Recent and Upcoming Projects
In the Recording Studio:
Once Upon A Matress
The OUAM cast album is being recorded Jan 11 and 12 in NYC!
Album release details coming soon...
Coming Up:
Urinetown by Mark Hollman and Greg Kotis
(ENCORES series, 2025) (Director: Teddy Bergman)
New expanded orchestration!
(Adam Guettel/Tina Landau) (Broadway -- Spring, 2025)
(Ricky Ian Gordon/Lynn Nottage and Ruby Gerber) (Opera Theatre of St Louis) (co-orchestation with the composer) (June, 2025)
by Michael John LaChiusa
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:
Once Upon A Mattress
The LA tour of the 2024 Broadway production starring Sutton Foster, Michael Urie and Ana Gasteyer and directed by Lear deBessonet ended its limited run on Jan 5.
How to Dance in Ohio
(Rebekah Greer Melocik, Jacob Yandura; Sammi Cannold, dir.) (P3 Productions) (Belasco Theater, Broadway - Closed Feb 11).
Knoxville (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.
(Strayhorn/Ellington, Zellers, Gash; Kent Gash, dir.) (starring Darius de Haas) (Pittsburgh Public Theater).
A 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 (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)