New PhilharmonicKirk Muspratt, Artistic Director and Music Director

40th Season 2016–2017

The Mikado Libretto by Music by W. S. Gilbert Arthur Sullivan

Music Director and Conductor Stage Director Kirk Muspratt Michael LaTour

General ManagerPaula Cebula

Stage ManagerCathryn Bulicek

Associate ConductorBenjamin Nadel

AccompanistLisa Kristina

Scenic and Projection DesignJon Gantt

Lighting DesignElias Morales

Costume, Hair and Make-Up DesignKimberly G. Morris

Property DesignCathryn Bulicek, Jon Gantt, Kimberly G. Morris

Costumes provided by Tracy Theatre Originals, Hampton, NH

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Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017, 7:30 p.m.Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017, 3 p.m.

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CAST PRODUCTION STAFFTHE MIKADO OF JAPAN ................................................................................................Ted PickellNANKI-POO (his Son, disguised as a wandering minstrel, and in love with Yum-Yum) ......Justin BerkowitzKO-KO (Lord High Executioner of Titipu) ..............................................................Michael OrlinskyPOOH-BAH (Lord High Everything Else) ............................................................... David GovertsenPISH-TUSH (a Noble Lord) ................................................................................... Samuel HandleyThree Sisters—Wards of Ko-Ko:

YUM-YUM ..................................................................................................... Alisa JordheimPITTI-SING ..............................................................................................................Erin MollPEEP-BO ..............................................................................................................Emily Volz

KATISHA (an elderly Lady, in love with Nanki-Poo) .................................................Margaret Stoltz

Chorus of School-girls, Nobles, Guards and Servants (in alphabetical order) Ben Adair Lindsey Dondanville Arko Joe Arko Jennifer Barrett Crystal Chandler Lauren Erickson

Ryan MorrisonWilliam OrtegaArlayne PekofskeErin PosavecJoan Sporny

Supernumeraries ................................................................................... Gary Krischer, Karl Lunar

There will be a 20-minute intermission between Acts I and II.

Please disengage wristwatch alarms, beepers and cell phones.

Immediately following the performance Maestro Kirk Muspratt, as well as the cast and orchestra, cordially

invite you to participate in “Cookies with Kirk” in our lobby.

Sponsored by Brookdale Glen Ellyn.

New Philharmonic would like to thank the Iorgulescu, Rutledge and Smith families

for providing hospitality to our cast members.

Stage Manager ................................................................................................... Cathryn BulicekTechnical Director/Assistant Stage Manager ........................................................ Sabrina ZeidlerProduction Manager................................................................................................... Joe Hopper Scenic Painter ................................................................................................... Amanda HantsonLighting Programmer/Operator ............................................................................... Elias MoralesSound Engineer .......................................................................................................Ben JohnsonScenic and Lighting Assistants ............................................Mary Ahert, Mitch Allen, Jacob Coats, Charlie Dawes, Dan Sullivan, Scott Wagoner, Miles ZableStage Crew .................................................................................. Bobby Bryan, Amanda HantsonCostume Shop Manager .................................................................................. Kimberly G. MorrisCostume Shop Assistants .......................................Hannah Davis, Caroline Pelaez, Katya PospisilWardrobe Assistant .............................................................................................. Caroline PelaezSupertitles ............................................................................................................... Jan Krischer

The Mikado is set in the 1880s, in the imaginary Japanese town of Titipu.

Act IIn the courtyard of Ko-Ko’s palace

Ko-Ko and a chorus of Japanese nobles sing the praises of their culture, correcting Western stereotypes and declaring that they are gentlemen from Japan (Chorus: “If You Want to Know Who We Are”). Nanki-Poo, disguised as a ragged balladeer with a guitar, asks where he can find the maiden Yum-Yum, Ko-Ko’s ward. The nobles ask who he is. He says that he is a minstrel and demonstrates his sentimental, patriotic and seafaring songs (“A Wand’ring Minstrel I”).

Pish-Tush asks Nanki-Poo the nature of his business with Yum-Yum. The young man explains that he had fallen in love with her at first sight a year before, but she was then engaged to Ko-Ko. Nanki-Poo has since learned that Ko-Ko was condemned to death for flirting, so he has come to find her. Pish-Tush advises the young man that the emperor (“Our Great Mikado”) has wisely punished flirters, so the townspeople appointed Ko-Ko Lord High Executioner, and, since criminals must be executed in the order of their conviction, he “cannot cut off another’s head until he’s cut his own off.” Then Pooh-Bah, the Lord High Everything Else, tells Nanki-Poo that Yum-Yum will marry Ko-Ko that very day (Trio: “Young Man, Despair”).

Nanki-Poo barely has time to grieve when he is interrupted by the grand arrival of Ko-Ko himself (“Behold the Lord High Executioner!”). Ko-Ko tells the assembled crowd of his “little list of society offenders who might well be underground” and, if executed, “never would be missed” (“I’ve Got a Little List”). He then attempts to seek Pooh-Bah’s advice, in that nobleman’s multifarious official capacities, as to how much he should spend on his wedding—and how much Pooh-Bah should be “insulted” by a bribe.

Their discussion is interrupted by the arrival of a group of young women, along with Yum-Yum and her sisters, Peep-Bo and Pitti-Sing (Trio: “Three Little Maids from School”). Recognizing Nanki-Poo, they rush over to him, and Nanki-Poo blurts out to Ko-Ko that he is in love with Yum-Yum. Ko-Ko orders him removed and then introduces the girls to the lofty Pooh-Bah, who is

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offended by their giggling. The girls apologize (Quartet: “So Please You, Sir, We Much Regret”).When everyone but Yum-Yum has left, Nanki-Poo returns, declares his love, and reveals that he is really the Mikado’s son. He has had to disguise himself to avoid being married off to the elderly Katisha. Nanki-Poo tells Yum-Yum of his feelings (Duet: “Were You Not to Ko-Ko Plighted”). They kiss and depart in sorrow.

Pooh-Bah and Pish-Tush deliver a letter from the Mikado to Ko-Ko. The Mikado is disappointed with the lack of executions and threatens to abolish the office of Lord High Executioner and to lower the status of the town of Titipu to a mere village, unless somebody is beheaded within a month. Ko-Ko is technically next up for execution, as his colleagues point out, but he argues that beheading himself would, for one thing, be suicide (a capital offense) and, for another, constitute an act that he could not perform up to his own standards. Each of the three men declines the honour of the “short, sharp shock” of decapitation (Trio: “I Am So Proud”).

Nanki-Poo enters, intending to hang himself. Ko-Ko suggests that Nanki-Poo agree to be executed instead, thus standing in for Ko-Ko. Nanki-Poo agrees after some argument but only on condition that he be allowed to marry Yum-Yum immediately, with the execution to be held a month later. The townspeople enter to hear Ko-Ko’s decision: Yum-Yum is to marry Nanki-Poo. General rejoicing ensues but is interrupted by the imperious Katisha. She claims her “perjured lover, Nanki-Poo” and is about to reveal that he is the Mikado’s son when Yum-Yum incites the crowd to drown her out. Katisha vows revenge.

Act IIIn Ko-Ko’s garden and palace

Yum-Yum and her bridesmaids prepare for her wedding (“Braid the Raven Hair”). Alone, Yum-Yum soliloquizes on her own loveliness (“The Sun Whose Rays”). Pitti-Sing and Peep-Bo return and tactlessly remind Yum-Yum that her marriage is to be cut short by her husband’s execution. Nanki-Poo and Pish-Tush enter and try to cheer her up. But the merry madrigal they all sing (Quartet: “Brightly Dawns Our Wedding Day”) ends in sorrow.

Ko-Ko comes in to announce that he has discovered a law that decrees that when a married man is executed, his wife is to be buried alive. Yum-Yum begins to have second thoughts about marrying Nanki-Poo, as burial alive is “such a stuffy death.” But if she backs out, she faces the equally unpleasant prospect of marrying Ko-Ko (Trio: “Here’s a How-de-do!”).

