORNTON WILDER
ORIGINALLY PRODUCED ON THE NEW YORK STAGE BY DAVID MDAVID MERERRICKRICK
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ANDY EINHORNANDY EINHORN
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SCOTT LEHRERSCOTT LEHRER
PRESENT
HELLO, DOLLY!CAROLEE CARMELLO
IN
JOHN BOLTONALSO STARRING
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CAST OF CHARACTERS(in order of appearance)
Dolly Gallagher Levi ............................................................................... CAROLEE CARMELLO Ambrose Kemper ................................................................................................COLIN LeMOINEHorace Vandergelder ...............................................................................................JOHN BOLTON Ermengarde ...............................................................................................LAURA SKY HERMAN Cornelius Hackl ................................................................................................DANIEL BEEMAN Barnaby Tucker .........................................................................................................SEAN BURNSMinnie Fay .............................................................................................CHELSEA CREE GROEN Irene Molloy ..................................................................................................ANALISA LEAMINGMrs. Rose ........................................................................................................... KAREN ELLIOTTErnestina ..........................................................................................................JANE BROCKMAN Rudolph ..........................................................................................................BLAKE HAMMOND Stanley .......................................................................................................SCOTT SHEDENHELMJudge ...................................................................................................................TIMOTHY SHEWCourt Clerk .............................................................................................. CHRISTOPHER FAISONTownspeople, Waiters, etc. ..................................................COLIN BRADBURY, ALEC COHEN,
KAREN ELLIOTT, CHRISTOPHER FAISON, JENNY HICKMAN, MADISON JOHNSON, JULIE KAVANAGH, BEN LANHAM, MARTY LAUTER,
STEFFANY PRATT, MICHAEL J. RIOS, KYLE SAMUEL, LIZ SCHMITZ, SCOTT SHEDENHELM, TIMOTHY SHEW, CASSIE AUSTIN TAYLOR,
CAYEL TREGEAGLE, DAVIS WAYNE, BRANDON L. WHITMORE
UNDERSTUDIESSwings and understudies never substitute for listed performers
unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the appearance.
For Dolly Gallagher Levi—JANE BROCKMAN, KAREN ELLIOTTfor Ambrose Kemper—COLIN BRADBURY, MARTY LAUTER
for Horace Vandergelder—BLAKE HAMMOND, TIMOTHY SHEWfor Ermengarde—HILLARY PORTER, STEFFANY PRATT
for Cornelius Hackl—CHRISTOPHER FAISON, IAN LIBERTOfor Barnaby Tucker—SCOTT SHEDENHELM, BRANDON L. WHITMORE
for Minnie Fay—MADISON JOHNSON, HILLARY PORTERfor Irene Molloy—JENNY HICKMAN, CASSIE AUSTIN TAYLOR
for Ernestina—KAREN ELLIOTT, JENNY HICKMAN
SWINGSLAURA IRION, NATHAN KEEN, IAN LIBERTO, HILLARY PORTER
DANCE CAPTAINIAN LIBERTO
ASSISTANT DANCE CAPTAIN NATHAN KEEN
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CAST
COLIN BRADBURY
ALEC COHEN
KAREN ELLIOTT
CHRISTOPHER FAISON
JENNY HICKMAN
SEAN BURNS
CHELSEA CREE GROEN
COLIN LeMOINE
LAURA SKY HERMAN
JANE BROCKMAN
BLAKE HAMMOND
CAROLEE CARMELLO
JOHN BOLTON
DANIEL BEEMAN
ANALISA LEAMING
LAURAIRION
MADISON JOHNSON
JULIE KAVANAGH
NATHAN KEEN
BEN LANHAM
MARTY LAUTER
IAN LIBERTO
HILLARY PORTER
STEFFANY PRATT
MICHAEL J. RIOS
KYLE SAMUEL
LIZ SCHMITZ
SCOTT SHEDENHELM
TIMOTHY SHEW
CASSIE AUSTINTAYLOR
CAYEL TREGEAGLE
DAVIS WAYNE
BRANDON L. WHITMORE
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SCENES & MUSICAL NUMBERSACT ONE
Overture ...................................................................................................................................................... OrchestraScene 1: Along Fourth Avenue, New York CityScene 2: Grand Central Station
“I Put My Hand In” ............................................................................................................... Dolly and CompanyScene 3: A Street in YonkersScene 4: Vandergelder’s Hay and Feed Store, Yonkers
“It Takes a Woman” .................................................................................Vandergelder and the Instant Glee Club“Put on Your Sunday Clothes” ........................................ Cornelius, Barnaby, Dolly, Ambrose, and Ermengarde
Scene 5: The Yonkers Depot“Put on Your Sunday Clothes” .......................................................................................... The People of Yonkers
Scene 6: Outside Mrs. Molloy’s Hat Shop—Water Street, New York CityScene 7: Inside the Hat Shop
“Ribbons Down My Back” ............................................................................................................... Mrs. Molloy“Motherhood” ..................................................................................................Dolly, Vandergelder, Mrs. Molloy,
Minnie Fay, Cornelius, and Barnaby“Dancing” .....................................................Dolly, Cornelius, Barnaby, Minnie Fay, Mrs. Molloy, and Dancers
Scene 8: A Quiet StreetScene 9: 14th Street
“Before The Parade Passes By” ............................................................................................ Dolly and Company
ACT TWOScene 1: From 42nd Street to 14th Street
“Penny in My Pocket” ...................................................................................................................... Vandergelder“Elegance” ..............................................................................Mrs. Molloy, Cornelius, Minnie Fay, and Barnaby
Scene 2: Outside the Harmonia Gardens Restaurant, on the BatteryScene 3: Inside the Harmonia Gardens Restaurant
“The Waiters’ Galop” ........................................................................................................... Rudolph and Waiters“Hello, Dolly!” .............................................................................................Dolly, Rudolph, Waiters, and Cooks“The Contest” ..............................................................................................Ambrose, Ermengarde, Mrs. Molloy,
Cornelius, Minnie Fay, Barnaby, and the ContestantsScene 4: A Courtroom on Centre Street
“It Only Takes a Moment” .....................................................Cornelius, Mrs. Molloy, Prisoners, and Policemen“So Long Dearie” ..........................................................................................................................................Dolly
Scene 5: Vandergelder’s Hay and Feed Store, Yonkers“Hello, Dolly!” .................................................................................................................Dolly and Vandergelder
Scene 6: The Hudson River ValleyFinale ...................................................................................................................................................... Company
THERE WILL BE ONE INTERMISSION.
ORCHESTRAConductor—BEN WHITELEY
Keyboard/Associate Conductor—MATTHEW J. POOLKeyboard 1—MAX MAMON
Percussionist—PAUL HANNAHFirst Trumpet—JEFFREY WILFORE
Music Coordinator—SEYMOUR RED PRESSAssociate Music Coordinator—KIMBERLEE WERTZ
Music Copying—EMILY GRISHMAN MUSIC PREPARATION
LOCAL MUSICIANSFlute/Piccolo/Clarinet/Alto Sax—JOE VETTORI; Flute/Clarinet/Alto Sax—STEVE LYON;
Flute/Clarinet/Bass Clar/Tenor Sax—MARK ALLEN; Bassoon/Clarinet/Bari Sax—GREG RILEY;Trumpet II—MATT GALLERGER; Trumpet III—JON SHAW; Trombone—PAUL ARBOGAST;
Bass Trombone—BOB SUTTMANN; Concertmistress—LISA VAUPEL; Violin II—JAMES FINEGAN;Violin III—WALTER CHOI; Cello—SUE LERNER; Bass—FRED WEISS;
Keyboard Sub—LINDA HENDERSON; Music Coordinator—JOE CICCIMARO
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WHO’S WHO IN THE CASTCAROLEE CARMELLO (Dolly Gallagher Levi) has appeared in 14 Broadway musicals and is a three-time Tony Award-nominee for her performances in Parade, Lestat and Scandalous. She recently completed a year-long run as Mrs. Lovett in the critically acclaimed Sweeney Todd at New York’s Barrow Street Theatre. Additional Broadway roles include Mae Tuck in Tuck Everlasting; Mrs. du Maurier in Finding Neverland (Drama Desk Award nomination); Mother Superior in Sister Act; Alice Beineke in The Addams Family (Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle award nominations); Donna in Mamma Mia!; Ms. Pennywise in Urinetown; Kate in Kiss Me, Kate; Marguerite in The Scarlet Pimpernel; Abigail Adams in 1776; Cordelia in Falsettos; and Oolie in City of Angels. Off-Broadway credits include John & Jen, Das Barbecü, I Can Get It for You Wholesale, Hello Again (Obie Award), A Class Act, The Vagina Monologues and Elegies. Television credits include “The Deuce,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “The Good Fight,” “Madam Secretary,” “Smash,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Frasier,” “Ed” and “Remember W.E.N.N.” (SAG Award nomination). Ms. Carmello was nominated for an Indie Series Award for Best Supporting Actress in the award-winning webseries “Indoor Boys.” Her concert appearances have taken her across America and Europe, including engagements at Lincoln Center, Town Hall and Carnegie Hall.
JOHN BOLTON (Horace Vandergelder) recently completed a two-year run starring as Vlad in Broadway’s Anastasia. His additional Broadway credits include Dames at Sea, A Christmas Story: The Musical, Curtains and How to Succeed…. Mr. Bolton was in the original cast of the Tony Award-winning Best Musicals Spamalot, Contact and Titanic. He made his Broadway debut alongside Jerry Lewis in Damn Yankees. Nominated for Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Astaire, Rivera and Lortel awards, Mr. Bolton headlined four sold-out concerts at Carnegie Hall and performed as a soloist with the NY Philharmonic at Lincoln Center. He plays U.S. Attorney General Hank Nolan on CBS’ “Madam Secretary” and spent four seasons as Bruce on “Gossip Girl.” He has guest-starred on “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” “Elementary,” “Blue Bloods,” “Boardwalk Empire,” “The Good Wife” and “Law & Order,” and is featured in the film Mapplethorpe.
DANIEL BEEMAN (Cornelius Hackl ). National tour: Something Rotten! Regional: Sunday in the Park with George, Hair, The Diary of Anne Frank (Kansas City Repertory Theatre); Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music (Kansas City Starlight); Music Theatre Wichita, Ogunquit Playhouse, Spinning Tree Theatre. University of Missouri-Kansas City.
