Quick update for those readers whom may have noticed I haven't written here since April... April! God, the year is flying by.
Girlfriends is now on draft 2.3 - all the initial songs are written save for the finale, and we are about to record demos of the new songs to send off to Korea to hopefully impress our producers out there. We've got a great lineup for the demo - Nicole Faraday, Shona White, Paul Baker, Jon Robyns, Chris Thatcher, Rachel Bingham, Dougal Irvine, Sarah Wallace, Kerry Washington, Nikki Gerrard, Sophia Behn, Lucyelle Cliffe and Emily Bryant have all valiantly agreed to take part, so as long as we can work everyone's schedule out that should be the cast of the first demo recordings of the show. Very exciting, but still early days. Then we do a reading next month and see where we are with it all - it's been a hurried period, really I think we did a year's work in four months, so we won't know until the reading and demo etc whether it all feels a bit rushed or whether it has benefited from being created apace. We'll see. I've been really excited about the project, but it's always ups and downs with these things - one minute you love it, the next you worry you're writing a pile of shit, such is life. It's certainly a far cry from the slow, painstaking process of the early years spent creating Tomorrow Morning and I always insisted I must start writing faster. I have been, but still, there hasn't yet really been a show to follow up TM, and frustratingly TM is not quite where it should be, or could be, yet.
The Lost Christmas will play at the Hazlitt Arts Centre in Maidstone this December. We've got a great bunch of kids who will star in this show which will be the first production of the new, refined version of the piece after our workshop at the Hazlitt this year, since the original version played in Dartford in 2007, so I'm really excited to get the show on and can't wait to see it.
Through the Door is gracing the West End stage for one night only, November 6th, on the mainstage at Trafalgar Studios (on the set of Othello, very nice). The cast who will join Ms Julie Atherton will be announced in October, and I am really thrilled that Julie is still with us to debut the lead role of Charlotte in this show, the role she created in our first workshops of the show last year, and hopefully the role she will play eventually in a full production of TTD. We are working hard at the final script and I'm about to start working with the orchestrator Paul Herbert who is charged with making the score work for our band of merry men - all that work for one night!? Jeez, I hope it's all worth it!...
Perfect Pitch just did a concert in Edinburgh which had a few of my songs in it, which is also playing in Eastbourne next month where I hope to get to see it. I didn't get up to Edinburgh this year. Sophie is now in Oliver! so once again she has a busy schedule; and what with deadlines on Girlfriends to meet and planning the recording, plus lots going on with the business that I co-own with my missus Claire, we have had a busy summer that has quite simply flown by. Rocketed by, I should say. We managed two days away this week, where we found a nice hotel (with pool - strict criteria!) in Kent and just tried to forget about work for a bit and concentrate on the girls.
The sheet music book is at the printers, so it should not be long now before Tomorrow Morning is out in the world in one more small way! There are still plans bubbling, but they're not exactly boiling, let's just say that. The wheels seem to grind very slowly as far as my baby is concerned!
So that's it. There are a couple of smaller little projects on the pile, but that's about the size of it for 2009. I am of course available for movie scores, bespoke hit songs and Broadway gigs for 2010 so please don't hesitate to give me a call. I'm hoping to remain resolutely, blindly and pig-headedly passionate about music theatre for at least another twelve to fourteen months, and then, seriously, I think film and TV music might once again become my prime ambition!
And then if that enigmatic genius of a jetset director whom I kind of know is reading this (and why wouldn't he be?) I have just one thing to say... let's get on with that show, it's been put off for far too long! Why not gimme a call, I'm ready to lyricize just for you and our old pal Giovanni...!
And on that note, I close; apart from saying that I am in awe of the following people this week: Andy Murray, Jessica Ennis, Jenny Meadows, Greg Rutherford and Will Sharman. Go GB!
Girlfriends is now on draft 2.3 - all the initial songs are written save for the finale, and we are about to record demos of the new songs to send off to Korea to hopefully impress our producers out there. We've got a great lineup for the demo - Nicole Faraday, Shona White, Paul Baker, Jon Robyns, Chris Thatcher, Rachel Bingham, Dougal Irvine, Sarah Wallace, Kerry Washington, Nikki Gerrard, Sophia Behn, Lucyelle Cliffe and Emily Bryant have all valiantly agreed to take part, so as long as we can work everyone's schedule out that should be the cast of the first demo recordings of the show. Very exciting, but still early days. Then we do a reading next month and see where we are with it all - it's been a hurried period, really I think we did a year's work in four months, so we won't know until the reading and demo etc whether it all feels a bit rushed or whether it has benefited from being created apace. We'll see. I've been really excited about the project, but it's always ups and downs with these things - one minute you love it, the next you worry you're writing a pile of shit, such is life. It's certainly a far cry from the slow, painstaking process of the early years spent creating Tomorrow Morning and I always insisted I must start writing faster. I have been, but still, there hasn't yet really been a show to follow up TM, and frustratingly TM is not quite where it should be, or could be, yet.
The Lost Christmas will play at the Hazlitt Arts Centre in Maidstone this December. We've got a great bunch of kids who will star in this show which will be the first production of the new, refined version of the piece after our workshop at the Hazlitt this year, since the original version played in Dartford in 2007, so I'm really excited to get the show on and can't wait to see it.
Through the Door is gracing the West End stage for one night only, November 6th, on the mainstage at Trafalgar Studios (on the set of Othello, very nice). The cast who will join Ms Julie Atherton will be announced in October, and I am really thrilled that Julie is still with us to debut the lead role of Charlotte in this show, the role she created in our first workshops of the show last year, and hopefully the role she will play eventually in a full production of TTD. We are working hard at the final script and I'm about to start working with the orchestrator Paul Herbert who is charged with making the score work for our band of merry men - all that work for one night!? Jeez, I hope it's all worth it!...
Perfect Pitch just did a concert in Edinburgh which had a few of my songs in it, which is also playing in Eastbourne next month where I hope to get to see it. I didn't get up to Edinburgh this year. Sophie is now in Oliver! so once again she has a busy schedule; and what with deadlines on Girlfriends to meet and planning the recording, plus lots going on with the business that I co-own with my missus Claire, we have had a busy summer that has quite simply flown by. Rocketed by, I should say. We managed two days away this week, where we found a nice hotel (with pool - strict criteria!) in Kent and just tried to forget about work for a bit and concentrate on the girls.
The sheet music book is at the printers, so it should not be long now before Tomorrow Morning is out in the world in one more small way! There are still plans bubbling, but they're not exactly boiling, let's just say that. The wheels seem to grind very slowly as far as my baby is concerned!
So that's it. There are a couple of smaller little projects on the pile, but that's about the size of it for 2009. I am of course available for movie scores, bespoke hit songs and Broadway gigs for 2010 so please don't hesitate to give me a call. I'm hoping to remain resolutely, blindly and pig-headedly passionate about music theatre for at least another twelve to fourteen months, and then, seriously, I think film and TV music might once again become my prime ambition!
And then if that enigmatic genius of a jetset director whom I kind of know is reading this (and why wouldn't he be?) I have just one thing to say... let's get on with that show, it's been put off for far too long! Why not gimme a call, I'm ready to lyricize just for you and our old pal Giovanni...!
And on that note, I close; apart from saying that I am in awe of the following people this week: Andy Murray, Jessica Ennis, Jenny Meadows, Greg Rutherford and Will Sharman. Go GB!
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