THE RICHARD B. FISHER CENTER

FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS AT BARD COLLEGE

2008–2009 SEASON

Annandale-on-Hudson, New Yorkhttp://fishercenter.bard.edu

the richard b. fisher center for

the performing arts at bard college

chair Jeanne Donovan Fisher

president Leon Botstein

executive director Tambra Dillon

Presents

Of Thee I SingMusic and lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin

Book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind

directed and choreographed by Will Pomerantz

conducted James Bagwell

set design by Louisa Thompson

costume design by Carol Bailey

lighting design Justin Townsend

sound design by Amy Altadonna

assistant music director James Bassi

assistant conductor and chorus master Sharon Bjorndal

casting by Charles Rosen Casting, Inc.

theater two

August 1, 6, 7 at 8 pm

August 2, 9, 10 at 3 pm

August 3 at 7 pm

August 6 at 2 pm

August 8 at 5 pm

Of Thee I Sing is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All

authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI, 421 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019.

cast

louis lippman Brian Russell*

francis x. gilhooley Doug Shapiro*

matthew arnold fulton Rich Silverstein*

senator robert e. lyons Tom Treadwell*

senator carver jones John Deyle*

alexander throttlebottom Andy Gale*

john p. wintergreen John Bolton*

sam jenkins Chad Harlow*

diana deveraux Amanda Flynn*

mary turner Amy Justman*

miss benson Gretchen Bieber*

the french ambassador Marcus DeLoach*

chief justice Michael Dantuono*

ensemble

Lauren Lukacek, Natalie Reder, Jennifer Sheehan, Danny Visconti, Mitchell Walker,

Don Whitmore, Christopher Williams, Nikol Wolf* (dance captain)

musicians

flute / piccolo Sato Moughalian

alto sax / clarinet Mort Silver

alto sax / clarinet / bass clarinet Les Stall

trumpet Stu Sataloff

trombone Keith Green

violin i Roy Lewis

violin ii TK

viola David Fallo

cello TK

bass Jeffrey Levine

percussion Glenn Rhian

piano James Bassi

stage manager Kate Hefel*

assistant stage manager Annette Verga-Lagier*

rehearsal accompanist Nino Sanikidze

diction coach Kathryn LaBouff

assistant set designer Caleb Levengood

assistant lighting designer Adrianna Desier Durantt

assistant costume designer Sarah Cubbage

sets Tom Carroll Scenery

lights Rentals from PRG

props Scott Brodsky

*Appears through the courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.

scenes

act i

Scene 1 Prologue/The campaign parade

Scene 2 The hotel room of the National Committee

Scene 3 The boardwalk in Atlantic City

Scene 4 A hotel suite in Atlantic City

Scene 5 In front of Madison Square Garden

Scene 6 Inside Madison Square Garden

Scene 7 The Capitol steps

act ii

Scene 1 The White House

Scene 2 A corridor

Scene 3 The Senate

Scene 4 Another corridor

Scene 5 The White House ballroom

musical numbers

act i

Wintergreen For President Ensemble

Who Is The Lucky Girl To Be/Because Because Diana, the Contestants, and the

Photographers

Who Is The Lucky Girl To Be Reprise Diana, the Contestants, and the Committee

Finaletto Fulton, Gilhooley, Lippman, Judges,Committee, Wintergreen, Diana, and Ensemble

Love Is Sweeping The Country Jenkins, Benson, and Ensemble

Of Thee I Sing Mary, Wintergreen, and Ensemble

Wintergreen for President Reprise Ensemble

Finale Act I Supreme Court Justices, Wintergreen,

Mary, Diana, Chief Justice, and

Ensemble

act ii

Good Morning, Hello Ensemble

Who Cares? Wintergreen, Mary, Reporters

The Illegitimate Daughter The French Ambassador,

French Soldiers, Diana, Mary,

Wintergreen, Fulton, Lyons,

Gilhooley, and Ensemble

The Senator From Minnesota Throttlebottom, Senators, and

Ensemble

The Senate Debate The French Ambassador,

French Soldiers, Fulton, Wintergreen,

and Throttlebottom

Jilted Diana, Ensemble

Posterity Is Just Around The Corner Wintergreen, Mary, Ensemble,

and the Committee

Trumpeter Blow Your Golden Horn Ensemble, the Doctor, the Supreme

Court Justices, Lippman, Gilhooley,

Jones, and Lyons

Finale Ultimo (“Whereas…”) Chief Justice, Judges,

French Ambassador, Diana,

and Ensemble

Running time is approximately 2 hours including one intermission.

The use of recording equipment or the taking of photographs during the performance is strictly prohibited

who’s who

george gershwin and ira gershwin

Essentially self-taught, George Gershwin (1898–1937) was a sensitive songwriter

and gifted melodist who did much to create syntheses between the jazz and

classical traditions. He began to compose popular songs as a teenager. He

became famous in 1924 with Rhapsody in Blue, which he wrote as a concerto for

piano and Paul Whiteman’s jazz band. Its success allowed him to devote increas-

ing energy to composing what he considered more ambitious works, including

the Piano Concerto in F (1925) and the tone poem An American in Paris (1928).

But he continued composing for the musical theater, and some of his most suc-

cessful musicals (Lady, be Good!, 1924; Oh, Kay!, 1926; Strike Up the Band, 1927;

Funny Face, 1927; Girl Crazy, 1930) date from this period; for most of these

works, the lyrics were written by his brother Ira. Gershwin’s now celebrated

American folk opera Porgy and Bess (written in 1934–35), which draws on

African American idioms, was only a limited success on Broadway. He went to

Hollywood in 1936 to write songs for films. The following year, while working

on the score of The Goldwyn Follies, he collapsed and died from a brain tumor.

He was not quite 39 years old.

With his brother George, the lyricist Ira Gershwin (1896–1983) created some of

the most memorable songs of the 20th century, including more than a dozen

Broadway shows and the opera Porgy and Bess. Ira’s creative role in the duo’s

success is often overlooked; however, his mastery of songwriting continued after

George’s early death, and he went on to write more hit songs with composers

Jerome Kern, Kurt Weill, and Harold Arlen.

george s. kaufman

George S. Kaufman (1889–1961) was the most successful playwright in the

American theater during Broadway’s “Golden Years” between the two World

Wars. He wrote 45 sharply funny and satirical Broadway plays, the majority of

which were successes. He was also a talented and precise director, and he

worked with most of the major theatrical talents of his era. Renowned as a

humorist and wit, he was a charter member of the Algonquin Round Table.

Kaufman won two Pulitzer Prizes for drama, including the first Pulitzer ever

awarded to a musical.

morrie ryskind

Morrie Ryskind (1895–1985) was a writer, lyricist, and director of theatrical

productions and films as well as a columnist for the Los Angeles Herald

Examiner. He collaborated with George S. Kaufman on several Broadway hits,

and he wrote or cowrote several of the Marx Brothers’ productions, including

the script and lyrics for the Broadway musical Animal Crackers (1929) and the

scripts for the film versions of Cocoanuts (1929), Animal Crackers (1930), and A

Night At the Opera (1935). He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for drama for the

Broadway production Of Thee I Sing in 1933, and he was a two-time Oscar

nominee, for his part in writing My Man Godfrey (1936) and Stage Door (1937).

will pomerantz Director and Choreographer

Will Pomerantz has directed and developed plays and musicals at Playwrights

Horizons, Public Theatre, Hartford Stage, New York Theater Workshop,

Ensemble Studio Theater, Signature Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival,

Studio Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Culture Project, and Epic Theater

Ensemble, among other venues. He has directed world premieres by John

Guare, David Auburn, David Lindsay-Abaire, Stephen Belber, Noah Haidle,

Sung Rno, and Carey Perloff. He has been the Boris Sagal Fellow in Directing

for Williamstown Theatre Festival and staff repertory director for The Acting

Company, and he is an alumnus of the Directors Lab at Lincoln Center, a Usual

Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop, a member of Ensemble Studio Theater,

and director in residence for Culture Project. He is the first American director

ever invited to direct for the National Theater of Poland. He has been a guest

artist for The Juilliard School (five seasons) and is currently associate director of

artistic development for Epic Theatre Ensemble. His productions have garnered

numerous awards and nominations, including the Helen Hayes and Lucille

Lortel Awards, as well as the Drama Desk award.

