Cast

Bernadette Peters reprises the role she originated in the Kennedy Center production of Follies. Her Broadway credits include A Little Night Music, Gypsy, Annie Get Your Gun, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, Song & Dance. She has received two Tony Awards®, a Golden Globe and two Grammy Awards. She has 20 feature films to her credit including the upcoming Coming Up Roses and has recorded six solo albums. She devotes her time and talents to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and Broadway Barks, an annual star-studded dog and cat adoption event, co-founded with Mary Tyler Moore. She is author/songwriter of two children’s books, Broadway Barks & Stella Is A Star!

Jan Maxwell was nominated for two Tony Awards® in 2010 for The Royal Family and for Lend Me A Tenor. She received the Drama Desk Award for Best Actress for The Royal Family. Other Broadway: Coram Boy (Tony, Drama Desk noms), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Drama Desk Award, Tony nom.), Sixteen Wounded (Drama Desk nom.), A Doll’s House, The Sound of Music, The Dinner Party, Dancing at Lughnasa, City of Angels. Off-Broadway: Victory, Scenes From an Execution (Drama Desk nom.) and Camille (all with Potomac Theatre Project/NYC), Wings (Second Stage), My Old Lady (Lortel Award, Drama Desk nom.). TV: Law & Order, Gossip Girl. Thanks Will and Rob.

Broadway: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, South Pacific (Tony, Drama Desk nominations, Outer Critics Circle Award), The Drowsy Chaperone (Tony & Ovation Award nominations), Saint Joan, The Seagull, Three Men on a Horse, A Little Hotel on the Side, The Flowering Peach, A Class Act, Titanic and Company. Off-Broadway: Mrs. Farnsworth; Psych; All in the Timing; I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change; Merrily We Roll Along; Weird Romance; etc. Film/TV: Lolly Steinman on Boardwalk Empire, Nor'easter, Construction, Louie, Absolutely Fabulous, Ed, Law & Order, Transamerica, Conviction, Hope & Faith, Deception, etc. Wife: Rebecca Luker. Sons: Alex & Zach.

Guiding Light (Three-time Emmy Nominee), PBS: My Favorite Broadway: The Love Songs, Gershwin at 100, The Rodgers & Hart Story: Thou Swell, Thou Witty, An Evening with the Pops. Broadway/NY: Chicago, Show Boat, Teddy and Alice, Olympus on My Mind, Oh Lady! Lady!, A Little Night Music. Regionally: South Pacific, Annie, Kismet, Kiss Me, Kate, The King and I, Brigadoon, Oklahoma!, Carousel, Side by Side By Sondheim, Man of La Mancha. More than fifty symphonies including: Boston Pops, Chicago, Cleveland, San Francisco, Israeli Philharmonic, BBC, Royal Philharmonic. Recordings: Man of La Mancha, The Pajama Game, 110 in the Shade, Wonderful Town and more.

Elaine Paige, actress, recording artist, concert performer, producer and broadcaster, Olivier Award winner and five-time nominee, created the role of Eva Peron in Evita and thereafter created the roles of Grizabella in Cats (the song "Memory" becoming her signature) and Florence in Chess. Further productions include Sunset Blvd  (London/New York); Anything Goes; Piaf; The King & I and Sweeney Todd  (Drama Desk nomination). Elaine has recorded 26 albums, received an OBE for services to Musical Theater and presents a weekly BBC Radio 2 program Elaine Paige On Sunday. www.elainepaige.com

Broadway credits: Don Lockwood in Singin in the Rain (Tony® nomination, Best Actor in Musical), Captain Billy Buck Chandler in My One and Only with wife, Sandy Duncan.  Other shows: A Chorus Line, Sophisticated Ladies, Perfectly Frank and Little Me for which he was awarded the first ever Astaire Award given annually to the Best Dancer on Broadway. 2001 Broadway revival of Follies.  

Broadway: South Pacific (Professor). Tour: Seven Brides... (Gideon).  Regional: Kennedy Center, Trinity Rep, Paper Mill, Goodspeed, Actors Theatre of Louisville, TUTS, NSMT, KC Starlight, TOTS, Human Race and PMT. A proud native of Pittsburgh (Go Steelers!). Florida State, BFA (Go Seminoles!). Thanks and love to his family, friends and Margot. He's most excited to be a first time father to a beautiful baby girl come November.

Broadway debut; has had one of the longest and continuous operatic careers in history, spanning over 50 years, singing with every major opera house in the world including 686 performances at the MET. Created roles such as Erika in Vanessa and Charmian in Anthony and Cleopatra. Recipient of multiple Grammys and Emmys, appeared as Carmen opposite Placido Domingo in his US debut. To my husband Zuhayr Moghrabi: enduring love.

