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Revolting Rhymes & Marvellous Music

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Information

  • Musical work devised by the Magnard Ensemble in partnership with the Roald Dahl Literary Estate and Marvellous Children’s Charity
  • Credits:
    • “Little Red Riding Hood”
      • Composed by Paul Patterson
      • Adapted by Donald Sturrock
    • “Dirty Beasts”
      • Composted by Martin Butler
    • “The Three Little Pigs”
      • Composed by Paul Patterson
    • Musicians
      • Suzannah Watson, flute/piccolo
      • Mana Shibata, oboe
      • Joseph Shiner, clarinet/bass clarinet
      • Catriona McDermid, bassoon
      • Jonathan Farey, horn
      • Suling King, piano
    • Narrator: Rebecca Kenny
  • Performances:
    • World premiere at Wells Cathedral School, Somerset, 2013

For more information, see Music Link International. To hire, contact Edition Peters.

Description

The Magnard Ensemble with Rebecca Kenny are delighted to present their debut release Revolting Rhymes and Marvellous Music – an album continuing the celebration of the Roald Dahl centenary with suitably innovative and humorously engaging compositions. The featured composers expertly weave Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes into Marvellous Music in a programme that aims to thrill all who listen from children to adults, and novices to musical connoisseurs.

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Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox

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Information

  • Musical adapted by Sam Holcroft with music by Arthur Darvill and lyrics by Darren Clark, Arthur Darvill, Sam Holcroft and Al Muriel
  • Productions:
    • 2016-2017 tour:
      • SOUTHAMPTON Nuffield Theatre – 22 November 2016 – 8 January 2017
      • LONDON Lyric Hammersmith 25 January 2017 – 19 February 2017
      • CARDIFF New Theatre- 21 February 2017 – 25 February 2017
      • DARTFORD Orchard Theatre- 28 February 2017 – 5 March 2017
      • MILTON KEYNES Theatre – 7 March 2017 – 11 March 2017
      • DUBAI DUCTAC – 17 March 2017 – 19 March 2017
      • ABU DHABI Abu Dhabi Theatre – 23 March 2017 – 23 March 2017
      • LEICESTER Curve – 3 April 2017 – 9 April 2017
      • OXFORD Playhouse- 11 April 2017 – 15 April 2017
      • COVENTRY Belgrade – 18 April 2017 – 22 April 2017
      • SHEFFIELD Lyceum Theatre- 2 May 2017 – 6 May 2017
      • CAMBRIDGE Cambridge Arts Theatre- 9 May 2017 – 13 May 2017
      • EDINBURGH King’s Theatre- 15 May 2017 – 20 May 2017
      • GLASGOW Theatre Royal – 23 May 2017 – 27 May 2017
      • BATH Theatre Royal- 30 May 2017 – 3 June 2017
      • HIGH WYCOMBE Wycombe Swan – 6 June 2017 – 10 June 2017
      • PLYMOUTH Theatre Royal Plymouth – 13 June 2017 – 17 June 2017
      • NORWICH Theatre Royal – 21 June 2017 – 24 June 2017
      • BRADFORD Alhambra Theatre – 27 June 2017 – 2 July 2017
      • SALFORD QUAYS The Lowry – 5 July 2017 – 9 July 2017

Cast/Crew

  • Cast:
    • Greg Barnett as Mr Fox
    • Richard Atwill as Rat/Bean
    • Raphael Bushay as Badger/Boggis
    • Jade Croot as Kit
    • Sandy Foster as Rabbit
    • Lillie Flynn as Mrs Fox
    • Gruffudd Glyn as Mole/Bunce
    • Kelly Jackson as Mouse/Dance Captain
    • Ensemble: Edward Hole, Tanya Shields, Patrick Burbridge, Anna Fordham, and Richie Hart
  • Crew:
    • Sam Holcroft – Adaptor/lyricist
    • Arthur Darvill – Composer/lyricist
    • Al Muriel – Lyricist
    • Darren Clark – Lyricist
    • Maria Aberg – Director
    • Tom Scutt – Designer
    • Lee Curran – Lighting Designer
    • Claire Windsor – Sound Designer
    • Ayse Tashkiran – Movement Director
    • Annelie Powell – Casting Director
    • Chloe Mashiter – Assistant Director (Laboratory Associate)
    • David Allen – Design Associate
    • Ingrid Mackinnon – Associate Movement Director
    • Amy Beadel – Casting Associate

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Dinner at the Twits

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Information

  • Interactive theatrical dining experience produced by Les Enfants Terribles and ebp in association with Bompas & Parr and Creature of London
  • Productions:
    • World premiere at The Vaults, Waterloo, London, UK – September 4, 2016

Description

From timeout.com:

Tuck into a Dahl-inspired banquet of horrors at this immersive dinner party

Roald Dahl was a master of creating fantastically grotesque, squirm-inducingly foul stories. And ‘The Twits’ has a solid claim to being the nastiest of all – the book’s monstrous couple dine out on bird pie, beard pickings and worm spaghetti.

