OUR TEAM
BIG LEAGUE PRODUCTIONS/DANIEL SHER is celebrating its 30th season of producing and general managing Broadway tours of shows and attractions throughout the world. Early highlights were collaborations with Disney on Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida (US Tours, Taiwan, and China) and with Cameron Mackintosh on a new production of Miss Saigon. Also, the Tony®-Award winning Broadway revival of 42nd Street and Susan Stroman’s Broadway production of Meredith Willson’s The Music Man. Others: Footloose (Las Vegas, US Tour), Titanic, 1776, Peter Pan, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum starring Rip Taylor, Blast!, The Who’s Tommy (US Tour, South America, Europe, and Japan), Ain’t Misbehavin’ with Ruben Studdard, and the First National Tour of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang– flying car and all. More recent: The Producers (Susan Stroman’s original work), Hello, Dolly! with Sally Struthers, Guys and Dolls, My Fair Lady (US Tour and China premiere), original hip-hop dance show Groovaloo (Off-Broadway), Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical (10 US Tours, Grand Ole Opry, and Madison Square Garden), Dreamgirls (US Tour, China premiere, Japan), Hair (US Tour and Japan), Bring it On (US Tour and Japan), and Legally Blonde (US Tours, China premiere, Singapore). More recently, A Chorus Line toured the US and Japan, and was seen in China for the first time. Post-pandemic, Big League remounted its acclaimed tour of An American in Paris, a new production of South Pacific, Legally Blonde, and continued touring its flagship production of A Christmas Story The Musical. Current work includes The Cher Show national tour and a new touring production of Little Women. Future work includes a new touring production of The Addams Family.
ZACH KROHN is an NYC-based theatre manager, producer, and arts educator. Before coming to Big League, Zach worked for 7 years at Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Tony Award-winning company The New York Times calls a “theatrical powerhouse”. While there, he ran the nationally-renowned internship and apprentice programs, helped produce countless world premieres including Cost of Living by Martyna Majok (winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama), and general managed multiple Broadway and off-Broadway transfers. Zach is also a Company Manager and AEA Production Stage Manager. Credits include the international tour of I Love Lucy: Live On Stage!, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Shakespeare & Company, Maine State Music Theatre, Dallas Shakespeare Festival, Dallas Theatre Center, Berkshire Playwrights Lab, and Northern Stage. He’s a guest lecturer at New York University, SUNY New Paltz, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and Baldwin Wallace University.
In his free time, Zach is on the board of Big Apple Recreational Sports – where he plays kickball and dodgeball – and volunteers with the Trevor Project and New York Road Runners. He is training for his second New York City Marathon.
GINA WILLENS has general managed and/or company managed over 30 tours in the US, Europe, South America and Australia and is one of the founding members of Big League.
L. GLENN POPPLETON has been working for over 25 years as a booking agent representing national tours including Cathy Rigby in Peter Pan (three tours over 18 years), the first seven seasons of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Monty Python’s Spamalot, The Who’s Tommy, four seasons of Blast!, Mandy Patinkin In Concert (since 1991), How The Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical, and A Christmas Story: The Musical. Prior to becoming a booking agent, L. Glenn managed the three-year New York run of the interactive play Tamara and worked in the press office for the Public Theater and nearly a dozen other Broadway shows. L. Glenn is a graduate of Northeastern University and was part of the management team that opened Boston’s Wang Center.
ALISON FRANCK, C.S.A. has been a casting director in NYC for over 25 years. She started as an assistant for many Broadway Productions, then she worked in film/TV for several years, then from 2000- 2010, she was the Resident Casting Director at Paper Mill Playhouse. In 2011 she joined the team at Liz Lewis Casting Partners, where she cast commercials, voiceovers, film/TV, and the- atre. Alison now runs her own company, Franck Casting, where she has cast several tours of well-known musicals including Legally Blonde, Dreamgirls, An American in Paris, A Christmas Story: The Musical, A Chorus Line, The Simon and Garfunkel Story Live and the upcoming Little Women, the Musical.
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