Since meeting at age 15 in Miami Senior High School they have written lyrics and music of more than 2,000 compositions for 16 produced stage musicals, 18 stage revues, 58 motion pictures and numerous cabaret acts.  Broadway credits include Song of Norway, Magdalena, Gypsy Lady, Kean, Anya, Timbuktu! and Kismet for which they both won Tony Awards.  Films: Maytime, Sweethearts, Broadway Serenade, The Firefly, I Married an Angel, Saratoga, Music in My Heart, Dance, Girl, Dance, Kismet and Song of Norway.  They have been nominated for three Academy Awards for the songs “Always and Always,” “It’s a Blue World” and “Pennies for Peppino.”  Among the better-known Wright and Forrest songs are “The Donkey Serenade,” “Strange Music,” “Stranger in Paradise,” “And This is My Beloved” and “Baubles, Bangles and Beads.”  There have been thousands of single recordings and over 30 different cast albums of their shows.  Their chamber musical, The Anastasia Affaire, with the music of Rachmaninoff, has just been released.  Mr. Wright and Mr. Forrest received a Tony nomination and two Drama Desk nominations for their work on Grand Hotel. George Forrest passed away on October 10, 1999.

wrote the book of Grand Hotel, the book of Timbuktu! and collaborated with Charles Lederer on the book of Kismet.  He’s been paying dues to the Dramatists Guild since 1936 when he wrote revue sketches during his sophomore year at Yale.  While in the U.S. Air Force in World War II, he wrote the play Kiss Them For Me (based on Shore Leave by Frederic Wakeman).  Grand Hotel: The Musical is scheduled for a new production at the Donmar Warehouse in London in 2004.  He and Robert Wright are busy revising the book and score of Timbuktu! for a tour and revival. 

born 31 Dec 1911, died 5 March 1976. He not only collaborated with Luther Davis on the book of Kismet, but he also took over the show after its initial run for Los Angeles Civic Light Opera Association in Los Angeles and San Francisco and presented it in Boston, Philadelphia and New York.  He was a very successful and famous screenwriter whose credits include Kiss of Death (1947), Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), Spirit of St. Louis (adaptation), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), The Thing (1951), I Was a Male War Bride (1949) and His Girl Friday (1940). 

continues a distinguished career in theatre, film, and television.  His Broadway and off-Broadway credits include Richard Alfieri’s Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks,Tennessee Williams’ Vieux Carre’,  Clifford Odets’ Awake and Sing, John Wesker’s The Four Seasons, John Wilson’s Hamp and Frank Loesser’s The Most Happy Fella for the New York City Opera at Lincoln Center.  His Los Angeles theatre credits include Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks (Geffen Playhouse), The Most Happy Fella, Hair, Follies, Merrily We Roll Along, Mack and Mabel, The Boys From Syracuse, and Of Thee I Sing! (all for REPRISE!), Carousel (Hollywood Bowl) and The Sisters (Pasadena Playhouse).  Mr. Seidelman’s films include Puerto Vallarta Squeeze with Scott Glenn and Harvey Keitel, Like Mother, Like Son with Mary Tyler Moore, By Dawn’s Early Light with Richard Crenna, Poker Alice with Elizabeth Taylor, Walking Across Egypt with Ellen Burstyn, The Kid Who Loved Christmas with Cicely Tyson, Miracle in the Woods with Della Reese, A Friendship in Vienna with Jane Alexander.  For Hallmark Hall of Fame he directed The Runaway, Grace and Glorie with Gena Rowlands, The Summer of Ben Tyler with James Woods and Harvest of Fire with Patty Duke.  Among Mr. Seidelman’s honors are two Emmy Awards, five Emmy nominations, the Peabody and Humanitas Awards, the Grand Prize of the New York Film and Television Festival, the Obie Award, the Writers Guild Award, the Burns Mantle Award, a Drama Desk Award nomination, and three Christopher Awards.

