Lights of Old Broadway [SEP] production company
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Light Opera of Manhattan


Dalrymple brought the company back together in 1987, and LOOM resumed its full-time production schedule at the 299-seat Playhouse 91, returning to the Upper East Side. The artistic team created an adaptation of George M. Cohan's "Little Johnny Jones", called "Give My Regards to Broadway". The show involved more tap dancing than any other show Off-Broadway and revived the company's popularity. Despite good box office performance, the company continued to suffer from debts and old tax problems. LOOM closed permanently in August
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Lights of Old Broadway


Lights of Old Broadway (1925) is a drama film directed by Monta Bell, produced by William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Productions, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film stars Marion Davies and Conrad Nagel, and is an adaptation of the play "The Merry Wives of Gotham" by Laurence Eyre (USA). The film has color sequences using tinting, Technicolor, and the Handschiegl color process. The play was produced on Broadway at Henry Miller's Theatre from January 16, 1924 to April 1924.
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The Better 'Ole


for 811 performances, starring Arthur Bourchier as Old Bill. It was produced by Charles B. Cochran. After the success of the London production was apparent, a provincial touring company was formed, led by Martin Adeson as Old Bill. Broadwaybr It later also ran successfully on Broadway, where Charles Coburn starred as Old Bill opposite his wife, who played Victoire; the couple are also credited as the producers of the Broadway production. The production first played downtown at the Greenwich Village Theatre, then moved to Broadway at the Cort Theatre
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Let It Be (musical)


Let It Be is a West End and Broadway concert revue based on the career of English rock band, The Beatles, from 1962 to their breakup in 1970. The production debuted at the Prince of Wales Theatre on 24 September 2012. (previews from 14 Sep 2012). Its run at the venue ended on 19 January 2013, after which it moved to the Savoy Theatre and opened on 1 February 2013. The Broadway production started previews on 13 July 2013 with its official opening night taking place on 24 July 2013,
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Lighting designer


found working on rock and pop tours, corporate launches, art installation and on massive celebration spectaculars, for example the Olympic Games opening and closing ceremonies. The role of the lighting designer varies greatly within professional and amateur theater. For a Broadway show, a touring production and most regional and small productions the LD is usually an outside freelance specialist hired early in the production process. Smaller theatre companies may have a resident lighting designer responsible for most of the company's productions or rely on a variety of freelance or even volunteer help
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Les Misérables (musical)


the show will reopen at the Sondheim Theatre (where it had previously run for 15 years) with a new updated production developed in 2009 for the 25th Anniversary production. The show had three national touring companies of the original Broadway production in the US, all of which shared the Broadway producer and manager, creative teams, as well nearly identical sets, costumes, and lighting. While the touring production and the New York production were running simultaneously, the staff, cast members, crew, and musicians of the two productions interchanged
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Broadway by the Bay


Broadway by the Bay, is a community-based musical theatre company located in the San Francisco Bay Area and performing in Redwood City. It also provides a "Theatre Arts Academy" offering performing arts experiences to local children. After beginning in with productions of three annual Gilbert and Sullivan productions, the company shifted its focus to modern musicals in 1966. Since then, it has produced musicals continuously in San Mateo County. In 1983, the group changed its name to Peninsula Civic Light Opera, and again in 1999, to
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Susan H. Schulman


director for the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera from 1981 to 1989. She became involved with several productions at the off-off-Broadway Equity Library Theatre in New York City, including directing "A Little Night Music" in 1985. She directed the York Theatre Company production of Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd" in 1989, which Sondheim happened to see. Impressed by her work, he recommended her for the upcoming Broadway revival. She directed the 1989 Broadway revival, earning a Tony Award nomination as Best Director of a Musical
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Carnival!


Center Light Opera Company which began a month-long engagement on December 12, 1968. Peter Howard, who had been the dance arranger for the original Broadway production of "Carnival!" was the musical director for the City Center production whose cast included Victoria Mallory (Lili), Leon Bibb (Paul Berthalet), Richard France (Marco), Karen Morrow (Rosalie), Carmine Caridi (Schlegel) and Pierre Olaf who reprising his Broadway role as Jacquot. The City Center production is seemingly unique among major productions of
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Paul Rogers (actor)


Bristol Old Vic. He went on to appear in many West End and Broadway productions, and won the Tony for Best Actor for his role in Harold Pinter's play "The Homecoming" in 1967. He played the role of Sir in the first Broadway production of Ronald Harwood's play "The Dresser". Rogers was a long-serving member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. His most notable performances with the Company included Nick Bottom in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and Sir John Falstaff in "Henry IV"
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Kliegl Brothers Universal Electric Stage Lighting Company


, it grew to be one of the largest firms in North America manufacturing lighting and control equipment for the theatre and television stage. In the beginning, the firm occupied the Meyerhofer facilities in the old Star Theatre at 842 Broadway, New York City. By 1901 they had moved to 1393-95 Broadway/129 West 38th Street. After the loss of this plant to fire on August 15, 1911, they moved again, this time to 240 West 50th Street, and in September 1921, they built and occupied their own four
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The Yeomen of the Guard


radio in its entirety. In America in the 20th century, it was played on Broadway by various companies in 1915, 1933, 1935 and 1944, in addition to D'Oyly Carte tours, and in other New York theatres by the American Savoyards, the Light Opera of Manhattan, Bronx Opera and the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players, among others. 21st century productions include a 2009 production at the Tower of London by the Carl Rosa Opera Company and a 2010 production by the G&S Opera Company at the International Gilbert and Sullivan
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Chris Parry (lighting designer)


