Book of Mormon Lottery Offered at Overture

For immediate release: Thursday, April 27, 2017
Overture Contact: Sarah Knab | 608.258.4438

Madison, Wis. – Back by popular demand, THE BOOK OF MORMON, which played a record breaking 1-week run in 2015, is pleased to announce a lottery ticket policy for the National Tour, which begins Tuesday, May 9, 2017, at Overture Center in Madison, Wis., and plays a limited one-week engagement through Sunday, May 14. In Madison, the production will conduct a pre-show lottery at the box office, making 20 tickets available at $25 apiece.

The wildly popular lottery for the Broadway production has attracted as many as 800 entries at some performances.  The producers of THE BOOK OF MORMON are pleased to offer low-priced lottery seats for every city on the National Tour.

Entries will be accepted at the box office beginning two and a half hours prior to each performance; each person will print their name and the number of tickets (1 or 2) they wish to purchase on a card that is provided. Two hours before curtain, names will be drawn at random for a limited number of tickets priced at $25 each. Only one entry is allowed per person. Cards are checked for duplication prior to drawing. Winners must be present at the time of the drawing and show valid ID to purchase tickets. Limit one entry per person and two tickets per winner. Tickets are subject to availability.

THE BOOK OF MORMON features book, music and lyrics by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone. Parker and Stone are the four-time Emmy Award-winning creators of the landmark animated series, “South Park.” Tony Award-winner Lopez is co-creator of the long-running hit musical comedy, Avenue Q.  The musical is choreographed by Tony Award-winner Casey Nicholaw (Monty Python’s Spamalot, The Drowsy Chaperone) and is directed by Nicholaw and Parker.

THE BOOK OF MORMON is the winner of nine Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Score (Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, Matt Stone), Best Book (Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, Matt Stone), Best Direction (Casey Nicholaw, Trey Parker), Best Featured Actress (Nikki M. James), Best Scenic Design (Scott Pask), Best Lighting Design (Brian MacDevitt), Best Sound Design (Brian Ronan) and Best Orchestrations (Larry Hochman, Stephen Oremus); the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical; five Drama Desk Awards including Best Musical, the 2011 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album; four Outer Critics Circle Awards, including Best Musical, and the Drama League Award for Best Musical.

THE BOOK OF MORMON features set design by Scott Pask, costume design by Ann Roth, lighting design by Brian MacDevitt and sound design by Brian Ronan.  Orchestrations are by Larry Hochman and Stephen Oremus.  Music direction and vocal arrangements are by Stephen Oremus.

BROADWAY ACROSS AMERICA is part of The John Gore Organization family of companies, which includes Broadway.com, under the supervision of 9 time Tony-winning producer John Gore (Owner & CEO). Current and past productions include Beautiful, Cats, Dear Evan Hansen, Fiddler on the Roof, Finding Neverland, Hairspray, Million Dollar Quartet, On Your Feet!, School of Rock and The Producers. BroadwayAcrossAmerica.com; Broadway.com

OVERTURE CENTER FOR THE ARTS in Madison, Wisconsin, features seven state-of-the-art performance spaces and five galleries where national and international touring artists, ten resident companies and hundreds of local artists engage people in nearly 700,000 educational and artistic experiences each year. Overture.org

The Original Broadway Cast Recording for THE BOOK OF MORMON, winner of the 2011 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, is available on Ghostlight Records.

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Datica Names Kevin Lindbergh Chief Revenue Officer

MADISON, WISC. APRIL 26, 2017

Datica, the industry platform for digital health success, today announced Kevin Lindbergh will lead the company’s revenue generating efforts and execute on an aggressive product development strategy begun in late 2016. As the Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), Kevin will provide strategic direction for the sales, marketing, and product teams that help drive the company’s revenue streams, as well as identify new opportunities for growth.

“As the board and I considered filling the newly created position of CRO, the wealth of talent from within our own team enabled us to tap a valuable internal source,” said Travis Good, MD, CEO, Datica. “Kevin will be accelerating our top-line revenue with hospital systems by drawing upon the expertise of Kris Gösser, vice president of marketing and Ryan Rich, Datica’s newly appointed vice president of product. Kevin will also provide oversight on the day-today sales efforts to digital health vendors.”

Kevin has a success track record within Datica and was initially hired as the company’s Vice President of Sales in June 2015. With his deep expertise in healthcare, combined with a laser vision and strategy for company growth, he quickly recognized the significant potential Datica’s platform for digital health success could have on the market.

