Tony Award® Nominee Nancy Opel (Urinetown) returns to the New York stage in Curvy Widow. Based on a true story, this sassy and witty musical follows the exploits of a feisty fifty-something whose adventures inspire laughter and, in the least expected places — reveal truths about life, love, and sex. From surviving hilarious first dates, to her intimate conquests, this widow navigates her way through it all with humor and perseverance. Featuring a brilliant cast of best friends, a dead husband, and a myriad of potential suitors — Curvy learns the hard way what it means to start life over in the modern age.
Broadway: Honeymoon in Vegas (Drama Desk nom.), Beautiful, Cinderella, Memphis, Gypsy, Fiddler on the Roof, Urinetown (Tony Nom.), Triumph of Love, Anything Goes, Sunday in the Park With George, Evita, others. Off-Broadway: The Toxic Avenger (Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critics, Lortel noms), My Deah (Obie), Polish Joke (Drama Desk, Lortel noms), Mere Mortals, All in the Timing, others. Regional/international: Curvy Widow, Prince of Broadway; Follies; Holiday Inn; Hir; On the Town; Hello, Dolly!; others. National tour: The Drowsy Chaperone. TV: “The Big C,” multiple “Law & Order,” others. www.nancyopel.com
Off-Broadway: Manhattan Theatre Club, Transport Group, Primary Stages, The American Place Theater. Regional: George Street Playhouse and NC Stage (Curvy Widow), Guthrie Theater, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Eugene O’Neill Theater Conference, Syracuse Stage, Premiere Stages, Stamford Center for the Arts, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Barter Theatre, Riverside Theater. TV: “Law & Order: SVU.” www.Andrea-Bianchi.com
is happy to be living and thriving in NYC. Her body of work includes Newsies; Caroline, Or Change; Rent; Love, Loss And What I Wore; “Law & Order;” “Blue Bloods;” “Shades of Blue;” Across the Universe; and her own show Jazzer at Heart at clubs/festivals around the country.
Broadway/Off-Broadway/tours: Amazing Grace, Scandalous, Memphis, Scarlet Pimpernel, Passion, City of Angels, Southern Comfort, Green Heart, Hello Again, Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Les Misèrables and many regional theatres throughout the years. Film/TV: Young Adult, Boy Meets Girl, “Elementary,” “Blacklist,” “Madam Secretary,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Boardwalk Empire.”
Broadway/ Off-Broadway/tours: Promises, Promises; Scarlet Pimpernel; Victor/Victoria; How the Grinch Stole Christmas; The Gig; Little Shop of Horrors; Death of Von Richthofen; Legally Blonde; Sweet Charity; Secret Garden; Evita; and numerous regional credits. TV: “Good Wife,” “Boston Legal,” “Six Feet Under,” multiple “Law & Order,” “Malcolm in the Middle,” “Judging Amy,” “Crossing Jordan,” “Star Trek: Voyager,” etc.
Broadway: Aladdin, Pacific Overtures, King and I, Miss Saigon, My Favorite Year, Shogun, Mail. Tours: M. Butterfly, Anything Goes. Television: “Sesame Street” (18 seasons), “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Louie,” “30 Rock,” “Brotherhood,” “David Letterman.” Film: It Could Happen To You. Thank you Curvy Family. For Herb. Website: www.alanmuraoka.tv. Instagram: @alanathoopers.
Broadway: Mamma Mia! Off-Broadway/regional: Going Down Swingin’, Lend Me a Tenor, The Good Life. National tours: The Book of Mormon, Les Misèrables. Canadian productions: Night of the Iguana, El Salvador, Sunset Boulevard. Over 70 film/TV credits: J.Edgar and Life or Something Like it. TV: “NCIS,” “Whistler,” “V,” “CSI,” “The Good Wife,” “Tin Star.” Thanks Peter Flynn and Bobby Goldman. www.chrisshyer.com
Broadway: Ragtime (revival), Hairspray. National tours: South Pacific, Dreamgirls. Off- Broadway: Sistas, Next to Normal. Regional includes Paper Mill Playhouse, Tuacahn Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh CLO, Actors Theatre of Louisville, North Shore Music Theatre, Maine State Music Theatre. Film/TV: “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” “Blue Bloods,” Spike Lee’s Drop Squad. Love to husband, Ron. Dedicated to my sister, Laurie. www.nicolepowell.com
Broadway: Wonderful Town, The Scarlet Pimpernel and Beauty and the Beast. National tours: Les Misèrables, The Scarlet Pimpernel and White Christmas (Detroit Company). International tour: Phantom by Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit. Off- Broadway: Sessions. Credits also include numerous NYC theatre readings, workshops, concerts, recordings and regional theatre productions.
