MEDIAErin Davie and Mark Evans sing "One Second and a Million Miles" from Signature Theatre's THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY, music directed by Laura
Highlights from
2018 BROADWAY BACKWARDS including "WILD WILD PARTY," "THIS IS ME," and "WHO WILL LOVE ME AS I AM", conducted by Laura Laura conducts the incomparable Jan Maxwell on "How to Handle a Woman" at the 2013 BROADWAY BACKWARDS.
Cynthia Erivo delivers a powerful "MAKE THEM HEAR YOU" (RAGTIME) - 2017
Telly Leung and Taylor Trensch sing
"WHO WILL LOVE ME AS I AM" (Side Show) at the 2018 Broadway Backwards. Laura leads Stephanie J. Block, backed by an incredible ensemble of Broadway Artists, on Sondheim's OUR TIME.
Highlights from Jane Austen's EMMA
Preview for JANE EYRE at Cleveland Musical Theatre with Laura on piano.
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REVIEWS
For THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY:
"Jason Robert Brown’s vivacious score is rife with passion...
Brown’s music, orchestrated here for 10 string instruments, a keyboard and percussion, and conducted by William Yanesh, revels in mid-century sound: I hear echoes of Dave Brubeck, Joni Mitchell, Gordon Lightfoot, Buffy Sainte-Marie, a bit of country here and there, and maybe even a little Aaron Copland. It’s exquisitely arranged, a world inside a score. Under Laura Bergquist’s musical direction, many of the songs illuminate secret thoughts — reflections of isolated lives. These are yearning beings living in the solitary confinement of unfulfilled hopes." -The Washington Post For MAN OF LA MANCHA:
"Laura Bergquist led the 15-piece onstage orchestra that included two prominent guitars. The ensemble was in good form and Bergquist negotiated the many segues from background music to full-on songs with ease."
-Times Union "Laura Bergquist led the orchestra in a performance marked by infectious energy. The lyrical moments were tender and beautiful, but it was the joyous romps in Leigh’s score that got the blood pulsing in this performance." -Seen and Heard International 
FOR SENSE AND SENSIBILITY:
"Laura Bergquist, the superb music director and pianist who leads an orchestra of 10 from a balcony above the stage, reveals the full allure of Gordon’s score. It is not often that a new musical arrives in such pristine form." -Chicago Sun Times "Lovely too are Larry Hochman and Bruce Coughlin's orchestrations, impeccably played by the 10-piece orchestra under conductor/pianist Laura Bergquist." -Chicago Daily Herald "...[L]ush, swelling refrains are played with a richness of feeling by music director/conductor/pianist Laura Bergquist’s 10-piece orchestra (tucked behind the set), and Gordon has a real gift for matching song to character." -San Diego Union-Tribune "Music director Laura Bergquist elicits passionate singing of a score consisting mostly of solos and duets, and Ray Nardelli's sound design keeps balances mostly in check among the singers and a ten-piece orchestra stationed behind the main playing area." -Talkin' Broadway, San Diego "The production is further enhanced by a nine-piece orchestra under the baton of music director and conductor Laura Bergquist. There is really no substitute for a live orchestra when presenting a musical; the audience likes it and the singer/actors respond to it. It’s a luxury worth every penny is costs to have live music. Musical theatre doesn’t get much better than this when it comes to entertainment." -DesertLocalNews.Com 
FOR ALLEGIANCE:
"Music director Laura Bergquist and a cast of talented singers have achieved some chilling choral harmonies—particularly in the second act’s ensemble number about Hiroshima." -Backstage LA The Allegiance Audio Trailer
Laura conducts an amazing NYC orchestra FOR DADDY LONG LEGS:
"Sung and spoken, the words display sentiment without dipping into sentimentality. No treacle washes over things. Conductor Laura Bergquist keeps the musical pacing lyrical but crisp." -CityBeat |
