The Creative Team

BARRY MANILOW (Composer) is an internationally renowned popular music star whose career has spanned television, film, concerts and the Broadway stage. He has written hundreds of songs and has performed around the world, thrilling millions of fans over the course of his career and earning Tony, Emmy and Grammy Awards, as well as an Oscar nomination. Manilow's theatrical roots go back to his days in the mailroom at CBS in New York, when, at 18, he wrote the entire original score for a musical adaptation for the melodrama, The Drunkard. The show ran Off-Broadway for eight years. Manilow made his film scoring debut in 1994 with the Warner Brothers animated film "Thumbelina," with songs co-written with his HARMONY collaborator, Bruce Sussman. His second animated feature, "The Pebble and the Penguin," also with songs collaborated with Sussman, was released in 1995 by MGM studios.

BRUCE SUSSMAN (Book and Lyrics) Co-authored the scores for Ted Tally's COMING ATTRACTIONS (Outer Critics Circle Award, Pulitzer Prize finalist) and Wendy Wasserstein's MIAMI, both written with Jack Feldman and produced by Andre Bishop at Playwrights Horizons in New York. His songs have been featured in numerous revues including THE MADWOMAN OF CENTRAL PARK WEST, TUXEDOES FOR HIRE, and the long-running Off-Broadway and London productions of WHOOP-DEE-DOO! (Drama Desk Award, Obie Award.) With Mr. Manilow, he wrote the song score for the animated feature film THE PEBBLE AND THE PENGUIN, and with Messrs. Manilow and Feldman, THUMBELINA and Disney's OLIVER AND CO. His songs have been featured in over two dozen feature films and recorded by an array of pop, jazz, country and international artists, earning Grammy Awards and multiple Gold and Platinum records from around the world.

DAVID WARREN (Director) Broadway revivals include Philip Barry’s Holiday at Circle In The Square (Starring Laura Linney and Tony Goldwyn, Outer Critics Circle Nomination: Best Revival); Tennessee Williams’ Summer and Smoke (Starring Mary McDonnell and Harry Hamlin) and Misalliance (Starring Brian Murray) at the Roundabout. He also directed the acclaimed off-Broadway revival of Hobson’s Choice (starring Martha Plimpton) at Atlantic Theatre Co. (Lucille Lortel Award nomination: Best Revival). Premieres include the Off-Broadway hit Matt & Ben (also Chicago, Los Angeles, Toronto and on tour); Daniel Stern’s Barbra’s Wedding; Richard Greenberg’s The Dazzle, Hurrah at Last (Both for Roundabout), Night and Her Stars, and his adaptation of Pal Joey; Steven Dietz’s Fiction; Nicky Silver’s Eros Trilogy (starring Betty Buckley), Raised in Captivity, Pterodactyls (Obie Award), The Altruists, and Fit to be Tied; Tom Donaghy’s Minutes From The Blue Route and From Above; Leslie Ayvazian’s High Dive; William Finn’s Romance in Hard Times (Public Theatre); Michael John LaChiusa’s Artificial Intelligence; Eric Overmeyer’s Mi Vida Loca ; John Corwin’s Gone Home; Albert Innaurato’s Gus and Al; and the new musical Harmony by Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman. He directed and wrote the text for Haddocks’ Eyes, a collaboration with Pulitzer-prize winning composer David Del Tredici. On the road he directed the National Tours of Frank Wildhorn’s Jekyll and Hyde, Barry Manilow’s Copacabana, and Larry King: Really Live (for Pace Theatrical Group). Other credits: West Coast productions of Raised in Captivity and Jon Robin Baitz’s The End of the Day. His regional credits include Twelfth Night (Long Wharf), The Philadelphia Story (Hartford Stage), Eric Bogosian’s Griller, Captain’s Courageous (Goodspeed), and productions for La Jolla Playhouse, South Coast Repertory, Baltimore Center Stage, New York Stage and Film, and others. He has received an Obie, an LA Weekly, and three Dramalogue awards, and an LA Drama Critic’s Circle nomination. He was the recipient of a National Endowment For The Arts directing fellowship and was the Alan Schneider directing fellow at the Juilliard School. He is a founding member of Drama Dept. Most recent projects include Matt & Ben in London, Drumstruck for Dodger Theatricals, and the premiere of Risa Mickenberg’s Egg.

