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SUMMER PROGRAM 2012
P
AH L
P
AH
NELL BENJAMIN
(
Book and Lyrics
) co-
wrote the score to
Legally Blonde, The Musical
with composer Laurence O’Keefe, for which
they
received Tony® award nominations,
Drama Desk nominations and the Olivier
Award for Best Musical. Nell and Larry have
also written an original opera,
Life of the
Party,
which premiered at LaGuardia High
School in May. Previously, they wrote
Sarah,
Plain and Tall
, the Drama Desk-nominated
Cam Jansen,
and the L.A. Ovation award-
winning
The Mice
. Nell’s work for television
includes the last and weirdest season of
Unhappily Ever After
, Animal Planet’s
Whoa!
Sunday with Mo Rocca,
and the new
Electric
Company
. She received the 2003 Kleban
Foundation Award for lyrics and a 2003
Jonathan Larson Foundation Grant. She is
a member of ASCAP and the Dramatists
Guild, and she is married to a genius, which
she highly recommends.
MIKE ISAACSON
(
Executive Producer
) is
grateful you are here for his inaugural season.
For the past 16 years with Fox Theatricals,
Isaacson has produced on Broadway, London
and several national tours. Highlights
include:
Thoroughly Modern Millie
(2002
Tony® Award, Best Musical);
Red
(2010
Tony® Award, Best Play);
Legally Blonde: the
Musical
(2011 Olivier Award, Best Musical);
Everyday Rapture
;
The Seagull
starring Kristin
Scott Thomas;
‘night, Mother
(starring Edie
Falco and Brenda Blethyn);
Caroline, or
Change
by Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori;
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
starring
Gary Sinise (2001 Tony® Award);
You’re
a Good Man, Charlie Brown
;
Death of a
Salesman
(1999 Tony® Award);
Jekyll & Hyde
.
For the IPN, he served as producer for the
Broadway productions of
Ragtime
,
Spamalot
(2005 Tony® Award, Best Musical), and
The
Color Purple
.
Legally Blonde: the Musical
(seven 2009 Tony® Award Nominations) also
made history as the first Broadway musical
broadcast on MTV. Current projects include
Bring It On: The Musical
, opening at the St.
James Theatre on Broadway on August 1,
and the off-Broadway
Traces
at the Union
Square Theatre in New York. For 14 years,
Isaacson presented the U.S. Bank Broadway
Series, bringing more than 100 Broadway
productions to St. Louis. In May 2010, he
received The Broadway League’s Samuel
J. L’Hommedieu Award for Outstanding
Achievement in Presenter Management, the
youngest person ever to receive the award.
He has served on the Board of Governors, the
Executive Committee and the Governance
Committee of The Broadway League. In
development:
Mad Hot Ballroom
,
Coal
Miner’s Daughter
and
Grace
. Thanks, Joe.
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