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Friday 22 March 2013

The In-Between

  
I’d like to give special praise here, to a new musical, which has the potential to rock both the West End and Broadway. The musical is called The In-Between, and is currently evolving from a concept album written and composed by music graduate Laura Tisdall; into a very original new show. The fact that so many West End stars like Julie Atherton, to Hadley Fraser have chosen to collaborate on it, and the great responses online, are clear signs that this is going to be something big.

My generation have heard many rock operas and soulful vocals before, but it is not just the quality of the music that makes The In-Between unique: this musical has It Factor about it.

As I have argued before, the world needs its next Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Cameron Mackintosh to step forward, and while this musical may not necessarily be the answer, I still believe that it is that this is the original idea that musical theatre has been waiting for.

After all, as Laura Tisdall herself points out, Les Miserables began life as a concept album, so who knows where this one may go? From everything I have seen so far, this is well worth supporting, and we should do everything we can, to get this on a stage.
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