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Beginning in 1989 with Miss Saigon, William David Brohn has enjoyed a continuing role as Orchestrator for Cameron Mackintosh in productions of Oliver!, Martin Guerre, Hey! Mr. Producer, The Witches of Eastwick, and the transfers from the Royal National Theatre of Carousel, Oklahoma!, and My Fair Lady.
In the 1991 transfer of Miss Saigon to Broadway he was given the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestrations (along with the same award that year for The Secret Garden) and subsequently for Crazy For You in 1992 and Ragtime in 1998. . .the latter show also earning him his (first) Tony Award.
He has enjoyed collaborations with singers Placido Domingo, Marilyn Horne and Jerry Hadley, choreographers Agnes deMille, Kenneth Macmillan, Susan Stroman and Matthew Bourne, the violinist Joshua Bell, and conductors Andre Previn, John Williams and Keith Lockhart.
The two-way street between London and New York ultimately brought Brohn's (revised) orchestrations for a new production of The Secret Garden (which began at the Royal Shakespeare in Stratford-Upon-Avon in 2000), and Ragtime, in 2003 to the Piccadilly as it had previously brought Crazy For You and then Show Boat to the Prince Edward.
More recently he orchestrated Sweet Smell of Success in 2002 for Marvin Hamlisch, and earned a Tony Award (nomination) this year for Stephen Schwartz's Wicked.
Co-incidentally he has orchestrated Busker Alley for Robert and Richard Sherman in USA, and The Three Musketeers for George Stiles in Switzerland, happily drawing a kind of full circle in his involvement with them in this production. |
