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THE BEAT GOES ON!

2024-2025 TOUR DATES COMING SOON!

CASEY HUSHION (Director) Broadway: Associate Director of Mean Girls; Aladdin; The Prom; Elf; In the Heights; The Drowsy Chaperone; To Be or Not to Be, Good Vibrations. New York: Call Me Madam (City Center Encores), Fat Camp. Television: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Artistic Director of North Carolina Theatre 2009-2019. Recent regional credits include world premieres of the new musicals Joy and Mystic Pizza. Upcoming: Clue (National Tour) and Beautiful at Paper Mill Playhouse. Love to Marc and her three kids, Lincoln, Violet, and Jane. www.caseyhushion.com

ANTOINETTE DIPIETROPOLO (Choreographer) Officially the first choreographer in the country of Saudi Arabia. Choreographer, Fame US Tour; Annie, Muny; Candide, starring George Hearn, Rita Moreno, San Francisco Opera; Big Apple Circus In NYC; As Director/Choreographer Ragtime, Lyric Stage (nominated in 14 categories for the Theatre League Awards); Ragtime, North Carolina Theatre, (Winner Best Choreographer, Triangle Theatre Award); Legally Blonde, Mamma Mia, Hairspray, Argyle Theater; Jersey Boys WPPAC; Director, US Tour MasterChef Live; International Tour of Got Talent Live www.AntoinetteDiPietropolo.com follow me @antoinettedip

BOB MACKIE (Original Broadway and Tour Costume Design) Costume and fashion designer Bob Mackie is a nine-time Emmy Award winner, Geoffrey Beene CFDA Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, and has three Oscar nominations. Most recently he received a 2019 Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award for his work on The Cher Show. His Broadway credits include Moon Over Buffalo and Putting It Together, starring Carol Burnett, Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public, Minelli on Minelli, Lorelei with Carol Channing, and On the Town with Bernadette Peters and Phyllis Newman. Broadway on television: “Once Upon a Mattress” starring Carol Burnett, “Gypsy” starring Bette Midler, “Carousel,” “Brigadoon,” “Of Thee I Sing,” and “Kismet.” His inventive and memorable designs have helped raise entertainers like Tina Turner, Diana Ross, Cher, Elton John, Ann-Margret, Bernadette Peters, Mitzi Gaynor, Carol Burnett, Bette Midler, Pink, and Cher to iconic status both onscreen and off.

KELLY JAMES TIGHE (Set Design and Co-Video Design) Off-Broadway/national tours: Martin Luther on Trial, Shadowlands, The Most Reluctant Convert, The Great Divorce, The Fantasticks, Almost Heaven, Movin’ Out, Shear Madness, Cats... Regional: Disney Theatrical, Paper Mill Playhouse, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Laguna Playhouse, Center REPertory Company, SlowBurn Theater, Arts Center of Coastal Carolina, TUTS, Gateway Playhouse, Broadway By the Bay, Contra Costa Musical Theatre, Ray of Light Theatre. Kelly’s theatrical work is published in the textbook Scene Design and Stage Lighting and his work as an illustrator has been published in Mooseltoe, A Moose and a Dream. Awards/recognitions: SF Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle, DramaLogue, and Shellie Awards. IG: kellyjtighe web: kjtdesign.com

CHARLIE MORRISON (Lighting Design) NYC/National/International tours: Disney’s The Little Mermaid, A Christmas Story, How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical, A Chorus Line, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Miss Saigon, Disney’s Aida, The Producers, Man of La Mancha, Guys and Dolls, Groovaloo, Hello, Dolly!, My Fair Lady, The King and I, Spelling Bee, Gypsy, 42nd Street, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, The Who’s Tommy, Titanic, The Music Man and many others. Regional: Paper Mill Playhouse, Guthrie Theater, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Goodspeed Musicals, Seattle Repertory, Seattle 5th Avenue, Broadway Sacramento, Theatre Under the Stars, Dallas Summer Musicals, Kansas City Starlight, Pittsburgh CLO, George Street Playhouse, North Carolina Theatre, PlayMakers Repertory, Tulsa Opera and many others. TV: “Finding Magic Mike” for HBOMax. Charlie is the recipient of two Helen Hayes Awards for Outstanding Lighting Design. www.cmlighting.com

JONATHAN INFANTE (Video Design) Jonathan Infante is a multi-media designer and artist based out of Southern California. Owner of Infante Media, a boutique production company, that has developed video content for television, film, museums, concert tours, plays, and musicals around the world. He thanks his family and friends for their continued support. Most recent credits: Disney’s Tarzan the Musical (Moonlight) The Revolutionist, Legally Blonde 2022/23 US National Tour, An American in Paris / South Pacific 2022 Tour, and Dreamgirls 2020 Asia Tour. Regional Credits: Shrek (3D-T), Matilda (Tuachan), Prince Of Egypt (Tuacahn), Beauty and the Beast (MRE), Newsies (Moonlight), Big Fish (Moonlight), Mary Poppins (MRE), Damn Yankees (Sacramento Music Circus) American Idiot (LMT).

