Cast
Tony Hunter
Scott Bakula
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. BROADWAY: Romance/ Romance (Tony Award® nomination), Marilyn: An American Fable (Broadway debut). OFF-BROADWAY: Three Guys Naked from the Waist Down, It’s Better with a Band, Godspell, Broadway Babylon. REGIONAL: Quality of Life, Geffen Playhouse; Shenandoah, Ford’s Theatre; No Strings, LA Reprise!; Nite Club Confidential, LA and Boston; Magic To Do, Cincinnati Playhouse. TELEVISION: Quantum Leap (Golden Globe Award, Emmy® nomination), Star Trek: Enterprise, Boston Legal, The New Adventures of Old Christine, Designing Women, Murphy Brown,Tom Clancy’s Net Force, Bachelor’s Baby, Papa’s Angels, What Girls Learn. FILM: American Beauty, Necessary Roughness, Lord of Illusions, Life as a House,
Mi Familia/My Family, Major League: Back to the Minors, A Passion to Kill, Sibling Rivalry, Cat’s Don’t Dance . CONCERTS: Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center Honors, Ford’s Theatre, Hollywood Bowl.
Ensemble
Jacob ben Widmar
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. MUSCIAL THEATRE: Original Company of White Christmas, LA, Detroit and Boston; Production tenor in Singin’ in the Rain, Goodspeed Opera House; Hortensio in Kiss Me Kate, The Music Man, Hello Dolly! and more, Sacramento Music Circus; On the Town, Reprise! Broadway’s Best; Billy Lawlor in 42nd Street (Robbie Award nomination), Mark in A Chorus Line, AMT of San Jose. EDUCATION: BFA in music, dance, theater, Brigham Young University.
Male Swing
Brandon Bieber
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. NATIONAL TOUR: Annie. REGIONAL: The Pajama Game, Hello Dolly!, Oklahoma!, Seven Brides..., Annie Get Your Gun, 42nd Street, The Music Man, Annie, Crazy for You, Showboat, Fiddler on the Roof, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Peter Pan, A Chorus Line, Evita Brigadoon, Singin’ in the Rain, Muny; Bye, Bye Birdie, Stages St. Louis; Beauty and the Beast, Grease, 42nd Street, Seven Brides..., PCLO. TV: One Life to Live. EDUCATION/ TRAINING: BFA, Musical Theater, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music.
Swing
Angie Canuel
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. Broadway: The Producers. Regional: Mercury, Wings Theatre; Little Me, Evita, Damn Yankees, She Loves Me, Drayton Festival Theatre; Me and My Girl, King’s Wharf Theatre; Spirit of a Nation, Janis Dunning; TV/FILM: The Producers The Musical, One Life to Live, Straight Ahead, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Bollywood/Hollywood, We Will Not Forget. TRAINING: American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Ryerson University (Theatre/Dance).
Ensemble
Robin Campbell
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. NEW YORK: Stairway to Paradise, City Center Encores!; My Fair Lady, Lincoln Center with the New York Philharmonic; Sir Paul McCartney’s Ecce Cor Meum (US premiere), Carnegie Hall; Grendel (dir. Julie Taymor), Lincoln Center; Jungle Juice, Upright Citizens Brigade. REGIONAL/TOURS: Original company of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, A Chorus Line, Cabaret, Crazy For You. RECORDINGS: Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, On the Transmigration of Souls with the New York Philharmonic (9/11 Tribute, won three Grammys and Pulitzer Prize). TRAINING/ EDUCATION: Graduated phi beta kappa from Columbia University. Many thanks to Christopher Freer and Binder Casting. Love to my family and my B. www.robin-campbell.com.
Ensemble
Rachel Coloff
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. Broadway: Candide, Urinetown, Fiddler on the Roof, Lestat. Off-Broadway: Urinetown, Das Barbecu, Tip-Toes, Pardon My English, My Fair Lady, Face the Music. Regional: My Fair Lady, McCarter Theatre; Fiddler on the Roof, Fulton Theatre; Urinetown, St. Louis Rep; Camelot, The Berkshire Theatre Festival; Sunday in the Park with George, Seattle Repertory Theatre.
