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Recent and Upcoming Projects

Coming Up:

Urinetown logoUrinetown
by Mark Hollman and Greg Kotis
(ENCORES series, 2025) (Director: Teddy Bergman)
New expanded orchestration!
Floyd Collins
(Adam Guettel/Tina Landau) (Broadway -- Spring, 2025)
This House (opera)
(Ricky Ian Gordon/Lynn Nottage and Ruby Gerber) (Opera Theatre of St Louis) (co-orchestation with the composer) (June, 2025)
American Eclipse
by Michael John LaChiusa

Now Playing:

Once Upon A Matress logo
Once Upon A Mattress
Now in LA -- at the Ahmanson Theatre through Jan 5!!

(starring Sutton Foster, Michael Urie and Ana Gasteyer)
(Director: Lear deBessonet)
AnnieLive logoAnnie Live!
The beloved musical originally aired on NBC starring Celina Smith, Harry Connick Jr, Nicole Scherzinger, and Tituss Burgess. Now streaming on various platforms! Happy to be a part of an amazing orchestration team with Lynne Shankel, Brian Usifer and Stephen Oremus (not to mention Phil Lang!).
Sense and Sensibility logo
Sense and Sensibility
(Peter Gordon. Orchestrations: Hochman/Coughlin)
(Check it out at streamingmusicals.com!)
S&M2 logo Metallica and The San Francisco Symphony The film version of S&M2 is now streaming (on all the usual platforms)! Also available on Blue-ray and DVD wherever DVDs are sold.

Recent:

How to Dance in Ohio logo
How to Dance in Ohio
(Rebekah Greer Melocik, Jacob Yandura; Sammi Cannold, dir.) (P3 Productions) (Belasco Theater, Broadway - Closed Feb 11).
Knoxville logoKnoxville
(Stephen Flaherty/Lynn Ahrens/Frank Galati) (Knoxville, TN - Summer 2024).
With Jason Daniely, Hannah Elless, Chris Hoch.
Based on James Agee's A Death in the Family.
Billy Strayhorn: Something to Live For
(Strayhorn/Ellington, Zellers, Gash; Kent Gash, dir.) (starring Darius de Haas) (Pittsburgh Public Theater).
Man of No Importance logoA Man of No Importance
(Stephen Flaherty/Lynn Ahrens/Terrence McNally) (Classic Stage Company). Directed by John Doyle. Starring Jim Parsons, Mare Winningham, AJ Shively, Shereen Ahmed.

More press quotes:

Assassins logo Assassins (Stephen Sondheim; Jamie Lloyd, dir.) (Starring Aaron Tveit and Catherine Tate) (At the Chocolate Factory, London)

"...this superlatively acted production is as thrilling as it is bone-rattling... As nimbly orchestrated by Bruce Coughlin for an eight-piece orchestra, under the lucid musical direction of Alan Williams, it unfurls like a tattered flag rippling in an icy wind." (Isherwood, NY Times)

UrinetownLondon logo Urinetown (West End, London) (first-ever UK production, with expanded orchestration. Directed by Jamie Lloyd. At the Apollo)

"...even better than the Broadway production I saw back in 2001 - it’s sharp, smart, funny and disturbing." "...darkly entertaining and exceptionally sharp show." Charles Spencer, The Telegraph (London)

27 Opera logo 27 -- An opera in 5 Acts
Ricky Ian Gordon (composer), Royce Vavrek (libretto) Opera Theater of St Louis

"A Hit is a Hit is a Hit"... a "superlative world premiere"... "taut, witty and affecting" (Opera Today)

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