RAYMOND GUBBAY LIMITED CELEBRATES
25 YEARS OF BRILLIANT SEASONAL
ENTERTAINMENT
WITH BRAND NEW CHRISTMAS FESTIVALS FOR
2019
ACROSS THE UK
HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:
·
NOW THAT’S
WHAT I CALL CHRISTMAS
·
CHRISTMAS
CAROL SINGALONG
·
CAROLS BY CANDLELIGHT
·
THE GREATEST
SHOW TUNES
·
CHRISTMAS
CRACKER WITH ALED JONES
Raymond Gubbay Limited is celebrating over 25 years of presenting
brilliant season entertainment in 2019, with an incredible line up of Christmas
Festivals in London, Manchester, Glasgow, and Birmingham
including some iconic favourites – which have become UK festive institutions –
and some exciting new concerts for 2019.
Highlights of the new concerts for 2019 are:
NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL CHRISTMAS LIVE! - The biggest selling festive album of all
time – LIVE ON STAGE! With guest singers Kerry Ellis and Tim Howar,
John Rigby conducting and a 15-piece show band, audiences will be able
to sing along to iconic Christmas classics including All I Want For Christmas
Is You, Merry Christmas Everybody, Last Christmas, Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree, and
many more…
THE GREATEST SHOWTUNES – celebrating the best of the West End and
movie musicals, this show stopping concert is packed full of the greatest show
tunes. Conducted by Richard Balcombe, and performed live on stage with
special guest performers Sophie Evans, Ben Forster, Marisha Wallace
and Ricardo Alfonso, all direct from the West End, with numbers from The
Greatest Showman, Mamma Mia!, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,
Dreamgirls, The Phantom of the Opera, 9 to 5, La La Land and Jesus
Christ Superstar.
CHRISTMAS CRACKER WITH ALED JONES – Aled presents a wonderful concert of
seasonal classics, festive readings and joyful song, all crowned by a selection
of favourite carols for all. Conducted by Adrian Lucas with soprano Jennifer
France, songs include Willcocks’ Jingle Bells, Cullen’s Joy to
the world, Rutter’s The Angels Carol, Blake’s Walking in the Air,
and many more, plus carols for all.
Classic favourites include:
CHRISTMAS CAROL SINGALONG – This festive favourite has been raising the
roof at the Royal Albert Hall for over 20 years and is now being presented at
the Barbican in London and around the country. With guest singer Louise
Dearman and irrepressible showman Jonathan Cohen presenting and
conducting, audiences will be able to sing along to this fun-filled jamboree of
his most-loved carols and all time Christmas hits, including Jingle Bells, Frosty
the Snowman, Merry Christmas Everybody , Santa Claus is Coming to Town, and
classic carols for all.
CAROLS BY CANDLELIGHT - With soprano Susanna Hurrell and Steven
Devine conducting the Mozart Festival Chorus and Mozart Festival
Orchestra, audiences can enjoy a sublime concert, staged in full 18th
Century period costume in an evocative candle-lit style setting, of carols and
seasonal classics, such as Cullen’s Joy to the World, the Christmas
Sequence from Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s Air on the G String,
Ledger’s Sussex Carol, and Darke’s In the Bleak Midwinter, plus
carols Good King Wenceslas, Once in royal David’s City, While
shepherds watched their flocks, O come, all ye faithful and Hark!
the herald angels sing.
The 2019 London festival will run at the
Barbican Centre from Monday 16 December, kicking off with ‘Christmas with Kings
College Choir’ and run until Wednesday 1 January with the New Year’s Day Prom.
The Manchester festival will run at The
Bridgewater Hall from Sunday 8 December with ‘Christmas with Russell Watson’
and finish on Sunday 12 January with the Glenn Miller Orchestra.
The Glasgow festival will run at the Royal
Concert Hall from Sunday 17 November with ‘Spectacular Classics’ and run until Tuesday
31 December with Hogmany with the RSNO.
The Birmingham festival will run at the
Symphony Hall from Sunday 15 December with the ‘Christmas Spectacular’ until
Wednesday 1 January with the Johann Strauss Gala.
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