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Jersey Boys- Palazzo Theater, Las Vegas
Musical Director/Conductor/Key 1 3/08-Present
The Producers- Paris, Las Vegas
Musical Director/Conductor/ 1/07-3/08
Hairspray- Luxor Theater, Las Vegas
Musical Director/Conductor/Key 1 2/06-6/06
We Will Rock You- North American Premiere, Paris, Las Vegas
Musical Director/Conductor/Key 1 6/04-12/05
Mamma Mia! - First National Tour (Dee Hoty)
Musical Director/Conductor/Key 1 3/03-6/04
Cabaret - (w/Teri Hatcher, Lea Thompson) 2/99-6/01
First National Tour, Music Director, Conductor/Pianist
Dora Award Winner-Best Musical Direction (Toronto), 2002
Australian Production (Sydney, Melbourne) Musical Supervisor
Roundhouse - Nickelodeon Television Network
Vocal Director/Arranger (rock, pop, hip-hop) 6/92-1/95
Chicago - (w/Debra Gibson) Northshore Music Theatre
Conductor 10/02-11/02
Letters from ‘Nam - (w/ Maureen McGovern)
Northshore Music Theatre
Conductor 9/01-10/01
Hair - A) Northshore MusicTheatre
Piano/Conductor 8/98
B) 25th Anniversary Tour
Piano/Conductor 2/94-6/94
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat -
(W/Donny Osmond, Sam Harris) Toronto/Chicago/Detroit
Conductor 9/97-9/98
Peter Pan - (w/Cathy Rigby) National Tour
Associate Conductor 3/98-6/98
When Pigs Fly - Off Broadway, Douglas Fairbanks Theater
Musical Supervisor/ On-Stage Pianist 9/97-5/98
The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber - (w/Sarah Brightman)
National Tour Associate Conductor 3/95-7/95
Call Me Madam - (w/Leslie Uggams) Papermill Playhouse
Conductor 2/96-5/96
Jesus Christ Superstar -
A) National Tour (w/ Ted Neeley and Carl Anderson)
Paramount Theatre, Madison Square Garden
Associate Conductor 7/94-2/95
B) Sacramento Music Circus
Musical Supervisor 8/96
C) New York University
Conductor 2/98
D) Shreveport Opera
Musical Supervisor 5/99
E) Birmingham Theatre (w/Adrian Zmed)
Conductor 3/89-6/89
F) Summer Lyric Theatre, Tulane University 6/86
Guest Conductor (30 piece orchestra)
Animal Crackers - (w/Kristen Chenowith) Papermill Playhouse
Conductor 9/93-11/93
Fiddler on the roof - Northshore Music Theatre
Conductor 11/00
Crazy For You - Northshore Music Theatre
Conductor 7/96
Kismet - Sacramento Music Circus
Conductor 8/96
The Wizard of Oz - Sacramento Music Circus
Conductor 8/95
From Billie To Lena - (w/ Jenifer Lewis) 2/87, 2/89
ORIGINAL THEATRICAL COMPOSTIONS:
IDAHO! (the Comedy-Musical (with author-Buddy Sheffield)
2009 NYMF-Best in Fest Award
2011 Forestburgh Playhouse Season Premiere
GOD LIVES IN GLASS (with author-Robert J. Landy, Ph.D.)
Provincetown Playhouse, NYU-2003
Broadway Bound Children’s Theater-2010
KOOKY TUNES (the Comedy-Novelty Songs of Keith Thompson)
New York City-The Laurie Beechman Theater
RECORDINGS:
QUEEN TRIBUTE ALBUM (Hollywood Records)
Vocal Director, Bohemian Rhapsody
KOOKY TUNES (Jay Records of London, Abbey Road Studios)
Composer, Pianist, Vocalist
JAMIE DEROY AND FRIENDS (Volumes 4 and 5, Manhattan Beach St.)
Vocal and String arranger
TELEVISION APPEARANCES:
The Tonight Show (Jay Leno): w/Nobert Leo Butz, Cast of Cabaret
The Today Show: w/Carl Anderson (Jesus Christ Superstar)
The Today Show: w/Dennis DeJonge
Regis and Kathie Lee: w/Lea Thompson
Additional Experience
Sideshow Broadway 1stKeyboard
Tommy Broadway Rehearsal Pianist
Les Miserables Broadway 1st Keyboard
Three Men on a Horse Broadway Pianist
Catskills on Broadway Broadway Keyboards
Little Shop of Horrors Off Broadway Keyboards
White Lies Off Broadway Composer/pianist
Suds Off Broadway Musical Director
The Wonder Years Off Broadway Musical Director
Forbidden Broadway Off Broadway Pianist
A Little Night Music Sacramento CLOA Ass. Conductor
Gypsy Sacramento CLOA Ass. Conductor
Faculty
NYU, Steinhardt School of Music, Musical Theater Program, Adjunct ’
CHARITABLE WORK:
- Sound, Lights and Cabaret
- Nights, the Show Must Go On!
(Fund-raising concert for sound and lighting equipment for
the Cabaret Showroom at the Liberace Museum
August, 2009- Co-chair and event coordinator)
- Liberace Museum’s Thirtieth Anniversary Celebration
April, 2009
Co-host with Lorraine Hunt and Dennis Bono
- God Lives in Glass (Fund raising concert)
(Composer, Director, Conductor, Co-Producer)
May, 2006-Candlelighters for Childhood Cancer
April, 2007 and July 2007- Family Promise of Nevada
August, 2008- Make a Wish Foundation
October, 2008- Las Vegas Teen Crisis
September, 2009- Family Promise/Friends of the Horne, CSN
September, 2011-Family Promise/Nevada Conservatory Theatre
MISCELLANEOUS:
Currently on the Executive Board (elected by general membership)
The Musician’s Union Local 369
Currently on the Advisory Board of the Nevada Conservatory
Theatre, the professional arm of the UNLV Theatre Department
Writer/director for Liberace and Me, Broadway My Way, and
Now Just Me (the solo piano concerts of Philip Fortenberry)
Co-Founder, The Composers Showcase of Las Vegas
2006-present
Certified Sommelier, International Sommelier's Guild, 2007
Music: Keith Thompson
Vocalist: Patrick DeGennaro