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Halls centres around eight, first-year, university students, from different backgrounds and upbringings, who are brought together when they're all allocated the same flat in Halls of Residence, Flat 15B.The show follows the characters over the course of the academic year, exploring the relationships they form, as they learn to live together whilst experiencing student life. Freshers week, exam stress, the cost of student living, and romance, are all key themes in this coming-of age-story. Laugh, and cry, as the flatmates find their feet in a world where their decisions are now entirely their own.The upbeat, contemporary, pop-rock soundtrack mirrors the sense of nostalgia that the show evokes.Directed by Andy Fickman (Heathers), and following four well received, sold-out workshop readings last May, Halls is now taking its next step. The show will have a development production at The Turbine Theatre from 7th - 30th July.The Turbine Theatre is an idyllic space for new work to tried out, allowing the Halls creative team to continue to work on the material and be fine-tuning it during its run. All production elements (sound / lighting / set / costume etc ) will be there to give audiences an idea of what the show will be in a more realised scenario, as opposed to it feeling ‘finished’. Most importantly, the venue has stressed that the way in which audiences engage with the show will dictate how it develops, so do come along and be a crucial part of this exciting journey as Halls evolves.

The Turbine Theatre, Arches Ln, Nine Elms, London SW11 8AB, UK

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CMI Shows, (founded in 2002 as Church Musicals, Inc.), began as the vision of founder, Ed Kee, a 30+-year veteran of the Christian music recording and publishing industry in Nashville. As Creative Director for Brentwood Music (Universal Music Group), Ed’s skills put him on both sides of the corporate desk – as both a music executive and a music creator. As a songwriter, arranger, orchestrator and producer, Ed oversaw the production of multi-million selling recording projects by day and wrote anthems and musicals at night and on weekends. After writing his first Broadway-style Christmas musical in 2002, he licensed thirty-three different productions of it throughout the US and Canada, which set in motion a plan to find and acquire the rights to other original Christmas musicals and re-license them to this niche market. Using his network of arrangers, songwriters and other musical entrepreneurs, he was able to locate and license quality original shows from known as well as a few unknown writers and build a catalog of seasonal musicals.

When the opportunity came along to license some new, unique musicals to the mainstream theater market, it took a little refocusing of priorities and resources and CMI Shows was off and running. We’re new to this market, but we come with a long history of licensing great shows to happy customers.

New musicals are already being finalized and recorded for licensing later in the year. Check out our “Behind-The-Curtain” tab to get a sneak peek and the new musicals we’re working on. We’re excited to be creating new works that we’re confident will find their way to your stage!

Sara Farb is a Toronto-born actor & writer whose credits include Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Light, Master and Margarita: A New Musical Adaption, Fun Home and Romeo and Juliet to name just a few of her credits.

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In June 2019 Alena premiered her critically acclaimed and highly reviewed “Swiped The Musical,” an inspiring musical romantic comedy about online dating, which premiered June 21st at The Hudson Theatre in Hollywood for the 2019 Hollywood Fringe Festival. Swiped The Musical received the Fringe’s Encore’s extension award for the success of its initial run.
Alena co-founded Unicorn Music Academy in January 2020 to open up the young people’s hearts and minds to the music around them and give them the tools they ned to organize their ideas and create freely.

Most recently Alena has been writing, recording and producing with artists at Homegrown Recording Collective. In November 2021 Alena and her writing partners Catriona Fray and Danny Pravder traveled to New York City to produce a new work titled “Divine Feminine Soul” at The Duplex.

CATRIONA FRAY is an artist, teacher, and one of the co-creators and producers of Homegrown Recording & Collective. Her music transcends the spirit into an earthy, soulful Gospel/Worship/R&B/Pop experience. Her first single “Do I Believe In Love” was released in August 2021, recorded at Homegrown Recording, and is available on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube! Her NEW single “No Fear In Love” is now released on all platforms as well!

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She is a graduate of UCLA's School of Theater, Film, and Television, where was she was a featured soprano in the UCLA ScatterTones a cappella group, traveled around the country singing at the White House, opened for Grammy Award winning Pentatonix, and filmed with recording artist Jojo in a national commercial for Freeform.

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She has worked on two Kathleen Marshall (three-time Tony Award director/choreographer) productions Mamma Mia at the Hollywood Bowl and Sweet Charity as Rosie. Her favorite leading roles include the Witch in Into the Woods, Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors, and Lucy in Jekyll and Hyde. NYC Off-Broadway concert credits include, Swing 46, Town Hall, Feinstein's/54 Below, (Le) Poisson Rouge, and The Duplex, where she produced, created, and starred in her own cabaret The Melody Plays On: No One is Alone to help raise awareness and donations for the local domestic violence awareness non-profit "Never Alone Again,” and more recently debuted a piece of original material “Divine Feminine Soul”.

During the pandemic, she directed/choreographed/music directed a musical revue for a children's theater (socially distanced and masked), taught musical theater classes, and founded Catriona Fray Studios for the Performing Artist. She teaches piano, guitar, voice, acting, dance, musical theater script writing/songwriting, and yoga to students of all ages!

Chelsea is the founder of Positive Dance Experience in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. PDE was established in September 2020 in the heart of the global pandemic. Director Chelsea Robinson was forced to create a space that was based on small cohort class sizes to aid in safety of the participants involved but realized this actually helped to achieve a more exclusive and personalized dance experience. 

Positive Dance Experience (PDE) continues to be a boutique dance and performing arts studio in the heart of Toronto. PDE specializes in tailoring it’s programming individually to each student. We work closely with families to develop a personalized journey for your dancer from their first dance steps in our Recreational Program, through to the Pre Professional artist.

Alena Bernardi is an indie artist and soprano originally from Detroit, Michigan who

blends her classical and musical theater roots with pop, folk, rock, jazz, and neo soul.

Alena’s vocal stylings have been called the perfect hybrid between Karen Carpenter

and Joni Mitchell with the flexibility and prowess of classical soprano Joan Sutherland.

During the covid-19 pandemic of 2020 (or the “great pause”) Alena founded a boutique online

musical school, Unicorn Music Academy, that focuses on teaching it’s students music through

composition, improvisation, songwriting and play. During one of Unicorn Music Academy’s

Community Songwriting classes in April 2020, one month after Los Angeles had taken its

pause, Blue & Yellow was born.

Song: Blue and Yellow