Georgia Stitt Plays El Portal June 2
By: James Sims
Composer and musical director Georgia Stitt will present the West Coast premiere of her recent CD, "This Ordinary Thursday," with a live performance at North Hollywood's El Portal Theatre on June 2.
Stitt, who worked as the vocal coach on NBC's reality series "Grease: You're the One That I Want," most recently was the musical director of It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman at Reprise! Broadway's Best Marvelous Musical Monday in Los Angeles.Joining Stitt on stage will be special friends Susan Egan (Thoroughly Modern Millie), Shoshana Bean (Wicked), Jean Louisa Kelly (Into the Woods), Adam Hunter and Dan Callaway. Also scheduled to participate in the evening are two contestants from "Grease: You're the One That I Want," Chad Doreck and Kathleen Montelone.Stitt makes her living as a composer, lyricist, musical director, conductor, arranger, and pianist. She has written several musicals for the theater, including The Water, written with Jeff Hylton and Tim Werenko, and Big Red Sun, written with John Jiler. Stitt worked as the Production Music Coordinator for the Disney/ABC TV musical "Once Upon A Mattress" starring Tracey Ullman and Carol Burnett. On Broadway she was the assistant conductor of the 2003 Little Shop of Horrors revival and was the associate conductor of the Encores! production of Can-Can starring Patti LuPone. Also on Broadway, she worked on: Avenue Q, Sweet Smell of Success, The Music Man, Titanic, Annie, and the national tour of Parade, as well as the upcoming Leap of Faith and The Little Mermaid. She has also served as musical director and arranger/orchestrator for "The Broadway Divas" in concerts in New York, California and Australia and was music consultant for the feature film "The Stepford Wives." In 2005 she served as an arranger for the Boston Pops Orchestra in their 75th Anniversary Tribute to Stephen Sondheim at Tanglewood and Boston's Symphony Hall. She has also written a number of choral pieces.
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