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	Kevin Cahoon Buster Broadway: The Wedding Singer, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Rocky Horror Show, The Lion King, The Who’s Tommy. Off-Broadway: Roundabout’s The Foreigner (Lortel nomination), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (also San Francisco, Boston, the Edinburgh Festival), MTC’s The Wild Party, Encores’ Hair and Babes In Arms. Regional: the Guthrie, N.Y. Stage and Film, the Berkshire Theatre Festival. Television: Six Degrees, Canterbury’s Law, Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Hope and Faith, AMC’s The Royale. Film: The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, The Thing About My Folks, Sudden Manhattan, the documentaries Whether You Like It Or Not: The True Story of Hedwig and Squeezebox. Kevin, with his band Ghetto Cowboy, received The Out Music Award for their debut album Doll.
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	John Cariani Jason Shimpkin Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof (Tony nomination; Outer Critics Circle Award). Off-Broadway: cul-de-sac (Transport Group), Two Gentlemen of Verona (The Public/NYSF), Modern Orthodox, It's My Party. Recent regional: Williamstown Theatre Festival, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Film: Scotland, PA; Showtime, Kissing Jessica Stein, Robot Stories, Down. Television: Forensics tech Beck on Law & Order, Six Degrees, Ed. Playwright: Almost, Maine.
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	Rachel Dratch Beula Cast member of Saturday Night Live for seven seasons. Second City Mainstage in Chicago for four revues: Pinata Full of Bees, Citizen Gates, Paradigm Lost and Promise Keepers, Losers Weepers. For the latter two she received the Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Actress in a Revue. Other live comedy includes Improvolympic in Chicago, Dratch and Fey at Second City, Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre and Aspen Comedy Festival, Assscat 3000 at UCB Theatre and Celebrity Autobiography at the Triad in New York. Television: King of Queens, Monk, Frasier, 30 Rock, Wizards of Waverly Place, and a dancey-dance on Yo Gabba Gabba. Film: Down With Love, Click, I Hate Valentines Day, Spring Breakdown (which recently screened at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival), and the upcoming My Life in Ruins.
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	Christopher Fitzgerald Billy Minsky Broadway: Young Frankenstein (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Award nominations), Wicked, Amour (Drama Desk Award nomination). Off-Broadway: Gutenberg! The Musical! (Actor’s Playhouse), Stairway to Paradise, Babes In Arms and Broadway Bash (City Center Encores!), Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (Lincoln Center), Fully Committed (Cherry Lane Theatre), Saturday Night (Second Stage, Drama Desk Award nomination), Wise Guys (N.Y. Theatre Workshop), Corpus Christi (Manhattan Theatre Club) and The Cripple of Inishmaan (Public Theater).  Regional: The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Joseph Jefferson Award nomination), Springtime for Henry (Huntington Theatre, IRNE Award), and 10 seasons with the Williamstown Theatre Festival (favorite productions include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Where’s Charley? and Dead End). Television: Twins (series regular, WB), The Electric Company (PBS).  Film: Personal Velocity (dir. Rebecca Miller), Dedication (dir. Justin Theroux) and Revolutionary Road (dir. Sam Mendes).
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	Beth Leavel Maisie most recently received the 2006 Tony Award, Drama Desk, N.Y. Outer Critics Circle Award and the L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award for her performance as the Drowsy Chaperone in The Drowsy Chaperone. Other Broadway credits include Frau Bleucher in Young Frankenstein, Dorothy Brock in the revival of 42nd Street, Tess in the original company of Crazy for You (with Susan Stroman), Mrs. Bixby in The Civil War, Ellie in Hal Prince’s Showboat and Anytime Annie (her Broadway debut) in 42nd Street. Ms. Leavel was also seen in the City Center production of No, No, Nanette. Numerous Off-Broadway, commercial and television appearances. MFA from UNC-G and proud member of Actors’ Equity. Thank you to Lynn, Ruby, John, TJ and Sam and my boys at BRS.
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	Katharine Leonard Mary Sumner Broadway: Hairspray (Amber Von Tussle and LouAnn), Footloose (Ariel Moore). Off-Broadway: Miss Lulu Bett (Di Deacon) at the Mint Theatre. Regional: Othello (Desdemona) – The Theatre at Boston Court, The Ruby Sunrise (Suzie Tyrone) – L.A. Theatre Works, Exactly Like You (Eve Bursteter) – Goodspeed, Hay Fever (Sorel Bliss) – New Jersey Shakespeare.  Film: What We Do Is Secret, Stick It in Detroit. Television: Bones, The Evidence, Presidio Med, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Education: BFA, Carnegie Mellon University. Thank you my dear friends and family.
