musicals

Lawton has conducted many major first-class long-run musical productions at leading European theaters. At Vienna’s Theater an der Wien, he leded “The Phantom of the Opera,” “Les Misérables,” “42nd Street,” and “Chicago.” In Stuttgart, he directed “Miss Saigon,” and at the Royal Theater Carré Amsterdam, the largest theater in the Netherlands, he directed “Cyrano.” As the musical director of the Gandersheimer Domfestspiele from 2004 to 2009, he was responsible for the arrangements and musical direction of “Die Zauberflöte,” “Die Fledermaus,” “The Rocky Horror Show,” “La cage aux folles,” and “Im weißen Rössl.” He also rehearsed and led productions of “West Side Story,” “My Fair Lady,” “Blood Brothers,” and “Les Misérables” at opera houses in Saarbrücken, Meiningen, Wuppertal, and Aachen.


Parallel to his work on “The Phantom of the Opera” and “Les Misérables,” Lawton served as a music theory teacher at the Tanz-Gesang-Studio Theater an der Wien, which was one of the most renowned musical training schools in the German-speaking countries at the time. In the 2000s, Lawton also served as a music interpretation coach with a focus on musicals at the Schauspielschule of the Folkwang Universität in Bochum.