Joining Mario was musical writer and composer Lauryn Gaffney who just this year wrote, directed and produced her very own musical which ended up with its own run off broadway!

Big Shot is an original award winning Irish Musical written and composed by Lauryn Gaffney. In recent months Lauryn and team have been presented with an opportunity to bring Big Shot to New York City, where it will be seen and heard by people who can help bring her closer to her ambition of being the first female Irish composer-lyricist to have their work performed on Broadway.

The most recent production of Big Shot took place in February of this year at The Helix Theatre. For this performance, we invited Tony Award-winning Broadway producer Ken Davenport (Kinky Boots, Once On This Island) to critique the show and consult with us on the next step for our show.

Ken was so taken with the show and performance that he invited Lauryn to perform the show Off Broadway in New York for five nights as part of his musical theatre festival ‘RAVE’.

They also secured a booking at esteemed and legendary New York venue ‘Feinstein’s/54 Below’, where the cast performed a programme of songs from the show and Lauryn’s original music. It is steps from Times Square, the club is known as Broadway’s living room.

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