STOCKARD CHANNING (Vera Simpson). Her extensive theatre credits include Joe Egg (Tony Award, Drama Desk nomination), Hapgood (Drama Desk nomination), Love Letters (original cast), Woman in Mind (Drama Desk Award), The Rink, The Golden Age, They're Playing Our Song, Little Foxes, and her work in The Lion in Winter, House of Blue Leaves (Drama Desk nomination), Four Baboons Adoring the Sun, and Six Degrees of Separation (Drama Desk nomination) earned her four Tony Award nominations. For Six Degrees... she received an Obie Award and Drama League Award for Performance of the Year as well as an Olivier Award nomination when she performed the play in London. When she recreated her Six Degrees... role for film, she was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe. Other film credits include Bright Young Things, Must Love Dogs, The Business of Strangers (AFI Film Award nomination), Where the Heart Is, Practical Magic, Twilight, The First Wives' Club, Smoke (SAG nomination), Moll Flanders, Heartburn, Grease (People's Choice Award), Isn't She Great? and the upcoming Sparkle, and Multiple Sarcasms. In 2002, Ms. Channing won two Emmy Awards for her roles as First Lady Abby Bartlet on NBC's “The West Wing,” and for the role of Judy Shepard in “The Matthew Shepard Story,” for which she also received a Screen Actors Guild Award. She received a 2005 Daytime Emmy Award for her role in “Jack”.

MATTHEW RISCH (Joey Evans) is happy to be switching gears after coming from the original company of Legally Blonde (Carlos, Warner u/s) Other Broadway: Chicago (Sgt. Fogarty, Fred Casely u/s). TV: "Lipstick Jungle". Attended Walnut Hill School and CCM.

MARTHA PLIMPTON (Gladys Bumps) recently received Tony and Drama League nominations for her work in MTC's acclaimed revival of Top Girls. Other Broadway: Cymbeline, The Coast of Utopia (Drama Desk, Outer Critics awards, Tony nomination), Shining City, 16 Wounded. Off-Broadway: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hurlyburly, The False Servant, Flesh & Blood, Boston Marriage, Hobson's Choice (Obie award), suburbia, Pericles. Regional: Uncle Vanya, Sisters Rosensweig, Heidi Chronicles (Seattle Rep), Absolution (dir.), The Glass Menagerie, The Libertine (Steppenwolf), Hedda Gabler, Playboy of the Western World, (Steppenwolf, Long Wharf). Member of Steppenwolf Theater Company ensemble. She has appeared in over 35 films and was nominated for an Emmy award for her appearance on "Law & Order: SVU."

ROBERT CLOHESSY (Mike). Theatre: 12 Angry Men (Roundabout Theatre), Frankie and Johnny, A Streetcar Named Desire (Hartford Stage), Rounding Third (John Houseman Theatre), Heaven (Yale Rep), Bad Habits (MTC), Wild Goose (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Golden Boy, The Homecoming, Citizen Tom Paine, Moon Over Miami (Williamstown), The Taming of the Shrew (National Theatre Company), Lucky Lucy and the Fortunate Man (The Writers' Theatre), Off Shore Wind, (HB Playwrights' Conference), Hamlet, As You Like It, Midsummer Night's Dream (500 Theatre Row Ensemble) and many workshop productions with acting teacher and director Walt Witcover at the Masterworks Laboratory Theater. Film: All Good Things, Synecdoche, New York, Across the Universe, Sixteen Blocks, Thought Crimes, Mating Fresno, Signs of the Cross, Strip Search (directed by Sidney Lumet) and The Interpreter (directed by Sidney Pollack), Angels in the Outfield, Assault at West Point, The Deadly Deadline, Married to a Stranger. Television: "Black Donnellys," "Six Degrees," "Kidnapped," "Good Guys, Bad Guys," series regular on "Hill Street Blues," "O'Hara," "Laurie Hill," "One of the Boys" and "Oz." Guest starred on 35 other shows and pilots including "The Book of Daniel," "NYPD Blue," "High Society," "Doogie Howser," "Boy Meets World," "Jake and the Fat Man," "The Practice," "Third Watch," "St. Elsewhere," "Law & Order," "Chicago Hope" and "All My Children." BFA from SUNY Purchase.


