Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
October 10 - November 1, 2009
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ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER (Composer) is the composer of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Likes of Us, Jesus Christ Superstar, By Jeeves, Evita, Variations and Tell Me on a Sunday (later combined as Song & Dance), Cats, Starlight Express, The Phantom of the Opera, Aspects of Love, Sunset Boulevard, Whistle Down the Wind, The Beautiful Game and The Woman in White. He composed the film scores of Gumshoe and The Odessa File and a setting of the Latin Requiem Mass, Requiem. He has also produced in the West End and on Broadway not only his own work but the Olivier Award-winning plays La Bête and Daisy Pulls It Off. In London during the summer of 2002, he presented the groundbreaking A. R. Rahman musical Bombay Dreams. In 2006 he pioneered casting for musical theater via TV with the hit BBC TV series How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?, through which he triumphantly discovered Connie Fisher to star as Maria in The Sound of Music. He bought the Palace Theatre in 1983 and now owns seven London theatre including the Palace, the Theatre Royal Drury Lane and the Palladium. His awards include seven Tonys, three Grammys, including Best Contemporary Composition for Requiem, six Oliviers, a Golden Globe, an Oscar, an International Emmy, the Praemium Imperiale, the Richard Rodgers Award for Excellence in Musical Theatre and the Kennedy Center Honor. He was knighted by Her Majesty the Queen in 1992 and created an honorary life peer in 1997.
TIM RICE (Lyricist) began songwriting in 1965 in which year the first song he wrote, 'That’s My Story' (tune as well as words) was recorded by a rock group called The Nightshift, whose career never recovered. That same year he met fellow budding songwriter Andrew Lloyd Webber whose musical ambitions were in theater rather than rock or pop. They teamed up and wrote four musicals together from 1965 to 1978. The first, The Likes of Us (1965-66), was performed for the first time in 2005 and became available on CD just 40 years after its creation. The other three, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1968), Jesus Christ Superstar (1969-71) and Evita (1976-78) were more immediate successes.
In 1989, Tim translated the famous French musical Starmania into English, which merely resulted in a hit album--in France. In the 1990s, he worked primarily and happily with the Disney empire, contributing lyrics to the movies Aladdin and The Lion King and to the stage shows Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King and Aida. Between Disney commitments he wrote the words for Cliff Richard's theatrical blockbuster Heathcliff, which toured the UK in 1995-96. He is currently reworking an operatic musical he has written with Alan Menken (King David), and on new treatments, for both stage and screen. He has won a variety of awards, mainly for the wrong things, or for simply turning up. He lives in London, Cornwall and on the motorway between the two, has three children, his own cricket team and a knighthood.
JAMES A. ROCCO (Director/Choreographer). At The 5th Avenue Theatre: White Christmas, Wonderful Town, The Sound of Music, Singin’ in the Rain, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Jesus Christ Superstar. Broadway: The Wizard of Oz, Cats (Playing Rum Tum Tugger). Off-Broadway: Streakin’! (co-writer with Albert Evans), Sweeney Todd. Regional: Love, Janis (Ivey Award), Singin' in The Rain, Galaxy Express (world premiere Tokyo), The Melody Lingers On, She Loves Me, The Bad Seed, Crazy For You (Ovation Award Nominee), Chess, Glorious Feeling (world premiere), As Bees In Honey Drown, A Little Night Music, Grey Gardens, Smokey Joe’s Café (multiple awards) Guys & Dolls (multiple awards), On The Town, Violet, and 50 more. Film & Television: The World We Create (regional Emmy nominee). Commissioned: A Country Christmas Carol. Currently, he is Vice President of Programming and Producing Artistic Director at the Ordway, where he is responsible for producing, presenting and booking theatrical programming on the Main Hall stage (1900 seats) and The McKnight Theatre (300 seats).
JAYME McDANIEL(Choreographer) recently directed/choreographed Singin’ in the Rain at the Ogunquit Playhouse. Other direction and choreography credits include: Singin’ in the Rain, Grey Gardens, Yankee Doodle and The Rocky Horror Show (The Ordway); The Student Prince (Paper Mill Playhouse); Zorba and H.M.S. Pinafore (Berkshire Theatre Festival), Violet, Candide and Drood (Connecticut Rep); It’s a Fabulous Life (Broward Center); Chicago, Zombie Prom, The Merry Widow (JPAS); People Like Us (Peterborough Players); They’re Playing Our Song (Colonial Theatre) and others. Associate director &/or choreographer: Laughing Room Only (Broadway); White Christmas, Wonderful Town, Sound of Music, (5th Avenue Theatre); Yankee Doodle Dandy (5th Ave, Dallas Summer Musicals, Theatre of the Stars); Camelot and Rags (Paper Mill); Nefertiti (Parker Playhouse); Crazy for You (Musical Theatre West); The Music Man (CLOSBC). In 2007, the Minneapolis Star Tribune lauded him as the Outstanding Director of a Musical.
R.J. TANCIOCO (Music Director) Favorite Seattle music directing credits: Hair, Dreamgirls, and Smokey Joe’s Café (5th Avenue Theatre), Cabaret (also at T.U.T.S.), Klondike and It Happened at the World’s Fair (5th Avenue’s AMT); Stunt Girl, Evita, Chasing Nicolette, Joseph...Dreamcoat (Village Theatre); The Wiz, Children of Eden, (Village Theatre’s KIDSTAGE); Rent: School Edition (SCT); Plaid Tidings, Bat Boy (ArtsWest). Regional: Making Tracks at San Jose Rep; The Wedding Banquet for 2G; A New Brain, New Voices for Contemporary Classics; Songs for a New World for Raggedy Z Productions. Recording Credits: David Austin’s A Christmas Carol, Every Little Vow, Jennifer Paz’s Awakening. During the day, R.J. is an avid vocal coach, arranger, and composer. It is in the journeying that we grow, not at the destination. Keep dreaming...