with
Ethan Slater
Lilli Cooper, Danny Skinner
and
Gavin
Lee
Musical Production Conceived and Directed by Tina Landau
Book
by Kyle Jarrow
Orchestrations, Arrangements & Music
Supervision by Tom Kitt
Choreography by Christopher Gattelli
Previews Begin on Monday, November 6, 2017
Opening Night
on Monday, December 4, 2017
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Following a critically lauded run in Chicago during Summer 2016,
SpongeBob SquarePants will open on Broadway at The Palace
Theatre(1564 Broadway - Broadway at 47th Street) this Fall. Preview
performances begin Monday, November 6th with an official
opening on Monday, December 4th.
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President of the Nickelodeon Group, Cyma Zarghami, said:
"We could not be more thrilled to bring Nickelodeon's iconic SpongeBob
SquarePants to the theater in an original musical conceived specifically
for Broadway. We are also incredibly honored to be in such a gorgeous
house as The Palace, where audiences will be immersed in the fun and
surprising world of Bikini Bottom."
President of The Nederlander Organization, James L. Nederlander said:
"We are very happy to welcome Nickelodeon and SpongeBob SquarePants to
Broadway. The Palace is the perfect size and scale for this new musical,
and we couldn't be more thrilled to open our doors to it."
SpongeBob SquarePants cast will include Ethan Slateras
SpongeBob SquarePants, Gavin Lee as Squidward, Lilli
Cooperas Sandy Cheeks and Danny Skinneras Patrick.
The full cast will be announced at a later date.
A legendary roster of Grammy Award winners. A visionary director and
Tony Award®-winning design team. One of the world's most beloved and
unforgettable characters. Turn them all loose on Broadway and what do
you get? SpongeBob SquarePants!
Acclaimed Steppenwolf director Tina Landau and the groundbreaking
designers behind Fun Home, Hedwig, and Spring Awakening have
brilliantly reimagined Bikini Bottom for the Broadway stage,
bringing the spirit of SpongeBob to life with humanity, heart, and pure
theatricality. With an original score from some of the biggest names in
pop and rock, SpongeBob SquarePants explodes with energy.
Stakes are higher than ever before as SpongeBob and all of Bikini Bottom
face the total annihilation of their undersea world. Chaos erupts. Lives
hang in the balance. And just when all hope seems lost, a most
unexpected hero rises up and takes center stage.
Get ready to dive to all-new depths of theatrical innovation at SpongeBob
SquarePants, where the power of optimism really can save the
world!
SpongeBob SquarePants is a musical production conceived
and directed by Tina Landau, book by Kyle Jarrow,
orchestrations, arrangements & music supervision by Tom Kitt, with
choreography by Christopher Gattelli.
SpongeBob SquarePants is a one-of-a-kind musical event
with original songs by Yolanda Adams, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of
AEROSMITH, Sara Bareilles, Jonathan Coulton, Alexander Ebert of Edward
Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, The Flaming Lips, John Legend, Lady
Antebellum, Cyndi Lauper, Panic! At the Disco, Plain White T's, They
Might Be Giants and T.I., and a song by David
Bowie. With additional lyrics by Jonathan Coulton.
The design team includes scenic and costume design by David Zinn, lighting
design by Kevin Adams, projection design by Peter Nigrini,
sound design by Walter Trarbach, hair and wig design by
Charles G. LaPointe and casting by Telsey + Company/Patrick
Goodwin, CSA.
Nickelodeon and Sony Masterworks Broadway have recorded the cast album
of SpongeBob SquarePants and will announce its release shortly.
SpongeBob SquarePants will be produced by Nickelodeon with The
Araca Group, Sony Music Masterworks and Kelp on the
Road.
