03/10/2023
We're counting down the days and making final preparations for the WEST END AND BROADWAY SONGBOOK at The Regent Christchurch this coming Sunday!!
We've still got a few star names to announce, and this morning, it's the turn of SONGBOOK favourite returning once again to wow audiences with his gorgeous vocals - the incredible NIGEL RICHARDS!
Nigel has made a name for himself in theatre not just in the West End but around the world and has had a wide and varied career, particularly being involved in the development of new musical theatre writing (something Nigel is passionate about) and also teaching and engaging the next generation of musical theatre performers through his masterclasses and lectures.
Don't miss your chance to hear Nigel along with the rest of our lineup of stars this Sunday - ONE NIGHT ONLY, as they say. The show starts at 7.30pm, and you can get your tickets HERE - https://www.regentcentre.co.uk/event/80916
NIGEL RICHARDS
Nigel has had 30 years of experience working in the West End, including playing the Phantom in Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty’s Theatre.
He lectures worldwide in Musical Theatre and, since working with Leonard Bernstein in 1986 on the British stage premiere of Bernstein’s Mass at the Barbican, has worked closely with new writers as both performer and dramaturg, working at the National Theatre on three occasions as an advisor on new writing.
Nigel is an established leading man in Musical Theatre, having also played Enjolras and Grantaire in Les Miserables, Eddy in Blood Brothers, Quasimodo in Norte Dame de Paris and originated lead roles in the British premieres of Spend!Spend!Spend! Martin Guerre, Napoleon, Floyd Collins, Baby, Hello Again, and Songs For a New World.
His eclectic career spans touring the world with Tom Waits in The Black Rider and soloist with Cirque de Soleil, to playing Figaro in Vienna, and the lead in Songs from a Hotel Bedroom at The Royal Opera House, and Kurt Weill’s Silverlake at Wexford Opera. He has been a soloist for the John Wilson Proms at the Royal Albert Hall four times.
His passion for nurturing new writing culminated in his award-winning 2009 album of new musical theatre songs, A Shining Truth, which was reviewed in the Independent as ‘not so much an album as a manifesto, a love letter to new writing’.
Nigel was most recently seen playing Cogsworth both on tour and in the west end in Disney’s Beauty & The Beast. Since then, Nigel has directed a new play, Hotel Elsinore, at the Swallow Theatre and executive produced a film, Blue, showing at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
Nigel is proud to be Patron of the Northern Musical Theatre Orchestra and the BIGLITTLE Theatre School.
