Studio album of brand new life-affirming British musical The Rhythmics now available

Metta Theatre and Aria Entertainment have announced today that the album for brand-new British musical The Rhythmics is now available to listen to via Spotify, iTunes, Amazon Music, Apple Music and many other digital platforms.

The Rhythmics, dubbed as Calendar Girls meets The Full Monty, features a book and lyrics by Metta Theatre’s Artistic Director Poppy Burton-Morgan, with music and lyrics by Stiles & Drewe award recipient, Ben Glasstone.

Hapless single-dad Grey is in a rut. Teenage daughter Silva packs him off to revive his rockstar dreams, successfully auditioning for ‘Nick & the Rhythmics' only to realise... he’s actually signed up for an All-male Rhythmic Gymnastics troupe. Against the odds these burly blokes make it as far as the World Championships - twirling their ‘ribbons of fire’ - and along the way Grey finally learns to commit to life.

The album has been recorded during the lockdown period in a socially distanced manner, thanks to Arts Council England support, a hugely successful Crowdfunder campaign and Metta Theatre reserve funds.

Artists involved in the cast recording include Neil McDermott (EastEnders, Pretty Woman) as ‘Grey’, Eleanor Kane (Fun Home, Billionaire Boy) as ‘Silva’, Christopher Staines (The Great Gatsby, Abigail’s Party) as ‘Nick’, Daniel York Loh (The Shadow Factory, Pahl-La) as ‘Dennis’, Samuel Thomas (Man of La Mancha, The Last Five Years) as ‘Connor’, and Kinny Gardner (Lindsay Kemp Company / Krazy Kat Theatre Company) as ‘Sid’.

Alongside the cast album (which features 11 of the 19 songs from the show), a full music video of the track ‘Got Your Back’ has been released, along with fully integrated BSL choreography and captioning.

Poppy Burton-Morgan said: “Got Your Back comes at the opening of Act 2. The Rhythmics team are having a drink together over Zoom (in the pub in the show proper) and finally starting to open up to each other emotionally. Leader of the troupe Nick reappears halfway through, having gone AWOL and he opens up through basic sign language (as he and his brother sometimes communicate in BSL as one of Jeremy's children is deaf). Rifts are healed, and in the midst of the opening up they have a brainwave about how to transform their routine for the impending world championships...”

To watch the music video, please see below: