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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum - Broadway Creative Team


Production Staff

Plautus Source Material
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Larry Gelbart Bookwriter
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Burt Shevelove Bookwriter
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Stephen Sondheim Composer
Lyricist
Jonathan Tunick Orchestrator
Jonathan Tunick is an American orchestrator, musical director, and composer. Tunick’s stage career began with Take Five (1957). He went on to collaborate memorably with Stephen Sondheim, orchestrating shows such as Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures, Sweeney Todd, Merrily We Roll Along, Into the Woods, Passion, and Putting It Together. Additional notable Broadway credits include Promises, Promises; A Chorus Line; Nick & Nora; A Funny Thing...; Elaine Stritch at Liberty; Nine; A Gentleman’s Guide...; and 110 in the Shade. In 1997, he won his first Tony Award, for his work on the musical Titanic. This accomplishment gave ... read more
Kamau Adilifu Trumpet
Michael Arnold Dance Captain
Broadway: Motown the Musical, Billy Elliot, South Pacific, Jumpers, 42nd Street, Kiss Me Kate, Cabaret, Little Me, Chicago, Tommy, Guys and Dolls, ...Forum, Cats. Michael has been nominated for an Ovation Award, Joseph Jefferson Award, two Helen Hayes Awards and is a recipient of the Fred Astaire Award. Choreography includes: Original companies of Songs for a New World (Daisy Prince / Jason Robert Brown), Flight of the Lawn Chair Man (Hal Prince), Bounce (Hal Prince / Stephen Sondheim) and the film, The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese). ... read more
TV Asahi Associate Producer
Melanie Baker Violin
Roger Berlind Producer
Berlind was a New York City theatrical producer and board member of Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. and Lehman Brothers Inc. He was one of the founders of Carter, Berlind, Potoma & Weill in 1960, a company that would later through Sandy Weill become Shearson Loeb Rhoades, which was eventually sold to American Express in 1981 for approximately $930 million in stock. Recent productions include The Book of Mormon, Copenhagen; Kiss Me, Kate; Proof; Medea; Anna in the Tropics; Caroline, or Change; Wonderful Town; Doubt; The History Boys; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Faith Healer; Deuce; The Year of Magical Thinking; Curtains; ... read more
Virgil Blackwell Woodwind
Bruce Bonvissuto Trombone
Lou Bruno Bass
Boneau / Bryan-Brown Press Representative
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
Julie Duro Assistant Lighting Designer
Katsuko Esaki Violin
Mike Fagin Assistant Scenic Designer
Marie Renee Foucher Associate Sound Designer
Peter Fulbright Production Manager
Arthur Gaffin Production Stage Manager
Garffin's Broadway stage management credits include 1984, Oh, Hello, American Psycho, An Act of God, and Cabaret, Solitary Confinement starring Stacy Keach and Wild Honey starring Sir Ian McKellen, as well as Pacific Overtures, Nine, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Betrayal, Twilight of the Golds, Indiscretions, George Gershwin Alone, and many more. Gaffin's tour credits include M. Butterfly and Sleuth. He has also worked on shows at The Pasadena Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Ahmanson/Doolittle theatres, Center Theatre Group, and City Center Encores! Gaffin served as a stage managing teacher at Yale and an ... read more
Paul Gallo Lighting Designer
Marcia Goldberg Company Manager
Larry Gruber Associate Scenic Designer
Serino Coyne, Inc. Advertising
Amy Jacobs Press Associate
Stefanie Kastel Press Associate
Ann Keehbaugh Assistant to Mr. Walton
Kimberly Kelley Assistant Company Manager
Eric Kivnick Percussion
David H. Lawrence Hair Designer
Larry Lunetta Trumpet
Rob Marshall Choreographer
Marshall went on to perform as a dancer in various Broadway shows, but suffered a herniated disc while performing in Cats and after recovering, transitioned into choreography and then directing. He debuted in the film industry with the TV adaptation of the musical Annie by Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin. He went on to direct the 2002 adaptation of the Kander and Ebb musical Chicago, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director. His next feature film was the drama Memoirs of a Geisha based on the best-selling book of the same name by Arthur Golden starring ... read more
B.T. McNicholl Assistant Director
Tony Meola Sound Designer
Broadway: Lysistrata Jones (associate producer as well as sound design); …Drood (Drama Desk Award); First Date (associate producer); Pal Joey; The Ritz; Laugh Whore; Man of La Mancha; Sweet Smell of Success; Copenhagen; Kiss Me, Kate; Footloose; The Lion King (Drama Desk Award); The Sound of Music; A Christmas Carol (MSG); Steel Pier; Forum; The King and I; Moon Over Buffalo; Smokey Joe’s Cafe; Guys and Dolls; Five Guys Named Moe; She Loves Me; The Red Shoes; Anything Goes. London: Kiss Me, Kate; The Lion King; Smokey Joe’s Cafe; and Anything Goes. National and international: The Lion King, Les Miserables, ... read more