Chris Parry (Born 23 May 1952 in the United Kingdom – died 16 January 2007 in San Diego, California) was a theatrical lighting designer. He worked on several Broadway and West End productions and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design three times, winning for "The Who's Tommy". He also won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design three times. Parry’s credits include more than 150 designs worldwide including productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre in the UK, and
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Windsor Light Music Theatre


our name. However, The Light Opera as this group was known as in the community still produces outstanding shows that reflect the best of Broadway musical entertainment. Originally the productions were housed and presented on the Walkerville Collegiate stage. In 1960 Windsor Light Opera moved to the Cleary Auditorium, now called the Chrysler Theatre in the Saint Clair College for the Arts, where Windsor Light Musical Theatre stages its spring and fall performances annually. The company started producing two major musical productions per year and has continued to do so to the present
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David Hersey


Hersey has been the lighting designer for National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company and West End productions, as well as opera at the English National Opera (among others) and ballet at the Royal Ballet. He has been the lighting designer for Broadway productions, starting with Evita in 1980 through "Equus" in 2008. Hersey has also been active in the world of theme parks in Florida and Italy, as well as lighting extravaganzas at The Mirage, Treasure Island Hotel and Casino, and Bellagio hotels in Las Vegas. He is
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The Royal Hunt of the Sun


Guild was the same as the original London production. In the cast were Christopher Plummer as Pizarro, David Carradine as Atahualpa, John Vernon as de Soto, Robert Aberdeen as the First Inca Indian Chieftain, and George Rose as Old Martin. The lighting design by Martin Aronstein marked the first time exposed lighting was used as an integral part of the design of a Broadway production. The play ran for 261 performances. The play was staged as part of the fourth Adelaide Festival of Arts in 1966. It was directed by John
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Boy Meets Boy (musical)


Boy Meets Boy is a musical comedy with music and lyrics by Bill Solly, and book by Bill Solly and Donald Ward. It opened on Sep. 17, 1975 at the off-Broadway Actor's Playhouse in NYC. It was produced by Christopher Larkin and Edith O'Hara in association with Lee Barton. The show is a fast-paced, light-hearted musical-comedy, featuring a 1930s style Astaire/Rogers romance between two men, and a same-sex marriage. The world of the play posits that in 1936
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Georgia Engel


attended the Kodiak Island Borough School District, Walter Johnson High School, and the Academy of the Washington Ballet from which she graduated. She earned her theater degree from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. After college, Engel appeared in musical productions with Washington's American Light Opera Company. She moved to New York City in 1969, appearing off-Broadway in "Lend an Ear", and for a year as Minnie Fay in the Broadway production of "Hello, Dolly!", starting in December 1969. A 1971
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George Coulouris


at the Old Vic. By 1929, he made his first Broadway appearance, followed by his first Hollywood film role in 1933. A major impact on his life was Orson Welles, whom he met in 1936 when they both had roles in the Broadway production of Sidney Kingsley's "Ten Million Ghosts". Welles invited Coulouris to become a charter member of his Mercury Theatre, and in 1937 Coulouris performed the role of Mark Antony in the company's debut production, "Caesar", an innovative modern-dress production of
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Imero Fiorentino


Calderon, and Jeff Engle. Over time the business expanded to provide both lighting and set design, production, staging and technical supervision for television and live events; everything from Broadway productions to political conventions, educational seminars to architectural lighting consultation. Fiorentino actively participated in the artistic as well as company management, leadership and direction and took great pride in helping to guide the many unique projects that came through their doors. Fiorentino's creativity was evidenced by his participation as leader of the IFA team serving as design and lighting consultants for
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John Browning


Church) in Georgia beginning on March 28, 1887. He married Rachel Theresa Child (14 Sep 1860 – 30 Sep 1934) on April 10, 1879 at Ogden, Weber County, Utah Territory, and the couple had 10 children, two of whom died in infancy. Production examples of the Model 1885 Single Shot Rifle caught the attention of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, who dispatched a representative to evaluate the competition. Winchester bought the design for $8,000 and moved production to their Connecticut factory. From 1883, Browning
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Los Angeles Civic Light Opera


The Los Angeles Civic Light Opera (LACLO) was an American theatre/opera company in Los Angeles, California. Founded under the motto "Light Opera in the Grand Opera manner" in 1938 by impresario Edwin Lester, the organization presented fifty seasons of theatre before closing due to financial reasons in 1987. Typically the LACLO presented four to six productions during an annual season. The company produced or co-produced several of their own shows in addition to bringing in shows from Broadway to California, often with their original casts.
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Broadway Video


as AT&T, Verizon, Old Navy, and Jeep. Broadway Video Ventures invests in and partners with emerging media, entertainment, and technology firms that compliment the company's existing enterprises. Investments by Broadway Video or its strategic partners include Nerdist Industries (acquired by Legendary Entertainment), Zefr, StrikeAd, Evenly (acquired by Square, Inc.), and Optimal (acquired by Brand Networks). Ventures also develops and launches new businesses, including the digital comedy subsidiary Above Average Productions and the astrology app Sanctuary. Broadway Video Post
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Broadway Rose Theatre Company


to create and facilitate relationships between theatre professionals and students in order to train, encourage, and nurture those seeking careers or desiring to expand their expertise in theatre production. Students can gain experience in lighting design, costume design, set design, and more while working alongside local professionals. Broadway Rose has gone on to hire past interns to work on productions. Each school year, 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle creates an original educational musical that tours throughout the region, performing in school auditoriums and cafeterias. Over 3,500 elementary students in
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Windsor Light Music Theatre


day. In the early years the company presented what was at the time referred to as operettas, "light operas", which was reflected in the name Windsor Light Opera. Since this time musicals have changed and so has the name. However, The Light Opera as this group was known as in the community still produces outstanding shows that reflect the best of Broadway musical entertainment. Originally the productions were housed and presented on the Walkerville Collegiate stage. In 1960 Windsor Light Opera moved to the Cleary Auditorium, now called the
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Assassins (musical)


that company in 1998 and 2008. The first Australian production opened in February 1995, presented by the Melbourne Theatre Company at the Fairfax Studio. Directed by Roger Hodgman, the cast featured John O'May, John McTernan and Bruce Myles. Roundabout Theater Company's Broadway production was originally scheduled for 2001 but was postponed to April 22, 2004, because the content was sensitive in light of the events of September 11, 2001. After 101 performances at Studio 54, "Assassins" closed on July 18, 2004. Directed by Joe
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Brian MacDevitt


