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Li🇭🇰Smith🏴 • ✍🏻 Writer/Composer #ArmchairMusical 🌊 #73Seconds 🚀 •🎵 Musical Director @HYCAMusicalUK 🩷 • 🐭 Disney Devotee • @RoyalAcadMusic
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🌊 🔊 Turn up the volume! 🔊 🌊
Have a listen to the fantastic
@NYMTuk
#ArmchairMusical
orchestra rocking up a storm, along with some more wonderful shots from the production & the fantastic cast.
📸 by Robert Day & Tom Wren
@CurveLeicester
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I simply can't stop thinking about Paciencia Y Fe. That whole 5 minutes is going to stay with me for a long time.
@intheheights
@Lin_Manuel
- what a beautiful song you've written.
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Zero reported COVID cases from Theatres. Zero reported COVID cases from Theatres. Zero reported COVID cases from Theatres. Zero reported COVID cases from Theatres. Zero reported COVID cases from Theatres. Zero reported COVID cases from Theatres. Zero reported COVID cases from Th
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So sad that Olivia Rodriguez got voted off ‘Over The Rainbow’ this week.
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On this day, in 1982, Mr Stephen Sondheim wrote to Howard Ashman, in regards to his little Off-Broadway musical he wrote with Alan Menken. Suffice to say, he was a fan.
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This is the best version of Annie and I will die on that hill.
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Dear actors,
If your Chilly’s water bottle is going to fall over, please can it be on the downbeat.
Kind regards,
Musical Directors
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Whenever theatres open again, at bang on 7:30pm, I think all the musicals in town should have their orchestras perform an overture which encompasses every single show in town. Let’s call it the ‘Back in Business Overture’
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I would like to direct a production of The Last 5 Years, where the Jamie character is played by a woman and the Cathy character is played by a man. Who’s in?
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If the general snubbing of TICK, TICK… BOOM! and WEST SIDE STORY at the BAFTA’s says anything about the UK’s perception of quality musical theatre, I don’t know what does.
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Following from the success of Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, I’m looking forward to tick, tick… BOOM! at the Moondance Diner, Amélie at the Two Windmills Café, Moulin Rouge at the Moulin Rouge and The Hunchback of Notre Dame in the Ruins of the Notre-Dame de Paris.
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Should have been Diana in my opinion.
Les Misérables to be broadcast during Coronation bank holiday weekend
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The Legally Blonde Remix is the greatest number in the history of musical theatre.
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Dear company,
Due to new coronavirus regulations, cast will have to provide their own pencils to mark their scores/scripts, and not borrow from the Assistant MD.
Kind regards,
Musical Directors.
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FREE SONG GIVEAWAY DAY!
Want a song for your rep? Struggling to find the right song for your audition?
LIKE and RETWEET and then COMMENT and I shall suggest a song for you 😊
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Musicals that ‘feel’ like plays. Where the songs seep in and out delicately. For example, Fun Home, The Band’s Visit, A Man of No Importance…
Any others?
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Rather unexpectedly, I just conducted my first west end show, with the most supportive and talented cast, band and company. WHAT. IS. LIFE.
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Next to Normal is opening in the West End in 2021!!
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DREAMS COME TRUE, PEOPLE!
I’ll be making my West End debut as Associate Musical Director for
@cityofangelsLDN
, running at the Garrick, March 5th thru Sept 5th.
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When you say you want theatre back by Christmas, PLEASE don’t announce on the 23rd of December theatres can reopen without social distancing, hoping to see a panto on Boxing Day.
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The cast size of Next To Normal is 6. JUST SAYING.
🚨 BREAKING – Groups of up to six people will be able to meet outside in England
Follow LIVE here:
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The Wizard and I is Stephen Schwartz’s greatest song. Fight me.
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I'm looking for 10 amazing singers who are up for learning a song from
#ArmchairMusical
to pitch for
#BEAM2023
.
Working class artist here. I don't have the funds to pay for this, so I am genuinely looking for people who wanna do this for the love of new MT. Anyone interested?
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Tonight would have been closing night for
@cityofangelsLDN
, after just 10 previews (we didn’t even get to open before Rona struck her mighty hand!) Here’s praying that we get to do it again some day.
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I LOVE a show where the reprise of a song is just a good, if not better, than the actual song. What are your favourite reprises?
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Just look at this show. Just LOOK at it. Needs to come back.
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So proud to share with you all that The Boy Who Sailed the Ocean in an Armchair will be having its world premiere as part of the
@NYMTuk
’s 2023 Season.
I’m so grateful for the NYMT’s support of the show, and to be included in a season of two stellar classics of the genre.
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Dim the lights of Broadway and the West End for a week I say.
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It’s so mechanical, methodical…
It might be in some dreary socialistic periodical.
Good!
