Having established herself in the firmament of Australian Leading Ladies, Stefanie most recently starred in the Australian National Tour of Disney and Cameron Mackintosh’s production of Mary Poppins, in which she played the title role and received a Sydney Theatre Award for Best Performance in a Leading Role in a Musical.
Further professional theatre credits include Rhonda Epinstall in the Australian National Tour of Muriel’s Wedding The Musical (Global Creatures) for which she won a Sydney Theatre Award (Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical), Liesl von Trapp in The Sound of Music (RUG/GFO), Once The Musical (MTC/GFO), Giulietta in Aspects of Love (Walk This Way Productions), Jean MacLaren in Brigadoon (TPC), Dream Ballet Laurie in Oklahoma! (TPC), Dream Lover (GFO/Gilbert Theatrical), South Pacific (Opera Australia/GFO), Carmen Live or Dead (Oriel Entertainment Group), the original workshop for King Kong The Musical (Global Creatures), and was also a 2016 finalist in the ANZ Trustees prestigious Rob Guest Endowment Competition. Stefanie’s screen credits include Molly (M4Entertainment/Seven Network), The Divorce (Princess Pictures/Opera Australia) and the role of Megan Dennison in Neighbours.
Stefanie graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts having completed a Bachelor of Music Theatre and whilst at the VCA, received the Cassidy Bequest Fund Award on behalf of the University of Melbourne Trust. Stefanie has trained extensively in dance, having studied with the Queensland Ballet through their Junior Extension Program and also holds her Associate Diploma in Music for Violin.
Jack Chambers is an Australian “triple threat” with a renowned reputation.
Training since the age of 3 – at the Julie-Ann Lucas School of Dance, Brisbane – Jack has performed throughout Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and Asia.
He became well known to Australian audiences by winning the first season of So You Think You Can Dance Australia in 2008.
His musical theatre credits include: The Sound of Music – Kurt Von Trapp (Gordon Frost Organisation); Hairspray – Link Larkin (Dainty Consolidated Entertainment – DCE); Singin’ in the Rain – Cosmo Brown (DCE/Michael Cassel) – Helpmann Award nomination for Best Supporting Role, winning a Green Room Award and Australian Dance Award 2017.
Dance credits include: Project X (Raw Company) – touring USA/Singapore/Netherlands/South Korea; Spring Gala (The Kennedy Center, Washington DC) – hosted by Liza Minnelli; Burn the Floor (West End/Japan); Untapped! (Off Broadway/Adelaide Fringe); the film Elvis (Baz Luhrmann).
Jack has also worked internationally as a choreographer and teacher, including at the Joffrey Ballet Schooland Peridance Capezio Centre in Manhattan NYC. He has worked with industry greats such as Kelley Abbey, David Atkins, Jason Gilkison and has performed alongside Olivia Newton John, Tina Arena, NeilYoung, Keala Settle, Robbie Williams and toured the globe with Hugh Jackman in The Man, The Music, The Show, performing in the biggest venues in the world.
Jack more recently played the role of Bert in the Australian tour of Mary Poppins, winning a Green Room Award and a Sydney Theatre Award nomination for his performance.
Michael D. Xavier is an award-winning West End and Broadway star and two-time Olivier Award nominee.
Michael’s most recent theatre credit saw him touring the UK in My Fair Lady playing the lead Henry Higgins, after several busy years of television and film work. In 2017 he spent an incredibly successful year on Broadway starring as Joe Gillis opposite Glenn Close in Sunset Boulevard and in Hal Prince’s hit show Prince of Broadway.
Michael was nominated for two Olivier Awards in 2011; ‘Best Supporting Performance in a Musical’ (Wolf/Cinderella’s Prince – Into The Woods at The Open Air Theatre) and ‘Best Actor in a Musical’ (Oliver – Love Story at The Duchess Theatre & Chichester Festival Theatre). In 2016 Michael won the Broadway World Award for ‘Best Actor in a Musical’ for his role as Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard at the ENO Coliseum.
He has also had What’s On Stage Awards nominations for Into The Woods and Sunset Boulevard, and Broadway World Award nominations for Love Story, The Pajama Game and Soho Cinders.
Other US theatre credits include; Archibald Craven in The Secret Garden (Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington D.C).
Other London/West End theatre credits include; Oliver Barrett in Love Story 10th Anniversary Concert (Cadogan Hall), Sid Sorokin in The Pajama Game (Shaftesbury Theatre – Broadway World Award nomination), Sir Galahad in Spamalot! (Palace Theatre), Freddy Eynsford-Hill in My Fair Lady (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), Suffolk and George of Clarence in Trevor Nunn’s production of Shakespeare’s The Wars Of The Roses – Henry VI, Edward IV and Richard III (The Rose Theatre), John Wilkes Booth in Assassins (Menier Chocolate Factory), Captain Von Trapp in The Sound Of Music (Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park – Broadway World Award nomination), Raoul in The Phantom Of The Opera (Her Majesty’s Theatre), James Prince in Soho Cinders (Soho Theatre – Broadway World Award nomination), Miss Great Plains in Pageant (Vaudeville Theatre and King’s Head Theatre).
Other UK theatre credits include; Gaylord Ravenal in Show Boat (Sheffield Crucible), Cornelius Hakl in Hello Dolly! (Leicester Curve), Bob Baker in Wonderful Town (Original UK Tour), Curly in Oklahoma! (Chichester Festival Theatre), Rock Hudson in Rock (National Tour & Oval House Theatre), Sky in Mamma Mia! (International Tour Original Cast), Nankipoo in The Mikado (UK Tour).
Television credits include Elliott Wallace in Grantchester (ITV), Dr Steph Belcombe in Gentleman Jack (HBO), Christopher Miles in The Blacklist (NBC), Lieutenant Knox in Outlander Season 4 (Amazon), Martin Broom in Grace (ITV), Patrick Thompson in The Chelsea Detective (Amazon).
Films include Mr Roux in The History of Sound (End Cue), Jeremy Zenner in Utopia (SP Media Group), The Isle Tide Hotel, Hammarskjold, Never Let Go, The Muppets Most Wanted! and Gnomeland.
Radio credits include Tony in West Side Story (BBC Radio 2), Artie Green in Sunset Boulevard (BBC Radio 2) and many leading appearances on BBC Radio 2’s Friday Night Is Music Night.
Recordings include Oliver in Love Story (Original Cast Recording), Prince Of Broadway (Original Broadway Cast Recording), Laurie in Little Women (Pelion Productions), Thank You For The Music (West End International), Soldier in Toys (Milton Morrisey Productions), Unwritten Song (Michael Bruce), Chance In A Lifetime (Tim Prottey-Jones) and Therese Racquin and Lift (Craig Adams).
Michael was invited to host the Olivier Awards outdoor event in Covent Garden for three years. His co-hosts included Alison Hammond (2015), Myleene Klass (2014) and Claudia Winkleman and Sheridan Smith (2013). He has also hosted West End Live 2013 in Trafalgar Square and was the main host of the UK Theatre Awards 2013 and 2014 and 2015 at The Guildhall.
For more info visit: www.michaelxavier.co.uk or follow on @michaelxavierUK
Lucie-Mae trained at the National Youth Theatre and the Royal Academy of Music. She most recently appeared as Kathy Seldon in Singing in the Rain at Kilworth House.
Theatre credits include: Ella in I Should Be So Lucky: The Stock Aitken Waterman Musical (UK Tour), Kate McGowan in Titanic the Musical (UK and International tours), 1st Cover Mary Poppins in Mary Poppins (West End and International tour), Roxie Hart in Chicago, Charlotte Parratt in Quality Street and Cecily in Travesties (all for Pitlochry Festival Theatre), Chester Lyman & 1st cover Jenny Lind/Chairy Barnum in Barnum (Menier Chocolate Factory), Standby Mary Poppins in Mary Poppins (UK Tour), cover Sarah in Guys and Dolls (UK Tour/Savoy Theatre), Annabelle in A Damsel in Distress (Chichester Festival Theatre), Kate Monster/Lucy the Slut in Avenue Q (UK Tour), cover Jenny/Chairy in Barnum (Chichester Festival Theatre), 1st cover Sister Mary Roberts in Sister Act (UK Tour).
Credits whilst in training include Sally Durant Plummer in Follies.
Lucie-Mae’s workshops include Disney’s Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Mort and Goodbye Barcelona.
TV/film includes Humans (Channel 4) and Kate McGowan in the recent cinema release of Titanic the Musical.
Concerts include: Danny Elfman’s Music From the Films of Tim Burton (Arena Tour and Royal Albert Hall) and BBC Prom Sondheim at 80 (Royal Albert Hall), guest artist at West End Proms – Lytham Festival, and Fleck in Love Never Dies (Drury Lane).
Rosie’s West End credits include: Carlotta in the original cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of The Opera, Madame Thenardier in Les Misérables, Cunegonde in Candide, Widow Corney in Oliver!, Hortense in The Boyfriend, Forbidden Broadway, Felicia Gabriel in The Witches of Eastwick (for which she was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Performance in a Musical), Miss Andrew, in Mary Poppins, Lottie Grady in When We Are Married and Grandma Mole in The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 & 3⁄4. Rosie’s most recent and notable production was originating the role of Pam Lee in the world premiere of The Great British Bake Off Musical at The Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham.
Other roles include: Ethel Merman in Call Me Merman & Dora Bryan in Adorable Dora (tours), Betty in The Great American Trailer Park Musical (Waterloo East Theatre), Miss Bleacher in Crush (tour), Kate Hoey MP in Committee (Donmar Warehouse), 8 roles in Tonight at 8.30 (Jermyn St Theatre), The Old Lady in Candide (Grange Park Festival), Mrs Fezziwigg in A Christmas Carol (Lyceum Theatre) , Mrs Pearce in My Fair Lady at the Teatro Massimo, Palermo, Sally Adams in Call Me Madam (Gatehouse) & Dame Hannah in Ruddigore (Wilton’s Music Hall).
She has also appeared with English National Opera, Opera North, Scottish Opera, Sadlers Wells Opera, Opera Northern Ireland & Carl Rosa in many different roles including Musetta in La Boheme, Despina in Cosi Fan Tutte, Helene in La Belle Helene, Frasquita in Carmen to name but a few.
Patti Boulaye is a West End and recording star and actress with an illustrious international career spanning 50 years with starring roles in Theatre, Films and TV. Patti has featured in the BBC2 series The Real Marigold Hotel, Celebrity Master Chef, Good Morning Britain and Would I Lie to You amongst over 300 other TV appearances.
Dr Patti has been a Visiting Teaching Fellow at the University of Middlesex, Business School, for the past 12 years where she lectured to final year students on life skills. Patti is a long-time Governor of BADA, The British American Drama Academy, affiliated to Oxford and Yale Universities and Patron of Eastside Educational Trust. Patti was awarded an Honorary Doctorate Degree in Arts & Education by the Joint Council of Churches.
After Patti’s starring role in African movie Bisi, Daughter of the River, the biggest grossing African Movie ever made, she came to prominence in the UK as a singer, winning the British ITV talent show New Faces, when she made history by becoming the only contestant ever to receive the maximum 120 points. This led to starring roles in the feature films The Music Machine and Hussy with Helen Mirren. Patti has featured in a number of Royal Command Performances at the London Palladium. Patti co-produced her own TV series, The Patti Boulaye Show on Channel 4 and she starred in 10 annual Joy to the World BBC TV Christmas specials.
