Titanic The Musical

MAURY YESTON

Maury Yeston is a multi award winning theatre and film composer, lyricist, author and teacher. In addition to winning a Tony Award for Best Score for Titanic (which won another four Tonys including Best Musical), Yeston won a Tony Award and two Drama Desk Awards for his music and lyrics to Nine (based on Fellini’s1963 movie 8½). That production also won four additional Tonys including Best Musical. The Broadway revival of Nine, starring Antonio Banderas, won the Tony Award for Best Musical Revival. Yeston’s contribution to the score for Grand Hotel was nominated for a Tony and two Drama Desk Awards, and the Donmar Warehouse production won an Olivier Award. His score for Phantom has received national and international acclaim. Most recently, he wrote music and lyrics to Death Takes A Holiday (with a book also by Stone and Thomas Meehan), which was nominated for 11 Drama Desk Awards, and the first entirely American full length ballet, Tom Sawyer: A Ballet In Three Acts, which premiered in Kansas City. In 2009, Nine was adapted into a film with a screenplay by Anthony Minghella and Michael Tolkin, directed by Rob Marshall and featuring Daniel Day-Lewis, Penelope Cruz, Marion Cotillard, Nicole Kidman, Dame Judi Dench, Kate Hudson, Fergie, and Sophia Loren. It was nominated for five Golden Globes and four Academy Awards. Yeston was nominated for a Critics Choice and Golden Globe for Best Original Song, Cinema Italiano, and an Academy Award for Best Original Song, Take It All. His Anything Can Happen in The Theater – The Musical World of Maury Yeston, a new musical revue conceived and directed by Gerard Alessandrini, premièred in March 2020 at Manhattan’s York Theater Company, filled with many of Yeston’s comic company and dance numbers, heartfelt ballads, duets and trios. The New York Times declared: “the forlorn elegance of “A Man Like You/Unusual Way,” works perfectly fine outside of Nine; as with Yeston’s best songs, its deceiving simplicity feels inevitable” and “its closing song, “Home”, is among the most beautiful of the last 30 years - its ineffable melancholy is sublime.” Other work includes: Cello Concerto, premiered by Yo Yo Ma; the concert album Goya - A Life In Song, featuring Placido Domingo and Gloria Estefan (the song Till I Loved You from the album became a Top 40 hit for Barbra Streisand); December Songs, a song cycle commissioned by Carnegie Hall for its centennial celebration; An American Cantata - 2000 Voices, a choral symphony in three movements for the National Symphony Orchestra and 2000 singers commissioned by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Yeston has been twice nominated for a Grammy Award, is a lifetime member of the council of the Dramatists Guild, is on the board of the Songwriters Hall of Fame, The Kleban Foundation and The Kurt Weill Foundation. In 1998, he received The Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center Creative Arts Award in New York as Artist of The Year and was The Encompass Opera’s Lifetime Achievement Honoree in 2009. In 2012, he received the distinction of being named an Honorary Ambassador of The Society of Composers & Lyricists.

PETER STONE

Stone was born in Los Angeles. His mother was a film writer and his father was the writer and producer of many silent films. Stone is among that rarefied group of writers who have conquered stage, screen, and television by winning an Oscar, a Tony, and an Emmy. In 1965, he won an Oscar for his work as a screenwriter on Father Goose, however it is the Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn vehicle, Charade, that is probably Stone's best-remembered film. He won Tony Awards for his books for the Broadway musicals Titanic, Woman Of The Year and 1776. He won an Emmy for a 1962 episode of The Defenders. Shortly after Stone's death, in a memorial ceremony it was observed that the two most famous ships of all time were Noah’s Ark and the Titanic, and that Stone had written Broadway Musicals about both of them.