Nanki-Poo again threatens to commit suicide, but Ko-Ko cannot allow that—if he does not officially execute Nanki-Poo within a month, he will have to execute himself. So Nanki-Poo urges Ko-Ko to execute him immediately, but Ko-Ko is too squeamish to do it. Ko-Ko then hits on the idea of making a false affidavit stating that Nanki-Poo has already been executed. He agrees that Nanki-Poo and Yum-Yum can be married at once, as long as they leave for good.

A procession enters announcing the arrival of the Mikado, who is accompanied by the fearsome Katisha, “his daughter-in-law elect.” The Mikado boasts:

My object all sublimeI shall achieve in time— To let the punishment fit the crime.

Ko-Ko assures the Mikado that the execution he ordered has just taken place, with corroboration from Pitti-Sing and Pooh-Bah (Quartet: “The Criminal Cried”). Although the Mikado is pleased to hear this, his real purpose in coming is to find his son, who is using the name Nanki-Poo. In a panic, Ko-Ko declares that he has gone abroad—to Knightsbridge. But Katisha cries out in anguish as she spots Nanki-Poo’s name on the death certificate. Ko-Ko and his confederates abjectly apologize. The Mikado excuses them—after all, his son was in disguise, and the town’s leaders were anxious to abide by his order for an execution—but he reminds them that killing the heir apparent has consequences nonetheless and requires a punishment that is “something humorous, but lingering, with either boiling oil or melted lead.”

After the Mikado and Katisha depart, Nanki-Poo and Yum-Yum appear; they are on their way to their honeymoon. Ko-Ko declares that Nanki-Poo is reprieved, but the young man refuses “to come back to life” unless Ko-Ko takes Katisha off his hands by marrying her. Then life will be good (Quintet: “The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring”). Dancing, everyone leaves.

Katisha enters and soliloquizes on her lonely state (“Alone, and Yet Alive”). Ko-Ko arrives and begins to woo her passionately. When she resists, he tells the sad tale of a bird’s unrequited love (“Tit-Willow”). Katisha, greatly affected, yields to Ko-Ko’s plea and coyly asks if he will not hate her for being “a little teeny weeny wee bit bloodthirsty.” Ko-Ko reassures her, and they celebrate before dancing off together (Duet: “There Is Beauty in the Bellow of the Blast”).

The Mikado and the townspeople return for the execution of Ko-Ko, Pitti-Sing, and Pooh-Bah. But Katisha pleads for mercy for Ko-Ko, whom she has just married, and for the others. The Mikado hesitates because he believes they executed his son, but Nanki-Poo appears. Katisha erupts in fury. Ko-Ko then defuses the situation in an ingenious way. When the Mikado says, “‘Let a thing be done,’ it’s as good as done,” declares Ko-Ko, so why not simply state that the execution has been completed? The Mikado finds the curious logic satisfactory and then commutes Ko-Ko’s sentence from death to life with Katisha. With everyone reconciled and content, the people of Titipu rejoice and celebrate the marriage of Nanki-Poo and Yum-Yum.

~Written by Betsy Schwarm, Linda CantoniEncyclopedia Britannica

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Justin Berkowitz (NANKI-POO) tenor, from Chicago, noted for his “bright future in bel canto” as well as his “exciting and dynamic” performances. His 2016 season began with his debut with Central City Opera as

a Bonfils-Stanton Apprentice Artist, where he performed several roles in The Ballad of Baby Doe. In addition to his performances here, his season includes appearances as Dr. Cajus in Falstaff with Opera on the James and as Jack in Into the Woods with St. Petersburg Opera. Additionally, Berkowitz appeared with the Janesville Symphony for their performances of Bach’s Magnificat. Previous seasons have found him on the operatic stage in residencies with Chicago Opera Theater, St. Petersburg Opera, Opera Naples, and Ohio Light Opera, among others. Favorite roles include Candide in Candide, The Male Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia, the Tanzmeister in Ariadne auf Naxos, Beppe in Pagliacci, Dr. Cajus in Falstaff and Ralph Rackstraw in HMS Pinafore. On the concert stage, Berkowitz has been featured as a soloist in with Naples Philharmonic, Northwest Indiana Symphony, Annapolis Choral Society, and Detroit Medical Symphony. Known for his interpretation of Orff’s tenor solo in Carmina Burana, Berkowitz has performed the piece throughout the Midwest, including engagements with the University of Michigan, Michigan Glee Clubs, Chicago Gay Men’s Chorus, Northwestern University, Osh Kosh Symphony and Dudley Birder Chorale. He received his bachelor’s degree from Lawrence University in Voice and English, and his master’s degree in Voice and Opera at the University of Michigan.

Chicago native David Govertsen (POOH-BAH) recently stepped in on short notice at Lyric Opera of Chicago, where he “handsomely replaced the ill Peter Rose as the producer La Roche” opposite Renée Fleming and Anne

Sophie von Otter in Capriccio. Govertsen also appeared on short notice as Arkel in Pelléas et Mélisande with the Chicago Symphony under Esa-Pekka Salonen and as a soloist in James MacMillan’s Quickening with the Grant Park Orchestra. A former member of the Ryan Center at Lyric, his other mainstage assignments have included roles in Die Zauberflöte, Boris Godunov, Werther, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Madama Butterfly, and Roméo et Juliette. He returns to Lyric this season as the Sprecher in Die Zauberflöte and Priam in Les Troyens.

Govertsen recently created the roles of David/Bonobo in Matthew Aucoin’s new opera Second Nature for Lyric Opera Unlimited. Other operatic highlights of the past season include a reprise of La Roche at Santa Fe Opera, 2nd Soldier and 5th Jew in Salome with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and the title character in Cimarosa’s Il Maestro di Capella with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. On the concert stage this season he appeared with the Madison Symphony, Fort Wayne Philharmonic, Bach Week Festival, Battle Creek Symphony, and Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra, among others. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2011 as the Herald in Otello with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Muti. Govertsen is an alumnus of both the Santa Fe Opera and Central City Opera apprentice programs and holds degrees from Northwestern University, Northern Illinois

University and College of DuPage. Locally in Chicago he has performed dozens of roles, among them the title roles in Don Giovanni, Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Pasquale, and Gianni Schicchi, the Four Villains/Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Sarastro/Die Zauberflöte, Colline/La Bohème, Basilio and Bartolo/Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Don Magnifico/La Cenerentola, Zaccaria/Nabucco, Sparafucile/Rigoletto, Padre Guardiano/La Forza del Destino, Nick Shadow/The Rake’s Progress, and Friedrich Bhaer/Little Women.

Samuel Handley (PISH-TUSH) has been praised for “his rich, burnished” voice and the “genuine emotional depth of his characterizations.” As a member of Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Ryan Opera Center, he performed more

than a dozen roles, including Quince in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Tom in Un ballo in maschera. After appearing in Il trittico at the Castleton Festival, he returned to sing Colline in La bohème with Lorin Maazel. Charles Ward of The Houston Chronicle has described his “vivid and polished singing” as “. . .leaving the audience panting.” On the symphonic stage, his deep repertoire encircles masterworks of Handel, Haydn, Bach, Beethoven, Stravinsky, Vaughan Williams and Mozart, in whose Requiem Handley has been described as “striking in the tuba mirum.”

Highlights of the 2016/17 season include a continuation of The Essential Ring as Alberich in Jonathan McPhee’s new distillation of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen with both the Lexington Symphony and Symphony New Hampshire in collaboration with the Boston Wagner Society. With Lyric Opera of Chicago and Second City, Handley covers the role of Wotan/Morgan in Longer! Louder! Wagner! He

will return to his alma mater’s home of Stevens Point, WI, as the bass soloist in Händel’s Messiah with the Central Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra. Handley will also sing Mozart’s Requiem with Sarasota Orchestra, and will join the roster of the Metropolitan Opera for Der Rosenkavalier.

