The score is a melodic, wittily literate delight blessed with such songs as the tart "I Remember it Well," anticipating Sondheim in its wry melancholy as two former lovers look back on different versions of the same past, and the ebullient "The Night They Invented Champagne."
-The Telegraph, UK
William first achieved international recognition as the lead in Steven Spielberg’s debut feature The Sugarland Express. Next, he starred in John Schlesinger’s The Day of the Locust, Robert Wise’s The Hindenburg and Richard Brooks’ Looking For Mr. Goodbar. He is known for the iconic characters Dick Thornburg in Die Hard I and 2; EPA official Walter Peck in Ghostbusters; Professor Hathaway in Real Genius, and mad scientist Dr. Faulkner in Bio-Dome, as well as signature roles in more than 30 feature films. Among his many TV films are the classic western mini-series Centennial and Joan Didion’s Broken Trust and as Darryl F. Zanuck in HBO’s Golden Globe winner Introducing Dorothy Dandridge. Recently, he played a recurring series lead on NBC’s Life and Principal Reynolds in the last season of Lost. On stage, he originated the title character in Joe Papp’s production of David Rabe’s The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel as well as the role of Ronnie in John Guare’s The House of Blue Leaves. He starred in the Broadway premiere of Arthur Miller’s The American Clock and the Tony-winning revival of Herman Wouk’s The Caine Mutiny Court Martial. He has received the Drama Desk Award, the Outer Circle Critics Award, the Theatre World Award and nominations for an Obie and Chicago’s Joseph Jefferson Award. Upcoming films include The Kane Files and Jinn.
Broadway/Tours: Mamma Mia! (Ali u/s), Wicked in Los Angeles and San Francisco, and the first national tour of 42nd Street. Regional: Aida at the Actors' Playhouse in Coral Gables, Florida. This Norfolk, Virginia native has a B.S. in Mass Communications from Norfolk State University and, as a proud AEA member, Angela is thankful to be part of Reprise's production of Gigi! She would like to thank her mom, family, friends and MSA. Also, this new mom thanks her husband Alex and their son Adin for their endless support. This one is for you Adin. Thank you God for your many blessings! www.angelaarabrown.com
Richard is making his third appearance with Reprise in this production of Gigi. His previous shows were My One and Only and Babes in Arms. Other musical productions include: CATS, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, West Side Story, Guys and Dolls, and many more. Most recently, he was a member of L.A. Opera’s epic production of Wagner’s Ring cycle. He has also danced for many opera companies in such productions as The Merry Widow, Carmen, Tannhauser, Samson and Delilah, Aida, and more. Televisions credits include: Terriers, Stuff Happens, Fashion House, General Hospital, and commercials.
A native Arkansan, Matt was most recently seen on Broadway as Tony in the 2009 revival of West Side Story. Previous Broadway credits include: Grey Gardens (playing both Joe Kennedy Jr. and Jerry Torre), A Catered Affair, and Urban Cowboy. Matt has traveled the country in the national tour of Thoroughly Modern Millie and worked at numerous regional theatres including The Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival, George Street Playhouse, The Goodspeed Opera House, Dallas Theatre Center and The Denver Center, among others. Television credits include Sondheim: The Birthday Concert with the NY Philharmonic, As The World Turns, One Life to Live, as well as the Indie films Sexual Dependency and New Brooklyn. Original cast recordings include West Side Story, Grey Gardens, and A Catered Affair. Matt's debut album with his wife, actress Jenny Powers, will be released In February, 2011. Matt serves on the advisory board of Early Stages, a non-profit organization fostering literacy through the arts in the NYC public school system. Matt is also a regular contributor to Beverly Hills Lifestyle Magazine. Learn more at www.matt-cavenaugh.com.
Before returning to America, Susan worked as an actress in British theatre, film, and television. London West End theatre credits: Holiday at the Old Vic, Accidental Death of an Anarchist at the Wyndam’s Theatre, Budgie at the Cambridge, Blockheads at the Mermaid and Country Life at the Lyric Hammersmith. British National Tours: Company, Hotel Paradiso, Babes in Arms, and Cole. British Rep includes: a season with Alan Ayckbourn’s company, A Little Night Music, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Side by Side by Sondheim, Dirty Linen, and Breaking Legs. Recent U.S. theatre include: Paulina in The Winter’s Tale, Lola in Come Back, Little Sheba, Emilie at South Coast Rep, Sweet Bird of Youth and Our Town at La Jolla Playhouse, The Sound of Music at Sacramento Music Circus, Florence Foster Jenkins in Glorious, and Beatrice in A View From the Bridge. Film and Television credits include: American Friends, Shining Through, the BBC series As Time Goes By, The Woman He Loved, Me and My Girl, Just a Gigolo, Passport to Murder, Pensacola, Cover Me, Saints and Sinners, and Royce. Additional credits include: countless voiceovers, over 65 audio books, and numerous television commercials. For her sanity she plays classical piano and writes.
