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AFFILIATIONS—TheatreWorks Silicon Valley is a member of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT) andoperates under agreement between LORT and Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), the union of professional actorsand stage managers in the United States. TheatreWorks is a constituent member of Theatre CommunicationsGroup, Inc., the national organization for the nonprofit professional theatre. TheatreWorks is a member of theNational Alliance for Musical Theatre, a national service organization for musical theatre. In addition,TheatreWorks is a member of Theatre Bay Area, the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce, and the Mountain ViewChamber of Commerce. TheatreWorks’ 2016/17 Season is presented in cooperation with the City of MountainView and the City of Palo Alto, Community Services Department, Division of Arts and Sciences.
The director is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers,Inc., an independent national labor union. The lighting, costume, and sound designersare members of United Scenic Artists. Thisseason is supported in part by an awardfrom the National Endowment for the Arts.
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley is a proudhome company of the Mountain ViewCenter for the Performing Arts.
About TheatreWorks Silicon ValleyWelcome to TheatreWorks Silicon Valley and our 47th season of award-winningtheatre. Led by Founding Artistic Director Robert Kelley and Managing DirectorPhil Santora, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley presents a wide range of productionsand programming throughout the region.
Founded in 1970, we continue to celebrate the human spirit and the diversityof our community, presenting contemporary plays and musicals, revitalizinggreat works of the past, championing arts education, and nurturing new worksfor the American theatre. TheatreWorks has produced 66 world premieres and 160 US and regional premieres. In the 2016/17 season, we add the worldpremiere of Confederates and four more regional premieres to our résumé.
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s 2015/16 season included the world premiere ofthe musical Triangle, as well as regional premieres of The Country House,Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin, tokyo fish story, Cyrano, and The Velocity ofAutumn. Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin broke all our box office records,becoming the highest-grossing show in TheatreWorks’ history. In the course ofthe year, shows that debuted here were produced at theatres around the world.
With an annual operating budget of $8 million, TheatreWorks Silicon Valleyproduces eight mainstage productions at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Altoand the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts. Sixteen years ago, welaunched the New Works Initiative, dedicating ourselves to the development ofnew plays and musicals. The Initiative has since supported over 150 new worksthrough retreats, workshops, staged readings, developmental productions, and the annual New Works Festival, inspiring The Mercury News to call us “apremiere breeding ground for new musicals, which has put the company onthe national map.”
TheatreWorks believes in making theatre accessible to the entire Silicon Valleycommunity. Our Education Department reaches on average 25,000 students in70 schools in 7 counties annually. It sponsors outreach programs that includethe Children’s Healing Project at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, the YoungPlaywrights’ Initiative, specially-priced student matinees, extensive schooltours, post-show discussions, and theatre camps, classes, and conservatoriesfor youth.
For more information on our 2016/17 season, New Works Festival, andEducation programs, please visit theatreworks.org or call 650.463.1960.
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I’ve been looking forward to this production of Daddy Long Legssince Artistic Director Robert Kelley announced our 47th season lastFebruary. I remember being totally smitten with the plucky imperti-nence of its heroine during its world premiere at TheatreWorks in2010 and then again when it made its way to off-Broadway. I alsoremember thinking that this tuneful, charming tale would be perfectfor our holiday show.
The holidays also remind us to say “thanks” to the artists behindthe scenes. It really does take the proverbial village to mount a production, and we’reoften remiss in not recognizing the incredible artistry of the designers, carpenters, electricians, and many, many others who help bring our stories to life. Indeed, a high-light of our monthly Board meetings is a presentation by an “artistic guest,” whoembodies not only TheatreWorks’ mission, but also its heart.
Recently, our guest was Andrea Bechert, the talented scenic designer of OutsideMullingar, the upcoming Crimes of the Heart, and many other TheatreWorks shows. We learned about her passion for theatre and her background in architecture, and howshe merged the two into a very rewarding career. She shared elevation designs for the Mullingar set and spoke about the joy of collaborating with Steve Mannshardt,TheatreWorks’ Resident Lighting Designer, and Chris Fitzer, our Property Master, tothoughtfully light each scene, and populate it with furniture and artifacts that reinforcethe mood of the play.
To further illustrate the creativity and importance of our designers, we also sharedJoe Ragey’s beautifully detailed diorama of the Daddy Long Legs set, which you’re seeing tonight. Director Kelley explained how the set creates multiple locations by projecting varied American impressionist paintings on the background screen. So muchthought and ingenuity—all contributing to the magic of theatre and its ability to trans-port us to different times, places, and circumstances.
Wouldn’t it be great to share all this TheatreWorks magic with everyone you know?Good news is—you can! Our gift subscriptions are available now, and they’re betterthan ever. Choose a 4- or 6-ticket flexible passport, multi-show package, or $100 giftcertificate. So look no further. Our gift subs are the perfect holiday gift for your familyand friends, and a terrific way to say “thanks” to everyone at TheatreWorks.
Barbara Shapiro
BOARD OF TRUSTEESBarbara Shapiro, Chair
Jayne BookerBill Coughran
Ciro Giammona Anne Hambly Judy HeyboerLarry Horton
Charlotte JacobsRoy Johnson
Derry KabcenellMichael Kahn Julie KaufmanRobert Kelley Phil SantoraLoren Saxe
Nancy Ginsburg SternDebra Summers
Lynn Szekely-GoodeEwart ThomasTzipor UlmanMark VershelHolly Ward
Lisa WebsterJane Weston
Gayla Lorthridge Wood
BOARD EMERITUSNancy Meyer, Founder • William F. Adler • Edward T. Anderson, MD • Doug Barry • LaurenBerman • Chuck Bernstein • Sharon Anthony Bower • Michael Braun • Polly W. Bredt • Bruce C. Cozadd • Jeff Crowe • Peggy Dalal • Yogen Dalal • Jenny Dearborn • SusanFairbrook • Michael R. Flicker • Peggy Woodford Forbes • Dan Garber • Doug Garland •Aaron Gershenberg • Marcia Goldman • Emeri Handler • Susan M. Huch • Perry A. Irvine •Nancy Lee Jalonen • Lisa Jones • Gina Jorasch • Roberta R. Katz • Tom Kelley • RobinKennedy • Michael Kwatinetz • Dick Maltzman • Suzanne Martin • Patti McClung • DonMcDougall • Bruce McLeod • Cynthia S. Miller • Leslie Murphy-Chutorian • Eileen Nelson •Karen Nierenberg • Carrie Perzow • Carey Pickus • Margot Mailliard Rawlins • John Reis •Eddie Reynolds • Sandi Risser • Lynn Wilson Roberts • Ray A. Rothrock • Adam Samuels •Denise Stanford • Rosina Lo Sun • James Sweeney • Cathie Thermond • Helaina Titus •Robert J. Van der Leest, MD • Ronni Watson • Elissa Wellikson
From the Board Chair In this Issue2 About TheatreWorks Silicon Valley
6 Give the Gift They’ll Never Forget
8 Coming Next CRIMES OF THE HEART
10 PlayMakers Summer Camp
11 Director’s Notes
12 About the Play and Creators
14 Write What You Know
17 TheatreWorks Silicon Valley presents DADDY LONG LEGS
19 Who’s Who
22 Reading Young Adult Fiction
23 Season of Giving
24 Coming Soon: CALLIGRAPHY
26 Contributors
30 TWSV Staff
31 TWSV General Information
Continue the conversation online!
@TheatreWorksSV#DaddyLongLegs
Novelist Jean Webster
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I’ve been looking forward to this production of Daddy Long Legssince Artistic Director Robert Kelley announced our 47th season lastFebruary. I remember being totally smitten with the plucky imperti-nence of its heroine during its world premiere at TheatreWorks in2010 and then again when it made its way to off-Broadway. I alsoremember thinking that this tuneful, charming tale would be perfectfor our holiday show.
The holidays also remind us to say “thanks” to the artists behindthe scenes. It really does take the proverbial village to mount a production, and we’reoften remiss in not recognizing the incredible artistry of the designers, carpenters, electricians, and many, many others who help bring our stories to life. Indeed, a high-light of our monthly Board meetings is a presentation by an “artistic guest,” whoembodies not only TheatreWorks’ mission, but also its heart.
Recently, our guest was Andrea Bechert, the talented scenic designer of OutsideMullingar, the upcoming Crimes of the Heart, and many other TheatreWorks shows. We learned about her passion for theatre and her background in architecture, and howshe merged the two into a very rewarding career. She shared elevation designs for the Mullingar set and spoke about the joy of collaborating with Steve Mannshardt,TheatreWorks’ Resident Lighting Designer, and Chris Fitzer, our Property Master, tothoughtfully light each scene, and populate it with furniture and artifacts that reinforcethe mood of the play.
To further illustrate the creativity and importance of our designers, we also sharedJoe Ragey’s beautifully detailed diorama of the Daddy Long Legs set, which you’re seeing tonight. Director Kelley explained how the set creates multiple locations by projecting varied American impressionist paintings on the background screen. So muchthought and ingenuity—all contributing to the magic of theatre and its ability to trans-port us to different times, places, and circumstances.
Wouldn’t it be great to share all this TheatreWorks magic with everyone you know?Good news is—you can! Our gift subscriptions are available now, and they’re betterthan ever. Choose a 4- or 6-ticket flexible passport, multi-show package, or $100 giftcertificate. So look no further. Our gift subs are the perfect holiday gift for your familyand friends, and a terrific way to say “thanks” to everyone at TheatreWorks.
Barbara Shapiro
BOARD OF TRUSTEESBarbara Shapiro, Chair
Jayne BookerBill Coughran
Ciro Giammona Anne Hambly Judy HeyboerLarry Horton
Charlotte JacobsRoy Johnson
Derry KabcenellMichael Kahn Julie KaufmanRobert Kelley Phil SantoraLoren Saxe
Nancy Ginsburg SternDebra Summers
Lynn Szekely-GoodeEwart ThomasTzipor UlmanMark VershelHolly Ward
Lisa WebsterJane Weston
Gayla Lorthridge Wood
BOARD EMERITUSNancy Meyer, Founder • William F. Adler • Edward T. Anderson, MD • Doug Barry • LaurenBerman • Chuck Bernstein • Sharon Anthony Bower • Michael Braun • Polly W. Bredt • Bruce C. Cozadd • Jeff Crowe • Peggy Dalal • Yogen Dalal • Jenny Dearborn • SusanFairbrook • Michael R. Flicker • Peggy Woodford Forbes • Dan Garber • Doug Garland •Aaron Gershenberg • Marcia Goldman • Emeri Handler • Susan M. Huch • Perry A. Irvine •Nancy Lee Jalonen • Lisa Jones • Gina Jorasch • Roberta R. Katz • Tom Kelley • RobinKennedy • Michael Kwatinetz • Dick Maltzman • Suzanne Martin • Patti McClung • DonMcDougall • Bruce McLeod • Cynthia S. Miller • Leslie Murphy-Chutorian • Eileen Nelson •Karen Nierenberg • Carrie Perzow • Carey Pickus • Margot Mailliard Rawlins • John Reis •Eddie Reynolds • Sandi Risser • Lynn Wilson Roberts • Ray A. Rothrock • Adam Samuels •Denise Stanford • Rosina Lo Sun • James Sweeney • Cathie Thermond • Helaina Titus •Robert J. Van der Leest, MD • Ronni Watson • Elissa Wellikson
From the Board Chair In this Issue2 About TheatreWorks Silicon Valley
6 Give the Gift They’ll Never Forget
8 Coming Next CRIMES OF THE HEART
10 PlayMakers Summer Camp
11 Director’s Notes
12 About the Play and Creators
14 Write What You Know
17 TheatreWorks Silicon Valley presents DADDY LONG LEGS
19 Who’s Who
22 Reading Young Adult Fiction
23 Season of Giving
24 Coming Soon: CALLIGRAPHY
26 Contributors
30 TWSV Staff
31 TWSV General Information
Continue the conversation online!
@TheatreWorksSV#DaddyLongLegs
Novelist Jean Webster
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Three hard-luck Mississippi sisters are betrayed by their passionsin this Southern Gothic classic—a zany, warm-hearted, and brilliantly imaginative tale of relationships run amok and dreamsgone awry. In a hurricane of hilarity and hurt, Lenny’s turning 30, Meg’s fresh from rehab, and Babe’s out on bail, testing theboundaries of sisterhood in a world full of pitfalls and a townwithout pity.
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3 Plays for just $99 ($33 per play) 4 plays for just $128 ($32 per play)
A CLASSIC AMERICAN COMEDY
Crimes of the HeartBy Beth Henley
Directed by Giovanna Sardelli
Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeNY Drama Critics Circle Award
Three hard-luck Mississippi sisters are betrayed by their passionsin this Southern Gothic classic—a zany, warm-hearted, and brilliantly imaginative tale of relationships run amok and dreamsgone awry. In a hurricane of hilarity and hurt, Lenny’s turning 30, Meg’s fresh from rehab, and Babe’s out on bail, testing theboundaries of sisterhood in a world full of pitfalls and a townwithout pity.
“Overflows with infectious high spirits.” The New York Times
January 11–February 5, 2017 Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
AN EAST/WEST COMIC DRAMA
CalligraphyBy Velina Hasu Houston
Directed by Leslie Martinson
Regional Premiere
Two continents, two cultures, two estrangedsisters, and the two cousins determined to
bridge the gap between them—all are boldly calligraphed in thisinternational comic drama set in Los Angeles and Tokyo, past andpresent. East and West collide as biracial American Hiromi andJapanese free spirit Sayuri confront tradition, prejudice, and their heritage of filial duty in one final attempt to reunite their aging parents.
“Intimate, sensitive…the emotional stakes are high.” LA Times
March 8–April 2, 2017 Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto
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Following his triumph as Irving Berlin, the brilliant Hershey Feldernow brings Ludwig van Beethoven to life through the eyes of aViennese Doctor who as a boy spent Beethoven’s last years by the Maestro’s side. Featuring some of the composer’s greatestworks, from the “Moonlight Sonata” to the “9th Symphony” andthe “Emperor Concerto,” this intense, illuminating, and unforget-table journey through time will immerse you in the astounding life of the Maestro and his genius that transcended it all.
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A CLASSIC AMERICAN COMEDY
Crimes of the HeartBy Pulitzer Prize Winner Beth Henley
Directed by Giovanna Sardelli
Introducing Our Cast
Coming Next at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley
LAURA JANE BAILEY (Chick Boyle) lastworked at TW in The Clean House. She wonan SF BATCC Award for her portrayal ofKathleen in Crevice at Impact Theatre. Shehas appeared around the Bay Area and inChicago regional theatre, including CiderHouse Rules (Jeff Award for Best Ensemble)at Famous Door.
JOSHUA MARX (Barnette Lloyd) appearedoff-Broadway in Good, Jennifer’s Birth, andSex Tips. Regionally he played Jack inFlatrock Playhouse’s The Importance ofBeing Earnest, Mercutio in AlabamaShakespeare Festival’s Romeo and Juliet,and Stanley in TheatreSquared’s One ManTwo Guvnors. Film appearances includeDayroom, Poor Rock, and Cheap Fun.
SARAH MOSER (Meg Magrath) appearedin TW’s The Great Pretender (2014), Laugh(2013 New Works Festival), and TimeStands Still (2012), and the Education touring show Olive and the Big Bully Battle.She has also appeared around the Bay Areaat Berkeley Rep, SF Playhouse, Palo AltoPlayers, Magic Theatre, and more.
DON’T MISS IT! Jan 11–Feb 5Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts theatreworks.org 650.463.1960
LIZZIE O’HARA (Babe Botrelle) recentlyplayed Cecily in The Importance of BeingEarnest at Flatrock Playhouse. She hasappeared around the Bay Area in showssuch as The Wild Party (Ray of LightTheatre), Anything Goes (Center REP),Xanadu (Guggenheim Ent), and The RockyHorror Show (Actors Theatre Center).
THERESE PLAEHN (Lenny Magrath)appeared on Broadway in The HeidiChronicles as an understudy, and as EmilyWebb in Our Town at Huntington TheatreCompany (2013 Elliot Norton Award forOutstanding Production). She has appearedon numerous TV shows, including Mr.Robot, Odyssey, Hatfields & McCoys, BlueBloods, Brooklyn, and more.
TIMOTHY REDMOND (Doc Porter) lastappeared at TW in An Entomologist’s Love Story (2014 New Works Festival). Hehas been seen regionally in Glengarry GlenRoss (TheatreFirst), Clybourne Park (Center REP), and strangers, babies (ShotgunPlayers). TV appearances include NashBridges, The Zen Yin Cult, and Westward.
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A CLASSIC AMERICAN COMEDY
Crimes of the HeartBy Pulitzer Prize Winner Beth Henley
Directed by Giovanna Sardelli
Introducing Our Cast
Coming Next at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley
LAURA JANE BAILEY (Chick Boyle) lastworked at TW in The Clean House. She wonan SF BATCC Award for her portrayal ofKathleen in Crevice at Impact Theatre. Shehas appeared around the Bay Area and inChicago regional theatre, including CiderHouse Rules (Jeff Award for Best Ensemble)at Famous Door.
JOSHUA MARX (Barnette Lloyd) appearedoff-Broadway in Good, Jennifer’s Birth, andSex Tips. Regionally he played Jack inFlatrock Playhouse’s The Importance ofBeing Earnest, Mercutio in AlabamaShakespeare Festival’s Romeo and Juliet,and Stanley in TheatreSquared’s One ManTwo Guvnors. Film appearances includeDayroom, Poor Rock, and Cheap Fun.
SARAH MOSER (Meg Magrath) appearedin TW’s The Great Pretender (2014), Laugh(2013 New Works Festival), and TimeStands Still (2012), and the Education touring show Olive and the Big Bully Battle.She has also appeared around the Bay Areaat Berkeley Rep, SF Playhouse, Palo AltoPlayers, Magic Theatre, and more.
DON’T MISS IT! Jan 11–Feb 5Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts theatreworks.org 650.463.1960
LIZZIE O’HARA (Babe Botrelle) recentlyplayed Cecily in The Importance of BeingEarnest at Flatrock Playhouse. She hasappeared around the Bay Area in showssuch as The Wild Party (Ray of LightTheatre), Anything Goes (Center REP),Xanadu (Guggenheim Ent), and The RockyHorror Show (Actors Theatre Center).
