- Stephen Schwartz
Stephen Lawrence Schwartz (born March 6, 1948) is an American musical theater lyricist and composer. - Jason Robert Brown
Jason Robert Brown (born 1970 in Ossining, New York) is an American musical theater composer and lyricist. Often cited as one of the "New School" of theatrical composers (a list that includes Michael John LaChiusa, Adam Guettel, Andrew Lippa and Jeanine Tesori, among others), Brown's music sensibility fuses pop-rock stylings with theatrical lyrics. An accomplished pianist, Brown has often served as music director, conductor, orchestrator and pianist for his own productions. - 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", … - 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" - Jerry Herman
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". - 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). - Alan Menken
Alan Menken (born July 22, 1949) is an American Broadway and Academy Award winning film score composer and pianist. Menken has collaborated with several renowned lyricists including Howard Ashman (1950-1991), Tim Rice and Stephen Schwartz. He is best known for his work on several Disney animated features, including "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", "The Little Mermaid", "Beauty and the Beast", "Hercules", "Pocahontas", "Aladdin", … - William Finn
William Finn (born 28 February 1952) is an award-winning American composer and lyricist, especially of musicals. - Harold Arlen
Harold Arlen was an American composer of popular music. One of the greatest composers of 20th century popular music, with over 400 songs, a number of which have become known the world over. His 1938 song "Over the Rainbow” was voted the twentieth century's No. 1 song by the Recording Industry Association of America [1<nowiki>;</nowiki>;]. - 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. - Michael Crawford
Michael Crawford, OBE (born Michael Patrick Dumble-Smith, 19 January 1942 in Salisbury, Wiltshire), is an English actor and singer. He has won critical acclaim and numerous awards during his career, which includes radio, television and stage (including appearing on stage in the West End in London, and on Broadway in New York). Although he most often appears on stage, in musicals such as "Phantom of the Opera" and "Barnum", … - Adam Guettel
Adam Guettel (pronounced "Gettle"; b. 1965), son of Mary Rodgers and grandson of legendary composer Richard Rodgers, is an American musical theater composer and lyricist best known for 2005's "The Light in the Piazza", for which he won a Tony Award. He can also be heard in a duet with singer Jessica Molaskey on her album Make Believe for the P.S. Classics label. - Hal Prince
Hal Prince (born January 30 1928) is an American theatrical producer and director associated with many of the best-known Broadway musical productions of the past half-century. He has earned more Tony Awards (21) than any other individual, including eight for directing, eight for producing, two as producer of the year's Best Musical, and three special awards. His shows are known for their political context, new approach to romance, … - Jane Krakowski
Jane Krakowski (née Krajkowski, born October 11, 1968 in Parsippany, New Jersey) is a Tony Award-winning American actress and singer. She is best known for her roles as Elaine Vassal on "Ally McBeal" and Jenna Maroney on "30 Rock". Krakowski attended Parsippany High School. - Michael Bennett
Michael Bennett (April 8, 1943 - July 2, 1987) was a Tony Award-winning American musical theater director, writer, choreographer, and dancer. Born Michael Bennett DiFiglia to a Roman Catholic father and a Jewish mother in Buffalo, New York, he studied dance and choreography in his teens and staged a number of shows in his local high school before dropping out to accept the role of Baby John in the US and European tours of "West Side Story". - Matthew Morrison
Matthew James Morrison (b. October 30, 1978 in California) is an accomplished musical theater actor. After attending theater camp in his youth, he decided that he wanted to be an actor. He was educated at New York University (NYU) Tisch School of the Arts. Being a member of boy bands like LMNT and Fresh Step, he made his musical theater transition into similarly styled shows. He had minor roles in "Footloose" as well as the revival of the "Rocky Horror Show". - Sheldon Harnick
Sheldon Harnick (born April 30, 1924) is an American lyricist best known for his collaborations with composer Jerry Bock on hit musicals such as "Fiddler on the Roof". Harnick began his career writing words and music to comic songs in musical revues. One of these, "The Merry Little Minuet", was popularized by the Kingston Trio. It is in the caustic style usually associated with Tom Lehrer and is sometimes incorrectly attributed to him. - Norbert Leo Butz
Norbert Leo Butz (born 30 January, 1967) is an American stage actor. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri and has 10 siblings. Butz received his BFA from Webster University and his MFA from The University of Alabama/Alabama Shakespeare Festival's Professional Actor Training Program. He is best known for his performances in Broadway musicals. He appeared in the Broadway musical, "Wicked" with Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth, … - Moss Hart
Moss Hart (October 24 1904 - December 20 1961) was an American playwright and director of plays and musical theater. Hart recalled his youth, early career and rise to fame in his autobiography, "Act One", adapted to film in 1963, with George Hamilton portraying Hart. - Benny Andersson
Göran Bror Benny Andersson is a Swedish musician, composer, a former member of the Swedish musical group, ABBA (1972-1982), and co-composer of the musicals "Chess", "Kristina från Duvemåla", and "Mamma Mia!". Currently active with his own band Benny Anderssons Orkester (BAO!), and co-producing forthcoming film "Mamma Mia!". - Megan Hilty
Megan Hilty (born Megan Kathleen Hilty on March 29, 1981 in Bellevue, Washington, USA) is an American stage actress. - 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. - 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. - Dorothy Fields
