MEL BROOKS, director, producer, writer and actor, is in an elite group as one of the few entertainers to earn all four major entertainment prizes – the Tony, the Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar. His career began in television writing for Your Show of Shows and together with Buck Henry creating the long running TV series Get Smart. He then teamed up with Carl Reiner to write and perform the Grammy-winning 2000 Year Old Man comedy albums & books. Brooks won his first Oscar in 1964 for writing and narrating the animated short The Critic and his second ... read more
Rick Hip-Flores has recently conducted Fun Home, Beautiful, and Rocky on Broadway, and was Associate Conductor and Arranger at the Radio City Spectacular, directed by Mia Michaels. As keyboardist: School of Rock, Aladdin, Billy Elliot, and Into the Woods (Public Theater); Musical Director of We Will Rock You (First National Tour); Music Supervisor of Heatwave: The Jack Cole Project at Queens Theatre in the Park, and 'Swonderful at Pittsburgh CLO. Rick graduated from Columbia University, and is an award-winning composer/lyricist. ... read more
