His lively original compositions ironically led to Mark Cella putting down his composer's pen to assume his major production debut as musical director for a national touring production of Grease in 1995. Fourteen months on the road with the production earned him valuable experience and industry contacts that led Mark B. Cella to the long running Chicago based production of Phantom of the Opera from 1997 to 1999 and also wound up producing the cast album for the show.
This experience in the recording studio re-ignited his love of composing and recording and Mark took a sabbatical from the theatre in 2000 and began to record his own songs and producing several bands in the Chicago area including 13 Nightmares and Brain. Brain's single "Torture" charted well reaching top 100 status on college radio stations from Boston to Seattle. "Not bad for a show tune writer", Mark likes to say.
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