one of the most influential and accomplished composer/lyricists in Broadway history, was born in New York City and raised in New York and Pennsylvania. As a teenager he met Oscar Hammerstein II, who became Sondheim's mentor. Sondheim graduated from Williams College, where he received the Hutchinson Prize for Music Composition. After graduation he studied music theory and composition with Milton Babbitt. He worked for a short time in the 1950s as a writer for the television show Topper; his first professional musical theatre job was as the songwriter for the unproduced musical Saturday Night. He wrote the lyrics for West Side Story (1957), Gypsy (1959) and Do I Hear A Waltz? (1965), as well as additional lyrics for Candide (1973). Musicals for which he has written both music and lyrics include A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (1962), Anyone Can Whistle (1964), Company (1970 - 1971 Tony Award Music and Best Lyrics), Follies (1971 - 1972 Tony Award Score and New York Drama Critics Circle Award; revised in London, 1987), A Little Night Music (1973 - Tony Award Score), The Frogs (1974), Pacific Overtures (1976 - New York Drama Critics' Circle Award), Sweeney Todd (1979 - Tony Award Score), Merrily We Roll Along (1981), Sunday In The Park With George (1984 - New York Drama Critics Circle Award; 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Drama), Into The Woods (1987 - Tony Award Score), Assassins (1991) and Passion (1994 - Tony Award Score). He composed the songs for the television production Evening Primrose (1966), co-authored the film The Last of Sheila (1973) and provided incidental music for The Girls of Summer (1956), Invitation to a March (1961) and Twigs (1971). Side By Side By Sondheim (1976), Marry Me A Little (1981), You're Gonna Love Tomorrow (1983; originally presented as A Stephen Sondheim Evening) and Putting It Together (1993) are anthologies of his work. He has written scores for the films Stavisky (1974) and Reds (1981), and composed songs for the film Dick Tracy (1990 - Academy Award for Best Song). He is on the Council of the Dramatist Guild, the national association of playwrights, composers and lyricists, having served as its president from 1973 until 1981, and in 1983 was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1990 he was appointed the first Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Oxford University. He was also recipient of a Kennedy Center Honor in 1993.

was born in Chicago and graduated from Northwestern University; he did postgraduate work at Columbia University. He has worked extensively as an actor, appearing in many feature films, including The Best Man, Oh God!, Doctor Detroit, Young Doctors In Love, The Man With Two Brains, Cannonball Run, Hooper, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Blazing Saddles, Shampoo, Sleeper, The New Interns and Myra Breckinridge; he has also acted in many major television shows. In addition to Company, he has written the Broadway shows The Act, Twigs, The Supporting Cast, Merrily We Roll Along, Precious Sons and Getting Away With Murder.

has had a long career writing, directing and producing television comedy.  With partner Peter Casey he wrote and produced The Jeffersons (six years) and Cheers (four years).  In 1989 they added a third partner, the late David Angell. The first series they created, Wings, ran for eight seasons on NBC.  Their second, Frasier, recently concluded its eleventh and final year, winning more Emmy awards along the way than any other show in television history.  David has won many and various awards for his work including nine Emmys (eighteen nominations), a Golden Globe, the People’s Choice (twice), the Directors Guild Award, the Television Critic’s Award (three times), the British Comedy Award, the Humanitas Prize (twice), and the prestigious Peabody Award.  Recently he has been devoting more time to the theater, directing critically acclaimed revivals of Light Up the Sky, Do I Hear A Waltz? and (next month) 110 in the Shade at the Pasadena Playhouse, the world premiere of How I Fell In Love at the Williamstown Theater Festival and Assassins and On the Twentieth Century for REPRISE!   Still writing too, he recently authored the highly successful concert adaptation of Can-Can starring Patti LuPone for Encores!

