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YMTC offers a pre-show talk about the music of Frank Loesser before today's 2pm Matinee of "The Most Happy Fella" at EC High.
Resident Music Director David Möschler will speak at 1pm in the lobby
YMTC's resident music director David Möschler will speak on the music of Frank Loesser (composer of the musical "Guys and Dolls") before the Sunday, July 23 2pm matinee this afternoon of "The Most Happy Fella" at the Performing Arts Theater at El Cerrito High School.
David Möschler is an award-winning San Francisco Bay Area-based musical director and conductor. He has music-directed over one hundred musical theater, opera, and theater productions, and conducted over eighty pieces for orchestra, including over two dozen first performances. Recent regional theater productions include musical direction for Berkeley Repertory Theatre, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Shotgun Players, Center REPertory Theatre, Ray of Light Theatre, Boxcar Theatre, Erika Chong Shuch Performance Project, among many others, as well serving on the conducting staff of Cape Cod’s College Light Opera Company for six consecutive summers. He is the recipient of two Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards, and won second place in 2012 for The American Prize in Music for the YMTC production of "Ragtime".
"The Most Happy Fella" opened Friday, July 21 to a standing ovation, and will play for one more weekend, July 28-30 at the El Cerrito High School Performing Arts Theater (540 Ashbury Avenue, El Cerrito). Möschler conducts a live, full 30 piece orchestra for the production. More information and tickets can be found at http://ymtcbayarea.org
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Tickets are also available at the box office one hour before each performance.
ABOUT YMTC: YMTC is dedicated to providing exceptional training to young theater artists through the production of exceptional musical theater. The organization brings together the Bay Area’s most talented and dedicated young singer/actors—as well as students of technical theater—with professional directors, designers, and musicians. They take on challenging and sophisticated musical and dramatic themes, and productions are always accompanied by a full, live orchestra.