Laura Leggett Linney is an American actress. She is the recipient of several awards,including two Golden Globe Awards and four Primetime Emmy Awards,and has been nominated for three Academy Awards and five Tony Awards.
The Sherman Brothers were an American songwriting duo that specialized in musical films,made up of brothers Robert Sherman and Richard Sherman. Together they received various accolades including two Academy Awards and three Grammy Awards. They received nominations for a Laurence Olivier Award,a BAFTA Award,and five Golden Globe Awards. In 1976,they received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame,and the National Medal of the Arts in 2008.
Karen Jane Allen is an American film,television and stage actress. She made her film debut in the comedy film Animal House (1978),which was soon followed by a small role in Woody Allen's romantic comedy-drama Manhattan (1979) and a co-lead role in Philip Kaufman's coming-of-age film The Wanderers (1979),before co-starring opposite Al Pacino in William Friedkin's crime thriller Cruising (1980).
Michael Edward O'Malley is an American actor,writer and television producer. Born in Boston and raised in New Hampshire,O'Malley hosted the early 1990s children's game shows Get the Picture and Nickelodeon Guts before moving to Los Angeles later that decade to star in his own sitcom for NBC called The Mike O'Malley Show. He is best known for his role as Jimmy Hughes on Yes,Dear,a CBS series which aired from 2000 to 2006. He was nominated for an Emmy Award for his role as Burt Hummel on the Fox series Glee.
Robert Frederic Schenkkan Jr. is an American playwright,screenwriter,and actor. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1992 for his play The Kentucky Cycle and his play All the Way earned the 2014 Tony Award for Best Play. He has three Emmy nominations and one WGA Award.
Barbara Dana Broccoli is a British-American film and stage producer,best known internationally for her work on the James Bond film series. With her half-brother Michael G. Wilson,Broccoli controls the James Bond film franchise.
Richard Morton Sherman was an American songwriter who specialized in musical films with his brother Robert B. Sherman. According to the official Walt Disney Company website and independent fact checkers,"The Sherman Brothers were responsible for more motion picture musical song scores than any other songwriting team in film history."
Robert Bernard Sherman was an American songwriter,best known for his work in musical films with his brother,Richard M. Sherman. The Sherman brothers produced more motion picture song scores than any other songwriting team in film history. Some of their songs were incorporated into live action and animation musical films including Mary Poppins,The Happiest Millionaire,The Sword in the Stone,The Jungle Book,The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh,Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,The Slipper and the Rose,and Charlotte's Web. Their best-known work is "It's a Small World " possibly the most-performed song in history.
Sally Ann Howes was an English actress and singer. Her career on screen,stage and television spanned six decades. She is best known for the role of Truly Scrumptious in the 1968 musical film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. In 1963,she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical for her performance in Brigadoon.
Mark Henderson is a British lighting designer who won the 2006 Tony Award for Best Lighting Design for The History Boys.
Kenneth Graham Hughes was an English film director and screenwriter. He worked on over 30 feature films between 1952 and 1981,including the 1968 musical fantasy film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,based on the Ian Fleming novel of the same name. His other notable works included The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960),Of Human Bondage (1964),Casino Royale (1967),and Cromwell (1970). He was an Emmy Award winner and a three-time BAFTA Award nominee.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a 1968 children's musical fantasy film directed by Ken Hughes and produced by Albert R. Broccoli. It stars Dick Van Dyke,Sally Ann Howes,Lionel Jeffries,Gert Fröbe,Anna Quayle,Benny Hill,James Robertson Justice,Robert Helpmann,Heather Ripley and Adrian Hall. The film is based on the 1964 children's novel Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang:The Magical Car by Ian Fleming,with a screenplay co-written by Hughes and Roald Dahl.
Philip Michael Bosco was an American actor. He was known for his Tony Award-winning performance as Saunders in the 1989 Broadway production of Lend Me a Tenor,and for his starring role in the 2007 film The Savages. Bosco won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1988.
Adrian Keith Noble is a theatre director,and was also the artistic director and chief executive of the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1990 to 2003.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a musical with music and lyrics written by Richard and Robert Sherman and a book by Jeremy Sams. It is based on the 1968 film of the same name with screenplay by Roald Dahl,Ken Hughes,and Richard Maibaum. The 1968 film was based in turn on the book of the same name by Ian Fleming. The musical's world premiere was staged the London Palladium on April 16,2002,directed by Adrian Noble before the show opened on Broadway in 2005.
James Joseph Parsons is an American actor. From 2007 to 2019,Parsons played Sheldon Cooper in the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory. He has received various awards,including four Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Television Series Musical or Comedy. From 2015 to 2018,Forbes named him the world's highest-paid television actor.
J.B. Adams is an American character stage and film actor,director,and singer. He has credits in film,television and,most notably,musical theatre. Originally from Oklahoma City,Oklahoma,he attended Oklahoma City University,where he studied voice,piano,opera,and musical theatre,after which he became a New York City-based Broadway actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles in the Broadway productions of Beauty and the Beast,Annie,Parade,Me and My Girl,Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,and Elf:The Musical. He played the role of Morris Farnsworth in the film Far From Heaven,as well as originating the same role in the Off-Broadway musical adaptation (2013). On TV and the web,he has played Santa for Verizon FiOS and has had guest starring roles on Law &Order:Special Victims Unit and The Michael J. Fox Show.
Peter L. Wittrock Jr.,known professionally as Finn Wittrock,is an American actor who began his career in guest roles on several television shows. He made his film debut in 2004,in Halloweentown High before returning to films in the 2010 film Twelve. After studying theater at The Juilliard School,he was a regular in the soap opera All My Children from 2009 to 2011,while performing in several theatrical productions. In 2011,he performed in playwright Tony Kushner's Off-Broadway play The Illusion and made his Broadway debut in 2012 as Happy Loman in the revival of Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman,directed by Mike Nichols.
Kris Meyer is an American film and television producer.
Nicholas James Masson is an American actor,dancer,singer and teacher. He performed in the national tour of Newsies and the film,Disney's Newsies the Broadway Musical.
