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T H E P R O G R A M F O R B R O A D W A Y I N D E T R O I T A T T H E F I S H E R T H E A T R E

NOVEMBER 3 –5, 2017 NOVEMBER 7–12 , 2017

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An American in Paris

Due to media: 9/25/2017

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AN AMERICAN IN PARISMUSIC AND LYRICS BY

GEORGE GERSHWIN AND IRA GERSHWINBOOK BY

CRAIG LUCASDIRECTED AND CHOREOGRAPHED BY

CHRISTOPHER WHEELDONIllustration: Don Oehl; Logo: Esther Wu

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CREATED BY: Nic Doodson CO-CREATED BY: Jack Blume

STARRING: Marcus Collins, Ball-Zee, Joanne Evans, Ed Scott, Nicholas Hayes,

Emilie Louise Israel, Monica Sik Holm, Matthew Darren, Leigh Jacobson

DIRECTOR: Alexandra Spencer-Jones MUSICAL DIRECTOR: Jack Blume SCENIC DESIGN: Phillip Gladwell

LIGHTING DESIGN: Charlie Morgan-Jones ADDITIONAL LIGHTING DESIGN: Zach Ciaburri

SOUND DESIGN: Hugh Walker ASSOCIATE MUSICAL DIRECTOR: Andrew Carter

CAST

THE CONDUCTOR Ball-Zee

THE MAN Nicholas Hayes

THE LAD Marcus Collins

THE BOY Ed Scott

THE WOMAN Emilie Louise Israel

THE LADY Joanne Evans

THE GIRL Monica Sik Holm

UNDERSTUDIES

Leigh Jacobson Matthew Darren

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WHO’S WHO Gobsmacked!MARCUS COLLINS (The Lad) at just 29 years old, has already achieved great heights in his singing and musical career after his journey started on TV’s highest rating talent show, “The X Factor.” Marcus became a firm favourite right from the beginning and his talent was nurtured by his mentor, Gary Barlow. Marcus proved himself adept at putting in startling musical per-formances, moving through different styles and genres of music with ease. However, it was his slick interpretation of Motown and soul classics that assured him a place in the final, where he got to sing his series showstopper “(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher” as well as teaming up with Gary for a spectacular duet. After finishing as runner up on “The X Factor,” Marcus was immediately snapped up to begin recording and released his debut album which featured production by the London-based Me-trophonic team, who had previously worked with Whitney Houston and Cher. The album included the critically acclaimed cover of The White Stripes hit “Seven Nation Army” which also became his first top 10 single in the UK. Marcus is a born performer and his love of live stage work has seen him fulfill another ambition by appearing in the award-winning production of Hairspray and being in the original west end cast and three time Olivier award winning musi-cal Kinky Boots who had their live cast recording recently nominated for a Grammy. His warmth and outstanding vocals continue to entertain his audience. The humble boy from Liverpool has never forgotten his roots and is now one of the city’s most beloved singing sons. Marcus has proved that with hard work, tremendous tal-ent, and a little bit of help from Gary Barlow, he has been able to live his dream of pursuing a sustained and continued career in music and entertainment. Marcus is thrilled to soon embark on the North American tour as a vocalist of a capella vocal harmony group Gobsmacked! Fol-low Marcus on twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @Marcuscollinsuk. MONIKA SIK-HOLM (The Girl). Training: First Class BA (Hons.) from Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts. Credits: A Beautiful Noise—The Neil Diamond Story (UK Tour), Cinderella in Cinderella (Plowright Theatre), Alice Fitzwar-ren in Dick Whittington (Thwaites Empire The-atre), Magical Misstery Four (Royal Carribbean, Princess Cruises, Celebrity & Holland America), The Playlist (Munken Playhouse, Norway), The Rock Frogs (Norway), Brigitta in Scandinavian Heart (Iris Theatre), Cybersoul (Lost Theatre). Voice-overs/recordings include: “The Rock Frogs” (Universal Music Norway), “BeatBo” (Fisher Price/Mattel), on-call for the heart & Vivi Theme Tune (VoiceArchives). Monica rep-resented Norway as a singer and pianist in the World Championships for Performing Arts in Los Angeles in 2011, and took home both gold and silver medals in her cateogories. She regu-

larly performs her own solo cabarets for ships, hotels and corporate entertainment. Monica wrote, composed and produced her first large scale musical at the age of 17 and is now the com-poser of seven musicals, including “Jog On” to be workshopped at Andrew Lloyd’s Webber The Other Palace in 2018 after readings at The Win-ter Gardens, Blackpool & Soho Theatre, London. BALL-ZEE (The Engineer). Patrick Hirst a.k.a. Ball-Zee is one of the UK’s leading beatbox art-ists and has quickly become established as one of the leading vocal musicians on the world stage thanks to his unique musical style, signature snares and astonishingly realistic sound effects. Along with The Beatbox Collective, Ball-Zee is the current world team Beatbox champion. Ball-Zee is in constant demand as a teacher, competi-tion judge and workshop leader. In the last year he has performed and taught in Australia, China, India, Hong Kong, Poland, U.K, Germany, Italy and many more. EMILIE LOUISE ISRAEL (The Woman) be-gan her training at Arts Educational Schools, since then she has performed across the UK in several large scale touring productions includ-ing: Lead Vocalist in The Hitmaker: The Music of Nile Rodgers (Viva Productions), Freak Fest: 80’s Halloween (Viva Productions) & most re-cently as Lead Vocalist on the Magic of Motown UK & Ireland Tour. Emilie can also be seen in the music video for Honne. Emilie is very excit-ed to start the next chapter of her career, travel-ling the U.S. and doing what she loves. NICK HAYES (The Man). Television and Film: The Definition of Lonely (Official selection & winner best film, Outwest film festival NV), Series regular Orson Buxton in “Hollyoaks: In the City” (Channel 4/BBC America) , Thomas Portman in “Doctors” (BBC), Roy in “Boyfriend Material,” Shannon in “Telegraph Hill,” Paul Ashworth in RAT (Official selection Blackbird film festival NYC) & “Jessie J” television cam-paign for TUC Crackers. West End: Legally Blonde The Musical (three-time Olivier award winner/Savoy Theatre). Standby Ren McCor-mack in Footloose (Playhouse Theatre), Under-study Bobby C in Saturday Night Fever (Apollo Victoria), originated the role of Angel in Lift (Trafalgar studios), Billy in Elegies for Angels Punks and Raging Queens (Soho Theatre) An-gel in a Gala performance of Rent (Garrick The-atre). Other theatre credits include: Neil in the award-winning production of Mysterious Skin (King’s Head) Nick Piazza in Fame (National Tour), first cover Sky in Mamma Mia, George in The Wedding Singer (Original UK Tour), Mitchell in the irish premiere of The Little Dog Laughed (Project Arts centre, Dublin), Tulsa in Gypsy (Wales millenium Centre), Angel Clare in Tess of the D’urbervilles (New Wimbledon), Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever, resident Director/Kenickie in Grease for Royal Carib-bean International. Workshops include: Pete in Monkee Business! (Dominion Theatre), James in

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Beyond Desire (New wimbledon), LIFT by Craig Adams, Georg Jensen in Savage (Arts Theatre). Awards: Best Actor award at Kino Shorts ’61 for The Definition of Lonely. Follow Nick on Twitter & Instagram here: @NickHayesUK. JOANNE EVANS (The Diva). Performing cred-its: Gobsmacked!: Edinburgh, London, Hong Kong (of course), Posh (Nottingham and Salis-bury playhouses, 2015) directed by Susannah Tresilian, Pride and Prejudice. Workshop (Not-tingham playhouse, 2017), as part of the company of the Thursford Christmas Spectacular (2016), Opera Holland Park (2013), English National Opera, Third Hand Opera, Opera Viscera. Other: Co-writer on theme for BBC1’s “Pitch Battle.” ED SCOTT (The Boy) is an alumnus and former musical director of the University of Exeter’s award winning vocal ensemble Semi-Toned. A self-taught vocalist, Ed has been involved with Gobsmacked! since its inception, and made his professional debut with the show at the 2015 Ed-inburgh Fringe Festival. As well as writing and arranging a cappella music, Ed works as an em-cee and voiceover artist, and runs workshops on a cappella music. He has two brothers, two cats, and two vocal registers.MATTHEW DARREN (Swing). Television:

