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DAVID MIRVISH
presents
the MICHAEL HARRISON and DAVID IAN
with
BB GROUP/FREDDY BURGER DAVID MIRVISH JOHN GORE
TULCHIN/BARTNER MICHAEL WATT JOHN FROST
production of
Based on the WARNER BROS. film. Screenplay by LAWRENCE KASDAN
Book by ALEXANDER DINELARIS
starring
BEVERLEY KNIGHT
STUART REID
RACHEL JOHN, CAROLE STENNETT, NEIL DITT
MARK HOLDEN, MATTHEW STATHERS, ALEX ANDREAS, GLEN FOX
LYRIC JUSTICE, LIAM WIGNALL
LISA DARNELL, RAÚL NARANJO GARCÍA, CHARLES HAGERTY
EMMA-JOY HOPKINS, CHRISTOPHER JEFFERS, RAQUEL JONES, VERITY JONES
PHOEBE LIBERTY, JEMIMA LODDY, ELLIOT POWELL, MARY LYNN TIEP, PABLO CERESUELA TORRES
MICHAEL WADE-PETERS, MATTHEW WESLEY, EMMY WILLOW, MARK WILLSHIRE
Production Musical Supervisor & Vocal Arrangements
Orchestrator & Additional Music
MIKE DIXON
CHRIS EGAN
Musical Director
Musical Supervisor
TOM GEARING
RICHARD BEADLE
Hair, Wigs & Make-up
Associate Director
Casting Director
CAMPBELL YOUNG
FRANK THOMPSON
BETH EDEN
Lighting Designer
Video Designer
Sound Designer
MARK HENDERSON
DUNCAN MCLEAN
RICHARD BROOKER
Choreographer
KAREN BRUCE
Set & Costume Designer
TIM HATLEY
Director
THEA SHARROCK
Executive Producer (Canada)
PAUL ELLIOTT
T H E
C A S T
M U S I C A L
N U M B E R S
(in order of appearance)
(in alphabetical order)
Frank Farmer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . STUART REID
Rachel Marron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BEVERLEY KNIGHT
Rachel Marron (Tuesday evenings and Wednesday matinees) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CAROLE STENNETT
Bill Devaney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MARK HOLDEN
Tony Scibelli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ALEX ANDREAS
The Stalker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MATTHEW STATHERS
Fletcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LYRIC JUSTICE, LIAM WIGNALL
Sy Spector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NEIL DITT
Nicki Marron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RACHEL JOHN
Douglas/Jimmy/Skip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CHARLES HAGERTY
Ray Court. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GLEN FOX
A L L AT O N C E
A L L T H E M A N T H AT I N E E D
G R E AT E S T L O V E O F A L L
HOW WILL I KNOW
I H AV E N O T H I N G
I ’ M E V E RY W O M A N
I WA N N A D A N C E W I T H S O M E B O D Y
I W I L L A LWAY S L O V E Y O U
JESUS LOVES ME
MILLION DOLLAR BILL
ONE MOMENT IN TIME
QUEEN OF THE NIGHT
ENSEMBLE
RAÚL NARANJO GARCÍA, CHARLES HAGERTY EMMA-JOY HOPKINS, CHRISTOPHER JEFFERS
RAQUEL JONES, VERITY JONES, JEMIMA LODDY, MARY LYNN TIEP
PABLO CERESUELA TORRES, MICHAEL WADE-PETERS, EMMY WILLOW
SWINGS
LISA DARNELL, PHOEBE LIBERTY ELLIOT POWELL, MATTHEW WESLEY, MARK WILLSHIRE
UNDERSTUDIES
For Frank Farmer — GLEN FOX, MARK WILLSHIRE
for Rachel Marron — EMMY WILLOW
for Bill Devaney — CHARLES HAGERTY, CHRISTOPHER JEFFERS
for Tony Scibelli — MARK WILLSHIRE, MICHAEL WADE PETERS
for The Stalker — MATTHEW WESLEY, MICHAEL WADE PETERS
for Sy Spector — MATTHEW STATHERS, CHARLES HAGERTY
for Nicki Marron — EMMY WILLOW, RAQUEL JONES
for Ray Court — MARK WILLSHIRE, CHARLES HAGERTY
ORCHESTRA
Musical Director/Keyboard — TOM GEARING
Assistant MD/Keyboard — RICHARD EVANS
Guitar — TRISTAN AVAKIAN
Guitar — JIM TAIT
Bass Guitar — PAT KILBRIDE
Drums — CHRIS SUTHERLAND
Trumpet/Flugel — MIKE HERRIOTT
Tenor Sax/Flute/Clarinet/EWI — VERN DORGE
RUN TO YOU
S AV I N G A L L M Y L O V E
SO EMOTIONAL
W H E R E D O B R O K E N H E A RT S G O
ALL AT ONCE
Written and composed by Osborne
and Masser. Published by Music Sales
Corporation and Universal Music
Publishing Ltd/MCA Music Ltd.
ALL THE MAN THAT I NEED
By Dean Pitchford and Michael Gore.
Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp.
(BMI), Body Electric Music (BMI) And
Fifth Of March Music (BMI). All Rights
Administered By Warner-Tamerlane
Publishing Corp.
GREATEST LOVE OF ALL
Written by Masser/Creed. Published by
EMI Music Publishing Limited.
HOW WILL I KNOW
Written and composed by Merrill/
Rubicam/Walden. Published by Universal
Music Publishing Ltd and Warner/
Chappell Music Ltd.
I HAVE NOTHING
Written and composed by David Foster
and Linda Thompson. Published by
Peermusic III, Ltd, Universal/MCA Music
Ltd and Warner/Chappell Music Ltd.
I’M EVERY WOMAN
Written and composed by Ashford
and Simpson. Published by EMI Music
Publishing Ltd.
I WANNA DANCE WITH SOMEBODY
Written and composed by Merrill and
Rubicam. Published by Universal Music
Publishing Ltd.
I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU
Written and composed by Dolly Parton.
Published by Carlin Music Corporation.
JESUS LOVES ME
Written and composed by Bebe Winans
and Cedric Caldwell. Published by BMG
Rights Management (UK) Limited, a BMG
Chrysalis company and EMI Songs Ltd.
MILLION DOLLAR BILL
Written by Alicia Keys and Kasseem
Dean. Published by Sony/ATV Music
Publishing (UK) Limited and Universal/
MCA Music Ltd.
ONE MOMENT IN TIME
Albert Hammond/Albert Hammond
Music/Hornall Brothers Music Ltd. John
Bettis/John Bettis Music/Warner Brothers.
QUEEN OF THE NIGHT
Written and composed by Houston/Reid/
Simmons/Edmonds. Published by Sony/ATV
Music Publishing (UK) Ltd, Universal Music
Publishing MGB Ltd and Warner/Chappell
Music Ltd.
RUN TO YOU
Written and composed by Jud Friedman and
Allan Rich. Published by Songs of Peer, Ltd/
Music by Candlelight (administered by Songs
of Peer, Ltd) and Universal/MCA Music Ltd.
SAVING ALL MY LOVE
Written and composed by Masser and Goffin.
Published by Universal/MCA Music Ltd and
Screen Gems-EMI Music Ltd.
SO EMOTIONAL
Written and composed by Steinberg
and Kelly. Published by Sony/ATV Music
Publishing (UK) Ltd.
WHERE DO BROKEN HEARTS GO
Written by Chuck Jackson/Frank Wildhorn
© 2015 Published by Sony/ATV Music
Publishing (UK) Limited and BMG Rights
Management (UK) Limited, a BMG Chrysalis
company. All rights reserved.
The Bodyguard has a running time of approximately
2 hours and 25 minutes including intermission.
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T H E
C O M P A N Y
BEVERLEY KNIGHT
Rachel Marron
Queen of British Soul
Beverley Knight has been
one of the UK’s most
consistent artists for nearly
two decades, scoring several Top 10 albums,
including the platinum selling Voice: The
Best Of Beverley Knight. She has sold over
a million albums in the UK along the way,
including four gold certified albums. Her
latest album Soulsville was released in June
2016 and went straight into the UK Top 10.
Beverley was awarded an MBE by the Queen
in 2007 for her services to British music and
charity, has won three MOBO Awards, and
been nominated for Best Female at the Brit
Awards three times and for the prestigious
Mercury Music Prize twice. Wolverhampton
born Knight has recently forged a
formidable parallel career in London’s
West End following her highly acclaimed
debut starring role as Rachel Marron in The
Bodyguard in 2013. In 2014 she received an
Olivier Award Nomination as for her much
praised and second ever West End role,
of Felicia Farrell, in the hit show Memphis
The Musical. The production won Best New
Musical at the 2015 What’s On Stage Awards
and received more Olivier nominations than
any other West End show in 2015. In October
2015 at the request of Lord Andrew Lloyd
Webber she joined the cast of Cats, playing
the role of Grizabella for a much vaunted
11 week run at The London Palladium. Her
outstanding live performances have gained
her a legion of famous fans over the years,
from David Bowie to Prince, Stevie Wonder
to Quincy Jones. She has collaborated
on stage and on record with the likes of
Prince, Jamiroquai, Bryan Adams, Ronnie
Wood, Carlos Santana, Andrea Bocelli, Jools
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Holland, Jamie Cullum, Joss Stone, Take That
and Chaka Kahn. Knight has toured the
UK several times in her own right and has
sold out London’s Royal Albert Hall on three
occasions since her debut there in 2007.
Her broadcasting work includes presenting
four series of Radio 2 show Beverley’s Gospel
Nights, and two series of hit BBC1 show Just
The Two Of Us as well as winning BBC1’s
Celebrity Mastermind. In the summer of
2012, Beverley wowed a 1 billion viewing
audience with an outstanding rendition
of the song I Am What I Am, in the finale
of the London 2012 Paralympics Opening
Ceremony. Beverley is an ambassador for
many charities such as Christian Aid with
whom she has travelled to areas affected by
disease and poverty to help raise awareness.
She is an active campaigner for anti-Aids
organisations such as the Stop AIDS
Campaign and The Terrence Higgins Trust.
STUART REID
Frank Farmer
Training: Liverpool Institute
for Performing Arts (LIPA).
