Michael Bruce, a new musical composer to the theatre community will have the once in a lifetime opportunity to see his work displayed in full West End glory in a one off performance on Nov.1st at the Apollo theatre.
The production will be his own creation, Michael Bruce: A Little Less Ordinary and will include the talent of theatre stars such as Oliver?s Sara Lark, Avenue Q?s Julie Atherton and Daniel Boys, contestant How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?s Helena Blackman, Wicked?s Alex Jessop, Paul Spicer, and Helena Blackman. Each of the stars will perform in a melody of Bruce?s own compositions which is an amazing amount of exposure for a new artist just starting to break onto the musical theatre scene,
The show will be produced by the same people that worked with the Notes From New York series on television in which Bruce was discovered in the 2007 competition. Since then, Bruce, who is a former Scottish dancer and currently aged 25, has been nudged along by the producers who have helped him carve a name for himself in the industry.
Bruce additionally will premier his new production, Ed, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this year.
Neil Eckesley, one of the producers from Notes, stated that it?s rare to find a youth who contains the same flare and vision as Bruce does for musical theatre as a composer. He continued that throughout the show they were impressed with the amount of talent he has and that he has always been easy to work with and they are doing everything possible to make sure his talent is heard.
The current environment of musical theatre is very hard to break into, especially for youths, thus the showcase is aimed at providing hope to future youth composers and recognition of talent for one of the West End?s rising stars.
