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Aidan Bell

AIDAN BELL  (1964 - )

Nationality:    English
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aidan Bell was born in Hertfordshire, england in 1964 and started his career during his teens with roles in National tours and productions of shows such as Joseph and the amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, James and the Giant Peach and a Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum, for directors including Steven Daldry and Bob Thompson. In 1990 he joined the european touring production of Hair, as "Margret Mead", and toured 10 countries in 13 months before settling in Vienna, austria, where he lived until 1999. there he made his name in 1993 as "Riff-Raff" in the high-profile 20th-birthday production of the Rocky Horror Show. Other productions included the hugely successful musical revue "Musical? -- Oh My God. . ." which he also produced, Into the Woods, Freudiana, several one-man shows, an annual Christmas production, Christmas Bells, and numerous revues, concerts and personal and television appearances. During the nineties aidan also appeared in other productions in Germany and austria including the roles of "Mary Sunshine" in Chicago in Stuttgart, "Chantal" in La Cage aux Folles in Graz, "Teen angel" in Grease and once again "Margret Mead" in Hair in Kassel, and "Uncle ernie" in Tommy in Lubeck. He also took time off on occasion to perform on cruise ships. During this period he also recorded several CDs, including his solo album, Timewarp, the live recordings of "Musical? -- Oh My God. . ." and the Best of Musicals, Christmas Bells, Musical Musical, and in London new recordings of the Rocky Horror Show (with Brian May and Christopher Lee) and Hair. aidan returned to england in 2000 where he toured in Warner Bros's Looney Tunes Live on Stage, appeared in Pantomime, played in Boom Bang a Bang in Lincoln and the lead in a short film. He has also continued to perform on the gala and solo circuit in europe, as well as in Theatre, such as "annas" in Jesus Christ Superstar in the open air in Tecklenburg, Germany. aidan spent much of 2003 and 2004 in New Zealand, returning to the UK to perform in Pantomime each Christmas. there he worked in Theatre, music and the corporate market, and one of his personal highlights was eight days' work as an Orc in "the Lord of the Rings, the Return of the King". He is now back in the UK where he is developing a new side-career shooting and editing video; mostly musical Theatre or Theatre-based. as a composer he has completed the music to four musicals as well as songs for various productions and for artists such as Pia Douwes, Caroline Vasicek, Alexander Goebel and aris Sas.

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below is a list of Aidan Bell's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

        Aesop         Elite         On Location         Piper



Aesop

Synopsis:
a group of children, with the help of a Bookatron, the invention of their eccentric grandfather, are transported inside a book of aesop's fables. there they meet aesop in person, and are taken by him on a journey through the pages of the book, witnessing enactments of the fables as they pass by.

Notes:
Book And lyrics by Brian Phillips; Music by Aidan Bell

1st Produced:
east Herts College, Broxbourne, Herts    1986

Organisations:
east Herts College

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
childrens Musical

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  5            Other:  17 animals and pages can be played by m or f. Band needed

Further Reference:
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Elite

Synopsis:
the worlds of elite are messy and ramshackle, their environments dumped on. Space travel is a dirty, sometimes unpleasant, way to travel. In a galaxy of anarchy planets and dictatorships, Federation Police and space pirates, the writers of the musical have based the characters, dialogue and place settings in a crime adventure story on the elite computer game. It begins when Vetch, head of the space pirate syndicate, offers, and Lieutenant, an eLITe bounty hunter accepts a contract of assassination on the infamous pirate Cleavers, while the High admiral of the Corporate States Police Federation orders two officers to infiltrate the space trade lanes to discover and destroy Cleavers. avens is seeking revenge for her father who was killed by his trading partners when they turned to illegal practices. there is much interplanetary travel, and several deaths, as all parties seek to fulfill their quests.

Notes:
Book And lyrics by Brian Phillips, based on the computer game, elite, by Ian Bell And David Braben; Music by Aidan Bell

1st Produced:
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Organisations:
Pink Hippo Productions Ltd

1st Published:

Music:
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Genre:
rock musical Musical

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  4            Other:  -

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On Location

Synopsis:
Commercials are filmed in a stately home with a genuine english butler, with much deception and misunderstanding.

Notes:
Book by John Hopkins; Lyrics by Diana Bell; Music by Aidan Bell

1st Produced:
east Herts College, Broxbourne, Herts    1987

Organisations:
east Herts College

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Piper

Synopsis:
the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin

Notes:
words by Brian Phillips, Music by Aidan Bell

1st Produced:
Campus West Theatre, Welwyn Garden City, Herts    1987

Organisations:
Pink Hippo Productions Ltd

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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