DAN DE CRUZ

Musical Work

Dan is currently working as the Musical Supervisor for CAKE - The Marie-Antoinette Playlist. He has also recently been Cover MD for The School For Scandal, and on the music team for The Merry Wives of Windsor, both at the RSC, and Associate Musical Supervisor for La Bamba! A Musical (working alongside Alfonso Casado Trigo). He was also part of the music team for Operation Mincemeat, which won the Olivier Award for Best Musical.Dan has worked extensively around the UK as a Musical Director: most recently on the UK No.1 Tour of Beautiful - The Carole King Musical (nominated for Best Musical Supervision/Musical Direction in WhatsOnStage), as MD and Arranger on the Charity Single It Means Beautiful by SAME Voices (nominated for an Asian Creative Media Award), as MD on Just So and Kiss Me, Kate at the Watermill Theatre, Our Blue Heaven at the New Wolsey Theatre, Return to the Forbidden Planet at the Devonshire Park Theatre,and as MD and Arranger on Justin Fletcher’s new show – Justin’s Band.Dan was also involved in the West End Unplugged sessions, performing acoustic sets of West End numbers with such artists as Alice Fearn, Sandra Marvin, Tim Howar, Aisha Jawando, David Bedella, Cedric Neal, Ben Goddard and Hannah Waddingham.Other work includes the UK No.1 tour of the hit musical, Jackie – The Musical, Assistant Musical Director for the critically acclaimed production of Made In Dagenham at the Queen’s Theatre/New Wolsey Theatre, MD and Arranger for Beauty and the Beast and Red Riding Hood at the City Varieties, Leeds, and Aladdin, at the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch, (voted one of the Top Ten Shows of 2015 in London Theatre 1)

vocal coach

Dan has been a vocal coach for over 15 years, working at various institutions including The National Theatre, Royal Academy of Music, Mountview, Rose Bruford, East 15, Guildford School of Acting, The Academy of Contemporary Music and Performers College.Dan was also part of CCI (Collective Creative Initiative) delivering online seminars and workshops.NOW OFFERING ONLINE LESSONS

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PERFORMER

Dan has performed in the West End as well as extensively around the UK and also the US.
Credits include:
Kiss Me, Kate! (Watermill); Return to the Forbidden Planet (Devonshire Park); Made In Dagenham, Sweet Charity, Beauty and the Beast, Dick Whittington, Mods and Rox (New Wolsey); Lemon - The Musical (Arts Theatre); The Man Who Stole The Circus (Isis Theatre); Run For Your Wife, They're Playing Our Song (Queen's Theatre); Cinderella, Aladdin (City Varieties); Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet (Stafford Castle); Buddy Vs The Killer (Raffles, Singapore); Robin Hood and the Babes in the Wood (Theatre Clwyd); My Fair Lady, West Side Story (Aberystwyth Arts Centre); Dawlish Road (Soho Theatre); The Far Pavilions, Time's Up (Shaftesbury Theatre); FAME (Palladium).