james bagwell Conductor

James Bagwell maintains an active schedule across the United States and abroad

as a conductor of operatic, orchestral, and choral literature. He is making his

fourth appearance as conductor for Bard SummerScape. He recently completed

his 10th season as music director of Light Opera Oklahoma conducting new

productions of Candide and Into the Woods. He has guest conducted a number

of orchestras including the Jerusalem Symphony, Tulsa Symphony, and

Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra. His choruses have appeared with many major

nation and international orchestras including the San Francisco Symphony, Los

Angeles Philharmonic, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Cincinnati Symphony, and

American Symphony Orchestra. This summer he will prepare the Concert

Chorale of New York for performances at the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln

Center. Maestro Bagwell is music director for the Dessoff Choirs in New York

and the Cincinnati May Festival Youth Chorus, and he serves as chorus master

for the Bard Music Festival. He is associate professor of music at Bard College

and serves as the director of the Music Program.

louisa thompson Set Design

Louisa Thompson’s credits include the set for the critically acclaimed Off-

Broadway production of [sic] (Obie and Hewes awards) at Soho Repertory

Theatre. Her other Off-Broadway credits include Manic Flight Reaction

(Playwrights Horizons); Fat Pig and The Distance from Here (MCC Theatre,

Geffen Playhouse); 21 Dog Years at Amazon.Com (Play All Day Productions);

and The Roaring Girl (The Foundry Theatre Company). Her other New York

credits include GATZ (Elevator Repair Service); Suitcase, Molly’s Dream, and The

Year of the Baby (Soho Repertory Theatre); The Cherry Orchard (SALT Theatre);

Tulpa (Target Margin Theatre); Max and Ruby, Walk Two Moons, First in Flight,

Just So Stories (TheatreworksUSA); People are Wrong and 131 (P.S. 122); and

Arabian Night, Tex Arcana Waltz, and No. 11 Blue and White (The Play

Company). Her regional work includes set designs at the McCarter Theatre,

Paper Mill Playhouse, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, La Jolla Playhouse, The

Children’s Theatre Company of Minneapolis, Philadelphia Theatre Company,

Actor’s Express, Geva Theatre, Triad Stage, Empty Space Theatre, Yale Rep, The

Juilliard School, and at Bard College, in a production of Federico García Lorca’s

play Once Five Years Pass, directed by Robert Castro. Thompson has a B.F.A.

degree from the Rhode Island School of Design and an M.F.A. from the Yale

School of Drama. She is currently an associate professor at Hunter College.

carol bailey Costume Designer

Carol Bailey previously collaborated with Will Pomerantz on Great Expectations,

Wave, and Landscape of the Body. She designed A Diary of One Who Vanished for

SummerScape 2003. She was commissioned to design the scenery and costumes

for the U.S. premiere of Faustus the Last Night at the Spoleto USA Festival 2007

and the world premiere of Kafka’s Trial for the Royal Danish Opera. She has

designed costumes and scenery for New York City Opera; Glimmerglass Opera;

Opera Zuid, Maastricht, Netherlands; San Francisco Opera Center; Pittsburgh

Opera; Skylight Opera Theater; Wolf Trap Opera; Long Beach Opera; Gotham

Opera; Juilliard; Joyce Theater; Muffathalle in Munich (with Meredith Monk);

Alvin Ailey Theatre (with Johannes Wieland); Lincoln Center Festival; Staats

Theater Kassel; and L’Opéra Français de New York. She was the recipient of the

TCG/NEA Design Fellowship in 2000, and she exhibited in the World Stage

Design 2005 Competition. She has two M.F.A. degrees: one in design, from New

York University; and one in sculpture, from the University of Pennsylvania.

Upcoming projects include La Trajedie de Carmen, at the Chicago Opera

Theatre, and Kurt Weil’s Marie Galante at Florence Gould Hall for L’Opéra

Français de New York. During the spring semester at Bard College earlier this

year, Bailey taught a course titled Visual Imagination for the Modern Stage.

justin townsend Lighting Design

Justin Townsend’s New York work includes Opus (Primary Stages), Speech and

Debate (Roundabout), Eve Ensler’s The Treatment (Culture Project), Drums of

the Waves of the Horikawa (Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf), Beauty on the Vine

and Palace of the End (Epic Theatre), and Women Dreamt Horses (P.S. 122). His

regional work includes productions at ART in Cambridge (Elliot Norton Award

for The Onion Cellar), Baltimore Center Stage, Hartford Stage, Portland Center

Stage, Arden Theatre, Kirk Douglas Theatre (Ovation nominee, Apollo),

Intiman, Playmakers Rep, Boston Court, and Georgia Shakespeare Festival. He

is a member of the Obie award–winning Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf and a

founding member of TENT.

gretchen bieber Miss Benson

Gretchen Bieber recently completed a three-year run in the Broadway company

of Hairspray, understudying and performing two roles: Amber, and Velma Von

Tussle. Some of her favorite roles in regional productions include Audrey in

Little Shop of Horrors, Sharpay Evans in High School Musical, Tintinabula in A

Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Cha Cha in Grease, Ronnie

Boylan in Annie, and Liza in Peter Pan.

john bolton John P. Wintergreen

John Bolton just completed a run in Broadway’s Curtains, playing Daryl Grady,

the villainous drama critic, for over 500 performances. He also played David

Hyde Pierce’s role during Pierce’s vacation. His other Broadway credits include

roles in the original casts of Monty Python’s Spamalot, Contact, and Titanic (all

three of which won the Tony Award for best musical) and featured roles in the

hit revivals of How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (often starring

as Finch, opposite Sarah Jessica Parker) and Damn Yankees. Off Broadway he

starred in Five Course Love and It’s Only Life, and he spent several seasons with

the Riverside Shakespeare Company. He appeared in the all-star New York con-

certs of Busker Alley (with Glenn Close and Jim Dale), Chess (with Josh

Groban), Funny Girl (with Whoopi Goldberg) and the Grammy-nominated

Dreamgirls. With Project Shaw, he has had leading roles in Geneva and The

Devil’s Disciple. He toured nationally with Jerry Lewis in Damn Yankees and Nell

Carter in Annie. He has played Will in Oklahoma! across the United States and

Europe. He originated the role of Hilario Gomez in Frank Loesser’s Senor

Discretion at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., and Bill Truitt in The Opposite of

Sex at San Francisco’s Magic Theatre. His films include The Savages and Eleven.

On television he has appeared on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Ed, All My

Children (recurring), As the World Turns, Guiding Light, Great Performances, and

the Late Show with David Letterman.

michael dantuono Chief Justice

Michale Dantuono has appeared on Broadway in Caesar and Cleopatra

(starring Rex Harrison), Can-Can, Zorba (starring Anthony Quinn), The Three

Musketeers, 42nd Street, and the 42nd Street revival. He has toured extensively

through 120 cities in the United States, Japan, and Europe.

marcus deloach The French Ambassador

Baritone Marcus DeLoach, a native of Andover, Massachusetts, has been on the

roster of New York City Opera for six seasons, performing such roles as Count

Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Satyr/Citheron in Mark Morris’s Platée, Slim

in Of Mice and Men, and Don Alvaro in Il Viaggio a Reims. He has also

performed the title role of Joseph De Rocher in Dead Man Walking at Opera

Ireland, Schaunard in La bohème at Seattle Opera, Harlekin in Ariadne auf

Naxos at Des Moines Metro Opera, Nilakantha in Lakmé with Tulsa Opera, Ping

in Turandot with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Papageno in Die

Zauberflöte with the Kalamazoo Symphony, and the Narrator in Paul Bunyan at

Central City Opera, and he sang for five seasons at Opera Theatre of St.

Louis. In concert he has appeared numerous times with the New York

Philharmonic Orchestra, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and

Marilyn Horne Foundation, and in 1997 he was unanimously voted first-place

winner of the inaugural Wigmore Hall International Song Competition.