Theatre includes: Frank
Farmer in The Bodyguard
(UK tour); Frank Gaily in Miracle On 34th
Street (Pitlochry Theatre), Ray Court and
understudy Frank Farmer in The Bodyguard
(West End), Chopper in The Holy Trinity
(Theatre 503), Joseph (Madinat Theatre,
Dubai), Vince Fontaine/Teen Angel in Grease
(UK tour), Genie in Aladdin (Adam Smith
Theatre), Lt Brannigan in Guys And Dolls
(Kilworth House Theatre), understudy
Harry Bright and Bill Austin in Mamma
Mia! (International Tour), Joey Biltmore/
Rusty Charlie/Harry the Horse in Guys
And Dolls (UK tour), Gerry in Dancing At
Lughnasa (Essential Theatre Company), Les
Liaisons Dangereuses (Liverpool Playhouse),
Clegg in Owner’s (ISB) , I Love You, You’re
Perfect, Now Change! (NSTC/Edinburgh). Film
includes: Lead in Great And Small, lead in The
Soulmate (SGX Film Productions) and lead in
Challenging Behaviour (BDP Media). Voiceovers
include: Disney, AerLingus, Investors in People,
Harvey Nichols Ireland, Tesco, Lidl Ireland,
Vodafone Ireland and Sony Playstation.
RACHEL JOHN
Nicki Marron
Rachel’s theatre credits
include Memphis
(Shaftesbury Theatre), Rent
(UK Tour), We Will Rock You
(Dominion Theatre & UK Tour), Godspell
(Sir George Monoux College, London),
Sister Act (London Palladium), The Legend
of the Lion King (Disneyland Paris) and The
Lion King (Asian Tour & Lyceum Theatre).
Other credits include Bend It Like Beckham
(Workshop–Sonia Friedman Productions),
The Show Must Go On (Workshop) and the
short film Running Scared.
CAROLE STENNETT
Alternate Rachel Marron
Training: University
of North London and
Vocal Tech Music School,
London. Theatre includes:
Sapphire in This Is Also England/Just a Man
(workshop); Nicki Marron and understudy
Rachel Marron in The Bodyguard (Adelphi
Theatre); Nala in The Lion King (West End
and UK tour); Nala in The Legend of the Lion
King (Disneyland Resort Paris); Ronnette
in Little Shop of Horrors (Salisbury and
Colchester); alternate lead singer in Thriller
Live (West End); Pirate/Indian in Peter Pan
(Milton Keynes Theatre) and lead performer
in The 12 Days of Christmas (Tilbury Docks).
Television includes: Mum in Green Flag ident
(commercial); The Late Late Show (Dublin)
with the cast of The Lion King; This Morning
(ITV) with the cast of The Lion King and
GMTV–Get Up and Give ensemble. Carole has
also appeared in the choir in The Gospel Train
(Radio 2).
NEIL DITT
Sy Spector
Training: Guildford School
of Acting. Theatre includes:
Amos Hart in Chicago (UK
Tour); Ovington in How
To succeed In Business Without really Trying
(Royal Festival Hall); George Mole in The
Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole (Curve Leicester);
Will/Nicholas Parsons/Big Ben in But First
This(Watermill); Frank Lubey in All My Sons
(Watermill); Hollhuber in The Captain of
Kopenick (National Theatre); Bill Snibson in
Me & My Girl (Kilworth House, Leicester);
Understudy Gilbert Chilvers in Betty Blue Eyes
(Novello Theatre); Bank Manager/ Brucie in
Craig Revel Horwood’s Spend Spend Spend
(The Watermill Theatre); Roger in No Expense
Spared (Jermyn Street Theatre); Ensemble
in Craig Revel Horwood’s Hot Mikado (The
Watermill Theatre); Michael in I do! I do!
(The Vienna English Theatre); Perchik in
Fiddler on the Roof (UK tour); Von Hussler and
Understudy Burt in Mary Poppins (Prince
Edward Theatre); Dr Forrest/ Train Driver in
The Railway Children (Sevenoaks Playhouse);
Jeffery Walters in Time’s Up (Y’vonne
Arnaud Theatre); Starkey in Peter Pan (Qdos
Pantomimes); Harry Lytton in Over My
Shoulder (Windsor Theatre); Muller/ Zitzowitz
in Brigade Exchange (Pleasance theatre);
Dennis Garside in D Company (Pleasance
Theatre); Leonardo Da Vinci in Leonard’s Last
Supper (Open Air Theatre, Regents Park);
Servant and Understudy Mike in High Society
(Open Air Theatre, Regents Park); Outlaw
and understudy Proteus in The Two Gentlemen
of Verona (Open Air Theatre, Regents Park);
Cobweb in A Midsummer Nights Dream (Open
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Air Theatre, Regents Park); Customer and
Understudy Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors
(West Yorkshire Playhouse); Ensemble in
Sunset Boulevard (UK Tour); Midas Randolph
in Meet Mister Future (Cardiff International
Festival); Clint in Insomnia (Cardiff
International festival); Prince Lorenzo in
Snow White (Y’vonne Arnaud Theatre); Horst
in Bent (Rondo Theatre Bath); Chief Ferret/
Train Driver and Magistrate in The Wind in the
Willows (Open Air Theatre, Regents Park). TV
and Film Credits include: Christophe Collins
in Holby City (BBC Television); Kevin Barton
in Cherished (BBC Television) and Seagle in
Lord of Pain (Rockutainment Films)
MARK HOLDEN
Bill Devaney
Training: Artists Theatre
School (ATS), London UK.
Theatre includes: Bill
Devaney in The Bodyguard
(West End/UK Tour), Aslan in The Lion, The
Witch and the Wardrobe (Palace Theatre,
Southend). Mr Myers in Fame–The Musical
(UK Tour). Baloo in The Jungle Book (UK
Tour), Prince of Morocco in The Merchant of
Venice & Conrad in Much Ado About Nothing
(Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival,
Vancouver), Villac Umu in The Royal Hunt of
the Sun, Seyton in Macbeth, Oliver!, La Bete,
Wait Until Dark, Caesar and Cleopatra, The
Cherry Orchard (Edmonton Citadel Theatre),
Othello in Othello (Vancouver), Barnadine &
Friar Peter in Measure For Measure (Studio
Theatre, Edmonton), Aaron the Moor in
Titus Andronicus (Edmonton). Film includes:
Eric Wellman in The Infiltrator, William
Rios in Captain Phillips, World War Z, Final
Destination, Jeff From I.T. in Stalled, The
Road to Guantanamo, Roy Freeman in The
Stickup, Grant in Epicenter, Alfred in Knife
Edge, Willow in Bang Bang You’re Dead, Agent
Taft in Mindstorm, Major Harkey in Love and
Treason, Killer Bees, Hunter in The Inspectors 2:
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A Shred of Evidence, Bill Andrews in Medusa’s
Child, Officer Kline in Gone in a Heartbeat,
and Misbegotten. Television includes: 24: Live
Another Day (Sky), Agent Chandler in The
X-Files: Unrequited, Korra in Stargate SG1:
Deadman Switch, Brother Thaddeus Blake
in Andromeda: The Devil Take The Hindmost,
Julian Carter in Doctors: 3 Episodes, Paolo
Santoni in Casualty: A Good Heart, Hustle:
A Designers Paradise (BBC), Millennium: 2
Episodes, Dr Chase in 50 Ways To Kill Your
Lover: Heavy Metal, Kabalia in MythQuest: The
Blessing, Rev. Malcolm Diggs in The Sentinel:
Black or White, The Twilight Zone: Another
Life, Seven Days: 2 Episodes, Haunted: Pilot,
and First Wave: Motel California. Voice over
includes: (Video games): Kyrrk Tast in Galaxy
on Fire 3: Manticore, US Soldier in Battlefield
1, Sydney Cook & Craig Doyle in Homefront:
The Revolution, The Division, ISA Assault
Captain in Killzone: Mercenary, Guama in
So Blonde, and Crysis. (Animation): Mobile
Suit Gundam Wing: 4 Episodes. (Narration):
Muhammad Ali: The Greatest, Nelson Mandela:
Madiba, Michael Jackson: The Journey, Eminem:
A Shady Story, Creedence Clearwater Revival:
Blue Velvets Rising. (Radio): American History:
Empire of Liberty (BBC Radio 4), Deacon in
God’s Teeth & Corp Levine in No Such Number
(CBC Radio). Upcoming releases in 2016:
Mark plays, John L Nelson in a Prince Biopic
for Channel 5 TV (UK) in April, Evan Clarke
(senior political news correspondent) in
No Easy Days, a US TV series in April, Bob
(newscaster) in Kingsman: The Golden Circle
in October, and one video game due out in
March. Other work includes: Mark wrote,
produced and played the lead in the short
film, The Double Deal, which has screened at
16 film festivals worldwide, and has won the
following awards: Award of Excellence at the
Canada International Film Festival 2016 in
Vancouver; Best Short Film at the San Diego
Black Film Festival 2015 in California; Award
of Excellence at the International Film Festival
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of Spirituality, Religion and Visionary 2014
in Jakarta, Indonesia, and a Special Mention at
the I Filmmaker International Film Festival
2015 in Marbella, Spain. Mark has also
recently produced three other short films
(Huey & Louis, The Crime, Phalure Inc), which
are all currently on the international film
festival circuit.
MATTHEW STATHERS
The Stalker
Training: Bristol Old Vic
Theatre School. Theatre
includes: On the Piste
(UK tour); Killer by Philip
Ridley (Old Red Lion Theatre); The Day After
(Pleasance Theatre); Motherf***er (Landor
Theatre); Brassed Off (Lichfield Garrick); Some
White Chick (Southwark Playhouse); Deathtrap
(English Theatre Frankfurt); On a Shout (Hull
Truck Theatre); Tight (Brief Candle Theatre);
The James Kermack Experience (Battersea Barge
Theatre); Wuthering Heights (Manor Pavilion
Theatre); Murder With Love (Wolverhampton
Grand Theatre) and The Front Page, The City
Madam and The Mysteries (Bristol Old Vic
Studio). Television and film includes: Holby
City and Doctors (BBC); Sink or Swim – Coming
up and Rhinestone Cowboys (Channel 4);
Threesome (Big Talk Productions); Hi-Lo-Joe
(feature); Legend of the Golden Fishcake
(feature); Young, High and Dead (feature);
Circles; Zombie Christmas; Mobile and Manners.
Hi-Lo-Joe has been screened at the Singapore,
Hong Kong, New York and Toronto World
International Film Festival. It will also be
shown in the Dinard British Film Festival
in France and is due for release in 2017.
Television credits include: dancer for Baileys;
Hollyoaks; Mr Selfridge; Emmerdale; supporting
artist in Peaky Blinders; and featured role in
Toast of London.
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ALEX ANDREAS
Tony Scibelli
Training: London School
of Musical Theatre (LSMT).
