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Once Upon a Mattress - Broadway Creative Team


Production Staff

Hans Christian Andersen Source Material
(Based on story)
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Marshall Barer Bookwriter
Lyricist
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Dean Fuller Bookwriter
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Mary Rodgers Composer
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Jay Thompson Bookwriter
David, Strong, Warner, Inc. General Manager
Angelina Avallone Associate Costume Designer
Broadway design credits include: The Addams Family, Rock of Ages, West Side Story (Revival), Bye Bye Bye Birdie, Dreamgirls (National Tour); Memphis, Gypsy (with Patti LuPone), 9 to 5 (Mark Taper Forum and Broadway), Young Frankenstein (Broadway and National Tour), The Little Mermaid, The Royal Family, After Miss Julie, Accent on Youth, Guys and Dolls (Revival), 33 Variations, Pal Joey, A Catered Affair, Minsky’s (Pre-Broadway/Mark Taper Forum), Curtains, Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas! (Broadway and National Tour), Sunday In The Park With George, Company, Sweeney Todd, Dangerous Liaisons, The Ritz, Cymbeline, The Country Girl (Frances McDormand), The New ... read more
Bill Badolato Assistant to Ms. Gennaro
ADD : REPLACEMENT DANCER FOR ONE YEAR IN "ON YOUR TOES" AT THE VIRGINIA THEATER ADD: Original cast dancer and speaking role of the PRIEST, 1991 REVIVAL OF " THE MOST HAPPY FELLA" starring Spiro Malas and Sophie Hayden ... read more
Shelley Barclay Assistant Scenic Designer
John Lee Beatty Scenic Designer
Broadway: Venus in Fur, Time Stands Still, A View from the Bridge, The Royal Family, The Color Purple, Doubt, Chicago, Dinner at Eight, Proof, Rabbit Hole, Last Night of Ballyhoo, A Delicate Balance, The Heiress, The Most Happy Fella, The Sisters Rosensweig, Burn This, Penn & Teller, Ain't Misbehavin', Talley's Folly, Crimes of the Heart, Morning's at Seven, among others. Off-Broadway: Other Desert Cities, The Substance of Fire, A Life in the Theatre. Thirty-six seasons with MTC, Lincoln Center, Circle Rep, City Center Encores! Tony, Obie, DD, OCC awards; Theatre Hall of Fame. Graduate of Brown and Yale School of ... read more
Steven Beckler Production Supervisor
Steven Beckler has been stage managing Jerry Zaks shows since the national tour of Tap Dance Kid in 1985. Some of their other associations include: Guys and Dolls, Anything Goes, The House of Blue Leaves, Six Degrees of Separation, Smokey Joe's Café, Wenceslas Square and Laughter on the 23rd Floor. Other Broadway credits include: 'night, Mother; High Fidelity; Moon Over Buffalo; Grease and Wicked. ... read more
Steve Beckler Production Stage Manager
Adam Ben-David Assistant Conductor
Keyboard 1
Jay Binder Casting
Jay Binder has cast over 70 Broadway productions, including the Tony Award winning productions of The Lion King, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, Dames At Sea, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Gypsy, The King and I, Lost in Yonkers and Jerome Robbins’ Broadway. In addition, he was fortunate enough to cast every Neil Simon play from 1990 through 2009. Mr. Binder was one of the founders and continues to be a driving force behind the highly-acclaimed Encores! Great American Musicals in Concert series at City Center in New York City. His work casting this series led ... read more
Boneau / Bryan-Brown Press Representative
Pat Collins Lighting Designer
Lighting Designer
J.R. Conklin Associate Sound Designer
Bruce Coughlin Orchestrator
Bruce has orchestrated nearly 100 musicals and operas the world over including War Paint, The Light in the Piazza (co-orchestrator; Tony Award), 9 to 5, Grey Gardens, Urinetown, The Wild Party (Broadway), Assassins (London), Floyd Collins and Giant. Awards: Tony Award (plus two nominations), Obie, Drama Desk (plus eight nominations). ... read more
Steven H. David Associate General Manager
Glenn Drewes Trumpet
Todd Ellison Associate Conductor
Keyboards
Tom Fay Dance Music Arranger
Peter Fulbright Production Manager
Liza Gennaro Choreographer
Marcia Goldberg Company Manager
Jane Greenwood Costume Designer
More than 100 Broadway/Off-Broadway credits including: Present Laughter, A View From the Bridge, Waiting for Godot, Thurgood, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Trumpery, Heartbreak House, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, On Golden Pond, A Moon for the Misbegotten, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Master Class, The Sisters Rosensweig. Metropolitan Opera: revival of Adriana Lecouvreur (2009), Dialogue of the Carmelites, The Great Gatsby; Chicago Lyric Opera: Nabucco and Rigoletto; SF Opera: La Favorita. Film: Arthur, Can't Stop the Music, Glengarry Glen Ross. Awards: Irene Sharaff Life Time Achievement Award, Theatre Hall of Fame, 15 Tony Award nominations. Professor, Yale School of Drama. ... read more
Gerald Gutierrez Director
Richard A. Heckman Woodwinds
Paul Huntley Hair and Wig Designer
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
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Amy Jacobs Press Associate
Edward Joffe Woodwinds
Rita Kogler Associate Lighting Designer
Brian Meister Stage Manager
John Meyers Drums/Percussion
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
David Miller Cello
Tom Morse Sound Designer
Joe Mosello Trumpet
Keith O'Quinn Trombone
Alexandra Pontone Assistant Lighting Designer
Eric Renschler Assistant Scenic Designer
Roger Rosenberg Woodwinds
Michael Roth Concert Master
Philip Schneidman Assistant to the Director
Milan Shahani Assistant to Ms. Greenwood
Margery Singer Marketing Consultant
MaryAnn D. Smith Assistant Costume Designer
Eric Stern Composer
(Incidental Music)
Musical Director
Vocal Music Arranger
Conductor
Brian Sumby Assistant Company Manager
A producing partnership made up of Michael David, Edward Strong, Rocco Landesman and Des McAnuff. Originated at BAM in 1978, migrated to NY Shakespeare Festival, then off and on Broadway, where they've shared in a host of Tony and Obie Awards. On Broadway: Currently: Jersey Boys. Also: The Farnsworth Invention, 42nd Street, Urinetown, Dracula, Good Vibrations, Into the Woods (Original and '02), The Music Man, Blast!, Titanic, Wrong Mountain, Footloose, Mandy Patinkin in Concert, High Society, 1776, ...Forum, The King and I, The Who's Tommy, Ralph Fiennes' Hamlet, Guys and Dolls, Once Upon a Mattress, How to Succeed in Business..., ... read more
Susanne Tighe Press Associate
Thomas Titone Dance Captain
Producer
Joop van den Ende was born in Amsterdam on February 23, 1942. Career as television producer In 1983, after having produced various plays and theatre shows, Joop van den Ende founded one of the most successful and legendary television companies in the Netherlands. In 1993, his activities as TV producer merged into television company Endemol. Endemol is known for launching the worldwide reality-show craze with the creation of TV formats such as Big Brother and Fear Factor. In 2000, Van den Ende sold Endemol in order to focus fully on theatre. Career as theatre producer From the end of the eighties, Van den ... read more
D. M. Wood Assistant to Lighting Designer

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Awards and Nominations

1997 Tony Awards
Best Revival of a Musical: Dodger Theatricals was nominated but did not win.
Best Revival of a Musical: Joop Van den Ende was nominated but did not win.

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