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Raise the Roof is a Tony-award winning Broadway producing entity. It is composed of the producers Jean Doumanian, Elaine Krauss, Harriet Leve, and Jennifer Manocherian. Their first venture together was Burn the Floor as Raise the Roof 1. Next, Krauss, Leve, and Manocherian came together as Raise the Roof 2 to produce the recent Broadway production of Superior Donuts by Tracy Letts, the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright of August: Osage County. Doumanian was a lead producer on that production. They are currently represented on Broadway as Raise the Roof 3 by the Tony nominee for Best Revival, A Little Night Music, which was starring Catherine Zeta Jones and Angela Lansbury through June 20, 2010. On July 13, 2010, Broadway legends Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch joined the cast and assumed those roles. They are also represented as Raise the Roof 4 by the Tony Award winning Best Revival of La Cage Aux Folles starring Kelsey Grammer and Douglas Hodge, which continues its successful, open-ended run at the Longacre Theatre. It is Krauss, Leve, and Manocherian who are involved with La Cage and A Little Night Music.
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