Cast - Too Dead To Swing

Susan Egan (Katy Green)	Return to Top
On Broadway, Susan received outstanding critical acclaim as the downwardly-mobile Sally Bowles in Cabaret, she seduced Betty Buckley and F. Murray Abraham as Princess Leonide in Triumph of Love, portrayed Margie Frake in State Fair, and is best known for having originated the role of Belle in Disney's Beauty and the Beast (Tony/Drama Desk Nominations), and in LA (Drama-Logue Award). She sang the role of Nellie Forbush in the Hollywood Bowl's One Hundred Years of Broadway concert, and starred alongside Carol Burnett in Sondheim's Putting It Together at the Mark Taper Forum. She is currently a series regular on the new WB sitcom, Nikki. On film, Susan can be heard as the speaking/singing voice of Meg in Disney's Hercules, and the singing voice of Angel in Lady and the Tramp II. She stars in the independent film, "Man of the Century," which received a glorious "two thumbs up!" She has numerous concert, television, commercial and voice-over credits, and has sung on over a dozen recordings, including the Original Broadway Cast Recordings of Beauty and the Beast and Triumph of Love. More details on Susan's career can be found on her website at www.susanegan.net, which Entertainment Weekly called "the slickest site around."
Ann Hampton Callaway (Eileen)	Return to Top
Ann Hampton Callaway is one of the most widely acclaimed singer/songwriters working in pop and jazz styles today. She is the winner of eleven MAC Awards, including Best Singer/Songwriter and Best Album of the Year. She is currently starring in the Broadway musical Swing -- for which she received a Tony Award nomination in 2000. Her most recent CD (her seventh), entitled "Easy Living," has reached #12 on the Gavin Jazz charts; it features guest artist Wynton Marsalis, with whom she has appeared at Carnegie Hall, and who was also featured on her previous CD, "To Ella With Love." As a songwriter, she has received the Johnny Mercer Songwriting Award from ASCAP; and Barbara Streisand has performed and recorded several of her songs. Ms. Callaway is perhaps best known to television viewers, however, for writing and performing the theme song for the sitcom The Nanny. Her Web site is at www.annhamptoncallaway.com.
Harry Groener (Ted)	Return to Top
Harry Groener is a three-time Tony Award nominee: for Will Parker in Oklahoma!, for Munkustrap in the original cast of Cats, and for Bobby Child, the song-and-dance man in Crazy For You, which he performed not only on Broadway but on tour around the U.S. His other Broadway credits include Sunday In The Park With George, Harrigan 'N' Hart, Is There Life After High School?, Oh, Brother! and Sleight Of Hand. In 1999 he co-starred with Twiggy, off-Broadway, in the Noel Coward revue If Love Were All. On television, he has appeared in such shows as Mad About You, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The West Wing; and he portrayed the captain of the Tecora in Steven Spielberg's film Amistad.
Patti Mariano (Nina)	Return to Top
Patti Mariano has appeared in eight Broadway shows, including The Music Man, Sail Away, I Had A Ball, Rags, Bye Bye Birdie, and George M! Off-Broadway, on national tours, and in regional theaters, she's played Meg in Damn Yankees, Anybody's in West Side Story, Mabel in The Pajama Game, Lily St. Regis in Annie, Hildy in On The Town, and Alice B. Toklas in Lucky In the Rain. She's also appeared in films and on TV shows, and has extensive credits as a dancer and choreographer.
Simon Jones (Manny)	Return to Top
A popular Broadway actor, Simon Jones has appeared most recently in Waiting In the Wings, Ring Round the Moon, The Herbal Bed, and The Real Inspector Hound. His concert-readings include The Gay Divorce (Carnegie Hall) and Call Me Madam (Encores). He has hosted a weekly radio series for BBC Radio 4, called "Talk of New York; and has appeared in numerous films, including Brazil, Miracle on 34th Street, and Twelve Monkeys. He is perhaps best known, however, for his television performances as Arthur Dent in The Hitchhikers's Guide To the Galaxy, and as Bridey in Brideshead Revisited.
Kerry O'Malley (Ivy)	Return to Top
Kerry O'Malley has appeared on TV in Law & Order, Firehouse, and N.Y.P.D. Blue; on Broadway in the popular Encores series (Promises, Promises), and in the O'Casey Theater Company's international touring production of The Plough and the Stars. She has also played the leads in many regional productions, including Jane Eyre in Jane Eyre: A Musical (Asolo Theater Company), Molly in The Unsinkable Molly Brown (Sacramento Music Circus), and Roxane in Cyrano de Bergerac (Georgia Shakespeare Festival).
Annie Meisels (Jack)	Return to Top
Annie Meisels has been featured in films, including Six Degrees of Separation, and on television in Daisy's Mom, As The World Turns, and Through Thick & Thin. She has appeared often in regional productions, in modern dramas such as The Real Thing (Old Globe Theater & Pasadena Playhouse) and Four Dogs and a Bone (Hartford Theater Works); and in Shakespearean comedies, including As You Like It (Long Wharf) and Taming of the Shrew (Center Stage).
Jane Gennaro (Lillian)	Return to Top
Jane Gennaro is an actor and a playwright, whose solo plays The Boob Story and Reality Ranch were produced in New York by the American Place Theater. She's also a cartoonist, a radio personality, a narrator for audio books, and a voice-over artist for many television and radio commercials.
Bernie McInerney (Sgt. Grumman)	Return to Top
