Breaking into Song: Why You Shouldn't Hate Musicals (eBook)

Adam is a London based director, dramaturg and musical theatre specialist. He has extensive experience of working with composers, lyricists, songwriters and playwrights to develop new work. Shows developed to full production include: WASTED (World Premiere, Southwark Playhouse), SUPERHERO (World Premiere, Southwark Playhouse), THE SORROWS OF SATAN (World Premiere, Tristan Bates Theatre), LOCK AND KEY (World Premiere, Vault Festival), THE LEFTOVERS (World Premiere, National Tour). Shows workshopped and in development include: PERSONALITY, AMY 37, STAGES, THE THROWAWAYS, THE FABULIST FOX SISTERS, NATURAL BORN NOBODIES, VANYAS, A SMALL LIFE, BOLLYWOOD ROSE, REMEMBER REMEMBER, HOME, REANIMATOR, BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS. DANCE WITH A STRANGER, EVER ONWARD, CZECH YOURSELF, Adam is currently working as dramaturg and story consultant on FANGIRLS a musical television series by Yve Blake in development with Clerkenwell Films. He is dramaturg and director of HOARDING, a new musical being developed by Sheep Soup in collaboration with Toronto’s Music Theatre Project and Áine Flanagan productions. Other directing includes THE RINK (Southwark Playhouse), THE STORM (Helios Collective/ENO), 35MM (The Other Palace), WHISPER HOUSE (The Other Palace), SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD (St James Theatre, 20th Anniversary Production), DISGRACED (English Theatre Frankfurt), DARK TOURISM (Park Theatre), GHOST (GSA), SEE WHAT I WANNA SEE (Jermyn Street Theatre), REEL LIFE (Ustinov Theatre Bath and St James Studio), THE GOODBYE GIRL (Upstairs at the Gatehouse), WEST END RECAST (Duke of York’s Theatre, Phoenix Theatre), ORDINARY DAYS (Trafalgar Studios), LITTLE FISH and SATURN RETURNS (Finborough Theatre), COME FLY WITH ME (Salisbury Playhouse), THE DEAD GUY (English Theatre Frankfurt) and THE FAMILY (Old Vic US/UK Exchange, Public Theater, NY). Adam’s podcast DISCHORD where he discusses and debates musical theatre has twenty episodes and has been downloaded over 15,000 times. He is the founder of SIGNAL a quarterly residency at London’s Hospital Club that presents the best new experimental British musical theatre.

Breaking Into Song

The Wound

On Hating Musicals

When Words Are No Longer Enough

Cash Machines

Musicals Are Political

Superpowers

Poopy Babies

Collaboration

Photocopying A Photocopy

I’m Not A Genre, Not Yet A Medium

What’s The Point?

Definitions

Can Musicals Ever Be Cool?

Audiences

Musicals and Video Games

Time and Memory

The Triangle

Tiny Bowls

Stacks

Musicals and Opera

Digging vs Telescopes

The Musical

Musicals Cost Too Much

Build It And They Will Come

Autobiography

Cardboard Cities

Musicals and Comic Books

Opposites

What’s In A Name?

Replicas

Making Space