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avo!<br />
Christian McBride brings<br />
The Movement Revisited,<br />
a tribute to the icons of<br />
the Civil Rights movement,<br />
to the 10th annual<br />
TD James Moody<br />
Jazz Festival.<br />
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21 Kathleen Madigan<br />
Friday, <strong>December</strong> 10, <strong>2021</strong> | 7 & 9:30PM<br />
24 The Nutcracker<br />
The State Ballet Theatre of Ukraine<br />
Saturday, <strong>December</strong> 11, <strong>2021</strong> | 3PM<br />
33 Greg Gutfeld: The Plus Tour<br />
with special guest Tom Shillue<br />
Sunday, <strong>December</strong> 12, <strong>2021</strong> | 3PM<br />
35 Mannheim Steamroller<br />
Wednesday, <strong>December</strong> 15 | 7:30PM<br />
37 The Hip Hop Nutcracker<br />
with special guest MC Kurtis Blow<br />
Saturday, <strong>December</strong> 18, <strong>2021</strong> | 2 & 8PM<br />
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greetings, friends!<br />
John Schreiber<br />
President & CEO<br />
You’re here! At last. Everyone at <strong>NJPAC</strong> is thrilled to<br />
welcome you back to your Arts Center.<br />
If you’re anything like me, one of the many difficult<br />
restrictions of the past year was going without<br />
live performances.<br />
Music, dance, theater — they may not be essential in<br />
quite the same way that groceries are. But they are<br />
essential to the human spirit all the same.<br />
Sure, television was there like it always is; there were<br />
stacks of books to read. But the special magic of live<br />
performance, of hearing an artist sing or play right in front<br />
of you, with no screen between you and the music,<br />
is irreplaceable. That very particular experience was not<br />
something that could be reproduced digitally, no matter<br />
how hard we tried.<br />
While <strong>NJPAC</strong> produced hundreds of exciting, engaging<br />
virtual events during the pandemic, this, what you’re about<br />
to witness, is what we couldn’t wait to share with you again:<br />
The emotion and passion of a live audience, and a<br />
performer in the spotlight responding to the energy of the<br />
crowd. I’m so glad that we are able to present these<br />
concerts again, and that you’re here to see one of your<br />
favorites doing what they do best: Enchanting us all.<br />
Things may not have returned entirely to our old normal.<br />
You’re reading this letter on a screen instead of in a program<br />
book that was handed to you by one of <strong>NJPAC</strong>’s ushers, for<br />
example. And you’re wearing a mask while you’re in the<br />
theater, just to be sure we all stay as safe as possible.<br />
But you’re here in the theater, and a world-class artist is<br />
about to walk out onto either the Betty Wold Johnson Stage<br />
or the Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Stage, and that is worth<br />
celebrating. So welcome back. I hope you find this<br />
performance, which for many will be their first since the<br />
pandemic began, especially moving after so many months<br />
of streaming on the couch.<br />
May what you see and hear tonight lift your spirits, as the<br />
performing arts always do. And we hope to see you back<br />
again very soon.<br />
All good wishes,<br />
John Schreiber<br />
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Jazz — present, past,<br />
and future<br />
The 10th annual TD James Moody Jazz Festival<br />
offers a showcase of “America’s classical music,”<br />
from its early days to its newest stars<br />
By Jay Lustig<br />
This year’s 10th annual edition of the<br />
festival — its name honors one of<br />
the all-time-great jazz saxophonists,<br />
the late James Moody, who was<br />
raised in Newark — brings ample star<br />
power in the form of Prudential Hall<br />
concerts headlined by singers<br />
Chaka Khan (Nov 6), Dianne Reeves<br />
(Nov 13), Maria Schneider (Nov 21)<br />
and trumpeter Chris Botti (Nov 12).<br />
But that’s just the start. There are lots<br />
of other events, unique to the festival<br />
and eagerly awaited by jazz fans.<br />
These include the Sarah Vaughan<br />
International Jazz Vocal<br />
Competition — which pays tribute to<br />
Newark’s own “Divine One,” the<br />
dazzling Vaughan, and has been a<br />
part of the festival since its start. This<br />
year’s competition takes place Nov 14<br />
at <strong>NJPAC</strong>’s Victoria Theater and will<br />
be hosted by McBride, who will<br />
also play bass for Reeves during a<br />
musical segment. Past winners of this<br />
competition who have gone on to big<br />
things in the jazz world include Cyrille<br />
Aimée and Jazzmeia Horn.<br />
McBride will also present his big band,<br />
a gospel choir and guest orators in the<br />
New Jersey premiere of his ambitious<br />
The Movement Revisited: A Musical<br />
Portrait of Four Icons — an epic<br />
composition inspired by the legacies<br />
of Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Muhammad<br />
Ali and the Rev. Martin Luther<br />
King Jr. — Nov 11 at Prudential Hall.<br />
Poets Sonia Sanchez, Willie Perdomo<br />
and John Murillo and actor Dion<br />
Graham will read the words of those<br />
Civil Rights heroes. The Last Poets,<br />
a veteran group of poets and<br />
musicians whose performances laid<br />
the groundwork for the emergence<br />
of hip hop, will open the evening.<br />
The Maria Schneider Orchestra<br />
will play two shows Nov 21 at<br />
the Victoria Theater; Schneider’s<br />
last album, Data Lords, a musical<br />
exploration of the contrast between<br />
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Dianne Reeves<br />
The number of concerts on its schedule<br />
isn’t the only thing that makes <strong>NJPAC</strong>’s<br />
TD James Moody Jazz Festival<br />
New Jersey’s most notable celebration<br />
of the music — it’s the remarkable<br />
diversity of the offerings that makes<br />
this month-long event really stand out.<br />
Some of its events are large; others<br />
are intimate. Some are ticketed;<br />
others free. Some look back at the<br />
storied past of “America’s classical<br />
music;” others give a glimpse of<br />
its future. Countless different styles<br />
of jazz are represented.<br />
“It’s hard not to be diverse,” says<br />
Christian McBride, <strong>NJPAC</strong>’s Jazz<br />
Advisor. “When you’re talking<br />
about presenting jazz, there are so<br />
many different branches of this huge<br />
tree. You’ve got to bring in different<br />
flavors and different inflections of<br />
the language.”<br />
Chris Botti<br />
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jazz — past, present, future<br />
there’s a big chance that they came<br />
under the tutelage of George Wein.<br />
And that includes (<strong>NJPAC</strong> president<br />
and CEO) John Schreiber as well.”<br />
Chaka Khan<br />
Django Festival Allstars<br />
Maria Schneider<br />
our digital lives and the natural<br />
world, was DownBeat’s Jazz Album<br />
of the Year and the NPR Jazz Critics<br />
Poll Album of the year. Schneider<br />
herself is an NEA Jazz Master.<br />
Tony®-winning actress Lillias White<br />
will pay tribute to Vaughan with Divine<br />
Sassy, a cabaret show at <strong>NJPAC</strong>’s<br />
Chase Room, Nov 14. And saxophonistclarinetist<br />
Anat Cohen will lead a<br />
tribute to the legendary concert<br />
promoter George Wein, Nov 20 at<br />
the Victoria Theater, with guests<br />
including McBride, pianist Kenny<br />
Barron, trumpeter Randy Brecker,<br />
saxophonist Lew Tabackin,<br />
bassist Peter Washington and<br />
the vocal trio Duchess.<br />
Wein, who passed away in <strong>September</strong>,<br />
three weeks shy of his 96th birthday,<br />
founded the Newport Jazz Festival<br />
in 1954 and remained one of the jazz<br />
world’s hardest working and most<br />
well known impresarios for decades.<br />
McBride says he considers Wein one<br />
of his mentors, and added that he<br />
“has really been a mentor to almost<br />
everyone (in jazz). He literally has<br />
created a universe. Anyone who’s<br />
behind the scenes in jazz, doing<br />
any level of producing or curating...<br />
Among the festival’s many other<br />
offerings are the Django Festival<br />
Allstars (playing the music of<br />
legendary guitarist Django Reinhardt),<br />
Nov 5 at the Chase Room; bassist<br />
Buster Williams in a Jazz Vespers<br />
concert, Nov 6 at Bethany Baptist<br />
Church; saxophonist Don Braden’s<br />
Septet in a family-friendly afternoon<br />
of music and jazz education, Nov 7 at<br />
the Victoria Theater; a screening of the<br />
documentary The WBGO Story: Bright<br />
Moments from Newark to the World,<br />
Nov 13 at Bethany Baptist Church;<br />
pianist Cyrus Chestnut in an intimate<br />
brunch show hosted by Newark’s<br />
First Lady of Jazz, Dorthaan Kirk,<br />
Nov 14 at <strong>NJPAC</strong>’s NICO Kitchen + Bar.<br />
Asked what he is most excited about,<br />
McBride responds, “I hate to sound<br />
selfish, but I’m really excited about<br />
playing The Movement Revisited. But<br />
I’m also very excited about having our<br />
great friend, Dianne Reeves, coming<br />
back. I’m excited about Chaka coming<br />
back. I’m excited about my old friend<br />
Chris Botti coming back. The tribute<br />
to George Wein will be very special.<br />
“Everybody, I think, is itching to<br />
go back out and hear live music<br />
again. There have been a few<br />
opportunities, here and there. A<br />
few places have opened up slowly.<br />
But to have our full festival... we’re<br />
very much looking forward to that.<br />
And I think we’ve also done a very<br />
good job of keeping cautious and<br />
trying to make sure everyone is safe,<br />
before bringing them back.” •<br />
A musical<br />
homage to Civil<br />
Rights icons<br />
McBride’s The Movement<br />
Revisited salutes social<br />
justice heroes, in a<br />
New Jersey premier of<br />
the performer-composer’s<br />
‘magnum opus’<br />
It has been called Christian<br />
McBride’s magnum opus:<br />
The Movement Revisited:<br />
A Musical Portrait of Four Icons,<br />
which the GRAMMY®-winning<br />
bassist, composer and educator will<br />
present at <strong>NJPAC</strong>’s Prudential Hall,<br />
Nov 11, in its New Jersey premiere.<br />
The Montclair resident, who<br />
serves as <strong>NJPAC</strong>’s Jazz Advisor,<br />
will perform the musically varied<br />
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a musical homage...<br />
epic with his Christian McBride Big<br />
Band and the Voices of the Flame<br />
gospel choir, plus poets Sonia<br />
Sanchez, Willie Perdomo and John<br />
Murillo and actor Dion Graham<br />
reading the words of Rosa Parks,<br />
Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, the<br />
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and<br />
Barack Obama. The words of these<br />
icons serve as prologues to musical<br />
segments that reflect their spirit.<br />
McBride, who has called The Movement<br />
Revisited his “tip of the cap” to the<br />
heroes of the Civil Rights era, hasn’t<br />
presented it live since 2015. He says he<br />
feels that this year’s TD James Moody<br />
Jazz Festival is “the right time… and<br />
the right place” to perform it again.<br />
“I’m very much looking forward to it,”<br />
he says. “The mood of the concert is<br />
one of hope and promise. You hear the<br />
words that these people spoke. And if<br />
Christian McBride<br />
you start listening closely to the words<br />
and if you get, not a sense of pride, but<br />
a sense of what to do — a course of<br />
action — I think it makes you feel good.”<br />
He explains further: “It’s inspirational.<br />
At least for me, I hope you don’t listen<br />
to these words and listen to the music<br />
and sort of get this sense of pride of,<br />
‘Look what these amazing people<br />
did so that we might have a better<br />
life,’ and then kind of fist bump your<br />
chest and feel good about what<br />
they’ve done. No, they’re telling you<br />
that we need to do something.”<br />
McBride was born in 1972 and first<br />
learned about Civil Rights figures as a<br />
student growing up in Philadelphia, and<br />
by reading old copies of Ebony and Jet<br />
magazines that his grandmother saved.<br />
“I’m so deeply moved that our dear<br />
brother, Christian, would do this piece,<br />
because... many people are, in a sense,<br />
ignoring that history and herstory<br />
that is so important,” says Sanchez,<br />
who first earned national attention as<br />
a poet and activist during the ’60s.<br />
As necessary as it may seem for this<br />
moment in our country’s history, The<br />
Movement Revisited has existed, in<br />
different forms, for more than 20 years.<br />
McBride wrote the first version in 1998,<br />
including excerpts from speeches and<br />
writings of Parks, Malcolm X, Ali and<br />
“So, if The Movement<br />
Revisited can<br />
propel awareness<br />
of not just today’s<br />
issues, but our<br />
history, while<br />
pleasing people<br />
musically, then it<br />
has done its job.”<br />
– Christian McBride<br />
King. A decade later, he expanded it<br />
with words by and music inspired by<br />
Barack Obama, who had just become<br />
the country’s first African-American<br />
president. McBride’s new, celebratory<br />
final section was titled “Apotheosis:<br />
<strong>November</strong> 4th, 2008.” The date<br />
refers, of course, to the day on which<br />
Obama was first elected president.<br />
McBride kept the Four Icons in the<br />
subtitle instead of changing it to five.<br />
In a 2013 interview with JazzTimes,<br />
McBride said the new fifth movement<br />
was “more like a 4A, like a carryover<br />
from the King movement. I thought<br />
that moment — the night of his election —<br />
was bigger than him. It seemed to me<br />
that his election was an apotheosis of<br />
what happened in the ’60s and ’70s.<br />
(The movement) consists of the four<br />
voices — Parks, King, X, and Ali — reading<br />
Obama’s victory speech that night.”<br />
In 2013, McBride presented<br />
The Movement Revisited at the University<br />
of Maryland, with Harry Belafonte<br />
reading King’s words. In February<br />
2020, The Movement Revisited was<br />
released for the first time in album<br />
form, on the jazz label Mack Avenue.<br />
“What’s going on with our society<br />
right now is that we’re picking up the<br />
struggle over civil rights — human rights,<br />
really — where we left off at an earlier<br />
time in our culture, while also fighting<br />
some new battles,” said McBride at<br />
the time of the album’s release. “So, if<br />
The Movement Revisited can propel<br />
awareness of not just today’s issues,<br />
but our history, while pleasing people<br />
musically, then it has done its job.”<br />
Before McBride’s piece is performed,<br />
the evening will begin with a performance<br />
by The Last Poets, featuring Abiodun<br />
Oyewole, Umar Bin Hassan, and Babadon<br />
Babatunde. This pioneering group of<br />
poets and musicians formed in 1968;<br />
their work, always devoted to raising<br />
African-American consciousness, laid the<br />
groundwork for the emergence of hip hop.<br />
This presentation of The Movement<br />
Revisited is supported through <strong>NJPAC</strong> and<br />
Rutgers-Newark’s City Verses: Elevating<br />
Voices Through Jazz and Poetry initiative,<br />
funded by the Mellon Foundation. •<br />
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Dining out, at last<br />
Healthy options, indulgent treats, patio vibes —<br />
and the best fries in Newark — are on<br />
Nico Kitchen + Bar’s new menu<br />
Like so many people did during<br />
the pandemic, Andy Watterson,<br />
Executive Chef at Nico Kitchen + Bar<br />
on the <strong>NJPAC</strong> campus, and James<br />
Hampson, the restaurant’s General<br />
Manager, took a pause in their<br />
work to pursue healthier living.<br />
They ate more vegetables, got<br />
into running together; Andy recalls<br />
running a recent race at an eightminute-and-two-second-per-mile<br />
pace. (“Not bad for 45!” he laughs.)<br />
Top: Signature sandwich, a towering fried chicken extravagance topped with<br />
aioli and spicy hot honey with Swizzle Fries. Left: Nico Kitchen + Bar patio.<br />
Right: Andy Watterson; Executive Chef and James Hampson, General Manager.<br />
But when they came back to the<br />
restaurant in early June, to prep for<br />
the reopening of the restaurant —<br />
which was closed for a total of 451<br />
days and a few hours, Andy notes —<br />
they looked at each other and said:<br />
“Hey, let’s make some fries!”<br />
“I think we all have both those<br />
impulses right now,” Andy muses.<br />
“During the whole shutdown, a lot of<br />
us looked inward, made a decision<br />
to pursue a healthier lifestyle. At the<br />
same time, though, now that we’re<br />
out, we’re celebrating with comfort<br />
foods, we’re looking for the things<br />
we couldn’t make for ourselves.”<br />
“And not a lot of people have<br />
deep fryers at home, so...”<br />
Those two post-pandemic impulses —<br />
staying healthy, and giving way to<br />
indulgence — both have a place in the<br />
new menu at Nico, which Andy and<br />
James spent weeks refining ahead of<br />
the restaurant’s late-June reopening.<br />
So there’s a new, entirely vegan grain<br />
bowl topped with veggies — but there’s<br />
also a new signature sandwich, a<br />
towering fried chicken extravagance<br />
topped with aioli and spicy hot<br />
honey. Made with a cutlet marinated<br />
in buttermilk and spices and then<br />
deep-fried, it’s decadence on a<br />
bun — and within the first month of<br />
the restaurant’s reopening, Andy<br />
was making a dozen every night.<br />
And then there are the fries.<br />
Dubbed “swizzle fries,” they’re as<br />
unlike the fast-food variety as you<br />
can imagine: Ridged, an inch thick<br />
or more across, and twisted into<br />
curving waves — the better to hold<br />
the cheese, bacon and scallions<br />
they’re topped with for an appetizer.<br />
“They’re spun-cut — it’s a newer<br />
technique,” says Andy. “They’re<br />
heartier, more...potato-ey? I want<br />
to say they’re ‘meaty’ even<br />
though they’re not meat.”<br />
Like all the offerings on Nico’s newly<br />
slimmed down, simplified menu,<br />
they were designed with outdoor<br />
eating in mind. For the mid-summer<br />
reopening, the restaurant expanded<br />
its patio to accommodate more<br />
outside diners, adding broad orange<br />
umbrellas to make eating al fresco<br />
more comfortable. And the menu is<br />
geared to a relaxed, warm-weather,<br />
people-watching pace as well.<br />
“We wanted to offer very simple<br />
but very elegant food,” said James,<br />
who came to Nico just months<br />
before the shutdown after a<br />
long career at Bonefish Grill.<br />
“For the summer, our focus was on<br />
that patio meal and being outside<br />
and having a nice, chill, relaxed vibe,<br />
with a trimmed-down, relaxed menu.”<br />
By August, it was evident that the<br />
approach was working: Even with<br />
a limited series of performances<br />
on <strong>NJPAC</strong>’s stages, the restaurant<br />
hummed with activity. During<br />
Sounds of the City performances, of<br />
course, the patio was packed with<br />
patrons — but even during quiet nights<br />
at the Arts Center, Nico bustled.<br />
“What’s surprised us is how many<br />
people have moved into this<br />
neighborhood now,” says James,<br />
“and those locals are returning to<br />
the restaurant frequently. We have<br />
regulars now, which wasn’t something<br />
we necessarily had before.”<br />
“That’s a really promising sign, to<br />
me — when people are coming<br />
back again and again, it means<br />
you’re doing something right!”<br />
For the fall, the menu will lean<br />
into heartier, more sustaining<br />
comfort fare — but healthy options<br />
will be a constant presence on<br />
the ever-evolving lineup. •<br />
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calendar of events oct — jun <strong>2021</strong><br />
babyface<br />
nov 21<br />
oct 30<br />
christian<br />
mcbride<br />
