The Night of 1000 Voices (2003)
Celebrating the multi-award-winning productions of Trevor Nunn
Royal Albert Hall, London Sunday 4 May 2003, 4.00pm & 8.00pm
- Hosted by Glenn Close and Roger Moore CBE.
- Conducted by David Firman
- Directed by Hugh Wooldridge
Guest List in no particular order:
Philip Quast, Teri Bibb, Graham Bickley, Alan Campbell, Kelli James Chase, Leigh Constantine, Josefina Gabruelle, Tiffany Graves, Alexandra Jay, Alex Jennings, David Michael Johnson, Alex Jones, Lauren Kennedy, Tomy Koberg, Judi Kuhn, Annette McLaughlin, David Michael, Kenneth Nichols, Alexis Owen Hobbs, Rebecca Thornhill, Sally-Ann Triplett, Laurie Williamson
The following was taken from the publicity leaflet:
Since 1999, The Night of 1000 Voices has delighted four capacity audiences at the Royal Albert Hall. This years event will exclusively celebrate the multi-award-winning productions of Trevor Nunn which include 'Les Miserables', 'Chess', 'My Fair Lady', 'Porgy and Bess', 'Sunset Boulevard', 'Starlight Express', 'Nicolas Nickleby', 'Oklahoma', 'South Pacific' and many more.
Once again thrill to the sight and sound of some very special stars from London, New York and Europe, who together with the huge 'Sing Live' massed choir from around the British Isles, seventy five children from the Sylvia Young Theatre School and The City of London Philharmonic will perform in a musical night to remember.
Stars of London's West End and New York's Broadway and from the world of musical theatre will be performing songs from some of Trevor Nunn's best known shows including Philip Quast singing 'Stars' from Les Miserables; the original Broadway star of Trevor Nunn's production of Chess, Judy Kuhn, singing the song she premiered, 'Someone Else's Story'. Lauren Kennedy will sing 'I'm Jist a Girl Who Cain't Say No'. Kelli James will sing 'Memory'. The star of Broadway's Sunset Boulevard, Alan Campbell, will sing the title song. Sally Ann Triplett and her Angels from the Royal National Theatre production of Anything Goes will reprise 'Blow, Gabriel, Blow' accompanied by the 1000 Voices chorus. David Michael Johnson will return for his fourth concert and the star of Show Boat, Kenneth Nichols, will sing Porgy to Broadway’s Laurie Williamson's Bess; Alex Jennings, will sing 'I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face'. Aled Jones will sing with Teri Bibb; Leigh Constantine, Tiffany Graves, Alexis Owen Hobbs, Alexandra Jay, Annette McLaughlin and Rebecca Thornhill will present their version of 'Macavity'. Josefina Gabrielle, the star of Trevor Nunn's National Theatre, West End and Broadway productions of 'Oklamhoma!' and Graham Bickley, the star of 'Ragtime' and an ex member of 'Les Miserables' wil also perform, and Tommy Korberg, currently in Chess in Sweden, will specially fly to London to take part. Many surprises are also promised.
In 2003, The Night of 1000 Voices will again support The Alan Jay Lerner Fund for Cancer Research at The Royal Marsden Hospital and this year's main beneficiary will be the Variety Club Children's Charity.
'Love Changes Everything', 'Bali Hai', 'One Day More', 'Do You Hear the People Sing?','Summertime', 'It Ain't Necessarily So', 'Oh! What a Beautiful Morning' and 'Oklahoma!' are just some of the songs that will be performed. It will be a night full of surprises.
Order of Performance
Part One
PORGY AND BESS
- Overture to Porgy and Bess (Orchestra)
- Summertime (Laurie Williamson)
- Bess you is my Woman Now / Porgy you is my Man (Kenneth Nichols & Laurie Williamson)
- Oh! I Can’t Sit Down (Chorus)
- It Ain't Necessarily So (David Michael Johnson)
Roger Moore CBE
OKLAHOMA!
