The album was mixed and mastered between September 14 – November 11 in Kent and released by SimG Records on December 19, 2016.

[1] In the Adelphi cast were Darren Day, Jessica Martin, Michael Xavier, Ilan Galkoff, Alastair Barron, Jacob Chapman, James Dangerfield, Emma Harold, Katie Kerr, Jessie May, Teddy Moynihan, Cathy Read and Dickie Wood.

In 2015 the LOST Theatre in Stockwell requested the rights to present the show in 5 week run, but LOST pulled out of the production due to a lack of funds, meanwhile with orchestrations already commissioned and other aspects of the production already underway, Sherman pulled together some of the creative team who did the previous year's well received Love Birds and transformed the production into a one night charity benefit for Variety Club.

The workshop cast included: Paul Baker (as "Melbourne"), David Adler (as "Fats"), Rosemary Ashe (as "Bethesda"/"Widow MacGregor"), John Barr (as "Socrates"), Gary Jerry (as "Charmer"), Jeremy Secomb (as "Hookbeard"), Darren Street (as "Thomas Farynor"), James Yeoburn (as "Mordekai"), Ziggie Sky Ward (as "Hortense"), Harry Stone (as "Rufus"), Sebastian Croft (as "Perry"), Daniel Dowling (as "Perry" [understudy]), Frances Encell (as "Thamesa"), and Lydia Grant, Bianca Harris, Stephen Matthews, Sarah Moyle and Sophie Poulton (playing ensemble roles).

[3] In the autumn of 2015, following well received previews of Love Birds at the LOST Theatre and excellent reviews that followed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for Love Birds' official run, Robert Sherman was approached by the LOST Theatre in Stockwell for permission to do a four-week, extendable run of Bumblescratch with the associate creative director of LOST, Jack Bowman directing.

After several months of preparation Sherman and Bowman were informed that LOST had to withdraw its offer for lack of funding.

With orchestrations and other aspects of the show already commissioned, Sherman decided to proceed with a one-night celebrity gala performance in aid of Variety.

Nicholls' long-time associate Rowland Lee was brought on to orchestrate the ten-piece band.

Sherman, Nicholls and Lee met regularly from March to August to work on the orchestrations.

Despised for this, Melbourne spends a great deal of his time dodging those whom he has wronged; including his long suffering fiancée, Bethesda; and Socrates who is the King of the Pack Rats.

Contrasting Bethesda's tirade, Melbourne expresses his own, more laid back approach to life (and connubial fidelity) in (At Least A Rat ‘As Got An Excuse).

Meanwhile, Socrates' oafish henchmen, Fats and Charmer, have caught up to Melbourne, following him and Perry into the Cock Lane Rat Pub only to lose the duo once again.

The justifiably skeptical ghost takes pity on Melbourne, promising to protect him should his location be discovered by the Socrates (Hookbeard's Rebuke).

Waking from his hallucination, mid-chase, Melbourne realizes that he and Perry are fleeing from Socrates and his minions at that very minute!

(Storyteller) It turns out that because they live underground, the Underdweller rats love to hear stories about "the above world".

Egged on by Perry, Melbourne tells them the most gruesome tale he knows: The saga of (The Widow MacGregor) - a destitute woman of ill-repute whose dead carcass was devoured by a single, mysterious rat over a long, cold winter.

Just as him makes his declaration, he is confronted by a number of former lovers including Bethesda (Melbourne Bumblescratch - Reprise) whose complaints show the love rat in a very different light.

Finding Perry near death, Melbourne vows to protect Thamesa from “the wickedness of the world” (Dual Epiphany).

Heartbroken, Melbourne tucks the diamond he'd stolen from Socrates into Perry's lifeless palm vowing to live a more noble life in honor him (My Place In the Sun).

Melbourne's storytelling prowess proves useful in gaining followers (All Fallen Angels) and Bethesda is brushed to the side.

Without Hookbeard or Perry, Melbourne acknowledges that he can't live in the past or dream about the future, but must focus on "the now" (The Present Tense).

He takes the bait and eats the tainted cheese and is shortly thereafter overwhelmed by a guilt spawned hallucination (Bumblescratch Nightmare).

His worst fears manifest, Melbourne must now face the Widow MacGregor's ghoulish spirit and admit culpability for his crimes against her.

Rather, he wants Melbourne to use his great thieving talents in order to execute a heist on his behalf – to steal the crown jewel from King Charles II.

True to form, Melbourne successfully steals Charles’ jewel from the Tower of London, escaping unscathed, only to discover that all the city is ablaze due to a fire he had inadvertently started.

Tragically, Socrates catches fire and, refusing Melbourne's help, burns to death (Blackness Fills the Night).

Lovingly he gives Bethesda the jewel he'd stolen from King Charles and lied about to Socrates, as the twosome continue their easterly adventure, sailing bravely into the rising sun of morning (Plague Rat/Epilogue).

The CD was originally scheduled for release by SimG Records in late October 2016, with pre-orders available from September 3.

On March 20, 2018 on the popular American quiz show, Jeopardy!, the host Alex Trebek supplied the statement: "Bumblescratch, set in 1665-1666 London starts with a plague and ends with this other disaster."