BAD GIRLS The Musical

Training: Dane read music at Nottingham University, where he was organ scholar in his first year, and followed this with a year of postgraduate study on piano at the Birmingham Conservatoire. He has worked as a soloist (including many concerto appearances), accompanist and repetiteur and was a regular member of the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company music staff from 1992 until its closure in 2003.

Theatre includes: as MD, Fiddler on the Roof (Crucible, Sheffield), Two Cities (Salisbury Playhouse), Bad Girls – The Musical (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Once in a Lifetime (NT Olivier), Promises, Promises (Crucible, Sheffield), Sex, Chips & Rock ’n’ Roll (Royal Exchange, Manchester), The Full Monty (UK tour 2004), The Boy Friend (UK tour 2003), Singin’ in the Rain (NT Olivier, West Yorkshire Playhouse, UK tour 2002), Doctor Doolittle (UK tour 2001), Pal Joey (Chichester Festival Theatre), Company (Royal Academy of Music), Spend Spend Spend (Piccadilly Theatre, London, Theatre Royal, Plymouth, West Yorkshire Playhouse), The Red Balloon (NT Olivier, Birmingham Rep), A Man of Feeling (City of Birmingham Touring Opera), The Snowman (Peacock, Birmingham Rep), Street Scene (Birmingham Conservatoire), The Broken Heart (RSC), Macbeth (RSC UK tour 1994), Into the Woods and Dames at Sea (Birmingham School of Acting), Toad of Toad Hall, Pinocchio and Peter Pan (Birmingham Rep).

Recordings include: Spend Spend Spend (original London cast), The Red Balloon (BBC Radio 4) and The Snowman (pianist on the CD of the stage show conducted by the composer).

Dane is a part-time repertoire coach on the musical theatre course at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and piano tutor and musical theatre coach at the Birmingham Conservatoire, which has awarded him an Hon BC.