MARSHALL BRICKMAN (Book). Films (author or co-author): Sleeper, Annie Hall (A. Award), Manhattan, Manhattan
Murder Mystery, For the Boys, Intersection; (as writer/director): Simon, Lovesick, The Manhattan Project, Sister Mary
Explains it All. Television: “The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson” (head writer); the ABC “Dick Cavett Show,” (head
writer/co-producer; 2 Emmy Awards). Mr. Brickman entered show business as a musician with the folk group The
Tarriers; then, with John and Michelle Phillips, formed the pre-Mamas and Papas group The New Journeymen. Brickman’s
recording (with Eric Weissberg) of the soundtrack of Deliverance earned gold status twice. He has published in The New
York Times, The New Yorker, Playboy and other periodicals and was the 2006 recipient of the Writers’ Guild of America’
s Ian McClellan Hunter Award for Lifetime Achievement. Jersey Boys is his first venture into musical theatre.
RICK ELICE (Book). Jersey Boys, Rick’s first Broadway credit, won the 2006 Tony Award for Best Musical. How cool
is that? From 1982-2000, as creative director at Serino Coyne Inc., he produced ad campaigns for some 300 Broadway
shows, from A Chorus Line to The Lion King. Since 2000, he has served as creative consultant for the Walt Disney
Studio. BA, Cornell University; MFA, Yale Drama School; Teaching Fellow, Harvard University; charter member,
American Repertory Theatre. In 2003, he appeared Off-Broadway in Elaine May’s comedy, Adult Entertainment.With
Marshall Brickman and Andrew Lippa, he is currently writing a musical based on The Addams Family. End of credits. Rick
saw his first Broadway show when he was three. His mother said he was very well-behaved. From that day, he dreamed of
working in the theatre. From the age of 19, he has. Heartfelt thanks to those he’s been lucky enough to know, whose work
makes him grateful for the day he was born: Sondheim, Stoppard, Bennett, Prince, Fosse, Robbins, Nichols, Tune, Nunn,
Laurents, Stone, Kushner, Taymor, Papp, Schumacher, Schneider, Coyne, Brickman and Rees. Rick thinks about them a
lot. He never thought about Jersey much. He does now.
BOB GAUDIO (Composer) wrote his first hit, “Who Wears Short Shorts,” at 15, for the Royal Teens, and then went on
to become a founding member of the Four Seasons and the band’s principal songwriter. He also produced the hit “You
Don’t Bring Me Flowers” for Neil Diamond and Barbra Streisand (Grammy nomination, Record of the Year) as well as six
albums for Diamond, including The Jazz Singer. Other producing credits include albums for Frank Sinatra, Marvin Gaye,
Diana Ross, Michael Jackson and the soundtrack for the film of Little Shop of Horrors. Several songs co-written with Bob
Crewe have been cover hits for such artists as the Tremeloes (“Silence Is Golden”), the Walker Brothers (“The Sun Ain’t
Gonna Shine Anymore”) and Lauryn Hill (“Can’t Take My Eyes Off You”). With his wife, Judy Parker, Gaudio produced
and co-wrote the Who Loves You album for the Four Seasons and one of Billboard’s longestcharted singles (54 weeks),
“Oh, What a Night.” A high point in his career came in 1990 when, as a member of the original Four Seasons, Gaudio was
inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 1995, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, which hailed
him as “a quintessential musicmaker.” To this day, Bob Gaudio and Frankie Valli still maintain their partnership…on a
handshake.
BOB CREWE (Lyricist). “New York was pregnant in the fifties,” says Bob Crewe, “gestating with possibilities.” Crewe
and music partner Frank Slay became independent writer-producers when the category hadn’t yet been invented. In 1957
they wrote and produced “Silhouettes” for The Rays, skyrocketing to #1. Suddenly, producers in demand, they launched
Freddie Cannon’s “Tallahassee Lassie” and Billy & Lillie’s “Lah Dee Da.” Crewe’s 1960’s solo unprecedented producing
success with The Four Seasons birthed a new sound, striking a major chord in American Pop. “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t
Cry,” “Walk Like a Man,” “Candy Girl,” “Ronnie” – all smashes! When lead Frankie Valli demanded a solo turn, Crewe
& Bob Gaudio wrote and Crewe produced “Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You,” which eventually became the century’s
fifth most-played song. Crewe ran hot with artists from Vicki Carr, Oliver, Lesley Gore to Mitch Ryder, cowriting with
Charles Fox the soundtrack for Jane Fonda’s film, Barbarella. Then his own Bob Crewe Generation exploded with Music
To Watch Girls By. In 1972 Bob was in L.A., where he revived Frankie Valli with “My Eyes Adored You” by Crewe &
Kenny Nolan. They also co-wrote Patti LaBelle’s “Lady Marmalade” (#1, July ‘75) – to re-hit again from the soundtrack
of Moulin Rouge (#1, June ‘01)…David Ritz.
DES MCANUFF (Director) is a two-time Tony Award-winning director and was recently named Co-Artistic Director of
the Stratford Festival of Canada. He is Director Emeritus of La Jolla Playhouse, which he has headed for much of the past
25 years. Under his leadership, La Jolla Playhouse garnered over 300 theatre awards, including the 1993 Outstanding
Regional Theatre Tony Award. Recent productions directed at the Playhouse: The Wiz (2006); Zhivago (2005); Palm
Beach (2005); Private Fittings (2005); Tom Donaghy’s Eden Lane (2003); Tartuffe (2002); Michael Ondaatje’s The
Collected Works of Billy the Kid (2001). Playhouse to Broadway credits: Jersey Boys, Billy Crystal’s 700 Sundays
(Broadway 2004, Tony Award); Dracula: The Musical (2004); How to Succeed… (1995); The Who’s Tommy
(director/co-author with Pete Townshend, 1993 Tony Award Best Director of a Musical; 1997 London Olivier Awards
Best Director/Best Musical); A Walk in the Woods (1988); and Big River (1985, seven Tonys including Best Director of a
Musical and Best Musical). Film credits: Cousin Bette and The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (director), Iron Giant
(producer), Quills (executive producer). Upcoming: Aaron Sorkin’s The Farnsworth Invention.
