The man behind the beautiful music featured in L.A.’s upcoming stage production of The Seven Year Itch has a story every bit as interesting as the show itself. For composer Bruce B. Lee has a second career as one of the leading women’s health doctors in the nation and is equally at home whether in surgery or a studio. He’s delivered 6,000 babies, is the creator of a revolutionary new medical procedure and writes music for films, ballet and now a play.
But it is only in recent years that he has begun to again mix music with his other passion, medicine, despite being a very skilled musician as a child. “Music was, and is, an essential part of my being,” says Bruce.
“I had piano lessons from an early age and fondly remember as a teenager that girls liked how I could play popular love songs of the day. My mother told me a few of the local music instructors thought I was beyond the level they taught and it was suggested I attend the top music school, Julliard. But my father said ‘No son
