Shows By MMD Associates...
by MMD Associate Willy Russell
Phoenix Theatre London UK
28 July 1988 - still running
One of the longest running musicals in the West End and a massive success all over the world, continues its London run. more info/booking
adapted from the novel by Compton McKenzie, book by Shona McKee McNeil, music and lyrics by MMD Associate Ian Hammond Brown
Pitlochry Festival Theatre UK
15 May 2009 - 17 October 2009
1943: the curse of rationing has visited the remote Hebridean islands of Little Todday and Great Todday and the thirsty islanders have all but run out of uisge beatha - the water of life. When the S.S. Cabinet Minister runs aground with fifty thousand cases of whisky aboard, the islanders rush to take advantage of the unexpected bounty. But disaster threatens when the Home Guard learns of the illicit salvage operation - and attempts to confiscate the liquor! To celebrate Scotland's Year of Homecoming, we are delighted to announce the world première of this new musical, based on Compton Mackenzie's funny, romantic and hugely entertaining novel. With a score that conjures up both the 1940s and the unmistakable sounds of the Western Isles, performed by a highly talented cast of actor-musicians, Whisky Galore – A Musical! promises to be a season highlight! more info/booking
by MMD Associate Alexander S. Bermange and Wolfgang Adenberg
Amphitheater Schloss Park Phillipsruhe Hanau Franfurt Germany
22 May 2009 - 2 August 2009
A new musical based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale of the same name more info/booking 00 49 6181 2950
Devised by Matthew Bourne from Oscar Wilde, Music by MMD Associate Terry Davies
Touring
4 June 2009 - 28 November 2009
A dance drama retelling Wilde's gothic fable in the image obsessed world of contemporary art and politics. more info/booking
by MMD Associate Alexander S. Bermange and Dieter Stegmann
Amphitheater Schloss Park Phillipsruhe Hanau Franfurt Germany
12 June 2009 - 28 July 2009
A new musical based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale of the same name more info/booking 00 49 6181 2950
book by MMD Associate Joe Graham
OFS Studio UK
30 June 2009 - 4 July 2009
A musical of life. love and linedancing... Following on from their production of 'Dancing to the Sound of Crunching Snails' at this year's Oxfringe 2009 in April, Balancing Act present another production from Joe Graham. A Fistful of Mondays, a romantic comedy, is set in Walbeswick Sports and Social Club and follows the fortunes and romances of the Monday Night All Star Linedancing Club. Featuring a classic country soundtrack to keep the action swinging along, including such numbers as RING OF FIRE, ACHY BREAKY HEART, DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY, MAN I FEEL LIKE A WOMAN, CRAZY and many more... It should get you on your feet dancing along at the end. Balancing Act put together a part professional cast for their biggest musical production to date. If you like what you've seen in Joe Graham's plays in festivals, then don't miss this one!! more info/booking
by MMD Associate Conor Mitchell
1 July 2009 - 1 July 2009
The National Theatre presents a new musical by Conor Mitchell.
