David Foster is a Canadian-born musician, songwriter, record producer, and composer who has led the industry by shepherding albums that have collectively sold in the hundreds of millions. He has created hit songs and award-winning gold and platinum albums for diverse artists including Barbra Streisand, Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, and Madonna. He has escorted singers who have straddled both pop and classical styles like Andrea Bocelli and Josh Groban into the mainstream. Foster is also a celebrity judge on Asia’s biggest talent competition show, Asia’s Got Talent and World Got Talent, which airs in China to 150 million ... read more
Maurice Robert Hines Jr. was born on December 13, 1943, in New York City to a Catholic couple, Alma Iola (Lawless) and Maurice Robert Hines Sr., a dancer, musician, and actor. Hines began his career at the age of five, studying tap dance at the Henry LeTang Dance Studio in Manhattan. LeTang recognized his talent and began choreographing numbers specifically for him and his younger brother Gregory, patterned on the Nicholas Brothers. Maurice made his Broadway debut in The Girl in Pink Tights in 1954. Shortly after, the brothers began touring as the opening act for such headliners as Lionel ... read more
Maurice Robert Hines Jr. was born on December 13, 1943, in New York City to a Catholic couple, Alma Iola (Lawless) and Maurice Robert Hines Sr., a dancer, musician, and actor. Hines began his career at the age of five, studying tap dance at the Henry LeTang Dance Studio in Manhattan. LeTang recognized his talent and began choreographing numbers specifically for him and his younger brother Gregory, patterned on the Nicholas Brothers. Maurice made his Broadway debut in The Girl in Pink Tights in 1954. Shortly after, the brothers began touring as the opening act for such headliners as Lionel ... read more
Dave Keyes is a veteran of the American roots music scene as a keyboardist, singer and songwriter. He was Associate Conductor for the entire Broadway run of Smokey Joe's Café, and Lennon. The Dave Keyes Band regularly tours internationally and his upcoming CD release entitled "The Healing " will be his 6th CD adn will be available in October 2107. ... read more
Broadway: Music Director/Conductor - Guys & Dolls, Lennon, Hot Feet; Conductor/Choral Arranger - Song and Dance, On Your Toes; other: Chicago, Grand Hotel, Stardust. Acts: Judy Collins, Joel Grey, Betty Buckley, Tommy Tune, others. National/regional: Music Director - The House of Martin Guerre (Goodman Theater, Joseph Jefferson Award); Arranger - Best Little Whorehouse (Ann-Margaret tour); others. Studio work: Producer/Arranger - Tony Award-nominee Judy Kuhn's CD, Serious Playground; Arranger/Orchestrator - Tony Award-winner Victoria Clark's CD, Fifteen Seconds of Grace; others. TV/film: Lucas, Dumbo II, "All My Children," others. Arranger/Producer for Paul McCartney's music publishing house, MPL Music Publishing. Degree in music ... read more
Recent Broadway: Lennon, Sweeney Todd, The Producers, Beauty & the Beast, Hairspray, Movin’ Out, Sweet Charity, Good Vibrations, Dracula, Caroline or Change, Little Shop…, Thoroughly Modern Millie, 42nd St, Urinetown, Nine, La Boheme, Big River, Boys From Syracuse, Look of Love, Urban Cowboy, Never Gonna Dance, Thou Shalt Not, By Jeeves, Follies, Oklahoma!, Jekyll and Hyde, Rocky Horror Show, Seussical, The Music Man, Fosse, Swing!, Parade, Footloose, Kat and the Kings, Civil War, Triumph of Love. Studio Musician (bass): Michael Jackson, Madonna, Portishead, Eric Clapton, BB King, Sinatra, Carly Simon, Celine Dion, Smashing Pumpkins, Pete Seeger, NY Philharmonic. ... read more
Broadway: Lady Day At Emerson's Bar and Grill, A Time To Kill, Match, A Bronx Tale (original play and off –Broadway production) A Class Act, Jekyll and Hyde (original) The Rainmaker, The Sunshine Boys, The Gin Game (Harris-Durning). Inherit The Wind (Scott-Durning) and many others. Off-Broadway: Juno and The Paycock, In Masks Outrageous and Austere, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Three Tall Women, Full Gallop, Fully Committed (original) Rutheless (original) Opera: English National Opera, Glimmerglass Festival, Washington National Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, Boston Lyric Opera and others TV: Live From Lincoln Center, Great ... read more
More than 30 Broadway shows since 2000 including Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Tony nomination), The Merchant of Venice, Lombardi, Fences (Tony nomination), The Addams Family, Ragtime, Hair (Tony nomination), In the Heights (Tony nomination), [title of show], Legally Blonde, A Chorus Line (2006), The Drowsy Chaperone, The Light in the Piazza, Monty Python's Spamalot, Avenue Q, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and La Bohème.
Acme is Tom Clark, Mark Menard, Nevin Steinbergand Sten Severson. ... read more
Broadway/Off-Broadway credits: Memphis: A New Musical (Music Director/Conductor), Amazing Grace: an Epic Musical (Orchestrator), Big Maybelle: Queen of The Blues (Music Supervisor/Orchestrator) The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker (Co-Composer & Lyricist, Orchestrations), The Wiz (Dance Music Arranger), Hot Feet: The Music of Earth, Wind & Fire (Synth Programmer). Film: The Fringe (Composer), Talking with the Taxman About Poetry (Composer). Music Arranger/Orchestrator for shows on Fox, BET and NBC. ... read more
Arthur Siccardi was a Production Manager, Technical Supervisor, and Production Supervisor with countless Broadway credits. He worked on shows such as Chicago, La Cage Aux Folles, Billy Elliot, Grease, A Chorus Line, The Color Purple, Gypsy, Mamma Mia!, Jesus Christ Superstar, Saturday Night Fever, Annie Get Your Gun, and many more. ... read more
Leonard Soloway has been involved with over 150 productions, including Waiting in the Wings with Lauren Bacall and Rosemary Harris, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Jerome Robbins' Broadway, A Moon For the Misbegotten and Mark Twain Tonight! with Hal Holbrook.
His productions collected more than 40 Tony Awards, 21 Drama Desk Awards and three Pulitzer Prizes. In addition to launching many careers from performers to craftspeople, Leonard has worked with veteran stage actors like Jason Robards and Colleen Dewhurst as well as film stars like Paul Newman whose revival of Our Town on Broadway was facilitated by Mr. ... read more
Having designed costumes for Broadway, regional theaters, film, and television for over three decades, PAUL TAZEWELL is one of the industry’s most revered designers. From his Academy Award®-nominated work in West Side Story to creating costumes for the Tony Award®-winning Broadway production of Hamilton, his creations have captivated audiences across the globe.
Paul recently received a Tony Award® nomination for Best Costume Design for a Musical for his work in the Broadway production of Suffs as well as a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Costume Design of a Musical. He is also a 2024 NAACP Theatre Award nominee for Best ... read more
