Page are his 18th and 19th collaborations with
director Jack O’Brien since 1975.
JANE GREENWOOD (Costume Designer).
Originally from Liverpool, England, Ms.
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: Saint Joan, Mother of
the Maid (with Glenn Close), 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
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 sixtime
Tony Award winner, Natasha has designed
extensively for theatre, opera, dance, concerts
and permanent lighting installations around
the world. Recent Broadway: Springsteen on
Broadway; Frozen; Hello, Dolly! (starring Bette
Midler); Cats; Long Day’s Journey into Night;
School of Rock; An American in Paris; Aladdin;
The Glass Menagerie; Motown; Once; Follies;
The Coast of Utopia: Salvage; Aida and Beauty
SHANNON SLATON (Sound Designer)
has designed many national tours including
The Sound of Music; Elf the Musical; Bullets
Over Broadway; The Illusionists; Turn of the
Century; Shrek The Musical; 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
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
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, Makenzie Phillips, Lynda Carter,
Melody Thomas Scott and even Judge Judy!
This production is dedicated to his sister. Mr.
Ardia is also the author of Barbra Streisand in
JOHN MEZZIO (Musical Coordinator)
has conducted several national tours
including State Fair starring John
Davidson, Victor/Victoria starring Toni
Tennille, Seussical, Cinderella starring
Eartha Kitt and Deborah Gibson, the Royal
National Theatre’s revival of Rodgers
& Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! and The
Additionally, Mr. Mezzio
was Associate Conductor for Andrew Lloyd
Webber’s Starlight Express at the Las Vegas
Hilton. John 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
MICHAEL GILDIN (Music Director/Conductor) is
a New York-based music director thrilled to be
making his national tour debut—special thanks
to Andy for making this possible. Michael
works regularly with New York City Center’s
Encores! Series and with conductors Rob Fisher
and John Mauceri. In his spare time, he enjoys
reconstructing forgotten musicals from the
1920s-50s. Mom, this one’s for you.
ROBERT RUSSELL BENNETT
(Orchestrations). In a career spanning more
than five 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
The King and I and The Sound of Music. His
arrangements for the 1955 film version of
Oklahoma! earned him an Academy Award.
He also orchestrated and arranged Rodgers’s
13 television documentary score for Victory At
Sea. A classically trained composer, Bennett’s