Golf: The Musical

Aaron	AARON DAVIS Having traveled the North East with GOLF: The Musical, Aaron is now excited to join the Off-Broadway cast! New York Theater: Critical Mass (Stefano Donato) A Dream About Sunflowers, (Jerry), Troubador (Leo), Love of a Pig (mailman/others), Esther: Queen of Persia (Lead u/s), Kiss me Kate (Hortensio). Australia and New Zealand Theater: Secret Garden (Dr. Craven), The Who's Tommy (Australian Premier, Capt. Walker), Godspell (Jesus), Diamond Eye (World Premier, Tim), Les Miserables (Jean Val Jean). New Zealand Opera (ensemble roles): Rigoletto, Don Giovanni, Death of Klinghoffer, Carmen. Nominated for outstanding actor in a featured role in A Dream About Sunflowers, 2010 Planet Connections Festivity Awards. aarondavishome.com
Tom	TOM GAMBLIN is thrilled to be playing another round with the foursome known as GOLF THE MUSICAL. Played Santa for 9 seasons in THE RADIO CITY CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR in Denver, Detroit, and Los Angeles. Erik Satie in THE FARTISTE at the NY Fringe Festival where it won Best Musical. 1st National Tour of TITANIC played Jim Farrell, u/s Barrett; Dustin, Poppa & Greaseball in STARLIGHT EXPRESS in Las Vegas and Germany. JP Morgan, u/s Father, Dance Captain in RAGTIME at Paper Mill Playhouse, NJ; FDR in ANNIE at Carousel Dinner Theater, OH. This one is for dad.
Lyn	LYN PHILISTINE: Lyn recently played Rona Lisa Peretti in Spelling Bee and is excited to be putting once again with Golf: The Musical. She co-starred in the Off-Broadway play My Secret Garden and created the role of "La Goulue" in the NY Fringe Festival production of The Fartiste (Best Musical Award). Broadway/National Tours: Gypsy starring Bernadette Peters, Monty Python's Spamalot (Lady of the Lake), Cinderella starring Eartha Kitt, Disney's On the Record. NYC/Regional credits include: Oliver! (Nancy), Sugar Babies (Soubrette, Best Actress Nom), A Chorus Line (Cassie), Jesus Christ Superstar (Mary), Crazy for You (Irene), Annie (Lily St. Regis), Swing! (Laura). Graduate of Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. Love to my amazing husband Christopher.
Brian	BRIAN RUNBECK Brian Runbeck is always happy to dust off his clubs for another round of Golf: The Musical. Brian has appeared at Off-Broadway theatres and at regional theatres such as Geva Theatre, Tennessee Rep, Arkansas Rep, Barter Theatre, Phoenix Theatre, Mill Mountain and Cortland Rep. Recent credits include Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (Oscar Wilde – 2010 S.A.L.T. Award as Best Actor), How the Other Half Loves (Frank Foster – 2009 AriZoni Award as Best Actor), The Full Monty (Harold), Crazy for You (Zangler), and a 10-week tour of Japan, singing Disney music with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also appeared on television on America's Most Wanted, Law & Order, and Oz.
Christopher	CHRISTOPHER SUTTON: Christopher originated this role in the NY production of Golf: The Musical. He created the title role in Flight of the Lawnchair Man (Outstanding Actor Award), and played the role of Prince Herbert/Not Dead Fred in the 1st national tour of Monty Python's Spamalot for over 1,200 performances under the direction of Mike Nichols. A three-time Barrymore Award Nominee for Outstanding Performance in Blood Brothers (Mickey) and Singin' in the Rain (Don), he received the Barrymore Award for Buddy:The Buddy Holly Story, and is a recipient of the Sudler National Prize in the Arts. NYC/Regional: I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, The It Girl, Me and My Girl (Bill), Carousel (Billy), Of Mice and Men (George), Desire Under the Elms (Eben), The Sea Gull (Treplyev), Henry IV Part I (Prince Henry). To Lynnie, for her love and laughter...
