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Following their successful showcase at聽, writers Dominique La Victoria and Melisa Camba are taking their new musical,聽, to London on Friday, 9 May, 7:30pm, at Upstairs at the Gatehouse theatre as part of the聽聽new musicals showcase.

This Is My Name is inspired by the daring story of Filipino historical figure Maria del Rosario Gil y Montes de Sanchiz, who, in 1869, defied Spanish colonial rule by attending a ball wearing ribbons in her hair, saying “Viva la libertad (Long live freedom)!” The musical features a multilingual book and songs that blend Filipino kundiman and pop with contemporary musical theatre sound.

La Victoria and Camba have recently wrapped up a yearlong mentorship program with Birmingham Hippodrome鈥檚聽, which culminated in a showcase on 6 March that was well-attended, notably by representatives from the聽.听

, Head of New Musicals at Birmingham Hippodrome, says, 鈥淭hey [La Victoria and Camba] are incredibly passionate about their subject matter and are so excited to introduce the story of this Filipino historical character […] whose story has been lost in history. The honouring of that person with their kind of imagined history is really gorgeous and quite exciting.鈥�

An excerpt of the musical will be featured in聽, a showcase featuring snippets of six in-development musicals by some of the West End鈥檚 best emerging writers. Hosted by stand-up comedian Farah Sharp (named 鈥極ne to watch鈥� in the Funny Women Awards and featured on BBC Radio 4) and created by the team behind Olivier-nominated The Choir of Man, expect to see a variety of exciting, diverse new shows at various stages of their development.

Jack Blume, producer of Before It Hits, says 鈥淲ith such a flourishing scene of new Musical writing in the UK, we are thrilled to present a selection of delicious tasters from a variety of new shows by a diverse pool of writers, and to be lifting the veil from the lengthy development process. Wouldn鈥檛 it have been cool to see 15 minutes of Hamilton, before it was Hamilton?鈥�

This Is My Name will be performing on Friday, 9 May at 7:30 pm. Tickets are available at .