A 'star-studded musical extravaganza' paying tribute to the theatre producer Cameron Mackintosh and featuring songs from some of the hit musicals he has produced over the last 30 years both in the West End and on Broadway. This Gala Charity Concert was held in aid of The Royal Institute for the Blind and The Combined Theatrical Charities. The Royal Gala on Monday 8 June 1998 was held in the presence of Her Majesty The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh.
ACT ONE |
Salad Days (Julian Slade) |
We Said We Wouldn't Look Back | Orchestra |
Cats (Andrew Lloyd Webber) |
Overture | Orchestra |
Olivier (Lionel Bart) |
Food Glorious Food | WORKHOUSE CHILDREN |
My Fair Lady (Frederick Loewe/ Alan Jay Lerner) |
Wouldn't it be Loverly | LIZ ROBERTSON GILLIAN LYNNE COMPANY |
Quit Professor Higgins | COMPANY |
The Rain in Spain | JONATHAN PRYCE LIZ ROBERTSON DONALD SINDEN |
Get Me to the Church on Time | PETER BAYLISS COMPANY |
I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face | JONATHAN PRYCE LIZ ROBERTSON |
First Introduction by JULIE ANDREWS |
Show Medley |
The Fix (Dana P Rowe/ John Dempsey) |
One Two Three | JOHN BARROWMAN |
Little Shop of Horrors (Alan Menken/ Howard Ashman) |
Little Shop of Horrors | WENDY MAE BROWN DAWN HOPE FEMI TAYLOR |
Somewhere That's Green | ELLEN GREENE |
Suddenly Seymour | ELLEN GREEN TEDDY KEMPNER |
Godspell (Stephen Schwartz) |
Day by Day | COMPANY |
Anything Goes (Cole Porter) |
I Get a Kick Out of You | MARION MONTGOMERY LAURIE HOLLOWAY |
Song and Dance (Andrew Lloyd Webber/ Don Black/ Richard Maltby, Jr.) |
Variations | JULIAN LLOYD WEBBER (PAUL WATKINS on Sunday) |
Unexpected Song | BERNADETTE PETERS |
The Boy Friend (Sandy Wilson) |
Nicer in Nice | JASNA IVIR COMPANY |
Lauder (Harry Lauder) |
I Love a Lassie | JIMMY LOGAN SCOTTISH POWER PIPE BAND |
Five Guy's Named Moe (Louis Jordan) |
Five Guy's Named Moe Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby? | KEVYN BRACKETT TRENT KENDALL MONROE KENT III JASON PENNYCOOKE CLARKE PETERS RICHARD D SHARP
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Olivier (Lionel Bart) |
Consider Yourself | JAMES MALCOLM ADAM SEARLES OLIVER! GANGCOMPANY |
Pick a Pocket | RUSS ABBOT OLIVER! GANG |
As Long as He Needs Me | SONIA SWABY |
Second Introduction by JULIE ANDREWS |
Martin Guerre (Claude-Michel Schonberg/ Alain Boublil/ Stephen Clark) |
I'm Martin Guerre | DAVID CAMPBELL |
Now Many Tears | MARIA FRIEDMAN |
Miss Saigon (Claude-Michel Schonberg/ Alain Boublil/ Richard Maltby Jnr.) |
Overture | Orchestra |
The Heat is On in Saigon | DAVID CAMPBELL LEA SALONGA COMPANY |
The Wedding | FEMALE COMPANY |
Last Night of the World | DAVID CAMPBELL LEA SALONGA |
This is the Hour | COMPANY |
American Dream | JONATHAN PRYCE COMPANY |
The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber/ Charles Hart/ Richard Stilgoe) |
The Phantom of the Opera | LISA VROMAN COLM WILKINSON |
Music of the Night | COLM WILKINSON |
All I Ask of You | MICHAEL BALL LISA VROMAN COLM WILKINSON |
ACT TWO |
Follies (Stephen Sondheim) |
Broadway Baby | MARIA FRIEDMAN JULIA McKENZIE BERNADETTE PETERS THE BROADWAY BABIES |
Rodgers and Hammerstein |
Oklahoma! (Richard Rodgers/ Oscar Hammerstein II) |
Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' | HUGH JACKMAN |
Carousel (Richard Rodgers/ lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II)
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Carousel Waltz/Ballet | VADIM BONDAR DANA STACKPOLE COMPANY |
Porch Scene | HAL FOWLER JOANNA RIDING DANA STACKPOLE BARBARA KING |
You'll Never Walk Alone | JOANNA RIDING COMPANY |
Sondheim |
Company (Stephen Sondheim) |
Side By Side | DAVID KERNAN MILLICENT MARTIN JULIA McKENZIE NED SHERRIN |
You Could Drive a Person Crazy | MARIA FRIEDMAN RUTHIE HENSHALL MILLICENT MARTIN LEA SALONGA |
A Little Night Music (Stephen Sondheim) |
Send in the Clowns | JUDI DENCH |
Follies (Stephen Sondheim) |
Losing My Mind | MICHAEL BALL |
Company (Stephen Sondheim) |
Being Alive | BERNADETTE PETERS |
Gypsy (Jule Styne/ Stephen Sondheim) |
You've Gotta Have a Gimmick | RUTHIE HENSHALL JULIA McKENZIE BERNADETTE PETERS |
Third Introduction by STEPHEN SONDHEIM |
Duelling Pianos (spoof) |
A Little Night Music / The Music of The Night (spoofed) | STEPHEN SONDHEIM ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER |
Tom Foolery (Tom Lehrer) |
Poisoning Pigeons in the Park The Bomb (updated) | TOM LEHRER |
Cats (Andrew Lloyd Webber/ T.S. Eliot) |
Overture | COMPANY |
Jellicle Songs | BRIAN BLESSED PAUL NICHOLAS COMPANY |
Memory | ELAINE PAIGE |
Les Miserables (Alain Boublil/ Claude-Michel Schonberg/ Herbert Kretzmer/ Jean-Marc Natel) |
At The End of The Day | COMPANY |
I Dreamed a Dream | RUTHIE HENSHALL |
Stars | PHILIP QUAST |
Do You Hear The People Sing? | HAL FOWLER COMPANY |
On My Own | LEA SOLONGA |
Heart Full of Love | MICHAEL BALL MARIE ZAMORA |
Bring Him Home | COLM WILKINSON |
One Day Day More | MICHAEL BALL HAL FOWLER RUTHIE HENSHALL TAMMI JACOBS TEDDY KEMPNER PHILIP QUAST LEA SOLONGA COLM WILKINSON MARIE ZAMORA COMPANY |
Finale (Stephen Sondheim) |
Old Friends | COMPANY |
Featured Artists Also Included | LYNDA BELINGHAM CHRISTOPHER BIGGINS NINA CAIE HELEN CHAPELLE MARIA CHARLES NORMA DUNBAR PETER DURKIN ANN EMERY KATHRYN EVANS TRICIA GEORGE JOSEPHINE GORDON JACK GUNN THELMA HOLT ANITE JOANNOU DEIDRE LAIRD JILLIE MACK JESSICA MARTIN JILL MARTIN CHRIS MOLLOY SU POLLARD ELIZABETH POWER BARBARA RHODES JULIA SUTTON PAULA WILCOX
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In addition there where 58 Company members and 84 Children credited |
Originally due to be staged for one night only, an extra performances, for Saturday 7 June, was announced a month prior to the concert taking place.