wrote their first shows together when both were still students attending Columbia University. After writing a series of musical comedies for the University's Varsity Shows and other charities, they made their professional debut with the song "Any Old Place With You," featured in the 1919 Broadway musical comedy A Lonely Romeo. Their breakthrough came with the score for a 1925 charity show, The Garrick Gaities, which introduced the classic valentine to their hometown, "Manhattan." From 1920 to 1930 Rodgers & Hart wrote an astonishing array of musical comedies for Broadway and London's West End. At their pinnacle the team was writing an average of four new shows a year, and among these were: Dearest Enemy, Betsy, Peggy-Ann, The Girlfriend, Chee-Chee and A Connecticut Yankee. In 1930 the team relocated to Hollywood, where they contributed songs and wrote the scores for several movie musicals, including the landmark Love Me Tonight starring Maurice Chevalier; The Phantom President starring George M. Cohan; Hallelujah, I’m A Bum starring Al Jolson; and Mississippi starring Bing Crosby and W.C. Fields. They were lured back to New York by legendary Broadway producer Billy Rose in 1935 to write the songs for his circus musical spectacular, Jumbo. Their score introduced "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World," "My Romance" and "Little Girl Blue," and Rodgers & Hart were back on Broadway. From 1936 to 1943 Rodgers & Hart wrote a series of Broadway musical comedies, each of which seemed to top the one before in terms of innovation and box office success. On Your Toes (1936), Babes in Arms (1937), I’d Rather Be Right (1937), I Married An Angel (1938), The Boys From Syracuse (1938), Too Many Girls (1939), Higher and Higher (1940), Pal Joey (1940), and By Jupiter (1942) dazzled Broadway in spectacular succession, and collectively offered such classic songs as "There's a Small Hotel," "I Wish I Were In Love Again," "My Funny Valentine," "Where Or When," "The Lady is a Tramp," "Spring Is Here," "Falling In Love With Love," "Sing For Your Supper," "This Can't Be Love," "I Didn't Know What Time It Was," "It Never Entered My Mind," "Bewitched," "I Could Write a Book," "Nobody's Heart," and "Wait Till You See Her." The partnership disbanded temporarily early in 1943 when Rodgers collaborated with Oscar Hammerstein II on Oklahoma! The Rodgers & Hart partnership resumed with a revision of their 1927 musical comedy A Connecticut Yankee, and the new production (which featured six new songs including "To Keep My Love Alive") opened on Broadway November 17, 1943. Already ill at the time, Lorenz Hart died less than a week later. Richard Rodgers then pursued a career with Oscar Hammerstein II, and their collaboration over the next two decades resulted in the following musical plays: Carousel (1945), Allegro (1947), South Pacific (1949), The King and I (1951), Me and Juliet (1953), Pipe Dream (1955), Flower Drum Song (1958) and The Sound of Music (1959). The team wrote one movie musical, State Fair (1945), and one for television, Cinderella. (1957). Oscar Hammerstein II died in 1960. Richard Rodgers continued to write for the musical stage for the rest of his life; his fortieth, and final, Broadway musical, I Remember Mama, opened on Broadway less than eight months before his death on December 30, 1979. In March of 1990, Richard Rodgers was honored posthumously with Broadway's highest honor when the 46th Street Theatre was renamed in his honor. In 1999, Rodgers and Hart were each commemorated on United States postage stamps.
