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David Bryan Lyricist
Composer
David Bryan Rashbaum (born February 7, 1962) is an American musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the keyboard player for the rock band Bon Jovi, with which he also co-wrote songs and performed backing vocals. In 2018, Bryan was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Bon Jovi. He is also known for writing the music and co-writing the lyrics with Joe DiPietro for the musical Memphis, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Original Score. ... read more
Joe DiPietro Bookwriter
Lyricist
Joe DiPietro won Tony Awards for Best Book and Best Score for Memphis, which was also awarded the 2010 Tony Award, Drama Desk Award and Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical. His other shows include All Shook Up; I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change (the longest running musical revue in off-Broadway history); The Toxic Avenger and The Thing About Men (both winners of the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway musical). His plays include the much-produced comedy Over the River and Through the Woods, The Art of Murder (Edgar Award winner for Best Mystery Play), Creating Claire ... read more
Lloyd Kaufman Source Material
(Creator of the Toxic Avenger)
Beowulf Boritt Scenic Designer
Scenic Designer
25 Broadway shows including: Act One (Tony Award), The Scottsboro Boys (Tony Nomination), Therese Raquin (Tony Nomination), Come From Away, Flying Over Sunset, Freestyle Love Supreme, The New One, Meteor Shower, A Bronx Tale, Prince Of Broadway, Hand To God, Sondheim On Sondheim, …Spelling Bee , LoveMusik, Grace. 100 Off- Broadway shows including The Last Five Years, Fiddler On The Roof (in Yiddish), Sleepwalk With Me, and Miss Julie. 2007 OBIE Award for sustained excellence. ... read more
David Bryan Music Arranger
Orchestrator
David Bryan Rashbaum (born February 7, 1962) is an American musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the keyboard player for the rock band Bon Jovi, with which he also co-wrote songs and performed backing vocals. In 2018, Bryan was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Bon Jovi. He is also known for writing the music and co-writing the lyrics with Joe DiPietro for the musical Memphis, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Original Score. ... read more
Paul Carey Assistant Costume Designer
Jean Cheever Producer
Producer
Alan Childs Drums
O&M Co. Press Representative
Keith Coughlin Assistant Choreographer
Jeremy Cunningham Assistant Lighting Designer
David DeBesse Fight Director
Alexis Distler Associate Scenic Designer
John Dods Prosthetics and Special Effects Designer
Sound Effects Designer
Kurt Fischer Sound Designer
Sound Designer
Seth A. Goldstein General Manager
Additional credits include: The Ohmies: Producer/General Manager, Off-Broadway, Peter J. Sharp Theater, 2011 Two Rooms: General Manager, Off-Broadway, The Lion Theater, 2008 Christine Jorgensen Reveals: Producer/General Manager, NYC, Edinburgh, 2005; NYC, Dublin, 2006 (2005 Drama Desk Award) ... read more
Wes Grantom Assistant Director
Demond Green Dance Captain
Dan Grennes Bass Guitar
Kelly Hance Assistant Stage Manager
Christopher Jahnke Orchestrator
Orchestrator
Music Arranger
Orchestrator: (Broadway/London) Porgy and Bess (Tony nomination- Best Orchestrations), new orchestrations for Les Misérables (performed worldwide since 2006), Legally Blonde, King Kong, Cry-Baby, Grease (2007), Dessa Rose, A Man of No Importance, Wind in the Willows (Stiles & Drewe). Other orchestrations: Do You Hear the People Sing? (symphonic tour of Boublil/Schönberg), Tom Jones (Stiles & Leigh), Just So (Stiles & Drewe), Lady Gaga (“The Sound of Music” - 2015 Oscars, with Stephen Oremus), “The Wiz Live!,” Rufus Wainwright, Radio City Rockettes and Emily Bear. Music Supervisor: Memphis. Apprentice to orchestrator William David Brohn: Sweet Smell of Success, Ragtime, The Secret ... read more
Doug Katsaros Conductor
Musical Director
Musical Director
Keyboards
Robert G. Mahon III Production Manager
Tom Polum Producer
Producer
Kenneth Posner Lighting Designer
Lighting Designer
Kenneth Posner designs extensively on Broadway, off-Broadway, for resident theatres, and touring productions throughout the United States as well as internationally. Some of his Broadway work includes Pretty Woman, Mean Girls, War Paint, Tuck Everlasting, On Your Feet, If/Then, Kinky Boots, Pippin, Cinderella, Hairspray, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Legally Blonde, The Coast of Utopia-Shipwrecked, and Wicked. He is the recipient of the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics’ Circle and OBIE Awards. ... read more
Splinter Group Productions General Manager
Mark Adam Rampmeyer Hair and Make-Up Designer
Hair and Make-Up Designer
John Rando Director
Director
Broadway theatre credits include: Gettin’ the Band Back Together (Belasco Theatre); On The Town (Lyric Theatre - Tony Nomination); Penn & Teller on Broadway (Marquis Theatre); A Christmas Story (Lunt-Fontanne Theatre); The Wedding Singer; Urinetown (Tony and Outer Critics Circle Awards); A Thousand Clowns and Neil Simon’s The Dinner Party. Off-Broadway theatre credits include: Jerry Springer – The Opera (New Group); Lives of the Saints (Primary Stages); The Heir Apparent (SDCF Calloway Award – Classic Stage Company); All in the Timing (Primary Stages – Obie Award); Carousel (New York Philharmonic) and The Toxic Avenger, among many others. Regional theatre credits include: Because ... read more
Scott Taylor Rollison Production Stage Manager
Wendy Seyb Choreographer
Choreographer
Joel Shier Associate Lighting Designer
Rick Sordelet Fight Director
Fight Director
Rick Sordelet - Fight Director - Rick and his son and partner, Christian Kelly-Sordelet, created SORDELET INC, www.sordeletinc.com with 73 Broadway credits that include Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, and Wolf Hall. Also staged the fights for the opera Cyrano de Bergerac starring Placido Domingo at the Metropolitan Opera, The Royal Opera House, and the LaScala in Milan, Italy; and for over 65 productions on five continents including Ben Hur Live European Tour and sit down in Rome. Film: Ben is Back starring Julia Roberts and Lucas Hedges, The Game Plan starring Dwayne Johnson; Dan in ... read more
Jeff Wild Production Manager
David C. Woolard Costume Designer
Costume Designer

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Awards and Nominations

2010 The Lortels
Outstanding Choreographer: Wendy Seyb was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Musical: Jean Cheever was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Musical: Tom Polum was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Sound Design: Kurt Fischer was nominated but did not win.

2009 BroadwayWorld Awards
Best Off-Broadway Musical: Toxic Avenger won.

2009 Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Book of a Musical: Joe DiPietro was nominated but did not win.

2009 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical: 0 won.

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