Petula Clark, CBE (born November 15 1932), is an English singer, actress and composer best known for her upbeat popular international hits of the 1960s. With more than 70 million records sold worldwide, she is the most successful British female solo recording artist to date, and is cited as such in the Guinness Book of World Records. She also holds the distinction of having the longest span on the international pop charts of any artist - 51 years - from 1954, …

Burton Lane (February 2, 1912, New York City - January 5, 1997, New York City) was an American composer and lyricist. Lane (real name Burton Levy) was best known for his Broadway musicals, "Finian's Rainbow" (1947) and "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever" (1965). He also wrote the music for the less successful Broadway shows, "Hold On to Your Hats" (1940), "Laffing Room Only" (1944), "Junior Miss" (1957), …

Fred Saidy (February 11 1907 - May 14 1982) was an American playwright and screenwriter. Born in Los Angeles, California, Saidy began his writing career in 1943 with the screenplay for the Red Skelton comedy "I Dood It". The following year, he scripted both the Lucille Ball-Dick Powell feature film "Meet the People" and the book for the Harold Arlen-E. Y. Harburg musical "Bloomer Girl". It was the first of several collaborations with Harburg, …

Jerry Herman (born Gerald Herman on July 10, 1931 in New York City) is an American composer/lyricist of the Broadway musical theater. He composed the scores for the hit Broadway musicals "Hello, Dolly!", "Mame", and "La Cage aux Folles".

Ella Logan (March 6 1913 - May 1 1969) was a Scottish-born actress and singer, who appeared on Broadway, recorded and had a nightclub career in the United States and internationally. She was born Annabelle Armour-Allan in Glasgow, where she was raised and educated. She initially performed under an abbreviated version name of her birth name, Ella Allan. She began her career as a child becoming a band singer in music halls.

Melissa Errico (born March 23, 1970) is an American actress and singer. Born in Manhattan, Errico moved to Manhasset on Long Island at an early age. As a child, she studied ballet and gymnastics but was sidelined by a knee injury. Her interest in theater was sparked when she appeared in a Girl Scouts musical production and was cemented by a summer spent at an arts camp.

David Wayne (January 30 1914 - February 9 1995) was a Tony Award-winning American actor with a career spanning nearly half a century. Born Wayne James McMeekan in Traverse City, Michigan and growing up in Bloomingdale, Michigan, Wayne's first major Broadway role was Og the leprechaun in "Finian's Rainbow", for which he won the Theatre World Award and the first ever Tony for Best Featured Actor in a Musical.

Albert Cornelius "Al" Freeman, Jr. (born March 21, 1934, in San Antonio, Texas) is an African-American actor and director. Freeman has made appearances in many films, such as "My Sweet Charlie", "Finian's Rainbow", and "Malcolm X", and television series' such "The Cosby Show", "Law & Order", and "Homicide: Life on the Street". He is mostly recognized for his portrayal of Police Captain Ed Hall on the ABC soap opera, …

Don Walker (1907-1989) was a famous Broadway orchestrator, who also composed music for one film. Among the scores that he orchestrated were those for "Carousel", "Finian's Rainbow", "Call Me Madam", "The Pajama Game", "The Music Man", "Fiddler on the Roof", and "Cabaret". He did not orchestrate the film versions of these shows. His orchestrations for Frank Loesser's "The Most Happy Fella", which has never been filmed, …

Onna White (March 24, 1922 - April 8, 2005) was a Canadian choreographer and dancer nominated for eight Tony Awards. Born in Inverness, Nova Scotia, White began taking dance lessons at the age of twelve, and eventually her studies took her to the famed San Francisco Ballet Company. Her first Broadway performance was in "Finian's Rainbow" in 1947. Her next assignment was "Guys and Dolls", in which she both performed and assisted the choreographer, Michael Kidd, …

Lyn Murray was a composer, conductor, and arranger of music for radio, film and television. Born Lionel Breeze in London, he arrived on American shores to found the Lyn Murray Singers, who became well-known throughout the United States as the featured group on CBS radio’s "Your Hit Parade". Murray worked as a conductor, arranger and producer for CBS (with such artists as Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong and Burl Ives) prior to switching networks in 1947 to NBC.

Buddy Clark (July 26, 1911 - October 1, 1949) was a popular singer in the 1930s and 1940s. Clark was born Samuel Goldberg to Jewish parents in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He made his Big Band singing debut in 1934 with Benny Goodman on the "Let's Dance" radio program. In 1936 he started to perform on the show, Your Hit Parade, and lasted until 1938. In the mid-1930s he signed with Vocalion Records, …

Buddy Clark (July 26, 1911 - October 1, 1949) was a popular singer in the 1930s and 1940s. Clark was born Samuel Goldberg to Jewish parents in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He made his Big Band singing debut in 1934 with Benny Goodman on the "Let's Dance" radio program. In 1936 he started to perform on the show, Your Hit Parade, and lasted until 1938. In the mid-1930s he signed with Vocalion Records, …

Martha Tilton (November 14 1915, Corpus Christi, Texas -December 8 2006, Brentwood, California) was an American popular singer, best-known for her 1939 recording of "And the Angels Sing" with Benny Goodman. Tilton and her family lived in Texas and Kansas, relocating to Los Angeles when she was seven years old. While attending Fairfax High School in Los Angeles, …

Elaine Delmar (born 13 September 1939) is an English singer. She was born as Elaine Hutchinson in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. Her father was the jazz trumpeter Leslie 'Jiver' Hutchinson. She was educated at Rhodes and Trinity Grammar Schools in Wood Green. She studied piano between the ages of six and eleven, reaching Grade VII of the Associated Board examinations. She made her first broadcast playing the piano on "Children's Hour", …

Jonelle Allen (born July 18, 1944) is an American actress, singer, and dancer. Born in New York City, Allen grew up in Harlem's Sugar Hill among neighbors that included Duke Ellington, Sonny Rollins, and Johnny Hodges, all of whom had an influence on her career choice. She made her Broadway debut at the age of six in "The Wisteria Trees", Joshua Logan's Americanized adaptation of "The Cherry Orchard" starring Helen Hayes.

Molly Johnson is a Canadian pop and jazz vocalist and songwriter. Johnson began as a child performer, receiving formal training from the National Ballet School and the Banff School of Fine Arts. The child of a white mother and a black father, Johnson's story starts in the mid-1960s when as a young grade schooler, she and her brother, Clark Johnson, were tapped by Toronto producer Ed Mirvish to appear in "Porgy and Bess" at the Royal Alexandra Theatre.