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Wednesday, February 1, 2017, at 8:30 pm

Andrew Lippa & Friends With Kate Baldwin, Joaquina Kalukango, Caroline O’Connor, and Matthew Scott

Paul Staroba, Musical Director and PianoKristina Musser, ViolinWill Curry, ViolaAnik Oulianine, Cello

This evening’s program is approximately 75 minutes long and will be performed without intermission.

Major support for Lincoln Center’s American Songbook is provided by Amy & Joseph Perella.

Endowment support provided by Bank of America

This performance is made possible in part by the Josie Robertson Fund for Lincoln Center.

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Steinway PianoThe Appel RoomJazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall

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We would like to remind you that the sound of coughing and rustling paper mightdistract the performers and your fellow audience members.

In consideration of the performing artists and members of the audience, those who must leave before the end of the performance are asked to do so between pieces. Flash photography and the use of recording equipment are not allowed in the building.

Additional support for Lincoln Center’s American Songbook is provided by Meg and BennettGoodman, Rita J. and Stanley H. Kaplan Family Foundation, Inc., The DuBose and DorothyHeyward Memorial Fund, Jill & Irwin B. Cohen, The Shubert Foundation, Great PerformersCircle, Chairman’s Council, and Friends of Lincoln Center.

Public support is provided by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support ofGovernor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature

American Airlines is the Official Airline of Lincoln Center

Nespresso is the Official Coffee of Lincoln Center

NewYork-Presbyterian is the Official Hospital of Lincoln Center

Artist catering provided by Zabar’s and Zabars.com

UPCOMING AMERICAN SONGBOOK EVENTSIN THE APPEL ROOM:

Thursday, February 2, at 8:30 pmJohn Ondrasik of Five for FightingWith string quartet

Friday, February 3, at 8:30 pmOkkervil River

Saturday, February 4, at 8:30 pmHeather Headley

Wednesday, February 15, at 8:30 pmLiz Callaway Sings Maltby & Shire

Thursday, February 16, at 8:30 pmLaura Mvula

Friday, February 17, at 8:30 pmJamie Lidell & The Royal Pharaohs

Saturday, February 18, at 8:30 pmSantino Fontana

Wednesday, February 22, at 8:30 pmIndie.Arie

The Appel Room is located in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall.

For tickets, call (212) 721-6500 or visit AmericanSongbook.org. Call the Lincoln Center InfoRequest Line at (212) 875-5766 or visit AmericanSongbook.org for complete program infor-mation.

Join the conversation: #LCSongbook

Andrew Lippa is a Tony- andGrammy-nominated composer andlyricist. His hit song “Evil Like Me,”written for Kristin Chenoweth andfeatured in Disney’s 2015 movieDescendants, hit No. 1 on theBillboard 200 album chart. Otherrecent highlights include his com-posing and conducting a world pre-miere piece, Rising Tide, for pianistLang Lang and the GuangzhouSymphony Orchestra, and the 2016premiere of his concept opera, I am

Anne Hutchinson/I Am Harvey Milk, at Strathmore, starring Chenoweth asHutchinson and Mr. Lippa as Milk. This summer, Bay Street Theater in SagHarbor will present the world premiere of The Man in the Ceiling, a musicalbased on Jules Feiffer’s award-winning novel with music and lyrics by Mr.Lippa. He will also play the role of Uncle Lester in the production, directed byJeffrey Seller, the Tony-winning producer of Hamilton.

Mr. Lippa’s Broadway credits include music and lyrics for Big Fish, directedand choreographed by Susan Stroman; Tony-nominated music and lyrics forThe Addams Family; and music for Aaron Sorkin’s play The FarnsworthInvention. Off-Broadway credits include The Wild Party (book/music/lyrics),which won the Outer Critics Circle Award for best musical and Drama DeskAward for best music. Mr. Lippa has been Chenoweth’s music director for many concerts. Recordings include Julia Murney’s CD I’m Not Waiting;The Addams Family; Big Fish; The Wild Party; You’re a Good Man, CharlieBrown, which earned him a Grammy Award nomination; A Little Princess; andJohn & Jen. Mr. Lippa also produced the original cast recording of Bat Boy.

In addition to Tony and Grammy nominations, Mr. Lippa’s honors include ashared Emmy for Nickelodeon’s The Wonder Pets, the Gilman/Gonzalez-Falla Theater Foundation Award, ASCAP’s Richard Rodgers/New HorizonsAward, and Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards. A graduate of theUniversity of Michigan, Mr. Lippa serves as president of the DramatistsGuild Fund.

