He started playing in Broadway orchestras in 1957, and eventually he began recruiting those orchestras as well.
Category: Theater (Broadway)
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‘New York, New York,’ a Film-Inspired Homage, Plans Broadway Bow
The new musical, based on the 1977 Martin Scorsese film, features songs by John Kander and Fred Ebb and is directed by Susan Stroman.
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Lucy Simon, Singer and Broadway Composer, Dies at 82
She and her sister Carly Simon were a folk duo in the 1960s. Years later, she wrote the Tony-nominated music for “The Secret Garden.”
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‘The Piano Lesson’ Review: August Wilson’s Phantom Notes
John David Washington, Danielle Brooks and Samuel L. Jackson star in the first Broadway revival of Wilson’s haunting family drama set in 1936.
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‘Almost Famous’ Heads to Broadway, Purple Aura Intact
Cameron Crowe adapted his Oscar-winning screenplay, about writing for Rolling Stone in the ’70s, preserving parts of the movie’s soundtrack and zingers (Don’t take drugs!) for the stage.