Robert Reale
Robert Reale is a Broadway performer known for A Year With Frog and Toad. Explore their Broadway credits, shows, and songs below.
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Robert Reale is an American composer born in 1956, whose work spans Broadway, film, television, and recording. He is the owner of two music companies, 4 Elements Music and 8118 Music, and has built a career across multiple entertainment disciplines over several decades.
On Broadway, Reale composed the score for A Year with Frog and Toad, which earned him a Tony Award nomination for Best Original Musical Score in 2003. The show represents his most prominent theatrical credit and established him as a recognized voice in musical theater composition. Beyond Broadway, his stage work includes the musical Once Around the City, which played Off-Broadway in 2001, and Quark Victory, produced at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. He later composed the score for The Dinosaur Musical at the Arden Theatre Company in Philadelphia in 2005, and Johnny Baseball, which premiered at the American Repertory Theater in 2010. His Off-Broadway credits also include incidental music for plays, among them Rounding Third in 2003, Salvation's Moon, and Diva at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.
Reale frequently collaborates with his younger brother Willie Reale, a partnership that has extended across multiple projects. As a composer and record producer, he has worked with performers including Julie Andrews, Mel Tormé, Sid Caesar, and Imogene Coca.
His film work dates to the early 1990s and includes The Rain Before the Wind, directed by Brian Heffron, which received the BRNO 16 Audience Award in 1993. Subsequent film credits include Dealers Among Dealers, a P.O.V. documentary broadcast on PBS in 1995, Wigstock: The Movie in 1995, Passing Over in 1996, and two 2002 features, Ten-13 and The Victim, the latter starring Patti LuPone and David Strathairn. More recent film work includes source music for The Rebound in 2009 and Coach of the Year in 2015.
Reale's television credits are extensive and include theme compositions for the series Out There and Invent This, as well as music for Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Blue Bloods, Legit, and the Showtime series Billions. He has also contributed to numerous documentary and news programs, including 20/20, ABC News Nightline, Inside Edition, Good Morning America, and Shark Tank: Swimming with Sharks, among many others. In 2006 he composed music for the television pilot Haskett's Chance, directed by Tim Blake Nelson.
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- Robert Reale has appeared in A Year With Frog and Toad.
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