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Mark Barkan (Co-writer, book, music, and lyrics) has over 700 published songs and recordings by such diversified artists as Nat King Cole, Leslie Gore, Paul Anka, Petula Clark, The Everly Brothers, Rod Stewart, Mel Torme, and Dusty Springfield.. For the theater Mark wrote "Weddings and Funerals" for Melvin van Peebles' Broadway production of the "Waltz of the Stork." His songs have also appeared in the Off-Broadway productions of Beehive and Suds. With Bonnie Lee Sanders and author Terry McCauley, he has been developing a musical about James Audubon, "Wild Goose Chase". For television he wrote "The Tra-La-La Song", and "Wait Till Tomorrow" for the long running (and now seen on cable) Banana Splits series. He is the recipient of three BMI awards and two awards for the song "How's the Children" from the prestigious Castlebar International Song Festival in Scotland. Bonnie Lee Sanders (Co-writer, book, music, and lyrics) has been writing her own songs and singing them since high school when she formed "Bonnie and the Clydes" with her friends and made their first public appearance with Bobby Vinton in Alan Freed's live show at the Brooklyn Paramount Theater. They sang their own composition "Ninny Bop Bop" which in 1968 made the Billboard charts. Her musical, Come Up 'N See Me, co-written with Ellen Schwartz and Arthur Writ, won the Quest Fest Competition for New Musicals, sponsored by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Richard Stilgoe and was produced at the Penguin Rep, directed by Joe Brancato. With Mark Barkan and author Terry McCauley, she has been developing a musical about James Audubon, "Wild Goose Chase", and very recently presented excerpts from it at the Audubon Conference in Rensselaerville, N.Y. Bonnie is a Bistro Award winner for outstanding singer/songwriter. She has written for artists such as Eartha Kitt, ABBA, Hank Williams Jr., Dinah Shore and Big Bird. Her co-writers have included Steve Allen, Deodato, and Bob Dorough, with whom she wrote music for the film Never Again starring Jill Clayburgh... Frederick Stroppel (Bookwriter) has had New York productions of his work at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, the John Houseman Theater, The Actor’s Playhouse, the Mint Theater, and The 29th Street Repertory Theater. His full-length comedy FORTUNE’S FOOLS was produced Off-Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theater in 1995, and he has had a number of successful evenings of one-acts produced at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Mr. Stroppel has written several screenplays, including the short film GLACIER BAY, which has won nine festival awards including “Best Screenplay”. In television he has worked for HBO, Disney, PBS and Nickelodeon, and he is currently the head writer for the children’s series WOW WOW WUBBZY!. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Writers Guild of America East.
Tony Stevens (Choreographer) Phil Reno (Music Supervisor) Chris Lavley (Assistant Music Supervisor) Bobby Pearce (Costumes)
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3 "IT
WAS ALWAYS YOU" (mp3
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SCENE 1 "DON'T LET YOUR HEART GET IN THE WAY "(mp3 file) "FRIENDS TO THE END / IT WAS ALWAYS YOU" REPRISE (mp3 file) SCENE 3 SCENE 4
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