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Dealing With Your Choreographer
Appropriate and Inappropriate Material
Knowing The Boundaries of Your Job
How To Be A Good Musical Theatre Pianist
Building Professional Connections
2011 Summer Reading Recommendations
Ripped From The Headlines: Lessons You Can Learn From School Shows In The News
Planning and Preparation
Getting Your Contract Squared Away
Planning and Running Auditions, Part I
Planning and Running Auditions, Part II
How To Audition for A School Musical When You Have No Talent
Contracting Your Pit Orchestra
And Speaking Of Pit Orchestras
Greatest Woodwind Doubling Site Out There
When You Are Not The Pit Director
Planning and Running a Rehearsal
Classical/Broadway/Choral Vocal Technique
The Discouraging/Encouraging Speech
Dealing With Outsized Personalities
Tales From The Pit
Cool Interview With A West End Pit Musician
Interview with a Broadway Pit Pianist
Interview with Trumpeter Carey Deadman
Interview with a Broadway Music Director
John Miller on Getting into New York Pit Playing
Conducting the Pit With a Baton/Your Hands
Conducting the Pit From the Piano
Live Musicians/Prerecorded Accompaniment
Tech Week
Tech Week if You’re the Music Director but Not the Pit Director
Production Up And Running
Rough Guides For The M.D.
A Christmas Carol (Menken and Ahrens)
Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Gondoliers
Gilbert and Sullivan’s H.M.S. Pinafore
Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe
The Light In The Piazza Part I
The Light In The Piazza Part II
Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience
Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance
Gilbert and Sullivan’s Ruddigore
Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Sorcerer
Sunday in the Park With George Part I
Sunday In the Park with George Part II
Gilbert and Sullivan’s Trial By Jury
Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Yeomen of the Guard
Musical Theatre
Three Times Sondheim Changed My Life
Top 10 Christmas Songs From Musicals
Hail To The Chief: Top 21 Presidents in Musicals
Lyricists: It’s time to retire “At All”
Analysis of “Far From The Home I Love
A Fun Thing I Found In Wicked The Musical
Tips to Avoid the Mind Games People Play At Auditions
An Analysis of Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
The Original (American) Cast of The Pirates of Penzance
Pirates Of Penzance Backstage Remarks
How Did They Do School Shows Back In The Day?
Polyrhythm, Musical Theatre, and Hamilton
Broadway Time Capsule
Interviews:
Matthew Cloran, Philadelphia Cappies
External Links:
Playbill Article about Formative Musical Experiences
Dramatics Magazine’s 2009-2010 Play Survey
A Great Article About Vocal Resonance
Choreographing People Who Can’t Dance Well
Joe Deer On Directing A Chorus In A Musical
Getting A New Theatre Built At Your School
A Great Article About Resonance
A Great Post On Breath from Judylee Vivier
Passing Along 7 Reasons Why Theatre Makes Our Lives Better
Music Directing the School Musical 
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