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BIOGRAPHYSONNY ROLLINS was born Walter Theodore

Rollins in Harlem, New York, on September 7, 1930, to

parents native to the Virgin Islands. His older brother and

sister were also musically inclined, but only Rollins veered

away from Classical music after his uncle, a professional

saxophonist, introduced him to Jazz and Blues. He gravitated

to the tenor saxophone in high school, inspired in particular

by Coleman Hawkins. By the time he was out of

school, Rollins was already working with big-name

musicians such as Bud Powell, Fats Navarro, and

Roy Haynes. In 1951, he debuted as a leader on

Prestige; his affiliation with that label also produced

classics such as Saxophone Colossus, Worktime, and

Tenor Madness (with John Coltrane).

From early 1956 until he went out on his own

permanently as a leader in the summer of 1957,

Rollins played in the Max Roach-Clifford Brown

Quintet, one of the most definitive Hard-Bop

ensembles of its day. Often with his own pianoless

trio, Rollins then entered a tremendously fertile period

during which he recorded major works such as A Night at

the Village Vanguard, Way Out West, and Freedom Suite. In

1959, Rollins took the first of his legendary sabbaticals from

music. Living on Manhattan’s lower East Side, he was often

spotted on the nearby Williamsburg Bridge at night, deep in

a rigorous practice regimen.

When Rollins returned to performing in 1961, he

recorded The Bridge with Jim Hall and Bob Cranshaw,

led a quartet with trumpeter Don Cherry and drummer

Billy Higgins, and recorded with his idol Hawkins. He

also received a Grammy nomination for his score for the

presents

AN EVENING WITH SONNY ROLLINSSaturday, April 5, 2008, 8:00 PM

This performance will not include an intermission.The taking of photographs or use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.

film Alfie. At decade’s end he undertook one final hiatus,

studying Zen Buddhism in Japan and yoga in India. He

considered leaving music permanently in order to pursue

spiritual studies, but a teacher convinced him that music

was his spiritual path. In 1972, with the encouragement

and support of his wife Lucille, who had become his business

manager, Rollins returned to performing and recording, and

the release of Next Album. He has worked with

all-star ensembles, including Tommy Flanagan, Jack

DeJohnette, Stanley Clarke, and Tony Williams.

In 2001, he won a Grammy Award for “Best

Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group”

for This Is What I Do. In 2005, he won a Grammy

for “Best Jazz Instrumental Solo” for Why Was I

Born?. Rollins received a “Lifetime Achievement

Award” in 2004 from the National Academy of

Recording Arts and Sciences. Rollins was inducted

into the Academy of Achievement in 2006 at the

International Achievement Summit in Los Angeles.

In the midst of a spate of honors – including a Grammy

Award for “Best Jazz Instrumental Solo” and “Artist of the

Year” and “Tenor Saxophonist of the Year” from the Jazz

Journalists Association and the Down Beat Critics Poll

Rollins has just released his first new studio recording in five

years – Sonny, Please – on his own Doxy label.

The new CD captures his working band “at a good

pitch,” as Rollins puts it. The group consists of trombonist

Clifton Anderson; bassist Cranshaw, an esteemed Rollins

collaborator since 1959; guitarist Bobby Broom; drummer

Steve Jordan; and percussionist Kimati Dinizulu. The CD is

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Harold Thauin association withAruba Productions

presents

DIRECTED BY Randal Myler

MUSICAL DIRECTORSeth Weinstein

COSTUME DESIGN PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER Betsy Waddell Alison Pellegrini

SOUND DESIGN TECHNICAL SUPERVISOR Mike Ponder Sharlyne Shlayan

GENERAL MANAGERAlmost Heaven, LLC

CASTING DIRECTORArnold Mungioli

FEATURING FIDDLE Michael Bojtos Cady Finlayson Rosie Mattia Benjamin Zep Misek GUITAR Ryan Nearhoff Vita Tanga Vernae Taylor KEYBOARDS Seth Weinstein

Sunday, April 6, 2008, 3:00 PM

There will be one 20-minute intermission.The taking of photographs or use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.

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MUSICAL NUMBERS

All of My Memories

For Bobbie

Rhymes & Reasons

Draft Dodger Rag

Take Me Home, Country Roads

Rhymes & Reasons (Reprise)

Fly Away

I Guess He’d Rather Be in Colorado

Rocky Mountain High

Matthew / Weapons

Calypso

INTERMISSION

Thank God I’m a Country Boy

Grandma’s Feather Bed

Love / Leave Medley

Leaving on a Jet Plane

For You

Looking for Space (Excerpt)

I’m Sorry

Sunshine on My Shoulders

Looking for Space

Poems, Prayers & Promises

Yellowstone

Encore

BIOGRAPHIESMICHAEL BOJTOS holds a bachelor of fine arts

degree in musical theater performance from East Carolina

University. His credits include starring roles in Dora the

Explorer’s Pirate Adventure (international tour), Thomas the

Tank Engine Live! On Stage (world premiere), A Chorus Line,

Godspell, Hair, Grease, and Little Shop of Horrors. He sends

thanks and love to family.

ROSIE MATTIA is originally from Rochester, New

York, and graduated from SUNY Fredonia with a bachelor of

arts degree in musical theater. She also studied at Middlesex

University in London, England, in an intensive acting

program. Mattia’s favorite regional roles include Philia in

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; Hodel

in Fiddler on the Roof; Rizzo in Grease; and Lucy in You’re

a Good Man, Charlie Brown. In 2007, she debuted in the

musical Follow Me in the role of Mistress of Ceremonies.

Mattia starred in the independent feature film And So Life

Goes On, which was screened at the Montclair Film Festival

and Hoboken International Film Festival. She would like to

thank all of her family and friends for their constant support

and God for natural gifts and guidance.

BENJAMIN ZEP MISEK is excited to join the cast

of Almost Heaven: Songs of John Denver. Misek trained at

American Musical Dramatic Academy in New York. His

regional theater credits include Made in America: Irving Berlin

and Fiddler on the Roof (Gretna Theatre). Misek’s other

theater credits include Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor

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Dreamcoat, Kiss Me Kate, Harvey, Smoke on the Mountain,

and West Side Story. He would like to thank his family for

their love and support.

RYAN NEARHOFF’s credits include Anything

Goes (Williamstown Theater Festival), Romeo and Juliet

(Williamstown), The Wonderful World of Christmas

(Candlelight Pavillion), Seussical, Cabaret, and Big River.

He has also performed alongside Gladys Knight, The Doobie

Brothers, and Chicago at the Honda Center in Anaheim.

Nearhoff is a graduate of California State University,

Fullerton with a bachelor of fine arts degree in musical

theater. He would like to thank everyone who supports him

on and off stage.

VERNAE TAYLOR, a New Jersey songstress, makes

her touring debut with Almost Heaven: Songs of John Denver.

Taylor graduated from Rutgers University with a degree in

communications. She has balanced acting and singing with

teaching seventh and eighth grade. Her credits include

Quilt, African Extravaganza, The Wiz, Smokey Joe’s Café, and

Showtime at the Apollo tour. She would like to dedicate this

performance to “The World’s Greatest Aunt” for supporting

her since the beginning of her career at age 5, and to her

talented brother for his wisdom and constructive criticism.

CADY FINLAYSON (Fiddle) has played the fiddle

since childhood and is described as “a remarkable talent”

and “one of America’s top Celtic fiddlers.” Finlayson has

performed in venues across the country, including Carnegie

Hall, Palace Theatre Cleveland, and Palace on the Green.

The Cady Finlayson Band plays throughout the East Coast

and its music can be heard in the films The Emerald Diamond,

Snakes and Ladders, and Random Acts. Finlayson’s three CDs,

which blend traditional fiddle tunes with American Folk

roots, have attracted listeners from Australia to Japan. In

2007, she released her latest CD, Irish Coffee, which has been

called delightful and spirited. Finlayson received a master

of music degree from Mannes College The New School for

Music.

VITA TANGA (Guitar) is the music producer and

co-founder of the band Liquids. In 2007, the group released

its first CD, Da’Juice, which shines an unusual light on

themes such as drug addiction and domestic violence. In

studio, Tanga performs on several instruments, blending

Soul, Rock, Trip Hop, and Funk with a subtle French touch

dubbed “Aquatic Soul.” He has performed and recorded on

four continents from Radio City Music Hall in New York to

Centre Georges Pompidou in his hometown Paris. Tanga is a

sought-after freelance musician and composer in film scoring

and the World/Urban music industry. For more details, log

on to myspace.com/vitaaguitar.

SETH WEINSTEIN (Music Director/Keyboards)

composed the music for the recent Off-Broadway musical

How to Save the World and Find True Love in 90 Minutes.

He also wrote a commissioned piano suite inspired by the

paintings of Marc Chagall, which premiered in 2007, and has

performances scheduled this year in France and Germany.

He has directed the musicals Titanic, Side Show, Guys and

Dolls, Rags, Fiddler on the Roof, Do I Hear a Waltz?, and

A New Brain. Weinstein toured for two seasons with the

international company of Fosse. For more information, visit

www.sethweinstein.com.

RANDAL MYLER (Director) was nominated for

an Outer Critic’s Circle Award for “Outstanding Direction

of a Musical” for Hank Williams: Lost Highway, which

he wrote with Mark Harelik at the Little Shubert. He is

also the co-author and director of It Ain’t Nothing But the

Blues at Lincoln Center, which received four Tony Award

nominations, including “Best Musical” and “Best Book of

a Musical.” He wrote and directed the Off-Broadway hit

Love, Janis, which ran for two years at the former Village

Gate. He has directed at Ambassador Theater in New York,

Promenade Theatre, The New Victory Theater, Manhattan

Ensemble Theater, and Joe’s Pub The Public Theater. He has

also directed at theaters across the country, including Seattle

Repertory Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, The Kennedy

Center, Denver Center Theatre Company, Mark Taper

Forum, Geffen Playhouse, Actors Theatre of Louisville,

Cleveland Play House, Arizona Theatre Company, Alabama

Shakespeare Festival, The Old Globe, Marines Memorial

Theater, Laguna Playhouse, Britt Music Festival, Bay Street

Theatre, Northlight Theatre, the Royal George Theatre,

Florida Studio Theatre, Barter Theatre, San Diego Repertory

Theatre, Meadow Brook Theatre, Ryman Auditorium,

Zachary Scott Theatre, Cerritos Center for the Performing

Arts, Virginia Stage Company, Kansas City Repertory

Theatre, Theatre Aspen, Rubicon Theatre Company,

Vineyard Playhouse, and Ensemble Theatre Company.

Myler’s other projects include co-adapting and directing Fire

on the Mountain (Critics Pick, Chicago Tribune and Chicago

Sun-Times) and directing Union City, New Jersey, Where Are

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JUILLIARD STRING QUARTETJOEL SMIRNOFF, VIOLINRONALD COPES, VIOLINSAMUEL RHODES, VIOLAJOEL KROSNICK, CELLO

Friday, April 11, 2008, 8:00 PM

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As a courtesy to the performers and your fellow patrons, please mute all cellular phones, pagers, and watch alarms prior to the start of the performance.

