- Neil Simon
Neil Simon (born Marvin Neil Simon July_4, 1927 in The Bronx, New York City), is a Jewish American playwright and screenwriter. He is one of the most reliable hitmakers in Broadway history, as well as one of the most performed playwrights in the world. Simon briefly attended New York University in 1946. Two years later, he quit his job as a mailroom clerk in the Warner Brothers offices in Manhattan to write radio and television scripts with his brother Danny Simon. - Al Hirschfeld
Albert Hirschfeld was a Jewish American caricaturist, best known for his simple black and white satirical portraits of celebrities and Broadway stars. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he moved with his family to New York City, where he received his art training. In 1924 he traveled to Paris and London, where he studied painting, drawing and sculpture. When he returned to the United States, a friend showed one of his drawings to an editor at the "New York Herald Tribune", … - Richard Rodgers
Richard Charles Rodgers (June 28 1902 - December 30 1979) was one of the great composers of musical theater, best known for his song writing partnerships with Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II. He wrote more than 900 published songs, and forty Broadway musicals. Many of his compositions continue to have a broad appeal and have had a significant impact on the development of popular music. - Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is a highly successful English composer of musical theatre, and also the elder brother of Julian Lloyd Webber. Lloyd Webber has enjoyed great popular success, with several musicals that have run for more than a decade both on Broadway and in the West End. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass. He has also gained a number of honours, … - Albert Hall
Albert P. Hall (born November 10, 1937) is an American actor. Born in Brighton, Alabama, Hall graduated from the Columbia University School of the Arts in 1971. That same year he appeared off-Broadway in "The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel" and on Broadway in the Melvin Van Peebles musical "Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death". - Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, musician, and poet who has been a major figure in popular music for five decades. Much of Dylan's most recognized work dates from the 1960s, when he became an informal documentarian and a reluctant figurehead of American unrest. A number of his songs, such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'", … - Diana Ross
Diana Ross (born Diane Ernestine Earle Ross on March 26, 1944) is an American singer and actress, whose musical repertoire spans R&B, soul, disco, jazz, and pop. Ross first gained prominence as lead of the successful girl group The Supremes, before establishing a successful solo career in 1970. During the 1970s and 1980s, Ross became one of the most successful female artists of the rock era, also crossing over into film, television and Broadway. - Ed Sullivan
Edward Vincent Sullivan (September 28, 1901 - October 13, 1974) was an American entertainment writer and television host, best known as the emcee of a popular TV variety show called "The Ed Sullivan Show" that was at its height of popularity in the 1950s and 1960s. - Bob Hope
Bob Hope, KBE (May 29 1903 - July 27 2003), was an English-born American entertainer who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, on radio and television, in movies, and in performing tours for U.S. Military personnel, well known for his good natured humor and career longevity. - Glenn Carter
Glenn Carter is an actor and singer, and songwriter. He grew up in Liverpool. He has appeared in London's West End numerous times in such productions as "Grease", "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat", "Chess", "Godspell", "Whistle Down The Wind", and "Les Misérables". There he landed the role of Simon in "Jesus Christ Superstar", another Andrew Lloyd Webber musical production. - Julie Andrews
Dame Julie Elizabeth Andrews, DBE (born Julia Elizabeth Wells on 1 October 1935) is a BAFTA, Emmy, Grammy and Academy Award-winning English actress, singer, author and cultural icon. Andrews rose to prominence after starring in Broadway musicals such as "My Fair Lady" and "Camelot", as well as musical films like "Mary Poppins" (1964) and "The Sound of Music" (1965). - Michael Feinstein
Michael Feinstein is an American singer, a pianist, and an interpreter of, and anthropologist and archivist for, the repertoire known as the "Great American Songbook." The Library of Congress elected him to the National Sound Recording Advisory Board, an organization dedicated to safeguarding America’s musical heritage. Feinstein was born to Jewish-American parents Edward, a former singer and sales executive for the Sara Lee Corporation, and mother Maizie, … - Ben Vereen