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Kate Baldwin appears in the 2017revival of Hello Dolly! this spring asIrene Molloy. Previously she starredon Broadway in Finian’s Rainbow(Tony, Drama Desk, Outer CriticsCircle Award nominations) and BigFish, as well as in Fiorello! (New YorkCity Center Encores!). She receivedDrama Desk nominations for bothGiant (Public Theater) and John andJen (Keen Company) and starred off-Broadway in Songbird (59E59). Shealso appeared in the Broadway casts

of The Full Monty, Thoroughly Modern Millie, and Wonderful Town. RegionallyMs. Baldwin has starred in King and I (Chicago’s Lyric Opera), Irving Berlin’sWhite Christmas (San Francisco, Detroit, Toronto), The Women (The OldGlobe), Henry V (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey), I Do, I Do (WestportCountry Playhouse), She Loves Me (Williamstown Theatre Festival), A LittleNight Music and Constellations (Berkshire Theater Group), and South Pacific(Arena Stage). Major concerts engagements include the Boston Pops, NewYork Pops, the American Songbook series, Kennedy Center, three legendaryNew York nightclubs (Feinstein’s at the Regency, Birdland, 54 Below), and themajor orchestras of Washington, Detroit, Portland, and Phoenix. Ms. Baldwinhas been seen on PBS in Stephen Sondheim’s Passion and the Kander-and-Ebbretrospective First You Dream. Her solo recordings are Let’s See WhatHappens and She Loves Him, both with PS Classics.

Joaquina Kalukango’s Broadwaycredits include The Color Purplerevival, Holler If Ya Hear Me, andGodspell. Off-Broadway she hasappeared in The Wild Party (New YorkCity Center Encores!), Our Lady ofKibeho (Signature Theatre), Antonyand Cleopatra (Public Theater andRoyal Shakespeare Company),Emotional Creature (Signature andBerkeley Rep), Hurt Village(Signature/Theatre World Award,Drama Desk Award nomination), and

Rent (New World Stages). Regional highlights include Camae in TheMountaintop (Arena Stage and Alley Theatre/Helen Hayes Award), Sarah in

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Ragtime (Hangar Theatre), and Ti Moune in Once on This Island (Hangar). Ms.Kalukango is a graduate of The Juilliard School.

Caroline O’Connor is about to appearin the new musical Anastasia at theBroadhurst Theatre playing CountessLily Malevsky-Malevitch after a sold-out season at Hartford Stage earlierthis year. She most recently createdthe dual roles of Polly/Mary Douvan inthe world premiere of the Australianmusical Dream Lover: the Bobby DarinMusical. Other roles include RenoSweeney in Anything Goes (SydneyOpera House/Helpmann Award), Rosein Gypsy (Arts Centre Melbourne),

Phyllis in Follies (Chicago Shakespeare Theater/Jeff Award), Mrs. Lovett inSweeney Todd (Théâtre du Chatelet, Paris), Sarah Jane Moore in Assassins(Milwaukee Repertory Theater), and Life of the Party (Menier Chocolate Factory,London). Ms. O’Connor has appeared on Broadway as Velma Kelly in Chicagoand Miss Shields in A Christmas Story the Musical. Her West End creditsinclude Mabel Normand in Mack and Mabel (Piccadilly Theatre/Olivier nomina-tion), Bombshells (Arts Theatre/Olivier nomination), Hildy Esterhazy in On theTown (English National Opera, Théâtre du Chatelet), Romance/Romance, StreetScene (ENO), Matador, The Rink, Cabaret, and Me and My Girl. Regionally shehas appeared as Ellie-May Chipley in Showboat (Royal Shakespeare Company,Opera North), Lola in Damn Yankees, Lizzie in Baby, The Witch in Into theWoods, and Cassie in A Chorus Line (U.K. national tour). In Australia she has per-formed Velma Kelly in Chicago, Anita in West Side Story, Aldonza in Man of LaMancha, Fanny Brice in Funny Girl, Edith Piaf in PIAF, Bombshells, and JudyGarland in the world premiere of End of the Rainbow. Ms. O’Connor’s film cred-its include Nini Legs in the Air in Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge, Ethel Mermanin the Cole Porter biopic De-Lovely, and Georgia in Surviving Georgia. She hascreated three one-woman shows: Stage to Screen in Australia, The ShowgirlWithin in London, and The Girl from Oz in New York. Her solo CDs include WhatI Did for Love, Stage to Screen, A Tribute to Piaf, and A Tribute to Garland.


