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STEPHEN SONDHEIM (Music & Lyrics)
HUGH WHEELER (Book)
CHRISTOPHER BOND (Adaptor)
JOHN DOYLE (Director and Designer)
SARAH TRAVIS (Musical Supervisor and Orchestrator)
RICHARD G. JONES (Lighting Designer)
DAN MOSES SCHREIER (Sound Designer)
ADAM JOHN HUNTER (Associate Director)
DAVID LOUD (Music Director)
PAUL HUNTLEY (Wig & Hair Design)
ANGELINA AVALLONE (Make-up Designer)
ANDY EINHORN (Resident Music Director)
TELSEY + COMPANY (Casting)
NEWTON COLE (Production Stage Manager)
AJA KANE (Assistant Stage Manager)
HANNAH COHEN (Assistant Stage Manager)
RICHARD FRANKEL PRODUCTIONS/ROD KAATS (General Management)
KAI BROTHERS (Production Manager)
TED LeFEVRE (Associate Set Designer)
PAUL MILLER (Associate Lighting Designer)
DAVID BULLARD (Associate Sound Designer)
TMG-THE MARKETING GROUP (Tour Marketing/Publicity)
JOHN MILLER (Music Coordinator)
PRODUCERS
THE VIERTEL BARUCH ROUTH FRANKEL GROUP (Producer)
AMBASSADOR THEATRE GROUP (Producer)
ADAM KENWRIGHT (Producer)
TULCHIN/ BARTNER (Producer)
DARREN BAGERT (Producer)
BROADWAY ACROSS AMERICA (Producer)
THE WATERMILL THEATRE (Original Producer)
STEPHEN SONDHEIM (Music & Lyrics) wrote the music and lyrics for Saturday Night, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Anyone Can Whistle, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, The Frogs, Pacific Overtures, Merrily We Roll Along, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, Assassins, Passion, and Bounce. He wrote lyrics for West Side Story, Gypsy, and Do I Hear a Waltz?; and additional lyrics for Candide. Side by Side by Sondheim, Marry Me a Little, You're Gonna Love Tomorrow, and Putting It Together are anthologies of his work as a composer and lyricist. For films, he has composed the score of Stavinsky and co-composed Reds; he has also written songs for the film Dick Tracy and the television production Evening Primrose. He co-authored the film The Last of Sheila and the play Getting Away with Murder. Mr. Sondheim is on the council of the Dramatists Guild, having served as its president from 1973 to 1981. In 1981 he founded Young Playwrights Inc. to develop and promote the work of American playwrights age 18 and younger.
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HUGH WHEELER (Book) won Tony Awards for Candide, A Little Night Music and Sweeney Todd. He is the author of the plays Big Fish, Little Fish, Look We’ve Come Through, We Have Always Lived in the Castle and additional material for Pacific Overtures. His screenplays include Travels With My Aunt, Something for Everyone, A Little Night Music, and Nijinsky. He also wrote 30 mysteries under the pseudonyms Patrick Quentin and Q. Patrick. He has written such operas as Kurt Weill’s Silverlake, Mozart’s Impressario and the opera versions of Candide and Sweeney Todd.
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CHRISTOPHER BOND (Adaptor), an actor, director, and writer, wrote the play Sweeney Todd for Stoke-on-Trent's Victoria Theatre. Using Bertolt Brecht's Man Is Man, renamed Man Eats Man, he originally updated the style of the melodrama in applying it to the public domain one-act folk play Sweeney Todd, by George Dibdin Pitt, which itself was taken from the story "The String of Pearls: A Romance," published in Penny Dreadful, the Victorian gossip magazine. In this new approach to the classics, Bond also created the role of Tobias for himself. Later, Bond worked with Everyman Theatre (Liverpool), where he wrote/directed Downright Hooligan, Judge Jeffreys, and Under New Management, and was the artistic director of Liverpool Playhouse, the Half Moon Theatre (London), where he directed Sweeney Todd and Trafford Tanzy. His recent production of Alice in the Underground for Chicken Shed, a company of disabled actors, toured the major UK theaters. A new musical is in the works with a compilation on Lionel Bart.
