Musical Theatre | Guest Artist Class Artist
David Chase has been Music Director, Supervisor and Music Arranger for forty Broadway productions. Currently: his revivals include The Music Man (with Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster) and 1776 (currently at the American Repertory Theatre, and heading to Broadway in the fall). West End shows include the dance music for the Donmar productions of Guys and Dolls and Evita, and a new version of Beauty and the Beast. Chase has done many arrangements for the Boston Pops and Tanglewood Festival Chorus (including their signature Twelve Days of Christmas), The Kennedy Center Honors, Radio City Music Hall (where he served several years as Music Director), Essential Voices USA (including the upcoming choral cycle Washington Women, which will be featured this summer in an NPR Tiny Desk concert), and for TV’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. He was Music Director for several productions at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Music Arranger for NBC’s live performances of The Sound of Music and Peter Pan, both of which received Emmy nominations, and Apple TV’s Schmigadoon!. He was nominated for a Grammy with the cast album of Nice Work if You Can Get It, and has had Choral works published by Hal Leonard. Chase is dedicated to sharing his knowledge about the history of music for dance, and in particular celebrating the great 20th-Century Broadway dance arrangers, especially Peter Howard, Genevieve Pitot and Trude Rittman. David lives in New York City with his wife, actress and Drama Desk Award nominee, Paula Leggett Chase, and their two sons, Kyler and Dashiell. Musical training: Biology degree from Harvard.