Shayne Ward wins 'Best West End Debut'

Over the last 6 weeks you have been voting in your thousands for your favourite 'West End Debut' and have crowned Shayne Ward as your winner! Shayne won with an impressive 45% of the vote. Kimberley Walsh and Adam Pettigrew are runners up with 30% and 15% of the final vote respectively.

Katy Treharne is named 'West End Frame's Understudy Of The Year 2012'

Over the last 3 weeks you have been voting in your thousands and have crowned Katy Treharne 'West End Frame's Understudy Of The Year 2012'. Katy, who is from Wales, has been understudying the role  of Christine Daaé in Phantom Of The Opera for some time now at Her Majesty's Theatre and is now the alternate for the role, performing regularly. She has proven hugely popular with fans of the show and we have received numerous  glowing comments about her portrayal of Christine. Katy received 27% of the final vote.

Also, massive congratulations the runners up - Jenny Gayner, Lauren Varnham, Samuel Edwards, Jamie Muscato, Emma Housley, Aaron Lee Lambert, Scott Garnham, Scott Monello and Alice Fearn who are all also incredibly popular and are beyond talented. All the nominees give breath taking performances when given the opportunity. It has been amazing to see the people who hold the West End together get some recognition. Understudies are truly wonderful and when going to a show we should be excited when we hear they are on! 

'West End Frame's Understudy Of The Year 2013' will be back in May 2013 with an extended voting period so keep you're eyes pealed! Also we are launching out new poll on Friday 8th June 2012 for 'Best West End Debut 2012'. The nominees have not yet been finalised so we would love to hear any suggestions you may have. You can contact us via our Twitter (@West_End_Frame) and Facebook Pages. Alternately you can email us at WestEndFrame@Hotmail.co.uk 

Thank you to everyone who has voted and supported the poll! We value your support so much and we hope you continue to support West End Frame in the future. Now that we have some time back we look forward to writing more articles and reviews for the blog. Coming soon we have reviews of Travelling Light at The National Theatre and Louise Dearman's new album. We are also going to look into what is going on with the Coronation Street: Street Of Dreams tour which seems to be turning into a nightmare!

We thought we would leave you with some of the lovely comments people have posted over the last few weeks about our amazing understudies.

"Katy Treharne is out of this world. If you've heard her sing you'll know, she blows you away with her performances. Best Christine ever." 

"Jenny Gayner plays Roxie with passion ,what an outstanding performance raising the audience from their seats with a standing ovation. Well deserved"

"Seen We will Rock You many many times Lauren Varnham played Scaramouche with real attitude and passion, not sure why an understudy out shines and out performs time and time again."

"Samuel Edwards is such a fantastic understudy and his singing, acting and amazing body do NOT leave you disapointed... So amazing"

"Awaiting Katy Treharne's headlining..."

Click here to read some more of the comments that stood out for us about the nominees.

Click here to find out more about who came 1st - 5th place

Click here to find out more about who came 6th - 12th place 

Click here to find out more about who came 13th - 20th place 

Poll Result: Best Performance Of A Song In A Musical - Top 3!

Below are the top 3 winners from our 'Best Performance Of A Song In A Musical' poll...

3rd Place 

Oliver Tompsett 

I Wanna Rock

Rock Of Ages

Votes - 14%

2nd Place 

Lauren Samuels 

Somebody To Love

We Will Rock You

Votes - 16%

1st Place 

Rachel Tucker 

Defying Gravity

Wicked

Votes - 45%

Poll Result: Rachel Tucker wins 'Best Performance Of A Song In A Musical' for her performance of 'Defying Gravity'

Hundreds of you have voted and decided that Rachel Tucker is the winner of our 'Best Performance Of A Song In A Musical' poll. She won for her performance of the incredible song 'Defying Gravity' in long running West End Show Wicked!!

Below is a countdown of the result:

8th Place 

Joanna Monro 

Take A Chance On Me

Mamma Mia

Votes - 1%

7th Place 

Sharon D Clarke

Believer

Ghost The Musical 

Votes - 2%

6th Place 

Carley Stenson

So Much Better

Legally Blonde The Musical 

Votes - 4%

5th Place 

Dean Chisnall

Who I'd Be

Shrek The Musical 

Votes - 9%

4th Place 

Caroline Sheen

I Dreamed A Dream

Les Misérables

 Votes -10%

click here to find out who the top 3 are...

Poll Result: 'Rock Of Ages Best Rock Musical In Town' says West End Frame Blog Readers!

Nearly 300 people have voted and decided that Rock Of Ages is the best Rock Musical in town!!

A massive comgratualtions to you and a massive thank you to everyone who voted! I did not expect a responce like that! I will try and do more polls in the future as they seem to be popular! Also thank you to everyone who commented on the blog post as even though you were expressing your opinions there was no rudeness and everyone was respectful of both shows which is exactly the kind on community i want to be a part of as the reason i don't often visit fourm's is because of the rudeness!

Also a massive thankyou to Sandy Moffat, Oliver Tompsett and the Rock Of Ages London Twitter page for promoting the poll online! I don't know how you found it but it's great that you did!

You can now follow the blog on twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/westendframe @WestEndFrame.

Love you guys! Rock Of Ages review and more polls on the way soon!