Michel Legrand at the Theatre Royal Haymarket
Preview by Lizzie Guilfoyle
ON SUNDAY, April 13, 2008, jazz legend and triple Oscar winning composer Michel Legrand will appear in concert at the Theatre Royal Haymarket.
In a rare London concert, the composer of the new musical Marguerite, which opens at the Theatre Royal Haymarket on May 20, 2008 (previews from May 7), will be performing his own work accompanied by two of the world’s top jazz musicians.
They will be joined by guest performers Ruthie Henshall and Julian Ovenden, who will perform songs from their principal roles in Marguerite, and French singer and actress Marie Zamora who, in recent years, has guest starred in Legrand’s concerts around the world.
An Oscar winning composer, arranger, conductor and pianist, Legrand has composed over 200 film scores, including The Thomas Crown Affair (The Windmills of Your Mind) and Summer of ’42. He has also composed several musicals, among them Umbrellas of Cherbourg and Yentl which have won him three Oscars and five Grammys.
He was just 22 when his first album, I Love Paris, became one of the best-selling instrumental albums ever released. His albums now number over 100 spanning jazz, musical theatre, variety and classical styles on which he has worked with Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan, Jack Jones, Regine Velasquez, Ella Fitzgerald, Perry Como, Lena Horne, Dame Kiri te Kanawa, James Ingram, Johnny Mathis, Barbra Streisand and many other leading musicians.
Jonathan Kent’s production of Marguerite has music by Michel Legrand; book by Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg and Jonathan Kent; lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer from original French lyrics by Alain Boublil; and orchestrations and arrangements by Michel Legrand and Seann Alderking.
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Time: 7pm.
Box Office: 0844 844 2353.