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SAT, APRIL 16, 2016 | 3PM

This event is part of Project B-Way/95, a two-week multidisciplinary celebration of the Great White Way.

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WALL TO WALL CHRONOLOGY

1. Bach January 7, 1978

2. Music Fair June 3, 1978

3. Schubert November 19, 1978

4. Bach II March 24, 1979

5. Brahms November 24, 1979

6. Haydn March 22, 1980

7. Copland November 22, 1980

8. Bach & Sons March 21, 1981

9. Beethoven November 21, 1981

10. John Cage & Friends March 13, 1982

11. 5th Anniversary November 20, 1982

12. Baroque November 19, 1983

13. Charles Ives March 17, 1984

14. Richard Rodgers March 22, 1985

15. American Song March 22, 1986

16. Schubert II January 31, 1987

17. Mozart November 21, 1987

18. Cole Porter March 12, 1988

19. Renaissance April 1, 1989

20. Gershwin March 24, 1990

21. Duke Ellington March 16, 1991

22. Robert Schumann March 14, 1992

23. Off The Wall To Wall March 13, 1993

24. Irving Berlin March 19, 1994

25. Ravel & Debussy March 25, 1995

26. Folk: America & The World March 23, 1996

27. Leonard Bernstein March 22, 1997

28. Bach III March 21, 1998

29. Frank Loesser March 20, 1999

30. Kurt Weill March 25, 2000

31. Miles Davis March 24, 2001

32. Richard Rodgers II March 23, 2002

33. Joni Mitchell March 22, 2003

34. George Balanchine March 20, 2004

35. Stephen Sondheim March 19, 2005

36. Igor Stravinsky March 18, 2006

37. Opera 1607-2007 May 19, 2007

38. Bach IV May 17, 2008

39. Broadway May 16, 2009

40. Behind the Wall May 15, 2010

41. Sonidos May 14, 2011

42. Gertrude’s Paris May 5, 2012

43. Harlem Resonance May 11, 2013

44. Cabaret May 3, 2014

45. Johnny Cash April 25, 2015

46. Stephen Schwartz April 16, 2016

TODAY’S PROGRAM Wall to Wall House Musicians

Dan Willis, woodwinds

Gabby Fink, violin

Peter Sachon, cello

Chris Biesterfeldt, guitar

MaryAnn McSweeney, bass

Corey Schutzer, bass

Michael Croiter, drums and contractor

SEGMENT ONE

Prepare Ye Yale Vocal Ensemble

Let There Be Chuck Cooper

with the Wall to Wall Ensemble

Ben Whiteley, conductor

Alvin Hough, Jr., piano

THE MAGIC SHOWWest End Avenue

Lion Tamer Liz Callaway

Two’s Company Debbie Gravitte and Stephen Schwartz

Charlie Alterman, piano

CAPTAIN LOUIENew Kid in the Neighborhood

TADA! Resident Youth Ensemble

Matthew Gregory, music director

WORKINGFathers and Sons Charlie Alterman

Neat to be a Newsboy Joshua Colley

It’s an Art Debbie Gravitte

with members of the Wall to Wall Ensemble

James Cunningham, piano

COMPOSER APPRECIATIONSong of Stephen: A Tribute

Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner

MURDERED DARLINGSWhich Way’s the Party?

Erik Altemus

with members of the Wall to Wall Ensemble

Written in Stone Elena Wang

Bollywood Superstar Alanna, Claire, Heath, and Trent Saunders

Ted Arthur, piano

CLASSICAL SCHWARTZ, PART ONEYou Didn’t Know Her

(from Séance on a Wet Afternoon) Michael Zegarski and Sarah Chapin

Grant Wenaus, piano

Brief Encounter Paige Faure, soprano and Peter Sachon, cello

PERSONALSNothing to Do with Love

Sarah Chapin, Virginia Doyle, Nina Goodheart,

Michael Linden, Sam Lips, and Kevin Zak

James Cunningham, piano

SCHWARTZ AND PITCHFORDCry Without a Reason

Merideth Kaye Clark

More Than This Wesley Taylor

Patrick Sulken, piano

PIANO VARIATIONS #1Corner of the Sky Christopher Curtis

INSPIRED BY…Something’s Coming

Kyle Dean Massey

Just Around the Riverbend Alli Mauzey

What Makes Me Love Him Stephen Schwartz

I’m Not That Girl Merideth Kaye Clark

You’re Just In Love Scarlett Strallen and Jeff Kready

All for the Best Jeff Kready and Stephen Schwartz

James Cunningham, piano

Stephen Schwartz, piano

SEGMENT TWO

ENCHANTEDTrue Love’s Kiss

Alli Mauzey and Drew Gehling

with the Yale Vocal Ensemble and the Pit Stop Players

Joshua Rosenblum, conductor

SÉANCE ON A WET AFTERNOONSéance Suite

Pit Stop Players

Wondrous Things Anne-Carolyn Bird, soprano

with the Pit Stop Players

Joshua Rosenblum, conductor

STEPHEN SCHWARTZ AS LYRICISTBrand New World

Carolee Carmello and Joshua Colley

Rags Alli Mauzey

Children of the Wind Carolee Carmello

Grant Wenaus, piano

FIRST FLIGHTButterflies Are Free

Ben Hope

A PENCHANT FOR ANGRY SONGSAlas for You

Daniel Reichard

Lost in the Wilderness Darius de Haas

No Good Deed Rachel Tucker

James Sampliner, piano

Justin Hornback, piano

FIRST DRAFT TO FINAL DRAFTMarking Time

Jeff Kready

Extraordinary Kyle Dean Massey

Just Between the Two of Us Erik Altemus and Rachel Bay Jones

Love Song Rachel Bay Jones and Kyle Dean Massey

Making Good Lindsay Mendez

Wizard and I Rachel Tucker

Justin Hornback, piano

Marco Paguia, piano

CLASSICAL SCHWARTZ, PART TWOMass: A Simple Song

Destan Owens

James Sampliner, piano

Appassionata Christian Hebel, violin and Peter Sachon, cello

STAND ALONE SONGSDreamscape Josh Young

Crowded Island Erik Altemus

Forgiveness’ Embrace Cass Morgan

Patrick Sulken, piano

Steve Tyler, piano

PIANO VARIATIONS #2In the Beginning John Bucchino

GODSPELLDay by Day

Yale Vocal Ensemble

Save the People Hunter Parrish

with the Yale Vocal Ensemble

and members of the Wall to Wall Ensemble

All Good Gifts Raúl Esparza

with the Yale Vocal Ensemble

and members of the Wall to Wall Ensemble

Turn Back, O Man Allison Blackwell and Hunter Parrish

Beautiful City Hunter Parrish

Charlie Alterman, piano

COMPOSER APPRECIATION Matthew Sklar

CHORAL SCHWARTZTestimony

Judith Clurman’s Essential Voices USA

James Cunningham, piano

Judith Clurman, conductor

SEGMENT THREE

Generations Alanna, Claire, Heath, and Trent Saunders

with the Wall to Wall Ensemble

Alvin Hough, Jr., conductor

CHILDREN OF EDENThe Spark of Creation

Lilli Cooper

The Hardest Part of Love Daniel H. Jenkins

Ain’t It Good Aurelia Williams

with the Wall to Wall Ensemble

In the Beginning Alanna Saunders, Heath Saunders, Daniel Jenkins, and Aurelia Williams

with the Wall to Wall Ensemble

Alvin Hough, Jr., piano

Ben Whiteley, conductor

A SPECIAL GIFT(It’s a surprise.)