SERGIO TRUJILLO (Choreographer). Broadway: Tony Award-winning Jersey Boys (Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle
nominations), All Shook Up. NYC credits: The Public Theater’s Romeo and Juliet (Delacorte Theatre), Kismet and A
Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Encores!), The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Bare, Salome (NYC Opera). Int’l credits:
Disney’s Tarzan (Holland); Peggy Sue Got Married (London); West Side Story, The Sound of Music (Stratford Festival);
Kiss Me, Kate, Twelfth Night (Tokyo). Additional theatre credits: Mambo Kings, The Wiz and Zhivago (La Jolla
Playhouse); Kiss of The Spider Woman, Le Nozze di Figaro (L.A. Opera); Hoy Come Ayer (Ballet Hispanico); Chita
Rivera’s Chita and All That Jazz. TV: Triple Sensation (celebrity judge), “Broadway: The American Musical” and “The
14th American Comedy Awards” starring Nathan Lane. 2003 Ovation Award in L.A., three Dora Mavor Moore Award
nominations for choreography in Canada and Stiching Musical Award in Europe. Upcoming: Next to Normal (Second
Stage), Saved (Playwrights Horizons), Zhivago (West End), The Wiz (Broadway), The Addams Family (Broadway).
RON MELROSE (Music Direction, Vocal Arrangements & Incidental Music). Music Direction: Jersey Boys, Imaginary
Friends, Scarlet Pimpernel, Radio City Sinatra, upcoming The Wiz, Caraboo and Waiting for the Moon. Dance/Vocal
Arranging: Sweet Smell of Success, Jekyll & Hyde, Perfectly Frank, The Act, Marilyn: An American Fable, Woman of the
Year, Cabaret. Composing: Superdimensional Microbabes (upcoming anime-based musical), Fourtune (Off-Broadway),
The Silver Swan (NEA Fellowship), three theatrical CDs (The Missing Peace, Early One Morning, Songs I Won’t Be
Singing), two Harvard Hasty Pudding shows (Tots in Tinseltown, Bewitched Bayou), a gospel-based Requiem, and songs
for church, choir, cabaret, and “Saturday Night Live.” Harvard (philosophy), Westminster (choral conducting). Thanks and
love to Alexandra.
KLARA ZIEGLEROVA (Scenic Design). Broadway: Jersey Boys, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe.
Off- Broadway: Wrecks, Controversy (Public Theater), Yellowman (MTC), New York Theatre Workshop), Irish
Repertory Theatre and others. Regional: La Jolla Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse, Dallas Theater Center, Portland Center
Stage, Seattle Rep, Florida Stage, McCarter Theatre, Wilma Theater, Williamstown, Old Globe Theatre, Ahmanson
Theatre and others. International: Saturday Night Fever (Holland), Eden (Cork, Ireland). Interior architecture design:
Dodger Stages, New York. Awards: 2003 Drammy Award for Best Set Design, 2000 Carbonell Award for Best Set
Design; sets for the Best Touring Production, 2003 L.A. Ovation Award. Graduate of Yale School of Drama.
JESS GOLDSTEIN (Costume Design). Selected New York credits include The Apple Tree, Martin Short: Fame
Becomes Me, Lincoln Center’s The Rivals (Tony Award), Julius Caesar with Denzel Washington, Henry IV, Take Me
Out, Enchanted April, Proof, Love! Valour! Compassion!, The Most Happy Fella, Dinner With Friends, How I Learned to
Drive, Buried Child and The Mineola Twins (Lortel and Hewes Awards). Opera: Jack O’Brien’s Il Trittico (Met, 2007);
NYC Opera’s The Pirates of Penzance. Film: A Walk on the Moon, Love! Valour! Compassion! and The Substance of
Fire. Upcoming Broadway: The Homecoming and Cymbeline (at Lincoln Center this fall).
HOWELL BINKLEY (Lighting Design). B’way works include: Xanadu, LoveMusik, Avenue Q, Bridge and Tunnel, Steel
Magnolias, Golda’s Balcony, Hollywood Arms, Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, Minnelli on Minnelli, The Full Monty, Parade,
Kiss of the Spider Woman, Sacrilege, Taking Sides, How to Succeed…, High Society and Grease. Off B’way: Landscape
of the Body, Sinatra at Radio City, Batboy: The Musical and Radiant Baby. The Kennedy Center’s Sondheim Celebration.
Parsons Dance (co-founder), Alvin Ailey, ABT, The Joffrey Ballet (Billboards). Five-time Helen Hayes Award recipient.
1993 Sir Laurence Olivier Award and Canadian Dora for Spider Woman. 2006 Henry Hewes Design Award, 2006 Outer
Critics Circle Award and 2006 Tony Award for Jersey Boys.
STEVE CANYON KENNEDY (Sound Design) was the production engineer on such Broadway shows as Cats, Starlight
Express, Song & Dance, The Phantom of the Opera, Carrie and Aspects of Love. His Broadway sound design credits
include Mary Poppins, The Lion King, Jersey Boys (Drama Desk Award), Billy Crystal’s 700 Sundays, Hairspray, The
Producers, Aida, Titanic, Big, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Carousel and The Who’s Tommy
(Drama Desk Award). Steve is married to actress Loni Ackerman and together they have two sons, Jack and George.
MICHAEL CLARK (Projection Design) designs film and video for live events. Credits include Ring of Fire (Broadway
and Studio Arena Theatre); 700 Sundays (Broadway and La Jolla); Dracula the Musical (Broadway and La Jolla); The
Elephant Man (Broadway); Manon Lescaut (Washington Opera); Allegro, One Red Flower and Hedwig (Signature
Theatre); The Last Five Years (Philadelphia Theate Company); Company, Sunday in the Park With George and Merrily
We Roll Along (Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration); Spider-Man Live (national tour); Music From a Sparkling Planet
(Drama Dept); Aeros (national tour); and Dinner With Friends (ACT).
CHARLES LaPOINTE (Wig/Hair Design). B’way: A Raisin in the Sun, Henry IV, The Rivals, Good Vibrations, Sight
Unseen, The Apple Tree, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, High Fidelity, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Radio Golf, The
Color Purple, Julius Caesar, Xanadu. Regional credits include McCarter, Alliance, American Repertory Theatre,
Huntington Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Hartford Stage and La Jolla Playhouse. Opera credits include Opera
Theatre of St. Louis, Santa Fe Opera, Minnesota Opera, Opera Omaha and Philadelphia Opera Company. Love to James.
STEVE RANKIN (Fight Director) received wide critical praise, as both fight director and actor, in the Tony Award-
winning Lincoln Center Theater production of Henry IV directed by Jack O’Brien. Other Broadway: Dracula the Musical,
Twelfth Night, Two Shakespearean Actors, Anna Christie, The Real Inspector Hound, Getting Away With Murder, The
Who’s Tommy. Off-Broadway: Pig Farm, The Night Hank Williams Died, Below the Belt. As an actor Mr. Rankin can be
seen as Alvin Green on the new series Saving Grace starring Holly Hunter on TNT.
RICHARD HESTER (Production Supervisor). Broadway: Jersey Boys, Gypsy, Sweet Smell of Success, Annie Get Your
Gun, Patti LuPone’s Matters of the Heart, A Delicate Balance, The Old Neighborhood, Titanic, The Phantom of the
Opera, The Red Shoes, The Secret Garden. National tours: Wicked, The Phantom of the Opera, West Side Story.
