Sarah Travis | British Youth Music Theatre

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Sarah Travis

Sarah is a Tony Award winning Orchestrator, Composer, Musical Director and Pianist.

Most recently, Sarah has Orchestrated and Musical Supervised ‘Fiddler On the Roof’, a UK Tour, directed by Craig Revel Horwood.

Other recent shows as Orchestrator include: ’The A to Z Of Mrs P’ (Southwark Playhouse), ’Jungle Book’ (Glasgow Citizens) and ’Dear World’ (Charing Cross Theatre).

Other shows as Orchestrator and Musical Supervisor include ‘Chess’ (UK Tour), ’Sunset Boulevard’ (Comedy Theatre) ’Spend Spend Spend’, ’Copacabana’, ’Martin Guerre’, ‘Hot Mikado’, ‘Ten Cents A Dance’ and ‘Carmen’, (all at The Watermill Theatre), ‘Mack And Mabel’ (Criterion), ’Gondoliers’ (Apollo Shaftesbury Ave).

She won a Tony and Drama Desk Award for her Orchestrations on 2005/6 Production of ‘Sweeney Todd’.

Other Musical Director Credits: ‘Anything Can Happen’ (Stiles and Drewe Workshop, St James Theatre), ‘A Song Cycle For Soho’ (Soho Theatre), ’Greeks At the Gate (Gate Theatre), ’Sunnyside Of The Street’ and ‘Dottie Lottie’ (Jermyn Street).

She has recently composed music for ‘The Secret Garden’ (Chester Performs), and has composed for many Pantomimes at Chipping Norton Theatre, ‘A Star Danced’ (Watermill),’Tales My Lover Told Me’ (Kings Head),’The Marriage Of Figaro’ (Watermill),  ‘The Last Fattybottypuss In The World’ (Regents Park), ’Peter Pan’ (Oxford Playhouse).

As pianist, she has worked with Julian Clary, Lily Savage, Fascinating Aida, Issy Van Ranwyck, Dillie Keane, Barb Jungr, Alvin Stardust, and The Drop Dead Divas.