born in New Haven, Connecticut, November 23, 1928. Bock grew up in Flushing, New York and, after studying the piano as a child, began composing songs when he was in his teens. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a music degree and began his Broadway career with lyricist Larry Holofcener. Their most successful collaboration was the 1956 Mister Wonderful, which starred Sammy Davis, Jr. Bock joined forces with lyricist Sheldon Harnick and together they crafted some of the most successful scores of the 1950s and '60s, including Fiorello (Pulitzer Prize 1960), She Loves Me (1963) and Fiddler On The Roof (1964). Bock and Harnick's last two shows together were The Apple Tree (1966) and The Rothschilds (1970).
born in Chicago, Illinois, December 27, 1924. Harnick started as a violinist in Chicago, then moved to New York City to pursue a theatrical career. In the 1950s, he contributed songs (e.g. The Boston Beguine," "The Little Minuet") to revues on and Off-Broadway. In 1957, he teamed with composer Jerry Bock and together they crafted some of the most successful scores of the 1950s and '60s, including Fiorello (Pulitzer Prize 1960), She Loves Me (1963) and Fiddler On The Roof (1964). Bock and Harnick's last two shows together were The Apple Tree (1966) and The Rothschilds (1970). Other collaborations: Rex with Richard Rodgers, A Christmas Carol with Michel Legrand, A Wonderful Life with Joe Raposo. Mr. Harnick is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Songwriters Guild of America.
is best known as the book writer for the Tony Award-winning Cabaret. Coming to New York from Philadelphia after attending Temple University and serving in the U.S. Air Force, he has been represented in New York City by the play The Warm Peninsula, the libretto for an operatic version of Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms and the book and lyrics for a recent production of Six Wives at the York Theatre Company.
was nominated twice for the Director Guild of America Award for best director of a comedy and won the award for The Alan Brady Show episode of Mad About You. He also directed episodes of Frasier, Coach and over 50 episodes of various sitcoms. He has just finished directing The Great American Songbook starring Michael Feinstein for the Mark Taper Forum, and this summer he will be directing My Fair Lady at the Hollywood Bowl (where last summer he directed The Music Man starring Eric McCormack and Kristin Chenoweth). His production of Stand-up Opera Starring B.J. Ward is currently on tour, and last year played the Adelaide Arts Festival in Australia. In New York he directed Black Water, an opera with libretto by Joyce Carol Oates at Cooper Union, and the Noel Coward All-Star Centennial Celebration at Carnegie Hall, and off Broadway he directed Shmulnik’s Waltz by Alan Knee with incidental music by David Shire. For the past 10 years he has directed the Mark Taper Salon Series, a yearly tribute to different lyricists, starring Michael Feinstein and various guest stars. Also at the Taper he created and directed a musical adaptation of Studs Terkel’s The Good War featuring, among others, Helen Hunt, Brian Stokes Mitchell and B.J. Ward. He has directed world premieres of a number of plays including A.R. Gurney’s The Middle Ages and Black by Joyce Carol Oates with Anthony Edwards and Felicity Huffman at the Williamstown Theater Festival (where he also directed A Little Night Music). He is the author of the best-selling theater book “How To Audition,” and as a lyricist he wrote the award winning song, Errol Flynn which he wrote with Amanda McBroom.
