Bill has worked with Lesley Gore, Melba Moore, Deborah Gibson, Fantasia, Eartha Kitt, and Ricky Martin. He’s conducted clinics at Universities and Educational Percussion conventions and on Broadway, he has held the percussion chair at “Wonderland” and “Jekyll and Hyde” and the drum chair at “Les Miserables”, “South Pacific”, “Evita”, and “Cats”.
On my podcast, we discuss how he got his start playing shows, his influences, what it’s like playing the shame show fourteen years straight and I ask him what advice he would give to anyone interested in playing broadway musicals. He has so much to share so sit back, relax and take in as much of this advice as you can—there is a lot of wisdom here.
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Clayton Craddock is a father, independent thinker, and the founder and publisher of the social and political commentary newsletters Think Things Through, Broadway Drumming 101 and host of the podcasts Think Things Through, and Broadway Drumming 101.
Clayton is also the drummer of the hit broadway musical Ain’t Too Proud, and has played drums in several hit broadway and off-broadway musicals, including “Tick, tick…BOOM!, Altar Boyz, Memphis The Musical, and Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar and Grill, Footloose, Motown, The Color Purple, Rent, Little Shop of Horrors, Spongebob Squarepants, The Musical, Evita, Cats, and Avenue Q.
Clayton earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from Howard University’s School of Business and is a 30 year veteran of the fast-paced New York City music scene.
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