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| MARK O'DONNELL (Book). Mark O'Donnell's plays include That's It, Folks!, Fables for Friends, and The Nice and the Nasty (all produced at Playwrights Horizons), and Strangers on Earth and Vertigo Park (both produced by Zena Group Theatre). He wrote the book and lyrics for the musical Tots in Tinseltown. Mr. O'Donnell collaborated with Bill Irwin on an adaptation of Moliere's Scapin. and he co-authored a translation of Feydeau's A Flea in Her Ear, both for the Roundabout. For Manhattan Theatre Club he translated Jean Claude Carriere's La Terrasse. He has published two collections of comic stories Elementary Education and Vertigo Park and Other Tall Tales (both Knopf) as well as two recent novels Getting Over Homer and Let Nothing You Dismay (both now in Vintage paperback). His humor, cartoons, and poetry have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Spy, The New Republic, and Esquire, among many others. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lecomte du Nuoy Prize, and the George S. Kaufman Award. Back to Top of Page |
| THOMAS MEEHAN (Book) won the 2001 Tony Award for co-writing the book for The Producers. He received his first Tony Award in 1977 for writing the book of Annie, which was his first Broadway show, and has since written the books for the musicals I Remember Mama, Ain’t Broadway Grand, Annie Warbucks and Broadway’s newest hit, Hairspray, for which he recently won his third Tony and has also co-written the book for the Broadway premiere of Bombay Dreams. He is currently working with Mel Brooks on the musical adaptation of Young Frankenstein. In addition, he is a long-time contributor of humor to The New Yorker, an Emmy-Award winning writer of television comedy, and a collaborator on a number of screenplays, including Mel Brooks’ Spaceballs and To Be or Not to Be. He and his wife, Carolyn, divide their time between a home in Nantucket and an apartment in Greenwich Village, near which, on Hudson Street, she owns and presides over the long-running and near-legendary children’s store, Peanut Butter and Jane. Mr. Meehan is a member of the Council of the Dramatists Guild. Back to Top of Page |
MARC SHAIMAN (Music and Lyrics/Arrangements) won both a Tony and a Grammy Award for the score to the smash hit Broadway Musical Hairspray. He has been nominated for The Academy Award five times, for the films Sleepless in Seattle, The American President, The First Wives Club, Patch Adams, and South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut. He has lost each and every time! In 2002, Marc was honored with the "Hollywood Outstanding Achievement in Music-In-Film" award at the 69th annual Hollywood Film Festival. They didn't send a car.
Marc has composed, adapted and arranged music, served as music supervisor and written lyrics for over 40 other films, including When Harry Met Sally, Beaches, Sister Act, City Slickers, The Addams Family, A Few Good Men, Sister Act, In & Out and George of the Jungle.
He started his career as Vocal Arranger for Bette Midler, eventually becoming her Musical Director and Co-Producer. His instincts, his ear and the fact that he is still a Bette Midler fanatic have enabled him to find and bring her the Grammy winning songs "Wind Beneath my Wings" and "From a Distance". But it is their collaboration on her Emmy Award winning performance for the penultimate Tonight Show with Johnny Carson which will always remain the highlight. Oh, he auditioned to play himself in her short-lived sitcom. He did not get the part. (I'm not making this up!)
He has been nominated two times for the Emmy Award, and is an actual Emmy Award winner for co-writing Billy Crystal's 'Oscar Medleys. Other Television credits besides "The Academy Awards" are "Saturday Night Live" (Emmy Nomination for Writing), HBO'S "From the Earth to the Moon", "61*" and he has also appeared as a guest on: "The Rosie O'Donnell Show", "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" and "The Martin Short Show".
Besides having won for Hairspray, Marc has been nominated for two other Grammy Awards for his work with Harry Connick, Jr. His gold, platinum, multi-platinum and Grammy winning albums include: South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, Bette Midler's Beaches, Some People's Lives, For the Boys, Bathhouse Betty, Harry Connick Jr's When Harry Met Sally and We Are in Love.
