April 2012 - NYMT in Concert with Matt Lucas & Friends
NYMT IN CONCERT WITH MATT LUCAS & FRIENDS
The Vaudeville Theatre, Strand, London
Sunday 22 April 2012
The NYMT celebrated its 35th year with a barnstorming concert by the 2012 Company and featuring some of its illustrious alumni, including Gina Beck, Amy Nuttall, Lara Pulver, Michael Jibson, Adam Pearce, Stuart Matthew Price, Dominic Tighe and Ian Virgo. This glittering evening was hosted by Matt Lucas, who also performed Master of the House with Lizzie Wofford and the company.
Matt Lucas is a long-standing supporter of the NYMT having first joined the NYMT company in 1987. He performed with NYMT at the Edinburgh Festival in THE ROMAN INVASION OF RAMSBOTTOM playing a character called Accrington Stanley. JJT says, "He played the pub comic and was already hilariously funny and outrageous. You just watched that career - you didn't quite know where it was going."
"I had the time of my life in the NYMT. I learned a great deal as a person and as a performer." MATT LUCAS
PROGRAMME
Sunday from Sunday In The Park With George
Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Arranged by Jason Robert Brown
The Decent Thing from The Kissing Dance
Music by Howard Goodall. Book and lyrics by Charles Hart
Commissioned and first performed by the NYMT in 1999
Gina Beck & Ian Virgo
The Cuckoo Song / Night and Silence from The Dreaming
Music by Howard Goodall. Book and lyrics by Charles Hart
Commissioned and first performed by the NYMT in 2001
I Can Do Better Than Thatfrom The Last Five Years
Music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown
Lara Pulver
Julius Caesar from The Roman Invasion of Ramsbottom
Book and lyrics by Jeremy James Taylor. Music by David Nield
Commissioned by Granada Television & first performed by the NYMT at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 1980
with Matt Lucas
My Friends / A Little Priest from Sweeney Todd
Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Book by Hugh Wheeler
with Matt Nalton & Lizzie Wofford
Unusual Wayfrom Nine
Music and lyrics by Maury Yeston. Book by Arthur Kopit
Amy Nuttall
13 / Becoming A Man / A Little More Homework / Brand New You from 13
Music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown. Book by Dan Elish & Robert Horn
Medley arranged by Torquil Munro
The Impossible Dream (The Quest) from Man of La Mancha
Music by Mitch Leigh. Lyrics by Joe Darion
Adam Pearce
Be Back Soonfrom Oliver!
Book, music and lyrics by Lionel Bart
with Matt Lucas
INTERVAL
Master of the Housefrom Les Misérables
Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg. Libretto by Alain Boublil
English lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer
with Matt Lucas & Lizzie Wofford
The Next 10 Minutesfrom The Last Five Years
Music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown
Rosie Clarkson & Dominic Hodson
If I Could / Song of the Hired Menfrom The Hired Man
Music by Howard Goodall. Book and lyrics by Melvyn Bragg
with Amy Nutall
Run Away With Me from The Unauthorised Biography of Samantha Brown
Music by Brian Lowdersmith. Book and lyrics Kait Kerrigan
Stuart Matthew Price
Who We Are
Music and lyrics by Stuart Matthew Price
Angels from Whistle Down The Wind
Music and lyrics by Richard Taylor
Based on the novel by Mary Hayley Bell & the screenplay by Willis Hall and Keith Waterhouse
& the film by Richard Attenborough and Bryan Forbes
Adapted by Russell Labey and Richard Taylor
First performed in December 1993 by the NYMT
Dominic Tighe & Isabel Allen
On the Deck of a Spanish Sailing Ship, 1492 / The Flagmaker, 1775
from Songs for a New World
Music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown
Giants in the Skyfrom Into The Woods
Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Book by James Lapine
Mike Jibson
Our Timefrom Merrily We Roll Along / Children Will Listen from Into The Woods
Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Arrangement by David Loud / Jeremy Walker
with Lara Pulver
Porch Scene: If I Loved You / You’ll Never Walk Alone from Carousel
Music by Richard Rogers. Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Arrangement by Benjamin Holder
CAST LIST
Gina Beck
Amy Nuttall
Adam Pearce
Lara Pulver
Michael Jibson
Chiké Okonkwo
Adam Pearce
Stuart Matthew Price
Dominic Tighe
Ian Virgo
with
Rosie Clarkson
Dom Hodson
Matt Nalton
Lizzie Wofford
and the 2012 Company
hosted by MATT LUCAS
Directors: Matt Hawksworth, Sarah Redmond, Jeremy James Taylor OBE
Choreographers: Philippa Johnson, Ewan Jones, Drew McOnie, Cristian Valle
Musical Directors: Francis Goodhand, John Pearson, Torquil Munro
Assistant Musical Directors: Tom Brady, Nicholas Chave, Benjamin Holder
Musicians: James Pritchard – drum kit / percussion, Marcus Pritchard – bass guitar
Costume: Anne-Marie Horton
Sound Design: Charles Simpson
Lighting Design: Richard House
Lighting Operator: Charlie Morgan Jones
Sound Technicians: Douglas Green, Tom Kitney
Stage Manager: Imogen Louise Firth
Deputy Stage Manager: Adam Tartaglia
Assistant Stage Managers: Alexandra Bradford, Jamie Platt
Photography: Robert Youngson
Poster Design: Phill Davis
Producer: Jeremy Walker
On Sunday 22 April, we celebrated our 35th year with a barnstorming concert by the 2012 Company and featuring some of its illustrious alumni, including Gina Beck, Amy Nuttall, Lara Pulver, Michael Jibson, Adam Pearce, Stuart Matthew Price, Dominic Tighe and Ian Virgo. This glittering evening was hosted by Matt Lucas, who also performed Master of the House with Lizzie Wofford and the company. Matt Lucas is a long-standing supporter of the NYMT having first joined the NYMT company in 1987. He performed with NYMT at the Edinburgh Festival in THE ROMAN INVASION OF RAMSBOTTOM playing a character called Accrington Stanley.
JJT says, "He played the pub comic amd was already hilariously funny and outrageous. You just watched that career - you didn't quite know where it was going."
"I had the time of my life in the NYMT. I learned a great deal as a person and as a performer." MATT LUCAS