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TWO WORLDS. ONE STAGE.

Broadway legend Mandy Patinkin and opera super-star Nathan Gunn combine their musical talents to create a unique and powerful evening of entertainment. Mandy Patinkin, one of the most versatile and compelling actors, singers, and storytellers of our time, joins forces with one of the world’s most in-demand and leading opera baritones, Nathan Gunn for an evening of show tunes, opera, and Americana song. The Chicago Review-Examiner described the show as “nothing short of genius, giving [concert] goers a night of musical excellence they will long remember.”

The duo performs over two-dozen songs including solos and duets. Some from Mandy’s world of Broadway and some showcasing Nathan’s operatic brilliance. They are accompanied on stage by Nathan’s wife and music director Julie Jordan Gunn and by Mandy’s long time accompanist Paul Ford. MANDY PATINKIN In his 1980 Broadway debut, Mandy won a Tony Award for his role as Che in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Evita and was nominated in 1984 for his starring role as George in the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, Sunday in the Park with George. In 1991 he returned to Broadway in the Tony Award-winning musical The Secret Garden and in 1997 played a sold-out engagement of his one-man show, Mandy Patinkin in Concert, with all profits benefiting five charitable organizations. Mandy’s other solo concerts, Dress Casual, Celebrating Sondheim and Mamaloshen have been presented both on Broadway and Off. He recently celebrated the 20th Anniversary of performing his solo concerts with a two-week run of all of his concerts in rep at New York’s Public Theater, the very space he began his concert career. Mandy continued the celebration with a critically acclaimed two-week run of Mandy Patinkin in Concert in London’s West End at the Duke of York’s Theatre. Mandy’s other stage credits include: the world premiere of Compulsion, a new play by Rinne Groff and directed by Oskar Eustis, appearing in productions of the play at Yale Rep, Berkeley Rep and finally at The Public Theater in early 2011, Paradise Found (London’s Menier Chocolate Factory), The Tempest (Classic Stage Company), Enemy of the People (Williamstown Theater Festival), The Wild Party (2000 Tony nomination), Falsettos, The Winter's Tale, The Knife, Leave It to Beaver is Dead, Rebel Women, Hamlet, Trelawney of the ‘Wells,’ The Shadow Box, The Split, Savages, and Henry IV, Part I. Feature film credits include: Everybody’s Hero, The Choking Man, Pinero, The Adventures of Elmo In Grouchland, Lulu on the Bridge, Men with Guns, The Princess Bride, Yentl (1984 Golden Globe nomination), The Music of Chance, Daniel, Ragtime, Impromptu, The Doctor, Alien Nation, Dick Tracy, The House on Carroll Street, True Colors, Maxie, and Squanto: Indian Warrior. Mandy

