was born in Harlem.  At age 3, she was discovered by a talent scout from The Merry Mailman, a popular local kiddie show.  A year later she was cast in the revival of Wisteria Trees, starring Helen Hayes.  Also on stage she appeared in Joseph Papp’s Hair and George M., an Off Broadway musical version of Irwin Shaw’s Bury the Dead and the New York Shakespeare Festival’s Two Gentlemen of Verona, where she received a Tony nomination as Best Actress in a musical and won Drama Critcis, Drama Desk, Theatre World and Outer Circle Awards.  Her television and film credits include: Cotton Comes to Harlem, Come Back Charleston Blue, The River Niger (NAACP Image Award) and Hotel New Hampshire.  She then moved to the west coast and guest starred on Cagney and Lacey, Hill Street Blues, The Trials of Rosie O’Neill, Penalty Phase (MOW) and Cage Without a Key (CBS Movie).  Series include Palmerstown, Berenger’s, After Midnight, Generations, and Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.  Look for Allen in the upcoming independent film, Next Time and a USC film, Blues to Red.  She just finished writing her first cookbook, based on her Grandmother’s cooking.

was born in Vienna, educated in Israel where he joined the Habimah Theatre and was a co-founded of the Israel Cameri Theatre.  He graduated in 1946 from London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and then appeared in several West End plays including A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by Laurence Olivier, and The Love of Four Colonels with Peter Ustinov.  Arriving on Broadway in the 50s he starred in Tonight in Samarkand, The Rope Dancers, The Lark, created the role of Baron von Trapp in The Sound of Music, The Threepenny Opera and Zorba.  He has played Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof over 1600 times over the past 31 years.  Bikel has made some 35 films: The Queen, The Enemy Below, The Little Kidnappers, The Russians Are Coming, My Fair Lady, I Want To Live and The Defiant Ones, for which he received an Academy Award nomination.  He has appeared in virtually every top dramatic television show, winning an Emmy in 1988.  In addition to movies, television and theatre, Theodore Bikel also makes some 60 concert appearances each year in the U.S. and abroad.

Broadway: Pirates of Penzance, Leader of the Pack.  Off Broadway: Originated the role of the Balladeer in Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins (director Jerry Zaks), Lady in the Dark (City Center’s Encores!).  Regional: Conrack (Helen Hayes Nomination) at the Ford’s Theatre, Martin Guerre at the Hartford Stage, The End of the Day by John Robin Baitz (director Scott Elliot) at Williamstown Theatre Festival.  Los Angeles: Company (with Carol Burnett), Love Letters, Assassins (LATC).  Other Theater Credits: Robber Bridegroom, Little Shop of Horrors, Camelot, The Sound of Music.  Films: Longtime Companion, I’ll Do Anything, I Won’t Dance, Burning Love.  TV Miniseries: Dress Gray (Emmy Nomination), Napoleon and Josephine.  MOW’s: Oklahoma City, Something in Common, Christmas Eve, How the West Was Fun, Follow Your Heart.  Series Regular: NBC’s Bay City Blues, CBS’s Dirty Dancing, HBO’s Perversion of Science.  Patrick studies voice with Eric Vietro and is co-creating a new musical with him that is set for the spring of 1999.  Patrick is married to dancer Melissa Hurley Cassidy, and they are the proud parents of Cole Cassidy and young Jack Cassidy.

made her stage debut in Member of the Wedding at the Berkshire Theatre Festival playing ‘Frankie.’  This was not a Brecht piece.  She then appeared on Fame, still learning no German.  Being of sound mind and body, she then traveled to Japan, hoping SOMEONE there would explain Weill to her.  No such luck, but she did a movie called Tokyo Pop.  Her quest took her all over the U.S., doing Shag: The Movie, to Canada for various TV movies, indie films, more theatre…but she still felt somehow…empty.  Singing in the rock band ‘Gilt Lily’ only made matters worse, so she hightailed it to the mountains of Colorado hoping to find a community of German speaking cowboys.  A stint in the first National tour of Rent as Maureen was extremely rewarding but OH! how she wished for a simpler life!  So she returned to Colorado, and began writing a play with her mother via smoke signals, which was workshopped at the Sundance Institute’s Theatre Lab this past July.  PAYDIRT!  They were also working on Happy End up there…she could feel her Brechtian promise a hair’s breath away…Carrie plans on taking atonal composition courses at Valley Community College this winter. 

