Active Years: 1891 - 1951
Position: Actress, singer.
Career Highlights: Ziegfeld’s Follies
Career Totals: Over 15 stage productions and many well-known songs.
Scouting Report: Born Fanny Borach in New York, Ms. Brice was best known for her three main characterizations: a raucous Jewish-accented clown, a heart-tearing ballad singer, and “Baby Snooks,” which brought her fame. Ms. Brice [...]

Active Years: 1918-1990
Position: Broadway and classical composer, lecturer
Career Highlights: West Side Story, Candide, On the Town, Wonderful Town, Mass (for the opening of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.)

Career Totals: Seven musicals, several ballets, and many classical works
Personal Data: Born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, on August 25, 1918. Attended Harvard University and the Curtis [...]

Active Years: 1888 - 1989
Position: Composer born in Russia and brought to the U.S. in 1893.
Career Highlights: “God Bless America” (1918), “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” (1938), “Always, Easter Parade” (1948), “There’s No Business Like Show Business” (1954).
Career Totals: Countless memorable songs in theater and film.
Scouting Report: Berlin had his first hit with “Alexander’s Ragtime [...]

Active Years: 1943 - 1987
Position: Director, choreographer, dancer.
Career Highlights: Promises, Promises (1968), A Chorus Line (1973), Dreamgirls (1981).
Career Totals: Over 12 productions.
Scouting Report: Bennett made his debut as a dancer in Subways Are for Sleeping (1961). After two failed productions between 1966 and 1967, he won widespread recognition for Promises, Promises in [...]

Active Years: 1905 - 1986
Position: American composer.
Career Highlights: Stormy Weather, Somewhere Over the Rainbow (1939).
Career Totals: Many wonderful tunes still hummed the world over.
Scouting Report: Harold Arlen began his music career when he joined the choir at the synogogue where his father was a cantor. He then became a pianist, working on lake [...]

Active Years: Lynn Ahrens (1949– ), Stephen Flaherty (1961– )
Position: Lynn Ahrens, lyricist, and Stephen Flaherty, composer
Career Highlights: Lucky Stiff, Once on This Island, My Favorite Year, Ragtime, Anastasia (animated film)
Career Totals: 5 musicals as a team
Personal Data: Lynn Ahrens was born in 1949 in Neptune, New Jersey. Her big break came by [...]

Active Years: 1887 — 1995
Position: Director, bookwriter, producer
Career Highlights: On Your Toes, Room Service, The Boys from Syracuse, Pal Joey, On the Town, High Button Shoes, Where’s Charley?, Call Me Madam, Wonderful Town, The Pajama Game, Damn Yankees, Once Upon a Mattress, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, [...]