was a proud cast member of the REPRISE! 20th Anniversary Concert Production of Sweeney Todd performed at the Ahmanson Theatre last year playing a variety of roles. A few of Jeff’s other theatrical credits include Fred/Petruchio in Kiss Me Kate, Hajj in Kismet, the Dentist in Little Shop of Horrors, Walter Anderson in Chess, four different character roles in City of Angels at the Shubert Theatre/Los Angeles, Ragotski in Candide at the Ahmanson, Roberts in The Unsinkable Molly Brown starring Debbie Reynolds and directed by John Bowab that toured Canada and the United States, Peron in Evita which toured Europe to critical acclaim and Herbie in the ground breaking version of Gypsy at Robert Redford’s Sundance Theatre. Some of Jeff’s recent TV guest star appearances include Sabrina, The Teenage Witch, Dharma & Greg, That 70's Show, 3rd Rock From the Sun, Chicago Hope, Star Trek: Voyager and Action. His feature film credits include L.A. Confidential and Armageddon. Jeff was very happy to learn that one of his favorite directors would once again be reminding him that comedy always happens in threes. Thanks, John!
Sekiya, a UCLA Theatre Arts graduate, is very excited to be performing on the Freud Playhouse stage again. She has performed on Broadway in Miss Saigon, as well as on the First National Tour. Off-Broadway and regional credits include Shanghai Moon written by and starring Charles Busch, Company (Jenny), Sayonara (Fumiko), and Kismet (Princess of Ababu). You may have seen her in the film Liberty Heights, directed by Barry Levinson, or on As the World Turns as Maria. She was a co-founder of the theater group “Killer Geishas-a-Go-Go”, which presented two shows Off-Broadway. In addition to acting, she has, for the past two years, been the drama director at Nyack High School in Nyack, New York.
comes to REPRISE! straight from the Ahmanson Theatre and James Joyce's The Dead. She is thrilled to return after having played the part of Gwynne in last season's Bells Are Ringing. Some of her most recent and recognized roles include – Broadway: Buria in By Jupiter. Tours: Robin in Godspell. L.A./ Regional: Fanny Brice in Funny Girl; Rosie in Bye Bye Birdie; Rizzo in Grease; the Narrator in Joseph...; Polly in Crazy For You; Ziegfeld's Favorite in Will Rogers Follies (opposite Pat Boone) and Smokey Joe's Cafe with Jennifer Holiday. After Call Me Madam, Stephanie heads to the Kennedy Center to continue her performance as Mary Jane in The Dead. She is also scheduled to return to Broadway as Aphrodite in the new rock opera Pygmalion: The True Story which previewed in the amphitheaters of Greece to rave reviews. When not on stage, her voice can be heard on several CDs and commercial jingles, including singing the voice of Barbie for many of Mattel's national commercial spots. She gives thanks to the Lord for all His many blessings, but especially for her loving family and friends who constantly encourage, support and accept. As always, this performance is for (and because of) them.
originated the role of Madame Thenardier for the Broadway production of Les Miserables. Prior to that, she originated the role of Jellylorum/Griddlebone for the First National Company of Cats. In Los Angeles, Jennifer appeared as Jean Donovan in The Mark Taper's premiere of Missionaries On Their Knees (written and directed by Elizabeth Swados). She was also an actor and artistic committee member for Los Angeles' prestigious ACT ONE festival of one-acts and has performed her own one-woman show in both New York and Los Angeles. On television, Jennifer was a series regular on Howie Mandel's Sunny Skies (sketch series for Showtime and the CBC). Other TV credits include appearances on Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, Beverly Hills 90210, Providence, The Client and The Mommies, as well as a recurring role on One Life to Live. Film credits include National Lampoon's Attack of the 5'2 Women, Vampire's Kiss, Buford's Got A Gun and Hallmark Entertainment's The Ransom of Red Chief. Jennifer has done extensive commercial, recording and voice-over work and, when she's not acting and singing, she keeps busy writing and designing her own exclusive line of handbags under the label... Renaissance Babe.
most recently appeared in Forbidden Broadway Y2K L.A. at the Tiffany Theatre and co-starred on the NBC show City Guys. In addition to theatre in New York City, Paul has toured nationally and internationally and has worked with such directors as Trevor Nunn, Julie Taymor, Martin Charnin, Thommie Walsh and Leslie Eberhard. Theatre Credits include: Sunset Blvd. starring Diahann Carroll, George M! starring Joel Grey, A Chorus Line (Zach), Me and My Girl (Bill), Singin’ In the Rain (Cosmo), and Cats (Munkustrap). He wrote and performed his one-man show Happy Hour at the Laurie Beechman Theatre in New York City and recently performed a piece from the show here in Los Angeles at the Lillian Theatre. He was a company member of Gotham City Improv (Groundlings East) in New York City and he can be heard on many voice-over commercials and animation for television, radio and CD-ROM.
