WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST
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TROIKA in 1999, Buck was vice president and
general manager for Livent in Toronto. While
working for Livent, he managed productions
such as Fosse, Ragtime, Show Boat, Music of
the Night, and Kiss of the Spider Woman. Buck
was a stage manager for more than 20 years,
surviving a year with Mary Martin and Carol
Channing in Jimmy Kirkwood’s Legends!, a
year in Japan with Siegfried & Roy, opening
The Phantom of the Opera Music Box Company
and opening Show Boat! on Broadway. Since
beginning as an apprentice with The Kenley
Players in the late ’60s, he has had the privilege
of working closely with visionaries such as
Twyla Tharp, Susan Stroman, Hal Prince, Joe
Layton & Josh Logan, plus hundreds of stars.
Buck had the privilege of recently serving on
the board for the National Alliance of Music
Theater. He is currently living happily-everafter
in the Washington, D.C. area with his wife,
Angela, and their daughter Sierra Ashley Buck.
DAVID BABANI (Producer) is the founder
and artistic director of the Menier Chocolate
Factory.
TOM SIRACUSA (Producer) has been the
general manager of the Menier Chocolate
Factory and its 14 subsequent West End
transfers since 2006. Prior to that, he was
associate producer for Bill Kenwright on
productions including Hay Fever, starring Judi
Dench (West End); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (West
End and Broadway); The Glass Menagerie; and
Primo (Broadway). He was general manager for
The Lady From Dubuque (West End), starring
Maggie Smith.
THE MENIER CHOCOLATE FACTORY
(Original Production) opened in 2004 and
is one of London’s most-honored producing
venues. Twenty productions have transferred
to the West End and four to Broadway: The
Color Purple (Tony Awards® for Best Revival
of a Musical and Best Actress in a Musical), La
Cage aux Folles (three Tony Awards including
Best Revival of a Musical), A Little Night Music
(Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical) and
Sunday in the Park with George (nine Tony
nominations). In London, La Cage won the
Olivier Award for Best Revival of a Musical
as well as the Critics’ Circle Award, as did
Sunday in the Park with George and Merrily We
Roll Along. The Menier’s production of Tom
Stoppard’s Travesties will transfer to Broadway
in February 2018.
CAIOLA PRODUCTIONS (Producer) is the
Tony®-winning brother-and-sister producing
team, Luigi and Rose Caiola. Rose is artistic
director of Manhattan Movement & Arts Center.
Recent: Glengarry Glen Ross, All the Way, An
American in Paris, The Elephant Man, On
Your Feet!, Fiddler on the Roof. This season:
Dear Evan Hansen; Les Liaison Dangereuses;
Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812;
and Burn This.
JAMES FANTACI (Producer). Jim and his
wife Anna were producers of the original The
Color Purple when it debuted on Broadway
twelve years ago. He was also involved with
the successful London production. He is pleased
to be a part of the effort to bring this powerful
show to audiences across America.
TED LIEBOWITZ (Producer). Broadway
productions include The Heiress, Cinderella,
Big Fish and After Midnight. Feature films
include The Illusionist, Gray Matters. Serial
internet and telecom entrepreneur. Founder
of the Liebowitz Entrepreneur Program at
Brooklyn College. Love and thanks to my
supportive family and to the wonderful cast,
crew and fellow producers.
JAMES L. NEDERLANDER (Producer).
President of the Nederlander Organization.
Producing credits include The Elephant Man
(Bradley Cooper), On Your Feet! The Story of
Emilio and Gloria Estefan, Kinky Boots, I’ll
Eat You Last (Bette Midler), Romeo and Juliet
(Orlando Bloom), Mike Tyson: Undisputed
Truth, West Side Story, Movin’ Out, Million
Dollar Quartet, Who’s Afraid of Virginia
Woolf?, among many others.
DARREN BAGERT (Producer) is a fourtime
Tony Award®-winning producer. After
producing over 20 projects, his most recent
include Dear Evan Hansen (Broadway/
Upcoming Tour), An American in Paris
(Broadway/London/Tour), The Truth (London),
Travesties (London), The Absolute Brightness
of Leonard Pelkey (NY/Tour), Buyer & Cellar
(NY/London/Tour), Side Show (Bway), and
upcoming Ain’t Too Proud--The Temptations
Musical.
CANDY SPELLING (Producer). Author,
television producer and philanthropist, Candy
Spelling has produced the Tony®-winning
musicals Promises, Promises; How to Succeed
in Business Without Really Trying; Nice Work
If You Can Get It; and After Midnight. She is a
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