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	Gerry Vichi Scratch Broadway: The Drowsy Chaperone, Curtains, Annie Get Your Gun, How To Succeed in Business…, Anything Goes, Ain’t Broadway Grand, Woman of the Year.  Performed as the Wizard in The Wizard of Oz and Fezziwig in A Christmas Carol, both at Madison Square Garden. Appeared with Bill Irwin in Scapin at the Roundabout Theatre. Other regional credits include 1776 at Williamstown, No, No, Nanette and Very Good Eddie at Goodspeed Opera House, Galileo and A Servant of  Two Masters at Baltimore Center Stage.  Films include City Hall, Just My Luck and Spike Lee’s Inside Man. He is also an abstract expressionist painter.
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	Paul Vogt Boris Broadway: Hairspray (Edna). Regional: Hairspray (Edna) at North Shore Music Theatre, Sacramento Music Circus and the Luxor Vegas. Hamlet, Much Ado..., Comedy of Errors, As You Like It (Orlando Shakespeare), Assassins, Greater Tuna, El Grande de Coca Cola, Working (The Edith Bush), Sylvia, Below the Belt (OTP), The Fantasticks (Orlando Opera). Los Angeles: Happy Days: The Musical, The Magic Flute, Twin-Prov (Falcon Theatre), The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein (L.A. Opera), Icarus and Aria (Sacred Fools Theater), Guest Improvisor (The Groundlings). Film: Igor, Blonde Ambition, Princess Diaries 2, Good Boy, Raising Helen, Lilo and Stitch 2, First of May. Television: Mad TV, Hannah Montana, Re-Run Show, Arrested Development, Reno 911, The Big Gay Sketch Show, Maximum Bob, In Laws, Chicago Hope.
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	George Wendt Randolph Sumner Credits include – Broadway: Hairspray, Art. London: Art. Off-Broadway: Wild Men, An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Boeuf. National Tour: Twelve Angry Men. Chicago: Second City, Wild Men, Bleacher Bums, Rounding Third. Various film and television, most notably Cheers.
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	Megan Nicole Arnoldy Sunny National Tour: The Drowsy Chaperone (Swing, u/s Janet, Kitty). Regional:  42nd Street (Tuacahn Center for the Arts, Walnut Street Theatre), Grease (Marriott Theatre, Carousel Dinner Theatre), Sacramento Music Circus, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera. BFA Musical Theatre Penn State. Much gratitude to Telsey Casting, the amazing creative team, Mom, Dad, and Matthew.
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	Nathan Balser Ensemble Broadway: Legally Blonde. Other New York: Damn Yankees (City Center), Peter Pan (Madison Square Garden), Brigadoon (workshop). National Tours: Mamma Mia!, Peter Pan. Regional: Joseph…Dreamcoat (Joseph), Cats (Munkustrap), Annie Get Your Gun (Tommy), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Daniel). Film: Out of Step. Dance: Repertory Dance Theatre, John Malashock and Company (Old Globe). For my two girls, Sue and Syd. AEA.
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	Roxane Barlow Giggles Broadway: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Boy From Oz, Never Gonna Dance, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Follies, Chicago, Dame Edna: The Royal Tour, Little Me, Victor/Victoria, Beauty and the Beast, The Will Rogers Follies, Meet Me in St. Louis. National Tours: Cats, Guys and Dolls, Chicago, White Christmas. Off-Broadway: Reefer Madness. Regional: Charity in Sweet Charity, Norma in Victor/Victoria, Peggy Sawyer in 42nd Street at North Shore Music Theatre, Lola in Damn Yankees at Lonestar Performing Arts. Film: Chicago, The Cradle Will Rock, In and Out, The First Wives Club. Television: Law & Order: SVU (Red Watts), The Rosie O’Donnell Show, The Late Show, Grammy Awards, Kennedy Center Honors and Tony Awards (1990, 1991, 1994, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005).
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	Jennifer Bowles Curls National Tours: The Drowsy Chaperone, Wonderful Town. Off-Broadway:  Wanda's World. Other New York:  School Daze (NYMF), Mademoiselle Modiste, Meet Me in St. Louis, and readings of But, I'm a Cheerleader and Talk to the Dead. Thanks to Casey and the whole creative team, Jim, Craig, Telsey, Emily, Daniel, Rory, and her incredible family and friends. For Mom and Da!
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	Kirsten Bracken Flame Broadway: Hairspray (Lou Ann, u/s Amber). Other New York: Gemini: The Musical (NYMF). Regional: Thoroughly Modern Millie (Millie), A Chorus Line (Maggie). Carnegie Mellon: Side Show (Daisy), After Miss Julie (Christine). Concert Work: Guest soloist with Cincinnati Pops, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Symphony, Southwest Florida Symphony. Television: All My Children.
