Rich Rosenzweig is a veteran of 11 Broadway shows. In addition to numerous National and International tours, Rich has also been the regular drummer for the Encores! series at New York’s City Center, as well as having been the orchestra’s drummer for the Kennedy Center Honors for over a decade. He’s on over a dozen cast recordings, but over the years has also recorded and performed in several progressive jazz ensembles, including his own, the East Down Septet.
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Clayton Craddock hosts the Broadway Drumming 101 Podcast and Newsletter. He has held the drum chair in several hit broadway and off-broadway musicals, including Tick, tick…BOOM!, Altar Boyz, Memphis The Musical, Lady Day At Emerson's Bar and Grill and Ain’t Too Proud. He is currently working on an ENCORES! production of a revival of The Tap Dance Kid and a new broadway-bound musical called BLISS!
Clayton began his career in musicals on a bus-and-truck tour of Footloose and has been a sub drummer on Motown, The Color Purple, Rent, Little Shop of Horrors, Spongebob Squarepants, The Musical, Evita, Cats, and Avenue Q.
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