	BRIAN WESTMORELAND: (Stage Manager) Brian Westmoreland (Production Stage Manager) Broadway: Phantom of the Opera, A Doll's House, Juan Darien. Pre-Broadway Tours: Annie Warbucks and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Off-Broadway: For Lovers Only, Forbidden Broadway (Rude Awakening and S.V.U. editions), Wanda's World, Back From The Front, Magpie, Nancy Friday's My Secret Garden, Broadway Kids Sing Broadway, Hard Feelings, Moonshine, Inky, Disconnect and TAILS. Dance: Dance Theatre of Harlem, Eliot Feld's Ballet Tech and Connecticut Ballet. Other credits include Train to 2010, Putting It Together, It Ain't Nothing But The Blues, The Colored Museum, It Happened In Little Rock, Imagine Tap!, The King And I(National Tour), Fiddler on the Roof, Cole, Richard Maltby Jr's The Sixties Project and the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 2005 and 2006 U.S. Open. Brian is a graduate of UCLA.
(Back to Top)	SC CAST
Tishala	TISHALA MARTINAL: Originally from New Mexico where she performed at Eastern New Mexico University, Tishala starred in the Theatre of the Republic production of "Nine" as well as "Oliver" and has been in "Steel Magnolias", "Autobahn" and "Miracle Worker".
Noreen	NOREEN O'REILLY: A New York native, Noreen has sung with the Long Island Philharmonic and is in high demand as a soloist since moving to the Grand Strand. She has performed in the Carolina Master Chorale and the Theatre of the Republic where she won a Torry Award as "Eliza Doolittle" in "My Fair Lady".
Austin	AUSTIN PERRY: Austin is a member of National Dance Alliance while pursuing a Performing Arts degree. He has performed in "Into The Woods" and "Urinetown" and been featured in "High Steppin' Country" for the past 7 years.
Jody	JODY WATTS: An outstanding local performer, Jody has had starring roles in many Theatre of the Republic, NCSE and Lost Colony presentations including: "Carolina Pirates"; "Noises Off"; "Nine"; and "Jesus Christ Superstar". His dream role is Anne Rice's "Lestat".
Karen	KAREN DONALDSON: (understudy) An opening act for such artists as Trace Atkins and Ricky Van Shelton, Karen is from Danville, Virginia. She currently impersonates Dolly Parton, Nancy Sinatra and Ellie May Clampett right here in the Starlight room in "Dino's TV Variety Show".
Mike	MICHAEL MARTINAL: (understudy) Mike has had starring roles in several shows at TOR like "King and I", "Annie" and "Oliver". He is a "shoe in" for every bald guy role. Mike is the father of 2 incredibly good-looking kids and the owner of 1 small residential cleaning business.
	WAYNE CANADY: (Director)
Kraig	KRAIG MCBROOM: (Musical Director)
	RICHARD ALLMOND: (Show Manager)
(Back to Top)	WESTERN CAST
Becky	BECKY SAUNDERS: Regional credits include: Theater 4301 AZ: Always…Patsy Cline; Sierra Repertory Theatre: Honky Tonk Angels, Sweet Charity, Arsenic And Old Lace, Oklahoma, Noises Off, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Something's Afoot, Don't Dress For Dinner, The Odd Couple (Female and Male); South Coast Repertory: East Of The Sun, West Of The Moon; University of Mississippi: Festival Of Southern Theatre, Walkin' After Midnight; Black Friar's - San Diego: State Of The Art Heart; The Vanguard Theatre: The Shadow Box; Long Beach Studio Theatre: I'm Getting My Act Together And Taking It On The Road; National Tour: Bye Bye Birdie; Film/Television: "The Tool Box Murders II" and many industrials and commercials.
Tyler	TYLER SERVICE is excited to be doing golf the musical once more and this time in his home town. Tyler has appeared in many shows around the valley including "A Christmas Carol" at actors theatre where he played middle scrooge, Disney's Beauty and the Beast, The Wizard of Oz twice (tinman and scarecrow) Titanic and The Secret Garden both of which earned him ariZoni awards. Tyler has been a proud member of actors equity for 3 years. he would like to thank his parents for their constent support his inlaws for allowing him to marry their beautiful daughter and his wife Teresa for her love and strenght I Love You!
Cydney	CYDNEY TRENT: Regional credits include: 42nd Street (Peggy Sawyer), Dames At Sea (Ruby), A Chorus Line (Maggie), Oklahoma (Ado Annie), and Into The Woods (Cinderella), to name just a few. She has also been seen performing on the Disney Cruise Line and can be heard as the voice of the newest Veggie Tales animated character, Princess Petunia.