is honored to succeed the late great Peter Matz as musical director for REPRISE!, having been his associate for fourteen shows. Now completing his second season, he has helmed Kismet, Babes in Arms, She Loves Me (garnering a LA Drama Critics Circle Nomination), On the Twentieth Century, Anything Goes (the last three nearly sweeping the Theater LA Ovation Awards category of musical director with a nomination for each!) and Follies. Jerry has been the associate conductor for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Merlin and The Tap Dance Kid (all on Broadway), Les Miserables (L.A. premiere company), and was the conductor for the national tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Song and Dance (starring Melissa Manchester). Other musical direction credits: The Perfect Year (for S.T.A.G.E.), honoring the music of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber and Something Wonderful (for the Actor's Fund), honoring the music of Richard Rodgers, (both star studded benefits directed by David Galligan), the club acts for Jason Graae (on a Fynsworth Alley CD), Donna McKechnie, and John Barrowman, two benefits featuring the original casts of A Chorus Line and Dreamgirls, a Michael Bennett tribute for LA Shanti and for A Hollywood Salute To Broadway, one of the first AIDS Benefits held in Los Angeles, (directed by Jeff Calhoun and held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavillion) and Gilligan’s Island, The Musical (produced by Sherwood Schwartz, the creator of the TV series). As a songwriter/composer, his songs have been heard in ASCAP Rising Songwriter Showcases on both coasts, in Cabaret Conventions at New York’s Town Hall and at the Hollywood Roosevelt’s Cinegrill. He has had music and songs (in collaboration with Lindy Robbins) performed around the country in the ‘93-’98 editions of the Ringling Brothers’ Circus Red Unit. He has also contributed music to the new musicals Heartbeats (in collaboration with Amanda McBroom and Bill Castellino), and both directed by the ubiquitous Mr. Gallligan-- the long running The Gay 90’s—Looking Back and Moving On and the riotous Vampire Virgins From Venus (written with Gary MacAuley). Recently Gerald was thrilled to have accompanied Marilyn Horne and Florence Henderson in a benefit recital for P.A.C.E. (Pacific Alliance for Conservation and the Environment). In a teaching capacity Jerry has worked alongside Nancy Dussault, Karen Morrow, and Mel Shapiro on a student-featured workshop as part of UCLA’s Ray Bolger theater program. He is also the vocal arranger/musical supervisor for the live rock and roll/stunt show Spiderman Rocks (directed by Barbara Epstein) indefinitely playing at Universal Studios Theme Park, Hollywood.

Favorite Credits: Getting My Act Together…(Director- REPRISE!), Judy’s Scary Little Christmas (Director/Choreographer- Court Theatre), A Chorus Line (Director/Choreographer- McCoy Rigby), Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Director/Choreographer- Coconut Grove Playhouse), Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks (Choreographer- Belasco Theatre, Broadway), The Music Man, My Fair Lady (Choreographer- Hollywood Bowl), Songs For a New World (Choreographer- Playwrights Arena), Do I Hear a Waltz? (Choreographer- Pasadena Playhouse), On The Twentieth Century, Follies, The Most Happy Fella, Sweeney Todd (Choreographer- REPRISE!), Grave White Way (Choreographer- Hudson Theatre), Robber Bridegroom, Grass Harp (Director- MTG), Songs From The Tall Grass (Choreographer- Fords Theatre), Snoopy, Blockheads (Choreographer- London West End), THQ, Country Rules (Director- Feature Film), Jekyl (Choreographer- Feature Film), Waiting in Line (Director- Pilot).

Past productions include REPRISE!’s On the Twentieth Century, Anything Goes, Three Penny Opera and Bells Are Ringing.  Most recent production is the critically-acclaimed production of Clutter at the Colony Theatre as well as The Nerd, The Laramie Project, You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown and Side Show, all critics choices. Other recent work includes the premiere of Boulevard of Broken Dreams for the Coconut Grove Playhouse.  His work has been seen throughout Los Angeles and beyond, including numerous shows at the Interact Theatre, International City Theatre and various small theatres, along with two cruise ship shows and some small tours still out on the road. In addition, his design work is seen by thousands on a daily basis at Tokyo DisneySea and Disneyland, including the Porto Paradiso Water Carnival (featuring a cast of 200 and six Spanish galleons) and the updated Great Moments With Mr. Lincoln (featuring a "cast" of one and a chair).  His work has received two Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle design awards, plus Backstage Garlands and Dramalogues.  He received both the LADCC Lifetime Achievement Award for Design and the Backstage West Local hero Award for design. This spring he was named one of Riviera Magazine’s Men of Style.  He dedicates this production to the memory of Robert L. Smith, an esteemed colleague and designer.