nov 11<br />
chris<br />
botti<br />
nov 12<br />
sarah<br />
brightman<br />
nov 27<br />
frankie valli and<br />
the four seasons<br />
nov 19–20<br />
dianne<br />
reeves<br />
nov 13<br />
chaka<br />
khan<br />
nov 6<br />
oct <strong>2021</strong><br />
Thu Oct 14 7:30PM Boney James<br />
Fri Oct 15 8PM Havasi<br />
Fri Oct 15 7:30PM Tierney Sutton & Ann Hampton Callaway — In Technicolor<br />
Sun Oct 17 7PM Los Tigres del Norte<br />
Fri Oct 22 7:30PM Parsons Dance<br />
Fri Oct 22 8PM 90’s All-Star Dance Concert<br />
featuring Robin S., CeCe Peniston, Black Sheep, Ten City,<br />
Lumidee, George Lamond, Lisette Melendez, Aly-Us,<br />
Nardo Ranks, Marshall Jefferson, Strafe,<br />
Rochelle Fleming and Boriqua Posse<br />
Sat Oct 23 8PM Ledisi with special guests Musiq Soulchild & Kenyon Dixon<br />
Fri Oct 29 8PM Gilberto Santa Rosa<br />
Sat Oct 30 2PM Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows TM Part 1 In Concert<br />
with the NJSO<br />
nov <strong>2021</strong><br />
Fri Nov 5 8PM John Waite<br />
Fri Nov 19 8PM Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons<br />
Sat Nov 20 8PM Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons<br />
Sun Nov 21 7PM Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds<br />
Fri Nov 26 8PM Thanksgiving Comedy Fest<br />
with Earthquake, Luenell, Capone, Smokey<br />
and hosted by Tony Rock<br />
Sat Nov 27 8PM Sarah Brightman — A Christmas Symphony<br />
Sat Nov 27 8 & 10PM Chris Distefano<br />
TD James Moody Jazz Festival<br />
Fri Nov 5 6 & 8:30PM Django Festival Allstars featuring Samson Schmitt,<br />
Ludovic Beier, Pierre Blanchard, Doudou Cuillerier<br />
& Antonio Licusati<br />
Sat Nov 6 6PM Jazz Vespers: Buster Williams<br />
Sat Nov 6 7PM Nimbus Dance<br />
Sat Nov 6 8PM Chaka Khan with special guest Leela James<br />
Sun Nov 7 2PM WBGO Kids Jazz: Don Braden Septet<br />
Thu Nov 11 7:30PM Christian McBride’s The Movement Revisited:<br />
A Musical Portrait of Four Icons<br />
Fri Nov 12 7PM Divine Sass: Lillias White Sings Sarah Vaughan<br />
Fri Nov 12 8PM Chris Botti<br />
Sat Nov 13 8PM Dianne Reeves plus Artemis featuring Renee Rosnes,<br />
Anat Cohen, Ingrid Jensen, Nicole Glover,<br />
Noriko Ueda and Allison Miller<br />
Sat Nov 13 2PM The WBGO Story: Bright Moments from Newark<br />
to the World<br />
Sun Nov 14 11AM & 1PM Dorthaan’s Place: Cyrus Chestnut<br />
Sun Nov 14 3PM Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition<br />
Sun Nov 21 3 & 7PM Maria Schneider Orchestra<br />
Artists, dates, times, locations and programs subject to change at any time.<br />
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calendar of events oct — jun <strong>2021</strong><br />
the<br />
nutcracker<br />
dec 11<br />
ana<br />
gabriel<br />
jun 10<br />
the princess bride<br />
an inconceivable<br />
evening with<br />
cary elwes<br />
dec 3<br />
paw patrol live!<br />
dec 31 & jan 2<br />
alivin ailey<br />
american<br />
dance theater<br />
may 6–8<br />
johnny<br />
mathis<br />
jun 24<br />
dec <strong>2021</strong><br />
Wed Dec 1 7:30PM Neil deGrasse Tyson —<br />
The Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries<br />
Fri Dec 3 7:30PM The Princess Bride — An Inconceivable Evening<br />
with Cary Elwes<br />
Sat Dec 4 7PM Richard Thompson<br />
Tue Dec 7 8PM Earth, Wind & Fire<br />
Wed Dec 8 8PM Earth, Wind & Fire<br />
Thu Dec 9 7:30PM Jane Lynch — A Swingin’ Little Christmas! Live in Concert<br />
Fri Dec 10 7 & 9:30PM Kathleen Madigan — Do You Have Any Ranch? Tour<br />
Sat Dec 11 3PM The Nutcracker — State Ballet Theatre of Ukraine<br />
Sun Dec 12 3PM Greg Gutfeld: The Plus Tour with special guest Tom Shillue<br />
Wed Dec 15 7:30PM Mannheim Steamroller — Christmas<br />
Sat Dec 18 2 & 8PM The Hip Hop Nutcracker with MC Kurtis Blow<br />
Fri Dec 31 10AM & 2PM Paw Patrol Live! The Great Pirate Adventure<br />
Sun Jan 2 10AM & 2PM Paw Patrol Live! The Great Pirate Adventure<br />
jan 2022<br />
Fri Jan 14 8PM Kashmir<br />
Sat Jan 15 7 & 9:30PM Tom Papa — Family Reunion Tour<br />
Sat Jan 15 8PM Stephanie Mills & The Whispers<br />
Fri Jan 21 8PM George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic<br />
Sun Jan 23 7PM Mariza — The 20th Anniversary Tour<br />
Sat Jan 29 7:30PM Celebrating the Theater Songs of Leonard Bernstein<br />
Featuring Bill Charlap and the Bill Charlap Trio<br />
author Jamie Bernstein and host Ted Chapin<br />
feb 2022<br />
Sat Feb 5 2PM Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company — Year of the Water Tiger<br />
Sun Feb 6 2PM Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company — Year of the Water Tiger<br />
mar 2022<br />
Fri Mar 4 7PM Recycled Percussion<br />
Sun Mar 6 3PM Seong-Jin Cho<br />
Sat Mar 12 3 & 7:30PM Peking Acrobats<br />
Sat Mar 19 3 & 8PM Candice Guardino’s — Italian Bred<br />
Fri Mar 25 8PM Vic DiBitetto<br />
Sat Mar 26 8PM Vic DiBitetto<br />
apr 2022<br />
Fri Apr 1 7:30PM Tom Segura — I’m Coming Everywhere World Tour<br />
Wed Apr 13 7PM Disney Princess: The Concert<br />
Sun Apr 24 3PM The Doo Wop Project<br />
may 2022<br />
Fri May 6 8PM Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater<br />
Sat May 7 8PM Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater<br />
Sun May 8 3PM Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater<br />
jun 2022<br />
Fri Jun 10 8PM Ana Gabriel — Por Amor a Ustedes<br />
Fri Jun 24 8PM Johnny Mathis with special guest Gary Mule Deer<br />
Fri Jun 24 8PM Welcome to Night Vale: The Haunting of Night Vale<br />
Artists, dates, times, locations and programs subject to change at any time.<br />
Artists, dates, times, locations and programs subject to change at any time.<br />
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Bringing<br />
mission<br />
front and<br />
center<br />
saturday<br />
performing arts<br />
programs<br />
<strong>NJPAC</strong>’s new Cooperman Family Arts Education and<br />
Community Center will be a home for innovative<br />
artistic initiatives — and a base for community<br />
programming throughout Newark.<br />
band • hip hop<br />
jazz • theater<br />
Programs start at $50<br />
Sign Up!<br />
Visit njpac.org/education for more information.<br />
New Jersey audiences already know<br />
<strong>NJPAC</strong> as a wonderful place to see<br />
their favorite artists from all over the<br />
world perform in a beautiful theater.<br />
What many audience members don’t<br />
realize, however, is that the Arts Center<br />
is also one of the nation’s largest nonprofit<br />
arts education organizations.<br />
<strong>NJPAC</strong> offers arts training classes on<br />
its campus, performing arts residencies<br />
in schools across the state and<br />
professional development workshops<br />
for teachers from across the country.<br />
<strong>NJPAC</strong> also offers hundreds of<br />
free events in Newark outside<br />
its theaters — from Books on the<br />
Move literacy workshops for<br />
preschoolers, to Pearls of Wisdom<br />
panel discussions between elders<br />
and young people and Jazz Jam<br />
concerts for music lovers — through<br />
its Community Engagement<br />
department. These educational<br />
and community programs reach<br />
tens of thousands of children<br />
and families in a typical year.<br />
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inging mission front and center<br />
All of that work will move front<br />
and center on the Arts Center’s<br />
campus with the construction of the<br />
Cooperman Family Arts Education<br />
and Community Center, which is<br />
slated to open at the corners of<br />
Center and Mulberry Streets in 2024.<br />
The project’s development was<br />
launched by an extraordinary $20<br />
million gift from Leon and Toby<br />
Cooperman and the Cooperman<br />
family. This new facility will put the<br />
Arts Center’s work that supports<br />
kids, families and performing artists<br />
“...we hope to make<br />
free, effective arts<br />
programming<br />
available to<br />
everyone in the<br />
city, removing the<br />
barriers of cost,<br />
distance and<br />
transportation.”<br />
<br />
– Eyesha Marable<br />
in <strong>NJPAC</strong>’s “front yard,” directly<br />
across the street from the theaters.<br />
The Cooperman Center will be a<br />
purpose-built home for <strong>NJPAC</strong>’s<br />
arts education and community<br />
engagement programs. As you<br />
might expect, this new building<br />
will house classrooms for existing<br />
arts training programs and a fullyfunctioning<br />
black box theater<br />
for student performances, and<br />
spaces — from outdoor gathering<br />
spots to indoor rooms with<br />
technology that allows programs to<br />
be shared digitally — for community<br />
engagement programs such as film<br />
screenings and panel discussions.<br />
But the Center will also offer so<br />
much more, including an initiative<br />
to develop new arts education<br />
programs and to train teachers —<br />
from New Jersey, and from across<br />
the country — to integrate the arts<br />
into daily classroom activities.<br />
A whole floor of the Center will be<br />
devoted to professional rehearsal<br />
spaces, where visiting artists and<br />
performance groups can come<br />
to rehearse and develop new<br />
work — while interacting with <strong>NJPAC</strong><br />
students and the community.<br />
“The Cooperman Center will be<br />
where all are invited to create —<br />
where staff and teaching artists<br />
can invent curricula and pedagogy<br />
grounded in trauma-informed care,<br />
where artists can create work that is<br />
responsive to our community, where<br />
students find their voice through<br />
art-making, and where elders can<br />
celebrate and reflect on Newark’s rich<br />
artistic history,” says Chelsea Keys,<br />
<strong>NJPAC</strong>’s Director of Special Projects.<br />
These arts education programs will, at<br />
the Cooperman Center, grow beyond<br />
what <strong>NJPAC</strong> currently offers to include<br />
programs for preschoolers, elders<br />
and even workforce development<br />
programs, where young people<br />
can learn about technical and<br />
administrative careers in the arts.<br />
There will even be a children’s arts<br />
reading room, curated in conjunction<br />
with the Newark Public Library, which<br />
features books written specifically for<br />
youngsters about artists in all genres.<br />
The Cooperman Center will create an environment where new methods of teaching<br />
the arts are developed, tested and shared, both in person and digitally.<br />
A new series of programs created<br />
around the idea of marrying the<br />
performing arts with wellbeing — think<br />
art therapy classes, or dance movement<br />
workshops that include presentations<br />
by nutritionists — will also be offered<br />
at the Cooperman Center.<br />
In conjunction with the opening of<br />
the Cooperman Center, <strong>NJPAC</strong> will<br />
also launch an effort to expand<br />
its community engagement<br />
programming through all five wards<br />
of the city. The Arts Center has<br />
long offered free events at parks,<br />
churches, schools and libraries. But<br />
historically, most of these programs<br />
were held in Newark’s Central<br />
Ward. Distance and transportation<br />
concerns often kept Newarkers in<br />
other wards from taking part.<br />
The expectation is that predictable,<br />
free and accessible <strong>NJPAC</strong><br />
programming at the Cooperman<br />
Center and at satellite locations<br />
across the city will bring strength<br />
to strength, and organically<br />
support even more community arts<br />
access in every neighborhood.<br />
“With more events in every<br />
corner of Newark — produced by<br />
either <strong>NJPAC</strong>, or by our partner<br />
organizations — we hope to make<br />
free, effective arts programming<br />
available to everyone in the city,<br />
removing the barriers of cost, distance<br />
and transportation,” says Eyesha<br />
Marable, Assistant Vice President of<br />
Community Engagement at <strong>NJPAC</strong>.<br />
“What we envision is a collaborative<br />
relationship between <strong>NJPAC</strong><br />
and the Cooperman Center, our<br />
partners, and the community<br />
itself, that will serve to illuminate<br />
the whole city,” says Marable.<br />
These new initiatives will likely<br />
launch in <strong>September</strong> 2022, ahead<br />
of the Cooperman Center’s<br />
opening in the fall of 2024. •<br />
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Friday, <strong>December</strong> 10, <strong>2021</strong><br />
7 & 9:30PM<br />
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The use of recording equipment and the taking of photographs are strictly prohibited.<br />
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meet the artist<br />
meet the artist<br />
Comedian Kathleen Madigan’s<br />
32-year comedy career is showing<br />
no signs of slowing down. Madigan has<br />
been touring 250 nights a year on the<br />
road and has risen from performing<br />
in comedy clubs to performing in<br />
marquee theaters with sold-out shows.<br />
She’s squeezed in over 40 appearances<br />
on late night talk shows and multiple<br />
comedy specials airing on Netflix,<br />
Comedy Central and HBO. She also<br />
recently joined Jerry Seinfeld on his<br />
Netflix show Comedians in Cars Getting<br />
Coffee and made the most of the<br />
pandemic by launching a podcast,<br />
Madigan’s Pubcast, on all streaming<br />
outlets. Recently asked if her career was<br />
planned, she said, “No, like that guy in<br />
the Joy of Painting used to say, it was a<br />
happy accident. This whole thing just<br />
started out as a reason to drink and<br />
wow, what a great drinking accident.”<br />
special and will be her third special to<br />
be available on Netflix. “I love working<br />
with them. They’re the young people.<br />
Network TV will need to adapt quickly<br />
to even have a chance to stay in the<br />
game. Netflix gets it and makes it so<br />
easy for us. Instead of it being a battle<br />
of content and rules, it’s just fun.<br />
What it’s supposed to be,” she says.<br />
Her album of the Bothering Jesus special<br />
was the highest selling comedy album<br />
and most played comedy album on<br />
streaming services since 2014.<br />
Discussing her latest endeavor,<br />
Madigan said of her podcast,<br />
“During COVID it was so strange<br />
to be home. I’ve haven’t been off and<br />
home for more than three weeks in<br />
32 years so it was odd. Once it was<br />
clear we weren’t going out on the road<br />
anytime soon, I decided a podcast<br />
would be a fun way to stay in touch with<br />
people. I’d have never had the time with<br />
the road being kind of all-consuming.<br />
I plan to keep doing now just<br />
because it’s been so much fun<br />
and something different.”<br />
So how is it, the Detroit Free Press<br />
asks, “that Madigan has yet to be<br />
cast as the wise cracking a) best friend<br />
b) office worker or c) martini-swilling<br />
mother-in-law in any of countless<br />
sitcoms? We’re thinking it’s because<br />
she’s so irreplaceable on the stage.<br />
She’s described as the funniest woman<br />
doing standup right now but no gender<br />
qualifier is necessary. Along with<br />
Lewis Black, Brian Regan and<br />
Jim Gaffigan, she’s one of the funniest<br />
standup comedians of her generation.”<br />
a sitcom or in a TV commercial.<br />
Those things never ever crossed my<br />
mind,” Madigan says. “For a few of<br />
us working, telling jokes was our main<br />
goal. I don’t have any more goals.<br />
Can’t you ever have a goal, reach it<br />
and enjoy it? Our society is being<br />
driven by type-A lunatics who say<br />
you have to set more goals.<br />
Well maybe they do but we all<br />
don’t. Have a seat, grab a drink<br />
and enjoy the fact you achieved<br />
the goal. Maybe that’s the Irish in<br />
me talking though.”<br />
After a recent performance at the<br />
Chicago Theater, the Chicago Tribune<br />
wrote, “She has all but perfected the art<br />
of crafting and delivering a perfect joke.<br />
That singular dedication to the craft<br />
shows in both the evolution of<br />
her material over the years and way<br />
she can make a complicated joke with<br />
a hidden nub of wisdom seem both<br />
effortless and offhand.”<br />
Madigan has performed internationally<br />
at festivals in theaters in Ireland,<br />
England, Hong Kong, Australia and<br />
has filmed seven Montreal Gala Shows<br />
at the Montreal Comedy Festival for<br />
CBC TV. “I never realized how<br />
Middle America I am until performing<br />
overseas. It all works but needs some<br />
tweaking when the crowd isn’t all<br />
Americans. It’s a good challenge and<br />
made me a better comedian.”<br />
She also has joined numerous USO<br />
trips to entertain troops around the<br />
globe, including Iraq and Afghanistan.<br />
“The USO shows are the best. Trust me,<br />
no crowd is as appreciative and fired up<br />
to see any entertainer. I’m glad I have<br />
the chance because God knows I don’t<br />
want to have to do their job!”<br />
She’s won the American Comedy<br />
Award for Best Female Comedian<br />
and the Phyllis Diller award for Best<br />
Female Comedian. She has written<br />
and produced for Lewis Black’s<br />
Root of All Evil on Comedy Central.<br />
Madigan is an advocate and<br />
fundraiser for Cystic Fibrosis and Autism.<br />
Madigan originally hails from<br />
St. Louis, Missouri.<br />
Her most recent special Bothering<br />
Jesus is her fifth hour-long standup<br />
“I just want to tell jokes. I didn’t start<br />
doing open mics to become an actor on<br />
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prudential hall<br />
betty wold johnson stage<br />
Saturday, <strong>December</strong> 11, <strong>2021</strong><br />
3PM<br />
<strong>NJPAC</strong> presents<br />
The State Ballet Theatre of Ukraine<br />
P. Tchaikovsky<br />
The Nutcracker<br />
Ballet – Fairy in Two Acts with an Epilogue<br />
Libretto by<br />
Marius Petipa<br />
General Director of the Theatre<br />
Konstantin Pinchuk<br />
Production by<br />
Andrey Litvinov<br />
Adapted from E.T.A. Hoffmann’s story<br />
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King<br />
Edited by<br />
Andrey Litvinov<br />
Choreography by<br />
Marius Petipat, Lev Ivanov, Olexander Gorsky,<br />
Vasil Vanonen, Anatoly Yemelyanov<br />
Set design by<br />
Olena Gavdzynska<br />
Artistic Director of the Ballet<br />
Andrey Litvinov<br />
Costume Design by<br />
Nadya Shvets<br />
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The use of recording equipment and the taking of photographs are strictly prohibited.<br />
This program is made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State,<br />
a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts and by funds from the National Endowment for the Arts.<br />
cast<br />
President Sidberhaus ................................................................................................................Igor Kasian<br />
Mrs. Sidberhaus, his wife ..........................................................................................Darya Dubrovina<br />
Marie, their daughter .........................................................................................................Alina Veretina<br />
Fritz, their son........................................................................................................................Sergei Badalov<br />
Drosselmeier, the councilman ....................................................................................Eygenii Kuchvar<br />
Nutcracker, the prince .......................................................................................................Sergii Zdanskii<br />
Nutcracker, the toy ......................................................................................................Dennis Kovalenko<br />
Mouse King.....................................................................................................................................Vlad Surdu<br />
Colombina Doll.................................................................................................................. Olga Pasternak<br />
