Stan Tucker – Music Director/Pianist
Stan, most recently, was music director for Broadway’s Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Other Broadway/National Tour conducting credits include Aida, Cats, and Les Miserables. Broadway Pianist/Keyboards for The Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, My One and Only, Arcadia. Internationally: associate music supervisor/music director for A.L. Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera worldwide; including companies in Copenhagen, Madrid, Hamburg, Antwerp, Stuttgart, Mexico City and Capetown.
Regionally: Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe for the Huntington Theater; West Side Story, My Fair Lady, Camelot, The Pirates of Penzance, A Wonderful Life for Tennessee Repertory Theater in his native Nashville.
Music direction for staged readings of new work includes: Fanny Hill for Papermill Playhouse; Ed Dixon’s Cather County and Richard Cory for Playwrights Horizons; Some Sweet Day for Goodspeed Opera; The Ballade of Little Joe for The Harold Prince Director’s Workshop.
In 2003, he conducted an 80th Birthday Gala Concert in Merkin Hall; honoring American Pulitzer Prize winning composer Ned Rorem
Stan holds a M.Mus degree from Indiana University, where he was student of world renown pianist, Menahem Pressler.
Michael Bottari and Ronald Case – Costume & Set Design
Michael Bottari & Ronald Case won the 2003 Lucille Lortel Award and were nominated for the Drama Desk Award for their costumes for Charles Busch's Shanghai Moon and their critically acclaimed film Die Mommie Die has won a Sundance Award as well as “Best Costumes of 2003” in various Film Awards. They have been a design team for over thirty-six years, having designed both sets and costumes for Broadway: Rodgers & Hammerstein’s much loved State Fair (Producer David Merrick’s last Broadway show), Prince of Central Park, Off-Broadway: The York Theatre's After the Fair and Carnival!, Ed Dixon's Richard Cory, Little Me, After The Fair, Opal, Man Who Shot Lincoln, etc. National tours: I DO! I DO! (Lucie Arnaz), Camelot (Richard Harris), Shenandoah (Ed Ames), Man of La Mancha (Richard Kiley) the World tour of My Fair Lady (Noel Harrison), the 25th Anniversary of The King and I (Yul Brynner), Funny Thing... Forum (Mickey Rooney), Showboat (Shirley Jones), Al Jolson Tonight (Larry Kert) to mention a few. They were nominated twice for the National Broadway Theatre Awards (designs for Fiddler & La Mancha tours). Other Regional credits include the costume designs for the now legendary Gypsy (Betty Buckley & Deborah Gibson) at the PaperMill Playhouse; the hit revival of Dames at Sea, which they won numerous west coast critics awards for their sets, costumes, and projections in San Francisco, and recently played the Goodspeed Opera House; Cabaret at the Walnut Street Theatre (Barrymore Award for Best Costume Design), and many years at Burt Reynolds’ (3 Carbonell Nominations) and Westchester Broadway Theatre. They have designed clothes for LUCIE ARNAZ, LORNA LUFT, DEBORAH GIBSON, ANDREA MCARDLE, DONNA MCKECHNIE, SUSAN EGAN, JANIS PAIGE, MARGARET WHITING, NANNETE FABRAY, BETTY BUCKLEY, VAN JOHNSON, JOHN RAITT, JOHN DAVIDSON, LAURENCE LUCKINBILL and B.D.WONG, to mention a few. Most recently the new musical Pompeii, and created the puppets for a Disney workshop of Carnival! They have designed the last three national tours of Fiddler on the Roof with Theo Bikel and for the last six years teaching and designing for American Ballet Theatre.
Nick DeGregorio – Orchestrations
Nick DeGregorio: has been the musical director of over 75 musicals, most recently DeafWest’s Big River at the Fords Theatre; also for Hal Linden, Dorothy Lamour (5 years), Tommy Sands and Morey Amsterdam. He’s conducted and/or played for Randy Newman, Bernadette Peters, Marvin Hamlisch, Lorna Luft, Juliet Prowse, John Denver and Glen Campbell. Nick’s conducted the Phoenix Symphony Pops, the Nelson Riddle Orchestra, Les Brown’s Band of Renown, and the Ocean City Pops. He was the associate conductor for the 1st National tours of 42nd Street and Big River and the PCLO/Nederlander tour of Doctor Dolittle. Nick’s played the piano with the St. Louis, San Jose, Utah, Ottawa, Rochester, Baltimore and Pittsburgh Symphony Pops Orchestras. On Broadway, Nick played the piano in the pit for 42nd Street. He’s done orchestrations for Lorna Luft’s Songs My Mother Taught Me, Larry O’Keefe’s Rockne and was enlisted to orchestrate White Christmas at Carnegie Hall. As a composer Nick’s worked for Paramount Pictures, BBC-TV, Random House Entertainment and Scholastic Entertainment. www.musicdirector.biz
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