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Next Door's Baby
''Next Door's Baby'' is a musical with music and lyrics by Matthew Strachan and book by Bernie Gaughan (whose novels are published under the name Bernadette Strachan), based on Gaughan's radio play of the same name. Set in 1950's Dublin, it tells the story of two neighbouring families who attempt to reconcile their lives with secrets they have kept to avoid facing public shame. The two daughters of the families strike up an unlikely friendship which leads them to contemplate running away and leaving their families behind. Orange Tree Theatre Production The musical's first production was at the Orange Tree Theatre, London in 2008 starring Louise Gold, Riona O'Connor and Stephen Carlile. The show was written for the theatre by the husband and wife team of Strachan and Gaughan, Strachan having had close links with the theatre, composing music for several plays and acted as musical director for productions of Kander and Ebb's ''Flora the Red Menace'' and '' The Rink''. Cast *Loui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Strachan
Matthew Strachan ( or ; 11 December 1970 – 8 September 2021) was an English composer and singer-songwriter. His best known work is the music for British television game show ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'' written with his father Keith, which would become a global franchise, and the BBC Radio 4 World War I drama series ''Home Front''. He also wrote music to film and television productions such as ''Extract'', '' The Detectives'', ''Question Time'', ''Winning Lines'', jingles for several television commercials, and scores for stage musicals. Biography Strachan began writing songs as a teenager. His first professional job was to write five songs for the BBCTV drama ''Boogie Outlaws''.Screened Music Interview After training at |
Kim Ismay
Kim Ismay is a British actress and singer and a former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. She is perhaps best known for playing the role of Tanya in the London production of the stage musical '' Mamma Mia!'', Madame Morrible in the international and UK & Ireland tours of ''Wicked'' and as the Baroness in '' Chitty Chitty Bang Bang''. History The daughter of Ellen Ismay (1923–2002), Kim Ismay took a Bachelor of Arts degree in Performing Arts at the University of Kent. Since 1997 Ismay has been a Director and Fellow of the New Era Academy of Drama & Music. She is a patron of Momentum, the children's cancer charity, helping them to raise funds by producing and directing galas featuring West End stars. She is also an Ambassador for the Theatre charity Acting for Others, and an active supporter of Madtrust, the theatrical AIDS charity. Career Theatre Ismay's theatre appearances include ''Cabaret'' (1986) at the Strand Theatre; ''Stop the World – I Want to Get Off'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musicals Based On Plays
Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance. The story and emotional content of a musical – humor, pathos, love, anger – are communicated through words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an integrated whole. Although musical theatre overlaps with other theatrical forms like opera and dance, it may be distinguished by the equal importance given to the music as compared with the dialogue, movement and other elements. Since the early 20th century, musical theatre stage works have generally been called, simply, musicals. Although music has been a part of dramatic presentations since ancient times, modern Western musical theatre emerged during the 19th century, with many structural elements established by the works of Gilbert and Sullivan in Britain and those of Harrigan and Hart in America. These were followed by the numerous Edwardian musical comedies and the musical theatre w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Musicals
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2008 Musicals
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Josef Locke
Joseph McLaughlin (23 March 1917 – 15 October 1999), known professionally as Josef Locke, was an Irish tenor. He was successful in the United Kingdom and Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s. Background Born in Derry, Ireland, he was the son of a butcher and cattle dealer, and one of nine children. He started singing in local churches in the Bogside at the age of seven, and as a teenager added two years to his age to enlist in the Irish Guards, later serving abroad with the Palestine Police Force, before returning in the late 1930s to join the Royal Ulster Constabulary. Career Known as ''The Singing Bobby'', he became a local celebrity before starting to work the UK variety circuit, where he also played summer seasons in English seaside resorts. The renowned Irish tenor John McCormack advised him that his voice was better suited to a lighter repertoire than the operatic one he had in mind, and urged him to find an agent—thus he found the noted impresario Jack Hylton who booked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Crewes
Martin Crewes is an Australian stage, television and movie actor. Early life Crewes was born in London. He moved to Australia when he was 10 years of age, and attended the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, in Perth, Western Australia. Since graduating, Crewes has taken part in many stage plays and musical productions, both in Australia and internationally, and has also appeared in various television and movie productions. Career Crewes' stage musical theatre roles include Lt. Joe Cable in ''South Pacific'', Marius in ''Les Misérables'', Claud in ''Hair'' and Chino in ''West Side Story''. Other stage musicals include ''Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat'', '' The Wizard of Oz'' and ''Aspects of Love''. Crewes originated the leading role of Walter Hartright in the West End production of '' The Woman in White'' (in which he starred from September 2004 to July 2005). For his horse riding role as Jim Ryan in the Australian musical theatre production of '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Pope
