Alvin Biography
Alvin Hough Jr.
Alvin Hough Jr. (Musical Director/Conductor/Arranger). Broadway – Currently Musical Director for Tina, the Tina Turner Musical, Musical Director: Once On This Island (2018 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical). Associate Conductor: The Color Purple (2016 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical), Scandalous, Motown: The Musical; Substitute: Memphis (2010 Tony Award for Best Musical), Newsies, Bandstand, School of Rock, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Hello, Dolly!. National Tours – Musical Director: Memphis (First National), Dreamgirls. Off-Broadway – Associate Music Director: Big River (City Center Encores! 2017); Featured Pianist: Cabin in the Sky (City Center Encores! 2016), Keyboard 2 Substitute: Radio City Christmas Spectacular (2016). Regional – Musical Director: First Wives Club (Oriental Theatre, Chicago). Arranger – O Come, O Come Emmanuel (Carols for a Cure 2016), I Don’t Remember You/Sometimes A Day Goes By (Write This Way, John Michael Dias), Fantasy Football: The Musical? (New York Music Festival 2009, also Asst. Musical Director). Orchestrator – Divas of the ‘60s (RoxSteady Music). Pianist – LaChanze, Jennifer Hudson, Heather Headley, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Broadway Boys, Charl Brown (for a Hillary Clinton gala), Eric Michael Gillett, Will and Anthony Nunziata, Lyons and Pakchar; featured pianist for Ragtime on Ellis Island in 2016, at the Kennedy Center, at the White House for President Clinton and the First Family, as well as at the Capitol for Mother Teresa’s Congressional Medal of Honor Ceremony at the age of 13.