Revelation Software Took Advantage of Linux World Platform to Announce Sponsorship of Sir Tim Rice's New Production of "Blondel"

Revelation Software took advantage of Linux World Platform to announce sponsorship of Sir Tim Rice's new production of "Blondel"

Submitted by: Revelation Software Wednesday, 8 November 2006

London, UK 8th November 2006. Revelation Software (http://www.revsoft.co.uk) announced today that they were proud to be sponsoring Sir Tim Rice’s latest production ‘Blondel’ - a brand new version of the cult musical. Legend has it that when ‘Richard the Lionheart’ was captured on his way back from the Crusades by Leopold, the Duke of Austria; his brother, Prince John refused to pay the ransom. It was only the loyal and dogged pursuit of the king by the court musician, Blondel, that saved the country from certain ruin. Commenting on Revelation Software sponsoring Blondel, producer Pete Shaw stated “We are very excited to have Revelation Software sponsoring us on the remake of this amazing production. We have a wonderful cast and production team including: Chris Grierson (Hollyoaks) as Blondel and Abi Finley (How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?) as Fiona. Without the generous and continued support of Revelation Software, this production would not have been what it is shaping up to be today.” Managing Director of Revelation Software Francesca McAuley stated “Blondel was first performed in the same year that Revelation Software first started selling their database software solutions in Europe - 1983. It seems fitting then that in this re-launch year for Sir Tim Rice's rewritten version of Blondel, we present our rewritten version of our flagship database product OpenInsight for the Linux market.” To celebrate this synchronicity, Revelation Software (http://www.revsoft.co.uk) gave away 5 pairs of tickets to see Blondel during the Linux World Exhibition. -ends- Contact: Francesca McAuley Revelation Software Tel: +44 (0) 20 8912 1000 Email: [email protected] 45 St Mary’s Road London W5 5RGContact: Louise Gray-Murray (Partner) Bubble & Squeak Tel: +44 (0) 20 7287 4261 Email: [email protected]

Page 1 80 Berwick St London W1F 8TU About Revelation Software (http://www.revsoft.co.uk) Founded in 1982, Revelation Software delivers a suite of application development tools and companion services that take full advantage of leading network computing architectures, messaging, groupware, and client server platforms. Today, the company's flagship product OpenInsight is the only database development and application environment that provides both Windows and Java-based GUI tools to develop and deploy web-based and client server applications that support native and relational XML, SQL, Lotus Notes and the leading legacy Multi-Value data sources such a ARev, Pick and IBM Universe. There are more than 2 million licensed users of Revelation products across 60,000 deployed sites worldwide. For more information visit www.revsoft.co.uk. Note to editors: Revelation Software is a division of Revelation Technologies. Revelation Software, OpenInsight and JOI are trademarks of Revelation Technologies. All other trademarks and trade names are property of their respective holders. About the Blondel Production Team:- • Sir Tim Rice - Lyricist: He famously collaborated with Andrew Lloyd Webber to produce the work that both are best known for: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Evita. He has also worked as a lyricist in pop music, worked for Disney on projects with Alan Menken (Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast for the stage, King David) and Elton John (The Lion King, Aida). • Patrick Wilde - Director: Patrick Wilde trained as an actor at the Webber Douglas Academy. He worked extensively as an actor, parts played including: Hamlet, Roderigo in Othello, Amnon in Tirso da Molina’s The Rape of Tamar at the Lyric Hammersmith and Antony in ATC’s Antony and Cleopatra. As a director, he also concentrated on classics including: the British Premiere of Schiller’s Cabal and Love again at the Lyric. He directed shows several times at the Edinburgh Festival, including the cult show Sell Out! by Jonathan Rich in 1987 and 1989. In 1990 he directed a show for The British Council which toured Pakistan and caused a street riot (including gunfire) in Lahore for its "scandalous" depiction of women in society. Patrick was commissioned to write the film version, Get Real, which won the Edinburgh Film Festival Audience prize, both audience and jury prizes at The Dinard Film Festival and The Sydney Mardi Gras Film Festival. Patrick directed Blondel for the first time in 1987 at the Lost Theatre. • Pete Shaw - Producer: A curious fact about Pete is that every school he ever attended has since been demolished; this may just

Page 2 be a coincidence. His career has included Broadcaster on Capital Radio, Deputy Editor of Your Sinclair magazine, author of a slew of technical books and Marketing Director of a video editing company. In 2002 he collaborated with Wilde to produce Patrick's second play, You Couldn't Make It Up at the Gilded Balloon. The Gilded Balloon burnt down later that year. Pete also produced the London production of You Couldn't Make It Up at the New End Theatre in Hampstead in 2003.

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