PROGRAMQuartet in E-flat Major, Op. 76, No. 6 Franz Joseph Haydn Allegretto – Allegro (1732-1809) Fantasia: Adagio Menuetto: Presto Finale: Allegro spirituoso

Quartet No. 13 in b-flat minor, Op. 138 Dmitri Shostakovich Adagio – Doppio movimento – Tempo primo (1906-1975)

INTERMISSION

Quartet in F Major, Op. 59, No. 1 Ludwig van Beethoven Allegro (1770-1827) Allegretto vivace e sempre scherzando Adagio molto e mesto Theme Russe: Allegro

The Juilliard String Quartet records exclusively for Sony Classical.Colbert Artists Management, Inc.

111 West 57th StreetNew York, NY 10019

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of the publication’s annual International Directory of the

Performing Arts. October 11, 2006 marked the Juilliard

String Quartet’s 60th anniversary. A yearlong celebration

followed, including performances of seven complete Bartók

cycles (the quartet played the American premiere of the

Bartók cycles at Tanglewood in 1948) in major cities

throughout the United States and Japan, beginning with a

two-concert cycle at Alice Tully Hall in New York. In honor

of both the Juilliard String Quartet’s 60th birthday and the

Dmitri Shostakovich centennial, Sony BMG Masterworks

released a two-CD set of Quartet Nos. 3, 14,

and 15, and the Piano Quintet with Yefim

Bronfman.

The Juilliard String Quartet appears

regularly in the prestigious halls of the world,

including the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam,

the Cité de la Musique in Paris, and Wigmore

Hall in London. While in Salzburg, the

quartet was showcased on National Public

Radio’s Classical music show, Performance

Today, hosted by Fred Child. A highlight of

the Juilliard String Quartet’s 2008 European

tour included its visit to Madrid, where the

quartet performed on the Royal Family’s set of

inlaid Stradivari instruments at the Palacio Real.

Special events of recent seasons include a pair of

concerts presented by the Los Angeles Philharmonic in

Walt Disney Concert Hall; the world premiere of Ezequiel

Viñao’s Quartet II, The Loss and the Silence, commissioned

for the group by The Juilliard School in honor of its 2006

centennial; and international performances of the quartet’s

own arrangement of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Art of the

Fugue. This season the Juilliard String Quartet participates

in celebrations of Elliott Carter’s 100th birthday at the

Ravinia Festival and at The Juilliard School, where it will

perform the world premiere of Carter’s new Clarinet Quintet

with Charles Neidich. The quartet also tours throughout

the United States and Europe with notable appearances at

the National Gallery in Washington, D.C.; the Philadelphia

Chamber Music Society; the La Jolla Music Society; the

Chamber Music Society of Detroit; the Concertgebouw in

Amsterdam; the Cité de la Musique in Paris; and its annual

residency at Tanglewood.

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BIOGRAPHIESThe JUILLIARD STRING QUARTET,

internationally renowned for performances characterized by

its clarity of structure, beauty of sound, purity of line, and

extraordinary unanimity of purpose, has long been recognized

as the quintessential American string quartet.

In a history of “firsts,” the quartet was the first ensemble

to play all six Béla Bartók quartets in the United States, and

it was through the group’s performances that the quartets of

Arnold Schoenberg were rescued from obscurity. An ardent

champion of contemporary American music, the quartet

has premiered more than 60 compositions of

American composers, including works by some

of America’s finest Jazz musicians. Amongst its

thousands of performances of the great classics

of Franz Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus

Mozart, Franz Schubert, and Johannes Brahms,

the quartet has also performed the complete

Ludwig van Beethoven cycles in many cities

of the world, including New York, Tokyo, and

Bonn.

The ensemble has been associated with

Sony Classical, in its various incarnations,

since 1949. In celebration of the quartet’s

50th anniversary, Sony released seven CDs

containing previously unreleased material as well as notable

performances from the quartet’s award-winning discography.

With more than 100 releases to its credit, the ensemble

is one of the most widely recorded string quartets of our

time. Its recordings of the complete Beethoven quartets,

the complete Schoenberg quartets, and the Claude Debussy

and Maurice Ravel string quartets have all received Grammy

Awards. Inducted into the Hall of Fame of the National

Academy for Recording Arts and Sciences in 1986 for its

recording of the complete Bartók string quartets, the Juilliard

String Quartet was awarded the Deutsche Schallplattenkritik

Prize in 1993 for “Lifetime Achievement” in the recording

industry. In 1994, its recording of quartets by Ravel, Debussy,

and Henri Dutilleux was chosen by the Times of London as

one of the 100 best Classical CDs ever recorded.

At Tanglewood in 1997, the Juilliard String Quartet’s

founder and first violinist Robert Mann retired from the

group after 50 years. Earlier that season, Musical America

named the quartet “Musicians of the Year,” making it the

first Chamber music ensemble ever to appear on the cover

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In January 2008, Chamber Music America presented

past and present members of the Juilliard String Quartet with

the organization’s highest honor, the Richard J. Bogomolny

National Service Award, in recognition of the quartet’s

incalculable contributions to American Chamber music.

Violinist JOEL SMIRNOFF is a native of New York

City and has been a member of the quartet since 1986 and

the ensemble’s leader since 1997. Formerly the group’s

second violinist, Smirnoff attended the University of

Chicago and The Juilliard School and was a member of the

Boston Symphony Orchestra for six years. Second-prize

winner in the International American Music Competition

in 1983, he made his New York recital debut in 1985 at

Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall. Smirnoff has participated in

the world premiere of numerous Contemporary works, many

of which were composed for him. He is chair of the violin

department at The Juilliard School and pursues an active

career as a conductor in the United States and abroad.

In 1997, violinist RONALD COPES joined the

ensemble as second violinist and was appointed to the

violin faculty at The Juilliard School. Formerly a member

of the Dunsmuir Piano Quartet, the Los Angeles Piano

Quartet, and the Audubon String Quartet, he served on the

faculties of the University of California at Santa Barbara and

Michigan State University. He performs and teaches at the

Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival in Blue Hill, Maine,

and has been a participant at the Bermuda, Cheltenham,

Colorado, Marlboro, and Olympic music festivals. He has

also appeared in solo recitals throughout the United States

and Europe. Copes studied at the Oberlin Conservatory with

David Cerone and at the University of Michigan with the

late Paul Makanowitzky.

Violist SAMUEL RHODES, a native of New York,

appears in recitals and as an orchestral soloist in addition

to his activities as a composer and teacher. Celebrating his

36th season as a violist of the Juilliard String Quartet, faculty

member, and chair of viola at The Juilliard School, he is

also associated with the Marlboro Festival and Tanglewood.

Rhodes’ solo appearances include recitals at the Library

of Congress, Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, The Juilliard

School, and Columbia University’s Miller Theater. He

earned his bachelor of arts degree from Queens College and

a master of fine arts degree from Princeton University, where

he studied composition with the late Roger Sessions and the

late Earl Kim.

Born in Connecticut to a family of enthusiastic

amateur musicians, JOEL KROSNICK has been the cellist

of the Juilliard String Quartet since 1974. He performs

annual recitals at Merkin and Weill Recital Hall in New

York with his sonata partner of more than 20 years, pianist

Gilbert Kalish. Krosnick has recorded much of the sonata

repertoire, including the complete Beethoven sonatas and

variations and works by Francis Poulenc, Sergei Prokofiev,

Carter, Debussy, Leos Janacek, Ralph Shapey, Henry Cowell,

and Paul Hindemith. His principal teachers were William

D’Amato, Luigi Silva, Jens Nygaard, and Claus Adam,

whom he succeeded in the Juilliard String Quartet. While at

Columbia University, he began his lifelong commitment to

Contemporary music and has performed and premiered many

works, including Donald Martino’s Cello Concerto, Richard

Wernick’s Cello Concerto No. 2, and several pieces by

Shapey. Appointed to the faculty of The Juilliard School in

1974, Krosnick has been chair of the cello department since

1994. He has been associated with the Aspen and Marlboro

music festivals, Tanglewood Music Center, Yellow Barn, and

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Opus 3 Artists presents

WU MAN, PIPA

ANCIENT DANCES

Saturday, April 12, 2008, 8:00 PM

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PROGRAM

Xi Yang Xiao Gu (Flute and Drum Music at Sunset) Classical (Civil)

The Sound of Bells and Drums From a Distant Temple Along the River

Moon on the Eastern Mountain

Breeze Over the Quiet Water

Shadows of Flowers

Clouds and Water Far Away Become as One

Fishermen’s Song in the Evening

Waves Lapping at the Shore

The Returning Boat

Shi Mian Mai Fu (Ambush Laid on Ten Sides) Classical (Martial)

Xiao Yue Er Gao (High Little Moon) Classical

Zhongguo Pop for pipa solo (2005) Anthony Paul De Ritis

(b. 1968)

Dance of the Yi People (1960) Wang Huiran

(b. 1936)

Collage (2000) Wu Man

(b. 1963)

INTERMISSION

Ancient Dances – Three Poems by Li Bai (701-762) Chen Yi and Wu Man

for pipa and percussion (2005) (b. 1953) and (b.1963)

Cheering (Riding on My Skiff) Chen Yi

Longing (Night Thoughts) Wu Man

Wondering (The Cataract of Mount Lu) Chen Yi

Barry Dove - PercussionCatherine Owens - Videographer

Larry Neff - Lighting Design and Technical AdviserWang Jiaxun, Guo Daxiang, and Lu Weiming - Calligraphers

Wu Man - ConceptCommissioned by Walton Arts Foundation

Exclusive Management:OPUS 3 Artists

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BIOGRAPHYWU MAN, cited by the Los Angeles Times as “the

artist most responsible for bringing the pipa to the Western

World,” emigrated to the United States from China in 1990

and is considered by many of today’s prominent composers

including Terry Riley, Philip Glass, Lou Harrison, Tan

Dun, and Bright Sheng – as a foremost proponent of both

traditional and Contemporary pipa repertoire.

ANCIENT DANCES, Man’s collaborative multimedia

production with composer Chen Yi and videographer

Catherine Owens, is a mesmerizing exploration of two

venerable Chinese traditions: calligraphy and pipa music.

Internationally renowned virtuoso Man premiered the piece

at Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center, followed by a performance

at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall in New York and several other

well-received concerts throughout the United States.

Brought up in the Pudong School of pipa playing,

one of the most esteemed classical styles of Imperial China,

Man graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music in

Beijing, where she was the first to receive a master’s degree in

pipa playing. She won the top prize in China’s first National

Music Performance Competition. As the first musician from

China to perform at the White House, Man has inspired

dozens of concerto compositions and Chamber works by

a new generation of Chinese composers. In 1999, noted

cellist Yo-Yo Ma honored her with the “City of Toronto

Glenn Gould Protégé Prize” in music and communication.

