ALAN JAY LERNER (Book and Lyrics)

Alan Jay Lerner wrote some of America’s best loved and enduring stage and movie musicals with Frederick Loewe over a period of more than 25 years: Life of the Party, What’s Up, The Day Before Spring, Brigadoon, Paint Your Wagon, My Fair Lady, Camelot and Gigi. He also wrote Love Life with Kurt Weill, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever and Carmelina with Burton Lane, Coco with Andre Previn, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with Leonard Bernstein and Dance a Little Closer with Charles Strouse. He wrote the libretto and/or lyrics for the following films: An American in Paris, Gigi, The Little Prince, Royal Wedding and film versions of his plays. He wrote two books: The Street Where I Live and The Musical Theatre: A Celebration. During his life he received multiple Tonys, Oscars, Grammys and Golden Globes and a Kennedy Center Honor. Mr. Lerner died in 1986.

FREDERICK LOEWE (Music)

Frederick Loewe a classically trained musician, wrote the scores for some of America’s most memorable musicals including My Fair Lady, Camelot, Brigadoon, Paint Your Wagon and Gigi. Among his most famous songs with lyricist- partner Alan Jay Lerner are “Almost Like Being in Love,” “I Could Have Danced All Night” and “Thank Heaven for Little Girls.” A musical prodigy, Loewe was born in Berlin in 1901 and, at 13, was the youngest piano soloist to play with the Berlin Philharmonic. His popular song “Katrina,” written when he was 15, sold more than a million copies across Europe. Struggling to find work on Broadway after arriving in the U.S. in 1924, Loewe worked at such odd jobs as cow punching, boxing and accompanying silent films on the piano. He wrote with several other lyricists until approaching Lerner at New York’s Lambs Club in 1942 about collaborating on a show—thus beginning one of Broadway’s most extraordinary partnerships. The recipient of multiple Tony and Academy awards, Loewe died in Palm Springs in 1988.

BARTLETT SHER (Direction)

Sher received a Tony Award nomination for the Broadway run of My Fair Lady. He won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical for South Pacific (also London and Australia). He also received Tony Award nominations for Best Direction for To Kill a Mockingbird, Oslo (also National Theatre, London), The King and I (also London), Golden Boy, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Awake and Sing!, and The Light in the Piazza. Also on Broadway, he directed a revival of Lerner & Lowe’s Camelot, Pictures From Home, Fiddler on the Roof, The Bridges of Madison County, and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (also London).  He also directed New York productions of Intimate Apparel and Blood & Gifts (Lincoln Center), Prayer for My Enemy and The Butterfly Collection (Playwrights Horizons), Cymbeline (Callaway Award, also Royal Shakespeare Company), Waste (Best Play Obie Award), Don Juan and Pericles (TFANA, BAM). Opera includes: Rigoletto (Metropolitan Opera, Staatsoper Berlin); Roméo et Juliette (Metropolitan Opera, Salzburg, Milan, Chicago); Faust (Baden Baden); Two Boys (English National Opera, Metropolitan Opera); Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Baden Baden, Metropolitan Opera), Otello, Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Le Comte Ory, L’Elisir d’Amore (Metropolitan Opera); Mourning Becomes Electra (Seattle Opera, New York City Opera). Previously Artistic Director of Seattle’s Intiman Theatre (2000–2009), Company Director for the Guthrie Theater, and Associate Artistic Director at Hartford Stage Company, Bart has been Resident Director at Lincoln Center Theater since 2008.  He serves on the board of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. His film Oslo premiered on HBO in 2021 and was nominated for two Emmy Awards and won a Critics Choice Award.

SAMANTHA SALTZMAN (Associate Director)

Samantha (Sami) Saltzman has worked as an Associate Director transferring landmark Broadway productions to National and International tours and has also Directed countless new musicals, established productions, and major events featuring A-list celebrity talent.  Associate/Resident Director: The King & I (UK Tour), My Fair Lady (2nd  National US), The Color Purple (2nd National US), Matilda the Musical (1st National US), Lady in the Dark (NYCC), Southern Comfort (The Public Theatre), Sarah Brightman’s Dreamchaser World Tour.  Assistant Resident Director and Rehearsal Director: The Phantom of the Opera (World Tour), Matilda the Musical (Broadway), The King & I (2nd National US).  Director (Select Credits): LadyShip, Drama League Gala Honoring Steve Martin, 210 Amlent Ave, In Trousers, Urinetown. TV/Film: "Parent Teacher Conference," "Idle Worship," "Adulting with Jane." Drama League Directing Fellow Alumni. samanthasaltzman.com.