Brian MacDevitt is a lighting designer for theatrical productions. He has worked extensively on Broadway and Off Broadway, as well as touring, Regional theatre, and Industrial productions. A Long Island, New York, native, Brian graduated from SUNY Purchase with a degree in Lighting Design from the Department of Design/Technology of the Division of Theatre Arts & Film. After graduation Brian spent a decade honing his craft with Off Broadway and other productions, and also developed a reputation as a teacher of design. He began teaching at Purchase
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The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts


Arts in Philadelphia, and the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera Association in conjunction with the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust – in forming the producing consortium Five Cent Productions, LLC. Following this formation, Five Cent Productions joined former Disney Theatrical Productions Executive Vice President Stuart Oken and Tony Award-winning producer Michael Leavitt as a producing partner in Elephant Eye Theatrical. Elephant Eye Theatrical is a theatrical development and production company that creates new book musicals for Broadway and beyond. The company finds and initiates projects, assembles creative teams, funds the genesis and ongoing
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Rosemary Harris


" in 2003 as part of a series on landmark theatre productions, playwright Samantha Ellis noted of the National Theatre's opening night: Her first film followed, "Beau Brummell" (1954) with Stewart Granger and Elizabeth Taylor, and then a touring season with the Old Vic brought her back to Broadway in Tyrone Guthrie's production of "Troilus and Cressida". She met Ellis Rabb who had plans to start his own producing company on Broadway. By 1959, the "Association of Producing Artist" (APA) was
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Christopher Adler (lyricist)


off-Broadway productions. In 1974 he directed Harold Pinter's "Old Times" at Lolly's Theater Club, and in 1977 wrote and directed "White Piano", performed at Playwrights Horizons. "White Piano" was an adaptation of a 1974 account of Storyville, the red-light district of New Orleans. His first Broadway project was "Herman van Veen: All of Him", a one-man show by the Dutch entertainer Herman van Veen for which Adler wrote the English lyrics. It opened at the
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Student life at the University of Pennsylvania


one ranking spot in the 2016-2017 season. The IAA's internal publication, “The Ambassador,” published six times a year, keeps the club members informed. The Penn Singers is a light opera company at the University of Pennsylvania. The group was founded in 1957 as the University's first all-female choir and was converted into a co-ed light opera company in 1972. The group performs two major productions each year - a Broadway-style musical or revue in the fall, and a Gilbert and
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Electro-Dynamic Light Company


and Sawyer were: Hugh McCulloch (Man's uncle), William Hercules Hays, James P. Kernochan, Lawrence Myers, and Jacob Hays. Sawyer was about 28 years old and Man about 52 years old at the time the company was formed. They planned on lighting New York City with electricity for one-fortieth the cost of gas lighting. The new company started with capital of $10,000 cash and $290,000 of scrip. It was formed for the purpose of the production of light and power by means of electricity for
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Ambassador Theatre Group


Productions, Theatre Royal Brighton Productions and Jaime Lloyd Productions. ATG has a group partner company, Sonia Friedman Productions (SFP), a West End and Broadway production company responsible for major theatre productions in London and on Broadway in recent years. Recent SFP West End and Broadway theatre productions and co-productions include the UK premiere of The Book of Mormon, Jez Butterworth’s The River on Broadway, starring Hugh Jackman; The Nether, , Hamlet, starring Benedict Cumberbatch; Electra, King Charles III, Sunny Afternoon, Shakespeare
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Voice Theatre


theatre piece entitled "Legacy", which premiered at the Bristol Old Vic theater company and went on to win the European Commission. In 1997 and 1998, "Legacy" performed across Germany and France. In 2000, Voice Theatre returned to New York City and worked as an off-off-Broadway company across multiple venues. "Legacy" appeared at the T. Schreiber Studio in 2003. In 2006, Voice Theatre mounted a production of "Retzach" by Hanoch Levin at the off-Broadway theater 59E59 Theaters. The
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Olympia Theatre (New York City)


a prominent non-profit theatre company. Notable productions during Roundabout's tenure at the Criterion include the 1993 revival of Eugene O'Neill's "Anna Christie" (featuring Liam Neeson and Natasha Richardson in their Broadway debuts), and the 1995 revival of Stephen Sondheim's "Company". In 2000, Toys R Us announced plans to spend approximately $35 million on a flagship store on the site of the old Olympia (1514-1520 Broadway). The new store was devised as a bid to "re-establish [
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Jennifer Tipton


". Among her many awards and nominations, she won the 1977 Tony Award for Best Lighting Design for lighting Andrei Serban's production of "The Cherry Orchard" and the 1989 Tony Award for lighting for "Jerome Robbins' Broadway". She also has won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design twice. She is known for her designs for dance and is the principal lighting designer for the Paul Taylor Dance Company. Choreographers she has worked with include Mikhail Baryshnikov, Jiří Kylián, Dana Reitz, Jerome Robbins, Paul
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Monster Mini Golf


to franchise, and were legal to offer franchises by November of that year. Monster Mini Golf has grown organically since inception, and as of January 2017, has grown to 29 locations in the US and Canada. Before the inception of Monster Entertainment, Christina was the director of marketing for a multi-level entertainment complex in Providence, RI. Patrick was the founder of a sound/lighting/theatrical production company that provided sound and lighting for numerous Broadway theater productions and large concert tours. After marrying in 1997, Christina
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City of Angels (musical)


