The Songs of Todd Almond - Lincoln Center`s American Songbook

The Program
Thursday Evening, February 4, 2016, at 8:30
The Songs of Todd Almond
With special guests Courtney Love, Sherie Rene Scott,
and Brandon Victor Dixon
Lear deBessonet, Director
David Bloom, Musical Director
Barrie McLain, Vocals
Sylver Wallace, Vocals
Angela Sclafani, Kate Douglas, Molly McAdoo, Sirens
Bobby Lewis Ensemble
Josh Henderson and Sarah Goldfeather, Violin
Sarah Elizabeth Haines, Viola
Eric Allen, Cello
Jon Spurney, Piano and Guitar
Ann Klein, Guitar
Jeremy Chatzky, Bass
Eric Halvorson, Drums
This evening’s program is approximately 75 minutes long and
will be performed without intermission.
This performance is being streamed live; cameras will be present.
Please make certain all your electronic devices are switched off.
Major support for Lincoln Center’s American Songbook is provided by Amy & Joseph Perella.
Endowment support provided by Bank of America
This performance is made possible in part by the Josie Robertson Fund for Lincoln Center.
Steinway Piano
The Appel Room
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall
American Songbook
Additional support for Lincoln Center’s American Songbook is provided by The DuBose and
Dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund, The Shubert Foundation, Jill and Irwin B. Cohen,
The G & A Foundation, Inc., Great Performers Circle, Chairman’s Council, and Friends of
Lincoln Center.
Public support is provided by the New York State Council on the Arts.
Artist catering provided by Zabar’s and zabars.com
MetLife is the National Sponsor of Lincoln Center
UPCOMING AMERICAN SONGBOOK EVENTS
IN THE APPEL ROOM:
Friday Evening, February 5, at 8:30
Janis Ian
Saturday Evening, February 6, at 8:30
Jerry Dixon & Mario Cantone
Wednesday Evening, February 17, at 8:30
Foreigner: The Hits Unplugged
Thursday Evening, February 18, at 8:30
A Coffin in Egypt: An Opera-in-Concert
featuring Frederica von Stade
Friday Evening, February 19, at 8:30
Laura Jane Grace of Against Me!
Saturday Evening, February 20, at 8:30
Andy Karl & Orfeh
Wednesday Evening, February 24, at 8:30
Rhiannon Giddens, Leyla McCalla & Bhi Bhiman:
Swimming in Dark Waters—Other Voices of the American Experience
Thursday Evening, February 25, at 8:30
La Santa Cecilia
The Appel Room is located in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall.
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distract the performers and your fellow audience members.
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ATISHA PAULSON
Meet the Artists
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Todd Almond
Todd Almond is a composer, lyricist, and playwright. His musical
Girlfriend, which uses new arrangements of Matthew Sweet’s eponymous cult album, had an acclaimed run last summer at Center Theatre
Group in Los Angeles under the direction of Les Waters, following productions at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, Kentucky, and Berkeley
Repertory Theatre. In March 2015 his musical Iowa, a collaboration with
playwright Jenny Schwartz, received its world premiere at Playwrights
Horizons in New York. He also composed, and starred alongside Courtney
Love, in the opera Kansas City Choir Boy at the Prototype festival,
directed by Kevin Newbury.
Mr. Almond composed, wrote, and starred in an adaptation of The Odyssey
at the Delacorte Theater for the Public Theater’s Public Works program
under Lear deBessonet’s direction; it previously premiered at the Old
Globe. The two also worked together to create adaptations of The Winter’s
Tale and The Tempest for the Public Works program in 2013–14, which Mr.
Almond also composed, wrote for, and starred in; each of these productions featured casts of 200 people and received rave reviews.
