Anthony Drewe

A respected songwriting group for the Uk theatre, composer George Stiles (b. 9 August 1961, Sussex, Britain) and lyricist Anthony Drewe (b. 22 March 1961, Berkshire, Britain), first fulfilled when they had been college students at Exeter College or university in 1980. After graduating (George in Music, Anthony in Zoology), they had written their first display together, Tutankhamun, that was in line with the discovery from the Boy-King’s tomb. It had been well received in the Northcott Theater within the College or university campus, and later on in a magnificent concert version in the Creativity Building in London. Stiles and Drewe 1st came to see in 1985, when their musical, Simply So, influenced by Rudyard Kipling’s Simply So stories, earned the final of this yr’s Vivian Ellis Honours. With encouragement and monetary support from maker Cameron Mackintosh, Simply So was consequently presented in the Watermill Theater, Newbury, the Tricycle Theater, London, and got its American premiere in November 1998 in the Norma Terris Theater, Goodspeed-at-Chester, Connecticut. Stiles and Drewe’s following musical started its existence in 1993 because the Ugly Duckling, (Or The Visually Challenged Farmyard Fowl). Predicated on Hans Andersen’s story from the Ugly Duckling, it got transformed its name to Honk! by enough time it reached the Stephen Joseph Theater, Scarborough, 2 yrs later. The group had been then commissioned to create the rating for (another) fresh musical edition of Peter Skillet (‘Simply Beyond The Celebrities’, ‘Neverland’, ‘Great Aged Captain Hook’, ‘The Shed Kids’), with publication article writer Willis Hall. It earned Best Music (Hook’s tour de push, ‘When I Destroy Peter Skillet’) as well as the Orchestra’s Reward in the 1996 Musical Of THE ENTIRE YEAR honours in Denmark. Second put in place the competition visited The Three Musketeers (‘Lilacs’, ‘Any Day time’, ‘The Existence OF THE Musketeer’, ‘Traveling To Paris’, ‘The Problem’), a cooperation between Stiles, Paul Leigh, and Peter Raby. Stiles and Leigh acquired collaborated previously Clare Luckham’s version from the Daniel Defoe book, Moll Flanders, that Stiles utilized The Beggar’s Opera because the way to obtain his tunes. Once the creation performed the Lyric Theater, Hammersmith, in 1993, leading solid people included Josie Lawrence, Issy Vehicle Randwyck, Angela Richards, Peter Woodward, and Darryl Knock. It earned the 1995 Martini TMA for Greatest Musical, and Stiles and Leigh worked well together once again on another time-honoured eighteenth-century traditional, Henry Fielding’s bawdy, satirical book, Tom Jones, which premiered in 1996. Within the same yr Stiles made up the music for Habeas Corpus, which Sam Mendes fond of the Donmar Warehouse. Anthony Drewe’s function aside from Stiles offers involved him on paper lyrics for the 1992 revival from the Cards, the musical which got a rating by Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent when it performed the West Result in 1973, as well as for The Canterville Ghost (with Wayne McConnell, co-winner from the Vivian Ellis Honours in 1987). He in addition has made an appearance in Rogues To Riches, a musical edition from the Beau Stratagem, created and starred within the murder secret musical, A Twist Of Destiny (Singapore Repertory Theater, Raffles Resort, 1997 and 1998), and aimed revivals of Snoopy (Watermill) and Cowardy Custard (Royal Academy of Music). Stiles and Drewe got their own display towards the Edinburgh Fringe in 1987, and also have since made an appearance on many tv and radio programs. They also developed and starred in two revues, Navel Fluff ALONG WITH OTHER Trivial Pursuits and Warts AND EVERYTHING, and contributed a great deal of materials towards the RSC’s Shakespeare Revue.