He has composed more than 100 orchestral and chamber works and two operas, and early in his career wrote scores for theater and film, including Joseph Papp's Shakespeare in the Park productions, "Splendor in the Grass" and "The Manchurian Candidate".
The most important thing, whether it's a pop song or a score for musical theater, is that it has to move your heart.
When the Tony nominations were announced, I was thrilled Bright Star received five nominations, including Best Musical, Best Actress for Carmen Cusack and Best Score (for musical theater newbies Martin and Brickell).
The minimum wage for rehearsals and performances will take effect June 1, 2016, for scores of theater companies that already work under the 99-Seat Theater Plan.
Amram has composed more than 100 orchestral and chamber music works, and written many scores for Broadway theater and film, including Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie's Pull My Daisy.
Even smaller were the scrupulously chosen odds and ends — buttons, pen tips, zipper pulls — with which John Zorn, a performing polymath, composed visual scores for his Theater of Musical Optics.
Though Mr. Schreier has a sizable résumé of scores for the theater, he may be best known as an astute sound designer, especially for his work in recent years on productions of Stephen Sondheim musicals, which consistently sound less amplified and more natural than typical Broadway shows.
More than a score of theaters once flourished in the neighborhood, offering everything from Shakespeare to shund — the Yiddish word for trash.
This past spring he performed composer Larry Delinger's solo percussion score for the Berkeley Repertory Theater's production of Aeschylus' "The Oresteia". Froh currently freelances in the Bay Area and performs with the new music ensemble SFSound Group.
The show, which received strong reviews, has been a box-office hit since winning six Tony Awards in June – including those for best musical, best actor (Billy Porter as the drag queen Lola) and best score for the first-time theater composer Cyndi Lauper.
