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W. Earle Smith, Artistic Director

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Artistic DirectorThe Ballet’s HistoryCast of CharactersFaculty & StaffBoard of DirectorsA Tradition of SupportGreat Performance Fund

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A MidsummerNight’s Dream

W. Earle Smith, Artistic Director

Overture Center for the Arts • March 19-20, 2011

MusicChoreography

Set DesignCostume DesignLighting Design

Music provided courtesey of Polygram Records and Sony GroupMusic edits provided by Paradyme Productions

A Midsummer Night’s Dream was permanantly added to Madison Ballet’s Repetoire in 2002 through the generous support of Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation, Madison Community Foundation, Madison Civic Center

Foundation, and Dane County Cultural Arts Commisssion.

Stage labor is represented by:International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Local 251 in Madison, WI

The use of cameras or recording equipment of any kind is strictly forbidden.Cover image courtsey of Andrew Weeks Photography.

Felix MendelssohnPeter AnastosSteve RubinClaudia LynchKenneth Ferencek

Madelaine Boyce Megan HortonJacob Brooks Juliana LehmanRachelle Butler Marguerite LuksikJoseph Copley Katrina OefflingAnna Counts Philip OllenburgBryan Cunningham James StevkoGenevieve Custer Weeks Yu SuzukiKaty Fredrick Jennifer Tierney Gabriel Williams

Company

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Artistic DirectorM A D I S O N B A L L E T

W. Earle Smith,Artistic Director

W. Earle Smith has over 25 years of professional experience choreographing, teaching and performing. This is Mr. Smith’s twelfth season with Madison Ballet as Artistic Director. As a dancer, D Magazine called Mr. Smith “meticulously chosen and prepared … who knows Balanchine.” The Wisconsin State Journal hails his choreography as “imaginative and … rhythmically smooth and lively,” with The Capital Times saying Artistic Director W. Earle Smith “more than delivered on every level.”

Some of Mr. Smith’s principal and soloist credits with Texas Ballet

Theater (formerly known as Fort Worth Dallas Ballet) include Balanchine’s Western Symphony, Four Temperaments and Who Cares, and Meija’s Sonata, Eight by Adler, Sarasate, Seasons, The Nutcracker and Cinderella.

Favorite corps de ballet roles at Pacific Northwest Ballet and Fort Worth Ballet include Stowell’s Ravena, The Nutcracker (with sets and costumes designed by Maurice Sendak), Balanchine’s Stars and Stripes, Rubies, Western Symphony, Prodigal Son, Brahms Schoenberg, Agon, Concerto Barocco, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, Square Dance and Scotch Symphony, and Meija’s Brahm’s Waltzes, Les Noches, Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet.

Mr. Smith’s preparation for his role as Artistic Director goes beyond the traditional. He worked as a program counselor for inner-city youth in New York City, as a financial and buiness analyst, and as director of special projects for a national membership association.

Currently, Mr. Smith’s passion is passing on his knowledge and art through teaching and choreographing in the performing arts. He has taught workshops, conferences and master classes in the Balanchine technique and style both nationally and internationally, including guest teaching at Ballet Arizona, Ballet Pacifica and Ballet Chicago. Mr. Smith’s choreography credits in New York, New Orleans, Hawaii, Seattle, Texas and Madison include Cinderella, The Nutcracker, Night Dances, Le Luce d’ Amore, and Four Movements.

Mr. Smith has long believed that collaborating with other performing arts organizations not only expands his own personal artistic growth, but strengthens the performing arts community as a whole. His work as choreographer in Children’s Theater of Madison’s Hello Dolly, Madison Symphony Orchestra’s Viennese Ball and Wisconsin Chamber Or-chestra’s Halloween Concert demonstrates this commitment to collaboration.

W. Earle Smith’s passion is sharing his love for ballet with young people. An important part of his artistic vision is to develop and expand education and outreach programs, making ballet affordable and accessible to all.

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The Ballet’s HistoryM A D I S O N B A L L E T

by Peter Anastos,Choreographer

William Shakespeare’s play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream , was written around 1595 and, according to legend, performed at the wedding of an English nobleman. The title refers to a popular celebration called ‘midsummer night’, the night before June 24, the feast of St. John the Baptist. It is a night connected with merrymaking, dances, pageants, folk customs, and superstitions.

More than any other night of the year, ‘midsummer night’ suggests enchantment and witchcraft and brought forth in the people of the 16th century England an already strong belief in magical powers, the spirit world, fairies, hobgoblins, witches, and the like.

To an Elizabethan audience the play immediately called up a state of mind known as ‘midsummer madness’ – a condition brought on by the heat of the day in which one has a heightened readiness for delusions and tricks of the imagination.