Mr. Almond recently wrote the music for, and performed in, Sarah Ruhl’s
Stage Kiss at Playwrights Horizons. Other credits include a musical version of Ruhl’s Melancholy Play, originally produced by Page 73, with an
acclaimed recent production at Trinity Repertory Company. Mr Almond
also wrote the music and lyrics for We Have Always Lived in the Castle at
Yale Repertory Theatre, and was the music director/arranger for Sherie
Rene Scott’s lauded Piece of Meat at 54 Below and at the Hippodrome,
London. He was also the music director/arranger for Laura Benanti’s
acclaimed solo show at 54 Below, and can be heard on Benanti’s live
album In Constant Search of the Right Kind of Attention. Mr. Almond’s
albums include Mexico City and his newly released Memorial Day.
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Courtney Love
Courtney Love is a musician, songwriter, actress, and activist. Her music
with the band Hole and as a soloist
broke new ground, combining music of
singular power and riveting emotional
intensity with lyrics of intellectual and
observational acuity. Two Hole albums,
Live through This and Celebrity Skin,
went multiplatinum.
In addition to her many music-related
activities, including impassioned
involvement in a variety of artist
rights–related issues, Ms. Love continues to pursue her love of acting and
recently completed production on James Franco’s film The Long Home, based
on William Gay’s debut novel of the same title. She can also be seen in the final
season of the critically acclaimed series Sons of Anarchy, as well as in guest
roles on the hit shows Empire and Revenge.
On stage Ms. Love recently starred in the sold-out hit Kansas City Choir Boy, an
original opera composed by Todd Almond, as part of New York’s Prototype festival. Her much-celebrated turn as Althea Flynt in the 1996 film The People vs.
Larry Flynt was a career breakthrough, earning Ms. Love a Golden Globe nomination, along with Best Supporting Actress awards from the New York Film
Critics Circle and the Boston Society of Film Critics.
Sherie Rene Scott
Sherie Rene Scott co-wrote and
starred in Second Stage Theatre’s
Whorl Inside a Loop, a meta-theater
piece with Dick Scanlan. She also cowrote, with Scanlan, and starred in
Everyday Rapture in 2009. When the
show moved to Broadway, Ms. Scott
received Tony Award nominations for
Best Actress and Best Book of a
Musical, as well as Drama Desk Award
nominations for Best Musical, Actress,
and Book, and Lucille Lortel Award
nominations for Leading Actress and
Outstanding Musical. In 2013 she wrote and performed the critically acclaimed
Piece of Meat with Todd Almond. Other credits include John Guare’s Landscape
of the Body (Obie and Lucille Lortel Awards), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Tony,
Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle nominations), Disney’s The Little Mermaid
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(Outer Critics Circle nomination), Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida (Clarence
Derwent Award), The Last Five Years (Drama Desk nomination), Randy
Newman’s Faust, and Kander and Ebb’s Over and Over (Helen Hayes nomination). Ms. Scott founded the Grammy-winning Sh-K-Boom and Ghostlight
Records, and is a producer of the film The Last Five Years.
Brandon Victor Dixon
Brandon Victor Dixon’s Broadway
credits include Shuffle Along,
Motown: The Musical (Berry Gordy;
Grammy and Drama League nominations), and The Color Purple
(Harpo; Tony nomination). He has
appeared in Cotton Club Parade
with Wynton Marsalis and House
of Flowers at City Center Encores!
Off-Broadway credits include The
Scottsboro Boys (Haywood Patterson; Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel,
and Outer Critics Circle awards)
and Rent (Tom Collins). Regional credits include Ray Charles Live! and Far
From Heaven. On television Mr. Dixon has appeared in Quincy Jones’s
America’s Millennium, One Life to Live, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and
The Good Wife. He is a graduate of Columbia University.
Lear deBessonnet
Lear deBessonet (director) is an Obie and Lucille Lortel Award–winning director. She is currently resident director at the Public Theater and director of its
Public Works program, for which she has directed musical adaptations of
The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale, and The Odyssey at the Delacorte Theater.
