Creative

Marshall Brickman
Book
Films (author or co-author): Sleeper, Annie Hall (AA), Manhattan (AA nomination), Manhattan Murder Mystery; (writer/director): Simon, Lovesick, The Manhattan Project, Sister Mary Explains It All. Television: The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (head writer), The Dick Cavett ABC late night show (head writer/producer, two Emmys). Mr. Brickman entered show business as a musician, first as a member of the folk group the Tarriers and then, along with John and Michelle Phillips, as one of the New Journeymen, which re-emerged a year later (Brickman having moved onto saner pursuits) as The Mamas and the Papas. Brickman's recording (with Eric Weissberg) of the soundtrack of Deliverance achieved gold status twice and remains a healthy seller around the world 40 years later. Mr. Brickman has published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Playboy and other periodicals. Jersey Boys is his first venture into the musical theater.

Rick Elice
Co-writer
Rick Ellice co-wrote Jersey Boys with his friend and hero, Marshall Brickman (Best Book, Tony Nomination). His popular thriller, Double Double (translated in 16 languages), was the final production of this summer's Williamstown Theater Festival, directed by Roger Rees. Other plays: Leonardo's Ring (London Fringe, 2003) and Dog and Pony (New York Stage & Film, 2003). From 1982- 2000, as creative director at Serino Coyne Inc., he produced ad campaigns for some 300 Broadway shows, from A Chorus Line to Lion King. Since 2000, he has served as creative consultant for The Walt Disney Studio. BA, Cornell University; MFA, Yale Drama School; Teaching Fellow, Harvard University; charter member, American Repertory Theater. In 2003, he appeared off-Broadway in Elaine May's comedy, Adult Entertainment. With Marshall Brickman, he is currently writing two new Broadway musicals, a play, and a new production created especially for Las Vegas. End of credits. Rick saw his first Broadway show when he was three. His mother said he was very well-behaved. From that day, he dreamed of working in the theater. From the age of nineteen, he has. Heartfelt thanks to those heÕs been lucky enough to know, whose work makes him grateful for the day he was born: Sondheim, Stoppard, Bennett, Prince, Fosse, Robbins, Nichols, Tune, Nunn, Laurents, Stone, Kushner, Taymor, Papp, Schumacher, Schneider, Coyne, Brickman and Rees. Rick thinks about them a lot. He never thought about Jersey much. He does now.

Bob Gaudio
Composer
Bob Gaudio wrote his first hit, "Who Wears Short Shorts," at 15, for the Royal Teens, and then went on to become a founding member of the Four Seasons and the band's principal songwriter. He also produced the hit "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" for Neil Diamond and Barbra Streisand (Grammy nomination, Record of the Year) as well as six albums for Diamond, including The Jazz Singer. Other producing credits include albums for Frank Sinatra, Marvin Gaye, Diana Ross, Michael Jackson and the soundtrack for the film of Little Shop of Horrors. Several songs co-written with Bob Crewe have been cover hits for such artists as the Tremeloes ("Silence Is Golden"), the Walker Brothers ("The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore") and Lauren Hill ("Can't Take My Eyes Off You"). With his wife, Judy Parker, Gaudio produced and co-wrote the Who Loves You album for the Four Seasons and one of Billboard's longestcharted singles (54 weeks), "Oh, What a Night." A high point in his career came in 1990 when, as a member of the original Four Seasons, Gaudio was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 1995, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, which hailed him as "a quintessential musicmaker." To this day, Bob Gaudio and Frankie Valli still maintain their partnership...on a handshake.