Female Ensemble
Dylis Croman
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. BROADWAY: A Chorus Line (Standby Cassie/ Sheila) , Sweet Charity (u/s Charity), Oklahoma!, Thou Shalt Not, Fosse (Trumpet solo). NATIONAL TOUR: Movin’ Out (Brenda), Thoroughly Modern Millie, Fosse, Chicago, Applause. REGIONAL: Kiss Me Kate, Theatre Under The Stars; Cats, California Music Theatre; No Strings, ENCORES!; Applause, Papermill Playhouse; Gregory Hines in Concert, Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center. TV: Guiding Light (Andrea Daniels). Danced with Feld Ballets, New York.
Gabrielle Gerard
Mara Davi
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. Broadway: The Drowsy Chaparone (Janet Van de Graaff), A Chorus Line (Maggie Winslow). New York: Of Thee I Sing (Miss Emily Benson), City Center Encores!; The Princess Bride (Princess Buttercup), Reading. Tour: Peggy Sawyer in 42nd Street (America and Japan). Regional: Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, Wang Center, Boston; Dames at Sea (Ruby), Baby (Lizzie), Gypsy (Louise), and George M! (Josie Cohan).
Male Ensemble/us Tony
Nicolas Dromard
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. Broadway: Mary Poppins (Bert u/s), The Boy From Oz, Oklahoma!. National Tour: Wicked (Fiyero u/s), Mamma Mia!. Toronto: Hairspray (Link & Corny u/s), Mamma Mia!. Other Credits: Big Deal in West Side Story, Stratford Festival of Canada; Tulsa in Gypsy, Arkansas Repertory Theatre. Mille Merci to my parents for their undying love and support.
Hal Meadows/us Jeffrey
Benjamin Howes
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. OFF-Broadway: [title of show], Vineyard Theatre; The Charity That Began At Home, Mint Theater Co; Veronique, Pecadillo Theatre. AUSTRALIAN THEATRE: Les Miserables, Cameron Mackintosh; Beauty and the Beast, Walt Disney Productions; Little Shop of Horrors, David Atkins Enterprises; Grease, Gordon Frost Organisation; Hedda Gabler, Zenith Theatre. REGIONAL: A Christmas Carol, North Shore Music Theatre; Singin’ in the Rain, Flat Rock Playhouse; Little Shop of Horrors, Lady Be Good, A Funny Thing...Forum, Skylight Opera Theatre; Route 66, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre. TV: One Life to Live, Law & Order: Criminal Intent. TRAINING: BFA, University of NSW; Conservatorium of Sydney.
Female Ensemble
Cara Kjellman
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. Cara is thrilled to be performing at The Old Globe for the first time! BROADWAY: Broadway revival of 42nd Street (original cast); She is also working on the upcoming Broadway production of Billy Elliot. NEW YORK: Face the Music (original recording); Of Thee I Sing, Encores!; Medea in Athens. REGIONAL: White Christmas, Boston, St. Paul, San Francisco, MUNY. TV: Guiding Light, and several television and radio commercials. Education: MMC and The Atlantic Theater Company. Much gratitude MDKBB!
