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, 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 is the Resident Director at Lincoln Center Theater, where he won a Tony Award for his production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific (which he also directed in London and Australia); and was nominated for Tony Awards for his LCT productions of My Fair Lady, Oslo (2017 Tony Award for Best Play, Obie Award, also National Theatre, London), Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The King and I (also London), Golden Boy, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Awake and Sing!, and The Light in the Piazza. His other LCT productions include Blood and Gifts and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (also London). Broadway: Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird (Tony nom.), Fiddler on the Roof (Drama Desk Award), The Bridges of Madison County. Off-Broadway: Waste (Best Play Obie Award), Cymbeline (Callaway Award, also Royal Shakespeare Company), Don Juan, Pericles (TFANA, BAM). He was the Artistic Director of Seattle’s Intiman Theatre (2000–2009) and was previously Company Director for the Guthrie Theater and Associate Artistic Director at Hartford Stage. Opera: Rigoletto (Staatsoper); Roméo et Juliette (Metropolitan Opera, Salzburg, Milan, Chicago); Faust (Baden Baden); Two Boys (ENO, Metropolitan Opera); Barbiere di Siviglia (Baden Baden, Metropolitan Opera); Otello, Il Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Le Comte Ory, L’Elisir d’Amore (Metropolitan Opera); Mourning Becomes Electra (Seattle Opera, New York City Opera). He serves on the board of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. Bart is currently directing a chamber opera production of Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel at Lincoln Center Theater, with a score by Ricky Ian Gordon. His film of Oslo premiered on HBO in May.
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!”
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); 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. www.tedsperling.net
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.
Broadway: Moulin Rouge, (Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award), Mrs. Doubtfire, My Fair Lady, (Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award), Oslo, Junk, 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: 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.
Broadway: Over fifty productions, two Tony awards (The Lion King and South Pacific) and thirteen Tony nominations. Recent projects include: 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: “The Marvelous Maisel” (Amazon Studios), Oceans 8 (Warner Bros. Pictures), “Smash” (NBC/Dreamworks). Graduate of the Yale School of Drama, Head of Lighting Design: Rutgers University.
Broadway: My Fair Lady, 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.
Robert Russell 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 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 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 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.
On Broadway, John has conducted My Fair Lady, Fiddler on the Roof, On the Town, An American in Paris. 12+ shows with the acclaimed City Center Encores! Series (Associate MD): Brigadoon, Me and My Girl, Lady Be Good, The New Yorkers and more. At the Irish Repertory Theatre, John has been Music Supervisor/Director for Finian’s Rainbow, On A Clear Day You Can See Forever, Meet Me in St. Louis. Other New York credits: Ordinary Days, Marry Me A Little, Radio City Christmas Spectacular, and Candide. He holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Ithaca College, and a Master’s in Music from the City University of New York.
Talitha Fehr has worked on over 75 national and international tours and productions in the past 15 years. Highlights include Sister Act, Mamma Mia!, School of Rock, Come Fly Away, Love Never Dies, and the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Ceremonies. She dedicates her work on My Fair Lady to the memory of Sam Lutfiyya.
LCT: My Fair Lady, The King and I, South Pacific. Broadway as music coordinator: Hadestown, Come From Away, Fiddler on the Roof, Mary Poppins, CATS, Jesus Christ Superstar, Bonnie and Clyde. Broadway as music director: The Phantom of the Opera. Multiple Grammy winner (West Side Story and Hadestown), 8-time Grammy nominee, Emmy Award winner. Producer credits include Joshua Bell, Renee Fleming, Itzhak Perlman, Placido Domingo, Lang Lang, Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea.
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Tom Watson headed the wig/makeup department at the Metropolitan Opera for 17 years. He has designed more than 90 Broadway productions including Wicked, Rock of Ages, The King & I, Fiddler on the Roof, Oslo, Falsettos, The Little Foxes, Junk, The Parisian Woman, My Fair Lady, King Kong, All My Sons and Great Society.