Also for the Public, she directed Good Person of Szechwan (produced by
Foundry Theatre at La MaMa; winner of Lucille Lortel, Obie, and Lilly awards;
Drama Desk nomination). She directed Pump Boys and Dinettes for
Encores! Off-Center, and has directed shows at the Old Globe, Lincoln
Center Theater’s LCT3, Intiman Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Joe’s Pub,
Women’s Project Theater, Performance Space 122, and 13p. She has
received awards including a Doris Duke Impact Award, Theatre
Communications Group’s Peter Zeisler Award, Lower Manhattan Cultural
Council’s Presidential Award for Artistic Excellence, and the Meadows Prize.
Ms. deBessonet has also acted as a visiting professor at New York
University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
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David Bloom
David Bloom (musical director) is the founding co-artistic director of
Contemporaneous, a New York–based ensemble of 21 musicians dedicated to
performing the most exciting music of the present moment. A devoted advocate for new music, Mr. Bloom has conducted over 120 world premieres at
such venues as Carnegie Hall and Le Poisson Rouge in addition to Lincoln
Center. He has worked with artists and ensembles as diverse as David Byrne,
Donnacha Dennehy, NOW Ensemble, JACK Quartet, Dylan Mattingly, and
Dawn Upshaw. Especially active as a conductor of new opera throughout the
U.S. and Canada, Mr. Bloom has also recorded for Innova Recordings, New
Amsterdam Records, Mexican Summer, Mona, and Starkland labels. Also a
passionate teaching artist, he is a conductor for Face the Music and Special
Music School High School, and along with Contemporaneous, he is in residence at his alma mater, Bard College.
Barrie McLain
Barrie McLain’s (vocals) Off-Broadway and New York City credits include
Sleep No More and Kansas City Choir Boy by Todd Almond featuring
Courtney Love, Julie Klausner Live at Joe’s Pub and the Bellhouse, Sherie
Rene Scott’s All Will Be Well album and Lovestream online release (concert
producer and choir leader), and Atonement by Liz Swados (featured soloist in
concert and recording). In 2015 she was a featured soloist with Fresh Ground
Pepper’s Camp Over There at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival.
Sylver Wallace
Sylver Wallace (vocals) is a Brooklyn-based performer and recent graduate of
New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. She received her bachelor of
fine arts degree in acting at the Experimental Theatre Wing and minored in
both performance studies and religious studies. Recent credits include Todd
Almond’s Kansas City Choir Boy (2014–15) and Shaina Taub’s The Daughters
(2012). Ms. Wallace is currently revising an original work titled –Ness (2014),
a “choreopoem” and performance project inspired by French philosopher
Jacques Derrida’s On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness. Presently she is
most interested in disability and performance (both lived and theatrical), and
the ways in which one can “disable” or disrupt traditional theatrical experiences, musical landscapes, and the physical spaces they take place in.
Angela Sclafani
Angela Sclafani (Siren) is an actor, singer, and songwriter. This past fall she
toured with Todd Almond and Courtney Love in the rock opera Kansas City
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Choir Boy under the direction of Kevin Newbury. Last spring she was featured in the documentary Better to Live, which premiered at the Tribeca Film
Festival and chronicled the making of the sketch comedy musical The Reality
Show: New York University, originally conceived by Liz Swados. Ms. Sclafani
performs her original music throughout New York City.
Kate Douglas
Kate Douglas (Siren) is a performer, songwriter, and theater artist. Recent
credits include Third Rail Projects’ The Grand Paradise, the U.S. tour of
Kansas City Choir Boy, and Fernando Rubio’s Everything by my side. She currently works as an associate artist and performer at Punchdrunk’s Sleep No
More.
Molly McAdoo
Molly McAdoo (Siren) is a theater-maker, actor, and singer. She has performed around the world at the Sydney Opera House, the Edinburgh Festival
Fringe, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, St. Ann’s Warehouse, and the
Adelaide Festival. She was most recently seen in Kansas City Choir Boy at
the Kirk Douglas Theatre and the Oberon at A.R.T.
