Have a Miserables Christmas!
Wishing you all a Miserables Christmas and a safe and peaceful New Year.
Give yourself a treat and go and see David in Les Miserables this holiday season.
from Sarah 
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Christmas at the Musicals – The Herald
Review by Alison Kerr
Star rating ***
It must have been under- studies’ night in London on Sunday, as four of the leading stars of the West End were onstage at the Royal Concert Hall for a show which, as conductor Martin Yates explained, celebrated the best of the musicals currently playing in the capital.
Accompanied by the Scottish Festival Orchestra and the City of Glasgow Chorus, Jacqui Scott, Robyn North, David Shannon and Simon Bowman served up a diverse selection of songs, some of them so widely unfamiliar that a £2 programme was a necessity if you wanted to have a clue what you were listening to.
The highlights were undoubtedly the greatest hits from the biggest shows: Jacqui Scott’s tour-de-force performances of As Long As He Needs Me, from Oliver!, and Memory from Cats, plus a medley entitled Aspects of Lloyd Webber and featuring Sir Andrew’s best-loved songs. However, it was David Shannon’s moving rendition of The Prayer, which he performs as Valjean in the long-running production of Les Miserables, which drew the most enthusiastic response of the night from the capacity crowd.
For most of the concert, the title Christmas at the Musicals seemed inappropriate – surely The Musicals at Christmas might have been more apt? – but the wonderful series of “holiday” classics which ended the show proved worth the wait; It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas, with the chorus joining in (and not a mention of Asda), being a particularly memorable festive treat.
