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Burt Bacharach Composer
Burt Freeman Bacharach was an American composer, songwriter, record producer, and pianist who is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential figures of 20th-century popular music. He composed hundreds of pop songs from the late 1950s, many in collaboration with lyricist Hal David. ... read more
Hal David Lyricist
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I.A.L. Diamond Source Material
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Neil Simon Bookwriter
Neil Simon was an American playwright, screenwriter, and author who was born on July 4, 1927, in The Bronx, New York City. He is widely regarded as one of the most successful and prolific playwrights in American history, with a career that spanned over five decades. Simon's work often focused on the trials and tribulations of middle-class life, and his plays were known for their wit, humor, and insight. Simon began his career as a comedy writer in the 1940s, working on radio and television shows. He made his Broadway debut in 1961 with the play "Come Blow Your Horn," which ... read more
Billy Wilder Source Material
(Based on screenplay)
Jonathan Tunick Orchestrator
Jonathan Tunick is an American orchestrator, musical director, and composer. Tunick’s stage career began with Take Five (1957). He went on to collaborate memorably with Stephen Sondheim, orchestrating shows such as Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures, Sweeney Todd, Merrily We Roll Along, Into the Woods, Passion, and Putting It Together. Additional notable Broadway credits include Promises, Promises; A Chorus Line; Nick & Nora; A Funny Thing...; Elaine Stritch at Liberty; Nine; A Gentleman’s Guide...; and 110 in the Shade. In 1997, he won his first Tony Award, for his work on the musical Titanic. This accomplishment gave ... read more
Pat Addiss Producer
Lauren Alvarez Assistant Scenic Designer
Rob Ashford Choreographer
Director
Broadway credits as Director/Choreographer: Evita (Tony nomination), How to Succeed (Tony nominations Direction/Choreography), Promises, Promises (Tony nomination Choreography); as Choreographer: Thoroughly Modern Millie (Tony Award Best Choreography), Wedding Singer (Tony nom.), Cry Baby (Tony nom.), Curtains (Tony nom.). London - as Director: Anna Christie (Donmar), A Streetcar Named Desire (Donmar - Olivier nomination, Best Revival), Shrek The Musical; as Director/Choreographer: Parade (Donmar - Olivier nominations, Direction/Choreography); as Choreographer: Evita (Olivier nom.), Guys and Dolls (Olivier nom.), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Olivier nom.), Forum at The National Theatre. Other: 81st Annual Academy Awards (Emmy Award Choreography). Rob is a member of The ... read more
Alan Wasser Associates General Manager
Christopher Bailey Associate Director
Associate Choreographer
Orit Jacoby Carroll Associate Scenic Designer
Broadway: Jersey Boys; Spamalot; ...Spelling Bee; The Producers; Mamma Mia!; Phantom…; Good Vibrations; Bombay Dreams; Oklahoma!; Flower Drum Song; Imaginary Friends; Metamorphoses. Nat’l tour: Disney’s On the Record; Les Miserables. Lincoln Center: The Frogs; Contact; Thou Shalt Not; A Man of No Importance; Anything Goes (concert). Off-Broadway: Second Stage. Regional: Williamstown Theatre Festival; Kennedy Center; La Jolla Playhouse; Yale Rep. Film: The Producers The Musical. Ms. Rubin is a member of the Casting Society of America. ... read more
Perry Cavari Drums
David Chase Dance Music Arranger
David has been Music Director, Supervisor and/or Arranger for thirty-five Broadway productions. Most recently, David acted as dance arranger on Roundabout Theatre Company’s Kiss Me, Kate and Tootsie, currently on Broadway. Other theatre credits include: many arrangements for the Boston Pops and Tanglewood Festival Chorus, The Kennedy Center Honors, Radio City Music Hall (where he spent many years as music director), EssentialVoicesUSA (including the upcoming Washington Women), and TV’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Music director for several productions at the Lyric Opera of Chicago (including The King and I with choreographer Peggy Hickey), and for NBC’s live performances of The Sound of Music ... read more
Art Meets Commerce Internet Marketing
Barry Danielian Trumpet
Rick Dolan Concert Master
Mat Eisenstein Associate Conductor
Keyboard 2
James Ercole Reeds
The Hartman Group General Press Representative