THERESE PLAEHN (Lenny Magrath)appeared on Broadway in The HeidiChronicles as an understudy, and as EmilyWebb in Our Town at Huntington TheatreCompany (2013 Elliot Norton Award forOutstanding Production). She has appearedon numerous TV shows, including Mr.Robot, Odyssey, Hatfields & McCoys, BlueBloods, Brooklyn, and more.
TIMOTHY REDMOND (Doc Porter) lastappeared at TW in An Entomologist’s Love Story (2014 New Works Festival). Hehas been seen regionally in Glengarry GlenRoss (TheatreFirst), Clybourne Park (Center REP), and strangers, babies (ShotgunPlayers). TV appearances include NashBridges, The Zen Yin Cult, and Westward.
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Let your little “actor” express themselves at PlayMakers Summer Campthis Summer 2017! Our professional Teaching Artists are experienced theatre artists and educators who are eager to share their expertise.
During this two week-long camp, students (K–6) will learn acting, playwrit-ing, musical theatre, and stage craft skills in a fun, playful, and engagingway. At the end of the session, campers show off their freshly acquiredskills for friends and family, giving them the opportunity to relish in their mastery of improvisation, a new dance move, or the play they havecreated.
Sessions available in Palo Alto and Menlo Park!Tuition is $640. Need-based scholarships and Sibling Discounts are available.
For more information on sending your little “PlayMaker” to PlayMakersSummer Camp, contact: Associate Director of Education Katie Bartholomew650.463.7154 or [email protected].
PlayMakers Summer Camp
Upcoming TWSV EventsJan and Feb1/10 @ 7:00pmINVITED DRESS REHEARSALWITH PHIL SANTORAInner Circle members (donors$1,500 and above) are invited to attend final dress rehearsal of Crimes of the Heart tomeet with Managing DirectorPhil Santora for a casual pre-curtain chat. RSVP required. Contact [email protected] more info.MVCPA
1/18, 1/25, 2/1CRIMES OF THE HEARTPOST-SHOW DISCUSSIONSQuestion and answer with thecast and staff folowing the performance.MVCPA
1/29 @ 12:00 noonPRODUCER BRUNCHPre-event opportunity to meetthe Writers’ Showcase artists, fordonors of $10,000 and above.TheatreWorks Green RoomSobrato Center for NonprofitsRedwood Shores
1/29 @ 2:00pmWRITERS’ SHOWCASEPerformances of new work inearly development for donors of$3,000 and above.TheatreWorks Rehearsal HallSobrato Center for NonprofitsRedwood Shores
2/13 @ 6:00pmSEASON RELEASE PARTYAll are welcome to attend thisfree event, announcingTheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s2017/18 Season.MVCPA
Director’s Notes from Artistic Director Robert Kelley
t TheatreWorks we consider our holiday showsa special gift to our community, a chance to
share the joy, energy, and good will of the seasonwith our friends throughout the Bay Area. This year’sgift is the reprise of a musical premiere that delightedall of us not long ago: Daddy Long Legs. Based onJean Webster’s epistolary novel published in 1912,this enchanting, intimate musical is one of an elitefew we have found worthy of revival at the holidays,including Jane Austen’s EMMA, Oliver!, Peter Pan,and Into the Woods.
Daddy Long Legs is an exhilarating love song, a turn-of-the-last-century journey to a world of great wealthand grave poverty, rigid class distinctions, and self-satisfied men in power confronted by dissatisfiedwomen at the gates. From the dark corridors of anupstate orphanage to an Ivy League women’s college,and eventually to the glittering lights and newfangledmotorcars crowding Manhattan, you will soon feel the excitement and promise of America in a time ofchange. Here, you’ll meet one of the brightest andmost charming heroines to ever grace either novel orstage, revealed entirely in her own letters.
Webster’s Daddy-Long-Legs was adapted to the stageby playwright/director John Caird (Tony Award forLes Misérables, Olivier Award for Nicholas Nickleby) and TheatreWorks favorite composer/lyricist PaulGordon (Tony Award nominee for Jane Eyre). Afterour acclaimed production of their Jane Eyre and ourworld premiere of Gordon’s Emma, the pair offeredDaddy Long Legs to TheatreWorks as a co-productionwith the Rubicon Theatre in Ventura and CincinnatiPlayhouse in the Park. It opened there in the fall of2009 before debuting at TheatreWorks in January of2010 starring Megan McGinnis and Rob Hancock.Sensitively directed by Caird, who has graciouslyoffered several of his innovations for this production,Daddy captivated audiences and critics alike, and anonslaught of requests for a revival began almostimmediately after it closed.
Since that exhilarating world premiere, Daddy’spath back to TheatreWorks has been extraordinary,a journey that took it around the world. In theintervening years it toured to theatres across thecountry, touched down in Manitoba, performed inTokyo with a Japanese cast, and in London’s WestEnd with its original TheatreWorks cast intact. Itultimately opened off-Broadway at the DavenportTheatre in October 2015, running for nine monthsand winning Caird the Drama Desk Award forOutstanding Book of a Musical. Last summer, translated into Korean, Daddy found new fans inSeoul. And rumors have begun of a new nationaltour in the fall of 2017.
How to explain this exceptional response to a chamber musical made up entirely of letters written over a century ago? Start with an enthralling,spirited, and brilliant heroine who comes of agebefore our eyes, intellectually, socially, and romantically. Add John Caird’s flowing adaptation,which brings an isolated and withdrawn Jervis tolife in ways unimagined in the original novel. Weavein Paul Gordon’s engaging, romantic score andevocative, amusing lyrics. And finally realize that its underlying themes—honesty vs. deception, loneliness vs. love, the meaning of charity, and theundervalued potential of women—are as relevanttoday as they were a century past. Inspired by acharismatic new cast, an intimate theatre, and abeloved team of TheatreWorks designers, it is apleasure to meet Daddy Long Legs all over again.
To the warmth of the holidays, we delight in addingthe joy of music, the ring of laughter, and the resonance of romance. On this festive occasion we offer a love-filled toast sure to bring cheer toeveryone in our extended theatre family. And asJerusha says, “You’ll have to put up with it.”
I must love somebody at Christmas and there’s only you.So you’ll have to put up with it. – Jerusha in Daddy Long LegsA
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Let your little “actor” express themselves at PlayMakers Summer Campthis Summer 2017! Our professional Teaching Artists are experienced theatre artists and educators who are eager to share their expertise.
During this two week-long camp, students (K–6) will learn acting, playwrit-ing, musical theatre, and stage craft skills in a fun, playful, and engagingway. At the end of the session, campers show off their freshly acquiredskills for friends and family, giving them the opportunity to relish in their mastery of improvisation, a new dance move, or the play they havecreated.
Sessions available in Palo Alto and Menlo Park!Tuition is $640. Need-based scholarships and Sibling Discounts are available.
For more information on sending your little “PlayMaker” to PlayMakersSummer Camp, contact: Associate Director of Education Katie Bartholomew650.463.7154 or [email protected].
PlayMakers Summer Camp
Upcoming TWSV EventsJan and Feb1/10 @ 7:00pmINVITED DRESS REHEARSALWITH PHIL SANTORAInner Circle members (donors$1,500 and above) are invited to attend final dress rehearsal of Crimes of the Heart tomeet with Managing DirectorPhil Santora for a casual pre-curtain chat. RSVP required. Contact [email protected] more info.MVCPA
1/18, 1/25, 2/1CRIMES OF THE HEARTPOST-SHOW DISCUSSIONSQuestion and answer with thecast and staff folowing the performance.MVCPA
1/29 @ 12:00 noonPRODUCER BRUNCHPre-event opportunity to meetthe Writers’ Showcase artists, fordonors of $10,000 and above.TheatreWorks Green RoomSobrato Center for NonprofitsRedwood Shores
1/29 @ 2:00pmWRITERS’ SHOWCASEPerformances of new work inearly development for donors of$3,000 and above.TheatreWorks Rehearsal HallSobrato Center for NonprofitsRedwood Shores
2/13 @ 6:00pmSEASON RELEASE PARTYAll are welcome to attend thisfree event, announcingTheatreWorks Silicon Valley’s2017/18 Season.MVCPA
Director’s Notes from Artistic Director Robert Kelley
t TheatreWorks we consider our holiday showsa special gift to our community, a chance to
share the joy, energy, and good will of the seasonwith our friends throughout the Bay Area. This year’sgift is the reprise of a musical premiere that delightedall of us not long ago: Daddy Long Legs. Based onJean Webster’s epistolary novel published in 1912,this enchanting, intimate musical is one of an elitefew we have found worthy of revival at the holidays,including Jane Austen’s EMMA, Oliver!, Peter Pan,and Into the Woods.
Daddy Long Legs is an exhilarating love song, a turn-of-the-last-century journey to a world of great wealthand grave poverty, rigid class distinctions, and self-satisfied men in power confronted by dissatisfiedwomen at the gates. From the dark corridors of anupstate orphanage to an Ivy League women’s college,and eventually to the glittering lights and newfangledmotorcars crowding Manhattan, you will soon feel the excitement and promise of America in a time ofchange. Here, you’ll meet one of the brightest andmost charming heroines to ever grace either novel orstage, revealed entirely in her own letters.
Webster’s Daddy-Long-Legs was adapted to the stageby playwright/director John Caird (Tony Award forLes Misérables, Olivier Award for Nicholas Nickleby) and TheatreWorks favorite composer/lyricist PaulGordon (Tony Award nominee for Jane Eyre). Afterour acclaimed production of their Jane Eyre and ourworld premiere of Gordon’s Emma, the pair offeredDaddy Long Legs to TheatreWorks as a co-productionwith the Rubicon Theatre in Ventura and CincinnatiPlayhouse in the Park. It opened there in the fall of2009 before debuting at TheatreWorks in January of2010 starring Megan McGinnis and Rob Hancock.Sensitively directed by Caird, who has graciouslyoffered several of his innovations for this production,Daddy captivated audiences and critics alike, and anonslaught of requests for a revival began almostimmediately after it closed.
Since that exhilarating world premiere, Daddy’spath back to TheatreWorks has been extraordinary,a journey that took it around the world. In theintervening years it toured to theatres across thecountry, touched down in Manitoba, performed inTokyo with a Japanese cast, and in London’s WestEnd with its original TheatreWorks cast intact. Itultimately opened off-Broadway at the DavenportTheatre in October 2015, running for nine monthsand winning Caird the Drama Desk Award forOutstanding Book of a Musical. Last summer, translated into Korean, Daddy found new fans inSeoul. And rumors have begun of a new nationaltour in the fall of 2017.
How to explain this exceptional response to a chamber musical made up entirely of letters written over a century ago? Start with an enthralling,spirited, and brilliant heroine who comes of agebefore our eyes, intellectually, socially, and romantically. Add John Caird’s flowing adaptation,which brings an isolated and withdrawn Jervis tolife in ways unimagined in the original novel. Weavein Paul Gordon’s engaging, romantic score andevocative, amusing lyrics. And finally realize that its underlying themes—honesty vs. deception, loneliness vs. love, the meaning of charity, and theundervalued potential of women—are as relevanttoday as they were a century past. Inspired by acharismatic new cast, an intimate theatre, and abeloved team of TheatreWorks designers, it is apleasure to meet Daddy Long Legs all over again.
To the warmth of the holidays, we delight in addingthe joy of music, the ring of laughter, and the resonance of romance. On this festive occasion we offer a love-filled toast sure to bring cheer toeveryone in our extended theatre family. And asJerusha says, “You’ll have to put up with it.”
I must love somebody at Christmas and there’s only you.So you’ll have to put up with it. – Jerusha in Daddy Long LegsA
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This holiday season, the homecoming of one ofTheatreWorks’ most beloved musicals also marks thereturn of one of our favorite composers, Paul Gordon.Since 2003, half a dozen productions of Gordon’sworks have graced the TheatreWorks stage, includingJane Eyre (2003), Jane Austen’s EMMA (2007 and2015), Being Earnest (2013), and Daddy Long Legs(2010 and 2016). His tuneful adaptations of highlyregarded novels and plays have clearly struck a chordwith TheatreWorks’ audiences.
In what he calls his “former life” (that is, before hebegan writing for the theatre), Gordon was a song-writer for major music publishing companies, with several hits on the Billboard Pop Charts. In the 1990she turned his attention to the stage, and one of hisearliest theatrical successes came when he teamed up with book writer John Caird to pen a musical adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. After fiveyears in development, Jane Eyre opened on Broadwayin 2000. Both Gordon and Caird received Tony nomi-nations for their writing. Years later, the duo wouldteam up again to create the musical Daddy Long Legs.
John Caird is a highly accomplished writer and director. He is best known as the original co-director(with Trevor Nunn) of Les Misérables and The Life andAdventures of Nicholas Nickleby which have won multiple awards worldwide, as well as director/librettistof Children of Eden with Stephen Schwartz. He isHonorary Associate Director at the Royal ShakespeareCompany, Principal Guest Director at the RoyalDramatic Theatre in Stockholm, and directs at Britain’sNational Theatre and extensively in Japan. He wrotethe book for Daddy Long Legs, and directed its worldpremiere and several successive productions.
Caird’s Japanese-born wife, Maoko, was the one whofirst suggested that Caird and Gordon adapt Daddy-Long-Legs; Jean Webster’s 1912 epistolary novel wasimmensely popular in Maoko’s home country. Gordonoriginally envisioned a one-woman show, since thebook is made up of letters from the orphan Jerusha to the anonymous (and silent) benefactor she calls“Daddy Long Legs.” Gordon wrote a ten-song cycle,then Caird brought in choreographer David Parsons,transforming the show into a dance theatre piece.Caird said, “It worked wonderfully well, in a way,”
About the Play and Creators
but Gordon, added that “it was ultimately too complicated and expensive.”
Next, Caird wrote a series of imagined responses toJerusha’s letters by the Daddy Long Legs character.Describing the writing process, Caird explained, “We had to extrapolate from the letters she writes tohim, as to what he’s like and what his motives are. We had to do quite a bit of detective work.” Gordonadded, “That triggered his voice for me. I musicalizedseveral of those letters. Then it just grew.” Caird said,“It started to make us ask bigger questions about thematerial. Their relationship raises a lot of questionsabout the act of charitable giving. If you are in receiptof cash from someone, how does that affect yourrelationship? What does dependence do for friend-ship? Emotionally it’s very complex.”
The Rubicon Theatre Company in Ventura, CA didtwo readings of an early draft in June 2008. In 2009,it was announced that Daddy Long Legs wouldreceive a “rolling world premiere,” co-produced byRubicon, TheatreWorks, and Cincinnati Playhouse inthe Park, wherein the script would evolve from production to production. The first leg opened inVentura in October 2009 with sets and costumes constructed by TheatreWorks, then the productionteam traveled to TheatreWorks in December torehearse revisions, opening here in January 2010
Book writer John Caird and composer/lyricist Paul Gordon
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and moving on to Cincinnati thatMarch.
Following the rolling world premiere, Daddy Long Legs hashad numerous regional theatreproductions throughout the UnitedStates, as well as international productions all over the world.
In 2012, Daddy Long Legs wastranslated into Japanese by Maoko Imai and staged at TheatreCreation in Tokyo before touringfour other Japanese cities. Laterthat same year, Daddy Long Legshad a month-long run at the St. James Theatre in London’sWest End. The show’s Canadianpremiere came in 2013 at theRoyal Manitoba Theatre Centre in Winnipeg, and in 2016 theDaemyung Culture Factory inSeoul produced the South Koreanpremiere.
Back in the US, Daddy Long Legsenjoyed a triumphant 309 showrun off-Broadway at New York’sDavenport Theatre, fromSeptember 2015 to June 2016.The off-Broadway production was nominated for several 2016 Drama Desk and Outer CriticsCircle Award; Caird won theDrama Desk Award forOutstanding Book of a Musical.
The off-Broadway production alsomade headlines when on December 10, 2015, Daddy LongLegs became the first Broadway or off-Broadway show ever to belivestreamed. It was broadcast forfree from the Davenport Theatre,and rebroadcast three times in 24 hours so audiences in differenttime zones all over the world could watch it. More than 150,000people in 135 countries tuned in tothe livestream, which was hailed as
a universal success and a historic,precedent-setting moment for the theatre community.
Nearly seven years afterTheatreWorks’ audiences were first introduced to Jerusha and her Daddy Long Legs, we are eager to revisit these old friends,and recreate the magic that firstlaunched Daddy Long Legs on
its globe-trotting adventure.Whether you read the book, sawthe world premiere production,tuned in for the livestream, or arejust now becoming acquaintedwith Daddy Long Legs, we hopethis production brings you the joythat so many others around theworld have already experienced.
– Katie Dai
Original dramaturgy by Vickie Rozell
PINEWOOD
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This holiday season, the homecoming of one ofTheatreWorks’ most beloved musicals also marks thereturn of one of our favorite composers, Paul Gordon.Since 2003, half a dozen productions of Gordon’sworks have graced the TheatreWorks stage, includingJane Eyre (2003), Jane Austen’s EMMA (2007 and2015), Being Earnest (2013), and Daddy Long Legs(2010 and 2016). His tuneful adaptations of highlyregarded novels and plays have clearly struck a chordwith TheatreWorks’ audiences.
In what he calls his “former life” (that is, before hebegan writing for the theatre), Gordon was a song-writer for major music publishing companies, with several hits on the Billboard Pop Charts. In the 1990she turned his attention to the stage, and one of hisearliest theatrical successes came when he teamed up with book writer John Caird to pen a musical adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. After fiveyears in development, Jane Eyre opened on Broadwayin 2000. Both Gordon and Caird received Tony nomi-nations for their writing. Years later, the duo wouldteam up again to create the musical Daddy Long Legs.