DeLoach has performed lead vocals on tour with the rock band Trans-Siberian

Orchestra in their rock opera Christmas Eve and Other Stories at Madison

Square Garden and the Fleet Center, among other venues. He recently

premiered his first opera libretto, The Train Ride, with music by composer Jeff

Grace, at American Opera Projects in New York City. DeLoach is on the faculty

of Ramapo College of New Jersey.

john deyle Senator Carver Jones

John Deyle’s Broadway roles include Senator Fipp in Urinetown; Bert Healy in

Annie; Mr. Ernest in Pal Joey; Sir Bliant in Camelot (with Richard Burton and

Richard Harris); and Principal Clarke in Footloose. He played the role of Bert

Bratt in the national tour of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.

His Off-Broadway roles include Frankie Cavalier in Pageant and Hucklebee in

The Fantasticks. Regionally he has appeared at the Long Wharf, Huntington

Theatre, Walnut Street Theatre, Artpark, Goodspeed Opera House, Arena Stage,

and Berkshire Theatre Festival. His film and television work includes One True

Thing, Before and After, Wall Street, Law & Order, and Late Night with Conan

O’Brien (Mr. Science), and he is a veteran of more than 100 commercials.

amanda flynn Diana Deveraux

Amanda Flynn was an original member of the Los Angeles company of Wicked,

as a Glinda understudy. She also understudied and performed the role of Sophie

with the Las Vegas company of Mamma Mia. Regionally she has been seen as

Urleen in Footloose at the Carousel Dinner Theatre, as Betty Blake in Will Rogers

Follies at the Stage Door Theatre, in Ragtime at the Fulton Opera House, and in

A Christmas Carol at the McCarter Theatre. She also understudied and

performed the role of Laurey on the national tour of Oklahoma.

andy gale Alexander Throttlebottom

Andy Gale comes to SummerScape 2008 having just finished playing Mordcha

the Innkeeper in the Ogunquit Playhouse’s 2008 production of Fiddler on the

Roof, starring Eddie Mekka and Sally Struthers. His previous Fiddler credits

include Mendel, with Kurt Kasznar and Theodore Bikel, and Motel, with Jack

Gilford. He also appeared with Gilford in The Student Prince and in the

Broadway revival of The World of Sholem Aleichem. Gale’s other Broadway

credits include Robert the Butler in Jane Eyre, the Bearded Lady in Side Show

(also on the original cast album) and Rags (original cast album), starring Teresa

Stratas. He played Feuilly in the first national company of Les Miserables, the

Fakir in the national tour of The Secret Garden, and Gus/Growltiger in Cats. As

director, Gale’s critically acclaimed productions of I Love You, You’re Perfect,

Now Change have been seen in Bethesda, Maryland; Allentown, Pennsylvania;

and Melbourne, Australia. His current directorial projects include the plays Last

Will and Testament (written by Jennifer Houlton), Merton of the Movies

(adapted, from Harry Leon Wilson’s novel, by Gary William Friedman and Dan

Ellentuck) and Lost and Found (written by Darren Adams). Gale recently

directed Jennifer Naimo’s sold-out New York cabaret, and he has one-woman

shows in the works for Cindy Marchionda, Hope Harris, and Olga Merediz. He

is also a highly regarded teacher and coach in the Broadway community, and he

has been an adjunct professor of acting at Barnard and Vassar. He was art and

film critic for the Sacramento Bee. Gale is a graduate of Antioch College.

chad harlow Sam Jenkins

Chad Harlow’s national touring credits include Show Boat (as Frank Schultz),

The Music Man (Oliver Hix), Rogers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Prince,

Lionel understudy), and the U.S. and Japan tours of 42nd Street (Billy

Lawlor). His regional appearances include Irving Berlin’s White Christmas

(Ordway, St. Paul, and Wang Center, Boston), Singin’ in the Rain (Goodspeed),

Thoroughly Modern Millie (Jimmy understudy, dance captain and

cochoreographer, Barter Theatre, Abingdon, Virginia), Crazy for You (as Bobby

Child, at Wohlfahrt Haus, Wytheville, Virginia), Joseph (Simeon, at the Fireside

Theatre), 42nd Street (Billy understudy, at Mill Mountain Theatre, Roanoke,

Virginia) and Damn Yankees (Mickey, Mambo Dancer, at Broward Stage

Door). His New York appearances include the role of Private Partz in the New

York Musical Theatre Festival production of The Brain From Planet X and the

role of Dream Mitch in the Gallery Players production of Yank! In the York

Theatre’s production of the latter, he performed the role of India. On television,

Harlow has been seen “putting it on” for Burlington Coat Factory, and he

recently finished dancing the tarantella for the upcoming film When in

Rome. He is a cum laude graduate of the University of Wisconsin at Stevens

Point, where he completed a double major in musical theater and dance.

amy justman Mary Turner

Amy Justman was a soloist in the 2006 Bard Music Festival; she also soloed in

Carmina Burana and Haydn’s Missa in Tempore Belli at the Fisher Center in

2005. She made her Broadway debut in the Tony Award–winning revival of

Company, playing the role of Susan as well as the piano and percussion. She can

be heard on the cast recording, and she performed on the PBS Great

Performances DVD. She also recently performed in the company of Show Boat

at Carnegie Hall. Her European credits include Myths and Hymns at the

Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Unsung Weill at the Kurt Weill Fest in Dessau,

Germany, as part of her first prize in the 2004 Lotte Lenya Competition.

Regional roles include Anne (understudy/Mrs. Nordstrom) in A Little Night

Music (Centerstage), Young Heidi in Follies (Maine State Music Theatre), Sarah

Brown in Guys and Dolls (Forestburgh Playhouse), and Chava in Fiddler on the

Roof (Light Opera Oklahoma). She has been a soloist with the American

Symphony Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall and can also be heard on two recent

albums from composer Larry Gelb, I’ll Remember Love and Songs for Pickles.

Justman has a B.A. from Yale University and an M.M. from Manhattan School

of Music. She is a native of Port Jefferson, New York.

lauren lukacek Ensemble

Lauren Lukacek is making her New York stage debut in the 2008 SummerScape

production Of Thee I Sing. Her favorite credits include the role of Anne

Egerman in A Little Night Music, Eleanor Roosevelt in First Lady Suite, and a

role in a production of Hair in Naples, Florida, earlier this summer. She is

currently studying at the Boston Conservatory, and expects to graduate with a

B.F.A. degree in musical theater in 2009.

natalie reder Ensemble

Natalie Reder recently graduated from the Musical Theater Program at the

Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, where she played Ruth in Wonderful Town

and Mrs. Mister in The Cradle Will Rock, and also appeared in The Full Monty,

The Robber Bridegroom, The Pirates of Penzance, and Floyd Collins. Her roles have

included Julie Jordan in Carousel, Maria in West Side Story, Maggie in A Chorus

Line, Marguerite in The Scarlet Pimpernel and Serena Katz in Fame. She appeared

with the Cincinnati Pops in their 2005 Christmas concert and on the PBS pro-

gram Take Me to the River, a musical celebration of the nation’s waterways.

brian russell Louis Lippman

Brian Russell has appeared on Broadway in The Farnsworth Invention and The

Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. He had roles in the national tours of On Golden

Pond, The Graduate, and Laughter on the 23rd Floor. His other New York work

includes The Importance Of Marrying Wells, Love’s Labour’s Lost, and Heating

and Cooling. Regionally he has appeared in Chesapeake, Lost In Yonkers,

Christmas Carol, The Sunshine Boys, Inspecting Carol, The Cocoanuts, and The

White Devil, among others. His film and television work includes Tenderness,

30 Rock, Rescue Me, and Law & Order. Russell earned an M.F.A. degree at the

Academy for Classical Acting, the Shakespeare Theatre, Washington, D.C.

doug shapiro Francis X. Gilhooley

Doug Shapiro’s recent roles include Chitterlow in Half a Sixpence (Musicals

Tonight), Oscar Wilde in Oscar the Musical and Radio Announcer in Yank!

