Fred Ebb was an American musical theatre lyricist who had many successful collaborations with composer John Kander. The Kander and Ebb team frequently wrote for such performers as Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera.
The Tony Award for Best Musical is given annually to the best new Broadway musical, as determined by Tony Award voters. The award is one of the ceremony's longest-standing awards, having been presented each year since 1949. The award goes to the producers of the winning musical. A musical is eligible for consideration in a given year if it has not previously been produced on Broadway and is not "determined... to be a 'classic' or in the historical or popular repertoire", otherwise it may be considered for Best Revival of a Musical.
Charles Strouse is an American composer and lyricist best known for writing the music to such Broadway musicals as Bye Bye Birdie and Annie.
Ellen Tyne Daly is an American actress. She has won six Emmy Awards for her television work and a Tony Award, and is a 2011 American Theatre Hall of Fame inductee.
Sutton Lenore Foster is an American actress, singer and dancer. She is known for her work on the Broadway stage, for which she has received two Tony Awards for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical, in 2002 for her role as Millie Dillmount in Thoroughly Modern Millie, and in 2011 for her performance as Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes. Her other Broadway credits include Little Women, The Drowsy Chaperone, Young Frankenstein, Shrek the Musical, and Violet. On television, Foster played the lead role in the short-lived ABC Family comedy-drama Bunheads from 2012 to 2013. Since March 2015, she has starred in the TV Land comedy-drama Younger.
Patricia Elliott was an American theatre, film, soap opera, and television actress.
Michael Cerveris is an American actor, singer, and guitarist. He has performed in many stage musicals and plays, including several Stephen Sondheim musicals: Assassins, Sweeney Todd, Road Show, and Passion. In 2004, Cerveris won the Tony Award as Best Featured Actor in a Musical for Assassins as John Wilkes Booth. In 2015, he won his second Tony Award as Best Actor in a Musical for Fun Home as Bruce Bechdel.
David Burns was an American Broadway theatre and motion picture actor and singer.
Rosemary Ann Harris is an English actress. She is a 1986 American Theatre Hall of Fame inductee.
Gregg Edelman is an American movie, television and theatre actor.
Scott Rudin is an American film, TV and theatre producer.
Brian Murray was a South African actor and theatre director who was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2004.
Thomas Joseph "Thommie" Walsh III was an American dancer, choreographer, director, and author.
Zach Grenier is an American film, television and stage actor.
Kevin McCollum is an American theatrical booking executive and producer of musical theater and plays, many on Broadway. During a producing career spanning over twenty-five years, McCollum has received three Tony Awards for Best Musical for In the Heights, Avenue Q, and Rent.
The John Gore Organization (JGO), formerly known as Key Brand Entertainment (KBE), is a producer and distributor of live theater in North America, as well as an e-commerce company, focused on theater. KBE was founded in the UK in 2004 by 13-time Tony Award winning Producer John Gore who is the company's Chairman, CEO and Owner.
Toni-Leslie James is an American costume designer for stage, television and film. James was awarded The Irene Sharaff Young Masters Award and the 2009 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Costume Design. She received a BFA in costume design from The Ohio State University. James was an Associate Professor and Head of Design in the theatre department of Virginia Commonwealth University for 12 years, and is currently Assistant Professor Adjunct of Design and Yale Repertory Theatre Resident Costume Designer for the Yale School of Drama.
Terry Saunders was a film and Broadway performer. She is most widely known for playing Lady Thiang in the film and stage versions of The King And I, first as a replacement on Broadway, then in the film, performing the song "Something Wonderful" in both. Saunders had five other roles on Broadway and guest starred on an episode of Make Room For Daddy. She died in 2012.
Lora Lee Gayer is an American stage actress. On Broadway, she originated the lead role of Linda Mason in Holiday Inn in 2016. She appeared on Broadway in the 2011 revival of Follies as Young Sally.
Catherine Schreiber is a two-time Tony Award winning broadway producer. She is best known for Clybourne Park (2012) and Angels in America (2018). She was named the Broadway Global Producer of the Year in 2017, and has received 6 Tony Nominations, and 4 Olivier Nominations. She has also won an Evening Standard Award, and a London Outer Critics' Circle Award for The Scottsboro Boys (musical).