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	Jennifer Frankel Sylvie Broadway: Curtains (Marjorie Cook, u/s Carmen Bernstein), Spamalot, Never Gonna Dance (Charm, u/s Mabel), Chicago (Mona, u/s Velma Kelly), The Wild Party, On the Town (Flossie), Ain’t Broadway Grand.  National Tours: Sunset Boulevard, Chicago, 42nd Street, Song and Dance. N.Y./Regional: City Center Encores! Ziegfeld Follies of ’36, Marty (Virginia, world premiere, HuntingtonTheatre), Big Night (Vera, Yale Repertory Theatre), Let’s Do It (world premiere, Long Wharf Theatre),Radio City Music Hall Rockette.
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	Linda Griffin Ensemble Original cast member of The Drowsy Chaperone on Broadway (and the Ahmanson!) and can be heard on the Grammy-nominated cast album. National Tours: The Drowsy Chaperone (Kitty), A Chorus Line (Bebe, with Donna McKechnie), 42nd Street and Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Silly Girl). Locally: Florinda in Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods at Sacramento Music Circus Broadway Series, Polly in Crazy For You at Music Theatre of Southern California, 18-month run at the Shubert Theatre in Los Angeles in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. Linda also holds a Certification in Gardening and Horticulture from UCLA. She is the proud mama of a UCSD Triton, and wife of 30 (!) years to conductor Tom Griffin. Member of Actors’ Equity Association for over 20 years. Whew.
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	Blake Hammond Sergeant Crowley, Dr. Vinkle, Waiter Broadway: Hairspray, The Lion King, The Music Man, Kiss Me, Kate, On the Town.  Off-Broadway: Do Re Mi, Carnival, The Emperor, On the Town (NYSF Central Park), Idaho, When Pigs Fly (also at the Coronet/L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award). National Tours: Joseph...Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, Hairspray, The Lion King. Regional:  Bells Are Ringing (Kennedy Center), Sweeney Todd (Lincolnshire), Olympus on My Mind (Boston Post Road), Theda Bara and the Frontier Rabbi (Halsted St.), At Wit’s End (Florida’s Carbonell and Chicago’s After Dark Awards). Film: Jane Austen’s Mafia, Rookie of the Year, Desperation Blvd. and the upcoming films Handsome Harry and An Englishman in New York.  Television: Frasier, Ed, Shining Time Station, Star Trek/Klingon Academy.
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	Philip Hoffman Mr. Freitag, Judge joined Actors’ Equity Association in 1979. Original Broadway Casts: Into the Woods, Falsettos, Fiddler on the Roof (2004), Is There Life After High School?, Baby, The Scarlet Pimpernel and A Catered Affair. Off-Broadway: All In The Timing, Merrily We Roll Along, Isn't It Romantic, Rags, Tale Of The Allergist's Wife, Yiddle With A Fiddle, Perfect Crime. National Tours: Jekyll & Hyde (Utterson) and Titanic (Ismay). Regional: Angels In America: Perestroika (Roy Cohn), Speed-the-Plow (Charlie Fox), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Demetrius), The Winter’s Tale (Autolycus), Ingmar Bergman’s Nora (Krogstad), Bat Boy (Dr. Parker) and Black Coffee (Dr. Carelli). Television: Law & Order (and its various spin-offs), Deadline, Ed, and several daytime dramas. He appears on several cast recordings.
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	Stacey Todd Holt Reporter Broadway: Cry-Baby, The Producers, Contact, Big, Crazy For You.   Off-Broadway: Contact (Mitzi Newhouse), Anything Cole (John Houseman), Hollywood/Ukraine (Phoenix Theatre). National Tours: Contact, Crazy For You, 42nd Street. Other New York Credits: Funny Girl (New Amsterdam), Idaho (NYMF). Regional: La Jolla Playhouse, Goodspeed Opera House, The Ordway, George Street Playhouse, Westport Playhouse, Theatre Virginia, St. Louis Rep, Great Lakes Theatre, The Pioneer. Film: The Producers. Television: Crazy For You (PBS Great Performances), national commercials.
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	Marc Kessler Swing, Asst. Dance Captain is the co-creator of the long running off-Broadway hit musical Altar Boyz, winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Musical 2005. For six years, Marc was a member of the tap dancing trio the Manhattan Rhythm Kings.  Highlights with the Kings include performing at the Kennedy Center, in the movie The Aviator, and off-Broadway with Tommy Tune in White Tie and Tails. Marc is a graduate of the University of Michigan. Love to Casey and Lincoln.
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	Sabra Lewis Flossie Broadway: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Vulgarian Solo Dancer), The Phantom of the Opera (u/s Meg/Ballet Chorus).  National Tour: Monty Python’s Spamalot. Lincoln Center: Camelot starring Gabriel Byrne (NY Philharmonic), The Most Happy Fella starring Paul Sorvino (NYCO), Mack and Mabel honoring Jerry Herman and the GMHC (Avery Fisher Hall).  Radio City Music Hall: Radio City Christmas Spectacular (Rockette). Regional: Oklahoma!, (Dream Laurey at the Paper Mill Playhouse), Carousel (Walnut St. Theatre), Singin’ in the Rain (Girl in the Green Dress with Regal Players), Footloose (North Shore Music Theatre), The Boyfriend. Associate Director/Choreographer (Penn State). Thanks to Casey, Kelly, Mabel and Clear Talent Group. www.SabraLewis.com
