WICKED Star KERRY ELLIS Adds More London Concert Dates

Wicked star Kerry Ellis has added an extra date to her London concert series, Kerry Ellis Celebrates The Great British Songbook, due to phenomenal public demand.

The extra date is on Thursday June 25 at 8.00pm. The previously announced dates are Saturday 20 June and Sunday 21 June.

Kerry, one of the West End's biggest musical theatre stars, finally hangs up her witch's broomstick as Elphaba in Wicked - after playing the role in both London and on Broadway - on 9 May.

Kerry Ellis Celebrates The Great British Songbook is a complete contrast to that role and will feature stunning new arrangements of well known and some more novel works by many of our leading composers and lyricists, including Noel Coward, Lionel Bart, Anthony Newley, John Barry, Don Black, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice, Kate Bush and Queen.

Kerry Ellis created the role of Meat in the original London cast of the Queen/Ben Elton musical We Will Rock You at the Dominion Theatre and took part in the Queen's Golden Jubilee Concert at Buckingham Palace. She played Svetlana in Chess In Concert at the Royal Albert Hall opposite Josh Groban, Adam Pascal and Marti Pellow; Fantine in Les Misérables at the Queen's Theatre; Ellen in the national tour of Miss Saigon and appeared in Trevor Nunn's production of My Fair Lady at The National Theatre and Drury Lane, playing Eliza Dolittle opposite Jonathan Pryce on many occasions. Earlier this year she released her debut CD recording Wicked In Rock, produced by Brian May.

Most recently, Kerry sang Defying Gravity on the 2008 Royal Variety Performance with Brian May and Rufus Taylor. Kerry has just returned to the role of Elphaba in the London production of Wicked, having played the role for the past six months at the Gershwin Theatre on Broadway.

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