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James Lapine Bookwriter
Lapine is an American stage director, playwright, screenwriter, and librettist. He has won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical three times, for Into the Woods, Falsettos, and Passion. He has frequently collaborated with Stephen Sondheim and William Finn. ... read more
Ettore Scola Source Material
(Based on film)
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Stephen Sondheim Composer
Lyricist
Stephen Sondheim is widely acknowledged as the most innovative, most influential, and most important composer and lyricist in modern Broadway history. He is the winner of an Academy Award, numerous Tony Award, multiple Grammy Awards and a Pulitzer Prize. Some of his other accolades include a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Kennedy Center Honors (1993), the National Medal of Arts (1996), the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Gold Medal for Music (2006) and a special Tony Awards for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre (2008). Stephen Sondheim wrote the music and lyrics for Road Show (2008), Passion (1994), Assassins (1991), Into ... read more
I. U. Tarchetti Source Material
(Based on novel)
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
Philip Rinaldi Publicity Press Representative
Dennis Anderson Woodwinds
Nick Archer Associate Conductor
Keyboard
Roger Berlind Producer
Berlind was a New York City theatrical producer and board member of Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. and Lehman Brothers Inc. He was one of the founders of Carter, Berlind, Potoma & Weill in 1960, a company that would later through Sandy Weill become Shearson Loeb Rhoades, which was eventually sold to American Express in 1981 for approximately $930 million in stock. Recent productions include The Book of Mormon, Copenhagen; Kiss Me, Kate; Proof; Medea; Anna in the Tropics; Caroline, or Change; Wonderful Town; Doubt; The History Boys; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Faith Healer; Deuce; The Year of Magical Thinking; Curtains; ... read more
Elizabeth M. Blitzer Associate Company Manager
John Campo Woodwinds
Jane Comfort Associate Director
Phyllis Della Hair Designer
Beverly Emmons Lighting Designer
Broadway credits include Annie Get Your Gun, Jekyll & Hyde, The Heiress, Stephen Sondheim’s Passion and The Elephant Man. Her lighting of Amadeus won a Tony award. Regionals include JF Kennedy Center, the Guthrie, Arena Stage, the Alley. Off B’way she worked for Joseph Chaikin and Meredith Monk. For Robert Wilson; Einstein on the Beach and others. Her designs for dance: Martha Graham, Trisha Brown, Alvin Ailey, Merce Cunningham. Awards: seven Tony nominations, several American Theatre Wings, 1980 Obie and others. ... read more
Wendy Ettinger Casting
Paul Ford Keyboard
Paul Gemignani Musical Director
Conductor
Pick a Stephen Sondheim Broadway premiere in the last three decades – say, Sweeney Todd or Sunday in the Park with George or Into the Woods. Who was at the podium on opening night? If you guessed Paul Gemignani, you got it right. In fact, Maestro Gemignani has been a distinguished and constant presence in musical theater for the last forty years. In 2001 he was honored with a Special Lifetime Achievement Tony Award®. Significantly, for an artist so closely associated with Sondheim, Gemignani made his Broadway debut as a conductor in Sondheim’s Follies (1971), taking over the role of music ... read more
Jane Greenwood Costume Designer
More than 100 Broadway/Off-Broadway credits including: Present Laughter, A View From the Bridge, Waiting for Godot, Thurgood, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Trumpery, Heartbreak House, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, On Golden Pond, A Moon for the Misbegotten, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Master Class, The Sisters Rosensweig. Metropolitan Opera: revival of Adriana Lecouvreur (2009), Dialogue of the Carmelites, The Great Gatsby; Chicago Lyric Opera: Nabucco and Rigoletto; SF Opera: La Favorita. Film: Arthur, Can't Stop the Music, Glengarry Glen Ross. Awards: Irene Sharaff Life Time Achievement Award, Theatre Hall of Fame, 15 Tony Award nominations. Professor, Yale School of Drama. ... read more
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Fred J. Gallo, Jr. Technical Supervisor
James Lapine Director
Lapine is an American stage director, playwright, screenwriter, and librettist. He has won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical three times, for Into the Woods, Falsettos, and Passion. He has frequently collaborated with Stephen Sondheim and William Finn. ... read more
Adrianne Lobel Scenic Designer
Otts Munderloh Sound Designer
Beverley Randolph Production Stage Manager
Albert Regni Woodwinds
Scott Rudin Producer
Films include Ladybird, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo; Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close; Moneyball; Moonrise Kingdom; Margaret; The Social Network; True Grit; Greenberg; It’s Complicated; Fantastic Mr. Fox; Julie & Julia; Doubt; No Country for Old Men; There Will Be Blood; Reprise; The Queen; Margot at the Wedding; Notes on a Scandal; Venus; Closer; Team America: World Police; I Heart Huckabees; School of Rock; The Hours; Iris; The Royal Tenenbaums; Zoolander; Sleepy Hollow; Wonder Boys; Bringing Out the Dead; South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut; The Truman Show; In & Out; Ransom; The First Wives Club; Clueless; Nobody’s Fool; ... read more
Stu Satalof Trumpet
Les Scott Woodwinds
Ron Sell Horns/Orchestra Contractor
Nina Skriloff Company Manager
Ira Weitzman LCT Artistic Associate
Ira Weitzman is the Mindich Chair Musical Theater Associate Producer at Lincoln Center Theatre. ... read more
Thad Wheeler Percussion/Assistant Conductor
Xin Zhao Violin

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Awards and Nominations

1994 Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Book of a Musical: James Lapine was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Director - Musical: James Lapine was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Lighting Design: Beverly Emmons was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim won.
Outstanding Music: Stephen Sondheim won.
Outstanding Musical: Passion won.
Outstanding Orchestration: Jonathan Tunick won.
Outstanding Set Design: Andrianne Lobel was nominated but did not win.

1994 The Hewes Awards
Lighting Design: Beverly Emmons won.

1994 Tony Awards
Best Book of a Musical: James Lapine won.
Best Costume Design: Jane Greenwood was nominated but did not win.
Best Direction of a Musical: James Lapine was nominated but did not win.
Best Lighting Design: Beverly Emmons was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Scott Rudin won.
Best Musical: Roger Berlind won.
Best Musical: Capital Cities/ABC won.
Best Musical: The Shubert Organization won.
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre: Stephen Sondheim won.

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