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About the Producers |
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In April of 2004, Nicholas Hytner, Director of Britain's National Theatre, announced that Broadway
producers Bob Boyett and Ostar Productions will partner with the National for the presentation of the
company's productions in the United States. The relationship begins for an initial period of three years.
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Bob Boyett has recently been represented on Broadway as a
producer of Edward Albee's The Goat or Who Is Sylvia? with Bill Pullman and Mercedes Ruehl,
which won the 2002 Tony® Award for Best Play; Suzan-Lori Parks' Topdog/Underdog with
Jeffrey Wright and Mos Def, which won the Pulitzer Prize for 2002; Dance of the Vampires with
Michael Crawford; A Year with Frog and Toad; Hedda Gabler with Kate Burton; Sweet
Smell of Success with John Lithgow and Brian d'Arcy James; The Crucible with Liam Neeson
and Laura Linney and The Elephant Man with Billy Crudup, Kate Burton and Rupert Graves. Mr.
Boyett has been represented in London by the David Mamet play Boston Marriage, and Kenneth
Lonergan's play Lobby Hero.
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Bill Haber's Ostar Productions has produced for Broadway
Proof, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Freak, High Society, The Green
Bird, Dirty Blonde, Bea Arthur, Imaginary Friends, Amour and
the acclaimed revivals of 1776, The Iceman Cometh, Frankie and Johnny in the
Clair de Lune, Hedda Gabler, Dance of Death, Man of La Mancha,
and Noises Off. Additional credits include The Prisoner of Second Avenue, Hay
Fever and Madame Melville in London; The Shape of Things, If Love Were
All, If Memory Serves and Madame Melville Off-Broadway. Other: Under the
Blue Sky, A Bench in the Sun, Nicolette and Aucassin.
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