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Serious Money - by Caryl
Churchill at Electric Theatre, Guildford - this week
21st to 24th May
- Electric Theatre, Guildford
Guildford School of Acting are
presenting the 1987 play with final year Acting and Musical Theatre students.
It's a satirical play focussing on the trading floors of LIFFE - the London
International Financial Futures Exchange. It's gritty and has lots of bad
language. I've arranged and directed the two songs in the play. Gari
Jones directs.
http://www.gsauk.org
When Midnight Strikes - by
Charles Miller and Kevin Hammond
September 2008,
Guildford
I continue my association with the
Guildford School of Acting as Musical Director of their production of this 2007
musical. The show was premiered at the Finborough Theatre and was
originally directed by Fenton Gray. Cast and creative team details to
follow.
http://www.gsauk.org
http://www.whenmidnightstrikes.com
Chaplin at GSA
Conservatoire - this week
21st November to
24th November - Bellairs Playhouse, Guildford
Rehearsals for Chaplin are almost
over and the show opens on Wednesday 21st November. The production is
directed by Martin Connor and choreographed by Bill Deamer.
http://www.conservatoire.org
http://www.chaplinthemusical.com
Company at GSA
Conservatoire - final performance
10th ctober to
16th October - Bellairs Playhouse, Guildford
Company has now finished!
Rehearsals for Chaplin start shortly......
http://www.conservatoire.org
Company at GSA
Conservatoire - rehearsals in progress
10th ctober to
16th October - Bellairs Playhouse, Guildford
Updated on 22nd September:
we're two weeks into the rehearsal process. All music is learned and Act
One is almost completely blocked and set. The talented cast of 18 final
year students are doing a fine job - looking and sounding great. Tickets
will go fast. £8.50 (£7.50 for concessions) available from the box office
on 01483 444789.
http://www.conservatoire.org
Company and Chaplin at GSA
Conservatoire
October and
November 2007 - Bellairs Playhouse, Guildford
I'm delighted to announce I've been
engaged to act as Musical Director for two productions at GSA Conservatoire in
the autumn term of 2007/08. The first is Stephen Sondheim's Company to be
performed in mid October and will be directed by Kenn Oldfield. The second
production, in November, is Chaplin the Musical - a rarely performed musical
written by Ernest Kinoy, Roger Anderson and Lee Goldsmith.
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/110646.html
http://www.chaplinthemusical.com/
Summer School at GSA
Conservatoire
30th July to 11th
August 2007 - Guildford
I've just finished working on a
two-week Musical Theatre summer school hosted by GSA Conservatoire. My
group was made up of 17 students - and I worked with Caroline Sheen, Rosemary
Ashe, Jill Francis and Gerry Tebbutt. During the fortnight we covered
Group Singing, individual singing tutorials, song presentation masterclasses and
a thirty minute performance of "Novel Inspirations" - a selection of songs,
dances and scenes compiled by Caroline Sheen. Congratulations to the
seventeen students who worked very hard and performed to a great standard in the
performance on the final day.
Sweeney Todd - Bryn Terfel
and Maria Friedman at the Royal Festival Hall
5th to 57th July
2007 - royal festival hall
The semi-staged production of
Sondheim's masterpiece was a great success with wonderful performances from Bryn
Terfel, Maria Friedman, Phillip Quast, Daniel Evans, Emma Williams, Daniel Boys
and the rest of the cast. I'm particularly proud of the ten GSA
students that formed the ensemble. They were a delight to work with - and
we got endless praise for the quality of their performances.
Grand Hotel - Mountview
Academy
Cameron
Mackintosh studios, london
I've just finished working on the
musical Grand Hotel at Mountview Academy with a talented cast of 2nd year
studios. With me were the wonderful director Sally-Ann Gritton and
fabulous choreographer Cressida Carré.
Mephistopheles Smith -
Richard O'Brien's hedonistic rock'n'roll masterpiece
May 2007 in
Brighton; August 2007 in Edinburgh
The performances in Brighton have
finished - and went down very well. The talented and sexy cast (Tim
Driesen, Lindsey Lauer and Claire Huckle) did a fantastic job. The cast
recording is now available. The show is next being performed at
Guilfest,
Edinburgh Fringe Festival and then at
venues in Reading, Guildford and Newbury. See
www.mephistophelessmith.co.uk
for more details. E-mail me if
you'd like to buy the CD.
A New Musical - Gathering
Storm
6th to 7th April 2007
Hot of the press - I've been asked
to MD a new musical called Gathering Storm - written for the MA course at GSA
Conservatoire by composer Paul Kessell-Holland and lyricist Nicholas Scrivens.
Performances are taking place on 6th and 7th April, 2007 at Bellairs Playhouse,
Guildford.
A Little Sondheim on
the Side @ Haydon Studios, GSA Conservatoire
7th to 9th
February 2007
A talented cast of 10 students from
the GSA Conservatoire, in their third year on the Musical Theatre degree course,
have just completed a short run of four performances of a Sondheim revue.
I compiled the show and created new vocal arrangements. The show was directed by
Stewart Nicholls.
Four Unlikely Lovers @ Trafalgar
Studios
22nd January 2007
The show - following the sell-out
performance at Jermyn Street in December - was a great success! The show
almost sold out - not bad for a Monday night in January - and the superb cast
(Kieran Brown, Nic Gibney, Lindsey Lauer and Penny Matthews) did me proud!
Four Unlikely Lovers
@ Jermyn Street Theatre
17th December
2006
Dab
Hand Productions - my production company - presented this revue of the wonderful
songs of William Finn for one night only at Jermyn Street Theatre. It was
directed by Matt Byham and I provided the Musical Direction. The cast were
Nic Gibney, Nathaniel Keane, Lindsey Lauer and Penny Matthews. The show
was sold out and shortly after the show we were invited to perform the show
again at Trafalgar Studios - part of the Ambassador Theatre Group.
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