CAST

	BILLY CRYSTAL* (Buddy Young Jr./Book) is a Tony and Emmy Award-winning comedian, actor, producer, writer and director. He is known around the world as the star of such feature films as When Harry Met Sally…, City Slickers and Analyze This; as a cast member of NBC’s Saturday Night Live; and the acclaimed nine-time host of the Academy Awards®. Crystal has hosted the GRAMMY® Awards three times and earned five Emmys for his work as host, writer and producer on both shows. Billy won his sixth Emmy for the HBO Comedy Special Midnight Train to Moscow. Crystal was the 2007 recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor and is a NY Times best-selling author of five books. In 2004, Crystal made his Broadway debut with the original production of his one-man show 700 Sundays, for which he won a Tony Award. The Broadway production was released as an HBO special, garnering four Emmy nominations. Crystal’s latest work includes the friendship comedy Standing Up, Falling Down opposite Ben Schwartz, as well as Here Today which Crystal directed, produced and stars in opposite Tiffany Haddish.
	JORDAN GELBER* (Farber, Howie & Others) Broadway: Sunday in the Park with George, Buddy in Elf, All My Sons, Avenue Q (original cast, Outer Critics Circle Award). Off Broadway: Nantucket Sleigh Ride, 2000 Years, The Joke, Birth and After Birth, Avenue Q. Film: star of Dark Horse, The Kitchen, Bleed for This, Pelham, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, Everyday People (IFP/Gotham Award nominee), Riding in Cars With Boys, Changing Lanes. TV: Elementary, Mr. Robot, Mindhunter, Insatiable, Boardwalk Empire, Nurse Jackie, Rescue Me, Ugly Betty, every Law & Order series, The Sopranos, 100 Centre Street. BA, Stanford University; MFA, NYU Tisch Graduate Acting (Laura Pels Award). JordanGelber.com
	BRIAN GONZALES* (Larry Myerson, Will & Others) Broadway: Aladdin, One Man Two Guv’nors, Shrek, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. National Tour: Shrek, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Regional: Various across the country. TV/Film: Aladdin: Live from the West End, Elementary, Law & Order.
	RANDY GRAFF* (Elaine Young) Broadway: City of Angels (Tony/ Drama Desk Award), A Class Act (Tony/Drama Desk nominations), Fiddler on the Roof (2004), Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Moon Over Buffalo, Falsettos, High Society, Les Misérables (original Fantine). Off Broadway/Regional: The Babylon Line (Lortel Award), Motherhood Out Loud (Primary Stages), The Long Christmas Ride Home (Vineyard Theatre) and productions at Playwrights Horizons, La Jolla Playhouse, Old Globe, McCarter Theater and The Kennedy Center’s Sondheim Festival as the Countess in A Little Night Music. Ms. Graff has sung on several original Broadway cast recordings and her own solo CD Randy Graff Sings Cy Coleman.
	CHASTEN HARMON* (Annie Wells) recurs on the CBS All Access series The Good Fight. She previously starred in the USA series Damnation and had recurring roles on ABC’s The Fix, NBC’s The Inbetween and CBS’s Elementary. In film, Chasten can be seen opposite Adam Driver in Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson. She will next be seen starring in the independent film The Mistress. Notable theatre credits Include Hair on Broadway and the 25th Anniversary National Tour of Les Misérables. Chasten received her BFA from NYU, MFA from the Yale School of Drama.
	MYLINDA HULL* (Ronnie, Karen & Others) Broadway: The Nance, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Sweet Charity, Little Shop of Horrors, 42nd Street. Skittles Commercial: The Broadway Musical (Town Hall). Off Broadway: Road Show (Public Theater), I Love You, You’re Perfect… (Westside Theatre). Encores!: High Button Shoes, The New Yorkers, Merrily We Roll Along, Girl Crazy, Face the Music. Regional: The Connector (NYSAF), Dancing at Lughnasa (Two River), Guys and Dolls (North Shore, IRNE Award). Nat’l Tour: Lola opposite Jerry Lewis in Damn Yankees. Television: Fosse/Verdon, Younger, Rise, The Big C, The Blacklist. Upcoming solo show: Queen Guinevere and Her Legal Fees. Best of all: Brooklyn housewife, mother of two.
	DAVID PAYMER* (Stan Yankelman) After performing with him in City Slickers, Billy Crystal wrote him into Mr. Saturday Night, earning him an Oscar nomination. He has worked with prolific directors such as Spielberg (Amistad), Redford (Quiz Show), Oliver Stone (Nixon), David Mamet (State & Main), Steven Soderbergh (Ocean’s Franchise) and Sam Raimi (Drag Me To Hell). Paymer has since notably starred in The American President, Get Shorty, Payback, The Hurricane, In Good Company, Francis Ford Coppola’s Twixt and Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Paymer can currently be seen recurring on FX on Hulu’s Dave as Dave Burd’s father.
	ALYSHA UMPHRESS* (Susan Young) BSC Associate Artist. BSC: Who Could Ask for Anything More? The Songs of George Gershwin, The Hills Are Alive with Rodgers & Hammerstein, BSC’s Holiday Getaway, On the Town, Funked Up Fairytales and countless concerts. Broadway: On the Town; American Idiot (OBC); On a Clear Day You Can See Forever; Priscilla, Queen of the Desert; Bring it On. Off Broadway: Scotland, PA; Smokey Joe’s Cafe (Lortel Nominee and Chita Rivera Award winner); Make Me a Song (The Music of William Finn). TV: Girls5eva, Bonding, The Climb, Law & Order: SVU, Royal Pains, Nurse Jackie. Recordings: On the Town, Wonderful Town (with the London Symphony Orchestra), American Idiot, Bring it On!, Fugitive Songs and I’ve Been Played: Alysha Umphress Swings Jeff Blumenkrantz. Huge Thanks to Erica, Tim and Prizey.