(Back to Top)	ORIGINAL CAST
Joel	JOEL BLUM: Drama Desk Award nominee for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical for Golf: The Musical. Broadway: Music Man, A Christmas Carol, Steel Pier (Tony nomination Best Supporting Actor), Show Boat (Tony nomination Best Supporting Actor), Stardust, 42^nd Street (original company), Debbie Reynolds On Broadway. Off-Broadway: Game Show, .and the World Goes 'Round. Tours: World Goes 'Round and Durante (L.A. Drama Logue Award for both), Show Boat (London). Regional: Guys and Dolls (Lead, Missouri Rep.), Tin Pan Alley Rag ( Barrymore Award, Best Supporting Actor, Wilma Theater Pa.) and much more. TV: episodes of "Law and Order" and "Ed," NBC. "The Sopranos," HBO.
Trisha	TRISHA RAPIER: Memorable roles: numerous impersonations in Forbidden Broadway/ Forbidden Hollywood, Eva Peron- Evita, Mrs.Walker (u/s), Tommy National Tour, Ellen- Miss Saigon, Pattie- Smokey Joe's Café, Audrey- Little Shop of Horrors, Adelaide- Guys and Dolls, Agnes- Agnes of God, Clorinda- Il Combatimento di Tancredi e Clorinda Monteverdi Opera and Mabel- Pirates of Penzance. Off-Broadway: Awards: Spotlight Award of the Los Angeles Music Center for Best Jazz/Pop vocalist and The Carol Burnette Award. UCLA Graduate.
Christopher	CHRISTOPHER SUTTON: New York credits include I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change and The It Girl. A three-time Barrymore Award Nominee for Outstanding Performance by a Leading Actor in Blood Brothers (Mickey) and Singin ' in the Rain (Don), Christopher received the 2000 Barrymore Award for The Buddy Holly Story (Buddy) and is a recipient of the Louis B. Sudler National Prize in the Arts. Regional credits include: Me and My Girl (Bill), Carousel (Billy), The Sea Gull (Treplyev), Henry IV Part I (Hal). All my love to Lynnie.
	BRENDA ARKO: (Production Stage Manager) Off-Broadway: Little Ham, True Love (sub). Showcases: Last Train to Nibroc, Waiting for Godot, Starmites 2001, A Lady Named Jo, Disgruntled Employees. Readings: Stormy Weather and Zanna, Don't! for Amas Musical Theatre, Eurydice for The Actor's Company Theatre. Tours: The Jazz Singer (Jazz Productions) and Theatreworks USA. Stage Managed Sight Unseen at Brown University for their 100th Anniversary Alumni Production. Thanks to Mom, Fred and Goo.
	BABETTE ROBERTS: (Stage Manager) Broadway: The Lion King, Bring in 'Da Noise / Bring in 'Da Funk (with Savion Glover), The Christmas Carol (with Tony Randall, Hal Linden, Roddy McDowell), The Real Thing (with Jennifer Ehle), The Gospel at Colonus (with Charles S. Dutton). Off-Broadway: Jesus Hopped the "A" Train (directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman), Bash (with Calista Flockheart), Rounding Third (with Matthew Arkin & Robert Clohessey). Special Projects: Hearst Magazines: Management Conference (with Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York), Hearst Magazines: Mind, Body, Soul Conference (with Melissa Etheridge), Smothers Brothers / Blues Brothers Concert at the Denver Pepsi Center, Laughing Liberally at Town Hall. Upcoming Project: The Gospel at Colonus at the Vienna Theatre Festival.
	JAKE WITLEN: (Stage Manager) Jake is very happy to be "playing around" with this company. Credits include, Broadway: Bells are Ringing, Off-Broadway: The Odyssey (with Derek Walcott), King Without a Castle (dir. Michael John Garcés), Suicide Bomber and work at Ensemble Studio Theatre. Directing credits include: Race (Ferdinand Bruckner), The Woman in Black, The Winter's Tale (AD), Six Degrees of Separation (AD) et al. He holds a BFA from Marymount Manhattan College.