CHRISTOPHER GATTELLI (Choreography)

LCT: My Fair Lady (Tony, Outer Critics Circle nominations), The King and I (Tony nom.), South Pacific (Tony, OCC noms.), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. Broadway: The Cher Show (also Chicago), War Paint, Newsies (Tony, DD, OCC awards for Best Choreography), SpongeBob SquarePants (Tony nom.), Sunday in the Park With George, Casa Valentina, Godspell, 13, The Ritz, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, High Fidelity. West End: SILENCE! The Musical!, Sunday in the Park With George. Off-Broadway: Dogfight (Lortel Award); Altar Boyz (Lortel, Callaway awards; DD nom.); Bat Boy: The Musical (Lortel Award); tick, tick…BOOM! Film: Hail, Caesar!; Newsies; Isn’t It Romantic?  TV: “Schmigadoon!”

JIM COONEY (Tour Choreographer)

Jim Cooney is a NYC-based director/choreographer. Highlighted credits include Between the Sea and Sky (Best Musical winner, Best Choreography nom), Shooting Star (Best Choreography award), A Chorus Line (Best Musical and Best Choreography awards), Broadway Bares (directed by Jerry Mitchell), and Sweet Charity (directed by Michael Rupert). Jim is the founder of Amplified Artists, a membership community for theater professionals and is the host of the Theater Life Uncensored podcast. Learn more at JimCooney.me

TED SPERLING (Music Supervisor)

Director: The Other Josh Cohen, Red Eye of Love, Striking 12 (Off B-way); She Loves Me (Caramoor); The Pirates of Penzance, See What I Wanna See (Public Theater); Show Boat (NY Phil); The Frogs, Anyone Can Whistle, Myths and Hymns, Lady in the Dark, Of Thee I Sing, Babes in Toyland, Knickerbocker Holiday (MasterVoices). Musical Director: My Fair Lady, Fiddler on the Roof, The King and I, South Pacific, The Light in the Piazza (Tony Award), The Full Monty, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Floyd Collins, A Man of No Importance, A New Brain, My Favorite Year. Actor: Titanic, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” Artistic Director of MasterVoices. tedsperling.net

MICHAEL YEARGAN (Scenic Design)

LCT: My Fair Lady  (Tony, Outer Critics Circle nominations), Oslo (Tony nom.), The King and I (Tony, OCC noms.), Golden Boy (Tony nom.), Blood and Gifts, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Tony nom.), South Pacific (Tony, Drama Desk awards; OCC nom.), Cymbeline, Awake and Sing! (DD Award, Tony nom.), Edward Albee’s Seascape, The Light in the Piazza (Tony, DD awards). Broadway: The Ritz, Bad Habits, A Lesson From Aloes, The Road to Mecca (Roundabout), Fiddler on the Roof (B’way revival) Credits Off-Broadway, in regional theater, London, ten productions at the Metropolitan Opera and work at major opera companies throughout the United States, Europe and Australia.

MIKIKO SUZUKI MacADAMS (Associate Set Designer)

Her design work has been seen Off Broadway and regional theatres all around the U.S. As an Associate set designer, she has worked on several Broadway, West End and US, UK and International tours. For her full credits, please visit mikikosmacadams.com.  Currently, she is a faculty member of Geffen Drama School at Yale.

CATHERINE ZUBER (Costume Design)

Broadway: Moulin Rouge, (Tony Award, Olivier Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award), Mrs. Doubtfire, My Fair Lady, (Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award), Oslo,  The Father, War Paint (Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award), King & I, (Olivier Award, TonyAward), Fiddler on the Roof, Golden Boy, South Pacific (Tony Award); The Coast of Utopia (Tony Award); The Light in the Piazza (Tony Award); Awake and Sing! (Tony Award); The Royal Family (Tony Award); Edward Albee’s Seascape; Gigi (Drama Desk Award) Doubt; Dinner at Eight. Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto, Porgy and Bess, Il Barbieri di Siviglia, Les Contes d’Hoffman, Comte Ory, L’elisir d’Amore, Otello, Dr. Atomic, Roméo et Juliette. 2016 Induction: Theater Hall of Fame. Oslo, film HBO.  