Philip R. J. Pope is a British composer and actor. He is best known for role as Tony Angelino in Only Fools And Horses. He was educated at Downside School and New College, Oxford. Performer Pope appeared in the Oxford Revue in Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1978 and 1979, both with Angus Deayton. He performed in the BBC radio comedy series '' Radio Active'' (1980–87) and has also starred in a number of television comedy series, including ''Who Dares Wins'' (1983–88), ''Chelmsford 123'' (1988–90), ''Round the Bend'' (1989–91) and '' KYTV'' (1989–93). He made guest appearances in ''Blackadder'' as the painter Leonardo Acropolis, and in '' Shelley'' as pop star Hobo (with Hywel Bennett as James Shelley). Pope also appeared as Tony Angelino, the singing Dustman in the ''Only Fools and Horses'' episode "Stage Fright", in 1991. Pope toured the UK as a member of the cast of ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Series Live!'', for which he was also musical director.< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elinor Lawless
Elinor Lawless is a Northern Irish actress, known for portraying the role of Stevie Nash in the BBC medical drama series ''Casualty (TV series), Casualty''. Prior to her role in ''Casualty'', Lawless appeared in various stage productions and BBC television series, including ''EastEnders'' and ''Doctors (2000 TV series), Doctors''. Early and personal life Lawless was born in Draperstown, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. At the age of three, she was diagnosed with two cardiac conditions; a hole in heart, hole in her heart and anomalous pulmonary venous connection, where blood runs in the wrong direction. She spent a lot of time in hospitals as a child, and at seven, she had open-heart surgery in the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children. She had regular check-up appointments until the age of 21, when she was deemed healthy. While attending St Mary's Grammar School in Magherafelt, she finished as runner-up in PricewaterhouseCoopers' award ceremony in the Leaders of Tomorrow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernadette Strachan
Bernadette Strachan (' Gaughan, born 27 December 1962) is an English author of popular women's fiction and among the more popular writers of "chick lit". Biography Strachan was born in Fulham, London, into an Irish Catholic family. Her Irish background is often incorporated into her writing, particularly in the semi-autobiographical musical ''Next Door's Baby'' which was written for London's Orange Tree Theatre with Matthew Strachan. Prior to becoming an author, she worked in the media as a radio advertising producer and subsequently as an agent for voiceover artists. Her first novel, ''The Reluctant Landlady'', was published by Hodder & Stoughton in 2004. Since then she has published three further novels with the same publisher. In 2009, her fifth book, ''How to Lose a Husband and Gain a Life'', followed in 2010 by ''Why Do We Have to Live with Men?'', were both published by Little, Brown. In 2013, her seventh novel, ''The Valentine's Card'', was published by Little, Brown, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rink (musical)
''The Rink'' is a musical with a book by Terrence McNally, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and music by John Kander, the tenth Kander and Ebb collaboration. The musical focuses on Anna, the owner of a dilapidated roller skating rink on the boardwalk of a decaying seaside resort, who has decided to sell it to developers. Complicating her plans are her prodigal daughter Angel, who returns to town seeking to reconnect with the people and places she long ago left behind. Through a series of flashbacks, revelations, and minimal forward-moving plot development, the two deal with their pasts in their attempt to reconcile and move on with their lives. Production history Background The musical began as a small off-Broadway musical with music by Kander and Ebb, the book by Albert Innaurato, and direction by Arthur Laurents, focusing on an Italian-American mother and her estranged daughter. As the project was not doing well, Terrence McNally was brought in to write the book and Laurents left. In place ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flora The Red Menace
''Flora the Red Menace'' is a musical with a book by George Abbott and Robert Russell, music by John Kander, and lyrics by Fred Ebb. The original 1965 production starred Liza Minnelli in the title role in her Broadway debut, for which she won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. This was the first collaboration between Kander and Ebb, who later wrote Broadway and Hollywood hits such as ''Cabaret'' and ''Chicago''. Although not full of well-known numbers ("A Quiet Thing" and "Sing Happy" aside), the score does present a valuable insight into the later work of Kander and Ebb. Like ''Cabaret'' and ''Chicago'', it features a headstrong heroine and has a strong dose of political content. Productions ''Flora the Red Menace'' opened on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre on May 11, 1965, and closed on July 24, 1965, after 87 performances. The cast featured Liza Minnelli as Flora, Bob Dishy as Harry Toukarian and Cathryn Damon as Comrade Charlotte. Direction was by George Abbott, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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