(both with the York Theatre Company), and Dr. Ian Lieb in Love! That Four-

Letter Word (Algonquin Theater). He has voiced several characters for both the

cast album and stage production of Finding Nemo: The Musical for Disney.

jennifer sheehan Ensemble

Jennifer Sheehan, a 2007 Juilliard graduate, was honored in 2006 by the

Mabel Mercer Foundation with the Julie Wilson Award for her interpretation of

the Great American Songbook. She has performed her solo cabaret shows in

venues from New York to Los Angeles. This past Christmas, she was one of six

singer-dancers to appear in the 75th anniversary production of Radio City

Music Hall’s Christmas Spectacular. Last May, she joined Andrea Marcovicci,

Klea Blackhurst, and Bryan Byers in a musical tribute to lyricist Leo Robin, as

part of the 92nd Street Y Lyrics and Lyricists Series. She also continues to

perform as a special guest of the Boston Musical Theater in concerts at the

Mahaiwe in the Berkshires and at the National Heritage Museum in

Boston. Sheehan’s favorite Juilliard and regional credits include the role of

Pamina in The Magic Flute, Angel Moore in Mother of Us All, Lili in Carnival,

Angel in Celebration!, and Kathleen Falcon Scott in Terra Nova. She was named

one of four national finalists in the field of musical theater by the National

Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, and she was awarded first place in the

Glenn Miller National Vocal Competition.

rich silverstein Matthew Arnold Fulton

Rich Silverstein’s recent credits include the role of Jitter in Musical of Musicals at

Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park (for which he was also musical director);

Princess Caraboo at Goodspeed (directed by Gary Griffin); Stage Blue (New

Amsterdam, directed by Richard Maltby); Crossing Brooklyn (Disney/ASCAP

workshop); and shows with the York Theater, Ensemble Studio Theater, Les

Freres Corbusier, Prospect Theater Company, and Theatreworks/USA. His

favorite roles include Charley in Merrily We Roll Along, Finch in How to Succeed

in Business Without Really Trying, and the Baker in Into the Woods. He is a

professional music director and pianist and a Yale graduate, and he is proud to

share a birthday with George Gershwin.

tom treadwell Senator Robert E. Lyons

Tom Treadwell has appeared on Broadway in the 20th-anniversary production

of Annie as well as in the national tours of Ragtime, Cats, and Company. His

other New York credits include Bush Is Bad at the Triad Theatre (in which he

played, among other roles, Barbara Bush); The Last Starfighter, at the Theater at

St. Clements; and Mata Hari, at the York Theatre. Regionally, he as performed at

the Goodspeed Opera House, Paper Mill Playhouse, Sacramento Music Circus,

and the Studio Arena Theatre. His television credits include 30 Rock, Law &

Order: SVU, the ESPN miniseries The Bronx Is Burning, Guiding Light, and As

The World Turns.

danny visconti Ensemble

Danny Visconti is a recent graduate of the University of Cincinnati College

Conservatory of Music, where his credits include the role of Malcolm in The

Full Monty, Ludovic in Passion, Joe in The Pajama Game, Cliff in Floyd Collins,

and Galka in Flora the Red Menace. His other credits include Grease (with Joey

Fatone), The Wizard of Oz (as the Tin Man), concerts with the Cincinnati Pops

orchestra, and Sugar ’n Spice with the Cincinnati Playwrights Initiative.

mitchell walker Ensemble

Mitchell Walker, from Palm Harbor, Florida, recently graduated from the

University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music (CCM) with a B.F.A. in

musical theater. His regional and stock roles include Constantine in A Day in

Hollywood/A Night In The Ukraine (Showboat Majestic); Roger in Grease

(Riverstage); Schroeder in You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown (Thrasher-Horne

Center for the Arts); Bell Hop in Lend Me a Tenor (Thrasher-Horne); and

Orgasmic Man in The Wild Party (Palladium). At CCM his roles included Dave

in The Full Monty, Colonel Ricci in Passion, Officer Lonigan in Wonderful Town,

Mr. Hassler in The Pajama Game, Everett Baker in Crazy for You, Editor Daily in

The Cradle Will Rock, and Mr. Weiss in Flora, the Red Menace. Walker has also

performed with the Cincinnati Pops at Carnegie Hall and Cincinnati Music Hall.

don whitmore EnsembleDon Whitmore recently completed a European tour of Grease. He will be performing in productions of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and WhiteChristmas this fall.

christopher williams Ensemble

Christopher Williams has performed in The Magic Flute and Tosca with the

Connecticut Opera and in The Rivals with the Hartford Stage Company. He has

performed in concert with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra in “Happy Holidays

from the Pops” and on the PBS program Take Me to the River, a musical celebra-

tion of the nation’s waterways. He is a recent graduate of the University of

Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, where he performed the role of

Mingo in Crazy For You, the Guide in Wonderful Town, Max in Cabaret, and

Airie in The Robber Bridegroom, and had roles in The Cradle Will Rock, The

Pirates of Penzance, Merrily We Roll Along, and Brigadoon.

nikol wolf Ensemble (dance captain)

Nikol Wolf ’s most recent New York appearance was in An Evening of Disney Music

at the Rose Theatre, Lincoln Center. She was part of the 25th-anniversary tour of

Evita. Her other credits include Cats (as Demeter, at North Shore Music Theatre),

Beauty & the Beast (Silly Girl, at Fox Theatre), Showboat (Ellie), Damn Yankees

(Lola), A Chorus Line (Maggie), South Pacific (North Carolina Theatre), My Fair

Lady (Walnut St. Theatre), and Radio City Christmas Spectacular (where she was a

Rockette). Wolf has a B.F.A. degree in musical theater. She is also a professional

choreographer, and she has judged dance competitions across the country.

ProducerAmerican Elgar FoundationFiona Angelini and Jamie WelchArthur F. and Alice E. Adams

FoundationChartwells School and

University Dining Services The Danish Arts AgencyBarbara Ettinger and Sven HusebyAlexander D. Fisher ’96 and

Jennifer Hodges FisherCatherine C. Fisher and

Gregory A. MurphyR. Britton Fisher David B. FordJ. Robin GrovesJane’s Ice CreamThe Kosciuszko Foundation, Inc.Harvey and Phyllis LichtensteinMagic Hat Brewing CompanyThe Maurer Family Foundation, Inc.Mertz Gilmore FoundationMillbrook Vineyards and WinerySimon MorrisonEileen K. MurrayNational Dance Project of the New

England Foundation for the ArtsNational Endowment for the Arts

(NEA)New York State Council on the Arts

(NYSCA)Dimitri B. and Rania PapadimitriouDrs. M. Susan and Irwin RichmanThe Royal Danish Consulate

in New YorkMatthew Patrick SmythDavid E. Schwab II ’52 and

Ruth Schwartz Schwab ’52

PatronThe American-Scandinavian

FoundationJosh Aronson and Maria BachmannKathleen and Roland Augustine

Mary Inga BacklundGale and Sheldon BaimAnne Donovan Bodnar and

James BodnarHarvey and Anne Brown Capezio/Ballet Makers Dance

Foundation, Inc.Consulate General of SwedenMr. and Mrs. Gonzalo De las HerasMichael J. Del GiudiceTambra DillonDirt Road Realty, LLCElizabeth W. Ely ’65 and

Jonathan K. GreenburgThe Ettinger Foundation, Inc.Peter C. FrankGideon and Sarah GartnerGE FoundationCarson Glover and Stephen MillikinAndrew GoffeThe Harkness Foundation

for DanceHotel MadalinHSBC Philanthropic ProgramsJPMorgan ChaseMr. and Mrs. George A. KellnerRuth Ketay and Rene SchnetzlerMartin KlineEdna and Gary LachmundAnnie LeibovitzPatti and Murray LiebowitzJane and Daniel LindauStephen MazohDebra Pemstein and Dean VallasThe RhinecliffDon and Natalie RobohmFlorence and Robert A. RosenBlanche and Bruce RubinThe Sidney and Beatrice Albert

FoundationDavid A. SchulzDenise S. Simon and

Paulo Vieira da CunhaAndrew Solomon and John Habich

Sarah and Howard SolomonAllan and Ronnie StreichlerStorm King Contracting Inc.Doug Wingo and Tim LeeIlliana van MeeterenHarold VarmusMargo and Anthony Viscusi

SponsorHelen and Roger AlcalyFrank and Mary Ann ArismanSarah Botstein and Bryan DoerriesJames S. Brodsky and

Philip E. McCarthy IIIan Buckingham and

Randy F. Buckingham ’73

Gary Capetta and Nick JonesRichard D. CohenVirginia CorsiMary FreemanHelena and Christopher GibbsMims and Burton GoldEliot D. and Paula K. HawkinsLaura Kuhn William Ross and John LongmanBarbara L. and Arthur MichaelsChris Pomeroy and Frank FrattaroliMelanie and Philippe RadleyNicole RingenbergBarbara and Richard SchrieberMr. Peter K. SchumannGeoge L. Steiner and

R. Mardel FehrenbachMichael A. Stillman, M.D.Barbara and Donald ToberCarol Yorke and Gerald Conn

SupporterMartina Arfwidson and

David WeissMiriam Roskin BergerHarriet Bloch and Evan SakellariosSheila and Joe BuffSusan Christoffersen

Leadership SupportThe Christian A. Johnson Endeavor

FoundationEducational Foundation of AmericaJeanne Donovan FisherEmily H. Fisher and John AlexanderMartin & Toni Sosnoff FoundationThe New York State Music FundMr. and Mrs. James H. Ottaway Jr.