CREATIVES

LOWELL GANZ (Book) grew up in Queens and moved to Los Angeles to begin a career writing for television shows, including The Odd Couple, Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley (which he co-created). After teaming up with Babaloo Mandel, he began a screenwriting career. Their credits include Night Shift, Splash, Gung Ho, Spies Like Us, Parenthood, City Slickers, A League of Their Own, Mr. Saturday Night, Forget Paris, Multiplicity, Ed TV and Fever Pitch. In 2019, they received the Writers Guild Laurel Award for Lifetime Achievement in Screenwriting. Lowell also, along with Garry Marshall, wrote a play, Wrong Turn at Lungfish, which was produced at Steppenwolf in Chicago, in Los Angeles and Off Broadway. He considers the opportunity to be part of the creative team that is bringing a new musical to Broadway a highlight of his career. Lowell lives in Los Angeles with his wife Jeanne. They have three children and five grandchildren, and he still roots for the Mets.

BABALOO MANDEL (Book) was born and raised in The Bronx, where his school grades disproved that all Jews were smart. At age 10, he was figuratively struck by lightning upon seeing the classic film Some Like It Hot. In 1972, he left New York for Hollywood to pursue his Some Like It Hot screenwriting dream. He soon landed his first writing job on the TV series M*A*S*H. He was immediately fired and his office thoroughly fumigated. Several years later, after writing jokes for comics, great pity befell him by Lowell Ganz. He worked on several TV shows co-run by Mr. Ganz, until an opportunity came along to fulfill Babaloo’s screenwriting dream. Together they have written 20 films, among them Splash, Parenthood, A League of Their Own and four films for the luminescent Billy Crystal (in case he reads this) — City Slickers 1 and 2, Mr. Saturday Night and Forget Paris. In 2019 they were recipients of the Writers Guild Lifetime Achievement Award. In his personal life, Babaloo has been married for 46 years, because who else would marry him? Together he and his wife Denise, who he has known since she was 14, have six children and two grandchildren. As for Mr. Saturday Night, the Broadway-bound musical, this goes beyond a 10-year-old boy’s dream.

JASON ROBERT BROWN (Composer/Orchestrator & Arranger) Jason’s musicals include Songs for a New World, Parade (Best Score Tony Award), The Last Five Years (also a feature film), 13 (being released on Netflix summer 2022), The Bridges of Madison County (Best Score and Best Orchestrations Tony Awards), Honeymoon In Vegas. Jason’s albums as a singer-songwriter include Wearing Someone Else’s Clothes, How We React and How We Recover, Live in Concert with Anika Noni Rose and this year’s Coming From Inside the House with Ariana Grande and Shoshana Bean. Upcoming: The Connector; Farewell My Concubine; concerts and Hadassah meetings. Mr. Saturday Night marks Jason’s first collaboration with any of these people and they all seem nice.

