Charlie Rosen (musician)

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Charlie Rosen
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Rosen at the 76th Tony Awards in 2023
Born (1990-07-20) July 20, 1990 (age 33)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Education Berklee College of Music
Occupations
  • Musician
  • composer
  • arranger
  • orchestrator
  • music director
  • music producer
Years active2005–present
Website www.charlierosen.com

Charlie Rosen (born July 20, 1990 [1] [2] ) is an American musician, composer, arranger, orchestrator, musical director, and music producer. He is best known for his work on Broadway, where he has worked on Be More Chill , Prince of Broadway , American Psycho , and, along with Bryan Carter, won the 2023 Tony Award for Best Orchestrations for Some Like It Hot . He is also the leader of the 8-Bit Big Band, a jazz orchestra specializing in video game music. [3] [4] [5]

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Early life

Rosen was born in Los Angeles, California, as the son of a bassoonist and organist. He was taught piano by his mother, starting from the age of three. At the age of fifteen, he joined the onstage band for the Los Angeles production of 13 . He moved to New York at the age of seventeen to make his Broadway debut in 13, where he was a swing. [6] [7] He later attended Berklee College of Music for four semesters. [1]

Career

Rosen began his professional career as a swing musician for the bass, guitar, and percussion tracks of 13. [1] Starting in 2012, [8] he was the bandleader of Charlie Rosen's Broadway Big Band, where he arranged classic musical theater numbers into music that could be performed by a jazz orchestra with Broadway performers as the vocalists. [7] As of April 2019, he primarily features as a guitarist in the Broadway musical Be More Chill . [1]

Rosen can play about 70 musical instruments including the "flugelbone", melodica, Fender Rhodes, and theremin. [1] Of these he has described the flugelbone as his "orchestrating secret weapon" due to its ability to utilize variety of timbres. However, he considers himself primarily a bassist but uses the range of instruments in his repertoire to improve the quality of the music he is able to create. [1]

Rosen is also the composer on 2021 comedy film Here Today. [9]

The 8-Bit Big Band

In 2017 Rosen founded the 8-Bit Big Band as a jazz and pops orchestra, [10] featuring from 26 [11] to 65 musicians who cover video game songs from franchises such as Super Mario Brothers, Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy, and Pokémon. [12] [13] The band has a presence on YouTube with over 286,000 subscribers and 42,000,000 total views as of October 2023. [5] In May 2018, the 8-Bit Big Band released its first album, Press Start! In June 2019, the band released its second album, Choose Your Character, which covers music from Donkey Kong Country, Duck Tales, Sonic The Hedgehog, Pokémon, Portal, and more. [14] In November 2021, the band's cover of "Meta Knight's Revenge" from Kirby Super Star won a Grammy Award for Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella. [15] [16]

Credits

Theater

Year(s)ProductionRoleLocationCategoryRef.
2008 13 Swing bass, guitar, percussion Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre Broadway [6]
2010 Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Associate conductor
Bass		 [17]
2011The Amazing Adventures of Dr. Wonderful (And Her Dog!)Orchestrator
Track production		 John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Regional [18]
2012 One Man, Two Guvnors Lead guitar/drums/lead singer (understudy)
Music director
Bass		 Music Box Theatre Broadway [19]
2012 Cyrano de Bergerac Music American Airlines Theatre [20]
2013 The Black Suits Music director
Orchestrator		 Center Theatre Group Regional [21] [22]
2014SoonArranger
Orchestrator		 Signature Theatre [23]
2015 Honeymoon in Vegas Orchestrations Nederlander Theatre Broadway [24]
2015 Be More Chill Orchestrator Two River Theater Regional [25]
2015 The Visit Guitar/Zither/Mandolin Lyceum Theatre Broadway [26]
2015A Little More AliveOrchestrator Barrington Stage Company Regional [27]
2016 American Psycho Associate music director
Keyboard/Guitar 2		 Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre Broadway [26]
2016 Broadway Bounty Hunter Music supervisor
Orchestrator		Barrington Stage CompanyRegional [28]
2017A Legendary RomanceMusic director
Orchestrator		 Williamstown Theatre Festival [29]
2017A Midsummer Night's DreamOrchestrator The Public Theater Off-Broadway [30] [31]
2017 Prince of Broadway Associate orchestrator Samuel J. Friedman Theatre Broadway [32]
2018Be More ChillOrchestrator
Music supervisor
Guitar 2/Ukulele		 Pershing Square Signature Center Off-Broadway [25]
2018 Miss You Like Hell OrchestratorThe Public TheaterOff-Broadway [33]
2018Pamela's First MusicalOrchestratorTwo River TheaterRegional [34]
2019Be More ChillOrchestrator
Music supervisor
Guitar 2/Ukulele		Lyceum TheatreBroadway [25]
2019Broadway Bounty HunterMusic supervisor
Orchestrator		Greenwich House TheaterOff-Broadway [35]
2019 Moulin Rouge! Co-orchestrations (horn) Al Hirschfeld Theatre Broadway [36]
2019 Love in Hate Nation Music Supervisor
Orchestrator		Two River TheaterRegional [37]
2019 A Strange Loop OrchestrationsPlaywrights HorizonsOff-Broadway [38]
2019 A Strange Loop Orchestrations Lyceum Theatre Broadway [39]
2022 Some Like It Hot Co-orchestrations Shubert Theatre Broadway [40]
2023 Guys and Dolls Orchestrations Bridge Theatre London
Year(s)TitleRoleRef.
2016 Maya & Marty Musical director [41]
2017–2018 The President Show Composer
Music producer		 [42]
2018 The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Track production
Guitar recording		 [43]

Film

Year(s)TitleRoleRef.
2021 Here Today Composer [9]
2021 Listening to Kenny G Composer
2023 Wonka Music Producer

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryNominated workResultRef.
2015 Drama Desk Award Outstanding Orchestrations Honeymoon in Vegas Nominated [44]
2018 Miss You Like Hell Nominated [45]
2019 Be More Chill Nominated [46]
2020 Obie Award Special Citation A Strange Loop Won [47]
Tony Award Best Orchestrations Moulin Rouge! Won [48] [49]
2022 Grammy Award Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella "Meta Knight's Revenge (From Kirby Super Star )"Won [15] [50]
Tony Award Best Orchestrations A Strange Loop Nominated [51]
2023 Tony Award Best Orchestrations Some Like It Hot Won [52]
2024 Grammy Award Best Musical Theater Album Won
Laurence Olivier Award Oustanding Musical Contribution Guys and Dolls (with Tom Brady for Musical Supervision & Arrangements)Nominated

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