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Encores!
Back by popular demand, it's City Center's second season of Encores! Great American Musicals in Concert, the unique musical theater series that celebrates the rarely heard works of America's most important composers and lyricists. Each show is performed in concert version with original orchestrations and full chorus, featuring top talent from stage and screen, guided by Walter Bobbie as Artistic Director and Rob Fisher as Musical Director.

Coming Next:

Out Of This World
March 30-April 1
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter. Book by Dwight Taylor and Reginald Lawrence. Directed by Mark Brokaw.

Pal Joey
May 4-6
Music by Richard Rodgers. Lyrics by Lorenz Hart. Book by John O'Hara.

Each show has four performances only. Sellouts are likely, so order early. Tickets $25, $45.

Order by phone.
Call CityTix 212-581-1212
(11am-8pm, 7 days a week).
Program, performances, dates and times subject to change. No refunds or exchanges.

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE

Performance
Thu 8pm
Fri 8pm
Sat 2pm
Sat 8pm

Out Of This World
Mar 30
Mar 31
Apr 1
Apr 1

Pal Joey
May 4
May 5
May 6
May 6

City Center is accessible to people with disabilities and is equipped with a hearing augmentation system. Please advise us of your needs when ordering.

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SIR ANDREW LLOYD WEBER & THE REALLY USEFUL COMPANY

Encores! is made possible by grants from American Express Company and Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber & The Really Useful Company

Seed support provided by The New York Times Company Foundation
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WORKING IN THE THEATRE
THE AMERICAN THEATRE WING SEMINARS

The American Theatre Wing, Founder of the Tony® Award and sponsor of a number of other programs to promote live theatre, holds two seminars a year-in fall and spring-called Working in the Theatre. These three-day sessions, chaired by The Wing's President Isabelle Stevenson, invite drama students from colleges and universities in the Metropolitan area; members of theatre unions; the casts of Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway shows; and theatre lovers in general to hear all-star rosters of actors, directors, playwrights, producers and other theatre artists to discuss the problems and rewards of working in the theatre.

PERFORMERS

STEPHEN SPINELLA on trusting the audience: "I find that if I present to them too much affect, give them too much of an emotional life, they don't want to deal with it . . . If I am very simple, and just do it very simply, they'll listen. They'll pay very, very close attention and fill in the blanks."

MARTIN SHORT on returning to theatre: "You're back to the original instinct that motivated you to be an actor. It's quite remarkable. It's like spring."

ROBERT KLEIN on mistakes: "I called myself by the wrong name the other night. . . . I go, "Good evening everybody. I'm Nick Pimm." And John said, "No, I'm Nick Pimm'"

RICHARD DREYFUS on starting out: "I was at the kitchen table, and I turned to my mother and I said, 'I want to be an actor.' And she turned to me and said, 'Don't just talk about it.' And I got up from the table and I went down to the West Side Jewish Community Center . . . and I auditioned for a role in some children's theatre. And I never stopped."

MARY STEENBURGEN on returning to theatre: "Having done Television and film and then coming to the theatre, I've discovered the act of the close-up . . . And sometimes onstage now, I feel I can do a close-up . . . bring the audience to me."

PETULA CLARK on nerves: "It is important to be frightened before you go onstage. It's almost like a dog having a wet nose, you know, it's a sign of good health."

GREGORY HINES on getting his first big part in Eubie: "I went out . . . and I was dancing down the street. I was like Gene Kelly. I was actually in the street clicking my heels up in the air."

STEPHEN SPINELLA on repetition: "You do it eight times a week, and you feel exhausted about doing it eight times a week, and it takes everything you have to do it eight times a week. But there is nothing like doing it eight times a week."

PLAYWRIGHTS

EDWARD ALBEE on directors: "A good director, including me, sometimes, can find in my work things that I was not consciously aware that I put there. A bad director will find things that I did not put there."

DAVID IVES on career moves: "I wasted several years in my youth playing chess. But then I decided that there was no money in it, so I became a playwright."

TONY KUSHNER on rewrites: "If it wasn't there, in that first draft, it's probably not there at all. That sounds like something from The Wizard of Oz, but it's true."