CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM
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Perry Ojeda (Ensemble)
THE OLD GLOBE: Imaginary Friends. BROADWAY: On The Town, Blood Brothers, Imaginary Friends. WEST END: Dolly West's Kitchen. TV: “Desperate House-wives,” “Eli Stone,” “Guiding Light,” TNT's The Day Lincoln Was Shot, “All My Children,” “One Life To Live.” EDUCA-TION: BFA with honors from University of Michigan Musical Theater Program, Graduate - Interlochen Arts Academy. ONLINE: www.HAtheSeries.com and www.PerryOjeda.com

Lance Roberts (Will Mastin)
Originally from New York, Lance now makes his home in L.A. where he has appeared in almost 100 professional shows including the original L.A. casts of: Cats, I Love You You’re Perfect Now Change, Forbidden Hollywood, The All Night Strut, Once on this Island and most recently Ain’t Misbehavin’ at the Music Center’s Ahmanson Theater. San Diego audiences have seen him at San Diego Repertory, La Jolla Playhouse, Moonlight, Welk and Gaslight Theatres. NEW YORK: Forbidden Hollywood (original casts), Radio City’s America and the revival of The Me Nobody Knows. TOURS: Ragtime, Dreamgirls, Five Guys Named Moe and many others. REGIONAL: Antony and Cleopatra, Driving Miss Daisy, I’m Not Rappaport and many other original works. TV: “Numb3rs,” “Related,” “The Drew Carey Show,” “Girlfriends” and “Zoey 101,” as well as DVD classics such as “Knots Landing,” “Dallas,” “The Colbys,” “My Two Dads” and more. He has been playing Jafar at Disney’s California Adventure since the beginning of its 7000 performance run in Aladdin, The Musical Spectacular.

Sarrah Strimel (Luella/Hedda/Ensemble)
BROADWAY: Young Franken-stein (Inga u/s), The Producers (Ulla u/s). Encore Theatre Company’s Stairway to Paradise. NATIONAL TOURS: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Jolene u/s), The Producers (1st and 2nd Nat.). REGIONAL: Minsky's (Mary u/s), Ahmanson Theatre; Lil Abner (Stupifyin' Jones), Goodspeed Opera House; Cats (Bombalurina), Houston Theater Under the Stars; 42nd St. (Anytime Annie), Atlanta Theater of the Stars and Wolf Trap; as well as many shows at Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, St. Louis’ The Muny and Starlight Theatre (Kansas City).

