2019 HIGHLIGHTS
“SPOTLIGHT” : THE acclaimed ALBUM OUT NOW!
Recorded in London and Prague during 2018 and released in the Spring of 2019, John’s most recent solo studio album “SPOTLIGHT” features brand new versions of some classic musical theatre tracks…and more! The album features a guest perfromance from Lucie Jones and John is accompanied on the 13 track album by the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by John Quirk.
SIGNED COPIES OF SPOTLIGHT ARE AVAILABLE NOW
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TRACKLISTING
1. From Now On from The Greatest Showman
2. Evermore from Beauty and The Beast
3. You Raise Me Up
4. Some Enchanted Evening from South Pacific
5. I Dreamed A Dream from Les Miserables
6. Love Never Dies from Love Never Dies
7. What Kind Of Fool Am I? from Stop the World - I Want to Get Off!
8. The Prayer (featuring Lucie Jones)
9. Climb Every Mountain from The Sound Of Music
10. Through the Barricades
11. Goodbye from Catch Me If You Can
12. I'm Going Home from The Rocky Horror Show
13 While Floating High Above from Ken Hill's The Phantom of the Opera (bonus track)
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JOHN sang on the field AT principality STADIUM!
JOHN REALISED A LONG HELD DREAM THIS YEAR WHEN HE PERFORMED BEFORE THE KICK OFF AT THE WALES v ENGLAND GAME IN CARDIFF DURING THE 2019 RUGBY UNION SIX NATIONS CHAMPIONSHIP.
He led the 74,000 strong capacity crowd in a stirring rendition of the song Delilah before joining a 120 strong Welsh male voice choir to sing God Save the Queen and Mae Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau -the English and Welsh national anthems.
Not only did John fulfil a lifelong dream but Wales also achieved an historic win against their old rivals England with the final score being Wales 21 - England 13 before going on to win the Grand Slam!!
JOHN APPEARed IN “WEST END DOES: HALLOWEEN - THE MAGICIANS BALL” IN LONDON IN OCTOBER
JOHN JOINed WEST END STARS ROB HOUCHEN, HIBA ELCHIKHE, TREVOR DION NICHOLAS, CARRIE HOPE FLETCHER AND a BRILLIANT MAGICIAN IN AN INTIMATE AND IMMERSIVE PERFORMANCE OF MAGIC, MUSIC AND ILLUSION AT THE MAGIC CIRCLE CENTRE FOR THE THE MAGIC ARTS IN KING’S CROSS, LONDON ON 27th OCTOBER
JOHN APPEARed AS A SPECIAL GUEST IN CONCERT IN WALES in DECEMBER WITH ONLY MEN ALOUD
JOHN joined the choir’s CHRISTMAS TOUR for two DATES
HE APPEARED AT CARDIFF ST DAVID’S HALL ON DECEMBER 9th AND AT SWANSEA BRANGWYN HALL ON DECEMBER 11th.
JOHN APPEARED IN TWO FESTIVE CONCERTS IN SCOTLAND IN DECEMBER
JOHN WAS PART OF THE LINEUP OF “NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL CHRISTMAS…LIVE!”
HE WAS JOINED ONSTAGE BY KERRY ELLIS, CAPITAL VOICES AND A FULL BAND CONDUCTED BY ROBERT EMERY IN A CONCERT CELEBRATING THE BIGGEST SELLING FESTIVE ALBUM OF ALL TIME – LIVE ON STAGE!
THE SHOWS TOOK PLACE AT GLASGOW ROYAL CONCERT HALL ON DECEMBER 2Oth AND AT USHER HALL, EDINBURGH ON DECEMBER 21st
JOHN APPEARED IN CONVERSATION AND SONG IN LONDON IN MAY
JOHN WAS THE SPECIAL GUEST OF EDWARD SECKERSON AT ‘COMPARING NOTES’ IN PIZZA EXPRESS HOLBORN ON MAY 12
The ‘Comparing Notes’ series is an informal affair that brings stars of the West End and Broadway to Pizza Express Live, Holborn. In a lively and informal mix of performance and conversation, host Edward Seckerson chats with musical theatre luminaries, exploring the stories behind the songs and the personalities behind the artistry. The series has played host in the past to performers such as Kim Criswell, Rosalie Craig, Kerry Ellis, Howard Goodall and Stiles and Drewe. In fact Edward Seckerson has interviewed everyone from Bernstein to Liza Minnelli, Paul McCartney to Pavarotti, and Julie Andrews to Andrew Lloyd Webber!
