It has been announced that Picture Perfect: A New Musical will receive its London premiere at the St James Studio with four performances on Saturday 31 May and Sunday 1st June.
Helen Hobson, Jerome Pradon, Lucie Jones and Joel Harper-Jackson
The show is described as "a contemporary song-cycle musical that explores love and relationships". It uses the songs of award-winning American composer Scott Evan Davis and is conceived and directed by Simon Greiff.
Josh is graduating college and preparing to face the future - whatever that may bring! Unlucky in love, he wonders whether the right person is out there for him. Ellie, on her gap year from her law degree, wonders whether she’s making the right decisions in life - both professional and personal! Harry and Elizabeth, Josh’s parents, are also at a turning point in their lives - with Harry inadvertently starting an affair with a younger woman, and Elizabeth believing now is the time to finally leave her husband. Is anything ‘Picture Perfect’?
The cast features Helen Hobson (Donna in Mamma Mia/Mother Abbess in Sound of Music), Jerome Pradon (Javert in Les Miserables/Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings), Lucie Jones (American Psycho/Cosette in Les Miserables) and Joel Harper-Jackson (Rent 20th Anniversary tour). Musical directions comes from Colin Billing.
Picture Perfect, in its earliest revue format, had previous productions in New York and LA. It has now been further developed and written for the London stage, drawing on new original material as well as work from Davis’ debut 2011 recording, Cautiously Optimistic.
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Over the past two years, Davis’ music has gained international praise. Last spring he was the recipient of a Courage in Theater Award from Musical Theater International for his musical A Powerful Day, written with autistic students at the Spectrum School in Manhattan.
He is currently developing with librettist Tessa Derfner, a new musical, INDIGO, about an autistic child. He last performed in London alongside Georgia Stitt and Michael Patrick Walker in the Matcham Room at the London Hippodrome. He won the first ever Broadwayworld Award for Best Song with If We Say Goodbye, which features in Picture Perfect: A New Musical.
Simon Greiff has been developing new musicals for the stage since 2009. He has previously worked with Perfect Pitch and is an Associate for Mercury Musical Developments, the only writer-based organisation devoted to the development of new work.
He recently developed and directed Payback (Riverside Studios), and represented the UK directing Stand Tall at 45th Street Theatre New York as part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival. Simon is also known for championing new writers through London Concerts and Records as part of SimG Productions / SimG Records.
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