In the 2015/16 season, Handley performed the role of Konrad Nachtigall in Die Meistersinger von Nürnburg with the San Francisco Opera and Alberich in The Essential Ring with the Lexington Symphony and Symphony New Hampshire. He sang the Sprecher in Opera Colorado’s production of Die Zauberflöte, and on the concert stage performed as soloist in a concert performance of Roger Waters’ opera Ça Ira with the Nashville Symphony, both in the 2014/15 season. With the Atlanta Opera, he sang Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia. He recently made his European debut (as well as his role debut) as Escamillo in a new production of Carmen with Theater Aachen. He returned to the Lyric Opera of Chicago for their production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg as Hans Folz. Handley made his Asian debut in Beijing at the National Centre for the Performing Arts as Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia, conducted by Lorin Maazel. He made his Severance Hall and Carnegie Hall debuts with The Cleveland Orchestra in performances of Salome with Franz Welser-Möst. Recent concert engagements included a return to the Santa Fe Symphony for Handel’s Messiah, and added the Requiems of Verdi and Brahms plus Mendelssohn’s Elijah to his repertoire.

Additional career highlights include Leporello in Don Giovanni with the Ryan Opera Center, Don Magnifico in La Cenerentola with the Merola Opera Program, the title role in Don Pasquale on tour with the Santa Fe Opera, Mr. Emerson in Nelson’s A Room with a View (DVD by Newport Classics), Sancho in Telemann’s Don Quichotte and Polyphemus in Acis and Galatea with Houston’s

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Mercury Baroque (KUHF records), Bottom in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Caspar in Weber’s Der Freischütz, Jaggers in Argento’s Miss Havisham’s Fire, The King in Prokofiev’s The Love for Three Oranges, Dikoy in Janác̆ek’s Katya Kabanova, and Dr. Miracle in Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann.A fervent proponent of contemporary composers, Handley has delivered several world premieres, including Wlad Marhulet’s The Property with Chicago’s Lyric Unlimited, plus the music of Scott Gendel and Dan Black with the Madison Contemporary Orchestra. He has been a guest artist with the Houston Symphony, the National Symphony with Leonard Slatkin, and the Chicago Symphony at Ravinia with James Conlon. Among his several recordings, Argento’s Casanova’s Homecoming is available through Newport Classics and the DVD of his collaboration with Peter Schickele for P. D. Q. Bach in Houston: We Have a Problem is available from Acorn Media.

Born in Memphis, TN, Handley now lives in Chicago and enjoys spending time with his wife and daughter, especially while camping, hiking, sailing, cooking and fine dining!

Lauded by the San Francisco Chronicle as “vocally resplendent” and possessing “impeccable coloratura,” soprano Alisa Jordheim (YUM-YUM) is praised for her compelling and vocally assured performances in opera, oratorio, musical theatre, both early and new music,

and recital. Jordheim returns to Florentine Opera in the 2016–17 season to the role of Lola in the world premiere and recording of Aldridge’s Sister Carrie and to the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra for Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro under the baton of Edo de Waart. She

also sings Serpetta in La finta giardiniera with On Site Opera and Atlanta Opera. Her concert performances include Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem with the Las Vegas Philharmonic and J.S. Bach’s St. John Passion with the Madison Bach Musicians. Last season, she sang her first performances of Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with the Madison Symphony Orchestra and Torke’s Book of Proverbs at the Grant Park Music Festival. She also sang The Rose in Portman’s The Little Prince with Cincinnati Chamber Opera and joined the Madison Bach Musicians for Handel’s Messiah, Greeley Philharmonic for Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and the Northwest Indiana Symphony for a program of Rodgers and Hammerstein favorites, and was presented in solo recital by the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley and Wisconsin Conservatory of Music.

Jordheim recently sang Constance in Dialogues des Carmélites at the Caramoor International Music Festival, Marzelline in Fidelio with Madison Opera, Nannetta in Falstaff with Emerald City Opera, Micaëla in Carmen with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, and Satirino in La Calisto with Cincinnati Opera, where she previously sang Zweite Knabe in Die Zauberflöte and the Page in Rigoletto. She returned to Florentine Opera as Lulu Baines in Aldridge’s Elmer Gantry after participating in the company’s studio program, where she sang numerous mainstage roles with the company including Miss Wordsworth in Albert Herring, Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro, and Frasquita in Carmen, as well as excerpts of Adina in L’elisir d’amore. She is also a former participant in San Francisco Opera’s prestigious Merola Opera program, where she sang both Lucia in The Rape of Lucretia and Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro. With Central City Opera, she sang Flora in The Turn of the Screw, Ellen in Oklahoma!, Fredrika in A Little Night Music, and Sirena in a family matinee performance of Rinaldo and received both the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation

Young Artists Training Program Award and the Young Artist Award.

On the concert stage in previous seasons, Jordheim has sung Handel’s Messiah and Bestienne in Bastien und Bestienne also with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Orff’s Carmina burana and Mozart’s Exsultate, jubilate with the Fox Valley Symphony, and J.S. Bach’s Cantata No. 29 with the Dayton Philharmonic. She also returned to Lawrence University as a guest soloist for Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem.

She holds Doctor of Music, Master of Music, and Bachelor of Music degrees from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where her roles included Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, and Echo in Ariadne auf Naxos in addition to singing Mozart’s Mass in C minor, with previous studies at Lawrence University. From The William Matheus Sullivan Musical Foundation, Jordheim won a 2016 Sullivan Foundation Award and a 2015 Sullivan Foundation Career Grant. She was awarded an American Scandinavian Foundation Fellowship and U.S. Student Fulbright Foundation Travel Grant for study of Scandinavian song and diction in Norway. She is a two-time winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council district auditions, 2015 winner of the Bel Canto Regional Artists Competition, and the second place winner of the Auditions Plus Classical Singer Vocal Competition. She is also the recipient of the Edith Newfield Scholarship in the Musicians Club of Women Scholarship Competition.

Hailed for her “fearless intensity,” “volatile commitment” (Chicago Classical Review) and “hilarious perfect comic timing” (Michael Borowitz, Opéra Louisiane), mezzo soprano Erin Moll (PITTI-SING) is an up-and-coming

young artist who brings dynamic stage presence and sincere musical artistry to the operatic and concert stage. Praised by Chicago Stage Standard for her “creamy” voice, Moll is rapidly becoming an artist to watch in the Chicago and national scene.

In the 2016–17 season, she can also be seen as Meg Page in Verdi’s Falstaff with Main Street Opera, Tisbe in Cenerentola with Opéra Louisiane, Dr. Dulcamara in the Elixir of Love (outreach) with Opera for the Young, Dorabella in Così fan tutte with Transgressive Theater-Opera, as well as Rosina (cover) in Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Mother/Grandmother in Little Red Riding Hood (outreach) with Natchez Festival of Music. She will also create the role of Austin in the world premiere recording of Ross Crean’s The Great God Pan to be released on Naxos America this summer. In August 2017, Moll will sing at the Ravinia Festival for the first time, performing with Opera for the Young.

Moll completed her studies at Illinois Wesleyan University and the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris. She enjoys working out, cooking and traveling. She currently resides in Chicago where she studies voice with Metropolitan Opera tenor, Harold Meers.