“American Idol” (S. 10), Contestant (top 60) Fox Network. Theater: Balladeer in Assassins, Dir. C. Taggart; Beast in Beauty and The Beast, Dir. M. Ballestero; Ephraim in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Dir. N. Hazelrigg; Lord Montague in Romeo & Juliet, Dir. J. Javier. Featured vocalist in Disney World’s nightly fireworks show Hap-pily Ever After, tenor in Westbeat A Cappella, 3-D Theatricals/Downtown Disney. Training: Scene Study, Audition Technique, Richard Law-son Acting Studio, North Hollywood, CA. Vocal Performance: tenor, Studio of Dr. Susanne Reid, Costa Mesa, CA. LEIGH JACOBSON (Swing). Born and raised in Minnesota, Leigh graduated with her Bach-elor of Fine Arts (Magna Cum Laude) in Musi-cal Theatre from Minnesota State University, Mankato. Upon graduation, she was NYC bound and quickly cast in original production of Grease as Frenchy onboard the Harmony of the Seas. Leigh was recently seen starring as Shirley in Columbus: The Musical! and Jan in Grease. A few favorite past credits include: Wednesday in The Addams Family, Penny in Hairspray, and Natalie in Next To Normal (Highland Summer Theatre). Leigh is beyond excited to expand her performance career in the a cappella world with Gobsmacked!, and she is so thankful for the op-portunity to communicate with audiences via the miracle of music. NIC DOODSON (Creator and Executive Pro-ducer) has been at the forefront of global a cap-pella scene for the past 20 years as a performer, director, competition judge and producer. As a

performer, he founded The Magnets and took the group from amateur student beginnings to the most one of the most successful a cappella groups in the world, securing a major record deal with EMI and releasing three albums. As a producer Nic has created and managed shows at festivals throughout Europe, Australia, and New Zealand including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Auckland Arts Festival, Perth International Festival, Glastonbury and the Isle of Wight Fes-tival. In recent years Nic has produced and also directed shows including producing and direct-ing the show The Choir of Man and creating the world’s first a cappella cruise Sing At Sea. ALEXANDRA SPENCER-JONES (Director) is theArtistic Director of the theatre company Action to the Word (actiontotheword.com). Di-recting Credits include: A Clockwork Orange (New World Stages—New York, Park Theatre—London, Soho Theatre & World Tour); Con-stance & Sinestra and the Cabinet of Screams (Rose Bruford, Wimbledon & Edinburgh Fes-tival); Women Beware Women (LIPA/Cam-den People’s Theatre); Man-1, Bank-0 (Soho Theatre); The Oresteia: Parts I, II & III (also translator—Camden People’s Theatre/St Giles); Dracula (Arts, Theatre West End, The Pleas-ance, Edinburgh); Cloud 9, The Priory and Rent (BSA); The Merchant of Venice & Busstopkisser (CPT); Romeo & Juliet (AbbeyFest); Titus An-dronicus & Shakespeare Shorts (Edinburgh Fes-tival). ASJ previously won the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Emerging Artist for co-writing and directing Constance & Sinestra and the Cabinet of Screams. Upcoming work includes a re-imagining of the Peter Pan story The Lost Boy Peter Pan at The Pleasance Theatre, London. Associate/Movement Director credits include: Stepping Out (Theatre Royal Bath); Bend it Like Beckham (West End); Oliver! and Peter Grimes (Grange Park Opera); La Perichole (Garsington Opera); Hope (Royal Court, Liverpool); The Wizard of Oz (RUG, Palladium). JACK BLUME (Co-Creator and Musical Director) is a composer and musical director working across film, TV and theatre. He re-cently worked as an arranger and vocal coach on BBC1’s singing talent show “Pitch Battle,” in addition to composing the titles music for the programme, and is the musical director of this year’s Edinburgh Fringe hit The Choir of Man. Jack’s a cappella background was as the former beatboxer in acclaimed British group The Sons of Pitches. Described as “a superbly skilled vo-cal arranger and composer” by Grammy-award winner Ben Bram (“Pitch Perfect,” “Glee,” “Pen-tatonix)” and “one of the best in the business” by Deke Sharon (“Pitch Perfect,” “The Sing Off,”

“The House Jacks”), Jack has crafted musical arrangements for Gobsmacked! that range from the simple and beautiful to the cutting-edge, uti-lizing multi-track live looping techniques. PHILIP GLADWELL (Set Designer) has recently returned from designing the set and

Christmas Wonderland


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313-872-1000. Groups (12+): [email protected] (subject: Christmas Wonderland) or 313-871-1132. 9

WHO’S WHO Gobsmacked!lighting for Blanc de Blanc at the Sydney Op-era House. Limbo is in its third year of touring around the world. Currently touring the UK are The James Plays, Jackie the Musical, Hairspray and Laila the Musical. He is currently lighting Cymbeline at the Royal Shakespeare Company and After Miss Julie, which will tour the UK af-ter a short run at The Theatre Royal Bath. CHARLIE MORGAN-JONES (Lighting De-signer) is a freelance Lighting Designer who has lit theatre and opera in the UK and abroad. In 2014, Charlie was nominated for a Broadway World Award for his work on Cool Rider in the West End. Theatre includes: Cool Rider, The Blues Brothers, Dracula, Julian Clary—The Joy of Mincing, Sam Bailey Live (West End), Av-enue Q, Seussical, James and the Giant Peach (UK and International), Jekyll and Hyde, Kid-napped, Missing In Action, The Secret Garden (UK Tour), 3am (Curve, Leicester), Goosebumps Alive (Vaults), Earthquakes in London, Loveplay, There Is A War, Short Life of Trouble/Red Cross/Icarus’s Mother (ArtsEd), Failed States (St James), A Little Night Music (Birmingham Con-servatoire), Shutters (Park Theatre), The Boys From Syracuse, On A Clear Day You Can See Forever (Union Theatre), Alice In Wonderland (Greenwich Theatre), When The Rain Stops Fall-ing (Unity, Liverpool), Evita (Islington), Love On Trial, And Crocodiles Are Hungry At Night (Bilimankwhe), Into The Woods (Lowry, Man-chester), Two-Headed (Rose, Bankside), Boy In A Dress (OvalHouse). ANDREW KAY (International Producer) produced & presented the hugely successful Soweto Gospel Choir, winner of two Grammys, an Emmy and an Academy Award nomination. Major theatrical productions include the Old Vic Production of Richard III directed by Sam Mendes and starring Kevin Spacey, Waiting for Godot with Sir Ian McKellen, The Tempest star-ring Derek Jacobi, The Hollow Crown starring Diana Rigg, The Graduate starring Jerry Hall, The Importance of Being Earnest starring Patri-cia Routlege and productions of Talking Heads starring Maggie Smith and Brenda Blethyn. In music, Andrew has presented artists including Kathleen Battle, Yehudi Menuhin, flamenco guitarist, Paco Pena, Ibrahim Ferrer and Omara Potuono and The Buena Vista Social Club. He has produced children’s shows and acts including

“Hi-5,” “Bananas in Pyjamas,” and “LazyTown.” HUGH WALKER (Sound Designer) has worked as the live sound engineer for Grammy-winning a cappella group The Swingles since 2007. In addition to touring more than 40 countries on four continents and mixing 650+ shows for the group, he has won numerous CARA awards for his work on their studio albums. Working with Abbey Road Live, he has toured Europe with The Specials and Pixies. His recent live record-ing and editing credits include Blur, Ellie Gould-

ing, Little Mix, Justin Beiber, Paul Weller, The Who, The Beach Boys, Portishead and the Prod-igy. Hugh’s work has taken him to most major UK venues, festivals and studios, including the Royal Albert Hall, Wembley Stadium, O2 Arena, Abbey Road, Air Lyndhurst, V Festival, Isle of Wight Festival and Reading Festival. STEVEN HOWARD (International Producer) conceptualized and produced the first ballet performances at London’s O2 Arena in London starring Darcey Bussell and Katherine Jenkins in Viva La Diva, two sold-out tours of Here Come The Girls starring Lulu, Chaka Khan and Anastacia. Steven Howard’s TCB Group have also managed the careers of Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music, Gabrielle, and guided the careers and produced live arena shows for street-dance act Diversity and multi platinum pop group Steps. TCB currently represent the platinum sell-ing brothers from “Britain’s Got Talent” Richard and Adam, as well as Tunde, the voice from The Lighthouse Family. PHIL BATHOLS (International Producer) has been an independent producer for over 15 years. He regularly presents international artists of the most distinguished calibre at some of Aus-tralia and New Zealand’s finest venues. At the Sydney Opera House, Phil has hosted the likes of the great tenor Jose Carreras and sitar leg-end Ravi Shankar on his 90th birthday farewell to Australia. His passion for presenting unique, world-class events encompasses an exception-ally diverse roster of household names including

“Star Trek” icon-turned recording artist William Shatner, “Man Vs. Wild” adventurer Bear Grylls, globally respected spiritualist, thinker and self-help guru, Deepak Chopra and musical theatre icon Julie Andrews to mention a few. ANDREW CARTER (Associate Musical Di-rector) graduated with a B. Mus. (Hons.) in Vocal and Operatic Performance at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in 2016. Currently Bass and Music Captain for international touring show The Choir of Man, Andrew is in demand both as a performer and vocal director. He has worked as an Associate Artist with Birmingham Symphony Hall and is Junior Artist in residence with Ark Music, having coached at schools and societies in Liverpool, Birmingham, London, Northampton and at the International Music Education Expo at the London Olympia.

