The writers / David Abbinanti
Composer · Songwriter · Playwright · Orchestrator
David
Abbinanti.
Stories on the page. Possibilities in the score. A creative life across plays, musicals, and the music that brings them to the stage.
The person behind the work
Across the page.
Across the score.
David Abbinanti is a composer, songwriter, playwright, and orchestrator whose work spans original musicals, stage adaptations, and plays.
His collaborations with Sean Cercone include co-writing the books for Heartbreak Hotel, Saturday Night Fever The Musical, and Beat Bugs: A Musical Adventure. His orchestration and arranging credits range from Disenchanted and Beehive to Ghost The Musical and Feels Like the First Time.
In The Licensing House collection, discover his plays Letters from the Titanic and The Nurse of Normandy, his music and lyrics for The Perfect Dog, and his orchestrations and arrangements for Feels Like the First Time: The Foreigner Musical.
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Plays by David.
His work in musicals.
From original music and lyrics to orchestrations and arrangements. Each show below identifies David’s contribution.
Musical
Feels Like the First Time: The Foreigner Musical
Orchestrations and arrangements by David Abbinanti
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A wider creative life.
Explore more of David’s writing and musical credits. These career credits do not indicate availability through The Licensing House.
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David Abbinanti is a national award-winning composer, songwriter, playwright and orchestrator. Credits include Heartbreak Hotel (Book co-written with Sean Cercone, Orchestrations, Arrangements and Additional Music & Lyrics), Saturday Night Fever The Musical (Book co-written with Sean Cercone, Orchestrations and Arrangements), County Fair (Orchestrations and Arrangements w/David Austin), Ghost Brothers of Darkland County (Orchestrations and Arrangements), Feels Like the First Time (Orchestrations and Arrangements), Five Golden Rings (Music & Lyrics), Meri/Chris: A Modern Magi Musical (Music & Lyrics), Our Christmas Carol (Music & Lyrics), Disenchanted (Orchestrations and Arrangements), The Perfect Dog (Music and Lyrics), Beat Bugs: A Musical Adventure (Book co-written with Sean Cercone, Orchestrations and Arrangements) Ghost The Musical, (Orchestrations), Ghost The Musical Chamber Version (Orchestrations and Arrangements), Beehive (Orchestrations and Arrangements), Ring of Fire 5–The Music of Johnny Cash; (Additional Arrangements) and Molly Shannon’s Tilly The Trickster (Orchestrations); Tour, Stock & Amateur editions.
Playwriting credits include The Bench, Anti-Social, Alicia In Wonderland, Inc., Letters From the Titanic, and The Nurse of Normandy.
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