Franklin Brasz

Second season: Musical director of Kiss Me, Kate and associate musical director of Evita. Stratford: Musical director of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Elsewhere: Musical director for The Lion King (Toronto, U.S. tour), Ragtime (original company) and Show Boat (U.S. tour). In Toronto, associate musical director for The Sound of Music, The Lord of the Rings, The Lion King, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, Hairspray, Mamma Mia! Conductor for Soulpepper’s The Threepenny Opera and the Shaw Festival’s Hotel Peccadillo. Keyboards for The Canadian Tenors, Measha Brueggergosman, New Line Cinema’s Hairspray, the Shaw Festival’s Mack and Mabel, Toronto productions of Wicked, The Producers, Cabaret, Show Boat and Annie Get Your Gun at Massey Hall, Illinois and Dorian Opera Theatres, Pine Mountain Music Festival, American Boychoir School. Training: MM in vocal coaching and accompanying, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.