All things considered, it doesn’t sound like ideal fodder for a pricey immersive dining experience. But hi-tech jelly makers and experimental chefs Bompas & Parr are teaming up with interactive theatre specialists Les Enfants Terribles (the wizards behind last year’s ‘Alice’s Adventures Underground’) to create what they’re calling ‘the worst dinner party in the world’ – and it sounds pretty special.

The adults-only event will feature a menu of gleefully grotesque treats, served up by Mr and Mrs Twit inside their windowless house. Chefs Bompas & Parr are promising that ‘squeamishness will give way to scrumptiousness’ – but if their foul creations stick in your throat, they’re serving up plenty of strong cocktails to wash it all down. Plus! Mr Twit’s Odious Ale – a beer made using yeast swabbed from Roald Dahl’s writing desk.

Cast and Crew

  • Mr. Twit: Christopher-Robert Barlow
  • Mrs. Twits: Lizzy Dive
  • Yollo: Alice Bounce
  • Booble: James Keningale
  • Rollo: Tom Moores
  • Producer: Emma Brünjes
  • Producer & Adaptor: Oliver Lansley
  • Producer: James Seager
  • Adaptor: Anthony Spargo
  • Director: Emma Earle
  • Designer: Samuel Wyer
  • Associate Director: Joe Hufton
  • Production Manager: Anthony Hollis
  • Sound Designer and Composer: Dom James
  • Lighting Designer: Ric Mountjoy
  • Hair and Makeup Designer: Megan Norris
  • Producers & Creators: Les Enfants Terribles
  • Producer & General Manager: ebp
  • Associate Producer: Creature of London
  • Culinary Directors: Bompas & Parr

Wonderman

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Information

  • Musical produced by the Gagglebabble, National Theatre Wales, and Wales Millennium Centre
  • Script and lyrics by Daf James
  • Music by Lucy Rivers
  • Conceived by Daf James, Hannah McPake and Lucy Rivers
  • Productions:
    • World premiere at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Edinburgh, UK – August 2016
    • National Theatre Wales, Cardiff, Wales, UK – September 2016

Description

Following their 2013 Edinburgh smash hit The Bloody Ballad, multi-award-winning theatre company Gagglebabble are back in an exciting collaboration with National Theatre Wales.

Wonderman is a unique gig-theatre take on Roald Dahl’s short stories for adults, combining a sizzling hot score of original live music, macabre characters, soaring imaginings and thrilling twists and turns, all injected with a wicked sense of dark humour. A celebration of the wonder of one of Britain’s best loved storytellers for his centenary year.

Prepare to expect the unexpected.

Cast and Crew

  • Director: Amy Leach
  • Designer: Hayley Grindle
  • Lighting Designer: Joshua Carr
  • Sound Designer: Dan Lawrence
  • Cast: Adam Redmore, Hannah McPake, Lucy Rivers, Mark O’Conner, James Clark, Pete Komor, Joe Shire

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Roald Dahl’s Cinderella: A Clock-Stopping, Show-Stopping Musical

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Information

  • Adapted by Helen MacGregor and Stephen Chadwick
  • Orchestral music by Vladimir Tarnopolski
  • Published by: A & C Black Music, 2008
  • Includes CD
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Description

Roald Dahl’s Cinderella is the final instalment in A&C Black’s successful Roald Dahl series of musicals for schools. It joins Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Jack and the Beanstalk, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Little Red Riding Hood and The Three Little Pigs in a glittering line-up of wickedly funny productions which children and audiences just love. Cindy defies her Ugly Sisters, meets a magic fairy and lands a dance with the prince at the palace ball. So far so good! But far from being the perfect gentleman, the prince turns out to a perfect beast and chops off the heads of Cindy’s meddling sisters. The magic fairy grants Cindy one more wish but what will she do to escape her sticky predicament? As with every one of these great Roald Dahl musicals, Cinderella is based on an orchestral commission by the Roald Dahl Foundation. The concert work, from which the schools’ musical is derived is by Vladimir Tarnopolski, and schools can use the extracts provided from the orchestral work to enhance their performances. Schools can buy a performance licence online on the A&C Black Musicals website, which also has a forum, a Hall of Fame and regular updates.

