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This performance was made possible through the generous support of Robert K. and Dale Jellison Weary.

A one-man theatrical memoir

Lied Center Presents

John Lithgow: Stories by Heart

Monday, September 17, 7:30 p.m.

John Lithgow: StorieS by Heart

Conceived and Written by John Lithgow

Lighting Design eriC CornweLL

Production stage Manager JaSon BrouiLLard

Press representation Jennifer aLLen, Mandi warren, Viewpoint, inC

tour Marketing representation Catherine MaJor, C MaJor Marketing, inC

exclusive tour Direction L. gLenn poppLeton aVid touring group, Ltd

Produced and Managed by StaCi LeVine

Stories By Heart was originally directed by Jack O’Brien and originally produced by Lincoln Center theatre, 2008. Uncle Fred Flits By by PG Wodehouse is

included by kind permission of the estate of PG Wodehouse and taken from his collection of short stories, Young Men in Spats (1936). Haircut by ring Lardner is

included by kind permission of the estate of ring Lardner.

Conceived and Written byJOHN LITHGOW

Lighting DesignERIC CORNWELL

Production Stage Manager MATTHEW AARON STERN

Press RepresentationJENNIFER ALLEN, MANDI WARREN, VIEWPOINT, INC

Tour Marketing RepresentationCATHERINE MAJORC MAJOR MARKETING, INC

Exclusive Tour DirectionL. GLENN POPPLETONAVID TOURING GROUP, LTD Produced and Managed bySTACI LEVINE

Stories By Heart was originally directed by Jack O’Brien and originally produced by Lincoln Center Theatre, 2008. “Uncle Fred Flits By” by PG Wodehouse is included by kind permission of the Estate of PG Wodehouse and taken from his collection of short stories, Yong Men in Spats (1936). “Haircut” by Ring Lardner is included by kind permissionof the estate of Ring Lardner.

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There will be a 20-minute intermission

JOHN LITHGOW’s roots are in the theater. In 1973, he won a tony Award three weeks after his Broadway debut, in David storey’s “the Changing room.” since then, he has appeared on Broadway twenty more times, earning another tony, four more tony nominations, four Drama Desk Awards, and induction into the theatre Hall of Fame. ensuing stage performances have included major roles in My Fat Friend, Trelawney of the Wells, Comedians, Anna Christie, Bedroom Farce, Beyond Therapy, M. Butterfly, The Front Page, Retreat from Moscow, All My Sons, the Off-Broadway premieres of Mrs. Farnsworth and Mr. and Mrs. Fitch, and the musicals Sweet Smell of Success (his second tony), and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. In 2007, he was one of the very few American actors ever invited to join the royal shakespeare Company, playing Malvolio in Twelfth Night at stratford-upon-Avon. In 2008, he devised his own one-man show Stories by Heart for the Lincoln Center theater Company, and has been touring it around the country ever since, including a triumphant six-week run at the Mark taper Forum in Los Angeles. He can currently be seen on Broadway in David Auburn’s new drama The Columnist in which Lithgow portrays famed Washington political columnist Joseph Alsop, a performance which has earned Lithgow his sixth tony nomination.

In the early 1980’s Lithgow began to make a major mark in films. At that time, he was nominated for Oscars in back-to-back years, for The World According to Garp and Terms of Endearment. In the years before and after, he appeared in over 30 films. notable among them have been All That Jazz, Blow Out, Twilight Zone: the Movie, Footloose, 2010, Buckaroo Banzai, Harry and the Hendersons, Memphis Belle, Raising Cain, Ricochet, Cliffhanger, Orange County, Shrek, Kinsey, and a flashy cameo in Dreamgirls. Lithgow was most recently seen on the big screen in Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Fox’s prequel to Planet of the Apes, and up next is the political comedy The Campaign starring Will Ferrell, and Judd Apatow’s This is 40 both films coming out this year.