Broadway: My Fair Lady, The Hard Problem, Oslo, Coast of Utopia, Macbeth, Cymbeline, The Rivals, Henry IV, The Invention of Love, Twelfth Night, Ivanov, Racing Demon, Arcadia, Noises Off, Rock n’ Roll, The Elephant Man, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Retreat From Moscow, Tommy, and Me and My Girl. Off-Broadway includes Sore Throats, The Skriker and Cloud Nine.
Selected Associate/Assistant Directing: To Kill a Mockingbird (Broadway); Fiddler on the Roof (Broadway; Broadway national tour). The King and I (London Palladium; Broadway national tour). My Fair Lady (LCT). The Guthrie Theater (12 years); Arena Stage; Denver Center Theatre; Seattle Repertory Theater; Steppenwolf at Lincoln Center Theater; The Acting Company; Playwrights Horizons; Hartford Stage. Selected Directing: Guthrie Theater; Idaho Shakespeare Festival; Intiman Theater; Great Lakes Theater; Portland Stage; Shakespeare Santa Cruz; Minnesota Orchestra; Houston Symphony; St. Louis Symphony; Pittsburgh Symphony; St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.
Broadway Associate: Dear Evan Hansen, The Cher Show, My Fair Lady, SpongeBob SquarePants, War Paint, If/Then. West End Associate: Dear Evan Hansen, Wicked. International Supervisor: Wicked. Film/TV Associate: Isn’t It Romantic?, “Schmigadoon!” Other: Assassins (Associate, NYC Encores!), In Your Arms (Associate, The Old Globe), Joseph...Dreamcoat (Choreographer, Casa Mañana), Dancin’ Broadway (Choreographer, Tour) www.markmyars.com
National Tours: CATS, Love Never Dies, An American in Paris, 42nd Street, Annie, GHOST, Catch Me if You Can, Grease, Peter Pan 360, Jesus Christ Superstar, RENT, Oklahoma!, A Chorus Line, Copacabana. International Tours: An American in Paris, 42nd Street, The Sound of Music, and Thomas & Friends.
Touring: Realish Housewives (The Second City), Fun Home, An American in Paris. Chicago: Nickel & Dimed, Take Me Out, Cherry Orchard (Steppenwolf); Wicked, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Altar Boyz. TV/Film: The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Steve Harvey Show, The Other Woman, Money Monster and The Wolf of Wall Street.
Regional highlights: American Mariachi, Poor Yella Rednecks, Little Black Shadows (South Coast Repertory), The Cake (Geffen Playhouse), The Cake (Echo Theater Company), With Love and a Major Organ (Boston Court), What You Are (The Old Globe). Trained at CSULB and The London Academy of Music And Dramatic Art.
Recent tours: CATS, Love Never Dies, On Your Feet!, An American in Paris. Selected Chicago GM credits: Christopher Wheeldon’s Nutcracker, Old Jews Telling Jokes, Million Dollar Quartet, Don’t Dress for Dinner, Bleacher Bums, Driving Miss Daisy, Shirley Valentine, Steel Magnolias. Broadway credits: Carrie, Quilters, Asinamali, Showboat.
Troika Entertainment has been an innovator in touring musical theater for over three decades. TROIKA Entertainment brings the Broadway experience to communities around the world; uniting, inspiring and celebrating our audiences, our employees, and our partners through the magic and energy of live theater. Current productions include CATS, The Phantom of the Opera, Escape to Margaritaville, TOOTSIE, My Fair Lady, Annie, and Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Please visit us at www.troika.com.
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.
Nederlander Presentations is a production division of the multinational theatrical entities owned by James L. Nederlander. Prominent for three generations in management and operation of theatres and productions of distinguished entertainment, they have produced innumerable plays, musicals, operas, ballets and concerts. The Nederlanders also own a notable chain of legitimate theatres. Currently in their Broadway venues are Wicked, Disney’s The Lion King, Hamilton, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, and Six The Musical.