Following its sell-out success as a gala West End concert in July, A Spoonful of Stiles & Drewe lives on in the form of a live highlights recording. It features Olivier Award winners Stiles & Drewe themselves, fellow Olivier recipients Joanna Riding, Clive Rowe and Leanne Jones, pop star Gareth Gates and musical theatre stars Julie Atherton, Helena Blackman, Daniel Boys, Richard Dempsey, James Gillan, Alison Jiear, Shona Lindsay, Lisa O Hare, Caroline Sheen, Scarlett Strallen, Rebecca Thornhill and Oliver Tompsett. Celebrating 25 years of songwriting by composer George Stiles and lyricist Anthony Drewe, A Spoonful of Stiles & Drewe includes a wealth of material from their shows Honk!, Just So, Peter Pan and Mary Poppins, as well as previously unrecorded material and six exclusive tracks from their upcoming show, Soho Cinders, an alternative gay fairytale based on the Cinderella story. Thanks to generosity of all involved in A Spoonful of Stiles & Drewe, all profits from the recording will go to Mercury Musical Developments, a British charity nurturing new musical theatre writing.
“Often Sunday night galas such as this are hastily put together, but it was apparent Stiles and Drewe – onstage throughout the evening – along with a sophisticated creative team had put a great deal of thought into devising this one.” –The Stage”Gareth Gates proved not only that he has left his Pop Idol days behind him, but also his undoubted potential as an accomplished theatre performer.” –Musical Stages