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	Matt Loehr Dr. Vankle Broadway: Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Movin’ Out, The Producers, Fosse. National Tours: Fosse, Cats, Show Boat, A Chorus Line. Regionals: Singin' in the Rain (North Shore Music Theatre – IRNE nomination), A Chorus Line (St. Louis MUNY), Carmen (Houston Grand Opera).
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	Ariel Reid Bubbles Broadway: Monty Python's Spamalot. National Tours: 42nd Street (1st National and Moscow). Film: Hairspray (Rhonda), Cadillac Records. Thanks to my family and friends for their love and support.
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	Jeffrey Schecter Reporter aka “Shecky,” most recently originated the role of Mike Costa (“I Can Do That!”) in the Broadway revival of A Chorus Line. Jeff was also seen in the Tony Award-winning revival of The Pajama Game with Harry Connick, Jr., The Mambo Kings, Wonderful Town, Beauty and the Beast (Lefou) and Guys and Dolls. Jeff’s first feature film as co-writer and star, Farm Girl in NY will have its national release in 2009 (www.farmgirlny.com). He is also currently filming an original sitcom called Shecky, inc. with Regio Entertainment. Jeff would like to dedicate this show to Becca.
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	Angie Schworer Ginger Broadway: The Producers (Ulla) with Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, Young Frankenstein, Chicago, Sunset Boulevard, Crazy For You, Annie Get Your Gun and The Will Rogers Follies.  New York: Encores! Tenderloin. York Theater: The Body Beautiful. Los Angeles: The Producers (Ulla) with Jason Alexander and Martin Short.  Television: Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Queer Eye, As the World Turns, The Rosie O'Donnell Show, Kennedy Center Honors. Film: The Producers.
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	Sarrah Strimel Borschtie Broadway: Young Frankenstein (Inga u/s), The Producers (Ulla u/s). National Tours: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Jolene u/s), The Producers. Other New York: Stairway To Paradise (Encores!). Regional: Lil’ Abner (Stupifyin’ Jones), Cats (Bombalurina), 42nd Street (Anytime Annie), Goodspeed Opera House, Theatre Under The Stars, Pittsburgh CLO, St. Louis MUNY, and Kansas City Starlight. Love to my alma gemela, Matt.
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	Charlie Sutton Ensemble is thrilled to be a part of Minsky’s. Broadway: Cry-Baby (male trio), Wicked (u/s Chistery), La Cage Aux Folles (Odett, u/s White Bird) and Encores! On the Town (New Sailor). Tour: Aida, Wicked (L.A., Chicago, Tour). Movies/Commercials: I Am Legend (Dark Seeker), The Producers (“Spring-time for Hitler”), Mohegan Sun, as well as numerous music videos. Much thanks to my friends, family, Mark and mom!
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	Jennifer Werner Swing, Dance Captain Broadway: Cabaret, As Long As We Both Shall Laugh (Choreographer). Off-Broadway Choreography: The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks (Lucille Lortel Theatre), Things To Ruin (Zipper Factory), ReWrite (Urban Stages). National Tours:  Joseph and the Amazing…(Mrs. Potiphar), Cabaret. Other New York: Follies (Encores! – Assoc. Director), The Black Suits (SPF/Public Theatre – Choreographer), Radio City Rockettes and Sinatra (Radio City).  Regional Choreography: Phantom and Cabaret (North Carolina Theatre), My Fair Lady (Ogunquit Playhouse), several productions at NYU (Floyd Collins, Violet, Merrily We Roll Along, Urinetown, A New Brain). Thanks to Casey and every amazing person involved with Minsky’s. Thanks to BT, Simpkins and Joe! For the loves of my life, Thomas and Tessa.
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	Patrick Wetzel Blind Man Broadway: Original companies of The Drowsy Chaperone (George), Thou Shalt Not, Annie Get Your Gun, Ain’t Broadway Grand.  Other Broadway: The Producers, Spamalot. N.Y./Off Broadway: Stephen Sondheim’s Opening Doors (Carnegie Hall), Golden Boy (City Center Encores!), The Pajama Game (Encores!), Cinderella (Madison Square Garden).  National tours: Joseph…Dreamcoat (starring Donny Osmond), Cinderella (starring Eartha Kitt). Center Theatre Group: The Drowsy Chaperone. Other L.A.: The Producers. Film/Television: A Christmas Carol (upcoming, starring Jim Carrey), The Producers, Today Show, Tony Awards, The Rosie O’Donnell Show.
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Credits