Regional: Jersey Boys (La Jolla Playhouse). Production supervised Patti LuPone’s national concert appearances.
Cofounder/producer of Broadway Barks! with Bernadette Peters and Mary Tyler Moore.
BJ ALLEN (Production Stage Manager) Broadway: The Runner Stumbles, Little Prince and the Aviator with Michael
York and Anthony Rapp, Merlin with Chita Rivera, Doug Henning & Nathan Lane. Tours: Annie (Original 1st National
Tour), The King and I with Yul Bynner, Cats, Pump Boys and Dinettes (2 tours, Dodgers Production), Mame with Juliet
Prowse. Las Vegas: “O,” Celine Dion’s A New Day…, Sugar Babies with Juliet Prowse & Mickey Rooney, Guys and
Dolls with Jack Jones, Maureen McGovern & Frank Gorshin, Signed, Sealed, Delivered with Peabo Bryson, Melissa
Manchester & Chaka Kahn. Member of Equity since 1975.
MANDY HORAN (Stage Manager) is excited to be a part of the Vegas Company of Jersey Boys. Before joining Jersey
Boys she was stage managing for Cirque du Soleil, for both Mystére and “O.” She is a graduate of Webster University in
St. Louis, MO. Thanks to her parents for their constant support.
DANA VICTORIA ANDERSON (Assistant Stage Manager) Selected regional credits include: Jersey Boys, Private
Fittings, Eden Lane (La Jolla), Third, Speed-the-Plow, Rabbit Hole, The God of Hell (Geffen Playhouse), Love Janis
(ATC), Hank Williams: Lost Highway, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, Working, The Buddy Holly Story, It Ain’t
Nothin But the Blues (San Diego Rep).
STEVE ORICH (Orchestrations) has worked as an Orchestrator, Composer and Musical Director in NY and LA for
more than 25 years, with numerous credits in film, television and theatre. Most recently, he’s written orchestrations for Paint
Your Wagon, 110 in the Shade, Snapshots and Can-Can and he received a Tony nomination for his work on Jersey Boys.
He has orchestrated and conducted albums for artists including Helen Reddy, Judy Kaye, Debbie Gravitte, Petula Clark
and Deborah Gibson, and his orchestrations have been performed by the Boston Pops and at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy
Center, the White House and around the world.
JOHN MILLER (Music Coordinator). Recent Broadway: Xanadu, Les Mis, Grey Gardens, Drowsy Chaperone; Beauty
and the Beast; Hairspray; Coram Boy; Threepenny Opera; Lennon; Sweeney Todd; The Producers; Movin’ Out; Sweet
Charity; Caroline, or Change; Little Shop…; Thoroughly Modern Millie; 42nd Street; Urinetown; Nine; La Bohème; Big
River; Never Gonna Dance; Thou Shalt Not; By Jeeves; Follies; Oklahoma!; Jekyll & Hyde; The Rocky Horror Show;
Seussical; The Music Man; Fosse; Swing!; Kat and the Kings; The Civil War; Triumph of Love. Studio musician (bass):
Michael Jackson, Madonna, Portishead, Eric Clapton, BB King, Sinatra, Carly Simon, Celine Dion, Smashing Pumpkins,
Tommy Flanagan, Pete Seeger, NY Philharmonic.
KEITH THOMPSON (Conductor) Musical Director/Conductor credits include The Producers (Paris, Las Vegas), the
North American premiere of We Will Rock You (Paris, Las Vegas), Hairspray (Luxor), Cabaret (National Tour w/Teri
Hatcher and Lea Thompson, Australian Musical Supervisor, Dora Award winner), Mamma Mia (First National Tour), and
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat with Donny Osmond. His New York credits include Les Misérables,
Tommy, Forbidden Broadway, and When Pigs Fly. Keith’s original comedy/novelty song revue, Kooky Tunes, has
received international acclaim (original cast recording available at Amazon.com). Keith was Vocal Director and Arranger
for Nickelodeon Television’s “RoundHouse.”
PETER FULBRIGHT/TECH PRODUCTION SERVICES (Technical Supervision). Recent Broadway productions and
national tours include Hairspray, Bombay Dreams, 42nd Street, Urinetown, Into the Woods, …Vampires, Dame Edna,
Sixteen Wounded, Anna…Tropics, Enchanted April, Frog and Toad, Life (X) 3, Ma Rainey’s, Elephant Man, Topdog
and Blast!. Peter has supervised more than 70 Broadway productions and national tours. Some favorites include Joseph…,
Guys and Dolls, Starlight Express, Drood, Crazy for You, Swing!, The Rocky Horror Show, The Real Thing, Amadeus,
The Sound of Music, On the Town, …Mattress, …Forum, Smokey Joe’s, Moon Over Buffalo, The Secret Garden,
Singin’ in the Rain and Foxfire.
TARA RUBIN CASTING (Casting). Broadway/Tours: Young Frankenstein, Little Mermaid, Mary Poppins; My Fair
Lady; The Pirate Queen; Les Misérables; The History Boys; Spamalot; …Spelling Bee; The Producers; Mamma Mia!;
Phantom…; Good Vibrations; Bombay Dreams; Oklahoma!; Flower Drum Song; Imaginary Friends; Metamorphoses;
Disney’s On the Record; The Frogs; Contact; Thou Shalt Not; A Man of No Importance. Second Stage, Williamstown,
Kennedy Center, La Jolla, Yale Rep. Film: The Producers.
KELLY DEVINE (Associate Choreographer) Theatre credits include: Wozzeck for the San Diego opera, Private Fittings,
Zhivago (the workshop), all directed by Des McAnuff, Sneaux (LA Weekly Award for Best Choreographer), and
Encounters, a new musical. Films include: Happy Texas, 30 Days Til I’m Famous, BoyChik and Zombie Prom. Kelly
recently was the associate choreographer on The Wiz. Next up is choreographing Bloody Andrew Jackson, a new musical
for CTG in Los Angeles, and Rock of Ages for a New York off-Broadway production.
STEPHEN GABIS (Dialect Coach). B’way: Doubt, Steel Magnolias, Dracula, Taboo, The Boy From Oz, Joe Egg,
“Master Harold”…, Present Laughter, A Doll’s House. Venues: Roundabout, MTC, Playwrights, Atlantic, the New
Group, MCC, the Public, Second Stage, Williamstown,Yale Rep, McCarter, Hartford Stage, Primary Stages, LCT, Long
Wharf, Westport. Film contributions: Million Dollar Baby, Ballad of Bettie Page, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Boys
Don’t Cry.
