Stay Awake, Jake – Cast Recording is available on Spotify Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Stay Awake, Jake is Tim Gilvin’s one-hander road musical that, with Norman Bowman in the lead role, won the 2014 S&S Award for Best Unproduced Musical. It has since gone on to be staged with much acclaim, first […]
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S&S Theatre Productions set to bring radical new musical theatre to the Off-West End & Off-Broadway stage
The S&S Award is turning producer to become S&S Theatre Productions, dedicated to producing radical new musical theatre with partnerships between the UK and the USA. Joining forces with London-based, multiple Offie-nominated Mercurius Theatre and Kent Nicholson, doyen of new musical theatre writing in the States, the new company has already hit the ground running […]
The S&S Award and new musical Here – latest news
After having a week’s development at Curve Leicester in September 2016, the 2015 S&S Award-winning musical Here was presented at an industry showcase this week. Here is a folk-classical musical, inspired by writers Kate Marlais and Alex Young’s fascination with the German Dadaist artist Kurt Schwitters. The piece is set in a remote town in […]
Stay Awake, Jake – Vault Festival
Stay Awake, Jake continues at the Vault Festival, London until 7 February. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Composer/lyricist Tim Gilvin has developed and honed his one-act, one-man musical into a captivating journey that, with the help of a top-class performer (and some uncomfortable seating) keeps you on the edge of your seat. Stay Awake, […]
Vault Festival – S&S Award winner Stay Awake, Jake features in line-up
An eclectic mix of music, comedy and drama has been lined up for this year’s Vault Festival at the distinctive subterranean arts venue in London’s Waterloo. The festival programme which runs from 27 January until 6 March includes the 2014 S&S Award-winning, one-man musical Stay Awake, Jake by Tim Gilvin. Featuring Jamie Muscato (Dogfight, Bend it […]
The S&S Award Gala – St James Theatre
The S&S Award Gala was held at the St James Theatre, London. There will be 26 musical shows running in London this Christmas, that’s more than half the occupancy of the total number of theatres in the West End. Of those 26, 17 are largely original work, the remainder drawing on the back catalogue of songwriters from Irving Berlin […]
S&S Award Gala – Nigel Harman and David Bedella lead line-up
Olivier Award winners Nigel Harman and David Bedella will take leading roles in this year’s S&S Award Gala at St James Theatre on Sunday 23 November. It has also ben announced that The S&S Award is linking up with Leicester Curve to be the ‘host venue’ for the winning show’s developmental programme. Curve, under new artistic director Nikolai Foster, has declared its […]