Patti received an OBE from HRH King Charles for her charity work in the UK and Sub-Saharan Africa. As founder and President of the Charity Support for Africa Patti produced two sell-out concerts at the Royal Albert Hall to raise money for her charity, and built 5 Healthcare Centres, in Africa and helped to finance a school with HRH Prince Harry’s Charity in Lesotho. Patti was appointed by Lord Sterling to the Entertainment Steering Committee for HM the Queen’s Golden Jubilee, single handedly, she organised and led 5000 Gospel singers down The Mall singing songs especially written by Patti for the occasion.
Patti made her West End debut in the musical Hair and featured in Two Gentlemen of Verona and her first starring role in the West End was as Yum Yum in the opera The Black Mikado. She starred as Carmen for four years in the opera Carmen Jones at the Old Vic and on the World Tour.
She was awarded the Female Vocalist of the Year by the BBCTV Club Mirror Awards and she was awarded Best Soul Singer by Boisdale Clubs. She has produced and starred in Blues in the Night, and in the West End played Judy Garland in The Night They Buried Judy Garland, Bloody Mary in South Pacific and Nurse Hanneman in The Destiny of Me for Simon Callow who also directed her in Carmen Jones.
Cabaret has been a constant love of her career with shows, among others, for Prince Hassan 50th birthday in Jordan, Michael Jackson’s 45th birthday in LA, the Ritz Hotel, the Talk of the Town, The Café Royal, The Savoy Hotel, Crazy Coqs, The Hippodrome, Boisdale and The Pheasantry. Her current one-woman shows are legendary, Billie and Me, Aretha & Me Me, Myself & I and Diana & Me have all sold out across the UK during the last four years.
In London Patti produced her own musical Sun Dance, for which she wrote all the music and lyrics. Patti has released 9 albums and 15 singles to date. Patti launched her acclaimed autobiography The Faith of a Child in March 2017 which, as a big seller, was re-launched as a hard back in December 2021 by publishers, Kaleidoscope, at the National Film Theatre when the British Film Institute held a celebration of Patti’s film and TV appearances over the last 50 years.
Patti successfully launched her TV chat show Life with Patti Boulaye which was streamed throughout the world. In these programmes Patti talks to successful people from all walks of life. The programmes are now available on YouTube.
Training: Guildhall School of Music and Drama. MMus (Performance), BMus (Hons), LGSMD.
Theatre: Sister Berthe in The Sound of Music (Chichester Festival Theatre) Jack’s Mother in Into The Woods (Northern Ireland Opera) Alice Beane in Titanic (International tour); Mrs Brill in Mary Poppins (International tour); Mrs Brill in Mary Poppins (UK tour); Madame Thénardier in Les Misérables (Queen’s Theatre); Carlotta in The Phantom of The Opera 25th Anniversary (Royal Albert Hall); Carlotta in The Phantom of The Opera (Her Majesty’s Theatre); Widow Corney in Oliver! (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); Honoria in Am Dram A Musical Comedy (Leicester Curve).
Recordings: Carlotta in The Phantom of The Opera 25th Anniversary (Royal Albert Hall) – Film & CD. Widow Corney in Oliver! Live from Drury Lane.
Ruairidh trained at The Guildford School of Acting following his time at The Dance School of Scotland.
His credits include: Michael Wormwood in Matilda – The Musical (Cambridge Theatre, London), Felix in Glory Ride – The Musical (Charing Cross Theatre, London), John in Peter Pan and Wendy (Pitlochry Festival Theatre), Buggins in Half A Sixpence (Kilworth House Theatre), The Kist (Edinburgh Festival/New York) and a SAMSUNG Galaxy Note commercial.
In 2019, Ruairidh was awarded The Young Scottish Musical Theatre Performer of the Year.
Recent theatre credits include; Uncle Henry and Oz Guard in The Wizard of Oz, National tour and Gillian Lynne Theatre, West End. Lt Ward and President Roosevelt in Annie, National tour. Alan Ayckbourn’s Love in the Mist. An Officer and a Gentleman, National tour and Curve Leicester. David played Uncle Bert in Half a Sixpence at the Noel Coward Theatre in London and has appeared on Live at the London Palladium, Children in Need, and The One Show.
He was part of the cast of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, playing the part of Mr Hoallum, which was nominated for an Olivier award in the best revival category.
Other acting credits include My Fair Lady at the National Theatre and at London Drury Lane, which went on to win an Olivier in the best revival category. Oliver!, UK National tour and the Princess of Wales Theatre, Toronto. Factory Foreman in Les Misérables at the Palace Theatre, London. Harvey in All the Fun of the Fair, National tour. Inherit the Wind at the Old Vic. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Taming of the Shrew and Babe the Sheep Pig, all at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre. Diana, Truth and Lies at the Snapple Theatre, Off Broadway New York and Soho Theatre London. The Wizard and Professor Marvel in The Wizard of Oz at West Yorkshire Playhouse. The Proprietor in Assassins, Sheffield Crucible Theatre. Charlie Davenport in the National tour of Annie Get Your Gun. The Witches National Tour. The BFG, National tour and West End. Colin in Absent Friends and Roy Tunt in The Sociable Plover both at Sarah Thorne Theatre, Broadstairs. David has also directed many pantomime productions across the UK for Crossroads Pantomimes.
Jay has just Graduated from Laine Theatre Arts and previously trained at VA Performing arts.
Previous credits include; Dick Whittington (Nottingham Theatre Royal), Cinderella (The Orchard Theatre).
Other Credits Include; The Lotus Eletre Car Launch (BBC Studios, London), Silence is Golden (Hammersmith Riverside Studios).
Marianne trained at the Guildford School of Acting.
Upon graduation Marianne made her West End debut in Disney’s Frozen at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, where she remained in the cast until it’s final performance. She was also involved in the live filming of the show for its release on Disney+.
Other credits include; Children of Eden in Concert (Cadogan Hall) and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Sunderland Empire).
Alongside her work on stage Marianne is also a prominent content creator with over 1.5 million followers across her platforms (@Marianne_rb).
Training: Urdang Academy (London, UK) BA Hons Degree in Professional Musical Theatre and Dance.
Stage Credits: Ensemble/1st Cover Store Manager in Elf The Musical (Dominion Theatre); Onstage Swing/Dance Captain/ 2nd Cover Eugene H Krabs in SpongeBob SquarePants The Musical (UK Tour); Ensemble in Cabaret (Lido, Paris); Coricopat/Gengus in Cats (Ronacher, Vienna) Ensemble in Wicked (Neue Flora, Hamburg) Coricopat in Cats (International Tour 2019/2020), Nikko/Ensemble in The Wizard of Oz (The Birmingham Repertory Theatre), Asher/Butler in Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Kilworth House Theatre), Bill Bailey/Cover Mungojerrie in Cats (RCCL).
TV Credits: Backing Vocalist in Eurovision Song Contest Opening (Eurovision, 2016), Backing Vocalist for Leona Lewis in X Factor Final (ITV).
Training: Bird College – First Class BA (Hons) Degree.
Theatre includes: Frozen (Stage Theater an der Elbe, Hamburg) Mary Poppins (Prince Edward Theatre, London) Mary Poppins as ‘Swing’ (Stage Theater an der Elbe, Hamburg) Cats as ‘Demeter’ (Royal Caribbean) Cats as ‘Tantomile’ understudy ‘Demeter’, understudy ‘Rumpleteazer’ (Royal Caribbean), The King and I (Leicester Curve).
TV: for Mary Poppins – Britain’s Got Talent – One Show More Performance (ITV Studios), Royal Variety Performance, (London Palladium), This Morning (ITV).
Cast recording: Mary Poppins Definitive Cast Recording [Live At the Prince Edward Theatre].
Training: The Arts Educational School, where he was awarded The Yarrow Scholarship, graduating in 2022.
Theatre includes: Jean-Michel in La Cage aux Folles (Open Air Theatre) directed by Timothy Sheader; Ricky in Pump Up The Volume (Turbine Theatre); 42nd Street (Théâtre du Châtelet) directed by Stephen Mear; his professional and West End debut covering and playing Kenickie and Doody in Grease (Dominion Theatre).
Most recently: Courfreyac and understudied and played Enjolras in Les Misérables (Sondheim Theatre).
Training: The Urdang Academy.
Theatre credits include: White Christmas (Sheffield Crucible), Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (London Palladium/ UK and Ireland Tour), 2020 The Musical (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Union Theatre).
TV Credits include: Rude – The Break (BBC 3), Sky Go UK (Advert- MindsEye Productions).
Other credits include: Sammy, The Musical (Workshop), Squad Goals (Immersive – Site Specific).
Training: Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts.
Theatre Includes: Ensemble/Cover Donkey in Shrek The Musical (Event Apollo); Cover Clyde McPhatter, George Treadwell and Ben E King in The Drifters Girls (UK and Ireland Tour); Beauty and the Beast (London Palladium/UK and Ireland Tour); Hairspray (Gaiety Theatre); Cinderella (Chatham Theatre); and Wannabe: The Spice Girls Show (Edinburgh Festival Fringe).
Film Includes: Jack and the Beanstalk.
Television Includes: Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway.
Lily trained at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts & the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology.
West End & London credits: Cassandra in The Fabulist (Charing Cross Theatre); Swing/1st Cover Carlotta in The Phantom of The Opera (His Majesty’s Theatre); Hannah Warshowsky in Imagine This (The Union Theatre); Enid Hoopes in Legally Blonde (Upstairs at the Gatehouse);
Lucille Frank in Parade (London Theatre Workshop); Green Willow in Fair Em (The Union Theatre).
Theatre credits: Ensemble/Cover Carlotta in The Phantom of The Opera (UK Tour); Jennyanydots, U/S Grizabella & Jellylorum in Cats (Royal Caribbean Cruises/RUG); Angharad in My Land’s Shore (Theatr Soar); Polynesia in Doctor Dolittle (S4K International); Soprano – Slytherin The Hogwarts Choir (The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Universal Studios Japan); Lily Craven in THE Secret Garden (Bernie Grant Arts Centre).
Concert credits: Featured and finale soloist BBC Radio 2 Friday Night Is Music Night (The Mermaid Theatre).
Television credits: Featured contestant Eurovision – Your Country Needs You (BBC 1), Jackpot Joy (ITV, Loose Women Idents)
TikTok: @lilydelalala
Instagram: @lilydelalala
Trained at Arts Educational Schools.
Theatre credits include: Crazy For You (Chichester Festival Theatre & West End), Top Hat (The Mill at Sonning), Sweeney Todd (English Theatre Frankfurt), Aladdin (The Octagon Theatre, Yeovil), Salad Days (UK Tour), Young Frankenstein (Garrick Theatre West End & Newcastle Theatre Royal), Aladdin (Nottingham Playhouse), The Glenn Miller Story (UK tour), The Olivier Awards, Follies in Concert (Royal Albert Hall).
Television/Radio credits: Friday Night is Music Night (BBC) Royal Variety Performance.
Training: Darcy graduated from Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in 2020.
Theatre includes: Darcy made her professional debut as Phantom and u/s Janet and Magenta in The Rocky Horror Show (UK & Ireland Tour), going on to play the role of Columbia (UK & International Tours).
