Marc Bruni is one of the world’s greatest musical stage directors - on Broadway, London’s West End, South Korea, Australia and everywhere else. Here’s all you need to know. He directed the Tony, Grammy, Drama League and Olivier Award-winning show “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical”, about the life and career of the extraordinary Carole King. He’s also the director of the current Broadway hit - “The Great Gatsby”. And he’s got a slew of other credits too including “Billie Jean”, “Bull Durham”, “Guys and Dolls”, “Bye Bye Birdie”, “The Music Man” and too many more to mention.
My featured song is “Stockbridge Fanfare”, from the album East Side Sessions by my band Project Grand Slam. Spotify link.
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BROADWAY FEST
- Beautiful — Carole King Tony Awards clip (24:48) — Carole King speaking about first seeing Beautiful, leaving the reading, and finally loving it; Jessie Mueller playing "the girl I was then"
- The Great Gatsby — (26:57)
- Guys and Dolls — "Luck Be a Lady" (31:24) — Kennedy Center production clip
- Billie Jean — trailer clip (33:49) — trailer dialogue for the Billie Jean King bio-play, Chicago Shakespeare Theater production
DISCUSSION SEGMENTS:
- (4:17) Carole King's privacy and how Beautiful began — Paul Blake/Sony development, book writer Doug McGrath
- (10:22) Finding a home for "You've Got a Friend" in Beautiful — cut after the San Francisco run, restored in New York once the California farewell scene gave it emotional weight
- (18:57) Beautiful abroad — the Japanese-language production with two Carole Kings, and the Korean Gatsby production performed in English with supertitles
- (21:19) Marc's background — child performer, a New Jersey high school staging Sondheim instead of the usual titles, Dartmouth, nearly law school, and discovering directing in college
- (30:18) Broadway as a game of real estate — theatres booked years ahead, and Gatsby's grand set fitting only a handful of theatres
- (36:04) What's next — a new musical, Ice Boy, in Chicago starring Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman, about how Eugene O'Neill came to write The Iceman Cometh
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ROBERT'S MOST RECENT SINGLE:
“THE BUZZ” - Ft. Darius de Haas (vocals) and Dave Eggar (Cello). "Short, Sweet and Totally Different"
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ROBERT''S LATEST RELEASE:
"MA PETITE FLEUR STRING QUARTET"
“Nine minutes of genuinely enjoyable chamber music-making: thoughtful, expressive, beautifully played and full of personality!” (Broadway World)
"Robert Miller's "Ma Petite Fleur String Quartet” is a true musical treasure in the string quartet repertoire. Beautifully performed!”. (GRAMMY® nominee cellist Tess Remy-Schumacher)
“I love it! Such an amazing work!” (Award Winning Pianist, GRAMMY® U Mentor, Vivian Fang Liu)
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Audio production:
Jimmy Ravenscroft
Kymera Films
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