THOM SOUTHERLAND

Thom is the Associate Artistic Director of Mayflower Theatre and MAST Mayflower Studios. Theatre includes: She Loves You (Copenhagen); Angela’s Ashes (Grand Opera House, Belfast & Bord Gais Energy Theatre, Dublin, Irish and UK tours); The Illusionist, The Pajama Game (Umeda Arts, Tokyo); Candide (Bergen National Opera); Harold And Maude, The Woman In White, Death Takes A Holiday, Ragtime - Off West End Award for Best Musical Production, The Mikado (Charing Cross Theatre); Allegro, Grey Gardens - Off West End Award for Best New Musical, Victor/Victoria, Mack And Mabel - Longlisted for Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Musical, Parade - Longlisted for Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Musical, nominated for WhatsOnStage Award for Best Musical Revival and Off West End Award for Best Musical Production (Southwark Playhouse); Titanic (UK and international tours, Charing Cross Theatre, Princess of Wales, Toronto, Umeda Arts, Tokyo, Osaka & Southwark Playhouse - Longlisted for the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Musical, BroadwayWorld UK Award for Best Fringe/Regional Musical, WhatsOnStage Award for Best Off West End Production, Off West End Award for Best Musical Production); Grand Hotel (Umeda Arts, Tokyo & Southwark Playhouse - BroadwayWorld UK Award for Best Musical Revival, Off West End Awards for Best Musical Production, nominated for WhatsOnStage Award for Best Off West End Production); The Smallest Show On Earth (also co-writer) (Mercury Theatre & UK tour); Peter Pan (US tour); The Grand Tour, Me And Juliet - Off West End Award for Best Director, State Fair (Finborough & Trafalgar Studios).

DAVID WOODHEAD

Training: Theatre & Performance Design at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, graduating with first class honours. David’s designs for Titanic won the Off-West End Award for Best Designer, alongside nominations for the Broadway World Award for Best Set & Costume Design and the Canadian Dora Award for Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design. Theatre includes: The Da Vinci Code, Dial M For Murder, Titanic, Of Mice And Men, Wait Until Dark (UK tours); Viral (Original Theatre Company online); The Hound Of The Baskervilles (Bolton Octagon & UK tour); Rent (Hope Mill Theatre); Apollo 13; Birdsong Online (Original Theatre Company); Curtains (Wyndham’s Theatre & UK tour); Nativity! (Hammersmith Apollo & UK tour); Peter And The Starcatcher (Royal & Derngate, Northampton); Gaslight; Strangers on a Train (ATG UK tours); Billy Liar (Royal Exchange, Manchester); The Wasp (Hampstead Theatre & Trafalgar Studios); The Night Watch (York Theatre Royal & UK tour); Abigail’s Party; Bugsy Malone (Curve, Leicester); Night Must Fall (Salisbury Playhouse & UK tour); Tell Me On A Sunday, A Little Night Music (Watermill Theatre); The Importance Of Being Earnest (Bolton Octagon); The Smallest Show On Earth (Mercury Theatre, Colchester & UK tour); Lizzie Siddal (Arcola); Dinner With Friends (Park Theatre); Newsies (ArtsEd). International theatre includes: Titanic (Princess of Wales Theatre, Toronto, European & China tour); Gaslight (Ed Mirvish Theatre, Toronto); Cornelius, Café Society Swing (59E59 New York); The Truth (Zorlu Centre, Instanbul); Disgraced, The Hound Of The Baskervilles (English Theatre, Frankfurt).

