MW70 - Bob Christianson & Alisa Hauser
A CHRISTMAS CAROL - THE CONCERT
  Bob Christianson is a composer, arranger, keyboard player and conductor.
This past year, he has been busy co-scoring the television show “ Life Is Wild ” (CW)
with multi-platinum artist Maurice White of “Earth, Wind & Fire” fame. 
His new musical, “ Take Me America ” ( book and lyrics by Bill Nabel )
was presented at the Midtown Manhattan Theater Festival,
and took several major prizes, including “Best New Musical”. 
“Take Me America” is based on the award winning PBS Documentary 
“Well Founded Fear”. It was presented at the “Village Theater” in Washington last summer, and they have been called back for a workshop and performance in 2010.
It was also a finalist for the Richard Rogers Award .
Mr. Christianson received his bachelor’s degree from SUNY at Potsdam
(Crane School Of Music), and has done graduate work in composition at the
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
After college, he started his career in New York as musical director/conductor for such
Broadway Shows as “Godspell”, “Gilda Radner-Live From New York”,
and “The Magic Show”.
His film credits include “Vibrations” (with Christina Applegate), “Machiavelli Rises”,
“Mindbender” (Ken Russell-director) and “Kounterfeit” (with Hilary Swank).

Alisa Hauser is an alum of the BMI/Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop where she
met many of her fantastic collaborators including the amazing Bob Christianson .
For the theatre she has written the short musical The Weather Man
with composer Philip Palmer, which had its world premiere at the
New Works Festival at Clear Space Productions in Delaware. 
She also wrote an original song (music and lyrics) for the
Weston Playhouse production of Stuart Little.  
For television she has written lyrics, with composer Stephen Sislen,
for the Disney Channel's Johnny And The Sprites . 
Her cabaret songs have been performed at various venues around New York City
including Ars Nova, Joe’s Pub and the Shag Carpet Festival.  
Alisa is a graduate of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music with a degree
in musical theatre and worked for many years as an actress where she
appeared on Broadway in  Thoroughly Modern Millie , Grease ,
and Disney's Beauty and The Beast .

Music on this episode includes:
YOU CAN KEEP YOUR CHRISTMAS - Merwin Foard (Scrooge) Daniel Reichard
(Fred) John McDonough (Narrator)
I WEAR THESE CHAINS - Chuck Cooper (Marley) , Merwin Foard (Scrooge) ,
John McDonough (Narrator)
BETTER OFF ALONE - Sean Palmer (Young Scrooge) , Merwin Foard (Scrooge) ,
John McDonough (Narrator) , Daniel Reichard (Ghost of Christmas Past)
NO TROUBLE - Lawrence Clayton (Cratchit)
GOD BLESS US EVERYONE - Lawrence Clayton (Cratchit) , John McDonough (Narrator)
You can find more information on A CHRISTMAS CAROL - THE CONCERT
by visiting their website at:
http://www.achristmascaroltheconcert.com/
Follow them on Twitter at:
www.twitter.com/xmasconcert
or on Facebook at:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/A-Christmas-Carol-The-Concert/104549856243992?ref=ts

The CD for A CHRISTMAS CAROL THE CONCERT
was released on October 19th, 2010 and is available at 
Amazon.com & ITunes!

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