Kwamina - Broadway Creative Team

Mr. Adler co-composed the music and lyrics for Pajama Game and Damn Yankees, both of which won Tony Awards for Best Musical and Best Score. He also earned a Tony Award nomination for his musical, Kwamina. Some of his biggest hit songs are You Gotta Have Heart, Hey, There, Hernando’s Hideaway, Whatever Lola Wants, Steam Heat, Rags to Riches, and Everybody Loves a Lover. During the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, Richard Adler staged and produced numerous presidential entertainments, including the unforgettable birthday celebration for President Kennedy featuring Marilyn Monroe singing Happy Birthday, Mr. President. Bob Kelly is a Twin Cities-based composer, pianist, and music director. His second EP It Begins, It Begins was released on streaming services in October 2024. Works of musical theatre include Confessions (with Jonathan Keebler, based on the memoir Confessions of a Gay Priest by Tom Rastrelli)m gilgamesh & the mosquito (with Sam Chanse); Waiting... a song cycle (with Kelly Pomeroy); and the short musical film A Most Average Musical (with Talia Berger and Jonathan Keebler), which was recently published as part of the Theatre Now New York (TNNY) anthology The 10-Minute Musical and is available to license through MTI. Bob ... read more The Shubert Organization is America's oldest professional theatre company and the largest theatre owner on the Broadway. Since the dawn of the 20th Century, Shubert has operated hundreds of theatres and produced hundreds of plays and musicals both in New York City and throughout the United States. Shubert currently owns and operates seventeen Broadway theatres and six off-Broadway venues. Ramin was an orchestrator, arranger, and composer, who won an Oscar and a Grammy for his work on the film version of West Side Story. He was also one of the three orchestrators on the original Broadway production of the show. Though West Side Story may be the most notable, Ramin also worked on many other Broadway shows such as Wonderful Town (1953), Say, Darling (1958), Gypsy (1959), The Girls Against the Boys (1959), Vintage '60 (1960), Wildcat (1960), The Conquering Hero (1961), Kwamina (1961), I Can Get It for You Wholesale (1962), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to ... read more