Luke is thrilled to be making his Reprise debut!!! He comes to LA straight off of a long run as the Slave Master/ Leading Dancer in the new version of The Phantom of the Opera currently playing at the Venetian Resort on the Las Vegas Strip. Some of his most recent theater credits include Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Sacramento Music Circus). He has performed with the San Francisco Ballet and the San Francisco Opera as well as the Cincinnati, Louisville and Connecticut Ballet Companies. Luke wants to thank the entire Gigi team for sharing this amazing experience and his family and friends for the constant (and endless!) support, trust and love. Luke is a proud member of Actor's Equity and Brazil's Actor's guild.
Broadway: A Grand Night For Singing, Falsettos, Stardust, Snoopy!, and Do Black Patent Leather Shows Really Reflect Up? Off-Broadway: Forever Plaid, Olympus on My Mind, All in the Timing, Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (Drama Desk Nomination) and more. Jason made his Metropolitan Opera House debut as featured vocalist in Twyla Tharp's Everlast with American Ballet Theatre. He has performed his one-man show across the U.S., winning the New York Nightlife Award and 4 Bistros. Jason won a special L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award for outstanding achievement in musical theater. Jason originated the role of Houdini in Ragtime and was featured in Forbidden Broadway (Ovation Award). At the Hollywood Bowl, he played Benny Southstreet in Guys and Dolls and Marcellus in The Music Man. He has done many shows at Reprise, The Colony, The Blank, El Portal, the Rubicon and La Mirada. With L.A Opera, he was featured in The Merry Widow and The Grand Duchess. TV /Film: Six Feet Under, Rude Awakening, Friends, Frasier, Sabrina, Living Single, Caroline in the City, Evening at Pops ,Words and Music by Jerry Herman, Sunshine Barry and the Disco Worms, Home on the Range, Awakening of Spring, and more. For five years he voiced Lucky, the Leprechaun for Lucky Charms Cereal, and has recorded over forty CDs, including original cast albums, concerts, compilations, and two solo CDs.
Millicent is celebrating her 62nd year in show business having started in the children’s chorus in London’s Covent Garden Opera House. Latest being The Queen for the Jonas Brothers and battling her BFF Betty White in Hot In Cleveland. Millie has worked with many fine actors/directors starting with the chorus of South Pacific with Sean Connery and understudying Mary Martin; The Boyfriend with Julie Andrews on both sides of the Atlantic; David Lee's Light Up the Sky led to three years on Frasier as Daphne's dreadful mother. Other Broadway/London shows include: Side By Side By Sondheim as its creator/stars- recently as its compere,42nd Street, King Of Hearts, Shirley Valentine, Follies, musical of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, Guys and Dolls, Noises Off, and Expresso Bongo (Paul Scofield’s only musical), 5 Royal Command Performances. Selected TV: Days of our Lives as Lily Faversham, Will & Grace, Murphy Brown, Downtown, That Was the Week that Was (TW3), Moon & Son, Mainly Millicent, Zack and Cody, Halloweentown 4, From a Bird’s-eye View, co-hosted Night of 100 Stars, Newhart, That’s Life, Gilmore Girls. Film: Alfie with Michael Caine, Stop the World, Nothing but the Best with Alan Bates, Girl on a Boat, Horsemasters, and Mrs. Palfry at the Claremont with Joan Plowright. www.millicent-martin.com
Lisa is thrilled to be playing the role of Gigi in this production at Reprise Theatre Company. She is now a proud resident of Los Angeles after moving from London, England. Lisa made her Los Angeles theatre debut playing Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady at the Ahmanson Theatre as part of the National tour for which she received nominations for a Helen Hayes award and was nominated and won both the Elliot Norton award and a Denver Post Ovation award. London theatre credits include the title role in both Mary Poppins and Gigi, as well as Anything Goes. Television credits include: Castle, The Closer, and Undercovers. Love and thanks to her husband, Brian, for his endless love and support. Lisa would like to dedicate her performance to the wonderful Christopher Cazenove; he is always in our hearts!
