Neil Bartram is a musical theatre composer/lyricist based in New York. Bartram is the composer and lyricist of Disney's Bedknobs and Broomsticks, The Theory of Relativity and Broadway's The Story of My Life with book writer Brian Hill.

Career

Bartram is best known as the co-writer of Disney’s Bedknobs and Broomsticks, for which he added new songs and expanded the classic Sherman Brothers score. This new stage adaptation toured the UK and Ireland in 2021-2022.

Bartram is also the composer and lyricist of Broadway’s The Story of My Life with book writer Brian Hill (4 Drama Desk Award nominations including Outstanding Music, Lyrics, and Musical). His musical The Theory of Relativity had its US premiere at Goodspeed Musicals in 2015 with its Off-West End premiere in the same year. The Theory of Relativity now has a robust life in licensing and was Music Theatre International’s most-produced title in 2021. It also generated the TikTok and YouTube viral sensation, “The End of The Line”.

Other works include an adaptation of Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Young People's Theatre Toronto), a musical adaptation of Michel Tremblay's Les Belles-Soeurs (Canadian tour), a musical based on Ray Bradbury’s classic novel Something Wicked This Way Comes (11 Barrymore Award nominations), You Are Here (Southwark Playhouse), and Senza Luce. Bartram's new score for the stage adaptation of Shakespeare in Love was written for the Chicago Shakespeare Theater and Asolo Rep productions and was nominated for a Jeff Award.

Other awards include the ASCAP Foundation’s Yellen Award, a Jonathan Larson Foundation Award, a Dramatists Guild Fellowship and a Dora Award.

The Story of My Life and The Theory of Relativity are licensed through Music Theatre International and The Adventures of Pinocchio is licensed through Concord Theatricals. Cast albums include The Story of My Life and The Theory of Relativity (both on PS Classics).

Born in the UK, raised in Canada and now based in New York City, Bartram is a member of the Dramatists Guild, ASCAP and is an alumnus of the BMI Lehman Engel Music Theatre Workshop. He is published by Warner/Chappell Music.

Works

• The Story of My Life with Brian Hill, directed by Richard Maltby Jr., starring Will Chase and Malcolm Gets^[1]
• The Adventures of Pinocchio with Hill, commissioned by Chicago Shakespeare Theater^[2]
• Something Wicked This Way Comes with Hill
• The Theory of Relativity with Hill,^[3] Goodspeed Musicals^[4]
• Spin with Hill, Signature Theatre, directed by Eric Schaeffer.^[5]
• You Are Here with Hill, Thousand Islands Playhouse, Goodspeed Musicals, Southwark Playhouse
• Senza Luce with Hill, Sheridan College
• Shakespeare In Love, new score for Chicago Shakespeare Theater, directed by Rachel Rockwell
• Bedknobs and Broomsticks with Hill

References

External links

• Official site: Bartram & Hill
• Broadway-Aimed Musical Story of My Life, With Gets and Chase, Makes U.S. Premiere in CT