Exclusive: Neil Bartram and Brian Hill, writers of the stage musical adaptation of Disney’s Bedknobs And Broomsticks that launched a UK and Ireland tour last weekend, have signed with Verve for representation.
Produced by Michael Harrison, Bedknobs and Broomsticks is adapted from Disney’s 1971 live action-animation hybrid. Bertram wrote new music for the stage production (which also includes songs from the original film) and Hill wrote the book.
The stage musical made its world premiere at the Theatre Royal in Newcastle on Aug. 14, with additional tour dates currently scheduled through next spring.
The production stars Dianne Pilkington as Miss Price, the witch-in-training played in the film by Angela Lansbury, and Charles Brunton as Emelius Browne (David Tomlinson in the movie).
Other Bertram-Hill credits include The Story of My Life, which ran on Broadway in 2009, and Goodspeed Musicals’ The Theory of Relativity and Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s The Adventures of Pinocchio.
Produced by Michael Harrison, Bedknobs and Broomsticks is adapted from Disney’s 1971 live action-animation hybrid. Bertram wrote new music for the stage production (which also includes songs from the original film) and Hill wrote the book.
The stage musical made its world premiere at the Theatre Royal in Newcastle on Aug. 14, with additional tour dates currently scheduled through next spring.
The production stars Dianne Pilkington as Miss Price, the witch-in-training played in the film by Angela Lansbury, and Charles Brunton as Emelius Browne (David Tomlinson in the movie).
Other Bertram-Hill credits include The Story of My Life, which ran on Broadway in 2009, and Goodspeed Musicals’ The Theory of Relativity and Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s The Adventures of Pinocchio.
- 8/17/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Laura Ashley Bell Bundy most recently starred in Legally Blonde: The Musical on Broadway as "Elle Woods" and stepped into the tour for multiple stops as well. Prior to that she played Sherrie Christian in the musical "Rock of Ages". However, Miss Bundy is no stranger to the stage, having starred in both Hairspray (Tony Award-winning Musical) and Wicked. In Hairspray, she originated the role of Amber Von Tussle, and in Wicked, she was a standby for the role of Glinda The Good Witch.
- 10/6/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Megan Hilty, most recently seen on Broadway's production of '9 to 5 The Musical', will be present at the Muckenthaler Cultural Center in Fullerton on October 15 to perform songs from the Tony Award winning musical'Wicked'. Hilty appeared as Glinda, the Good Witch of the South, in the New York and Los Angeles production, as well as on the National tour of the show.
- 9/23/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
At the top of the second act of the wondrous Broadway musical Wicked, Glinda addresses her assembled public, "Fellow Ozians." Surely it is not only the casts and audiences of Wicked who may be addressed as such? Since 1900, there have always been Ozians. That's when Lyman Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was first published. Then, in 1939, armed with the latest in color technology, MGM brought us over the rainbow with Dorothy and her pals. More Ozians. More recently Gregory Maguire, that marvelous, intrepid explorer of unexplored stories, brought us the story of the youthful Elphaba in his novel Wicked. Ozians galore. Fortunately for the planet, Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman were inspired by the novel, and now we have Wicked the Musical, resulting in an especially large crop of little girl Ozians. Several folk have written about Oz...
- 9/21/2009
- by Dr. Susan Corso
- Huffington Post
Cinema Retro has just received the following press release from Warner Brothers Home Video:
Atlanta, September 11, 2009 - Elf Island (www.elfisland.com), the virtual world where kids play games that cause good to happen in the real world, will transform its fantastical world, beginning today through the end of the year, to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the classic film The Wizard of Oz, through a partnership with Warner Bros. Consumer Products.
As part of the festivities at Elf Island, many favorite characters from The Wizard of Oz will come to virtual life in games, with exclusive features and activities for kids and parents to experience, including:
Outfitting your own elf as Dorothy, the Cowardly Lion, the Tin Man, the Scarecrow, the Wicked Witch, Glinda, Dorothy's Ruby Slippers, the Witch's hat, Munchkin hairstyles, and more. Choosing from more than a dozen digital items that include, the lion's metal of courage,...
Atlanta, September 11, 2009 - Elf Island (www.elfisland.com), the virtual world where kids play games that cause good to happen in the real world, will transform its fantastical world, beginning today through the end of the year, to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the classic film The Wizard of Oz, through a partnership with Warner Bros. Consumer Products.
As part of the festivities at Elf Island, many favorite characters from The Wizard of Oz will come to virtual life in games, with exclusive features and activities for kids and parents to experience, including:
Outfitting your own elf as Dorothy, the Cowardly Lion, the Tin Man, the Scarecrow, the Wicked Witch, Glinda, Dorothy's Ruby Slippers, the Witch's hat, Munchkin hairstyles, and more. Choosing from more than a dozen digital items that include, the lion's metal of courage,...
- 9/11/2009
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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