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...is not only the reigning queen of country music but an iconic songwriter, musician, movie star and entrepreneur as well. She has sold more than 100 million records worldwide, won countless awards including eight CMA and seven Grammy Awards, has taken more than 20 songs to No. 1 and recorded 42 top 10 country albums. Her film career includes 9 to 5, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Rhinestone, Steel Magnolias and Straight Talk. In 1999, she was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. In 2001 she was inducted into the National Academy of Popular Music’s Songwriters Hall of Fame and in 2007 the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame gave her their Johnny Mercer Award. Dolly was awarded the Kennedy Center Honor in 2006. She continues to tour extensively and release albums at a prolific rate. Dolly is also proud to be a successful author and creator of the Imagination Library which provides books to pre-school children. It currently operates in all 95 counties in Tennessee and has expanded into 839 communities in 46 states, plus D.C., Canada and Europe. And last but not least, Dollywood — her very own theme park — flourishes in Tennessee.

Films: 9 to 5 (WGA nomination), A Wedding (WGA nomination, British Academy Award nomination) and Quintet (the latter two for director Robert Altman), Maxie, and Straight Talk which reunited her with Dolly Parton. Television work includes Hell On Heels: The Battle of Mary Kay which garnered Golden Globe nominations for Shirley MacLaine and Parker Posey. She recently Executive-Produced a 2009 animated series for Nick Jr. based on Olivia, the Caldecott Honor’s children’s book. Theatre work includes sketches for Lily Tomlin’s first one-woman Broadway show, Appearing Nightly, and a stage musical adaptation of her own PBS movie, Ladies in Waiting for the Chicago Lyric Opera House. Favorite screen appearance was as herself in The Player. Ms. Resnick is currently writing a memoir entitled Dancing with Nancy Reagan. She’d like to thank Tomlin, Altman and Fonda for being willing to take a chance on her, her children for putting up with seeing less of her and NutriFit for making sure there is now less of her to see by helping her lose 95 pounds by the opening of 9 to 5: The Musical.

Directing credits include November, The Receptionist, The Ritz, Blackbird, Three Days of Rain, The Odd Couple, Glengarry Glen Ross (Tony nomination), Laugh Whore, Assassins (Tony Award), Wicked, Take Me Out (Tony Award), Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, A Man of No Importance, Design for Living, Terrence McNally and Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking for the San Francisco Opera, The Vagina Monologues, bash, Another American: Asking and Telling, Love! Valour! Compassion! (Tony nomination), Proposals, The Mineola Twins, Corpus Christi, Mizlansky/Zilinsky, Blue Window, God’s Heart, The Santaland Diaries, Snakebit, Three Hotels, Imagining Brad. Mr. Mantello also directed the film Love! Valour! Compassion! As an actor: Angels in America (Tony nomination) and The Baltimore Waltz. He is a recipient of Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Helen Hayes, Clarence Derwent, Obie and Joe A. Callaway Awards. He is a member of Naked Angels and an associate artist at Roundabout Theatre Company.

Mr. Blankenbuehler won a 2008 Tony Award for his choreography in the Tony Award winning Best Musical In The Heights (also Lortel Award, Calloway Award, Outer Critics Award and Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Choreography). He also choreographed the Broadway revival of The Apple Tree and the West End production of Desperately Seeking Susan. Other recent projects include Waiting For The Moon (music by Frank Wildhorn), the world premiere of the musical A Little Princess (music by Andrew Lippa), the Paper Mill Playhouse production of A Wonderful Life, as well as the off-Broadway play Burleigh Grimes (music by David Yazbek). He conceived, directed and choreographed the hit Caesars Palace production Nights On Broadway and has appeared as a guest choreographer on So You Think You Can Dance. As a performer, Mr. Blankenbuehler has danced on Broadway in Fosse, Contact, Man of La Mancha, Saturday Night Fever, Steel Pier, Big and Guys and Dolls.

