A Bronx Tale: The Musical - Broadway Creative Team

Alan Menken is a Disney legend who has won more Academy Awards than any other living individual, including eight Oscars with 4 for Best Score and 4 for Best Song; 11 Grammy Awards (including Song of the Year for "A Whole New World"); and 7 Golden Globes. He is best known for his work on Disney films including The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Beauty and the Beast, Hercules, Pocahontas, Enchanted, and Tangled, as well as the onstage musicals Newsies, Little Shop of Horrors, A Christmas Carol and Sister Act. He is currently working with Lin-Manuel Miranda ... read more Chazz wrote and performed his one-man show, A Bronx Tale, for the first time in 1989 before moving it Off Broadway. Mr. Palminteri went on to write the screenplay and co-star in the screen adaptation of A Bronx Tale alongside Robert De Niro. Mr. Palminteri has more than 55 movies to his credit as an actor, writer and director, including The Usual Suspects, Bullets Over Broadway (Academy Award nomination), Analyze This, Hurlyburly, Mullholland Falls, Faithful (also written by Mr. Palminteri), A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, Yonkers Joe, Jolene and most recently Legends starring Tom Hardy. Mr. Palminteri had a ... read more DOUG BESTERMAN is a three-time Tony Award winning musician with a career spanning across theatre, film, television and recording. As a Composer, Producer, Arranger, and Orchestrator, he has been privileged to work with some of the most recognizable names in the industry, including composers Mel Brooks, Alan Menken, and Marc Shaiman; recording artists Barbra Streisand and Barry Manilow; and directors Rob Marshall and Susan Stroman. A veteran of 25+ Broadway shows, Besterman won the Best Orchestrations Tony Award® for Fosse, The Producers, and Thoroughly Modern Millie, and was nominated for The Music Man (2000), How to Succeed in Business, and Bullets ... read more 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 25 Broadway shows including: Act One (Tony Award), The Scottsboro Boys (Tony Nomination), Therese Raquin (Tony Nomination), Come From Away, Flying Over Sunset, Freestyle Love Supreme, The New One, Meteor Shower, A Bronx Tale, Prince Of Broadway, Hand To God, Sondheim On Sondheim, …Spelling Bee , LoveMusik, Grace. 100 Off- Broadway shows including The Last Five Years, Fiddler On The Roof (in Yiddish), Sleepwalk With Me, and Miss Julie. 2007 OBIE Award for sustained excellence. ... 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. ... read more Robert De Niro is considered one of the greatest American actors of all time, and has produced, directed and starred in many iconic films. Mr. De Niro won the 1974 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Godfather: Part II and the 1980 Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Raging Bull. Mr. De Niro received Academy Award nominations for Taxi Driver, The Deer Hunter, Awakenings, Cape Fear and Silver Linings Playbook. Mr. De Niro is a four-time New York Film Critics Circle Award winner for his work on Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas ... read more Makeup design: Frozen, A Bronx Tale, On Your Feet!, Disaster!, It Shoulda Been You, On the Twentieth Century on Broadway. Recent wig, hair & makeup design: The Wolves (Playwrights Realm & Lincoln Center), Mary Page Marlowe (Second Stage Theater), Peter Pan & Demon (Bard SummerScape). Hundreds of designs for American opera companies, recently Fellow Travelers (Prototype Festival); Silent Night (The Atlanta Opera); Guilty Mother (On Site Opera); Lost in the Stars & Candide (Glimmerglass Festival); Dead Man Walking, Appomattox and Wagner's Ring Cycle (Washington National Opera). ... read more London-born Paul Huntley has worked hundreds of Broadway shows, most memorably the original productions of Amadeus, Cats, Evita, Sweeney Todd, The Producers and Hairspray. A recipient of the Drama Desk and Tony awards, he has also worked with the some of the most legendary leading ladies of the cinema, ranging from Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh to Jane Fonda and Faye Dunaway. Current shows include Anything