Ted Sperling
Latest News on Ted Sperling:
Photos: Jeremy Jordan and the Cast of FLOYD COLLINS Meet the Press (Mar 12, 2025)
Video: Jeremy Jordan on FLOYD COLLINS' Genre-Bending Opening Number (Mar 7, 2025)
Exclusive Photos: Jeremy Jordan, Lizzy McAlpine, and an All-Star Cast in FLOYD COLLINS Rehearsals at Lincoln Center (Feb 21, 2025)
Photos: Jeremy Jordan and the Cast of FLOYD COLLINS Meet the Press (Mar 12, 2025)
Video: Jeremy Jordan on FLOYD COLLINS' Genre-Bending Opening Number (Mar 7, 2025)
Exclusive Photos: Jeremy Jordan, Lizzy McAlpine, and an All-Star Cast in FLOYD COLLINS Rehearsals at Lincoln Center (Feb 21, 2025)
BIO
LCT: The King and I, South Pacific, The Light in the Piazza (Tony, Drama Desk awards), A Man of No Importance, A New Brain, My Favorite Year. Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof, Guys and Dolls, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Full Monty, Titanic (actor), Kiss of the Spider Woman, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Drood, Sunday in the Park with George. Off- Broadway: Red Eye of Love, The Other Josh Cohen, Striking 12, See What I Wanna See (director); Saturn Returns, Floyd Collins, Romance in Hard Times (music director). Artistic director, MasterVoices; principal conductor, Westchester Philharmonic; creative director of the 24 Hour Musicals. Selected concerts: Show Boat (NY Philharmonic); The Firebrand of Florence, The Grapes of Wrath, The Mikado, 27, The Road of Promise, Song of Norway, Knickerbocker Holiday, Dido and Aeneas, Babes in Toyland, Of Thee I Sing, Orfeo ed Euridice (MasterVoices); numerous programs at American Songbook, Lyrics and Lyricists. www.tedsperling.net
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STAGE CREDITS
[Broadway]
Original Broadway Production, 1997
Wallace Hartley
3rd Class Passenger
Chief Engineer Joseph Bell
Productions
[Off-Broadway, 1998]
Musician
Musical Director
Vocal Music Arranger
Vocal Music Arranger
Musical Director
[Broadway, 1995]
Musical Director
Conductor
Vocal Music Arranger
[Off-Broadway, 1989]
Vocal Music Arranger
Musical Director
Vocal Music Arranger
Musical Director
Musical Director
Awards and Nominations
winner
BroadwayWorld Awards - 2005 - Best Orchestrations
Ted Sperling, The Light in the Piazza
winner
Drama Desk Awards - 2005 - outstanding Orchestrations
Ted Sperling, The Light in the Piazza
winner
Tony Awards - 2005 - Best Orchestrations
Ted Sperling, The Light in the Piazza
Tony Awards - 2003 - Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical
John Dossett, Gypsy
Videos
Video: Jeremy Jordan on FLOYD COLLINS' Genre-Bending Opening Number
by Michael Major - 2025-03-07 14:52:35
Video: Watch Jeremy Jordan Sing 'The Call' From FLOYD COLLINS
by Michael Major - 2025-02-21 11:33:10
Video: Go Inside Rehearsals for Encores! THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA with Ruthie Ann Miles and More
by Nicole Rosky - 2023-06-15 14:32:41
VIDEO: Idina Menzel Talks Returning to See WICKED on Broadway on THE VIEW
by Michael Major - 2022-09-28 14:49:12
VIDEO: Idina Menzel Inducted as a Disney Legend at the D23 Expo
by Michael Major - 2022-09-09 16:12:45
VIDEO: Chaka Khan and Idina Menzel Sing 'I'm Every Woman' in Honor of International Women's Day
by Stephi Wild - 2021-03-08 09:57:33
VIDEO: Laura Osnes and Santino Fontana Perform a Mashup of 'Ten Minutes Ago' and 'You Are Never Away'
by Stephi Wild - 2020-11-19 10:23:00
VIDEO: Jesse Tyler Ferguson Calls the Stars of The Public's WE ARE ONE PUBLIC
by Stephi Wild - 2020-05-23 09:21:37
PHOTO/VIDEO: Get A First Look At Shereen Ahmed, Laird Mackintosh & More In MY FAIR LADY
by Alan Henry - 2019-12-18 10:41:22
VIDEO: Extended Clip From FIDDLER: A MIRACLE OF MIRACLES Documentary
by Alan Henry - 2019-08-22 16:30:43
BWW Exclusive: First Look At FIDDLER: A MIRACLE OF MIRACLES Documentary
by A.A. Cristi - 2019-08-12 18:29:39
VIDEO: On This Day, April 3- Kelli O'Hara Stars In A Broadway Revival of SOUTH PACIFIC
by A.A. Cristi - 2019-04-03 11:31:00
VIDEO: Idina Menzel Releases the Music Video for 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' from IDINA:LIVE
by Kaitlin Milligan - 2018-10-11 14:37:34
VIDEO: On This Day, April 3- Kelli O'Hara and Paulo Szot Star In SOUTH PACIFIC at Lincoln Center
by A.A. Cristi - 2018-04-03 16:41:32
Broadway's FIDDLER ON THE ROOF Soloist Releases 'EXPANDING TRADITION' Album
by BWW News Desk - 2018-01-26 01:30:00
News
Photos: Jeremy Jordan and the Cast of FLOYD COLLINS Meet the Press
by Bruce Glikas - Mar 12, 2025
Jeremy Jordan will soon lead the Lincoln Center Theater production of Floyd Collins. Previews begin this month at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre. The cast recently met the press and BroadwayWorld was there. Check out photos here!
