from who i am and who i was. the next choice you ve made for this programme is being commissioned to write the songs for matilda the musical. so you were approached by the director, matthew warchus, to create these songs for the adaptation of the roald dahl book for the royal shakespeare company. why did he ask you? well, this was 2008, and i had. i was now a bit more established as a comedian in the uk and i was touring, and i think jeanie 0 hare, who was the literary manager at the rsc, pointed matthew towards me as a singer songwriter, basically, who had some dexterity with the english language, arguably. and matthew came and saw my show, which was called ready for this at that stage, my 2008 show. # only a ginger can call another ginger, ginger.# and he enjoyed it.
to pre existing lyrics and this love s labour s lost thing was built of the script, which has a few songs in it, you know, like all his comedies have a hey, nonny nonny and a bit of a thump, but then it was enhanced with other sort of metaphysicists and elizabethan poets likejohn donne, but other shakespearean sonnets that have been wedged into this script to kind of make it more of a musical. and it really worked. and i wrote this set of songs and i think we performed it for three nights and everyone just loved it. and everyone in the cast and everyone who saw # 0 mistress mine where are you roaming? # 0 stay and hear, your true love s coming.# it was profound because i could feel both the kids who were in the show and the audiences, i could feel them, the stillness, i could feel that i had captured them. and that s a very intoxicating feeling to go, oh, i ve got these people.
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