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T.I. Original Music
Never one to march behind anyone else, rapper/songwriter/producer T.I. has crafted a standard-setting career that includes three Grammy Awards and status as a hip-hop icon. His distinct flow and lyrical skills drew widespread national attention with 2003's Trap Muzik. His eight-album catalog includes three consecutive No. 1 debuts on the Billboard 200 (2006's King, 2007's T.I. vs. T.I.P. and 2008's Paper Trail). His most recent album was 2012's "Trouble Man: Heavy Is the Head." The rapper also counts a string of hit singles, among them "Bring 'Em Out," "What You Know," "Whatever You Like," "Live Your Life" featuring Rihanna and ... read more
They Might Be Giants Original Music
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Yolanda Adams Original Music
Billboard Magazine's Gospel Artist of the last decade, Yolanda Adams is a 5 time Grammy Award winning artist who believes that her music heals. Not only is Yolanda a phenomenal vocalist, she is the host of the award winning, nationally syndicated radio show "The Yolanda Adams Morning Show". A renaissance lady, she is an author Points of Power, designer of a coffee line Yolanda Adams coffee, and bath & body products line, Simply Yolanda. Most of all she is a proud mom. (www.YolandaAdamslive.com) Twitter/IG: YolandaAdams ... read more
Lady Antebellum Original Music
With a new sense of history and possibilities, Lady Antebellum's sixth studio album HEART BREAK, had Dave Haywood, Charles Kelley and Hillary Scott on a new mission - setting aside time to put themselves in new surroundings, and concentrate on writing and exploring musical endeavors with no distractions. With busbee in the producer's chair, the trio had a hand in writing eleven songs on HEART BREAK, resulting in their most intimate and heartfelt work to date. The new music follows more than 18 million units, nine No. One hits, ACM and CMA "Vocal Group of the Year" trophies three years ... read more
Sara Bareilles Original Music
She has sold over three million albums and over 15 million singles in the United States. Bareilles has earned various accolades, including two Grammy Awards, as well as nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards and three Tony Awards. In 2012, VH1 named her one of the Top 100 Greatest Women in Music. Bareilles rose to prominence with the release of her second studio album, Little Voice (2007), which was her first recording for a major record label (Epic). The album included the hit single "Love Song", which reached number four on the Billboard Hot 100 and earned her a nomination for ... read more
David Bowie Original Music
Davie Bowie was a leading figure in the music industry and is regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. He was acclaimed by critics and musicians, particularly for his innovative work during the 1970s. His career was marked by reinvention and visual presentation, with his music and stagecraft having a significant impact on popular music. During his lifetime, his record sales, estimated at over 100 million records worldwide, made him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. In the UK, he was awarded ten platinum album certifications, eleven gold and eight silver, and ... read more
Jonathan Coulton Additional Lyrics
Original Music
Jonathan Coulton is from the Internet. While a struggling music industry fell to pieces over file sharing and shifting business models, he quietly and independently amassed a small army of techies, nerds, and dedicated superfans. His songs cover an eclectic range of subjects, from zombies and mad scientists to marriage and parenthood (and now, Spongebob!). You may know him from many things, including the songs from the Portal games, his work on the NPR quiz show "Ask Me Another," or his annual comedy music cruise, the JoCo Cruise. His latest release is "Solid State," a sci-fi concept album (with ... read more
Alex Ebert Original Music
Alexander Ebert is an award winning singer, songwriter, composer and front man of the popular folk-rock band Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros (and formerly of Ima Robot). In 2014, he won the Golden Globe for Best Original Score to J.C. Chandor's film All Is Lost starring Robert Redford. He followed that up by scoring Chandor's next film A Most Violent Year. Additionally, he scored the Oscar winning Disney animated short Feast. Ebert was born in Los Angeles in 1978 and currently resides in New Orleans, LA. In 2011, he released his first solo album as Alexander. After the success ... read more KYLE JARROW is a writer and musician who creates work for the stage, film and television. He is creator and executive producer of the TV series "Valor," streaming now on Netflix. His digital series "Lost Generation" (with music by Duncan Sheik) is now streaming on Verizon's go90 platform. Kyle's plays include A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant (Obie Award), The Wildness (Lortel Award nominee), Whisper House (now playing in London), Noir, Love Kills and Hostage Song. Kyle penned the film Armless, which was an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival. In addition to his writing work, he leads ... read more
