Broadway in Nashua

Nashua
School District Music Departments

presents

BROADWAY
IN NASHUA

O’Keefe
Auditorium

Saturday,
March 22, 2014

with

ROBERT
CREIGHTON

ALLI
MAUZEY

WADE
PRESTON

TAYLOR
RICHARDSON

KISSY
SIMMONS

Producer/Host-Stephen
DeAngelis

Musical
Director/Accompanist-Eugene
Gwozdz

ROBERT
CREIGHTON
Broadway: The
Mystery of Edwin Drood
(Durdles) with Chita Rivera and Stephanie Block; Anything
Goes
(Purser/Moonface Martin) with Sutton Foster and Joel Grey; Chicago
(Amos Hart); The
Lion King
(Timon); The
Little Mermaid
(Chef Louis) with Sierra Boggess; Chitty
Chitty Bang Bang;
Laughing
Room Only;
NYC: Shakespeare in the Park’s A
Comedy of Errors
(Angelo); Encores!: Damn
Yankees!
(Smokey) with Sean Hayes and Jane Krakowski; Little
Me with
Christian Borle and Rachel York; New York City Opera’s The
Merry Widow
(Njesus)/The
Mikado
(JoJo). TV; “Law & Order”, “Life on Mars”. Co-Author and
star of Cagney! The award-winning new musical about film legend
James Cagney. Recently released debut CD “Ain’t We Got Fun”
available for sale this evening.

ALLI
MAUZEY most
recently starred as Glinda in the Broadway production of the smash
hit Wicked.
Other Broadway credits: Lenora in Cry
Baby
(Theatre World Award, Drama League Award Nomination), Brenda in
Hairspray.
Other NY credits: Sidney in It's
a Bird...It's a Plane...for
City Center Encores. Regional Theatre:  Audrey in Little
Shop of Horrors at
the MUNY (Kevin Kline Award Nomination),  Lenora in Cry
Baby
at the La Jolla Playhouse/Pre-Broadway (Theatre Critics Circle
Award),  Mallory in City
of Angels
at Reprise in Los Angeles, and Snookie in 110
in the Shade
at the Pasadena Playhouse.  Alli has sung with several
symphonies across the country including playing the title role in
Cinderella
alongside the Nashville Symphony Orchestra benefiting the
charity Show Hope.

WADE
PRESTON starred
in the “Piano Man” role in Billy Joel and Twyla Tharp’s
Broadway hit Movin’
Out for the
show’s 3-1/2 year run and also starred in the show’s National
Tours. He still does concerts with the Movin’
Out Band™. In
June and July of 2008, he did the rehearsals and sound checks for
Billy Joel for the historic Last
Play at Shea
performances, job description "Stunt Billy". Wade
performed at the PA Inauguration Ball in Washington D.C. for
President Obama, Vice President Biden and PA Governor Rendell. Prior
to Movin’ Out,
Wade was well known on the West Coast as the preeminent boogie
pianist, revered for his rollicking performances. He is now returning
to his roots with his new “city country band” Shotgun Wedding,
with members of the Movin’
Out Band and the
Billy Joel band, leaving the eclectic variety of styles he sings and
plays to his solo shows.

TAYLOR
RICHARDSON most
recently starred in the title role of Annie in the Broadway revival
of Annie.
Regional theatre credits include Susan Waverly in Irving
Berlin’s White Christmas
with Virginia Repertory Theatre and Honk!.
She also was the voice of Virginia in the Macy’s Herald Square
marionette show “Yes Virginia” during the 2012 and 2013 holiday
seasons. Taylor just completed filming “A Most Violent Year”
directed by J.C. Chandor and starring Oscar Isaac and Jessica
Chastain. She can also be seen in the upcoming “Annie” movie.

KISSY
SIMMONS, a
native Floridian, attended the University of South Florida on a Track
and Field scholarship. She grew up playing the keyboard and singing
in church. Before moving to NYC, she had a successful modeling career
and played numerous roles in theatrical performance sin the Tamp Bay
area. She was last seen on Broadway in The
Lion King
playing the role of Nala for Nine years (which make sher the longest
running Nala ever!). Ms. Simmons has appeared in several national
commercials, print adss and voiceovers. TV/Film credits include
“Smash”. “30 Rock”, “Hope & Faith” and “Six Degrees
of Separation” to name a few.