Avril. This production was nominated for five 2015 Olivier Awards: Magic Radio Best Musical Revival (Winner); White Light Award for Best Lighting Design (Winner); Best Director; Best Costume Design; and XL Video Award for Best Set Design. The theatre company "Reprise! Broadway's Best" production ran in January–February 2006 at Freud Playhouse, UCLA, Los Angeles. The cast featured Burke Moses (Stone), Vicki Lewis (Oolie), Tami Tappan Damiano (Gabby), and Stephen Bogardus (
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Old Log Theatre


are theater enthusiasts and producers who have been on the boards of several local theatre organizations and invested in West End and Broadway productions. The current theater has been reconfigured to seat 560; a remodeling in summer 2014 included a deeper stage and new sound and lighting systems. They renovated the restaurant, which seats 250, and reopened it as Cast & Cru in fall 2014. An estimated 6 million people have attended productions at the Old Log Theatre. Theater alumni include actor Nick Nolte, who spent three years with the theater,
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Michael Evans (actor)


made his stage debut in London's West End theatre in 1948 as a member of the Old Vic company. Evans then moved to United States, making his New York debut in the Broadway theatre production of "Ring Round the Moon" opposite Harry Belafonte. Evans then played opposite a young Audrey Hepburn in "Gigi" in 1951. He then took on the role of Henry Higgins in a touring production of "My Fair Lady". Evans returned to Broadway in "Mary, Mary" and made the move to Hollywood
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Wilson Power and Light Company Ice Plant


The Wilson Power and Light Company Ice Plant, later known as Delta Ice, is a historic industrial facility at 120 East Broadway in West Memphis, Arkansas. Built in 1930, it is a regionally distinctive brick structure, used for the manufacture and distribution of ice, a critical product that facilitated the shipment of perishable goods prior to the advent of refrigerated trucks. Its front facade is dominated by a loading dock, sheltered by a corrugated metal awning. The main decorative feature of the building is its parapet, formed of brick
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The Trip to Bountiful (play)


Van Broughton Ramsey lighting by Rui Rita, and original music and sound design by John Gromada. The 2013 production marked Cicely Tyson's first Broadway appearance since 1983. She was joined by Cuba Gooding Jr, Condola Rashād and Vanessa Williams. The African-American cast is a non-issue because the themes are blind to race. When the play debuted on Broadway in 1953, Brooks Atkinson wrote in "The New York Times" of Lillian Gish's performance in the role of Carrie Watts "As a weary old woman,
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Broadway Asia


Broadway Asia is an international Broadway production company based in New York City. It was founded by partners Simone Genatt and Marc Routh in 1991. Broadway Asia is one of the largest production, management, distribution, licensing and touring companies of live entertainment throughout the Asia Pacific area. Marc Routh and Simone Genatt created Broadway Asia Company in 1991. China has embraced this new art form by building 25 theaters. Broadway Asia began by licensing American Broadway Shows to Chinese theaters, but has since expanded to building shows from the ground up
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Val May


1961 he was artistic director of the Nottingham Playhouse. May directed the London Old Vic's production of "Richard II" in 1959. Also in 1959, the Nottingham company's production of Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall's comedy "Celebration" was transferred to London's Duchess Theatre. May was artistic director of the Bristol Old Vic from 1961 to 1975. Many of his productions transferred to West End theatres, and some to Broadway. An early success was Erwin Piscator's adaptation of "War and Peace", translated by
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Tucson, Arizona


Company, which performs in the Temple of Music and Art, and Arizona Onstage Productions, a not-for-profit theater company devoted to musical theater. Broadway in Tucson presents the touring reproductions of many Broadway-style events. The Gaslight Theater produces musical melodrama parodies in the old Jerry Lewis Theater and has been in Tucson since 1977. The Desert View Performing Arts Center (DVPAC) – a State of the Art Theater located in SaddleBrooke presents live performances from Rock and Roll to Musicals and Symphonies. Located at 39900 S.
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Dennis Parichy


of the Heart", "The Water Engine", and "Knock Knock". He has designed for Off-Broadway and regional theatres as well. His first Off-Broadway show was "Little Eyolf" at the Actors Playhouse in 1964; he was the lighting designer for the Lanford Wilson plays "Ludlow Fair" at Caffe Cino in 1965 and "Book of Days" in a Signature Theatre Company production in November 2002. Parichy has been nominated three times for a Tony Award, for his work on "Redwood
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Robert O'Hearn


In addition to working on Broadway and at the Met, O'Hearn designed productions for The New York City Opera, New York Shakespeare Festival, New York City Center Theater, American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Boston Opera Company, Chicago Lyric Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Ballet West, Los Angeles Civic Light Opera, and the San Francisco Ballet. He designed a production of Der Rosenkavalier for the Canadian Opera Company. In Europe O'Hearn designed productions for the Vienna Volksoper, Bregenzer Festspiele
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Broadway Rose Theatre Company


surpassing the previous record holder ("Cats", 2013) by over 30%. Each summer the company offers two drama camps for young performers aged 8 through 11 years old and one teen summer workshop. Young performers learn about all aspects of theatre and perform in the ensemble of the company's children's musicals, while the teen workshop participants hone existing skills by putting on a fully staged musical production. Need-based scholarships are offered each year. Broadway Rose offers high-school and college students paid internship opportunities designed
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Wednesday Theatre


production, by Ron Callanderbr 35. "Almost a Honeymoon" (aired 31 Aug. 1966). Previously aired in the UKbr 36. "The Stag "(aired 7 Sep. 1966) Previously aired in the UKbr 37. "The Interior Decorator" (aired 14 Sep. 1966) Previously aired in the UKbr 38. "A Crack in the Ice" (aired 21 Sep. 1966). By Ronald Eyrebr 39. "Hamlet" (aired 28 Sep. 1966) British production, starring Laurence Olivier.br 40. "Flight into
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Annie (musical)


country and often played in two cities a week. This company was still touring when the original Broadway production closed in January 1983, making Kathleen Sisk the final performer to play Annie from the original production team. This tour closed in September 1983. The musical premiered in the West End at the Victoria Palace Theatre on 3 May 1978. Andrea McArdle, the original Broadway Annie, played the title role for 40 performances. British 12-year-old Ann Marie Gwatkin was also cast in the title role and appeared on the Original London
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The Cradle Will Rock