Broadway/NY: Sunday in the Park With George, Passion, Company, Into The Woods, Bye Bye Birdie, 110 in the Shade, Lestat, Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, Cats, Road Show, Mother Courage w/ Meryl Streep, Donna in Mamma Mia!, Follies (Kennedy Center). Concerts: Sondheim’s 80th Birthday, A Sondheim Celebration, Anyone Can Whistle, South Pacific (all Carnegie Hall) Passion, three Encores!. Many leading roles regionally, TV, film.

Lora Lee Gayer is beyond humbled and thrilled to be making her Broadway debut with such a fabulous cast and crew. A recent graduate of Carnegie Mellon University and alum of Interlochen Arts Academy. Regional: Follies, Kennedy Center (Young Sally); High School Musical, Meet Me in St. Louis and more, The Muny. Love and thanks to Mommy, Daddy, T.G., BRS, and countless friends and teachers. 

Varied credits include Verdi’s Otello (Amsterdam/DC), Herodes, Salome (Opera Theatre Saint Louis); Don José, Carmen (NY City Opera); Calaf, Turandot (Edmonton Opera); Ravenal, Show Boat (Sacramento Music Circus); Tony, West Side Story (Arizona Musical Theatre); Villon, Vagabond King (Off-Broadway), and Danilo, The Merry Widow (NY City Opera) a Live From Lincoln Center PBS national broadcast.

Leah Horowitz is delighted to play this role again after a wonderful run at the Kennedy Center. #5 at the Marquis! Broadway: Les Misérables (Cosette); White Christmas; Woman in White; Fiddler..; La Cage Aux Folles; Thoroughly Modern Millie. Encores!: Where’s Charley?.  Regional: Showboat (Magnolia, Kevin Kline nom.) at the Muny; Les Misérables (Cosette) at TUTS, the Marriott Lincolnshire, and the Muny. BFA, NYU/Tisch/CAP-21. www.leahhorowitz.com.

Broadway: The Importance Of Being Earnest, Bye Bye Birdie, Wicked, Well (Tony nomination, Theater World Award). Off-Broadway: Coraline, MCC (Lortel and Drama Desk nominations); The New Century, LCT; The Pain & The Itch, Playwrights Horizons; Well, Public Theater (Obie Award). Regional: Steppenwolf, McCarter Theater, Yale Rep., Actors Theater of Louisville.  Film: Everybody’s Fine, Morning Glory, Trust the Man, Garden State.TV: Law & Order, Conviction, Third Watch.

Broadway: Evita, Les Misérables, Hello Dolly!, The Grand Tour, An Evening With Jerry Herman. Off Broadway: Under The Bridge, Elizabeth and Essex, Styne After Styne. National Tours: Evita, Hello Dolly!. Regional: Signature Theatre: Sunset Blvd., Saving Aimee, Nevermore, Follies, The Rhythm Club. Kennedy Center: Sunday in the Park with George, Follies. Connecticut Rep.: A Little Night Music, Wings. Awards: Theatre World, Outer Critics Circle. 

Some local highlights include: Broadway: Women on the Verge, Sunday in the Park with George, Nine (Outer Critics Circle nom.), King and I (Tony® nom.). Off-Broadway: The Room, Frame 312, Missing Persons (Obie), Hedda Gabler, First Lady Suite, As Thousands Cheer, Laterlife, Cheever Evening (Obie), Sylvia, Finding the Sun, Naked Truth (Obie). Film: Mirrors, Flags of Our Fathers, Stepford Wives, Odd Couple 2. Television: The Good Wife (Jackie), Dawson’s Creek (Grams), Fringe, L&O, The Reagans.

David Sabin is deeply grateful to George Abbott, Joshua Logan, Jose Quintero, Alan Schneider, Lloyd Richards, Joseph Papp, Richard Foreman, David Merrick, Mel Brooks, David Mamet, Bette Davis, Sir Derek Jacobi, Stark Hesseltine, Robert Moore, Philip Bosco, Tom Jones, Harvey Schmidt, John Olive, William Graham, Gilbert Hartke, David Wayne, and especially Michael Kahn, for their invaluable and treasured contributions to his long and happy career.

Broadway: Hairspray. Regional: Follies (The Kennedy Center), Limelight (La Jolla Playhouse), Minsky’s (Ahmanson Theater), Curtains (PCLO), Thoroughly Modern Millie, A Chorus Line, Beauty and the Beast (WVPT). Off-Broadway: The Marvelous Wonderettes, Gemini (NYMF). Guest Soloist with the late maestro Erich Kunzel. TV: All My Children. BFA CMU. Thank you Warren, Eric, BRS & Bracken family! For the Love of My Life, Matt. www.Kirstenscott.com.

