- 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, … - Tim Rice
Sir Timothy Miles Bindon Rice (born 10 November 1944) is an English musical theatre lyricist, author, radio presenter, television gameshow panelist. - Eva Perón
Maria Eva Duarte de Perón was the second wife of Argentine President Juan Domingo Perón (1895–1974) and the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. She is often referred to as simply Eva Perón, or by the affectionate Spanish language diminutive Evita, which literally translates into English as "Little Eva". Born out of wedlock in rural Argentina in 1919, … - Alan Parker
Sir Alan William Parker, CBE, (born February 14,1944) is an English film director, producer, writer, and actor. He has been active in both the British film industry as well as in Hollywood. He is a founding member of the Director's Guild of Great Britain. Born into a working class family in Stockton, Teesside, Parker started out as a copywriter for advertising agencies in the 1960s and 1970s and later began to write his own television commercial scripts. - Madonna
Madonna Louise Ciccone Ritchie (born August 16 1958), better known as Madonna, is an American dance-pop singer-songwriter, record and film producer, dancer, actress, author and fashion icon. She is noted for her ambitious music videos and stage performances as well as using political, sexual, and religious themes in her work. In 2000, The Guinness World Records listed Madonna as the most successful female recording artist of all time, … - Elena Roger
Elena Roger is an Argentinian actress who is currently involved in the West End comedy play Boeing Boeing as the Alitalia air stewardess character, Gabriella, at The Comedy Theatre in Panton Street. She recently starred as Eva Perón in the West End revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Evita" at the Adelphi theatre. Among her theatre credits in her native Buenos Aires, the original productions of "Nine" directed by David Leveaux, … - Julie Covington
Julie Covington (born September 11 1947 in London) is an English singer and actress best known for recording the original version of "Don't Cry for Me Argentina". Covington's break came in 1967 when, whilst still a student at Homerton College, Cambridge, she was invited to sing on David Frost's television show, after which she secured a record deal. She followed with her 1971 "Godspell" casting at The Roundhouse, … - Colm Wilkinson
Colm Wilkinson(born June 5 1944 in Dublin) is an Irish musical theatre actor and singer, best known for playing the role of Jean Valjean in "Les Misérables". He was among the most frequent players of Valjean, originating the role in London and on Broadway. He appeared on several cast albums and a DVD, Les Miserables - The Dream Cast in Concert. Among the musical's more devoted fans, he is generally considered to be the definitive Valjean. - Michael Grandage
Michael Grandage is a British theatre director who is currently Artistic Director at the Donmar Warehouse in London, England. He made his directorial debut with a production of "Last Yankee" at the Mercury Theatre, Colchester. From 2000 – 2005 he served as Artistic Director of Sheffield Theatres where his high profile productions included "Edward II" with Joseph Fiennes, "Richard III" with Kenneth Branagh and "The Tempest" with Derek Jacobi. - Barbara Dickson
Barbara Dickson OBE (born Dunfermline, Fife, 27 September 1947) is a Scottish singer, best known for her stage and concert performances, and some hit singles. Dickson's singing career started in folk clubs around her native Fife in 1964. Her first commercial recording was in 1967. Archie Fisher ran a folk club in Edinburgh, and invited her to sing with him on "The Fate O' Charlie", a collection of Jacobite songs, in 1969. - Helen Schneider
Helen Schneider (born december 23, 1952 in Brooklyn, New York City) is an American singer and actress working mainly in Germany. Born the daughter of Dvora und Abraham Schneider (the name is German and means "taylor"), she studied piano before starting to perform as a singer in venues in New England and New York. Between 1978 and 1984 she achieved some success as a rock singer in Germany; her song "Rock'n' Roll Gypsy" even reached the top 10 record charts. - Marti Webb
Marti Webb, born 13 December 1944, in London, is a musical actress from England, who appeared on stage in "Evita", before starring in Andrew Lloyd Webber's one woman show "Tell Me On A Sunday" in the mid 1980s. She had a hit in the UK Singles Chart with a song from the show, "Take That Look Off Your Face". - Paloma San Basilio
Paloma San Basilio is a singer. She starred in the Spanish language premiere production of Andrew Lloyd Weber's Evita at Teatro Monumental in Madrid. The show later transferred to Barcelona and certain cities in Latin America. She represented Spain at the Eurovision Song Contest 1985 in Gothenburg, Sweden, with the sad ballad "La fiesta terminó" (The party ended), and finished 14th. - Bob Gunton
Bob Gunton is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as Warden Norton in the 1994 movie "The Shawshank Redemption". Gunton was born Robert Patrick Gunton, Jr. in Santa Monica, California to Rose Marie (Banouetz) and Robert Patrick Gunton, Sr., a labor union executive. He attended St. Peter’s College (Paulist seminary in Baltimore, MD) and the University of California, and served in the army. - Tony Christie
