Tom Jones & Harvey Schmidt wrote The Fantasticks for a summer theatre at Barnard College. After its Off-Broadway opening in May 1960, it went on to become the longest-running production in the history of the American stage and one of the most frequently produced musicals in the world. It is currently running in a successful revival in New York. Their first Broadway show, 110 In the Shade, was successfully revived a few years ago by the New York City Opera and a new Broadway production, produced by the Roundabout Theatre, starred Audra MacDonald. I Do! I Do!, their two character musical starring Mary Martin and Robert Preston, was a success on Broadway and is frequently done around the country and the world. (One production, in Minneapolis, played for twenty-two continuous years with the same two actors in the leading roles.) For several years, Jones and Schmidt worked privately at their theatre workshop, concentrating on small-scale musicals in new and often untried forms. The most notable of these efforts were Celebration, which moved to Broadway, and Philemon, which won an Outer Critics Circle Award. They contributed incidental music and lyrics to the Off-Broadway play Colette, starring Zoe Caldwell, and later did a full-scale musical version under the title Colette Collage. In 1998, The Show Goes On, a musical revue featuring their theatre songs and starring Jones and Schmidt, was presented at the York Theatre, and Mirette, their musical based on the award-winning children’s book, was premiered at the Goodspeed Opera House in Connecticut. In addition to an Obie Award and the 1992 Special Tony Award for The Fantasticks, their “stars” were added to the Off-Broadway Walk of Fame outside the Lucille Lortel Theatre in 1999.

is also proud to be serving as Artistic Director for Reprise and is delighted to be working with its wonderful staff and Board of Directors. Jasonis probably best known for his 9 year, award–winning stint as George Costanza on the hit TV series, Seinfeld. However, those who know him only as George will be surprised to learn of his extensive background as an actor, director, producer, and writer. Besides Seinfeld, his television credits include: Bob Patterson (prod./co-creator); Listen Up (prod.); the TV films of Bye Bye Birdie, The Man Who Saved Christmas, Cinderella, and A Christmas Carol; guest appearances on Criminal Minds, Friends, Monk, Star Trek-Voyager, Malcolm in the Middle, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and multiple episodes of the animated series Duckman, Aladdin, Dilbert, and Dinosaurs. His film credits include: Pretty Woman; White Palace; North; Dunston Checks In; Love, Valor, Compassion; Rocky and Bullwinkle, Ira and Abby and the upcoming, Hachiko. Jason has starred on Broadway in the original companies of Merrily We Roll Along; The Rink; Broadway Bound; Accomplice; and Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, for which he won the Tony, Outer Critics, and Drama Desk Awards as Best Actor in a Musical. He also authored the libretto of the show which received the Tony Award for Best Musical. On the L.A. stage, Jason most recently starred in the Reprise production of I Love My Wife and he has also starred in Give ‘Em Hell, Harry; Defiled; the Los Angeles production of The Producers with Martin Short and the very first Reprise production, Promises, Promises. Jason has directed in every medium: Television (Seinfeld, Remember WENN, Campus Ladies, Everybody Hates Chris, Criminal Minds); Film (For Better or Worse and Just Looking) and Stage (The God of Hell at the Geffen; Sunday In The Park With George and the newly adapted Damn Yankees at Reprise and countless benefits). Jason produced the films Agent Cody Banks and its sequel as well as the TV special Ultimate Trek. Corporate audiences have been discovering Jason in a one man show as his alter ego - the horribly inadequate motivational guru, Donny Clay. And this summer, Jason will tour the “Donny Clay Experience” in theaters all over the east coast. As an author, he penned the children’s book, Dad, Are You the Tooth Fairy? He has won the title of Parlour Magician of the Year at the prestigious Magic Castle and he is a noted player in the celebrity poker circuit. Jason resides in L.A. with his wife Daena and their children, Gabriel and Noah.

