Steven M. Alper is a music composer, primarily for the theatre, as well as an orchestrator and author. He wrote and orchestrated the score for the musical The Immigrant, for which he was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestrations.[1] The production received a workshop production in New York at CAP-21 in 2000, and, after more work, it ran off-Broadway at Dodger Stages in the fall of 2004.[2]
Steven M. Alper | |
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| Born | January 26, 1958 |
| Occupation(s) | composer, author |
| Partner | Sarah Knapp |
| Website | http://knappalper.com/alper/index.html |
Alper arranged and conducted several musicals, working with the likes of Stephen Schwartz, Martin Charnin, Todd Rundgren, Morton DaCosta, Charles Strouse, and Don Scardino. His book, entitled Next!—Auditioning for the Musical Theatre, was published by Heinemann Books in the fall of 1996 and reprinted by Girandole Books in 2012.[3]
References
edit- ^ Drama Desk Awards, 2005 nominations Archived 2008-07-04 at archive.today. 2005/55th Drama Desk Awards
- ^ Elyse Sommer, A CurtainUp Review of The Immigrant. CurtainUp. November 28, 2004
- ^ Amazon.com. Next!: Auditioning for the Musical Theatre. By Steven Alper.
External links
edit- Steven M. Alper at the Internet Broadway Database
- Steven Alper at the Lortel Archives
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