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Michael Orlinsky (KO-KO) tenor, has performed more than 50 roles in his steadfast career. He has sung primarily as a baritone, and has sung roles with many companies in the Chicagoland area. With Main

Street Opera in Chicago, he sang the roles of Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor, and The Father in Hansel and Gretel. With Kor Productions he has performed Ford in Falstaff. With VOX3 he performed the role of Henrik in Maskarade, and with North Park University, Papageno in The Magic Flute, and William Jennings Brian in The Ballad of Baby Doe. In the San Francisco Bay Area, where he currently lives, he has performed with West Edge Opera, Livermore Valley Opera (LVO), West Bay Opera, Opera San Jose, Solo Opera, Contemporary Opera Marin, the San Francisco Opera Guild (SFOG), The Lamplighters, Opera Cultura and more. Orlinsky works often with new music as a composer and performer. Along with many art songs, he has composed a Requiem. In October he premiered the role of Ullie in Allen Shearer’s Circe’s Pigs, and in February he will be performing the role of Loco in Coyotes and Rabbits! with Opera Cultura, and Sancho Panza in Don Quichotte with Island City Opera. Orlinsky earned his master’s degree in Vocal Performance at North Park University in Chicago.

Hailed for his “strong bass-baritone” and “tremendous” singing, bass-baritone Ted Pickell (THE MIKADO OF JAPAN) is a distinguished and accomplished young artist on the rise. This season, Pickell

appears as Der Vater in Hänsel und Gretel with Point Loma Opera Theatre, The Giant in Jack and the Beanstalk and Basilio in The Barber of Seville with Opera Iowa’s young artist outreach ensemble, and joins Des Moines Metro Opera’s roster of Apprentice Artists, where he will be singing Arthur Jones and covering the role of John Claggart in Billy Budd. In the 2015/16 season, Pickell debuted the roles of Blitch in Susannah and Sam in Trouble in Tahiti, and reprised his role as Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro with the Northwestern University Opera Theatre. He also debuted the role of Leporello in Don Giovanni with Point Loma Opera Theatre. On the concert stage, Pickell performed as the bass soloist in Mozart’s Requiem with Northwest Indiana Symphony. He also returned as a voice fellow to Music Academy of the West, where he performed the role of Micha in The Bartered Bride. Other notable operatic performances include The Warden in Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking and the title role in The Impresario with the Northwestern University Opera Theatre, covering Zuniga in Carmen with Music Academy of the West, Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro with the Opera Academy of California, and Mars in Orpheus in the Underworld, Falstaff in The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Armed Man in The Magic Flute, all with the University of the Pacific Opera Theatre.

He is a winner of the 2016 MONC Western Region San Diego district, the recipient of an encouragement award from the 2015 MONC Central Regional finals, a 2014 Ryan Opera Center finalist, the winner of the Anne Ferraro Stone Memorial Award from the Bel Canto Foundation, and the recipient of scholarships for excellence in vocal performance from Northwestern University and the University of the Pacific. On the concert stage Pickell has also been the featured soloist in Dougherty’s 3 Folk Songs with the Music Academy of the West, Handel’s Brocke’s Passion and Britten’s St. Cecelia at the University of the Pacific. He is a recent graduate of the Masters in Vocal Performance at Northwestern University. He received his Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from University of the Pacific.

Margaret Stoltz (KATISHA) has been teaching and singing in Chicago for the last six years. She is a proud member of the Chicago Symphony Chorus, the Grant Park Symphony and is a vocal instructor with the Alice S. Pfaelzer

Tuition-Free Conservatory program at Merit School of Music. Stoltz has sung a variety of repertoire in her career ranging from Hansel in Hansel and Gretel, Tessa in The Gondoliers, the mezzo solo in Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, and in Verdi’s Requiem, to touring elementary schools in the Midwest as Tooty Frooty, a motherly fruit basket, in Opera for the Young’s rendition of Beauty and the Beast. When she is not singing, she can be found at Lyric Opera of Chicago as a marketing associate.

Soprano Emily Volz (PEEP-BO) dazzles audiences with her high energy performances featuring warm, flexible vocals and expressive acting. A native of the Midwest corn-belt, Volz fell in love with

classical singing shortly after her aspirations of Broadway died in junior high. Most recently, Volz debuted her first full opera role as Pamina in North Park University Opera Programs presentation of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. She has previously presented partial roles including Electra from Idomeneo, Helena from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Blanche from the Dialogue of the Carmelites, Laetitia from The Old Maid and the Thief, Susanna from Susanna, and Zina from Nico Muhly’s recently composed chamber opera, Dark Sisters, a harrowing story of six women trapped in a renegade Mormon commune.

Before studying at North Park University, she decided to pursue music education at Bradley University. This led to becoming head of Metamora Township High School’s choral department and later teaching PK–8th grade General Music at St. Peter’s Catholic School.

Every summer Volz enjoys traveling back to Peoria, IL, to sing in the Peoria Bach Festival Choir under the direction of Dr. John Jost. This summer Volz pursued the opportunity to spend a month in Orvieto, Italy, studying the Art of Song, and the Italian language under the artistic direction of Nyela Basney and the vocal direction of Dr. Susan Hochmiller. You may also catch occasional summer performances with the Peoria Municipal band under the direction of Dr. David Vroman.

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In order to involve the community to the maximum, he has created “Just Ask Kirk™” cards for audience members’ questions, “Interactive Intermissions” and “Cookies with Kirk” for patrons and musicians of the orchestra, chorus and youth orchestra to meet, and a “Kirkature™” cartoon to help advocate the credo: “Symphonic music is for everyone.” He also writes monthly columns in two local newspapers during the concert season.

In July 2004, Muspratt was named both music director of New Philharmonic and artistic director/music director of DuPage Opera Theatre. In 2011, New Philharmonic was awarded “Professional Orchestra of the Year” by the Illinois Council of Orchestras. In his first nine seasons, productions at the DuPage Opera Theater featured repertoire including Faust, Otello, Tosca, Turandot, and Carmen. Repertoire at the New Philharmonic was equally adventurous, including the world premieres of the Stybr Variations for Contrabassoon and Orchestra, Taylor Firefly Orrery and Lofstrom Oboe and Harp Concertinos.

In his first months at the New Philharmonic, Muspratt instituted a Side-by-Side program for local high school students and an Interactive Intermission Project involving both the musicians of the orchestra, opera and the patrons.

From 1991 through 1996, he served as resident conductor to Lorin Maazel at the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Prior to this, he was appointed as associate conductor to Joseph Silverstein at the Utah Symphony Orchestra (1990–1992). From 1987 through 1990, he served as assistant conductor to Leonard Slatkin at the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra as well as music director of the St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra. He was music director of the Alberta Ballet from 1997 through 1999. At the New York Philharmonic, Muspratt has served as a cover conductor.

Muspratt has guest conducted the orchestras of Los Angeles, Montreal, London, Korean Broadcast

Symphony, Detroit, Rochester, National Arts Center, Vancouver, Knoxville, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, Hamilton, Victoria, New Orleans, Stamford, Binghamton, South Bend, Lafayette, Puchon, Annapolis, Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra and Baltimore Chamber Symphony.

Summer debuts have included the Tanglewood, Chautauqua and Sewanee Music Festivals. He has also conducted at the Banff Center for Performing Arts.

In Europe, he was assistant conductor in the opera houses of Monchengladbach/Krefeld, Germany, from 1985 to 1987. His American opera conducting debut came with the Utah Opera in 1991. He returned there to premiere Mascagni’s L’Amico Fritz. Maestro Muspratt has conducted Die Fledermaus for the Calgary Opera, Faust and Merry Widow for the Utah Opera, Of Mice and Men, Il Barbiere di Siviglia for the Arizona Opera and Amahl and The Night Visitors at the Opera Illinois, all to stunning critical acclaim.

In 1983 and 1984, Muspratt was invited to be a scholarship student at the Chautauqua Institute and in 1986 was selected as a Conducting Fellow at the Aspen Music Festival. A year later, he was invited into the Conducting Program at the Tanglewood Festival. In 1988, he was chosen to be one of three Conducting Fellows for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute at the Hollywood Bowl.

