Megan Hilty sings Fred Barton’s orchestrations at the Sydney Opera House and the Queensland Performing Arts Center in June.
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Fred Barton has appeared in numerous roles at major regional and stock theatres.
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Fred Barton’s New York appearances include numerous Off-Broadway and concert productions.
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Actor-Singer
Writer
Fred Barton’s musical depicts that special “something” that can happen between two people, bringing out a greatness in each other neither knew they had.
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Symphony Arranger
Fred Barton has created numerous symphony arrangements for the New York Pops, played at Carnegie Hall under the batons of Steven Reineke and Jack Everly.
Senior Orchestrator
Fred Barton was Senior Orchestrator for the Indianapolis Symphony’s Pops concerts, creating dozens of new arrangements for their lavish, quasi-theatrical presentations, also played by major orchestras across the US and Canada.
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The Fred Barton Orchestra
is devoted to the best Broadway songs and today’s singers who know how to stop shows with them. The Orchestra has performed many concerts in NY and elsewhere, and was recorded on the CD A Wrinkle In Swingtime with singer Elena Bennett.
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Fred Barton’s Broadway Band
has played numerous engagements at Feinstein’s/54 Below in New York, presenting the best of Broadway in concert, as well as appearances and CDs with dynamic showstopper Jesse Luttrell, and the legendary Vivian Reed.
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Fred Barton served as Associate Conductor on the post-Broadway farewell tour of Anthony Quinn in ZORBA, with music & lyrics by Kander & Ebb.
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Arranger-Musical Director
A musical parody of the Broadway show Hamilton. Written by Gerard Alessandrini, creator of the parody revue Forbidden Broadway, Spamilton also parodies several other musicals, included Gypsy, Chicago, The King and I, Assassins, Camelot, The Book of Mormon and Sweeney Todd, and personalities, like Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald, Stephen Sondheim, Stephen Schwartz, Barbra Streisand, Bernadette Peters, Carol Channing and Liza Minnelli.
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This new Harold Arlen musical with Fred Barton as Arranger, Musical Supervisor, and Co-Librettist, nears its March 2025 world premiere in Los Angeles, presented at the El Portal Theatre by The All Roads Theatre Company.
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Arranger-Performer
Fred Barton created the arrangements for the original FORBIDDEN BROADWAY and its first two sequels, and played and performed in the show for 1500 performances.
Book, Music and Lyrics by Fred Barton
MISS GULCH RETURNS! has earned rave reviews since its debut in 1984. The show continues to be produced by independent theatre companies around the country. The 1986 album continues to sell and stream after 33 years, and songs from MISS GULCH RETURNS! are regularly performed on three continents.
Musical Supervisor
I was the Musical Supervisor for two seasons of the hit TV series Olivia, based on the popular children's books by Ian Falconer. I also composed the music for their promotional "sizzle reel." The show was co-produced by Chorion in New York and Brown Bag Films in Dublin, Ireland.
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Musical Direction & Composition
Orchestrated and conducted three seasons of Wonder Pets! (Nickelodeon, produced by Little Airplane Productions.) Since its debut in March 2006, Wonder Pets! has ranked among the top three children's shows in the U.S. and around the world.
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Musical Director, Conductor & Performer
I arranged, conducted, and performed in HBO's Cathouse: The Musical. Producers Sheila Nevins and Patti Kaplan created this unusual musical special as the finale to their hit "docutainment" series. Cathouse: The Musical, directed and choreographed by Scott Thompson, continues to air, and is available on DVD.
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Music Contributor
It was my great privilege to contribute music to Michael Moore's series, The Awful Truth, including, among other sequences, a wild pseudo-Awards ceremony full-orchestra scoring for the hilarious "Man Of The Year" sequence, and a sensitive, syrupy musical backdrop for a scandalous "Make A Wish" parody.
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Composer & Orchestrator
Three seasons of The Magic Schoolbus, working with of head composer Peter Lurye. The shows were science lessons packaged as full-out adventure shows, as Miss Frizzle, portrayed by Lily Tomlin, led her students into outer space, into the human body, and inside such memorable objects as pickles and water treatment systems.
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Composer
Even before I took the USC Film Scoring program, Peter Lurye brought me on as Associate Composer for Eureeka's Castle for Nickelodeon. The score was built on the mighty Synclavier (which was cutting-edge at the time.) I was the night shift in the Synclavier studio – and it's always fun to work with such a low-maintenance and happy cast (see left).
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