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JOHN DOYLE (Director and Designer) has been artistic director of four prestigious regional theatres in the UK including the famous Liverpool Everyman. This season, he is represented on Broadway with Harvey Fierstein and John Bucchino's musical A Catered Affair. Last season he directed the Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's Company. Previously he directed the critically acclaimed Sweeney Todd (Broadway and West End) for which he won the 2006 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical, The Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Director and the Drama Desk Award. Other notable productions include The Gondoliers (West End), Fiddler on the Roof and Moll Flanders each winning UK Regional Best Musical Awards, with nominations for four other productions including Mack and Mabel (also West End). This season, he will direct Peter Grimes at New York's Metropolitan Opera. He also directed The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny for the Los Angeles Opera. UK opera work includes The Tailor's Daughter, The Elixir Of Love (Welsh National Youth Opera); Ice (City of London Sinfonia) and Fast Forward Figaro (Buxton Opera Festival). John has directed numerous classic plays, including A Midsummer Nights Dream for the New Shakespeare Company, The Wars of the Roses for York Theatre Royal, and most recently a major revival of Amadeus for Wilton's Music Hall in London. He is also co-author or the international best-selling Shakespeare for Dummies. Forthcoming engagements include Lucia di Lammermoor for Scottish Opera.
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SARAH TRAVIS (Musical Supervisor and Orchestrator) won the 2006 Tony and Drama Desk Awards for her orchestrations on the Broadway production of Sweeney Todd. She trained at the City University and Guildhall School of Music and Drama in the United Kingdom. Main credits as orchestrator and musical supervisor on productions originating from the Watermill Theatre include Sweeney Todd (West End and Broadway transfer), Honk, Martin Guerre, HotMikado, Mack and Mabel (Both Nominated for TMA Regional Theatre Awards for Best Musical), Fiddler on the Roof and Gondoliers (both Winners of TMA Regional Theatre Awards for Best Musical); Pinafore Swing, Ten Cents a Dance, and Carmen. Credits as composer include Dick Whittington (Barbican), Peter Pan (Oxford Playhouse), A Star Danced (Watermill), The Last Fattybottypuss in the World (Open Air Theatre Regents Park), Tales My Lover Told Me (King's Head Theatre Islington), A Womb with a View (Radio 4), and seven Pantomimes for Chipping Norton Theatre. She has worked as pianist and musical director for Julian Clary, Fascinating Aïda, Lily Savage, Alvin Stardust, Dillie Keane, Barb Jungr, Issy Van Randwyk, and Drop Dead Divas. Sarah is also a qualified Music Therapist.
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RICHARD G. JONES (Lighting Designer) received a 2006 Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle nomination for this production of Sweeney Todd. He has collaborated with John Doyle on many actor- musician shows, including Sweeney Todd in the West End, The Gondoliers in the West End (Best Musical 2001) and The Watermill’s Fiddler on the Roof (Best Musical 2002) Other recent designs include John Doyle’s Peter Pan, the UK National tour of Midnight, the UK premiere of Sideshow, and Mack and Mabel for The Watermill Theatre prior to a West End transfer. UK National tours include Beautiful Thing, Wuthering Heights, Rasputin, Candide & Sweeney Todd. Other West End work includes When Pigs Fly, Female Parts, and Carmen.
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DAN MOSES SCHREIER (Sound Designer) received a Drama Desk nomination for his work on Sweeney Todd. Other Broadway productions include 110 in the Shade, Julius Caesar, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Gem of the Ocean, Pacific Overtures, Assassins, After the Fall, Anna in the Tropics, Into the Woods, Topdog/Underdog, Major Barbara, Dance of Death, Dirty Blonde, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Tempest, and Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk. Off-Broadway credits include Stuff Happens, Homebody/Kabul, Floyd Collins, and many others. He recently composed the score for the Broadway production of August Wilson's Radio Golf, designed the sound for both John Doyle's production of Mahagonny, starring Audra McDonald and Patti LuPone, and City Center's production of Gypsy, also starring LuPone. He has received three Drama Desk Awards and the LA Stage Alliance Ovation Award, as well as the Entertainment Design Award and an OBIE Award, both for sustained excellence.
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ADAM JOHN HUNTER (Associate Director) has worked on the recent Broadway productions of Company, Sweeney Todd, Little Shop of Horrors, Dinner at Eight, 42nd Street, Swing! and Annie Get Your Gun. He also worked on Gypsy with Patti LuPone at City Center. He studied at the University of California, Davis for quite a long while and the Juilliard School for quite a short while, receiving degrees from neither.
