Gavin Creel and Sally Ann Triplett Star in UK Workshop of SOAP DISH Musical

Baz Bamigboye is reporting in today's UK Daily Mail that "Gavin Creel and Sally Ann Triplett are among the cast doing a workshop today in London for another Stiles and Drewe show, a musical based on the comedy film Soapdish."

Soap Dish is a 1991 comedy film which tells a backstage story of the cast and crew of a popular fictional television soap opera. It starred Sally Field as an aging soap star, joined by Kevin Kline, Robert Downey Jr., Elisabeth Shue, Whoopi Goldberg, Teri Hatcher, Cathy Moriarty, Garry Marshall, Kathy Najimy, and Carrie Fisher, as well as cameo appearances by TV personalities like Leeza Gibbons, John Tesh, and Ben Stein.

Kline was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for the film. Soapdish was directed by Michael Hoffman, from a screenplay by Robert Harling and Andrew Bergman. The film was produced by Aaron Spelling and Field's then-husband Alan Greisman.

According to the composers' web site: "Stiles and Drewe are currently collaborating on this new deliciously malicious comedy musical based on the hilarious 1991 film Soap Dish.

An ambitious TV soap actress connives with her producer to scuttle the career of the show's long-time star, but nothing works as they plan. Celeste Talbert has been the queen of the soaps for over two decades. Montana Moorehead needs to get her out of her way before she can move on and begins her program to get her to leave. She hires an old boyfriend of Celeste to be on the show and has Celeste become a murderer in the script, but each attempt has unforseen consequences"

The musical theatre songwriting partnership that is George Stiles (music) and Anthony Drewe (lyrics) have been writing together since they met at Exeter University over twenty years ago.

George and Anthony have written five musicals together:
In 2004 they composed the new songs, additional music and lyrics, vocal and dance arrangements for the multi-award winning ?MARY POPPINS, currently one of the UK's and Broadway's biggest attractions.

Their first musical was TUTANKHAMUN (Northcott Theatre and Imagination Building); which they hope to revisit one day.

JUST SO was produced by Cameron Mackintosh and won the 1985 Vivian Ellis Prize...none other than Steven Spielberg then secured an option to turn it into a feature animation. Just So most recently played at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 2004.
HONK!- which was commissioned by the Watermill Theatre in 1993 - has been produced over 4,000 times and won the Olivier Award for Best Musical in 2000, the FNB VITA Award in South Africa, and the Elliot Norton Award in the USA.

PETER PAN- A Musical Adventure, began life as a BBC concert presented in 2001 at the Royal FestivAl Hall starring John Thaw as a wonderfully menacing Captain Hook. Won Best Song and the Orchestras Award at the 1996 International Musical of the Year in Denmark.
They've started work on that very rare thing, an original musical called Soho Cinders which is currently at workshop stage; set in modern day London SOHO CINDERS has a very contemporary feel. It's a 21st century fable, centered on an internet love-story that blends a strong vein of satire with a story of celebrity politics. It has a delicious leading song titled ‘I'm So Over Men'...
They have also written two revues and contributed songs to a variety of theatre, TV, and radio shows, including the ?RSC's SHAKESPEARE REVUE, THE CHALLENGE, and Dame Edna Everage's LOOK AT ME WHEN I'M TALKING TO YOU.