is a renowned Cabaret singer, with a dedicated following in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, where she is a sellout performed at both the Cinegrill and the Jazz bakery.  Marilynn and her husband, Peter Matz, performed their show Say It With Music at REPRISE! BROADWAY’S BEST IN CONCERT held at UCLA in Los Angeles.  In July 1998, their show was produced at the John Drew Guild Hall in East Hampton, New York, and Eighty-Eight’s in New York City to triumphant reviews.  A prominent Broadway performer in the 60’s, she gained international acclaim starring opposite Mary Martin in the international company of Hello Dolly!  Marilynn has made numerous appearances on the major television variety and talk shows.  A versatile actress as well as singer, her film work includes featured roles in Ghosts of Mississippi (directed by Rob Reiner), The Gifted and Through a Glass Darkly.  On November 12, 1998, Marilynn will succeed Wynton Marsalis as this year’s “Champion of the Arts” awardee given by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. 

Southern California audiences have seen him recently in the Livent productions of Showboat at the Ahmanson and Ragtime at the Shubert.  Other local appearances include Forum at La Jolla Playhouse, Bandido at the Mark Taper Forum, The Cocktail Hour, The King and I and the title role in the “Scottish Play.”  George launched his professional career at the legendary Barn Theatre in Augusta, Michigan as The Boy in The Fantasticks; he subsequently appeared in such musicals as My Fair Lady, Funny Girl, On a Clear Day… and Sweet Charity.  He toured opposite Lauren Bacall and Eleanor Parker in the National Tour of Applause.  Appearances in the Center Theatre Group’s Macbeth, Cyrano, Long Day’s Journey and Devil’s Disciple followed.  New York lured him for a season at the BAM Theatre Company, where he appeared with Rene Auberjonois and Richard Dreyfuss in Julius Caesar.  A lengthy stint as Dr. Jordan Barr on Days of our Lives began a series of more than fifty guest star and film performances in such shows as L.A. Law, Hill Street Blues and Lionheart.  George own a Dramalogue award for his portrayal of Shannon in Night of the Iguana.  He is married to actress Melora Marshall.  They live in Topanga Canyon where they often work together at her family’s theatre, the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum.

Broadway: The Wizard of Oz in 1997 with Roseanne & 1998 with Eartha Kitt & Mickey Rooney (Cowardly Lion/Zeke), A Christmas Carol (Ghost of Christmas Present), 1976 revival Guys and Dolls (Nicely Nicely Johnson/Theatre World Award), The Wiz (Cowardly Lion), Ain’t Misbehavin (Original Cast/Drama Desk Award for Best Actor), Cats (Old Deuteronomy/Original Cast) and Ain’t Misbehavin (1988 Revival).  London: Children of Eden (God/Father), My One and Only (Bishop—Concert/London Paladium), Mr. Wonderful—The Tribute to Sammy Davis Jr. (Theatre Royal Drury Lane).  Other New York: Call Me Madam, Out of This World (Jupiter/Encores City Center), Anyone Can Whistle (Chief Magrude—Concert/Carnegie), Aida (King of Nubia/Disney Workshop).  Regional: Faust (Lord/La Jolla Playhouse & Goodman Theatre).  Television: Touched By an Angel (CBS), South Central (Series Regular FOX), Family Matters (ABC), Adventures in Wonderland (Disney), Polly/Polly Comin Home (NBC).  TV Film: The Kid Who Loved Christmas.  Film: Torch Song Trilogy (Murry) and I’ll Do Anything (Ken).  Voiceover: Nightmare Before Christmas (Mr. Oogie Boogie) and All Dogs Go To Heaven (Alligator).  Directing: Los Angeles Elegies, Pretty Fire, The Fantasticks, To Sir With Love (Musical).  New York Nightlife (Manhattan Theatre Club Workshop), Atom & Eve (Musical Theatre Works-Staged Reading).  Video: Cats (Old Deuteronomy) released this fall.  Hunchback of Notre Dame (Hugo/Disney Workshop) and Skin of Our Teeth (Kander and Ebb/Workshop). 

