DES McANUFF received Tony Awards for his B'way stagings of "Big River" (1985) and "The Who's Tommy" (1993). He directed Lee Blessings's "A Walk in the Woods" on B'way in 1988 and in Moscow and Lithuania in 1989-90.

Don Schlitz - Born Aug 29, 1952 Durham, NC, USA.
Lyricist & Composer.

Productions:
THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER
[Original, Musical, Comedy] Music & Lyrics (Apr 26, 2001 - May 13, 2001)

Robert Wright born September 25, 1914 - (Daytona Beach) - died Wednesday August 2, 2005 (Miami) and George _x001c_ Chet_x001d_ Forrest born July 31, 1915 (Brooklyn) - died Oct. 10, 1999 (Miami) wrote together in the longest continual partnership in the history of musical theatre.

George Furth was born in Chicago and graduated from Northwestern University; he did postgraduate work at Columbia University.

Gene de Paul - Composer

Dennis grew up in Syracuse, New York, and received his B.A. from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.  He moved to the Twin Cities in 1992.

A varied career as a recording artist, screenwriter, music producer and pianist has somehow led Yazbek to a career on Broadway.

Multi-Grammy, Tony, and Emmy Award nominated composer/producer Frank Wildhorn's works span the worlds of popular, theatrical, jazz, R&B and classical music.

Tomy Hedley wrote the book and was an executive producer of Flashdance The Musical. Having written the original screenplay, Heduly coined the title Flashdance to convey a complete style that merged fashion, music and dance.