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Past productions

Parade

A new musical
Creative Team
Book: Alfred Uhry
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Alfred Uhry has won the Triple Crown – Pulitzer Prize, Academy Award and Tony Award. His books include: musical version of Eudora Welty’s The Robber Bridegroom – 1976 Tony Award nomination, Parade – Tony Award.
Plays include: Driving Miss Daisy (his first play) – Pulitzer Prize, The Last Night of Ballyhoo – 1997 Tony Award for Best Play (commissioned by the Cultural Olympiad for the Atlanta Olympics).

Music & Lyrics: Jason Robert Brown
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As Composer and Lyricist: The Last Five Years – Time Magazine’s 10 Best of 2001, Drama Desk Awards for Best Music and Best Lyrics (UK premiere at Menier Chocolate Factory, 2006), Parade – Tony Award for Best Score, Drama Desk, NY Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Musical, Songs for a New World (more than 200 international productions, UK premiere at the Bridewell, 2001).

Co-Conceived: Harold Prince
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Directing credits include: Cabaret, the original Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music, The Phantom of the Opera, She Loves Me, Company, Follies, Candide, Pacific Overtures, Evita, Parade and LoveMusik.

Director and Choreographer: Rob Ashford
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For the Donmar: Guys and Dolls – Olivier Award nomination (Piccadilly).
Theatre: as Choreographer on Broadway: Curtains – Tony Award nomination, The Wedding Singer – Tony Award nomination, Thoroughly Modern Millie – 2002 Tony Award. In the West End: Evita – Olivier Award nomination, Thoroughly Modern Millie – Olivier Award nomination, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Once in a Lifetime (NT).

Designer: Christopher Oram
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For the Donmar: Frost/Nixon (also West End & Broadway), Guys and Dolls (Piccadilly), Don Juan in Soho, Grand Hotel – The Musical, Henry IV, World Music, Caligula – 2003 Evening Standard Award for Best Design, The Vortex, Privates on Parade, Merrily We Roll Along, Passion Play, Good, The Bullet.

Lighting Designer: Neil Austin
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For the Donmar: John Gabriel Borkman, Don Juan in Soho, Frost/Nixon – 2007 Outer Critics’ Circle Award nomination for Outstanding Lighting Design on Broadway (also West End & Broadway), The Cryptogram, The Wild Duck, Caligula, After Miss Julie, Henry IV, World Music, The Cosmonaut’s Last Message.

Musical Director: Thomas Murray
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For the Donmar: Pacific Overtures – 2003 Olivier Award.
Other theatre: The Last Five Years (New York – world premiere, London), The Glorious Ones (Ahrens/Flaherty – world premiere), Loving Repeating (Stephen Flaherty – world premiere), Parade (US national tour), Saturday Night (US premiere).

Sound Designers: Terry Jardine and Nick Lidster
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Terry Jardine - For the Donmar: Grand Hotel, Guys and Dolls – Olivier Award nomination (Piccadilly), co-designed Guys and Dolls with Chris Full (UK tour). Terry was appointed Group Managing Director of Autograph, 2000.

Nick Lidster - For the Donmar: Pacific Overtures – 2004 Olivier Award nomination, Divas at the Donmar (two seasons). In 1991 Nick joined Autograph Sound Recording.

Orchestrator: David Cullen
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Based on original orchestrations by DON SEBESKY and JASON ROBERT BROWN.
David Cullen is known as a keyboard player, composer, record producer, arranger and also as an orchestrator of musicals.
As orchestrator: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats, Starlight Express, Song & Dance, Aspects of Love, Sunset Boulevard.