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Heather Douglas, a graduate of New Albany High School (New Albany, Indiana) has appeared in Broadway productions of Tommy Tunes's The Will Rogers Follies and Crazy for You, the pre-Broadway tour of Jekyll and Hyde, a national[where?] tour and Berlin production of Crazy for You, as Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors, Rapunzel in Into the Woods, Cassie in A Chorus Line, Nickie in Sweet Charity, in Disney MGM Studio's Beauty and the Beast, the original West End theatre production of Chicago, where she understudied and played the part of Velma, My One and Only in both London and Chichester, where she also understudied and played Edythe, and Cats as Bombalurina.
Additional credits include associate choreographer for the musical Beautiful and Damned (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre), assistant director/choreographer for Copacabana (2003) in Denmark and Holland, Chess (2002) in Denmark, associate choreographer for My One and Only in Chichester and London, Calamity Jane the UK tour and Shaftesbury Theatre in London, Il Trovatore in Rotterdam and JFK The Musical in Dublin. She has choreographed several musicals in the US including Anything Goes, Gypsy and Unsung Cole and in the UK Cabaret, The Threepenny Opera and Jill and the Beanstalk.
Her television credits include Showtime at the Stadium for the BBC, The Monkees music video for MTV, Disney MGM Studio's Opening Special, Disney's Macey's Parade and Agony for UK Living. Film credits include De-Lovely (2004) starring Ashley Judd and Kevin Kline.
Brigadoon is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, and music by Frederick Loewe. The song "Almost Like Being in Love", from the musical, has become a standard. It features two American tourists who stumble upon Brigadoon, a mysterious Scottish village that appears for only one day every 100 years. Tommy, one of the tourists, falls in love with Fiona, a young woman from Brigadoon.
Crazy for You is a romantic comedy musical with a book by Ken Ludwig, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and music by George Gershwin. Billed as "The New Gershwin Musical Comedy", it is largely based on the songwriting team's 1930 musical Girl Crazy, but also incorporates songs from several other productions. It won the 1992 Tony Award (Broadway), the 1993 Olivier Award (London), and the 1994 Dora Award (Toronto) for Best Musical.
42nd Street is a 1980 stage musical with a book by Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble, lyrics by Al Dubin and Johnny Mercer and music by Harry Warren. The 1980 Broadway production won the Tony Awards for Best Musical and Best Choreography and it became a long-running hit. The show was also produced in London in 1984 and its 2001 Broadway revival won the Tony Award for Best Revival.
Susan P. Stroman is an American theatre director, choreographer, film director and performer. Her notable theater productions include Oklahoma!, The Music Man, Crazy for You, Contact, The Producers, The Frogs, The Scottsboro Boys, Bullets Over Broadway, POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive, and New York, New York.
Valentine Ruth Henshall, known professionally as Ruthie Henshall, is an English actress, singer and dancer, known for her work in musical theatre. She began her professional stage career in 1986, before making her West End debut in Cats in 1987. A five-time Olivier Award nominee, she won the 1995 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her role as Amalia Balash in the London revival of She Loves Me (1994).
The Lion King is a stage musical with music by Elton John, lyrics by Tim Rice, and a book by Roger Allers and Irene Mecchi, with additional music and lyrics by Lebo M, Mark Mancina, Jay Rifkin, Julie Taymor, and Hans Zimmer. It is based on the 1994 Walt Disney Animation Studios' film of the same name. Directed by Taymor, the musical features actors in animal costumes as well as giant, hollow puppets. The show is produced by Disney Theatrical Productions.
Cheryl Kennedy is an English actress and singer.
Nick Winston is an internationally renowned English director and choreographer working in theatre, opera and film.
Rob Ashford is an American stage director and choreographer. He is a Tony Award, Olivier Award, Emmy Award, Drama Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award winner.
Dianne Lesley Pilkington is an English theatre actress and singer.
Anthony Drewe is a British lyricist and book writer for Broadway and West End musicals. He is best known for his collaborations with George Stiles.
Reva Rice is an American musical theatre actress and singer, best known for originating the role of Pearl in Starlight Express on Broadway.
Legally Blonde: The Musical: The Search for Elle Woods is an MTV program created in order to cast an actress to replace Laura Bell Bundy in the role of Elle Woods in the Broadway production of Legally Blonde: The Musical. The show debuted on June 2, 2008.
Warren Carlyle is a British director and choreographer who was born in Norwich, Norfolk, England. He received Drama Desk Award nominations for Outstanding Choreography and Outstanding Director of a Musical for the 2009 revival of Finian's Rainbow.
Casey Nicholaw is an American theatre director, choreographer, and performer. He has been nominated for several Tony Awards for his work directing and choreographing The Drowsy Chaperone (2006), The Book of Mormon (2011), Aladdin (2014), Something Rotten! (2015), Mean Girls (2018), The Prom (2019), and Some Like It Hot (2023) and for choreographing Monty Python's Spamalot (2005), winning for his co-direction of The Book of Mormon with Trey Parker and his choreography of Some Like It Hot. He also was nominated for the Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Direction and Choreography for The Drowsy Chaperone (2006) and Something Rotten! (2015) and for Outstanding Choreography for Spamalot (2005).
Stephen Leonard Mear is an English dancer, choreographer and director best known for his award-winning work in musical theatre.
Robyn North is an English soprano and musical theatre actress. She trained at the Sandy Gray School of Dancing, and the London Studio Centre on full scholarship. Robyn is married to Neil Franklin.
Anthony Ward is a British theatre designer specializing in set and costume design. He studied theatre design at Wimbledon School of Art.
Dan Domenech is an American actor best known for his portrayal of Jason Dean in Heathers: The Musical, Drew in the Broadway theatre musical Rock of Ages (musical) and a recurring guest appearance on Glee . Domenech has also appeared in the pre-Broadway runs of Wonderland (musical) and Sister Act (musical). National/International tours include Rent (musical) and Rock of Ages (musical). He also played Che in Evita in Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival 2017.
Angie Schworer is a stage actress and dancer best known for originating the role of Angie in The Prom on Broadway and for being the longest-running Ulla in The Producers.
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