by Bruce Glikas - Mar 12, 2025
Jeremy Jordan will soon lead the Lincoln Center Theater production of Floyd Collins. Previews begin this month at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre. The cast recently met the press and BroadwayWorld was there. Check out photos here!
Video: Jeremy Jordan on FLOYD COLLINS' Genre-Bending Opening Number
by Michael Major - Mar 7, 2025
Watch Jeremy Jordan dig deeper into the opening number of Floyd Collins, 'The Call.' After the music video for the song was recently released by Lincoln Center, Jordan is diving into the song and its meaning in a new behind-the-scenes video.
by Michael Major - Mar 7, 2025
Watch Jeremy Jordan dig deeper into the opening number of Floyd Collins, 'The Call.' After the music video for the song was recently released by Lincoln Center, Jordan is diving into the song and its meaning in a new behind-the-scenes video.
Exclusive Photos: Jeremy Jordan, Lizzy McAlpine, and an All-Star Cast in FLOYD COLLINS Rehearsals at Lincoln Center
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 21, 2025
Discover exclusive rehearsal photos of Broadway's FLOYD COLLINS starring Jeremy Jordan and Lizzy McAlpine. Uncover the excitement as this musical masterpiece prepares for its Lincoln Center debut! Click to see the full gallery.
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 21, 2025
Discover exclusive rehearsal photos of Broadway's FLOYD COLLINS starring Jeremy Jordan and Lizzy McAlpine. Uncover the excitement as this musical masterpiece prepares for its Lincoln Center debut! Click to see the full gallery.
Watch: Jeremy Jordan's Stunning Performance of 'The Call' from Broadway's FLOYD COLLINS
by Michael Major - Feb 21, 2025
Floyd Collins is calling! Lincoln Center has released a new video of Jeremy Jordan performing 'The Call' from the upcoming Broadway production. Listen to the former Great Gatsby star's sweeping vocals in the new video now and dive into the excitement as previews launch at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater.
by Michael Major - Feb 21, 2025
Floyd Collins is calling! Lincoln Center has released a new video of Jeremy Jordan performing 'The Call' from the upcoming Broadway production. Listen to the former Great Gatsby star's sweeping vocals in the new video now and dive into the excitement as previews launch at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater.
Review: Richards-Cote INJUSTICE Opera Gives Hope that Truth is Not BLIND
by Richard Sasanow - Feb 6, 2025
Anyone who’s spent enough time watching network TV knows an American criminal justice system that is built around simplistic stories of the good guys (hard-working prosecutors and police detectives) putting away the bad guys (“perps” of all stripes) with the help of brilliant DNA evidence that points the way to the truth. That’s not exactly the impression that we get from BLIND INJUSTICE—the opera by composer Scott Davenport Richards and librettist David Cote that had its New York debut this week.
by Richard Sasanow - Feb 6, 2025
Anyone who’s spent enough time watching network TV knows an American criminal justice system that is built around simplistic stories of the good guys (hard-working prosecutors and police detectives) putting away the bad guys (“perps” of all stripes) with the help of brilliant DNA evidence that points the way to the truth. That’s not exactly the impression that we get from BLIND INJUSTICE—the opera by composer Scott Davenport Richards and librettist David Cote that had its New York debut this week.
Video: Inside the SOUTH PACIFIC Reunion Concert
by Joey Mervis - Dec 12, 2024
Monday night was some enchanted evening indeed at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, where the cast of the acclaimed 2008 revival of South Pacific reunited to benefit Lincoln Center Theatre. Watch in this video as the cast reunites and reminisces.
by Joey Mervis - Dec 12, 2024
Monday night was some enchanted evening indeed at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, where the cast of the acclaimed 2008 revival of South Pacific reunited to benefit Lincoln Center Theatre. Watch in this video as the cast reunites and reminisces.