directed the 1999 Tony Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning Peter Pan starring Cathy Rigby. He recently directed a new production of Dragapella, which was nominated for Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel awards for best production. He has directed for 16 Sacramento Music Circus summer seasons including Man of La Mancha and Smokey Joe’s Café as well as the Broadway Series productions of Triumph of Love, 1776, Into the Woods, Gypsy and A Little Night Music. A native New Yorker, Glenn transplanted himself to Los Angeles where Wrestlers, his first L.A. production, starring George Clooney and Mark Harmon, won critical acclaim. He went on to stage the world premiere of Lainie Robertson’s Stringbean at Theatre Three in Dallas. For producer Barry Brown, Glenn mounted two Los Angeles revivals: Tyne Daly and Charles Durning in The Queen of the Stardust Ballroom, and Patrick Cassidy and Carol Burnett in Company. He had the pleaure to helm From the Top!, a musical written for and starring Ms. Burnett. He has staged some 50 productions including the West Coast premieres of Lend Me a Tenor, Lunch, The Foreigner, and Sondheim’s Anyone Can Whistle. Glenn directed The Wayans Brothers Show for Warner Brothers TV and The Faculty starring Meredith Baxter for ABC-TV. Glenn received his master’s degree form University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
having completed his first season with REPRISE! at the helm for Follies, Anything Goes, On the Twentieth Century, and She Loves Me, Mr. Sternbach is proud to have been handed the baton from the late Maestro Matz, having been his associate for twelve REPRISE! musicals, including Promises, Promises, Sweeney Todd, Mack and Mabel, and Hair. In 2002, he was the musical director for the Actors Fund Benefit, Something Wonderful, honoring the Richard Rodgers Centennial. Other credits: Associate-conductor -- Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, Merlin, The Tap Dance Kid (all Broadway), Les Miserables (LA). Conductor/Musical Director -- Song and Dance (with Melissa Manchester), Gilligan's Island, The Musical (produced/co-written by Sherwood Schwartz), Shire/Maltby's Closer Than Ever (LA premiere), original casts of A Chorus Line and Dreamgirls in the Michael Bennett tribute (LA Shanti), a STAGE benefit honoring Sondheim, and Jason Graae's and Donna McKecknie's acts. He also served as a rehearsal pianist for the last two summer musicals (The Music Man and My Fair Lady) at the Hollywood Bowl. Composer credits -- new musicals: Heartbeats (co-written with Amanda McBroom), The Gay 90's, and Virgin Vampires From Venus (both directed by David Galligan); The Three Musketeers (co-written with Valerie Dunlap, CSUN premiere); ASCAP Rising Songwriter Showcases on both coasts. Cabaret Conventions at NYC's Town Hall and (collaborating with Lindy Robbins) the 93-98 editions of the Ringling Brothers' Circus; worked with Mel Shapiro, Nancy Dussault, and Karen Morrow on a student-featured project as part of UCLA's theater department, vocal arranger for the live rock-and-roll/stunt show, Spiderman Rocks (directed by Barbara Epstein), playing at Universal Studios Theme Park, Hollywood, all year.
returns to REPRISE! having choreographed Anything Goes and She Loves Me last season. As part of the original Broadway creative team of Disney's smash musical Beauty and the Beast (Associate Director/Choreographer), Mr. Mojica mounted, staged, and supervised all 16 companies of the show around the world, with productions premiering in London, Tokyo, Madrid, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Stuttgart, Sydney, and three US National Tours. He has directed and/or choreographed productions of Victor Victoria (1st National Tour) with Toni Tennille, Singin' in the Rain with Andrea McArdle, Cabaret with Sam Harris, Hello, Dolly! with Jo Anne Worley, The Music Man with John Davidson, Dreamgirls, Damn Yankees, Fiddler on the Roof, over 16 productions for the Sacramento Music Circus, Enter the Guardsman for The Old Globe Theatre, The Great American Songbook w/ Michael Feinstein for the Mark Taper Forum, and most recently directed and choreographed the Korean premiere of Singin’ in the Rain in Seoul. He directed the Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS benefit launching EddieBauerKids.com, choreographed The Disney Channel's opening special for the animated feature The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and the world premiere of Flavia and the Dream Maker (Access Theatre) based on Flavia Weedn's popular storybook greeting cards. For future shows and projects, please visit www.danmojica.com.
is a graduate of the UCLA School of Fine Arts; he also attended the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. Early in his career he was an apprentice to multi-award winning production designer Robert W. Zentis. Evan is now an award-winning designer as well and is constantly juggling multiple productions throughout Los Angeles. Projects have ranged from the beautiful (fofo: Echo Greco at The Met) to the whimsical (Zastrozzi at the Ruby) to the astounding (On the Open Road at the Stella Adler). Evan recently designed The Grapes of Wrath at West Coast Ensemble, Little Shop of Horrors at East West Players along with Anyone Can Whistle at the Matrix in addition to doing production design for Theatre fofo at Hollywood Forever Cemetery’s annual Day of the Dead celebration. He dedicates this work to the memory of Bob and to his first mentor in set design ‘little’ Jimmy Arsenault.
is delighted to be working with REPRISE! on their production of Babes in Arms. She is a veteran of musical theatre and also a UCLA alumnus. With her design and technical skills, including millinery, she has had the pleasure of working in both film and theatre throughout the Los Angeles area. Some favorite theatre credits include The Imaginary Invalid, Picasso, Roar of the Greaspaint, Smell of the Crowd, Ku Kanaka (tour), Gypsy, The Picture of Dorian Grey (World Premiere), Mame and The Scarlet Pimpernel. Alayna would like to thank Marcia and Jim and all of the REPRISE! family for their support.
has created designs for eighteen REPRISE!
has designed over 80 theatrical shows, including the current national tour of Jesus Christ Superstar originally starring Carl Anderson and Sebastian Bach, Measure for Measure, Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Cinderella at the Ahmanson, 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 2001 Ovation Award for Sound Design for Flower Drum Song, and the 1999 LA Drama Critics Circle Award with Jon Gottlieb for their 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.