Paul Byrd
Sebastian La Cause
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. Recently starred as Marco in The Kennedy Center revival of Carnival and will appear in Dreamworks 2008 release, Ghost Town. Broadway: Once Upon a Mattress, Chicago, Minnelli on Minnelli (cast album), The Rocky Horror Show (cast album). NATIONAL TOUR: Spider Woman. Regional: Take Me Out, Caldwell Theatre; She Loves Me, Arena Stage; West Side Story, Paramount Theatre (Austin Critic’s Circle nomination); Fascinating Rhythm, Hartford Stage. OFF-BROADWAY: Wingman, Altered Stages; Edenville, Emerging Artists Theatre Company; Tiger by the Tail, Wings Theatre Company; Tooth and Claw, The Bus to Buenos Aires, Ensemble Studio Theatre; Competing Narratives, Barrow Group Theater. FILM/TV: Chicago, Showgirls, Boogie Nights, Eraser, Sister Act II, and the award-winning short Penny Dreadful; All My Children, One Life to Live and Johnny Zero. www.sebastianlacause.com
Lily Marton
Beth Leavel
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. BROADWAY: The Drowsy Chaperone (Tony Award®/ Drama Desk and Outer Critic Circle awards), 42nd Street (Original Company and Revival), The Civil War, Showboat, Crazy for You. NATIONAL TOUR: 42nd Street, Grease. OFF-BROADWAY: Lone Star Love, Broadway Jukebox, John Houseman Theatre; The Jazz Singer, Jewish Repertory Theatre; An Unfinished Song, Provincetown Playhouse; Promises, Promises, Applause, Equity Library Theatre. REGIONAL: The Drowsy Chaperone, Ahmanson Theatre; A Little Night Music, The Pajama Game, Pittsburgh CLO; Annie, Songs for a New World, Helen Hayes Performing Arts Center; The Civil War, Alley Theatre; Kudzu, Ford’s Theatre, Gershwin’s Fascinating Rhythm, Hartford Stage; Funny Girl, North Carolina Theatre. FILM/TV: Ryan’s Hope, Kennedy Center Honors Ginger Rogers – 1992, 42nd Street and numerous commericals. TRAINING/ EDUCATION: MFA in Acting, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Jeffrey Cordova
Patrick Page
THE OLD GLOBE: Cyrano De Bergerac, Twelfth Night, Pogo Poole in The Pleasure of His Company, Jeffrey Cordova in Dancing in the Dark (San Diego Critics Circle “Craig Noel” Award). Broadway: Henry VIII in A Man for All Seasons (Outer Critics Circle nomination), The Grinch in Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Scar in The Lion King, Decius Brutus in Julius Caesar (with Denzel Washington), Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast, Marley in A Christmas Carol, The Kentucky Cycle. OFF-BROADWAY: Title role in Rex, Richard II. Regional: Macbeth in Macbeth and Iago in Othello (Helen Hayes Award) at The Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC; Sergius in Arms and the Man at Long Wharf; Henry V, Oberon, Richard III at Pioneer Theatre Company; plus leading roles (including Hamlet, Brutus, Mercutio, Benedick, Richard II, Dracula, Antony, etc.) at Seattle, Indiana and Missouri Reps, ACT, Cincinnati Playhouse, Arizona Theatre Company, Oregon, New York, Utah, Alabama Shakespeare Festivals, and many more. Playwright: Swansong (Off-Broadway, Kennedy Center, Seattle, etc.). TV/FILM: Law & Order: SVU, One Life to Live, All My Children, The Substance of Fire. Favorite Role: Husband to Paige Davis. www.patrickpageonline.com.
Male Ensemble/us Paul
Adam Perry
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. BROADWAY/NEW YORK: Wicked, The Most Happy Fella, Last Dance, 2006 Tony Awards. NATIONAL TOUR: Sweet Charity, Cats. REGIONAL: State Farm Industrial; Best Little Whorehouse in Texas; Chicago, Oklahoma!, Seaside Music Theatre; The Lost Colony. EDUCATION/ TRAINING: BFA, Performing Arts, Western Kentucky University.
Male Ensemble
Eric Santagata
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. BROADWAY: The Apple Tree. National Tour: The Boy Friend, Casper: The Musical (with Chita Rivera). New York: Stairway to Paradise, Face the Music, City Center Encores!; REGIONAL: Little Shop of Horrors, Westchester Broadway Theatre; Singin’ in the Rain, Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma; White Christmas, Hummingbird Theatre (Toronto); The Boy Friend, Goodspeed Opera House; Hello Dolly!, Paper Mill Playhouse; Dames at Sea, Riverside Theatre; How to Save the World..., NYMF; Miss Saigon, Dreamgirls, The Music Man, Me and My Girl, Funny Girl, Singin’ in the Rain, Guys and Dolls, Pittsburgh CLO. EDUCATION/ TRAINING: BFA, Musical Theatre, University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music.