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Well, this is a first for me!
Channelling the spirit of Marin Nixon, it was a pleasure to be Susan Fay’s ghost singer for a few shows, whilst doing some MD’ing... A pretty niche situation (illness, no covers etc) but I’m glad she’s back in good health & singing up a storm again!
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Umm. Did I actually accidentally predict this? 😂
"A mother’s arms are more comforting than anyone else’s"
An iconic announcement...
10am 14.06.23
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I’ll escape now from that world.
From the world of Jean Valjean
There is nowhere I can turn.
There is no way to go ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooon.
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Dreams come true folks.
So excited to be conducting the West End premiere of this seminal musical of the 21st Century, in a concert presentation next month at
@LondonPalladium
produced by Jambert Lackson.
Time to get my fuckity fuckity fuckity fuckity fuck-you dress on!
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Musical directors in the off west end/fringe work so god damn hard. They have to be supervisors, copyists, arrangers, orchestrators, vocal arrangers, dance arrangers, fixers, orchestral managers, vocal coaches, musical dramaturges, pianists and conductors. The whole music dept.
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Sondheim video-ing Patti is giving me LIFE right now
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If there isn’t a 15 minute musical montage tribute to Sondheim at the next Tony Awards, I will roar.
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Musical sequels. Go!
I’ll start:
The Next Five Years
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If I buy The Other Palace, I hereby announce that I shall reinstate it’s original name of the St James Palace.
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Remembering Jonathan Larson, on the 25th anniversary of his death.
Thank you, Jonathan Larson
"Cages or wings?
Which do you prefer?
Ask the birds."
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When the 5th tenor brings in Moving Too Fast, on double sided a4, not sellotaped and not in a folder.
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And
@TheOlgaMerediz
absolutely mustn't be forgotten by awards season. She simply must be nominated everything!
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I consider myself lucky that I had the opportunity to conduct ‘City of Angels’ during our cut-short preview period. Though it’s now just dawned on me, and I say this very tentatively, that I may have been the youngest person to conduct a west end show (or one of the youngest).
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This was the marquee for the original broadway run of Into The Woods. I mean, more shows with marquees like this please 😍
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Sending love to all the first covers who went on last night for the lead coz everyone got pissed at the Olivier’s xx
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How about an Online Virtual Queue System for open calls?
You book a place and you’re given a time slot. No more getting up at an ungodly hour. No more excruciating waits. And no more being told after said wait that they’re not seeing any more people. Thoughts?
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I’m calling for this Sondheim Memorial concert, we offer the west end equivalent of the six ladies in red.
Who would they be?
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My only gripe with SPAMALOT is when they say they’ve gone to E and they should have stayed in C, yet they sang in neither of those keys.
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It finally happened. I forgot to update my Tesco delivery, so I’ve just received two 1litre bottles of pink gin and one box of potato waffles.
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I think a dose of Rebecca Luker is just what everyone needs right now.
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FREE SONG GIVEAWAY DAY! From now until 5pm.
Want a song for your rep? Struggling to find the right song for your audition?
LIKE and RETWEET and then COMMENT and I shall suggest a song for you 😊
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If I did a Facebook live Lockdown Musical Theatre Quiz, who’d be up for it?
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🔔🔔🔔🔔
This Disney-devotee is SO excited to be MD’ing
#Hunchback
for
@NYMTuk
at Manchester Cathedral.
We’re looking for amazing performers & musicians for all of the shows in this epic, COVID secure season, as well as stellar choristers, just for Hunchback.
Get self-taping!
NYMT's 2021 Season is launched! Apply for audition now. Things may be a little different but...
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Dates are in the diary for the first workshop of a new musical I’m writing. Eek!
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“The rest of us will be forgotten. Never Judy” - Frank Sinatra
Here’s to you, Judy.
She died this day in 1969, aged 47.
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Well this is odd - I’m on Netflix! 😂
Note my ad-libbed singular line of dialogue.
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Sooo Great Comet?
Exclusive: West End venue the Playhouse Theatre is to be transformed into an in-the-round space to host the forthcoming immersive production of Cabaret starring Eddie Redmayne and Jessie Buckley
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@NYMTuk
Hunchback - where do I begin?
If this production shows anything, it shows that young people can do ANYTHING, no matter how hard or difficult the circumstances. These guys are a testament to the power of theatre & proof we can be more inclusive & embracing of all artists.
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For any stagey’s, like me, who find the lockdown relaxation steps a little confusing, I’ve translated it into our language:
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Set. A. Precedence.
Bravo Music Man 👏🏻
Bravo to Music Man for listing the Broadway musicians playing in the pit outside the theater where everyone can see. This should be the norm with every show.
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Journey to the Past is the best Disney song not from a Disney film.