Theatre includes: Wonderful
West End (Lilian Baylis
Theatre); Big Bopper in Die Buddy Holly
Story (Germany, Nui Metropole Theater
Productions); Big Bopper in The Buddy Holly
Story (Denmark, E & B Productions); Big
Bopper in The Buddy Holly Story (Monaco,
E & B Productions); Big Bopper in The
Buddy Holly Story (UK number 1 tour, E & B
Productions). Film and television includes:
Snatch (Ska Films); My Hero (BBC); Make My
Day (Channel 4); Beyond Bedlam (Metrodome
Films); There’s a Genie in the House
(Nickleodeon UK); Bonds of Love (FFP New
Media); Spy Next Door (Brighter Pictures);
Clive Hole (Studio Films); Pimp (Scratched
Productions); Sorry About Last Night (BBC);
Whistle Connect Campaign (Coral TV); Carling
Live (Partizan/Leith); The Scoop (Mother
Advertising); Industry Trust Campaign (The
Team); Escapology music video (Harry Mark
Productions). Recordings include: backing
vocals for Royal Heart Foundation Charity
single; Planet tunes; lead vocalist for Aperitif
the Album. Alex has also performed at
numerous functions and events with his
band. Before training in Musical Theatre,
Alex worked as a real life bodyguard. He is
delighted to be able to bring some of his real
life experiences to the part of Tony Scibelli in
The Bodyguard.
GLEN FOX
Ray Court
Training: RADA and Anna
Scher Theatre. Theatre
includes: A Midsummer
Night’s Dream, No Thanks,
Alexander in the Rose, Killer of the Sun and
Dionysos Unbound. Television and film
include: The Honourable Woman (BBC TV), Who
Needs Enemies (Filmworks) and The Interview
(Bercaru Productions).
LYRIC JUSTICE
Fletcher
Lyric has worked in
commercials, print and
numerous television and
film projects. His recent
credits are two recurring roles in Shoot the
Messenger starring Lyriq Bent as his father,
retired NBA star Rick Fox and Alex Kingston
a new CBC series, and Designated Survivor
starring Kiefer Sutherland, Hannah Wells
and playing the son of Malik Yoba currently
being shown on CTV. Television and film
credits include: Man Seeking Woman with
Jay Baruchel, Mobile Homes with Callum
Keith Rennie and Imogen Poots, A Day
Late a Dollar Short with Whoopi Goldberg
and Ving Rhames, Agape a short film and
Five Dollars a well praised TIFF short film
directed by Reza Dahya. The Bodyguard is
Lyric’s first introduction to the world of
theatre and he couldn’t be happier for this
amazing opportunity.
LIAM WIGNALL
Fletcher
Liam is from Barrie, Ontario.
He is thrilled to make his
professional theatre debut
in The Bodyguard sharing
the stage with such an incredible cast – it
is truly a dream come true. An experienced
singer, dancer and actor, Liam studies at The
Nine Dance Academy under the direction
of Vanessa Compton and Nikki Loiero. Liam
was awarded the prestigious ‘Rock Star
Award’ at Jump Dance Convention by Ricky
Ubeda of So You Think You Can Dance. He is
also the most recent and youngest addition
to the well-known group MinipopKids
2016 and the regional winner of Mr.
Candance 2016.
LISA DARNELL
Assistant Dance Captain
Training: Bodywork Dance
Studios. Theatre includes:
ensemble in Elf the Musical
(Original Cast), swing in
We Will Rock You (Dominion Theatre), swing
cover Dinah/Buffy/Ashley/Components in
Starlight Express (Bochum), ensemble and
assistant choreographer for Snow White and
the Seven Dwarfs (Manchester Opera House),
ensemble/cover Genie of The Ring in Aladdin
(Manchester Opera House), swing in We Will
Rock You (Zurich/Vienna) and ensemble in
Saturday Night Fever (Far East Tour).
RAÚL NARANJO GARCÍA
Ensemble
Training: School of dance
Madrid 47. Theatre includes:
The Last Horseman (Teatros
del canal Madrid) Television:
TV series Lolita cabaret, Cántame cómo pasó
program tv. Other credits include: dancer for
Fangoria group
CHARLES HAGERTY
Douglas/Jimmy/Skip
Training: The Catholic
University of America,
Benjamin T Rome School of
Music. Theatre includes: If/
Then with Idina Menzel (original Broadway
cast); Grand Hotel (Southwark Playhouse); A
Class Act (Landor Theatre); Wicked (Chicago
and US tour); Les Misérables (US tour); Jesus
Christ Superstar (European tour); Mame
(Goodspeed Opera House); Aspects Of Love,
Love Story and Miss Saigon (The Walnut Street
Theatre); Oklahoma (the New Theatre); and
The Fantasticks (off-Broadway).
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EMMA-JOY HOPKINS
Ensemble
Training: London Studio
Centre. Theatre includes:
Spirit of the Dance (Israel
and UK tour). Television
includes: dancer for Baileys; Hollyoaks; Mr
Selfridge; Emmerdale; supporting artist in
Peaky Blinders; and featured role in Toast of
London. Other credits include: Performer
and Dance Captain for Princess Cruises; Talk
Talk; International hair shows for Wella and
L’Oréal; dancer and model for Adidas, Captain
Morgan’s Rum; and various music videos.
CHRISTOPHER JEFFERS
Ensemble
Training: Midlands Academy
of Dance and Drama.
Theatre includes: Hip
Hopper 2 – Starlight Express
(Germany); Tyrone Jackson – FAME: The
Musical (Irish & UK Tour); Ensemble – Man
In The Mirror (International Tour); Cinderella
(Manchester), Aladdin (Woking) & Dick
Whittington (Wimbledon) for First Family
Entertainment; Ensemble – Dance Fever
(Tatton Park); Dancer/Choreographer – Gala
Night of Stars (Manchester); Manchester
International Festival; Parades in Disneyland
Paris. Television includes: CJ Dean – The 4
O’Clock Club (CBBC); Dancer at The Brit Awards
– Take That (O2 Arena); Robot – 2SHOES Music
Video (Turn Me Out); Boyfriend – N.KAY Music
Video (Entertain You); Stand In – Soapstar
Superstar (ITV); Bully – Grange Hill (CBBC).
Recordings include: ‹Hip Hopper 2› –
Starlight Express (25th Anniversary German
Cast Recording).
RAQUEL JONES
Ensemble
Theatre includes: ensemble
in Jesus Christ Superstar
(Regent’s Park Open Air
Theatre); Ex Girl/Leslie in
American Idiot (Arts Theatre); Clara in Ghost
the Musical (English Theatre Frankfurt);
ensemble in Jesus Christ Superstar (World
Tour); Tribe in Hair (Munich); Genie of the
Ring in Aladdin (Jordan Productions); Chiffon
in Little Shop of Horrors (Birmingham Rep
Theatre); Lil Inez in Hairspray (Shaftesbury
Theatre); Dorothy in The Wiz (Greenwich
Theatre). TV and Film includes: singer for
BBC Comedy Sketch Show with Jocelyn
& Clive Swift (BBC Radio); singer for BBC
Saturday Show (BBC Television); Children in
Need; The Alan Titchmarsh Show.
VERITY JONES
Ensemble
Verity trained at The
National Youth Theatre
and London Studio Centre
where she was awarded
the Hilda Coleman Prize. Recent theatre
credits include: Dirty Dancing (UK Tour),
Jennifer in Save The Last Dance For Me (UK
Tour), Relatively Speaking (Theatre Royal Bath,
UK Tour), Helene in Sweet Charity (The Mac
Theatre, Belfast), Pygmalion (Garrick Theatre,
London), The White Queen and Dance
Captain in Chess (UK Tour and Princess
of Wales Theatre, Toronto), and Haunted
(Manchester Royal Exchange, UK Tour).
Verity has also featured in commercials for
Canon’s London Fashion Week, T-Mobile, and
Channel 5. @cblmanagement
PHOEBE LIBERTY
Swing
Phoebe started performing
professionally at the age
of 9, where she starred as
young Cosette in the West
End production of Les Misérables in 2001.
In 2008 Phoebe gained a full scholarship
to train at Laine Theatre Arts where
she studied both musical theatre and
professional dance. During her training
she was cast in a First Family pantomime
production of Aladdin, at the Churchill
Theatre Bromley, where she appeared as
part of the Ensemble. Other theatre credits
include; Christopher Biggins’ Night Out
(Richmond Theatre, 2009) and A Centennial
Celebration (New Wimbledon Theatre 2010).
After graduating in 2011, Phoebe’s first job
was as a dancer on board Costa Cruise Lines,
and she then went on to become Dance
Captain for P&O cruises until 2015. Phoebe
most recently appeared as a featured dancer
in the Thursford Christmas Spectacular and
is now thrilled to have landed her role as
Swing/Ensemble in the UK Tour and West
End run of The Bodyguard.
JEMIMA LODDY
Ensemble
Training: Tring Park School
of Performing Arts. Theatre
includes: ensemble in
Aladdin (Qdos); ensemble/
cover Lead Vocalist in The Last Tango;
ensemble in Dance ‘Til Dawn (UK Tour).
Commercial and Film includes: Show Me
music video (Jay Milly); Holiday Feature Film
(Max Giwa/Dania Pasquini).
ELLIOT POWELL
Swing
Training: Bird College.
Theatre includes: Love Me
Tender (UK tour); Jesus Christ
Superstar (Arena World Tour);
Aladdin (Richmond Theatre); The King & I
(UK tour); The Rocky Horror Show (European
tour); Disney’s High School Musical (Hong Kong
& Asian tour). Television, film and other
work includes: X Factor (ITV); Britain’s Got
Talent (ITV); London Fashion Week; The Brit
Awards (ITV/O2 Arena); Walking On Sunshine
(Feature Film); The Paul O’Grady Show (ITV);
Uncle (BBC3); Strictly Come Dancing (BBC);
Party House (E4); Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night
Takeaway (ITV).
MARY LYNN TIEP
Ensemble
Mary Lynn is thrilled to be
making her UK debut with
The Bodyguard on Tour and
West End. Theatre credits:
Chicago (Mona) by Broadway director Scott
Farris, CONTACT (North Shore Music Theater,
VSC), Sing, Sing, Sing (Pittsburgh Playhouse
Theater), Cinderella (PPT). Film/TV credits:
College Road Trip (Roger Kumble/Disney), The
WB. Aerial credits with RCCL: Blue Planet
(lead aerialist/C5), Under the Big Top (Aerial
Captain), Edge of Glory. Proud presidential
and dance scholarship graduate of Point Park
University, USA holding a Bachelor of the
Arts degree. Many thanks to The Bodyguard
team and Becky Barrett Management. Love to
U.S. and U.K. families and amazing husband
Tom for their endless support. @MLTiep
PABLO CERESUELA TORRES
Ensemble
Training: Ballet Academy
East (New York), Broadway
Dance Center (New York),
Karen Taft (Madrid), HB
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Studio (New York), Jose Masegosa (Madrid)
and The Voice Studio (New York). Theatre
includes: Mickey’s Music Festival (Spanish
and Italian Disney tour), dancer and Cesar
in Cuenta en Ochos (Auditorio Alcobendas,
Madrid) Fiddler on the Roof (St Jean’s Players,
New York). TV and Film include: featured
dancer in Cántame Como Pasó (Television
España), featured dancer in Qué Tiempo Tan
Feliz (Tele5). Other work includes: dancer for
Puma, featured dancer for Mar Shine on Tour
(Backstage Productions, Barcelona).