As a teacher, Muspratt has taught at the Conductors’ Institute of the University of South Carolina, the Conductors’ Guild National Workshops, Association of Canadian Orchestras National Conference in Toronto, the Conductors’ Studio at Illinois State University and at Westminster Choir College in Princeton. During the summer, he has taught graduate conducting classes at VanderCook College of Music, at the Northwestern University seminar for singers, and most recently at the SAI National Convention in St. Louis. Muspratt recently completed a six-

A lover of many musical genres, Volz has spent time singing and playing accordion in other music projects, including a band that played at noted Chicago-area venues like Schubas and SPACE and recorded a session for the popular Daytrotter website. She currently teaches private piano and voice lessons for Piano Power, a company that services Chicago and the North Shore.

Jennifer L. Barrett (PITTI-SING COVER), a native of the Chicago suburbs, has been praised for her character work and versatility on stage. She recently appeared as Presendia in Dark Sisters with Third Eye Theatre Ensemble,

which was named one of the top operas of 2016 by New City Stage and Vocal Arts Chicago. Other area credits include Quantum Mechanic, The Consul, Hansel and Gretel, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Cosi fan tutte, and the world premiere of The Patriots. She holds a BA in Vocal Music Education from North Central College and a MA in Vocal Pedagogy from Northeastern Illinois University. Many thanks to Pamela Hinchman, Ronald Combs, Dan Kane, and her family for their support.

Kirk Muspratt (Music Director and Conductor) was recently named a “Chicagoan of the Year” by music critic John von Rhein and the writing staff of the Chicago Tribune. In honoring Muspratt, von Rhein said, “Ask the

delighted adults and kids who flocked to his concerts...with the Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra...They will tell you he made concert going an interactive experience that was both enlightening and—are you ready?—fun.” Recognized as one of the outstanding figures in the new generation of conductors, Muspratt has garnered international critical acclaim and was hailed as a “born opera conductor” (Rheinische Post) and “a knowledgeable musician who delivers superbly controlled, gorgeously shaped readings” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). The Los Angeles Times declared, “Watch him!”

Muspratt begins his 17th highly acclaimed season as music director of the Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra. In his first 16 seasons, he has instituted several highly commended programs that include a popular Solo Competition for Children that results in a child performing at almost every Northwest Indiana Symphony concert. He has also implemented an Orchestral Fellowship Program with Valparaiso University and his vision was instrumental in founding the South Shore Summer Music Festival.

One of his most highly praised new projects at NISO has been the innovative collaborations with the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists. Together they have presented La Traviata, Die Fledermaus, Carmen and La Boheme.

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An MFA Directing graduate from the Chicago College of the Performing Arts at Roosevelt University, Michael La Tour (Stage Director) has worked professionally as an actor, singer, dancer, mime, clown, designer, choreographer, director

and producer. He is on staff at The Ryan Opera Center of The Lyric Opera of Chicago as a master teacher and stage director (The Magic Flute, The Marriage of Figaro, La Traviata, Die Fledermaus, Romeo et Juliette). He has directed for Kentucky Opera (La Boheme, Carmen, Romeo et Juliette), for DuPage Opera Theatre (Don Giovanni, Le Nozze di Figaro, Carmen, La Boheme, Elixir d’Amore), and for Opera Moda (Tartuffe, Little Women, A Month in the Country). With Peter Amster, he has co-directed and choreographed Side By Side By Sondheim for Pegasus Players, M. Butterfly for Apple Tree Theatre (After Dark Award for choreography), and the grand opening of The Harris Theatre in Millenium Park. He has directed for the Lyric’s Opera in the Neighborhoods outreach program (The Magic Flute, La Cenerentola, The Barber of Seville, The Brothers Grimm). Other teaching, directing, and choreography credits include: Shanghai Conservatory in China (Carousel), Northwestern University (Dido and Aeneas, The Fairy Queen, The Telephone, Trouble in Tahiti, Die Kluge), North Park University (The Dialogue of the Carmelites, The Medium, Gianni Schicchi, Susannah, The Beggar’s Opera, Masque of Angels, La Bella Dormente nel Bosco), Roosevelt University (Godspell, Frankenstein, Over the Rainbow), De Paul University (L’Orfeo, The Gondoliers), Carthage College (Children of Eden), Baldwin Wallace College, Marion University, original children’s shows for Emerald City Theatre Company (Noah’s Ark, Rumpelstiltzkin, Winnie the Pooh, Aladdin) and numerous musicals for Chicago area schools. Since 1975, he has directed, choreographed and performed with his own musical production company touring the United States and more

than 45 countries. Before his move to Chicago, La Tour was a member of the prestigious Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. While in L.A., he had the opportunity to create roles in seven original plays. One of these he also directed receiving two L. A. Drama-Logue Awards (directing and set design).

Cathryn “Bula” Bulicek (Stage Manager) serves as stage manager for the fall operas at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where she’s done Viva La Mamma, Les Mammelles de Tiresias, The Rape of Lucretia and Street Scene. She’s also stage managed the last nine productions for DuPage Opera Theatre, last season’s Nutcracker for Ballet Chicago and their spring performances at the Harris Theatre, and eight years of Welcome Yule with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Theater credits include the Jeff Award-winning The Doyle and Debbie Show at the Royal George & the Denver Performing Arts Center, Twisted Melodies for Congo Square Theatre, and They’re Playing Our Song at Pheasant Run. Prior to that, she stage managed Agatha Christie’s Chimneys, directed by Brian Bedford, for her second year with the annual Mystery Writers’ Festival. Her work also includes Goodman Theatre (five years), Chicago Opera Theatre (eight years), Ballet Chicago (four years), as well as the >93 Parliament of World Religions, The Essence Awards (four years), and many other productions around Chicago.

Bulicek also taught Anthropology at Northeastern Illinois University for 11 years, and is a semi-professional bassoonist, playing in (and, not surprisingly, managing) the South Loop Symphony, and the Prism Chamber Ensemble.

In addition, she is a theatrical hairdresser. Credits include the films Dhoom 3 (the 1st Bollywood film shot in Chicago) and The Road to Perdition, Barbara Eden’s hairdresser on the national tour of The Odd Couple—The Female Version, and Dorothy Loudon’s and Joan Van Patten’s stylist for Showboat, and many other shows at Chicagoland theatres.

year tenure on the board of directors of the Conductors’ Guild.

Having always enjoyed working with young people, he has conducted the Pennsylvania Regional Orchestra and the Pennsylvania All-State Orchestra. He has conducted the Boston University Tanglewood Orchestra at the Tanglewood Festival.

Muspratt has been the recipient of numerous awards, among them grants from the Canada Council and the Presser Foundation. In 1983 and again in 1984, he was winner of the Strauss Conducting Prize while a conducting student at the Vienna Conservatory. During his tenure in Utah, he received the first Utah Up’n Comers Award ever given to a classical musician. This honor was awarded for his work and involvement in the Utah Arts Community. In 1987, he was named winner of the prestigious Exxon/Affiliate Artists Award. Muspratt was named a “Professional to Watch” by the Times of Northwest Indiana in 2013.

In 2006, Muspratt was initiated as a National Arts Associate with the Lake County Alumnae Chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity. He is the first such Distinguished Member in Northwest Indiana. A National Arts Associate is a man or woman who is nationally recognized for distinguished contribution to the arts. He joins the likes of other SAI National Arts Associates such as Van Cliburn, Keith Lockhart, Henry Mancini and Wynton Marsalis.

He is a native of Crows Nest Pass, Alberta, Canada. His early training was as a pianist. After leaving Alberta, he studied in St. Louis and New York with Harold Zabrack. Muspratt continued in both a bachelor’s and master’s performance program at Temple University with Adele Marcus and Alexander Fiorillo. Subsequent to that he went on to study conducting at the Vienna Conservatory of Music. He became a citizen of the United States in November 2010. This season he will make his debut conducting appearance with The Joffrey Ballet.

