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Lawrence Manchester
Lawrence Manchester is credited on 68 releases across 82 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1996–2023 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
68
Pressings credited
82
Albums
4
Decades active
91
In collections
Biography
Lawrence Manchester is a four-time Grammy Award winning and one-time Emmy Award-winning music producer, engineer, and mixer based in New York City. Known for his work as music mixer for NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon including co-producer of Fallon's Grammy-winning comedy album, Blow Your Pants Off, mixing the award-winning score for The Queen's Gambit, many original Broadway cast albums, and film scores, as well as supervising Camila Cabello's broadcast sound for two Grammy Awards performances, a symphony orchestra for Martin Scorsese's The Departed, tracking vocals with Beyoncé, "Slow Jamming The News” with Barack Obama, and mixing Justin Timberlake and The Roots. Some of Manchester's film score work includes recording all vocals for Steven Spielberg's 2021 remake of West Side Story, Danny Elfman's score for the film The Woman In The Window (Fox 2020) and (Twentieth Century Fox). Manchester also served as the Supervising Music Producer/Engineer/Mixer for Richard LaGravenese's film adaptation of Jason Robert Brown's musical The Last Five Years (Radius-TWC), starring Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan, of which Variety exclaimed, "the film sounds fantastic." In addition to his work on The Tonight Show for television, Manchester served as the Post-Audio Mixer for Adele Live in New York City. He has mixed the music for both seasons of the Apple TV+ musical Schmigadoon!, and Danny Elfman's score of the Netflix film, White Noise as well as the television series Smash. Manchester co-produced the Original Cast Albums of Barry Manilow's 2024 Broadway show Harmony, the Grammy-nominated Original Cast Album for the Broadway hit Something Rotten!, Manchester won two Grammy Awards for his mixing on the Broadway cast album recordings Some Like it Hot, (2023) and Into the Woods (2022). His other notable Broadway cast albums include, A Bronx Tale, The Prom, Head Over Heels, The Cher Show, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical , Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, Pippin, and Ki
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Credited work
68 releases · 82 albums · active 1996–2023
- Engineering · 127
- Mastering · 32
- Production · 15
- Other credits · 2
Studios: Manhattan Center Studios · DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New York City · Avatar Studios · Ambassador Theater, New York
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
KPop Demon Hunters (Soundtrack From The Netflix Film)
2025
Across The Universe - Music From The Motion Picture
2007
A Little South Of Sanity
1998
Ultimate Aaliyah
2005
The Queen's Gambit (Music From The Netflix Limited Series)
2022
West Side Story (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2021
Into The Woods (2022 Broadway Cast Recording)
2023
Wonderful Christmastime / Jesus Christ
2017
Love Scenes
1997
Holiday Wishes
2014
Frida (Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2002
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2001
I, Tonya (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2017
Wonderful Christmastime / Peace (Live At The Sheen Center)
2017
Blow Your Pants Off
2012
Budokan!
2008
The Red Violin (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
1998
SpongeBob SquarePants, the New Musical (Original Cast Recording)
2017
A Gift Of Love
2015
It's The Girls!
2014
Way Down Low
2012
It Was The Best Of Times
1999
Welcome To Our World
1997
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