John chatted about his career to date and sang songs from all his albums - even pefroming some rarities in public for the very first time.
JOHN APPEARED IN CONCERT in cardiff in june
HE STARRED IN “A Night at the Musicals” Concert at Wales Millennium Centre on June 23rd, 2019
JOHN APPEARED ALONGSIDE KERRY ELLIS, DANIELLE HOPE AND DAVID THAXTON IN A CONCERT CELEBRATING MUSICAL THEATRE AT THE WALES MILLENNIUM CENTRE IN CARDIFF. THE SHOW ALSO FEATURED THE NOVELLO ORCHESTRA UNDER THE BATON OF DAVID MAHONEY.
JOHN RETURNED TO IRELAND TO PERFORM IN CONCERT IN JUNE
JOHN JOINED WEST END AND BROADWAY STAR RUTHIE HENSHALL TO PERFORM in CORK ON SATURDAY JUNE 29th
JOHN LAST PERFORMED IN IRELAND IN 2012 AT THE BORD GAIS THEATRE IN DUBLIN AND THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME HE HAS PERFORMED IN CORK. AS WELL AS JOHN AND RUTHIE, THE SHOW - AT CORK CITY HALL - FEATURED THE CORK CONCERT ORCHESTRA COMPLETELY SOLD OUT MONTHS IN ADVANCE.
John APPEARED In CONCERT IN London at the West End Proms
JOHN PERFORMED “UNDER THE STARS” AT THE OLD ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE IN LONDON ON 4TH JULY.
HE WAS JOINED BY FELLOW WEST END STARS MARISHA WALLACE, LAUREN SAMUELS, JON ROBYNS, RACHEL JOHN, BEN FORSTER, JAMIE MUSCATO AND JODIE STEELE AT THE FIRST EVER “WEST END PROMS” OPEN AIR CONCERT.
JOHN PLAYED TWO INTIMATE SHOWS IN WALES in JULY
HE APPEARED at crickhowell CLARENCE HALL ON JULY 7th AND NEWBRIDGE MEMO ON JULY 8th
THE SHOW FEATURED SONGS FROM ALL OF JOHN’S ALBUMS AND HE WAS JOINED BY JOHN QUIRK ON PIANO.
JOHN PLAYED VALJEAN IN THE WEST END AGAIN!
John shareD the role of Jean Valjean with Alfie Boe in Les Miserables: THE ALL STAR STAGED CONCERT during a limited run of a very special STAGED concert version of the show
JOHN PLAYED THE ROLE OF JEAN VALJEAN 3 OR 4 TIMES A WEEK
John has had a long and happy association with Les Misérables. He remains the youngest actor in the show’s history to have played Jean Valjean (first playing the role at just 26), has appeared as Valjean twice on Broadway (in 2006 and 2016) and was the first British actor to play the role in both New York and London. He was also the first actor to play Jean Valjean in the newly staged version of the show for its 25th Anniversary tour in 2010 and can be heard as Valjean on the Les Misérables Live! album. During this run he was nominated for a WhatsOnStage Award for his portrayal and won a Manchester Evening News Award for Best Actor in a musical. The Manchester Evening News called his performance “a truly astonishing achievement that must be one of the greatest stage performances of all time.” John last played the role of Jean Valjean in 2016 when he appeared in the show’s Middle East premiere in Dubai. He has been part of the show’s 10th, 20th, 21st, 25th and 30th birthday celebrations and was voted ‘Best Ever Valjean’ in a worldwide online poll of fans of the show. John ‘s forthcoming appearance at The Gielgud Theatre will mean he has performed as Jean Valjean in every London theatre in which the show has played; the Barbican, the Palace, the Queen’s and now the Gielgud!
Cameron Mackintosh produced the show which ran for 16 weeks only with Michael Ball (Javert), Alfie Boe/ John Owen-Jones (Jean Valjean), Carrie Hope Fletcher (Fantine) and Matt Lucas (Thénardier) leading a large cast and orchestra of over sixty-five in this radical concert version of Les Misérables.
This spectacular new more intimate staging of the legendary concert, previously seen in London at the Royal Albert Hall and the O2 Arena, enjoyed a sell out run from 10 August – 30 November 2019 at the Gielgud Theatre next door to the Sondheim (formerly Queen’s) Theatre the current home of Les Misérables. It was also filmed for release on DVD and Blu-ray
JOHN LAUNCHed ‘SPOTLIGHT’ WITH A SERIES OF INTIMATE SOLD OUT LIVE SHOWS
JOHN APPEARED AT BRASSERIE ZEDEL, LONDON 17th/18th FEBRUARY AND AT THE NORWEGIAN CHURCH, CARDIFF 20TH/ 21ST FEBRUARY
JOHN APPEARED IN CONCERT IN GLASGOW IN THE SPRING
John was joined by Kerry Ellis, Lucy Kay and the Glasgow Philharmonia Orchestra on February 22nd for the 5th Annual Movies to Musicals Concert at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.