Bob Crewe
Lyricist
New York was pregnant in the fifties," says Bob Crewe, "gestating with possibilities." Crewe and music partner Frank Slay became independent writer-producers when the category hadn't yet been invented. In 1957 they wrote and produced "Silhouettes" for The Rays, skyrocketing to #1. Suddenly, producers in demand, they launched Freddie Cannon's "Tallahassee Lassie" and Billy & Lillie's "Lah Dee Da." Crewe's 1960's solo unprecedented producing success with The Four Seasons birthed a new sound, striking a major chord in American Pop. "Sherry," "Big Girls Don't Cry," "Walk Like a Man," "Candy Girl," "Ronnie" - all smashes! When lead Frankie Valli demanded a solo turn, Crewe & Bob Gaudio wrote and Crewe produced "Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You," which eventually became the century's fifth most-played song. Crewe ran hot with artists from Vicki Carr, Oliver, Lesley Gore to Mitch Ryder, cowriting with Charles Fox the soundtrack for Jane Fonda's film, Barbarella. Then his own Bob Crewe Generation exploded with Music To Watch Girls By. In 1972 Bob was in L.A., where he revived Frankie Valli with "My Eyes Adored You" by Crewe & Kenny Nolan. They also co-wrote Patti LaBelle's "Lady Marmalade" (#1, July '75) - to re-hit again from the soundtrack of Moulin Rouge (#1, June '01)...David Ritz.

Des McAnuff
Director
Des McAnuff is a two-time Tony Award-winning director and writer and the Artistic Director of La Jolla Playhouse. Under his leadership, La Jolla Playhouse has won more than 300 theatre awards including the 1993 Tony Award as America's Outstanding Regional Theatre. Recent productions directed at the Playhouse include The Wiz (2006); Zhivago (2005); Palm Beach, The Screwball Musical (2005); Private Fittings (2005); Tom Donaghy's Eden Lane (2003); Moliere's Tartuffe (2002); and The Collected Works of Billy the Kid (2001). Playhouse to Broadway credits: Jersey Boys (Playhouse 2004; Broadway 2005); Billy Crystal's 700 Sundays (Playhouse 2004; Broadway 2004, Tony Award for Special Theatrical Event); Dracula, The Musical (Playhouse 2001; Broadway 2004); How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Playhouse 1994, Broadway 1995); The Who's Tommy (director/co-author with Pete Townshend; Playhouse 1992, Broadway 1993, Tony Award Best Director of a Musical, London Olivier Award Best Director 1994); A Walk in the Woods (Playhouse 1987, Broadway 1988, Moscow and Lithuania 1989-90) and Big River (Playhouse 1984, Broadway 1985, seven Tony Awards including Best Director of a Musical and Best Musical). Film credits include Cousin Bette (director), Iron Giant (Producer), The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (director), Quills (Executive Producer).

Sergio Trujillo
Choreographer
Broadway: Memphis (OCC Award, Astaire and Drama Desk Award noms.); Jersey Boys (Olivier, Drama Desk, Dora, OCC Award noms.); The Addams Family; Next to Normal; All Shook Up; and Guys and Dolls (Astaire Award nom.). Off-Broadway: Saved, Romeo & Juliet, The Capeman, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Kismet, Salome. Regional: The Wiz, Zhivago, Mambo Kings, The Marriage of Figaro, Chita and All That Jazz. International: Disney’s Tarzan, West Side Story, The Sound of Music, Peggy Sue Got Married (West End). TV: “Broadway: The American Musical” (PBS), “Triple Sensation” (CBC), and "So You Think You Can Dance Canada". Sergio is the recipient of four Dora Award Nominations and an Ovation Award for Empire. Upcoming Broadway: Leap of Faith.

Ron Melrose
Music Direction, Vocal Arrangements & Incidental Music
Music Direction: Jersey Boys, Imaginary Friends, Scarlet Pimpernel, Radio City Sinatra, upcoming Caraboo and Waiting for the Moon. Dance/Vocal Arranging: Sweet Smell of Success, Jekyll & Hyde, Perfectly Frank, The Act, Marilyn: An American Fable, Woman of the Year, Cabaret. Composing: Superdimensional Microbabes (upcoming anime-based musical), Fourtune (Off- Broadway), The Silver Swan (NEA Fellowship), three theatrical CDs (The Missing Peace, Early One Morning, Songs I Won't Be Singing), two Harvard Hasty Pudding shows (Tots in Tinseltown, Bewitched Bayou), a gospel-based Requiem, and songs for church, choir, cabaret, and "Saturday Night Live." Harvard (philosophy), Westminster (choral conducting). Thanks and love to Alexandra.

