Musical theatre writers from Australia, Canada, the UK and the USA will once again perform new material in the next live-streamed SIGNAL ONLINE concert on 28 April at 7.30pm GMT (2.30pm EST) via YouTube.
Announcing details of the concert, director Adam Lenson said: “SIGNAL ONLINE is part of our ongoing project to bring together the global community of new musical theatre writers and present high quality concerts of new work that challenge preconceptions of what musicals look like, sound like or are about.
“It is such a thrill to bring together these impossible line-ups of the best and most innovative artists in the medium from all over the world. I’m also really excited by the technical advances we have made to ensure high quality music-optimised streams that sync writers from their living rooms for an entirely live concert experience.”
Featuring some of the biggest names currently working in the genre joining virtual forces for the third free global, multi-location event, the writers confirmed to perform new songs from ‘their homes to your home’ include:
- Cordelia O’Driscoll (Buried, You & I, NYMF Best Score Award)
- Maimuna Memon (actress and songwriter, recently appeared in Ghost Quartet and Lazarus, composed Electrolyte)
- Ben Page (Leaving Eden, NYMF Best Musical Award)
- Steven Page (founding member, lead singer and guitarist for Barenaked Ladies, Trans-Canada Highwaymen)
- Matt Winkworth (The Assassination of Katie Hopkins)
- Forristal & Clarke (PUBLIC DOMAIN, S I’m A Terrible Person)
- Sam Kenyon (The Royal Shakespeare Company’s Miss Littlewood)
- Mark Sonnenblick (Midnight At The Never Get, Jonathan Larson and Harold Adamson Awards)
- Vidya Makan (My Home Too, Woman, star of Australian production of Six)
- Evie Rose Lane (singer-songwriter and Viral Video sensation)
- Julian Hornik (Tenn, Deathbed Edition, Lucille and Jack Yellen Award, Sammy Cahn Award)
- Robin Simoes Da Silva (Works of Art)
- Hilmi Jaidin (Shift+Alt+Right)
- Neil Bastian (Mayfly Man)
Curated and hosted by leading London musical theatre director Lenson (The Rink, Wasted, Superhero), the first live-streamed SIGNAL ONLINE took place on 26 March 2020 and was watched by thousands of people across the world.
The concert is free but viewers are encouraged to donate to the AMPLIFY fund with all proceeds going directly to writers of new musicals.
Link to watch – www.thebonfire.uk/concerts
Angela Thomas
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