Female Ensemble
Kiira Schmidt
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. NEW YORK: Stairway to Paradise, NY City Center. REGIONAL: Mame, The Kennedy Center; Irving Berlin's White Christmas, The Wang Center; The Fox Theater; Sweet Charity, Gateway Playhouse; Chicago, Riverside Theater; West Side Story, Barrington Stage; Fulton Opera House. EDUCATION/ TRAINING: B.F.A. Elon University, NC.
Male Ensemble/ us Hal, Lester
Branch Woodman
BROADWAY DEBUT: Crazy for You. (Mingo) NEW YORK: Disappearing Act (original cast); Out of this World (Mercury); Dear World; Patti Lupone’s Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda (Carnegie debut). NATIONAL TOUR: Big, the Musical (Lipton, Assistant Choreographer). REGIONAL: She Loves Me (Tango Dancer), Paper Mill Playhouse; George M (Archie), Call Me Madam (Senator Brockbank) Goodspeed; The Cocoanuts (Eddie), Actors Theatre of Louisville; Dames at Sea (Lucky), Studio Arena; My Way, Milwaukee Rep; White Christmas (Phil Davis), Chicago (Billy), Smokey Joe’s Café, Skylight Opera Theatre; Bat Boy (Dr. Parker), Birmingham Summerfest Theatre; HMS Pinafore, Arizona Theatre Company. LOCAL CREDITS: The Candlelight Pavilion, Fullerton CLO, Musical Theatre West, Performance Riverside, Los Angeles revival of A Chorus Line. Also, credits as Director, Choreographer, Musical Director. Recordings, too! A proud third generation Southern California native, Mr. Woodman is making his Old Globe debut.
Female Ensemble
Ashley Yeater
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. Broadway: The Producers (Usherette). NATIONAL TOUR: Chicago (Hunyak), The Producers (Usherette), Footloose (Ariel) , Cats (Bombalurina). TV/FILM: Grace and the Storm, Plastic People, Guiding Light, Today.
Team
Book by
Douglas Carter Beane
Douglas Carter Beane is delighted to have recently opened the musical Xanadu on Broadway to rave reviews. His play The Little Dog Laughed opened last season on Broadway where it was nominated for the Tony Award and received the GLAAD Media Award and the HX for Best Play. His other plays include As Bees in Honey Drown (Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award), Music from a Sparkling Planet and The Country Club. He wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of his play Advice from a Caterpillar which won Aspen Comedy Festival’s best feature. His film To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar was produced by Steven Spielberg, was the number one film in America for a month and is now a television favorite. The Big Time, Beane’s first musical, received great reviews last year. Fascinated by non-traditional forms of theater, Beane has written the revues White Lies and Mondo Drama, and last season a live theatrical soap opera, The Cartells. As artistic director of the New York theatre company Drama Dept, Beane produced over 40 productions, including acclaimed revivals of As Thousands Cheer, June Moon and The Torchbearers and world premiere works by Paul Rudnick, David Sedaris and Wendy Wasserstein. His new play, Don’t Follow Me, I’m Lost, Too will open next season in New York and he is currently developing a television series for producer Lorne Michaels. He resides in New York City with his partner, composer Lewis Flinn, their son, Cooper, and daughter Gabrielle.
