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Who’s Who
JEFFREY SMALL (Associate Lighting Designer) the world in the Broadway musical, I Can Get
returns to Pittsburgh CLO for his sixth summer it for You Wholesale, only to provide her with
season! Selected Regional: Paper Mill Playhouse, the script for one of her biggest box-office hits,
Westport Country Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre "The Way We Were" a decade later. Less than five
Festival, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Goodspeed years later, he followed with the screenplay for
Musicals, Asolo Rep, Long Wharf Theatre, Cincinnati the Oscar-nominated film, "The Turning Point"
(1977), and in 1983 directed the Broadway
Playhouse in the Park, The Pittsburgh Public
Theatre, and City Theatre Company. Live Events: smash hit La Cage Aux Folles.
“The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade,” “New Year’s
Eve in Times Square.” TV: Comedy Central’s “Night JULE STYNE (Music) wrote the score for Gypsy
of Too Many Stars” (2015), NBC’s “Peter Pan Live!” after Ethel Merman, who collaborated with the
producers and starred in the musical, only had
ALICIA REECE (Assistant Stage Manager) Now him in mind. With the scores of such Broadway
entering her fifth Summer with Pittsburgh CLO, classics as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Peter Pan,
“Lish” spends her “off-season,” as the Stage
Bells Are Ringing and Funny Girl to his credit,
Manager for the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre. Originally Styne ranks as one of the undisputed architects
from Illinois, and having worked extensively in of the American musical theater. Styne's
regional theatre, Off-Broadway, and international collaboration credits include: Betty Comden and
touring, she is proud to now call Pittsburgh home. Adolph Green, Stephen Sondheim, Bob Merrill,
Shout out to the amazing tech staff. Love and Leo Robin and E.Y. Harburg, and their combined
thanks to “Jacquie!” efforts have produced such showstoppers as
"The Party's Over," "Everything's Coming Up
MARK A. STYS (Assistant Stage Manager ) This is Roses," "People" and "Diamonds Are A Girl's
Mark’s 4 year with Pittsburgh CLO! Selected Credits: Best Friend." He was elected to the Songwriters
th
Broadway: Honeymoon in Vegas, Big Fish, Act One, Hall of Fame in 1972, the Theatre Hall of Fame
Newsies . Paper Mill Playhouse: Oliver! , Disney’s The in 1981 and became a Kennedy Center Honoree
Little Mermaid, The Sound of Music, A Chorus Line. in 1990.
Events: “Time Square New Years Eve Celebration”
2014 and 2015, “A Night of SeriousFun Celebrating STEPHEN SONDHEIM (Lyrics) was asked by
the Legacy of Paul Newman.” director Jerome Robbins, who had worked with
him on the musical West Side Story, to write
TELSEY + COMPANY (Casting ) Broadway/Tours: the lyrics for Gypsy. His best-known works as
On Your Feet!, Hamilton, Something Rotten!, An composer and lyricist include: A Funny Thing
American in Paris, Finding Neverland, The King and Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company,
I, Hand to God, Kinky Boots, Wicked, If/Then, The Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd,
Sound of Music, Newsies, Pippin, Motown, Rock Sunday in the Park with George and Into the
of Ages, Million Dollar Quartet. Film: “Ricki and Woods. Sondheim has received an Academy
the Flash,” “Focus,” “The Last Five Years,” “Song Award; eight Tony Awards® (more than any other
One,” “A Most Violent Year,” “Into the Woods .” TV: composer, including a Special Tony Award® for
“Flesh and Bone,” “Masters of Sex,” commercials. Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre); eight
www.telseyandco.com Grammy Awards; a Pulitzer Prize and the
Laurence Olivier Award. He is described by Frank
ARTHUR LAURENTS (Book) was approached by Rich of The New York Times as "now the greatest
David Merrick and Leland Hayward, producers and perhaps best-known artist in the American
of the musical, to write the book. Laurents was musical theater."