Harlequin ......................................................................................................................................... Vlad Surdu.<br />
Chocolate (Spanish Dance) ................................................Luminita Bivol, Dmitryiy Sitkevich<br />
French Dance ..............................................................................Maria Lolenko, Alexandr Litvinov<br />
Coffee (Arabian Dance) ...................................................................Iona Baetler, Alexey Churich<br />
Tea (Chinese Dance) ............................................................. Elena Badalova, Denis Kovalenko<br />
Candy Canes (Russian Dance) ........................................... Olga Pasternak, Sergeii Badalov<br />
Waltz of the Flowers ................................................Ide Umeko, Daria Dubrovina, Ulya Bilan,<br />
Marina Gulega and ballet troupe of<br />
State Dnipro Opera and Ballet Theater, Ukraine<br />
program<br />
Prologue<br />
A toymaker named Drosselmeyer is preparing gifts for President Sidberhaus’ children<br />
in his room. There is a nutcracker — a toy for cracking nuts — and the Mouse King<br />
among them. Drosselmeyer does not like the Mouse King toy and leaves it at home.<br />
ACT I<br />
Scene 1<br />
President Sidberhaus is having a<br />
Christmas Eve reception. The children<br />
look forward to seeing the Christmas<br />
tree and the Christmas gifts.<br />
Finally, the moment comes and<br />
Drosselmeyer, disguised as a magician,<br />
enters the room and amazes everyone<br />
with his art. A puppet show is presented<br />
in front of the children. The show is<br />
about the Nutcracker, who defeats the<br />
Mouse King while protecting the Princess.<br />
Drosselmeyer presents two wind-up<br />
toys: the Harlequin and the Pink Doll.<br />
President Silberhaus puts them away<br />
for safekeeping so they would not be<br />
broken by the children.<br />
The President’s daughter Marie is upset<br />
to see the dolls being taken away.<br />
Drosselmeyer soon gives Marie another<br />
doll — a clumsy and funny Nutcracker,<br />
but her brother Fritz purposely breaks it.<br />
Drosselmeyer chases the nuisance away<br />
and wants to fix the doll. Marie cradles<br />
the toy she likes so much.<br />
The adults come back from<br />
the neighboring room. They perform<br />
a ceremonial dance called Grossfater<br />
and leave.<br />
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program<br />
meet the composer<br />
Scene 2<br />
Drosselmeyer comes home and<br />
sees a lonely toy left behind —<br />
the Mouse King. The toy suddenly<br />
stops obeying Drosselmeyer and<br />
runs away. Drosselmeyer chases it.<br />
Scene 3<br />
Marie sleeps in an armchair near<br />
the Christmas tree. The Mouse King<br />
sneaks into the room and hides<br />
under the tree. Drosselmeyer enters.<br />
The clock strikes midnight.<br />
Drosselmeyer waves his wand and<br />
everything around him changes.<br />
The walls move, the Christmas tree<br />
starts growing and the toys come alive.<br />
All of the sudden, mice come out of<br />
the fireplace led by the Mouse King.<br />
The dolls are terrified. The smart and<br />
brave Nutcracker saves them by<br />
taking the tin soldiers to fight against<br />
the mice army. However, the forces<br />
are not equal. The Nutcracker remains<br />
the only soldier fighting against the<br />
Mouse King and his mice. To help her<br />
favorite toy, Marie takes a shoe off her<br />
foot and throws it at the Mouse King.<br />
The mice are terrified and retreat.<br />
Then, a miracle happens. The ugly,<br />
funny-looking toy transforms into a<br />
handsome prince. He thanks<br />
Marie for saving his life.<br />
Scene 4<br />
The tracery made by frost on<br />
the windowpanes turns into a<br />
magic winter forest. The prince<br />
and Marie are moved into the<br />
“Waltz of the Snowflakes.”<br />
INTERMISSION<br />
ACT II<br />
The magic trip continues.<br />
Drosselmeyer takes the prince and<br />
Marie to a fairy tale castle. The lights<br />
are on and Christmas toys come alive<br />
and greet the couple. All of the sudden,<br />
the Mouse King appears with his mice.<br />
The prince goes into battle and wins.<br />
Everyone celebrates the prince’s<br />
victory over the Mouse King.<br />
Chocolate performs a Spanish<br />
dance, Coffee performs an Arabian<br />
dance and Candy Canes perform<br />
a Russian dance. French lollipops<br />
present the “Dance of the Reed<br />
Flutes.” At the height of the festivities,<br />
Drosselmeyer presents the prince<br />
and Marie with a basket of pink<br />
flowers. They are happy.<br />
However…it is just a dream.<br />
Christmas Eve is over and a new<br />
day dawns. Marie is near the<br />
Christmas tree and her beloved<br />
toy Nutcracker is beside her.<br />
meet the composer<br />
Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky was the author of<br />
some of the most popular themes in all<br />
of classical music. While he did not strike<br />
out any new paths or compositional<br />
methods and sought few innovations<br />
in his work, the power of Tchaikovsky’s<br />
best music elevates it to classic status.<br />
It was Tchaikovsky’s unique melodic<br />
charm that could make the music sound<br />
familiar upon the first hearing.<br />
Tchaikovsky was born into a family<br />
of five brothers and one sister. He began<br />
taking piano lessons at age four and<br />
showed remarkable talent, eventually<br />
surpassing his own teacher’s abilities.<br />
By age nine, he exhibited severe nervous<br />
problems, not least because of his overly<br />
sensitive nature. The following year,<br />
he was sent to St. Petersburg to study<br />
at the Imperial School of Jurisprudence.<br />
The loss of his mother in 1854 dealt a<br />
crushing blow to the young Tchaikovsky.<br />
In 1859, he took a position in the Ministry<br />
of Justice, but longed for a career in<br />
music, attending concerts and operas<br />
at every opportunity. He finally began<br />
studying with Nikolai Zaremba in 1861,<br />
and enrolled at the St. Petersburg<br />
Conservatory the following year,<br />
eventually studying composition<br />
with Anton Rubinstein.<br />
In 1866, the composer relocated to<br />
Moscow, accepting a professorship<br />
at the new conservatory, and shortly<br />
afterward released his first symphony.<br />
However, he suffered a nervous<br />
breakdown during its composition.<br />
His opera The Voyevoda came<br />
in 1867-1868 and he began another,<br />
The Oprichnik, in 1870, completing it<br />
two years later. In 1869 Tchaikovsky<br />
entered into a working relationship<br />
with composer Mily Balakirev,<br />
leader of The Five; resulting in<br />
Tchaikovsky’s first recognized<br />
masterpiece, the fantasy-overture<br />
Romeo and Juliet. Other works<br />
were appearing during this time,<br />
as well, including the First String Quartet<br />
(1871), Symphony No. 2 (1873) and<br />
Swan Lake (1875).<br />
In 1876, Tchaikovsky traveled to<br />
Paris with his brother Modest, and<br />
then visited Bayreuth, where he met<br />
Hungarian composer Franz Liszt. By<br />
1877, Tchaikovsky was an established<br />
composer. This was the year of Swan<br />
Lake’s premiere and the time he<br />
began work on the Symphony No. 4<br />
(1877-1878). It was also a time when<br />
he married Antonina Milyukova, an<br />
obsessed admirer, and their disastrous<br />
union lasted just months. The composer<br />
even attempted suicide. Near the end<br />
of that year, Nadezhda von Meck,<br />
a woman he would never meet,<br />
became his patron and frequent<br />
correspondent. The period of subsidy<br />
by Madame von Meck was abundantly<br />
productive for Tchaikovsky with a<br />
spate of outstanding compositions,<br />
including the Serenade for Strings (1881),<br />
1812 Overture (1882) and Symphony<br />
No. 5 (1888). In both 1888 and 1889,<br />
Tchaikovsky went on European tours<br />
as a conductor, meeting Brahms,<br />
Grieg, Dvŏrak, Gounod and other<br />
notable musical figures. The Sleeping<br />
Beauty was premiered in 1890,<br />
and The Nutcracker in 1892,<br />
both with success.<br />
Throughout Tchaikovsky’s last years,<br />
he was continually plagued by anxiety<br />
and depression. In 1893 he finished<br />
Pathetique, his sixth symphony,<br />
which successfully premiered in<br />
<strong>October</strong> the same year. Ten days after<br />
the first performance of the new work,<br />
Tchaikovsky died of cholera in St.<br />
Petersburg on <strong>November</strong> 6, 1893.<br />
Creation of The Nutcracker<br />
The third and last ballet of<br />
P.I. Tchaikovsky, The Nutcracker was<br />
completed only a year before the<br />
composer’s death. This ballet ingeniously<br />
combines the straightforward,<br />
openhearted joy of a child with the<br />
philosophical reflection of the composer<br />
on life, death and beauty of the jest<br />
in the name of love and happiness.<br />
The libretto for The Nutcracker<br />
comes from Marius Petipa based<br />
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on the literary material of the novel by<br />
the German romanticist E.T.A. Hoffmann.<br />
In his creation, Tchaikovsky followed<br />
the treatment of Marius Petipa, but he<br />
grasped and put into music a much<br />
deeper meaning of the fairy tale.<br />
The composer created a symphonic<br />
poem about a young, innocent girl<br />
standing at the threshold of the world,<br />
dreaming about happiness and<br />
defeating evil. The music paints a vivid<br />
picture of a child’s world — their joyful<br />
games and magical dreams, which<br />
are sometimes quite uneasy and<br />
sometimes full of happiness.<br />
The first production was performed by<br />
gifted choreographer Lev Ivanov in 1892<br />
in the Mariinsky Theater. Tchaikovsky<br />
was present at the premiere and<br />
afterwards wrote in his letter to his<br />
brother about the great success of the<br />
performance. In Moscow, the ballet was<br />
staged for the first time only in 1919 by<br />
the choreographer Aleksandr Gorsky.<br />
The production of The Nutcracker<br />
by Vasili Vainonen in 1934 was the<br />
third theatrical version of the ballet.<br />
This production was staged with<br />
consideration of the experience and<br />
mistakes of the previous two.<br />
Vainonen wrote, “Tchaikovsky’s music<br />
is so graphic, dancelike and emotional,<br />
that I could not resist the temptation<br />
of recreating it in movement.”<br />
The year 1923 was a milestone in the<br />
history of the Dnipro Opera Theater<br />
when its ballet company staged an inhouse<br />
production of Swan Lake for the<br />
first time ever. The press called it<br />
“the first attempt to create a real<br />
ballet performance in the history of<br />
the City Theater”.<br />
The ballet was staged by the ballet<br />
master Robert Balanotti. Swan Lake<br />
was followed by The Little Humpbacked<br />
Horse, Coppélia and Le Corsaire.<br />
In 1926, Kasyan Goleizovsky came to<br />
Odessa. His groundbreaking approach<br />
to choreography had an immense<br />
effect on the future of the Dnipro<br />
ballet troupe. His ballets Joseph the<br />
Beautiful, In the Sunlight and “Polovetsian<br />
Dances” from the A. Borodin opera<br />
Prince Igor immediately won the hearts<br />
and minds of the Dnipro audience.<br />
Theater.Club.Cinema Magazine referred<br />
to Goleizovsky’s productions as a<br />
“contemporary ballet factory” and<br />
“Dnipro, the ballet Hollywood.”<br />
By the end of the ’20s and in the ’30s, the<br />
repertoire of the theater grew rapidly<br />
and had new ballet productions to show<br />
for it: La Carmagnole by the Odessa<br />
composer Femilidi, as well as classical<br />
ballets Don Quixote and Giselle.<br />
At that time, renowned choreographers<br />
such as Pavel Virsky, Aleksander<br />
Terekhov and Mikhail Moiseyev, who<br />
participated in the Russian Seasons in<br />
Paris as part of the Sergey Diaghilev<br />
Ballet Company, were working at the<br />
theater. Out of 19 ballets staged by<br />
Moiseyev in the Dnipro City Theater,<br />
12 were world premieres, including<br />
Raymonda and La Fille mal gardée.<br />
Tatyana Dempel, Klavdia Salnikova,<br />
Vladimir Lesnevsky, Yevgeniya Steynberg<br />
and Ivan Balayev graced the stage of<br />
the Dnipro City Theater with marvelous<br />
performances.In 1940, the ballet troupe<br />
was headed up by Vronsky Nadiradze.<br />
Just before the war broke out, he staged<br />
La Esmeralda and began working on<br />
Lileya by Konstantin Dankevich based<br />
on the literary works by T.G. Shevchenko.<br />
However, this project had to be put on<br />
hold for four years. The theater would<br />
remain open during wartime, though<br />
part of the troupe left for Krasnoyarsk,<br />
where it continued working in<br />
extremely harsh conditions.<br />
On April 10, 1944, during the Swan<br />
Lake performance in Krasnoyarsk,<br />
the conductor stopped the music and<br />
addressed the audience: “Just now<br />
they said on the radio that our troops<br />
have freed Dnipro.”<br />
The very first ballet production in<br />
the victorious year of 1945 was Lileya.<br />
And right after that — yet another<br />
comeback of the undying classic,<br />
Swan Lake, the ballet this story<br />
began with.<br />
The theater had survived the war, and<br />
finally the golden age of the ballet<br />
company began. The theater began<br />
hosting touring ballet star Marina<br />
Semenova, who’s every performance<br />
was a full house. On stage, she was<br />
a “queen.” In 1949, the great Galina<br />
Ulanova graced the Dnipro stage.<br />
The legendary Maya Plisetskaya,<br />
at the meridian of her glory,<br />
mesmerized and conquered the<br />
audience in Dnipro with her unique<br />
manner of “drawing”<br />
the dance.<br />
In the ’50s, the creative input of the<br />
chief choreographer Nikita Tregubov<br />
added many new names to the theater’s<br />
playbill. The most favorite productions<br />
of the audiences were Laurencia by<br />
A. Crain (1952), Peer Gynt by Edvard<br />
Grieg (1959), Spartacus by Aram<br />
Khachaturyan (1962) and The Great<br />
Waltz by J. Strauss (1959).<br />
Contemporary trends emerged in the<br />
productions of “Scythian Suite” from<br />
Ala and Lolli by Sergei Prokofiev (1967)<br />
and Your Name… by Francis Poulenc<br />
(1968). In the ’70s, Igor Chernyshev took<br />
up the reigns in the ballet company.<br />
New productions, such as Wedding of<br />
the Candle by the Odessa composer<br />
Yuri Znatokov (1974), combining<br />
modern musical material with Ukrainian<br />
expression, turned into positive<br />
experiences for the choreographer.<br />
In the ’80s, The State Ballet Theatre of<br />
Ukraine was headed up by the<br />
choreographers Natalia Ryzhenko<br />
and Vcitor Smirnov-Golovanov. It was<br />
the time of large-scale productions,<br />
such as Anna Karenina by<br />
Rodion Shchedrin (in collaboration<br />
with Maya Plisetskaya, 1976) and<br />
Masquerade by Aram Khachaturian (1982).<br />
Production of one-act ballets,<br />
such as Dances for Isadora to the<br />
music of Frédéric Chopin (libretto and<br />
choreography by José Limón,<br />
revised by Natalia Ryzhenko, 1988)<br />
was an innovative experiment<br />
of the troupe.<br />
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In the end of the ’90s, Andrey Litvinov<br />
took charge in the ballet company.<br />
He restored the classical ballets<br />
The Sleeping Beauty (1998) and<br />
Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky (1999),<br />
La Bayadére by Minkus (2000),<br />
The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky (2008)<br />
and many others.<br />
From 2009 through 2016, The State<br />
Ballet Theatre of Ukraine was led<br />
by the Honored Artist of Russia,<br />
Yury Vasyuchenko, who staged<br />
Paquita, Faust (Walpurgis Night),<br />
The Secret of the Vienna Woods to the<br />
music of Gustav Mahler and Jhann<br />
Strauss, Don Quixote, Swan Lake,<br />
Chipollino, dances in the Gala Nureyev<br />
Forever as well as dances in the opera<br />
productions Turandot, Don Giovanni,<br />
Aida, Prince Igor and many others.<br />
Since 2017, Andrey Litvinov has served<br />
as the Artistic Director of The State<br />
Ballet Theatre of Ukraine. Litvinov is the<br />
People’s Artist of Ukraine and Moldova.<br />
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Konstantin Pinchuk (General Director<br />
of the Theatre) is the General Director<br />
of the Dnipropetrovsk Academic Opera<br />
and Ballet Theater, and an Honored<br />
Art Worker of Ukraine. From 2000-<br />
2005, he served as a faculty member<br />
of Culture and Arts at Kherson State<br />
University, and he previously served<br />
as a faculty member of Economics at<br />
the Dnepropetrovsk Mining Academy<br />
from 1992-1997. In 2001, he created<br />
Classical Bolshoi Ballet, the first theater<br />
in Ukraine dedicated to classical dance.<br />
The theater was made to support the<br />
tradition of classical art in Ukraine.<br />
He organized many successful concerts,<br />
theater performances, sporting events<br />
and festivals, including the Extravaganza<br />
of the Dnieper — an all-Ukrainian festival<br />
of theater with attendees from all over<br />
the world. As a director, he created an<br />
exclusive program of gala concerts titled<br />
World Ballet Stars, with the participation<br />
of world-famous dancers like Ilze Liepa,<br />
Elena Filipyeva, Feton Miotsi, Oksana<br />
Bondareva, Ivato Marihiro,<br />
Natalya Matsak, Jessica Mezei and<br />
many others. As a production designer,<br />
he worked on the plays Romeo and<br />
Juliet, My Carmen, The Nutcracker,<br />
The Snow Queen, Swan Lake,<br />
The Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and<br />
the Seven Dwarfs and Cinderella in<br />
tandem with famous directors like<br />
Alexander Sokolov, Yuri Chaika,<br />
Andrey Litvinov, Vladimir Troshchenko,<br />
Eugene Kaygorodov and Carlo Antonio<br />
De Lucia. He takes an active part in<br />
the creative and educational work of<br />
the Dnipropetrovsk Choreographic<br />
School and the cultural life of the<br />
Dnipropetrovsk region.<br />
Andrey Litvinov (Artistic Director of the<br />
Ballet) is the Chief Choreographer and<br />
Artistic Director of the Dnipropetrovsk<br />
Academic Opera and Ballet Theater.<br />
He began his career as a ballet dancer<br />
in 1986 at the Maria Biesu National<br />
Opera and Ballet Theater in the Republic<br />
of Moldova, where he has performed<br />
since 1991. He holds the status as Premier<br />
of the Ballet, dancing in leading roles<br />
of the company’s repertoire, including<br />
the Prince in Swan Lake, The Sleeping<br />
Beauty, The Nutcracker, Basil in Don<br />
Quixote, Prince Albert in Giselle,<br />
Romeo in Romeo and Juliet and more.<br />
Since 2005, he has combined his ballet<br />
career with an active teaching career. In<br />
2007, he is appointed the theater’s Chief<br />
Choreographer. As the choreographer,<br />
he staged the following productions:<br />
The Nutcracker, Snow White and the<br />
Seven Dwarfs, The Sleeping Beauty,<br />
Swan Lake, Le Corsaire, Spartacus,<br />
Romeo and Juliet and Cinderella.<br />
He enjoys authority in the ballet<br />
world, as evidenced by his<br />
constant participation in the jury<br />
of the international choreographic<br />
competitions: Terpsichore (Greece),<br />
Dance Power (Moldova), Junior Ballet<br />
Fest (Lvov), Crystal Swan (Bucharest)<br />
and Riga Spring (Latvia). He is a<br />
member of the CID International Dance<br />
Council at UNESCO in France. He is a<br />
professor at the National Choreographic<br />
College of the Republic of Moldova.<br />
The success of his students confirms<br />
his authority as a choreographer and<br />
highly professional teacher. In 2019,<br />
his students Sergei Zdansky and<br />
Ivan Bryakhna became laureates<br />
of international choreographic<br />
competitions and received the Grand<br />
Prix; today, they are leading ballet<br />
dancers at the Dnipropetrovsk<br />
Academic Opera and Ballet Theater.<br />
His awards include a diploma for<br />
the Best Partner at the International<br />