Dorothy Fields (July 15, 1905 - March 28, 1974) was an American librettist and lyricist. She wrote over 400 songs for Broadway musicals and films. Along with Ann Ronell, Dana Suesse, and Kay Swift, she was one of the first successful Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley female composers. Fields was born in Allenhurst, New Jersey and grew up in New York City. Her father, Lew Fields, an immigrant from Poland, was a well-known vaudeville comedian and later became a Broadway producer. - Elaine Paige
Elaine Paige née Bickerstaff OBE (born on 5 March, 1948 in Barnet, Hertfordshire) is an English singer and actress, primarily in musicals. - 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. - Marin Mazzie
Marin Mazzie (born October 9, 1960) is an American actress and singer best known for her work in musical theater. - Jerry Orbach
Jerome Bernard Orbach was an American actor best known for his starring role as Det. Lennie Briscoe in the "Law & Order" television series and for his musical theater roles. - Jeanine Tesori
Jeanine Tesori (formerly known as Jeanine Levenson) is a composer of musicals. She is perhaps best known for the Broadway musical "Thoroughly Modern Millie"; she composed eleven new songs for the show and added them to three from the movie version; four previously written songs from the 1920s were also added to the musical's score. She also composed the music for the Broadway musical "Caroline, or Change", with lyrics by Tony Kushner. - John Raitt
John Emmett Raitt (born on 19 January, 1917 in Santa Ana, California, died 20 February, 2005, Pacific Palisades, California) was a star of the musical theater stage. Raitt got his start in theatre as a high school student at Fullerton High School, in Fullerton California. While there, he played in several drama productions in the Plummer Auditorium. Raitt sang in the chorus of "Desert Song." A few years before he died, … - Tom Lehrer
Thomas Andrew (Tom) Lehrer (born April 9, 1928) is an American singer-songwriter, satirist, pianist, and mathematician. He used to lecture on mathematics and musical theater. - Marc Shaiman
Marc Shaiman (born October 22, 1959) is a composer, lyricist, arranger and performer for films, television and theatre. His film credits include "Broadcast News", "Beaches", "When Harry Met Sally...", "City Slickers", "The Addams Family", "Sister Act", "Sleepless in Seattle", "A Few Good Men", "The American President", "The First Wives Club", "George of the Jungle", "In & Out", … - Marc Blitzstein
Marc Blitzstein (March 2, 1905 - January 22, 1964) was an American composer. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Jewish parents, among his works were "The Cradle Will Rock", whose premiere was directed by Orson Welles, the opera "Regina", an adaptation of Lillian Hellman's "The Little Foxes", the Broadway musical "Juno" based on Sean O'Casey's "Juno and the Paycock," "No For An Answer", … - Craig Lucas
Craig Lucas is an American playwright, screenwriter, theatre director, musical actor, and film director. He is currently Associate Artistic Director at the Intiman Theatre in Seattle. Born on April 30, 1951, and abandoned in a car in Atlanta, Lucas was adopted when he was eight months old by a conservative Pennsylvania couple. His father was an FBI agent; his mother was a housewife. He was graduated in 1969 from Conestoga High School in Berwyn, Pennsylvania. - John Tartaglia
John Nicholas Tartaglia (born February 16 1978) is an American singer, actor, dancer, and puppeteer. Tartaglia was born on February 16, 1978 in Maple Shade, New Jersey, USA. He joined "Sesame Street's" puppetry team at the age of 16 part-time, performing as a right hand and many minor characters, including Phoebe and being the backup for Kevin Clash's Elmo. - Donna McKechnie
Donna McKechnie (born November 16, 1942) is a Tony Award-winning American musical theater dancer, singer. actress and choreographer. McKechnie was born in Pontiac, Michigan. She took beginner ballet classes at age five. Her earliest influence was the classic British ballet film "The Red Shoes" (1948), which prompted her, at age six, to plan a career as a ballerina. Despite her parents' strong misgivings, she moved to New York City when she was 17. - Jacques Offenbach
Jacques Offenbach (20 June 1819 - 5 October 1880) was a French composer and cellist of the Romantic era and one of the originators of the operetta form. He was one of the most influential composers of popular music in Europe in the 19th century, and many of his works remain in the repertory. While his name remains most closely associated with the French operetta and the Second Empire, it is his one fully operatic masterpiece, Les contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann), … - P. G. Wodehouse
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse KBE (October 15, 1881 - February 14, 1975) was an English comic writer who has enjoyed enormous popular success for more than seventy years. Wodehouse was an acknowledged master of English prose, admired both by contemporaries like Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Rudyard Kipling and by modern writers like Douglas Adams, Salman Rushdie, Christopher Hitchens and Terry Pratchett. - Alfred Uhry
Alfred Fox Uhry (born December 3, 1936) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. As of 2006, he is the only American author who has received three of the most prestigious American awards for dramatic writing: the Academy Award, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and the Tony Award. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Uhry graduated from Brown University. During his first years in New York City, learning the craft of lyric-writing, … - Mary Rodgers
Mary Rodgers (born January 11, 1931) is an American composer of musicals, an author of children's books, and the daughter of Broadway composer Richard Rodgers. Rodgers' musical works include "Once Upon a Mattress" (1959), "From A to Z" (1960), "Hot Spot" (1963), "The Mad Show" (1966), "Working" (1978), and Phyllis Newman's one-woman show "The Madwoman of Central Park West" (1979).
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