WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST
Over Broadway, The Illusionists, Turn of the
Century, Shrek, Hairspray, The Producers, Kiss
Me, Kate, Noise/Funk, The Full Monty, Contact,
A Chorus Line, Tap Dogs, Sweeney Todd, The
Wizard of Oz, The Drowsy Chaperone and
The Wedding Singer. He was also the Advance
Sound on Wicked and the Production Sound for
The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway and
the U.S. National Tour. Shows he has mixed
on Broadway include: Man of La Mancha,
Bombay Dreams, Sweet Charity, Jersey
Boys, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Drowsy
Chaperone, Spring Awakening, Fela!, Anything
Goes, Annie, Legally Blonde and Cabaret.
JIMM HALLIDAY (Costume Coordinator)
has been a proud member of the NETworks
family since 1999, having designed or
coordinated costumes for dozens of national
tours. With Santo Loquasto, he won the
2010 Helen Hayes Award for the acclaimed
production of Ragtime at The Kennedy Center
and has been the resident Costume Designer at
New York’s Mac-Haydn Theatre for the past
33 years. Special thanks and gratitude to dear
friend and colleague Seth Wenig for all his
insight and guidance.
BERNIE ARDIA (Hair and Wig Design) has
enjoyed a 37-year career, starting in television.
He has designed over 75 productions including
Bullets Over Broadway (tour), Cameron
Mackintosh’s Les Misérables (U.S. and
Canada). Ragtime at The Kennedy Center,
Kiss of the Spider Woman with Chita Rivera,
Starlight Express at The Las Vegas Hilton,
Cinderella with Eartha Kitt and Debbie Gibson,
and Happy Birthday, Hollywood (ABC-TV). It
has been a thrill working with so many talented
performers throughout his career including
Jeanne Cooper, Toni Tennille, Anita Gillette,
Mary Wilson, Mackenzie Phillips, Lynda
Carter, Melody Thomas Scott and even Judge
Judy! This production is dedicated to his sister.
Ardia is also the author of Barbra Streisand in
New York City.
JOHN MEZZIO (Musical Coordinator) has
conducted several national tours including State
Fair starring John Davidson, Victor/Victoria
starring Toni Tennille, Seussical The Musical,
Cinderella starring Eartha Kitt and Deborah
Gibson, the Royal National Theatre’s revival
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of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! and
The Wedding Singer. Additionally, Mezzio
was Associate Conductor for Andrew Lloyd
Webber’s Starlight Express at the Las Vegas
Hilton. Mezzio was Musical Coordinator for
several national and international tours including
Sweet Charity starring Molly Ringwald, Annie
starring John Schuck and Mackenzie Phillips,
Hairspray, The Producers, A Chorus Line,
Spring Awakening, Elf the Musical, Memphis,
Bullets Over Broadway, Disney’s Beauty and
the Beast, and Shrek The Musical.
MICHAEL USELMANN (Music Director/
Conductor). Credits: Elf The Musical (national
tour), Shark Attack (Off-Broadway), Ragtime,
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Victor/
Victoria (Ogunquit Playhouse), Big Fish,
Young Frankenstein (Timber Lake Playhouse)
and Hello, Dolly! (Wagon Wheel Theatre).
Proud graduate of NYU’s Graduate Musical
Theatre Writing Program. Thanks to Andy,
Cathy, Trinity and The Sound of Music team!
@MichaelUselmann
ROBERT RUSSELL BENNETT
(Orchestrations). In a career spanning more
than ve decades, Robert Russell Bennett
(1894–1981) arranged more than 300
Broadway musical scores. In musical comedy’s
golden era of the 1920s, he orchestrated up to
22 shows a season. Among his credits were
Show Boat; Roberta; Sunny; Rose-Marie;
No, No, Nanette; Girl Crazy; Of Thee I Sing;
Face The Music; Carmen Jones; Finian’s
Rainbow; Kiss Me, Kate; My Fair Lady and
Camelot. He orchestrated seven of Rodgers &
Hammerstein’s musicals including Oklahoma!,
South Paci c, The King and I and The Sound
of Music. His arrangements for the 1955 lm
version of Oklahoma! earned him an Academy
Award®. He also orchestrated and arranged
the score of Rodgers’s 13-hour television
documentary Victory At Sea. A classically
trained composer, Bennett’s proli c output of
original compositions includes symphonies,
sonatas, a ballet, a concerto and an opera. He
is the posthumous recipient of a 2008 Special
Tony Award® in recognition of his historic
contribution to American musical theater.
TRUDE RITTMANN (Dance and Vocal
Arrangements) has more than 50 Broadway