JARED BRADSHAW (cast member) |
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This southern boy is the son of a preacher man, and is living his dream of performing for a living. He continues his second year with New York City's hit "Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening", having recorded the cast album, and performed the show in New York, Chicago, Miami and San Diego. Off-Broadway credits include: Dr. Sex, The Talk of the Town, Hidden Voices (with mentor Terrence Mann), and Love Comics. Regional favorites: The Last Five Years, Smokey Joe's Cafe (x3), Jekyll and Hyde, Cabaret, The Music Man, West Side Story, My Way, Putting it Together, Singin' in the Rain, and Disney Cruise Line. BFA Musical Theatre: Shorter College, Rome, GA. Jared has soloed at Carnegie Hall, and has had the privilege to tour Europe performing in Spain, France, Greece, Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary. He is a 4 time NATS winner (National Association of the Teachers of Singing), has recorded 2 cds. Thank you to "Wicked" girlfriend Lindsay, family, and Nani/Saperstein Management. www.jaredbradshaw.com. |
| SCOTT GOFTA (cast member) | |
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Scott is thrilled once again to join this extraordinary company of singers. Other concerts include: Get Happy - Harold Arlen Centennial starring Christine Ebersole (Chicago Symphony Hall), 'Swonderful starring Audra McDonald (Warner Theatre - D.C.), A Tribute to the Four Seasons, The Johnny Rodgers Band (Birdland, The Jazz Standard). Recordings: Fine and Dandy, Through the Years (both original cast recordings on PS Classics) and The Musicality of Vincent Youmans (Jay Records). Recent NYC appearances include Sherlock Holmes: The Early Years, Fine And Dandy (Casey Nicholaw, dir.) and Ziegfeld’s Midnight Frolic, in which he sang the songs of Eddie Cantor. Regional credits: How to Succeed... (Finch), Joseph...Dreamcoat (Benjamin), Cabaret (Emcee), Once Upon a Mattress (Minstrel), Mousetrap (Christopher Wren), Baby (Danny), Gypsy (Tulsa), Phantom, Secret Garden. BFA Graduate, Tarkio College, Missouri. For Mom! |
| CARLOS LOPEZ (cast member) | |
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Most recently Carlos played the role of Sancho Panza in Man of La Mancha at the White Plains Performing Arts Center. Other recent roles include: Oscar in The Odd Couple, Hot Blades Harry in Urinetown, Smokey in Damn Yankees, and Al Deluca in A Chorus Line, Broadway Barber in Man of La Mancha, Sonny in Grease, Tommy Keeler in Annie Get Your Gun, Speedy in Wonderful Town, Mike and Paul in A Chorus Line, and roles in The Pajama Game, Grand Hotel, and Guys And Dolls. He also played Mike in the international tour of A Chorus Line, Arab in the national tour of West Side Story, Harry the Horse in the national tour of Guys And Dolls, and Karl in Bells are Ringing. TV credits include The Sopranos, Fort Pit, Law and Order, Guiding Light, All Fired Up. Films include Brooklyn Sonnet, Stepford Wives and Death Wishes. Check out his website! |
| CHRIS MURRAH (cast member) | |
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Chris Murrah is happy to once again be singing the music of The Four Seasons. Music that, thanks to the Dirty Dancing record and Oldies 95.3, he grew up on. His theatrical experience has taken him around the country in shows ranging from Jesus Christ Superstar and The Who's Tommy to Annie and Damn Yankees to Romeo and Juliet and Cymbeline. He has worked at Goodspeed Opera House, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Geva Center for the Performing Arts and a couple of national tours playing more places than he can remember. His favorites include anything off the wall, be it Bobby in Urinetown or Jonas (a fourteen year old) in The Giver, a new piece currently in development with Pam Berlin. He holds a BFA from Florida State University and has trained with Yale's Pamela Prather and Juilliard's Wendy Waterman. Currently he is working on a new series for television and on a children's book. He offers his thanks to all who are encouraging and supportive. |
| AARON GANDY (Musical Director/Arranger) | Broadway credits include Disney's The Lion King, Urinetown, and Dora the Explorer Live! at Radio City Music Hall, and numerous regional and tour productions. He music directed last years gala concert of Busker Alley, starring Jim Dale and Glenn Close, directed by Tony Walton. He has conducted three recordings for PS Classics, including last year's Jule Styne In Hollywood. He has concertized with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, The Chicago Humanities Festival, The York Theatre Company's Musicals in Mufti Series, Cami Hall, San Francisco's 42nd Street Moon, The Museum of Television and Radio, Symphony Space, Tribeca Performing Arts Center and solo appearances with Christine Ebersole, Davis Gaines, Leslie Uggams, Jerry Hadley and many others. He serves as Artistic Advisor to both the Vincent Youmans Estate and the Kay Swift Trust. A native of North Florida, he is a graduate of Florida State University's School of Music. |
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| JILL CARLEN (Director / Choreographer) | As a director and choreographer, Jill is most proud of her multi-year association with Smokey Joe’s Café (national and international tour), directed by the legendary Jerry Zaks, and performing the role of Patti opposite Gladys Knight. She followed that by assisting Tony Award winning Choreographer Joey McNeely in mounting several national and international tours. Jill directed and choreographed Ogunquit Playhouse’s sold-out production of Smokey Joe’s Café with members of the original Broadway cast. Other choreography credits include West Side Story, Chess, Red Hot & Blue, Chicago (French Woods Performing Arts), Direction and Choreography for My Way (Seacoast Repertory Theatre), Pajama Game, and numerous productions for Peter Grey Terhune Presents on cruise ships worldwide. Jill has directed and choreographed Motown and Doo-wop revues at regional theatres and performing arts schools around the country. Favorite roles include Louise in Gypsy, The Witch in Into the Woods , Magenta in Rocky Horror Picture Show, Rusty in Footloose, and the title role in Evita. A Tallahassee, Florida native, Jill has a BFA from Florida State University. |
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