DONALD HOLDER (Lighting Design)

 Broadway:  Over fifty productions, two Tony awards (The Lion King and South Pacific) and fourteen Tony nominations. Recent projects include: Paradise Square, Tootsie, Kiss Me Kate, My Fair Lady, Oslo, Anastasia, She Loves Me, Fiddler On The Roof, The King and I, The Bridges Of Madison County, Golden Boy,  Spiderman, many others.  Film/TV: “Spirited” (Apple Studios), “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (Amazon Studios), Oceans 8 (Warner Bros. Pictures), “Smash” (NBC/Dreamworks). Graduate of the Yale School of Drama, Head of Lighting Design: Rutgers University.

MARC SALZBERG (Sound Design)

Broadway: Camelot  (co-design with Beth Lake), My Fair Lady (also London, UK and US tours), The Great Society (co-design with Paul James Prendergast), Oslo, Golden Boy (Tony nomination), Awake and Sing! (the latter three co-designed with Peter John Still), Fiddler on the Roof (1981 revival), Larry Gelbart’s Mastergate. Off-Broadway: The Hard Problem, Forever Plaid, Intimate Apparel. He sat behind the mixing desk as Production Soundman at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at New York’s Lincoln Center for 20 years, mixing 29 shows, including South Pacific, The Coast of Utopia, and The Light in the Piazza.

BETH LAKE (Sound Design)

Beth Lake is freelance Sound Designer and theater practitioner based in NYC. Recent credits: Kinky Boots (Bucks County Playhouse), Kiss My Aztec (Hartford Stage, with Jessica Paz), A Thousand Splendid Suns (US Tour), American Girl, Live! (US Tour), The Revolutionists, An Iliad (Gulfshore Playhouse). Broadway Associate: Pass Over,  Is This a Room?, Dana H, My Fair Lady, The Sound Inside, Intimate Apparel. M.F.A. UC-Irvine; Member USA829.

TOM WATSON (Hair and Wigs)

Tom Watson headed the wig/makeup department at the Metropolitan Opera for 17 years. He has designed more than 100  Broadway productions. Wicked, Rock of Ages, The King & I, Fiddler on the Roof, Oslo, Falsettos, The Little Foxes,  My Fair Lady, Plaza Suite, Parade and Spamalot revival.

ARC (CASTING
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150+ productions across the globe & 13 Artios Awards for Casting. Broadway/NY Past & Present Productions include: Life of Pi, Chicago the Musical, Disney’s The Lion King & Beauty and the Beast, Hadestown, Lost in Yonkers, Great Comet of 1812, Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes, 39 Steps, Pippin, La Cage aux Folles. TV/Film: Netflix, 20th Century Fox, NBC, Lionsgate, Disney Channel. West End/U.K.: Hadestown, Thriller Live, Menier Chocolate Factory. Tours: 1776, Hairspray, Waitress, Urinetown, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, Finding Neverland, Into the Woods, We Will Rock You. Regional: A.R.T., Berkeley Rep, Alley, Bay Street, Goodspeed, Hollywood Bowl, McCarter, Signature. ARC, Part of RWS Global. More info: castingbyarc.com IG: castingbyarc

ROBERT RUSSELL BENNETT (Orchestrations, 1894–1981)

Robert Russel Bennett orchestrated more than 300 Broadway musical scores including Show Boat; No, No, Nanette; Of Thee I Sing; Face the Music; Oklahoma!; Carmen Jones; Finian’s Rainbow; Kiss Me, Kate; South Pacific; The King and I; My Fair Lady; and Camelot. His arrangements for the 1955 film version of Oklahoma! earned him an Academy Award. He also orchestrated and arranged Richard Rodgers’ TV documentary score for “Victory at Sea.” A classically trained composer, Bennett’s prolific output of original compositions includes symphonies, sonatas, a ballet, a concerto and an opera.

