Cast
Young Molly
Jenni Barber
Jenni Barber was previously seen at the Globe in Burt Bacharach and Steven Sater’s original musical Some Lovers. Her theatre credits include Sam Mendes’ Bridge Project productions of As You Like It and The Tempest (Brooklyn Academy of Music/The Old Vic), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Broadway), From Up Here (Manhattan Theatre Club), Cactus Flower (Off Broadway, Westside Theatre), The Wii Plays (Ars Nova) and The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown (Orange County Performing Arts Center). Her television credits include “Smash,” “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” and Lisa on the multiple-Emmy Award-winning “The Electric Company” (PBS). She is a graduate of the University of Michigan School of Music.
Ben
Jason Danieley
Jason Danieley has appeared on Broadway in Next to Normal, Curtains (Outer Critics Circle Award nomination), Candide (Theatre World Award, Drama Desk Award nomination), The Full Monty (also West End). With City Center Encores!, he has appeared in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and Strike Up the Band. His Off Broadway credits include Dream True, Trojan Women and Floyd Collins. His regional credits include The Full Monty (The Old Globe), The Highest Yellow (Helen Hayes Award), Casino Paradise, Brigadoon, 110 in the Shade (Back Stage West Award) and Beauty (La Jolla Playhouse). His tours include Music of the Night, Phantom of the Opera and Hair. He has appeared in the staged concerts of Brigadoon (Broadway), Sondheim: The Birthday Concert (New York Philharmonic/PBS), South Pacific (PBS) and Carousel (both at Carnegie Hall), Candide and Of Thee I Sing/Let ‘em Eat Cake (both with San Francisco Symphony) and, upcoming, The Mikado (Carnegie Hall with American Symphony Orchestra). Mr. Danieley and his wife Marin Mazzie perform in cabaret and concert halls across the country and are frequent guest artists with Boston Symphony, New York Symphony, The Philly Pops and San Francisco Symphony among many others. His albums include Opposite You (duet album with Ms. Mazzie), Jason Danieley and The Frontier Heroes (his rural jazz band) and many original cast albums. www.jasondanieley.com.
Molly
Michelle Duffy
Michelle Duffy happily returns to the Globe, having last performed as Vet in the world premiere of The Boswell Sisters. Since then, she has appeared in over two dozen productions in the states and abroad, originating lead and supporting roles in four other world premieres: Leap of Faith (Ahmanson Theatre), Continental Divide (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), An Italian Straw Hat (South Coast Repertory) and Mask (Pasadena Playhouse). She just completed a great run as Elena in the critically acclaimed West Coast Premiere of Steven Dietz’s Shooting Star (The Colony Theatre Company). Ms. Duffy is the recipient of Ovation, Back Stage Garland and Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards for Lead Actress as Pistache in Can-Can (Pasadena Playhouse), Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire (American Conservatory Theater) and Dot/Marie in Sunday in the Park with George (TheatreWorks), respectively. Her other recent credits include Olivia in Legacy of Light (Cleveland Play House) and Beggar Woman in Sweeney Todd (Musical Theatre West, Ovation nomination). Her latest television appearances include a recurring role on “Desperate Housewives” and guest starring roles on “The Closer” and “House M.D.” Proud member of Actors’ Equity for 20 years.
Young Ben
Andrew Mueller
Andrew Mueller is beyond thrilled to make his Globe debut for such an exciting project. From Chicago, he last appeared in the world premiere of For the Boys (Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire). His other Chicago credits include Huckleberry Finn in Big River (Bohemian Theatre Ensemble, Non-Equity Jeff Award for Actor in a Principal Role – Musical), Amiens in As You Like It (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), Charley Kringas in Merrily We Roll Along (extension, The Music Theatre Company) and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: A New Folk Musical (Filament Theatre Ensemble). Proud new member of Actor’s Equity.
Team
Book and Lyrics
Steven Sater
Steven Sater won Tony Awards for Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score, the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Lyrics, the 2008 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album and the 2010 Olivier Award and Critic’s Circle Theatre Award in London for Best New Musical for Spring Awakening. His plays include the long-running Carbondale Dreams, Perfect for You, Doll (Rosenthal Prize), Umbrage (Steppenwolf New Play Prize), A Footnote to the Iliad (New York Stage and Film), Asylum (Naked Angels) and a reconceived musical version of Shakespeare’s The Tempest (London’s Lyric Hammersmith). He has collaborated with Duncan Sheik on Nero (Magic Theatre, New York Stage and Film), The Nightingale (for La Jolla Playhouse, New York Stage and Film), Alice By Heart (commissioned by The National Theatre of London’s Connections Festival) and the critically acclaimed album Phantom Moon (Nonesuch Records). Mr. Sater wrote the script and lyrics for Prometheus Bound with music by Serj Tankian and directed by Diane Paulus, which premiered at American Repertory Theater in March 2011. Additionally, Mr. Sater works as a pop/rock lyricist and a screenwriter (the forthcoming Chitty Chitty Bang Bang remake for Sony Pictures).
