NOW ON BROADWAY
The 1985 movie and pop culture phenomenon that’s now more loved than ever has been transported to the stage by the film’s original creative team of Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis.
The combined eight-time Grammy Award-winning pairing of Alan Silvestri and Glen Ballard will send you on an electrifying ride through time with an all-new score alongside the movie’s iconic hits, including The Power of Love, Johnny B Goode, Earth Angel and Back in Time.
Back to the Future: The Musical won the Olivier Award for Best New Musical, four WhatsOnStage Awards, including Best New Musical, and the Broadway World Award for Best New Musical. The productions in London and Manchester have so far been seen by half a million people and the musical has broken box office records at the Adelphi Theatre.
Back to the Future the Musical is directed by Tony Award-winning John Rando alongside a Tony and Olivier Award-winning design team including Tim Hatley (set and costumes), Hugh Vanstone and Tim Lutkin (lighting), Finn Ross (video design – previous credits include Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) and Chris Bailey (choreography).
Netflix Original Series
A musical drama that revolves around a Parisian jazz club, its owner, the house band, and the dangerous city that surrounds them. Damien Chazelle, whose films Whiplash and LA LA LAND fuse masterful storytelling and music like nobody else will create an opportunity to examine the chaotic music of Jazz, the chaotic lives of musicians, and the chaos that is contemporary Paris. Elliot, a former pianist and part owner of “The Eddy” (André Holland) is dealing with financial troubles and is forced to finally take responsibility for his actions between unresolved issues with the band’s lead singer Maja (Joanna Kulig) and his teenage daughter Julie (Amandla Stenberg) sent to live with him. Despite the financial issues with the club, Elliot’s best friend and co-owner of “The Eddy” Farid (Tahar Rahim) who has no musical bone in his body, continually strives to bring Elliot, Maja, as well as their drummer Katarina and bass player Jude together for the sake of their business and friendship. But when Farid is suddenly gone without any explanation, the aftermath becomes what drives the series. It’s the complications of broken relationships, the investigation of Farid’s absence, their lives outside of the band and forgetting the love of jazz that brought them together in the first place.
Directed by Damien Chazelle and written by Jack Thorne. Original music written and composed by Glen Ballard and Randy Kerber.
Streaming on Netflix on May 8th.
Short Film
“Love Shelby” is a collaborative album created by multi-Grammy winning writer/producer, Glen Ballard and “Best New Artist” Grammy winner, Shelby Lynne, and was first released on September 11, 2001.
Along with the making of the album was a mini film, documenting the raw recordings and am sessions as the project unfolded.
With America shut down in mourning following the tragedy of September 11th, the album and the short film were lost.
22 years later, legendary director Randee St. Nicholas provides an introspective view of what writing and recording music with a group of brilliant and renowned musicians is like.
An original musical by the Sokoloff Brothers
Enjoy the Ride was written by the Sokoloff Brothers (Gabe and Aaron Sokoloff) and is currently in development at Augury. Originally conceived as a documentary, it has become a dark musical comedy with geopolitical themes.
The story revolves around Hank, a car salesman whose clientele includes tyrants, oligarchs, and presidents-for-life. Hank has a comfortable existence, but his world is about to change: when a longtime customer threatens to switch brands, Hank must travel to a post-Soviet dictatorship for a face-to-face.
While on assignment, a group of freedom fighters (led by the charismatic and beautiful Chief Comrade Katya) mistakes Hank for a CIA agent. This sets off a chain of events in which Hank is caught between the regime and the revolution and also experiences an unexpected existential crisis. As the country descends into chaos, Hank must redeem his ethically questionable life, earn Katya's affection, avoid getting himself and everyone around him killed, and, ideally, move some inventory.
Over the course of Hank's adventure, Enjoy the Ride satirizes megalomaniac dictators and their entourages, the corporate interests that serve them, and revolutionaries who become authoritarians the day after the revolution.
Currently in Development
a TV series following the music, people, and excesses of the 1995 music scene in Los Angeles during the last great party in the record industry.
Currently in Development
Queen of Souls is a modern movie musical about the rich and fabled story of Marie Laveau, the Voudou Queen of New Orleans. As told by Spy Boy, a trumpet-playing former slave who knew Marie, the musical follows the extraordinary journey of a free woman of color in the segregated south who transcended gender and race to become one of the world's most powerful spiritualists. Queen of Souls transforms the story of Marie Laveau through original songs, stunning visuals, and cutting edge choreography into an evocative testament to the rich tapestry of New Orleans people and culture.