ANALISA LEAMING (Irene Molloy). Broadway: School of Rock (Rosalie Mullins); The King and I (Anna); Hello, Dolly!; On the Twentieth Century. New York: Pipe Dream, Where’s Charley? (Encores!); The Mikado (Carnegie Hall). National/international tours: Annie, The Sound of Music. Regional: The Muny, Kansas City Starlight Theatre, North Shore Music Theatre, Magic Theatre, Geva Theatre Center, Infinity Theatre Company, Barrington Stage Company. Leaming is a Lotte Lenya Competition winner. Creator of “A Balancing Act” podcast. B.M. Eastman School of Music.
SEAN BURNS (Barnaby Tucker). National tours: Jersey Boys (Joe Pesci), Peter Pan 360 (Michael Darling). Regional: Jersey Boys (Ogunquit Playhouse), Titanic (Signature Theatre), Elmer Gantry (Signature Theatre), Defiant Requiem (The Kennedy Center). Bachelor of Music, Catholic University of America.
CHELSEA CREE GROEN (Minnie Fay). National tour debut. Off-Broadway/New York: Fiorello! (Dora), Pete(HER)Pan with Alice Ripley (Tinkerbell). Regional: The Music Man (Zaneeta, Theatre By The Sea), Les Misérables (Cosette, Theatre Aspen), Fiorello! (Dora, Berkshire Theatre Group), The Muny, Ogunquit Playhouse, Phoenix Theatre, Arizona Broadway. AEA’s Roger Sturtevant Award Winner. B.F.A. University of Michigan.
COLIN LeMOINE (Ambrose Kemper). National tour debut. Regional: Newsies, Guys and Dolls, Pippin (Music Theatre Wichita); Annie (Axelrod Performing Arts Center). B.F.A. Musical Theater Indiana University. Jacob’s Pillow Musical Theatre Dance alum.
LAURA SKY HERMAN (Ermengarde). National tour debut. Off-Broadway: The Little Dancer (Marie van Goethem). Favorite regional: New London Barn Playhouse, North Shore Music Theatre, Reagle Music Theatre, Miami City Ballet. Current undergrad at Harvard University (Hasty Pudding Theatricals, first woman cast in 171 years) with additional training from the B.F.A. musical theater program at Texas State University and Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
JANE BROCKMAN (Ernestina, u/s Dolly Gallagher Levi). Broadway: Wicked, A Christmas Carol. New York: Live from Lincoln Center Camelot (Lady Anne); Show Boat, Kristina (Carnegie Hall); Kismet (Widow/Ayah, Encores!), The Kid (The New Group). National tours: Wicked, The Light in the Piazza, The Sound of Music (Berta). Film: Bad Education, The Producers. Television: “The Americans,” “Law & Order: SVU.” Proud Equity member.
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BLAKE HAMMOND (Rudolph, u/s Horace Vandergelder). Broadway: Living on Love; First Date; Sister Act; Elf; Billy Elliot; The Lion King; Hairspray; The Music Man; Kiss Me, Kate; On the Town. Eight national tours, including Something Rotten!, Cinderella, The Addams Family. Recipient of Carbonell Award, Chicago After Dark Award, LA Drama Critics Circle Award, and Indie Soap Award.
COLIN BRADBURY (Ensemble, u/s Ambrose Kemper). Broadway/tours: Carousel, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Come Fly Away, The Book of Mormon, A Chorus Line, White Christmas, 42nd Street. Other favorites: Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Lovin’ The Bogin, Heatwave: The Jack Cole Project. Television: “Fosse/Verdon.” Film: Hail Caesar!
ALEC COHEN (Ensemble). National tour debut. Regional: Music Theater Wichita, Bucks County Playhouse, Maine State Music Theater, Fulton Theater, Westchester Broadway Theater, Music Theater West. B.F.A. University of Cincinnati College -Conservatory of Music.
KAREN ELLIOTT (Mrs. Rose, Ensemble, u/s Dolly Gallagher Levi, Ernestina). Broadway: Les Misérables (original cast and revival). National tours: Les Misérables, Sister Act. Regional: Kiss Me, Kate; Sweeney Todd; Evita; The Nerd. Playwright, author, educator, coach, proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.
CHRISTOPHER FAISON (Court Clerk, Ensemble, u/s Cornelius Hackl ). Broadway: My Fair Lady. Television: “Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade,” “72nd Annual Tony Awards.” National tour: The Book of Mormon. Regional credits include Songs for a New World, Jesus Christ Superstar, Smokey Joe’s Cafe.
JENNY HICKMAN (Ensemble , u/s Irene Molloy, Ernestina). National tour debut. Regional: The Witches of Eastwick (Ogunquit Playhouse), Mary Poppins (West Virginia Public Theater). Television: “Law & Order: SVU.” Co-founder/Co-artistic Director of New Wave Theater Collective, a New York City-based theater company focused on developing new work. Proud graduate of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
LAURA IRION (Swing). Broadway: Sunday in the Park with George, Cinderella (original cast, Charlotte replacement). National tours: West Side Story, Cinderella. Regional: The Muny, North Shore Music Theatre, New York Stage and Film. B.F.A. University of Michigan.
MADISON JOHNSON (Ensemble, u/s Minnie Fay). Regional: Mary Poppins (Paper Mill Playhouse); A Chorus Line, Grease, Meet Me in St. Louis, 42nd Street, Beauty and the Beast, The Addams Family, Shrek (The Muny). B.F.A. Musical Theater Elon University.
JULIE KAVANAGH (Ensemble). National tour: La Cage aux Folles. Regional: Paper Mill Playhouse, The Old Globe, Sacramento Music Circus, The Muny, Theatre Under The Stars, Stages St. Louis. Hairspray, In Concert!. Artistic Director of Broadway Method Academy. B.F.A. University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
NATHAN KEEN (Assistant Dance Captain, Swing). Broadway: Hello, Dolly!; Les Misérables. National tours: Finding Neverland, Chicago, We Will Rock You, West Side Story, Ragtime, Les Misérables, Beauty and the Beast. International/regional: West Side Story (Centennial Inter national Tour); Kiss Me, Kate (Roundabout Theatre Company benefit concert); Spring Spectacular (Radio City Music Hall).
BEN LANHAM (Ensemble). National tours: An American in Paris, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, West Side Story. Regional: The Muny, North Carolina Theatre, Music Theatre Wichita, Lyric Theatre Oklahoma, Wick Theatre. B.F.A. Oklahoma City University.
MARTY LAUTER (Ensemble, u/s Ambrose Kemper). National tour debut. Broadway: Kinky Boots. Regional: Guys and Dolls (The Guthrie); Evita, Fiddler on the Roof, Mamma Mia!, Newsies (Maine State Music Theater); Newsies (The Fulton). B.F.A. Musical Theater The Boston Conservatory.
IAN LIBERTO (Dance Captain, Swing, u/s Cornelius Hackl ). Broadway: Hello, Dolly!; How to Succeed…; Promises, Promises; Billy Elliot; Chaplin. National tours: The Book of Mormon, Evita, A Chorus Line (Bobby). Regional: The Hollywood Bowl, Paper Mill Playhouse, Theatre Under the Stars, Sacramento Music Circus, Marriott Lincolnshire, Ravinia. B.F.A. Millikin University.
HILLARY PORTER (Swing, u/s Ermengarde, Minnie Fay). Broadway/New York: A Bronx Tale, Thoroughly Modern Millie. National tours: Cats (Rumpleteazer), Elf. Regional: Once (Girl, Pioneer Theatre), A Chorus Line (Diana Morales, Cape Playhouse), Jersey Boys (Lorraine, Ogunquit Playhouse), Jerome Robbins’ Broadway (Rosalia, The Muny).
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STEFFANY PRATT (Ensemble, u/s Ermengarde). Credits: A Chorus Line (Tricia), Mamma Mia! (Ali), Cabaret (Lulu), Anything Goes (Purity), Spamalot (Ensemble), Joseph… (Mrs. Potiphar) and West Side Story (Anybodys). B.F.A. Musical Theater Montclair State University.
MICHAEL J. RIOS (Ensemble). Film/TV: Disney’s Newsies: The Broadway Musical, “Hyped for Halftime” (Super Bowl 2015). National tours: Newsies; Hello, Dolly! (starring Sally Struthers); Cats; The Wizard of Oz. Regional: West Side Story, Hairspray, Peter Pan.
KYLE SAMUEL (Ensemble). National tour debut. Regional: Jerome Robbins’ Broadway (The Muny), Newsies (The Fulton and Maine State Music Theatre), A Chorus Line (Mike, directed by Baayork Lee). B.F.A. Musical Theater Pace University.
LIZ SCHMITZ (Ensemble). Most recently seen on the revival tour of Cats as Demeter. First National Tours: An American in Paris, Matilda. Regional: The Fulton Theatre, Maine State Music Theatre, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera. B.F.A. Penn State University. Member of Crew15.
SCOTT SHEDENHELM (Stanley, Ensemble, u/s Barnaby Tucker). Regional: Newsies (Paper Mill Playhouse), West Side Story (Riverside Theatre/Westchester Broadway Theatre/John W. Engeman Theater), A Chorus Line (Riverside Theatre), The Little Mermaid (North Shore Music Theatre).
TIMOTHY SHEW (Judge , u/s Horace Vandergelder). Eleven Broadway shows, including Les Misérables (Jean Valjean), Guys and Dolls, Bye Bye Birdie, The Visit. National tours: The Light in the Piazza, Les Misérables. Films: Tangled, Chicago, Shaggy Dog. Television: “Madam Secretary,” “Law & Order.” Proud AEA member for 40 years.
CASSIE AUSTIN TAYLOR (Ensemble, u/s Irene Molloy). National tour debut. Regional: Nice Work if You Can Get It (Eileen Evergreen), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Miss Dorothy), Newsies (Music Theatre Wichita), Singin’ in the Rain (The Muny). B.F.A. Musical Theater Brigham Young University.
CAYEL TREGEAGLE (Ensemble). National tour debut. Regional: Sacramento Music Circus, The Muny, Music Theatre Wichita, Walt Disney World. B.F.A. Musical Theater Brigham Young University.