Since its launch in July 1999, SpongeBob SquarePants has reigned
as a pop culture phenomenon. The series has been the most-watched
animated program with kids 2-11 for more than 15 consecutive years, and
over the past several years, it has averaged more than 100,000,000 total
viewers every quarter across all Nickelodeon networks. SpongeBob
SquarePants is the most widely distributed property in Viacom
history, seen in more than 208 countries and territories and translated
in 55+ languages. Paramount Pictures' second feature film based on the
property, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, in 2015 at #1
opening weekend. A third feature has been announced for 2019, timed to
the series' landmark 20th anniversary. The character-driven
cartoon chronicles the nautical and sometimes nonsensical adventures of
SpongeBob, an incurably optimist and earnest sea sponge, and his
undersea friends.
For more information on SpongeBob SquarePants, visit SpongeBobBroadway.com
TICKET INFORMATION
Tickets will be available to the general public online via
Ticketmaster.com, or by calling 877-250-2929 on Monday, June 26th,
or at The Palace Theatre box office (1564 Broadway - Broadway at 47th
Street) beginning in Fall 2017. Ticket prices range from $39 to $159.
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
Week of November 6: Monday at 8PM, Tuesday at 8PM, Wednesday at
8PM, Thursday at 8PM, Friday at 8PM, Saturday at 2PM and 8PM.
Week of November 13: Wednesday at 8PM, Thursday at 8PM, Friday at
8PM, Saturday at 2PM and 8PM, Sunday at 1PM and 6:30PM.
Week of November 20: Monday at 8PM, Tuesday at 8PM, Wednesday at
8PM, Friday at 2PM and 8PM, Saturday at 2PM and 8PM, Sunday at 3PM
Week of November 27: Tuesday at 7PM, Wednesday at 2PM and 8PM,
Thursday at 7PM, Friday at 8PM, Saturday at 2PM and 8PM, Sunday at 3PM.
Week of December 4: Monday at 6:30PM, Wednesday at 2PM and 8PM,
Thursday at 7PM, Friday at 8PM, Saturday at 2PM and 8PM, Sunday at 1PM.
Week of December 11: Tuesday at 7PM, Wednesday at 2PM, Thursday
at 7PM, Friday at 8PM, Saturday at 2PM and 8PM, Sunday at 1PM and 6:30PM.
Week of December 18: Tuesday at 7PM, Wednesday at 2PM and 8PM,
Thursday at 7PM, Friday at 8PM, Saturday at 2PM and 8PM, Sunday at 3PM.
Week of December 25: Tuesday at 7PM, Wednesday at 2PM and 8PM,
Thursday at 7PM, Friday at 2PM or 8PM, Saturday at 2PM and 8PM.
Week of January 1: Tuesday at 7PM, Wednesday at 2PM, Thursday at
7PM, Friday at 8PM, Saturday at 2PM and 8PM, Sunday at 1PM and 6:30PM.
Beginning week of January 8: Tuesday at 7PM, Wednesday at 2PM,
Thursday at 7PM, Friday at 8PM, Saturday at 2PM and 8PM, Sunday at 1PM
and 6:30PM.
BIOGRAPHIES
ETHAN SLATER (SpongeBob SquarePants) is beyond
thrilled to be making his Broadway debut (!) as "SpongeBob" in SpongeBob
SquarePants! Recent credits: World Premiere of SpongeBob in
Chicago (BroadwayWorld Chicago Best Actor Award), and "Modell" in Diner
at DTC (Dir. Kathleen Marshall); Off-Broadway: Baghdaddy (St.
Luke's), PEMDAS (59e59), Claudio Quest (NYMF), What
We Know (Teatro Circulo), Independents (FringeNYC);
Film: "Lightning Bugs in a Jar" (Cannes 2015), "EVOL"; Web Series:
"Redheads Anonymous", "New Mayor of New York". Ethan is a Vassar
graduate and member of OYL. More at Ethanslater.com
GAVIN LEE(Squidward). Broadway: Thenadier in Les
Misérables, Bert in Disney'sMary Poppins (Tony and Olivier
nominations, Drama Desk and Theater World Awards). Other theater: Showboat
(Carnegie Hall), Holiday Inn (World premiere, Goodspeed), Mary
Poppins (1st national tour). London'sWest End: Top Hat, Mary
Poppins, Crazy For You, Peggy Sue Got Married, A Saint She Ain't, Me And
My Girl, Oklahoma! and Contact. TV: Woodford in "White Collar"
(season six), "Law and Order SVU," "The Good Wife."
