RICK ELICE
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Jersey Boys, Rick’s first Broadway credit, won the 2006 Tony Award for Best Musical. From 1982-2000, as creative director at Serino Coyne Inc, he produced ad campaigns for some 300 Broadway shows, from
A Chorus Line to
The Lion King. Since 2000, he has served as creative consultant for the Walt Disney Studios. BA Cornell University, MFA Yale Drama School, teaching fellow Harvard University, charter member American Repertory Theatre. Another collaboration with Marshall Brickman,
Turn of the Century, will be directed by Tommy Tune. With Marshall Brickman and Andrew Lippa, he is writing a musical based on
The Addams Family.
Rick saw his first Broadway show when he was three. His mother said he was very well-behaved. From that day, he dreamed of working in the theatre. From the age of 19, he has. Heartfelt thanks to those he’s been lucky enough to know, whose work makes him grateful for the day he was born: Sondheim, Stoppard, Bennett, Prince, Fosse, Robbins, Nichols, Tune, Nunn, Laurents, Stone, Mackintosh, Taymor, Papp, Schumacher, Schneider, Coyne, Brickman and Rees. Rick thinks about them a lot. He never thought about Jersey much. He does now.
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