OVER 400 PEOPLE APPEARED ONSTAGE IN THIS SPECTACULAR SOLD OUT SHOW FEATURING HIT SONGS FROM MOVIES AND MUSICALS.
JOHN JOINED ALFIE BOE ONSTAGE IN CARDIFF
JOHN APPEARED AS SURPRISE SPECIAL GUEST OF ALFIE’S AT THE CARDIFF ST DAVID’S HALL DATE OF HIS 2019 “AS TIME GOES BY” TOUR.
They once again duetted on a version of Bring Him Home - just as they did onstage at the Royal Albert Hall in 2013.
They concocted the idea of performing in Cardiff together after a bizarre chance meeting on the M4 when, stuck in slow moving traffic, their cars coincidentaly pulled up right next to each other!
JOHN APPEARED IN TOKYO IN JANUARY IN “VOICES OF THE WEST END”
JOHN APPEARED ONSTAGE WITH KERRY ELLIS, SOPHIE EVANS, BEN FORSTER AND HADLEY FRASER AND WAS ACCOMPANIED BY A 20 PIECE ORCHESTRA UNDER THE BATON OF JOHN QUIRK
AFTER MANY SUCCESSFUL APPEARANCES IN JAPAN, JOHN NOT ONLY STARRED IN THESE SELL OUT CONCERTS AT BUNKAMURA ORCHARD HALL BUT ALSO DIRECTED THEM AND CO-PRODUCED THEM WITH YOMIURI SHIMBUN
THE CONCERTS RAN FOR THREE PERFORMANCES ON 9TH, 10TH AND 11TH JANUARY 2019
JOHN PERFORMED TWICE WITH WORLD FAMOUS MEZZO SOPRANO KATHERINE JENKINS IN 2019
He appeared as a surprise special guest of Katherine when she performed to a sellout crowd at the legendary London Palladium Theatre and also joined her as special guest at a fundraising event for the charity “Tusk” at Kensington Palace, london
FOR MORE INFO ON THE TUSK CHARITY PLEASE GO HERE
JOHN APPEARED IN CONCERT IN “MAGIC AT THE MUSICALS” AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL IN MAY
AFTER PRESENTING AND PERFORMING IN MAGIC AT THE MUSICALS IN 2018, JOHN RETURNED TO THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL ONCE MORE TO APPEAR IN THIS MUCH LOVED CELEBRATION OF MUSICAL THEATRE - WHICH WAS ALSO TRANSMITTED LIVE ON MAGIC RADIO
PERFORMING ALONGSIDE SOME OF THE VERY BEST STARS OF THE WEST END AND THE CASTS OF CURRENT WEST END HITS, JOHN’S APPEARANCE WAS INTERRUPTED WHEN TECHNICAL PROBLEMS HIT THE CONCERT. THE LIVE AUDIO FEED TO THE RADIO BROADCAST WENT DOWN, STOPPING THE SHOW, RESULTING IN THE AUDIENCE BEING ENTERTAINED WITH AN IMPROMPTU AND IMPROVISED FIFTEEN MINUTE STAND UP COMEDY SET BY JOHN!
JOHN BECAME A DJ!
JOHN PRESENTED A HANDFUL OF SHOWS in june 2019 ON NEW DIGITAL RADIO STATION “MAGIC AT THE MUSICALS”
HE ENJOYED A STINT AS GUEST PRESENTER AND PLAYED SOME OF HIS VERY FAVOURITE MUSICAL THEATRE TRACKS!
JOHN APPEARED AS A HEADLINE ACT AT “WEST END LIVE” IN june
AS WELL AS PERFORMING, JOHN PRESENTED THE SHOW WITH MAGIC RADIO’S EMMA B
THE HUGELY POPULAR THREE DAY CELEBRATION OF MUSICAL THEATRE TAKES PLACE EVERY YEAR IN LONDON’S TRAFALGAR SQUARE IN FRONT OF AN AUDIENCE OF OVER 10,000 THEATRE FANS
You can watch John’s entire unedited set from 2017 below!