LILLI COOPER (Sandy Cheeks). Ecstatic to be back in
Bikini bottom! Broadway: Spring Awakening (OBC), Wicked
(Elphaba). Theater favorites: Sundown, Yellow Moon (WP Theater), Natasha,
Pierre...Great Comet (ART), The Wildness (Ars Nova), Noir (NYSF
& NAMT), The Threepenny Opera (Atlantic Theater), LMNOP (Goodspeed).
TV: Bull (CBS), Elementary (CBS), creator and star of the
web-series: "It's Not Okay, Cupid" (Glamour.com). Proud LaGuardia Arts
and Vassar alum. Incredibly grateful to Stone Manners Salners, Telsey &
Co. and Ann Kelly. For Paulie and Dubdub. Lillicooper.com
DANNY SKINNER (Patrick) is excited
to be making his Broadway debut as Patrick in SpongeBob SquarePants.
Off-Broadway: Pluck the Day (Inaugural Season of The Araca
Project); Film: Allison Clemens; Web Series: "New Mayor
of New York", "Professional Friend". He holds a BFA from Syracuse
University.
YOLANDA ADAMS: Billboard Magazine's Gospel Artist of the last
decade, Yolanda Adams is a 5 time Grammy Award winning artist who
believes that her music heals. Not only is Yolanda a phenomenal
vocalist, she is the host of the award winning, nationally syndicated
radio show "The Yolanda Adams Morning Show". A renaissance lady, she is
an author Points of Power, designer of a coffee line Yolanda Adams
coffee, and bath & body products line, Simply Yolanda. Most of all she
is a proud mom. (www.YolandaAdamslive.com)
Twitter/IG: YolandaAdams
AEROSMITH'S STEVEN TYLER AND JOE PERRY: As members of
AEROSMITH--America's Greatest Rock & Roll Band--the songwriting team of
Steven Tyler and Joe Perry have sold more than 150 million albums
worldwide and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They
are the recipients of countless awards including four Grammys, eight
American Music Awards, six Billboard Awards, 12 MTV Video Music Awards
and an Emmy, among many other honors. In 2013 Tyler and Perry were
awarded with the Founder's Award at the ASCAP Pop Awards and inducted
into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame. With scores of multi-platinum
albums, AEROSMITH continues to inspire generations to get their wings,
to get a grip and to just push play. It's no wonder their songs remain
relevant to this day and they're one of the most beloved bands of all
time.
SARA BAREILLES: Sara Bareilles first achieved mainstream critical
praise in 2007 with her widely successful hit "Love Song," which reached
No. 1 in 22 countries around the world from her debut album "Little
Voice." Since then, Sara has gone on to receive six Grammy nominations,
which include Song of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for
"Love Song" and one Album of the Year for her highly acclaimed third
studio album, "The Blessed Unrest." Her book, Sounds Like Me: My Life
(So Far) in Song, was released in the fall of 2015 by Simon & Schuster
and is a NY Times best seller. Making her Broadway debut, Sara composed
the music and lyrics for "Waitress," for which she received her first
Tony Award nomination for Best Score and a 2017 Grammy Award nomination
for Best Musical Theater Album. She is also making her Broadway acting
debut as the lead in "Waitress" for a limited engagement through June
11, 2017. "What's Inside: Songs from Waitress," her most recent solo
studio album, is out on Epic Records. For more information, please visit www.sarabmusic.com.
DAVID BOWIE (1947-2016): David Bowie's first hit was
the song "Space Oddity" in 1969. The original pop chameleon, Bowie
became a science-fiction character for his breakout Ziggy Stardust
album. He later co-wrote "Fame" with John Lennon, which became his first
American #1 single. An accomplished actor, Bowie starred in The Man
Who Fell to Earth, in 1976. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame in 1996. Driven by an entirely deeper dynamic
than most pop artists, Bowie inhabits a very special world of
extraordinary sounds and endless vision. In 2013, it was announced that
the David Bowie Archive had given unprecedented access to the
prestigious Victoria and Albert Museum for David Bowie is…., an
exhibition to be curated solely by the V&A in London. Marking the first
time a museum has been given access to the David Bowie Archive, the
exhibition has gone on to break records in the US, Berlin and France. David
Bowie is…. will continue to tour the world for the foreseeable
future.