MICHAEL WADE-PETERS
Ensemble
Training: Bird College.
Theatre includes: ensemble
in We Will Rock You (Royal
Caribbean), understudy
Frank Jr and Gus in Saturday Night Fever
(Royal Caribbean), Fender in Hairspray
(Royal Caribbean), aerialist in Centrum Wow
(Imagination House). Other works includes:
66th Annual Tony Awards with Hairspray.
MATTHEW WESLEY
Dance Captain
Training: Pat Barker’s
Academy of Dance and
Arts Educational. Theatre
includes: Swing in Laughing
Matters, Celia Imrie (St James’ Theatre,
London), dance captain/assistant fight
Captain/swing in From Here to Eternity (West
End and workshop), featured singer in Hot
Stuff (Leicester Curve), Bobby and onstage
swing in Cabaret (West End), swing and
understudy Mary Sunshine in Chicago (West
End), ensemble in Priscilla Queen Of The Desert
The Musical (West End), Harry and Harrison in
Chicago (West End), assistant choreographer
in En Kvoll Med Daniel Ganesh (Nykoping),
ensemble and dance captain in Dick
Whittington (Camberley Theatre), assistant
choreographer in One More Time (West End),
Thomas Hassinger and understudy Stewpot
in South Pacific (UK tour), Emperor and dance
captain in Aladdin (Rhyl Pavilion), Stephen
Sondheim’s 75th Birthday Gala Children Will
Listen (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), ensemble
in Follies (West End) and Cecil in Peter Pan
(Wyvern, Swindon). Television includes:
Monty Python Live, Renault Clio commercial,
The Alan Titchmarsh Show, Forever Vienna
Commercial, Children In Need and Ashes
commercial. Recordings include: From Here To
Eternity. Modelling: Forever Vienna CD, Football
Manager for the Xbox, New Look Fashion Show,
More Magazine and Attitude Magazine.
EMMY WILLOW
Ensemble
Training: University of
Gloucestershire. Theatre
includes: Lead Vocalist in
The Irvin Berlin Songbook
(Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham), Lead
Vocalist in The Cole Porter Songbook (Everyman
Theatre, Cheltenham) and Cat in Honk!
(Playhouse Theatre, Cheltenham).
MARK WILSHIRE
Swing
Training: Laine Theatre
Arts. Theatre includes: Joe
in 9to5 (UK tour), Dennis
Tanner in Street of Dreams,
understudy Sam Wheat in Ghost (West End),
Robbie in Girls’ Night Out (UK tour), Ash in
Never Forget (UK tour), Our House (UK tour),
Turnov in Starlight Express (UK tour), Chitty
Chitty Bang Bang (UK tour), Eddie in Mamma
Mia! (International tour), Carousel (UK tour),
Aladdin (Milton Keynes Theatre), Tommy
the Cat in Dick Whittington (Milton Keynes
Theatre) and Pierre in Beauty and the Beast
(Telford). Television includes: commercials
for KFC, T-Mobile and New Look.
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LAWRENCE KASDAN
Screenplay
Lawrence Kasdan has directed, written or
produced twenty-three motion pictures,
including Body Heat, The Big Chill, Silverado,
The Accidental Tourist and Grand Canyon.
Among them, he has written or co-written
four of the most successful films in motion
picture history: Raiders Of The Lost Ark, The
Empire Strikes Back, Return Of The Jedi and
The Bodyguard, the first original screenplay
Kasdan sold. The Big Chill and The Accidental
Tourist were nominated for Academy Awards
as Best Picture. The Accidental Tourist was
named Best Picture of 1988 by the New
York Film Critics Circle. Grand Canyon won
the Golden Bear as Best Picture of the 1992
Berlin Film Festival. Nominated for four
Academy Awards and six Writers Guild
Awards, Kasdan was honored by the Writers
Guild of America with its Laurel Award for
advancing the literature of motion pictures.
In 2013, Kasdan joined creative forces with
JJ Abrams to co-write Star Wars: Episode VII
– The Force Awakens, the new entry in the
worldwide phenomenon that is the Star
Wars saga.
ALEXANDER DINELARIS
Book
Alexander Dinelaris is an Academy Award
and Golden Globe winner for the screenplay
of Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of
Ignorance). He is the co-creator and executive
producer of the series The One Percent for
MRC, starring Ed Helms, Hilary Swank and
Ed Harris. He is currently adapting the
novel Entering Hades into a feature film
with Michael Fassbender. His film The Year
of the Monarchs is currently in development
with Mandalay Entertainment. Alexander
is also the book writer of Gloria and Emilio
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T E A M
Estefan’s Broadway musical On Your Feet!
Other recent work includes his plays Red
Dog Howls (New York Theater Workshop),
Still Life (Manhattan Class Company), The
Chaos Theories (Shotgun Theater) and In
This, Our Time (59e59). Mr Dinelaris is a
proud member of the Writer’s Guild and the
Dramatists Guild.
THEA SHARROCK
Director
In 2000 Thea won the James Menzies-Kitchin
young director of the year award, making
her directorial debut with a production of
Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls, which transferred
to the West End and toured the UK twice.
Thea was then made Britain’s youngest
artistic director when she took over the
Southwark Playhouse for three years, before
then going on to be the artistic director
of the Gate Theatre in Notting Hill. Since
then as a freelance director, her credits
include productions for the Almeida and
the Donmar, the National Theatre and
many in the West End including Equus
with Daniel Radcliffe and Richard Griffiths
(also Broadway); The Misanthrope with Keira
Knightly; Heroes with John Hurt and Cause
Celebre with Anne-Marie Duff at the Old
Vic. Her production of After The Dance for
the National Theatre won 8 major awards.
She has also directed Henry V starring Tom
Hiddleston for Sam Mendes/Neal Street
and the BBC, as well as the 2013 Christmas
Special of Call The Midwife also for Neal
Street and the BBC. She directed Richard
Griffiths in his last stage performance, in
The Sunshine Boys with Danny DeVito at
the Savoy Theatre before directing her first
musical, The Bodyguard at the Adelphi. She
directed Miranda Hart in her arena tour
for 2014, as well as Kevin Spacey in his
first one-man show, Darrow for the Old Vic.
Thea’s debut feature film, Me Before You, an
adaptation of Jojo Moyes’ novel for MGM
starring Emilia Clarke and Sam Claflin, has
recently been released in the US and UK.
TIM HATLEY
Set & Costume Designer
Theatre includes: Great Britain, 3 Winters,
Small Family Business, Timon of Athens,
Welcome to Thebes, Rafta Rafta, Present
Laughter, Henry V, The Talking Cure, Vincent
in Brixton, Humble Boy, Stanley, Hamlet, Sleep
with Me, Darker Face of the Earth, Flight,
Caucasian Chalk Circle (National Theatre)
Out of a house… (National Theatre with
Complicite), Ghosts, Betty Blue Eyes, Shrek the
Musical, Spamalot, Private Lives, Suddenly Last
Summer, The Crucible, Endgame (West End
and Broadway), The 3 Lives of Lucie Cabrol
(Complicite). Film includes: Stage Beauty,
Closer, Notes on a Scandal. Awards include:
Olivier Awards for Stanley (NT) and Private
Lives (West End), Tony Awards for Private Lives
(Broadway) and Shrek (Broadway).
KAREN BRUCE
Choreographer
Karen is an Olivier Award-winning
Choreographer and Director, working
extensively in theatre and television, both
in the UK and abroad. Theatre Includes As
Director: Dance ‘Til Dawn (UK Tour, West
End), Midnight Tango (West End, UK Tour),
Strictly Come Dancing – The Professionals
(Stage Entertainment Tour), Saturday Night
Fever (Spain, South Africa, West End, UK
Tour, Australia, Singapore, Scandinavia,
Korea), Oliver! (Gilbert and Sullivan Society
Of Bermuda), Footloose (West End, UK Tour,
South Africa), The Wedding Singer (UK Tour).
As Choreographer: Dance ‘Til Dawn (UK
Tour), Starlight Express (Joberg Theatre, South
Africa), The Last Horseman (Madrid), Robinson
Crusoe And The Caribbean Pirates (Birmingham
Hippodrome), Chess (Margitsziget Open
Air Theatre, Budapest), Never Forget (Savoy,
UK Tour), Doctor Doolittle (UK Tour), Pacific
Overtures (Donmar Warehouse), The Producers
(Spain), Far Pavilions (Shaftesbury), Brighton
Rock (Almeida), Annie Get Your Gun (Number
1 Tour), Footloose (Plymouth, Number 1
Tour), When Harry Met Barry (The Venue,
Tryout), A Chorus Line And Sweet Charity
(Sheffield Crucible). As Associate Director
and Choreographer (with Arlene Philips):
Black Goes With Everything (Churchill Theatre
Bromley), Saturday Night Fever (Palladium,
Minskoff Theatre New York) E.F.X (MGM
Grand Las Vegas). Projects with Richard
Sampson: The 1993/4 Olivier Awards, Oliver!
(Sheffield Crucible), The Cole Porter Centenary
Gala, Jesus Christ Superstar In Concert and The
Federation Cup. As Assistant Director and
Choreographer: Grease (With Arlene Philips,
Cambridge Theatre), Hollywood And Broadway
And The Pied Piper (With Wayne Sleep,
Bournemouth), Annie (Sheffield Crucible),
The Greatest Show In Town (Bournemouth),
Stairway To The Stars, Hello Dolly!, My One
and Only (Palladium). Television includes:
The Voice, Waking The Dead, The Paul Daniels
Magic Show, The Les Dennis Laughter Show,
The Lisa Maxwell Show (BBC), And Head
Over Heels (Carlton). Other events include:
Opening Ceremony of the 2002 Commonwealth
Games (Manchester), devising a piece based
on Music In War for Fiona Laird (National)
and several commissions for Princess
Cruises. Awards & Nominations Olivier
Award for Best Choreography for Pacific
Overtures (Donmar Warehouse) TMA Best
Musical Award for Sweet Charity (Sheffield
Crucible) Olivier Award Nomination for Best
Entertainment for Midnight Tango What’s On
Stage Theatregoers’ Choice Nomination for
Best Choreographer for Never Forget
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CHRIS EGAN
Orchestrator & Additional Music
Chris Egan has worked in all genres of music
as a Composer, Orchestrator, Conductor
& Music Producer. Film includes: Fantastic
Beasts and Where To Find Them (Warner
Bros.); Ethel & Ernest (BBC Films); Napoleon
(BFI). Television includes: The Halcyon (ITV);
Hooten And The Lady (Sky); Cilla (ITV); The
Academy Awards; The Tony Awards; Man Down;
Upstairs Downstairs; Queens Diamond Jubilee;
Royal Variety Performance; Girlstuff Boystuff
animation series; Britannia High; Prince’s Trust
30th Anniversary Concert; Children In Need;
Late Night with Jerry Springer; BBC TV License
Campaign. Video Games includes: Halo 5:
Guardians (Microsoft). Theatre includes: The
Bodyguard (West End, Worldwide); National
Theatre 50th Anniversary; Water Babies
(Leicester); End Of The Rainbow (Broadway,
West End, Worldwide); The Pajama Game
(West End, Chichester); I Can’t Sing (West
End); Dance ‘Til Dawn (West End, UK Tour);
Kiss Me Kate (West End); Crazy For You
(West End); Witches Of Eastwick (UK Tour,
Worldwide); Grease (West End, Worldwide);
Footloose (West End, UK Tour, South Africa).