Tony Christie (born Anthony Fitzgerald, 25 April 1943) is an English male singer from Conisbrough, South Yorkshire. His mother was English and his father came from Ireland. - Peter Polycarpou
Peter Polycarpou is a British stage and TV actor. He played Chris Theodopolopoudos in the hugely successful TV series "Birds of a Feather". He was the first actor to play the role of John in the musical "Miss Saigon". He was an original cast member of the musical phenomenon "Les Misérables", and has played The Phantom in Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera". - David Ian
David Ian Ian (born Chadwell Heath, Greater London in 1961), is a former actor, who turned theatre producer in 1991 to become the most powerful man in UK theatre in 2005 according to "The Stage". The chairman of former Clear Channel's subsidiary Live Nation’s global theatrical division, he was one of the judges in the BBC TV series "How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?". The son of a Railway Fitter and a Personal Assistant, … - Nigel Wright
Nigel Wright is a record producer from England. His career as music producer, orchestrator and songwriter has scored five Number one singles, 31 Top 20 singles and a string of platinum albums with recording artists as diverse as Shakatak, Barbra Streisand, Madonna, Boyzone, Take That, José Carreras, Robson & Jerome, Michael Ball, Sarah Brightman, Cliff Richard and Connie Fisher. - Liz Callaway
Liz Callaway (born April 13, 1961) is an American actress and cabaret singer. Born in Chicago, she is the sister of Ann Hampton Callaway, with whom she sang the theme song for the Fran Drescher comedy series "The Nanny" and has performed in a number of stage acts. Among her stage credits are "Baby" (for which she earned a Tony Award nomination), "The Spitfire Grill" (for which she earned a Drama Desk Award nomination), "Merrily We Roll Along", … - Rachel York
Rachel York (born Rachel Lemanski on August 7, 1971 in Orlando, Florida) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her roles in "City of Angels", "The Scarlet Pimpernel", "Les Miserables", "Victor/Victoria", "Kiss Me, Kate", "Sly Fox", and "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels". Rachel also has many film and television credits, including her portrayal as Lucille Ball in the CBS biopic "Lucy". - Agustín Magaldi
Agustín Magaldi was a tango and milonga singer. His nickname was "The sentimental voice of Buenos Aires". Magaldi's popularity was second in popularity to tango singer Carlos Gardel. Agustín Magaldi is portrayed in the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice Broadway musical "Evita". In the musical Magaldi is depicted as bringing Eva to Buenos Aires and is therefore referred to as "the first man to be of use to Eva Duarte". - Esther Goris
Esther Goris is an Argentine actress. Her film career started in 1983 with "Los enemigos" and "Gracias por el fuego" ("Thanks for the Fire", based on Mario Benedetti homonymous novel). In 1996 she starred Best Foreign Film candidate "Eva Perón: The True Story" as the legendary Evita during the last year of her life, alongside Víctor Laplace as Juan Perón. Goris has also appeared in several TV series and mini-series, … - Larry Fuller
Larry Fuller is an American choreographer, theatre director, dancer, jazz pianist and actor. Fuller began his career as a dancer/actor, appearing on Broadway in "Carousel", "The Music Man", "Kean", "Bravo Giovanni", and "Funny Girl". When Barbra Streisand headed to London for the West End production of the latter, Fuller was tapped to choreograph it, then repeated the task for the American tour. - Jennifer Lynch
Jennifer Chambers Lynch (born April 4, 1968) is an American film director and screenwriter, best known for writing the book "The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer" and for writing and directing the 1993 feature film "Boxing Helena". Lynch was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of artist and filmmaker David Lynch and painter, Peggy Reavey. At the age of three, Lynch appeared in her father's "Eraserhead" (released 1978, filming began in 1972). - Mark Ryan
Mark Ryan is a British actor. Mark Ryan is a multi-talented performer, combining his acting, singing, writing, and action direction talents and has enjoyed a successful and eclectic career for some thirty years, working in all aspects of film and television. He did several major musicals in London's West End, … - David Hersey
David Hersey is a lighting designer who has designed the lighting for over 250 plays, musicals, operas, and ballets. His work has been seen in most corners of the globe and his many awards include the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design for "Evita", "Cats", and "Les Misérables" and the Laurence Olivier Award for Lighting Design given in 1996. He has also been active in the world of theme parks in Florida and Italy, … - Nancy Opel
Nancy Opel is an American singer and actress. Opel was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical for her performance as Penelope Pennywise in "Urinetown". She also appeared in "Evita", "Teddy & Alice", "Sunday in the Park with George", "Anything Goes", "Triumph of Love", and "Fiddler on the Roof". She portrayed Kafka in the New York City debut of David Ives' one-acter "Words, Words, Words". - Raúl Esparza
