URI(s)
Variants
- Travis, Sarah
Identifies LC/NAF RWO
Identifies RWO
Birth Date
- 1966
Has Affiliation
- Email: [email protected]
Has Affiliation
- Organization: City, University of London
Has Affiliation
- Organization: Guildhall School of Music and Drama (London, England)
Associated Locale
- Hastings (England)
Associated Locale
- Bristol (England)
Associated Locale
- Newbury (England)
Associated Locale
- London (England)
Associated Language
- English
Occupation
Musical director
Orchestrator
Composer
Pianist
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Earlier Established Forms
- Travis, Sarah
Sources
- found: Travis, Sarah. The tale of Little Red Riding Hood, c1998:t.p. (Sarah Travis; an untraditional pantomime; book and lyrics by Simon Brett; music by Sarah Travis; published by Samuel French in Lonon and New York)
- found: U.S. copyright file, May 3, 2006(Travis, Sarah, 1966- )
- found: Curve Theater (London, England) website, July 15, 2022:interview with author posted on May 6, 2020 (Sarah Travis; grew up near Bristol, England; musical director of Sweeney Todd; attended City University London and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama; has worked for many years with the Watermill Theatre; works with the British Youth Music Theatre) - https://www.curveonline.co.uk/news/curve-in-conversation-sarah-travis/
- found: British Youth Music Theatre website, July 15, 2022:(Sarah Travis; 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; her 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), and 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), and 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; [email protected]) - https://britishyouthmusictheatre.org/our-people/sarah-travis
- found: Author's Twitter page, July 15, 2022:(Sarah Travis; musical director; arranger; pianist; mentions Hastings, England) - https://twitter.com/oldtrav?lang=en
- found: Sussex World (news) (England) website, July 15, 2022:posted on November 21, 2019 (Sarah Travis; the first woman ever to win a Tony award for orchestration for her work on the revival of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd; resident of Hastings) - https://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/free-tickets-at-food-banks-for-the-lost-toys-big-christmas-adventure-1318263
- found: Email from Simon Brett (collaborator on The tale of Little Red Riding Hood), September 7, 2022:(Sarah Travis; wrote the music on The tale of Little Red Riding Hood and is the musical director of Sweeney Todd)
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Change Notes
- 2000-04-28: new
- 2022-12-07: revised
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