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MUSICAL DIRECTORS/PIANISTS: Given the current situation, I think it would be fab if we all carried cloths/wipes to wipe down piano keys prior and after use. Seeing as there’s so many pianos at so many venues probably have never been cleaned, it’s a small step!
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I feel that deciding not to sing a song for an audition because it’s a popular choice or it’s overdone is starting to become outdated advice. (1/3)
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God tier. Anyone who says vibrato doesn’t exist in Mamma Mia should listen to this.
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My family Me explaining
watching The the stage musical
Greatest Showman Barnum
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Thank you, Stephen, for everything you gave to the art of the musical theater. Thank you for your teachings, for your passion, wit and courage.
Everything you did, you let it come from you. You gave us something new. You gave us more to see.
💔
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deleting my dating apps cuz i wanna meet someone the old fashioned way (being aloof and stating that I am not in love while a Greek chorus of gospel muses tell me otherwise)
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The best 16 bar cut I ever heard was the last 16 bars of Some People from Gypsy.
Literally just this bit:
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Bring Next To Normal to London!
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Eponine: And rain
Marius: And rain
Eponine: Will make the flowers
Marius: Will make the flowers
Eponine: ...
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FREE SONG GIVEAWAY DAY!
Want a song for your rep? Struggling to find the right song for your zoom audition or workshop?
LIKE and RETWEET and then COMMENT and I shall suggest a song for you 😊
(Until 5:30pm today...)
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In my vocal warm up, we always sing a verse of ‘Over The Rainbow’. Not that you asked, but here’s why:
1 - it’s the greatest melody ever written (thanks, Harold Arlen)
2 - to invite the ghosts of theatre past, to walk alongside us thru the next show/rehearsal
3 - for Judy
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Today’s a big day for me as a writer. I’ve signed my first option on a novel to adapt into a musical.
More workshops to come, & a production next year… very exciting times ahead.
Huge thanks to my agent,
@SimpsonLarah
, for helping make this a reality.
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Female directors that are also mums (and likes musicals) - make yourselves known!
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Dreams really do come true!
I’ll be making my UK Touring debut as Musical Director for Here You Come Again, running at Leeds Playhouse next month before touring the country through to the end of the year.
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It’s this moment right here. When the two younger Fiona’s re-emerge and they all sing in harmony, that’s when I get the shivers down the spine. It’s moment like this I wish I could experience the song again without knowing what’s going to happen.
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The greatest overture ever written is ___________________.
(The answer is always GYPSY)
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Should have been three Diana’s.
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A year ago today, I made my west end conducting debut. How times have changed, eh!
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I’m so sad for all my friends who have lost work left right and centre. I wish to win the lottery tomorrow and throw you all shit tons of money. But sadly, I am not rich in that sense. However, if you need advice, need a song, need a cut of a song, my DM’s are wide open.
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Okay. Who’s got a really big Park we can do an outdoor performance of The Secret Garden? Full orchestra please thanks xoxo
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The first (and only) night I conducted City of Angels was also the day Broadway went dark. Never would any of us thought both Broadway and the West End would both still be dark in August...
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I’m SO excited to read this book coming out in August. Yes, written by James Lapine.
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Shows that are best advised not to have a megamix.
I’ll start: Parade
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Everyone else:
Me: I am still awaiting a West End transfer of Disney’s The Little Mermaid
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"once covid is over" is starting to sound like "next to normal west end premiere"
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I love my job.
#Hunchback
#musicaltheatre
#disney
@nymtuk
#workingwithyoungtalent
#inspiringthenextgeneration
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Apparently, NEXT TO NORMAL is coming to the west end in 2022. Here’s the rumour train gathered in this thread:
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Looks like the rabbit is finally out of the hat… or should I say, crane.
So proud and honoured to share with you all that I am adapting
@LaraWilliamson
’s beautiful novel, The Boy Who Sailed the Ocean in an Armchair, into a musical.
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I’d really like to do a production of something with a full Asian cast and creative team. Maybe Pacific Overtures? Maybe Allegiance? Anything! Just once in my life. Thanks.
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DREAMS COME TRUE 🧙♀️ 💚
I am beyond excited to announce my directorial debut, with the Off-West End premiere of Wicked at Southwark Playhouse Elephant.
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The past two days have been a little bit of a whirlwind. After a year of no MD’ing work, two jobs ended up on my lap.
Please forgive my boasting. I’m quite excited!
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I LOVE the new off-Broadway cast album of Little Shop. Fab new arrangements and stunning vocals.
Ps. I’d love to MD Little Shop 🙏
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Thrilled to be music directing the 2023 China Tour of
@TitanicOnTour
, I have loved this show for forever and I’m so excited to get going. Sail on!
First international tour ✅ 🇨🇳
4th Disney Parks location ☑️ (I got my eyes on you, Shanghai) 🐭
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