Broadway Hits Go to Hollywood

Lucas Waldin is a dynamic and versatile conductor and orchestrator whose performances have delighted audiences across North America. He has collaborated with some of today’s most exciting artists, including Carly Rae Jepsen, The Barenaked Ladies, Crash Test Dummies, Ben Folds, Buffy Sainte-Marie, and The Canadian Brass, in addition to conducting presentations such as Disney in Concert, The Princess Bride, Blue Planet Live, Cirque de la Symphonie, Murdoch in Concert, and the groundbreaking symphonic debut of R&B duo Dvsn as part of the global Red Bull Music Festival.

Broadway. Other recent credits include Hamilton (Angelica Schuyler) at the CIBC Center in Chicago and The Book of Mormon (Nabulungi) on Broadway. Nikki has also been seen on Broadway as Clara in the 2012 Tony Award-winning revival of The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess; Fantine in Les Miserablés; and in Nine; Aida; Little Shop of Horrors; The Look of Love; Promises, Promises; Anything Goes; and Lestat. She made her New York City Opera debut as Clara in Porgy and Bess. Other New York credits include Martha Jefferson in 1776 at City Center Encores! and Rose Lennox in The Secret Garden at David Geffen Hall.

Hugh Panaro most recently starred on Broadway as the Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera. Also on Broadway, he was seen as Gaylord Ravenal in the Harold Prince revival of Show Boat and Marius in Les Miserables. He created the roles of Buddy Foster in Side Show, Julian Craster in Jule Styne’s final musical The Red Shoes, and played the title role of the seductive vampire in Elton John’s musical Lestat. Hugh made his West End debut as Gaylord Ravenal in Show Boat and went on to perform the title role in Martin Guerre. Some of his Off-Broadway credits include the title role in Sweeney Todd at the Barrow Street Theatre, White Lies at the Triad Theater, Noa Noa at Playwright’s Horizons, Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights at the John Housman Theatre, Children of Eden at the Actor’s Playhouse, and Robert in Little Fish at Second Stage Theatre.