Sweet Charity - West End Creative Team

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Cy Coleman Composer
Cy Coleman was a prolific composer, songwriter, and jazz pianist who made a significant impact on American music and Broadway. Born Seymour Kaufman in 1929 in New York City, Coleman began playing piano at an early age and was soon performing in clubs and bars around the city. He studied at the Juilliard School of Music and the Manhattan School of Music, but his true education came from playing with jazz greats like Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. Coleman's first foray into Broadway was with the musical "Wildcat" in 1960, which starred Lucille Ball. The show was not a critical success, ... read more
Federico Fellini Source Material
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Dorothy Fields Lyricist
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Ennio Flaiano Source Material
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Bob Fosse Conceiver
Bob Fosse was an American actor, choreographer, dancer, and film and stage director. He directed and choreographed musical works on stage and screen, including the stage musicals The Pajama Game (1954), Damn Yankees (1955), How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1961), Sweet Charity (1966), Pippin (1972), and Chicago (1975). He directed the films Sweet Charity (1969), Cabaret (1972), Lenny (1975), All That Jazz (1979), and Star 80 (1983). Fosse's distinctive style of choreography included turned-in knees and "jazz hands". He is the only person ever to have won Oscar, Emmy, and Tony awards in the same year (1973). He ... read more
Tullio Pinelli Source Material
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Neil Simon Bookwriter
Larry Blank Orchestrations
Larry Blank is a composer, orchestrator and conductor, based in Los Angeles, New York and London, whose career has found him working with some of the most respected names in theatre, film, television and music, as well as exciting new talents. More recently, Larry was instructor for the first master class in film orchestration and conducting in Matera, Italy. He also orchestrated the West End Musical BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED and was the Music Director for Katie Couric's HOLLYWOOD HITS BROADWAY aboard the QM2 in New York Harbor, Larry also arranged and orchestrated JOHN BARROWMAN SWINGS COLE PORTER for the acclaimed West ... read more
Ralph Burns Original Orchestrations
Mark Cumberland Orchestrations
David Grindrod Casting Director
Mark Henderson Lighting Designer
Mark was the recipient of the 1992, 1995, 2000, 2002, 2010 and 2016 Laurence Olivier Awards for Lighting Design, was awarded a Tony award in 2006 for The History Boys. Has lit extensively for all the major theatre, opera and dance companies in the UK including over 60 productions for the National Theatre and over 70 in the West End together with over 20 Broadway productions. ... read more
Robert Jones Designer
Nick Lidster Sound Designer
Wayne McGregor Choreographer
Finn Ross Video Designer
Finn Ross trained at Central School of Speech and Drama and designs video for live performance. He has won two Olivier’s, a Tony and three Drama Desk awards. Theatre credits include: Jagged Little Pill (Broadway); Sweet Charity (Donmar); A Very, Very, Very Dark Matter (The Bridge); Frozen (Broadway); Mean Girls (Broadway); Bat out of Hell (West End and International); Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (West End and Broadway); Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Broadway, West End and UK Tour); Dusty (Touring); In the Body of the World and The Crossing (American Repertory Theatre & Broadway); American Psycho ... read more
Josie Rourke Director
Gareth Valentine Musical Supervisor
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