Richard Carsey returns to Little House on the Prairie having conducted its world
premiere
performances at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. He has a
wide-ranging
career as conductor, pianist, arranger and actor. For eight years
he
served as the Artistic Director of the Skylight Opera Theater in Milwaukee,
conducting
over 60 productions ranging from musical theater to opera.
Highlights
include the world premiere performances and PBS broadcast of Richard
Wargo's Ballymore;
PBS broadcast of The Mikado; Floyd Collins;
Sweeney Todd; and White
Christmas. He is music director for the world premiere of
Joshua
Schmidt's A
Minister’s Wife at the Writer's
Theater in Chicago. He also premiered Harry Connick, Jr's new family musical, The
Happy Elf. As an arranger he is doing a new orchestration
for the TYA version of The Wiz in
conjunction with First Stage Children’s Theater of Milwaukee. As an actor he has appeared in 2
Pianos, 4 Hands in over a dozen
productions throughout the country, winning the Connecticut Critic's Circle Award for best touring production
for its
performances at Hartford Stage. Other tours have taken him to
South and
Central America, Eastern Europe, and
the Arab
Emirates. He is thrilled to at last explore America with the Ingall's family.
11/19/09
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