Musical Excerpts from LITTLE DANCER

Tiler Peck is celebrated as a leading American ballerina, distinguished not only as a principal dancer with New York City Ballet (NYCB) but also as an Olivier-nominated choreographer and multifaceted artist. Renowned for her extensive repertoire, Peck's career highlights include directing the inaugural Artists at the Center for New York City Center, which evolved into the acclaimed Turn it Out with Tiler Peck and Friends, captivating audiences at venues like London’s Sadler’s Wells and across California. She has choreographed for prestigious companies including Boston Ballet, Northern Ballet, Cincinnati Ballet, and Ballet X, with her recent work for NYCB, Concerto For Two Pianos, marking another milestone in her choreographic journey. Beyond ballet, Peck is an author, designer, & actress, having made significant contributions to film and television, choreographing for John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum and appearing in productions such as The Barre Project, Netflix's Tiny Pretty Things, and Hulu’s documentary Ballet NOW.  She currently appears in the Amazon Prime series, Étoile, from Amy Sherman-Palladino.

Photo: Ken Browar and Deborah Ory for NYC Dance Project

Terrence Mann is a three-time Tony nominee, his credits include work on the Broadway stage, in film and television, as a director, composer and artistic director. He most recently was Jerry Springer in The New Group New York premiere of Jerry Springer: The Opera at the Signature Theatre. On Broadway, he’s won the Outer Critics Circle award and was nominated for a Tony for his portrayal of King Charlemagne in the hit musical Pippin. Most recently he created the role of The Man in the Yellow Suit in Broadways Tuck Everlasting and played Charles Frohman/Hook in Finding Neverland. He originated the roles of the Beast in Beauty and the Beast (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle nominations), Inspector Javert in Les Miserables (Tony nomination), Rum Tum Tugger in Cats and Chauvelin in The Scarlet Pimpernel. Other Broadway credits include The Addams Family (Mal Bienekie), Lennon (Ensemble), The Rocky Horror Show (Frank ‘N’ Furter), Getting Away With Murder (Greg), A Christmas Carol (Scrooge), Rags (Saul), Barnum (Ringmaster, matinee Barnum on tour), Jerome Robbin’s Broadway (Narrator) and Jekyll and Hyde (title roles, pre-Broadway workshop). Off-Broadway regional/workshop credits include the 5th AVENUE Broadway bound LITTLE DANCER as Degas, Tuck Everlasting (the Alliance Theatre), The Studio (South Coast Repertory), Promises, Promises, Assassins and 1776.

He was “Mr. Whispers” in the Netflix Original series "Sense8." He appeared as Bob on the Sci-Fi Channel’s series "The Dresden Files." Other film and television appearances include "Critters," "A Chorus Line," "Big Top Pee Wee," "Solar Babies," "Love Monkey," "Law and Order," "Mrs. Santa Claus," "American Revolution," "One Life to Live," and "As the World Turns" (Emmy Nomination). He was the Director/Composer for the musical adaptation on Romeo & Juliet.

He was founding Artistic Director of the Carolina Arts Festival. He served as Artistic Director of the North Carolina Theatre for 10 years. For 12 years He served as the endowed chair of Musical Theatre at Western Carolina University and was Artistic Director of the Connecticut repertory theaters Nutmeg Summer theater Festival on the campus of the University of Connecticut. Terry and his wife Charlotte d’Amboise are co-artistic directors of the Triple Arts Musical Theatre intensive for young performers at Western Carolina University. Terry can be seen as brother DUSK in The world premiere of apple tv+ ‘FOUNDATION’ based on the Isaac Asimov trilogy starting September 26th 2021.

