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Big River - Broadway Creative Team


Production Staff

William Hauptman Bookwriter
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Roger Miller Composer
Lyricist
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Mark Twain Source Material
(Based on novel)
Serino, Coyne & Nappi Advertising
Solters / Roskin / Friedman, Inc. General Press Representative
David, Strong, Warner, Inc. General Manager
Steven Adler Stage Manager
Andrew Asnes Assistant to Mrs Watson
Greg Backstrom Associate General Manager
B. H. Barry Fight Director
Steve Beers Roundabout Technical Supervisor
Ann Belsky Make-Up Designer
Linda Bove ASL Head
Adrian Bryan-Brown General Press Representative
Boneau / Bryan-Brown Press Representative
Brian J. Bustos Assistant Costume Designer
Jeff Calhoun Director
Choreographer
Broadway: Newsies, Bonnie & Clyde, Grey Gardens, Deaf West's Big River (2004 Tony Honor, Excellence in Theatre), Brooklyn, Bells Are Ringing (2001 Revival), Annie Get Your Gun (1999 Tony Award, Best Revival), Grease (1994 Tony nomination, Best Choreography), Tommy Tune Tonite!, The Will Rogers Follies. West End/International: Disney's High School Musical 1 & 2: On Stage!. Regional/National tour: Jekyll & Hyde, Upcoming National Tour; Disney's Newsies, Paper Mill Playhouse; Jane Austen's Emma: A Musical Romantic Comedy (2011 Craig Noel Award, Outstanding Resident Musical), The Old Globe; Bonnie & Clyde (2009 San Diego Critics Circle Award, Outstanding New Musical and Outstanding Director of ... read more
Marianne Cane Assistant Stage Manager
Sandra Carlson Company Manager
Jim Carnahan Roundabout Director of Artistic Development
Casting
Roundabout’s director of artistic development. Shows cast for Roundabout: Anything Goes, The Road to Mecca, Man and Boy, The Importance of Being Earnest, Sondheim on Sondheim, Bye Bye Birdie, Sunday in the Park…, 110 in the Shade, The Pajama Game, Twelve Angry Men, Assassins, Twentieth Century, Nine, Big River, Cabaret. Other Broadway: The Mountaintop, On a Clear Day…, Jerusalem, Arcadia, The Scottsboro Boys, La Bête, American Idiot, The Seagull, Spring Awakening, Boeing-Boeing, Curtains, The Pillowman, La Cage, Chitty…, Democracy, Fiddler on the Roof, …Millie. Film: A Home at the End of the World, Flicka. TV: “Glee” (Emmy nom). ... read more
Don-Scott Cooper General Manager
C. Scott Crawford Stage Manager
Sydney Davolos Roundabout General Manager
Dan Dinero Assistant to the Director
Scott Ellis Roundabout Associate Artistic Director
Ellis is the Associate Artistic Director of Roundabout Theatre Company. His Broadway credits include She Loves Me (Tony Award nomination, Outer Critics Circle nomination), You Can’t Take It With You (Tony Award nomination, Outer Critics Circle nomination), On the Twentieth Century (Outer Critics Circle nomination), The Elephant Man (Outer Critics Circle nomination), The Mystery Of Edwin Drood (Tony nomination), Harvey, Curtains (Tony nomination), The Little Dog Laughed (Lortel nomination), Twelve Angry Men (Tony nomination), The Man Who Had All The Luck, The Rainmaker, 1776 (Drama Desk, Tony nomination), Company, Steel Pier (Tony nomination), She Loves Me (First Revival, Tony nomination), ... read more
Joshua Ellis General Press Representative
Peter Fitzgerald Sound Designer
Credits: Your Welcome America, Movin' Out, Ring of Fire, Evil Dead the Musical, La Cage Aux Folles, Victor/Victoria, City of Angels, Gypsy, Falsettos, The Capeman, The Will Rogers Follies, M. Butterfly, Swing, Minnelli on Minnelli with Liza, Dream, Threepenny Opera with Sting, and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, The Odd Couple, M. Butterfly, Stones in His Pockets, The Beauty Queen of Leenane and A Thousand Clowns. Fitzgerald is president of Sound Associates, Inc. a premier provider of sound and video systems to the theater. ... read more