John Caird is a highly accomplished writer and director. He is best known as the original co-director(with Trevor Nunn) of Les Misérables and The Life andAdventures of Nicholas Nickleby which have won multiple awards worldwide, as well as director/librettistof Children of Eden with Stephen Schwartz. He isHonorary Associate Director at the Royal ShakespeareCompany, Principal Guest Director at the RoyalDramatic Theatre in Stockholm, and directs at Britain’sNational Theatre and extensively in Japan. He wrotethe book for Daddy Long Legs, and directed its worldpremiere and several successive productions.
Caird’s Japanese-born wife, Maoko, was the one whofirst suggested that Caird and Gordon adapt Daddy-Long-Legs; Jean Webster’s 1912 epistolary novel wasimmensely popular in Maoko’s home country. Gordonoriginally envisioned a one-woman show, since thebook is made up of letters from the orphan Jerusha to the anonymous (and silent) benefactor she calls“Daddy Long Legs.” Gordon wrote a ten-song cycle,then Caird brought in choreographer David Parsons,transforming the show into a dance theatre piece.Caird said, “It worked wonderfully well, in a way,”
About the Play and Creators
but Gordon, added that “it was ultimately too complicated and expensive.”
Next, Caird wrote a series of imagined responses toJerusha’s letters by the Daddy Long Legs character.Describing the writing process, Caird explained, “We had to extrapolate from the letters she writes tohim, as to what he’s like and what his motives are. We had to do quite a bit of detective work.” Gordonadded, “That triggered his voice for me. I musicalizedseveral of those letters. Then it just grew.” Caird said,“It started to make us ask bigger questions about thematerial. Their relationship raises a lot of questionsabout the act of charitable giving. If you are in receiptof cash from someone, how does that affect yourrelationship? What does dependence do for friend-ship? Emotionally it’s very complex.”
The Rubicon Theatre Company in Ventura, CA didtwo readings of an early draft in June 2008. In 2009,it was announced that Daddy Long Legs wouldreceive a “rolling world premiere,” co-produced byRubicon, TheatreWorks, and Cincinnati Playhouse inthe Park, wherein the script would evolve from production to production. The first leg opened inVentura in October 2009 with sets and costumes constructed by TheatreWorks, then the productionteam traveled to TheatreWorks in December torehearse revisions, opening here in January 2010
Book writer John Caird and composer/lyricist Paul Gordon
MAR
K KI
TAO
KA
and moving on to Cincinnati thatMarch.
Following the rolling world premiere, Daddy Long Legs hashad numerous regional theatreproductions throughout the UnitedStates, as well as international productions all over the world.
In 2012, Daddy Long Legs wastranslated into Japanese by Maoko Imai and staged at TheatreCreation in Tokyo before touringfour other Japanese cities. Laterthat same year, Daddy Long Legshad a month-long run at the St. James Theatre in London’sWest End. The show’s Canadianpremiere came in 2013 at theRoyal Manitoba Theatre Centre in Winnipeg, and in 2016 theDaemyung Culture Factory inSeoul produced the South Koreanpremiere.
Back in the US, Daddy Long Legsenjoyed a triumphant 309 showrun off-Broadway at New York’sDavenport Theatre, fromSeptember 2015 to June 2016.The off-Broadway production was nominated for several 2016 Drama Desk and Outer CriticsCircle Award; Caird won theDrama Desk Award forOutstanding Book of a Musical.
The off-Broadway production alsomade headlines when on December 10, 2015, Daddy LongLegs became the first Broadway or off-Broadway show ever to belivestreamed. It was broadcast forfree from the Davenport Theatre,and rebroadcast three times in 24 hours so audiences in differenttime zones all over the world could watch it. More than 150,000people in 135 countries tuned in tothe livestream, which was hailed as
a universal success and a historic,precedent-setting moment for the theatre community.
Nearly seven years afterTheatreWorks’ audiences were first introduced to Jerusha and her Daddy Long Legs, we are eager to revisit these old friends,and recreate the magic that firstlaunched Daddy Long Legs on
its globe-trotting adventure.Whether you read the book, sawthe world premiere production,tuned in for the livestream, or arejust now becoming acquaintedwith Daddy Long Legs, we hopethis production brings you the joythat so many others around theworld have already experienced.
– Katie Dai
Original dramaturgy by Vickie Rozell
PINEWOOD
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JeanWebster was born Alice JaneChandler Webster in Fredonia, New York, on July 24,1876. A grand-niece of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain),and a daughter and granddaughter of women veryactive in suffrage and temperance issues, Webster wasdestined from birth to lead a forward-thinking and creative life. Her father died in 1891, and her matriar-chal home was very different from the homes in whichmany other young women were raised.
Webster went through many different school environ-ments, most of which show up in details in her writingor otherwise influenced her writing career. Forinstance, she studied china painting at the FredoniaNormal School in 1894, possibly leading to her interestin self-illustrating Daddy-Long-Legs—she includedpen-and-ink sketches throughout the text, intended tobe humorous doodles by her young female narrator.During her secondary education at the Lady Jane GreySchool she began using the name Jean, to avoid confusion with her roommate, whose first name wasalso Alice.
When she began attending Vassar College in 1897, she was inspired by her time there to write articles for the Vassar Miscellany and short stories which she eventually published as the collection When PattyWent to College. Mark Twain praised her first efforts:“I read most of Jean Webster’s book today; and themost of what I read greatly pleased me.” At Vassar,Webster also formed a close friendship with the poetAdelaide Crapsey, who is generally considered to have formed the basis for Daddy-Long-Legs’ JerushaAbbott, being diminutive in stature and spunky bynature.
College at this time was still a rare opportunity forwomen. The percentage of women in college in 1900was 2.8%, and grew only to 7.6% in 1920. There was acommon fear in society that too much education couldmake a woman unfit for marriage. Luckily Webster wasfrom a family that prided education for women andsupported her. These years also served to furtherWebster’s political activism. In 1900, she campaignedfor the presidential election, despite not being able tovote herself, and was obviously a staunch supporter ofsuffrage for women. (The Nineteenth Amendment, giving women the vote, didn’t pass until 1920—sadly,it would be after Webster’s death.)
WriteWhat You Know
VASSAR COLLEGE LIBRARY
Women were slowly gaining other rights. Before 1900,when a woman married, she surrendered all her legalrights to her husband. As an unmarried woman, shecould own property, sign legal documents, and makecontracts in her own name, but once married every-thing reverted to her husband. This slowly changedthroughout Webster’s lifetime, as states passed MarriedWomen’s Property Acts, allowing women some controlover their own property. Webster’s novels helped tospotlight these societal problems as they applied toindependent women, and because of this, theywere sometimes considered subversive.
After college, Webster moved toNew York City, where over thenext decade she wrote for magazines and publicationswhile also publishing severalbooks: When Patty Went toCollege, Wheat Princess,Jerry Junior, The Four-PoolsMystery, Much Ado AboutPeter, and Just Patty. Herbooks were successful andpopular, and she was ableto travel, including an eight-month world tour that included visits to Egypt, India,Burma, Sri Lanka, Indonesia,Hong Kong, and Japan.
Webster was one of a growing contingent of women who werebecoming more outspoken, especially intheir creative pursuits. In the art world, MaryCassatt was becoming a well-known Impressionistpainter, while female writers were honing their crafts aswell: Edith Wharton wrote Ethan Frome in 1911, WillaCather published O Pioneers! in 1913, and FrancisHodgson Burnett wrote The Secret Garden in 1911.Women’s voices were gradually becoming louder, andJean Webster was certainly a part of this growth.
Around this time, Webster also formed a relationshipwith Glenn Ford McKinney, brother of one of her colleagues at Vassar. Aspects of their courtship eventu-ally found their way into her writing: McKinney was therelative of one of Webster’s friends, like the mysteriousbenefactor in Daddy-Long-Legs. He had previouslybeen married to a mentally ill woman who was often
hospitalized, a bit of background that Websterapplied to a character in Dear Enemy, the sequel toDaddy-Long-Legs.
The main turning point for Webster’s writing cameabout through her social activism. She had taken acourse at Vassar on welfare and penal reform, and inNew York City she became involved with the CollegeSettlement House, an organization that providedassistance to needy families and orphaned children.She added the advancement of underprivileged
children to her life of active social causes, andthat shows most prominently in her most
famous novel, Daddy-Long-Legs.
Daddy-Long-Legs was published in1912 to critical and popularacclaim. It was one of many booksbeing published at the timeabout women at this period oftheir life: the post-collegesearch for self, and the juxta-position between marriage andcareer. Many more women wereworking outside the home atthis point. But Daddy-Long-Legsalso introduced the story of a
bright but lonely orphan findinghappiness, a beloved story that
resonated around the world, andhelped advance Webster’s belief that
every child should be given the chanceto succeed. To that end, proceeds from
special Daddy-Long-Legs dolls went to helporphaned children find families. Webster may not
have grown up an orphan, but she made their causepersonal, and she fought fiercely for children whoneeded a voice.
Webster and McKinney married in 1915, and dividedtheir time between a New York City apartment and a Massachusetts farmhouse. In 1916, at age 39,Webster gave birth to her first child, a daughter she named Jean. Sadly, she passed away shortlyafterwards due to complications from childbirth. Aroom in the Girls’ Service League and a bed at abranch of the New York Orthopedic Hospital wereboth endowed in her memory, a fitting tribute for ahero who spent so much of her life championing thecauses of underprivileged girls and women.
– Syche Phillips
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JeanWebster was born Alice JaneChandler Webster in Fredonia, New York, on July 24,1876. A grand-niece of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain),and a daughter and granddaughter of women veryactive in suffrage and temperance issues, Webster wasdestined from birth to lead a forward-thinking and creative life. Her father died in 1891, and her matriar-chal home was very different from the homes in whichmany other young women were raised.
Webster went through many different school environ-ments, most of which show up in details in her writingor otherwise influenced her writing career. Forinstance, she studied china painting at the FredoniaNormal School in 1894, possibly leading to her interestin self-illustrating Daddy-Long-Legs—she includedpen-and-ink sketches throughout the text, intended tobe humorous doodles by her young female narrator.During her secondary education at the Lady Jane GreySchool she began using the name Jean, to avoid confusion with her roommate, whose first name wasalso Alice.
When she began attending Vassar College in 1897, she was inspired by her time there to write articles for the Vassar Miscellany and short stories which she eventually published as the collection When PattyWent to College. Mark Twain praised her first efforts:“I read most of Jean Webster’s book today; and themost of what I read greatly pleased me.” At Vassar,Webster also formed a close friendship with the poetAdelaide Crapsey, who is generally considered to have formed the basis for Daddy-Long-Legs’ JerushaAbbott, being diminutive in stature and spunky bynature.
College at this time was still a rare opportunity forwomen. The percentage of women in college in 1900was 2.8%, and grew only to 7.6% in 1920. There was acommon fear in society that too much education couldmake a woman unfit for marriage. Luckily Webster wasfrom a family that prided education for women andsupported her. These years also served to furtherWebster’s political activism. In 1900, she campaignedfor the presidential election, despite not being able tovote herself, and was obviously a staunch supporter ofsuffrage for women. (The Nineteenth Amendment, giving women the vote, didn’t pass until 1920—sadly,it would be after Webster’s death.)
WriteWhat You Know
VASSAR COLLEGE LIBRARY
Women were slowly gaining other rights. Before 1900,when a woman married, she surrendered all her legalrights to her husband. As an unmarried woman, shecould own property, sign legal documents, and makecontracts in her own name, but once married every-thing reverted to her husband. This slowly changedthroughout Webster’s lifetime, as states passed MarriedWomen’s Property Acts, allowing women some controlover their own property. Webster’s novels helped tospotlight these societal problems as they applied toindependent women, and because of this, theywere sometimes considered subversive.
After college, Webster moved toNew York City, where over thenext decade she wrote for magazines and publicationswhile also publishing severalbooks: When Patty Went toCollege, Wheat Princess,Jerry Junior, The Four-PoolsMystery, Much Ado AboutPeter, and Just Patty. Herbooks were successful andpopular, and she was ableto travel, including an eight-month world tour that included visits to Egypt, India,Burma, Sri Lanka, Indonesia,Hong Kong, and Japan.
Webster was one of a growing contingent of women who werebecoming more outspoken, especially intheir creative pursuits. In the art world, MaryCassatt was becoming a well-known Impressionistpainter, while female writers were honing their crafts aswell: Edith Wharton wrote Ethan Frome in 1911, WillaCather published O Pioneers! in 1913, and FrancisHodgson Burnett wrote The Secret Garden in 1911.Women’s voices were gradually becoming louder, andJean Webster was certainly a part of this growth.
Around this time, Webster also formed a relationshipwith Glenn Ford McKinney, brother of one of her colleagues at Vassar. Aspects of their courtship eventu-ally found their way into her writing: McKinney was therelative of one of Webster’s friends, like the mysteriousbenefactor in Daddy-Long-Legs. He had previouslybeen married to a mentally ill woman who was often
hospitalized, a bit of background that Websterapplied to a character in Dear Enemy, the sequel toDaddy-Long-Legs.
The main turning point for Webster’s writing cameabout through her social activism. She had taken acourse at Vassar on welfare and penal reform, and inNew York City she became involved with the CollegeSettlement House, an organization that providedassistance to needy families and orphaned children.She added the advancement of underprivileged
children to her life of active social causes, andthat shows most prominently in her most
famous novel, Daddy-Long-Legs.
Daddy-Long-Legs was published in1912 to critical and popularacclaim. It was one of many booksbeing published at the timeabout women at this period oftheir life: the post-collegesearch for self, and the juxta-position between marriage andcareer. Many more women wereworking outside the home atthis point. But Daddy-Long-Legsalso introduced the story of a
bright but lonely orphan findinghappiness, a beloved story that
resonated around the world, andhelped advance Webster’s belief that
every child should be given the chanceto succeed. To that end, proceeds from
special Daddy-Long-Legs dolls went to helporphaned children find families. Webster may not
have grown up an orphan, but she made their causepersonal, and she fought fiercely for children whoneeded a voice.
Webster and McKinney married in 1915, and dividedtheir time between a New York City apartment and a Massachusetts farmhouse. In 1916, at age 39,Webster gave birth to her first child, a daughter she named Jean. Sadly, she passed away shortlyafterwards due to complications from childbirth. Aroom in the Girls’ Service League and a bed at abranch of the New York Orthopedic Hospital wereboth endowed in her memory, a fitting tribute for ahero who spent so much of her life championing thecauses of underprivileged girls and women.
– Syche Phillips
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TheatreWorksin their production ofDaddy Long Legs
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Thank you TheatreWorksfor bringing so much drama
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TheatreWorksS I L I C O N V A L L E Y
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Daddy LongLegsMusic & Lyrics by Paul Gordon
Book by John CairdAdapted from the 1912 novel by Jean Webster
Directed by Robert KelleyMusical Director William Liberatore
Scenic Designer Joe Ragey Costume Designer Fumiko Bielefeldt Lighting Designer Steven B. Mannshardt Sound Designer Jeff Mockus Casting Director Leslie Martinson New York Casting Director Alan Filderman Los Angeles Casting Director Julia Flores Stage Manager Deirdre Rose Holland
DADDY LONG LEGS is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. MTIShows.com
Originally presented Off-Broadway by Ken Davenport, Michael Jackowitz, Hunter Arnold, Peg McFeeley Golden, Tres Rosas, Ben Bailey, David Bryant, Caiola Productions, Carl Daikeler, Jeffrey Grove, and Marguerite Hoffman.
Originally produced by a consortium that includes the Rubicon Theatre Company, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Gem Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Skylight Music Theatre, and David Elzer.
PRODUCERSSteve & Gayle Brugler • George & Susan Crow
Tom & Sharon Kelley • Adam SamuelsNancy Ginsburg Stern & Rick Stern • Barbara Shapiro & Mark Lewis
SHOW SPONSORGarden Court Hotel
SEASON SPONSORSGarden Court Hotel • J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines • The Mercury News • Sobrato Philanthropies
DADDY LONG LEGS plays November 30–December 31, 2016The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited.
TheatreWorksS I L I C O N V A L L E Y
presents
Daddy LongLegsMusic & Lyrics by Paul Gordon
Book by John CairdAdapted from the 1912 novel by Jean Webster
Directed by Robert KelleyMusical Director William Liberatore
Scenic Designer Joe Ragey Costume Designer Fumiko Bielefeldt Lighting Designer Steven B. Mannshardt Sound Designer Jeff Mockus Casting Director Leslie Martinson New York Casting Director Alan Filderman Los Angeles Casting Director Julia Flores Stage Manager Deirdre Rose Holland
DADDY LONG LEGS is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. MTIShows.com
Originally presented Off-Broadway by Ken Davenport, Michael Jackowitz, Hunter Arnold, Peg McFeeley Golden, Tres Rosas, Ben Bailey, David Bryant, Caiola Productions, Carl Daikeler, Jeffrey Grove, and Marguerite Hoffman.
Originally produced by a consortium that includes the Rubicon Theatre Company, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Gem Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Skylight Music Theatre, and David Elzer.
PRODUCERSSteve & Gayle Brugler • George & Susan Crow
Tom & Sharon Kelley • Adam SamuelsNancy Ginsburg Stern & Rick Stern • Barbara Shapiro & Mark Lewis
SHOW SPONSORGarden Court Hotel
SEASON SPONSORSGarden Court Hotel • J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines • The Mercury News • Sobrato Philanthropies
DADDY LONG LEGS plays November 30–December 31, 2016The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited.
16 THEATREWORKS
S C L S S J C L N L J S D
Harrell RemodelingDesign + Build
is proud to support
TheatreWorksin their production ofDaddy Long Legs
harrell-remodeling.com650.230.2900
License B479799
Thank you TheatreWorksfor bringing so much drama
into our lives.
520 Cowper Street, Palo Alto, CAwww.gardencourt.com
(650) 322-9000
TheatreWorksS I L I C O N V A L L E Y
presents
Daddy LongLegsMusic & Lyrics by Paul Gordon
Book by John CairdAdapted from the 1912 novel by Jean Webster
Directed by Robert KelleyMusical Director William Liberatore
Scenic Designer Joe Ragey Costume Designer Fumiko Bielefeldt Lighting Designer Steven B. Mannshardt Sound Designer Jeff Mockus Casting Director Leslie Martinson New York Casting Director Alan Filderman Los Angeles Casting Director Julia Flores Stage Manager Deirdre Rose Holland
DADDY LONG LEGS is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. MTIShows.com
Originally presented Off-Broadway by Ken Davenport, Michael Jackowitz, Hunter Arnold, Peg McFeeley Golden, Tres Rosas, Ben Bailey, David Bryant, Caiola Productions, Carl Daikeler, Jeffrey Grove, and Marguerite Hoffman.
