A PSYCHO LOVE THRILLER
Flynn hasn’t left his apartment in six months. His life has fallen apart. Only two things bring him solace; watching Hitchcock films and masquerading as a 1940s private eye. His flat mate Scottie is concerned. But when Flynn takes an unhealthy interest in a neighbour across the street, Scottie begins to get really concerned.
Flynn is convinced that she is leading a double life and nicknames her Judy after the femme fatale in Vertigo. Against Scottie’s advice he decides to follow her, and begins a sequence of events that could be taken straight out of a Hitchcock film.
Creative Team
Anthony van Laast
Director/Choreographer
Anthony van Laast is a muti-award winning choreographer of international acclaim. He trained at the London School of Contemporary Dance, later joining the company as both performer and choreographer.
Direction & Staging: Carmen Jones – European Tour; Candide – Old Vic (Laurence Olivier Award for Best Musical); Chess – UK & European tours; Grease – Arena tour Europe; Six Lives of Lee Miller – Chichester; Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Song & Dance – UK & Europe; Rogers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella – Madrid; Siegfried & Roy – Mirage Hotel, Las Vegas; EFX starring Michael Crawford – MGM Grand Hotel, Las Vegas.
Theatre credits include: Tina The Musical – worldwide (Outer Circle Critics Award, Tony Award nomination); Mamma Mia! – worldwide (Dora Mavor Moore Award, Helpman Award nomination); Sister Act – worldwide (Olivier Award nomination); Side Show – Broadway (Hayes Award nomination); Hair – Old Vic (Olivier Award nomination); Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Song and Dance – worldwide (Green Room Award);
Joseph and the Technicolour Dreamcoat – worldwide (Olivier Award nomination, Dramalogue Award); Bombay Dreams – London, Broadway (Tony Award nomination); Candide – Old Vic (Olivier Award for best musical).
Film work includes: Beauty and the Beast; Mamma Mia! Here we Go Again; Mamma Mia!; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1; Never Say Never Again; Excalibur; Hope and Glory.
Television work includes: Creative Director for The Olivier Awards; The Royal Variety Show; Mamma Mia! I Have a Dream. Anthony has created concerts for many leading artists including: Cher; Kate Bush; Mika; Barry Humphries and Sarah Brightman. In 1999 he was awarded the MBE for services to dance and choreography, in 2018 he was awarded the CBE for services to dance and choreography and in 2019 he became an Honorary Doctor of the Arts.
Anthony Van Laast
Director
Liam orafferty
Book/Music/Lyrics
A self-taught musician, composer and script writer, Liam brought his first musical Paper Hearts to a sold-out preview at London’s Waterloo East theatre before taking it to the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe for a highly successful run. Liam’s next musical, Finding Hitchcock, was inspired by his love of Alfred Hitchcock films. Set in present day and the 1940s, it mixes film noir with contemporary themes and centres on two people who immerse themselves in his films to escape their troubled lives.
Working with musical arranger Michael Reed, they recorded 17 songs from the show which become part of a workshop directed by Anthony Van Laast. Preformed at Regents Park Studios in October 2024 with an amazing cast, the shortened version of the musical was very well received.
Liam would love to take Finding Hitchcock to the next level and work with a producing theatre to realise the shows full potential. His drive and ambition for someone who has not been classically trained is extraordinary, with a raw talent for writing music that emotionally connects with an audience. Liam’s influences are varied, from Jonathan Larson to Lerner and Loewe. His music can be described as a combination of blues, jazz and pop.
Liam oRaffety
Writer
Michael Reed
Composer/Conductor/Pianist
Michael Reed studied at the Royal College of Music (Tagore Gold Medal winner). He studied piano with Angus Morrison and conducting with Harvey Phillips, Vernon Handley and Sir Adrian Boult.
Compositions include: Der Besuch der Alten Dame with Moritz Schneider; Garbo with Warner Brown and Jim Steinman; War in Heaven with Fay Weldon; Rock in a Hard Place with John Theakston; Charley with Jon van Eerd and Black Venus with James MacManus. He composed and orchestrated scores for four Holiday on Ice productions and The Beauty of Magic (Las Vegas).
Film, Television and Radio: Five Royal Variety Shows; Eurovision Song Contest; three Royal Galas (Prince’s Trust); Guys and Dolls; A Little Night Music; Jesus Christ Superstar (BBC Radio 2). He routined the dance music for the Blake Edwards film Victor Victoria (with Julie Andrews); Musical Director for the movie of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (DVD); Conducted and orchestrated the score for Furia (Music by Brian May).
Michael is musical supervisor and arranger worldwide for Jim Steinman’s Tanz der Vampire and also Bat Out of Hell The Musical. He conducted Sunset Boulevard at the ENO London Coliseum with Glenn Close; Der Medicus (Fulda), where he won with Roy Moore the Deutsche Musical Theater Prize for Best Orchestrations.
Michael was Musical Supervisor, Arranger and Orchestrator for I am from Austria (Vienna) and Rock Me Amadeus: The Falco Musical which opened at the Ronacher Theater in Vienna in 2023.
He is currently developing and orchestrating two new musicals – one in Vienna written by Zoë Straub called EPOS (which had its first reading in Vienna last August and is moving towards a full workshop next year), and the other written by Liam O’Rafferty called Finding Hitchcock, which had its first workshop in October last year.
Michael is chief conductor of the Cornish Sinfonia.
Michael Reed
Arrangements
London Musicians
London Musicians Ltd are passionate about Finding Hitchcock and have shown their support by investing in the show. They were also responsible for booking the musicians for the recording and workshop sessions.
London Musicians Orchestra is comprised of the cream of London’s orchestral and session musicians. The orchestra has accompanied such artists as Liza Minnelli, John Barry, Shirley Bassey, Ruthie Henshall, Marti Webb, Torvil and Dean, Julie Andrews and Michael Crawford. It has performed regularly at the Royal Variety Shows and played for many TV Spectaculars including the successful Michael Ball series for LWT, South Bank Shows, The Des O’Connor Show, BBC TV Laurence Olivier Awards, This is Your Life, the Eurovision Song Contest, The Prince’s Trust Galas and Joy To The World.
The orchestra has recorded a series of albums with Jose Carreras, Julie Andrews, Sarah Brightman, Michael Ball, Finbar Wright, Maria Friedman, Elaine Paige, Robson and Jerome. London Musicians Orchestra was the featured orchestra at the worldwide television celebrations for VE Day in Hyde Park, the VJ Day Celebrations at Horseguards Parade and the closing ceremony of Euro ‘96 at Wembley Stadium.
Lord Lloyd Webber’s music has featured the orchestra on albums such as Jesus Christ Superstar, Whistle Down the Wind and Alan Parker’s film of Evita. The orchestra was also used to accompany artists for the spectacular concert at the Royal Albert Hall to mark Lord Lloyd Webbers 50th birthday. The Holiday on Ice shows and the Animator’s Palette for Disney were recorded using London Musicians Orchestra.
The orchestra performed in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen at the spectacular All The Queens Horses at Windsor. London Musicians has been the orchestral contractors for the highly successful musical Bat Out Of Hell.
London Musicians