considered by many as a prolific stage director
and screenwriter, whose additional credits
include the books for the musical, West Side
Story (1957) and the screenplay for "The Way
We Were" (1973). In the early 1960s, Laurents
introduced a then-unknown Barbra Streisand to
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JEFFREY SMALL (Associate Lighting Designer) the world in the Broadway musical, I Can Get
returns to Pittsburgh CLO for his sixth summer it for You Wholesale, only to provide her with
season! Selected Regional: Paper Mill Playhouse, the script for one of her biggest box-office hits,
Westport Country Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre "The Way We Were" a decade later. Less than five
Festival, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Goodspeed years later, he followed with the screenplay for
Musicals, Asolo Rep, Long Wharf Theatre, Cincinnati the Oscar-nominated film, "The Turning Point"
(1977), and in 1983 directed the Broadway
Playhouse in the Park, The Pittsburgh Public
Theatre, and City Theatre Company. Live Events: smash hit La Cage Aux Folles.
“The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade,” “New Year’s
Eve in Times Square.” TV: Comedy Central’s “Night JULE STYNE (Music) wrote the score for Gypsy
of Too Many Stars” (2015), NBC’s “Peter Pan Live!” after Ethel Merman, who collaborated with the
producers and starred in the musical, only had
ALICIA REECE (Assistant Stage Manager) Now him in mind. With the scores of such Broadway
entering her fifth Summer with Pittsburgh CLO, classics as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Peter Pan,
“Lish” spends her “off-season,” as the Stage
Bells Are Ringing and Funny Girl to his credit,
Manager for the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre. Originally Styne ranks as one of the undisputed architects
from Illinois, and having worked extensively in of the American musical theater. Styne's
regional theatre, Off-Broadway, and international collaboration credits include: Betty Comden and
touring, she is proud to now call Pittsburgh home. Adolph Green, Stephen Sondheim, Bob Merrill,
Shout out to the amazing tech staff. Love and Leo Robin and E.Y. Harburg, and their combined
thanks to “Jacquie!” efforts have produced such showstoppers as
"The Party's Over," "Everything's Coming Up
MARK A. STYS (Assistant Stage Manager ) This is Roses," "People" and "Diamonds Are A Girl's
Mark’s 4 year with Pittsburgh CLO! Selected Credits: Best Friend." He was elected to the Songwriters
th
Broadway: Honeymoon in Vegas, Big Fish, Act One, Hall of Fame in 1972, the Theatre Hall of Fame
Newsies . Paper Mill Playhouse: Oliver! , Disney’s The in 1981 and became a Kennedy Center Honoree
Little Mermaid, The Sound of Music, A Chorus Line. in 1990.
Events: “Time Square New Years Eve Celebration”
2014 and 2015, “A Night of SeriousFun Celebrating STEPHEN SONDHEIM (Lyrics) was asked by
the Legacy of Paul Newman.” director Jerome Robbins, who had worked with
him on the musical West Side Story, to write
TELSEY + COMPANY (Casting ) Broadway/Tours: the lyrics for Gypsy. His best-known works as
On Your Feet!, Hamilton, Something Rotten!, An composer and lyricist include: A Funny Thing
American in Paris, Finding Neverland, The King and Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company,
I, Hand to God, Kinky Boots, Wicked, If/Then, The Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd,
Sound of Music, Newsies, Pippin, Motown, Rock Sunday in the Park with George and Into the
of Ages, Million Dollar Quartet. Film: “Ricki and Woods. Sondheim has received an Academy
the Flash,” “Focus,” “The Last Five Years,” “Song Award; eight Tony Awards® (more than any other
One,” “A Most Violent Year,” “Into the Woods .” TV: composer, including a Special Tony Award® for
“Flesh and Bone,” “Masters of Sex,” commercials. Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre); eight
www.telseyandco.com Grammy Awards; a Pulitzer Prize and the
Laurence Olivier Award. He is described by Frank
ARTHUR LAURENTS (Book) was approached by Rich of The New York Times as "now the greatest
David Merrick and Leland Hayward, producers and perhaps best-known artist in the American
of the musical, to write the book. Laurents was musical theater."
considered by many as a prolific stage director
and screenwriter, whose additional credits
include the books for the musical, West Side
Story (1957) and the screenplay for "The Way
We Were" (1973). In the early 1960s, Laurents
introduced a then-unknown Barbra Streisand to
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