1. Richard Jay-Alexander was born on May 24,1953 and is an American Broadway producer and director.
17 Facts About Richard Jay-Alexander
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Richard Jay-Alexander served as Executive Director of the North American Flagship Headquarters, Cameron Mackintosh Inc.
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Richard Jay-Alexander is passionate about young talent and teaches workshops and master classes, when possible.
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Richard Jay-Alexander has served as camp director for Kristin Chenoweth's Broadway Bootcamp.
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Richard Jay-Alexander is one of five children, born to a mother from Havana, Cuba and a father who was Spanish-American.
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Richard Jay-Alexander served as a production assistant on the pre-Broadway try out of Nefertiti which starred Andrea Marcovicci and directed by Jack O'Brien.
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Richard Jay-Alexander brought hit songwriter Desmond Child back to the stage, after a 30-year absence, and debuted a show at Feinstein's 54 Below which was later filmed for PBS as part of The Kate Series in Connecticut.
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In 2018, Richard Jay-Alexander co-produced the Norm Lewis Christmas Album with Mr Lewis and they have done an annual Christmas concert run at Feinstein's 54 Below since 2015.
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From 2013 to 2018, Richard Jay-Alexander directed the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame, La Musa Awards.
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Richard Jay-Alexander was thrilled about this because the first show he ever directed in college was The Fantasticks, by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt.
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Richard Jay-Alexander directed, what he claims, to be his final production of Les Miserables at The Muny in St Louis, Missouri in summer of 2013.
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Richard Jay-Alexander promised it would be his last having directed and staged 11 productions of the legendary musical since 1987, including the first-ever bilingual company in Montreal performing five performances a week in French and three in English, produced by Cameron Mackintosh and Ed and David Mirvish.
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Richard Jay-Alexander directed the original Canadian production in Toronto with an all Canadian cast, and its subsequent Canadian tour.
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In 2005, Richard Jay-Alexander directed A Safe Harbor for Elizabeth Bishop written by Brazil's Marta Goes.
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Richard Jay-Alexander directed the Spanish World Premiere of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus at the Teatro Nacional in Santiago Chile with Britain's Roger Williams.
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Richard Jay-Alexander christened a series of new venues including The Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California with Russell Watson; Toronto's Skydome with a concert version of Les Miserables, co-directed by Keith Batten; The Dr Phillips Center for the Performing Arts and their Walt Disney Theatre with a cast of Norm Lewis, Sierra Boggess, Chris Mann, Deborah Voigt, Michael Urie, Jane Monheit, Ektor Rivera, The Lombard Twins, and The Broadway Kids.
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Richard Jay-Alexander has produced, co-produced, and executive produced many recordings and original cast albums including:.