Tony Award-nominated Broadway superstar, recording artist and author Melissa Errico has been praised by The New York Times as “one of Sondheim’s deepest-hearted yet lightest-touch interpreters” while The Wall Street Journal called her 2018 album, Sondheim Sublime, “The best all-Sondheim album ever recorded.” Her new album SONDHEIM IN THE CITY, is Melissa’s kaleidoscopic vision of Sondheim’s songs of urban life, which Gramophone magazine said, “takes the musical theatre compilation album to a new level.” A street fair of New York scenes and moments, it summons back to life the poetic vision of a man who once confessed that his entire creative life had been spent in a twenty-block radius of Manhattan. From the wide-eyed newly-wed for whom a basement room with a quarter-inch view is all that she needs, to the cynical nouveau from New Rochelle who can’t choose between uptown and downtown for her bitter pleasures, Melissa celebrates and embodies New York characters, and their follies, of all kinds – with a clear arc of passage along the way. From innocence (“What More Do I Need?” and “Another Hundred People”) passing into experience (“The Little Things You Do Together”, “Everybody Says Don’t”) and arriving at the plaintive, bittersweet ambivalence that is Sondheim’s tonic note on “Good Thing Going” and “Sorry-Grateful” and the deeply emotional, and redemptive “Being Alive”, Melissa sings Sondheim as no one else can. She will also bring SONDHEIM IN THE CITY – IN CONCERT to London this summer, playing for one night only at The Cadogan Hall on Saturday, July 12.

She is known for her starring roles on Broadway, including My Fair Lady, High Society, Anna Karenina, White Christmas, Dracula, Les Misérables, and was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress in Michel Legrand’s Amour. She worked with Stephen Sondheim on productions of Sunday In The Park With George (Dot) at The Kennedy Center, John Doyle’s hit New York production of Passion (Clara) and Do I Hear a Waltz? (Leona) at City Center. She played the Baker’s Wife in a concert run of Into The Woods. For PBS television, she sang “Finishing The Hat” on Poetry In America, and included much Sondheim on her own TV special. Melissa also has a long association with the French composer Michel Legrand with whom she made a symphonic album: she wrote his eulogy for The New York Times, and was the only American to sing at his memorial at the Grand Rex in Paris.

Much praised for her recordings, she has received still more praise for her concerts, where she can add her own signature smart talk and sensual style to her sublime singing, offering a presence so impassioned that it led Opera News to call her “the Maria Callas of the American musical theatre”. Her concert life takes her from symphony halls with orchestras -- from New York’s Carnegie Hall to, most recently, Texas and British Columbia-- to intimate nightclubs, including regular residences at the Bal Blomet in Paris and Crazy Coqs in London. 

Her work in recent years has also taken her into the new territory of jazz song, particularly in her Noir album, Out of The Dark: The Film Noir Project (Warner Music Group), which Broadway World called “an exploration into the world of darkness, passion, and mystery -- a triumph of love that puts on full display the reasons why Melissa is one of the great musical interpreters of our time.” Reviewing her Montreal Jazz Festival concert with George Benson and his band in 2023, a writer from London Jazz News added that: “Errico was energized, making sure with every breath that she would get the audience in the 3000-seater Pelletier really on her side. Every high note was heroically held, and she got a standing ovation from this audience.”

Melissa has starred in many non-musical roles, especially in plays by Shaw and Oscar Wilde, including Dear Liar off-Broadway in the spring of 2023, playing Mrs. Patrick Campbell, George Bernard Shaw’s original Eliza Doolittle. She has appeared in films; and television with guest arcs on Cinemax’s “The Knick” and Showtime’s “Billions.” An accomplished author, she writes regularly for The New York Times in her column, “Scenes from An Acting Life”. Of Stephen Sondheim, Melissa has said “he is a musical north star,” and refers to his wisdom and inspiration as “life-saving, sheer joy, giving us all creative courage.”

“Sondheim in The City,” Melissa Errico’s tribute to Sondheim’s urbanity, feels like a New York house tour of thrill and heartbreak…You can almost hear the martini glasses clink—and shatter.” – The New York Times

Dee Hoty has earned three Tony nominations for her starring roles in Footloose, The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public, and The Will Rogers Follies.  She starred on Broadway and in eight major U.S. cities as Donna in Mamma Mia! She has appeared in 13 Broadway shows, including City of Angels (Outer Critics Circle nomination) and Me and My Girl.  Dee’s most recent Broadway appearances were Gigi (2015) and Bright Star (2016).

Her film and TV work include New Amsterdam, Dickinson (Apple TV), The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon), The Sinner (USA Network, S1), Julian Fellowes’ film, The Chaperone, and the upcoming Charles Busch film, The Sixth Reel.

Recent stage appearances (pre-COVID) include the roles of Mary Cassat in Susan Stroman’s pre-Broadway MARIE: DANCING STILL, starring Tiler Peck and Terrence Mann at Seattle’s 5^th Avenue Theatre, and Madame (the stepmother) in Cinderella at Paper Mill Playhouse.

