Kerry Ellis to lead one night only musical concert RIDDLES & ROMANCE

Kerry Ellis will lead the cast of a new one night only musical concert at Underbelly Boulevard on 30 September, it has been announced. Ellis will star in this new concert of works by composer Clive Richard Davis, with all proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to Parkinson's UK.

After a triumphant debut with At Last, It’s Summer at The London Palladium last year, Davis returns with his new concert Riddles & Romance showcasing brand new compositions. Reflecting Clive’s passion for melody and lyricism, Riddles & Romance will provide an exclusive first look at Davis’ new project, The Three Riddles, along with a selection of standalone songs that evoke the timeless quality of the English Song Book. Additionally, the concert will feature highlights from At Last, It’s Summer, his previous musical comedy set in July 1920 on a picturesque English country estate.

Further casting includes Rob Houchen (Les Misérables) and Carl Alan Award nominated dancer and choreographer Jack Pallister. Joining the cast after starring in the West End premiere of At Last, It’s Summer is actor and singer Shannon Rewcroft, who will perform alongside Henryk Firth (Mamma Mia, UK tour), and Wendy Carr, a founding member of London's leading classical-crossover girl group, Ida.

Composer Clive Richard Davis said: “It is a genuine privilege and a joy to have present day musical royalty like Kerry and Rob deliver my work. Everybody needs a hobby and mine is composing music that could have been written in the heyday of musical theatre, inspired by Gershwin, Porter and Berlin, to name but three of many. Ideas for a melody or harmonic progression pop into my head when I should be practicing Chopin or Schumann and probably because I am not good enough to play either properly. It is like a child let loose in the sweetshop and long may it continue.”

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