DAVIS WAYNE (Ensemble). National tour debut. Regional: Riff in Jerome Robbins’ Broadway (The Muny), Chasing Rainbows: The Road to Oz (world premiere), Pittsburgh CLO, Pioneer Theatre Company, North Shore Music Theatre, Theatre By The Sea. B.F.A. musical theater, Pace University.
BRANDON L. WHITMORE (Ensemble, u/s Barnaby Tucker). National tour debut. Regional: The Muny, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, North Carolina Theatre, Fireside Dinner Theatre. B.F.A. Dance Performance The University of the Arts.
MICHAEL STEWART (Book) was still relatively early in his theatrical career when he had his first smash hit in 1960 with Bye Bye Birdie, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Book. His subsequent Broadway shows include Carnival! (Drama Critics Circle Award); Hello, Dolly! (Tony Award, Drama Critics Circle Award); George M! (with Francine and John Pascal); Mack & Mabel (Tony nomination); The Grand Tour; 42nd Street (with Mark Bramble; Tony Award); and Harrigan and Hart (Tony nomination). He is also the lyricist of Barnum (music by Cy Coleman, Tony nomination) and I Love My Wife (Tony nomination). Mr. Stewart died in 1987.
JERRY HERMAN (Music & Lyrics) remains one of the most iconic and beloved composers in the American theater. His legendary scores have spawned such standards as “I Am What I Am,” “The Best of Times,” “Mame,” “If He Walked into My Life,” “We Need a Little Christmas” and “Hello, Dolly!” His first Broadway musical, Milk and Honey (1961), ran for 543 performances. He made history in 1964 with Hello, Dolly! (10 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, a Broadway record held for 37 years), which was followed by yet another smash, Mame, in 1966. With Dolly! and Mame still running, Herman had the rare distinction of having three Broadway shows playing simultaneously when Dear World opened in 1969. In 1974, Mack & Mabel opened (and remains one of his best-loved scores) and was followed by 1979’s The Grand Tour. Herman’s most recent Broadway show, La Cage aux Folles, became another phenomenon, winning the Tony Award in 1984 for Best Musical. It was successfully revived in 2004 and 2010, winning the Tony for Best Revival each time. Two of Herman’s most cherished songs from Hello, Dolly! are the emotional highlights of the Disney-Pixar classic Wall-E, cementing Herman’s place in American popular culture. His countless awards and honors include multiple Tony Awards, Grammy Awards, Olivier Awards, Drama Desk Awards, the Johnny Mercer Award, the Richard Rodgers Award, the Oscar Hammerstein Award, the Frederick Loewe Award, membership in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Theater Hall of Fame and most recently, The Kennedy Center Honor.
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GOWER CHAMPION (Original Director and Choreographer) is a name synonymous with some of the greatest musicals in Broadway history. In addition to Hello, Dolly!, which cemented his reputation as a legendary theater artist and garnered him Tony Awards for both Direction and Choreography, he directed and choreographed Bye Bye Birdie (Tony Awards for Direction and Choreography), Carnival! (Tony nomination for Direction), I Do! I Do! (Tony nomination for Direction), The Happy Time (Tony for both Direction and Choreography), Sugar (Tony nominations for Direction and Choreography), Mack & Mabel (Tony nominations for Direction and Choreography), and 42nd Street (Tony for Choreography, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Choreography, Tony nomination for Direction). His first Broadway credit as choreographer, Lend an Ear, won him his first Tony Award for Choreography in 1949. He studied dance from an early age and, at the age of 15, toured nightclubs with his friend Jeanne Tyler and later with Marge Belcher, who eventually became his wife. During the late 1930s and early 1940s, Champion worked on Broadway as a solo dancer and choreographer. After serving in the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II, the team of Gower and Marge Champion became one of the most popular attractions on television variety shows, appearing on “Jack Benny,” “Garry Moore,” “Dinah Shore,” “The Ed Sullivan Show,” and in their own series, “The Marge and Gower Champion Show,” in 1957. The pair also appeared in several film musicals with Bing Crosby (Mr. Music, 1950), Kathryn Grayson and Howard Keel (Show Boat, 1951; Lovely to Look At, 1952), Debbie Reynolds (Give a Girl a Break, 1953), Betty Grable (Three for the Show, 1955), Esther Williams (Jupiter’s Darling, 1955) and occasionally earned their own top billing (Everything I Have Is Yours, 1952). Gower Champion died in 1980 on the day that 42nd Street, his last great hit, opened on Broadway. He was awarded the last of his eight Tony Awards posthumously.
JERRY ZAKS (Director) was nominated for the 2017 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical for this production. Credits include Meteor Shower, A Bronx Tale: The Musical, Shows for Days, Sister Act, The Addams Family, Guys and Dolls, Six Degrees of Separation, Lend Me a Tenor, The House of Blue Leaves, The Front Page, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Anything Goes, La Cage aux Folles, Little Shop of Horrors, The Man Who Came to Dinner, The Foreigner, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Sister Mary Ignatius…, Beyond Therapy, Baby with the Bath Water, and The Marriage of Bette and Boo. He has received four Tony Awards and eight nominations, and has also received four Drama
Desk Awards, two Outer Critics Circle Awards, and an Obie Award. He directed the film Marvin’s Room. Zaks is a founding member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre. He received the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society’s George Abbott Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre and an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Dartmouth College, his alma mater. He is a 2013 inductee into the Theater Hall of Fame.
WARREN CARLYLE (Choreographer). Broadway: directed and choreographed After Midnight (Tony Award for Choreography), Chaplin, Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway, Finian’s Rainbow, and A Tale of Two Cities. He choreographed She Loves Me, On the Twentieth Century, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, A Christmas Story, and Follies. He directed and choreographed the 2015 Radio City New York Spring Spectacular starring the Rockettes. Additional New York/international credits: directed and choreographed On Your Toes (City Center Encores!); choreographed “Carousel” (New York Philharmonic, Emmy Award nomination); Girl Crazy, On the Town, Finian’s Rainbow, Juno, Stairway to Paradise (City Center Encores!), and 101 Dalmatians (Madison Square Garden/national tour). Directed and choreographed the sold-out Australian arena tour, Hugh Jackman: Broadway to Oz. Television: staging of the 68th and 69th annual Tony Awards (CBS), “So You Think You Can Dance” (Fox).
STEPHEN EDLUND (Associate Director). Broadway: Hello, Dolly!; Meteor Shower; A Bronx Tale; Sister Act. National tours: A Bronx Tale, Sister Act. Regional/NYC: Shows for Days (Lincoln Center Theatre), Randy Newman’s Harps and Angels (Center Theatre Group) and Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Center Theatre Group).
SARA EDWARDS (Associate Choreographer). Broadway: She Loves Me, Follies, Chaplin, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. Additional credits include: No, No Nanette; Of Thee I Sing; On Your Toes; Me and My Girl (New York City Center Encores!). Associate Choreographer for Hello, Dolly! on Broadway with Bette Midler, Bernadette Peters, and Donna Murphy. Other associate credits include After Midnight, Follies, The Sting with Harry Connick Jr., Radio City Rockettes Spring Spectacular, and NYC Ballet Something to Dance About: Jerome Robbins Broadway to Ballet.
SANTO LOQUASTO (Scenic and Costume Design) received the 2017 Tony Award for Best Costume Design of a Musical for Hello, Dolly!. Broadway: Cafe Crown (Tony Award for set design), The Cherry Orchard (Tony for costume design),
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Grand Hotel (Tony for costume design). Total of 22 Tony nominations, among them The Iceman Cometh, Shuffle Along, Bullets Over Broadway, and Fences. Loquasto has collaborated with Woody Allen on 30 films. Film credits include Radio Days (Academy Award nomination for production design), Bullets Over Broadway (Academy Award nomination for production design) and Zelig (Academy Award nomination for costume design). He received the Michael Merritt Award for Excellence in Design and Collaboration in 2002, was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 2004, received the Pennsylvania Governor’s Award for the Arts in 2006, the Robert L.B. Tobin Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2007, and the Breukelein Institute Gaudium Award in 2013.
NATASHA KATZ (Lighting Design) is a New York-based lighting designer and was nominated for the 2017 Tony Award for Best Lighting Design of a Musical for this production. She is a six-time Tony Award winner who has designed extensively for theater, opera, dance, concerts, and permanent lighting installations around the world. Her recent Broadway credits include Frozen, Meteor Shower, Springsteen on Broadway, Long Day’s Journey into Night, Cats, School of Rock, An American in Paris, Aladdin, Skylight, The Glass Menagerie, Once, Follies, The Coast of Utopia: Salvage, and Aida.
SCOTT LEHRER (Sound Design). Recent credits: Carousel, The Front Page, The Gabriels, Shuffle Along, Fiddler on the Roof, Dames at Sea, The King and I, Living on Love, Honeymoon in Vegas, A Delicate Balance, Love Letters, A Raisin in the Sun, Betrayal, Lucky Guy, Chaplin (Drama Desk Award), Death of a Salesman (Tony Award nomination), over 50 City Center Encores! revivals and South Pacific (first Tony for Sound Design). Record production includes An American in Paris (Grammy Award nomination), Loudon Wainwright’s High Wide and Handsome (Grammy), and Meredith Monk’s mercy.
LARRY HOCHMAN (Orchestrations) won the 2017 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Orchestrations for Hello, Dolly!. Sixteen Broadway shows, including The Book of Mormon (Tony Award, Drama Desk Award), She Loves Me (Drama Desk), and Spamalot. Seven Tony nominations. Television: composer of “Wonder Pets!” (five Emmy Awards). Twenty-five regional and Off-Broadway shows. Seventeen films including The Informant! Arrangements: Paul McCartney, Eric Idle, Barbra Streisand, Audra McDonald, Boston Pops, NY Philharmonic.
BEN WHITELEY (Music Director). Broadway: The Addams Family, Cats. National tours: A Christmas Story, Spamalot, The Full Monty, Falsettos, Grand Hotel. City Center Encores!: 1776 (Music Director), plus Paint Your Wagon, New Moon, Merrily We Roll Along, and 29 other productions/recordings (Associate Music Director/Chorus Preparation). Noel Coward’s Sail Away (with Elaine Stritch, Carnegie Hall). 17 productions, including Singin’ in the Rain (The Muny). Other: Carousel (NY Philharmonic/PBS), Paper Mill Playhouse, 5th Avenue Theatre, St. Louis Symphony (guest conductor). Recordings: Allegro, “Boardwalk Empire” (Grammy Award).