Richard B. Fisher Endowment FundMartin T. and Toni Sosnoff

Golden CircleThe Altria Group, Inc.Carolyn Marks BlackwoodStefano Ferrari and Lilo Zinglersen FMH FoundationLinda Hirshman and David ForkoshThe Marks Family Foundation

Mid-Atlantic Arts FoundationThe Millbrook Tribute GardenThe Rudolf Nureyev Dance FoundationSenator Stephen M. SalandThaw Charitable TrustThendara FoundationFelicitas S. ThorneThe Wise Family Charitable

Foundation

We honor the late Richard B. Fisher for his generosity and leadership in building and supporting this superb center thatbears his name by offering outstanding arts experiences. We recognize and thank the following individuals, corpora-tions, and foundations that share Dick’s and our belief in presenting and creating art for the enrichment of soci-ety. Help sustain the Fisher Center and ensure that the performing arts are a part of our lives. We encourage and needyou to join our growing list of donors. (The list reflects donations received in the last 12 months.)

Donors to the Fisher Center

Friends of the Fisher Center

Emily M. Darrow and Brendon P. McCrane

Patricia FalkFernanda GilliganGilberte Vansintejan Glaser and

William A. GlaserRosalind GolembeRosemary and Graham HansonLars Hedstrom and Barry JuddDr. Joan Hoffman and Syd SilvermanKassell Family Foundation

of the JCFSusan and Roger KennedySeymour and Harriet KoenigJohn S. KnottHelena LeeMark McDonaldCharles S. MaierHermes Mallea and Carey MaloneyJoanna M. MigdalSybil NadelElizabeth J. and Sevgin OktayJames and Purcell PalmerTed Ruthizer and Jane DenkensohnDoris E. and Richard A. ScherbarthDavid SchestengerBetti and Larry SteeleMim and Leonard SteinEvan L. StoverDr. Elisabeth F. TurnauerBarbara Jean WeyantNigel WrightDr. Herbert M. and

Audrey S. Wyman

FriendAnonymousLucy and Murray AdamsJohn J. Austrian ’91 and

Laura M. AustrianFrank and Diane BauerLilly BechtelAlvin BeckerRichard BensonCharles and Birgit BlythPhyllis BrazielAlfred M. Buff and Lenore NemethHomer and Jean ByingtonMaryAnn and Thomas Case Daniel Chu and Lenore SchiffMr. and Mrs. John CioffiEileen and Michael CohenRichard D. CohenJean T. CookAnne Q. CottonJoan K. DavidsonMarsha and George DavisJackie Del Rossi

Abby H. and John B. DuxDonna Sue ElbergRuth EngSara and Fred EpsteinK. F. Etzold and Carline Dure-EtzoldHarold FarbermanChristine FasanoMilly and Arnold FeinsilberSusan M. FerrisDavid and Tracy FinnHenry T. FordEdward FriedmanCatherine FukushimaAnn Marie GardnerEdwin GeisslerArthur L. GellertMarvin S. GilbertAdrien Glover and Michael KellyJudy GoldMr. and Mrs. Jerome GoldbergStanley L GordonAlexander Gray and David CabreraPatricia Haswell and

Dr. Richard ToddEliot D. and Paula K. HawkinsJames HaydenMel and Phyllis HeikoDorothy and Leo HellermanDelmar D. HendricksNeil IsabelleRobert JaquayRyland JordanLarry and Anna KadishJohn KalishDr. Eleanor C. KaneDemetrios KarayannidesLinda L. KaumeyerRichard P. KeliskyJessica Post Kemm ’74

Mr. and Mrs. William L. KirchnerBryce KlontzRose and Josh KoplovitzDanielle Korwin and

Anthony DiGuiseppeBenjamin Krevolin Michael and Ruth LammJeffrey LangFred and Jean LeventhalAmala and Eric LevineWilliam Li and James OatesWalter LippincottNeil and Joan LiptonHarvey MarekFlorence MayneDr. Naomi MendelsohnEdie Michelson and

Sumner MilenderTom Williams and Naomi Miller

Susan MillmanSheila M. Moloney ’84 and

Prof. John PruittMichael J. MoranAvria MorrisJoanne and Richard MrstikNancy NewallJill ObrigRobert M. OsborneEdward ParranGary PatrikMary Jane PelusoMark PodlaseckDavid Pozorski and Anna RomanskiSerena RattazziBetty RauchYael Ravin and Howard SacharHarry ReingoldBarbara B. ReisRichard ReiserArlene RichardsEstelle RosenPhyllis RossEdith M. and F. Karl SchoenbornMr. and Mrs. Thomas SchwabMarc SchweigSusan SeidelFrank SelfElizabeth A. SimonBernard SklarNadine Bertin StearnsDr. Sanford B. SterliebMaxine SwartzLuRaye TateRay Tekosky Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth TelljohannJaneth L. ThoronMish TworkowskiLeopold Quarles van UffordIrene Vitau Robert WaskiewiczJoan E. WebermanRoger WesbyCharles WesslerArthur WeyheDr. Konrad and Victoria WicherErnest WurzbachRobert and Lynda YoumansMike and Kathy ZdebWilliam C. ZifchakRena Zurofsky

Current as of June 12, 2008

BenefactorHelen and Roger Alcaly American Elgar FoundationMarina Belica and Steven LowyHelen ’48 and Robert BernsteinMr. and Mrs. John K. CastleJoan K. DavidsonRobert C. Edmonds ’68

Elizabeth W. Ely ’65 and Jonathan K. Greenburg

FMH FoundationFurthermore FoundationThe Ann & Gordon Getty FoundationLinda Hirshman and David ForkoshAnne E. ImpellizzeriThe J. M. Kaplan Fund, Inc.Peter ’66 and Barbara KennerAmy and Thomas O. MaggsMarstrand FoundationJoanna M. MigdalAndrea and Kenneth L. MironNew York State Council on the Arts

(NYSCA)Jane W. Nuhn Charitable TrustRalph E. Ogden Foundation, IncThe Overbrook FoundationDimitri B. and Rania PapadimitriouDrs. Gabrielle H. Reem and

Herbert J. KaydenSantander Cental HispanoDavid E. Schwab II ’52 and

Ruth Schwartz Schwab ’52

Denise S. Simon and Paulo Vieira da Cunha

The Slovin FoundationBruce and Francesca SlovinMartin T. and Toni SosnoffMartin & Toni Sosnoff FoundationH. Peter Stern and

Helen Drutt EnglishThe Stevenson GroupThorne and Tucker TaylorMargo and Anthony Viscusi

Dr. Siri von ReisRosalind C. Whitehead The Wise Charitable FoundationMillie and Robert Wise

PatronABC FoundationEdwin L. Artzt and Marieluise HesselMr. and Mrs. Ronald AtkinsKathleen and Roland AugustineGale and Sheldon BaimAlec and Margaret BancroftBank of New York Company, Inc.Leonie BatkinCarolyn Marks BlackwoodSarah Botstein and Bryan DoerriesCraig and Gloria CallenLydia ChapinConstance and David C. ClappDavid C. Clapp FoundationMichelle R. ClaymanJ. T. ComptonDasein FoundationMr. and Mrs. Arnold J. Davis ’44

