- 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, … - 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, … - Tim Rice
Sir Timothy Miles Bindon Rice (born 10 November 1944) is an English musical theatre lyricist, author, radio presenter, television gameshow panelist. - Tom Jones
Tom Jones (born in 1928 in Littlefield, Texas) is a lyricist (and often librettist) of musical theatre, best known for the longest running musical in history, "The Fantasticks", which ran off-Broadway from 1960 until 2002. Jones is currently directing, and acting in, a revival of "The Fantasticks". He plays the part of the Old Actor, which he also played when the musical opened in 1960. He is credited as an actor in the show as Thomas Bruce. - Jonathan Larson
Jonathan Larson was an American composer and playwright who lived in New York City and authored musicals, including "Rent" and "Tick, Tick... BOOM!". These musicals tackle serious issues such as multiculturalism, addiction, homophobia, and the AIDS epidemic. His artistic vision and goal was to fuse Generation X and the MTV Generation with the world of musical theatre in his work. This mission was somewhat accomplished by his magnum opus, "Rent", … - Andrew Lippa
Andrew Lippa is an American composer, lyricist, book writer, performer, and producer, and the resident artist at the Ars Nova Theater in New York City. He went to Oak Park High School in Oak Park, Michigan. He was born on December 22, 1964 in Leeds, England. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Lippa began work in New York in 1987 as a middle school teacher and administrator at Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School. He then went on to a successful music career. - John Kander
John Kander , the composer half of the legendary songwriting team, Kander and Ebb that has produced Cabaret , Woman of the Year , The Act and the incomparable Chicago , was born in Kansas City, Missouri on March 18, 1927. Kander began studying music as a child and in his early career worked as a conductor and accompanying pianist for many productions. From 1955 through 1958, Kander was choral director and conductor for the Warwick Musical Theatre in Rhode Island. - Kristin Chenoweth
Kristin Chenoweth (born Kristi Dawn Chenoweth on July 24, 1968) is an American singer and Tony Award-winning American musical theatre, film, and television actress. Chenoweth is a person of small stature (four feet, eleven inches tall and 95 pounds) and has a distinctive speaking voice; in "FHM's" March 2006 issue, she compared her voice to that of Betty Boop. Chenoweth is a coloratura soprano. - Sarah Brightman
Sarah Brightman is an English classical crossover soprano, actress and dancer. Brightman debuted as a dancer in troupes such as Hot Gossip and later released a string of disco singles. She achieved greater fame as a musical theatre performer and partner of theatre composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, originating several roles, including Christine Daaé in "The Phantom of the Opera". Her 1984 marriage to Lloyd Webber attracted active tabloid coverage. - 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. - Fred Ebb
Fred Ebb (born April 8 1933 in Manhattan - died September 11 2004 in New York City) was a musical theatre lyricist who had many successful collaborations with composer John Kander. The Kander and Ebb team frequently wrote for such performers as Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera. - Cheyenne Jackson
Cheyenne Jackson (born July 12, 1975) is an American actor and singer from Newport, Washington. Jackson made his Broadway debut understudying both male leads in the Tony Award-winning musical "Thoroughly Modern Millie". He later served as the standby for the character of Radames in "Aida", then originated the role of Matthew in the off-Broadway production of "Altar Boyz". - 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. - John Barrowman
John Barrowman (born 11 March, 1967 in Mount Vernon, Glasgow) is a British-American actor, musical performer, dancer, singer, and TV presenter who has lived and worked both in the United Kingdom and the United States. He currently lives in the UK. He became a United States citizen in 1985, and holds dual US/UK citizenship. Barrowman is best known on British television for his acting and his presenting work on theatre. - Michael Ball
Michael Ball is a British actor and singer, best known for the song "Love Changes Everything" and musical theatre roles such as Marius in "Les Misérables", Alex in "Aspects of Love", and Caractacus Potts in "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang". - Lynn Ahrens
Lynn Ahrens (born October 1, 1948) is an American musical theatre lyricist who most-frequently works with Stephen Flaherty. They are best known for the shows "Once on This Island", which was nominated for eight Tony Awards, and "Ragtime", which was nominated for twelve Tony Awards and won Best Original Score. They also collaborated on songs for the movie "Anastasia". Ms. - Barbara Cook
Barbara Cook (born October 25 1927) is a Tony Award-winning American singer and actress who first came to prominence in the 1950s after creating roles in the Broadway musicals "Candide" and "The Music Man", among others. In the seventies, she began a second career that continues to this day as a cabaret and concert singer. Cook is widely recognized as one of the "premier interpreters" of musical theatre songs and standards, … - Stephen Flaherty
Stephen Flaherty (born September 18, 1960 in Pittsburgh, PA) is an American composer of musical theatre in collaboration with Lynn Ahrens. They are best known for the shows "Once on This Island", which was nominated for eight Tony Awards and "Ragtime", which was nominated for twelve Tony Awards and won Best Original Score. - Laura Benanti
Laura Benanti (b. July 15, 1979) is an American musical theatre actress, who has appeared in numerous Broadway theatre productions. - 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. - Julien Clerc
Paul-Alain Leclerc, popularly known as Julien Clerc is a French singer. His father was a UNESCO employee and his mother is from Guadeloupe. Many of the chansons he sings were written by Étienne Roda-Gil, a long time collaborator. His brother, Gérard Leclerc, is a political commentator on France 2. For a time he was involved with French actress Miou-Miou, who in 1978 bore him a daughter, Jeanne Herry. - Sam Harris
