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Drama Desk Award nominees Neil Bartram and Brian Hill will open "Song, Stage and Screen IX," an international conference for music theatre, with their 2012 commission The Theory of Relativity.
The conference, hosted at Sheridan College (Oakville, Ontario) June 24-26, will feature a one-time, live performance of Relativity featuring a global virtual choir. The commission is based on actual college student experiences, and the virtual choir will combine video and voice submissions into a live finale.
College students from around the world are invited to join the Theory of Relativity virtual choir. Visit virtualchoir.sheridancollege.ca for details.
The deadline for submissions is May 31.
Neil Bartram s the composer and lyricist of Broadway’s The Story of My Life with book writer Brian Hill (four Drama Desk Award nominations including two for Neil – Outstanding Music and Outstanding Lyrics). Prior to Broadway, The Story of My Life played at Canadian Stage Company in Toronto and Goodspeed’s Norma Terris Theatre. Neil has also written music and lyrics for Clara’s Piano (Stratford Festival), Somewhere in the World (five seasons at the Charlottetown Festival) and The Nightingale and the Rose, and scored productions of Romeo and Juliet, Timon of Athens and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. His adaptation of Carlo Collodi’s The Adventures of Pinocchio was commissioned by Chicago Shakespeare Theater for their 2011 season.
Neil and Brian’s musical Not Wanted On The Voyage received a developmental production at Northwestern University’s Barber Theatre as part of the American Music Theatre Project and was part of Goodspeed Musicals’ 2012 New Works Festival. His musical The Theory of Relativity, commissioned by Toronto’s Sheridan College and written specifically for and about college age students, was part of Goodspeed’s 2014 New Works Festival and had its London, UK premiere in May of 2014.
Photo: Cover of demo for The Theory of Relativity. ©2014.
2014-05-16
Oakville: Join the virtual choir for Bartram and Hill's new musical "The Theory of Relativity"