The production ran at Theatre Four for 82 performances. This production won the Obie Award as Best Musical Production and Dean Dittman (who played Editor Daily) won the Obie for Distinguished Performance. The Acting Company presented an Off-Broadway production at the American Place Theater from May 9, 1983 to May 29, 1983, directed by John Houseman and featuring a spoken introduction by Houseman, and starring Patti LuPone. This production was done "on a dark stage, decorated only with chairs and Dennis Parichy's poetic lighting. At
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Machinal


27–30, 2018, directed by Lou Jacob, Baker Artist-in-Residence. A production, advised by the Tony-nominated lighting designer of the 2014 Broadway revival production, opened at Princeton University in January 2019. A production of Machinal was presented at the Bolton Theater at Kenyon College, Gambier, OH on February 1–2, 2019, directed by Anton Dudley and starring Delilah Draper, Teddy Fischer and Alec Ogihara. A production of Machinal was presented by the Richard Burton Theatre Company at the Royal Welsh College of Music and
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59 Productions


rarely seen in a museum." The company was commissioned to "Light the Sails" at Sydney Opera House for the 2014 VIVID Live festival. In 2015 they were responsible for the projection design for the first-ever Broadway production of George Gershwin's An American in Paris (film). The production went on to win 4 Tony Awards, including Best Scenic Design of a Musical for Bob Crowley and 59 Productions. In July 2016, 100 years to the day since William E. Boeing turned his attention to the thrilling and
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Richard Muenz


New York City Center Encores!'s production of Bernstein's "Wonderful Town". In 2001 he narrated "Great Performances"'s tribute to Aaron Copland, "Copland's America". In 2005 he returned to Broadway as Pat Denning in the revival of "42nd Street", a role he had previously portrayed on Broadway in 2001. Muenz's other performing credits include appearances on three seasons of Garrison Keillor’s "The American Radio Company of the Air", Jean-Luc” on "Guiding Light", “
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The Earl and the Girl


" thought the production overdone: "the stage is too crowded, and the restlessness of the chorus becomes irritating." The reviewer praised the principal performers and singled out Louie Pounds in particular: "a voice which is worthy of better things." Of the Broadway production, "The New York Times" wrote, "a veritable frolic from start to finish, light, tuneful, and full of color, and engaging a company of exceptionally clever people. Reviewing the Australian production, "The Morning Bulletin", wrote
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Coram Boy (play)


February 2007. The play then moved to Broadway at the Imperial Theater, starting previews in April 2007, and officially opening for a month-long run in May 2007. The show was nominated for six Tony Awards but did not win any. Melly Still was the director and co-designer (with Ti Green) of both the London and New York productions with Paule Constable designing lighting and Chris Schutt on sound. Still also directed the December 2011 production for Bristol Old Vic at the Colston Hall and the production was designed
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Charles Fredericks


Charles Fredericks (5 Sep 1918 in Columbus, Mississippi – 14 May 1970 in Sherman Oaks, California) was an American actor of stage, television, and film. He was particularly known for his highly prolific career in B-Western movies and television Westerns during the 1950s and 1960s. He was also a talented Baryton-Martin and starred as Gaylord Ravenal in the 1946 Broadway revival of "Show Boat" and as Captain Nicholas Gregorovitch in the original 1947 production of "Music in My Heart". In more recent years
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Gilbert and Sullivan


produce the works, such as Gilbert and Sullivan for All in Britain and Light Opera Works in the U.S., and existing companies, such as English National Opera, Carl Rosa Opera Company and Australian Opera, added Gilbert and Sullivan to their repertories. In 1980, a Broadway and West End production of "Pirates" produced by Joseph Papp brought new audiences to Gilbert and Sullivan. Between 1988 and 2003, the revived D'Oyly Carte Opera Company revived the operas on tour and on the West End. Today, many professional repertory companies
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Broadway Rose Theatre Company


Broadway Rose Theatre Company is a professional musical theatre company based in Tigard, Oregon. Founded in 1991, the company produces six mainstage productions, two children's musicals, and a teen workshop production each year. Their home theater is The New Stage, a 270-seat venue, with their summer season playing at Deb Fennell Auditorium, a 600-seat auditorium at Tigard High School. Broadway Rose Theatre Company is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. In 1991, seven years after meeting in a summer stock production of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor
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Paule Constable


seen at the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Donmar Warehouse, the Royal Court Theatre and with Théâtre de Complicité. In the West End she lit "Evita", "Don Carlos", "The Weir" and "Amadeus" (also Broadway, 1999 LA Critics' Award winner). Theatre-dance productions in Britain and abroad include productions for Matthew Bourne, Will Tuckett and Adam Cooper. Constable was the lighting designer for the 2010 25th Anniversary Touring Production of "Les Misérables", staged at the Barbican Centre in
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Gas Light


a hit in its Broadway premiere, and it remains one of the longest-running non-musicals in Broadway history, with 1,295 total performances. It remains a perennial favourite with both repertory and amateur theatre companies. The story was dramatized as a half-hour radio play on the February 3, 1947 broadcast of "The Screen Guild Theater", starring Charles Boyer and Susan Hayward. A 1946 one-hour radio production on "Lux Radio Theatre" featured Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman, stars of the 1944 film adaptation
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The Pirate Queen


, costumes by Martin Pakledinaz and lighting by Kenneth Posner. Moya Doherty and John McColgan, creators of "Riverdance", produced, with Edgar Dobie and Ronan Smith, of Doherty and McColgan's Riverdream production company, Executive Producers. Linda Balgord received a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance as Queen Elizabeth I. A studio recording of the original Broadway cast, produced by Masterworks Broadway, was released on July 3, 2007. The recording does not include the full score, but only highlights
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H.M.S. Pinafore


the subsequent Savoy operas) until at least 1963. In the U.S., the piece never lost popularity. The Internet Broadway Database links to a non-exhaustive list of 29 productions on Broadway alone. Among the professional repertory companies continuing to present "Pinafore" regularly in the U.S. are Opera a la Carte, based in California, Ohio Light Opera and the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players, which tours the opera annually and often includes it in its New York seasons. "Pinafore" is still performed around the world by
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Tharon Musser