Bobby Lewis Ensemble
The Bobby Lewis Ensemble is a group of singers based out of the New
Light Baptist Church in Harlem. The church’s senior pastor, Bobby Lewis, is
the group’s founder and director. Together for almost 20 years, the ensemble has traveled the world singing everything from gospel and Negro spirituals to patriotic medleys and its recent “Soulful Beatles Celebration” in
Harlem. It has toured Taiwan and performs annually in Spain. The Bobby
Lewis Ensemble performed with Norm Lewis in last year’s American
Songbook series at Lincoln Center, which aired on PBS as part of Live From
Lincoln Center. It was also a featured ensemble in Todd Almond’s The
Odyssey, under the direction of Lear deBessonet, at the Delacorte Theater
in Central Park.
Josh Henderson
Josh Henderson (violin) enjoys a multifaceted career as a cross-genre violinist, violist, and composer. He has built a reputation for his high-energy performances and is a member of several nationally and internationally touring
groups, including the Mayhem Poets, Whale Belly, Chassidic Reggae, the
Moshe Hecht Band, Contemporaneous, Alkali, and Warp Trio. A freelance
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musician in New York City, Mr. Henderson has performed, recorded, and collaborated with popular artists such as Chris Brown, the Sugarhill Gang, David
Byrne, Sufjan Stevens, Anne Hathaway, Courtney Love, Amanda Palmer,
Jherek Bischoff, and members of bands such as Blue Oyster Cult and the
Eagles. As a composer, he has written work for the Chelsea Symphony,
Carnegie Hall, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and for several films. He
studied at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music and at
New York University, where he is now a faculty member.
Sarah Goldfeather
Sarah Goldfeather (violin) is a Minnesota-born, Brooklyn-based singer, songwriter, and violinist, and the bandleader for the indie-folk band Goldfeather. A
versatile performer and avid contemporary-music violinist, Ms. Goldfeather
recently performed as a featured soloist in TEDxMet at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, and has additionally performed as a violinist on the Kansas
City Choir Boy tour (starring Courtney Love and Todd Almond), at festivals
such as Tribeca New Music and Bard Music Festival, and has collaborated
with Contemporaneous, Eliot Glazer, Cooper Boone, Jesus on the Mainline,
and Mixtape, among others. Her band, Goldfeather, will be presented in the
2016 Ecstatic Music Festival and the MATA Interval series in New York and the
times two series in Boston. The group released its EP, Goldfeather, in 2014,
with an upcoming full-length album due in 2016. Ms. Goldfeather is also the
founder and co-director of the new-music ensemble Exceptet and makes up
half of the Fragments Duo.
Sarah Elizabeth Haines
Sarah Elizabeth Haines (viola) is a violist, violinist, and vocalist based in New
York City. She toured with Todd Almond’s Kansas City Choir Boy in the fall, and
was part of its original run at the 2015 Prototype festival. Ms. Haines is a
member of Contemporaneous and co-manages with Jessica Clinton the
Brooklyn-based Americana group Bellehouse. She is also violist and vocalist
for the group Emanuel and the Fear (new record releasing April 2016), and for
Kenyon Phillips & the Ladies in Waiting, with whom she performed in the burlesque circus glam rock opera The Life and Death of Kenyon Phillips in August
2015. Music-making has taken Ms. Haines to North and South America,
Europe, and Asia, and she has recorded music for producers, arrangers, and
songwriters, including Phillip Glass and Sufjan Stevens. She completed her
bachelor of music degree at New York University.
Eric Allen
Born in Portland, Oregon, Eric Allen (cello) is a multi-instrumentalist, arranger,
and composer living in Brooklyn. He has created orchestral arrangements for
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the National Symphony Orchestra and the Portland Ballet. He is an enthusiastic performer of new music, mostly recently premiering Max Grafe’s
Perchance to Dream for cello and chamber orchestra with the Chelsea
Symphony. He frequently performs in New York City theater, and can be
seen in the TV series The Knick and Mozart in the Jungle. Mr. Allen is a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop and previously was
a member of the BMI Jazz Composers Workshop from 2010 to 2013. He is
a founding member of Speed Bump, a string trio of two cellos and one viola
dedicated to performing original compositions and unique arrangements of
classical, jazz, and world music. Mr. Allen is currently studying Indian classical music and is a student of Krishna Bhatt.