Competition of Ballet Dancers in<br />
Constanța, Romania; a diploma from<br />
the Russian Cultural Charitable Fund,<br />
Diaghilev’s House; a nominal medal of<br />
dancer Yuri Grigorovich and the Golden<br />
Badge of Honor, “Antioch Cantemir.”<br />
Maria Lolenko (Prima Ballerina)<br />
was born in Pavlograd, Ukraine on<br />
July 10, 1990. In 2008, she graduated<br />
from the choreographic school at the<br />
Dnepropetrovsk Academic Opera<br />
and Ballet Theater and in 2014,<br />
she graduated from the Theater and<br />
Art College. In 2005 she was admitted<br />
to the ballet troupe of the theater, and<br />
in 2012 she received the position of a<br />
soloist of the Dnipro Ballet.As both a<br />
member of the theater and the ballet<br />
troupe, she has been on tour in France,<br />
Germany, Spain, Poland, Italy, Romania,<br />
Switzerland and the U.S.A. Her repertoire<br />
includes Scheherazade in One Thousand<br />
and One Nights, Juliet in Romeo and<br />
Juliet, Odette, Odilia, pas-de-roix,<br />
big swans and brides in Swan Lake;<br />
the Fairy of Tenderness, Fairy of Gold<br />
and ladies-in-waiting in The Sleeping<br />
Beauty; Masha, Spanish, French and the<br />
Russian doll in The Nutcracker; girlfriends<br />
and a street dancer in Don Quixote,<br />
Medora and Gulnara in Le Corsaire,<br />
the Stepmother Queen in Snow White<br />
and the Seven Dwarfs and Cinderella in<br />
Cinderella. She has also performed parts<br />
in the following author’s ballets: Mary<br />
Magdalene in Jesus, Oksana in The<br />
Night Before Christmas, Princess Olga in<br />
Princess Olga and Olga in Big Waltz.<br />
Alina Veretina (Principal Dancer)<br />
was born in Dnipro, Ukraine on<br />
<strong>November</strong> 8, 1988. She graduated from<br />
the Dnipropetrovsk Choreographic<br />
School where she studied under the<br />
tutelage of T. Omelchenko. In 2004,<br />
she was accepted into the troupe of<br />
the Dnipropetrovsk Opera and Ballet<br />
Theater, where she danced her first<br />
solo part at the age of 13. At age 20,<br />
she became a leading ballerina at<br />
Dnipro Opera. She has toured in France,<br />
Switzerland, Romania, Italy, Spain,<br />
China and Germany. She has received<br />
three awards at the Ukranian<br />
Sicheslavna Festival of Theatres.<br />
Her repertoire includes Kitri in Don<br />
Quixote, Giselle and pas-de-deux insert<br />
in Giselle, Masha in The Nutcracker,<br />
Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Snow White in<br />
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Odile<br />
and pas-de-trois in Swan Lake, Aurora<br />
and Princess Florina in The Sleeping<br />
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Beauty, Lisa in In Vain Precaution, Olga<br />
in The Big Waltz, one of the sisters<br />
in Cinderella and performed in the<br />
contemporary ballet Degazhe.<br />
Ilona Baytler (Principal Dancer) was<br />
born in Dnipro, Ukraine on January<br />
27, 2002. She is a fourth year student<br />
at the Dnepropetrovsk Theater and<br />
Art College and will graduate from the<br />
Dnepropetrovsk School of Classical<br />
Dance this year. She has been a member<br />
of the Dnepropetrovsk Academic Opera<br />
and Ballet Theater since 2020. As a<br />
member of the theater and ballet troupe,<br />
she has toured in France, Germany,<br />
Switzerland and Poland. Her repertoire<br />
includes the pas-de-trois and “Dance of<br />
Little Swans” in Swan Lake, the Chinese<br />
doll and Russian doll in The Nutcracker,<br />
the Fairy of Courage in The Sleeping<br />
Beauty, Cupid in Don Quixote and the<br />
Summer Fairy in Cinderella. Her awards<br />
and accolades include first place at the<br />
2015 Best Fest competition in Kharkov,<br />
second place at both the 2017 and 2018<br />
Thought-Stream competition in Kiev, first<br />
place at the 2018 Slobozhanske Kolo<br />
competition in Kharkov and first place<br />
at the <strong>2021</strong> Ballet Seasons in Odessa<br />
competition in Odessa.<br />
Alexander Litvinov (Principal Dancer)<br />
was born in Chisinau, Moldova on<br />
July 4, 1993. In 2012, he graduated from<br />
the Moldavian National Choreographic<br />
College. From 2012-2015, he worked<br />
at the Maria Biesu National Opera<br />
and Ballet Theater. From 2018-2019,<br />
he worked at a private ballet company<br />
in Sibiu, Romania. In 2019, he was<br />
admitted to the Dnepropetrovsk<br />
Academic Opera and Ballet Theater<br />
troupe. As a member of the theater<br />
and ballet troupe, he toured in France,<br />
Germany, Spain, Poland, Italy, Romania,<br />
Switzerland, the U.S.A and Canada.<br />
His repertoire includes Skylar in<br />
Le Corsaire, Tybalt in Romeo and<br />
Juliet, Jaeger in Snow White and the<br />
Seven Dwarfs; Siegfried, pas-de-trois<br />
and Spanish dance in Swan Lake;<br />
the Spanish and French dolls in The<br />
Nutcracker and the prince in Cinderella.<br />
Sergei Zdansky (Principal Dancer)<br />
was born in Chisinau, Moldova<br />
on January 11, 2000. He is a 2019<br />
graduate of the National College of<br />
Choreography. In 2017, he was admitted<br />
to the ballet troupe of the Chisinau<br />
Theater. In 2019, Sergei moved to the<br />
city of Dnipro in Ukraine and received<br />
the title of Leading Ballet Soloist.<br />
He made his debut as Siegfried in<br />
Swan Lake. As a theatrical and national<br />
ballet company member, he has toured<br />
in France, Germany, Spain, China, Italy,<br />
Sweden and Switzerland. His repertoire<br />
includes the prince, a Frenchwoman<br />
and the Spanish doll in The Nutcracker;<br />
Prince Dazir and a gentleman in<br />
The Sleeping Beauty, Basildon in Don<br />
Quixote, Ali’s slave in Le Corsaire and<br />
the prince in Snow White and the Seven<br />
Dwarfs. His awards and accolades<br />
include the Grand Prix at the Riga Spring<br />
international competition, second<br />
place at the Vienna International Ballet<br />
Competition, first place at the Romania<br />
Crystal Swan Ballet Competition and<br />
first place at the Italian International<br />
Ballet Competition.<br />
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Greg Gutfeld:<br />
The Plus Tour with special<br />
guest Tom Shillue<br />
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Prior to joining Fox, Gutfeld was a staff<br />
writer at Prevention and editor-in-chief<br />
of Men’s Health magazine. He later<br />
became editor-in-chief of Stuff Magazine<br />
in the U.S. and Maxim Magazine in<br />
the U.K. He was also a contributor to<br />
The Huffington Post, where he became<br />
legendary for his “inspired, lunatic<br />
ridicule of his leftwing fellow Huffers.”<br />
He’s been published in countless<br />
magazines, has appeared in too<br />
many profiles to mention and was<br />
only fingerprinted once.<br />
<strong>NJPAC</strong> presents<br />
prudential hall<br />
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Wednesday, <strong>December</strong> 15<br />
7:30PM<br />
In his free time Greg contributes to<br />
his own digital community, The Gutter,<br />
where he covers every lifestyle topic<br />
imaginable with his unique comedic<br />
conservative-libertarian perspective.<br />
Mannheim Steamroller<br />
Greg Gutfeld has been called<br />
“outrageous and outspoken,” neither of<br />
which he denies.<br />
A libertarian, political satirist,<br />
humorist, magazine editor and author,<br />
he is perhaps best known as the co-host<br />
of the daily hit show The Five and as the<br />
former host of the legendary Fox News<br />
Channel programs The Greg Gutfeld<br />
Show and Red Eye where he covered<br />
a variety of topics, including news,<br />
entertainment, sports and gossip.<br />
He is the author of nine books,<br />
among them, five New York Times Best<br />
Sellers, The Joy of Hate, Not Cool,<br />
How to be Right, The Gutfeld Monologues<br />
and most recently The Plus: Self-Help for<br />
People Who Hate Self-Help.<br />
The Weekly Standard calls him “the most<br />
dangerous man on television.”<br />
The late journalist Andrew Breitbart<br />
once said, “Trust me, you don’t want him<br />
setting his sights on your hypocrisy and<br />
public failings. Consider yourself warned.”<br />
Greg is also now host of the number<br />
one-rated late night show GUTFELD!<br />
on the Fox News Channel, where he<br />
parodies current events and converses<br />
on key issues with his trademark<br />
humor on a nightly basis.<br />
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The use of recording equipment and the taking of photographs are strictly prohibited.<br />
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In 1984 Mannheim Steamroller released<br />
Mannheim Steamroller Christmas,<br />
an album that revolutionized the holiday<br />
music industry. Already a multi-platinum<br />
recording artist through its Fresh Aire<br />
series, founder Chip Davis decided<br />
to record an album of Christmas music<br />
combining the group’s signature<br />
mix of renaissance instruments<br />
with rock & roll beats.<br />
meet the producer<br />
Chip Davis is the genius behind<br />
Mannheim Steamroller and the driving<br />
force of American Gramaphone,<br />
the largest independent record label in<br />
thecountry. His now-classic Fresh Aire<br />
series and unmatched Christmas album<br />
sales have brought him international<br />
renown. Chip combines the dynamics of<br />
musical mastery and technical wizardry<br />
to create a style often described as<br />
“18th century rock-n-roll.” He named the<br />
band Mannheim Steamroller for the 18th<br />
century musical technique that we know<br />
today as the crescendo. To date he has<br />
19 gold, eight multi-platinum and<br />
four platinum certified records, placing<br />
him among an elite group of artists such<br />
as Jay-Z and U2.<br />
While Chip no longer performs as a<br />
member of the band due to cervical<br />
The resulting album was a runaway hit<br />
and propelled Mannheim Steamroller<br />
to become the #1 Christmas music<br />
artist in history. This is the group’s 36th<br />
annual Christmas tour, the longest<br />
running tour in the music industry. The<br />
nationwide tour has become a holiday<br />
tradition along with decorating the tree,<br />
exchanging presents and spending time<br />
with friends and family.<br />
disc damage, he continues to have 100<br />
percent involvement in the Christmas<br />
concerts including creative and<br />
production direction of the entire tour.<br />
Between the two bands Mannheim<br />
Steamroller is bringing their renowned<br />
holiday tradition to 74 cities and 80<br />
performances this year.<br />
Often characterized as a Renaissance<br />
man, Chip is the author of several<br />
children’s books and just released his<br />
latest children’s/YA book, The Wolf and<br />
The Warlander. The trilogy is the story<br />
of two unlikely friends, Seti the Wolf<br />
and Ghost, the Warlander Horse, two<br />
of the many animals on his 150-acre<br />
farm just outside Omaha, NE. His farm<br />
also houses a number of other horses,<br />
an additional timber wolf, a family of<br />
ducks along with other natural critters<br />
throughout the surrounding woods.<br />
His three children all have a variety of<br />
musical talents. His youngest daughter<br />
has performed as a lead singer in<br />
several bands and is featured on the<br />
Mannheim Steamroller LIVE album.<br />
His oldest daughter is a special<br />
performance vocalist and works in the<br />
competitive equestrian arena. Chip’s<br />
son, an accomplished guitarist, has<br />
performed on record tracks.<br />
dance series<br />
Directing Fellow<br />
Ashleigh King<br />
Company Manager<br />
Rebecca Easton<br />
Social Media Marketing<br />
Biz Chica Media<br />
prudential hall<br />
betty wold johnson stage<br />
Saturday, <strong>December</strong> 18, <strong>2021</strong><br />
2 & 8PM<br />
<strong>NJPAC</strong> and Executive Producer Eva Price present<br />
Adapted by<br />
Mike Fitelson<br />
Based on The Nutcracker by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky<br />
Lighting Designer<br />
Brandon Stirling Baker<br />
General Manager<br />
MEP<br />
with Special Guest MC<br />
Kurtis Blow<br />
Produced by<br />
New Jersey Performing Arts Center<br />
John Schreiber, President & CEO<br />
David Rodriguez, Executive Producer<br />
Simma Levine, Producer<br />
Associate Director &<br />
Choreographer<br />
Randi Freitas<br />
Production Stage Manager<br />
Sarah Goshman<br />
Tour Marketing<br />
Allied Global Marketing<br />
Video Designer<br />
Moe Shahrooz<br />
Exclusive Tour Direction<br />
Broadway & Beyond Theatricals<br />
Directed & Choreographed by<br />
Jennifer Weber<br />
Featuring freestyles by the Company<br />
Powered by bbbbbbbbbbb<br />
Originally produced by the United Palace of Cultural Arts<br />
Mike Fitelson, Executive Director<br />
Original Beats & Remixes<br />
DJ Boo<br />
Stylist<br />
Laurien De Munck<br />
Press<br />
Tellem Grody PR<br />
As a courtesy to the performers and fellow audience members, please be sure to silence all mobile devices.<br />
The use of recording equipment and the taking of photographs are strictly prohibited.<br />
This program is made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State,<br />
a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts and by funds from the National Endowment for the Arts.<br />
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cast<br />
Maria-Clara ......................................................................................................................Ann-Sylvia Clark<br />
The Nutcracker .............................................................................................................. Gabriel Emphasis<br />
Mom ........................................................................................................................................................ Lily Frias<br />
Dad .................................................................................................................................... Bryan Longchamp<br />
Drosselmeyer .................................................................................................Lisa “L-BOOGIE” Bauford<br />
Mouse King/Ensemble ....................................................................................Randi “Rascal” Freitas<br />
Toy/Ensemble .............................................................................................. Anthony “Omen” Cabrera<br />
Tea/Ensemble ........................................................................................................ Jackie “JK-47” Agudo<br />
Toy/Ensemble ...........................................................................................................................Zuce Morales<br />
Russian/Ensemble ........................................................................................Seth “REAKTION” Hillard<br />
Chocolate/Ensemble ...........................................................................................Jon “Gifted” Jimenez<br />
Flute/Ensemble ...............................................................................................Dustin “D-Payne” Payne<br />
Swing ...............................................................................................................................................Ethan Evaro<br />
Violinist ...................................................................................................................................Jarvis L. Benson<br />
Performance DJ .....................................................................................................................................DJ Boo<br />
place<br />
production staff credits<br />
Exclusive Tour Direction<br />
Broadway & Beyond Theatricals<br />
Tracey McFarland, Barbara Cooley, Robin Mishik-Jett<br />
Social Media Marketing<br />
BIZ CHICA MEDIA<br />
Tracy Chapman-Nolan, Krystle Carmona, Mauricio Urquilla,<br />
Kelly Chapman, Khomari Flash, Gilesa Thomas<br />
Tour Marketing<br />
ALLIED GLOBAL MARKETING<br />
Andrew Damer, Jennifer Gallagher, Scott Praefke,<br />
Hayden Anderson, Jessica Cary, Amenkha Sembenu<br />
Physical Therapy<br />
NEURO TOUR Physical Therapy, Inc.<br />
New Year’s Eve – Uptown, USA<br />
The Hip Hop Nutcracker will be performed with one 20-minute intermission.<br />
production staff credits<br />
Dance Captain ........................................................................................................................ Randi Freitas<br />
Associate Lighting Designer ...........................................................................Coby Chasman-Beck<br />
Moving Light Programmer .........................................................................................Dalton Hamilton<br />
Production Manager .........................................................................................................Shane Cassidy<br />
Assistant Company Manager/<br />
COVID Safety Manager ..............................................................................................Brynn Grambow<br />
Wardrobe Supervisor ......................................................................................................... Katy Freeman<br />
Wardrobe Consultant .....................................................................................................Cambria Chichi<br />
Original Company Associate Director/<br />
Choreographer ...............................................................................................................................Taeko Koji<br />
Original Costume Design .............................................................................................Whitney Adams<br />
Additional Casting .............................................................................Meisha Lee and Janet Langer<br />
Physical Therapist ............................................................................................. Natalie Farah, PT, DPT<br />
Director of People & Inclusion ........................................................................................Colette Luckie<br />
Creative & Production Services ...............................................................Allied Global Marketing<br />
General Management<br />
MEP<br />
Eva Price, Carl Flanigan, Josh Altman, Casey McDermott,<br />
Eric Emauni, Avram Freedberg, Mary Beth Dale<br />
program<br />
Act I<br />
During the annual Uptown holiday<br />
street party, Maria-Clara is upset<br />
by her parents’ constant bickering.<br />
The mysterious Drosselmeyer appears,<br />
bringing magical toys to the party.<br />
Drosselmeyer then introduces<br />
Maria-Clara to a street vendor selling<br />
roasted nuts, who catches her eye<br />
because he is different from the other<br />
boys on the block. After the party<br />
breaks up, Maria-Clara heads home,<br />
but on her way, she runs into the<br />
menacing Mouse Crew. The Nutcracker,<br />
aided by a magic pair of sneakers,<br />
defeats the Mouse King and the<br />
couple enjoys the romance of<br />
winter’s first snowfall.<br />
Act II<br />
Drosselmeyer meets Maria-Clara<br />
and the Nutcracker and takes them<br />
back in time to the Land of Sweets<br />
nightclub on New Year’s Eve, 1984.<br />
Invisible, the couple watches the<br />
party-goers show off the dance styles<br />
of the day. Suddenly Maria-Clara<br />
realizes she is witnessing the night<br />
her parents first met and is overcome<br />
by how they were once deeply in love.<br />
Back in the present, and with a little<br />
more magic, Maria-Clara and<br />
The Nutcracker help mom and dad<br />
reconcile. The community joins<br />
them in the celebration.<br />
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Kurtis Blow (Special Guest MC) is one of<br />
the founders and creators of recorded<br />
rap. A timeless artist and hip hop legend,<br />
Kurtis blazed the trail for early hip hop<br />
artists and continues to carry the torch<br />
for hip hop music in new arenas.<br />
Kurtis is credited with many accolades,<br />
and was the first rapper to ever be<br />
signed to a major label, release a<br />
certified gold rap album (The Breaks),<br />
tour the United States and Europe,<br />
record a national commercial (Sprite),<br />