by MMD Associate Marc Folan and with Jim Batten
Thomas Arnold School Essex UK
1 July 2009 - 1 July 2009
Fame Idle is the story of three kids who are confused as to why everyone around them seem to be obsessed with celebrity culture. It's a musical comedy with a moral message: "Fame ain't all it's cracked up to be." It has a modern contemporary score and a witty script that follows or three friends as they discover what friendship really means when faced with the chance of fame – but at what cost? more info/booking
by MMD Associate Marc Folan and with Jim Batten
St Eugene de Mazenod School Camden London UK
1 July 2009 - 1 July 2009
Fame Idle is the story of three kids who are confused as to why everyone around them seem to be obsessed with celebrity culture. It's a musical comedy with a moral message: "Fame ain't all it's cracked up to be." It has a modern contemporary score and a witty script that follows or three friends as they discover what friendship really means when faced with the chance of fame – but at what cost? more info/booking
by MMD Associate Conor Mitchell
Grand Salon, Theatre Royal Drury Lane Drury Lane London UK
7 July 2009 - 7 July 2009
Supported by the Noel Coward Foundation. Old 100th was written to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of its author, Gogol this year. Commissioned by LAMDA in 2007, it is a theatrical exploration of a man's descent into the abyss of insanity. It is written in absurdist form and is a free adaptation of the original text. more info/booking
Devised by Matthew Bourne from Oscar Wilde, Music by MMD Associate Terry Davies
Sadlers Wells London UK
7 July 2009 - 19 July 2009
A dance drama retelling Wilde's gothic fable in the image obsessed world of contemporary art and politics. more info/booking
by MMD Associate Marc Folan and with Jim Batten
Brettenham Primary School Enfield London UK
8 July 2009 - 8 July 2009
Fame Idle is the story of three kids who are confused as to why everyone around them seem to be obsessed with celebrity culture. It's a musical comedy with a moral message: "Fame ain't all it's cracked up to be." It has a modern contemporary score and a witty script that follows or three friends as they discover what friendship really means when faced with the chance of fame – but at what cost? more info/booking
Dracula - The Vampire Strikes Back
music and lyrics by MMD Associate Tim Saward; book and lyrics by Thos Ribbits
Third Floor Arts Centre, Portsmouth Central Library Guildhall Square Portsmouth UK
8 July 2009 - 9 July 2009
Performed by the City Youth Theatre. A Gothic panto with an original vaudevillian score, suitable for all the family. Follow the adventures of Sapphi the vampire slayer as she tracks down the villainous Count, aided by friend Lucy Lastic, the useless Jonathan Harker, dame Coco Van Helsing and hindered by the incompetent Sheerluck Jones. Everything's at stake, so Count yourself in full-bloodedly
music by MMD Associate Stuart Wood, book by Salley Long and Stuart Wood
Hoxton Hall 130 Hoxton Street London NS1 6SH UK
8 July 2009 - 24 July 2009
On the eve of his civil ceremony Frank finds himself in his closet, clearing out his collection of Diva frocks. Frank’s Closet frolics through contemporary mores and the universal themes of identity and transformation with characteristic British panache. Music hall Chairman Frank and his Gaiety Girls revel in the reality gap between the human and the divine, with star turns (all played by Mullaney) from Marie Lloyd, Julie Andrews, Ethel Merman, Karen Carpenter, Judy Garland and Agnetha Faltskog. Frank asks: What d’you need to ditch to get hitched? more info/booking
The Buried Moon
music by MMD Associate Tom Armstrong, lyrics by Michael Armstrong
Harwell Primary School The Styles, Harwell, Didcot Oxford UK
9 July 2009 - 9 July 2009
The Buried Moon is on opera for primary school children. Based on a Lincolnshire folktale the story tells of the Moon's capture by an evil band of 'things that dwell in the night' and her rescue by a brave bunch of villagers. A classic story of good triumphing over evil! more info/booking 01235 835337
featuring work by MMD Associates Mark Bunyan, Michael Dresser, Susannah Pearse & Rebecca Applin, Nicholas Scrivens & Paul Kessell-Holland, Tim Saward and Darren Wayte
Jermyn Street Theatre Jermyn Street London UK
11 July 2009 - 11 July 2009
You are invited to an informal book-in-hand presentation of songs and scenes created by participants in MMD's Writing Lab - generously hosted by the Jermyn Street Theatre, recorded on location for MusicalTalk.co.uk. Come along for a coffee and a croissant and informal chat and networking afterwards. more info/booking
by MMD Associate Marc Folan and with Jim Batten
Chalgrove Primary School Barnet Herts UK
13 July 2009 - 14 July 2009