Ben Vereen born October 10, 1946 in Laurinburg, North Carolina, is a Tony Award-winning, Golden Globe ,and Emmy Award-nominated American actor, dancer, and singer who has appeared in numerous Broadway theatre shows. Vereen graduated from Manhattan's School of Performing Arts. He was nominated for a Tony Award for "Jesus Christ Superstar" in 1972 and won a Tony for his appearance in "Pippin" in 1973. - Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899 - January 14, 1957) was an American actor. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Bogart the Greatest Male Star of All Time. Playing primarily smart, playful and reckless characters anchored by an inner moral code while surrounded by a corrupt world, Bogart's most notable films include "The Petrified Forest" (1936), "Kid Galahad" (1937), "Angels with Dirty Faces" (1938), … - Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin (May 11, 1888 - September 22, 1989) was an American composer and lyricist, one of the most prodigious and famous American songwriters in history. Berlin was one of the few Tin Pan Alley/Broadway songwriters who wrote both lyrics and music for his songs. Although he never learned to read music beyond a rudimentary level, he composed over 3,000 songs, many of which ("God Bless America", "White Christmas", "Alexander's Ragtime Band", … - Bernadette Peters
Bernadette Peters (born February 28 1948) is an American Tony Award and Golden Globe Award-winning actress and singer. Beginning as a child actress, Peters has established herself as an important stage actress, particularly in musical theatre, as well as a recording star, and an actress in films and television. Peters first reached Broadway in the 1960s. In the 1970s, she took roles in film and television, but in the 1980s returned to theatre, where she has been, … - Henry Fonda
Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 - August 12, 1982) was a highly acclaimed Academy Award-winning American film and stage actor, best known for his roles as plain-speaking idealists. Fonda's subtle, naturalistic acting style preceded by many years the popularization of method acting. Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor, and made his Hollywood debut in 1935. - Bonnie Raitt
Bonnie Lynn Raitt (born November 8, 1949) is a nine-time Grammy award-winning American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist who was born in Burbank, California, the daughter of Broadway musical star John Raitt. - June Havoc
June Havoc (born November 8, 1916) is an American actress, dancer, writer, and theater director. She was born Ellen Evangeline Hovick in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Some sources indicate that her birth name was Ellen June Hovick, and that she was actually born in 1913. June was a child vaudeville performer under the tutelage of her mother. She later acted on Broadway and in Hollywood, and directed on- and off-Broadway. - Bob Fosse
Bob Fosse (June 23, 1927 - September 23, 1987) was a musical theater choreographer and director, and a film director. He won an unprecedented eight Tony Awards for choreography, as well as one for direction and was also awarded the recipient of an Academy Award for Best Director in 1972 for "Cabaret" - Meredith Willson
Robert Meredith Willson was an American composer and playwright. He is best known for writing the libretto, the music, and the lyrics of "The Music Man". Born Robert Meredith Reiniger in Mason City, Iowa, Willson attended Frank Damrosch's Institute of Musical Art (later The Juilliard School) in New York City. - George Gershwin
George Gershwin (September 26, 1898 - July 11, 1937) was an American composer. He wrote most of his vocal and theatrical works in collaboration with his elder brother, lyricist Ira Gershwin. George Gershwin composed both for Broadway and for the classical concert hall. He also wrote popular songs with success. Many of his compositions have been used on television and in numerous films, and many became jazz standards. - George Hall
George Hall (November 19, 1916 - October 21, 2002) was a theater, TV, and film actor best remembered by his role as the 93 year old Indiana Jones in the TV series "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles" (1992). He debuted on Broadway in 1946. He was born in Toronto, Canada, and died in Hawthorne, New York. - Richard Thomas
Richard Thomas (born June 13 1951) is an American actor, best known as "John-Boy" on the TV series, "The Waltons". - Mike Nichols
Mike Nichols (born November 6 1931) is an American Emmy Award, Academy Award, Grammy Award, and Tony Award-winning stage and film director, writer, and producer. Born Michael Igor Peschkowsky in Berlin, Germany, he and his German-Russian Jewish family moved to the United States to flee the Nazis in 1939. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1944. While attending the University of Chicago in the 1950s, … - Chita Rivera
Chita Rivera (born January 23 1933) is a Tony Award-winning American actress, dancer, and singer known for her musical theater roles. She was born Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero in Washington, D.C. to a Puerto Rican father who played clarinet and saxophone for the Navy band and a mother of mostly Scottish and Italian descent, who went to work for The Pentagon when she was widowed when Chita was seven-years-old (she died in 1983). - Christine Ebersole
Christine Ebersole (b. 21 February 1953) is a two-time Tony Award-winning American actress and singer. Ebersole was born in Chicago, Illinois, and graduated from MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Illinois. After appearances on "Ryan's Hope" in 1977 and 1980, … - Arthur Laurents