DODGER THEATRICALS (Producer) is a producing partnership comprising Michael David, Edward Strong, Rocco
Landesman and Des McAnuff. Originated at BAM in1978, migrated to the New York Shakespeare Festival, then off and
on Broadway, where they’ve shared in a host of awards—including 142 Tony nominations and 50 Tony Awads. Current
Broadway: Jersey Boys. Other Broadway: The Farnsworth Invention, 42nd Street, Urinetown, Into the Woods (original
and ‘02), The Music Man, Blast!, Titanic, Dracula, Wrong Mountain, Footloose, Mandy Patinkin, High Society, 1776,
…Forum, The King and I, The Who’s Tommy, Ralph Fiennes’ Hamlet, Guys and Dolls, Once Upon a Mattress, How to
Succeed in Business…, Jelly’s Last Jam, The Secret Garden, Prelude to a Kiss, The Gospel at Colonus, Big River, Pump
Boys and Dinettes. Off Broadway: American premieres of Barrie Keefe's Gimme Shelter, Wolfgang Hildesheimer's Mary
Stuart Other: Drumstruck, Savion Glover Downtown, Royal Court Classics at the Duke of York, UK.
JOSEPH J. GRANO, JR. (Producer) is Chairman/CEO of Centurion Holdings LLC, an advisor to private and public
companies. From 2001-2004, Mr. Grano was Chairman of UBS Financial Services Inc. (formerly PaineWebber). While at
PaineWebber, Mr. Grano chaired the Board of Governors of the National Association of Security Dealers (NASD). In
2002, Mr. Grano was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as the Chairman of the Homeland Security
Advisory Council. He proudly served his country as a Captain in the U.S. Special Forces (Green Berets). Due to his
commitment to education, Mr. Grano received the Corporate Leadership Award from the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship
Fund. Other awards include the USO Gold Medal for Distinguished Service and The Ellis Island Medal of Honor. He is
also a member of the Council for the United States and Italy, a member of both the City University of New York’s
Business Leadership Council and the Board of Directors at Lenox Hill Hospital.
KEVIN AND TAMARA KINSELLA (Producers). Kevin Kinsella has been investing in early-stage technology
companies for more than two decades, primarily through Avalon Ventures, a firm he founded. Among the companies he
founded are Athena Neurosciences, Aurora Biosciences, Landmark Graphics Corporation, Onyx Pharmaceuticals,
Synaptyics, Senomyx, Vertex Pharmaceuticals and Vocera Communications. He is a Life Sustaining Fellow at MIT, a
member of Johns Hopkins SAIS Dean’s Advisory Counsel and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Both
lifelong environmentalists and outdoor enthusiasts, Kevin met Tamara in Alaska during the Exxon Valdez oil spill cleanup.
They both have been active supporting the La Jolla Playhouse and the San Diego Museum of Art. Jersey Boys is their first
Broadway show. Mr. Kinsella’s father, Walter A. Kinsella, was a career actor on Broadway, radio television and cinema.
He first appeared on Broadway in 1924 in What Price Glory?
THE PELICAN GROUP (Producer), a San Diego production company, is enthusiastic about supporting this production of
Jersey Boys. The Group, assembled by Ivor and Colette Royston, consists of Todd and Debby Buchholz, Edward and
Martha Dennis, Eric and Marsi Gardiner, Cam and Wanda Garner, Richard and Patricia Harmetz, Irwin and Joan Jacobs,
Hal and Debby Jacobs, Paul and Stacy Jacobs, Jeff and Deni Jacobs, John and Angie Longenecker, Rao Makineni,
Nevins and Margaret McBride, Ray Mirra, Shearn Platt, Edward Richard, Drew and Noni Senyei, Steven Strauss and
Lise Wilson. Mr. Royston co-produced the TV film “Dreams of Gold: The Mel Fisher Story” (w/ Cliff Robertson and
Loretta Swit, 1986) and the feature film Soultaker (1990).
BASE ENTERTAINMENT (Presenter/Producer) develops, produces and manages intellectual properties generated from
live entertainment which may reach audiences through various live, digital, broadcast and other platforms. In addition to
JERSEY BOYS, BASE’s current production activity includes Phantom – The Las Vegas Spectacular and Wayne Brady:
Making It Up at The Venetian Resort-Hotel-Casino, STOMP OUT LOUD at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino,
Defending the Caveman at the Golden Nugget and Cirque du Soleil’s new holiday show Wintuk, which premiered at the
Theater at Madison Square Garden (NYC) in Winter 2007. In Fall 2006, BASE produced Martin Short: Fame Becomes
Me on Broadway. In addition, BASE operates the Showroom and The Theatre for the Performing Arts at the Planet
Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. BASE Entertainment’s founders include industry veterans Brian Becker, Scott
Zeiger, and private equity firm Clarity Partners.
LATITUDE LINK (Producer) has been a supporter of the performing arts for many years. They are especially thankful to
the Four Seasons for a compelling story, to Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice for putting it to paper and to Des McAnuff
and La Jolla Playhouse for bringing it to the stage.
RICK STEINER (Producer) Of the eleven Broadway musicals Rick has co-produced, Jersey Boys, Hairspray, The
Producers and Big River won Tony Awards for Best Musical. In 1954, at age eight, Rick made his stage debut opposite
Gene Lockhart in On Borrowed Time and then promptly retired. Rick has won six poker championships including the 1992
World Series of Poker 7- Stud Hi-Lo event. He resides in Cincinnati, Ohio with his children Ace and Duke and sits on the
ownership bench of his beloved Cincinnati Reds.
LAUREN MITCHELL (Associate Producer). As producer, on Broadway: Urinetown, Into the Woods (‘02 revival),
Wrong Mountain, High Society. Off- Broadway: Barbra’s Wedding, Bare. As actress, on Broadway: The Boys From
Syracuse, Me and My Girl, Nine, Annie, City of Angels (L.A.), Into the Woods (original cast and PBS American
Playhouse) and numerous Off-Broadway, regional, television and concert appearances.
LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE (Original Producer) has received more than 300 awards for theatre excellence, including the
1993 Tony Award as America’s Outstanding Regional Theatre. Located in La Jolla, California, the Playhouse is nationally
acclaimed for its innovative productions of classics, new plays and musicals. Led by Christopher Ashley, Artistic Director;
Steven B. Libman, Managing Director; Shirley Fishman, Associate Artistic Director and Des McAnuff, Director Emeritus,
the Playhouse was founded in 1947 by Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire and Mel Ferrer. More than 30 Playhouse
productions have moved to Broadway, garnering 23 Tony Awards, including Big River, The Who’s Tommy, How to
Succeed in Business…,Thoroughly Modern Millie, Billy Crystal’s 700 Sundays and the Pulitzer Prize-winning I Am My
Own Wife, fostered as part of the Playhouse’s Page To Stage New Play Development Program. Visit www.
lajollaplayhouse.org.
