Many Happy Returns (2011)

Carey Ramos  is a Litigator and Partner at Quinn, Emanuel, Urquhart & Sullivan, Carey has a broad international practice. He advises clients on antitrust and competition law issues, with particular focus on the technology, media and entertainment industries, and has represented clients in litigation and before regulatory and enforcement authorities in the United States and Europe with respect to such matters.  He is probably best known for representing the music publishing industry in copyright infringement against internet file sharing – in short, illegal downloading.  It was a big win for music, for entertainment industry and for Carey.

Carey Ramos is also the President of the Santa Fe Opera. 

As a member of Holland-Dozier-Holland, Lamont was responsible for writing and producing over 54 #1 hits for The Supremes, Four Tops, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Freda Payne and a host of others giving him credit for being one of the primary architects of the Motown Sound. Since Motown Lamont has continued to write and produce successive #1 hits and win awards for Eric Clapton, Boy George, Phil Collins, and Joss Stone to name a few. As a result, he has been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame, from which he recently received the 2009 Johnny Mercer Award, the highest praise a songwriter can achieve.

Musical theatre has always been a passion of Lamont’s, and his first foray into that medium, The First Wives Club, based on the 1996 film, held its first workshop at The Old Globe Theatre in San Diego and is heading towards Broadway for 2013. He also has four other original musical theatre projects in the works in various stages of development. Two are being prepared specifically for theatres in London’s West End, while the other two are vying to be on the stages of Broadway theatres in NYC.

DAVID GLENN ARMSTRONG (Director) has staged over 150 productions/workshops seen in 49 states including work at the Public, Goodspeed Opera, Walnut Street, Manhattan Theatre Club, Library of Congress, Inge Festival, Chicago Humanities Festival, Amas, HERE, York, New Dramatists, Pacific Repertory Opera, Mason Street, Arkansas Rep, NYMF, Riverside, Anchorage Opera, Iowa Shakespeare, and NY Fringe.  Favorites include the premieres of Sheldon Harnick’s A Doctor in Spite of Himself  (Anthony Rapp, Burke Moses, John Schuck), Judith Steir’s Only a Kingdom (Max von Essen, Jill Paice, Donna Lynne Champlin), Joan Ross Sorkin’s (mis)Understanding Mammy (Drama Desk nominee Capathia Jenkins); Sorkin and Steven Fisher’s In the Theatre (Beth Fowler, Judy Kaye); Ed Dixon’s Scenery (Lynne Wintersteller); and Jonathan Larson’s Sacrimmoralinority (also co-writer, ASCAP Award).  Favorite first/major revivals include Bock/Harnick/Stein’s The Body Beautiful (Brad Oscar, Megan Lawrence, Patrick Richwood), Arlen/Gershwin/Harburg’s Life Begins at 8:40 (Faith Prince, Kate Baldwin, Rebecca Luker, Montego Glover, Jessica Stone, Christopher Fitzgerald); Lerner & Loewe’s The Day Before Spring (Hunter Bell, Ed Watts); and Joe Stein’s Plain and Fancy (Cady Huffman, Charlotte Rae).  For NYMF 2011, David is directing Many Happy Returns, The Big Bank, and Huckleberry Haywood. =

Broadway Conductor, Grammy nominated Arranger/Orchestrator and world class pianist.  Known for his amazing versatility has collaborated with artists like Kathleen Battle, Ashford & Simpson, Patti Labelle, Diana Ross, Fantasia, Broadway Inspirational Voices to name a few.  Most recently, he is working as Musical Director for Berry Gordy's upcoming Motown Musical.