Digital healthcare is messy, but Datica’s mission to connect patients and providers with the tools and data they need to optimize care is one that won’t be solved by putting an API on top of an electronic health record. “We know that a customer who has an immediate need for compliant hosting or managed integration will eventually need other pieces like strategic services to achieve scalable success within digital health,” explained Lindbergh. “The industry has become leery of the piecemeal approach, so Datica’s full stack delivery layer empowers development teams with knowledge that their technology efforts are anchored on our unified platform; feature sets can simply be expanded as needed.”

Most recently, Kevin managed strategic relationships and did solution design at a startup focused on human capital management automation and enterprise collaboration. Prior to that, he held leadership positions in several healthcare organizations, including founding his own company focused on healthcare consumerism.

About Datica 
Datica is the platform for digital health success. We solve the problem of HIPAA compliance in the cloud, and enable secure data exchange between digital health and EHRs. Customers and partners across healthcare trust Datica to ensure the barriers for digital health are removed so innovation can happen faster. For more information please visit http://www.datica.com.

Wilco’s Glenn Kotche to Perform at Overture Next Week with Third Coast Percussion

For immediate release: Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Contact: Sarah Knab | 608.258.4438

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GRAMMY®-winning Wilco Drummer Wrote Wild Sound for Third Coast Percussion

Glenn Kotche Will Perform with Chicago-based GRAMMY®-winning Percussion Group At Overture

“Extravagant…immediately engaging” -Chicago Tribune

Madison, Wis. – Overture Center is proud to present a new musical collaboration between Chicago-based Third Coast Percussion, a 2016 GRAMMY®-winning group from Chicago, and composer/performer Glenn Kotche of Madison-favorite band Wilco. Wild Sound can be seen in Capitol Theater for one night only on Saturday, May 6 at 8 p.m.

Wild Sound challenges the distinctions that exist between music and noise, instrument and everyday object, performance and daily life. Composer Kotche created this new musical work for Third Coast Percussion combining field recordings from cities around the world, live performance, and the construction and de-construction of musical instruments on stage.

These custom-made percussion instruments were conceptualized by Kotche and designed and built by students and faculty at the University of Notre Dame’s College of Engineering. The field recordings in the work are drawn from Kotche’s international touring as drummer for the Grammy-winning rock band, Wilco. The field recordings create a narrative arc that draws the listener from the sounds of the natural world to the industrial sounds of modern urban life.

Program:

o   Projections of (What) Might: Glenn Kotche

o   Undiu: Joao Gilberto (arr. Glenn Kotche)

o   Nagoya Marimbas: Steve Reich

o   Drumkit Quartet #51: Glenn Kotche

o   Music for Pieces of Wood (arranged for 2 drumkits): Reich (arr. David Cossin)

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o   Wild Sound: Glenn Kotche

Wild Sound: Third Coast Percussion with Glenn Kotche (Wilco) is presented by Overture Center as part of the Bell Laboratories Music Series and was commissioned by the University of Notre Dame’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center and the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program.

Tickets start at $35 ($20 for students with promo code DRUMMER) and are available in person at the Overture Center Ticket Office (201 State Street), online at overture.org or by phone at 608.258.4141.

“The glory of ‘Wild Sound’ is that the composition delivers the musical goods — there is a wide swath of shifting textures and timbres, rhythms and moods. It is infused with an inspirational sense of fun and curiosity.” -The Star Tribune

“‘Wild Sound’ is a deeply human, organic work at heart that, over and over, turns everyday sounds into music” -The South Bend Tribune

THIRD COAST PERCUSSION (Sean Connors, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin, David Skidmore) is a GRAMMY®-winning, artist-run quartet of classically-trained percussionists hailing from the great city of Chicago. For over ten years, the ensemble has forged a unique path in the musical landscape with virtuosic, energetic performances that celebrate the extraordinary depth and breadth of musical possibilities in the world of percussion. The ensemble has been praised for “commandingly elegant” (New York Times) performances, and the “rare power” (Washington Post) of their recordings. The four members of Third Coast are also accomplished teachers, and since 2012, have served as ensemble-in-residence at the University of Notre Dame’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center.