As musical director, producer or arranger, Mr. Shaiman has worked with a shocking variety of performers including: Peter Allen, Eric Clapton, Rosemary Clooney, Harry Connick Jr., Billy Crystal, The Harlettes, Lauryn Hill, Jennifer Holliday, Nathan Lane, Jenifer Lewis, Darlene Love, Patti LuPone, Andrea Martin, Lonette McKee, Bette Midler, Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short, Barbra Streisand, Donald Trump (!), Luther Vandross, Robin Williams and Raquel Welch! (Although not all at the same time!!)
Mr. Shaiman has appeared in many of the films he has worked on, including his scene stealing moments in: South Park, Beaches, Hot Shots and James L. Brooks' Broadcast News.
He resides in both New York City and Los Angeles with partner and collaborator Scott Wittman. Back to Top of Page |
| SCOTT WITTMAN (Lyrics). On Broadway, in concert, for television and in many a bo, he has conceived, written, and/or directed and collaborated with the following (are you sitting?)...Kristin Chenoweth, Jayne County, Sandy Duncan, Christine Ebersole, Dame Edna, Ellen Foley, Annie Golden, Debbie Gravitte, The High-Heeled Women, Allison Janney, Madeline Kahn, Lainie Kazan, Laura Kenyon (as Lainie Kazan), Nathan Lane, Ute Lemper, Darlene Love, Patti LuPone, Lypsinka, Ann Magnuson, Andrea Martin, Lonette McKee, Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Zora Rasmussen, John Sex, Martin Short, Elaine Stritch, Bruce Vilanch, Rufus Wainwright, Raquel Welch, Holly Woodlawn...and his most important partner, Marc Shaiman for 23 amazing years. He saw John Waters' Pink Flamingos at The Elgin Theatre with his friends Billy And Tracey in 1973, and has never been the same since. Back to Top of Page |
| JACK O'BRIEN (Director). B'way: The Full Monty (Tony nom.), The Invention of Love (Tony nom.), Pride's Crossing, The Little Foxes and Hapgood for LCT (Lucille Lortel Award for Direction, 1995); Labor Day (MTC); Getting Away With Murder by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth; Damn Yankees (Tony nom., Best Musical Revival); Two Shakespearean Actors (Tony noms., Best Director and Play); The Cocktail Hour, Porgy and Bess (Tony Award). Recent awards: 2001 Joan Cullman Award for Extraordinary Creativity; 2001 Joe A. Callaway Award (S.S.D.C.); Drama League's 2001 Julia Hansen Award for Excellence in Directing. Artistic Director: The Globe Theatres since 1981, where he's staged, among others, The Seagull, The Magic Fire, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Henry IV, Much Ado About Nothing, King Lear, Hamlet, and the world premieres of Terrence McNally's Up In Saratoga and A.R. Gurney's The Snow Ball. Opera credits: The Magic Flute, San Francisco Opera; Tosca, Santa Fe Opera; and Street Scene, NYC Opera. TV: "An Enemy of the People," "All My Sons," "Painting Churches," "The Skin of Our Teeth," among others, all for PBS' "American Playhouse." Back to Top of Page |
| JERRY MITCHELL (Choreographer) began his choreographic career as associate choreographer to Michael Bennett on Scandal and Jerome Robbins on Jerome Robbins' Broadway. Since that time he has established himself as a top working choreographer, acting as the staff choreographer for "The Rosie O' Donnell Show" and choreographing ABC's "Gepetto" starring Drew Carey. Emmy-nominated for choreographing "The Drew Carey Show," his memorable film work includes In and Out, Drop Dead Gorgeous and Scent of a Woman. He also choreographed the B'way revivals of The Rocky Horror Show (Drama Desk nomination) and You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown; Hedwig and the Angry Inch (on stage and film); nat'l tour of Jekyll & Hyde; and Paper Mill Playhouse's critically acclaimed Follies featuring Ann Miller. He conceives, directs and choreographs Broadway Bares, a comedy burlesque performed annually for the charity Broadway Cares. For his work on The Full Monty, Jerry received Tony Award, Drama Desk Award and Astaire Award nominations. Back to Top of Page |