Murder Mystery, For the Boys, Intersection; (as writer/director): Simon, Lovesick, The Manhattan Project, Sister Mary
Explains it All. Television: “The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson” (head writer); the ABC “Dick Cavett Show,” (head
writer/co-producer; 2 Emmy Awards). Mr. Brickman entered show business as a musician with the folk group The
Tarriers; then, with John and Michelle Phillips, formed the pre-Mamas and Papas group The New Journeymen. Brickman’s
recording (with Eric Weissberg) of the soundtrack of Deliverance earned gold status twice. He has published in The New
York Times, The New Yorker, Playboy and other periodicals and was the 2006 recipient of the Writers’ Guild of America’
s Ian McClellan Hunter Award for Lifetime Achievement. Jersey Boys is his first venture into musical theatre.
RICK ELICE (Book). Jersey Boys, Rick’s first Broadway credit, won the 2006 Tony Award for Best Musical. How cool
is that? From 1982-2000, as creative director at Serino Coyne Inc., he produced ad campaigns for some 300 Broadway
shows, from A Chorus Line to The Lion King. Since 2000, he has served as creative consultant for the Walt Disney
Studio. BA, Cornell University; MFA, Yale Drama School; Teaching Fellow, Harvard University; charter member,
American Repertory Theatre. In 2003, he appeared Off-Broadway in Elaine May’s comedy, Adult Entertainment.With
Marshall Brickman and Andrew Lippa, he is currently writing a musical based on The Addams Family. End of credits. Rick
saw his first Broadway show when he was three. His mother said he was very well-behaved. From that day, he dreamed of
working in the theatre. From the age of 19, he has. Heartfelt thanks to those he’s been lucky enough to know, whose work
makes him grateful for the day he was born: Sondheim, Stoppard, Bennett, Prince, Fosse, Robbins, Nichols, Tune, Nunn,
Laurents, Stone, Kushner, Taymor, Papp, Schumacher, Schneider, Coyne, Brickman and Rees. Rick thinks about them a
lot. He never thought about Jersey much. He does now.
BOB GAUDIO (Composer) wrote his first hit, “Who Wears Short Shorts,” at 15, for the Royal Teens, and then went on
to become a founding member of the Four Seasons and the band’s principal songwriter. He also produced the hit “You
Don’t Bring Me Flowers” for Neil Diamond and Barbra Streisand (Grammy nomination, Record of the Year) as well as six
albums for Diamond, including The Jazz Singer. Other producing credits include albums for Frank Sinatra, Marvin Gaye,
Diana Ross, Michael Jackson and the soundtrack for the film of Little Shop of Horrors. Several songs co-written with Bob
Crewe have been cover hits for such artists as the Tremeloes (“Silence Is Golden”), the Walker Brothers (“The Sun Ain’t
Gonna Shine Anymore”) and Lauryn Hill (“Can’t Take My Eyes Off You”). With his wife, Judy Parker, Gaudio produced
and co-wrote the Who Loves You album for the Four Seasons and one of Billboard’s longestcharted singles (54 weeks),
“Oh, What a Night.” A high point in his career came in 1990 when, as a member of the original Four Seasons, Gaudio was
inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 1995, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, which hailed
him as “a quintessential musicmaker.” To this day, Bob Gaudio and Frankie Valli still maintain their partnership…on a
handshake.
BOB CREWE (Lyricist). “New York was pregnant in the fifties,” says Bob Crewe, “gestating with possibilities.” Crewe
and music partner Frank Slay became independent writer-producers when the category hadn’t yet been invented. In 1957
they wrote and produced “Silhouettes” for The Rays, skyrocketing to #1. Suddenly, producers in demand, they launched
Freddie Cannon’s “Tallahassee Lassie” and Billy & Lillie’s “Lah Dee Da.” Crewe’s 1960’s solo unprecedented producing
success with The Four Seasons birthed a new sound, striking a major chord in American Pop. “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t
Cry,” “Walk Like a Man,” “Candy Girl,” “Ronnie” – all smashes! When lead Frankie Valli demanded a solo turn, Crewe
& Bob Gaudio wrote and Crewe produced “Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You,” which eventually became the century’s
fifth most-played song. Crewe ran hot with artists from Vicki Carr, Oliver, Lesley Gore to Mitch Ryder, cowriting with
Charles Fox the soundtrack for Jane Fonda’s film, Barbarella. Then his own Bob Crewe Generation exploded with Music
To Watch Girls By. In 1972 Bob was in L.A., where he revived Frankie Valli with “My Eyes Adored You” by Crewe &
Kenny Nolan. They also co-wrote Patti LaBelle’s “Lady Marmalade” (#1, July ‘75) – to re-hit again from the soundtrack
of Moulin Rouge (#1, June ‘01)…David Ritz.
DES MCANUFF (Director) is a two-time Tony Award-winning director and was recently named Co-Artistic Director of
the Stratford Festival of Canada. He is Director Emeritus of La Jolla Playhouse, which he has headed for much of the past
25 years. Under his leadership, La Jolla Playhouse garnered over 300 theatre awards, including the 1993 Outstanding
Regional Theatre Tony Award. Recent productions directed at the Playhouse: The Wiz (2006); Zhivago (2005); Palm
Beach (2005); Private Fittings (2005); Tom Donaghy’s Eden Lane (2003); Tartuffe (2002); Michael Ondaatje’s The
Collected Works of Billy the Kid (2001). Playhouse to Broadway credits: Jersey Boys, Billy Crystal’s 700 Sundays
(Broadway 2004, Tony Award); Dracula: The Musical (2004); How to Succeed… (1995); The Who’s Tommy
(director/co-author with Pete Townshend, 1993 Tony Award Best Director of a Musical; 1997 London Olivier Awards
Best Director/Best Musical); A Walk in the Woods (1988); and Big River (1985, seven Tonys including Best Director of a
Musical and Best Musical). Film credits: Cousin Bette and The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (director), Iron Giant
(producer), Quills (executive producer). Upcoming: Aaron Sorkin’s The Farnsworth Invention.
SERGIO TRUJILLO (Choreographer). Broadway: Tony Award-winning Jersey Boys (Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle
nominations), All Shook Up. NYC credits: The Public Theater’s Romeo and Juliet (Delacorte Theatre), Kismet and A
Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Encores!), The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Bare, Salome (NYC Opera). Int’l credits:
Disney’s Tarzan (Holland); Peggy Sue Got Married (London); West Side Story, The Sound of Music (Stratford Festival);
Kiss Me, Kate, Twelfth Night (Tokyo). Additional theatre credits: Mambo Kings, The Wiz and Zhivago (La Jolla
Playhouse); Kiss of The Spider Woman, Le Nozze di Figaro (L.A. Opera); Hoy Come Ayer (Ballet Hispanico); Chita
Rivera’s Chita and All That Jazz. TV: Triple Sensation (celebrity judge), “Broadway: The American Musical” and “The
14th American Comedy Awards” starring Nathan Lane. 2003 Ovation Award in L.A., three Dora Mavor Moore Award
nominations for choreography in Canada and Stiching Musical Award in Europe. Upcoming: Next to Normal (Second
Stage), Saved (Playwrights Horizons), Zhivago (West End), The Wiz (Broadway), The Addams Family (Broadway).
