Puttin’ on the Ritz

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UPDATE 5th February 2015

We have won an award from the IOV  READ HERE

Thank you to David King and the Spirit Productions team, the amazing cast, the technical crew and my crew, who I am so proud to work with.

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Back in frosty February 2014, I received an email from David King, Executive Producer  of Spirit Productions. He was “puttin” together a new show that would feature the music of Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and George Gershwin. It is quite remarkable how 3 or 4 numbers featured in the show are used in TV ads currently running.

A preliminary promo was put together using conceptual footage and then in June a 20second TV ad was made that was shown on STV and 4 ITV regions ahead of the UK tour.

My attention was then “focused” on assembling the multimedia that was to be used in the show from supplied footage and images. The final tweaks to this were done in the Theatre at Southend during final rehearsals ahead of the UK opening in late August.

Once again Emma Rogers produced some amazing Choreography and David King’s magical fine tuning produced a show that opened to well deserved standing ovations for the incredibly talented cast of 6 singers and 16 dancers.

The following week my crew descended on Eastbourne to the Congress Theatre where we filmed over two days.  Post production followed back at DSVP in Basildon, where I worked closely with David King via the internet. Individual edits of the main numbers were produced for a DVD to be sold at the 2015 US tour and when the show goes into Kings Castle Theatre, Branson and the short and longer promo’s were made. Following the UK tour, the show also toured in China.

A UK tour for mid 2015 is also being planned.

DSVP Credits:

Cameras – Carl Owen , Pete Silver, Dave Bass, David Strelitz

Jib Operator – Luke Williams

Audio Engineer Nick Pugh

Voiceover for promo – Charles Nove

Post Production – David Strelitz