For his work on television, Lithgow has been nominated for 11 emmy Awards. He won five of them, one for an episode of Amazing Stories, and three for what is perhaps his most celebrated creation. this was the loopy character of the alien High Commander, Dick solomon, on the hit nBC comedy series 3rd Rock from the Sun. In that show’s six-year run, Lithgow also won the Golden Globe, two sAG Awards, the American Comedy Award, and, when it finally went off the air, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. More recently, his diabolical turn as the trinity Killer in a twelve-episode arc on showtime’s Dexter won him his second Golden Globe and his fifth emmy.

His other major appearances on television have included roles in The Day After, Resting Place, Baby Girl Scott, My Brother’s Keeper, tnt’s Don Quixote, HBO’s The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, and most recently How I Met Your Mother, making a long-awaited entrance as the father of Barney stinson (neil Patrick Harris).

And then there is Lithgow’s work for children. since 1998, he has written eight nY times best-selling children’s picture books, including The Remarkable Farkle McBride, Marsupial Sue, Micawber, I’m a Manatee, Mahalia Mouse Goes to College, and I Got Two Dogs. In addition, he has created two Lithgow Palooza family activity books and The Poets’ Corner for Warner Books, a compilation of fifty classic poems aimed at young people, to stir an early interest in poetry.

John Lithgow: StorieS by Heart

He has performed concerts for children with the Chicago, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Baltimore, and san Diego symphonies, and at Carnegie Hall with the Orchestra of st. Luke’s. He has released three kids’ albums, Singin’ in the Bathtub, Farkle & Friends, and the Grammy-nominated The Sunny Side of the Street. these concerts and albums have included several his of own songs and rhyming narrations. together, this prodigious work has won him two Parents’ Choice silver Honor Awards, and four Grammy nominations.

Lithgow has even dipped his toe into the world of dance. In 2003, the noted choreographer Christopher Wheeldon invited him to collaborate on a new piece for the new York City Ballet. the result was Carnival of the Animals, a ballet for fifty dancers, with music by Camille saint-saens and with Lithgow’s verse narration. Lithgow himself spoke the narration from the stage. At a certain point he ducked into the wings, climbed into costume, and re-emerged to dance the role of the elephant. He has performed this feat over twenty times.

In september, HarperCollins released Lithgow’s memoir, Drama: An Actor’s Education. the book presents scenes of his early life and career that took place before he became a nationally-known star. It vividly portrays the worlds of new York, London, and American regional theater, and relives his collaborations with renowned performers and directors including Mike nichols, Bob Fosse, Liv Ullmann, Meryl streep, and Brian De Palma. Lithgow’s ruminations on the nature of theatre, performance, and storytelling cut to the heart of why actors are driven to perform, and why people are driven to watch them do it.

Lithgow was born in rochester, new York, but grew up in Ohio, graduated from high school in Princeton, new Jersey, attended Harvard College, and used a Fulbright Grant to study at the London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art. this year Lithgow was honored as a Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medal recipient and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and sciences. In 2005, he was presented with an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters by Harvard and became the first actor in Harvard’s history to deliver the school’s commencement address.

Lithgow has three grown children, two grandchildren, and lives in Los Angeles and new York. He has been married for thirty years to Mary Yeager, a Professor of economic and Business History at UCLA.

P G WODEHOUSE (1881-1975) Perham Grenville Wodehouse was born in Guildford, surrey, was educated at Dulwich College, London, and worked for the Hong Kong and shanghai Bank before starting to earn his living as a journalist and writer. His first novel was published in 1902. He went on to write over 120 more novels, many involving Bertie Wooster, his butler Jeeves and favorite characters like Lord emsworth (and his prize sow, the empress of Blandings), Aunt Dahlia, Psmith and others. Wodehouse also had success in musical comedy. He worked with Cole Porter on Anything Goes and wrote the hit song Bill from Jerome Kern’s Showboat. He also worked in the theatre and Hollywood. He became a U.s. citizen in 1955. the short story Uncle Fred Flits By was first published in the U.s. in redbook in July 1935 and in the U.K. that December in the strand. It was included in the collection Young Men in Spats, 1936.

