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Kiss of the Spider Woman - Broadway Creative Team


Production Staff

Fred Ebb Lyricist
As a writer, lyricist, composer and director, Fred Ebb made incalculable contributions to the New York theatrical community. Mr. Ebb is a Tony, Grammy, Emmy, Olivier and Kennedy Center Honors Lifetime Achievement Award winning recipient. Fred Ebb's first professional songwriting assignment came in 1953 when he and Phil Springer were hired by Columbia Records to write a song for Judy Garland called "Heartbroken." Mr. Ebb was introduced to composer John Kander in 1964 by music publisher Tommy Valando and became one of the most legendary songwriting teams in American history. The first successful collaboration was on the song "My Coloring ... read more
John Kander Composer
American composer John Kander (b. Kansas City, MO, March 18, 1927) is the musical partner of the songwriting team of Kander and Ebb, who together created at least sixteen Broadway shows, Flora the Red Menace (1965), Cabaret (1966), Chicago (1975), and Curtains (2007) among them. They also contributed material to fourteen films and television specials over their forty-year association. Independently John Kander supplied the scores to many films, including Something For Everyone (1970), Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), Places in the Heart (1984), and Billy Bathgate (1991). ... read more
Terrence McNally Bookwriter
McNally has had a remarkably far-ranging career spanning six decades. In 2018 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is a recipient of the Dramatists Guild Lifetime Achievement Award and the Lucille Lortel Lifetime Achievement Award. He has won four Tony Awards for his plays Love! Valour! Compassion! and Master Class and his musical books for Kiss of the Spider Woman and Ragtime. He has written a number of TV scripts, including "Andre's Mother," for which he won an Emmy Award. He has received two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, four Drama Desk Awards, two ... read more
Manuel Puig Source Material
(Based on novel)
Chelsea Music Services, Inc. Music Preparation
Ann Barak Viola II
Ken Berger Reed IV
Kate Best Ms. Williams' Makeup Designer and Artist
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
Kim Blank Assistant Choreographer
(For Mr. Paterson)
Jim Brandeberry Company Manager
Jason Robert Brown Rehearsal Pianist
Jason Robert Brown is the ultimate multi-hyphenate – an equally skilled composer, lyricist, conductor, arranger, orchestrator, director and performer – best known for his dazzling scores to several of the most renowned musicals of our time, including the generation-defining The Last Five Years, his debut song cycle Songs for a New World, and the seminal Parade, winner of the 1999 Tony Award for Best Score and the 2023 Tony for Best Revival of a Musical. This year will see the premieres of two new JRB musicals: The Connector, created with Jonathan Marc Sherman and Daisy Prince, which just completed a ... read more
Craig Clipper Assistant Scenic Designer
Kate Dennis French Horn
Gregory Dlugos Assistant Conductor
Keyboard II
Gregory J. Dlugos Conductor
Don Finlayson Technical Director
Susan Follari Viola I
Concert Mistress
Michael Gibson Orchestrator
Nancy Hess Assistant Dance Captain
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Jeffrey Huard Musical Supervisor
Conductor
Alva Hunt Reed I
Livent, Inc. Producer
Robert Jackson Assistant Costume Designer
Chris Jordan Assistant Sound Designer
Dale Kaufman Assistant Stage Manager
Jeffrey Kievit 1st Trumpet
Florence Klotz Costume Designer
David Krane Dance Music Arranger
Martin Levan Sound Designer
Theatre: After ten years as a recording engineer and record producer, Martin Levan began his theatrical career in 1982 when he supervised the sound for Song & Dance in London. Since then Martin has been responsible for designing the sound for many worldwide productions including Cats, Starlight Express, The Phantom of the Opera, Little Shop of Horrors, Carrie, The Baker’s Wife, The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber concerts, Requiem, Aspects of Love, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Show Boat, Sunset Boulevard, Whistle Down the Wind, Lautrec and The Beautiful Game. Recordings include the original cast ... read more
Larry Lunetta 2nd Trumpet
Alan R. Markinson Company Manager
Rob Marshall Choreographer
(Additional Choreography)
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
Kathleen Marshall Assistant Choreographer
(For Mr. Marshall)
Assistant Choreographer for Mr. Marshall
Kathleen Marshall received 2011 Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Awards for choreography and Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics nominations for direction for Anything Goes. Also on Broadway, Kathleen directed and choreographed The Pajama Game, Wonderful Town and Grease and choreographed Boeing-Boeing, Little Shop of Horrors, Seussical, Follies, Kiss Me, Kate, 1776 and Swinging on a Star. Off-Broadway credits include Two Gentlemen of Verona (New York Shakespeare Festival), Saturday Night (Second Stage), Violet (Playwrights Horizons) and As Thousands Cheer (Drama Dept). For City Center Encores!, she directed and choreographed Bells Are Ringing, Applause, Carnival, Hair and Babes in Arms, ... read more
