Michael Starobin

Michael Starobin is an orchestrator, arranger, and Musical Director, primarily for the stage and television.

Career

The first Broadway musical that Starobin provided the orchestrations for was Sunday in the Park with George in 1984, for which he won the 1984 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestration. He has done the orchestrations for 21 Broadway musicals, 2 special concerts, including the benefit concert of Sunday in the Park with George, and was the Musical Director for The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1985).

He has also provided orchestrations, or been the Musical Director, for many off-Broadway musicals. He did the orchestrations for several works by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, such as Once on This Island (1990), as well as William Finn, including In Trousers (1985), Falsettoland (1990) (Musical Director), and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (2005).

He did the orchestrations for Next to Normal (2009), for which he won the Tony Award for Best Orchestrations.

Starobin provided orchestrations for the television movie musicals Once Upon a Mattress (2005) and A Christmas Carol (2004), among others.

Work (selected)

Stage

• La Boheme, Public Theatre, (1984) - 1985 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Orchestration (nominee)
• 3 Guys Naked From the Waist Down (1985) - 1985 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Orchestration (nominee)
• Rags (1986) - Drama Desk Award Outstanding Orchestration (nominee)
• Birds of Paradise (1987) - Drama Desk Award Outstanding Orchestration (nominee)
• My Favorite Year (1992) - Drama Desk Award Outstanding Orchestrations (nominee)
• A New Brain (1999) - Drama Desk Award Outstanding Orchestrations (nominee)
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (2001) - Drama Desk Award Outstanding Orchestrations (nominee)
• Assassins - Tony Award Best Orchestrations (winner); Drama Desk Award Outstanding Orchestrations (nominee)
• The Glorious Ones (2007) - Drama Desk Award Outstanding Orchestrations (nominee)
• Next to Normal (2009) - Tony Award Best Orchestrations (winner)

Television

• Cinderella (1997), song arranger
• Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997), additional orchestrator
• South Pacific (2001) song orchestrator

Film

• The Little Mermaid (1989), additional orchestrator
• Beauty and the Beast (1991), additional orchestrator
• Aladdin (1992), additional orchestrator
• Pocahontas (1995), additional orchestrator
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), orchestrator
• Hercules (1997), additional orchestrator

External links

• Internet Broadway Database listing
• Internet Movie Database listing
• Internet Off-Broadway Database listing
• Official Site
• Biography at sondheimguide.com

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