Sarah Travis
Listen: THE MAGICIAN’S ELEPHANT World Premiere Recording Out Now (Feb 20, 2026)
Full Cast Set for KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN; Layton Williams Departs (Feb 5, 2026)
PADDINGTON THE MUSICAL and More Nominated For WhatsOnStage Awards (Dec 11, 2025)
BIO
Recent Orchestrator and Musical Supervisor credits include: Miss Littlewood (RSC); Sweet Charity (Watermill); An Officer And A Gentleman (UK tour); Crazy For You (Mountview); A Little Night Music (Watermill); Scrooge, Grease and Legally Blonde (Curve, Leicester); Sister Act (UK tour); The Hired Man (NYMT); Fiddler on The Roof (UK tour); The A to Z of Mrs P (Southwark Playhouse); Jungle Book (Glasgow Citizens Theatre); Dear World (Charing Cross Theatre); Chess (UK tour - Winner 2010 Touring WhatsOnStage Award); Copacabana, Spend Spend Spend (Winner 2009 Regional Theatre Award for Best Musical); Sunset Boulevard (Comedy Theatre); Martin Guerre, Hot Mikado (Watermill Theatre) and Privates On Parade (West Yorkshire Playhouse).
In 2006 she won a Tony and Drama Desk Award for her orchestrations on the Watermill Theatre Production of Sweeney Todd, which transferred to The Trafalgar Studios and Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
As Composer, credits include: The Lost Toys Big Adventure (Towner Gallery Eastbourne); Various Pantomimes (Chipping Norton); The Secret Garden (Chester); The Marriage Of Figaro (Watermill); Peter Pan (Oxford Playhouse); A Star Danced (Watermill); The Last Fattybottypuss In The World (Regent's Park); Tales My Lover Told Me (Kings Head); A Womb With A View (Radio 4) and The Challenge (The Shaw Theatre).
As Pianist: Bette Midler And Me (Edinburgh), Julian Clary, Fascinating Aida, Lily Savage, Dillie Keane, Alvin Stardust, Barb Jungr and Issy Van Randwyck.
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Awards and Nominations
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Sarah Travis, (Sweeney Todd)
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Sarah Travis, Sweeney Todd
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News
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 20, 2026
Center Stage Records has released the world premiere recording of THE MAGICIAN'S ELEPHANT, based on the acclaimed novel.
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 5, 2026
Co-producers Curve, Bristol Old Vic and Mayflower Southampton have revealed the full cast for the upcoming revival of John Kander and Fred Ebb’s musical, Kiss of the Spider Woman.
by Stephi Wild - Dec 11, 2025
Nominations have been announced for the 26th Annual WhatsOnStage Awards. The announcement of the nominations marks the opening of the final voting stage. Learn more and check out the full list here!
by Stephi Wild - Oct 13, 2025
Layton Williams and George Blagden will join the cast of John Kander and Fred Ebb’s ground-breaking musical, KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN, as prisoners Molina and Valentin.
by Stephi Wild - Sep 9, 2025
Bristol Old Vic has announced the full cast for its swashbuckling Christmas production Treasure Island: A New Musical Adventure, a new adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic Bristol-inspired tale of hidden treasure and daring deeds.
by A.A. Cristi - Aug 1, 2025
Leicester’s Curve Theatre has announced a slate of new Made at Curve productions and co-productions for 2025 and 2026, featuring a major Kander and Ebb revival, a rehearsed reading of an American classic, and a UK premiere of a hit Canadian docu-concert.
by Stephi Wild - Jun 30, 2025
Jermyn Street Theatre has announced its 2025 Autumn season. The season includes three main-stage productions, a series of one-night events, and an innovative audio theatre project. Learn more about the lineup here!
by Aliya Al-Hassan - Jun 8, 2025
Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey, an international collaboration between Glasgow-based Vanishing Point and Kanagawa Arts Theatre of Yokohama, Japan (in association with Tramway) picked up four awards at the 2025 CATS, which were presented at Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre today, Sunday June 8, 2025. The special guest presenter was leading writer, director and panto dame extraordinaire Johnny McKnight.
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 4, 2025
Compton Mackenzie‘s 1928 comic novel Extraordinary Women bursts onto the stage for the first time at Jermyn Street Theatre. See who is starring and learn how to purchase tickets.
by Stephi Wild - Jun 4, 2025
The Mediterranean island of Sirene promises paradise for the beautiful Rosalba and her lover Aurora following World War One. But when other extraordinary women arrive, the island explodes into song, dance, laughter – and tears.
by Stephi Wild - Jun 4, 2025
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre has announced the full cast for Brigadoon, book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe, in a new adaptation by Scottish playwright Rona Munro.
by Joshua Wright - May 28, 2025
The High Life musical, starring Alan Cumming, Forbes Masson, Siobhan Redmond and Patrick Ryecart, will tour Dundee, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Inverness and Glasgow in spring 2026.
by A.A. Cristi - Aug 27, 2024
The Menier Chocolate Factory has announced that Sara Crowe joins the company of Arthur Wing Pinero's The Cabinet Minister – adapted for the stage by Nancy Carroll.
by Stephi Wild - Jul 16, 2024
The Menier Chocolate Factory has announced a revival of Arthur Wing Pinero's The Cabinet Minister, in a brand-new adaptation by Nancy Carroll, who also stars as Lady Katherine Twombley.
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jul 2, 2024
The iconic musical GREASE, directed by Nikolai Foster & choreographed by Arlene Phillips, comes to Milton Keynes Theatre in August. Learn how to purchase tickets.
by Elliot Lanes - Jun 21, 2024
Recently I wrote a Broadway World feature dealing with a partial restoration of Robert Ginzler’s original orchestrations for Bye, Bye, Birdie at the Kennedy Center by conductor John Bell with additional work by Joshua Clayton. When the piece was shared on social media, it started a bigger conversation about proper credit for the original orchestrator. Robert Ginzler was somehow never acknowledged in the Kennedy Center program.
by Kat Mokrynski - Jun 17, 2024
Recently, we had the chance to speak with Cassidy Janson about taking on the three-hander show. We discussed how she first got into the world of theatre, what made her want to be a part of this production and her love for the Menier Chocolate Factory!
by Stephi Wild - May 29, 2024
The world première of brand-new musical Wild Rose, written by Nicole Taylor (One Day, Three Girls, The C Word, The Nest) and directed by John Tiffany (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Black Watch) begins its life in Scotland where the piece is set, opening The Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh in 2025 as part of the company’s new season.
by Louise Penn - May 23, 2024
Deeply mining the scores of four musicals Jerry Herman is best known for (Hello, Dolly, Mame, Mack & Mabel, La Cage Aux Folles), with a handful from others like Dear World and Parade, this will appeal to Herman devotees and musical generalists alike.
by Stephi Wild - May 10, 2024
All new rehearsal photos have been released for Jerry's Girls at Menier Chocolate Factory. Check out the photos here!
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Outstanding Orchestrations (Drama Desk Awards) for (Sweeney Todd), Special Citation (New York Drama Critics Circle Awards) for Sweeney Todd and Best Orchestrations (Tony Awards) for Sweeney Todd.
Sarah Travis has won several prestigious awards, including Outstanding Orchestrations at the Drama Desk Awards for Sweeney Todd, a Special Citation from the New York Drama Critics Circle Awards for Sweeney Todd, and Best Orchestrations at the Tony Awards for Sweeney Todd.
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