RON MELROSE (Music Direction, Vocal Arrangements & Incidental Music). Music Direction: Jersey Boys, Imaginary
Friends, Scarlet Pimpernel, Radio City Sinatra, upcoming The Wiz, Caraboo and Waiting for the Moon. Dance/Vocal
Arranging: Sweet Smell of Success, Jekyll & Hyde, Perfectly Frank, The Act, Marilyn: An American Fable, Woman of the
Year, Cabaret. Composing: Superdimensional Microbabes (upcoming anime-based musical), Fourtune (Off-Broadway),
The Silver Swan (NEA Fellowship), three theatrical CDs (The Missing Peace, Early One Morning, Songs I Won’t Be
Singing), two Harvard Hasty Pudding shows (Tots in Tinseltown, Bewitched Bayou), a gospel-based Requiem, and songs
for church, choir, cabaret, and “Saturday Night Live.” Harvard (philosophy), Westminster (choral conducting). Thanks and
love to Alexandra.
KLARA ZIEGLEROVA (Scenic Design). Broadway: Jersey Boys, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe.
Off- Broadway: Wrecks, Controversy (Public Theater), Yellowman (MTC), New York Theatre Workshop), Irish
Repertory Theatre and others. Regional: La Jolla Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse, Dallas Theater Center, Portland Center
Stage, Seattle Rep, Florida Stage, McCarter Theatre, Wilma Theater, Williamstown, Old Globe Theatre, Ahmanson
Theatre and others. International: Saturday Night Fever (Holland), Eden (Cork, Ireland). Interior architecture design:
Dodger Stages, New York. Awards: 2003 Drammy Award for Best Set Design, 2000 Carbonell Award for Best Set
Design; sets for the Best Touring Production, 2003 L.A. Ovation Award. Graduate of Yale School of Drama.
JESS GOLDSTEIN (Costume Design). Selected New York credits include The Apple Tree, Martin Short: Fame
Becomes Me, Lincoln Center’s The Rivals (Tony Award), Julius Caesar with Denzel Washington, Henry IV, Take Me
Out, Enchanted April, Proof, Love! Valour! Compassion!, The Most Happy Fella, Dinner With Friends, How I Learned to
Drive, Buried Child and The Mineola Twins (Lortel and Hewes Awards). Opera: Jack O’Brien’s Il Trittico (Met, 2007);
NYC Opera’s The Pirates of Penzance. Film: A Walk on the Moon, Love! Valour! Compassion! and The Substance of
Fire. Upcoming Broadway: The Homecoming and Cymbeline (at Lincoln Center this fall).
HOWELL BINKLEY (Lighting Design). B’way works include: Xanadu, LoveMusik, Avenue Q, Bridge and Tunnel, Steel
Magnolias, Golda’s Balcony, Hollywood Arms, Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, Minnelli on Minnelli, The Full Monty, Parade,
Kiss of the Spider Woman, Sacrilege, Taking Sides, How to Succeed…, High Society and Grease. Off B’way: Landscape
of the Body, Sinatra at Radio City, Batboy: The Musical and Radiant Baby. The Kennedy Center’s Sondheim Celebration.
Parsons Dance (co-founder), Alvin Ailey, ABT, The Joffrey Ballet (Billboards). Five-time Helen Hayes Award recipient.
1993 Sir Laurence Olivier Award and Canadian Dora for Spider Woman. 2006 Henry Hewes Design Award, 2006 Outer
Critics Circle Award and 2006 Tony Award for Jersey Boys.
STEVE CANYON KENNEDY (Sound Design) was the production engineer on such Broadway shows as Cats, Starlight
Express, Song & Dance, The Phantom of the Opera, Carrie and Aspects of Love. His Broadway sound design credits
include Mary Poppins, The Lion King, Jersey Boys (Drama Desk Award), Billy Crystal’s 700 Sundays, Hairspray, The
Producers, Aida, Titanic, Big, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Carousel and The Who’s Tommy
(Drama Desk Award). Steve is married to actress Loni Ackerman and together they have two sons, Jack and George.
MICHAEL CLARK (Projection Design) designs film and video for live events. Credits include Ring of Fire (Broadway
and Studio Arena Theatre); 700 Sundays (Broadway and La Jolla); Dracula the Musical (Broadway and La Jolla); The
Elephant Man (Broadway); Manon Lescaut (Washington Opera); Allegro, One Red Flower and Hedwig (Signature
Theatre); The Last Five Years (Philadelphia Theate Company); Company, Sunday in the Park With George and Merrily
We Roll Along (Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration); Spider-Man Live (national tour); Music From a Sparkling Planet
(Drama Dept); Aeros (national tour); and Dinner With Friends (ACT).
CHARLES LaPOINTE (Wig/Hair Design). B’way: A Raisin in the Sun, Henry IV, The Rivals, Good Vibrations, Sight
Unseen, The Apple Tree, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, High Fidelity, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Radio Golf, The
Color Purple, Julius Caesar, Xanadu. Regional credits include McCarter, Alliance, American Repertory Theatre,
Huntington Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Hartford Stage and La Jolla Playhouse. Opera credits include Opera
Theatre of St. Louis, Santa Fe Opera, Minnesota Opera, Opera Omaha and Philadelphia Opera Company. Love to James.
STEVE RANKIN (Fight Director) received wide critical praise, as both fight director and actor, in the Tony Award-
winning Lincoln Center Theater production of Henry IV directed by Jack O’Brien. Other Broadway: Dracula the Musical,
Twelfth Night, Two Shakespearean Actors, Anna Christie, The Real Inspector Hound, Getting Away With Murder, The
Who’s Tommy. Off-Broadway: Pig Farm, The Night Hank Williams Died, Below the Belt. As an actor Mr. Rankin can be
seen as Alvin Green on the new series Saving Grace starring Holly Hunter on TNT.
RICHARD HESTER (Production Supervisor). Broadway: Jersey Boys, Gypsy, Sweet Smell of Success, Annie Get Your
Gun, Patti LuPone’s Matters of the Heart, A Delicate Balance, The Old Neighborhood, Titanic, The Phantom of the
Opera, The Red Shoes, The Secret Garden. National tours: Wicked, The Phantom of the Opera, West Side Story.
