Ep 59 - RIDE: A New Musical

Host Luisa Lyons chats with Freya Catrin Smith and Jack Williams, composers of RIDE: A New Musical which was filmed live during its run at the Charing Cross Theatre in 2022 and is now available to stream on demand.

Hear about the show’s journey from workshop to fully staged production, how professionally filming the workshop helped in re-writes, the casting process, and what’s next for the two-hander musical!

Freya Smith and Jack Williams are award-winning composers and lyricists, and founders of Bottle Cap Theatre. Their work focuses on telling female led stories and includes musicals RIDE (The Garrick, 2021) and THE LIMIT (VAULT Festival 2019). They are the joint winners of Aria Entertainment and ALP's Chamber Musical commission (2021).

Their work has been performed at venues including: The Garrick, The Other Palace, The Roundhouse and The Leicester Square Theatre, and has been developed with drama schools including Central School of Speech and Drama and ArtsEd.

In 2021 Freya received a Michael Grandage Futures Bursary and took up a writing residency at Norwich Theatre Royal.

Show Links:
Watch RIDE: A New Musical on Broadway on Demand.
Listen to Freya and Jack’s first interview on the Filmed Live Musicals podcast.
Learn about the history RIDE: A New Musical in the database
Bottle Cap Theatre: www.bottlecaptheatre.com
Bottle Cap Theatre on Twitter
Freya Catrin Smith on Twitter
Jack Williams on Twitter

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