Lee is the resident choreographer for Reprise Theatre Company under the Artistic Direction of Jason Alexander. Choreography for Reprise includes Li’l Abner, On Your Toes, Damn Yankees, On The Town, Brigadoon, I Love My Wife and several of the summer events at The John Anson Ford Amphitheatre. Most recent credits include: directing this year’s Alzheimer’s Benefit; directing and staging American Stars In Concert starring Kimberly Locke, Melinda DooLittle, and Diana Degarmo; choreography for the soon-to-be-released animated feature Alpha Omega; Kiss Of The Spider Woman for Havok Theatre Company, for which she just received the Los Angeles Drama Critics’ Award;  Fidder On The Roof for the Rubicon Theatre Company; the World Premiere of Silk Stockings at Musical Theatre West; directing and choreographing What a Pair, a benefit for the John Wayne Cancer Institute starring some of the biggest female stars of TV, film and theatre; and the Bravo series Step It Up and Dance. Other credits include: Beehive at the El Portal Theatre; the Full Monty and All Shook Up for Musical Theatre West; I Do I Do and Side By Side By Sondheim for The Pasadena Playhouse; Lies and Legend for the Rubicon Theatre;direction and choreography for several large-scale shows for Harley-Davidson throughout the country; Warner Bros.’ animated feature The King and I; Universal Studios’ New York Rascal Show; Disney’s Santa Clause 3 Stage Show at the El Capitan Theatre; Disney International’s Latin American Stage Tour, A Dream Is A Wish; the Opening Gala for Theatre Under the Stars, TUTS; Hobby Performing Arts Center honoring Jerry Herman; the Opening of Ford Field, the Detroit Lions football stadium, starring Gladys Knight; the opening of the Spa Resort Casino in Palm Springs starring Ruben Studdard. Lee’s work has been seen in many S.T.A.G.E. (Los Angeles’ longest-running AIDS benefit), Actor’s Fund, and Alzheimer’s benefits, as well as the CHOC Follies, an annual event for Children’s Hospital of Orange County. Lee’s choreography has won her three Los Angeles Drama Critic’s Awards, two Ovation Awards, Garland awards, and many nominations for these awards. Her On Your Toes for Reprise won her the 2007 Ovation, LADCC and Garland awards. Lee is a member of SSDC. Special thanks to a very talented cast and crew and especially to Jason, Suzi, Danny and, as always, JJ.

Tours include: Disney's The Lion King (vocal coach/assistant conductor), A Grand Night for Singing, The All Night Strut, and Jerry’s Girls. Other shows include: Wicked at the Pantages Theater (substitute conductor); Ragtime (Musical Theater West); Swing! (Sacramento Music Circus); A Chorus Line directed by Kay Cole and The King and Iwith Deborah Gibson (Cabrillo Music Theater); Swing! (McCoy/Rigby Ent.); Merry Me A Little – revised version(Celebration Theater); Once On This Island, Li'l Abner with Cathy Rigby and Fred Willard; Merrily We Roll Along with Teri Hatcher; I Do! I Do! with Diana Canova and Harry Groener (Reprise); My Fair Lady, 1776, Little Shop Of Horrors, Camelot, and Forever Plaid (Utah Shakespearean Festival); Ain’t Misbehavin’ directed by Ken Page (CLOSBC); The Threepenny Opera, Raisin and A Christmas Carol (ICT); The Fix, Kiss Of The Spider Woman, Lady In the Dark, and Sail Away (Musical Theater Guild). Arrangement and orchestration credits include: the prime-time television special A Hollywood Holiday Celebration (ABC), The Fountain Show and Christmas Trolley Show (The Grove Los Angeles).

has designed Reprise productions since 1997, including I Love My Wife, Li’l Abner, No Strings, Sunday in the Park with George, My One and Only, On The Town, Pippin, Company, On the Twentieth Century, Anything Goes, Threepenny Opera, and Bells Are Ringing. As an Art Director for Disney Parks Entertainment, his stage, parade, and show designs are seen daily at Disney parks throughout the world, including this year’s Celebrate! A Street Party for Disneyland; adapted versions of High School Musical for California, Florida, Paris, and Hong Kong; and The Golden Mickeys stage show for Hong Kong Disneyland and Disney Cruise Lines. In Los Angeles, his work has won numerous awards over the past decade, and his stage productions have included shows at the Hollywood Bowl (Mame, Mass), Interact, Tiffany, Coronet, Colony, and International City Theatre. In New York City, his off-Broadway shows include A Kid’s Life and recent editions of Forbidden Broadway (both now touring). His past television work includes a weekly series for Warner Bros. and televised special events for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver. He is a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle.