Regional: Jersey Boys (La Jolla Playhouse). Production supervised Patti LuPone’s national concert appearances.
Cofounder/producer of Broadway Barks! with Bernadette Peters and Mary Tyler Moore.
BJ ALLEN (Production Stage Manager) Broadway: The Runner Stumbles, Little Prince and the Aviator with Michael
York and Anthony Rapp, Merlin with Chita Rivera, Doug Henning & Nathan Lane. Tours: Annie (Original 1st National
Tour), The King and I with Yul Bynner, Cats, Pump Boys and Dinettes (2 tours, Dodgers Production), Mame with Juliet
Prowse. Las Vegas: “O,” Celine Dion’s A New Day…, Sugar Babies with Juliet Prowse & Mickey Rooney, Guys and
Dolls with Jack Jones, Maureen McGovern & Frank Gorshin, Signed, Sealed, Delivered with Peabo Bryson, Melissa
Manchester & Chaka Kahn. Member of Equity since 1975.
MANDY HORAN (Stage Manager) is excited to be a part of the Vegas Company of Jersey Boys. Before joining Jersey
Boys she was stage managing for Cirque du Soleil, for both Mystére and “O.” She is a graduate of Webster University in
St. Louis, MO. Thanks to her parents for their constant support.
DANA VICTORIA ANDERSON (Assistant Stage Manager) Selected regional credits include: Jersey Boys, Private
Fittings, Eden Lane (La Jolla), Third, Speed-the-Plow, Rabbit Hole, The God of Hell (Geffen Playhouse), Love Janis
(ATC), Hank Williams: Lost Highway, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, Working, The Buddy Holly Story, It Ain’t
Nothin But the Blues (San Diego Rep).
STEVE ORICH (Orchestrations) has worked as an Orchestrator, Composer and Musical Director in NY and LA for
more than 25 years, with numerous credits in film, television and theatre. Most recently, he’s written orchestrations for Paint
Your Wagon, 110 in the Shade, Snapshots and Can-Can and he received a Tony nomination for his work on Jersey Boys.
He has orchestrated and conducted albums for artists including Helen Reddy, Judy Kaye, Debbie Gravitte, Petula Clark
and Deborah Gibson, and his orchestrations have been performed by the Boston Pops and at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy
Center, the White House and around the world.
JOHN MILLER (Music Coordinator). Recent Broadway: Xanadu, Les Mis, Grey Gardens, Drowsy Chaperone; Beauty
and the Beast; Hairspray; Coram Boy; Threepenny Opera; Lennon; Sweeney Todd; The Producers; Movin’ Out; Sweet
Charity; Caroline, or Change; Little Shop…; Thoroughly Modern Millie; 42nd Street; Urinetown; Nine; La Bohème; Big
River; Never Gonna Dance; Thou Shalt Not; By Jeeves; Follies; Oklahoma!; Jekyll & Hyde; The Rocky Horror Show;
Seussical; The Music Man; Fosse; Swing!; Kat and the Kings; The Civil War; Triumph of Love. Studio musician (bass):
Michael Jackson, Madonna, Portishead, Eric Clapton, BB King, Sinatra, Carly Simon, Celine Dion, Smashing Pumpkins,
Tommy Flanagan, Pete Seeger, NY Philharmonic.
KEITH THOMPSON (Conductor) Musical Director/Conductor credits include The Producers (Paris, Las Vegas), the
North American premiere of We Will Rock You (Paris, Las Vegas), Hairspray (Luxor), Cabaret (National Tour w/Teri
Hatcher and Lea Thompson, Australian Musical Supervisor, Dora Award winner), Mamma Mia (First National Tour), and
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat with Donny Osmond. His New York credits include Les Misérables,
Tommy, Forbidden Broadway, and When Pigs Fly. Keith’s original comedy/novelty song revue, Kooky Tunes, has
received international acclaim (original cast recording available at Amazon.com). Keith was Vocal Director and Arranger
for Nickelodeon Television’s “RoundHouse.”
PETER FULBRIGHT/TECH PRODUCTION SERVICES (Technical Supervision). Recent Broadway productions and
national tours include Hairspray, Bombay Dreams, 42nd Street, Urinetown, Into the Woods, …Vampires, Dame Edna,
Sixteen Wounded, Anna…Tropics, Enchanted April, Frog and Toad, Life (X) 3, Ma Rainey’s, Elephant Man, Topdog
and Blast!. Peter has supervised more than 70 Broadway productions and national tours. Some favorites include Joseph…,
Guys and Dolls, Starlight Express, Drood, Crazy for You, Swing!, The Rocky Horror Show, The Real Thing, Amadeus,
The Sound of Music, On the Town, …Mattress, …Forum, Smokey Joe’s, Moon Over Buffalo, The Secret Garden,
Singin’ in the Rain and Foxfire.
TARA RUBIN CASTING (Casting). Broadway/Tours: Young Frankenstein, Little Mermaid, Mary Poppins; My Fair
Lady; The Pirate Queen; Les Misérables; The History Boys; Spamalot; …Spelling Bee; The Producers; Mamma Mia!;
Phantom…; Good Vibrations; Bombay Dreams; Oklahoma!; Flower Drum Song; Imaginary Friends; Metamorphoses;
Disney’s On the Record; The Frogs; Contact; Thou Shalt Not; A Man of No Importance. Second Stage, Williamstown,
Kennedy Center, La Jolla, Yale Rep. Film: The Producers.
KELLY DEVINE (Associate Choreographer) Theatre credits include: Wozzeck for the San Diego opera, Private Fittings,
Zhivago (the workshop), all directed by Des McAnuff, Sneaux (LA Weekly Award for Best Choreographer), and
Encounters, a new musical. Films include: Happy Texas, 30 Days Til I’m Famous, BoyChik and Zombie Prom. Kelly
recently was the associate choreographer on The Wiz. Next up is choreographing Bloody Andrew Jackson, a new musical
for CTG in Los Angeles, and Rock of Ages for a New York off-Broadway production.
STEPHEN GABIS (Dialect Coach). B’way: Doubt, Steel Magnolias, Dracula, Taboo, The Boy From Oz, Joe Egg,
“Master Harold”…, Present Laughter, A Doll’s House. Venues: Roundabout, MTC, Playwrights, Atlantic, the New
Group, MCC, the Public, Second Stage, Williamstown,Yale Rep, McCarter, Hartford Stage, Primary Stages, LCT, Long
Wharf, Westport. Film contributions: Million Dollar Baby, Ballad of Bettie Page, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Boys
Don’t Cry.
