Musical-Direction Resume

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Musical Theatre (New York City and regional productions)
Musical Theatre (international tours)
Cabaret, Revues, etc.
Staged Readings of New Musicals (other than my own)
Special Projects and Skills
Education

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Musical Theatre (New York City and regional productions)

Title	Venue	Producer	Positions	Pit size
How to Save the World and Find True Love in 90 Minutes	New World Stages, NYC	Lawrence Anderson/The Singing Comedians	Musical director, keyboardist, keyboard programming, composer, orchestrations	4
Do I Hear a Waltz?	Arvada Center, Arvada, CO	Arvada Center	Musical director, keyboardist, keyboard programming	5
Plane Crazy	Beckett Theatre, New York, NY	Michael Rubinoff/New York Musical Theatre Festival	Musical director, keyboardist, keyboard programming	5
Titanic	Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, NJ	Phoenix Productions	Musical director, pianist, keyboardist	14
Rags	Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NY	Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts	Musical director, pianist, keyboardist	9
A New Brain	Phoenix Studio Theatre, Red Bank, NJ	Phoenix Productions	Musical director, keyboardist	2
Side Show	Phoenix Studio Theatre, Red Bank, NJ	Phoenix Productions	Musical director, keyboardist	2
Kismet	Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, NJ	Phoenix Productions	Conductor	10
Fiddler on the Roof	Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, NJ	Phoenix Productions	Musical director, pianist	10
Guys and Dolls	Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, NJ	Phoenix Productions	Musical director, pianist	10
Something's Afoot	Allenberry Playhouse, Boiling Springs, PA	Allenberry Playhouse	Musical director, pianist, keyboardist	1
George M!	Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NY	Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts	Musical director, pianist	8
Godspell	West End Theatre, NYC	Centerfold Productions	Musical director, pianist	3
Once on This Island	Professional Performing Arts School, NYC	Professional Performing Arts School	Choral director, keyboardist	4
Sweet Charity	Professional Performing Arts School, NYC	Professional Performing Arts School	Musical director, pianist	4
Closer Than Ever	Musical Theatre Works, NYC	Halan Productions	Musical director, pianist	1
Jacques Brel Is Alive...	Triad Theatre, NYC	PLP Productions	Musical director, pianist	1
Carnival	St. Bart's Community House, NYC	St. Bart's Players	Musical director, pianist, keyboardist	3
Songs for a New World	Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY	Masquerade Musical Theatre Company	Substitute pianist	3

Musical Theatre (international tours)

Title	Company	Time on tour	Positions
Fosse	NETworks	16 months	Keyboard I (conductor: Ross Scott Rawlings)

Cabaret, Revues, etc.

Title	Venue	Positions
Holliewood (collection of theatre and standards performed by Hollie Howard)	Etta and Joseph Miller Performing Arts Center, Jefferson City, MO	Musical director, pianist, arranged parts for 4- piece band
Broadway Blockbusters (45- song Broadway revue featuring a cast of 40 adults and teens	Ralph and Ricky Lauren Center, NYC/Schulte Auditorium, New Orleans, LA	Musical director, keyboardist, arranged vocal harmonies and parts for 5-piece band
Too Cool for Shul (Jewish burlesque featuring Raven Snook and Allison Tilsen)	BAMcafe (Brooklyn Academy of Music), NYC	Musical director, pianist, song arranger
Come to Our Party ("Opera versus jazz" cabaret featuring Leslie Giammanco and Marcy McGuigan)	Danny's Skylight Room, NYC	Musical director, pianist, arranged vocal harmonies and bass parts
L'chaim! (Two-hour performance of Broadway, Yiddish up-tempo songs, and Israeli traditional songs)	The Stage, Merrick, NY, and others	Musical director, pianist, arranged 5-part vocal harmonies and parts for 4-piece band
Two of a Kind (Sandi Durell and Larry Strickler's performance of nostalgia songs from the '40s and '50s)	Various	Musical director, pianist, song arranger
Can't Help Singing Both Sides Now (Debra Griner's performance of songs of Jerome Kern and Joni Mitchell)	Danny's Skylight Room, NYC	Musical director, pianist
Greek Gifts (George Costacos's cabaret of Greek tangos, ballads, and serenades)	Don't Tell Mama, NYC	Musical director, pianist

Staged Readings of New Musicals (other than my own)

Title	Authors	Venue	Positions
Oh, Progeny!	Diane Sampson	York Theatre, NYC	Musical director, pianist
Everybody's Gettin' Into the Act	Bob Ost	The Players Club, NYC	Musical director, pianist
The Teddy Bear Habit	Brian Vinero and Bryce Hundley	The Baggot Inn, NYC	Musical director, pianist
Golf: A Musical in 18 Holes	Neil Berg and others	John Houseman Studio Theatre, NYC	Musical director, pianist
Attack of the Elvis Impersonators	Lory Lazarus	John Houseman Studio Theatre, NYC	Musical director, pianist

Special Projects and Skills

Composer of "The Chagall Suite" (40-minute classical-piano suite inspired by paintings of Marc Chagall) and "Conversations" (11-minute piano tribute to Marc Chagall and Elvis Presley), both commissioned by Vivian R. Jacobson
Composer of the musicals How to Save the World and Find True Love in 90 Minutes (New World Stages 2006/NYC Int'l Fringe Festival 2004), The Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen (2003 Midtown Int'l Theatre Festival), Vanity Fair, and Heart Throb
Transcriptionist and copyist (using Finale software)
Audition pianist for casting directors Alaine Alldaffer, James Calleri/Duncan Stewart, Dave Clemmons, Bob Cline, Judy Dennis, Jamibeth Margolis, Barry Moss, Tara Rubin, Cindi Rush, and others
Pianist for master classes for V.P. Boyle, Bob Cline, Katherine Kerr, Jamibeth Margolis, Barry Moss, and Phillip Officer

Education

General: Graduated magna cum laude (AB in music) from Harvard College, Cambridge, MA
Piano: Lily Dumont (Longy School of Music, Cambridge, MA) and Sandra Porter-Englehart (Newton, MA)
Theory and composition: Randall Woolf (Boston, MA), Ivan Tcherepnin (Harvard College)
Orchestral conducting: James Yannatos (Harvard College) and Henry Charles Smith (Interlochen, MI)
Choral conducting: Jameson Marvin (Harvard College)