Laurence Mark Wythe
Tomorrow Morning (New End Theatre, London, 2006) came third in Theatre Radio's Best Musical of 2006 (behind only Avenue Q and Wicked). The show has previously been a shortlisted finalist for Theatre Building Chicago's Stages Festival of New Musicals, Greenwich Theatre's Musical Futures, the London International Festival of Musical Theatre and the Sony/MMD West End Showcase. The show has been workshopped at the Bridewell Theatre, London, and is expected to open in London's West End in the autumn of 2007. Songs from the show are featured in the Delfont Mackintosh new writers cabaret at the Prince of Wales Theatre in March 2007. The cast recording of the original production is on the Dress Circle label in the UK.
Other works: A Tragedy of Errors (Cambridge Summer Music Festival 2002 and Theatre Street Performing Arts 2003); CR7 - Cancer Control Force for the BBC Tomorrow's World/Cancer Research UK which has played over a hundred public performances in various different venues around the UK. Roll on the Day (workshop Bridewell Theatre, London 2004); Jack Dagger (Greenwich Theatre Musical Futures 2005, workshop Jerwood Space London); He also composed Some Snap! - workshop presentation at the Metropolitan Playhouse in NYC. Also Cinderella (Westminster Theatre), Making Waves (Fox Theatre), Robin Hood (Lewisham Theatre), and Christmas Time! (Regent Concert Hall, Gt Yarmouth).
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. He recently composed music for the anglo-Irish feature film Kristina.
As a musical director, LMW has worked on over thirty productions and has taught/lectured at all of London's leading musical theatre colleges, including Mountview, Arts Ed, Central, Guildhall and the London School of Musical Theatre. He is a member of the Society for the Promotion of New Music and a professional writer associate of Mercury Musical Developments. He lives on the outskirts of London with his wife and two daughters.
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