Creative Team

William David Brohn
Orchestrator

Beginning in 1989 with Miss Saigon, William David Brohn has enjoyed a continuing role as orchestrator for Cameron Mackintosh in productions of Oliver!, Martin Guerre, Hey, Mr. Producer!, The Witches of Eastwick, and the transfers from the National Theatre of Carousel, Oklahoma! and My Fair Lady.

In the 1991 transfer of Miss Saigon to Broadway he was given the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestrations (along with the same award that year for The Secret Garden) and subsequently for Crazy for You in 1992 and Ragtime in 1998, the latter show also earning him a Tony Award.

He has enjoyed collaborations with singers Placido Domingo, Marilyn Horne and Jerry Hadley, choreographers Agnes de Mille, Kenneth Macmillan, Susan Stroman and Matthew Bourne, the violinist Joshua Bell, and conductors Andre Previn, John Williams and Keith Lockhart.

The two-way street between London and New York ultimately brought Brohn's (revised) orchestrations for a new production of The Secret Garden (which began at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon in 2000), and Ragtime in 2003 to the Piccadilly, as it had previously brought Crazy for You and then Show Boat to the Prince Edward.

More recently he orchestrated Sweet Smell of Success in 2002 for Marvin Hamlisch and in 2004 Stephen Schwartz's Wicked, currently on Broadway and scheduled soon for the West End.

Coincidentally he has orchestrated Busker Alley for Robert and Richard Sherman in the USA and The Three Musketeers for George Stiles in Switzerland, happily drawing a kind of full circle in his involvement with them in this production.

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