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who’s who

the United States and Canada, including ice dancing teams for the 2006, 2010 and
his 2014 critically acclaimed revival of 2014 Winter Olympics.
Smokey Joe’s Cafe at Arena Stage. As a LEN RHODES (Music Arranger & Original
published playwright and director he Music Director) received diplomas
has created theatrical musical portraits from the Royal Academy of Music and
of Janis Joplin, Elvis Presley. Louis Prima the London College of Music. Credits
and Keely Smith, and Conway Twitty. as musical director and arranger in the
He was the original producer of Always, U.S. and the U.K.One Night With Janis
Patsy Cline, which under his aegis, Joplin (Portland Center Stage debut, May
according to “Variety” and “American 2011 and Cleveland Playhouse, August
Theatre Magazine,” was the highest 2012); Mike Tyson: The Undisputed
grossing regional and touring musical in Truth at the MGM Grand’s Hollywood
the U.S. and Canada for 5 consecutive Theatre; Leader Of The Pack; The Rocky
years. His other directing credits include Horror Show; Beehive; The Lion, The
Mike Tyson’s Undisputed Truth. Elvis the Witch and The Wardrobe; and I Do, I
Concert at Radio City Music Hall (PBS), Do. Commissions and arranging credits
Carly Simon’s concerts at the Apollo include Stage West, Calgary; BBC Radio;
Theatre and Aboard The Queen Mary 2 Trinity College London and Virginia
(PBS) and Pope Benedict’s appearances Shakespeare Festival. Performances
in New York City. Randy is the recipient of include Edinburgh International Festival;
the Crystal Apple Award for his work with Cathedral of St. Sulpice, Paris and
Aids Project Los Angeles and received a London’s Banqueting House. He is artistic
2014 NAACP Theatre Award nomination director of Pikes Peak Young Composers,
as Best Director for A Night With Janis and Summit Music and Arts, Colorado.
Joplin. He is a graduate of The USC School He is on the board of the Breckenridge
of Dramatic Arts. www.randy-johnson1. Music Festival. Affiliations include the
com. Incorporated Society of Musicians include
PATRICIA WILCOX (Choreographer). (U.K.), ASCAP and The Royal College of
Broadway: Motown the Musical (Astaire Organists. www.lenrhodesmusic.com
Award for Best Choreography on ROB BISSINGER (Scenic Designer).
Broadway 2013) and A Night With Janis Broadcast: Opening Ceremony for the
Joplin. Off Broadway/ National Tours: 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi (Emmy
Little Shop of Horrors (Encores! starring nomination for Art Direction) asd
Jake Gyllenhaal and Ellen Greene), 2015 Pan American Closing Ceremony
Children’s Letters to God, Bowfire (and (upcoming). Regional:Can-Can, Damn
PBS Television Special), Blues in the Night Yankees, Meet Me in St. Louis, The Full
(NAACP Image Award nomination), and Monty (Paper Mill Playhouse), Half A’
Seussical. Selected Regional: The Kennedy Sixpence, Pirates! (Goodspeed Opera
Center, Seattle Rep, The Old Globe, House), and Dee Snider’s Rock n’ Roll
Arizona Theatre Company, Missouri Christmas Tale in Chicago. Off Broadway:
Repertory Theatre, and Paper Mill Lucky Guy (The Little Schubert Theatre),
Playhouse. She has staged original works City Club (The Minetta Lane), and Jacques
for the Houston Symphony, Minnesota Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
Pops, Phoenix Symphony, Lyrics and (The Zipper Theatre). Tours: Chitty Chitty
Lyricists, and has also created numbers for Bang Bang, Scooby Doo in Stagefright,
ice skating gold medalists Viktor Petrenko, Disney’s Believe, Mythbusters: Behind the
Ilia Kulik, Katya Gordeeva, Miki Ando and

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