Rate My Professor Mark Hanson

Hanson's conducting credits span over 200 regional productions, such as The Will Rogers Follies at American Musical Theater of San Jose, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast at Contra Costa Musical Theater, Miss Saigon at Broadway By The Bay, Man of La Mancha at Musical Theater of Arizona, Beehive at San Jose Stage Company, Spring Awakening at Foothill Music Theater, Carousel and Barnum at Oakland’s Woodminster Amphitheater, My Fair Lady at Minnesota Repertory, Big River at Iowa’s Way Off-Broadway Theater, Peter Pan at Albuquerque Civic Light Opera, The Desert Song at Boston Concert Opera, and Candide at Monterey Opera. He has contributed to national tours including Spamalot, Legally Blonde, Cabaret, The Will Rogers Follies, and Les Misérables. A highlight of his graduate work at Arizona State University was his selection as Musical Director and Conductor for the second revision of Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along, collaborating directly with Sondheim, book writer George Furth, and director Randall West to develop the version now licensed for performance. Hanson has worked alongside theater luminaries such as John Cullum, Rita Moreno, Harve Presnell, Nancy Dusaul, Theodore Bikel, and Darren Criss. He maintains memberships in the Music Theatre Educators Alliance since 2015 and the Musicians Union since 1990.