She continues to perform with Ma on his Silk Road Project,

a nonprofit arts-and-cultural organization that Ma founded

in 1998 with the mission of promoting a cultural exchange

of ideas through the arts and uniting entertainers and

audiences around the globe. With the Silk Road Project, Man

has performed in concerts throughout the United States,

Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Extensive touring has

taken her to major music halls, including New York’s Lincoln

Center, Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center; Amsterdam’s

Concertgebouw; and the Great Hall in Moscow. Touring

has given her ample opportunities to work with icons such

as violist Yuri Bashmet, violinist Cho-Liang Lin, conductors

Esa-Pekka Salonen and Michael Stern, and the Kronos

Quartet. Man has performed solo with the world’s most

celebrated orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic,

the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Seattle Symphony

Orchestra, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, and the

Austrian Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Man has released several albums, including Wu Man

Pipa From a Distance, Chinese Music for the Pipa, Chinese

Traditional & Contemporary Music for Pipa & Ensemble, and

a recording of Grammy-winning composer-conductor Dun’s

Ghost Opera with the Kronos Quartet. On the recent Wu

Man and Friends album, which celebrates the variety of the

world’s plucked instruments, she performs with musicians

from Uganda, Ukraine, and the southern Appalachian

Mountains. In 2005, Nonesuch Records released You’ve

Stolen My Heart, a recording with Man, singer Asha Bhosle,

and the Kronos Quartet paying homage to Rahul Dev

Burman, a composer of classic Bollywood songs. The album

was nominated for a Grammy for “Best Contemporary World

Music Album” in 2006. A Bunting Fellow at the Radcliffe

Institute of Advanced Study at Harvard University, Man has

key projects in the works for Nonesuch, including a recording

of Riley’s Cusp of Magic with the Kronos Quartet, and an

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presents

CALIFORNIA GUITAR TRIO PAUL RICHARDS

BERT LAMSHIDEYO MORIYA

Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 7:30 PM

There will be one 20-minute intermission.A question-and-answer session will immediately follow this performance.

The taking of photographs or use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.

BIOGRAPHYCALIFORNIA GUITAR TRIO (CGT) consists

of Paul Richards of Salt Lake City, Utah; Bert Lams of

Brussels, Belgium; and Hideyo Moriya of Tokyo, Japan. Its

stunning virtuosity and precision playing have earned the

trio a strong following, with significant crossover in the

Progressive, Acoustic, and Classical music scenes. CGT’s

music was featured on the televised 1998, 2000, 2002, and

2004 Olympics, and also on CBS, NBC, CNN, and ESPN

programs. CGT performed on the 2003 Grammy-nominated

track Apollo on Tony Levin’s Pieces of the Sun; and CGT

music was sent into outer space as wake-up music for the

crew aboard NASA’s Space Shuttle Endeavour. Throughout

the past 14 years, CGT has shared the stage with superb

performers such as King Crimson, Jon Anderson, John

McLaughlin, John Scofield, Tito Puente, and Taj Mahal.

The trio met in England at one of Robert Fripp’s

guitar craft courses in 1987. After completing several of

these intensive courses, the three toured worldwide with

Fripp’s League of Crafty Guitarists. Richards, Lams, and

Moriya founded CGT in 1991, honing their intricate

original compositions, Surf music cover songs, and Classical

composition re-workings.

Since its inception, the trio has released 11 CDs.

These include six studio albums featuring original works

from CGT and a variety of Classical works such as Johann

Sebastian Bach’s Toccata and Fugue and Ludwig van

Beethoven’s 5th Symphony; four live releases featuring the

trio at its best onstage; and a Christmas CD with familiar and

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AXIS DANCE COMPANYARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Judith Smith

DANCERS

Rodney Bell • Lisa Bufano • Margaret Cromwell • Rodrigo Esteva

Sonsherée Giles • Bonnie Lewkowicz • Alice Sheppard • Judith Smith

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR EDUCATION DIRECTOR MANAGING DIRECTOR

(To Joe Goode) Annika Nonhebel Mollie McFarland

Jessica Swanson

CHOREOGRAPHERS

Joe Goode • Margaret Jenkins • Victoria Marks • Kate Weare

ASSISTANT CHOREOGRAPHER COMPOSER/IMPROVISER

Melanie Elms MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST

Fred Frith

LIGHTING DESIGNER PRODUCTION MANAGER COSTUME DESIGNER

Patrick Hajduk Dylan McMillan Sonsherée Giles

Heather Basarab

Jose Marie Francos

TOUR ASSISTANT BOOKKEEPER

Iva Walton Karen Schiller

Friday, April 18, 2008, 8:00 PM

There will be one 20-minute intermission.The taking of photographs or use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.

AXIS Dance Company

1428 Alice Street, Suite 200

Oakland, California 94612

info@axisdance.org / www.axisdance.org

Phone: 510-625-0110 Fax: 510-625-0321

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PROGRAM

FOREGONE (2007)

Choreography: Kate Weare

Dancers

Rodney Bell, Lisa Bufano, Margaret Cromwell, Alice Sheppard, and Judith Smith

Music: The Seldom Scene, In the Pines; Dolly Parton, Silver Dagger; and

Gillian Welch, I’m Not Afraid to Die

Lighting Design: Patrick Hajduk

Costume Design: Sonsherée Giles

I love the main ingredients of good dancing: physical courage and heartfelt choices. While creating Foregone in the studio, it was so

exciting to watch the AXIS dancers explore my movement in their gorgeous, unexpected, and meaningful ways. Foregone is a dance

about loving - how painful, raucous, and foolish it can be, and how we go on doing it no matter what. I dedicate this dance to Judith

Smith, a visionary thinker with the heart of a wild horse. My deepest gratitude and respect to all who worked hard for this dance: Alice,

Annika, Iva, Judy, Lisa, Margaret, Mollie, Patrick, Rodney, and Sonsherée. – Kate Weare

DANCING TO MUSIC (restaged 2006)

Choreography: Victoria Marks

Dancers

Lisa Bufano, Margaret Cromwell, Sonsherée Giles, and Alice Sheppard

Music: Wim Mertens, Casting No Shadow

From the album a man of no fortune and with a name to come

Lighting Design: Patrick Hajduk

Dancing to Music was made in 1988 in the midst of a yearlong Fulbright Fellowship in London. This respite from New York came at

a time when I wanted to strip movement down to its most essential elements in an effort to better understand how meaning arises from

movement. When a friend played Wim Mertens’ music, I wondered if I could dance to the music with only my eyes. It was through the

act of seeing that I felt I could best approach the emotional intensity that I heard in the music. – Victoria Marks

INTERMISSION

THE BEAUTY THAT WAS MINE, THROUGH THE MIDDLE, WITHOUT STOPPING (2007)

Conceived, choreographed, and written by Joe Goode in collaboration with the dancers

Assistant Director: Jessica Swanson

Dancers

Rodney Bell, Lisa Bufano, Margaret Cromwell, Sonsherée Giles, and Judith Smith

Music: A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Waltz for Strings and Tuba;

Paul Cantelon from the movie Everything Is Illuminated,

Little Jonathan/The Wall, and Prologue/Babushka

Costume Design: Sonsherée Giles

Set Design: Chris Hammer

Lighting Design: Heather Basarab

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THE BEAUTY THAT WAS MINE (Continued)

What do we see? Is the actuality of the seen entity ever close to what we presume it to be? Is seeing somehow limited? Does it imply an

unnecessary separation between viewer and viewed? It has been my delight to explore these questions with my AXIS collaborators. I am

indebted to them for their willingness to reveal themselves and to take this journey with me. – Joe Goode

This piece was made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts, Doris Duke Fund for the National Dance Project, a

program of the New England Foundation for the Arts with additional funding provided by the Ford Foundation, the Zellerbach

Family Foundation, the East Bay Fund for Artists, and the following commissioners: Gloria E. Aguila, Shelley Bergum, Joseph

and Anna dos Ramos, Bruce Dugstad, Patricia Dunne and Dunne Painting, Susan Foster, Marilynn Hall and Alan Baskin,

Elliot and Linda Halpern, Mishana Hosseinioun, Jon C. Houde, Dougal MacKinnon, Chuck and Thoebe McAvoy, Charles

and Gerry McAvoy, Bernadette Mendoza, Tom Metz and David Brightman, Parker Monroe and Teresa Darragh, Edward Ortiz,

John Steinberg and Lauren Steinberg, and Marilyn Straka.

WAYPOINT (2006)

Choreographer: Margaret Jenkins with Melanie Elms

Dancers

Margaret Cromwell, Rodrigo Esteva, Sonsherée Giles,

Bonnie Lewkowicz, Alice Sheppard, and Judith Smith

Music: Fred Frith’s Measured Motion was commissioned by AXIS and composed during a residency at Jourparjour, La Corbiére,

Switzerland, in 2006 (www.jourparjour.net). It was recorded and mixed at Guerrilla Recordings with engineer

Myles Boisen in 2006. Piano recorded at New Improved Recording Studios with engineer John Finkbeiner.

Guitar, bass, organ: Fred Frith

Piano: Heather Heise

Trumpet: Darren Johnston

Violin: Carla Kihlstedt

Percussion: William Winant

Recordings of Judith Smith’s wheelchair: Patrice Scanlon

Lighting: Jose Maria Francos

Costumes: Sonsherée Giles

Waypoint was made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, the East Bay Fund

for Artists, and the following commissioners: Justine Ballantyne; Shelley Bergum; Anne Bleecker Corcos; Mary Ann Dreiling;

Bruce Dugstad; Richard Ellis and Don Jacobs; Susan Foster; Marilynn Hall and Alan Baskin; Pat and Susan Hendrix; Jon

Houde; Mishana Hosseinioun; Sondra Jensen; Deborah Kaplan; John Killacky and Larry Connolly; Bonnie Lewkowicz and

Paul Church; J. Dougal MacKinnon, M.D.; Charles and Gerry McAvoy; Chuck and Thoebe McAvoy; Parker Monroe and

Teresa Darrah; Laurie Posner; Leslie Riley; John Steinberg and Lauren Steinberg; and Marilyn Straka.

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BIOGRAPHIESSince 1987, AXIS DANCE COMPANY has created an

innovative body of work, which has received acclaim from an international audience. The company is known for setting high artistic and educational standards in the emerging field of physically integrated dance. More than any other company in the United States, AXIS has been a bridge between Contemporary and physically integrated dance. Under the artistic direction of Judith Smith, its repertory which includes works by renowned choreographers such as Stephen Petronio, Bill T. Jones, Joe Goode, Joanna Haigood, Sonya Delwaide, Victoria Marks, Ann Carlson, and Margaret Jenkins – has garnered five Isadora Duncan Dance Awards. The company has created more than 40 repertory works, two evening-length works, and several pieces for young audiences. AXIS has been featured in several national and local broadcasts, including public television KQED’s Spark program in 2004, WNET’s nationally broadcast production of People in Motion, and the documentary video Dancing From the Inside Out. AXIS’ extensive community education/outreach program, Dance Access, and its youth component, Dance Access/KIDS!, offers classes and workshops for adults and youth of all abilities, school assemblies, presentations, lecture demonstrations, and residencies locally and abroad. Dance Access is a model program that received a California Arts Council “Exemplary Arts” award in 2002 and was presented in the Kennedy Center’s national Imagination Celebration at the 2002 Olympic Arts Festival.

