London's The Other Palace and Turbine Theatre will showcase eight new musicals over a two-week period as part of MTFestUK 2024, which will be held across both venues January 30-February 11.
Each musical will be cast and rehearsed before four presentations in workshop format will be offered to audiences.
Paul Taylor Mills, the artistic director at The Other Palace and The Turbine Theatre, said in a statement, “We are thrilled MTFestUK continues to support and showcase such a broad range of new musical theatre writing at both The Other Palace and The Turbine Theatre. Several MTFestUK pieces have gone on to fully staged productions, which is a testament to the function of both theatres to provide space and support to allow new work to be explored.”
The eight titles follow.
A Jaffa Cake Musical
Written by Sam Cochrane
Arrangements by Rob Gathercole
Both
Music and lyrics by Declan Bennett and Olivia Broadfield
Book by Declan Bennett
Tit Swingers
Book, music, and lyrics by Abey Bradbury and Sam Kearney-Edwardes
Plastered
Book, music, and lyrics by Randy Rogel
Developed/co-created by BT McNicholl
Directed by Jerry Zaks
Romy and Michele The Musical
Written by the film's screenwriter, Robin Schiff
Score by Gwendolyn Sanford and Brandon Jay
Directed by Kristin Hanggi
Bling
Music and lyrics by Elliot Clay
Book by Tori Allen-Martin
Redcliffe
Written by Jordan Luke Gage
Directed by Josh Seymour
The Garden
Music, book, lyrics by Chisara Agor
Orchestration by Robin G Breeze
Visit The Other Palace and Turbine Theatre for more information.