Klara Zieglerova
Set Designer
Broadway: Jersey Boys; The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe. Off-Broadway: Wrecks, Controversy (Public Theater), Yellowman (MTC), First Love (New York Theater Workshop) and many others. Regional: La Jolla Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse, Dallas Theater Center, Portland Center Stage, Seattle Rep, Florida Stage, McCarter Theater, Wilma Theatre, Williamstown, Old Globe Theatre and others. International: Saturday Night Fever (Holland), Wrecks, Eden (Cork, Ireland). Awards: 2006 Tony nom. (Jersey Boys); 2006 Lumen Award (Dodger Stages); 2003 Drammy Award for Best Set Design; 2000 Carbonell Award for Best Set Design; sets for the best touring production, 2003 L.A. Ovation Award. Graduate of Yale School of Drama.

Jess Goldstein
Costume Designer
Jess Goldstein received the 2005 Tony Award for Lincoln Center's The Rivals. Other selected New York credits include Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me; Roundabout's The Apple Tree with Kristin Chenoweth; Julius Caesar with Denzel Washington; Henry IV; Take Me Out; Enchanted April; Proof; Love! Valour! Compassion!; The Most Happy Fella; Dinner With Friends; How I Learned To Drive; NYSF's Much Ado About Nothing; Buried Child and The Mineola Twins (Lortel and Hewes Awards). He will make his Met debut with Jack OÕBrienÕs 2007 production of Il Trittico. Designs for film include A Walk on the Moon; Love! Valour! Compassion! and The Substance of Fire. He is an Associate Professor at the Yale School of Drama.

Howell Binkley
Lighting Designer
B'way: Bridge & Tunnel, Avenue Q, Steel Magnolias, Dracula, Golda's Balcony, Hollywood Arms, Look of Love, Gore Vidal's The Best Man, Minnelli on Minnelli, Full Monty, Parade, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Sacrilege, Taking Sides, How To Succeed..., High Society, Grease. Off-B'way: Landscape of the Body, Sinatra, Bat Boy, Radiant Baby, Playwrights Horizons, MTC. Regional: Shakespeare Theatre DC, Alley, La Jolla, Old Globe, Guthrie, Goodman, Hartford Stage, Seattle Rep, Kennedy Center's Sondheim Celebration, Metropolitan Opera. Dance: Parsons Dance Company (co-founder), Alvin Ailey, ABT, Joffrey Ballet (Billboards). Received the 2006 Tony Award for Jersey Boys. Five time Helen Hayes Award recipient, 1993 Sir Laurence Olivier Award and Canadian Dora for Spider Woman.

Steve Canyon Kennedy
Sound Designer
Steve Canyon Kennedy was the production engineer on such Broadway shows as Cats, Starlight Express, Song & Dance, The Phantom of the Opera, Carrie and Aspects of Love. His Broadway sound design credits include Mary Poppins, The Lion King, Jersey Boys (Drama Desk Award), Billy Crystal's 700 Sundays, Hairspray, The Producers, Aida, Titanic, Big, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Carousel and The Who's Tommy (Drama Desk Award). Steve is married to actress Loni Ackerman and together they have two sons, Jack and George.