Radio includes: Dame Shirley Bassey Electric
Prom, Friday Night Is Music Night, BBC
Proms In The Park, James Bond Special, BBC
Voice of Musical Theatre. Concerts includes:
Elaine Paige (UK, European, Australian,
American & Asia Concerts); Dame Shirley
Bassey (Glastonbury, Electric Prom & UK
Arena Tour); Lionel Richie (Hyde Park,
Emirates Stadium Concerts). Special Events
includes: Heathrow Terminal 5 Royal
Opening, St. Pancras International Royal
Opening, Morse Live at the Albert Hall,
Laurues Sports Awards Monte Carlo. Chris
has written arrangements and conducted
for many recording artists including: Paul
McCartney, David Foster, Annie Lennox,
Lionel Richie, Lady Gaga, Above & Beyond,
Olivia Newton-John, Phil Ramone, Dionne
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Warwick, Tony Hatch, Ronan Keating, Dame
Shirley Bassey & Leslie Bricusse. In 2016,
Chris conducted Above & Beyond’s Acoustic
Concert Film at The Hollywood Bowl,
Los Angeles.
MIKE DIXON
Production Musical Supervisor
and Vocal Arrangements
Mike graduated from Trinity College of
Music in 1979 and over the course of his
varied and multifaceted career Mike has
established himself as one of the leading
figures in the West End, Television and Radio
as Musical Supervisor, Musical Director,
Conductor, Arranger and Composer. Theatre
includes: Mrs Henderson Presents, Oh What
A Lovely War, The Bodyguard, The Infidel,
Taboo, Hair, Zorro, Never Forget, We Will Rock
You, Footloose, Grease, Jesus Christ Superstar,
Aspects Of Love, Doctor Doolittle, Joseph and the
Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, La Cage Aux
Folles, Bernstein’s Peter Pan, Bless The Bride,
Mr Cinders, Andy Capp. Television includes:
Get Your Act Together, A Life in Song – Tim Rice,
Surprise Surprise, D-Day 70 Years On from the
Royal Albert Hall, A Life In Song – Don Black,
BBC Radio 2Day – Gala Concert, 12 Hours To
Please Me, This Is Lionel Richie, Text Santa,
Children In Need Rocks the Royal Albert Hall, The
Electric Proms, Concert for Diana, Glastonbury
2007, MusiCool, Pop Idol, The Royal Variety Show,
Miss World, The British Comedy Awards, The
Queen’s Golden Jubilee Rock Concert, The Prince’s
Trust 30th Anniversary Concert at the Tower
of London, BBC Proms in the Park, An Audience
with...Jimmy Tarbuck, Joan Rivers, Another
Audience With...Shirley Bassey, and An Audience
with Lionel Richie...Live! Radio includes: Battle
Of Britain at 75, VE Day at 70, D-Day 70 Years
On, JFK – Minute by Minute, Dambusters 70
Years On, BBC Radio 2Day – Gala Concert, 12
Hours To Please Me, Titanic – Minute by Minute,
Friday Night Is Music Night, Elvis Forever,
Elbow at Abbey Road, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s
Birthday in the Park, Friday Night Is BOND
Night, Cheltenham Jazz Festival – The Billie
Holiday Story – The Billy Strayhorn Story, BBC
Radio 2 Voice of Musical Theatre Competition.
Recordings include: Mrs Henderson Presents,
The Sound of Rodgers & Hammerstein with
Helena Blackman, The Performance with Dame
Shirley Bassey, Zorro, Seven by Tony Banks with
The London Philharmonic Orchestra, We Will
Rock You, Grease, Doctor Dolittle, Jesus Christ
Superstar, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor
Dreamcoat, Aspects of Love, Evita (The Movie).
Concerts and special events include: How To
Succeed In Business (Concert Performance),
Inaugural European Games Baku 2015:
Torch Ceremony, Don Black: From Hackney to
Hollywood, New Year’s Eve Gala Concert with
Jacqui Dankworth, New London Chorale, Huawei
Winter Concert, Go Local Concert at Queen
Elizabeth Olympic Park, Search For A Twitter Star
– Live, Macmillan Centenary Gala, Wimbledon
Theatre Centenary Gala, Welcoming The World
(London 2012), St Pancras International Royal
Opening. Awards include: Helpmann Award
for Best Musical Direction – We Will Rock
You, Sony Radio Awards and New York Radio
Awards (with Phil Critchlow and Jonathan
Mayo for TBI Media in association with BBC
Drama) – Minute by Minute Series (including
Titanic, Please Please Me, Dambusters 70 Years
On and JFK). Mike is proud to be a Patron of
Arts Educational Schools, London.
RICHARD BEADLE
Musical Supervisor and Additional
Vocal Arrangements
Richard graduated with a degree in
commercial music. Richard is Musical
Supervisor for international productions
of The Bodyguard including United States,
Germany & South Korea. He was the original
Musical Director at the Adelphi Theatre. He
is also Musical Director & Orchestrator for
the forthcoming The Girls musical written
by Gary Barlow and Tim Firth at the Phoenix
Theatre as well as Associate Musical
Supervisor for the recent tour of Priscilla
Queen Of The Desert. He is Assistant Musical
Associate for the new ITV drama, Victoria.
His Musical Director credits for theatre
include: Betty Blue Eyes (Novello Theatre);
Hair (Gielgud Theatre); Priscilla Queen Of the
Desert (Palace Theatre); Grease (Piccadilly
Theatre); the 2007 UK tour of Fame; the
2005-2006 UK tour of Grease; Fame (UK tour);
Blood Brothers (UK tour); The Rocky Horror
Show (UK and European tours). Assistant
Musical Director credits for theatre include:
Jesus Christ Superstar (Slovenia); Cabaret
(European Tour); Our House (Cambridge
Theatre, London). Richard’s commercial
credits include: Brian McFadden (BMG) and
keyboards for Westlife. He has produced the
debut albums of the singers Shona White
(I’ll Bring You A Song) and Chris Thatcher
(Jesus Chris Superstar). Additionally Richard
has composed and arranged music for The
Lover’s Spiral (commissioned by The Royal
Ballet School) and ‘Perfectly Frank’ – Songs
from The Rocky Horror Show. Richard writes
songs, music for film & TV adverts and his
first musical, Today Is My Day, premiered
in London in 2010 and his album Songs
was released in 2012 to critical acclaim.
www.richardbeadle.com
MARK HENDERSON
Lighting Designer
Mark is an Associate at the Royal National
Theatre. He was the recipient of the 1992,
1995, 2000, 2002 and 2010 Laurence Olivier
Awards for Lighting Design, was awarded a
Tony in 2006 and has also received a Welsh
BAFTA. He has lit extensively for all the
major theatre, opera and dance companies
in the UK as well as over 50 West End
productions Theatre includes: Chitty Chitty
Bang Bang, The Iceman Cometh, The Judas
Kiss, Copenhagen, Democracy, Hamlet, The Real
Thing (West End and Broadway), The Sound of
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Music, Our House, Up for Grabs, Grease (West
End and UK tours), West Side Story (UK tour),
Spend Spend Spend, Neville’s Island, Follies,
Passion, Enron, All My Sons, The Rise and Fall
of Little Voice, Sweeney Todd, The Bodyguard,
Gypsy. At the National Theatre: Racing
Demon, Les Parent Terribles, Cat on a Hot Tin
Roof (all on Broadway), All My Sons, Mourning
Becomes Electra, The History Boys, The Habit
of Art, Emperor and Galilean, One Man Two
Guvnors, The Hard Problem Opera includes:
ENO, The Royal Opera, WNO, Opera North,
Glyndebourne. Dance productions includes
work for LCDT, The Royal Ballet, Scottish
Ballet, Northern Ballet, SWRB, Rambert
Dance Company Mark designed the lighting
for the Kate Bush live show Before the Dawn.
RICHARD BROOKER
Sound Designer
Credits as Sound Designer include:
Funny Girl (Savoy Theatre & The Menier
Chocolate Factory); Xanadu (Southwark
Playhouse); What’s It All About? (Close To
You) Bacharach Reimagined (West End & The
Menier Chocolate Factory); The Last Tango
(UK tour); Bend It like Beckham (West End);
Annie (UK tour); Love Me Tender (UK tour); The
Bodyguard (West End & UK tour & Cologne);
The Little Shop of Horrors (Manchester Royal
Exchange Theatre); Made In Dagenham (West
End); Dance Til Dawn (West End & UK tour);
Therese Raquin (The Park Theatre); Water
Babies (Leicester Curve); Sweeney Todd (West
Yorkshire Playhouse/Manchester Royal
Exchange Theatre); Fiddler On The Roof (UK
Tour); Avenue Q (Korea); Back Beat (Toronto
and Los Angeles); Vampirette (Manchester); I
Dreamed A Dream (UK tour); Chess (Toronto);
The Sound of Music (Moscow); A Cat on Hot Tin
Roof (Novello Theatre, London); Leslie Jordan:
My Trip Down The Pink Carpet (Apollo Theatre);
A Christmas Carol (Arts Theatre); Never Forget
the Musical (UK tour and Savoy Theatre
London); Jesus Christ Superstar (The Really
Useful Group UK and Spain National Tours);
Dancing Shadows (World Premier Seoul,
Korea); Daddy Cool (Shaftesbury Theatre,
London); Daddy Cool (International tour);
Christmas Carol (Albery Theatre London);
Cabaret (Teatro Della Luna, Milan); The Fall
and Rise of Lenny Smallman (The Arts Theatre,
London and The Mill, Guildford); Home Truths
(National tour); We Could Be Heroes (RAM
and The Bridewell); The Snowman (Peacock
Theatre London, UK tour, Finland and
Seoul, Korea). Richard works with artists in
concert in the Rock and Pop world and has
provided sound design for many television
and corporate shows. His sound mixing
credits also include arena shows both in
the UK, Europe and Nigeria and several CD
recordings. Richard is also the Associate
Sound Designer for Mamma Mia! in China,
Europe, Korea and South Africa.
