Supersonic Man is a joyous and moving new musical set among the LGBTQI+ community of Brighton.
Adam is a fun-loving ‘influencer’ having the time of his life. But when he is struck down with a terminal condition, he faces losing everything, including the love of his life, Darryl.
Adam and Darryl vow that this will not be the end. Instead they seek a completely new beginning and explore new ways to live. Adam will become a human cyborg!
Supersonic Man combines jazz hands with high drama to tell a tale inspired by the true-life story of Peter Scott-Morgan, as depicted in the acclaimed 2020 C4 documentary, Peter - The Human Cyborg.
Cast to be announced.
Creative team:
Writer and Director Chris Burgess
Musical Director Aaron Clingham
Musical Arrangements Steven Edis
Choreographer Philip Joel
Designer David Shields
Lighting Richard Lambert
Produced by LAMBCO Productions
Chris Burgess - Writer, Director
Chris has written many stage shows. Highlights include: Dishonorable Ladies, starring Honor Blackman (West End & UK tour), Tales My Lover Told Me (King’s Head Theatre), The Last Fattybottypuss in the World (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Lunch With Marlene starring Kate O’Mara (New End Theatre and UK tour) and a musical, Sleeping Arrangements, based on Sophie Kinsella’s novel (Landor Theatre). He also wrote the revue shows Jewish Legends, The Great Jewish-American Songbook, The MGM Story, That’s Jewish Entertainment, A Night at the Oscars, Elton John: It’s a Little Bit Funny and Jewish Hollywood (Upstairs at the Gatehouse), as well as Sophie Tucker’s One Night Stand (Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh) and Skin Deep and Bette Midler and Me (Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh). Television and Radio writing credits include episodes of London Bridge (ITV) and Doctors (BBC) and a five-part BBC Radio drama, The Invincible Violet, starring Sylvia Syms.
Aaron Clingham - Musical Director
Aaron has received 11 Off-West End Award nominations for Musical Director and as nominated for a Broadway World Award for The Apple Tree (Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre). Favourite credits as Musical Director include: Into the Woods (The Cockpit); Betty Blue Eyes (Union Theatre); Marry Me a Little (Stage Door Theatre); Romance Romance, [title of show] and Grindr The Opera (Above The Stag Theatre); Metropolis, The Kissing Dance, Wonderful Town and A Little Night Music (Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre); Faking Bad and Closer To Heaven (Turbine Theatre); Sleeping Beauty (Charing Cross Theatre); My Land’s Shore (Theatr Soar); It’s a Bird...It’s A Plane...It’s Superman (Leicester Square Theatre); The Ripper’s Five (Theatro Technis); Naked Boys Singing (King’s Head Theatre / Garden Theatre); Sondheim by Sondheim (Roundhouse); Next Thing You Know (Garden Theatre); Dorian the Musical (Southwark Playhouse / The Other Palace); Soho Boy (Drayton Arms Theatre) and Cinderella (White Rock Theatre).
David Shields - Designer
David has designed the sets and costumes for plays, musicals and other spectacles at venues of every scale from international arena tours to studio theatres via prominent international and regional producing houses and the West End. His many credits include: Strictly Come Dancing the Professionals (original UK tour), Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway on Tour (UK Arena production directed by Anthony Van Laast), The Last Five Years (Associate designer, The Other Palace, directed by Jason Robert Brown). National Touring productions of End of the Rainbow, Little Shop Of Horrors and Our House. Hair in Concert (London Palladium), Pippin (Charing Cross Theatre), Heathers The Musical (Theatre Royal Haymarket, UK tours, The Other Palace), The Pleasure Garden (Offie 2021 Award winner, Best Set Design), Closer to Heaven (Turbine Theatre), Ruddigore (Wilton’s Music Hall). Rose starring Dame Maureen Lipman (Ambassadors Theatre), Snow White UK Pantomime Association Award winner Best Set Design 2024 (Wolverhampton Grand Theatre), The Fabulist (Charing Cross Theatre), Su Pollard - Still Fully Charged (UK tour), I Wish You Well (Criterion Theatre).
Richard Lambert - Lighting
DM the play, Roy’s Story, The Tailor-Made Man, Marry Me A Little (Stage Door Theatre); Boys in the Buff (Best Lighting Design OFFIE Nomination); Twinkle, Tickle, Boys in the Buff, Love is Blue (Drayton Arms Theatre / Edinburgh Fringe 2023); Soho Boy (Drayton Arms Theatre / Edinburgh Fringe 2022); Bette Midler & Me (Garden Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe 2022, Town and Gown, Drayton Arms); Frostbite, Next Thing You Know, Pippin, Fanny & Stella (Garden Theatre); Undetectable (Best Lighting Design OFFIE nomination); The Crumple Zone (King’s Head); Skin Deep (Ed Fest 2018, UK Tour); Marry Me A Little, Muscles the Musical, Alvaro’s Balcony, Discotivity, Stand Tall, Vincent River, The Hot Mikado, Get Aladdin, A Class Act, Next Thing You Know, Nunsense, Bakewell Bakeoff, Meet Me in St. Louis, No Way to Treat a Lady, The Man Inside, Damn Yankees (OFFIE award nomination), She Loves Me, In the Dead of Night, The Clockmaker’s Daughter, Sincerely Yours, Personals, Romance Romance, Devilish the musical (Landor Theatre); Margot, Dame, the Most Famous Ballerina in the World and Boys in the Buff (King’s Head Theatre). Other credits: Luseil Stadium (FIFA World Cup 2022); Erasmus Bridge (Rotterdam); Disney on Ice (7 continents, Tokyo Budokan, New Orleans Super Dome, Toronto Sky Dome, NYC Radio City Music Hall), Royal Wedding Dress Exhibition (Kensington Palace), #Hashtag Lightie (Arcola Theatre), Cirque Enchantment (UK Tour) and Jazz Dance Company UK Tour (8th year). Do you Have a Secret Crush (Sleeping with Straight Men)? (LOST Theatre). Website: lambcolighting.co.uk
LAMBCO - Producer
LAMBCO is an independent live entertainment production company based in London. LAMBCO has also produced Do You Have A Secret Crush? (Sleeping with Straight Men) (Lost Theatre); five Christmas skating events (Torquay); Bluebirds (Above The Stag); Sincerely Yours and associate producer for Bewitchment on Black Ice (Landor), Boys in the Buff and Skin Deep.
Skin Deep then went on a national tour and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival gaining a Fringe award from Scots Gay, The Crumple Zone and Margot, Dame, the Most Famous Ballerina in the World (King’s Head Theatre). At the Drayton Arms Theatre and Ed Fest, LAMBCO produced Boys in the Buff, Tickle, Soho Boy, Bette Midler and Me, Twinkle and Love is Blue.
Playbill chose Boys In The Buff as their “pick of the fringe” and the Scotsman declared Tickle and Boys In The Buff, two of the Fringe’s four sexiest musicals. At the Stage Door Theatre, LAMBCO has produced Marry Me a Little, The Tailor-Made Man, Slices of Life and this UK premiere of the Broadway musical The Story Of My Life. At Waterloo East Theatre, The Crumple Zone.
SUPERSONIC MAN
a new musical
Written and Directed
by Chris Burgess
Southwark Playhouse Borough
77-85 Newington Causeway,
London, SE1 6BD
Closest Tube Station: Elephant & Castle
(Northern Line & Bakerloo Line)
Take the London Southbank University exit
Wednesday 9 April to Saturday 3 May