Credits whilst training include: Dance Captain in Betty Blue Eyes; Sarah Brown in Guys and Dolls; Trish in Bonnie & Clyde; Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady; Cristabelle in Angry Birds (The Other Palace).
Originally from Glasgow, Lyndsey trained at The Dance School of Scotland and at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts graduating with a BA (Hons) in musical theatre.
Theatre includes: Swing, understudy Miss Andrew, Mrs Brill & Miss Lark in Mary Poppins (Prince Edward Theatre), Jenny Diver & understudy Mrs Peachum in the European Tour of The Beggar’s Opera directed by Robert Carsen. Confidante & understudied and played Carlotta Guidicelli in The Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s Theatre), Swing in The Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s Theatre), Milkmaid, understudied & played Charlotte in Cameron Mackintosh’s new production of Oliver! (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), They’re Playing Our Song (Menier Chocolate Factory) & The Phantom of the Opera 25th Anniversary Gala (Royal Albert Hall).
Television include: Popstar to Operastar, ident for Royal Bank Of Scotland and Autumn Girl in Vodafone internal commercial.
Recordings include: Oliver! (Live original 2009 cast).
Training: Arts Educational, London (BA Hons).
Theatre Credits: Chicago (International Tour) in which he understudied Billy Flynn; White Christmas (Sheffield Crucible); Swing & Dance Captain in 42nd Street (Chatelet, Paris); Swing/ Assistant Dance Captain in Singin’ in the Rain (Sadler’s Wells, Japan, UK Tour & Toronto); U/S Billy Flynn in Chicago (China Tour); U/S Bert Barry & Andy Lee in 42nd Street (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); Charlie & the Chocolate Factory (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), Miss Atomic Bomb (St James’ Theatre), Oliver! (Curve), Dance Captain in Hey, Old Friends! 85th Sondheim Anniversary Concert (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), U/S Don Lockwood in Singin’ in the Rain (Kilworth House Theatre), Dance Captain/Swing & U/S Munkustrap & Skimbleshanks in CATS (Palladium & UK/European Tour), Dance Captain in White Christmas (Festival Theatre, Edinburgh), We Will Rock You (Dominion Theatre), Dance Captain in Mack and Mabel (Southwark Playhouse), The Night of 1000 Voices (Royal Albert Hall), Gypsy (Curve), U/S Tin Man in the Original Cast of The Wizard of Oz (Palladium).
Other Credits: All Star Musicals (ITV); Assistant to the Associate Choreographer on CATS (Ronacher Theatre, Vienna & Theatre Mogador, Paris).
Training: Royal Academy of Music.
Theatre: Lady Caroline Neville in Titanic (UK and International Tour); Snow White in Snow White (Malthouse Theatre); Helen in Wonderful Town (Opera Holland Park); Vocalist in Thursford Christmas Spectacular; Kate Mullins in Titanic (UK Tour); Eliza Mabberley in Brass (Union Theatre); Bumblescratch (Adelphi Theatre); Charlotte in Oliver! (Curve Theatre); Lavinia in Crush the Musical (UK tour); Mrs. Anderssen in A Little Night Music (Opera Holland Park & Palace Theatre); Liesl & cover Maria in The Sound of Music (Curve Theatre); Retty/Liza-Lu in Tess of the D’Urbivilles, (Studio at New Wimbledon Theatre); Joanie Cunningham in Happy Days (UK Tour); Muriel in On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (Union Theatre); Luisa in The Fantasticks (Jermyn Street Theatre).
Concerts: Phyllis in The Railway Children in Concert (Cadogan Hall); South Pacific (Cadogan Hall); My Fair Lady 60th Anniversary (Actor’s Church); The Hired Man (Cadogan Hall); Hamlisch (St James’ Theatre); Maria Friedman – Back to Before (The Pheasantry).
Additional Credits: Children’s Director Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (UK Tour); Assistant Director The Patient and The Rats (Live Business and Saga).
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Billy trained at Laine Theatre Arts.
Credits include: Mungojerrie cover Skimbleshanks in CATS (Asian Tour, International Tours & RCCL), Carshot/Maxwell in Half a Sixpence (Kilworth House Theatre), Jungle Rumble (Fortune Theatre), Zog in Zog Live! (No.1 UK Tour), Cinderella (Lighthouse Theatre), Swing/Dance Captain in Paw Patrol Live! (UK Arena Tour), Cinderella & Jack and the Beanstalk (Beck Theatre), various contracts for Mirage Shows and Productions for (Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines), Jack and the Beanstalk (Wyvern Theatre) and Dick Whittington (Civic Theatre).
Theatre Credits: Ann (Anytime Annie) Reilly in 42nd Street: UK Tour and Toronto; Jennyanydots/ Griddlebone & 2nd cover Grizabella in Cats: International Tour; Margaret, 1st Cover Violet & 2nd Cover Roz in 9 to 5 The Musical (UK Tour), Trixie in How The Grinch Stole Christmas (UK Tour), Young Solange in Follies (The National Theatre), Mae Jones & 1st Nurse Maid in Street Scene (Teatro Real), Ensemble & Cover Rose in The Braille Legacy (The Charing Cross Theatre) Aladdin (New Wimbledon Theatre), Ensemble in She Loves Me (Menier Chocolate Factory), The Fix The Union Theatre ‘Featured Ensemble’, First cover Mrs. Sowerberry/Mrs. Bumble in Oliver! (Curve Theatre, Leicester), Top Hat (Japan), Miss Dorothy in Thoroughly Modern Millie (Landor Theatre), Top Hat (UK & Ireland Tour 2014/2015).
TV Credits: ITV’s All Star Musicals.
Instagram: @saz_maz31
Training: Arts Educational Schools.
Theatre credits while training include: The Olivier Awards 2024 (Royal Albert Hall) and Pippin – 50th Anniversary Concert(Theatre Royal Drury Lane).
Theatre credits: Marie Curie (Charing Cross Theatre).
Training: Royal Conservatoire, The Hague and Laine Theatre Arts (BA Hons).
Theatre credits includes: Ensemble/1st cover Rudolpho in Matilda (Cambridge Theatre); Swing / Understudy Mungojerrie, Mistoffelees & Skimbleshanks in CATS (International Tour); ‘Billy Elliot’ in Billy Elliot (Netherlands); ‘Michael Banks’ in Mary Poppins (Netherlands).
Credits whilst training: The Lucky, Unlucky Ones (LTA Studio Theatre); Aladdin (SEC Armadillo, Glasgow); Goldilocks and The Three Bears (Belfast Grand Opera House); 85th Anniversary Music Hall (Charing Cross Theatre); The Good Old Days (City Varieties Music Hall Leeds); Musical Theatre Classics conducted by Stephen Brooker (Princess Hall); Laine Theatre Arts Showcase (Epsom Playhouse).
Voice over / dubbing credits: Disney’s The Lion Guard (Kion); Nickelodeon’s Harvey Beaks (Harvey); Disney’s Finding Dory.
Training: The Academy of Northern Ballet, Elmhurst Ballet School.
Theatre Includes: Swing in Disney’s Newsies (Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre); Robinson Crusoe (York Grand Opera House); Mr. Mistoffelees in Cats (Royal Caribbean Productions); English National Ballet’s Cinderella (Royal Albert Hall); Northern Ballet’s Nutcracker (Leeds Grand Theatre).
Training: ArtsEd and Tring Park School for the Performing Arts.
Theatre credits: Mamma Mia! (Novello Theatre).
Other Credits: Oliver in Oliver! (UK Tour), ENB’s The Nutcracker (London Coliseum).
Credits while training: Cod in Catch Me if You Can and Mark in A Chorus Line.
Training: Laine Theatre Arts
Theatre Includes: Shrek The Musical (Eventim Apollo) ; Clueless The Musical (Churchill Theatre, Bromley); Beauty and The Beast (The Capitol Theatre, Horsham); Elf The Musical (Workshop); Beauty and The Beast (Chelmsford Civic Theatre); Mean Girl/us Olive in Little Miss Sunshine (UK Tour); Veruca Salt in Charlie and The Chocolate Factory (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Baby June in Gypsy (The Savoy Theatre).
Television and Film includes: Better Man (Partizan); Gypsy Live for BBC4 (BBC); Children in Need (BBC).
Training: Laine Theatre Arts.
Theatre Credits: Ensemble in Moulin Rouge (2023/24 West End); Ensemble/Cover Pepper in Mamma Mia! (2022/2023 West End); Ensemble in Dick Whittington (2021 for Crossroads).
Instagram: @rosecallum_
Theatre includes Sunset Blvd (The Savoy Theatre); Gypsy; High Society (The Mill at Sonning); South Pacific (Chichester Festival Theatre and UK & Ireland Tour); Passion (Hope Mill Theatre) and Bernstein’s Mass (Southbank Centre).
Other credits include Outlaws: The Ballad of Billy the Kidd at the Other Palace; The Whistling (Workshop).
Charlie trained at Arts Educational Schools and graduated in 2021.
Rachael is an accomplished international stage and screen performer. Her screen credits include Baz Luhrmann’s film Elvis and playing the role of Lauren in the TV series Troppo.
Her musical credits include Ulla in The Producers; Bombalurina in Cats; Margarita in Evita; Go-To-Hell Kitty, Mona, and cover Roxie Hart in Chicago; cover Milo Davenport in An American in Paris; cover Lina Lamont in Singin’ in the Rain; Blue Girl in Shout! The Mod Musical; and roles in The Wizard of Oz, Hello, Dolly!, and Jesus Christ Superstar.
Training: The Urdang Academy.
Credits whilst training: Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes (James Robert Moore/ Geraint Owen/ Phillip Michael Thomas); Shell Dockley in Bad Girls (Jenna Boyd/ Stuart Rogers/Jennifer Edmonds).
Training: Birmingham School of Acting, the Royal Academy of Music.
Theatre Includes: Miss Trunchbull in Matilda The Musical (International Tour); cover Miss Trunchbull in Matilda The Musical (West End); Robin Hood (Liverpool Everyman); cover Ned Schneebly in School of Rock (West End); cover Harry/Bill in Mamma Mia (UK tour); Britt Craig/Slaton in Parade (Hope Mill); Billy in The Goodbye Girl (Upstairs at The Gatehouse); Fleshcreep in Jack and the Beanstalk (Radlett Theatre); Frollo in Quasimodo (King’s Head); Lank Hawkins in Crazy For You (The Gatehouse); Chad/Mr Eames in Trying to Get Back Home (Theatre Royal, Bury-St-Edmunds).
Concerts: Freddie For A Day (with Brian May); The Songs of Bobby Cronin (Charing Cross Theatre); Sondheim’s Honorary Doctorate (RAM for Stephen Sondheim).
Ellie began her training at The Royal Ballet School (2011-2019) attending both White Lodge and the Upper School, performing in various productions with the Royal Ballet during her time as a student. She received the April Olrich Award for Dynamic Performance and was cast by Monica Mason as The Waltz Sylph aged 17 during her first year at the Upper School.
She made her professional theatre debut at age 19 on the International Tour of CATS as Victoria the White Cat, leading her straight into the role of Meg in The Phantom of the Opera. She first joined the UK tour before transferring to the West End in its reopening cast, post-pandemic. Most recently, Ellie joined the inaugural company of The London City Ballet, Sadler’s Wells. Performing various roles and touring to New York’s Joyce Theatre.
