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POUGLAS MACAULAY works with, not over, the orchestra for West Side Story. “i'm just another
musician tn the band; it’s just that | happen to be playing the baton instead of my insttument.”

cirector scores
with theatrical numbers

Douglas Macaulay blends sound, action on stage

Musical

OUGLAS MACAULAY

is an easy interview.

Words pour out of him
like notes from a score.

t's as if no single sentence
could contain the nuance of fee!-
ing or meaning that he wishes to
communicate.

As one is almost swept away
by his enthusiasm it is easy to
identify with his parents who
would despair of getting their
high-school son to bed before
three in the morning if he were
working cn arrangements for his
band,

The only time he pauses to
draw breath and think is when
asked if he has any long-term
goals,

“\'tn already so far ahead of
what I had anticipated for myself
at this stage in life,” he says slow-

Y.
“| didn't see myself with a

Martin Millerchip
SPOTLIGHT FEATURE

Jessie Award before 30 (he is 29)
and doing the number of shows |
am doing each year.

“Last year was the first time
I’ve ever played in the pit for
TUTS (Theatre Under The Stars)
and now } am musical directing
the most difficult musical ever
written. Things are moving very
fast and I'm very happy with it.”

The musical is a very good
production of West Side Story
and the award to which

Macaulay refers is the Jessie
Richardson Award for Best Sound
Design/Original Composition
which he won this summer for his
work on the Touchstone Theatre
production Whale Riding
Weather.

tis only one of several out-
standing theatrical scores that
Macaulay has created in the last
year.

Others include: The
Rainmaker for Coconut Theatre,
Marvin's Room and Cat on a Hot
Tin Roof for the Arts Club and the
hugely successful comedy The
Number 14 for Touchstone/Axis
Mime.

If there were one connecting
link between these disparate
works, it is how skilfully
Macaulay blends his sounds with
the action of the play.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof featured

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