{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Brad Alexander","description":"Brad Alexander composes music for television and musical theater, whose notable works include the music for  See Rock City & Other Destinations, which won the 2011 Drama Desk Award, Richard Rodgers Award and BMI Foundation\u2019s Jerry Bock Award, and more recently served as lead composer for the PBS\/Amazon animated series, Clifford The Big Red Dog. I remember seeing and hearing Brad as a piano whiz as early as the second grade, as we were elementary-school classmates and friends growing up in small-town Connecticut. We had a great time catching up on how his career went from the Berkshire Theatre Festival to ad agency music producing, working in piano bars both as a soloist and as a dueling pianist \u2014 eventually owning his own business, The Flying Ivories . His other staged works and collaborations include Click, Clack, Moo, We The People: America Rocks!, the Emmy-winning PBS series, Peg + Cat, and he wrote the music for Dog Man: The Musical, which is currently on tour across North America. We spoke about all of that, plus the work he\u2019s currently engaged in adapting the film Bread & Roses, into a stage musical with his wife, actress\/singer\/writer Jill Abramovitz, who\u2019s on standby for the cast of the new all-star Broadway production, All In. There\u2019s definitely a lot to get to, so let\u2019s get to it! ","author_name":"The Comic's Comic Presents Last Things First","author_url":"http:\/\/thecomicscomic.libsyn.com\/podcast","html":"