Production Staff
Acclaimed by critics and musicians, particularly for his work during the 1970s, his music and showmanship have had a significant, lasting impact on the music industry. His songwriting partnership with lyricist Bernie Taupin is one of the most successful in history.
John was raised in Pinner and learned to play piano at an early age, winning a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied for five years. He formed the blues band Bluesology in 1962, but left in 1967 to embark on a solo career and met Taupin that same year. For two years, they wrote songs for ... read more
Acclaimed by critics and musicians, particularly for his work during the 1970s, his music and showmanship have had a significant, lasting impact on the music industry. His songwriting partnership with lyricist Bernie Taupin is one of the most successful in history.
John was raised in Pinner and learned to play piano at an early age, winning a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music, where he studied for five years. He formed the blues band Bluesology in 1962, but left in 1967 to embark on a solo career and met Taupin that same year. For two years, they wrote songs for ... read more
Choreographer
Jerry Mitchell made his Broadway and West End debuts as director of Legally Blonde, for which he also served as Choreographer, and was nominated for both the Tony and Drama Desk Awards for his choreography and the Drama Desk Award for his direction. He also recently choreographed the Broadway production of Catch Me If You Can and West End production of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies. Mitchell received Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics' Circle Awards for choreographing the 2005 Tony Award-winning Best Revival of La Cage aux Folles, having also been nominated for the Tony as choreographer ... read more
Broadway: Author/Star of Suffs (Tony Awards for Best Score, Best Book; Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Book, Best Score, Best Musical; Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music; Frederick Loewe Award; Grammy nomination). Off-Broadway includes Twelfth Night (Composer/Lyricist/Feste), As You Like It (Composer/Lyricist/Jaques, Obie Award) at Shakespeare in the Park; Ragtime (Emma Goldman, New York City Center); Old Hats (ft. her original songs); Hadestown (Fate); Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 (Mary, Lortel nom). Solo albums: Visitors, Die Happy, and Songs of the Great Hill on Atlantic Records. Awards: 2024 Time100 Next List; Workers Circle Activism Award; ASCAP ... read more