Washington, D.C. native and proud member of AEA. He has performed at most D.C. area theaters: Studio Theatre’s production of Radio Golf (second Helen Hayes nom.), Stuff Happens (Colin Powell) Olney Theatre Center, Fences (Troy Maxson) and Jitney (Jim Becker) at Ford’s Theatre. Film: Invincible (Disney), Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys, Jonathan Demme’s Beloved. TV includes Law& Order: SVU (Judge Siebert) and HBO’s The Wire. 

Broadway debut! National Tours: Grease (1^st National 2010, Sonny), Forbidden Broadway: SVU.  New York: That Time of the Year (York Theatre, original cast recording), Wallenberg (NYMF and WPPAC), The Jerusalem Syndrome (NYMF).  Regional: Altar Boyz (Chicago production, Abe).  Nick has studied with Second City in Chicago and UCB in New York. Love and thanks to his family and soon to be wife, Erin. www.nickverina.com. 

Susan Watson starred in Broadway’s Bye Bye Birdie; Carnival; Ben Franklin in Paris; No, No, Nanette; and was a Tony® nominee for A Joyful Noise. She also starred in Lincoln Center’s Carousel and in City Center’s Oklahoma on NBC-TV. Ms. Watson shined in The Fantasticks and is in Talkin’ Broadway’s top ten for her CD, Earthly Paradise: The Songs of Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt.

Joice Heth in Barnum, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Welcome to the Club, The Club (Obie Award 1976), Nunsense I & II, Nuncrackers, Stepping Out at Radio City with Liza Minnelli, Chicago, Finian’s Rainbow, Show Boat, Bubbling Brown Sugar, Two Gentlemen of Verona and Little Shop of Horrors (as Audrey II). Follies at Kennedy Center. Boys on the Side and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Recording: The Lady’s Got to Sing.

BFA-Boston Conservatory. Hubbard Street Dance Chicago. 1st Nat’l Tours: Young Frankenstein, Radio City Christmas Spectacular. NY credits: Show Boat (Carnegie Hall) On The Town (City Center). Regional: Anything Goes (Starlight Theater). TV: NBC’s Smash pilot. Commercials: SoBE/Super Bowl. Extremely grateful to God and my loving family!

Broadway: Mary Poppins. Tours: Mary Poppins, White Christmas, Annie. Regional: La Jolla Playhouse, Old Globe, Arizona Theatre Co., PCLO, Stages, and 20 seasons at the MUNY! BFA: CCM. Thank you: Mr. Sondheim, Michael, Eric, Jim, Warren, my family and friends!

Broadway: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. Off-Broadway: On the Town, Applause, No Strings, Encores!. Tours: A Chorus Line, Chicago, Movin’ Out, Fosse.  Concert Dance: Parsons Dance Company.  TV: SNL, All My Children, The Today Show. Graduate: The Juilliard School. www.thejohncarroll.com. 

Broadway debut! Tour: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Regional: Curtains Papermill & Houston TUTS, White Christmas Pioneer Theatre, WSS North Carolina Theatre, Hot Mikado Drury Lane, 42^nd Street Riverside & Fulton.  BM Belmont Univeristy.  Thanks to Warren, Eric, James, Marjorie, Craig, his loving family and supportive friends. Proud AEA.

Broadway: Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. Favorites: Of Thee I Sing and No, No, Nanette (Encores! NYCC); Limelight (La Jolla Playhouse); Turn of the Century (The Goodman Theater). Thank you to Warren. And lots of love to Ari and my family. 

Broadway & Encores!: Fanny, Finian’s Rainbow (Melinda u/s Susan the Silent). Film/TV: Boardwalk Empire. Regional:Kennedy Center (Follies), North Shore Music Theater, Pittsburgh CLO, Portland Center Stage, Ogunquit Playhouse, Seaside Music Theater; FSU c/o 08’. Love to Warren, Eric, Mom and Dad.

Broadway: Rock of Ages, A Chorus Line, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Dracula, Annie Get Your Gun. National Tours: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Jolene Oaks). Other favorites: First Wives Club (Old Globe), Sinatra (Radio City Music Hall), Follies (Encores!). Proud graduate of UC Irvine. Live gratitude.

Credits include: Mary Poppins (Broadway original cast); London's West End: The Producers (original cast), Chicago; Kennedy Center: Follies, Mame; European tours: Fosse, Carousel, 42nd Street, Joseph.... Film: Oliver Stone’s Alexander, Julie and the Cadillacs. Modeling: Coca-Cola, Freed of London. 

