Nicky Haslam is new BML Patron

Writer, interior designer and cabaret artist NICKY HASLAM as agreed to be a new Patron for BML, joining Broadway veterans Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. His own first CD, 'Midnight Matinee', which also features Cilla Black, Brian Ferry, Bob Geldorf and Helena Bonham Carter, will be released next month. His recognition and support of the importance of what we're doing is deeply gratifying, and we look forward to his involvement with BML.

3 Audition places left

Applications for the new First Year Composer/ Lyricist have been coming in strongly, but we still have 3 places left for the interview/ auditions on Saturday, 9 Mar, so we're extending the closing date for applications until end of day on Monday, 4 Mar. We want the talent pool as broad as possible.

Carl Miller at the RNT

Many congratulations to BML writer Carl Miller, whose adaptation of 'Emil and the Detectives' will be the Christmas family show at the Royal National Theatre's Olivier auditorium next winter.

First year auditions

Interview/ auditions for the 2013 first year composer/ lyricist group will be Saturday, 9 March. Each audition will last around 20 minutes. Exact times and place to be announced.

Session dates for 2013

As stated in the last post, the spring term for the sessions begin on 25 or 26 Mar, depending on the workshop.

To expand, the spring term will run through 15/ 16 July (16 sessions with no session on Easter Monday or Tuesday), and the autumn term runs for 16 sessions from 2/3 Sept through 16/ 17 December.

Spring term start date

Applications are coming in. The spring term will begin Monday, 25 March (2d/3rd year composers and lyricists from 3:30 - 5:30, 1st year composers and lyricists from 6-8) and Tuesday, 26 March (librettists from 6-8).

'Lee Miller' at RADA

‘SIX PICTURES OF LEE MILLER’ by JASON CARR and Ed Kemp (no-BML member) will get its London premiere at RADA, Feb. 7th-16^th, directed by Ed. 

"Muse, model, surrealist and war photographer, Lee Miller witnessed at first hand the best and worst of the twentieth century. Man Ray was her lover, Picasso her friend, she danced with Chaplin and bathed in Hitler’s tub. Her work includes Vogue fashion spreads and the first images of Dachau. But after the war she put away her camera and became a society hostess and cookery writer in Sussex." 

Lee will be played by Jessie Buckley, who played Anne in Trevor's production of A Little Night Music. 

http://www.rada.ac.uk/whats-on/rada-productions?