KLEA BLACKHURST (Author & Performer) is best known for her acclaimed tribute to Ethel Merman, Everything the Traffic Will Allow, that has been charming audiences and critics alike nationwide since its New York debut in 2001.  Among many accolades the production earned her the inaugural Special Achievement Award from “Time Out New York” magazine.  The recording of Everything the Traffic Will Allow was named one of the top ten show albums of 2002 by Talkin' Broadway.com.  Klea next turned her passion for musical-theatre history toward the Broadway career of composer Vernon Duke and debuted Autumn in New York: Vernon Duke's Broadway at New York's Café Carlyle with a subsequent sold-out engagement at Joe's Pub at The Public Theater. Klea’s concert appearances include Jerry Herman’s Broadway with Angela Lansbury at London’s Palladium Theatre, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall with Michael Feinstein, Oklahoma! at London’s Royal Albert Hall, New York’s 92nd Street Y (Leo Robin & Cole Porter), and the Chicago Humanities Festival. Klea’s theatre credits include: In New York - Bingo, By Jupiter, Radio Gals, Oil City Symphony; Regional – Call Me Madam, Chicago, The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Red Hot and Blue, Anything Goes.  Film: Andy Across the Water. TV and radio: Law and Order: SVU, The Rosie O'Donnell Show, Sesame Street, A Prairie Home Companion.  Klea is featured on Jule Styne in Hollywood on the PS Classics label.  Klea can also be heard on the original cast recordings of Bingo and Radio Gals as well as Lost in Boston IV, Unsung Irving Berlin, and The Best of Off Broadway.  The recordings, Autumn in New York: Vernon Duke's Broadway, and Everything the Traffic Will Allow are on the Ghostlight Records label. Klea's most recent show, Dreaming of a Song:  The Music of Hoagy Carmichael, for which she teamed up with Billy Stritch, received a 2007 Backstage Bistro Award and was recently released on Ghostlight Records.

MICHAEL RICE (Music Supervisor & Arranger) is the Music Supervisor of Klea Blackhurst's Everything the Traffic Will Allow and Autumn in New York: Vernon Duke's Broadway. Michael first worked with Klea in the Off Broadway production of Radio Gals. He has also performed opposite her in various regional productions of Oil City Symphony.  Michael was the original Music Supervisor for the Off Broadway hit Nunsense. Recent credits include The Light in the Piazza (Pioneer Theatre); Porgy and Bess (American Portrait Gallery); And the World Goes Round, directed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge. Michael's Broadway and National Tour credits include Peter Pan starring Cathy Rigby, Me and My Girl, Grand Hotel, Camelot, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Jesus Christ Superstar.  As composer-lyricist, he adapted, with Eric Bentley, Bertolt Brecht's The Good Woman of Setzuan that premiered at New York's Raw Space, and American Beauty written with Jack Heifner and Romulus Linney which has been produced around the country. Currently, he is musical directing 42nd Street at Pioneer Theatre and the upcoming production of Oklahoma! at Sacramento Music Circus.

BRUCE BARNES (Music Director & Piano) Musical Director, Conductor, Arranger and Pianist recently returned to NYC from a year touring as Musical Director of Happy Days.  He can be seen on HBO's Cathouse, The Musical as The Vocal Coach, attempting to teach prostitutes how to sing. In 2007, Bruce arranged and musically directed Stormy Weather starring Leslie Uggams. He made his Broadway debut conducting Peter Pan starring Cathy Rigby, and regularly substituted as Associate Conductor of the Sam Mendes production of Cabaret at Studio 54. Off-Broadway, Bruce was Musical Director for Class Mothers '68 starring Priscilla Lopez. Internationally, he has toured with La Scala's production of West Side Story and as a Musical Ambassador for Lincoln Center's "Meet the Artist" program. National tours include Kiss Me, Kate; Cats; Jesus Christ Superstar; Cabaret starring Andrea McArdle; and Peter Pan starring Cathy Rigby.  As a pianist, Bruce has accompanied Patti LuPone, Penny Fuller, Ruthie Henshall, Beverly Sills, Billy Porter & Eartha Kitt.

DANIEL FABRICANT (Bass) grew up in Ashland, Oregon, where he began playing guitar and trumpet in grade school. Since moving to the Bay Area ten years ago and transitioning to double bass, he has performed as a sideman with Petula Clark, Joan Rivers, Keely Smith, Connie Francis, Andrea Marcovicci, Mary Wilson, Spencer Day, The Irish Tenors, Christine Ebersole, Billy Stritch, Sandra Bernhard, Lucie Arnaz and many other national acts. He can be seen playing at the Herbst Theater, Yoshi’s, and often as the house bassist at The Rrazz Room in the Hotel Nikko. Daniel is also an in-demand arranger, writing charts for Terese Genecco’s Little Big Band, Shotgun Players Theater Company, Veronica Klaus, and others.

RANDY ODELL (Drums) plays drums for a variety of bands and vocalists, including Sharon McNight, Terese Genecco, Barry Lloyd, Veronica Klaus, Jill Tracy, GG Amos and the legendary Madame.  Bands include The Impalers and The Kurt Ribak Trio.  He is co-creator of the retro jazz group The Cottontails, as well as the acclaimed jazz/funk band, Diggsville.  Randy also performs and composes for choreographers, circus artists, and film-makers. This is his second time playing "Everything The Traffic Will Allow" with Klea Blackhurst.