The BIG TIME Cast
and Creative Team

as TONY STEVENITTI

Santino Fontana received the Tony for his tour de force performance in Tootsie. He’s received two Drama Desk Awards, an Outer Critics Circle Award, Lortel Award, Obie Award, and Clarence Derwent Award in a mix of dramas, comedies, and musicals.  He is perhaps best known for lending his voice to Prince Hans in Disney’s Frozen. TV audiences will recognize him from The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Mozart In The Jungle, and Shades of Blue opposite Jennifer Lopez.  He’ll next be seen in the film Lost & Found In Cleveland opposite Martin Sheen. A Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival winner at 17, he has sung the American Songbook with the New York Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra, Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Sesame Street Muppets, and at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, and more. 

as DONNA STEVENITTI

Tony and Grammy Award winner Debbie Gravitte has enjoyed a varied career that has taken her from the Broadway stage to the concert stage and beyond. Broadway: Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, (Tony Award) Drama Desk nom.) They’re Playing Our Song, Perfectly Frank,(Drama Desk Nom) Blues in the Night, Ain’t Broadway Grand, Zorba, Chicago, Les Misérables. Encores: Boys From Syracuse, Tenderloin, Carnival. Chicago Lyric Opera Fiddler on the Roof. Gravitte has sung with over 175 Orchestras throughout the world. Debbie’s 4 solo CD’s Big Band Broadway, Defying Gravity, The MGM Album. Part of Your World: The Alan Menken Album, Television/Film: several specials for PBS, Trial and Error, (CBS) Isn’t She Great?, The Little Mermaid.

as UNDERSECRETARY PENELOPE BRIGGS-HOPKINS

Diane Phelan most recently starred as Cinderella in the revival of Into the Woods on Broadway and is currently playing the role on the limited engagement national tour. Other Broadway: School of Rock, King & I. Select favorites: Here Lies Love (The Public), Sound of Music (Maria, La Mirada), West Side Story (Maria, Paris Châtelet), Carousel (Julie Jordan, NAAP), Pirates of Penzance (Mabel, CTRep). Film: Sherri in MarryHarry on Amazon Prime. Executive producer for all-Asian, Telly Award-winning A Gentleman's Guide … Murder benefiting STOP AAPI HATE on Broadway on Demand for which she also played Sibella. IG: @dianicaphelan.

as PAVLOV PUSHCART

Known as one of Broadway’s most versatile actors, Will is a Tony award nominee and an Obie award winner. He’s currently starring as Neil Diamond in the new hit Broadway musical “A Beautiful  Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical”.  Favorite Broadway/Off-Bway credits include “Hair”,  “Priscilla: Queen of the Desert”,  “Les Miserables”, ”Waitress”,  “Assassins”,  “Jerry Springer: The Opera”, “Murder Ballad”, “Rock of Ages", “Pericles”, and many more. Favorite Film and TV: “The Greatest Showman”, “The Kitchen”, “This is Where I Leave You”, “The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina”, “Law & Order" (SVU & CSI), “The Good Wife”, “Hit and Run”, “The Bite”, “First Kill”. 

as LEADER RESIDU

BROADWAY: A BEAUTIFUL NOISE: THE NEIL DIAMOND MUSICAL;  WICKED; HELLO DOLLY; CHAPLIN; ELF; CURTAINS; THE GRINCH/XMAS; THE PAJAMA GAME; KISS ME KATE; 1776; GYPSY; MARIE CHRISTINE; KISS OF THE SPIDERWOMAN; LA BETE. NAT Tours: LA CAGE; THE PRODUCERS; LES MISERABLES. Off-Broadway:  HIMSELF AND NORA, FLY BY NIGHT; A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE, CHARLOTTE SWEET, and more. TV Guest Spots: BLUE BLOODS, ELEMENTARY, HOUSE OF CARDS; THE GOOD WIFE; ORANGE/ BLACK; all three LAW AND ORDER series and more. 18 Broadway and Off-Broadway cast albums. Graduate of Northwestern U. Broadway debut OLIVER!

as CIA AGENT BIG APPLE

BRADLEY DEAN has appeared on Broadway as
Count Carl-Magnus in A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, Sir Galahad in MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT, and Monsieur Andre in THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. Other Broadway credits include DEAR EVAN HANSEN, THE LAST SHIP, COMPANY, DOCTOR ZHIVAGO, EVITA, THE STORY OF MY LIFE, JANE EYRE, and MAN OF LA MANCHA. Bradley starred in BAT OUT OF HELL at NYC’s City Center where he was also seen in the Encores productions of A NEW BRAIN and THE MOST HAPPY FELLA. Regional highlights: World premieres of A COMEDY OF TENORS (McCarter Theater), FLY (Dallas Theater Center), and LIFE AFTER (The Old Globe).

