Tino Gagliardi is a musician and instrumentalist. He has played the trumpet for Broadway shows such as Jesus Christ Superstar, Oklahoma!, The Boy From Oz, and All Shook Up. He has been the president of Local 802 (New York City) since 2010 after performing as a trumpet player in New York City’s concert, club date, and recording fields. As president of Local 802, Tino led the negotiations for Broadway, the Lincoln Center resident orchestras, and Radio City. 

Tino and I had a great chat about all things musical, including how we both played the trumpet (I won’t be battling him anytime soon) and lots of other stuff like . . .

Big thanks to Tino for sitting down with me to give me (and all of you) a literal and figurative look into The Pit . . . which, frankly, I think should be renamed The Heart. Because music is the lifeblood of musicals, and it’s here where it gets pumped out to the rest of the stage.

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Michael Starobin is an orchestrator, composer, arranger, and musical director, primarily for the stage, film and television. He won Tony Awards for the orchestrations of Assassins (2004) and Next to Normal (2009 with Tom Kitt). The first Broadway musical that he provided the orchestrations for was Sunday in the Park with George in 1984, for which he won the 1984 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestration. He has also provided orchestrations, or been the Musical Director, for many Off-Broadway musicals. He wrote the orchestrations for several works by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, such as Once on This Island (1990), as well as William Finn, including In Trousers, Falsettoland, and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.

In these 30 minutes or so, you’ll hear the Tony Award-winning Orchestrator of shows like Sunday in the Park with George, Next to Normal, Falsettos and more (click here for his crazy list of credits) talk about . . .

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Tony-winning Orchestrator Michael Starobin discusses the difference between orchestrating and arranging, how to avoid a flop, and more.

Tony Award-winning Composer Jeanine Tesori talks story versus plot, her favorite song she’s written, and more.

Jeanine Tesori is a composer and musical arranger. She is the most prolific and honored female theatrical composer in history, with five Broadway musicals and five Tony Award nominations. She won the 1999 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music in a Play for Nicholas Hytner's production of Twelfth Night at Lincoln Center, the 2004 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music for Caroline, or Change, and the 2015 Tony Award for Best Original Score for Fun Home (shared with Lisa Kron), making them the first female writing team to win that award. Her major works include Fun Home, Shrek The Musical, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Mulan II, and Violet.

Listen in to this week’s podcast to hear how she got to write her shows, as well as . . .

Oh, and during this podcast, you’ll hear some great stories about the preview period of Thoroughly Modern Millie. After you’re done listening to Jeanine, make sure you tune in to hear Producer Hal Luftig and Producer Kristin Caskey (who’s also behind Fun Home) tell their versions of the same dramatic tale.

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Jeff Chelesvig is one of the premier and most powerful independent Broadway Presenters in the country (a Broadway Presenter, for those who might not be familiar with that term, is someone who books National Tours of Broadway shows). And on top of that, anyone who has ever played his home town with a show knows how gracious and generous of a guy he is.

Every time I talk to Jeff, I get so much insight into the touring market and what makes it tick, which is why I sucked him into doing my podcast. And, as expected, my thirty minutes with Jeff taught me even more, including . . .

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Broadway Presenter Jeff Chelesvig discusses what makes a show a success on the road, the difference between marketing to a New York audience and marketing to a tour audience, and more.

Ken Billington is a lighting designer. He has 96 Broadway productions to his credit including Copperfield, Checking Out, Moon Over Buffalo, Grind, Hello Dolly!, Meet Me in St. Louis, On the Twentieth Century, Side by Side by Sondheim, Lettice and Lovage, Tru, The Scottsboro Boys, and Sweeney Todd. Off-Broadway productions include Sylvia, London Suite, Annie Warbucks, Lips Together, Teeth Apart, The Lisbon Traviata, What the Butler Saw, and Fortune and Men's Eyes. He was the principal lighting designer for Radio City Music Hall from 1979 - 2004. He has been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design eight times and in 1997 won for the revival of Chicago, which also garnered him the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design. In November 2015, Billington was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame.

You’ll hear one of the industry’s best lighting designers talk about . . .

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Tony Award-winning Lighting Designer Ken Billington talks about his process for lighting a show, changes in the technology of the lighting business, and more.

James Lapine is an American stage director, playwright, screenwriter, and librettist. He has won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical three times, for Into the Woods, Falsettos, and Passion. He has frequently collaborated with Stephen Sondheim and William Finn. Lapine has also directed dramas, including Dirty Blonde, which ran Off-Broadway and on Broadway in 2000. Lapine was nominated for the Tony Award and Drama Desk Award, for Best Direction of a Play. Lapine directed the 2012 Broadway revival of Annie. In 1991 he directed his first film, Impromptu, which has a screenplay by his wife, Sarah Kernochan. The story revolves around the romance of George Sand and Chopin. He followed with Life With Mikey with Michael J. Fox for Disney. He wrote the screenplay for Disney's film version of Into the Woods (2014), directed by Rob Marshall.

Listen in to today’s Podcast to hear this Master Theater Artist talk about everything from:

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