Well there are no animals and it’s definitely not a kids show!

We wanted to break that boundary for ourselves because there is no doubt that with PETER PAN, JUST SO and HONK! there is an association of our work in a lot of people’s minds, particularly in the industry.

We started talking and a while ago Anthony had an idea of updating a very very basic version of Cinderella into something different. Originally he wanted to call it Launderella and set it in a launderette, and Cinders was as usual a girl.

That idea stuck around in the ether for five or six years and then the summer before last, we sat in Regents Park with a huge piece of paper and started beating out how we could adapt this to a much more contemporary theme and twist the story. And write about some things that are significant and important to us.

We want it to have a vaguely satirical and political slant to it as well. Everything else that we have done has either been in fairy land, or has been a period piece.

We wanted to do something that is NOW. Partly to challenge ourselves, and partly because we thought this was what young actors and actresses are interested in these days.

We are still very much at the early stages with this, and we hope to put the work into workshops with some students starting very very soon.

This song gives a slight hint of the fact there is this underlying farytale. It’s called I WISH I WISH and it came out of the fact that we were talking about this character needing to state his wish and what was interesting was that really he was a character that didn’t know what he wanted. And therefore we thought we would call the song, I WISH I WISH.

And as you will hear, he is not at all sure what it is he is wishing for…

We’re a very long way from Into The Woods, and its immediately a much more contempory sound to anything else that Stiles and Drewe have done.

The danger of lisenting to this demo played on a piano is that I Wish, I Wish is such a guitar song.

I have tried to put myself away from the piano for the whole score so hopefully the next time anyone hears it, it will sound a million miles away

The basic story of Soho is very very loosely Cinderella - But it is much more NOW than Cinderella.

It is set in an Internet Café in Soho which is run by two girls who are the equivalent of the Ugly Sisters.

The young guy who works there, Jason, is gay and he has a sort of ‘crush’ on a perspective parliamentarian who has just won the partie's nomination for a forthcoming by-election.

He himself in a ex-olympic swimmer turned politician.

His career as a sportsman has come to an end, but he is hugely famous.

He is very celebrated, he is very goodlooking and he has a fiancé.

Who was also at university with him studying politics before he became this championship swimmer. She is now his PA. It looks like it is going to be a marriage of convenience.

The equivalent of the ball is when this prospective parliamentarian throws a MEET YOUR MP evening at his house, where all the local business are invited to come and talk about their problems. Jason goes in one of those buggy rickshaws, which is the equivalent of the carriage, up to the house.

It is very loosely based on Cinderella, and in fact the last song in the show is called THEY DON’T MAKE GLASS SLIPPERS because we want to pull the blanket at the last minute and not necessarily go for a happy ending.

What’s fun about the political side of it is that I think we are both very aware of the fact that there is so much in public life that is still hypercritical. We really have got to face up to this and deal with the fact that do we want some sort of cardboard cut out up there looking after us or do we want real people?

The issue of the politician's ‘perhaps’ gayness, ‘perhaps’ bisexuality is not the issue. The issue is the fact that he feels he can't talk about it.

So here is a song called, IT’S HARD TO TELL which was born out of us doing our research, which I am afraid we do rather often, and we were sitting in a bar in Old Compton Street which is where the whole story takes place. We were just watching people parading down that street which seems to have largely become pedestrianised now. And just noticing that sometimes it is just very hard to tell

How far off is this show?

There is something for every song, and there is something for every scene in terms of the book, which as Anthony has said we are structuring together.

Ant's has written the actual diaglgue scenes. We now need to put all of that into workshop to see what there is in the story we have focused well on, and what areas we haven’t.

If we could do absolutely nothing else we could probably turn it out in about three months. We are now so lucky, because we have met so many amazing people along the way that the problem isn’t who to play it to, the problem is that ‘Is it any good?’.

This song is called LET HIM GO.

Velcro, who is the sort of Buttons character, is a girl and the best friend of Jason, she really has a crush on him. .

Velcro and Marylin, who is the fiancé of the MP, get together for the first time and both bemoan the fact that the perfect guy for them happens to not be interested in them