Barbara and Richard DebsThe Debs FoundationMichael Del Giudice and Jaynne KeyesJohn A. DierdorffAmy K. and David DubinInes Elskop and Christopher ScholzCarlos Gonzalez and

Katherine StewartMr. and Mrs. Jay M. GwynneEliot D. and Paula K. HawkinsDr. Barbara K. HoganFrederic K. and Elena HowardHSBC Philanthropic ProgramsDr. and Mrs. Bertrand R. JacobsSusan JonasRachel and Dr. Shalom KalnickiBelinda and Stephen KayeAngela O. B. de Mello Keesee and

Thomas W. Keesee III

Martha and George KellnerSusan and Roger KennedyRuth and René SchnetzlerSeymour and Harriet KoenigAlison L. and John C. LankenauMr. and Mrs. Gonzalo de las HerasAlfred J. Law and

Glenda A. Fowler LawLemberg Foundation, Inc.Amala and Eric LevineBarbara and S. Jay LevyCynthia Hirsch Levy ’65

Patti and Murray LiebowitzMartin S. LippmanDouglas S. and Sarah Mullen LukeStephen Mazoh and Martin KlineW. Patrick McMullan and

Rachel McPhersonJames D. McMurtry III, M.D.Metropolitan Life Foundation

Matching Gift ProgramKen and Linda MortensonMartin L. Murray and

Lucy Miller MurrayNewman’s Own FoundationBeatrice PerryCynthia H. and Leon B. PolskyEve ProppEve Propp Family Foundation, Inc.Barbara B. ReisDrs. M. Susan and Irwin RichmanFlorence and Robert RosenDrs. Morton and Shirley RosenbergBlanche and Bruce RubinThe Schwab Charitable Fund*Arlene and Edwin Steinberg George L. Steiner and

R. Mardel FehrenbachStewart’s ShopsSarah and Howard SolomonAllan and Ronnie StreichlerDrs. Richard and Katherine TobeyMark Trujillo

Friends of the Bard Music Festival

Events in this year’s Bard MusicFestival are underwritten in part byspecial gifts from

Bettina Baruch Foundation Jeanne Donovan FisherMrs. Mortimer LevittJames H. Ottaway Jr.Felicitas S. ThorneFestival Underwriters

Mimi LevittOpening Night DinnerGuest ArtistsFilms

Joanna M. MigdalPanel Discussions

Andrea and Kenneth L. MironMargo and Anthony ViscusiPreconcert Talks

Furthermore FoundationFestival Book

Roger and Helen AlcalyFestival Program

Homeland FoundationBard Music Festival Preview at

Wethersfield

New York State Council on the ArtsNational Endowment for the Arts

Leadership SupportThe Christian A. Johnson Endeavor

Foundation

Golden CircleBettina Baruch FoundationJeanne Donovan FisherHomeland Foundation, Inc.Mrs. Mortimer LevittThe Mortimer Levitt

Foundation, Inc.The Andrew W. Mellon FoundationNational Endowment for the Arts

(NEA)Mr. and Mrs. James H. Ottaway Jr.Felicitas S. ThorneElizabeth and E. Lisk Wyckoff Jr

Donors to the Bard Music Festival

Phebe Thorne and Paul WilcoxElizabeth Farran Tozer and

W. James Tozer Jr.Illiana Van MeeterenAida and Albert WilderWilliam C. Zifchak

SponsorRichard A. AhlbeckIrene and Jack BanningPhebe and George BantaDidi and David BarrettMr. and Mrs. Andy BellinElizabeth and Marco M. S. BellinJudith and Steven BenardeteAnne D. BodnarMark E. BrossmanDavid C BrownHugo M. J. Cassirer and Sarah ButtrickKaren and Everett CookPhillip S. CookeBob and Kate DenningAndrea and Willem F. De VogelTambra DillonRt. Rev. Herbert A. and Mary DonovanCornelia Z. and Timothy ElandShepard and Jane EllenbergLeslie Farhangi and John TukeGregory M. FiskOlivia Fussell and Francis FinlayDonald C. FresneHelena and Christopher GibbsEllen Berland GibbsDavid and Nancy HathawaySamuel and Ronni HeymanPamela HowardI.B.M. Matching Grants ProgramEdith and Hamilton F. KeanJohn and Karen KloppDr. Susan Krysiewicz and Thomas BellHelena LeeNancy and Robert LindsayJohn and Debra MorrisonMr. and Mrs. Gordon B. PatteeMr. and Mrs. Frederick PaytonEllen Kaplan Perless ’63 and

Robert PerlessRenee Petrofes and Gerry McNamaraSamuel and Ellen PhelanEugenia and Martin RevsonThe Martin Revson Foundation Inc.Schulte Roth and Zabel LLPDavid A. SchulzPeter Schwalbe and Jody SoltanoffDorothy and John SpragueBarbara and Donald ToberHelen and Michiel van der VoortAnne WhiteheadThe Whitehead Foundation

SupporterMunir and Susan Abu-HaidarLaura and Peter ArmstrongZelda Aronstein and Norman EisnerElizabeth and Henry BakerAntonia Bakker-SalvatoKaren H. Bechtel

Carole and Gary BellerBeth and Jerry BierbaumMr. and Mrs. David BovaMr. and Mrs. William B. BrannanDan F. and Nancy BrownJohn C. D. BrunoKate Buckley and Tony PellMelva Bucksbaum and

Raymond LearsyPhilip and Mimi CarrollDiane and Peter ChapmanAnn and John CoffinFrederick and Jan CohenJames and Lea G. CornellDr. Jasmine and Mr. Kenneth CowinRhana and Louis DavidsonDaniel DietrichDorothy and Seth DubinPeter Elebash and Jane RobinsonDianne EnglekeDr. Bernhard Fabricius and

Sylvia OwenIngrid and Gerald FieldsDeborah and Thomas FlexnerJohn and Patricia A. ForelleMary Ann FreeSamantha FreeDiana Hirsch Friedman ’68

Gideon I. and Sarah GartnerJohn and Ann GiffordJohn and Sarah GlaisterPeter H. GleasonMims and Burton GoldVictoria and Max GoodwinJanine M. GordonSamuel L. Gordon Jr.Fayal Greene and David J. SharpeNan and David GreenwoodSeth GrosshandlerPenelope and Mortimer HallKathy W. Hammer and

G. Arthur SeelbinderSusan Heath and Rodney PatersonEdmond B. HerringtonSusan Hoehn and Allan BahrsChristine HoeneThe Grunebaum Foundation Inc.Brian and Isis HoffmanJoan Hoffman and Syd SilvermanPamela HowardJohn R. and Joyce HupperDr. and Mrs. Gerald ImberAlexandra and Paul KasminRobert E. KausFernanda Kellogg and Kirk HendricksHopeton K. and

Richard A. Kimball, Jr.Karen Kidder and Martin HolubCharles and Katharine KingCatherine E. KinseyDr. and Mrs. Vincent KohLowell H. and Sandra A. LambE. Deane and Judith S. LeonardMr. and Mrs. Michael LevinRobert S. LevineFrederick Lee Liebolt Jr. and

Suzanne Lloyd Liebolt

Walter LippincottClara and David LondonerJeanette MacDonald and

Charles MorganPhilip and Tracey MactaggartCharles S. MaierLois Mander and Max PineClaire and Chris MannMilton MeshelSamuel C. MillerAnn Lawrance MorseIstar H. and George A. MudgeNancy H. NesleMr. and Mrs. Thomas NewberryMr. and Mrs. William T. NolanMarta E. NottebohmFrederick H. OkolowitzElizabeth J. and Sevgin OktayJames and Purcell PalmerDavid B. and Jane L. ParshallFrancine PascalEllen and Eric PetersenRenée Petrafes and Gerry McNamaraEncarnita and Robert QuinlanClaire and John ReidKatharine ReesM. C. and Eric RobertsDiane Lunt Rosenfeld and

Eric RosenfeldAlfred J. and Deirdre RossRuth and Gil ScharfDr. Paul H. Schwartz and

Lisa Barnes-SchwartzDagni and Martin SenzelJames Sheldon and

Sarah Nesbitt SheldonJ. Kevin SmithDavid and Sarah StackJessica and Peter TcherepnineDavid C. ThieringerCarole TindallCynthia M. Tripp ’01

Dr. Elisabeth TurnauerUBS Foundation Matching

Gift ProgramLoretta Van der VeerMonica WamboldArete and William WarrenPeter Caldwell and Jane WatersCharles P. WernerJack and Jill WertheimJoanna G. and Jonathan M. WhitcupNoel WhiteJohn H. Whitworth Jr.Julia and Nigel WiddowsonDoug Wingo and Tim LeggPeter and Maria WirthDonald and Taki WiseMary and John YoungDesi and Ben ZalmanMarsha and Howard Alan Zipser

FriendBarbara Joyce AgrenRev. Albert R. AhlstromBryson Ainsley Jr.Lorraine D. Alexander

AnonymousLindsay BaldwinPatricia D. BeardAlvin BeckerMarge and Edward BlaineHelen W. BlodgettTimothy BontecouTeresa BrennanJeannette and David BrownSchuyler G. ChapinDiane ChapmanChubb & Son Inc.