GOBSMACKED! STAFFGeneral Management • Nic Doodson Productions Limited

Company Manager • Toni Rudov for Andrew Kay & AssociatesTour Booking Agency USA • The Road Company • theroadcompany.com

Tour Booking Agency World • Glynis Henderson Productions • ghmp.co.uk

Production Manager .................................................................. Zach CiaburriLighting Operator ...................................................................... Zach CiaburriDeputy Stage Manager ..............................................................Emma CollinsSound Engineering.......................................................................Leon June Jr

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The Bodyguard


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Starring

Deborah Cox is not scheduled to perform at the Sat. matinee & Sun. evening performances

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SCOTT SANDERS PRODUCTIONS ROY FURMAN TROIKA ENTERTAINMENT DAVID BABANI TOM SIRACUSACAIOLA PRODUCTIONS JAMES FANTACI TED LIEBOWITZ JAMES L. NEDERLANDER DARREN BAGERT

CANDY SPELLING ADAM ZOTOVICH ERIC FALKENSTEIN/MORRIS BERCHARD JUST FOR LAUGHS THEATRICALSTANYA LINK PRODUCTIONS JAM THEATRICALS INDEPENDENT PRESENTERS NETWORK CAROL FINEMAN

PRESENT THE

BOOK BY

MARSHA NORMANMUSIC AND LYRICS BY

BRENDA RUSSELL ALLEE WILLIS STEPEHEN BRAYBASED ON THE NOVEL WRITTEN BY ALICE WALKER AND THE WARNER BROS /AMBLIN ENTERTAINMENT MOTION PICTURE

WITH

ADRIANNA HICKS CARLA R. STEWART CARRIE COMPEREGAVIN GREGORY J. DAUGHTRY N’JAMEH CAMARA

DARNELL ABRAHAM AMAR ATKINS KYLE E. BAIRD ANGELA BIRCHETT JARED DIXON ERICA DURHAM BIANCA HORN GABRIELLE REID C.E. SMITH CLYDE VOCE

NYLA WATSON J.D. WEBSTER BRIT WEST NIKISHA WILLIAMS MICHAEL WORDLY

SET DESIGN

JOHN DOYLECOSTUME DESIGN

ANN HOULD-WARDLIGHTING DESIGN

JANE COXSOUND DESIGN

DAN MOSES SCHREIERHAIR DESIGN

CHARLES G.

CASTING

TELSEY + COMPANYJUSTIN HUFF, C.S.A

ASSOCIATE COSTUME DESIGN

CHRISTOPHER VERGARA

MUSIC SUPERVISOR

CATHERINE JAYESMUSIC DIRECTOR/CONDUCTOR

DARRYL ARCHIBALDORCHESTRATIONS

JOSEPH JOUBERTMUSIC COORDINATOR

TALITHA FEHR

TOUR BOOKING

THE BOOKING GROUPMEREDITH BLAIR & KARA GEBHART

MARKETING & PUBLICITY DIRECTION

BOND THEATRICAL GROUPTOUR SOCIAL MEDIA

MARATHON LIVE ENTERTAINMENT

GENERAL MANAGEMENT

TROIKA ENTERTAINMENTJIM LANAHAN

PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER

MELISSA CHACÓNPRODUCTION MANAGEMENT

TROIKA ENTERTAINMENTANNA E. BATE

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

MATT DICARLODIRECTION AND MUSICAL STAGING

JOHN DOYLE

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CAST The Color Purple(in alphabetical order)

Adam .................................................................................................DARNELL ABRAHAMGuard ............................................................................................................ AMAR ATKINSBobby/Buster ............................................................................................... KYLE E. BAIRDChurch Lady......................................................................................... ANGELA BIRCHETTNettie ......................................................................................................N'JAMEH CAMARASofia ....................................................................................................... CARRIE COMPEREHarpo. ...............................................................................................................J. DAUGHTRYGrady .............................................................................................................. JARED DIXON Squeak........................................................................................................ ERICA DURHAMMister ........................................................................................................ GAVIN GREGORYCelie ........................................................................................................ADRIANNA HICKSChurch Lady ..................................................................................................BIANCA HORNOlivia ....................................................................................................... GABRIELLE REIDPreacher/Ol' Mister ...............................................................................................C.E. SMITHShug Avery...........................................................................................CARLA R. STEWARTPa......................................................................................................................J.D. WEBSTERChurch Lady ........................................................................................................ BRIT WEST

All other roles are played by members of the company.

SWINGSCLYDE VOCE, NYLA WATSON,

NIKISHA WILLIAMS, MICHAEL WORDLY

UNDERSTUDIESFor Celie: GABRIELLE REID, NIKISHA WILLIAMS; for Shug Avery: BIANCA HORN, BRIT WEST; for Sofia: ANGELA BIRCHETT, BRIT WEST; for Mister: AMAR ATKINS, CLYDE VOCE; for Harpo: AMAR ATKINS, JARED DIXON; for Nettie: ERICA DURHAM, NIKISHA WILLIAMS; for Squeak: GABRIELLE REID, NIKISHA WILLIAMS; for Bobby/Buster: CLYDE VOCE, MICHAEL WORDLY; for Pa: CLYDE VOCE, MICHAEL WORDLY; for Guard: CLYDE VOCE, MICHAEL WORDLY; for Church Ladies: NYLA WATSON, NIKISHA WILLIAMS; for Preacher/Ol' Mister: CLYDE VOCE, MICHAEL WORDLY; for Adam: CLYDE VOCE, MICHAEL WORDLY; for Grady: DARNELL ABRAHAM, MICHAEL WORDLY; for Olivia: NYLA WATSON, NIKISHA WILLIAMS.

Dance Captain: J. DAUGHTRY Fight Captain: BIANCA HORN

THERE WILL BE ONE 20-MINUTE INTERMISSION

SETTINGThe story takes place in Georgia between 1909 and 1949.

The use of any recording device, either audio or video, and the taking of photographs, either with or without flash, is strictly prohibited by law. Please turn off all electronic devices such as cellular phones, beepers and watches prior to the beginning of the performance.

CAST The Color Purple

Adrianna Hicks Carla R. Stewart Carrie Compere

Gavin Gregory J. Daughtry N’Jameh Camara

Darnell Abraham Amar Atkins Kyle E. Baird Angela Birchett Jared Dixon

Erica Durham Bianca Horn Gabrielle Reid C.E. Smith Clyde Voce

Nyla Watson J.D. Webster Brit West Nikisha Williams Michael Wordly

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MUSICAL NUMBERS The Color PurpleACT ONE

"Huckleberry Pie" ............................................................................................ Celie and Nettie"Mysterious Ways" ...............................................................................................The Company"Somebody Gonna Love You" ...........................................................................................Celie"Our Prayer" ...............................................................................................Nettie, Celie, Mister"Big Dog” ..........................................................................................................Mister and Men"Hell No!" ......................................................................................................Sofia and Women"Brown Betty" .....................................................................................Harpo, Squeak and Men"Shug Avery Comin' to Town" ....................................................... Mister, Celie and Company"Too Beautiful for Words" ................................................................................................. Shug"Push da Button" .........................................................................................Shug and Company"Uh Oh!" ..............................................................................................................The Company"What About Love?" ..........................................................................................Celie and Shug

ACT TWO"African Homeland"........................................................................Nettie, Celie and Company"The Color Purple" ............................................................................................................ Shug"Celie's Curse" .................................................................................................................Mister"Miss Celie's Pants" .......................................................................................Celie and Women"Any Little Thing" .......................................................................................... Harpo and Sofia"I'm Here"...........................................................................................................................Celie"The Color Purple" (Reprise) .....................................................................Celie and Company

ORCHESTRAConductor / Keys 1: Darryl Archibald

Associate Conductor / Keys 2: Wayne Green Reed 1 (Alto Saxophone, Clarinet, Flute, Alto Flute): Dave Stambaugh

Reed 2 (Baritone Saxophone, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone): Bill Leary Guitar (Electric, Acoustic, Dobro, Harmonica, 12 String): Michael Karcher

Bass (Electric, Acoustic): Chris Thigpen Trumpet: Andrew Golden

Drums: Trevor Holden

Keyboard Programming: Randy CohenMusic Coordinator: Talitha Fehr

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WHO’S WHO The Color PurpleADRIANNA HICKS (Celie) is beyond thrilled to be playing Celie in her first national tour of The Color Purple! Her credits include Broadway: Swing (The Color Purple, Revival), Fortune Teller/ Jasmine’s Attendant (Aladdin) Regional/International: Deloris cov. (Sister Act, Germany), Judge/Pilar cov. (Legally Blonde, Austria), Sarah (Ragtime), Marlena (Buddy Holly), and a backup singer for Michael Bublé (Call Me Irresponsible Tour, OK). Adrianna would like to thank and dedicate this experience to her family, friends, and professors for their undying love and sup-port. Proverbs 16:3. Instagram:@missadrianna-hicks Twitter: @msadriannahicks. CARLA R. STEWART (Shug Avery) is thrilled to tour as Shug Avery after making her Broad-way debut in the Tony and Grammy-winning revival (Olivia/Church Lady). An AMDA New York graduate. Recent/favorite regional credits: First national tour of Ghost the Musical (Oda Mae Brown), The Wiz (Dorothy), Rent (Joanne), Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Nell). Many thanks to Irene Cabrera at DDO Agency. Look What God Has Done! Matthew 5:16. In loving memory of Anita Stewart-Montgomery Ruth and O.D. Stewart. Till we meet again. Instagram: @mzzzruth. CARRIE COMPERE (Sofia). Broadway: The Color Purple Revival (Sofia/Church Lady), Hol-ler If You Hear Me (Ensemble). Off-Broadway: The Lightning Thief: Percy Jackson, Sistas the Musical. National Tour: Shrek the Musical (Dragon). Regional: Golden Apple (Encores), Smokey Joe’s Cafe (TUTS). TV: “Seven Seconds” (FOX/Netflix), “NYC 22” (CBS), “Gurland on Gurland” (CBS/Showtime). Special thanks to my amazing husband Jerry and beautiful children Isaiah and Pneuma, awesome manager Susan (CBU Management) and JC Williams Agency. Thank you Lord for the many blessings. For my mommy Jeanne! Facebook, Twitter, Instagram: @carriecompere. GAVIN GREGORY (Mister). Broadway: The Gershwin’s Porgy & Bess (Crown standby); The Color Purple. Tour: Kinky Boots (Simon SR.), The Lion King 1st National. Regional: Man of La Mancha (Cervantes/Don Quixote), The Whip-ping Man (Simon), Ragtime (Coalhouse), Violet (Flick), 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Mitch Mahoney). Love to Steve Maihack, Justin Huff and Corey L. Slaton. J. DAUGHTRY (Harpo). Look what God has done! Broadway: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, The Color Purple (Revival). Tour: Motown the Musical, Born For This. Member of Anthony Brown and Group Therapy. Alum of Bethune Cookman University. Thanks to my Agents at The Mine. Special thanks to my mother, Sharon, for always supporting me and encouraging me to keep going! N’JAMEH CAMARA (Nettie). X: or Betty Shabazz vs. The Nation (World Premier), Julius

