Feb 26, 2021
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The Best Music Podcast #8 | Meg Zervoulis — Music Director | West Side Story Revival, The Prom
You can follow her amazing career on instagram and twitter @Megzmuse
With a talent that is rivaled only by her work ethic, music director, pianist, and conductor Meg Zervoulis is the consummate music professional. She brings reliability, and consistent, high-quality work wherever she goes, as Music Director on Broadway at THE PROM, associate music director at MEAN GIRLS, and associate music director at WEST SIDE STORY. Her work for film and television includes working on The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt as Choral Director for selected episodes.
0:00 Intro
1:00 What is a music director?
3:02 Muisc theater vocabulary
4:47 The Prom on Broadway
6:15 How a show gets to Broadway
25:20 Boadway Cast recording
28:50 Click tracks and Ableton Live on Broadway
34:19 Mean Girls on Broadway
36:05 West Side Story Revival on Broadway
37:40 What is a sub musician?
39:40 Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
43:01 Working with Sondheim
45:17 Lifestyle: Show day
50:08 Lifestyle: Sleep
51:20 Lifestyle: Mindfulness and Meditation
53:00 Lifestyle: Support system
55:53 Lifestyle: Does the personality find the career?
58:50 Practice: Time of day?
1:01:50 Practice: Segmentation of practice time?
1:02:40 Practice: Maximum effective duration?
1:03:30 Practice: Maximum duration?
1:04:04 Practice: How do you divide practice time?
1:05:40 Practice: Sight reading (LOOK MOM, I CAN SEE THE FUTURE)
1:12:04 Practice: Injury?
1:14:14 Performance anxiety
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Logo, Intro Video, and Branding: Arron Leishman
Audio and Video: Zach Ramey zacherylramey@gmail.com
Video Thumbnail: Jean Tomasulo https://www.behance.net/jeantomasulo
Dan's Thumbnail Photo: John Mollura Photography