JONATHAN COULTON: Jonathan Coulton is from the Internet. While a
struggling music industry fell to pieces over file sharing and shifting
business models, he quietly and independently amassed a small army of
techies, nerds, and dedicated superfans. His songs cover an eclectic
range of subjects, from zombies and mad scientists to marriage and
parenthood (and now, Spongebob!). You may know him from many things,
including the songs from the Portal games, his work on the NPR quiz show
"Ask Me Another," or his annual comedy music cruise, the JoCo Cruise.
His latest release is "Solid State," a sci-fi concept album (with a
companion graphic novel by Matt Fraction and Albert Monteys) about
internet culture, trolls, and how love and empathy may yet keep the
world from ending.
ALEXANDER EBERT: is an award winning singer, songwriter, composer
and front man of the popular folk---rock band Edward Sharpe and The
Magnetic Zeros (and formerly of Ima Robot).In 2014, he won the Golden
Globe for Best Original Score to J.C. Chandor's film All Is Lost
starring Robert Redford. He followed that up by scoring Chandor's next
film A Most Violent Year. Additionally, he scored the Oscar winning
Disney animated short Feast. Ebert was born in Los Angeles in 1978 and
currently resides in New Orleans, LA. In 2011, he released his first
solo album as Alexander. After the success of the band's 4th studio
album, PersonA; Alex Ebert has recently released ‘Broken Record'. This
is the first song off his latest solo project.
THE FLAMING LIPS: The Flaming Lips are an American rock band,
formed in Norman, OK., in 1983. Melodically, their sound contains lush,
multi-layered, psychedelic rock arrangements. Lyrically, their
compositions have elements of space rock, including unusual song and
album titles. They are acclaimed for their elaborate live shows, which
feature costumes, balloons, puppets, video projections, complex stage
light configurations, giant hands, large amounts of confetti, and
frontman Wayne Coyne's signature man-sized plastic bubble, in which he
traverses the audience. Q magazine named The Flaming Lips one of the "50
bands to see before you die". The group has garnered three Grammy
Awards, including two for Best Rock Instrumental Performance.
JOHN LEGEND: Ohio-born Legend is a critically acclaimed,
multi-award winning, platinum-selling singer-songwriter. His work has
garnered him nine Grammy Awards, an Academy Award®, a Golden Globe
Award, the BET Award for Best New Artist and the special Starlight Award
from the Songwriters Hall of Fame, among others. Most recently, Legend
won his first Academy Award, first Golden Globe Award, and won the 2015
Critic's Choice Award for his song "Glory," that he wrote and performed
with Common, for the film Selma.
LADY ANTEBELLUM: With a new sense of history and possibilities,
Lady Antebellum's sixth studio album HEART BREAK, had Dave Haywood,
Charles Kelley and Hillary Scott on a new mission — setting aside time
to put themselves in new surroundings, and concentrate on writing and
exploring musical endeavors with no distractions. With busbee in the
producer's chair, the trio had a hand in writing eleven songs on HEART
BREAK, resulting in their most intimate and heartfelt work to date. The
new music follows more than 18 million units, nine No. One hits, ACM and
CMA "Vocal Group of the Year" trophies three years in a row, and
countless other honors including Billboard Music Awards, People's Choice
Awards and Teen Choice Awards. This week Lady Antebellum also received a
2017 CMT Awards nomination for Group Video of the Year for the lyric
video for "You Look Good." For more information about new music and
upcoming tour dates, visit www.ladyantebellum.com.
CYNDI LAUPER: Lauper is a Grammy, Emmy and Tony Award-winning (Kinky
Boots) artist who, after 30 sterling years and global record sales
in excess of 50 million albums. With her first album, She's So Unusual,
Lauper won a Grammy Award for Best New Artist and became the first
female in history to have four top-five singles from a debut album.
