Outdoor Musical
To The Streets! first outing in August 2022
BIRMINGHAM 2022 FESTIVAL PRESENTS A CHINA PLATE & BIRMINGHAM HIPPODROME PRODUCTION
To The Streets!
To The Streets! had its first outing as an uplifting outdoor musical; performed in three parks across the West Midlands in August 2022; as part of the Birmingham 2022 Festival – a six-month cultural programme, running alongside the Commonwealth Games.
Audiences were able to hear all the songs from the musical for the very first time and see them come to life with soul-shaking choreography, across 8 outdoor performances that took place across Handsworth Park in Birmingham, Windmill Hill (Warwick Arts Centre) in Coventry and West Park in Wolverhampton. Scroll down to watch a video below produced by DRPG, to hear more from the team and what audiences thought from its first outing!
We would like to dedicate our performances to the activists. Some have left us, some are still with us, all continue to inspire us daily. Thank you, Paul Stephenson, Roy Hackett, Guy Bailey, Joyce-Morris Wisdom, Barbara Dettering, Owen Henry, Audley Evans, Prince Brown, Raghbir Singh and everyone who took to the streets.
Grown alongside the musical, three community-led projects – On Our Way, Soho Settlers and We Still Here, bought together residents and Birmingham based commissioned artists – Nilupa Yasmin, Black Heritage Walks Network, Overhear and Jane Thakoordin, to explore what it means to choose communities, the art of protest, and intergenerational stories within Caribbean and South Asian communities.
Click through to our Creative Programme 2022 to find out more about these projects.
This element of the project was a China Plate and Birmingham Hippodrome co-production, presented by Birmingham 2022 Festival. Produced in association with Warwick Arts Centre, City of Wolverhampton Council and DRPG Creative.
Generously supported by Arts Council England and The National Lottery Heritage Fund. Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and Birmingham City Council. Supported by Garfield Weston Foundation’s Weston Culture Fund. The R&D for To The Streets! was supported by Blueprint: Without Walls R&D Investment Fund.
CREATIVE TEAM
Music & Lyrics | Tim Sutton
Book | Roy Williams
Director | Christopher Haydon
Choreographer | Dannielle ‘Rhimes’ Lecointe
Designer | Soutra Gilmour
Musical Director | Ian Oakley
Casting Director | Pearson Casting
Dialect Coach | Claudette Williams
Sound Designer | Gareth Fry
Lighting Designer | Arnim Friess
Video Designer | Duncan McLean
Associate Choreographer | Melody Sinclair
Associate Musical Director | Aron Sood
Associate Director | Nyasha Gudo
Associate Costume Designer | Naomi Thompson
Associate Artist Wellbeing Practitioner | Nigel Bailey
Company Stage Manager | Hannan Finnegan
Deputy Stage Manager | Jasper Mattel
Assistant Stage Managers | Amy Carroll & Alice Chapman
Wardrobe Manager | Chloe Fundak
Wigs | Andriea Nelson
Costume Construction | Jacki Cottom & Maariyah Sharjil
PRINCIPAL CAST
Paul | Michael Ahomka-Lindsay
Roy | Jonathan André
Des | McCallam Connell
Bert | Paul Kemble
Guy | Duane-Lamonte O’Garro
Secretary | Jessie May
Pearl | Denise Pitter
Lorraine | Charlotte St.Croix
Harry | Andy Watkins
ENSEMBLE
Aadil Din
Bradley Mutizwa
Edy Samuels
Jamel Richards
Jerry Lee
Josh Okoro
Kaierah Paul
Keilah St Juste
Lauren Clarke
Luke James
Makela Martin-Moore
Nancy Ling
Phoebe Bryan
Rachel Fearn
Robert Edwards
Robyn Kline-Christoffels
Sarah Stanley
Shanice White-McAlla
BAND
Clarinet, Flute, Saxophone | Clare-Louise Appleby
Drums | Vanessa Domonique
Trumpet, Flugelhorn | Jacob Phillips
Bass Guitar, Upright Bass | Joseph Roberts
Guitar | Phill Ward
