In 1982, he began working at the Comedy Store with
‘Kit and the Widow’; a two-man musical satire which has thrice been
nominated in the West End for Olivier Awards. Apart from their own
radio and TV series, and playing all over the world, they have
starred in ‘Salad Days’ at the Vaudeville Theatre, and are currently
touring their guide to opera, ‘The Fat Lady Sings’.
As a librettist/lyricist, he won the Vivian Ellis award for ‘Writing
Orlando’, and did a post-graduate degree at Oxford, under Stephen
Sondheim. Since then, his work has included ‘Yusupov’, at the
Bridewell Theatre, ‘The Caribbean Tempest’ in Sydney, Barbados and
Edinburgh, and opera translations for the English National Opera and
the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, including ‘The Daughter of the
Regiment’, ‘The Turk In Italy’ and ‘The Bartered Bride’.
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