JENNY FELLNER (Linda English). Broadway: Mamma Mia (Sophie). 1st National Tour: All Shook Up (Natalie/Ed). Off Broadway: Judith Anderson in The Devil's Disciple for the Irish Repertory Theatre; Crossing Brooklyn and Marcy in the Galaxy, both for The Transport Group. Regional: Paper Mill Playhouse - Little Shop of Horrors (Audrey), Bay St. Theatre - The Boyfriend (Dulcie) directed by Julie Andrews, NSMT - The Three Musketeers (Constance), The O'Neill Musical Theatre Conference and NY Stage & Film - notes to MariAnne (MariAnne), Goodspeed's Norma Terris Theatre and The 5th Ave. Theatre - Princesses (Miranda). Other NY: "Go the Distance" part of the American Songbook Series at Jazz at Lincoln Center, concert honoring David Zippel at Merkin Concert Hall. TV: "Law & Order: SVU".


DANIEL MARCUS (Ludlow Lowell). Broadway: The Woman in White, Urinetown, 1776, A Christmas Carol, The Pirates of Penzance, The Who's Tommy, CATS. Off-Broadway: The Adding Machine, All About Us, The Apple Tree, Urinetown, Carmelina, The Merchant of Venice. Regional: Paint Your Wagon, Guys and Dolls (Pioneer Theatre Company), Gunmetal Blues (George St. Playhouse), A Funny Thing Happened...(Montclair), The Importance of Being Earnest (Milwakee Rep.). TV: "Saturday Night Live," "The Freshman," "Another World."


STEVEN SKYBELL (Ernest). Broadway: Wicked, The Full Monty, Love! Valour! Compassion!, Cafe Crown, Ah Wilderness. Off-Broadway credits include Controversy of Valladolid, The Lesson, Much Ado About Nothing, What Didn't Happen, Exact Center of the Universe, The Food Chain, Troilus and Cressida, Henry VI (Public Theatre), Antigone in NY (Obie Award), Dream True (Vineyard Theatre), Richard II (title role), Titus Andronicus (Theatre for a New Audience). Regional/Overseas: Wicked (Chicago), Henry V (Shakespeare's Globe), Camelot (Helen Hayes nom. Arena Stage), Uncle Vanya (La Jolla/McCarter), Portia Coughlin (McCarter Theatre), Hamlet (California Shakes. Fest.), Hedda Gabler, When We Dead Awaken (American Repertory Theatre), To Whom It May Concern (Williamstown). In 1997 Mr. Skybell was one of two Americans chosen to reopen Shakespeare's Globe in London, which included a command performance for Queen Elizabeth ("Great Performances"). Film and television: Tom and Francie, Zoo, Cradle Will Rock, Simply Irresistible, Everybody Wins, Liberty!, "Queens Supreme," "Law and Order," "Sex and the City," "Talk to Me," "New York News," "All My Children," "As the World Turns." B.A. in Theatre, Yale College, British American Drama Academy, MFA from Yale School of Drama.


TIMOTHY J. ALEX (Ensemble). Broadway: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Never Gonna Dance, Chicago, Thou Shalt Not, Sweet Smell of Success, Man of La Mancha, Titanic. Off Broadway: Stairway to Paradise, Pardon My English. Pre-Broadway workshops: Ragtime, Fosse, Cats, Sunset Boulevard, Joseph...Dreamcoat, Crazy for You. Regional: Kiss Me, Kate, Pirates!, Ragtime, Sunset Boulevard, Crazy For You, Pippin, Joseph...Dreamcoat. TV/Commercials: "All My Children," "Grand Theft Auto IV" video game.


BRIAN BARRY (Ensemble). Broadway/Tour: Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Cats. Regional: White Christmas (Denver Center for PA), Hello, Dolly!, Tommy (Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera), West Side Story (Pioneer Theatre Company), The New Red, Hot and Blue! (Paper Mill Playhouse, Goodspeed Opera House), Footloose (Northshore Music Theatre), Kiss Me, Kate (Houston TUTS), Brigadoon, Bells Are Ringing ( PCLO), Sweet Charity (Arvada Center). Workshop: Carnivale (Radio City Music Hall).