Michael Clark
Projection Designer
Michael Clark designs film and video for live events. Credits include The Wiz (La Jolla Playhouse), Blast II (Japan Tour), For The Glory (Gettysburg, PA), Burliegh Grimes (Off-Broadway), The Persians (National Shakespeare Theater), Ring of Fire (Broadway and Studio Arena Theater), 700 Sundays (National Tour, Broadway and La Jolla), Dracula The Musical (Broadway and La Jolla), The Elephant Man (Broadway), Manon Lescaut (Washington Opera), Allegro, One Red Flower and Hedwig (Signature Theater), The Last Five Years (Philadelphia Theater Company), Company, Sunday in the Park With George and Merrily We Roll Along (Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration), Spider-Man Live (national tour), Music From a Sparkling Planet (Drama Dept), Aeros (national tour) and Dinner with Friends (ACT).

Charles LaPointe
Wig/Hair Designer
B'way: A Raisin in the Sun, Good Vibrations, Henry IV, The Rivals, Julius Caesar, The Color Purple, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, High Fidelity. Assisted Tom Watson on Into the Woods and Wicked. Numerous regional and operatic credits including McCarter, Alliance, American Repertory Theater, Huntington Theater, Williamstown Theater Festival, Hartford Stage and original Jersey Boys production at the La Jolla Playhouse. Opera credits include Opera Theater of St. Louis, Santa Fe Opera, Minnesota Opera, Opera Omaha and Philadelphia Opera Company. Love to James.

Steve Rankin
Fight director and actor
Broadway: Henry IV parts I and II, Guys and Dolls, Jersey Boys, The Farnsworth Invention, Dracula The Musical, Twelfth Night, Two Shakespearean Actors, Anna Christie, The Real Inspector Hound, Getting Away with Murder and The Who's Tommy. Off-Broadway: The Third Story, The Night Hank Williams Died and Below the Belt. Stratford Shakespeare Festival: Romeo and Juliet, Caesar and Cleopatra. Metropolitan Opera: Rodelinda, Iphegenie at Tauride.

Richard Hester
Production Supervisor
Broadway: Jersey Boys, Gypsy, Sweet Smell of Success, Annie Get Your Gun, Patti LuPone's Matters of the Heart, A Delicate Balance, The Old Neighborhood, Titanic, The Phantom of the Opera, The Red Shoes, The Secret Garden. National Tours: Wicked, The Phantom of the Opera, West Side Story. Regional: Jersey Boys (La Jolla Playhouse). Currently: Production Supervisor for Patti LuPone's national concert appearances. Co-Founder/Producer of "Broadway Barks" with Bernadette Peters and Mary Tyler Moore.

B.J. Allen
Production Stage Manager
Broadway: The Runner Stumbles, Little Prince and the Aviator with Michael York and Anthony Rapp, Merlin with Chita Rivera, Doug Henning & Nathan Lane. Tours: Annie (Original 1st National Tour), The King and I with Yul Bynner, Cats, Pump Boys and Dinettes (2 tours, Dodgers Production), Mame with Juliet Prowse. Las Vegas: "O," Celine Dion's A New Day..., Sugar Babies with Juliet Prowse & Mickey Rooney, Guys and Dolls with Jack Jones, Maureen McGovern & Frank Gorshin, Signed, Sealed, Delivered with Peabo Bryson, Melissa Manchester & Chaka Kahn. Member of Equity since 1975.

Anna Belle Gilbert
Stage Manager
Touring: The Light in the Piazza (1st National Tour) Regional: The Cherry Orchard (Mark Taper Forum), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and The Quality of Life (Geffen Playhouse), Purlie, Doubt, Vincent in Brixton, Enchanted April, Talley's Folly and many others (Pasadena Playhouse). Thank you to my family and to the girls.

Dana Victoria Anderson
Assistant Stage Manager
Selected regional credits include: Jersey Boys, Private Fittings, Eden Lane (La Jolla), Third, Speed-the-Plow, Rabbit Hole, The God of Hell (Geffen Playhouse), Love Janis (ATC), Hank Williams: Lost Highway, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, Working, The Buddy Holly Story, It Ain't Nothin But the Blues (San Diego Rep).

