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This award-winning new British musical, which was crowned Best New Musical at the 2023 Olivier Awards, is directed by Robert Hastie, Artistic Director of Sheffield Theatres. a b Gill, Andy (5 May 2012). "Review: Richard Hawley, Standing At the Sky's Edge". The Independent. London, England: Independent Print Limited. Archived from the original on 24 May 2022 . Retrieved 28 October 2012. Price, Simon (6 May 2012). "Review: Richard Hawley, Standing At the Sky's Edge". The Independent on Sunday. London, England: Independent Print Limited. Archived from the original on 24 May 2022 . Retrieved 28 October 2012. Hawley was even allowed to work “some gags” and some local humour into the script too to give it “a unique flavour”.
Early attempts at the show didn’t go to plan. By this time Rob Hastie had taken over at Sheffield Theatres and he suggested that they meetChris Bush, a local playwright. Within 48 hours Bush had come up with a “pretty good treatment” said Lord.
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Underwood, Kitty (19 February 2020). "National Theatre announces 9 new productions for 2020/2021". Official London Theatre . Retrieved 10 February 2023. Wright, Helen. "Review: Richard Hawley, Standing At the Sky's Edge". MusicOMH . Retrieved 28 October 2012.
a b c Beaumont, Mark (8 May 2012). "Review: Richard Hawley – Standing at the Sky's Edge". NME. London, England: IPC Media . Retrieved 28 October 2012. a b c Jurek, Thom. Richard Hawley: Standing at the Sky's Edge> Review at AllMusic. Retrieved 2 September 2012. Exhilarating and big-hearted... Bush's script is sparkily witty and affectionate, she interweaves the stories with great skill... A wonderfully generous, uplifting piece of theatre' Financial TimesOn 12 September 2012 the album was nominated for the 2012 Mercury Prize, [4] Hawley's second nomination after 2005's Coles Corner. After at first finding the idea of a musical of his songs to be “ludicrous”, Hawley then came around and handed his songs over to “the real geniuses” of director artistic director Robert Hastie and playwright Chris Bush.