It may be only January, but already, Carmel Dean has had a busy 2020 many of us would dream of. The in-demand composer and music director rang in the New Year with Phish at Madison Square Garden (she conducted and did the vocal arrangements for the band’s show) and she’s currently working on a Broadway musical adaptation of Nicholas Sparks’ The Notebook with singer-songwriter Ingrid Michaelson.
Next up for Dean: Well-Behaved Women, a collection of story-songs (up for two shows at New York City's Joe's Pub on Saturday) sung from the imagined perspectives of some of history’s most impactful female trailblazers -- think Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Harriet Tubman, Malala Yousafzai and more. To tell these stories, Dean enlisted some of Broadway’s most powerful voices, including LaChanze, Sasha Allen, Andréa Burns, Liz Callaway and Bonnie Milligan. "I want to see more diverse stories [onstage]," says Dean. "And that was part of my inspiration for this show: finding characters who hadn’t been theatricalized before."
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