This is merely a blog post of no great length, intended to inform the general population about a concert recording that is being broadcast on YouTube this Friday at 7:00 pm. The concert in question is ‘Direct from the West End’, as performed by the Welsh Musical Theatre Orchestra in 2018, and if you look …
It’s been a veritable hive of activity at MAG Labs recently, and there is no time like the present for sharing the juicy fruits of such labours. I hope you’ve got your video-watching spectacles on, because you’ll need them for the following selection of sweet delights… The Main Street Stride A few weeks ago …
Good morning Planet Earth, and welcome to a little blog post I like to call ‘103 Performances I’ve Done In The Past 2.5 Months’. For those of you who don’t know, I’ve noticed that the best way to make people read something online is by putting a number in the title, so today I’ve decided …
Last week found me in my old stomping ground of Woking’s Rhoda McGaw Theatre, playing piccolo, flute, clarimanet and alto saxomophone for WAOS Musical Theatre’s production of High Society. I thought the world in general might like a taster of what the experience was like, so here’s a little picture and video with which to …
Well, how time flies! It appears that I haven’t updated you wonderful people since the beginning of July, and an awful lot has happened since then. Therefore I would now like to present a review of the past six weeks, which I hope you will find interesting. Week 1 (2nd July) After returning from …
Here’s a little something that I’m sure all of the card-carrying members of the Michael Grant fanclub (and maybe some of the non-card-carrying as well) will enjoy. It’s a clip from Saturday’s gala with the Welsh Musical Theatre Orchestra, in which Broadway star Wade McCollum sings ‘At the End of the World’ from new musical …
Last week’s run of Sweeney Todd has inspired me to go on a little excursion, and spend this week down ‘By the Sea’! So I’ll be heading off to Copacabana to play in a musical about Southend-on-Sea. Wait… Strike that – reverse it. The point is, I’ll be joining Leigh Operatic & Dramatic Society to …
This week’s adventure takes me to Stockwell, where I’ll be attending the tale of Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Wandsworth Road. I’ll be playing the shrill combination of piccolo, flute, Bb clarinet and (for 4 bars only!) Eb clarinet. Do make an effort to attend if you can – yesterday’s sitzprobe sounded pretty darn …
You’ll never guess what I’m doing this week! Oh wait, maybe the title of this post was something of a spoiler… Never mind. If you happen to find yourself in the appropriate vicinity, do come along to see what I’m sure will be a marvellous production from Southend Operatic & Dramatic Society (abbreviate at your …
