Sydnie Christmas and Madalena Alberto complete star line-up for TO MAURY, WITH LOVE
Britain’s Got Talent winner Sydnie Christmas and Madalena Alberto (Evita, Les Misérables) will complete the star line-up of To Maury, With Love, a concert celebrating multi-Tony Award winning composer Maury Yeston’s 80th birthday at Theatre Royal Drury Lane on 22 February.
Sydnie and Madalena will join the previously announced Ramin Karimloo, Graham Bickley, Rob Houchen and Kelly Mathieson in a concert of Yeston’s most well known and loved music, directed by Thom Southerland and produced by Danielle Tarento.
Tarento and Southerland have collaborated previously on several of Yeston’s shows in the UK, including the London premieres of Titanic the Musical and Death Takes a Holiday and a critically acclaimed revival of Grand Hotel.
These musicals will be represented in the concert, along with music from Nine, Phantom (Maury’s 1991 version of The Phantom of the Opera has received over 1,000 productions globally) and many others, including never-before heard songs and an overture written especially for the occasion.
The concert will feature a 30-piece London Musical Theatre Orchestra and a 30-strong choir of this year’s graduating MA Musical Theatre students from the Royal Academy of Music, under the baton of Mark Aspinall.
Danielle Tarento said: “My working relationship and friendship with Maury is one of the great joys of my life. His musicals resonate so deeply with me and have framed so much of the past 15 years of my career. To be able to celebrate his 80th birthday in such a significant way is a privilege and an honour.”
The concert is raising funds for Bowel Cancer UK.
