
Lawrence Manchester
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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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Across The Universe - Music From The Motion Picture
2007

A Little South Of Sanity
1998

Ultimate Aaliyah
2005

Wonderful Christmastime / Jesus Christ
2017

Holiday Wishes
2014

West Side Story (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2021

Wonderful Christmastime / Peace (Live At The Sheen Center)
2017

I, Tonya (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2017

Blow Your Pants Off
2012

The Red Violin (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
1998

Love Scenes
1997

It Was The Best Of Times
1999
Credited work
382 releases · 82 albums · active 1995–2025
- Engineering · 568
- Mastering · 32
- Production · 20
- Other credits · 15
Studios: Avatar Studios · Manhattan Center Studios · Bill Schnee Studios · Chung King Studios
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Elliot Goldenthal
- Marcelo Zarvos
- SMASH Cast
- John Corigliano
- Carlos Rafael Rivera
- Bette Midler
- Paul McCartney
