Upcoming Epic NEW Musical - teaser available on YouTube

There is a "teaser" now available on YouTube about the 19th century epic new musical, "My Land's Shore" (Music & Lyrics by Christopher J. Orton, Book & Lyrics by myself) - complete with fully orchestrated music clips of demos from the score.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXjr3Mj88dg

A concert version of the show was presented in Cardiff in 2007, directed by Craig Revel Horwood. And a studio recording of the full score with a cast of West End stars will be available by the spring of 2010.

Sorry for the unashamed plug - but please take a look and listen. The music really is amazing.

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Glad you like the teaser, Phantom. Hope you love it enough to buy the CD when it's released next year LOL. (We have an awesome cast lined up - details will be officially announced early next year.)

Interesting to read about your Welsh connection. Actually there was a large Irish immigrant contingent in Merthyr at the time of the Rising in 1831 - and the show has a number of Irish characters.

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Phantom - the trailer doesn't say the show is going to open in London in 2010 - it says that the CD will be released in 2010.

We had very positive feedback after the concert staging in Cardiff two years ago, since when we've done a substantial rewrite of the show - and it's in an even better place now - and there's going to be a fully staged production of the latest version in Newport next year.

It's really hard to attract the kind of investment needed to develop a "big" show like this to get it to a point where a major professional production is possible. So we decided that the best route forward was to make a full studio recording of the score in the hope that the CD will help raise the profile of the show - just as ALW did with many of his early musicals. We are really fortunate to have assembled an amazing cast of West End stars for the recording and when it's completed, the album is going to be amazing!

As for the "Martin Guerre" analogy, no one has mentioned that before - though Craig Revel Horwood did say in an interview on BBC Radio that it was a "Les Mis for Wales". I guess the music is in the same vein as MG and LM in the sense that it has a soaring epic score and it's also a historical musical. (It's actually totally different in style to any of the other shows Chris Orton and I are working on.)

If you really did like the music you heard in the teaser, you might like to listen to the demos of songs on the show's myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/mylandsshoreanewmusicalforwales

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That sounds great! I kinda know of the story as well and the Weatherspoons pub in Merthyr Tydfil is called the Dic Penyderren

Is it sung through?

Good luck with it...I will look out for the CD!