Urban Cowboy - Broadway Creative Team

Actor: Broadway: Into the Woods, Threepenny Opera, Damn Yankees, How to Succeed…, A Class Act. Off-Broadway: Murder for Two (Lortel nomination), Anyone Can Whistle (Encores!), Forever Plaid. NY Philharmonic: Sweeney Todd (Live from Lincoln Center), Candide (Great Performances). TV/Film: "30 Rock," "The Good Wife," Joseph … Dreamcoat, "Will and Grace," "Law and Order(s)." Composer: 2011 Fred Ebb Award, Urban Cowboy (Tony nomination), The Jeff Blumenkrantz Songbook Podcast, I've Been Played: Alysha Umphess Swings Jeff Blumenkrantz. www.jeffblumenkrantz.com Jason Robert Brown is the ultimate multi-hyphenate – an equally skilled composer, lyricist, conductor, arranger, orchestrator, director and performer – best known for his dazzling scores to several of the most renowned musicals of our time, including the generation-defining The Last Five Years, his debut song cycle Songs for a New World, and the seminal Parade, winner of the 1999 Tony Award for Best Score and the 2023 Tony for Best Revival of a Musical. This year will see the premieres of two new JRB musicals: The Connector, created with Jonathan Marc Sherman and Daisy Prince, which just completed a ... read more Jay Binder has cast over 70 Broadway productions, including the Tony Award winning productions of The Lion King, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, Dames At Sea, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Gypsy, The King and I, Lost in Yonkers and Jerome Robbins’ Broadway. In addition, he was fortunate enough to cast every Neil Simon play from 1990 through 2009. Mr. Binder was one of the founders and continues to be a driving force behind the highly-acclaimed Encores! Great American Musicals in Concert series at City Center in New York City. His work casting this series led ... read more Jason Robert Brown is the ultimate multi-hyphenate – an equally skilled composer, lyricist, conductor, arranger, orchestrator, director and performer – best known for his dazzling scores to several of the most renowned musicals of our time, including the generation-defining The Last Five Years, his debut song cycle Songs for a New World, and the seminal Parade, winner of the 1999 Tony Award for Best Score and the 2023 Tony for Best Revival of a Musical. This year will see the premieres of two new JRB musicals: The Connector, created with Jonathan Marc Sherman and Daisy Prince, which just completed a ... read more Justin Greer is so excited to be working with the Roundabout Theatre! Broadway: Shrek the Musical (Original Company), The Producers (u/s Leo Bloom and Dance Captain), Urban Cowboy (Original Company), Seussical the Musical (Original Company), Annie Get Your Gun and The Hercules Summer Spectacular (Aladdin). He is also an educator. Natasha Katz is a New York-based lighting designer. She is a six-time Tony Award winner who has designed extensively for theatre, opera, dance, concerts, and permanent lighting installations around the world. Her recent Broadway credits include: Diana, The Music Man, All My Sons, Burn This, The Prom, Frozen, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Cats, School of Rock, An American in Paris, Aladdin, Skylight, The Glass Menagerie, Once, Follies, The Coast of Utopia: Salvage, and Aida. Dave Keyes is a veteran of the American roots music scene as a keyboardist, singer and songwriter. He was Associate Conductor for the entire Broadway run of Smokey Joe's Café, and Lennon. The Dave Keyes Band regularly tours internationally and his upcoming CD release entitled "The Healing " will be his 6th CD adn will be available in October 2107. 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. Chase Mishkin produced several Broadway productions including Doctor Zhivago, Hands on a Hardbody, Equss, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and many more. Broadway: Lady Day At Emerson's Bar and Grill, A Time To Kill, Match, A Bronx Tale (original play and off –Broadway production) A Class Act, Jekyll and Hyde (original) The Rainmaker, The Sunshine Boys, The Gin Game (Harris-Durning). Inherit The Wind (Scott-Durning) and many others. Off-Broadway: Juno and The Paycock, In Masks Outrageous and Austere, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Three Tall Women, Full Gallop, Fully Committed (original) Rutheless (original) Opera: English National Opera, Glimmerglass Festival, Washington National Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, Boston Lyric Opera and others TV: Live From Lincoln Center, Great ... read more His early career was spent performing in Off-Broadway productions, including Class Enemy in 1979, for which he won a Theater World Award for outstanding stage debut. His first major Broadway credit was the ill-fated Stephen Sondheim/Hal Prince/George Furth musical Merrily We Roll Along (1981), which underwent constant changes during an unusually long preview period and closed after only sixteen performances. His next show, the Athol Fugard play "Master Harold"...and the Boys - in which he portrayed a South African student opposite Danny Glover and Zakes Mokae as the family servants - ran for eight months. Possibly his most significant Off-Broadway stage credit ... read more Additional credits include: Jukebox Jackie NY, La Mama Staging Associate 2012 Incendiary New Orleans, Southern Rep Gary 2011 Showboat In Concert NY, Carnegie Hall Ensemble/Assistant Choreographer 2008 Carnival DC, The Kennedy Center Roustabout/Schlegel 2007 Mame DC, The Kennedy Center Gregor 2006 Can-Can NY, Encores Associate Choreographer 2004 Forty-Deuce NY, Chashama Theater Company 2003 Victor/Victoria 1st National Tour Richard DiNardo 1998 Arthur Siccardi was a Production Manager, Technical Supervisor, and Production Supervisor with countless Broadway credits. He worked on shows such as Chicago, La Cage Aux Folles, Billy Elliot, Grease, A Chorus Line, The Color Purple, Gypsy, Mamma Mia!, Jesus Christ Superstar, Saturday Night Fever, Annie Get Your Gun, and many more. Additional Credits include: The Last Five Years The Minetta Lane Theatre 2002 Long Road Home The Hudson Guild Theatre 2000 Leonard Soloway has been involved with over 150 productions, including Waiting in the Wings with Lauren Bacall and Rosemary Harris, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Jerome Robbins' Broadway, A Moon For the Misbegotten and Mark Twain Tonight! with Hal Holbrook. His productions collected more than 40 Tony Awards, 21 Drama Desk Awards and three Pulitzer Prizes. In addition to launching many careers from performers to craftspeople, Leonard has worked with veteran stage actors like Jason Robards and Colleen Dewhurst as well as film stars like Paul Newman whose revival of Our Town on Broadway was facilitated by Mr. ... read more Rick Sordelet - Fight Director - Rick and his son and partner, Christian Kelly-Sordelet, created SORDELET INC, www.sordeletinc.com with 73 Broadway credits that include Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, and Wolf Hall. Also staged the fights for the opera Cyrano de Bergerac starring Placido Domingo at the Metropolitan Opera, The Royal Opera House, and the LaScala in Milan, Italy; and for over 65 productions on five continents including Ben Hur Live European Tour and sit down in Rome. Film: Ben is Back starring Julia Roberts and Lucas Hedges, The Game Plan starring Dwayne Johnson; Dan in ... read more