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Special Guests Vince Giordano Robin & Linda Williams ALICE PLAYTEN has appeared on Broadway in: Gypsy; Oliver; Hello, Dolly!; George M; Henry Sweet Henry (Theatre World Award, Tony nomination); Rumors; and Spoils of War (Drama Desk nomination). Numerous Off-Broadway credits include her two Obie Award-winning performances as Mick Jagger in Lemmings and Mamie Eisenhower in First Ladies Suite. She voices cartoons, has sung at the Met, performed on Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion," had a recurring role on "Frasier." HOWARD McGILLIN appears in the title role of The Phantom of the Opera, and has worked extensively in theatre as well as film and television. His starring roles on Broadway and in London's West End include Mack and Mabel; Kiss of the Spider Woman; She Loves Me; The Secret Garden; Anything Goes (Tony and Drama Desk nominations); The Mystery of Edwin Drood with the NY Shakespeare Festival (Tony and Drama Desk nominations, Theatre World Award); and Sunday in the Park with George. He was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for his New York theatrical debut in the NY Shakespeare Festival's production of La Boheme with Linda Ronstadt. He appeared last season in the Moss Hart-Irving Berlin review As Thousands Cheer with the Drama Dept., of which he is a member. Howard's various TV appearances include the recent CBS miniseries "Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke," and "ER." He has performed in many televised concerts including Stephen Sondheim's Follies, The Kennedy Center Honors, The Boston Pops, and others. He has recorded many books on tape including Richard Preston's The Hot Zone, Danielle Steel's Lightning, and Clive Cussler's Inca Gold, and provided his voice for the film South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, as well as The Swan Princess. Ann Hampton Callaway ANN HAMPTON CALLAWAY recently made her Broadway debut in SWING. She received a 2000 Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical and is the winner of a 2000 Theatre World Award for Most Outstanding New Performer on Broadway. She returns to New York following an extensive national and international tour for her celebrated CD To Ella With Love. Ms. Callaway performed her original musical Sibling Revelry with her sister Liz in London and New York. As a songwriter / performer, she received the Johnny Mercer Songwriting Award and eleven MAC Awards. She wrote and performed the theme song for TV's "The Nanny," and her songs "At the Same Time" and "I've Dreamed of You" were recorded on Barbra Streisand's CD's Higher Ground and A Love Like Ours. Her new CD Easy Living just won the MAC Award for Outstanding Major Recording. Web site: annhamptoncallaway.com. LINDA LAVIN was born in Portland, Maine. She was educated at the College of William and Mary, NYU. She has appeared on numerous Broadway productions, including: The Diary of Anne Frank (Tony nomination, Best supporting Actress), The Sisters Rosensweig, Gypsy, Broadway Bound (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Helen Hayes Awards, Best Actress), Something Different, Cop Out, Last of the Red Hot Lovers (Tony nomination, Best Actress), Superman. Off-Broadway: The Tale of the Allergist's Wife (Drama Desk nomination), Cakewalk, Death Defying Acts (Obie & Lucille Lortel Awards, Best Actress), Rich and Famous, The Mad Show, Little Murders (Outer Critics, Saturday Review Awards, Best Actress). On the Los Angeles Stage, she has appeared in Collected Stories (L.A. Theatre nomination, Best Actress). Ms. Lavin's film credits include See You in the Morning, The Muppets Take Manhattan, I Want to Go Home. Television: Series: "Alice" (Emmy nomination, People's Choice Award, two Golden Globe Awards, Best Actress), "Room for Two" (Producer/Actress); "Conrad Bloom." Movies: "Hallmark/Best Friends for Life;" "The Ring;" "Secrets of the Rose Garden" (Producer/Actress); "A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes;" "Like Mom, Like Me;" "Lena: My 100 Children;" "A Place to Call Home;" (Producer/Actress); "A Matter of Life and Death" (Producer/Actress); "The $5.20 an Hour Dream;" "Another Woman's Child." Specials: "Flour Babies" (Producer/ Director), "Linda in Wonderland" (Producer/two Emmy Awards), "The Sunset Gang" (Producer/Emmy Award). She has also appeared at Carnegie Hall, in Rainbow and Stars. She established the Linda Lavin Arts Foundation in Wilmington, NC, to foster the arts in education and started an afterschool theatre program for inner-city girls. THE QUARTET FROM THE MUSIC MAN: THE HAWKEYE FOUR
MICHAEL-LEON WOOLEY (Olin Britt). Five Guys Named Moe, Abby's Song; National Tours: Pointer Sisters Ain't Misbehavin', The Wiz, Little Shop of Horrors, A Soldier's Play, Purlie; Recent Regional Theatre: Floyd Collins (Old Globe, Goodman, Hal Prince Theatre), Children Of Eden (North Shore), Inspecting Carol (Capital Rep); Television: "Viva Variety", "Now and Again", and George on "Cosby". He thanks God for his talent and dedicates his performance to Mom and Dad. PETER SCHICKELE is a composer, musician, author, and satirist. He is widely recognized as one of the most versatile artists in the field of music. Born in Ames, Iowa, and brought up in Washington, D.C., and Fargo, North Dakota. He graduated from Swarthmore, and by that time had already composed and conducted four orchestral works, a great deal of chamber music, and some songs. He studied composition with Roy Harris and Darius Milhaud, and at the Juilliard School of Music with Vincent Persichetti and William Bergsma. As a composer, Peter's commissions are numerous and varied - including works for the Saint Louis Symphony, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, The Audubon String Quartet, the Minnesota Orchestral Association, and many other such organizations. His most recent premieres include; Chapbook for piano, six hands (three pieces inspired by poetry), Thurber's Dogs - commissioned in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of James Thurber's birth, and Blue Set - a jazz string quartet commissioned by the Greene Quartet. As a satirist, he is well-known as perpetrator of the oeuvre of the now-classic P.D.Q. Bach. BILL McGLAUGHLIN decided he would be a musician after his second piano lesson - when he was just 14 years old. He soon realized this could include a great many paths. He has performed with Philadelphia Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. He served as Associate Conductor with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra for seven years, and as music director of orchestras in Eugene, Tucson, and San Francisco. Most recently, he served a 12-year engagement as Music Director of the Kansas City Symphony. Since 1980, Bill has been the host of the popular and award winning public radio program Saint Paul Sunday. He is now in his second season as co-host of the chamber music program Center Stage From Wolftrap. In 1997, Bill tried his hand at composing with Three Dreams and a Question: Choral Songs on e. e. cummings - a work dedicated to memory of the young composer and pianist Kevin Oldham. His recent works include Waft Whitman's Dream, for large chorus and orchestra - a work commissioned by Continental Harmony, a Millennium project sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Composers Forum. |
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