Broadway P.R. Firm Polk & Company Takes on Wicked, Rocky and If/Then

Press agents from the soon-to-close Hartman Group, including Tom D'Ambrosio, Wayne Wolfe, Frances White and Colgan McNeil, whose accounts include the aforementioned productions, will join the Polk & Co. team as of Jan. 6, 2014.

In early December, Hartman Group founder Michael Hartman announced that the press agency he founded in 2009 would cease operation Jan. 5.

Polk & Co. also announced that it would take on the Off-Broadway hit Buyer & Cellar. Existing clients include Bronx Bombers, Of Mice and Men, as well as Roundabout Theatre Company productions of Machinal, Cabaret, Violet, The Real Thing, Bad Jews, Dinner with Friends and Too Much, Too Much, Too Many.

Additional clients include Bedlam's Saint Joan & Hamlet, Birdland Jazz Club, By Experience, production and set designer Derek McLane, and John Stamos.

PHOTO ARCHIVE: Celebrating Wicked on Broadway

We've Been Changed For Good: Look Back at 15 Years of Wicked on Broadway

Wicked_Graphic_HR — We've Been Changed For Good: Look Back at 15 Years of Wicked on Broadway

Playbill.com offers a look back at a number of the various witches, munchkins, and Ozians who have inhabited the Gershwin Theatre since 2003.
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Kristin Chenoweth in <i>Wicked</i>. — Kristin Chenoweth in *Wicked*

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HR - Idina Menzel in Wicked — Idina Menzel in *Wicked*

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Wicked Michelle Federer HR — Christopher Fitzgerald and Michelle Federer

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Carole Shelley and Kristin Chenoweth Wicked HR — Carole Shelley and Kristin Chenoweth

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Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth

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Norbert Leo Butz and Idina Menzel

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Megan Hilty and Eden Espinosa

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Wicked_Broadway_Production Photos_2005_Megan Hilty_HR — Megan Hilty in *Wicked*

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Jenna Leigh Green HR — Jenna Leigh Green

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Wicked_Broadway_Production Photos_2007_Julia Murney_HR — Julia Murney in *Wicked*

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Kendra Kassebaum and Sebastian Arcelus

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Wicked_Broadway_Production Photos_2007_Kendra Kassebaum_HR — Kendra Kassebaum in *Wicked*

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Julia Murney and Kendra Kassebaum_HR — Julia Murney and Kendra Kassebaum

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Annaleigh Ashford and Stephanie J. Block

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Wicked_Broadway_Production Photos_2008_Marcie Dodd_HR — Marcie Dodd in *Wicked*

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Nicole Parker in Wicked — Nicole Parker in *Wicked*

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Brynn O'Malley and Alex Brightman

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