(Back to Top)	MUSICIANS
	KEN LUNDIE: (Musical Director/Pianist) is currently the MD of the new Off-B'way hit Dietrich and Chevalier. Ken and Christopher Scott also collaborated on last years Off-B'way success For Lovers Only. On B'way, Ken has played for hundreds of auditions including Titanic, Jekyll and Hyde and The Lion King. Ken appeared on stage in the original B'way cast of Crazy For You, the first national tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and was the Musical Supervisor for B'ways infamous Moose Murders starring Eve Arden. Ken served as Associate Musical Director for the acclaimed Lone Star Love, Jimmy Buffett's Don't Stop The Carnival and toured Europe with Black and Blue. While in Hollywood, Ken appeared with Dolly Parton in the film Best Little Whorehouse In Texas and with Mae West in Sextette. Ken has been with Radio City Productions since 1999 and was honored to perform at the White House for the Clintons' 52nd Inaugural Celebration with Carol Channing, Tyne Daly and Lauren Bacall.
	RACHEL KAUFMAN:(Music Director/Pianist), a Brooklyn native, is a multi-instrumentalist who has music directed and/or played for nearly 200 musicals and cabaret shows all over the world, and has performed in a wild variety of venues, ranging from playing Gospel piano in a Baptist church in Chicago, to playing trombone in the Labor Day Parade on Fifth Avenue. She can also be seen playing for auditions, classes, in swing bands, at piano bars, and for improv comedy groups throughout NYC. Rachel is thrilled to be "playing golf" again - she first played for it at the Meadowbrook Theater in Michigan & has done it in various other places since. She has played for such Broadway greats as Ann Reinking, Lillias White, Chuck Cooper, Kristen Chenoweth, Victoria Clark, and Donna Murphy, just to name a few, and holds a B.A. in Music (and Russian!) from the University of Chicago.
Andria	ANDRIA FENNIG (Piano) is a recent doctoral graduate of Arizona State University with a degree in piano performance. Classically trained, Ms. Fennig has had numerous musical theater experiences as both local and touring keyboardist for national tours of King and I, Phantom of the Opera, and Saturday Night Fever. She performs and musically directs several performance at theaters around the Arizona.
(Back to Top)	CREATIVE TEAM
Michael	MICHAEL ROBERTS: (Book/ Music/ Lyrics) Michael Roberts is the author, composer and lyricist of the hit Off-Broadway comedy GOLF: The Musical. His new show, The Fartiste, won the award for Best Musical at the 2006 Fringe NYC Festival, and will be opening Off-Broadway in the 2010-2011 season. Another musical, again with Fartiste collaborator Charlie Schulman, is My American Family. The show was produced in 2010 at American University, and was subsequently presented in concert at NYC's Abindgon Theater in a cast that featured Stephanie J Block. Michael's Thanks for the Memories, a one-man show about Bob Hope featuring two-time Tony-nominee Joel Blum, received its premiere at The Prairie Theater in 2006. He was, for fifteen years, the lyricist and music director for The Broadway Kids, which had a successful run at The Lambs Theater in 2005-2006, and returned to Off-Broadway at New World Stages in December, 2008. He has also composed the incidental music for 2007's My Secret Garden at New York's 45th Street Theater and arranged incidental music for the Off-Broadway hit Jewtopia. He composed the score and designed the sound for The Storm Theater's production of The Tidings Brought to Mary. Michael's music for the screen includes independent films, documentaries and features, including Tri-Star's Love Walked In, starring Dennis Leary, and the multiple-award-winning Lemonade Stand. His music for television includes ABC-TV, CNN, ESPN, The Golf Channel, and Bravo, as well as four seasons as a composer for the Emmy-Award-Winning sitcom Remember WENN. As a music director, he has collaborated with Donna Murphy, Rupert Holmes, Leslie Gore, Hinton Battle, Stephanie Mills, Peter Noone, Bobby Sherman, Joan Rivers, and The Capitol Steps, as well as numerous stage productions.
	CHRISTOPHER SCOTT: (Director) A graduate of the Boston Conservatory, Christopher Scott has been working in New York's professional theater for over fifteen years. He began his career acting on and off Broadway in productions of Meet Me in St. Louis (Broadway), The Fantastiks! (Off-Broadway), and with the New Voices Theatre Ensemble at Synchronicity Space in Soho. Other acting roles were in major revivals of Bent and Twilight of the Golds. For many seasons he was a director for Theatreworks/USA, AMSA Musical Theatre and NYSUs Collaborative Arts Project CAP 21 Studio, where he served on the faculty. Mr. Scott also directed and conceived the original Off-Broadway production and subsequent tour of The Broadway Kids.
