Billy Byers

Filmes

Victor Victoria
Orchestrator
Baseado no filme de 1982, também protagonizado por Julie Andrews. Na Paris de 1934, Victoria Grant é uma cantora lírica desempregada que conhece Carroll Todd, um cantor homossexual que tinha sido recentemente demitido. Juntos eles articulam um plano, no qual ela se faz passar por um homem, o Conde Victor Grezhinski, e que é um transformista. Mas a farsa corre o perigo de ser desmascarada quando ela se apaixona por King Marchand, um gângster.
The Will Rogers Follies: A Life In Revue
Orchestrator
The Will Rogers Follies is a musical with a book by Peter Stone, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and music by Cy Coleman. It focuses on the life and career of famed humorist and performer Will Rogers, using as a backdrop the Ziegfeld Follies, which he often headlined, and describes every episode in his life in the form of a big production number. The Rogers character also performs rope tricks in between scenes. The revue contains snippets of Rogers' famous homespun style of wisdom and common sense and tries to convey the personality of this quintessentially American figure whose most famous quote was "I never met a man I didn't like."
Muito Mais Que um Crime
Orchestrator
A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.
Andy Williams' Early New England Christmas
Music Arranger
Andy Williams' Early New England Christmas
Andy Williams' Early New England Christmas
Conductor
Andy Williams' Early New England Christmas
EPCOT Center: The Opening Celebration
Music Arranger
Danny Kaye tours EPCOT Center, singing its praises in Future World and the World Showcase. He meets celebrities and park characters like Dreamfinder and Figment, and speaks with some of the people responsible for creating the park.
Linda in Wonderland
Music Arranger
“Linda In Wonderland” is Linda Lavin’s variety television special that aired on Thanksgiving Day, 1980. Special guests include; Lynn Redgrave, Anthony Newley and Ron Leibman. Her characters of “Alice Hyatt” and “Sam Butler” from her television show “Alice” also make appearances as Ms. Lavin plays dual roles for both. Ms. Lavin and her guests perform Broadway and other musical numbers in various settings and medleys, mixed in with solo performances and Linda giving us a little background about herself growing up, along with some humor and pizzazz.
Mitzi & 100 Guys
Music Director
Mitzi Gaynor in a song and dance hour with an all-male, star-studded ensemble featuring her main guests Michael Landon (Little House on the Prairie) and Jack Albertson (Chico and the Man), plus 28 celebrities as her "Million Dollar Chorus." Songs performed include: "I Got the Music in Me," "The Most Beautiful Guy in the World," and "You Are the Sunshine of My Life."
Mitzi... A Tribute to the American Housewife
Music Director
Mitzi Gaynor and guests Ted Knight (Mary Tyler Moore Show), Jerry Orbach (Chicago), Suzanne Pleshette (Bob Newhart Show) and Jane Withers in music, dance and comedy vignettes celebrating housewives. Songs include "Married," "I Can Cook, Too," and "You Are the Sunshine of My Life." The cast also attend a party performing "The Little Things We Do Together" from Stephen Sondheim's Company.
Mitzi... A Tribute to the American Housewife
Music Arranger
Mitzi Gaynor and guests Ted Knight (Mary Tyler Moore Show), Jerry Orbach (Chicago), Suzanne Pleshette (Bob Newhart Show) and Jane Withers in music, dance and comedy vignettes celebrating housewives. Songs include "Married," "I Can Cook, Too," and "You Are the Sunshine of My Life." The cast also attend a party performing "The Little Things We Do Together" from Stephen Sondheim's Company.
Golpe de Mestre
Music
Após o assassinato de um amigo em comum, o aspirante a vigarista Johnny Hooker junta-se ao velho Henry Gondorff para se vingar de Doyle Lonnega, o cruel chefe responsável pelo crime. Hooker e Gondorff implementam um plano elaborado para que Lonnegan não descubra que está sendo enganado. O grande golpe começa a se desenrolar, mas as coisas não saem como planejaram e a destemida dupla faz improvisações de última hora.
O Horror do Passado
Music
A scientist is persuaded by the government to inject himself with the brain fluid of a dying colleague in order to preserve missile-defense secrets. However, he finds that he is now torn between his own wife and that of his dead colleague, who was a Nazi sympathizer.
Young Americans
Music
A 1967 documentary film chronicling the travel experiences of The Young Americans choir. It was given an Academy Award in 1969, though it was revoked because it was released in 1967 and was thus ineligible, the only film in history to have done so.