Broadway credits include: Caroline or Change  (orchestrator); The Color Purple (additional arrangements); Billy Elliot (assistant conductor).  Off-Broadway: Violet (orchestrator, Drama Desk nomination). Off-Broadway, International, PBS: Three Mo’ Tenors (orchestrator/musical director); Three Mo’ Divas (orchestrator/musical director). TV: We Shall Not Be Moved -- Emmy nomination (composer); Macy’s Fireworks 2010 (arranger/orchestrator, New York Pops). Film: Nights in Rodanthe (orchestrator).   Recording: Fantasia Back to Me (arranger/orchestrator/conductor for “I’m Here”); The Century Men Beautiful Star -- Grammy nomination (co-producer, arranger); Broadway Inspirational Voices Great Joy (arranger/orchestrator, Grammy nomination for “Joy to the World”).

MATT CAVENAUGH was last seen on Broadway as Tony in West Side Story (Outer Critics Circle, Drama League Nominations).  Other Broadway credits include Grey Gardens; A Catered Affair; Urban Cowboy; Thoroughly Modern Millie (National Tour).  Off-Broadway: Death Takes a Holiday, Grey Gardens. Select regional theatre credits: Gigi (LA Reprise); It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman (DTC); A Catered Affair (The Old Globe); Palm Beach (La Jolla Playhouse); Anything Goes (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Carousel (Pittsburgh CLO); 2 Lives (George Street Playhouse); Princesses (Goodspeed Opera House); Dorian (Denver Center). TV/Film: Law & Order: CI, As the World Turns, One Live to Live, Sexual Dependecy, New Brooklyn.  Matt has twice collaborated with the New York Philharmonic for both The Soldier's Tale and Sondheim:The Birthday Concert, which also aired on PBS.  Matt's debut album, Gonna Make You Love Me, is available on iTunes and CDBaby.

Daniel C. Levine has appeared on Broadway / Broadway National Tours of: Little Shop of Horrors (The Dentist, dir. Jerry Zaks), The Rocky Horror Show (Circle In The Square - Broadway), Mamma Mia!, Jesus Christ Superstar (Tony Nom. For Best Revival), Chicago (Mary Sunshine), Les Miserables (Marius), Tommy (Cousin Kevin). Other NYC Credits: Babes In Arms (Encores), The Day Before Spring (York Theater),The Gorey Details (Century Center), La Gran Scena (Town Hall), Naked Boys Singing (original company, Actors Playhouse).   Regional: Guys & Dolls (Nathan Detroit, 5th Avenue Theater and The Ordway Center for Performing Arts), Company (5th Avenue -Seattle), Man of La Mancha (Cleveland Playhouse), Sweet Charity (Oscar, West Virginia Public), Jesus Christ Superstar (North Carolina Theater & Kansas City Starlight), Chicago (Mary Sunshine, North Shore Music Theater), Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (5th Avenue - Seattle & North Shore Music Theater). Education: Brandeis University, Tufts University School of Dental Medicine.   =

BRAD OSCAR is currently appearing on Broadway as Uncle Fester in The Addams Family. He received a 2001 Tony nomination as Franz Liebkind in "The Producers" and later went on to play the role of Max Bialystock over 1300 times on Broadway, on tour and in London's West End.  Other BDWY: "Spamalot" "Jekyll & Hyde" "Aspects of Love."  NAT'L TOUR: "Young Frankenstein" "Jekyll &Hyde." OFF-BDWY: "Forbidden Broadway" "The Body Beautiful,"  Encores! "Bells Are Ringing," "Do Re Mi," directed and performed in "Broadway by the Year 1931" and "1968" at Town Hall.  REGIONAL: "Barnum" (Asolo Rep/Maltz Jupiter-Carbonell Award, Best Actor in a Musical), "The Mystery of Irma Vep" "Cabaret" and "Damn Yankees" (Arena Stage), "The First Wives Club" (Old Globe), "Moonlight and Magnolias" (Cape Playhouse). FILM: "Ghost Town" "The Producers" TV: "The Good Wife", three "Law & Orders."