Tina Landau Co-Conceiver
Landau's early work included site specific productions with New York City's En Garde Arts, including Orestes and The Trojan Women: A Love Story, both by Charles L. Mee, as well as her original play "Stonewall: Night Variations." Floyd Collins, with a book by Landau and a score by Adam Guettel, opened off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in 1996. Landau was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Musical, and the production won the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Musical. A later version of the show played ... read more
Cyndi Lauper Original Music
A Grammy, Emmy and Tony award winning artist with 30 sterling years and global record sales in excess of 50 million, Cyndi Lauper has proven that she has the heart and soul to keep her legion of fans compelled by her every creative move. Lauper recently became a New York Times Best Selling author with her autobiography – Cyndi Lauper: A Memoir – published by Simon & Schuster and wrote the original score for the Tony award winning best musical Kinky Boots. Helping others has always been a guiding force for Cyndi and she focuses her efforts to make a difference ... read more
John Legend Original Music
John Legend is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, film producer, theatre director, and philanthropist. Prior to the release of Legend's debut album, Get Lifted (2004), he had collaborated with already established artists and signed to Kanye West's GOOD Music. Legend has sung on Jay-Z's "Encore", Alicia Keys's "You Don't Know My Name", Dilated Peoples' "This Way", Slum Village's "Selfish", Fort Minor's "High Road", and played piano on Lauryn Hill's "Everything Is Everything". Legend's single "All of Me" from his fourth studio album Love in the Future (2013) was a Billboard Hot 100 number-one hit. In 2007, Legend received the ... read more
The Flaming Lips Original Music
The Flaming Lips are an American rock band, formed in Norman, OK., in 1983. Melodically, their sound contains lush, multi-layered, psychedelic rock arrangements. Lyrically, their compositions have elements of space rock, including unusual song and album titles. They are acclaimed for their elaborate live shows, which feature costumes, balloons, puppets, video projections, complex stage light configurations, giant hands, large amounts of confetti, and frontman Wayne Coyne's signature man-sized plastic bubble, in which he traverses the audience. Q magazine named The Flaming Lips one of the "50 bands to see before you die". The group has garnered three Grammy Awards, including ... read more
Joe Perry Original Music
As members of AEROSMITH-America's Greatest Rock & Roll Band-the songwriting team of Steven Tyler and Joe Perry have sold more than 150 million albums worldwide and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They are the recipients of countless awards including four Grammys, eight American Music Awards, six Billboard Awards, 12 MTV Video Music Awards and an Emmy, among many other honors. In 2013 Tyler and Perry were awarded with the Founder's Award at the ASCAP Pop Awards and inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame. With scores of multi-platinum albums, AEROSMITH continues to ... read more
Plain White T's Original Music
Hailing from the suburbs of Chicago, the punk-pop outfit Plain White T's began taking shape in 1997, a full ten years before the acoustic ballad "Hey There Delilah" made them Grammy-nominated stars. "Hey There Delilah" topped the charts in ten different countries and helped jump-start sales of their album, Every Second Counts. Plain White T's received two Grammy nominations for the song, and the band returned in 2008 with Big Bad World, featuring the band's usual mix of spunky energy and pop/rock craft. The band returned to action with the 2013 EP Should've Gone to Bed before delivering the full-length ... read more
Panic! At the Disco Original Music
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Steven Tyler Original Music
Nickelodeon Producer
Nickelodeon (often shortened to Nick) is an American pay television network which was launched on December 1, 1977, as the first cable channel for children. It is owned by ViacomCBS through its ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks division and is based in New York City. ... read more
Kevin Adams Lighting Designer