IN JUNE, JOHN APPEARED IN LONDON IN A CONCERT VERSION OF BRAND NEW MUSICAL “THE CLOCKMAKER’S DAUGHTER”
THE ACCLAIMED SHOW, WRITTEN BY NEW BRITISH WRITERS WEBBORN AND FINN, PLAYED FOR ONE PERFROMANCE ONLY AT CADOGAN HALL, LONDON ON JUNE 16TH
JOHN PLAYED THE LEADING ROLE OF ABRAHAM THE CLOCKMAKER, AND WAS JOINED BY A STELLAR CAST OF OTHER WEST END PERFORMERS INCLUDING FRA FEE, WENDY PETERS, JAMIE MUSCATO AND CHRISTINE ALLARADO.
JOHN ADDED HIS SPEAKING VOICE TO AN ADVERT FOR ONLINE ESTATE AGENT “PURPLE BRICKS”
THE AD, WHICH WAS SCREENED DURING THE AUTUMN/WINTER OF 2019 CAN BE SEEN BELOW
YOU CAN BOOK JOHN FOR VOICEOVER WORK HERE
JOHN APPEARED ON TV QUIZ SHOW “POINTLESS CELEBRITIES”
THE SHOW, SCREENED ON BBC 1, WAS A MUSICAL THEATRE SPECIAL OF POPULAR QUIZ SHOW POINTLESS. JOHN APPEARED AS A CONTESTANT AND SANG “BRING HIM HOME” FOR THE SHOW’S FINALE
JOHN APPEARED ALONGSIDE OTHER MUSICAL THEATRE STARS SOPHIE EVANS, CARLY STENSON, RUFUS HOUND, TREVOR DION NICHOLAS, JODIE PRENGER, RIA JONES, AND DENISE VAN OUTEN TO RAISE MONEY FOR CHARITY. JOHN’S CHOSEN CHARITY WAS MOTOR NEURONE DISEASE ASSOCIATION
HOW DID JOHN DO? WELL, YOU’LL HAVE TO WAIT FOR A REPEAT…!
2018 HIGHLIGHTS
JOHN WAS SPECIAL GUEST FOR TWO OF KATHERINE JENKINS’ SUMMER OUTDOOR SHOWS
AFTER TOURING WITH HER IN 2015, JOHN JOINED KATHERINE AND HER ORCHESTRA ONSTAGE ONCE MORE IN SENNOWE PARK, NORFOLK AND VICTORIA PARK, HAYWARDS HEATH
JOHN WORKED WITH ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER ON NEW SHOW “UNMASKED”
THE SOLD OUT SHOW RAN AT THE OTHER PALACE THEATRE IN NOVEMBER.
JOHN JOINED CAST MEMBERS RIA JONES, ROSIE HYLAND, BEN FORSTER, SIOBHAN DILLON, STEPHEN LEASK, TYRONE HUNTLEY, MICHAEL XAVIER AND HOLLIE AIRES IN WHAT WAS BILLED AS A “PUBLIC WORKSHOP”, AIMED AT DEVELOPING A UNIQUE AND IRREVERANT COMPILATION SHOW OF ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER’S WORK.
“UNMASKED” FEATURED SOME OF ANDREW’S MOST WELL LOVED SONGS, WITH BRAND NEW SONGS WRITTEN ESPECIALLY FOR THE SHOW BY ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER WITH LYRICS BY “FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL WRITER” RICHARD CURTIS
JOHN APPEARED AS A SPECIAL GUEST OF LEGENDARY “LES MISERABLES” COMPOSER CLAUDE-MICHEL SCHONBERG
THE SHOW “CLAUDE-MICHEL SCHONBERG IN CONVERSATION WITH EDWARD SECKERSON” WAS A ONE-NIGHT-ONLY SPECIAL EVENT AT THE BRIDGE THEATRE, LONDON IN DECEMBER
JOHN PERFORMED TWO SONGS WRITTEN BY CLAUDE MICHEL - MARTIN GUERRE AND BRING HIM HOME. EVA NOBLEZADA ALSO APPEARED
JOHN APPEARED AS THE PHANTOM FOR A LIMITED ENGAGEMENT IN TOKYO
JOHN DONNED THE MASK ONCE MORE…BUT THIS TIME IN “KEN HILL’S THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA”
KEN HILL’S PHANTOM WAS THE SHOW THAT INSPIRED ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER TO CREATE HIS WORLD CONQUERING MUSICAL
THE SHOW PLAYED A HUGELY SUCCESSFUL RUN AT TOKYO’S THEATRE ORB IN THE SUMMER OF 2018