Benjamin Nadel (Associate Conductor and Principal Librarian) is a conductor, vocal coach and pianist based out of Chicago. Currently he is the assistant conductor and orchestra Librarian for the New Philharmonic and

Northwest Indiana Symphony. In the past he has also conducted, coached and played piano for summer opera programs at Northwestern University and the Midwest Institute of Opera, where he worked with Joshua Greene from the Metropolitan Opera. Nadel recently completed his MA in Orchestral Conducting at the University of Iowa, where he studied with Dr. William LaRue Jones. Before that he attended Illinois State University, where he studied with Dr. Glenn Block.

Simeon Morrow (Assistant Conductor and Assistant Librarian) specializes in conducting premieres of contemporary composers. He has collaborated with composers and conducted premieres of their compositions at numerous new music festivals in some of the most renowned concert halls in the world (such as the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam and Sala Puccini in Milan). Working alongside the Brazilian soundtrack composer Caio Amon, Morrow established the Brazil-Amsterdam Musical Dialogue (BAMdialogue) that brought a steady influx of the newest Brazilian music and its composers and performers to the old continent. The duo’s masterwork came to fruition in the form of the Brazilian Composer’s Competition (2009) and its sequel (2011). During that time, Morrow conducted premieres of new works featuring western and eastern instruments with the Nieuw Ensemble of Amsterdam and the Ziggurat Ensemble.

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Kirk Muspratt, Music Director and ConductorChair Sponsored by Jeanette and Renee Giragos, in memory of Dr. Henry G. Giragos

1st Violin Michele Lekas, Concertmaster

Chair sponsored by Susan and Richard Lamb

Kristen WiersumGretchen SherrellMiki Santibanez

Debra Ponko

2nd Violin Mara Gallagher, Principal

Kristen LeJeuneChikako MiyataDenise Connolly

Viola Ryan Rump, Principal

Sarah TompkinsJennifer Silk

Cello Dorothy Deen, Principal

Chair sponsored by Nancy and John RutledgeClaire Langenberg

Chair sponsored by Nancy and John Rutledge

Bass Michael Meehan

Chair sponsored by Barbara and Lowell Anderson

FluteCarolyn May

OboeJeffrey Padgett

Chair sponsored by Susan and Richard Lamb

ClarinetMary Payne, Principal

Chair sponsored by Robert and Lynne AndersonBarbara Drapcho

Bassoon Dianne Ryan

Horn Phil Stanley

Chair sponsored by Dr. Donald G. Westlake

TrumpetWesley Skidgel

Chair sponsored by Margaret and Michael McCoy

Trombone Cerdar Cizmeci

Timpani/PercussionKevin Kosnik

Orchestra ManagerPaula Cebula

Associate Conductor and Principal Librarian

Benjamin Nadel

Assistant Conductor and Assistant Librarian

Simeon Morrow

Personnel ManagerKaren Dickelman

Jon Gantt (Scenic and Projection Design) is the technical coordinator for the McAninch Arts Center and has been a lighting and scenic designer for College of DuPage and the resident professional companies since the opening of the Arts Center in 1986. For more than 35 years, he has designed scenery and lighting for many professional and university theaters in and around Chicago. Recently, he designed the lighting for Buffalo Theatre Ensemble’s Leading Ladies and Don’t Dress for Dinner and New Philharmonic’s Madama Butterfly. For the College Theater program he designed the set for A Woman of No Importance; the set and lighting for Carmilla, and Earth and Sky; and the lighting for The Man Who Came to Dinner, Julius Caesar, Rumors, Grease and A Christmas Carol. Other notable past production designs include The Ruling Class, The Man of La Mancha, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Praying Mantis, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Evita, Sweeney Todd, and his Jeff-nominated scenic design for the world premiere of The Grab at Theatre Building Chicago.

Elias Morales (Lighting Design) is ecstatic to be working on completing his second year at the MAC as an assistant production manager and lighting designer. For the past 12 years he has been working as a freelance lighting designer, stage manager, and as a stage technician around Chicago. In addition, he also served as the assistant technical director and lighting designer for Northeastern Illinois University for more than six years. During that time he worked with the resident dance company, Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theatre, as their technical director and lighting designer. While he enjoyed traveling across the Midwest and along the East Coast touring with Ensemble Español, he is delighted to now call The MAC his home and work with so many other passionate individuals!

Kimberly G. Morris (Costume, Make-up and Hair Design) is pleased to continue her work at College of DuPage. Prior to joining the crew at COD she spent 13 years as a freelance designer in costume, makeup, wig and properties throughout Chicago and the east coast. She is a company member of Babes with Blades Theatre Company where she has designed Promise of a Rose Garden, Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, Patchwork Drifter, Macbeth, Susan Swayne and Bewildered Bride and Bo Thomas and the Case of the Spy Pirates. Other favorite past projects include Carmilla and Grease at COD; puppet design for Lifeline Theatre’s Neverwhere and costumes/masks for their Island of Dr. Moreau; costume/puppet design for Akvavit Theatre’s production of Blue Planet; costume/props design of Xanadu for NWHS; and properties design for Chicago Children’s Theatre productions of A Year with Frog and Toad and 100 Dresses. She has also designed for Stage Left Theatre, Fox Valley Repertory, Ball State University, American Shakespeare Center, Shenandoah Shakespeare Express, Heritage Repertory Theatre, Tecumseh!, Wilmette Arts Center, NWHS and MEHS.

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McAninch Arts Center acknowledges and gives grateful thanks to those donors who have contributed in support of the MAC mission and vision. This list of donors reflects contributions made from Dec. 1, 2014 through Aug. 28, 2016. While we carefully prepared this list we recognize that errors may have occurred. Please accept our apology if you are not properly represented on this list and contact the College of DuPage Foundation at (630) 942-2462 so we may correct our records.

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Encore Circle ($2,500 and up)Anonymous (3)Lowell and Barbara AndersonAurora Civic Center AuthorityBMO Harris BankMrs. Clark G. CarpenterJames and Marie Drasal

and Drasal Family Fund of Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund

DuPage FoundationFollett Higher Education GroupKen and Debbie FulksJeanette N. and Renee Giragos,

in memory of Dr. Henry G. Giragos

JCS Fund of DuPage FoundationJeffrey Jens and Ann BoisclairDr. Jean V. KartjeKenmare Catering & EventsMr. and Mrs. Richard Lamb

and Susan and Richard Lamb Charitable Fund of The DuPage Foundation

Legat Architects, Inc.David and Carolyn MayDr. and Mrs. Harold D. McAninchMargaret and Michael McCoyBill and Nancy MooreMs. Kimberly MorrisDr. and Mrs. Joseph S. MorrisseyKirk MusprattDrs. Donald E. and

Mary Ellen NewsomJane OldfieldMr. and Mrs. William PodgorskiJeffrey and Debora PonkoRoland and Kelly RaffelMr. Chuck RobertsNancy and John RutledgeCharles SchlauJerry and Susan Schurmeier

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Maureen Sullivan TaylorTrust Company of IllinoisU.S. BankBjarne R. UllsvikDr. Donald G. Westlake Scott and Kristen WiersumMr. Keith C. YearmanZacuto

Director’s Circle ($1,000–$2,499)

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and James Du VallMs. Emily EllsworthGeorge and Kathryn FairbairnJoan and Ken FrankG. Carl Ball Family FoundationMr. and Mrs. Craig GiblinMr. and Mrs. George GilbertMr. and Mrs. Linsley GrayGinni and ChrisMr. and Mrs. Robert G. HartmanDon and Jackie HegebarthLance HerningJorge and Beatriz IorgulescuAnne and Ira J. KreftKaren and Gene KuhnMr. and Mrs. Martin Kuttesch

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Ambassador ($500–$999)Anonymous (4)Anthony and Gwen AchillesYoung AhnNancy AlluredKatherine BalekJoseph and Betsy BallekRichard and Grace BauerMs. Eunice Becker