AMANDA GREEN (Lyrics) is a Tony Award-nominated lyricist/composer, writer and performer. She wrote the lyrics and co-composed Hands on a Hardbody (Tony, Outer Critics Circle and two Drama Desk Award nominations for Music & Lyrics, first woman composer to receive the Frederick Loewe Award for Outstanding Composition). In the same season she co-wrote lyrics for Bring It On (Tony- nominated for Best Musical, Drama Desk nomination for Lyrics); also Broadway: High Fidelity (Lyrics); Additional book and lyrics for Tony-nominated revival of Kiss Me, Kate; Additional lyrics for Tony-nominated revival of On the Twentieth Century. TV: Peter Pan Live, The Kennedy Center Honors. She is currently writing the lyrics for Female Troubles, an original musical comedy which she describes as “Jane Austen meets Bridesmaids but about Women’s Reproductive Freedoms.” Amanda is the first woman President of The Dramatists Guild of America.

JOHN RANDO† (Director) BSC Associate Artist. BSC: The Royal Family of Broadway, The Pirates of Penzance, On the Town, Guys and Dolls. He won the 2002 Best Director Tony Award and Outer Critics Circle Award for Urinetown the Musical. Other Broadway credits include: On the Town (Tony nom for Direction), A Christmas Story, The Wedding Singer, Penn & Teller, A Thousand Clowns, among others. City Center Encores productions include: The New Yorkers, High Button Shoes, It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s Superman!, Annie Get Your Gun, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Damn Yankees, Face the Music, Of Thee I Sing, The Pajama Game, Do Re Mi and Strike Up the Band (all for City Center Encores!). Off Broadway credits include Jerry Springer: The Opera (The New Group), David Ives’s The Heir Apparent (2014 SDCF Callaway Award for Direction—Classic Stage Company) and All in the Timing (2013 Obie Award for Direction). Internationally, John’s work can be seen in China with two original musicals: Jay Chou’s The Secret and Jonathan Lee’s Spirit of Life. Currently John’s hit production of the new musical Back to the Future can be seen on London’s West End.

ELLENORE SCOTT† (Choreographer) is a choreographer, performer and creative director In 2021, Ellenore will choreograph the Broadway revival of Funny Girl. She has also served as the associate choreographer for Head Over Heels and King Kong on Broadway and was the assistant choreographer for the Broadway revivals of Cats and Falsettos. She choreographed Kate Hamill’s Off Broadway’s production of Pride and Prejudice and Jeremy O. Harris’ Black Exhibition. She is the Artistic Director of ELSCO Dance, a New York contemporary dance company. As a performer she was a finalist and an All-Star on the hit television show So You Think You Can Dance. Ellenore has performed on numerous television shows (Glee, Smash, The Ellen Show, The Blacklist, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, among others) and danced with Janet Jackson. @ellenorescott

DAVID O (Music Director) has musically directed the world premieres of Soft Power (Jeanine Tesori & David Henry Hwang), 13 (Jason Robert Brown), Breaking Through, Sleepless in Seattle the Musical, Songs & Dances of Imaginary Lands and Toy Story: The Musical, as well as the West Coast premieres of Michael John LaChiusa’s The Wild Party, Little Fish and See What I Wanna See. He co-conceived and co-directed the viral video You Can’t Stop the Beat — A Celebration for the Actors Fund.

TRIPP PHILLIPS* (Production Stage Manager) has 20 Broadway credits including Plaza Suite, All My Sons, Carousel, War Paint, The Front Page, Finding Neverland, A Gentleman’s Guide…, Macbeth, Born Yesterday, Lombardi, Finian’s Rainbow, Pal Joey, Passing Strange, The Ritz, 42nd Street, Swing!, Ring Round the Moon, Dream, The King and I and How to Succeed… National tours he has managed or supervised include 42nd Street, Memphis, A Christmas Story, Jersey Boys, White Christmas and A Gentleman’s Guide…, serving as associate director of the latter. He has a number of Off Broadway and regional theatre credits as well as 12 productions for New York City Center’s Encores! series of Great American Musicals. He has lectured or taught as guest instructor at the Yale School of Drama, Columbia University, NYU and Penn State University.

JASON HINDELANG* (Assistant Stage Manager) Broadway: Plaza Suite (upcoming), All My Sons, Carousel, War Paint, The Front Page, Macbeth, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Born Yesterday, Finian’s Rainbow, Pal Joey, Passing Strange, The Ritz, The Coast of Utopia and Awake and Sing!. Off Broadway: Broadbend, Arkansas (Transport Group), 10 NY City Center Encores! productions. Regional: 10 seasons at Berkshire Theatre Group.