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MUSICAL HIGHLIGHTS
OTHER SHORT PROMOTIONAL TRAILERS
"The music and theatrical vision
of Paul Boyd - a truly class act"
The Musical Highlights collection features performances by an array of West End, Broadway, and UK musical theatre talent performing live at venues across the country and around the world.
PAUL BOYD is a multi award-nominated stage director who has worked with many industry-leading theatre producers and venues including Grand Theatre Blackpool, Sunderland Empire, Leicester Square Theatre, Grand Opera House Belfast, The Hippodrome Casino London, New Wimbledon Theatre Studio, Assembly Hall Theatre Tunbridge Wells, the Tower of London, and the Lyric Theatre Belfast.
Paul's best known shows include:
• the international hit musicals Alice The Musical and Hansel & Grettel
• the award nominated musical thriller The Haunting of Helena
• the hit national touring / West End comedy Spike Milligan's Puckoon
• the international touring water spectaculars The Little Mermaid and Sinbad
• the infamous Edinburgh and London cult musical Molly Wobbly's Tit Factory
• and the acclaimed musicals Pinocchio The Greatest Wonder of the Age,
Peter Pan The Musical, and The Snow Queen
Irish Times
The Stage
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"Boyd is a natural storyteller of
imagination and invention"
COMING SOON
"Boyd’s re-fashioning of childhood classics
have quickly become a Christmas staple"
British Theatre Guide
"Paul Boyd's stock in trade is setting fairytales to music, but no sugary Disneyesque trifles"
Sunday Times
Irish Times
"Boyd can always be relied on to take a tangential
approach to a story we think we know so well"
Paul's musical The Snow Queen received 13 nominations across 10 categories at this year’s BroadwayWorld.com Ireland Awards, walking off with the Award for Best Theatre For Young Audiences.
The 2022/2023 production of The Snow Queen was produced by the Lyric Theatre Belfast and followed on from Paul's previous successful shows there - Alice The Musical, Peter Pan The Musical, and Pinocchio The Greatest Wonder of the Age.
In a statement, the Lyric Theatre said, "As the home of world-class theatre, and committed to creativity and cultural talent, we are so privileged at the Lyric to work with such talented, award-winning creatives".
For more information on the show, to see video footage, and to hear audio samples, click here.
As revealed earlier this year, Hansel & Grettel, one of Paul's most produced shows, is set to make an exciting UK comeback this year, in a newly revised version featuring additional songs and an updated score, produced by The Stage 100 Award winners Creation Theatre Company.
Paul will direct the production, with rehearsals kicking off in November. Casting details will be announced soon - check back fro details!
Hansel & Grettel will run at The North Wall in Oxford from 1st December 2024 until 4th January 2025. Check out show details here and to book tickets click here.
"THE SNOW QUEEN" WINS BROADWAYWORLD.COM
'BEST THEATRE FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES' AWARD
"Boyd's signature flair is for colour,
fantasy, fun and lyrically muscular music"
British Theatre Guide
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He is also the writer and composer of 26 original stage musicals that have been presented in professional productions around the world, the composer of dozens of original scores and soundtracks for professional theatre productions across Ireland and the UK, the co-creator and co-director of a series of internationally acclaimed water spectaculars, and the writer of various plays that have toured nationally.
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Following last year's hugely successful panto Beauty and the Beast for Sunderland Empire and UK Productions (named one of the '15 Best Pantomimes To See in the UK' by the Radio Times), this year Paul will direct Sleeping Beauty at the beautiful Festival Theatre in Malvern, Worcestershire (part of Malvern Theatres).
Starring Malvern favourite Mark James as Chester the Jester and Eastenders' Ellie Dadd as Princess Rose, the show runs from 12th December 2024 until 5th January 2025. For more details and to book tickets click here.
"PETER PAN THE MUSICAL" ENJOYS A SELL-OUT
RUN IN CALIFORNIA
The Multicultural Arts Center in Merced County, California, staged an exciting in-the-round production of Peter Pan The Musical in July.
Directed and produced by Madison Mitchell in collaboration with ARTREE at the MAC, the new production formed the centrepiece of this year's MAC Theater Camp.
The MAC has been the arts and cultural hub of Merced since its opening in 1997, and has an impressive history of past productions. For details click here.
NEWS
NEWS
NOW OPEN
PAUL TO DIRECT HIS "HANSEL & GRETTEL"
FOR CREATION IN OXFORD THIS CHRISTMAS
Paul has directed Su Pollard: Still Fully Charged which is now on a nationwide tour of the UK, running until the end of 2025.
Still Fully Charged, co-written by Paul and Su, brings a national treasure face-to-face with an adoring public to celebrate the amazing characters she has been fortunate enough to play, the incredible friends and colleagues she met along the way, and the staggering range of music she has performed and recorded throughout her illustrious career.
Produced by Peter Frosdick and Classical Events Ltd. More information can be found on the show's website, click here.
SU POLLARD'S NEW ONE-WOMAN SHOW
NOW ON TOUR UNTIL LATE 2025
PAUL WILL DIRECT "SLEEPING BEAUTY" FOR MALVERN THEATRES AND UK PRODUCTIONS THIS CHRISTMAS
NEWS
COMING SOON
"ALICE THE MUSICAL" TO OPEN IN JAPAN THIS
DECEMBER
The University of Arts in Nagoya, Japan, is remounting its production of Alice The Musical for a third time this December.
First staged at Nagoya City Higashi Playhouse in 2011 and revived in 2021, the show will be performed by a new cast accompanied by all-new live orchestrations from 20th December.
For more information on the show, to see video footage, and to hear audio samples, click here.