William is thrilled to be playing Michael Banks and can’t wait to bring his cheeky character to life on stage.
Training: Spotlight Stage School
Theatre: Cute Joseph in Nativity! The Musical(Birmingham Repertory Theatre)
Other: When not acting, William enjoys learning to play the guitar, mountain biking, playing cricket and gaming with his friends.
William would like to thank his family, Spotlight teachers and agent, Zoe at Bondi Talent for their continued support.
Katie trains at McKechnie School of Dance and Performing Arts and previously at Nicola Parks Musical Theatre. She competes in theatre dance competitions where she has won championship titles in Tap, Song and Ballet. Recently she attended Dance World Cup in Prague representing Team Scotland where she came 4th in the world for tap.
She performed as part of the junior ensemble at the Pavilion Theatre (Glasgow) for their 2023/4 Panto production of Treasure Island.
In addition to performing in musical theatre Katie is a keen musician and enjoys playing violin, piano and ukulele.
Hello! I’m Jude from South Wales, and I’m 11 years old. I speak Welsh fluently, and I’m super excited to be playing Michael Banks in my stage debut! I’ve been training with the LMT Academy of Performing Arts since I was 2 years old. I love acting, dancing, and singing. I’ve also completed many LAMDA exams.
When I’m not on stage, I love watching anime, playing rugby, gaming, doing gymnastics, biking, and listening to music.
I want to thank my Mam, Dad, and sister Ava for always encouraging and supporting me. Caru chi! (That means “love you” in Welsh.)
I hope you enjoy the magic of Mary Poppins. I’m really excited to find my perfect nanny because I definitely need help keeping my room tidy!
Other credits include: BBC Bitesize voiceover role of Trystan.
Thank you for coming, and enjoy the show!
Matilda is delighted to be appearing in her Mum’s favourite musical ‘Mary Poppins’ and can’t wait to take on the role of Jane Banks in the UK Tour.
Professional credits: Gad’s wife/Butler on the UK Tour of Joseph 2022
Representation: Ignite Talent
Training: Temple Academy of Performing Arts
Oscar is ten years old and comes from Glasgow. He’s been performing in stage musicals since the age of 7 with credits including Peter Pan (Eastwood Theatre) playing Michael Darling, Big Fish (Eastwood Theatre) playing Young Will, Oliver! (Kings Theatre, Glasgow) playing Oliver Twist. He attends Vivace Theatre School and FAB Stars School of Dance in Glasgow.
In his spare time Oscar enjoys kick-boxing and playing Roblox. He also loves Harry Potter and his favourite character is Draco Malfoy. Oscar would love to continue his performing journey into adulthood and his ambition is to perform on the West End stage.
Olaya is a 12 year old actor, performer and singer. She has been passionate for theatre since the age of 3. She was born in Ibiza (Spain) but moved to Southampton (UK) at the age of 1, where she developed her dancing, singing and acting skills. Previously to Mary Poppins, she appeared in several musicals, performing as Kaitlyn in “Nativity” (CCADS, King Theatre in Portsmouth, 2022), Jemima Potts in “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” (Kings Theatre in Portsmouth, 2023), Crush in “Finding Nemo” (2024), and Dorothy in “Dancing through Oz” (Kings Performer Studio, MAST, Southampton, 2024).
Joshua is 11 and hails from Essex. When not performing, he enjoys a range of hobbies, from gaming to script writing. Joshua is thrilled to be a part of the Mary Poppins company whilst making his professional debut as Michael Banks.
Olivia is thrilled to be performing in her dream role as Jane Banks in Mary Poppins. Her previous credits include Little Jake in Annie Get Your Gun (Lavender Theatre). Olivia enjoys all sports and loves to travel. She trains with the British Theatre Academy, The Dance Hut and Stagecoach Horsham. Olivia would like to thank her family for all their support and teachers for helping her always want to work hard and improve. She is represented by Daisy & Dukes.
Training: Firefly Dance School, Charlotte Lubbock Vocal Coaching and Premiere Scholars.
Florence is an All England National champion in musical theatre and recently performed in ‘A Night at the Musicals’ concert in Battersea Park. Alongside singing, Florence loves tap dancing and acro!
Florence is absolutely delighted to be making her professional theatre debut in Mary Poppins. A big thank you to all her dance teachers at Firefly Dance School, her vocal coach Charlotte Lubbock and acting teacher Amy Swan. Florence would also like to thank her amazing agent Scarlett at Scarlett & Co. for this wonderful opportunity.
Charlie started dance, drama and singing lessons at an early age at local schools, and is also a member of a youth theatre group. He has performed and won awards as part of a troupe in many national dance competitions
He has won various trophies in music festivals and taken on principal roles in youth theatre productions. He absolutely loves to perform, and cannot wait to make his professional debut as Michael in Mary Poppins.
Pamela Lyndon Travers was born Helen Lyndon Goff in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia on August 9, 1899, in a residence over the Australian Joint Stock Bank of which her father was branch manager. Her father died when she was seven years old, and the bereaved family moved to Bowral, in New South Wales.
In 1907, Lyndon went to live with an aunt in Sydney, where she attended high school. Reading Shakespeare and taking part in school theatricals led to a passion for theatregoing and a longing to act. Her aunt and mother resisted this ambition (it was considered too risqué) but, in her twenties, after a spell as a secretary with the Australian Gas Light Company, Lyndon joined a travelling theatre group, taking a stage name by which she would be known for the rest of her life.
She chose ‘Pamela’ because she thought it pretty and actress-like, kept her own name, ‘Lyndon’ with its Irish associations, and for a surname, took ‘Travers’, the first name of her late father.
While touring in Australia and New Zealand, Pamela began publishing poems, articles and stories. A career in journalism eventually led her out of the theatre, although her love of drama – and especially dance – never left her.
It was as a journalist that she travelled to London in 1926, leaving Australia forever. In later life, Travers did not admit to being Australian, preferring to identify with what she saw as her “true home beyond the Irish Sea”, although something of the mysterious dreamtime of her native land is discernible in her writings.
Making the first of many pilgrimages to Ireland, she became a friend and protégé of George William Russell, editor of The Irish Statesman, who published her poems and introduced her to the Russian thinker Gurdjieff, whose philosophy became a significant influence.
It was in 1934, while living in Pound Cottage in Mayfield, Sussex, that she wrote the book that was to make her famous. In publishing Mary Poppins, the first of six books of stories about an enigmatic nanny and the Banks family, Pamela used only her initials, hiding her gender to avoid being dismissed as an archetypal female author of children’s books.
Travers did not think of them as such. They contained universal themes, and Mary Poppins was in one person a pretty young woman, a nurturing mother, and a wise old woman. Plain looking and plain speaking, Mary Poppins permits neither disorder nor disharmony in her nursery; but she is also a magician, whisking the children into a world of fantasy and misrule, presided over by her mystical friends and relations.
“If you are looking for autobiographical facts,” Pamela once said, “Mary Poppins is the story of my life.” Indeed, much in the books was inspired by memories from her Australian childhood, such as the family maid who had a parrot-headed umbrella, while a strange little storekeeper in Bowral with two towering daughters would become Mrs. Corry, the ancient vendor of curious, magical sweets.
During the war, Travers worked in America for the Office of War Information, at a time when Hollywood was beginning to show an interest in filming Mary Poppins. Samuel Goldwyn and MGM pursued the property, but it was finally Walt Disney who tenaciously courted Pamela for nearly twenty years until she eventually agreed to his proposals.
Although some aspects of the film did not satisfy her exacting standards for her beloved character, she adored Julie Andrews, the financial arrangements gave her security, and the film continued to reintroduce her literary character to generation after generation.
Although famous as the author of the Mary Poppins stories, Travers wrote a number of other adult books, including The Fox at the Manger, a fable in which the new-born Christ-child receives, from a foxy visitor to the stable, the gift of cunning; Friend Monkey, a novel (her best, she always thought) inspired by the character of Hanuman, the monkey god of Hindu mythology; and About the Sleeping Beauty, in honour of her favourite fairy tale (and the one in which, as a pantomime, she had made her professional debut as a dancer, a lifetime and half a world away).
Pamela remained fascinated by myth and fairy tales and travelled widely, living for a time with the Navajo Nation. She was a regular contributor to the magazine Parabola, the Magazine of Myth and Tradition (later collected in a volume entitled What the Bee Knows).
In 1977 she was awarded the OBE, and in 1978 was delighted to be given an honorary doctorate in humane letters by Chatham College in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. From then on she called herself ‘Dr. Travers’, a form which pleased her Poppins-like vanity. She also universally answered to ‘Mrs Travers’, for, although unmarried, in 1939 she had adopted a child, Camillus, from an Irish family, and raised him as her own. She had three grandchildren.
In 1993 she met Cameron Mackintosh, and the two liked one another enormously. Cameron Mackintosh had given her a cherry tree, and she felt that she had found someone she could entrust with the rights to produce a stage musical version of Mary Poppins which would respect her original work. She was by that time very frail, and died on April 23, 1996, before her dream of a stage show could be realised.
She lives on, however, through her spit-spot, no-nonsense, practically perfect nanny: on the page, on film, and now on the stage – working strange, memorable magic and dispensing, in equal measure, wisdom and love.
The cherry tree Cameron Mackintosh gave her flourishes in the garden of a friend.
Cameron Mackintosh has been working in the theatre for almost 60 years and is the producer of several of the most legendary musicals of all time: Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera and Cats, three of the world’s longest running, alongside the perennial Oliver!, Miss Saigon, Mary Poppins (co-produced with Disney), Little Shop of Horrors, and Hamilton in the UK, which he co-produces with Jeffrey Seller. With Stephen Sondheim, Cameron has created three musical revues: Side by Side by Sondheim, Putting it Together and most recently the hugely acclaimed Old Friends(starring Broadway legends Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga) which will open on Broadway next spring.
Cameron and Director Matthew Bourne’s newly reimagined production of Oliver! which recently played to sellout audiences and rave reviews in Chichester, will arrive in London’s Gielgud Theatre in December.
To celebrate Les Misérables’ world record breaking continuous run of over 40 years, the Arena Spectacular Concert version of Les Misérables has just commenced its 2 – 3 year World Tour (a first for any musical on this scale) selling out across the UK with a stellar cast of Les Mis alumni. Previous filmed concerts, at the Royal Albert Hall, the O2 Arena and the Gielgud Theatre, are still continually screened on television and in cinemas throughout the world, alongside Cameron’s spectacular 25th Anniversary Concert of The Phantom of the Opera, also at the Royal Albert Hall.
In 2012, alongside Working Title Films and Universal, Cameron produced the hugely successful Oscar®, Golden Globe and BAFTA award-winning film adaptation of Les Misérables, which is one of the most successful movies ever of an original stage musical. To celebrate over 10 years since its release, the movie has been remixed and recently re-released in full Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision in selected cinemas around the world, as well as a new home vision 4K Blu-ray disc and iTunes download version of the film.
Cameron owns and operates eight historic London theatres, which have all been spectacularly rebuilt and refurbished for the 21st century. They house many of London’s most successful hits. The Sondheim, formerly known as the Queen’s, now has a glorious auditorium and backstage and has been renamed in honour of Cameron’s great friend, theatrical legend Stephen Sondheim. Music Theatre International, one of the world’s oldest and largest libraries of secondary rights of many of the greatest musicals ever written, has been one of Cameron’s companies for over 30 years. MTI represents and champions both exciting new contemporary writers as well as the great classics, and proudly represents the second-class rights for Disney Theatrical.
