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Big Deal - Current Cast
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Charley
Loretta Devine
Lilly
Alan Weeks
Willie
Ciscoe Bruton II
Dancer
Gary Chapman
Dancin' Dan
Kokomo
Wayne Cilento
First Narrator
Desiree Coleman
Phoebe
Lloyd Culbreath
Dancer
Kim Darwin
Dancer
Bruce Anthony Davis
Second Narrator
Cady Huffman
Dancer
Mel Johnson, Jr.
Sunnyboy
Alde Lewis, Jr.
Otis
Emanuel MacDonald
Little Willie (film sequence)
Bernard J. Marsh
Judge and Bandleader
Amelia Marshall
Dancer
Larry Marshall
Slick
Frank Mastrocola
Dancer
Mennie Nelson
Millie (film sequence)
Bill Newman
The Clerk (film sequence)
Valarie Pettiford
Band Singer
First Shadow
Pearl
Stephanie Pope
Dancer
Roumel Reaux
Dancer
Little Willie
George Russell
Dancer
Candace Tovar
Announcer
Dancer
Barbara Yeager
Second Shadow
Big Deal - Standbys, Understudies, and Swings
Bryant Baldwin
Dancer
Second Narrator
Vince Cole
Dancer
Sunnyboy
Diana Laurenson
Dancer
James Stovall
Judge and Bandleader
Sunnyboy
Byron Utley
Charley
Slick
Ciscoe Bruton II
Dancin' Dan
Lloyd Culbreath
Willie
Kim Darwin
First Shadow
Second Shadow
Kenneth Hanson
Kokomo
Cady Huffman
Pearl
Amelia Marshall
Phoebe
Frank Mastrocola
First Narrator
Stephanie Pope
First Shadow
Lilly
Second Shadow
Roumel Reaux
Dancin' Dan
Otis
Big Deal - Current Music Credits
Gordon Lowry Harrell
Conducted
Myles Chase
Keyboard 3
Earl May
On-Stage Band - Bass
William Shadel
On-Stage Band - Clarinet
Brian Brake
On-Stage Band - Drums
J. Leonard Oxley
On-Stage Band - Piano
Britt Woodman
On-Stage Band - Trombone
Joe Mosello
On-Stage Band - Trumpet
Luico Hopper
Bass
Big Deal - Current Production Credits
Bob Fosse
Book
Director
Choreographer
Milton Ager
Featured Songs ("Ain't She Sweet", "Happy Days are Here Again")
Ray Henderson
Featured Songs ("Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries," "Button Up Your Overcoat," "I'm Sitting on Top of the World")
Buddy DeSylva
Featured Songs with Lyrics ("Button Up Your Overcoat")
Arthur Freed
Featured Songs with Lyrics ("I've Got a Feelin' You're Foolin'")
Billy Rose
Featured Songs with Lyrics ("Me and My Shadow", "I Found a Million Dollar Baby")
Al Sherman
Featured Songs with Lyrics ("Now's The Time to Fall in Love")
Dorothy Fields
Featured Songs with Lyrics ("Pick Yourself Up")
Richard A. Whiting
Featuring songs "Ain't We Got Fun"
Hughie Prince
Featuring songs "Beat Me Daddy Eight to the Bar"
Featuring songs with lyrics "Beat Me Daddy Eight to the Bar"
Eleanor Sheehy
Featuring songs "Beat Me Daddy Eight to the Bar"
Featuring songs with lyrics "Beat Me Daddy Eight to the Bar"
Don Raye
Featuring songs "Beat Me Daddy Eight to the Bar"
Featuring songs with lyrics "Beat Me Daddy Eight to the Bar"
Ted Fiorito
Featuring songs "Charley My Boy"
Fred Fisher
Featuring songs "Chicago", "Daddy, You've Been a Mother to Me"
Featuring songs with lyrics "Chicago", "Daddy, You've Been a Mother To Me"
Spencer Williams
Featuring songs "Everybody Loves My Baby"
Samuel W. Lewis
Featuring songs "For No Good Reason at All"
Abel Baer
Featuring songs "For No Good Reason at All"
Joseph Young
Featuring songs "For No Good Reason at All"
Featuring songs with lyrics "I'm Sitting on Top of the World"