Sam Harris (born Samuel Kent Harris, 4 June 1961, Cushing, Oklahoma) is an American pop and musical theatre recording artist as well as a television, stage and film actor. Harris was the winner of the first "Star Search" competition in 1984, and no contestant surpassed his winning streak of fourteen weeks in a row in the entire history of the show. - Emily Skinner
Emily Skinner (born June 29, 1970) is an American musical theatre actress and singer. Born in Richmond, Virginia, Skinner attended college at Carnegie Mellon University. She moved to New York in 1992 and took part in a workshop of "Jekyll and Hyde". A few years later, she joined the original cast as an ensemble member and understudy for the leads of Emma and Lucy. Other Broadway credits include "James Joyce's The Dead", "The Full Monty", … - Maria Friedman
Maria Friedman (born Switzerland, 1960) is a musical theatre actress who has worked on both the Broadway and West End stages as well as television. - Michael John Lachiusa
Michael John LaChiusa (born 1962) is an American musical theatre composer and lyricist best known for his unusual sounding compositions for shows in the "post-modern" school. He has been nominated for 5 Tony Awards for his book (with Graciela Daniele and Jim Lewis) for "Chronicle of a Death Foretold", for his books for "Marie Christine" and (with George C. Wolfe) "The Wild Party", and his scores for "Marie Christine" and "The Wild Party". - George Hearn
George Hearn (born June 18, 1934, in St. Louis, Missouri), is an American actor and singer, primarily in Broadway musical theatre. Hearn studied philosophy at Southwestern University before he embarked on a career in the theater, training for the stage with legendary actress turned acting coach Irene Dailey. Most of Hearn's early performances were in traditional productions at the New York Shakespeare Festival and theaters at Lincoln Center. - Jerry Bock
Jerry Bock (born November 23 1928) is a Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning American musical theatre composer. Born in New Haven, Connecticut and raised in Flushing, New York, Bock studied the piano as a child. He attended the University of Wisconsin, where he wrote the musical "Big As Life", which toured the state and enjoyed a run in Chicago. - 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, … - Karen Ziemba
Karen Ziemba is an American musical theatre actress and dancer known for her work in several Broadway stage productions. For her work, she won one Tony Award and was nominated for three others. - Harvey Schmidt
Harvey Schmidt (born September 12, 1929 in Dallas, Texas, USA) is an American writer of musical theatre, best known for composing the music for the longest running musical in history, "The Fantasticks", which ran off-Broadway from 1960 - 2002 for a total of 17,162 performances, all at the Sullivan Street Playhouse. A revival is currently planned for fall 2006. - Hunter Foster
Hunter Foster (b. June 25 1969, Statesboro, Georgia) is an American musical theatre actor/singer, librettist and playwright. Foster was raised in Troy, Michigan and obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Theatre Studies from the University of Michigan in 1992. After graduation he moved to New York City. After touring in several shows and playing on Broadway, he was cast in his breakthrough role, that of "Bobby Strong" in "Urinetown", … - Beth Leavel
</gallery>;Beth Leavel (born November 1, 1955 in Raleigh, North Carolina) is an American musical theatre actress. Leavel attended Meredith College in her undergraduate years and completed a musical theatre degree at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She acted during college, appearing in productions such as "Cabaret" and "Hello, Dolly!". Her Broadway debut was in the 1980 production of "42nd Street" as a replacement for Annie. - Libretto
A libretto is the text used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, musical, masque, sacred or secular oratorio and cantata, musical, and ballet. The term "libretto" is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major liturgical works, such as mass and requiem. "Libretto" (pl. libretti) is an Italian word which translates literally as "little book." It is distinct from a synopsis or scenario of the plot. - Roger Bart
Roger Bart (born on September 29 1962) is an American actor. Born in Norwalk, Connecticut, grew up in New Jersey, Bart made his Broadway debut in "Big River" as Tom Sawyer in 1987. Additional theatre credits include Jonathan in the Alan Menken/Tim Rice musical "King David", Harlequin in "Triumph of Love", Snoopy in the Broadway revival of "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown" (for which he won the Drama Desk Award and a Tony), … - Jack O'Brien
Jack O'Brien is a producer, writer, lyricist, and Tony Award-winning theater director who presently serves as the Artistic Director of the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, California. O'Brien is equally at home with musicals ("The Full Monty", "Hairspray"), contemporary dramas ("The Piano Lesson"), the classics ("Hamlet", "Henry IV"), and operas ("Il trittico"). O'Brien has had his share of failure. - Rebecca Luker
Rebecca Luker (born April 17 1961) is an American musical theatre actress and soprano who has appeared in several prominent Broadway productions. - David Zippel
David Zippel (born May 17,1954 in Easton, Pennsylvania)is a Tony Award-winning American Musical theatre lyricist. Zippel attended Harvard Law School but, according to his official biography, "he is delighted not to practice law." His theatrical credits include: *"Going Hollywood" (1981), an unproduced adaptation of "Once in a Lifetime" by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart; book by Zippel and Joe Leonardo, music by Jonathan Sheffer. - Claude-Michel Schönberg
Claude-Michel Schönberg is a French record producer, actor, singer, popular songwriter, and musical theatre composer, best known for his collaborations with the librettist Alain Boublil. These include the musicals: *"La Révolution Française" (1973) *"Les Misérables" (1980) *"Miss Saigon" (1989) *"Martin Guerre" (1996) *"The Pirate Queen" (2006) Schönberg began his career as a record producer and a singer. - Anthony Warlow
Anthony Warlow (born November 18, 1961 in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian star of opera and musical theatre, noted for both his extraordinary character acting and his immense vocal range. - Jason Alexander
Jason Alexander (born Jason Scott Greenspan on September 23, 1959) is a television, cinema and musical theatre actor, best known for his role as George Costanza on the hit television series "Seinfeld".
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