Steve Markwick is an award winning composer and musical director. His muical adaptation of The Secret Garden has been produced many times in many countries including a long running Polish version which has had over 500 performances at Teatr Bagatela, Krakow. For the past eleven years he has been Musical Director of the Greenwich Theatre pantomime.
By Steve Markwick Thursday, August 23 2018, 14:50
It's something of a family affair at The Park Theatre. Real-life mother/daughter Sally George and Rafaella Hutchinson play Mari and Little Voice while real-life mother/grandmother Ann Pinnington co-produces.
By Steve Markwick Monday, June 26 2017, 14:54
The Wind in the Willows is given the big musical treatment by the team behind the re-working of Mary Poppins and most recently Half A Sixpence - lyricist Anthony Drewe, composer George Stiles and book writer Julian Fellowes. Going right back to their early days with Just So, through the Olivier-winning Honk! and last year’s Three Little Pigs, there’s something about anthropomorphic animal stories that get Stiles & Drewe’s creative juices flowing and in particular give Anthony Drewe’s rhyming muscles a work out. Full of terrific, freshly-minted lyrics that are a joy to hear (and that can’t always be said for every ear-splitting West End show) we get “foxes” rhymed with “equinoxes”, “prickles” and “vehicles” (as a family of hedgehogs nervously wait to cross a busy road) and more rhymes for Toad then have probably ever been counted.
By Steve Markwick Friday, June 2 2017, 20:59
Based on Fellini’s 1954 film, La Strada is a terrific ensemble piece devised by the company under Sally Cookson’s direction with “writer in the room” Mike Akers. The show follows faithfully the story of Fellini’s film but more importantly it stays true to the fairy tale spirit of the original.
By Steve Markwick Friday, May 26 2017, 14:57
Love it or hate it, the juke box musical has been with us for nearly 30 years and while claims of its demise are probably premature it needs a fresher approach than the one at Motown The Musical.
The show opens in 1983 during rehearsals for the 25th anniversary Motown TV special celebrating the rags to riches story of founder Berry Gordy.
