When you’re a musical theatre student, it’s not every day you get to meet a world-famous musical director, but that’s exactly what happened for some of our students recently! On 18 June, internationally acclaimed music director Mark Dorrell ran a workshop for the Into the Woods cast.
Here’s a quick snapshot of Mark Dorrell’s stellar career to date:
- Current Musical Director of the Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra in A Night of Sondheim
- Head of the Royal National Theatre in London for 10 years
- musical director for Oklahoma! with Hugh Jackman
- worked with Dame Judi Dench on A Little Night Music,
- worked with Sir Ian McKellen on Peter Pan.
- worked with Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes, as musical director of Assassins at the Donmar Warehouse
- Musical Director on the original West End production of Into the Woods.
Mark worked with the students on both characters and songs, and he shared tales from his extraordinary experiences on Broadway and in the West End.
What lucky students!
A huge thanks to Mark and to the students who attended.
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