WHO’S WHO in the CAST
CORREY WEST (Swing) Broadway: Nice Work
If You Can Get It, South Pacifi c; National Tours:
Anything Goes (1st National), 42nd Street; N.Y.
Th eatre: Showboat (Lincoln Center), Th e Radio City
Christmas Spectacular; Regional Th eatres Include:
Virginia Stage Company, North Shore Music
Th eatre, Capital Rep, Cape Playhouse, Barrington
Stage Company, Riverside Th eatre, Pioneer Th eatre
Company.
ARTHUR WISE (Ensemble) Nat’l tour of My
Fair Lady. Regionally: Th e Unfortunates, Ah,
Wilderness! (ACT) Guys and Dolls (GLTF),
August Osage County (White Plains PAC), White
Christmas (Arkansas Rep). Graduated Baldwin
Wallace MT program and recent grad of ACT’s
MFA program. See him in the current reboot of Th e
Tick on Amazon.
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER (Producer,
Composer, Book and Orchestrations) When
Sunset Boulevard joined School Of Rock, Cats
and Th e Phantom Of Th e Opera on Broadway in
February 2017, Andrew Lloyd Webber became
the only person to equal the record set in 1953 by
Rodgers and Hammerstein with four Broadway
shows running concurrently. Other musicals he
has composed include Aspects Of Love, Joseph
and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus
Christ Superstar, Evita and Love Never Dies. His
production of School Of Rock is the fi rst British
musical to have world premiered on Broadway. He
has co-produced his own shows including Cats and
Th e Phantom Of Th e Opera and as a solo producer,
he presented the groundbreaking Bombay Dreams
which introduced the double Oscar®-winning
Bollywood composer AR Rahman to the Western
stage. He owns seven West End Th eatres including
the Th eatre Royal Drury Lane, the Palladium,
and most recently, the St James which reopened
this year as Th e Other Palace to provide a unique
London home for new musicals in development.
He is passionate about the importance of music
in education and the Andrew Lloyd Webber
Foundation has become one of Britain’s leading
charities supporting the arts and in 2016, the
foundation funded a major new national initiative
which endowed the American Th eatre Wing with
a $1.3 million, three-year grant to support theatre
education opportunities for underserved young
people and public schools across the U.S. His
awards, both as composer and producer, include
seven Tonys®, seven Oliviers, a Golden Globe®,
an Oscar, the Praemium Imperiale, the Richard
Rodgers Award for Excellence in Musical Th eatre,
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a BASCA Fellowship, the Kennedy Center Honor
and a Grammy® for Best Contemporary Classical
Composition for Requiem, his setting of the Latin
Requiem mass which contains one of his best
known compositions, Pie Jesu. He was knighted
by Her Majesty Th e Queen in 1992 and created an
honorary member of the House of Lords in 1997.
BEN ELTON (Book) Prolifi c author of numerous
No. 1 hit novels (including Stark, Gridlock, Popcorn
and Dead Famous) and award-winning television
comedy series (including Th e Young Ones, Th e Th in
Blue Line and Blackadder), Ben Elton is also one of
the U.K.’s most successful and infl uential stand-up
comics. He has also achieved success in television
and fi lm as an actor, writer and director. He wrote
and directed the fi lm Maybe Baby which starred
Hugh Laurie and Joely Richardson. He supplied the
book for and also directed We Will Rock You, the
colossal hit musical based on the songs of Queen,
which has played to millions of people worldwide.
With Andrew Lloyd Webber, he wrote book and
lyrics for Th e Beautiful Game which won the
London Critics’ Circle Award for Best Musical and
which they have recently re-worked as Th e Boys
in the Photograph, a production of which Ben has
directed himself in Canada.
GLENN SLATER (Book) is a three-time Tony®
nominee for the international hit musicals Th e
Little Mermaid, Sister Act, and School of Rock, and
a co-creator of Disney’s worldwide smash Tangled
(Grammy® Winner, Oscar® and Golden Globe®
noms). With frequent collaborator Alan Menken,
he wrote the songs for the current Broadway hit
A Bronx Tale, as well as the animated comedy
Sausage Party, Disney’s Home On Th e Range, and
Broadway’s Leap of Faith; for TV, the team penned
the ABC cult series Galavant (Emmy® nominee)
and the Disney Channel’s Tangled: Th e Series.
Most recently, Glenn wrote the book for Beatsville
(with composer/lyricist/wife Wendy Wilf), which
debuted at Sarasota’s Asolo Rep.
FREDERICK FORSYTH (Book) Having been
the youngest pilot in the Royal Air Force at the
age of 19, Frederick Forsyth went on to a career in
journalism which saw him working for Th e Eastern
Daily Press and, during the 1960s, for Reuters and
the BBC in Paris, East and West Germany and
Czechoslovakia. As a freelancer, he reported from
the Nigeria-Biafran confl ict. He is best known as
the author of highly successful thrillers including
Th e Day of the Jackal, Th e Odessa File, Th e Dogs