Originally produced by a consortium that includes the Rubicon Theatre Company, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Gem Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Skylight Music Theatre, and David Elzer.
PRODUCERSSteve & Gayle Brugler • George & Susan Crow
Tom & Sharon Kelley • Adam SamuelsNancy Ginsburg Stern & Rick Stern • Barbara Shapiro & Mark Lewis
SHOW SPONSORGarden Court Hotel
SEASON SPONSORSGarden Court Hotel • J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines • The Mercury News • Sobrato Philanthropies
DADDY LONG LEGS plays November 30–December 31, 2016The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited.
TheatreWorksS I L I C O N V A L L E Y
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Daddy LongLegsMusic & Lyrics by Paul Gordon
Book by John CairdAdapted from the 1912 novel by Jean Webster
Directed by Robert KelleyMusical Director William Liberatore
Scenic Designer Joe Ragey Costume Designer Fumiko Bielefeldt Lighting Designer Steven B. Mannshardt Sound Designer Jeff Mockus Casting Director Leslie Martinson New York Casting Director Alan Filderman Los Angeles Casting Director Julia Flores Stage Manager Deirdre Rose Holland
DADDY LONG LEGS is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. MTIShows.com
Originally presented Off-Broadway by Ken Davenport, Michael Jackowitz, Hunter Arnold, Peg McFeeley Golden, Tres Rosas, Ben Bailey, David Bryant, Caiola Productions, Carl Daikeler, Jeffrey Grove, and Marguerite Hoffman.
Originally produced by a consortium that includes the Rubicon Theatre Company, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Gem Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Skylight Music Theatre, and David Elzer.
PRODUCERSSteve & Gayle Brugler • George & Susan Crow
Tom & Sharon Kelley • Adam SamuelsNancy Ginsburg Stern & Rick Stern • Barbara Shapiro & Mark Lewis
SHOW SPONSORGarden Court Hotel
SEASON SPONSORSGarden Court Hotel • J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines • The Mercury News • Sobrato Philanthropies
DADDY LONG LEGS plays November 30–December 31, 2016The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited.
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THE CAST(In order of appearance)
Jerusha Abbott Hilary MaibergerJervis Pendleton Derek Carley
The Actors and Stage Manager employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
THE ORCHESTRAConductor/Piano William Liberatore
Cello Kris YenneyGuitar Tim Roberts
Orchestra Personnel Manager Diane RyanAll musicians are members of the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada.
PLACE & TIMENew England, 1908–1912
DADDY LONG LEGS WILL BE PERFORMED WITH ONE 15-MINUTE INTERMISSION.
MUSICAL NUMBERS
Act One“Oldest Orphan“............................................................................................Jerusha“Who is This Man?“.......................................................................................Jerusha“Mr. Girl Hater“............................................................................Jerusha and Jervis“She Thinks I’m Old“........................................................................................Jervis“Like Other Girls“.........................................................................Jerusha and Jervis“Freshman Year Studies“..............................................................Jerusha and Jervis“Things I Didn’t Know“.................................................................Jerusha and Jervis“What Does She Mean by Love?“....................................................................Jervis“I’m A Beast“.................................................................................................Jerusha“When Shall We Meet?“...................................................................................Jervis“The Color of Your Eyes“.............................................................Jerusha and Jervis“Like Other Girls“ (Reprise)..............................................................................Jervis“The Secret of Happiness“............................................................................Jerusha“The Color of Your Eyes“ (Reprise)..............................................Jerusha and Jervis
Act Two“Sophomore Year Studies”............................................................................Jerusha“My Manhattan“...........................................................................Jervis and Jerusha“I Couldn’t Know Someone Less“.................................................................Jerusha“The Man I’ll Never Be“....................................................................................Jervis“Christmas in Manhattan“.............................................................................Jerusha“Humble Pie“....................................................................................................Jervis“Senior Year Studies“.....................................................................................Jerusha“Graduation Day“.........................................................................Jerusha and Jervis“Charity“............................................................................................................Jervis“I Have Torn You from My Heart“................................................Jerusha and Jervis“My Manhattan“ (Reprise)................................................................................Jervis“The Color of Your Eyes“ (Reprise)...............................................................Jerusha“All This Time“.............................................................................Jerusha and Jervis
Gruska, premiered at TW in 2013.Other shows include Little MissScrooge; Death: The Musical; TheFront; and The Sportswriter.paulgordonmusic.com
JEAN WEBSTER (Author) was anAmerican novelist and playwright,born in 1876. Her best knownworks are Daddy-Long-Legs and its sequel, My Enemy, and she frequently created strong, likeable,young female protagonists. Shewrote Daddy-Long-Legs originallyas a Ladies’ Home Journal serial in1912, and it was met with popularand critical acclaim. Ms. Websterwrote the stage adaptation the following year, which also becamesuccessful, and she traveled withthe touring production for severalmonths. She was a graduate ofVassar College, supported women’seducation and suffrage, and sheworked to fundraise for orphanagesand help place children with adoptive families. She died in 1916from complications arising fromchildbirth.
ROBERT KELLEY (Director) Pleasesee bio on page 21.
FUMIKO BIELEFELDT (CostumeDesigner) has designed over 60productions for TheatreWorks,including Cyrano, Jane Austen’sEMMA, Fallen Angels, SweeneyTodd, Silent Sky, Little Women,Being Earnest, 33 Variations, Senseand Sensibility, Snow Falling onCedars, The Light in the Piazza, A Civil War Christmas, Yellow Face,and Emma, which traveled toCincinnati Playhouse in the Parkand the Repertory Theatre of St.Louis (Kevin Klein AwardsNominee). Her designs haveappeared in the Bay Area atAmerican Conservatory Theater,Aurora Theatre, California
Who’s WhoDEREK CARLEY(Jervis Pendleton) is thrilled to be making hisTheatreWorksdebut. He hasappeared in the
First National Tour of Flashdancethe Musical. Regional creditsinclude Miss Saigon and Titanic atthe St. Louis Muny, Big: the Musicaland Grease at Wagon WheelTheatre in Indiana, The Dodgers atthe Hudson Mainstage Theatre inLos Angeles, and Gay Bride ofFrankenstein at Seacoast RepertoryTheatre in Portsmouth, NewHampshire. TV/Film credits includeNotorious on ABC and the featurefilm The Billionaire. Mr. Carley is aproud graduate of the University ofMichigan where he earned his BFAin Musical Theatre.
HILARY MAIBERGER(Jerusha Abbott) is thrilled to bemaking herTheatreWorksdebut. National
and international tours includeNetWorks Productions’ Beauty andthe Beast (Belle). Regional creditsinclude The Light in the Piazza(Clara Johnson) at Theatre Raleighand two seasons at MoonlightAmphitheatre where she starred inMy Fair Lady (Eliza Doolittle) andSouth Pacific (Nellie Forbush).Other theatre credits includeAladdin: The Musical Spectacular(Jasmine), Cinderella (Cinderella),Little Women (Jo March), and TheMarvelous Wonderettes (CindyLou). Ms. Maiberger earned herMM in Vocal Performance fromBowling Green State University andcurrently teaches private voice inNew York City.
JOHN CAIRD (Book) is a directorand writer working in theatre,opera, and musical theatre. Hewrote the book for Les Misérables;Jane Eyre; and Little Miss Scrooge(music and lyrics by Paul Gordon);Children of Eden (music and lyricsby Stephen Schwartz); Candide(music by Leonard Bernstein); andBeggar’s Opera. He won the 2016Drama Desk Award for Best Book of a Musical for Daddy Long Legs.He wrote and co-directed Siegfriedand Roy at the Mirage, which ran in Las Vegas from 1990 to 2003.Recordings of his productions havebeen seen on TV, including NicholasNickleby, As You Like It, TheBeggar’s Opera, and Twin Spirits.He is an Honorary AssociateDirector of the Royal ShakespeareCompany, a Principal Guest Directorof the Royal Dramatic Theatre(Stockholm), and the author ofTheatre Craft, published by Faberand Faber. johncaird.com
PAUL GORDON (Music and Lyrics)was nominated for a 2001 TonyAward for music and lyrics to JaneEyre (TW 2003). He won the 2015Jeff Award for Best New Work forSense and Sensibility, commissionedby Chicago Shakespeare Theatre.He won the 2009 Ovation Award forhis music and lyrics to Daddy LongLegs, which has had productions allover the world and recently com-pleted an off-Broadway run at theDavenport Theatre (two DramaDesk Award noms, Off-BroadwayAlliance Award, three Outer CriticCircle Awards). Mr. Gordon is therecipient of the 2007 Bay AreaTheatre Critics Circle Award for his book to the musical Emma,developed at TW and later stagedat The Old Globe. Analog and Vinyl(book, music, and lyrics) premieredat The Weston Playhouse in 2014.Being Earnest, written with Jay
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THE CAST(In order of appearance)
Jerusha Abbott Hilary MaibergerJervis Pendleton Derek Carley
The Actors and Stage Manager employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
THE ORCHESTRAConductor/Piano William Liberatore
Cello Kris YenneyGuitar Tim Roberts
Orchestra Personnel Manager Diane RyanAll musicians are members of the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada.
PLACE & TIMENew England, 1908–1912
DADDY LONG LEGS WILL BE PERFORMED WITH ONE 15-MINUTE INTERMISSION.
MUSICAL NUMBERS
Act One“Oldest Orphan“............................................................................................Jerusha“Who is This Man?“.......................................................................................Jerusha“Mr. Girl Hater“............................................................................Jerusha and Jervis“She Thinks I’m Old“........................................................................................Jervis“Like Other Girls“.........................................................................Jerusha and Jervis“Freshman Year Studies“..............................................................Jerusha and Jervis“Things I Didn’t Know“.................................................................Jerusha and Jervis“What Does She Mean by Love?“....................................................................Jervis“I’m A Beast“.................................................................................................Jerusha“When Shall We Meet?“...................................................................................Jervis“The Color of Your Eyes“.............................................................Jerusha and Jervis“Like Other Girls“ (Reprise)..............................................................................Jervis“The Secret of Happiness“............................................................................Jerusha“The Color of Your Eyes“ (Reprise)..............................................Jerusha and Jervis
Act Two“Sophomore Year Studies”............................................................................Jerusha“My Manhattan“...........................................................................Jervis and Jerusha“I Couldn’t Know Someone Less“.................................................................Jerusha“The Man I’ll Never Be“....................................................................................Jervis“Christmas in Manhattan“.............................................................................Jerusha“Humble Pie“....................................................................................................Jervis“Senior Year Studies“.....................................................................................Jerusha“Graduation Day“.........................................................................Jerusha and Jervis“Charity“............................................................................................................Jervis“I Have Torn You from My Heart“................................................Jerusha and Jervis“My Manhattan“ (Reprise)................................................................................Jervis“The Color of Your Eyes“ (Reprise)...............................................................Jerusha“All This Time“.............................................................................Jerusha and Jervis
Gruska, premiered at TW in 2013.Other shows include Little MissScrooge; Death: The Musical; TheFront; and The Sportswriter.paulgordonmusic.com
JEAN WEBSTER (Author) was anAmerican novelist and playwright,born in 1876. Her best knownworks are Daddy-Long-Legs and its sequel, My Enemy, and she frequently created strong, likeable,young female protagonists. Shewrote Daddy-Long-Legs originallyas a Ladies’ Home Journal serial in1912, and it was met with popularand critical acclaim. Ms. Websterwrote the stage adaptation the following year, which also becamesuccessful, and she traveled withthe touring production for severalmonths. She was a graduate ofVassar College, supported women’seducation and suffrage, and sheworked to fundraise for orphanagesand help place children with adoptive families. She died in 1916from complications arising fromchildbirth.
ROBERT KELLEY (Director) Pleasesee bio on page 21.
FUMIKO BIELEFELDT (CostumeDesigner) has designed over 60productions for TheatreWorks,including Cyrano, Jane Austen’sEMMA, Fallen Angels, SweeneyTodd, Silent Sky, Little Women,Being Earnest, 33 Variations, Senseand Sensibility, Snow Falling onCedars, The Light in the Piazza, A Civil War Christmas, Yellow Face,and Emma, which traveled toCincinnati Playhouse in the Parkand the Repertory Theatre of St.Louis (Kevin Klein AwardsNominee). Her designs haveappeared in the Bay Area atAmerican Conservatory Theater,Aurora Theatre, California
Who’s WhoDEREK CARLEY(Jervis Pendleton) is thrilled to be making hisTheatreWorksdebut. He hasappeared in the
First National Tour of Flashdancethe Musical. Regional creditsinclude Miss Saigon and Titanic atthe St. Louis Muny, Big: the Musicaland Grease at Wagon WheelTheatre in Indiana, The Dodgers atthe Hudson Mainstage Theatre inLos Angeles, and Gay Bride ofFrankenstein at Seacoast RepertoryTheatre in Portsmouth, NewHampshire. TV/Film credits includeNotorious on ABC and the featurefilm The Billionaire. Mr. Carley is aproud graduate of the University ofMichigan where he earned his BFAin Musical Theatre.
HILARY MAIBERGER(Jerusha Abbott) is thrilled to bemaking herTheatreWorksdebut. National
and international tours includeNetWorks Productions’ Beauty andthe Beast (Belle). Regional creditsinclude The Light in the Piazza(Clara Johnson) at Theatre Raleighand two seasons at MoonlightAmphitheatre where she starred inMy Fair Lady (Eliza Doolittle) andSouth Pacific (Nellie Forbush).Other theatre credits includeAladdin: The Musical Spectacular(Jasmine), Cinderella (Cinderella),Little Women (Jo March), and TheMarvelous Wonderettes (CindyLou). Ms. Maiberger earned herMM in Vocal Performance fromBowling Green State University andcurrently teaches private voice inNew York City.
JOHN CAIRD (Book) is a directorand writer working in theatre,opera, and musical theatre. Hewrote the book for Les Misérables;Jane Eyre; and Little Miss Scrooge(music and lyrics by Paul Gordon);Children of Eden (music and lyricsby Stephen Schwartz); Candide(music by Leonard Bernstein); andBeggar’s Opera. He won the 2016Drama Desk Award for Best Book of a Musical for Daddy Long Legs.He wrote and co-directed Siegfriedand Roy at the Mirage, which ran in Las Vegas from 1990 to 2003.Recordings of his productions havebeen seen on TV, including NicholasNickleby, As You Like It, TheBeggar’s Opera, and Twin Spirits.He is an Honorary AssociateDirector of the Royal ShakespeareCompany, a Principal Guest Directorof the Royal Dramatic Theatre(Stockholm), and the author ofTheatre Craft, published by Faberand Faber. johncaird.com
PAUL GORDON (Music and Lyrics)was nominated for a 2001 TonyAward for music and lyrics to JaneEyre (TW 2003). He won the 2015Jeff Award for Best New Work forSense and Sensibility, commissionedby Chicago Shakespeare Theatre.He won the 2009 Ovation Award forhis music and lyrics to Daddy LongLegs, which has had productions allover the world and recently com-pleted an off-Broadway run at theDavenport Theatre (two DramaDesk Award noms, Off-BroadwayAlliance Award, three Outer CriticCircle Awards). Mr. Gordon is therecipient of the 2007 Bay AreaTheatre Critics Circle Award for his book to the musical Emma,developed at TW and later stagedat The Old Globe. Analog and Vinyl(book, music, and lyrics) premieredat The Weston Playhouse in 2014.Being Earnest, written with Jay
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Who’s WhoShakespeare Theatre, MagicTheatre, Marin Theatre Company,San Jose Repertory Theatre, andThe Eureka Theatre, among others.She graduated from WasedaUniversity (Tokyo) and studied costume design at Stanford. Ms.Bielefeldt has received many design awards, including the 2004Barbara Bladen Porter SpecialAward, Bay Area Theatre CriticsCircle Awards, Dean GoodmanChoice Awards, and Back StageWest Garland Award.
DEIRDRE ROSE HOLLAND(Stage Manager) is thrilled to beback at TheatreWorks, having previously worked on Cyrano, 2 Pianos 4 Hands, and the 2014New Works Festival production ofThe Disappearing Man. Her regional theatre credits include:Chester Bailey, Ah Wilderness!, and Let There Be Love (AmericanConservatory Theater); Othello,Twelfth Night, and LadyWindermere’s Fan (CaliforniaShakespeare Theater); The Liar(Santa Cruz Shakespeare); Next Fall, Next to Normal, A ChristmasCarol 2011 and 2012, and SpringAwakening (San Jose RepertoryTheatre); the World Premiere ofBonnie and Clyde and The LaramieProject: Ten Years Later (La JollaPlayhouse); and the ShakespeareFestival 2011, How the Grinch StoleChristmas! 2010, and The Mysteryof Irma Vep (The Old GlobeTheatre). Ms. Holland holds an MFAin stage management from theUniversity of California, San Diego.
WILLIAM LIBERATORE (MusicalDirector) is TheatreWorks’ ResidentMusical Director and has conductedover 25 shows, including The Life of the Party, Jane Austen’s EMMA,Sweeney Todd, Marry Me a Little,Once on This Island (2014 TBAAward), Little Women, Being
Earnest, Big River, The SecretGarden, A Christmas Memory,Crowns, Jane Eyre, Ragtime, andPacific Overtures. He was MusicalDirector at American MusicalTheatre of San Jose, conductingover 30 shows including FlowerDrum Song, Gypsy, A Chorus Line,42nd Street, Follies, and Children ofEden. He has won Bay Area TheatreCritics Circle Awards for A LittleNight Music, South Pacific, andDamn Yankees (AMTSJ), and BatBoy: The Musical; Into the Woods;Emma; Caroline, or Change; and TheLight in the Piazza (TheatreWorks).He is also the director of the award-winning Gunn High School Choirs.
