Schmidt, who is 35, credits the Skylight Adelaide‘s 1992 production of “Candide” at its old Jefferson Street theater as the catalyst for his pursuance of an arts career. “For the early part of my career, Skylight Adelaide was my artistic home outside of my music composition and technology studies at UWM,” he says. But Schmidt wasn’t celebrating. He had yet to read the reviews because he was too busy working on his next projects. Schmidt was recording that day his original music and sound design for a production of “Pygmalion” at Houston’s prestigious Alley Theatre..