Tharon Musser (January 8, 1925 – April 19, 2009) was an American lighting designer who worked on more than 150 Broadway productions. She was termed the "Dean of American Lighting Designers" and is considered one of the pioneers in her field. Musser was best known for her work on the musicals "A Chorus Line" and "Dreamgirls". "A Chorus Line" was the first production of Broadway to use a fully computerized lighting console instead of manually operated "piano boards". Tharon Myrene Musser was
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Jean Rosenthal


Project in 1935. This led to collaborations with Orson Welles and John Houseman. She would later follow Welles to the Mercury Theatre, where she was credited as a member of the board in addition to production and lighting manager, although not as lighting designer. She was lighting designer for hundreds of productions, including numerous Broadway shows, Martha Graham's dances, the New York City Ballet, and the Metropolitan Opera. On Broadway she lit musicals such as "West Side Story" (1957), "The Sound of Music
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Electrician (theatre)


While Broadway and high end Off-Broadway productions have this position, the Master Electrician is often responsible for these duties in smaller productions. The deck electrician, "stage electrician", "floor electrician", "floor LX", "deck elec"or just "stage LX" is a member of the running crew for a production and is responsible for all aspects of running the lighting for the show that happen on or backstage. This can include such things as changing color, focusing and readjusting lights that were moved, connecting
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The Zoo


professionally by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in 1978. The recording utilised the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and was conducted by Royston Nash. Geoffrey Shovelton voiced a narration. Many productions of the show have been given since the 1970s. A professional production in the US was given by the Light Opera of Manhattan Off-Broadway in New York City in 1980 (together with "Trial" and "Cox and Box"), repeated in 1981. Other professional productions have been given in North America, most notably by the 1995 Shaw Festival
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Broadway theatre


productions with new casts and crew for the Broadway national tour, which travels to theatres in major cities across the country. Sometimes when a show closes on Broadway, the entire production, with most if not all of the original cast intact, is relaunched as a touring company, hence the name "Broadway national tour". Some shows may even have several touring companies out at a time, whether the show is still running in New York or not, with many companies "sitting down" in other major cities for their
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Blue Light Theater Company


the New York premiere of Daniel Goldfarb's "Adam Baum and the Jew Movie", a revival of Philip Barry's "Hotel Universe", and Darko Tresnjak's "Princess Turandot". Blue Light produced six seasons and 16 main productions under an Equity Off Broadway Letter of Agreement contract before suspending its operations in 2001. In 1998, the Blue Light Theater Co. staged playwright and director Dare Clubb's modern adaptation of "Oedipus" (starring Frances McDormand and Billy Crudup), which won an Obie Award for playwrighting.
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Christopher Akerlind


Lighting Design and Director of the Design & Production Programs at the CalArts School of Theater. He has designed many Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, working on both musicals and straight plays. He is noted for his work for director Lloyd Richards on the first productions of the plays of August Wilson, including "The Piano Lesson" (1990) and "Seven Guitars" (1996). He was the Resident Lighting Designer for twelve years at the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. Akerlind was a Visiting Associate Professor and Director
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Ceremonies in Dark Old Men


Ceremonies in Dark Old Men is an American two act play by Lonne Elder III that premiered Off Broadway in 1969 at St. Mark's Playhouse in a production by the Negro Ensemble Company. Later in the 1969 season, it was given a commercial production that was a long-running success. It was the runner-up for the 1969 Pulitzer Prize in drama and was adapted for a television movie in 1975. A floundering Harlem barbershop is the setting and the cauldron of action that leads to tragic consequences. Russell B Parker,
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Peggy Eisenhauer


Peggy Eisenhauer is an American lighting designer for both theatre and films. She has designed or co-designed some 41 Broadway productions and frequently collaborates with Jules Fisher. Peggy Eisenhauer was raised in Nyack, New York. She attended Carnegie Mellon University, started working in New York and quickly became assistant to Jules Fisher, and eventually became his partner. Forming their company, Third Eye, their first project together was the 1985 Broadway musical "Song and Dance". Their first joint film project was the film version of the musical
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Tom Wright (American actor)


Harold Thomas "Tom" Wright (born November 29, 1952) is an American television and theatre actor. Wright was born on November 29, 1952 in Englewood, New Jersey. Wright has appeared in over 40 stage productions both on and off-Broadway. He began his acting career as an original member of The People's Light and Theater Company outside of Philadelphia. Wright also spent four years at the National Playwrights Conference and two summers at the Sundance Institute. On Broadway, he performed in "A Taste of Honey
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Warp!


, and eight performances from February 14–18, 1973. It marked the Broadway debut of John Heard, who played David Carson/Lord Cumulus. Other cast-members included Tom Towles as Prince Chaos, and Keith Szarabajka as the young David. The Broadway production was produced by Anthony D'Amato in association with the Organic Theatre Company, and directed by co-writer Stuart Gordon. Comic-book and commercial artist Neal Adams was art director, with scenic design by Robert Guerra, costume design by Laura Crow and Cookie Gluck; lighting
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Other Desert Cities


, closing on February 27. The production starred Stockard Channing as Polly Wyeth, Linda Lavin as Silda Grauman, Stacy Keach as Lyman Wyeth, Thomas Sadoski as Trip Wyeth and Elizabeth Marvel as Brooke Wyeth. It was named Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play by the Outer Critics Circle. The play transferred to Broadway at the Booth Theatre on November 3, 2011. Judith Light replaced Lavin and Rachel Griffiths replaced Marvel. Both the Off-Broadway and Broadway production were directed by Baitz's former romantic partner Joe Mantello. This production
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The Golden Apple (musical)


by Ballard, and its fantastical, suggestive settings by William and Jean Eckart. The musical was presented Off-Broadway in 1961 at the Equity Library Theatre, and in 1962 it was produced at the York Playhouse. Both productions were directed by Robert Ennis Turoff and starred Roberta MacDonald as Helen and Stan Page as Ulysses. The musical continues to receive occasional productions. For example, a 1990 production by the York Theater Company in New York featured Muriel Costa-Greenspon. The work was produced in 1995 by Light Opera Works in
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Serenading Louie