Following the acclaimed productions of Anything Goes, Follies, and On the Twentieth Century, Mr. Sternbach is proud to be handed the baton from the late Maestro Matz being his associate for twelve REPRISE! musicals, including Promises/Promises, Sweeney Todd, Mack and Mabel, and Hair. Most recently he was the musical director for the Actors Fund Benefit Something Wonderful honoring the Richard Rodgers Centennial. Other credits; Associate-conductor – Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, Merlin, The Tap Dance Kid (all Broadway), Les Miserables (LA). Conductor/Musical Director - Song and Dance (with Melissa Manchester), Gilligan's Island, The Musical (produced/co-written by Sherwood Schwartz), Shire/Maltby's Closer Than Ever (LA premiere), original casts of A Chorus Line and Dreamgirls in Michael Bennett tribute (LA Shanti), a STAGE benefit honoring Sondheim, Jason Graae's and Donna McKechnie's acts. Composer credits - new musicals: Heartbeats (co-writer with Amanda McBroom), The Gay 90's and Virgin Vampires From Venus (both directed by David Galligan); The Three Musketeers (co-written with Valerie Dunlap, CSUN premiere); ASCAP Rising Songwriter Showcases on both coasts. Cabaret Conventions at NYC's Town Hall and (collaborating with Lindy Robbins) the 93-98 editions of the Ringling Brothers' Circus; worked with Mel Shapiro, Nancy Dussault and Karen Morrow on a student-featured project part of UCLA's theater department, vocal arranger for the live rock-and-roll/ stunt show, Spiderman Rocks (directed by Barbara Epstein), playing at Universal Studios Theme Park, Hollywood all year.
returns to REPRISE! having choreographed Anything Goes earlier this season. 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 with Andrea McArdle, Cabaret with Sam Harris, Hello, Dolly! with Jo Anne Worley, The Music Man with John Davidson, Guys and Dolls with Jack Jones, Dreamgirls, Damn Yankees, Fiddler on the Roof, over 15 productions for the Sacramento Music Circus, Enter the Guardsman for The Old Globe Theatre, and most recently The Great American Songbook-On Stage w/ Michael Feinstein for the Mark Taper Forum. He directed the Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS benefit launching EddieBauerKids.com, choreographed The Disney Channel’s opening special for the animated feature The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and the world premiere of Flavia and the Dream Maker (Access Theatre) based on Flavia Weedn’s popular storybook greeting cards. For future shows and projects, please visit www.danmojica.com.
Mr. Smith is happy to continue to design for REPRISE! Robert's recent works include: Fuddy Meers (L.A. Premiere) for the Colony Theatre, Dorian (World Premiere) at the Denver Center, Music Man with the Hollywood Bowl, BINGO, a winning Musical (World Premiere) at the Hermosa Beach Playhouse and the Ordway Center. Designs for REPRISE! include The Most Happy Fella, HAIR and Strike Up The Band. Disney's Jungle Adventures and The Little Mermaid on Ice for Feld Entertainment, Confidentially, Cole , Lullaby of Broadway and The All Night Strut at the Tiffany Theaters, Off-Broadway credits include: VICES (NYC workshop), Matty at the Lambs Theater, Einstein at the American Jewish Theater. Other Stages: Night Club Confidential and No, No, Nanette among others for Long Beach Civic Light Opera, Stephen Sondheim's Assassins for L.A. Repertory, Beehive, the 60's musical at the Luxor Hotel, Las Vagas. For Santa Barbara's Ensemble Theater Co. productions of A Perfect Ganesh (West Coast Premiere), The Importance of Being Earnest (Drama-Louge Award),The Cocktail Hour (Drama-Louge Award), Marvin's Room (West Coast Premiere),Our Country's Good, The Rose Tattoo, Lettice and Lovage. The 1994-1996 Ovation Awards for Theater LA. Work benefiting charities: The Actors fund 2002, S.T.A.G.E. 2002-03, Music from the Heart 2001, and co-created, co-produced and directed Quest for the Crown 2000 at the Wiltern Theater.
have been working together for over 25 years. Their most recent credits include Anything Goes for REPRISE!, Paint Your Wagon, Camelot, and The Unsinkable Molly Brown for Sacramento's Music Circus. Last fall they designed the Off-Broadway premiere of Dragapella! starring the Kinsey Sicks for which they received a Lucille Lortel Award nomination. In addition to stage, they have designed extensively for television, for which they have received a combined 9 Emmy Awards and 19 Emmy Award nominations. Their television credits include General Hospital, Port Charles, Dick Clark's Your Big Break, The American Music Awards, and most recently, American Bandstand 50th Anniversary. Premiering in the fall of 2003, they have been chosen to design the costumes for a new national tour of Camelot.
Design highlights include regional
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, A 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 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 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.