Arthur Laurents (born July 14, 1918) is an American playwright, novelist, screenwriter, librettist and stage director. - Cameron Mackintosh
Sir Cameron Mackintosh (born 17 October, 1946) is a successful British theatrical producer. Born in Enfield, London to a Scottish father and a Maltese mother, Mackintosh was raised in his mother's Roman Catholic faith and educated at Prior Park College in Bath. His younger brother, Robert Mackintosh, also is a producer. After early productions such as "Anything Goes", "Side By Side By Sondheim", "The Card", … - Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 - June 22, 1987), born Frederick Austerlitz in Omaha, Nebraska, was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of seventy-six years, during which he made thirty-one musical films. He is particularly associated with Ginger Rogers, with whom he made ten films that revolutionized the genre. - Marsha Norman
Marsha Norman is an American playwright, screenwriter and novelist. Norman won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play "'night, Mother". She has also written the book and lyrics for the Broadway musicals "The Secret Garden" for which she won the Tony Award, and "The Red Shoes" as well as the libretto for the musical "The Color Purple". She has also written for television and film. - Jule Styne
Jule Styne (December 31, 1905 - September 20, 1994) was a British-born American songwriter, especially famous for a series of Broadway Musicals, which included several very well known and frequently revived shows. - Danny Gans
Danny Gans is an American singer and comedian who has found success as a musical impressionist. Gans has been a headliner on the Las Vegas Strip and the surrounding area for many years, where he is billed as "The Man of Many Voices". He has been named Entertainer of the Year, and his production has also been awarded Show of the Year. His act includes impressions of practically every male singer imaginable, and changes over time. - Richard Maltby Jr.
Richard Maltby, Jr. is an American theatre director and producer, lyricist, and screenwriter. Born in Ripon, Wisconsin, Maltby is a graduate of Yale University. He made his Broadway debut in 1978 with the Fats Waller revue "Ain't Misbehavin'", which he conceived and directed. Maltby's first screenplay was "Miss Potter", based on the life of Peter Rabbit creator Beatrix Potter. The 2006 film stars Renée Zellweger and Ewan McGregor. - Samuel Taylor
"Samuel Taylor" (June 13, 1912 - May 26, 2000) was an American playwright, screenwriter, director, and producer. Born Samuel Albert Tanenbaum in Chicago, Illinois, Taylor made his Broadway debut as author of the play "The Happy Time" in 1950. His sole Tony Award nomination was as producer of the 1962 musical "No Strings", for which he also wrote the book. Taylor's occasional collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock began in 1958 with "Vertigo". - Oscar Hammerstein II
Oscar Hammerstein II was an American writer, producer, and (usually uncredited) director of musicals for almost forty years. Born in New York City, his father, William, was from a non-practicing Jewish family; his mother, née Alice Nimmo, was the daughter of Scottish immigrants and their children were raised as Christians. His grandfather was the great opera impresario and theater builder Oscar Hammerstein I, one of the most remarkable, and most famous, … - Jane Lapotaire
Jane Lapotaire is a British actress born in Ipswich, Suffolk, England. She was married to director Roland Joffé from 1971 to 1980; they had one son together. In 1981, she performed role Édith Piaf for Pam Gems's play "Piaf" directed by Howard Davies on Broadway for which she won the Tony Awards Best Actress in a Play. In 2000 while working in France, Jane Lapotaire suffered a cerebral haemorrhage. She writes about her recovery in "Time Out of Mind". - George M. Cohan
George Michael Cohan (July 3, 1878 - November 5, 1942) was a United States entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer, director, and producer of Irish descent. Known as "the man who owned Broadway" in the decade before World War I, he is considered the father of American musical comedy. - Lea Salonga
Lea Salonga-Chien (born Maria Ligaya Carmen Imutan Salonga on February 22, 1971 in Angeles City) is a Tony, Olivier, Drama Desk, and Theatre World award-winning Filipino singer and actress who is best known for her portrayal of Kim in the musical "Miss Saigon". In the field of musical theater, no other Filipino has achieved the same international recognition as Salonga. She has been the first to win various international awards for a single role. - Tommy Tune
Tommy Tune (born February 28, 1939) is an award-winning American actor, dancer, singer, director, producer, and choreographer. Born Thomas James Tune in Wichita Falls, Texas, he attended Lamar High School in Houston. In 1965, Tune made his Broadway debut as a performer in the musical "Baker Street". His first Broadway directing and choreography credits were for the original production of "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" in 1978.
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