In 1990, Cameron inaugurated the Chair of Contemporary Theatre at St Catherine’s College in Oxford University, with Stephen Sondheim as his first visiting professor. The Professorship is now in its 35th year.
Cameron was knighted in the 1996 New Year’s Honours for his services to British theatre and in June 2023, was awarded the Freedom of the City of London. In 2014, he was the first British producer ever to be elected to Broadway’s Theater Hall of Fame.
Disney Theatrical Group, a division of The Walt Disney Studios, was formed in 1994 and operates under the direction of Andrew Flatt, Anne Quart and Thomas Schumacher. Worldwide, its ten Broadway titles have been seen by more than 200 million theatregoers and have been nominated for 62 Tony® Awards, winning Broadway’s highest honor 20 times.
The company’s inaugural production, Beauty and the Beast, opened in 1994, playing a remarkable 13-year run on Broadway and produced in replica productions around the world over four decades.
In November 1997, Disney made theatrical history with the opening of The Lion King, which received six 1998 Tony Awards including Best Musical and Best Director, Julie Taymor, who became the first woman in Broadway history to the win the award. Surpassing 25 landmark years on Broadway, it has welcomed 112 million visitors worldwide to date and has nine productions currently running worldwide. The Lion King has played over 100 cities in 24 countries on every continent except Antarctica and its worldwide gross exceeds that of any film, Broadway show or entertainment title in box office history.
Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida opened on Broadway next, winning four 2000 Tony Awards. It was followed by Mary Poppins, a co-production with Cameron Mackintosh, which opened in London in 2004 and went on to enjoy a six-year Tony-winning Broadway run. Tarzan®, Tony-nominated for its 2006 Broadway premiere, went on to become an international hit with an award-winning production enjoying a ten-year run in Germany. In January 2008, The Little Mermaid opened on Broadway and was the best-selling new musical of that year.
Disney Theatrical Group opened two critically acclaimed productions on Broadway in 2012, winning seven Tony Awards between them: Peter and the Starcatcher and Newsies, each of which enjoyed a two-year run and launched North American tours, with Newsies playing a record-breaking Fathom Events in-cinema release. Aladdin, Disney Theatrical Group’s 2014 hit, continues its smash Broadway run. It has launched nine productions around the globe and been seen by more than 17 million guests. Disney Theatrical Group’s newest hit, the 2018 Tony-nominated Best Musical Frozen currently has four productions around the world.
Other stage ventures include the Olivier-nominated London hit Shakespeare in Love, stage productions of Disney’s High School Musical, Der Glöckner Von Notre Dame in Berlin and King David in concert on Broadway.
Disney Theatrical Group has collaborated with the nation’s preeminent theatres to develop new stage musicals including The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Freaky Friday and Hercules. As a part of the recent acquisition of 21st Century Fox, Disney Theatrical Group also heads the Buena Vista Theatrical banner, which licenses Fox titles for stage adaptations including Anastasia, Moulin Rouge! The Musical and Mrs. Doubtfire.
With dozens of productions currently produced or licensed, a Disney musical is being performed professionally somewhere on the planet virtually every hour of the day. Next on the Disney Theatrical schedule: the world-premiere of Hercules in Hamburg, Germany and the North American tour of a reimagined production of Beauty and The Beast in 2025.
The Sherman Brothers’ career as leading composer/lyricists in family entertainment has spanned more than 50 years and includes two Academy Awards, Best Score and Best Song, for Mary Poppins.
The work of the brothers Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman has been enjoying a fresh chapter of success in musical theatre with sensational stage productions of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang with its Oscar nominated title song, and Mary Poppins. Chitty originally opened in the West End in 2002 going on to become the longest-running musical ever at the London Palladium, before playing Broadway and beyond, garnering huge international success, and in 2024 enjoying a further UK tour. The stage production of Mary Poppins, co-produced by Disney and Cameron Mackintosh, opened to critical acclaim in London in 2004, winning two Olivier Awards, with the Broadway production running for six years, and several productions worldwide. A major revival opened in London at the end of 2019. The Jungle Book, another Shermans/Disney favourite, also made the screen-to-stage transition, premiering at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago in 2013, and the stage version of Bedknobs and Broomsticks opened with its tour of the UK in 2021.
The Sherman Brothers first gained recognition in popular music with several top-ten hits, among them You’re Sixteen, Let’s Get Togetherand Tall Paul. 1960 marked the start of a phenomenal 10 year association with Walt Disney, during which time they composed over 150 songs for his films, TV shows, Disneyland and other theme parks. Their Disney credits include the films The Jungle Book, The Parent Trap, Bedknobs And Broomsticks, The Sword In The Stone, The Aristocats, The Happiest Millionaire, The Winnie The Pooh series, The Tigger Movie, and of course Mary Poppins. They also wrote the most translated and performed song on earth, It’s A Small World (After All).
They went on to compose scores for the Broadway hit musical Over Here! and Busker Alley starring Tommy Tune, also in the United States, and songs for the films Snoopy Come Home, Charlotte’s Web, and The WonderWorld Song for Beverly Hills Cop 3.
The Sherman Brothers created screenplays as well as songs for the 1976 Royal Film Performance The Slipper And The Rose (with co-author Bryan Forbes), Tom Sawyer (their music won First Prize at the Moscow Film Festival), Huckleberry Finn and The Magic Of Lassie, the latter earned them their 9th Academy Award nomination for Best Song. Further credits include their 1998 book Walt’s Time, a wonderful autobiographical and pictorial journey through their song-writing years.
In addition to their Oscars, 3 Grammys, 24 Gold and Platinum Albums, further honours awarded to the Sherman Brothers include the National Medal of Arts – the highest award the US government bestows on artists – given to them in a ceremony at the White House in 2008 by the President, induction into the Songwriters Hall Of Fame, and a star on The Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Robert Sherman died in London in March 2012, and Richard Sherman in May 2024 in Los Angeles.
Writer, director, producer, novelist and actor Julian Fellowes has had an extensive and lauded career in film, television, publishing and the dramatic arts.
He received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2002 for Gosford Park, which was his first produced film. Fellowes is creator, sole writer and executive producer of the worldwide hit series Downton Abbey which over its six seasons received 69 Emmy Award nominations; winning 15, including writing and Outstanding Miniseries or Movie for Fellowes. He also received a Golden Globe Award and Special BAFTA Award for Downton Abbey.
His film writing credits include Vanity Fair, Separate Lies (National Board of Review Directorial Debut Award), From Time to Time (Best Picture at the Chicago Children’s Film Festival and Best Picture at the Fiuggi Family Festival in Rome), The Young Victoria, The Tourist, Romeo & Juliet, The Chaperone, the Downton Abbey movie, Downton Abbey: A New Era and the upcoming Downton Abbey 3 scheduled for release in September 2025.
His television writing credits include Little Lord Fauntleroy, The Prince and the Pauper, Titanic, Doctor Thorne, Belgravia, The English Game and The Gilded Age.
He is responsible for the ‘book’ of the Broadway musicals, Mary Poppins and School of Rock – The Musical for which he received a Tony nomination. He also wrote the books for Half a Sixpence and The Wind in the Willows, both of which played in the West End in London of 2017.
He has written three Sunday Times Best Sellers, Snobs, Past Imperfect and Belgravia.
In January 2011, he was given a peerage and entered the House of Lords as the Lord Fellowes of West Stafford.
Stiles and Drewe are a multi-award-winning writing partnership who have been working together for over 40 years, during which time their musicals have been seen all over the world, and translated into many languages.
In addition to their work on Mary Poppins, their scores include the Olivier Award-winning Honk!, which has been seen by more than 7 million people in more than 9000 productions, and the recent West End productions of Half A Sixpence and The Wind In The Willows, both with books by their Mary Poppins collaborator, Julian Fellowes. Their other shows include Betty Blue Eyes, Soho Cinders, Just So, Travels With My Aunt, and Peter Pan – A Musical Adventure. They have also written a trilogy of 50-minute musicals for younger audiences: Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Three Billy Goats Gruff and The Three Little Pigs.
Their most recent musicals include the forthcoming Becoming Nancy with director/choreographer Jerry Mitchell soon to open at Birmingham Rep and Identical, a new musical adaptation of Erich Kästener’s iconic novel The Parent Trap., which premiered at Nottingham Playhouse in 2022.
Independently, as a composer, George’s credits include three musicals with lyricist Paul Leigh – Moll Flanders, The Three Musketeers and Tom Jones – as well as scores for Sam Mendes’ stage productions of Twelfth Night and Uncle Vanya . His score for Troilus and Cressida at the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre was nominated for a Jefferson Award. George is also a co-producer on the hit musical SIX by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, currently running in the West End, on Broadway, and on tour in the UK/Ireland, Australia/New Zealand and North America. This year he is also co-producing Marlow and Moss’ new musical, Why Am I So Single? in the West End.
Independently, as a lyricist, Anthony’s credits include The Card, with music by Tony Hatch, and A Twist Of Fate, with Singaporean composer Dick Lee. His most recent musicals are Freak The Mighty based on the novel by Rodman Philbrick, due to premiere in the USA in 2025, and The Good Hair Day, both with music by Ryan Fielding Garrett.
Honk! has won many international awards including the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical, while Mary Poppins has collected 45 major theatre awards around the globe, including Tony, Olivier, Helpmann and London Evening Standard Awards. Stiles and Drewe were nominated for Best New Musical at the 2016 WhatsOnStage Awards for Half A Sixpence and Betty Blue Eyes was nominated for the 2012 Olivier Award. Other awards include the TMA Best Musical Award for Moll Flanders and the Straits Times Award for Best Musical for A Twist Of Fate.
Stiles and Drewes’ support for new musical theatre writing is recognised via the annual Mercury Musical Developments (MMD) Stiles and Drewe Prize for Best New Song, and their Mentorship Award supported by Music Theatre International (Europe). They are founding board members of MMD, Associate Artists at The Watermill Theatre and patrons of the London Musical Theatre Orchestra.
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Theatre includes Hamlet (Royal Court), Comedians, Guys and Dolls, The Beggar’s Opera, The Government Inspector, The Futurists,The Voysey Inheritance, Racing Demon, Richard III, Night of the Iguana, Skylight, Sweet Bird of Youth, The Absence of War, John Gabriel Borkman, Amy’s View, King Lear, The Invention of Love, Vincent in Brixton, The Reporter, The Observer (National Theatre), The Crucible (Broadway), Mary Poppins (West End/Broadway, Australia), his own adaptations of Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, Little Eyolf (Almeida), Private Lives, Betty Blue Eyes, Quartermaine’s Terms, Stephen Ward, Mr Foote’s Other Leg (West End), Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Bristol Old Vic/New York), My Name Is Lucy Barton (Bridge Theatre/Broadway), The Bay at Nice (Menier Chocolate Factory), A Voyage Round My Father (Theatre Royal Bath), Blithe Spirit (Bath/West End), 4000 Miles, 8 Hotels, The Stepmother, The Pyjama Game, The Last Cigarette (Chichester Festival) and The Snail House (Writer/Director at Hampstead Theatre).