Caesar (Off Broadway), Up Here (La Jolla Play-house), OjO (La Jolla Playhouse), Marguerite to Maya (An Original One Woman Show,) Dance of the Holy Ghost (Ubuntu Theater Project), Mr. Burns (UCSD). MFA from UC San Diego. Insta-gram @lady_njay, njameh.com. For my Lolo.DARNELL ABRAHAM (Ensemble/Adam; u/s Grady). Regional credits: Ragtime (Coal-house, Ogunquit Playhouse), Ragtime (Coal-house, Barrington Stage Co.), Side Show (Jake, Media Theatre), Festival of the Lion King (Na-kawa, Walt Disney), Porgy and Bess (Utah Fes-tival Opera), Showboat (Utah Festival Opera). Thank you to my wife, Telsey + Co, and Gotham Talent Agency for your support! Psalm 86:12. darnellabraham.com. AMAR ATKINS (Ensemble/Guard; u/s Mister, u/s Harpo). National Tour Debut! Amar is from Atlanta, GA and feels blessed to join the Color Purple family! LSU: MFA (Acting). Favorite Regional: Rent, Sophisticated Ladies, The Civil War, SPILL. Thanks to God, the creative team, Wendy Coleman/DeRon Williams, Daniel Hoff, Denise and Benjy Atkinson, this is for you! Ins-tagram: @AmarAtkins_ amaratkins.com. KYLE E. BAIRD (Ensemble/Bobby/Buster). Kyle is thrilled to be joining The Color Purple Family. Previous credits include: Goodspeed Opera’s Show Boat, Fulton Theatre’s chamber premiere cast of Ghost the Musical. MSMT’s Evita, High School Musical, Hairspray, 8 Track. TV: “Gotham,” “Law and Order SVU.” Many thanks to God and family everywhere. #ItsKyle-Baird @Colormekyle. ANGELA BIRCHETT (Ensemble/Church Lady; u/s Sofia). Broadway: The Color Purple. Tour/Regional highlights: Dreamgirls, Once on This Island, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Little Shop of Horrors, Hairspray, Ain’t Misbehavin’. TV: “Kevin Can Wait” (CBS), “Blindspot” (NBC). www.angelabirchett.com Instagram: @angelabirchett. JARED DIXON (Ensemble/Grady; u/s Harpo) is honored to be a part of this beautiful journey with The Color Purple. Off-Broadway: Cruel Intentions (Ronald). Regional: Ragtime, In the Heights, The Color Purple (Boston), Violet, Hairspray (Ohio), Sister Act (Rhode Island), TV/Streaming: “Shades of Blue,” “#Barsworkshop-NYC.” Thanks be to God, my family, friends and CGF Talent for their undying support. “I am given, therefore I give.” @itsjdixon. ERICA DURHAM (Ensemble/Squeak; u/s Net-tie). National tour debut! Favorite past credits: Ragtime (Sarah), How to Succeed…(Rosemary), and 110 in the Shade (Lizzie). Film: A Bread Factory (Julie). All my love to my wonderful family, Richard, Emily, and Kevin. Huge thanks to Telsey + Co. and The Krasny Office! Penn State Alumni. Instagram: @erica_durham. Look what God has done! BIANCA HORN (Ensemble/Church Lady; u/s Shug Avery). SMU Graduate. Credits: National

Tour: Hairspray. Regional: Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Charlaine), H2$B (Hedy LaRue), Sister Act (De-loris), A Rats Mass (Sister Rat). The Color Purple changed my life at 12 and continues to bless me! Thanks to casting, creatives, Luedtke Agency, Ed, my family, and amazing husband for their support. All things are possible! biancahorn.com. GABRIELLE REID (Ensemble/Olivia; u/s Ce-lie, u/s Squeak). Favorite credits include: Broad-way: Beautiful: The Carol King Musical, Hair-spray. National tours: Hairspray, Rent, Happy Days, Mamma Mia (LV), and marrying her hus-band Nathan. Film/TV: “Gotham,” “The Black-list,” “Shades of Blue,” “Private Life.” 7 national commercials. Thanks to my family and amazing reps Bloc Talent NYC and Prestige Mgmt. C.E. SMITH (Ensemble/Preacher/Ol’ Mister). Broadway & Off-Broadway: Leap of Faith, Dreamgirls, The Full Monty, It Ain’t Nothing But the Blues, Street Corner Symphony, and Blues in the Night. Regional Theaters and National Tours: Aida, Cinderella, The Full Monty, Crowns, Once on This Island, Man of La Mancha, Rock of Ages, Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, and South America. CLYDE VOCE (Swing; u/s Mister, u/s Bobby/Buster, u/s Pa, u/s Guard, u/s Preacher/Ol’ Mister, u/s Adam). National Tours: Sister Act (u/s Curtis, Eddie, TJ), Elf (Manager). Cred-its: Rock of Ages (Vegas Company), Peter and the Starcatcher, The Wiz, Mamma Mia!. Film:

WhenWeGrowUp (Indie Feature). Huge thanks to WAM and Telsey+Co. Love to Mom, Dad and Cory! Proud member of Actor’s Equity. NYLA WATSON (Swing; u/s Church Lady, u/s Olivia) is so excited to tell this story! Big love to Jesus, my parents, CGF Talent, and the Broadway Dreams Foundation. Proud Baldwin Wallace alumni (BWMT14). queennyla.com @queennyla Acts 4:7-12. For Don. J.D. WEBSTER (Ensemble/Pa). Broadway: Mingo in Porgy and Bess, Wonderful Town, Ragtime, Show Boat. Other theater: Pericles, Two Gentlemen of Verona (Public Theater), City Center ENCORES! (17 productions), multiple re-gional theater roles. Concert: Bernstein’s Mass (BSO/Phil. Orch.), VA Symphony Pops, My Fair Lady (NY Phil.) and Carousel, South Pacific, Ira Gershwin at 100 all on PBS. A native of Norfolk, Virginia, J.D. also appears as Simon in the musi-cal film Easter Mysteries. BRIT WEST (Ensemble/Church Lady; u/s Shug Avery, u/s Sofia). Broadway: The Color Purple. Tours: Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Legally Blonde, Dreamgirls. Regional Favorites: West Side Story (Hollywood Bowl), Sister Act (Fulton Theatre, Arvada Center), Rent (John Engeman Theatre). TV: “Power” and “Flesh & Bone.” Infi-nite thanks to the WFM, Telsey + Co. and WAM. IG: brit_west For Gma. NIKISHA WILLIAMS (Swing/Assistant Stage Manager; u/s Celie, u/s Nettie, u/s Squeak u/s

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Church Lady, u/s Olivia) is honored to be joining the cast of this incredible production! Nikisha comes from Mobile, Alabama and studied vocal performance at The University of Southern Mis-sissippi. Regional: Memphis, Hairspray. Thanks to my parents for their support and love. Philip-pians 4:13. MICHAEL WORDLY (Swing; u/s Bobby/Bust-er, u/s Pa, u/s Guard, u/s Preacher/Ol’Mister, u/s Adam, u/s Grady). National Tour: The Little Mermaid u/s Sebastion (5th Avenue Theatre). Regional: Memphis (Gator), Smokey Joe’s Cafe (Adrian), Aida (Mereb) and Hairspray (Sea-weed). Giving honor and thanks to God for all his blessings! Many thanks to my family, Gregg Baker Management, Telsey + Co., & Mr. John Rose. www.MichaelWordly.com. Proverbs 3:5. ALICE WALKER (Original Author) won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for her third novel, The Color Purple, which was made into an internationally popular film by Steven Spielberg. Her other best-selling nov-els, which have been translated into more than two dozen languages, include By the Light of My Father’s Smile, Possessing the Secret of Joy and The Temple of My Familiar. Her most recent novel, Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart, was published in 2004. Ms. Walker is also the author of several collections of short stories, essays and poems as well as children’s books. Her work has appeared in numerous national and international journals and magazines. An activist and social visionary, Ms. Walker’s advocacy on behalf of the dispossessed has, in the words of her biogra-pher, Evelyn C. White, “spanned the globe.” MARSHA NORMAN (Book) won a Pulitzer for her play ’night, Mother, a Tony for The Secret Garden on Broadway and a Tony nomination for her book for The Color Purple. Ms. Norman is co-chair of Playwriting at Juilliard and serves on the Steering Committee of the Dramatists Guild. She has numerous film and TV credits, as well as a Peabody for her work in TV. She has won numerous awards including the Inge Lifetime Achievement in Playwriting. She is also Presi-dent of the Lilly Awards Foundation, a non-profit honoring women in theatre and working for gen-der parity nationwide. BRENDA RUSSELL (Composer/Lyricist). Brooklyn-born singer/songwriter and author of “Piano in the Dark,” “If Only for One Night” and “Get Here.” Brenda has collaborated with superstars such as Sting; Mary J. Blige; Stevie Wonder; Chaka Khan; Tina Turner; Donna Sum-mer; Michael McDonald; Ray Charles; Earth, Wind & Fire; Luther Vandross; Diana Ross; and Patti LaBelle, among many others. She was nominated for three Grammys for 1988’s “Piano in the Dark.” Since 1979 she has recorded eight solo albums, releasing “Between the Sun and the Moon” in 2004. Her work has also been featured

in “How Stella Got Her Groove Back” and “Lib-erty Heights.” brendarussell.com. ALLEE WILLIS (Composer/Lyricist) has sold more than 50 million records, including