Music
Burt Bacharach
Burt Bacharach has helped define the music of the 20th and 21st centuries. His music is as diverse as his audiences, spanning generations and continents, as he is celebrated as a pop culture icon and one of the world’s greatest contemporary composers. Mr. Bacharach’s credits read like the world’s favorite radio station’s playlist: “Alfie,” “Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do),” “Close to You,” “Do You Know the Way to San Jose,” “I Say a Little Prayer,” “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again,” “The Look of Love,” “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head,” “This Guy’s in Love with You,” “Walk on By,” “What the World Needs Now is Love,” “Wishin’ and Hopin’” and “That’s What Friends Are For” are among a few of his 48 Top 10 hits, nine #1 songs, more than 500 compositions and a landmark 50+ year run on the charts. He is the recipient of the 2011 Gershwin Prize for Popular Song from the Library of Congress, following previous winners Paul Simon, Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney. A recipient of three Academy Awards and eight Grammy Awards (including the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award and 1997 Trustees Award with collaborator Hal David), Mr. Bacharach’s music continues to set industry records and creative standards. Mr. Bacharach’s music is always nearby, from helping non-profits raise funds (“That’s What Friends Are For”) to Broadway (Promises, Promises), movies (soundtracks for everything from Austin Powers to Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and Fatal Attraction), scores of new albums and singles each year. His newest CD, When Ronan Met Burt, adds to his list of CDs impacting the international charts.
Director
Will Frears
Will Frears has directed the films Coach, All Saints Day (Winner, Best Narrative Short at the Savannah Film Festival) and Beloved. His Off Broadway credits include Year Zero (Second Stage Theatre Uptown), Still Life (MCC Theater), Rainbow Kiss (The Play Company), The Water’s Edge (Second Stage Theatre), Pen (Playwrights Horizons), Terrorism (The New Group/The Play Company), Omnium Gatherum (Variety Arts Theatre), Where We’re Born and God Hates the Irish (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater), Get What You Need (Atlantic 453) and Kid-Simple (Summer Play Festival). His regional credits include Romeo and Juliet, Bus Stop, The Water’s Edge and A Servant of Two Masters (Williamstown Theatre Festival), The Pillowman (George Street Playhouse), Hay Fever and The Price (CENTERSTAGE), Sleuth (Bay Street Theatre), Our Lady of 121st Street (Steppenwolf Theatre Company) and Omnium Gatherum (Actors Theatre of Louisville). He served as Artistic Director of Yale Cabaret from 1999 to 2000. He is a recipient of the Boris Sagal and Bill Foeller Directing Fellowships and is a contributor to The Paris Review, New York Magazine and The London Review of Books. He is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and the Yale School of Drama and serves on the faculty at Sarah Lawrence College.
Music Supervisor
Lon Hoyt
Lon Hoyt was the music director/conductor for Hairspray on Broadway, as well as the Hairspray movie. He was the music supervisor for the two National Tours, Toronto, Las Vegas, London, Johannesburg and Cologne companies of Hairspray. He was also the music supervisor for Lennon. He was most recently the associate conductor for Catch Me If You Can on Broadway. His other Broadway music director and conductor credits include Hair, The Rocky Horror Show, Street Corner Symphony and Footloose. Off Broadway, he has conducted Forever Plaid, Song of Singapore, A Backer’s Audition, Hit the Lights and The Diva is Dismissed. His regional theatre credits include Return to the Forbidden Planet, Blackbirds of Broadway, Calamity Jane, 42nd Street and Anything Goes. As an actor, Mr. Hoyt has appeared in lead roles on Broadway in Tommy, Baby, Leader of the Pack, Starlight Express and Rock ‘N Roll! The First 5,000 Years. He can be heard playing piano for Whoopi Goldberg in the film and on the soundtrack of Boys on the Side. Most recently, he was the music consultant for the Todd Graff film A Joyful Noise, and he arranged and orchestrated songs for another Todd Graff film, Bandslam. Love to the 3Ls.
Musical Staging
Denis Jones
Denis Jones recently choreographed A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and She Loves Me (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Liberty Smith (Ford’s Theatre), Piece of My Heart (New York Stage and Film), POP! (Yale Repertory Theatre), Post Office (Center Theater Group), Band Geeks! (Goodspeed Musicals), Pirates! (Huntington Theatre Company), Honeymoon in Vegas (New York workshop), Meet Me in St Louis and Smokey Joe’s Cafe (Paper Mill Playhouse) and the current National Tour of My Fair Lady. His other credits include Sex and the City 2, The Kennedy Center Honors and “Oprah’s Surprise Spectacular,” as well as national commercials for Staples and Glade. Mr. Jones is the resident choreographer for “The Rosie Show” on OWN. Mr. Jones is pleased to return to The Old Globe where he was the associate choreographer for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and created the role of Buddy “Keno” Walsh in The Full Monty. He is proud to have served as the director of Broadway Bares (’04-’08) benefitting Broadway Cares.
