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David Loud (born November 28, 1961, in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American music supervisor, music director, conductor, vocal and dance arranger, pianist and actor. He is best known for his collaborations with and interpretations of the music of both Kander and Ebb and Stephen Sondheim.

Biography
Loud recalls being musically talented at a young age:
 * "I started as a pianist at six years old. I always played piano, and I started music directing shows in seventh grade.  We did Gilbert & Sullivan shows that i would teach everyone the parts for and force everyone to sing.  I used to save up all my money and come to new York, sleep on my grandmother's couch, see eight shows in a week, and go to Sardi's at the end of the week.  She was a real theatre nut too."

He attended North Country School in Lake Placid, New York, and Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, and received a degree in music from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

It was during his years at Yale that Loud auditioned for and wa