Shakespeare conceived a real and an unreal world and skillfully wove them together in a fantastic play of light and dark, substances and shadow. His elements consist of a far-away kingdom where an Athenian Duke marries the Queen of the Amazons; a comedy of errors involving two sets of lovers – Helena and Demetrius, and Hermia and Lysander – who fall victims to ‘midsummer madness’; an invisible fairy domain ruled by such willful and capricious creatures as Oberon and Titania, with the mischievous Puck casting spells on the innocents; and lowly village bumpkins who fall prey to magic powers beyond their reckoning.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is actually not so much a play as a dramatic series of dream images, containing all the contradictions and inconsistencies of the unrealistic world of imagination.

Felix Mendelssohn wrote his “Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in 1826 when he was seventeen years old. It is a masterpiece of enchantment and imagery and perfectly captures Shakespeare’s delicate fantasy. In 1843 Mendelssohn was commissioned by Kaiser Frederick Wilhelm of Prussia to prepare some incidental music for a production of the play to open the Royal Theatre in Potsdam. To his already famous overture he added thirteen new numbers, and this comprises a suite loosely based on the action of the play.

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Cast of CharactorsM A D I S O N B A L L E T

Hippolyta................................Jennifer TierneyTheseus...................................Gabriel WilliamsTitania.....................................Genevieve Custer WeeksOberon....................................Joseph CopleyPuck.........................................Marguerite LuksikHermia....................................Rachelle ButlerLysander..................................Bryan CunninghamHelena.....................................Yu SuzukiDemetrius...............................Phillip OllenburgThe Changeling Child........Zoe TedescoBottom....................................Zachary Guthier*Quince.....................................James Stevko

*Zachary Guthier perfoming courtesey of School of Madison Ballet.** Oberon’s Fairies courtesey of area dance schools whose involvement

and support of Madison Ballet is greatly appreciated.

Titania’s FairiesMadelaine Boyce

Anna CountsKaty FredrickMegan HortonJuliana LehmanKatrina Oeffling

Members of the Royal CourtMadelaine Boyce

Jacob BrooksKaty FredrickMegan Horton

Katrina OefflingJames Stevko

Oberon’s Fairies**Natalie Asmus, Lara Banks, Claire Bolton,

Lily Edgar, Campbell Hackbart, Shiori Horton, Kathy Krantz, Maurissa Powell, Sofia Pricer,Mary Elizabeth Raasch, Alyson Rutherford,

Sophie Stalker-Herron, Ruby Sutherlin Sovern, Marcella Van Kan, Karen Walker, Diana Walker

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Patricia StruckAdministrator of the Division of Securities, Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions

Faculty & StaffM A D I S O N B A L L E T

StaffW. Earle SmithArtistic Director

Amy GuthierDirector of Development

Gretchen BourgEducation &Outreach Coordinator,School Registrar

Robin BaldahOffice Manager

Faculty

Kelle AdamsClarissa BoothGretchen BourgMadelaine BoyceAlissa Bratz

Faculty cont.

Rachelle ButlerBryan CunninghamMaelanie KuzmaMarguerite LuksikKatrina OefflingEmily Plotkin

Music Staff

Marina Hegge PrincipalBernie BrinkPatrick ChristiansStacy Fehr-RegehrCarol D HummelApril KangHikari MaekawaClaire MalloryMike MasseyJeff Stanek

Production Staff

Kenneth FerencekLighting Designer

Neen RockProduction Stage Mgr.

John ElliotTechnical Director

Karen Brown-LarimoreCostumer

Jen TrieloffProperty Master

Dan KlarerAssistant Stage Mgr.

Board of DirectorsMartha SchramBoard President Aegis Therapies, President

J. Corkey CusterBoard Vice President Custer Financial Services,Managing Partner

Robert CottinghamBoard Treasurer Wipfli, LLP, Partner

Annette Ringdahl-GroszBoard SecretaryDean Health Plan, Inc.,Director of Spevialty Markets

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A Tradition of SupportM A D I S O N B A L L E T

Individual Support

Director: $10,000 +Betty and Corkey CusterMartha and Peter SchramAnonymous

Principal: $5,000 - $9,999Valerie Anne and Sidney DixonKim and Vince HartmannHeather and Brendan MolnarW. Earle Smith IIIAnnette and David RingdahlLisa and David Rutherford

Soloist:$2,500 - $4,999Dorothy and Rajai AtallaSarah and David KrugerMichelle Chui and Thad SchumacherKathy S StewartTom Walker and Jill DalSanto-WalkerMayumi Yamamoto and Brad Horton

Corps:$1,000 - $2,499AnonymousAnonymousAnonymousPatti Eylar and Charlie GardnerJo and Mark HoffmanLisa JureckoEliot and Julia MasonDawn and Dan PlinerLeslie Frank-Taylor and Andrew Taylor