as MIMKE (and ANNOUNCER OF THE 500 CLUB)

Raymond Bokhour (Mimke) An actor with over 4,000 performances as Mr. Cellophane in Broadway’s Chicago. He opened the 1st National Tour of Once as Da. Recent work includes Williamstown Theatre Festival’s The Closet, by Douglas Carter Beane. Also a lyricist, he co-authored The Scream [https://www.thescreamthemusical.com], and The Glorious Death of Comrade What’s-His-Name. A composer as well, his music has been recorded by the London Symphony, Warsaw Philharmonic, and Moravian Philharmonic orchestras. 2008 recipient of BMI’s Harrington Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement, and 2015 Ellen Schwartz Award for Outstanding Literary Merit in Lyric Writing. Represented by Bret Adams, LTD.

as GRUSHA

Best known for her Emmy nominated role of ‘Mamacita’ from FX’s “Feud: Betty and Joan,” JAckie can currently be seen in the SAG nominated cast of HULU’s “Only Murders in the Building,” in Amazon’s “ The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” and in the Netflix film, “Glass Onion.” She will next be seen in Paramount+’s “Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies” as Assistant Principal McGee. On Broadway, Jackie has co-starred in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” “On The Town,” “The Addams Family,” “Xanadu.” and “Hairspray.” Off-Broadway, she starred as ‘Yente’ in the critically acclaimed Yiddish production of “Fiddler on the Roof,” and as ‘Princess Winifred’ in the Transport Group’s “Once Upon A Mattress.”

MUSIC & LYRICS

Douglas J. Cohen is the recipient of two Richard Rodgers Awards (No Way to Treat a Lady, The Gig), a Jonathan Larson Grant (Barnstormer), a Drama Desk nomination (Children’s Letters to God), a Drama League nomination (Don’t Stay Safe), and the Fred Ebb Award for his body of work. He’s been produced at Off-Broadway’s Manhattan Theatre Club, The York Theatre Company, and The Cell Theatre, and regionally at Williamstown Theater Festival, Signature Theater, Barrington Stage, and Goodspeed Opera House. Doug’s first non-fiction book, How to Survive a Killer Musical, will be published by Applause Books this fall.

MUSIC DIRECTOR / CONDUCTOR

Eric Stern had a long and varied career on Broadway, in the recording studio, and in the concert hall before he joined the faculty of Berklee College of Music, teaching conducting and theatre craft for musicians. He is extremely honored to continue his association with the creators of The Big Time and its amazing cast.

BOOK

Musicals: “To Wong Foo”, “Rodgers + Hammerstein Cinderella” (Tony Nom), “Lysistrata Jones”(Tony Nom), “Sister Act” (Tony Nom, Olivier Nom), “Xanadu” (Tony Nom, Drama Desk winner Best Book), “The Bandwagon”.
Plays: “The Little Dog Laughed”(Tony Nom.) “As Bees In Honey Drown” (Outer Critics Gassner Award) , “The Nance”, “Shows for Days”, “the Country Club”, “Mr. & Mrs. Fitch”, “Advice from a Caterpillar”.
Opera: “Die Fleidermaus” at Metropolitan Opera.
Revues: “White Lies”. “Mondo Drama”. “Radio City Summer Spectacular”
Television: “The Nance”, “Tracey Ullman’s Show”
Film: “Advice from a Caterpillar” (Aspen Comedy Festival Best Feature), “To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar”.

ORCHESTRATOR / PRODUCER

August Eriksmoen is a Broadway orchestrator, as well as orchestrations for Film and TV, including Broadway orchestrations: Bright Star (Tony nomination), Gigi, First Date, Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway (additional orchestrations), The Addams Family (dance arrangements, additional orchestrations), Memphis (dance arrangements), Million Dollar Quartet (associate music supervisor), Ring of Fire (associate MD), All Shook Up (MD), Rent (associate conductor). Off-Broadway: Bare, Romantic Poetry, Walmartopia, Imperfect Chemistry. Other: Disney’s “Descendants” (Andrew Lippa’s “Evil Like Me”), 2011 Billboard Music Awards, I Am Harvey Milk, I Am Anne Hutchinson, James and the Giant Peach.