THE BAKER’S WIFEChanson

Raúl Esparza

Any-Day-Now Day Peter Benson

Proud Lady Max von Essen

Meadowlark Patti LuPone

Where Is the Warmth? Patti LuPone

Greg Anthony Rassen, piano

Joseph Thalken, piano

PIANO VARIATIONS #3We All Need Help to Feel Fine

(based on “You Are the Light of the World”) Joshua Rosenblum

PRINCE OF EGYPTThrough Heaven’s Eyes

Destan Owens

with Essential Voices USA

Footprints on the Sand Hunter Parrish

When You Believe Betsy Wolfe and Nikki M. James

with Essential Voices USA

Aaron Jodoin, piano Judith Clurman, conductor

CLASSICAL SCHWARTZ, PART THREEOne Little Lie

(from Séance on a Wet Afternoon) Lauren Flanigan

Stephen Schwartz, piano

WICKEDWhat Is This Feeling?

Merideth Kaye Clark and Patti Murin

with the Yale Vocal Ensemble

and members of the Wall to Wall Ensemble

Popular Patti Murin

As Long as You’re Mine Merideth Kaye Clark and Kyle Dean Massey

Defying Gravity Merideth Kaye Clark

Ted Arthur, piano

SCHWARTZ RESTRUNGSince I Gave My Heart Away

Ben Hope

So Far Ben Hope

with

Brandon Ellis, cajon

Katrina Lenk, fiddle

Scott Stangland, accordion

THE ALAN MENKEN COLLABORATIONHappy Working Song

Laura Osnes

Out There Josh Young

Colors of the Wind Betsy Wolfe

COMING ATTRACTIONSIt’ll Be Me from Houdini Michael McCorry Rose

Dream Big from Schikaneder Raúl Esparza and Betsy Wolfe

Bravo, Stromboli! from My Son Pinocchio Jeff Kready

Wings of a Swan from My Fairy Tale Hunter Parrish and Joshua Colley

Greg Anthony Rassen, piano

PIPPINMagic to Do/Simple Joys

Patina Miller

Corner of the Sky Kyle Dean Massey

No Time at All Tovah Feldshuh

with the Yale Vocal Ensemble

James Sampliner, piano

Charlie Alterman, piano

COMPOSER APPRECIATION Andrew Lippa

FEATURING STEPHEN SCHWARTZCan You Imagine That?

Stephen Schwartz

For Good Stephen Schwartz

FINALEMorning Glow

Kyle Dean Massey and Patina Miller

with Essential Voices USA

Charlie Alterman, piano

CREDITS

Produced and Curated by

Joel Fram and Annette Jolles

Directed by

Annette Jolles

Associate Director

Jenny Leon

Assistant Director

Zachary Elkind

Choral Associates

James Cunningham and Christine DiGiallonardo

Music Preparation

Christopher Gurr

Music Preparation Associates

Josie Bearden, Patrick Fanning, Evan Rees, Sinai Tabak

ORCHESTRATION AND ARRANGEMENT CREDITS

Matt Aument Colors of the Wind

Happy Working Song

Out There

Which Way’s the Party?