Angela Gari Hair Designer
Michael Gilliam Lighting Designer
Peter Hanson Production Stage Manager
Jean Haring Company Manager
Frank Hartenstein Production Stage Manager
TM Productions, Inc. Associate Producer
Arthur Katz Associate Producer
Ray Klausen Scenic Designer
Kenneth Kosek Assistant Conductor
Steven Landau Musical Director
Conductor
Emily Landau Associate Producer
Steven Landau Music Arranger
(Special Arrangements)
Rocco Landesman Producer
Heidi Landesman Producer
Scenic Designer
Amy Lieberman Casting
(Los Angeles)
Joyce Ann Litrell Assistant Hair and Wig Designer
Joan Marcus Production Photographer
Steven Margoshes Orchestrator
Fred Mayerson Associate Producer
Patricia McGourty Costume Designer
Patricia McGourty has had the good fortune to experience three art and design careers. As a costume designer she worked in stage and film in New York and California for 18 years collaborating with creative teams on productions ranging from Shakespeare Festivals to Broadway musicals. She has worked with directors Des McAnuff, Wilford Leach, Lynne Meadow, Garland Wright, Edward Berkeley, Melvin Bernhardt, Barnett Kellman, Bob Balaban and John Dillon on numerous projects. In addition to a Tony Nomination she has received the Drama Desk and Joseph Maharam, The Drama-Logue, The Villager and San Diego Critics Awards for Outstanding Costume Design. ... read more
Coy Middlebrook Associate Choreographer
Associate Director
Theatre credits include: At Home at the Zoo (Deaf West Theatre), Into the Woods (Olive Branch Entertainment), Bonnie and Clyde (Broadway,Asolo Repertory Theatre), Little Shop of Horrors (Ford's Theatre Society), Nobody's Perfect (Kennedy Center), and High School Musical (national tour). ... 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
Tim Monich Dialect Coach
Otts Munderloh Sound Designer
Bruce H. Newberg Casting
(Los Angeles)
Freda Norman ASL Head
Jason La Padura Casting
Caroline Quiroga Assistant Costume Designer
Richard Riddell Lighting Designer
Marge Rivingston Vocal Coach
Robert Shaw (iv) Associate Scenic Designer
Keith Sherman General Press Representative
Janet Smith Assistant Sound Designer
Stanley Soble Casting
David B. Steffen Roundabout Director of Marketing
Rick Steiner Producer
Martha Swope Production Photographer
Danny Troob Orchestrator
Musical Supervisor
Danny Troob has arranged and orchestrated music for many Broadway shows over nearly 40 years. He has previously been nominated for Tonys for his work on Shrek the Musical (2009) and The Pajama Game (2006). His film work includes the movie of Newsies, among many others. ... read more
Linda Twine Musical Director
Vocal Music Arranger
Cindy Valk General Press Representative
John Viesta Assistant Lighting Designer
Janet Watson Choreographer
Susan A. White Assistant to Mr. Riddell
David R. Zyla Costume Designer

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Awards and Nominations

1985 Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Costume Design: Patricia McGourty was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Lighting Design: Richard Riddell won.
Outstanding Lyrics: Roger Miller won.
Outstanding Music: Roger Miller won.
Outstanding Orchestrations: Steven Margoshes won.
Outstanding Orchestrations: Danny Troob won.
Outstanding Set Design: Heidi Landesman won.

1985 The Hewes Awards
Costume Design: Patricia McGourty won.
Lighting Design: Richard Riddell won.
Scenic Design: Heidi Landesman-Ettinger won.

1985 Tony Awards
Best Book of a Musical: Big River won.
Best Costume Design: Patricia McGourty was nominated but did not win.
Best Direction of a Musical: Des McAnuff was nominated but did not win.
Best Lighting Design: Richard Riddell won.
Best Musical: Dodger Theatricals won.
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre: Roger Miller won.

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