DANIEL LUNDBERG (Sound Design) Daniel has designed for Roundabout Theatre Company, The Public Theater, New York Stage and Film, The REV, A Contemporary Theatre of Connecticut, His Story (Dallas), and Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood Live (Tour). Sound engineer and assistant design credits include 15 Broadway productions, 11 tours, six circuses, two theme parks, and many concerts. BFA Carnegie Mellon. It’s great to be here!

KRISTIN STOWELL (Music Supervisor) Kristin Stowell is a music director, pianist, composer, arranger, copyist, and educator based in Washington, D.C. Recent credits include music directing the world premieres of On Cedar Street (Berkshire Theatre Group) and Mystic Pizza (Ogunquit Playhouse), and the regional premiere of The Cher Show (Ogunquit Playhouse). Her original award-winning musical Endometriosis: The Musical was featured in the 2022 Minnesota Fringe Festival. Kristin currently serves on the musical theatre faculty at American University.

EDDIE CARNEY (Music Director) Beginning his career at the age of fourteen, Eddie’s credits span the musical theatre gamut from Show Boat to Chicago to Shrek the Musical. Tours: Legally Blonde (MD ’22-’23/AMD 2019), A Chorus Line (AMD – Tokyo 2022), South Pacific (MD), An American in Paris (MD), Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! the Musical (AMD). Other: Mamma Mia!, Caroline or Change, Hairspray, Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Urinetown, Ragtime, La Cage aux Folles. Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival Excellence in Music Direction: Sunday in the Park with George ad Richard Taylor’s Whistle Down the Wind. Accompanied platinum-recording artist Josh Groban and Tony Award-winner Daisy Eagan in NYC. Outside of the pit, Eddie is a Britney Spears aficionado, drops his jaw watching Real Housewives, and predicts Rupaul’s Drag Race winners with his fiancé. Dedicated to Preston, Mom, and Dad. “Art in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.” -Stephen Sondheim

ALISON FRANCK (Casting Director) ALISON FRANCK, C.S.A. (Casting Director) has been a casting director in NYC for over 25 years. She started as an assistant for many Broadway Productions, then she worked in film/TV for several years, then from 2000- 2010, she was the Resident Casting Director at Paper Mill Playhouse. In 2011 she joined the team at Liz Lewis Casting Partners, where she cast commercials, voiceovers, film/TV, and theatre. Alison now runs her own company, Franck Casting, where she has cast several tours of well-known musicals including Legally Blonde, Dreamgirls, An American in Paris, A Christmas Story: The Musical, A Chorus Line, The Simon and Garfunkel Story Live and Little Women, the Musical, now on tour. www.franckcasting.com

BIG LEAGUE PRODUCTIONS/DANIEL SHER (Producer) is celebrating its 30th season of producing and general managing Broadway tours of shows and attractions throughout the world. Early highlights were collaborations with Disney on Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida (US Tours, Taiwan, and China) and with Cameron Mackintosh on a new production of Miss Saigon. Also, the Tony®-Award winning Broadway revival of 42nd Street and Susan Stroman’s Broadway production of Meredith Willson’s The Music Man. Others: Footloose (Las Vegas, US Tour), Titanic, 1776, Peter Pan, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum starring Rip Taylor, Blast!, The Who’s Tommy (US Tour, South America, Europe, and Japan), Ain’t Misbehavin’ with Ruben Studdard, and the First National Tour of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang– flying car and all. More recent: The Producers (Susan Stroman’s original work), Hello, Dolly! with Sally Struthers, Guys and Dolls, My Fair Lady (US Tour and China premiere), original hip-hop dance show Groovaloo (Off-Broadway), Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical (10 US Tours, Grand Ole Opry, and Madison Square Garden), Dreamgirls (US Tour, China premiere, Japan), Hair (US Tour and Japan), Bring it On (US Tour and Japan), and Legally Blonde (US Tours, China premiere, Singapore). More recently, A Chorus Line toured the US and Japan, and was seen in China for the first time. Post-pandemic, Big League remounted its acclaimed tour of An American in Paris, a new production of South Pacific, Legally Blonde, and continued touring its flagship production of A Christmas Story The Musical. Current work includes The Cher Show national tour and a new touring production of Little Women. Future work includes a new touring production of The Addams Family.