2 AMERICAN BLUES THEATER BACKSTAGECALLBOARD BUDDY - THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY Written by Alan Janes Directed by Lili-Anne Brown Music directed by Michael Mahler* Before the Beatles or the Rolling Stones ever played a note, rock & roll was forever changed by the bespectacled kid from Texas. Buddy tells the true story of Buddy Holly through his short – yet spectacular – career and features the classic songs “That’ll be the Day”, “Peggy Sue”, and the Big Bopper’s “Chantilly Lace”, Richie Valens’s “La Bamba”, plus many more. * Ensemble member of American Blues Theater Zachary Stevenson as Buddy Holly