Serenading Louie is a 1976 play by Lanford Wilson. The 1976 Off-Broadway production of "Serenading Louie" played at the Circle Repertory Company from May 2 to May 30, 1976. Marshall W. Mason won an Obie Award for his direction. The cast included Tanya Berezin as Mary, Trish Hawkins as Gabrielle, Edward J. Moore as Carl, and Michael Storm as Alex. The production was designed by John Lee Beatty, with costumes by Jennifer von Mayrhauser and lighting by Dennis Parichy. In 1984, a production was staged
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Los Angeles Civic Light Opera


Blossom Time", presented in English with stars John Charles Thomas and Francia White. The production was both a critical and financial success, and the company went on to have three more sold out productions that season with Sigmund Romberg's "The Student Prince", Romberg's "The New Moon", and Jerome Kern's "Roberta". At the time the LACLO opened, Broadway touring productions out of New York City did not travel further west than the Rocky Mountains. However, the success of the LACLO's first
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Kelli O'Hara


the Off-Broadway Playwrights Horizons production of the musical "My Life With Albertine", and, in 2004, Lucy Westenra in the Broadway production of "Dracula, the Musical". She starred as Clara in the 2005 Broadway production of "The Light in the Piazza" at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theatre. She had appeared in a workshop of the musical at the Theatre Lab at Sundance, and in tryouts in Seattle and Chicago, as the character of Franca. She received a 2005 Tony Award nomination for Best
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Annie Golden


joined other original Off-Broadway cast members in a "Reprise!" (Los Angeles) concert production of "Assassins". In 2007, she was stand-by for the two comic villain roles in the musical "Xanadu" on Broadway. She played Lucy Schmeeler, the whiny friend with the chronic cold, in the Off-Broadway Public Theater production at the Delacorte Theater of "On the Town" in August 1997. She also appeared in the lab production of the musical "Hit The Lights!" in
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Lighting designer


to light their productions. At the Off-Broadway or Off-Off-Broadway level, the LD will occasionally be responsible for much of the hands-on technical work (hanging instruments, programming the light board, etc.) that would be the work of the lighting crew in a larger theater. The LD will read the script carefully and make notes on changes in place and time between scenes - such changes are often done just with lighting to avoid too many blackouts in one scene - and will have meetings (
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Judith Anderson


by Edith Wharton, in the role later played on film by Miriam Hopkins. It ran for 305 performances. In 1936, Anderson played Gertrude to John Gielgud's Hamlet in a production which featured Lillian Gish as Ophelia. In 1937, she joined the Old Vic Company in London and played Lady Macbeth opposite Laurence Olivier in a production by Michel Saint-Denis, at the Old Vic and the New Theatre. She returned to Broadway with "Family Portrait" (1939), which she adored but only had a short run
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2nd Brigade Special Troops Battalion


NBC recon platoon, and support platoon), a Military Intelligence company (old B Co, 312 MI), a Signal company (old B Co, 13SIG), and an Engineer company thereby making it the primary support node for Blackjack Brigade. The Spartan battalion is capable of receiving multiple combat, combat support, and combat service support modules in support of full spectrum and support operations worldwide. On 4 Sep., 2BSTB deployed to New Orleans, LA. in response to Hurricane Katrina. The primary mission of this deployment
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Touring Broadway Awards


Graduate" Author: Terry Johnson Best Production Design: "Little Shop of Horrors" Scenic Design: Scott Pask Costume Design: William Ivey Long Lighting Design: Donald Holder Best Musical Score: "Chicago" Music: John Kander Lyrics: Fred Ebb Best Direction: Susan Stroman for "The Producers" Best Choreography: Twyla Tharp for "Movin' Out" Best Long-Running Musical: "Mamma Mia!" Touring Broadway Career Achievement Award: Alan Ross Kosher Company manager of "The Lion King" Best New Musical:
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Bright Lights, Big City (musical)


Bright Lights, Big City is a rock musical with music, lyrics and book written by Scottish composer Paul Scott Goodman based on the 1984 novel by Jay McInerney. It follows a week in the life of Jamie, a successful young writer who loses himself in the chaos of 1980s New York City. The piece premiered Off-Broadway in New York City in 1999 and was revived in a small London production in 2010. Jamie, a twenty-four-year-old who came to New York City to fulfill his dream
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Lights of Old Broadway


twins separated at birth. The dark-haired girl is brought up in a wealthy home, while the blonde is brought up in the tenement slums and becomes a musical-comedy star. This MGM production saw Davies in the first of three teamings with Conrad Nagel and was also the first Davies production in which Louis B, Mayer and Irving Thalberg became involved. This was the first Davies film to use 2-strip Technicolor (which survives). The finale also includes the same hand-coloring technique (Handschiegl) that had been
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Robert Ames (actor)


to a role in Miller's production of "The Great Divide" by William Vaughn Moody. Ames would spend eleven seasons with Miller's company before moving on to Jessie Bonstelle's stock company for eight seasons and the Municipal Stock Company for three. His first Broadway success came in 1916 playing Charles Daingerfield (alias Brindlebury) opposite Ruth Chatterton in "Come Out of the Kitchen" by A.E. Thomas. Ames played leading roles in "The Hero" (1921) by Gilbert Emery, "Lights Out" (1922) by
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Karolyn Nelke