“September,” “Boogie Wonderland,” “Neutron Dance” and “What Have I Done to Deserve This?” She has a Grammy for the Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack and an Emmy nomination for the “Friends” theme song. She’s an award-win-ning artist, performer, multimediaist, writer and director. Willis prototyped a social network in 1992 and addressed Congress on cyberspace in 1997. Willis’s opus to Detroit, “The D”, pre-miered at the Detroit Institute of Arts, the fifth largest museum in the world, on September 28, 2017. The song and video, written, arranged, produced, directed, edited, animated, and self-financed by Willis, features 5000 lead singers and musicians, more people in history than have ever been on a record before. STEPHEN BRAY (Composer/Lyricist) made his Broadway debut with The Color Purple in 2005. After training at Berklee College of Music, Bray wrote and produced many top-ten record-ings for Madonna including “Into the Groove,”

“Papa Don’t Preach,” “True Blue” and “Express Yourself.” Performing with Breakfast Club, he earned a Grammy nomination for Best New Art-ist. He has written and produced for multiplati-num artists including Gladys Knight and Kylie Minogue. Stephen’s latest venture, Masterphonic, provides storytellers with original music and rei-magined classics. He would like to thank Mom and Dad for blasting Broadway cast albums and insisting on those piano lessons. JOHN DOYLE (Direction/Set Design/Musi-cal Staging). Broadway: Sweeney Todd (Tony and Drama Desk Awards for Best Director of a Musical), Company (Tony Award for Best Musi-cal Revival), A Catered Affair (Drama League Award for Best Musical Production), The Visit (Tony nomination for Best Musical), The Color Purple (Tony Award for Best Musical Revival, Drama Desk Award for Best Director of a Musi-cal). Off-Broadway: Wings (Second Stage The-atre), Road Show (The Public Theater), Where’s Charley?, Irma La Douce (City Center Encores!). Regional: Kiss me, Kate (Stratford Festival); The Caucasian Chalk Circle (A.C.T.); Merrily We Roll Along; The Three Sisters (Cincinnati Play-house in the Park); Ten Cents a Dance (William-stown Theatre Festival); The Exorcist (L.A.). In the U.K., John has been artistic director of four regional theatres. Numerous credits include The Gondoliers, Mack and Mabel (West End), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent’s Park), Oklahoma! (Chichester), Amadeus (Wilton’s Musical Hall). Opera includes Lucia di Lammer-moor (Sydney Opera House), Peter Grimes (Met-ropolitan Opera), The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahogany (L.A. Opera). John is Artistic Direc-tor of CSC in New York City, where productions include Passion, Allegro, Peer Gynt, Dead Poets Society, Pacific Overtures and As You Like It.

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WHO’S WHO The Color PurpleANN HOULD-WARD (Costume Designer). Se-lect Broadway: The Color Purple, The Visit, The People in the Picture, A Free Man of Color (Dra-ma Desk Nomination), A Catered Affair (Drama Desk Nomination), Beauty and the Beast (Tony Award), Into the Woods (Tony and Drama Desk Nominations), Falsettos, Sunday in the Park With George (Tony and Drama Desk Nomina-tions), Saint Joan, Little Me. Off-Broadway: Pa-cific Overtures, Classic Stage Company; Dead Poets Society, Classic Stage Company; Notes from the Field, Second Stage; Passion, Classic Stage Company; Russian Transport; The Blue Flower, Road Show; Lobster Alice; Cymbeline. Ms. Hould-Ward’s work can be seen in over 35 International companies of Beauty and the Beast, and her other designs are featured in shows all over the world. More than 100 regional theatre credits. Recipient of the Fashion Institute of Technology’s Patricia Zipprodt Award. JANE COX (Lighting Designer). Previous col-laborations with John Doyle include Pacific Overtures, Peer Gynt, Allegro and Passion at Classic Stage Company; The Color Purple on Broadway and in London; Road Show; and Lu-cia di Lammermoor. Recent theatre includes Jit-ney and Amelie on Broadway; Othello at NYTW; Hamlet in London; Machinal and All the Way on Broadway. Jane has been nominated for two Tony awards, is a member of the Monica Bill Barnes Company and the director of the theatre program at Princeton University. DAN MOSES SCHREIER (Sound Designer).Broadway: Falsettos, American Psycho, The Visit, Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Sondheim on Sondheim, A Little Night Music, Gypsy (Patti LuPone), A Catered Affair, Radio Golf, John Doyle’s production of Sweeney Todd, Gem Of the Ocean, Pacific Overtures, Assas-sins, Into The Woods, Topdog/Underdog, Dirty Blonde, Noise/Funk. He has composed scores for the Broadway productions of Merchant of Venice (Al Pacino), Julius Caesar (Denzel Washington), The Tempest (Patrick Stewart). Awards: 4 Tony Awards nominations, 4 Drama Desk Awards. Dan is currently composing a musical with Brian Selznick (The Invention of Hugo Cabret) based on Brian’s book, The Houdini Box commis-sioned by La Jolla Playhouse. CHARLES G. LaPOINTE (Wig & Hair De-sign). More than 50 Broadway shows including Amelié, SpongeBob Squarepants, The Band’s Visit, On Your Feet!, Hamilton, Doctor Zhivago, The Color Purple, Of Mice and Men, Violet, Side Show, The Elephant Man, After Midnight, Beau-tiful, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Mur-der, Motown, Jekyll & Hyde, Clybourne Park, Bring It On, Newsies, The Mountaintop, Mem-phis, Lombardi, Fences, In the Heights, Jersey Boys, A Raisin in the Sun. Emmy nominee, “The Wiz Live!”

CATHERINE JAYES (Music Supervisor).Merrily We Roll Along, Menier & West End (Ol-ivier: Best Musical Production); She Loves Me, Roadshow (Menier), Crazy For You, Calamity Jane (Watermill & UK tour). Was Music Direc-tor of Open Air London for 20 years—musicals conducted/orchestrated: High Society, Lady Be Good, Boys From Syracuse (directed by Judi Dench, winner Olivier Best Musical Re-vival). As Composer: A Christmas Carol (RSC 2017/18), An Ideal Husband (Chichester), The Letter (Wyndham’s), The Mandate (National), Great Expectations (RSC), The Duchess of Malfi, Changeling, Cymbeline (Cheek by Jowl). Films: Stoker, Charlie and the Chocolate Fac-tory, De-Lovely. Catherine is an associate direc-tor at Cheek by Jowl. She was MD at the Open Air from 1987-2007. MATT DiCARLO (Associate Director). As the Production Stage Manager, Matt helmed this production for its Broadway run. Other Broad-way credits: The Play That Goes Wrong, Hon-eymoon in Vegas, Rock of Ages. Off-Broadway: Piece of My Heart. Regional: Up Here (La Jolla Playhouse) and over 12 productions at Paper Mill Playhouse including The Sound of Music, Peter Pan and Little Shop of Horrors. Matt is on the Board of Directors for On Broadway Performing Arts Training Program and teaches on the faculty at SUNY Purchase. DARRYL ARCHIBALD (Music Director/Conductor). Motown The Musical (Broadway and National Tour); Wicked at the Pantages The-ater (substitute conductor); Memphis (Broadway Tour); Dreamgirls (National Tour- Associate Conductor); Disney’s The Lion King (Broadway Tour—Vocal Coach/Assistant Conductor); Dear World with Tyne Daly (VPAC); Jonathan Dove’s Innocence (Banff Centre and Manhattan Theatre Club); Two By Two with Jason Alexander, How To Succeed... with John O’Hurley, The Fanta-sticks with Eric McCormack, Once on This Is-land with Ledisi, Li’l Abner with Cathy Rigby and Fred Willard (Reprise); Great Expectations, My Fair Lady, 1776, Camelot, and Forever Plaid (Utah Shakespearean Festival); “A Hollywood Holiday Celebration” (ABC—Television), The Fountain Show and Christmas Trolley Show (The Grove Los Angeles). JOSEPH JOUBERT (Orchestrator). Credits as orchestrator, arranger, conductor, musical director include Broadway’s Violet; Motown the Musical; Nice Work If You Can Get It; Leap of Faith; Caroline, or Change; The Color Purple; Billy Elliot. TV: “Smash.” Film: Nights in Ro-danthe. Recording: Fantasia, Broadway Inspira-tional Voices, Patti Labelle, Ashford & Simpson, Diana Ross. Grammy, Emmy and Drama Desk Award nominee.TALITHA FEHR (Music Coordinator) has worked on over 50 National and International tours and productions, highlights include Sister Act, Mamma Mia!, Come Fly Away, School of Rock and the 2010 Vancouver Olympics Cer-

