I couldn't have asked for a more perfect entry point into Austin-area theater than Jesus Christ Superstar, which opened on May 29 at the Georgetown Palace Theater! Not only do I love playing and conducting this score, but the cast, crew, and staff at the Palace have been a delight from day one. The Palace is a historic venue in Georgetown that suffered some catastrophic flooding a few months ago. Thanks to generous community support, donors, and volunteers, they were able to

Our Beetlejuice tour recently completed its spring leg, and we’re now fortunate enough to be enjoying a four-week layoff before heading to Mexico City for a multiple-week run in August. So what to do for the month of July? Come to New York, of course, and fill in two weeks at Aladdin! It’s as if I rubbed the magic lamp and the Genie granted me the perfect opportunity to do so, filling in a for a couple keyboard regulars who are both on vacation simultaneously. Not only has i

Yikes! Months since my last post. Because reasons. The biggest being that I started a new gig in mid-October, and it devoured pretty much every brain cell I had available between then and the holidays. I've joined the first national tour of BEETLEJUICE as Music Director and Conductor. After a fantastic rehearsal period in NYC in the fall, we held technical rehearsals in KY before embarking on multiple-week runs in San Francisco during December and Cleveland in January. As I t

Somehow, half of 2022 has come and gone, and I'm not sure I remember what happened. Things started to get crazy just after the holidays....

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