| DAVID ROCKWELL (Scenic Designer). The show biz bug bit David at the tender age of nine when his mother, a former vaudeville dancer, cast him in a community theatre production of The King and I. Since then, he has gone on to do many things, most notably creating and leading the New York-based, 90-person architecture and design firm, Rockwell Group. Known for its theatrically inspired designs, the company includes among its recent projects the Kodak Theatre (Los Angeles), Mohegan Sun Casino (Uncasville, CT), Children's Hospital at Montefiore (Bronx), W New York and W Union Square Hotels (New York) and the Cirque du Soleil Theater (Orlando). The 2000 Broadway revival of The Rocky Horror Show marks David's set design debut. Named 1998 Designer of the Year by Interiors Magazine, he serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS (DIFFA) and also belongs to the boards of the Public Theater and City Meals on Wheels. Pleasure, the firm's first book, is to be released this October, documenting Rockwell Group's first eighteen years. More than anything else, his wife Marcia, son Sammy and he are ecstatic about the arrival of Baby Lola on April 25, 2002. Back to Top of Page |
| WILLIAM IVEY LONG (Costume Designer). Credits include The Producers; Seussical; The Man Who Came to Dinner; The Music Man; Susan Stroman and John Weidman's Contact; Swing!; Epic Proportions; The Civil War; Annie Get Your Gun; The Mystery of Irma Vep; Cabaret; Chicago New York, London, Melbourne, Vienna, Stockholm, Amsterdam; Steel Pier; 1776; Smokey Joe's Cafe New York, London, Las Vegas, tours; Crazy for You New York (Tony, Outer Critics Circle awards), London, Toronto (Dora Award), Tokyo; Guys and Dolls (Drama Desk Award); Madison Square Garden's annual A Christmas Carol; Six Degrees of Separation; Assassins (1991 Obie Award for outstanding achievement); Lend Me a Tenor (Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle awards); Nine (Tony, Drama Desk, Maharam awards); Robert Wilson's Hamletmachine; Leonard Bernstein's A Quiet Place and Trouble in Tahiti (Vienna State Opera, La Scala, Houston Grand Opera, Kennedy Center); The Lost Colony; Mick Jagger for the Rolling Stones' Steel Wheels tour; Siegfried and Roy at the Mirage Hotel; Paul Taylor; Twyla Tharp; Peter Martins; David Parsons; Susan Stroman. Back to Top of Page |
| KENNETH POSNER (Lighting Designer) Broadway: The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer (TONY, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Nominations), Swing!, You're a Good Man Charlie Brown, The Man Who Had All The Luck, The Goat, Uncle Vanya, Side Man (Lortel Award), The Lion in Winter, Little Me, A View From the Bridge (Drama Desk Nomination), The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Getting Away with Murder, The Little Foxes, The Rose Tattoo, The Father and The Rehearsal. Off-Broadway: The Wild Party (Lortel Award, Drama Desk, and Outer Circle Critics Nominations), The Play About The Baby, Tick-Tick-Boom, The Waverly Gallery, Pride's Crossing (Lortel Award), As Bees in Honey Drown, Cowgirls, The Food Chain, SubUrbia and numerous productions for Playwrights Horizons, The Public, Manhattan Theatre Club, Second Stage, The Vineyard, and Classic Stage Company. Opera credits include designs for the New York City Opera and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Back to Top of Page |
| STEVE C. KENNEDY (Sound Designer) was the production engineer on such Broadway shows as The Producers, Aida, Cats, Starlight Express, Song & Dance, The Phantom of the Opera, Carrie and Aspects of Love. His Broadway sound design credits include Aida, Titanic, Big, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Carousel and The Who's Tommy, for which he received the Drama Desk Award. Steve is married to actress Loni Ackerman and has two sons, Jack and George. Back to Top of Page |
| PAUL HUNTLEY (Wig & Hair Design) London born. Current Broadway shows include The Producers, Contact, Cabaret, The Crucible, Chicago, Noises Off, Fortune's Fool, Mamma Mia!, Thoroughly Modern Millie and Hairspray(upcoming). Recent movies include Enough (Jennifer Lopez). Back to Top of Page |