Opera includes La Traviata (ROH), Le Nozze di Figaro, Carmen, Werther, Manon Lescaut (Metropolitan Opera).
Television includes The Insurance Man, Country, V., Tumbledown, Henry IV Parts I and II, The Dresser and King Lear.
Films include The Ploughman’s Lunch, Iris, Stage Beauty, Notes on a Scandal, The Children Act and Allelujah.
He is the author of Utopia and Other Places, National Service, Talking Theatre, What Do I Know and Place To Place, a collection of poems.
He was Director of Nottingham Playhouse from 1973 – 1978, Producer of Play for Today for BBC TV 1978 – 1981, and Director of the National Theatre from 1988 – 1997. He has received numerous theatre and film awards, was knighted in 1997 and was made a Companion of Honour in 2017.
Matthew Bourne is firmly established as the UK’s most popular and successful choreographer and director. He is the creator of the world’s longest-running ballet production, a record-breaking nine-time Olivier Award winner, and the only British director to have won the Tony Award for both Best Choreographer and Best Director of a Musical.
Matthew started his dance training at the comparatively late age of 22 and danced professionally for 14 years. As Artistic Director of his first company, Adventures in Motion Pictures, from 1987 until 2002, Matthew created many signature works (including Spitfire, Nutcracker!, Highland Fling, Swan Lake, Cinderella and The Car Man). Further hit productions were created when New Adventures was launched in 2002 (including Play Without Words, Edward Scissorhands, Dorian Gray, SleepingBeauty, The Red Shoes and Romeo and Juliet). New Adventures quickly became the UK’s busiest and most successful dance company and the major exporter of British dance across the world.
Matthew is also an award-winning West End and Broadway choreographer; a 30-year relationship with producer Cameron Mackintosh has resulted in the globally successful musicals Mary Poppins,My Fair Lady and Oliver! He has seven honorary doctorates and in 2018 received an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from University of Oxford. He is also an Associate Artist of Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London and Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles.
He has been recognised by over 50 international awards, including The Hamburg Shakespeare Prize for the Arts, The Evening Standard Award, South Bank Show Award, Time Out Special Award, Drama Desk Award, six Los Angeles Drama Critic Awards, The Critics Circle Special Award, the Gene Kelly Legacy Award and the Astaire Award for Dance on Broadway. In 2007 he received a Special Theatre Managers Association Award for services to dance touring and audience development. Following the OBE in 2001 he was knighted in the Queen’s New Year honours in 2016; in the same year he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Award in recognition of his outstanding services to dance.
Recent work includes directing Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends (soon to be seen in Los Angeles and on Broadway) and his latest work for New Adventures The Midnight Bell, which premiered in 2021 and went on to win the National Dance Award for Best Modern Choreography in 2022. He recently directed the new hit production of Lionel Bart’s Oliver! for Chichester Festival Theatre followed by its transfer to the West End for Christmas 2024.
Stephen has won the Olivier Award for Best Theatre Choreographer three times, twice for Mary Poppins (London, Broadway & UK tours; Co-Choreographer with Sir Matthew Bourne – they also received an LA Drama Critics Circle Award, a Helpmann Award in Australia, and a Tony and Drama Desk Award nomination) and the third for Hello, Dolly! at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre.
Olivier Award Nominations include: Gypsy (Chichester Festival Theatre/Savoy), Kiss Me, Kate (Chichester Festival Theatre/Old Vic), Crazy for You (Regent’s Park/Novello), Sweet Charity (Menier Chocolate Factory/Theatre Royal), Sinatra (Palladium/UK tour), Singin’ in the Rain (West Yorkshire Playhouse/ National; received the WhatsOnStage Award in 2001 for Best Choreography) and Soul Train (West Yorkshire Playhouse/Victoria Palace).
Theatre includes, as Director/ Choreographer: Guys and Dolls and Funny Girl (Théâtre Marigny, Paris), Guys and Dolls Live in Concert and The Best of the West End (Royal Albert Hall), 42nd Street (Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris), Top Hat and Thoroughly Modern Millie (Kilworth House Theatre), She Loves Me (Chichester Festival Theatre), Little Shop of Horrors(Storyhouse Theatre, Chester) and Shoes (Sadlers Wells/Peacock).
As Choreographer: Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends (Gielgud Theatre) La Cage aux Folles (Regent’s Park), The Witches (National Theatre); the Gala performance of Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends (Sondheim Theatre), Chess(ENO), Sunset Boulevard (ENO, Broadway), On the Town (ENO, Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris), Singin’ in the Rain (Grand Palais/Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris), City of Angels, The Vote and The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Donmar Warehouse), White Christmas (Curve/Dominion), Scrooge: The Musical (Curve), Mack and Mabel (Chichester Festival Theatre/UK tour), The Pajama Game (Shaftesbury), Amadeus, Music Man, Funny Girl, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Putting it Together and The Grapes of Wrath (Chichester Festival Theatre), Guys and Dolls, Dreamgirls and Ragtime (Milwaukee Rep), Die Fledermaus and The Little Mermaid (Broadway), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (West Yorkshire Playhouse/UK tour), Gigi (Regent’s Park), Stephen Ward (Aldwych), Betty Blue Eyes (Novello), Me and My Girl (Sheffield Crucible), Anything Goes (National/Theatre Royal) and Acorn Antiques: The Musical (London/UK tour).
TV credits: Gypsy Live at the Savoy, The Tracey Ullman Show, Psychobitches, Acorn Antiques: The Musical, So You Think You Can Dance? and Victoria Wood’s Christmas Special.
Music Videos: Number 1 (Goldfrapp) and The Importance of Being Idle (Oasis).
Recent designs include Sing Street (New York Theatre Workshop), Straight Line Crazy, The Book of Dust – La Belle Sauvage, Alys Always, My Name is Lucy Barton and Allelujah! (The Bridge Theatre), The Inheritance (Young Vic, West End, Broadway), The Audience, Skylight (West End/Broadway), A Voyage Round My Father (Theatre Royal Bath).
Credits for the National Theatre include: Pinocchio, Travelling Light, Collaborators, The Habit of Art, Phèdre, and Fram (which he also co-directed with Tony Harrison), His Girl Friday and Mourning Becomes Electra. He has designed more than twenty-five productions for the RSC, including: Les Liaisons Dangereuses and The Plantagenets (Olivier Award).
He is the recipient of seven Tony awards for An American in Paris (Broadway, London and Paris), Once (London, Broadway & US Tour), The History Boys (Royal National Theatre, Broadway), Mary Poppins (West End, UK Tour & Broadway), Disney’s Aida (Broadway), The Coast of Utopia (New York), Carousel (New York).
For Opera and Ballet his designs include: Like Water for Chocolate, Strapless, The Winter’s Tale, Pavane, Anastasia, The Knot Garden, La traviata and Alice in Wonderland (Royal Opera House); Don Carlos (Metropolitan Opera), The Cunning Little Vixen (Theatre du Châtelet). Alice in Wonderland, originally co-produced by Royal Opera and National Ballet of Canada in 2011, has since played in Sweden, Denmark, Australia and Japan.
Film: Othello, Tales of Hollywood starring Jeremy Irons and Alec Guinness, Suddenly Last Summer directed by Richard Eyre and starring Maggie Smith for the BBC, plus Costume Design for the film of The Crucible starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Winona Ryder.
He has received numerous Olivier Awards for his designs, The Royal Designer for Industry Award and the Robert L.B. Tobin Award for Lifetime Achievement in Theatrical Design.
Hugh has worked extensively in the West End and on Broadway, lighting over 200 productions worldwide and receiving many accolades for his work including three Olivier Awards, two TONY Awards and a Molière.
Currently in the West End and internationally: Matilda; Back to the Future (co-design with Tim Lutkin).
Other recent work includes Anything Goes (Barbican); Dreamgirls (Savoy and tour); Juno and The Paycock, The Height Of The Storm, The Birthday Party, Venus In Fur (West End); Exit the King, The Red Lion (National Theatre).
Hugh is an associate artist at The Old Vic where his lighting designs include The Constituent, Groundhog Day and A Christmas Carol, and an Honorary Fellow of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Paul is a Grammy, Tony & Drama Desk Award nominated Sound Designer & Music Producer.
Sound Designer:. Why Am I So Single (Garrick Theatre); Babies (The Other Palace); 42 Balloons (Lowry Theatre, Manchester); Spring Awakening in concert (Victoria Palace Theatre) The Little Big Things (@SohoPlace); Mandela (Young Vic); Identical The Musical (Nottingham Playhouse); Oliver! (Asia première in Tokyo); RENT (Hope Mill Theatre); SIX The Musical (London/Broadway/UK & US Tours/Australia/Korea/Japan); Cameron Mackintosh & Disney’s Mary Poppins (Prince Edward Theatre/Asia première in Tokyo/Zurich Theatre11/Dubai Opera/Australia Tour); The Witches Of Eastwick (Cirkus Theatre, Stockholm); Amélie (Munich-Werk7) Billionaire Boy (Nuffield Theatres, Southampton)
Associate Designer: Hamilton (Victoria Palace Theatre); Half A Sixpence (Noël Coward Theatre); Les Misérables (London / 25th Anniversary, International Tour, Madrid, Manilla, US Tour); The Phantom of the Opera (London/Broadway); The Phantom of the Opera (Las Vegas/25th Anniversary); The Phantom of the Opera (Hamburg/Paris); Evita (US National Tour); Miss Saigon (Tokyo); Miss Saigon (Netherlands); Betty Blue Eyes (Novello Theatre);The Wizard Of Oz (The London Palladium); Love Never Dies (Adelphi Theatre); Sister Act (London Palladium); The Sound Of Music (London Palladium); Phantom The Las Vegas Spectacular (Las Vegas); The Woman In White (Broadway);
Recordings: Mandela – Original London Cast Recording (Producer, Mixer); SIX Live on Broadway – Original Broadway Cast Recording (Producer, Mixer); Young Frankenstein – Original London Cast Recording (Producer/Mixer); Newsies – Theatrical & DVD Release (Mixer) Miss Saigon: The Definitive Live Recording, Theatrical, DVD & CD Release (Recording Engineer & Mixer)
Film: The Little Big Things (NT at Home); SIX The Musical (London)
Awards:
Grammy Award for Best Musical Theatre Album (SIX/Broadway) – Nominee
Tony Award for Best Sound Design of a Musical (SIX/Broadway) – Nominee
Drama Desk Award for Best Sound Design of a Musical (SIX/Broadway) – Nominee
Musicals he orchestrated in the West End include: Half a Sixpence (also Chichester Festival Theatre) Betty Blue Eyes, Wicked, Mary Poppins, Miss Saigon (and UK tour), South Pacific, My Fair Lady, Show Boat (and Australia), Oliver! and Carousel.
He was also the orchestrator for Barnum at Chichester Festival Theatre and on UK Tour.
On Broadway: the Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, Ragtime, Mary Poppins (and US tour), Curtains (and Los Angeles), Wicked (and Los Angeles and San Francisco), The Secret Garden, Dessa Rose (off-Broadway), Oklahoma!, Sweet Smell of Success, Minnelli on Minnelli, High Society, Show Boat, Carousel, The Red Shoes, Crazy for You, Miss Saigon, Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, The Boys in Autumn, The Wind in the Willows, The Three Musketeers, Marilyn, Brigadoon, King of Hearts, Timbuktu!, Rockabye Hamlet and Rodgers & Hart.
