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WHO'S WHO IN THE CAST

Off-Broadway, The Baby Dance. Ms. Meibach was executive vice president of Atlantic Records and the Warner Music Group U.S. As an attorney, her clients included U2, The Who, Monty Python, Billy Joel, Queen, George Clinton, LaBelle, Bob Geldof, Joe Jackson, Tori Amos, Janis Ian, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Barry White and Patti Smith, whom she also managed. On Broadway she produced The Three Musketeers; Off-Broadway, The Neon Woman and Dirtiest Show, Part Two.

SCOTT E NEDERLANDER (Producer) represents the third generation in the Nederlander entertainment family. Scott started producing concerts in the family's outdoor amphitheatre and now works on a large range of projects for the Nederlander organization. He is currently working with Carole Shorenstein Hays presenting the Best of Broadway series in San Francisco. Broadway credits include Minnelli on Minnelli; the critically acclaimed Side Show and the Tony Award-winning Cabaret; Neil Simon's The Dinner Party and 45 Seconds from Broadway; Private Lives, West End/Broadway; and the Tony Award-winning Copenhagen. Future and current projects include the Billy Joel and Twyla Tharp musical with cousin James. L. Nederlander, Topdog/Underdog and Moonstruck with friend Ira Pittelman and friend and mentor, legendary producer Emanuel Azenberg. Scott is happy to be co-producing with Elizabeth I. McCann on Edward Albee's The Goat. He is especially thankful for the love and support from his wife Dawn and his two daughters, Taylor and Sarah. Thanks to his father Harry, who he misses very much.

IRA PITTELMAN (Producer) has been in the music business for more than 25 years. He began in the early '70s writing songs with Henry Krieger (composer of Dreamgirls and Side Show). In 1978, he founded Heartland Music, and over the years has worked with such diverse artists as Placido Domingo, John Denver, Tammy Wynette, Loretta Lynn and Smokey Robinson, to name a few. He made his Broadway debut with The Iceman Cometh starring Kevin Spacey. Other Broadway producing credits include The Dinner Party, 45 Seconds from Broadway and Stones in His Pockets. In London he produced Hay Fever, The Prisoner of Second Avenue and Collected Stories starring Helen Mirren. Along with Emanuel Azenberg and Scott Nederlander, he is involved in bringing the hit London production of Private Lives, starring Alan Rickman and Lindsay Duncan, to Broadway this spring, and in the development of new musical projects including Moonstruck and The Education of Randy Newman.

KELPIE ARTS LLC. (Associate Producer), a company named after a horse, is comprised of Valerie Gordon-Johnson and Doug Johnson. Together and individually, they have survived: cattle drives, Canada, Wyoming winters, Manhattan summers, Kona winds, the New York Theatre Workshop, drugs, alcohol and Dodger Productions. They have, over the years, been involved in more than 25 Broadway and Off-Broadway shows which have garnered over 60 Tony Awards. They are happy to have remained upright and wish to thank anyone who has ever been nice to them.

THE JOSEPH PAPP PUBLIC THEATER/NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL (George C. Wolfe, Producer) was founded by Joseph Papp in 1951 as the Shakespeare Workshop and is now one of the nation's preeminent cultural institutions. The Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival produces new plays, musicals and productions of Shakespeare and other classics in its headquarters on Lafayette Street (the former Astor Library, which opened as The Public Theater in 1967 with the world premiere of the musical Hair) and free Shakespeare in Central Park each summer at the Delacorte Theater. The Public's newest performance space, Joe's Pub, has become an important venue for new work and intimate performances by musicians, spoken-word artists and solo performers. In addition to its theatrical programming, The Public trains the next generation of classical performers through the Shakespeare Lab, an annual summer acting intensive. The Public's mandate to create a theatre for all New Yorkers continues to this day on stage and through its extensive outreach and education programs, which provide access to and a context for the challenging work on its stages. Public Theater/NYSF productions have collectively won 32 Tony Awards, 125 Obies, 32 Drama Desk Awards and three Pulitzer Prizes. Twenty-three shows have transferred to Broadway, including Sticks and Bones; That Championship Season; A Chorus Line; The Pirates of Penzance; The Tempest; Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk; and Elaine Stritch: At Liberty.

Information in "Who's Who in the Cast" is provided by the production. Where opinions are expressed, they are those of the players, not necessarily those of PLAYBILL Magazine.