{"id":45375,"date":"2025-11-13T17:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T17:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/45375\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T17:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T17:28:10","slug":"broadway-palm-welcomes-award-winning-music-director-drew-scott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/45375\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadway Palm welcomes award-winning Music Director Drew Scott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1014689\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1014689\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/The-exterior-view-of-the-Broadway-Palm-Dinner-Theatre.COURTESY-PHOTO-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1066\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1014689\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Broadway Palm. -COURTESY PHOTO<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1014687\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1014687 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Drew-Scott-Headshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\"  data- style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 480px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 480\/480;\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1014687\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drew Scott. -COURTESY PHOTO<\/p>\n<p>Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre is thrilled to announce the appointment of Drew Scott as its new Musical Director. An award-winning music director, pianist, and producer, Drew brings over two decades of global experience spanning New York City, South Africa, Dubai, London and now Fort Myers.\n<\/p>\n<p>Drew\u2019s accolades include South Africa\u2019s leading theatrical award for Best Musical Director for\u00a0Into the Woods, with two additional nominations for\u00a0Loving You. His work can also be heard in the PBS documentary\u00a0\u201cHal Prince: A Director\u2019s Life.\u201d He has collaborated with leading artists from Broadway and the West End, and with major clients including Sony Music and the BBC.\n<\/p>\n<p>Notable theatrical highlights include the world tour of\u00a0\u201cEvita\u201d\u00a0(Prince\u2019s original production),\u00a0\u201cJoseph \u2026 Dreamcoat,\u201d\u00a0\u201cPhantom of the Opera,\u201d and\u00a0\u201cCats\u00a0\u201c(Royal Caribbean), in addition to numerous productions across the U.S., Southern Africa, and the Middle East.\n<\/p>\n<p>As an educator, Drew spent three years on faculty at the Sharjah Performing Arts Academy, helping develop a world-class BA Musical Theatre program. He has mentored pre-professional artists at Stagedoor Manor and Long Lake Camp for the Arts and advised numerous theatre programs on industry preparation.\n<\/p>\n<p>Drew\u2019s extensive experience as an audition pianist in New York, working with companies including Selladoor, Showtime Management, GWB, David Ian, and PTP, has also led him to assist in casting world tours for shows such as\u00a0\u201cWe Will Rock You,\u201d\u00a0\u201cPhantom of the Opera,\u201d\u00a0\u201cMatilda,\u201d\u00a0\u201cSchool of Rock,\u201d and\u00a0\u201cEvita.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>As a producer, his company &amp;CO won Best Production for Young Audiences for the international premiere of\u00a0\u201cPolkadots: The Cool Kids Musical.\u201d Additionally, as Executive Producer for his streaming company &amp;SCENE, Drew has collaborated with artists including Marc Shaiman, Anthony Rapp, Amra-Faye Wright, Suanne Braun, Amanda Tapping and stars of\u00a0Stargate.\n<\/p>\n<p>A Colorado native, Drew has traveled to 56 countries and now calls Oxfordshire home with his partner Alan and their beloved dog, Clarence. Broadway Palm is excited to bring Drew\u2019s wealth of experience, creativity and global perspective to its productions and audiences.\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broadway Palm. -COURTESY PHOTO Drew Scott. -COURTESY PHOTO Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre is thrilled to announce the appointment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-45375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}