STEVEN B. MANNSHARDT(Lighting Designer) has been thelighting designer for over 70 productions at TheatreWorks, havingwon numerous Bay Area TheatreCritics Circle, Theatre Bay Area andDean Goodman Choice Awards forhis work. His regional design creditsinclude Long Wharf Theatre, NewHaven; A Contemporary Theatre,Seattle; American Repertory Theater,Cambridge; Studio Arena Theatre,Buffalo; Magic Theatre; PasadenaPlayhouse; The Weston PlayhouseTheatre Company, Vermont;Vancouver Playhouse TheatreCompany; and Olympia Theatre,Dublin, Ireland. Mr. Mannshardt previously taught lighting design atSanta Rosa Junior College for 14years and now runs an organizationdedicated to improving the educa-tion system for both children andadults in Nepal. nepal.wwep.org
LESLIE MARTINSON (CastingDirector) is TheatreWorks’ AssociateArtistic Director and CastingDirector. Her many TheatreWorksdirecting credits include Proof, theregional premieres of Water by theSpoonful and Time Stands Still, andthe West Coast premieres of The
Pitmen Painters and Superior Donuts.A graduate of Occidental College,she has been a Watson Fellow inpolitical theatre, a member ofLincoln Center Director’s Lab, amember of the La MaMa Inter-national Directing Symposium, andhas served on Theatre Bay Area’sTheatre Services Committee since2002. She was awarded an IndividualArtist Fellowship in Stage Directionfrom the Arts Council of SiliconValley for artistic achievement andcommunity impact. She leads masterclasses and audition workshopsthroughout the Bay Area, and is aPerformance Coach in leadershipcommunication training with Standand Deliver Group.
JEFF MOCKUS (Sound Designer)designed TheatreWorks’ tokyo fishstory, Jane Austen’s EMMA, SweeneyTodd, Once on This Island, SilentSky, Little Women, Being Earnest,Big River, Of Mice and Men, TheSecret Garden, Fly By Night,Superior Donuts, and [title of show].His recent work includes CenterREPertory Company’s Anything Goesand Tenderly: The Rosemary ClooneyMusical, The Western Stage’s Carrie:The Musical, and Santa CruzShakespeare’s As You Like It and TheMerry Wives Of Windsor. Mr. Mockusserved as Resident Sound Designerfor San Jose Repertory Theatre onover 70 productions. He has creditswith American Conservatory Theater,Berkeley Rep, Cal Shakes, MarinTheatre Company, and AsianAmerican Theater Company. Furtherafield, he has worked with Sledge-hammer Theatre, San Diego Rep,PCPA Theaterfest, A ContemporaryTheatre, Huntington Theatre, UtahShakespearean Festival, and OregonShakespeare Festival.
JOE RAGEY (Scenic Designer) hasdesigned over 60 shows forTheatreWorks over the last 30 years.
Who’s WhoSome of his favorite TheatreWorksdesigns include Little Women, BigRiver, Sense and Sensibility, The 39 Steps, A Christmas Memory,Merrily We Roll Along, Baby Taj, My Ántonia, Jane Eyre, Peter Pan,Triumph of Love, You Can’t Take itWith You, Equus, ConversationsWith My Father, Nagasaki Dust,Honor Song for Crazy Horse, LaBete, and Pacific Overtures. He hasreceived over a dozen Bay AreaTheatre Critics Circle Awards, LADrama-Logue Awards and DeanGoodman Choice Awards for showshe designed for TheatreWorks.
ROBERT KELLEY (Artistic Director) is a Bay Area native and StanfordUniversity graduate. He foundedTheatreWorks in 1970 and has directed over 165 TheatreWorks productions, including many worldand regional premieres. He hasreceived the Silicon Valley ArtsCouncil’s Legacy Laureate Award; the Bay Area Theatre Critics CirclePaine Knickerbocker Award for lifetime achievement; BATCCAwards for Outstanding Directionfor his productions of The Hound ofBaskervilles; Into the Woods; PacificOvertures; Rags; Sweeney Todd;Another Midsummer Night; Sundayin the Park with George; Jane Eyre;and Caroline, or Change; and BackStage West Garland Awards for hisdirection of Side Show and Sundayin the Park with George. He recentlydirected Outside Mullingar, Cyrano,Jane Austen’s EMMA, The CountryHouse, Fallen Angels, Peter and theStarcatcher, Sweeney Todd, MarryMe a Little, The Hound of theBaskervilles, Once On This Island,and Little Women.
PHIL SANTORA (ManagingDirector) joined TheatreWorks in2007. He has served as Managing
Director of Northlight Theatre(Chicago) and Georgia ShakespeareFestival (Atlanta), as well asDevelopment Director for GreatLakes Theatre Festival (Cleveland)and George Street Playhouse (NewBrunswick). He holds an MFA inTheatre Administration from theYale School of Drama and a BA inDrama from Duke University. He is Vice President of the NationalAlliance for Musical Theatre Board.Prior board service includes theLeague of Chicago Theatres,Atlanta Coalition of Theatres, andthe executive committee of theLeague of Resident Theatres(LORT). He was named 2000’s Best Arts Administrator by Atlanta Magazine and received the Atlanta Arts and BusinessCouncil’s 1998 ABBY Award for Arts Administrator.
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Who’s WhoShakespeare Theatre, MagicTheatre, Marin Theatre Company,San Jose Repertory Theatre, andThe Eureka Theatre, among others.She graduated from WasedaUniversity (Tokyo) and studied costume design at Stanford. Ms.Bielefeldt has received many design awards, including the 2004Barbara Bladen Porter SpecialAward, Bay Area Theatre CriticsCircle Awards, Dean GoodmanChoice Awards, and Back StageWest Garland Award.
DEIRDRE ROSE HOLLAND(Stage Manager) is thrilled to beback at TheatreWorks, having previously worked on Cyrano, 2 Pianos 4 Hands, and the 2014New Works Festival production ofThe Disappearing Man. Her regional theatre credits include:Chester Bailey, Ah Wilderness!, and Let There Be Love (AmericanConservatory Theater); Othello,Twelfth Night, and LadyWindermere’s Fan (CaliforniaShakespeare Theater); The Liar(Santa Cruz Shakespeare); Next Fall, Next to Normal, A ChristmasCarol 2011 and 2012, and SpringAwakening (San Jose RepertoryTheatre); the World Premiere ofBonnie and Clyde and The LaramieProject: Ten Years Later (La JollaPlayhouse); and the ShakespeareFestival 2011, How the Grinch StoleChristmas! 2010, and The Mysteryof Irma Vep (The Old GlobeTheatre). Ms. Holland holds an MFAin stage management from theUniversity of California, San Diego.
WILLIAM LIBERATORE (MusicalDirector) is TheatreWorks’ ResidentMusical Director and has conductedover 25 shows, including The Life of the Party, Jane Austen’s EMMA,Sweeney Todd, Marry Me a Little,Once on This Island (2014 TBAAward), Little Women, Being
Earnest, Big River, The SecretGarden, A Christmas Memory,Crowns, Jane Eyre, Ragtime, andPacific Overtures. He was MusicalDirector at American MusicalTheatre of San Jose, conductingover 30 shows including FlowerDrum Song, Gypsy, A Chorus Line,42nd Street, Follies, and Children ofEden. He has won Bay Area TheatreCritics Circle Awards for A LittleNight Music, South Pacific, andDamn Yankees (AMTSJ), and BatBoy: The Musical; Into the Woods;Emma; Caroline, or Change; and TheLight in the Piazza (TheatreWorks).He is also the director of the award-winning Gunn High School Choirs.
STEVEN B. MANNSHARDT(Lighting Designer) has been thelighting designer for over 70 productions at TheatreWorks, havingwon numerous Bay Area TheatreCritics Circle, Theatre Bay Area andDean Goodman Choice Awards forhis work. His regional design creditsinclude Long Wharf Theatre, NewHaven; A Contemporary Theatre,Seattle; American Repertory Theater,Cambridge; Studio Arena Theatre,Buffalo; Magic Theatre; PasadenaPlayhouse; The Weston PlayhouseTheatre Company, Vermont;Vancouver Playhouse TheatreCompany; and Olympia Theatre,Dublin, Ireland. Mr. Mannshardt previously taught lighting design atSanta Rosa Junior College for 14years and now runs an organizationdedicated to improving the educa-tion system for both children andadults in Nepal. nepal.wwep.org
LESLIE MARTINSON (CastingDirector) is TheatreWorks’ AssociateArtistic Director and CastingDirector. Her many TheatreWorksdirecting credits include Proof, theregional premieres of Water by theSpoonful and Time Stands Still, andthe West Coast premieres of The
Pitmen Painters and Superior Donuts.A graduate of Occidental College,she has been a Watson Fellow inpolitical theatre, a member ofLincoln Center Director’s Lab, amember of the La MaMa Inter-national Directing Symposium, andhas served on Theatre Bay Area’sTheatre Services Committee since2002. She was awarded an IndividualArtist Fellowship in Stage Directionfrom the Arts Council of SiliconValley for artistic achievement andcommunity impact. She leads masterclasses and audition workshopsthroughout the Bay Area, and is aPerformance Coach in leadershipcommunication training with Standand Deliver Group.
JEFF MOCKUS (Sound Designer)designed TheatreWorks’ tokyo fishstory, Jane Austen’s EMMA, SweeneyTodd, Once on This Island, SilentSky, Little Women, Being Earnest,Big River, Of Mice and Men, TheSecret Garden, Fly By Night,Superior Donuts, and [title of show].His recent work includes CenterREPertory Company’s Anything Goesand Tenderly: The Rosemary ClooneyMusical, The Western Stage’s Carrie:The Musical, and Santa CruzShakespeare’s As You Like It and TheMerry Wives Of Windsor. Mr. Mockusserved as Resident Sound Designerfor San Jose Repertory Theatre onover 70 productions. He has creditswith American Conservatory Theater,Berkeley Rep, Cal Shakes, MarinTheatre Company, and AsianAmerican Theater Company. Furtherafield, he has worked with Sledge-hammer Theatre, San Diego Rep,PCPA Theaterfest, A ContemporaryTheatre, Huntington Theatre, UtahShakespearean Festival, and OregonShakespeare Festival.
JOE RAGEY (Scenic Designer) hasdesigned over 60 shows forTheatreWorks over the last 30 years.
Who’s WhoSome of his favorite TheatreWorksdesigns include Little Women, BigRiver, Sense and Sensibility, The 39 Steps, A Christmas Memory,Merrily We Roll Along, Baby Taj, My Ántonia, Jane Eyre, Peter Pan,Triumph of Love, You Can’t Take itWith You, Equus, ConversationsWith My Father, Nagasaki Dust,Honor Song for Crazy Horse, LaBete, and Pacific Overtures. He hasreceived over a dozen Bay AreaTheatre Critics Circle Awards, LADrama-Logue Awards and DeanGoodman Choice Awards for showshe designed for TheatreWorks.
ROBERT KELLEY (Artistic Director) is a Bay Area native and StanfordUniversity graduate. He foundedTheatreWorks in 1970 and has directed over 165 TheatreWorks productions, including many worldand regional premieres. He hasreceived the Silicon Valley ArtsCouncil’s Legacy Laureate Award; the Bay Area Theatre Critics CirclePaine Knickerbocker Award for lifetime achievement; BATCCAwards for Outstanding Directionfor his productions of The Hound ofBaskervilles; Into the Woods; PacificOvertures; Rags; Sweeney Todd;Another Midsummer Night; Sundayin the Park with George; Jane Eyre;and Caroline, or Change; and BackStage West Garland Awards for hisdirection of Side Show and Sundayin the Park with George. He recentlydirected Outside Mullingar, Cyrano,Jane Austen’s EMMA, The CountryHouse, Fallen Angels, Peter and theStarcatcher, Sweeney Todd, MarryMe a Little, The Hound of theBaskervilles, Once On This Island,and Little Women.
PHIL SANTORA (ManagingDirector) joined TheatreWorks in2007. He has served as Managing
Director of Northlight Theatre(Chicago) and Georgia ShakespeareFestival (Atlanta), as well asDevelopment Director for GreatLakes Theatre Festival (Cleveland)and George Street Playhouse (NewBrunswick). He holds an MFA inTheatre Administration from theYale School of Drama and a BA inDrama from Duke University. He is Vice President of the NationalAlliance for Musical Theatre Board.Prior board service includes theLeague of Chicago Theatres,Atlanta Coalition of Theatres, andthe executive committee of theLeague of Resident Theatres(LORT). He was named 2000’s Best Arts Administrator by Atlanta Magazine and received the Atlanta Arts and BusinessCouncil’s 1998 ABBY Award for Arts Administrator.
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Reading YA FictionThese days it seems as if many adults have at least sampled Young Adult(YA) Fiction. A 2012 survey by Publishers Weekly showed that 55% of YAsales are to adults aged 18 or over, with 28% going to the 30–44 age group.And when asked, 78% of these adults confirmed that they were purchasingbooks for their own reading. It would seem that the broad appeal of YAFiction is becoming even broader.
Why are these books, typically written for readers in their teens and early20s, so appealing for adult readers? Some say it’s the escapism factor, asmany YA series portray fantastical settings (The Chronicles of Narnia, HarryPotter, The Hunger Games, etc). Some say it’s the ease of reading: thesebooks are usually page-turners, devoured quickly and then set aside fortheir sequel. They are generally less violent or sexual than the average general fiction fare. They also have good reread value, with characters youwant to revisit.
Jean Webster’s Daddy-Long-Legs is an example of turn-of-the-centuryYoung Adult fiction that captivated an audience of adults. Written in 1912,the book follows Jerusha “Judy” Abbott through her four years of college,from ages 17–22. Along with L.M. Montgomery’s Anne Shirley of GreenGables and Louisa May Alcott’s March sisters of Little Women, Jerusha has found a place in the canon of literature alongside other young womendealing with issues like college, career, and marriage. The book was sopopular when it was published that Jean Webster adapted it into a successful stage play in 1914. Afterwards it enjoyed numerous adaptations,including film versions (1919, 1931, 1935, 1955, and a Korean film in 2005),musical anime and TV specials (1979, 1990), and musical stage versions(1952 and our very own 2009 version).
At fewer than 200 pages, Daddy-Long-Legs is short but satisfying: the taleof a young woman navigating her way through the universal topics of love,self-worth, and happiness, while discovering the empowering potential ofwomen in turn-of-the-last century America. It’s a wonderful read for thisholiday season—and both the book and the musical make the perfect giftfor someone on your holiday shopping list, no matter their age. SurelyJerusha, voracious reader that she is, would approve! – Syche Phillips
Dear Friends,
You are about to meet an infectious, joyous orphan namedJerusha, Daddy Long Legs’ leading lady. She finds hope andpossibility in the stories she writes,
and her collection will soon grow before youreyes! Like Jerusha, TheatreWorks loves telling stories, knowing they lift spirits, empower change,and impact lives.
Every year we share stories like Daddy Long Legs with over 25,000 local students, 350 artistsfrom around the world, and nearly 100,000 regional patrons—including yourself. If you believein the power of storytelling, I invite you to give a gift during this “Season of Giving” and joinTheatreWorks in sharing stories that inspire thousands of grateful theatregoers, including themany students who attend our student matinees!
With your gift today, you’ll join a committed famil yof donors who will gift stories this season. Yoursupport will help us fill our bookshelf in the lobby,on which every volume is one of the many storieswe have premiered over the years, with each representing $1,000 in gifts to TheatreWorks during this “Season of Giving.” We have over 200 premieres to add to our shelves, so be generousknowing that your gift will enable us to createexceptional stori es for years to come!
With gratitude from your humble storyteller,
Robert Kelley, Artistic Director
This holiday season,
fill TheatreWorks’
shelves with stories
that transform lives.
Use the envelope in this program to make your gifttoday or visit us online at theatreworks.org/give
or call 650.463.7155.
Reading YA FictionThese days it seems as if many adults have at least sampled Young Adult(YA) Fiction. A 2012 survey by Publishers Weekly showed that 55% of YAsales are to adults aged 18 or over, with 28% going to the 30–44 age group.And when asked, 78% of these adults confirmed that they were purchasingbooks for their own reading. It would seem that the broad appeal of YAFiction is becoming even broader.
Why are these books, typically written for readers in their teens and early20s, so appealing for adult readers? Some say it’s the escapism factor, asmany YA series portray fantastical settings (The Chronicles of Narnia, HarryPotter, The Hunger Games, etc). Some say it’s the ease of reading: thesebooks are usually page-turners, devoured quickly and then set aside fortheir sequel. They are generally less violent or sexual than the average general fiction fare. They also have good reread value, with characters youwant to revisit.
Jean Webster’s Daddy-Long-Legs is an example of turn-of-the-centuryYoung Adult fiction that captivated an audience of adults. Written in 1912,the book follows Jerusha “Judy” Abbott through her four years of college,from ages 17–22. Along with L.M. Montgomery’s Anne Shirley of GreenGables and Louisa May Alcott’s March sisters of Little Women, Jerusha has found a place in the canon of literature alongside other young womendealing with issues like college, career, and marriage. The book was sopopular when it was published that Jean Webster adapted it into a successful stage play in 1914. Afterwards it enjoyed numerous adaptations,including film versions (1919, 1931, 1935, 1955, and a Korean film in 2005),musical anime and TV specials (1979, 1990), and musical stage versions(1952 and our very own 2009 version).
At fewer than 200 pages, Daddy-Long-Legs is short but satisfying: the taleof a young woman navigating her way through the universal topics of love,self-worth, and happiness, while discovering the empowering potential ofwomen in turn-of-the-last century America. It’s a wonderful read for thisholiday season—and both the book and the musical make the perfect giftfor someone on your holiday shopping list, no matter their age. SurelyJerusha, voracious reader that she is, would approve! – Syche Phillips
Dear Friends,
You are about to meet an infectious, joyous orphan namedJerusha, Daddy Long Legs’ leading lady. She finds hope andpossibility in the stories she writes,
and her collection will soon grow before youreyes! Like Jerusha, TheatreWorks loves telling stories, knowing they lift spirits, empower change,and impact lives.