...is Music Supervisor/Arranger of the original Broadway and worldwide productions of Wicked and Avenue Q, which he also orchestrated. He was Music Supervisor, Vocal Arranger/Co-Orchestrator of All Shook Up and Vocal Arranger of High Fidelity, both on Broadway. Off-Broadway, Stephen was Music Supervisor, Vocal Arranger/Orchestrator of tick, tick…BOOM! and Music Director of Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party. Other credits include Music Director/Conductor for Rufus Wainwright Sings Judy Garland at Carnegie Hall at Carnegie Hall, the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, the Palladium in London, and the Olympia in Paris; Music Director/Conductor of Jerry Springer — The Opera at Carnegie Hall; and Music Director for Rent National Tour. He is a graduate of Berklee College of Music.  

Broadway: The Light in the Piazza (Tony and Drama Desk awards), Guys and Dolls (2009 revival), Grey Gardens, Urinetown, The Wild Party, Annie Get Your Gun, On the Town, The Sound of Music, Triumph of Love, Once Upon a Mattress, King and I. Off-Broadway: Happiness, Mother Courage, See What I Wanna See, Floyd Collins, Regional: The Grapes of Wrath (opera), Princesses, Children of Eden, Candide (Royal National). Coming up: Giant.

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is the Music Director and Tony-winning Orchestrator for In The Heights on Broadway.  He also won a 2009 Grammy for producing the In The Heights cast album. Other credits as Music Director, Arranger, and/or Orchestrator: Wicked, High Fidelity, Bat Boy: The Musical, the 2001 Nat'l Tour of Godspell, Captain Louie, Working, and Legally Blonde. This summer, he’ll serve as Music Director for The Wiz at CityCenter Encores! Love to Mom, Dad, Little Sis, and Ileana.

 

has music directed/supervised twelve Broadway shows, including:  The Color Purple, Les Miserables, Fiddler, Nine, Titanic, On the Town, Sunset..., Oklahoma!, Threepenny..., Tale of Two Cities.  National Tours:   TCP, Titanic, Miz,  Phantom,  Saigon, Martin Guerre.   Cast recordings:  Fiddler, Nine, Titanic, TCP.  Film:   Reefer Madness.   Guest Artist:  Hollywood Bowl, Grant Park Symphony.

composer, arranger, cellist, pianist and conductor is currently the associate conductor for Lincoln Center’s South Pacific. B’way: The Color Purple, Miss Saigon, The Threepenny Opera, Fiddler on the Roof, Oklahoma. Regional: Flower Drum Song (Awarded Best Musical Direction, Backstage West Garland Awards). Natl. tours: Les Miserables, Miss Saigon

...recently designed Terrence McNally’s The Ritz and David Mamet’s November (both directed by Joe Mantello). Other Broadway credits include Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Drama Desk Award, Tony and Outer Critics Circle nominations), Cry-Baby The Musical, The Coast of Utopia (Tony, Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk Awards), The Pillowman (Tony Award, Outer Critics Circle nomination), The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Vertical Hour, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, The Wedding Singer (Drama Desk nomination), Kiki and Herb, Nine (2004), Take Me Out (Drama Desk nomination), Sweet Charity (2005, Drama Desk nomination), La Cage aux Folles, Little Shop of Horrors, Amour, Urinetown (Lortel nomination). Selected Off-Broadway: Blackbird (Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel nominations), The Mineola Twins (Lortel Award, Hewes Design Award), bash (all directed by Mantello); and Howard Katz. London: LoveSong (West End), bash (Almeida Theatre); scenery and costumes for On an Average Day (West End), Tales From Hollywood (Donmar), The Pillowman (National Theatre) and Albert Herring (Opera North). Scott had his Metropolitan Opera debut this year with Peter Grimes.

