Louise Dearman and Jon Robyns have joined the cast of The Great British Musicals - In Concert at the St. James Theatre. The show celebrates the very best of British musicals over the decades.
Louise Dearman, who recently starred in Water Babies at the Leicester Curve Theatre, is the first and only actress in the world to have played both Glinda and Elphaba in Wicked. Her theatre credits also include: Eva Peron in Evita (national tour), Grizabella in Cats (Cyprus), Sarah Brown in Guys and Dolls (national tour), Lucy Harris in Jekyll and Hyde (national tour), The Narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (national tour) and Jan in Grease (national tour/Victoria Palace).
Jon Robyns starred as Rod/Princeton in the original West End cast of Avenue Q and was in the original cast of Sondheim’s Road Show. His other West End credits include Spamalot, Les Misérables and Dickens Abridged. It was recently revealed that Robyns will feature in the original West End cast of Memphis.
Featuring the very best of British musicals, including works by Gilbert and Sullivan, Lionel Monckton, Vivien Ellis, Noel Coward, Ivor Novello, Lionel Bart, Leslie Bricusse and Andrew Lloyd Webber, The Great British Musicals - in Concert will play three performance on Friday 4 July and Saturday 5 July.
The show will be narrated by BBC Radio 4 Just A Minute host, Nicholas Parsons (Friday and Saturday evening) and stage and screen legend Simon Callow (Saturday matinee). The evening will feature The Novello Singers - a newly established eight-voice musical theatre ensemble.
The Novello Singers include West End performers Rhidian Marc (Les Misérables), Annatt Bass (The Phantom of the Opera) Leigh Rhiannon Coggins, (Pirates of Penzance), James Charlton (The Light Princess), Matthew Crowe (South Pacific), Jonathan Broad (West End Men), Lydia Jenkins (Iolanthe) Victoria Humphreys (The Bakewell Bakeoff), Mira Ormala (Love Never Dies) and Ben Irish (HMS Pinafore).
The Great British Musicals - in Concert also features a special First World War centenary tribute to Ivor Novello’s 1914 composition Keep the Home Fires Burning.
The creative team includes Ross Leadbeater (Artistic Director), Philip Joel (Movement Direction), Jon Winn (Lighting Design) and Jon Dawkins (Graphic Design).
No comments:
Post a Comment