is a Tony and Olivier Award-winning theatre and film producer. Broadway productions include It Shoulda Been You, Side Show, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Of Mice and Men, Kinky Boots, A Time to Kill, The Normal Heart, Elling, 33 Variations A Raisin in the Sun. Film and television credits include “The Accidental Wolf,” That’s Not Us, Love Is Strange, Alex & Ali, “DTLA” season 1 and “In the Life.”
is a co- founder/producer of Mainspring Arts Cooperative, a not-for-profit organization that produces and presents national tours to regional theatres and was previously the senior producer at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. Upcoming projects include Uncommon Sense, Anne of Green Gables and Wait Wait Don’t Kill Me. mainspringarts.org
is a theatre producer/investor through her company North Star Theatricals based in Minneapolis and NYC. She is a proud board member of the Guthrie Theater and Mainspring Arts Cooperative (MAC) and is on Theatre Communication Group’s National Council for the American Theatre. northstartheatricals.com
Broadway credits as co-producer/investor include Bonnie and Clyde, The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess (Tony Award), An American In Paris (Tony nominee), An American In Paris (national tour and London) and Anastasia. He is delighted to be a part of the Curvy Widow team. Thank you, Janie, for your love and support.
are first time investors but long time supporters of Broadway and Off- Broadway. We have thoroughly enjoyed participating in the journey from the first workshops in 2016 in NYC to Asheville, NC to New Brunswick, NJ (our home state) and now to the Westside Theatre in 2017.
have long had a love of live stage and New York theatre. They have been involved in the support of non-profit theatre groups including Keen Company and Roundabout Theatre Company. Curvy Widow is their first production with this level of involvement.
are long time patrons of the arts, including the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts and the Bergen Performing Arts Center. This is their first foray into theatre. After attending the final preview and subsequently meeting Bobby, they were instantly sold on supporting the production, joining Art’s former business partners, Allen and Marie Wolpert, and Marty Borell.
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Foresight Theatrical is comprised of partners Allan Williams, Aaron Lustbader and Mark Shacket who oversee and supervise The Phantom of the Opera, Kinky Boots, Miss Saigon and Charlie and The Chocolate Factory on Broadway, as well as the world-wide management of Kinky Boots.
given this show is Bobby’s story; she believes no bio is required. But, this is her Off-Broadway debut, so she has to have one! Beyond her acumen in the dating scene, she is a world- class chef, interior designer and contractor and boxer. Her other theatrical projects in development include Wilshire, another collaboration with composer/lyricist Drew Brody and Speed Trap with Nashville-based composer/lyricist Michael Webb. Bobby is the widow of Academy Award winning screenwriter/playwright James Goldman.
Broadway: music for Oh, Hello starring Nick Kroll and John Mulaney, directed by Alex Timbers. Selected theatre: music and lyrics for Cutman: A Boxing Musical (Goodspeed Musicals, 2011); Derma (Piccolo Spoleto Festival, 2013). Released two albums as the lead singer of the rock band M-LAB, two solo albums and an EP A Little Single in collaboration with Lance Horne. Composed the film score for Stephen Winter’s Jason and Shirley. Visit www.drewbrody.com for more.
has been designing for the theatre and live events for over 15 years and his work has been seen by millions of people worldwide, earning him an Emmy nomination. He is a cofounder of ARDA studio, which provides production design for large scale international spectacles along with countless theatrical presentations of all sizes throughout the United States and abroad. See www.ARDAStudio.com for more.
PBS’s “Sesame Street” (five Emmy nominations, two awards), NBC’s “SNL” (1000 Lonely Island digital shorts). Broadway: Honeymoon in Vegas. Off-Broadway: Disaster!; Unbroken Circle. Paper Mill Playhouse: Honeymoon in Vegas, Boeing Boeing, Smokey Joe’s Café. MFA Carnegie Mellon University, Irene Shariff Young Master award. www.BrianHemesath.com
Broadway: Ann. Opera: Macbeth for L.A. Opera. Off-Broadway: Absolute Brightness… at Westside Arts, Measure for Measure, The Killer and Tamberlaine for Theatre for a New Audience, A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit… for MCC Theater, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Lincoln Center Theater, Playwrights Horizons, The Play Company, Primary Stages, Second Stage Theater, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.
is a musician, composer and producer. His music is in the films Awake: A Dream from Standing Rock (Tribeca Film Festival 2017), How to Let Go of the World (and Love All the Things Climate Can’t Change) (Sundance 2016, HBO) and City of Gold (Sundance, SXSW 2015). Rumery recently received an Obie for Sustained Excellence in Sound Design and Composition.