| JOHN WATERS (Consultant) One of the founders of the American independent film movement, transformed American cinema with his radical sensibility that gave us Pink Flamingos, the screen gimmick Odorama, the immortal Divine, the phenomenon of midnight movies, and Baltimore, Maryland as a film capital. As America's trash-auteur, author, social critic, debonair lover of the lurid, and provocateur, he has rejoiced in shocking and charming audiences throughout the world. Mr. Waters is the writer-director of the films Cecil B. Demented (2000), Pecker (1998), Serial Mom (1994), Cry-Baby (1990), Hairspray (1988), Polyester (1981), Desperate Living (1977), Female Trouble (1974), Pink Flamingos (1972), Multiple Maniacs (1970), and Mondo Trasho (1969). He is the author of four books: Shock Value, Trash Trio, Crackpot, and Director's Cut. Back to Top of Page |
| BERNARD TELSEY CASTING, C.S.A. (Casting) Bernie, Will, David, Heidi, Beth, Vicki, Craig, and Jaclyn thank: E. Albee, C. Ashley, P. Baldinu, E. Bogosian, J. Bonney, J. Dobrish, D. Esbjornson, R. Falls, R. Gilman, J. Gleason, R. Greenberg, M. Greif, P. Hedges, P.S. Hoffman, D. Ives, D. James, E. John, J. Kent, N. LaBute, M. Lamos, J. Lapine, J. Larson, M. Legrand, A. Long, C. Lucas, B. Luhrmann, E. Mann, T. Meehan, A. Miller, T.B. Nelson, J. O'Brien, R. O'Brien, M. O'Donnell, A. Phillips, C. Randolph-Wright, L. Redgrave, C. Renshaw, T. Rice, J. Sams, D. Schulner, M. Shaiman, W. Shook, D. Singer, J. Steinman, S. Unel, D. van Cauwelaert, G. Van Sant, D. Warren, S. Williford, J. Winfield, S. Wittman, DD, HSC, McCT, and MCC, for trusting us. Although we have our pride, we have been known to cast for food. Back to Top of Page |
| LOIS L. GRIFFING (Production Stage Manager). Broadway: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, All Shook Up, Aida, Chicago, Miss Saigon. National tours: Ragtime, Chicago, Carousel, Miss Saigon, Cats. Off-Broadway: The Common Pursuit. Other: The Foreigner (Chicago and San Francisco), Goodman Theatre (Chicago), La Jolla Playhouse, Northlight Theatre (Chicago). Back to Top of Page |
| HAROLD WHEELER (Orchestrations) From the time he conducted the B'way musical Promises, Promises to the year Dreamgirls won six Tony Awards, Harold Wheeler has been in the front ranks of entertainment as a conductor, composer, arranger and performer. Additional theatre credits as orchestrator and music supervisor include CoCo, Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Wiz, Little Me (Tony nom.), A Chorus Line, The Tap Dance Kid, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, Fame, The Life (Tony nom.), Side Show, Swing! (Tony nom.), The Full Monty. He acted as Musical Director for the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, and composed the score for the film Love! Valour! Compassion! He is married to actress/singer Hattie Winston. Back to Top of Page |
| LON HOYT (Music Director) has most recently been seen as music/conductor for The Rocky Horror Show. Other Broadway MD and conductor credits include Street Corner Symphony and Footloose. Off Broadway, he has conducted Forever Plaid, Song of Singapore, A Backer's Audition, Hit the Lights, and The Diva is Dismissed. Regional theater credits include Return to the Forbidden Planet, Blackbirds of Broadway, Calamity Jane, 42nd Street, and Anything Goes. As an actor, Lon has appeared in lead roles on Broadway in Tommy, Baby, Leader of the Pack, Starlight Express, and RockNroll! The First 5000 Years. He can be heard playing piano for Whoopi Goldberg in the film and on the soundtrack of Boys on the Side. Lon attended Cornell University to become a veterinarian, and ended up in show business. He still finds his degree in animal science useful for working on Broadway. Love to the 3 Ls. Back to Top of Page |
| JOHN MILLER (Music Coordinator) Recent Broadway: Thoroughly Modern Millie, Oklahoma!, Urinetown, By Jeeves, Producers, 42nd Street, Follies, A Class Act, Rocky Horror Show, Music Man, Beauty & the Beast, Fosse, Swing!, Parade, Footloose, Kat & the Kings, Scarlet Pimpernel, Smokey Joe's Cafe, Sound of Music, The Life, Titanic, Jekyll & Hyde, King and I, Once Upon a Mattress, Tommy, How to Suceed. Studio Musician (bass): Michael Jackson, Madonna, Portishead, Eric Clapton, BB King, Sinatra, Carly Simon, Celine Dion, Smashing Pumpkins, Pete Seeger, NY Philharmonic. Back to Top of Page |
