Good Vibrations - Broadway Creative Team

Henry Aronson is among the most in-demand music directors in the Broadway theatre. Two Time Tony Nominated Choreographer of URINETOWN and INTO THE WOODS. John Carrafa is a two-time Tony Nominated, Lortel Award, Drama Desk Award and Outer Critics Circle and Obie Award winning Broadway director/choreographer. He's also a Media Choreography Award and World Dance Feature Film Award winning television and film choreographer. Broadway credits include: URINETOWN THE MUSICAL (Tony Nomination), James Lapine's DIRTY BLONDE, Terrance MacNally's LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION! DANCE OF DEATH with Ian Mckellan and Helen Mirren, DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES and GOOD VIBRATIONS, which he also directed. He received a TONY NOMINATION for his work collaborating with Stephen Sondheim on ... read more Broadway: Jersey Boys; Spamalot; ...Spelling Bee; The Producers; Mamma Mia!; Phantom…; Good Vibrations; Bombay Dreams; Oklahoma!; Flower Drum Song; Imaginary Friends; Metamorphoses. Nat’l tour: Disney’s On the Record; Les Miserables. Lincoln Center: The Frogs; Contact; Thou Shalt Not; A Man of No Importance; Anything Goes (concert). Off-Broadway: Second Stage. Regional: Williamstown Theatre Festival; Kennedy Center; La Jolla Playhouse; Yale Rep. Film: The Producers The Musical. Ms. Rubin is a member of the Casting Society of America. Broadway: Les Miserables (Fuielly), Mamma Mia! (us. Eddie/Father A), Good Vibrations (us. Class President/Jan). Off-Broadway: Altar Boyz (Juan/Abe). Regional: Vices (Man 1). Jess received the 2005 Tony Award for Lincoln Center's The Rivals. Other selected New York credits include Julius Caesar with Denzel Washington, Henry IV; Take Me Out; Enchanted April; Proof; Love! Valour! Compassion! ; The Most Happy Fella; Dinner With Friends; How I Learned To Drive; NYSF's Much Ado About Nothing; Buried Child and The Mineola Twins (Lortel and Hewes Awards). He will make his Met debut with Jack O'Brien's 2007 production of Il Trittico. Designs for film include A Walk On The Moon; Love! Valour! Compassion! and The Substance Of Fire. He is an Associate Professor at the ... read more Hayes was a singer on the Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca variety show Your Show of Shows in the early 1950s. He had a supporting role in the 1952 black comedy Stop, You're Killing Me. During the Davy Crockett craze in 1955, three recorded versions of "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" were in the top 30. Hayes' version was the most popular: It was number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for five weeks, sold over two million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. He also starred on Broadway in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Me and Juliet (1953). Hayes had ... read more Broadway credits include Matilda, Rocky, Mamma Mia!, Ghost, Bye, Bye, Birdie, The Story of My Life, Good Vibrations, Seussical, Titanic, and Showboat. David was the music supervisor and principal conductor for the new Radio City New York Spectacular this past summer. Other music directing credits include the Los Angeles production of Ragtime (LA Drama Critics Award- outstanding music direction), The Phantom of the Opera (Toronto), and the Lincoln Center productions of Dessa Rose and The Glorious Ones. His show Bingo, written with Michael Heitzman and Ilene Reid, is currently playing worldwide. Tim Hurley is a singer/ songwriter based in Nashville, TN. Additional credits include lead producer of the new musical TRANSPORT by Thomas Keneally and Larry Kirwan. More than 50 Broadway shows including Holiday Inn, On Your Feet!, Hamilton, Doctor Zhivago, The Color Purple, Of Mice and Men, Violet, Side Show, The Elephant Man, After Midnight, Beautiful, A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder, Motown, Jekyll & Hyde, Clybourne Park, Bring It On, Newsies, The Mountaintop, Memphis, Lombardi, Fences, In the Heights, Jersey Boys, A Raisin in the Sun. Television: "The Wiz Live!" (Emmy nomination.) Broadway: Rock of Ages, The Threepenny Opera, Barefoot in the Park, Good Vibrations. Recent: Uncle Vanya (CSC), Rock of Ages, Clay (LCT3), Scarcity (Atlantic), The Piano Teacher (South Coast Rep), Vigils (Goodman), Evil Dead the Musical (NYC and Toronto), Shout! The Mod Musical, Sive, The Field (Irish Rep), Once Around the Sun, Kiki & Herb: Coup de Theatre. The New Group: Mourning Becomes Electra, Rafta Rafta, Two Thousand Years, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Abigail’s Party, Hurlyburly, Aunt Dan and Lemon, Comedians. Faculty: Purchase College. The 70 plus