Goes, War Horse, Other Desert Cities and Leap of Faith. ... read more William Ivey Long has over 70 Broadway design credits in addition to his work in television, film, opera and ballet. Mr. Long has won 6 Tony Awards, with 15 nominations. He was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in January 2006 and recently completed a 4-year elected term as Chairman of the American Theatre Wing. ... read more Music Direction: Imaginary Friends, Scarlet Pimpernel, Radio City Sinatra, upcoming Caraboo and Waiting for the Moon. Dance/Vocal Arranging: Sweet Smell of Success, Jekyll & Hyde, Perfectly Frank, The Act, Marilyn: An American Fable, Woman of the Year, Cabaret. Composing: Superdimensional Microbabes (upcoming anime-based musical), Fourtune (Off-Broadway), The Silver Swan (NEA Fellowship), three theatrical CDs (The Missing Peace, Early One Morning, Songs I Won’t Be Singing), two Harvard Hasty Pudding shows (Tots in Tinseltown, Bewitched Bayou), a gospel-based Requiem, and songs for church, choir, cabaret, and "Saturday Night Live." Harvard (philosophy), Westminster (choral conducting). ... read more Tommy Mottola is the co-owner of Casablanca Records with Universal Music Group. He was the head of Sony Music Entertainment for nearly 15 years. Mottola has represented many recognizable faces including Mariah Carey, Gloria Estefan, Shakira and Jennifer Lopez. ... read more Sound Design Award highlights : Tony Award & Drama Desk Award for MJ: THE MUSICAL. Olivier Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Broadway World Award, Green Room Award, Dora Award, Craig Noel Award, and the WhatsOnStage Award for COME FROM AWAY; Olivier Award for MEMPHIS, Olivier Award for MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG, Tony nomination for A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, Tony nomination for END OF THE RAINBOW, Olivier nomination for BACK TO THE FUTURE, Olivier nomination for BAT OUT OF HELL, Olivier nomination for TOP HAT, Olivier nomination for END OF THE RAINBOW, and Pro Sound Award for SOUND ENGINEER OF THE ... read more Jonathan (aka Smitti) Smith is a New York-based pianist, arranger, Music Director and woodworker. His training includes piano studies with Ellis Marsalis while a student at Loyola University in New Orleans, with Donald Brown while a student at the Berklee College of music, and a Masters of Music in jazz performance from Manhattan School of Music. Broadway credits include "Swing!", "Imaginary Friends", "A Bronx Tale", "Jersey Boys", "Thoroughly Modern Millie", and "Ain't Too Proud: The Life & Times of the Temptations". He has been Associate Music Supervisor of "Jersey Boys" worldwide, including productions in South Africa, Singapore, Japan, The UK, ... read more Trujillo's Broadway credits include On Your Feet (Tony Award nominee, Outer Critics Circle/Astaire Awards), Memphis (Olivier/OCC Award, Drama Desk/Astaire Award nominations), Jersey Boys (Drama Desk/OCC/Greenroom/Dora nominations), Summer: The Donna Summer Musical (Chita Rivera Award), A Bronx Tale (Chita Award nomination), The Addams Family, Next to Normal, Hands on a Hardbody (Drama Desk nomination), Leap of Faith (Drama Desk nomination), Guys and Dolls (Astaire Award nomination), and All Shook Up. As a director and choreographer, his credits include Arrabal (American Repertory Theater Elliot Norton Award), Gloria Estefan on Broadway (Minskoff Theatre), Flashdance: The Musical (national tour), and White Noise (Royal George Theatre). Other ... read more Robert has performed, directed, and choreographed movement and staged violence for award winning theatre productions, internationally acclaimed opera houses and films for twenty-three years. Robert incorporates his training in acting, dance, clowning, martial arts, mask, puppetry, yoga and other disciplines to bring unique creation of character and story to multiple performance venues. His work has received rave reviews by the New York Times, New York Magazine, Variety, Newsday, Opera News and many others. He made his Broadway debut in February of this year as the Fight Director for Hand To God. Most recently he choreographed New York City productions of Hand ... read more