Nick has accepted a 22 week position with the 2003 Tony-award winning Roundabout Theater/Deaf-West production of Big River. He’ll join the first national touring company in Tucson, AZ on Jan 3, 2005 as the associate conductor. In February, a second company will open in Washington, DC where Nick will begin rehearsals as the musical director or remain on the tour and take over the musical direction there. Both the tour and the Washington DC company will close on June 5, 2005.

This production is a revival of the 1985 Broadway production with a score by Roger Miller and book by William Hauptman. The revival, which was directed by Jeff Calhoun, with choreography by Coy Middlebrook and musical supervision by Steve Landau, blends sign and spoken language, making it accessible for both hearing and non-hearing audiences and thus is a remarkably unique adaptation of Twain’s beloved classic Huckleberry Finn.

In other news, Happily Ever After, After All has closed in Los Angeles, but will resume in the spring at the NOP Walter Lantz Theater in Los Angeles. The world-premiere production received rave reviews and enormous interest from producers and artists alike. Don’t be surprised to see it pop up on your local theater’s subscription series or even, perhaps we dare to dream, a feature film. Nick has just completed an orchestration and will be conducting a studio recording of eight of the songs at the end of December.

Finally, a date has been set for the staged reading of Sherlock Holmes, Nick and Scott Guy’s chamber musical based on the character created by Arthur Conan Doyle.  Musical Theater West in Los Angeles will produce the reading in March of 2005.