NEW YORK, Jan. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Sony Music Masterworks, a division of Sony Music Leisure, in the present day introduced a brand new strategic enterprise with Roast Productions, a reside leisure firm based by Bonnie Royal and Michael Stevens. Based mostly in London and working internationally, Roast Productions focuses on producing theatre, live shows, and household leisure occasions.
Royal and Stevens will proceed to steer the corporate’s day-to-day operations and collaborate with Masterworks on the event of a variety of latest productions, working in shut partnership with each Masterworks President Mark Cavell and Ollie Rosenblatt, founder and CEO of Senbla, a UK producer/promoter.
Latest and present reveals embrace MACBETH starring Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma taking part in in Liverpool, Edinburgh, London and Washington DC; 2:22 A GHOST STORY within the West Finish (Apollo Theatre), touring within the UK and Australia; CHRISTMAS ACTUALLY, a Christmas selection present curated by “Love Truly” filmmaker Richard Curtis and produced in partnership with Senbla; the extremely acclaimed West Finish run of VANYA starring Andrew Scott; and the brand new musical COWBOY BOB on the Alley Theatre in Houston, TX; in addition to the 2024 UK tour of THE 13-STOREY TREEHOUSE based mostly on the best-selling ebook by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton. The corporate may even supply manufacturing, common administration, and advertising and marketing providers within the West Finish and past.
On the similar time, Roast Productions is happy to announce strategic agreements with Nationwide Theatre Productions and Varied Productions, as co-producer for STANDING AT THE SKY’S EDGE on the Gillian Lynne Theatre opening in February, and with the Ambassador Theatre Group, as Inventive Producer of the inaugural WIMBLEDON CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL on the New Wimbledon Theatre, launching in Summer season 2024.
Mark Cavell, President of Sony Music Masterworks, stated, “I’m completely delighted to welcome Bonnie and Michael to the Sony Music Masterworks household. Their creativity and experience will additional assist our endeavours in securing and creating new high quality and unique reside productions that may captivate and entertain audiences throughout the globe, and supply first-class content material for our different companions to advertise and market.”
Bonnie Royal and Michael Stevens, Producers and Co-Managing Administrators of Roast, commented, “It’s an absolute honour to affix Sony Music Masterworks and develop new work and new markets collectively. The energy of its imaginative and prescient and values makes it the perfect accomplice for us as we develop a various physique of labor within the UK and internationally.”
Sony Music Masterworks’ settlement with Roast Productions is the newest in a sequence of strategic partnerships and acquisitions advancing its development as a multi-faceted worldwide leisure enterprise working in additional than 30 international locations. The community of corporations contains Black Ink Presents, a Los Angeles-based artistic design and manufacturing providers firm; Tradition Inventive, a manufacturing and venture administration workforce specialising in creating site-specific and bespoke initiatives in distinctive heritage and panorama settings; Netherlands-based GEA Stay, which designs, represents and produces reveals and experiences based mostly on distinguished IP in music, movie, tv, anime and gaming; The Luna Leisure Group, the UK market-leader of open-air, drive-in and pop-up cinema experiences which additionally phases prime quality location-based leisure experiences, exhibitions and occasions; MAC World, an award-winning, pan-regional live performance promotion, expertise administration, occasions and manufacturing firm based mostly in Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Proactiv Leisure, the reside occasion producer and promoter based mostly in Barcelona, Spain; Raymond Gubbay Ltd., the music, dance & Mild Path/Lightscape promoter; RoadCoLeisure, the New York-based producing and distribution company specialising in reside leisure experiences; Seaview, the Tony and Olivier award-winning media firm with theatre, movie, TV, and digital verticals; Senbla, the London-based producer/promoter of high quality music, theatre and immersive occasions, reveals and festivals and Terrapin Station Leisure, an artist administration, tour manufacturing and sports activities/stadium consultancy firm which specialises in family-friendly and brand-led occasions, immersive displays, sport reveals and charity live shows.
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ABOUT BONNIE ROYAL Over her profession, Bonnie Royal has headed up an intensive and various portfolio of productions. Beforehand as Industrial Director of Fierylight, she labored with international manufacturers together with the kids’s leisure icon PEPPA PIG for over 10 years (together with 11 seasons in London’s West Finish), and led the event and manufacturing of household titles reminiscent of Julia Donaldson’s THE SMARTEST GIANT IN TOWN with Little Angel Theatre in 2020, which went on to have a sell-out UK tour and performed an Olivier Award-nominated West Finish season.
As Advertising Director, Royal’s credit embrace The Kenneth Branagh Theatre Firm: PLAYS AT THE GARRICK season (which included THE WINTER’S TALE starring Dame Judi Dench and ROMEO AND JULIET starring Lily James and Richard Madden) to HAIRSPRAY (London Coliseum), CIRCUS 1903 (Southbank Centre), THE 39 STEPS (West Finish) and FLEABAG (West Finish), in addition to the West Finish transfers of The Almeida’s MARY STUART and the Nationwide Theatre’s HOME, I’M DARLING. Most up-to-date initiatives embrace Rodgers and Hammerstein’s OKLAHOMA! (West Finish) and THE PADDINGTON BEAR EXPERIENCE (County Corridor).
ABOUT MICHAEL STEVENS With over greater than 20 years within the performing arts trade, Michael Stevenshas targeted on artistic collaboration, with a sustained dedication to the commissioning and manufacturing of latest works. His work in an Government Producer position with organisations – together with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Melbourne Pageant and Arts Centre Melbourne – led to dozens of latest (and plenty of award-winning) creations throughout theatre, musical theatre, dance, opera, circus, classical and up to date music, movie, visible arts and within the digital area.
Returning in 2016 to London, Stevens co-founded Fiery Angel Leisure, with which he launched CIRCUS 1903 to London for 4 seasons at Royal Pageant Corridor and Hammersmith Apollo and BARRY HUMPHRIES’WEIMAR CABARET on the Barbican Theatre. New productions have included GUYS AND DOLLS on the Royal Albert Corridor, directed by Stephen Mear with an all-star solid, and the European premiere of DOLLY PARTON’S SMOKY MOUNTAIN CHRISTMAS CAROL on the Southbank Centre, in addition to touring initiatives reminiscent of ROB BRYDON – A NIGHT OF SONGS AND LAUGHTER (80 reveals at London Palladium and on tour round UK/Australia/New Zealand); PEPPA PIG – MY FIRST CONCERT (Royal Pageant Corridor, London Coliseum, & 90+ UK dates); BLACK BLUES BROTHERS (UK regional tour) and TUBULAR BELLS – THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION (50 reveals at Royal Pageant Corridor and on UK tour).
ABOUT SENBLA A number one producer and promoter of a whole lot of reside reveals all over the world yearly, Senbla offers a variety of providers in assist of performing arts productions, artist excursions, massive scale artist live shows, and concept-based reveals, in addition to theatrical and household leisure occasions. Its intensive capabilities contains licensing and manufacturing, plus administration of all features of worldwide Mental Property rights. The corporate has labored on quite a few latest productions together with the ‘Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse’ live performance with reside orchestra which performed 85 dates globally; Michael Bublé on the Tub Royal Crescent; a run of Lionel Richie UK reveals; Diana Ross’s latest UK Area Tour; live performance with reside orchestra dates from Ennio Morricone, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Joss Stone, The Vacation, Love Truly, and A Muppets’ Christmas Carol; opera occasions, the Disney 100 UK Area Tour, and Circus 1903. Senbla is also an investor in theatrical reveals together with “Six” on Broadway and its US Tour, and is a co-promoter and producer of reveals internationally.
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