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THE MUNY ANNOUNCES 100th SEASON CREATIVE TEAMS

ST. LOUIS (December 14, 2017) – announced today the directors, choreographers and music directors for The Muny’s epic 2018 centennial season, which opens on June 11 with the first production in the world of ’ Broadway since it’s Tony-award winning Broadway and national tour productions.

“How thrilling to approach our epic 100th season working with these extraordinary artists," said Muny Artistic Director and Executive Producer Mike Isaacson. "We know how excited everyone is by our 100th season, and we're ready to make the magic.”

JEROME ROBBINS’ BROADWAY By: James M. Barrie, , , , , , , , , , Oscar Hammerstein II, , , , Stephen Longstreet, Hugh Martin, Jerome Robbins, , , , and

CYNTHIA ONRUBIA (Director) has worked on numerous productions for The , Carnegie Hall and City Center Encores!. Broadway: Dame Edna: The Royal Tour (American League of Producers nomination), (2003 Sir Robert Helpmann 2 / The Muny Announces 2018 Creative Teams

Award), , Victor/Victoria, , , Metro, Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, Song and Dance, , Got Tu Go Disco, Dancin’, . choreography: Labor Day, Away We Go, Revolutionary Road, Definitely Maybe, Connie and Carla, Big Fish, Analyze That, (2003 American Choreography Award), Center Stage, The Cradle Will Rock. received the 1994 American Theatre Roundtable Award for Outstanding Career Performances.

CHRIS BAILEY (Production Supervisor) returns to The Muny after directing and choreographing last year. Other Muny credits: (2016), (2015), (2015), (2014), (2013) and Thoroughly Modern Millie (2012). Chris also choreographed the historic opening number of the 2013 and served as assistant choreographer for the 2013 and 2014 . Chris was the associate choreographer for the Broadway revival of , the Broadway productions of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Cry-Baby and Promises, Promises. In ’s West End, Chris choreographed The Entertainer with and Assassins at the . He was also an associate choreographer for , Evita, in a Lifetime and . Additional credits include The New Yorkers and 1776 at NY City Center Encores!; and Because of Winn Dixie at Alabama Shakespeare Festival.

MICHAEL HORSLEY (Music Director) is the music supervisor for The Muny. In his 24 years with The Muny, some of the shows he has conducted include Newsies (2017), Mamma Mia! (2016), Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story (2015), (2014), (2013), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor® Dreamcoat and Thoroughly Modern Millie (2012), 42nd Street (1996, 2009), , Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (2000, 2006), Damn Yankees (1998, 2010), Sleeping Beauty, Singin’ in the Rain and many more. National tours: Thoroughly Modern Millie, Chicago, Cinderella, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Other regional: Roman Holiday (Guthrie Theater), On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (Music Theatre Wichita), (AMT San Jose), A Chorus Line (Pioneer Theatre ), The Full Monty (North Carolina Theatre). He has also voice directed the Christmas Concert Series for the Symphony, National Symphony and Birmingham Symphony . He is on staff as music director for the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

THE WIZ Adapted from “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” by L. Frank Baum Book by William F. Brown Music and Lyrics by Additional Dialogue by Tina Tippit

DENIS JONES (Director) returns to The Muny, having served as director/choreographer for A Chorus Line, 42nd Street (St. Louis Theater Circle Award), Grease, , Chicago and as choreographer for Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn and Pirates! Broadway: Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn (Tony, Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Chita nominations) and Honeymoon in Vegas. Other recent credits: Moonshine: That Hee Haw Musical (Dallas Theater Center), Paint Your Wagon ( Center Encores!), The Tempest (NY Shakespeare Festival), A Funny Thing

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Happened… (Two River/Williamstown Theatre Festival), (Lyric Opera of Chicago), Piece of My Heart: The Bert Berns Story (NY Signature, Lortel nomination, Callaway finalist), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Goodspeed), Rothschild & Sons (The York), Mary Poppins (Paper Mill) and Crazy for You (DC Signature).