You Didn’t Know Her

William David Brohn and Joshua Rosenblum Séance Suite

Wondrous Things

Michael Holland Just Between the Two of Us

Aaron Jodoin Footprints on the Sand

Through Heaven’s Eyes

When You Believe

Ben Hope Since I Gave My Heart Away

Greg Mulzet Bollywood Superstar

Neil Douglas Reilly Crowded Island

Dreamscape

More Than This

Written in Stone

James Sampliner Magic to Do/Simple Joys

Danny Troob and Jamie Lawrence True Love’s Kiss

Scott Wasserman Neat to Be a Newsboy

A Simple Song

SPECIAL THANKS

Charlie Alterman, Dominick Amendum, Josie Bearden,

Jason Robert Brown, Mary Mitchell Campbell, Ben Cohn, Judith Clurman,

Michael Cole, Michael Croiter, James Cunningham, Christine DiGiallonardo,

Dan Egan, Patrick Fanning, Christopher Gurr, Matthew Haws,

Alex Lacamoire, Larry Lees, Jenny Leon, Greg Mulzet, Tom Murray,

Music Theatre International, Stephen Oremus, Evan Rees,

Michael McCorry Rose, Rolando Sanz, Lynne Shankel, Georgia Stitt,

Sinai Tabak, Janine Nina Trevens, Bill Weible, Ben Whiteley

THE WALL TO WALL ENSEMBLE

Stephanie Barnum Cameron Bartell Joseph Becherer

Kate Berman Brandon Bieber

Kyle Brown Nina Cabrera

Robin Campbell Emily Dallas

Christine DiGiallonardo

Nathaniel Dolquist Leah Edwards

Zina Ellis Craig Foster Robert Frost

Nkrumah Gatling Alex Gibson

Mary Illes Christopher Isolano

Joy Lynn Jacobs Emily Jenda

Josh Lerner Michael Marcotte

Alexander McDaniel Timothy McDevitt

Jason Mills Yassi Noubahar

Jamie Pittle AnnMarie Powers

Alex Ratner Mary Rice

Lindsay Roberts

Sheldon Rogers James Rose

Sarah Stevens Samantha Turlington

Dexter Warren Bray Wilkins

Alexandria Williams Kevin Zak

THE YALE VOCAL ENSEMBLE

Erika Anclade Jamie Bogyo Lexi Butler

Sarah Chapin

Virginia Doyle Nina Goodheart

Erin Krebs Anya Markowitz

Aaron McAleavey Delilah Napier

Simon Schaitkin

JUDITH CLURMAN’S ESSENTIAL VOICES USA

Judith Clurman, Conductor and Music Director Glen Banta, Chorus Manager

Angela Catalano, Production Assistant Geraldina Anello, Rehearsal Pianist

Stephan Anderson Glen Banta

Nellie Beavers Maria Becvar

Joseph Beutel* Kylie Briggs

Dorie Casper Angela Catalano Gina Costanza David Davila

Michael Douris Mark Falconer Kate Fitzgerald

Brad K. Ford BethAnn Freed Nolan Patrick

Frontera

Jared Glazer Shoshana Greenberg

Andrew Gruden Crystal Gulley

Mark D. Haddad Nicholas Harbison Francesca Harris

Jean Staten Healy Matt Herbek

Laura Hirschberg Alonzo Johnson* Helen Karloski* Rachel Kemp

Jack Kirk Heidi Krump Elizabeth Lee

Matt Leonard Kate Levin

Joseph N. Levine Claude Levy

Betsy Lichtenstein Holly Longmore

Robbie MacDonald Regiane Martinez*

Steve Moore* Crystal Nilpirom

Cecilia Malkum Oh Mariela Flor Olivo

Sara Phillips Beth Prather Kim Queren Joey Revier*

Lisa Richardson

Ali Roselle Jonathan Roselle Dan Rosenbaum

Daniel Scher Jessica Shafer

Joseph Shapiro Nicholas Sotack

Elisa Singer Strom Autumn Joan Tilson

John Tiranno* Gerardo Vallejo Kevin Vaughn Brian Wong

Ernest Zalamea Lori Zeglarski*

* Soloists in “Testimony”

PIT STOP PLAYERS

Joshua Rosenblum, Artistic Director and Conductor

Steve Kenyon, woodwinds Marc Phaneuf, woodwinds Todd Groves, woodwinds Ken Dybisz, woodwinds

Don McGeen, woodwinds Dan Culpepper, horn

Chris Jaudes, trumpet Bruce Bonvissuto, trombone

Robin Zeh, violin Victor Costanzi, violin Denise Stillwell, viola Peter Sachon, cello

Bill Ellison, bass Susan Jolles, harp

Gregory Landes, percussion Mariana Ramirez, percussion

Garah Landes, piano

ABOUT THE ARTISTSERIK ALTEMUS Best known as Lewis (Pippin u/s) in the 2013 Broadway revival of Pippin. Other credits: Matt (the boy) in The Fantasticks (Off-Broadway), Rocky in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Jesus in Godspell. Concerts at 54 Below, Birdland Jazz, Joe’s Pub. Many thanks to Stephen for this opportunity. erikaltemus.com

A lifelong fan of Stephen Schwartz, CHARLIE ALTERMAN had the honor of music directing the Broadway revivals of Godspell and Pippin. Other Broadway credits as Music Director include Next to Normal and Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me. He’s thrilled to be a part of this celebration of Schwartz!

ERIKA ANCLADE is excited to be performing in Wall to Wall! She recently performed in Hello Again (The Nurse) and A Chorus Line (Diana Morales, Yale DRAMAT). She thanks Annette Jolles, Joel Fram, and Symphony Space for this opportunity. She thanks God and her family and friends for supporting her!

TED ARTHUR is a music director and accompanist and has worked on a number of New York projects and readings. He works with Broadway Cares and vocal directs the show productions at Busch Gardens in Williamsburg, VA. Ted currently works as a rehearsal accompanist at Wicked.

PETER BENSON Broadway: The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Bazzard), Promises, Promises (Mr. Kirkeby and Chuck Baxter), Boeing/Boeing (standby to Mark Rylance), The Pajama Game (Prez), Cabaret (Ernst Ludwig), and others. Off-Broadway: Distracted (Roundabout), Birth & Afterbirth (Atlantic), The New Moon (City Center), Urban Dictionary Plays (Ars Nova), and others. Television: Horace & Pete, Banshee, Elementary, and The Americans.

ANNE-CAROLYN BIRD’s 2015-2016 season encompasses opera (Tytania, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hawaii Opera Theater; Mary Todd Lincoln, Philip Glass’s Appomattox, Washington National Opera; Giannetta, L’elisir d’amore, Metropolitan Opera), musical theater (Marian, The Music Man, Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre), and oratorio (Knoxville, Summer of 1915, Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra; David Lang’s Little Match Girl Passion, IlluminArts Miami).

ALLISON BLACKWELL Broadway: Aretha Franklin in A Night With Janis Joplin, The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, The Lion King. Favorite Roles: Fantine (Les Miserables), Dotty/Washing Machine/Moon (Caroline, or Change), Sister Mary Hubert (Nunsense). Currently touring nationally with Liz Callaway in Tapestry: Carole King Songbook. M.M. The Boston Conservatory.

BRUCE BONVISSUTO (Pit Stop Players) has performed or recorded with hundreds of artists, including: Marilyn Horne, Bernadette Peters, Tony Bennett, Dave Brubeck, Rosemary Clooney, Kristin Chenowith. Broadway: NYCC Encores! and Chicago. Recently: West Side Story, A Prairie Home Companion, and the recording of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the Musical.

JOHN BUCCHINO’s award-winning songs have been performed by some of the world’s great artists. He’s released CDs, songbooks, a children’s book, and written the songs for musicals including Broadway’s A Catered Affair, the Danish musical Esaura, and lyrics for Simeone’s Gift, with book by Julie Andrews and Emma Hamilton. johnbucchino.com

LEXI BUTLER, a junior at Yale, is thrilled to be performing in Wall to Wall Stephen Schwartz. Credits include Ms. Fleming/Veronica’s Mom in Heathers: The Musical, Erika in Exception to the Rule, Angela in Parade, and Phantom in The Rocky Horror Show. Many thanks to her family and Annette Jolles.

LIZ CALLAWAY Tony nominee and Emmy winner Liz Callaway’s Broadway credits include Merrily We Roll Along, Baby, Miss Saigon, The Look of Love, and Cats. She has provided the singing voice for numerous animated movies, including the title character of the Oscar-nominated Anastasia. Liz has six solo albums, including her newest, The Essential Liz Callaway. lizcallaway.com

CAROLEE CARMELLO Broadway shows: Tuck Everlasting, Finding Neverland (Drama Desk nomination), Scandalous (Tony & Drama Desk nomination), Sister Act, The Addams Family (Drama Desk & Outer Critics Circle nomination), Mamma Mia, Lestat (Tony & Drama Desk nomination), Urinetown, Kiss Me Kate, The Scarlet Pimpernel, 1776, Parade (Tony nomination & Drama Desk Award), Falsettos, and City of Angels.

JEFFREY CARNEY (Pit Stop Players) Jazz: Stan Getz, Bobby McFerrin. Pop: Sting, James Taylor, Billy Joel, Andrea Bocelli, Elton John, and Barbra Streisand. Principal bass, New York Pops. Broadway chairs: Beauty and the Beast, Cyrano, Secret Garden, Anything Goes, Les Miserables. Studio: Hail Caesar!, True Grit, and more. Professor at The New School.

