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The Cabaret Conference At Yale University
2003 Thank Yous

Erv Raible, Executive Director/Artistic Director
The Cabaret Conference At Yale University
would like to thank the following people for their support

Yale University
Dean James Bundy, Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theater
Anne Tofflemire
Yale University Conference Office, Box Office and Theater Staff
Susan Adler & Bill Reynolds
Sylvia & Charles Traeger, Rich Abrams, Marissa Garibaldi

Wendy Lane Bailey, my Executive Assistant,
without whom this conference would not have happened!
Carol Hall & Lina Koutrakos & Sally Mayes

To my generous and talented faculty and consultants
Tex Arnold, Matt Berman, Tovah Feldshuh, Jason Graae, Carol Hall,
George Hall, John Hoglund, Rick Jensen, Michael Kerker, Jeff Klitz,
Lina Koutrakos, Marilynn Lovell Matz, Sally Mayes, Amanda McBroom,
Tony Montano, Billy Philadelphia, Paul Trueblood, Fred Voelpel and Julie Wilson.

Wendy Lane Bailey & Marnie Baumer & Ludmilla Ilieva &
MariEileen O’Brien & Johnny Rodgers

For Their Generosity
Carol Hall & Leonard Majzlin
The Grisham Foundation
Peter & Millie Hanson
Fred Voelpel
Julie Wilson
Ron Cohn
Patty Montano

For Our Website
Tony Montano

Our Audition Hosts
Sue Berry and Donna Kirchman / Davenport’s, Chicago
Michael Jaworek / The Birchmere, Alexandria, Virginia
Trevor Logan / Plush Room, York Hotel, San Francisco
Will McMillan / Cambridge Center for Adult Education, Boston/Cambridge
Ben Krywosz / Nautilus Music Theater, Minneapolis/St. Paul
Michael Kerker / ASCAP, Los Angeles
Ron Shetler / Shetler Studios, New York

Our Audition Pianists
George Fulginit-Shakar, Washington, DC
Doug Hammer, Boston
Ian Herman & Rick Jensen & Jeff Klitz, New York
Billy Philadelphia, San Francisco
Shelly Markham, Chicago & Los Angeles
Tom Linker, Minneapolis – St. Paul

Our Hosts
Nancy Hoskins, New Haven
Erica Leopold & Will McMillan, Boston
Marilynn Lovell Matz, Los Angeles
Trevor Logan & The York Hotel, San Francisco
Doug Trapp & Billy Kimmel, Minneapolis
Nan Mason & Terry Higgins, Chicago
Wendy Lane, Ross & Ashton Bailey, Washington, DC

For Helping To Spread The Word
Sherry Eaker & John Hoglund / Back Stage
Stu Hamstra / Cabaret Hotline
Michael Portantiere / TheaterMania
Leslie (Hoban) Blake / The Resident
Elizabeth G. Curren / New Haven Register
Andrew Gans / Playbill
Laura Deni / Broadway To Vegas
Jinny Sagorin / New England Entertainment Digest
Brian DeLorenzo / Boston Association of Cabaret Artists,
Suzanne Petri / Chicago Cabaret Professionals
Kate Peters / Cabaret.Org.
Les Traub / Cabaret West
Shayne Rainbolt / E-Cabaret
Wendy Lane Bailey / The Washington, DC Cabaret Network
to all of the individuals who believed enough to contact their friends,
who contacted their friends, who contacted their friends,
who contacted their friends … and allowed the
First Annual Cabaret Conference At Yale University to happen!

For Unknowingly Planting The Yale Seed
Howard Sherman