Cast
All actors and stage managers are members of Actors’ Equity Association.
Casting to be Announced Soon!
Creative Team
Rex McGee - Book
Rex McGee wrote the Warner Brothers film Pure Country on which this
new musical is based. A protege of Oscar-winning filmmaker Billy Wilder, his
screenplays include Tiny Revolution and Whistling Dixie and the recent Hallmark
Mother’s Day television movie, Where There’s a Will starring Marion Ross
and Keith Carradine. He is currently working on a new original screenplay about
Texas debutantes, Nose to the Toes. As a journalist, McGee has written for Playboy
and TV Guide.
Steve Dorff - Music
Steve Dorff is a 3-time Grammy nominee and 5-time Emmy nominee. He has written nine
#1 songs and 15 Top Ten hits including Kenny Rogers’s classic ‘Through
the Years’ and Anne Murray’s ‘I Just Fall in Love Again.’
His songs have been sung by some of the greatest recording artists of our time,
including Celine Dion (‘Miracle’), Barbra Streisand
(‘Higher Ground’), George Strait (‘I Cross My Heart’),
Clay Walker (‘Hypnotize the Moon’), Whitney Houston
(‘Take Good Care of My Heart’), and Eddie Rabbit
(Every Which Way But Loose’).
John Bettis - Lyrics
John Bettis has been nominated for Emmys (twice), Grammys (thrice),
a Golden Globe and an Oscar. He has written songs that have sold more than 250
million records for artists as diverse as George Strait (‘Heartland’),
Celine Dion (‘If You Could See Me Now’), Madonna (‘Crazy For You’),
Michael Jackson (‘Human Nature’), Whitney Houston
(‘One Moment in Time’), and Conway Twitty (‘Slow Hand’).
In 1969, he and friends Richard and Karen started the band The Carpenters, for which
John wrote ‘Top of the World,’ ‘Yesterday Once More,’ ‘
Goodbye to Love,’ and many others. His first stage musical with Steve Dorff was
Lunch in 1994, and they are now collaborating on a musical
about Josephine Baker.
Peter Masterson - Co-Book Writer & Director
Peter Masterson created the worldwide musical hit
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and directed the film of
Horton Foote’s The Trip to Bountiful for which the actress
Geraldine Page won the Academy Award. Mr. Masterson started out as a New York and Broadway
stage actor in the early ‘60s, but switched to feature films by mid-decade, making
his debut in Ambush Bay. His notable films from this period
include Norman Jewison’s In the Heat of the Night and a
starring role in The Stepford Wives. He’s on the Board of
the Actors Studio in New York and a creative advisor to Robert Redford’s
Sundance Institute.
Eugene Gwozdz - Music Director/Pianist
Eugene Gwozdz, recent Musical Director/Pianist credits include It’s
a Hit (2006 Fringe Fest), Thrill Me (York),
20th Anniversary Revival Production of Baby
(Paper Mill). Broadway: The Full Monty, Oklahoma!.
Tours: Sunset Boulevard, The Flower Drum Song,
Swing!, Phantom of the Opera, The Will Rogers' Follies,
West Side Story (conducted and played keyboards). Off-Broadway: Tim & Scrooge,
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, Time and Again, The Prince and the Pauper.
Music Directs for Donna McKechnie and for Casa Mañana Theatre at the BEAUTIFUL
Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth.