won a 1995 Emmy Award (as well as a Golden Globe nomination) for his critically acclaimed performance in the CBS series ”Chicago Hope”, and recently starred in the CBS series “Criminal Minds” as FBI profiler Jason Gideon and in the Showtime Original Series “Dead Like Me” as the reaper Rube Sofer. Mandy begins a second season as CIA Division Chief Saul Berenson in the Emmy Award-winning Showtime Original Series “Homeland” His other television appearances include the role of Kenneth Duberstein in the Showtime film “Strange Justice,” playing Quasimodo opposite Richard Harris in the TNT film presentation of “The Hunchback,” a film version of Arthur Miller's “Broken Glass” for BBC/WGBH-Boston and episodes of “Three Rivers”, “The Larry Sanders Show” (1996 Emmy nomination), “Law & Order”, “Boston Public”, “Touched by an Angel”, and “The Simpsons”. In 1989, Mandy began his concert career at Joseph Papp's Public Theater. This coincided with the release of his first solo album entitled Mandy Patinkin. Since then he has toured extensively, appearing to sold-out audiences across the United States, Canada, London and Australia, performing songs from writers including Stephen Sondheim, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Irving Berlin, Randy Newman, Adam Guettel and Harry Chapin, among others. In 1990 he released his second solo album entitled Mandy Patinkin In Concert: Dress Casual on CBS Records. His 1994 recording, Experiment, on the Nonesuch label, features songs from nine decades of popular music from Irving Berlin to Alan Menken. Also recorded on the Nonesuch label are Oscar & Steve, Leonard Bernstein's New York, Kidults and Mandy Patinkin Sings Sondheim. In 1998 he debuted his most personal project, Mamaloshen, a collection of traditional, classic and contemporary songs sung entirely in Yiddish. The recording of Mamaloshen won the Deutschen Schallplattenpreis (Germany’s equivalent of the Grammy Award). In October 2007, Mandy debuted a new concert tour with dear friend Patti LuPone and they continue touring their show An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin throughout the US, Australia, New Zealand and most recently on Broadway at the Barrymore Theatre. Mandy resides in New York City with his wife, actress and writer Kathryn Grody, and their two sons. NATHAN GUNN has made a reputation as one of the most exciting and in-demand baritones of the day. He has appeared in internationally renowned opera houses such as the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Seattle Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Paris Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Glyndebourne Opera Festival, Bilboa, and the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels. His many roles include the title roles in Billy Budd, Eugene Onegin, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, and Hamlet, Guglielmo in Cosí fan tutte, the Count in Le Nozze di Figaro, Tarquinius in The Rape of Lucretia, Malatesta in Don Pasquale, Belcore in L’Elisir d’Amore, and Ottone in L’incoronazione di Poppea. A frequent interpreter of new works, Mr. Gunn created the role of Paul in the world premiere of Daron Hagen’s Amelia at the Seattle Opera. He also created the roles of Alec Harvey in André Previn’s Brief Encounter at the Houston Grand Opera, Father Delura in Peter Eötvös’ Love and Other Demons at the Glyndebourne Opera Festival, and Clyde Griffiths in Tobias Picker’s An American Tragedy at the Metropolitan Opera. Also a distinguished concert performer, Mr. Gunn has appeared the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Münchner Rundfunkorchster, and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. A frequent recitalist, Mr. Gunn has been presented in recital at Alice Tully Hall and by Carnegie Hall in Zankel Hall, Roy Thomson Hall, Cal Performances, the Schubert Club, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, the Vocal Arts Society in Washington, DC, the University of Chicago, the Krannert Center, the Wigmore Hall, and the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie. As a student, he performed in series of recitals with his teacher and mentor John Wustman that celebrated the 200th anniversary of Franz Schubert’s birth. Mr. Gunn has recently ventured outside the standard opera

repertoire with appearances in performances of Camelot with the New York Philharmonic (broadcast live on PBS’s Great Performances) and Showboat at Carnegie Hall. He was also a featured soloist in the New York Philharmonic’s 80th birthday gala celebration for Stephen Sondheim and appeared with Sting and Trudie Styler in the Allen Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center in Twin Spirits, a work that explores the relationship between Clara and Robert Schumann. Mr. Gunn’s solo album, Just Before Sunrise, was released on Sony/BMG Masterworks. Other recordings include the title role in Billy Budd with Daniel Harding and the London Symphony Orchestra (Virgin Classics), which won the 2010 Grammy Award; the first complete recording of Rogers & Hammerstein’s Allegro, Peter Grimes with Sir Colin Davis and London Symphony Orchestra (LSO Live!) which was nominated for a 2005 Grammy Award, Il Barbiere di Siviglia (SONY Classics), Kullervo with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (Telarc), and American Anthem (EMI). He also starred as Buzz Aldrin in Man on the Moon, an opera written specifically for television and broadcast on the BBC in the UK. The program was awarded the Golden Rose Award for Opera at the Montreux Festival in Lucerne. This season, Mr. Gunn returned to the Metropolitan Opera for Cosí fan tutte and The Magic Flute, and made his debuts at the Theater an der Wien in The Rape of Lucretia and the Teatro Real in Madrid in Le Nozze di Figaro. He also performed a series cabaret shows at the famous Café Carlyle in New York City and at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Orange County, and appeared in an evening of song with Kelli O’Hara and the New York Philharmonic. This summer he makes his debut at the Cincinnati Opera in Eugene Onegin, and next season he returns to the Metropolitan Opera for Billy Budd, the Lyric Opera of Chicago for Showboat, the Houston Grand Opera for Il Barbiere di Siviglia, and the San Francisco Opera for Die Zauberflöte. Mr. Gunn was the recipient of the first annual Beverly Sills Artist Award, and was awarded the Pittsburgh Opera Renaissance Award. He is an alumnus of the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artists Program and was the winner of the 1994 Metropolitan Opera National Council Competition. Mr. Gunn is also an alumnus of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana where he is currently a professor of voice. JULIE JORDAN GUNN pianist, music director, vocal coach, and song arranger, is passionate about songs and singers. She loves to design and perform song recitals, and has appeared on many prestigious series over the last several years, including Carnegie Hall Pure Voice Series, Lincoln Center Great Performers, London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, Brussels Theatre de la Monnaie, the 92nd Street Y, University of Chicago Presents, San Francisco Performances, the Broad Stage in Santa Monica, Oberlin College, the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, and the Krannert Center. Scheduled for the upcoming year are recitals at Dominican University, Toronto’s Roy Thompson Hall, and cabaret performances in Orange County, Sun Valley, and the Allerton Barn Festival. Dr. Gunn also enjoys teaching and training the younger generation. She is on the faculty of the University of Illinois, where she works with singers and pianists and has served on the music staff at the Metropolitan Opera Young Artist Program, Wolf Trap Opera, Saint Louis Opera Theatre, Southern Methodist University, Opera North, Theaterworks, Chicago Opera Theater and Illinois Opera Theater, and given masterclasses at universities and young artists’ programs all over the United States, including the Ryan Young Artists’ Program, the Houston Grand Opera Studio, and the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. Dr. Gunn is proud to have been the music director of her husband Nathan Gunn’s solo disc, Just before Sunrise, recently released by Sony/BMG records. She received her doctorate under the distinguished accompanist and teacher John Wustman, and is an alumna of Dartmouth College. She lives in Champaign, Illinois, with her husband and five children. PAUL FORD (Music Direction, Piano) was the original pianist for the Broadway/Off-Broadway productions of Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, Passion,

