Stephen Purdy

Stephen Purdy (born 1970 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi) is a musician and author known as the writer of books on Flop Broadway Musicals and a book on theatrical song performance called "Musical Theatre Song: A Comprehensive Course." Bloomsbury published the latter in 2016 and Routledge the former in 2020 under the title "Flop Musicals of The Twenty First Century: How They Happened When They Happened (and what we've learned.)" Future volumes of the "Flop Musicals" series have been promised.
Stephen Purdy is a vocal and performance coach for Broadway and West End actors and his biography states that he "regularly delivers master classes at arts institutions around the globe." He is also a conductor and pianist for Broadway shows and touring companies having served as musical conductor for (among others) Cathy Rigby in "Peter Pan" off-Broadways "The Fantasticks" and "Frankenstein" and several touring productions. Before working on Broadway and in the literary and education fields, Purdy worked as a Wall Street broker.
Purdy studied vocal performance and piano at the University of Mississippi and Vocal Pedagogy at Westminster Choir College
He is on the Voice and Musical Theatre Faculty at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City

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