recently performed the role of Anne Draper in Strike Up the Band, starring Bea Arthur in Chicago’s Ovation Series at the Auditorium Theater. Ms. Dye appeared as Christine Daae in the Toronto production of Phantom of the Opera, starring Paul Stanley of KISS fame. She has also appeared in Phantom’s Broadway production and the Canadian National Tour. She was seen as Evelyn Nesbit in the National Tour of Ragtime and on Broadway as Sandy in Grease with such names as Lucy Lawless, Sheana Easton, Jasmine Guy, and Linda Blair just to name a few. Some might recognize Melissa as Molly, the sweet girl-turned-psycho-killer on ABC’s The City, or in recurring roles on Another World and AMC’s Remember WENN. Some Chicago credits include: Cunegonde in Candide for which she was nominated for a Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Actress in a Musical, Esther in Meet Me in St. Louis, Little Red Riding Hood in Into the Woods, and A Christmas Carol at the Goodman Theater. She also served as soloist with the Chicago Grant Park Symphony in their most recent 4th of July concert. Melissa would like to thank her family and friends for their undying support.
Julia has performed in the Broadway and National Tour productions of Show Boat¸ Joseph, My Fair Lady, A Chorus Line, West Side Story, Mame and the Pre-Broadway run of Damn Yankees at the Old Globe. Regional productions include: Hamlet (Ophelia), Romeo and Juliet (Juliet), Much Ado About Nothing (Beatrice), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Madame Tourvel), Agnes of God (Agnes), and Dancing at Lughnasa (Rose) as well as Mack and Mabel (Mabel), The Boyfriend (which won her a Carbonelle Nomination), and A Little Night Music (Anne). Her off-Broadway credits include: An Ideal Husband (Mabel), Jane Eyre (Jane), Wuthering Heights (Catherine), The Secret Rapture (Isobel), and Look Back In Anger (Alison). She has worked with Hal Prince, Jerome Robbins, Susan Stroman, James Hammerstein, Rob Marshall, Jack O’Brien and Bayork Lee. She studied music at Mt. St. Mary’s College, English Literature and Directing at San Francisco State University (where she graduated Summa Cum Laude), and studied acting at the prestigious American Conservatory Theatre. In New York, she studied Shakespeare with Stuart Vaughn and singing with Edward Sayegh. Julia is thrilled to be working with the REPRISE! series here in Los Angeles.
Theatre Credits – leads in over one hundred professional theatre productions. BROADWAY: Co-starred as Frank Shultz, 1983 revival Showboat (opposite Donald O’Connor). OFF-BROADWAY: Beggar’s Opera (Obie Award), Secret Affairs Mildred Wild. FIRST NATIONAL COMPANIES: Co-star, Stephen Schwartz’s The Magic Show; Billis, 1988 revival South Pacific (Dramalogue Award – Best Actor) opposite Robert Goulet; Co-star Crazy For You (Zangler). REGIONAL THEATRE: You Can’t Take It With You (Kolenkov), South Coast Repertory; Julius Caesar (Cassius), Northshore Shakespeare Festival; 1973 revival of Forum as Hysterium (opposite Zero Mostel), My Fair Lady (Doolittle), Santa Barbara CLO; most recently Peter Pan (Captain Hook), San Diego Starlight Bowl. MOVIES: Funny Girl, Jack Frost, Frances, House IV, Last American Virgin – soon to be released, lead in Adventure Express, Featured opposite Nicholas Cage in The Family Man and Steve Buscemi in Ghostworld. TELEVISION: Guest roles on over seventy-five shows including most recently Gepetto (M.O.W.), Dharma and Greg, Magnificent Seven (recurring), Home Improvement, Sunset Beach (recurring), Touched By An Angel, and Babylon 5. COMMERCIALS: Familiar face from over 100 spots. RADIO: Ten plays as member of the award-winning California Artists Radio Theatre (National Public Radio) including The Importance of Being Earnest (Chaucible), Heartbreak House (Randall) and The Front Page (Bensinger).
is probably best known as the philandering Chester Tate in the now-classic television series Soap. He originated Howard Benedict in the original Broadway production of Applause with Lauren Bacall, as well as Max Berkowitz in the hit musical Mail at the Pasadena Playhouse. Robert also starred in regional productions of Chicago; Same Time, Next Year; Born Yesterday; four productions of Sleuth; and Gary Goldstein's Just Men at the Stella Adler. He played in the revival of How To Succeed in Business at the La Jolla Playhouse and in Theatre Leagues' My Fair Lady, as well as REPRISE!'s Finian's Rainbow. He directed Naomi Feldman's Entanglements at the Court and an acclaimed revival of The Curious Savage at the Adler (while playing in Everything I Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten at the Tiffany.) Mandan starred with Bea Arthur in After-Play at the Pasadena Playhouse and an extended run at the Canon Theatre. In addition to Soap, Robert was seen in the TV series Private Benjamin, Three's a Crowd and Caribe; and has made hundreds of TV guest appearances. He has studied at Pomona College, and with Berhof, Strasburg and Stella Adler in New York.
