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Mel Atkey

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Artist • Composer • Lyricist


Artist • Composer • Lyricist

Mel Atkey was a Canadian-born, English-emigrated musical theatre composer and lyricist. He began to write musicals while still in high school. After college he became a theatre critic in Canada, and continued to write musicals and songs while serving as director of Cabaret and Musical Theater Alliance until he moved to London in 1991. He was a finalist for the Musical of the Year competition in Aarhus, Denmark, and his work has been short-listed for the Vivian Ellis Prize, the Quest for New Musicals, the Ken Hill Prize and Musical Stairs.

Audience and Press Reviews

  • As a composer, you show enormous promise ... you have a wonderful gift for melody, great musicality, a good sense of how to use a chorus to make a song interesting... Lucky you! Such talents are rarer than you know.

    — Stephen Schwartz, composer of Godspell, The Baker's Wife and Prince of Egypt.

  • For days now the melody and lyrics … have been ringing in my head, and will not be dislodged. The song is just one of the many pleasures of your compilation CD.

    — Herbert Kretzmer, lyricist of Les Miserables.

  • Mel Atkey has written lovely music

    — New York Times review of A Little Princess.