This performance is funded in part by the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts, with lead funding from Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Additional funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Ford Foundation, and JP Morgan Chase.

JUDITH SMITH (Artistic Director) is a founding member of AXIS. Upon taking over artistic leadership of the company in 1997, AXIS began commissioning works by some of the nation’s best choreographers and launched the Dance Access community education/outreach program. Smith teaches dance and lectures at community organizations, schools, universities, and conferences. She serves on the advisory boards of the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography, the National Art and Disability Center, and Bates Dance Festival.

RODNEY BELL (Dancer) joined AXIS in 2007 and has been dancing for 12 years. In 1995, Bell joined New Zealand’s Touch Compass Dance Company. He was a member of Poutokomanawa (a Māori Kapa haka group). In addition to his talents as a dancer and choreographer, Bell teaches mixed ability dance and shares his technique and knowledge through various workshops and dance intensives. An avid wheelchair basketball player, Bell represented New Zealand from 1999 to 2006 and represented Auckland in the New Zealand Wheelchair Basketball Championships from 1996 to 2006. He was featured on 60 Minutes, The Good Morning Show, and Māori Television. Bell appeared in a production of Nga Moemoea (The Dreamers) in 1997.

LISA BUFANO (Dancer) is from Boston, Massachusetts. She began her career as a dancer in 2005, which led to an international

collaboration with the University of Linz. In 2006, she was awarded the Franklin Furnace fund for performance art for her work wearing table-leg stilts. When Boston presenter Jeremy Alliger introduced her to choreographer Heidi Latsky, she began working in Modern dance. She has performed at The Kennedy Theater in Washington, D.C.; The Baryshnikov Arts Center; Judson Memorial Church; Long Island University; The Balancing Acts Disability Arts Festival in Calgary; and for audiences in Boston and Vienna. In 2007, she moved from the East Coast to work with AXIS. Bufano was a competitive gymnast until a bacterial infection led to the amputation of her fingers and both feet when she was 21. She then pursued her interest in art, animation, and sculpture at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. After a 15-year career as a visual artist, Bufano now finds dance with AXIS to be challenging and engaging. She would like to thank Peter Couture, a prosthetist with Next Step O&P, for 13 years of encouragement and friendship. Next Step O&P fits Bufano’s prosthetics and cheetah

(running) legs.MARGARET CROMWELL (Dancer)

is originally from Oklahoma. She received her bachelor of fine arts degree from North Carolina School of the Arts in Modern dance performance and composition. Cromwell taught dance at a secondary school in St. Lucia, West Indies, before moving to the Bay Area to earn her master of fine arts degree from Mills College. She joined AXIS in 2006.

RODRIGO ESTEVA (Guest Dancer), a native of Mexico, has dedicated his life to dancing in festivals and theaters in the United States and internationally. He began movement studies in Ballet with Dagmar Kortum and Modern dance with Federico Castro. He has also trained in Tai Chi Chuang, Capoeira, and extensively in improvisation. Esteva has been a guest dancer and choreographer with numerous renowned

companies, including Pearson Widrig Dance Theater and En dos Partes, directed by acclaimed choreographer Gerardo Delgado. In 1994 and 1998, he received support from the National Foundation for the Arts and Culture of Mexico to study at the Merce Cunningham Studio, Nikolais and Luis Dance Lab, and the Trisha Brown School. He has also written a book, Imaginacion en Movimiento (Imagination in Movement). He is the artistic director for Dance Monks, which was formed in 1999 with Mirah Moriarty. For more information, visit www.dancemonks.com.

SONSHERÉE GILES (Dancer and Costume Designer) is from New Orleans, Louisiana. Before moving to the Bay Area, Giles taught dance and yoga in Jacksonville, Florida, in the public school system and universities. She then moved to the Bay Area and received her master of fine arts degree in dance performance and choreography from Mills College. In 2001, she began collaborating with Judith Smith to combine movement, sound, video, and sculpture to create performances. As a costume designer, she has created costumes for many dancers. In 2005, she officially joined AXIS Dance Company and considers it a deep honor to dance with the company.

BONNIE LEWKOWICZ (Dancer), a native of Detroit, Michigan, studied Ballet, Tap, and Jazz from ages 5 to 15 when an

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teaching residency in 2004 in Hong Kong, Guangzhou, and Beijing, China; and the 2005 premiere of running with the land at the opening of M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in the Barbro Osher Sculpture Garden, commissioned by the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation. In 2005, Jenkins and five members of her company were invited to Kochi, India, to participate in a four-week rehearsal and performance residency. The time in India allowed Jenkins to work with dancers in collaboration with her company to develop the source material for A Slipping Glimpse. The work premiered at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in 2006 and in Calcutta, India, in 2007 followed by an extensive tour of the United States. Jenkins has received numerous commissions and awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Irvine Fellowship in Dance, the San Francisco Arts Commission Award of Honor, and the Bernard Osher Cultural Award. She participated in the Choreographers in Mentorship Exchange, Choreographers in Action, and the Center for Creative Research in New York. The Margaret Jenkins Dance Lab hosts many of these activities and provides a unique rehearsal space for dancers and her company. For more information, visit www.mjdc.com.

VICTORIA MARKS (Choreographer) creates dances for the stage, film, communities, and professional dancers. Her work addresses the body itself, as it serves as a touchstone for larger discourses on wellness, desire, rhetoric, and power. Marks is a professor of choreography in the department of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA, where she has been teaching since 1995. Before taking her post at UCLA she lived in London where, for three and a half years, she worked on her own choreographic projects and served as head of choreography at London Contemporary Dance School. In 2005, Marks received a Guggenheim Fellowship and, in 2004, she was the recipient of the Irvine Dance in California “Dance: Creation to Performance” grant as well as a National Endowment for the Arts company grant. She is a 2002 recipient of a California DanceMaker Grant through the Irvine Foundation and a 2001 grant recipient from the Cultural Affairs Council of Los Angeles for Against Ending. The piece won four Lester Horton Dance Awards. In 1997, Marks was honored with the Alpert Award for “Outstanding Achievement in Choreography.” She has been the recipient of grants and fellowships from the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the London Arts Board. She received a Fulbright Fellowship in choreography and numerous awards for her dance films, including the Grand Prix in the videos Danse Festival (1995 and 1996), the Golden Antenae Award from Bulgaria, the IMZ Award for “Best Screen Choreography,” and the “Best of Show” in the Dance Film Association’s Dance on Camera Festival.

KATE WEARE (Choreographer) is a young choreographer recently described by John Rockwell of The New York Times as helping to define the next generation of dance makers. Weare is the recipient of residency awards from The Joyce Foundation, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, The Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography, and Dance New Amsterdam. She has twice been commissioned by Dance Theater Workshop. The Kate Weare Company won New York’s 2007 Artists With Audiences Responding to Dance Show! (a competition in which the audience chooses the best Modern dance act). Weare was recently nominated for a 2008 Alpert Award in the Arts for dance. In 1994, she earned her bachelor of fine arts degree from CalArts and maintains a bicoastal presence, showing

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all-terrain vehicle accident left her paralyzed. Through a contact improvisation workshop, she discovered dance again. She is a co-founder of AXIS Dance Company. Of her various roles as teacher, dancer, and administrator, her favorite is teaching children. She feels blessed to have worked with choreographers Bill T. Jones, Stephen Petronio, Joe Goode, Sonya Delwaide, Ann Carlson, and Margaret Jenkins. She has a bachelor’s degree in recreation therapy.

ALICE SHEPPARD (Dancer), a former musician and literature professor, grew up in England and moved to the United States in 1991. She began dancing late in life after she explored movement in response to a dare from disabled dancer Homer Avila. She soon uncovered her passion for dance. Sheppard made her professional debut in New York with Infinity Dance Theater as a wheelchair dancer. She loves to explore a wide variety of dance forms and is particularly interested in work that challenges the conventional understanding of the relationship between dance and disability. She is delighted to be working with AXIS.

JOE GOODE (Choreographer) is also a writer and director whose first concern is to provide a “deeply felt, profoundly human experience” in the theater. He is widely known as an innovator in the field of dance for his willingness to collide movement with spoken word, song, and visual imagery. His work has been recognized with numerous awards and prizes, including a New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie) and several Isadora Duncan Dance Awards. Goode was commissioned by the Magic Theatre to write and direct The Body Familiar. He has also been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, and the James Irvine Foundation. Goode has been honored with awards for excellence by the American Council on the Arts and the Business Arts Council/San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. He received the Heritage Award from the California Dance Educators Association. Goode’s work has been commissioned by dance companies throughout the United States and his performance/installation works have been commissioned by the UCLA Fowler Museum, Krannert Art Museum, the Capp Street Project, the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. The Joe Goode Performance Group (formed in 1986) has toured throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, South America, the Middle East, and Africa. Goode is known as a master teacher; his summer workshops in “felt performance” attract participants from around the world. Goode is a faculty member of the University of California, Berkeley, in the department of theater, dance, and performance studies.

MARGARET JENKINS (Choreographer) is a teacher, mentor, and a designer of unique community-based dance projects. She began her early training in San Francisco, however, she moved to New York in the ’60s to study at Juilliard. She then returned to California to train at UCLA before going back to New York to dance with such companies and choreographers as Jack Moore, Viola Farber, Judy Dunn, James Cunningham, and Gus Solomon, as well as Twyla Tharp’s original company with Sara Rudner. Jenkins was a faculty member at the Merce Cunningham Studio and often restaged Cunningham’s works for companies in the United States and Europe. In 1970 she opened one of the West Coast’s first studio-performing spaces and formed her own company in 1973, for which she has created more than 75 works and toured regularly throughout the United States and abroad. Jenkins’ activities include a 2003 residency in Kolkata, India, to create a new dance for the Tanusree Shankar Dance Company; the 2004 premiere of a new site-specific work, Danger Orange, in San Francisco; a three-week

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work annually in New York and San Francisco. For more information about Kate Weare Company, visit www.kateweare.com.

