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WHO'S WHO IN THE CAST

Man's part in The Wiz. Mr. LeTang also staged shows for George Balanchine, Olsen and Johnson, Milton Berle and choreographed acts for Joey Heatherton, Lola Falana, Flip Wilson, Marty Allen, Joe Frazier, Sugar Ray Robinson, Billie Holliday and Lena Horne. He also staged and worked on "The Gary Moore Show" for seven years. His Henry Le Tang School of Dance is one of the most popular in New York.

MERCER ELLINGTON (Musical Director) started with his father's orchestra as assistant band boy when he was 7 years old and worked his way up to road manager, arranger and trumpet player with the orchestra. His formal education was at Columbia University, Juilliard and New York University. An accomplished composer, his own compositions include many songs, such as "Things Ain't What They Used To Be" and full orchestral co-composing with Duke Ellington for "Mexican Symphony" and "Three Black Kings (Le Trois Rois Noirs)." He was also music conductor for Della Reese and Lena Horne. Since Duke Ellington passed on in 1974, the Duke Ellington Orchestra has continued it regular touring schedule to every continent in the world under the direction of Mercer Ellington.

TONY WALTON (Set Designer) currently represented on Broadway with Hollywood/Ukraine, won the Tony and Drama Desk Awards for Pippin and Tony nominations for The Apple Tree and Chicago. Other Broadway credits include the original production of A Funny Thing ..., The Good Doctor, and Uncle Vanya, and he provided the striking settings for Drinks Before Dinner and Streamers. Mr. Walton recently won an Academy Award for All That Jazz and in other years was nominated for Mary Poppins, Murder On The Orient Express, and for his costumes as well as sets for The Wiz.

WILLA KIM (Costume Designer) has received Tony nominations for Dancin' and Goodtime Charley, Drama Desk Awards for Promenade, The Screens (also winning the Maharam Award) and an Obie for The Old Glory. Additional theatre credits include Jumpers, Red Eye of Love, Operation Sidewinder, Funny House of a Negro and Malcolm, among others. Ms. Kim designed sets and costumes for such ballets as Glen Tetley's Daphnis and Chloe, Gerald Arpino's Orpheus, Eliot Feld's Papillon, Scene's For the Theatre, Santa Fe Saga and La Vida. She has also designed for Michael Smuin's Shinju and A Song for Dead Warriors at the San Francisco Ballet. Additional ballet credits include costumes for Mr. Tetley's Sphinx and Contra dances; Mr. Smuin's The Tempest and Robert Joffrey's Remembrances and Gamelon. Her opera credits include The Magic Flute and the American premiere of Help, Help the Globolinks (for which she also designed the sets) and The Stag King, all in Santa Fe, as well as the sets and costumes for Rossignol in Santa Fe and for NET.

JENNIFER TIPTON (Lighting Designer) is well known to dance audiences for her work with Paul Taylor, Twyla Tharp, Jerome Robbins and Mikhail Baryshnikov to name only a few. Her work in theater has brought her a Drama Desk Award for lighting For Colored Girls . . ., a Tony for the NYSF production of The Cherry Orchard and an Obie for sustained excellence in lighting at the Public Theater. Ms. Tipton's work is currently represented on Broadway with Jean Kerr's Lunch Hour and The Pirates of Penzance.

OTTS MUNDERLOH (Sound Designer) has designed sound for The 1940's Radio Hour, Harold and Maude, I Remember Mama, Ballroom, Ain't Misbehavin' and A Day in Hollywood,/A Night in the Ukraine.

AL COHN (Orchestrator) is head arranger for the annual Tony Awards Show, Miss Universe and Miss U.S.A. and Daytime Emmy Awards Shows. His Broadway credits include the Tony Award-winning Raisin and Music, Music. While under contract to Xanadu Records his album Heavy Love was nominated for two Grammy Awards. He has recently signed an exclusive contract with Concord Records and an album for that company will be released soon.

LLOYD MAYERS (Musical, Vocal and Dance Arranger) has played for Dizzy Gillespie, Dinah Washington, Carmen MeRae, Peggy Lee, Johnny Mathis, Nancy Wilson and Josephine Baker, to name just a few. For 8 years he was accompanist and arranger for Sammy Davis, Jr., and when Duke Ellington died, he replaced him at the piano in his orchestra. Broadway credits include Bubbling Brown Sugar & the London production of Golden Boy with Sammy Davis, Jr.

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