Four-time Tony winner Kevin Adams has designed SpongeBob SquarePants (Tony nom.), Head Over Heels, Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Tony and Outer Critics Award), American Idiot (Tony Award), Spring Awakening (Tony Award; Olivier nom for the West End production), Next To Normal (Tony nom), The 39 Steps (Tony and Drama Desk Awards), Hair (Tony nom), Man And Boy, Everyday Rapture, Passing Strange, Take Me Out, A Class Act, Hedda Gabler with Kate Burton, solo shows by Eve Ensler and John Leguizamo. Off-Broadway he has worked on the original production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Scottsboro Boys, Rent, Carrie, new ... read more Broadway/Tours: Elf, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Spiderman Turn Off The Dark, A Life in the Theatre, Million Dollar Quartet, The Addams Family, Memphis, Next to Normal, Rock of Ages, In the Heights, Wicked, 9 to 5, South Pacific, Peepshow in Vegas. Off-Broadway: Atlantic, MCC, Signature. Film: Margin Call, Howl, Sex and the City 1 & 2, Jonah Hex, Main Street, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, I Love You Phillip Morris, Rachel Getting Married, Dan in Real Life, Then She Found Me, Across the Universe, Ira & Abby, Rent, Pieces of April, Camp, The Grey Zone, Finding ... read more
Christopher Gattelli Choreographer
CHRISTOPHER GATTELLI was awarded the 2012 Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for his choreography in Newsies. Broadway (choreographer): The King & I (Tony nomination), South Pacific (Tony and Outer Critics Circle nominations), My Fair Lady, War Paint, Amazing Grace, Casa Valentina, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Sunday in the Park With George, Godspell, The Ritz, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, 13, High Fidelity. Off- Broadway: Dogfight (Lortel Award), Altar Boyz (Lortel Award, Callaway Award, Drama Desk Nom.), Bat Boy: The Musical (Lortel Award), 10 Million Miles, Adrift in Maco, tick,tick...BOOM!, I Love You Because. ... read more
Patrick Goodwin Casting
Tom Kitt Music Supervision
Orchestrations
Arranger
Tom Kitt is an American composer, conductor, orchestrator, and musician. For his score for the musical Next to Normal, he shared the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama with Brian Yorkey. He has also won two Tony Awards and an Outer Critics Circle Award for Next to Normal, as well as Tony and Outer Critics Circle nominations for If/Then and SpongeBob SquarePants. He has been nominated for eight Drama Desk Awards, winning one, and a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album for Jagged Little Pill in 2021. ... read more
Tina Landau Director
Landau's early work included site specific productions with New York City's En Garde Arts, including Orestes and The Trojan Women: A Love Story, both by Charles L. Mee, as well as her original play "Stonewall: Night Variations." Floyd Collins, with a book by Landau and a score by Adam Guettel, opened off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in 1996. Landau was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Musical, and the production won the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Musical. A later version of the show played ... read more
Charles G. LaPointe Hair and Wig Designer
Broadway: Memphis, 33 Variations, Guys and Dolls, In the Heights, Jersey Boys, The Color Purple, Martin Short: Fame . . .,Good Vibrations, The Apple Tree, A Raisin in the Sun, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Lieutenant of Inishmoor, Radio Golf, Sight Unseen, Cymbeline, Henry IV, The Rivals, Xanadu, and Superior Donuts. Jersey Boys U.S. tour, Chicago, Las Vegas Toronto, London, and Melbourne. The Color Purple national tour, Xanadu national tour, and In The Heights national tour. Many Off-Broadway and regional credits. ... read more
321 Theatrical Management General Manager
Nina Essman, Nancy Nagel Gibbs and Marcia Goldberg’s Broadway, Off-Broadway and national tour management credits include Sister Act; Wicked; Next to Normal; Traces; The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee; Man of La Mancha; The Graduate; Striking 12; The Vagina Monologues; Bat Boy; and I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change. ... read more
Peter Nigrini Projection Designer
Peter's Broadway credits include SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical, Dear Evan Hansen, A Doll's House, Part 2, An Act of God, Amalie, A New Musical, Fela!, The Heidi Chronicles, and The Best Man. His other credits include Grounded and Here Lies Love (The Public Theater), Wakey, Wakey (Signature Theatre), The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Second Stage Theater), Notes from Underground (Yale Repertory Theatre), The Grace Jones Hurricane Tour, Rent (New World Stages), Real Enemies (BAM Next Wave Festival), and Blind Date (Bill T. Jones). For Nature Theater of Oklahoma, No Dice and Life & Times (Burgtheater, Vienna). His upcoming ... read more
Kelp on the Road Producer
Walter Trarbach Sound Designer
Broadway: The Farnsworth Invention, Cymbeline. As a Partner in SCK Sound Design, his Credits include: Doctor Zhivago and The Radio City Christmas Spectacular, and Ain't Too Proud. Other Designs: Queen of the Mist, I Am Anne Hutchinson/I Am Harvey Milk, The Man in the Ceiling, The Tin Pan Alley Rag, Becky Shaw, Measure for Pleasure, Farragut North, I Love You Because, Love, Loss, and What I Wore, and Mr. Marmalade. Associate Sound Designs: Catch Me If You Can, Billy Crystal's 700 Sundays, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill (Tony Award), Jesus Christ Superstar, Hands on a Hardbody (Drama Desk ... read more
Susan Vargo Executive Producer
David Zinn Scenic and Costume Designer

