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Nominee Biographies for
GRANT NORMAN (Beast). Broadway: Miss Saigon, The Phantom of the Opera. London West End: Phantom - Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera. National Tours: Phantom - Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, Prince/Wolf - Into the Woods, Max - Lend Me a Tenor, Adam - Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Smudge - Forever Plaid, Gaston - Gigi. Grant was last seen in New York playing Sydney Carton in a new musical adaption of Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities. He would like to thank his friends and family for their love and support. And a special thank you to Dawn. I love you. MARC G. DALIO (Gaston) is thrilled to be joining the tour of Disney's Beauty and the Beast after originating Gaston in the German Production. Other credits include Disney's Beauty and the Beast (Beast), Miss Saigon (Chris), Metropolis, American Premiere (George), West Side Story (Tony), Les Misérables. Marc holds two music degrees (Cum Laude) from Rowan College of New Jersey. Recording credits: Disney's Beauty and the Beast (Gaston) German Production, Angel Falls (Ayla). To my Audri, Blaze, and family. Mahal Kita. DANYELLE BOSSARDET (Belle) is excited to be "Belle" in this, her third company of Disney 's Beauty and the Beast. Danyelle has starred as Florence in Chess, Sandy in Grease, and Elsa in Sheldon Harnick's workshop of Dragons. She 's enjoyed performing all over the country as well as on television's daytime drama "Guiding Light." A graduate of the University of Arizona, she wishes to express gratitude and love to her friends, family and beautiful husband. For my Boppa. ALAN MENKEN (Composer). Stage credits include Little Shop of Horrors, Disney's Beauty and the Beast, A Christmas Carol, King David, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Real Life Funnies, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, and Weird Romance. His new stage musical adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Der Glöckner Von Notre Dame) is currently running in Berlin. Stage awards include Best Score -Tony® nomination, Outer Critics Circle Award; Best Musical -New York Drama Critics Award, Drama Desk Award, London Evening Standard Award, Olivier Award, Dora Award, Outer Critics Circle Award and L.A. Drama Critics Award. Film credits include The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Newsies, Pocahontas, Life with Mikey, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Hercules. Film awards include four Academy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards for Best Score, four AcademyAwards and four Golden Globe Awards for Best Song ("Under the Sea," "Beauty and the Beast," "A Whole New World," "Colors of the Wind "). Other notable achievements include 10 Grammy Awards, including Song of the Year ("A Whole New World "), A Billboard number-one album (Pocahontas), and number one single ("A Whole New World") and BMI's Richard Kirk Award. Other credits include the score for "Lincoln" (ABC Mini-Series), the songs "My Christmas Tree" from Home Alone 2 and "The Measure of a Man" from Rocky V. Upcoming: the new musical Big Street based on the Damon Runyon short story "Little Pinks," a revision of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz and a reworking of Kicks. HOWARD ASHMAN (Lyricist) wrote the lyrics for the Disney animated films The Little Mermaid, Disney's Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin. He was Producer on The Little Mermaid and Executive Producer on Beauty and the Beast. With composer Alan Menken, he received two AcademyAwards and two Golden Globesfor Best Song ("Beauty and the Beast" and "Under the Sea") and four GrammyAwards. He received an Academy Awardnomination with Mr. Menken for "A Friend Like Me" from Aladdin. As author, lyricist and director for the record-breaking stage musical Little Shop of Horrors which ran for five years in New York and has been produced worldwide, Mr. Ashman received two Outer Critics' Circle Awards, a New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, a London Evening Standard Award and a Drama Desk Award. For the film version of Little Shop of Horrors, Mr. Ashman received a Best Screenplay nomination from the Screenwriters Guild and "Mean Green Mother from Outer Space" was nominated (with Mr. Menken) for an Academy Award for Best Song. He was the author, lyricist and director of Smile for which he received a Tony nomination for Best Book. His other credits include God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, The Confirmation; Artistic Director, WPA Theatre (1976-1982). Born in Baltimore, Mr. Ashman died at age 40 of complications due to AIDS. TIM RICE (Lyrics) was born in 1944 in leafy Buckinghamshire, England. He was first represented on Broadway as the lyricist of Jesus Christ Superstar in 1971, failing to win a Tony, or to be frank, many good reviews. He put this down to jealousy until his second Broadway effort, Evita received an even worse mauling from most critics, which made him contemplate the ghastly possibility that he might not be any good at his job. However, he won two Tonysfor Evita (book and lyrics) and decided to carry on regardless. His first musical written with Andrew Lloyd Webber (as were those other two) was Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and that finally made it to the Great White Way in 1982, doing fairly well there for a while. His fourth Broadway musical was Chess written with Abba's Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, an unmitigated commercial disaster in 1988, the New York Times being particularly forceful in its disapproval. But