DENNIS  DEAL

DENNIS is most widely known for his 50's musical sendup Nite Club CONFIDENTIAL, which he wrote and directed Off Broadway, on London's West End, and in L.A. Los Angeles Magazine said the show had "... Harmonies so cool you'd better wear mink!" and Theater Week Magazine labeled the show "the camp masterpiece of the cabaret musical genre."

Dennis has produced and arranged a CD for Manhattan Transfer's Cheryl Bentyne. He has also had two movements of his New England Suite premiered by the New Haven Symphony. He has arranged for a wide range of top performers, including Nell Carter, Johnny Cash, Elaine Stritch, Chita Rivera, Mimi Hines, Barbara Eden, Helen O'Connell and Eddy Arnold.

click: The Real Deal

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What else has Dennis been up to lately? Well, here's a recent highlight about Dennis and his work on "I Do! I Do!" (lyrics by Tom Jones, music by Harvey Schmidt, and direction by Dennis Deal) with Scott Bakula

Scott Bakula will join actress Chelsea Field on stage in his home town of St. Louis, MO for two performances of the play "I Do! I Do!" this summer, according to Project Quantum Leap...

According to the press release, "I Do! I Do!" is the story of a marriage at the center of this intimate and nostalgic work by Harvey Schmidt (music) and Tom Jones (book, lyrics), the authors of "The Fantasticks". The show opens with Michael (Bakula) and Agnes (Field) looking back on their wedding day and traces their life together over a period of 50 years. We watch them go through their wedding night jitters, raise a family, negotiate mid-life crises, quarrel, separate, reconcile and grow old together, all lovingly to the strains of a tuneful, charming score which includes the standard "My Cup Runneth Over."

--excerpt from an article by Steve Krutzler on Trekweb. Read the full article here, which praises Dennis' "spot-on direction."

here's a link for Scott Bakula fans