MUSICIANS​

BRUCE DOCTOR (Drums/percussion) – Broadway: New York, New York, Anastasia, The Visit, Bullets Over Broadway, The Nance, The Scottsboro Boys, Curtains, The Wild Party (LaChiusa), Ragtime, Steel Pier, Gypsy (Tyne Daly), Legs Diamond, Harrigan ‘n’ Hart, Tintypes, The Boys from Syracuse, Company, and She Loves Me (1993). International: Peter Pan (Moscow) and Guys and Dolls (Macau).

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MACKENZIE CONROY (Reed One) is a New York City based woodwind doubler. For the past three years she has held a chair in Radio City’s Christmas Spectacular show and subbed on Broadway shows including The Great Gatsby and Smash. She holds a master’s degree in Multiple Woodwinds from New Jersey City University.​​

MIKE WEBB (Reed Two) ​​​​is a woodwind specialist performing primarily in the NYC area. He can be heard as a substitute musician in the orchestras of Wicked, Aladdin, MJ and the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. New Jersey born and raised, he attended both Rutgers University and New Jersey City University prior to his career as a NYC musician.

                            CREATIVE TEAM

MICHAEL COLBY (Book and Lyrics) is the librettist/lyricist of such musicals as Charlotte Sweet (Drama Desk Award nomination), Tales of Tinseltown, North Atlantic (Show Business Award), Slay It with Music (off-Broadway and London), Mrs. McThing, They Chose Me! and Ludlow Ladd. He was chief writer for the Drama Desk Award-winning New Amsterdam Theatre Company and has been a writer for The NY Festival of Song and Theatre by the Blind. Michael’s movie credits include writing the title song for the film Heart of the Beholder. He currently serves as Vice President of the acclaimed Off-Broadway company, Urban Stages. There, he has written, produced, and often hosted annual benefits for their Winter Rhythms series. These include: The Algonquin Kid, Ludlow Ladd in Concert, Other Lives: The Story Songs of Michael Colby (also an album from JAY Records), The Algonquin Retrospective (Nights at the Algonquin and Created at the Algonquin), Holiday Regards (MAC Award nomination), and the upcoming Cast of Characters.

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GERALD JAY MARKOE (1941-2009) (Composer) was a classically trained musician with a wide variety of experience in music for theatre, popular music, world music, and music for yoga and meditation. His formal training was at the Juilliard and Manhattan Schools of Music (Bachelor, Masters degrees). His scores for Off- and Off-Off- Broadway include: Charlotte Sweet, (Michael Colby, librettist); Ludlow Ladd (Michael Colby, librettist); Happy Haunting (Michael Colby, librettist); and Delphi Or Bust. Markoe also wrote background music for productions of Faust, Indulgences in the Louisville Harem, and He Who Gets Slapped. His children’s musicals include: Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella Update, The Black Princess, The Alchemists Book, Punch and Judy, The Forgotten Treasure, and Androcles and the Lion.

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JEFF CALHOUN (Director) Broadway: Disney’s Newsies (Director, Tony Award nomination Best Direction), Bonnie and Clyde (Director/Choreographer), Jekyll and Hyde (Director/ Choreographer), Deaf West’s Big River (Director/Choreographer), Brooklyn (Co-Producer, Director/Choreographer), Annie Get Your Gun (Co-Choreographer), Grease! (Director/ Choreographer, Tony Award nomination Best Choreography), Tommy Tune Tonite! (Director /Choreographer) The Will Roger’s Follies (Associate Choreographer), My One and Only. Off-Broadway: Between the Lines (Director/Choreographer), Tappin’ Thru Life (Director). West End: 9 to 5 (Director), High School Musical 1 and 2 (Director). Upcoming: Deaf West’s Elephant Shoes (Two River Theatre, Director/Choreographer), A Complicated Woman (Director/Choreographer). Jeff is an associate artist at Ford’s Theatre and Covenant House International where he a member of the Latin American Board of Directors.

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MICHAEL LAVINE (Music Director) has worked as a musical director, pianist, vocal coach and singer all over the world. He musically directed a concert of the works of Stephen Schwartz, featuring Stephen himself, and produced and musically directed Rediscovered Hamlisch, a CD of previously unrecorded songs by Marvin Hamlisch, featuring Kelli O’Hara and other Broadway stars. Michael conducted The Little Mermaid at Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, starring Emily Skinner, musical directed Comden and Green’s Billion Dollar Baby and Burton Lane’s Carmelina Off-Broadway at the York Theatre. He has shared the stage with Mimi Hines and Peter Howard (his mentor) in This Funny World (a Rodgers and Hart revue) at the Kennedy Center. Michael also regularly plays for the Outer Critic's Circle Awards in New York. A graduate of Columbia University, Michael owns one of the larger privately held sheet music collections in the world. In addition, Michael gives master classes on the performance of songs and auditioning in New York, Los Angeles, Moscow, Switzerland, Bangkok, Australia, Singapore, Manila, Martha's Vineyard and other locations. www.michaellavine.net

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​ASHER DENBURG (Music Director) Broadway: Jeff Ross: Take A Banana for the Ride (original music and music direction). National tours: A Beautiful Noise, Spamilton, Cirque Musica Holiday Spectacular. Orchestrations and Supervision: Never Sleep Alone (Virgin Voyages and The Box), Shanghai Sonatas (Wallis Annenberg, World Premiere in concert). Ghostwriter for the Boston Pops, Chicago Symphony.  ​

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STEPHEN DeANGELIS (Casting Director) has cast over 100,000 performers across all entertainment mediums. He has also created, produced and directed over three hundred different concerts in New York and across the country. He dedicates his role in this production to the memory of the show's original casting director, the late Roger Sturtevant.

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J.P. ELINS (Stage Manager) Credits include Broadway, Off-Broadway, National Tours and Regional. Representative shows and theaters:  Kowalski, Ann, Frost/Nixon, The Lion King, Show Boat, Chicago, Joseph-Dreamcoat, Titanic, The Secret Garden, Cuba and His Teddy Bear, Hapgood, The Belle of Amherst, Nunsense, The Woman in Black ; Stratford Festival Canada, Shakespeare and Company, GeVa.

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BENJAMIN A. VIGIL (Assistant Stage Manager, he/they) is a NYC-based stage manager and actor. Broadway: Neil Simon's Plaza Suite. Regional: Chicago, Joseph (The Muny). Select SM credits: Truth and Reconciliation of Womyn (Tonya Pinkins); Freedom Riders, Bayard, and Walt and Roy (Allen and Gray); Home Sweet Homeland, Keaton and the Whale (Amas Musical Theatre); Vietnam..Through My Lens (LSNelson Productions). Thanks so much to family and everyone who has helped along the way! Please consider donating to an organization to help protect all individuals who call this country home.
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A.R.T./NY (Venue) Established in 1972 by an innovative collective, A.R.T./New York has matured into an indispensable cornerstone for over 475 theatres and more than 150 individual producers and artists throughout all five boroughs of New York City and across the state. As the singular membership organization dedicated to encompassing New York’s entire not-for-profit theatre sector, A.R.T./New York’s reach extends from playwriting collectives and developmental labs to producing organizations and pioneering independent artists. A.R.T./NY continues to serve the field through four essential service areas — Funding, Space, Professional Development and Advocacy — in order to help theatremakers put their creative ideas on stage.

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