This is an excerpt from the upcoming episode of the Broadway Drumming 101 Podcast.
Elena has toured across the United States as the drummer for the 1st National Tour of Waitress's hit Broadway musical (music and lyrics by Sara Bareilles). She originated the drum chairs for two Off-Broadway shows, including The Hello Girls and A Strange Loop and appeared as the drummer on their Original Cast Recordings. An active sub in the NYC Theater scene, her Broadway and Off-Broadway sub credits include Waitress, Be More Chill, Cagney, and A Taste of Things to Come.
Elena has shared the stage with Tony-award-winning actress Patina Miller (Pippin, Sister Act), Annie Golden (Orange is The New Black), Nikki Renee Daniels, Constantine Maroulis, Desi Oakley, Christine Dwyer, Natalie Walker, Heath Saunders, and jazz vocalist Jacqui Naylor. She has toured nationally with Boston-based Americana/Folk group, The Novel Ideas, with whom she also recorded a full-length album. In addition to her US appearances, Elena has performed throughout the Caribbean, South America, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe while working as a bandleader for Holland America Cruise Lines.
After two successful runs at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, MA, and at The Ordway in St. Paul, Minnesota, Elena holds the drum chair for Broadway's newest hit musical, SIX (by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss).
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Clayton Craddock hosts the Broadway Drumming 101 Podcast and Newsletter. He has held the drum chair in several hit broadway and off-broadway musicals, including Tick, tick…BOOM!, Altar Boyz, Memphis The Musical, Lady Day At Emerson's Bar and Grill and Ain’t Too Proud. He is currently working on an ENCORES! production of a revival of The Tap Dance Kid and a new broadway-bound musical called BLISS!
Clayton began his career in musicals on a bus-and-truck tour of Footloose and has been a sub drummer on Motown, The Color Purple, Rent, Little Shop of Horrors, Spongebob Squarepants, The Musical, Evita, Cats, and Avenue Q.
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