Annual Gala Benefit
for the Grant Park
Music Festival

Friday Evening,
July 18, 2008
at 6:30

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SONDHEIM IN THE PARK

A Weekend-Long Free Celebration of the Music of Stephen Sondheim

Millennium Park July 14-16, 2006

FRIDAY, JULY 14

4 and 5pm: CABARAH: FRIDAY NIGHT DATE

Lurie Garden South Stage
Cabarah, under the musical direction of Bonnie Shadrake, presents an offbeat look at group numbers.

The Sun Won’t Set - A Little Night Music

A Weekend in the Country – A Little Night Music

Have I Got a Girl For You – Company

Getting Married Today – Company

Side by Side by Side/What Would We Do – Company

4:15 and 5:15pm: JAZZ

Lurie Garden/Great Lawn Stage (located at the Northwest corner of the Lurie Garden)

Judy Roberts, Greg Fishman and Paulinho Garcia bring a jazz twist to Sondheim standards.

Anyone Can Whistle – Anyone Can Whistle

The Ladies Who Lunch – Company

Not a Day Goes By – Merrily We Roll Along

I Remember Sky – Evening Primrose

Send in the Clowns – A Little Night Music

4:30 and 5:30pm: JEREMY KAHN and Friends

Wrigley Square Stage

Heidi Kettenring, Telly Leung and Gene Weygandt of the Chicago production of Wicked join jazz pianist Jeremy Kahn.

Move On – Sunday in the Park with George

Sorry-Grateful – Company

Waiting for the Girls Upstairs – Follies

Take Me to the World – Evening Primrose

Another Hundred People – Company

6:30pm: GRANT PARK MUSIC FESTIVAL

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Broadway stars Liz Callaway, Danny Gurwin, George Hearn, Brian d’Arcy James, Judy Kaye and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio perform with the Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus. Kevin Stites conducts and Gary Griffin directs.

8 and 9pm: SONDHEIM’S WOMEN

Chase Promenade South Stage

Musical theater students from The Theater Conservatory – Chicago College for the Performing Arts/ Roosevelt University, under the direction of Luis Perez, show a woman’s point of view.

You Could Drive a Person Crazy – Company

The Miller’s Son – A Little Night Music

Can That Boy Foxtrot! – Follies

Who’s That Woman? – Follies

The Girls of Summer – The Girls of Summer

The Story of Lucy and Jessie - Follies

8:15 and 9:15pm: LUCKY PLUSH PRODUCTIONS

Lurie Garden South Stage

Contemporary dancers from Lucky Plush Productions, choreography by Julia Rhoads and musical direction by Jamie Shaak, perform fanciful interpretations of Sondheim songs.

Prelude and Overture – Follies

Beautiful Girls – Follies

Perpetual Anticipation – A Little Night Music

A Very Nice Prince – Into the Woods

Invocation and Instructions to the Audience – The Frogs

Remember? – A Little Night Music

8:30 and 9:30pm: WHITE HORSE THEATER

Chase Promenade North

Performers from Chicago’s White Horse Theater perform a gender-bending take on Sondheim’s solo and group numbers.

Loveland – Follies

The Little Things You Do Together – Company

Every Day a Little Death – A Little Night Music

Merrily We Roll Along – Merrily We Roll Along

SATURDAY, JULY 15

1 and 2pm: CABARAH: FREAKS, FOOLS AND FAIRY TALES

Lurie Garden South Stage

Cabarah, under the musical direction of Bonnie Shadrake, presents an offbeat look at large-group numbers.

Simple/Cora’s Chase – Anyone Can Whistle

Giants in the Sky – Into the Woods

The Ballad of Sweeney Todd – Sweeney Todd

Pirelli’s Miracle Elixir – Sweeney Todd

Ever After- Into the Woods

1:30 and 2:30pm: PACIFIC OVERTURES

Lurie Garden/Great Lawn Stage

Featuring members of the cast of the recent Broadway revival of Pacific Overtures Joe Foronda and Telly Leung. Presented in collaboration with instrumentalists Rei Hotoda and Jeff Wichmann from the Shin Higuchi Institute.

Prologue – Pacific Overtures

Poems – Pacific Overtures

Four Black Dragons – Pacific Overtures

The Advantages of Floating in the Middle of the Sea – Pacific Overtures

A Bowler Hat – Pacific Overtures

2 and 3pm: THE FROGS

Central Chase Promenade Stage

James Falzone’s Allos IV perform a medley from The Frogs featuring James Falzone (clarinet), Josh Berman (cornet), Jeb Bishop (trombone) and Dave Rempis (saxophone).

2:30 and 3:30pm: SONDHEIM ON THE BALCONY

North Balcony Stage

Cabaret artists Naomi Ashley and Ben Benedict, Rosalyn Kerins and Colleen McHugh, bring Sondheim favorites to life, accompanied by pianist Chuck Larkin.

Not While I’m Around – Sweeney Todd

There Won’t Be Trumpets – Anyone Can Whistle

Barcelona - Company

Unworthy of Your Love – Assassins

Could I Leave You? - Follies

3:30 and 4:30pm: EIGHTH BLACKBIRD

Great Lawn/Lurie Garden Stage

Guest vocalists Gary Alexander, Joseph Foronda, Telly Leung, Bethany Dawn Lindner, Michael Lindner, and Stephen Wallem will join post-classical chamber music group eighth blackbird in original arrangements by Thomas Albert.

