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D. Michael Heath / Tenor (The Voice Foundation, NATS, AEA, SAG, AFTRA, AGMA) has worked with many of Broadway's greatest composers & lyricists including John Kander and Fred Ebb, Cy Coleman, Marvin Hamlisch, Stephen Sondheim, Alan Menken, Tim Rice, and Andrew Lloyd Webber. His Broadway, Off-B'way, and touring performance credits include: Starlight Express, The Most Happy Fella, They're Playing Our Song, Peg, A Tribute To Agnes Demille, Nunsense, Street Scene, The Pirates Of Penzance, Shenandoah, A Little Night Music, and Les Misérables In Concert where he served as stage director and played the leading role of Jean ValJean.
| D. Michael was handpicked by Andrew Lloyd Webber to sing the music of the Phantom opposite Sarah Brightman in Lord Webber's original international touring concert venture The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber in Concert. |
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He then went on to become Associate Director for two national touring companies of the same show starring Petula Clark & Michael Bolton. In Canada, he stepped in for the legendary performer Colm Wilkinson in Livent's original production of Music Of The Night and played opposite Betty Buckley in the American tour of the same show. |
| For ten years D. Michael toured the USA & Canada with the Pulitzer Prize-winning producer/director/author Joshua Logan in Musical Moments, a musical retrospective of Logan's stage musicals and films. |
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Concert credits include: Night Of 1000 Voices/ Royal Albert Hall 1999/2000/2002 and 2006 in Belfast, Ireland, Sondheim Tonite/Barbican Centre, BAM Salutes Sondheim/Brooklyn Academy of Music, Richard Rodgers Gala Pittsburgh CLO's 50th Anniversary/Benedum Center, The Music Of Andrew Lloyd Webber In Concert/The London Palladium, The Lyrics of Tim Rice/Holders House, Barbados and both Sing About Love and Bernstein's MASS/ Carnegie Hall. Additional directorial credits include Postcards From Broadway for the Hong Kong Musical Theatre Federation, the musical revue L'amour…At The Moulin Rouge for the Hoboken Historical Museum's Masked Ball at the Lackawanna Terminal, numerous industrials, special events, and 'in concert' musicals.
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As an educator, D. Michael is currently the Head of Voice at the New York Film Academy’s Professional Conservatory of Musical Theatre and has served on the voice faculties of the College Conservatory of Music/University of Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky University, Long Island University/CW Post Campus, New York University's CAP 21, the Hong Kong Academy of the Performing Arts and Lee Theodore's American Dance Machine. He has given numerous vocal master classes and workshops across the United States and in Hong Kong.
D. Michael enjoys a vibrant teaching studio in Manhattan with his students that have performed in the Broadway, Off-B'way and National Touring productions of THE BOOK OF MORMON, SOUTH PACIFIC, THE LION KING, ANNIE GET YOUR GUN, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, LEGALLY BLONDE, A CATERED AFFAIR,
9 TO 5, WICKED, CHICAGO, ROOMS: A ROCK ROMANCE, HAIR, THE WIZARD OF OZ, JERSEY BOYS, SILENCE! THE MUSICAL, THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL, A CHORUS LINE, RENT, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN and SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM. |
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"A dramatic hush fell over the crowd as a brilliant tenor wrapped his pipes around The Music Of The Night. D. Michael Heath, in the evening's climax, electrified more than 2,200 fans last night at the Tuscon Music Hall. His voice was a pure, eerie thing of beauty, a reminder that Michael Crawford is not the only man on the planet who knows how to sing the title role from 'The Phantom Of The Opera.'"
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| M. Scot Skinner, THE ARIZONA DAILY STAR |
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"The high point of the show went to Cincinnati native D. Michael Heath's powerful rendition of Gethsemane – a riveting exploration of a crisis of faith en route to inevitable crucifixion – from 'Jesus Christ Superstar'." |
| Jackie Demaline, THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER |
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"The Music Of The Night, nicely sung by D. Michael Heath, is exquisite. Mr. Lloyd Webber at his best and worth the trip by itself." |
| Roderick Robinson, THE ATLANTA JOURNAL |
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"The big surprise, however, is D. Michael Heath's performance of The Music Of The Night. Heath brings precisely the right creepily erotic quality to the song – a quality conspicuously missing in the production now at the Auditorium." |
| Hedy Weiss, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES |
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"Extra special shivers are sent down the spine by tenor D. Michael Heath as he makes the disfigured Phantom come to gripping life." |
| Donna Chernin, CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER |
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"D. Michael Heath, who sings the title song from Phantom, proves especially to have an eerily lovely voice." |
| Elizabeth Maupin, THE ORLANDO SENTINEL |
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"D. Michael Heath sang a poignant but chilling The Music Of The Night." |
| Michael Anthony, TWIN CITIES STAR TRIBUNE |
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"But top vocal honors belong to: D. Michael Heath, as the Phantom, negotiating the torturous upper registers of The Music Of The Night without slipping into the falsetto that can easily ruin the song." |
| Roger Grooms, THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER |
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"And D. Michael Heath pours eerie insistence into the Phantom's The Music Of The Night." |
| Porter Anderson, THE TAMPA TRIBUNE |
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"...The Music Of The Night, meltingly sung by D. Michael Heath." |
| Clara Hieronymus, THE TENNESSEAN |
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"Only when D. Michael Heath rings out with The Music Of The Night from Phantom is there a trust reflected in an interpretation. His restrained, sincere approach holds the attention more effectively than all…that precede him." |
| Jerry Stein, THE CINCINNATI POST |
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