How prettily we swim. Not in water. Not on land ... - Center on Halsted

<strong>How</strong> <strong>prettily</strong> <strong>we</strong> <strong>swim</strong>.
<strong>Not</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>water</strong>. <strong>Not</strong> on land.
But <strong>in</strong> love.
— Gertrude Ste<strong>in</strong>

We salute the follow<strong>in</strong>g contributors.
Without their dedication and generous support,
the production of Lov<strong>in</strong>g Repeat<strong>in</strong>g: A Musical
of Gertrude Ste<strong>in</strong> would not be possible.
Production sponsor
North<strong>we</strong>stern University
Deborah Bricker and Kelly Rosen
LaSalle Bank
Helen Zell
National Endowment for the Arts
Meta S. and Ronald Berger
Family Foundation
Margot and George Greig
Kovler Family Foundation
Elizabeth Amy Liebman
Institute for the Study of Women and
Gender <strong>in</strong> the Arts and Media,
Columbia College Chicago
The Cameron Family
Mary Ittelson and Rick Tuttle
Robert Kohl and Clark Pellett
Jordan and Jean Nerenberg
C. Bradford Smith and Donald L. Davis
Lynn and Allen Turner
Richard G. We<strong>in</strong>berg
Duane Schuler and Sylvia Wolf
Carol Pr<strong>in</strong>s and John H. Hart/
The Jessica Fund
Mart<strong>in</strong> Gapshis
Robert Ollis and Richard Gibbons
Ed and Betty Harris
Shirley Schnackenberg and
The Baila Foundation
Wireless microphones generously provided
by Shure Incorporated, a lead<strong>in</strong>g manufacturer
of audio electronics.
O;cial airl<strong>in</strong>e of
the Museum of
Contemporary Art
Support for this event
is provided by Progress
Pr<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>g Corporation.
Coproduced by About Face Theatre
and the Museum of Contemporary Art
Music by Stephen Flaherty
Lyrics by Gertrude Ste<strong>in</strong>
Adapted and directed by Frank Galati
Choreography by Liza Gennaro
Music direction by Tom Murray
Thursday,
February 23, 2006
Museum of
Contemporary Art
220 East Chicago Avenue
6:30 pm Performance
8 pm Reception
Tickets are $50
and are limited —
call 773.472.6469.
Proceeds benefit the
Center on Halsted and
the Museum of
Contemporary Art.
The Center on Halsted and the
Museum of Contemporary Art
<strong>in</strong>vite you to be our special guest
at a performance and reception
celebrat<strong>in</strong>g an <strong>in</strong>spired new musical.
Tony Award–w<strong>in</strong>n<strong>in</strong>g creators of the blockbuster
musical Ragtime, composer Stephen
Flaherty and Chicago’s Frank Galati, reunite
to create a lush, lyrical new musical about the
brilliant American expatriate writer Gertrude
Ste<strong>in</strong> and her passion for life, language,
and the thrill of romantic love. She and her
celebrated circle of artists, writers, and th<strong>in</strong>kers,
<strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hem<strong>in</strong>gway,
Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and her
beloved “wife” Alice B. Toklas, changed the
way contemporary artists see the world and
express themselves. Lov<strong>in</strong>g Repeat<strong>in</strong>g is a theatrical
love song to one of the most <strong>in</strong>spired,
passionate, and dar<strong>in</strong>g writers of our era,
created by two of the most important artists
work<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> American theater.

Museum of Contemporary Art
220 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611
A reception celebrat<strong>in</strong>g
Lov<strong>in</strong>g Repeat<strong>in</strong>g:
A Musical of Gertrude Ste<strong>in</strong>