Since then, Lauper has released ten additional studio albums and was
recently inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Overall, during her
storied music career, Lauper has been nominated for 15 Grammy Awards,
two American Music Awards, seven American Video Awards and 18 MTV Awards.
PANIC! AT THE DISCO: Award-winning internationally acclaimed rock
band Panic! At The Disco released their latest album, Death
Of A Bachelor, in January 2016. The album debuted at No. 1
on the Billboard 200 chart, with their single "Victorious" debuting at
No. 1 on iTunes Top Songs, iTunes Alternative Songs, and Billboard and
Twitter's Trending 140 charts just hours after its release. The
platinum-certified album was nominated for "Best Rock Album" at this
year's Grammys, was the #4 biggest selling album released in 2016 just
behind Drake, Beyonce, and Rihanna respectively, and has amassed over
500 million streams. Most recently, the band is coming off their
headline Death Of A Bachelor Tour which sold out arenas across the U.S.
including NYC (Madison Square Garden), Chicago (Allstate Arena), LA (The
Forum), and many more.
PLAIN WHITE T'S: Hailing from the suburbs of Chicago, the
punk-pop outfit Plain White T's began taking shape in 1997, a full ten
years before the acoustic ballad "Hey There Delilah" made them
Grammy-nominated stars. "Hey There Delilah" topped the charts in ten
different countries and helped jump-start sales of their album, Every
Second Counts. Plain White T's received two Grammy nominations for the
song, and the band returned in 2008 with Big Bad World, featuring the
band's usual mix of spunky energy and pop/rock craft. The band returned
to action with the 2013 EP Should've Gone to Bed before delivering the
full-length American Nights in April 2015. Plain White T's recently
resigned to Fearless Records and they are back in the studio working on
a new album. "Land of the Living" is the first track to be released by
Fearless Records this year, and there is more new music to come.
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS: From Brooklyn, New York, They Might Be
Giants have been performing together for 33 years and drink more coffee
than most. They have made some albums and won some awards. They are
presenting a brand new, top quality song every week at their web site,
DialASong.com.
T.I.: Never one to march behind anyone else,
rapper/songwriter/producer T.I. has crafted a standard-setting career
that includes three Grammy Awards and status as a hip-hop icon. His
distinct flow and lyrical skills drew widespread national attention with
2003's Trap Muzik. His eight-album catalog includes three consecutive
No. 1 debuts on the Billboard 200 (2006's King, 2007's T.I. vs. T.I.P.
and 2008's Paper Trail). His most recent album was 2012's "Trouble Man:
Heavy Is the Head. The rapper also counts a string of hit singles, among
them "Bring ‘Em Out," "What You Know," "Whatever You Like," "Live Your
Life" featuring Rihanna and "Dead and Gone" featuring Justin Timberlake.
His multi-platinum tally includes a total of four Billboard Hot 100 No.
1's plus sales of more than 30 million singles and 14 million albums.
TINA LANDAU(Director) is a writer and director, and an
ensemble member at Steppenwolf Theatre Company where numerous
productions include The Wheel, The Brother/Sister
Plays, The Tempest, The Time of Your Life,
The Cherry Orchard, Ballad of Little Jo, and her own play Space (also
Mark Taper Forum, NY's Public Theatre.) Tina's New York directing
credits include Old Hats (also airing on PBS), Big Love,
and Iphigenia 2.0 (all at Signature Theatre), A
Civil War Christmas (New York Theatre Workshop), Wig Out
and Dream True for which she also wrote Book and Lyrics (both
Vineyard Theatre), In the Red and Brown Water, Saturn Returns,
and Head of Passes (all at the Public), and Floyd Collins
(Playwrights Horizons, Old Globe, Goodman) for which she also wrote Book
and Additional Lyrics. On Broadway, Tina has directed the revival of Bells
Are Ringing and Tracy Letts' Superior Donuts. She teaches
regularly in the U.S. and internationally, and has co-authored, with
Anne Bogart, The Viewpoints Book.
