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The Scarlet Pimpernel - Broadway Creative Team


Production Staff

Nan Knighton Bookwriter
Lyricist
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Baroness Orczy Source Material
(Based on novel)
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Frank Wildhorn Composer
Associate Conductor
Associate Musical Director
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
Pierre Cossette Producer
Ted Forstmann Producer
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
Bill Haber Producer
Andrew Jackness Scenic Designer
Natasha Katz Lighting Designer
Natasha Katz is a New York-based lighting designer. She is a six-time Tony Award winner who has designed extensively for theatre, opera, dance, concerts, and permanent lighting installations around the world. Her recent Broadway credits include: Diana, The Music Man, All My Sons, Burn This, The Prom, Frozen, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Cats, School of Rock, An American in Paris, Aladdin, Skylight, The Glass Menagerie, Once, Follies, The Coast of Utopia: Salvage, and Aida. ... read more
Robert Longbottom Director/Choreographer
Ron Melrose Musical Director
Vocal Music Arranger
Music Direction: Imaginary Friends, Scarlet Pimpernel, Radio City Sinatra, upcoming Caraboo and Waiting for the Moon. Dance/Vocal Arranging: Sweet Smell of Success, Jekyll & Hyde, Perfectly Frank, The Act, Marilyn: An American Fable, Woman of the Year, Cabaret. Composing: Superdimensional Microbabes (upcoming anime-based musical), Fourtune (Off-Broadway), The Silver Swan (NEA Fellowship), three theatrical CDs (The Missing Peace, Early One Morning, Songs I Won’t Be Singing), two Harvard Hasty Pudding shows (Tots in Tinseltown, Bewitched Bayou), a gospel-based Requiem, and songs for church, choir, cabaret, and "Saturday Night Live." Harvard (philosophy), Westminster (choral conducting). ... read more
Kathleen Raitt Producer
Our friend Kathleen died after a valiant battle against cancer today, March 15 at her home in Manhattan. Monday (3/17) and Tuesday's (3/18) New York Times will carry a more detailed obituary. At her request there will be no visiting or services. She was a longtime and much loved member of the Nederlander Organization theatre producing family and counted among her dearest friends producer Carole Haber, writer Frank Wildenhorene, and agent Mickey Rolfe. ... read more
Karl Richardson Sound Designer
Kim Scharnberg Orchestrator
Rick Sordelet 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
Jim Steinmeyer Special Effects Designer

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Awards and Nominations

1998 Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Lyrics: Frank Wildhorn was nominated but did not win.

1998 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Best Broadway Musical: 0 was nominated but did not win.
Best Costume Design: Jane Greenwood was nominated but did not win.
Best Lighting Design: Natasha Katz was nominated but did not win.

1998 Theatre World Awards
Performance: Douglas Sills won.

1998 Tony Awards
Best Musical: Pierre Cossette was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Bill Haber was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Hallmark Entertainment was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Ted Forstmann was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Kathleen Raitt was nominated but did not win.

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