Sarah Miles Associate Choreographer
Stephen Pitalo Press Associate
Seymour "Red" Press Musical Coordinator
Woodwind
Perseus Productions Associate Producer
Michael Pule Stage Manager
Mirena Rada Assistant Costume Designer
Paul Riggio French Horn
Joshua Rosenblum Associate General Manager
Marc Routh Associate Producer
Scott Rudin Producer
Films include Ladybird, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo; Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close; Moneyball; Moonrise Kingdom; Margaret; The Social Network; True Grit; Greenberg; It’s Complicated; Fantastic Mr. Fox; Julie & Julia; Doubt; No Country for Old Men; There Will Be Blood; Reprise; The Queen; Margot at the Wedding; Notes on a Scandal; Venus; Closer; Team America: World Police; I Heart Huckabees; School of Rock; The Hours; Iris; The Royal Tenenbaums; Zoolander; Sleepy Hollow; Wonder Boys; Bringing Out the Dead; South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut; The Truman Show; In & Out; Ransom; The First Wives Club; Clueless; Nobody’s Fool; ... read more
Stu Satalof Trumpet
Jack Schatz Trombone
Les Scott Woodwind
Margery Singer Marketing Consultant
Sharon Sprague Associate Costume Designer
Edward Strauss Musical Supervisor
Conductor
John F. Sullivan Assistant Stage Manager
Tony Walton Scenic Designer
Costume Designer
Tony Walton is a director and designer, honored with 16 Tony Award nominations for his Broadway sets and/or costumes. Pippin, House of Blue Leaves and Guys and Dolls won him Tonys. Among his 20 films, Mary Poppins, The Boy Friend, The Wiz and Murder on the Orient Express earned him five Academy Award nominations. All That Jazz won him the Oscar and "Death of a Salesman" the Emmy. Previous designs for the world of Dickens include those for ten years of annual presentations of A Christmas Carol at Madison Square Garden. In 1991 he was elected to the Theatre Hall ... read more
David Weiner Associate Lighting Designer
Roundabout: The Overwhelming, Suddenly Last Summer, Betrayal. Broadway: Misery, Romeo and Juliet, Dead Accounts, Grace, Godspell, The Normal Heart, reasons to be pretty, Butley, Dinner at Eight, Betrayal, The Real Thing. Off-Broadway: The Public, LCT, MTC, Atlantic, MCC, Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage, Vineyard, NY Theatre Workshop, Theatre for a New Audience. Disney’s Frozen at DCA. Awards: 2016 Lucille Lortel Award (Guards at the Taj), 2012 Lucille Lortel Award (Through a Glass Darkly), 2011 Drama Desk nomination (A Small Fire), 2005 Lucille Lortel Award (Rodney’s Wife). ... read more
John Winder Woodwind
Nan Young Assistant Costume Designer
Lawrence Yurman Keyboard
Associate Conductor
Broadway: It Shoulda Been You, On a Clear Day... (2011 revival), Grey Gardens, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Marie Christine (LCT), Side Show (original production), Arcadia (LCT), A Funny Thing Happened..., Guys and Dolls (1992 revival), Les Misérables (original production), Roza, Raggedy Ann. Off-Broadway: Far From Heaven, Goblin Market, Swingtime Canteen, The Dazzle (original music). Recordings: Christine Ebersole, Lea Salonga, T. Oliver Reid, Howard McGillin, 11 original cast recordings. ... read more
Jerry Zaks Director
Jerry won four Tony Awards, four Drama Desk Awards, two Outer Critics Circle Awards and an Obie Award. Mr. Zaks directed many Broadway shows including Sister Act, Guys and Dolls, Six Degrees of Separation, Lend Me a Tenor, House of Blue Leaves, Smokey Joe's Cafe, Anything Goes, La Cage aux Folles, Little Shop of Horrors and more. Mr. Zaks received SDC's Mr. Abbott Award for lifetime achievement and an honorary doctorate of fine arts from his alma mater, Dartmouth College. Mr. Zaks is a 2013 inductee to the Theater Hall of Fame. ... read more
Edward Zuhlke Woodwind

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Awards and Nominations

1996 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Best Director - Musical: Jerry Zaks won.

1996 Tony Awards
Best Direction of a Musical: Jerry Zaks was nominated but did not win.
Best Revival of a Musical: Jujamcyn Theaters was nominated but did not win.
Best Revival of a Musical: Scott Rudin was nominated but did not win.
Best Revival of a Musical: Paramount Pictures was nominated but did not win.
Best Revival of a Musical: The Viertel-Baruch-Frankel Group was nominated but did not win.
Best Revival of a Musical: The Viertel-Baruch-Frankel Group was nominated but did not win.
Best Revival of a Musical: Roger Berlind was nominated but did not win.
Best Revival of a Musical: Dodger Theatricals was nominated but did not win.

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