Carson Schutze
Email: cschutzeATuclaDOTedu
My Musical Side
I am a pianist, vocalist, songwriter, conductor, musical director, arranger/orchestrator and vocal coach. My specialty and passion is
musical theatre.
My original compositions can be found at
myspace.com/musicals68/music/songs
Some of the shows for which I have been Musical Director include
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Hanky Panky
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Dreamstuff
(a staged reading with Vicki Lewis, Fred Willard, David Blue, and lots of other wonderful performers,
directed by Michael Urie; here’s a photo of
me rehearsing with Eden Espinosa and Luke Macfarlane)
•
Blood Brothers
(Here’s a
clip from a promo concert,
with me at the keyboard in back. The actual show sounded much better.
Eduardo Enrikez won the ADA Award for Lead Actor in a Musical.
Here’s a cast photo featuring him with Ryan Nealy; I’m at my perch
way up in the top left corner of the picture.)
•
Tales of Tinseltown
(Read the LA
Times and LA Weekly
reviews—scroll down to find the latter. Here’s a
video of I Can Sing,
with Ovation nominee Gina D’Acciaro channeling Ethel Merman.)
•
Songs for a New World
(Watch videos of the
The New World and
The Steam Train. That’s me at the piano, upstage right.)
•
Runway 69 (at
Dixon
Place in New York)
(here are
pictures from a reading in LA where I was conducting, but you can’t see me)
•
Jesus, Booze and Kwanzaa
(Here’s the finale, Turkey Lurkey Time,
with me at the piano.
This show works best when you’ve had several drinks.)
•
Children of Eden
(Here’s a backstage photo from just before curtain.)
•
South Pacific
(Click here,
here,
and here for
different views of me and the pit orchestra,
and read the review.)
•
Jesus Christ Superstar
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Chess
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Little Shop of Horrors
(read the review)
•
Company
(read the review)
•
On The Town (read the review)
•
Godspell
•
Oliver!
•
I also had the privilege of working on the Ovation-winning world premiere
of Sleeping
Beauty Wakes as
Associate Musical Director,
assisting songwriters Brendan Milburn and Valerie Vigoda. Brendan also won an
Ovation for Musical Direction and Val was nominated for Lead Actress in a Musical; the show got
seven other nominations too.
Some shows for which I’ve been pianist/keyboardist in Los Angeles include
Some of the roles I have played on stage include
Other favourite shows that I would like to work on include . . .
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Wicked
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Ragtime
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Aida
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Hairspray
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Urinetown
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Beauty and the Beast
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Phantom of the Opera
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Les Misérables
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Show Boat, Gypsy, Guys & Dolls, Promises, Promises
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Dreamgirls, Billy Elliot, City of Angels, Shrek, Side Show, Jekyll & Hyde
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tick, tick . . . BOOM, Bat Boy, Fame, Violet, [title of show],
Weird Romance, john and jen, Musical of Musicals (The Musical!)
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Come From Away, Das BarbecŸ, King David, Abyssinia, Masada
Last updated: July 12, 2016
