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Pianist - Musical Director - Accompanist - Vocal Arranger - Vocal Coach - Teacher

Recommended Reading - Excellent Texts for Students

Broadway Musicals Show By Show by Stanley Green

On Singing Onstage by David Craig

Show Tunes by Steven Suskin

Broadway Song and Story edited by Otis Guernsey

Colored Lights by John Kander and Fred Ebb

Audition by Michael Shurtleff

Sondheim and Co. by Craig Zadan

The Musical From the Inside Out by Stephen Citron

Broadway Musicals: The 101 Greatest Shows of All Time by Ken Bloom and Frank Vlastnik

Before The Parade Passes By: Gower Champion and the Glorious American Musical by John Anthony Gilvey

Recommended Listening and Viewing

Some of my favorite shows (in no particular order)

Songs for a New World by Jason Robert Brown

The Wild Party by Andrew Lippa

The Light in the Piazza by Adam Guettel

Amour by Michel Legrand

Cyrano (starring Christopher Plummer) by Anthouny Burgess and Michael J. Lewis

Golden Rainbow (starring Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme) by Walter Marks

Bright Lights, Big City by Paul Scott Goodman

Front Row Center by MCA Classics (boxed set)

Broadway: The American Musical; by PBS

Broadway: The Golden Age; by Rick McKay

Camp by Todd Graff

Broadway's Lost Treasures Volumes 1-3 (DVD Collection)

Hamilton College's Jazz Archives - an extraordinary collection of interviews with the legends of jazz academics.hamilton.edu/music/home/JazzArchive

Also anything by John Pizzarelli, especially with Ray Kennedy on piano

Email me at marysugarmusic@gmail.com.