NEW YORK CIT Y CENTER

APRIL 28 – MAY 31, 2021

NEW YORK ARLENE SHULER PRESIDENT & CEO
CITY CENTER

APRIL 28, 2021

featuring
Sutton Foster

with
Raúl Esparza
Joaquina Kalukango
Kelli O’Hara
Wren Rivera

lighting designer sound designer production stage manager

Amith Chandrashaker Scott Lehrer Cody Renard Richard

produced by
New York City Center and Nel Shelby Productions

music director and arranger

Michael Rafter

creative producer
Jeanine Tesori

producer of musical theater

Jenny Gersten

directed by
Leigh Silverman
 Sutton Foster | Bring Me to Light

“Cockeyed Optimist” / “Everybody Says Don’t” / “Yes”

Performed by Sutton Foster
Michael Rafter, Piano
Matt Hinkley, Guitar
“Cockeyed Optimist”
Written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
Richard Rodgers (ASCAP) & Oscar Hammerstein II (ASCAP)
Williamson Music Company (ASCAP) c/o Concord Music Publishing
“Everybody Says Don’t”
Written by Stephen Sondheim
Chappell & Co. Inc. (ASCAP) Burthen Music Company, Inc. (ASCAP)
“Yes” Written by John Kander and Fred Ebb
BMG Rights Management (ASCAP)

“I’m Beginning to See the Light”

Performed by Sutton Foster
Michael Rafter, Piano
Matt Hinkley, Ukulele
Written by Duke Ellington, Johnny Hodges,
and Harry James and lyrics by Don George
WC Music Corp. (ASCAP) Ricki Music Company (ASCAP)
Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, 424 Church Street, Suite 1200, Nashville, TN 37219

“With So Little to Be Sure Of”

Performed by Raúl Esparza and Sutton Foster
Michael Rafter, Piano
Written by Stephen Sondheim
Chappell & Co. Inc. (ASCAP) Burthen Music Company, Inc. (ASCAP)
 “Slap That Bass”
Performed by Sutton Foster
Michael Rafter, Piano
Matt Hinkley, Guitar
Leo Huppert, Bass
Written by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin
Downtown Music Publishing

“Lay Down Your Head”

Performed by Sutton Foster
Jeanine Tesori, Piano
Matt Hinkley, Guitar
Written by Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley
Copyright © 1998 That’s Music to My Ears (ASCAP) and Bayfield Music (BMI)
All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission.

“The Life of the Party”

Performed by Joaquina Kalukango
Michael Rafter, Piano
Matt Hinkley, Guitar
Written by Andrew Lippa
WC Music Corp. (ASCAP) Lippasongs (ASCAP)
“How to Handle a Woman” / “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’”
Performed by Sutton Foster
Michael Rafter, Piano
“How to Handle a Woman”
Written by Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
WC Music Corp. (ASCAP) Frederick Loewe Foundation (ASCAP),
The Alan Jay Lerner Testamentary Trust (ASCAP)
“Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’”
Written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
Richard Rodgers (ASCAP) & Oscar Hammerstein II (ASCAP),
Williamson Music Company (ASCAP) c/o Concord Music Publishing

“Here I Am”
Performed by Wren Rivera
Michael Rafter, Piano
Written by Jamie Houston
Walt Disney Music Company

“Answer Me”
Performed by Sutton Foster
Matt Hinkley, Guitar
Written by David Yazbek
Kobalt Music
 “Hey, Look Me Over”
Performed by Sutton Foster
Michael Rafter, Piano
Matt Hinkley, Guitar
Written by Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh
Notable Music Co Inc (ASCAP)
Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, 424 Church Street, Suite 1200, Nashville, TN 37219

“Both Sides Now”

Performed by Sutton Foster and Kelli O’Hara
Michael Rafter, Piano
Matt Hinkley, Guitar
Written by Joni Mitchell
Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, 424 Church Street, Suite 1200, Nashville, TN 37219

