DOUG BESTERMAN is a three-time Tony Award winning musician with a career spanning across theatre, film, television and recording. As a Composer, Producer, Arranger, and Orchestrator, he has been privileged to work with some of the most recognizable names in the industry, including composers Mel Brooks, Alan Menken, and Marc Shaiman; recording artists Barbra Streisand and Barry Manilow; and directors Rob Marshall and Susan Stroman.
A veteran of 25+ Broadway shows, Besterman won the Best Orchestrations Tony Award® for Fosse, The Producers, and Thoroughly Modern Millie, and was nominated for The Music Man (2000), How to Succeed in Business, and Bullets ... read more
David has been Music Director, Supervisor and/or Arranger for thirty-five Broadway productions. Most recently, David acted as dance arranger on Roundabout Theatre Company’s Kiss Me, Kate and Tootsie, currently on Broadway.
Other theatre credits include: many arrangements for the Boston Pops and Tanglewood Festival Chorus, The Kennedy Center Honors, Radio City Music Hall (where he spent many years as music director), EssentialVoicesUSA (including the upcoming Washington Women), and TV’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Music director for several productions at the Lyric Opera of Chicago (including The King and I with choreographer Peggy Hickey), and for NBC’s live performances of The Sound of Music ... read more
CONNOR GALLAGHER ?Recent: The world-premiere stage adaptation of Disney's Tangled, Robert Schenkkan and Neil Berg's The Twelve (Denver Center), Spelling Bee (Bucks County), The Fabulous Lipitones (Goodspeed), Bunnicula (DR2), Fat Camp (NYMF, Best Choreography Award), Spidermusical (The Mint), Perez Hilton (Barrow Street), Lincoln Center, The York, Northern Stage, The Lortel, and numerous event for Broadway Cares. National campaigns: Glidden, Luxxotica, Hanky Panky as well as The Writers Guild Awards and the HIFA Festival (Zimbabwe.) Associate: Into the Woods (Public Theatre.) Graduate: Cincinnati Conservatory. As a performer: Carpet in Beauty and the Beast (Broadway). www.connorgallagher.com ... read more