Every year we share stories like Daddy Long Legs with over 25,000 local students, 350 artistsfrom around the world, and nearly 100,000 regional patrons—including yourself. If you believein the power of storytelling, I invite you to give a gift during this “Season of Giving” and joinTheatreWorks in sharing stories that inspire thousands of grateful theatregoers, including themany students who attend our student matinees!
With your gift today, you’ll join a committed famil yof donors who will gift stories this season. Yoursupport will help us fill our bookshelf in the lobby,on which every volume is one of the many storieswe have premiered over the years, with each representing $1,000 in gifts to TheatreWorks during this “Season of Giving.” We have over 200 premieres to add to our shelves, so be generousknowing that your gift will enable us to createexceptional stori es for years to come!
With gratitude from your humble storyteller,
Robert Kelley, Artistic Director
This holiday season,
fill TheatreWorks’
shelves with stories
that transform lives.
Use the envelope in this program to make your gifttoday or visit us online at theatreworks.org/give
or call 650.463.7155.
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“Intimate, sensitive. The emotional stakes are high.”Los Angeles Times
March 8–April 2 Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Altotheatreworks.org 650.463.1960
Finding laughter in life’s tough questions.
CalligraphyBy Velina Hasu HoustonDirected by Leslie Martinson
Coming Soon at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley
PLAYWRIGHT VELINA HASU HOUSTONis an internationally celebrated writer with over twenty theatre and opera commissions.She is a Fulbright Scholar and Playwright-in-Residence at the Pasadena Playhouse. She is the leading US playwright to extensivelyexplore the US/Japan relationship through a bilateral, global view of identity. Her 1981play Tea, about five Japanese war brides,inspired Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club. Ms. Houston’s work has been producedaround the world to critical acclaim.
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“Intimate, sensitive. The emotional stakes are high.”Los Angeles Times
March 8–April 2 Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Altotheatreworks.org 650.463.1960
Finding laughter in life’s tough questions.
CalligraphyBy Velina Hasu HoustonDirected by Leslie Martinson
Coming Soon at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley
PLAYWRIGHT VELINA HASU HOUSTONis an internationally celebrated writer with over twenty theatre and opera commissions.She is a Fulbright Scholar and Playwright-in-Residence at the Pasadena Playhouse. She is the leading US playwright to extensivelyexplore the US/Japan relationship through a bilateral, global view of identity. Her 1981play Tea, about five Japanese war brides,inspired Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club. Ms. Houston’s work has been producedaround the world to critical acclaim.
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TheatreWorks Silicon Valley ContributorsTHE PRODUCER CIRCLETheatreWorks Producers have made a gift of $10,000 or more. They are invited to exclusive events with visiting artists, and on special theatre trips. Producers may selecta production to follow from “page to stage” by attending the design presentation, rehearsals, and opening nights. Producers also receive all Inner Circle benefits.Contact Hans Cárdenas at 650.463.7155 or [email protected] for more information.
Visionary Producers($50,000 and above)
Ann S. BowersDr. & Mrs. W. M. Coughran, Jr.Anne & Larry HamblyThe Dirk & Charlene Kabcenell FoundationRay & Meredith RothrockTheatreWorks Board Emeritus
Executive Producers($25,000 to $49,999)
Bruce CozaddYogen & Peggy DalalThe John & Marcia Goldman FoundationWilliam GreenJudy Heyboer & Brian ShallyPhil Kurjan & Noel Butler Michelle & Michael KwatinetzMendelsohn Family FundMorgan Family FoundationCynthia Sears
Rick Stern & Nancy Ginsburg SternLynn Szekely-Goode & Dr. Richard GoodeMark & Teri VershelLisa Webster & Ted SempleGayla Lorthridge Wood & Walt Wood
Producers($10,000 to $24,999)
Anonymous (2)Marsha & Bill AdlerLois & Dr. Edward AndersonPaul Asente & Ron JenksElaine Baskin & Ken KrechmerLucy Berlin & Glenn TrewittJayne BookerBredt Family Fund at Truckee Tahoe Community FoundationSteve & Gayle BruglerSteven & Karin ChaseGeorge & Susan Crow
Gordon & Carolyn DavidsonRanae DeSantisJohn & Susan DiekmanSusan FairbrookDan & Catharine GarberSylvia & Ron GerstEmeri & Brad HandlerWilliam J. HiggsLarry Horton & George WilsonLeigh & Roy JohnsonLisa & Marc JonesMike & Martha KahnJulie Kaufman & Doug KleinRobert Kelley & Ev ShiroTom & Sharon KelleyRobin & Don KennedyDick & Cathy LampmanDorothy LazierMark & Debra LeslieMark Lewis & Barbara ShapiroMarks Family FoundationThe Marmor Foundation/ Drs. Michael & Jane Marmor
THE INNER CIRCLE Jayne Booker, ChairMembers of The Inner Circle contribute a minimum of $1,500 each season and enjoya variety of benefits including priority subscription seating, VIP ticket purchases andexchanges, access to house seats on Broadway, and invitations to Meet-the-Artistsevents. Contact Hans Cárdenas at 650.463.7155 or [email protected] for moreinformation.
Associate Producers($6,000 to $9,999)Anonymous (2)Katherine Bazak & John DohnerDavid & Ann CrockettJohn & Wynne DobynsDavid E. Gold & Irene BlumenkranzLinda M. Hinton & Vince FoeckeEdward Hunter & Michelle GarciaCharlotte Jacobs & Roderick YoungSue & Dick LevyRob & Ann MarangellRichard NiblockBill & Janet NichollsJoe, Nancy, Sam & Sara RageyRon & Lila Schmidt
Directors($3,000 to $5,999)Carol BacchettiPaul & Debbie BakerJoel & Wendy BartlettJim Bassett & Lily HurlimannThe BelleJAR Foundation
Steven & Michele BoalMarah & Gene BrehautBruce & Gail ChizenDean & Wilma ChuDiane & Howard CrittendenRandy Curry & Kay SimonRichard & Josephine FerrieGayle FlanaganLynda & Steve FoxPeter & Rose FriedlandTerry & Carolyn Gannon in honor of Robert KelleyJerre & Nancy HitzD & J Hodgson Family FoundationStanley JohnsonBarbara JonesLouise KarrHal & Iris KorolJohn & Catharine KristianBill & Terry KrivanArlene & Jack LeslieJanet Littlefield & William CoggshallKevin McCoyThe Merrimac FundBuff & Cindy MillerMyrna & Hy Mitchner, PhD
Suzanne Martin & John DoyleGillian & Tom MoranLeslie & Douglas Murphy-ChutorianYvonne & Mike NevensRichard PartridgeAdam SamuelsPhilip Santora & Cristian AsherDorothy SaxeLoren & Shelley SaxeMartha Seaver & Scott WaleckaLeonard Shustek & Donna DubinskyLarry & Barbara SonsiniJanet Strauss & Jeff HawkinsDebra Summers & John BakerHolly Ward & Scott SpectorWatkins Family Charitable FundCarol WattsHarriet & Frank WeissBart & Nancy WestcottJane Weston & J. HornBill & Janne Wissel
45 for 45CircleTheatreWorks 45 for 45 Circle members have made a multi-yearpledge of $45,000 or more to honor Robert Kelley and TW’s 45th Anniversary. Contact Hans Cárdenas at 650.463.7155 [email protected] for more information.
Elaine Baskin & Ken Krechmer
Ann S. Bowers
Gayle & Steve Brugler
Bruce Cozadd
Gordon & Carolyn Davidson
Sylvia & Ron Gerst
Anne & Larry Hambly
Judy Heyboer & Brian Shally
Julie Kaufman
Tom & Sharon Kelley
Phil Kurjan & Noel Butler
Michelle & Michael Kwatinetz
Dorothy Lazier
Mark & Debra Leslie
Carole & Michael Marks
Suzanne Martin &
John Doyle
Mendelsohn Family Fund
Rebecca & James Morgan
Cynthia Sears
Barbara Shapiro &
Mark Lewis
Rick Stern &
Nancy Ginsburg Stern
Mark & Teri Vershel
Lisa Webster
Watkins Family Charitable
Trust
Carol Watts
Janne & Bill Wissel
Eileen Nelson & Hugh FranksMargo & Roy OgusTom Rindfleisch & Carli ScottPaul & Sheri RobbinsMark & Martha RossRita & Robert RoveEdward & Jane SeamanBart SearsRon & Ellen ShulmanJoyce Reynolds Sinclair & Dr. Gerald M. SinclairLisa & Matthew SonsiniSusanne StevensCatherine & Jeff ThermondOdette & Ewart ThomasBrent & Michèle TownshendTed & Betty UllmanTzipor Ulman & Yigal RubinsteinGriff & Lynne WeberMark & Sheila Wolfson
Players ($1,500 to $2,999)Anonymous (5)Marc & Sophia AbramsonDouglas & Loretta AllredMary Ann Anthony & Ken FowkesPeter Bacchetti in memory of Ray BacchettiLisa Backus & Anthony MontefuscoShirley BaileyDoug & Marie BarryPat Bashaw & Gene SegreJane Baxter & Steve BeckMr. & Mrs. David W. BeachBetsy & George BechtelDon & Deborah BennettStuart & Marcella BernsteinDr. Barbara L. Bessey in memory of Dr. Kevin J. GilmartinCaroline BeverstockCharlotte & David BiegelsenWendell & Celeste BirkhoferBob & Martha BowdenLauren & Darrell BoyleMichael & Leslie BraunKathy BridgmanEllen & Marc Brown
Chet & Marcie BrownEric Butler MD & Suzanne Rocca-ButlerJeff & Deborah ByronCalvin & Jennifer CarrRon & Sally CarterJosephine Chien & Stephen JohnsonNancy Mahoney CohenJodi Corwin & Irv Duchowny in memory of Milt, Michael, & JackJeff & Amy CroweRedwood Serenity FundRichard & Anita DavisScott & Edie DeVineDouglas DexterDennis & Cindy DillonCarl & Meredith DitmoreMonica DonovanPamela DoughertyJack & Marcia EdelsteinMr. & Mrs. Robert EnglishSue & Jeff EpsteinPatrick FarrisSheldon Finkelstein & Beatriz V. InfanteKathleen FittsPeggy Woodford Forbes & Harry BremondDiane & Bob FrankleBarbara Franklin & Bernie LothFrancis FranklinJay & Joyce FriedrichsMarkus Fromherz & Heike SchmitzMarilee GardnerNancy & Charles GeschkeCiro & Eileen GiammonaKenneth & Susan GreathouseRenee & Mark GreensteinNancy & Bill GroveBarbara GuntherPeter & Laura HaasJim & Linda HaganKovin HaganElaine & Eric HahnRussell & Debbie HallJane Hamlin & Steven SchowSusan Heller
Helen HelsonDavid & Noreen HenigCraig & Deborah HoffmanAnne & Emma Grace HolmesDavid Hornik & Pamela Miller-HornikSusan M. HuchPerry A. Irvine & Linda Romley-IrvineSudhanshu & Lori JainClaiborne S. JonesHilary Jones* Craig & Gina Jorasch Family FundJack JorgensonMr. & Mrs. Abdo KadifaThomas Kailath & Anu MaitraRuth Ann & David KeeferCynthia & Bert KeelyArthur KellerChris KenrickLiz & Rick KnissWoof Kurtzman & Liz HertzJim & Marilyn LattinMarcia & Henry LawsonLinda LesterDonald & Rachel LevyRobert J. Lipshutz & Nancy Wong, MDDrs. John & Penny LoebTom & Sally LogothettiMalcolm MacNaughtonNancy Madison & Michael PriceMonte MansirAnne B. McCarthyPatricia McClung & Allen MorganPatricia McGuiganGerald & Betty McIntyreDave & Carolyn McLoughlinRani Menon & Keith AmidonShauna Mika & Rick CallisonSondra Murphy & Jeremy PlattMelinda Nasif & Michael ScruggsJames NiemasikLynn & Susan OrrEllice & Jim PappDavid Pasta in memory of Gloria J.A. Guth
Beth & Charlie PerrellCarrie Perzow & Von LeirerCarey & Josh PickusJohn & Valerie PoggiDiane PosnakSusan Rabin & David BuchananIn memory of Pearl ReimerKaren & John ReisEddie Reynolds & Ed JonesEdward & Verne RiceOrli & Zack RinatAlicia Rojas & Howard LyonsBetsy Boardman RossAlan Russell & Fred ThiemannEllen & Jerry SalimanJoseph & Sandy SantandreaElizabeth & Mark ScharLee & Kim ScheuerCharles G. Schulz & Claire E. TaylorCarolyn Schutz*Pamela & Rick ShamesJack & Dorothy ShannahanSarah Shema & Neyssa MarinaMarge & Jim ShivelyUrsula ShultzCarolyn & Rick SilbermanGerry SipesEllen & Ed SmithPamela SmithJim Stephens & Abraham BrownMark Stevens & Mary MurphyThe Sher-Right FundJerry Strom & Marilyn AustinJan Thomson & Roy LevinHelaina TitusRobert J. Van der Leest, MDMimi & Jim Van HorneThomas VogelsangMargaret & Curt WeilPaul & Barbara WeissElissa Wellikson & Tim ShroyerKaren Carlson WhiteKen & Ruth WilcoxLynn Wilson & Howard RobertsNeil & Ann WolffBill & Sue Worthington
Benefactors($750 to $1,499)Anonymous • Sally Abel • Mr & Mrs. Charles E. Benjamin • Robert Block • Cheryl Booton & Robert Mannell • Sharon & John Brauman • Marni Brown & Gabe Garcia •H. Hans Cardenas • Lee & Amy Christel • Robert A. Cook • Ronald & Marion Dickel • James J. Elacqua • Suzanne & Allan Epstein • Joseph & Sondra Glider • Sue & BillGould • Mary Ann & John Grilli • Candace Hathaway & Chuck Bernstein • Mitzi Henderson • In memory of Bridget Ross • Nancy Lee Jalonen • Dean & Patricia Johnson• Mary Louise Johnson • Carl Jukkola & Desmond Lee • David & Joyce Kim • Michael & Ina Korek • Stephen & Nancy Levy • George & Ann Limbach • Richard & CharleneMaltzman in memory of Carol Adler • Anders & Juneko Martinson • Sharon & Harris Meyers • Gus Meyner in memory of Miriam • William & Sue Miklos • Annie Nunan*• Heidi & Jorge Ochoa • Bob Rodert & Bev Kiltz • Mary Rodgers in memory of David Rodgers • Nancy & Magnus Ryde • Emil J. & Barbara Sarpa • David & Harriet Schnur• Perry Segal • Todd Smith • Sheri Sobrato • Denise & Jim Stanford • Polly Taylor in memory of Ted Taylor • Arlene & Bruce S. White • Judith & Peter Wolken • Joel &Linda Zizmor
Contributions listed were received between 11/7/2015 and 11/7/2016. Program deadlines and space limitations prevent us from listing all of our greatly appreciated patrons. For corrections, or to make a contribution, please contact Michelle Piasecki at 650.463.7132 or [email protected].
* Indicates donors whose gifts include in-kind goods or services. + Indicates members of the Encore Club, who make ongoing monthly or quarterly gifts.
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TheatreWorks Silicon Valley ContributorsTHE PRODUCER CIRCLETheatreWorks Producers have made a gift of $10,000 or more. They are invited to exclusive events with visiting artists, and on special theatre trips. Producers may selecta production to follow from “page to stage” by attending the design presentation, rehearsals, and opening nights. Producers also receive all Inner Circle benefits.Contact Hans Cárdenas at 650.463.7155 or [email protected] for more information.
Visionary Producers($50,000 and above)
Ann S. BowersDr. & Mrs. W. M. Coughran, Jr.Anne & Larry HamblyThe Dirk & Charlene Kabcenell FoundationRay & Meredith RothrockTheatreWorks Board Emeritus
Executive Producers($25,000 to $49,999)
Bruce CozaddYogen & Peggy DalalThe John & Marcia Goldman FoundationWilliam GreenJudy Heyboer & Brian ShallyPhil Kurjan & Noel Butler Michelle & Michael KwatinetzMendelsohn Family FundMorgan Family FoundationCynthia Sears
Rick Stern & Nancy Ginsburg SternLynn Szekely-Goode & Dr. Richard GoodeMark & Teri VershelLisa Webster & Ted SempleGayla Lorthridge Wood & Walt Wood
Producers($10,000 to $24,999)
Anonymous (2)Marsha & Bill AdlerLois & Dr. Edward AndersonPaul Asente & Ron JenksElaine Baskin & Ken KrechmerLucy Berlin & Glenn TrewittJayne BookerBredt Family Fund at Truckee Tahoe Community FoundationSteve & Gayle BruglerSteven & Karin ChaseGeorge & Susan Crow
Gordon & Carolyn DavidsonRanae DeSantisJohn & Susan DiekmanSusan FairbrookDan & Catharine GarberSylvia & Ron GerstEmeri & Brad HandlerWilliam J. HiggsLarry Horton & George WilsonLeigh & Roy JohnsonLisa & Marc JonesMike & Martha KahnJulie Kaufman & Doug KleinRobert Kelley & Ev ShiroTom & Sharon KelleyRobin & Don KennedyDick & Cathy LampmanDorothy LazierMark & Debra LeslieMark Lewis & Barbara ShapiroMarks Family FoundationThe Marmor Foundation/ Drs. Michael & Jane Marmor
THE INNER CIRCLE Jayne Booker, ChairMembers of The Inner Circle contribute a minimum of $1,500 each season and enjoya variety of benefits including priority subscription seating, VIP ticket purchases andexchanges, access to house seats on Broadway, and invitations to Meet-the-Artistsevents. Contact Hans Cárdenas at 650.463.7155 or [email protected] for moreinformation.