Photos: Kelli O’Hara, Paulo Szot & More at SOUTH PACIFIC LCT Reunion
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 10, 2024
On Monday, December 9, almost the entire original company of Lincoln Center Theater’s 2008 Tony Award-winning production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s SOUTH PACIFIC reunited on the Beaumont stage for the first time 16 years later. See photos
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 10, 2024
On Monday, December 9, almost the entire original company of Lincoln Center Theater’s 2008 Tony Award-winning production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s SOUTH PACIFIC reunited on the Beaumont stage for the first time 16 years later. See photos
MasterVoices to Perform NY Premiere Of BLIND INJUSTICE at Lincoln Center
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 9, 2024
Artistic Director Ted Sperling will lead the 120–member MasterVoices Chorus and 12 cast members in the New York premiere of the acclaimed opera, Blind Injustice. Learn how to purchase tickets tot he February performances.
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 9, 2024
Artistic Director Ted Sperling will lead the 120–member MasterVoices Chorus and 12 cast members in the New York premiere of the acclaimed opera, Blind Injustice. Learn how to purchase tickets tot he February performances.
Photos: Kelli O’Hara & More in Rehearsals for SOUTH PACIFIC LCT Reunion
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 9, 2024
The original cast of Lincoln Center Theater’s 2008 Tony Award winning production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s SOUTH PACIFIC will reunite on the Beaumont stage under the direction of Bartlett Sher. See rehearsal photos.
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 9, 2024
The original cast of Lincoln Center Theater’s 2008 Tony Award winning production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s SOUTH PACIFIC will reunite on the Beaumont stage under the direction of Bartlett Sher. See rehearsal photos.
Everything You Don't Know About FLOYD COLLINS
by Sidney Paterra - Dec 7, 2024
Lincoln Center Theater is preparing for the Broadway premiere of Floyd Collins- the first major revival since the show's off Broadway premiere in 1996. Since then, the musical has gained a loyal fanbase, but remains largely unknown by musical theatre-loving audiences. What do you need to know...?
by Sidney Paterra - Dec 7, 2024
Lincoln Center Theater is preparing for the Broadway premiere of Floyd Collins- the first major revival since the show's off Broadway premiere in 1996. Since then, the musical has gained a loyal fanbase, but remains largely unknown by musical theatre-loving audiences. What do you need to know...?
Jeremy Jordan, Jason Gotay & Lizzy McAlpine Will Lead FLOYD COLLINS
by Nicole Rosky - Nov 21, 2024
Lincoln Center Theater has found it's cast for the Broadway premiere of FLOYD COLLINS, a musical with book by Tina Landau, music and lyrics by Adam Guettel, additional lyrics by Tina Landau and direction by Tina Landau. Check out who will join Jeremy Jordan as the title character.
by Nicole Rosky - Nov 21, 2024
Lincoln Center Theater has found it's cast for the Broadway premiere of FLOYD COLLINS, a musical with book by Tina Landau, music and lyrics by Adam Guettel, additional lyrics by Tina Landau and direction by Tina Landau. Check out who will join Jeremy Jordan as the title character.
SOUTH PACIFIC Benefit Reunion Will Honor Vivian Beaumont Allen, Mitzi E. Newhouse & Claire Tow
by Nicole Rosky - Nov 18, 2024
Lincoln Center Theater’s Gala performance of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s SOUTH PACIFIC will honor the three extraordinary women for whom its three theaters are named: Vivian Beaumont Allen, Mitzi E. Newhouse, and Claire Tow.
by Nicole Rosky - Nov 18, 2024
Lincoln Center Theater’s Gala performance of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s SOUTH PACIFIC will honor the three extraordinary women for whom its three theaters are named: Vivian Beaumont Allen, Mitzi E. Newhouse, and Claire Tow.
Review: STRIKE UP THE BAND! at Carnegie Hall
by Joanna Barouch - Nov 12, 2024
Musical gems buried in a mind-numbing story
by Joanna Barouch - Nov 12, 2024
Musical gems buried in a mind-numbing story
SOUTH PACIFIC Reunion Concert at Lincoln Center to Offer Performance Only Tickets & Digital Lottery
by Blair Ingenthron - Nov 11, 2024
Lincoln Center Theater has announced performance-only tickets and a digital lottery for the SOUTH PACIFIC reunion concert, featuring members of the 2008 revival cast. Learn more about the performance here!
by Blair Ingenthron - Nov 11, 2024
Lincoln Center Theater has announced performance-only tickets and a digital lottery for the SOUTH PACIFIC reunion concert, featuring members of the 2008 revival cast. Learn more about the performance here!
