The Prince of Egypt and Amelie receive 2021 Grammy award nominations

Amelie photo credit: Pamela Raith

Cast albums of UK stage musical productions, The Prince of Egypt and Amelie, have been nominated for 2021 Grammy Awards in the category for Best Musical Theatre Album.

The Prince of Egypt boasts music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, orchestrations by August Eriksmoen, musical supervision and arrangements by Dominick Amendum and musical direction by Dave Rose. The album is produced by Amendum and Schwartz with Kurt Deutsch as executive producer.

The West End production of The Prince of Egypt opened in February 2020 at the Dominion Theatre featuring Luke Brady (Moses), Liam Tamne (Ramses), Christine Allado (Tzipporah), Alexia Khadime (Miriam), Joe Dixon (Seti), Debbie Kurup (Queen Tuya), Gary Wilmot (Jethro), Mercedesz Csampai (Yocheved), Adam Pearce (Hotep), Tanisha Spring (Nefertari) and Silas Wyatt-Barke (Aaron).

The musical production of Amelie is based on the 2001 romantic comedy film and first ran in the UK at the Watermill Theatre in April 2019, before transferring to The Other Palace for a limited run from November 2019. It has music by Daniel Messe, lyrics by Nathan Tysen, orchestrations and arrangements by Barnaby Race, musical supervision and direction by George Francis. The album is produced by Sean Patrick Flahaven of Concord.

Amelie stars Audrey Brisson in the titular role, alongside Sophie Crawford, Faoileann Cunningham, Rachel Dawson, Oliver Gran, Chris Jared, Caolan McCarthy, Samuel Morgan-Grahame, Emma Jane Morton, Kate Robson-Stuart, Josh Sneesby, Jez Unwin and Johnson Willis.

Congratulations to all involved!