The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas - Broadway Creative Team

Paul Phillips is the Gretchen B. Kimball Director of Orchestral Studies at Stanford University. He is an award-winning conductor, composer, and pianist, and the author of "A Clockwork Counterpoint: The Music and Literature of Anthony Burgess." Roth is a Carnegie Mellon graduate who began her career as a scenery painter for the Pittsburgh Opera. She intended to remain in the field of production design until she met Irene Sharaff at the Bucks County Playhouse. Sharaff invited her to California to assist her with costumes on the film Brigadoon and suggested Roth apprentice with her for five films and five Broadway productions before setting out on her own. Roth's first Hollywood film was 1964's The World of Henry Orient, where her designs included "monogrammed handmade yellow silk pajamas" for glamorous womanizer Peter Sellers. Roth next designed costumes for ... read more Tommy Tune is one of the country's most prolific performer/director/choreographers. He made his Broadway debut as a performer in Baker Street in 1965. He gained national attention in 1969 as a specialty dancer and assistant choreographer for The Dean Martin Show and Dean Martin Presents The Golddiggers. During the 1970s, he also appeared in the films Hello, Dolly! (1969), The Boy Friend (1971), and Mimì Bluette... fiore del mio giardino (1976). In 1978, Tune received his first Broadway directing and choreography credits for The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. He later directed and choreographed numerous Broadway productions, including Nine (1982), which ... read more Thommie Walsh was a Tony Award-winning Broadway performer, choreographer, and director. Born on November 6, 1950, in Ogden, Utah, Walsh began his career as a dancer in the Broadway production of "Seesaw" in 1973. Walsh quickly became a sought-after dancer and choreographer, working on numerous Broadway productions throughout the 1970s and 1980s. He received his first Tony Award nomination in 1978 for his choreography in "A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine." He went on to receive two more nominations for his choreography in "My One and Only" and "The Will Rogers Follies." In addition to his work as a choreographer, ... read more