Musical Theatre

Musical Theatre is a fairly bad idea. But I quite like it. I know I shouldn’t, but I do.

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I played keyboard and guitar in Rent at the Shaftesbury Theatre for six months some time in the 90s. In retrospect, there was much that was dreadful about the show, but I used to cry at the same point every night. What a softy.

An early 'Sleeping Beauty' workshop

I met the composer Trisha Ward in 2001 when I was asked to mix some tracks for her musical, Sleeping Beauty. Trisha has always impressed me with her determination to be heard in the sea of testosterone that runs the West End and I helped her to produce many tracks during the following decade. The songs from her latest project, a musical based on an ITV soap opera, are stunning. Nice work, Trish.

Other Musical Theatre artists who have graced my Genelecs include Ruthie Henshall, Andrew Milburn, Mark Carroll and Hannah-Jane Fox, whose first singles I co-produced with Roger Taylor (the Queen one, not the Duran one).