Videos of performances at West End Fest

[bob8rich]

Posted: 7/4/14 at 9:07am

The West End Fest charity concert at the Actors' Church last Sunday night was a pretty amazing night - full of seriously fantastic performances from some of the best vocal talent in the business. There are now some high quality videos available on youtube - here's a selection:

SO, ANYWAY from Next To Normal - REBECCA TREHEARN (her voice always gives me chills!):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocvqNKYvcQE

PULLED from the Addams Family - CARRIE HOPE FLETCHER (one of the great rising stars of musical theatre IMO - really looking forward to seeing her as Eponine):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQU19DNYQLs

GOODBYE from Catch Me If You Can - ROB HOUCHEN (the absolute highlight of the night IMO - this guy is sensational!):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOmua2ubcNc

[sparepart973]

Posted: 7/4/14 at 9:29am

Thank you, I love all these songs. And Rebecca is divine as usual. Her voice is really special.

[sparepart973]

Posted: 7/4/14 at 9:32am

Oh, my. Rob is a poor man's Aaron Tveit.

Updated On: 7/4/14 at 09:32 AM

[thespian geek]

Posted: 7/4/14 at 10:03am

Anyone is a poor man's Aaron Tveit when you try to compare them to Aaron Tveit.

[sparepart973]

Posted: 7/4/14 at 11:01am

Looks like a younger made in Taiwan version of Aaron from that angle and his singing is almost like a knock off.

[bob8rich]

Posted: 7/4/14 at 11:31am

Like always it's down to personal taste and opinions - but I actually way prefer Rob's performance of this to Aaron's (and I've always been a big Aaron Tveit fan ever since seeing him in N2N). The song has never made any impact on me when I've heard it before - but when I heard Rob sing it, it totally blew me away and I've grown to love the song now.

Rob Houchen is just so incredibly versatile vocally - has such a rich full bodied tone to his voice but also has a stunning rock belt. He totally stole the show in the recent Godspell concert when he blew the roof off the house at the Lyric (and I fell in love with his voice after listening to a number of live performances of his on youtube - his "Empty Chairs At Empty Tables" is my favourite ever version of the song).

[bob8rich]

Posted: 7/7/14 at 4:50am

Several "unofficial" videos of performances at West End Fest have now been posted on youtube. Here are a few:

SUPERBOY AND THE INVISIBLE GIRL from NEXT TO NORMAL - an acoustic version with vocals by the astonishing Jodie Steele (Fame, Bare, Rent)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgotzbq76XA&list=FLBRYBYiqHAZVYzZx_n2Mnew&index=10

I NEVER KNEW HIS NAME -from BROOKLYN with vocals by the awesome Ceili O'Connor (Evita, Crazy For You, The Wizard Of Oz)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJMsmi2D5Ls&list=FLBRYBYiqHAZVYzZx_n2Mnew&index=7

THE BUTTERFLY from THE STORY OF MY LIFE with vocals by the golden voiced Kieran Brown (Pipe Dream, Phantom, Wicked, Love Never Dies)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4oFrLclOyY&list=FLBRYBYiqHAZVYzZx_n2Mnew&index=5

Updated On: 7/7/14 at 04:50 AM

[bob8rich]

Posted: 7/7/14 at 5:47am

And here are videos of two fabulous duets from West End Fest:

TIME STOPS from BIG FISH by Rob Houchen (Les Mis, Godspell) and Alice Fearn (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Shrek, Into The Woods):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqL1FBg9Lt0&index=8&list=FLBRYBYiqHAZVYzZx_n2Mnew

A WHOLE NEW WORLD from ALADDIN by Jordan Lee Davies (Les Mis, The Secret Garden, BBC's The Voice) and Lucie Jones (American Psycho, Les Mis, The X Factor):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUKsWB0P7xY&list=FLBRYBYiqHAZVYzZx_n2Mnew&index=7