SARAH CHAPIN is thrilled to perform at Symphony Space! As a junior Theater Studies major at Yale, Sarah has often performed on campus and at The Keegan Theatre and Studio Theatre in Washington, DC. She would like to thank her family, Annette Jolles, Joel Fram, and Dan Egan for everything.

MERIDETH KAYE CLARK Elphaba, Wicked (First National Tour); Nancy, Oliver! (5th Ave); Eva Peron, Evita (Northern Stage); Olivia, Twelfth Night (Alabama Shakespeare Festival); Cathy, The Last Five Years (Portland Center Stage); Clara, The Light in the Piazza (Portland Playhouse). Currently, performing Joni Mitchell’s album Blue top to bottom! meridethkayeclark.com

JUDITH CLURMAN’S ESSENTIAL VOICES USA (EVUSA) performs on the Carnegie Hall subscription series with The New York Pops and at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music in “The Composer Speaks” series. EVUSA has held a residency with National Public Radio and was featured on NBC’s Macy’s July 4 Spectacular Fireworks and the Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting.

JOSHUA COLLEY Broadway credits: Les Misérables (Gavroche), Newsies (Les). Regional: A Bronx Tale (Young Calogero), Paper Mill Playhouse. National Tours: 25th Anniversary of Les Misérables (Gavroche), Elf The Musical (Young Michael). TV: Peter Rabbit (Pig Robinson), Madam Secretary (John Welington). joshuacolley.com, Instagram: joshuarobertcolley, Twitter: @TheJoshuaColley

CHUCK COOPER won the Tony Award for his performance in The Life. Other awards: The Lucille Lortel Award, The San Diego Critics’ Circle Award, three Audelco Awards, two Drama Desk Nominations. TV: The Good Wife, House of Cards, Madam Secretary, Nurse Jackie, Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight. chuckcooper.net

LILLI COOPER Broadway: Spring Awakening (original cast), Wicked (Elphaba: Broadway, Australia, and 2nd National Tour). NY and regional: The Wildness (Ars Nova), Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 (American Repertory Theater), Noir (New York Stage and Film & NAMT), Independents (NY Times’ Critic’s Pick). Creator of “It’s Not Okay, Cupid.” lillicooper.com

VICTOR COSTANZI’s (Pit Stop Players) professional engagements across the globe span many roles and genres, including: soloist, concertmaster (orchestra, opera, ballet, film, musical theatre, and for many popular performers), new music, early music, and chamber music. He made his debut at the age of 16 with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.

DAN CULPEPPER (Pit Stop Players) has performed or recorded with artists such as Frank Sinatra, Barbara Streisand, Elton John, James Taylor, Beyoncé, Pavarotti, Sting, Yo-Yo Ma, and more. He is a member of the Grammy-nominated Borealis Wind Quintet. On Broadway, Dan is currently performs in Phantom of the Opera.

JAMES CUNNINGHAM NY & National Tours: Avenue Q, Bunnicula, White Christmas, Spamalot, Evita. Regional: Rent, Fiddler On The Roof, Les Misérables, Buddy Holly, Always…Patsy Cline (Casa Mañana), Kiss Me, Kate (Shakespeare Theater), A Wonderful Life (Engeman), Damn Yankees (Paper Mill), Little Shop of Horrors (MUNY), Phantom (NCT). Education: Manhattan School of Music, NYU.

CHRISTOPHER CURTIS is a composer and lyricist who has written for TV, film, and Broadway. His musical, Chaplin, played on Broadway and was nominated for six Drama Desk Awards and eight Outer Circle Critics’ Awards, including “Best Musical.” An acclaimed version of Chaplin is playing internationally and will debut in Europe and London 2016 and 2017.

DARIUS DE HAAS Broadway: Kiss of the Spider Woman, Rent, Carousel, Marie Christine, The Gershwins’ Fascinating Rhythm. Other credits include Stephen Schwartz’s Children of Eden (Papermill Playhouse). He is currently appearing on Broadway in Shuffle Along. dariusdehaas.com

ZACHARY ELKIND is a Yale junior majoring in English and Theater. Directing: Venus in Fur, The 39 Steps, Macbeth, Arcadia, Hamlet, Curtains, The Diary of a Madman, Here Be Dragons. Thanks to the Vail Elkind family, the Yale Alley Cats, and Apartment 2G and its inhabitants.

KEN DYBISZ (Pit Stop Players) has performed with Steve Reich, the New York Philharmonic, EOS, and at the 92nd Street Y. He has played woodwinds in Broadway musicals for the last 30 years, in such shows as Spamalot, Victor/Victoria, Pippin, The Boy from Oz, Promises, Promises, and many others.

RAÚL ESPARZA stars on Law & Order: SVU. Four-time Tony Award nominee and recognized six times by the Drama Desk Awards. Other Broadway: Cabaret, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Speed-the-Plow, Arcadia, Leap of Faith. Film: Find Me Guilty, My Soul to Take, and Trouble in the Heights. Additional TV: A Gifted Man, Medium, 666 Park Avenue, Pushing Daisies, Hannibal.

MAX VON ESSEN is currently playing Henri Baurel in An American in Paris, a role which garnered him a 2015 Tony nomination. Other Broadway: Evita, Les Misérables, Dance of the Vampires, and Jesus Christ Superstar. For Max, working with Stephen Schwartz on the Paper Mill Playhouse production of The Baker’s Wife remains a career highlight.

PAIGE FAURE most recently played the title role in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, both on Broadway and opening the first national tour. Other Broadway: Bullets Over Broadway, How to Succeed. Paige has also performed as a soloist with the New American Pops Orchestra in DC and in numerous national tours and regional premieres.

TOVAH FELDSHUH From Yentl to Golda’s Balcony to Pippin, etc.: 4 Tony nominations: Best Actress. On TV, 2 Emmy nominations and this season: Deanna Monroe on The Walking Dead, Ivana on Flesh & Bone, Naomi Bunch on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and the title role in the new musical Queen of Mean: The Rise & Fall Of Leona Helmsley. tovahfeldshuh.com

JOEL FRAM (Producer and Curator) has worked extensively in New York and London, conducting the Broadway productions of Scandalous, Wicked, Sweet Smell of Success, The Music Man, James Joyce’s The Dead, Jumpers, and Cats; the West End company of Wicked; and Forbidden Broadway at the Menier Chocolate Factory. He created musical arrangements for the ballet Pictures from an Exhibition at both the Young Vic and Sadler’s Wells Theatre. With Annette Jolles, he created the award-winning “New Voices” concert series and, for Symphony Space, has co-produced and curated “Wall to Wall Stephen Sondheim,” “Wall to Wall Cabaret,” and “Frank Sinatra at 100.” Mr. Fram most recently supervised the world premiere of Baddies at London’s Unicorn Theatre and conducted the NY premiere of Andrew Lippa’s I Am Harvey Milk with Kristin Chenoweth at Avery Fisher Hall. Up next: the world premiere of Mr. Lippa’s I Am Anne Hutchinson at the Music Center at Strathmore.

