Jenni Barber (Lies)) is thrilled to be part
of Musicals Tonight! Favorite roles include Gertrude McFuzz in
Seussical The Musical and Maggie in A Chorus Line both at the Music
Theatre of Wichita. BFA in Musical Theatre from the University of
Michigan. Thanks and love to family, Ron, and Mark Madama. AEA member.
Nicolas Davila (Ensemble): Musicals Tonight! debut. New York: Candide
in Concert (New York Philharmonic, aired on PBS); Misia (Playwrights
Horizons); Hello Again (Manhattan Theatre Source); Trouble in Tahiti
(Juilliard Opera Workshop). Regional: West Side Story (Tony); Evita
(Che); ,Joseph...(Joseph); The King and I (Lun Tha); The Fantasticks
(El Gallo). Originally from Northern California, Nic is a graduate of
The Juilliard School (BM - voice).
Paul Jason Green (Anatol) recently played the title role in Musicals
Tonight's Chocolate Soldier and is thrilled to return. Created the
leads in Andru's Head, Dorian Grey, Knight Life, Little Women and Mim.
Regionally: Charles Clarke in Titanic, Agis in Triumph Of Love,
Lancelot in Camelot, Hero in Forum, Harker in Dracula, Cable in South
Pacific, Freddy in My Fair Lady, Fyedka in Fiddler-, Whizzer in
Falsettos, Prince/Wolf in Into The Woods. TV: Sunset Beach, Guiding
Light and many commercials. Thank you family, friends, and agents for
the support. For Peny.
Kyrst Hogan (Madga u/s; Ensemble) New York: Caiphus in Superstar.
Jubilee (Musicals Tonight), Jolson, a Vaudeville. The Radio City
Christmas Spectacular. Atlantic City's Trump Plaza (Maggie in 42"`r
Street! Victor in Cabaret) Principal Singer for NCL. NHT: Steel
Magnolias, Twelfth Night, Cowgirls. W BT: Meet Me In St. Louis and
Anything Goes TBTS: The Secret Garden. BA in Theatre: Viterbo College.
Love you Doug. Hey! Still workin'!
Dennis Holland (Hen- Brandel) Broadway/National Tour: The Music Man,
Peter Pan. Off/Off-OffBroadway: Houdini, Meet John Doe; Pursuit of
Persephone, Frankenstein, Parlour Songs, Bump in the Road, Snatched!,
One Night at Tickles. Regional: Guys and Dolls (The Guthrie), Mistletoe
(Ford's), Kiss Me Kate (Wolf Trap). TV/Fihm: Ragtime, Falling in Love,
One Life to Live, Love to Polly, Anabel, Claire and Will.
Nehal Joshi (Ensemble) is pleased to be making his New York debut.
Regionally: Mister Roberts (Kennedy Center), Recent Tragic Events
(premiere), Carousel (Olney), Wit (Actor's Theatre of Louisville),
Senor Descretion Himself (premiere - Arena Stage) The Mad Dancers , and
the 25th and 26th Humana Festival of New American Plays. Film and TV:
HBO's The Wire, The Game of Their Lives. Education: James Madison
University and Shakespeare's Globe, London. Thank you Erin.
Hannah Knowlton (Ensemble) is a recent graduate of AMDA. She is making
her New York City debut with Musicals Tonight in The High Life. Thanks
to my family for all their love and support, my friends for all the
many laughs and memories we've shared, and to the cast, Mel and Torn
for this AMAZING experience! I've learned so much! Enjoy the show!!
Barbara McCulloh (Magda, Helene, Mimi) Broadway: Mrs. Darling in Pan
Peter with Cathy Rigby; and Mrs. Anna in The King and I, opposite Lou
Diamond Philips. Off -Broadway: MTC's 1-2-3-4-5; Jewish Rep's Kuni
-Leml; York Theatre's On the 20`r' Century. Regional credits: Blithe
Spirit, I 10 in the Shade, Barrymore Award Nomination for Best Actress
in Philadelphia, Hamlet, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Tartuffe, As Bees
in Honey Drown, Brighton Beach Memoirs and many more. TV includes:
Kitty in Courage the Cowardly Dog, Lynn Moody on Law and Order, SVU and
Caroline Griffin on Another World. Her performance is in honor of Jay
Tramel.
Meredith Pryce (Ensemble) is a recent AMDA graduate. Regional credits
include The Apple Tree, Ruddigore, Gianni Schicchi, Magic Flute,
Marriage of Figaro (George Washington University) and Ten (Generic
Theatre), Poof. (Lisner Back Box) and From Broadway to Hollywood: The
Glory Days (Smithsonian Institution).