Assassins, the revival of Pacific Overtures and the Tony award winning revival of Assassins. His other Broadway/Off-Broadway credits include the Roundabout Theatre's revivals of Pal Joey and 110 in the Shade, Tom Sawyer, High Society, The Rink, Rags, A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine, The Secret Garden, Curtains, Falsettos and Upstairs at Oneal's. Paul was the pianist for the acclaimed Follies concert at Lincoln Center, the Carnegie Hall concert performances of A Sondheim Tribute, Anyone Can Whistle, A Little Night Music with the Philadelphia Symphony, Gypsy with Patti LuPone and the Chicago Symphony, and episodes of PBS' “My Favorite Broadway." In 2008 he played for the televised production of Camelot with the NY Philharmonic and the Carnegie Hall concerts of South Pacific (with Reba McIntyre), Show Boat and ABBA's Kristina. Paul has accompanied Mr. Patinkin on tour, Broadway and Off- in Mandy Patinkin: Dress Casual, Mamaloshen, Celebrating Sondheim, and An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin. Recent shows include Anyone Can Whistle at Encores, the Encores gala honoring Stephen Sondheim, and the televised Celebration for Sondheim's 80th Birthday at Avery Fisher Hall. Paul can be heard on all of Patinkin's CDs, Bernstein's New York, Jerry Hadley's crossover CDs, and many original cast recordings of the above-mentioned shows. .

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AN EVENING WITH MANDY PATINKIN AND NATHAN GUNN Chicago Sun-Times • November 28, 2012

Busy Nathan Gunn on a ‘Carousel’ BY LAURA EMERICK If opera star Nathan Gunn came up with his own version of “The 12 Days of Christmas,” it might go something like this: Twelve drummers drumming behind his “Once Upon a Christmas” performance with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Eleven pipers piping during his recent segment on “The Prairie Home Companion” with Garrison Keillor at the Auditorium Theatre. Ten lords a-leaping with joy over his mentoring work with the Chicago program After School Matters. Nine ladies dancing across the stage during his upcoming turn as Billy Bigelow in Rodgers & Hammerstein’s musical “Carousel.” Eight maids reminding him that less than eight weeks remain before his role debut as Raimbaud in Rossini’s “Le comte d’Ory” at the Metropolitan Opera. Seven swans a-swimming downstream in the opera “Florencia en el Amanzonas” (in which his University of Illinois voice students participated). Six — well, you get the idea. His true love, of course, is his wife and artistic partner, Julie Jordan Gunn. And the partridge in a pear tree? This week, it would have to be his frequent stage collaborator, Mandy Patinkin. He and Gunn will present their Broadway meets opera program, “An Evening with Mandy Patinkin and Nathan Gunn,” in a benefit concert Dec. 1 at the Pick-Staiger Concert Hall in Evanston. All proceeds will go to the Over the Rainbow Association, a charity that assists in providing affordable, accessible and independent housing for the physically disabled. Over the Rainbow is one of several family-focused charities supported by the Gunns, who have five children of their own. In a recent interview , the conversation kept returning to the importance of giving back to the community. That’s what drew them to Over the Rainbow, the Shriners Hospitals and After School Matters, a non-profit organization that gives Chicago teens opportunities to explore and develop their talents while gaining critical skills for higher education and eventual careers. “The charities that resonate with me involve kids,” Gunn said. “Many charities” — mentioning a well-known cancer-related non-profit — “can count on lots of support from others. I’d like to do something else. And I do know what it’s like to raise five children.”

