Paul Shaffer Biography

Paul Shaffer has been David Letterman's musical director and sidekick on CBS-TV's Late Show for the past 27 years. Shaffer's professional career was launched in 1972 when after hearing him play piano composer Stephen Schwartz hired him on the spot to be musical director for the celebrated Toronto production of Godspell. The now-legendary cast included Eugene Levy Martin Short Andrea Martin Victor Garber and Gilda Radner. The show was a massive hit and Shaffer's star ignited. Two years later he opened on Broadway playing piano in the musical The Magic Show. The next stop on his trajectory was a five-year stint with a new television show NBC's Saturday Night Live. He played keyboards composed special musical material and in 1980 became a featured performer; his dead-on impression of Don Kirshner became an SNL mainstay.

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