Broadway music director, conductor, and pianist, William Waldrop, currently serves as the associate conductor for Broadway’s longest running musical, The Phantom of the Opera. In 2017 he finished a highly celebrated run as music director and conductor of the Broadway revival of Cats at the Neil Simon Theatre. Equally comfortable on the podium with the orchestra on stage or conducting from the pit, Maestro Waldrop has been hailed for his ‘dynamic conducting’ and has been praised in cities all over the US and abroad.

Waldrop is a frequent guest conductor with orchestras throughout the United States, including the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, The Florida Orchestra, the North Carolina Symphony, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the Portland Symphony Orchestra, the Sarasota Orchestra, the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, the Long Beach Symphony, the Boise Philharmonic, the Lexington Philharmonic, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Greenville Symphony Orchestra.

Waldrop has been associated with The Phantom of the Opera since 2008. In addition to working with the Broadway company, he is also the associate musical supervisor for the current international tour which launched in 2019. In 2018, Waldrop was the musical supervisor for a new production in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has also been involved with other productions worldwide, including Oberhausen, Germany (associate musical supervisor), the US National Tour – Music Box (music director) and Las Vegas (assistant conductor).