Paul Arden-Griffith to join the Pocket Orchestra
STOP PRESS! Paul Arden-Griffith, known to one and all as “Pag“, will be appearing in London’s West End, opening at the Trafalgar Studios (formerly the Whitehall Theatre) on April 25th. He has won a prestigious contract to join the Pocket Orchestra in a brand new production - The Pocket Orchestra - The Unlikely Lives of the Great Composers. Pag says “Pocket Orchestra is a company of extremely versatile performers, all of whom play instruments; sing; dance and act. I play keyboards and percussion in addition to singing tenor, and other members of the cast play strings, woodwind and brass. The cast includes Sylvester McCoy - one of Dr. Who’s several incarnations - and the show itself is an irreverent and hysterically funny trawl through the development of classical music: from the bangs, scrapes and farts of the ancient civilizations to the bangs, scrapes and farts of today’s classical outpourings, not neglecting the Baroque, Classical and Romantic repertoire along the way!”
The Pocket Orchestra - The Unlikely Lives of the Great Composers will play at Trafalgar Studio 2, 14 Whitehall, just off Trafalgar Square, from April 25th until May 20th. Tickets can be obtained from the box-office: Tel: 0870 060 6632. After the four-week run at Trafalgar Studio 2, it is intended that the production will relocate to one of the Ambassadors Theatre Group’s larger West End venues for a further six months.
For more details, please visit:
http://www.theambassadors.com/trafalgarstudios/sp_p2699.html.
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March 4th, 2006 at 7:46 am
Hello all. Just FYI, my name is Kenneth LaFave and I, with my wife Susan, last year wrote a play called “A Reduced History of Classical Music.” The piece was workshopped in January in Scottsdale, Ariz., and an audio recording of the workshop is now making its way to various producers. You can read our script at: reducedhistoryofclassicalmusic.blogspot.com. It must just be the time for something like this….
March 4th, 2006 at 3:11 pm
Hi there, Kenneth and Susan. Paul Arden-Griffith (Pag) here. How very nice to hear from you. May I, on behalf of Stephen, Trevor, our webmaster - Ben - and myself send you greetings from England and from “Make It So”.
How amazing that you too have created a “Pocket Opera”. As you say, it must just be time for something like this. However, I thought I should put your mind at rest and tell you that, having visited your website and seen your script, it is clear that these two shows are in no way alike. Here in the U.K. “The Reduced History of Classical Music” is, as yet, only a working title. There is a very talented company here called “The Reduced Shakespeare Company”. They present constantly up-dated versions of the complete works of Shakespeare in only a few minutes at a time, and have, I believe, many other similarly compacted offerings in their repertoire. They are hysterically funny, but POCKET OPERA is a completely different enterprise, so a new title for our show will no doubt be chosen soon, to avoid confusing the British public! I don’t think there is any fear of us treading on each others’ toes!
I wish you every success with your venture and hope that there may be an opportunity at some time in the future for us to meet and enjoy our respective productions. You can always contact us at “Make It So”. We’re happy to help you in any way we can.
All best wishes,
Pag.