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The conductor for the Detroit Symphony concert will be Ted Sperling who was recently in London studying the score and attending rehearsals with Danny Elfman and John Mauceri in preparation for the Oct. 30 concert in Detroit.
Sperling is a Tony Award winner who has been involved in The Light in the Piazza, South Pacific, Guys and Dolls, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Full Monty, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Angels in America, My Favorite Year, Falsettos, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Les Misérables, Roza, and Sunday in the Park with George.
Mr. Sperling has an active concert career, working with singers Audra McDonald, Victoria Clark, Patti LuPone, Kelli O’Hara, Nathan Gunn, Paulo Szot and Deborah Voigt. He has conducted concerts with the New York Philharmonic, for Live at Lincoln Center, the American Songbook Series at Lincoln Center and the Lyrics and Lyricists series at the 92nd Street Y. He conducted a concert presentation of Ricky Gordon’s opera, The Grapes of Wrath, at Carnegie Hall, and a double bill of La Voix Humaine and the world premiere of Send: Who Are You? I Love You? at the Houston Grand Opera, starring Audra McDonald.
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I'd like to volunteer to sing "What's This?".
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You guys are in for a massive treat !
The London concert was magnificent, moving, thrilling.
Elfman sang from Nightmare Before Christmas...along with........... ah that's a surprise !
Elfman was nervous, but as he went on, he nailed it, and his joy and happiness was very evident that he had done it.. and the response he got was overwhelming.
He said it was THE highlight of his career and was very, very overjoyed & overwhelmed by the response.
Of course seeing................ a certain someone appear at the end just made the evening 
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I hope there will be a blu-ray/DVD release of these concerts
Maybe I've got this wrong, because these official US dates have made me wonder, so apologies all-round if I have but I'm pretty sure I was told on Tuesday evening that there would be a show in LA. Pretty much from the horse's mouth.
Saw both the first two shows in the UK and they were awesome. You're in for a treat. It was SO hard not to tap the feet to that Mars Attacks! theme.
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I hope there will be a blu-ray/DVD release of these concerts
Maybe I've got this wrong, because these official US dates have made me wonder, so apologies all-round if I have but I'm pretty sure I was told on Tuesday evening that there would be a show in LA. Pretty much from the horse's mouth.
Saw both the first two shows in the UK and they were awesome. You're in for a treat. It was SO hard not to tap the feet to that Mars Attacks! theme.
Infact I DID tap my feet. Lightly at the RAH, but a little more heavily in Leeds. Thank God for concrete floors!
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