Leslie Bricusse (Author)
Double Oscar and Grammy winner Leslie Bricusse is a writer-composer-lyricist who has contributed to many musical films and plays during his career. He was born in London and educated at University College School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. The late, great Beatrice Lillie plucked him out of the Footlights Revue at London’s Phoenix Theatre and made him her leading man in An Evening with Beatrice Lillie at the Globe Theatre, where he spent the first year of his professional life writing the musical, Boy on the Corner, and the screenplay and score of his first motion picture, Charley Moon, which won his first Ivor Novello Award, Britain’s premiere music award. That year he decided to drop the possibilities of directing and performing, and concentrate his career on becoming a full-time writer-composer-lyricist. His subsequent stage musicals include Stop the World—I Want to Get Off, The Roar of the Greasepaint—The Smell of the Crowd, Pickwick, Harvey, The Good Old Bad Old Days, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Henry’s Wives, Scrooge, One Shining Moment, Sherlock Holmes, Jekyll and Hyde and Victor/Victoria. He has written songs and/or screenplays for such films as Doctor Dolittle, Scrooge, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Superman, Victor/Victoria, Santa Claus – The Movie, Home Alone I & II, Hook, Tom & Jerry – The Movie,; and various Pink Panther films. Bricusse has written more than 40 musical shows and films, and over the years has had the good fortune to enjoy fruitful collaborations with an array of musical talents, including Anthony Newley, Henry Mancini, John Williams, John Barry, Jerry Goldsmith, Jule Styne, Quincy Jones, Andre Previn, Frank Wildhorn and Peter Illyich Tchaikovsky (whose Nutcracker Suite he adapted into a song score). His better-known songs include “What Kind of Fool Am I?,” “Once in a Lifetime,” “Gonna Build a Mountain,” “Who Can I Turn To?,” “The Joker,” “If I Ruled the World,” “My Kind of Girl,” “Talk to the Animals,” “You and I,” “Feeling Good,” “When I Look in Your Eyes,” “Goldfinger,” “Can You Read My Mind?” (the Love Theme from Superman), “You Only Live Twice,” “Le Jazz Hot!,” “On a Wonderful Day Like Today,” “Two for the Road,” “The Candy Man,” “This Is the Moment,” “Crazy World,” “Pure Imagination” and “Oompa-Loompa-Doompa-Dee-Doo.” He has been nominated for ten Academy Awards, nine Grammys and four Tonys, and has won two Oscars, a Grammy and eight Ivor Novello Awards. Hundreds of Bricusse’s songs have been recorded by major artists, including Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Judy Garland, Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand, Sammy Davis, Jr. (who recorded 60 Bricusse songs), Tony Bennett, Shirley Bassey, Tom Jones, Petula Clark, Julie Andrews, Liza Minnelli, Elaine Paige, Anthony Newley, Michael Feinstein, Bette Midler, the Moody Blues, Nancy Sinatra, Lena Horne, Sergio Mendes, Nina Simone, Dionne Warwick, Ray Charles, Ethel Merman, Placido Domingo, Jennifer Holliday, Danny Kaye, Robbie Williams, Mariah Carey, Linda Eder, Maroon 5, Michael Bublé, and the Black Eyed Peas. In 1989 he received the Kennedy Award for consistent excellence in British songwriting, bestowed by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, and was inducted into the American Songwriters Hall of Fame – only the fourth Englishman to be honored – after Noël Coward, John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

Anthony Newley (Additional Songs)
Anthony Newley garnered three Tony Award nominations (Best Actor, Best Musical Author and Best Composer and Lyricist) for Stop the World—I Want to Get Off and two Tony Award nominations (Best Director and Best Composer and Lyricist) for The Roar of the Greasepaint—The Smell of the Crowd, both written with his longtime collaborator, Leslie Bricusse. After the worldwide success of these two hit musicals, Mr. Newley ventured into film with roles in Doctor Dolittle and Sweet November. Other film credits as director, actor or producer include Summertree, It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time, Mr. Quilp and Can Hieronymous Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? His collaborations with Mr. Bricusse also produced the score to the television production of Peter Pan which starred Danny Kaye and Mia Farrow, the film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and the London stage production of the Good Old Bad Old Days. Together they created such standards as “What Kind of Fool Am I?,” “Who Can I Turn To?,” “Goldfinger,” “Once in a Lifetime” and Sammy Davis, Jr.’s international hit record “The Candy Man.” On television he played opposite Joan Collins in the “Tonight at Eight Thirty” series, “Red Peppers” and “Fumed Oak.” His final television appearances were in “Eastenders” and “The Lakes.” Mr. Newley devoted his time in later years to personal appearances in nightclubs and cabarets around the world performing his highly acclaimed one man show. During the last five years of his life he achieved enormous success in the musical version of Scrooge culminating in a record breaking season at London’s Dominion Theatre.

David Sugarman (Stage Manager)
THE OLD GLOBE: The Times They Are A-Changin’. BROADWAY: South Pacific, (Lincoln Center Theater), Pygmalion, Journey’s End, The Times They Are A-Changin’, Amour, The Elephant Man, Dance of Death, Jane Eyre, Marlene, Little Me, 1776, Taking Sides, Indiscretions. NATIONAL TOURS: Hairspray, Fosse, West Side Story. REGIONAL: What is the Cause of Thunder?, Williamstown Theatre Festival; Pippin, Deaf West/Mark Taper Forum. OFF BROADWAY: Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club, Second Stage Theatre, City Center Encores, MCC Theatre and Theatre for a New Audience.