EUGENE
GWOZDZ (Musical
Director/Accompanist) from Fort Worth, Texas, based in NYC. Eugene is
the Music Director/Arranger for the Duke Ellington Center for the
Arts. Broadway/National Tours: Sunset
Boulevard with
Petula Clark:  Flower
Drum Song, Swing!, The Color Purple, The Phantom of the Opera, The
Will Rogers’ Follies and
West Side Story
(conducted and
played keyboards).
He has worked with many Broadway stars including Audra McDonald,
Patti Lupone, Chita Rivera, Norbert Leo Butz, Stephanie J. Block,
Leslie Uggams, Anika Noni Rose, Patrick Wilson, Rachel York,Shirley
Jones, Cady Huffman, Shuler Hensley, Betty Buckley, Donna McKechnie,
Will Chase, LaChanze, Nikki James, Chris Seiber, Norm Lewis, Megan
Hilty, Kristin Chenowith, John Tartaglia, Mark Kudisch, Sebastian
Arcellus, Laura Benanti, Karen Ziemba, Lou Diamond Phillips, Brent
Barrett and Laura Bell Bundy.

STEPHEN
DeANGELIS (Producer/Host)
was Casting Director for the 6X Emmy Award nominated Playhouse Disney
series “Johnny and the Sprites” starring Tony Award nominee John
Tartaglia, which was seen on the Disney Channel. His work has been
seen in New York and regionally in over 300 theatrical productions
for the John W. Engeman Theater at Northport, York Theatre Company,
Musicals Tonight!, The Signature Theatre, The Drama League, Casa
Manana, North Shore Music Theatre, Virginia Stage Company, Candlewood
Playhouse, Connecticut Repertory, Syracuse Stage, StageOne, Studio
Arena Theatre, American Stage Company, GeVa Theatre, Starlight
Theatre of Kansas City and The St. Louis Municipal Opera (The MUNY)
as well as numerous festival showcases, workshops and staged
readings. He also cast the 25thAnniversary
National Tour of Hair.
He served as Casting Director/Talent Executive for the World AIDS Day
All-Star Concert Revivals of Pippin
and The
Secret Garden.
He is currently on staff at Grey Advertising and has cast over 3000
network television and radio commercials for such advertisers as
Olive Garden, Red Lobster, E*TRADE, Cover Girl, Pantene, Advil,
Robitussin, Downy and others. He is also Producing Artistic Director
and Host of At
This Performance…,
a critically acclaimed concert series which has showcased the talents
of over 700 Broadway and Off-Broadway Standbys, Understudies and
Alternates in events in New York City and across the United States.
He has produced and hosted over 200 concerts nationwide featuring a
multitude of Broadway stars including many Tony Award winners and
nominees as well as stars from hit television series and films whose
roots are on stage. Stephen is a proud member of the Stage Directors
and Choreographers Society and has staged musicals in major theaters
across the country in Boston, Washington, DC, Dallas, St. Louis and
throughout New York and New England.  

BROADWAY
IN NASHUA

FIVE
BROADWAY STARS!

ONE
UNFORGETTABLE EVENING!

Saturday
Evening, March 22, 2014 at 8:00 PM

Nashua
School District Music Departments
presents Broadway
in Nashua, a
fundraising concert to be held on Saturday,
March 22nd
at 8 PM
at O’Keefe
Auditorium,
117 Elm Street in Nashua. Produced and hosted by New York casting
Director Stephen
DeAngelis,
five of Broadway’s finest performers will recreate their most
memorable musical moments and share behind-the-scenes stories and
amusing anecdotes in this all-new
concert event produced exclusively
for this evening. Performers scheduled to appear on March 22nd
are
Robert Creighton (The
Mystery of Edwin Drood;
Anything
Goes;
Chicago;
The
Lion
King;
The
Little Mermaid;
Chitty
Chitty Bang Bang;
Laughing
Room Only),
Taylor
Richardson (Annie),

Alli
Mauzey (Wicked;
Cry
Baby;
Hairspray),
Wade
Preston (Movin’
Out)
and Kissy
Simmons
(The
Lion
King).
Musical Director/Accompanist will be Eugene
Gwozdz.

TICKET
INFO

Join
us for what will certainly be a “can’t miss event” for audience
members of all ages in this rare opportunity to enjoy Broadway’s
elite performers brought directly to you.