Theatre: Pippin (Tony Nomination), Walking Happy (Tony Nomination), World War 2 1/2, Journey to the Day, Pas La Bouche Pleine, Invitation to the Asylum, Darling of the Day. Movies: Demon Seed (Julie Christie), Pieces of Dreams, The Bridge at Remagen, To Catch a King (Teri Garr), The Private Wound. Television: "A Woman Named Jackie" (Emmy Award Winner - Best Mini-series), "Adams Chronicles" (Emmy Award), "The Old Man And the Sea" (Anthony Quinn), "The Best of Families" (PBS), "Christmas Carol" (Christopher Award), "The Ted Kennedy, Jr. Story" (Christopher Award), "Strike Force" (Richard Gere), "Vanity Fair" (Diane Cilento), "Journey To The Day" (Mike Nichols), "The Long March," "The Outpost," "The First Day" (Margaret Leighton) plus approximately 100 other network programs. Mr. Hirson is married to Jean Tan de Bibiana and has two sons, Christopher and David.
has contributed music and/or lyrics to Godspell, Pippin, The Magic Show, The Baker’s Wife, Working (which he also adapted and directed), Personals, Rags, Children of Eden and the current Broadway hit, Wicked. He collaborated with Leonard Bernstein on the English texts for Bernstein's Mass and wrote the title song for the play and movie Butterflies Are Free. For children, he has written a one-act musical, Captain Louie. For films, he collaborated with Alan Menken on the scores for the Disney animated features Pocahontas and The Hunchback of Notre Dame and wrote the songs for the DreamWorks animated feature The Prince of Egypt. He provided music and lyrics for the original television musical, Geppetto, and has released two CDs of new songs entitled Reluctant Pilgrim and Uncharted Territory. Under the auspices of the ASCAP Foundation, he runs musical theatre workshops in New York and Los Angeles, and is also a member of the Council of the Dramatists' Guild. Mr. Schwartz is the recipient of three Academy Awards, three Grammy Awards, four Drama Desk Awards and a tiny handful of tennis trophies. http://www.stephenschwartz.com
was nominated twice for the Directors Guild of America Award, and won the award as best director of a comedy for his work on “Mad About You.” He has directed over fifty episodes of such TV shows as “Frasier,” “Suddenly Susan” and many others. In the theater he has directed plays and musicals on both coasts including the Bernstein Mass at the Hollywood Bowl where he also directed My Fair Lady, The Music Man and Mame. He recently directed All About Gordon at the Ahmanson Theatre to salute Gordon Davidson. Also, for twelve years he has directed the annual Salon Series at the Mark Taper Forum starring Michael Feinstein. In New York he directed the Noel Coward Centennial Celebration at Carnegie Hall, and Black Water, an opera with llibretto by Joyce Carol Oates, and a number of off-Broadway
plays and workshops. He is the author of the best-selling theater book How To Audition, and as a lyricist he won the MACC award for best song of the year for “Errol Flynn,” which he wrote with Amanda McBroom.
returns to REPRISE! having choreographed Anything Goes (2003 Ovation award-Best Musical), She Loves Me and last season’s Babes in Arms. Recent projects include the pre-show for the new Disney/Pixar animated movie, The Incredibles at the historic El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, My Way, the Frank Sinatra musical, at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts (opening February, 11th 2005), and the soon to be released Joel Zwick film Elvis Has Left the Building, starring Kim Bassinger and John Corbett. As part of the original Broadway creative team of Disney's smash musical Beauty and the Beast (Associate Director/Choreographer), Mr. Mojica mounted, staged, and supervised all 16 companies of the show around the world, with productions premiering in London, Tokyo, Madrid, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Stuttgart, Sydney, and three US National Tours. He has directed and/or choreographed productions of Victor Victoria (1st National Tour) with Toni Tennille, Singin' in the Rain (Korean premiere in Seoul), Cabaret with Sam Harris, Hello, Dolly! with Jo Anne Worley, Little Me w/ Rich Little, The Music Man with John Davidson, Dreamgirls, Damn Yankees, Fiddler on the Roof, over 16 productions for the Sacramento Music Circus, Enter the Guardsman for The Old Globe Theatre, and The Great American Songbook w/ Michael Feinstein for the Mark Taper Forum. He directed the Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS benefit launching EddieBauerKids.com, and has supported and lent his talents to Sing Happy, the John Kander and Fred Ebb Actors' Fund benefit, The Perfect Year, the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber for S.T.A.G.E, and most recently the Help is On the Way 10th anniversary benefit in San Francisco. For The Disney Channel he choreographed the opening special for the animated feature The Hunchback of Notre Dame, directed and conceived the musical revue Bandstand Boogie for Paramount Entertainment, and choreographed the world premiere of Flavia and the Dream Maker (Access Theatre) based on Flavia Weedn's popular storybook greeting cards. He is a member of SSDC, The Society of Director's and Choreographers Union, SAG, AEA, AFTRA, AGVA, attended the University of Miami, and resides in Los Angeles and New York. For future shows and projects, please visit www.danmojica.com.
