After long and highly distinguished careers with other collaborators, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II joined forces to create the most consistently fruitful and successful partnership in the American musical theatre. Prior to his work with Hammerstein, Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) collaborated with lyricist Lorenz Hart on a series of musical comedies that epitomized the wit and sophistication of Broadway in its heyday. Prolific on Broadway, in London, and in Hollywood from the '20s into the early '40s, Rodgers & Hart wrote more than 40 shows and film scores including: On Your Toes, Babes in Arms, The Boys from Syracuse, I Married an Angel, and Pal Joey. Throughout the same era, Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960) brought new life to a moribund art form: the operetta. His collaborations with such preeminent composers as Rudolf Friml, Sigmund Romberg and Vincent Youmans resulted in such operetta classics as The Desert Song, Rose-Marie, and The New Moon. With Jerome Kern, he wrote Show Boat, the 1927 operetta that changed the course of modern musical theatre. His last musical before embarking on an exclusive partnership with Richard Rodgers was Carmen Jones, the highly-acclaimed 1943 all-black revision of Georges Bizet's tragic opera Carmen. Oklahoma!, the first Rodgers & Hammerstein musical, was also the first of a new genre – the musical play – representing a unique fusion of Rodgers' musical comedy and Hammerstein's operetta. A milestone in the development of the American musical, it also marked the beginning of the most successful partnership in Broadway musical history, and was followed by Carousel, Allegro, South Pacific, The King and I, Me and Juliet, Pipe Dream, Flower Drum Song, and The Sound of Music. Rodgers & Hammerstein wrote one musical specifically for the big screen, State Fair, and one for television, Cinderella. Collectively, the Rodgers & Hammerstein musicals earned 35 Tony Awards, 15 Academy Awards, two Pulitzer Prizes, two Grammy Awards, and 2 Emmy Awards. Despite Hammerstein's death in 1960, Rodgers continued to write for the Broadway stage. His first solo entry, No Strings,  earned him two Tony Awards for music and lyrics, and was followed by Do I Hear a Waltz?, Two By Two, Rex, and I Remember Mama. Richard Rodgers died on December 30, 1979, less than eight months after his last musical opened on Broadway. In March of 1990, Broadway's 46th Street Theatre was renamed The Richard Rodgers Theatre in his honor. 

 Michael is happy to return to Reprise after directing Man of La Mancha and Li’l Abner. He is the Co-Artistic Director of The Theatre @ Boston Court in Pasadena where he has directed Deborah Stein’s God Save Gertrude, Jason Grote’s 1001, the world premiere of Eric Whitacre’s musical Paradise Lost: Shadows & Wings (10 Ovation Award Nominations), Carlos Murillo’s Dark Play or Stories For Boys (Two L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award including Direction), his own adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s A Picture of Dorian Gray (Two L.A.D.C.C. Awards including Direction), Sinan Ünel’s Pera Palas (Four L.A.D.C.C. Awards including Production and Direction), Charles L. Mee’s Summertime, and Romeo and Juliet: Antebellum New Orleans, 1836.  A director of plays and musicals, new works and classics, his diverse credits include: Hamlet, Don Juan and As You Like It (Ovation Nomination for Best Play) at A Noise Within; Stephen Sondheim’s Anyone Can Whistle at the Matrix Theatre; Amy’s View starring Carol Lawrence at Florida Rep; A Life in the Theatre starring Hal Holbrook at the Pasadena Playhouse; the world premiere of Ouroboros (LA Weekly Award - Production of the Year); acclaimed productions of Brecht’s rarely staged Edward II and Aphra Behn’s restoration comedy The Rover, both for Circle X; and the Ovation-Nominated productions of Titanic for Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities and Sweeney Todd starring Amanda McBroom and George Ball.  He is a double Ovation Award-winner for his production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, set in British colonized India.  

 Lee is the resident choreographer for Reprise Theatre Company. Choreography for Reprise includes Li’l Abner, On Your Toes, Damn Yankees, On The Town, Brigadoon, I Love My Wife, The Fantasticks, and several of the summer events at The John Anson Ford Amphitheatre. Most recent credits include directing and staging American Stars In Concert starring Kimberly Locke, Melinda DooLittle, and Diana Degarmo and many other past Idols; choreography for the soon-to-be-released animated feature Alpha Omega; Kiss Of The Spider Woman for Havok Theatre Company, for which she just received the Los Angeles Drama Critics’ Award and the Ovation Award, Fidder On The Roof for the Rubicon Theatre Company; the World Premiere of Silk Stockings at Musical Theatre West and the Bravo series Step It Up and Dance. Other credits include: Beehive at the El Portal Theatre; the Full Monty and All Shook Up for Musical Theatre West; I Do I Do and Side By Side By Sondheim for The Pasadena Playhouse; Lies and Legend for the Rubicon Theatre;direction and choreography for several large-scale shows for Harley-Davidson throughout the country; Warner Bros.’ animated feature The King and I; Universal Studios’ New York Rascal Show; Disney’s Santa Clause 3 Stage Show at the El Capitan Theatre; Disney International’s Latin American Stage Tour, A Dream Is A Wish; the Opening Gala for Theatre Under the Stars, TUTS; Hobby Performing Arts Center honoring Jerry Herman; the Opening of Ford Field, the Detroit Lions football stadium, starring Gladys Knight; the opening of the Spa Resort Casino in Palm Springs starring Ruben Studdard. Lee’s work has been seen in many S.T.A.G.E. (Los Angeles’ longest-running AIDS benefit), Actor’s Fund, and Alzheimer’s benefits, as well as the CHOC Follies, an annual event for Children’s Hospital of Orange County. Lee’s choreography has won her three Los Angeles Drama Critic’s Awards, three Ovation Awards, Garland awards, and many nominations for these awards.  Lee is a member of SSDC. Special thanks to a very talented cast and crew and especially to Michael, Darryl, Jason, Suzi, Danny and, as always, JJ. 

