The Wizard of Oz - West End Creative Team

George read Music at Durham University before being offered a scholarship to study Musical Direction at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Credits as Musical Director: Annie: Broadwayworld Award - Best Musical Direction (West End & UK Tour), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Kilworth House) Nativity! The Musical (Musical Supervisor: UK premiere and Tour), The Wedding Singer (UK Tour), Bugsy Malone (Curve, Leicester), Dogfight: Broadwayworld Award ? Best Musical Direction (Southwark Playhouse and St. James? Theatre ? European Premiere), The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Derby Theatre), Sweeney Todd (West Yorkshire Playhouse and Manchester Royal Exchange), ... read more Sound design credits include: Billy Elliott The Muscial (Curve); The Last Five Years (Garrick & Southwark Playhouse); The Show Must Go On! (Palace); Our Man in Havana (Watermill Theatre); Beauty and the Beast (Nottingham Playhouse); the European premiere of The View Upstairs (Soho Theatre) and world premieres of What I Go To School For – The Busted Musical (Brighton Theatre Royal) and Soho Cinders (Soho Theatre). Other credits include: Carrie (Mountview Academy); Jesus Christ Superstar (LAMDA); Bandstand, Spongebob The Musical, Cats, The Wedding Singer, Ragtime, Kipps, The Wild Party, Freaky Friday, Legally Blonde and Nice Work If You Can Get ... read more Nikolai is Artistic Director at Curve, Leicester, one of the UK’s leading regional theatres and described as “world class” by The Daily Telegraph. Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, Nikolai grew up in North Yorkshire and trained at Drama Centre London and at the Crucible, Sheffield. He has created work for many of the UK’s major producing theatres, touring houses and international venues. Nikolai has been director on attachment at the Sheffield Crucible, the Royal Court Theatre and National Theatre Studio and served as an Associate Director at Leeds Playhouse. Most recently at Curve, Nikolai directed A CHORUS LINE (also at Sadler’s Wells & ... read more Andrew Lloyd Webber began his career in musical theatre in the 1960s, partnering with lyricist Tim Rice. Their early works included The Likes of Us (1965), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1968; expanded into a full-length stage musical in 1972), Jesus Christ Superstar (1970), and Evita (1978). He also collaborated with Alan Ayckbourn on Jeeves (1975), later revised as By Jeeves (1996). During the late 1970s and 1980s, Lloyd Webber composed Variations (1978), the Requiem (1985), and Cricket (1986). His stage musicals Cats (1981), Starlight Express (1984), The Phantom of the Opera (1986), and Aspects of Love (1989) became major ... read more Douglas has worked as a designer and specialist in video for performance across the sectors of theatre, installation and education. His recent theatre credits include: Rock Me Amadeus (VBW, Vienna) Aspects of Love (West End), The Wizard of Oz ( London Palladium, UK Tour) We Will Rock You, (International Tour) Alls Well That Ends Well (RSC) Identical (Nottingham), The Magician's Elephant (RSC) The Lost Thing (ROH) Witches of Eastwick (Cameron Mackintosh/2Entertain, Stockholm) Pinocchio ( Texas Ballet Dallas/National Ballet of Canada) Magic Flute (Opera North)Hogarth's Progress (Rose Theatre)An Officer and a Gentleman, (UK National Tour) Sunset Boulevard, (UK National Tour) Tale ... read more Sir Tim Rice is an author and Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Emmy Award, Tony Award, and Grammy Award-winning lyricist. He is best known for his collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber, with whom he wrote Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Evita; with Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson of ABBA, with whom he wrote Chess; for additional songs for the 2011 West End revival of The Wizard of Oz; and for his work with Alan Menken on Disney's Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, and the musical King David. He also worked with Elton John on Disney's ... read more