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DAVID GURSKY
Nationality: USA
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David Gursky is a New York City-based theater composer, conductor and pianist. He is the composer of Palm Beach (co-written with Robert Cary and Benjamin Feldman), which had its world premiere at the La Jolla Playhouse in June 2005, directed by Des McAnuff. This show was presented at the National Alliance of Musical Theatre's 2001 Festival of New Musicals (NAMT.org) after other developmental readings at Naked Angels, The Drama Dept., and Manhattan Theatre Club. David is also the composer of musical stage adaptations of the MGM films Heartbreakers and The Thomas Crown Affair, both commissioned by MGM On Stage. Heartbreakers was presented at the NAMT Festival in 2010, directed by Christopher Ashley. On film, David contributed a song for the feature film Ira & Abby. David has conducted several shows on Broadway, including Dames at Sea, The Producers, The Nance, Anything Goes, Finian's Rainbow, White Christmas, Young Frankenstein and Jane Eyre, as well the Off-Broadway productions of Forever Plaid and Forbidden Broadway. He also appeared on stage as "The Fingers on the Keyboard" for Dame Edna Everage on Broadway in Dame Edna: The Royal Tour. On national tour, David has conducted The Phantom of the Opera, The Producers, and Big. Regionally, he conducted A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at the St. Louis Muny Opera, as well as several companies of Forever Plaid from coast to coast. For television, he conducted The Wonder Pets. David holds a B.A. from Yale University.
Research: Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)
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Heartbreakers Palm Beach Thomas Crown Affair, TheHeartbreakers
Synopsis:
Sexy con artist Max Connor has created a perfect scam: she'll marry eligible bachelors, deny them sex, and then discover them in an uncompromising position with another, younger woman - leading to hefty annulment settlements. But Max's sex-starved husbands don't know that the other woman is actually Max's 22 year-old daughter Page, who's in on the con. Page wants independence, but when Max finds out the IRS wants back taxes, she convinces Page to come to Palm Beach for one last job. All goes according to plan, until Page breaks the most important rule: she falls in love.
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Book by Robert Cary and Benjamin Feldman; Music by David Gursky; Lyrics by Robert Cary. Commisioned by MGM On Stage. Based on the MGM Motion Pictures.
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NAMT Festival 2010
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Genre:
Musical Comedy
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Male: 5 Female: 6 Other: ensemble
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Synopsis:
PALM BEACH is an American musical fable set in the screwball world of 1930's. Liz, a biracial showgirl desperate for financial security, has passed herself off as a Brazilian coffee heiress in order to wed into the wealthy Fitch family - only to find her that her ex-husband, Max, is posing as one of the Fitch family servants so that he can write a socialist exposé on the excesses of the upper class. Will Liz and Max be able to keep one another's secret -- especially when they're still in love with each other? Will Liz's handsome new fiancé, Lance, be able to keep certain secrets of his own now that he plans to marry? And how will all of this effect the Fitch family's place at the pinnacles of industry, politics and society? PALM BEACH is a brash musical comedy that asks how far people are willing to go to make sure they have a place at the American table.
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Book by Robert Cary and Benjamin Feldman; Music by David Gursky; Lyrics by Robert Cary
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La Jolla Playhouse
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Genre:
Musical Comedy
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Male: 9 Female: 5 Other: -
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Top of PageThomas Crown Affair, The
Synopsis:
Call it the price of success, but billionaire Thomas Crown has too much time on his hands. In a valiant effort to fight off boredom, he's taken to looting priceless works of art from the world's greatest museums just for the kick of it, and no one seems able to stop him -- except, perhaps, for sexy insurance investigator Amanda Lee, a woman who's not about to let her company underwrite a rich playboy's pastime. Will Amanda crack the case before she falls prey to Thomas Crown's charms? Will Thomas Crown be able to con someone as smart as Amanda? And will either of them end up having to face their worst fears by actually falling in love?
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Book by Robert Cary and Benjamin Feldman; Music by David Gursky; Lyrics by Robert Cary. Based on the MGM Motion Pictures. Commissioned by MGM On Stage.
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Genre:
Musical
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Male: 5 Female: 2 Other: ensemble
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