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Roald Dahl’s Three Little Pigs: A Tail-twistingly Treacherous Musical

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  • Adapted by Matthew White and Ana Sanderson
  • Orchestral music by Paul Patterson
  • Published by: A & C Black Music, 2007
  • Includes CD
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Description

Another revolting addition to the Roald Dahl series of musicals for schools see the Piggies in a tight corner – who will save them? There are five starring roles and dozens of extra parts both off stage and on – and everyone can sing in the chorus. Roald Dahl’s The Three Little Pigs is another exciting addition to A&C Black’s Roald Dahl series of musicals for schools. It joins Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs, Jack and the Beanstalk, Goldilocks and the Three Bears and Little Red Riding Hood in a glittering line-up of wickedly funny productions which children and audiences just love.

Piggy No. 3 is in a tight corner – Wolf has gobbled up his neighbours and now he’s hammering at the door with a stick of dynamite in his hand. Who can Piggy call on for help? Sweet Miss Riding Hood, of course – the fearless wolf-slayer. And how is he to know that she fancies a pigskin handbag to go with her wolfskin coat?! As with every one of these great Roald Dahl musicals, The Three Little Pigs is based on an orchestral commission by the Roald Dahl Foundation. The concert work, from which the schools’ musical is derived is by Paul Patterson, and schools can use the extracts provided from the orchestral work to enhance their performances. Schools can buy a performance licence online on the A&C Black musicals website.

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Dirty Beasts

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  • Musical work commissioned by Roald Dahl Foundation in 2013
  • Composed by British composer Benjamin Wallfisch
  • Libretto by Donald Sturrock
  • Includes:
    • “The Porcupine”
    • “The Pig”
    • “The Anteater”
    • “The Toad and the Snail”
  • Performances:
    • World premiere at Royal Festival Hall, London, 2013
      • Conducted by Benjamin Wallfisch
      • Performed by London Philharmonic Orchestra

For more information, see Music Link International. To hire, contact Edition Peters.

Description

Dirty Beasts is the newest of the Roald Dahl Orchestral Commissions and was first performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 2013. Described as a “A major new name on the new music horizon” by Humphrey Burton (BBC Radio 3), Benjamin Wallfisch was the ideal choice to set these wonderfully whacky poems.

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Cinderella

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  • Musical work commissioned by Roald Dahl Foundation in 2003
  • Composed by Russian composer Vladimir Tarnopolsi
  • Libretto by Donald Sturrock
  • Performances:
    • World premiere at Barbican, London, 2003
      • Conducted by Peter Ash
      • Performed by London Schools Symphony Orchestra
    • Russian premiere at Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2015 (details)
      • Conducted by Ivan Stolbov
      • Performed by The Mariinsky Youth Orchestra and Children’s Chorus

For more information, see Music Link International. To hire, contact Edition Peters.

Description

Cinderella is an ambitious addition to the canon of Roald Dahl music commissions. It is principally scored for young players and singers, but there is also an optional “add-on” professional ensemble element. The work has been designed to be uniquely flexible to the requirements of schools and youth orchestras and can be presented in a variety of forms – from choruses with narrator and piano, to the full version with professional ensemble, string orchestra and flexiband.

Jack and the Beanstalk

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Information

  • Musical work commissioned by Roald Dahl Foundation in 1996
  • Composed by Latvian composer Georgs Pelecis
  • Libretto by Donald Sturrock
  • Performances:
    • World premiere at Royal Festival Hall, London, December 1996
      • Conducted by Peter Ash
      • Performed by Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
      • Cast: Danny DeVito, Joanna Lumley and Simon Callow
    • US premiere at Ujima Theatre, Buffalo, New York, 1999

For more information, see Music Link International. To hire, contact Edition Peters.

Description

Jack and the Beanstalk was premiered in the Royal Albert Hall in December 1996 to a packed and excited audience of 6,000 people, with an all-star cast including Danny DeVito, Joanna Lumley and Simon Callow. The piece was broadcast nationally on Classic FM. It is based on Roald Dahl’s version of a traditional fairy-tale from his comic verse collection, Revolting Rhymes. The music is by the Latvian Georgs Pelecis whose work has been championed by many distinguished musicians including Gidon Kremer and Alexei Lyubimov.

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