Bob Martin Book Broadway: The Drowsy Chaperone (Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Theatre World Award). National Tours: The Second City Tour Company (Canada). Regional:  Artistic Director of The Second City, Toronto. Television: Slings and Arrows (Screenwriters Award – Writers Guild of Canada), Made in Canada, Twitch City. As a performer, Bob starred in The Drowsy Chaperone at CTG, on Broadway, in the West End of London and in Toronto. He is currently developing a new TV show with Showtime and is working on the book for a musical stage adaptation of the movie Elf.

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Charles Strouse Music Charles Strouse’s music has been an integral part of American culture for over 40 years. His first Broadway musical was the smash hit Bye Bye Birdie (written with long time collaborator Lee Adams). It won him a Tony Award for best score, and paved the way for his next show All American (book by Mel Brooks). In 1964, Golden Boy (starring Sammy Davis, Jr.) earned four Tony Award nominations, and in 1966, Strouse went on to write the Broadway favorite It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s Superman! (based on the popular comic strip). In 1970, Applause (starring Lauren Bacall) won him his second Tony Award. In 1977, he adapted another comic strip for the stage – Annie – which went on to become a worldwide phenomenon, and garnered Strouse yet another Tony (in addition to two Grammys). Some of his other musicals include Dance A Little Closer (lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner), Charlie & Algernon (Tony nomination), Rags (Tony nomination) and Nick & Nora (Tony nomination). Film scores include Bonnie & Clyde, There Was a Crooked Man, The Night They Raided Minsky’s and the animated All Dogs Go To Heaven. He also wrote the theme song “Those Were the Days” for the groundbreaking television show All in the Family. Strouse’s writing also extends into orchestral works, chamber music, piano concertos and opera. His “Concerto America” premiered at The Boston Pops in 2004, and his opera Nightingale (starring Sarah Brightman) had a long and successful run in London’s West End. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, Strouse studied under Aaron Copland and Nadia Boulanger. In 1977, he founded the ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop in New York. He is the recipient of the “Richard Rodgers” as well as the “Oscar Hammerstein” Awards. He is also a member of the Theater Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. His new book, Put On A Happy Face: A Broadway Memoir was released in June 2008.