ANDY EINHORN (Music Supervision). Broadway: Carousel; Hello, Dolly!; Holiday Inn; Bullets Over Broadway; Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella; Sondheim on Sondheim; Brief Encounter; Evita. National tours: The Sound of Music, The Light in the Piazza, Sweeney Todd, The Lion King. Regional: Goodspeed Opera House, Paper Mill Playhouse, Théâtre du Châtelet, Houston Grand Opera. Symphonic work: New York Philharmonic, Sydney Symphony. Audra McDonald’s music director. Television: “Six by Sondheim” (Peabody Award), “Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy” (Peabody). B.A. Rice University.
DON PIPPIN (Vocal Arrangements) is among the most revered and honored arrangers and conductors in Broadway history. His countless credits include such classics as Irma La Douce, Oliver! (Tony Award for Best Conductor and Musical Director), 110 in the Shade, Mame, Dear World, Applause, Seesaw, Mack & Mabel, A Chorus Line, The Grand Tour, Cabaret, and La Cage aux Folles. Also, Ankles Aweigh, Foxy, Ben Franklin in Paris, A Broadway Musical, and Woman of the Year. Pippin was the longtime musical director for New York’s famed Radio City Musical Hall and has also been special guest conductor for many major symphony orchestras throughout the world.
DAVID CHASE (Dance Arrangements). Thirty-five Broadway shows as dance arranger, music director, and/or music supervisor. Also West End, Radio City Music Hall, Boston Pops, Lyric Opera of Chicago. Two Emmy Award nominations. Grammy Award nomination.
SEYMOUR RED PRESS (Music Coordinator) received a Tony Honor for Excellence in the Theatre in 2007. Credits include more than 100 shows, from the original Gypsy through An American in Paris. Film credits include Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Mike Nichols’ The Birdcage, and
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Paramount’s In & Out. 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: Chicago.
CAMPBELL YOUNG ASSOCIATES (Hair, Wigs & Makeup Design). Broadway: Groundhog Day, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Front Page, The Crucible, Misery, Sylvia, A Delicate Balance, The Last Ship, It’s Only a Play, Betrayal, Les Misérables, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, American Psycho, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Matilda, Ghost, Mary Stuart, Billy Elliot. Television: “The Americans,” “House of Cards.”
TELSEY + COMPANY (Casting). Broadway: Network, The Cher Show, The Prom, American Son, Torch Song, Pretty Woman, My Fair Lady, Mean Girls, Frozen, Once on This Island, Anastasia, Come from Away, Waitress, Hamilton, Kinky Boots, Wicked. Film: Mary Poppins Returns, The Greatest Showman, Into the Woods. Television: “Murphy Brown,” “This Is Us,” “House of Cards,” “Divorce,” “One Day at a Time.”
WILLIAM JOSEPH BARNES (Production Supervisor) has been the Production Stage Manager of over 25 Broadway shows, most recently Hello, Dolly! and Three Tall Women. Previous Broadway productions include the Best Play Tony Award-winning productions of Love, Valour, Compassion; Master Class; Art; Take Me Out; and The Humans and the Best Revival Tony Award-winning productions of Assassins; Glengarry Glen Ross; Boeing, Boeing; Skylight; and Hello, Dolly!.
BRIAN BOGIN (Production Stage Manager). Broadway/tours: Frankie and Johnny…; The Waverly Gallery; Straight White Men; On Your Feet!; …Great Comet; Allegiance; The Book of Mormon; Constellations; War Horse; The People in the Picture; Elf; Wicked; Phantom…; Chicago; Spamalot; Urinetown; Good Vibrations; Soul Doctor; The Grinch…; My Fair Lady; Hello, Dolly!; Rent. Off-Broadway/regional: Privacy, The Ruins of Civilization, Heisenberg, The Toxic Avenger, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (Citi Performing Arts Center), Ragtime, Robin and the 7 Hoods.
AMY RAMSDELL (Stage Manager). National tours: Hamilton, Les Misérables, Elf, Dreamgirls, Once. Past credits include Hamilton (Chicago), Marvin’s Room, God Looked Away (with Al Pacino), Billy Elliot, First Date, Bad Jews, Barcelona, Choir Boy, The Country House, Slowgirl. Additional
credits include Geffen Playhouse, Center Theatre Group, The Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, and Pasadena Playhouse.
CATE AGIS (Assistant Stage Manager). National tours: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Broadway: Miss Saigon, ...The Great Comet. NYC: Sleep No More, The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, Ragtime on Ellis Island. Regional: A.R.T., Contemporary American Theater Festival, ArtsEmerson, Actors’ Shakespeare Project. B.F.A. stage and production management, Emerson College.
ALLIED TOURING (Tour Marketing & Press) is a full-service engagement management agency representing Broadway tours and other live events across North America. Current: Bandstand, The Book of Mormon, Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (San Francisco), The Hip Hop Nutcracker, Mean Girls, Mystery Science Theater 3000 Live, The Play That Goes Wrong, Rent, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. Upcoming: Ain’t Too Proud, The Cher Show, Hadestown, Pretty Woman, To Kill a Mockingbird, Tootsie.
AURORA PRODUCTIONS (Product ion Manager). Anastasia (tour); Beetlejuice; Betrayal; The Book of Mormon (Broadway and tour); Frozen (Broadway and tour); Hello, Dolly! (tour); Mean Girls (Broadway and tour); Rock of Ages; Tootsie; To Kill a Mockingbird. Aurora has been providing technical supervision and production management to the entertainment industry since 1989.
NEUROSPORT (Physical Therapy). Leaders in entertainment and performing arts medicine. “We are honored to be part of the amazing company of Hello, Dolly!.” Broadway: The Lion King; Hello, Dolly!; Harry Potter and the Cursed Child; Waitress. Tours: Movin’ Out, Billy Elliot, Hamilton. Concerts: P!NK, Bette Midler, Katy Perry.
ROY FURMAN (Producer). Current productions: Mean Girls, Pretty Woman, King Kong, Dear Evan Hansen (Tony Award), The Book of Mormon (Tony), The Band’s Visit (Tony). Other Tony winning productions include The Color Purple, The Humans, A View from the Bridge, Spamalot, War Horse, The Curious Incident…, A Raisin in the Sun, and The History Boys. Vice Chairman Jefferies LLC, Vice Chairman Lincoln Center.
JAMES L. NEDERLANDER (Producer) is the president of the Nederlander Organization and son of the late James M. Nederlander (Chairman). Credits include The Present, War Paint, On Your Feet!,
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The Humans, The Elephant Man, An American in Paris, Kinky Boots, I’ll Eat You Last…, Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth, West Side Story, Next to Normal, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Movin’ Out, Million Dollar Quartet, and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, among many others.
UNIVERSAL THEATRICAL GROUP (Producer), the live theater division of Universal Pictures, is currently represented on Broadway by Wicked and Mean Girls. Additional Broadway credits include Billy Elliot, Bring It On, Shrek, and Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn.
ROGER BERLIND (Producer). Recent productions include Dear Evan Hansen; The Book of Mormon; One Man, Two Guvnors; Twelfth Night; Richard III; This Is Our Youth; The Curious Incident…; Fish in the Dark; An American in Paris; and A View from the Bridge.
WILLIAM BERLIND (Producer). Broadway: Dear Evan Hansen, The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, Skylight, Fish in the Dark, This Is Our Youth, The Realistic Joneses, All the Way, Lucky Guy, Grace. Off-Broadway: The Flick, Cock.
JOHN GORE ORGANIZATION (Producer). This family of companies includes Broadway Across America and Broadway.com, under the supervision of John Gore (Chairman and CEO). Productions include Beautiful, Cats, Dear Evan Hansen, Fiddler on the Roof, The Glass Menagerie, Groundhog Day, Indecent, On Your Feet!, and The Present.
LEN BLAVATNIK (Producer) is the founder and chairman of Access Industries, a privately held U.S. industrial group with global strategic investments in various industries. An active philanthropist, Blavatnik provides significant support to the arts and leading educational, cultural and medical institutions throughout the world and has co-produced numerous Broadway and film productions.
PETER MAY (Producer) is President and Founding Partner of Trian Partners. Broadway: The Humans (Tony Award), A View from the Bridge (Tony), The Elephant Man, Cinderella, Waitress, The Crucible, Passing Strange.
THE ARACA GROUP (Producer). Founded in 1997 by partners Matthew Rego, Michael Rego and Hank Unger, the Araca Group produces and merchandises live entertainment and theatrical events on Broadway and around the world.
INDEPENDENT PRESENTERS NETWORK (Producer) includes 40 of America’s leading Broadway presenters whose subscription base totals 475,000. Broadway/London/national tours: War Paint, Cats, Dear Evan Hansen, Groundhog Day, On Your Feet!, Waitress, The Color Purple, Shuffle Along…, An American in Paris, Kinky Boots, Matilda, The Red Shoes.
JAY ALIX & UNA JACKMAN (Producer). Broadway: The Front Page, The Humans (Tony Award), Blackbird, Bright Star, A View from the Bridge (Tony), The Crucible, Fish in the Dark, Skylight (Tony), A Gentleman’s Guide… (Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critics Circle Awards). Documentaries: “Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance,” “Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise” for PBS.
SCOTT M. DELMAN (Producer) is a theater enthusiast and leading investor in entertainment content. He has co-produced or produced more than 50 Broadway and West End dramas and musicals, earning nine Tony Awards and three Olivier Awards along the way.
STEPHANIE P. McCLELLAND (Producer). Founder, Green Curtain Productions. Ms. McClelland is a multi-award-winning producer with 13 Tony Awards, 12 Drama Desk Awards, 10 Drama League Awards, 10 Outer Critics Circle Awards, and one Olivier Award. Credits include more than 80 theatrical productions worldwide. Recent credits include 1984, The Book of Mormon, The Front Page, Present Laughter, and Groundhog Day.