Broadway and Off Broadway credits include: Avril/Mallory in City of Angels, Grace Farrell in Annie Warbucks, Sarah Stone in No Way to Treat a Lady, Delphi in Alan Menken’s Weird Romance.  Regional credits include: Nellie Forbush in South Pacific at Papermill, Das Barbecue at Goodspeed, Fay in Loot at Scottsdale Ctr. Arts.  TV and film include: Seinfeld, E.R., The Tom Show, Radioland Murders, and most recently, To Have and to Hold and The Secret Lives of Men. 

recently returned from touring as Julian Marsh in the European company of 42^nd Street.  Last year he appeared as Georges in the critically acclaimed Los Angeles production of La Cage Aux Folles, and was seen as Fred in Kiss Me Kate at the Sacramento Music Circus and as Michael in  Do! I Do! for the Music Theatre of Southern California.  He spent last summer portraying Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls at Harrah’s in Atlantic City, and was proud to originate the role of Adam in the world premiere of Dale Wasserman’s new musical Western Star.  Michael has received Dramalogue awards for his performances of Alan in Baby, Bill Sykes in Oliver, Nick in Funny Girl, Sky in Guys and Dolls, Cliff in Cabaret and Georges in La Cage Aux Folles.  He has performed as a guest soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl and with the L.A. Pops Orchestra in their last two summer concert series.  His television credits include guest appearances on Frasier, Murder She Wrote, Wings, Colombo, Cheers, Newhart, The Young and the Restless, and the Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation of A Place For Annie. 

Karon’s favorite role has been “the Mezzo” in six productions of Berlin to Broadway With Kurt Weill.  Karon produced the L.A. production, which won four Dramalogue Awards and four L.A. Drama Critics Awards.  Other favorite roles: the evil Stepmother in Cinderella at the Santa Barbara City Light Opera, Liz Swaddos’ The Beautiful Lady  and Missionaries On Their Knees at the Mark Taper Forum, Mrs. Anderson in A Little Night Music with Gordon Davidson at the Doolittle, and two years of Six Women With Brain Death.  A graduate of Northwestern University, Karon has done several national commercials and appeared in the films Not Quite Human Part II and Neon Empire with Gary Busey and Dylan McDermott.  Her T.V. credits include co-starring roles on New York Daze, Living Single, Party Girl and the doomed pilot Talk of the Town—and this fall in Diane English’s new show, Living in Captivity on Fox.  Karon directed and performed in Six Women With Brain Death at the Forum Theater in Thousand Oaks for Theater League.  While doing a production of Quilters at Arizona Theater Company, Karon met her husband Rick Garcia, who works in television production.  Their favorite production to this date is their four-year-old daughter, Gabbie!

has worked at theatres all over the country.  His L.A. appearances include: To Kill a Mockingbird at La Mirada Playhouse, The Kentucky Cycle at the Mark Taper Forum, Detective Story at the Ahmanson and The Foreigner at several venues.  In New York, he was seen in Juan Darien and Revelations in the Courthouse Park.  His regional credits include: Of Mice and Men, Great Expectations, A Streetcar Named Desire, Buried Child, On the Waterfront, Desire Under the Elms, Hard Times, I’m Not Rappaport, She Stoops to Conquer, Man of La Mancha, Jane Eyre, A History of American Film, Broadway, Romeo and Juliet, Antigone and The White Devil at theatres such as Syracuse Stage, The Guthrie Theatre, Stage West, Cleveland Playhouse, Portland Stage, GeVa Theatre, Studio Arena Theatre and The Acting Company.  Among his film credits are It’s No Secret, Cobb, The Babysitter, Biloxi Blues, Fletch Lives, Eddie Macon’s Run and Beer.  His television appearances include Everybody Loves Raymond, Saved By the Bell, The Magnificent Seven, Wings, Sisters, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Who’s the Boss, Something Wilder, General Hospital, and The Young and the Restless, as well as several dozen commercials. 

