PIECE OF MY HEART - Key Persons
Most recently Adam was the associate music director for the reading of Sara Bareilles' musical Waitress. He also musically assisted The Last Five Years movie. As a pianist, Adam played in both the Broadway and Goodspeed productions of 13 The Musical, and is currently a rehearsal pianist for The Book Of Mormon.
Orchestrating credits include the 2013-2014 BCEFA Gypsy Of The Year at the Minskoff theatre, and his contributions to From Broadway With Love, a Sandy Hook benefit concert was featured on PBS. Adam also co-orchestrated Foreverman The Musical, for which he received the NYMF Outstanding Orchestration award in 2012.
Bert Berns was one of the great originals of the golden age of rhythm and blues. He first flourished as a staff producer at Atlantic Records, but Berns quickly developed into one of the leading record men of his day. He produced historic rhythm and blues records such as "Cry To Me" by Solomon Burke, "Under the Boardwalk" by The Drifters, and "Twist and Shout" by the Isley Brothers. Songs of his such as "Twist and Shout," "Hang On Sloopy," and "Piece of My Heart" have become the bedrock of modern music, recorded by The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Otis Redding, among many others. As head of his own record label, Bang Records, he signed and supervised the first solo records by Neil Diamond and Van Morrison. Born and raised in the Bronx, Berns suffered rheumatic fever as a teenager - an early death sentence in those pre-open heart surgery days. He died at age 38 on December 30, 1967, at the height of his career. But the music of Bert Berns never died. His songs have been consistently covered by the biggest names in the music business, featured in movie soundtracks, and have inspired many imitations and tributes. Bert Berns was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016.
Carleigh Bettiol is honored to be a part of this show! National Tours: Flashdance The Musical, In The Heights, A Chorus Line, Disney's Beauty and the Beast. Regional: Paper Mill Playhouse, Pittsburgh CLO, The Maltz Jupiter Theatre. Other: Hamilton (Workshop of a new musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda), PBS: Live from Lincoln Center (Marvin Hamlisch tribute, featured dancer). Thanks to Denis, Barry, Rachel, Family and Friends!
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Broadway: A Time to Kill, Mary Poppins, Merchant of Venice, South Pacific, Pygmalion, Journey's End, The Times They Are A-Changin', Amour, The Elephant Man, Dance of Death, Jane Eyre, Marlene, Little Me, 1776, Taking Sides, Indiscretions. National Tours: Hairspray, Fosse, West Side Story.Off-Broadway: Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club, Second Stage, City Center Encores, MCC Theater, Theatre for a New Audience. Regional: Williamstown Theatre Festival, Old Globe, Mark Taper Forum.
Recent credits include Popesical (Joe's Pub), Disaster! (NY's Triad), Chicago and Spamalot (St Louis' MUNY), Legally Blonde (NCT), and Jane Krakowski in Concert (Town Hall). As choreographer, recent credits include Honeymoon in Vegas, Damn Yankees, Thoroughly Modern Millie (Paper Mill Playhouse), She Loves Me, …Forum, Johnny Baseball (Williamstown Theater Festival), Pirates! (Huntington Theater), Elf (5th Ave), Coraline (MTC), POP! (Yale Rep), Post Office (Center Theater Group), The Kennedy Center Honors, Oprah's Surprise Spectacular, Sex and the City, as well as national tours of Man of La Mancha and My Fair Lady. Upcoming Broadway projects include Honeymoon in Vegas and Hee Haw.
Fabian has created props for over 50 Broadway productions. Recent credits include: If/Then, Rocky, Bridges of Madison County, I'll Eat You Last, Kinky Boots, Lucky Guy, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Chaplin, Nice Work If You Can Get It, A Streetcar Named Desire, Stick Fly, Relatively Speaking, The Normal Heart, House of Blue Leaves, Anything Goes, and Fences. Off Broadway: Appropriate (Signature Theatre), Somewhere Fun (The Vineyard Theatre), and Tribes (Barrow Street Theatre).
Linda Hart has created original roles in both Catch Me If You Can and the Tony Award-winning Hairspray. She won a Theater World Award for her performance in Anything Goes at Lincoln Center. Linda played opposite Sid Caesar in Sid Caesar on Broadway. Ms. Hart was a Harlette in Bette Midler's Broadway productions Divine Madness and DeTour.
