Biography
Luke Molloy is a music director from Greater Boston who has worked on dozens of musical theatre productions as a music director, assistant music director, keyboardist, and keyboard programmer.
He has served as music director for Grease & The Rocky Horror Show at Bucks County Playhouse (both dir. Hunter Foster), The Full Monty at Umbrella Stage Company, Anything Goes at the Milton Theatre, and Jersey Boys for Norwegian Cruise Line (dir. Des McAnuff, prod. sup. Danny Austin) and at the Cape Playhouse (dir. Joyce Chittick).
Other regional credits include conductor for Sweeney Todd (Winnipesaukee Playhouse); associate music director for Frozen, My Best Friend's Wedding & The Sound of Music (Ogunquit Playhouse); La Cage aux Folles (Trinity Repertory Company); assistant music director for Escape to Margaritaville (North Shore Music Theatre); and an apprenticeship with Theatre Aspen for productions of Gypsy (dir. Hannah Ryan) and Jersey Boys (dir. Hunter Foster). He has worked as a keyboardist with Theatre by the Sea (Tootsie), SpeakEasy Stage Company (Once on This Island) and Seacoast Repertory Theatre (Songs for a New World).
Luke has also served as the music director for concerts and cabarets with JM Productions, including shows with Tony Award winner Lillias White, Tony nominee Liz Callaway, Seth Rudetsky, Alexa Green, and Sydney Morton. He is the music director and host of a "House Party" cabaret series at Club Café in Boston.
Luke was one of four music directors for Berklee's 2022 Curtain Up! concert, featuring 18 original songs written, orchestrated, and performed by Berklee students. He was the music director and conductor for the 2022 Berklee Broadway Band, featuring original orchestrations of 13 classic Broadway tunes. He has been a featured performer in two Berklee Signature Series concerts: Carole King - The 50th Anniversary of Tapestry, which also featured remarks from Ms. King, and I'm Still Standing - A Tribute to Elton John, and has performed for honorary doctorate recipients James Newton Howard and Sir. Ringo Starr.
Luke has worked as an accompanist in the Voice Departments at Berklee College of Music, The Boston Conservatory, and Eastern Nazarene College from 2014-2018. He music directed student productions of Rock of Ages and Fun Home (Emerson College) and And the World Goes 'Round (Berklee Musical Theater Club).
Luke earned a B.M. in Professional Music from Berklee College of Music. He has studied piano with Jennifer Elowsky-Fox, Bob Winter, and Steve Heck, and conducting with Eric Stern and Ted Sperling. Luke is a recipient of the David Blumberg Scholarship from the American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers.
Full resumé is available upon request.
Reviews
"[Luke] played the score so perfectly it is as though he was able to reach into my brain to know exactly how to play every little nuance that wasn't even written on paper... A marvel."
- Lesley Anderson, Composer, Alice: A New Musical
"Luke Molloy's musical direction uses intricate harmonies and carefully chosen solo pieces that bring the audience along an entertaining musical journey from childhood through adulthood."
- The Quincy Sun, "What Christmas Means to Me"
"Everyone sounds great and your music director is fantastic!"
- Seth Rudetsky, "Seth Rudetsky & Lillias White"
FEatured Reviews
'Grease' at Bucks County Playhouse
"Luke Molloy and his seven-piece orchestra deftly handle the pastiche score of ’50s era pop music. Their pitch-perfect renditions sound like songs that might have been heard on jukeboxes and in the movies of the era." - Allen Neuner, Out In Jersey
'The Full Monty' at Umbrella Stage Company
"For the Umbrella mainstage and its more intimate (344–seat) house, director Barrett, music director Luke Molloy, and choreographer Najee Brown present a show that ends with a sextet of steelworkers–turned–strippers dressed as policemen singing and dancing their socks off, and yes, pulling off a full monty. But the story the team tells is about friendship that never ends."
'The Rocky Horror Show' at Bucks County Playhouse
"Throughout the entire score, fine work is done by the three-piece ensemble of Jason Wolbach on guitar, Mike DiFebbo on bass, and Jon Ball on drums, under the direction of Luke Molloy." Allen Neuner, Out in Jersey
'Jersey Boys' at Cape Playhouse
"A nine-piece band, under the direction of Luke Molloy, whose bio lists many credits in and around Boston, was terrific." - Ellen Chahey, Cape Cod Chronicle
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