An Evening with Mandy Patinkin & Nathan Gunn Chicago Sun-Times • November 28, 2012 page 2 of 2 The Gunns, who are both faculty members at the U. of I. School of Music in Urbana, had just attended an After School Matters reception, at which they discussed educational and career op-portunities in music, and were still buzzing over the experience. “The kids’ enthusiasm is infectious,” he said. “It surprises them that I think of them as members of my artistic community, and [their reaction] makes me happy, too.” Even more important, programs like After School Matters help shore up cur----riculums that have been stripped of arts education. Because of funding cutbacks, these programs are “the often only way for kids to get exposure to the arts,” he said. Though he was fortunate to receive musical training as a teenager, he didn’t grow up listening to classical music, instead preferring Led Zeppelin to “Les Huguenots.” “I needed to make money for gas,” he recalled, so his mom suggested he put his voice to work. His first lesson involved learning arias for the bird catcher Papageno in Mozart’s “The Magic Flute,” and he was immediately hooked. Papageno, of course, is now one of his signature roles, which he has performed at the Met, San Francisco Opera and the Ravinia Festival last August. “I’m going to keep singing it until they can’t wheel me out anymore,” he said. Up next on his opera calendar, however, is the Met’s “Le comte d’Ory.” His rep ranges from Monteverdi’s “L’incoronazione di Poppea” (1643) to Mark Adamo’s “The Gospel of Mary Magdalene” (which will receive its world premiere next summer at San Francisco Opera), but a French bel canto rarity seems like a complete change of pace. “Tell me about it! When I signed the contract, I kept imagining Rambo [in the Stallone movies] instead of Raimbaud.” Shortly after his Met run, he will sing opposite Broadway star Kelli O’Hara in “Carousel” with the New York Philharmonic for five performances Feb. 27 to March 2. “Billy in ‘Carousel’ is a role that I’ve been wanting to sing for many years, and to sing it for the first time with the New York Philharmonic is a dream come true.” Gunn made a big splash last season in Lyric Opera’s “Show Boat,” the first of the company’s new musical theater initiatives, and many patrons had hoped he would return in this season’s “Oklahoma!” “I would love to do ‘Oklahoma!’ It’s just a matter of timing.” Meanwhile, there will be plenty of musical theater chestnuts when Gunn and Patinkin perform at Pick-Staiger. Though they come from two seemingly opposite musical worlds, they make a natural pair onstage. “This is what we love to do. The point is to communicate,” Patinkin said before their 2011 gig at Ravinia. “Through our show, we hope you get the sense that good music is just good music.” Expect to hear a holiday tune or two, too. Perhaps “Silent Night,” which Gunn sings on the just-released Mormon Tabernacle Choir’s “Once Upon a Christmas” CD and DVD. On whether he enjoys the sounds of the season, a smile that’s equal parts Snoopy and Charlie Brown breaks over his face: “I love Christmas music.” High on his holiday hit list: “The Christmas Waltz” and “White Christmas.” Though he’s ready for the days to be merry and bright, he believes in celebrating “The 12 Days of Christmas” in moderation: “It’s got to be at least Thanksgiving before I break out the carols.”

AN EVENING WITH MANDY PATINKIN AND NATHAN GUNN Highland Park Patch • September 2, 2011