this is actually a cracking good show and will return (just opened in Stockholm). More recently his name has been spotted on NYC marquees relating to King David, Disney's Beauty and the Beast (both with Alan Menken's music), The Lion King and Aida (both with Elton John). For Aida, he won his third Tony, with Sir Elton, for the score. At one point, in 2000, he had four shows on Broadway at once, but no one else noticed. He has also written the lyrics for the musicals Blondel (music by the late Stephen Oliver), Heathcliff (John Farrar) and Starmania (Michel Berger), but no producer has yet wanted to risk these in New York. He is very famous in England, primarily for being a cricket lover, but can stroll around the Big Apple unrecognized except by British tourists. He has three Oscars and a knighthood, three children and a home near Frenchman's Creek. Future plans include losing weight. DANNY TROOB (Orchestrator) wrote the orchestrations for Aladdin, Pocahontas and Hercules, as well as the film version of Beauty and the Beast. As a composer, he scored the ABC-TV movies "Cinderella" and "Annie" as well as the Academy Award-winning short subject Trevor. Other Broadway credits include Big River (for which he received a Drama Desk Award), Footloose and How to Succeed… (the revival). ROBERT JESS ROTH (Director). Broadway: Disney's Beauty and the Beast (Tonynomination). Rob has enjoyed directing productions of Beauty the world over, working with many talented actors, musicians and technical crews. He directed the world premiere of Elton John and Tim Rice's Elaborate Lives: The Legend of Aida at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, continuing his collaboration with his Beauty designers and choreographer. Together with designer Stan Meyer and choreographer Matt West, Rob has created numerous shows and events for The Walt Disney Company. Many thanks to my amazing friends who have encouraged, advised and supported me (You know who you are. Don't you?). Mom and Dad too! Rob lives in New York City, where he enjoys rock and roll and collecting stuff. Rob's future plans include a project with rock star Alice Cooper and owning a black lab puppy. MATT WEST (Choreographer) received the L.A. Drama-Logue
Award for Disney's Beauty and the Beast. He also received
London's Olivier, the Drama Desk and Outer Critics' Circle award
nominations for Beauty. He has directed and choreographed
productions that include The Wanderer at Tokyo's Parko Theatre,
The Little Mermaid, Peter Pan and Cinderella for Disney
Home Video, and "Mickey's Nutcracker" for the Disney Channel.
Matt created the role of Bobby in the film A Chorus Line
directed by Sir Richard Attenborough. Broadway and regional credits:
A Chorus Line; Hello, Dolly!; and Peter NATASHA KATZ (Lighting Designer) is currently represented on Broadway by Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida (2000 Tony Awardwinner) and Disney's Beauty and the Beast (Tony nomination), along with worldwide productions of the show. Other Broadway credits include: Twelfth Night (Tony nomination) at Lincoln Center, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Barrymore, Gypsy, Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, Aren't We All? Shogun, Breaking the Code and Pack of Lies. She designed Die Soldatan at New York City Opera, Don Quixote for American Ballet Theatre, concert acts for Shirley MacLaine, Ann-Margret and Tommy Tune, the HBO Television specials "Mambo Mouth "and "Spic-O-Rama" as well as extensive productions Off-Broadway and for American regional theatres. Current projects include EFX! at the MGM Grand Hotel and the lighting installation at Niketown N.Y. and London. STANLEY A. MEYER (Scenic Designer). Broadway: Disney's
Beauty and the Beast. International: Disney's Beauty and
the Beast in London, Australia, Japan, Stuttgart, Vienna, Mexico
City, Toronto, Buenos Aires; One Man's Dream in Tokyo. National
Tour: Disney's Beauty and the Beast. Regional: World Premiere
of Elton John and Tim Rice's Elaborate Lives: The Legend of Aida,
Alliance Theatre; American Premiere of Joe Bard's Zoz, The
Bard of Dublin Liberties; The Marriage of Bette and Boo, and
Cloud 9, Nat Home Theatre; The Everafters, Manhattan
Punchline Theatre; The Secret Garden, Theatre Works, USA;
The Merry Wives of Windsor, King Lear, The Comedy of Errors,
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Southern
California Grove Shakespeare Festival; SRT and ATE Summer Stock.
TV and Film: A rock-and-roll version of The Nutcracker, filmed
for ANN HOULD-WARD (Costume Designer) received the 1994 Tony
Award and the American Theater Wing's Design Award for the Best
Costume Design in Disney's Beauty and the Beast as well as
an Olivier nomination for Best Costume Design in London. She was
selected to represent the U.S. in the 1995 Prague Design Quadrennial.
Recent projects include Little Me (Roundabout Theatre), Strike!
- a Miramax film, Antony and Cleopatra with Vanessa Redgrave
(Public Theatre), A Little Night Music (Houston Grand Opera),
and Othello, a premiere ballet with Lar Lubovitch for American
Ballet Theater. Broadway: Sondheim/Lapine's Sunday in the Park
with George (Tony/Drama Desk nominations; Maharam Award/Outstanding
Costume Design); Harrigan and Hart (Maharam nomination);
Into the Woods (Tony®, Drama Desk, Outer Critics' Circle
nominations; L.A. Drama Critics' Circle Award); The Molière
Comedies (Roundabout); Falsettos; St. Joan; Three Men on
a Horse; In the Summer House; Timon of Athens. Dance collaboration
designs: Graciella Daniele (Ballet Hispanico); Lar Lubovitch (The
White Oak Project). She has been aided in the design of Beauty
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