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Susan Birkenhead Lyrics Broadway: Working (Tony nomination), Jelly’s Last Jam (Tony nomination, Drama Desk Award), Triumph of Love (Drama Desk nomination), High Society. Off-Broadway: Love (Outer Critics Circle Award), A My Name Is Alice. Regional: Pieces of Eight, Fanny Hackabout Jones, Triumph of Love. Mark Taper Forum: Jelly’s Last Jam. Upcoming projects: The Flamingo Kid (with Henry Krieger and James Magruder) and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (with Henry Krieger and Daniel Goldfarb).

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Casey Nicholaw Director/Choreographer received 2006 Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations for his work on The Drowsy Chaperone, and 2005 Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations for Best Choreography for Monty Python’s Spamalot, directed by Mike Nichols.  Additional New York credits:  for City Center Encores! – the highly acclaimed production of Follies (direction and choreography), Bye Bye Birdie (choreography) and Can-Can (musical staging); for N.Y. Philharmonic – Candide starring Patti LuPone and Kristin Chenoweth; South Pacific at Carnegie Hall with Reba McIntyre and Brian Stokes Mitchell (also on PBS Great Performances), Sinatra: His Voice, His World, His Way at Radio City Music Hall starring the world-famous Rockettes.

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Phil Reno Music Direction/Vocal Arrangements Broadway: The Drowsy Chaperone,  The Producers, Thou Shalt Not, Dame Edna: The Royal Tour and Back With a Vengeance, Cats. Off-Broadway: The Diva Is Dismissed (Public), A New Brain (Lincoln Center), Nightmare Alley (Primary Stages). National Tours: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (with Donny Osmond), original company of Music of the Night, Starlight Express, Bob Fosse’s Sweet Charity. CTG: The Drowsy Chaperone. Television: Music Director and Conductor for Broadway Under the Stars on CBS 2002-2006, CBS Tree Lighting in Bryant Park 2006-2008.  Film: The Producers. Graduate of the Cincinnati College Conservatory.

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Anna Louizos Scenic Design Broadway: In the Heights (2008 Tony nomination, Best Scenic Design), Curtains (Drama Desk nomination), High Fidelity (2007 Tony nomination, Best Scenic Design), Avenue Q (including national tour, Las Vegas and London productions), To Be Or Not To Be, Biltmore Theatre, Steel Magnolias, Golda’s Balcony (also national tour). Other U.S. tours: Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (Broadway and multiple cities), Disney Live: Winnie the Pooh (U.S. and world tours). Off-Broadway: Crimes of the Heart (directed by Kathleen Turner), Speech and Debate (Roundabout‘s Laura Pels Theatre), In the Heights, 37 Arts (Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel nominations); Based on a Totally True Story (MTC), Birdie Blue (Second Stage), Altar Boyz (including U.S. tour), The Foreigner with Matthew Broderick (Roundabout), Jonathan Larson’s tick, tick…BOOM! (World Premiere). Regional: Vanities, the Musical (Pasadena Playhouse), Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas (Goodspeed), Seven Brides (TUTS, Paper Mill), The Baker’s Wife (Paper Mill), Much Ado About Nothing, Beyond Therapy (Old Globe), Me and My Girl (Goodspeed), Let Me Sing (George St. Theatre, Charlotte Rep). Also: Berkshire T. F., Alley Merrimack Rep, Charlotte Rep, George St., Williamstown. Art Direction for Film/Television: Sex and the City (HBO). Feature Film: The Secret Lives of Dentists.

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Gregg Barnes Costume Design Broadway: Legally Blonde (2007 Tony nomination), The Drowsy Chaperone (2006 Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Award, Olivier nomination), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Flower Drum Song (Tony nomination), Side Show. OtherNew York: Sinatra (Radio City Music Hall), The Wizard of Oz (Madison Square Garden), Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular (Principal Designer 1994-2005), Cinderella and The Merry Widow (New York City Opera), Pageant (The Blue Angel and London’s West End – Olivier nomination), The Kathy and Mo Show, Eliot Feld’s Behold the Man, Judith Jamison’s ballet Sweet Release (Alvin Ailey). Regional credits include Mame (Kennedy Center), Lucky Duck (San Diego Critic’s Award), Allegro (Helen Hayes Award), and many others.  Gregg was the first recipient of the Theatre Development Fund’s Young Master Award.

