Morgan grew up in a small town in Kansas. No blueprint for this. No obvious path to musical theater. She found her way to NYU, studied West African music under Valerie Naranjo — which rewired the way she hears everything — and started building relationships one sub at a time.
Now she’s 600 shows into the national tour of A Beautiful Noise: The Neil Diamond Musical. And the way she talks about this industry is the kind of honest I don’t always get on this podcast.
We got into some really cool things:
— What she does at the kit during the show that nobody expects, and why it actually works
— The subbing etiquette mistakes that quietly end reputations before they start
— A blacklist situation she handled with more integrity than most veterans twice her age
— What ego, patience, and sitting with uncertainty actually look like when you’re learning from the people ahead of you
Check out her site: https://www.morganparkernyc.com
This is why I started Broadway Drumming 101. Not to give people a checklist. But to share access with people who figured it out — and let you hear how they actually talk about it.
The video is embedded above. Audio is available on every podcast platform.
If this is your first episode…welcome! Stick around.