PHILIP J. LANG (Orchestrations, 1911–1986)

Philip J. Lang was a musician, composer and music educator who taught at the graduate schools of music at the University of Michigan and the University of Colorado and was the orchestrator of more than 50 Broadway musicals including My Fair Lady and Camelot (with Robert Russell Bennett); Annie Get Your Gun; Applause; Hello, Dolly!; Carnival; and 42nd Street. Mr. Lang was an orchestrator for the Metropolitan Opera and a frequent musical arranger for television including Hallmark Productions, David Susskind, Radio City Music Hall and “The Tonight Show.”

TRUDE RITTMANN (Dance & Incidental Music Arrangements, 1908–2005)

Trude Rittmann amassed more than 50 Broadway credits as a choral and dance arranger including The Sound of Music, The King and I, South Pacific, My Fair Lady, Carousel, Finian’s Rainbow, Brigadoon, Paint Your Wagon and Peter Pan. A composer in her own right, she provided music for such shows as “Omnibus” and “Seven Lively Arts.”

JOSH CLAYTON (New Orchestrations)

Josh Clayton recently collaborated with Jonathan Tunick on the National Theatre of London’s revival of Follies. He provided new orchestrations for the US national tour and London productions of Lincoln Center’s Tony award-winning revival of The King and I.  Other orchestration credits include: Titanic (Signature Theatre), Brigadoon (Goodman Theatre), The New Yorkers and The Cradle Will Rock (New York City Center), On A Clear Day, Finian’s Rainbow, and Donnybrook (Irish Repertory Theatre). He is currently the Supervisor of Music Administration & Score Restoration for the New York City Center Encores! Series.

LARRY BLANK (New Orchestrations)

Larry's career has taken him across Theatre, TV and Film. He is a 3 time Tony Nominee for his orchestrations on Catch Me If You Can, White Christmas and The Drowsy Chaperone. To date he has received 6 Drama Desk Award nominations. Larry orchestrated and conducted FX's “Fosse/Verdon” and was Musical Director providing arrangements, orchestrations, and conducting Dolly Parton's “Christmas On The Square” for Warner Brothers/Netflix. Larry is the orchestrator for the upcoming musical, SINATRA and is presently the Resident Pops Conductor for the Pasadena Symphony and Pops.

TALITHA FEHR (Music Coordinator)

Talitha Fehr has worked on over 75 national and international productions and tours since 2005.  Highlights include: Sister Act, Mamma Mia!, School of Rock, Come Fly Away, Phantom of the Opera, Love Never Dies, and Priscilla Queen of the Desert as well as the 2010 Olympic Ceremonies in Vancouver.  She dedicates her work on My Fair Lady to the memory of her mentor, Sam Lutfiyya.

DAVID ANDREWS ROGERS (Music Director/Conductor)

David Andrews Rogers is thrilled to be Music Director and Conductor for this tour of My Fair Lady.  His other Broadway touring experience includes The Phantom of the Opera (Music Director/Conductor: World Tour, Associate Music Supervisor: Mainland China Tour), An American in Paris, The Wizard of Oz, Fiddler on the Roof, Chicago, Cats, Show Boat, and Les Misérables.  In Paris and Brussels, he was Music Director and Associate Music Supervisor for Le Magicien d’Oz.  DAR's additional conducting credits include the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, New York’s Lincoln Center, and Harlem’s legendary Apollo Theatre.  He has conducted and/or written orchestrations for Broadway stars and pop artists including Harvey Fierstein, Patti LuPone, Joel Grey, Sutton Foster, Kristin Chenoweth, Topol, Nell Carter, Debbie Gibson, Sheena Easton, Olivia Newton-John, and Theodore Bikel.  His other credits include over 150 productions in US regional theatre, symphony pops concerts, recordings, and numerous readings of new musicals. MaestroDAR.com 

REBECCA RADZIEJESKI (Production Stage Manager)

Rebecca Radziejeski has worked in fields as diverse as construction, public health, and copywriting, but her first home is the theatre. She is pleased to be returning to her second year with this tour. BA Washburn University, Université Blaise Pascal. Kocham ciÄ™ i dziÄ™kujÄ™, tata.

ZOE STEENWYK (Assistant Stage Manager)

Zoe Steenwyk is beyond excited to travel on her first national tour while sharing theatre with communities around the country.  Some of Zoe’s stage management credits include: La Cenerentola (Toledo Opera); Porgy and Bess (Opera Carolina); Carmen (Lyric Opera of Kansas City); The Baxter Sisters - World Premiere (Tipping Point Theatre).

