RICHARD HESTER (Production Stage Manager). Broadway: Gypsy, Sweet Smell of Success, Annie Get Your Gun, Patti LuPone’s Matters of the Heart, A Delicate Balance, The Old Neighborhood, Titanic, The Phantom of the Opera, The Red Shoes, The Secret Garden. National tours: Wicked, The Phantom of the Opera, West Side Story. Regional: Jersey Boys (La Jolla Playhouse). Currently: production supervisor for Patti LuPone’s national concert appearances. Co-founder/producer of Broadway Barks with Bernadette Peters and Mary Tyler Moore.