shows he designed lighting for on Broadway include Death of a Salesman, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and directed by Mike Nichols, The Book of Mormon (Tony Award), The Coast of Utopia, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Fences, A Behanding in Spokane, Race, The Pillowman, Urinetown, and Into the Woods. In addition to 5 TONYs, his awards include an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence, a Bessie Award, and others. For dance, The Joffrey Ballet, American Ballet Theater, Tere O’Connor Dance, Merce Cunningham, Lar Lubovitch, Nancy Bannon, and many others. His ... read more Recent Broadway designs include The People in the Picture, Impressionism, Thurgood, Spamalot, Assassins, Man of La Mancha, Into the Woods and Judgment at Nuremberg. Opera designs include Great Scott, Everest, Iolanta, Tristan and Isolde, Moby Dick (Dallas Opera); Dead Man Walking (Houston Opera); Mazeppa (Metropolitan Opera); War and Peace (Kirov and Met Opera); Tan Dun?s The Gate; and Peter Sellar?s The Peony Pavilion. Off-Broadway designs include Frequency Hopping (set and projection), Embedded, The Stendhal Syndrome, Suitcase, Speaking in Tongues and The Thing About Men. Regional designs include Distracted (set and projection), Limonade Tous les Jours, Fran?s Bed, Once in a ... read more Recent Broadway: Lennon, Sweeney Todd, The Producers, Beauty & the Beast, Hairspray, Movin’ Out, Sweet Charity, Good Vibrations, Dracula, Caroline or Change, Little Shop…, Thoroughly Modern Millie, 42nd St, Urinetown, Nine, La Boheme, Big River, Boys From Syracuse, Look of Love, Urban Cowboy, Never Gonna Dance, Thou Shalt Not, By Jeeves, Follies, Oklahoma!, Jekyll and Hyde, Rocky Horror Show, Seussical, The Music Man, Fosse, Swing!, Parade, Footloose, Kat and the Kings, Civil War, Triumph of Love. Studio Musician (bass): Michael Jackson, Madonna, Portishead, Eric Clapton, BB King, Sinatra, Carly Simon, Celine Dion, Smashing Pumpkins, Pete Seeger, NY Philharmonic. As producer, on Broadway: Urinetown, Into the Woods ('02 revival), Wrong Mountain, High Society. Off Broadway: Barbra’s Wedding, Bare. As actress, on Broadway: The Boys from Syracuse, Me and My Girl, Nine, Annie, City of Angels (LA), Into the Woods (original cast and PBS American Playhouse); and numerous Off Broadway, regional, television and concert appearances. Broadway: Jesus Christ Superstar, The Farnsworth Invention, Ring of Fire, The Story of My Life. Additional: Take Flight, Fetch Clay, Make Man, (The McCarter) Yellow Face (The Public), Where's Charley? (Goodspeed), Stephen Sondheim's 75th Birthday Celebration, Stratford Festival: Jesus Christ Superstar, Caesar and Cleopatra, Mackers, The Tempest, Grapes of Wrath. Phish's NYE Concert at MSG (2010 & 2011). Director/Choreographer of Motherhood: The Musical (Nationwide), An Evening of Guys and Dollsi w/Tony Bennett, Marisa Tomei, Vanessa Williams. Selected Film: A Christmas Carol (w/Jim Carrey), A Beautiful Mind, Hysterical Blindness. Broadway: Evita, A Little Night Music (Associate Director), Finian’s Rainbow (Associate Director), Mary Stuart (Assistant Director), Rock’n’Roll (Assistant Director), Frost/Nixon (Assistant Director), The Coast of Utopia (Assistant to the Director), Good Vibrations (Associate Director). U.S. Tour: Billy Elliot (Resident Director). Seth directed the U.S. Tour of Frost/Nixon. Graduate of Vassar College. A producing partnership made up of Michael David, Edward Strong, Rocco Landesman and Des McAnuff. Originated at BAM in 1978, migrated to NY Shakespeare Festival, then off and on Broadway, where they've shared in a host of Tony and Obie Awards. On Broadway: Currently: Jersey Boys. Also: The Farnsworth Invention, 42nd Street, Urinetown, Dracula, Good Vibrations, Into the Woods (Original and '02), The Music Man, Blast!, Titanic, Wrong Mountain, Footloose, Mandy Patinkin in Concert, High Society, 1776, ...Forum, The King and I, The Who's Tommy, Ralph Fiennes' Hamlet, Guys and Dolls, Once Upon a Mattress, How to Succeed in Business..., ... read more Joop van den Ende was born in Amsterdam on February 23, 1942. Career as television producer In 1983, after having produced various plays and theatre shows, Joop van den Ende founded one of the most successful and legendary television companies in the Netherlands. In 1993, his activities as TV producer merged into television company Endemol. Endemol is known for launching the worldwide reality-show craze with the creation of TV formats such as Big Brother and Fear Factor. In 2000, Van den Ende sold Endemol in order to focus fully on theatre. Career as theatre producer From the end of the eighties, Van den ... read more