Bernie McInerney's most recent appearance on Broadway was as the Sheriff in The Rainmaker. There he has also portrayed JoJo in Curse Of An Aching Heart, Gonzales in Summer and Smoke, and James in That Championship Season -- which he performed in London too. His television credits include Law & Order, Chicago Hope, and L.A. Law; and his film work includes The American President, Masquerade, and The Natural.
Jason Harris (Dep. Peterson, College Boy)	Return to Top
A narrator of audio books, Jason Harris has worked in New York theater, both off- and off-off Broadway, including the Ensemble Studio Theater, Housman Studio Theater, Judith Anderson Theater, and TheaterWorks U.S.A. He's appeared on All My Children (ABC TV), has been featured in films, including Wide Awake (Miramax), and has done national TV and radio commercials as well.
Stephen Gleason (Detective Finn)	Return to Top
Stephen Gleason has appeared in numerous plays and musicals across the country, most notably as Stine in City of Angels, Bob in How the Other Half Loves, Oscar in Sweet Charity, and Martin in the Harry Chapin revue Lies and Legends. On television he appears in the ABC series Wonderland; and has played various accountants, lawyers and detectives on N.Y.P.D. Blue, Law & Order, The Beat, Guiding Light, and All My Children.
Byron Brooks (Porter, Cop)	Return to Top
Byron Brooks, based in Nashville, has worked for several regional theater companies, including the Tennessee Repertory Theater, Circle Players, Nashville Children's Theater, Lifeworks Productions, and Mockingbird Public Theater. He also appears in the urban radio drama Reality Check, which deals with choices that young people make, and how those choices affect their lives.
Barbara Rosenblat (Suzanne, Mrs. Parks)	Return to Top
Barbara Rosenblat's career spans two continents. She spent many years in England working in West End theater, television, films, and BBC Radio. On Broadway, she created the role of Mrs Medlock in the Tony Award-winning musical The Secret Garden. Over the last several years, in the U.S., she has become one of the most popular and sought-after narrators of unabridged audiobooks. Her award-winning recordings led Billboard magazine to say: "Among devoted audiobook fans, Barbara Rosenblat is spoken of with the same affection and reverence that the music industry reserves for Frank Sinatra and the Beatles." Barbara's website is http://i.am/barbararosenblat
Dick Cowl (Sheriff, Conductor)	Return to Top
Dick Cowl is a veteran Hollywood character actor. His many film appearances include House of Wax, Lady For A Day, and Studs Lonigan; his extensive television work includes the Mr. Lucky, Bat Masterson, Adams Family, and Gunsmoke series. He lives now in Nashville, where he is an announcer on WAMB-AM Radio.
Pat Childs (Helen Bliss, Sonia Bliss)	Return to Top
After graduating from the Eastman School of Music, Patricia hit the road with the National Tour of Company. She subsequently made Nashville her home and base of operations for a career that has included singing, acting, producing and directing, and which has literally taken her around the world. Pat has also appeared in countless commercials, sound tracks and jingles, and for years was the featured vocalist on WSM’s The Noon Show and The Waking Crew. She has worked as both a narrator and soloist with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, has starred in the national award-winning children's program The Scene Machine, for which she also contributed original music and scripts. In Too Dead To Swing, she not only portrays the Bliss sisters, she also served as producer and director of the audio-play (see Credits).
Jim Gossett (George Gallup; Night Mgr.)	Return to Top
As a comedian and impressionist, Jim Gossett customizes his routines for corporate meetings and conventions with impressions not only of celebrities but of attendees and insiders. His clients include Allstate, Sony, TRW, Toyota, Chevron, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Sara Lee. Jim is also a featured announcer on cable TV's Cartoon Network and Country Music Television channels; and he has opened on concert stages for (among others) Barbara Mandrell, Jay Leno, Frankie Valli, and Crystal Gayle.
Joe Keenan (Dr. Marley; Tahoe Mgr.)	Return to Top
Joe Keenan calls himself "an old hand at the acting life." He portrayed Rev. Tate in Dolly Parton's 1999 TV movie The Blue Valley Songbird, and is frequently cast in productions of the Tennessee Repertory Theater, Chaffin's Barn Dinner Theater, and the Nashville Shakespeare Festival. A theater major and campus radio announcer at Indiana University "in the days before television got a foothold," he also entertains as a storyteller and folksinger.
Jon Sherberg (Announcer)	Return to Top
Jon Sherberg has been a leading voice in Disney children's projects, including Rock Around the Mouse, Silly Songs, Gumby, and the Lullabye and Awake albums. He also created several character voices for the PBS children's television show Noddy. A singer as well as an actor, he has performed in concerts in Eastern and Western Europe, and West Africa. He can be heard announcing radio commercials for Blue Cross and Georgia Pacific; and he can often be seen in musical theater productions in the Nashville area.

*The Cast*
starring
Susan Egan
Ann Hampton Callaway
Harry Groener	Patti Mariano	Simon Jones
Kerry O'Malley	Annie Meisels	Jane Gennaro
Bernie McInerney	Jason Harris	Stephen Gleason
Byron Brooks	Barbara Rosenblat	Dick Cowl
Jim Gossett	Pat Childs	Joe Keenan
	Jon Sherberg

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