HOWARD HUDSON

Theatre includes: & Juliet (West End, Broadway, Toronto & Australia – nominated, Olivier Award, winner, WhatsOnStage Award for Best Lighting Design); 9 to 5: The Musical (West End, UK tour & Australian tour); A Chorus Line (Curve, Leicester); Orlando, Romeo And Juliet (Garrick Theatre); What’s New Pussycat (Birmingham Rep); Strictly Ballroom (Piccadilly Theatre); Guys And Dolls, Kiss Me Kate (Sheffield Crucible); Gaslight, Steel Magnolias, Strangers On A Train (UK tour); Rent (Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester); Titanic The Musical (UK & international tour); 101 Dalmatians, The Little Shop Of Horrors, On The Town (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4 The Musical (Ambassadors Theatre, Menier Chocolate Factory & Curve, Leicester); Blackmail (Mercury Theatre, Colchester); In The Heights (Kings Cross Theatre); Peter And The Starcatcher (Royal and Derngate Theatre, Northampton); The Rivals (Bristol Old Vic, Liverpool Playhouse & Glasgow Citizens co-production); The Last Five Years directed by Jason Robert Brown (The Other Palace); Queens Of Syria (Young Vic). Opera and Dance includes: Ariadne Auf Naxos (Opera Bologna); Rigoletto, Street Scene (Opera North); Written On Skin (Opera Philadelphia); The Barber Of Seville, Mansfield Park (Grange Festival); The Bartered Bride, Fantasio, Vert-Vert, Fidelio (Garsington Opera); Die Fledermaus, Lakme, La Bohème (Opera Holland Park); The Monstrous Child, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland (Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House). International theatre include: Jersey Boys (Dubai Opera House & international tour); Gaslight (Ed Mirvish Theatre, Toronto); Titanic The Musical (Princess of Wales Theatre, Toronto); a new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom Of The Opera (Athens, Oslo & Bucharest); Death And The Maiden, Educating Rita (English Theatre, Frankfurt); La Cage Aux Folles (Aarhus Theatre, Denmark); Cornelius (59E59, New York).

ANDREW JOHNSON

Andrew has spent the last twenty-two years working in sound and the last nineteen years working in professional theatre as Production Sound Engineer, Operator, Assistant Sound Designer, Associate Sound Designer and Sound Designer. Andrew won the Broadway World Fans Choice Award for Best Sound Design for The Play That Goes Wrong on Broadway and has also been shortlisted for Best Sound Design for Grand Hotel, Mack & Mabel and Titanic in the UK. Recent theatre includes: Mandela, Best Of Enemies (Young Vic Live Broadcast Audio); Claus The Musical (The Lowry); A Sherlock Carol (Marylebone Theatre); Gypsy (Buxton Opera Festival); The Lion, Preludes, Allegro, Grey Gardens, Grand Hotel, Dogfight, The A- Z Of Mrs P, Victor/Victoria, Mack & Mabel, Company (Southwark Playhouse); The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, Henrietta, Billy The Kid (NYMT 2021); Harry Potter Forbidden Forest Experience (UK, Belgium, New York & Virginia-US); Little Voice (UK tour 2022); Ride, Zorro, Broken Wings, Vanya Sonya Masha And Spike, Soho Cinders, Amour, Violet, Mythic, It Happened In Key West, Harold And Maude, The Woman In White, The Knowledge, The Braille Legacy, Death Takes A Holiday, Christina Bianco - Oh Come All Ye Divas!, Ragtime (Charing Cross Theatre); Titanic (international, UK & Ireland tours, Charing Cross Theatre & Southwark Playhouse); Legally Blonde, Ghost, The Wedding Singer, Secret Garden, Spring Awakening, Merrily We Roll Along, Bad Girls (Urdang Academy); Mamma Mia!, We Will Rock You (Romania tours); Mischief Move Night, Mischief Magic (UK tours 2018); Les Misérables In Concert (Beau Sejour, Guernsey); Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert (ArtsEd); The Grift (Town Hall Hotel, Bethnal Green); The Toxic Avenger (Southwark Playhouse, Edinburgh Festival & Arts Theatre); Brexit The Musical (London & Edinburgh Festival); Tommy (UK tour/Ramps On The Moon Project 2018); The Play That Goes Wrong (Duchess, UK tour, Lyceum, Broadway & US tour); The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin (Theatre Royal, Stratford East); Lee Mead - Some Enchanted Evening (UK tour 2016); The Secret Garden (New Ambassadors/British Theatre Academy); An Inspector Calls (UK tour 2016); The Witches (Curve, Leicester & UK tour 2016); The Smallest Show On Earth (Mercury, Colchester & UK tour); West End Men (UK tour 2015, Vaudeville Theatre, UK tour 2012 & Singapore); Bruce Forsyth Entertains (London Palladium 2015 & UK tour 2014); Rent (UK concert tour 2013/2014); Hormonal Housewives (UK tour 2013); The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice (UK tour 2012 & 2013).