	JAMES JOUGHIN: (Set Designer) most recent credits include Comedy Central ("Crank Yankers"), The Jim Henson Company ("The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss") and Oxygen Media. James also designs scenery for Marie Claire Magazine industrial video and trade shows. James has designed more traditional fare at The One Dream and Hudson Guild theaters, but who wants to hear about that? James is pleased to be working with Mr. Krebs and this team for the first time, and is also delighted to have been asked to be part of making Mr. Roberts' excellent musical a reality. (Joughin is a Manx name that, roughly translated, means 'thieving son of a deacon'.)
	BERNARD GRENIER: (Costume Designer) Most recently, Bernard designed costumes for the Off-Broadway production of Little Ham at The John Houseman Theater Center, which garnered him a 2002 American Theatre Wing Hewes Design Award nomination for Best Costumes. Also recently, the National Dance Institute's production of Romeo & Juliet, directed and choreographed by Jacques D'Amboise, the 30th anniversary revival of Godspell, the Off-Broadway production of Maybe Baby It's you at the SoHo Playhouse and Poona at the Ohio Theater. Bernard has also recently worked as a design associate with William Ivey Long on two productions: City Center's Encore production of Wonderful Town, starring Donna Murphy, and Lincoln Center's Benefit performance of South Pacific at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, starring George Hearn, Karen Ziemba and Bill Murray.
	AARON SPIVEY: (Lighting Designer) is happy to be working on Golf, even though he has never played. New York lighting design credits include Four Guys Named Jose, Off-Broadway and for AMAS Musical Theatre. Also for AMAS: From My Home Town and Starmites. Other New York credits include Elle for the Art Party, King Lear for the Aulis collective, The Naked Earth for Yangtze Rep, A Midsummer Night's Dream for the Blue Heron Theatre, Waiting for Godot at the Actors' Institute, and Associate Designer for Chess in concert at the New Amsterdam. Regional credits include Four Guys Named Jose at the Actors' Playhouse in Miami, Mame at the Helen Hayes Performing Arts Center, Little Shop of Horrors, and Beautiful Dreamer at Cherry County Playhouse, Joseph, and My One and Only at Carousel Dinner Theatre.
	STEPHANIE KLAPPER: (Casting Director) has cast for television, film, Broadway, Off-Broadway and regional theaters around the country. Some recent New York credits include: the Broadway production of Bells Are Ringing, and It Ain't Nothin' But The Blues, and Off-Broadway's The Last Sunday in June; The Unexpected Man, and the Pulitzer Prize winning Dinner With Friends as well as: for Primary Stages: Romola & Nijinsky; One Million Butterflies; The Fourth Wall; Call The Children Home; One Shot, One Kill; An Empty Plate at The Café Du Grande Boeuf; and An Immaculate Misconception. Recent regional theatres worked with are: The Long Wharf Theatre, Delaware Theater Company, Capital Repertory Theatre, The Alley Theatre, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Riverside Theatre, The Hangar Theatre, Adirondack Theatre Festival, The New Theatre, Vermont Stage Company, and Actor's Theatre of Louisville. Current projects include: Terrence McNally's The Stendahl Syndrome, Tea at Five, the international tour of West Side Story; and Charles Grodin's new play, The Right Kind of People (Julian Schlossberg, producer). Ms. Klapper is a member of the Casting Society of America.
