David Loud (NYC) occupies a unique place in Broadway
history. In addition to his distinguished career as one of
Broadway’s most respected music directors and arrangers, he
originated three Broadway roles as an actor, including his
appearance in the original cast of Stephen Sondheim’s legendary
failure (and cult classic) Merrily We Roll Along, directed by
Harold Prince. In a career spanning several decades, he served as
music director for the original Broadway productions
of Ragtime, Curtains, Sondheim on Sondheim, The Visit, The
Scottsboro Boys, A Class Act, The Look of Love, and Steel
Pier, as well as revivals of She Loves Me, Company,
and Sweeney Todd. He also appeared alongside Zoe Caldwell and
Audra McDonald in Terrence McNally’s Tony-winning play, Master
Class.
The extraordinary cast of characters in his life also includes John
Kander, Fred Ebb, Angela Lansbury, Chita Rivera, Roger Rees, Marin
Mazzie, Scott Ellis, Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick, Garth Drabinsky,
and Barbara Cook, among others.
“‘Music has consequences,’ a wise teacher once told a young David
Loud; so does a story well-told and a life fully-lived. I lost
count of how many times I laughed, cried, and laugh-cried reading
this wonderful, wry, intimate, and inspiring book. David wields a
pen like he wields a baton, with perfect timing, exquisite
phrasing, and enormous heart.”
*David Hyde Pierce, actor, Frasier, Spamalot, Curtains*
“Beautifully written, filled with vivid details, braided with love
and loss and wit and the perspective of someone with an utterly
unique story to tell."
*Lynn Ahrens, lyricist, Ragtime, Once on This Island,
Anastasia*
“Luminous and surprising, an extremely honest memoir of a life
lived in the world of Broadway musicals, by one of the theatre’s
most gifted conductors. I can’t think of another book quite like
it.”
*John Kander, composer, Cabaret, Chicago, New York, New York*
"From its breath-stopping, edge-of-your-seat opening pages to its
cool summing up, David Loud's Facing the Music is more than a
first-rate memoir by a Broadway musical director (with all the
dazzle that suggests), it is a courageous and deeply moving odyssey
of self-discovery."
*John Berendt, author of "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil"*
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