CRESSIDA CARRÉ

Theatre as Director or Director/Choreographer includes: The Baker’s Wife (Playground Theatre); Jewish Hollywood (Upstairs at the Gatehouse); The Wild Party, Assassins, Bad Girls (GSA); Avenue Q (UK tour); The Wizard of Oz (Blackpool Winter Gardens); Seussical (MTA); The Pajama Game (Mountview); Posh (Pleasance Theatre); Eurobeat, Betwixt (Edinburgh Festival Fringe); Spear (Courtyard Theatre, Hereford); The Lost Christmas (Trafalgar Studios); Marry Me a Little (Etcetera Theatre). Theatre as Choreographer includes: From Here to Eternity, Violet, The Woman in White (Charing Cross Theatre); Zorro (Charing Cross Theatre and Hope Mill Theatre); Cinderella (Hall for Cornwall); Hair (Playhouse Theatre); Pippi Longstocking (Royal & Derngate); The Season (Royal & Derngate and New Wolsey Theatre); Titanic the Musical (UK, Europe and international tours, Charing Cross Theatre, Princess of Wales Theatre, Toronto and Southwark Playhouse); The Turn of the Screw, Spring Awakening (UK tours); SIX (Arts Theatre); Jersey Boys (international tour); The Owl and the Pussycat (Coventry Belgrade Theatre); Promises, Promises (Southwark Playhouse); The Star (Liverpool Playhouse); Sweeney Todd (Mercury Theatre and Derby Theatre); Laila the Musical, Britain’s Got Bhangra (Watford Palace Theatre and UK tours); Beyond the Fence, Seussical (Arts Theatre); Rumpelstiltskin (The Egg, Royal Theatre Bath and MAC, Belfast); The Jungle Book (Citizens Theatre, Glasgow); Sweeney Todd, Cats (Centrepoint Theatre, Dubai); Burlesque (Jermyn Street Theatre); The Hired Man (Landor Theatre); As You Like It, Merlin and the Woods of Time (Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre); Wind in the Willows (Derby Theatre); Departure Lounge (Waterloo East Theatre). Awards:Off West End Award for Best Choreography and WhatsOnStage Award for Best Off West Production for Titanic the Musical (Southwark Playhouse). Television and film includes: J (short lm).

MARK ASPINALL

Musical Director credits include: Anything Goes (Barbican & UK tour); City Of Angels (Garrick Theatre); & Juliet (Manchester Opera House); West Side Story, Guys & Dolls, Sweet Charity (Royal Exchange, Manchester); The Band (UK tour); Three Phantoms (Parisian Theatre); The Wicker Husband (workshop); the world première of Travels With My Aunt (Chichester Festival Theatre); the world première of The Smallest Show On Earth (Mercury Theatre, Colchester & UK tour); Titanic (Princess of Wales, Toronto & Southwark Playhouse); The Roles I’ll Never Play (St. James Theatre); Mack And Mabel (Southwark Playhouse); Cinderella (Qdos, Cliffs Pavilion). Musical Supervisor credits include: Titanic (Charing Cross Theatre, UK and international tours). Musical Supervisor & Orchestrator credits include: Ragtime (Charing Cross Theatre). Assistant Musical Director credits include: & Juliet (Manchester); City of Angels (Donmar Warehouse); The Pajama Game (Shaftesbury Theatre). Keyboard and other credits include: Cats (The Movie); Stephen Ward (Aldwych Theatre); Composer: Multistory (RSC Workshop); Rehearsal Pianist: tick,tick…Boom! (Duchess Theatre).