Jon Spurney
Jon Spurney (piano, guitar) most recently appeared in and co-wrote music for
Documentary Now! with Fred Armisen and Bill Hader on IFC. He served as
musical director for the Public Works production of The Odyssey at the
Delacorte Theater, and appeared on Broadway in the Tony Award–winning
musical Passing Strange, as well as in the film version directed by Spike Lee.
Mr. Spurney has composed music for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and
The Colbert Report, and has performed with Elton John, Stevie Wonder,
David Byrne, Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, and John Cale.
Ann Klein
Ann Klein (guitar) sings and plays guitar along with a few other stringed
instruments like mandolin, dobro, and lap steel guitar. As a composer/songwriter, she has toured Europe regularly and written music for French television and documentaries, as well as for Metro Music, Inc., a library that has
placed her compositions in television shows worldwide. As a guitarist, Ms.
Klein was a featured soloist with Ani DiFranco on several shows; she has
also had the honor of playing, writing, or recording with Kate Pierson of the
B-52s, Joan Osborne, Sherie Rene Scott, Laura Benanti, Todd Almond, Dana
Fuchs, and P.M. Dawn, among others. She has also played on Broadway in
Grease, 9 to 5, Everyday Rapture, Baby It’s You, Kinky Boots, and most
recently Trip of Love. Off-Broadway credits include Waitress (the new Sara
Bareilles show) and Shakespeare in the Park (with Todd Almond). Ms. Klein
received a MacDowell Colony grant and was a guest teacher at the Danish
Rhythmic Music Conservancy.
Jeremy Chatzky
Jeremy Chatzky (bass) has worked with Bruce Springsteen as part of the
Seeger Sessions band, and with Ronnie Spector, Steve Earle, Delores “La
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La” Brooks, Ana Gasteyer, and the band They Might Be Giants. He also performed in the Off-Broadway version of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Mr.
Chatzky performs regularly as part of the Loser’s Lounge band.
Eric Halvorson
Brooklyn-based Eric Halvorson (drums) has been active on the New York City
music scene for over 20 years. He has performed with such jazz artists as
John Fedchock, Dave Liebman, Bob Sheppard, Dave Stryker, Steve Slagle, Vic
Juris, Adam Rogers, Joe Locke, Bruce Barth, Bill Henderson, and more;
Broadway stars Sherie Rene Scott and Christine Ebersole; songwriter and
pianist Marvin Hamlisch; soul singer Ben E. King; and legendary blues artist
Pinetop Perkins. He has also toured internationally with vocalist Ute Lemper.
Mr. Halvorson has performed for the Kennedy Center Honors (2008, 2010) and
at numerous festivals, including the Monterey, Iowa City, and Montreal jazz
festivals, Norfolk & Norwich Festival (UK), Sildajazz (Norway), Radio Classica
(Chile), Cork Jazz Festival (Ireland), Festival de Jazz (Colombia), and Kaunas
Jazz (Lithuania). He was the drummer for the 2015 Broadway revival of Gigi.
He has also played in the Broadway orchestras of Beautiful, Wicked, Pippin,
On the Town, West Side Story, Sister Act, How to Succeed in Business
Without Really Trying, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Mary Poppins, Cinderella,
Shrek, and Xanadu, and the Los Angeles production of Follies.
American Songbook
In 1998, Lincoln Center launched American Songbook, dedicated to the celebration of popular American song. Designed to highlight and affirm the creative mastery of America’s songwriters from their emergence at the turn of
the 19th century up through the present, American Songbook spans all styles
and genres, from the form’s early roots in Tin Pan Alley and Broadway to the
eclecticism of today’s singer-songwriters. American Songbook also showcases the outstanding interpreters of popular song, including established and
emerging concert, cabaret, theater, and songwriter performers.