In the ballet, concert and symphonic realms, he enjoyed collaborations with singers Plácido Domingo and Marilyn Horne; choreographers Agnes de Mille, Kenneth MacMillan, Susan Stroman and Matthew Bourne; the violinist Joshua Bell, and conductors André Previn and John Williams.
Stephen Brooker is Executive Musical Supervisor for Cameron Mackintosh worldwide. He was musical director and conductor for Universal Pictures’ film of Les Misérables.
Musical Supervision: Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends (London), Les Misérables US Tour, Mary Poppins (Australia), Sister Act (London/UK Tour), The Show Must Go On (Palace Theatre), Les Misérables (Worldwide), Miss Saigon (Worldwide), White Christmas, Mary Poppins (Worldwide), Les Misérables – The Staged Concert, Sunset Boulevard, The Woman in White, Half A Sixpence, Les Misérables O2 Concert, The Phantom of the Opera 25th Anniversary Performance, Betty Blue Eyes, Les Misérables 25th Anniversary Concert, Oliver!, My Fair Lady, Cats, Hair, Carmen Jones, The Phantom of the Opera, Grease, Fame, Saturday Night Fever, Barnum, Peter Pan, and Chess.
Musical Direction: The Woman in White, Sunset Boulevard, My Fair Lady, Miss Saigon, Les Misérables, The Show Must Go On, Lautrec, Betty Blue Eyes, Cats, Shall We Dance, Hair, Fame, The Secret Garden, Chess, Carmen Jones, Saturday Night Fever, and South Pacific.
Stephen conducted the Classical Brit Awards and was composer and conductor for the original production of Burn the Floor. For the Imagination group, he has written, produced and conducted music for: Jaguar/Range Rover, Coca-Cola, Walt Disney, Ford Motors, Toyota Cars, Volvo Cars, Sony Eriksson, BMW, British Airways, Holiday Inn, and Canon. Orchestral conducting includes: The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, West Australian Symphony, Haifa Symphony, Bournemouth Symphony, Hamburg Sinfonia, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, London Mozart Players, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, London and Manchester Concert Orchestras, and the Ukraine Opera and Symphony Orchestra.
He conducted the Royal Choral Society in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen. Recordings include Disney Film Classics and Crazy for Gershwin (BBC Concert Orchestra), the studio recording of Hair, cast recordings of The Secret Garden, The Woman in White and South Pacific. He was orchestrator and conductor for Walt Disney’s award-winning Animator’s Palette and Cinderellabration (Disneyland Tokyo).
He produced the ‘live’ recording of OLIVER! starring Rowan Atkinson, the 25th Anniversary recording of Les Misérables, and the Dutch and Australian recordings of Mary Poppins. Stephen conducted the Oscars – The 85th Academy Awards and is an Australian Helpmann Award winner for Mary Poppins.
James was an actor for twelve years and was appearing in Les Misérables at London’s Palace Theatre when he was asked to take over the position of Resident Director in 1996.
Since then, James’ journey with Les Misérables has taken him worldwide as Co-Director and Director. He has worked on productions in Australia, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Canada, Germany, Dubai, Brazil, Spain, Korea and Japan. James won the Best Director Award at the 2023 Netherlands Musical Awards for the Netherlands touring production. He directed the production on Broadway and the subsequent US tours, including the current US Tour. In London he has directed the current production at both the Gielgud Theatre and Sondheim Theatre. He directed and staged Les Misérables: The Staged Concert, which was hugely successful, and he was responsible for the UK tour production, which kept him busy for some time. James also co-directed the Les Misérables 25th Anniversary Concert at the O2 Arena, which was later televised, and a concert version in Scandinavia.
James’s other directorial credits include a long association with Mary Poppins which has seen him responsible for productions in Australia, Germany, Switzerland, Dubai and the USA. He directed the UK Tour and was the Associate Director on the recent London production at the Prince Edward Theatre.
James directed the London premiere of Dirty Dancing, followed by the UK Tour, the US Tour and Broadway productions. He was then asked to direct the Australian season, together with productions in Canada, Utrecht, Chicago and Berlin. He co-directed the arena production of Batman which opened in Manchester before moving to London.
James was Resident Director on Cameron Mackintosh’s The Witches of Eastwick at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane and he subsequently directed the production in Australia. Prior to all this, James worked at the West Yorkshire Playhouse with Jude Kelly as Staff Director on Singin’ in the Rain.
Mark was most recently the Resident Director on the The Bodyguard UK Tour starring multi-platinum Australian recording artist Emily Williams.
Productions for Cameron Mackintosh include: Mary Poppins (Resident Director – Prince Edward Theatre, London; Associate Resident Director – Prince Edward Theatre, London; Associate Director – Orb Theatre, Tokyo; Children’s Director – UK Tour (2015-2017) and Stuttgart & Hamburg); The Phantom of the Opera (Resident Director, Her Majesty’s Theatre, London); Oliver! (Children’s Director, UK Tour); Les Misérables (Children’s Director, London & UK Tour)
Other work includes:
Vocal & Character Consultant: Oliver! – New York, Encores.
Director: The Clockmakers Daughter (Cadogan Hall, London); Kids of the West End in Concert (Leicester Square Theatre, London); Aladdin (Asia Tour); Peter Pan (Bridge Under the Theatre, London); Sunshine on Leith (Northern Stage, Newcastle); The Wiz (Peoples Theatre, Newcastle); ’Tis the Season (Jermyn Street Theatre, London); Jason and the Argonauts (Swiss Arts Festival, Zurich).
Assistant Director: Little Women – Directed by Tamara Harvey (UK Premier Workshop); Macbeth – Directed by Julien Chenery (UK Tour).
Musical Staging: Three Phantoms (UK Tour and China), Celebrate Christmas (Royal Albert Hall, London), Willy Wonka (Ductac Theatre, Dubai), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (UK Tour), What the Ladybird Heard (UK Tour), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (LSMT), Redhead (LSMT), Applause (LSMT), RSVP/ASAP (LSMT).
Childrens Director: The Bodyguard (UK Tour); The Sound of Music (International Tour).
Actor: Little Shop of Horrors – Ensemble (Edinburgh Festival, Kate Prince for ZooNation), Starlight Express – Turnov, U/S Rusty & Dustin (Apollo Victoria, London), Jerry Springer the Opera – Swing, Dance Captain (The National Theatre & Cambridge Theatre, London), The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – Ensemble (West Yorkshire Playhouse), High Society – Ensemble (Shaftesbury Theatre, London), Starlight Express – U/S Dustin & Poppa, (UK/Scandinavian Tour), Les Misérables – Swing, U/S Thenardier, Dance Captain, (Queen’s Theatre, London), Les Misérables – 25th Anniversary Concert – Ensemble, Dance Captain (O2 Arena).
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As Associate Designer for Tony Award-winner Bob Crowley, Rosalind’s credits include Disney’s Aladdin, Aida and The Little Mermaid (Worldwide), Cameron Mackintosh & Disney’s Mary Poppins (West End, Broadway and Worldwide Tour Designer), Pinocchio, Amy’s View and The History Boys (National Theatre), Once, The Audience and Skylight (West End and Broadway), Tarzan, The Capeman, Sweet Smell of Success (Broadway) and Don Carlos (ROH) and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Royal Ballet).
She was also Associate Designer on the world premieres of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies and of Ghost the Musical (West End).
Prior to this she was associate designer to award winning designer Paul Brown for 11 years and also worked with acclaimed designers such as John Napier, Rob Howell, Ian MacNeil and Maria Bjornson.
Rosalind trained at Wimbledon School of Art and has lectured at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Matt trained at the Motley Theatre design course in the nineties and spent the next decade working at the National Theatre in London, as a designer, associate and draughtsman. Matt left to work within commercial theatre, developing many large productions and adapting them for tour.
As part of a long working partnership with Cameron Mackintosh he has designed. adapted and redesigned many productions including; My Fair Lady, Mary Poppins, Oliver!, Miss Saigon and The Phantom of the Opera including its 25th anniversary at the Royal Albert Hall.
For Les Misérables’ 25th anniversary he was asked to redesign the show for a UK Tour. The success of the new staging has seen many subsequent productions across the world including Broadway and the West End show at the newly restored Sondheim Theatre. Matt also designed the Les Misérables 25th Anniversary Concert at the O2 and will be the basis for the upcoming ‘Arena Spectacular’ tour which opens in 2024.
Matt has also designed many scales of shows from Chess at ENO down to Dear World at Charing Cross and has a long history of developing large scale musicals in Sao Paulo, Brazil including, Man of La Mancha, Annie, Chaplin, Sunset Boulevard, Matilda and Priscilla Queen of the Desert.
Matt is currently developing Old Friends recently seen at the Sondheim and Gielgud theatres for LA and Broadway next year as well as a new production of Muriel’s Wedding to open at Leicester Curve in 2025.
Simon started his career in stage lighting in 1992 at the Festival Theatre in Chichester, where he worked as a full-time electrician and projectionist for six years.
Lighting design credits include Little Shop of Horrors and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead for Jersey Opera House Ltd, Cinderella! (2013), Dick Whittington (2014) and Cinderella! (2016) at the Hippodrome Theatre, Bristol for First Family Entertainment, and Aladdin (2017) at the Derngate Theatre, Northampton for QDOS Entertainment.
Simon co-designed the lighting for the recent UK tour of Barnum and was the Associate Lighting Designer for the UK tour of ‘Oliver!’ in 2013, he also re-created this version in Japan in 2020.
Other recent Lighting Design Credits include: The Witches of Eastwick in Concert (Sondheim Theatre) and Your Lie in April (Theatre Royal Drury Lane).
Associate Lighting Designer credits include: Les Miserables (Japan, Spain, Manila, Dubai, Australia and the current London production); An American in Paris (London, Tokyo, Kyoto); Mary Poppins (2015 UK Tour, London, Australia, Tokyo, Osaka); A Little Life (London); MJ The Musical (London, Australia 2025) and Mean Girls (London).
Outside of theatre, Simon has a keen interest in aviation and holds a National Private Pilots License.
Charlie has always had a passion for sound design and quality audio for theatre. Since graduating from GSMD in 2013 with a first-class degree and Gold Medal in Technical Theatre, Charlie has worked as a sound designer and operator within the West End and Internationally.
Theatre as Associate Sound Designer includes: Guys and Dolls (The Bridge) Six the Musical, (West End, UK Tour and International), Babies (The Other Palace), Why Am I So Single?, (Sadler’s Wells and Garrick Theatre), Six the Musical (West End, UK Tour and International), Mary Poppins (West End and Japan), Identical (Nottingham Playhouse), 42 Balloons (Vaudeville and Lowry Theatre), Mandela (Young Vic), The Little Big Things (Sohoplace), This is a Love Story (Workshop).
Theatre as Sound Designer includes: Piaf (Bristol Old Vic), Cable Street (Southwark Playhouse), Flowers for Mrs Harris (Riverside Studios), Police Cops (Southwark Playhouse), Carousel (Royal Academy of Music), Our House (Bristol School of Acting), St Anne Comes Home (Actors Church), Spend, Spend, Spend (GSA), Lipstick (Southwark Playhouse), Merrily We Roll Along and Fiddler on the Roof (Silk Street Theatre), The Manny (Kings Head Theatre), F Men (Waterloo East Theatre).