Roger Rifkin (Franz) was recently seen as Hector/Stuart in The Beauty
Prize for Musicals Tonight! Off-Broadway: Max in Finnegan's Farewell
(Original Cast), Appopolous in ELTS Wonderful Towr
and Mac in Pipe Dream (Musicals in Concert). Regional: Sam/Jesse/Roy in
Plaza Suite, Mr.Dussel in The Diary Of Anne Frank, Horace Vandergelder
in Hello Dolly!, Milt in Laughter On The 23rd Floor, Moonface in
Anything Goes, Nathan Detroit in Guys And Dolls, Doolittle in My Fair
Lady and Max in The Sound Of Music. Roger has done animation
voice-overs and is also a playwright. Hi play, The Obligation was
produced by The Brooklyn Lyceum Theatre.
Doug Shapiro (Max) played Watty Watkins in Musicals Tonight's Lady Be
Good! and is glad to b, back. As a member of The Barnstormers
(Tamworth, NH) he was George in Same Time, Next Year, Mortimer in
Arsenic And Old Lace, Captain Warrington in Little Mary Sunshine, and
most of the women in The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare
(Abridged). Doug is currently subbing in as George S. Kaufman in Talk
Of The Town at the Algonquin and is a proud member of Equity.
Reshma Shetty (Ensemble) Roles include Maria (West Side Story), Musetta
( Boheme), Anne (A Little Night Music), Zerlina (Don Giovanni) and
Blonde (Die Entfdhrung aus dem Serail). She has sung with the
Washington Symphony Orchestra, The Messiah with the Lexington
Philharmonic and with the AIMS Symphony in Graz, Austria. Honors
include winner at the National Opera Association Competition and
recipient of the J. Alexander Vocal Award at CCM (she's a recent
graduate).
Deborah Jean Templin (Frau Brandel) International: Playing for Time.
National: Mamma Mia!, Titanic, Baby and Annie. Off-Broadway: We're
Still Hot!, Johnny Johnson, Darling of the Day. Eternal Love,
TomFoolery. Regional:Gilbert & Sullivan in Brief(s) (The Mezzo),
Walnut Street's Hello, Dolly! (Dolly), Annie (Hannigan), Cabaret
(Kost), Isn't It Romantic (Harriet), Barrymore Award for Nite Club
Confidential (Kaye), Floyd Collins (Miss Jane), I'nz Not Rappaport w/
Ben Vereen (Clara), Beautiful Lady, The Club. TV: Law and Order, All My
Children, Midnight Caller, Guiding Light. Professional Teaching
Associate, Cornell University. Writer/performer of Unsinkabl< Women:
Stories and Songs from the Titanic.
Matthew Trombetta (Ensemble) Favorite roles include: Tobias in Sweeney
Todd, Jinx in Forever Plaid, and Mr. Erlanson in A Little Night Music.
He is strongly committed to performing and developing new works of
musical theatre. A graduate of Northwestern University, he is the
Managing Artistic Director of Weathervane Playhouse, Ohio's oldest
summer stock theatre and a member of AEA. He is grateful to Craig
Carnelia and Deric Rosenblatt for their incredible instruction and
guidance.
Fay and Michael Kanin (Librettists) were screenwriters and playwrights
who usually worked together. He wrote Centennial Summer and won an
Oscar for Woman of the Year. They wrote Rhapsody, The Opposite of Sex
and received an Oscar nomination for Teacher's Pet. Fay's Broadway work
(without her husband) included Goodbye My Fancy, His and Hers,
Rashomon, and Grind (Tony Nomination). Fay is a past President of the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science and lives in California.
Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz (Lyrics and Music) began their
Broadway careers in the 1920 with Dear Sir and Grand Street Follies,
respectively. They worked together on Three's a Crowd, Th. Band Wagon,
Revenge with Music, At Home Abroad, Between the Devil, Inside U.S.A.,
Jennie, and Fosse. Schwartz also composed for the following: Stars in
Your Eyes, Park Avenue, A Tree Grows it Brooklyn, By the Beautiful Sea
(revived by Musicals Tonight in 1999). Dietz combined a 30-year career
as MGM Publicity Director with work as a lyricist on Merry-Go-Round,
Jackpot, Sadie Thompson, Ziegfeld Follies of 1957.
Thomas Mills (Director & Choreographer) is in his seventh season
with Musicals Tonight. Recently he choreographed the National Tour of
In The Mood, a 1940s revue with a 15-piece big band. Other projects
include directing and choreographing industrials and choreographing
Wrong Way Up, a new musical. He directed A Little Night Music for the
Utah Opera. Other credits: Director - Back-stage Bistro Awards (three
years) working with Faith Prince, Sally Mayes, Cleo Lane and Donna
McKecknie. Regionally: Director - 100 Years of Broadway (Helen Hayes);
director/choreographer -