AL NOCCIOLINO (Producer) is President of NAC Entertainment, a theatrical company specializing in the presentation of touring Broadway shows in the Northeast. For more than 30 years, he has been investing, producing and co-producing Broadway tours and Broadway shows, including, most recently, The Band’s Visit, The Front Page, Cats, On Your Feet!, and Kinky Boots.
WENDY FEDERMAN & HENI KOENIGSBERG (Producer). Tony-winning productions include Angels in America; Dear Evan Hansen; The Band’s Visit; Hello, Dolly!; A View from The Bridge; The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; Skylight; A Raisin in the Sun; All the Way; A Gentleman’s Guide…; Pippin; The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess; Hair. Thirty additional Tony Award nominations.
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PATTY BAKER & GOOD PRODUCTIONS (Producer) is a Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Tony winner. Co-producer of Three Tall Women, The Iceman Cometh, Carousel, Memphis, Beautiful, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Fiddler on the Roof, among others.
BENJAMIN LOWY (Producer) produces and develops theater for Broadway and stages worldwide. Last season: Angels in America (Tony Award), Carousel, Mean Girls, Three Tall Women, The Iceman Cometh, all five Tony-nominated. Selected previous: Sunday in the Park with George (revival); A Doll’s House, Part 2. Benjamin also produces theater for The Lowy Salpeter Company.
ERIC CORNELL & JACK SENNOTT (Producer) are partners in the Tony Award-winning Cornice Productions. They are currently represented on Broadway with Oklahoma! and To Kill a Mockingbird. Other recent productions and investments: What the Constitution Means to Me, Anastasia, The Lifespan of a Fact, Waitress (UK). Upcoming: Anne of Green Gables.
DAVID MERRICK (Original Producer) claimed to be born on November 4, 1954, the night his first Broadway musical Fanny opened. His second production, in 1955, was Thornton Wilder’s comedy The Matchmaker. He immediately determined it would make a brilliant musical—which, in 1964, turned out to be Hello, Dolly!. At a time when few producers managed more than one production a year, he stunned Broadway in 1957 with three hits in one month (including John Osborne’s ground breaking Look Back in Anger). The following November, he opened three shows in a single week. At the height of his activity, he had eight productions running simultaneously on Broadway. His musicals included Jamaica with Lena Horne; Destry Rides Again with Andy Griffith and Dolores Gray; Gypsy with Ethel Merman; Take Me Along with Jackie Gleason; Irma La Douce; Do Re Mi with Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker; Carnival! with Anna Maria Alberghetti and Jerry Orbach; I Can Get It for You Wholesale with Elliott Gould and Barbra Streisand; Stop the World— I Want to Get Off and The Roar of the Greasepaint—The Smell of the Crowd with Anthony Newley; Oliver!; 110 in the Shade; I Do! I Do! with Mary Martin and Robert Preston; The Happy Time with Robert Goulet; Promises, Promises with Orbach; Sugar with Robert Morse and Tony Roberts; Mack & Mabel with Preston and Bernadette Peters; and the legendary 42nd Street with Orbach and Tammy Grimes. Notable plays included The Entertainer with Laurence Olivier; The World of Suzie Wong; A Taste of Honey with Angela Lansbury; Becket with Olivier
and Anthony Quinn; Sunday in New York with Robert Redford; Luther with Albert Finney; Arturo Ui with Christopher Plummer; One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest with Kirk Douglas; Inadmissible Evidence with Nicol Williamson; Cactus Flower with Lauren Bacall and Barry Nelson; Peter Weiss’ Marat/Sade; Brian Friel’s Philadelphia, Here I Come!; Woody Allen’s Don’t Drink the Water and Play It Again, Sam; Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Travesties; Forty Carats with Julie Harris; Child’s Play; and Peter Brook’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, to name a few. An 11-time Tony Award winner, Merrick (1911–2000) produced more than 80 plays and musicals.
JOEY PARNES (Executive Producer). Broadway: King Lear; Hillary and Clinton; Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus; To Kill a Mockingbird; The Waverly Gallery; The Iceman Cometh; Three Tall Women; Carousel; Meteor Shower; 1984; A Doll’s House, Part 2; Hello, Dolly! (Tony Award); The Front Page; The Humans (Tony); Bright Star; Shuffle Along…; A View from the Bridge (Tony); Skylight (Tony); A Raisin in the Sun (Tony); A Gentleman’s Guide… (Tony); Betrayal; Vanya and Sonia… (Tony); Hair (Tony); among others.
SUE WAGNER (Executive Producer). Broadway: King Lear; Hillary and Clinton; Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus; To Kill a Mockingbird; The Waverly Gallery; The Iceman Cometh; Three Tall Women; Carousel; Meteor Shower; 1984; A Doll’s House, Part 2; Hello, Dolly! (Tony Award); The Glass Menagerie; The Front Page; The Humans (Tony); Bright Star; Shuffle Along…; A View from the Bridge (Tony); Skylight (Tony); Fish in the Dark; A Raisin in the Sun (Tony); A Gentleman’s Guide… (Tony); Betrayal; Vanya and Sonia… (Tony); End of the Rainbow; Hair.
JOHN JOHNSON (Executive Producer) . Broadway: King Lear; Hillary and Clinton; Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus; To Kill a Mockingbird; The Waverly Gallery; The Iceman Cometh; Three Tall Women; Carousel; Meteor Shower; 1984; A Doll’s House, Part 2; Hello, Dolly! (Tony Award); The Glass Menagerie; The Front Page; The Humans (Tony); Bright Star; Shuffle Along…; A View from the Bridge (Tony); Skylight (Tony); A Raisin in the Sun (Tony); A Gentleman’s Guide… (Tony); Vanya and Sonia… (Tony). Graduate: Fordham University at Lincoln Center.
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STAFF FOR HELLO, DOLLY!SCOTT RUDIN PRODUCTIONS
Henry Cropsey Matt DeCristofaro Lucas KantlerLoni Rodgers Nina Watson Patrick Wengler
GENERAL MANAGEMENTWAGNER JOHNSON PRODUCTIONS
Sue Wagner John JohnsonJillian Robbins
Heather Allen Zachary Baer Grace Barron Nora Rigney
Mike McLinden Katie TitleyMegan Curren Kendall Booher Celina LamJessica Fried Dylan Glen Stephanie Smith
ASSOCIATE PRODUCERJillian Robbins Adam Rodner
COMPANY MANAGERMike McLinden
PRODUCTION MANAGEMENTAURORA PRODUCTIONS, INC.
Ben Heller Chris Minnick Liza Luxenberg Ryan Murphy Steven Dalton Dave Elmer Luke Ricca Martijn Appelo Tor Rametta
Jack Rhea Micah Ammons Abby DoermannHannah Osborne Cori Gardner Gene O’Donovan
TOUR MARKETING AND PRESSALLIED TOURING
Marya K. Peters Andrew DamerJanie Dickerson Jennifer Gallagher
Scott Praefke Jacqueline Smith Anne Waisanen Hayden Anderson
Jessica Cary
NATIONAL PRESS REPRESENTATIVEDKC/O&M
Rick Miramontez Marie Bshara
TOUR BOOKING AND ENGAGEMENT MANAGEMENT
THE BOOKING GROUPMeredith Blair, President
Kara Gebhart, Vice President Operations
ADVERTISINGBLT COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Dawn Baillie Grace Brescia Drew Cummins Kaz Dugandzic
Jason Elvrom Dylan Feiner Jen Gerard Kevin Gustafson Sergio Gutierrez Kristie Kam
Laura Mackey Whitney Murdy Kylee Serlin Billy Stanek
Steve Toyama Pen Williamson
SPOTCOScott Johnson
CASTINGTELSEY + COMPANY
Bernard Telsey, CSA Craig Burns, CSALauren Harris
LEGAL COUNSELGRUBMAN SHIRE MEISELAS & SACKS, P.C.
Allen J. Grubman, Lawrence Shire,Jonathan A. Lonner, Adam J. Rosen
ASSOCIATE DIRECTORStephen Edlund
ASSOCIATE CHOREOGRAPHERSara Edwards
ARCHIVAL CONSULTANTSteven Suskin
Production Supervisor ........... William Joseph BarnesProduction Stage Manager ......................Brian BoginStage Manager ................................... Amy Ramsdell Assistant Stage Manager .............................Cate Agis Associate Company Manager ................. Katie TitleyAssistant Choreographer ........................... Katie HuffAssociate Scenic Designers ..............Evan Adamson,
Jisun KimAssociate Costume Designer ...... Matthew PachtmanAssistant Costume Designers ................... Justin Hall,
Caroline SpitzerAssociate Lighting Designer ................ Aaron SpiveyAssistant Lighting Designer ............... Travis McHaleAssociate Sound Designer .....................Will PickensProduction Carpenter ..............................Keith ReeseHead Carpenter .................................. Jamie L. KurtzAssistant Carpenters ................. Robert DiCandia, Jr.,
Sara Ramone, Andy ShawProduction Electrician ................................ Dan CoeyHead Electrician ..................................Adam LansingAssistant Electricians ..................................Jes Halm,
Jeff ChandlerMoving Light Programmer ...................... Alex FogelProduction Sound Engineer ............. Jason ChoquetteSound Engineer .............................. Timothy SchmidtAssistant Sound Engineer .................Mason WisecupProduction Properties .............................. Pete SarafinHead Properties ........................................ Rayn JacksAssistant Properties ..............Mark “Sparky” MalloryAssistant Production Properties ........... Colin LaBrie,
Lizzie TredinnickWardrobe Supervisor............................Nadine HettelAssistant Wardrobe Supervisor ..........Emily BaldwinMs. Carmello’s Dresser .......................... Lolly ToteroStitcher .............................................Aughra T. MoonHair Supervisor ............................... Lisa Chan-WylieAssistant Hair Supervisor ................... Felicia WilsonProduction Assistants ............................Chandler Jez,
Michelle TewksburyCreative Services ...............Allied Global Marketing/
Debbie Allamong, Eric Stormoen
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Accountant ..................................Marks Paneth LLP/Mark A. D’Ambrosi,
Patricia M. Pedersen, Michael SaccentoBanking ...................................... City National Bank/
Stephanie Dalton, Michele GibbonsInsurance .....................................Reiff & Associates/
Dennis Reiff, Regina NewsomPayroll Services ...Checks and Balances Payroll, Inc.Physical Therapy ......................................Kyle MillerMedical Director ................Dr. Robert Meislin, M.D.Production Photographer ................Julieta CervantesHousing and Ground
Travel Coordination ...............................Road Rebel Entertainment Touring
Air Travel Coordination ..............Tzell Travel Group/ A-Team Tours
Andi Henig & Alan Braunstein
CREDITSScenery and scenic effects built, painted and automated by ShowMotion Inc. Lighting equipment from PRG. Sound equipment from Masque Sound. Props fabricated by Behind the Mule Studio, Jerard Studio, Tom Carroll Scenery. Costumes by Costume Armour, Inc., Euro Co Costumes, Inc., Giliberto Designs, Inc., Lynne Baccus, Malabar Ltd., Seamless Costumes Ltd., Timberlake Costumes, Inc., Tricorne, Inc. Hosiery and undergarments provided by Bra*Tenders. Millinery by Albertus Swanepoel, Bee Festival Hats & Bonnets, Kaz Maxine, Rodney Gordon. Custom Footwear by Capezio, LaDuca Shoes, Worldtone Dance. Custom Parasols by Barrington Brolly. Custom Gloves by Wing & Weft Gloves.