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Ken Billington Lighting Design 83 Broadway and 70 off-Broadway shows, including White Christmas, [title of show], Sunday in the Park With George (Tony nomination), The Drowsy Chaperone (Tony nomination), Footloose, Candide, Annie, Chicago (Tony Award), Foxfire (Tony nomination), Sweeney Todd (Tony nomination), Side by Side by Sondheim, On the 20th Century, The Visit (Tony nomination), Fame, Annie Warbucks, Sylvia and Snoopy. Current tours: Annie, The Drowsy Chaperone, Fiddler on the Roof, Chicago and the international productions of High School Musical and Dreamgirls. For CTG: The Drowsy Chaperone, Lily Tomlin in The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, The Lisbon Traviata, Lips Together, Teeth Apart and Don’t Bother Me,I Can’t Cope. Other projects include Fantasmic! at Disneyland, Shamu Rocks at Sea World Orlando and San Diego, Jubilee! at Bally’s Las Vegas, lighting supervisor for Riverdance, and from 1979 to 2004 the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular.

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Acme Sound Partners Sound Design Broadway: Hair (2009), Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, In the Heights (Tony Award nomination), The Country Girl, Legally Blonde, High Fidelity, A Chorus Line (2006), Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Drowsy Chaperone, Hot Feet, The Light in the Piazza, Monty Python’s Spamalot, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Dracula, the Musical, Twentieth Century, Fiddler on the Roof, Never Gonna Dance, The Boy From Oz, Avenue Q, Gypsy (2003), La Bohème (Drama Desk Award), and more. Eight seasons at the Delacorte Theatre for the N.Y. Shakespeare Festival. For CTG: The Drowsy Chaperone, La Bohème. Numerous international, touring, off-Broadway and regional productions, plus theatrical concerts and special events with renowned orchestras at world-famous venues indoors and out. The partners are Tom Clark, Mark Menard and Nevin Steinberg.

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Josh Marquette Hair Design Los Angeles: The Drowsy Chaperone, Vanities. Broadway/Off-Broadway:  To Be Or Not To Be, The Drowsy Chaperone, Pig Farm, The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Altar Boyz. National Tours: The Drowsy Chaperone, Barbie Live in Fairytopia, Trip of Love. Associate Hair Designer:  Mamma Mia! (North America), The Wedding Singer, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels tour. Other New York: Show Boat at Carnegie Hall, Encores! No, No, Nanette and Follies, numerous productions for the Juilliard School.

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Telsey + Company Casting Broadway/Tours: 9 to 5, Reasons to Be Pretty, Blithe Spirit, You’re Welcome America, Speed-the-Plow, Equus, South Pacific, In the Heights, Wicked, Hairspray, Rent, Legally Blonde, The Color Purple, The Drowsy Chaperone, Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On (Vegas), Cinderella (Asia). Off-Broadway: Rock of Ages, Atlantic,MCC, Signature. Regional: Hair (Arizona Theatre Co.), Next to Normal (Arena Stage), La Jolla, Shakespeare Theatre, Westport. Film: I Love You Phillip Morris, Rachel Getting Married, Sex and the City, Dan in Real Life, Then She Found Me, Across the Universe, Ira and Abby, Rent, Pieces of April, Camp, The Grey Zone, Finding Forrester, The Bone Collector. Television: Ugly Betty (pilot), Whoopi, HBO’s Undefeated, commercials.

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Doug Besterman Orchestrations Broadway: Young Frankenstein (Drama Desk nomination), Tarzan, Thoroughly Modern Millie (Tony/DramaDesk Awards) The Producers (Tony/Drama Desk Awards), Fosse (TonyAward), The Music Man (Drama Desk and Tony nominations), Seussical, Big (DramaDesk nomination), Damn Yankees (Drama Desk nomination), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Dracula. Off-Broadway: Weird Romance, Jack's Holiday, Johnny Pye and the Foolkiller, The Gifts of the Magi, Godspell. Also in New York: King David, A Christmas Carol, the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular.Regional: An American In Paris, Sister Act, I Sent A Letter To My Love, Paramour, Eliot Ness in Cleveland, Jeanne La Pucelle, Opal; also, the ballets Take Five – More Or Less, But Not For Me and Double Feature for choreographer Susan Stroman. West End/International: Guys and Dolls (London), Der Schuh Des Manitu (Berlin). Film/Television: The Producers, Chicago, Mulan, Anastasia, Pocahontas, Lincoln, Cinderella, Annie, Geppetto, South Pacific, Superstar and Scrubs. As a composer: films The Punisher, Out of Step and Exit Speed, TV shows Summerland and One Life To Live, inconcert with the United States Military Academy Concert Band and themusical Hats.