CAMILLE A. BROWN (Choreographer) Broadway: Pal Joey (2018 revival), Once On This Island (2017 revival), A Streetcar Named Desire. Off-Broadway: Fortress of Solitude (Public Theater, Lortel nomination). Regional: ink at The Kennedy Center (2017 world premiere), Bella: An American Tall Tale (AUDELCO Award) and Stagger Lee (Dallas Theater Center), Blood Quilt (), Cabin in the Sky and ’s Tick, Tick…BOOM! ( Encores!) starring Lin-Manuel Miranda. Company: Camille A. Brown & Dancers. Awards: Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellow, Princess Grace Statue Award, Jacob’s Pillow, Guggenheim Fellowship, Bessie Award, USA Fellow, Doris Duke Artist, TED Fellow. www.camilleabrown.org

DARRYL ARCHIBALD (Music Director) The Color Purple (2015 Broadway revival tour), Motown The Musical (Broadway, national tour), Wicked (Pantages Theater, substitute conductor), (Broadway tour), (national tour, associate conductor); Disney’s (Broadway tour, vocal coach/assistant conductor), Dear World (Valley Performing Arts Center), Jonathan Dove’s Innocence (Banff Centre and Theatre Club); Two By Two, How To Succeed…, The Fantasticks, Once On This Island, Li’l Abner (Reprise), Great Expectations, My Fair Lady, 1776, , and Forever Plaid ( Shakespeare Festival), A Hollywood Holiday Celebration (ABC), The Fountain Show and Christmas Trolley Show (LA’s The Grove).

SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN Screenplay by Betty Comden and Adolph Green Songs by and Based on the classic Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film, by special arrangement with Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures, Inc.

MARC BRUNI (Director) is currently represented on Broadway, on US and UK tours, and in with Beautiful: The Musical. Other credits include: Roman Holiday: The Musical (Golden Gate), Trevor (Writers Theatre), The Sound of Music (Lyric Opera of Chicago), Hey, Look Me Over!; Paint Your Wagon, Pipe Dream, Fanny (New York City Center Encores!), The Explorers Club (Manhattan Theatre Club), Old Telling Jokes (NY/Chicago, Jeff nomination), Other People’s Money (Long Wharf, Capital Critics Circle nomination), Presto Change-O (Barrington Stage), Ordinary Days (Roundabout), Irving Berlin’s White Christmas and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Paper Mill). He’s delighted to return to The Muny for his eighth show (two nominations).

ROMMY SANDHU (Choreographer) returns to The Muny, where he served as associate director/choreographer on The Unsinkable Molly Brown (2017). In addition to working with Tony-winner on Bells are Ringing and (both at NYCC), as well as Diner the Musical at Delaware Theatre Company, he served as Tony/Drama Desk-nominee Dick Scanlan’s associate on Little Shop of Horrors. Across the country he’s directed and/or choreographed for ’s Playhouse Square, Tuacahn, and Geva Theatre Center, among

4 / The Muny Announces 2018 Creative Teams others. In New York, his work has been seen on and off-Broadway at 54 Below, Peace Love and Cupcakes (NYMF 2017), multiple opening numbers for Broadway Cares and How Now Dow Jones (NY Fringe). As a performer he’s appeared on Broadway in Mary Poppins, Bombay Dreams, Oklahoma!; , Get Your Gun, The Life and Menken/Ahren’s A Christmas Carol. Instagram @Rsand4. @newrom. www.RommySandhu.com

BEN WHITELEY (Music Director) Muny: A Chorus Line, 42nd Street, My Fair Lady, The Addams Family, Spamalot, Pirates!; The Sound of Music, Beauty and the Beast, Kiss Me, Kate; Oklahoma!; The Music Man, Meet Me in St. Louis, . Music director for 1776 at New York City Center Encores! Broadway/National tours: A Christmas Story, The Addams Family, Spamalot, The Full Monty, Cats (conducted final original Broadway performance), Grand Hotel, , Big. Carnegie Hall: Sail Away (with ). Choral direction: Carousel (NY Philharmonic/PBS). Encores!: associate music director and chorus master for 30 productions including Paint Your Wagon and The Most Happy Fella. Other: , , University of . Recordings: Allegro, Boardwalk Empire (Grammy Award), Merrily We Roll Along.

JERSEY BOYS Book by and Rick Elice Music by Bob Gaudio Lyrics by Bob Crewe

JOSH RHODES (Director/Choreographer) directed Ken Ludwig's Baskerville (Old Globe Theatre), Guys and Dolls (Asolo Rep and The Old Globe), Evita (Asolo Rep), Spamalot (5th Avenue Theatre), Ebenezer Scrooge's Big Playhouse Christmas Show (Bucks County Playhouse) and Celestina Warbeck and the Banshees at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. He also choreographed the Broadway productions of Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella, It Shoulda Been You, First Date and Bright Star. On London’s West End, he choreographed Carousel at the English National Opera and starring . New York City Center Encores!: and . Other credits include Company starring and Sondheim: The Birthday Concert (PBS), Broadway: Three Generations (Kennedy Center), (Muny). Rhodes is a proud graduate of the University of Michigan.