Rehearsed at New 42nd Street Studios.
HelloDollyonBroadway.com/Tour
The Director and Choreographer are members of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Inc., an independent national labor union.
Backstage and Front of the House Employees are represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (or I.A.T.S.E.).
United Scenic Artists represents the designers and scenic painters for the American Theatre.
The Press Agents and Company Managers employed in this production are represented by the Association of Theatrical Press Agents & Managers.
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.
This production is produced by a member of The Broadway League in collaboration with our professional union-represented employees.
The musicians employed in this production are members of the American Federation of Musicians.
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Comprehensive CampaignThe following donors have supported the Kimmel Center’s Comprehensive Campaign, helping us keep our promise for the future to preserve our iconic buildings and maintain world-class facilities and a leave lasting contribution to the future of the performing arts in Philadelphia.
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and Reverend Dr. Alyn E. WallerAnn and Jay Francis
Patricia and John GattusoJuliet J. Goodfriend and
Marc R. MoreauRosemarie Greco and
Anne MorrisseyTony Hayden/Maguire Hayden
Real Estate InvestmentsMichael and Debra HillMr. and Mrs. Bradford R.
Hollingsworth Independence FoundationRobert E. Mortensen
Mr. and Mrs. Harry J. Mullany, IIIElizabeth MurphyRon and Suzanne NaplesHon. Edward G. Rendell and
Hon. Marjorie O. Rendell**Dr. Harry Rosenthal**Matt and Judi TaylorPaul and Christine TufanoBill and Barbara Wilson/
Synterra, Ltd.
$100,000+Anonymous (2)The Bazemore Family FoundationPeter A. Benoliel and Willo CareySandy and Steve CozenJack DonnellyDorrance H. Hamilton
Charitable Lead TrustElliott-Lewis CorporationMichael and Amy George Frances and Bill Graham
David F. HoffmanJeanne Ruddy and Victor Keen L.F. Driscoll CompanyWilliam A. LoebDavid G. and Sandra G. MarshallJami Wintz McKeon Louise and Alan ReedLyn M. RossJeffrey and Dianne RotwittTimothy and Ann Scheve
Peter and Cary Webb SearsGregory L. Segall Molly D. Shepard and
Peter J. Dean**Laurie WagmanLeslie Miller and Richard Worley
FoundationThe Zuritsky Family
$5,000,000+The William Penn Foundation
$25,000+Anonymous (1)Lisa CrutchfieldTad and Candance Decker**Barbara D. HauptfuhrerDeborah and Kurt HilzingerSara Lomax-Reese
Ed and Deb LovelidgeJeffrey and Julia McFaddenLauren and Don MorelAgnes MulroneyMrs. Jane G. PepperGregory Redden
Mr. and Mrs. John T. RogersSalem Shuchman and
Barbara Klock Family FoundationDavid and Sherry Varrelman Tony G. Werner
For more information about the Comprehensive Campaign, please contact Anne Ewers, president and CEO at 215-670-2339 or [email protected].
*Deceased **includes Planned Giving
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Institutional and Government SupportThe Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts gratefully acknowledges the following corporations, foundations, and government partners for their annual support.
$100,000+American Airlines*The Aramark Charitable FundChubbComcast NBCUniversalThe Lenfest FoundationMerck & Co. Inc.
Pennsylvania Council on the ArtsPennsylvania Department of
Community and Economic Development
SantanderTD Bank
The Waterman II Fund of the Philadelphia Foundation
The William Penn FoundationThe Wyncote Foundation
$75,000+Independence Blue CrossM&T Bank
PECO PNC Bank
$50,000+AmeriHealth CaritasBank of AmericaBNY Mellon Wealth Management
The Doran Family FoundationNemours/Alfred I. DuPont
Hospital for Children
Ollin, LLCThe Presser Foundation
$25,000+Ballard Spahr*CignaThe Connelly Foundation
Glenmede Morgan LewisMorgan Lewis*
The Snider FoundationWells Fargo
$5,000+Apgar-Black FoundationChristian R. & Mary F. Lindback
FoundationDolfinger-McMahon Foundation
Graham PartnersGray Charitable TrustJacobs Music Company,
the Rinaldi Family
Kieran Timberlake Associates LLP*Pepper Hamilton LLP*
$10,000+Anonymous (1)Comcast BusinessCozen O’ConnorEnon Tabernacle Baptist ChurchDuane Morris, LLP*Econsult Solutions, Inc.*Haverstick-Borthwick CompanyLiberty Coca-Cola BeveragesLincoln Financial Group Foundation
Origlio BeveragePFMPhiladelphia Cultural FundPhiladelphia Indemnity
Insurance CompanyPost Brothers QVC, IncorporatedSabre Systems Inc.SEI
Stradley Ronon Stevens and Young, LLP*
Sylvia W. And Randle M. Kauders Foundation
Universal Health Services, Inc.The William M. King
Charitable Foundation
For more information on joining this distinguished list of supporters, please contact Anne Ewers, President and CEO at 215-670-2339 or [email protected].
*In-Kind contributions
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Individual Support
$20,000+Teresa Bryce BazemoreBart and Jil BlatsteinMr. and Mrs. Jeffrey S. BrownWilliam and Frances GrahamPhilip Jaurigue
Brook J. LenfestJami Wintz McKeonStanley C. MiddlemanElizabeth MurphyGregory Segall
Tony G. WernerMr. Michael D. Zisman and
Ms. Linda J. Gamble
The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts gratefully acknowledges the following individuals for their annual support.
$10,000+
Anonymous (1)Peter A. Benoliel and Willo CareyJoanne BerwindRobert and Julie J. BryanMrs. J. Mahlon Buck, Jr.David and Jennifer CardyAnne Marie and Matt ChapmanNelly ChildressSandy and Steve Cozen
M. Gordon and Carolyn DanielsMrs. F. Eugene Dixon, Jr.John and Gloria DrosdickAnne EwersAnn and Jay FrancisLinda and David GlicksteinRosemarie B. Greco and
Anne MorrisseyDonna and Vincent Hartnett
Michael and Debra HillMr. and Mrs. Bradford HollingsworthSusan Martinelli SheaHonorable Marjorie O. RendellMrs. Adele K. SchaefferTimothy and Ann ScheveSalem Shuchman and Barbara
Klock Family Foundation
$5,000+Donna and Jon BosciaJ. Edward CambronMr. and Mrs. Richard D. CarpenterRev. Luis A. Cortés, Jr.Sarah Miller CoulsonTad and Candace DeckerMr. James and Dr. Lynn DeverKen and Marian DiskenMaxima and Sidney HuiThe Kent Foundation
Jeffrey and Susan LeonardWilliam A. LoebEd and Deb LovelidgeJeffrey and Julia McFaddenDr. Hilarie and Mr. Mitchell MorganWallace and Lydia NowickeMr. Giorgio Piatti and
Ms. Nicole PerkinsJerry G. and Bernice RubensteinMr. Mark Samuels
Anne Faulkner SchoemakerIrene and Fred ShabelMolly D. Shepard and Peter J. DeanDavid and Sherry VarrelmanNina Robinson VitowRoy and Sharon WellsHon. Constance H. and
Dr. Sankey Williams
$2,500+Stan and Nancy ApplegateMs. Lynda BarnessDrs. Marie Uberti-Benz and
Robert L. Benz FoundationJill and Sheldon BonovitzFrank and Diana Bubb Family FundMr. and Mrs. James M. Buck IIIMr. and Mrs. Robert BuggeyBob and Cheryl CarfagnoPhilip and Margaret CavanaughSuzanne and Norman CohnMr. Todd W. DarlingEleanor L. DavisBrian and Sherry EffronDrs. Chris and Leanne GasinkElizabeth H. Gemmill, Esq.Joseph Gwiszcz, M.D.Mr. and Mrs. D. Kirk HarmanRussell Harris, M.D.Osagie and Losenge Imasogie
Elena and Frederick KyleChristopher and Saundra LarcadeMr. H. Chase LenfestMr. and Mrs. Robert G. LevinMr. Philip E. Lian and
Ms. Joan L. MuellerMrs. Sara Lomax-ReeseJanine A. MatskoArthur MattiaE. J. and R. I. MitchellMilton and Janet MorganHalsey and Alice NorthMr. and Mrs. John OsunaDr. Elias PackmanLouise and Alan ReedGov. Edward G. RendellNathan Renner-Johnson and
Alexander MacnowMr. Ross Richards and
Ms. Sanaz Hojreh
Dr. John and Mrs. Nancy RobertsThe Romano FamilyBruce Satalof and Marie O’DonnellLeslie and Lynnae Schwartz SerchuckBonnie and Harris SklarRichard and Amanda SmootElliot StoneDr. Auguste and Mrs. Abby TurnierZeyn B. UzmanDale WallaceJoseph and Eileen WawrzynekBarbara Eberlein and Jerry WindDrs. Jonathan and Lori WinterMr. F. Gordon YasinowMario and Jan ZacharjazKaren L. Zimmermann and
Glenn CarneyJames W. and Debora C. Zug
$25,000+Dr. and Mrs. Robert R. CorratoJacqueline B. Mars
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas NerneyRonald and Marcia Rubin
Laurie Wagman
$100,000+Patricia and David Holveck
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Kimmel Center Cultural Campus$1,000+Anonymous (3)Abrams-Collazo FamilyMs. Laura J. ArmstrongJoseph C. and Laura AtkinsonMr. and Mrs. Robert H. BetzMr. Edward BishopPerry and Linda BlackmanJulie I. BlankDouglas Boesch and Michele SavageDavid Brahm and Eric HerncaneCrystal and Eric BreweJon and Joy BroderMiss Ayanna D. Brown and
Ms. Monique C. ReidWilliam C. Bullitt and Sheryl BullittJoseph and Suzanne CalabroElaine Woo CamardaMr. John CarrollGeorge WickerBarbara R. CobbMark and Iris CoblitzDaniel and Melanie CoultonVictoria L. CrenshawThe Cristofaro FamilyConnie and Pat DaltonDr. Richard Davidson and
Linda GoldenDavid and Terri DavitchMs. Carole C. DeziiJohn and Lois DursoThe Eiseman FamilyRoy and Nancy FairmanMr. and Mrs. Steven FederLauren and Eric FeldhakeJames K. Fink, Jr.Nancy Flores MigenesMr. Michael William FontanaHelen Herr FordMr. and Mrs. Ed Gibbons
Katherine M. GlaserSandra E. GoodsteinGene and Heather Jo GoroschkoMr. Edmund GreenMr. and Mrs. Raymond GrenaldAnand GupteMr. and Mrs. S. Matthews
V. Hamilton, Jr.Kathleen and Tom HanleyMs. Beverly A. HarperDon and Lynn HaskinRobert and Megan HauslerMs. Angie HelmbrechtJacqualyn HillegassFeather HoustounLinda and Ivan InerfeldStephen Klasko and Colleen WyseMr. and Mrs. Berton E. KormanJohn and Amy KormanMr. and Mrs. Ed KuehnleMr. Shawn LeavittDr. and Mrs. Michael LewisMarcos and Dee Dee LopezMaureen Lord-BensonThe Mann FamilyDr. Wendy MartinezTom and Linda McCarthyH.G. and Susan McDonaldPatrick and Danielle McIntyreMr. and Mrs. Frank J. MechuraDonald and Kathleen MillerHarold and Meilin MilsteinMs. Anne MockusPatrick and Monica MoellerMr. and Mrs. H. Laddie Montague, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Edward A.