Matching Gift ProgramAnne A. and Farnham CollinsJean T. CookJoseph CrowleyEmily M. Darrow and

Brendon P. McCraneNancy A. DemattoJackie DrexelMiriam EavesPeter EdelmanJane and Shepard EllenbergRuth EngPatricia FalkHarold FarbermanArthur L. FenaroliClark Ferguson and Suzy WolbergDavid and Tracy FinnMartha J. FleischmanLuisa E. FlynnJohn P. ForemanAllan FreedmanEmily FullerSusan Howe GillespieAnne GillisGilberte Vansintejan Glaser and

William A. GlaserJoel and Ellen GoldinAnne and Stanley L. Gordon

Thurston GreeneNan and David GreenwoodDavid A. HarrisSusan Heath and Rodney PatersonDorothy and Leo HellermanFritz and Nancy HenzeDavid O. HermanJuliet HeyerElizabeth D. and Robert HottensenNeil IsabelleJack and Mary JohnsonJay JollyJohn KanderRod and Caroline KeatingRichard P. KeliskyDonna KermeenDavid and Janet E. KettlerDiana Niles KingThea KlirosPeter Kuhlmann and Diane GilmourBeth LedyGerald LewisM Group, LLCHermes Mallea and Carey MaloneyAnnette S. and Paul N. MarcusHarvey MarekElizabeth MavroleonEllen McGrath, Ph.D.The McGraw-Hill Companies

Matching Gift ProgramJohn McNallyMargaret M. and

Raymond E. Meagher Jr.Sumner MilenderDeborah D. MontgomeryArvia MorrisPolly Murphy and Tim PiersonHarold J. and Helen C. NoahMarilyn and Peter OswaldGary S. Patrik

Mona PaytonDr. Alice R. PisciottoD. Miles PriceLillian Pyne-CorbinRobert B. RecknagelGeorge Reeke and Gail Hunt ReekeBarbara ReisLinda M. RoyaltyTed Ruthizer and Jane DenkensohnBernard and Harriet SadowSheila SandersMolly SchaeferRhoda and Edward SchallJay Marc SchwammFrederick W. Schwerin Jr.Anne SelingerReginald W. SmithJoel SteinMim and Leonard SteinS. B. Sternlieb, M.D.Nadine Bertin StearnsDorit StrausGladys R. ThomasRobert G. ThomasJames ThompsonJaneth L. ThoronDorsey WaxterDr. and Mrs. Stanley WeinstockMuriel Casper Weithorn and

Stanley WeithornAmy K. WhiteHelen WhitneyMarietta W. WhittleseyBetsy Zimring

* DeceasedCurrent as of June 12, 2008

Donors to the Mrs. Mortimer Levitt Endowment Fund for the Performing Arts

Bettina Baruch Foundation Helen and Kenneth Blackburn Leon Botstein Dr. Richard Brockman John A. Dierdorff Robert C. Edmonds ‘68

Jeanne Donovan Fisher Gideon I. Gartner Helena and Christopher GibbsElizabeth W. Ely ’65 and

Jonathan K. GreenburgInes Elskop and Christopher ScholzSamuel and Ronni HeymanAnne E. Impellizzeri Rosalind G. Jacobs

Peter ’66 and Barbara Kenner Louise Kerz-Hirschfeld Mr. and Mrs. Roger LeiferMimi Levitt Frayda B. and George Lindemann Amy and Thomas O. Maggs Katherine Gould-Martin and

Robert L. MartinMetropolitan Life Foundation

Matching Gift Program Joanna M. Migdal Martin L. and Lucy Miller Murray Florence F. Moffitt The Mortimer Levitt Foundation, Inc.Mr. and Mrs. James H. Ottaway Jr.

Debra R. Pemstein and Dean Vallas David E. Schwab II ’52 and

Ruth Schwartz Schwab ’52

Raissa St. Pierre ’87

Ted and Voda Stanley Joanne M. Stern Thorne and Tucker Taylor Felicitas S. Thorne Margo and Anthony Viscusi Irene Zedlacher Dr. Siri von Reis

Current as of June 12, 2008

Board and Administration for The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College

Fisher Center Advisory BoardJeanne Donovan Fisher, ChairLeon Botstein+

Carolyn Marks BlackwoodStefano FerrariHarvey LichtensteinPeter J. Linden, M.D.Robert Martin+

James H. Ottaway Jr.Dimitri B. Papadimitriou+

David E. Schwab II ’52

Martin T. SosnoffToni SosnoffFelicitas S. Thorne

Fisher Center AdministrationTambra DillonExecutive DirectorNancy CookGeneral ManagerSusana MeyerAssociate DirectorDebra PemsteinVice President for Development andAlumni/ae AffairsGinger ShoreDirector of PublicationsMark PrimoffDirector of CommunicationsStephen MillikinDevelopment ManagerKimberly Keeley-HenschelBudget DirectorRobert AirhartProduction Manager

Paul LaBarberaSound and Video EngineerStephen DeanStage Operations ManagerMark CrittendenFacilities ManagerJeannie SchneiderAdministrative AssistantElena BattBox Office ManagerAustin Miller ’06

Assistant General Manager and House ManagerRay StegnerAssistant to the General ManagerDoug PitcherBuilding Operations Coordinator+ ex officio

Board and Administration of Bard College

Board of Trustees of Bard CollegeDavid E. Schwab II ’52, Chair EmeritusCharles P. Stevenson Jr., ChairEmily H. Fisher, Second Vice ChairElizabeth Ely ’65, SecretaryRoland J. Augustine, Treasurer

Fiona AngeliniLeon Botstein President of the College+

David C. ClappMarcelle Clements ’69*The Rt. Rev. Herbert A. Donovan Jr.Honorary TrusteeAsher B. Edelman ’61*Robert S. Epstein ’63*Barbara S. Grossman ’73*Sally HambrechtErnest F. Henderson IIILife TrusteeMarieluise HesselJohn C. Honey ’39* Life TrusteeCharles S. Johnson III ’70

Mark N. KaplanGeorge A. Kellner

Cynthia Hirsch Levy ’65

Murray LiebowitzMarc S. LipschultzPeter H. Maguire ’88

James H. Ottaway Jr.Martin PeretzBruce C. RatnerStanley A. Reichel ’65

Stewart ResnickRoger N. Scotland ’93

Martin T. SosnoffSusan WeberPatricia Ross Weis ’52

Bard College AdministrationLeon BotsteinPresidentDimitri B. Papadimitriou Executive Vice PresidentMichèle D. Dominy Dean of the CollegeRobert L. Martin Vice President for Academic Affairs;Director, Bard College Conservatory of MusicJames Brudvig Vice President for Administration

Debra Pemstein Vice President for Development andAlumni/ae AffairsMary Backlund Vice President for Student AffairsNorton Batkin Dean of Graduate StudiesErin CanaanDean of StudentsPeter GadsbyRegistrarGinger Shore Director of PublicationsMary Smith Art Director of PublicationsMark PrimoffDirector of CommunicationsKevin ParkerControllerJeffrey KatzDean of Information ServicesJudith SamoffDean of Programs