Color and Light – Sunday in the Park With George

Too Many Mornings – Follies / Happiness – Passions

Pretty Women – Sweeney Todd / It Would Have Been Wonderful – A Little Night Music

Johanna – Sweeney Todd

Someone in a Tree – Pacific Overtures

4 and 5pm: ASSASSINS and more

Lurie Garden South Stage

Open Eye Productions present highlights from their recent production of Sondheim’s Assassins. Musical direction by Andra Velis Simon.

Rich and Happy – Merrily We Roll Along

More – Dick Tracy

The Ballad of Guiteau - Assassins

How I Saved Roosevelt - Assassins

Another National Anthem - Assassins

Everybody’s Got the Right - Assassins

5 and 6pm: SONDHEIM ON THE BALCONY

North Balcony Stage

Cabaret favorites Tom Michael, Beckie Menzie, Kat’ Taylor and Stephen Wallem perform.

Ah, But Underneath - Follies

No One Has Ever Loved Me - Passion

Me and My Town/There’s a Parade in Town – Anyone Can Whistle

What Can You Lose? – Dick Tracy

Stay With Me – Into the Woods

Children and Art – Sunday in the Park With George

Being Alive – Company

5:30 and 6:30pm: JEREMY KAHN and Friends

Great Lawn/Lurie Garden Stage

Stars of Wicked and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Heidi Kettenring, Telly Leung, Cristen Paige, and Gene Weygandt join jazz pianist Jeremy Kahn with musical theater classics.

What More Do I Need? – Saturday Night

Finishing the Hat – Sunday in the Park With George

Good Thing Going – Merrily We Roll Along

I Know Things Now – Into the Woods

Sunday in the Park With George – Sunday in the Park With George

Everybody Ought to Have a Maid – A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

7:30pm: GRANT PARK MUSIC FESTIVAL

Jay Pritzker Pavilion

Broadway stars Liz Callaway, Danny Gurwin, George Hearn, Brian d’Arcy James, Judy Kaye and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio perform with the Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus. Kevin Stites conducts and Gary Griffin directs.

SUNDAY, JULY 16

1 and 2pm: CABARET

North Balcony Stage

Cabaret duo Colleen McHugh and Miriam Plotkin and the trio Foiled Again provide their own take on Sondheim songs. Chuck Larkin plays piano.

Ah, Paree! – Follies

Sooner or Later – Dick Tracy

Children Will Listen – Into the Woods

Comedy Tonight – A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

The Ballad of Booth – Assassins

Marry Me a Little – Company

1:30 and 2:30pm: CHICAGO CELLO SOCIETY

Lurie Garden South

Eight cellos from the Chicago Cello Society interpret works from A Little Night Music and Sweeney Todd with the assistance of top Chicago vocalists Michelle Areyzaga, Lauren Curnow, Levi Hernandez, Bill McMurray, and Scott Ramsay.

Overture/Night Waltz – A Little Night Music

In Praise of Women – A Little Night Music

Green Finch and Linnet Bird – Sweeney Todd

Kiss Me/Ladies in Their Sensitivities – Sweeney Todd

Wait – Sweeney Todd

My Friends – Sweeney Todd

2:30 and 3:30pm: CHICAGO CHILDREN’S CHOIR

Wrigley Square

The Chicago Children’s Choir’s Show Choir performs under the direction of Josephine Lee.

The Hills of Tomorrow – Merrily We Roll Along

Broadway Baby – Follies

It’s Hot Up Here – Sunday in the Park With George

On the Steps of the Palace – Into the Woods

No One is Alone – Into the Woods

Our Time – Merrily We Roll Along

3 and 4pm: OPERA SINGERS

North Balcony Stage

Selections from Into the Woods and Follies by Chicago’s top opera singers, including Michelle Areyzaga, Levi Hernandez, Bill McMurray, Scott Ramsay, Jessye Wright and a cameo appearance by Maria Lagios. Musical direction by Celeste Rue.

Hello, Little Girl – Into the Woods

Agony – Into the Woods

It Takes Two – Into the Woods

Last Midnight – Into the Woods

One More Kiss – Follies

Losing My Mind – Follies

3:15 and 4:15pm: A SONDHEIM DIVA

Lurie Garden South

Sondheim veteran and original cast member of Bounce, Marilynn Bogetich sings, accompanied by a chamber ensemble from the New Millennium Orchestra, under the direction of Francesco Milioto.

In Buddy’s Eyes – Follies

By the Sea – Sweeney Todd

With So Little to Be Sure of – Anyone Can Whistle

Isn’t He Something! - Bounce

4:30pm: SUNDAY

Great Lawn

The Chicago Gay Men’s Chorus, under the direction of Patrick Sinozich, performs a rousing set of Sond-heim, closing with a rendition of Sondheim’s song “Sunday,” involving many of the artists of the weekend.

Old Friend – Merrily We Roll Along

Everybody Says Don’t – Anyone Can Whistle

Pretty Lady – Pacific Overtures

Saturday Night – Saturday Night

You’re Gonna Love Tomorrow / Love Will See Us Through - Follies

Sunday – Sunday in the Park With George