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Ms. Dianne A. McGuireMr. and Mrs. William S. KensholMr. Peter KlassenJacqueline Vernot and

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and The E Jay Van Cura MD Charitable Fund of the Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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Performer ($250–$499)Anonymous (13)Sue AdamsMr. and Mrs. Bruce AndersonIrene D. AntoniouMr. and Mrs. Donald L. ArendsAspire VenturesMary Ellen and Jack BarryHarold and Karen BauerBiff Behr and Lynne Richman

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Arlene BonetProf. and Mrs. Charles E. BooneMr. and Mrs. William BulgerMs. Ramona Jean BurnsEd and Kay BurtonKenneth and Karen BusseMs. Amy CavanessMr. Carles Clement and Ms. Jami L. ArndtCommunity Foundation of

Will CountyDiane CooperMs. Tamara CroweMs. Pamela DalbyBarbara and George DiGuidoMark and Kim DornMs. Marilyn R. Drury-KatilloEakins PropertiesDaniel Edelman and Fran KravitzCamille and Joe EstermanEnertherm CorporationEric and Marilyn ForsMrs. Carol L. Fox Girovich and Mr. Howard GirovichMr. Lawrence A. FramburgMr. and Ms. Charles F. GaulMr. Richard GlymanRobin L. GrahamBill and Alyce GrantGwen and Chet HenryJohn A. HerndonMr. and Mrs. David HightMr. and Mrs. Calvin L. HimelStephanie IglehartMs. Jennifer IngramMrs. Jo Ann JacobsonMr. Randle Jennings and Ms.

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FRIENDS OF THE MACMichael F. KozlowskiMadeleine and Ralph MarbachMr. and Mrs. Chris MarlerSarah Hutchison MartinoPaul McCurnin and

Evelyn McNeillJames and Kimberley McDonnellMarty and Marian McGowanEvelyn McNeill and

Paul McCurninMr. and Mrs. Francis MiesMr. and Mrs. Marvin MinarichMr. and Mrs. David W. MortonBud and Pat MotzCharles and Kay MylerMr. Sherman L. NealNorth American Roller

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Mr. Ronald A. JohnsonFred and Lorraine SchullerDr. Thomas R. ScottKristin and Peter ShulmanLloyd SmithRichard and Janice StickaCarolyn and Joe StoffelAnthony and Mona TaylorVirginia and Jerry ThompsonPaul and Katherine ThompsonMr. Grayson Van CampDr. and Mrs. E. VeleckisCarol C. Wallace FamilyLyn and Debbie WhistonDr. and Mrs. K. M. WilcoxMr. and Mrs. Robert WulffenMs. Kathleen Yosko

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Barry ZelinskiMichael and Gail BaruchPatricia and Bruce BeckMs. R. Lorraine BehrendMs. Margaret BeileMr. and Mrs. Ronald N. BenMr. and Mrs. Martin P. BenderMr. and Mrs. James R. BentéMs. Bonnie BenziesMr. and Mrs. William E. BermannPeggy BickhamMr. George BigenwaldDaniel and Yolanda BindertMs. Virginia A. BlackwellMr. and Mrs. James BorusMr. and Mrs. Joseph H. BorylaMr. and Mrs. James BovesMr. Franklin E. BowesMrs. Aleene L. Henninger-BoydenMs. Joan BradfordKay BraulikBroadway in ChicagoMr. George BruceMr. and Mrs. Charles A. BuettnerMr. Robert E. ByrneMr. Kenneth L. CarlsonKevin and Lori CarlsonMr. Joseph Cassidy and Mrs. Tatiana SifriMr. Ken Casterline

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Ms. Christine E. ConnellyMr. and Mrs. Robert S. ConradMr. Dan CorrentiJeanne E. DavikDorothy DeenMr. and Mrs. Franciso DeHoyosMs. Lynn F. Dempsey-Musker

and Mr. Brian MuskerMs. Victoria L. DepaJanet DerberJoy and Ron DetmerMs. Jean A. DeYoungDr. Julia M. DiLibertiMr. and Mrs. David DoemlandMs. Patricia DoerflerWilliam DonnellyMs. Alice E. DoughertyWilliam and Kathleen DrennanMr. and Mrs. James E. DunlapJohn T. Earley, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Sherwood EdwardsMr. William EnrightDarlys EwoltRobert and Linda FairbairnWilliam and

Sally Newton FairbankGeraldine FeketeJack and Janet FeldmanShirley FishwickMr. Douglas FitzgeraldMr. and Mrs. David M. FollmannDavid and Helen FraserMr. and Mrs. Ronald C. GabelJanet R. GahalaAnnette GamboSandra M. Ganakos

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FRIENDS OF THE MACMs. Mary Gardner BurrelleMr. Keith GarlandMr. and Mrs. Curt GazdziakMr. Christopher A. GekasMr. and Mrs. Andrew W. GlowatyMs. Michelle GordonMs. Judith I. GradyMs. Mary Ann GremeerMiss Nell GriffinRoy and Priscilla GrundyDr. and Mrs. Richard D. GuerraSusan and Robert HaaMs. Anne O. HackerJudy HallMs. Robin HallettDr. Eugene G. Hallongren

and Dianne J. HallongrenMr. and Mrs. Michael HanesRebekah and Rodney HarrisMr. and Mrs. Richard HartopDavid and Karen HaugenMr. and Mrs. Brad A. HausermanAleene L. Henninger-BoydenMs. Susan HerveyDr. Franklin D. HesterHilton Lisle/NapervilleAllan Hins and Marilyn WilgockiPaul and Jessica HollerMr. and Mrs. Bruce HoskinsMs. Carole HoyemMr. and Mrs. John HubbellMs. Joyce N. HutchinsonIBMMs. Andrea ImesMs. Veatrice J. JehanginMrs. Patricia JohansenMr. and Mrs. Anthony M. JohnsonBob JohnsonMr. and Mrs. Terry R. JohnsonDiane JostesMr. John R. Wolff and Mrs.

Shirley Justin-WolffMs. Darlene J. KaempenMr. Michael R. KahlfeldtMr. Karl KarnatzSenator Doris Karpiel (Ret.)

Mr. James KarpusMary Jane KeefeMr. and Mrs. Rick KehoeMr. Charles A. KeiserMs. Candis E. KingAnne V. KleckaMr. and Mrs. Leroy KlimekMr. and Mrs. David KnappMr. James H. Knippen, IIWayne H. KoepkeUlrike KonchanMs. Mary KonieMr. and Mrs. Joseph KovacicMs. Linda A. KozonMr. and Mrs. Steven E. KrenekMs. Anne KrzyskoMr. John L. Ladle, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Norbert V. LambertMr. Larry C. LarsonMr. Paul F. LaudicinaMs. Patricia LeahyDr. and Mrs. Ernest R. LeDucGintautas Leonavicius and Ryte LeonavicieneMr. and Mrs. Jerry LibbyElaine LiboviczBill and Jan LindnerMs. Belle W. LippmanDrs. David and Joanna LivengoodMr. Sam LomanacoNancy LouckAnn LougeeMr. and Mrs. Russell

E. LundstromTed and Martha MaasMr. and Mrs. Robert

A. MacDougallMs. Norma MacKayMr. and Mrs. Atis MakstenieksMr. Robert MarksMs. Helga MathewsRichard and Mary Ellen MatthiesMs. Diane M. MaurerGordon and Marjorie MaxsonJeffrey MayAnthony McAleenan

Mr. and Mrs. Tipton H. McCawley, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert McClowMs. Candace D. McCrearyDiane Meiborg and Roger ZacekMrs. Melissa Meisch-MercadoMr. and Mrs. Wayne J. MicekMs. Mary C. MichnaMs. Sherri MifflinMr. and Mrs. Ralph H. MillerMr. and Mrs. Gary L. MitchellMr. and Mrs. Matt MooreMs. Jane E. MooreMr. Jerold A. MorganMr. Paul MorowczynskiMr. and Mrs. Patrick MorrisonMs. Irene MorrisroePaulette MoulosMr. and Mrs. Ted MoulosJoan MuellerMr. Benjamin MuleDr. Michael T. MurphyMr. Thomas MurrayHolly MyersErnest and Joanne NassosSusan NeustromMichael and Judith NigroBetty and John NorthMr. John L. NortonMs. Tamara NowakowskiMr. Gerard Nussbaum and

Dr. Linda Veleckis NussbaumEileene NystromJean and Joanne OliphantMr. and Mrs. Gary L. OliverMs. Shirley H. OrloppMr. and Mrs. Hugh PalmerMr. John R. PalterMr. Vincent A. PanzoneMr. C. Alan ParksMs. Paula PartipiloMr. Peter PattisonGreg and Sue PawlowiczMr. and Mrs. Scott PectorRobert PendleburyGeorge Pepper, M.D.

