Casting has been announced for the launch event of MTPRIDE – the online music festival celebrating Pride past, present and future through performances of musical theatre stars from the LGBTQ+ community.
Queered will feature West End performers Waylon Jacobs (Hamilton), Michael Mather (Soho Cinders), Evie Rose Lane (Footloose) and Roshani Abbey (Bring It On) along with Roly Botha, Lucy Dickson, Jo Eaton-Kent, Eleanor Faye, Ashley Gibbins, Conor Gormally, Kaidyn Niall Hinds, Matthew Jacobs Morgan, Alan Lewis, Freddie Love, Jordan McMahon, Emily Qualmann, Faye Wheeler, Elliott Wooster, Aitch Wylie, Charlotte Elisabeth Yorke, Adam Raymont, Harrison Knights, Jo Eaton-Kent, Joash Musundi and Richard Davies.
Directed by Matt Powell, MTPRIDE’s opening event will blend live performances and recordings of re-framed and re-imagined classic musical theatre moments. The performance will be streamed on the MPTheatricals YouTube channel on 24 June 2020 at 8pm BST.
MTPRIDE has also partnered with Musical Theatre Network (MTN) and Mercury Musicals Developments (MMD) to host a panel exploring LGBTQ+ representations within musical theatre on 29 June at 5pm. The panel will feature Olivier winner Sharon D Clarke (Caroline, or Change), Susie McKenna (associate director at the Kiln Theatre), JBR (JBR Management), Rikki Beadle-Blair (Team Angelica), Harrison Knights (Trans Voices Cabaret), Gus Gowland (Pieces of String) and Dr. James Lovelock (lecturer in Musical Theatre at the University of Wolverhampton). Panel members may be subject to change.
Presented by MPTheatricals, Queerly Productions, ALPMusicals, Musical Theatre Network (MTN) and Mercury Musicals Developments (MMD), MTPRIDE also includes Queerly Productions’ Sinqueerly, Me on 1 July. The event will feature two hosts exploring their own life stories as an LGBTQ+ womaxn/non binary person accompanied by performances of queer classics, re-imagined pop songs and new writing by ensemble of West End stars and up and coming LGBTQ+ Female/Trans.
Director/producer Adam Lenson will close the festival on 8 July with SIGNAL x MTPRIDE, a concert of queer artist driven musical theatre which follows on from Lenson’s successful series of SIGNAL ONLINE concerts featuring musical theatre writers from across the world. The special version will focus on 12 LGBTQ+ writers who will present new songs live from their own homes.
MTPRIDE will be available on a ‘Pay What You Can Basis’. All proceeds will be split between UK Black Pride, Gendered Intelligence and a support fund for the artists involved.
Angela Thomas
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