WHO’S WHO in the CAST
Sylvia; The Substance of Fire; Lips Together,
Teeth Apart; A Life in the Theatre; many seasons
atMTC, Circle Rep, Lincoln Center and Encores.
Major regional theaters, film, opera, TV and the
circus. Multiple Tony, Obie, Drama Desk and
Outer Critics Circle awards. Graduate: Brown
and Yale.
WILLIAM IVEY LONG (Costume
Designer) has designed costumes for over
70 Broadway productions. Select credits
include The Prince of Broadway, A Bronx
Tale: The Musical, On the Twentieth Century,
Cabaret (2014 and 1998 revivals), Rodgers
+ Hammerstein’s Cinderella, The Mystery of
Edwin Drood, Grey Gardens, Hairspray, The
Producers, The Boy from Oz, Contact, Crazy
for You, Guys and Dolls, Nine. He was recently
nominated for an Emmy® Award for his work
on “Grease: Live!” for the FOX television network,
and designed costumes for “The Rocky
Horror Picture Show: Let’s do the Time Warp
Again,” also for FOX. He has designed costumes
for Mick Jagger, Siegfried and Roy, the
Pointer Sisters and Joan Rivers. Mr. Long has
won six Tony Awards®, with 15 nominations.
He recently completed a four-year elected term
as Chairman of the American Theatre Wing,
and was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame
in January 2006.
KEN BILLINGTON (Lighting Designer).
One hundred Broadway shows include such
milestones as Sweeney Todd and Chicago.
Current tours Waitress, Chicago (worldwide),
Dirty Dancing, White Christmas. Awards:
Tony, NY Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Ace
and the Lumen for his architectural lighting
for New York’s Tavern on the Green. He is a
member of the Theatre Hall of Fame.
SCOTT LEHRER (Sound Design) received
the first Tony® awarded to sound for the
Lincoln Center Theater revival of South Pacific.
Recent B’way work: Honeymoon in Vegas, A
Delicate Balance, Love Letters, A Raisin in
the Sun, Betrayal, Lucky Guy, Chaplin (Drama
Desk), Death of a Salesman (Tony nom), That
Championship Season, Women on the Verge,
Finian’s Rainbow, A View From the Bridge
(Tony nom), Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
(Tony nom) and over 40 City Center Encores.
Music engineer/producer projects include
Loudon Wainwright’s Grammy®-winning
High Wide and Handsome, Bebe Neuwirth’s
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Porcelain, Judy Kuhn’s All This Happiness and
Meredith Monk’s Mercy.
DAVID BUSHMAN (Choreography
Recreation). Broadway/national and
international tours: Chicago (Dance Captain/
Swing, Amos u/s, Mary Sunshine u/s). Other
credits: Criss Angel’s Believe (Las Vegas,
Assistant Director). David also danced
numerous principal roles in works by worldrenown
choreographers with North Carolina
Dance Theater, Feld Ballet and Les Grands
Ballet Canadiens. Graduate of NC School of
the Arts.
DAVID THOMPSON (Script Adaptation).
Broadway productions include the librettos for
The Scottsboro Boys (Tony® and Drama Desk
Award nominations, Hull-Warriner Award),
Steel Pier (Tony nomination) and Thou Shalt
Not. Off-Broadway: And the World Goes
‘Round (Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle
awards), Flora, the Red Menace (Drama Desk
nomination). Regional: McCarter Theater’s A
Christmas Carol. Television: “Sondheim: A
Celebration at Carnegie Hall,” “My Favorite
Broadway.” Thompson is a graduate of
Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism.
ROB FISHER (Supervising Music Director).
Original conductor and music director for
Chicago and Grammy® Award-winning
cast album. Music supervisor for Chicago
companies worldwide. Founding music
director (12 seasons) of City Center’s Tony
Award®-winning Encores! series. Broadway:
An American in Paris (score supervisor),
The Threepenny Opera (Sting), The Apple
Tree (Chenoweth), Wonderful Town, Me and
My Girl, more. New York Philharmonic:
Carousel (Emmy® nomination). San Francisco
Symphony: Sweeney Todd (LuPone and
Hearn). Carnegie Hall: Guys and Dolls (Lane
and Mullally). Guest conductor of 25 U.S.
orchestras, 25 recordings as conductor or
producer. Many broadcasts and projects with
Garrison Keillor.
JOHN MONACO (Music Coordinator) is a
veteran of the musical theatre. He has been
music coordinator for over 100 Broadway
musicals and has performed in more than
40 Broadway shows. Monaco has had the
privilege of working with Richard Rodgers,
John Kander, Jule Styne, Elmer Bernstein,