“Impossible Dream”
Performed by Sutton Foster
Michael Rafter, Piano
Matt Hinkley, Guitar
Written by Mitch Leigh and Joe Darion
Mitch Leigh (ASCAP), Penny Farthing Music (ASCAP) c/o Concord Music Publishing
“Cockeyed Optimist” / “Take Me to the World” / “Bring Me to Light”
Performed by Sutton Foster, Raúl Esparza,
Joaquina Kalukango, Kelli O’Hara, and Wren Rivera
Michael Rafter, Piano
Matt Hinkley, Guitar
“Cockeyed Optimist”
Written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
Williamson Music Company (ASCAP) c/o Concord Music Publishing
“Take Me to the World”
Written by Stephen Sondheim
Chappell & Co. Inc. (ASCAP) Burthen Music Company, Inc. (ASCAP)
“Bring Me to Light”
Written by Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley
Copyright © 1998 That’s Music to My Ears (ASCAP) and Bayfield Music (BMI)
All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission.
MEET THE
ARTISTS
SUTTON FOSTER Currently leading the hit TV Land se-
ries Younger, returning for its seventh season in April 2021,
Sutton Foster will make her highly anticipated Broadway
return in the upcoming revival of The Music Man in 2022.
The award-winning actress has appeared on Broadway in
Violet (transfer from Encores! Off-Center), Anything Goes
(Tony Award), Shrek, Young Frankenstein, The Drowsy Chap-
erone, Little Women, Thoroughly Modern Millie (Tony Award),
Les Misérables, Annie, The Scarlet Pimpernel, and Grease.
Off-Broadway credits include in Sweet Charity (The Persh-
ing Square Signature Center), The Wild Party (Encores!
Off-Center), Trust (Second Stage), and Anyone Can Whistle
(Encores!). She has also appeared on television in Gilmore
Girls: A Year in the Life, Bunheads, Elementary, Psych, Royal
Pains, Law & Order: SVU, Flight of the Conchords, and Sesa-
me Street. She holds an honorary doctorate from Ball State
University where she also teaches.
RAÚL ESPARZA is a Tony-nominated stage and televi-
sion actor and singer, known for his role as Rafael Barba in
Law & Order Special Victims Unit. He made his Broadway
debut in Cabaret, followed by the revival of The Rocky Hor-
ror Picture Show, and appeared Off-Broadway in tick, tick…
BOOM! (Drama Desk Award nomination) the following
year. Additional theater credits: Anyone Can Whistle (En-
cores!), Arcadia, Chess, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Company,
The Cradle Will Rock (Encores! Off-Center), The Homecom-
ing, Leap of Faith, Merrily We Roll Along, The Normal Heart,
Road Show (Encores! Off-Center), Speed-the-Plow, Sunday
in the Park with George, Taboo, and Twelfth Night. Film credits
include: Custody, Ferdinand, My Soul to Take, and Trouble in
the Heights. Television credits: Hannibal, Law & Order, Law &
Order: Criminal Intent, Medium, and Pushing Daisies.
JOAQUINA KALUKANGO received a Tony nomination
for lead actress in a play for her incredibly layered and dev-
astating performance in the critically acclaimed Broadway
production of Slave Play. She also received an Outer Critics
Circle award for best actress and Broadway.com listed her as
one of the top 5 performers of the year, declaring that her
“blistering performance is one that will shake you to your
core.” Kalukango is also a 2021 SAG Awards nominee for
her role as Betty X in Regina King’s directorial debut One
Night in Miami. Additionally, she recently recurred on the
HBO series Lovecraft Country. Other TV credits include
Ava Duvernay’s Netflix series When They See Us. Recent
Broadway credits include The Color Purple, Holler if You Hear
Me, and Godspell. She appeared in the Encores! Off-Center
production of The Wild Party.
KELLI O’HARA has established herself as one of Broad-
way’s greatest leading ladies. Her portrayal of Anna Loenow-
ens in The King and I garnered her the 2015 Tony Award for
Best Leading Actress in a Musical, along with Grammy, Dra-
ma League, Outer Critics, and Olivier Nominations. Other
Broadway credits include Kiss Me Kate, The Bridges of Mad-
ison County, Nice Work if You Can Get It, South Pacific, The
Pajama Game, The Light in the Piazza, Sweet Smell of Success,
Follies, Dracula, and Jekyll & Hyde. She was awarded the Dra-
ma League’s Distinguished Achievement in Musical Theatre
Award in 2019. She is a frequent performer on PBS’s live
telecasts, The Kennedy Center Honors, and performs of-
ten alongside The New York Philharmonic. Along with her
two Grammy nominations, her solo albums are available on
Ghostlight Records.
WREN RIVERA (they/them/theirs) is absolutely ecstat-
