WEST End star and Casualty actor Lee Mead brings his new tour Some Enchanted Evening to Lighthouse, Poole’s Centre for the Arts on Wednesday March 23.
His new album of the same name was released last month, and both album and tour sees Lee turn back the musical clock to the golden age of Hollywood, celebrating some of the classic songs that that have become a part of our musical heritage.
Lee is accompanied on stage by his band with new arrangements from MD Mason Neely.
Amanda Henderson who plays Robyn Miller in Casualty will be a special guest on the tour. Amanda has appeared in the filmed version of Les Miserables and Oliver! in London’s West End.
Featured on the album and tour are Some Enchanted Evening from the 1949 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical South Pacific; Singin’ In The Rain, from the 1952 MGM musical comedy starring Gene Kelly; Luck Be A Lady from Guys n Dolls; Where Or When from the 1939 MGM film Babes in Arms; the Jules Steyn/Sammy Cahn song I Fall In Love Too Easily from the movie Anchors Aweigh, and I’ll See You In My Dreams from the eponymously titled 1951 film; Almost Like Being in Love from Brigadoon; the Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II All The Things You Are; George and Ira Gershwin’s A Foggy Day ( In London Town); the 1937 jazz standard By Myself and Feeling Good written by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse.
Lee shot to fame in 2007 when he won TV’s Any Dream Will Do and was cast in the lead role of the 2007 revival of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. After 600 performances, Lee went to New York where he studied acting at the Lee Strasburg Institute before heading back to London’s West End for starring roles in Wicked and Legally Blonde. Lee has also appeared in West End Men which played at London’s Vaudeville Theatre and toured around the UK and overseas.
Lee made his debut in BBC One’s Casualty in March 2014 playing the popular character Lofty Chiltern and was shortlisted in the 2015 National Television Awards as Favourite Newcomer. Lee will take a break from Casualty in 2016 to perform his live shows and take on the role of Caracactus Potts in the touring production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang from May through September 2016 followed by more live dates in the Autumn
Tickets & information 01202 280000
www.lighthousepoole.co.uk
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