- Oh What a Beautiful Morning (Philip Quast)
- I Can’t Say No (Lauren Kennedy)
- People Will Say We’re in Love (Teri Bibb & Peter Prentice)
- Oklahoma! (Graham Bickley & Chorus)
Glenn Close
SOUTH PACIFIC
- Bali Hai (Orchestra & Chorus )
- There is Nothing Like a Dam (Company)
Don Black OBE
ASPECTS OF LOVE
- The Wine and the Dice (Kelli James & Chorus)
- Anything But Lonely (Laurie Wiliamson & Chorus)
STARLIGHT EXPRESS
- Only You / I am the Starlight (David Michael Johnson & Kenneth Nichols & Chorus)
CHESS
- Someone Else’s Story (J. Kuhn)
- End Game (Chorus)
- You and I (Lauren Kennedy & Alan Campbell)
- Anthem (Tommy Koeberg & Chorus)
Part Two
CATS
- Jellicle Ball (Orchestra)
- Macavity (E.J. Boyle, Leigh Constantine, Tiffany Graves, Sarah Keeton, Annette McLaughlin, Rebecca Thornhill)
- Memory (Kelli James & Lydia Griffiths)
Roger Moore CBE
ANYTHING GOES
- Overture (Orchestra)
- Blow Gabriel Blow (Sally Ann Triplett & Chorus)
SUNSET BOULEVARD
- Sunset Boulevard Entr’acte (Orchestra)
- Sunsert Boulevard (Alan Campbell)
- With One Look (Glenn Close)
THE BAKER’S WIFE
- Meadow Lark (Judy Kuhn)
NICHOLAS NICKLEBY
- Patriotic Song (Peter Prentice & Chorus)
Glenn Close
MY FAIR LADY
- I Could Have Danced All Night (Teri Bibb)
- I’ve Gone Accustomed to Her Face (Alex Jennings)
Herbert Kretzmer
LES MIS
- Building the Barricade (Orchestra)
- Stars (Philip Quast)
- Bring Him Home (Tommy Koeberg)
- Do You Hear the People Sing (P. Cole & Chorus)
- Castle on a Cloud (Ellie Nunn)
- One Day More! (Valjean: Tommy Koeberg, Javert: Philip Quast, Marius: Graham. Bickley, Cosette: Judy Kuhn, – Epoinine: Lydia Griffiths – Enjolras: Peter Prentice, MmeThenardier: Lauren Kennedy & M Thenardier: Alan Campbell)
THE SEVEN AGES OF NUNN
- “Brush up your Shakespeare ‘revisited'" (Simon Day, Henry Goodman, Barrie Ingham, Teddy Kempner, Clive Rowe & Roger Moore)
STARLIGHT EXPRESS
- There’s Light at the End of the Tunnel (Kenneth Nichols , David Michael Johnson & Company)
ASPECTS OF LOVE
- Love Changes Everything (The Company)
Pictures of Philip from Concert.
The Night of 1000 Voices
Review by Mark Shenton, The Stage, 15 May 2003
Hugh Wooldridge's annual gala charity tribute shows - this year benefiting the Variety Club Children's Charity and the Alan Jay Lerner Fund for Cancer Research and honouring director Trevor Nunn - are truly spectacular affairs.
With an orchestra of 40 and an onstage choir that is more than ten times that size, plus soloists who have graced Nunn's musical productions from both sides of the Atlantic, it offers a capsule career retrospective of 13 of the shows he has directed.
Sir Trevor is not a director known for his humility but even he might have been humbled by the event's massive scale and sense of occasion. And he is sure to have been touched by the appearance of one Ellie Nunn, singing Cosette's Castle on a Cloud from Les Miserables with the kind of crystalline youthful soprano that suggests she may yet be going into the family business.
The show had other surprises, too, starting with Roger Moore gamely co-hosting proceedings with Glenn Close - he was to have starred in Nunn's production of Aspects of Love but withdrew during rehearsals when it was belatedly discovered that he could not actually sing, while Close stole the show with her rendition of Sunset Boulevard's With One Look that she originated on Broadway.
Also on-hand was Joe Gillis, Alan Campbell, and the glorious original star of the ill-fated Broadway Chess, Judy Kuhn, who captivated with a new song specially written for that production, Someone Else's Story. Amid the American vistors, British performances were perhaps under-represented but Sally Ann Triplett - from Nunn's most recent musical, Anything Goes - scintillated in Blow Gabriel Blow.
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