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University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music.
Mamma Mia!
is her first show at The Muny and she
would like to thank everyone involved for giving her
this amazing opportunity. She is now a proud member
of AEA!
DARYL TOFA
(Ensemble)
is making his Muny debut this
summer in
The Wizard of Oz, The Music Man, Mamma
Mia!
and
Aida.
Regional theatre:
South Pacific, West Side
Story, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor
®
Dreamcoat
and
Catch Me If You Can
at Music Theatre Wichita. He
is a
student at the University of Oklahoma, where he
appeared in
Ragtime
and
Thoroughly Modern Millie
(Ching Ho).
HALLI TOLAND
(Ensemble)
is excited to be making her
Muny debut! This summer, she is appearing in
The
Wizard of Oz
,
Mamma Mia!
and as Zaneeta Shinn in
The
Music Man
. Regional credits include: Graziella in
West
Side Story
, dance captain in
Catch Me If You Can
, dance
ensemble in
42nd Street
(Music Theatre Wichita). Love to
her family and teachers. University of Michigan class of
2017. Proud new member of AEA.
BRION MARQUIS WATSON
(Ensemble)
is thrilled to be
returning to The Muny, where he made his debut in
Hairspray
. He’s a 19-year-old native of North Carolina
and attends the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
Love and gratitude to God, his family, friends and
anyone else who continues to support him. Proud
member of AEA!
KEVIN ZAK
(Ensemble)
Off-Broadway credits: Kenneth
Starr in
Clinton
The Musical
(Lucille Lortel nomination,
Original Cast Album), Buffalo Bill in
Silence! The
Musical.
NYC readings include
Citizen Ruth
,
Good Times
Roll
and
My Life is a Musical
, among others
.
Kevin is
the creator/co-writer of
Bloody Bloody Angela Lansbury:
Murder, She Wrote Live!
, a new musical that premiered
to a sold-out crowd at Feinstein’s/54 Below. @KevinJZak
CATHERINE JOHNSON
(Book)
Theatre:
Rag Doll,
Renegades, Suspension
(Bristol Old Vic);
Too Much
Too Young
(Bristol Old Vic and London Bubble);
Boys
Mean Business, Dead Sheep, Little Baby Nothing
(Bush
Theatre, London);
Shang-a-Lang
(Bush Theatre and
national tour); and
Mamma Mia!
(worldwide);
Through
the Wire
and
A Letter to Lacey
for NT Connections.
Creative consultant on ABBA the Museum, Stockholm.
Television:
Casualty, Byker Grove, Love Hurts, Gold,
Linda Green.
Original screenplays:
Rag Doll
and
Where’s
Willy?
(HTV) and
Sin Bin
(BBC), the series
Love in the
21st Century
(Channel 4) and
Dappers
(BBC3). Awards:
Catherine has won the Bristol Old Vic/HTV Playwriting
Award, Thames Television’s Writer-in-Residence Award,
Thames Television’s Best Play Award and was nominated
in 2002 for a Tony Award for Best Musical Book for
Mamma Mia!.
Film: Catherine wrote the screenplay for
the
Mamma Mia!
movie in 2008.
BENNY ANDERSSON
(Music & Lyrics)
Born in Stockholm
on December 16, 1946. Instructed by his father and
grandfather, he started playing the accordion at the age
of 6, and he has not stopped yet.
BJÖRN ULVAEUS
(Music & Lyrics)
was born in 1945
in Gothenberg on the west coast of Sweden. After a
successful local career in Sweden with a folk group
in the mid-1960s, he started his collaboration with
Benny Andersson. They then went on to form ABBA with
Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. Even during
the ABBA years, the idea of writing a musical seemed
appealing and, in 1981, Björn and Benny met Tim Rice
and co-wrote
Chess
with him, which opened in the West
End in 1986. In 1995 Björn and Benny opened a new
musical called
Kristina från Duvemåla
, which played
for three years in Sweden. Their most recent musical is
the Stockholm production of
Hjälp sökes,
which opened
in 2013
.
MARTIN KOCH
(Additional Material & Arrangements)
received his musical training at The Royal College of
Music. He was the musical director for a number of
shows including
Chicago
(Cambridge Theatre),
Cats
(New London Theatre),
The Pirates of Penzance
(Theatre
Royal, Drury Lane),
Blondel
(Aldwych Theatre),
The Boy
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