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    You might say Michael Dansicker is a conductor who lights a fire under his musicians.

    At least that’s what you’d say if you caught his performance in the little-known 1992 film comedy gem “Brain Donors.” In that loose remake of the Marx Brothers’ “A Night at the Opera,” Dansicker is conducting “Swan Lake” when his baton is suddenly set on fire.

    The Baltimore-born conductor wasn’t hired to act in the movie, merely to conduct and arrange the dance music. But the movie’s star, John Turturro, suggested during filming that it might be funny if they lighted a match to the baton.

    “So they wrapped my arms in asbestos, and they built a special baton with a butane tank strapped around my waist,” Dansicker recalls. “We shot that sequence for 10 full days. It runs about seven minutes.”

    Dansicker’s current assignment is less incendiary: Conducting the orchestra for “Man of La Mancha,”

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    Michael Dansicker


    STAGE CREDITS

    Productions

    Good

    [Broadway, 1982]

    Musical Director

    Piaf

    [Broadway, 1981]

    Music Arranger

    Musical Director

    Music Arrangements

    Piano

    Writing


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    Michael Dansicker

    One of New York's busiest composers, arrangers and orchestrators. He has worked on over 100 New York productions including: PIAF, GOOD, and LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES - all with the RSC, ICEMAN COMETH (Vocal Supervisor), MORE TO LOVE (Dance Music), GLASS MEANGERIE - Jessica Tandy (Original Score), GREASE (Peter Gallagher), Patti LaBelle in HOUSE OF FLOWERS (Orchestrations/Dance Music), DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES (Dance and Incidental Music), SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (Dance, Incidental, and Film Sequences), JEROME ROBBINS' BROADWAY (Pianist to Mr. Robbins for RECONSTRUCTION PHASE), and TWYLA THARP/BOB DYLAN's THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN' (Arranger, Orchestrator with Bob Dylan and Music Supervisor.) He continues working as free-lance arranger with Mr. Dylan.

    He was Music Supervisor for the pre-Broadway workshops of: SOUND OF MUSIC, CARNIVAL (Disney), TRIUMPH OF LOVE, MOVIN' OUT, PAL JOEY (John Stamos), FADE OUT/FADE IN (

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