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DAVID LOUD (Music Director) served as music director for the Broadway productions of Ragtime, A Class Act, Steel Pier, The Look of Love, and the revivals of She Loves Me, Company, and The Boys from Syracuse. Off Broadway, he created the vocal and dance arrangements for And the World Goes 'Round (Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk awards for Best Musical Revue). Mr. Loud also originated the role of Manny in Master Class and made his Broadway debut in Harold Prince's original production of Merrily We Roll Along. He is currently the music director for Curtains, the new Kander and Ebb musical on Broadway. Back to Top of Page
PAUL HUNTLEY (Wig & Hair Design) London born, is a Special Tony Award winner. Current Broadway shows include Hairspray, Curtains, Grease, The Ritz, and the upcoming Is He Dead. Recent film credits include Fast Track, Ralph Fiennes in Doris, Jennifer Lopez in El Cantante, Christopher Walken in Balls of Fury and Hairspray, Susan Sarandon in Enchanted, and Abigail Breslin in Kit, The American Girl.
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ANGELINA AVALLONE (Make-up Designer) has worked on Broadway productions of Grey Gardens, Company, Curtains, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, All Shook Up, Lennon, Sweet Charity, The Light in the Piazza, The Pillowman, Wonderful Town, Julius Caesar, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Gypsy, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Little Shop of Horrors, Dance of the Vampires, Dracula, Henry IV, and The Scarlet Pimpernel. She has worked with Patti LuPone on Anyone Can Whistle, Passion (Ravinia Festival, Lincoln Center), and Regina, and is currently working on the upcoming Broadway productions of Young Frankenstein and The Little Mermaid.
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ANDY EINHORN (Resident Music Director) worked on the Broadway production and first national tour of The Light in the Piazza. Tour credits also include The Lion King and Mamma Mia! Other credits include a workshop of Disney's The Little Mermaid and productions at Houston Grand Opera (An Evening with Audra McDonald), the Alley Theatre (American Vaudeville), and Goodspeed Opera House (The Boy Friend). Mr. Einhorn has also worked on various projects for Adam Guettel, Ricky Ian Gordon, Ted Sperling, and Lucy Simon. He is an honors graduate of Rice University. Many thanks to my parents, family, and friends.
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TELSEY + COMPANY (Casting) Broadway/Tours: November, The Homecoming, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Legally Blonde, The Drowsy Chaperone, The Color Purple, Wicked, Hairspray, Rent, High School Musical, Off-Broadway: The Fantasticks, Blue Man Group, In the Heights, Atlantic, MCC, and Signature; Film: Sex and the City, Dancing with Shiva, 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; TV: Whoopi, HBO's Undefeated, and commercials.
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NEWTON COLE (Production Stage Manager). Broadway: Revivals of Company, Sweeney Todd, Fiddler on the Roof, My Fair Lady, and Jack: A Night on the Town with John Barrymore. Mr. Cole was the Choreographic Consultant for Jerome Robbins' original choreography for the 2004 Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof. National tours: 12 of them. My thanks to Lipton for being a part of my life - the best part.
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AJA KANE (Assistant Stage Manager) Assistant Director/Choreographer: Gypsy, Man of La Mancha, Funny Girl, Annie, Sweet Charity, and Shoji Tabuchi Show. Stage Manager: Sweeney Todd, Scrooge: The Musical, The Exonerated, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, and Futurestage. Performer: Man of La Mancha, The Exonerated, Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, The American Dancemachine.
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HANNAH COHEN (Assistant Stage Manager) Touring: Spongebob Squarepants Live! (Broadway Asia) Off-Broadway: The Mistakes Madeline Made (Naked Angels), The Wooden Breeks (MCC), Lone Star Love (Amas Musical Theatre), Slag Heap (Cherry Lane) Regional: Guthrie Theater, Huntington Theatre Company.
