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musical Barnum, for which he also wrote the score. The show enjoyed a smash hit two-year engagement on Broadway, catapulted Jim Dale to stardom and launched Glenn Close's film career. Coleman's career began at a very tender age: he performed the piano in Steinway, Town and Carnegie Halls between the ages of six and nine. He played many a club in New York in the 1950s and, before writing for the musical theatre, composed pop standards that include "Witchcraft" and "The Best Is Yet to Come," among others. He has won three Emmys for writing Shirley MacLanie's TV specials "If They Could See Me Now" and "Gypsy in My Soul" and has scored the films Father Goose, Power, Garbo Talks and Sweet Charity, for which he also won an Oscar nomination.Mr. Coleman has been honored with 13 Grammy nominations, a star-studded tribute at the Avery Fisher Hall, and the Irvin Feld Humanitarian Award from the National Conference of Christians and Jews. He serves on the Board of Directors of ASCAP. He is the president of Notable Music Co., Inc. and recently scored Sidney Lumet's film Family Business, which co-stared Dustin Hoffman, Sean Connery and Matthew Broderick. On May 22nd of this year, The Kennedy Center inaugurated in their highly anticipated American Composer Concert Series by honoring Mr. Coleman with a two hour presentation of his work during which he performed.

IRA GASMAN (Lyrics/Co-author of the Book.) Mr. Gasman wrote the highly acclaimed musical revue What's A Nice Country Like You-Doing In A State Like This? (music by Cary Hoffman, direction by Miriam Fond) which has played in dozens of American cities (six productions in New York alone) and numerous countries around the world, including London's West End. He also wrote new lyrics and dialogue for The Great Radio City Music Hall Spectacular starring The Rockettes (directed by Joe Layton) now in its 4th year at The Flamingo Hilton in Las Vegas. His next show is Radiant Baby...A Keith Haring Revue with music by Debra Barsha. He studied Musical Theatre with Aaron Frankel and was an original member of the B.M.I. Musical Theatre Workshop. He has written for night clubs, television and motion pictures, collaborating with Mr. Coleman, as Burton Lane, Jule Styne, Steve Allen, and Galt MacDermot. His songs have been recorded by Liza Minnelli, Bobby Short, Margaret Whitting, Joe Williams, and George Burns. Mr. Gasman is a member of the Dramatist Guild.

DAVID NEWMAN (Book) has been nominated for the Academy Award and has won the New York Film Critics Award, the National Society of Film Critics Award and three Writers Guild of America awards for various screenplays, including Bonnie And Clyde, There Was A Crooked Man, What's Up Doc?, Superman, Superman II, Superman III, Bad Company, Still Of The Night, La Fille D'Amerique (which he also directed), Jinxed, Sheena, Santa Clause The Movie and Moonwalker (some co-authored with Robert Benton, some with Leslie Newman and some solo.) After receiving his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Michigan, where he twice won the Avery Hopwood Award, he became an editor at Esquire Magazine. There he and Benton created, among many features, the still-thriving Dubious Achievement Awards. He takes prardonable pride in having coined the phrase "Why is this man laughing?" and wishes he had copyrighted it. In theatre, he and his then-partner wrote the book for It's A Bird, It's A Plane, It's Superman and the notorious Swinger sketch in Oh! Calcutta!. Listed in Who's Who in America, his current and imminent projects include the Miramax film Takedown (co-authored with Nathan Newman) and Two Old Women for 20th Century Fox and Men's Lives (both solo stints.) He married to Leslie Newman. Their collaborations have produced son Nathan and daughter Catherine, and, as

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these things develop, granddaughter Rosalie and her imminent sister Anabelle, whose own life will commence shortly after The Life does.

MIICHAEL BLAKEMORE (Director) won two 1990 Outer Critics Circle Awards and received Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations for City of Angels and Lettice and Lovage. In 1984, he won the Drama Desk and received a Tony Award nomination for the Broadway production of Noises Off. His first Broadway success was Joe Egg with Albert Finney, his first Tony nomination. Other Broadway credits include Benefactors in 1985. Productions directed while Associate Director at the National Theatre include The Front Page and Long Day's Journey Into Night starring Laurence Olivier. West End productions include Design for Living with Vanessa Redgrave, Candida with Deborah Kerr, All My Sons with Resemary Harris, and LEttice & Lovage. Recent works include the West End productions of The Sisters Rosensweig and Uncle Vanya and the Off-Broadway production of Death Defying Acts, three one-act plays by Woody Allen, David Mamet and Elaine May. He directed his first opera, Tosca, for the Welsh National Opera and recently restaged it for the Houston Grand Opera. He has written and directed the films A Personal History of The Australian Surf and Country Life, starring Sam Neil, which was relased by Miramax in 1995. He also directed the acclaimed film version of Peter Nichols' Privates On Parade starring John Cleese. His novel, Next Season (1968, Simon and Schuster), was recently reissued by Applause.

JOEY MCKNEELY (Choreographer) made his Broadway debut as the choreographer of Smokey Joe's Cafe, directed by Jerry Zaks, for which he received a Tony Award nomination, an NAACP Image Award and an L.A. Ovation Award. Smokey Joe's Cafe is now in London and on tour in the United States. Mr. McKneely has also worked on the Manhattan Theatre Company's production of The Green Heart, running Off-Broadway. Other theatre works include Andrew Loyd Webber's Whistle Down The Wind directed by Hal Prince, City Center's Pal Joey, Lucky Guy, A Wonderful Life, Time of Your Life, Juno and The Rink. His film credits include IQ and Closing Notice. Joey has also performed on Broadway in She Loves Me, Jerome Robbins' Broadway, Starlight Express, Rosa and infamous Carrie.

ROBIN WAGNER (Set Design). Broadway designs include Victor/Victoria, Big, Jelly's Last Jam, Crazy for You, City of Angels, Jerome Robbins' Broadway, Chess, A Chorus Line, Dreamgirls, 42nd Street, On the Twentieth Century, Jesus Christ Superstar, Lenny, Promises,Promises, The Great White Hope and Hair. Other work ranges from regional theatre to ballet, rock & roll and grand opera, including the Metropolitan, Vienna State, Hamburg State and Royal Opera companies. Honors including Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Lumen and others. He is a Trustee of the NY Shakespeare Festival and a professor of Theatre Arts at Columbia University.

MARTIN PAKLEDINAZ (Costume Design) has been represented in New York by David Henry Hwang's Golden Child, James Lapine's production of Twelve Dreams for Lincoln Center, The Father starring Frank Langella, David Warren's production of Holiday, Kevin Kline's Hamlet, and productions of Summer and Smoke, Ana Christie and Coriolanus, among others. He has worked in leading American regional theatres, winning the Los ANgeles Ovation and Dramalogue Awards for Stephen Wadsworth's Changes Of Heart. Other awards include the Helen Hayes, Joseph Jefferson, Michael Merritt, and nominations for Cable Ace Awards and Audelco. Pakledinaz has designed Ivano for The Royal Dramatic Theatre, and His operal designs have been seen at The Metropolitan Opera, Chicago, Seattle,