{"id":14612,"date":"2021-08-28T17:56:58","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T17:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/?p=14612"},"modified":"2022-10-29T10:53:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T10:53:31","slug":"matthew-martin-ward-composer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/?p=14612","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Martin Ward \u2022 Composer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>MATTHEW MARTIN WARD<\/b> has appeared on the band car at Radio City Music Hall for the Christmas Pageant, playing Tchaikowsky for an ursine ballerina. Broadway shows include <i>Avenue Q<\/i>, <i>Tarzan<\/i>, <i>La Cage Aux Folles<\/i>, <i>Urinetown<\/i>, <i>Tommy<\/i>, <i>State Fair,<\/i> and <i>Blood Brothers<\/i>. He was MD for two editions of <i>Forbidden Broadway\u2026 Strikes Back<\/i> and<i> Cleans Up its Act<\/i>. (DRG records). Off-B\u2019Way: <i>Whoop-Dee-Doo<\/i> (RCA records), <i>Nunsense<\/i> and <i>Ruthless<\/i>. A MAC Award winner, he is the composer of <i>After the Fair<\/i>, (book &amp; lyrics Stephen Cole) which has been produced in New York (Outer Critic\u2019s Circle nom.) Dallas, London, Chicago, Seattle and more. <i>Casper<\/i> (w\/Cole) about the ghost, toured with the legendary Chita Rivera as star. His musical The <i>Lady in Penthouse B<\/i>, (book &amp; lyrics by Peter Napolitano) was presented at the York Theatre in a production starring Nancy Dussault. His musical <i>Merlin\u2019s Apprentice<\/i>, (with Stephen Cole and Susan Kim), settled in for a healthy run at the Walden Family Playhouse in Denver. As an actor and composer, he is known for <i>El Grande de Corona <\/i>(2020) and <i>Banana Man: Samuel Beckett<\/i> and <i>Buster Keaton Make Film<\/i> (2014)<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>MUSICALS AUTHORED:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/?p=14545\"><strong>MERLIN&#8217;S APPRENTICE<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/?p=14833\"><strong>Merlin&#8217;s Apprentice Cast Album CD<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>After The Fair<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Casper: The Friendly Musical<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Lady In Penthouse B<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MATTHEW MARTIN WARD has appeared on the band car at Radio City Music Hall for the Christmas Pageant, playing Tchaikowsky for an<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt \" href=\"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/?p=14612\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[708],"tags":[792],"class_list":["post-14612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-author-creator","tag-new-york-author-creators"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Ward-MatthewMartin-photo-by-Kevin-Alvey-Broadway-World.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6fXeh-3NG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14612"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15274,"href":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14612\/revisions\/15274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leicesterbaytheatricals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}