In this episode Ben sits down with West End drummer and percussionist Dan Day to chat about a career that’s taken him from learning drums at age 3 to playing on major theatrical productions like Evita, Mean Girls, Sunset Boulevard, Come From Away just to name a few...
Ben and Dan chat about:
< Dan starting to learn drums aged 3
< Falling into musical theatre by accident
< Earning your chair through depping, being good and just being nice
< Life as a working drummer in the orchestra pit both in London and on tour
< Surviving high pressure auditions when you really want the job
< COVID
< Getting the gig and behind the scenes of Dear Evan Hansen, Come From Away, Sunset Boulevard and Evita
< Working with some of the biggest creative names in musical theatre today e.g. Pasek and Paul, Alex Lacamoire and Alan Williams MD
< Working on The Greatest Showman Musical
< His Crescendo
Strap yourselves in for nearly 2 hours of drum and musical theatre goodness.
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