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Cheryl Alexander (Millie Walden) Broadway/ National Tour Credits include: Caroline, Or Change; It Ain’t Nothin But The Blues; Once On This Island, Senator Joe/ Nimrod; The News; Sophisticated Ladies; Dreamgirls (Original Cast). Off Broadway: The Three Sisters; Little Ham; It Ain’t Nothin But The Blues; Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin; Power Failure; Just One World; Language Of The Soul; Saint ‘Tous. Regional: Mandela; Bubblin’ Brown Sugar; Camino Real; A Streetcar Named Desire; Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin; Thunder Knockin’ On The Door; Blackbirds Of Broadway; Avenue X; The Odd Couple; Man Of La Mancha; The News; Sunset; Television/Film: Chappelle’s Show; Law & Order: SVU; NYPD Blue; Entropy; First Love, Second Chance; A Matter Of Principal; Saturday Night Live (in concert W/ Jennifer Holliday); Multiple Personalities; Story Of America. | |
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Chuck Cooper (Pastor Joe Bertram) won the 1996 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a musical
for his portrayal of Memphis in The Life. His other Broadway credits include: Lennon; Caroline, Or Change (Audelco Award, Best Featured Actor); Chicago; Passion; Someone to Watch Over Me; Rumors; Amen Corner; Getting Away With Murder;
Hair (BCEFA concert event); and St. Louis Woman in City Center's acclaimed Encore series. National tours: The Tap Dance Kid; Eubie and Whistle Down the Wind. Off-Broadway: Caroline, Or Change (the Public Theatre); Thunder Knocking On The Door (Minetta Lane);
Marco Polo Sings a Solo (Signature Theatre);
Avenue X; Police Boys; Four Short Operas (Playwrights Horizons); Colored People's Time (Negro Ensemble Co.); King Island Christmas (SIR Studios)
Regional Theatre:
The World Beyond the Hill (Berkshire Theatre Festival); Robeson (Passage Theatre); Thunder Knocking On The Door (Trinity Repertory); Othello (New Jersey Shakespeare Festival); Julius Caesar (Philadelphia Drama Guild); The Doctor Is Out; Coriolanus and Timon of Athens (The Old Globe Theatre); The Tempest, American Dreams; Lost And Found (Alliance Theatre)
Television credits:
Hack; 100 Centre Street; Law & Order; Law & Order: SVU; Oz; Strangers with Candy; NYPD Blue; Cosby;
The Cosby Mysteries; New York Undercover; I'll Fly Away; The Bold and the Beautiful; As The World Turns Film credits:
StripSearch: ThoughtCrimes; Three Days of Rain; Our Song; The Hurricane; The Opportunists; Gloria; The Peacemaker; The Juror; North; Criminal Justice and Find Me Guilty. Favorite role:
Eddie, Alex and Lilli's father. | |
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Montego Glover (Eshie Willington)
NYC: Dreamgirls (20th Anniversary Concert); The Pirates Of Penzance (Mabel/Lucille Lortel nomination); Radiant Baby directed by George C. Wolfe with the Public Theatre; Ghetto Superstar with the Public Theatre; Me & Juliet with the York Theatre Company; and Roses Are Brown with Theatre for the New City (Premiere). Regional credits include: Aida (IRNE Award – Best Actress in a Musical), Once On This Island, Ragtime, Dreamgirls; Oklahoma!; Ain’t Misbehavin’; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Jesus Christ Superstar; Into The Woods, and Cookin’ At The Cookery (IRNE & Dora Award nominations) on the stages of North Shore Music Theatre, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, St. Louis MUNY, Music Theatre Wichita, Canadian Stage, North Carolina Theatre, Round House Theatre, Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma City, Papermill Playhouse, the Huntington Theatre, and the Geffen Playhouse among others. Ms. Glover has two World Premieres to her credit: The Conservationist with the Asolo Theatre Company, written by English playwright Mark Wheatley; and Memphis, co-produced byNorth Shore Music Theatre & TheatreWorks/Palo Alto (book by Joe DiPietro, music by David Bryan, directed by Gabriel Barre), for which Ms. Glover earned both IRNE & San Francisco Theatre Critic’s Award nominations. Ms. Glover can be heard on the new cast recording of Dreamgirls (Nonesuch Records), the original cast recording of Festival of the Lion King and Rhythm Of One (Disney/ Buena Vista Records), the new concept recording of the Pirates Of Penzance reprising her role as Mabel, and most recently a recording of six arrangements with the Broadway Inspirational Voices in, also a member. Ms. Glover has appeared on television and radio for numerous companies including: Sony, Royal Caribbean, Miller Beer, MTV, NBA, Kraft, Pepsi, Hershey’s, “The