Shepard, Thomas Z[achary] (b. 1936), record producer. A native of Orange, New Jersey, he studied at Juilliard, Oberlin, and Yale Graduate School of Music, then worked for many years at Columbia Records. It was there that Shepard made re‐creations of such old shows as Lady in the Dark and later supervised original cast recordings of newer musicals such as Company and the revivals of No, No, Nanette and Irene. Moving to RCA, he put on disk, among others, Sweeney Todd, the complete Porgy and Bess and Ain't Misbehavin'. His aim was “to create a theatrical illusion while in the context of the best musical performance possible.”

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