West End Fest at St. Paul's Church

[rockyhorrorfan]

I mentioned this in a post I started to try and find something to see on the evening of Sunday 19th August but thought I'd give it an official post in case no one read my other post.

So West End Fest takes place next Sunday at St Paul's Church and features Chloe Hart, Victoria Hamilton-Barritt, Amy Lennox, Mig Ayesa, Liam Doyle, Simon Adkins, Rebecca Trehearn, Andrew Derbyshire, Lucy May Barker, Lauren Varnham, Lucinda Shaw, Paul Read Ayres, Sabrina Alouche and lots more.

The show starts at 7 p.m.

[rjm516]

Can anyone give a description of what this event is like?

[rockyhorrorfan]

Hopefully this'll help.

On Sunday 19th August, singer-songwriters Parnell West End FestPage along with West End star Sabrina Aloueche (best known as Scaramouche in We Will Rock You) will host the first ever West End Fest.

Parnell Page played at the LoveCreate Festival in Weston Super-Mare in July this year and wanted to do everything they could to help:

LoveCreate, which raises vital funds by holding creative events featuring, music, arts and crafts, has been created in memory of graphic designer and teacher Hayley Dowdell, who died aged 27 from Cystic Fibrosis in November 201. The organisation focuses on donating to both The Cystic Fibrosis Trust and to the Respiratory Ward at the Bristol Royal Infirmary to buy lifesaving equipment in Hayley’s name.

Richard from Parnell Page said: “We didn’t know much about Cystic Fibrosis before we played at the LoveCreate Festival last year, but we were totally blown away by the fact that this group of people who had lost their friend to CF had come together and in just over six months created an amazing event to raise money to help others. We loved playing the festival and wanted to continue helping LoveCreate. We are thrilled to be able to produce a London event that will showcase the best of the West End for an extremely good cause.”

Laura Brooks from LoveCreate said:
“As a close friend of Hayley’s, I cannot say enough about how grateful we are to Richard and Jack from Parnell Page for hosting this event to help raise money for LoveCreate. To date, we have raised over £12,000 in just over six months to help those affected by Cystic Fibrosis, and thanks to West End Fest we hope to add even more to this total, which will go towards buying lifesaving hospital equipment.”

West End Fest will bring together talent from a wide number of shows including performers from Rent, Wicked, Les Miserables, We Will Rock You, Hair, Mamma Mia, After the Turn, Billy Elliot, Jersey Boys, Rock of Ages, Dreamboats and Petticoats, Thriller Live, Ghost and Shrek the Musical. The event will also feature acts from ITV’s ‘Superstar’ and BBC1’s ‘The Voice’ and ‘Over the Rainbow’.

West End Fest will commence at 7:00pm with a festival ambiance about it! Continuous running commentary from wonderful hosts James Bennett (Dance Captain in WWRY) and Chris Cox who is a stand up comedian/magician who just finished playing Latitude Festival; he has also played V festival, Edinburgh Festival and Glastonbury to name but a few.

There are many medleys from shows such as Rent, JCS and The In-Between (a new musical written by Laura Tisdall) and duets and group numbers with an array of West End talent, along with some pretty staggering solos, including ‘Gethsemane’ from a Superstar finalist! There are also new bands playing; so there is a complete mix of entertainment.
There’s no running theme, no rules, there will be entertainment for the audience with mind reading and card tricks from Chris Cox, to hitting them with a rock duet between Sabrina Aloueche and Mig Ayesa..!

Performers include; Victoria Hamilton-Barritt, Amy Diamond, David Ribi, Simon Adkins, Victoria Allen- Martin, Rebecca Trehearn, Lucinda Shaw, Dirk Johnston, Katie Paine, Parnell Page, Mig Ayesa, Erin Cornell, Chloe Hart, Ryan Dawson, Claire Marie-Hall, Andrew Derbyshire, Lucy Sinclair, Amy Lennox, Paul Read-Ayres, Lucy May Barker.

Duration: Approximately 3 hours

Scheduled songs include;

Let Me Be Your Star- SMASH
The I Love You Song- Spelling Bee.
Who wants to Live Forever/ The Show Must Go on – WWRY
On my own – Les Mis
I’d give my life for you – Miss Saigon
Defying Gravity – Wicked
Maybe this Time – Cabaret
Part of this world – Little Mermaid
Ordinary People by John Legend
Love Never Dies – Title song from the show
Rent, Take me Or Leave Me, One Song-Glory, Light My Candle, 525600 minutes – RENT

Where: ‘The Actors’ Church’, St Paul’s Church, Covent Garden WC2E 9ED
Time: 19.00 – 22.00 Admission: £20
Date: Sunday 19th August 2012

[rjm516]

Thanks! So profits from WEF will also go to CF? That would absolutely push me towards going.

Omg I'm so happy that they'll be doing 'Let me be your star' -- I've been singing that pretty much for 10 months straight in the shower.