| MATT LENZ (Assistant Director) previously Resident Director for Disney's Beauty and the Beast on Broadway and National Tour and Assistant Director on AIDA. Directing credits include: Scituate, Confidentially Cole, Hair, Twelfth Night, The Who's Tommy, Saint Heaven, The Amazing Adventures of Tense Guy and numerous workshops and readings. He is a member of the Lincoln center Director's Lab. Back to Top of Page |
| MICHELE LYNCH (Associate Choreographer) Broadway: The Full Monty (also London, nat'l tour), Urinetown, Victor/Victoria (performer). Other credits: "Sex in the City", EFX-Alive, Geppetto, Jekyll & Hyde (nat'l tour), "The Drew Carey Show", "Liberty Heights". Back to Top of Page |
ORCHESTRA AND ONSTAGE MUSICIANS:
Conductor: Lon Hoyt
Associate Conductor: Keith Cotton
Assistant Conductor: Seth Farber
Guitars: David Spinozza, Peter Calo; Keyboards: Lon Hoyt, Keith Cotton, Seth Farber; Electric Bass: Francisco Centeno; Drums: Clint de Ganon; Percussion: Walter “Wally” Usiatynski; Reeds: David mann, Dave Riekenberg; Trumpet: Bob Milliken; Trombone: Birch Johnson; Violins: Rob Shaw, Carol Pool; Cello: Sarah Hewitt Roth
Music Coordinator: John Miller
Onstage Musicians:
Guitar: Ashley Parker Angel; Keyboards: Michele Pawk; Glockenspiel: Kevin Meaney; Harmonica: Niki Scalera. Back to Top of Page |
| MARGO LION (Producer) Broadway producing credits: The Wedding Singer, Caroline or Change, Hairspray, Elaine Stritch at Liberty, The Crucible, Triumph of Love, Seven Guitars, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika, Jelly's Last Jam, and I Hate Hamlet. Off-Broadway: Indoor/Outdoor, Mnemonic, The Cryptogram, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, The Garden of Earthly Delights, How I Got That Story, George C. Wolfe's Harlem Song at the Apollo Theater. Television: Dinner With Friends (HBO). Ms. Lion is an adjunct professor at the NYU-Tisch School of the Arts and on the Board of Directors of the Labyrinth Theatre and The Non-Traditional Casting Project. Her productions have garnered 20 Tony Awards (including the 2003 Tony for Best Musical) and 1 Pulitzer Prize. She dedicates this show to the memory of her sister Patricia Lion Krongard, who shared her Baltimore childood and was a Hairspray zealot. Back to Top of Page |
| ADAM EPSTEIN (Producer) Credits include Arthur Miller's The Crucible, starring Liam Neeson and directed by Richard Eyre, Peter Shaffer's Amadeus (Broadway and London) directed by Peter Hall, the Tony-Award winning revival of Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge, and the long-running Boston incarnation of I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change. Adam has been nominated for the Tony Award twice, and his productions have garnered a total of 24 Tony nominations. Adam is also President of Bonmar Entertainment, a film production company. He's thankful for his wonderfully supportive parents, and for Margo Lion, for her unwavering support of his producing career. Back to Top of Page |
| THE BARUCH-VIERTEL-ROUTH-FRANKEL GROUP (Producer) Steven Baruch, Tom Viertel, Marc Routh and Richard Frankel have produced and general managed a wide range of plays and musicals on and off Broadway, in London and on tour for the past 18 years. Currently on Broadway and on tour: Hairspray, The Producers, Stomp and Little Shop of Horrors. Previous productions include Swing!, The Sound of Music, Smokey Joe's Cafe, The Weir, A Funny Thing..., 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, The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, Forever Tango, Damn Yankees, Jeffrey, Song of Singapore, Later Life and others. Their shows have been awarded 31 Tonys, 27 Drama Desk Awards, 20 Outer Critics Awards, 4 Grammys and 2 Pulitzers. They are the operators of the Arts Theatre in London's West End. Back to Top of Page |
| JAMES D. STERN / DOUGLAS L. MEYER (Producers) JAMES D. STERN - Brooks' Tony Award winner - THE PRODUCERS, Swing, The Sound of Music, The Diary of Anne Frank, starring Natalie Portman, The Weir, Anna Deveare Smith's Twilight: Los Angeles 1992, Lanford Wilson's Redwood Curtain Off-Broadway : Stomp, Alan Ayckbourn's thriller Communicating Doors, Bunny Bunny and Wild Men! Film: Stern directed and produced It's the Rage, and Michael Jordan to the Max. Stern is producing the IMAX film, Pulse: A Stomp Odyssey.