FRED FRITH (Composer/Improviser/Multi-instrumentalist) has spent more than 30 years creating a musical bridge between Rock and new music. The co-founder of the British underground band Henry Cow (1968-1978), Frith moved to New York in the late ’70s. He has since worked with many musicians and groups, including John Zorn, Ikue Mori, Tom Cora, Zeena Parkins, Bob Ostertag, Massacre (with Bill Laswell and Fred Maher), Skeleton Crew (with Tom and Zeena), and Keep the Dog, a sextet performing an extensive repertoire of his compositions. He has written for dance for more than 30 years, working with choreographers Bebe Miller, François Verret, Amanda Miller, and Peggy Piacenza. He composes for film (The Tango Lesson, Rivers and Tides, Thirst, Yes), theater (with Matthew Maguire’s Creation Company in New York), and for ensembles such as ROVA Sax Quartet, Ensemble Modern, Arditti Quartet, and his own critically acclaimed Guitar Quartet. He is known worldwide as an improvising guitarist, and has played bass in John Zorn’s Naked City, violin in Lars Hollmer’s Looping Home Orchestra, and guitar on recordings ranging from The Residents and René Lussier to Brian Eno and Amy Denio. Frith is the subject of Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel’s award-winning documentary Step Across the Border. He is a professor of composition at Mills College.

AXIS Fall and Spring 07/08 National Tour is sponsored by the MetLife Foundation with additional support from TARGET and the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts.

AXIS also gratefully acknowledges support from the City of Oakland Cultural Arts & Marketing Department, Alameda County Arts Commission, CA Arts Council, National Endowment for the Arts, Banks Family Fund, Betty Faber Fund, The Brickyard II Family Fund of the East Bay Community Foundation, Cresent Porter and Hale, East Bay Community Foundation, Betty Faber Fund of the San Francisco Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Bill Graham Foundation, Morris Stulsaft Foundation, Oakland Methodist Foundation, The O’Leary/Thiry Family Fund, TARGET, San Francisco Foundation, Special People In Need, True North Foundation, Van Loben Sels RembeRock Foundation, VSA Arts/Arts Connect All, and the Zellerbach Family Fund.

AXIS would like to thank everyone at Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts for being such wonderful hosts and for inviting AXIS to perform. A special thanks to Craig Springer and Michael Wolf.

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BIOGRAPHIESOne of the founding members of THE GRASS

ROOTS, ROB GRILL went on to chart 29 singles (13 of

which earned Gold-record status), two Gold albums, and

one Platinum album. In the history of Rock ‘n’ Roll, only

nine bands (including The Beatles) have charted more hits

on Billboard’s Hot 100 than The Grass Roots. From 1967 to

1972, the group set a record for being on the charts for 307

straight weeks. The band’s legacy of hits includes classics

such as Let’s Live for Today, Two Divided by Love, Where Were

You When I Needed You, The River Is Wide, I’d Wait a Million

Years, and Heaven Knows.

presents

THE GRASS ROOTSFeaturing Original Lead Singer

ROB GRILL

and

THE LOVIN’ SPOONFULSaturday, April 19, 2008, 8:00 PM

There will be one 20-minute intermission.The taking of photographs or use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.

In 1965, as the British Invasion dominated the

American music scene, THE LOVIN’ SPOONFUL held

on to many of the Top 10 spots on both sides of the pond.

Combining the best of Folk and Rock ‘n’ Roll, with an added

touch of Country music, the group delivered hit after hit,

including Summer In The City, Did You Ever Have to Make Up

Your Mind, Daydream, Nashville Cats, Darling Be Home Soon,

Six O’Clock, She Is Still a Mystery, and Never Going Back.

The group also wrote and performed songs for two soundtrack

albums, Woody Allen’s What’s Up, Tiger Lily? and Francis

Ford Coppola’s You’re a Big Boy Now. On March 6, 2000,

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There will be one 20-minute intermission.The taking of photographs or use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.

ROB GRILL

THE LOVIN’ SPOONFULand

Saturday, April 19, 2008, 8:00 PM

THE GRASS ROOTSFeaturing Original Lead Singer

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BIOGRAPHIESIn DINO ROCK’S A DINOSAUR BOOK OF

WORLD RECORDS, featuring puppets and live performers,

exploration is the name of the game. The show, which

premiered at the Smithsonian’s Discovery Theater in

Washington, D.C., in 1998, introduces record-holding

reptiles of the Mesozoic Era: Arabela, the most confused

Archaeopteryx; Sheoow Sheoow the Microraptor, the

smallest; Gabi Gallimimus, the fastest;

Shy Kyle the Ankylosaurus, the

widest; and Thumbs the Iguanodon,

the first plant-eater identified. Besides

encouraging kids to unearth fun and

facts about nature’s own real-life

dinosaurs, the show highlights two

pervasive themes: There are always new

discoveries to be made in science, and

records made today can be broken tomorrow.

Dino Rock has performed in 38 states and Canada,

delighting millions of children and their parents. It

started in 1982 when accomplished children’s entertainers

MICHELE VALERI and MICHAEL STEIN recorded

Dinosaur Rock!, an educational collection of songs about an

eccentric yodeling paleontologist who brings the extinct

reptiles back to life with his magical spells. The album won

a Parents’ Choice magazine award and an “American Library

Association ALSC Most Notable Award.” Award-winning

producer-composer Valeri and fiddler Stein then teamed with

Emmy award-winning puppeteer INGRID CREPEAU to

bring Dinosaur Rock! to the Smithsonian’s Discovery Theater,

presents

DINO ROCKin

A DINOSAUR BOOK OF WORLD RECORDSSunday, April 20, 2008, 3:00 PM

This performance will not include an intermission.The taking of photographs or use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.

which called Dino Rock “one of the best children’s theater

companies on the market today.”

The acclaimed A Dinosaur Book of World Records has

been embraced by both children and adults at such venues

as Boston’s Museum of Science in Massachusetts; the Palace

Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio; the Brooklyn Academy of

Music in New York; Oregon’s Holt Center; and the Luther

Burbank Theatre in Santa Rosa,

California.

With the help of colorful

characters such as Danny Diplodocus,

“Hack” the Hadrosaur, and their

life-sized prehistoric friends, Dino

Rock continues to make the world of

exploratory science exciting, enjoyable,

and accessible for audiences of all

ages. The popular ensemble, which has sold more than

100,000 award-winning recordings worldwide, has produced

a number of other reptilian-themed shows, including The

Great Dinosaur Mystery, Dinosaur Babies, Dinosaurs Forever,

Dinosaurus Chorus, Divertimento in D(inosaur), T-Rex’s

Holiday Surprise, Dinosaur Desperados, and Mi Casa Es Su

Casa. The Mi Casa Es Su Casa album was selected by Parents’

Choice magazine as the best musical recording of 1981 and

was featured in a segment on ABC’s Good Morning America.

In 2000, Valeri’s Dreamosaurus album was nominated for a

Grammy for “Best Musical Recording for Children,” and it

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BIOGRAPHYFounded by Bernice Johnson Reagon in 1973 at the

Washington, D.C., Black Repertory Company, SWEET

HONEY IN THE ROCK’s name is derived from Psalm

81:16 about the promise to a people of being fed honey

from the rock. Honey is an ancient substance, sweet and

nurturing; rock is an elemental strength, enduring the

winds of time. The metaphor of “sweet honey in the rock”

exemplifies these six women, whose repertoire is steeped

in the sacred music of the black church, the clarion calls

of the civil-rights movement, and songs about the struggle

for justice everywhere. Performing a capella, along with

hand percussion instruments, the group’s blend of lyrics,

movement, and narrative encourages activism and sings

the praises of love. The music speaks out against oppression

and exploitation. Lyrics are simultaneously interpreted in

American Sign Language.

presents

SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK

Tuesday, April 22, 2008, 8:00 PM

There will be one 20-minute intermission.The taking of photographs or use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.

Sweet Honey In The Rock’s discography ranges from

Gospel to Folk and children’s recordings. The group has

earned numerous Grammy Award nominations and honors

for its contributions to the compilation albums Folkways: A

Vision Shared - A Tribute to Woody Guthrie & Leadbelly and

cELLAbration! A Tribute to Ella Jenkins. PBS aired Sweet

Honey in the Rock: Raise Your Voice, a documentary about the

group by Emmy award-winning filmmaker Stanley Nelson.

Reagon penned the 1993 book We Who Believe in Freedom -

Sweet Honey in the Rock Still on the Journey, which chronicles

the history of this extraordinary group.

Sweet Honey In The Rock has traveled to communities

throughout the United States and around the world, raising

the voice of hope, love, justice, and peace through song. Its

34th season promises to be as full as the last with the group’s

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presents

GREEN EGGS & HAMADEUSCOMPOSER/CONDUCTOR

ROBERT KAPILOWwith

NEW HOLLYWOOD STRING QUARTETand

MEMBERS OF THE RIVERSIDE COUNTY PHILHARMONIC

SPECIAL GUESTS

SHERRY BOONE, SOPRANOand

KYLE ALEXANDER BRENN, BOY SOPRANO

STAGE DIRECTOR

DANIEL PELzIG

PROGRAM

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (A Little Night Music) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Allegro (1756-1791)

Menuetto: Allegretto

Green Eggs & Ham Robert Kapilow

Wednesday, April 23, 2008, 6:30 PM

This performance will not include an intermission.The taking of photographs or use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.

As a courtesy to the performers and your fellow patrons, please mute all cellular phones, pagers, and watch alarms prior to the start of the performance.

BIOGRAPHIESFor more than a decade, ROBERT KAPILOW

has brought the joy and wonder of Classical music – and

unraveled some of its mysteries – to audiences of all ages

and backgrounds. Characterized by his unique and unerring

ability to create an “aha” moment for his audiences and

collaborators, whatever their level of musical sophistication

or naivety, Kapilow’s work brings music into people’s lives

opening new ears to musical experiences and helping

people to listen actively rather than just to hear. As The

Boston Globe said, “It’s a cheering thought that this kind

of missionary enterprise did not pass from this earth with

Leonard Bernstein. Kapilow is awfully good at

what he does. We need him.”

Kapilow’s range of activities is

astonishingly broad, including his What Makes

It Great? presentations, family compositions,

FamilyMusik events, and Citypieces. The reach

of his interactive events and activities is wide

geographically and culturally – from Native

American tribal communities in Montana to

inner-city high school students in Louisiana.

Kapilow’s popularity and appeal have been

reflected in two notable invitations – to appear

on NBC’s Today show in conversation with

Katie Couric, and to write a book for Wiley &

Sons (to be published later this year).

What Makes It Great? now sells out regular subscription

series in New York’s Lincoln Center, Boston, Kansas City,

and Vancouver. New series have recently been added at

Stanford University and the Smithsonian in Washington,

D.C.

Kapilow has written numerous commissioned works,

including the first musical setting for Dr. Seuss’ Green

Eggs and Ham. His inimitable presentation Green Eggs &

Hamadeus, now available on CD, includes his own work

and Mozart’s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik in a lively mix of

discussion and performance. In 2004, Lincoln Center’s

Mostly Mozart Festival presented Kapilow’s And Furthermore

They Bite, a companion piece to Carnival of the Animals,

and Great Performers of Lincoln Center boasted a new series

of Kapilow’s FamilyMusik programs during the 2004-2005

season. Kapilow’s other compositions include Dr. Seuss’

Gertrude McFuzz; a Christmas-Hannukah pair of pieces;

and Kapilow’s first Opera, Many Moons, which is based on

the James Thurber story with a libretto by Hilary Blecher.