 Tours include: Disney's The Lion King (vocal coach/assistant conductor), A Grand Night for Singing, The All Night Strut, and Jerry’s Girls. Other shows include: Wicked at the Pantages Theater (substitute conductor); Ragtime (Musical Theater West); Swing! (Sacramento Music Circus); A Chorus Line directed by Kay Cole and The King and Iwith Deborah Gibson (Cabrillo Music Theater); Swing! (McCoy/Rigby Ent.); Merry Me A Little – revised version(Celebration Theater); Two by Two, The Fantasticks, Once On This Island, Li'l Abner with Cathy Rigby and Fred Willard; Merrily We Roll Along with Teri Hatcher; I Do! I Do! with Diana Canova and Harry Groener (Reprise); My Fair Lady, 1776, Little Shop Of Horrors, Camelot, and Forever Plaid (Utah Shakespearean Festival); Ain’t Misbehavin’ directed by Ken Page (CLOSBC); The Threepenny Opera, Raisin and A Christmas Carol (ICT); The Fix, Kiss Of The Spider Woman, Lady In the Dark, and Sail Away (Musical Theater Guild). Arrangement and orchestration credits include: the prime-time television special A Hollywood Holiday Celebration (ABC), The Fountain Show and Christmas Trolley Show (The Grove Los Angeles).

Garry is a Los Angeles-based costume designer who designed the Reprise productions of Man of LaMacha and Flora the Red Menace.  He also designed costumes for the Alan Mencken musical, Sister Act, directed by Peter Schneider, at Pasadena Playhouse and The Alliance Theater.  He also collaborated with Peter Schneider on Mark Blizstein’s opera, Regina, at Bard Summerscape and Grand Hotel at the Colony Theater.  This past summer he designed costumes at SRT for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Mame.  His work has also been seen across the country at Utah Musical Theater, Mixed Blood Theater, Dallas Children’s Theater, International City Theater, Contemporary American Theater Festival, and the Undermain Theater.  Originally from Philadelphia, Garry received Ovation nominations for Grand Hotel and ICT’s Dinah Was. He also works with the award-winning Cornerstone Theater Company and designed the world premieres of Los Illegals, Beyond the Beyond, Waking Up in Lost Hills, and Mary Shelley’s Santa Claus. Garry is a member of USA Local 829 and is a Professor at California State University Northridge. 

Steven returns to Reprise after designing No Strings and She Loves Me, and as associate designer for Hair, Sweeney Todd, and The Boys From Syracuse. Other credits include Boulevard of Broken Dreams at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, A Time for Love for Studio Arena Theatre, The Laramie Project for the Laguna Playhouse, Side by Side by Sondheim, and Showtune for the Pasadena Playhouse, My Way, and Swing! for McCoy-Rigby Entertainment in La Mirada, plus productions in New York, Long Beach, Vista, Winnipeg, and Cincinnati. Other designs include: Thrill Me: The Leopold & LoebStory (LADCC Award); God Save Gertrude and Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings (Ovation Award, Garland Award, LA Weekly Award) for Theatre@Boston Court; JOB: The Hip-Hopera at the Stella Adler and the NYMF 2006; Jekyll and Hyde (Ovation Award) for Cabrillo Music Theatre; Side Show (Garland Award, Robby Award) for the Colony Theatre; Rent, and Hot Mikado (Garland Award) for Musical Theatre West; and Letting Go of God with Julia Sweeney. Steven was honored in 2004 with the Angstrom Lifetime Achievement Award by the LADCC. Steven designs for the firm Visual Terrain, Inc. specializing in visual design for themed entertainment, retail and restaurants around the world. Please see  HYPERLINK "http://www.syoungld.com/" www.syoungld.com.

Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks on Broadway; the 2002 to 2005 national tour of Jesus Christ Superstar; The Ten Commandments starring Val Kilmer at the Kodak Theatre; Measure for Measure, Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Cinderella at the Ahmanson; Pippin, The House of Blue Leaves, The Talking Cure, Like Jazz, Big River, Flower Drum Song and First Picture Show at the Taper; and all of the past twelve seasons of Reprise. Other design work includes Paint Your Wagon, Six Dance Lessons In Six Weeks and Ain’t Nothin' But the Blues at the Geffen; Play On and Blame it on the Movies at the Pasadena Playhouse; Masada at the Shubert Theatre in LA; Forever Plaid and Blues in the Night at the Coconut Grove Playhouse in Miami;and the US workshop productions of the current West End musical Zorro with music by John Cameron and the Gipsy Kings. On Broadway, he assisted long-time design partner Jon Gottlieb on 2001’s If You Ever Leave Me I'm Coming With You. He served as Production Sound Engineer for Jason Robert Brown’s 13 at the Taper, Thoroughly Modern Millie at La Jolla Playhouse, and was the head soundman for the national tours of Titanic, Ain’t Misbehavin’ and Man of La Mancha. He won the 2003 NAACP award for Sound Design for Jesus Christ Superstar, the 2001 Ovation Award for Flower Drum Song, and the 1999 LA Drama Critics Circle Award for Cinderella, as well as five LA Dramalogue Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Design, and two Ovation Award nominations for Best Sound Design. Mr. Allen currently teaches Sound Design for Theatre at the USC School of Theatre and at Cal Arts.