DUNCAN MCLEAN
Video Designer
Theatre includes: City of Angels, Henry IV,
Privacy, Frost/Nixon (Donmar Warehouse),
Inside Wagner’s Head (Royal Opera House),
Still Game Live (Glasgow Hydro), John Bishop:
Supersonic (National tour), Urinetown
(Apollo Theatre), Derren Brown – Infamous
(Palace Theatre/UK Tour), War Horse, Prom,
Kristina (Albert Hall), If Only (Chichester
Festival), Richard III (Trafalgar Studios),
Let It Be (Savoy/Broadway/European Tour),
The Flying Dutchman (Grand Opera House,
Belfast), And In The Beginning Was The End
(Somerset House), 9 to 5 – The Musical (UK
Tour), Epidemic (Old Vic Tunnels), All New
People (Duke of York’s and UK Tour), Shrek
the Musical (Drury Lane), Ivan and the Dogs
(UK and International Tour), Albion (Bush
Theatre), A Flea in Her Ear, The Real Thing, All
About My Mother (Old Vic), The Tempest (Old
Vic/Bridge Project), The Hairy Bikers Big Night
Out (UK Tour); The Norman Conquests (Old
Vic/Broadway), Sir Barrington Ganch – My
Dr. Rooben Mumbäah
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Life is Art (Edinburgh Festival). Television
includes: BBC News, London Olympics
2012, Newsnight, Match of the Day, The One
Show and the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing.
In 2001, Duncan won the BFI’s Young
Filmmaker of the Year Award.
STUART CROSS
Associate Lighting Designer and LX
Programmer
Stuart has worked professionally in the
theatre industry for over 25 years. He started
his career in Rep and spent many years
touring on some of the largest musicals,
and for more than 10 years he has been
freelance mainly working as a Programmer.
Theatre includes: The Comedy About A Bank
Robbery, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, The Elephant
Man, Cats (Russia, West End & Paris); Hair,
Million Dollar Quartet, Rock of Ages, The
Commitments, I Can’t Sing, Evita, The Bodyguard
(West End, UK tour & Cologne); Sister Act,
Grease, Chess, Saturday Night Fever, The Lion
King, Rock of Ages. Television includes:
Laughs in the Park 2011. Comedy includes:
Eddie Izzard’s Stripped (International tour).
Music includes: Kate Bush’s Before the Dawn
(Hammersmith Apollo).
TOM MARSHALL
Associate Sound Designer
As Sound Designer; The Hired Man (St.James
Theatre), West Side Story (Victoria Warehouse
Manchester), My Favorite Year (Bridewell
Theatre), The Tailor Made Man (Arts Theatre),
Legally Blonde (Arts Educational School),
Pushing up Poppies (Theatre 503, Battersea),
Boys in The Band (Aldwych Theatre) As
Associate Sound Designer; Made in Dagenham
(Adelphi Theatre), The Water Babies (Leicester
Curve), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Savoy
Theatre), Stephen Ward (Aldwych Theatre),
Fiddler On the Roof (UK Tour), Highland
Fling (Glasgow Theatre Royal), Passion Play
(Richmond Thatre), The Bodyguard (Adelphi
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Theatre), I Dreamed a Dream – The Susan
Boyle Story (UK Tour), Vampirette (Manchester
Opera House), Street of Dreams (UK Arena
Tour), Oliver! (2011 UK Tour), Horrible Histories
– Barmy Britain (Garrick Theatre), Chess
(Toronto), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Novello
Theatre), Never Forget – The Take That Musical
(UK Tour & Savoy Theatre), Daddy Cool
(Shaftesbury Theatre & Berlin), The King & I
(UK Tour), The Full Monty (UK Tour). London
Theatre Mixing credits include; Oliver!
(Palladium Production), Showboat, West Side
Story, Oklahoma!, Tess of the D’urbervilles, The
King & I, My Fair Lady, The Full Monty, Anything
Goes!, Acorn Antiques The Musical, Porgy & Bess,
Oliver! (Theatre Royal Drury Lane Production)
and most recently Chess (Toronto). As a Live
Music engineer: Tom has had the privilege of
mixing and touring with many artists such
as; The Coral, The Bees, The Lightning Seeds,
Elaine Paige, Lewis Taylor, Martina-Topley-Bird,
Bjorn Again and the internationally
acclaimed PJ Harvey.
ROSS EDWARDS
Associate Set Designer
Ross trained at Kent University studying
drama and theatre, and Mastered in Set
Design. He has assisted many established
designers, and has recently been the
resident assistant at the Royal Opera House
in Covent Garden. Since leaving the Opera
House, Ross has assisted Tim on several
designs for the National Theatre, Royal Ballet
and West End.
CAMPBELL YOUNG ASSOCIATES
Hair, Wig & Make-up Design
Theatre Includes: West End & UK: Funny Girl
– London & Menier Chocolate Factory, The
Master Builder, The Lorax, The Young Chekhov
Trilogy, Bend It Like Beckham, High Society, City
of Angels, Made In Dagenham, Gypsy, Guys &
Dolls, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, The
Bodyguard, Kiss Me Kate, Sweeney Todd, Love
Never Dies, Oliver!, Priscilla Queen Of The Desert,
Henry V, Peter and Alice, Passion Play, Old Times,
A Chorus of Disapproval, The King’s Speech,
Hay Fever, South Downs/The Browning Version,
Betrayal, The Children’s Hour, Fathers & Sons,
The Physicists, Government Inspector, Annie Get
Your Gun, Electra, Clarence Darrow, Sweet Bird of
Youth, Richard III, Inherit the Wind. Broadway:
American Psycho, The Crucible, A Fish in The
Dark, Misery, Sylvia, A Delicate Balance, The Last
Ship, It’s Only A Play, Betrayal, Les Misérables,
Spider-Man. West End/Broadway: The Cripple
of Inishmaan, Matilda, Ghost, One Man Two
Guvnors, Mary Stuart Billy Elliot, La Bête, Private
Lives, Rock ‘n’ Roll. Opera: Don Carlos, L’enfant
et les sortileges – Bolshoi Opera Moscow Anna
Nicole – BAM, Elektra – Aix-en-Provence,
Der Freischütz – Baden-Baden, Un Ballo in
Maschera, La Boheme – Bregenz, Einstein on
the Beach (International Tour). Also many
productions for ENO, Scottish Opera, WNO,
and Opera North. Film/TV TV: Featured wigs
for: The Americans, House Of Cards, Downton
Abbey, Smash, Orange Is The New Black.
JACK GALLOWAY
Costume Supervisor
Theatre includes: as costume designer:
Batman Live (world arena tour); Calendar Girls
(UK tour); Walker Dance Park Music (Royal
Opera House) Love Song, Candoco, Girl in the
Red Dress and The Barber of Seville (NI Opera)
and as associate designer: Shrek (produced
by DreamWorks in London and New York);
Dirty Dancing (London, Hamburg, Utrecht
and Berlin); Hairspray (London and UK tour);
Jersey Boys and High School Musical.
JASON CAPEWELL
Resident Director
Jason trained at The Birmingham School of
Speech and Dramatic Art and undertook
further study at Arts Educational Schools,
London. Jason has just finished directing a
brand new production of Grease, which had
its premier on the brand new cruise liner
‘Harmony of the Seas’ the biggest cruise
liner in the world. He was the Associate
Director on the UK premier of Xanadu, at the
Southwark Playhouse. Jason redirected the
current UK and international tour of Priscilla
Queen of the Desert! He was the Resident
Director on the UK tour of The Bodyguard,
other recent credits include, Resident
Director on the first UK tour of Rock Of Ages,
Resident Director for the UK tours of Priscilla
Queen of the Desert and Ghost the Musical.
Jason also spent the first 3 months of 2014
on The Bodyguard in London as a caretaker
Resident. Jason was the Resident Director
for both UK tours of Grease and Chicago
in 2012. Other theatre credits include
Resident Director for Grease at the Piccadilly
Theatre, London, and Associate Director
of the International Tour of Grease and
re-directing the London production of Grease
in Australia and Singapore Jason was the
Resident Director on the revival of the Boy
George Musical, Taboo. In 2010 he directed a
production of Grease in South Africa, which
was subsequently seen in New Zealand and
Hong Kong. He has over 20 years experience
of producing and directing Musical Theatre
Gala Concerts including The Macmillan
Centenary Gala (The London Palladium) and
The Musicals, at Birmingham Symphony Hall.
also the West End Celebration Gala’s, at The
Palace & Queens Theatres, London. Which
ran annually from 1999 to 2009. He was also
the Director of West End Eurovision, for the
charity Theatre Mad. Jason was the director
of The Hampstead Theatre Arts Academy
and has a vast experience of directing shows
& arranging lessons in Dance, Singing and
Drama for children. Jason’s performing
credits include the role of Vince Fontaine/
Teen Angel in Grease (Piccadilly Theatre,
UK Tour & International Tour); the role of
Dennis in Hold Tight It’s 60’s Night (European
Tour); Starlight Express (Apollo Victoria,
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London) as Swing – covered and performed
twelve roles, including Poppa (alternate),
Greaseball, Electra and Dustin; 20th Century
Musicals (National Tour) as Principal Vocalist;
The Wizard of Oz (Birmingham Rep); Oliver!
(Belgrade Theatre, Coventry); Aida (NIA,
Indoor Arena, Birmingham); Dick Whittington
(Theatre Royal Plymouth); Summer Season
(Golightly Productions); Cinderella (The
Playhouse, Weston-Super-Mare) and Dick
Whittington (Harlequin Theatre, Redhill,
Surrey). Jason’s recording credits include the
demo recording of Lord of the Rings and The
Musicals, at Symphony Hall, Birmingham
Jason has appeared on television in One By
One (BBC); The Bill (ITV); Blue Peter (BBC) and a
commercial for Lipton Ice Tea.
TOM GEARING
Musical Director
Training: University of Manchester. Theatre
includes: Priscilla Queen of the Desert
(2013-14 UK Tour Assistant MD and Musical
Director), Dance Till Dawn (UK Tour 2014
and West End), Shrek the Musical (UK Tour
2014), The Bodyguard (Apollo Theatre 2014),
Avenue Q (2012 UK Tour Assistant MD), Jersey
Boys (Prince Edward Theatre 2011-12 and
Piccadilly Theatre 2013-14), Oliver! (UK tour
2012), Spend, Spend, Spend (Musical Director
UK tour 2010), Gotta Sing Gotta Dance (UK
Tour Assistant MD 2010), Singin’ in the Rain
UK Tour 2nd Assistant MD 2009; Musical
Director for Extravaganza Aladdin 2007,
Evolution Jack and the Beanstalk 2008 and
Aladdin 2009 and Jordan Productions Snow
White 2010 and Beauty and the Beast 2011
pantomime companies. Songwriter/arranger
includes: Karen Louise (debut album), The
Rockabellas, four charity single campaigns
for deaf charity SignHealth, electronic and
orchestral incidental music for TV and film
including Urban Hymn (UK Release 2015) as
choir/piano arranger. His work as a session
musician includes Louise (Eternal), Andy Bell
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(Erasure), Westlife and Rihanna (WMA 2008)
as well as UK tours supporting Simon Webbe
(Blue) 2007 and Journey South (X Factor) 2006.
