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World Premiere Event

First You Dream

The Kander & Ebb Concert Sep 10 – Sep 27, 2009
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Signature Theatre celebrates the hit musical team of John Kander and Fred Ebb in this world premiere theatrical concert featuring songs from each of their award-winning musicals including Cabaret, ChicagoThe Rink, Kiss of the Spider Woman and The Visit. Featuring a 19-piece orchestra with new orchestrations by Tony Award® winner William David Brohn (Wicked, Ragtime), this theatrical event will prove to be an amazing musical tribute to Broadway's most celebrated duo.

Music by John Kander
Lyrics by Fred Ebb
Orchestrations by William David Brohn
Musical Direction and Arrangements by David Loud
Choreographed by Karma Camp
Directed by Eric Schaeffer

Cast

Heidi Blickenstaff

SIGNATURE: First You Dream: The Music of Kander and Ebb. BROADWAY: Something Rotten! (Bea Bottom, Outer Critics nomination), [title of show] (original creative team and cast), The Addams Family (Alice Beineke), Disney’s The Little Mermaid (Ursula), and The Full Monty. NEW YORK: New York City Center’s Encores!: The Most Happy Fella (Cleo); The Vineyard Theatre: Now. Here. This. and [title of show]. REGIONAL: The Weston Playhouse: Next To Normal (Diana), Papermill Playhouse: Elf (Emily Hobbs). The Old Globe: Dog and Pony (Jane/Bonnie). DC AREA: Kennedy Center: First You Dream: The Music of Kander and Ebb; Ford’s Theatre: Meet John Doe (Ann Mitchell, Helen Hayes Award). TV: PBS: First You Dream: The Music of Kander and Ebb. EDUCATION: Duke University.  heidiblickenstaff.com

James Clow

BROADWAY: Assassins, Wonderful Town, Company, She Loves Me, Blood Brothers. OFF-BROADWAY: Mark Blitzstein’s Juno. NEW YORK: Madison Square Garden (and across America) Peter Pan (Captain Hook, with Cathy Rigby); City Center’s Encores!: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. NATIONAL TOURS: Les Misérables (Javert), Jekyll and Hyde (Utterson), Oklahoma! (Curly), Sunset Boulevard (Artie), Jesus Christ Superstar (Peter), Into The Woods. OTHER: PBS’s “Great Performances” – Sondheim, a Celebration at Carnegie Hall; Emmy Award-winning “Live from Lincoln Center”’s Passion (starring Patti LuPone). EDUCATION: Syracuse University, BFA; London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts; studied with the Groundlings

Eleasha Gamble

SIGNATURE: Partial Eclipse, Stephen Sondheim Award Gala, Les Misérables (Helen Hayes Award, Best Ensemble), Into the Woods, My Fair Lady, Urinetown, Follies, Grand Hotel, Gospel According to Fishman, The Christmas Carol Rag, The Rink, Company. OFF-BROADWAY: Zipper Theatre: Under the Bridge. DC AREA: Kennedy Center: Broadway: Three Generations; Arena: The Women of Brewster Place; Ford’s: Civil War, Meet John Doe; Round House: Once On This Island (Helen Hayes nomination); Olney: Joseph…, Oliver, West Side Story; Toby’s: Ragtime (Helen Hayes nomination). REGIONAL: Alliance Theatre (Atlanta): The Women of Brewster Place; Perseverance Theatre (Alaska): Hair. CABARET: Signature: Lost Songs Vol. II, Last Garage Hurrah; Ebony & Ivory, Ebony & Ivory: The Second Coming. RECORDINGS: Euan Morton’s New Clear. EDUCATION: Catholic University.

