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Michael Bruce's UNWRITTEN SONGS Album to Feature Atherton, Casey, et al.

By: Mar. 07, 2011
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Michael Bruce is the most commercially promising new composer of the last four decades. His debut album Michael Bruce: Unwritten Songs, on which he is joined by a plethora of talent that encapsulates the future of the West End, will be launched with a live concert on Sunday 20 March at the West End's opulent and prestigious Delfont Room at the Prince of Wales Theatre. Songs from the album will be performed, and a very special treat revealed.

Michael Bruce: Unwritten Songs will feature Anna-Jane Casey, Avenue Q's Julie Atherton and Paul Spicer, Wicked stars Mark Evans, Alexia Khadime, Ashleigh Gray and Sarah Earnshaw, award-winning West End favourite Daniel Boys, newly crowned Glinda in The Wizard of Oz Emily Tierney, Mamma Mia's Alex Jessop, We Will Rock You's Ross Hunter, Spring Awakening's Charlotte Wakefield, ‘I'd Do Anything' stars Sarah Lark (Oliver) and Jessie Buckley (A Little Night Music), and double Olivier Award nominee Michael Xavier (Love Story). The album will be available for the first time at the Delfont Room at an exclusive pre-release price, ahead of its release on Monday 21 March. Michael will be joined at the launch by a selection of the artists featured on the recording.

In addition to the launch of the album, the evening will include a visual feast of fantastic fairytale fabulosity, specially commissioned by Speckulation Entertainment to coincide with the release. Featuring famous stars of stage and screen, this unprecedented offering will be full of surprises, shocks, twist and turns, creating a never-to-be-forgotten moment of musical theatre history.
Michael Bruce is currently composing the music for the Sonia Friedman produced David Tennant and Catherine Tate star vehicle Much Ado About Nothing at the Wyndham's Theatre, having recently written the score for Josie Rourke's acclaimed production of Men Should Weep at the National Theatre. He is Resident Composer at London's Bush Theatre and orchestrator of the current Confused.com TV ad campaign featuring the well-known songs Somebody to Love and Chain Reaction.

Michael Bruce: Unwritten Songs is produced by Neil Eckersley & Paul Spicer for Speckulation Entertainment, with musical direction and orchestrations by Michael Bruce.
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TRACK LIST
The track listing for Michael Bruce: Unwritten Songs is:
1. Don't Wanna Leave You Now - Ross Hunter
2. Even Then - Paul Spicer
3. I Want a Man - Sarah Lark & Sarah Earnshaw
4. Someplace Beyond the Moon - Charlotte Wakefield
5. Money Honey - Mark Evans
6. Continental - Emily Tierney
7. Away - Alex Jessop
8. It's Not Gonna Rain - Jessie Buckley
9. The Musical Theatre Song - Anna-Jane Casey
10. My Kind of World - Ashleigh Gray
11. Portrait of a Princess - Julie Atherton
12. Looking Back - Daniel Boys & Alexia Khadime
13. Unwritten Song - Michael Xavier







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