use the drum machine, sample and<br />
sample loop, release a rap music video<br />
and become a millionaire.<br />
In 1979, at the age of 20, Kurtis Blow<br />
became the first rapper to be signed<br />
by a major label. He released Christmas<br />
Rappin’, which sold over 400,000 copies<br />
and became an annual classic. Its gold<br />
follow-up, The Breaks, helped ignite an<br />
international “rap attack,” solidifying<br />
the new art form. He released 10 albums<br />
over 11 years and his early projects<br />
made him an instant success at home<br />
and across Europe. Pioneering records<br />
like Party Time introduced the fusion of<br />
rap and go-go. Hit songs like “8 Million<br />
Stories,” “AJ” and “Basketball” were<br />
simply ahead of their time, and still get<br />
spins by DJs today. Fellow rap legend<br />
Nas debuted at number one on<br />
the Billboard charts with a cover of<br />
Kurtis’ “If I Ruled the World” in 1997.<br />
Beyond his own hits, Kurtis contributed<br />
to the success of The Fat Boys and<br />
Run DMC. In fact, Run began his career<br />
billed as “The Son of Kurtis Blow.”<br />
Among countless others,<br />
Wyclef Jean, Lovebug Starski,<br />
Sweet Gee, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,<br />
Full Force and Russell Simmons all have<br />
been produced by or have worked with<br />
Kurtis in the past. Kurtis’ multidisciplinary<br />
skillset has taken him across the country<br />
and overseas to score, produce and<br />
act in various films. Most notably,<br />
he played a large role in the<br />
production of the hit film Krush Groove.<br />
The New York Daily News called his<br />
cinematic works a “noteworthy,<br />
dynamic presence.” Kurtis Blow’s reach<br />
transcends that of your typical<br />
entertainer. He has completed multiple<br />
world tours since the turn of the new<br />
millennium, and continues to work on<br />
other creative endeavors. His innate<br />
ability to reach people is evident in his<br />
work as an activist, radio personality,<br />
and most recently, an ordained minister<br />
and leader of the Hip Hop Church.<br />
Artists still pay their respects to Kurtis’<br />
trailblazing in a number of ways.<br />
His influence has been mentioned in<br />
seemingly every important hip hop film<br />
in the past decade, from Get Rich or Die<br />
Tryin’ to Notorious and Straight Outta<br />
Compton. He has a prominent presence<br />
on television as well, with his music<br />
appearing on shows such as Dancing<br />
with the Stars and SportsCenter. He<br />
also was an associate producer on the<br />
Netflix hit series The Get Down. Outside<br />
of music, Kurtis has long been a very<br />
spiritual man. He went back to school to<br />
become an ordained minister, and has<br />
been preaching at churches around<br />
the world. His work with The Hip Hop<br />
Church has helped bridge the gap<br />
between the art form and the church.<br />
Education has long been important<br />
to Kurtis. He has been a champion<br />
of higher education, and advocates<br />
for bringing hip hop culture into the<br />
curriculums of our institutions. The rap<br />
pioneer has given talks at schools such<br />
as Berklee College of Music in Boston<br />
and CalArts in California, and plans<br />
to continue to carry the culture into<br />
the classroom.<br />
For more information, visit Kblow.com.<br />
Ann-Sylvia CLark (Maria-Clara)<br />
was born and raised in Norway.<br />
She started out as a gymnast at an<br />
early age, but later on focused her<br />
interest more toward dance. She studied<br />
dance at Flow Dance Academy (DK).<br />
She performed with Snoop Dogg<br />
and Pharrell Williams at the 2006<br />
MTV Europe Music Awards (EMAs) in<br />
Denmark. Since moving to New York,<br />
Ann-Sylvia has toured the U.S. and the<br />
United Kingdom. She has also performed<br />
on television shows including Good Day<br />
New York on Fox 5, CBS, PBS, ESPN,<br />
Telemundo and Fake Off on TruTV.<br />
She has also performed in music videos<br />
for artists such as Alicia Keys, Styles P,<br />
JBalvin and Ben L’Oncle Soul. TV viewers<br />
can find her in commercials for the<br />
US Open, Samsung, Verizon,<br />
Digicel and Reebok.<br />
Gabriel Emphasis (The Nutcracker)<br />
Born in the Dominican Republic,<br />
Gabriel’s passion for the arts started<br />
at an early age. In 2005, he discovered<br />
breaking, the street dance that inspired<br />
him to pursue a career in dance.<br />
Fascinated by the acrobatics and<br />
stylish movement, his drive to develop<br />
this passion led him to NYC, a mecca to<br />
many artists. There, his passion caught<br />
the eye of many companies, agents and<br />
producers, who got him to collaborate<br />
with many artists from different<br />
backgrounds. Having never taken a<br />
dance class before, these opportunities<br />
inspired him to explore new ways<br />
of movement, which along with his<br />
dedication lifted his career to what it is<br />
now. Today, his career has allowed him<br />
to bring his love for the arts to more than<br />
20 countries around the world, and has<br />
given him countless opportunities to<br />
work for productions, brands and artists<br />
he could have only dreamed of as a kid.<br />
Lily Frias (Mom) Born and raised in<br />
Mexico, Liliana (Lily) Frias has been<br />
dancing for 13 years and is currently<br />
working as a professional dancer in<br />
Los Angeles. Beginning her career as<br />
a technical dancer, Lily found her true<br />
calling when she mastered the hip hop<br />
styles and the art of freestyle, specifically<br />
the styles of waacking and popping.<br />
She has been featured in a variety of<br />
productions, including So You Think You<br />
Can Dance (Season 12), America’s Best<br />
Dance Crew (Season 7), Cirque du Soleil,<br />
dance battles, national commercials and<br />
Red Bull BC One 2018. She is also known<br />
for teaching and performing in the<br />
U.S., Europe, Latin America and Japan,<br />
individually and as a part of her crew<br />
known as Femme Fatale.<br />
Bryan Longchamp (Dad),<br />
Brooklyn native, has danced<br />
professionally for over a decade in<br />
styles ranging from hip hop to Krump<br />
and popping. Bryan is a core member<br />
of the dance company iLuminate,<br />
known as Team iLuminate on popular<br />
television show America’s Got Talent.<br />
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With the company, he has traveled and<br />
performed in countries such as Mexico,<br />
Hong Kong, Malaysia, the Bahamas<br />
and Saudi Arabia to name a few.<br />
He has also performed on some of the<br />
biggest Broadway stages right here<br />
at home. You may have seen Bryan in<br />
music videos such as “Can You Hear<br />
Me” by Omarion or “Tout et Goure”<br />
by Luz and the Yakuza or even in his<br />
performances on The Tonight Show with<br />
Jimmy Fallon. As a dance educator,<br />
Bryan has been teaching for over seven<br />
years, and trains both children and<br />
adults to fall in love with dance<br />
and be the best that they can be!<br />
Lisa “L-Boogie” Bauford (Drosselmeyer)<br />
is an LA-based dancer, choreographer,<br />
writer, actor and educator who hails<br />
from St. Petersburg, Florida. Lisa is<br />
currently in production on a Las Vegas<br />
residency at The Stratosphere with<br />
iLuminate. Lisa recently completed her<br />
second year with the national tour of<br />
The Hip Hop Nutcracker as Drosselmeyer,<br />
which also features hip hop legend<br />
Kurtis Blow. In 2012, Bauford signed<br />
with Flipz Entertainment and appeared<br />
off-Broadway for iLuminate, a company<br />
that fuses dance and technology,<br />
in the Artist of Light series at Duke<br />
Theatre, and later at New World Stages.<br />
Performing as Starlight Jones,<br />
the character Lisa created for Artists of<br />
Light, Bauford appeared in a CBS March<br />
Madness commercial, which she<br />
choreographed. Lisa has also<br />
appeared in Google’s “Made with Code”<br />
commercial, on the Wendy Williams<br />
Show, Good Morning America and on<br />
America’s Got Talent. She is a member of<br />
iLuminate’s World Tour corporate cast as<br />
an educator, performer and dance<br />
captain, roles which have taken her<br />
to China, Egypt, France, Germany,<br />
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia,<br />
Mexico, New Zealand, Samoa, Saudi<br />
Arabia, Switzerland and Uzbekistan.<br />
Randi “Rascal” Freitas (Associate<br />
Director-Choreographer/Dance Captain/<br />
Mouse King/Ensemble) is a dancer/<br />
choreographer living in Los Angeles,<br />
California. Randi has toured Japan<br />
performing in a theater show called<br />
The Battle. She just came off set filming<br />
for the upcoming Christmas musical<br />
Spirited, starring Will Ferrell and<br />
Ryan Reynolds. She has performed on<br />
shows such as Jimmy Kimmel Live!,<br />
The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The AMAs,<br />
The Kids’ Choice Awards and<br />
The GRAMMY® Awards, with companies<br />
such as Nike, Toyota and AT&T,<br />
and artists such as Justin Timberlake,<br />
SZA, Travis Scott and Kaytranada.<br />
Randi is still active in the underground<br />
scene as well. She was a finalist at the<br />
U.S. National Finals for Red Bull BC One<br />
<strong>2021</strong>. She has taught in multiple cities<br />
around the U.S., as well as in countries<br />
such as France, Belgium, Thailand,<br />
Canada and Mexico. Randi teaches hip<br />
hop at University of Southern California<br />
and CalArts. Most recently, she has<br />
begun her own training company,<br />
OMEGA Flow Floorwork, which trains<br />
dancers around the world. While her<br />
training program is not exclusive to<br />
women, it stands as a space of<br />
integrity for them to learn and grow.<br />
Anthony “Omen” Cabrera<br />
(Toy/ Ensemble) was born on<br />
<strong>November</strong> 7, 1983. A vivacious child, he<br />
always loved to dance — it didn’t matter<br />
if it was a family gathering or a large<br />
party. While growing up in Boston and<br />
the Dominican Republic, he discovered<br />
hip hop and breakdancing (B-boying)<br />
through television, but it wasn’t until<br />
his high school years that he started<br />
training in B-boying. Soon after,<br />
he realized his natural ability for dancing<br />
and improved rapidly. With the body<br />
awareness to control the acrobatic<br />
elements of B-boying and the creativity<br />
to develop an original style, Omen was<br />
quickly recognized by peers and<br />
established B-boys of the dance<br />
community. Currently, Omen is part of<br />
the world-renowned B-boy crew based<br />
out of New York City, Supreme Beingz.<br />
In addition to winning numerous solo<br />
and group competitions at both the<br />
national and international level,<br />
Anthony has contributed to the dance<br />
community by sitting on judging<br />
panels and conducting workshops.<br />
As a performer, he is part of both<br />
G-Force Entertainment and Raw Miami<br />
Entertainment. When he is not on board<br />
a Carnival cruise ship as a performer,<br />
Anthony keeps busy performing for<br />
music artists, corporate parties, clubs<br />
and street shows. His other professional<br />
interests include modeling and acting.<br />
Jackie Agudo (Tea/Ensemble)<br />
aka B-girl JK-47 of Diamonds In The<br />
Rough, Supreme Beingz and sponsored<br />
dancer for Monster Energy, can serve<br />
as a role model for multi-talented,<br />
hardworking artists everywhere.<br />
A recognized international competitor,<br />
she took top prize at Red Bull’s very first<br />
BC One Camp USA B-Girl Cypher in<br />
2018. In addition, she has performed on<br />
a plethora of stages and is now currently<br />
on tour with The Hip Hop Nutcracker.<br />
She tours throughout the U.S. and the<br />
world as a workshop facilitator teaching,<br />
encouraging and inspiring people of all<br />
ages with her love and passion for the<br />
culture and art of street dance.<br />
Ethan Evaro (Swing). A San Diego,<br />
California native, moved to Los Angeles<br />
to pursue a career in the entertainment<br />
industry while getting an education.<br />
He graduated with a BFA in<br />
Commercial Dance from Hussian<br />
College in Studio City, Los Angeles<br />
in <strong>2021</strong>. Though specializing in break<br />
dancing, Ethan has trained extensively<br />
in a variety of dance styles and prides<br />
himself on his versatility. He recently<br />
completed a Europe and United<br />
Kingdom tour for the renowned drag<br />
queen, Vanessa “Vanjie” Mateo, and<br />
has also performed in Janet Jackson’s<br />
Unbreakable tour. Along with these<br />
accomplishments, Ethan has also<br />
performed and worked at a variety<br />
of charity events including A Salute<br />
to Teachers and The Natural High<br />
Anniversary. Ethan strives to bring<br />
his break dancing roots and a calm,<br />
hardworking attitude into all his<br />
professional endeavors.<br />
Zuce Morales (Toy/Ensemble) was<br />
born and raised in Puebla, Mexico,<br />
where she began her formal dance<br />
training at the age of 15, and moved<br />
to Los Angeles in 2016 when she was<br />
19 years old in order to pursue her<br />
dreams as a professional dancer. She is<br />
trained in hip hop, waacking, popping,<br />
house and other dance forms but her<br />
specialty is locking. While she trained<br />
at the legendary Debbie Reynolds<br />
Dance Studios, Movement Lifestyle<br />
and Millennium, she attended Glendale<br />
College where she got two certifications:<br />
one in Dance Teaching and another in<br />
Choreography and Dance Technique<br />
Studies. Currently, Zuce is focused on<br />
making the locking dance community<br />
grow in Los Angeles by teaching<br />
at professional studios and hosting<br />
free community sessions called<br />
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“Let’s Lock!” Her goal is to give<br />
opportunities to the new generation<br />
of dancers who care and respect<br />
the legacy of the street dance OGs.<br />
Seth “Reaktion” Hillard<br />
(Russian/Ensemble) attended Toledo<br />
School for the Arts where he crafted<br />
his love for dance and choreography.<br />
At a very young age Seth fell in love<br />
with hip hop culture, paying special<br />
attention to the element of B-boying.<br />
Combining uncanny flexibility,<br />
imaginative versatility and meticulous<br />
musicality he made a name for himself<br />
as B-boy Reaktion (rēˈakSHÉn),<br />
winning Midwest and National B-boy<br />
competitions. While evolving his craft<br />
in dance, Seth also developed other<br />
skills in tumbling, skateboarding and<br />
martial arts like Capoeira. In 2012 he<br />
packed up his dream and moved to LA<br />
to pursue a career in dance. Within a<br />
matter of a few months Seth landed his<br />
target agency, booked his first audition<br />
and was working as a professional<br />
dancer. Michael Jackson’s video,<br />
“Love Never Felt So Good” and<br />
Nick Cannon’s video, “Looking For<br />
A Dream” are just some of the work<br />
Seth has on his blooming resume.<br />
Featuring in commercials for Pepsi,<br />
Men’s Warehouse and a VH1 Super<br />
Bowl spot, the extremely humble and<br />
always smiling Seth has grown fast in<br />
the entertainment industry. He credits<br />
his advances in dance to working<br />
with top choreographers such as<br />
Chuck Maldonado, Tone & Rich,<br />
Oth’than Burnside and many more.<br />
“A dancer’s job is to turn an audible<br />
art form into a visual art form.<br />
As dancers we translate music for<br />
people to physically see. We are<br />
all artists and our only job is to<br />
follow our dreams.”<br />
Dustin “D-Payne” Payne<br />
(Flute/Ensemble) is very humbled and<br />
excited to join the cast of HHN for his<br />
3rd year. Since starting his dance<br />
journey with his church’s Praise Dance<br />
team at age 12, Payne has been<br />
featured on Season 15 of So You Think<br />
You Can Dance as part of top 10 men<br />
and represented World of Dance<br />
as a judge and dancer. His recent<br />
adventures include, but are not limited<br />
to, live performances and music videos<br />
with artist DaBaby, as well as his first<br />
national commercial with Starbucks.<br />
Payne is looking forward to creating a<br />
memorable experience for the audience<br />
again this holiday season.<br />
Jarvis L. Benson (Violinist) comes<br />
from a family of musicians and covers<br />
a lot of musical ground in the artistic<br />
world. The classically-trained<br />
New York-based musician has had<br />
the opportunity to collaborate with<br />
many major artists — most notably<br />
Solange, Chris Martin, Regina Carter,<br />
Why Don’t We and many others.<br />
He was part of the Emmy-winning<br />
production of Jesus Christ Superstar:<br />
LIVE featuring John Legend, and also<br />
part of the GRAMMY®-winning album<br />
Gumbo Unplugged by PJ Morton.<br />
He currently serves as principal violist/<br />
violinist, Managing Director and Music<br />
Supervisor for Rootstock Republic,<br />
a string production company<br />
based in New York City.<br />
DJ Boo (Original Beats & Remixes/<br />
Performance DJ) is a New York-based<br />
Fil-Am DJ/musician who has shared<br />
the stage with Ghostface Killah,<br />
DJ Kool Herc (The Godfather of<br />
Hip Hop), KRS-1, Snoop Dogg and<br />
Common. He has backed wordsmiths<br />
like Eternia, The Juggaknots and<br />
Omar Offendum. In 2014 he served as<br />
a cultural ambassador for the U.S. in<br />
Nepal, Mozambique and Swaziland<br />
where he performed and conducted hip<br />
hop workshops alongside The Nomadic<br />
Wax Collective as part of the American<br />
Music Abroad Tour. He has also had the<br />
honor of performing at Jacob’s Pillow<br />
backing Brooklyn-based hip hop dance<br />
company, Decadancetheatre.<br />
Jon “Gifted” Jimenez (Chocolate/<br />
Ensemble). Born in El Paso and raised in<br />
Dallas, Texas, Jon grew his movement<br />
artistry in the heart of the Dallas<br />
metroplex, becoming one of the most<br />
influential leaders in the community.<br />
He now shares his knowledge, love<br />
and experience for dance and how it<br />
contributed to his mental health along<br />
his path. Providing insight into the culture<br />
while exposing the depths of where<br />
movement can ignite the human spirit.<br />
Fun Fact: Jon does a lot of interesting<br />
voices — sometimes funny.<br />
Jennifer Weber (Director &<br />
Choreographer) is an Olivier and<br />
Emmy Award-nominated artist based<br />
in New York City and Los Angeles.<br />
She made her West End debut as<br />
the choreographer of & Juliet (Olivier<br />
Award Nomination), a new musical<br />
featuring the songs of Max Martin<br />
currently playing at the Shaftesbury<br />
Theater in London. Weber made her<br />
film debut as the choreographer for<br />
the Disney Channel Original Movie,<br />
Zombies 2. Her choreography for the<br />
music videos from that film have been<br />
viewed online over 500 million times.<br />
She recently choreographed Petrushka<br />
Reimagined for the virtual series,<br />
A New Stage, presented by CLI Studios<br />
and starring NYC Ballet principal dancer<br />
Tiler Peck, international ballet star<br />
Brooklyn Mack and hip hop icon<br />
Lil Buck. Off-Broadway choreography<br />
credits include KPOP (Upcoming<br />
Broadway Transfer/Lortel Nomination),<br />
Teenage Dick (The Public/Ma-Yi Theater<br />
Company) Cruel Intentions (LPR/US<br />
National Tour) and Stockholm (U.S.<br />
premiere). Her concert dance work<br />
has been performed at Jacob’s Pillow,<br />
New York City Center, The Apollo,<br />
The Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center,<br />
Southbank Center and The Stanislavski<br />
Music Theatre, Moscow.<br />
Mike Fitelson (Writer/Co-Creator)<br />
is the executive producer at the United<br />
Palace, the 91-year-old wonder theater<br />
in Washington Heights and Manhattan’s<br />
4th largest theater. In 2014, as the<br />
executive director of the nonprofit<br />
United Palace of Cultural Arts (UPCA)<br />
he co-created The Hip Hop Nutcracker<br />
with Jennifer Weber, adapting the<br />