ic to be performing in New York City Center’s Bring Me to
Light. Hailing from Hoffman Estates, Illinois, Rivera is a ris-
ing musical theatre graduate of Ball State University. Most
recently Rivera was seen in She Kills Monsters (Tilly), Twelfth
Night (Viola/Cesario), Q2: The Musical (Kat), and Fun Home
(Alison). A ginormous thank you to Sutton, Michael, and
the folx at Ball State for making this happen. Chirp Chirp!
Please follow along with them on Instagram @w.t.rivera.
MATT HINKLEY (Guitar) is a multi-instrumentalist, music
director and arranger. Broadway: SpongeBob Squarepants,
Bandstand, Finding Neverland, Violet, First Date, Godspell.
Other NYC includes ROOMS, The Burnt Part Boys, 35mm,
Assassins, Joe Iconis’s Bloodsong Of Love & Things To Ruin.
Regional includes Clint Black’s Looking For Christmas, Mrs.
Miller Does Her Thing (Helen Hayes nomination for Music
Direction). Film: The Last Five Years. Matt is also a long-time
collaborator with Caissie Levy. Upcoming: Music direction
for The Outsiders, Goodman Theatre (Chicago).
LEO HUPPERT (Bass) Broadway/Off Broadway/Tour-
ing: Violet, Jersey Boys, Dear Evan Hansen, Book of Mormon,
Frozen, In The Heights, Sister Act, Thoroughly Modern Mil-
lie, The Producers, The Sound of Music, Crazy For You. Jazz/
Pop: Blood, Sweat & Tears, Bobby Caldwell. Concert/Cab-
aret: Sutton Foster, Stephanie J. Block, Mandy Gonzalez,
Joshua Henry, Kelli O’Hara, Jarrod Spector, John Michael
Coppola, Leslie Uggams. Recording: Film & Documentary
soundtracks from HBO, ESPN, and PBS.
JEANINE TESORI (Creative Producer) has written a di-
verse catalog for Broadway, opera, film and television. Along
with Missy Mazzoli, Ms. Tesori is one of the first female com-
posers commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera. Her mu-
sicals include: Fun Home (Tony Award, Pulitzer finalist); Soft
Power (Pulitzer finalist); Caroline, or Change (Olivier Award);
Violet; Shrek; Thoroughly Modern Millie; Twelfth Night; A Free
Man of Color; Mother Courage (starring Meryl Streep). Her
Operas include: Blue (Libretto, Tazewell Thompson); A Bliz-
zard on Marblehead Neck (Tony Kushner); The Lion, The Uni-
corn and Me (J.D. McClatchy); and the upcoming Grounded
(George Brant). In addition to her work as a composer, she
is the founding artistic director of New York City Center’s
Encores! Off-Center Series; the founding creative director
of A BroaderWay, an arts empowerment program for young
women; and a lecturer at Yale University.
MICHAEL RAFTER (Music Director and Arranger) As Mu-
sic director/arranger for Sutton Foster: New York Pops, Live
From Lincoln Center, and over 100 concerts world-wide-
Broadway: Violet, Everyday Rapture, Sweet Charity, Thor-
oughly Modern Millie, Swing!, The Sound of Music, The King
and I, The Most Happy Fella, Gypsy. Film and TV: Marriage
Story, Music and Lyrics, Did You Hear About the Morgans?,
Gypsy starring Bette Midler (Emmy for Music Direction).
Graduate of Dartmouth College; proud father of Siena Raf-
ter (Brown ’20).
LEIGH SILVERMAN (Director) Broadway: Grand Hori-
zons (2ST; Williamstown Theater Festival); The Lifespan
of a Fact (Studio 54); Violet (Roundabout; Tony nomina-
tion); Chinglish (Goodman Theatre; Longacre); Well (Public
Theater; ACT; Longacre). Recent Off-Broadway: Soft Pow-
er (Public Theater; Ahmanson Theater/ Curran Theater; Dra-
ma Desk nom); Tumacho (Clubbed Thumb); Hurricane Di-
ane (New York Theatre Workshop; Two River Theater); Harry
Clarke (Vineyard Theatre/Audible, Minetta Lane; Lortel
nom); Wild Goose Dreams (Public Theater; La Jolla Play-
house); Sweet Charity (New Group); On The Exhale (Round-
about); All The Ways To Say I Love You (MCC); The Way
We Get By (2ST); The Outer Space (Public Theater); Bright
Half Life (WP); No Place To Go (Public Theater); American
Hero (WTF; 2ST); Kung Fu (Signature Theatre); The (curious
case of the) Watson Intelligence (Playwrights Horizons). En-
cores: Violet; The Wild Party; Really Rosie. 2011 Obie Award
and 2019 Obie for Sustained Excellence.
AMITH CHANDRASHAKE (Lighting Design) The Underly-
ing Chris (Second Stage), Gnit (TFANA), Wives (Playwrights
Horizons), A Human Being, Of A Sort (Williamstown), The
Lucky Ones (Ars Nova), Boesman and Lena (DD & Hewes
Award, The Signature), A Hard Time (Pig Iron Theater Co.),
Blue Ridge (The Atlantic), Cardinal (2ST), Twelfth Night (The
Public), Fairview (Soho Rep, Berkeley Rep, TFANA), Fire in
