Total Eclipse of the Chart

SCOTT COULTER

Scott Coulter is one of New York’s most honored vocalists (five MAC Awards, five Bistro Awards and two Nightlife Awards for Outstanding Vocalist).

He’s performed at most of NYC’s top rooms including Birdland, 54 Below, The Oak Room at the Algonquin, and Feinstein’s at The Regency where he spent a record-setting eight months performing the revue 11 O’Clock Numbers At 11 O’Clock which he also co-created, directed and musically arranged. His self-titled debut CD won the 2003 MAC Award for Outstanding Recording and was chosen as the best recording of the year by TheatreMania and Cabaret Scenes magazines. Scott was director and star of A Christmas Carol: The Symphonic Concert in its world premiere with the Baltimore Symphony. He’s an Emmy® nominee for American Song, star of the Emmy® Award-nominated A Christmas Carol (PBS) and appears on the GRAMMY®-nominated Sondheim Unplugged: The NYC Sessions (Best Traditional Pop Album).

Scott regularly performs in concert both as a solo artist and with a variety of legendary performers including Sheena Easton and Academy Award-winning composer Stephen Schwartz. Schwartz has said “One of the greatest things that can happen to a composer is to have his music interpreted by Scott Coulter.”

Scott is creator, arranger and director of several touring shows for symphonies and performing arts centers as owner/founder of Spot-On Entertainment including Music Of The Knights, The Wonderful Music Of Oz, Blockbuster Broadway! and, for The ASCAP Foundation, Jerry Herman: The Broadway Legacy Concert. Along with Michael Kerker and ASCAP, he’s a regular producer/director of Michael Feinstein’s Standard Time at Carnegie Hall. Scott recently wrote the book for the new musical Got To Be There which celebrates the life and music of songwriter Elliot Willensky. Scott, along with Dave Gaebler, is a co-producer of the Jessica Hendy/Brianna Barnes musical Walking With Bubbles (Drama Desk nominee and Off-Broadway Alliance Award winner.) The show’s cast album is produced by Scott Coulter and Vibecke Dahle Dellapolla. Coulter and Gaebler are also on the producing teams of the Broadway musicals Water for Elephants and Suffs (Tony Awards® for Book and Score).

Scott is founder and owner of Spot-On Entertainment and Spot-On Arts Academy and is a resident director of programming at 54 Below (Broadway’s Supper Club) in NYC. He is the Artistic Director of the Pocono Mountains Music Festival and founder of the Pocono Pops! He’s a proud graduate of the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, which honored him with the CCM Young Alumni Award (2010) and CCM’s Distinguished Service Award (2020).

JESSICA HENDY

Jessica Hendy is a critically acclaimed actress, writer and singer. She’s long been known as one of the best belters on Broadway. She earned a GRAMMY® Nomination for her work on the Sondheim Unplugged Vol 3 album in 2023. She wrote and starred in the Off-Broadway musical, Walking With Bubbles, in which she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award, and won the Off-Broadway Alliance award. Walking With Bubbles is based on Ms Hendy’s life and was a critical success in New York City. The cast album is available on all streaming platforms. Ms. Hendy made her Broadway debut as Grizabella in the original Broadway production of Cats at the Winter Garden Theatre. She is the only member of that production to have also been cast in the Broadway revival at the Neil Simon Theatre playing the same role. Other Broadway credits include Aida (Amneris), and Amour. She made her Radio City Music Hall debut in The New York Spring Spectacular alongside the world-famous Rockettes. She toured nationally with Cats (Grizabella), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Narrator), and in concert with composer Stephen Schwartz, singing “Defying Gravity” from Wicked. Her one-woman cabaret, A Life To Call Your Own received rave reviews in the New York press, and she received a Bistro Award for the review Get Your Tickets Now at Don’t Tell Mama’s cabaret. She played Diana Goodman in the regional premiere of Next To Normal at Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati, where she earned an Acclaim Award. Other regional theatre credits include Mamma Mia (Donna) at Connecticut Rep, directed by Terrence Mann. North Shore Music Theatre’s Miss Saigon (Ellen), and the Helen Hayes Performing Arts Center production of Songs for a New World with Jason Robert Brown. A regular guest singer at Feinstein’s 54 Below, housed in New York’s legendary Studio 54, Ms. Hendy continues to appear in concert with Symphony Orchestras across North America. Ms. Hendy attended the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and lives in New York City. www.JessicaHendy.com @jesshendy

JOHN BOSWELL

John Boswell has served as musical director for Judy Collins, Andy Williams, Bob Newhart, Scott Coulter, Maude Maggart, Faith Prince, Carmen Cusack, Babbie Green, Jason Graae and a host of other fine talents. John played the role of “Moose” in the national tour of Crazy for You and has appeared on The Tonight Show, Today Show, CBS This Morning, Regis And Kathie Lee, General Hospital and was the piano playing hands of Nancy McKeon on the sitcom The Facts Of Life. Recent concerts with symphonies have included Jerry Herman: The Broadway Legacy Concert, Blockbuster Broadway!, Sheena Easton and Scott Coulter: The Spy Who Loved Me and Music Of The Knights. John has been heard singing in the shows Three Men And A Baby…Grand, Cinema Toast, Broadway Today, Wiseguys and the New York cult hit Cashino. Broadway/Off Broadway credits include Crazy for You, The Secret Garden, LIZA! Steppin’ Out At Radio City Music Hall, Back To Bacharach And David and The Kathy And Mo Show: Parallel Lives. John has eight CDs of original piano music and a ninth on the way. While a student at UCLA, John received the Frank Sinatra Award for popular instrumentalists.