Mr. Lawrence’s most recent L.A. stage work was in the award-winning productions of Ionseco’s The Chairs (opposite Barbara Bain) and The Lesson at Stages.  For the Mark Taper Forum, he performed in Chekhov’s The Wood Demon, Brecht’s The Wedding, and Sobol’s Ghetto.  He has appeared on stages across the country including Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Long Wharf, the New York Shakespeare Festival and the Contemporary American Theatre Festival where he starred in the world premieres of Victor Bumbalo’s What Are Tuesdays Like? and his one man Tennessee Williams show, Talking Tennessee.  His television credits includes E.R., The Tony Danza Show, Frasier, Growing Pains, Head of the Class, thirtysomething and Night Court.  Mr. Lawrence’s appearance in Threepenny marks an ongoing involvement with the stages of Germany between the wars.  He is the creator of Cabaret Verboten, a theatre piece based on songs and sketches of the Berlin cabarets which has been performed in L.A. and around the country.  He is also the author of the English lyrics for the Ute Lemper CD, Berlin Cabaret Songs. 

is thrilled to be joining the REPRISE! ’98 series.  She is currently performing at the Century City Playhouse in Love 40.  Last fall, Mary Jo was seen at the Tiffany Theatre in the premiere of Lullaby of Broadway, The Life and Words of Al Dubin, where she originated the role of Edwina.  Regionally, she has performed as Sally in Cabaret, Mary in Jesus Christ Superstar, Rizzo in Grease, The World Goes ‘Round and Nancy in the world premiere of Jekyll and Hyde at the Alley Theatre in Houston.  Mary Jo can be heard singing the “Maynard G. Blues” on Nick At Nite and T.V. Land, and is also the voice of Lola in the soon-to-be-released television animation You Call This Living.  This summer, working with Interact Theatre Company and the L.A. Cultural Affairs Department, Mary Jo produced Interplay ’98, a program in its fifth year, developed to introduce theatre to the youth of North Hollywood.

won the L.A. Drama Critic’s Circle Award, the BackStage West Garland and the New York Drama League Award for his outstanding performance as Professor Josef Mashkan in Old Wicked Songs.  Hal also won critical praise in Moises Kaufman’s production of Gross Indecency, The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde at the Mark Taper Forum.  He was recently seen in the Dreamworks film Paulie.  TV credits include: The Practice and Law and Order.  A veteran of five Broadway plays, Hal was in the original cast of Grand Hotel, the Musical and Nick and Nora.

received both the Theatre L.A. Ovation Award (Best Actor in a Musical) and a Los Angeles Drama Critic’s Circle Award (Leading Performance) for his portrayal of Anatoly in the Los Angeles premiere of Chess at the Hudson Theatre.  Other L.A. theatre credits include: Maximilian in Gordon Davidson’s production of Candide, the title role in several productions of the Yeston/Kopit version of Phantom (most recently at the Alex), Czolgosz in L.A. Rep’s acclaimed production of Assassins, Hiram Kedder in The Normal Heart, and Mick Ross in the award-winning production of Breaking the Code at the 2^nd Stage (L.A. premiere).  Sean created the role of Jon in The Playwright Arena’s internationally acclaimed production of Nick Salamone and Mary McIntyre’s Moscow, and spent four and a half years with the original L.A. company of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera.  Television includes roles in shows such as Sisters, Mad About You, and Oh Baby.  Filmgoers will be able to see (hear?) him as the voice of Sir Edward Ramsey (opposite Miranda Richardson) in the upcoming animated feature version of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I.

was most recently seen in the Los Angeles and Vancouver productions of Ragtime.  National tour credits include: Elaine Harper in Arsenic and Old Lace, Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Jerry’s Girls with Carol Channing, Leslie Uggams and Andrea McArdle.  Her favorite roles were Lola in Damn Yankees for the Music Theatre of Wichita, Cassie in A Chorus Line, Dorothy in Nite Club Confidential, and Sister Mary Amnesia in Nunsense II.  Locally, Laura appeared as Sheila in A Chorus Line for Theatre League, Mrs. Potiphar in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat for the CLO of South Bay, and in the Tiffany Theatre’s world premiere musical Twist of Fate. 

graduated this spring from Cincinnati’s College Conservatory of Music with a BFA in Dramatic Performance.  While there, he played these characters: The Clown, The Poet, The Cook, The Broker and The Hostage.  He also played Colin in Two Weeks with the Queen at Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati.  In his home town of St. Louis, Philip was Hally in Master Harold…and the Boys, John in The Lion in Winter, Charlie in Marvin’s Room and Boy in Waiting For Godot, among others.  He has studied at Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, NY, Los Angeles Poverty Department (downtown LA) and with various private teachers.  Television appearances are The Guiding Light and Michael Jackson’s Stranger in Moscow.