MUSE • Musicians United for Social Equity

Biography

George H Croom has worked as a director, music director and actor in the tri-state area for over 30 years.  He has directed regional productions of Mean Girls, Company, Blood Brothers, Bonnie and Clyde, Merrily We Roll Along, Sweeney Todd, 9 To 5, Damn Yankees, Side by Side by Sondheim, The Odd Couple, On the Twentieth Century, The Woods, Me and My Girl, You Can’t Take It with You, Into the Woods, Spamalot, Something Rotten, The Last Five Years and Assassins.  As a music director his most recent shows include Bright Star, Groundhog Day, Miss Saigon, Ragtime, Nine, Kiss of The Spiderwoman, A Little Night Music, Urinetown, 42^nd Street, Cabaret, Personals, The Pirates of Penzance, City of Angels, Songs for a New World, and West Side Story.  As an actor, his credits include national tours of Evita, Purlieand Godspell; off-Broadway in Celebration, Sweethearts and The Wind In The Willows; regional credits include Cats, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (regional premiere), Swing!, As You Like It, Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Exonerated, La Cage Aux Folles, Bat Boy, Children Of Eden and The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare (abridged).  He was music director for the NY premiere of The Scarlet Letter and Shakedown Street (also arrangements) and the European premiere of Myths and Hymns, has written incidental music for regional and Off-Broadway productions of Twelfth Night, Suicide in Bb and Moby Dick (premiere with the Quinapolis Theater Company).  He has also written several children’s musicals based on Moliere plays for Shawnee Playhouse and is currently working on an adaptation of the movie M, and an adaptation of The Object of My Affection.  George is principally a pianist and singer; he is also an arranger and orchestrator and composer.  Skills include sightreading and sight singing, is also a moderate accordionist and cellist.  He currently works as a voice and music theater teacher at the Masters School, and also has a private roster of students.