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Matthew Scott is fresh off his run asAdam Hochberg in An American inParis on Broadway. Other Broadwaycredits include Sondheim onSondheim, A Catered Affair, andJersey Boys as well as The BestLittle Whorehouse in Texas (ActorsFund). Regional highlights includeThe Light in the Piazza (PhiladelphiaTheatre Company), for which he wonthe Barrymore Award; SaturdayNight (York Theatre Company);Beaches, Company, ACE, and Side

by Side by Sondheim (all at the Signature Theatre); Chaplin (La JollaPlayhouse); First You Dream: the Music of Kander & Ebb (Kennedy Center); AWonderful Life (Goodspeed Opera House); Eden and Unknown Soldier(Eugene O’Neill Theater Center); Ragtime, My Fair Lady, and Carousel (PaperMill Playhouse); West Side Story (the Muny); Legally Blonde, Swing!, LesMisérables, and Sunset Boulevard opposite Liz Callaway (all for the PittsburghCLO). Mr. Scott’s television credits include First You Dream: The Music ofKander & Ebb (PBS), All My Children, and appearances on the 2006 and 2009Tony Awards. Recordings include Sondheim on Sondheim, Jerome Kern: TheLand Where the Good Songs Go, and Noel and Cole (all available on PSClassics). He is a graduate of the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama.

Paul Staroba

Paul Staroba (musical director, piano) served as the musical director and con-ductor of the 2014 Tony Award Winner for Best Musical, A Gentleman’s Guideto Love and Murder, and remains as music supervisor of the show’s nationaltouring company. Other New York conducting credits include, on Broadway: ALittle Night Music (with Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury and alsowith Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch), Next to Normal, and Grey Gardens.Off-Broadway credits include Dear Evan Hansen, Carrie, The Blue Flower,Lucky Guy, Happiness, Saved, and Take Me Along. Other selected Broadwaykeyboard credits include Something Rotten, Cats, Aladdin, Matilda, Newsies,Sister Act, The Addams Family, West Side Story, Spamalot, In the Heights,Wicked, Grease, Pal Joey, Young Frankenstein, Legally Blonde, A Chorus Line,and Les Misérables. Regional highlights include the following world premieres:War Paint (Chicago), I am Anne Hutchinson/I am Harvey Milk (Strathmore), BigFish (Chicago), and A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (Hartford). Mr.Staroba has enjoyed performing in concert across the country with KristinChenoweth and Lea Salonga, and has held a position in the Radio CityChristmas Spectacular Orchestra for four seasons. His upcoming projectsinclude War Paint on Broadway, starring Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole.

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Kristina Musser

Kristina Musser (violin) plays with various orchestras, including the MostlyMozart Festival Orchestra at Lincoln Center, the Encores! Orchestra at NewYork City Center, and the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall. She can also beseen and heard in numerous Broadway musical pits, including the 2014 TonyAward–winning musical A Gentlemen’s Guide to Love and Murder. Music hastaken Ms. Musser around the globe with different musical groups, and shehas played on diverse recordings that include many Broadway cast albums,pop music, as well as classical CDs. She has over 20 years teaching experi-ence with all ages, and has taught at the United Nations International School,Diller-Quaile Music School, St. David’s, and the School for Strings. She alsogives an annual master class at the Turtle Bay Music School. Ms. Musserholds degrees from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, IthacaCollege, and the Manhattan School of Music.

Will Curry

Will Curry (viola) enjoys a diverse musical career as a violist, violinist, conduc-tor, and orchestrator. Currently the violist and assistant conductor for theupcoming revival of Miss Saigon, Mr. Curry has previously held the positionsof violist and assistant conductor with the revivals of Fiddler on the Roof andLes Misérables. Prior to his time in New York, he was engaged as the associ-ate conductor for the Mirvish’s Les Misérables in Toronto and as the assistantconductor and concertmaster for the U.S. touring production of LesMisérables. He has released two albums, Fill in the Words and The Time ofYear for Miracles, with actor-singer Ian Patrick Gibb, and can be heard on thecast albums of Fiddler on the Roof and John & Jen. Recently Mr. Curry con-tributed orchestrations to Lawrence Rush’s musical adaptation of Pride andPrejudice. Other orchestration credits include performances by Andrew Lippa,Carole Shelley, Christine Ebersole, Harvey Evans and Jim Brochu, DanielReichard, and cast members from the 25th anniversary production of LesMisérables. Trained in the Suzuki method, Mr. Curry maintains a small teach-ing studio. A graduate of Northwestern University, he studied viola withRoland Vamos and conducting with Victor Yampolsky.

Anik Oulianine

Anik Oulianine (cello) is a freelance cellist living and working in New York City.She performs regularly with several orchestras, including the New York CityBallet, American Ballet Theatre, and the American Symphony Orchestra. Sheis very active in the musical theater world, performing in the Tony Award–win-ning Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Grey Gardens, Les Misérables,Aladdin, Fiddler on the Roof, The Lion King, and many more on and off-Broadway productions. She also enjoys playing chamber music concerts, and


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likes to donate her services to worthy causes. A native New Yorker, Ms.Oulianine has worked frequently with Paul Staroba.