Raúl Esparza is an Cuban-American stage actor. Born in Wilmington, Delaware and raised in Miami, Florida, Esparza graduated from Belen Jesuit in 1988 and later received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He first drew attention with his performance in the 2000 Broadway revival of "The Rocky Horror Show", which won him the Theatre World Award. The following year he appeared off-Broadway in "tick, … - Lorna Want
Lorna Want (born June 28, 1987) is a British actress most noted for her appearances in the 2005 CBBC/Simon Fuller television series I Dream with S Club 8. At the age of 15 she played Juliet in the a new musical version of Romeo and Juliet. She supposedly beat Charlotte Church to this role. She played the role of Ariel Moore in Footloose at London's Novello Theatre until May 2006, … - Daniel Benzali
Daniel Benzali (born January 20 1950) is a Brazilian-American actor of television, film and theater. Benzali was born in Rio de Janeiro to Brazilian Jewish parents. He is the oldest of three boys born to a father who was an actor in the Yiddish theater in New York and a mother who was a homemaker. Benzali began his career in guest starring roles on television series such as "Star Trek: The Next Generation", "The X-Files", … - Graham Bickley
Graham Bickley is a British based actor, best known as the second incarnation of the character Joey Boswell in Carla Lane's "Bread". Bickley has worked extensively in the West End including appearing in "Tateh in Ragtime" at the Piccadilly Theatre for which he received a Laurence Olivier Award nomination for Best Actor. In concert, his performances have included "Guys and Dolls" (Royal Festival Hall, Vienna Konzerthaus), … - Ann Crumb
Ann Crumb is an American actress and singer. The daughter of composer George Crumb and sister of composer David Crumb, she made her Broadway debut in 1987 as a member of the original cast of "Les Misérables". Additional Broadway credits include "Chess", "Anna Karenina", for which she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical, and "Aspects of Love", in a role she originated in the West End. - Loni Ackerman
Loni Ackerman (born April 10, 1949) is an American Broadway musical theatre performer and cabaret singer. Born in New York City, she made her Broadway debut in "George M!" in 1968, then replaced Bernadette Peters in the hit off-Broadway production of "Dames at Sea". In 1971, Ackerman was cast in the revival of "No, No Nanette" as one of the three gold diggers chasing the title character's guardian. - Eleonora Cassano
Eleonora Cassano is an Argentine ballet dancer. She's known for being the dancing partner of Julio Bocca since 1989. Cassano studied in the Teatro Colón's Advanced Arts Institute and begins to work in the Teresa Carreño Foundation of Venezuela. In 1996, she started her career in the musical theatre with the plays "La Cassano en el Maipo" and "Cassano dancing". Over the following years she would continue dancing in other musicals such as "La Duarte", … - Mike D'Abo
Michael d'Abo (born 1 March 1944 in Betchworth, Surrey) is an English singer and songwriter, best known as the former lead vocalist of Manfred Mann. D'Abo began his musical career while still at Harrow School, and in 1966 he joined Manfred Mann, already a chart-topping group, as replacement for Paul Jones, who was leaving to go solo. D'Abo had already had minor success with a group, A Band of Angels, formed while at Harrow. - Victoria Matlock
Victoria Matlock is an American musical theatre actress. She has been involved in several regional theatre productions including Godspell and The Sound of Music. She has also performed in Cats at the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, NY as Grizzabella and in the original production of Saving Aimee by Kathie Lee Gifford. She performed in the national tour of The Full Monty and the 1st national tour of Evita. - Evita Perón
Eva Maria Duarte was born into a small poor village, Los Toldos. When she was still a child she always knew she wanted to break out and get more than the others from her life. She wanted to become an actress. At the age of 15, she seduced the singer Augustin Magaldi to take her with him on his journey to Buenos Aires, where she soon found work on stage and as a photo model. Some affairs later, she got her first film contract and starred in some minor roles. She soon realized that she... - Sarah Litzsinger
Sarah Elizabeth Litzsinger is an American actress best known for her career in musical theatre. Litzsinger's family is from Indianapolis, Indiana. She made her Broadway debut in 1983 at age eleven, as the understudy for Young Norma Jean in the short-lived "Marilyn: An American Fable". In 1984, she played Bet in the Broadway revival of "Oliver!", alongside Patti LuPone. She returned to New York City in 1992, at age eighteen, … - Myrra Malmberg
Myrra Malmberg is a Swedish singer and musical artist, born in Chicago, USA. Among other she has played Maria in "West Side Story" (Gothenburg), Evita in "Evita" (Stockholm), Christine in the "Phantom of the opera" (London), Cosette in "Les Misérable" (London) and Estella in "Great Expectations" (London). In 1998 she finished 3<sup>rd</sup> in the Swedish finals for the Eurovision Song Contest with the song “Julia”. - Peter Hughes
Peter Hughes (born 20 May 1922 in London) is an English actor. He has extensive film, television and theatre experience as a character actor. He played a recurring role as a bank manager, in the BBC television series "Bergerac" and he played General Franco in Sir Alan Parker's film adaptation of "Evita". He also coaches at Ealing cricket club.
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