Adapted from the screenplay by
Betty Comden and Adolph Green
Music By
Arthur Schwartz
A former educator and attorney, composer Arthur Schwartz began his career in the 1920s and remained active for some six decades, crafting lilting, memorable melodies for such standards as “I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan," “That's Entertainment" and “Dancing in the Dark". Ironically, Schwartz was not encouraged by his family in his musical interest. Schwartz secretly taught himself how to play the piano and by age 14 was accompanying silent films at the Cortelyou Movie Emporium in his native Brooklyn. He completed his studies at New York University and Columbia University. While working on his law degree, Schwartz taught English to high school students and pursued composing songs as a hobby. During the summer of 1924, Schwartz spent time working as a counselor in the Adirondacks where he met lyricist Lorenz Hart, and the pair soon collaborated on songs for camp shows. Schwartz also became friendly with composer George Gershwin who provided encouragement. While not abandoning law, he continued to pen songs, several of which began to find placement in revues like “The Grand Street Follies."At Hart's insistence, Schwartz took a year off from his successful legal practice and quickly caught the attention of producer Tom Weatherly who hired him to compose the score for a Broadway revue. Weatherly introduced Schwartz to the man who was to become perhaps his best remembered collaborator -- Howard Dietz, a native New Yorker who was a classmate of Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II. In 1931, Schwartz and Dietz were asked to compose a complete score for a musical, the revue The Band Wagon, a vehicle for Fred and Adele Astaire. The Astaires shone in their dance numbers (like “Hoops") but the standout song was “Dancing in the Dark," sung by John Barker and danced to by Tilly Losch. Often hailed for his craftsmanship and the beauty of his melodies, Schwartz was awarded the second annual ASCAP/ Richard Rodgers Award (shared with Harold Arlen) just prior to his 1984 death f
Lyrics by
Howard Dietz
Howard Dietz was born in New York City on September 8, 1896. He briefly studied journalism at Columbia University, and then began working in advertising. After a stint in the Navy, he returned to advertising for several movie firms, serving as publicity director for Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and later as director of advertising and publicity for MGM, a position he held for over 30 years. In 1923, Dietz wrote the lyrics for an Arthur Samuels melody called “Alibi Baby," which was a hit in W.C. Fields’ stage show, Poppy. Over the next few years, Dietz collaborated on several Broadway shows, including Dear Sir (1924) with Jerome Kern, and the revue Merry-Go-Round (1927). Dietz began his long collaboration with composer Arthur Schwartz in 1929 with the Broadway production of The Little Show (1929), which included the hit song, “I Guess I’ll Have to Change My Plan.” Their other notable songs include "Something to Remember You By" and “The Moment I Saw You” from Three’s a Crowd (1930), “Dancing in the Dark" from The Band Wagon (1931), "Alone Together" from Flying Colors (1932), "You and the Night and the Music" from Revenge with Music (1934), "By Myself," "Triplets," and "I See Your Face Before Me" from Between the Devil (1938). After 1938, Dietz and Schwartz dissolved their partnership for over a decade and Dietz continued his work for MGM, while also writing material for radio and television. He collaborated with Vernon Duke in 1944 on Sadie Thompson, which introduced the song “The Love I Long For." In 1948, Dietz again teamed with Schwartz to write the score for Inside USA, and their last two Broadway scores were The Gay Life (1961), starring Barbara Cook, and Jenny (1963), starring Mary Martin. Dietz served as director of ASCAP from 1959 to 1961, and wrote an autobiography, “Dancing in the Dark," in 1974.
Choreographer
Warren Carlyle
Off-Broadway: Stairway to Paradise, Encores! at City Center; You Again, NY Fringe; Working, Zipper; Slut!, ATA; Roundabout Gala 2006. US Regional: A Tale of Two Cities, Asolo Theatre; Mame, Kennedy Center; The Pirates of Penzance, Paper Mill Playhouse and Goodspeed; The Bakers Wife, Goodspeed; Pageant,Second City. In his native England, Me and My Girl (UK Tour, director as well); The Goodbye Girl, (1st national tour); Pageant, Moving On (Sondheim); Scrooge (European tour). Film & Television: The Tourist (20th Century Fox), Hope and Faith (ABC), An Evening at the Boston Pops (PBS), Elton John's Made in England video. As Associate Choreographer for Susan Stroman: The Producers (Broadway & film), Oklahoma! (Broadway), Center Stage (film). Resident Director/Choreographer: Jolson (London/ Toronto), Fosse (London), Oklahoma!
(London). Upcoming: Juno (Encores! at City Center).