Dreamland (The Public), Her Requiem (LCT3), Seven Spots on
the Sun (HH Nom., Rattlestick). Opera: The Flying Dutch-
man (Houston Grand Opera), Falstaff (Opera Omaha) The
Scarlet Letter (Opera Colorado), Abduction from the Seraglio
NEW YORK CITY CENTER has played a defining role in
the cultural life of the city since 1943 when it was founded
by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia with the mission to make the
(Atlanta Opera). Dance: Premieres by Alexander Ekman,
Aszure Barton, Kate Weare, Liz Gerring, Cedar Lake Con-
temporary Ballet, Rennie Harris, Aalto Ballettt Theatre Es-
best in the performing arts accessible to all. The distinctive
neo-Moorish theater welcomes 300,000 visitors annually
to experience internationally acclaimed artists on the same
sen, Staatstheater Nürnberg, The National Dance Company stage where legends like George Balanchine, Leonard Ber-
of Wales, and The Royal New Zealand Ballet. Designed The nstein, Barbara Cook, José Ferrer, Martha Graham, and
UNTITLED DANCEPARTYSHOWTHING on the inaugural Paul Robeson made their mark. For over 25 years, the trea-
Virgin Voyages cruise ship. Recipient of the Drama Desk sured, Tony-honored Encores! series has given new life to
and Henry Hewes awards. the American musical theater canon, complemented in re-
cent years by the Encores! Off-Center series, which brings
SCOTT LEHRER (Sound Design) received the first Tony today’s innovative artists into contact with groundbreaking
awarded to sound for the Lincoln Center Theater revival of musicals from the more recent past. Dance continues to
South Pacific. Recent theatre work includes An Evening with be an integral part of the institution’s mission through pro-
Audra McDonald at City Center, King Lear, To Kill a Mock- grams like the annual Fall for Dance Festival, which exposes
ingbird, Richard Nelson’s The Michaels, Illyria, Gabriel Fam- new audiences to an international array of artists by offering
ily Plays at the Public Theater, Hello Dolly, The Front Page, subsidized tickets. Through its robust education and com-
Chicago, Shuffle Along, Fiddler on the Roof, Dames at Sea, munity programs, City Center brings the performing arts to
The King and I, Living on Love, Honeymoon in Vegas, A Deli- over 11,000 New York City students, teachers, and families
cate Balance, A Raisin in the Sun, Lucky Guy, Chaplin (Drama each year and activates all areas of the building with talks,
Desk Award), and Mike Nichols’ productions of Death of a master classes, art exhibitions, and intimate performances
Salesman and Betrayal. He has also designed over 50 City that provide audiences an up-close look at the work of the
Center’s Encores!. Recording projects include the Broad- great theater and dance artists of our time.
way cast recording of An American in Paris (Grammy nom),
Loudon Wainwright’s Grammy winning High Wide and Hand-
some, Bebe Neuwirth’s Porcelain, and Meredith Monk’s mer-
cy. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, he was faculty at
Bennington College from 2001 until 2013 and now teaches
at Hunter College.
CODY RENARD RICHARD (Production Stage Man-
ager) Broadway: 12 shows. TV: VMAs ’20, ‘19, Tony Awards
‘19, Jesus Christ Superstar Live!, Hairspray Live!, The Wiz Live!.
Cirque du Soleil: OVO, Wintuk. Selected Off-Broadway/NY:
Porgy and Bess at the Metropolitan Opera (Stage Director),
Carnegie Hall, Encores!, Public, Atlantic. Selected Regional:
Lempicka at Williamstown, The Muny. Adjunct at Fordham,
NYU, Columbia. Featured in Forbes, OUT100, Variety 2020
to watch, and CNN. Founder of the Cody Renard Richard
Scholarship Program. AEA Delegate. BFA from Webster
Conservatory. @codyrenard
NEL SHELBY/NEL SHELBY PRODUCTIONS doc-
uments performances, produces livestreams and virtual
programs, and creates marketing videos and documentary
films to support the dance community. Nel Shelby is the
Producer/Director of NY Emmy-nominated documentary
PS DANCE! and Video Producer for Jacob’s Pillow and Vail
Dance Festival.
View Nel Shelby’s work at nelshelby.com and follow her on
Instagram at @nelshelby.
 Leigh Silverman directed both the Encores! Off-Center
and Broadway productions of Violet. She also directed
Encores! Off-Center’s The Wild Party and Really Rosie.
Joaquina Kalukango
reunites with Foster six
years after appearing
together in the 2015
Encores! Off-Center Michael Rafter was
The Wild Party. the music director
for both the Encores!
Off-Center and
the 2014 Broadway
productions of Violet,