TRACY LANE
Children’s Director (UK)
Tracy trained at Italia Conti Academy of
Performing Arts. She has performed in
various trade shows, T.V specials, fashion
shows, pop videos, commercials, summer
shows and pantomimes. West End credits
include: 42nd Street and Copacabana. She has
choreographed Peter Pan, Cinderella & Girls
Night Out. She was Resident Director on the
UK tour of Priscilla Queen of the Desert.
MISHA RASAIAH
Children’s Director (Canada)
Originally from Sault Ste. Marie, ON, Misha
is a Graduate of the Randolph Academy for
the Performing Arts, Professional Dancer/
Choreographer, Actor, Writer and Fine
Arts Instructor. Theatre Credits include:
Casting Associate, Choreographers Audition
Associate/Demonstrator; (North American
Premiere) The Wizard of Oz, The Sound of
Music, Dirty Dancing, We Will Rock You, Rock
of Ages, (U.S. & International tours) The
Lion King, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, White
Christmas, Spamalot and (Canadian Premiere)
War Horse, The Boys in the Photograph, and
The Nutcracker Ballet. Inspired by her work
in theatre, film and television, Misha
formed “IMtime Pictures”. She co-wrote and
produced two films that were nominated for
and won awards at film festivals across the
United States and is currently working on a
feature film and four screenplays.
MICHAEL HARRISON
Producer
Michael Harrison’s West End productions
include the original production of The
Bodyguard, at the Adelphi Theatre and its
return to London at the Dominion Theatre,
Gypsy at the Savoy Theatre which was
the recipient of four 2016 Olivier Awards
including Best Musical Revival and Mrs
Henderson Presents at the Noel Coward Theatre.
The Bodyguard is now a worldwide hit with
productions on or opening all over the world.
With Cameron Mackintosh he produced the
UK tour of the Chichester Festival Theatre
production of Barnum. His other musicals
include Aspects of Love, The Witches of Eastwick,
Jolson & Co., Chess, I Dreamed a Dream, Titanic,
Annie and the forthcoming tours of Funny Girl
and Beautiful. In 2017, he will also produce Mel
Brooks’ Young Frankenstein, directed by Susan
Stroman. He is Managing Director of Qdos
and has created over 100 pantomimes for the
company. In 2016 he created Cinderella, the
first pantomime at the London Palladium in
nearly thirty years. In 2012 he was awarded a
companionship to the Liverpool Institute of
Performing Arts by Sir Paul McCartney.
DAVID IAN
Producer
David Ian has produced theatre shows all
over the world. He is the recipient of five
Olivier awards and two Tony nominations.
His credits include: Grease, Saturday Night
Fever, The King and I, West Side Story, Singin’
in the Rain, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Anything Goes,
The Producers, Defending the Caveman, Guys
and Dolls, Daisy Pulls It Off, The Sound of
Music, La Cage aux Folles, Sweet Charity,
Flashdance, Gypsy, The Shawshank Redemption,
The Phantom of the Opera (Las Vegas), My Fair
Lady, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Chess, The
Rocky Horror Show, Cats, Chicago, Dr Doolittle,
Starlight Express, Seminar, Steel Magnolias,
Ghost the Musical, Priscilla Queen of the Desert,
The Bodyguard, Jersey Boys, Annie, Xanadu and
Show Boat.
BB GROUP
Producer
BB Group, founded by Michael Brenner, is one
of the market leaders in the development,
production, management and marketing
of high-end live entertainment in Europe.
Managed by a four-strong team led by CEO
Ralf Kokemüller who has been the founder’s
representative and subsequently Managing
Director since his joining the company in
1995, BB Group’s portfolio encompasses
productions of West Side Story, We Will Rock
You, Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show,
Hairspray, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast,
Cats, STOMP!, Ballet Revolucion and many
more resulting in more than 800 shows a
year worldwide.
FREDDY BURGER MANAGEMENT
Producer
Freddy Burger made his first steps in the
international showbiz in the 1970s, when he
took over the management of diverse artists.
His ties to singer and composer Udo Jürgens
and orchestra leader Pepe Lienhard remain
to this day. Freddy Burger Management (FBM)
includes the business units Artist, Gastro
and Event Management, as well as FBM
Communications, various restaurants and
clubs and also the Musical Theater Basel and
Theater 11 in Zurich. Today, Rent-a-Show AG
is one of the most important event organizers
in Switzerland with up to 300 events a year.
DAVID MIRVISH
Producer
David Mirvish is a Toronto-based theatrical
producer. He owns and operates four theatres
in Toronto — the Royal Alexandra, the
Princess of Wales, the Ed Mirvish and the
Panasonic. Mirvish Productions, a company
founded by Mr. Mirvish in 1986, has produced
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plays and musicals for these and other
venues throughout Canada, on Broadway and
in London’s West End. In addition, Mirvish
Productions has presented more than 500
touring productions in the city of Toronto.
JOHN GORE
Producer
John is a six-time Tony-winning and
Emmy-nominated British producer
who owns and is CEO of Key Brand
Entertainment/Broadway Across
America/Broadway.com. The company
presents shows in 40 cities across North
America as well as on Broadway, London’s
West End, Japan and China. Presentations
include The Phantom of the Opera, Disney’s
The Lion King, Wicked and Jersey Boys. Recent
US productions include: How To Succeed in
Business Without Really Trying starring Daniel
Radcliffe, One Man, Two Guvnors, Chaplin,
War Horse, West Side Story, White Christmas,
The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, Jerusalem
and CSI: Vegas. Previously John directed
the only stage adaptations of Batman
and Star Trek and produced Thunderbirds
FAB and Wallace & Gromit on stage in the
West End. His investments include the
original London productions of Cats, The
Phantom of the Opera and Wicked. Check out
JohnGore.com, BroadwayAcrossAmerica.com
and Broadway.com.
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NORMAN TULCHIN
Producer
Norman Tulchin independently and with Mr.
Bartner is an active Producer in the West End
and on Broadway. He is currently preparing
a film based on the Royal Court production
of I Just Stopped By to See the Man by Stephen
Jeffries. As partners Mr. Bartner and Mr.
Tulchin’s Productions include: Clybourne Park
(Olivier); The Mountaintop (Olivier); La Cage
Aux Folles (Olivier); Guys and Dolls (Olivier).
Broadway collaborations: Porgy and Bess
(Tony); The Book of Mormon (Tony); La Cage
aux Folles (Tony); The Norman Conquests (Tony)
and Company (Tony). Upcoming: The Book
of Mormon.
ROBERT G. BARTNER
Producer
Robert G. Bartner is a prolific West End
and Broadway Producer whose West End
Productions include: Sweeney Todd: The Demon
Barber of Fleet Street and Legally Blonde (Olivier).
UK tour: South Pacific. Broadway: Boeing-Boeing
(Tony); Anna and the Tropics (Pulitzer).
Off-Broadway: Wit (Pulitzer). He thanks his
family, especially M. Beverly, for their love
and support.
MICHAEL WATT
Producer
Credits include: Matilda (New York); Driving
Miss Daisy (London); The Boy From Oz (New
York and Australia); Seminar (London); Sweet
Charity (London); 9 to 5 (USA); Radio Times
(UK); Flashdance (London and UK tour); Fosse
(London); Chicago (UK tour); We Will Rock You
(London, Germany and UK tour); Dirty Dancing
(London and US tour); Grease (London); The
Sound of Music (London, Canada and UK tour);
La Cage Aux Folles (London); Good Vibrations
and Riverdance (Australia and NZ); Driving
Miss Daisy (London); New Zealand’s only Tony
Winner for Annie Get Your Gun (NY), Music:
Producer Vince Mendoza’s Epiphany (Grammy
Nom.), Infectious Music–Alt-J, The Temper
Trap, Local Natives. Owner: Ronnie Scott’s.
Awarded: ONZ.
PAUL ELLIOTT
Executive Producer (Canada)
Paul has produced or co-produced a wide
variety of shows including: a season at the
Phoenix Theatre, London; Rock Hudson and
Juliet Prowse in I Do! I Do!; Douglas Fairbanks
Jr in The Pleasure of His Company; Lee Remick
in Bus Stop; Buddy–the Buddy Holly Story, which
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played for 13 years in the West End (Victoria
Palace and Strand Theatre); Jolson (Olivier
Award for Best Musical 1997 – Victoria Palace);
Kat and the Kings (Olivier Award for Best
Musical 1999 – Vaudeville); The Goodbye Girl
(Albery); Run for Your Wife (London/Toronto/
Australia); Stones in His Pockets (Olivier and
Evening Standard awards 2001 – London,
Toronto and the Golden Theatre, New York)
and The Shawshank Redemption (Wyndham’s).
Paul has also produced over 450 pantomimes.
Paul’s first play, a comedy, There’s No Place
Like a Home, has been produced for three UK
seasons. His other works include co-writing
Hot Flush – four UK tours; and Rave On, Jolson:
the Fact and the Fiction and The Good, the Bad
and the Funny worldwide. With Producer
Duncan C Weldon, they have presented
over 200 productions in London and around
the world, including: Hedda Gabler, starring
Glenda Jackson (Australia/USA/Toronto/
London); 13 Rue de L’Amour with Glynis Johns/
Louis Jourdan (Phoenix Theatre); Richard
III, starring Robert Lindsay (Savoy Theatre);
The Importance of Being Earnest with Patricia
Routledge (London and Australia); Alan
Rickman/ Lindsay Duncan in Private Lives in
London and Broadway (Tony Award for Best
Revival 2002); Stones in His Pockets (USA); The
Hollow Crown (Diana Rigg/Vanessa Redgrave/
Derek Jacobi/Ian Richardson/Donald Sinden);
Australia, New Zealand and Toronto); The
Tempest (Derek Jacobi, Old Vic); Thoroughly
Modern Millie (Amanda Holden/ Maureen
Lipman – Shaftesbury Theatre); Kevin Spacey
in The Philadelphia Story (Old Vic); Kristin Scott
Thomas and Bob Hoskins in As You Desire Me
(Playhouse Theatre); the Chichester Festival
Theatre productions of Nicholas Nickleby (UK
tour, Gielgud Theatre, London and Princess
of Wales Theatre, Toronto); Patrick Stewart in
Macbeth (Gielgud and Lyceum Theatre, New
York); Ian McKellen, Roger Rees, Matthew
Kelly and Ronald Pickup in Waiting for Godot
(Theatre Royal Haymarket and Australia/
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New Zealand); Rupert Everett and Diana Rigg
in Pygmalion (Garrick Theatre); Private Lives,
starring Kim Cattrall (Vaudeville Theatre,
London/Royal Alexandra Theatre, Toronto
and Music Box Theatre, New York). In 2014,
they produced the world tour of The Last
Confession in the UK/ Toronto/Los Angeles/
Australia, starring David Suchet. Paul
was executive producer with Karl Sydow
for Backbeat (Toronto/Los Angeles) and is
currently executive producer with Karl for
Dirty Dancing in Italy, Australia, France and
the UK 2016/17 tour. Paul co-produced Chess
with Michael Harrison at the Princess of
Wales Theatre, Toronto, in 2011 and Titanic
in 2015. He was made a fellow of the Arts
University Bournemouth in 2012 and received
an honorary MA in 2015.