Broadway Debut! Regional: Hairspray (Cape Playhouse), Oklahoma!, Kiss Me Kate (PaperMill Playhouse), Ragtime, Peter Pan (Pioneer), White Christmas, The Music Man (1st National Tour). Special thanks to my wonderful Mom, I made it! Love to family and friends.

London: Paradise Found. Broadway: Young Frankenstein, Good Vibrations (Bikini Girl). National Tours: Spamalot, 42nd Street. RCMH Rockette. Love and thanks to God, her husband David, and her family. Joshua 1:9. If you love desserts as much as me, check out www.justdessertsnyc.com.

Broadway: original cast Titanic, Les Misérables, The Human Comedy and others.  Off-Broadway: Time and Again, The Prince and the Pauper. Television: ABC's One Life to Live (Prince Roland of Mendora). Kennedy Center: Leonard Bernstein's Mass, Follies.

Broadway: Curtains (original cast). National Tours: Young Frankenstein, Dr. Dolittle, The Will Rogers Follies. Other credits: The Producers, Chicago, West Side Story, Anything Goes. TV: Miraculous Year (HBO). NY Radio City Rockette. UNCSA graduate. For my husband, Leland. 

Erin Moore is excited about making her Broadway debut in Follies after a fabulous run at the Kennedy Center! Credits: Regional (MUNY: Anything Goes; Starlight: The King and I, Concert Dance (Philadanco!), Television (SNL, Amici). Thanks Mom, Dad, Brad, friends and family!

Broadway: West Side Story (Graziella, u/s Anybodys). NY credits: Damn Yankees and Juno (City Center Encores!), The Radio City Christmas Spectacular. National Tour: The Boy Friend directed by Julie Andrews. To My Family and Friends and Dan: I Love You!

Broadway Debut! 1st Nat’l Original Revival A Chorus Line (Zach, Greg, Al, Don U/S), Urban Cowboy (1^st Nat’l/Gateway Playhouse), Carnival! (Goodspeed, Paul U/S). Thanks: Eric, Warren, Jim, Laura Stanczyk, & MSA. Love to God, my supportive family, friends, teachers and Regina.  Dream Big!

Broadway: White Christmas (Rita). Encores!: No, No, Nanette, Stairway to Paradise. Regional: Follies, Mame (Kennedy Center), Oklahoma! (Papermill Playhouse), Dancing in the Dark (Old Globe), West Side Story (NC Theater). Television: Smash pilot (asst. choreo.). Live and love! 

Broadway: Guys & Dolls (Joey Biltmore), Young Frankenstein (u/s Igor), Spamalot (u/s Prince Herbert), Annie Get Your Gun (u/s Tommy/Dance Captain), & Peter Pan.  Papermill Playhouse:  On the Town (Chip).  Old Globe:  R7H (Joey). Brian thanks Amy for Everything.

NYC:  Mary Poppins, Les Misérables, Liza –Stepping Out (RCMH), Side by …  Sondheim (ELT). National tours: The Producers, Beauty and the Beast, Footloose, How to Succeed. Film: The Producers, Liza Live. An Ovation and LA Weekly Award nominee.

Broadway Debut! Other NY: Where’s Charley? (Encores!). National Tours: A Chorus Line, Lincoln Center’s South Pacific. Regional: Goodspeed, Pittsburgh CLO, The MUNY, Williamstown Theatre Festival. University of Michigan Graduate.  Sam, I owe you man. www.amoswolff.com.

Broadway/Off-Broadway: The Producers (Usherette), On the Town (Ensemble), City Center Encores!. National Tours: A Chorus Line (Sheila), Chicago (Hunyak), The Producers (Usherette), Footloose (Ariel), Cats (Bombalurina). Love and thanks to family, friends, H/H, and Joseph.

Associate Conductor: Marvin Laird
Assistant Conductor: Vincent J. Fanuele
Music Coordinator: John Miller
Concertmaster: Rick Dolan
Violins: Ashley Horne, Rob Shaw, Una Tone,
Karl Kawahara, Kiku Enomoto
Violas: Kenneth Burward-Hoy, David Creswell
Celli: Laura Bontrager, Sarah Hewitt-Roth
Bass: Ray Kilday
Harp: Barbara Biggers
Woodwinds: Todd Groves, Dave Noland, Les Scott,
Rick Heckman, Chad Smith
Trumpets: Trevor D. Neumann, Matt Peterson,
Jeremy Miloszewicz
French Horn: Will DeVos
Trombones: Keith O'Quinn, Dan Levine, Vincent Fanuele
Percussion: Charles Descarfino
Drums: Rich Rosenzweig
Guitar: Greg Utzig
Keyboard: Marvin Laird