Willie Spottswood
Featuring songs "Hold Tight, Hold Tight"
Featuring songs with lyrics "Hold Tight, Hold Tight"
Leonard Ware
Featuring songs "Hold Tight, Hold Tight"
Featuring songs with lyrics "Hold Tight, Hold Tight"
Leonard Kent
Featuring songs "Hold Tight, Hold Tight"
Featuring songs with lyrics "Hold Tight, Hold Tight"
Jerry Brandow
Featuring songs "Hold Tight, Hold Tight"
Featuring songs with lyrics "Hold Tight, Hold Tight"
Edward Robinson
Featuring songs "Hold Tight, Hold Tight"
Featuring songs with lyrics "Hold Tight, Hold Tight"
Harry Warren
Featuring songs "I Found a Million Dollar Baby"
Eubie Blake
Featuring songs "I'm Just Wild About Harry"
Nacio Herb Brown
Featuring songs "I've Got a Feelin' You're Foolin'"
Lionello Casucci
Featuring songs "Just a Gigolo"
Lewis E. Gensler
Featuring songs "Love is Just Around the Corner"
Dave Dreyer
Featuring songs "Me and My Shadow"
Al Jolson
Featuring songs "Me and My Shadow"
Al Lewis
Featuring songs "Now's The Time to Fall in Love"
Jerome Kern
Featuring songs "Pick Yourself Up"
Edward Farley
Featuring songs "The Music Goes 'Round and 'Round"
Michael Riley
Featuring songs "The Music Goes 'Round and 'Round"
Hal Goering
Featuring songs "Who's Your Little Whozis"
Ben Bernie
Featuring songs "Who's Your Little Whozis"
Walter Donaldson
Featuring songs "Yes Sir, That's My Baby"
Jack Yellen
Featuring songs with lyrics "Ain't She Sweet", "Happy Days are Here Again"
Raymond B. Egan
Featuring songs with lyrics "Ain't We Got Fun"
Gus Kahn
Featuring songs with lyrics "Charley My Boy", "Ain't We Got Fun", "Yes Sir, That's My Baby"
Jack Palmer
Featuring songs with lyrics "Everybody Loves My Baby"
Mort Dixon
Featuring songs with lyrics "I Found a Million Dollar Baby"
Noble Sissle
Featuring songs with lyrics "I'm Just Wild About Harry"
Samuel M. Lewis
Featuring songs with lyrics "I'm Sitting on Top of the World"
Lew Brown
Featuring songs with lyrics "Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries", "Button Up Your Overcoat"
Leo Robin
Featuring songs with lyrics "Love is Just Around the Corner"
Red Hodgson
Featuring songs with lyrics "The Music Goes 'Round and 'Round"
Walter Hirsch
Featuring songs with lyrics "Who's Your Little Whozis"
Irving Caesar
Featuring songs with lyrics (English) "Just a Gigolo"
Julius Brammer
Featuring songs with lyrics (original) "Just a Gigolo"
Mario Monicelli
Based on the film "Big Deal on Madonna Street"
Peter Larkin
Scenic Design
Patricia Zipprodt
Costume Design
Jules Fisher
Lighting Design
Executive Producer
Abe Jacob
Sound Design
Romaine Green
Hair Design
Christopher Chadman
Associate Choreographer
Ralph Burns
Music Orchestrations
Gordon Lowry Harrell
Music Arrangements
Phil Friedman
Production Stage Manager
Perry Cline
Stage Manager
Barry Kearsley
Stage Manager
Kenneth Hanson
Assistant Stage Manager
Randall Whitescarver
Assistant Stage Manager
Jeremiah Harris Associates
Technical Supervisor
Howard Feuer
Casting
Valarie Pettiford
Dance Captain
Joseph P. Harris Associates
General Manager
Steven H. David
Company Manager
Fred Nathan & Associates
General Press Representative
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Roger Berlind
Producer
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