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Active Years: 1927–
Position: Playwright
Career Highlights: Come Blow Your Horn, Little Me, The Odd Couple, Sweet Charity, Plaza Suite, Promises Promises, The Last of the Red Hot Lovers, The Sunshine Boys, They’re Playing Our Song, Brighton Beach Memoirs
Career Totals: More than 30 plays and musicals, as well as numerous screenplays, and a lot [...]
Active Years: (1902-1979)
Position: Composer, occasional lyricist
Career Highlights: A Connecticut Yankee, Babes in Arms, On Your Toes, The Boys from Syracuse, Pal Joey, Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, The Sound of Music
Career Totals: 28 musicals with Lorenz Hart, 9 musicals with Oscar Hammerstein, plus several musicals with other collaborators
Personal Data: [...]
Active Years: 1918 - 1998
Position: Director, choreographer, dancer
Career Highlights: On The Town (1944), High Button Shoes (1947), The King and I (1951), West Side Story (1957), Fiddler on the Roof (1964).
Career Totals: More than 22 productions.
Scouting Report: Born Jerome Rabinowitz, Robbins studied ballet with Anthony Tudor and other well known ballet dancers. He [...]
Active Years: 1933 –
Position: Dancer, singer, actor
Career Highlights: West Side Story, Bye Bye Birdie, Pippin (cable TV production), Chicago, Sweet Charity (film version), The Rink, Kiss of the Spider Woman
Career Totals: 14 Broadway musicals, as well as club acts, revues, and films
Personal Data: Born in Washington, D.C. on January 23, 1933. Real name [...]
Active Years: 1928 -
Position: Producer, director.
Career Highlights: Damn Yankees (1955), West Side Story (1957), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962), Fiddler on the Roof (1964), The Phantom of the Opera (1988).
Career Totals: More than 33 productions on stage.
Scouting Report: Prince was born in New York and educated at [...]
Active Years: June 8, 1918 - March 21, 1987
Position: American stage/screen actor who is considered one of America’s greatest musical theater stars, and once regarded as America’s answer to Rex Harrison.
Career Highlights: The Music Man (1957 on stage, 1962 film), Ben Franklin in Paris (1964), I Do! I Do! (1966), Mack & [...]
Active Years: 1891 - 1964
Position: Composer and lyricist.
Career Highlights: Gay Divorce(1932) Kiss Me Kate (1948).
Career Totals: Literally wrote hundreds of songs.
Scouting Report: Cole Porter was born into a wealthy family, which was rare among lyricists of his time. Some famous songs to his credit are “You’re the Tops,” “Friendship,” and “Anything Goes.” Porter [...]
Active Years: 1948 –
Position: Actor, singer
Career Highlights: Dames at Sea, Mack and Mabel, On the Town, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, a New York concert version of Anyone Can Whistle.
Career Totals: 9 major musicals, numerous films (Annie, The Jerk, Pennies from Heaven, Impromptu, Silent Movie, Disney’s Cinderella, and others)
Personal [...]
Active Years: 1952 -
Position: American stage/screen actor, singer.
Career Highlights: Evita (1979), Sunday in the Park with George (1980), The Secret Garden (1991).
Career Totals: Several stage roles and therefore, many perfomances on stage. Many film roles and a few recordings.
Scouting Report: Born on the south side of Chicago; educated at the University of [...]
Active Years: 1935 –
Position: Actor, singer
Career Highlights: The Fantasticks, Threepenny Opera, Carnival, Promises Promises, Chicago, 42nd Street
Career Totals: 9 Broadway musicals, several non-musical plays (Scuba Duba, 6 Rms Riv Vu), many films (Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Dirty Dancing, F/X, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Brewster’s Millions and others), and most recently, the TV [...]