LSW proudly presented
OUT OF THE PIANO as third programme
in the 'Just
Do It' / Tim Williams Award Scheme
'From Older Words Comes New Theatre Music'
A Celebration of the Art of Theatrical Composition,
The Tim
Williams Award Scheme is in memory of
the London Shakespeare Workout's (LSW)
late Musical Director, Tim Williams
"LSW works at the highest level." - Michael Billington, The Guardian
13 Vibrant
British Composers
offered the world premiere
of 20 New Theatrical Songs
as Inspired by
Classical/Established Texts
Not Originally Intended for Song
(Photographs by Dave Morgan, Logan Riehl)
"What
composing talent, what interpretive skill … and what fun!" - British
Theatre Guide
PLUS a selection of previous Tim Williams Award (TWA) highlights
as
performed by
a notable range of West End voices
plus selection/presentation of the
THIRD TIM WILLIAMS AWARD FOR
COMPOSITION to
Christopher Hamilton
for BURN
To LISTEN to the Christopher Hamilton's composition
BURN
performed by the glorious Diane Pilkington
in a live podcast from
Musical Talk
please click HERE
(please scroll down to the end to LISTEN to a further thirteen songs in a 3rd Tim Williams Awards Musical
Sampling.
Additionally to hear highlights from the 2nd TWA programme READINESS IS ALL
please cluck
HERE)
INAUGURAL AUDIENCE CLUB
'OLD WORDS - NEW THEATRICAL SONG' COMPOSITION AWARD to
Craig Adams
To LISTEN to the Craig Adam's composition
LIVE HENCE BY
TRUTH
performed by the excellent John Addison
in a live podcast from
Musical Talk
please click HERE
(Please scroll down to the end to LISTEN to a further thirteen songs in a 3rd Tim Williams Awards Musical
Sampling.
To hear highlights from the 2nd TWA programme READINESS IS ALL please cluck
HERE)
THIRD TIM WILLIAMS AWARD FOR ORIGINAL
LYRIC
INSPIRED BY A CLASSICAL / ESTABLISHED SOURCE
Blanche Girouard after George Bernard Shaw
for HORSEY
To LISTEN to Peter Coyte's composition
of Ms. Girouard's lyric
HORSEY
as performed by the wonderful Helen Goldwyn
in the live
Musical Talk podcast
please click HERE.
Ms. Girouard took her inspiration
from the Shaw' s character Hesoine Hushabye in his masterwork 'HEARTBREAK HOUSE;
one who
knows all too well that "there are only two classes in good society in England:
the 'Equestrian' classes and the 'Neurotic' classes".
We were honoured that the
3rd Tim Williams Award for Original Lyric as Inspired by a Classical /
Established Source
was so graciously presented by the Olivier Award winning actress, SARA KESTELMAN
Click
here for a brief
biography of each
Craig
Adams,
Alex Baranowski,
Sarah Bodalbhai,
Peter Coyte,
Gareth Peter Dicks,
Ian Dolamore,
David Hewson,
Christopher
Hamilton,
Alfie Granger-Howell,
James Jones,
James Lark,
Richard Link,
Rachel Lyske
with previous highlights from TWA compositional celebrants:
Sarah Bodalbhai & Alfie Granger-Howell
plus
special TWA
compositional premieres by
Frank Lazarus & Tim Williams
Lyricists & Inspirational Sources ...
Conrad Aitken,
Rebecca Applin, Jane Austen,
Hillaire Belloc,
John Betjeman, Charlotte Bronte, Noel Coward, Roald Dahl,
Christopher Davenport, Paul Laurence Dunbar,
John Fletcher,
Blanche Girouard,
Leah Goldberg, Frank Lazarus,
John Masefield,
Edna St. Vincent Millay,
Maxwell Naught, Christina Rossetti,
William Shakespeare,
George Bernard Shaw,
Roger Woddis, Tennessee Williams
Performers ...
John Addison
(of A Little
Night Music, Secret Garden, Love Never Dies, Raoul in Phantom of the Opera,
Chess, Marius in Les Miserables, Jesus Christ Superstar, Titanic, Sweeney Todd, etc.)
Marc Akinfolarin
(of Smokey Joe's
Cafe, Joseph, The Go-Between, Anything Goes, Secret Garden, etc.)
Ben Alyn-Francis
(of the MTM
Award Winning Ed-The Musical, WNO Sweeney Todd, NT's Coram Boy,
Chess-in-Concert, Magic Flute, Closer Than Ever, The Rake's Progress, Me & My
Girl, etc.)
Gerard Bentall
(of Fame,
Peggy Sue Got Married, Les Miserables, Only the Brave,
Whistle Down the Wind, Film of Jesus Christ Superstar, etc.)
Helena Blackman
(of Saturday Night, South Pacific [TMA Best Actress Nom],
Secret Garden, Gypsy,
Wizard of Oz, An Evening of Stiles & Drewe,
BBC's 'How do you Solve a Problem Like Maria', etc.)
