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Since 1999, The Night of 1000 Voices has delighted full capacity audiences at the Royal Albert Hall. On Sunday May 4, 2003, once again thrill to the sight and sound of the huge 'Sing Live' massed choir from around the British Isles, children from the Sylvia Young Theatre School and The City of London Philharmonic (Hey, Mr Producer! and Sondheim Tonight) who will as before, accompany some very special stars from London, New York and Europe in a musical night to remember.

This year The Night of 1000 Voices will exclusively celebrate the multi-award-winning productions of Trevor Nunn including Les Misérables, Aspects of Love, Cats, Chess, My Fair Lady, Porgy and Bess, Sunset Boulevard, Anything Goes, Starlight Express, South Pacific, The Baker’s Wife, Nicholas Nickleby and Oklahoma!

Stars of London's West End, 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 the multi-Olivier Award-winning Philip Quast singing 'Stars' from Les Misérables; 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 Just a Girl Who Cain't Say No'. Kelli James who stopped the world tour of The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, will sing 'Memory'. The star of Broadway's Sunset Boulevard, Alan Campbell, will sing the title song from that show. 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; and the Evening Standard’s Best Actor of 2001, 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'. Tommy Korberg, who is currently starring in Chess in Sweden, will specially fly to London to take part in this extraordinary tribute concert.

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. Variety Club has spent over 50 years helping sick, disabled and disadvantaged children throughout the UK have a better life. Variety’s mission is to bring sunshine into the lives of children who are in need.

'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 given the Night of 1000 Voices treatment, together with a sprinkling of songs from Trevor Nunn’s past productions which may not be so well known.

The West End’s distinguished maestro, David Firman, will once again conduct the massed musical forces and director Hugh Wooldridge (The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, The Ira Gerschwin Centenary Concert – Who Could Ask for Anything More?, The Noël Coward Centenary Celebration and Sondheim Tonight) says “This evening is a must for all who love musicals. Come along again and join in the fun. Come and raise the roof of the Royal Albert Hall.”

'One Day More' sung by the Company in the Les Misérables section.

MUSICAL NUMBERS

PART ONE

PORGY AND BESS (Music & Lyrics by George Gershwin)
- Overture to Porgy and Bess - The City of London Philharmonic
- Summertime - Laurie Williamson
- Bess you is my Woman Now / Porgy you is my Man - Kenneth Nichols & Laurie Williamson
- Oh! I Can’t Sit Down / It Ain't Necessairily So - David Michael Johnson & The NOTV Chorus

[Roger MOORE]

OKLAHOMA! (Music by Richard Rodgers; Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II)
- 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 & NOTV Chorus

[Glenn CLOSE]

SOUTH PACIFIC (Music by Richard Rodgers; Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II)
- Bali Ha'i  - The City of London Philharmonic & NOTV Chorus
- There is Nothing Like a Dame - Company & The Sylvia Young Theatre School
Choreography by Steven Baker

[ROGER MOORE & DON BLACK]

ASPECTS OF LOVE (Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber; Lyrics by Don Black & Charles Hart)
- The Wine and the Dice - Kelly James & NOTV Chorus
- Anything but Lonely  - Laurie Williamson

[Roger MOORE]

STARLIGHT EXPRESS (Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber; Lyrics by Richard Stilgoe)
- Only You / I am the Starlight  - David Michael Johnson & Kenneth Nichols

[Glenn CLOSE]

CHESS (Music by Benny Andersson & Bjorn Ulvaeus; Lyrics by Tim Rice)
- Someone Else’s Story - Judy Kuhn
- End Game - The NOTV Chorus
- You and I  - Lauren Kennedy & Alan Campbell
- Anthem  - Tommy Köberg & NOTV Chorus

PART TWO

CATS (Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber; Lyrics by Trevor Nunn)
- Jellicle Ball - The City of London Philharmonic
- Macavity - E.J. Boyle, Leigh Constantine, Tiffany Graves, Sarah Keeton, Annette McLaughlin, Rebecca Thornhill
Choreograhy by Andrew Wright
- Memory - Kelly James & Lydia Griffiths

[Roger MOORE]

ANYTHING GOES (Music & Lyrics by Cole Porter)
- Blow Gabriel Blow - Sally Ann Triplett & NOTV Chorus

SUNSET BOULEVARD (Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber; Lyrics by Don Black & Christopher Hampton)
- Entr'Acte  - The City of London Philharmonic
- Sunsert Boulevard - Alan Campbell
- With One Look - Glenn Close

[Roger MOORE]

THE BAKER’S WIFE (Music & Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz)
- MeadowLark - Judy Kuhn

NICHOLAS NICKLEBY (Music & Lyrics by Stephen Oliver)
- Patriotic Song - Peter Prentice & NOTV Chorus

[GLENN CLOSE]

MY FAIR LADY (Music by Frederick Loewe; Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner)
- I Could Have Danced All Night - Teri Bibb
- I’ve Grown Accustomed to her Face - Alex Jennings

[Roger MOORE & Herbert KRETZMER]

LES MISERABLES (Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg; Lyrics by Alain Boublil & Herbert Kretzmer)
- Building the Barricade  - The City of London Philharmonic
- Stars - Philip Quast
- Bring Him Home  - Tommy Köberg
- Do You Hear the People Sing? - Phil Cole & NOTV Chorus
- Castle on a Cloud  - Ellie Nunn
- One Day More! - Valjean: T. Köberg – Javert: P. Quast – Marius: G. Bickley – Cosette: J. Kuhn – Eponine: L. Griffiths – Enjolras: P. Prentice – Thénardiers: L. Kennedy & A. Campbell

[Glenn CLOSE]

THE SEVEN AGES OF NUNN
- Brush up your Shakespeare… ‘revisited’! - Simon Day, Henry Goodman, Barrie Ingham, Teddy Kempner, Clive Rowe & Roger Moore

[Roger MOORE]

STARLIGHT EXPRESS (Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber; Lyrics by Richard Stilgoe)
- There’s a Light at the End of the Tunnel  - Kenneth Nichols, David Michael Johnson & The Company