Evangeline The Musical

EVANGELINE THE MUSICAL - CREATORS

PAUL TARANTO (music and lyrics) comes from a musical family and has extensive composing and conducting experience with concert bands, orchestras and choirs. Most recently he musical directed the LSU Theatre productions of Little Shop of Horrors and You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, as well as the musical benefit Guys on Broadway for Cystic Fibrosis. As a teenager, he gained musical experience by slipping into adult nightclubs to perform. Over the years he has played and written music for many bands including Sweet Soul, for which he was a founding member. He studied composition under the internationally-renowned Dinos Constantinides at Louisiana State University. Since then, he has worked proudly in the field of music education for the last 20 years. Evangeline is his first full-length musical.

JAMIE WAX (book and lyrics) is a playwright, lyricist and performer whose works have been produced throughout the country. He is the author of five plays including his one-man shows Goin' To Jackson and the A Gift For Lyman Bourke, as well as the political-comedy Homespin. He composed the music and lyrics for Goin' To Jackson and A Gift for Lyman Bourke, as well as the lyrics for the musical Princess Sara, based on the popular children's book. As an actor he has appeared as "Eugene" in all three plays of Neil Simon's trilogy of Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues and Broadway Bound; as "Brad Majors" in The Rocky Horror Show; "Puck" in A Midsummer Night's Dream; as "Young Dylan Thomas" in A Child's Christmas in Wales, and most recently as "Pilate" in Jesus Christ Superstar. His film work includes the feature film Favorite Son, and the Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation, The Old Man.