Fame Idle is the story of three kids who are confused as to why everyone around them seem to be obsessed with celebrity culture. It's a musical comedy with a moral message: "Fame ain't all it's cracked up to be." It has a modern contemporary score and a witty script that follows or three friends as they discover what friendship really means when faced with the chance of fame – but at what cost? more info/booking
by MMD Associate Marc Folan and with Jim Batten
Cannon Lane Middle School Harrow Midddlesex UK
13 July 2009 - 14 July 2009
Fame Idle is the story of three kids who are confused as to why everyone around them seem to be obsessed with celebrity culture. It's a musical comedy with a moral message: "Fame ain't all it's cracked up to be." It has a modern contemporary score and a witty script that follows or three friends as they discover what friendship really means when faced with the chance of fame – but at what cost? more info/booking
Book by Bernard Besserglik (MMD associate), music, lyrics by Bob Barton
June Havoc Theatre 312 W. 36th Street New York, NY 10018 USA
13 July 2009 - 2 August 2009
Harpo Marx, arriving in Moscow in November 1933 as a good-will ambassador, rides to the rescue of a pair of star-crossed lovers after his interpreter's fiancé is wrongfully accused of sabotage. He is assisted by Ivy, the English-born wife of the Soviet foreign minister in his bid to outwit Joseph Stalin in two encounters that culminate in a madcap mopvie-style chase through the Kremlin involving multiple Harpos and Stalins. more info/booking
music by MMD Associate Elliot Davis, Book and Lyrics by Stephen Clark
Grand Salon, Theatre Royal Drury Lane Drury Lane London UK
14 July 2009 - 14 July 2009
Supported by the Noel Coward Foundation. X is a highly contemporary show combining the drive of a powerful love story with the energy of a modern rock / pop concert. It's honest, moving, shocking, sexy, fun and belongs to anyone who's fought for love.
The score is contemporary rock / pop. It ranges from groove-based material to soaring ballads. The audience, in what they hear and see, will experience a unique hybrid of stage-musical and ‘gig'.
The final production will use screens and film as part of the action.
X is a love story for today. Directed by Steven Dexter. more info/booking
The score is contemporary rock / pop. It ranges from groove-based material to soaring ballads. The audience, in what they hear and see, will experience a unique hybrid of stage-musical and ‘gig'.
The final production will use screens and film as part of the action.
X is a love story for today. Directed by Steven Dexter. more info/booking
by MMD Associate Marc Folan and with Jim Batten
Pope Paul Primary School Potters Bar Herts UK
15 July 2009 - 16 July 2009
Fame Idle is the story of three kids who are confused as to why everyone around them seem to be obsessed with celebrity culture. It's a musical comedy with a moral message: "Fame ain't all it's cracked up to be." It has a modern contemporary score and a witty script that follows or three friends as they discover what friendship really means when faced with the chance of fame – but at what cost? more info/booking
libretto by MMD Associate Julian Woolford, music by MMD Associate Richard John
15 July 2009 - 16 July 2009
Security Staff, Suicide Bombers and Sex in this r'n'b opera commissioned and produced by Theatre 503 for their Urban Sprawl project. A young man's bag search takes increasingly bizarre turns at Heathrow's Terminal Four. The piece was one of three commissioned through MMD by Theatre 503 and Theatrevoice for their Urban Scrawl project, a series of 53 podcasts, each 10 minutes long, each one drawing inspiration from a different station on the Piccadilly Line. Latitude Festival will host Urban Sprawl, live productions of 3 of the Urban Scrawl pieces. more info/booking
by MMD Associate Marc Folan and with Jim Batten
St Mary and St Pancras Primary School Camden London UK
16 July 2009 - 16 July 2009
Fame Idle is the story of three kids who are confused as to why everyone around them seem to be obsessed with celebrity culture. It's a musical comedy with a moral message: "Fame ain't all it's cracked up to be." It has a modern contemporary score and a witty script that follows or three friends as they discover what friendship really means when faced with the chance of fame – but at what cost? more info/booking
book and lyrics by MMD Associate Marita Phillips; music by Harriet Petherick Bushman
The Forest School Theatre Walthamstow London UK
19 July 2009 - 19 July 2009
What starts as an ordinary school playground with ordinary teenage tensions, gangs and cliques, takes a sinister turn when two strangers arrive at the school. One is a new girl, Delphi, with good in her; the other a charismatic street salesman with only bad. Although it might seem he’s only selling ice creams, the school’s coolest gang soon finds that this Pied Piper sells habits that can ruin your life.
