Liam Doyle and Laura Tebbutt to Star in Live at Zedel's First New Musical AFTER YOU

Casting has just been announced for the first new musical to be staged at Live at Zédel at Crazy Coqs. Alex Parker Theatre Company, The Katie Lam Company and Fane Productions present AFTER YOU, with music by Alex Parker, book & lyrics by Katie Lam, and directed by Alastair Knights, Live at Zédel at Crazy Coqs, running 13 April - 22 April 2017. Press night is set for Friday, 14 April 2017 at 7pm.

Liam Doyle and Laura Tebbutt star in writing duo Alex Parker and Katie Lam's production, which is performed for the first time this April. Previously announced in December and now written, scored and cast, After You is the first musical conceived specifically for Crazy Coqs.

After You is a story about falling in love, the price of success, and the things we sometimes need to keep for ourselves. Meeting by chance at a cabaret performance, two strangers strike up a conversation. Unavailable and living incompatible lives, their connection is still sudden and deep. Unable to resist meeting again, they are soon consumed by a perfect secret that threatens to overwhelm the worlds they have worked so hard to earn.

Katie Lam and Alex Parker have been writing and producing musicals and musical theatre songs for three years, including commissioned numbers for the opening of the WhatsOnStage awards and for cabarets of Olivier award-winning actors including Janie Dee (Crazy Coqs) and Paul Baker (St. James Theatre Studio). Their previous shows include All Aboard, Amateur Dramatics: A Musical Comedy (both Electric Theatre) and The Railway Children: A Musical (starring Gina Beck and David Birrell, Holy Trinity, Guildford).

Crazy Coqs is one of Soho's most vibrant cultural spaces with a programme embracing multiple art forms. Showcasing many of the West End's most exciting musical theatre stars, Crazy Coqs has become the venue of choice for musical theatre cabaret, but After You will be the first full length musical to be presented at the venue and the first commission. Tasked with devising a modern narrative that would make contextual sense of the Crazy Coqs location whilst celebrating its unique intimacy, Katie Lam and Alex Parker have taken their inspiration from Brief Encounter, Falling in Love and The Way We Were to give a contemporary take on a classic love story.

IF YOU GO:

AFTER YOU

THURSDAY 13 April - Saturday 22 April 2017 (full schedule below)
Crazy Coqs. 20 Sherwood Street. London. W1F 7ED.
Running time TBC - Age guidance 12+
Tickets: £20 (£18). All previews £14 / Book online at www.liveatzedel.com.

Overall Performance Schedule:
Thursday 13 April - 7pm and 9pm (preview)
Friday 14 April - 7pm (press performance)
Saturday 15 April - 3pm and 7pm
Monday 17 April - 7pm and 9pm
Tuesday 18 April - 7pm and 9pm
Wednesday 19 April - 7pm and 10.45pm
Thursday 20 April - 7pm and 10.45pm
Friday 21 April - 7pm
Saturday 22 April - 3pm and 7pm

Writer Alex Parker is a musical director, producer and composer. He is currently the musical director of the UK tour of Frank Wildhorn and Jack Murphy's Wonderland, as well as the musical supervisor on Working at Southwark Playhouse. As a musical director and assistant musical director, Alex's credits also include Les Miserables (Queens & Dubai Opera House), Stephen Ward (Aldwych), My Fair Lady 60th Anniversary Gala (St Paul's, Covent Garden), The Pajama Game (Minerva), Soho Cinders (Soho Theatre), Guys and Dolls (Chichester Festival) and the Whatsonstage Awards (Prince Of Wales). As producer and musical director, credits include Putting It Together (St. James Theatre), A Little Night Music 40th Anniversary Concert (Palace), Kings of Broadway (Palace), Sunset Boulevard (Yvonne Arnaud), Follies (Yvonne Arnaud) and Marguerite (Tabard). Alex has written four musicals with his writing partner Katie Lam; Amateur Dramatics: A Musical Comedy, The Railway Children: A Musical, All Aboard and After You.

Writer Katie Lam is a scriptwriter, lyricist and producer. In addition to her work with Alex, Katie wrote the site-specific show One Night in Chelsea (Chelsea Old Church) for Laurie Kynaston and Janie Dee and further credits as a producer, assistant producer and stage manager include Jerry Springer the Opera (ADC), Babushka (ADC and Edinburgh Festival Fringe) and The Pirates of Penzance (Minack).

Director Alastair Knight's theatre credits include The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Union Theatre - Off West End Award Nomination for Best Director), Pygmalion (Theatre Royal Windsor), My Fair Lady: 60th Anniversary Gala (St Paul's Church), The Spitfire Grill (Union Theatre - BroadwayWorld Award for Best New Production of a Musical), Stephen Sondheim's Putting it Together (St. James Theatre - London Premiere), Dream Queen (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse), A Little Night Music (Palace Theatre) and Betty Blue Eyes (Birmingham Old Rep). He was Associate Director on How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying (Royal Festival Hall). Television credits include The Elaine Page Show (Sky Arts). Alastair is the founder and curator of RE:act - the new writing and artist development initiative that provides a regular platform for the work of emerging theatre-makers at venues across the UK.

Liam Doyle's theatre credits include Warner Huntington III in Legally Blonde (UK tour), Tony in West Side Story (Kilworth House), Sam Wheat in Ghost the Musical (Asian Tour) Fiyero in Wicked (UK Tour), Matthew in AltarBoyz (Greenwich Theatre); Shake in Carnival of Animals (Riverside Studios); Eddie in MAMMA MIA! (Prince of Wales Theatre); Eponymous role in Aladdin (Swansea Grand); Ricky Nelson in Rock and Roll Heaven (Bill Kenwright Ltd.); Shane Gray in Disney's Camp Rock (Popular Productions); Link Larkin in Hairspray (UK Tour) and Troy Bolton in High School Musical 2 (UK Tour).

Laura Tebbutt's theatre credits include Love Me Tender (Original Cast, UK Tour), A Little Night Muic (Palace Theatre), Forbidden Broadway (Vaudeville Theatre), Kiss Me Kate (BBC Proms, The Royal Albert Hall), The World Goes Round (Lyric, Belfast), The Wizard of Oz (London Palladium), Goodbye Barcelona (Arcola Theatre), Shoes (Peacock Theatre), Les Miserables 25th Anniversary (International Tour). Television credits include Britain's Got Talent(SYCO/ Thames Valley Productions), The Royal Variety Performance (ITV), The Classical Brit Awards (BBC), Les Miserables 25th Anniversary Concert (DVD) and the T-Mobile 'Welcome Home Campaign'.

Fane Productions Ltd operates as a unique one-stop shop for talent from across the global entertainment industry. Acting as management or agent for clients, dependent on their needs, Fane Productions also produce and promote tours, programme venues, including Crazy Coqs, and run a record label - Fane Phonics. Specialisms include music, musical theatre, and spoken word. After You is Fane Productions' first musical theatre co-production. Musical theatre clients include: Samantha Barks, Maria Friedman, Rachel Tucker, Willemijn Verkaik & Matt Cardle.

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