+ ex officio * alumni/ae trustee

Board and Administration of the Bard Music Festival

Robert C. Edmonds ‘68, ChairRoger AlcalyLeon Botstein+

Schuyler ChapinJohn A. DierdorffJeanne Donovan FisherChristopher H. Gibbs+

Jonathan K. GreenburgPaula K. HawkinsMichael Andrew HerzbergLinda HirshmanAnne E. ImpellizzeriPeter Kenner ‘66

Mimi LevittThomas O. MaggsRobert Martin+

Joanna M. MigdalLucy Miller MurrayKenneth L. MironChristina A. MohrJames H. Ottaway, Jr.David E. Schwab II ‘52

Denise SimonH. Peter SternTucker TaylorFelicitas S. ThorneAnthony ViscusiSiri von ReisE. Lisk Wyckoff

Artistic DirectorsLeon BotsteinChristopher H. GibbsRobert Martin

Executive DirectorIrene Zedlacher

Associate DirectorRaissa St. Pierre ’87

Scholar in Residence 2008

Simon Morrison

Program Committee 2008

Byron AdamsLeon BotsteinChristopher H. GibbsRobert MartinSimon MorrisonRichard WilsonIrene Zedlacher

Operations ManagerConor Brown ’11

Administrative AssistantChristina Kaminski

DevelopmentDebra PemsteinAndrea GuidoStephen Millikin

PublicationsGinger Shore

Public RelationsMark Primoff

Director of ChorusesJames Bagwell

Vocal Casting ConsultantSusana Meyer

Stage ManagerCynthia Baker

Transportation DirectorEdward W. Schmidt

+ ex officio

Bard College is an independent, nonsectarian, residential, coeducational college offering a four-year B.A. pro-gram in the liberal arts and sciences and a five-year B.S./B.A. degree in economics and finance. Bard and itsaffiliated institutions also grant the following degrees: A.A. at Bard High School Early College, a New YorkCity public school in Manhattan; A.A. and B.A. at Bard College at Simon’s Rock: The Early College in GreatBarrington, Massachusetts; B.A. at Smolny College, a joint program with Saint Petersburg State University,Russia; M.F.A., M.S. in environmental policy, and M.A. in teaching and curatorial studies at the Annandalecampus; and M.A. and Ph.D. in the history of the decorative arts, design, and culture at The Bard GraduateCenter for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture in Manhattan. In addition, The Bard CollegeConservatory of Music offers a five-year program in which students pursue a dual degree, a B.Music and aB.A. in a field other than music; and an M.Music degree in vocal arts.

Situated on 540 acres along the Hudson River, the main campus of Bard is 90 miles north of New York City.Bard’s total enrollment is 3,200 students. The undergraduate college, founded in 1860, has an enrollment ofmore than 1,600 and a student-to-faculty ratio of 9:1. The College offers approximately 50 academic pro-grams in four divisions.

Published by the Bard Publications Office ©2008 Bard College. All rights reserved.

About Bard College

Cover: Portrait of the producer Vsevolod Emilievich Meyerhold, 1916, by Boris Dmitrievich Grigoriev. State Russian Museum,St. Petersburg, Russia / The Bridgeman Art Library

AdministrationTambra DillonExecutive DirectorNancy CookGeneral ManagerSusana MeyerAssociate DirectorDebra PemsteinVice President for Development andAlumni/ae AffairsMark PrimoffDirector of CommunicationsStephen MillikinDevelopment ManagerKimberly Keeley-HenschelBudget DirectorJeannie SchneiderAdministrative Assistant

ProductionRobert AirhartProduction ManagerBonnie AnthonyAssistant Production ManagerStephen DeanStage Operations SupervisorAlexandra PaullShopper / BuyerValerie Ellithorpe ’09

Student Production AssistantJesse Brown ’10

Student Production AssistantBernard Gann ’08

Student Production Assistant

CarpentersVincent RocaTechnical Director, Sosnoff Kent CyrTechnical Director T2

Michael ZallyMaster Carpenter, SosnoffChristian CrumbMaster Carpenter T2

Daniel GibbonsMaster Carpenter, SpiegeltentJosh HanerRiggerBen JohnsonSean MaloneyEmil ByrneJosh HanerJeremiah BrownTodd RenadetteWalter DanielsJoseph PuglisiRoger MannJeremiah BrownMichael D’AmatoAmy Jonas

ElectricsAndrew HillLighting DirectorBrandon KoenigAssistant Master Electrician, SosnoffJoshua ForemanMaster Electrician T2

Walter DanielsMaster Electrician, SpiegeltentPaul FrydrychowskiProgrammerMorgan BlaicheSarah FrankelPatric Bova ’11

Stephanie ShechterDevon Buteau ’10

Claire Moodey ’08

Sound and VideoPaul LaBarberaSound and Video EngineerPhillip Meir Siblo–Landsman ’09

Richard PiersonDaniel BerlinSarah EvenJeff HumanTony Van NoteBenjamin Seligman ’09

Sharlyne Shlayan

CostumesMary GrusakCostume Shop Supervisor / ManagerMolly FarleyFirst HandJennifer NoeDraperChristopher SchrammDraper

Brie FurchesWardrobe Supervisor, Sosnoff Maggie BarnettWardrobe Supervisor T2

Moe SchellAlice BroughtonLauren ZuberTaylor MortonKara MaloneyCamille SuissaLianna Fox–WinokurZoe GreeneElizabeth Farley

PropertiesRick BergerProperty Master, SosnoffJeremy LydicProperty Master, T2

Patty Dynes

Hair and MakeupJennifer DonovanHair and Makeup Supervisor

SpiegelmaestroNicholas Quaife

Company ManagementKate PfefferCompany ManagerJack Byerly ’10

Assistant Company ManagerGrace Converse ’09

Assistant Company ManagerKaty Kelleher ’09

Assistant Company ManagerAshleigh McCord ’08

Assistant Company Manager

Front of HouseAustin Miller ’06

House ManagerElena BattBox Office ManagerJessica DeeAssisant Box Office ManagerCaitlyn DeRoseBox Office Assisant Thomas CorradoBox Office AssistantAllegra Gilfenbaum ’10

Box Office AssistantAnatole Hocek ’12

Box Office AssistantCarl Kranz ’08

Box Office AssistantRuth Shannon ’08

Box Office AssistantChristopher HazenbushAssistant House ManagerChristina ReitemeyerAssistant House Manager

FacilitiesMark CrittendenFacilities ManagerRay StegnerAssistant to the General ManagerDoug PitcherBuilding Operations CoordinatorVicki ChildHousekeepingPaul DaveyHousekeepingJessie WilliamsHousekeeping

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BECOME A FRIEND OF THE FISHER CENTER TODAY!Since opening in 2003, the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts has transformed cultural life in theHudson Valley with world-class programming. Our continued success relies heavily on individuals such asyou. Become a Friend of the Fisher Center today.

Friends of the Fisher Center membership is designed to give individual donors the opportunity to supporttheir favorite programs through the Fisher Center Council or Bard Music Festival Council. As a Friend of theFisher Center, you will enjoy a behind-the-scenes look at Fisher Center presentations and receive invitationsto special events and services throughout the year.

Please return your donation to:

Stephen MillikinRichard B. Fisher Center forthe Performing Arts

Bard CollegePO Box 5000

Annandale-on-Hudson, NY12504

Friend ($100–249)• Advance notice of programming• Free tour of the Fisher Center• Listing in the program ($5 of donation is not tax

deductible)

Supporter ($250–499) All of the above, plus:• Invitation for you and a guest to a season preview event• Invitations to opening night receptions with the artists• Invitation for you and a guest to a select dress rehearsal

($5 of donation is not tax deductible)

Sponsor ($500–999) All of the above, plus:• Copy of the Bard Music Festival book• Invitation for you and a guest to a backstage technical

demonstration ($40 of donation is not tax deductible)

Patron ($1,000–4,999) All of the above, plus:• Invitation for you and a guest to a dinner at a

Hudson River home• Exclusive telephone line for Patron Priority handling of

ticket orders ($150 of donation is not tax deductible)

Producer/Benefactor ($5,000+) All of the above, plus:• Seat naming opportunity• Invitations to special events scheduled throughout

the year• Opportunity to underwrite events ($230 of donation is

not tax deductible)

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