“Just So” by Stiles & Drewe
FlicFl_Admin After another hiatus in posting stuff here, I wanted to write a short piece about the show I finished last night: “Just So” by Stiles and Drewe. These are the…
Grease is the word
Grease is a fun, short and relatively easy show to play. If you’re an inexperienced guitarist looking to “get your feet wet” in musical theatre, this is one for you…
The Last Five Years
In many ways, “The Last Five Years” by Jason Robert Brown is the complete opposite to the previous show I wrote about here (“Jesus Christ Superstar“). Where the latter is…
Jesus Christ Superstar
I haven’t written anything here for a while, so I thought I should write up the most recent show I’ve played guitar for: Jesus Christ Superstar! What’s more, it was…
Guitar on “Our House: The Madness Musical”
This is another show that’s been great fun to play, and actually not that complicated, particularly if, like me, you grew up in the 80s with all these classic Madness…
Lead guitar in Chess, the musical
After a week of twang, double-stops and slapback echo for “All Shook Up” in Marlow at the start of the month, I’m now back in the 80s for a production…
All Shook Up
I’m playing guitar on a show this week, for the first time in a while, and thought I’d write a little about it… All Shook Up is (as the name…
Children of Eden
In Stephen Schwartz’s musical “Children of Eden” there is a song near the end of the second act called “The Hardest Part of Love”. This lovely song is built around…
Blogging for musical theatre guitarists everywhere
Welcome to my new blog, specifically to do with the guitar in musical theatre. I’ve been playing guitar for nearly 25 years, and in the past 5 years I’ve been…