The Hartman Group is a new media relations firm currently representing the Broadway productions of A Steady Rain, Billy Elliot, In the Heights, Memphis, Next to Normal, Rock of Ages, West Side Story and Wicked. The firm also represents the national tour of Billy Crystal’s 700 Sundays, Cirque du Soleil’s Wintuk, Dreamgirls at the Apollo, Broadway Across America and Second Stage Theatre. The Hartman Group is headed by Michael Hartman, a partner of Barlow Hartman Public Relations, which operated from 1999 to 2009 and represented over one hundred Broadway productions including Gypsy starring Patti LuPone, Grease, Young Frankenstein, Legally Blonde, ... read more
Ed Hamilton Guitar
Bill Hayes Percussion
Hayes was a singer on the Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca variety show Your Show of Shows in the early 1950s. He had a supporting role in the 1952 black comedy Stop, You're Killing Me. During the Davy Crockett craze in 1955, three recorded versions of "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" were in the top 30. Hayes' version was the most popular: It was number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for five weeks, sold over two million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. He also starred on Broadway in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Me and Juliet (1953). Hayes had ... read more
Donald Holder Lighting Designer
Donald Holder has worked extensively in Theatre, Opera, Dance, Architectural and Television lighting in the US and abroad for over 30 years. He has designed 58 Broadway productions and has been nominated for 13 Tony Awards, winning the Tony for Best Lighting Design for The Lion King in 1998, and for the 2008 revival of South Pacific. Recent Broadway productions include: Tootsie, Kiss Me Kate, Anastasia, Oslo, Straight White Men, She Loves Me, Fiddler on the Roof, The King and I, On the Twentieth Century, The Bridges of Madison County, Bullets Over Broadway and many others. Projects at the NY ... read more
Serino Coyne, Inc. Advertising
Katie Irish Assistant Costume Designer
Jason Jackson Trombone
Howard Joines Musical Coordinator
COMPANY the Musical Oct 2019 – Present Music Coordinator for the Broadway Production A CHRISTMAS CAROL Broadway Music Coordinator Sep 2019 – Present Music Coordinator for the Broadway Production MEAN GIRLS National Tour Music Coordinator Jun 2019 – Present Music Coordinator for the National Tour BEETLEJUICE the Musical Music Coordinator Sep 2018 – Present Music Coordinator for the Broadway Production MEAN GIRLS Music Coordinator Sep 2017 – Present Music Coordinator for the Broadway Production ALADDIN North American Tour Music Coordinator Sep 2016 – Present First-class touring production of the Broadway Musical Radio City CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR Music Coordinator 2014 – Present Music Coordinator for the Radio City Orchestra ALADDIN - THE MUSICAL Music Coordinator Sep 2013 – Present Broadway Musical BAT OUT OF HELL NY Music Coordinator Mar 2019 – Sep 2019 Music Coordinator for ... read more
Laura Kirspel Company Manager
Credits: Evita; Sugar Babies; Me and My Girl; The Goat (Tony Award); Movin’ Out (Tony Award); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Cyrano; Dirty Dancing; West Side Story; 9 to 5; The Addams Family; Merchant of Venice; Race; Promises, Promises; Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark; Priscilla Queen of the Desert; and Hello, Dolly! (Tony Award). ... read more
Cathy Kwon Assistant Company Manager
Allied Live Marketing
Joan Marcus Production Photographer
Neil Meron Producer
Sarah O'Gleby Dance Captain
Broadway: Chaplin, How to Succeed..., Promises Promises. West End, London: Candide, Footloose, A Funny thing...Forum, We Will Rock You, Mamma Mia. UK Tour: Guys and Dolls, Annie Get Your Gun, Saturday Night Fever. Associate Choreography: "Sound of Music" (NBC), "Kennedy Center Honors", "Tony Awards" Opening (2013), "Academy Awards" with Hugh Jackman & Seth McFarlane, A Million Ways to Die in the West, How To Succeed. ... read more
Jessica Pabst Assistant Costume Designer
Matthew Pachtman Associate Costume Designer
Scott Pask Scenic Designer
Selected Broadway credits include The Book of Mormon (Tony Award); The Band's Visit; Something Rotten!; Oh, Hello!; Saint Joan; The Little Foxes; Waitress; Pippin (Tony nomination); An Act of God; Blackbird; The Pillowman (Tony Award); The Visit; It's Only a Play; Finding Neverland; Casa Valentina; I'll Eat You Last; The Coast of Utopia (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards); Take Me Out; Hair; Pal Joey (Tony nomination); Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Tony nomination, Drama Desk Award); Nine; and Urinetown. Also Cirque Du Soleil's Amaluna; Peter Grimes, Met Opera. Insta @scottpaskstudio ... read more
Bruce Pask Costume Designer
Michael J. Passaro Production Stage Manager
