Sunday, October 1, 10:00-11:00am, El Sol Theater
Experiencing Broadway Music, A Listener's Companion

Kat Sherrell is a conductor, music director, pianist, and writer originally from Silver City, NM.

Her work in New York has included Broadway shows In the Heights, Bring It On, and The Book of Mormon and NBC's Smash, as well as many new musicals in various stages of development, including Sweethearts of Swing, for which she is the lyricist-composer.

Sherrell's book, Experiencing Broadway Music: A Listener's Companion, explores approximately the last century of American musical theater, beginning with the early-twentieth-century shift from European influenced operettas and bawdy variety shows to sophisticated works of seamlessly integrated song and dance that became uniquely American. It concludes with an examination of current musical trends and practices on Broadway.

Sherrell currently resides in Seattle, where she is the associate music supervisor at the acclaimed 5th Avenue Theatre. Follow her haiku on Twitter @pianokatsmeow.