GREASE The Musical Creative Team Larry Wilcox

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Orchestrations

Larry Wilcox orchestrated over 30 Broadway shows, contributing to the original Broadway productions of Funny Girl, Sweet Charity, Walking Happy, Grease, Seesaw, A Chorus Line, Nine, Aspects of Love, and Tony award-winner The Will Rogers Follies.

He orchestrated both the London and New York versions of Singin’ in the Rain, the original London productions of Peg, Ziegfeld and the Royal Shakespeare Company’s The Wizard of Oz, and BBC Television’s production of Gillian Lynne’s The Look of Love and, most recently, the1993 Children’s Royal Variety Performance.

He arranged and conducted recordings for the Boston Pops, the Milwaukee Symphony, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, as well as the reconstructions of Nymph Errant in concert, Strike Up the Band, Lady Be Good, and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra’s The Gershwins in Hollywood, and Michael Crawford Sings the Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber. In his full and varied career he scored nightclub acts, concerts and recordings for Judy Garland, Liza Minnelli, Ann- Margret, Shirley MacLaine, Tony Bennett, Michael Feinstein, Connie Francis, Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight, Paul Simon, Tommy Tune, Dionne Warwick and Jimmy Rosselli. Most recently he contributed orchestrations to The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, for both Sarah Brightman and Michael Crawford.

Larry passed away in the autumn of 1993. Grease is a lasting tribute to a warm and witty man, whose passing is a great loss to his loving family but also to the world of musical theatre.