Information: - Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama and mystery series created by Marc Cherry and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions. It originally aired for eight seasons on ABC from October 3, 2004 to May 13, 2012. Executive producer Cherry served as showrunner. Other executive producers since the fourth season included Bob Daily, George W. Perkins, John Pardee, Joey Murphy, David Grossman, and Larry Shaw. - '' Welcome to Kanagawa '' is the 80th episode of the ABC television series , Desperate Housewives . It is the tenth episode of the show 's fourth season and aired on January 6 , 2008 , in the United States . This was the last episode written before the 2007 - 08 Writers ' Strike . Its title is taken from a song in Sondheim 's Pacific Overtures . - John Weidman (born September 25, 1946) is an American librettist and television writer for "Sesame Street". He has worked on stage musicals with Stephen Sondheim and Susan Stroman. - Pacific Overtures is a musical written by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman. The show is set in 1853 Japan and follows the difficult Westernization of Japan, told from the point of view of the Japanese. In particular, the story focuses on the lives of two friends caught in the change. - Stephen Joshua Sondheim (born March 22, 1930) is an American composer and lyricist known for more than a half-century of contributions to musical theatre. Sondheim has received an Academy Award, eight Tony Awards (more than any other composer, including a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre), eight Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, the Laurence Olivier Award, and a 2015 Presidential Medal of Freedom. He has been described by Frank Rich of "The New York Times" as "now the greatest and perhaps best-known artist in the American musical theater." His best-known works as composer and lyricist include "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum", "Company", "Follies", "A Little Night Music", "", "Sunday in the Park with George", and "Into the Woods". He wrote the lyrics for "West Side Story" and "". Given the information above, choose from the list below the object entity that exhibits the relation 'director' with the subject 'welcome to kanagawa'. Choices: - david grossman - larry shaw - laurence olivier - susan stroman
larry shaw

Information: - Gary Wolfram is William E. Simon Professor in Economics and Public Policy at Hillsdale College and President of Hillsdale Policy Group , a consulting firm specializing in taxation and policy analysis . He is a current member and past chairman of the Board of Trustees of Lake Superior State University and has served as a member of Michigan 's State Board of Education , the Michigan Enterprise Zone Authority , the Michigan Strategic Fund Board , and the Michigan State Housing Development Authority Board . Wolfram 's public policy experience includes serving as Congressman Nick Smith 's Chief of Staff , Michigan 's Deputy State Treasurer for Taxation and Economic Policy under John Engler , and Senior Economist to the Republican Senate in Michigan . Wolfram received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley . He has taught at Mount Holyoke College , the University of Michigan , and Washington State University . His publications include Towards a Free Society : An Introduction to Markets and the Political System and several works on Michigan 's tax structure and other public policy issues . Wolfram is also a Senior Policy Analyst with the Mackinac Center for Public Policy . - John Mathias Engler (born October 12, 1948) is an American politician and member of the Republican Party who served as the 46th Governor of Michigan from 1991 to 2003. He is currently working for Business Roundtable as one of the premiere lobbyists in the United States. - A liberal arts college is a college with an emphasis on undergraduate study in the liberal arts and sciences. A liberal arts college aims to impart a broad general knowledge and develop general intellectual capacities, in contrast to a professional, vocational, or technical curriculum. Students in a liberal arts college generally major in a particular discipline while receiving exposure to a wide range of academic subjects, including sciences as well as the traditional humanities subjects taught as liberal arts. Although it draws on European antecedents, the liberal arts college is strongly associated with American higher education, and most liberal arts colleges around the world draw explicitly on the American model. - The Governor of Michigan is the chief executive of the U.S. state of Michigan. The current governor is Rick Snyder, a member of the Republican Party, who was inaugurated on January 1, 2011, as the state's 48th governor, was re-elected November 4, 2014, and was sworn in for a second term on January 1, 2015. He is not eligible for a third term under Michigan's term limits, which limit a governor to two, four-year terms. - Hillsdale is a city in the state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 8,305. It is the county seat of Hillsdale County, and is run as a council-manager government. The city is the home of Hillsdale College, a private liberal arts college noted for its academics and its influence in politics and education. - Hillsdale College is a co-educational, non-profit liberal arts college in Hillsdale, Michigan, United States. Most of the curriculum is based on and centered on the teaching of the Western heritage as a product of both the Greco-Roman culture and the Judeo-Christian tradition. Hillsdale requires every student, regardless of major, to complete a core curriculum that includes courses on the Great Books and the U.S. Constitution. The college declines to accept federal financial support, providing private financial assistance to its students. Given the information above, choose from the list below the object entity that exhibits the relation 'member of political party' with the subject 'gary l. wolfram'. Choices: - liberal - republican party
republican party