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Marvin Laird Composer
MARVIN LAIRD is the composer of the award-winning Off-Broadway musical, Ruthless!. His collaboration with Joel Paley, the author/lyricist of that show, has been ongoing for 25 years. Their most recent piece, The Yiddish are Coming…! The Yiddish are Coming…! is currently playing regionally throughout North America. Since the 1960s, he has conducted and/or written dance and vocal arrangements for over two dozen Broadway and West End shows, including the award-winning production of Annie Get Your Gun, and the most recent Broadway revival of Gypsy, both starring Bernadette Peters. Laird supplied the music for the Lar Lubovitch ballet, Smile with My ... read more
Joel Paley Bookwriter
Lyricist
Wolfgang Bocksch Producer
Dennis Buck Musical Director
Gail Cooper-Hecht Costume Designer
Pamela Edington Production Stage Manager
Pamela Edington has worked under almost all AEA agreements. Favorite productions include: Coastal Disturbance; The Weir; Collected Stories (with Ms. Uta Hagen); The Green Heart; Three Mo' Tenors; Limonade Tous les Jours;and most recently, Academy forthe Daegu International Arts Festival. ... read more
Gregory Fletcher Stage Manager
Gregory Fletcher is a graduate of California State University at Northridge with a BA in Theater, of Boston University with a MA in Playwriting, and of Columbia University with an MFA in Directing. He works as a freelance AEA stage-manager, playwright, author, and director. As a stage manager, he has worked on over a dozen Off-Broadway productions, a half-dozen regional theater productions, and the national tour of Edward Albee's Three Tall Women. As a director, he's directed over a dozen Off-Off-Broadway productions, plus several university productions. As a playwright, Fletcher has had a dozen Off-Off Broadway productions, including Edenville, My Sister ... read more
Marvin Laird Musical Director
MARVIN LAIRD is the composer of the award-winning Off-Broadway musical, Ruthless!. His collaboration with Joel Paley, the author/lyricist of that show, has been ongoing for 25 years. Their most recent piece, The Yiddish are Coming…! The Yiddish are Coming…! is currently playing regionally throughout North America. Since the 1960s, he has conducted and/or written dance and vocal arrangements for over two dozen Broadway and West End shows, including the award-winning production of Annie Get Your Gun, and the most recent Broadway revival of Gypsy, both starring Bernadette Peters. Laird supplied the music for the Lar Lubovitch ballet, Smile with My ... read more
Jim Lenny Producer
Kim Lang Lenny Producer
David LeShay Press Representative
James Noone Scenic Designer
Joel Paley Director
Kenneth Posner 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
Jeffrey Rathaus Costume Designer
Jeffrey Richards Press Representative
Jeffrey has produced more than 50 shows on and off Broadway and has done press for more than 200 productions. The theatre remains his SO. ... read more
Susan Selig Production Stage Manager
Keith Sherman Press Representative
Tom Sorce Sound Designer

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Awards and Nominations

1993 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Best Off Broadway Musical: 0 won.

1992 Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Director - Musical: Paley was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Lyrics: Joel Paley was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Musical: Ruthless! was nominated but did not win.

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