Broadway: Once On This Island (original cast album), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat starring Michael Damien (cast album), Anything Goes starring Patti Lupone (cast album), Uptown It's Hot starring Maurice Hines. Television: The Pretender, The Nanny, NYPD BLUE, Jamie Foxx, Murphy Brown, Caroline In The City, Naked Truth. Film: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat starring Donny Osmond, Joan Collins, and Lord Richard Attenborough. L.A. Theatre: Forbidden Broadway, Forbidden Hollywood, Chicago – The Musical, Tin Pan Alley Rag, Godspell, Fire Dance. Director/Choreographer: Once On This Island at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts (Drama-Logue and Robby Award for direction, Drama-Logue and Ovation nomination for choreography), Bells are Ringing at the Pasadena Playhouse, Colored Girls at Cal State Long Beach, Broadway Jukebox at The Players Theatre. Gerry also teaches the youth of America, and is the recipient of the National Irene Ryan Award.
Film/Television Credits: Chris in Not Even the Trees, Mort in Beat Boys! Beat Girls!, Scent of a Woman, Port Charles, As the World Turns, and Dellaventura. Broadway: Chicago. Off-Broadway: Carter Walt in The Benevolent Bath. National/International Tours: Fred Casely in Chicago, Riff in West Side Story, Bobby in A Chorus Line. Other favorite roles include Young Buddy in Follies, Cornelius in Hello, Dolly!, and Grouper in Out of Gas on Lover’s Leap. Many thanks and much love to my family and friends, your support means the world to me. E.G., H.M., and T.B. – I love you! A. Johnson, I’m honored to be working with you once again. Kelly, this one’s for you, I love you so much!
starred on Broadway in I Had a Ball; A Joyful Noise; I’m Solomon; Music, Music; The Selling of the President; The Grass Harp and the Tony Award-winning Drood. Off-Broadway, her starring roles included Sing, Muse!; The Boys From Syracuse; five seasons with the New York City Center during its golden years of musical revival and most recently she starred in the national tour of Show Boat. On television, she starred as a regular on The Jim Nabors Hour, Friends, Tabitha, Ladies’ Man, Goodnight Beantown, Song by Song and Great Performances series for PBS, Singin’ for CBS cable and has been a guest star on Sabrina, The Teenage Witch; The Tonight Show; The Today Show; Alice; Two Close For Comfort; The Love Boat; Falcon Crest; Murder, She Wrote; Night Court and radio’s Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion. Ms. Morrow has sung with the Los Angeles Philharmonic; the Honolulu, Pacific, Minnesota, Milwaukee and Metropolitan Symphony Orchestras and can be heard on eleven albums. Having received an Emmy, the coveted Theatre World Award and five Drama-Logue Awards, Ms. Morrow conducts A Singer’s Workshop, a bi-monthly Master Class in performance and audition skills and has joined the faculty at UCLA in the newly formed Musical Theatre department.
Raised in Puerto Rico, Rick received his B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College. He was on scholarship with the Alvin Ailey School of American Dance, and apprenticed with the Paul Taylor Dance Company. His Broadway debut was in Leader of The Pack. Directly after, he was cast as Action in the National Tour of West Side Story, then onto the Michigan Opera Theater production of West Side Story as Riff. Finally, Alan Johnson cast Rick as Bernardo in three different touring productions of West Side Story. Subsequent Broadway productions include The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Legs Diamond (with Alan Johnson), Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Man Of La Mancha, and The Goodbye Girl. In his first feature Rick garnered critical acclaim as Nick Mendez in the independent film The Next Step. He charmed his way through the Odyssey Theater production of Eating Raoul as Raoul, and was an original cast member of the American Premiere of Ragtime in Los Angeles. Recently, he worked with fellow Drood cast member Rob Marshall on Annie for Disney, and played a villainous Mexican Cop in the soon to be released feature Mexico City.