emonies. She dedicates her work on The Color Purple to the memory of Sam Lutfiyya. TELSEY + COMPANY (Casting). Broadway/Tours: SpongeBob SquarePants, Once on This Island, The Parisian Woman, M. Butterfly, An-astasia, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Hel-lo, Dolly!, War Paint, Come From Away, Wait-ress, Hamilton, Kinky Boots, Wicked, On Your Feet!, Something Rotten!, The King and I, An American in Paris. Film: Miss Sloane, Into the Woods, Margin Call, Rachel Getting Married, Across the Universe, Camp, Pieces of April. TV: “This Is Us,” “NCIS: New Orleans,” “House of Cards,” “Rise,” “I’m Dying Up Here,” “One Day at a Time,” “Graves,” “Atypical,” commercials. telseyandco.com. RANDY COHEN (Keyboard Programmer) has programmed more than 50 Broadway shows including Hamilton, On Your Feet!, Allegiance, Kinky Boots, The Book of Mormon, In the Heights, Motown the Musical, Pippin, Rock of Ages, If/Then, Bring It On, Peter and the Starcatcher, American Idiot, Elf, Young Frankenstein and Grey Gardens. TV: “Sesame Street.” THOMAS SCHALL (Fight Consultant). More than 50 Broadway shows: Blackbird, The Cru-cible, China Doll, Allegiance, The King and I, This Is Our Youth, Of Mice and Men, Romeo and Juliet, Lucky Guy, Death of a Salesman, Venus in Fur, War Horse, The Merchant of Venice, After Miss Julie, A View From the Bridge, Mary Stuart. JIM LANAHAN (General Manager) has spent 20+ years managing and marketing Broadway tours. First national tours: School of Rock, The Bodyguard, Footloose, Titanic, Elton John & Tim Rice’s AIDA, The Lion King, War Horse and Jersey Boys. Additional selected: Disney’s Beau-ty and the Beast, Les Misérables, Billy Elliot and The Phantom of the Opera. Most recently Jim served as marketing director for all domestic and international tours of Blue Man Group. #TLJL. BRIAN SCHRADER (Company Manager) is excited to be on the road with The Color Purple. Prior to going on tour, he worked in the Troika Entertainment GM office on the following Na-tional Tours: An American In Paris, 42nd Street, Annie (Singapore & Jakarta), Dancing Pros Live, Bring It On (Japan), Ghost, Mike Tyson’s: Un-disputed Truth, Priscilla Queen of The Desert, West Side Story, and Catch Me If You Can. Proud Graduate of Loyola University New Orleans with a Degree in Theatre Arts and Business Ad-ministration. MELISSA CHACÓN (Production Stage Man-ager). National tours: The Bodyguard, The Bridges of Madison County, We Will Rock You, Billy Elliot, Contact and Rent. Off-Broadway: Avenue Q. Regional Credits include: The Iceman Cometh at BAM with Nathan Lane and Brian Dennehy, Les Misérables and Shida. She earned her MFA in Stage Management from Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts.

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WHO’S WHO The Color PurpleCHRISTINE D’AMORE (Stage Manager). New York: The Color Purple and Les Misérables. Over 15 productions at City Center Encores! and Encores Off-Center, Lincoln Center, Signature Theatre, The Public Theater, and Primary Stages Regional: Berkeley Rep, Hartford Stage and Westport Playhouse. BOND THEATRICAL GROUP (Marketing & Publicity Direction) is a fully independent Book-ing, Marketing and Publicity company for live entertainment productions. Current tour booking and marketing projects include Blue Man Group; CATS; Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812. Current marketing and publicity projects include Anastasia, Cabaret, Dear Evan Hansen, Dirty Dancing, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical Escape to Margarita-ville, Fiddler on the Roof, Half Time and market-ing services for The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway. THE BOOKING GROUP (Tour Booking Agency). Since its inception in 1996, The Book-ing Group has represented 24 Tony Award-win-ning Best Musicals and Plays. Current touring productions include An American in Paris, The Book of Mormon, The Bodyguard, The Round-about Theatre Company’s production of Caba-ret, Rodger’s & Hammerstein’s Cinderella, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Finding Neverland, Fun Home, Hamilton, The Humans, Hal Holbrook: Mark Twain Tonight!, Motown The Musical, On Your Feet!, Rent: 20th Anniversary Tour, Something Rotten, School of Rock, Waitress, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, and The Wizard of Oz. Future productions in-clude Anastasia; Come From Away; Dear Evan Hansen; Escape to Margaritaville; Fiddler on the Roof; Groundhog Day The Musical; Hello Dolly!; Monty Python’s Spamalot; The Play That Goes Wrong; and The Scenario. SCOTT SANDERS PRODUCTIONS (Pro-ducer). In addition to creating both the initial 2005 production and the 2015 Tony and Grammy Award-winning revival of The Color Purple as a Broadway stage musical, Scott Sanders Produc-tions is the Tony and Emmy Award-winning the-atre, film and television company that launched, developed and produced such shows as After Midnight (seven Tony Award nominations 2014), Evita starring Ricky Martin, The Pee-wee Her-man Show (Broadway and Los Angeles) and Elaine Stritch: At Liberty. Other projects cur-rently in development include the stage musicals Tootsie and Coal Miner’s Daughter, as well as the feature film of In the Heights. Scott Sanders Productions is a subsidiary of Westfield Corpora-tion, a global leader in the design, development and operation of iconic retail and leisure desti-nations that integrate world-class fashion, dining, events, entertainment and cutting-edge technol-ogy within modern cityscapes—including in London, Milan, Los Angeles, San Francisco and

New York City under the magnificent roof of the Oculus at Westfield World Trade Center. ROY FURMAN (Producer). Currently on Broadway: Dear Evan Hansen (Tony Award); Hello, Dolly! (Tony); The Book of Mormon (Tony); The Band’s Visit; Cats. Other produc-tions: An American in Paris, The Curious In-cident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Tony), A Raisin in the Sun (Tony), Skylight (Tony), War Horse (Tony), West Side Story, The History Boys (Tony), Gypsy, Spamalot (Tony), Lucky Guy, Fosse (Tony). Mr. Furman co-founded the in-ternational investment firm Furman Selz, is now vice chairman of Jefferies LLC and chairman of Jefferies Capital Partners. Vice chairman of Lin-coln Center for the Performing Arts, president and chairman emeritus of the Film Society of Lincoln Center. TROIKA ENTERTAINMENT (Executive Producer, General Manager, Production Man-ager) has been an innovator in touring musical theater productions for over two decades, pro-ducing shows throughout North, Central, and South America, Europe and Asia. Additionally, the company is experienced in casino and lei-sure markets. Current and upcoming produc-tions include An American in Paris, The Body-guard, Love Never Dies, On Your Feet!, School of Rock, The Color Purple, Kinky Boots and the Asian tour of Sister Act. With strong ties to the Broadway community, TROIKA prides itself on delivering top quality productions to audiences worldwide. Please visit us at troika.com. RANDALL A. BUCK (Producer) has produced over 50 productions across the globe for TROI-KA Entertainment. Before joining TROIKA in 1999, Mr. Buck was vice president and general manager for Livent in Toronto. While working for Livent, he managed productions such as Fosse, Ragtime, Show Boat, Music of the Night, and Kiss of the Spider Woman. Mr. Buck was a stage manager for more than 20 years, surviv-ing a year with Mary Martin & Carol Channing in Jimmy Kirkwood’s Legends!, a year in Japan with Siegfried & Roy, opening The Phantom of the Opera Music Box Company and open-ing Show Boat! on Broadway. Since beginning as an apprentice with The Kenley Players in the late 60s, he has had the privilege of work-ing closely with visionaries such as Twyla Tharp, Susan Stroman, Hal Prince, Joe Layton & Josh Logan, plus hundreds of stars. Mr.Buck had the privilege of recently serving on the board for the National Alliance of Music Theater. Randy is currently living happily-ever-after in the Wash-ington, DC area with his wife, Angela, and their daughter Sierra Ashley Buck. DAVID BABANI (Producer) is the founder and artistic director of the Menier Chocolate Factory. TOM SIRACUSA (Producer) has been the gen-eral manager of the Menier Chocolate Factory and its 14 subsequent West End transfers since 2006. Prior to that, he was associate producer

