The son of the Lerner Stores retail family, he was educated at Bedales School in England, Choate School in Connecticut, Juilliard School of Music (NY), and Harvard University (B.S. 1940), where he wrote lyrics for Hasty Pudding shows. He wrote more than 500 radio scripts between 1940 and 1942, the year he met Frederick Loewe at The Lambs theatrical club in New York City. Together they began writing stage musicals. The first, The Life of the Party (1942), failed totally. The next two fared not much better. Then came Brigadoon (1947), followed by Paint Your Wagon (1951), My Fair Lady (1956), and the film Gigi (1958) and Camelot (1960). They also adapted Gigi for the stage (1973) and wrote the film score for The Little Prince (1974). Without Loewe, Lerner wrote the book and lyrics for Kurt Weill's Love Life (1948) and produced several films, including An American in Paris. He also joined composer Burton Lane to create the musical On A Clear Day You Can See Forever, produced on Broadway in 1965 and filmed in 1970. He also collaborated with Lane on Carmelina (1979), Andre previn on Coco (1969), Leonard Bernstein on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (1976), and Charles Strouse on Dance a Little Closer (1983). Lerner's autobiography, published in 1978, is entitled The Street Where I Live.

Son of a Viennese actor and opera tenor, Loewe was a child prodigy, playing piano at age five, composing his father's presentations at seven and becoming at 13 the youngest soloist to appear with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. At 15 he wrote a popular song, "Katrina," that sold more than a million copies of sheet music. Loewe came to the United States in 1924 and for ten years had a variety of menial jobs. In 1934 he contributed music to the Broadway play Petticoat Fever, then began writing music for Broadway reviews and teamed with lyricist Earle Crooker to write the musical plays Salute to Spring (1937) and Great Lady (1938). In 1942 he met lyricist Alan Jay Lerner, with whom he would write some of Broadway's greatest musicals - Brigadoon (1947), Paint Your Wagon (1951), My Fair Lady (1956), and Camelot (1960) - plus the film Gigi (1958). With Camelot they ended their partnership, but a decade later they reunited to adapt Gigi for the stage (1973) and score the film The Little Prince (1974).

is proud to return to REPRISE! after directing REPRISE!'s premiere production of Promises, Promises (starring Jason Alexander, Jean Smart, Alan Thicke, Fred Willard, Barney Martin). Stuart is probably most well known for his work as the creator, writer and director of Forever Plaid.  In addition to directing Plaid in LA at the Canon Theatre and the Pasadena Playhouse, he directed many of the long running productions including the original New York , London, Tokyo, Toronto, Boston, Chicago, Washington DC. productions.  The honors and awards that Forever Plaid has received, include: an invited performance at the White House, performing twice at  both the Democratic convention, a command performance for the Queen of England, and presented in Japan by the Tokyo Government, the NBC grant for new writers for the theatre,  Forever Plaid has generated two separate 'spin-off' shows: The Sounds of Plaid and Plaid Tidings. The Sounds of Plaid (a  co-ed version of the show written for a cast of 20) has been performed at the Buckley School and is currently at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland.  Plaid Tidings, a Holiday sequel to the original, has been performed regionally in the US. It premiered at the Pasadena Playhouse where it is now in its fourth year as a Los Angeles holiday tradition.  Last season Mr. Ross wrote the script and co-wrote the lyrics for the New York's Public Theatre's production of his new musical Radiant Baby, a new musical based on the life of artist Keith Haring.  (Drama Desk nom.,Outer Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel award nominations for Best Musical ) His wildly irreverent  adaptation of  Gilbert and Sullivan's The Gondoliers was presented in workshop for the Roundabout Theatre Company in New York.  Stuart co-wrote the script (with Mark Hampton) and directed The Boswell Sisters at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre.  On Broadway Stuart co-wrote the book (with Barry Keating) to the Tony nominated musical Starmites as well as The Radio City Music Hall Easter Show.  Off-Broadway he wrote A Leap of Faith (a one woman show for Faith Prince), The Heebie Jeebies, Not-So-New Faces, Tea With Bea and Fun With Dick and Jane: The Musical.  As a director he has worked at some of the countries most prestigious theatres, including, Manhattan Theatre Club,  San Diego's Globe Theatre, Primary Stages, The Alley Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, Goodspeed Opera House, The Walnut Street Theatre among others. In Los Angeles  Mr. Ross has directed workshops of Dan Kagan’s ‘Antisemitropolis’, (Starring Marion Ross and Caroline Aaron) and Paper Moon- The Musical starring Jean Smart and Greg Jbara (Falcon Theatre).  He has staged Girls in Movies and Mom Mom Dad Dad for the HBO Playwrights Workshop.  For television, he directed episodes of Frasier and Veronica’s Closet.  He has also staged and created special material for the PBS Great Performances, An Evening at the Pops starring Jason Alexander.  Mr. Ross has written countless sketches for stage and has created many industrial shows and nightclub performances both as writer and director. In this field, he has worked with such great performers as Mary Martin, Faith Prince, Jason Alexander and Jaye P. Morgan.  For eight seasons Stuart has worked as a director/dramaturg and/or writer at the National Music Theatre Conference, Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center.  For the past six years he has been a panelist for the ASCAP Foundation/Disney Musical Theatre Workshop.  He is currently chairman of the Advisory Board for Broadway USA which is part of the National Music Theatre Network.

