About Me
The US premiere of the show is slated for June 25th at the Spirit of Broadway Theatre, Norwich Connecticut, running through to August 3rd.
The show was recently presented by Theatre Building Chicago at the Stages Festival of New Musicals in August 2007, and was also a Top 20 finalist for the National Alliance for Musical Theatre's annual festival of new works in New York in October. The show is featured on NAMT's Shows You Should Know CD.
On Sunday 13th May 2007, one of the songs from TM was featured in the Stephen Sondheim Society Prize at the Venue, Leicester Square. "The Recurring Dream" was performed by Keith Anthony Higham from the Royal Academy of Music, in this event presented by the Sondheim Society, hosted by Maria Friedman and judged by Julia MacKenzie, Philip Quast and Edward Seckerson. Congratulations to all who took part, and thanks for the many kind words about LMW's song, which was very well received and extremely well performed by Keith.
The cast album of TM (currently available from dresscircle.co.uk) is now available on iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody, URGE/MTV Music and more - in fact most of the major digital music retailers.
It was recently announced that "Tomorrow Morning" was awarded third place in Theatre Radio's Best Musical of 2006! The winner and second place were taken by hit West End shows Avenue Q and Wicked. "Tomorrow Morning "was ahead of major West End musicals Evita, Caroline or Change, Mack & Mabel, Sunday in the Park with George, Spamalot and Dirty Dancing! Congratulations to everyone involved in TM for this great achievement, the first of many, no doubt, and a big thank you to everyone who voted for the show.
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LAURENCE MARK WYTHE - Composer & Writer
Born in Kent in February 1974, Laurence has been described in the press as "a burgeoning star who writes searing ballads and snappy, insightful comedy numbers". His sophisticated, frantic and incisive lyrics are frequently compared - and favourably - to American theatre giants such as Sondheim and Jason Robert Brown, and his melodies can be haunting one minute and crazily catchy the next. The score for Tomorrow Morning was recorded in August 2006, performed by the original company from the small but significant production at the New End Theatre London, and it's release this year marked the first publically released album of work by this exciting emerging composer/writer.
LMW is about to start work on a major new project that will premiere in New York. More information on this will be released as soon as it becomes available.
His musical theatre work of course is so far best known for Tomorrow Morning. Previously, this show had been a shortlisted finalist for Chicago Theatre Building's Stages Festival, Greenwich Theatre's Musical Futures, the London International Festival of Musical Theatre and the Sony/MMD West End Showcases. Tomorrow Morning has also been presented/ workshopped at the Bridewell Theatre and the Royal Academy of Music. Over the development of this piece, it has been performed and/or recorded by many seasoned West End performers, including John Owen-Jones, Helen Hobson, Nicola Dawn, Charles Shirvell, Simon Grieff, Gail McKinnon and Mark Inscoe. Plans are now underway for a West End production of the show in 2009.
His family show The Lost Christmas premiered at the Mick Jagger Centre in Dartford in 2008. Work in development over recent years has included the musicals Jack Dagger and Roll on the Day in collaboration with bookwriter and lyricist Roberto Trippini. These shows have been developed through workshops and showcases at Jerwood Space, the Royal Academy of Music, the Bridewell Theatre and Greenwich Theatre.
He also composed Some Snap! which received a workshop presentation at the Metropolitan Playhouse in New York. Prior to this he has written music and lyrics for Cinderella (Westminster Theatre), Making Waves (Fox Theatre), Robin Hood (Lewisham Theatre), and It's Christmas Time! (Regent Concert Hall, Gt Yarmouth). He also composed the musical score for Wise Up!, an interactive drug-education gameshow commissioned by the Mentor Foundation and the Department of Health, which has toured the UK and more recently toured schools in Greenwich.
Also, LMW wrote CR7 - Cancer Control Force for BBC Tomorrow's World/Cancer Research UK which has played over a hundred public performances in various different venues around the UK, including it's reincarnation Bollywood style for Mega Mela at Wembley Arena. His Fanfare for the Hard of Hearing was commissioned by the Royal National Institute for the Deaf to be performed live at the launch of their Breaking the Sound Barrier campaign in 2005. The launch at BAFTA in Piccadilly was opened by HRH the Duchess of Wessex where Laurence conducted the world premiere of this short but interesting work. The campaign recently won the Best Integrated Campaign award at the Third Sector Excellence Awards. His setting of Psalm 67 was performed at St Leonard's Church in Kent in 1999.
Outside of writing and composing, Laurence has taught at all of London's major drama schools that specialise in musical theatre, namely Mountview Academy (where he supervised the musical department of the Foundation in Musical Theatre Course for four years, and was musical director for ten third-year productions), Arts Educational Schools, London School of Musical Theatre, Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Central School of Speech and Drama. He specialised in song performance and audition technique. Many of his former students can be found in the casts of current West End shows. As a musical director of West End cabaret, he has worked with a multitude of seasoned London performers, including John Barr, Alison Jiear, Paul Baker, Sally Bourne, Sally-Ann Triplett, Mark O'Malley, Howard Samuels, Charles Shirvell, Lindsey Danvers, Lindsay Hamilton, Chris Coleman, John Conroy and Leo Andrew.