Another popular family piece by Kapilow is Play Ball!, a

setting of Casey at the Bat.

Involving large communities in the inspiration

and compositional process of his commemorative works,

Kapilow has left a profound mark on the nation’s cities and

regions. After receiving great acclaim for Citypiece: DC

Monuments (a millennium composition commissioned by the

Kreeger Museum for the Kennedy Center and the National

Symphony Orchestra), Kapilow reprised his interactive

compositional format in a statewide project commissioned

by the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra

and the state of Louisiana as part of the

2003 celebrations for the bicentennial of the

Louisiana Purchase.

Another project by Kapilow examined

and reflected on the historic impact of the

Lewis and Clark expedition (commemorating

its bicentennial) from the perspective of the

Native American Indian. The large choral

and orchestral work Summer Sun, Winter

Moon premiered in 2004.

As a conductor, Kapilow has led many

of America’s top orchestras, including the

National Symphony, the Philadelphia

Orchestra, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and the St.

Louis Symphony. He has also led numerous new works of

musical theater, ranging from the Tony award-winning Nine

on Broadway to the premiere of Frida for the opening of

the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival and

premieres of works for the American Repertory Theater.

He is the conductor and creative director for FamilyMusik

for the Boston Celebrity Series and at New York’s Lincoln

Center. He has been the conductor and director of

FamilyMusik for New York’s 92nd Street Y, co-director of the

Rutgers SummerFest Festival, assistant conductor of the

Opera Company of Boston, music director of the touring

company Opera New England, conductor of the Kansas City

Symphony’s summer Family Fare program, and the music

director of the Yale Symphony Orchestra for five seasons.

At the age of 19, Kapilow interrupted his academic

work at Yale University to study with the legendary Nadia

Boulanger. Two years later, after graduating Phi Beta Kappa

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from Yale he continued his studies at the Eastman School of

Music. After graduating from Eastman, he returned to Yale

where he was assistant professor for six years.

Kapilow’s career has been marked by numerous

awards and grants. He won first place in the Fontainebleau

Casadesus Piano Competition and was the second-place

winner of the Antal Dorati Conductor’s Competition with

the Detroit Symphony. Kapilow was a featured composer

on Chicago Public Radio’s prestigious Composers in America

series and is a recipient of an Exxon Meet-the-Composer

grant and numerous American Society of Composers,

Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) awards. He was the

first composer ever to be granted the rights to set Dr. Seuss’

words to music, and his music is published exclusively by G.

Schirmer. Kapilow lives in River Vale, New Jersey, with his

wife and three children.

SHERRY BOONE (Soprano) has appeared on

Broadway in Jelly’s Last Jam (Maman), Master Class (Sharon),

An Evening Honoring Toni Morrison, Michael John LaChiusa’s

Marie Christine (Marie Christine), and Ragtime. Her national

tour credits include Carousel (Carrie), Phantom of the Opera,

and Les Miserables. Internationally she has appeared in

Carmen Jones (Cindy Lou) at London’s Royal Festival Hall.

Off Broadway, Boone wrote and starred in The Super Star

Artist Show, which she developed with director Tamilla

Woodard. She also appeared in First Lady Suite (Marian

Anderson) and the world premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon’s

Only Heaven. Boone’s regional credits include Intimate

Apparel (Mayme), My Fair Lady (Eliza Doolittle), and Master

Class (Sharon).

Her Opera credits include The Scrimshaw Violin (Band

Leader) and Guest from the Future (Olga). She debuted at

Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival in Kapilow’s Green

Eggs & Hamadeus and also debuted with The National

Symphony Orchestra at The Kennedy Center in Kapilow’s

And Furthermore, They Bite!, returning the following year

to perform in his Two by Seuss. She has been a guest soloist

with the Philadelphia Orchestra, The Toronto Symphony,

The Nashville Symphony Orchestra, and the Hartford

Symphony. Boone also starred with renowned authors Gish

Jen, Walter Mosley, Pulitzer Prize winner Nilo Cruz, and

noted violinist Cho-Liang Lin in Stirring the Pot - Celebrating

the Color Experience in the USA.

Boone is founder and artistic director of Opera

at Home, a cutting-edge Opera company dedicated to

increasing Opera’s audiences internationally by creating a

“heart-to-heart exchange” between the audience and the

singer. The company was established in 1998.

A published lyricist and poet, Boone collaborated

with composer Sean Jeremy Palmer and Opera at Home to

produce and direct the new Opera Ellen Craft. Based on true

events, the production was recognized as “Best Ensemble

Performance” at the 2004 New York International Fringe

Festival. Boone premiered her new single, WE ARE, in June

2007. For more information, visit www.operaathome.org.

KYLE ALEXANDER BRENN is thrilled to be

playing the role of Sam. His recent productions include Off-

Broadway Growing Up 70s with Barry Williams, Please Don’t

Eat the Daisies reading, and The Sound of Music in Yorktown.

Brenn has been in multiple productions at Crystal Theatre

in Connecticut, including The Pirate Chamber, a musical

he wrote, composed, and directed. He is currently writing

his next musical set to be staged in January 2009. He gives

special thanks and love to Nancy Carson, Cheryl Kemeny,

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Bridal Showcase Saturday, April 19, 2008

11am–3pm

Featuring a tasting by Patina Catering, a couture fashion show,

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Cerritos Performing Arts Center 12700 Center Court Drive., Cerritos

RSVP to Rosemay Vera rvera@patinagroup.com 714 540 0500, ext 113

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BIOGRAPHIESJOHN BYNER is a very funny man. Merv Griffin

thought so when he hired the young comedian to appear

on his Talent Scouts television program. So did Ed Sullivan,

who asked Byner to appear on his Toast of the Town show

more than two dozen times in a decade. Byner starred with

musician Al Hirt in eight CBS television specials and with

Eddy Arnold on The Kraft Music Hall show. In 1967, Byner

joined Liza Minnelli for The Kraft Music Hall special Woody

Allen Looks at 1967.

Byner has made more than 30 appearances on The

Tonight Show and numerous stints on the popular Carol

Burnett Show. He guest-starred on series such as Get Smart,

Maude, The Odd Couple, Soap, Silk Stalkings, and Dharma

& Greg. Byner appeared in the Bizarre series for six seasons,

Comedy on the Road for four seasons, Relatively Speaking for 90

episodes, and CBS’ The John Byner Comedy Hour.

His film credits include What’s Up, Doc?; The Last of

the Cowboys; The Man in the Santa Claus Suit; Three on a

Date; and The Big Time. Byner’s screen credits are not always

seen, but many times just heard. He was the voice of Gurgi

and Doli in the Disney film The Black Cauldron and voiced

many characters in the popular cartoon series The Ant and

the Ardvark. His other animated credits include The Pink

Panther, Rug Rats, and Duckman. As a standup comedian,

Byner has performed in the showrooms of Las Vegas, the

Latin Quarter, and the Copacabana.

As a singer and an actress LYNDA CARTER is

recognized as a “wonder woman.” In a recent review of her

presents

JOHN BYNERopening for

LYNDA CARTERSunday, April 27, 2008, 3:00 PM

There will be one 20-minute intermission.The taking of photographs or use of recording devices is prohibited.

cabaret show, ABC San Francisco hailed, “[She has] one of

the most beautiful voices now performing in cabaret.…[The

show] is magnificent and what cabaret is all about.” She

has performed in a London production of Chicago as well as

in Chicago’s 10th Anniversary on Broadway, alongside Ann

Reinking, Bebe Neuwirth, Joel Grey, and Chita Rivera.

Carter also produced and hosted a series of five Emmy

award-winning television variety specials in which she

sang, danced, and appeared with guests such as Ray Charles,

Kenny Rogers, George Benson, Merle Haggard, and Tom

Jones.

After winning the Miss World USA crown in 1972,

Carter found success as an actress in the Wonder Woman

television series. She has also starred in the televised series

Partners in Crime and the frontier drama Hawkeye. Her

television credits include Family Blessings, Secrets Between

Friends, and She Woke Up Pregnant, which all ranked in

the Top 10. Carter produced and starred in the films

Hotline, Stillwatch, Born to Be Sold, and The Last Song. She

had leading roles in the movies Daddy and Posing: Inspired

by Three Real Stories and starred in the title role in Rita

Hayworth: The Love Goddess.

On the big screen, Carter most recently appeared in

the Disney film Sky High and 2005’s The Dukes of Hazzard.

She also starred in The Creature of the Sunny Side Up Trailer

Park and Super Troopers. Carter recently appeared in the

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presents

ROBERT BELINIĆ, GUITARWednesday, April 30, 2008, 7:30 PM

There will be one 20-minute intermission.The taking of photographs or use of recording devices is strictly prohibited.

Please hold your applause until after all movements of a work have been performed, and do not applaud between movements. Thank you for your cooperation.

As a courtesy to the performers and your fellow patrons, please mute all cellular phones, pagers, and watch alarms prior to the start of the performance.

PROGRAM

Lachrimae John DowlandMy Lady Hunsdon Puffe (1563-1626)A FancyThe Most Sacred Queene Elizabeth, Her Galliard

Prelude, Fugue, and Allegro in E-flat Major, BWV 998 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Introduction, Theme, and Variations on a Theme from Fernando SorMozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Op. 9 (1778-1839)

INTERMISSION

Sonata Leo BrouwerFandangos y Boleros (b. 1939)Sarabanda de ScriabinLa Toccata de Pasquini

Three Croatian pieces Ante CagaljRodrigo in Zagora (b. 1954)St. Duje’s BellsSong and Dance

Three Venezuelan Folk dances Antonio LauroAire de Joropo (1917-1986)El MarabiñoSeis por derecho

Artist Management: Young Concert Artists, Inc.A nonprofit organization dedicated to developing the careers of extraordinary musicians

250 West 57 Street, New York, New York 10019

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BIOGRAPHYROBERT BELINIĆ discovered a passion for music

at the tender age of 3, when he embraced the drum. When

he was 8, the young musician starred in Tale From Croatia,

the first film released in the newly independent nation. By

age 11, he began Classical guitar lessons at a music school

in Kutina, a small town in central Croatia, and studied with

renowned Croatian guitar composer Ante Cagalj, whose

work has inspired generations of Croatian musicians and the

acclaimed Zagreb Guitar Quartet.

The first guitarist to win the 2002 Young Concert

Artists International Auditions in New York, Belinić graduated from the Leopold Mozart Hochschule für Musik

in Augsburg, Germany, where he currently holds an

assistantship and is pursuing postgraduate studies with award-

winning guitarist Franz Halász.

