Benjamin Rauhala & his West End Besties 2023

One of Broadway’s most trusted music directors and collaborators, Benjamin Rauhala will be joined on stage by some of the biggest stars of the West End.

Music director Benjamin Rauhala’s love affair with the London theatre community and actors of the West End has been ongoing since his first sold-out concerts with Jeremy Jordan in the summer of 2016. Rauhala grew up obsessed with British pop music, including a subscription to Top of the Pops magazine! As a mainstay of the Broadway community, he has produced hundreds of sold-out concerts that spawned viral YouTube concert clips totalling over 56 million views, including Jeremy Jordan’s ubiquitous cover of ‘It’s All Coming Back To Me Now’ and the many medleys featured in his Broadway Princess Party concert series.

Rauhala found that everyone he met in London had a favourite one of those videos and wanted to chat about it, so he had an idea: what if he gathered a dozen of his favourite West End performers with an epic band and re-created some of those beloved videos, as well as crafting some new arrangements for these amazing singers?

On the heels of a sold-out run at Theatre Royal Drury Lane with Jeremy Jordan and in preparation to play the London Palladium with Ariana DeBose and for an upcoming international tour of Disney Princess The Concert, this was the perfect moment to create a concert unlike anything London has ever seen!

Benjamin Rauhala and his West End Besties will be a night filled with Rauhala’s signature mashups and medleys, some of the best contemporary musical theatre, some radically rearranged Disney tunes and, of course, tunes from the likes of Céline Dion, The Spice Girls, Selena Gomez, and Sam Smith!

PERFORMERS

Luke Bayer (Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Soho Cinders)

Paisley Billings (Six, The Lion King, Tattoo Fixers),

Lauren Drew (Six, Heathers, Legally Blonde, The Voice)

Hiba Elchikhe (Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Aladdin)

Jordan Luke Gage (WhatsOnStage Award nominee, & Juliet, Bonnie & Clyde, Bat Out of Hell)

Ben Joyce (Back to the Future, Jersey Boys)

Claudia Kariuki (Six, Wicked, School of Rock)

Frances Mayli McCann (Olivier Award nominee, Bonnie & Clyde, Heathers, Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour)

Zara MacIntosh (&Juliet, Six)

Natalie Paris (Olivier Award nominee, Six, Billy Elliot, Les Misérables)

Courtney Stapleton (Belle in Beauty and the Beast, Six)

Jodie Steele (Six, Heathers)

Benjamin Yates (Jersey Boys, School of Rock, Wicked)

(Please note: performers are subject to change.)