DOUGLAS L. MEYER fulfilled a dream by winning a Tony Award as a co-producer of The Producers. Other credits: Swing!, Wildmen, Bunny, Bunny. Mr. Meyer is a Senior Vice President of Investments and a Certified Financial Planner with Prudential Financial in Deerfield, Illinois. Doug thanks his family and friends for their constant support. Doug still can hear the bells when looking at his wife, Stacey, and son, David. Unfortunately, Doug has not needed Hairspray since the late 80's. Back to Top of Page |
| RICK STEINER/ FREDERIC H. MAYERSON (Producers) Every morning in Cincinnati when Rick drives his kids Ace and Duke to school, they sing "Good Morning Baltimore." Credits: six poker championships including the 1992 World Series of Poker 7-Stud High-Low event (Las Vegas) and the 1995 Diamond Jim Brady 7-Stud tournament (Los Angeles). Frederic H. Mayerson is Chairman of the Walnut Group which acquires and invests in consumer related products and business service companies. Other activities include real estate development, restaurants, and sports teams. He resides in Cincinnati and Amagansett. Rick and Fred have been co-producers of The Producers, Topdog/Underdog, Smokey Joe's Cafe, The Secret Garden, Into the Woods and Big River. Back to Top of Page |
| SEL (Producers) SEL is Australia's leading international entertainment producer. Its partners, David Coe, James Erskine, Tony Cochrane and Basil Scaffidi are all market leaders. In partnership with John Frost, SEL has produced many successful Australian productions including The Sound of Music, Annie, The Wizard of Oz and the Tony Award winning The King & I in London. SEL is also a leading sports management company being a 25% owner in the V8 Supercars (Australia's most popular motorsport) and consults to a number of international sporting organisations. Back to Top of Page |
| GFO -THE GORDON / FROST ORGANIZATION (Producer) John Frost is Australia’s most prolific theatrical producer. Successful productions include Jerry’s Girls; Big River; Grease! The Arena Spectacular; South Pacific; Hello Dolly!; The Secret Garden; Crazy for You; Smokey Joe’s Café; The Sound of Music; Annie; Man of La Mancha; Footloose; The Producers (Australian Production) and The King and I which won the 1996 Tony Award, Drama Desk Award and Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Revival. GFO is currently co-producing Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Sydney); The Phantom of the Opera and Wicked in Australia. Back to Top of Page |
| NEW LINE CINEMA (Producer) is one of the entertainment industry's leading independent producers and distributors of theatrical motion pictures. Among New Line's most beloved and recognized films are the Austin Powers series, Rush Hour 1 & 2, Boogie Nights, Seven, Dumb and Dumber, as well as last year's Academy Award-winning The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Over the years, New Line Cinema, through its Co-Chairmen Robert Shaye and Michael Lynne, has shared a special relationship with filmmaker John Waters, producing and distributing films such as Pink Flamingos, Polyester, Pecker, Female Trouble, Multiple Maniacs, and of course the acclaimed cult classic Hairspray. The Broadway version of Hairspray is New Line Cinema's first foray into theatre production. New Line Cinema is a subsidiary of AOL Time Warner, Inc. Back to Top of Page |
| LIVE NATION (Producer) is a leading live content and distribution company focused on creating superior experiences for artists, performers, corporations and audiences. Live Nation owns, operates or has booking rights for 150 venues worldwide and promoted or produced over 20,000 events in 2005. Current producing credits include: The Producers, Hairspray, The Woman in White, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and Spamalot on Broadway; an all-new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber'’s The Phantom of the Opera at The Venetian in Las Vegas; and National Tours of Dora The Explorer Live! and Barbie Live in Fairytopia. The theatrical division also presents Broadway Across America, www.BroadwayAcrossAmerica.com, an annual subscription series of top Broadway shows and theatrical entertainment in more than 50 markets across North America. Live Nation is listed on the New York Stock Exchange, trading under the symbol "LYV." More information about Live Nation and its businesses is available at www.LiveNation.com. Back to Top of Page |
| A. GORDON / E. McALLISTER (Producers) ALLAN S. GORDON - Broadway credits include Metamorphoses, The Crucible, Death of a Salesman (Tony Award), The Iceman Cometh, Rent (Tony Award) and the upcoming revival of Glengarry Glen Ross. Allan Gordon's career spans the fields of law, investment banking, real estate and venture capital. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School, a member of The New York Stock Exchange, and a trustee of New York Theatre Workshop.