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Glen Kelly Music Arrangements Music supervisor for Broadway’s The Producers and Young Frankenstein. Other Broadway credits include Spamalot, The Drowsy Chaperone, Beauty and the Beast, The Frogs, High Society, Steel Pier, Dance a Little Closer and A Christmas Carol. For New York City Ballet, he arranged the music and co-wrote the libretto (with Susan Stroman) for Double Feature. Other ballet credits include Thou Swell (for NYCB) and But Not for Me for the Martha Graham Company.

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Lee Wilkins Associate Choreographer Broadway performances: Spamalot, Wonderful Town, Kiss Me, Kate.  National Tours: Cats, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Kiss Me, Kate. Television: The Rosie O’Donnell Show, Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Live with Regis and Kelly and The Tony Bennett TV Special.  Thanks to Casey for keeping it “in the family.” Love to Josh who will always be his husband – even in California.

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Casey Hushion Associate Director Broadway: The Drowsy Chaperone (West End/National Tour), In the Heights, To Be Or Not To Be, Good Vibrations. Artistic Director of North Carolina Theatre. Directing credits include many regional productions and workshops of new musicals. For Marc and Lincoln.

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Peter Fulbright Technical Supervisor Recent Broadway, London and national tours: Jersey Boys, Hairspray, 13, Curtains, Bombay Dreams, 42nd Street, Urinetown, Into the Woods, Vampires, Farnsworth Invention, Inherit the Wind, Dame Edna, 16 Wounded, Anna in the Tropics, Enchanted April, Frog & Toad, Life X3, Ma Rainey’s, The Elephant Man, Topdog and Blast!.Peter has supervised over 70 Broadway productions, international productions and national tours. Favorites include Aspects of Love, Rocky Horror, Real Thing, Swing!, Amadeus, The Sound of Music, On the Town, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Triumph of Love, Footloose, Mattress, Forum, Smokey Joe’s Café, Moon Over Buffalo, Crazy for You, Guys and Dolls, Joseph..., The Secret Garden, Starlight Express, Drood, Singin’ in the Rain, Foxfire.

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Karen Moore Production Stage Manager Broadway: The Drowsy Chaperone, Good Vibrations, Taboo, Man of La Mancha, The Graduate and Follies. Ten productions for New York City Center Encores! Off-Broadway: The Vagina Monologues, Stephen Sondheim’s Saturday Night, Things You Shouldn’t Say Past Midnight, James Naughton: Street of Dreams, Visiting Mr. Green, Das Barbecü, Closer Than Ever, Steel Magnolias.

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Rachel S. McCutchen Stage Manager Broadway: The Drowsy Chaperone, A Touch of the Poet, Good Vibrations, Taboo. Off-Broadway: The Paris Letter (Roundabout), Kimberly Akimbo, Yellowman (MTC). Eleven N.Y. City Center Encores! productions, including last year’s Summer Stars production, Damn Yankees. “Love and thanks to my family and to Corey!”

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Susie Walsh Stage Manager has worked in Los Angeles as a stage manager for 18 years during which time she has worked on over 100 shows, stage managing over 30 at Center Theatre Group, including The Drowsy Chaperone, with many of the Minsky's staff. Other Los Angeles theatre credits include Pasadena Playhouse, the Geffen Playhouse, the Brentwood and Kodak Theatres. In New York, Susie was stage manager on Putting It Together which originated at the Mark Taper Forum. Love to Ken.

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MGM ON STAGE Darcie Denkert & Dean Stolber Veteran film and theatre executives Denkert and Stolber conceived, developed, and run MGM ON STAGE, the industry leader in developing and licensing film properties for live stage presentation. Stolber, a former TV and Broadway performer, and Denkert, a published author, are both attorneys and long-term senior executives for MGM. MGM ON STAGE productions include Legally Blonde, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Dirty Rotten Scroundrels, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Rain Man, Saved, and Theatre of Blood. .

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Photo Credit

(L to R) Scenic Designer Anna Louizos, Associate Scenic Designer Hilary Noxon, Director/Choreographer Casey Nicholaw. Photo by Joan Marcus.