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Brad Alexander composes music for television and musical theater, whose notable works include the music for  See Rock City & Other Destinations, which won the 2011 Drama Desk Award, Richard Rodgers Award and BMI Foundation’s Jerry Bock Award, and more recently served as lead composer for the PBS/Amazon animated series, Clifford The Big Red Dog.

Here’s Skyler Astin and Robb Sapp singing one of Brad’s See Rock City songs in a 2008 performance at Birdland.

I remember seeing and hearing Brad as a piano whiz as early as the second grade, as we were elementary-school classmates and friends growing up in small-town Connecticut.

We had a great time catching up on how his career went from the Berkshire Theatre Festival to ad agency music producing, working in piano bars both as a soloist and as a dueling pianist — eventually owning his own business, The Flying Ivories. His other staged works and collaborations include Click, Clack, Moo, We The People: America Rocks!, the Emmy-winning PBS series, Peg + Cat, and he wrote the music for Dog Man: The Musical, which is currently on tour across North America. We spoke about all of that, plus the work he’s currently engaged in adapting the film Bread & Roses, into a stage musical with his wife, actress/singer/writer Jill Abramovitz, who’s on standby for the cast of the new all-star Broadway production, All In.

Here’s Jessica Vosk performing one of their Bread & Roses tunes back in a 2016 workshop:

There’s definitely a lot to get to, so let’s get to it!

And just for fun, here’s a musical promo Brad wrote for VH1 during their “Celebreality” phase at the end of the 2000s.

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