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Rehearsals officially began with the full company of BUMBLESCRATCH yesterday (Monday 22 August 2016), but they followed two days of ensemble music calls at the end of last week. Here, Robert J Sherman’s production assistant Thomas Josling gives us a glimpse on the work that’s been taking place to put the show together. Check back for more rehearsal diary updates …
BUMBLESCRATCH‘s Robert J Sherman has launched a series of blogs on his personal website on various aspects of the show’s creation. We’re excerpting selected blogs here. Please visit robbiesherman.com to read more from this series in full. BUMBLESCRATCH is a sung-through musical. Since I was small I knew that I wanted to follow in my father’s, uncle’s and grandfather’s footsteps …
BUMBLESCRATCH‘s Robert J Sherman has launched a series of blogs on his personal website on various aspects of the show’s creation. We’re excerpting selected blogs here. Please visit robbiesherman.com to read more from this series in full. The four main roles in BUMBLESCRATCH are played by Darren Day, Jessica Martin, Michael Xavier and Ilan Galkoff. Here, Sherman tells us a …
Designer Gabriella Slade previously worked with Robert J Sherman and Stewart Nicholls on Love Birds, a hit at the Edinburgh Festival, when she received critical acclaim for bringing that musical’s array of vaudevillian parrots and penguins to colourful, fine-feathered life. For BUMBLESCRATCH, she goes grubbier to conjure the plague rats of 17th-century London. Scroll through the galleries below for a sneak-peek at …
BUMBLESCRATCH‘s Robert J Sherman has launched a series of blogs on his personal website on various aspects of the show’s creation. We’ll be excerpting selected blogs here. Please visit robbiesherman.com to read more from this series in full. ‘Frankly, I can’t stand rats, or mice: they terrify and disgust me. So why write a musical about rats? Shakespeare’s Globe is to blame. …
We’re not only playing in the West End (for one night only). After success at West End Live, we’re also now delighted to be taking part in another annual West End tradition, Kids Week. BUMBLESCRATCH joins more than 30 other top West End shows helping families celebrate the school holidays, offering over 55,000 tickets free to children between now and …
As we announce the full cast joining Darren Day, Michael Xavier and Jessica Martin for BUMBLESCRATCH‘s special gala charity concert at the West End’s Adelphi Theatre on Sunday 4 September 2016, we’re particularly excited to reveal that twelve-year-old Ilan Galkoff has been cast as the lead child role of Perry – a part he’s already familiar with… This is the role which was created in the 2013 …
The full 13-strong cast is announced today for our special Gala Charity Concert of Robert J. Sherman’s new musical BUMBLESCRATCH at the West End’s Adelphi Theatre on Sunday 4 September 2016 at 6.30pm. This performance is in aid of Variety, the Children’s Charity, and is part of commemorations for the 350th Anniversary of the Great Fire of London, which raged in the …
We’re delighted to announce initial casting for BUMBLESCRATCH‘s special gala charity concert at the West End’s Adelphi Theatre on Sunday 4 September 2016. Darren Day returns to the West End musical stage to take the title role of Melbourne Bumblescratch with Michael Xavier, fresh from Sunset Boulevard opposite Glenn Close, taking on the role as the dastardly Hookbeard, and Jessica Martin, …
No sooner had the ink dried on Darren Day‘s contract than we whisked him into the rehearsal room so he could start learning those fabulous Robert J. Sherman ditties, including “At Least a Rat Has Got an Excuse”. He took a short break from note bashing on his first day of rehearsals to talk more about what attracted him to …