DREW GEHLING Broadway: Waitress, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Jersey Boys. Elsewhere: American Repertory Theatre, Lincoln Center Theatre, Paper Mill Playhouse, Vineyard Theatre, La Jolla, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Quantum Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, Live at Lincoln Center. TV/Film: Elementary, 30 Rock, Smash, Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight. Carnegie Mellon and Columbia University.

NINA GOODHEART is thrilled to make her New York debut in Wall to Wall. She recently directed She Kills Monsters at Yale University and spent the last year at the American Repertory Theater assisting director Diane Paulus (Crossing: A New American Opera, Waitress). Thanks to Annette, Joel, and her family.

TODD GRAVES (Pit Stop Players) Performances/recordings: Aladdin, Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Encores!, NY Philharmonic, MET Opera, NJ Symphony, Boyz II Men, R. Kelly, Kenny Werner, and Audra McDonald. Also an active composer, Todd is member of the NY and NJ Saxophone Quartets and saxophone/jazz instructor at the University of Delaware.

DEBBIE GRAVITTE Jerome Robbins Broadway (Tony Award), They’re Playing Our Song (debut), Blues in the Night, Perfectly Frank (Drama Desk Nomination), Zorba, Ain’t Broadway Grand?, Chicago, Les Misérables. Encores: The Boys from Syracuse, Tenderloin, Carnival. CDs: Gravity, The Alan Menken Album, The MGM Album. Film: Isn’t She Great, The Little Mermaid.

CHRISTIAN HEBEL Soloist: Atlanta Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Boston Pops, Los Angeles Philharmonic. Toured/Performed/Recorded: Josh Groban, James Taylor, Justin Timberlake, Beyonce, Bruce Springsteen, Jay-Z, Barbra Streisand, Billy Joel. Soloist: Africa, Australia, Asia, Europe. Films: The Social Network, X-Men, Life of Pi, Moneyball, Alice in Wonderland. Broadway/Off: Light in the Piazza, Wicked, Last Five Years, Next to Normal.

BEN HOPE is a lucky Alabamian who has been fortunate enough to work with some of the best folks in the business. Joining him are dear friends and former Once cast-mates Katrina Lenk (fiddle), Brandon Ellis (cajon), and Scott Stangland (accordion).

JUSTIN HORNBACK is a music director, conductor, arranger, and pianist. Broadway: The Color Purple, School of Rock, Honeymoon in Vegas, Kinky Boots, Matilda, Motown: The Musical, Pippin, Bullets Over Broadway, Bring It On, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Priscilla Queen of the Desert.

ALVIN HOUGH, JR. Broadway: The Color Purple (current revival), Motown, Scandalous, Memphis, Newsies. Tour: Dreamgirls, Memphis. Alvin is highly indebted to Joel Fram for this wonderful opportunity, and, as a happy newlywed, he would like to thank his wife Rebecca for being even more wonderful than when he married her.

NIKKI M. JAMES originated the role of Nabalungi in Book of Mormon, for which she won the Tony for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. Broadway: Les Misérables, All Shook Up, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Other theater: Romeo and Juliet, Caesar and Cleopatra, Preludes, Fetch Clay/Make Man, The Wiz, Bernarda Alba, House of Flowers.

CHRIS JAUDES (Pit Stop Players) Broadway: Sunset Boulevard, Ragtime, Steel Pier, On the Town, Flower Drum Song, Annie Get Your Gun, Pajama Game, Mother Courage and her Children, Hair, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and Faust by Randy Newman. Bands: Paul Anka, Brass Band of Battle Creek, Birdland Big Band. Teaches at Juilliard School.

AARON JODOIN received his Master of Music in Conducting and a Bachelor of Music in Music Theatre Accompanying, both from Shenandoah University. Broadway credits: Amazing Grace, Finding Neverland, It Shoulda Been You, Gigi, Side Show, Kinky Boots, First Date, Annie. Off-Broadway credits: Mad Libs Live! (Music Supervisor), Heathers, Avenue Q.

ANNETTE JOLLES (Producer and Director) has created a diverse body of work as a producer, writer, and director for stage and television. She received multiple Emmy Awards for the worldwide coverage of the 9/11 Memorial from Ground Zero and Mitzi Gaynor: Razzle Dazzle! Television directing for Live from Lincoln Center on PBS includes Richard Tucker Gala (2013 - 2015), NY Philharmonic New Year’s Eve: La Vie Parisienne, Norm Lewis: Who Am I?, and Patina Miller in Concert. Additionally, two Michael Feinstein specials at the Rainbow Room. Producing includes world feeds ranging from the Yankees’ Ticker Tape Parades to the recent visit of Pope Francis. Previously at Symphony Space with producing partner Joel Fram: “Wall to Wall Sondheim,” “Wall to Wall Cabaret,” “Frank Sinatra at 100,” and ten seasons of “New Voices” Concerts. Broadway producing: Fiddler on the Roof, China Doll, The Scottsboro Boys (Tony nomination), The Anarchist, Looped. She teaches Musical Theater performance at Yale University.

SUSAN JOLLES (Pit Stop Players), harpist, is a member of the American Composers Orchestra, Encores, Little Orchestra Society, Percussia, Queens Symphony, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra (associate). She is on the faculties of the Manhattan School of Music, Mannes College of Music, and Hofstra University.

RACHEL BAY JONES Broadway: Pippin, Hair, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. Off-Broadway: Dear Evan Hansen, First Daughter Suite, Hello Again. National Tour: A Christmas Story. Regional (selected): Pippin, Sylvia, The King and I. TV: The Family, Louie. Album: ShowFolk. Rachel is the mother to a twelve-year-old girl.

STEVE KENYON (Pit Stop Players) plays woodwinds for Broadway (Matilda, currently), Lincoln Center (NY Philharmonic, City Ballet), TV (Tony Awards, Kennedy Center Honors, Smash), films (Hail, Caesar!, Hollywoodland, What Just Happened), jazz (Maria Schneider, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Gil Evans Project), NY Saxophone Quartet. He is also a composer (Downbeat Award) and teaches at Hofstra University.

JEFF KREADY starred on Broadway as Monty Navarro in A Gentleman’s Guide… Other Broadway: Billy Elliot, Sunday in the Park…, and Les Misérables. Regional: Jimmy in …Millie (Paper Mill), Mr. Snow in Carousel (Goodspeed), and David Sedaris’s one-man-show Santaland Diaries (Hartford TheaterWorks). TV: Boardwalk Empire (HBO). Husband of Nikki Renée Daniels, father of Lena. @JK_Ready

GARAH LANDES (Pit Stop Players) is a pianist, composer, and arranger. Founding member of Synchronicity with his brother, Gregory Landes. Stravinsky/Bernstein projects with Paquito D’Rivera include Tanglewood, Moab, and Jazz at Lincoln Center. Solo recordings on KOCH International and Stradivari Classics. Featured composer: Tribeca New Music Festival.