DODGER THEATRICALS (Producer) is a producing partnership comprising Michael David, Edward Strong, Rocco
Landesman and Des McAnuff. Originated at BAM in1978, migrated to the New York Shakespeare Festival, then off and
on Broadway, where they’ve shared in a host of awards—including 142 Tony nominations and 50 Tony Awads. Current
Broadway: Jersey Boys. Other Broadway: The Farnsworth Invention, 42nd Street, Urinetown, Into the Woods (original
and ‘02), The Music Man, Blast!, Titanic, Dracula, Wrong Mountain, Footloose, Mandy Patinkin, High Society, 1776,
…Forum, The King and I, The Who’s Tommy, Ralph Fiennes’ Hamlet, Guys and Dolls, Once Upon a Mattress, How to
Succeed in Business…, Jelly’s Last Jam, The Secret Garden, Prelude to a Kiss, The Gospel at Colonus, Big River, Pump
Boys and Dinettes. Off Broadway: American premieres of Barrie Keefe's Gimme Shelter, Wolfgang Hildesheimer's Mary
Stuart Other: Drumstruck, Savion Glover Downtown, Royal Court Classics at the Duke of York, UK.
JOSEPH J. GRANO, JR. (Producer) is Chairman/CEO of Centurion Holdings LLC, an advisor to private and public
companies. From 2001-2004, Mr. Grano was Chairman of UBS Financial Services Inc. (formerly PaineWebber). While at
PaineWebber, Mr. Grano chaired the Board of Governors of the National Association of Security Dealers (NASD). In
2002, Mr. Grano was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as the Chairman of the Homeland Security
Advisory Council. He proudly served his country as a Captain in the U.S. Special Forces (Green Berets). Due to his
commitment to education, Mr. Grano received the Corporate Leadership Award from the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship
Fund. Other awards include the USO Gold Medal for Distinguished Service and The Ellis Island Medal of Honor. He is
also a member of the Council for the United States and Italy, a member of both the City University of New York’s
Business Leadership Council and the Board of Directors at Lenox Hill Hospital.
KEVIN AND TAMARA KINSELLA (Producers). Kevin Kinsella has been investing in early-stage technology
companies for more than two decades, primarily through Avalon Ventures, a firm he founded. Among the companies he
founded are Athena Neurosciences, Aurora Biosciences, Landmark Graphics Corporation, Onyx Pharmaceuticals,
Synaptyics, Senomyx, Vertex Pharmaceuticals and Vocera Communications. He is a Life Sustaining Fellow at MIT, a
member of Johns Hopkins SAIS Dean’s Advisory Counsel and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Both
lifelong environmentalists and outdoor enthusiasts, Kevin met Tamara in Alaska during the Exxon Valdez oil spill cleanup.
They both have been active supporting the La Jolla Playhouse and the San Diego Museum of Art. Jersey Boys is their first
Broadway show. Mr. Kinsella’s father, Walter A. Kinsella, was a career actor on Broadway, radio television and cinema.
He first appeared on Broadway in 1924 in What Price Glory?
THE PELICAN GROUP (Producer), a San Diego production company, is enthusiastic about supporting this production of
Jersey Boys. The Group, assembled by Ivor and Colette Royston, consists of Todd and Debby Buchholz, Edward and
Martha Dennis, Eric and Marsi Gardiner, Cam and Wanda Garner, Richard and Patricia Harmetz, Irwin and Joan Jacobs,
Hal and Debby Jacobs, Paul and Stacy Jacobs, Jeff and Deni Jacobs, John and Angie Longenecker, Rao Makineni,
Nevins and Margaret McBride, Ray Mirra, Shearn Platt, Edward Richard, Drew and Noni Senyei, Steven Strauss and
Lise Wilson. Mr. Royston co-produced the TV film “Dreams of Gold: The Mel Fisher Story” (w/ Cliff Robertson and
Loretta Swit, 1986) and the feature film Soultaker (1990).
BASE ENTERTAINMENT (Presenter/Producer) develops, produces and manages intellectual properties generated from
live entertainment which may reach audiences through various live, digital, broadcast and other platforms. In addition to
JERSEY BOYS, BASE’s current production activity includes Phantom – The Las Vegas Spectacular and Wayne Brady:
Making It Up at The Venetian Resort-Hotel-Casino, STOMP OUT LOUD at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino,
Defending the Caveman at the Golden Nugget and Cirque du Soleil’s new holiday show Wintuk, which premiered at the
Theater at Madison Square Garden (NYC) in Winter 2007. In Fall 2006, BASE produced Martin Short: Fame Becomes
Me on Broadway. In addition, BASE operates the Showroom and The Theatre for the Performing Arts at the Planet
Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. BASE Entertainment’s founders include industry veterans Brian Becker, Scott
Zeiger, and private equity firm Clarity Partners.
LATITUDE LINK (Producer) has been a supporter of the performing arts for many years. They are especially thankful to
the Four Seasons for a compelling story, to Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice for putting it to paper and to Des McAnuff
and La Jolla Playhouse for bringing it to the stage.
RICK STEINER (Producer) Of the eleven Broadway musicals Rick has co-produced, Jersey Boys, Hairspray, The
Producers and Big River won Tony Awards for Best Musical. In 1954, at age eight, Rick made his stage debut opposite
Gene Lockhart in On Borrowed Time and then promptly retired. Rick has won six poker championships including the 1992
World Series of Poker 7- Stud Hi-Lo event. He resides in Cincinnati, Ohio with his children Ace and Duke and sits on the
ownership bench of his beloved Cincinnati Reds.
LAUREN MITCHELL (Associate Producer). As producer, on Broadway: Urinetown, Into the Woods (‘02 revival),
Wrong Mountain, High Society. Off- Broadway: Barbra’s Wedding, Bare. As actress, on Broadway: The Boys From
Syracuse, Me and My Girl, Nine, Annie, City of Angels (L.A.), Into the Woods (original cast and PBS American
Playhouse) and numerous Off-Broadway, regional, television and concert appearances.
LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE (Original Producer) has received more than 300 awards for theatre excellence, including the
1993 Tony Award as America’s Outstanding Regional Theatre. Located in La Jolla, California, the Playhouse is nationally
acclaimed for its innovative productions of classics, new plays and musicals. Led by Christopher Ashley, Artistic Director;
Steven B. Libman, Managing Director; Shirley Fishman, Associate Artistic Director and Des McAnuff, Director Emeritus,
the Playhouse was founded in 1947 by Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire and Mel Ferrer. More than 30 Playhouse
productions have moved to Broadway, garnering 23 Tony Awards, including Big River, The Who’s Tommy, How to
Succeed in Business…,Thoroughly Modern Millie, Billy Crystal’s 700 Sundays and the Pulitzer Prize-winning I Am My
Own Wife, fostered as part of the Playhouse’s Page To Stage New Play Development Program. Visit www.
lajollaplayhouse.org.
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