Anthony Drewe & George Stiles
Anthony Drewe wrote the lyrics for "The Card" which played at Watermill Theatre and toured nationally in the UK. It was nominated for "Best Revival" in the 1995 Laurence Olivier Awards. He also wrote "Twist of Fate", a musical in which he also performed and originated the role of Inspector East at the Raffles Hotel in Singapore where it was voted "Best Musical of the Year". As an actor Mr. Drewe has also performed the role of Porthos in his writing partner, George Stiles' "The Three Musketeers". Directing credits include a revival of the musical "Snoopy" for the Watermill Theatre, "Cowardly Custard" at the Royal Academy of Music, and the hit musical "Honk!", which he cowrote with George Stiles, at the Nico Theatre, Cape Town. In 2002 he will direct "Just So", another Drewe/Stiles collaboration, in Tokyo in Japanese.
While a successful writer in his own right, Mr. Drewe has clearly hit his stride in his collaboration with George Stiles. They have written four musicals together: "Tutankhamun","Just So"(an MTI licensed musical, winner of the 1985 Vivian Ellis Prize, nominated "Best Musical" and "Most Promising Newcomers in the 1990 London Critics Awards), the wildly successful "Honk!"(an MTI licensed Musical, Winner Best Musical of 2000 Olivier Award, Winner FNB VITA Awards in South Africa), and "Peter Pan" (Winner of "Best Song" and "Orchestra's Award" at the 1996 International Musical of the Year in Denmark). "Just So", Stiles and Drewe's zany musical interpretation of Rudyard Kipling's "Just So Stories" was at one time optioned by Steven Speilberg for feature animation (a project which was sadly lost between the cracks when Amblimation became part of Dreamworks SKG). The stage version was recently revived in an updated version at the Goodspeed Opera House in Connecticut.
They have also collaborated on the revues "Warts and All" and "Naval Fluff and Other Trivial Pursuits", contributed songs to "RSC's Shakespeare Revue", "The Mercury Workshop Musical Revue" and Dame Edna Everage's "Look at Me When I'm Talking To You" as well as contributed to a variety of other theatre, TV and radio shows.
As a team, multi-award winning writers Stiles and Drewe have established an international reputation for their musical scores, revues and cabaret songs. Their collective musical success has led to their working with such luminaries as Sir Cameron Mackintosh and Steven Spielberg. Their work has been performed all across the UK, the USA, Canada, Europe, Israel, Russia, Singapore, and South Africa.
George and Anthony are founder members of The Mercury Workshop and are actively involved with the Vivian Ellis Foundation for New Musicals. They are currently working on two new musicals together.
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