Norm Lewis

BROADWAY: Select: Once on this Island (Revival), The Phantom of the Opera (First African American Phantom on Broadway), The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess (Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League, and Outer Critics Circle award nominations),  Sondheim on Sondheim, The Little Mermaid, Les Misérables, Chicago. WEST END: Les Misérables (Javert), Les Misérables: The 25th Anniversary Concert. OFF-BROADWAY: Select: Sweeney Todd (AUDELCO Award), Dessa Rose (AUDELCO Award). FILM/TV: Da 5 Bloods, Mrs. America, Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert!; Five PBS Specials, Daytime Divas, Better Things, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Bull, Chicago Med, Gotham, The Blacklist, Blue Bloods, Scandal, Magnum Opus, Winter’s Tale, Sex and the City 2, Confidences, Preaching to the Choir. ALBUMS: The Norm Lewis Christmas Album, This is The Life. FOUNDER: Black Theatre United. 

Julia Murney

BROADWAY: Wicked (Elphaba). NATIONAL TOUR: Wicked (Elphaba, Acclaim Award). OFF-BROADWAY: Lennon, Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party (Drama Desk nomination), The Vagina Monologues, A Class Act, Saved, Crimes of the Heart, First Lady Suite, Time and Again (Lucille Lortel nomination). REGIONAL: Williamstown, Reprise! (LA), Sacramento Music Circus, NCT, Rubicon, Goodspeed, others. CONCERT: performances at Joe’s Pub, Feinstein’s, Kennedy Center, Caramoor, Town Hall, Birdland; performances with Peter Nero, Philly Pops. TV: “30 Rock,” “Sex and the City,” “Ed,” “NYPD Blue,” “Law and Order” (all three), many voiceovers. RECORDINGS: The Wild Party, A Class Act, Hair (Actor’s Fund, Grammy nomination), solo album “I’m Not Waiting” (Sh-K-Boom Records). EDUCATION: Syracuse University.

Matthew Scott

SIGNATURE: Company, First You Dream: The Music of Kander & Ebb, Ace, Side By Side By Sondheim, Beaches. BROADWAY: An American In Paris, Sondheim On Sondheim, Grand Horizons, A Catered Affair, Jersey Boys. WEST END: I Loved Lucy. REGIONAL: Kennedy Center, La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe, Paper Mill Playhouse, Philadelphia Theatre Co., Pittsburgh CLO, MUNY, TUTS, Goodspeed, Alliance Theatre, York Theatre Co., O’Neill Theatre Center. TELEVISION: First You Dream: The Music Of Kander & Ebb (PBS), All My Children, 2006 and 2009 Tony Awards. SOLO SHOW: THE JESUS YEAR – a letter from my dad. RECORDINGS: THE JESUS YEAR – a letter from my dad (solo show recording), Sondheim On Sondheim, Noel & Cole, The Land Where The Good Songs Go. EDUCATION: Carnegie Mellon School of Drama. Instagram: m.a.t.t.h.e.w_s.c.o.t.t

Creative Team

Jon Kalbfleisch

Conductor

SIGNATURE (Resident Music Director) Ragtime, Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, She Loves Me, Broadway in the Park (Wolf Trap), Simply Sondheim, A Chorus Line, Assassins, Passion, Crazy for You, A Little Night Music, West Side Story, Cabaret, Sunday in the Park, Gypsy, Company, Hairspray, Saturday Night, Side by Side, Sunset Boulevard, Show Boat, Anyone Can Whistle, Spider Woman, Merrily, Into the Woods, Pacific Overtures, Elegies, Allegro, Follies, 110 in the Shade, Putting It Together, Forum, Sweeney Todd, Wings. BROADWAY: Ambassador Theatre: The Visit (Actor's Fund Benefit), Marius Company: Les Misérables (Associate Conductor). DC AREA: Kennedy Center: First You Dream; National Theatre, Warner Theatre, Round House Theatre, Everyman Theatre. OTHER: Carnegie Hall, Lawton Philharmonic Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony. TV: Celebration of the Arts (Executive Producer), Good Morning America. AWARDS: Grammy nomination; Bernstein MASS, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, pianist; Anderson-Hopkins Award; ten Helen Hayes Awards and 30 nominations; Distinguished Alumni Award, Cameron University. EDUCATION: Master of Music, Southern Methodist University.

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