Alexander S. Bermange

Alexander S. Bermange is a composer and lyricist whose musicals and theatre productions have enjoyed successful runs in the West End and around the world, whose comic writing is regularly listened to by millions of listeners to BBC Radio, and whose songs have been recorded and released by many international singing stars.

Bermange was educated at The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, an independent school in Elstree in Hertfordshire, followed by the University of Oxford.

Bermange's music and lyrics have been heard in the West End in The 24 Hour Musicals at the Old Vic and Plague Over England at the Duchess Theatre, and in venues all over the UK in Murder On Air, several star-studded productions of which have had successful runs in various regional theatres, and which has additionally enjoyed two extensive UK tours.

Since graduating from Oxford University, Bermange has also written the music and lyrics for the musicals The Route To Happiness (Landor Theatre, London; also recorded by Kerry Ellis, Ben Forster and Louise Dearman), Thirteen Days (Arcola Theatre, London; Kiveton Park, Sheffield; and the subject of a prime-time BBC Radio 4 programme), Walking On The Sun (The O2, London, and three productions in Yorkshire), Odette (Bridewell Theatre, London), Aladdin (Pleasance Theatre, London), Shadowless (Bridewell Theatre, London; cast album also released), Close Encounters (Century City Playhouse, Los Angeles), Dead Heat (Bradford Playhouse) and Nessie (Musical Kongress, Hamburg); and the music for Snow White, The Blue Light, Sleeping Beauty, King Drosselbart, The Seven Ravens, The Golden Goose, The Frog Prince and Beauty And The Beast - The Singing Springing Lark (all produced over successive summers at the Amphitheater Park Schloss Philippsruhe, Hanau, Germany; most released on CD and/or DVD, and one also staged in Yaroslavl, Russia), and The Lost Fairy Tales, a compilation show comprising songs from these (two tours of Germany and Switzerland). Alexander is the winner of two Frank Wildhorn Awards for Musical Theatre for his musical Shadowless (Musical Festival Graz, Austria).

Bermange has written and performed many comic songs for Broadcasting House on BBC Radio 4, and Weekend and The World Today on the BBC World Service. His solo cabaret The Wit & Whimsy Of Alexander S. Bermange (St James Theatre and The Pheasantry, London) celebrates this style of his writing. His witty ditties have also been performed by the likes of Kit & The Widow (at London’s Coliseum, Cadogan Hall, Wigmore Hall and Arts Theatre, the Edinburgh Festival, and on Friday Night Is Music Night on BBC Radio 2), Britt Ekland, and 4 Poofs & A Piano, featured in Miriam Margolyes’s A Few Of Our Favourite Things with Stephen Fry (Theatre Royal, Winchester), and included in his own comic musical entertainment Weird & Wonderful (Canal Café Theatre, London). Nineteen of Alexander’s comic songs have been released on a CD entitled Weird & Wonderful - A Collection Of Songs Celebrating Weirdos And Weirdness, which features an all-star line up of sixteen international musical theatre artists, and boasts sleeve notes by Tim Rice.

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