Exclusive:Bliss: First listen to song from new Fringe musical by Olivier award-winning team
Bliss will be performed at Pleasance Grand in August
A video of a song from a new musical tipped to be a hit at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe has been released.
The performance of Save A Dance, by Kayna Montecillo, a West End singer who was recently a lead in the new Starlight Express and who performed in a recent London workshop version of Bliss. The cast for the Fringe run has not yet been confirmed.
Fairytale themed Bliss, which is billed as “turning the classic fairytale inside out", follows four modern princesses who escape their tower and rewrite their own happily ever afters and features seventeen performers.
The is to be performed in its first full scale run at the Pleasance venue since its opening at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre in 2020 - just weeks before the Covid pandemic closed down theatres.
Produced by the Olivier-award winning team behind the musical of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, the show is directed by Tony nominee and Broadway director Sheryl Kaller.
Announcing the run, director Sheryl Kaller described the show as a musical which “celebrates joy, friendship, sisterhood, and finding one’s true self”.
The musical was trialled as a series of ticketed workshop presentations at Sadler’s Wells in London in 2025.
It will run at the Fringe from 5 to 31 August at Pleasance Grand.
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