Fourth Wall Live and Benjamin Rauhala are delighted to announce extra West End and Broadway star friends for BENJAMIN RAUHALA & HIS WEST END BESTIES on the Cadogan Hall on Sunday 5 February at 6.30pm. Tickets on sale now www.fw-live.com/ben
They be a part of the beforehand introduced Paisley Billings (Six, The Lion King, ‘Tattoo Fixers’), Lauren Drew (Six, Heathers, Legally Blonde, ‘The Voice’), Hiba Elchikhe (Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, Aladdin), WhatsOnStage Award nominee Jordan Luke Gage (& Juliet, Bonnie & Clyde, Bat Out of Hell), Ben Joyce (Back to the Future, Jersey Boys), Claudia Kariuki (Six, Wicked, School of Rock), Olivier Award nominee Frances Mayli McCann (Bonnie & Clyde, Heathers, Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour), Zara MacIntosh (&Juliet, Six) Olivier Award nominee Natalie Paris (Six, Billy Elliot, Les Miserables), Courtney Stapleton (‘Belle’ in Beauty and the Beast, Six), Jodie Steele (Six, Heathers) Benjamin Yates (Jersey Boys, School of Rock, Wicked). Guests are topic to alter.
Music director Benjamin Rauhala’s love affair with the London theatre group and actors of the West End has been ongoing since his first sold-out concert events with Jeremy Jordan in the summertime of 2016. Rauhala grew up obsessive about British pop music, together with a subscription to Top of the Pops journal! As a mainstay of the Broadway group, he has produced tons of of sold-out concert events that spawned viral YouTube live performance clips totalling * totalling over 56million views, together with Jeremy Jordan’s ubiquitous cowl of “It’s All Coming Back To Me Now” and the numerous medleys featured in his Broadway Princess Party live performance sequence.
Rauhala discovered that everybody he met in London had a favorite a kind of movies and wished to speak about it, so he had an concept: what if he gathered a dozen of his favorite West End performers with an epic band and re-created a few of these beloved movies, in addition to crafting some new preparations for these superb 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 worldwide tour of Disney Princess The Concert, this was the proper second to create a live performance in contrast to something London has ever seen! BENJAMIN RAUHALA AND HIS WEST END BESTIES might be an evening stuffed with Rauhala’s signature mashups and medleys, among the finest up to date musical theatre, some radically rearranged Disney tunes, and, in fact, tunes from the likes of Céline Dion, the Spice Girls, Selena Gomez, and Sam Smith!
Benjamin Rauhala is the Music Supervisor, co-creator, and ‘Fairy Godfairy’ of Disney Princess – The Concert, touring over 100 cities in North America all through 2022, and internationally in 2023. He helped conceive and organize the opening and shutting numbers of the 2022 Tony Awards for Academy Award winner Ariana DeBose. Rauhala has toured the world since 2014 because the music director for Jeremy Jordan, the Tony-nominated star of Broadway’s Newsies and TV’s ‘Supergirl’, and in 2020, Rauhala was named ‘Best Musical Director’ on the Broadway World Cabaret Awards.
His Broadway credit embody Fiddler on the Roof, American Psycho, and Pippin. His Off-Broadway credit embody Hit List, the meta-musical from the NBC tv present Smash, Duncan Sheik’s The Secret Life of Bees and David Byrne’s Joan of Arc: Into The Fire. He can be the music director for Academy Award Winner Ariana DeBose, Halston star Krysta Rodriguez, Tony Award nominees Derek Klena, Jennifer Damiano, Kathryn Gallagher, and Disney legend Jodi Benson, in addition to Nashville star Kyle Dean Massey, Anastasia star Christy Altomare, Smash star Andy Mientus, Moulin Rouge star Ashley Loren, and Frozen stars Caroline Bowman and Austin Colby.
Rauhala co-founded the Write Out Loud songwriting competitors with Mean Girls Tony Award nominee Taylor Louderman, which is at the moment in its fourth season of supporting the following era of composers. Additionally, he’s an Original Programming Producer at 54 Below, the place he has created tons of of sold-out concert events, together with the Broadway Loves Series, that has famously honored Celine Dion, Britney Spears, Selena Gomez, Sam Smith, Demi Lovato, and lots of extra beloved pop icons.