Broadway: Evita, How To Succeed..., Promises..., A Steady Rain, Impressionism, White Christmas, Phantom, Les Misérables, History Boys, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Chicago, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Cabaret, Frog and Toad, Dance of the Vampires, Sweet Smell of Success, Carousel, Angels in America, Will Rogers Follies. MFA, NYU. Faculty, Yale University. ... read more
Matthew Perri Keyboard 1
Juniper Street Productions Production Manager
Phil Reno Conductor
Musical Director
Brian Ronan Sound Designer
Over 40 Broadway designs including The Prom, Tootsie, Mean Girls, Margaritaville, Springsteen on Broadway, War Paint, The Last Ship, Beautiful, If/Then, Anything Goes, American Idiot, Next to Normal, Spring Awakening, Grey Gardens. On the West End: Spring Awakening, Book of Mormon and Beautiful. Off Broadway designs include Bowie’s Lazarus, Giant, Rent, Everyday Rapture, Saved, 10 Million Miles, and Bug. He is the recipient of Obie, Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk, Olivier and Tony awards. ... read more
Bruce Samuels Synthesizer Programmer
Thomas Schall Fight Director
More than 60 Broadway shows, including The Front Page, The Crucible, Blackbird, The Color Purple, Waitress, The King and I, War Horse, This Is Our Youth, Of Mice and Men, Romeo and Juliet, Lucky Guy, Death of a Salesman, Venus in Fur, A View From the Bridge. He has worked extensively at the Lincoln Center (Disgraced, Blood and Gifts), the Public Theater (Hamlet, King Lear, Mother Courage, Father Comes Home From The Wars), MTC (Ruined, Murder Ballad), NY Theatre Workshop (Red Speedo, Othello), and the Met Opera (Le Nozze di Figaro, Il Trovatore). ... read more
Les Scott Reeds
Mark D. Shacket General Manager
Michael McCabe/Joseph Smith Associate Producer
Pat Sosnow Stage Manager
Broadway: Evita, How To Succeed; Promises, Promises; Steady Rain; 33 Variations; ...Millie; Sexaholix...; Kiss Me Kate; Kat and the Kings; Freak; Beauty and the Beast; Angels in America; I Hate Hamlet; Eastern Standard. Roundabout, NYSF, MTC, Altar Boyz, MTC. ... read more
Karen Spahn Associate Lighting Designer
Candy Spelling Producer
Candy Spelling is an American author, philanthropist, and socialite. Born as Carole Gene Marer on September 20, 1945, in Beverly Hills, California, she is the daughter of Augusta Gene and Merritt Marer. She attended Beverly Hills High School and later graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles. Spelling is best known for being the widow of television producer Aaron Spelling, who was responsible for hit shows such as "Charlie's Angels," "Dynasty," and "Beverly Hills, 90210." The couple married in 1968 and remained together until Aaron's death in 2006. They had two children together, Randy and Tori Spelling, both of whom ... read more
Stephen Sposito Assistant Director
MGM On Stage Producer
(By Arrangement With)
Joanna Lynne Staub Associate Sound Designer
David Trigg Trumpet
Dan Urness Trumpet
Alex Lyu Volckhausen Assistant Stage Manager
Matt Wall Assistant Dance Captain
Broadway: Company, My Fair Lady, Sunset Boulevard, Something Rotten; Annie; How to Succeed...; Promises, Promises; South Pacific; Curtains; The Drowsy Chaperone; 110 in the Shade; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; Thoroughly Modern Millie; Follies; Saturday Night Fever. TV: The Good Wife, Blue Bloods, Peter Pan Live?!, Sound of Music Live! Film: The Intern, Ted 2. BFA, The Boston Conservatory. ... read more
Tom Watson Hair and Wig Designer
Tom Watson is head of the wig and makeup department at the Metropolitan Opera. He has designed wigs for more than 45 Broadway productions. Current and recent Broadway designs include The Addams Family; Promises, Promises; Elling; Million Dollar Quartet; Mrs. Warren's Profession; Wicked; Rock of Ages; South Pacific; Sondheim on Sondheim; A View from the Bridge; and Sunday in the Park with George. ... read more
Beth Williams Executive Producer
Allan Williams General Manager
Carolyn Wong Associate Lighting Designer
Craig Zadan Producer

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Awards and Nominations

2010 Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Revival of a Musical : Promises, Promises was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Sound Design in a Musical: Brian Ronan was nominated but did not win.

2010 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Outstanding Choreography: Rob Ashford was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Revival of a Musical: 0 was nominated but did not win.

2010 Tony Awards
Best Choreography: Rob Ashford was nominated but did not win.
Best Orchestrations: Jonathan Tunick was nominated but did not win.

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