GLENN KOTCHE is a Chicago-based percussionist and composer hailed as one of the most exciting, creative and promising composers and performers in modern music, receiving international attention for his “unfailing taste, technique and discipline” (Chicago Tribune). Kotche is a member of the Groundbreaking, GRAMMY®-winning American rock band Wilco, with whom he has played since 2001. After 3 solo records, including his 2006 album ‘Mobile’ (Nonesuch Records), Kotche released his 4th studio album Adventureland in 2013, featuring works Kotche has written for world renowned ensembles including Kronos Quartet, Bang on a Can All-Stars and Eighth Blackbird. His compositions have been performed at venues as wide-ranging as Chicagoland’s Ravinia, Carnegie’s Zankel Hall and Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall in New York and Teatro Castro Alves in Salvador, Brazil.

OVERTURE CENTER FOR THE ARTS in Madison, Wisconsin, features seven state-of-the-art performance spaces and five galleries where national and international touring artists, ten resident companies and hundreds of local artists engage people in nearly 700,000 educational and artistic experiences each year. Overture.org  

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Madison College to Recommend Local Firm for Downtown Ground Lease

(MADISON, Wis.) – Officials at Madison Area Technical College (MATC) are recommending to the college’s District Board of Trustees their selection of Madison-based Hovde Properties and Drury Southwest to enter into a ground lease agreement for the redevelopment of the college’s Downtown Education Center (DTEC).

In January, five firms were invited by the college to submit responses to a Request for Proposals (RFP). The proposals were scored against these criteria, which were outlined in the RFP:

• General Criteria (20 percent weighting factor) – Team experience and capacity in planning and completing development projects of comparable scale
• Technical Criteria (30 percent weighting factor) – The financial and market feasibility of the proposed project, adherence to City plans and zoning regulations, and alignment of proposed timeline with goals and requirements of the college
• Financial Criteria (50 percent weighting factor) – Ground lease terms including projected revenue to the college, the financial capacity of the ownership entities and the strength of their proposed financing structure

An evaluation team made up of MATC executive leadership staff and professional real estate consultants determined the proposal submitted by Hovde/Drury is in the best interest of the college and the communities it serves, said Madison College President Jack E. Daniels.

The Hovde/Drury ground lease proposal offers the potential of more than $200 million over the term of the agreement, starting with an initial payment of $750,000 that escalates throughout the potential 98-year term of the agreement. “It is our responsibility to make decisions that place the needs of our students and communities first,” Daniels said. “This predictable revenue stream will help support initiatives that align with our mission of addressing the diverse needs of the communities we serve.”

The response to the RFP submitted by Hovde/Drury features adaptive reuse of the existing buildings into a limited-service hotel with onsite meeting rooms, a restaurant and valet parking. New construction on the remainder of the site includes three levels of underground parking, grocery, retail, office space and a courtyard.

Additional information regarding the criteria used and rationale for the Hovde/Drury selection will be shared at a special meeting slated for 4:30 p.m. Monday, April 24, in Room 122/130 at the MATC Administration Building, 1701 Wright Street. The meeting will include an opportunity for public comment.

On April 26, the agenda for the regular public meeting of the MATC Board of Trustees, slated for May 3, 2017, will be published. The agenda will include the college’s formal recommendation to grant authority to college officials to execute a ground lease agreement with Hovde Properties and Drury Southwest.

If the MATC board approves the recommendation, the college will submit documentation to the Wisconsin Technical College System board to begin its approval process. Upon resolving contingencies articulated in the lease and gaining necessary approvals, it is expected that the college will completely vacate the property so redevelopment of the site can begin in 2019.

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NOTE TO EDITORS/NEWS DIRECTORS: Information that will be shared at the April 24 public meeting may be accessed at http://madisoncollege.edu/downtown-proposals.

Strang Welcomes HR Development Coordinator

MADISON, WI, April 19, 2017 – Strang is pleased to announce its recent hire of Jocelyn Kopac as HR Development Coordinator at Strang.

A native of Elkhorn, WI, Jocelyn previously worked as an independent business consultant in the areas of business development, accounting and human resources. She also owns Candid Brilliance Music in Ft. Atkinson, WI.

“We’re excited to have Jocelyn join our team at Strang,” said President & CEO Larry Barton. “She has a diverse background in business, is an excellent communicator and has natural people skills.”

Her duties at Strang will include recruitment, retention and human resources-related business aspects. Jocelyn has a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Wisconsin – Whitewater. Her hobbies include horses, photography and music.