2023 Honoree

Larry Lees '97

Orchestrator/Conductor/Lyricist/Arranger

Assasins (2022): Musical Supervisor, Co-Recording Producer for the full orchestra recording of the Sondheim musical in conjunction with The MT Pit, Salt Lake City, UT

The Summer Club (2014 - 2022): An original cabaret nightclub show featuring a 17-piece band
Various venues in or near Philadelphia, Atlantic City and New Orleans.

Company (2020): Musical Supervisor, Co-Recording Producer for the full orchestra recording of the Sondheim musical in conjunction with The MT Pit, Salt Lake City, UT

City of Angels (2019): 11th Hour Theatre Company, Suzanne Roberts Theatre, Philadelphia, PA

Celebrating Sondheim (2019): Broadcast on PBS “Live from Lincoln Center”

Nothing But Nonsense (2019): Circus World Museum, Baraboo, WI

Cirque d’Hiver (2018): Paris, France

Into The Woods (2018): Instrumental recording with Grammy and Academy Award winning record-producer Dan Rudin

West Side Story (2017): Instrumental recording with Grammy and Academy Award winning record-producer Dan Rudin

The Secret Garden (2016): The Arden Theatre Company, Philadelphia, PA

Into The Woods (2015): Instrumental Recording, Theater Horizon, Norristown, PA

Master Storyteller Award: Stephen Sondheim (2015): Arden Theater Company, Philadelphia, PA

Carole Bufford’s cabaret hit “Speak Easy” (2012): Featuring the Grammy Award-winning Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks. At several NYC venues, including 54 Below and The Metropolitan Room

Sweeney Todd (2012): Instrumental recording with Grammy and Academy Award winning record-producer Dan Rudin

We Tell the Story: The Songs of the Ahrens and Flaherty (2007)
Off-Broadway, Lucille Lortel Theater, New York, NY

Original Musicals

Wonder Pig (2011) Workshop production, New York, NY

16 Days (2010) Studio Cast Recording produced in Nashville, TN and New York, NY

Jonestown (2004)
New York International Fringe Festival at Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University

Original Opera

Obesa Cantavit (2011): The True Tale of a Music Legend and the Sandwich Who Loved Her
Metropolis Opera Projects, Medicine Show Theatre, New York, NY

Original Incidental Music

Circus Vargus (2011 - 2022)

The Magic of Mrs. Crowling (Score nominated for 2007 Innovative Theater Award nomination)

The Blood Brothers Present …. “An Evening of Grand Guignol” (2006)

The Colonel’s Holiday (2005)

The Birth, Adoption and Death of Dorothy Dutchess (2003) 

Original Scores/Resident Composer/Contributing Composer

Venardos Circus Productions (2013 - 2020)

Chuck Cooper’s “The Blues of Langston Hughes” (2014)

Original Songs (2014): Composed for a well-known theme park that can’t be named!

The World Christmas Circus (2019): original songs and materia

Performer

Grey Gardens (2018), “George Gould Strong (1941)”
The Proscenium Theater at The Drake, Philadelphia, PA

Broadcast (2017), “Marconi”
The Proscenium Theater at The Drake, Philadelphia, PA

A New Brain (2016), “Dr. Jafar Berernstein”
Theatre Horizon, Norristown, PA

Pirates of Penzance (2016), Major General Stanley
Randall Theater at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

1776 (2016), “Richard Henry Lee”
The Media Theatre for the Performing Arts, Media, PA

The Kiss of The Spider Woman (2015), “The Warden”
11th Hour Theatre Company, Philadelphia, PA

Big Fish (2016), “The Giant”
11th Hour Theatre Company, Philadelphia, PA

Passion (2015), “Lt. Torasso”
Arden Theatre Company F. Otto Haas Stage, Philadelphia, PA

A New Brain (2015)
11th Hour Theatre Company, Skybox at The Adrienne, Philadelphia, PA

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2018), “Lawrence”
The Candlelight Theatre, Wilmington, DE

PROFESSIONAL

Music Theater International, New York, NY, 2003 - 2022 
Director of Music & Materials, Music & Materials Development Supervisor / Concert Library Representative

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Adjunct Professor, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 2018-2019
Taught classes in Musical Theatre History and Musical Theatre Scene Study

Guest Professor, University of the Arts, Philadelpia, PA 2016-2018
Occasional substitute and/or “guest” professor for classes in Music Theory (for performance majors).

Private Instructor, various locations in MI, NY, and PA 1999-2020
One-on-one instruction in various disciplines, including Piano, Voice, Music Theory, and Orchestration

EDUCATION

University Liggett School, Class of 1997

• 1994: Little Shop of Horrors, Upper School Band, The Knights, The Players
• 1995: Once Upon a Mattress, SummerTree, Upper School Band, The Knights, The Players
• 1996: Radio Daze, Charley’s Aunt, Into the Woods (International Thespian Festival), Nunsense, Upper School Band, The Knights, The Players
• 1997: Bye Bye Birdie, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Beast of the Moon (International Thespian Festival), Upper School Band, The Knights, The Players, Yearbook

Ithaca College, Class of 2001
B.S. Musical Theatre / Composition (cum laude)

Music Theater International, New York, NY, 2003 - 2022 
Director of Music & Materials, Music & Materials Development Supervisor / Concert Library Representative