PETER PUCCI (Choreographer) Mr. Pucci’s recent theatrical credits include Renard at Alice Tully Hall; Eight by Tenn at Hartford Stage; People Be Heard at Playwright’s Horizons; Romeo and Juliet at Great Lakes Theatre Festival; True Love at The Zipper Theatre; The Late Henry Moss both at The Signature Theatre and at The Magic Theater; Letters from ‘Nam at North Shore Music Theatre; Fall at Berkeley Repertory Theatre and Baltimore Center Stage; Romeo and Juliet for TheatreWorks, USA; Eyes for Consuela at Manhattan Theatre Club; MacBeth and Camino Real at The Hartford Stage; Fool for Love , The Cherry Orchard, The Importance of Being Earnest, and The Learned Ladies at The McCarter Theatre; The Merry Wives of Windsor and Twelfth Night at The Shakespeare Theatre; Love’s Labor’s Lost at Shakespeare Santa Cruz and Samson and Delilah for Baltimore Opera. A principal dancer and co-choreographer with Pilobolus Dance Theatre for nine years, Mr. Pucci has choreographed for the Joffrey Ballet, Colorado Ballet, Ballet Arizona, Ballet Pacifica and Pittsburgh Ballet. He has also choreographed for Jim Henson’s Bear in the Big Blue House on the Disney Channel. He is a two time winner of the Choo-San Goh Award for Choreography (1993 and 1998). Other awards include the Absolut Joffrey Award and the American Dance Festival Samuel H. Scripps Humphrey/Weidman/Limon award for Choreography. Mr. Pucci is a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts.

DAVID CHASE (Musical Director) Most recent: Music Arranger and Supervisor for Disney’s On the Record. Broadway: Music Director for Flower Drum Song, The Music Man, Little Me, Side Show, Damn Yankees. Dance Arranger for Flower Drum Song, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Kiss Me Kate, Follies, The Scarlet Pimpernel (v2), Seussical, Side Show, …Forum. Also: Arranger for the feature film Beyond the Sea and The Music Man TV movie; Music Director for House of Flowers at Encores!; MD and Arranger for the Radio City Christmas Spectacular and several “Evening at Pops” on PBS. Musical training: Harvard biology degree.

DEREK McLANE (Set Design) In New York: B’way: the Tony winning I Am My Own Wife, The Women, Present Laughter, London Assurance, Holiday, Honour, Summer and Smoke, The Three Sisters. Off B’way: Aunt Dan and Lemon, The Creadeux Canvas, What the Butler Saw, Servicemen, East is East, subUrbia, The Waverly Gallery, Hello Again, Saturday Night, Captains Courageous, Time and Again and Violet. The entire Sondheim Celebration at Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Elsewhere in the United States: productions at most major resident theatres and operas. 1997 and 2004 OBIE Awards for Sustained Excellence in Scenic Design. Drama Logue Award, Michael Merritt Award, Chicago, 2003. 5 Drama Desk Nominations. and 2004 Lucille Lortel Award.

DAVID C. WOOLARD (Costume Design) Broadway Theatre credits: THE SMELL OF THE KILL, BELLS ARE RINGING, THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW (Tony Award nomination), VOICES IN THE DARK, MARLENE, THE WHO’S TOMMY (Tony and Olivier Award nominations) WAIT UNTIL DARK with Quentin Tarantino and Marisa Tomei, Horton Foote’s Pulitzer Prize winning Play THE YOUNG MAN FROM ATLANTA, DAMN YANKEES, and A FEW GOOD MEN. Selected Off-Broadway credits include: BARE, BARBRA’S WEDDING, CALIFORNIA DREAM’N, THE CARPETBAGGER’S CHILDREN, NEWYORKERS, THE DONKEY SHOW Nicky Silver’s THE EROS TRILOGY, DEFYING GRAVITY, BUNNY.

BRIAN RONAN (Sound Design) Brian has designed the Broadway productions of The Pajama Game, All Shook Up, 12 Angry Men, Master Harold & the Boys, The Look of Love, The Boys from Syracuse, Fortune’s Fool, The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, The Rainmaker, You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, Little Me, Cabaret, Triumph of Love, 1776 and State Fair.  Road productions of Oklahoma!, Seussical, Spirit and Busker Alley.  His associate credits include Smokey Joe’s Cafe and Beauty & the Beast,1st national tour.  Regionally Brian has designed McCarter Theatre’s Christmas Carol, Manhattan Theatre Club’s Wild Party, Time & Again and Newyorkers, Ordway of St. Paul, MN-Into the Woods, Royal George Theatre of Chicago, IL-Bleacher Bums and Theatre Works of Palo Alto, CA-A Little Princess.  Off Broadway designs include Stars in Your Eyes and Bug for which he won an Obie and the Lucille Lortel awards.

HOWELL BINKLEY (Lighting Design) Broadway: Jersey Boys, Steel Magnolias, Dracula, Avenue Q, Golda’s Balcony, Hollywood Arms, The Full Monty, Minnelli on Minnelli, Parade, Kiss of the Spider Woman, How to Succeed…, Grease, Sinatra “RCMH”. Off- Broadway: Radiant Baby, Batboy: The Musical, NYSF, Playwrights, Horizons, City Center Encores. Regional: La Jolla, Shakespeare Theater DC, Old Globe, the Guthrie, the Goodman, Hartford Stage. Dance: ABT, Parsons Dance Company (co-founder), Joffrey Ballet (Billboards), Alvin Ailey Awards: 1993 Sir Laurence Olivier Award.