RECENT NEWS from Michael Starobin: Michael's most recent orchestration can be heard in the newly opened
"25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee", by William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin, directed by James Lapine, now on Broadway. His new score for the 135th Edition of the Ringling Bros. - Barnum and Bailey Circus is just beginning to tour the country (with lyrics by Glenn Slater.) This is the fourth circus for which he has composed songs and score for Feld Entertainment. Some of his orchestrations will also be heard in the upcoming TV version of "Once Upon a Mattress".
He is presently working on orchestrations for Williamn Finn and Vadim Feichtner's score to "As You Like It" playing this summer at the Delacorte in Central Park, and is developing a one women show with Mary Testa.
If you have the Real Audio Player,
click here to hear a NPR interview with
Michael (and Jonathan Tunick) about orchestration.
Michael has written an article for the "Sondheim Review" about his orchestrations for "Assassins".
Click here to read it. This article originally started as a blog on this site.
Recent composition work includes songs and score for the
1999, 2000, 2003 & 2005 Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey Circuses, and composing songs and score for the McCarter Theatre's production
of A Christmas Carol. Click here for a full listing of Michael's credits.
Michael Starobin is a well-known orchestrator and
arranger working on Broadway and in Hollywood. He has been the orchestrator for some of
Broadway's most innovative musicals such as Falsettos, Sunday in the Park with
George and Assassins (2004 Tony Award for Best Orchestrations). He was the conductor and orchestrator for Disney's Hunchback
of Notre Dame, and recently contributed orchestrations to Disney's The Music Man
and the movie version of Chicago.
Feel free to e-mail Michael. 
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