is a designer and composer whose work has been heard at The Public Theater, EST, New Ohio Theatre, Irish Rep, New World Stages, Sharon Playhouse and The Met. Staab was born and raised in Germany and is the resident sound designer at the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. BA Oberlin; MFA Krannert. www.florianstaab.com
Broadway: Peter and the Starcatcher (composer; Drama Desk Award, Tony nomination), Dame Edna: Back with a Vengeance (composer, lyricist, performer). Off-Broadway: sisters’ Follies (for Basil Twist). Composer: Hollywood (La Jolla Playhouse), Beth Henley’s Laugh (Studio Theatre), The Primrose Path, The Great Gatsby (Guthrie Theater); The Three Musketeers; Twelfth Night (Seattle Repertory Theatre).
is thrilled to be making his Off- Broadway debut with Curvy Widow. Previous credits include The Will Rogers Follies (The Merry-Go-Round Playhouse); Cutman: A Boxing Musical (Goodspeed Musicals); South Street (Pasadena Playhouse); I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change; Bingo: The Winning Musical. As a composer he provided music and lyrics for 50 Shades of F****d Up. Additionally, he serves as music director for the Paper Mill Playhouse August Intensive. Proud graduate of Stetson University. www.adsotomayor.net
Duncan Stewart CSA and Benton Whitley CSA. Broadway/NY: The Great Comet, On the Town, Pippin, Chicago, La Cage Aux Folles, The Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Carnegie Hall West Side Story, The Band Wagon, Pageant. Tours: Finding Neverland, Into the Woods, The Bodyguard, Once, Shrek, Elf, We Will Rock You. Numerous regional theatres. Artios Award-winning. stewartwhitley.com
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Broadway: Side Show, On the Twentieth Century, The Addams Family. Selected Off-Broadway: The Woodsman, Himself and Nora, Ring Twice for Miranda, Little Shop of Horrors, Building the Wall, Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek, Nevermore, Stalking the Bogeyman, Old Jews Telling Jokes, The Fantasticks, Laugh it Up…, Phallacy. National tour: Flashdance. All of my love to Lena D.
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Broadway: Matilda, An American in Paris, Jesus Christ Superstar, Follies, Slava’s Snowshow, A Chorus Line. National Tours: Matilda, A Chorus Line. Off-Broadway: BARE, Screwtape Letters, Irena’s Vow.
is comprised of partners Allan Williams, Aaron Lustbader and Mark Shacket who oversee and supervise The Phantom of the Opera, Kinky Boots, Miss Saigon and Charlie and The Chocolate Factory on Broadway, as well as the world-wide management of Kinky Boots.
Foresight Theatrical is comprised of partners Allan Williams, Aaron Lustbader and Mark Shacket who oversee and supervise The Phantom of the Opera, Kinky Boots, Miss Saigon and Charlie and The Chocolate Factory on Broadway, as well as the world-wide management of Kinky Boots.
is a New York based choreographer, director, performer and educator born and raised in Puerto Rico. He is currently the associate choreographer of the Broadway hit show On Your Feet! Favorite credits: Newsies (director, Maltz Jupiter Theater), In the Heights (director/choreographer, Olney Theatre Center), On Your Feet! (associate choreog rapher, Tony Nomination), Rocky (associate choreographer, Tony nomination), Man of La Mancha, Randy Newman’s Faust (Encores!), Mr. Magoo’s A Christmas Carol, Fortress of Solitude (associate choreographer, The Public Theater), Pirates of Penzance (Stratford Festival), Brazil Brazil (New Victory Theater), Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare Theater Company), My Fair Lady, Guys and Dolls (John W. Engeman Theater), Paul Simon’s Capeman (associate choreographer, Shakespeare in the Park), In the Heights (2009 Gypsy of the Year), Rock of Ages (associate choreographer, national tour/West End/Vegas). Love to my family and Nova.
Recent credits: Ragtime (Ford’s Theatre), Curvy Widow (George Street Playhouse). New York credits: Junie B’s Essential Guide (Lortel Theatre); Two Rooms (Theatre Row); On the Twentieth Century, Chess and Funny Girl (Actors Fund/New Amsterdam Theatre); Rhapsody in Seth (Actors’ Playhouse). Other credits: Smart Blonde with Andréa Burns; The Mountaintop (Pittsburgh’s City Theatre); Gypsy (The Muny); Kiss Me, Kate (Maltz-Jupiter Theatre). Associate artist, Ford’s Theatre, producer, Mainspring Arts Cooperative and a not-for-profit organization that produces and presents national tours to regional theatres.