Montgomery, Jr.Ms. Mary E. MooreMr. and Mrs. Keith W. Moore
David Murdock and James WebbMs. Diane Lenfest MyerHarold New and Lisa StewartMr. and Mrs. Michael OMalleyRev. Mark and Leslie TylerMr. and Mrs. R. Anderson PewMr. Jeffrey J. RaganLaurinda RaineyJordan Reilly LawDiana Carolyn Pixie RoaneD. RodellMr. and Mrs. Eric P. RodesNoemi RodriguezStephen Rosenzweig and
Barbara ExlerMs. Samantha RuskLiz Saccardi and Jason SladinskiMr. and Mrs. Justin SchallerStephanie Schuetz and
Jonathan BaylessAngela M. ScottCorinne J. StahlMr. James B. Stambaugh and
Ms. Andrea MorrisseyJ. Sutherland, M.D. Jacqueline TaylorBrian and Victoria TitusRobert and Lisa TrucksessDr. Thomas M. and
M. Patricia VernonMr. Anup and Mrs. Sangeeta
VidwansBonnie and Walter WeberAlison and Craig WestbrookDr. Patricia Williams-AlverangaThomas C. WoodwardJim and Nicole Youse
This list representation donations received from September 30, 2018 to October 1, 2019. While great care has been taken to ensure the accuracy of this list, mistakes can occur.
Please report discrepancies to Liz Saccardi, Senior Director of Development at 215-790-7178, or [email protected]. For more information about making a gift please contact us
at 215-790-5321 or visit us online at kimmelcenter.org/support.
*Deceased
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The Kimmel Center is proud to announce the naming of the Honickman Family Society, a group of forward-thinking supporters who have included the Kimmel Center in their estate plans. Named in honor of Harold and Lynne Honickman and their family, Honickman Family Society members ensure that the Kimmel Center will continue to educate, inspire and delight audiences for generations to come.
Honickman Family Society
Anonymous (2)Jill and Sheldon BonovitzMr. and Mrs. Roland K. Bullard, IID. Walter Cohen*Mrs. Peggy CookeTad and Candace DeckerAnne C. EwersStephen J. Harmelin
Lynne and Harold HonickmanLinda R. JacobsRaymond G. Perelman*Sergio* and Penelope ProserpiLouise and Alan ReedHon. Edward G. Rendell and
Hon. Marjorie O. RendellDr. Harry Rosenthal
Lyn M. RossAnne Faulkner SchoemakerMolly D. Shepard and
Peter J. DeanPaula and Mark SolomonAnn R. and Harold A. SorgentiGussie Spector*
*Deceased
For more information about the Honickman Family Society please contact Liz Saccardi, Senior Director of Development at [email protected] or 215-790-7178.
Multiply the impact of your personal contribution to the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts by submitting an Employee Matching Gift Form. Matching gifts — when combined with your donation — double or triple the resources that make possible Broadway at the Academy, Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts (PIFA), and other programs that you enjoy. Your employer may match the tax-deductible portion of your gift to the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. If your company is not listed here, please check with your Human Resources department to see if your gift can be matched.
Companies that Match Employee Gifts to the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
1500 Walnut EnterprisesACE GroupAmerican AirlinesBallard SpahrBank of AmericaBNY MellonCanada Dry Bottling CompanyCharon PlanningCIGNACitigroupCitizens BankCoca-ColaCozen O’ConnorDeluxe CorporationDeutsche BankDowDuane MorrisEndo Health SolutionsErnst & YoungFederated (Macy’s)First Genesis Financial Group
FMC CorporationGlaxoSmithKlineGoldman Sachs & Co.Haverstick-Borthwick CompanyHealth Partners of PhiladelphiaHiltonHoliday InnIndependence Blue CrossJacobs MusicJanney Montgomery Scott LLCJohnson & JohnsonJP Morgan ChaseKPMGLiberty Property TrustLincoln FinancialM&T BankMerckMorgan Stanley Smith BarneyNutriSystemPECOPenn Mutual Life Insurance
Company
PepsiThe Pew Charitable TrustsPfizerPhiladelphia FoundationPhiladelphia Insurance CompaniesPNCQuaker ChemicalQVC, Inc.RadissonReed Smith LLPSoneparStradley Ronon Stevens &
Young, LLPTD BankUGI CorporationUniversal Health ServicesVanguardVerizonWawaWells Fargo & Co.William Penn Foundation
Matching Gifts
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StaffOFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
& CEOLiz Saccardi, Senior Director
of Strategy and DevelopmentRuth Auslander, Director
Institutional GivingJennifer Beatty, Senior Manager
of Individual GivingColleen Coffey, Manager of
Donor RelationsAnne Henry, Manager
of MembershipHannah Lermitte, Manager
of Special EventsGreg Storella, Manager of
Grants and ProposalsJacqueline Wills,
Executive Assistant to the President and CEO
Kelsea Reel, Development Operations Specialist
Yvonne Toot, Development Coordinator
Wesley Hershner, Coordinator of Research and Development Systems
Rachel Williams, Corporate Relations Associate
OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT
Michaela Cline, Executive Assistant to the EVP and COO & EVP and CFO
EDUCATIONSusan Quinn, Director of EducationKenya Gayles, Education
Program ManagerJasmine Hammond, Education
Program ManagerEliza Minster, Education
Program ManagerBrent White, Education
Program ManagerBrian Adamczyk, Education
Program CoordinatorTyler Daddario, Education
Program Coordinator
PROGRAMMING Jay Wahl, Producing
Artistic DirectorFrances Egler, Senior Director of
Programming and PresentationsLaura McClatchy, Programming
Artist Relations ManagerHelen Smith,
Programming ManagerAmy Harting,
Programming SpecialistStacey Ferraro, Programming
Events and Operations SpecialistChrista Bean, Producing AssociateMaryKate Giarrocco, Programming
and Events Assistant
SALES & MARKETING Elizabeth Hess, Senior Director of
Programmatic MarketingLeslie Patterson-Tyler, Senior
Director of Media Realtions and Communications
Eric Hsu, Director of E-Marketing and Digital Strategy
Amy O’Connell, Director of Institutional Marketing
Ashley Ryan, Associate Director of Marketing
Nathan Godshall, Institutional Marketing Manager
Manisha Modi, Audience Development and Group Sales Manager
Lauren Woodard, Public Relations Manager
Winona Wyatt, Digital Marketing Manager
Ben Brotman, Graphic Designer (Digital)
Katherine Brandel, Digital Marketing Associate
Brett Cohen, Marketing Associate
Morgan Horell, Marketing Content Associate
Carrie Williams, Marketing Associate
Gabriela Castaño, Administrative Assistant to the Senior Vice President of Strategic Marketing and Communications, and to the Executive Director of the Marian Anderson Awards
FINANCE Jacob A. Jessup, ControllerLeda Lyons,
Senior Accounting ManagerRenee Doman, Operations
Finance ManagerHazel Mack, Payroll ManagerBridget Morgan, Accounting
Manager / Ticket PhiladelphiaLauren Tighe, Senior AccountantKaren Turner, Accounts
Payable Clerk
HUMAN RESOURCESLiz Bligan, Human
Resources ManagerSarah Dugan, Human
Resources CoordinatorAaron Jackson, Human Resources
Assistant/Receptionist
FACILITY SALESCasey Rodger, Director of
Facility Sales & I PAudrey Gildea, Senior
Sales ManagerLeigh Sweda, Event Manager
FACILITIES AND OPERATIONSMatt Suydam, Facilities DirectorKathie Cronk, Operations
Manager, Special ProjectsShannon Walsh, Master SchedulerScott Derkacz, Site ManagerDennis McGeady, Chief EngineerJohn Kane IV, Lead EngineerBob Rielly, Engineer Ed Torres, EngineerSteve Dang, EngineerChristopher Alston, Office Support
and Supply CoordinatorJoseph Chiavaroli, PainterLawrence Freeman,
Maintenance MechanicChristopher Grimes,
Maintenance MechanicHorace Madre,
Maintentance MechanicTrondell Hill,
Housekeeping ManagerKevin Hamilton, Dock Master
PRODUCTIONAndre Barette, Production
Manager, Ancillary Spaces, Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
Elizabeth Devore, Production Manager, Verizon Hall
Eileen Harris, Production Manager, Artistic Initiatives
W. King Rogers, Production Manager, Academy of Music
Adam Steinbauer, Production Manager, Perelman Theater
Morgan Sommer, Production Administrative Coordinator
Kenneth Nash, Head Soundman, Verizon Hall
Matt McIntyre, Head Carpenter, Verizon Hall
Mike Sweeney, Head Electrician, Verizon Hall
Michael Cobb-Durkin, Head Electrician, Perelman Theater
Walter Bass, Head Soundman, Perelman Theater
Ed Klumpp, Head Utility, Ancillary Spaces, Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
William Ringland, Head Carpenter, Academy of Music
Greg Canzanese Jr., Assistant Head Carpenter- Flyman, Academy of Music
Jim McPeak, Assistant Head Carpenter
David Cushing, Assistant Head Carpenter-Flyman, Academy of Music
Timothy Johnson, Head Electrician, Academy of Music
Scott Smith, Assistant Electrician-Audio, Academy of Music
Kevin McEntee, Head Propertyman, Academy of Music
Kevin Barrett, Assistant Head Propertyman, Academy of Music
Bev Nolan, Head Wardrobe, Academy of Music
Pete Mohan, Head Carpenter, Merriam Theater
Stephen Hungerford, Assistant Head Carpenter, Merriam Theater
Jay Madara, Head Electrcian, Merriam Theater