Keith Thompson
Conductor
Musical Director/Conductor credits include The Producers (Paris, Las Vegas), the North American premiere of We Will Rock You (Paris, Las Vegas), Hairspray (Luxor), Cabaret (National Tour w/Teri Hatcher and Lea Thompson, Australian Musical Supervisor, Dora Award winner), Mamma Mia (First National Tour), and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat with Donny Osmond. His New York credits include Les Miserables, Tommy, Forbidden Broadway, and When Pigs Fly. Keith's original comedy/novelty song revue, Kooky Tunes, has received international acclaim (original cast recording available at Amazon.com). Keith was Vocal Director and Arranger for Nickelodeon Television's "RoundHouse."

Steve Orich
Orchestrations
Steve has worked as an Orchestrator, Composer and Musical Director in NY and LA for more than 25 years, with numerous credits in film, television and theatre. Most recently, heÕs written orchestrations for Paint Your Wagon, 110 in the Shade, Snapshots and Can-Can and he received a Tony nomination for his work on Jersey Boys. He has orchestrated and conducted albums for artists including Helen Reddy, Judy Kaye, Debbie Gravitte, Petula Clark and Deborah Gibson, and his orchestrations have been performed by the Boston Pops and at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the White House and around the world.

John Miller
Music Coordinator
Recent Broadway: Xanadu, Les Mis, Grey Gardens, Drowsy Chaperone; Beauty and the Beast; Hairspray; Coram Boy; Threepenny Opera; Lennon; Sweeney Todd; The Producers; MovinÕ Out; Sweet Charity; Caroline, or Change; Little ShopÉ; Thoroughly Modern Millie; 42nd Street; Urinetown; Nine; La Bohme; Big River; Never Gonna Dance; Thou Shalt Not; By Jeeves; Follies; Oklahoma!; Jekyll & Hyde; The Rocky Horror Show; Seussical; The Music Man; Fosse; Swing!; Kat and the Kings; The Civil War; Triumph of Love. Studio musician (bass): Michael Jackson, Madonna, Portishead, Eric Clapton, BB King, Sinatra, Carly Simon, Celine Dion, Smashing Pumpkins, Tommy Flanagan, Pete Seeger, NY Philharmonic.

Peter Fulbright/Tech Production Services
Technical Supervisor
Recent Broadway, London, and National Tours: Hairspray, 13, Curtains, Bombay Dreams, 42nd Street, Urinetown, Into The Woods, Vampires, Farnsworth Invention, Inherit the Wind, Dame Edna, 16 Wounded, Anna…Tropics, Enchanted April, Frog & Toad, Life X3, Ma Rainey's, Elephant Man, TopDog, and Blast!. Peter has supervised over 70 Broadway productions and national tours. Favorites include Aspects of Love, Rocky Horror, Real Thing, Swing!, Amadeus, Sound of Music, On the Town, Scarlet Pimpernel, Triumph of Love, Footloose, Mattress, Forum, Smokey Joe's, Moon Over Buffalo, Crazy for You, Guys & Dolls, Joseph..., Secret Garden, Starlight Express, Drood, Singin' in the Rain, Foxfire.

Tara Rubin Casting
Casting
Broadway: Spamalot; ÉSpelling Bee; The Producers; Mamma Mia!; Phantom...; Good Vibrations; Bombay Dreams; Oklahoma!; Flower Drum Song; Imaginary Friends; Metamorphoses. National tours: Disney's On the Record; Les Miserables. Lincoln Center: The Frogs; Contact; Thou Shalt Not; A Man of No Importance; Anything Goes (concert). Off- Broadway: Second Stage. Regional: Williamstown Theatre Festival; Kennedy Center; La Jolla Playhouse; Yale Rep. Film: The Producers The Musical. Ms. Rubin is a member of the Casting Society of America.