IAN WEINBERGER

Ian is currently the music director of Hamilton on Broadway. His arrangements and orchestrations of Titanic and Disney's Moana Jr. have been performed in productions all over the world. As conductor/pianist, other Broadway theatre includes: Freestyle Love Supreme; The Book Of Mormon; Kinky Boots; Chaplin; Rocky; Side Show. New York theatre includes: Chess; Titanic reunion concert (Lincoln Center); The Eyes Of The World: From D-Day to VE Day; A New Brain. Cast albums include: The Christmas Schooner; A New Brain; The Theory Of Relativity. Television and Film includes: Fosse/Verdon; Peter Pan Live; The Sound of Music Live. Ian is a proud graduate of Northwestern University, where he studied music education and percussion performance. He also holds a master’s degree in jazz piano from New York University.

BEN PAPWORTH

Ben is Creative Director for SingEasy West End. He is Musical Director for numerous leading names in the theatre world including John Patridge, Divina De Campo, Jenna Russell, Steph Parry, Tori Scott, Velma Celli and Kitt Ramsay. As Musical Supervisor: AIDA. As Musical Director: Steve (Seven Dials Playhouse): As Music Assistant: The Pirate Queen (Coliseum). Ben is a piano vocalist at SingEasy West End, Piano Works, Soho House and Century and MDs and teaches at several drama schools, including Urdang Academy, Associated Studios and IAB.

MAX LINDSAY

Max was Resident Director at the National Theatre Studio throughout 2022. He was Resident Assistant Director at Chichester Festival Theatre for Festival 2018 where he assisted Tinuke Craig, Dale Rooks and Daniel Evans. He was previously based at the Nuffield, Southampton. Director credits include: Mother Of Him (Park Theatre 200); Ripped (Underbelly, Edinburgh); Angry (Southwark Playhouse); Foreign Goods 2, Broken Gargoyles (Theatre 503); Consensual, The Odyssey, Girls Like That, Henry IV, His Dark Materials, The Laramie Project Circle, The Wardrobe, Feathers In The Snow, Great Expectations, The Three Musketeers, Cymbeline (Nuffield Theatre); Someone To Blame (King’s Head Theatre & Nuffield Theatre); Jimmy Jimmy (Omnibus Clapham); The Best Christmas Present (The Playing Field); The Voyage Of Lost Dreams (SS Shieldhall). Associate Director credits include: Fisherman’s Friend The Musical, The Osmonds The Musical, Cargo (UK tours); We Are Here (National Theatre). Assistant Director credits include: Fisherman’s Friends The Musical (Hall For Cornwall), Me & My Girl, random/generations, The Midnight Gang (Chichester Festival Theatre); Cargo (Arcola Theatre); The Nutcracker (Nuffield Theatre).

