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Producers of The Pirate Queen Musicals are hard at work, making the best possible show they can. They've already proven themselves with such hits as Miss Saigon, and Les Miserables, The Pirate Queen is sure to be a Blockbuster!
Director - Frank Galati
F RANK GALATI won two Tony® Awards in 1990 for his highly praised adaptation and direction of Steppenwolf's production of The Grapes of Wrath on Broadway. He was nominated for a Tony® Award in 1998 for directing the musical Ragtime. Other Steppenwolf productions include after the quake, Homebody/Kabul, The Royal Family, Morning Star, Valparaiso, You Can't Take It with You, Aunt Dan and Lemon, Born Yesterday, Earthly Possessions, As I Lay Dying and Everyman. His productions at the Goodman Theatre, where he has been an associate director since 1986, include She Always Said Pablo, The Winter's Tale, The Good Person of Setzuan and Cry the Beloved Country. He has staged operas for Chicago Opera Theatre and for the Lyric Opera including The Voyage of Edgar Allen Poe and William Balcom's View from the Bridge seen at the Metropolitan Opera in 2000. In 1989 Mr. Galati was nominated for an Academy Award for his screenplay (with Lawrence Kasdan) of The Accidental Tourist. Mr. Galati is a professor in the department of performance studies at Northwestern University.
Choreographer
- Mark Dendy
A rtistic director of Mark Dendy Dance and Theater from 1983 to 2000, touring the world and performing in NYC at The Joyce Theatre, Lincoln Center, Dance Theater Workshop and Performance Space 122. Recipient of the 2000 Alpert Award in the Arts, numerous National Endowment, NYSCA and foundation fellowships, and the 1997 New York Dance and Performance Award, "The Bessie" for sustained achievement with his company. Broadway: Taboo 2003, The Pirate Queen, upcoming. Off Broadway: The Wild Party (Lippa, Manhattan Theatre Club), 2000 Obie Award, Joseph Calloway Award, Drama Desk Nomination, best choreography. Regional: Baptiste, The Dybbuk (Hartford Stage), Camille (Goodspeed Musicals) Carnivale (Radio City Music Hall, Graciella Danielle), The Magic Flute (The Metropolitan Opera, Julie Taymor).
Set Designer - Eugene Lee
E ugene Lee has been Resident Designer at Trinity Repertory since 1967. He has a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University, a MFA from Yale Drama School, and honorary Ph.D's from DePaul University, Rhode Island College, and Rhode Island School of Design. Mr. Lee has won three Tony® Awards for his work on Broadway, for Bernstein's Candide, Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, and Schwartz's Wicked. Other New York work includes Slaveship, Alice in Wonderland, The Normal Heart, Agnes of God, Grandchild of Kings, Uncle Vanya, Showboat, Ragtime (Tony® nomination), and A Number. He is the production designer for NBC's "Saturday Night Live". Filmwork includes Easy Money, Coppola's Hammett, Huston's Mr. North, and Malle's Vanya on 42nd Street. Other awards include the Drama Desk Award, the American Theatre Wing's Design Award, the Outer Critics' Circle Award, and the Pell Award. He has been nominated three times for the Emmy® Award. He is an adjunct professor at Brown University, and lives with his wife Brooke in Providence, where they raised their two sons.
Costume Designer - Martin Pakledinaz
M artin Pakledinaz received the Tony Award for Thoroughly Modern Millie, directed by Michael Mayer, and Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations for this show. In 2001, he received the Tony and Drama Desk Awards for Michael Blakemore's award-winning production of Kiss Me, Kate. The same year, he received the Lucille Lortel Award for his work on Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party, and Waste directed by Bartlett Sher. Recent New York productions include Wonderful Town at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre directed by Kathleen Marshall, Two Gentlemen Of Verona for New York Shakespeare Festival, Juvenilia at Playwrights Horizons, the musicals The Look Of Love (for the Roundabout at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, directed by Scott Ellis) and A Year With Frog And Toad (at the Cort, directed by David Petrarca), Kimberly Akimbo for Manhattan Theatre Club and The Boys From Syracuse for the Roundabout. Other New York work includes The Life (Tony and Drama Desk nominations), directed by Michael Blakemore; James Lapine's productions of The Diary Of Anne Frank, Twelve Dreams and Golden Child (Tony nomination); The Misanthrope, starring Roger Rees and Uma Thurman (Obie Award); A Thousand Clowns; Taller Than A Dwarf; Give Me Your Answer Do; Anna Christie, directed by David Leveaux; Kevin Kline's Hamlet; and Troilus And Cressida, directed by Sir Peter Hall. Recent regional productions include Three Sisters at Intiman Theatre, directed by Bartlett Sher.