CHRISTOPHER GATTELLI (Choreographer) was awarded
the 2012 Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for his
choreography in Newsies. Broadway (choreographer): The
King & I (Tony nomination), South Pacific (Tony
and Outer Critics Circle nominations), My Fair Lady, War
Paint, Amazing Grace, Casa Valentina, Women on the Verge of a Nervous
Breakdown, Sunday in the Park With George, Godspell, The Ritz, Martin
Short: Fame Becomes Me, 13, High Fidelity. Off- Broadway: Dogfight (Lortel
Award), Altar Boyz (Lortel Award, Callaway Award, Drama Desk
Nom.), Bat Boy: The Musical (Lortel Award), 10
Million Miles, Adrift in Maco, tick,tick...BOOM!, I Love You Because. West
End/London: South Pacific, Sunday in the Park with George, tick,
tick...BOOM! National/International Tours: Newsies,
Altar Boyz, Godspell, Grease, Pooh's Perfect Day (World
Premiere) Disney Theatricals. Sydney Opera House: South Pacific. Regional: Little
Miss Sunshine (La Jolla Playhouse), Kander and Ebb's All
About Us (Westport Playhouse), The Baker's Wife (Paper
Mill Playhouse), Me and My Girl (Goodspeed Opera
House). As director/choreographer, Off-Broadway: Silence! The
Musical (Time Magazine's top 10 of 2011), world premiere of In
Your Arms (The Old Globe), world premiere of Jim Henson's Emmet
Otter's Jug- Band Christmas (Goodspeed Opera House). Also
choreographed Coen Brothers' movie Hail, Caesar! and Newsies
the movie.
KYLE JARROW(Book) is a writer and musician who creates
work for the stage, film and television. He is creator and executive
producer of the upcoming TV series Valor, premiering on the CW
network this fall. His digital series Lost Generation (with music
by Duncan Sheik) is now streaming on Verizon's go90 platform. Kyle's
plays include A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant
(Obie Award), The Wildness (Lortel Award nominee), Whisper
House (now playing in London), Noir, Love Kills and Hostage
Song. Kyle penned the film Armless, which was an official
selection of the Sundance Film Festival. In addition to his writing
work, he leads the rock band Sky-Pony with his wife Lauren Worsham.
Their debut album Beautiful Monster is available from Knitting
Factory Records. More info on Kyle at kylejarrow.com.
TOM KITT (Orchestrations, Arrangements, & Music Supervision) received
the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama as well as two Tony Awards for Best
Score and Orchestrations for Next to Normal. Other
composing, arranging, and music supervision credits include: If/Then; High
Fidelity; Bring it On, The Musical; Disney's
Freaky Friday; The 2013 Tony Awards (Emmy Award for original
song, Bigger); Grease Live!; Rise (series
for NBC); The Winter's Tale, All's Well That Ends
Well, Cymbeline (The Public's NYSF); American
Idiot; All three Pitch Perfect films; Royal
Pains; Penny Dreadful; Julie's Greenroom; Sesame Street; and Everyday
Rapture.
DAVID ZINN (Set & Costume Design). Recent Broadway:
costumes for A Doll's House Part 2 (Tony nomination), set design
for Present Laughter and The Humans (Tony award), and sets
and costume for Amelie, Fun Home (Tony nomination) and The
Last Ship. Other shows include Airline Highway(Tony
nomination), Rocky, Other Desert Cities, Good People, In the
Next Room... (Tony nomination) and Xanadu. Recent
Off-Broadway includes set design for Hamlet (Public Theater),
costume design for Othello (NYTW), and set and costume designs
for the The Flick, and Circle Mirror Transformation, and Dogfight.
Also Shakespeare in the Park, Manhattan Theatre Club, Signature,
Roundabout, Elevator Repair Service and Target Margin. Around the
country his work as been seen at Steppenwolf, Center Theatre Group, ART,
La Jolla Playhouse, Berkeley Rep, Yale Rep, Guthrie Theater, Lyric Opera
of Chicago, New York City Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Los Angeles Opera and
San Francisco Opera.