story and supplying the images for the<br />
scenery and produced its premiere.<br />
Fitelson has worked to build the<br />
Northern Manhattan arts community<br />
for 18 years. He co-founded the annual<br />
arts festival, the Uptown Arts Stroll,<br />
in 2003; served in every capacity of<br />
the Manhattan Times, the bilingual<br />
community newspaper of Washington<br />
Heights and Inwood, from 2002-2011<br />
and helped found the nonprofit Northern<br />
Manhattan Arts Alliance in 2006.<br />
Brandon Stirling Baker<br />
(Lighting Designer) is an award-winning<br />
lighting designer for theater, opera<br />
and dance. His work can be seen on<br />
stages throughout the country and<br />
abroad including Lincoln Center,<br />
Kennedy Center, Walt Disney Concert<br />
Hall, Guggenheim Bilbao, New York City<br />
Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Hong Kong<br />
Ballet, Opera Philadelphia,<br />
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meet the artists<br />
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater,<br />
Miami City Ballet, Boston Ballet,<br />
Joffrey Ballet, Houston Ballet, Pacific<br />
Northwest Ballet, Dutch National Ballet,<br />
Semperoper Dresden, Staatsballett<br />
Berlin and many others. Recent<br />
collaborations include new works by<br />
Justin Peck, Sufjan Stevens,<br />
Savion Glover, William Forsythe,<br />
Anthony Roth Costanzo, Shepard Fairey,<br />
Benjamin Millepied, Jamar Roberts<br />
and Daniel Buren. In 2019 Baker<br />
received the prestigious Knight of<br />
Illumination Award for Dance.<br />
Sarah Goshman (Production Stage<br />
Manager) is thrilled to be touring with<br />
The Hip Hop Nutcracker for the first time.<br />
Favorite credits include Another Rose<br />
(Virgin Voyages), Disaster!, Kinky Boots,<br />
The Addams Family (Weathervane),<br />
A Chorus Line (Reagle Music Theatre),<br />
RENT (John W. Engeman Theatre),<br />
I See London, I See France (NYMF) and<br />
several national tours with Flamenco<br />
Vivo. Proud member of AEA.<br />
Ashleigh King (Directing Fellow)<br />
is a DC-area performer, Helen Hayes<br />
award-winning choreographer and<br />
teaching artist. Most recently,<br />
she served as Assistant Director to<br />
Moritz Von Stuelpnagel and Movement<br />
Coordinator for Teenage Dick at Woolly<br />
Mammoth. Her work has been seen<br />
in Working: A Musical with the Labor<br />
Heritage Foundation at Black Lives<br />
Matter Plaza, Fairview at Woolly<br />
Mammoth, Second City’s Love Factually<br />
at the Kennedy Center, ArtsCentric,<br />
Adventure Theatre MTC and Toby’s<br />
Dinner Theater. Her performance credits<br />
include multiple productions at<br />
The Kennedy Center, Olney Theatre,<br />
Ford’s Theatre, Studio Theatre and<br />
Signature Theatre.<br />
Laurien De Munck (Stylist)<br />
A young female from Belgium, Laurien<br />
transitioned from being a dancer to<br />
pursue her passion for styling. Since the<br />
beginning of her journey in this field,<br />
her dedication to the work and<br />
motivation to grow has led her to<br />
exceptional projects and experiences.<br />
She took her time to explore a<br />
combination of collaborations,<br />
commissioned work and side projects.<br />
Throughout her career, she’s had the<br />
great fortune to work on some truly<br />
inspiring projects, while meeting many<br />
influential and creative individuals<br />
along the way. Laurien believes in<br />
working together to create a whole<br />
that is greater than the sum of its parts.<br />
She has worked and styled for multiple<br />
magazines and brands such as<br />
Dolls Kill. Her personal touches for<br />
individuals in the industry have changed<br />
careers and have helped booked<br />
numerous jobs. Laurien will continue to<br />
strive to link personal happiness from<br />
the inside to radiating a personal beauty<br />
on the outside, whilst always respecting<br />
the soul and energy of the clientele.<br />
Rebecca Easton (Company Manager)<br />
is an arts manager and producer<br />
working in dance, theater and circus<br />
around the world. As a company<br />
manager, she has worked in over 30<br />
countries and across the United States<br />
with companies including Cirque<br />
du Soleil, Pilobolus, Lincoln Center,<br />
Inbal Pinto & Avshalom Pollak Dance<br />
Company and the Guthrie Theater.<br />
As a producer, she has developed<br />
workshops and full productions with<br />
companies such as Loom Ensemble<br />
(Vermont, NYC, Dubai) and Band of<br />
Toughs (Denver and Boulder, Colorado.)<br />
She also has a background in directing,<br />
dramaturgy and teaching, and she<br />
graduated from Columbia University’s<br />
School of the Arts in 2008. She is thrilled<br />
to join Maximum Entertainment for this<br />
year’s tour of The Hip Hop Nutcracker.<br />
Allied Global Marketing<br />
(Tour Marketing) is a full-service<br />
integrated marketing agency working<br />
with the world’s largest entertainment,<br />
sports, consumer and lifestyle brands,<br />
including 75+ Broadway shows over<br />
two decades. Current Tours: Ain’t Too<br />
Proud, Charlie/Chocolate Factory,<br />
A Christmas Carol, Hadestown,<br />
Mean Girls, The Play That Goes<br />
Wrong, Pretty Woman, RENT and Tootsie.<br />
Biz Chica Media (Social Media) is a<br />
Black and woman-owned full service<br />
digital marketing agency founded<br />
14 years ago by Tracy Chapman-Nolan.<br />
Select clients include: Disney Theatrical<br />
Touring: Frozen and The Lion King,<br />
The Pulitzer Prize-winning musical<br />
A Strange Loop (Broadway 2022),<br />
Wicked, Jagged Little Pill, Tina: The Tina<br />
Turner Musical, MJ: The Musical, Disney/<br />
ABC Television Group, The Theatre<br />
Leadership Project, Black Theatre<br />
United, Google, The RLJ Companies,<br />
The McBride Sisters and Williamstown<br />
Theatre Festival. bizchica.com.<br />
MEP (General Manager) is a producing,<br />
developing and management company<br />
founded by Avram Freedberg,<br />
Mary Beth Dale and Eva Price; and<br />
is joined by Managing Director/<br />
General Manager Carl Flanigan. Select<br />
Broadway, off-Broadway and touring<br />
credits include What the Constitution<br />
Means to Me (National Tour <strong>2021</strong>);<br />
August Wilson’s Jitney (National Tour<br />
2019-20); Cruel Intentions: The ’90s<br />
Musical; Small Mouth Sounds; Frankie<br />
Valli and the Four Seasons on Broadway!;<br />
The Hip Hop Nutcracker; The Lion; Verso;<br />
Black Light; Born for This (LA and Boston);<br />
50 Shades! The Musical; Ivy + Bean the<br />
Musical; Voca People and Colin Quinn:<br />
Long Story Short. maximumcompany.com<br />
New Jersey Performing Arts Center<br />
(<strong>NJPAC</strong>), located in downtown<br />
Newark, NJ, is America’s most diverse<br />
performing arts center, and the artistic,<br />
cultural, educational and civic center of<br />
New Jersey, where great performances<br />
and events enhance and transform<br />
lives every day. <strong>NJPAC</strong> brings diverse<br />
communities together, providing access<br />
to all and showcasing the state’s and<br />
the world’s best artists while acting as<br />
a leading catalyst in the revitalization<br />
of its home city. Through its extensive<br />
Arts Education programs, <strong>NJPAC</strong> is<br />
shaping the next generation of artists<br />
and arts enthusiasts. <strong>NJPAC</strong> has<br />
attracted nearly 10 million visitors<br />
(including over 1.7 million children) since<br />
opening its doors in 1997, and nurtures<br />
meaningful and lasting relationships<br />
with each of its constituents.<br />
Eva Price (Executive Producer) is an<br />
ACLU honoree for her commitment to<br />
works spearheaded by female creatives<br />
and people of color, and a Crain’s 2020<br />
Notable LGBTQ Leader and Executive.<br />
She is a three-time Tony Award-winning<br />
producer of over 18 Broadway plays,<br />
musicals and concerts, a member of<br />
The Broadway League’s Executive<br />
Committee and on the producing team<br />
of Level Forward — a new studio venture<br />
founded by Abigail Disney and<br />
Killer Content. Current and notable<br />
productions include: Alanis Morissette’s<br />
Jagged Little Pill (two Tony Awards),<br />
Oklahoma! (two Tony Awards, Best<br />
Musical Revival), What the Constitution<br />
Means to Me (two Tony nominations,<br />
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National Tour 2020), Angels in America<br />
(Tony-winning Broadway revival<br />
starring Nathan Lane and Andrew<br />
Garfield), Dear Evan Hansen<br />
(six Tony Awards), On Your Feet!<br />
(the story of Gloria and Emilio Estefan),<br />
Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons on<br />
Broadway!, Peter and the Starcatcher<br />
(five Tony Awards) Colin Quinn: Long<br />
Story Short (directed by Jerry Seinfeld),<br />
Annie (Tony-nominated musical<br />
revival), The Merchant of Venice<br />
starring Al Pacino (Tony-nominated play<br />
revival), Carrie Fisher’s Wishful Drinking,<br />
The Addams Family (starring Nathan<br />
Lane and Bebe Neuwirth) as well<br />
as several solo shows and critically<br />
acclaimed concerts starring<br />
The Temptations & The Four Tops,<br />
Kathy Griffin, Lewis Black and Hershey<br />
Felder. Recent off-Broadway projects<br />
include Cruel Intentions: The ’90s Musical<br />
(le Poisson Rouge, National Tour),<br />
the Drama Desk-nominated Found<br />
(Atlantic Theater Company and<br />
Philadelphia Theatre Company),<br />
Benjamin Scheuer’s award-winning<br />
The Lion (Drama Desk winner, off-West<br />
End winner for Best Musical) and<br />
Bess Wohl’s critically acclaimed Small<br />
Mouth Sounds. International and touring<br />
credits include: The Magic School Bus,<br />
Live!; The Climate Challenge and Ella,<br />
a bio musical about the life and music<br />
of Ella Fitzgerald. Eva is the host and<br />
creator of the new podcast My First<br />
Show. For five years Eva worked as an<br />
assignment editor and coordinating<br />
producer for special projects at ABC<br />
News, spending her last year producing<br />
and reporting on stories relating to<br />
Broadway for abcnews.com.<br />
stephanie mills<br />
& the whispers<br />
jan 15<br />
standing in<br />
solidarity<br />
monthly events promoting racial equality<br />
Visit njpac.org/stand for more information<br />
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At <strong>NJPAC</strong>, our dedicated supporters<br />
are behind all that we accomplish.<br />
Their generosity brings exhilarating<br />
performances to our stages and<br />
inspirational arts education programs to<br />
more than 110,000 students, teachers and<br />
families each year. Their contributions<br />
enable us to share the arts with audiences<br />
throughout our community.<br />
njpac shining stars<br />
New Jersey Performing Arts Center reserves special accolades for its Shining Stars — the generous<br />
visionaries, luminaries and great dreamers who make everything possible. This list includes contributors<br />
whose cumulative giving to <strong>NJPAC</strong> totals $1 million and above. As of August 31, <strong>2021</strong>.<br />
Dreamers<br />
$10,000,000 & above<br />
Anonymous (2)<br />
The Chambers Family and<br />
The MCJ Amelior Foundation<br />
City of Newark<br />
Stewart and Judy Colton<br />
Toby and Leon Cooperman<br />
Essex County<br />
Betty Wold Johnson+<br />
New Jersey State Council on the Arts<br />
Prudential/The Prudential Foundation<br />
Estate of Eric F. Ross<br />
State of New Jersey<br />
Victoria Foundation<br />
Women@<strong>NJPAC</strong><br />
Luminaries<br />
$5,000,000 & above<br />
Bank of America<br />
The Joan and Allen Bildner<br />
Family Fund<br />
CIT<br />
The Horizon Foundation for New<br />
Jersey/Horizon Blue Cross<br />
Blue Shield of New Jersey<br />
Merck Foundation<br />
Katherine M. and Albert W. Merck+<br />
NJ Advance Media<br />
PSEG Foundation/PSEG<br />
Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch<br />
Wells Fargo Foundation<br />
The Weston Family<br />
Visionaries<br />
$1,000,000 & above<br />
ADP<br />
Alcatel-Lucent<br />
American Express<br />
AT&T<br />
BD<br />
Randi and Marc E. Berson<br />
Casino Reinvestment<br />
Development Authority<br />
Chubb<br />
Joanne D. Corzine Foundation<br />
Jon S. Corzine Foundation<br />
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation<br />
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation<br />
Edison Properties Newark<br />
Foundation/The Gottesman Family<br />
Anne Evans Estabrook DBA<br />
Elberon Development Co.<br />
Ford Foundation<br />
Gibbons P.C.<br />
Veronica M. Goldberg<br />
The Griffinger Family<br />
Harrah’s Foundation<br />
Hess Foundation, Inc.<br />
Jaqua Foundation<br />
Johnson & Johnson Family<br />
of Companies<br />
JPMorgan Chase<br />
Kresge Foundation<br />
The Blanche and Irving<br />
Laurie Foundation<br />
Arlene Lieberman/The Leonard<br />
Lieberman Family Foundation<br />
A. Michael and Ruth C. Lipper/Lipper<br />
Family Charitable Foundation<br />
William J. and Paula Marino<br />
McCrane Foundation, Inc.,<br />
care of Margrit McCrane<br />
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation<br />
New Jersey Cultural Trust<br />
Panasonic Foundation<br />
Dr. Victor Parsonnet and<br />
Jane Parsonnet+<br />
Pfizer Inc.<br />
Michael F. Price<br />
PwC<br />
Robert Wood Johnson, Jr.<br />
Charitable Trust<br />
RWJBarnabas Health<br />
The Ryan Family<br />
The Sagner Family Foundation<br />
Schering-Plough Corporation<br />
The Walter V. and Judith L.<br />
Shipley Family Foundation<br />
Sills Cummis & Gross, PC<br />
The Smart Family Foundation/David<br />
S. Stone, Esq.,<br />
Stone and Magnanini<br />
John Strangfeld and<br />
Mary Kay Strangfeld Foundation<br />
Michael and Jill Tanenbaum<br />
Morris and Charlotte Tanenbaum<br />
TD Bank/TD Charitable Foundation<br />
Turner Construction Company/<br />
Pat A. Di FilippoTurrell Fund<br />
United Airlines<br />
Diana and P. Roy Vagelos<br />
Verizon<br />
Robert and Mary Ellen Waggoner<br />
Wallace Foundation<br />
njpac leadership As of August 31, <strong>2021</strong><br />
Board of Directors<br />
Co-Chair<br />
Steven M. Goldman, Esq.<br />
Managing Partner<br />
PBM Capital Group<br />
Co-Chair<br />
Barry H. Ostrowsky<br />
President & CEO<br />
RWJBarnabas Health<br />
Treasurer<br />
Marc E. Berson<br />
Chairman<br />
The Fidelco Group<br />
Assistant Treasurer<br />
David Jones<br />
Co-Founder, President & CEO<br />
Castle Oak Securitites, LLC<br />
Secretary<br />
Michael R. Griffinger, Esq.<br />
Director<br />
Gibbons P.C.<br />
Assistant Secretary<br />
Alma DeMetropolis, CFA<br />
Managing Director<br />
The Private Bank JPMorgan Chase<br />
Founding Chair<br />
Raymond G. Chambers<br />
The MCJ Amelior Foundation<br />
Director Emeritus<br />
& Chair Emeritus<br />
John Strangfeld<br />
Retired Chairman & CEO<br />
Prudential Financial<br />
Chairs Emeriti<br />
William J. Marino<br />
Retired Chairman, President & CEO<br />
Horizon BCBS of New Jersey<br />
Arthur F. Ryan<br />
Retired Chairman & CEO<br />
Prudential Financial<br />
Honorary Counsel<br />
Donald A. Robinson, Esq.<br />
Partner<br />
Robinson & Miller LLC<br />
Lara Abrash<br />
Marsha I. Atkind<br />
Lawrence E. Bathgate II, Esq.<br />
James L. Bildner<br />
Daniel M. Bloomfield, M.D.<br />
Linda M. Bowden<br />
Modia “Mo” Butler<br />
Jacob S. Buurma, Esq.<br />
Nancy Cantor, Ph.D.<br />
Regina Carter<br />
Mindy A. Cohen<br />
Kevin P. Conlin*<br />
Matthew Connor<br />
Wayne Cooperman<br />
Pat A. Di Filippo<br />
Robert H. Doherty<br />
Patrick C. Dunican, Jr., Esq.<br />
Debbie Dyson<br />
Shereef Elnahal, M.D.<br />
Anne Evans Estabrook<br />
Christine C. Gilfillan<br />
Savion Glover<br />
Yan Gu<br />
Ryan P. Haygood, Esq.<br />
William V. Hickey<br />
Jeffrey T. Hoffman<br />
Ralph Izzo<br />
The Hon. Thomas H. Kean<br />
Scott A. Kobler, Esq.<br />
Mitchell Livingston<br />
Charles Lowrey<br />
Ellen B. Marshall<br />
Christian McBride<br />
D. Nicholas Miceli<br />
Victor Parsonnet, M.D.<br />
Eva Reda<br />
Christopher R. Reidy<br />
Donald A. Robinson, Esq.<br />
Richard W. Roper<br />
Philip R. Sellinger, Esq.<br />
The Hon. Clifford M. Sobel<br />
Gary St. Hilaire<br />
David S. Stone, Esq.<br />
Michael A. Tanenbaum, Esq.<br />
Rishi Varma<br />
Carmen S. Villar<br />
Robert C. Waggoner<br />
Amrit Walia<br />
Nina M. Wells, Esq.<br />
Josh S. Weston<br />
Karen Young<br />
Ex Officio<br />
The Hon. Ras J. Baraka<br />
The Hon. Mildred Crump<br />
The Hon. Joseph DiVincenzo, Jr.<br />
Elizabeth A. Mattson<br />
The Hon. Elizabeth Maher Muoio<br />
The Hon. Philip D. Murphy<br />
John Schreiber<br />
John Strangfeld<br />
Faith Taylor<br />
The Hon. Tahesha Way<br />
Directors Emeriti<br />
Dennis M. Bone<br />
Barbara Bell Coleman<br />
Albert R. Gamper, Jr.<br />
Veronica M. Goldberg<br />
Judith Jamison<br />
A. Michael Lipper<br />
Diana T. Vagelos<br />
Women@<strong>NJPAC</strong> Board of Trustees<br />
President<br />
Faith Taylor<br />
Environmental, Social,<br />
Governance Leader<br />
Tesla<br />
Co-Executive Vice President<br />
Margarethe Laurenzi<br />
Chief Philanthropic Officer<br />
Community Foundation<br />
of New Jersey<br />
Co-Executive Vice President<br />
Sonia Luaces<br />
Partner<br />
PwC LLP<br />
Vice Presidents<br />
Deborah Q. Belfatto<br />
Community Leader and<br />
Philanthropist<br />
Mindy A. Cohen<br />
Community Leader and<br />
Philanthropist<br />
Suzanne M. Spero<br />
Executive Director<br />
The MCJ Amelior Foundation<br />
Treasurer<br />
Lisa Osofsky<br />
Partner, Private Client Services<br />
Practice Leader<br />
Mazars USA, LLP<br />
Secretary<br />
Christine Pearson<br />
Community Leader and<br />
Philanthropist<br />
Immediate Past President<br />
Marcia Wilson Brown, Esq.<br />
Vice Chancellor for External and<br />
Governmental Relations<br />
Rutgers University – Newark<br />
Farah N. Ansari<br />
Rana Peterson Barclay<br />
Audrey Bartner<br />
Adenah Bayoh<br />
Sherri-Ann P. Butterfield, Ph.D<br />
Patricia L. Capawana<br />
Alejandra Ceja<br />
Patricia A. Chambers* **<br />
Sally Chubb* **<br />
Mary Lynn Clark<br />
Barbara Bell Coleman**<br />
Michellene Davis, Esq.<br />
Antoinette Ellis-Williams<br />
Catherine J. Flynn<br />
Christine C. Gilfillan<br />
Tenagne Girma-Jeffries<br />
Aisha Glover<br />
Veronica M. Goldberg* **<br />
Shané Harris<br />
Zenola Harper, Esq.<br />
Tammye T. Jones<br />
Sheila F. Klehm**<br />
Ruth C. Lipper**<br />
*Founding Member<br />
**Trustee Emerita<br />
• retired<br />
+ deceased<br />
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Women@<strong>NJPAC</strong> Board of Trustees<br />
continued...<br />
Dena F. Lowenbach**<br />
Marlie Massena<br />
Gabriella E. Morris, Esq.*<br />
Ferlanda Fox Nixon, Esq.<br />
Lori Spoon<br />
Mary Kay Strangfeld**<br />
Mikki Taylor<br />
Diana T. Vagelos* **<br />
Nina Mitchell Wells, Esq.<br />
Nicole D. Wescoe<br />
Council of Trustees<br />
Val Azzoli<br />
Michael F. Bartow<br />
Rona Brummer<br />
John M. Castrucci, CPA<br />
Elizabeth G. Christopherson<br />
Susan Cole, Ph.D.<br />
Robert S. Constable<br />
Irene Cooper-Basch<br />
Anthony R. Coscia, Esq.<br />
Andrea Cummis<br />
Samuel A. Delgado<br />
Steven J. Diner, Ph.D.<br />
Benefactor<br />
$1,000,000 & above<br />
New Jersey State Council on the Arts<br />
Prudential/The Prudential Foundation<br />
Women@<strong>NJPAC</strong><br />
Leadership Circle<br />
$200,000 & above<br />
ADP<br />
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation<br />
Anonymous<br />
Bank of America<br />
The Blanche and Irving<br />
Laurie Foundation<br />
The Horizon Foundation for<br />
New Jersey/Horizon Blue Cross<br />
Blue Shield of New Jersey<br />
Merck Foundation<br />
PSEG Foundation/PSEG<br />
RWJBarnabas Health<br />
TD Bank/TD Charitable Foundation<br />
Victoria Foundation<br />
Co-Chair Circle<br />
$100,000 & above<br />
American Express<br />
BD<br />
Anne Evans Estabrook DBA<br />
Elberon Development Co.<br />
Andrew Dumas<br />
Dawood Farahi, Ph.D.<br />
Curtland E. Fields<br />
Albert R. Gamper<br />
Bruce I. Goldstein, Esq.<br />
Renee Golush<br />
Paula Gottesman<br />
Sandra Greenberg<br />
Kent C. Hiteshew<br />
