Tyler Arle

• Taught and rehearsed music with the casts of the school musicals
• Accompanied rehearsals on the piano
• Played keyboard/conducted the pit for the performances
• Communicated the director's and choreographer's intention to the pit to make sure we could best serve the show

Shows:

*Legally Blonde (2023)

Bat Boy (2024)

* = only accompanied a couple rehearsals as a sub and then played the second keyboard part in the pit, but did not music direct the whole show

• Taught and rehearsed music to the casts for over 15 productions by the Mainstage Company (grades 4-12), Junior Company (grades 3-5), Summer Stock Company (grades 6-8) and Alumni Company (adult)
• Accompanied all of the rehearsals and performances on the piano
• Collaborated with directors and choreographers to make the score work for our individual production

Playtime Theatre is an interactive improv show performed by a company of high schoolers for an audience of 2-9 year olds. My role as director involved:

• Helping the cast learn the Playtime show structure
• Help them build a story outline based on a different fairy tale or children's story each week
• Give input on how to engage a young audience
• Play the piano for the opening and closing numbers of the performances

• Teach and rehearse the music with the casts of the school musicals
• Accompany rehearsals and performances on the piano
• Collaborate with the director/choreographer to make the score work for our group and show

Shows:

Matilda Jr. (2023)

Newsies Jr. (2024)

• Accompany rehearsals and performances for the school musicals
• Collaborate with the music director to find the best way to support the cast musically

This was a special concert in Times Square featuring Lion King composer and songwriter Lebo M. My role inculded:

• Proof-reading score and instrumentalist part discrepancies
• Making edits to parts by re-notating in Finale or correcting by hand
• Brought coffees for the rest of the music team
• Proof-reading score and lyric sheet discrepancies.

• Selected songs around the themes of love, peace and New York pride for a 4 minute medley for the Steinhardt 2022 commencement ceremony
• Arranged the medley for 6 vocalists and a 4 piece band and sent the parts to the music director
• Collaborated with the music director to make edits to the medley to best fit the ceremony

• Taught and rehearsed the music with the cast of Amélie (performed at Theatre Row)
• Collaborated with the director and music team to make sure the show sounded the way we wanted
• Made new orchestrations of the score
• Conducted the pit

• Taught the basics of theatre and live performance to young minds
• Taught songs to kids ages 5-7
• Helped with lyric memorization
• Accompanied classes and performances on the piano

• Taught and rehearsed music with the cast of Heathers
• Accompanied rehearsals on piano
• Guided the cast through singing along to performance tracks
• Oversaw the use of the performance tracks to make sure they started at the right time and that vamps were timed correctly in the performances