Directed by
Gary Griffin
Gary Griffin made his Broadway debut with the hit musical The Color Purple. Also in New York, Griffin has directed The Apple Tree, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Pardon My English and The New Moon for City Center Encores! and Beautiful Thing at the Cherry Lane Theatre. His production of Pacific Overtures was seen at London's Donmar Warehouse and received the Olivier Award for Outstanding Musical Production. He is Associate Artistic Director of the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, where he has directed A Little Night Music and Sunday in the Park with George. His production of My Fair Lady played at the McCarter Theatre and Hartford Stage after its debut at Chicago's Court Theatre. He has received eight Joseph Jefferson Awards and has twice been named a "Chicagoan of the Year in the Arts" by the Chicago Tribune.
Scenic Design
John Lee Beatty
THE OLD GLOBE: Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Redwood Curtain. Broadway: The Color Purple, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Rabbit Hole, Doubt, The Odd Couple, Chicago, Wonderful Town, Dinner at Eight, Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune, Mornings at Seven, Proof, Footloose,The Little Foxes, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, A Delicate Balance, The Heiress, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Anna Christie, Redwood Curtain, The Sisters Rosensweig, The Most Happy Fella, Penn and Teller (twice), Burn This, Ain’t Misbehavin’ (twice), Talley’s Folly, Fifth of July, Crimes of the Heart. Off-Broadway: Sylvia, The Substance of Fire, Lips Together, Teeth Apart, The Road to Mecca, Song of Singapore, A Life in the Theatre, The Miss Firecracker Contest, 32 seasons at ManhattanTheatre Club and Circle Rep, 15 seasons at City Center Encores!. Credits also at major regional theatres, and in film, opera and TV. Recipient of the Tony, Obie, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards; member of the Theatre Hall of Fame. Graduate of Brown University and the Yale School of Drama.
Costume Design
David Woolard
THE OLD GLOBE: The Sisters Rosensweig, Dinner with Friends, Damn Yankees. Broadway: The Farnsworth Invention, Ring of Fire, All Shook Up, 700 Sundays, The Smell of the Kill, The Rocky Horror Show (2001 Tony Award nomination), Voices in the Dark, The Who’s Tommy (1993 Tony and Olivier Award nominations), Bells Are Ringing, Marlene, Wait Until Dark, Horton Foote’s The Young Man from Atlanta, Damn Yankees and A Few Good Men. He has designed for numerous off-Broadway, regional theaters and opera. Recent credits include Curvy Widow in San Francisco and Dividing The Estate. With his partner Gary Field, he started Career Gear, a nonprofit organization that provides work-appropriate clothing and follow-up support to men graduating from job retraining programs.
Lighting Design
Ken Billington
Ken is currently represented on Broadway with Sunday in the Park with George and Chicago as well as the touring productions of The Drowsy Chaperone, Chicago, Annie, High School Musical and Riverdance for which he the lighting supervisor. Ken has designed over 80 Broadway and 70 off-Broadway shows and has been honored with seven Tony award nominations and received the 1997 Tony Award for his work on Chicago. His Tony nominations include: The Drowsy Chaperone (2006), End of the World (1984), Foxfire (1982), Sweeney Todd (1979), Working (1978), and The Visit (1973).
In addition, millions of audience members have seen Ken’s work at New York's Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular for 26 seasons, Disneyland's nighttime extravaganza Fantasmic!, the long-running Las Vegas spectacular Jubilee!, The Waterfront Village at Sea World of Florida and
Shamu Rocks! for Seaworld Orlando and San Diego.
Sound Design
Brian Ronan
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. Brian has designed the Broadway productions of Grease, Curtains, Spring Awakening, Grey Gardens, The Pajama Game, All Shook Up, 12 Angry Men, Master Harold & the Boys, The Look of Love, The Boys from Syracuse, Fortune’s Fool, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, The Rainmaker, You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, Little Me, Cabaret, Triumph of Love, 1776 and State Fair. Regionally Brian has designed McCarter Theatre’s A Christmas Carol; Manhattan Theatre Club’s Wild Party, Time & Again and Newyorkers; Into the Woods, Ordway of St. Paul; Bleacher Bums, Royal George Theatre of Chicago; A Little Princess, Theatre Works of Palo Alto. Off- Broadway designs include 10 Million Miles and Bug for which he won the Obie and Lucille Lortel awards.