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and now reunites
Aasif Mandvi made his City Center debut in the 2017 Gala with Foster for Bring
production of Brigadoon. He also plays Foster’s friend and Me to Light.
confidante Jay Malick on TV Land’s hit series, Younger.

DEGREES Wren Rivera, Foster’s student at Ball State University makes

OF
their New York City Center debut in Bring Me to Light.
Which City Center alum has
also appeared alongside Sutton
Foster on TV Land’s Younger?

SUTTON
Sutton Foster
returns to the City
A) Christian Borle Center stage with

FOSTER
Bring Me to Light,
marking her fifth
B) Renée Elise Goldsberry
appearance at the
historic theater Raúl Esparza
C) Miriam Shor since 2010. appeared alongside
Foster in Encores!
Anyone Can Whistle Jeanine Tesori is a creative advisor
in 2010. Among his for City Center and the founding
other appearances, he
D) Laura Benanti was last seen at City
artistic director for Encores! Off-
Center. Foster starred in Tesori’s
Kelli O’Hara starred as Fiona in Brigadoon, with Center in 2019 in Violet in the 2013 Encores! Off-
Aasif Mandvi, and in the 2010 Encores! Bells Encores! Off-Center
Center production and later the
Are Ringing. She joins Foster on the City Center Roadshow.
2014 Broadway production.
E) All of the above! stage for the first time in Bring Me to Light.

ANSWER: E; Other alums include Annaleigh Ashford, Ana Gasteyer,

Anne Harada, Jane Krakowski, Norm Lewis, Michael Urie, and more!
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Arlene Shuler........................................................................................... President & CEO
James Farkas....................................................................................................... VP & CFO
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Stanford Makishi..................................................................................... VP, Programming
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Naomi Weinstock.................................................................................... VP, Development
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Clint Ramos......................................................... Producing Creative Director, Encores!
Jenny Gersten ...................................................................... Producer of Musical Theater
Josh Clayton............................................................... Assistant Music Director, Encores!
Adrian Alea........................................................................... Creative Associate, Encores!
Jeanine Tesori.......................................................Creative Advisor, Encores! Off-Center
Chris Fenwick........................................................ Music Director, Encores! Off-Center
Jack Viertel....................................................... Consulting Producer for Musical Theater
Meg Brown............................................................ Manager of Musical Theater Programs
Cathy Eilers.......................................................................... Manager of Dance Programs
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Thomas Mygatt........................................... Director of Audience Engagement and Sales
Dex Ostling................................................................................................Website Manager
John Toguville...................................................................................... Box Office Treasurer
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Heather Gallagher.............................................................Director of Institutional Giving
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Producer of Musical Theater........................................................................Jenny Gersten
Manager of Musical Theater Programs............................................................Meg Brown Cover photo: Allison Michael Orenstein
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Production Manager.................................................................... Julie Shelton-Grimshaw
Assistant Production Manager................................................................... John Rodriguez
Production Stage Manager..............................................................Cody Renard Richard
Assistant Stage and Production Manager.......................................................... Alex West
Assistant Lighting Designer......................................................................... Dan Rousseau
Moving Light Programmer................................................................................ Curtis Reik
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