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Cry-Baby - Broadway Creative Team


Production Staff

David Javerbaum Composer
Lyricist
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Thomas Meehan Bookwriter
Thomas Meehan won the 2003 Tony for co-writing the book for Hairspray, the 2001 Tony for the book of The Producers and the 1977 Tony for the book of Annie, which was his first Broadway show. He has since written the books for Young Frankenstein, I Remember Mama, Ain't Broadway Grand, Annie Warbucks and Bombay Dreams. He is a long-time contributor of humor, including "Yma Dream," to The New Yorker; an Emmy-winning television writer; and a collaborator on screenplays, including Mel Brooks' Spaceballs, To Be or Not to Be and The Producers. He is a member of the Council of ... read more
Mark O'Donnell Bookwriter
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Adam Schlesinger Composer
Lyricist
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John Waters Source Material
(Based on film)
Henry Aronson Associate Conductor
Keyboard 2/Accordion
Henry Aronson is among the most in-demand music directors in the Broadway theatre. ... read more
Rob Ashford Choreographer
Broadway credits as Director/Choreographer: Evita (Tony nomination), How to Succeed (Tony nominations Direction/Choreography), Promises, Promises (Tony nomination Choreography); as Choreographer: Thoroughly Modern Millie (Tony Award Best Choreography), Wedding Singer (Tony nom.), Cry Baby (Tony nom.), Curtains (Tony nom.). London - as Director: Anna Christie (Donmar), A Streetcar Named Desire (Donmar - Olivier nomination, Best Revival), Shrek The Musical; as Director/Choreographer: Parade (Donmar - Olivier nominations, Direction/Choreography); as Choreographer: Evita (Olivier nom.), Guys and Dolls (Olivier nom.), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Olivier nom.), Forum at The National Theatre. Other: 81st Annual Academy Awards (Emmy Award Choreography). Rob is a member of The ... read more
Christopher Bailey Assistant Choreographer
John Benthal Guitar 1 (Electric/Acoustic/Harmonica/Banjo/Lap steel guitar)
Chris Biesterfeldt Guitar 2 (Electric/Acoustic/Ukelele/Mandolin)
Howell Binkley Lighting Designer
Binkley's Broadway credits includeSummer: The Donna Summer Musical, Escape to Margaritaville, Come From Away (2017 Tony nomination), A Bronx Tale, Hamilton (2016 Tony winner/2018 Olivier winner), After Midnight (2014 Tony nomination), How to Succeed... (2011 Tony nomination), West Side Story (2009 Tony nomination), In the Heights (2008 Tony nomination), Jersey Boys (2006 Tony winner), Avenue Q, Parade, Kiss of the Spider Woman (1993 Tony nomination). He is also the Co-Founder/Resident Lighting Designer for Parsons Dance. 1993 Sir Laurence Olivier and Canadian Dora Awards for Kiss of the Spider Woman. 2006 and 2016 Henry Hewes Design Awards for Jersey Boys and ... read more
Lynn Bowling Assistant Costume Designer
Mark Brokaw Director
Brokaw was raised in Aledo, Illinois, and graduated from the Yale School of Drama. He received a Drama League fellowship and was initially given directing work through Carole Rothman and Robyn Goodman, artistic heads of the Second Stage Theatre. He has directed many off-Broadway productions, and his New York work includes premieres by Lynda Barry (The Good Times Are Killing Me), Douglas Carter Beane (As Bees in Honey Drown), Neal Bell, Eric Bogosian, Keith Bunin, Charles Busch, Kevin Elyot, Lisa Kron (2.5 Minute Ride), Lisa Loomer, Kenneth Lonergan (This Is Our Youth, Lobby Hero), Craig Lucas (Dying Gaul), Eduardo Machado, Patrick ... read more
Keith Caggiano Associate Sound Designer
Holly Cain Associate Costume Designer
NYC: Looking for Billy Haines (Theater Row); 3 Dames Make a Queen (Don't Tell Mama); OPA! (TBG Theatre); Iowa '08 (The Vineyard Theatre). Regional: Pool Boy (Barrington Stage Company); Carousel (Barrington Stage Company); Prayer for My Enemy (Associate Designer) and Skin of Our Teeth (Associate Designer) Intiman Theatre; Orphan Train (Associate Designer) NYSTI. Other Credits: Titus Andronicus (Houston Shakespeare Festival); Traffic in Women (Saint Thomas University). Dance: Sweetland (Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble). ... read more
Orit Jacoby Carroll Associate Scenic Designer
Anne Caruso Producer
David Chase Dance Music Arranger
David has been Music Director, Supervisor and/or Arranger for thirty-five Broadway productions. Most recently, David acted as dance arranger on Roundabout Theatre Company’s Kiss Me, Kate and Tootsie, currently on Broadway. Other theatre credits include: many arrangements for the Boston Pops and Tanglewood Festival Chorus, The Kennedy Center Honors, Radio City Music Hall (where he spent many years as music director), EssentialVoicesUSA (including the upcoming Washington Women), and TV’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Music director for several productions at the Lyric Opera of Chicago (including The King and I with choreographer Peggy Hickey), and for NBC’s live performances of The Sound of Music ... read more
Randy Cohen Synthesizer Programmer
Steve Count Acoustic & electric bass
Cenovia Cummins Violin 1/Mandolin
