FRIDAY NIGHT OUT
 

RUSH CLUB

 

 
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

 

 


DAVID LEE (Director)

has directed productions of Light Up the Sky, Do I Hear A Waltz?, 110 in the Shade, Diva, Can-Can (Pasadena Playhouse), the world premiere of How I Fell In Love (Williamstown Theater Festival), On The 20th Century, Assassins, Company, A New Brain, Applause, Working, Zorba (Ovation nominee – Best Director), Elegies, Two By Two and Funny Thing…Forum (Reprise). In 2007, he directed the acclaimed production of South Pacific at the Hollywood Bowl with Reba McEntire and Brian Stokes Mitchell. Most recently, he adapted and directed an eight actor version of Camelot for the Pasadena Playhouse. His writing for the theater includes a concert adaptation of Can-Can (Encores! with Patti LuPone), and an entirely new book for Can-Can which he directed at the Pasadena Playhouse (Ovation Award-Best Director). David is also a nine-time Emmy Award winning director, writer, and producer for television. He is the co-creator of Wings and Frasier, for which he also wrote, produced, and directed. He served as writer/producer for Cheers and directed multiple episodes of Everybody Loves Raymond. In addition to 19 Emmy nominations, he is the recipient of the Directors Guild Award, Golden Globe, Producers Guild Award, GLAAD Media Award, British Comedy Award, Television Critics Association Award (three times), the Humanitas Prize (twice), and the Peabody. But he likes theatre best.

PEGGY HICKEY (Choreographer)

Upcoming: The Music Man (Geva Theatre Center, May 2011); City Of Angels (Goodspeed Musicals, Sept. 2011);Carmen; Seattle Opera. Other credits: The Most Happy Fella, La Rondine (New York City Opera); My Fair Lady with Kelsey Grammar, Brian Dennehey and Kelly O’Hara (New York Philharmonic). Die Fledermaus with Plácido Domingo (PBS Live from The Kennedy Center); Hansel und Gretel (PBS Live From Lincoln Center); Lucio Silla (Santa Fe Opera), The Merry Widow, Aida, La Bohème, Falstaff, La Cenerentola, Carmen, and La Traviata (Houston, San Francisco, Chicago Lyric, Dallas, and LA Opera); Petroushka (LA Phil); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Old Globe, San Diego); A Little Night Music; On the Twentieth Century; Carnival!; Amour; Brigadoon (Goodspeed); Oklahoma (Paper Mill Playhouse); Fiddler on the Roof (Mexico Company); Beauty and the Beast, Peter Pan (Alabama Shakespeare Festival; Urinetown (Geva Theatre); TV/Film: The Brady Bunch Movie, Samantha Who?, 90210, General Hospital, Port Charles, Days of Our Lives, Passions, and the MTV Award for Best Choreography for the music video Beck’s The New Pollution. Ms. Hickey is a faculty member of the Ray Bolger Musical Theater program at UCLA. www.peggyhickey.com

STEVE ORICH (Musical Director)

has worked as a successful Orchestrator, Composer and Musical Director in NY and LA for over thirty years, receiving a Tony nomination for Best Orchestrations for Jersey Boys, with the album winning the Grammy as well. Born in New York, he spent many years playing keyboards on and off-Broadway, as well as musical directing shows for summer stock, dinner theatres and regional theatres, and conducting national tours of Godspell and Annie. As a composer, he has written music for numerous television series, specials, and documentaries including the ACE award-winning Mo' Funny for HBO, All About Bette Davis for TNT, Bob Hope...Laughing with the Presidents for NBC, and the award-winning PBS/Lifetime documentary Jackie Onassis: An Intimate Portrait. He has also orchestrated and conducted albums for singers like Helen Reddy, Petula Clark, Debbie Gravitte, Judy Kaye and Deborah Gibson. Mr. Orich has conducted productions of Do I Hear a Waltz?, A Class Act, 110 in the Shade, and Can-Can at the Pasadena Playhouse, Paint Your Wagon at the Geffen, The Great American Songbook at the Taper, and vocal directed Bernstein’s Mass at the Hollywood Bowl. Since Jersey Boys, he has orchestrated Turn of the Century at the Goodman (directed by Tommy Tune), Stephen Schwartz’s Snapshots (directed by Richard Maltby), Time After Time, and A Christmas Memory. His orchestrations have been performed by the Boston Pops, at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the White House, and around the world.