JAMES A. WOODARD (Company Manager)

Tour Manager: 20 Years with Philip Glass and his associated projects. Co-Founder of Philip Glass´ Days And Nights Festival, Big Sur, CA. Company Manager:  Alaska Repertory Theatre, Anchorage, AK / Alliance Theatre, Atlanta, GA / La Jolla Playhouse, La Jolla, CA.

ABI STEINBERG (Assistant Company Manager)

Abi Steinberg is originally from Southern California (go halos!) and a proud graduate of Tufts University (go ‘bos!). Thank you to her family and dear friends for their loving support and care. Thank you to each city for sharing your home with us.

ANDREW TERLIZZI (General Manager)

Andrew Terlizzi comes to Crossroads Live after a 17-year touring career, 10 of which with TROIKA Entertainment. GM credits: My Fair Lady, Annie, Tootsie. CM credits: Tootsie, Escape to Margaritaville, Kinky Boots, Bodyguard the Musical, Cheers Live on Stage, The Wizard of Oz, Sister Act the Musical, Ghost: The Musical, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, West Side Story. He Holds a B.F.A. from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

GREGG DAMANTI (Production Manager)

A 23-year theater veteran, Gregg started as a Production Stage Manager for Busch Gardens, and later became the Production Manager for Blue Man Group in NYC. Since joining Crossroads Live, national tour credits include the first national of On Your Feet!, CATS, the first national of Lincoln Center’s My Fair Lady, and Pretty Woman. “Thanks to Jen and Ripley who I miss dearly while on the road, and love coming home to them both.”

DAVE BURCH (Technical Director)

Dave Burch began his career as a scenic fabricator before transitioning to touring Broadway theater, where he has worked for the past 13 years. His favorite touring credits include The Phantom of the Opera, World Tour and Mamma Mia! (where he met his wife during a scene change). He is originally from Savannah Ga., has traveled to 30 countries and when not on the road he lives in Florida with his wife, newborn twins and their cat.

CROSSROADS LIVE (Producer & Tour Management)

Crossroads Live brings together some of the world’s top producers of live entertainment, now all under one banner. With offices in London, New York, Washington, D.C., Sydney, and Melbourne—our global platform ensures the best-loved titles from Broadway and the West End can be embraced by audiences around the world. Crossroads Live North America, under the leadership of Angela Rowles, is an innovative, full-service theatrical production company delivering the Broadway experience to audiences in North America and beyond. Our 2023-2024 Season: Annie, Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas, My Fair Lady, Pretty Woman, The Phantom of the Opera (China).

THE BOOKING GROUP (Tour Booking Agency)

The Booking Group has represented 28 Tony Award® winning Best Musicals and Plays. Current tours include The Book of Mormon, Chicago, Come From Away, Dear Evan Hansen, Funny Girl, Hadestown, Hairspray, Hamilton, Mamma Mia!, Mean Girls, MJ The Musical, Mrs. Doubtfire, My Fair Lady, Pretty Woman, Six, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, To Kill A Mockingbird, Waitress and The Wiz. Future tours include: A Wonderful World, How to Dance in Ohio, The Karate Kid, Parade, Peter Pan Goes Wrong, Some Like It Hot and Sweeney Todd.

NEURO TOUR (Physical Therapy)

Carolyn Lawson PT, founder and CEO of NEURO TOUR and Neurosport Physical Therapy, leaders in performing arts and live entertainment medicine. We are honored to be part of the Cats, My Fair Lady, Tootsie, Annie, and The Grinch tours!  Grateful.

LINCOLN CENTER THEATER 

Lincoln Center Theater under the direction of André Bishop, is one of New York’s favorite not-for-profit theaters. Now in its 35th year, LCT has produced over 200 plays and musicals at the Vivian Beaumont, Mitzi E. Newhouse, and Claire Tow Theaters at Lincoln Center and other theaters on and off-Broadway, as well as touring productions nationally and around the world. LCT encourages emerging artists through play readings, workshops, an annual Directors Lab, and LCT3, which is devoted to producing the work of new playwrights, directors, and designers. Open Stages, LCT’s education program, reaches thousands of public school students annually with curriculum-related projects, tickets to LCT productions, and a Shakespeare Program. The theater is also the publisher of the Lincoln Center Theater Review, which explores subjects related to its productions.