Stephen Gabis
Dialect Coach
Broadway: Doubt, Steel Magnolias, Dracula the Musical, Taboo, The Boy From Oz, Joe Egg, MASTER HAROLD and the boys, Present Laughter, A Doll's House. Venues: Roundabout, M.T.C., Playwrights, Atlantic, The New Group, M.C.C., The Public, Second Stage, Williamstown, Yale Rep., McCarter, Hartford Stage, Primary Stages, Lincoln Center, Long Wharf, Westport. Film contributions: Million Dollar Baby, Ballad of Bettie Page, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Boys DonÕt Cry.

Base Entertainment
Presenter/Producer
BASE Entertainment develops, produces and manages intellectual properties generated from live entertainment which may reach audiences through various live, digital, broadcast and other platforms. In addition to Jersey Boys, BASE's current production activity includes Phantom – The Las Vegas Spectacular and Wayne Brady: Making It Up at The Venetian Resort - Hotel - Casino, Defending the Caveman at the Excalibur Hotel & Casino, Peepshow starring Mel B and Kelly Monaco at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino and Cirque du Soleil's holiday show Wintuk, which premiered at the Theater at Madison Square Garden (NYC) in Winter 2007. Previous production activity includes Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me on Broadway and Stomp Out Loud in Las Vegas. In addition, BASE operates the Showroom and The Theatre for the Performing Arts at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. BASE Entertainment's headquarters are in New York, and its founders include industry veterans Brian Becker, Scott Zeiger, and private equity firm Clarity Partners.

Dodger Theatricals
Producer
A producing partnership made up of Michael David, Edward Strong, Rocco Landesman and Des McAnuff. Originated at BAM in 1978, migrated to NY Shakespeare Festival, then off and on Broadway, where they've shared in a host of Tony and Obie Awards. On Broadway: Currently: Jersey Boys, The Farnsworth Invention; Also: 42nd Street, Urinetown, Dracula, Good Vibrations, Into the Woods (Original and '02), The Music Man, Blast!, Titanic, Wrong Mountain, Footloose, Mandy Patinkin in Concert, High Society, 1776, ...Forum, The King and I, The Who's Tommy, Ralph Fiennes' Hamlet, Guys and Dolls, Once Upon a Mattress, How to Succeed in Business..., JellyÕs Last Jam, The Secret Garden, Prelude to a Kiss, Gospel at Colonus, Big River, Pump Boys and Dinettes. Off Broadway: Drumstruck, Symphonie Fantastique, Bare, Barbra's Wedding, Duet, Savion Glover Downtown.

Joseph J. Grano, Jr.
Producer
Joseph J. Grano, Jr. is Chairman/CEO of Centurion Holdings LLC, an advisor to private and public companies. From 2001-2004, Mr. Grano was Chairman of UBS Financial Services Inc. (formerly PaineWebber). While at PaineWebber, Mr. Grano chaired the Board of Governors of the National Association of Security Dealers (NASD). In 2002, Mr. Grano was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as the Chairman of the Homeland Security Advisory Council. He proudly served his country as a Captain in the U.S. Special Forces (Green Berets). Due to his commitment to education, Mr. Grano received the Corporate Leadership Award from the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund. Other awards include the USO Gold Medal for Distinguished Service and The Ellis Island Medal of Honor. He is also a member of the Council for the United States and Italy, a member of both the City University of New York's Business Leadership Council and the Board of Directors at Lenox Hill Hospital.

Kevin and Tamara Kinsella
Producers
Kevin Kinsella has been investing in early-stage technology companies for more than two decades, primarily through Avalon Ventures, a firm he founded. Among the companies he founded are Athena Neurosciences, Aurora Biosciences, Landmark Graphics Corporation, Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Synaptics, Senomyx, Vertex Pharmaceuticals and Vocera Communications. Mr. Kinsella is a Life Sustaining Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a member of Johns Hopkins SAIS DeanÕs Advisory Counsel and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Both lifelong environmentalists and outdoor enthusiasts, Kevin met Tamara in Alaska during the Exxon Valdez oil spill cleanup. They both have been active supporting The La Jolla Playhouse and The San Diego Museum of Art. Jersey Boys is their first Broadway show. Mr. KinsellaÕs father, Walter A. Kinsella, was a career actor on Broadway, radio television and cinema. He first appeared on Broadway in 1924 in What Price Glory?