succeeds the late great Peter Matz as musical director for REPRISE! having been his associate for fourteen shows. Now commmencing his third season, he has helmed Brigadoon, Company (2004 LA Ovation nomination), Kismet, Babes in Arms, She Loves Me (garnering a LA Drama Critics Circle Nomination), On the Twentieth Century, Anything Goes (the last three, a 2003 LA Ovation Awards nomination for each!) and Follies. He also works in a pre-production capacity at the Hollywood Bowl playing rehearsals for the musicals The Music Man, My Fair Lady and last summer’s Mame. 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 conducted the National Tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Song and Dance (starring Melissa Manchester). Gerald is also thrilled to have accompanied Marilyn Horne and Florence Henderson in benefit recitals for P.A.C.E. (Pacific Alliance for Conservation and the Environment) and the Music Academy of the West (the latter also joined by Carol Burnett). Other musical direction credits: The Perfect Year (for S.T.A.G.E.), honoring the music of Sir Andrew and Something Wonderful (for the Actor's Fund), honoring the music of Richard Rodgers, (both star studded benefits 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); and 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’s Town Hall and at the Hollywood Roosevelt’s Cinegrill. He has had music and songs (in collaboration with Lindy Robbins) performed around the country in the ‘93-’98 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), directed by the ubiquitous Mr. Gallligan, the long running The Gay 90’s – Looking Back and Moving On and the riotous Vampire Virgins from Venus (written with Gary MacAuley). This last spring, Gerald’s song Mary ( written in collaboration with Faye Greenberg)--a paean to The Mary Tyler Moore Show was performed on the TV Land Awards show by Eric McCormack-- in the presence of the original cast of the landmark sitcom. In a teaching capacity, Jerry has worked alongside Nancy Dussault, Karen Morrow and Mel Shapiro on a student-featured workshop as part of UCLA’s 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. This spring, he will continue his association with S.T.A.G.E. and David Galligan, musically directing Two on the Aisle-- a musical tribute to Harry Warren and Marvin Hamlisch.
Past productions include REPRISE!’s Company, On the Twentieth Century, Anything Goes, Three Penny Opera and Bells Are Ringing. This past summer he designed MAME and MASS at the Hollywood Bowl, both for Gordon. Hs has a tour of Stand By Your Man out on the road, and Forbidden Broadway continues to play in NYC. His work has been seen throughout Los Angeles and beyond, including numerous shows at the Colony Theatre, Interact Theatre, International City Theatre and various small theatres, along with other shows on the open road and out of the open seas. In addition, Mr. Kaye's design work is seen by thousands on a daily basis at Tokyo DisneySea and Disneyland, including the Porto Paradiso Water Carnival (featuring a cast of 200 and six Spanish galleons) and the updated Great Moments With Mr. Lincoln (featuring a "cast" of one and a chair). He is currently designing a new parade for Disney's California Adventure and a show for Hong Kong Disneyland, both premiering in the summer of '05. Bradley's work has received two Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle design awards, plus Backstage Garlands and Dramalogues. He received both the LADCC Lifetime Achievement Award for Design and the Backstage West Local Hero Award for design. This past spring he was named one of Riviera Magazine’s Men of Style.
has designed costumes for theater,
has created designs for twenty-three REPRISE! productions including Kismet, Sweeney Todd, Mack & Mabel and Hair. He designed the acclaimed production of Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks at the Belasco Theatre on Broadway, the Geffen Playhouse and the Coconut Grove Playhouse. He has designed over eighty productions for South Coast Repertory Theatre and shows for the Mark Taper Forum, Laguna Playhouse, International City Theatre, Opera Santa Barbara, South Bay CLO, Fullerton CLO, Sacramento Music Theatre, Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C., and the current national tour of Peter Pan featuring Cathy Rigby. 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.
has designed over 80 theatrical shows, including Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks on Broadway, the current national tour of Jesus Christ Superstar; which has angered elderly patrons in more than 30 cities and been seen by more than half a million audience members across North America, the recent large scale production of The Ten Commandments starring Val Kilmer at the Kodak Theatre, Measure for Measure, Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Cinderella at the Ahmanson, The Talking Cure, Like Jazz, Big River, Flower Drum Song and First Picture Show at the Taper, and all of the past seven seasons of REPRISE! Other design work includes Six Dance Lessons In Six Weeks and A'int 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 2003 NAACP award for Sound Design for Jesus Christ Superstar, the 2001 Ovation Award for Sound Design for Flower Drum Song, and the 1999 LA Drama Critics Circle Award for the 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.