Review: MasterVoices' STRIKE UP THE BAND at Carnegie Hall Revives a 1920s Gem
by Rebecca Kaplan - Nov 4, 2024
What MasterVoices does is very special. The lush one-night-only production of STRIKE UP THE BAND on 10/28 revived and revised a Gershwin/Kaufman show with a full orchestra, 145-person chorus, dancers and a star-studded, superb principal cast. MasterVoices’ 2024-25 season continues next year on February 3 and 4 with Blind Injustice.
by Rebecca Kaplan - Nov 4, 2024
What MasterVoices does is very special. The lush one-night-only production of STRIKE UP THE BAND on 10/28 revived and revised a Gershwin/Kaufman show with a full orchestra, 145-person chorus, dancers and a star-studded, superb principal cast. MasterVoices’ 2024-25 season continues next year on February 3 and 4 with Blind Injustice.
New Legacy Website Announced For Legendary Comic Playwright George S. Kaufman
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 22, 2024
Explore the newly announced legacy website dedicated to George S. Kaufman, offering insights into the life and works of the legendary comic playwright.
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 22, 2024
Explore the newly announced legacy website dedicated to George S. Kaufman, offering insights into the life and works of the legendary comic playwright.
Interview: Ted Sperling Helms a Lavish Concert Revival of STRIKE UP THE BAND at Carnegie Hall
by Rebecca Kaplan - Oct 15, 2024
MasterVoices opens its 2024-25 season on 10/29 with Strike Up the Band, a rarely revived Gershwin work. With its soaring melodies, infectious syncopation, and lyrics that both provoke and delight, this lavish production will feature dancers and the 120-person MasterVoices chorus. Read a conversation with Ted Sperling about the new revision.
by Rebecca Kaplan - Oct 15, 2024
MasterVoices opens its 2024-25 season on 10/29 with Strike Up the Band, a rarely revived Gershwin work. With its soaring melodies, infectious syncopation, and lyrics that both provoke and delight, this lavish production will feature dancers and the 120-person MasterVoices chorus. Read a conversation with Ted Sperling about the new revision.
Cast Set for SOUTH PACIFIC Reunion Starring Kelli O'Hara, Paulo Szot & More; Tickets on Sale
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Sep 26, 2024
Bartlett Sher will direct a one-night-only reunion concert of LCT’s Tony Award-winning 2008 production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s SOUTH PACIFIC, starring original cast members Kelli O’Hara, Paulo Szot, and more. See the full cast and purchase tickets now on sale!
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Sep 26, 2024
Bartlett Sher will direct a one-night-only reunion concert of LCT’s Tony Award-winning 2008 production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s SOUTH PACIFIC, starring original cast members Kelli O’Hara, Paulo Szot, and more. See the full cast and purchase tickets now on sale!
Victoria Clark, Claybourne Elder and More Join STRIKE UP THE BAND With MasterVoices At Carnegie Hall
by A.A. Cristi - Sep 19, 2024
MasterVoices announced a performance of the Gershwins' political musical satire STRIKE UP THE BAND at Carnegie Hall on October 29, featuring music by George and Ira Gershwin and a book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind.
by A.A. Cristi - Sep 19, 2024
MasterVoices announced a performance of the Gershwins' political musical satire STRIKE UP THE BAND at Carnegie Hall on October 29, featuring music by George and Ira Gershwin and a book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind.
Video: Matthew Broderick Reveals He Was Terrified to Sing in His First Musical
by Josh Sharpe - Aug 22, 2024
Watch in this video as we catch up with 2024 Emmy nominee Matthew Broderick, who looks back on his incredible career on stage and screen. He shares stories about how he first met Mel Brooks, why he loves performing the work of Neil Simon, what its like working with Nathan Lane, and so much more.
by Josh Sharpe - Aug 22, 2024
Watch in this video as we catch up with 2024 Emmy nominee Matthew Broderick, who looks back on his incredible career on stage and screen. He shares stories about how he first met Mel Brooks, why he loves performing the work of Neil Simon, what its like working with Nathan Lane, and so much more.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
How many Broadway shows has Ted Sperling been in?
Ted Sperling has appeared on Broadway in 1 shows.
How many West End shows has Ted Sperling been in?
Ted Sperling has not appeared in the West End.
What awards has Ted Sperling been nominated for?
Best Orchestrations (BroadwayWorld Awards) for The Light in the Piazza, outstanding Orchestrations (Drama Desk Awards) for The Light in the Piazza, Best Orchestrations (Tony Awards) for The Light in the Piazza and Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical (Tony Awards) for Gypsy.
What awards has Ted Sperling won?
Ted Sperling has won several awards, including Best Orchestrations at the BroadwayWorld Awards for The Light in the Piazza, Outstanding Orchestrations at the Drama Desk Awards for The Light in the Piazza, and Best Orchestrations at the Tony Awards for The Light in the Piazza.
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