DANIELLE TARENTO

Danielle is a freelance producer and casting director. She won Best Producer at the Off West End Awards 2012, was nominated Producer of the Year at the Stage Awards 2015 and was listed as one of the top ten producers of Musical Theatre in 2016 in The Stage. She is co-founder of the Menier Chocolate Factory. Theatre includes: Benjamin Scheuer’s The Lion (Southwark Playhouse & Arizona Theatre Company); West Side Story, Chicago, Evita, Grease (Ljubljana Festival, Slovenia); the UK première of Dave Malloy’s Preludes (live-stream & Southwark Playhouse – nominated, WhatsOnStage Award for Best Off West End Production 2020); Titanic The Musical (UK & international tours); the UK professional première of Michel Legrand’s Amour (Charing Cross Theatre – winner, Off West End Award for Best New Musical 2020); Vincent River, Le Grand Mort, Songs And Solidarity – A Concert For Those Affected By The Grenfell Tower Fire (Trafalgar Studios); The Grift (Town Hall Hotel, Bethnal Green); the world première of The Elf Who Was Scared Of Christmas, the UK première of Death Takes A Holiday (Charing Cross Theatre); The Woods by David Mamet, Mother Courage And Her Children, Rodger’s & Hammerstein’s Allegro, Gods And Monsters, Three Sisters, Victor/Victoria, Company (Southwark Playhouse); The Color Purple In Concert, Grateful (Cadogan Hall); Ragtime (Charing Cross Theatre – winner, Off West End Award for Best Musical Revival 2017; nominated, WhatsOnStage Awards for Best Musical Revival and Best Off West End Production); Grey Gardens (Southwark Playhouse – winner, Off West End Award for Best New Musical 2017; nominated, WhatsOnStage Award for Best Off West End Production); Titanic (Charing Cross Theatre – winner, West End Wilma Award for Best Off West End Production 2016); Pure Imagination (St James Theatre); Grand Hotel (Southwark Playhouse – winner, Broadway World Award for Best Musical Revival 2015; nominated, WhatsOnStage Award for Best Off West End Production and 6 Off West End Awards including Best Musical Production); The Grand Tour (Finborough Theatre); Man To Man (Park Theatre); My Lifelong Love - An Evening With Georgia Stitt And Friends (Garrick Theatre); Frances Ruffelle - Paris Original (St James Studio); Dogfight (Southwark Playhouse - shortlisted, Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Musical 2014); Titanic (Southwark Playhouse - longlisted, Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Musical 2013; winner, Broadway World UK Award for Best Fringe/Regional Musical, WhatsOnStage Award for Best Off West End Production and 4 Off West End Awards including Best Musical Production); Taboo (Brixton Club House - winner, WhatsOnStage Award for Best Off West End Production 2013); Mack & Mabel (Southwark Playhouse - longlisted, Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Musical 2012; nominated for 13 Broadway World UK Awards and 6 Off West End Awards); The Pitchfork Disney (Arcola Theatre); Burlesque (Jermyn Street Theatre - winner, Off West End Award for Best New Musical 2012); Noël And Gertie (Cockpit Theatre); Parade (Southwark Playhouse - longlisted, Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Musical 2011; nominated, WhatsOnStage Award for Best Musical Revival 2012, Off West End Award for Best Musical Production); Spring Awakening (Rose Theatre, Kingston); Drowning On Dry Land (Jermyn Street Theatre); Legacy Falls (New Players Theatre); Frances Ruffelle: Beneath The Dress (Madame JoJo’s, Edinburgh Festival, Wroclaw Stage Song Review, Poland, Menier Chocolate Factory & Crazy Coqs); Happy Savages (Edinburgh Festival). As Associate Producer: Smokey Joe’s Café (Landor Theatre); Kurt And Sid (Trafalgar Studios – nominated, WhatsOnStage Award for Best Off West End Production 2009); Side By Side By Sondheim (The Venue); Tamburlaine The Great (Rose Theatre, Bankside). Alongside her work as a producer and casting director, Danielle also regularly runs Acting Through Song, Repertoire and Audition Technique masterclasses and teaches and directs at several drama schools including ArtsEd, Mountview, Associated Studios, Drama Studio and LAMDA. Danielle is proud to be a trustee of the National Youth Music Theatre (vice chair) and Mercury Musical Developments.

ANTHOLOGY THEATRE

Founded by Bob Benton in 2010, Anthology Theatre commissioned, developed, and invested in theatre, before relaunching in 2020 as a full-scale production company, producing its own work under Executive Producer Lil Lambley. Current and future productions include: the New York transfer of The Doctor (Park Avenue Armory); the West End transfer of Bleak Expectations (Criterion Theatre); the international production Mother Of The Bride. Recent highlights include: The Collaboration (Manhattan Theatre Club &Young Vic); the 60th Anniversary production of Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days directed by Trevor Nunn (Riverside Studios); the critically-acclaimed adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s The Mozart Question (Barn Theatre, Cirencester); The Two Popes (Royal & Derngate & UK tour); The Wipers Times (UK tours & Arts Theatre). As Executive Producer and General Manager: Kan Yama Kan (International tour); as General Manager: CAGES (Riverside Studios). Lil Lambley – Executive Producer, Matt Cullum – General Manager, Caitlin Ferrara – Associate Producer, Dom Hodson – Head of Development, Sarah Murray – Senior Production Coordinator, Martina Iuculano – PA to the Executive Producer, Praise Okeowo – Production Assistant, Gift Onomor – Production Assistant, Bob Benton – Chair