Patinkin's Ravinia Performance is a Family Affair BY STEVE SADIN Mandy Patinkin and Nathan Gunn turned the stage into a family living room Wednesday night as the audience reacted with a standing ovation to the intimacy of their performance. This may not seem so unusual except Patinkin, a native of Chicago's Hyde Park area and a Kenwood Academy graduate, was singing to his family. The audience was full of relatives and they all had an opinion of his second Ravinia appearance. “All Patinkins are related,” Stuart Patinkin of Riverside said when asked about the coincidence of their common names. Patinkin and Gunn sang 31 songs between them ranging from Broadway tunes like “If I Loved You” and “If Ever I Would Leave You” that made Patinkin famous to numbers like “Shenandoah” that showcased Gunn’s operatic training. Patinkin made the evening a family affair when he sang “Cat’s in the Cradle” in a duet with his son Gideon Grody-Patinkin. The number was touching as the two singers alternated lyrics as the father and son in the song described the change in parent-child relationship over time. “The song is so universal,” said Lora Patinkin, Mandy’s cousin from Skokie. “It is generational and says something.” Two other Patinkin relatives, David Ness-Cohn of Morton Grove and Avi Lesser of Wilmette, both liked the singers’ rendition of “Trouble” from the 1962 musical The Music Man. Lesser liked the talking staccato of the lyrics and kept doing his own rendition after the show. Ness-Cohn noticed something else. “It was the beginning of rap,” he said. “It showed the transition to rap.” A three-number Civil War sequence allowed Patinkin and Gunn to display the diversity of their talent. Gunn, making his fourth appearance on the Highland Park stage, is a veteran of the Metropolitan Opera of New York and has performed in some of the world’s most prestigious opera houses in Paris and London. Patinkin won an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series on Chicago Hope and a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical as Che Guevara in the premier of Sir Andrew Lloyd Weber’s Evita in 1980. Gunn began the sequence singing the old American classic “Shenandoah” moving into the Civil War song, “Tenting Tonight.” As Gunn sang the lines “Wishing for the war to cease, many are the hearts looking for the right to see the dawn of peace,” Patinkin began to speak the words of President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.

An Evening with Mandy Patinkin & Nathan Gunn Highland Park Patch • September 2, 2011 page 2 of 2 Two performers interspersed the speech and songs—“Shenandoah” and “Tenting Tonight”—until all were done as Gunn sang “dawn of peace” one last time. They followed the trilogy with the “Ballad of Booth,” giving the supposed reasons the John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln. The evening was not without its lighter moments. Gunn broke into a beautiful rendition of “White Christmas” as only an operatic voice could do. Partway through the song, Patinkin interrupted him. “This should be sung in Yiddish,” Patinkin said at which point they did a duet with Patinkin singing “Veiss Nytl” (“White Christmas” in Yiddish) while Gunn continued with the English version. When the song was over, Patinkin gave his explanation. “Irving Berlin wrote that song,” he said. “His first language was Yiddish and he never wrote a song in Yiddish. There were others after him like [Leonard] Bernstein and [Stephen] Sondheim.” With that, Patinkin broke into a Yiddish version of “Maria” from West Side Story. Gunn added the English as they sang through another of their 15 duets. The evening concluded with “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” as Grody-Patinkin joined his father and Gunn on stage. From the sound of the applause from the standing audience, it is little wonder it was a crowd favorite. “It was so positive, so optimistic,” said of Highland Park. “It was so good to end on a positive note.”

AN EVENING WITH MANDY PATINKIN AND NATHAN GUNN Chicago Examiner • September 1, 2011

Mandy Patinkin and Nathan Gunn - Two Great Performers = One Remarkable Show BY MIRA TEMKIN Rating:***** You could hear people whispering as they entered the Ravinia Pavilion -- "I went to camp with Mandy," I was at his Bar Mitzvah." "He went to school with my brother." Mandy Patinkin is every bit the veritable "South Side of Chicago boy" made good. But none of that mattered when Mandy leaped onto the stage and became the legendary performer of theater and screen. Winner of a Tony award for "Evita," and an Emmy for "Chicago Hope" and star of "Criminal Minds," Mandy is still a singer at heart. The pairing of this Broadway star with the world's leading opera baritone, Nathan Gunn, is nothing short of genius, giving the audience one great evening of show tunes, pop music, even a meaningful recitation of the Gettsburg Address. Dressed in casual black shirt, pants and gym shoes, Mandy was in stark contrast to the elegantly-dressed Gunn who donned a sportcoat and dress shoes. Joining the duo on stage was Mandy's long time accompanist, Paul Ford ("We’ve been together 24 years" "Don't worry," he said to Paul, "someday we'll have children!") and Gunn's wife, Julie Jordan Gunn. Patinkin's son, Gideon, also joined his father on stage for several songs, generating an an ear-to-ear grin for the proud father. “How great is this,” said Mandy! “I get to perform with Nathan Gunn and my own kid.” It was a joy to watch the mutual admiration between the two performers as they sang their way through Broadway, opera, Americana, and Mandy's own brand of Yiddish songs. Gunn, who recently performed in Camelot, sang "C'est Moi" and Mandy couldn't help by jump in as a gallant knight with "My name is....." a humorous reference to his role in the "Princess Bride." The audience loved it! From pop favorites like "The Cat's in the Cradle," to "You've Got Trouble in River City" to newer songs like "Innocent When You Dream," their combined voices reached for the skies. Singing both solos and duets, Mandy and Gunn gave Ravinia goers a night of musical excellence they will long remember.