Class Accompanist
Circle in the Square Theatre SchoolSinging Interpretation: Sara Louise Lazarus, Karen Trott, Kimberly VaughnMusical Scene Study: Alan LangdonMusical Theatre Audition Workshop: Arnold Mungioli (2012, 2011)Master Class: John Kander (2009, 2006)City College of New York Musical Theatre Workshop (2017, 2013)pierStudios / biz kidsShuffles Tap & Musical Theater SchoolKimberly Vaughn Performance StudioTeacher/Accompanist
Broadway Classroom (see listing below)Resident Pianist
American Renaissance Theater (see listing below)Recent and Favorite Past Clients
Audition Accompanist (partial listing)
Bristol Riverside Theatre
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
Interborough Repertory Theater
Cindi Rush Casting
Swados Enterprises
Victory Theatrical/Literally Alive™
Village Playback Theatre
Wayside Theatre
Class Accompanist (partial listing)
Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute
New York Actors Connection, Inc.
Stuyvesant Adult Center
Broadway Classroom
Broadway Classroom (formerly Behind the Scenes Broadway), a division of Theatre Direct International, is a series of interactive workshops designed to enhance the experience of Broadway theatregoers of all ages. My participation includes:
1. Song and Movement Workshops with cast members from these current and recent Broadway
shows:
2. Off-Broadway and Other Workshops:
"Broadway 101” with Becky Gulsvig and Gaelen Gilliland (Legally Blonde), Kate Grant, Erin OrtmanChoir with Michael Shawn LewisThe Fantasticks with Scott WillisMusical Theatre Auditions and “Open Call” with Ann Arvia, Justin Brill, Chris DeAngelis David DeVries, Madeleine Doherty, Tripp Hanson, Tyrick Wiltez Jones, Eddie Korbich, Erin Ortman, Michelle M. Robinson, Seth Rudetsky, Holly-Anne Ruggiero, Marty ThomasPrivate lesson with Chelsea Krombach (Wicked)Rockette Workshop with Becky BerstlerTap Dance Workshop with Becky Berstler (42nd Street)3. In the more intimate “Up Close and Personal” hourlong interview/Q&A format at which the performers
choose something of their own to sing, I have played for (partial list, alphabetical by show):
Theatrical Experience
As Music Director/Performance Accompanist:
For Literally Alive
As Music Director for touring companies:
For Two Beans Productions
For Interborough Repertory Theater
The Gift of the Magi Also Music Director and/or Pianist/Accompanist for:
On the occasion of Dominic Chianese's cabaret
Current Clients
Audition Accompanist
Allenberry PlayhouseBeef and BoardsCarnegie Mellon UniversityCrown Uptown TheatreFlorida Studio TheatreMountain PlayhouseTheatreworks/USATwo Beans Productions
Me and Michael McDonald, 2010
(thanks, Michelle McDonald!)
Me and the cast of
Beauty and the Beast, 2008
(thanks, Rumi Oyama!)
Me and the company of On an August Eve, 2009
(thanks, Scott Sickles!)
Classes with Robert Elston, Elizabeth Perry, and othersMusical Theater Evening with John BeeboutI have played for so many shows, auditions, rehearsals, classes, casting directors, etc. that completing a list proved too gargantuan a task. Part of the problem is that so many of the jobs have a story. You may want to read a traditional, paragraph-long bio on other pages (Performance Singing, Singalongs for Seniors), which barely scratches the surface. For now, please allow me to share five of my favorite memories:
♪ My work playing auditions for Banjo Boy led to a later phone call from Randy Hobler (creator of the show). Something had gone wrong with one piano track on the recording, and I was called in
to play the song “I’ll Be There” for Christie Burgess with the orchestra, although everything else
had been previously recorded. Fun!
♪ I had such a great time with Norman Wendall Kauahi (director/choreographer) and Linda Cholodenko (assistant director/choreographer) during pre-production rehearsals for their Damn
Yankees at the Fundación Comedia Musical in San Juan, Puerto Rico, that my husband and
I vacationed in Puerto Rico with the main purpose of seeing the show. We had free tickets, but not
for the plane, hotel, car rental, etc....Still, great!
♪ The music from Once Around the Sun that I played at callbacks was so good that I was prompted to take my husband and myself to see the show (this was in New York, at New World Stages—
not in Puerto Rico). Excellent!
♪ I bonded so happily with the guys at the Forever Plaid auditions (Michael Scheman, director, hired me) that I took myself to Smithtown Center for the Performing Arts on Long Island to see the show
and said hello to the cast afterwards. Special!
♪ When I was a kid, my family went to see Stop the World—I Want To Get Off at Westbury Music Fair, with Tony Tanner (he starred in the movie). Imagine my thrill when I worked with him years
later in Swan Song, a murder mystery with music. And I played a role: Fiona, the pianist for the
opera company. Naturally!
Selected Concerts and Cabarets
Before 2000:
Genette Lane
Craig Terese - The Child Inside Me The Triad
The TriadNancy Healy - Cockeyed Optimist Don’t Tell Mama
Don’t Tell MamaBrian Farley and Bethany Schulman - Isn’t It Romantic? The Duplex; The Triad
Dominic Chianese Danny’s Skylight Room
Danny’s Skylight Room
Me at the Jerry Kaufman Awards 2009
(thanks, Phyllis MacBryde!)
