Steven M. Alper is a music composer, primarily for the theatre, as well as an orchestrator and author

Author

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. He wrote and orchestrated the score for the musical The Immigrant, for which he was nominated for a Drama Desk Award

Drama Desk Award

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 for Outstanding Orchestrations

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestrations

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. The production received a workshop production in New York at CAP-21

Off-Off-Broadway

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 in 2000, and, after more work, it ran off-Broadway

Off-Broadway

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 at Dodger Stages in the fall of 2004.

Alper arranged and conducted several musicals, working with the likes of Stephen Schwartz

Stephen Schwartz

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, Martin Charnin

Martin Charnin

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, Todd Rundgren

Todd Rundgren

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, Morton DaCosta

Morton DaCosta

Morton DaCosta was an American theatre and film director, film producer, writer, and actor.-Career:Born Morton Tecosky in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, DaCosta began his career as an actor in the Broadway production of Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth starring Tallulah Bankhead in 1942...

, Charles Strouse

Charles Strouse

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, and Don Scardino

Don Scardino

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. His book, entitled Next!—Auditioning for the Musical Theatre, was published by Heinemann Books in the fall of 1996.

Links

• Steven Alper at the Internet Broadway Database
  Internet Broadway Database
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• Steven Alper at the Lortel Archives
  Lortel Archives
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