for Bill Kenwright on productions including Hay Fever, starring Judi Dench (West End); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (West End and Broadway); The Glass Menagerie; and Primo (Broadway). He was general manager for The Lady From Dubuque (West End), starring Maggie Smith. THE MENIER CHOCOLATE FACTORY (Original Production) opened in 2004 and is one of London’s most-honored producing venues. Twenty productions have transferred to the West End and four to Broadway: The Color Purple (Tony Awards for Best Revival of a Musical and Best Actress in a Musical), La Cage aux Folles (three Tony Awards including Best Revival of a Musical), A Little Night Music (Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical) and Sunday in the Park with George (nine Tony nominations). In London, La Cage won the Olivier Award for Best Revival of a Musical as well as the Critics’ Circle Award, as did Sunday in the Park with George and Merrily We Roll Along. The Menier’s pro-duction of Tom Stoppard’s Travesties will trans-fer to Broadway in February 2018. CAIOLA PRODUCTIONS (Producer) is the Tony-winning brother-and-sister producing team, Luigi and Rose Caiola. Rose is artistic director of Manhattan Movement & Arts Center. Recent: Glengarry Glen Ross, All the Way, An American in Paris, The Elephant Man, On Your Feet!, Fid-dler on the Roof. This season: Dear Evan Han-sen; Les Liaison Dangereuses; Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812; and Burn This. JAMES FANTACI (Producer). Jim and his wife Anna were producers of the original The Color Purple when it debuted on Broadway twelve years ago. He was also involved with the successful London production. He is pleased to be a part of the effort to bring this powerful show to audiences across America. TED LIEBOWITZ (Producer). Broadway pro-ductions include The Heiress, Cinderella, Big Fish and After Midnight. Feature films include The Illusionist, Gray Matters. Serial internet and telecom entrepreneur. Founder of the Liebow-itz Entrepreneur Program at Brooklyn College. Love and thanks to my supportive family and to the wonderful cast, crew and fellow producers. JAMES L. NEDERLANDER (Producer).Pres-ident of the Nederlander Organization. Produc-ing credits include The Elephant Man (Bradley Cooper), On Your Feet! The Story of Emilio and Gloria Estefan, Kinky Boots, I’ll Eat You Last (Bette Midler), Romeo and Juliet (Orlando Bloom), Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth, West Side Story, Movin’ Out, Million Dollar Quar-tet, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, among many others. DARREN BAGERT (Producer) is a four-time Tony Award-winning producer. After producing over 20 projects, his most recent include Dear Evan Hansen (Broadway/Upcoming Tour), An American in Paris (Broadway/London/Tour), The Truth (London), Travesties (London), The

Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey (NY/Tour), Buyer & Cellar (NY/London/Tour), Side Show (Bway), and upcoming Ain’t Too Proud--The Temptations Musical. CANDY SPELLING (Producer). Author, tele-vision producer and philanthropist, Candy Spell-ing has produced the Tony-winning musicals Promises, Promises; How to Succeed in Busi-ness Without Really Trying; Nice Work If You Can Get It; and After Midnight. She is a board member of the Los Angeles World Affair Coun-cil, the UCLA Health System Board and the American Humane. ADAM ZOTOVICH (Producer). Productions include Dear Evan Hansen, Of Mice and Men, A View From the Bridge, Driving Miss Daisy, All My Sons, The Addams Family, Evita and An American in Paris. Crain’s NY Business “40 Under 40,” president of New Vintage Theatri-cals, Ltd. ERIC FALKENSTEIN / MORRIS BER-CHARD (Producer). Eric works in issue-driven theatre, film and human rights-related events. He is currently at work with associates of Mar-tin Luther King on a play about his life’s work. Morris’ Broadway credits include Something Rotten!, Hand to God, It’s Only a Play, The Performers, Ragtime, Impressionism, The Little Dog Laughed. Currently: Ride The Cyclone (a new musical) and Counting Sheep (an immersive folk opera). JUST FOR LAUGHS THEATRICALS (Pro-ducer). CEO Adam Blanshay, chairman Gilbert Rozon. More than 40 theatre productions world-wide, including the Tony-winning play The Cu-

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rious Incident… and the Olivier-winning musi-cal Sunny Afternoon. Full bio: hahaha.com/jflt. Twitter: @JFLTheatricals. TANYA LINK PRODUCTIONS (Producer).Tanya’s Broadway credits include the Tony-win-ning The Curious Incident… and Drama Desk-winning Twelfth Night, starring Mark Rylance. West End productions include the Olivier-win-ning Sunny Afternoon, Ghosts, Merrily We Roll Along and Chimerica. tanyalinkproductions.com. JAM THEATRICALS (Producer), under the direction of founders Arny Granat and Steve Traxler, manages subscription series in 30 cities throughout North America, and operates the Na-tional Theatre in Washington DC. The company has produced over 50 shows on Broadway and is the recipient of nine Tony Awards. INDEPENDENT PRESENTERS NET-WORK (Producer) includes 50 of America’s leading Broadway presenters whose subscrip-tion base totals 475,000. Broadway/London/U.S. tours: On Your Feet!, An American in Paris, Kinky Boots, The Bridges of Madison County, Matilda, Cinderella, Pippin, Wonderland, Le-gally Blonde, The Color Purple, Spamalot, Mat-thew Bourne’s Edward Scissorhands and Sleep-ing Beauty. CAROL FINEMAN (Producer). Broadway producing credits: The Color Purple revival (Tony & Grammy Awards), After Midnight, Evita, The Pee-wee Herman Show. She led the press department at the Public under George C. Wolfe. Highlight credits: Bring In ‘Da Noise, Bring In ‘Da Funk; The Tempest; Elaine Stritch at Liberty (downtown and Broadway). Managed public relations for Broadway and off-Broadway productions at Carol Fineman Publicity, a firm she founded, and at Barlow-Hartman Public Re-lations. Producer of the Drama Desk and Obie Award-winning Worth Street Theater (New York premiere of Christopher Shinn’s Four, Off-Broadway revival of The Normal Heart, starring Raúl Esparza). VP Theatrical Production/Pro-ducer at Westfield. For Moose. BESPOKE THEATRICALS (Consulting Pro-ducer). Partners Amy Jacobs and Devin Keudell manage Broadway musicals, plays and tours. Current/recent productions include Cats, Cirque du Soleil’s Paramour, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time national tour, Some-thing Rotten! and School of Rock. General man-agers in the firm include Nathan Gehan, David Roth and Danielle Saks. MICHAEL ORSINO (Chief Operating Officer) has enjoyed over a decade working around the world with TROIKA Entertainment, touring sev-eral years as a stage manager and company man-ager before landing in the office. A Philadelphia native and a graduate of DeSales University, Mr. Orsino is pleased to have settled down in Mary-land with his wife Anissa, a fellow tour veteran and their sons Cameron and Carson.

MICHELLE JONES (Chief Financial Officer) joined TROIKA in 2017. In this role, she is re-sponsible for the financial, administrative, and human resources aspects of the company. She holds a B.S. in Business Administration from University of Baltimore and a joint M.S. in Ac-counting and Business Advisory Services from Towson University and University of Baltimore. Ms. Jones is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a part-time adjunct professor at University of Maryland Baltimore County.

THE COLOR PURPLE TOUR STAFFOpening Night: October 17, 2017

The Hippodrome Theatre, Baltimore, MDGENERAL MANAGEMENT & PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT

TROIKA ENTERTAINMENTGENERAL MANAGER

Jim LanahanAssistant General Manager ................................................ Arnie VandeBrake

PRODUCTION MANAGERAnna E. Bate

Assistant Production Manager ................................................ Ártemis LópezTECHNICAL DIRECTOR

Dave BurchCOMPANY MANAGER

Brian SchraderEXCLUSIVE TOUR BOOKING

THE BOOKING GROUPMeredith Blair, Kara Gebhartwww.thebookinggroup.com

MARKETING & PUBLICITY DIRECTIONBOND THEATRICAL GROUP DJ Martin Temah Higgins

Marc Viscardi Mahaley Jacobs Nicholas Jaech Rada Angelova Judith Hoenig-Adelson Wendy Roberts Olivia Simas

CASTINGTELSEY + COMPANY

Bernard Telsey CSA, William Cantler CSA, David Vaccari CSA,Bethany Knox CSA, Craig Burns CSA, Tiffany Little Canfield CSA,

Rachel Hoffman CSA, Justin Huff CSA, Patrick Goodwin CSA,Cesar A. Rocha CSA, Karyn Casl CSA, Kristina Bramhall,

Adam Caldwell CSA, Josh Einsohn CSA, Conrad Woolfe CSA,Rachel Nadler, Rachel Minow, Rikki Gimelstob, Rachel Dill CSA,Ryan Bernard Tymensky CSA, Rebecca Scholl CSA, Scott Galina,

Madison Sylvester, Lauren Harris, Laura Wade, Ally Kiley,Rose Bochner, Kristian Charbonier, Julia Torres, Destiny Lilly

PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER .................................... MELISSA CHACÓNStage Manager ................................................................... Christine D’AmoreAssistant Stage Manager ..................................................... Nikisha WilliamsAssociate Director .......................................................................Matt DiCarloAssociate Scenic Designer .................................................. David L. ArsenaultAssociate Costume Designer ...........................................Christopher VergaraAssistant Costume Designer ........................................................ Amy SuttonAssociate Lighting Designer ..........................................................Tess JamesAssociate Sound Designer ................................................................ Josh ReidAssociate Hair Designer .........................................................Ashley CallahanMoving Lighting Programmer .......................................... Bridget ChervenkaFight Consultant ...................................................................... Thomas SchallProduction Electrician ............................................................. Dawn KensethProduction Audio ...................................................................... Matthew BellMusic Coordinator ........................................................................ Talitha FehrKeyboard Programmer .............................................................. Randy CohenAssociate Keyboard Programmers ....................Taylor Williams, Jeremy KingDance Captain ............................................................................... J. DaughtryFight Captain................................................................................Bianca Horn