Meg Myles' "Say It With Song"
Susan Reed Memorial
Jerry Kaufman: A Celebration
Celebrating the Life of Robert Elston
Portrait of a Man
As Resident Pianist for the American Renaissance Theater
Roy Arias Studios & Theaters
Neighborhood Playhouse
The Lambs Theatre
The Lambs Theatre
American Renaissance Theater and
Hyde Park Festival Theatre
2012
2010
2008
1988
Before 1988
Assassins, Sunday in the Park with George, Sweeney Todd
Beauty and the BeastBilly Elliot; Something Rotten; Hello, Dolly!Come From AwayDear Evan HansenHadestownHairsprayIn the HeightsKing KongKiss Me, KateThe Lion KingMatilda, TootsieMean GirlsOnce on This IslandThe Phantom of the OperaRock of AgesSister ActWest Side StoryWickedThe Lion King
Mary Poppins
Matilda
Miss Saigon
On the Town
The Phantom of the Opera
The Producers
Rent
School of Rock
Shrek The Musical
Sister Act
Something Rotten
Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark
West Side Story
Wicked
Young Frankenstein
The Players Theatre
Hitchcock-Rockefeller Auditorium
The Players Theatre
Hitchcock-Rockefeller Auditorium
The Players Theatre
Hitchcock-Rockefeller Auditorium
Westside Y
Hitchcock-Rockefeller Auditorium
2008
2002–2003
2008
2003
2007
2000–2001
2006
2000
Alexander Gemignani
Mary Stout
Aaron Kaburick
Astrid Van Wieren, Joel Hatch
Mike Faist
Kimberly Marable
Judine Somerville, Terita Redd
Michael Balderrama
Eric William Morris
James T. Lane
Joel Karie
John Arthur Greene
Riza Takahashi
Tim Oliver Reid
Polly Baird, Ken Kantor, Jim WeitzerKatherine Tokarz, Geoff Packard
Katherine Tokarz, Geoff PackardCaesar Samayoa
Kat Nejat
Heather Spore, Kathy Deitch, Anthony Galde
Beauty and the Beast
The Velveteen Rabbit
The Little Mermaid
The Ugly Duckling
Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Fall 2015
Spring 2017, Fall 2016,
Spring 2016, Fall 2015
Spring 2017, Spring 2015,
Spring 2014, Fall 2013,
Spring 2013, Spring 2009,
Spring 2008, Fall 2007,
Spring 2007
Spring 2007
Before 2000
Miss Nelson Is Missing!
Alexander, Who's Not Not Not Not Not Not Going to Move
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Calling Doctor Amelia Bedelia!
Aladdin
An American in Paris
Billy Elliot
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Chicago
A Chorus Line
Cinderella
42nd Street
Grease
Gypsy
Hairspray
How to Succeed in Business
Without Really Trying
In the Heights
Jersey Boys
Kinky Boots
New York Showcase
Words and Music
Once Upon the Bronx
A Casual Gathering
Something Merry This Way Comes
On an August Eve
Fall Showcase
Mystery Writers of America
Watch the Closing Doors
Swan Song, a Mystery with Music
The Mikado
And with Luane Davis and Jonathan Fluck
A Salute to Vaudeville and A Tribute to Fred Astaire
Salute to Ol’ Vaudeville
Theater at Noon
New York’s Newest Song and Dance Team
Before 2000
Maverick Theatre Company and various
RKO Coliseum
Saint Peter's Church
Once Upon a Stove
2016-2018
2016
2016
2015
2013
2009
2005
2005
2001
Before 2000
Before 2000
Royal Welsh College of Music
and Drama
Dream Up Festival
Dream Up Festival
The Shakespeare Theatre...
WorkShop Theater Company
Sandcastle Kids Management
60th Birthday Party
Step Lively Productions
Playwrights Horizons, NY, and
Signature Theater
Theater for the New City
Manhattan Rep Theater
Theater for the New City
...of New Jersey (Madison)
Jewel Box Theater
Producers Club
New York Yacht Club
Producers Club
Mazur Theater
Queens Theatre-in-the-Park
The Cougar Ball: A Benefit for The Actors Fund
Circle in the Square Theatre School
Karen Trott’s Group “E”Michael McDonald (my student, not the famous ones)
0-Double-Seven: License To Act OutMichael McDonald’s Diamond Jubilee!Michael McDonald’s October Song Surprise!Michael McDonald Celebrates Dead Composers(mostly)Michael McDonald’s Summer ClearanceMichael McDonald Celebrates MedicareBilly Ehrlacher
Oh How the Years Go ByWatch Out Here I ComeTune In Tomorrow: A Tribute to the Soap Opera GenreIt's the Truth and Only the Truth, So Help MeBilly Ehrlacher: Is He Here Again?It's a Hot, Hazy, and Humid Christmas in JulyIt Is What It Is--Ain't That The Truth?This Is What I Really ThinkThere's No Need To Stand . . . It's Only MeMy Life an Overdue BookNew York Calls!Billy's BackBefore 2000:
Genette Lane, Carnegie East House, Montammy Golf
Club, Heartland Restaurant, others
Stage 72
The Triad
Pearl Studios NYC
Roy Arias Payan Theatre
Roy Arias Off-Off-Broadway Theatre
Roy Arias Star Theatre
MTW Blackbox Theatre
MTW Blackbox Theatre
Don't Tell Mama
53 Above
Don't Tell Mama
Laurie Beechman Theatre
Don't Tell Mama
Don't Tell Mama
Don’t Tell Mama
Don't Tell Mama
Don't Tell Mama
Don't Tell Mama
Don’t Tell Mama
The Duplex
2013
2010
2012
2010
2008
2007
2001
2000
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
Me at the piano
A Casual Gathering
2015
(thanks, Marialana Ardolino!)
