Wednesday 26 November 2008

Workshop Videos Online

We have now started to upload video clips of the recent workshop read through (21st November) on our YouTube page.

More clips will be added over the next week or so.

Check out our YouTube page at http://uk.youtube.com/sevenwivesthemusical

Saturday 22 November 2008

Script Read Through - Update

Seven Wives had it's first read through of the script book on Friday 21st November 2008. The creative team would like to thank Lailaa Carr, Emma Graham, Kim Wright and David Woods for their performances and creative feedback.

Both Jennifer Chislett and Chris Fenner are now working on the changes to the script brought about by this workshop / read through and are both very pleased with the constructive comments received.

A video recording has been made for the read through and we are hoping to get clips of some of the scenes onto our YouTube page very soon.

Friday 21 November 2008

Guitars & Saxophone Recorded

The Seven Wives Studio Recording is now one more step closer to completion with the final guitar recordings made on Thursday 20th November, performed by Murray Smith. 

We are also pleased to announce that Rhys Antony Owen has recorded his Saxophone performances for the studio recording, leaving us with just Trumpet and Clarinet left to record. 

More to come soon :)

Thursday 20 November 2008

Script read through

Seven Wives will get a script read through on Friday 21st November. We currently have several actors attending and will use this read through to both check the script book for errors and to get feedback on how it sounds. Jennifer Chislett and Chris Fenner will be working with the actors and make changes to the script based on this read through.

We also hope to have photos and a video recording of the read through which will be placed on our website and YouTube page soon.

Bebo Page - New Audio Files

Seven Wives is pleased to annouce that we now have a Bebo page for the musical.

We have posted 4 tracks on this page currently with more to come from the One In Ten studios.
Our myspace and facebook pages will be updated soon.

To access our Bebo page go to
www.bebo.com/sevenwives

To access our MySpace page go to
www.myspace.com/sevenwivesthemusical

To access our facebook page go to
www.facebook.com/pages/Seven-Wives-of-Henry-the-8th/13471057995

Cast List - Studio Recording

All vocal recordings are now complete (with the exception of one performer) for Seven Wives of Henry the 8th - UK Studio Recording 2008. This is the current cast listing for the recording.

Henry Tudor: ROB YOUNG
Lucy Philips: RACHEL MARY JOHNSON
Joanne Chandler: STACEY JASIEWICZ
Matt Cartwright: TOM HESTER
Mark Smeaton: DREW BLACK
William: CHRIS FENNER
Reporter 1 / Jane Seymour / Wilhelmina: JENNIFER CHISLETT
Reporter 2: EILEEN CHISLETT
Thomas Wolsey: RICHARD HOGG
Midwife / Katheryn Parr: NAOMI CHARLES
Hitman 1 / Thomas Cranmer: ROB CHAMPION
Hitman 2: DAVE CHISLETT
Wilhelmina: CHERI SMITH
Catherine Howard: ANNA BERTMARK

THE BAND

Musical Director / Keyboard / Percussion: JENNIFER CHISLETT
Keyboard / Bass Guitar / Percussion: CHRIS FENNER
Acoustic Guitar: DREW BLACK
Electric Guitar: MURRAY SMITH
Flute: TOM HESTER
Saxophone: RHYS ANTONY OWEN