ZAL OWEN National Tour: Motel in Fiddler on the Roof (opposite Harvey Fierstein and Theodore Bikel). Off-Broadway/NYC: Last Jew in Europe (Jozef), The ToyMaker (Capek), member of The Broadway Boys. Regional: Paper Mill Playhouse (Wuthering Heights), Atlanta TOTS, Ogunquit Playhouse (Les Miserables). Training: CCM, Wynn Handman. Huge thank you to David Glenn Armstrong and to family and friends for their constant love and support. www.zalowen.com

JENNY POWERS Broadway: Rizzo in Grease and Meg in Little Women.  Theatre highlights: Gina in Happiness (Lincoln Center);  Veronica Franco in Dangerous Beauty (Pasadena Playhouse); Diana Devereaux in Of Thee I Sing (Encores!); Young Phyllis in Follies (Encores!); Sydney Sharp in It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman (DTC); Alice B. Toklas in Loving Repeating: A Musical of Gertude Stein (AboutFaceTheate / MCA); Isabella Andreini in The Glorious Ones (Pittsburgh Public); Bounce (Kennedy Center, Goodman); A Little Night Music (Chicago Shakespeare; Tommy (Berkshire Theatre Festival). TV: Mercy, Law & Order: CI, Six Degrees, Nurse Jackie, All My Children. Film: Confessions of a Shopaholic, Chris Rock’s I Think I Love My Wife.  Jenny's debut album, GONNA MAKE YOU LOVE ME, is available on iTunes and CDBaby.  www.jenny-powers.com.

Lynne Wintersteller starred on Broadway in A Grand Night For Singing and garnered a “Best Actress” Drama Desk nomination for Maltby/Shire’s Off-Broadway hit Closer Than Ever.  Her Grace in Annie, includes Broadway, First & Fourth National Tours.  Off-Broadway:  I Sent A Letter To My Love; Nunsense; Gifts of the Magi; The Grass Harp; Music In the Air; Richard Cory (NYMF Best Actress Award); The Mistress Cycle; and regionally the West Coast Premiere of The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (Los Angeles Ovation “Best Actress” Nomination).  Television:  Law & Order: Criminal Intent; Total Security; Big Brother Jake; Chappelle’s Show (alongside Nick Wyman) plus numerous Commercials.  Recordings: Original cast albums of A Grand Night For Singing; Closer Than Ever and featured solo artist (Varese Sarabande label)Broadway Sings Christmas, Lost in Boston III; Unsung Musicals II.  Lynne will be heading to St. Louis Rep immediately after this production to star in the award-winning play Circle Mirror Transformation.

Nick Wyman - Broadway: The Phantom of the Opera , Les Miserables, Tale of Two Cities, Sly Fox, My Fair Lady, Doubles, On the Twentieth Century, Very Good Eddie, seven others. Film: Die Hard With a Vengeance, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Funny Farm, seven others. Television: "One Life to Live," "The Good Wife," "Law and Order(s)," "The Murder of Mary Phagan," many others, plus over a hundred commercials. Regional: Guthrie Theatre, Arena Stage, Goodman Theatre, Hartford Stage, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Williamstown Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Festival. A proud member since 1974, Nick is President of Actors' Equity.

Adam Blanshay (Producer) Broadway: Jerusalem, Catch Me If You Can, How to Succeed… (starring Daniel Radcliffe), The Scottsboro Boys, all of which received 2011 Tony Nominations for “Best” in their respective categories. off-Broadway: Tales From the Tunnel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. FringeNYC: All Day Suckers, His Greatness (and Fringe Encore Series). Australia: Doctor Zhivago (associate producer). Tour: Scott Nevins’ Celebutant and RECE$$IONISTA. Regional: Piazza After Dark (Centaur Theatre Company). Cast recordings: How To Succeed…(associate producer). Upcoming projects include the Broadway revivals of On A Clear Day...starring Harry Connick Jr, and Evita starring Ricky Martin and Elena Roger. Adam is a graduate of McGill University and a member of The Broadway League.