began his career in New York City at Michael-Jon Costumes as an in-house design assistant working on 20 Broadway productions including 42nd Street, Barnum, Amadeus, West Side Waltz and Peter Pan. His designs for off Broadway include Deep Freeze, A Memory of Two Mondays, The Great Ghost, Should Have Been A Love Play and Stray Dogs.  In addition he has designed costumes for numerous music videos and recording artists with RCA Records. In Los Angeles, his talent with specialty costume manufacturing helped to create some of the most unusual and technically complicated costumes to appear in movie houses.  He has nearly two dozen films to his credit including Batman & Robin, Batman Forever, Batman Returns, Dracula, The Shadow, Demolition Man and Hocus Pocus.  Recent design projects include the Sci-Fi Television series Crusade, an independent film A Question Of Faith and the TNT film James Dean: An Invented Life, for which he received an Emmy Award nomination. His recent stage credits include: Present Laughter (LA Drama Critics Circle Nomination), Light Up The Sky (Backstage Drama Critics Garland Award), Do I Hear A Waltz and As Bees In Honey Drown for the Pasadena Playhouse, Follies and On The Twentieth Century for REPRISE!

has created designs for twenty REPRISE! productions including Kismet, Sweeney Todd, Mack & Mabel and Hair.  He designed the acclaimed production of Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks at the Belasco Theatre on Broadway, the Geffen Playhouse and the Coconut Grove Playhouse.   He has designed over seventy-five productions for South Coast Repertory Theatre and shows for the Mark Taper Forum, International City Theatre, Opera Santa Barbara, South Bay CLO, Fullerton CLO, Sacramento Music Theatre and Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C.  His lighting can be seen at theme parks in six different countries including Universal Studios Hollywood, Japan and Orlando; Warner Bros. Movie World Australia, Germany and Spain; Knott's Berry Farm and Disneyland.  His architectural lighting can be seen at Hard Rock Hotels and Casinos, Santa Monica Place, South Coast Plaza Mall, Orange County Performing Arts Center, the Los Angeles Music Center and many other retail centers, restaurants, churches, residences and libraries.  Mr. Ruzika also serves as the head of the Graduate Lighting Design Program at U.C. Irvine. 

has designed over 80 theatrical shows, including Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks on Broadway, the current national tour of Jesus Christ Superstar; which has angered elderly patrons in more than 30 cities and been seen by more than half a million audience members across North America, Measure for Measure, Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Cinderella at the Ahmanson, The Talking Cure, Like Jazz, Big River, Flower Drum Song and First Picture Show at the Taper, and all of the past six seasons of REPRISE! Other design work includes Six Dance Lessons In Six Weeks and A'int Nothin' But the Blues at the Geffen, Play On, Only A Kingdom and Blame it on the Movies at the Pasadena Playhouse, Masada at the Shubert Theatre in LA, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and Singing in the Rain for Denver's Arvada Center for the Arts, Forever Plaid, and Blues in the Night, at the Coconut Grove Playhouse in Miami, The King and I, South Pacific, and Into the Woods, for the Long Beach Civic Light Opera. On Broadway he assisted long time design partner Jon Gottlieb on 2001s If You Ever Leave Me I'm Coming With You.  For television Mr. Allen assisted Emmy award winning sound designer Bruce Burns in the sound system design's for the 33rd Academy of Country Music Awards, the 56th and 59th Golden Globe Awards and 14th Soap Opera Awards.  As a mixer he served as Production Sound Engineer for Thoroughly Modern Millie at La Jolla Playhouse before its move to Broadway and was the head soundman for the national tour of Titanic. In 1997 he engineered the gala production Saturday Night at the Summit attended by Bill Clinton and the leaders of the G-7 countries.  He won the 2003 NAACP award for Sound Design for Jesus Christ Superstar, the 2001 Ovation Award for Sound Design for Flower Drum Song, and the 1999 LA Drama Critics Circle Award for the sound design of Cinderella, as well as five LA Dramalogue Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Design, and two Ovation Award nominations for Best Sound Design.