Concert Hall, Lighthouse, Poole
Friday 30 October
7.30pm
Tickets £24
Tickets & information 0844 406 8666 www.lighthousepoole.co.uk
Starring Gareth Gates and producer-director Michael Courtney, the tenth anniversary tour of Mad About the Musicals arrives at Lighthouse, Poole’s centre for the arts on 30 October.
From the poignant All I Ask of You to the dramatic One Day More the show takes a whistle stop tour from the heart of London’s theatre land to the glitz of Broadway as it celebrates the very best songs from the shows with a host of favourite numbers from Rodgers & Hammerstein, Kander & Ebb, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Boublil & Schönberg.
The talented cast of singers and dancers evoke the true spirit of the stage with brilliant vocals, incredible dancing, stunning costumes and top West End musicians to deliver the very best show in town.
Famously, having been runner up to Will Young in the first Pop Idol in 2002, Gareth Gates went on to build a successful pop career, selling more than 3.5 million records and notching up four UK number one singles. Following a vocal injury a year ago, this summer Gareth has been strengthening his vocal chords and undergoing physio treatment in readiness to resume his career in musical theatre that has already seen him in leading roles in Les Miserables, Legally Blonde, Loserville and the concert version of Boogie Nights the Musical.
Michael Courtney has appeared in numerous musicals in the West End and on tour, including playing Joseph in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Rolf in The Sound of Music, Action in West Side Story and Edmund in King Lear at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
