Hi,

I'm currently working as Production Assistant for Perfect Pitch Musicals and thought I should share with you news about our annual showcase of new musicals which returns next week to the Trafalgar Studios.

Perfect Pitch are this year showcasing four new musicals with casts chalked full of West End performers. Each new musicals is being presented as a 45 minute rehearsed presentation. Its a really interesting and slightly eclectic mixture of new work. Here are the listings:

From Up Here
By Adam Day Howard, Aaron Lee Lambert, Benjamin Murray and Adrianne Salmon
Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday 3.30pm
Wednesday & Friday 7.45pm

From Up Here is written by a group who have recently graduated from the Masters course at RSAMD. The piece is set on the Brooklyn Bridge and pulls together the stories of 5 strangers. It's a play about time - running out of time and killing time; about chance encounters creating unlikely bonds; about passing on to, and inheriting things from, others; about letting go and letting in; about embracing a crisis to resolve it.

The Go-Between
By Richard Taylor and David Wood
Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday 7.45pm
Wednesday & Friday 3.30pm

An adaptation of L.P. Hartley's classic novel which has also been adapted into a film, this new musicals tells the story of a schoolboy who finds himself in a 1900s aristocratic country house for the summer. Retold from the perspective of the schoolboy, now grown up, The Go-Between has a book by renowned children's author David Wood.

In Touch
by Dougal Irvine
Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday 3.30pm
Wednesday & Friday 7.45pm

Dougal's last Perfect Pitch outing Departure Lounge won the 2008 MTM:UK award for best music at the Edinburgh Festival and was subsequently given a run Off Broadway at the New York Summer Play Festival. His new musical is a dark comedy where two characters, completely dependent on an online world clash with two others looking for escape.

Super Alice Smith
by Tim Driesen
Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday 7.45pm
Wednesday & Friday 3.30pm

Super Alice Smith is a musical comedy set in an American city where superheroes and normal people co-exist. Written by Tim Driesen who new musical fans will recognise from Jet Set Go's London run at the Jermyn Street. This is a fun, upbeat musical set in a world where crime can only happen at night because the baddies look to bad to go out in the day!

Tickets for all the shows are available from the Trafalgar Studios box office on 0870 060 6632 or online at http://www.ambassadortickets.com

You can find out more about Perfect Pitch at http://www.perfectpitchmusicals.com

I look forwards to seeing fellow musical theatre fans at the showcase.

Andrew Girvan

I'm going to both shows on the Saturday and Through the Door on Sunday. I'm excited, I've never been to anything like this before but I always enjoy discovering new works.

And hello, Scarlettt Strallen!! I'm there. Loved Kaisa Hammerlund in A Little Night Music too. I booked to see new shows, but seeing performers I like is a veery welcome bonus!

Super Alice Smith sounds like a right good show!

I caught some of the songs from these at one of the concerts in Edinburgh in August. The songs from From Up Here turned out to be the strongest and cleverest.

I'm away for most of the week so can't make any of these which is a shame. I'm most gutted about missing Through The Door on the Sunday though, with the incomparable Julie Atherton.

I'm another one doing all 4 shows and Through The Door on Sunday... looking forward to it all.

Boo hoo -wasnt quick enough to get the WOS bargains- but on the Perfect Pitch website there is still a good deal - eg 4 shows for £20 but this discount isnt available online.
They are calling Super Alice Smith something different though- My Super Girlfriend which is a tad confusing but hey ho.

Richard Taylor is a beautiful writer writing truly English musical theatre, which is such a rarity. I worked on the original production of Warchild with NYMT, which is just stunning, and his version of Whistle Down the Wind is so much better than ALW's, its almost embarrassing.
Departure Lounge and Jet Set Go are two of the best examples of witty new musical theatre in this country, with the first particularly having a great score - can't wait to hear their new stuff.

How was it?! Were this years musicals good? Gutted I couldn't come down to London..

I absolutely loved Super Alice Smith, excellent songs and brilliant writing

The Go Between was good too - some of the songs we're beautifully written, and the acting was superb!

Super Alice Smith is the one to watch this year

Thought From Up There was great, smooth writing and great cast, left humming the last song which is always a good sign.. In Touch was dreadful tho, not funny and far too cheesy!