BAHIYAH SAYYED GAINES (Ensemble). Bahiyah credits her success to acclaimed companies such as Alvin Ailey, Frankfurt Ballet and Creative Outlet Dance Theater of Brooklyn which allowed her a smooth transition into the Broadway scene. She's an original Broadway member of The Color Purple, The Little Mermaid and is delighted to be joining the cast of Pal Joey.


LISA GAJDA (Ensemble). Broadway: Cry Baby, The Times They Are a Changin', Spamalot; Movin' Out; Taboo; Urban Cowboy; Sweet Smell of Success; Kiss Me, Kate; Fosse; How to Succeed…; Tommy. Other NY stage: Can-Can for Encores!, Radio City's Christmas and Easter shows. TV: "Fashion Rocks", "Viva Variety," "Academy Awards," "MTV Music Awards."


ANTHONY HOLDS (Ensemble). Broadway: Spamalot, Dracula. Recently played Sir Dennis Galahad on the first national tour of Monty Python's Spamalot. Off-Broadway: The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Steve Jobs in Nerds at the 2005 New York Musical Theatre Festival. Regional highlights: The Full Monty (Jerry), The Last Five Years (Jamie) and Titanic (Andrews). TV: "Law & Order." Former naval officer and graduate of Annapolis.


NADINE ISENEGGER (Val). Broadway: A Chorus Line (Lois, Cassie US), 42nd Street (Peggy Sawyer); Kiss Me, Kate; Follies; Cats (Victoria). Tours/regional: 42nd Street (Peggy Sawyer), Titanic, Fame (Iris), White Christmas (Judy), The Studio (Lisa). Film/TV: Sweet and Lowdown, Deconstructing Harry, "AMC," "AW," "GL." Numerous commercials.


MARK MORETTINI (Ensemble). Theatre roles include Twelve Angry Men (National Tour, Roundabout Theatre Company), Bleacher Bums, Lost in Yonkers (Royal George Theatre), London Suite, Laughter on the 23rd Floor (Briar Street Theatre), Lend Me a Tenor (Apollo Theatre, Cherry County Playhouse), An Affair of State (The Set), Incorruptible, Wild Honey, Animal Farm (Bailiwick Repertory), Little Shop of Horrors (Music Theatre North). Film: Let's Go to Prison, Road to Perdition, US Marshall, Chain Reaction, Home Alone II. TV: "Prison Break," "Early Edition," "E.R.," "The Untouchables," "Two Fathers: Justice for the Innocent," "Mario and the Mob." Over 300 commercials, voiceovers and industrials. B.A. in Theatre Performance from Rhode Island College.


KATHRYN MOWAT MURPHY (Ensemble). Broadway: Fosse, National Tours Chicago, Fosse, Sweet Charity. A Chorus Line. Regional: Cassie in A Chorus Line in theaters across the Country. New York: Plane Crazy (NYMF), W(hole) (33rd Annual Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival). TV: "Saturday Night Live", "iCarly" (Nickelodeon).


ABBEY O'BRIEN (Swing). Favorite credits: Original cast member-Spamalot (Broadway), No Strings (Encores!), NYC Rockettes, Sinatra (Radio City), Will Rogers Follies (Music Circus), Carnivale (Radio City), A Chorus Line (Helen Hayes).


NICOLE ORTH-PALLAVICINI (Club Patron, u/s Vera Simpson). Bway: Roundabout's Les Liasons Dangereuses. Off Bway: Treason and The LonelyWay. Regional includes Copenhagen, A Streetcar Named Desire, Killing Time, Rough Crossing, Betrayal, Communicating Doors, The Misanthrope. LA: Tiffany Theatre- Women of Manhattan & Double Double. Film/TV: “The Doctor,” “Law & Order,” “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” and contract roles on “All My Children” and “One Life To Live.”


HAYLEY PODSCHUN (Ensemble). Broadway/First National Tour credits: Sunday in the Park with George at the Roundabout, Hairspray (Tammy u/s Penny, Amber), The Sound of Music (Standby for Louisa/Brigitta). Film: Hairspray (Tammy).