most recently appeared on Broadway in Victor/Victoria, starring opposite Julie Andrews. Musical theatre work includes South Pacific with Sandy Duncan and regional performances off-Broadway. He also starred opposite Julie Harris in the Broadway production of Forty Carats and the stage production of Nefertiti. Mr. Nouri’s most recent feature film roles include Heart of a Champion, 61', directed by Billy Cystal and Finding Forrester, with Sean Connery and directed by Gus Van Sant. Other feature credits include Goodbye Columbus, Flashdance, The Hidden (for which he won the Best Actor Award at the Avoriaz Film Festival), DaVinci’s Way, The Imagemaker and Little Vegas. Mr. Nouri was a series regular on CBS’ Love and War and NBC’s Bay City Blues. He has also appeared on such shows as: Law & Order, Early Edition and Style and Substance; mini-series include The Doris Duke Story, Rage of Angels, The Last Convertible, and The Gangster Chronicles, where he won critical acclaim for his portrayal of Lucky Luciano. TV movies include: Quiet Victory: The Charlie Wedemeyer Story and Shattered Dreams. Mr. Nouri devotes time as an ambassador to the Multiple Sclerosis Society and to Seeds of Peace organization. Mr. Nouri considers the highlight of his musical career to be the singing of the National Anthem at the opening game at Yankee Stadium. The players even took their hats off.
made his Los Angeles debut in the title role of Martin Guerre at the Ahmanson. Hugh was the Phantom in Broadway’s The Phantom of the Opera, directed by Harold Prince. Also on Broadway, Hugh created the roles of Buddy in Sideshow and Julian in Jule Styne’s The Red Shoes. Hugh also performed with Mr. Styne at the piano on The Broadway Hour, one of the great composer’s last performances before his death. On Broadway, Hugh was Raoul in The Phantom of the Opera (1991-1992) and in Les Miserables he was Marius (the role he originated in the First National Company). He made his West End Debut in Harold Prince’s Award winning Show Boat as Ravenal, which he played on Broadway and in Toronto. Hugh also created the role of Jonathan in Alan Menken/Tim Rice’s King David and was Tom Martin in Sweet Adeline at City Center’s ENCORES! Mr. Panaro has been a guest artist with symphony orchestras across the U.S. and abroad. Film: Broadway Damage (Village Art Pictures). Television: Law & Order. Recordings: Jerome Kern Treasury (EMI/Angel), Sideshow Original Cast Recording (SONY), and Dreamworks’ The Prince of Egypt. Mr. Panaro is a graduate of Temple University.
Most recently completed work on the new Michael Bay Film Pearl Harbor starring Ben Affleck. While still a junior at The Boston Conservatory, Abe made his professional debut when Tommy Tune and Jeff Calhoun cast him as Charley Youngblood in Busker Alley. He first appeared on Broadway as Rum Tum Tugger in Cats and later went on to play the role of Munkustrap. Other roles include Paris in Terrence Mann’s Romeo and Juliet, HBO’s The Sopranos, Reuben in the Donny Osmond Joseph, Leon Czolgosz in the Boston Premiere of Assassins, and co-starring with Melba Moore Off-Broadway in A Swell Party. Special thanks to CG for doing more than any friend should possibly do. Abe dedicates his performance to his Golden Retriever, Betty.
Los Angeles Theater: Jules Feiffer’s Hold Me! (original company, Westwood Playhouse); Kid Twist! and American Mosaic (Drama-Logue Award, original company, Mark Taper Forum); “Kindergarten” (original company); The Boys From Syracuse and Leave It to Jane (Drama-Logue Award, Doolittle Theater); The Wizard of Oz (50th Anniversary Production, Drama-Logue Award); The Miser (Los Angeles Shakespeare Festival); Man of La Mancha and “Forum” (California Music Theatre); Groucho (Chico Marx, original company, directed by Mr. Bowab). New York Theater: Godspell; Grease; Hold Me! (original company); Starting Here, Starting Now (original company); Minnie’s Boys (Chico Marx); Philemon; and Chicago (First National Company and Las Vegas Company). Television: Series regular on Diagnosis Murder (Norman Briggs); It’s Garry Shandling’s Show (Pete); The Paper Chase (Golden); Flying Blind; and Jag (guest appearance Second Sight Episode – Movie Guide Award Nomination, Most Inspirational Performance by an Actor). Movies: Grease (Sonny); Just Like Dad; Enola Gay; The Man Who Captured Eichman; Groucho; Fighting Chance and Chance of a Lifetime. This past year, Michael has completed three films to be released in 2000-2001: BLOW (directed by Ted Demme); MIMIC II (directed by Jean De-Segonzac) and Elevator Seeking (directed by Rob Hinderstein). Michael lives in California with his wife Kathleen and daughters Kate and Kelly.