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Photo Coverage: Under-Exposed Featuring the Music of Ben Cohn and Sean McDaniel

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The first edition of UNDER-EXPOSED, a new series devoting to exposing audiences to the "next generation of musical writers" featured its first pair - Ben Cohn, and Sean McDaniel Sunday night, July 25th at Opia.

Ben Cohn & Sean McDaniel graduated from NYU's Musical Theatre Writing Program since then each have been found in Broadway orchestras of Wicked, Aida, Rent, Lion King, The Producers, Wonderful Town and Fiddler on the Roof.

As a writing team, they are currently developing Project Bluebook with producer Andrew Kato (Dreamgirls and Funny Girl in concerts) Owl Creek and Standing Here with David Halstead and Jamibeth Margolis.


 


Producer David Leidholdt


Lucy Vance, Lucy Sorensen and Bridget Crawford


Michael Sinclair


Lucy Vance and
D.B. Bonds (Les Miserables, The Last 5 Years, Scarlet Pimpernel)


Jan Neuberger


Lucy Sorensen


Robert DuSold (Les Miserables, The Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Jekyll & Hyde), and Lucy Sorensen


The whole company including composers Sean McDaniel (left) and Ben Cohn (right)

 

Theater Fans' Choice Awards
2026 Theater Fans' Choice Awards - Live Stats
Best Lead Performer in a Musical - Top 3
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20.4% of votes
2. Joshua Henry - Ragtime
16% of votes
3. Sam Tutty - Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)
9.7% of votes

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