Music Supervisor/Arranger
Eric Stern
THE OLD GLOBE: Into the Woods. BROADWAY: Xanadu, Follies, Music Man, Parade, Candide, Show Boat, Once Upon a Mattress, The King and I, Carousel (Lincoln Center), Gypsy (Tyne Daly), Sunday in the Park with George, Rags and more. REGIONAL: Merrily We Roll Along (Kennedy Center); Marty, Zhivago, Palm Beach and many more. CONCERTS & RECORDINGS: Barbara Cook, Dawn Upshaw, Audra McDonald, Mandy Patinkin, Betty Buckley, Fred Hersch, Leonard Bernstein's New York, Lady Be Good!, Pardon My English, Oh, Kay, The Irish Tenors, and many, many more. AWARDS: Emmy, Grammy, 3 Gramophone Awards.
Don York
(Music Director)
On Broadway Mr. York conducted or arranged I Love My Wife, Little Me, Can-Can, 5-6-7-8 Dance!, Sunset, The Marriage of Figaro and most recently Sweet Charity with Christina Applegate. He arranged and conducted Bette Midler’s Clams on the Half Shell Revue and Live at Last, conducted national tours of Beauty and the Beast, Fosse, Hello Dolly!, The Ann-Margret Show and The Producers, and played or arranged for Hall & Oates, Maureen McGovern, Judy Collins, Esther Phillips, Elvin Jones, Nick Brignola and Lee Konitz. As musical director of The Paul Taylor Dance Company, Mr. York conducted 18 New York seasons as well as many engagements worldwide. Two of his seven Taylor scores are represented on PBS’s Dance In America. He was resident guest conductor for the New York City Ballet for eight seasons, and composed and conducted for Miami City Ballet, Mark Morris Dance Group, Jose Limon Company, BalletMet, Milwaukee Ballet and Ballet Marseilles/ Roland Petit.
Orchestrations
Larry Hochman
Tony nominations: Fiddler on the Roof, A Class Act, Monty Python’s Spamalot (also Drama Desk nomination). Broadway: Jane Eyre, The Gershwins’ Fascinating Rhythm, Late Nite Comic. Regional: 23 shows including Señor Discretion (Loesser premiere). Off-Broadway: A Woman of Will, 4 others. Film: Cinderella, Lady and the Tramp II, Geppetto, Annie, ...Mattress, A Christmas Carol, 12 others. Composer: The Wonder Pets (Nickelodeon), Little Mermaid II (additional music), three films, Amazing Stories, documentaries, In Memoriam (symphonic poem publ. E.B. Marks). Contributing orchestrator: Little Mermaid, Music Man, Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life, King David, five other Broadway shows. Recordings and concerts: Not the Messiah (Eric Idle/John Du Prez), Mandy Patinkin, Audra McDonald, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Betty Buckley, Michael Feinstein, Barry Manilow, Dawn Upshaw, André de Shield, Marrin Mazzie, Maury Yeston, Jean-Yves Thibaudet. Boston Pops, San Francisco Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Lincoln Center’s American Songbook, Big Apple Circus. www.LarryHochman.net
Music Director
Don York
On Broadway Mr. York conducted or arranged I Love My Wife, Little Me, Can-Can, 5-6-7-8 Dance!, Sunset, The Marriage of Figaro and most recently Sweet Charity with Christina Applegate. He arranged and conducted Bette Midler’s Clams on the Half Shell Revue and Live at Last, conducted national tours of Beauty and the Beast, Fosse, Hello Dolly!, The Ann-Margret Show and The Producers, and played or arranged for Hall & Oates, Maureen McGovern, Judy Collins, Esther Phillips, Elvin Jones, Nick Brignola and Lee Konitz. As musical director of The Paul Taylor Dance Company, Mr. York conducted 18 New York seasons as well as many engagements worldwide. Two of his seven Taylor scores are represented on PBS’s Dance In America. He was resident guest conductor for the New York City Ballet for eight seasons, and composed and conducted for Miami City Ballet, Mark Morris Dance Group, Jose Limon Company, BalletMet, Milwaukee Ballet and Ballet Marseilles/ Roland Petit.