RICK BERTONE (Music Director) Broadway/national tour (keyboard and/or conductor) credits: Gotta Dance, If/Then, , , Spamalot, , Chicago, Mamma Mia!; Disney’s On The Record. Off-Broadway: Avenue Q (music director), Newsical The Musical, Romantic Poetry (Manhattan Theatre Club) and Naked Boys Singing. Select others as music director: Shrek, Tarzan (Muny), The Last Five Years, Little Shop of Horrors (Berkshire Theatre Group) and The Midtown Men. Next up, Rick will be the associate conductor for Jerry Springer: The Opera at New Group. Rick is originally from the Chicagoland area and went to .

ANNIE Book by

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JOHN TARTAGLIA (Director) Broadway: Avenue Q (Tony nomination), Beauty and the Beast and Shrek. John created, executive produced and starred in his own Emmy-nominated preschool series Johnny and the Sprites (Disney Jr.) and performed on for 13 seasons. Director: Stephen Schwartz’s The Secret Silk (Princess Cruises, writer/director), The Wizard of Oz, Tarzan and Shrek (Muny), Live and Live (national tours), Claudio Quest (New York Festival, Best of the Fest), Lord Tom (York Theatre), Shrek the Halls (DreamWorks Theatricals), Because of Winn Dixie (Arkansas Repertory), amongst others. John is Kip on ’s Word Party, Hank on Julie’s Greenroom (both for ), as well as creator, co-executive producer and star of Jim Henson’s (PBS Kids). Heard every Sunday on Sirius XM on Broadway’s Sunday Funday with . www.johntartagliaproductions.com

JESSICA HARTMAN (Choreographer) is thrilled to return for The Muny’s 100th after working on All Shook Up (2017), Mamma Mia! (2016), (2015) and (2014). Broadway: Lysistrata Jones (associate choreographer), The Boy from Oz starring (assistant choreographer). Off-Broadway/NY credits: Elephant and Piggie’s We Are in a Play! (choreographer, New Victory Theatre), Universal Studios/The Wizarding World of Harry Potter (associate),Waterfall (associate), and Somewhere in Time (associate). Other choreography credits include: Norwegian Creative Studios/Oceania Cruise Lines (choreographer), Disney Jr. Dance Party (associate show director), How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (associate, Theatre Under the Stars), West Side Story (associate, Signature Theatre), and Next to Normal (choreographer, Baltimore Center Stage). Up next: Memphis at Theatre Under the Stars (choreographer). Jessica is the Artistic Director of Connection. BFA from Florida State University.

COLIN WELFORD (Music Director) is delighted to be back at The Muny, having conducted Billy Elliot in 2014 and in 2017. Colin studied at Oxford University, the Royal College of Music and University of Miami. Currently music director/conductor of in Chicago. Past music supervisor/director credits include: The Lion King and Billy Elliot (13 companies of each, worldwide), Wicked, and ’s Tommy (5 companies). For the English National , Colin has conducted productions of Swan Lake, Coppélia, The Nutcracker, Giselle, Cinderella and . Colin has also orchestrated for the New York and Boston Pops orchestras. He has conducted recordings ranging from Mahler and Stravinsky (BBC Symphony) to pop and big-band albums, composed two produced musicals and is at work on his first opera.

GYPSY Book by Arthur Laurents Music by Jule Styne Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

ROB RUGGIERO (Director) is thrilled to be returning for The Muny’s 100th season. Previous Muny: The Music Man, Oklahoma!; Hello, Dolly!; South Pacific and . Selected

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Repertory Theatre of St. Louis: , Sunday in the Park with George, The Little Dog Laughed, and Take Me Out. Broadway: High and Looped. Conceived and directed the original musical : The Music of (Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations). Recently directed the major “revisal” of , at Goodspeed Musicals, where he also directed highly-successful productions of La Cage aux Folles, Fiddler on the Roof, The Most Happy Fella, Carousel, Annie Get Your Gun, Camelot, Big River, 1776 and Show Boat, (West End production 2016). Producing Artistic Director for TheaterWorks in Hartford, Connecticut.

