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Tess hits the international airwaves

4/8/2019

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SONGS from new British musical TESS are to be featured in an international broadcast this week.
 
The show has been selected for the ‘Sampler Platter’ slot on Musical Theatre Radio, an internet-based radio station devoted to the artform. The slot is a regular feature that aims to bring new and lesser-known musicals to a wider audience.
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Based in Canada, the station broadcasts its Sampler Platter at noon on Wednesdays (UK time), repeated at midnight on Thursday mornings. TESS will be featured on Wednesday, August 7.
The show, which has also received airplay on Radio 2’s flagship musical theatre programme Elaine Paige on Sunday, is written by composer Michael Blore and award-winning playwright Michael Davies. A concept album recording, featuring lead vocals by Siobhan Dillon, Tam Mutu and Simon Bailey, has also been released.
Musical Theatre Radio, Tess The Musical
The full musical is available to listen to on the website www.tessthemusical.com, where followers and fans can sign up to join #TeamTess and be given free access to hear the whole album. Meanwhile, talks are under way for a UK tour in 2020.
Set in the Wessex so beloved by Hardy, TESS tells the devastating story of Tess Durbeyfield, daughter of a poor villager who fatefully discovers that they may be related to the ancient aristocratic d’Urberville family. As Tess is sent to seek respectability with her new-found relatives, she embarks on an emotional and dramatic journey that leads to love, loss and ultimate tragedy.
Read again

'How to make a musical' blogs by TESS lyricist Michael Davies on WhatsOnStage:


Part 1: From page to concept album - WhatsOnStage
Part 2: Putting it out there - WhatsOnStage
Part 3: Tiptoeing towards the stage - WhatsOnStage
Part 4: Seeing is believing - WhatsOnStage
Part 5: What to do after your workshop - WhatsOnStage
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MUSICAL HEROINE TESS MAKES HER NATIONAL RADIO DEBUT

27/1/2018

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A SONG from the new British musical TESS has made its debut on national radio.
The solo In My Hand, performed by West End and Broadway star Siobhan Dillon, was featured on the ‘Elaine Paige on Sunday’ show on BBC Radio 2.
​'ICONIC'

It marks the start of a campaign to find the show a producer and take it from newly completed concept album to a fully realised stage production.
Elaine Paige
Composer Michael Blore said: "To be included on such a popular and iconic national show as ‘Elaine Paige on Sunday’ was truly an honour and an enormous thrill, giving our show the sort of publicity it will need to get it on stage.”
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TESS is a sumptuous new adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s classic novel Tess of the d’Urbervilles. The concept album recording is free to listen to on the show’s website at www.tessthemusical.com and, alongside Siobhan Dillon in the title role, features Broadway and West End leading man Tam Mutu and ‘Jersey Boy’ Simon Bailey in stunning star performances.

'VERY EXCITED'


"The road ahead to finding a producer could be a long one", added Blore. "But we are very excited about what the future may hold for Tess."
'BEAUTIFUL SONG'

Reaction to the airplay on social media was immediate, with listeners describing it as “brilliant” and “a beautiful song, beautifully sung”.
 
Meanwhile, ‘EP’ promised her audience: “I’ll let you know how it progresses.”
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NEW MUSICAL TESS UNVEILS LEADING LADY

31/5/2016

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​NEW MUSICAL TESS UNVEILS LEADING LADY
The iconic title role in the forthcoming album recording of new British musical TESS is to be played by West End star Siobhan Dillon.
 
The television favourite, who first rose to fame in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hunt for a Maria in The Sound of Music, has been unveiled as the eponymous heroine in the musical adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s iconic novel Tess of the d’Urbervilles.
Written by Michael Blore and Michael Davies, the album is the culmination of two years’ work. Siobhan’s co-stars have already been revealed as Tam Mutu, playing the villainous Alec d’Urberville, and Simon Bailey as her great love Angel Clare.

'BLOWN AWAY'
 

Composer Blore and lyricist Davies said they were “absolutely blown away” that Siobhan had agreed to step into the shoes of the tragic country girl battling her fateful destiny. They added: “There was a very short shortlist for this role, and Siobhan was on it. We didn’t dare hope we might be able to secure her fantastic talent, so we are more than excited that she is so keen to support this new work".
Siobhan Dillon
Siobhan Dillon will sing
​Tess of the d'Urbervilles
SUNSET BOULEVARD
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Siobhan’s first professional appearance was understudying Sandy in the 2007 revival of Grease (Piccadilly Theatre). She went on to tour the UK in Bill Kenwright’s Can’t Smile Without You and as Sally Bowles in Cabaret before playing the role of Vivienne in the Olivier award-winning Legally Blonde (Savoy), Claire in EX (Soho Theatre) and the leading role of Molly in Ghost The Musical (West End).
 

She recently played opposite Glenn Close in Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard at English National Opera (Coliseum) and before that appeared as Ellen in Miss Saigon (Prince Edward).
 
Workshops include Jules in Bend It Like Beckham and Karen in From Here To Eternity, and her concert appearances include performing with Paul Gambaccini and the BBC Concert Orchestra on BBC Radio 2’s Friday Night is Music Night.
 

TESS is a new, fully sung-through adaptation of the much-loved novel. Pre-production is already under way on the album, which will be produced by Sunim Koria with orchestrations by Michael Blore. Recording is scheduled for the summer of 2016.
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