HEAD CARPENTER .......................................................... STEPHEN BOGAEVHead Electrician ....................................................................... Nate EyestoneAssistant Electrician ...........................................................Rachel JuozapaitisHead Audio ................................................................................. Jonathan HillAssistant Audio ........................................................................ Natalie MoranHead Props ...............................................................................Garrett CrooksHead Wardrobe ........................................................................ Emma BogaevHead Hair & Makeup ................................................................. Denise FarrellProduction Assistants ...............................John Fortunato, Jenn Elyse Jacobs

National Press Representative .................................... Bond Theatrical GroupPhysical Therapy ......................................NEURO TOUR, Physical Therapy Inc.Medical Director................................................................... Craig E. Weil, MDProduction Videographer ...................................... Steam Motion and SoundProduction Photographer ................................................... Matthew MurphyTour Social Media .........................Marathon Live Entertainment/Mike KarnsWebsite ..........................................................................Situation InteractiveLegal Counsel ......................... Jean Ward, Esq., Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & SelzAccounting .....................................................................Zwick & Banyai, PLLCHR & Payroll Services ..........................................................................PEOPLE®Trucking..................................................................................... Clark TransferMerchandising ......................................................................The Araca Group

FOR TROIKA ENTERTAINMMENTChief Executive Officer ........................................................... Randall A. BuckChief Operating Officer ........................................................ Michael J. OrsinoChief Finacial Officer ................................................................Michelle JonesGeneral Managers .................................................. Jim Lanahan, Karen BerryAssistant General Managers ............................Arnie VandeBrake, Jay KrauseSenior Production Manager ........................................................... Laura DieliProduction Manager ................................................................... Anna E. BateAssistant Production Manager ................................................ Ártemis LópezOperations Manager ....................................................................James CareyMarketing Consultant ...................................................................... Amy KatzBooking Manager ................................................................... Doria MontfortBudgeting & Forecasting Manager ..................................... George LambertyStaff Accountant ....................................................................Lourdes CastilloStaff Accountant ................................................................... Marite EspinosaStaff Accountant ...................................................................... Electra WalkerAccounting Clerk ........................................................................Jessica SmithWarehouse Manager ...................................................................Scott GarrishOffice Assistant ...................................................................Shaquille StewartCostume Shop Administrator ................................................Alison M. Smith

SPECIAL THANKSAmy Jacobs, Danielle Saks, Proctors

CREDITSScenery by TTS Studios, Charleston, SC. Lighting equipment provided by Christie Lites, East Rutherford, NJ. Audio equipment by Masque Sound,

East Rutherford, NJ. Costumes by Jennifer Love Costumers and Eric Winterling, New York, NY. Music equipment furnished by Jonas Music,

Indianapolis, IN. Millinery by Lynne Mackey Studio, New York, NY. Costume Painting by Jeff Fender. Men’s Shirts by Darcy Clothing Ltd. Custom Shoes

by LaDuca Shoes. Women’s Undergarments provided by Bra*Tenders.Production travel & housing by

ROAD REBEL ENTERTAINMENT TOURING, San Diego, CARehearsed at RIPLEY-GRIER STUDIOS, New York, NY

Technical Rehearsals and Previews held at PROCTORS in Schenectady, NY

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

Backstage employees are represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (or I.A.T.S.E.).

The Musicians, Conductors, Music Preparation Personnel, and Librarians employed in this production are members of the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada.

The Press Agents and Company Managers employed in this production are represented by the Association of Theatrical Press Agents & Managers.

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

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

This production is produced by members of The Broadway League in collaboration with our professional union-represented employees.

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Andiamo Riverfront • andiamoitalia.com ; and Joe Muer Seafood • joemuer.com • page 27 Detroit Riverfront, Renaissance Center. Type of Cuisine: Italian, Seafood, Price: $$$, Amenities: R,G,V. We are proud to welcome Broadway In Detroit guests before the show, after the show and anytime at all! Enjoy a great atmosphere and professional service with incredible views along the Detroit River.

La Musique • hotelstregisdetroit.com • page 26 New Center, 3071 W Grand Blvd., Detroit, MI 48202. (313) 873-3000. Type of cuisine: American, Price: $$, Amenities: GPRV. Eat. Play. Stay. Park and dine at La Musique in the historic St. Regis Hotel and walk to the Fisher Theatre. Contemporary American Cuisine.

The Maple Kitchen • themapletheater.com • page 26 The Maple Theater, 4135 W. Maple Rd., Bloomfield Twsp., MI 48301. (248) 325-9139. Type of cuisine: American, Price $$, Amenities: FG, V weekends. Present Broadway In Detroit ticket stubs within one month of attending and receive 10% off your total bill. Not valid with other offers.

Mario’s • mariosdetroit.com • page 28 Midtown, 4222 Second St., Detroit, MI 48201. (313) 832-1616. Type of cuisine: Italian, Price: $$$, Amenities: GPRSV. Complimentary shuttle to & from the theatre. Show your tickets and receive 10% off food on your performance date. Afterglow specials too! Party with the people who perform.

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Mercury Burger Bar • mercuryburgerbar.com • page 29 Corktown, 2163 Michigan Ave. Detroit MI. 48216, (313) 964-5000. Type of cuisine: American, Price: $. Classic American burger bar, gourmet burgers, hot dogs, grilled bologna, tater tots, Guernsey dairy milk shakes, Michigan craft beers, full bar.

Ottava Via • ottavavia.com • page 29 Corktown, 1400 Michigan Ave. Detroit MI. 48216, (313) 962-5500. Type of cuisine: Casual/Rustic Italian, Price: $$, Amenities: FR. Stone fired pizza, small plates, pasta, Italian entrees, gelato, outdoor seating, bocci ball in season, full bar.

The Rattlesnake Club • rattlesnakedetroit.com • page 28 300 River Place Drive, Detroit, MI 48207. (313) 567-4400. Type of cuisine: American, Price $$$ GRV. The Rattlesnake Club celebrates 30 years of fine dining in Detroit! Enjoy our innovative cuisine, attentive service and award-winning wine list on Detroit’s Riverfront!

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BROADWAY IN DETROIT The Program for the Fisher Theatre

Volume 56, Number 2 Nov. 3–5, 2017 • Nov. 7–12, 2017Fisher Theatre • Fisher Building

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Under the Management of Nederlander Detroit, LLC

Executive Director ............................................Alan N. LichtensteinAssistant to Mr. Lichtenstein.......................................... Nancy KingDirector, Corporate Sales/Marketing ............................ Scott MyersSenior Director, Marketing .......................................... Alyssa CohenAdvertising Director .................................... Debbie Michelson, SMZPress Agent .................. Brendy Barr, Brendy Barr CommunicationsProgram Design ...............................Frank Bach, Bach & Associates

THE FISHER THEATREBusiness Office Staff

Accounting .................................................................Barbara JonesHouse Staff

Theatre Manager ....................................................James ManduzziHouse Manager .......................................................... Reuben PerezBox Office Treasurer ....................................................Mirena CantuGroup Sales Manager ...................................................... Amy YokinSubscription Manager ................................................ Gwen HardenLost and Found .......................................................... Robin Teachey

Production StaffHead Stage Technician ..................................................... Sam AluiaHead Lighting Technician ...................................Suzanne JohnstonHead Propman ................................................................ Joe AchatzHead Sound Technician .............................................J. B. RalbovskyHead Scenery Technician ...............................................Ronald IveyWardrobe Supervisor .............................................. Maryann SalehMusical Director ......................................................... Paul OnachukThe photographing or sound recording of any performance or the possession of any device for such photographing or sound recording inside the theater without the written permission of the management is prohibited by law. Violations may be punishable by ejection and may render the offender liable for money damages.

The Musicians of the Fisher Theatre Orchestra employed in this production are members of the Detroit Federation of Musicians, Local 5.

Backstage employees are represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (I.A.T.S.E).

Handicap (wheelchair) facilities are located in the main floor lobby near elevators. Articles found in the theater will be held for 30 days only. Lost article inquiries should be made by phone to (313) 872-l000 between 10AM and 4PM.Fisher Theatre Offices ............................................... (313) 872-1000Broadway In Detroit Season Ticket Office & Subscription Information ......................................... (313) 872-1180 Group Sales Information ........................................... (313) 871-1132If you expect emergency phone calls please leave your seat location with the ticket taker.For emergencies only during performances ............. (313) 872-1111Please silence your electronic devices by putting them on silent in airplane mode or turning them off. If you need to be reached for an emergency, please text your seat location and the emergency number listed above to your contacts and have them contact our staff if you are needed during the performance.

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Traffic Jam & Snug • trafficjamdetroit.com • page 28 511 W. Canfield St., Detroit MI, 48201. (313) 831-9470. Type of cuisine: American, Price: $$, Amenities: FGR. Featuring an eclectic menu of vegetarian items, burgers, fresh fish, pastas & salads. Decadent house-made desserts. Free, guarded parking. Minutes from the Fisher Theatre. Save 15% on your next entrée when you let your server know that you’re a Fisher Theatre fan.

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