She is a BA graduate of Otterbein, and was honored by them in 1997 with an Honorary Doctorate of Arts. The same year, she was inducted into the Hall of Excellence of the Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges.

A native of Lakewood (Cleveland) Ohio, Dee has served as an Eastern Principal Counselor of Actors Equity Association since 2018, and in June of 2020, she was elected Eastern Regional Vice President. She has been a proud member since 1976.

Amateur baker, crossword puzzle doer, and dog lover,  www.DeeHoty.com

A five-time Tony Award winning director and choreographer most known for Crazy For You, Contact, The Scottsboro Boys, and The Producers. Her work has been honored with Olivier, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel and a record six Astaire Awards.

She directed and choreographed The Producers, winner of a record-making 12 Tony Awards including Best Direction and Best Choreography.

She co-created, directed and choreographed the Tony Award winning musical Contact for Lincoln Center Theater, which was honored with a 2003 Emmy Award for “Live from Lincoln Center”.

She directed and choreographed the critically acclaimed musical The Scottsboro Boys on Broadway and in the West End, where it was honored with the 2014 Evening Standard Award for Best Musical.

Other Broadway credits include Oklahoma!, Show Boat, Prince of Broadway, Bullets Over Broadway, Big Fish, Young Frankenstein, Thou Shalt Not, The Music Man, The Frogs, Big, Steel Pier, Picnic, and Crazy for You.

Off-Broadway credits include: The Beast in the Jungle, Dot, Flora the Red Menace, And the World Goes ’Round, Happiness and The Last Two People on Earth: An Apocalyptic Vaudeville starring Mandy Patinkin and Taylor Mac.

For ten years she choreographed Madison Square Garden’s annual spectacular A Christmas Carol. She made her Metropolitan Opera debut directing and choreographing The Merry Widow, starring Renée Fleming.

Her London West End productions include Crazy For You, Oklahoma!, Show Boat, Contact, The Producers, and Young Frankenstein.

For New York City Ballet, she created Double Feature, a full-length ballet featuring the music of Irving Berlin and Walter Donaldson, and For the Love of Duke, featuring the music of Duke Ellington. 

Other ballet credits include But Not For Me for the Martha Graham Company and Take Five…More or Less for Pacific Northwest Ballet. Her choreography received an Emmy Award nomination for the HBO presentation Liza – Live from Radio City Music Hall, starring Liza Minnelli. She received the American Choreography Award for her work in Columbia Pictures feature film Center Stage. She directed and choreographed The Producers: The Movie Musical, nominated for 4 Golden Globes. 

She directed and choreographed the Broadway bound Ahrens/Flaherty musical Marie for The 5th Avenue Theater in Seattle. In collaboration with the Williamstown Theatre Festival, she directed the play Photograph 51 for Audible. 

She is an Associate Director for Lincoln Center Theater and a member of the Board of Directors for the Ronald O. Perelman Center for the Performing Arts located at the World Trade Center.

She is the recipient of the George Abbott Award for Lifetime Achievement in the American Theater and an inductee of the Theater Hall of Fame in New York City.

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Greg Jarrett is a composer, conductor, and pianist. On Broadway, he served as Music Director/Conductor for the revival of Gigi, Music Supervisor for Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and conducted performances Side Show, Fun Home, Dames at Sea, and The Nance. Off-Broadway, he will serve as Orchestrator/Music Director for the upcoming Classic Stage Company production of Assassins, and has music directed and conducted Pacific Overtures and The Cradle Will Rock (both at at Classic Stage,) The Beast in the Jungle at the Vineyard, Anything Can Happen In The Theatre: The Musical World of Maury Yeston at the York. In addition, he supervised the recent revival of Timon of Athens at Theatre For A New Audience and The Shakespeare Theatre Company in D.C. He regularly works at Encores! and Encores! Off-Center, and music directed and conducted 2019's Promenade. Regionally, he served as Music Director/Conductor for the world premiere of August Rush at the Paramount Theatre. His cast albums include Anything Can Happen..., Beast In The Jungle, Gigi, Red Eye Of Love, Side Show and Side Show: Added Attractions. Currently, he works at a music and technology startup where he explores the intersection of composition, arrangement, and AI-technology. Education: The University of Michigan.