ELAN V. McALLISTER - Broadway credits include Metamorphoses, The Crucible, The Iceman Cometh, and the upcoming revival of Glengarry Glen Ross. Ms. McAllister is the Managing Member of Dragonfly Productions, the Awards Chairman of The Allan S. Gordon Foundation, and a member of the League of American Theatres and Producers. She is a classically trained dancer, a natural childbirth advocate, and a birthing doula. Back to Top of Page |
| D. HARRIS / M. SWINSKY (Producers) DEDE HARRIS - Broadway: The Crucible (starring Liam Neeson), Elaine Stritch at Liberty-2002 Tony Award, Metamorphoses, Noises Off, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest-2001 Tony Award, Swing!, The Music Man, More To Love, A Big Fat Comedy. Off-B'way: The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, Theatre de Complicite's Mnemonic, Jonathan Larson's tick, tick...Boom! London: RSC's A Servant to Two Masters, Mamet's Boston Marriage, On an Average Day.
KARDANA SWINSKY PRODUCTIONS - Broadway: Chicago, Noises Off, The Crucible, Metamorphoses, Elaine Stritch at Liberty, The Graduate, and Urinetown, The Music Man, Annie Get Your Gun, Seussical, King Hedley II, The Who's Tommy, Hamlet, How to Succeed in Business...,Jelly's Last Jam, Guys and Dolls. Film: Dark Days, Boys Don't Cry, You Can Count on Me, Kissing Guido. Upcoming: Lift. Co-produced the concert version of "Sweeney Todd". Back to Top of Page |
| J. & B. OSHER (Producers) have been financial backers of The Producers, Smokey Joe's Cafe and Big River. Their greatest productions are Jay, Jill, Zachary, Jordan, and Jesse. John and Bonnie have also created and produced Stretch Armstrong, The Crest SpinBrush and The Giant Bubble Gun. Back to Top of Page |
| RHODA MAYERSON (Associate Producer) Credits: Big River, Into the Woods, The Secret Garden, Smokey Joe's Cafe, and The Producers. She has long been a patron of the arts and is active philanthropically through the Manuel D. and Rhoda Mayerson Foundation whose major thrusts are helping and supporting the rights of the disabled, children's diseases, education and cultural activities. She thanks her husband for affording her the privilege and joy of being involved in this endeavor. Back to Top of Page |
| ASPEN GROUP (Associate Producer) is comprised of Marc Epstein and Steven Esrick, Aspen based theatrical investors who are thrilled to be uniting together for Hairspray. Other credits include: I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change (Boston), The Crucible starring Liam Neeson, and the acclaimed revivals of Amadeus and A View From The Bridge. Back to Top of Page |
| DANIEL C. STATON (Associate Producer) is an entrepreneur and successful real estate developer having built many architecturally beautiful projects. He is on the boards of directors of several NYSE and private companies. He was an Associate Producer of Smokey Joe's Cafe. His avocations include romancing his bride Maria, and hugging his children, Arianna and George III. Back to Top of Page |
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