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Mount Baker Theatre StaffExecutive Director: Brad BurdickFinance Director: Sharon CassidyMarketing Director: Amy GuerraFacilities Director: Jim ZoehrerDevelopment Director: John PurdieAssociate Director - Corporate Development: John SchapiroAssociate Director of Development: Kristin CostanzaGraphic Design Manager: Beth MelvinE-Marketing Specialist: Caitlyn KleinTicketing Manager: Katharine Conrad Asst. Ticketing Manager: Stephanie BlankersTicketing Reps: Zoe Bronstein, Madyson Ellars, Kyle Manske, Priscilla Nyx, Lauren Peterson, Kasey VanderPolProgram Manager: Alison C. TerryHouse Manager: Caleb KleinEvent Managers: Aubrey Kornelis, Caitlyn WardLead Technicians: Toff er Eriksen, Randy Storms Executive Assistant: Cindi PreeCustodial & Maintenance Head: Glenn Curtright

Board of DirectorsEdwin H. (Skip) Williams – President Steve Kimberley - Vice-PresidentMary Patterson – SecretaryWendy Wixson - TreasurerJohn Pedlow - Past PresidentCristin BrownDennis CatrellPeg LarsonMartha (Martie) LopezRick LukeFrank (Sandy) McIntirePhyllis McKeeTom PhillipsAndrew SonaMegan Stanfi eld Teresa Th ornbergMichael Lilliquist - Ex-Offi cioEvelyn Turner - Ex-Offi cio

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Musical Direction – Joseph Thalken

Conceived and Directed by – Scott Wittman

Dialogue by Je� rey Richman and Patti LuPone

This concert is performed in loving memory of its co-creator, Dick Gallagher

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PATTI LuPONE will appear as Dr. Seward in the upcoming season of the Showtime series “Penny Dreadful” and star as Helena Rubinstein in the world premiere of the new Scott Frankel-Michael Korey-Douglas Wright musical War Paint  at Chicago’s Goodman Th eatre this summer. In addition to tonight’s concert she also tours in three other one-woman concerts: Th e Gypsy in My Soul, Matters of the Heart, and Far Away Places. STAGE: New York –Anna 1 in New York City Ballet’s new production of Brecht-Weill’s Th e Seven Deadly Sins, Joanne in Company (NY Philharmonic), Th e Anarchist,  Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations), Gypsy (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Drama League Awards), John Doyle’s production of Sweeney Todd (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer

Critics Circle Award nominations), Passion, Candide, Can Can, Noises Off , Sweeney Todd (NY Philharmonic), Th e Old Neighborhood, Master Class, Patti LuPone on Broadway (Outer Critics Circle Award), Pal Joey, Anything Goes (Drama Desk Award; Tony nomination),  Oliver!, Accidental Death of An Anarchist, Th e Woods,  Edmond, Th e Cradle Will Rock, Evita (Tony and Drama Desk Awards), Working, Th e Water Engine, Th e Robber Bridegroom (Tony and Drama Desk nominations).    London - Matters of the Heart, Master Class, Sunset Boulevard (Olivier Award nomination) and  Les Misérables (RSC world premiere production), and Th e Cradle Will Rock  (Olivier Award for her performances in both productions).  OPERA: most recently John Corigliano’s Th e Ghosts of Versailles (Los Angeles Opera), Jake Heggie’s To Hell

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and Back (San Francisco’s Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra), Weill-Brecht’s The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Los Angeles Opera, debut), and Marc Blitzstein’s Regina (The Kennedy Center).  FILM: Parker, Union Square, City By The Sea, David Mamet’s Heist and State and Main, Just Looking, Summer of Sam, Driving Miss Daisy, Witness. TV: “Penny Dreadful” (Critics Choice Award nomination),  “Girls,” “American Horror Story: Coven,” “30 Rock,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Glee,“ “Ugly Betty,” “Will & Grace,” the Emmy winning

telecasts of “Passion” and “Sweeney Todd,” “Oz,” “Monday Night Mayhem,” “Evening At the Pops” with John Williams and Yo Yo Ma,  “Frasier” (Emmy nomination), “Law & Order,” “The Water Engine,” “L.B.J,” and “Life Goes On.”  RECORDINGS: Patti LuPone Live; Heatwave with John Mauceri and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra; Pal Joey; Matters of the Heart; Sweeney Todd (NY Philharmonic’s Special Editions label);  the 2006 and 2008 recordings of Sweeney Todd and Gypsy; the Ghostlight Records release of The Lady With The Torch;  Patti LuPone at Les Mouches, a digitally re-mastered live performance CD of her now-legendary 1980 nightclub act; and Far Away Places.  She is a founding member of the Drama Division of The Juilliard School and a founding member of John Houseman’s The Acting Company.  

JOSEPH THALKEN is an award-winning composer whose work includes the musicals  Harold  and  Maude  (book and lyrics by Tom Jones), Was (book and lyrics by Barry Kleinbort),  And the Curtain Rises (book by Michael Slade, lyrics by Mark Campbell), and  Borrowed Dust  (book and lyrics by Martin Moran). The Shen Family Foundation included Mr. Thalken in their Musical Theater Composers Initiative, a select group, including the legendary Stephen Sondheim that has received grants and commissions to create new works and expand the musical theater art form. On Broadway, Mr. Thalken served as conductor for Victor/Victoria with Julie Andrews and Liza Minnelli, and for  Gypsy  with Patti LuPone.  As a pianist or conductor, he has worked with Bernadette Peters, Barry Manilow, Polly Bergen, Kristin Chenoweth, Brian Stokes Mitchell, opera stars Denyce Graves, Catherine Malfitano and Elizabeth Futral, and acclaimed violinist Joshua Bell, among others.  He has provided orchestrations for albums of Patti LuPone, Marin Mazzie & Jason Danieley, Rebecca Luker, Howard McGillin, Kathy Lee Gifford, Nathan Gunn, and Judy Collins and he can be heard as a pianist on a number of Broadway cast albums. 

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Mount Baker Theatre gratefully acknowledges the generous members and donors who make our programming possible.

Theatre Members$10,000+ (Platinum Circle)Bob & Gwen BrimJane & Terry CartenMary* & D. Pat PattersonJohn* & Joyce Pedlow

Community Fund of the Whatcom Community Foundation

John & Loi Walton

$5,000+ (Gold Circle)Teresa Th ornberg* &

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