American Songbook

In 1998, Lincoln Center launched American Songbook, dedicated to the cele-bration of popular American song. Designed to highlight and affirm the cre-ative mastery of America’s songwriters from their emergence at the turn ofthe 19th century up through the present, American Songbook spans all stylesand genres, from the form’s early roots in Tin Pan Alley and Broadway to theeclecticism of today’s singer-songwriters. American Songbook also show-cases the outstanding interpreters of popular song, including established andemerging concert, cabaret, theater, and songwriter performers.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (LCPA) serves three primary roles: pre-senter of artistic programming, national leader in arts and education and com-munity relations, and manager of the Lincoln Center campus. A presenter ofmore than 3,000 free and ticketed events, performances, tours, and educa-tional activities annually, LCPA offers 15 programs, series, and festivals includ-ing American Songbook, Great Performers, Lincoln Center Festival, LincolnCenter Out of Doors, Midsummer Night Swing, the Mostly Mozart Festival,and the White Light Festival, as well as the Emmy Award–winning Live FromLincoln Center, which airs nationally on PBS. As manager of the LincolnCenter campus, LCPA provides support and services for the Lincoln Centercomplex and the 11 resident organizations. In addition, LCPA led a $1.2 billioncampus renovation, completed in October 2012.

Lincoln Center Programming DepartmentJane Moss, Ehrenkranz Artistic DirectorHanako Yamaguchi, Director, Music ProgrammingJon Nakagawa, Director, Contemporary ProgrammingJill Sternheimer, Director, Public ProgrammingLisa Takemoto, Production ManagerCharles Cermele, Producer, Contemporary ProgrammingMauricio Lomelin, Producer, Contemporary ProgrammingAndrew C. Elsesser, Associate Director, ProgrammingRegina Grande Rivera, Associate ProducerNana Asase, Assistant to the Artistic DirectorLuna Shyr, Senior EditorOlivia Fortunato, Programming Assistant

For American SongbookMatt Berman, Lighting DesignScott Stauffer, Sound DesignAngela M. Fludd, Wardrobe AssistantJanet Rucker, Company Manager

Matt Berman

Matt Berman is the resident lighting designer for Lincoln Center’s AmericanSongbook. He most recently designed the lighting for Kristin Chenoweth’s MyLove Letter to Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, and for “MeowMeow’s Pandemonium” with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and ThomasLauderdale of Pink Martini at Royal Festival Hall. Mr. Berman continues hisdesign work for Chenoweth, Liza Minnelli, Alan Cumming, Meow Meow, BrianStokes Mitchell, and Elaine Paige on the road. Through his work with ASCAPand several U.S.-based charities, he has designed for a starry roster thatincludes Bernadette Peters, Barbra Streisand, Reba McEntire, Melissa Errico,Deborah Voigt, Michael Urie, Stevie Wonder, India.Arie, Garth Brooks, BillyJoel, and Sting. His international touring schedule has allowed him to design foriconic venues such as Royal Albert Hall, Paris Opera, Royal Theatre Carré inAmsterdam, the Sporting Club in Monte Carlo, the Acropolis, the famedamphitheater in Taormina, Sicily, as well as Luna Park in Buenos Aires, and theSydney Opera House. Closer to home, he has done work for the HollywoodBowl, Alice Tully Hall, and Carnegie Hall. Other Broadway credits include theTony Award–winning Liza’s at the Palace, Bea Arthur on Broadway at the BoothTheatre, Nancy LaMott’s Just in Time for Christmas, and Kathy Griffin Wants aTony at the Belasco Theater.

Scott Stauffer

Scott Stauffer has been the sound designer for Lincoln Center’s AmericanSongbook since 1999. His Broadway design credits include A Free Man ofColor, The Rivals, Contact (also in London and Tokyo), Marie Christine, TwelfthNight, and Jekyll & Hyde. Off-Broadway Mr. Stauffer has worked onSubverted, Promises, Hereafter, A Minister’s Wife, Bernarda Alba, Third, BelleEpoque, Big Bill, Elegies, Hello Again, The Spitfire Grill, Pageant, and Hedwigand the Angry Inch. His regional credits include productions at the CapitolRepertory Theatre, University of Michigan, Hanger Theatre, Berkshire TheatreFestival, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and Alley Theatre. His concert creditsinclude many Lincoln Center galas, as well as the Actors Fund concerts ofFrank Loesser, Broadway 101, Hair, and On the Twentieth Century. AtCarnegie Hall he has worked with Chita Rivera and Brian Stokes Mitchell. Asa sound engineer, Mr. Stauffer has worked on The Lion King, Juan Darién,Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Carousel, Once on This Island, and the originalLittle Shop of Horrors.

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