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more than 3,000 free and ticketed events, performances, tours, and educational
activities annually, LCPA offers 15 programs, series, and festivals including
American Songbook, Great Performers, Lincoln Center Festival, Lincoln
Center Out of Doors, Midsummer Night Swing, the Mostly Mozart Festival,
and the White Light Festival, as well as the Emmy Award–winning Live From
American Songbook
Lincoln Center, which airs nationally on PBS. As manager of the Lincoln
Center campus, LCPA provides support and services for the Lincoln Center
complex and the 11 resident organizations. In addition, LCPA led a $1.2 billion campus renovation, completed in October 2012.
Lincoln Center Programming Department
Jane Moss, Ehrenkranz Artistic Director
Hanako Yamaguchi, Director, Music Programming
Jon Nakagawa, Director, Contemporary Programming
Jill Sternheimer, Director, Public Programming
Lisa Takemoto, Production Manager
Kate Monaghan, Associate Director, Programming
Charles Cermele, Producer, Contemporary Programming
Mauricio Lomelin, Producer, Contemporary Programming
Regina Grande, Associate Producer
Luna Shyr, Programming Publications Editor
Nick Kleist, Company Manager
Olivia Fortunato, House Seat Coordinator
For American Songbook
Matt Berman, Lighting Design
Scott Stauffer, Sound Design
Amy Page, Wardrobe Assistant
For Todd Almond
Britt Bonney, Music Associate/Copyist
Matt Berman
Matt Berman is the resident lighting designer for Lincoln Center’s American
Songbook. He continues his design work for Kristin Chenoweth, Liza
Minnelli, Alan Cumming, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Lea Salonga, and Elaine
Paige on the road. Through his work with ASCAP and several U.S.-based
charities, Mr. Berman has designed for a starry roster that includes
Bernadette Peters, Barbra Streisand, Reba McEntire, Melissa Errico,
Deborah Voigt, Michael Urie, Stevie Wonder, India Arie, Garth Brooks, Billy
Joel, and Sting. His international touring schedule has allowed him to design
for iconic venues such as Royal Albert Hall, the Paris Opera, the Olympia theater in Paris, Royal Theatre Carré in Amsterdam, the Sporting Club in Monte
Carlo, the Acropolis, the famed amphitheater in Taormina, Sicily, Luna Park in
Buenos Aires, and the Sydney Opera House. Closer to home, he has done
work for the Hollywood Bowl, Alice Tully Hall, and Carnegie Hall. Mr.
Berman’s television work includes Chenoweth’s recently released special,
Coming Home, as well as seven Live From Lincoln Center broadcasts, and
the Tony Award–winning Liza’s at the Palace, which he also designed for
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Broadway. Other Broadway credits include Bea Arthur on Broadway, Nancy
LaMott’s Just in Time for Christmas, and Kathy Griffin Wants a Tony at the
Belasco Theater.
Scott Stauffer
Scott Stauffer has been the sound designer for Lincoln Center’s American
Songbook since 1999; the Actors Fund concerts of Frank Loesser, Broadway
101, Hair, and On the Twentieth Century; and Brian Stokes Mitchell at
Carnegie Hall. His Broadway credits include A Free Man of Color, The Rivals,
Contact (also in London and Tokyo), Marie Christine, Twelfth Night, and Jekyll
& Hyde. Off-Broadway Mr. Stauffer has worked on Promises, Hereafter, A
Minister’s Wife, Bernarda Alba, Third, Belle Epoque, Big Bill, Elegies, Hello
Again, The Spitfire Grill, Pageant, and Hedwig and the Angry Inch. His regional
credits include productions at the Capitol Repertory Theatre, University of
Michigan, Hanger Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Chicago Shakespeare
Theater, and Alley Theatre. As a sound engineer, Mr. Stauffer has worked on
The Lion King, Juan Darién, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Carousel, Once on
This Island, and Little Shop of Horrors (Off-Broadway).
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