Edward Strauss...

Edward Strauss is a Musical Director, Conductor, vocal coach and teacher with over thirty years experience in the professional New York Theatre. His most recent credit is as Musical Director and Supervisor for the Broadway and touring versions of Tony award winning "Urinetown". He was musical director for the Tony Award winning revivals of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" (with Nathan Lane and later Whoopi Goldberg), "Guys and Dolls" (with Nathan Lane and Faith Prince), and Lincoln Centers "Anything Goes" (with Patti LuPone). He conducted the Broadway productions of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood", "Evita", "Very Good Eddie!", "Baby" and "The Me Nobody Knows". He served as Assistant Conductor for the National and International Companies of the original "A Chorus Line". He was also pit pianist for many musicals including Stephen Sondheims "Merrily We Roll Along" and the original "Pippin". Concurrent with his work on Broadway he is known as a vocal coach for prominent New York actors and has been teaching audition and musical theatre skills for ten years.