Book, Music & Lyrics by MMD Associate Olly Ashmore
Grand Salon, Theatre Royal Drury Lane Drury Lane London UK
21 July 2009 - 21 July 2009
Supported by the Noel Coward Foundation. A new adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Come and join miserly Ebenezer Scrooge on the ‘tight' side of life. Imagine it's a snowy Christmas Eve back in Dickensian London and our unlovable curmudgeon is visited by a motley assortment of ghosts. These unwanted apparitions waft an unwilling Scrooge through his past, present and future. They hope to change his mean old ways before fate sends him to an early grave and fitting comeuppance in an uncomfortable after life – just ask Joseph Marley. Scrooge has spent years profiting from money lending and elevated being tight into an art form, surely his nocturnal encounters will show him the error of his ways?… The show is less a traditional adaptation, and more contemporary in writing style to previous shows on a similar theme. As some might say, ‘What the Dickens!?' more info/booking
by MMD Associates John Robinson (producer, composer, lyricist), Roberto Trippini (librettist, lyricist) and Conor Mitchell (orchestrator)
Comedy Theatre Panton Street London UK
24 July 2009 - 5 September 2009
Based on a play by Ron Read, Too Close to the Sun is an imaginary recreation of the last days of Ernest Hemingway's life. more info/booking 0844 871 7622
by MMD Associate Dougal Irvine
Public Theatre 425 Lafayette Street New York USA
28 July 2009 - 2 August 2009
The 'Brits on Tour have had an amazing Summer Holiday destroying the costa del sol. Now they're stuck in the worst situation possible...in their own company. Laugh, cry and cringe as they fall out and discover what friendship really means. more info/booking (+1) 212 967 7555
music and lyrics by MMD Associate Annemarie Lewis Thomas, book by Gerry Flanagan
Barbican Theatre Portsmouth UK
5 August 2009 - 7 August 2009
YMT brings an enchanting show fueled by envy, jealousy, love, hunger, passion and greed to the Barbican Theatre in Plymouth. With its boisterous and exciting Commedia dell'Arte style, Fool's Gold tells the tale of a father trying to marry off his wayward daughter, an inventor attempting to become an alchemist and a bitter servant plotting revenge. more info/booking 01752 267131
lyrics by MMD Associate Maxine Gallagher, music by Chris Seed
Venue 40, Quaker Meeting House 7 Victoria Terrace Edinburgh UK
10 August 2009 - 15 August 2009
Kidnapped by a toad, snatched by a maybug, married to a mole... life's quite an adventure when you're only the size of a thumb. A new children's musical (6+) based on the Hans Christian Anderson fairytale about a tiny girl trying to find her place in a big world. Sung-through, using elements of puppetry and dance, with original music and lyrics. Premiering in Edinburgh this year. * Primary Times Pick of the Fringe* more info/booking 0131 226 0000
The Party’s Just Beginning
by MMD Associate Richard Link and Adam Sandel
London UK
17 August 2009 - 18 August 2009
Award-winning song writers Richard Link and Adam Sandel cast a sly, satirical and ultimately celebratory eye over the gay and lesbian experience through history. From bold and brassy show tunes to disco and gospel, there's a musical style for every colour of the rainbow.