Lighting Designer - Kenneth Posner
B roadway: Wicked, Hairspray, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (TONY, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Nominations), The Odd Couple, Glen Garry Glenross, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (TONY Nomination), Little Women, The Frogs, The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, The Goat, Imaginary Friends, The Smell of the Kill, Swing, The Man Who Had All The Luck, Uncle Vanya, Side Man (Lortel Award), You're a Good Man Charlie Brown, The Lion in Winter, Little Me, A View from the Bridge (Drama Desk Nomination), The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Getting Away With Murder, The Little Foxes, The Rose Tattoo, The Father and The Rehearsal. Off-Broadway: Valhalla, The Wild Party (Lortel Award, Drama Desk, and Outer Circle Critics Nominations), The Play About The Baby, Tick-Tick-Boom, The Waverly Gallery, That Chapionship Season, Pride's Crossing (Lortel Award), As Bee's in Honey Drown, Cowgirls, The Food Chain, Suburbia and numerous productions for Playwrights Horizons, The Public, Manhattan Theatre Club, Second Stage, The Vineyard, and Classic Stage Company. Opera credits include designs for the New York City Opera and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. OBIE for Sustained excellence in lighting design.
Music Director - Julian Kelly
J ulian Kelly has developed an international reputation as a conductor, musical director and arranger in the concert hall, recording studio and theatre. Recent theatre credits in London and the provinces include Stephen Sondheim's Company, Sweeney Todd, Merrily We Roll Along, Pacific Overtures, Follies, Into The Woods, Sunday In The Park With George and A Little Night Music, the Kander and Ebb musicals Chicago, 70, Girls, 70! and The Rink, Jerry Herman's Mack And Mabel and The Best Of Times, West Side Story, Oliver!, The King And I, Carousel, The Sound Of Music, Guys And Dolls, Calamity Jane, Piaf, Damn Yankees, Singin' In The Rain and On Your Toes starring Adam Cooper. Following conducting engagements at Sydney Opera House, London's Royal Festival Hall and Sadler's Wells Theatre, Julian is delighted to return to New York having been Musical Director of Riverdance on Broadway in 2001.
General Management - Frank P. Scardino
F RANK P. SCARDINO formed Theatre Production Group LLC as a production and management company. He has served as executive producer or general manager for Follies (Broadway), Ragtime (Broadway, Los Angeles, Toronto and Tour), The Phantom of the Opera (Toronto and International Tour), Sunset Blvd. (Toronto), To Grandmother's House We Go (Broadway), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, starring Donny Osmond (Chicago, Toronto and North American Tour), Aspects of Love (Tour), Kiss of the Spider Woman (Broadway and Tour), Showboat (Broadway, Toronto, Chicago and Tour) Barrymore, starring Christopher Plummer (Broadway), Candide (Broadway) and Music of the Night, starring Colm Wilkinson (Tour). Mr. Scardino has been responsible for over 50 productions -Broadway, Off-Broadway, national and regional; and was formerly General Manager for Jujamcyn Theatres and Productions. His other Broadway credits include The 1940'S Radio Hour, On The Twentieth Century, Pippin, The Mikado, and the original company of Chicago, among others. Theatre Production Group has managed Laughing Room Only starring Jackie Mason, the Will Rogers Follies tour starring Larry Gatlin, Immigrant the Musical and Jackie Mason: Freshly Squeezed. www.theatreproductiongroup.com
Casting - Tara Ruben
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roadway: Spamalot; …Spelling Bee; The Producers; Mamma Mia!; Phantom…; Good Vibrations; Bombay Dreams; Oklahoma!; Flower Drum Song; Imaginary Friends; Metamorphoses. Nat'l tour: Disney's On the Record; Les Miserables. Lincoln Center: The Frogs; Contact; Thou Shalt Not; A Man of No Importance; Anything Goes (concert). Off-Broadway: Second Stage. Regional: Williamstown Theatre Festival; Kennedy Center; La Jolla Playhouse; Yale Rep. Film: The Producers The Musical. Ms. Rubin is a member of the Casting Society of America.
From the Producers of
Riverdance
and the creators of
Les Misérables and Miss Saigon
comes an extraordinary new musical event.
River Productions
presents:
THE PIRATE QUEEN
Pre-Broadway World Premiere Engagement at the
Chicago Cadillac Palace Theatre begins October 3rd, 2006
Directed by Frank Galati
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