Photographs and curios from five productions of the musical, Brass, plus footage of the 2016 cast visit to the trenches in France. Film created to celebrate the release of a brand new, downloadable PDF vocal/piano score of 15 songs from the show which Mark Shenton describes as "a magnificent miracle of a musical." The songbook costs £10 and is exclusively available at: www.benjamintil...
Productions of Brass featured in the film:
August 2014 - NYMT, City Varieties Music Hall, Leeds.
August 2016 - NYMT, Hackney Empire, London.
February 2017 - Brass in Concert, The Old Rep, Birmingham.
November 2018 - Union Theatre, London
November 2018 - Bernie Grant Arts Centre, London (Mountview School)
Massive thanks to Jeremy Walker and NYMT for originally commissioning the show. With love to all Brassers past, for breathing life and enthusiasm into this show. Up the Pals!
Brass, an epic musical, tells the story of a Leeds-based Brass band who sign up to fight in the Great War. In their absence, their sisters, wives and girlfriends decide to learn the instruments the men have left behind so that they can play for their menfolk when they return from war.