GREGORY LANDES (Pit Stop Players) Drummer/Percussionist/Educator. Orchestral: New Haven, American Symphony, NY Chorale Society, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Princeton, Albany Symphony, Little Orchestra Society. Synchronicity: piano/percussion duo. Broadway/Off-Broadway: The Landing, The Grinch, Newsies, Avenue Q, In The Heights, Curtains, Wicked, 42nd Street, Ragtime, Les Miserables, Falsettos, Putting It Together. Recording: The Grinch, The Landing, Curtains, Falsettoland, Putting It Together.

FRED LASSEN Broadway: Finding Neverland, Once, Porgy and Bess, South Pacific, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Spamalot, Cabaret, 42nd Street. Off-Broadway/Regional: Threepenny Opera (Atlantic), ZORRO (Alliance). Helen Hayes nomination: Outstanding Music Direction, Sycamore Trees (Signature, DC). International: Prince of Broadway (Tokyo/Osaka), Once (Dublin), Cabaret (Folies Bergère, Paris).

JENNY LEON is a director and writer originally from the Bay Area. Previously at Symphony Space, Jenny was the Associate Director for “Frank Sinatra at 100” and “Wall to Wall: Cabaret.” She also creates original musicals for NYC public schools as a teaching artist with Inside Broadway, a theatrical non-profit. BFA: Syracuse University. jennyaleon.com

MICHAEL LINDEN is so honored to be here! National tours: Hair, Spring Awakening. Regional: North Shore, Barrington Stage, Westchester Broadway, Walnut, Arden, Amphibian Stage, 11th Hour, among others. B.F.A.: UArts. Member of RANGE A Cappella. Twitter: @MichaeLinden. Instagram: Michael_Linden. Lover of all things canine and all things delicious.

ANDREW LIPPA Broadway: Big Fish (music/lyrics), The Addams Family (music/lyrics), The Wild Party (book/music/lyrics), A Little Princess (music), john & jen (music/book), Asphalt Beach (music/lyrics), and You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown (additional music/lyrics, arrangements). Tony and Grammy nominations, Emmy for The Wonder Pets, Gilman/Gonzalez-Falla Theater Foundation Award, Richard Rodgers/New Horizons Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award.

SAM LIPS just finished playing Action in Carnegie Hall’s West Side Story. Broadway credits include: Pippin (swing/Pippin us), Cinderella (ensemble/Prince Topher us). National tours: Pippin (Pippin), Wicked (ensemble/Fiyero us). Regional: St. Louis Muny, Pittsburgh Clo Music Theatre of Wichita. BFA in Musical Theatre from The University of Michigan.

PATTI LUPONE won Tony Awards for her performances as Eva Peron in Evita and Madame Rose in Gypsy. She recently filmed opposite Robert DeNiro in Taylor Hackford’s The Comedian. Next month, she will be seen in Showtime’s series Penny Dreadful. This summer, she will create the role of Helena Rubinstein in the new musical War Paint at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre.

ANYA MARKOWITZ is a junior at Yale University majoring in Theater Studies. Her recent credits include Cabaret, A Little Night Music, and Yale Dramatic Association’s production of The Winter’s Tale (Paulina). In addition, she is a director, most recently of the Dramat’s 2015 Commencement Musical, A Chorus Line.

KYLE DEAN MASSEY recently recurred on two seasons of ABC’s Nashville. Broadway: Pippin in Pippin, Gabe in Next to Normal, Fiyero in Wicked, Thalia in Xanadu. Other TV: The Good Wife, Inside Amy Schumer, High Maintenance (web series), Up All Night, Hart of Dixie, Cupid. Film: Sex And the City 2, Contest, The Afterparty (upcoming). @kyledeanmassey

ALLI MAUZEY Broadway: Wicked (Glinda), Cry Baby (Lenora, Drama League Award Nomination, Theatre World Award), Hairspray. Other NY: Show Boat (Ellie May, NY Philharmonic), It’s a Bird…It’s a Plane… (Sydney, City Center Encores!). Regional: Cinderella (Cinderella, Nashville Symphony Orchestra), Little Shop of Horrors (Audrey, The Muny, Kevin Kline Award Nomination), and more.

DON McGEEN (Pit Stop Players) is a versatile woodwind player who performs in many capacities as a chamber, orchestral, and Broadway musician in the New York area. He has served on the faculties of NYU, NJCU, and William Paterson State College and is currently performing in She Loves Me at Studio 54.

LINDSAY MENDEZ Broadway: Wicked (Elphaba, 10th Anniversary Company), Godspell, Everyday Rapture, Grease. Off-Broadway: Significant Other (Roundabout), Dogfight (2nd Stage: OCC, Drama League, and Drama Desk nominations), The Marvelous Wonderettes. Other: The Winter’s Tale (Delacorte), 21 Chump Street (This American Life at BAM), Ryan Scott Oliver’s 35MM. TV: Smash. Twitter: @lindsaymendez.

PATINA MILLER Broadway: Pippin (Tony and Outer Critics Circle Award), Sister Act (Theatre World Award). Off-Broadway: Ragtime, Lost in the Starts, Romantic Poetry and The Public Theater’s revival of Hair. Regional: Pippin, First You Dream, Sister Act, Being Alive. West End: Sister Act. TV: Madam Secretary, All My Children, American Songbook Gala. Film: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 & 2.

CASS MORGAN Broadway: The Bridges of Madison County, Memphis, Mary Poppins, Ring of Fire, Beauty and the Beast, The Capeman, The Human Comedy, Pump Boys and Dinettes (co-creator), Hair. Off-Broadway: The Immigrant, Floyd Collins, Violet. Regional: The Road to Where (GEVA theatre Centre, Weston Playhouse).

PATTI MURIN Broadway/National Tour: Lysistrata Jones (Lysistrata), Wicked (Galinda), Xanadu (Euterpe). Off-Broadway: Love’s Labour’s Lost (Princess, Shakespeare in the Park), Fly By Night (Daphne, Playwrights Horizons). Almost Broadway: Nerds (Sally). Other favorites: Holiday Inn (Linda Mason, Goodspeed and the MUNY), Chicago (Roxie Hart, the MUNY). TV: Royal Pains and Chicago Med.

DELILAH NAPIER is thrilled to be celebrating the amazing Stephen Schwartz! Former member Children’s Chorus/Metropolitan Opera. Favorite Roles: Velma (Hairspray), April (Company), and Dunyasha (The Cherry Orchard, Antaeus Theatre, LA). TV: Criminal Minds. Voice: Joy Hermalyn, Michael Dean, Jane Olian. Upcoming: Venus (Cupidity, original musical, Yale).