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Awards and Nominations

2018 BroadwayWorld Awards
Best Costume Design: David Zinn won.
Best Musical: SpongeBob SquarePants won.
Best Score: Panic! at the Disco won.
Best Score: Yolanda Adams won.
Best Score: Steven Tyler won.
Best Score: Joe Perry won.
Best Score: Sara Bareilles won.
Best Score: Jonathan Coulton won.
Best Score: Alexander Ebert won.
Best Score: The Flaming Lips won.
Best Score: Lady Antebellum won.
Best Score: Cyndi Lauper won.
Best Score: Rob Hyman won.
Best Score: John Legend won.
Best Score: Plain White T's won.
Best Score: They Might Be Giants won.
Best Score: T.I. won.
Best Score: Domani won.
Best Score: Lil' C won.
Best Score: David Bowie won.
Best Score: Brian Eno won.
Best Score: Tom Kenny won.
Best Score: Andy Paley won.
Best Score: Tom Kitt won.

2018 Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Book of a Musical: Kyle Jarrow was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Costume Design for a Musical: David Zinn was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Director of a Musical: Tina Landau won.
Outstanding Musical: SpongeBob SquarePants won.
Outstanding Orchestrations: Tom Kitt was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Projection Design: Peter Nigrini was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Set Design for a Musical: David Zinn won.
Outstanding Wig and Hair: Charles G. LaPointe won.
The LaDuca Award for Outstanding Choreography: Christopher Gattelli was nominated but did not win.

2018 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Outstanding Book of a Musical: Kyle Jarrow was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Choreographer: Christopher Gattelli was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Costume Design: David Zinn was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Director of a Musical: Tina Landau won.
Outstanding Lighting Design: Kevin Adams was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding New Broadway Musical: SpongeBob SquarePants won.
Outstanding New Score: Yolanda Adams won.
Outstanding Orchestrations: Tom Kitt was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Set Design: David Zinn was nominated but did not win.

2018 Theatre World Awards
Outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway Debut Performance: Ethan Slater won.

2018 Tony Awards
Best Book of a Musical: Kyle Jarrow was nominated but did not win.
Best Choreography: Christopher Gattelli was nominated but did not win.
Best Costume Design of a Musical: David Zinn was nominated but did not win.
Best Direction of a Musical: Tina Landau was nominated but did not win.
Best Lighting Design of a Musical: Kevin Adams was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: SpongeBob SquarePants was nominated but did not win.
Best Orchestrations: Tom Kitt was nominated but did not win.
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre: Yolanda Adams was nominated but did not win.
Best Scenic Design of a Musical: David Zinn won.
Best Sound Design of a Musical: Walter Trarbach was nominated but did not win.

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