Partner: $500 - $999Dan and Pat CornwellLarry Bechler and Patricia StruckRobert and Ann CottinghamWilliam and Jessica FredrickAmy and Mark GuthierMolly WowkTracy and Paul Wrycha

Associate: $250 - $499Renee KnightCarol Brooks and Wayne BigelowSarah SmithJohn and Ginny Wilson

Friend: $100 - $249Barton and Dale KushnerNeena DakuaReverend Lise SkofronickTheran and Julie WelshL M ParrottDavid NissenbaumDawn and Elton CrimGreg and Kristan CollinsArdie J ThomasBill White and Kathie NicholsCheryl LutzDebbi HarrisDeEtte Beilfuss-EagerDouglas HarrisDr. and Mrs. Frank GreerEllis and Katie WallerGeorge and Patricia WhitlelyJennifer M AsmusJess AndersonMadeline HolmesMr and Mr James VaccaroPeter Brenner

Rebecca KetelsenReynold V PetersonWilliam LarimoreRobert, Audrey, and Andrew Buchanan and Sue HilgemannRoger Rothlisberger FamilyRosaline and Ron Zerofsky

Member: $99 or lessSusan and Edward ChwaeAnn RuscherDavid and Anne FinkMegan PurtellJennifer AldermanJulia FixelRenee HeineAmy KenneyDaniel O’BrienJane BanksKaaren A. GuentherBrian MottNancy PokorneySusan and George BentonThomas MohsJill O’ConnellDavid C. PetersonMark and Amy GuthierNancy Olson and Laura EinersonPamela ParquetteAdam and Kathleen BorsethClare HutsonDelores and Mort MoyerGennady BekasovJeffrey and Erin GelhausenPatrick CarterSuzanne GillinghamDon SaalJune SpencerLisa Marie BruceVania Gillette

We are proud to acknowledge the wonderful generosity of the individuals, corporations, foundations and government agencies who support Madison Ballet. Every gift plays an important part in allowing Madison Ballet to continue offering exciting performances and excellent educational and outreach activities. We gratefully recognize the gifts received to our Annual Fund between September 1, 2008 and November 15, 2009.

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A Tradition of SupportM A D I S O N B A L L E T

AnonymousJamie Murray BranchJennifer L. BockKaran HaseLeigh MillsLeigh TrecekPatrick ChristiansSuzanne BoyerAracely RodriguezBarbara BergmanDolores BeasterElizabeth JacobsElla JohnsonGregory FlessasHeidi LemkeJackie RaminJanet ZimmermanKatie ThompsonMari DaczykMarie E. PricerMartha McCurdey and Peter Van KanPaul and Sarah HarariPhilip PricerSandy TarverSarah CoyneSelena Horn ErakerStephanie FarrellStephanie JaeckleTamara ScerpellaTanya KlubertanzTheresa Pyle-SmithTina FergusonYasmine Gabriella CaladoPerry and Gretchen BourgLiesl MonroyKevin and Lisa HahnBarbara RaymondMargaret McEntireMindy EndresBrian and Kathleen Miller

Corporate Support

Premier Founder:$20,000 +Pleasant T. Rowland FoundationCapital Newspapers Inc.American Girl Fund for ChildrenCUNA Mutual Group Foundation

Custer Financial ServicesLincoln Financial Group FoundationMidwest Family Broadcasting

Principal Founder:$15,000 +Wisconsin Arts BoardWMTV NBC Channel 15Wisconsin Department of TourismW. Jerome Frauschi Charitible Unitrust

Season Sponsor:$10,000 +Whyte Hirschboeck Dudeck, S.C.TDS Telecom

Founder: $7,500 - $9,999Madison Community Foundation

Ballet Master’s Partner: $5,000 - $7,499American Family InsuranceDane County Cultural Affairs CommissionMadison Arts CommissionEdenfredTwo Men and A TruckWalter A. & Dorothy Jones Frautschi Charitible Trust Dancer’s Partner:$2,500 - $4,999American Family InsuranceMadison Gas & Electric FoundationAdvertisers PressGander PropertiesEntercom CommunicationsThe Evjue FoundationCapital Times Kids Fund

Sport and Spine ClinicLombardino’s Restaurant

Bravo Partner:$1,000 - $2,499Badger Utility/Moore TruckingBerbee Walsh Foundation, Inc. Group Health Cooperative of South Central WisconsinAlliant Energy FoundationDental Health Associates

Under $1,000America’s Best FlowersArbor HouseArgus Bar and GrilleBlack Belt AmericaBlue Moon Bar and GrilleBR Diamond SuiteCandinas ChocolatierCarl’s CakesCellulose Sciences InternationalCherokee Country ClubChocolate Shoppe Ice CreamGinko Press, Inc.Goodman’s JewelersThe Great DaneInner Fire YogaMadison Symphony OrchestraOrange Tree ImportsJB’s Italian GrillePfizer FoundationRight Touch Dry CleanersRishi TeaRuffin’ It ResortSub-Zero FoundationSundance CinemaSusan SezTotal Care DentalWisconsin Public Broadcasting

Madison Ballet thanks each and every one of you!