...currently has three shows running on Broadway: Young Frankenstein, Hairspray (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards), Chicago. New York credits include The Ritz, Curtains, Grey Gardens (Tony Award), The Producers (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards), La Cage aux Folles (Hewes Award), Little Shop of Horrors, The Boy From Oz, Cabaret, Contact (Hewes Award), The Music Man, Swing, Smokey Joe’s Café, Crazy For You (Tony, Outer Critics Circle Awards), Guys and Dolls (Drama Desk Award), Lend Me a Tenor (Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards), Nine (Tony, Drama Desk, Maharam Awards). Other: Paul Green’s The Lost Colony, Mick Jagger for the Rolling Stones’ Steel Wheels tour, Siegfried and Roy at the Mirage Hotel,  The Pointer Sisters at Caesars Palace.  Mr. Long was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in January 2006.  Hats off to Ann Roth, the legendary designer of the original film of 9 to 5.

Designer Peter Nigrini integrates moving images and live performance. Recent work: Dido and Aeneas (Handel Haydn Society), Blind Date (Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance), Haroun and the Sea of Stories (New York City Opera), Say Goodnight Gracie (Broadway), Sweet Bird of Youth (Williamstown), Biro (Public Theater), No Dice (Nature Theatre of Oklahoma), The Orphan of Zhao (Lincoln Center Festival), Angels in America (Fort Worth Opera) and Fela! (off-Broadway). Fine art projects include Local Currencies: Diogenes/Barnum, (ICA London/SF MoMA) and Cosmicomics, (Sequitur Ensemble).

JULES FISHER (Lighting Designer) AND PEGGY EISENHAUER (Imaging) have received Broadway’s Tony Award for Best Lighting eight times and 25 nominations. In the music industry they have created spectacular visuals and lighting for Whitney Houston; The Rolling Stones; David Bowie; Crosby, Stills & Nash; Neil Young’s Harvest Moon Tour and his current Chrome Dreams World Tour; as well as the record-breaking Simon & Garfunkel reunion concert in Central Park. For film, Fisher and Eisenhauer designed theatrical lighting for Rob Marshall’s Chicago, Susan Stroman’s MARQUIS: 9 TO 5, The Producers, Richard Linklater’s School of Rock, Bill Condon’s Dreamgirls and the upcoming rock film Neil Young’s Trunk Show directed by Jonathan Demme. Their studio, Third Eye, conceives and designs lighting for all forms of entertainment.

Broadway designs include The Coast of Utopia (Shipwreck; Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards); Wicked, Hairspray, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Tony nominations); Legally Blonde, Grease 2008 Revival, The Homecoming, The Pirate Queen; The Odd Couple; Glengarry Glen Ross; Little Woman; The Frogs; Imaginary Friends; Swing!; Charlie Brown; The Goat; Uncle Vanya; Side Man; The Lion in Winter; Little Me; A View From the Bridge; The Last Night of Ballyhoo; The Little Foxes; and The Rose Tattoo. Recipient of the 2003 Obie for Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design.

...was born in New Caledonia and was raised in Australia.  He graduated from Stanford University, served three years in the Army, studied at the Sarbonne and wrote Harold and Maude as his master’s thesis at UCLA film school. He wrote Silver Streak, wrote and directed Foul Play, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, and co-wrote and directed to 9 to 5. He also co-wrote and co-produced with Shirley MacLaine the TV mini-series based on her book, Out on a Limb. After his death in 1988, the Colin Higgins Foundation carries on his humanitarian concerns.

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Broadway sound design credits include The Little Mermaid, Tarzan, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, In My Life, Billy Crystal’s 700 Sundays, Julia Sweeney’s God Said “Ha!” He is also credited as the associate sound designer for Broadway and worldwide productions of Mary Poppins, The Lion King, The Producers, Hairspray, Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida, Titanic, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Big, The Who’s Tommy, Guys and Dolls and The Buddy Holly Story. Other credits include work on various productions of Ace, Savion Glover, Dionne Warwick and Burt Bacharach and Gregory Hines. John is married to singer/songwriter Catherine Porter with whom he has a daughter, Ruby.