Stage Manager
Daniel S. Rosokoff
has stage managed several shows at The Old Globe including Working, Dancing in the Dark and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. His Broadway credits include Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, By Jeeves (by Alan Ayckbourn and Andrew Lloyd Webber) and Swinging on a Star. His Off Broadway credits include Mr. Goldwyn starring Alan King and touring credits include Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Full Monty, Barry Manilow's Copacabana, Jolson: The Musical and Joseph and the Amazing Techincolor Dreamcoat. His regional credits include productions at Goodspeed Musicals, Long Wharf Theatre, The Old Globe, Kennedy Center, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Geffen Playhouse, Pittsburgh Public and Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera. Mr. Rosokoff is a proud member of Actors' Equity Association.
Assistant Stage Manager
Tracy Skoczelas
THE OLD GLOBE: Sight Unseen, Dancing in the Dark, A Catered Affair, Hay Fever, Two Trains Running, The Four of Us, The Times They Are A-Changin’, Summer Shakespeare Festivals (‘04 - ‘06, ‘08), Vincent in Brixton, I Just Stopped By to See the Man, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Food Chain, Two Sisters and a Piano, Bus Stop, Rough Crossing, Much Ado About Nothing, Julius Caesar, Dirty Blonde, Pentecost, Loves & Hours, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, Splendour, Pericles, All My Sons, Compleat Female Stage Beauty, Betrayal, Smash, Memoir, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (‘01-’07), Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Henry V, The Trojan Women. EDUCATION: BFA, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Assistant Stage Manager
Julie Baldauff
THE OLD GLOBE: 6 seasons and over 20 productions. Broadway: The Wedding Singer, I Am My Own Wife, King Lear, Henry IV parts 1 and 2, The Play What I Wrote, The Full Monty, Fool Moon, The Little Foxes, The Rehearsal, Summer and Smoke, Getting Away with Murder. OFF-BROADWAY: Hair (40th Anniversary Concert at the Delacort), You Never Can Tell, Pride’s Crossing, Arms and the Man, Hapgood, Cather County. REGIONAL: Garden of Earthly Delights, American Dance Festival; I Am My Own Wife, Dublin, Krakow, London; The Children of Herakles, European Tour; Fool Moon, Kennedy Center.
Casting By
Jay Binder Casting
Jay Binder, CSA/Sara Schatz (Casting) Jack Bowdan, CSA, Mark Brandon & Nikole Vallins have cast over 70 Broadway shows including A Chorus Line, Gypsy, The Thirty Nine Steps, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, The Story Of My Life, Is He Dead?, Inherit The Wind, Journey’s End, Butley, Virginia Woolf, Sweet Charity, Wonderful Town, Movin’ Out, 42nd Street, Music Man, Iceman Cometh, Charlie Brown, Sound of Music, Lion King, Beauty & the Beast, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Chicago, King and I, Damn Yankees, Lost in Yonkers, Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, Goodbye Girl. Film: Hairspray, Dreamgirls, Chicago, upcoming Nine. Eight–time Artios Award winner. They are thrilled to return to The Old Globe.
Assistant Choreographer
Parker Esse
Associate Lighting Designer
Phillip Rosenberg
New York Lighting Assistant
Cory Pattak
Moving Light Programmer
Eric Lotze
Assistant Sound Design
Mike Farfalla
Synthesizer Programmer
Mark Hartshorn
Fight Choreographer
George Yé
Stage Management Intern
Kelly Glasow
Stage Management Intern
Alicia Lerner