Associate Producers($6,000 to $9,999)Anonymous (2)Katherine Bazak & John DohnerDavid & Ann CrockettJohn & Wynne DobynsDavid E. Gold & Irene BlumenkranzLinda M. Hinton & Vince FoeckeEdward Hunter & Michelle GarciaCharlotte Jacobs & Roderick YoungSue & Dick LevyRob & Ann MarangellRichard NiblockBill & Janet NichollsJoe, Nancy, Sam & Sara RageyRon & Lila Schmidt
Directors($3,000 to $5,999)Carol BacchettiPaul & Debbie BakerJoel & Wendy BartlettJim Bassett & Lily HurlimannThe BelleJAR Foundation
Steven & Michele BoalMarah & Gene BrehautBruce & Gail ChizenDean & Wilma ChuDiane & Howard CrittendenRandy Curry & Kay SimonRichard & Josephine FerrieGayle FlanaganLynda & Steve FoxPeter & Rose FriedlandTerry & Carolyn Gannon in honor of Robert KelleyJerre & Nancy HitzD & J Hodgson Family FoundationStanley JohnsonBarbara JonesLouise KarrHal & Iris KorolJohn & Catharine KristianBill & Terry KrivanArlene & Jack LeslieJanet Littlefield & William CoggshallKevin McCoyThe Merrimac FundBuff & Cindy MillerMyrna & Hy Mitchner, PhD
Suzanne Martin & John DoyleGillian & Tom MoranLeslie & Douglas Murphy-ChutorianYvonne & Mike NevensRichard PartridgeAdam SamuelsPhilip Santora & Cristian AsherDorothy SaxeLoren & Shelley SaxeMartha Seaver & Scott WaleckaLeonard Shustek & Donna DubinskyLarry & Barbara SonsiniJanet Strauss & Jeff HawkinsDebra Summers & John BakerHolly Ward & Scott SpectorWatkins Family Charitable FundCarol WattsHarriet & Frank WeissBart & Nancy WestcottJane Weston & J. HornBill & Janne Wissel
45 for 45CircleTheatreWorks 45 for 45 Circle members have made a multi-yearpledge of $45,000 or more to honor Robert Kelley and TW’s 45th Anniversary. Contact Hans Cárdenas at 650.463.7155 [email protected] for more information.
Elaine Baskin & Ken Krechmer
Ann S. Bowers
Gayle & Steve Brugler
Bruce Cozadd
Gordon & Carolyn Davidson
Sylvia & Ron Gerst
Anne & Larry Hambly
Judy Heyboer & Brian Shally
Julie Kaufman
Tom & Sharon Kelley
Phil Kurjan & Noel Butler
Michelle & Michael Kwatinetz
Dorothy Lazier
Mark & Debra Leslie
Carole & Michael Marks
Suzanne Martin &
John Doyle
Mendelsohn Family Fund
Rebecca & James Morgan
Cynthia Sears
Barbara Shapiro &
Mark Lewis
Rick Stern &
Nancy Ginsburg Stern
Mark & Teri Vershel
Lisa Webster
Watkins Family Charitable
Trust
Carol Watts
Janne & Bill Wissel
Eileen Nelson & Hugh FranksMargo & Roy OgusTom Rindfleisch & Carli ScottPaul & Sheri RobbinsMark & Martha RossRita & Robert RoveEdward & Jane SeamanBart SearsRon & Ellen ShulmanJoyce Reynolds Sinclair & Dr. Gerald M. SinclairLisa & Matthew SonsiniSusanne StevensCatherine & Jeff ThermondOdette & Ewart ThomasBrent & Michèle TownshendTed & Betty UllmanTzipor Ulman & Yigal RubinsteinGriff & Lynne WeberMark & Sheila Wolfson
Players ($1,500 to $2,999)Anonymous (5)Marc & Sophia AbramsonDouglas & Loretta AllredMary Ann Anthony & Ken FowkesPeter Bacchetti in memory of Ray BacchettiLisa Backus & Anthony MontefuscoShirley BaileyDoug & Marie BarryPat Bashaw & Gene SegreJane Baxter & Steve BeckMr. & Mrs. David W. BeachBetsy & George BechtelDon & Deborah BennettStuart & Marcella BernsteinDr. Barbara L. Bessey in memory of Dr. Kevin J. GilmartinCaroline BeverstockCharlotte & David BiegelsenWendell & Celeste BirkhoferBob & Martha BowdenLauren & Darrell BoyleMichael & Leslie BraunKathy BridgmanEllen & Marc Brown
Chet & Marcie BrownEric Butler MD & Suzanne Rocca-ButlerJeff & Deborah ByronCalvin & Jennifer CarrRon & Sally CarterJosephine Chien & Stephen JohnsonNancy Mahoney CohenJodi Corwin & Irv Duchowny in memory of Milt, Michael, & JackJeff & Amy CroweRedwood Serenity FundRichard & Anita DavisScott & Edie DeVineDouglas DexterDennis & Cindy DillonCarl & Meredith DitmoreMonica DonovanPamela DoughertyJack & Marcia EdelsteinMr. & Mrs. Robert EnglishSue & Jeff EpsteinPatrick FarrisSheldon Finkelstein & Beatriz V. InfanteKathleen FittsPeggy Woodford Forbes & Harry BremondDiane & Bob FrankleBarbara Franklin & Bernie LothFrancis FranklinJay & Joyce FriedrichsMarkus Fromherz & Heike SchmitzMarilee GardnerNancy & Charles GeschkeCiro & Eileen GiammonaKenneth & Susan GreathouseRenee & Mark GreensteinNancy & Bill GroveBarbara GuntherPeter & Laura HaasJim & Linda HaganKovin HaganElaine & Eric HahnRussell & Debbie HallJane Hamlin & Steven SchowSusan Heller
Helen HelsonDavid & Noreen HenigCraig & Deborah HoffmanAnne & Emma Grace HolmesDavid Hornik & Pamela Miller-HornikSusan M. HuchPerry A. Irvine & Linda Romley-IrvineSudhanshu & Lori JainClaiborne S. JonesHilary Jones* Craig & Gina Jorasch Family FundJack JorgensonMr. & Mrs. Abdo KadifaThomas Kailath & Anu MaitraRuth Ann & David KeeferCynthia & Bert KeelyArthur KellerChris KenrickLiz & Rick KnissWoof Kurtzman & Liz HertzJim & Marilyn LattinMarcia & Henry LawsonLinda LesterDonald & Rachel LevyRobert J. Lipshutz & Nancy Wong, MDDrs. John & Penny LoebTom & Sally LogothettiMalcolm MacNaughtonNancy Madison & Michael PriceMonte MansirAnne B. McCarthyPatricia McClung & Allen MorganPatricia McGuiganGerald & Betty McIntyreDave & Carolyn McLoughlinRani Menon & Keith AmidonShauna Mika & Rick CallisonSondra Murphy & Jeremy PlattMelinda Nasif & Michael ScruggsJames NiemasikLynn & Susan OrrEllice & Jim PappDavid Pasta in memory of Gloria J.A. Guth
Beth & Charlie PerrellCarrie Perzow & Von LeirerCarey & Josh PickusJohn & Valerie PoggiDiane PosnakSusan Rabin & David BuchananIn memory of Pearl ReimerKaren & John ReisEddie Reynolds & Ed JonesEdward & Verne RiceOrli & Zack RinatAlicia Rojas & Howard LyonsBetsy Boardman RossAlan Russell & Fred ThiemannEllen & Jerry SalimanJoseph & Sandy SantandreaElizabeth & Mark ScharLee & Kim ScheuerCharles G. Schulz & Claire E. TaylorCarolyn Schutz*Pamela & Rick ShamesJack & Dorothy ShannahanSarah Shema & Neyssa MarinaMarge & Jim ShivelyUrsula ShultzCarolyn & Rick SilbermanGerry SipesEllen & Ed SmithPamela SmithJim Stephens & Abraham BrownMark Stevens & Mary MurphyThe Sher-Right FundJerry Strom & Marilyn AustinJan Thomson & Roy LevinHelaina TitusRobert J. Van der Leest, MDMimi & Jim Van HorneThomas VogelsangMargaret & Curt WeilPaul & Barbara WeissElissa Wellikson & Tim ShroyerKaren Carlson WhiteKen & Ruth WilcoxLynn Wilson & Howard RobertsNeil & Ann WolffBill & Sue Worthington
Benefactors($750 to $1,499)Anonymous • Sally Abel • Mr & Mrs. Charles E. Benjamin • Robert Block • Cheryl Booton & Robert Mannell • Sharon & John Brauman • Marni Brown & Gabe Garcia •H. Hans Cardenas • Lee & Amy Christel • Robert A. Cook • Ronald & Marion Dickel • James J. Elacqua • Suzanne & Allan Epstein • Joseph & Sondra Glider • Sue & BillGould • Mary Ann & John Grilli • Candace Hathaway & Chuck Bernstein • Mitzi Henderson • In memory of Bridget Ross • Nancy Lee Jalonen • Dean & Patricia Johnson• Mary Louise Johnson • Carl Jukkola & Desmond Lee • David & Joyce Kim • Michael & Ina Korek • Stephen & Nancy Levy • George & Ann Limbach • Richard & CharleneMaltzman in memory of Carol Adler • Anders & Juneko Martinson • Sharon & Harris Meyers • Gus Meyner in memory of Miriam • William & Sue Miklos • Annie Nunan*• Heidi & Jorge Ochoa • Bob Rodert & Bev Kiltz • Mary Rodgers in memory of David Rodgers • Nancy & Magnus Ryde • Emil J. & Barbara Sarpa • David & Harriet Schnur• Perry Segal • Todd Smith • Sheri Sobrato • Denise & Jim Stanford • Polly Taylor in memory of Ted Taylor • Arlene & Bruce S. White • Judith & Peter Wolken • Joel &Linda Zizmor
Contributions listed were received between 11/7/2015 and 11/7/2016. Program deadlines and space limitations prevent us from listing all of our greatly appreciated patrons. For corrections, or to make a contribution, please contact Michelle Piasecki at 650.463.7132 or [email protected].
* Indicates donors whose gifts include in-kind goods or services. + Indicates members of the Encore Club, who make ongoing monthly or quarterly gifts.
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Visionary Sponsors ($50,000 and above)The Garden Court Hotel*The William & Flora Hewlett FoundationJ. Lohr Vineyards & Wines*The Mercury News*Microsoft CorporationThe David & Lucile Packard FoundationThe Shubert FoundationSobrato Philanthropies*
Presenting Sponsor($25,000 to $49,999)Avant! FoundationNational Endowment for the ArtsSand Hill FoundationStephen Silver Fine Jewelry*
Supporting Sponsors($15,000 to $24,999)Applied MaterialsCarla Befera Public Relations*Fenwick & West LLPThe Kimball FoundationThe Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust
Sponsors($10,000 to $14,999)Adams Wine Group*The Leonard C. & Mildred F. Ferguson FoundationHarrell RemodelingHeising-Simons FoundationHengehold Motor Company*
Benefactors($5,000 to $9,999)Dodge & Cox Investment ManagersHurlbut-Johnson Charitable TrustsPalo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund
Supporters($2,500 to $4,999)AvidbankCooley LLP*Los Altos Community FoundationS. H. Cowell FoundationThe Morrison & Foerster FoundationPalo Alto Weekly*Perkins Coie LLPSynapticsWells Fargo
Friends($1,000 to $2,499)AnonymousApplied Materials Excellence in the Arts Grants, a program of Silicon Valley CreatesChaseVP*The Dramatists Guild FundInternational ProInsurance Services LLCNikon Precision, Inc.
Matching GiftsMany companies will double or triple theiremployees’ contributions to nonprofits. It’s a great way to make your gift toTheatreWorks go further at no extra cost.Call 650.463.7155 for more information.
* Indicates donors whose gifts include in-kind goods or services.
CORPORATE CIRCLE, FOUNDATION, & GOVERNMENT GIFTSFoundations and Corporate Circle members sponsor productions, support new works, and fund education programs for K–12 students. Sponsors may host events at the theatre, receive heightened community visibility, and enjoy other hospitality benefits.Contact Hans Cárdenas at 650.463.7155 or [email protected] for more information.
Marsha & Bill Adler • William C. Anderson • Ann S. Bowers • Polly & Tom Bredt • Bruce Cozadd & SharonHoffman • Peter & Melanie Cross • Yogen & Peggy Dalal • Carl H. Feldman • Kathryn Green • The John &Marcia Goldman Foundation • Emeri & Brad Handler • Hurlbut-Johnson Charitable Trusts • Charles & RobertaKatz Family Foundation • Patricia McClung & Allen Morgan • The Rathmann Family Foundation • EddieReynolds • John & Diane Savage • Joyce Reynolds Sinclair • Lynn Szekely-Goode & Dr. Richard Goode
ENDOWMENT FUNDTheatreWorks Silicon Valley thanks the following lead donors for their extraordinarily generous Endowment gifts.
Anonymous (6) • Marc Abramson • The Estate of William C. Anderson • Ray & Carol Bacchetti • Elaine Baskin &Ken Krechmer • Pauline Berkow & Ronald Kauffman • David & Lauren Berman • Jayne Booker • James & DianeBordoni • Ann S. Bowers • Steve & Gayle Brugler • Carol Buchser • The estate of Cathryn Z. Cannon • EleanorW. Caughlan • Steven & Karin Chase • Jodi Corwin & Irv Duchowny • Bruce Cozadd • George & Susan Crow •John & Wynne Dobyns • John & Linda Elman • Frances Escherich • Susan Fairbrook • Harriett Ferziger • GayleFlanagan • Carole & David Florian • Peter & Rose Friedland • Terry & Carolyn Gannon • Ed Glazier • Marcia &John Goldman • Kathryn Green • Lorie Griswold • Maureen Hoberg • Sharon Hoffman • Anne & Emma GraceHolmes • Kenny Hom • Sam & Elaine Housten • Susan M. Huch • Edward Hunter & Michelle Garcia • John W. &Nancy Lee Jalonen • Barry Lee Johnson • Stanley Earl Johnson • Claiborne S. Jones • Mike & Martha Kahn • Dr.Steve Kelem • Robert Kelley & Ev Shiro • Jane Kos • Bill & Terry Krivan • Phil Kurjan & Noel Butler • WoofKurtzman • Mr. & Mrs. Robert Mangelsdorf • Steve Mannshardt • Monte Mansir • Suzanne Martin & John Doyle• Leigh Metzler & Jim McVey • Cynthia S. Miller • Tami & Craney Ogata • Doris Gottsegen-Reiner • Karen & JohnReis • Eddie Reynolds • Betsy Boardman Ross • Adam Samuels • Philip Santora & Cristian Asher • Dorothy Saxe• Loren & Shelley Saxe • Edward & Jane Seaman • Barbara Shapiro & Mark Lewis • Joyce Reynolds Sinclair •Gerry Sipes • Carol Snell & Mindy Rauch • Esther Sobel • Jim & Mary Southam • Cherrill M. Spencer • Rick Stern& Nancy Ginsburg Stern • Susanne Stevens • Mark Stevenson • Laurie Waldman • Carol Watts • Karen CarlsonWhite • Renee & Herman Winick
FUTUREWORKSFutureWorks members have made an estate gift from a will or living trust, a beneficiary designation in an IRA, a gift of life insurance, a gift that returns lifetime income, or another planned gift. Contact [email protected] for more information.
VISIONARY SPONSORS
PRESENTING SPONSORS
SUPPORTING SPONSORS
SPONSORS
Business, meet box office.Encore Media Group connects businesses and brands to the best of arts & culture in the Bay Area and Seattle.
We’re proud to have published programs for TheatreWorks since 2007.
From shopping centers and jewelers to hospitals and schools, smart business owners know Encore is the best way to get their brand in the spotlight.
To learn what Encore can do for your business, visit encoremediagroup.com.
Visionary Sponsors ($50,000 and above)The Garden Court Hotel*The William & Flora Hewlett FoundationJ. Lohr Vineyards & Wines*The Mercury News*Microsoft CorporationThe David & Lucile Packard FoundationThe Shubert FoundationSobrato Philanthropies*
Presenting Sponsor($25,000 to $49,999)Avant! FoundationNational Endowment for the ArtsSand Hill FoundationStephen Silver Fine Jewelry*
Supporting Sponsors($15,000 to $24,999)Applied MaterialsCarla Befera Public Relations*Fenwick & West LLPThe Kimball FoundationThe Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust
Sponsors($10,000 to $14,999)Adams Wine Group*The Leonard C. & Mildred F. Ferguson FoundationHarrell RemodelingHeising-Simons FoundationHengehold Motor Company*
Benefactors($5,000 to $9,999)Dodge & Cox Investment ManagersHurlbut-Johnson Charitable TrustsPalo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund
Supporters($2,500 to $4,999)AvidbankCooley LLP*Los Altos Community FoundationS. H. Cowell FoundationThe Morrison & Foerster FoundationPalo Alto Weekly*Perkins Coie LLPSynapticsWells Fargo
Friends($1,000 to $2,499)AnonymousApplied Materials Excellence in the Arts Grants, a program of Silicon Valley CreatesChaseVP*The Dramatists Guild FundInternational ProInsurance Services LLCNikon Precision, Inc.
Matching GiftsMany companies will double or triple theiremployees’ contributions to nonprofits. It’s a great way to make your gift toTheatreWorks go further at no extra cost.Call 650.463.7155 for more information.
* Indicates donors whose gifts include in-kind goods or services.
CORPORATE CIRCLE, FOUNDATION, & GOVERNMENT GIFTSFoundations and Corporate Circle members sponsor productions, support new works, and fund education programs for K–12 students. Sponsors may host events at the theatre, receive heightened community visibility, and enjoy other hospitality benefits.Contact Hans Cárdenas at 650.463.7155 or [email protected] for more information.
Marsha & Bill Adler • William C. Anderson • Ann S. Bowers • Polly & Tom Bredt • Bruce Cozadd & SharonHoffman • Peter & Melanie Cross • Yogen & Peggy Dalal • Carl H. Feldman • Kathryn Green • The John &Marcia Goldman Foundation • Emeri & Brad Handler • Hurlbut-Johnson Charitable Trusts • Charles & RobertaKatz Family Foundation • Patricia McClung & Allen Morgan • The Rathmann Family Foundation • EddieReynolds • John & Diane Savage • Joyce Reynolds Sinclair • Lynn Szekely-Goode & Dr. Richard Goode
ENDOWMENT FUNDTheatreWorks Silicon Valley thanks the following lead donors for their extraordinarily generous Endowment gifts.