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RICHARD FRANKEL PRODUCTIONS/ROD KAATS (General Management). RFP is currently general managing Young Frankenstein, Hairspray, The Fantasticks and Stomp in New York; Stomp, Sweeney Todd and The Rat Pack - Live at the Sands on tour, and The Producers and Stomp Out Loud in Las Vegas. Over the past 20 years they have managed more than 90 productions in New York and on tour in the U.S., Europe and Asia. ROD KAATS: Productions with RFP: The Rat Pack - Live at the Sands, The Fantasticks, Cookin', Three Mo' Tenors and Tryst. As Artistic Director, Helen Hayes Theatre Company: 27 shows including Company (which he also directed) and the American premiere of Honk! Booking agent for national tours including Three Tall Women, Crazy for You and Love Letters (for RFP). Vice-President, Pace Theatrical Group. Harold Prince Musical Theatre Program: Creator/Director/Co-librettist of The Ballad of Little Jo.
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KAI BROTHERS (Production Manager). Credits include Barefoot in the Park at the Cort Theatre; Sweeney Todd, at the Eugene O'Neill; Souvenir at the Lyceum Theatre; The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at the Circle in the Square; Urinetown at the Henry Miller Theatre and at the American Theater of Actors; Frankie and Johnny in the clair de lune at the Belasco; Wit at the Union Square Theatre and national tour; Tick, Tick...Boom! at the Jane Street Theatre; and The Last Five Years at the Minetta Lane Theatre.
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TED LeFEVRE (Associate Set Designer). Broadway - Associate: Rock 'n' Roll, Grease, Coram Boy, Sweeney Todd, Hairspray Tour, Disney's Aida, LCT's Invention of Love. Assistant: Wedding Singer, All Shook Up, Wicked, Morning's at Seven, NYSF's Seagull, Ivanov, Beauty and the Beast, and sixteen Metropolitan Operas. Designs - over two dozen Off-Off-Broadway play premieres and Regional musicals apiece.
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PAUL MILLER (Associate Lighting Designer). Broadway Designs: Lone Star Love, Legally Blonde, Laughing Room Only, Freshly Squeezed; Broadway Under the Stars. Associate/Assistant: Company, 3 Days of Rain, Little Women, Hairspray, The Producers, Life x 3, The Music Man, The Price, Saturday Night Fever, The Civil War, On The Town, The Sound of Music, Titanic. International: West Side Story in La Scala, Phantom of the Opera in Lisbon.
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DAVID BULLARD (Associate Sound Designer). Co Designer: On Golden Pond (National Tour). Broadway Associate: Sweeney Todd, The 25th Annual Putman County Spelling Bee (National Tour & Boston), Radio Golf, Gem of the Ocean, Assassins, Topdog/Underdog. Off Broadway Design: The Unexpected Man (Drama Desk Nomination). Associate Design: Brundibar/But the Giraffe (New Victory Theatre), Stuff Happens (NYSF).
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TMG-THE MARKETING GROUP (Tour Marketing/Publicity) are experts in creating and implementing strategic marketing partnerships, promotions, awareness/ branding campaigns and sales initiatives targeting the upscale consumer in New York and throughout the country. With offices in NY, Chicago and Los Angeles, TMG represents numerous Broadway productions and National tours which include Wicked, Mamma Mia!, Rent, The Drowsy Chaperone, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Annie, The Producers, Hairspray and Avenue Q. www.themarketinggroup.net.
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JOHN MILLER (Music Coordinator) Recent Broadway: Young Frankenstein, Xanadu, Hairspray, Jersey Boys, Drowsy Chaperone, Les Misérables, Grey Gardens, The Wedding Singer, Sweeney Todd, Beauty and the Beast, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, Threepenny Opera, Lennon, Caroline, or Change, Movin' Out, Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Producers, 42nd Street, Urinetown, The Musical, Nine, La Bohème, Oklahoma!, The Rocky Horror Show, Swing!, Footloose, Studio Musician, he has played bass for Michael Jackson, Madonna, Portishead, Eric Clapton, BB King, Sinatra, Carly Simon, Celine Dion, The Smashing Pumpkins, Pete Seeger, and the New York Philharmonic.
