| rdfs:comment | - David Armstrong (Director) is the Executive Producer and Artistic Director of The 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle where he has directed acclaimed productions of Candide, Sweeney Todd, HAIR, A Little Night Music, Company, Hello, Dolly!, Anything Goes, MAME, Pippin, The Secret Garden, Vanities, White Christmas, The Rocky Horror Show, Yankee Doodle Dandy and Saving Aimee (now titled Scandalous). Under his leadership The 5th Avenue has emerged as one of the nation’s leading musical theater companies especially in regards to the development and production of new work. Over the past 10 years the company has produced 14 new musicals, five of which have transferred to Broadway, and two of which have received the TONY Award for Best Musical (Hairspray and Memphis). Mr. Armstrong’s direction and chore
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| abstract | - David Armstrong (Director) is the Executive Producer and Artistic Director of The 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle where he has directed acclaimed productions of Candide, Sweeney Todd, HAIR, A Little Night Music, Company, Hello, Dolly!, Anything Goes, MAME, Pippin, The Secret Garden, Vanities, White Christmas, The Rocky Horror Show, Yankee Doodle Dandy and Saving Aimee (now titled Scandalous). Under his leadership The 5th Avenue has emerged as one of the nation’s leading musical theater companies especially in regards to the development and production of new work. Over the past 10 years the company has produced 14 new musicals, five of which have transferred to Broadway, and two of which have received the TONY Award for Best Musical (Hairspray and Memphis). Mr. Armstrong’s direction and choreography have been seen in New York, Los Angeles and at many leading regional theaters including The Kennedy Center, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Ordway Center, Cincinnati Playhouse, St. Louis Rep, ACT Theater, Ford’s Theater and Paper Mill Playhouse. As a writer he has created the books for The 5th’s world premiere musical Yankee Doodle Dandy!, as well as several musicals for Theatreworks/USA including A Christmas Carol, which ran Off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. His Cole Porter revue, Hot N’ Cole, which he devised and directed, has been produced by scores of theaters throughout America.
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