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JASON KRUEGER
(
Sound Designer
) is pleased
to return for his 13th season with The Muny. He
is continually honored to return to The Muny
and St Louis’ enthusiastic support of the arts.
In the past, Jason has worked on a number of
Broadway and national tours, including
The Lion
King
,
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
,
The King
and I
,
Indiscretions
,
Smokey Joe’s Cafe
and the
annual Madison Square Garden production of
A Christmas Carol
. A native of Colorado, Jason
spends the rest of the year teaching skiing in
Steamboat Springs.
PETER HYNDS
(
Production Stage Manager
)
This summer marks Peter’s 14th season at The
Muny. He has worked in musical theatre, opera,
television and film. He has been a stage manager
for the Pittsburgh Opera, Florida Grand Opera,
Dallas Opera, Houston Grand Opera, San
Francisco Opera, Kansas City Starlight, The
Muny and the Variety Children’s Theatre. Peter
would like to congratulate his amazing and truly
wonderful wife for completing her first year
as Director of Theatre at Deerfield Academy in
Massachusetts! Special hugs & kisses to his little
cheeky monkeys, Ella & MacGregor.
CHRIS BAILEY
(
Choreographer
) is making
his Muny debut. Chris served as the associate
choreographer for the Broadway revival of
Evita
.
Also on Broadway, he has served as the associate
choreographer for
How to Succeed in Business
Without Really Trying
;
Promises, Promises
and
Cry-Baby
. In London’s West End, Chris served
as the associate choreographer for
Guys and Dolls
,
Evita
,
Once in a Lifetime
and
Candide
. Tour
credits include:
The Wedding Singer
(US),
Guys
and Dolls
(UK, Australia) and
Thoroughly Modern
Millie
(UK).
MARC BRUNI
(
Director
) is pleased to be The
Don Fassold Director for
Thoroughly Modern
Millie
. Muny:
The Sound of Music
(Kevin Kline
Award Nomination),
The Music Man
(Kevin
Kline Award Nomination),
Legally Blonde
,
My
One and Only
,
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
. He
directed
Old Jews Telling Jokes
which is currently
running off-Broadway at the Westside Theatre.
Other directing credits:
Pipe Dream
(City Center
Encores!),
Fanny
(Encores!),
Ordinary Days
(Roundabout Underground),
25th Annual Putnam
County Spelling Bee
(Papermill/PTC),
In the Mood
(Berkshire Theatre Festival),
Such
Good Friends
(NYMF Directing Award),
High Spirits
(York),
Glimpses of the Moon
(Oak Room). Associate
director on 15 Broadway shows including this
season’s
NiceWork if You Can Get It
,
Anything Goes
,
Legally Blonde
(NY/Tour/London/MTV “Search
for Elle Woods”), Irving Berlin’s
White Christmas
(NY/Tour/12 companies internationally
), The
Pajama Game, Grease, Wonderful Town, High
Fidelity, Sweet Charity, La Cage Aux Folles
and
Little Shop of Horrors
(Bway/Tour) as well as five
City Center Encores! productions,
South Pacific
(Carnegie Hall) and
Two Gents
(Public).
RICHARD HENRY MORRIS
(
Author
) was
nominated for the 2002 Tony® Award (Best
Book) and the 2002 Drama Desk Award (Best
Book) for his work on
Thoroughly Modern Millie,
the Tony® and Drama Desk award winning Best
Musical of 2002.
Thoroughly Modern Millie
played on Broadway for over two years followed
by a US national tour which ran for almost three
years.
Millie
played in London’s West End at the
historic Shaftesbury Theatre and was nominated
in England for the 2004 Laurence Olivier Theatre
Award for Best New Musical of 2003. The show
then toured extensively in the United Kingdom.
ThoroughlyModernMillie
has brought heartfelt joy
to audiences in Australia, South Africa and Japan
and it currently is being performed in regional,
community, college and high school theaters
across the globe.
Thoroughly Modern Millie
is the
stage adaptation of the original Universal film
solely created and written by Richard Morris.
Mr. Morris won the prestigious Writers Guild
of America Award for the motion picture as Best
American Musical and the film received seven
Academy Award-nominations and five Golden
Globe nominations. Earlier Broadway acclaim
came to Richard Morris with his original book -
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
- music by Meredith
Willson.
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
had a stellar
Broadway run and the high spirited musical has
played across world stages for many years and
continues to do so. Presently a new book for
The
Unsinkable Molly Brown
- based on the original
by Richard Morris - but utilizing historical
details of the real Molly Brown’s life, rather than
the myth of Molly, with a score by Meredith
Willson, is being developed by Dick Scanlan,
Richard’s co-author of the theatrical version of
Thoroughly Modern Millie
. As a motion picture
film writer, Richard Morris had a number of films
to his credit beyond
Thoroughly Modern Millie
including
If A Man Answers
and
Change of Habit
.
Beyond his theatrical and feature film writing
career, Richard Morris made vast contributions
to the television world, creating almost a hundred
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