A founding member of the Croatian Guitar Quartet,

Belinić boasts a career with an impressive string of

distinctions. The sole winner of the 2001 Young Concert

Artists European Auditions in Leipzig, Germany, Belinić also

received the prestigious “Ivo Vuljevic Award” for best young

Croatian musician in 2002. He was recently honored in the

first Parkening International Guitar Competition and earned

a “Beracasa Foundation Prize” for his stirring performance

at the Montpellier Radio-France Festival, a summer event

celebrating Jazz and Classical music. Since 1995, the

guitarist has participated annually in the International

Summer School for guitar on the Croatian island of Hvar.

The highly respected program features workshops led by

eminent professors and musicians from around the world.

Praised by Sandiego.com as “a genius, a poet, a super-

sensitive musician,” Belinić has performed extensively in

the United States and abroad. His U.S. recitals have been

well-received at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.;

the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston; New York’s

Merkin Concert Hall; Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall in New

York; the La Jolla Music Society in San Diego; University

of Nebraska at Omaha; Western Michigan University; and

Southwest Missouri State University.

A proud participant of the Grand Teton Music

Festival’s Medalist Series in Wyoming, which features

musical competitions and recitals given by prize-winning

talents, Belinić has also performed in the John E. Marlow

Guitar Series in Washington, D.C., and the Gainesville Pro

Musica Concert Series in Georgia. A versatile musician,

he has been a guest soloist with the Phoenix Symphony,

Kentucky’s Paducah Symphony Orchestra, Yugoslavia’s

Zagreb Philharmonic, and the Zagreb Soloists. Belinić’s

global appeal is undeniable, as evidenced by his numerous

recitals in Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary, Poland, Italy,

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On StageAdvertising Opportunity

The Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts is now taking advertising space reservations for the On Stage program. Each issue of On Stage is distributed to some 15,000 patrons. Placing an advertisement in the program for the entire season provides an opportunity to reach more than 150,000 theater patrons.

For more information please call On StageAccount Executive Anna Jones at (562) 916-8510, extension 2520.

THE ARTS AMBASSADORS is a group of 500 volunteer ushers comprised of working professionals, students, and active seniors from Cerritos and its neighboring communities, many of whom have volunteered with the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts since the inaugural season in 1993.

EACH YEAR the Ambassadors donate more than 20,000 hours in support of events at the CCPA and enjoy the opportunity to see many of the theater’s programs on a regular basis.

Earn a Starring Role as anARTS AMBASSADOR

To learn more please call House Manager Alan Strickland

at (562) 916-8510.

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THE TICKET OFFICE is open 10 AM to 6 PM Monday through Friday and 12 Noon to 4 PM on Saturday and Sunday. Hours are extended through the first intermission on performance days.

TICKETS can be charged to Visa, MasterCard, Discover or American Express by phoning (800) 300-4345 or (562) 916-8500, or online at www.cerritoscenter.com. Mail orders are processed as they are received. Tickets cannot be reserved without payment.

LOST TICKET AND TICKET EXCHANGE policies vary; however, there are no refunds. Call (800) 300-4345 for information.

GROUPS of 20 or more may purchase tickets at a 10% discount. Call (800) 300-4345.

CHILDREN’S PRICES apply to children twelve (12) years of age and under. Regardless of age, everyone must have a ticket, sit in a seat, and be able to sit quietly throughout the performance. We do not recommend children under the age of six (6) attend unless an event is specifically described as suited to that age.

FREE PUBLIC TOURS are conducted by appointment only. Special tours can be arranged by calling (562) 916-8530.

PARKING is always free in the spacious lots adjacent to the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts.

FULL-SERVICE BARS are located in the Grand Lobby on the Orchestra level and at the Gold Circle level. Refreshments are not allowed in the Auditorium.

SMOKING IS NOT PERMITTED in any City facility.

EMERGENCY MEDICAL technicians are on duty at all performances. If you need first aid, contact an usher for assistance.

RESTROOMS are located behind the Grand Staircase on the Orchestra level and at the Grand Staircase Landing on the Gold Circle level.

Out of courtesy to the performers and fellow patrons, CELLULAR PHONES, PAGERS, AND ALARM WATCHES should be disconnected before the start of the performance.

DOCTORS AND PARENTS should leave their seating locations with exchanges or sitters and have them call (562) 916-8508 in case of an emergency.

THE COAT ROOM is located behind the Grand Staircase.

CAMERAS AND RECORDING EQUIPMENT ARE NOT PERMITTED in the Auditorium and must be checked at the Coat Room.

LOST ARTICLES can be claimed by calling (562) 916-8510.

ELEVATORS are located near the Grand Staircase and access each level of the Lobby.

PAY PHONES are located on the Orchestra level behind the Grand Staircase and near the restrooms on the Gold Circle level.

PHONIC EAR LIGHTWEIGHT WIRELESS HEADSETS for the hearing impaired are available in the Coat Room at no cost. To obtain a headset, a driver’s license or major credit card is required and is returned upon receipt of the equipment at the close of the performance.

WHEELCHAIR locations are available in various areas of the Auditorium. Please contact the Ticket Office at (800) 300-4345.

LATECOMERS will be seated at the discretion of the house staff at an appropriate pause in the program.

CLOSED-CIRCUIT TELEVISION VIEWING is available in the Lobby of each seating level and at the Lobby bar.

THE CERRITOS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS’ Auditorium and Sierra Room are available for special events on a rental basis. For more information, please call Special Event Services at (562) 916-8510, ext. 2827.

BE THE FIRSTLEARN about upcoming events and other important information about the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts (CCPA). Don’t spend time looking for CCPA news; let it come right to you as it happens! To be in-the-know, just fill out this form and hand it to any of our ushers at intermission or following the performance.

NAME E-MAIL

ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIP

4-Speed Delivery Service, Inc.Judy Akin-Palmer and Dr.

Jacques PalmerDeidri and Barry AldersonBarbara and Benjamin

AlhadeffJami and Carlos AnguloDr. Dixie and Ed ArnoldCynthia and Bill ArthurLarry BaggsNancy and Nick BakerDebby and Norman BaldersTerry BalesSharon and Gill BarnettSallie BarnettAlan BarryIn Loving Memory of Carol M. BehanYvette BelcherPeggy BellBarbara BerhnsJohn BeringerMorris BernsteinNorman BlancoKathleen BlomoJudy and Don BogartMarilyn BogenschutzLinda and Sergio BonettiPaula BriggsMelanie and Michael BroadDarrell BrookeShelley and Danny BroseMary BroughCheryl and Kerry BryanMary and Bob BuellIna BurtonLinda and Larry BurtonDr. Marjorie Cain MitchellRobert CampbellMichael CanupMichelle CaseyYvonne CattellSylvia and Tuncer CebeciChamber Music Society of Detroit Joann and George ChambersRodolfo ChavezDr. Philip ChinnGenevieve and Ralph ChoyPatricia ChristieCarlota and Daniel CiauriNeal ClydeMark CochraneMichael CohnBarbara and Jim ConklinPatricia CookusVirginia CorreaRon Cowan

THE CERRITOS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS (CCPA) thanks the following CCPA Associates who have contributed to the CCPA’s Endowment Fund. The Endowment Fund was established in 1994 under the visionary leadership of the Cerritos City Council to ensure that the CCPA would remain a welcoming, accessible, and affordable venue in which patrons can experience the joy of entertainment and cultural enrichment. For more information about the Endowment Fund or to make a contribution, please contact the CCPA Administrative Offices at (562) 916-8510.

Patricia CozziniPamela and John CrawleyEugenia CreasonVirginia CzarneckiMelody and Ray DappJoy Darling and Don MackinAngel De SevillaRobert DeanMr. and Mrs. Chuck DeckardSusanne and John DeHartLesLee and Karl DelaneyLouise and John DellasanteErin DelliquadriBruce DickinsonJane and Larry DicusAmy and George DominguezLinda DowellGloria DumaisStanley DzieminskiLee EakinShoreen and Don EakinDee EatonHeidi Eddy-Dorn and Larry DornGary EdwardConnie and Jim EdwardsEric EltingeTeri EspositoRichard FalbRenee FallahaDr. Stuart FarberDon FelderHeather M. FerberDr. Susan FoxTeresa FreebornJune and Takeshi FujisakiArthur GapasinLori and Bob GayFranz GerichRoberta and Dr. Lawrence

GershonThe Goldsmith FamilyWilliam GoodwinGraham GoslingDebe and Larry GrahamSuzanne and Bob GraysonDr. Jon GrazerSusan and Dr. Robert GreenNorma and Gary GreeneKenneth GreenleafTamra and Kirby GreenleeAllen GroganRoger HaleCarol and Harry HanakiLois and Thomas HarrisHedy HarrisonHoward HerdmanSaul Hernandez

Pam and Judge Philip HickokPing HoDeborah and Samuel HooperRoberta and Dr. Gary

HopkinsBonnie HudsonMelvin HughesMarianne and Robert

HughlettPaul IrbyMark ItzkowitzSharon JacobyJosé Iturbi FoundationJames JulianiLuanne KamiyaGloria and Sherman KappeFay and Lawrence KerneenJoseph KienleNorm KirschenbaumJack and Jacky KleyhGillian and Philip KlinkertJulie and Hon. Don KnabeKaren KnechtLee M. Kochems and Vincent J. PattiJerry KohlDawn Marie KotsonisDr. Philip KressLinda and Harry KusudaPatrice and Kevin KyleCarl LaconicoNelson LaneDavid LatterEarnestine LavergnePat and Maynard LawMr. and Mrs. Harold LeachPaolo LedesmaLaura and Charles LeeDonna and Todd LempertJenny and Jim LevyVanessa LewisMarcia LewisTeresa and Robert LidmanLos Cerritos CenterJohnny MagsbyDenise ManoogianStephen MaoDonna K. MartinPamela and John MartinJanice Kay MatthewsPansy and Robert MattoxCecilia and Ronald MausCarol and William McCuneMarilyn and Dennis McGormanUrsula and Lawrence MelvinBarbara and Edwin Mendenhall

Diana MerrymanTodd MeyerLuzviminda MiguelGary MillerKathleen MillerEllie and Jim MonroePatricia MooreBecky MoralesThomas A. MorganCortland MyersCaroline and Alan NakkenNational Endowment for the ArtsAlan NegosianA.J. NeimanNew England Foundation for the ArtsRonald NicholsToby NishidaLinda NomuraCathryn O’Brien-SmithAnn and Clarence OharaKaren OhtaVictoria and Raymond

OrlandoPam OrmistonDr. Paul OrrP. P. Mfg. Co. Inc. - Ronald BurrGeorge PalominoMary Ellen PascucciAngela and Devy PaulWaynn PearsonBarbara and Paul PenroseJackie and Joe PloenMerrill PlouForrest PoormanPreserved TreeScapes Int’l-

Dennis E. GabrickSusan RagoneBijan RaminehKaren RandallBev and George RayBev and George Ray Charitable FoundationRobin RaymondSharon Reece and Laurence

HarmaRosalie RelleveDiane and Richard RenakerNikki and Dennis ReppBetty and Nash RiveraLynne RosePatricia RoseJean RothaermelThomas RothwellMartin RubyShirley RundellSharon and Larry Sagert

Dennis SaltsMonica SanchezWendy and Tom SchiffMildred ScholnickLorraine and William SedlakMary SerlesOlivette ShannonKristi ShawCindy ShilkretKaren and James ShultzKathleen SidarisNeil SiegelIna Silverman and Larry StarrDorothy SimmonsLoren SlaferSylvia SligarFred SmithSo Cal Medical, Inc.Kerry SpearsCraig M. Springer, Ph.D.Eleanor St. ClairKris and Robert SteedmanGale SteinDonna StevensBryan StirratKay and Harvey StoverRichard StrayerWilliam StringerRichard SurbeckLawrence TakahashiLaVerne TancillDr. Silas ThomasKen ThompsonJoann TommySharon TouchstoneKaren Trace-VerzaniLilliane K. TriggsJean TuohinoMaria TupazUnited Parcel ServiceAlex UrbachTim VanEckRaman VenkatMaria Von SadovszkyDiane and Fred VunakCharles WadmanRobert WaltersAngela S.WangWave BroadbandAnita and Dr. David WeinsteinMargie and David WilliamsPamela WilsonCharlotte and Howard WinerPornwit WipanuratCharles WongJeanne YanezJeanette YeeAsuman and Deniz YilmazXavier Zavatsky

To request a change to your listing on this page, please call (562) 467-8806, or send an e-mail to ticketoffice@cerritoscenter.com.

