Beauty and the Beast on Tour is now in
Schenectady
May 15 - 20, 2012
Proctors Theatre
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May 29 - June 3, 2012
Opera House
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Philadelphia
June 5 - 10, 2012
Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
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Washington
June 12 - 24, 2012
National Theatre
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MICHAEL KOSARIN
Music Supervisor/Incidental Music Arrangements
Michael was the original music director/incidental music arranger of the Broadway production of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. He has worked steadily on Broadway for over twenty-five years, on the original Broadway productions of Nine, Grand Hotel, Secret Garden, King David, Mayor, A Chorus Line, Triumph of Love (for which he composed two songs), Little Shop of Horrors, Can-Can (Encores!), as well as Hunchback of Notre Dame (in Berlin) and others. He is currently music supervisor and conductor of Disney’s The Little Mermaid on Broadway, and has collaborated as composer Alan Menken’s music director for more than fifteen years. Sister Act, for which he provided vocal and incidental music arrangements, and music supervised, recently opened to much acclaim in London’s West End. He has extensive film work as well, having conducted the orchestra and arranged vocals for many Walt Disney Feature Animation projects, including the films "Pocahontas", "Hercules" and "Home On The Range", as well as numerous live action films, including the recent hit, “Enchanted”. He won the 2005 Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Direction for his work on the musical film "A Christmas Carol" (Menken/Ahrens) for NBC-TV – for which he also provided the underscore – and did music direction and underscore as well for ABC-TV's "Once Upon a Mattress" and "The Music Man" (Emmy nomination). He is currently at work on the latest film for Disney, a 3-D adaptation of the classic “Rapunzel”. Recording and concert work -- performing, composing, and arranging -- features long-time collaborations with Carly Simon (including the gold album and HBO special "My Romance") and Barbara Cook (including the album "Tribute", which he arranged and performed with Ms. Cook, based on their sold-out engagement at the Café Carlyle in New York). His recent engagement with Jane Krakowski at Feinstein’s at the Regency was recorded live and is scheduled for a March 2010 release. Kosarin has extensive classical training as well, and work in that realm runs the gamut from performing on the piano at Carnegie Hall to conducting Rachmaninoff’s 2nd Piano Concerto at that same venue, to last year’s Lincoln Center/Disney concert, in which he conducted St. Luke’s Orchestra performing Stravinsky’s “Firebird Suite”, live to picture (as animated for “Fantasia 2000”). Kosarin is lately an in-demand composer for children’s programming, writing episodes for Nick Jr.’s “The Wonder Pets”, Disney Channel’s “Johnny and The Sprites”, and the BBC’s “Third and Bird”.