happily returns to the Reprise Theatre after having designed I Love My Wife earlier this season. She has spent the last several years designing sets and wardrobe for commercials and print advertising, working on campaigns for AT&T, Marlboro, Toyota, Morgan Stanley, Disney, Blackberry, Target, and Coca-Cola.  Her work has been seen on celebrities in Vanity Fair, Premier, People, Elle, Interview, Life, and Esquire magazines. Kate has designed costumes for over 50 productions of theatre, opera, and dance.  For Chicago Opera Theatre, she designed costumes for Albert Herring, The Good Soldier Schweik, The Italian Girl in Algiers, Summer and Smoke, and The Mother of Us All.  She also designed The Diary of Anne Frank for the Steppenwolf Theatre; Moon for the Misbegotten for the Victory Theatre in Dayton, Ohio; and Kiss Me Kate, The Impromptu at Outremont, and Les Seours for the Northlight Theatre in Chicago. She designed the Steven Carter plays produced at the Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago:  Eden, Nevis Mountain Dew and Dame Lorraine.  Other productions she has designed costumes for are The Baker’s Wife, She Loves Me, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, School for Wives, A Winter’s Tale, Richard II, and Open Heart at the Falcon Theatre. Designing for theatre is her first love and she is happy to be working with everyone at Reprise on this production of The Fantasticks.

Driscoll is thrilled be working on his third show with Reprise. Most recently, Driscoll was the assistant designer on Rock of Ages both On- and Off-Broadway. For Reprise: Flora, The Red Menace and Once On This Island. Other credits include: Silk Stockings at Musical Theatre West, Twilight In Manchego in the New York Musical Theatre Festival, Pete N’ Keely for Alpine Theatre Project in Montana, Showboat at Utah Festival Opera, The Last Of The Red Hot Lovers at the Penobscott Theatre Company. Off-Broadway: I Have Loved Strangers at the Ohio Theatre, Deep Run at the Puerto Rico Traveling Theatre, Illuminating Veronica directed by Michael Sexton, and Coronado at the Manhattan Theatre Source. Other credits include: This Bloody Mess for the Lincoln Center Directors Pre-Lab; Swing! and Violet at Plano Repertory Theatre in Dallas; Don’t Dress For Dinner at Northern Stage in Vermont. Driscoll was the 2007-2008 resident lighting designer for the Brown/Trinity Rep. Consortium where he lit Figaro, The Cure at Troy, and Elektra. Driscoll has worked and designed at New York Stage and Film, Williamstown Theatre Fesival, and Utah Festival Opera. Driscoll holds an MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Driscoll wants to thank his new wife Amelia for all of her support! His work can be seen online at http://www.LoneStarNYC.com

Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks on Broadway; the 2002 to 2005 national tour of Jesus Christ Superstar; The Ten Commandments starring Val Kilmer at the Kodak Theatre; Measure for Measure, Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Cinderella at the Ahmanson; Pippin, The House of Blue Leaves, The Talking Cure, Like Jazz, Big River, Flower Drum Song and First Picture Show at the Taper; and all of the past eleven seasons of Reprise. Other design work includes Paint Your Wagon, Six Dance Lessons In Six Weeks and Ain’t Nothin' But the Blues at the Geffen; Play On and Blame it on the Movies at the Pasadena Playhouse; Masada at the Shubert Theatre in LA; Forever Plaid and Blues in the Night at the Coconut Grove Playhouse in Miami;and the US workshop productions of the current West End musical Zorro with music by John Cameron and the Gipsy Kings. On Broadway, he assisted long-time design partner Jon Gottlieb on 2001’s If You Ever Leave Me I'm Coming With You. He served as Production Sound Engineer for Jason Robert Brown’s 13 at the Taper, Thoroughly Modern Millie at La Jolla Playhouse, and was the head soundman for the national tours of Titanic, Ain’t Misbehavin’ and Man of La Mancha. He won the 2003 NAACP award for Sound Design for Jesus Christ Superstar, the 2001 Ovation Award for Flower Drum Song, and the 1999 LA Drama Critics Circle Award for Cinderella, as well as five LA Dramalogue Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Design, and two Ovation Award nominations for Best Sound Design. Mr. Allen currently teaches Sound Design for Theatre at the USC School of Theatre and at Cal Arts.