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PRODUCERS
TOM VIERTEL, STEVE BARUCH, MARC ROUTH & RICHARD FRANKEL (Producer). have produced and general managed a wide range of plays and musicals on and off Broadway, in London and on tour for the past 22 years. Currently: Hairspray, Young Frankenstein, The Fantasticks, and Stomp in NY; and Stomp on tour, The Producers and Stomp Out Loud in Las Vegas, and Hairspray in London. Upcoming productions include The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess directed by Trevor Nunn, Leap of Faith with music by Alan Menken directed by Taylor Hackford and The Hudsucker Proxy directed by Jerry Zaks. Previous productions include The Producers, Company, Sweeney Todd, The Sound of Music, Swing!, Smokey Joe's Cafe, The Weir, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Angels in America, Driving Miss Daisy, Penn & Teller, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Oleanna, Mnemonic, The Cocktail Hour, Love Letters, Marvin's Room, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Little Shop of Horrors, Jeffrey, Song of Singapore, and many others. Their shows have been awarded 32 Tonys, 43 Drama Desk Awards, 34 Outer Critics Awards, 4 Grammys, 3 Olivier Awards and 2 Pulitzer Prizes and have been featured in The New York Times crossword puzzle ten times.
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AMBASSADOR THEATRE GROUP (Producer) is currently the largest theatre owning and operating group in the West End and, separately, second-largest in the UK regions, with a total of 24 venues. It is also one of the country's foremost theatre producers, producing many highly successful, award-winning and innovative co-productions in Britain and internationally. Recent productions include the West End productions of Elling, The Gershwins' Porgy & Bess, Guys and Dolls starring Ewan McGregor, and Sweeney Todd and Company on Broadway and the West End. ATG has recently opened a New York office to focus on development and production activity in North America and pursuing ventures for the international theatrical market.
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ADAM KENWRIGHT (Producer) formed aka Productions in 1999 with partner Michael Fuchs. In London and Broadway; aka has produced Taboo, Stones In His Pockets and A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg. In London; De La Guarda, Cooking With Elvis, The Lieutenant Of Inishmore, Madame Melville, Romeo & Juliet The Musical, Rent, Time and The Conways, Def Poetry Jam and John Doyle’s production of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd. Current West End: High Society and Mack & Mabel. Zorro,music by The Gipsy Kings, opens in Autumn 2007.
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TULCHIN/ BARTNER (Producer) a joint venture between the Bartner Group (Robert G. Bartner and Maidstone Productions (Norman Tulchin and Steven Tulchin, founded by Ted Tulchin) has produced the Broadway revival of Sondheim's Company (Tony Award) as well as both the UK and NY productions of Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, all directed by John Doyle. In London: Porgy and Bess, Guys and Dolls and Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll. Separately, Maidstone has produced (New York) Pulitzer Prize-winner Dinner with Friends, The Unexpected Man, Fortune's Fool; In London: Whose Life Is It Anyway, Hitchcock Blonde, Vincent in Brixton. Robert Bartner's New York credits include Brian Friel's Faith Healer, August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean, Wit, Anna in the Tropics, Virginia Woolf, and Brooklyn. Thanks to family and especially wife Beverly.
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DARREN BAGERT (Producer) is a two-time Tony Award, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle award winning producer. His credits include Company (Tony Award - Best Revival), Sweeney Todd (Tony Award Nominee - Best Revival), Frozen (Tony Award Nominee -- Best Play), Long Days Journey Into Night (Tony Award Winner - Best Revival of a Play), Gore Vidal's The Best Man - (Tony Award Nominee - Best Revival of a Play), among others. Darren travels between New York, New Orleans and Southampton. www.InvestBroadway.com
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BROADWAY ACROSS AMERICA (Producer) presents first-rate touring Broadway shows, family productions and other live theatrical events throughout a network of over 40 North American cities. A leader in subscription series programs and group ticketing, Broadway Across America is dedicated to creating memorable and accessible experiences for all guests, selling over 5 million tickets to over 3,000 performances each year. As a producer, current and recent Broadway productions include: Hairspray, Chicago, Monty Python's Spamalot and The Producers. Broadway Across America also manages, operates or consults in the operation of 13 theatres across North America. For more information or to purchase tickets through an authorized agent go to BroadwayAcrossAmerica.com.
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THE WATERMILL THEATRE (Original Producer) is an important, award-winning, regional, professional theatre situated in a converted watermill beside the River Lambourn in Berkshire UK. The company mounts six professional productions each year of which several transfer to the London stage and tour nationally and/or overseas. The theatre is also famous for its inspirational outreach work. See more on the website www.watermill.org.uk
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