Jonathan was trained at National Academy of the Arts and the School of American Ballet - School of the New York City Ballet where he was trained by master teachers Stanley Williams, Peter Martins, Andrea Kramarevsky, Suzanne Ferrell, Alexandra Danilova, Suki Schorer, and Sean Lavery. He has been a member of the Boston Ballet II, Boston Ballet and the Pennsylvania Ballet. He was also a member of Stars of American Ballet (A touring group headlined by Robert La Fosse and Darci Kistler). He has appeared in the Original Casts of The Red Shoes, Carousel (1994 Tony- winner for Best Revival and Best Choreography), The Rocky Horror Show Live, The Dance of the Wolves, and the last Revival of Fiddler on the Roof. He has appeared on television as a contract player on the daytime drama Another World, as well as guest starring on Law and Order, Gilmore Girls, Jack and Jill, and The Cosby Mysteries. He has been a faculty member of Idyllwild Arts Academy for five years. Currently he is also on faculty at the California Dance Theatre, Inland Pacific Ballet, and the EDGE Performing Arts Center. He is an ABT Certified and Affiliated Teacher for Primary to Level 7. He is Ballet Master for Inland Pacific Ballet and Pacific Festival Ballet.
On Broadway, Leslie originated the role of Anne in La Cage Aux Folles and appeared in Victor/Victoria with the delightful Julie Andrews. Her Off-Broadway credits include: James Lapine’s Twelve Dreams at Lincoln Center, My Fair Lady with Kelsey Grammar at the NY Phil, and Macbeth with The Shakespeare Project as Lady MacDuff. In the LA scene, she’s appeared in Can Can and Ray Charles LIVE at the Pasadena Playhouse, Nightmare Alley at the Geffen Playhouse, and 3 productions with Reprise: On Your Toes, Li’l Abner, and Carousel. Leslie was part of the original cast of DIVORCE: The Musical at the Hudson Theatre in Hollywood, which received 5 Ovation nominations for 2009 including Best Ensemble. Ms. Stevens played Charity in Sweet Charity for Austin Musical Theatre and Downtown Cabaret Theatre in CT, directed by Scott Thompson. She was acknowledged with two regional Best Actress Awards for that role and a Connecticut Critic’s Circle nomination. She is a proud alumna of the fabulous Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, the Shakespeare LAB at New York’s Public Theatre, and writes original opera librettos for LA Opera’s excellent Education and Community Programs Dept. TV and film work is online at www.nowcasting.com/lesliestevens and on Youtube.com. Thank you to David, Peggy, Steve, Amy and Eli.
Reprise: Vera in On Your Toes (Ovation Award Nominee), On The Town. Other favorite roles include: Ivy Smith in On The Town (Papermill Playhouse) Claudine in Can Can (Pasadena Playhouse), Tiger Lily in Peter Pan starring Cathy Rigby (North Shore Music Theatre), Velma in Never Gonna Dance (Musical Theatre West), Sophie in The Spirit of Bach (LA Philharmonic, Walt Disney Concert Hall), and Lisa in The Studio (South Coast Repertory). National Theatre credits include: The Goodspeed Opera, Musical Theatre Guild, and the Damn Yankees National Tour. Yvette has appeared as a principal dancer and soloist with The Los Angeles Opera, The Pittsburg Opera, Palm Beach Opera, Opera Pacific, and Arizona Opera. Film and television credits include: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Miss Congeniality 2, Die Vogel, Scrubs, Samantha Who?, Tony Bennett: An American Classic, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Cold Case, The Suite Life , Charmed, Passions, The Emmys (performing with Tony Bennett and Christina Aguilera), and The Grammys (with Shakira and Wyclef). Yvette would like to thank David, Peggy, Steve, Amy and thanks always to Colin for the love!
Theatre/Tours: Broadway Revival A Chorus Line (Kristine), The Studio (Signature Theatre), The Producers (1st National Tour), All Shook Up (Goodspeed), Fosse (1st National Tour), Radio City Rockettes, Paul McCartney’s Driving Rain Tour. TV: Castle, The Mentalist, Melissa and Joey, Revenge of the Bridesmaids (ABC Family TV Movie with Raven Simone and Joanna Garcia), In Plain Sight, Greys Anatomy, Two and a Half Men, All my Children, Boston Public, The Tony Awards. Film: Every Little Step (Documentary on the casting of A Chorus Line), Meet Dave, Save the Last Dance, The Producers, Farm Girl in New York, RiffRaff. She is a proud faculty member at The American Musical Dramatic Academy, Los Angeles. To the best manager ever, Joan Sittenfield - thank you for your constant belief in me. For Jezza, my best friend and my Love. Here's to the magic of dance and storytelling. My gratitude knows no bounds. Visit her at www.chryssiewhitehead.com (performing) and www.chryssiewhitehead.net (teacher/choreographer/dance and movement coach for actors).