Music as a Character in To Kill a Mockingbird

Make it Sparkle Video with Kim Grigsby
Broadway Music Director

(6:16) runtime

Director’s Notes

In this segment, Kim discusses

• Understanding the composer's intent in why the music behaves as it does in each moment.

• Music can touch and connect all people, and the same music can mean different things to different people.

• Music tells a story, and is an essential character in the narrative.

• How they used the organ and guitar in To Kill a Mockingbird to paint different themes.

About Kim Grigsby

Kimberly is a music director and conductor based in New York City. Her Broadway career spans 24 years, enjoying collaborations with composers Jeanine Tesori, Adam Guettel, Tom Kitt, Daniel Messe, Duncan Sheik, Michael Friedman, David Byrne and directors George C. Wolfe, Michael Mayer, Bartlett Sher, James Lapine, Alex Timbers, Pam MacKinnon, Kathleen Marshall, Leigh Silverman and Julie Taymor. Her credits include the original productions of To Kill A Mockingbird; Caroline, or Change; Spring Awakening; The Light in the Piazza; Head Over Heels; The Full Monty; Amélie; Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark; The Fortress of Solitude; Here Lies Love; and this season’s Flying Over Sunset.

Other collaborations include The Light In The Piazza with Renée Fleming, for The Royal Festival Hall in London, LA Opera and Chicago Lyric Opera; and the premiere of Jeanine Tesori’s The Lion, The Unicorn and Me for Washington National Opera.