succeeds the late great Peter Matz as musical director for REPRISE! having been his associate for fourteen shows. Now commmencing his third season, he has helmed Company, Kismet, Babes in Arms, She Loves Me (garnering a LA Drama Critics Circle Nomination), On the Twentieth Century, Anything Goes (the last three nearly sweeping the Theater LA Ovation Awards category of musical director with a nomination for each) and Follies. He also works in a pre-production capacity at the Hollywood Bowl playing rehearsals for the musicals The Music Man, My Fair Lady and this summer’s Mame.  Jerry has been the associate conductor for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Merlin and The Tap Dance Kid (all on Broadway), Les Miserables (L.A. premiere company) and conducted the National Tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Song and Dance (starring Melissa Manchester). Gerald is also thrilled to have accompanied Marilyn Horne and Florence Henderson in benefit recitals for P.A.C.E. (Pacific Alliance for Conservation and the Environment) and the Music Academy of the West (the latter also joined by Carol Burnett).  Other musical direction credits: The Perfect Year (for S.T.A.G.E.), honoring the music of Sir Andrew and Something Wonderful (for the Actor's Fund), honoring the music of Richard Rodgers, (both star studded benefits directed by David Galligan); the club acts for Jason Graae (on a Fynsworth Alley CD) Donna McKechnie and John Barrowman; two benefits featuring the original casts of A Chorus Line and Dreamgirls -- a Michael Bennett tribute for LA Shanti and for A Hollywood Salute to Broadway, one of the first AIDS Benefits held in Los Angeles (directed by Jeff Calhoun and held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavillion); and Gilligan’s Island, The Musical (produced by Sherwood Schwartz, the creator of the TV series.) As a songwriter/composer, his songs have been heard in ASCAP Rising Songwriter Showcases on both coasts, in Cabaret Conventions at New York’s Town Hall and at the Hollywood Roosevelt’s Cinegrill. He has had music and songs (in collaboration with Lindy Robbins) performed around the country in the ‘93-’98 editions of the Ringling Brothers’ Circus Red Unit. He has also contributed music to the new musicals Heartbeats (in collaboration with Amanda McBroom and Bill Castellino), directed by the ubiquitous Mr. Gallligan, the long running The Gay 90’s – Looking Back and Moving On and the riotous Vampire Virgins from Venus (written with Gary MacAuley). This last spring, Gerald’s song Mary ( written in collaboration with Faye Greenberg)--a paean to The Mary Tyler Moore Show was performed on the TV Land Awards show by Eric McCormack-- in the presence of the original cast of the landmark sitcom.  In a teaching capacity, Jerry has worked alongside Nancy Dussault, Karen Morrow and Mel Shapiro on a student-featured workshop as part of UCLA’s Ray Bolger theater program. He is also the vocal arranger/musical supervisor for the live rock and roll/stunt show Spiderman Rocks (directed by Barbara Epstein) indefinitely playing at Universal Studios Theme Park, Hollywood.

is delighted to be doing her first show with REPRISE!  Recently Lee completed work on Side by Side by Sondheim for the Rubicon Theatre starring Davis Gaines, Teri Ralston and Tami Tappan Damiano.  Other recent Los Angeles credits include Jekyll and Hyde for The Civic Light Opera of the South Bay Cities, Mame for Musical Theatre West starring Carol Lawrence and Sally Struthers and Phantom for Performance Riverside.  Lee has choreographed over 100 musicals and her work has been represented throughout the country as well as in most every major theatre in Southern California including excerpts from the King and I at the Hollywood Bowl, starring Lynn Redgrave and Patrick Stuart.  Other credits include the Inaugural Event for the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts for Theatre Under The Stars in Houston, hosted by former President George Bush and his wife Barbara Bush, Disney International’s Latin American Tour, A Dream is a Wish, A Tribute To Jerry Herman starring Angela Lansbury and Carol Channing, the animated feature the King and I for Warner Brothers, work for Nickelodeon, and the WB, the Ford Motor Company’s opening ceremonies for Ford Field, home of the Detroit Lions, starring Gladys Knight and Deborah Gibson among others, and just recently the Gala Opening of the Spa Resort Casino starring Natalie Cole and American Idol winner Ruben Studdard.  Lee choreographs for several charitable organizations such as Children’s Hospital of Orange County, The Actor’s Fund and the Los Angeles S.T.A.G.E. Benefit (Los Angeles’ oldest AIDS benefit).  Lee’s work has garnered her awards from Drama Logue, Backstage West, A Robby Award, The Inland Empire Awards and The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award.  Lee holds a MFA in dance and is a member of SSDC.