Dan Imburgia, Head Soundman, Merriam Theater
Michael Atkinson, Head Propertyman, Merriam Theater
CAMPUS EXPERIENCEJohn Charles, Director of
Campus ExperienceAmy Dalin, Associate Director
of Event ServicesLaura Marsh, Associate Director
of Venue ServicesLindsay Rosetti, Associate Director
of Guest ServicesCaitlin Crowley, Venue Manager,
Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
Frank Flood, Venue Manager, Academy of Music
Alison Gibbons, Venue Manager, Merriam Theater
Derrick Johnson, Event Services Manager
Tom Kerrigan, Usher ManagerChaya Goldman, House ManagerErin Lunsford, House ManagerCornell Wood, House ManagerJoshua Suydam, Porter SupervisorShawn Cotugno,
Performance AssociateLonnie Hyman,
Performance AssociateKorey Jones,
Performance AssociateKyleigh Taylor,
Performance AssociateCleveland Ferron, PorterAndrew Hight, Porter
SECURITYHeather Goforth, Director of
Safety and SecurityHenri Byrd, Security SupervisorMatt Lally, Security SupervisorEuronn McCloud - Armstrong,
Security SupervisorAnthony Williams,
Security Supervisor Kyree Bellamy, Security OfficerBrenden Bird, Security OfficerRoland Carbonetta, Jr.,
Security OfficerKashaan Carter, Security OfficerGeorge Clark, Security OfficerDerrick Copeland, Security OfficerStevie Curry, Security OfficerAndrew Dicrecchio,
Security OfficerSandy Gustave, Security OfficerJohn Haviland, Security OfficerWilliam Hudson, Security OfficerKevin Johnson, Security OfficerMarquieta Johnson,
Security OfficerSara Mahan, Security OfficerGregory Meek, Security OfficerRandall Monte, Security OfficerThomas Pierce, Security OfficerNolan Piotti, Security Officer
Krystal Ross, Security OfficerTimothy Ryan, Security OfficerWalter Samuels, Security OfficerDavid Sisco, Security OfficerMark Thomas, Security OfficerRobert Thomas, Security OfficerWilliam Tresnan, Security OfficerLashawn Washington,
Security OfficerJohn Wilsman, Security OfficerEric Yates, Security OfficerJoseph Young, Security Officer
TICKET PHILADELPHIA Linda Forlini, Vice President of
Ticket PhiladelphiaMatt Cooper, Assistant Vice
President of Ticket PhiladelphiaMolly Albertson, Director of
Client RelationsMeg Hackney, Patron Services
Senior ManagerCatherine Pappas,
Project ManagerJayson Bucy, Program and
Web ManagerDanielle Rose, Training Manager
and Access Services CoordinatorAlexander Heicher, Program and
Web CoordinatorSteven Wallace, Quality
Assurance AnalystNicole Sikora, Patron
Services SupervisorBrand-I Curtis-McCloud, Patron
Services RepresentativeRui Dong-Scott, Patron
Services RepresentativeMatthew Enters, Patron
Services RepresentativeTepi Ennis, Patron
Services RepresentativeKaren Fleet, Patron
Services RepresentativeEmily Lantz, Patron
Services RepresentativeKathleen Moran, Priority
Services RepresentativeRachelle Seney, Patron
Services RepresentativeJonathan Wallace, Patron
Services RepresentativeEmily Grove, Patron
Services AssociateRobert Lawlor, Patron
Services Associate
BOX OFFICEDan Ahearn, Jr., Box
Office ManagerMichelle Messa, Assistant
Box Office ManagerTad Dynakowski, Assistant
Treasurer Box OfficeJames Shelly, Assistant Treasurer
Box OfficeThomas Sharkey, Assistant
Treasurer Box OfficeMichael Walsh, Assistant Treasurer
Box Office
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGYArthur Curtis, Managing Director
of Information TechnologyJohn Callinan, Director of
Technology InfrastructureMike Zankowski, Director of
Business Intelligence Parijata Dasmuth, Web
Project ManagerCallum Gouvela Da Silva,
Manager of Business Intelligence Tristian Gay, Cloud/
Systems EngineerJohn Remaley, Jr., Sr. Help
Desk TechnicianJoe Dethamphavane, Help
Desk TechnicianJames Boyer, Web Developer
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FacilitiesA COMMITMENT TO SAFETYThe safety and comfort of visitors, artists, volunteers, and staff at the Kimmel Center, Academy of Music, and Merriam Theater are of paramount importance. In the event of an emergency, audience members will be advised of appropriate procedures by ushers and security staff. At this time, please take note of the exit nearest you. A red, illuminated EXIT sign should be visible, with an arrow indicating the direction of the exit door. Should an emergency arise, you will be directed to leave the auditorium and further instructions will be provided as to the safest and quickest way to exit the building. Patrons who need special assistance should contact an usher.
ACCESSIBILITYThe Kimmel Center is wheelchair-accessible from its east and north entrances. The Academy of Music is wheelchair-accessible from the east lobby entrance on Broad Street. The Merriam Theater is wheelchair-accessible from the main entrance on Broad Street. Elevators serve all levels of the Kimmel Center, with accessible seating and ADA-compliant restrooms available on all levels. Accessible seating is available on the Orchestra level of the Merriam Theater, with accessible restrooms on the Mezzanine level. At the Academy of Music, accessible seating is available on the Parquet and Balcony levels, with accessible restrooms located on the Canteen level. Assistive listening devices are available for loan. Large-print programs are available upon request of an usher at all Kimmel Center Presents performances. Audio Description and American Sign Language interpretation are available for select Broadway Philadelphia performances. A limited number of ADA-compliant parking spaces are available in the Kimmel Center garage.
COAT CHECKA complimentary coat check is located on the lower Mezzanine level of the Kimmel Center and on the ground floor of the Academy of Music. Coat check is not available at the Merriam Theater.
RESTROOMSRestrooms are located on both sides of the lower Mezzanine and on Tiers 1, 2 and 3 of the Kimmel Center; on all levels of the Academy of Music; and on the lower level, the Balcony level, and Family Circle at the Merriam Theater.
WATER FOUNTAINSWater fountains are located on all levels of the Kimmel Center and the Academy of Music and in the restrooms of the Merriam Theater.
PAYPHONESPayphones are located on the lower Mezzanine level of the Kimmel Center.
SMOKINGSmoking is prohibited on the Kimmel Center campus.
TOURSThe Kimmel Center offers two free tours. One-hour Building and Theater tours are offered Tuesday through Sunday at 1pm. Ninety-minute Art and Architecture walking tours are offered Saturday at 10:30am (no theater interiors on this tour). Register at the Information
Desk, 15 minutes before tour time, on the day of your tour. Parties of 10 or more are asked to make advance reservations. Free tours of the Academy of Music are available on selected dates, by reservation only. For tour information and group tour reservations, call the Kimmel Center tour desk at 215-790-5886 or visit kimmelcenter.org/plan-your-visit/free tours/.
CHILD POLICYWith the exception of performances specifically noted as Family Friendly, Kimmel Center Presents and Broadway Philadelphia performances are not recommended for children under 6 years old. This recommendation exists to ensure all of our patrons the best possible experience. All audience members, including babes in arms, require a ticket.
FOOD AND BEVERAGEConcessions by Chef Jose Garces and Garces Group are available to guests in the Kimmel Center at the PECO Bar and the PECO Annex Bar and to Academy of Music and Merriam Theater patrons at satellite bars located in the lobbies and upper levels. For your convenience, Kimmel Center patrons may pre-order their intermission beverages at the PECO bar up to 90 minutes before performances in Verizon Hall and one hour before Perelman Theater performances. Both bars open 90 minutes before Verizon Hall performances and PECO Café opens one hour before Perelman Theater performances.
TICKETSTickets for performances at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Academy of Music, and Merriam Theater can be purchased online at kimmelcenter.org, at the Box Office (open daily 10am to 6pm, later on performance evenings), or by calling 215.893.1999.
OFFICIAL TICKET OUTLETTicket Philadelphia, a division of the Kimmel Center, is the only authorized outlet for individual tickets for shows at the Kimmel Center, Academy of Music, and Merriam Theater. We urge patrons to purchase tickets only through kimmelcenter.org, ticketphiladelphia.org, or the official websites of our Resident Companies. Tickets purchased from other sources are purchased at your own risk. Many unauthorized ticket sellers use website names that are similar to our website or even include the names of our various venues. These websites are not authorized to sell tickets to events in our venues. By purchasing only through our official outlets, you are assured that the ticket you receive is valid and is being sold to you at face value.
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