With a career spanning over seven decades, he is known as a writer and director of a variety of successful broad farces and parodies. A recipient of numerous accolades, he is one of 21 entertainers to win the EGOT, which includes an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, an Academy Award, and a Tony Award. He received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2009, a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2010, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2013, a British Film Institute Fellowship in 2015, a National Medal of Arts in 2016, a BAFTA Fellowship in 2017, and the Honorary Academy ... read more
Rick Hip-Flores has recently conducted Fun Home, Beautiful, and Rocky on Broadway, and was Associate Conductor and Arranger at the Radio City Spectacular, directed by Mia Michaels. As keyboardist: School of Rock, Aladdin, Billy Elliot, and Into the Woods (Public Theater); Musical Director of We Will Rock You (First National Tour); Music Supervisor of Heatwave: The Jack Cole Project at Queens Theatre in the Park, and 'Swonderful at Pittsburgh CLO. Rick graduated from Columbia University, and is an award-winning composer/lyricist. ... read more