is honored to succeed the late great Peter Matz as musical director for REPRISE!, having been his associate for fourteen shows. He has helmed Babes in Arms, She Loves Me, 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. 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 was the conductor for the national tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Song and Dance (starring Melissa Manchester). Other musical direction credits: the star-studded Actors’ Fund Benefit honoring the music of Richard Rodgers, Something Wonderful (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), three PAWS-LA benefits (working again with David Galligan), 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 Town Hall, and at the Hollywood Roosevelt Cinegrill. He has had music and songs (in collaboration with Lindy Robbins) performed around the country in the 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) , the long running The Gay 90’s- Looking Back and Moving On (both on Varese/Sarabande), Happy Holidays and the riotous Vampire Virgins From Venus (written with Gary MacAuley and directed by David Gallligan).  In a teaching capacity Jerry has worked alongside Nancy Dussault, Karen Morrow and Mel Shapiro on a student-featured workshop as part of UCLA 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 excited to return to REPRISE! after choreographing Of Thee I Sing, also directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman.  Rob’s recent credits include, direction-choreography for On The Town, The Wizard of Oz, Peter Pan, and Singin’ in the Rain.  Recently, he directed and choreographed El Guardian de la Navidad, a Christmas spectacular, in Columbia, which released by Sony on DVD.  Rob choreographed God Bless America for PBS this year as well as The Andy Williams Christmas Show and The Week- Senior Sisters Christmas Show.  He will be directing and choreographing a new production of George M! as well as portraying Jerry Cohan in said production in January.  Rob would like to dedicate his work in Kismet to Jack Cole, who has been a life long inspiration.

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).  Most recently, Evan was scenic designer for the REPRISE! production of Babes in Arms.  Evan also recently designed The Grapes of Wrath at West Coast Ensemble, Little Shop of Horrors at East West Players along with 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 film and television for over two decades. She is a two-time Emmy nominee. She is thrilled to be doing stage again. She designed costumes for the Broadway production of Six Dance Lessons In Six Weeks at the Belasco Theatre with Polly Bergen and Mark Hamill, as well as the play's premier at the Geffen Theater with Uta Hagen and David Hyde Pierce.  Helen's costume design work with the Hallmark Hall of Fame includes Breathing Lessons with Joanne Woodward, The Summer of Ben Tyler with James Woods, To Dance With the White Dog with Jessica Tandy and Lost Child.  Other credits include Song of the Lark for Masterpiece Theater, The Sunshine Boys starring Woody Allen, Monday After the Miracle and Alex Haley's Queen.  She designed the fifth and sixth television seasons of Dawson's Creek and her most recent film Puerto Vallarta Squeeze starred Harvey Keitel and Scott Glenn. Helen studied at the University of Georgia, after which she gained early television and film experience living in New York. Helen now lives in Los Angeles with her husband Richard.

hails from Texas where he attended Angelo State University and majored in Speech and Drama and worked extensively in costume design and construction.  He served on the Board of Angelo Civic Ballet and designed costumes for The Nutcracker and an Angelo Civic Theater production of Little Me.  He designed apparel for several years in Dallas before moving to Los Angeles.  An accomplished tailor, Jeff has assisted and ran shops for several movie designers.  His credits include Ocean’s Eleven, Planet of the Apes, Looking For Lost Bird, Song of the Lark and the soon to be released Disney feature Hidalgo.

has created designs for nineteen REPRISE! productions including Sweeney Todd, Mack & Mabel, and Hair.  He designed the acclaimed production of Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks at the Geffen Playhouse and Coconut Grove Playhouse.   He has designed over seventy-five productions for South Coast Repertory Theatre and shows for the Mark Taper Forum, 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.  Mr. Ruzika also serves as the head of the Graduate Lighting Design Program at U.C. Irvine.

has designed over 80 theatrical shows, including the current national tour of Jesus Christ Superstar originally starring Carl Anderson and Sebastian Bach, Measure for Measure, Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Cinderella at the Ahmanson, Big River, Flower Drum Song and First Picture Show at the Taper, and all of the past six seasons of REPRISE!   Other design work includes Six Dance Lessons In Six Weeks and Aint 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 2001 Ovation Award for Sound Design for Flower Drum Song, and the 1999 LA Drama Critics Circle Award with Jon Gottlieb for their 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.