RALPH PERKINS (Choreographer) returns to The Muny after choreographing The Wizard of Oz (2016), Hello, Dolly! (2014); South Pacific (2013) and The King and I (2012). Other credits: Follies, Sunday in the Park with George, Kiss Me, Kate and Urinetown for the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; La Cage aux Folles, Camelot and 1776 for Goodspeed Musicals; South Pacific for Paper Mill Playhouse and The Asolo Repertory Theatre, and Sweet Charity for Barrington Stage. Perkins was artistic director and co-founder of The New Works Project in Las Vegas, where he also choreographed EFX at the MGM Grand, Siegfried & Roy at The Mirage and Tournament of Kings. Ralph is currently the director of dance for the theatre division at The Hartt School, University of Hartford in Connecticut.

JAMES MOORE (Music Director) The Muny: The Music Man, Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn, Hello, Dolly!; West Side Story, Meet Me in St. Louis and . Broadway: , On the Town, , Follies, South Pacific, , and Company. National tours: The Producers, Kiss Me, Kate; Crazy for You, And the World Goes ‘Round. The Kennedy Center: Camelot starring , My Fair Lady starring , starring Christine Baranski. Concerts: National Symphony , Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Santa Barbara Symphony, The Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra. Recordings: On the Town, Follies (Grammy nomination). Upcoming: (Broadway revival). Moore holds master and bachelor degrees from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music.

MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS Songs by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane Book by Based on “The Kensington Stories” by Sally Benson and the MGM motion picture “Meet Me in St. Louis”

MARCIA MILGROM DODGE (Director) Muny: The Little Mermaid, Young Frankenstein, Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story and The Addams Family. Broadway: Ragtime (2010 Tony nomination). National tours: Curious George, Seussical, Ragtime. NYC: Venus Flytrap, Radio Gals, Closer Than Ever and . Between reimagining revivals and choreographing & directing world premieres regionally and abroad, Dodge is also a wife, a mother, a teacher, an SDC executive board member and a published and produced playwright. For more, visit www.marciamilgromdodge.com

JOSH WALDEN (Choreographer) returns to The Muny after choreographing The Little Mermaid in 2017 and Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story in 2015. Directed/choreographed A Chorus Line for

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Maltz Jupiter Theatre and Theatre Memphis, The Horror Show for the University of Buffalo, Legally Blonde for Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, and the rock opera Fallen Angel for the New York International Fringe Festival. He has also choreographed for Signature Theatre, Sacramento Music Circus, Doonce Productions, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Gateway Playhouse and Morag Productions for Seabourn Cruise Lines. On Broadway, Josh was the associate director/associate choreographer for the revival of Ragtime. As a performer, he has been in Broadway revivals of 42nd Street, La Cage aux Folles, A Chorus Line and Ragtime.

CHARLIE ALTERMAN (Music Director) is thrilled to be a part of Muny 100! At The Muny he served as music director for All Shook Up, The Little Mermaid (2017), Young Frankenstein (2016), Hairspray (2015), Chicago (2012) and Legally Blonde (2011). Broadway: Pippin, Godspell, Next to Normal, : Fame Becomes Me (music director/actor) and Legally Blonde (associate conductor). Tours: Next to Normal (music supervisor) and Grease (US/Asia). Off- Broadway favorites: Almost Heaven: Songs of John Denver and Silence! The Musical. Regional: The Old Globe, Theatre Under the Stars, , Arena Stage, Trinity Rep, Huntington Theatre and seasons with the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Concert appearances include shows with , , Emily Skinner, Dana Reeve, , Carol Woods and . Upcoming: Half Time (previously known as Gotta Dance). ______Season tickets go on sale March 5, 2018. Single tickets go on sale May 7, 2018.

Muny gift cards for the 100th season are now available online and at The Muny Box Office. For more information, visit muny.org or call (314) 361-1900.

World Wide Technology (WWT) and The Steward Family Foundation have once again made a leadership gift to continue as the Muny’s 2018 Season Presenting Sponsor. They became the first overall season sponsor in the history of The Muny in 2014 and continue that role through 2018.

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The Muny’s mission is to enrich lives by producing exceptional musical theatre, accessible to all, while continuing its remarkable tradition in Forest Park. As the nation’s largest outdoor musical theatre, we produce seven world-class musicals each year and welcome over 350,000 theatregoers over our nine-week season. Now celebrating 100 seasons in St. Louis, The Muny remains one of the premier institutions in musical theatre. For more information about The Muny, visit muny.org.