Orchestrator
Jonathan Tunick
Jonathan Tunick (Orchestrator) orchestrated last season’s Some Lovers at The Old Globe. A native New Yorker, Mr. Tunick holds a Masters’ degree from The Juilliard School. He studied clarinet with Joseph Allard and composition with Vittorio Giannini and Leonard Bernstein. He also studied conducting under Jorge Mester and Harold Farberman and is a Fellow of the Conductors Institute. His first major credit, Burt Bacharach’s Promises, Promises, led to a long career as orchestrator of Broadway musicals, notably those of Stephen Sondheim. These include Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures, Sweeney Todd, Merrily We Roll Along, Into the Woods, Passion, A Chorus Line, Nine, Titanic and The Color Purple. His credits as composer, arranger and conductor for film and television include Fort Apache the Bronx, Endless Love, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, The Bird Cage, “Murder, She Wrote,” “Columbo” and “Smash.” He is also the arranger/conductor of recordings with Bernadette Peters, Bette Midler, Judy Collins, Kiri Te Kanawa, Placido Domingo, Neil Diamond, Johnny Mathis, Kate Bush, Barbra Streisand and Paul McCartney. He conducted Company at The Kennedy Center. He is one of only seven persons holding all four major awards: the Grammy, Emmy, Tony and Oscar. In 2009 he was elected to the Theatre Hall of Fame.
Vocal Designer
AnnMarie Milazzo
AnnMarie Milazzo has worked as a composer/lyrisit on a musical Pretty Dead Girl, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival with book by David Henry Hwang, and Sea Change with book by Karen Hartman. Some of her vocal designing credits include Spring Awakening (Broadway, Eugene O’Neill Theater), Next to Normal (Broadway musical, Booth Theater), Bright Lights, Big City (New York Theatre Workshop) and the Paramount feature film The Marc Pease Experience starring Ben Stiller. Her upcoming projects include vocal design for the musical Carrie in New York and a Christmas show in Orlando. Ms. Milazzo wrote the lyrics to Franco Dragone’s Carmen La Gitana, which premiered at La Jolla Playhouse, and also wrote the lyrics for Cirque du Soleil’s Le Rêve at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas. Ms. Milazzo is Grammy Award nominated and is the vocalist for the East Village Opera Company on Decca/Universal Records. She has toured with Angelique Kidjo on the Black Ivory Soul Tour, also singing with Carlos Santana. She has performed on stage with David Bowie, David Johansen of The New York Dolls and Jane Siberry, as well as many others.
Scenic Design
Takeshi Kata
Takeshi Kata has designed the Globe productions of Pig Farm and Welcome to Arroyo’s. His New York credits include Through a Glass Darkly directed by David Leveaux, Dreams of Flying Dreams of Falling, What’s That Smell? The Music of Jacob Sterling, School and Keep Your Pantheon directed by Neil Pepe, The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow directed by Jackson Gay and Port Authority directed by Henry Wishcamper, all with Atlantic Theater Company, Adding Machine and Orson’s Shadow directed by David Cromer, Doris to Darlene directed by Les Waters and BFE directed by Gordon Edelstein at Playwrights Horizons. Regionally, Mr. Kata has worked at Alley Theatre, American Players Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Ford’s Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, Goodman Theatre, Hartford Stage, Kirk Douglas Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Nashville Opera, The Old Globe, Skylight Opera, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival and Yale Repertory Theatre. He has won an OBIE Award and has been nominated for a Drama Desk Award. Mr. Kata is an adjunct faculty member at University of Southern California, School of Theatre.
Costume Design
Jenny Mannis
Jenny Mannis has designed the Globe productions of Whisper House, The Mystery of Irma Vep and Pig Farm. Her New York credits include Wild Animals You Should Know, Spain and In a Dark Dark House (MCC Theater), Urge for Going (The Public Theater), Spirit Control (Manhattan Theatre Club), Edgewise (The Play Company), Port Authority and The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow (Atlantic Theater Company), The Talls, Year Zero, 10 Things To Do Before I Die and Swimming in the Shallows (Second Stage Theatre), The Drunken City (Lortel Award nomination), Pen and Manic Flight Reaction (Playwrights Horizons), Something You Did and The Right Kind of People (Primary Stages) and Dog Sees God (Century Center). Her regional credits include work at The Goodman Theatre, The Old Globe, Barrington Stage Company, Two River Theater Company, The Studio Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Bay Street Theatre and Yale Repertory Theatre. She received her M.F.A. from Yale School of Drama. Upcoming she is designing The Birds at Guthrie Theater.