LAURA OSNES Broadway: Cinderella (Drama Desk Award; Tony nom.), Bonnie & Clyde (Tony nom.), Anything Goes, South Pacific, Grease. NY/Regional: The Bandstand (Paper Mill Playhouse), TheThreepenny Opera (Atlantic Theater), The Sound of Music (Carnegie Hall), Carousel (Chicago Lyric Opera). TV: Elementary, Six By Sondheim, Kennedy Center Honors. Solo albums: Dream A Little Dream and If I Tell You.

DESTAN OWENS Broadway: Rent, Chicago, Smokey Joe’s Café, The Who’s Tommy 15th Anniversary Concert. Regional: Dreamgirls, Jesus Christ Superstar, Carmen, Trouble in Tahiti, A Little Night Music, Die Fledermaus. Film: Marie and Bruce, Get Rich or Die Trying, Across the Universe. TV: 30 Rock, The Break-up. Soloist: Oklahoma City Philharmonic, Memphis Symphony Orchestra, Grand Rapids Symphony, Phoenix Symphony.

HUNTER PARRISH is best known for playing Silas Botwin on Showtime’s critically acclaimed series, Weeds, opposite Mary Louise Parker. He made his Broadway debut as Melchior in Spring Awakening and later portrayed Jesus in the Broadway revival of Stephen Schwartz’s Godspell. Parrish recently starred in Still Alice, opposite Julianne Moore and co-stars in Amazon’s upcoming new drama series, The Good Girls Revolt.

MARC PHANEUF (Pit Stop Players) is a New York freelance saxophonist and woodwind doubler. Notable performances: Boston Symphony, Boston Pops and Quincy Jones, and LA Philharmonic. He plays for Broadway, TV/film, and recording sessions. He was most recently involved with the Broadway’s acclaimed Honeymoon In Vegas.

GREGORY ANTHONY RASSEN Broadway (conducting): An American in Paris, Bullets Over Broadway, The Little Mermaid, The Book of Mormon, and Cinderella. Off-Broadway: Peter and the Starcatcher (New World Stages), Brundibar (New Victory). As featured pianist: A Chorus Line (Revival), An American in Paris, Lady Be Good (Encores!) TV: The View, Kelly & Michael, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. greganthonymusic.com

DANIEL REICHARD originated the role of Bob Gaudio in Jersey Boys. Other roles: Candide in NYC Opera's Candide, The Thing About Men, Forbidden Broadway, Radiant Baby at the Public Theater, and in the film Forever Plaid. He is currently touring across the country in The Midtown Men, which he co-created and co-produced. He will play Birdland on May 8th.

MICHAEL MCCORRY ROSE was most recently on Broadway in A Gentleman’s Guide To Love and Murder and as Fiyero in Wicked. He has appeared in concert at the Allen Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Birdland, Symphony Space, and 54 Below. Regional: The Paper Mill Playhouse, Yale Rep, Primary Stages, Capital Rep, and Project Shaw.

JOSHUA ROSENBLUM (Pit Stop Players) is a composer, conductor, pianist, music critic, and has conducted thirteen Broadway and Off-Broadway shows. Music director: Pit Stop Players. Composer/Lyricist: BUSH IS BAD, Fermat’s Last Tango, Einstein’s Dreams, and the forthcoming Mark Felt, Superstar. Faculty: Yale Department of Music. Contributing writer: Opera News. Wonderful family: Joanne, Julian, Phoebe.

PETER SACHON is the principal cellist at The King and I and he also regularly performs with classical, jazz, and rock groups. Mr. Sachon has been the cellist for the Broadway productions of Fiddler on the Roof, The Light in the Piazza, High Fidelity, Legally Blonde, South Pacific, and Pippin.

JAMES SAMPLINER Broadway: Never Gonna Dance, BKLYN, The Wedding Singer, Legally Blonde, and Honeymoon in Vegas. London: Legally Blonde. Off-Broadway: Ghetto Superstar, The Mistress Cycle, Radiant Baby. Upcoming: Prince Of Broadway. Television: Patina Miller: In Concert, Billy Porter: Broadway & Soul. Recordings: Original cast recordings of above Broadway shows and more.

ALANNA SAUNDERS TV: NBC’s Peter Pan Live! (Tiger Lily). Other credits, CPH: Little Shop of Horrors (Keyboard II/Urchin) CTC: Peter Pan the Musical! (Wendy) CRT: A Chorus Line (Diana Morales), Gypsy (June), A Music Man, Pirates of Penzance. Adrienne Arsht Center: Metamorphoses (Myrrah/Ceres). Love to her family, her class, and Samuel. BFA University of Miami.

CLAIRE SAUNDERS Off-Broadway: Taming of the Shrew (Bianca) New York Classical Theatre, “Saunders Siblings Cabaret” at 54 Below/Feinstein’s. Film: The Intern (Kiko). Regional: In the Heights (Vanessa), The Wild Party (Queenie). Currently rehearsing for Gallery Players production of In the Heights. She thanks God for light, and the fam, Rach and Ben for the endless love and support. B.F.A. Carnegie Mellon.

HEATH SAUNDERS NYC: Lennon: Through a Glass Onion, I Am Harvey Milk, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Der Gelbe Stern. Regional: Natasha, Pierre… (American Repertory Theatre), The 12 (Denver Center), Hairspray, Rent (5th Avenue), Les Miserables, Avenue Q (Balagan), James and the Giant Peach (Seattle Children’s Theatre). heathcliffsaunders.com @feeltheheath

TRENT SAUNDERS is currently in the Company of Disney’s Aladdin the Musical (Ensemble, Aladdin u/s). Proud B.M. graduate from the University of Miami. Regional/Tour: American Idiot (St. Jimmy), Aida (Mereb), and Rent (Benny). All the love in the world to the Brothers and his family.

MATTHEW SKLAR is a Tony and Emmy Award nominated composer. Broadway: Elf, The Wedding Singer. Television: Elf: Buddy’s Musical Christmas, Sesame Street, Wonder Pets! Awards: ASCAP Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award, the Gilman/Gonzalez-Falla Theatre Award, and the Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation. Upcoming projects: Gotta Dance, The Prom.

DENISE STILLWELL (Pit Stop Players), violin/viola, has performed throughout the United States, Asia, South America, and Europe. She holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Juilliard and has recorded for Sony, Epic Records, and Yellow Sound Label. Ms. Stillwell is part of the original orchestra for the Broadway show Kinky Boots.

SCARLETT STRALLEN A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (Broadway), Macbeth (directed by Kenneth Branagh and Rob Ashford), Candide, A Chorus Line, Singin’ in the Rain (Olivier Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical), Passion, Mary Poppins (Broadway, West End, Sydney), The Music Man, Merry Wives of Windsor, HMS Pinafore (Olivier nomination).

