Who's Who
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Since 1972, John Denver has sold more than 60 million albums around the world. His 1973 Greatest Hits package racked up sales of over 10 million – an unprecedented achievement for a compilation disc. In the U.S. alone, John Denver had ten #1 hits and multiple RIAA certification awards: 21 Gold album awards, 14 Platinum album awards and seven multi-Platinum album awards. Statistics tell only a small part of John's story, though. He quickly became a global multi-media star, segueing into movies like the hit comedy Oh, God! with George Burns, and into television, where he hosted several musical variety specials, including the Emmy Award-winning An Evening with John Denver. He performed with fellow artists ranging from Frank Sinatra to the Muppets and recorded duets with Emmylou Harris (“Wild Mountain Skies”) and Placido Domingo (“Perhaps Love”). He used his celebrity clout to further issues he cared deeply about, especially environmental conservation and world hunger. He encouraged the exploration of space and of our oceans (which inspired the exuberant “Calypso”), and he tried to foster understanding among diverse cultures as the first Western superstar to tour extensively in China and the former Soviet Union.
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Broadway: It Ain’t Nothin’ But The Blues (Director/Co-Author, Tony Award nomination). Off-Broadway: Hank Williams: Lost Highway (Director/Co-Author, Outer Critic’s Circle nomination for Best Director); Love, Janis (Over 750 performances at the Village Theater), Dream A Little Dream (Director – with original Mamas and the Papas lead singer Denny Dougherty), both the musical The Immigrant (Director) and the coal mining musical Fire On The Mountain (Director/Co-Author). His numerous other directorial credits include most regional theatres in America, among them The Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Denver Center, Mark Taper Forum, Seattle Repertory, The Old Globe, Arena Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse, Royal George Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, Arizona Theatre Company, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Meadowbrook Theatre, Crossroads Theater, The Barter Theater, the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, B.B. King’s, Dodger Stages, Manhattan Ensemble Theater, New Victory Theater in New York City, Cleveland Playhouse, Kansas City Rep and many others.
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Jeff has worked in New York as a musical director, arranger, composer, musician and producer for over 25 years. He owns Dancing Bull Music and Waxtrax Recording where he produces and composes music for television and film (commercials, television themes, documentaries, etc.) and for pop, rock, folk and country artists. Jeff received a Grammy nomination for producing the cast album of the Broadway Musical Doonesbury, which he also arranged, conducted and musical directed. Other Broadway work includes Gorey Stories, The Cherry Orchard at Lincoln Center and Into The Light. Jeff received a Drama Desk nomination for his orchestrations for the hit Off-Broadway Musical, Woody Guthrie’s American Song. For his work in the cabaret field Jeff was honored with a Back Stage Bistro Award for outstanding musical direction. For more information please visit www.dancingbullmusic.com.
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Harld has produced theatre in New York, London, Los Angeles and Aspen. His recent credits include the productions of Bombay Dreams and Tuesdays With Morrie in New York City. Other credits include productions of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross, Sam Shepard’s True West, Stephen Poliakoff’s Breaking The Silence, Camille, Beirut, Love Letters, Swim Visit, The Flying Brothers Karamazov and Sid Caesar & Company – Does Anybody Know What I’m Talking About. Mr. Thau was Executive Producer of the television production of A.J. Gurney’s The Dining Room, True West and Heartbreak House. He is the President of Advent Management Corp., an entertainment management firm. Mr. Thau is a director of Plant-It 2020, a tree planting foundation in Colorado, as well as a director of the Jazz Aspen Festival and Foundation. Mr. Thau’s autobiography, Bronx to Broadway – A Life in Show Business, has been published by Applause Theatre and Cinema Books.
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