Christopher D'Angelo Associate Company Manager
Barry Danielian Trumpet/Flugelhorn
Adam Epstein Producer
Adam Epstein was a celebrated Broadway producer with his theatrical productions receiving 46 Tony nominations and 12 Tony Awards. Epstein's Broadway credits include Hairspray, A View From a Bridge, The Crucible, Amadeus, Godspell, The Wedding Singer and Cry-Baby. He developed Cry-Baby from its inception, obtaining the rights to the film and assembling the creative team. Likewise, he was an original producer on the musical version of Ever After. He was attached to a planned fall 2008 revival of Godspell starring Gavin Creel, Diana DeGarmo, Uzo Aduba, Joshua Henry and more, but the production was canceled. Cry-Baby, which opened on Broadway ... read more
Andrew Farber Producer
(In Association With)
Steven M. Gold Music Producer
Allan S. Gordon Producer
Allan S. Gordon is a prominent Broadway producer and theatre owner, known for his contributions to the theatre industry. Born in Canada, Gordon began his career in the entertainment industry as a stage manager, before transitioning to producing. Gordon's Broadway producing credits include the Tony Award-winning productions of "The Elephant Man" (1979), "Barnum" (1980), and "Master Harold...and the Boys" (1982). He also produced the popular musical "Me and My Girl" (1986), which ran for over 1,400 performances. In addition to his work as a producer, Gordon is also a theatre owner. He is the co-owner of the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, which has ... read more
Adam S. Gordon Producer
Adam has received Tony Awards for The Color Purple, Kinky Boots and Pippin, and other nominations for Cry-Baby, Peter and the Starcatcher, Evita, After Midnight and On the Town. Prior to Broadway, Mr. Gordon was one of the heads of international publicity at Sony Pictures. ... read more
Brian Grazer Producer
Pelican Group Producer
Jeffrey Hinchee Assistant Scenic Designer
Peter Hylenski Sound Designer
Peter Hylenski received a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award Honour for his work on Moulin Rouge! The Musical. A Grammy, Olivier, and seven-time Tony nominee, his selected design credits include Frozen, Anastasia, Beetlejuice, Once on This Island, Something Rotten, King Kong, Rock of Ages, After Midnight, Motown, The Scottsboro Boys, Side Show, Rocky, Bullets Over Broadway, Shrek the Musical, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Lend Me a Tenor, Elf, Wonderland, Cry-Baby, The Times They Are a-Changin’, The Wedding Singer, Sweet Charity, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me. ... read more
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Christopher Jahnke Orchestrator
Orchestrator: (Broadway/London) Porgy and Bess (Tony nomination- Best Orchestrations), new orchestrations for Les Misérables (performed worldwide since 2006), Legally Blonde, King Kong, Cry-Baby, Grease (2007), Dessa Rose, A Man of No Importance, Wind in the Willows (Stiles & Drewe). Other orchestrations: Do You Hear the People Sing? (symphonic tour of Boublil/Schönberg), Tom Jones (Stiles & Leigh), Just So (Stiles & Drewe), Lady Gaga (“The Sound of Music” - 2015 Oscars, with Stephen Oremus), “The Wiz Live!,” Rufus Wainwright, Radio City Rockettes and Emily Bear. Music Supervisor: Memphis. Apprentice to orchestrator William David Brohn: Sweet Smell of Success, Ragtime, The Secret ... read more
Brendan King Fight Captain
Laura Kirspel Company Manager
Richard Kornberg General Press Representative
Scott Kreitzer Reed 1 (Tenor sax/Clarinet/Flute/Piccolo)
Dan Levine Trombone/Bass Trombone/Tuba
Spencer Liff Dance Captain
Assistant Choreographer
Latitude Link Producer
Clifford Lyons Reed 2 (Alto sax/Clarinet/Bass Clarinet/Flute)
Courtney Laine Mazza Assistant Dance Captain
Randy Houston Mercer Make-Up Designer
Broadway designs include The Book of Mormon, Crybaby, Hairspray, Fiddler on the Roof, La Boheme, Flower Drum Song, Cabaret, The Producers, Follies, Sunset Boulevard, Smokey Joe's Café, Chicago, Guys and Dolls, Crazy for You, Christmas Carol, Titanic, Big, Major Barbara. Films-The Crazies, Little Children, Spiderman 2, Company Man, Runaway Bride, Meet Joe Black, Hearts in Atlantis, Mirror Has Two Faces. Client list includes Tina Fey, Glenn Close, Barbra Streisand, Sigourney Weaver, Marcia Gay Harden, Juliette Binoche, Lauren Bacall, and Sir Anthony Hopkins. ... read more
John Miller Musical Coordinator
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. ... read more
Richard Mishaan Producer
(In Association With)
Philip Morgaman Producer
(In Association With)
Maxim Moston Violin 2/Mandolin
Joe Mowatt Percussion/Latin/Mallets/Toys/Timpani
Kaye-Houston Music Music Copyist
Brian O'Flaherty Trumpet/Flugelhorn
Ryan O'Gara Associate Lighting Designer
Tour: A Night with Janis Joplin, Vocalocity, Walking Dead Experience, The Little Prince, and Cirque Du Soleil’s Paramour in Germany. Out of Shadowland (Disney Tokyo Sea). NY: NBCU upfront at Radio City Music Hall, Sanctuary, Tail! Spin!, Useless, Lady Day at the Little Shubert Theatre, The Mysterious Hat, Brazil Brazil, Knuckleheads Zoo and Black Violin at the New Victory Theatre, Michael Count’s Moses in Egypt for New York City Opera, Play/Date at Fat Baby plus The Ride, Andrea Thome’s Pinkolandia, Lourds Lane’s Chix 6, John Maran’s A Raw Space and A Strange and Separate People, Stephen Stahl’s Straight to Hell ... read more
