National Tour: Whistle Down the Wind (Swallow). Off-Broadway: The Fantasticks (Luisa). New York Theatre Workshops: Picnic at Hanging Rock (Lincoln Center Workshop), Disney's High School Musical 2 (Sharpay), Sleeping Beauty Wakes (McCarter Infest). Regional: To the Lighthouse (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), Kind Hearts and Coronets (Sundance Theatre Lab), Edges (Capital Repertory Theater). TV: "Love Monkey," "All My Children." Film: Off the Black (starring Nick Nolte). Concerts: Gavin Creel: Prom King (Second Stage). Whitney is a graduate of The University of Michigan.

Westport Country Playhouse: The Ladies Who Sing Sondheim. Broadway: John Doyle's Sweeney Todd, Hollywood Arms, By Jeeves, James Joyce's The Dead. Off-Broadway: Dark at the Top of the Stairs (OBIE Award for Best Actress), Marcy in the Galaxy, Flight of the Lawnchair Man (NYMF Award for Best Actress), First Lady Suite, My Life with Albertine, City Center's Encores! Bloomer Girl and Carnegie Hall's Very Warm for May. Film/TV: My Father's Will, The Audition, The Dark Half, "Law & Order," "The Tony Awards," "The View." Recordings include Sweeney Todd, Albertine, By Jeeves, Our Heart Sings, Carols for a Cure. Training: CMU (BFA), Oxford University (Shakespeare/Chekhov Scholarship). Donna Lynne is a Princess Grace Grant recipient. www.donnalynnechamplin.com.

Broadway: Spamalot, Amour, Once Upon a Mattress, Swinging on a Star (Drama Desk nomination). Off-Broadway: Time & Again (Manhattan Theatre Company), A New Brain (Lincoln Center Theatre), Call Me Madam (Encores!). National tours: Sunset Boulevard, South Pacific, Mamma Mia. Regional: More than 30 leading roles include Giorgio in Passion (Helen Hayes Award) and John Adams in 1776 (Helen Hayes nomination) for Ford's Theatre. Recordings: William Finn's Infinite Joy, Myths & Hymms, RCA/Victor's Great Musicals, Encores from Encores!, Big City Rhythm, four original cast albums, Sara Zahn: Witchcraft.

Broadway: Tarzan (Kala u/s). International Tours: Rent (Joanne). NY Workshops: Jerry Mitchell's Peep Show. Regional: Paper Mill Playhouse and Goodspeed Musicals: Happy Days (Pinkette Lola, Car-Hop Girl); Prince Music Theater: Ain't Misbehavin' (Charlaine); Virginia Musical Theatre: Smokey Joe's Cafe (Brenda); New Bedford Festival Theatre: Smokey Joe's Cafe (Brenda); Theatre Aspen: Jekyll and Hyde (Lucy), Chicago (June), West Side Story (Anita). Andrea also sings in the New York City based band, Starlight Orchestras. www.andreadora.com

Broadway: Urinetown (original cast), Meet Me in St. Louis (original cast), La Cage aux Folles and Passion. National tours: Ragtime, Falsettos, Company, White Christmas. Regional: Goodspeed Opera House (Pal Joey and Red, Hot and Blue), Hartford Stage (Martin Guerre), Pittsburgh Public (50 Million Frenchmen) as well as The Denver Center, The Old Globe and The Actors Theatre of Louisville. Peter has played recurring roles on "Another World" and currently plays Greer on "All My Children." Other television credits include episodes of "Sex and the City" and Spike Lee's "Miracle's Boys." Peter recently starred as Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls at the Macao International Arts Festival in Macao, China.

Recent: No, No Nanette (Tom) at City Center's Encores!; Candide at New York City Opera. Broadway: Dracula (Jack Seward); 42nd Street (Revival). Off-Broadway: Stairway to Paradise (Encores!); Thrill Me; The View from Here (cast album). Regional: Ragtime, The Secret Garden, A Little Night Music, Big River, I Love A Piano, Forever Plaid, Camille Claudel, Crazy for You. Television & Film: "Guiding Light" and the upcoming feature films Tiny Dancer, Red Hook and Confessions of a Shopoholic. Next Up: Vaudeville Man at York Theatre. BFA: Carnegie Mellon University. www.shonnwiley.com

Composer and Lyricist

Born in 1891 to a wealthy Indiana family, Cole Porter learned the violin at age six, the piano at age eight and wrote his first operetta (assisted by his mother) at age 10. Porter's maternal grandfather wanted Porter to forget music and sent him to Yale University to pursue a career practicing law. By the time Porter graduated from Yale, he had composed 300 songs and mounted six full-scale productions there. In his second year at Harvard Law, he abandoned his studies and moved to New York where he wrote music full time. After a string of Broadway show failures, Porter escaped to Paris, selling songs and living off an allowance supplied by his family. In 1919, Porter married Linda Lee Thomas, a rich Kentucky-born divorc?e eight years his senior. However, while living in Hollywood the couple separated when word of Porter's bisexual orientation (and dalliances) became common knowledge. In the late 1920s, Porter gave Broadway another shot, writing some of his most popular work, including the song Night and Day for his 1932 musical Gay Divorce. A riding accident in 1937 crushed his legs and left him essentially crippled. Despite his pain, Porter continued to write successful shows. In 1948, Porter made a great comeback with Kiss Me, Kate, winning Tony Awards for Best Musical and for Best Composer and Lyricist. Porter died of kidney failure at the age of 73 in 1964. In 1990, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) reported that sales of his song Night and Day remained the best seller of all time. His songs are found in movie soundtracks from the films of Woody Allen to Tank Girl. And the story of his larger-than-life persona lives on in numerous biographies and in the films Night and Day (1945) with Cary Grant and De-Lovely (2004) with Kevin Kline.

Co-conceiver

Mr. Armstrong is the Producing Artistic Director of Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre, one of the largest and most acclaimed theatre companies in the Pacific Northwest. His direction and choreography have been seen in New York and at leading regional theaters throughout America. As a playwright, Mr. Armstrong was commissioned by Theatreworks/USA to create the books for the musicals Gold Rush! and A Christmas Carol -- both with scores by Mark Waldrop and Dick Gallagher. His new musical Yankee Doodle Dandy (score by George M. Cohan and Albert Evans) premiered at The 5th Avenue Theatre in 2005 and will be produced by The Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in St. Paul this summer.

Co-conceiver

Bruce's career has spanned many facets of music and theatre. He has performed at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Concert Hall in NYC. He has conducted Symphony Orchestras across the U.S. and Canada. In Germany, he conducted Sunset Boulevard and has been Helen Schneider's musical director and arranger for over twenty years. He has musical directed many Off-Broadway shows and regional theatre productions throughout the U.S. Bruce won two of Florida's Carbonell Awards for his work on Coconut Grove Playhouse's productions of Berlin to Broadway and Side By Side By Sondheim. Bruce was also musical director and arranger for Romeo and Bernadette at Paper Mill Playhouse where he is now rehearsing Little Shop of Horrors.

Co-conceiver

Provided special material for and directed Bea Arthur on Broadway and Bette Midler's Divine Miss Millennium tour. Off-Broadway, he wrote book and lyrics for Howard Crabtree's When Pigs Fly, which he also directed (1997 Drama Desk Award/Best Revue, 1997 Outer Critic's Circle Award/Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical, Obie Award) and contributed lyrics to Whoop-dee-doo, Pete 'n' Keely, and Hey, Love: The Songs of Mary Rodgers. He wrote the acclaimed 75th Anniversary Edition of the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular. Grateful recipient of the 1997 Edward Kleban Award for Excellence in Lyrics.