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Friends of Arts Education at the Cerritos Center It’s for the kids!

It is our belief that when you bring the arts into children’s lives, you give them new ways to see the world.

The Friends of Arts Education is a non-profit organization that recognizes the arts as a vital and indispensable part of a comprehensive education. We strive to ensure that all children in our communities have an opportunity to experience the power and beauty of the performing arts.

The arts are an integral part of cultural literacy; they encourage creativity, critical thinking and problem solving. The arts enable students to build self-esteem and self-discipline as well as teach cooperation and effective expression. Research shows that integrating the arts into the school curriculum improves academic achievement, motivates attendance, increases test scores and promotes involvement.

All our programs are provided free of charge to schools and we serve over 100,000 children, teachers and families every year!

The Friends programs are designed to support the California State Board of Education Visual and Performing Arts standards for kindergarten through grade twelve.

We offer: o Daytime Educational Performances by world-class artists o Professional Development Workshops for teachers o Creative Expressions program for students o Performing Arts Scholarships for high school seniors o Artists in the Classroom o Family Arts Festival o Art S.M.A.R.T. activities for at-risk youth detainees

15th Annual Gala

Saturday, April 26, 2008 at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts

The Annual Gala is our biggest fundraising event of the year – this elegant evening includes dinner, silent

and live auctions, and world-class entertainment!

This year’s theme is “100 Years of Broadway”

For more information contact Amanda Harris at (562) 916-1293

Family Arts Festival

Sunday, June 1, 2008 at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts

11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

A day of arts and fun for the whole family! Experience hands-on arts activities, the interactive

Musical Zoo, and over 40 performances on five different stages.

For more information contact Hélène Trudeau at (562) 916-1300

To find out more about the Friends, make a donation, or get involved, please contact the Friends office at (562) 467-8844 or visit us online at www.friendsofaecc.com

Friends of Arts Education at the Cerritos Center 12700 Center Court Drive Cerritos, California 90703

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PLATINUM CIRCLE [$12,500 - above] Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo • B & B Stables/Bob & Mary Buell • Nick & Nancy Baker • The Boeing Company • bpThe City of Cerritos • Dwight Stuart Youth Foundation • Don & Shoreen Eakin • Dr. Gary & Roberta Hopkins • Sherman & Gloria Kappe • Los Angeles County Arts Commission • Los Angeles County Supervisor Don & Julie Knabe • Mr. & Mrs. Jerry LomeliDan Neyenhuis • Bev & George Ray/Lefiell • UPS • Weingart Foundation • Jane & Sonny Yada

GOLD CIRCLE [$6,250 - $12,499] Abelstik/Alan Syzdek • John H. & Betty A. Adams Trust • Ralph & Genevieve Choy • Mr. & Mrs. Dan Ciauri • Joy Darling • Fred & Carmen Davidson • Roland, Anna & Michael Dennis • Gary & Jeanette Frank • Jim & Nancy Gaines • Gilbert & Marsha Honeycutt • Bonnie & Mary Hudson • Mr. & Mrs. Robert Lienau, Jr. Mainly Seconds Pottery, Plants & Things • John F. Martin, CPA & Assoc., Inc. • Ruth McClure • William & Lorraine McCune Family Foundation • Dennis & Marilyn McGorman • Timothy & Carol McMahon • Pacific Life Foundation • James & Karen Schultz Art & Marilynn Segal • Sharyne Snyder • Kay & Harvey StoverGeorge & Ruri Sugimoto • Ronald Weber • Scott & Donna White Yamaha Corporation of America

SILVER CIRCLE [$2,500 - $6,249] Dr. Gary A. Afferino & Dr. Betty C. Tai • Astor Broadcast GroupBeringer & Associates, Inc. • Mary & Roy Blackburn • Dr. & Mrs. Patrick Bushman • Martin D. Chavez • Robert Chavez • In Loving Memory of Patrice Ann Clifton/Felix & Jozell Gallion-RobertsonGary & Patsy Connors • Steve & Karen Davenport • John DeckerLloyd & Caroline de Llamas • Bill & Suzan DeYo • George & Amy Dominguez • Employees Community Fund of Boeing California Ronald & Delores Eveland • Manny & Cecilia Gallardo • Michael & Gayle Garrity • Mr. & Mrs. Daniel E. Garvey • The Gettys Family Ronald & Susan Gillaspie • Larry & Debe Graham • Dr. & Mrs. Robert & Susan Green • Laurence Harma & Sharon ReeceRichard C. & Dian Herr • Hon. & Mrs. Philip H. Hickok • Sam & Deborah Hooper • Dr. & Mrs. David V. Hubbell • Hing & Doris Hung • Indymac Bank • Jan Janura • Kaczor/Irby Families • John H. Kendall • Dr. & Mrs. Philip I. Kress • Lakewood Regional Medical Center • Dr. Soledad Lee • Dr. Allan Lifson & James Neuman, California Educational Consultant Group, Inc. • Robert & Karla Maez • Frank & Janet McCord • Michael & Marilyn McCullough • Alvin Mundo • Nancy Nicola & Warren LampkinStephen & Brenda Olson • Paul D. Orr, M.D. • A.J. Padelford & Son, Inc. • Salome Pichardo • Steven E. Potts • Gary Prince • Nikki & Dennis Repp • Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern California • Larry & Sharon Sagert • Dr. & Mrs. Mark S. SchnitzerSteve & Linda Shaffer • Helen L. Sheffield • Wanda M. Slade • Mr. & Mrs. Bryan A. Stirrat • Bob & Ann Stoffel • A.J. Taen • Target

Verizon • Ms. Karen Trace-Verzani • Waffles of California • Walter & Phyllis White • Daniel J. & Linda M. Williams • Dr. Winer/Woods Electric • Richard & Elena Zumel

BRONzE CIRCLE [$1,250 - $2,499] John & Jo Bakulich • Brian & Pat Beck • Ken & Lynn BoshartMichael & Melanie Broad • Mel & Row Briggs • Larry & Linda Burton/The Hada Family • Frank Cardone • John DaleyJohn & Louise Dellasanta • Larry & Jane Dicus • Shirley Dohrman Connie & Jim Edwards • Dean & Karen Fisher • Sheila A. FulmisVicki Gutman/Notes by Vicki • Van & Linda Hartley • Edward & Esther Ho • Bob & Marianne Hughlett • James Jenkins • Robert & Barbara Jerome • Jim & Karen King • Jack & Jacky Kleyh • Keith & Sharon Kuroyama • Mary & Robert LaFrance • Ray & Kathleen Lovell • David & Jeany McFarland • Sidney & Sondra MelnickFrank & Sandy Micheletti • Don & Delores Munro • Danny N. Ogawa • Mavis E. Petersen & Family • Roya & Bob Phillips • Jane & Paul Pratt • Ron & Suzanne Rector • Rick & Diane RenakerIn Memory of G.A. & Morene Rogers/Gerald L. Faris • Marjorie Rosenberg & Carol Smith • Martin Ruby • Joseph D. SearsWilliam Sedlak • Cindy Shilkret • Edwin & Joyce SmithSoroptomist International of Artesia-Cerritos • Susan Sung • Marge Tanaka • Michi & Ron Tanimoto • Michele Vice-Maslin • James & Jill Webb • Gary Whitener/Trim-Lok, Inc. • Janice Wilbur • Woman’s Club of Artesia-Cerritos

CERRITOS CIRCLE [$600 - $1,249]Joseph Aldama • Dale Becker • Isaac Kawamoto • Dr. & Mrs. Han-Pin Kan • Dennis & Vonnie Kinoshita • Los Cerritos CenterBrian & Terri Mayeda • John Molina • Stephen Morris • Noontime Optimist Club of Cerritos • Joshua Rosman • Edward J. & Tracy Simmons • Stephen Skinner & Deborah Orth • Nancy Sur SmithWalmart/Tammy Cannon • Jeanne Yanez

PATRON CIRCLE [$300 - $599]Absolute Health Care • Dale Becker • Lindy & Basia BressickelloDon & Sharron Brundige • Eileen Castle • Dr. J. Mansfield DeanStuart L. Farber • Joan & Marty Flax • Kay & Mary Jane Fujimura Dr. & Mrs. Lawrence Gershon • Rosemary Escalera GutierrezHerb Hundt • Ernest & Kay Ikuta Matthew & Roberta JenkinsKarl Jefferson • Darryl Johnson • Jerry & Sharyn Kelly • Ms. Nancy H. Kennedy • Sue & Stephen Klein • Terry L. Koepke • Alain Gravel & Larry Kraft • Barry & Sandy Lakin • Charles & Laura Lee • Dr. & Mrs. Max B. Martinez • Clarence & Celia Masuo • Robert & Shirley Murphy • Diana & Rick Needham, Prudential California RealtyMr. & Mrs. Michael Nishida • Mr. & Mrs. John Richmond • Joyce Righetti • Gary T & Laura Rose • The David Samson Family • Ron, Judy & Lola Shiraishi • Sue & Richard Solomon • Howard & Celia Spitzer • Harold & Edna Yamaguchi • Carol & Sab Yamashita

Present a ticket stub for any show starting at 7:00 PM or laterto receive a 10% discount (food only, excludes alcohol).

Must be used same evening of the show.

Come in before the show and receive a 10% discount (food only,excludes alcohol) when you present a ticket for the show that day.