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Great Performance FundM A D I S O N B A L L E T

American GirlAnchorBank CorporationDouglas R. Andrews and Maureen Murphy AnonymousNorma V. Arvold Associated BankWaltraud A. Arts George Austin and Martha Vukelich-Austin Valerie Bailey-Rihn and David Rihn Helen Bakke Diane Ballweg Angela and Jeffrey Bartell Marjorie Berlow & Stanley Berlow, M. D. Bennett Berson and Rebecca Holmes Philip and Katherine Blake Bob and Anne Bolz Frank Burgess Jim and Cathie Burgess Jim and Sue Bakke Capital Newspapers, Inc.Chamberlain Research Consultants, Inc.Peter C. Christianson Nicolas Cindric James and Lauri Cole Jane Taylor Coleman Marvin and Mildred Conney Robert J. Cottingham William and Judith Craig Culver’s VIP Foundation, Inc.CUNA Mutual GroupBetty and Corky Custer Frank J. Daily John J. Dawson Kevin A. Delorey Mary DeNiro and Robert F. Berns Sandra Derer Nancy Cross Dunham and Michael H. Dunham Julie Ebert Eugenie Mayer Bolz Gregory T. Everts Family Foundation, Inc. Fiore CompaniesFirst Business BankFirst Weber Realty GroupFlad & Associates, Inc.Rockne and JoAnne Flowers Foley & Lardner

James D. Friedman Fred Gants Roberta A. Gassman and Lester A. Pines The Gialamas Company Linda and Bob Graebner Fritz and Janice Grutzner Terry L. Haller Peggy Hedberg Hooper FoundationJ.H. Findorff & Son Inc.Marie and Ralph Jackson John A. Johnson Foundation Kim Johnson Peter Johnson Johnson BankLee and Rosemary Jones Terry and Mary Kelly Kenneth R. Kimport David L. Kinnamon Kraft FoodsRon and Lois Krantz Deirdre W. Garton Bill Kraus and Toni Sikes Michael and Kathleen Laskis Fred G. Lautz Lee FoundationRuth and George Lewis Ruth Ann and Jack Loew Peter and Jill Lundberg Nancy and Dennis Lynch Richard and Mary Lynch Madison Gas & Electric Foundation, Inc.Madison Investment Advisors Inc.Marshall & Ilsley Foundation, Inc.Len and Luann Mattioli Hal and Christy Mayer Marie S. McCabe Walter A. and Jean Meanwell Margaret Metcalfe Michael Best & Freidrich LLPLauri D. Morris Mortenson Family FoundationOscar Rennebohm FoundationPark BankW. Stuart Parsons Terrance D. Paul Donna Peters John Peterson Jim Picard Evan F. Pizer Thomas and Janet Plumb

Great Performance CampaignDiane Ballweg, Honorary ChairThe following donors have made generous gifts to Madison Ballet’s endowment through the Great Performance Campaign to be held in a fund at the Madison Community Foundation. The Great Performance Campaign was established with a $23 million challenge grant from the Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation to build endowments for nine Madison arts organizations. For more information, contact Amy Guthier, Director of Development, at 608-278-7990, ext. 224.

Potter Lawson, Inc.Carol Prange Quarles & Brady LLPDavid and Kim Reinecke James K. Ruhly Patrick M. Ryan Marianne and Stephen Schlecht Donald K. Schott Carol Schroeder Anne and Charles Scott Nicholas and Wendy Seay Marti Sebree Mary Ellyn and Joseph Sensenbrenner David and Margaret Sharpe Terry and Sandy Shockley Mr. & Mrs. Marcus G. Singer The Stark Company Joseph and Jamie Steuer Kent W. Stevens John and Mary Storer William and Audrey Strang John Taylor Gamber and Audrey Tegtmeyer, Jr., M.D. Thomas Terry Todd and Elizabeth Tiefenthaler William J. Toman Judy and Nick Topitzes US BankJames and Sylvia Vaccaro Chris Hamacher Vincent and Ron Vincent Virchow, Krause & Co., LLPWahlin Foundation, Inc.Ellis and Katie Waller Ronald L. Wallenfang Michael S. Weiden Dr. Carl and Susan Weston Stephen R. White John T. Whiting and Mary S. Olen Elyn L. Williams Wingra Technologies, LLCWisconsin Energy CorporationWISC-TV 3Kathleen E. Woit, Ph.D. Paul and Tracy Wrycha Sue and Michael Zaleski Zander’s Interiors, Inc.

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