Rebecca
Caine
(Original Cosette of Les Miserables; of Phantom of the Opera,
My Fair Lady, Oklahoma,
Ravenna Festival, Lyric Opera of Chicago, ENO, Canadian Opera Company,
Glyndebourne,
Glimmerglass, Opera North, Spoleto, Edinburgh, etc.)
Valerie Cutko
(of Broadway's Grand Hotel, London's Cabaret, NT My Fair
Lady, Phantom of the Opera,
Nine, Silk Stockings, Camelot, Evita, Beautiful & the Damned, Jesus Christ
Superstar, etc.)
Marilyn Cutts
(of FASCINATING AIDA, Oklahoma, Beauty & the Beast,
Oliver,
Footloose, Honk!, NT's Rose Tattoo, Cosi Fan Tutte, Copacabana,
Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Showboat,
etc.)
Sarah Earnshaw
(of Wicked, Alice in Wonderland, Carousel, West End Stars
in Concert, etc.)
Helen
Goldwyn
(of BBC's Voice of Musical Theatre Competition, Just So, Phantom, Personals,
My
Fair Lady, Good Companions,
High Society, A Conneticut Yankee,
various broadcast leads in Doctor Who, over
50 on-hold messages!, etc.)
Shimi Goodman
(of Chicago, Dirty Dancing, Evita, Cabaret, Bombay Dreams, Singing in the Rain,
Into the Woods,
Anyone Can Whistle, Camelot, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, etc.)
Rebekah Hinds
(Exciting new graduate from
the Central School Musical Theatre Programme, etc.)
Morag McLaren
(of The Phantom of the Opera, A
Little Night Music, Welsh National Opera, Impopera,
Scottish Opera, presenting Radio 3's 'Song Tree', etc.,)
Nathaniel Morrison
(of Sister Act, Joseph and his
Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Dancing in
the Streets,
Tonight's the Night, West End Gospel Choir, etc., )
Dianne
Pilkington
(of Wicked, The 39 Steps, Love
Never Dies, Dr. Zhivago, Cats,
Urinetown, The Far Pavilions, Beauty & the Beast, Sweeney Todd,
The Beautiful Game, Taboo, Tess of the D'urbervilles, Les Miserables, etc.)
Laura
Pitt-Pulford
(of Sunset Boulevard,
Carousel, Follies, Lion Witch & Wardrobe,
The World Goes Round, Copacabana, etc.)
Gina
Respall
(of The King & I, Jerry
Springer - The Opera, Miss Saigon,
West Side Story, Thriller Live, etc.)
James Smoker
(Les Miserables, Recent Royal Academy of
Music Graduate,
Singer of 'Boy Actor' in TWA's 'Readiness is All')
Anton Stephans
(Porgy in Porgy & Bess;
of
Showboat, Blacking Iago, Starlight Express, etc.)
Lincoln Stone
(currently 'Boone' in
Whistle Down the Wind National Tour; of Company, Marguerite,
Pirates of Penzance, Desperately Seeking Susan, Drowsy Chaperone, etc.)
Bryan Torfeh
(of London & Broadway's RSC
Nicholas Nickleby, High Society, Oliver,
Copacabana, The Great White Hope, Figaro, Reduced Shakespeare, etc.)
with a SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCE by
Olivier Award Winner
Sara Kestelman
(of Nine, Hamlet, Fiddler on
the Roof, Copenhagen, Cabaret, RSC & RNT veteran,
Sarassine, Three Tall Women, Threepenny Opera, Girl with a Pearl Earring, etc.)
Out of the Piano Judges ...
Frank Lazarus,
Tim Arnold,
Nigel Lilley,
Michael Peavoy,
Steve Ross,
Nicholas
Paul Simpson, Paul Vale,
Phil
Willmott
A SMALL 3RD
TIM WILLIAMS AWARDS MUSICAL SAMPLING
(Please
click on each title. Each song is introduced with its title, composer,
lyricist, originating performer, dramatic scenario
& suggested musical style - exactly as originally presented to the participating
TWA composer)
Should you wish to hear the
ENTIRE performance of OUT OF THE PIANO (from opening to close)
it can be heard HERE.
(There was a brief interruption in the performance of this song when the
production booth began to play
a recorded track of the music leaving the composer to compete with himself.
As this led to much merriment
the interruption has been left in for your enjoyment, following which, however,
the song can be heard in its full glory.).
OUT OF THE PIANO was held on
Sunday,
20th June 2010
6.00 pm - 8.50 pm
at The Cochrane Theatre
Southampton Row, London WC1B 4AP
2 mins from Holburn Tube (turn right coming out)
Buses:
1, 8, 19, 25, 38, 55, 59, 68, 168, 171, 188, 242, 521
Map
Here
“LSW performs with a power and an intensity that is all too rarely seen on today’s stages …. We were treated to electrifying performances, up close and personal. …. There can be no question but that these performances made an indelible mark on every one of its audience members.”
METRO
The evening performance of OUT OF THE
PIANO was
recorded live in preparation for a
Musical Talk Podcast
For the full broadcast please click
HERE.