Stephen Brooker - Musical Supervisor

Stephen Brooker is musical supervisor for Oliver!, Mary Poppins and Les Misérables. He was musical director of The Woman in White, My Fair Lady, Miss Saigon, Les Misérables, Lautrec, Cats, The Secret Garden (RSC) and South Pacific (NT). He supervised My Fair Lady (USA tour), Les Misérables (New York revival), Cats, Hair, Miss Saigon, Dancing on Dangerous Ground, Carmen Jones, The Phantom of the Opera, Grease, Fame, Hair, Saturday Night Fever, Peter Pan and Chess. Stephen was composer and conductor for the original production of Burn the Floor and has written and produced music for corporate clients including Coca Cola, Walt Disney, Toyota Cars and British Airways. Orchestral conducting includes the Royal Philharmonic, Atlanta Symphony, West Australian Symphony, Haifa Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and the Ukraine Opera and Symphony orchestras. He has conducted the Royal Choral Society in the presence of Her Majesty The Queen. Recordings include Disney Film Classics and Crazy for Gershwin (BBC Concert Orchestra), studio cast recording of Hair, and cast recordings of The Secret Garden, The Woman in White and South Pacific. He recorded Michael Ball’s album This Time It’s Personal and was orchestrator and conductor for Walt Disney’s award-winning Animator’s Palette and Cinderellabration (Disneyland Tokyo). Stephen conducted the 21st birthday concert of Les Misérables (BBC Concert Orchestra) and conducted a concert of Camelot with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in June 2009.
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"For me, Oliver! is simply the best English musical ever written. Lionel Bart was a genius. I was lucky enough to work, in a very junior role, in the same room as him in the Palladium production, and there’s nothing like having met a composer for getting a deeper sense of the man and his music. Part of my job is to teach the show to the conductor, to collaborate with the orchestrator and to translate the sound that the producer and director hear in their heads into the finished product from the orchestra pit. It’s a collaboration between stage and sound. Drury Lane is one of the best theatres in London. There’s a real sense of occasion as soon as you go into the foyer. We’ve produced new curtain call music and new playout music. They make for a very up-beat end to a great show."