Guiding Light,” on CBS and the “Wonderful World of Disney” on ABC.In addition to theatre, television, and radio Ms. Glover also lends her talents in concert. Her most recent concert credits include: The Chicago Humanities Festival (Symphony Center, Chicago); The Artist’s Songbook with Canadian Stage (Toronto); The New York City Theatre Museum Tribute to Harold Arlen (Hudson Theater, New York); The Museum of Television & Radio’s Harold Arlen Celebration (Mer Theatre, New York); Seven Days of Opening Nights (Ruby Diamond Hall, Tallahassee, Florida); Broadway Meets Country (Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York); and the Broadway Inspirational Voices Annual Fall Concert (Town Hall, New York). |
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Rebecca Luker (Maggie Hartford) was last seen on Broadway, at the Eugene O'Neill Theater, starring in Maury Yeston's Nine. She also starred in Meredith Wilson's acclaimed musical, The Music Man, for which she received Tony, Drama Desk & Outer Critics Circle Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress in a musical for the year 2000. Other professional credits follow: Broadway: The Sound of Music (Outer Critics Circle Award Nomination), Showboat (Tony Award Nomination), The Secret Garden (Drama Desk Nomination) and The Phantom of the Opera. Off Broadway plays: Vagina Monologues and Can't Let Go. Regional: She Loves Me (LA's Reprise); Time and Again (Old Globe) and Harmony (La Jolla Playhouse/DramaLogue Award). Television: Law & Order: SVU ("Poison"), CBS movie "Cupid and Cate", Matlock, David Letterman Show, Rosie O'Donnell Show, Rodgers & Hart and Oscar Hammerstein tributes, and An Evening with the Pops. Film: "Spectropia". Concerts: Solo evening with Lincoln Center's American Songbook Series; No, No Nanette; Gay Divorce; My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies (all at Carnegie Hall); The Boys From Syracuse (Encores!), and has performed with the London, Stockholm, American, Arkansas, Alabama, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Nashville, Hollywood Bowl Symphonies, and many others. Recordings: Leaving Home (PS Classics), Anything Goes: Rebecca Luker Sings Cole Porter (Fynsworth Alley), Aria, Aria 2 (Profile) & Aria 3 (Koch), Wonderful Town, Jerome Kern Treasury, Broadway Showstoppers, Brigadoon, and Strike Up the Band. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Luker received a Bachelor's of Music degree from the University of Montevallo. She resides in NYC with her husband, actor, Danny Burstein and stepsons Alex and Zach. | |
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Darren Ritchie (Thomas Rivers) Broadway Credits: Frank Wildhorn's Dracula (Jonathan Harker), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Jimmy Smith), Les Miserables (Babet/Enjolras), Bells Are Ringing (Blake Barton) and South Pacific at Lincoln Center. First National Tour: Fame (Nick Piazza). His New York City workshops and staged readings include: Alter Boyz, The 60's Project, Surfs Up, Emohruo, Twelve Days of Christmas, and Me and Mrs. Jones. Regionally Mr. Ritchie worked at North Shore Musical Theater: Full Monty (Jerry), Music Theater of Wichita: Aida (Radames), Goodspeed: Frank Wildhorns debut of Camille Claudell, as well as Pittsburgh Music Theater and Wagon Wheel Playhouse. Television Credits include: "Days of Our Lives", "All My Children", "As the World Turns", "Guiding Light", "Law & Order SVU" and most recently he stared in the pilot "Stroller Wars" for CBS opposite Tiffany Amber Theissen and Rhea Pearlman. Love to Joy and our "kids" Elphie the cat and Nemo the dog! | |
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Patrick Ryan Sullivan (Garrison Martin) is currently involved with the new Off-Broadway musical Bingo. His Broadway credits include Julian Marsh in 42nd Street, Gaston in Beauty and the Beast, and the standby for Bride, Farrell, and Barrett in Titanic. Recent Regional credits include Ruthlegde in 1776, Tito in Lend Me a Tenor, Beau in the play Auntie Mame opposite of Charles Bush, and Billy Flinn in the Macoa International Music Festivals' Chicago. Other Credits: Billy in Carousel, Adam in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Bo in Bus Stop, El Gallo in The Fantasticks and the title role in the Yeston/Kopit Phantom. Patrick has been busy as the new Associate Artistic Director at the Temple Theatre in Sanford, North Carolina. Patrick is also a songwriter and his music can be heard at various local cabarets. |
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