Keith McDaniel Dance Captain
Bonnie Metzgar Assistant Stage Manager
Ruth Mitchell Assistant to Mr. Prince
Ruth Mitchell is a renowned American actress and singer who has made a name for herself in the entertainment industry. Born in New York City, Mitchell grew up with a love for the arts and started performing in community theater at a young age. She went on to study theater at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where she honed her craft and developed her unique style. Mitchell made her Broadway debut in 1995 in the hit musical "Rent." She played the role of Mimi Marquez, a struggling young artist who falls in love with the character Roger. Mitchell's ... read more
John Monaco Musical Coordinator
Evan Morris Music Preparation
Dan O'Grady Dance Captain
Donald Oliver Music Preparation
Susan Panny French Horn
Bonnie Panson Production Stage Manager
Vincent Paterson Choreographer
Clayton Phillips Stage Manager
Harold Prince Director
Harold S. Prince (b. New York City, NY, 30 January 1928), also known as “Hal” Prince, was a theater producer and director who made a significant contribution to Broadway musicals in America. In a career that spanned more than fifty years, Prince has received ten Drama Desk Awards as Outstanding Director and 21 Tony Awards® for Best Direction, Best Producer, Best Musical, and Lifetime Achievement. In addition, Prince was the Kennedy Center Honoree in 1994 and the recipient of the National Medal of Arts in 2000. Prince received his education at University of Pennsylvania, where he enrolled in a liberal arts ... read more
Michael Pule Stage Manager
Beverley Randolph Production Stage Manager
Maxine Roach Viola III
Domingo Rodriguez Associate Costume Designer
Joseph Saint Assistant Lighting Designer
Jeffrey Saver Assistant Conductor
Keyboard I
Frank P. Scardino General Manager
Mark Sherman Percussion
Mort Silver Reed II
Jerome Sirlin Projection Designer
Scenic Designer
Settings/Projections
Christopher C. Smith Technical Supervisor
Credits include: EVita, Catch Me If You Can, Elf, Wonderland, Behanding in Spokane, Tale of Two Cities, Xanadu Japan, Times They Are A Changin’, Soccer Mom, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, August: Osage County, Legally Blonde, All Shook Up tour, On Golden Pond, Scoundrels, Brooklyn, Thoroughly Modern Millie, AIDA, Imaginary Friends, Def Poetry Jam, Disney’s Berlin Hunchback, Capeman, Show Boat, Spider Woman. ... read more
Ted Sperling Conductor
LCT: The King and I, South Pacific, The Light in the Piazza (Tony, Drama Desk awards), A Man of No Importance, A New Brain, My Favorite Year. Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof, Guys and Dolls, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Full Monty, Titanic (actor), Kiss of the Spider Woman, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Drood, Sunday in the Park with George. Off- Broadway: Red Eye of Love, The Other Josh Cohen, Striking 12, See What I Wanna See (director); Saturn Returns, Floyd Collins, Romance in Hard Times (music director). Artistic director, MasterVoices; principal conductor, Westchester Philharmonic; creative director ... read more
Martha Swope Production Photographer
Peter West Associate Lighting Designer
William Wolfe Press Associate

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Awards and Nominations

1994 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Best Broadway Musical: 0 won.

1993 Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Costume Design: Florence Klotz was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Music: John Kander was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Music: John Cameron was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Musical: Kiss of the Spider Woman won.
Outstanding Set Design: Jerome Sirlin was nominated but did not win.

1993 New York Drama Critics Circle Awards
Best Musical: Terrence McNally won.
Best Musical: Fred Ebb won.
Best Musical: John Kander won.

1993 Tony Awards
Best Book of a Musical: Terrence McNally won.
Best Choreography: Vincent Paterson was nominated but did not win.
Best Choreography: Rob Marshall was nominated but did not win.
Best Costume Design: Florence Klotz won.
Best Direction of a Musical: Harold Prince was nominated but did not win.
Best Lighting Design: Howell Binkley was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: The Live Entertainment Corp. of Canada/Garth Drabinsky won.
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre: Fred Ebb won.
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre: John Kander won.
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre: John Kander was nominated but did not win.
Best Scenic Design: Jerome Sirlin was nominated but did not win.

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