(André Bishop Artistic Director). It was further developed at the Old Vat Room in Washington D.C. during Arena Stage's 1978-1979 season. and was ultimately directed by Norman René, first Off-Off Broadway at Mr. Rene's The Production Company, and then Off-Broadway at the Theatre at St. Clement's. In 1981, Nelke was included in a Rockefeller Foundation program for the development of women playwrights at Actors Theater of Louisville, and the one act play she wrote for this program, "Finish Lines,
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Stockard Channing


at HB Studio in New York City. Channing started her acting career with the experimental Theatre Company of Boston; she performed in the group's Off-Broadway 1969 production of the Elaine May play "Adaptation/Next". She performed in a revival of "Arsenic and Old Lace" directed by Theodore Mann as part of the Circle in the Square at Ford's Theatre program in 1970. In 1971, she made her Broadway debut in "Two Gentlemen of Verona — The Musical", working with playwright John Guare.
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International Festival of Arts & Ideas


Early in its history, the Festival presented the Royal Shakespeare Company from the United Kingdom, concert productions from the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, and a pre-Broadway presentation of Michael Frayn's play Copenhagen. In 2013, the Festival continued its tradition of presenting important including the US premiere of a new production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream", a collaboration between Bristol Old Vic (England) in association with Handspring Puppet Company (South Africa), directed by Tom Morris. This is the team behind the
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Broadway by the Bay


singers and dancers, increasing the quality of the shows. The San Mateo Community Theatre became a non-profit organization in 1978. In 1983, the Board of Directors expanded the focus of the company and changed the name to Peninsula Civic Light Opera. In 1999, a decision was made to gradually change the name to Broadway by the Bay to more accurately reflect the group's focus on Broadway-type musicals instead of light operas. Broadway by the Bay is a not-for-profit corporation that produces four full-
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Hughie


production were David Gallo (sets), Donald Holder (lights), Candice Donnelly (costumes) and John Gromada (sound). The Goodman Theater in Chicago put on the play in January and February 2010, with Brian Dennehy in the title role. The production was variously well-reviewed, with emphasis on Dennehy's strong performance. The play was revived in 2013 at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. with Richard Schiff as Erie. It returned for a fourth time to Broadway with Forest Whitaker as Erie Smith
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The Desert Song


tryouts in Wilmington, Delaware and Boston, Massachusetts, the original Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on November 30, 1926 and ran for a very successful 465 performances. It starred Vivienne Segal. The piece enjoyed a London production and was revived on Broadway in 1946 and 1973. In the 1980s, it was played regularly by the Light Opera of Manhattan and revived by the New York City Opera. It is a popular piece for community light opera groups. The story is a version of plots such as "The Scarlet
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Erika Henningsen


". In February 2017, she appeared in an Off-Broadway staged concert of Jerry Herman's musical, "Dear World," as Nina with the York Theatre Company, starring alongside Tyne Daly, Alison Fraser, and Ann Harada. Henningsen returned to the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera (PCLO) in the summer of 2017, starring as Sophie in the company's regional production of "Mamma Mia!". During her run at PCLO, it was announced that she was cast as Cady Heron in the upcoming Washington,
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The Shakespeare Center


-town Manhattan, as well as from the strike of Broadway productions, such as Nicholas Nickleby and The Threepenny Opera. One of the principal donors to "The Shakespeare Center" was Samuel H. Scripps, resident Lighting Designer of the Riverside Shakespeare Company and leading arts benefactor. As Clyde Haberman wrote in "The New York Times": The original planked stage of The Shakespeare Center was designed by David Emmons (but was later redesigned by Norbert Kolb, Kevin Lee Allen, and Dorian Vernacchio for specific productions) from platforms donated
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1776 (musical)


, Laird Mackintosh, Michael McCormick, Michael Medeiros, Wayne Pretlow, Tom Alan Robbins, Robert Sella, Vishal Vaidya, Nicholas Ward and Jacob Keith Watson. The production notably sported a racially diverse cast in light of the recent success of another musical about the Founding Fathers, "Hamilton". A Broadway revival of "1776" is planned for Spring 2021. It is expected to be a co-production between the American Repertory Theater and the Roundabout Theatre Company, and is expected first to be seen at the American Repertory
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Michael Lessac


and maintained and trained a company of eighteen actors, three playwrights, four composers, and a lighting, sound, set design/construction team. The theatre received numerous awards for its work over this period, most notably for its premiere productions of international theatre including original adaptations of the novels of Bulgakov ("Molière in Spite of Himself") and Frank O’Connor ("Guests of the Nation" later seen on public television in the US). The Colonnades production of "Shakespeare’s Cabaret", transferred to Broadway where
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Stalking the Bogeyman


Barber. Set & costume design is by Rachel Stone, lighting design by Rob Casey, original music by Eric T. Lawson, sound design by David Gregory and Casting by Anne Vosser. It is produced by David Adkin and NewYorkRep in association with Joel Fisher, Adam Richman and The Telling Company. *In the Off-West End Production, the character of Dr Leavitt was replaced with the character of Molly. OFF-BROADWAY “BREATHTAKING! Based on the riveting true story adapted from This American Life, the production’s trip
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Paxton Whitehead


repertory, small touring companies that rehearsed and performed a new play each week. In 1958, he was signed by the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 1961, Whitehead directed Doric Wilson's first play to be performed, "And He Made a Her", a comedy, was an off-off-Broadway production at the Caffe Cino. He made his Broadway debut in "The Affair" (1962) after appearing in Canadian stage and TV productions. Whitehead replaced Jonathan Miller in the Broadway production of "Beyond the Fringe
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Laura Hope Crews


feeling". Her final stage appearance came in 1942, in the original Broadway run of "Arsenic and Old Lace" in which she replaced one of the original cast members. She stayed with the production for more than a year and a half on Broadway and in a touring company before she was forced to leave because of illness. Crews died in the LeRoy Sanitarium in New York City in 1942, following an illness of four months. She had been admitted on October 15, suffering from a kidney ailment and was in
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