Anonymous (6) • Marc Abramson • The Estate of William C. Anderson • Ray & Carol Bacchetti • Elaine Baskin &Ken Krechmer • Pauline Berkow & Ronald Kauffman • David & Lauren Berman • Jayne Booker • James & DianeBordoni • Ann S. Bowers • Steve & Gayle Brugler • Carol Buchser • The estate of Cathryn Z. Cannon • EleanorW. Caughlan • Steven & Karin Chase • Jodi Corwin & Irv Duchowny • Bruce Cozadd • George & Susan Crow •John & Wynne Dobyns • John & Linda Elman • Frances Escherich • Susan Fairbrook • Harriett Ferziger • GayleFlanagan • Carole & David Florian • Peter & Rose Friedland • Terry & Carolyn Gannon • Ed Glazier • Marcia &John Goldman • Kathryn Green • Lorie Griswold • Maureen Hoberg • Sharon Hoffman • Anne & Emma GraceHolmes • Kenny Hom • Sam & Elaine Housten • Susan M. Huch • Edward Hunter & Michelle Garcia • John W. &Nancy Lee Jalonen • Barry Lee Johnson • Stanley Earl Johnson • Claiborne S. Jones • Mike & Martha Kahn • Dr.Steve Kelem • Robert Kelley & Ev Shiro • Jane Kos • Bill & Terry Krivan • Phil Kurjan & Noel Butler • WoofKurtzman • Mr. & Mrs. Robert Mangelsdorf • Steve Mannshardt • Monte Mansir • Suzanne Martin & John Doyle• Leigh Metzler & Jim McVey • Cynthia S. Miller • Tami & Craney Ogata • Doris Gottsegen-Reiner • Karen & JohnReis • Eddie Reynolds • Betsy Boardman Ross • Adam Samuels • Philip Santora & Cristian Asher • Dorothy Saxe• Loren & Shelley Saxe • Edward & Jane Seaman • Barbara Shapiro & Mark Lewis • Joyce Reynolds Sinclair •Gerry Sipes • Carol Snell & Mindy Rauch • Esther Sobel • Jim & Mary Southam • Cherrill M. Spencer • Rick Stern& Nancy Ginsburg Stern • Susanne Stevens • Mark Stevenson • Laurie Waldman • Carol Watts • Karen CarlsonWhite • Renee & Herman Winick
FUTUREWORKSFutureWorks members have made an estate gift from a will or living trust, a beneficiary designation in an IRA, a gift of life insurance, a gift that returns lifetime income, or another planned gift. Contact [email protected] for more information.
VISIONARY SPONSORS
PRESENTING SPONSORS
SUPPORTING SPONSORS
SPONSORS
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TheatreWorks SV Staff Artistic Director Robert Kelley Managing Director Phil Santora
SCENERY
Technical DirectorFrank Sarmiento
Lead Scenic Artist /CraftsmanTom Langguth
Master CarpenterBill Roberts
CarpentersEsteban Calvillo, Andrew Clark,Rodrigo Frausto, Henry Ing, Patrick McKenna
PROPERTIES
Properties MasterChristopher Fitzer
Properties Stock ManagerAlfred Rudolph
Properties ArtisanCharlynn Knighton
COSTUMES
Costume DirectorJill Bowers
Assistant CostumerNoah Marin
Lead Cutter/DraperYen La Wong
Costume Rentals ManagerConni Edwards
Wardrobe ManagerSarah Hatton
Assistant Cutter/First HandMichelle Earney
StitchersNhan Thi Luu, Son Pham
Resident WigmasterSharon Ridge
Hair StylistJeanne Naritomi
Costume Rentals InternsLaini Katheiser, Sara Yates
STAGE MANAGEMENT
Resident Stage ManagerRandall K. Lum
DEVELOPMENT
Director of DevelopmentRonnie Plasters
Associate Director of Individual GiftsH. Hans Cárdenas
Events ManagerJodi Corwin
Development Operations ManagerMichelle Piasecki
Telefunding RepresentativeConstance Gannon
EDUCATION
Director of EducationAmy Cole-Farrell
Associate Education DirectorKatie Bartholomew
Education Associate/Master Teaching ArtistMeghan C. Hakes
Master Teaching ArtistPiper LaGrelius
Teaching ArtistsJake ArkyBrittany Caine Maggie ColeJennifer DebevecMary KalitaFredrika KeeferJosh Marx Lauren MayerJennifer MitchellMichileen OberstKelly RinehartMartin Rojas DietrichCassie RosenbrockElissa StebbinsKristina SutherlandAmanda WallaceMaryssa Wanlass
MARKETING
Director of MarketingLorraine VanDeGraaf-Rodriguez
Art DirectorEv Shiro
Associate Director of MarketingSyche Phillips
Box Office ManagerAlix Josefski
Sales ManagerSarah Benjamin
Digital Media ManagerJennifer Gosk
Tessitura SpecialistAndrew Skelton
Marketing & Ticketing SupervisorHeather Orth
Patron Services CoordinatorTracy Hayden
Ticket Services RepresentativesAndrée Beals, Laura Henricksen,Margaret Purdy, Michelle Skinner
Graphics AssistantKatie Dai
Public Relations & AdvertisingCarla Befera & Co.Carla Befera, Molly Kullman
Company PhotographersKevin BerneAlessandra Mello
ADMINISTRATIVE
General ManagerScott DeVine
Database AdministratorKen Maitz
BookkeeperJason Hyde
Staff AccountantBarbara Sloss
Front Desk VolunteersJoan Doherty, Cindi Sears
And thanks to our fabulousTheatreWorkers!
DADDY LONG LEGS ADDITIONAL STAFF
ARTISTIC
Associate Artistic DirectorLeslie Martinson
Director of New WorksGiovanna Sardelli
Company Manager/Casting AssociateJeffrey Lo
FutureWorks FellowAkemi Okamura
Resident Musical DirectorWilliam Liberatore
New Works Reading CommitteeBill Adler, Cristian Asher, Elaine Baskin, Doug Brook, Sue Krumbein, Shareen Merriam,Patty Reinhart, Cindi Sears, Amy Sundberg, Scott Walecka
Artistic InternGrace Hoffman
PRODUCTION,
LIGHTING, & SOUND
Production ManagerDavid A. Milligan
Assistant Production ManagerElizar Ivanov
Operations Manager/Master ElectricianSteven B. Mannshardt
Resident Lighting DesignerSteven B. Mannshardt
Production CoordinatorKaren Szpaller
ElectriciansKat Arguello, Justin Barnett, Steven Fetter, Carolyn Guggemos, A.C. Hay, Cosmo Hom, Dan Kaminski, Sean Kramer, Nick Kumamoto, Harris Meyers, Gary Nelson, Jeff Spackman,Jarku Virtanen, Jackson Wijtman
Load-in/Strike VolunteersRick Amerson, Ed Hunter
Lighting, Sound, & Properties InternNoah Listgarten
Assistant Director Kieran BecciaProduction Assistant Cheryle HonerlahLight Board Operator Justin BuchsSound Engineer Quinn PierronShow Carpenter Megan Hall
Open Captioning Operator Sarah BenjaminDramaturgy Davis Banta, Kieran Beccia, Nina McMurtrie, Carolyn Murray
TheatreWorks SV General InformationCONTACT USMailing Address:PO Box 50458, Palo Alto, CA 94303-0458Phone: 650.463.1950 Fax: 650.463.1963E-mail: [email protected]
TICKET SERVICESTickets to all TheatreWorks Silicon Valley performances are sold through the TheatreWorksSilicon Valley Box OfficeHours: Monday–Friday, 11am–6pm; Saturday-Sunday, 12pm-6pmPhone: 650.463.1960Tickets may also be obtained through theMountain View Center Ticket OfficeHours: Wednesday–Saturday, noon–6pmPhone: 650.903.6000
WALK-UP TICKET SERVICESThe walk-up ticket office will open one hourprior to each performance.
PERFORMANCE TIMES Wed, Thur, Fri Previews 8pmTuesday & Wednesday Eve 7:30pmThursday–Saturday Eve 8:00pmSunday Eve 7:00pmWednesday, Saturday, & Sunday Matinee 2:00pm
INDIVIDUAL TICKET PRICES Starting at $32 (balcony).Discounts available for Seniors, Educators, andPatrons 35 & Under. For pricing, call650.463.1960 or visit theatreworks.org.
LATE ARRIVALSLatecomers will not be seated until appropriateintervals, and may not be seated in their exactseat locations until intermission.
LOST AND FOUNDFor Mountain View Center for the PerformingArts lost and found, please call 650.903.6568.For Lucie Stern Theatre lost and found, pleasecall 650.463.1960.
PLEASE REMEMBERThere is no smoking in the theatres or lobbies.Cameras and recording devices of any kind are strictly prohibited. Neither food nor drink is permitted in the theatres. Please ensure thatall electronic devices are set to the “off“ position while you are in the theatre.Children 5 and under are not permitted in the theatre. Persons 14 and under must beaccompanied by an adult. Every person, regardless of age, must have a ticket.Schedules, shows, casts, and ticket prices aresubject to change.Single ticket purchases are non-refundable, butare exchangeable for $15 per ticket. Some restrictions apply.
Visit theatreworks.org for detailed information or to purchase tickets.
GROUP SAVINGSSavings are available for groups of 8 or more. For more information, call Sarah Benjamin at650.463.7177 or email [email protected].
WHEELCHAIR SEATINGSeating is available for wheelchair patrons. Pleasetelephone the Ticket Office in advance so that special arrangements may be made.
LISTENING SYSTEMS Both theatres are equipped with listening systems for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. Please see the house manager for details.
AUDIO-CAPTIONINGAudio captioning for the visually impaired is available at certain performances. Please call650.463.1960 for details.
OPEN-CAPTIONED PERFORMANCESOpen-captioned performances for Daddy Long legs: 12/18 at 2pm & 7pm, 12/21 at 2pmCrimes of the Heart: 1/29 at 2pm & 7pm, 2/1 at 2pmFor more information about open captioning,please contact the box office at 650.463.1960 or [email protected].
VIPBACKSTAGE
PASSTheatreWorksS I L I C O N V A L L E Y
2017/18RELEASE PARTY
SAVE THE DATE!Feb 13, 2017
Mountain View Center for the Performing ArtsBe the first to know when
Artistic Director Robert Kelleyannounces the exciting new 2017/18 Season!
RSVP: 650.463.7147 or [email protected]
30 THEATREWORKS
TheatreWorks SV Staff Artistic Director Robert Kelley Managing Director Phil Santora
SCENERY
Technical DirectorFrank Sarmiento
Lead Scenic Artist / CraftsmanTom Langguth
Master CarpenterBill Roberts
CarpentersEsteban Calvillo, Andrew Clark,Rodrigo Frausto, Henry Ing, Patrick McKenna
PROPERTIES
Properties MasterChristopher Fitzer
Properties Stock ManagerAlfred Rudolph
Properties ArtisanCharlynn Knighton
COSTUMES
Costume DirectorJill Bowers
Assistant CostumerNoah Marin
Lead Cutter/DraperYen La Wong
Costume Rentals ManagerConni Edwards
Wardrobe ManagerSarah Hatton
Assistant Cutter/First HandMichelle Earney
StitchersNhan Thi Luu, Son Pham
Resident WigmasterSharon Ridge
Hair StylistJeanne Naritomi
Costume Rentals InternsLaini Katheiser, Sara Yates
STAGE MANAGEMENT
Resident Stage ManagerRandall K. Lum
DEVELOPMENT
Director of DevelopmentRonnie Plasters
Associate Director of Individual GiftsH. Hans Cárdenas
Events ManagerJodi Corwin
Development Operations ManagerMichelle Piasecki
Telefunding RepresentativeConstance Gannon
EDUCATION
Director of EducationAmy Cole-Farrell
Associate Education DirectorKatie Bartholomew
Education Associate/Master Teaching ArtistMeghan C. Hakes
Master Teaching ArtistPiper LaGrelius
Teaching ArtistsJake ArkyBrittany Caine Maggie ColeJennifer DebevecMary KalitaFredrika KeeferJosh Marx Lauren MayerJennifer MitchellMichileen OberstKelly RinehartMartin Rojas DietrichCassie RosenbrockElissa StebbinsKristina SutherlandAmanda WallaceMaryssa Wanlass
MARKETING
Director of MarketingLorraine VanDeGraaf-Rodriguez
Art DirectorEv Shiro
Associate Director of MarketingSyche Phillips
Box Office ManagerAlix Josefski
Sales ManagerSarah Benjamin
Digital Media ManagerJennifer Gosk
Tessitura SpecialistAndrew Skelton
Marketing & Ticketing SupervisorHeather Orth
Patron Services CoordinatorTracy Hayden
Ticket Services RepresentativesAndrée Beals, Laura Henricksen,Margaret Purdy, Michelle Skinner
Graphics AssistantKatie Dai
Public Relations & AdvertisingCarla Befera & Co.Carla Befera, Molly Kullman
Company PhotographersKevin BerneAlessandra Mello
ADMINISTRATIVE
General ManagerScott DeVine
Database AdministratorKen Maitz
BookkeeperJason Hyde
Staff AccountantBarbara Sloss
Front Desk VolunteersJoan Doherty, Cindi Sears
And thanks to our fabulousTheatreWorkers!
DADDY LONG LEGS ADDITIONAL STAFF
ARTISTIC
Associate Artistic DirectorLeslie Martinson
Director of New WorksGiovanna Sardelli
Company Manager/Casting AssociateJeffrey Lo
FutureWorks FellowAkemi Okamura
Resident Musical DirectorWilliam Liberatore
New Works Reading CommitteeBill Adler, Cristian Asher, Elaine Baskin, Doug Brook, Sue Krumbein, Shareen Merriam,Patty Reinhart, Cindi Sears, Amy Sundberg, Scott Walecka
Artistic InternGrace Hoffman
PRODUCTION,
LIGHTING, & SOUND
Production ManagerDavid A. Milligan
Assistant Production ManagerElizar Ivanov
Operations Manager/Master ElectricianSteven B. Mannshardt
Resident Lighting DesignerSteven B. Mannshardt
Production CoordinatorKaren Szpaller
ElectriciansKat Arguello, Justin Barnett, Steven Fetter, Carolyn Guggemos, A.C. Hay, Cosmo Hom, Dan Kaminski, Sean Kramer, Nick Kumamoto, Harris Meyers, Gary Nelson, Jeff Spackman,Jarku Virtanen, Jackson Wijtman
Load-in/Strike VolunteersRick Amerson, Ed Hunter
Lighting, Sound, & Properties InternNoah Listgarten
Assistant Director Kieran BecciaProduction Assistant Cheryle HonerlahLight Board Operator Justin BuchsSound Engineer Quinn PierronShow Carpenter Megan Hall
Open Captioning Operator Sarah BenjaminDramaturgy Davis Banta, Kieran Beccia, Nina McMurtrie, Carolyn Murray
TheatreWorks SV General InformationCONTACT USMailing Address:PO Box 50458, Palo Alto, CA 94303-0458Phone: 650.463.1950 Fax: 650.463.1963E-mail: [email protected]
TICKET SERVICESTickets to all TheatreWorks Silicon Valley performances are sold through the TheatreWorksSilicon Valley Box OfficeHours: Monday–Friday, 11am–6pm; Saturday-Sunday, 12pm-6pmPhone: 650.463.1960Tickets may also be obtained through theMountain View Center Ticket OfficeHours: Wednesday–Saturday, noon–6pmPhone: 650.903.6000
WALK-UP TICKET SERVICESThe walk-up ticket office will open one hourprior to each performance.
PERFORMANCE TIMES Wed, Thur, Fri Previews 8pmTuesday & Wednesday Eve 7:30pmThursday–Saturday Eve 8:00pmSunday Eve 7:00pmWednesday, Saturday, & Sunday Matinee 2:00pm
INDIVIDUAL TICKET PRICES Starting at $32 (balcony).Discounts available for Seniors, Educators, andPatrons 35 & Under. For pricing, call650.463.1960 or visit theatreworks.org.
LATE ARRIVALSLatecomers will not be seated until appropriateintervals, and may not be seated in their exactseat locations until intermission.
LOST AND FOUNDFor Mountain View Center for the PerformingArts lost and found, please call 650.903.6568.For Lucie Stern Theatre lost and found, pleasecall 650.463.1960.
PLEASE REMEMBERThere is no smoking in the theatres or lobbies.Cameras and recording devices of any kind are strictly prohibited. Neither food nor drink is permitted in the theatres. Please ensure thatall electronic devices are set to the “off“ position while you are in the theatre.Children 5 and under are not permitted in the theatre. Persons 14 and under must beaccompanied by an adult. Every person, regardless of age, must have a ticket.Schedules, shows, casts, and ticket prices aresubject to change.Single ticket purchases are non-refundable, butare exchangeable for $15 per ticket. Some restrictions apply.
Visit theatreworks.org for detailed information or to purchase tickets.
GROUP SAVINGSSavings are available for groups of 8 or more. For more information, call Sarah Benjamin at650.463.7177 or email [email protected].
WHEELCHAIR SEATINGSeating is available for wheelchair patrons. Pleasetelephone the Ticket Office in advance so that special arrangements may be made.
LISTENING SYSTEMS Both theatres are equipped with listening systems for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. Please see the house manager for details.
AUDIO-CAPTIONINGAudio captioning for the visually impaired is available at certain performances. Please call650.463.1960 for details.
OPEN-CAPTIONED PERFORMANCESOpen-captioned performances for Daddy Long legs: 12/18 at 2pm & 7pm, 12/21 at 2pmCrimes of the Heart: 1/29 at 2pm & 7pm, 2/1 at 2pmFor more information about open captioning,please contact the box office at 650.463.1960 or [email protected].
VIPBACKSTAGE
PASSTheatreWorksS I L I C O N V A L L E Y
2017/18RELEASE PARTY
SAVE THE DATE!Feb 13, 2017
Mountain View Center for the Performing ArtsBe the first to know when
Artistic Director Robert Kelleyannounces the exciting new 2017/18 Season!
RSVP: 650.463.7147 or [email protected]
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