is a graduate of the UCLA School of Fine Arts; he also attended the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA.  Early in his career he was an apprentice to multi-award winning production designer Robert W. Zentis.  Evan is now an award-winning designer as well and is constantly juggling multiple productions throughout Los Angeles.  Projects have ranged from the beautiful (fofo: Echo Greco at The Met) to the whimsical (Zastrozzi at the Ruby) to the astounding (On the Open Road at the Stella Adler).  Evan recently designed The Grapes of Wrath at West Coast Ensemble, Little Shop of Horrors at East West Players and Anyone Can Whistle at the Matrix in addition to doing production design for Theatre fofo at Hollywood Forever Cemetery’s annual Day of the Dead celebration.  He dedicates this work to the memory of Bob and to his first mentor in set design ‘little’ Jimmy Arsenault.

has designed costumes for theater, film, and opera across the country. Credits include Romeo and Juliet, Handler, Stop Kiss and Fuddy Meers for Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Servant of Two Masters and Man of La Mancha for Utah Shakespearean Festival; Two Sisters and a Piano for the Public Theater in N.Y.; It Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues for the Geffen Playhouse; Skylight, Play Strindberg, True West, Nostalgia and All My Sons for South Coast Repertory; Tally’s Folly for the Arizona Theatre Co. and Pasadena Playhouse; The Tempest for Seattle Children’s Theatre; A Class Act, The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Russian National Postal Service and Black Milk for the Studio Theatre in Washington D.C.; The King Stag, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, Volpone and Design for Living among others for A Noise Within where he is a resident artist. Alex also designed South Pacific starring Susan Egan.  He has received an L.A. Drama critics circle Award, Three Drama-Logue Awards and four Garland Awards for his work in Los Angeles.

has created designs for twenty-two REPRISE! productions including Kismet, Sweeney Todd, Mack & Mabel and Hair.  He designed the acclaimed production of Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks at the Belasco Theatre on Broadway, the Geffen Playhouse and the Coconut Grove Playhouse.   He has designed over eighty productions for South Coast Repertory Theatre and shows for the Mark Taper Forum, Laguna Playhouse, International City Theatre, Opera Santa Barbara, South Bay CLO, Fullerton CLO, Sacramento Music Theatre and Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C.  His lighting can be seen at theme parks in six different countries including Universal Studios Hollywood, Japan and Orlando; Warner Bros. Movie World Australia, Germany and Spain; Knott's Berry Farm and Disneyland.  His architectural lighting can be seen at Hard Rock Hotels and Casinos, Santa Monica Place, South Coast Plaza Mall, Orange County Performing Arts Center, the Los Angeles Music Center and many other retail centers, restaurants, churches, residences and libraries. 

has designed over 80 theatrical shows, including Six Dance  Lessons in Six Weeks on Broadway, the current national tour of Jesus  Christ Superstar;  which has angered elderly patrons in more than 30  cities and been seen by more than half a million audience members across North  America, Measure for Measure, Midsummer Night’s Dream, and  Cinderella at the Ahmanson, The Talking Cure, Like Jazz, Big River,  Flower Drum Song and First Picture Show at the Taper, and all of the  past seven seasons of REPRISE!   Other design work includes Six Dance  Lessons In Six Weeks and A'int Nothin' But the Blues at the  Geffen, Play On, Only A Kingdom and Blame it on the Movies at the  Pasadena Playhouse, Masada at the Shubert Theatre in LA, Joseph and  the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and Singing in the Rain for  Denver's Arvada Center for the Arts, Forever Plaid, and Blues in the  Night, at the Coconut Grove Playhouse in Miami, The King and I, South  Pacific, and Into the Woods, for the Long Beach Civic Light  Opera.  On Broadway he assisted long time design partner Jon Gottlieb on  2001s If You Ever Leave Me I'm Coming With You.  For television Mr.  Allen assisted Emmy award winning sound designer Bruce Burns in the sound system  design's for the 33rd Academy of Country Music Awards, the 56th and 59th Golden  Globe Awards and 14th Soap Opera Awards.  As a mixer he served as  Production Sound Engineer for Thoroughly Modern Millie at La Jolla  Playhouse before its move to Broadway and was the head soundman for the national  tour of Titanic. In 1997 he engineered the gala production Saturday  Night at the Summit attended by Bill Clinton and the leaders of the G-7  countries.  He won the 2003 NAACP award for Sound Design for Jesus  Christ Superstar, the 2001 Ovation Award for Sound Design for Flower Drum  Song, and the 1999 LA Drama Critics Circle Award for the sound design of  Cinderella, as well as five LA Dramalogue Awards for Outstanding Achievement  in Sound Design, and two Ovation Award nominations for Best Sound  Design.