Paul Pizutti has over fifty years of experience playing shows. He is a person everyone should listen to when it comes to understanding what it takes to have a successful career playing broadway musicals.

In this episode, we discuss:

* Working on the musical ‘Candide.’

* How he wound up playing the original ‘Godspell.’

* How he handled playing a show during the New York City blackout of 1977.

* What it was like working on the original ‘Evita.’

* Why ‘Merrily We Roll’ Along came and went but is now a classic.

* How a series of minor connections led to working seven years at ‘Cats.’

Here is a partial list of the shows he’s done:

* She Loves Me

* Far Away Places: Live at 54 Below w/Patti LuPone

* The Other Duke: Tribute to Duke Pearson, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

* Merrily We Roll Along

* Another Monday Night, The Lady with the Torch w/Patti LuPone

* Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific, in Concert from Carnegie Hall

* Pacific Overtures

* Big Band Blues

* Into the Woods

* The Frogs/Evening Primrose

* Kiss Me, Kate

* Fifteen-Year Anniversary w/ Betty Buckley

* Big

* A Christmas Carol

* Crazy for You, Assassins

* Cats

* Merrily We Roll Along

and many more!

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Clayton Craddock, the drummer of the hit broadway musical Ain't Too Proud. He hosts the Broadway Drumming 101 Podcast and has played drums in several hit broadway and off-broadway musicals, including "Tick, tick…BOOM! Altar Boyz, Memphis The Musical, and Lady Day At Emerson's Bar and Grill. Also, Clayton has worked on: Footloose, Motown, The Color Purple, Rent, Little Shop of Horrors, Spongebob Squarepants, The Musical, Evita, Cats, and Avenue Q.

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*original music by Clayton Craddock

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