Patrick E. Hobbs<br />
John A. Hoffman, Esq.<br />
Lawrence S. Horn, Esq.<br />
Reverend M. William Howard, Jr.<br />
Reverend Reginald Jackson<br />
Howard Jacobs<br />
Robert L. Johnson, M.D.<br />
Marilyn “Penny” Joseph<br />
Donald M. Karp, Esq.<br />
Gene R. Korf<br />
Rabbi Clifford M. Kulwin<br />
Ellen W. Lambert, Esq.<br />
Paul Lichtman<br />
Kevin Luing<br />
Joseph Manfredi<br />
Antonio S. Matinho<br />
Bari J. Mattes<br />
F.M. Kirby Foundation<br />
The Healthcare Foundation<br />
of New Jersey<br />
Investors Bank/Investors<br />
Foundation, Inc.<br />
Mars Wrigley<br />
Matrix Development<br />
New Jersey Cultural Trust<br />
Wells Fargo Foundation<br />
Director’s Circle<br />
$50,000 & above<br />
Anonymous<br />
Atlantic, Tomorrow’s Office<br />
Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.<br />
Deloitte LLP<br />
Edison Properties Newark Foundation<br />
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation<br />
JPMorgan Chase<br />
M&T Bank<br />
NJ Advance Media<br />
Panasonic Foundation<br />
PNC<br />
PwC<br />
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation<br />
Rutgers, The State University<br />
of New Jersey<br />
Santander Bank, N.A.<br />
John E. McCormac, CPA<br />
Catherine M. McFarland<br />
Joyce R. Michaelson<br />
Edwin S. Olsen<br />
Richard S. Pechter<br />
Daria M. Placitella<br />
Jay R. Post, Jr., CFP<br />
Steven J. Pozycki<br />
Marian Rocker<br />
David J. Satz, Esq.<br />
Barbara J. Scott<br />
Marla S. Smith<br />
Suzanne M. Spero<br />
Joseph P. Starkey<br />
Sylvia Steiner<br />
Arthur R. Stern<br />
Andrew Vagelos<br />
Richard J. Vezza<br />
Kim Wachtel<br />
Constance K. Weaver<br />
Elnardo J. Webster, II<br />
E. Belvin Williams, Ph.D.<br />
Gary M. Wingens, Esq.<br />
njpac contributors—business partners<br />
<strong>NJPAC</strong> is deeply grateful to the following corporations, foundations and government agencies<br />
for their generous annual support of artistic and arts education programs, the endowment fund,<br />
nd maintenance of the Arts Center. For more information, please contact Valerie Blau,<br />
Corporate Giving Manager, at 973.297.5135. As of August 31, <strong>2021</strong><br />
Steinway and Sons<br />
Turrell Fund<br />
FOR A FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS, VISIT <strong>NJPAC</strong>.ORG OR CALL 1.888.MY.<strong>NJPAC</strong><br />
President’s Circle<br />
$25,000 & above<br />
Bloomberg Philanthropies<br />
CastleOak Securities, LP<br />
Chubb<br />
Gibbons P.C.<br />
Greenberg Traurig, LLP<br />
Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment<br />
Johnson & Johnson Family<br />
of Companies<br />
L + M Development Partners Inc.<br />
Lowenstein Sandler LLP<br />
McCarter & English, LLP<br />
The Nicholas Martini Foundation<br />
NJM Insurance Group<br />
Turner Construction Company/<br />
Pat A. Di Filippo<br />
United Airlines<br />
Valley Bank<br />
Verizon<br />
Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf, LLP<br />
njpac contributors—business partners<br />
Composer’s Circle<br />
$10,000 & above<br />
Boston Consulting Group<br />
Brookdale / Newark ShopRite<br />
Chiesa Shahinan & Giantomasi, PC<br />
Coca-Cola Refreshments<br />
EpsteinBeckerGreen<br />
Genova Burns LLC<br />
HLW Architecture LLC<br />
The Hyde and Watson Foundation<br />
Jacobs Levy Equity Management<br />
Landmark Fire Protection<br />
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation<br />
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton<br />
& Garrison, LLP<br />
The Provident Bank Foundation<br />
SP+<br />
Whole Foods Market<br />
Encore Circle<br />
$5,000 & above<br />
Arnold & Porter<br />
Berkeley College<br />
Berkshire Hathaway<br />
Specialty Insurance<br />
Brach Eichler LLC<br />
J. Fletcher Creamer & Son, Inc.<br />
Davis & Gilbert LLP<br />
DeWitt Stern Group<br />
E.J. Grassman Trust<br />
EisnerAmper LLP<br />
Frank and Lydia Bergen Foundation<br />
Gallagher Benefit Services, Inc.<br />
Gateway Security, Inc.<br />
Gilbane Building Company<br />
Hansome Energy Systems<br />
Inserra Supermarkets<br />
Jewish Federation of Greater<br />
MetroWest NJ<br />
KPMG<br />
njpac contributors—vanguard society<br />
Langan<br />
Linden Cogeneration Plant<br />
Mazars USA, LLP<br />
Mercury Public Affairs<br />
Michael Rachlin & Company, LLC<br />
New Jersey Resources<br />
NFP Insurance Brokerage<br />
Peapack-Gladstone Bank<br />
Pennoni<br />
PS&S<br />
Ronald McDonald House<br />
Charities New York Metro<br />
Sherman Atlas Sylvester<br />
& Stamelman LLP<br />
SILVERMAN<br />
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill<br />
Structure Tone<br />
Thornton Tomasetti, Inc.<br />
U.S. Title Solutions<br />
Union Foundation<br />
Ware Malcomb<br />
Willis Towers Watson<br />
New Jersey Performing Arts Center is deeply grateful to the following individuals and families for their<br />
generous annual support, which makes it possible for <strong>NJPAC</strong> to maintain its world-class venue, fill it<br />
with star-studded, diverse performances, and carry out its arts education programs that transform<br />
New Jersey’s children. For more information, please contact Joshua Adler, Director of Major Gifts,<br />
at 973.297.5821. As of August 31, <strong>2021</strong><br />
Leadership Circle<br />
$200,000 & above<br />
The Chambers Family and<br />
The MCJ Amelior Foundation<br />
Stewart and Judy Colton<br />
Toby and Leon Cooperman<br />
William and Joan Hickey<br />
Betty Wold Johnson+<br />
John Strangfeld and<br />
Mary Kay Strangfeld Foundation<br />
Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch<br />
The Weston Family<br />
Co-Chair Circle<br />
$100,000 & above<br />
Anonymous<br />
The Ryan Family<br />
The Smart Family Foundation/<br />
David S. Stone, Esq., Stone<br />
and Magnanini<br />
Director’s Circle<br />
$50,000 & above<br />
Anonymous<br />
Jennifer A. Chalsty<br />
Steven M. Goldman, Esq.<br />
David and Renee Golush<br />
Kaminsky Family Foundation<br />
William J. and Paula Marino<br />
Michael and Jill Tanenbaum<br />
Morris and Charlotte Tanenbaum<br />
President’s Circle<br />
$25,000 & above<br />
Randi and Marc E. Berson<br />
Sally Chubb<br />
Mindy A. Cohen and David J. Bershad<br />
The Hon. Jon S. and Sharon Corzine<br />
The Griffinger Family<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Warren Grover<br />
Don Katz and Leslie Larson<br />
Dana and Peter Langerman<br />
McCrane Foundation, Inc.,<br />
care of Margrit McCrane<br />
Bobbi and Barry H. Ostrowsky<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Leslie C. Quick, III<br />
Marian and David Rocker<br />
Steven and Beverly Rubenstein<br />
Charitable Foundation<br />
The Sagner Family Foundation<br />
David S. Steiner and Sylvia Steiner<br />
Charitable Trust<br />
Walsh Family Fund of the<br />
Community Foundation<br />
of New Jersey<br />
Nina and Ted Wells<br />
Composer’s Circle<br />
$10,000 & above<br />
Bruce and Jean Acken<br />
Anonymous<br />
Audrey Bartner<br />
Lawrence E. Bathgate, II<br />
and Michelle Bengue<br />
The Joan and Allen Bildner<br />
Family Fund<br />
Stephen and Mary Birch Foundation<br />
Dennis and Denise Bone<br />
Ann and Stan Borowiec<br />
Rose Cali<br />
Edwan and Alexis Davis<br />
Linda V. Della Corna &<br />
Enrico A. Della Corna<br />
Patrick C. Dunican, Jr., Esq.<br />
Debbie Dyson<br />
J. Andres Espinosa<br />
Nancye and Robert Falzon<br />
Veronica M. Goldberg<br />
Alice Gerson Goldfarb<br />
Phyllis and Steven E. Gross<br />
Gary St. Hilaire<br />
Meg and Howard Jacobs<br />
The Honorable Thomas H. Kean<br />
Scott and Susan Kobler<br />
A. Michael and Ruth C. Lipper/<br />
Lipper Family Charitable Foundation<br />
Amy and William Lipsey<br />
The Harold I. & Faye B.<br />
Liss Foundation<br />
Mitchell A. Livingston<br />
Charles F. Lowrey Jr. and<br />
Susan T. Rodriguez<br />
The Lester and Grace Maslow<br />
Foundation, Inc.<br />
Joyce R. Michaelson<br />
Harold and Donna Morrison<br />
Richard S. and Kayla L. Pechter<br />
James and Nancy Pierson<br />
Eva Reda<br />
*Founding Member<br />
**Trustee Emerita<br />
• retired<br />
+ deceased<br />
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njpac contributors—vanguard society<br />
Composer’s Circle continued...<br />
Christopher R. Reidy<br />
Karen and Gary D. Rose<br />
Philip R. Sellinger<br />
Karen Sherman<br />
Cliff and Barbara Sobel<br />
Alexine and Warren Tranquada<br />
Carmen Villar<br />
Amrit Walia<br />
Thomas C. Wallace<br />
Joyce and George Wein Foundation<br />
Helene and Gary Wingens<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Edward D. Zinbarg<br />
Encore Circle<br />
$5,000 & above<br />
Margaret Anadu<br />
Anonymous<br />
Daniel Bloomfield and Betsy True<br />
Candice R. Bolte<br />
Linda M. Bowden<br />
The Hon. Jon M. Bramnick<br />
$1,000,000 & above<br />
Toby and Leon Cooperman<br />
Betty Wold Johnson+<br />
New Jersey State Council on the Arts<br />
Prudential/The Prudential Foundation<br />
State of New Jersey<br />
Women@<strong>NJPAC</strong><br />
$250,000 & above<br />
ADP<br />
Bank of America<br />
The Chambers Family and<br />
The MCJ Amelior Foundation<br />
The Horizon Foundation for<br />
New Jersey/Horizon Blue Cross<br />
Blue Shield of New Jersey<br />
Merck Foundation<br />
PSEG Foundation/PSEG<br />
RWJBarnabas Health<br />
Victoria Foundation<br />
$100,000 & above<br />
American Express<br />
Anne Evans Estabrook DBA<br />
Elberon Development Co.<br />
Audible, Inc.<br />
Anonymous<br />
BD<br />
The Blanche and Irving<br />
Laurie Foundation<br />
Stewart and Judy Colton<br />
The Healthcare Foundation<br />
of New Jersey<br />
William and Joan Hickey<br />
Betty Wold Johnson+<br />
Modia Butler<br />
Nancy Cantor and Steven R. Brechin<br />
Norman L. Cantor<br />
Austin G. Cleary<br />
The Colbert Family Fund of Coastal<br />
Community Foundation of SC<br />
Sylvia J. Cohn<br />
Matt and Susan Connor<br />
Alma DeMetropolis, CFA<br />
Robert Doherty<br />
Gregg N. Gerken<br />
Lawrence P. Goldman and<br />
Laurie B. Chock<br />
Yan Gu<br />
The Huisking Foundation<br />
Karen and Ralph Izzo<br />
Ralph and MartyAnn LaRossa<br />
Judith Lieberman<br />
Barry and Leslie Mandelbaum<br />
Ellen Marshall and Jim Flanagan<br />
Mr. and Mrs. D. Nicholas Miceli<br />
Duncan and Alison Niederauer<br />
njpac premier donors and sponsors<br />
Mars Wrigley<br />
M&T Bank<br />
New Jersey Cultural Trust<br />
PwC<br />
The Ryan Family<br />
The Smart Family Foundation/<br />
David S. Stone, Esq., Stone<br />
and Magnanini<br />
John Strangfeld and<br />
Mary Kay Strangfeld Foundation<br />
Tanenbaum Keale, LLP<br />
Michael and Jill Tanenbaum<br />
Morris and Charlotte Tanenbaum<br />
TD Bank/TD Charitable Foundation<br />
Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch<br />
Wells Fargo Foundation<br />
The Weston Family<br />
$50,000 & above<br />
Atlantic, Tomorrow’s Office<br />
Randi and Marc E. Berson/<br />
The Fidelco Group<br />
The Joan and Allen Bildner<br />
Family Fund<br />
Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.<br />
Jennifer A. Chalsty<br />
Chubb<br />
Mindy A. Cohen and David J. Bershad<br />
Deloitte, LLP<br />
Edison Properties Newark Foundation<br />
Mimi and Edwin Feliciano<br />
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation<br />
Gibbons P.C.<br />
Steven M. Goldman, Esq.<br />
Laurence B. Orloff and Deanne Wilson<br />
Jean and Kent Papsun<br />
Judith and Kenneth Peskin<br />
Roberta and Richard E. Polton<br />
Rob and Nora Radest<br />
Richard N. Ross<br />
Susan Satz<br />
Virginia McEnerney and<br />
John Schreiber<br />
James and Sharon Schwarz<br />
Stephen and Mary Jo Sichak<br />
Paul and Denise Silverman<br />
Rosemary and Robert Steinbaum<br />
Robert and Sharon Taylor<br />
Bruce A. Tucker<br />
RIshi Varma and Pooja Khanna<br />
Robert and Mary Ellen Waggoner<br />
Thomas Wisniewski<br />
Karen and Bill Young<br />
<strong>NJPAC</strong> is deeply grateful to the institutions and individuals whose aggregate contributions<br />
(gifts, grants, sponsorships and events) for the year total $50,000 or more. August 31, <strong>2021</strong><br />
Investors Bank/Investors<br />
Foundation, Inc.<br />
JPMorgan Chase<br />
William J. and Paula Marino<br />
NJ Advance Media<br />
NJM Insurance Group<br />
Panasonic Foundation<br />
PNC Bank, N.A/The PNC Foundation<br />
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation<br />
Rutgers, The State University<br />
of New Jersey<br />
Santander Bank, N.A.<br />
The Walter V. and<br />
Judith L. Shipley<br />
Family Foundation<br />
Steinway and Sons<br />
Turrell Fund<br />
United Airlines<br />
Nina and Ted Wells<br />
*Founding Member<br />
**Trustee Emerita<br />
• retired<br />
+ deceased<br />
njpac muse society<br />
<strong>NJPAC</strong>’s Muse Society recognizes those visionary friends who include the Arts Center in their financial<br />
planning through bequests, charitable gift annuities, insurance and other deferred gifts. We are deeply<br />
grateful to the following friends who have included the Arts Center in their estate plans and made known<br />
their future gift. For more information or to notify <strong>NJPAC</strong> of your intent to include it in your estate planning,<br />
contact Amy Fitzpatrick, Vice President of Development, at 973.297.5822. As of August 31, <strong>2021</strong><br />
Audrey Bartner<br />
Lawrence E. Bathgate, II<br />
Judith Bernhaut<br />
Andrew T. Berry, Esq.+<br />
Randi and Marc E. Berson<br />
The Joan and Allen Bildner<br />
Family Fund<br />
Candice R. Bolte<br />
Edmond H.+ and<br />
Joan K. Borneman<br />
Ann and Stan Borowiec<br />
Raymond G. Chambers<br />
Toby and Leon Cooperman<br />
Fred Corrado<br />
Ann Cummis<br />
Mr. and Mrs. James Curtis<br />
Harold R. Denton<br />
Richard DiNardo<br />
Charles H. Gillen+<br />
Bertha Goldman+<br />
Steven M. Goldman, Esq.<br />
Renee and David Golush<br />
njpac members<br />
Sustainer<br />
$3,000 & above<br />
Sinead and Christopher Bennett<br />
Patricia L. Capawana<br />
Eleonore Kessler Cohen and<br />
Max Insel Cohen+<br />
Margaret J. Cunningham<br />
Donna and Kenneth Eberle<br />
Herbert and Karin Fastert<br />
Lauren and Steven Friedman<br />
Geremia Helou<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Kuchner<br />
Ellen and Donald Legow<br />
Tim Lizura<br />
Edwin S. and Catherine Olsen<br />
Robin and Leigh Walters<br />
The Honorable Alvin Weiss<br />
Patron<br />
$1,250 & above<br />
Anonymous (2)<br />
Bryan Adams<br />
Ronald K. Andrews<br />
Brian Archer<br />
Marsha I. Atkind<br />
Wendee Bailey<br />
Joseph and Jacqueline Basralian<br />
George and Jane Bean<br />
Barbara and Ed Becker<br />
The Griffinger Family<br />
Phyllis and Steven E. Gross<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Warren Grover<br />
Opera Link/Jerome Hines+<br />
William and Joan Hickey<br />
Betty Wold Johnson+<br />
Jackie and Larry Horn<br />
The Meg and Howard Jacobs<br />
Family Foundation<br />
Rose Jacobs+<br />
Gertrude Brooks Josephson+ and<br />
William Josephson in Memory of<br />
Rebecca and Samuel Brooks<br />
Kaminsky Family Foundation<br />
Adrian and Erica Karp<br />
Gail and Max Kleinman<br />
Joseph Laraja, Sr.+<br />
Leonard Lieberman+<br />
Ruth C. Lipper<br />
Amy C. Liss<br />
Dena F. and Ralph Lowenbach<br />
Joyce R. Michaelson<br />
Joseph and Bernice O’Reilly+<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Ostergaard<br />
Maria Parise+<br />
Dr. Victor Parsonnet and<br />
Jane Parsonnet+<br />
Donald A. Robinson, Esq.<br />
Marian and David Rocker<br />
Estate of Eric F. Ross+<br />
Bernice Rotberg+<br />
The Steven and Beverly Rubenstein<br />
Charitable Foundation<br />
The Ryan Family<br />
Ethel Smith+<br />
Leonard R. Stern+<br />
Paul Stillman Trust<br />
John Strangfeld and Mary Kay<br />
Strangfeld Foundation<br />
Morris and Charlotte Tanenbaum<br />
Carolyn M. VanDusen<br />
Diana and P. Roy Vagelos<br />
Artemis Vardakis+<br />
Nina and Ted Wells<br />
Judy+ and Josh Weston<br />
+deceased<br />
New Jersey Performing Arts Center gives special thanks to the following Members who help meet<br />
the Arts Center’s annual financial needs with gifts of $650 to $4,999. For information on becoming a<br />
Member, please call 973.297.5809. As of August 31, <strong>2021</strong><br />
Lisa and Scott Braustein<br />
Jeri Burt and Michael Merlie<br />
Patricia and Anthony R. Calandra<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Chapin, III<br />
Nancy Clarke<br />
Kevin and Linda Conlin<br />
Vaughn E. Crowe<br />
Trayton M. Davis<br />
D’Maris and Joseph Dempsey<br />
Linda H. Dunham<br />
Drs. Brenda and Robert Fischbein<br />
Thomas P. Giblin<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Gilfillan<br />
Carolyn Gould<br />
Thomas L. Green<br />
Susan and Mark Halliday<br />
Kitty and Dave Hartman<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Henry<br />
Joan Hollander<br />
Alan and Carrie Holtz<br />
Adrian and Erica Karp<br />
Irvin and Marjorie Kricheff<br />
Amy and Steven P. Kruvant<br />
Dr. Marlene E. Lengner<br />
Mark and Gayle Lerch<br />
Susan Lippa<br />
Dena and Ralph Lowenbach<br />
Kevin and Trisha Luing<br />
Lana Masor<br />
Massey Insurance Agency<br />
Edward Moran<br />
Gabriella E. Morris<br />
Jack and Ellen Moskowitz<br />
Bruce Murphy and MJ Lauzon<br />
Judith Musicant and Hugh A. Clark<br />
Helene and Martin Myers<br />
Joseph and Sheila Nadler<br />
Jeffrey S. Norman<br />
Wayne C. Paglieri and Jessalyn Chang<br />
Dr. Kalmon D. Post and<br />
Linda Farber Post<br />
Samantha Pozner and<br />
Andrew Hickman<br />
Caroline and Harry Pozycki<br />
Chali Prasper<br />
Cecile and Trevor Prince<br />
Jonathan and Bethany Rabinowitz<br />
Lawrence A. Raia<br />
Brent N. Rudnick<br />
Jeremy and Tony Saccente<br />
Barbara Sager<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Newton B. Schott<br />
Rita and Leonard Selesner<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Flody Shapiro<br />
Diana and Laurence Smith<br />
Kate S. Tomlinson and Roger Labrie<br />
Mr. and Mrs. R. Charles Tschampion<br />
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Patron continued...<br />
Mr. and Mrs. David S. Untracht<br />
Kathryn Vermilye<br />
Richard and Arlene Vezza<br />
Drs. Radha and Rao V. Vinnakota<br />
Lisa Webber<br />
Dr. Joy Weinsteun and<br />
Dr. Bruce Forman<br />
Lloyd Williams<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Pat Wood<br />
Gary and Wendy Young<br />
Richard Zaborowski<br />
Supporter<br />
$650 & above<br />
Lara Abrash and Gary Guth<br />
Cheryl Adams<br />
Rana and Andrew Barclay<br />
Nadine Brechner<br />
James and Sharon Briggs<br />
Eloyd O. Britt<br />
Dr. Kimberly Brown and<br />
Parkway Eye Care Center<br />
Marcia Wilson Brown<br />
Calvin Carver<br />
Eileen Clifford<br />
Arthur Connolly<br />
Andrea Cummis and Renard Fiscus<br />
Martha Cybyk<br />
Maryanne and David R. Dacey<br />
Aliah Davis-McHenry and<br />
Brian McHenry<br />
Elizabeth DelTufo<br />
Suzanne Deluca-Warner<br />
Walter Douglas<br />
Eleanor and John Dunn<br />
Carylmead Eggleston<br />
Sybil Eng and Tad Roselund<br />
Michael Etkin<br />
Edward W. Fagan<br />
Sanford and Zella Falzenberg<br />
Laura Fuhro<br />
Dr. Ronald Gandelman and<br />
Dr. Elizabeth Mitchell<br />
Claudia and Kenneth Louis Gentner<br />
Maureen and Subhendu Ghosh<br />
David H. Gibbons , Jr.<br />
Clifford and Karen Goldman<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Goodfellow<br />
Donna Grant<br />
Mary and Bradford Graves<br />
Wayne and Catherine Greenfeder<br />
Lonnie and Better Hanauer<br />
Ryan P. Haygood, Esq.<br />
Richard and Cindy Johnson<br />
Mary and David Jones<br />
Leah and Rich Kabrt<br />
Marwa Kamel and Dr. Shereef Einahal<br />
Dr. and Mrs. John W. Kennedy<br />
Andrea and Jason Kimmel<br />
Courtney Koch and Patrick DeWald<br />
Joan M. Kram<br />
Nancy Laird<br />
Mark and Sheryl Larner<br />
Deborah Lashley and Harrison Snell<br />
Dorothy Litwin-Brief<br />
Janet Lonney<br />
Edward Mafoud<br />
Santa and Michael R. Mallon<br />
Howard and Peggy Menaker<br />
Ray Merchant<br />
Hector Mislavsky and Judy Martinez<br />
Drs. Douglas and Susan Morrison<br />
William and Patricia O’Connor<br />
Monica Padovano Casiello<br />
Mark Pentelovitch<br />
Doren Pettiford<br />
Charles M. Piscitelli<br />