JOHN FROST
Producer
John Frost is Australia’s most prolific and
successful theatre producers. In recent times
he had been responsible for the Australian
productions of The Producers, Stephen
Daldry’s An Inspector Calls, Chicago, Dr Zhivago,
Calendar Girls, The Phantom of the Opera and
Wicked. His current productions include:
The Lincoln Centre’s production of South
Pacific, Legally Blonde: The Musical, A Funny
Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum with
Geoffrey Rush and Driving Miss Daisy with
Angela Lansbury and James Earl Jones. On
Broadway John has been represented by the
Tony Award-winning productions The King
and I, Hairspray and Exit the King, starring
Geoffrey Rush and Susan Sarandon. In
London credits include Priscilla Queen of the
Desert at the Palace, Julie Andrews in The Gift
of Music at the O2 Arena, Lady Windermere’s
Fan, starring Vanessa Redgrave, Googie
Withers, Joely Richardson, John McCallum
at the Theatre Royal Haymarket and the
international multi-award-winning The King
and I starring Elaine Paige at the Palladium.
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General Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LISA FLEMING
Production Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PATRICK MOLONY
Associate Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .FRANK THOMPSON
Associate Lighting Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . STUART CROSS
Associate Sound Designer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TOM MARSHALL
Assistant Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ROSS EDWARDS
Assistant Choreographer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ELLIOT NIXON
Costume Supervisors. . . . . . . . .JACK GALLOWAY, ANNA JOSEPHS
Props Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LIZZIE FRANKL
Hair, Wigs & Make-Up Assistant. . . . . . . . . . . . ANTHONY ROBAN
Dialect Coach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JILL McCULLOUGH
Fight Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JUDE POYER
Resident Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JASON CAPEWELL
Production Musical Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TOM GEARING
Dance Captain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MATTHEW WESLEY
Assistant Dance Captain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LISA DARNELL
Production Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TIM JONES
Assistant to Production Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KATE WEST
Technical Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JASON ROZELAAR
Production Electrician . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .FRASER HALL
Production Sound Engineer . . . . . . . . . . . . . KEITH HUTCHINSON
Production Rigger. . . RICHARD MCILHINEY for UNSUAL RIGGING
Production Automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SIMON ROBERTS
Production Carpenter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DAMIEN SOPER
Children’s Casting Director (UK). . . . . . . . . . . . . . .DEBBIE O’BRIEN
Children’s Casting Director (Canada). . . . . . . . STEPHANIE GORIN
Children’s Director (UK). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TRACY LANE
Children’s Director (Canada). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MISHA RASAIAH
Children’s Vocal Coaching (Canada) . . . . . . . . . . RICHARD EVANS
Producer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MICHAEL HARRISON
General Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JAKE HINE
Production Associate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BETH EDEN
Production Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KATIE FINCH
Associate Producer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .MARK JENKYNS
Company Stage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ADAM HAVOC
Technical Stage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JOSH GINNELLY
Deputy Stage Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RACHEL SNEAD
Assistant Stage Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SOPHIE MARTIN
Swing Technician . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GARETH PRENTICE
Head of Wardrobe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CLAIRE TUCKER
Production Chaperone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KAY ELLIOTT
Chaperones (Canada). . . . MEGAN FORTE and DWIGHT WIGNALL
Children’s Education Liaison (Canada) . . . . LAUREL BRESNAHAN
Production Sound No 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . KELSH BUCKMAN-DRAGE
Production Sound No 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RICHARD HOLDEN
Production Chief Electrician . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .DALE DRISCOLL
Production Head of Automation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .NICK SZEWCIW
Production Wardrobe Deputy . . . . . . . . . . . ASHLEY DUCKWORTH
Production Head of Wigs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LINZI BOWEN
Music Production Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHRIS EGAN LTD
Music Programming . . . . TRYSTAN FRANCIS for CHRIS EGAN LTD
Orchestral Management (UK). . .STEPHEN HILL for MUSICIANS UK
Orchestra Contractor/Fixer (Canada). . . . . . . . . .RICK WHITELAW
Advertising & Marketing (UK). . . . . . . MICHAEL HAVARD-BILTON
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Production Photography . . . . PAUL COLTAS, ALESSANDRO PINNA
Additional Photography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ULI WEBER
Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ISRAEL, GORDON & CO
Accounting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NYMAN LIBSON PAU L
Merchandise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .GLOBAL MARKETING GROUP
Legal (UK) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CLINTONS
Banking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . COUTTS & CO
Sound Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AUTOGRAPH
Lighting Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . STAGE ELECTRICS
Video Services & Equipment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PRG XL VIDEO
Set Electrics & Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . HOWARD EAT ON LIGHTING
Rigging. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .UNUSUAL RIGGING
Automation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AVW CONTROLS
FOR DAVID IAN PRODUCTIONS
Directors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .DAVID IAN (Chairman)
MAX FINBOW (Managing)
BROOK LAND
General Managers . . . . . . ROSAMUND CRANMER, LISA FLEMING
ALEX HALPERN
Production Coordinator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JEFFREY BRADY
Production Assistants . . . . . . . . . TIM JONES, SIMON KARAISKOS
LAURA TOMPKINS
Office Manager & PA to the Directors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JO DOREY
FOR PAUL ELLIOTT
Executive Producer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PAUL ELLIOTT
Financial Director. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DINESH KHANDERIA
Production Associate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JONATHAN LEE
Production Associate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LISA JACKSON
FOR MIRVISH PRODUCTIONS
Producer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .DAVID MIRVISH
Executive Producer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BRIAN SEWELL
Managing Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DAVID MUCCI
Director of Finance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CAMILLO CASCIATO
Director of Sales & Marketing. . . . . . . . . . . JOHN KARASTAMATIS
Director of Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KELLY ROBINSON
Director of Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SCOT WHITHAM
Director of Labour Relations &
Business Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MARK LAVAWAY
Associate Producer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LINDA INTASCHI
Associate General Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHARLES CHU
Assistant Producer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SARAH SISKO
General Management Associate. . . . . . . . . . . . HANNAH MIRVISH
Production Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CHRIS PRIDEAUX
Production Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NATHAN GILES
Production Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DESIRÉE PROVEAU
Communications Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SUE TOTH
Press & Public Relations Manager . . . . . . . . . J. RANDY ALLDREAD
Digital, CRM & Loyalty Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AUBREY STORK
Marketing Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ANTONIO TAN
Graphic Design Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . OTTO PIERRE
Web Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JENNIFER JENKINS
Videographer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .TRISTAN GOUGH
Assistant Company Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ANIKA NATER
Human Resources & Operations Assistant . . MICHAEL KATAMBA
IT Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JOSIE DI LUZIO
System Administrators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHARLES BARTHMANN
PHILLIP DREW, KATHARINE POSAVAD
CHARLES WATSON
Analyst/Accounting Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . REG DUNCAN
Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JASON YIP
Accountant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .TINA MARSHALL
Show Accountant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RACQUEL FROST
Accounting Staff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JULIE LOGAN, KIM SITU
Payroll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LILIAN SIU
Assistant to David Mirvish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LAUREL PURVIS
Receptionists . . . . . . . . . . . . HELDER BRUM, AMY CUNNINGHAM
DAN GALEA, REBECCA RAFTUS
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In Venue Partnerships
General Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JAMES ALDRIDGE
Phone Operations Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ALAN FORSYTH
Phone Operations Asst. Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SUSIE MARCON
Phone Operations Supervisors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KAREN COSTA
SCOTT RICHARDSON
JANET KOMPARE-FRITZ
Administrative Services Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . MAGGIE BUSKI
Sales & Ticketing Analyst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .OLIVER SOUTHGATE
Ticketing Co-ordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KARYN KING
Reporting Co-ordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . IAIN LIDSTONE
Ticketing Software Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SARA RIVARD
Ticketing Software Co-ordinator . . . . . .FRANCO MARCANTONIO
Database Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . APARNA ALIMINETI
FOR MIRVISH GROUP SALES & SUBSCRIPTIONS
Sales Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CHRIS DORSCHT
Group Sales Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NATASHA SPRINGETT
Subscriptions Operations Manager . . . . . . . . . . . PAULYN RAMAN
Subscriptions Operations Co-ordinator. . . . . . . .BLAIR LEIGHTON
Subscriber Relations Co-ordinator/
Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DAVE PELLEY
Subscriber Retention Co-ordinator/
Supervisor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DANIEL McLARTY
Education Co-ordinator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DENISE ANDERSON
Group Sales Co-ordinator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NELIA BAIRD
Corporate Group Sales & Event Co-ordinator . . . .TIFFANY TOBIAS
Group Sales Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .BRANDON BARNSWELL
Subscriber Service Representatives. . . . . . . . . . ALEXANDRA LEAN
ARIKA UMME GUL, CLARA KIM, DANIELLA FRUSTAGLIO
ERNEST AVSEEV, MUNIRA SARUAT, RICHARD McDONALD
RYAN REEVE, JORDAN MECHANO
FOR THE ED MIRVISH THEATRE
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General Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RON JACOBSON
House Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MARIE HOLOWATY
Assistant House Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MARGARET BROCK
Box Office Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GERARD RAJU
Head Electrician . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NIGEL ROMERIL
Head Carpenter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KENNETH McCRODDEN
Head Flyman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SEAN POOLE
Head of Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PAUL AXFORD
Head of Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .STEVE DEVINE
Head of Wardrobe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .JENNY FRASER
Maintenance Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . KEVIN McCARTHY
FOR MIRVISH PROGRAMME
Publisher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .DAVID MIRVISH
Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J. RANDY ALLDREAD
Advertising Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BRANDS AMPLIFIED INC.
Art Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . OTTO PIERRE
Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SUNVIEW PRESS LIMITED
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