	GEOFF COHEN: (General Manager) Recent work includes producing Jay Alan Zimmerman's Incredibly Deaf Musical (The Duke Theatre (NY); L'Histoire de Soldat with Hopeful Monsters at the Boston Symphony; GRAMMY JAM NYC with the GRAMMY NYC Chapter; The Velveteen Rabbit on a National Tour; Cross That River (TBG Theatre); Gemini the Musical (Acorn Theatre); Production Managing and Speech Writing for the 2007 Honors Awards for the New York office of the GRAMMY'S. Geoff co-founded and Executive Produced the award-winning New York Musical Theatre Festival in 2004 and 2005, and also co-produced the Unzipped Concert Series in 2005. He has worked as a Vice President for Radio City Entertainment, where he produced and general managed the Menken/Ahrens/Ockrent production of A Christmas Carol and general managed The Wizard of OZ in New York and on tour. He was also an Associate Producer for Minnelli on Minnelli on Broadway and for the cast albums of The Wizard of Oz (GRAMMY-nominated) and The Radio City Christmas Spectacular. Prior to joining Radio City Entertainment, Geoff was General Manager of the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, NJ; General Manager of the George Street Playhouse for Producer Eric Krebs; Company Manager for the World Premiere of Fugard's Master Harold…and the boys. Geoff earned a degree in Theatre Administration from the Yale School of Drama where he was honored to have studied with Ben Mordecai and Lloyd Richards.
	DAVID GERSTEN: (Press Representative) David Gersten has worked as press representative on Broadway and off for almost twenty years. Among his favorite Broadway productions are the American premiere of Noel Coward’s Waiting in the Wings (starring Lauren Bacall and Rosemary Harris), the Royal Shakespeare Company’s The Herbal Bed, Taking Sides starring Ed Harris and Daniel Massey, Linda Ronstadt inCanciones de me Padre, Avery Brooks as Paul Robeson, Kenny Loggins: On Broadway, the Georgian State Dance Company, Stardust, Late Nite Comic, and the gala 6000th performance of A Chorus Line. He has been privileged to work with some of Broadway’s finest producers, including both Alexander H. Cohen and David Merrick. Off-Broadway credits include the long running hitsAltar Boyz (NYC and National Tour), My First Time,The Awesome 80s Prom, Naked Boys Singing, Jackie Mason: The Ultimate Jew, ROOMS a rock romance, Blood Type RAGU, Tony N’ Tina’s Wedding (14 years), Late Nite Catechism, Dr Sex, Tea at Five (NYC and West Palm Beach), Adam Rapp’s plays (Faster, Stone Cold Dead Serious, Blackbird), We’re Still Hot!, The Black & White Blues, Emily Mann’s Annulla, Trolls, Roulette, Picon Pie, Bill Osco’s Alice In Wonderland, Candy & Dorothy, Maybe Baby It’s You, End of the World Party by 5-time Emmy Award winner Chuck Ranberg, Swingtime Canteen, Farm Boys, The Rise of Dorothy Hale, All Under Heaven (starring Valerie Harper), The Majestic Kid by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright Mark Medoff, On The Boulevard starring Liliane Montevecchi (directed by Tommy Tune), Mademoiselle Colombe, Birds of Paradise (directed by Arthur Laurents), Splendora, Romance/ Romance (winner of 4 Outer Critics’ Awards), The Kathy & Mo Show: Parallel Lives, Joseph Gabriel: Magic on Broadway, Ten Percent Revue, Elvis People. Matty, Down South, The Immigrant, Hospital Audiences’ Annual Theatre Festival (3 seasons), and acclaimed revivals of Susan & God, Blues in the Night, Smoke on the Mountain, Godspell, Threepenny Opera, Dames at Sea, Soldier’s Wife, Voice of the Turtleand The Education of HYMAN KAPLAN. Theater companies he has represented include Adirondack Theatre Festival, Aquila Theatre, Ars Nova, Edge Theatre, En Garde Arts (including JP Morgan Saves the Nation* by Rent‘s Jonathan Larson), Ensemble Studio Theatre, Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre, INTAR, Irish Arts Center, Jean Cocteau Repertory, Mint Theater, Music Theater Group, Perry Street, Rattlestick Theatre, Red Bull Theatre, Storm Theater, Victoria & Michael Imperioli’s Studio Dante, and York Theatre, among many others. He has also provided publicity for Stage Entertainment, the international entertainment group (US press representative), the Lucille Lortel Theatre Foundation, the David Merrick Arts Foundation, The Drama League, the Cherry Lane Alternative, the League of Off-Broadway Theatres & Producers’ annual Lortel Awards (which he wrote, produced and publicized for ten years), New