KEVIN ADAMS (Lighting Design) Four time Tony winner Kevin
Adams has designed Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Tony and Outer
Critics Award), American Idiot (Tony Award), Spring Awakening (Tony
Award; Olivier nom for the West End production), Next To Normal
(Tony nom), The 39 Steps (Tony and Drama Desk Awards), Hair
(Tony nom), Man And Boy, Everyday Rapture, Passing
Strange, Take Me Out, A Class Act, Hedda Gabler
with Kate Burton, solo shows by Eve Ensler and John Leguizamo.
Off-Broadway: the original production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch,
The Scottsboro Boys, Rent, Carrie, new work
by Edward Albee, Eric Bogosian, Christopher Durang, Richard Greenberg,
Tony Kushner, Terrence McNally, Neil Simon, Anna Deveare Smith and Paula
Vogel. Also Rigoletto at the Metropolitan Opera, Steppenwolf Theatre,
Yale Rep, Berkeley Rep, Donmar Warehouse, Encores!, Mildred Pierce
(HBO), Audra McDonald in concert (Town Hall, Joe's Pub, Lincoln Center),
staged concerts featuring Patti Lupone (Gypsy, Candide, Anyone Can
Whistle, Sunday in the Park and Regina) and Blue Man Group in Las Vegas
and the Hollywood Bowl. For his work off-Broadway he has received an
Obie for sustained excellence and two Lucille Lortel awards.
PETER NIGRINI (Projection Design). Broadway: Dear
Evan Hansen, Amelie, A Dolls House Part 2, An Act of God, The
Heidi Chronicles, The Best Man, Fela!, 9 to 5. Elsewhere: Grounded and Here
Lies Love (Public Theatre), Wakey Wakey, (Signature), Real
Enemies (BAM Next Wave), Don Giovanni (Santa Fe
Opera), The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (2nd
Stage), Notes from Underground (Yale Rep), The
Grace Jones Hurricane Tour, Blind Date (Bill T.
Jones). He is also one of the founders of Nature Theatre of Oklahoma and
designs every aspect of their productions which include, No
Dice, and Life & Times (Burgtheater,
Vienna). Currently: Lucia di Lammermoor (Santa Fe Opera), Ain't
Too Proud, The Temptations (Berkeley Rep).
WALTER TRARBACH (Sound Design). Broadway: The
Farnsworth Invention, Cymbeline. As a Partner in SCK Sound
Design, his Credits include: Doctor Zhivago and The Radio City
Christmas Spectacular, and Ain't Too Proud. Other Designs: Queen
of the Mist, I Am Anne Hutchinson/I Am Harvey Milk, The Man in the
Ceiling, The Tin Pan Alley Rag, Becky Shaw, Measure for Pleasure, Farragut
North, I Love You Because, Love, Loss, and What I Wore, and Mr.
Marmalade. Associate Sound Designs: Catch Me If You Can, Billy
Crystal's 700 Sundays, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill(Tony
Award), Jesus Christ Superstar, Hands on a Hardbody (Drama Desk
Award), and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. Regional: La
Jolla Playhouse, Huntington Theatre Company, The Fifth Avenue,
Williamstown Theatre Festival, DC's Shakespeare Theatre Company, Bay
Street Theatre. Walter is married to photographer Kimberly Witham.
CHARLES G. LAPOINTE(Hair and Wig Design).Over 50 Broadway
shows including: Hamilton; Beautiful: The Carole King Musical;
Anastasia; Amélie; Motown the Musical; Allegiance; On Your Feet!
The Story of Emilio and Gloria Estefan; Doctor Zhivago; Of Mice and Men;
Violet; Sideshow; Honeymoon in Vegas; Piece of My Heart; The Elephant
Man; Radio Golf; The Radio City Spring Spectacular; The Performers; The
Apple Tree; After Midnight;; A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder;
Soul Doctor; Jekyll and Hyde; Clybourne Park; Bring It On; Newsies; The
Columnist; Magic/Bird; Bonnie and Clyde; The Mountaintop; Women on the
Verge of a Nervous Breakdown; The Merchant of Venice; Memphis the
Musical; Henry IV; Cymbeline; Lombardi; Fences; Looped; Miracle Worker;
Superior Donuts; 33 Variations; Guys and Dolls; In the Heights; Jersey
Boys; The Color Purple; Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me; Good Vibrations;
A Raisin in the Sun. Television: The Wiz Live! (Emmy Award
Nomination).