Theatre as Assistant Sound Designer includes: Hymn (National Theatre).
Other Theatre includes: Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour (National Theatre, International Tours and West End), The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage (Bridge Theatre), Flowers For Mrs Harris (Chichester Festival Theatre), This is My Family (Chichester Festival Theatre), Kiss Me Kate (Sheffield Crucible Theatre), The Wizard of Oz (Sheffield Crucible Theatre), Shipwreck (Almeida Theatre), Oh What A Lovely War (UK Tour).
Recordings include: Bluff the Musical and Flowers For Mrs Harris (Cast Recording).
Credits include: Sea Wall/A Life (Broadway), The Lehman Trilogy (The National Theatre/West End/Broadway), The Starry Messenger (West End), Girls & Boys (Royal Court/Minetta Lane), Miss Saigon (Broadway/Japan/UK tour/US tour), My Name is Lucy Barton (Bridge Theatre/Manhattan Theatre Club), Porgy and Bess (also Amsterdam/ENO), Otello (Metropolitan Opera), Don Giovanni and Król Roger (Royal Opera House), Atlas (LA Philharmonic), Olympic and Paralympic Closing Ceremonies 2012, Louis Vuitton SS15 and AW16, Adele, U2, Rolling Stones, George Michael, Pet Shop Boys, Robbie Williams, Take That, The xx, Coldplay and Rhianna.
Luke has two Knight of Illumination Awards and a BAFTA.
Theatre Includes: Uncanny: I Know What I Saw (UK Tour); The Vanishing Room (Frankfurt); After the Act (New Diorama/Edinburgh Traverse); The Band’s Visit (Donmar Warehouse, London); Two Palestinians Go Dogging (Royal Court); La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust, A Christmas Carol (Co-Design with Luke Halls, The Bridge); The Incident Room, Secret Life of Humans (New Diorama); The Writer (Almeida); Occupational Hazards (Hampstead Theatre); The Effect, Looking Through Glass (The Other Room); A Good Clean Heart (Wales Millennium Centre/tour).
Opera Includes: La Traviata (Paris Opera; Wiener Staatsoper); Silent City (Matera, Capital of Culture); Ariodante (Royal College of Music); Pelléas et Mélisande; The Tales of Hoffmann (English Touring Opera).
As Associate: Disney’s AIDA (AFAS Circustheater; Scheveningen); Frameless Gallery (Marble Arch; London); The Poem Pavilion, UK, Expo 2020; Masterclass-Es Devlin; Forest of Us (SUPERBLUE, Miami); Talking Heads, Alys, Always, My Name Is Lucy Barton (Bridge Theatre); Den Glade Enke 2.0, Hobbitten (KGL, Copenhagen); Michael Kohlhaas (Schaubühne, Berlin); Mary Poppins; Frozen; Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (West End); The Lehman Trilogy (National Theatre/NY/West End), The Great Wave, Ugly Lies the Bone (National Theatre); Epic Iran, Alice: Curioser & Curioser, The Singing Tree (V&A Museum); The Band (Berlin/West End/Tour); Local Hero (Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh); Shipwreck (Almeida); Pelle Erobreren (Østre Gasværk Teater); Girls & Boys (Royal Court/New York); Desire Under The Elms (Sheffield Theatre).
Zakk is an Associate at Luke Halls Studio.
Movies include: Wonka, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Disney’s Snow White, Hugo (Scorsese).
Broadway: Groundhog Day, Finding Neverland, Matilda, Ghost, Pippin, SideShow.
West End includes: The Invisible Man, The Witches, Zorro.
Other theatre includes: The Phantom of the Opera (US Tour), Awakening (Wynn Las Vegas), Mickey & the Magician (Disneyland Paris), Beauty and the Beast (Disney Dream).
Consultant for the live shows of Derren Brown, Dynamo, David Blaine, David Copperfield, Penn & Teller, Adele and Kate Bush.
Awards: New York Drama Desk (Ghost), Creative Fellowship (Magic Castle, Hollywood), Maskelyne (Magic Circle, London).
The Old Vic (London) Associate artist.
The New York Times calls him the “celebrated invisible man, designer and creative brain behind many of the great stage magicians.” His illusions have been featured by Doug Henning, Siegfried and Roy, David Copperfield, Ricky Jay and many others.
He created the special illusions for Broadway shows, including: Beauty and the Beast, Into the Woods, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Mary Poppins, and Aladdin.
He’s also the author of books on the history and practice of magic.
Theatre work includes: Les Misérables (West End, International), The Phantom of the Opera (West End/International), My Fair Lady (UK Tour/International), Mary Poppins (UK Tour/International), The Commitments (West End), Matilda (West End), Ghost (Asia/ International Tour), Into The Woods (Bath Theatre Royal), The King and I (West End), Groundhog Day (West End, Broadway, Australia), The Ferryman (West End/Broadway), Ink (West End/Broadway), The King and I (London and UK tour), Girl From The North Country (London/Broadway), Only Fools and Horses (West End/UK Tour), Crazy For You (West End), Guys and Dolls (The Bridge Theatre), Hadestown (West End), Starlight Express (Troubadour Theatre), Hello Dolly (West End).
Rachel trained at the Bournemouth Arts Institute, where she received a BA Hons in Costume for the Stage and Screen. She has worked extensively for the past 25 years on a wide range of UK and international theatrical productions and events.
Theatre credits as Associate Costume Designer and Supervisor include:
Mary Poppins and Oliver!, (London, UK Tours and International Productions); Les Misérables 25th Production in the West End.
Theatre credits as Costume Supervisor include:
Hadestown (London, West End); Richard Eyre’s The Snail House (Hampstead Theatre); Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker (New Adventures); My Fair Lady (West End and UK Tour); Betty Blue Eyes (West End); Blithe Spirit (Bath Theatre Royal, Duke of York’s Theatre and UK Tour) Imperium West End (Gielgud Theatre); Little Eyolf (Almeida Theatre); Ghosts (Almeida theatre, BAM New York, Trafalgar Studios); In Praise of Love (Bath Theatre Royal); The Stepmother, An Enemy of the People, Nicholas Nickleby, and Hobson’s Choice (Chichester Festival Theatre); Enron, 1984 (Headlong); On the Town, Sir John in Love and King Arthur (English National Opera); Anastasia, Swan Lake and Coppelia Revivals (The Royal Ballet); Return of Ulysses, Berenice; Don Carlos, Boris Godanov, Rigoletto Revivals (The Royal Opera House).
Other credits include:
For Imagination Ltd’s Live Events, Costume Design and supervision for Shell 2018/2022. Costume Supervisor, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban DVD launch, Multiple Ford and Mazda international Motor shows.
Isaac trained at two of the world’s premier musical institutions: Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester and the Royal College of Music in London.
His experience as a Musical Director includes a range of notable productions. He musically directed the world premiere of The Artist, which was directed and choreographed by Drew McOnie at the Theatre Royal in Plymouth. He also led The Witches of Eastwick, directed by the original ‘Sukie’ Maria Friedman at the Sondheim Theatre, and Sweeney Todd at Arts Educational.
Isaac’s other musical direction credits include Working at the Southwark Playhouse, for which he also conducted and produced the original London cast recording in collaboration with Stephen Schwartz at Abbey Road Studios.
Additionally, he directed Putting It Together at the Lyric Theatre in Belfast, and Piaf at both the Bridewell Theatre and the Charing Cross Theatre, for which he also arranged and orchestrated the entire score.
He directed After You: A New Musical at Crazy Coqs, Zanna, Don’t! at the Landor Theatre, Lost Boy at the Finborough and Charing Cross Theatres, and From Up Here at the Tristan Bates Theatre.
Additionally, Isaac served as the Musical Director for ITV’s 2017 Royal Ascot advertising campaign, conducting his own a cappella arrangement of Ascot Gavotte recorded at Abbey Road Studios.
As an Associate/Assistant Musical Director, Isaac has contributed to several prominent productions, including Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends, starring Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga at the Gielgud Theatre, Mary Poppins at the Prince Edward Theatre, and The Show Must Go On at the Palace Theatre.
His work on touring productions includes Miss Saigon and Sunset Boulevard, both of which had UK and international tours, and Dessa Rose, starring Cynthia Erivo at Trafalgar Studios.
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Prior to Mary Poppins, Alexander was the Resident Director for Disney’s European Premier of Frozen at Theatre Royal Drury Lane.
Directing credits: Schism (Finborough Theatre), Yellow Face (National Theatre and Park Theatre), War Horse (UK and Ireland Tour, Johannesburg, Cape Town and National Theatre of China, Beijing), The Promise (Donmar Warehouse at Trafalgar Studios), Coalition, Dov and Ali (Theatre503), and Jordan (Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh).
Associate Director credits: War Horse (New London Theatre, Princess of Wales Theatre, Toronto and BBC’s Passchendaele 100, Ypres).
Resident Director credits: Kinky Boots (UK and Ireland Tour), Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (UK Tour).
Assistant Director Credits: Othello, Parade, Absurdia, Betrayal, Kiss of the Spider Woman and John Gabriel Borkman (Donmar Warehouse), Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, War Horse (National Theatre), King John, Much Ado About Nothing (RSC Complete Works Season), Phaedra’s Love (Young Vic Walkabout Season) and Blood Wedding (Almeida).
Yves has a long history with Mary Poppins, most recently as Assistant Resident Choreographer and Swing for the West End Revival. Other credits on the show include Neleus/Dance Captain in the Netherlands, Vienna, UK-tour and Germany.
Other performing credits include: Ensemble, cover Jerry in An American In Paris (Austria); Swing, cover Lefou in Beauty And The Beast (Paris); Ensemble in Tanz Der Vampire (Berlin); Swing and Dance-Captain in Miss Saigon (the Netherlands); Benjamin in Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (the Netherlands); Swing and Assistant Dance Captain in Fame (the Netherlands); and Doody in Grease (the Netherlands).
Yves has also performed at the Royal Variety Performance in 2019, West End Live 2021 and 2022.
Yves graduated from the Jazz Musical Department of the Amsterdam University of the Arts.
Danielle began her theatre and dance training at Kirkham Henry Performing Arts Centre in the North of England. At age 18 she left Yorkshire and took up a position as a Dancer/Vocalist on Fred Olsen Cruise Lines, enjoying two years of exploring the world, refining her skills and gaining incredible life experiences. Following a move to London she furthered her training at Bird College, graduating in 2012 with a First Class BA (Hons) Degree in Dance and Musical Theatre Studies. Since, Danielle has enjoyed success as a performer, tutor and creative both internationally and here at home in the U.K. Danielle also runs a very successful LAMDA Acting department at Anglo European, Essex.
Theatre credits include: Mary Poppins (Assistant Children’s Director / Assistant Dance Captain / Cross Swing / Cover Miss Lark / Cover Mrs Corry; London, Germany, International tour); Cats (Sillabub / Onstage Swing; Thunerseespiele, Switzerland); Chicago (Hunyak; Stage Entertainment, Germany); Ich War Noch Niemals in New York (Ensemble; Thunerseespiele, Switzerland); Fred Olsen Cruise Lines and Royal Caribbean Productions (Dancer/Vocalist); A Christmas Carol (Assistant Choreographer; Antic Disposition, London).