RING LARDNER (1885-1933) was born in Michigan. He was a successful sports writer and newspaper columnist in Chicago, st Louis and new York, and drew

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on his sporting background in his first collection of stories, You Know Me Al: A Busher’s Letters, 1916. His other story collections include Gullible’s Travels, 1917; Treat ‘Em Rough, 1918; The Love Nest, 1926; and First and Last, 1936. His only novel, The Big Town was published in 1921. He also wrote a satirical pseudo-autobiography The Story of a Wonder Man, 1927, and a musical comedy, June Moon, 1929. Haircut was published in 1925.

ERIC CORNWELL (Lighting Design, Production Management) has created lighting for Patti LuPone, Mandy Patinkin, eli Wallach, Anne Jackson and dozens of dance, opera, and theatre companies in the new York area. eric’s lighting work has taken him across north America many times, and through europe, Asia, south America and Australia. While waiting for gigs in Africa and Antarctica to complete his world tour, he creates software for entertainment lighting design.

STACI LEVINE (Producer) is a producer and general manager working in theater, concerts and film. In addition to Lithgow’s Stories By Heart, staci produces the theatrical concerts Mandy Patinkin in Concert and An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin. she has produced works by the playwright David simpatico including the play Mary, the musical drama The Screams of Kitty Genovese (with music by Will todd), and the film Wish Fulfillment. staci’s recent management projects include the Drama Desk Awards, events for Just Food, the University of texas, BBC radio and Class Productions. she general managed the Off-Broadway play The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant by Fassbinder and was the general manager for dre.dance, a contemporary dance company created by taye Diggs and Andrew Palermo. From 1996 to 2005 staci was associated with Dodger theatricals, working on numerous Broadway, Off-Broadway and touring productions including Titanic, Footloose, High Society, Blast!, The Music Man, 42nd Street, 1776, Wrong Mountain, Into the Woods, Barbra’s Wedding, Bare, Urinetown, Dracula and Good Vibrations, as a member of Dodger Management Group. staci sits on the board of directors for chashama and dre.dance.

AVID TOURING GROUP, LTD (Exclusive North American Tour Direction) In addition to Lithgow’s Stories By Heart, Avid represents Mandy Patinkin in Concert, An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, Cathy Rigby is Peter Pan and Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas. recent tours include Monty Python’s Spamalot, Happy Days, Lerner and Loewe’s Camelot starring Michael York (and later with Lou Diamond Phillips), and Deaf West theatre’s production of Big River. www.Avidtouring.com

ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION (AEA) was founded in 1913 as the first of the American actor unions. equity’s mission is to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. today, equity represents more than 40,000 actors, singers, dancers and stage managers working in hundreds of theatres across the United states. equity members are dedicated to working in the theatre as a profession, upholding the highest artistic standards. equity negotiates wages and working conditions and provides a wide range of benefits including health and pension plans for its members. through its agreement with equity, this theatre has committed to the fair treatment of the actors and stage managers employed in this production. AeA is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. For more information, visit www.actorsequity.org.

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Lighting Design/Production Manager ............................................... Eric Cornwell

Production Stage Manager ............................................................ Jason Brouillard

Sound Consultant ........................................................................ Daniel J. Gerhard

Management Associate ........................................................................... Tim Hurley

Press Representation...................... Jennifer Allen, Mandi Warren, Viewpoint, Inc

Tour Marketing ............ Catherine Major, Spike Dawson, CMajor Marketing, Inc

Production Photos .....................................................Nigel Parry/CPi; Joan Marcus

Advertising ..................................... Sandy Block, Moira Finney, Serino Coyne, Inc

Special thanks to: Jack O’Brien, Andre Bishop, Bernard Gersten, Matt Wheeler,

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John Lithgow: StorieS by Heart

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