TELSEY + COMPANY (Casting). Broadway/Tours: Anastasia, Charlie
and the Chocolate Factory, Hello, Dolly!, War Paint, Present Laughter,
Come from Away, Waitress, On Your Feet!, Hamilton, Kinky Boots,
Wicked, Something Rotten!, The King and I, An American in Paris, The
Sound of Music. Off-Broadway: Sweeney Todd, Atlantic, Classic
Stage, MCC, Second Stage, Signature. Regional: Berkshire Theatre Group,
Center Theatre Group, 5th Avenue, Goodman, La Jolla,
McCarter, New York Stage and Film, Paper Mill, Williamstown. Film: Miss
Sloane, Into the Woods, Margin Call, Rachel Getting Married,
Across the Universe, Camp, Pieces of April. TV: "This Is Us," "I'm
Dying Up Here," "One Day at a Time," "Julie's Greenroom," "Hairspray
Live!," "Masters of Sex," "Smash," "The Big C," commercials. www.telseyandco.com
NICKELODEON (Producer). For more than 38 years, Nickelodeon
has been at the forefront of creating beloved characters and stories
that inspire and entertain audiences around the world by putting kids
first in everything it does. The company includes television programming
and production in the United States and around the world, plus consumer
products, digital, radio, recreation, books and feature films. As the
number-one entertainment brand for kids, Nickelodeon has been at the
heart of countless revolutionary TV moments, and it has been home to
some of the most legendary cultural hits and iconic characters in
television history--SpongeBob SquarePants, Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles, Dora the Explorer, Kids' Choice Awards, Blue's
Clues, The Ren & Stimpy Show, Hey Arnold!, All That, iCarly and Rugrats.
Nickelodeon has been honored with countless honors, including 84 Emmy
Awards. Nickelodeon is seen in more than 450 million households
globally, and is the number-one-rated basic cable network in the U.S.
Nickelodeon and all related titles, characters and logos are trademarks
of Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIA, VIAB).
THE ARACA GROUP (Producer). Founded in 1997 by partners
Matthew Rego, Michael Rego and Hank Unger, The Araca Group is a
theatrical production and brand activation company. Broadway producing
credits include Urinetown, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de
Lune, Wicked, The Wedding Singer, Boeing-Boeing,
Rock of Ages, A View from the Bridge, Lend Me a Tenor,
Cinderella, A Raisin in the Sun, Skylight, Disgraced,
Groundhog Day, and Hello, Dolly! Upcoming: world premiere of The
Sting, a new musical based on the Academy Award winning film,
premiering at the Paper Mill Playhouse in March of 2018. Brand
activation partners include Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, Reba
McIntyre, P!nk, New York City Ballet, Radio City, Star Wars, Warner
Bros., DC Comics, AMC's The Walking Dead and Beyoncé. For more
information, please visit araca.com.
SONY MUSIC MASTERWORKS (Producer) comprises the imprints
Sony Classical, Masterworks, OKeh, Portrait and Masterworks Broadway.
Our artists range from icons to newly developing talents in classical,
crossover and adult music, plus new and legendary jazz artists, as well
as a vast catalog of musical theatre recordings including classic
Broadway shows and original cast albums of today's Broadway hits, most
recently Hello, Dolly! starring Bette Midler, Groundhog Day,
Dreamgirls, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Kinky
Boots, Once, If/Then and An American In Paris."
KELP ON THE ROAD (Producer). Stephen Lindsay and Brett
Sirota are the managing directors of Kelp on the Road, a consortium of
investors from around the world. Stephen and Brett, co-founders of The
Road Company, have distributed, managed, and produced Broadway and other
attractions for 20 years, and will be bringing the tour of SpongeBob
SquarePants to cities across North America
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