KRISTA SAAB (Ensemble). Krista is thrilled to be making her Broadway debut in Pal Joey! NY Theatre: Camelot with the NY Philharmonic (Lincoln Center), Radio City Rockette. Tours/Regional Theatre: Carnival! (Kennedy Center) Crazy For You (CLOSBC), 42nd St. TV/Film: American Gangster, The Great Observer, "The Ellen Degeneres Show," "PBS Live at Lincoln Center," "A Capitol Fourth," Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade.


ERIC SCIOTTO (Swing). BFA in Musical Theatre from Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, roles there included Emcee (Cabaret), Giorgio (Passion) and Will Parker (Oklahoma!). Broadway credits: Cry-Baby, Sweet Charity, Annie Get Your Gun, Aida, 42nd Street, Sweet Smell of Success. National Tours: Annie Get Your Gun, A Chorus Line. Regional: The Pirates of Penzance (St. Michael's Playhouse), Aida (Westchester Broadway), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Godspeed), West Side Story, A Chorus Line (North Carolina Theatre), ...World Goes 'Round, Something's Afoot (Hot Summer Nights), Brigadoon, Bells are Ringing (Pittsburgh CLO), Meet Me in St. Louis (Santa Barbara CLO), Chicago (Ogunquit Playhouse), Crazy for You, The Most Happy Fella (Music Theatre of Wichita).

RICHARD RODGERS (Music; 1902-1979) and LORENZ HART (Lyrics; 1895-1943) wrote their first shows together when both were still students attending Columbia University. Their breakthrough came with the score for a 1925 charity show, The Garrick Gaities, which introduced the classic valentine to their hometown, "Manhattan." Over the next five years they wrote fifteen musical comedies for Broadway and London's West End before relocating to Hollywood in 1930, where they contributed songs and wrote the scores for several movie musicals, most notably Love Me Tonight starring Maurice Chevalier. In 1935 they returned to New York to write the score for Billy Rose's circus musical Jumbo, launching a golden era that included On Your Toes, Babes In Arms, I'd Rather Be Right, I Married An Angel, The Boys From Syracuse, Too Many Girls, Higher And Higher, Pal Joey and By Jupiter, which collectively offered such classic songs as "There's a Small Hotel," "I Wish I Were In Love Again," "My Funny Valentine," "Where Or When," "The Lady is a Tramp," "Spring Is Here," "Falling In Love With Love," "Sing For Your Supper," "This Can't Be Love," "I Didn't Know What Time It Was," "It Never Entered My Mind," "Bewitched," "I Could Write a Book," "Nobody's Heart," and "Wait Till You See Her." In 1943 the partnership disbanded temporarily when Rodgers collaborated with Oscar Hammerstein II on Oklahoma!, but it resumed with a revision of the 1927 Rodgers & Hart hit A Connecticut Yankee, which opened less than a week before Lorenz Hart's death. For the next two decades, Richard Rodgers collaborated exclusively with Oscar Hammerstein II on such musicals as Carousel, South Pacific, The King And I, and The Sound Of Music, winning Tonys, Oscars, Grammys, Emmys and Pulitzer Prizes. After Hammerstein's death in 1960, Rodgers continued to write for the musical stage; his fortieth, and final, Broadway musical opened less than eight months before his death in 1979.


RICHARD GREENBERG (New Book) is the author of Take Me Out (Drama Desk Award; NY Drama Critics Circle Award; Outer Critics Circle Award; Lucille Lortel Award; Tony Award for Best Play), which received an acclaimed production on Broadway after successful runs at The Donmar on London's West End and The Public Theater in New York City. Other works include A Naked Girl on the Appian Way at Roundabout, The Violet Hour,The Dazzle at Roundabout (Outer Critics Circle Award: John Gassner, Lucille Lortel nominations), Everett Beekin, Three Days of Rain (L.A. Drama Critics Award; Pulitzer finalist; Olivier, Drama Desk, Hull-Warriner nominations), Hurrah At Last, Night and Her Stars, The American Plan, Life Under Water, and The Author's Voice, among many other plays. His adaptation of Strindberg's Dance of Death was seen on Broadway starring Ian McKellen, Helen Mirren, and David Straithairn. Mr.Greenberg received the Oppenheimer Award for a new playwright as well as the first PEN/Laura Pels Award for a playwright in mid-career. He is an associate artist at South Coast Repertory and a member of Ensemble Studio Theater.