Lighting Design
Ben Stanton
Ben Stanton designed the Globe production of Six Degrees of Separation. His select New York credits include Angels in America, Parts 1 and 2 (Signature Theatre Company), We Live Here, The Whipping Man (Lortel Award, Drama Desk Award nomination) and Humor Abuse (Manhattan Theatre Club), Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them (The Public Theater), After the Revolution and Three Changes (Playwrights Horizons), Coraline and In a Dark Dark House (MCC Theater), The Metal Children (Vineyard Theatre), Bluebird and Dusk Rings a Bell (Atlantic Theater Company), Light Raise the Roof, Play Yourself (New York Theatre Workshop), Sandra Bernhard: Everything Bad & Beautiful (Daryl Roth Theatre), Walmartopia and Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell (Minetta Lane Theatre), Bachelorette (Second Stage Theatre Uptown), The Coward (LCT3) and Dream of the Burning Boy (Roundabout Underground). Mr. Stanton has designed productions at most of the major American regional theatres. His live concert and tour credits include Sufjan Stevens, Beirut, St. Vincent and David Byrne.
Sound Design
Leon Rothenberg
Leon Rothenberg previously worked at the Globe on Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life as Associate Sound Designer. His other regional credits include Sleeping Beauty Wakes and Herringbone (McCarter Theatre Center, La Jolla Playhouse), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (La Jolla Playhouse) and The Year of Magical Thinking (Intiman Theatre), as well as designs at the Alexander Kasser Theater, REDCAT, Canon Theatre and others. On Broadway Mr. Rothenberg designed Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Tony Award nomination) and Impressionism. Also in New York and Off Broadway he has designed Timon of Athens (The Public Theater), Play Dead (The Players Theatre), On the Levee (LCT3), Diagnosis of a Faun (La Mama), Anyone Can Whistle (City Center Encores!), Fall for Dance (‘08-’11, New York City Center) and others. For Cirque du Soleil Mr. Rothenberg designed Wintuk, which played seasonally at the Theater in Madison Square Garden, and Kooza, currently touring Japan. His film credits include Love is Black Water, My Roommate was a Psychopath, Magnetic Sleep, Terrace 49 and others. klaxson.net.
Casting
Jim Carnahan, CSA
Jim Carnahan, CSA also serves as Roundabout Theatre Company’s Director of Artistic Development. Shows cast for Roundabout include Man and Boy, Anything Goes, Death Takes a Holiday, The Importance of Being Earnest, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Sondheim on Sondheim, Bye Bye Birdie, Waiting for Godot, Sunday in the Park with George, 110 in the Shade, The Pajama Game, 12 Angry Men, Assassins, On the Twentieth Century, Nine, Big River, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg and Cabaret. His other Broadway credits include On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, The Mountaintop, Jerusalem, Arcadia, Elling, The Scottsboro Boys, La Bête, American Idiot, Seagull, Spring Awakening, Boeing-Boeing, Curtains, The Pillowman, La Cage aux Folles, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Democracy, Fiddler on the Roof and Thoroughly Modern Millie. His film credits include Home at the End of the World and Flicka. His television credits include “Glee” (Emmy Award nomination).
Stage Manager
Matthew Silver
Matthew Silver staged managed the Broadway productions of A Life in the Theatre, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Caretaker, James Joyce’s The Dead, The Lonesome West, Race and Speed-the-Plow. His Off Broadway credits include Conversations in Tusculum, Madame Melville, My Life with Albertine, Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants, Ricky Jay: On the Stem, Rodney’s Wife and Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell. He has also staged managed tours of James Joyce’s The Dead, Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants and The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber. Mr. Silver has stage managed special events, regional productions and summer stock. He is a member of and has worked on many, many shows with the Atlantic Theater Company and has stage managed in England and Australia and, before he knew any better, bus and truck. Member of AEA since 1991.
Assistant Stage Manager
Jennifer Wheeler Kahn
Jennifer Wheeler Kahn has her B.F.A. in Stage Management from USC and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. Some of her career highlights include the National Tour of In the Heights, the Off Broadway production of Clara’s Christmas Dreams and regional productions of Allegiance – A New American Musical, the 2012 Summer Shakespeare Festival, Some Lovers, Twelfth Night, Coriolanus, Cyrano de Bergerac, Working and Six Degrees of Separation (The Old Globe), DNA New Work Series, Little Miss Sunshine, Surf Report and Creditors (La Jolla Playhouse), Los Angeles Philharmonic (Walt Disney Concert Hall), Urinetown, Ragtime and Nine (Starlight Musical Theatre),The Who’s Tommy (Ricardo Montalbán Theatre) and many others.
