Recent and Upcoming Projects
Coming Up:
Iceboy! (or the Completely Untrue Story of How Eugene O'Neill Came to Write The Iceman Cometh) by Hollmann, Reiss and Purcell; directed by Marc Bruni
Goodman Theatre (Summer 2026)
Now Playing:
Annie 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
(Peter Gordon. Orchestrations: Hochman/Coughlin)
(Check it out at streamingmusicals.com!)
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:
The Wild Party by Michael John LaChiusa at City Center ENCORES! (March, 2026)
Time For Three (with the Boston Pops)
I orchestrated their new song "This Life" for the concert.
I orchestrated their new song "This Life" for the concert.
Floyd Collins (Adam Guettel/Tina Landau) (Lincoln Center Theater - Broadway)
Urinetown by Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis
(ENCORES! series) (Director: Teddy Bergman)
New expanded orchestration!
Once Upon A Mattress
(Broadway and LA tour, 2024) (Starring Sutton Foster, Michael Urie and Ana Gasteyer and directed by Lear deBessonet).
How to Dance in Ohio
(Rebekah Greer Melocik, Jacob Yandura; Sammi Cannold, dir.) (P3 Productions) (Belasco Theater, Broadway).
More press quotes:
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)
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 -- 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)