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Judith and Robert PetersMs. Barbara PetersenDr. R. Dean PetersonEileen PetittoRohan and Merlyn PhillipsMr. and Mrs. Edward PillarMr. Charles PittelkowMr. and Mrs. Charles PolitoAnna Marie PollJohn and Mandy RakowMs. Alice J. RamsayMs. Diane G. RathMr. and Mrs. Marion J. ReisDonna RekauJean RhoadesMr. Peter RickertMs. Elizabeth RobertsonMr. and Mrs. Neil M. RoseEdward RosiarMr. and Mrs. Gus A. RousonelosMs. Margaret RyanLynn SapytaMr. and Ms. David D. SartherMs. Kim SavageMr. and Mrs. William G. ScanlanDoris and David SchertzMs. Susan S. SchoenbergBob SchollKen and Trish ScottMr. George Sisson, Jr.Mary K. SmithMr. and Mrs. Robert F. SobieMr. Jim SotirakosMs. Carol SpencerDr. Dorothy SquitieriMr. and Mrs. Arnold R. StenvogEllen and Grier StephensonMs. Deborah StillmanMelissa StriedlDr. and Mrs. William F. StronerEarl Stubbe and Kathleen FrankMr. and Mrs. Thomas J. SuhrburMrs. Gloria P. SullivanDr. Nancy SvobodaGrace and Len SwansonMs. Carol F. Szynal

Ms. Virginia B. TaylorJanet ThornberyMr. and Mrs. Charles ThurstonTom and Teri TraceyColleen and Paul TrinkoMr. and Mrs. Neil TrinkoMr. and Mrs. Jerome L. UlaneMr. John UrbanskiMs. Patricia Van LeeuwenOlga Vilella-Janeiro, Ph.D. and

Henry Valdez, Esq.Marilee ViolaLucy and George VorickPenelope WainwrightMs. Janine WallinEileen and Thomas WardMr. and Mrs. Edward WarmowskiMr. Mark WarrenDr. Nancy WebbMr. Roland WeberJudy WebsterPatricia and Richard WeichleAnne and Jim WengerdMr. and Mrs. Ronald WielgosKathy and Rich WildersMary Lou WilkeMr. and Mrs. Charles A. WilliamsMs. Gloria WilliamsMr. and Mrs. John B. WilsonMs. Jane Wine and

Mr. Jerry HinrichsMr. Justin WitteMs. Jo Ann WolfCarol WoodsMr. Joseph C. WozniakMr. Fredric YoungMr. Albert G. ZamskyHelene S. ZarconeLori and Gary ZemanMr. and Ms. Robert P. ZielinskiMs. Hazel ZimnerMargot C. & Arthur Zwierlein

*deceased

Corporate and Community Sponsors

Arts MidwestBrookdale Glen EllynCabernet & CompanyCarlucci College of DuPage FoundationDuPage FoundationFollettGlen PrairieHilton Hotels-Lisle/NapervilleHoulihan’sI Have a BeanIllinois Arts Council JCS Fund of the

DuPage FoundationNational Endowment for

the ArtsParamount TheatreParkers’ Restaurant and BarSmith Financial Advisors Inc.Sullivan Taylor & Gumina PC90.9FM WDCBWBEZ 91.598.7 WFMT

FRIENDS OF THE MAC

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MAC Administrative StaffDirector of the McAninch Arts Center ............................................................................. Diana MartinezMarketing and Donor Relations Coordinator ......................................................................Roland RaffelBusiness Manager .........................................................................................................Ellen McGowanCleve Carney Art Gallery Curator ......................................................................................... Justin WitteEducation and Community Engagement Coordinator ........................................................ Janey SartherDirector of Development for Cultural Arts ......................................................................... Janie OldfieldGroup and Rental Sales Coordinator ............................................................................ Melissa MercadoAdministrative Assistant ...................................................................................................Mandy RakowClerical Assistants ................................................. Tony Eyer, Molly Junokas, Andrea Lara, Erin Posavec

MAC Box Office and Front of House StaffBox Office Manager ..............................................................................................................Julie ElgesAssistant Box Office Manager .....................................................................................Mary Ellen ReedyBox Office Assistants ................................................ Jimmy Gosling, Rachel Krusec, Gretchen WoodleyPatron Service Manager ...................................................................................................... Tom MurrayFront of House Manager ...................................................................................................... Rob NardiniFront of House Assistant ....................................................................................................Jen Krouwer

MAC Resident Professional EnsembleBuffalo Theatre Ensemble, Artistic Director .......................................................Connie Canaday HowardBuffalo Theatre Ensemble, Associate Artistic Director ...................................................... Amelia BarrettFounding Artistic Director Emeritus .................................................................................... Craig Berger New Philharmonic, Conductor and Music Director .............................................................Kirk MusprattNew Philharmonic Manager .............................................................................................. Paula CebulaConductor Emeritus .......................................................................................................... Harold Bauer

MAC Design and Technical StaffTechnical Production Coordinator ............................................................................................Jon GanttTechnical Director ....................................................................................................... Michael W. MoonCostume and Make-up Design Coordinator ............................................................... Kimberly G. MorrisProduction Manager............................................................................................................ Joe HopperAssistant Production Managers ..........................................Ben Johnson, Elias Morales, Sabrina ZeidlerSound and Equipment Manager ..............................................................................................Bob Murr Stage Hands ......................................................................................... Bobby Bryan, Amanda Hantson

HOUSE NOTES• Mailing List: If this is your first visit to the McAninch

Arts Center, please stop by our Box Office to add your name to our mailing list or register your email at www.AtTheMAC.org.

• Cameras and recording devices are not allowed in the theater and are prohibited by our contracts with the artists.

• Smoking is not permitted in the theater or on campus.• For your comfort and security, all backpacks and

large bags must be checked.• Electronic pagers and patrons’ seat locations should

be given to the House Manager, who will notify you in the event of a call. Patrons wearing wristwatch alarms or carrying cellular phones are respectfully requested to turn them off while in the theater.

• Emergency phone number at College of DuPage Police Department for after-hour calls is (630) 942-2000.

• Latecomers seated at discretion of the House Manager.

• Groups of 10 or more may contact Melissa Mercado at (630) 942-3026 or meisch-mercadom@cod.edu to arrange for group discounts.

• If you notice a spill in the theater, please notify an usher.• McAninch Arts Center volunteers are people

who assist the house staff in areas of ticket taking, ushering and general management during performances. To get involved, call (630) 942-4000.

• For Americans With Disabilities Act accommodations, call (630) 942-2141 (voice) or (630) 858-9692 (TDD).

• Infrared Assistive Listening Devices: For audience members who desire audio amplification of performances, headsets with individual volume controls are now available. You may check out the headsets at the Ticket Office with a credit card or driver’s license. Underwritten by a generous gift from The Knowles Foundation.