Jay R. Post, Jr. CFP<br />
Douglas and Susan Present<br />
Amy and Reginald Pretto<br />
Gusta A. Pritchett<br />
Oliver B. Quinn<br />
Charity Quinn and Mark Yecies<br />
Bidisa Rai<br />
Frank Rand<br />
Nogah Revesz<br />
Diane Ridley-White<br />
William A. Robinson<br />
Ina and Mark Roffman<br />
Richard W. Roper<br />
Joel Rosen<br />
Jeffrey and Regina Roth<br />
Suzanne and Richard Scheller<br />
The Schiffenhaus Foundation<br />
Drs. Rosanne S. Scriffignano<br />
and Anthony Scriffignano<br />
Karen and Roger Shults<br />
Latoya Singleton<br />
Richard Sodon<br />
Marilyn and Leon Sokol<br />
Linda and Brian Sterling<br />
Beverly and Ed Stern<br />
Stanley and Sharon Streicher<br />
Linda Tancs<br />
Jill Tarnow<br />
Lola Tate-McGhee<br />
Marilyn Termyna<br />
Marva Tidwell<br />
Louise and David J. Travis<br />
Jon Ulanet<br />
Paul and Sharlene Vichness<br />
Dr. Deborah and Peter Vietze<br />
Susan D. Wasserman<br />
Jacqueline Williams<br />
Diane C. Youg, M.D., P.A.<br />
*Founding Member<br />
**Trustee Emerita<br />
• retired<br />
+ deceased<br />
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<strong>NJPAC</strong>’s glossy guide to each performance to read, enjoy<br />
and keep as a souvenir by hundreds of thousands of<br />
theatergoers each season. Programs are packed with eye<br />
catching special features, including background info about<br />
current performances and lively articles.<br />
More than 500,000 customers viewed BRAVO! at about<br />
550 performances, events and programs during the<br />
2018-19 season. Thirty-two percent of that population<br />
reports an average household income of over $125,000<br />
In addition to the printed publication, all paid advertising<br />
will appear in <strong>NJPAC</strong>’s digital spaces:<br />
<strong>NJPAC</strong> Website Simply click to each full issue of BRAVO!<br />
(1.2 million unique visitors to njpac.org during the 2018-19 season).<br />
Email <strong>NJPAC</strong> performance reminders, emailed to ticketholders<br />
approximately 5 days before the event, include a link<br />
to each issue of BRAVO!<br />
Mobile App Tap to each issue of BRAVO! via the <strong>NJPAC</strong> Mobile<br />
App, available at the Apple Store and Google Play.<br />
Advertise in <strong>NJPAC</strong>’s program book today!<br />
To reserve ad space or request a media kit, please contact:<br />
Victor M. Nichols, D.M.C. Publishing, LLC<br />
Ph: 862.216.0579 • vnichols@dmcpublishingllc.org<br />
Whatever you’re in the mood for… you’re in the mood<br />
for NICO. Hang out on our outdoor patio. Indulge in<br />
our craveworthy American menu. Or unwind from the<br />
grind at our friendly neighborhood bar. It’s nothing<br />
but good times and delicious vibes here at NICO.<br />
•<br />
n1co<br />
kitchen+bar<br />
New Jersey Performing Arts Center<br />
One Center Street, Newark, NJ<br />
973.642.1226 I njpac.org/nico
women@<br />
Platinum Channel<br />
Surfer Dinner Committee<br />
Mindy A. Cohen<br />
and David J. Bershad<br />
Gibbons P.C.<br />
Nina Mitchell Wells and<br />
Theodore V. Wells, Jr<br />
Gold Live<br />
Streamer Dinner Committee<br />
ADP<br />
American Express<br />
RWJF Special Contributions<br />
Fund of the Princeton Area<br />
Community Foundation<br />
SP+<br />
The Smart Family<br />
Foundation/David S. Stone,<br />
Esq., Stone and Magnanini<br />
TD Bank<br />
The Weston Family<br />
Platinum Advocates<br />
Anonymous<br />
Friends<br />
Dini Ajmani<br />
Beverly Baker-Jackson<br />
and Thomas Jackson<br />
Sherrie-Ann Butterfield<br />
Barbara Bell Coleman<br />
Catherine Flynn<br />
Lawrence P. Goldman and<br />
Laurie B. Chock<br />
Margarethe and<br />
Mark Laurenzi<br />
Judith M. Lieberman<br />
Atlantic, Tomorrow’s Office<br />
Lawrence E. Bathgate II<br />
NJCU<br />
Bank of America<br />
Veronica M. Goldberg<br />
Timothy Roof<br />
Chubb Corporation<br />
Steven M. Goldman, Esq.<br />
Julie Stone<br />
JPMorgan Chase<br />
Mazars USA, LLP<br />
Willis Towers Watson<br />
<strong>NJPAC</strong> and Women@<strong>NJPAC</strong> are profoundly thankful for these<br />
supporters of last year’s 2020 Spotlight Gala @ Home. <br />
lead sponsor<br />
underwriters<br />
The MCJ Amelior<br />
Foundation<br />
hometown heroes (aka vice chairs)<br />
Toby and Leon G.<br />
Cooperman<br />
List as of <strong>September</strong> 24, 2020<br />
Paula and Bill Marino<br />
RWJBarnabas Health<br />
Silver Remote<br />
Controller<br />
Bloomberg Philanthropies<br />
BNY Mellon<br />
Boston Consulting Group<br />
Deloitte, LLP<br />
Alma DeMetropolis<br />
Edison Properties, LLC<br />
Fidelco Group/ Randi and<br />
Marc E. Berson<br />
Greenberg Traurig LLP<br />
Joan and William Hickey<br />
Jones Lang LaSalle<br />
Americas<br />
The Honorable<br />
Thomas H. Kean<br />
McCarter & English, LLP<br />
PNC Bank, N.A.<br />
Robin Cruz McClearn and<br />
Cameron McClearn<br />
One Theater Square<br />
Donald A. Robinson, Esq<br />
Kate S. Tomlinson<br />
and Roger P. Labrie<br />
Gold Advocates<br />
Deborah and Joseph<br />
Belfatto<br />
Newark Alliance<br />
Mary Kay Strangfeld<br />
Faith and Gary Taylor<br />
Silver Advocates<br />
Audrey Bartner<br />
Chiesa Shahinian &<br />
Giantomasi PC<br />
After Party Sponsors<br />
Atlantic Health System<br />
Whole Foods Market<br />
Full-page Ad<br />
Sponsors<br />
Audible<br />
Meg and Howard Jacobs<br />
Mazars USA, LLP<br />
Panasonic Corporation of<br />
North America<br />
Half-page Ad<br />
Sponsors<br />
Genova Burns<br />
In-kind Donations<br />
Country Club Transportation<br />
Newark Working Kitchens<br />
United Airlines<br />
Arthur F. Ryan<br />
Lizzie and<br />
Jonathan Tisch<br />
FOR A FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS, VISIT <strong>NJPAC</strong>.ORG OR CALL 1.888.MY.<strong>NJPAC</strong>
season funders<br />
njpac staff & administration As of <strong>September</strong> 1, <strong>2021</strong><br />
New Jersey Performing Arts Center is grateful to the following partners for their<br />
commitment and investment in <strong>NJPAC</strong>’s mission. As of August 31, <strong>2021</strong><br />
Official Sponsors:<br />
Major support provided by:<br />
The Chambers Family and The MCJ Amelior Foundation, Stewart and Judy Colton, Toby & Leon Cooperman,<br />
Betty Wold Johnson+, Panasonic Foundation, John Strangfeld and Mary Kay Strangfeld Foundation,<br />
Victoria Foundation, The Weston Family<br />
Additional support provided by:<br />
Audible, Inc., Joan and Allen Bildner Family Fund, Edison Properties Newark Foundation, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation,<br />
The Griffinger Family, JPMorgan Chase, The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation, William J. & Paula Marino<br />
McCrane Foundation, Inc., care of Margrit McCrane, PNC, The Ryan Family,<br />
The Smart Family Foundation/David S. Stone, Esq., Stone and Magnanini, Steinway & Sons, Michael & Jill Tanenbaum<br />
Turrell Fund, John & Suzanne Willian/Goldman Sachs Gives, New Jersey Cultural Trust<br />
+deceased<br />
women@<br />
for your information<br />
<strong>NJPAC</strong> values the safety of our audiences, artists,and<br />
staff. It regularly updates its COVID protocols and<br />
procedures based on CDC, federal, state, city, and<br />
other scientific data. <strong>NJPAC</strong> reserves the right to alter<br />
safety protocols at any time and at its sole discretion<br />
including but not limited to social distancing, vaccines/<br />
testing, masks, food service limitations, venue capacity,<br />
and entrance requirements as it deems appropriate.<br />
For more information, visit njpac.org/health<br />
As part of our Enhanced Safety Program, the following<br />
items are prohibited upon entry into Prudential Hall, the<br />
Victoria Theater, and all public spaces of <strong>NJPAC</strong>:<br />
backpacks, large pocketbooks, shopping bags, suitcases,<br />
briefcases, weapons, animals (except service animals).<br />
Late Seating Policy: Latecomers and persons<br />
leaving the theater midshow will be seated/<br />
re-seated at the discretion of the management.<br />
Camera and Recording Equipment is Prohibited:<br />
The use of recording equipment and the taking of<br />
photographs of any performance or the possession<br />
of any device for such use without the written<br />
permission of the management is strictly prohibited.<br />
Parking Facilities: Easy parking is available in the 1,100-car<br />
garage under Military Park, directly across from <strong>NJPAC</strong>.<br />
Safe and secure surface parking is also available.<br />
Smoking and/or vaping is prohibited<br />
throughout all indoor spaces of <strong>NJPAC</strong>.<br />
Official Airline of <strong>NJPAC</strong> Official Imaging Supplier of <strong>NJPAC</strong> Official Soft Drink of <strong>NJPAC</strong> Media Sponsor<br />
Lost and Found: Any found items should be returned<br />
to <strong>NJPAC</strong> Security or Guest Services staff. If you<br />
believe you have lost an item, call (973) 297-5868.<br />
Found clothing items will be held for 30 days after<br />
which they will be donated to a local shelter.<br />
Mobile Device Courtesy Reminder: Please<br />
respect performers and fellow audience members<br />
by ensuring that all cellular phones and mobile<br />
devices are turned off during performances.<br />
Newark Light Rail: NJTRANSIT’s Newark Light Rail offers<br />
frequent service in Downtown Newark that includes a<br />
station stop at <strong>NJPAC</strong>, offering a convenient alternative<br />
to driving to a performance or event. This service is an<br />
extension of the Newark City Subway and connects all rail<br />
lines served by Newark Penn and Broad Street Stations.<br />
Other popular destinations served by the extension<br />
are The Newark Museum of Art and Broad Street area<br />
businesses. For more information, visit njtransit.com/nlr.<br />
Disabilities: All Tiers of Prudential Hall and Victoria<br />
Theater are wheelchair accessible. Open captioning is<br />
provided at select performances. Sennheisser Infraport<br />
infra red audio receivers are available free-of-charge<br />
from an <strong>NJPAC</strong> Guest Service staff member.<br />
<strong>NJPAC</strong> welcomes children of all ages to its<br />
family events, but adult performances are not<br />
recommended for children 5 years old<br />
and younger.<br />
New Jersey Performing Arts Center<br />
<strong>NJPAC</strong>, One Center Street, Newark, NJ, 07102<br />
Administrative: 973.642.8989<br />
Box Office: 1.888.466.5722<br />
njpac.org<br />
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT<br />
John Schreiber**<br />
President & CEO<br />
Christopher Frascogna<br />
Executive Assistant to the<br />
President & CEO<br />
Chelsea Keys<br />
Director, Special Projects<br />
David Rodriguez*<br />
Executive Vice President &<br />
Executive Producer<br />
Kira M. Ruth****<br />
Senior Manager<br />
Programming Operations<br />
Warren Tranquada**<br />
Executive Vice President & COO<br />
Valerie Fullilove<br />
Senior Administrative Assistant<br />
Timothy Lizura<br />
Senior Vice President<br />
Real Estate & Capital Projects<br />
ARTS EDUCATION<br />
Jennifer Tsukayama*<br />
Vice President, Arts Education<br />
Meggan Gomez<br />
AVP Faculty & Creative Practice<br />
Mark Gross*<br />
Director, Jazz Instruction<br />
Rosa Hyde*<br />
Senior Director, Performances &<br />
Special Events Operations<br />
Jennie Wasserman<br />
Project Director, City Verses<br />
Victoria Revesz*<br />
Senior Director,<br />
Arts Education Operations<br />
Erica Bradshaw<br />
Director of Theater Arts<br />
Sheikia “Purple Haze” Norris*<br />
Director, Hip Hop Arts & Culture<br />
Roe Bell<br />
Senior Manager, School and<br />
Community Programs<br />
Ashley Mandaglio<br />
Assoc. Director<br />
Professional Learning & Programs<br />
Danielle Vauters<br />
Senior Manager, Programming<br />
and Performances<br />
Becca Grek<br />
Senior Manager<br />
CRM & Business Operation<br />
Kristine Mathieson<br />
Manager, In-School Programs<br />
Daniel Silverstein<br />
Manager, Onsite Programs<br />
Kimberly Washington<br />
Manager<br />
Marketing, Sales & Recruitment<br />
Randal Croudy<br />
Coordinator<br />
Arts Education Performances<br />
Steven Hayet<br />
Coordinator, Business Operations<br />
Antonella Sanchez<br />
Coordinator, Program Operations<br />
Joe Swift<br />
Project Coordinator, City Verses<br />
Natalie Dreyer<br />
Arts Integration Faculty Lead<br />
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT<br />
Eyesha Marable*<br />
Assistant Vice President,<br />
Community Engagement<br />
Najiyyah Bailey<br />
Associate Producer<br />
Community Engagement<br />
CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP<br />
MANAGEMENT<br />
Hassab Gebremedhin<br />
Senior Director, CRM<br />
Rolston Cyril Watts<br />
Senior Manager<br />
Development Operations<br />
Thomas Mellott<br />
Gift Processing &<br />
Database Associate<br />
DEVELOPMENT<br />
Amy Fitzpatrick<br />
Vice President, Development<br />
Sarah Rosen<br />
Managing Director<br />
Women@<strong>NJPAC</strong><br />
Joshua Adler<br />
Director, Major Gifts<br />
Jenifer Braun<br />
Director, Editorial Content<br />
Roseanne Evans<br />
Director<br />
Foundation & Government Funding<br />
Deborah Purdon<br />
Director<br />
Research & Prospect Management<br />
Christine Walia<br />
Director, Events<br />
Valerie Blau<br />
Corporate Giving Manager<br />
Harris Cabrera<br />
Senior Manager<br />
Foundation Relations<br />
Gabrielle DeGaetano<br />
Membership Manager<br />
Lauren Siegel<br />
Manager, Major Gifts<br />
Imani Frederickson<br />
Development Coordinator<br />
FINANCE<br />
Lennon Register*<br />
Vice President & CFO<br />
Yolanda Doganay<br />
Assistant Vice President<br />
& Controller<br />
Mary Jaffa****<br />
Assistant Vice President, Finance<br />
Manuela Silva****<br />
Senior Accountant, Payroll<br />
Monique Cook<br />
Senior Financial Analyst<br />
Wali East<br />
Staff Accountant<br />
Geraldine Richardson***<br />
Staff Accountant,<br />
Accounts Payable<br />
PEOPLE & ORGANIZATION<br />
Beth Silver<br />
VP & Chief People Officer<br />
Ginny Bowers Coleman****<br />
Director, Volunteer Services<br />
Taheerah Smiley<br />
Human Resources Generalist<br />
Ashanti Hargrove<br />
People & Organization Coordinator<br />
Donna Walker-Kuhne*<br />
Senior Advisor, Diversity, Equity<br />
and Inclusion<br />
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES<br />
Ernie DiRocco***<br />
Chief Information Officer<br />
Carl Sims****<br />
Director, Network Infrastructure<br />
Rodney Johnson***<br />
Network & Help Desk<br />
Support Analyst<br />
MARKETING &<br />
COMMUNICATIONS<br />
Katie Sword*<br />
Vice President, Marketing &<br />
Communications<br />
Fallon Currie*<br />
Administrative Assistant<br />
Jason Paddock<br />
Senior Director, Marketing<br />
Yesenia Jimenez****<br />
Director, Loyalty Services<br />
Charlene A. Roberts*<br />
Director, Performance Marketing<br />
Patricia Ryan<br />
Creative Art Director<br />
Tina Boyer*<br />
Director, Creative Services<br />
Latoya Dawson*<br />
Manager, Marketing<br />
Katie Stein<br />
Senior Manager<br />
Digital Marketing & Content<br />
Doris Ann Pezzolla****<br />
Senior Graphic Designer<br />
Allison Calabro<br />
Lead Graphic Designer<br />
Matthew Cherry<br />
Digital Marketing Manager<br />
Alexis Green<br />
Digital Marketing Coordinator<br />
Ashlee Nolan<br />
Coordinator, Creative Services<br />
April Jeffries<br />
Coordinator, Group Sales<br />
FOR A FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS, VISIT <strong>NJPAC</strong>.ORG OR CALL 1.888.MY.<strong>NJPAC</strong><br />
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Nicola Alexander<br />
Assistant, Creative Services<br />
Daryle Charles**<br />
Priority Customer Representative<br />
Jerome H. Ennis<br />
Consultant<br />
Herbert George Associates<br />
Angela Thomas<br />
Consultant, Performance<br />
Public Relations<br />
OPERATIONS<br />
Chad Spies***<br />
Vice President, Operations<br />
& Real Estate<br />
Anthony Rosta<br />
Facility Manager &<br />
ADA Coordinator<br />
Meredith Hull<br />
Administrative Assistant<br />
Todd Tantillo****<br />
Chief Engineer<br />
J. Dante Esposito****<br />
Assistant Chief Engineer<br />
Brian Cady**<br />
Maintenance Engineer<br />
Sherman Gamble***<br />
Maintenance Engineer<br />
Mariusz Koniuszewski**<br />
Maintenance Engineer<br />
James McMorrow<br />
Director, Security, Parking<br />
& Traffic Operations<br />
Thomas Dixon****<br />
Safety & Security Manager<br />
Robin Jones***<br />
Senior Director<br />
House Management<br />
Jerry Xenos<br />
House Manager<br />
Kathleen Dickson****<br />
Senior Head Usher<br />
Lamont Akins****<br />
Head Usher<br />
Jerry Battle**<br />
Head Usher<br />
Edward Fleming****<br />
Head Usher<br />
Cynthia Hamlett-Robinson***<br />
Head Usher<br />
Tracey Robinson<br />
Head Usher<br />
George Gardner Jr.****<br />
House Painter<br />
PRODUCTION<br />
Chris Moses***<br />
Senior Director, Production<br />
Christopher Staton*<br />
Senior Production Manager<br />
E. Kevin Jones<br />
Production Manager<br />
Crystal Cowling*<br />
Associate Production Manager<br />
Rachel Macleod*<br />
Production Coordinator<br />
William Worman****<br />
Head Carpenter<br />
Mario Corrales****<br />
Assistant Head Carpenter<br />
Bryan Danieli***<br />
Assistant Head Carpenter<br />
Barbara Guerra<br />
Apprentice Carpenter<br />
Hugo Munoz-Campos*<br />
Apprentice Carpenter<br />
Jacob Allen***<br />
Head Electrician<br />
John Enea*<br />
Assistant Head Electrician<br />
Adam Omeljaniuk****<br />
Journeyman Electrician<br />
Marion Pinckney****<br />
Journeyman Electrician<br />
Gumersindo Fajardo****<br />
Assistant Head Electrician<br />
Paul Allshouse***<br />
Head Audio<br />
John DiCapua*<br />
Assistant Head Audio<br />
John Finney***<br />
Assistant Head Audio<br />
Richard Edwards****<br />
Specialist Carpenter<br />
George Honczarenko***<br />
Specialist Carpenter<br />
Joseph Hunt***<br />
Journeyman Carpenter<br />
Naheem Wright**<br />
Journeyman Carpenter<br />
Amere Jenkins**<br />
Specialist Audio<br />
Daniel Pagan*<br />
Specialist Video<br />
Allison Wyss****<br />
Senior Artist Assistants<br />
Melvin Anderson**<br />
Artist Assistant<br />
Lowell Craig***<br />
Artist Assistant<br />
Rachel Dresner<br />
Artist Assistant<br />
Loni Fiscus<br />
Artist Assistant<br />
Daniel Ovalle*<br />
Artist Assistant<br />
Sindy Sanchez Virto<br />
Artist Assistant<br />
MJ Santry<br />
Artist Assistant<br />
Suzanne Santry<br />
Artist Assistant<br />
PROGRAMMING<br />
Evan White***<br />
Assistant Vice President,<br />
Programming<br />
Simma Levine<br />
Producer, Special Projects<br />
Craig Pearce*<br />
Producer, Festivals & Performances<br />
Kitab Rollins***<br />
Senior Director Performance &<br />
Broadcast Rentals<br />
William W. Lockwood, Jr.****<br />
Programming Consultant<br />
SPECIAL EVENTS<br />
Austin Cleary***<br />
Assistant Vice President<br />
Sales & Planning, <strong>NJPAC</strong> Events<br />
Lauren Vivenzio*****<br />
Senior Director<br />
Internal & External Events<br />
Hernan Soto****<br />
Senior Supervisor<br />
Operations Support Staff<br />
Francisco Soto*<br />
Supervisor,<br />
Operations Support & Services<br />
Kemar Brown<br />
Assistant Supervisor<br />
Operations Support & Services<br />
Tyrone Boyd<br />
Delbert Green<br />
Operations Support Staff<br />
David Martina*<br />
Operations Support Staff<br />
TICKET SERVICES<br />
Erik Wiehardt***<br />
Director, Ticket Services<br />
Stephanie Walker****<br />
Associate Director,<br />
Ticketing System<br />
Nicole Craig****<br />
Associate Director, Box Office<br />
Robin Polakoff*<br />
Ticketing System Specialist<br />
Veronica Dunn-Sloan**<br />
Box Office Manager<br />
Darren DeBose<br />
Box Office Manager<br />
Jana Thompson*<br />
Box Office Representative<br />
Belva Moody*<br />
Box Office Representative<br />
Service Recognition<br />
(as of 9/1/<strong>2021</strong> )<br />
* * * * 20+ years<br />
* * * 15+ years<br />
* * 10+ years<br />
* 5+ years<br />
FOR A FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS, VISIT <strong>NJPAC</strong>.ORG OR CALL 1.888.MY.<strong>NJPAC</strong>