JOHN O'HARA (Original Book), American novelist and short story writer (1905-1970), was born into an Irish Catholic family in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. He began to write fiction in 1927; his first novel, Appointment in Samarra (1934), won popular acclaim and established O'Hara as a craftsman of prose. Over the following years, O'Hara explored his interest in the effects of money, class and social mores on individual freedom in many widely praised works, including Butterfield 8 (1935; film version, 1960) and From the Terrace (1958; film version, 1960). In 1956 he received the National Book Award for Ten North Frederick (1955; film version, 1958). O'Hara's works also include many short stories, most published by The New Yorker and the late novels Ourselves to Know (1960) and The Lockwood Concern (1965). He collaborated with the team of Rodgers & Hart, writing the book for the musical Pal Joey based on his short stories.


JOE MANTELLO (Director). Directing credits include November, The Receptionist, The Ritz (Roundabout), Three Days of Rain, The Odd Couple, Glengarry Glen Ross (Tony nomination), Laugh Whore, Assassins (Roundabout; Tony Award), Wicked, Take Me Out (Tony Award), Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, A Man of No Importance, Design for Living (Roundabout), Terrence McNally and Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking for the San Francisco Opera, The Vagina Monologues, bash, Another American: Asking and Telling, Love! Valour! Compassion! (Tony nomination), Proposals, The Mineola Twins, Corpus Christi, Mizlansky/Zilinsky or Schmucks, Blue Window, God's Heart, The Santaland Diaries, Snakebit, Three Hotels and Imagining Brad. Mr. Mantello also directed the film Love! Valour! Compassion! As an actor he appeared in Angels in America (Tony nomination) and The Baltimore Waltz. Mr. Mantello is the recipient of Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Helen Hayes, Clarence Derwent, Obie and Joe A. Callaway awards. He is a member of Naked Angels and an associate artist at the Roundabout.


GRACIELA DANIELE (Choreographer). Broadway (Director/ Choreographer): Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life, Annie Get Your Gun, Marie Christine, Once on This Island, Chronicle of a Death Foretold and Dangerous Game. Musical Staging/Choreography includes: Ragtime (Astaire, Ovation, NAACP, and Callaway Awards), The Goodbye Girl, Zorba with Anthony Quinn, The Rink starring Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera, The Mystery of Edwin Drood and The Pirate Queen. Choreography: The Pirates of Penzance (NYSF) on Broadway, Los Angeles, and London. Film: Pirates, and Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite (1996 Fosse Award) and Everyone Say I Love You (1997 Fosse Award). Lincoln Center Theater (Resident Director): Directed and Choreographed William Finn's A New Brain and Elegies, Michael John LaChiusa's Hello Again and Bernarda Alba, and Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty's Dessa Rose and The Glorious Ones. Mr. Abbott Award (1998) for Outstanding Achievement by a Director/Choreographer, ten Tony nominations, six Drama Desk nominations and inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame.


PAUL GEMIGNANI (Music Director). Musical Director for more than 38 Broadway shows, including: 110 in the Shade, Follies, Pacific Overtures, Candide, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Evita, Dreamgirls, Merrily We Roll Along, Into the Woods, On the Twentieth Century, Sunday...George, High Society, Kiss Me Kate, Assassins, Frogs. Conducted: Follies (Philharmonic), A Little Night Music (PBS), A Celebration of the American Musical (Great Performances). Showtime: Into the Woods, Sunday in the Park with George and Passion. Films include: Kramer vs. Kramer, Reds, Eyewitness, and Sweeney Todd. Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement, Special Drama Desk and Los Angeles Drama Critics Awards for Outstanding Musical Direction and Commitment to the Theatre, Emmy for "South Pacific at Carnegie Hall", and an honorary Doctor of Musical Arts from the Manhattan School of Music. Grammy nominations for Passion, Crazy for You and Kiss Me Kate.