Paul Sportelli - Shaw Festival Theatre

Paul Sportelli
Music Director

SHAW 2025: Music Director for White ChristmasA Christmas Carol, Anything Goes, La Vie en Rose. (Selected Credits) FOR THE SHAW: 27th season as music director; music director, Grand Hotel, Sweeney Todd, The Next Whisky Bar, Floyd Collins; composer, Mythos, Man and Superman; co-writer, The Secret Garden, Maria Severa, Tristan. ELSEWHERE: music director, Into the Woods, Follies in Concert, Koerner Hall; co-writer, Erik with a K (Canadian Musical Theatre Project); 33-1/3 (Dobama Theatre, Cleveland; Playwrights Guild of Canada award for best new musical); Oracle, Nobody Told Me, Step Right Up!, Little Mercy’s First Murder (seven Dora awards), Tarragon Theatre; recordings include Maria Severa, Tristan, jaypaul project (jaypaulproject.com); music director: Mirvish, Livent, Arena Stage, Canadian Stage, Soulpepper, Tarragon, Musical Stage, Studio 180, YPT; five Dora awards and one Helen Hayes award; conducting debut, Aspects of Love, Broadway. TRAINING: BM, Performers’ Certificate, Eastman School of Music; MM, DMA, Manhattan School of Music.

 

Music Director, Paul Sportelli, is supported by David & Amy Fulton.

Also onstage in 2025 and 2026
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A Christmas Carol 2025

The magic of Christmas returns as does the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge!

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Irving Berlin’s
White Christmas

A heartwarming holiday musical for everyone dreaming of a white Christmas.

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Funny Girl

Ziegfeld found a star. Broadway found a legend.

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Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella

More magic than you can shake a wand at!

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Amadeus

A symphony of beauty, brilliance and betrayal.

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