Frank Pagano Drums/Percussion
Scott Pask Scenic Designer
Selected Broadway credits include The Book of Mormon (Tony Award); The Band's Visit; Something Rotten!; Oh, Hello!; Saint Joan; The Little Foxes; Waitress; Pippin (Tony nomination); An Act of God; Blackbird; The Pillowman (Tony Award); The Visit; It's Only a Play; Finding Neverland; Casa Valentina; I'll Eat You Last; The Coast of Utopia (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards); Take Me Out; Hair; Pal Joey (Tony nomination); Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Tony nomination, Drama Desk Award); Nine; and Urinetown. Also Cirque Du Soleil's Amaluna; Peter Grimes, Met Opera. Insta @scottpaskstudio ... read more
Joey Pizzi Associate Choreographer
Juniper Street Productions Production Manager
Roger Rosenberg Reed 3 (Baritone sax/Bass Clarinet/Clarinet/Flute/ Bassoon)
Andrea O. Saraffian Stage Manager
Lynne Shankel Musical Director
Music Arranger
Conductor
Keyboard 1
Composer
(Incidental Music)
Jenny Slattery Assistant Stage Manager
Rolt Smith Production Stage Manager
Rick Sordelet Fight Director
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
Moritz von Stuelpnagel Associate Director
Broadway: Robert Askins' Hand to God (five Tony nominations including Best New Play and Best Director, Lortel Award nomination, SDC Callaway nomination). West End: Hand to God (Olivier nomination for Best New Comedy). Off-Broadway: Important Hats of the Twentieth Century (Manhattan Theatre Club), Verite (Lincoln Center Theatre/LCT3), Teenage Dick (Public Theatre), Trevor (Lesser America), Love Song of the Albanian Sous Chef (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Bike America (Ma-Yi), Mel & El: Show & Tell (Ars Nova), Spacebar (Studio 42), and My Base and Scurvy Heart (Studio 42). Regional: Alliance Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Huntington Theatre, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, and more. ... read more
Don Summa General Press Representative
Alan Wasser General Manager
A native of Portland, OR, Alan earned his bachelor's degree at Columbia University, majoring in music composition and orchestration, and got his start in the professional theater at Circle in the Square - first as subscription manager and later as assistant managing director. After years of gaining experience on the road with touring productions, Alan was appointed general manager of productions for The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 1985. It was while there that Wasser began his long, enormously successful professional relationship with Mackintosh, starting with the United States premiere of Les Misérables in December, 1986 ... read more
John Waters Creative Consultant
Tom Watson Wig and Hair Designer
Tom Watson is head of the wig and makeup department at the Metropolitan Opera. He has designed wigs for more than 45 Broadway productions. Current and recent Broadway designs include The Addams Family; Promises, Promises; Elling; Million Dollar Quartet; Mrs. Warren's Profession; Wicked; Rock of Ages; South Pacific; Sondheim on Sondheim; A View from the Bridge; and Sunday in the Park with George. ... read more
Court Watson Assistant Costume Designer
Orlando Wells Violin/Viola
Allan Williams General Manager
Carrie J. Wood Assistant Lighting Designer
Catherine Zuber Costume Designer

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Awards and Nominations

2008 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Outstanding New Broadway Musical: 0 was nominated but did not win.

2008 Theatre World Awards
Performance: Alli Mauzey won.

2008 Tony Awards
Best Book of a Musical: Thomas Meehan was nominated but did not win.
Best Book of a Musical: Mark O'Donnell was nominated but did not win.
Best Choreography: Rob Ashford was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Andrew Farber was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Elan V. McAllister was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Richard Mishaan was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Adam Epstein was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Philip Morgaman was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: The Pelican Group was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Latitude Link was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Adam S. Gordon was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Anne Caruso was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Universal Pictures Stage Productions was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: James P. MacGilvray was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Brian Grazer was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Allan S. Gordon was nominated but did not win.
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre: David Javerbaum was nominated but did not win.
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre: Adam Schlesinger was nominated but did not win.

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