Guy Simpson
Musical Director
Guy Simpson has been working as a Conductor, Orchestrator, Musical Director and Musical Supervisor for 47 years.
He has worked on The Phantom of the Opera for 36 years in Australia, Auckland, Cape Town, Pretoria, Johannesburg, Shanghai, Taipei, Hong Kong, Brazil, Manila, Bangkok, Singapore, Guangzhou, Beijing and Seoul. He’s thrilled to begin the 40th anniversary celebrations of this iconic musical with this production on Sydney Harbour.
He has worked on Miss Saigon for 35 years in Australia, Manila, Hong Kong, Singapore, Brazil, Seoul, The Netherlands and Japan.
Guy has enjoyed working with Opera Australia over the past 10 years. Productions include My Fair Lady (directed by Julie Andrews), Evita (starring Tina Arena), Cinderella, The Phantom of the Opera (on Sydney Harbour and at the Opera House), Miss Saigon, West Side Story (on Sydney Harbour) and Guys and Dolls (on Sydney Harbour).
As an orchestrator, projects include A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Into The Woods, Ladies in Black, Dream Lover, Guys and Dolls and Putting it Together.
Other productions include Cats(Australia, New Zealand), Chicago (Australia, Hong Kong) and We Will Rock You – the QUEEN musical (Australia, Japan).
Recent projects in Australia include Putting It Together, Carousel in Concert, Into The Woods at Belvoir St Theatre, Anna O’Byrne’s solo show Becoming Eliza and Do You Hear the People Sing – a concert of the music of Claude-Michel Schonberg.
Other productions in Australia include Muriel’s Wedding, The Wizard of Oz, Dream Lover, Prima Donna (the opera by Rufus Wainwright), Passion, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (starring Geoffrey Rush), Love Never Dies (the sequel to The Phantom of the Opera), Les Miserables, Cabaret, Company, Into the Woods, Little Shop of Horrors, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Pirates of Penzance, Snoopy, Seesaw, Zorba, Oklahoma!, Funny Girl, Call me Madam, Mack and Mabel, The Music Man, They’re Playing our Song, Carousel, Camelot, Little Me, Follies, Promises Promises and Gypsy.
As a producer of cast recordings he has produced the albums of Muriel’s Wedding and Dream Lover for Sony and two cast recordings of The Phantom of the Opera in Korea.