by MMD Associate Elliot Davis and James Bourne
Bracknell Arts Centre Berkshire UK
20 August 2009 - 22 August 2009
An original anti-hero story for today's generation. For every who ever felt they did not fit in. For everyone who was ever laughed at. For everyone who ever had a dream. This is your story. more info/booking
music by MMD Associate Jenni Roditi, libretto by Lyn Gambles
Arcola Theatre 27 Arcola Street Hackney London E8 2DJ UK
24 August 2009 - 24 August 2009
After 5000 years the Goddess returns. Ancient and modern. Beautiful, gifted, alive and a legend in the eyes of her people. How did she lose it all? In her journey to the Netherworld Inanna is stripped of all she has become... and must die...Her return to life offers us a new way to dance with destiny. Sacrifice becomes shared suffering and from hell comes healing...Can we learn the lessons of this great story and make our world whole again? more info/booking 020 7503 1646
by MMD Associate Marc Folan and with Jim Batten
Ulverston Youth Operatic Lake District UK
1 September 2009 - 1 September 2009
Fame Idle is the story of three kids who are confused as to why everyone around them seem to be obsessed with celebrity culture. It's a musical comedy with a moral message: "Fame ain't all it's cracked up to be." It has a modern contemporary score and a witty script that follows or three friends as they discover what friendship really means when faced with the chance of fame – but at what cost? more info/booking
original book, music & lyrics by MMD Associate Paul Boyd
Blakiston Theatre, Geelong Performing Arts Centre (GPAC) Victoria Australia
2 September 2009 - 4 September 2009
Last year ALICE THE MUSICAL celebrated ten years of hit productions across Ireland with its English premiere at the Castle Theatre in Wellingborough. The show is currently enjoying its professional USA premiere in a production at The Actors' Playhouse at The Miracle Theatre in Miami, Florida. The 2008 - 2009 season has also seen a record number of student productions of ALICE THE MUSICAL all over the world, with this latest Australian staging performed by the pupils of Matthew Flinders Girls Secondary College. pbm occasionally licenses student and amateur productions of Paul's back catalogue of shows - further details online at www.pbmusicals.com. Further information on the first ten years of ALICE THE MUSICAL, including past production photos, music samples, and video clips can be found online at www.pbmusicals.com more info/booking
book by MMD Associate Willy Russell; music and lyrics by Willy Russell and Bob Eaton (with additional music by Chris Mellor)
Royal Court Theatre (Liverpool) 1 Roe St Liverpool UK
11 September 2009 - 17 October 2009
Our Day Out was a massive TV hit when it was originally written in 1976 and was later turned into a popular stage play. Now, for 2009, Willy Russell has reworked the script and added some fantastic songs to create a brand new Musical! A very funny and heartwarming story, Mrs Kay's Progress Class are all on the coach and bound for Alton Towers... until Mr Briggs gets on board! The destination changes to a zoo in North Wales but there is no stopping the fun on a trip for the class that usually gets left behind. more info/booking 0870 787 1866
book, music and lyrics by MMD Associate Dominic Symonds
New Theatre Royal 20-24 Guildhall Walk Portsmouth PO1 2DD UK
30 September 2009 - 3 October 2009
Sweet FA tells the stories of Fatty Arbuckle, the silent comedian who fell from grace in the first big Hollywood scandal, and Peg Entwistle, the starlet who hoped for fame and fortune but ended up jumping from the Hollywood sign. With a taptastic score and a host of infectious numbers, Sweet FA is a thrilling new musical set amidst the glamour, glitz and gall of the movie industry. more info/booking 023 9264 9000
by MMD Associate Paul Boyd
Perth Theatre 185 High Street Perth, PH1 5UW UK
3 December 2009 - 2 January 2010
A new production of Paul Boyd's TMA Theatre Award-nominated musical. "A sophisticated musical whose production standards are of the highest quality ... hilarious scenes, moments of pure enchantment ... a show that demands to run and run" (Irish Times). Named Best Musical 2003 by Irish national paper Sunday Life. “This sharp, stylish production crosses the generation gap … a feast of treats for the eye and the ear” (The Stage). more info/booking 01738 621 031
book, music and lyrics by MMD Associate Paul Boyd
Lyric Theatre Elmwood Hall, University Road Belfast UK
4 December 2009 - 9 January 2010
A new production of Paul Boyd's acclaimed musical re-imagining of the literary classic. "Forget the Disney version ... this is more magical" (BBC Radio). A musical comedy telling the story of an eighteenth century acting troupe struggling to stage their new play from a script that is in entirely the wrong order. "This is captivating storytelling ... without doubt, this is a production for the young at heart of all ages" (The Stage) more info/booking 02890 385 673