Off-Broadway: Linda Hart has starred in The Great American Trailer Park Musical, the critically acclaimed Gemini at Second Stage, Surviving Grace, Light Up The Sky at Pasadena Playhouse (Drama-League Award), A Flea In Her Ear at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. On Film: Ms. Hart has starred opposite Kevin Costner in both "Tin Cup" and "A Perfect World" - the latter, directed by Clint Eastwood. She appeared in the Academy Award-winning film "The Insider," "Get Shorty" opposite John Travolta, and "Beautiful" directed by Sally Field. TV: Linda played Mazeppa in the CBS production of "Gypsy," starring Bette Midler. She has appeared and starred in dozens of television series and mini-series including being one of the stars of Seth MacFarlane's FOX series, "The Winner." Ms. Hart has headlined with the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall and can also be heard on numerous soundtracks and original Broadway cast albums. Linda has recorded 12 albums with her gospel singing, Grammy Award-winning family, The Harts. This one's for you, Mother.
Lon Hoyt was the music director/conductor for Hairspray on Broadway, as well as the Hairspray movie. He was the Music Supervisor for the two National Tours, Toronto, Las Vegas, London, Johannesburg and Cologne companies of Hairspray.He was also the Music Supervisor for Lennon. Most recently, he was the associate conductor for Catch Me If You Can on Broadway. Other Broadway MD and conductor credits include Rock of Ages, Hair, The Rocky Horror Show, Street Corner Symphony and Footloose.
Off-Broadway, he has conducted Hereafter, Forever Plaid, Song of Singapore, A Backer's Audition, Hit the Lights, and The Diva is Dismissed. Regional theater credits include Burt Bacharach's Some Lovers, the Duncan Sheik/Steven Sater musical The Nightingale, Return to the Forbidden Planet, Blackbirds of Broadway, Calamity Jane, 42nd Street, and Anything Goes. As an actor, Lon has appeared in lead roles on Broadway in Tommy, Baby, Leader of the Pack, Starlight Express, and RockNRoll! The First 5000 Years. He can be heard playing piano for Whoopi Goldberg in the film and on the soundtrack of Boys on the Side. He was the music consultant for the Todd Graff film A Joyful Noise, and he arranged and orchestrated songs for another Todd Graff film BandSlam. Most recently, he was the music consultant on the upcoming film Annie. Love to the 3Ls.
Broadway: Newsies (Disney Theatrical); Anything Goes, Bye Bye Birdie, Waiting for Godot, Sunday in the Park With George, 110 in the Shade (Roundabout). Off-Broadway: Hand to God, Reasons To Be Happy (MCC). Paper Mill Playhouse: Honeymoon in Vegas, Oliver, Sound of Music, Hairspray, Smokey Joe's Café, Full Monty, Oklahoma!.
Teresa Gattison has performed in many arenas such as Off-Broadway's National Black Theater in Harlem N.Y and The Billie Holiday Theater in Brooklyn, N.Y. Radio City Music Hall and the great Carnegie Hall in NYC have also been stepping stones in which she sang with The New Jersey Mass Choir backing the great Ms. Aretha Franklin 2001-2005. Her many other credits include singing background on two Grammy award-winning CD's by Ms. Cissy Houston, as well as touring with her. She recorded one jingle with the jingle company "Debucci and Bilous" for CIT.
In May of 2010, Ms. Gattison graduated from Nyack College with a Bachelor of Sacred Music Degree. She's also a member of Actors' Equity Association since 2010. In 2011, Teresa was an Ensemble member of Piece of My Heart at Vassar College Theater in upstate New York under the production of New York Stage and Film. In Dec. 2011, she appeared in a Piece of My Heart musical segment at a benefit for the Oscar winner Christopher Plummer, which was also produced by New York Stage and Film. Feb. 2012 she sang with The New Jersey Mass Choir at Radio City Music Hall backing Aretha Franklin and was a part of the choir for the Home Going Service for the late great Whitney Houston. In April 2012, she recorded an album with Broadway star Jarrod Spector. Teresa is grateful to God for this wonderful journey and thanks her family for loving her through it all.