WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST
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DANNY MEFFORD (Original Choreographer).
Broadway: Dear Evan Hansen (Tony Award®,
Best Musical), Fun Home (Tony Award, Best
Musical), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and
The Bridges of Madison County. Upcoming:
the NBC series Rise and the new musical
Miss You Like Hell. Other New York credits:
Venus, Love’s Labour Lost, Good Person of
Szechwan, Much Ado About Nothing, Pump
Boys and Dinettes, Melancholy Play and Dance
Dance Revolution. Directing: Becoming Liv
Ullmann, Wasted and The Maids. Danny has
been nominated for Drama Desk, Astaire and
Lortel Awards for choreography. Education:
University of Evansville and Brown University.
JONATHAN WARREN (Tour Choreographer).
Broadway: Dear Evan Hansen (Associate
Choreographer), Wicked (Dance Captain).
National Tour: A Night with Janis Joplin
(Dance Supervisor). International: Wicked
Mexico City (Asst. Dance Supervisor).
Regional: A Night with Janis Joplin (A.C.T.,
The 5th Ave, and McCarter), La Cage Aux
Folles (Goodspeed). Film/Television: Outside
Providence. Performing credits: Wicked, Peter
Pan, We Will Rock You, West Side Story, Cats,
Radio City Christmas Spectacular.
ANDY EINHORN (Music Supervisor).
Broadway (music director/conductor): Hello,
Dolly! (OBCR), Bullets Over Broadway
(OBCR), Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella
(OBCR), Brief Encounter, Sondheim on
Sondheim (OBCR, Grammy® nom.) Tours:
Sweeney Todd, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s
South Paci c, The Light in the Piazza, Mamma
Mia!, The Lion King. Regional: 92nd Street
Y (Stage Door Canteen), Bay Street Theatre,
Houston Grand Opera, Goodspeed Opera
House, Signature Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare
Festival, Paper Mill Playhouse. Music director
and pianist for Audra McDonald since 2011
(including Carnegie Hall, San Francisco
Symphony, Sydney Opera House, album:
Go Back Home) TV: Six by Sondheim (HBO,
Peabody Award), Broadway Musicals: A
Jewish Legacy (Great Performances, Peabody
Award). Honors graduate Rice University.
DOUGLAS W. SCHMIDT (Scenic Designer)
has designed more than 200 productions over
the past 50 years. Highlights: New York Drama
Desk Awards for the Andrews Sisters’ musical
Over Here and Ira Levin’s Veronica’s Room,
Neil Simon’s They’re Playing Our Song,
Bernard Slade’s Romantic Comedy, Howard
Ashman and Marvin Hamlisch’s musical Smile,
the original production of Grease, and the
now legendary multi-million dollar spectacle
Frankenstein, which closed on opening night.
In 1983, he designed Jack O’Brien’s spectacular
production of Porgy and Bess at Radio City
Music Hall, which also toured in America and
Europe. Broadway: 2001 revival of 42nd Street
and this year’s remounting currently playing
The Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London
(Tony®, Drama Desk and Outer Critics’ Circle
Award nominations) and the 2002 revival of
Into the Woods (Tony nomination, Drama Desk
and L.A. Ovation Awards). Other recent projects
include the Broadway production of The Front
Page, for which he was also nominated for a
Tony Award. The Sound of Music and The
Front Page are his 18th and 19th collaborations
with director Jack O’Brien since 1975.
JANE GREENWOOD (Costume Designer).
Originally from Liverpool, England,
Greenwood was educated at the Central School
of Arts. She has designed over 125 Broadway
productions since Ballad of the Sad Café in
1963. Recent credits: The Little Foxes (Tony
Award®), The Assembled Parties, The Sound
of Music (national tour), You Can’t Take It
With You, Act One, Harvey and Driving Miss
Daisy. Awards: Irene Sharaff Award, 19 Tony
nominations and the 2014 Tony Award for
Lifetime Achievement. She is in the Theater
Hall of Fame. Professor of Design at Yale
School of Drama since 1976.
NATASHA KATZ (Lighting Design). A
six-time Tony Award® winner, Natasha has
designed extensively for theatre, opera, dance,
concerts, and permanent lighting installations
around the world. Upcoming Broadway:
Frozen. Broadway: Hello, Dolly! (starring Bette
Midler), Cats, Long Day’s Journey into Night,
School of Rock, An American in Paris, Aladdin,
The Glass Menagerie (Olivier nomination
2017), Motown, Once, Follies, The Coast of
Utopia: Salvage, Aida, Beauty and the Beast.
SHANNON SLATON (Sound Designer) has
designed many national tours including Bullets
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