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CREATIVE TEAM
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Michael Childers | Calvin Remsberg | Ron Abel | Mark Esposito |
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MICHAEL CHILDERS
Producer
Michael created the mixed media work for the hit off-Broadway musical Oh! Calcutta! He was a founding photographer for Andy Warhol’s Interview and After Dark magazines. Other Magazine covers include Dance, GQ, New York, TV Guide, Esquire, Los Angeles, Elle, Paris Match, Life, London Sunday Times Magazine, and Vogue. He created over 150 album covers and film posters. He co-authored a book, Bejart: The World of Dance. His film photography credits include Grease, Marathon Man, The Year of Living Dangerously, Coal Miner’s Daughter, Pennies from Heaven, The Terminator, Hammett, Torch Song Trilogy, Endless Love, The Champ, and Oceans 12.
Michael’s work is showcased in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Palm Springs Art Museum, Chiat Day Collection, the Lincoln Center Library of Performing Arts in New York, Laguna Art Museum, the Marion Fine Arts Museum in Santa Fe, and the National Portrait Gallery in London. He has received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Hollywood Photography at the Temecula Film Festival and the Provincetown Film Festival. An exhibit is forthcoming at the Queen Mary Gallery in Long Beach, on June 15, 2007, titled: Rockin Hollywood – portraits of rock ‘n roll icons and Hollywood legends. |
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CALVIN REMSBERG
Director
Calvin Remsberg is an acclaimed director, actor, singer and vocal coach. He has directed many works for the stage, including The Adding Machine, The Way Of The World, Invitation To A March, A Clearing In The Woods, The Medium (with Glenn Close), The Crucible, A Member Of The Wedding, and the musicals Gypsy, Brigadoon, Once Upon A Mattress, and The Mikado. He directed the acclaimed 20th Anniversary production of Sweeney Todd at the Ahmanson Theater, starring Kelsey Grammer, Christine Baranski, and Neil Patrick Harris. He directed Educating Rita, Chapter Two, and Dracula (Hermosa Beach Playhouse), Triumph Of Love (Falcon Theater), and The Sound Of Music (Cabrillo Music Theater). Recently, he has directed the Los Angeles premieres of The Last Five Years, Parade, Street Scene, Drood, Aspects Of Love, and The Most Happy Fella. In 2009, he made his Lincoln Center debut directing Night And Day: The Words And Music Of Cole Porter starring Victoria Clark and David Hyde Pierce. He directed and co-produced the critically lauded American premiere of F*cking Men (Celebration Theatre).
As a performer his stage credits include The Phantom Of The Opera, Sweeney Todd, Cats, Man of La Mancha, Oliver, and The Pirates Of Penzance, among others.
His television credits include The Young And The Restless, Nurses, Sunday Dinner, Unhappily Ever After, General Hospital, Tracey Takes On..., Cheers, Frasier, and The X-Files, among others. Film credits include A River Made To Drown In, Pretty Woman, and Twilight Of The Golds, and the Oscar winning Shrek.
In addition to all of this he maintains an active studio in private voice in Van Nuys, California, having Tony®, Emmy®, and Oscar® winners among his students, including American Idol finalist Adam Lambert.
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RON ABEL
Musical Director
Ron Abel is a multi-award winning composer, producer, arranger, orchestrator, conductor and musical director. The scope of his music mastery includes film, television, Broadway, recording, and live events including the opening ceremonies of Ford Field, home of the Detroit Lions and the annual Dream Foundation fundraiser in Los Angeles. Ron arranged and produced the S.T.A.G.E. Benefit Musical Tributes and currently serves as Musical Director for the San Francisco based AIDS Benefit Gala, Help Is On the Way.
His film and television credits include musical direction for I Love Lucy’s 50th Anniversary TV Special (CBS); composing theme songs for Animal Court (Animal Planet) and Nitecap (ABC); on-camera musical director for Nitecap and Name That Tune. His film work includes composing, arranging and/or orchestrating for Michelle Pfeiffer, Kim Basinger, Lily Tomlin, Bea Arthur, Carol Burnett, and Taylor Dayne, among others. He recently produced and arranged albums for Deborah Gibson (Colored Lights: The Broadway Album) and Valarie Pettiford (Hear My Song). Arrangements and songs by Ron are on Petula Clark, Helen Reddy, Lucie Arnaz, and Dorian Harewood’s albums.
Ron is the co-creator and arranger of the Broadway musical, Blame it on the Movies. His score for Twist of Fate, was awarded both the Los Angeles Drama Critic’s Circle and L.A Weekly Theatre Awards for “Best Musical of the Year”. He has also produced musicals including Is This Your Life?...a musical comedy expose; Rockwell: Life On A Pallette; and To Sir, With Love. His latest project, Undressed, the unflinching musicalization of the Dumas classic Camille, is a finalist in the O’Neill Musical Theatre Conference. |
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MARK ESPOSITO
Musical Staging
Mark Esposito has choreographed for television, commercials and videos. His work has been seen at The Reprise Series in Los Angeles (Applause), La Miranda Theater (Guys and Dolls), Musical Theater West (Brigadoon), Sacramento Music Circus (Camelot, Evita, Most Happy Fella, Pirates of Penzance, The Wizard of Oz), Universal Studios, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, Music Theater of Wichita, North Shore Music Theater (Massachusetts), Bass Hall and Casa Manana (Texas), Blowing Rock Stage Company (North Carolina), and The York Theater Company and Signature Theater in New York. Mark has served as Associate Director and Choreographer for The Radio City Music Hall Christmas Show. |
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