World Stages, 30th Annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, American Ballroom Theatre (creating “Ballroom Week”), PBS television’s “Theater Talk,” and the Reduced Shakespeare Company as part of the New York International Festival of Arts. He has also repped the books ’A Chorus Line’ and the Musicals of Michael Bennett and Not Since ‘Carrie:’ 40 Years of Flop Musicals, both from St. Martin’s Press. Some of the many clubs and cabarets he has represented include Rainbow & Stars and the Rainbow Room, Windows on the World (re-opening after 1993 bombing until 9-11-2001), Café Carlyle, the Oak Room at the Algonquin, Michael’s Pub, The Ballroom, Freddy’s, and Roseland. Over the years, David has worked with some of show business’ greatest names. Among his favorites are Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca (Together Again! The 40th Anniversary of “Your Show Of Shows”), Rosemary Clooney, Peggy Lee, Patti LuPone, Lauren Bacall, Jerry Orbach, Gwen Verdon, Joan Rivers, Michael Imperioli, Rosie O’Donnell, Nell Carter, Marianne Faithful, Darlene Love, Tony Danza, Tim Daly, Brooke Shields, Alan Cummings, Mary Tyler Moore, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Vic Damone, Anita O’Day, Mel Tormé, Linda Lavin, Jo Sullivan Loesser, Paul Weitz (American Pie), Julie Wilson, Sylvia Syms, Larry Kert, Regina Resnik, Bea Arthur, Ruth Brown, Lavern Baker, Frank Stallone, Patrick McMullan, Spencer Quest, Ryan Idol, Johnny Crawford (of TV’s “The Rifleman”), George Shearing, Jackie Mason, Anna Paquin, Joy Behar, Betty Buckley, Faith Prince, Ossie Davis, Charles Busch, Maxene Andrews (of the Andrews Sisters), Maureen McGovern, Leslie Uggams, Emmy Award-winner Fyvush Finkel, and the legendary Mickey Rooney. As a producer, he presented the Off-Broadway premieres of Tea at Five starring Kate Mulgrew as Katharine Hepburn (also West Palm Beach), My First Time, Bash’d, the gay rap opera, Gaytino! and Dr Sex, the acclaimed musical comedy about Alfred Kinsey. In the non-profit world, he has produced benefits and galas for the National Alzheimer’s Foundation (Rita Hayworth Gala), God’s Love We Deliver, People With AIDS Coalition NY, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, the Actors Fund of America, Bailey House/AIDS Resource Center, People With AIDS Theater Workshop, and the Hetrick-Martin Institute. He serves on the Board of Governors of ATPAM, the Association of Theatrical Press Agents & Managers. A native New Yorker, he is also a volunteer firefighter on Fire Island, where he maintains a summer home.
(Back to Top)	ERIC KREBS: (Producer) is the founder of The John Houseman and Douglas Fairbanks theatres. On Broadway he produced Bill Maher: Victory Begins at Home, Neil Simon's The Dinner Party, It Ain't Nothin' But The Blues (nominated for 1999 Tony Award for Best Musical), and Electra starring Zoe Wanamaker. Off-Broadway he produced Langston Hughes's Little Ham, The Capitol Steps, the world premiere of Bash by Neil LaBute, and This Is Our Youth by Kenneth Lonergan. In the not-for-profit theatre, he founded and for 14 years was the Producing Director of the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Currently, he is the chairman of AMAS Musical Theatre, a not-for-profit theatre founded by Rosetta LeNoire and dedicated to the training of "city kids" in the performing arts and the creation of new musical for multi-ethnic casts. Mr. Krebs is professor Emeritus at Rutgers University and currently teaches at Baruch College of CUNY. He was awarded the Robert Whitehead Award for excellence in producing in February 1999.
SHOW HISTORY
GOLF: THE MUSICAL, the revue of songs and comic skits about the fun and frustration of golf, concluded its Off-Broadway engagement at The John Houseman Theater Center April 4, 2004 four days shy of seven months. The musical, with book, lyrics and music by Michael Roberts, based on a concept by Eric Krebs, began performances October 8, 2003, and had its official opening on November 19, 2003. The show played 40 previews and 136 performances. The Off-Broadway show featured musical direction and arrangements by Ken Lundie, set design by James Joughin, costumes by Bernard Grenier and lighting design by Aaron Spivey. The production was directed by Christopher Scott and featured Joel Blum, Trisha Rapier, Christopher Sutton and Sal Viviano. Brenda Arko was the stage manager.

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