PATRICK SULKEN Music Director: Peter and the Starcatcher (Cincinnati Playhouse, St. Louis Rep), We Are The Tigers (Hudson Theatre, LA). Pianist or assistant: Something Rotten, Gigi (Broadway), Peter and the Starcatcher (1NT). Southern Comfort (Public), Gigantic (Vineyard), Ever After (Paper Mill). Proud Northwestern University graduate. @patricksulken

Since 1984, Janine Nina Trevens has been at the helm of Drama Desk Award Winning TADA! YOUTH THEATER, providing children of different backgrounds the opportunity to explore and perform musical theater in an educational and professional environment. TADA’s Resident Youth Ensemble, kids ages 8-18, perform original musicals for family audiences. TADA! also offers Arts Education programs year-round.

WESLEY TAYLOR Broadway: The Addams Family, Rock Of Ages (Theatre World Award/Outer Critics Circle Award nom). Favorite Off Broadway: Little Miss Sunshine. Favorite Regional: Cabaret, Tales of the City. TV/Film: Basics, The Good Wife, Looking, The Tomorrow People, Lucky Stiff, Smash, It Could Be Worse, One Life to Live, The Tony Awards.

JOSEPH THALKEN is the composer of the musicals Was, Harold and Maude, And The Curtain Rises, and Borrowed Dust and much choral, vocal, and instrumental music. Broadway conductor: Victor/Victoria (Julie Andrews), Gypsy (Patti LuPone). Works with Bernadette Peters, Rebecca Luker, Marin Mazzie, Jason Danieley, Howard McGillin, and many others.

RACHEL TUCKER is currently playing the iconic role of Elphaba in Wicked on Broadway. Prior to this, she became the longest consecutive running Elphaba, in the West End production, with over 1,000 performances. Recent theater: The Last Ship (Broadway), Communicating Doors (London), We Will Rock You (West End).

STEVE TYLER is fortunate to have had two successful careers — so far — his first as a music director/pianist/arranger, his second as an Emmy-winning film editor and television producer for Dan Rather. He is thrilled to be performing this beautiful song, once again, with Cass Morgan.

ELENA WANG’s credits include: Nan/Kei Kimura, Broadway’s Allegiance; Kim, Miss Saigon (LA); and Melody, OZ. Singapore’s Ivy, Beauty World; Snow White, Snow White (ELLE magazine’s Breakout Star of the Year). London works include The King and I at the Royal Albert Hall.

GRANT WENAUS Numerous concerts at Symphony Space with the New Voices Collective with the top Broadway composers and performers. Principal Coach for the Glimmerglass Festival, including Sweeney Todd and a recital with Deborah Voigt, summer 2016. Dr. Wenaus is the Director of Collaborative Piano at New York University.

BEN WHITELEY recently conducted 1776 for City Center Encores! Broadway/National Tours: A Christmas Story, The Addams Family, Spamalot, The Full Monty, Cats, Grand Hotel, Falsettos, Big. Carnegie Hall: Sail Away with Elaine Stritch. Choral Direction: Carousel, My Fair Lady (New York Philharmonic), 26 productions for Encores! Recordings: Allegro (Sony), Boardwalk Empire.

AURELIA WILLIAMS Current: Off-Broadway in Sistas the Musical. Recents: The Countess of Storyville (workshop), Kiss Me Kate (Old Globe), Hairspray (Syracuse Stage), Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (TUTS). Favorites: Dreamgirls (TUTS), Caroline or Change (Guthrie), Hot Mikado (Drury Lane), Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Pittsburgh Public).

BETSY WOLFE recently performed at Carnegie Hall alongside Darren Criss and the New York Pops. Broadway: Bullets Over Broadway, The Mystery Of Edwin Drood, Everyday Rapture, 110 in the Shade. Film: The Last Five Years. Off-Broadway: The Last Five Years, Merrily We Roll Along. Metropolitan Opera debut in Die Fledermaus 2014, 2016. @betsywolfe

JOSH YOUNG originated the role of John Newton in Amazing Grace (Broadway World Award). Broadway/National Tour: Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar (Tony Award nomination, Theatre World Award), Che in Evita (Broadway World Award), Marius in Les Misérables, and Tony in West Side Story. Two seasons at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. B.F.A. Syracuse University. josh-young.com @joshpaulyoung

ALAN ZACHARY & MICHAEL WEINER Broadway: First Date (music/lyrics), which ran at the Longacre Theatre on Broadway after sold-out run at Seattle’s 5th Ave/ACT Theatres. Other theatre projects include: Secondhand Lions (book: Rupert Holmes), 17 Again (Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures) and Take the Lead (Book: Jonathan Tolins & Rob Cary). The duo recently created original songs based on material by J.K. Rowling for Celestina Warbeck & the Banshees (Wizarding World of Harry Potter/Universal). They wrote Disney Cruise Line’s hit stage musical Twice Charmed and TV pilots for ABC, FOX and Disney Channel. Awards: ASCAP Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award. zacharyandweiner.com

KEVIN ZAK 2016 Lucille Lortel Award Nominee for his performance as Kenneth Starr in Clinton the Musical. Other Off-Broadway: Silence! The Musical (Buffalo Bill). NYC readings: Citizen Ruth, Good Times Roll. Co-writer of Bloody Bloody Angela Lansbury: Murder, She Wrote Live! which premiered earlier this year at Feinstein’s/54 Below. @KevinJZak

Violinist ROBIN ZEH (Pit Stop Players) is a member of American Ballet Theatre, American Modern Ensemble, and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. She is currently performing on Broadway in An American in Paris.

MICHAEL ZEGARSKI Off-Broadway: Blood On the Dining Room Floor. US and world premieres: Marie Galante, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Eric Hermannson’s Soul. Bill in Stephen Schwartz’s Séance on a Wet Afternoon (Workshopped). International: Mood Swing (Edinburgh Fringe). Television: Bugging Out (MTV), Public Morals (TNT), Redrum (ID Discovery), The State (MTV), and more.

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Music programming at Symphony Space has been made possible through generous support from: the Aaron Copland Fund; the Amphion Foundation; the Lily Auchincloss Foundation; The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation; Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University; The Howard Gilman Foundation; Lemberg Foundation; Herman Goldman Foundation; Merrill G. and Emita E. Hastings Foundation; and Leonard and Susan Bay Nimoy. Music programming has also been made possible by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; by the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Music programming also receives support from an endowment established by The Bydale Foundation, Mary Flager Cary Charitable Trust, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Christopher and Barbara Dixon, Herman Goldman Foundation, William and Angela Haines, Walter and Marge Scheuer, and Zabar’s.

Symphony Space programs are made possible by our Board of Directors, Producers Circle, and members.

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