Showtime - Brand New Musical Theatre - November

As part of 'SO: Stage Door', the new Arts Council England funded 2024 Audience and Artist Development Programme, The Stage Door, Aardvarks Can’t Jump Productions and Amies and Clements present:

Showtime - With Special Guest Courtney Bowman

Presenting brand-new Musical Theatre from some of the UK’s most exciting writing teams.

Don’t miss your chance to see some incredible performances of fresh material whilst the ink is barely dry on the page!

For our final show of our series of Showtime events, we are revisiting 19 of our brilliant writing teams with many of them bringing us more of their wonderful songs.  Much of this material has not been heard by anyone but the writers themselves.  You must be there If you want bragging rights to say you saw it before it was big.

Presented by our incredible company of performers and live band, this is a night musical theatre fans cannot afford to miss!

Writers include:

Forristal & Clarke

Garsin & Shields

Helen Bonney

Amies & Clements

Mark Wheeller

Ricky Tart

Barlow & Smith

For more information on the entire 'SO:Stage Door' programme and how to get involved, head here: https://thestagedoor.org.uk/section.php/28/1/so-stage-door-programme 

Doors 7.30pm 

Special Guest Courtney Bowman

Courtney originated the role of Fatimah in Everybody's Talking About Jamie at the Crucible and Apollo Theatre. She played Anne Boleyn in Six at the Arts Theatre, Lyric Theatre and Vaudeville Theatre and Elle Woods in Legally Blonde at the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre.  She recently starred in Pretty Woman: The Musical as Kit De Luca at the Savoy Theatre.

Courtney will be appearing as 'Lauren' in 'Kinky Boots' at the Leicester Curve followed by a UK Tour from 17th January.

In 2022 she won the WhatsOnStage Award for Best Performer in a Musical and was nominated for Best Female Actor in a Musical at the Black British Theatre Awards for the role of Elle in Legally Blonde at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre.

We can’t wait to hear her sing brand new musical theatre here in Southampton with the rest of our amazing cast:

Hannah Williams became the darling of the UK’s soul music scene when she and her band Hannah Williams and the Affirmations were sampled by Jay-Z on the title track of his album 4:44. Described as “A whirlwind of love, lust , soul and anger..” she has toured the world and has released 3 highly acclaimed studio albums, with a 4^th on the way.

In 2021 Hannah appeared on The Voice UK and secured a place as Sir Tom Jones’ finalist.  Although a slight sidestep from her normal work, Hannah has always had a love for Musical Theatre, appearing in various shows since the age of 10.

Rebecca Bailey has toured regularly with one of the UK’s leading children’s theatre companies - FULL HOUSE, as well as two UK tours of the one-woman show No Finer Life.  She played Maggie in the original cast of TOMORROW, MAYBE by Amies & Clements.  Rebecca is a veteran of the new musical theatre scratch nights in London, and online, and loves working with writers on new material.

Oliver Slee is currently touring the UK as David Bowie in the Bowie Experience, but has been performing since the age of 10, with both theatre and television and film experience.

Richie Spencer made his professional debut during the Pitlochry Summer season 2022 appearing as 'Laurie' in a new play adaptation of 'Little Women' and in an actor musician version of 'Sunshine On Leith'. Going on to tour Italy as ‘The Mad Hatter’ in a musical of Alice in Wonderland and recently playing ‘Hercule Poirot’ in Agatha Christie’s play, ‘The Wasp’s Nest’.