Pelican Group
Producer
A San Diego production company, is enthusiastic about supporting the Broadway production of Jersey Boys. The Group, assembled by Ivor and Colette Royston, consists of Todd and Debby Buchholz, Edward and Martha Dennis, Eric and Marsi Gardiner, Cam and Wanda Garner, Richard and Patricia Harmetz, Irwin and Joan Jacobs, Hal and Debby Jacobs, Paul and Stacy Jacobs, Jeff and Deni Jacobs, John Jersey Boys 11/20/06 4:52 PM Page 26 CURRAN THEATRE 27 and Angie Longenecker, Rao Makineni, Nevins and Margaret McBride, Ray Mirra, Shearn Platt, Edward Richard, Drew and Noni Senyei, and Steven and Lyse Strauss. Mr. Royston was a co-producer of the TV film Dreams of Gold: The Mel Fisher Story (1986), starring Cliff Robertson and Loretta Swit, and the feature film Soultaker(1990).

Latitude Link
Producer
Latitude Link has been a supporter of the performing arts for many years. They are especially thankful to the Four Seasons for a compelling story, to Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice for putting it to paper, and to Des McAnuff and La Jolla Playhouse for bringing it to the stage.

Rick Steiner
Associate Producer
Of the eleven Broadway musicals Rick has produced, Jersey Boys, Hairspray, The Producers and Big River won Tony awards for Best Musical. In 1954 at age eight Rick made his stage debut opposite Gene Lockhart in On Borrowed Time and then promptly retired. He has won six poker championships including the 1992 World Series of Poker 7- Stud Hi-Lo event. He is proud to sit on the ownership bench of the Cincinnati Reds. He lives in Cincinnati, Ohio with his children Ace and Duke.

Lauren Mitchell
Associate Producer
As producer, on Broadway: Urinetown, Into the Woods ('02 revival), Wrong Mountain, High Society. Off Broadway: Barbra's Wedding, Bare. As actress, on Broadway: The Boys from Syracuse, Me and My Girl, Nine, Annie, City of Angels (LA), Into the Woods (original cast and PBS American Playhouse); and numerous Off Broadway, regional, television and concert appearances.

Stage Entertainment
Associate Producer
Stage Entertainment is an international group of live entertainment companies based in Amsterdam. Its board is comprised of Joop van den Ende, who assembled and founded the company in 1998, Bart van Schriek, Maik Klokow and Caspar Gerwe. Employing more than 4,700 people worldwide, they are active in eight countries. Activities range from theatrical productions, operating theatres and ticketing to special events, ice shows and concert presentations in Europe, US, South America, the Middle and Far East and Great Britain.

La Jolla Playhouse
Original Producer
La Jolla Playhouse has received more than 300 awards for theatre excellence, including the 1993 Tony¨ Award as America's Outstanding Regional Theatre. Located in La Jolla, California, the Playhouse is nationally acclaimed for its innovative productions of classics, new plays and musicals. Led by two-time Tony Award-winner Des McAnuff, artistic director; Steven B. Libman, managing director; and Shirley Fishman, associate artistic director, the Playhouse was founded in 1947 by Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire and Mel Ferrer. More than 30 Playhouse productions have moved to Broadway, garnering 23 Tony Awards, including Big River, The Who's Tommy, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, A Walk in the Woods, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Dracula the Musical, Billy Crystal's 700 Sundays, the Pulitzer Prize-winning I Am My Own Wife, fostered as part of the Playhouse's Page To Stage New Play Development Program, and the currently running Jersey Boys, the smash hit Broadway musical about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. Visit www.lajollaplayhouse.org.